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spikedluv) wrote2025-11-13 07:12 amThe Day in Spikedluv (Wednesday, Nov 12)
I had breakfast at Burger King this morning. I was talking to myself as if explaining the process as I was opening the ketchup packets because I often get ketchup on my fingers. So I’m on the last one and I’m like, push the ketchup away from the arrow thingy so when you rip it open you don’t get ketchup all over your fingers. Yes, success! And then I immediately dropped the ketchup packet into the pile of ketchup already on the tray. I clean up the mess that results from me having to pick up the ketchup-covered packet and then shake my OJ, only to get it all over because I hadn’t put the cap back on tightly. I was like, what even is this morning?!!
I typed in all of the transcript notes I’d taken for Top Gun: Maverick, and watched a Hallmark Christmas movie and some HGTV programs.
Temps started out at 32.4(F) and reached 41.2. Both temps again higher than forecasted by a few degrees; it’s not much, but I’ll take it. At one point we even had a little sun.
Mom Update:
Mom sounded good when I talked to her. ( more )
stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-11-13 06:40 amPoet's Corner: two about November
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November Night by Adelaide Crapsey
Listen…
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.
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November for Beginners
Snow would be the easy
way out—that softening
sky like a sigh of relief
at finally being allowed
to yield. No dice.
We stack twigs for burning
in glistening patches
but the rain won’t give.
So we wait, breeding
mood, making music
of decline. We sit down
in the smell of the past
and rise in a light
that is already leaving.
We ache in secret,
memorizing
a gloomy line
or two of German.
When spring comes
we promise to act
the fool. Pour,
rain! Sail, wind,
with your cargo of zithers!
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'Sail, wind, with your cargo of zithers' should be entered into the vernacular.
fred_mouse) wrote2025-11-13 07:20 pmMore evidence of causation
a follow up to my october 14th post, where I reported having forgotten all my morning meds. I have, in the interim, been prescribed a new medication that has to be taken half an hour before breakfast, and also worked out that if I put all but one medication on the bedside table, I can take them when I first wake. Which has the added advantage of meaning that the paracetamol has kicked in by the time I try and get out of bed, and lo! but it is easier to get out of bed.
Sadly, the one that can't be taken at that point -- because it has to be taken after eating -- is the anti-inflammatory. And today, I gave up and came home after lunch, because making it to 2pm when the next paracetamol was due was too much (I actually took said paracetamol at 1pm, which is the absolute earliest it was allowed, on the 6 hour interval, which meant it kicked in enough for the drive home to be possible). And found the anti-inflammatory still in its little bowl, waiting to be taken. Which might mean I also forgot my asthma preventer, which might also be associated with my chest being a little unhappy (also, I have some kind of reaction to being in a specific room in the library -- the last two times I've developed one of those biting coughs)
Which says that the anti-inflammatory is doing amazing things, and I'm going to keep taking it. Sadly, the new med is because it is possible that some of the other symptoms are a side effect of taking it daily, rather than the 'max 5 days in 7' I was allowed with the stronger dose (that was once daily, the lower dose is twice daily).
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sovay) wrote2025-11-12 11:58 pmI wish I grew Annapolis apples up above Fundy Bay
spatch let me know that despite the best efforts of the American federal government, the tradition of the Christmas tree gifted by the province of Nova Scotia to the city of Boston in recognition of its aid after the Halifax Explosion continues. We had worried. Apparently so had Mayor Wu, who made a point of traveling for the first time in the tradition's history to the tree-cutting ceremony and taking part in it herself. Fingers crossed for the tree-lighting, whose centenary we wandered into in 2017 and wandered out again wondering why no one was singing Stan Rogers. Today was also the fifty-fifth anniversary of the exploding whale.nanila) wrote in awesomeers2025-11-13 06:39 amJust One Thing (13 November 2025)
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
matsushima) wrote in thankfulthursday2025-11-13 02:59 pm
Дякую (13 November 2025)
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Sorry I missed last week! My day job got in the way.
gwyn) wrote2025-11-12 08:47 pm
Just a memory of your face
All that on top of surgery on my back for melanoma (a word I've dreaded my whole life, what is it with me and cancers starting with M?) in situ. Which isn't as bad as it could be, but is still fairly bad and scary, and the biopsy site on my forearm is "something we have to watch" and got infected, so that was fun. I have to go in to the dermatologist tomorrow before chemo because I have a "spitting suture" on the back. But otherwise, she said the surgery margins were good and they got all of it, so I just have to cross my fingers that the spot on my forearm doesn't get worse. Cancer just stalks me.
Anyway. I thought I'd try to do that alphabetical list of fics that's been going around as a distraction. I just picked things mostly at random, not for any real reason, I guess. (And following the rule that A and The don't count as first letters.) I have learned through this that I have an inordinate amount of stories starting with I and L and W. I should work on that.
A: And the Whirlwind (Logan, Laura)
B: Better Left Unsaid (Buffy, Spike/Buffy)
C: Cellies (MCU, Captain America, Thor, Bucky & Loki)
D: Dipping Toward the LIght (Sunshine (2007), Mace/Robert Capa)
E: Every Picture Tells a Story (Captain America, Steve/Bucky)
F: Five Cakes Marcus Thought Were Bombs and One He Knew Was Fire (The Bear, Marcus)
G: The Gift of Forgetfulness (Pacific Rim, Herc Hansen/Stacker Pentecost)
H: Heliotrope (Buffy, Spike/Buffy)
I: I can't remember how this started (but I can tell you exactly how it ends) (Captain America, Steve/Bucky)
J: Just Passing Through (Schitt's Creek, Captain America, Bucky Barnes, David/Patrick)
K: Knight-Errant (The Expanse, Amos Burton/Chrisjen Avasarala)
L: lucida/ obscura (Captain America, Steve/Bucky)
M: The Moon Cannot Be Stolen (Life (tv series), Charlie Crews & Ted Earley)
N: Not My Cross to Bear (The X-Files, Skinner/Scully)
O: On Beds of Sorrow (The Fast & the Furious, Dom/Brian)
P: The Perfume of Kismet (Buffy, Spike/Buffy)
Q: nothing!
R: Reverie (Captain America, Black Panther, Steve/Bucky) OMG I'm almost finished finally
S: The Sun Was the First Star We Knew (Sunshine (2007), Mace/Robert Capa)
T: There Must Be a Joke In Here Somewhere (The Middleman, Captain America, Wendy Watson & Bucky Barnes)
U: Urban Legend (Captain America, Steve Rogers)
V: The Valorous Vampire (Buffy, Angel & Buffy & Spike)
W: Welcome to the Party, Pal (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Captain America, Steve Rogers & Jake Peralta)
X: x=y (The X-Files, Mulder/Scully)
Y: You Can Have the Town, Why Don't You Take It? (What's Your Number? Ally Darling/Colin Shea)
Z: nothing!
cornerofmadness) wrote2025-11-12 11:37 pm
The Tinman went to Yoga
And I'm THIS close to getting water fitness on the books at work for next semester. yay.
What I Just Finished Reading:
nothing. sigh, not even fanfic
What I am Currently Reading:
Blacksad - a anthropomorphic noir graphic novel
Haunted Cemeteries of Ohio - you know why
Anne of Green Gables - I am shocked at how much I like this
Revenge Serve Royal - historical mystery
What I Plan to Read Next: Elfquest for popsugar
ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-12 10:12 pm
Vocabulary: Carcinization
Crabs have evolved five separate times – why do the same forms keep appearing in nature?
... including at least one sexbot whose lower body is a mechanical battle crab. :D
white_aster) wrote2025-11-12 11:09 pmWhat We Weading Wednesday
I totally fell off the wagon with these. I have been reading, just...keep missing Wednesday somehow. (I had to think really hard about whether it was Wednesday again). Also I've been reading a lot of books that I just wasn't excited about (and some I DNFed or kind of wish I'd DNFed.) But I am brought back by the need to talk about this awesome book I read:
Finder by Suzanne Palmer
Palmer also wrote The Secret Life of Bots, which I loved. This Finder series I originally passed over because I thought "a space repo man named Fergus Ferguson tries to steal back a spaceship in an old mining colony made of hollowed-out asteroids and various large tin cans" was going to be more absurd than I usually enjoy. Oh boy, I could NOT have been more wrong. 5-star book, A+ characterization and wonderful worldbuilding, totally.
The more I thought about what was working in this book, the more I was really, really impressed with how (despite Fergus' terrible name) this book took its characters so seriously. Like...ALL the characters, from Fergus to the side characters to random folks Fergus met for a page or less. Everyone had understandable goals and motivations which changed realistically as the plot unfolded and they reacted to events as much as Fergus did. This led to very wonderfully ALIVE-feeling settings. The asteroid colony and Mars both felt filled with peoples' hopes and dreams and tragedies. Somehow this author made the politics of this collection of asteroids and tin cans feel messy and realistic and interesting.
I was also super impressed by how this author dealt with the really rather high amount of randomness in the plot. Fergus is a thief. He's doing a heist, scheming some schemes, and things go ass-up fairly early on. He's realistically forced many, many times to make a bad plan, just because it'll make SOMETHING change and then he can reassess. This could very easily have felt capricious and slapstick and unearned (a pet peeve of mine in some books), but it did NOT, because of the wonderful CHARACTERIZATION. Fergus spent the whole book understandably stressed about everything, convinced that he was going to get himself and everyone he cared about killed. He felt the GRAVITY of all this unplanned chaos, and passed that tension on to the reader, while moving forward anyway in the smartest way he could come up with (and he is SMART! It's a whole plot point that he several times amazes people with his knowledge because the first thing he does is READ THE ENTIRETY OF THE ASTEROID INTERNET so he knows what's what. A protagonist! Actually looking shit up rather than winging it! <3 <3!) Yes, he was lucky, and yes, he had some help from many quarters, but it somehow all made sense and held together without feeling random.
Also, the science felt like it held. There was a lot of dealing with zero- and low-G and crawling around on the outside of asteroids and habitats, and it felt realistic without being overwhelming. Which was just icing on the great characterization and smart-plot cake.
Also there was no extraneous romance, which is also a plus for me.
I immediately needed to track down everything in this series, after reading this.
A++, do recommend.
china_shop) wrote2025-11-13 05:01 pmMe-and-media update
My mother-out-law's birthday dinner on Sunday was my first meal inside in a crowded restaurant in a long time.
Previous poll review
In the "Time is" poll, 48.9% of respondents answered "relentless", and 31.9% said "elusive". In ticky-boxes, "blue-haired punk red pandas" and "colouring in" tied for second place (51.1%) after hugs (72.3%).
Reading
Finally finished Five Red Herrings. It was fine -- I mean, it kept me reading till the end. I missed Bunter being more active, though. Now I'm a quarter of the way into Have His Carcase.
In audio, I'm still listening to Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer, read by Candida Gubbins, and I've also started Katabasis by R.F. Kuang, read by Morag Sims and Will Watt, which is fun so far, though I'm slightly perplexed by the choice to have Alice's dialogue be American but her inner narration to be British. Also, I was hoping Will Watt would get more to do; I've really enjoyed some of his other performances.
Still dipping back into Take Off Your Pants! by Libbie Hawker. And I forgot to mention last week that I tore through Alison Bechdel's Spent! a while ago, before returning it to the library at the last minute.
Kdramas
Typhoon Family is getting a bit "this script was written in crayon", but I'm engaged and I like the main characters. I miscounted the Mystic Pop-Up Bar episodes; we finished yesterday. It was good but didn't quite hit me in the feels. (I'm a bit neutral on Hwang Jung-eum.)
Other TV
Nobody Wants This -- season 2 is less of the cross-cultural stuff and more "addressing psychological quirks", which isn't as interesting to me. Oh well.
Half of the latest season of Slow Horses -- the episodes always feel so short! I guess this is what successful pacing is like. A bit grimmer than earlier seasons, but I'm enjoying Ho a lot. (It helps to have read the book, I think.) We're finishing that tonight.
All of You (Apple+) -- a movie starring Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots, which maxes out on the "pining while fucking" concept. Great chemistry and Big Feels.
Spoilers.
Contains infidelity and an unhappy ending.Rewatched some Bluey, plus a couple of episodes of Krapopolis season 3. :-)
Audio entertainment
Writing Excuses, Letters from an American, Tech Won't Save Us, and Ex Urbe Ad Astra.
Writing/making things
I came up with a great title for a fic I'm working on and am now 20% more motivated to finish it up and post it. Other than that, I feel like I'm still juggling a bunch of things, but my general intention is to finish this one, bash out a flashfic for the FISH challenge on
fan_flashworks, and then dig into my Yuletide assignment, for which I've been doing canon review. Note to self: Don't forget about Guardian Bingo!
I bought a pack of coloured pencils yesterday and have been watching a few Youtube "technique" videos and practising blending. I still can't actually draw, but hey.
Life/health/mental state things
Down Under writers' hour is currently at 10am New Zealand time (8am Melbourne time). In winter, when it's at 8am here, writers' hour is the first thing I do in the day; that means I get started early, spend most of the morning at my keyboard, and sometimes spud in for the afternoon too. In the transitions periods (when only one half of the globe has switched into or out of daylight savings), it's at 9am here, and I generally try to get the dishes done beforehand. This sets the tone for the day -- I do more chores overall, more offline stuff. Now writers' hour is at 10am: I get up and exercise, then sit down mid-morning to write. By the time I'm done, it's 11am, and if I have lunch plans, I have to get my skates on pretty quickly. And because I've primed myself to exercise, I've been going for walks more in the afternoon and generally being more active. Which is great, but... *grabbyhands at keyboard* tl;dr, I am controlled by scheduling.
Good things
Coloured pencils, and colour generally. Guardian and the Slo-Mo Rewatch. Sleep. Podcasts. Kdramas. Biking, TV-watching dates, walking. Chocolate. You all, hi!!
Note: Poll results are private; please vote freely.
In the last seven days, I've used AI
for work
5 (9.1%)
for fun / personal reasons
0 (0.0%)
for interacting with organisations
0 (0.0%)
against my will
14 (25.5%)
not at all, that I'm aware of
37 (67.3%)
other
1 (1.8%)
ticky-box full of fandom-adjacent profic
15 (27.3%)
ticky-box full of fish fish fish fish fish
19 (34.5%)
ticky-box full of vague groaning noises
19 (34.5%)
ticky-box full of alpine octopuses practising their yodelling
22 (40.0%)
ticky-box full of hugs!
37 (67.3%)
petra) wrote2025-11-12 10:48 pmUS Politics: And believe him he knew scum when he saw it
I have Ben Vereen singing Mr Cellophane with Muppets to console me, because now I want a vid of 47 to that song once the files are released -- not necessarily that version, but it's my favorite one to watch.
*
In other news, the comment threads on Ask A Manager's post about what to do if ICE comes to one's workplace made me cry with both rage, for the obvious reason, and hope, because people really are trying to help each other through all of this governmental horror.
kaffy_r) wrote2025-11-12 09:16 pm
Dept. of Memes
A song with three words:
It's been rather too long a day, at least in terms of my having to put my brain to use, but I'm almost through it now. And before I totter off to bed, I thought I'd return to the music meme. Today's entry required me to put my head together with Bob. We ultimately agreed on the choice I made.
Please note that the English translation of the name of this piece has the requisite three words - Lord have mercy. I am no longer a believer, or at least only an intermittent believer in something that probably isn't Christianity; however, I did choose this based on memories from when I was a believer. I'm not familiar with the music, certainly not enough to choose a good, bad, or indifferent version. I went through a number of choices on YouTube, but ultimately decided to keep it simple and go with a brief chant. For more information on why looking into the music of my birth faith can be fascinating, I direct your attention to Madame Wiki.
Here are the previous days' entries: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8
Goodnight, all.
andersenmom) wrote in 100ships2025-11-12 08:30 pm
034: Lead; Xdinary Heroes, Enhypen; Preconcert Jitters (Kwak Jiseok | Gaon, Park Sunghoon)
andersenmomTitle: Preconcert Jitters
Rating: G
Type: Fic
Size/length/word count etc.: 652
Prompt:034: Lead
Fandom/Ship: Xdinary Heroes, Enhypen; Kwak Jiseok | Gaon, Park Sunghoon
Notes/Warnings: None
Summary Sunghoon understands pre-performance nerves.
Find the table with the list of fics here