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1. I had the dentist today, so I took the day off, because I am always so exhausted when I come back from the dentist. It's rarely bad, but trying to breathe through the cleaning is always an adventure I do not enjoy and it makes me tired. But I told them that the crown I got in December is mostly fine except if I try to eat almonds or other hard things, so the dentist did something to it "fix the bite." He also said it didn't look like anything was wrong either in the examination or on the x-ray, and to let him know if it didn't get better (or even got worse), so I guess we'll see.

1a. I arrived about 30 minutes early for my appointment - it usually takes much longer to get there so I allowed an hour - but they took me in right away since I was only scheduled to be there for a cleaning, and I was home before noon.

B. I was excited to see ZIBANEJAD score the tying goal for Sweden, but then Quinn Hughes won it for the US in overtime. I have to admit, I don't like 3-on-3 overtime (or shootouts!) for the Olympics. Just play another sudden death period.

iii. This past weekend, Baby Miss L went to her first princess tea party event at the Riverhead aquarium (or near there?) and the pictures of her holding court among the princesses are amazing, but my favorite picture is the one of her making a very excited "oh wow!" face at the plate of desserts in front of her. She was ready to dig in!

d. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band are coming to MSG in May!!! Tickets go on sale this weekend! I will probably not try to get them, even though MSG is pretty much the 2nd most convenient venue he could play. (Forest Hills Stadium would be the most convenient for me, but would never happen.)

5. I've reached The Butcher's Masquerade in my DCC reread, and I think it might be my favorite of the books? It has a couple of my favorite scenes in it, anyway, including ( spoilers ) I definitely prefer the more open-world type floors than the stuff like the Iron Tangle (and I did find the cards so fucking tedious in book 6; otoh, ( spoilers )).

Though This Inevitable Ruin is also a strong contender, since I fucking love ( spoilers ) There's a lot in it that I enjoyed and that also makes me so curious about what happens next, both in the dungeon and outside of it. I am definitely writing up an epic post based on notes I'm taking on rereading, which will eventually get posted. I hope. *g*

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Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - u2

ride_4ever

Here's what happens when fandom and amigurumi collide: Crochet Your Celebrity Crush by Lee Sartori, ISBN 9780760393659.

Current Mood: crafty
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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Hello, everybody! As the title says, there are now only five days left until the deadline on February 23 (anywhere in the world)!

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ysabetwordsmith

Ten Titles to Read for Aromantic Awareness Week

Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! We’re stoked to be celebrating this awesome week for the fourth time with some great aro book recommendations!

Current Mood: busy

sineala

What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing!

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( 1776 #4, Captain America #7, Doctor Strange #3, Dungeons of Doom #2, Fantastic Four #8, New Avengers #9, Ultimate Spider-Man #24 )

What I'm Reading Next

To make

lysimache happy, I have very slowly started reading Les Misérables in the original French, after learning that the Kindle can now load translating dictionaries. (My old Kindle could not, but it's like 15 years old.) I don't think I'm going to finish it ever but, hey, I'm trying.

Current Mood: hungry

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kossai

so ... unfortunately , as always , there can be rampant misogyny in fandoms online , and people often refuse to analyse as such . this lead to people who make simple , direct posts - name 1 favourite female character , perhaps under some specific conditions like villain or badass . that kind of thing can be good to think about , to wonder why not more of these characters exist , or why perhaps consider inherently more unlikable .

but there is another kind of post which do not immediately specify female character , then lash out at people who tag with canon male characters - such as posts that say things like " my beautiful princess " . on one hand , of course , important to recognise that one's personal gender headcanons not in canon text , and that is what make headcanon . on other hand , these ones do not present as thought exercise to begin with - without that specification , this start to feel like kneejerk reaction to femininity when associated with men , not critique of misogynistic bias .

furthermore begin to wonder , even if any of these headcanons actually true - if given character was actually bigender , transfeminine , or otherwise within canon text ... would that actually be taken seriously , or now boil down to physical appearance ? that if such character have bushy beard , or lack breasts , would deem as invasive man and therefore not part of conversation .

know that part is hard to answer because can not really find such characters in mainstream yet - even multigender characters must change whole body to align with expectations of gender , and especially shapeshift outright as see with jordan li from gen V . this is not show that watch , but character recently come on radar because bigender , and yes , already groan at idea .

regardless , people just do not take bigender identities seriously . even when personally try to point out that there is unfairness in paint all bigender experiences with non-binary labels and particularly " gender neutrality " , people do not listen or care . this was what " choose " , after all - always invader , always pretender , too much of man for women and too much of woman for men . better just shut up and accept never part of conversations , never part of world , always for someone else to decide what gender really is .

Current Mood: cynical
Current Music: firebugs ~ minecraft ost

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This week's word is...
clothes

How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.

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Title: Far From Over
Fandom: Viola come il mare (category: tv)
Author:

veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Viola Vitale/Francesco Demir
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 955 (Ellipsus)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in early S2.
Summary: Viola has survived a whole year of living next door to Francesco Demir: a dangerously charming neighbor with a smile that should come with a warning label.
Breakfast on the terrace was supposed to be simple, but nothing is simple when the attraction is mutual, the teasing never stops, and neither of them is willing to be the first to give in.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #506 - Melt

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( READ: Far From Over/Ficlet )

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( ITALIAN VERSION: Tutt’altro che Finito/Ficlet )

oursin

What I read

Finished Imperial Palace, v good, by 1930 Enoch Arnold had got into the groove of being able to maintain dramatic narrative drive without having to throw in millionaires and European royalty and sinister plots, but just the business of running a hotel and the interpersonal things going on.

Then took a break with Agatha Christie, Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17) (1937) - I slightly mark it down for having dreary old Hastings as narrator, but points for the murderer not being the Greek doctor.

Finished Grand Babylon Hotel, batshit to the last.

Discovered - since they are only on Kindle and although I occasionally get emails telling me about all the things that surely I will like to read available on Kindle, did they tell me about these, any more than the latest David Wishart? did they hell - that there are been two further DB Borton Cat Caliban mysteries and one more which published yesterday. So I can read these on the tablet and so far have read Ten Clues to Murder (2025) involving a suspect hit and run death of a member of a writers' group - the plot ahem ahem thickens.... Was a bit took aback by the gloves in the archives at the local history museum, but for all I know they still pursue this benighted practice.

Have also read, prep for next meeting of the reading group, Dorothy Richardson, Backwater (Pilgrimage, #2) (1916).

On the go

Recently posted on Project Gutenberg, three of Ann Bannon's classic works of lesbian pulp, so I downloaded these, and started I Am a Woman (1957) which is rather slow with a lot of brooding and yearning - our protag Laura has hardly met any women yet on moving to New York except her work colleagues and her room-mate so she is crushing on the latter, who is still bonking her ex-husband. But has now at least acquired a gay BF, even if he is mostly drunk.

Have just started DB Borton, Eleven Hours to Murder (2025).

Have also at least dipped into book for review and intro suggests person is not terribly well-acquainted with the field in general and the existing literature, because ahem ahem I actually have a chapter in big fat book which points out exactly those two contradictory strands - control vs individual liberation.

Up next

Well, I suspect the very recent Borton that arrived this week will be quite high priority!

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Today is sunny and actually warm, with a light breeze -- it's 69°F outside.

I fed the birds. I've seen a small flock of sparrows, and a mourning dove flying around.

I put out water for the birds.

The crocuses are blooming in the rain garden! :D I'm pretty sure this is the earliest I've seen anything bloom here. The snowdrops don't even have their buds up yet. I took a few pictures of the crocuses.

EDIT 2/18/26 -- While we were out, I spotted 2 red-winged blackbirds. They are waaayyy too early. They won't find much to eat yet. :/

EDIT 2/18/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 2/18/26 -- I trimmed the dead stems from the 'Autumn Joy' sedum in the septic garden. The garlic chives are already sprouting there too.

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Current Mood: excited

asuraid

ACNL

yaaay store upgrade done!!! i also realized the meow coupon quests were in my inventory bottom page the entire time ... cause one of the campground van visitors has a bookshelf and bookstack and I NEED IT, cause i wanna make a study room for sylvie's house eventually. as much as i wanna buy furniture though, i need to finish the bridge i started to make travel easier ... i can't wait to get QR codes unlocked for once LOOL

in new horizons QR codes make me feel overwhelmed (and it's why i'm going to completely avoid it for the most part on my new island), but with there being no outside decorating in new leaf + i think more limited slots help. i saw this video about using trees to decorate in new horizons which i'll be using in new horizons ... and even in new leaf if i can. well, depending on the tree line where my cedars stop anyway LOL. i think there should be some way to 'stunt' tree growth in new leaf ...

Hollow Knight

new areas unlocked and got the dream nail/met the dreamers ... some part of me doesnt want to spoil the endings, but i kinda wanna know What I Need To Do to get the ... 'best'? ending? i like getting the good/true endings if i can, and it annoys me when its minor things you can so easily miss because you didn't pick up this item or do this quest kinda stuff. got king's rest unlocked + a new portion of the city of tears

Current Mood: calm

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Current Music: La Freak - Chic

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muccamukk

I'm putting together a presentation for school on the misogyny slop ecosystem, and how PR companies astroturf a hate campaign to defame and discredit (usually female) people their employer doesn't like. Here's some links I might include in that, some of which I've posted here before. Taken together, they're chilling.

Posted in roughly the order they came across my line of sight, which is largely chronological.

✨: Probably going to include in the project. (A lot of the later links are just recent stuff I haven't included yet, which may be of interest to those following the case.)

( Eight Links with quote decks. Includes references to Epstein, but no details. )

I'm still looking for something short that clearly lays out the way information is fed to influencers. It's a common misconception that whoever's running the smear will pay the influencers, and sometimes that's the case, but it's not usually how shilling works. The influencers take the exclusive information, publish it, potentially get their post boosted by the PR company's bots, and then the payment shows up in the ad revenue. (It's explained in "Who Trolled Amber?", but that's too long.)

osprey_archer

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

Strange Pictures, by Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion. Very scary! Made the mistake of reading it in the evening then felt small and scared and sent SOS texts to friends who soothed me with cat pictures. (There’s nothing particularly graphic in the book, but one of the murder methods just struck me as extra scary.)

As with Uketsu’s other novel Strange Houses, the mystery here didn’t strike me as particularly plausible, but who cares when the atmosphere is so impeccable? Propulsively readable. Zipped through the whole thing in one evening and even though I was scared, I wanted another. Maybe there are more Uketsu translations on deck?

I also read Catherine Coneybeare’s Augustine the African, a biography of St. Augustine which focuses on his position as a provincial from North Africa in the late Roman Empire, and the effect this may have had on his theological thought. I’ve long been interested in the Roman Empire, but most of my nonfiction reading has focused on its earlier days, so it was super interesting to learn more about the crumbling of the empire (even after Alaric sacked Rome, it kept chugging along to an amazing extent), and also look at it all from a provincial angle.

I also enjoyed Coneybeare’s emphasis on Augustine’s social networks, and the way the Christian social networks often cut across lines of class and geography - especially after the sack of Rome, when many wealthy Roman Christians fled to North Africa for safety. And she clearly explained both the Donatist and Arian heresies, which have long puzzled me! I’m still working out the details of the Pelagian heresy (too much works, not enough faith?) but one cannot expect to understand all the heresies all at once.

What I’m Reading Now

William Dean Howells’ My Mark Twain, which starts with a description of Twain bursting into the offices of The Atlantic wearing a sealskin coat with the fur out. This is apparently NOT how you wear a sealskin coat, as later on Howells and Twain went walking through Boston together, Howells suffering and Twain exulting in the stares of all the passersby.

What I Plan to Read Next

We’re coming up on my annual St. Patrick’s Day reading! I’m planning to read Sarah Tolmie’s The Fourth Island (about a magical fourth Island of Aran, I believe) and Eve Bunting’s St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning, illustrated by Jan Brett - one of Brett’s earliest books I believe, so I’ll be curious to compare it with her later illustration style.

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