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Today's recommendation is for the

common_nature community. I confess to being one of the major contributors, but I'm certainly not the only one. I tend to share the macro shots of insects and telephoto captures of birds at our feeders in this community rather than here in my personal journal. If you like photos and paintings of birds, insects and plants as well as discussion of the changing seasons and behaviour of your local wildlife, then

common_nature is for you.

Because I'm still quite proud of it, I append my latest macro shot of a white plume moth that I disturbed whilst weeding the garden:

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My dears, if you are not following the exquisitely writ diary of the incomparable Madame C- on Dreamwidth, you are missing out.

the_comfortable_courtesan began as a series of drabbles by

oursin for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth 2015, and those of us who were captivated by her - exploits is too crude a word - expertly managed intrigues* were ecstatic when her narrator decided to continue to share her story, which began thus:

I shall not say how, and why, at the age of 15 I became the mistress of the Earl of Craven, because I never had the kind of opportunities that Harriet Wilson wasted. However, at the age of 27 I fell in with a wealthy Northern ironmaster, whose generosity and sound financial advice have ensured me a comfortable old age without the need for blackmail, indeed with the ability to support a number of charitable enterprises for the benefit of some less fortunate sisters in the trade. This narrative sets out to encourage a rational and prudent approach to the profession of harlotry and to dispel the notion that a 'fallen woman' is bound to die in the gutter, penniless and diseased, before her 30th year.

* including the aversion of the terrible pitfall that might have resulted from an "epistolary mathematickal flirtation" by one of her friends.

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(Livejournal is down. It went down right as I hit Post on a long entry to a community. ARGH I SHOULD KNOW BETTER TYPE IT UP IN GOOGLE DOCS FIRST, NANILA.)

Anyway, today's recommendation is for a Dreamwidth community. It's the first one I've created and it's called

bitesizedreading. With co-admin

ironed_orchid's help, it's been modeled after

bitesizedcleaning. I made it because my novel-length reading has declined dramatically since having children and with increased responsibility at work. I was so busy shaming myself for "not reading" that I was failing to notice that I actually spend loads of time reading, it's just that it's focused differently now and tends to be more, well, bite-sized: articles in Nature and The Economist (though I rarely consume an entire weekly issue), instruction manuals, labels on the washing, chapters in non-fiction books, e-mail and of course daily social media catchup. All this counts! It's worthy of recording, and of cheerleading. As the community intro says:

This community is intended to provide a way to remind ourselves that all reading, whether it's short stories, articles in magazines, fanfic, Dreamwidth posts or the instructions on a packet of instant noodles, counts as reading. Sometimes we have the energy to read an entire novel in a day. Sometimes we don't have the energy or the time to expend on getting into lengthy written works. Here, we celebrate the reading we've done without passing judgment on the word count or the content.

Please join in!

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