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Lurker (d. Alex Russell, 2025)

Pop star Oliver invites rando shop assistant Matty to his concert, not realising he has invited a yandere into his life.

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a mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems

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Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: The upstairs bedroom I cleaned, huzzah!
Current Music: Fan

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Sofa, so good.

Managed to clean off and move my loveseat so an energy auditor can check to see what areas need more insulation for winter. Quite a bit of the items were laundry, so I spent the weekend washing.

Too bad we’re having a late summer heatwave or I would had taken a vacuum cleaner to be repaired at one of Hennepin County’s Fix-It Clinics. :/

Mom’s getting to the point that she won’t be able to drive much longer, so this time it is likely we’ll have to sell the Buick, so I’ll clean that out soon.

Current Mood: good

Just brief

Unexpectedly staying over at

mashfanficchick's place. More tomorrow.

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Connections - Resident Alien/Desert Hearts - Asta Twelvetrees & Cay Rivvers

Title: Connections
Fandom: Resident Alien/Desert Hearts
Characters: Asta Twelvetrees & CAy Rivvers (mentions of Vivian Bell)
Prompt: Day 13 - Asta Twelvetrees and Cay Rivvers with the title "Connections"

( Connections )

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Daily Happiness

1. The weather today was sooooo nice. Overcast most of the day with some sun in the afternoon.

2. We had a nice morning at DCA. Left before the sun finally broke through the clouds, and before it got crowded.

3. We stopped at Trader Joe's on the way home, and since it was still overcast and I was feeling like another walk, I decided to walk home from there (about a mile and a half) and let Carla drive home with the shopping. I stopped at the farmers market on the way for some fruit leather and juice. No watermelon lemonade, but there was calamansi juice.

4. Gemma looks annoyed at being disturbed.

Current Music: Suzanne Vega, "Left of Center"

On the edge and off the avenue

I had not thought there were any meteor showers of consequence this month, but it seems that the swift pale streak between the telephone wires southwest of Cassiopeia belonged to the September Epsilon Perseids, so named despite their radiant in β Persei, the demon-star of Algol. I can hope it was not wildfire drift that accounted for the candle-tint of the half-moon, which was doing its autumnal trick of hanging like a lantern in the not yet leafless trees. The last of this summer's monarchs flew just before sunset, the twenty-second of her name.

Palestine/Gaza Awareness

Hi, it's been a while. I'm going to try to post like once a month on Palestine stuff so there's some more awareness of things that are going on. Because there's a lot.

Israel continues to bomb multiple Arab nations and threaten them; they last struck Qatar attempting to assassinate Hamas leaders who were there at the invitation of the US to discuss a ceasefire with Israel. The result of that is now Arab nations are rethinking their relationships with the US. They are also continuing to bomb Gaza daily and round up people in the West Bank.
Laura Loomer got the US to stop issuing travel visas to Palestinian children traveling for humanitarian and medical treatment.
Meanwhile, in the US, the House just passed a Lauren Boebert amendment to the Pentagon budget that would target the BDS movement.
Rep Brian Mast just introduced a new bill that would allow Marco Rubio to revoke US passports, including US citizens, at his whim, but basically if you criticize Israel.
Earlier this week, progressive House Reps and others like Mahmoud Khalil and Cynthia Nixon did a big push for HR 3565 Block the Bombs Act, which would block the President from selling certain munitions to Israel, except under specific conditions. There are now 46 cosponsors, all of them Democratic. 7 joined this month. Although Reps Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene have both made statements opposing Israel, they have not joined as cosponsors.

Orgs and places to donate to:

Current Mood: aggravated
Current Music: Aquaman

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Just one day where nothing goes wrong

That's not too much to ask is it? Apparently so. I already had to drive around the horn this morning because I forgot they were setting up for this coming week's Apple Festival (how the fuck is half of Sept already gone?)

I get home to my defrosting fridge. I'm trying it again. Maybe I turned it on before it dried out last time and it refroze. I got two of the fridge shelves cleaned and dried and one of the things I saw on YT tutorials was the bottom vents might be blocked causing the fridge part to heat up. Okay fine. So I'm cleaning them, going good but since my fridge is jammed in a corner and the door can't even open fully, my shoulder is against the door.

The cheap ass plastic shelf guard comes off and a bottle of chili crisp oil hits ground, shatters and everything is covered in red oil. Is my foot cut? I dunno. It hurts but is it cut or is the fucking chili oil giving me chemical burns? Don't see blood. Manage to clean up my foot...so I thought as I hobble to the shower to clean it well and neutralize the caustic oil. Had it between my toes, didn't know and now there are orange oil footprints on this old shit carpet (got them out with resolve).

Takes me at least 30 minutes to clean up oil. Everything in that fridge is a loss. Even the spreadable butter is green. That's how hot the inside is. Sigh. I still have jars I'm going to rinse and toss sitting on the floor because now it's 730 at night and I need to get this over with. I don't think it's getting cold but it's early days. I do think I'll need to replace it and I am unhappy. SO unhappy. Like I have time to clean and move everything. Like I have a PLACE to move it to. I guess I'll get more plastic totes and put it on the porch, you know the one that's collapsing? sigh.

Finally seeing the second Aquaman movie. Did the same person also write the second Black Panther movie. They seem about 70% the same and that is not a compliment.

And before I forget, happy birthday to

shanachie_quill

I have started posting one of my two

wipbigbang, Here you go (though I'm doubtful anyone here shares this fandom with me). I'm just going to be linking it since it'll be long.

Title: The Porn Star Murders

Summary: Angel has settled in well after the death of Valentino at his hands. He is running Val’s movie empire with far more skill than anyone thought. What he wants to concentrate on now is taking the budding relationship with Husker to the next level. What he gets is someone ‘murdering’ his best stars. Death might not be permanent in hell but when his stars are torn to flinders, it’ll take them a long time to pull themselves together. It is good way to ruin his business and bring his term as an overlord to an end. With Husker, Rosie and Arackniss at his side, Angel has to track down this threat to his new empire and deal with it like his father taught him so long ago.

Rating: mature

And here is the fandom recs

Connections Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis

The Meaning Behind Words Star Trek: The Original Series

Baby bump Hazbin Hotel

Searching for Something Teen Wolf

Too Soon To Know Torchwood

Making A Commitment Torchwood

Pilgrimage The Owl House

who cares (i'm fine) The Amazing Digital Circus

knock knock, want crack rabbit boi? The Amazing Digital Circus

A Gathering Storm Stargate Atlantis

Celebration for the Living Stargate Atlantis /Stargate SG-1

The Right Man for the Job Stargate Atlantis /Stargate SG-1

Uncomplicatedly Complicated Wolverine/X-Men

one hundred footsteps away Star Trek: Voyager

I Hate You The Least The Amazing Digital Circus

One Good Turn Stargate Atlantis /Stargate SG-1

All Alone, Wondering Torchwood

A New Beginning Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Little One 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney

The Aftershow The Amazing Digital Circus

Brass Stargate Atlantis

When Val Goes Out With Alastor Hazbin Hotel

Tales of a Pack Rebellion Teen Wolf

Current Mood: yearning
Current Music: Besides, no matter what one might infer, one must have faith to some degree

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Don't ask a question you don't want answered - Star Wars triple drabble

Don't ask a question you don't want answered (300 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Padmé Amidala, Anakin Skywalker
Additional Tags: Triple Drabble, Mutual Pining
Summary:

Padmé asks Anakin a question and gets a surprising answer.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Halloween Baking Challenge

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Fic - The Porn Star Murders / Hazbin Hotel

Title: The Porn Star Murders

Fandom: Hazbin Hotel

Link To Fic: here on AO3

Link To Art By afteriwake: here on AO3

Summary: Angel has settled in well after the death of Valentino at his hands. He is running Val’s movie empire with far more skill than anyone thought. What he wants to concentrate on now is taking the budding relationship with Husker to the next level. What he gets is someone ‘murdering’ his best stars. Death might not be permanent in hell but when his stars are torn to flinders, it’ll take them a long time to pull themselves together. It is good way to ruin his business and bring his term as an overlord to an end. With Husker, Rosie and Arackniss at his side, Angel has to track down this threat to his new empire and deal with it like his father taught him so long ago.

Warnings: dismemberment, skinning, cannibals, referenced rape, sex work, graphic violence, lots of swearing in two languages, homophobic family members, family dysfunction

Characters: Angel Dust, Arackniss, Husk, Rosie, Henroin, Vox and Velvette

Pairings: Angel Dust/Husk

When I Started: Earlier this year. It fits into my Spider Brother series.

How I Lost My Shit: I didn’t so much as lose my shit as I needed a deadline to help me focus.

How I Finished My Shit: Determination and like I said, deadlines help. Also Angel really wanted to tell this story.

Wrath of the Righteous is good but a new adventure path would be better

It is three in the morning and I still am not asleep
because
by the time I had built my character in Inevitable Excess
realised that way wasn't going to work
built her again
and one more time for luck
then rebuilt Daeran and Ember whose default builds aren't really workable
it was after midnight
and I still needed to rebuild Woljif and Ulbrig.

... and I got Woljif wrong by forgetting Selective Spell, so I cannot do selective Grease all everywhere, but aside from that...

by the time I had everyone built and the basic buffs on and the spell trays loaded
I figured I might as well go kill some stuff
and then it was now.

... and now I realised again that this build for the Knight Commander is a right mess also.
... I keep trying to do Mystic Theurge, remembering they didn't put the capstone in the computer game, remembering again the way the spells get Messy and Numerous to a degree that doesn't fit in the bars, and experiencing Regrets.

with Legend I could just take 20 levels in the two sorts of magic and leave Prestige Classes be.
but they sound cool if I could get the hang of them.

I feel strongly that sleep would have been a better use of about the last five hours.

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weekly check in

Weekly(ish) check in

How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?

I personally haven't managed anything, having been--to quote the vernacular--'flat out like a lizard drinking' on other tasks. But I'm here to celebrate the rest of you!

Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.

Current Mood: quixotic
Current Music: nothing now

p=m/V.

I'm looking my vanity right in the eye when I say, "I want to fit into smaller dresses." That's it. That's the desire and motivation. Smaller dresses. I don't much care about the scale - while somewhat ego-stroking, it doesn't matter nearly as much. Volume, density, and mass. If I dropped a dress size by weightlifting, decreasing volume and increasing density, the mass is the same.

One of my clients has, some time ago, begun taking an injected antidiabetic medication, presumably for diabetes. I haven't asked and don't plan to. Mostly I noticed that when she needed to move a potted plant that felt like it weighted twenty to thirty pounds at most, she had a hard time lifting it, while I didn't have any trouble. While it's true she doesn't lift weights as much as I do, I can't help but think about how much I like that form of exercise for its direct benefits of being able to pick something up, move it, and put it down without issue, and how that's something I'm unwilling to mess with. There's healthy and there's skinny. There's also vanity, which I'm admitting to - without wanting to sacrifice health to get there. My relationship to gravity is secondary to my relationship to my closet and being able to readily find good pants at thrift stores.

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Connections (Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1; Samantha Carter, Ronon Dex)

Title: Connections
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1
Pairing/Characters: Samantha Carter, Ronon Dex
Word Count: 363
Content Notes: none
Prompt:

no_true_pair September 13 - Ronon Dex & Samantha Carter - with the title "Connections"

Link to fic: Connections (on AO3)

Current Mood: frustrated

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blog against discrimination

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Normally I go silent on here for months because I randomly forgot how to write in full sentences, but this time it was just because things got too miserable -- politics, A/C breaking, work, health, other health, other health, health insurance, medical bills, other medical bills. I think I only ever demonstrate intellectual curiosity and a love of learning in response to illness and injury (perhaps a side effect of inflammation!), so like: --How's it going, Shati? --Well, I've been practicing a lot and my Spanish listening comprehension has gotten way better, I can watch almost all of the Latam A:TLA dub without having to pause or look words up. --Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that.

Things are still in multiple kinds of limbo on the health front, to the point where I basically can't leave my house again right now for more than short car errands, but I guess at least work is getting less busy and I have A/C again.

Back on my birthday I treated myself to the international shipping fees on a couple of books I'm not sure I'm ready to read yet, Los días del venado and Los días de la sombra by Liliana Bodoc. If I like them I'll probably be really mad at myself for not just buying the whole series, but the shipping was already more than I'd normally spend on my birthday, and I may never get around to reading them because they don't have library due dates. I was just excited to come across fantasy originally written in Argentinian Spanish; most of what I can find is either translated to Spanish or from Europe. If any of you have read them (in any language) I'm curious if you liked them! On the rest of the book front, I basically stopped reading while work was really busy and I was working hours late every day, so I'm halfway through a bunch of books that I'll have to return to the library and then borrow again on another trip.

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We need to talk

The New Yorker is trying to convince me that Bluesky has become annoying and everyone’s back on Xitter. Not linking because it’s paywalled. True or false?

I never got the hang of Twitter. I have similar problems with Bluesky. I don’t need a social site to deliver me more links. I want conversation. Is conversation dead? Where is it? (I know there’s some here…)

I miss Usenet, lol

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Land of Hope and Dreams (live) - Bruce Springsteen

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thunder's rolling down this track

A couple weeks ago, I finally realized I was never going to go to someone else to get my hair cut, so with some encouragement from my sister, this morning, I did an extensive detangling (both before and after washing) and then trimmed about 3" off the bottom myself. Is it even? Probably not, but it was in long layers, so I don't think it really matters. It will eventually even out as it grows and I trim it. Mostly what matters is that after 3 years, the old ends have been trimmed away. And now that I know I can do it, I will try to keep up with it on a more timely basis. At least, I don't think I'll let another 3 years go by. *wry*

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The Mets did not get no-hit last night but they did lose, and then lost again today despite leading for 7.5 innings. *hands* There is something very wrong with this team, but who can say what? Sigh.

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2025 Disneyland Trip #62 (9/13/25)

We have not done an early morning trip in almost a month, but Carla's been wanting to go on Soarin' and the best time for that is when the park opens, plus there's some waffles I'd been wanting to try at Schmoozies, and while they could be a dessert as well as a breakfast, Schmoozies closes at eight, which makes it inconvenient for evening trips.

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