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Name: Keplers_angels. I answer to Trudy, but it's not my name.

Age: 46

I mostly post about: I mostly write to make myself real. And to stun people with my wordery. To give consolation. (or wound) And to figure it out.... Been journaling a long time so there are shifts in topic climate but generally it's a lot of poetry and poeticity on sex and angst with smatterings of perimenopause, breastlessness, and feminism, interpersonal relationships... what to do with my life?! existential and metaphysical drama.... I don't shy away from much-- I come to confess. There will be adult content. There may be mathematics, politics, pain, complaints and exhortations, poems and poems and poems and lots of complaining that it hasn't rained. (In general though, my posts are usually much more readable than this is.)

My hobbies are: This. This is my hobby. Outside of work, which is a whole thing, this. I write. I try to make myself submit poems to stuff. I read books, I waste untold hours on fb, I'm learning to sext, I practice yoga, I over analyze things and am pretentious and arrogant except when I'm in joyful denial or drowning in insecurity. In short, I tell the truth about myself -brutally- but I'm not a very reliable narrator.... what was the question again?

My fandoms are: I don't fandom here. But I lived very happily in Man From UNCLE fandom for most of a decade. It saved my life. Sometimes I'll still do an erotic little fandom vignette but fandom's not why I'm here.

I'm looking to meet people who: write similar, or completely different, kinds of things. Mostly I'm looking for my early aughts LJ experience back. I want people who write with emotion and who will read and comment on my posts as I will read and comment on theirs. If you're not going to read your friends page then I don't want you on mine.

My posting schedule tends to be: In 2025 it's been pretty every-day-ish. (at least weekly, usually more) Which pleases me and I hope it will last. I am not *as* punctual with my friends page and comments but I always catch up-- weekly give-or-take.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: stalking. violating my privacy or anonymity. I'm not opposed in principle to friends of different belief systems to mine but of course, we all have limits, and I'm not going to censor my own posts to avoid those kinds of things. Content wise, if you post something I can't abide, I'll unfriend. But I don't like my echo-chamber to be too constrictive.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: my mom's house

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habit tracking

Habit Tracking: Week 35 (August 24 - August 30)

It's early, but the weather had cooled down here and pumpkin spice everything started showing up, so I went with the early Halloween vibes for a week.

This week was fine. I spent a lot of the week tired and having a hard time getting up in the mornings, but I did manage not just fall asleep once I was home from work, which was good. Work was mellow, having just gotten through our busy season, and felt all right. Overall, it felt like not much happened for the week, though I actually got a lot of what I'd been hoping to done. I did a tiny bit of writing, even! Also at least a bit of work on my reading page, and did read a whole book. I'm not sure why it feels like I didn't get anything done!

Goals for the week: - I did start (and finish!) reading Alice Isn't Dead - Alex and started prepping for a model show later this month - I did write up my August book reviews - I finished cleaning out years of emails from my inbox (some 20000+ unread things? Eesh) - I worked on my reading page - I posted my writing intro over on that account - I did not start a WIP intro - We got a little bit of outside time - I went to the bank - I ended up stopping by mom's house twice to pick up caterpillars (she finds them in the garden, I feed them to the frog and toad)

Tracked habits:

Work - 5/7
Household Maintenance - 5/7
Physical Activity - 1/7
Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 1/7 - over 500 words
Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/7
Meta Work - 6/7
Personal Writing - 7/7
Other Creative Things - 3/7
Reading - 7/7 - mostly I was reading Alice Isn't Dead, though I also read some of my ebook side read, and Alex and I read some Duma Key
Attention to Media - 7/7 - Sunday we finished Squid Game (and that cameo in the last ep surprised me!); Monday we watched a storm chaser covering the huge haboob in AZ; Tuesday we had a couple Netflix documentaries in the background; Wednesday watched two eps of Alien: Earth; Thursday we watched the Netflix documentary about Hurricane Katrina; Friday we watched a couple music review videos and then some exploration videos in the background; Saturday I listened to a Re: Dracula and some music, while we had some paranormal and explore videos in the background.
Video Games - 0/7
Social Interaction - 7/7

Total words written: 722 on a post about writing

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Fannish 50 S3 Post 36: Hobipalooza REDUX!

Hobi made history AGAIN for being the first Korean soloist to headline Lollapalooza Berlin! He did a shorter version of his "Hope on the Stage" concert that was still thrilling to watch.

Here's a 26-minute Bangtan Bomb that details how much time and effort he and Team J-Hope put in to make the performance such a fantastic experience for the audience.

Watch on YouTube

And, here's the full, one hour and 35 minutes concert. Trigger warning for: a lot of zooming in and out, panning, the audience happily screaming and doing fanchats, and flashing lights.

One thing I also HAVE to mention is that the combination of stage smoke (dry ice) and bright red background lights made it IMPOSSIBLE to actually see Hobi for the first 6 minutes. You can hear him, but he's lost in a world of fog and red flashes. Which is a pity, but there we are.

THANKFULLY, the smoke machine is turned off and the light set up becomes more camera friendly as the show continues.

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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FAKE Triple Drabble: Revenge At Last

Title: Revenge At Last
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: OCs, Dee.
Rating: PG-13
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Murder most foul has been committed, but Dee and Ryo have caught the murderer.
Written For: Challenge 489: Amnesty 81 at

fan_flashworks, using Challenge 486: Revenge.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.

( Revenge At Last... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Doctor Who Drabble: Doing What's Right

Title: Doing What's Right
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: The Doctor.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 955: ‘Justice’ at

dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Justice is better than revenge.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Double Drabble: Official Paperwork

Title: Official Paperwork
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Nosy.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 881: Official at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto is getting employee paperwork squared away.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Official Paperwork... )

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Annual The Incredible Hulk 2000

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Unrolling the bottoms of my trousers....

Just back from dental checkup - no major problems, one tooth could do with having an inlay done, unurgent.

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Not bad for one of my years, eh?

The other day I was flitting around online and I came across some advice page where a young(ish) woman was complaining that her ma kept relying on her to do a fairly simple basic computer thing for her own business enterprise (!!!) even though daughter had A Life and increasingly busy career of her own -

- but, she goes, what can you expect, Mother Is An Old and they are not at home with Ye Tech, alas.

Age is given and Ma is young enough to be My Daughter, and not just Had I Been A Gymslip Mother in the 1960s, or even had I rushed to the registrar's office straight after receiving my degree -

For in those halycon days, my little ones, although we received GRANTS to go and study, did a lady-scholar marry while pursuing a tertiary education her grant was seriously reduced -

No, I could have been out into the world some few years before succumbing to maternity.

So really, that is no excuse, I don't consider that makes her even An Old - menopausal brain fog perchance? - but honestly, a woman of those years has had every opportunity to get up to speed with extremely basic computer operations, as in, creating documents and transmitting them to the persons with whom her business is dealing, in fact I don't know how she has managed to avoid this knowledge.

One suspects she is just exploiting Daughter.

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daf yomi

[Daf Yomi] Hadran Alach Maseches Avoda Zara & perek 5 HaSocher Es HaPoel

Avoda Zara was great! A lot of good stuff, a lot of really practical things.

There was some stuff in this masechta and this perek that I could have excerpted but didn't (I really probably should go back to the earlier perek that had the Jew and the goy sitting and drinking wine together and the goy being careful not to touch the wine because The Overwhelming Concern About Wine Libations When You Least Expect It but the Jew was like "no, it's cool, it's mevushal"), but just a general overall sense of living as a minority in an environment where you're working side by side, having work partnerships, living in the same buildings and in the same courtyards, etc, and the ensuing entanglements and how to navigate those in the real world. But also, wow. What on earth was going on with all those wine libations. Prevention of intermarriage, I understand, but no, even though that is an excuse, it's not the excuse for everything, a lot of the fear really does seem to be that ovdei avoda zara have an irresistible urge to do a wine libation every time they touch wine.

Next up: two weeks of What Happens When The Court Makes A Mistake, and then we're DONE WITH DAMAGES. :(

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All-Star Squadron #6

Writer: Roy Thomas

Pencils: Adrian Gonzales

Inks: Jerry Ordway

The All-Star Squadron must stop a super-villain from allying Mexico with the Axis Powers.

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we watch those images for hours

I've been knitting while watching "Frost", a police procedural from the '90s-00's, and it has been interesting to see how things develop along the way. Improving social attitudes as well as improving visuals! And it has been fun to spot the stars along the way. My favourites have been Joanne Froggett (Downton), Inspector Barnaby from Midsommer Murders (Neil Dudgeon, looking unexpectedly tasty) and Anton Lesser, who about twenty years ago looked a lot younger than I thought he would. From other roles I've seen him in (Endeavour, Andor) I probably thought he was born old.

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I have a running list of song lyrics to use as headers for my posts (thanks,

dine, for the idea) and my eye skipped a bit as I was checking through, to give me

diet coke and a vengeful god

Anyone care to identify the two songs that comprise that line?

Current Mood: grateful

Rest Well, Sir

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vidding

Grumbling about vidding

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Name: Katie

Age: In my 40s.

I mostly post about: I mostly post about life, work, going to school, my writing, concerts, music, the sims, graphics, and book reviews.

My hobbies are:reading, writing, the sims, hiking, concerts, hanging with family and friends

My fandoms are: I am not in any fandoms. I used to be in LOST. I am more into music which is Jamie Cullum, Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Britney Spears, Fall Out Boy and a lot more.

I'm looking to meet people who: Those with similar interest

My posting schedule tends to be: I don't have a schedule.

When I add people, my deal breakers are: People who aren't nice to others, racists, fascist, bigots

Before adding me, you should know:I do not add minors.

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dw challenges: fannish fifty

Fannish Fifty: 1-6

I’m sooo rusty at being fannish.

1. Dandadan. Earlier this year, the first season of this anime about battling spirits and surviving adolescence with the help of your sexy, kickass grandma and the weirdos you encounter and add to your found family along the way, went from “oh I’ll keep it on in the background,” to “I love it and am paying attention.” Fun stories, characters (girl protags with girl friends!), dynamics, and animation. Bonus: Kid 2 and I can watch together. We went to the movie (the first three episodes of S2) and earlier this week watched eps. 4-10. Only two more episodes of this season left? Wahhh!

2. In addition to Novel #1 and Novel #2, I’m playing around with a collection focused on mothers and daughters. I’d love to make it a hybrid collection: some short stories, a novella, some memoir-ish shorts, some essays that toe the line between fiction and non-fiction. I also want to put some straight-up fanfic in there, a la Carmen Maria Machado and her SVU novella (though imo it was one of the weakest stories in that collection.) To that end, I was excited when I came across this brief piece about the similarities between fanfic and litcrit, which in turn linked me to this trad published novella about Dan Humphrey from Gossip Girl being trans. I know nothing about the quality of the work, but am super interested in this aspect of the mainstreaming of fanfic. If they can do it, so can I?

3. In YKINMKATO news, months ago I read a good As You Are story. The micro-fandom of my heart, I haven’t found quality fic for it in years. Finally, someone wrote one. The catch, of course there’s a catch, is that this story has a feeding kink. Not. My. Thing. (I’m not sure I would have tried it if I read the tags, but I rarely read the tags before dipping in.)

And yet, despite the please-no-not-that-kink, despite the fact that I disagreed with the characterization of the leads, I really enjoyed it. I’ve read it more than once! Which goes to show that i) I love these characters and ii) if there’s a well-written story, and the author makes a good case for the choices they’ve made, I will read it. And rec it. Judging by the comments, several other people feel the same way.

I’m always happy to see writers who just go for it.

4. Heard good things about the anime of Apothecary Diaries, which IIRC is about a servant in a brothel solving mysteries, and will be checking that out.

5. Yuletide! I’m wondering what I might nominate. I’m totally out of practice at reading fanfic, so thinking about what I’d like to receive, that fits the cut-off of less than 1K works, is quite the head-scratcher.

Some ideas:
- Ash: A Secret History. After one thousand plus pages, what else is left to tell? Lots!
- subwaytakes: the instagram show with Kareem Rahma.
- The Great Gatsby: A while back, I said I wanted fanfic of Gatsby and his mentor who owned the boat. Now’s my chance?
- Two Lane Blacktop. This road movie is all vibes, and hence perfect for fanfic. I especially want to know more about The Girl.

No, not my micro-fandom. I feel too strongly about it. That would be setting up my YT writer and me for disappointment.

6. To close out, movies via letterboxd. One aspect of it that’s fun is that everyone on the platform displays, in their profiles, their four favorite movies. If you’re on instagram, letterboxd also posts videos in which people (mostly in the film industry but occasionally just folks like you and me) list their four favorites. A good way to find new movies.

My current four favorites are:
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring, Kim Ki-duk (2003). Buddhist perfection.
Consuming Spirits, Chris Sullivan (2012). I watched this on New Year’s Eve in 2021. As soon as I finished it, I watched it again. Here’s more on it (scroll down).
Minding the Gap, Bing Liu (2018). Y’all know I’m a sucker for coming of age stories. This one, and it’s a documentary to boot, is soooo good.
The Music Room, Satyajit Ray (1958). I enjoy tragedies, and stories of quiet, genteel decline.

Movies that might replace these one day:

Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa (1954). Enough said.
Trenque Lauquen, Laura Citarella (2022 & 2023). A multi-hour, Argentinian puzzle-box film with a fantastic script. Really unique and lovely. Highly recommended.
Yi Yi, Edward Yang (2000). The perfect family saga. Showing in theaters this fall. I’m so here for it.
Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks (1974). Just thinking about this movie gets me cackling.
Before Sunset, Richard Linklater (2004). One of my favorite tropes (after years and years, meeting the one who got away) done just right.

What are your four favorites? What are your runners-up?

Current Mood: okay

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sometimes easier to be a brain in a jar

out of joint(s)

Almost every joint in my body cracks. I don't normally feel aches or tension in my hips or elbows (or lower back, thank god) before they make The Noise, but I do everywhere else - ankles, especially the right; knees, especially the right; shoulders, usually the right (but lately the left is bothering me more); spine, which I know is not a joint; neck; both wrists; all fingers.

Each finger (but not the thumbs) cracks at two knuckles, and there's something so very strangely satisfying about getting all eight in a row without having to Do Anything Special to my left little finger (first knuckle) or either index finger (second knuckle).

Last spring I'm pretty sure I strained or even sprained my jaw singing Mozart. That was a bummer. It did an unexpected pop two or three days in a row and then it hurt for weeks - I had to be careful how I opened my mouth when I yawned, which is surprisingly difficult. And just for the past couple of days my left shoulder, as I said, has been bothering me. I thought it might be referred pain from switching to a new bite guard on my bottom teeth, one that I haven't worn a hole in, but it doesn't seem to be that; my next theory is Hormones. (Perimenopause can suck a flagpole.)

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Uncanny X-Men #231

Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Rick Leonardi

Inks: Dan Green

Colossus is reunited with his sister, or is it all a dream?

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The Day in Spikedluv (Monday, Sept 1)

I can’t believe it’s September already! I hit Walmart while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park.

I did a load of laundry (washed and only partially dried), hand-washed dishes, took the dogs for a short walk, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, paid a bill online, placed a Chewy order, and scooped kitty litter.

I hit Price Chopper after leaving the hospital because I had an idea for tomorrow’s supper; I put pork in the crock pot on warm overnight to make pulled pork. Tonight Pip had leftover ziti.

I started the next Duncan Kincaid book.

Temps started out at 45.8(F) and reached 70.0 before I left the house. I’m sure it got several degrees warmer in the afternoon, but Pip didn’t check.

Mom Update:

Mom felt lousy today, but seemed more alert. ( more back here )

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2025 BRING BACK THE PORN MASTER LIST

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