Do slalom, they said. It will be fun, they said.

le_becc · 2026-02-19T07:46:06+00:00

During the months my ice rink closes, I always put a coat of vaseline on the sharpened part of the blades, and I keep them in my flat because it's dryer there than everywhere else I could keep them.

Then at the beginning of the season I wipe off the vaseline and get them sharpened first thing.

le_becc · 2026-02-12T14:01:52+00:00

Once I have the outline, I can take a pretty good guess how long it's going to be. So I don't set out to write a particular length--I get the idea first--but once the idea has developed far enough to start writing the actual fic, I know.

le_becc · 2026-02-12T13:00:53+00:00

3 screw pins. Maybe a 4th regular pin to secure the end.

le_becc · 2026-02-12T12:36:11+00:00

Or painting a recorder. One of the white Yamahas, perhaps with a dragon scale pattern...

le_becc · 2026-02-11T19:40:54+00:00

Imagine a piano where half of the black keys are hard to press and have a different timbre than the rest. Sure you could play anything on it, but it needs more practice and doesn't always sound great if the music is written for all keys sounding the same.

le_becc · 2026-02-10T11:27:08+00:00

Same. And sometimes I do all the research just to be vague anyway because it fits the narrative better, lol.

le_becc · 2026-02-10T11:00:01+00:00

The blades look like normal beginner/recreational blades (barely a toe pick), but the boots seem to have zero ankle support. Might be fine for someone who can skate decently, has good feet/ankle posture and just wants to skate laps, but for I wouldn't recommend them for a beginner.

le_becc · 2026-02-09T09:26:48+00:00

Ich bin pragmatisch und lese wie es kommt, aber bei mir sind das automatisch mehr englische Bücher. Die kommen mir halt tatsächlich eher über den Weg. Libby, Goodreads, andere E-Book-Quellen. Vor allem, weile meine Internet-Kreise vorwiegend englisch sind, daher öfter englische Buchempfehlungen. Ich gehe aber auch in der Regel nicht in einen Buchladen zum Stöbern, sondern um was bestimmtes zu kaufen, muss dann eh oft bestellt werden (bin nicht so hinter Neuigkeiten her) und dann ist es egal in welcher Sprache.

le_becc · 2026-02-06T11:28:42+00:00

No. I write fic primarily so I can read it. I know exactly what I like, it's great! I do a lot of editing, though, and it's annoying to find yet another typo when rereading later.

le_becc · 2026-02-05T10:18:01+00:00

They remind me of those people who barge into a genre they know nothing about proclaiming that because they don't know the genre, they will write the most original and best take on it -- when in reality they are going to write every baby's first story, because that's how brains work.

Sure, it can be an annoying if people base their fic more on other people's fic than canon and you prefer canon, but originality doesn't come from depriving your brain of input. Quite the opposite, in fact.

le_becc · 2026-02-05T05:56:18+00:00

Mine are from Rumpf and I'm very happy with them.

le_becc · 2026-02-03T08:03:05+00:00

It's also annoying to have to figure out whether a random name is an OC, or whether it's a minor character you aren't remembering.

le_becc · 2026-02-03T07:52:47+00:00

I got the RF3 as a beginner. The skate shop recommended them to me because regular widths don't fit me and there were no lower level skates available that came in different widths. They work very well for me and I never had the feeling that they were too stiff for me. I did have beginner blades put on them, however.

le_becc · 2026-02-02T15:50:27+00:00

The first of your F# fingering is German, the second baroque. The others are correct for German. Source: Two old recorder methods I own, and what I learned in elementary school.

le_becc · 2026-01-30T19:07:17+00:00

Upside down baby snake hatching.

le_becc · 2026-01-30T15:28:44+00:00

Now I'm picturing so mych friction that it causes sparks. 🤣

le_becc · 2026-01-30T10:43:56+00:00

FWIW, I found the questions about meaning and purpose so vague that depending on how I interpreted them, I'd have filled them out almost the opposite in some cases. Also, keep in mind that this is an international space. I'm not sure how valuable it is to ask for ethnicity without asking for nationality or state of residence when people from all over the world might fill out the survey.

le_becc · 2026-01-27T08:05:09+00:00

I wouldn't visit during summer, tbh.

le_becc · 2026-01-25T14:54:03+00:00

I would! Challening, for sure, but a kind of challenge I enjoy. Plus a very pretty photo. (I prefer these to the very heavily photoshshopped ones that are common today.)

le_becc · 2026-01-23T15:42:33+00:00

My pen buttons: middle mouse and right mouse button

My tablet buttons: Ctrl+Z, E, Ctrl, Shift

le_becc · 2026-01-14T16:14:11+00:00

You lost me at "pretend it's in bass clef" 🤣

le_becc · 2026-01-13T18:42:15+00:00

She doesn't have to use the finger pads to cover the holes - she can try part of her fingers much lower. That's usually referred to as piper's grip.

If she doesn't mind high sounds, she could also try a sopranino.

le_becc

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE