Don't forget who's running the show
Apr. 9th, 2026 05:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shamanicshayminIntentional loose ends and cringe (featuring me defending tadc because someone has to)
Thank you thank you thank you to this video. I feel like people went from "omg Vivziepop sucks TADC IS SUPERIOR" to "omg TADC is soooooooo cringe" over time when TADC refused to cater to their very specific writing demands. Gooseworx making an innocuous statement like "Pomni and Jax are the main characters" alone got her harassed to fucking hell. "OH NOES SHE'Z SIDELINING THE OTHER CHARACTERS!!!1!1" (Newsflash: having secondary and tertiary characters is NOT a sliding scale of the author's character preferences. This is Fiction 101.) "OMG GOOSEWORX IS MISOGYNISTIC BC SHE FAVORS THE HORRIBLE JERK JAX OVER RAGATHA" (Ragatha has had tons of character development throughout the show, and the audience doesn't consider that her being sidelined is likely intentional as commentary on how Ragatha's hollow niceness/toxic positivity is pushing everyone away) (Also misogynistic? lololololol what are Pomni and Gangle, chopped liver? Queenie could've just remained the offscreen dead wife, but nope! She's even got her own merch now!) And god, I really do believe all the sudden backlash against popular indie animation comes from internalized sexism, ableism, and LGBTQphobia from fans calling themselves leftist/liberal. Uggggggh.
It's like people are making it their entire identities to despise "cringe" while dressing it up as social justice ("Oh no, I don't just hate this comic because I find it stupid, it's also totally homophobic and dangerous for the gay community, guys!" See: the "Boyfriends" drama) That'd be like finding the Super Mario Bros. Super Show dumb, but going out of your way to say it's classist and dangerous to the reptuation of Italians when it's just an innocuous cartoon. Hell, the entire reason I stopped watching Pokemon movies despite liking the Zoroark movie (the furthest I've gone) was because I didn't want to make bitching about the ones I didn't like my entire personality. I was sick of ranting about the same issues I had with them over and over, and the frustration was honestly draining me. Hell, even talking about the same fandom drama more than once exhausts me, which is why I blocked/muted the LISA Confessions Twitter despite it probably being the only place LISA fandom is currently active. (One such drama is, surprise surprise, "yaoislop is cringe.") To quote the many DND Horror Story channels I listen to: "No DND is better than bad DND."
tl;dr TADC is an awesome and amazingly written show, and I can't wait for the final episode. I ought to get Caine icons now that I have a Paid Account. :D
Thank you thank you thank you to this video. I feel like people went from "omg Vivziepop sucks TADC IS SUPERIOR" to "omg TADC is soooooooo cringe" over time when TADC refused to cater to their very specific writing demands. Gooseworx making an innocuous statement like "Pomni and Jax are the main characters" alone got her harassed to fucking hell. "OH NOES SHE'Z SIDELINING THE OTHER CHARACTERS!!!1!1" (Newsflash: having secondary and tertiary characters is NOT a sliding scale of the author's character preferences. This is Fiction 101.) "OMG GOOSEWORX IS MISOGYNISTIC BC SHE FAVORS THE HORRIBLE JERK JAX OVER RAGATHA" (Ragatha has had tons of character development throughout the show, and the audience doesn't consider that her being sidelined is likely intentional as commentary on how Ragatha's hollow niceness/toxic positivity is pushing everyone away) (Also misogynistic? lololololol what are Pomni and Gangle, chopped liver? Queenie could've just remained the offscreen dead wife, but nope! She's even got her own merch now!) And god, I really do believe all the sudden backlash against popular indie animation comes from internalized sexism, ableism, and LGBTQphobia from fans calling themselves leftist/liberal. Uggggggh.
It's like people are making it their entire identities to despise "cringe" while dressing it up as social justice ("Oh no, I don't just hate this comic because I find it stupid, it's also totally homophobic and dangerous for the gay community, guys!" See: the "Boyfriends" drama) That'd be like finding the Super Mario Bros. Super Show dumb, but going out of your way to say it's classist and dangerous to the reptuation of Italians when it's just an innocuous cartoon. Hell, the entire reason I stopped watching Pokemon movies despite liking the Zoroark movie (the furthest I've gone) was because I didn't want to make bitching about the ones I didn't like my entire personality. I was sick of ranting about the same issues I had with them over and over, and the frustration was honestly draining me. Hell, even talking about the same fandom drama more than once exhausts me, which is why I blocked/muted the LISA Confessions Twitter despite it probably being the only place LISA fandom is currently active. (One such drama is, surprise surprise, "yaoislop is cringe.") To quote the many DND Horror Story channels I listen to: "No DND is better than bad DND."
tl;dr TADC is an awesome and amazingly written show, and I can't wait for the final episode. I ought to get Caine icons now that I have a Paid Account. :D
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Apr. 9th, 2026 05:03 amshamanicshayminThank you so much to whoever gifted me a Paid Account for a month, boy oh boy oh boy~ ♥♥♥
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Apr. 9th, 2026 10:32 amgaladhirI really like Markdown as a way to do what I used to use html for, but it does mean I can't use the old system where you used an asterisk around a phrase to show that you were performing that action. The old asterisk Sigh asterisk thing, meaning that you were sighing in real life. But now it just makes the word 'sigh' italicized. Which is great in theory, but I miss being able to type star g star and have it mean 'I'm grinning.'
Anyway ^sigh^ time to go and put out the quilt cover I had washed and dried, only to discover it had a muddy footprint on it because I must have accidentally stepped on it while wrestling it off the line yesterday - so I had to wash it again.
This time I will try hard to keep it off the ground throughout!
the stress is piling on
Apr. 8th, 2026 11:01 pmcornerofmadnessSo I did go to yoga but...the whole right side of me was asking wtf you doing? Here have some nerve pain. Wanna die in a pretzel I'm a gonna make that happen. In Shavasana (the corpse pose, my best pose) my brain says 'eyes closed? here's some little inner mind's eyes pics for you to enjoy. Oh btw it looks like a tick crawling up your arm or maybe a spider from the ceiling. I opened my eyes trying to find it.
Work is grinding us under. That's all I have to say there.
What I Just Finished Reading:
Edinburgh Twilight - historic mystery, chonkier than I like mysteries to be but I'm enjoying it
The Tale of the Hidden Village - some cozy fantasy/mystery indie I got a couple years back already.
What I am Currently Reading:
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - this is painful
Hooked on Murder - I'm going to push only because it fits the terrible Popsugar prompt of granny hobby (god I hate that term with unreasonable hatred) but it seems the detective isn't going to do her job because she wants the cop the amateur sleuth is dating and I hope that isn't what this will be. Then again every woman in the crochet ring suck
Stay for a Spell - cozy fantasy, love this
The Death Card (an arc I just got in the mail)
What I Plan to Read Next: Something that came at the library I don't even remember requesting.
Work is grinding us under. That's all I have to say there.
What I Just Finished Reading:
Edinburgh Twilight - historic mystery, chonkier than I like mysteries to be but I'm enjoying it
The Tale of the Hidden Village - some cozy fantasy/mystery indie I got a couple years back already.
What I am Currently Reading:
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - this is painful
Hooked on Murder - I'm going to push only because it fits the terrible Popsugar prompt of granny hobby (god I hate that term with unreasonable hatred) but it seems the detective isn't going to do her job because she wants the cop the amateur sleuth is dating and I hope that isn't what this will be. Then again every woman in the crochet ring suck
Stay for a Spell - cozy fantasy, love this
The Death Card (an arc I just got in the mail)
What I Plan to Read Next: Something that came at the library I don't even remember requesting.
A packed day
Apr. 7th, 2026 11:31 pmcornerofmadnessTuesday/Thursday are my long days and today was very long. It's only a few weeks until classes are over and my research students are spinning around. Turns out the new incubators we have on loan for micro suck it. They have SUCH a strong fan it's trying out the agar to the point of uselessness. Had to spend time googling can we turn the fan down (no) what else we can do (put distilled water in there to help humidify it) these seems like a design flaw.
One my special agars went missing. Argh. Found a different special agar that we can use thankfully.
I never get a moment to work on my exam for Thursday.
Students showed up. 'Dr. Evans there is a BAT in the study room.' (Funny part this is the same student who found the bat in the sink last time) So I get a wild life prof we suit up in mammal handling gloves but I don't do much. My climbing on chairs days are over. We get this adorable eastern brown bat safely back outside. Meanwhile these students were in this room for 2 hours with this bat just chilling asleep on the wall and they never noticed. (we need observational skills in health care, just saying).
After work, I race home, change, go out to eat because I'm going to an art thing at the library at 6. I slide in and there we have black canvases. We're making 'galaxies.' the pro art is faint swirls of purple/blue/pinks with white stars.
Well there wasn't much instruction other than go dark to light on the colors purple to blue to teal to pink and daub them on the canvas with the sponge with no instruction on how to get the swirls I kept waiting for it. Next thing I knew here's the white, splatter on your stars. Um....HOW do I make it look like a night sky? By now it's too late to swirl, it's dry. So I didn't get a galaxy but it looks like a 1980s era party pattern. I do rather like it. I think it's rather pretty but it did fail the assignment
Also I painted it all left handed.
I race home (since this was SHORT) I got the exam mostly done before the writer's virtual meet up happened. I blasted out about 800 words on a halloween short story and about 1500 words on the novel. I really need to get this moving because I don't want it to be overly long. It's weird suspense/mystery they want you to stick near 80K. Fantasy is longer which is good because the 80s novel is over 100K and now it's like add description. Where? What do I lose of the plot for this? That's hard. Writing's hard.
One my special agars went missing. Argh. Found a different special agar that we can use thankfully.
I never get a moment to work on my exam for Thursday.
Students showed up. 'Dr. Evans there is a BAT in the study room.' (Funny part this is the same student who found the bat in the sink last time) So I get a wild life prof we suit up in mammal handling gloves but I don't do much. My climbing on chairs days are over. We get this adorable eastern brown bat safely back outside. Meanwhile these students were in this room for 2 hours with this bat just chilling asleep on the wall and they never noticed. (we need observational skills in health care, just saying).
After work, I race home, change, go out to eat because I'm going to an art thing at the library at 6. I slide in and there we have black canvases. We're making 'galaxies.' the pro art is faint swirls of purple/blue/pinks with white stars.
Well there wasn't much instruction other than go dark to light on the colors purple to blue to teal to pink and daub them on the canvas with the sponge with no instruction on how to get the swirls I kept waiting for it. Next thing I knew here's the white, splatter on your stars. Um....HOW do I make it look like a night sky? By now it's too late to swirl, it's dry. So I didn't get a galaxy but it looks like a 1980s era party pattern. I do rather like it. I think it's rather pretty but it did fail the assignment
Also I painted it all left handed.
I race home (since this was SHORT) I got the exam mostly done before the writer's virtual meet up happened. I blasted out about 800 words on a halloween short story and about 1500 words on the novel. I really need to get this moving because I don't want it to be overly long. It's weird suspense/mystery they want you to stick near 80K. Fantasy is longer which is good because the 80s novel is over 100K and now it's like add description. Where? What do I lose of the plot for this? That's hard. Writing's hard.
Hope is a powerful thing
Apr. 7th, 2026 10:50 pmdani_meowsHope is a powerful thing and I am trying to have it.
It's been a long day. Jasper's appointment was today.
They were quite nice. We had a chat. They performed a test on his abdomen because they agreed that before we focus on the hyperthyroidism we need to solve why he isn't eating.
They didn't see anything on the X-ray taken last week of concern, possibly a bit of inflammation but no sign of tumors, however they sent it to their radiology appointment to verify what they saw. So in the next two days we'll find out if there is a very small tumor. But they don't think that's likely.
They took an ultrasound of his belly. No tumors, masses, other bad things. Some inflammation to be aware of once we get him eating. They said he should eat different proteins.
They suggested either in hospital or out of hospital care but we couldn't afford two days hospitalization, testing, monitoring his kidneys and heart along with a feeding tube as that was more than the 5k we have to spend on our Bean. And it would prevent the dental surgery.
So we talked some more and we were told if he didn't eat in 18 hours with the anti nausea, antibiotics (they found sores on his little tongue), appetite stimulant and pain medicine it would be time to let him go.
But! We got home and he demolished about 100 calories from several sources of cat food not half and half (cream/milk blend). Which is half of what he should eat daily for weight gain.
So in the morning, I'll contact the dentist to reschedule his surgery hopefully very soon as he has ulcers now alongside his cavity/gum issues.
I'll also contact a few places to do subq fluids as the big hospital was not able to due to Bean deciding he was absolutely done. After cooperating with them for hours.
He's home. He's eating. I want to believe that we can make it through this.
It's been a long day. Jasper's appointment was today.
They were quite nice. We had a chat. They performed a test on his abdomen because they agreed that before we focus on the hyperthyroidism we need to solve why he isn't eating.
They didn't see anything on the X-ray taken last week of concern, possibly a bit of inflammation but no sign of tumors, however they sent it to their radiology appointment to verify what they saw. So in the next two days we'll find out if there is a very small tumor. But they don't think that's likely.
They took an ultrasound of his belly. No tumors, masses, other bad things. Some inflammation to be aware of once we get him eating. They said he should eat different proteins.
They suggested either in hospital or out of hospital care but we couldn't afford two days hospitalization, testing, monitoring his kidneys and heart along with a feeding tube as that was more than the 5k we have to spend on our Bean. And it would prevent the dental surgery.
So we talked some more and we were told if he didn't eat in 18 hours with the anti nausea, antibiotics (they found sores on his little tongue), appetite stimulant and pain medicine it would be time to let him go.
But! We got home and he demolished about 100 calories from several sources of cat food not half and half (cream/milk blend). Which is half of what he should eat daily for weight gain.
So in the morning, I'll contact the dentist to reschedule his surgery hopefully very soon as he has ulcers now alongside his cavity/gum issues.
I'll also contact a few places to do subq fluids as the big hospital was not able to due to Bean deciding he was absolutely done. After cooperating with them for hours.
He's home. He's eating. I want to believe that we can make it through this.
Icons — Girlgenius Fanworks
Dec. 31st, 2018 06:39 pmsheliakThis is a backdated entry because I decided I minded not having all my icons on my own journal. (Still need to fix hosting...)
These icons were made in 2018 for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
girlgenius_fanworks.
These icons were made in 2018 for
girlgenius_fanworks. Icons — X-Men Classic (backdated)
Dec. 31st, 2018 06:35 pmsheliakVery belated crosspost which I am backdating! (It felt weird to not have these on my own journal. In 2026. It felt weird then when I was going through and adding year tags to my icons.)
In my efforts to make a comm icon, I got.... carried away. The results (below) are free to anyone who happens to want one.
( Icons )
If you'd like an icon of an X-character or characters, let me know and I'll see what I can do! (Just specify if you want one without or without text, or with a particular background color, or if you have a particular issue in mind. And if you want a different series logo it may take a bit longer.)
( Banners )
In my efforts to make a comm icon, I got.... carried away. The results (below) are free to anyone who happens to want one.
( Icons )
If you'd like an icon of an X-character or characters, let me know and I'll see what I can do! (Just specify if you want one without or without text, or with a particular background color, or if you have a particular issue in mind. And if you want a different series logo it may take a bit longer.)
( Banners )
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Apr. 7th, 2026 07:26 pmgreenomg I swear this is what did it. My life has changed over the past week, I feel like a new person, and I feel crazy about it because I swear it's because I splurged on a new soft throw blanket. Something about touching that blanket healed me, y'all. It's a UGG Euphoria blanket, and I spent like 60 bucks on it. I didn't really have the money but I splurged anyway, and it is SO SOFT, and it does something to my brain. Like it tickles my brain when I rub my hands on it. This needs to be studied.
I doubt new improved me will last forever, but I'm doing what I can while I'm feeling this way.
Believe me, I know how crazy it sounds that a blanket has 'cured' my depression.
I doubt new improved me will last forever, but I'm doing what I can while I'm feeling this way.
Believe me, I know how crazy it sounds that a blanket has 'cured' my depression.
"We want toxic yaoi!" "Helluva Boss." "NoT lIkE tHaT!!!11"
Apr. 7th, 2026 05:53 pmshamanicshayminNo, Queer Representation SHOULD be Bad Actually
Thank fucking GOD for this video. This is so refreshing to watch after going down the rabbit hole of Hellaverse hatedom and the way they demonize Stolitz and Stolas for being PrObLeMaTiK. Hell, let me copy-paste the comment I wrote for the video:
( Spoilers for the Season 2 finale of Helluva Boss )
Thank fucking GOD for this video. This is so refreshing to watch after going down the rabbit hole of Hellaverse hatedom and the way they demonize Stolitz and Stolas for being PrObLeMaTiK. Hell, let me copy-paste the comment I wrote for the video:
( Spoilers for the Season 2 finale of Helluva Boss )
Jennifer's Body fic
Apr. 8th, 2026 08:34 amthawreckaGlitter (196 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jennifer's Body (2009)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jennifer Check/Anita "Needy" Lesnicki
Characters: Jennifer Check, Anita "Needy" Lesnicki
Additional Tags: Resurrection, Short, Nonnies Made Me Do It
Summary:
First posted here on FFA.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jennifer's Body (2009)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jennifer Check/Anita "Needy" Lesnicki
Characters: Jennifer Check, Anita "Needy" Lesnicki
Additional Tags: Resurrection, Short, Nonnies Made Me Do It
Summary:
The 17th time Jennifer resurrects and finds Needy all over again...
First posted here on FFA.
Things learned in March
Apr. 7th, 2026 11:04 pmtinnyI didn't write down everything, but my initial feeling is that I managed to write down quite a lot this month. Lets see:
( 15 things I learned in March: lots of technical things this time, and some fun language stuff )
( 15 things I learned in March: lots of technical things this time, and some fun language stuff )
So, I think I want to get into making icons again
Apr. 7th, 2026 02:41 pmashelterofpagesSo, to help me do that, I think I'm gonna ask y'all to drop off prompts of some kind and then I can start practicing doing the thing.
Right now I'm not in any fandoms, so I can't really use that to help me. If you want a fandom based icon, I'll still try and do it but maybe give me some screencaps or something to go off of, or at least link to an image of who you want the icon for so I know who I'm trying to track down when I start looking myself.
If you don't leave a fandom request and are happy with just some random stock type icons, just leave me some prompts of whatever you want, and I'll see what I can do.
I miss doing stuff like this, tbh, and I think it'll be good to play with something that isn't writing for a little while.
Disclaimer: I am very low vision, so these 1) may not come out great and 2) while I'm going to try not to use AI images, I may accidentally mess this up because I have an extremely hard time telling what stuff is made with genAI and what isn't. I try and go for sources that shouldn't have any, but I wanted to say this just in case I'm wrong about the image I choose.
Right now I'm not in any fandoms, so I can't really use that to help me. If you want a fandom based icon, I'll still try and do it but maybe give me some screencaps or something to go off of, or at least link to an image of who you want the icon for so I know who I'm trying to track down when I start looking myself.
If you don't leave a fandom request and are happy with just some random stock type icons, just leave me some prompts of whatever you want, and I'll see what I can do.
I miss doing stuff like this, tbh, and I think it'll be good to play with something that isn't writing for a little while.
Disclaimer: I am very low vision, so these 1) may not come out great and 2) while I'm going to try not to use AI images, I may accidentally mess this up because I have an extremely hard time telling what stuff is made with genAI and what isn't. I try and go for sources that shouldn't have any, but I wanted to say this just in case I'm wrong about the image I choose.
Fandom5k letter
Apr. 7th, 2026 07:01 pmthawreckaHello!
I'm![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
thawrecka, and I'm excited to read whatever you write. If you want to see more about what I like about these canons, or if you want to find more of what I like in fiction feel free to browse here or my tumblr.
If you're the person assigned to me, hi! :D If you're someone else, I also welcome treats.
Requests
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( Bleach )
( Pet Shop of Horrors )
( Blood River )
I'm
If you're the person assigned to me, hi! :D If you're someone else, I also welcome treats.
Requests
( Prince of Tennis )
( Bleach )
( Pet Shop of Horrors )
( Blood River )
Do I know what day it is?
Apr. 6th, 2026 11:11 pmcornerofmadnessTurns out no. I really thought it was the 7th. Was waiting for a half hour for my writers' meet up. Yeah it's tomorrow. I hope to hell that the galaxy paint thing at the library is tomorrow and wasn't tonight. sigh.
Water aerobics was good.
What wasn't good, trying to change my vascular surgeon/vascular testing appointments. He is now only coming down twice a month. It's probably time to switch back to Epstein (who saved my leg) and suck up the trip to Columbus once a year. But why can't I just go to Berger in Circleville if Chillicothe can't take me. It's BOTH Ohio Health (oh, he doesn't allow that) Well guess what we're waiting until August then. Oh No! You need to come. Well if you can't make this happen when I can be there too bad. I'm gone for three months.
By mere coincidence I sat down to see Hallmark Mystery rerunning Remmington Steele. HOW much did 15 year old me love this show?!? Called Mom to tell her because we both crushed on Pierce (dad is rolling his eyes at me for telling her) But MAN how much did I hate (now) the premise. I had forgotten she needed Remmington because a woman wasn't taken serious and couldn't get work in her field....
I had a weird dream. I was outside (my parent's place but it didn't look like their home) picking blackberries. I went inside to get my family and friends to help. I went to put my flip flop back on and I saw a huge red spot on the top of my foot which was swollen. I asked 'does it look like my foot has cellulitis?' expecting to be told it was my imagination again.
I didn't want for an answer. I lifted my left foot and there was a grade one ulcer and degloving of my one toe. I was thinking yeah that's got going to heal. to my surprise my calf jiggled like it was filled with fluid and it was so swollen I said I need to go to the ER
The dream shifted and I was in the ER and they were trying to work on my foot but I kept kicking at them because the surgical rake was tickling me and I kept telling them to numb it better. The doc was saying there are bubbles coming out of the wound and they needed to get me to a specialist. Right about then I started waking up. I could see the light behind my curtains but couldn't get up going in and out of the dream. So weird.
It's music monday 30 weeks of music. This week's prompt is # 20 A song from the year you were born. Share my friends, share
( 1967 was a good year apparently )
here's the whole prompt list
( It's under here )
Water aerobics was good.
What wasn't good, trying to change my vascular surgeon/vascular testing appointments. He is now only coming down twice a month. It's probably time to switch back to Epstein (who saved my leg) and suck up the trip to Columbus once a year. But why can't I just go to Berger in Circleville if Chillicothe can't take me. It's BOTH Ohio Health (oh, he doesn't allow that) Well guess what we're waiting until August then. Oh No! You need to come. Well if you can't make this happen when I can be there too bad. I'm gone for three months.
By mere coincidence I sat down to see Hallmark Mystery rerunning Remmington Steele. HOW much did 15 year old me love this show?!? Called Mom to tell her because we both crushed on Pierce (dad is rolling his eyes at me for telling her) But MAN how much did I hate (now) the premise. I had forgotten she needed Remmington because a woman wasn't taken serious and couldn't get work in her field....
I had a weird dream. I was outside (my parent's place but it didn't look like their home) picking blackberries. I went inside to get my family and friends to help. I went to put my flip flop back on and I saw a huge red spot on the top of my foot which was swollen. I asked 'does it look like my foot has cellulitis?' expecting to be told it was my imagination again.
I didn't want for an answer. I lifted my left foot and there was a grade one ulcer and degloving of my one toe. I was thinking yeah that's got going to heal. to my surprise my calf jiggled like it was filled with fluid and it was so swollen I said I need to go to the ER
The dream shifted and I was in the ER and they were trying to work on my foot but I kept kicking at them because the surgical rake was tickling me and I kept telling them to numb it better. The doc was saying there are bubbles coming out of the wound and they needed to get me to a specialist. Right about then I started waking up. I could see the light behind my curtains but couldn't get up going in and out of the dream. So weird.
It's music monday 30 weeks of music. This week's prompt is # 20 A song from the year you were born. Share my friends, share
( 1967 was a good year apparently )
here's the whole prompt list
( It's under here )
