been all over

Jun. 28th, 2025 06:00 pm
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We have been to Many Shopping the last couple days since getting the car back, and the day before last we saw some ducklings :D there are 2 groups of babies in this photo, one regular duck. One group was obviously the outgoing extrovert children and the other group was anxious stragglers. They were really fun to watch.



A couple yard pics Under here )

Some not great Ghost news (warning: illness? injury?) nothing gory )

Oh, ETA: in unrelated news and tonal whiplash - does anyone else use focumon? It's a focus app with a pokemon knockoff theme. If you liked habitica, same kinda thing. We should be friends if you try it! I am only on day 1, so idk if I will stick to it. It seems very complicated at first, so I'm trying to streamline it for myself. I basically only need the "focus now" bit.


Me-and-media update

Jun. 27th, 2025 03:50 pm
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I wrote most of this on Tuesday, and now it's Friday, so some unrepaired time dilation might slip through.

Pandemic life
Protocol slippage. )

Previous poll review
In the Impending doom of the natural variety poll, the most common natural disaster threatening respondents is drought/heat (55.6%), followed by flood (44.4%), then blizzard (40.7%). Twelve of us (including me) are at risk of earthquakes.

In ticky-boxes, hugs won by a landslide with 70.4%, followed by "ticky-box made of Möbius strips and Escher staircases" with 48.1%. Thank you for your votes!

Reading
A little more Neurotribes, but the focus on kids and parenting is not holding my interest. Nothing wrong with it; I'm just not the right audience. A chapter of Guardian. A smidgen more of The Book of Three, and the first few hours of Incandescent by Emily Tesh, read by Zara Ramm (very heavy on introductions and the nitty-gritty of school administration so far, but I like the POV character - no spoilers, please).

TV & movies
Four episodes of The Expanse season 6 with a friend; we're watching the other two tonight. Murderbot (really enjoyed the last episode). Poker Face (haven't seen the latest). Andor S02E06 (maybe we're watching this too slowly? so far this season isn't clicking for me).

Episode 2 of Stick, which... I enjoyed watching Lydio Ko play on TV, one time, but I just don't know how much golf I can engage with, especially in fiction. Swings all look the same to me, so after the first three or four, there's none of the physical competence porn you get in more overtly active sports. And I don't find Owen Wilson inherently charming or interesting. I think the biggest appeal of the show is actually that so much of it is set outside with trees around, and that's still a very manicured, artificial setting. /fussy /tl;dr, We're in the market for a new show.

Our Unwritten Seoul (Kdrama on Netflix). I'm enjoying this so much! Two episodes and several revelations yet to go.

Materialists at the movies. We went to this because a friend and I have a running conversation about the death of the romcom, and this nominally was one. But it turned out to not really be rom or com, and the title should have clued me in that Andrew wouldn't like it (he disliked the main character and wasn't at all invested in the outcome). It's interestingly structured, and the cast is good, but it's mostly about entitled people approaching dating in terms of checkboxes (age, height, income, etc).
Spoilery things about the structure.The main character, Lucy, is a professional matchmaker in NYC, and the film is in three parts: the first third is a wealth-porn romance between her and Pedro Pascale; he pursues her after they meet at the wedding of his brother, her former client. They go to a lot of expensive restaurants, have sex on satin sheets in his $12m penthouse, and talk a lot of numbers at each other. He wants to take her to Iceland on holiday. The middle third (or possibly third act of four? I wasn't timing it) starts when one of Lucy's clients is sexually assaulted on a date Lucy set up. This all happens off-screen, and I don't think we even see the assaulter. The victim is the nicest, warmest of Lucy's clients, but the film is mostly concerned with Lucy's crisis, as the assault brings home that the checkboxes don't matter. The final third or act is a second-time-around romance with her struggling-actor/cater-waiter ex-boyfriend, Chris Evans. Lucy broke up with him over money, and now at the culmination of her character arc, she decides she loves him enough to make it work after all. Conveniently, he is still extremely hung up on her.

I don't think I've ever seen a relationship movie that starts out focused on one pairing getting together (they feel pretty well-matched, and Pedro Pascale's character is smart, open, attentive and kind), then transitions to another pairing. Huh.


The Wild Robot on Netflix. Okay, this was really cute and funny. I especially enjoyed the possum babies. (I kept missing quips, though -- poor sound mixing, or is my hearing going?) As an aside, I was amused that the corporation was called Universal Dynamics, given Global Dynamics in Eureka (2006) and Massive Dynamics in Fringe (2008). What comes after "universal"?

October Sky on Netflix. Fictionalised biopic about a kid in a coal-mining company town in 1957 who is inspired by Sputnik to create a rocket, learn trigonometry, and get a college scholarship. Stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, and Laura Linney. It was fine, but wow, I wanted the story to be about overthrowing the company.

Audio entertainment
I spent four or five hours over the weekend listening to Melanie Nelson of Coherent podcast interviewing politicians, academics and a disability activist about the "Let's Make Everything Libertarian" Bill for which submissions closed lunchtime Monday. (Locals, it's not too late to weigh in! Talk to your MP!) Since then, Writing Excuses and a bunch of Midnight Burger. (I bounced off Midnight Burger when I first tried it a year or two ago, but now I'm really enjoying the physics and other science aspects, and the characters are growing on me. Ava is my fav. I'm most of the way through episode 11.)

Online life
Catching up on comments. Still have a billion unread emails, and let's not even talk about my tabs.

Writing/making things
I spent the weekend juggling multiple urgent things. Now I have some breathing space, of course, when I sit down to write (aiming for a combination [community profile] fan_flashworks entry and Guardian Bingo), I can't make sentences.
Whining.A contributing factor is that I'm having another "argh, my prose sucks" crisis of confidence. This happens periodically. You can't be on a roll indefinitely without hitting a bump, I guess. For me, usually it means it's time to read a particular type of literary novel, preferably in paper format. The one I remember being most successful is Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible; the very close, very voice-y rotating POVs, the playful intricate language use, and the thoughtful exploration of context help me to sink into whatever POV I'm writing, rather than skating over the surface and Lego-ing together tired phrases. I wrote some really good fic after re-reading it a few years ago. Whereas re-reading Byatt's Possession just meant I produced endless run-on sentences, heh. Anyway, I guess I should get on that soon...


Finished and posted an old outsider POV writing exercise for [community profile] fan_flashworks's Yield challenge.

Life/health/mental state things
I got my political submission in (thanks to [personal profile] cyphomandra for beta) and wrote an outraged email to the Prime Minister about the Deputy Prime Minister's engaging in stochastic harrassment.

In general, I've been feeling needlessly stressed and vaguely sick, but today my alarm didn't go off and I slept an extra hour and a half. So much better.

Good things
Un-punctured bike tyre. Kdrama. New intermediate glasses making it easier to do crosswords and to read while I exercise. New bathroom sink taps. [community profile] sid_guardian commentpalooza. I'll probably get back on my writing feet again soon. Andrew and Halle and books and fandom.

Poll #33295 Routine
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 52


Night-time getting-ready-for-bed routine

View Answers

I brush my teeth
44 (84.6%)

I lock up and switch things off around the house
27 (51.9%)

I tend to pets
16 (30.8%)

there are a few skincare- and/or haircare-type steps
17 (32.7%)

kind of a lot of steps, of various kinds
7 (13.5%)

it takes me more than half an hour
13 (25.0%)

sometimes it takes me an hour or more
4 (7.7%)

what routine? I'm always ready for bed
8 (15.4%)

other
9 (17.3%)

ticky-box of it's normal to have strong opinions about taps (AKA faucets)
23 (44.2%)

ticky-box of how stressful it is to ask tradespeople to change things they've done
30 (57.7%)

ticky-box of wondering if today is the day you'll unexpectedly step through a portal into another time or world
21 (40.4%)

ticky-box full of sitting on a mountain ledge in the moonlight, listening to owls
30 (57.7%)

ticky-box full of hugs
40 (76.9%)

Flowers

Jun. 26th, 2025 11:18 am
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From my garden.

flowers )

media update (late again)

Jun. 26th, 2025 09:58 am
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Still not doing much, but last week:

Played some What Remains of Edith Finch, on switch. What a cool and pretty game! I am not very far into it.

Read several people are typing by Calvin Kasulke, been wanting to read this for ages, because it takes place in slack, and I have slack nostalgia, but I was expecting a "workplace lulz about capitalism gone awry" kind of book - which it definitely is! But it's also very Weird Existential Horror. LOL. I had no idea that was coming, but I enjoyed it a lot. The end is kind of abrupt & easy, but I still rec it. Very weird book & a very quick read (bc slack chat format). (I need more Lydia!!)

Didn't write anything!!

Still reading a ton of fic, mostly rereads but some new.

I think that's it, tbh.

updated to add:



Iphoto tells me it's a northern pearly eye. I WAS VERY BRAVE!

hello from the heatwave

Jun. 24th, 2025 01:23 pm
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Kelly is home :D and to welcome him home, the car did the thing I told him it was doing, right before we were supposed to go shopping! Disastrous >:( It doesn't like to shift out of park, sometimes. Like one of those times, when I was in the drive thru, which was extremely anxiety provoking (trapped AND inconveniencing someone?? NIGHTMARE). But anyway, we put off shopping and he took it to the mechanic on his way to work yesterday morning and they were like "lol we had no idea what you meant until we tried to move the car later." :D Anyway, needs a new shift assembly. They don't have the part, so they have our car a couple days. And we have no car (but a full fridge, so it's fine, just kinda stir crazy)..

Of course, Sunny's eye immediately starts watering. Just clear, no conjunctivitis, but what's with that, Sunny?? I start panicking because our vet is 40 minutes away because I hate change. Anyway, seems resolved today. She slept by my head purring like a machine, which only worried me more, lol.

And then yesterday the AC broke! HAHA 🫠 it's getting pretty sticky here. The dog and cat are into it, though. We are mid-heatwave and it is melting my entire insides. An upside: I have ice cream cones!! Idk how, bc ice cream is already so great, but cones really do make it 300% better. Appt for the AC to be looked at tomorrow morning (hopefully)

Some crow pics 4 of em )

It looks like he's missing a couple feathers - you can see the down poking out. There was a whole tree full of crows yelling about something (no hawk that I could see, but man, I looked!) and this guy was the straggler who stuck around a little longer.

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I finished off an old writing exercise for the Yield challenge on [community profile] fan_flashworks:

Title: Supplanted (1541 words) [General Audiences]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Characters: Xiao Quan (Shen Wei's student), Shen Wei, Zhao Yunlan, Jiajia
Additional Tags: Episode Related, Canon Scene, Canon Dialogue, POV Outsider, Episode 9 roadtrip, Zhao Yunlan is my blorbo, but sometimes he's a bit of a dick, Xiao Quan don't get no respect

Summary:

The responsibility for getting them back on the road rests on Luo Quan’s shoulders—and when he achieves it, the glory will be his, too. Jiajia will clap her hands and promise to buy him a drink when they get back to Dragon City. Professor Shen will give an approving smile.

Materialists

Jun. 23rd, 2025 06:14 pm
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I went to see Materialists this afternoon. Partly to get away from this hideous heat though I was planning on seeing it in any event. It got me thinking that the last time I actually went to the theater to see a movie it was Knives Out. Call it the Evans effect. 😀

I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's a decent rom-com that definitely has something to say about dating and "checking all the boxes."

The acting was good but Dakota Johnson somehow managed to not have much chemistry with either Pedro Pascal or Chris Evans imho.

Chris Evans looks especially soft and huggable in it.

Seed pal

Jun. 20th, 2025 08:53 pm
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A cute lil guy!!!

Kelly is in Iqaluit tonight! Home tomorrow! Only delayed 1hr, which is amazing :P

I disturbed some bumblebees today. It turns out they love nesting under decayed garden plants, which is my entire front garden. I was pulling grass out because I was FINALLY going to plant some flowers in there, and I heard suddenly this really loud rushing water sound??? And I was like, "it obviously cannot be water, it CANNOT. But what is it?!" and then the bees came out, lol.

So I guess?? I won't, then. YOU WIN THE GARDEN, BEES. The water sound was insane, though. All their little engines starting up at once.

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Title: Whatever It Takes to Bring You Back (5691 words) [Teen and Up]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Shen Wei, Zhao Yunlan, Wu Tian'en, Ding Dun
Additional Tags: Whump, Pain, Loss of Agency, Episode Related, episode 17, Zhao Yunlan's first trip to Dixing does not end well, Until it does, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hurt!Zhao Yunlan, hurt!Shen Wei, Get Together, First Kiss (for one of them)

Summary:

“Shen Wei! You’re here—” Zhao Yunlan was sobbing. Then he screamed again, curling in on himself and clutching his forearm. “Fuck, this hurts! Get it—this—get it out of me! Help, Shen Wei—”

Something was very wrong. Even if he were terribly injured, Zhao Yunlan wouldn’t permit panic into his voice. He would make jokes, not scream for help. How much agony must he be in, to have broken like this?

Me-and-media update

Jun. 20th, 2025 02:45 pm
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Previous poll review
In the The Tower poll, by far the most popular princess is the cat (63%), so I guess it's a cat tower. Runner up is the dragon princess with 47.8%, and third is the minotaur princess (32.6%), who I imagine is enjoying the view after so much time shut up in a labyrinth.

In ticky-boxes, rescue dragons came second to hugs, 60.9% to 69.6%, and puppies came third with 45.7%. Thank you for your votes!!

Reading
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman, narrated by William Hope. This is (understandably) more about parenting than I was expecting, so I don't know that I'm getting a huge amount out of it. But it's well-written and well-read, and I'll keep going a bit further. (It's over 20 hours.)

Maybe a little more of The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander -- I'm not sure if I've got back to this since I last posted. I'm awaiting new intermediate glasses, which I'm hoping will make life easier and mean I can read on my exercise machine again, without having to set the font size to "huge". (Breaking news: ageing is overrated.)

Guardian by priest -- I think we're nearly through the epic (in both senses) mythology dump, and we'll soon be getting back to what I think of as the main plot arc.

Release Your Persona by Yeaze (Korean BL manhwa) (via [personal profile] reviews_and_ramblings, which I found via [personal profile] cornerofmadness) -- this sure was an education in how porny BL manhwa are. It's a short-and-sweet celeb/non-celeb romance. Very cute (and did I mention E-rated?).

No Peter Whimsy this week because I disliked the narrator of the audiobook.

Kdramas
Our Unwritten Seoul -- okay, I'm loving this story of adult twins who swap lives; it's interesting and hopeful without being fluffy. Curious to see where it's going, and (of course) impatient for secrets to come out.

Sell Your Haunted House -- rewatch continues. Such a good show.

Other TV
The first episode of Étoile, a ballet drama created by the Sherman-Palladinos (of Gilmore Girls and Marvelous Mrs. Maisel fame). Seems fun so far. We'll get back to it.

Finished the first season of the Argentinian show, El Eternauta, and I totally see why it was recommended to go in unspoiled (I agree!), but just ftr, the season doesn't wrap up. It's one of those gear-shift to-be-continued endings. Still, it was fascinating and I always appreciate a different-from-the-usual-suspects setting. ([personal profile] laireshi, if you happen to be reading this, this show hits one of your DNWs.)

Turning Point: The Vietnam War continues to be excellent; really impressive range of interview subjects from all sides. Murderbot is still really fun. Finished season 5 of The Expanse. The school episode of Poker Face and the con artist one (John Cho & Melanie Lynskey 4 eva), and episodes 4 & 5 of Andor season 2.

Guardian/Fandom
My fannish activity consists of the readalong, the polls, and writing -- which is all so much fun and plenty to keep me busy.

Audio entertainment
Writing Excuses, a lot of Coherent (local politics argh), and a couple of episodes of Midnight Burger because I was starving for fiction. (Episode 7 was so good I made Andrew listen to it. I'm not sure it worked as well out of context, but mostly I just liked the physics conversation anyway.)

Writing/making things
I'm still writing! This is a pretty great streak for me. How long can it last? Trying to finish a minor character/outsider POV flashfic for tomorrow's [community profile] fan_flashworks deadline (prompt: Yield), and I still have the Guardian bingo prompts for June on my mind. One day I'll get back to my WIPs.

Also, there's been author reveals, so I can say that I picked up a pinch hit for [community profile] whumpex, which was really fun. I had not previously thought I'd enjoy writing a fic where Zhao Yunlan spends most of it screaming in pain, but... you live, you learn.

Life/health/mental state things
Idek. )

Good things
Sunshine and biking. The bakery at Greta Point, with its delicious cinnamon rolls and seed-strewn rye sourdough. Achieving getting my car fixed. Writing! Guardian and comments and polls and the readalong and happy brain-sparky times and people. My favourite hand cream courtesy of [personal profile] mergatrude. Crosswords. Kdramas. My arms are holding up pretty well.

Poll #33270 Impending doom of the natural variety
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 54


What natural disaster threat(s) do you live with?

View Answers

earthquake
12 (22.2%)

fire
15 (27.8%)

volcano
5 (9.3%)

flood
24 (44.4%)

drought/heat
30 (55.6%)

hurricane/cyclone
14 (25.9%)

landslide/avalanche
2 (3.7%)

blizzard
22 (40.7%)

tornado
15 (27.8%)

tsumani
4 (7.4%)

other
3 (5.6%)

ticky-box full of emergency kits/go bags
18 (33.3%)

ticky-box made of Möbius strips and Escher staircases
26 (48.1%)

ticky-box full of unlabelled VHS tapes
18 (33.3%)

ticky-box full of zebras in headphones listening to 80s pop on Stripe-ify
19 (35.2%)

ticky-box full of hugs
38 (70.4%)

thursday reads and things

Jun. 19th, 2025 04:30 pm
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What I recently abandoned reading:

I got just over halfway through Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao before deciding that YA mecha is not my thing, even when it's a YA mecha AU of Chinese history. I think I'd rather read an actual historical novel or even nonfiction about Wu Zetian, who seems to have been an impressive-as-hell woman. (I will take recommendations!)

What I'm reading now:

Lamentation, the 6th Shardlake book by C. J. Sansom. (An actual historical novel! 😁)

What I recently finished watching:

S2 of Andor, which as I said, weirdly ironic to be watching as we grapple with our own ascendant Evil Empire. The pacing of this season was strange, big time-skips and characters that had seemed important in S1 (or in early episodes of S2) disappearing completely, or reappearing briefly only to be killed. I was expecting more about Mon Mothma's family, after all the screentime lavished on the wedding and her sort-of-blackmail situation. I was also expecting more of a resolution, though that's probably because I only vaguely remember Rogue One, so a lot of the breadcrumbs were, "wait, who was that again?" instead of, "aha!" for me. But I liked Kleya a whole lot, and also the snarky ex-Empire droid, and some of the spycraft bits were fun.

What I'm watching now:

We are giving American Primeval a try, despite it probably being on the violent/gory side for our tastes. We're two episodes in, and - I immediately recognized Shorty Bowlegs from the most recent season of Dark Winds! (Derek Hinkey, playing Red Feather.) Also, there is a local(ish) woman in it, Nanabah Grace from Cortez just down the road, who plays Kuttaambo'i. An article about her in the local newspaper was the way I first heard of this series, actually.

I'm enjoying the historical stuff; it's set during the Mormon War, which I actually researched a bit for my Yuletide fic, the premise of which was that the main reason that Deseret became an independent republic in the alt-history of Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz was that President Buchanan backed down in the face of united Mormons and natives, as both religion and respect for the tribes were stronger in that universe's US. I also like seeing the Old West, even though it was all filmed in New Mexico pretending to be Wyoming, although I'm getting a bit tired of the washed-out sepia filter.

What I recently finished playing:

Okay, not quite finished, but I have completed the last major quest in Mass Effect: Andromeda, so it's basically over. (I mean, the credits rolled! Therefore, it's over!) I know that Andromeda is considered ME's poor stepchild, but - I really enjoyed it. The "major threat to the world as we know it!!1!!one!" of the main trilogy is such a staple plotline of video games like this that I appreciated the "survive, explore, and (hopefully) thrive in a NEW UNIVERSE (and also defeat the major threat to the world as we know it)" plotline for its novelty. I thought the structure of quests opening new planets and objectives in a rough but not strict order worked well, and I really liked that most (maybe all?) decisions are not hugely critical, so you don't doom yourself to a bad ending by choosing X instead of Y. I did check the wiki a few times when I was nervous about things, but pretty much none of these decisions made any real difference, which meant I was free to actually role-play as "what WOULD (me as) Sara Ryder do?" and I find that much more relaxing.

I wasn't quite completionist - I didn't do all the fetch quest type quests, and I didn't do one vault (Elaaden, which I might go back and do), but I did pretty much everything else. I liked the glyph puzzles, and I hated the Architects, ugh. I played mostly as what in the main trilogy would be Infiltrator (combat + tech). I romanced Liam (after a fling with Peebee). It was fun!

What I'm playing next:

I think I will try some shorter games; I got Lorelei and the Laser Eyes a while back because a friend recommended it, and Skabma - Snowfall from a recent deal, because it looked pretty. I might try Baldur's Gate 3 again - I never managed to get into it and found it frustrating and annoying. Eventually I plan to get Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and also probably Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which I've heard good things about.
(Or sell me on your favorite adventure game!)
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I always enjoy the wide variety of postcards which appear regularly from [personal profile] fflo. Tuesday, [personal profile] fflo posted about the "Best Wrong Answers" to LearnedLeague. These are a series of punchline-worthy responses to Jeopardy!-style questions. For example:

In photography, the overall brightness of an image is determined by the "exposure triangle" of aperture, shutter speed, and a third factor which is a measure of the sensitivity of the camera's sensor (or the film) to light. This third factor is known as what?

  • REMEMBERING TO TAKE THE LENS CAP OFF

Even though I got online before the WWW, I’d never heard of LearnedLeague, which is a very dedicated group of trivia fiends. Here’s what I found:

Like any tight-knit community, there’s a ton of jargon. Participants are called LLamas (the double L matching Learned League). Membership is by invite only, though there is some public content at
LearnedLeague.com

Some of the world-readable "Best Worst Answer" tallies follow the URL pattern

https://learnedleague.com/hist/awards/100.php

Where 100 references the season—I had some fun plugging in random numbers.

From season 97:

A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), and Many Waters (1986) continue the story first told by author Madeleine L'Engle in what 1962 novel?

  • 3 REASONS TO HAVE HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE

Public, unofficial Learned League groups on Reddit and Facebook. More fun to be had from grazing the #BestWrongAnswers tag on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/bestwronganswers

whooops, media

Jun. 19th, 2025 02:51 pm
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[personal profile] omens
OK, so I missed wednesday two weeks in a row! LOL.

Not a lot going on here aside from

☀️ was in the car with L for a half an hour so I listened to a bunch more Epic (trapped!!)

☀️ I think I watched one episode of Amphibia

☀️ got 2 more library books, have read none

☀️ finished year 1 of joja run in Stardew, ending it there

☀️ read a lot of fanfiction, which is WILD, but I needed brain downtime. It was almost all rereads.

☀️ practically finished Tale of the Nine-Tailed and I'll talk more about it next week but, ehhhhhhh. It has its moments.

☀️ still not writing, but thinking very hard about it the last couple days, which could bode well???

☀️ also thinking about embroidery a lot 💭

☀️ excited to see Murderbot this next week, hopefully!



Surprise lil yard friend this morning <3

April-May dSC6D snippets comm report

Jun. 18th, 2025 11:44 pm
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Over the course of April and May we had four snippets for the dSC6D snippets comm on Dreamwidth. Links to the fic are at the comm (and there's one June entry so far).

Things I Can Only See Up North

Jun. 18th, 2025 12:58 pm
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I’m up near Rhinelander staying on Flannery Lake. I’ll be reveling in 15:45 hours of daylight on the summer solstice. Today there’s zero wind, while the second-growth white, yellow, and red pine trees are pumping out their jizz with enthusiasm. The lime-yellow grains appear darker as they overlay almost every square inch of the water, with wild swirls and eddies that extend many feet off shore until eventually the black surface reflects many puffy cumulus clouds in a light blue sky.

Lovely to look at, but not so great to breathe. At least we're not bedeviled by wildfire smoke.

click for pic )

friday fives

Jun. 17th, 2025 06:39 pm
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[personal profile] omens
1. What item would you be embarrassed for people to know you own?
I thought about this for a while, and I think it'd be something like how I own a Cintiq I've only ever used twice, things like that: expensive things bought with good intentions and never used. I am much more "but will it actually be USED" these days, and tend not to buy, in general.

2. What is something you splurged on just for you?
I bought a rock tumbler last year! And I also bought a long (manual) lens for my camera last year. Both are being used!

3. What is something that you own with no real world value that is priceless to you?
Probably photographs, that kind of thing. Lots of recordings of family and friends.

4. Do you collect anything?
Rocks? They aren't even valuable or notable rocks, I just like rocks. They appeal to the gremlin within.

5. What item belonging to a friend/family member do you covet?
I don't think I've been coveting in a long time. I don't have a lot of family or friend visiting, to be fair, living far away from everyone. I don't really know what they have! I will say, I wish I could have kept my mom's desk that we got rid of when we cleaned out my dad's place as it was huge and oak and a beast, but it would have been a huge hassle (& would have continued to be a hassle as we move back and forth across Canada).

Speaking of splurges, got Sunny some allergen-free treats. 22$ a bag!!!



& while we're splurging, this ice cream is excellent:



BONUS little Ghost bear



Less than a week until K gets home!

music: A Wistful Satellite Song

Jun. 17th, 2025 10:33 am
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I’ve been a Karine Polwart fan for decades, which led me to her recent collaboration with Julie Fowlis and Mary Chapin Carpenter. "Looking for the Thread" mixes Scots Gaelic and US country and a little bit of rock’n’roll.

I was moved by this farewell from the POV of a dying satellite—can you tell me if this matches an actual satellite that circled our planet?

Stream here on YouTube )

Or on SoundCloud or on Spotify.

Lyrics in the cut )

spring run on the San Juan

Jun. 16th, 2025 06:32 pm
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Wow, has it really been almost a year since I've posted here? I swear I was going to write up our Vermont bike trip last September (there was a draft here - one whole paragraph) but I never got that round tuit, so...here I am. (If you want to see some random photos from Vermont, no names or captions [sorry], they are here in a Flickr album.)

Anyway! This is not going to be the full monty, just a few highlights. Britt and I ended up bailing on our usual White Rim bike trip because he was still recovering from having a knee replacement in mid-February, and I had been having back problems for some time which didn't play well with bumpy riding. Our friends who put this trip together each year also had a San Juan river trip planned at the end of May/beginning of June, but had only space on the permit for 5; at the last minute, they checked and found out there had been a cancellation and they could invite more people, so, whee, we got to go!

Photos and a little narrative ) In conclusion,

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Regina Keim took many screen shots of Paul Gross (and the star and play's author, George Clooney, lol) in the CNN broadcast of Good Night, and Good Luck in Broadway, and she shared them on the Due South! Facebook group, if you want to go have a look.
Enjoy!

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Jun. 15th, 2025 06:00 pm
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Does anyone know where referring to diamonds dismissively as "the most boring form of carbon" is from? We picked it up somewhere (movie, tv, or book), and now we can't even remember if it was an ordinary character being geeky and pedantic, or a supernatural being eye-rolling at a human.

It could even have been Douglas Adams, except then I'm pretty sure a) I'd be able to identify it, and/or b) it would come up in an internet search.

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