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flemmings) wrote2025-09-03 08:09 pm
flemmings) wrote2025-09-03 08:09 pmEntry tags:
- brust,
- health,
- mbot,
- points,
- reading_25
(no subject)
Muggy mug and everything hurting. A bit better after acupuncture. Rain tomorrow and colder on the weekend and then a return to the low and probably humid 20s of September.
Finished Emma and Inventing the Renaissance and rerereads of Exit Strategy and Rogue Protocol. Remains only System Collapse, my least favourite Murderbot installment, but since all I really want to read these days is Murderbot, that I'll read. Brokedown Palace is proving a slog: Brust really needs a distinctive voice, either Vlad or Paarfi's, to be at his best. Have an Inspector Mcdonald in ebook and a Charles Finch in dead tree, but not really tempted by either. Maybe back to Point of Hearts since I can usually read Points books without pain.
Finished Emma and Inventing the Renaissance and rerereads of Exit Strategy and Rogue Protocol. Remains only System Collapse, my least favourite Murderbot installment, but since all I really want to read these days is Murderbot, that I'll read. Brokedown Palace is proving a slog: Brust really needs a distinctive voice, either Vlad or Paarfi's, to be at his best. Have an Inspector Mcdonald in ebook and a Charles Finch in dead tree, but not really tempted by either. Maybe back to Point of Hearts since I can usually read Points books without pain.
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no_true_pair2025-09-03 07:14 pm
senmut) wrote in no_true_pair2025-09-03 07:14 pmMulti-Verse Slide (Transformers [Bumblebee & G1], Charlie Watson & Midnight (OC))
Title: Multi-Verse Slide
Fandom: Transformers [Bumblebee & G1]
Pairing/Characters: Charlie Watson & Midnight (OC)
Content Notes: Cartoon level violence
Prompt: September Three - 3 & 5 - that could have gone better
( The thing with getting involved in the strange and unusual? )
Fandom: Transformers [Bumblebee & G1]
Pairing/Characters: Charlie Watson & Midnight (OC)
Content Notes: Cartoon level violence
Prompt: September Three - 3 & 5 - that could have gone better
( The thing with getting involved in the strange and unusual? )
fennectik (fennectik) wrote in anime_manga2025-09-03 06:58 pm
fennectik) wrote in anime_manga2025-09-03 06:58 pm
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Almost done with Area 88
Only two more episodes of this thrilling anime. I remember watching the OVA from the 80s after my first experience with it from the Capcom arcade U.N. Squadron which was later ported to the SNES.
I like the mix of dogfights and drama the anime incorporates. Not sure how it will end but I at least be happy that I've finished the 2000s version when I do.
I also dig its opening them Mission(Fugga), I feel that it sets the tone highly well.
Below a screencap of my favorite character who's also my favorite to choose in the videogame adaptation, Mickey Simon, who flies the ever awesome F-14 Tomcat.
I like the mix of dogfights and drama the anime incorporates. Not sure how it will end but I at least be happy that I've finished the 2000s version when I do.
I also dig its opening them Mission(Fugga), I feel that it sets the tone highly well.
Below a screencap of my favorite character who's also my favorite to choose in the videogame adaptation, Mickey Simon, who flies the ever awesome F-14 Tomcat.
StarWatcher (starwatcher) wrote in fandom_checkin2025-09-03 06:00 pm
starwatcher) wrote in fandom_checkin2025-09-03 06:00 pmEntry tags:
Daily Check-in
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, September 03, to midnight on Thursday, September 04. (8pm Eastern Time).
Poll #33570 Daily Check-in
This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 33
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 33
How are you doing?
I am OK.
23 (69.7%)
I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
10 (30.3%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans live with you?
I am living single.
11 (33.3%)
One other person.
16 (48.5%)
More than one other person.
6 (18.2%)
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
swan_tower (swan_tower) wrote2025-09-03 04:07 pm
swan_tower) wrote2025-09-03 04:07 pmEntry tags:
Two poems!
I have not one but two new poems out this week! Putting me up to double digits in the number of poems I've had published so far, whee.
The first is in Merganser Magazine: "Hallucination," about AI, linguistics, and the wish for a better world.
The second, "Cutting the Cord" in Small Wonders, is probably the closest to straight-up science fiction I've ever written? It's got aliens and a space elevator in it, anyway.
Both are free to read online, so enjoy!
The first is in Merganser Magazine: "Hallucination," about AI, linguistics, and the wish for a better world.
The second, "Cutting the Cord" in Small Wonders, is probably the closest to straight-up science fiction I've ever written? It's got aliens and a space elevator in it, anyway.
Both are free to read online, so enjoy!
lycomingst (lycomingst) wrote2025-09-03 03:57 pm
lycomingst) wrote2025-09-03 03:57 pmEntry tags:
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I have insomnia, but if I fall asleep Iām like the dead. Last night in the small hours, the cat decided to make his opinions known in a very loud voice and in great length, great length. The yowls worked their way into my dreams and then they woke me. Before sunrise.
I have a Discover card that I use about once a year just so they donāt cancel me. I went to the website to see when it was due and realized that I have changed my computer and my phone # since I was last on the site. They canāt send a confirming text to the phone to assure them that itās my computer, since itās the old number. This might devolve into the dreaded phone call to them.
I bought Sony ear buds to listen to Pandora on the phone when Iām in the backyard. They worked once, and now they wonāt connect to the phone. I feel as though I need a degree in something (electronics? physics? astral projection?) to understand the problem.
So thatās my life.
I have a Discover card that I use about once a year just so they donāt cancel me. I went to the website to see when it was due and realized that I have changed my computer and my phone # since I was last on the site. They canāt send a confirming text to the phone to assure them that itās my computer, since itās the old number. This might devolve into the dreaded phone call to them.
I bought Sony ear buds to listen to Pandora on the phone when Iām in the backyard. They worked once, and now they wonāt connect to the phone. I feel as though I need a degree in something (electronics? physics? astral projection?) to understand the problem.
So thatās my life.
Case (case) wrote in fandomsecrets2025-09-03 06:38 pm
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lightofdaye (lightofdaye) wrote2025-09-03 11:01 pm
lightofdaye) wrote2025-09-03 11:01 pmEntry tags:
Drabble Series: Work For Hire (Neville/Pansy)
Title: Work For Hire
Word Count: 3 x 100
Rating: NC-17
Characters & Pairing: Neville Longbottom/Pansy Parkinson
Content: Crack, OOC, Non-Magic!AU, Neville is a cad, outdoor sex, vaginal sex
Disclaimer: The characters, settings and HP Franchise as a whole are owned by JKR and not by me. I make no profit from writing this piece of fanfiction.
Summary: Neville likes to slum it as a hired gardener.
A/n: Unbeta'd. Written forneville100's Prompt #572: "landscape". I'd had an idea about Pansy seducing Gardener!Neville for a while, when it came to writing this it somehow morphed to a interwar 1930s no magic AU thing with the purebloods as gentry, but don't ask me why! I freeily admit this has even less in common with canon than normal.
( Work For Hire )
Word Count: 3 x 100
Rating: NC-17
Characters & Pairing: Neville Longbottom/Pansy Parkinson
Content: Crack, OOC, Non-Magic!AU, Neville is a cad, outdoor sex, vaginal sex
Disclaimer: The characters, settings and HP Franchise as a whole are owned by JKR and not by me. I make no profit from writing this piece of fanfiction.
Summary: Neville likes to slum it as a hired gardener.
A/n: Unbeta'd. Written for
neville100's Prompt #572: "landscape". I'd had an idea about Pansy seducing Gardener!Neville for a while, when it came to writing this it somehow morphed to a interwar 1930s no magic AU thing with the purebloods as gentry, but don't ask me why! I freeily admit this has even less in common with canon than normal.( Work For Hire )
sovay (sovay) wrote2025-09-03 04:09 pm
sovay) wrote2025-09-03 04:09 pmI was never there, I only read the book, I only saw the film
A double-header at this afternoon's medical appointment: the tech not only expressed surprise at my calendar age, but assumed from my voice that I was either foreign-born or had spent significant time out of the country, specifically she thought in the UK. Given the current climate, I should be clear that she was curious, not hostile; one of her children had been a staffer in the Obama administration and two others had been some kind of federal employee and she had considerable feelings on subjects from vaccines to tanks. But after I had gone through the standard litany clarifying the rather pathetic fact that I have lived my entire life in New England and the Boston area for most of it, she still thought I sounded British. "You should go over there. You'd blend right in." She herself had an old-school Boston accent. "People from anywhere, they can tell where I'm from." I am not good at other people's ages, but I don't believe that I look younger than my early forties, especially after the last few ravaging years, and I expect to be heard as American by anyone who actually has one or more of the plethora of accents on offer in the UK. Weirdest instance of trying to place my voice remains the time I was told by a very drunk Australian that I sounded like a Norwegian. Someday the question of my vocal origins will come around again because it has been doing so since my childhood and I will answer "Lisson Grove" just to see what happens.
archangelbeth (archangelbeth) wrote2025-09-03 05:22 pm
archangelbeth) wrote2025-09-03 05:22 pmAnt queen lays eggs that hatch into two species | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/ant-queen-lays-eggs-hatch-two-species
As one other commenter noted, it's got some interesting Raksura-like parallels! Cool!
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mary cuntrarian (marycuntrarian) wrote in addme2025-09-03 04:29 pm
marycuntrarian) wrote in addme2025-09-03 04:29 pmsad dirty elder millennial commie seeks friends for virtual coffee
Name: Mary Cuntrarian or Kat, my real nickname. She/They
Age: near 40
I mostly post about: Right now my journal is new so I'm not exactly sure but I haven't written anything since about 2015. I'm mostly posting stream of consciousness thoughts and things that won't leave my brain like themes in fiction and in life. I might make my journal friends-only soon since that's a thing I can do and write things that are more personal because my life is sort of a mess at the moment and I need to write it out. I'm an artist and I've been putting a lot of effort into my art career recently so I know I'll be writing about my process and struggles there.
My hobbies are: I dabble in all kinds of painting and crafts, but mostly watercolor and ink. I crochet, do some embroidery, I'm relearning web design and have started making web pages as art and for fun. I used to play more video games but nothing has caught my interest lately but I have played Disco Elysium, Fallout 76, Stardew Valley, Breath of the Wild, some GTA Online, Animal Crossing (Pocket Camp, but it counts!) and other random rpgish games. I also have been playing a lot of Dungeons and Dragons lately, and I love coming up with characters! Trying to get back into writing, right now just blogging but maybe fiction and poetry soon. I don't know if I'll write fanfic, I have started making icons again and I think I'll have fully regressed into my old LJer self if I write fanfic again. Which might not be BAD.
My fandoms are: Currently I have some hyperfixations but I hesitate to call them fandoms in the old fashioned way. I'm less obsessed with things than I used to be but I will say my old fangirl tendencies have popped up a little again.
Right now I'm into The Matrix movies including Resurrections, Neo/Trinity might make me read fic again and I'm also watching Sense8 for the first time and I'm really liking it so I'm in a Wachowski Sisters kinda mood.
I love AEW wrestling and I'll list my favorite wrestlers for you if you care. lol
I'm also watching Legends of Tomorrow and almost done with it, pretty into it and I love Constantine.
I recently read the Southern Reach series and could talk about those books forever. Jeff Vandermeer and Edward Carey are my favorite living authors with Shirley Jackson being my favorite classic writer.
Music I'm fannish about is Lord Huron and Tyler the Creator. I'm into indie hip hop and I've gotten into riot grrrl music for the first time recently.
I'm looking to meet people who: Just want to talk and connect? No bullshit, just sharing random cool thoughts and ideas. I'm a stoner, can we start an internet blunt rotation? lol
I've seen a lot of people saying this online recently but I'm looking for that old internet feeling again. I made a Neocities page, I want to talk to people about shit again and not just tweet a few sentences and hope it gets likes.
My posting schedule tends to be: Sporadic as of late but I'm going to post more now that I'm here. I was posting on tumblr here and there but I felt like there were no conversations to be had there. I'm aiming for once a week at least.
When I add people, my dealbreakers are: No bigotry, no terfs, no AI worshippers, MAGA-heads or generally fuckery. I'm basically a dirty commie and I'm not too afraid to talk about it so if that makes you uncomfortable oh well.
Before adding me, you should know: I'm currently struggling quite a bit in life, lost a lot of my agency and control because of lack of money, lost my apartment, and my general sense of self so I might talk about that at times. I'm disabled and queer, neurodivergent and cannot find a job to save my life and currently live with my partner and their family which is rough. If you don't want to hear about my personal bullshit from time to time, I'm probably not the person to follow.
Age: near 40
I mostly post about: Right now my journal is new so I'm not exactly sure but I haven't written anything since about 2015. I'm mostly posting stream of consciousness thoughts and things that won't leave my brain like themes in fiction and in life. I might make my journal friends-only soon since that's a thing I can do and write things that are more personal because my life is sort of a mess at the moment and I need to write it out. I'm an artist and I've been putting a lot of effort into my art career recently so I know I'll be writing about my process and struggles there.
My hobbies are: I dabble in all kinds of painting and crafts, but mostly watercolor and ink. I crochet, do some embroidery, I'm relearning web design and have started making web pages as art and for fun. I used to play more video games but nothing has caught my interest lately but I have played Disco Elysium, Fallout 76, Stardew Valley, Breath of the Wild, some GTA Online, Animal Crossing (Pocket Camp, but it counts!) and other random rpgish games. I also have been playing a lot of Dungeons and Dragons lately, and I love coming up with characters! Trying to get back into writing, right now just blogging but maybe fiction and poetry soon. I don't know if I'll write fanfic, I have started making icons again and I think I'll have fully regressed into my old LJer self if I write fanfic again. Which might not be BAD.
My fandoms are: Currently I have some hyperfixations but I hesitate to call them fandoms in the old fashioned way. I'm less obsessed with things than I used to be but I will say my old fangirl tendencies have popped up a little again.
Right now I'm into The Matrix movies including Resurrections, Neo/Trinity might make me read fic again and I'm also watching Sense8 for the first time and I'm really liking it so I'm in a Wachowski Sisters kinda mood.
I love AEW wrestling and I'll list my favorite wrestlers for you if you care. lol
I'm also watching Legends of Tomorrow and almost done with it, pretty into it and I love Constantine.
I recently read the Southern Reach series and could talk about those books forever. Jeff Vandermeer and Edward Carey are my favorite living authors with Shirley Jackson being my favorite classic writer.
Music I'm fannish about is Lord Huron and Tyler the Creator. I'm into indie hip hop and I've gotten into riot grrrl music for the first time recently.
I'm looking to meet people who: Just want to talk and connect? No bullshit, just sharing random cool thoughts and ideas. I'm a stoner, can we start an internet blunt rotation? lol
I've seen a lot of people saying this online recently but I'm looking for that old internet feeling again. I made a Neocities page, I want to talk to people about shit again and not just tweet a few sentences and hope it gets likes.
My posting schedule tends to be: Sporadic as of late but I'm going to post more now that I'm here. I was posting on tumblr here and there but I felt like there were no conversations to be had there. I'm aiming for once a week at least.
When I add people, my dealbreakers are: No bigotry, no terfs, no AI worshippers, MAGA-heads or generally fuckery. I'm basically a dirty commie and I'm not too afraid to talk about it so if that makes you uncomfortable oh well.
Before adding me, you should know: I'm currently struggling quite a bit in life, lost a lot of my agency and control because of lack of money, lost my apartment, and my general sense of self so I might talk about that at times. I'm disabled and queer, neurodivergent and cannot find a job to save my life and currently live with my partner and their family which is rough. If you don't want to hear about my personal bullshit from time to time, I'm probably not the person to follow.
elisi (elisi) wrote2025-09-03 09:52 pm
elisi) wrote2025-09-03 09:52 pm
Entry tags:
Updateyness
How is it already Wednesday? /rhetorical question
On Saturday we watched the new Superman, and it is as delightful and uplifting as everyone promised. Also very silly, which is important I think. We need silliness to help ward off the horrors. ETA: It's already out on streaming, which made it a lot easier!
Promethia and I also posted the first chapter of a new Dead Boy Detectives fic:
The Song of Rowland, 10k
Summary:
Most ghosts didnāt celebrate their birthdays.
But Charles Rowland wasnāt āmost ghostsā.
Indeed, Charlesā birthday was a high point of the year, a guaranteed day of fun for himself and Edwin. The fun always helped to push down the unvoiced emotions below: the loss, the unresolved pain of his death, the feelings of failure and inadequacy. Charles saw no reason why this state of affairs shouldnāt continue forever.
But then he turned fifty.
Or:
How a medieval poem changed Charlesā afterlife forever.
(Only 2 chapters in all, amazingly not everything I write turns into an endless WIP!)
On Saturday we watched the new Superman, and it is as delightful and uplifting as everyone promised. Also very silly, which is important I think. We need silliness to help ward off the horrors. ETA: It's already out on streaming, which made it a lot easier!
Promethia and I also posted the first chapter of a new Dead Boy Detectives fic:
The Song of Rowland, 10k
Summary:
Most ghosts didnāt celebrate their birthdays.
But Charles Rowland wasnāt āmost ghostsā.
Indeed, Charlesā birthday was a high point of the year, a guaranteed day of fun for himself and Edwin. The fun always helped to push down the unvoiced emotions below: the loss, the unresolved pain of his death, the feelings of failure and inadequacy. Charles saw no reason why this state of affairs shouldnāt continue forever.
But then he turned fifty.
Or:
How a medieval poem changed Charlesā afterlife forever.
(Only 2 chapters in all, amazingly not everything I write turns into an endless WIP!)
stonepicnicking_okapi (stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-09-03 04:52 pm
stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-09-03 04:52 pmEntry tags:
stonepicnicking_okapi (stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-09-03 04:44 pm
stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-09-03 04:44 pmEntry tags:
Word: Muskeg
Wednesday's word is...
...muskeg
[ĖmÉĖskeÉ”]
noun
a North American swamp or bog consisting of a mixture of water and partly dead vegetation, frequently covered by a layer of sphagnum or other mosses:
origin
early 19th century: from Cree
---
I find myself influenced by the series that my client binges, and one he likes is Ice Road Truckers. Today, I couldn't figure out what they were saying so I had to google a bit and I think they were talking about the road being boggy when it thaws.
...muskeg
[ĖmÉĖskeÉ”]
noun
a North American swamp or bog consisting of a mixture of water and partly dead vegetation, frequently covered by a layer of sphagnum or other mosses:
origin
early 19th century: from Cree
---
I find myself influenced by the series that my client binges, and one he likes is Ice Road Truckers. Today, I couldn't figure out what they were saying so I had to google a bit and I think they were talking about the road being boggy when it thaws.
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atlas_obscura_places_feed) wrote2025-09-03 04:00 pm
atlas_obscura_places_feed) wrote2025-09-03 04:00 pmHubbard Park in Meriden, Connecticut
In 1900, Walter Hubbard donated a park to the town of Meriden, Connecticut. A firm believer that every community should have a green space, he insisted it always remain free for residents to enjoy.Ā
Today, Hubbard park is open year-round with multiple sites to explore.
Every April since 1978, it hosts the Daffodil Festival, when more than 600,000 daffodils fill its fields as far as the eye can see. The event is free, and includes carnival rides, food trucks and fireworks. But beware: you will get fined if you try to pick the park's cherished flowers.Ā
In winter, visitors can explore the annual Christmas light show, the Festival of Silver Lights. It transforms the park with over 300 illuminated displays, including animals, flowers, stars, and enchanting snowflakes dangling from the trees. Over half a million lights are used to create this winter wonderland.
Overlooking the park is Castle Craig, a medieval-looking stone tower offering sweeping views of the greater Meriden area. Visitors can also try to spot wild animals, including deer, foxes, and on rare occasions, bears and bobcats, near the reservoir's islands. Multiple hiking trails lead to the castle, including a bridge that crosses highway 691, surrounded by expansive foliage.
Keep an eye out for a black dog, too. Local legend says the ghostly hound brings joy if seen once but a death omen if seen three times.
ysabetwordsmith (ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-09-03 03:32 pm
ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-09-03 03:32 pm
Education
The university at the end of economic growth
Decoupling labour market training from economic growth will be one of the biggest implications, because it frees higher education from preparing students for “the labour market” (to which university operations are tightly coordinated) to address the pressing existential concerns that surpass narrow concerns over reproducing labour for capitalism in the short-term. Universities should be free to pursue learning about the world to figure out alternative ways of organizing social systems, mitigate planetary breakdown, and cultivate engaged students with the critical consciousness necessary to navigate this unprecedented era of human history. Universal basic services would see free tuition, allowing everybody to choose what they want to learn about. The release of learning from obtaining high grades (which, again, are meant to translate into success in employment to the detriment of consciousness raising) frees up student time and energy to explore what they’re learning, experiment and truly collaborate with diverse actors.
This article explores not just what is wrong with universities today, but how a better system of higher education could look.
Decoupling labour market training from economic growth will be one of the biggest implications, because it frees higher education from preparing students for “the labour market” (to which university operations are tightly coordinated) to address the pressing existential concerns that surpass narrow concerns over reproducing labour for capitalism in the short-term. Universities should be free to pursue learning about the world to figure out alternative ways of organizing social systems, mitigate planetary breakdown, and cultivate engaged students with the critical consciousness necessary to navigate this unprecedented era of human history. Universal basic services would see free tuition, allowing everybody to choose what they want to learn about. The release of learning from obtaining high grades (which, again, are meant to translate into success in employment to the detriment of consciousness raising) frees up student time and energy to explore what they’re learning, experiment and truly collaborate with diverse actors.
This article explores not just what is wrong with universities today, but how a better system of higher education could look.