i did it all for the robins (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
musesfool) wrote2025-12-11 05:30 pm
musesfool) wrote2025-12-11 05:30 pm
Entry tags:
we could share a flashlight
My brain, as the meme says, was soup yesterday - I was so wiped out by Tuesday's everything. I logged off and took a nap and even so I slept hard last night. So I think I made the right choice not to go back into the city for the farewell to the CEO event tonight. I already have to go into the office on Tuesday for our holiday party, which part of me would like to avoid as it is now a big huge thing that I, thankfully, did not have to manage. It sounds like the party committee is as crazy as ever, and Assistant J keeps asking me things and I'm like, you're going to have to talk to $SomeoneElse about that. Like, it's nice that he wants to inform me, but also I would like him to take some initiative and fix things or at least suggest solutions. Anyway, we'll see how it goes. I did coordinate the Sesa, so hopefully that goes off without a hitch - only 20 people this time, but some of them haven't done it before, so that should be good.
I also kept thinking today was Friday and then being sad because it's not. I mentioned it to my boss who was like, "it can be Friday! take tomorrow off!" but I still have too much stuff to finish because as of next Friday I am off until January 5th.
Maybe someday I'll have something interesting to say here again, but for now, I don't. I am not very happy about what is happening with the Mets this hot stove season, but ugh. At least the Knicks are kinda good?
I did watch the Supergirl teaser trailer, and I'm excited to see what they do with it, but also it makes me feel like they aren't going to ever give us Kon, now. Or they'll use his animated!YJ personality instead of his much more fun comics personality. Sigh.
*
I also kept thinking today was Friday and then being sad because it's not. I mentioned it to my boss who was like, "it can be Friday! take tomorrow off!" but I still have too much stuff to finish because as of next Friday I am off until January 5th.
Maybe someday I'll have something interesting to say here again, but for now, I don't. I am not very happy about what is happening with the Mets this hot stove season, but ugh. At least the Knicks are kinda good?
I did watch the Supergirl teaser trailer, and I'm excited to see what they do with it, but also it makes me feel like they aren't going to ever give us Kon, now. Or they'll use his animated!YJ personality instead of his much more fun comics personality. Sigh.
*
Delphi (they/them) (delphi) wrote2025-12-11 02:23 pm
delphi) wrote2025-12-11 02:23 pmIntermittently Here
Just a heads-up that my laptop's motherboard is on its very last legs, and so I might not be online reliably over the next couple of weeks until my new machine gets here. I'm still hoping to keep up with folks, but if there's a bigger lag than usual, this (and my unwillingness/inability to do internet things on my phone) is why.
luzula (luzula) wrote2025-12-11 02:54 pm
luzula) wrote2025-12-11 02:54 pmEntry tags:
Write every day: Day 11
No writing. How about you?
Tally:
( Read more... )
Day 10:badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, trobadora, goddess47, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, china_shop, carenejeans
Day 11:china_shop
Bonus farm news: Well, no farm news, but I got a needle in each arm (flu and covid).
Tally:
( Read more... )
Day 10:
badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, trobadora, goddess47, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, china_shop, carenejeansDay 11:
china_shopBonus farm news: Well, no farm news, but I got a needle in each arm (flu and covid).
juushika (juushika) wrote2025-12-11 02:11 pm
juushika) wrote2025-12-11 02:11 pmEntry tags:
Book Review: Hangsman by Shirley Jackson
Title: Hangsaman
Author: Shirley Jackson
Narrator: Julia Whelan
Published: Books on Tape, 2021 (1951)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 210
Total Page Count: 552,500
Text Number: 2071
Read Because: fan of the author; audiobook borrowed from Multnomah County Library
Review: The indicative slimness of a blurb: a 17-year-old girl in the 1950s leaves the claustrophobic domesticity of her family for her first year at an all-girls' college. But much of the novel happens in the protagonist's involved imagination or in the space between scenes. If this were anyone but Jackson, I wouldn't've had the patience for the excruciating minutiae of the first third; but it is Jackson, so the humiliating social anxieties are as beautifully figured as they are tedious. But the glimpses between, marginal and implied, disjointed and imagined and super gay, overshadow the text as it progresses, culminating in a remarkable final third. This isn't my new favorite Jackson, but that's hardly a fair critique; it really landed for me, and I can imagine a successful reread in a few years.
Author: Shirley Jackson
Narrator: Julia Whelan
Published: Books on Tape, 2021 (1951)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 210
Total Page Count: 552,500
Text Number: 2071
Read Because: fan of the author; audiobook borrowed from Multnomah County Library
Review: The indicative slimness of a blurb: a 17-year-old girl in the 1950s leaves the claustrophobic domesticity of her family for her first year at an all-girls' college. But much of the novel happens in the protagonist's involved imagination or in the space between scenes. If this were anyone but Jackson, I wouldn't've had the patience for the excruciating minutiae of the first third; but it is Jackson, so the humiliating social anxieties are as beautifully figured as they are tedious. But the glimpses between, marginal and implied, disjointed and imagined and super gay, overshadow the text as it progresses, culminating in a remarkable final third. This isn't my new favorite Jackson, but that's hardly a fair critique; it really landed for me, and I can imagine a successful reread in a few years.
sovay (sovay) wrote2025-12-11 03:59 pm
sovay) wrote2025-12-11 03:59 pmIs this your name or a doctor's eye chart?
At this point if I have a circadian rhythm it seems to be measured in days, but last night after two doctor's appointments and an evening of virtual seminars through the euphemistically designated career center, I fell over for something like a cumulative thirteen hours and still got through this afternoon's calendar of calling more doctors and the next stage of the career center in time to run out into a cold pastel sunset out of which the occasional flake of snow drifted with insulting singularity. I am delighted by the rediscovery of silent Holmes and also by my camera's cooperation when trying again for the beautiful fungi I had spotted on an earlier walk, clustered on the stump of what used to be a sidewalk tree and has now pivoted to Richard Dadd. I dreamed intensely and have no idea what Alex Horne was doing in there.
juushika (juushika) wrote2025-12-11 01:46 pm
juushika) wrote2025-12-11 01:46 pmEntry tags:
Book Review: We Were Witches by Ariel Gore
Title: We Were Witches
Author: Ariel Gore
Published: Amethyst Editions, 2017; Blackstone Audio, 2018
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 290
Total Page Count: 552,290
Text Number: 2070
Read Because: apparently this has been on my TBR since this 2018 Lesbrary review; audiobook and ebook borrowed from Multnomah County Library
Review: The author's story of her college years as a young single mother. This is fragmented autofiction, cut through with magical realism and retellings; I enjoy the willingness to manipulate the structure to create connections and juxtapositions. But the "just the good bits" approach renders simplified and repetitive the feminist themes, to their detriment; it feels exaggerated for dramatic effect even though it's probably not, and I never quite found my foothold in it.
I started this on audio and finished it on ebook, and recommend the latter over the former; the short sections and atypical formatting come across better in text.
Author: Ariel Gore
Published: Amethyst Editions, 2017; Blackstone Audio, 2018
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 290
Total Page Count: 552,290
Text Number: 2070
Read Because: apparently this has been on my TBR since this 2018 Lesbrary review; audiobook and ebook borrowed from Multnomah County Library
Review: The author's story of her college years as a young single mother. This is fragmented autofiction, cut through with magical realism and retellings; I enjoy the willingness to manipulate the structure to create connections and juxtapositions. But the "just the good bits" approach renders simplified and repetitive the feminist themes, to their detriment; it feels exaggerated for dramatic effect even though it's probably not, and I never quite found my foothold in it.
I started this on audio and finished it on ebook, and recommend the latter over the former; the short sections and atypical formatting come across better in text.
tinny (tinny) wrote2025-12-11 10:46 pm
tinny) wrote2025-12-11 10:46 pmEntry tags:
multifandom flash freeze set for fandom10in30
The theme of ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandom10in30's current round "Ice Ice Baby" is winter, snow, and ice, so I went with Amidst a Snowstorm of Love, and then when I ran out of properly snowy caps, filled it up with Frozen and North of North. Enjoy!
( 10+4 icons )
I'm happy to receive all kind of comments, including concrit! All icons shareable. Credit for brushes and textures I use can be found here in my resource post.
Previous icon posts:
fandom10in30's current round "Ice Ice Baby" is winter, snow, and ice, so I went with Amidst a Snowstorm of Love, and then when I ran out of properly snowy caps, filled it up with Frozen and North of North. Enjoy!
( 10+4 icons )
I'm happy to receive all kind of comments, including concrit! All icons shareable. Credit for brushes and textures I use can be found here in my resource post.
ICONS: Various Chinese Drama Fandoms
Created for sweetandshort December: This and That
Theme: Winter
For info: I created the icons first then used www.funnyphoto.net to add the falling snow... but then had to crop and resize the output images back to icon size.
sweetandshort December: This and ThatTheme: Winter
For info: I created the icons first then used www.funnyphoto.net to add the falling snow... but then had to crop and resize the output images back to icon size.
Kate (julian) wrote2025-12-11 02:13 pm
julian) wrote2025-12-11 02:13 pmEntry tags:
a sadness
supergee, aka Arthur Hlavaty, who I was never close to but enjoyed, died a day or so ago. He wrote engagingly, both on Dreamwidth/LJ and other places, apparently knew like, everyone in SF fandom. His wife's post on it, and Kalimac's reminisce. Peace to his wife and husband, aka
nellorat and womzilla.He was very much a fanzine fan, and had a life and a half in various ways. He was quietly who he was, and lived his life as that; witness his family, for example. As I said, I liked him, in a "ships passing in the night" sense, and I'm mostly posting about it because... Well, people matter. The people who make up community, who are in the same places.
(Also, writer John Varley has probably died, though I haven't seen a definitive post on that yet. I've enjoyed what I read of him, but he was never one of the ones I really *connected* to.)
goodbyebird (goodbyebird) wrote2025-12-11 07:13 pm
goodbyebird) wrote2025-12-11 07:13 pmEntry tags:
Posting now in a futile attempt to stop reading IWTV fics so I have stuff for other days.
The fixation is hyper y'all. Headvids. Brain zoomies. Giddiness at good characterizations (and, for this particular fandom, the characters being ~an appropriate amount of Bastard~ 🤌).
❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️
Rec-cember Day 11
vein by vein by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
morian (2,415 words). Not Lestat being jealous of the sun XD (don't let my comment trick you into thinking it's crack fic, excellent voices in this)
Before he died and was reborn as a creature, not a man, Louis preferred the night. In this city that stretches and groans and howls to life at dusk, he had no reason to favour the sun. His business was the night. People like him, that is to say pimps and grifters, came to bed long after dawn and slept past noon.
It wasn't until he lost the sun that he learned it was something that could be missed.
Though even winters in New Orleans are mild and summer nights leave shirt collars clinging to sweat-slick necks like desperate hands, there is a special kind of warmth in sunlight on the skin. It reeks of childhood and the garden and the roof, of sunrise with his brother.
“I don’t miss the sun,” he will say to a jaded reporter on the balcony of his Dubai altar a hundred years from now. “The reminders it carries.” And it will be true then. But here is a man who ran through the street and nearly burned to death on the first morning he carried the dark gift. And here is a man who grieves his brother, not just one life lost but a thousand possibilities with it.
More fic, vid, and icon recs below :DD
( Btw I'm going to need a vampire to greet Daniel with 'so you're the divorce papers I've heard so much about' in s3, thanks. )
Rec-cember Day 11
vein by vein by
Before he died and was reborn as a creature, not a man, Louis preferred the night. In this city that stretches and groans and howls to life at dusk, he had no reason to favour the sun. His business was the night. People like him, that is to say pimps and grifters, came to bed long after dawn and slept past noon.
It wasn't until he lost the sun that he learned it was something that could be missed.
Though even winters in New Orleans are mild and summer nights leave shirt collars clinging to sweat-slick necks like desperate hands, there is a special kind of warmth in sunlight on the skin. It reeks of childhood and the garden and the roof, of sunrise with his brother.
“I don’t miss the sun,” he will say to a jaded reporter on the balcony of his Dubai altar a hundred years from now. “The reminders it carries.” And it will be true then. But here is a man who ran through the street and nearly burned to death on the first morning he carried the dark gift. And here is a man who grieves his brother, not just one life lost but a thousand possibilities with it.
More fic, vid, and icon recs below :DD
( Btw I'm going to need a vampire to greet Daniel with 'so you're the divorce papers I've heard so much about' in s3, thanks. )
badly_knitted (badly_knitted) wrote2025-12-11 05:10 pm
badly_knitted) wrote2025-12-11 05:10 pm
Entry tags:
The Fantastic Journey Triple Drabble: Out Of Their World
Title: Out Of Their World
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Paul, Ben, Scott, Varian.
Rating: PG
Setting: Vortex (Pilot).
Summary: Ben had said the Bermuda Triangle didn’t exist, but it seems he was wrong.
Written For: Challenge 489: Amnesty 82 at
fan_flashworks, using Challenge 2: Triangle.Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.
badly_knitted (badly_knitted) wrote2025-12-11 05:02 pm
badly_knitted) wrote2025-12-11 05:02 pmEntry tags:
Ficlet: Wilful Blindness
Title: Wilful Blindness
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Ianto, Lisa.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 585
Spoilers: Fragments, Cyberwoman.
Summary: Ianto was so desperate to save Lisa that he blinded himself to the truth.
Written For:
last_haven’s prompt ‘Any, any, ugly truth,’ at threesentenceficathon.Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
a million times a trillion more (dolorosa_12) wrote2025-12-11 04:59 pm
dolorosa_12) wrote2025-12-11 04:59 pmIntention paths
Today's December talking meme prompt is from edwardianspinsteraunt and it is: places which have had the greatest impact on you as a person, or which you strongly associate with a particular period in your life.
I think it will surprise no one to discover that I'm someone who feels a lot of intense feelings about specific landscapes and places, so when I saw this prompt, I felt a) very enthusiastic and b) a bit daunted, as there are so many places I could talk about here! So I've decided — to keep things manageable — to limit this to one type of place per decade of my life.
( Cities and oceans )
edwardianspinsteraunt and it is: places which have had the greatest impact on you as a person, or which you strongly associate with a particular period in your life.I think it will surprise no one to discover that I'm someone who feels a lot of intense feelings about specific landscapes and places, so when I saw this prompt, I felt a) very enthusiastic and b) a bit daunted, as there are so many places I could talk about here! So I've decided — to keep things manageable — to limit this to one type of place per decade of my life.
( Cities and oceans )