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china_shop

read through story A and return to beta
write story B from the zero draft I made yesterday ✅
catch up on comments ✅
catch up on email ✅
political submission! *stabs things* ✅
read ✅ (briefly)
Yuletide canon review
play with coloured pencils ✅
change vacuum cleaner bag ✅
make/eat dinner ✅
early night ✅

I might manage four of those? The last two are non-negotiable.

ETA: Some of those check marks are from over the weekend. :-)

cornerofmadness

I am....beyond frustrated.

I head to the BMV because they've cheaped out on the plastic and my handicap tag shattered like a porcelain tea cup kissing the floor. Getting a new one was easy. I went to the coffee shop but had so much b.s. to deal with I don't even get much writing done. At least CVS hasn't fucked up for once and as I'm getting my needles and pills, the BMV calls me to tell me they didn't give me all the paperwork and I need to come back.

They are SO lucky that they caught me before I was 25 miles away back at the school. I go back and the same woman waits on me. She blinks at me and seems unable to comprehend why I'm there (or that I was there before to the point I wonder what she's high on) Someone else walks over to save her and gives me the paperwork.

Now I'm nearly late racing to the university because the student who has stood me up FOUR times already with no explanation is supposed to be there on my day off to make up the lab exam. She shows and then I go into my meeting.

I haven't mentioned that there has been so much shit at work with fucked up schedules. This meeting is on fire. A couple of us got yelled at (me included) to calm down. But dudes you put two of my classes at the same time and you have 30 students (not including the 24 in my class) we can't even find a time for and you're telling me you haven't changed your major so it's OUR fault. Dudes this is the first time in SIX years you've taken both sections of A&P so don't give me that shit. You didn't look at the schedules we've given you. And please remember that we have to work around all the OTHER biology classes because we have two labs that can hold this many people and oh by the way the last time we had nursing, rad tech, ultrasound and resp therapy, sports and exercise ALL taking both sections of A&P we had a THIRD instructor. Me and DM are the only two left (and one of us is 72) you are killing us.

So in this one of the academic coaches is at my door. I put him off and he returns at the end with my research student who is 1 class short of graduation. We sit down with the biology coordinator and try to figure this out. The only solution? Me offering my online class so now I have two online classes, three face to face classes and two separate research students.

RIP my sanity and my free time (If you think I'm slow commenting now....)

I was SO looking forward to my youtooz monitor buddies of my boys (points down to top pairing) They took forever to ship and they're here Look they're cute here. ANNNNNDDDDD, they don't fit on my desk top monitor. They don't fit on my lap top monitor. WTF are they supposed to fit on? They're so top heavy. At this point I'm wondering can I make a little bar for them and sit them on stools? Way to piss away your money. I should have bought that sticker at the Monster Mash with a possum saying Breadwinner? Ha, I'm the bread loser.

This is everywhere right not. From your AO3 Works page, look at the tags and find the answers to these questions. (I think I saw this on

shipperslist first)

Current number of works on AO3: 887

1.Under what rating do you write most?
teen and up

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
1. Prodigal Son
2. Fullmetal Alchemist
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Hazbin Hotel tied

3. Which character do you write about most?
Malcolm Bright (Prodigal Son)

4. What are the 3 top pairings you've written?
Now THIS was a surprise to me.

1.Angel Dust/Husk (I go from no anthropomorphic characters because it’s so not my thing to this)
2.Roy Mustang/Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist)
3.Gil Arroyo/Jessica Whitly (Prodigal Son)

Wait, no one from Buffy or The Owl House?!?

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
1 found family
2 emotional hurt/comfort
3 whump (okay it’s technically Malcolm Bright needs a hug but that is so fandom specific so I picked up number 4)

Current Mood: bitchy
Current Music: Maigret

elyusion posting in

vsynthrecs

Type: Song
VSynth(s) Featured: Gackpoid
Warnings: The lyrics are pretty steamy! The English ones are in the description.
Link: https://youtu.be/XRGfzTgg5zM?si=UcAWgPBatjF-36kP

Reccer’s Note: (While trying to figure out what I'm supposed to call this Vocaloid non-casually, I decided to just use what's on his box, which is Gackpoid. Interesting choice! But anyways,) This song is pretty old, 13 years old to be exact, but I only discovered it 3 months ago. I listened to it on loop all day and then forgot about it until trying to decide which, of all the vsynth songs I know, I should share today. I settled on this one because it was another Gakupo song that made me want to post in here :) And I think this song isn't so popular, so it'll be new to people. The drums, the electronic sounds, the incredibly dramatic piano, the way Gakupo almost always sounds a little strange... It's so nostalgic even if it's new to me. I think it hits all the notes of an edgy or "mature" Vocaloid song from years past.

Current Mood: Hope someone appreciates it!

aurumcalendula

I was panicking a bit the other day when I realized by library card has expired, but it turned out there's an online form to renew it for a year! (I was mostly worried about making sure I could keep the same number)

To Embers We Return continues to be really good and I'm really loving Dragon Subjugation Incantation (both translations updated recently)!

My copy of The Beauty's Blade also arrived yesterday! When I'd checked the tracking number a few days ago the ETA was the 17th, so it was a nice surprise. It looks like it's been selling well from various retailers' best seller subgenre charts, so hopefully they'll be publisher interest in licensing more.

I've also started volume 1 of Thrice Married to a Salted Fish. I like it so far, but I feel like QJJ has spoiled me a bit w/r/t female characters in danmei novels.

brithistorian

I was watching a couple of YouTube videos tonight when I happened to notice a new song from Kiiras in the sidebar, released less than 30 minutes ago at that time (33 minutes ago as I write this). I had loved Kiiras' debut song, Kill Ma Bo$$, because who wouldn't love a K-pop take on country music, so I jumped in and listed to this one right away. I loved it, was the 249th person to click "Like," and then came right over here to share it with all of you.

Watch on YouTube

ETA: I didn't notice this until A. pointed it out to me (which I was rather embarrassed by): Their name is the "Hangul-ization" of the English word "Killers."

weedpizza

For the last two nights, I've been playing guitar. It's been ages! I guess I'm rusty? I've always sucked, so I honestly can't tell, haha. I played a lot of old favorites (T. Rex, Nirvana, etc.) and added a few songs to my repertoire:

"Gonna Leave You" - Queens of the Stone Age
This video of Nick Oliveri helped me learn. Fun song. The line, "This is the end. No more pictures, we ain't friends" reminded me of someone from my past (see my post from earlier [friends-only]).

"Beware of Darkness" - George Harrison
I love George! I think this is my favorite song of his. It's got some cool chords.

"Californication" - Red Hot Chili Peppers*
I can now play the solo somewhat well, which was the reason I wanted to learn it in the first place. I can play the main riff, but not up to speed with accuracy.

*I know it hasn't been considered ~hip~ to like the Chili Peppers in a long time, but I don't give a single fuck. They've got some good tunes, and the "Californication" solo is so much fun to play!

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: body cams YouTube ▶

maevedarcy

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meganehaven

so i love paper mario a ton. and i love my ocs. so i combined the two!

tried my best to emulate the paper mario style, analyzing different character sprites for proportions, shading, etc... (princess peach helped a lot, as well as sir grodus' staff) friends say i nailed it, have had some strangers who also love the series compliment it too, so i think i did alright! (:

my fave paper mario game is Super Paper Mario! though im very fond of TTYD as well. ive considered an AU of my dnd party + einjar in SPM. my bf is only on ch2 of the game, doesnt know the ending, so.. major SPM spoilers ahead while discussing the AU concept !

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anyways. id like to draw more of the party in this style sometime, or maybe other ocs? my technomagic oc universe is my most beloved after all ..

soc_puppet posting in

queerly_beloved

Coming back to your reading page once again, it's Thursday Recs!

Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!

lannamichaels

-the book does not take place in a specific year but it takes place on specific days of the week corresponding to days of the month: November 15th is explicitly a Saturday.

The book was published in 1978. November 15th was not a Saturday in 1978. In previous fics, I've just set it in 1978 anyway, because who cares. And I did that here but it's bothering me that, especially when I need to reference things on a specific date, the day/week doesn't match up.

So I opened Excel to find what year(s) in the 1970s had a date/weekday correspondance. And it's only 1975.

The moon phases don't match up to 1975 but the moon phases are not something that is going to bother me; me specifically having the start of the game happen in the middle of the week instead of Sunday, that bothers me.

And still I dithered because I'd made myself a reference table with the heirs's birth years based on their ages in canon and then how old they'd be in 2007, when the fic is set, and I'd used that throughout the fic, and if I changed it to 1975, I'd have to change all of that. aldkfa;ldkfja;lkdjsfalks

But I'm going to do it anyway, and not only because I was like "okay wait, when you change everything and actually save the excel file this time instead of just copying the table with | into scrivener, make sure you have Crow's birthyear right because her birthday is Nov 15, so her age given in her bio will not be the year she turns during canon" and it turns out I'd had it wrong in the reference table anyway.

So now I need to change every single year that is mentioned at any point in the fic but at least it won't bother me anymore, the day of the week problems.

THEY UPDATED THE BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK

All right. So. Rosalie, Flora Baumbach's daughter. She is referred to as a "Mongoloid" child in the book. She is referred to as that in both physical copies of the book I have.

But also I got the ebook out from the library to have on my phone too while doing this because why the hell not, and! it turns out! that the line that was originally "She had a retarded daughter, Rosalie, a Mongoloid child", now it just says "She had a disabled child, Rosalie"! (I give them only half a point in cutting "retarded" since they keep "retarded" in the discussion between Theo and Mrs. Baumbach about Chris)

Now, yes, I am fine with them removing both those terms BUT BUT BUT now since they just went with "disabled", now you have to rely on context clues and physical description of Rosalie to know that she had Down's!

It's an incredibly minor characterization detail, but I think it's a VERY IMPORTANT minor characterization detail in how Mrs. Baumbach relates to 1) Chris, and 2) Turtle, that Rosalie had Down's. And now it's "idek, figure it out from the clues we'll pepper in". JUST SAY SHE HAD DOWN'S SYNDROME. IT'S IMPORTANT.

And great, from a canon review/consistency stage, now I have to worry what else was changed in the book. (I haven't spotted any other changes but I did spot a typo: Sam Westing is called "Sara Westing" at one point. THAT WOULD BE A VERY DIFFERENT BOOK. DON'T GET ME WRONG, I WOULD READ THAT BOOK. BUT THAT IS NOT THIS BOOK.)

It was not until this day (or, uh, yesterday? Two days ago? Some point in recent history) that I realized that... maybe Flora Baumbach is Jewish? Jake Wexler is textually. But... was I supposed to get the impression that Flora Baumbauch, nee Miller, is Jewish? Because the character never did that for me at any point at any time in the decades I have been rereading this book, but some of her various backstory details... uh, is she Jewish and I just never noticed?

Also Denton Deere seems to have massively changed medical specialties during the book but you know what, that's unimportant.

I appreciate that the book tells me that Turtle did not change her name upon marriage. I had to make an executive decision that Alice is just Deere, she is not hyphenated, even though she'd be in peak generational and peak socio-economical to be Wexler-Deere. But I made it just Deere for narrative reasons.

Why do I keep stumbling into fandoms where I have to make decisions about the last name of canonical children of the characters. Why.

Also I had to decide if Angela changed her name but at least that's not a load-bearing decision. She's an orthopedic surgeon. She's probably Dr. Wexler at work! But did she otherwise change it? Did she hyphenate? There's a good chance she hyphenated.

Dr. Deere is her husband, Dr. Wexler is her father... Angela, what did you do. (I have it as Dr. Deere right now and will likely keep it that way, on the theory that Grace pushed her hard to change her name and Angela went along with it.)

jenab

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Thursday, November 13, to midnight on Friday, November 14 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33832 Daily check-in poll

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