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aj ([personal profile] aj) wrote2025-05-28 02:46 pm
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Huh.

So, I've been listening to some of the cd's I ordered from the library. Specifically CL's album from a few years ago and. Y'all. Maybe it's because I've been neck-deep in Teddy Sinclair's oeurve for the passed couple years, but. Y'all. This album feels VERY Cruel Youth. Which, no problems there. Love them. And I'm enjoying this!

TBF, Sinclair's written some songs that Kpop bands have produced, so it's interesting to clock comparisons here.
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profiterole_reads ([personal profile] profiterole_reads) wrote2025-05-28 05:31 pm

Reclaimed by Seth Haddon

Reclaimed by Seth Haddon was amazing, as usual! The scholar Saba Vasili, a refugee from Kerinsk who now lives in Zvensia, is accused of inventing a machine that opened the astral sea and killed hundreds of people. He must prove his innocence with the help of Ambassador Luan Zek of the Rezwyn Empire.

This is the third book in the World of Reforged series, but they can be read more or less independently. Here, we get to learn even more about this original magic system.

Saba Vasili is a trans man with anxiety. I thought his dysmorphia was very well-written, without being too depressing. Luan Zek has an old leg injury and uses a cane. There's major m/m, as well as some f/f.
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aj ([personal profile] aj) wrote2025-05-28 10:08 am
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*lies on floor*

I have no idea how, but I ended up with food poisoning on Monday. I have been ~unwell~ for the last couple days and the only reason I'm in to work today is because I have zero PTO left. Honestly, I just want to crawl under a blanket and snuggle with the girls.

Legitimately, I woke up this morning with both cats curled up next to me (head for Tea, hip for Wink) so you KNOW I am not doing great.

Otherwise, I had a nice birthday weekend! Morton Arboretum was lovely and I do want to go back. The Children's Garden is absolutely wonderful and if anyone local has kids/friends with kids, it's a fantastic outing. I'm definitely going back for walking on my own. Mom's great (she got me a hat!) but not really much of a distance walker these days.
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paradisedinermod ([personal profile] paradisedinermod) wrote in [community profile] paradisediner2025-05-28 11:01 pm

Rec Something Wednesday - Post-Disbandment Stories

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Post-disbandment stories




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pilottttt ([personal profile] pilottttt) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2025-05-28 02:43 pm
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Turtle from the Kyzylkum desert



For more details about our trip to this desert (in Russian), see here: https://pilottttt.dreamwidth.org/445028.html
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i did it all for the robins ([personal profile] musesfool) wrote2025-05-27 08:57 pm

what a find by O. G.

I slept through for a full 7 hours last night! right up until my alarm went off, actually, without waking up once!

I also got some fantastic videos of Baby Miss L going nuts about TATOES and BROCCOLI and also some mouse game she plays on my sister's tablet. She is such a character! <333

I haven't started the new season of Poker Face or Andor yet - I am still in HGTV mode. No emotional investment, and it satisfies both my nosiness about other people's houses and my need to be judgy about other people's aesthetic taste without hurting anyone's feelings.

Every time someone says they want to go BOLD with color and their palette is black and white I want to punch them. (I'm not saying black and white can't be a bold choice, just that it's not a bold COLOR choice.) Everyone wants POPS of COLOR but then the color turns out to be greige. I just...find it wearisome sometimes. I get it if you are doing a quick refresh in order to sell, since allegedly neutrals sell better? But these are people supposedly doing their "forever homes" or their "dream homes" so why not pick something interesting? At least a little bit? In the downstairs powder room??? I'm begging you, please!

Ahem.

If you asked me what my preferred home decor aesthetic is, I would say beachy with lots of blues and greens in various shades, and okay, a lot of white, a little gray, and some occasional wood or wicker accents. Definitely would want hardwood floors (or LVP that looked like hardwood). I'd want a large zero-access shower with a built-in bench with some fancy tile, and I wouldn't want to waste space on a tub (or double sinks, since I live alone), but I would like more linen/towel storage.

I would obviously want a large chef's kitchen, with FULL SIZE appliances and a big range - I don't go for that countertop stovetop and wall oven set up, I'd want a bigass stove with six burners - and I certainly wouldn't put it (or the sink) on an island. I'd like a large butcher block work surface and a breakfast nook with an eastern exposure, but don't need a formal dining room or a ginormous island. I do like white upper cabinets, probably with reeded glass doors, and then a color on the lower cabinets - a cobalt blue, maybe, or a deep teal.

The place I might go a little modern/industrial/maybe even avant garde would be in the light fixtures. I have seen some WILD chandeliers and lighting options on these shows and some of them are gorgeous.

Obviously I worked a lot of this out in the time between going into contract on my apartment and finally closing, so I was able to pick stuff out that all kind of went together, because I absolutely understand being a renter for years and not really being able to put your stamp on a place. (all the people who already live in their own houses who have no sense of their own style, though - they kind of baffle me, because didn't they paint/decorate their house? I get maybe not knowing what your architectural style is but these are mainly people in their 30s and older - they should have some sense of what they like, shouldn't they, even if they can't pin it to a specific style?)

Anyway, I don't need people to do their own homes in my preferred style, and some of these homes turn out to be gorgeous, but it would be nice if everyone wasn't doing the same things across several different home renovation shows. I guess HGTV has a bit of a house style? But if you've watched any of it, you can see why Keith and Evan from Bargain Block are my favorites - they actually do a lot of fun different things (or they used to, anyway), where even if it isn't something I'd choose, it still has a strong sense of style.

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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2025-05-27 06:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #6717 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6717 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.


More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 22 secrets from Secret Submission Post #960..
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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Cat ([personal profile] lilly_c) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2025-05-27 09:06 pm
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check in day 27

How is the writing going?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7


Today I

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wrote
4 (57.1%)

edited
3 (42.9%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

planned
2 (28.6%)

had a cheeky break
0 (0.0%)

dealt with life
2 (28.6%)



Discussion: what is your favourite fandom to write in? the one you go back to the most.

(Might not be around for posting tomorrow as I'm travelling long distance straight after work.)
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AurumCalendula ([personal profile] aurumcalendula) wrote2025-05-27 02:46 pm
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Two movies related to Lincoln

The Tall Target (1951)
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Lincoln (2012)
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omens ([personal profile] omens) wrote2025-05-27 01:44 pm
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bird post!

Mowed the front lawn! Had trouble with the mower even though it was SO EASY last time, lol. Sixth time's the charm!! I imagine the old-timers who may have witnessed my mowing process were probably like "what the fuck is she doing" but I have a system!! I get there in the end! Tomorrow I'll do the back yard but it's still wet. We had so much rain in the last week and now we'll have a day and a half of sun before we are rained out again, looks like.

Some May birds! birb )

We went down to the water to see if any of the geese or swans had babbies yet (they had not) but we saw MANY turtles park )

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littlerhymes ([personal profile] littlerhymes) wrote2025-05-28 12:34 am

Asako Yuzuki in Japanese (25 May, Carriageworks, Sydney Writers Festival)

Originally this was to be a conversation between Asako Yuzuki (author of "Butter") and Sayaka Murata, which I think would have been a fascinating conversation as they both have such interesting perspectives on being a woman and an outsider in Japanese society, and they are also friends. Unfortunately Sayaka had to pull out of the festival, and so this became a solo event, with Junko Hirabayashi as the MC.

The event was almost entirely in Japanese, with an automated translation supplied via a screen at the venue and also on our phones. Although good in theory, the translations were riddled with errors ("the translation said you DID breastfeed while drinking," one person told her in the Q&A section, as she laughed and said "no, no!") and very slow. Yuzuki spoke at what seemed like a fairly normal pace but it rapidly became evident the translations were way behind. After the event wrapped up, I kept my phone screen open and read the remaining translations for the next 20 minutes - that's how far behind it was by the end. So far from a perfect solution.

Despite the guesswork and delays involved in reading the translations, I thought it was a really interesting session. Please take these notes with a grain of salt, due to the aforementioned translation issues:

notes )
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skygiants ([personal profile] skygiants) wrote2025-05-27 07:39 am

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I've had great luck in the past with the sort of kdrama in which an angry immortal supernatural woman has to hang out in contemporary Seoul with a nice mortal boy. We were hoping The Judge From Hell would be that sort of kdrama, and, technically, it is; I think in its heart it would love to be Hotel del Luna. Unfortunately, it has also decided that what it wants to be is a violent revenge fantasy with incoherent and punitive ethics. Interspersed with wacky shenanigans! and a healthy dose of Catholicism?

Okay, so the premise: our heroine is Justitia, the DEMON JUDGE of the UNDERWORLD, THIRD IN LINE to the THRONE OF HELL, whose job is to sentence unrepentant murderers to unending torments. However, when a nice young judge gets murdered and accidentally ends up in her domain instead of the lesser hell where she belongs, Justitia refuses to listen to her pleas of innocence, gets ready to sentence her anyway, and promptly gets her wrist slapped by her superiors: she's gotten complacent! Time to go to Earth, wearing the body of the dead judge, and learn! about JUSTICE!!!

Given that Justitia's initial mistake involved accidentally sentencing an innocent person, you might be forgiven for thinking that Justitia's job on Earth might involve perhaps getting justice for the wrongly accused, or learning to temper justice with mercy and a little bit of nuance, or even uncovering faults and corruption within the justice system as it exists. haha! no. Justitia's job is to hit a quota of Unrepentent, Unforgiven Murderers On Earth and sentence them to unending torment, just like in her day job. She does this by chasing them around a sequence of nightmare scenarios that mimic the things they have done to their victims and beating them up, then stamping them on the forehead with a little stamp that says GEHENNA while then the doors of hell open and an ominous voice roars GEHENNA!!!! and they get sucked into hell. We did not enjoy the excruciating sequences of murderers being chased around a sequence of nightmare scenarios that mimicked the things they had done to their victims, which the show obviously wants us to find cathartic and satisfying. We did enjoy the ominous voice that roared GEHENNA!!!! It made us laugh every time.

this got long but tbh not as long as it could have been. this show was so incoherent )
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full_metal_ox ([personal profile] full_metal_ox) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2025-05-27 05:52 am

Burrowing Owl nesting site, taken 28 April 2024 at 19:24 EDT.

Taken last year, this is pictorial tax for my previous post; this little guy was one of a family headquartered in a vacant lot along one of my habitual shopping routes.





Note the ropes cordoning the space off, as well as the designated perch set up for the owls. In the upper background, across the path, is another staked-off owl nesting site; unusually for birds of prey, Burrowing Owls are social animals who sometimes form communities of multiple families.

(If I’ve slipped into Earnest School Essay Mode, it’s because this is stuff I myself am very much newly learning.)
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snickfic ([personal profile] snickfic) wrote2025-05-26 09:54 pm

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- Saw some pap photos of most of the returning members of Oasis, got all excited, spent a bunch of time on the forum catching up with convos and speculation, reading linked articles, etc. Two months from today I will see them live! Ahhhhhhh!

- Tried American Psycho because Todd in the Shadows talks about it a lot and because I knew the director was a woman. Unfortunately these were not enough for me to care about satire of 80s capitalism. I DNFed about halfway through. Christian Bale was very good, though.

- I am rereading SA Harian's novel Briardark so I have some hope of understanding the sequel. The character writing is not that great, but the scary weird parts are SO scary and weird that it's worth it. It's also nice being able to reread knowing the biggest spoiler, and being able to interpret things in that light. Still, I'm excited to get to new material.

- Made a tiny bit of progress on an old Oasis WIP. Zero additional progress on H/C Ex. I have 1100 words, but now I need to write the rest of the story. I've got six days to do it in...
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mific ([personal profile] mific) wrote in [community profile] fanart_recs2025-05-27 03:58 pm
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page of drawings by enthyrea (SFW)

Fandom: The Pitt
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Dr. Robby, Heather Collins, Samira Mohan, Frank Langdon, Dana Evans, Mel King, Dennis Whitaker, Trinity Santos
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: enthyrea on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Great drawings of several of the characters, very lively and with spot-on body language. Santos and Whitaker are chibis!
Link: page of drawings
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Lynn | Settiai ([personal profile] settiai) wrote2025-05-26 11:12 pm

Long Weekend

Welp. I didn't accomplish quite as much as I'd hoped this weekend, but hiding in the hotel for most of it definitely seems to have helped increase my spoons. Now if my head would just stop hurting, I'd be all set to go back to work in the morning.

I spent most of the weekend catching up on sleep and reading/writing fanfiction, although I did manage to watch a few new-to-me movies here and there which was a nice plus. My plans to play video games fell through, mostly due to my concentration being shot my first few days off. There was definitely a part of me that wanted to play, but I couldn't drum up the energy to actually open a game and start playing, so I just... didn't.

Still, sleeping and reading with some movie watching isn't bad. I'll take what I can get.

My legs are sadly still a bit of a mess from my fall on Friday. The left one is just bruised and a little scraped, but my right ankle and knee both continue to have swelling in addition to similar scrapes and bruises as the left leg. Add in the psoriasis on both of them, and they both look pretty horrifying at the moment. While I'm limping some, I can still walk, so I'm counting that as a win.
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petra ([personal profile] petra) wrote2025-05-26 08:26 pm
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Recommendation: One-Night Fandoms, the 2008 Yuletide Vid

Vid: One Night Fandoms: A Tribute to Yuletide (1596 words) by eruthros, thingswithwings
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Multi-Fandom, Yuletide - Fandom
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Underage Sex
Additional Tags: Yuletide, One Night Stands, Bondage, Weddings, Vampires, Musicians, Dancing, Impact Play, Gags, we watched so many things for this vid, basically no fandom gets more than twenty frames, Fanvid
Summary:

Just call me angel of the morning, angel.


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I revisited this masterpiece today because I accidentally wrote cheek-touching in last night's story, and a friend asked, "Not what you were going for? Or...more like the equivalent of waking up, rolling over, seeing a story in the cold, revealing light of day, and scrambling to get dressed before it wakes up?"

And what better way to get Angel of the Morning stuck in my head than this gorgeous vid?
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petra ([personal profile] petra) wrote2025-05-26 07:10 pm