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Non-stop

I haven't updated properly in ages. Basically, my life is: work, ice hockey, occasionally seeing my spouse and children, indoor cricket, more ice hockey, weight training. I am thoroughly in my jock era.

I now have on-ice training three times a week: Mondays with Huskies (mixed uni), Tue/Wed on alternating weeks with Kodiaks (women), Fridays with Warbirds (mixed rec). Plus games at the weekends, and the aforementioned weights and cricket for a little variety. Oh, and one of my hockey buddies pointed me at free Modern Irish lessons for staff and students of the university (funded by the Irish government). Tá sé iontach ag stáidear arís.

An anecdote from last week. I had a game with Warbirds on Saturday afternoon, but discovered as I was changing that I had failed to pack my skates! Disaster! I called Tony and ordered him an Uber, and got changed with the team while watching the cab's progress across Cambridge on the app. It arrived just as the warmup started, and I went out to meet it fully kitted up apart from my socked feet. The cab arrived, I got my skates from wonderful spouse, and jogged back in and around the rink to the bench just as warmup was finishing. I was third line so I just about had enough time to lace up my skates and get my gloves back on ready for my line change. I went over the boards with my line - and promptly discovered I had one skate guard still on, when I went sprawling on the ice. I sat up, pulled the guard off, threw it onto the bench (narrowly missing a teammate), got up and hared across the ice and managed to do something vaguely useful with the rest of my shift.

(We lost the game quite badly but apart from that dramatic start I didn't do anything too terrible, and I'm always happy to be playing.)

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weekly chat

Weekly Chat

The weekly chat posts are intended for just that, chatting among each other. What are you currently watching? Reading? What actor/idol are you currently following? What are you looking forward to? Are you busy writing, creating art? Or did you have no time at all for anything, and are bemoaning that fact?

Whatever it is, talk to us about it here. Tell us what you liked or didn't like, and if you want to talk about spoilery things, please hide them under either of these codes:
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Rec [fic]: Talk To Me by AnonymousDandelion

Title: Talk To Me
Creator:

AnonymousDandelion
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 500 words
Creator's Summary:
Two years gone, with no word and no warning, while the neighbors gossiped and the police gave up hope and her mother tossed and turned each night. And then to simply turn back up on the doorstep, like nothing ever happened—

No, that’s not true. Barbara is certainly acting like something happened. Her eyes are different and the way she carries herself is different, in some indefinable way that a mother’s glance can’t miss.
Characters/Pairings: Barbara Wright, Joan Wright
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: This is a nice, realistic reunion between Barbara and her mother, who knows her well enough to disbelieve the rumours.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/73128591

Hangul as a global alphabet manque

Posted by Victor Mair

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71836&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hangul-as-a-global-alphabet-manque

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71836

Best 16:34 introduction to the Korean alphabet you'll ever encounter — by Julesy, of course:

Watch on YouTube

Her title: "The Lost Letters of Hangul That Could’ve Changed the World" (about two weeks ago).

Aside from restoring the lost letters, other things to consider for the further perfection of Hangul: parsing / spacing, indexing, ordering, inputting, capitalization, punctuation, linearization (instead of being imprisoned in the tetragraphic block form, which was strictly designed for compatibility with hanja).

Selected readings

"The Hangeul Alphabet Moves beyond the Korean Peninsula" (8/6/09)
"Hangeul for Cia-Cia, part II" (12/24/09)
"Hangeul for Cia-Cia, part III" (10/7/10)
"Cha-cha Cia-cia: the last dance" (10/8/12)
"Hangeul for Cia-Cia, part IV" (1/5/24)
"Hangul as alphasyllabary" (5/14/25)
"Grids galore" (11/19/23)
"Hangul: Joseon subservience to Ming China" (5/14/22)
"Hangul for Cantonese" (11/18/24)
Coblin, W. South (2006). A Handbook of ʼPhags-pa Chinese. ABC Dictionary Series. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3000-7 — 'Phags-pa played a key role in the creation of Hangul
"Happy Hangul Day!" (10/9/23)
"The pragmatic and innovative Choe Sejin — 15th-16th c. Korean phonetician, translator, and interpreter" (4/21/22)
"Hangul Day" (10/9/05) — a very nice article by Bill Poser
"Hangul Day" (10/9/15) — catchy theme song; noteworthy comments
"A Dartmouth grad's contribution to the development of Hangul" (6/25/15)
"Korean Romanization" (6/26/21)
"The esthetics of East Asian writing" (4/7/12)
"Apostrophe in Hangul" (11/16/16)
"Sinitic 'ha ha ha' in Hangul letters" (9/18/20)

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71836&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hangul-as-a-global-alphabet-manque

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71836

Strange prescriptions

Posted by Mark Liberman

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71838&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=strange-prescriptions

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71838

An email recently informed me that the American Psychological Association has created an online version of the APA Style Guide (technically the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition, and that Penn's library has licensed it. A quick skim turned up a prescriptive rule that's new to me, forbidding the use of commas to separate conjoined that-clauses unless there are at least three of them:

This seems to be a generalization of the "serial comma" principle, which prescribes commas to separate "elements in a series of three or more items". And it's sensible enough to use commas in "yesterday, today, and tomorrow", but not in "yesterday, and today".

But generalizing this advice to conjunctions of that-clauses strikes me as wrong: a tone-deaf prescription, opposed by common sense as well as by a long history of contrary usage.

A trivial search in William James' Principles of Psychology turned up several hundred "incorrect" examples. Here are the first few from Volume I:

However firmly he may hold to the soul and her remembering faculty, he must acknowledge that she never exerts the latter without a cue, and that something must always precede and remind us of whatever we are to recollect.

They find that excision of the hippocampal convolution produces transient insensibility of the opposite side of the body, and that permanent insensibility is produced by destruction of its continuation upwards above the corpus callosum, the so-called gyrus fornicatus (the part just below the 'calloso-marginal fissure' in Fig. 7).

Wider and completer observations show us both that the lower centres are more spontaneous, and that the hemispheres are more automatic, than the Meynert scheme allows.

But Schrader, by great care in the operation, and by keeping the frogs a long time alive, found that at least in some of them the spinal cord would produce movements of locomotion when the frog was smartly roused by a poke, and that swimming and croaking could sometimes be performed when nothing above the medulla oblongata remained.

And from Volume II:

They tell us that the relation of sensations to each other is something belonging to their essence, and that no one of them has an absolute content.

Helmholtz maintains that the neural process and the corresponding sensation also remain unchanged, but are differently interpreted; Hering, that the neural process and the sensation are themselves changed, and that the 'interpretation' is the direct conscious correlate of the altered retinal conditions.

Hering shows clearly that this interpretation is incorrect, and that the disturbing factors are to be otherwise explained.

It can, however, easily be shown that the persistence of the color seen through the tube is due to fatigue of the retina through the prevailing light, and that when the colored light is removed the color slowly disappears as the equilibrium of the retina becomes gradually restored.

It's equally easy to find examples from other eras, other authors, and other publishers. Here are a few examples from Bertrand Russell's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy:

But this presupposes that we have defined numbers, and that we know how to discover how many terms a collection has.

It is very easy to prove that 0 is not the successor of any number, and that the successor of any number is a number.

We now know that all such views are mistaken, and that mathematical induction is a definition, not a principle.

Although various ways suggest themselves by which we might hope to prove this axiom, there is reason to fear that they are all fallacious, and that there is no conclusive logical reason for believing it to be true.

Why did the APA take this weird prescriptive step? It seems to be one of many cases where style guides are led astray by false logic.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71838&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=strange-prescriptions

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71838

PSA which I keep forgetting to post

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/01/online-platform-independent-bookshops-ebooks-uk

Bookshop.org is now selling ebooks in the UK as well, with profits (as with paper books sold through them) going to indie bookshops; you can either pick a specific shop you love to benefit (in my case, Juno Books), or have the money go into a collective pool.

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The Day in Spikedluv (Friday, Nov 7)

Another day I did not go downtown at all. I had scheduled brunch with a friend of mine (the previous librarian) because this is another day I don’t have to take mom to her treatment, and I decided that I didn’t need to rush downtown and back, since we’re going in a different direction for brunch. Grocery shopping can wait until tomorrow.

We went to a restaurant I had never been to before (didn’t even know it existed!); she got a fancy breakfast panini and I got a lunch panini (as they were apparently serving both at this time?), the chicken caprese. It was delicious. And we had a lovely visit. I used to stay and visit with her when I’d drop by the library, but since she retired I rarely see her. (Though we are two of a very few left-leaning folk in this area, so we like and share each other’s facebook posts often. *g*)

Additionally, I did two loads of laundry, hand-washed dishes, ran a load in the dishwasher, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, hard boiled eggs and made egg salad, baked chicken for the dogs’ meals, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter. I also emptied some old containers of food out of the upstairs refrigerator freezer (including a package of taco meat dated 2018 o_O) and found some leftover pork tenderloin (that is not THAT old *g*) that I served Pip for supper.

I finished typing in my Top Gun notes and finally started typing in my fic! I got the entirety of what I had handwritten typed in! ~4,920 words!!! I now just have one more ‘scene’ (it’s really more than one scene, but it’s a section from one person’s pov) to write. I’m pretty excited about being so close to the end. (I didn’t even take a nap today because I wanted to get as much as possible typed in!)

Temps started out at 33.8(F) and reached 54.5. There was very little sun and a good breeze, but if there had been more sun and less breeze it would’ve been really nice out. Then of course it got overcast and rained a bit in the late afternoon.

Mom Update:

I talked to mom and she sounded good. She said everything went well with her appointment and she didn’t have any issues with her food. Since she isn’t able to do much, that was about it.

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life,
tech hassles

First world fuckery

Oh god I had to get a new iPhone as my old one was a stegosaurus and apps were starting to give me the finger. But now I have to set the new one up and I hates it, I hates it!

So far it won't even talk to my old dino-phone, or to my iPad which is barely more advanced, and it won't download everything from iCloud as my wifi is apparently using an old, insecure system, wpa2. So I have to upgrade that first and then will my iPad wifi and laptop wifi still work?? *grinds teeth*.

But in 20 minutes we go into a planned power cut so the local lines company can fix some urgent thingy, the second such in 3 days, which means I can postpone all this shit to another day.

Writing this to the sound of fireworks going off as Wednesday was Guy Fawkes night and with it now the weekend, lots of people saved their fireworks and we've had them exploding the last three days. You can set them off here anytime, but you can only buy them in the lead-up to Guy Fawkes once a year, in NZ law.

So I'm sitting here stumped by futuristic tech while being serenaded by a five centuries old celebration of averted English domestic terrorism.

Time for a nice cup of tea.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Munich

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The Diplomat S3 and The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Busy, busy days. Some media consumed in the last weeks were:

The Diplomat, Season 3: I was afraid the same would happen as with The West Wing - which series creator Deborah Cahn had also been involved in - , i.e. the reality I live in would make it impossible for me to watch a show in which the people working for the US administration might be fucked up in varying degrees, but all sincerely dedicated to the common good in terms of their motivation, and by implication the US public would not vote a creature like the Orange Menace into office (twice). (Hence my personal impossibility of a WW rewatch right now.) This turned out not to be the case. By and large, I enjoyed the season, though its global dangers not withstanding, I would still rather live in that reality (where the US President might ( do spoilery things ), but would not want to change the US into a mixture of ultimate corruption and theocratic autocracy, and the British PM is still a Boris Johnson expo with the thinnest of egos, but at least Nigel Farage doesn't exist. (BTW: it's not clear where The Diplomat's timeline departs from ours; resident Rayburn was clearly a Joe Biden avatar when the show started and there is some occasional talk about restoring the US image abroad, but they never say from what, and whether the Orange Menace's first assault on democracy happened or whether something else did.) Seaosn 3 deals with the fallout from season 2's cliffhanger ending, throws in some new twists (and characters), andwhile wrapping up its seasonal storyline again throws in a tag scene with a big new reveal/hook, while playing to its two strengths, i.e. bringing its central character into a series of convoluted political situations in which she has to extricate not just herself but others (including the US and GB), and her screwed up but intense relationship with her husband. ( More spoilery observations to follow. ) In conclusion, I continue to like this entertaining AU. I hope it gets another season, though if it doesn't, this finale despite its last moment reveal would also work as a finale.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps : Which I missed in the cinema but which is now on Disney +. Personal state of knowledge: I saw none of the earlier Fantastic Four movies, to which this one isn't connected anyway; the comicverse characters I encountered a) in an historical AU version via the comics 1602, and b) in the comicverse Civil War storylilne, which means I hardly saw them at their best. (Unforgotten: Reed Richards fanboying Joe McCarthy.) I'm happy to report these latest MCU versions are a delightful bunch, living in a canonical alternate universe (818) in the 1960s, and keeping in trend with both MCU Spiderman and the latest DCU Superman, we're not going through the origin story again but the movie introduces us to the character(s) when they're already superheroiing, albeit not that long. The cast includes Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, Pedro Pasqual as Reed Richards, and Joe Quinn, since Stranger Things a Geek celebrity, as Sue's brother Johnny, with the unknown-to-me Ebon Moss-Bachrach playing Ben Grimm. Something that struck me as very sympathetic is that the movie treats the four as a true ensemble, i.e. Johnny and Ben aren't the sidekicks, and that the central dilemna when it's revealed ( and which is spoilery )

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bushfire

Welcome to fire season

Four sodding big helicopters have just gone overhead. Checking the emergency website, Wireless Hill (the whole parkland) is on yellow alert.

This isn't that early for fire season -- reasonably sure that the fire bans start in October, but it sure feels early.

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Photos from Cyprus

[Breakfast terrace view. Hire cars have red number plates.]

I didn't have much of an opportunity to research Cyprus before I arrived. Nicosia, the host city of the conference I just attended, is divided between Greek and Turkish Cyprus. The hotel I booked - and all I did was select the cheapest one on the conference accommodation list because it’s close to the venue - is only a couple of blocks from the Green Zone, the UN policed buffer that separates the two halves of the island. It is clear to see as soon as you go around the side of the hotel. Many shops are boarded up (though the flats above them are still occupied), their gates rusted and facades crumbling.

[Crumbling gracefully.]

[Crumbling less gracefully.]

A few stalwart businesses keep their doors open.

[Bold claim: “Cyprus: Irresistible for 9000 years”]

Just a couple of blocks away are shiny new high rise buildings and attractive public spaces. You could, as a tourist, choose never to stray from the wide boulevards and safe pavements.

[Eleftheria Square by day.]

[Walking below Eleftheria Square at night.]

Google maps certainly didn't believe I should do that, taking me on a different path to the conference venue every day, past an entirely new set of cats.

[Noble guardian.]

There are cats *everywhere*. Food and water are left out for them on the street corners and in vacant lots. They are even more prevalent at night.

[The Gang.]

I must have spoken to 15 different people after arriving before I encountered a Nicosian Cypriot. The first Cypriot I met was giving a talk in the firzt session I attended who of course lives in London, not Cyprus. He recommended the meze restaurant (see below). The food here is incredible. I've tried something new every day.

Georgian food.

[All of these bean paste / beetroot things are nice, but the ones in the middle are fried aubergine wrapped around walnut paste and I could have eaten about thirty of those alone and been very happy.]

Meze.

[This was about a quarter of the way through the meal, and they kept bringing dishes. Far too much food for two people, although PhD student and I made a heroic effort. Those little fried courgette strips on the far right were my undoing.]

[Dessert.]

“Healthy eating” restaurant.

[This may look heavy / oily but it was not. The pastry was delicate and crisp and the feta inside was like a little fluffy cloud. Amazing.]

Even the breakfast at my otherwise average hotel was delicious.

[The little roll covered in sesame seeds has a sort of olive pate in it which is *chef's kiss*. I had one every morning.]

In summary, 10/10, would come back to Cyprus to Eat All The Things.

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theme: free for all 2025

Free for All Saturday, Week 45 [DW Edition]

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big finish audio

oh hi I went quiet for a week

Over on tumblr I used the number that time travels your Likes so I have been in 2013 seeing only things I Liked once already.
... my queue is a week long and unlikely to shrink any time soon.

I can see that this is not an unalloyed good nor an entirely productive use of my time but
I am not doing a whole lot else.

I did listen a bunch of Doctor Who audios. I am getting very close to actually having listened to all the Monthly Range. Which would catch me up to 2021, except for... all the ways it doesn't. I'm feeling sort of flat about them though so I haven't been reviewing because the main determinant of my reaction is being in that phase where I remember Doctor Who isn't Life but don't have any better ideas.

Shadow of the Daleks was an interesting collection of ideas that, for me, outstayed its welcome, by a couple of episodes. The idea of refracting characters out into aspects or disconnected incarnations is more compelling than the bits ended up being. But I liked lots of the parts and might have liked it more if I didn't listen it all in a row.

Faithful Friends did some good stuff with the Doctor and Zoe but I stalled in the middle for too long to actually get the most out of it. Exact opposite problem. I think I liked the bits with the Lupari. I'm not sure the last story really worked for me, since it sort of undid itself, but being stuck on a date with the Doctor that keeps going Doctor Who certainly had some mileage.

Alixion did interesting stuff with fears and memories and things not being as bad as fear memory made them. But I know I've forgotten most of the corners that did not involve Ace. Interesting bits, not sure about the whole.

The Halloween set struck me as very Torchwood for a Doctor Who set. Some of it was the thing where the Doctor isn't there so bad things just Happen and stay Happened. Some of it the Doctor was there for but it was families messing themselves up so he could only fix the edges where the alien stuff happened, not the messed up religion or the horrors of war. I did like the 8th Doctor adventure and the resolving things with acceptance. That ending had hope in it. The others had too many dead lesbians for one box set, to my mind. And the one with the weeping angels was messed up and dark even by Torchwood standards. ( Read more... ) So if you were looking for a proper Halloween horror it was a good box set, but I hadn't calibrated my expectations quite right and it was not quite what I was after.

Doctor Who feels like snack crisps and chocolates when I need vegetables, but I haven't found what else to do instead.

I have a plot bunny in my head that I have very nearly almost rotated into being a whole story, but as per usual it depends on epic crossover rules and is in that sliver where it's pretty out of character for named characters but too close to them to call original characters. It nearly works, if you know two editions of Pathfinder rules and care about characters from DW and DC and more. So it don't work.

I rotate it nonetheless.

And I keep not communicating. People are interesting but I mostly feel like I need a bit more sleep and I'll reply things when the words go. And then it's a new week and the words did not in fact go.

November.

Hope you all have better days.

The Good Witch of Hell

Posted by Hattie_May

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73859361

by Hattie_May

A few years after the end of The Owl House, Luz dies in a tragic accident. She wakes up in a strange new place. While there’s more blood, guts, sex, and drugs than she’s used to, she finds that this place isn’t all that different from the Boiling Isles. With her old titan powers back and Stringbean by her side, Luz decides to make the most of her time in Hell. And just maybe, she’ll find a new bunch of weirdos that could use a good witch like her.

Words: 1107, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Owl House (Cartoon), Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Helluva Boss (Web Series)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M
Characters: Luz Noceda, Charlie Magne | Morningstar, Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel), Angel Dust (Hazbin Hotel), Alastor (Hazbin Hotel), Husk (Hazbin Hotel), Niffty (Hazbin Hotel), Lucifer Magne | Morningstar, Carmilla Carmine (Hazbin Hotel), Vox (Hazbin Hotel), Valentino (Hazbin Hotel), Velvette (Hazbin Hotel)
Relationships: Charlie Magne | Morningstar & Luz Noceda, Charlie Magne | Morningstar/Vaggie
Additional Tags: Luz Noceda Has Titan Powers, Luz is in Hell, Canon-Typical Violence, Drugs, Adult Luz Noceda

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73859361

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Stray Kids "Stars and Rainbows"

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music

Dept. of Memes

Music Meme, Day 6

A song title that is all in lower case:

I was sure this one was going to be difficult, but it turned out to be easier than I thought. This is a song by RM, the leader of the juggernaut KPop group BTS. It was on his "Mono" album from about seven years ago. It's largely low-fi, and I love listening to it when I want to slow my mind down; when I just want to breathe. I had forgotten that the title of this song, "forever rain," was in lower case. I hope you like it - the music video art suits it. I notice that this is the second time I've picked a song from "Mono" for this list.

Watch on YouTube

Here are my five previous answers.

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5

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speed round friday five ding ding

Friday Five

1. What’s harder to live without, chocolate or alcohol?
Chocolate but I do without it mostly. I don't drink so alcohol is an easy omission for me.

2. Does the colour yellow remind you of anything?
It was my favorite color as a child because it felt underappreciated and genderless.

3. Who most annoyed you last week?
Probably someone I work with? I don't recall.

4. Do you have a cutesy romantic nickname for your partner (or previous partners)?
I do. One that is specific to my current partner that we use in our home. In public, I'm big on "babe" or "darlin'" and that's about it.

5. What is your favourite Stephen King movie?
Shawhank Redemption. Can't beat it.

Current Mood: determined
Current Location: Home

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📒 Setting up my planners for 2026!

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

Current Mood: crappy
Current Music: "Abracadabra" by Lady Gaga

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Death or love tonight

Time changes mean I can do some cemetery shooting with a sunset before the gates close the public out for the night. You can see six other sunset cemetery shots at my Flickr.

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New York state's reaction to the SNAP crisis seems to be "We have no idea wtf is going on, any plans, or any suggestions for you, lol." Meanwhile, the HRA website for my benefits just pretends it paid me for food this month; you need to call the phone number to see the nothing that's actually on your card.

I hear Governor Hochul may do something, maybe around Sunday. After all the bs, I won't believe it until it is actually on my card.

The stress of the last month and week--and the possibility of more to come--has really destroyed my ability to write.

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"Woman excited to put up ‘cute wallpaper’—Then she looks closer." It wasn't until she put it up on her kitchen wall that she saw the design was AI slop.

Reserved

Posted by endowedguard

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73856026

by endowedguard

✦ Amity tries to convince her girlfriend whom is gutted by guilt, grief and exhaustion, to get some rest while the others work on creating a new portal door. ✦

Lumity one shot in preparation for a Thanks To Them multi-chapter fic. ✦

As always, feedback and comments are appreciated.

Words: 1296, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Thanks 2 Them Fics

Fandoms: The Owl House (Cartoon)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/F
Characters: Luz Noceda, Amity Blight, Vee (The Owl House), Gus Porter, Willow Park, Hunter | The Golden Guard (The Owl House), Camila Noceda
Relationships: Amity Blight/Luz Noceda, Hunter | The Golden Guard & Luz Noceda, Hunter | The Golden Guard & Gus Porter, Amity Blight & Hunter | The Golden Guard & Luz Noceda & Willow Park & Gus Porter, Camila Noceda & Vee, Luz Noceda & Vee
Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Comfort, One Shot

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73856026

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crafts: spinning

catten yarn

Not my catten but

isis's catten's contribution! So very soft. :3

Not much yet as it's a slightly tricky spin, mostly in that one has to pay attention instead of watching anime while spinning on inattentive mode. :D It feels different of course (silkier/floofier), but the spinning technique, like huacaya alpaca, is surprisingly similar to cotton in some ways!

BTW,

isis, Cloud has been sniffing my hands VERY SUSPICIOUSLY ahahahaha.