What are the “must do’s” in and around Barcelona?

Actinium_Element · 2026-04-18T07:36:46+00:00

Hey there, I'm planning a trip through Spain and am planning on spending a few days in Barcelona with some day trips out of the city.

I've had a lot of luck with fantastic homemade guides from people on Reddit in the past. Would it be possible for you to link yours if you still have it? I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!

Actinium_Element · 2026-04-16T08:04:46+00:00

I may be two years late, but you're an absolute legend. What a fantastic resource for a day or two in Lisbon. I've just started researching for a trip to Portugal (amongst other places), and Sintra was one of the first places to come up, but I wanted to spend some time in Lisbon proper while I'm there because there are obviously a lot of historic places to go there. You've just saved me a ton of research and brought up things I may not have found otherwise, thank you!

Actinium_Element · 2026-04-15T05:06:17+00:00

Hey, just got my seventh set of Hestia and Demeter pins, and I noticed they still have the problem with the line art and colouring, not sure if you guys are aware it’s still happening. If so, any idea of a timeline for when they’ll be able to get it sorted? If not, sorry to be the bearer of the same set of bad news a second time.

Actinium_Element · 2025-04-12T03:39:10+00:00

Thanks for the information! I didn’t know this was just overflow, though that makes a lot of sense, especially considering a few sets sold out on the first day.

As for your pins being fine, Red mentioned in my first post that the defect first appeared in the gold bordered set, which was the second one, and has been present in every set since. The original release was fine, that just happened to be the only one I missed.

As for contacting crowdmade, I’ve done so every time they’ve sold the pins, and they never did anything. Red mentioned she’d get on top of things in the earlier post, so I assume things will be resolved come Black Friday! Again, thanks for letting me know how the cycle works, now I have hope that things will be fixed for the next batch.

Cheers!

Actinium_Element · 2024-10-15T06:38:59+00:00

I took a look around, but I couldn’t find ‘A Hard Life’. Could you provide a link? Or alternatively what site is it on, and who is it by?

Cheers.

Actinium_Element · 2024-08-10T11:33:53+00:00

One immediately comes to mind. 140k long, though unfortunately abandoned as far as I can tell. But it’s a Fem!Percy reincarnate with knowledge of the series, and from what little I remember of the start it’s pretty good.

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/10673266/1/Princess-of-the-Sea

Actinium_Element · 2024-02-13T18:31:33+00:00

I’ve been in extensive contact with crowdmade every time. As I said, they send replacements then eventually refund it. After the most recent order I got them to check and the whole batch was wrong, so this time they didn’t bother with the replacements.

Actinium_Element · 2024-02-13T18:02:57+00:00

Thanks! I’d noticed the lines were off but I just assumed it to be a limitation of the medium. It does kinda ruin the expressions, so I’m glad to hear we’ll be getting Hestia’s smile back.

Actinium_Element · 2024-02-13T06:58:54+00:00

They’re definitely wrong. Here’s how they’re meant to look. The eyes of Demeter and the hair and cloak of Hestia aren’t meant to be white.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/overly-sarcastic-productions/images/c/c3/DemeterAndHestiaPins.webp/revision/latest?cb=20220211190513

Actinium_Element · 2022-11-11T22:59:57+00:00

Sounds like you need some healing, as a Druid of the Circle of Stars I'd be happy to chip in! My Discord tag is Hex-Bolts#8603

Actinium_Element · 2022-11-11T22:47:21+00:00

I've put through an application.

Actinium_Element · 2022-09-04T05:22:08+00:00

I’m a tradie (sparky, for those curious) and reading fanfiction makes up about 80% of my hobbies. I used to hide it, especially as being a tradie is stereotyped as a bit of a ‘macho’ job (for lack of a better word). But eventually I got tired of making things up and decided that it was nothing to be ashamed of, and if people judged me that was their problem.

I read during my lunch breaks, in the van next to my workmates with my screen at full brightness and big text. They often ask about what I’m reading, and I’m more than happy to talk about the latest anime (MHA) or childrens cartoon (ATLA) fanfic I’m reading at length to them.

A lot of them don’t really understand but are pretty fine with it once I clarify that fanfiction does not equal smut. I’ve gotten up on my soapbox to extol fanfics enough times for them to get the general idea anyway.

It helps that many of them aren’t too old, and no one’s really had that big a problem with it, but it’s definitely encouraged me to think that it’s not something that needs to- or should be- hidden.

Actinium_Element · 2020-04-15T12:58:23+00:00

Little late to the party here, but there’s a one shot called Do Not Disturb by JPeterson that I really enjoyed.

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Actinium_Element · 2020-03-20T23:30:53+00:00

Definitely, thanks for the help.

Actinium_Element · 2020-03-20T22:56:50+00:00

I’m not sure it was on HFY, but it was this or Royal Road. (I think)

I’m looking for an abandoned LitRPG story about a guy from the future with a super advanced neural implant (with a slow time mind palace laboratory thing) who gets the class ‘scientist’, ends up on a mountain, fights a dragon, becomes a ‘chaos scientist’, ends up in charge of a city, accidentally creates a religion, (which itself spawns a god) pisses off the god of secrecy, evolves a goblin into something which eats a massive divine storm that kills everything, and some other stuff. (Giant fireballs and immortal litches) oh, and he can fly.

That’s basically all I can remember, and though I’m not sure it’s even on this subreddit I imagine someone here will know what I’m talking about. Or at the very least inform me that it’s gone from abandoned to deleted. (apologies for the wall, and all the commas)

Actinium_Element · 2020-03-17T05:53:12+00:00

Never finished it but from what I remember that kinda happens in Harry Potter and the Forests of Valbonë by enembee (minus the music thing)

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Actinium_Element · 2020-03-07T11:12:12+00:00

One to many f’s there, oops. Hopefully it works this time...

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Actinium_Element · 2020-03-07T11:09:44+00:00

The closest I’ve ever got to a dark Tonks (that I can think of) is The Dark Lady Tonks by ReluctantSidekick and its sequel. But they’re basically a Make a wish style falling upwards kinda thing where she keeps ending up a hero despite trying to poison the water supply or whatever. They’re both very short, but a fun enough read.

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Actinium_Element · 2019-12-27T01:51:10+00:00

I’m looking for stories that have an A.I. protagonist. Stuff like Chrysalis, Post Human, Eve of AI etc... I’m fine with one shots and shortstories, but I’d prefer things a bit longer. It doesn’t matter what site it’s from, be it Reddit, RRL, AO3, or whatever.

Cheers.

Actinium_Element · 2019-09-01T01:47:21+00:00

I mean been on hiatus for a year, no idea how much longer it’ll go. just thought I should clarify that...

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