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Recent lessons and news:

Dad called to report how great he is feeling, how much energy he has. So good to hear.

Christine had a visit with a specialist who had good news: no invasive procedure today; bad news: obviously needs a surgical treatment; good news: it's straightforward. This is to address a factor that probably contributed to her emergency room and admission. She also liked and, i think may trust, the practitioner, a rarity. (Although i think her extreme discomfort with medical treatment may have eased a little after her hospital stay.)

Chestnuts, at least my chestnuts, with the skin left on them, are perfectly edible after being chopped and simmered in a very herbal cream of butter soup. (Carrots, celery, dried mushrooms, rosemary, sage, and young onions). I assumed it would be fine with pureeing, but even the chunks i sampled were fine. I will probably peel in smaller batches than i did this weekend -- heat is needed to ease the skins off -- but now i have a use for the chestnuts that aren't perfectly cleaned.

Wait, is Carrie eating the chestnuts in the yard??!!

Yesterday's breakfast fresh figs and blueberries, chopped chestnuts, yogurt. Squeee!

Sunday afternoon - Monday evening chestnut harvest: 2 lbs 6 oz. Now curing in the bottom of the fridge.

Lutein yellow is everywhere. A mass of yellow crownbeard lines the woods edge on the east, cutleaf cone flower is massed at the back of the orchard and in other spots within. Swamp sunflower sprawls across the meadow, but the yellow crownbeard grows too high and hides it. I've begun my No Seeds Bleep It campaign to cut back the cutleaf coneflower where it is likely to continue its aggressive growth. It's just not quite as aggressive as deer.

In good news, where i was harvesting the cutleaf coneflower in early spring, the florabundance is remarkable.

So many bean pods on the thicket bean. Here's hoping that i can find a way to make them a bit more palatable.

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2025/145: The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar — Indra Das

“Why won’t you let me remember?” I dared ask.
She blinked. “You deserve to be real in this world. It’s not an easy thing to be stuck between worlds.” But stuck I was, and ever have been. [loc. 286]

Ru George grows up in Calcutta [sic] in the 1990s. He's the child of immigrants, and lives with his grandmother and his parents. Ru's father is a failed fantasy author: his novel The Dragoner's Daughter (about dragonriders on a distant planet using their mounts to traverse multiple realities) sold only 52 copies. Ru's grandmother tells him fantastical stories about his grandfather having started life as a woman (Ru can see the truth of this in old photos). Ru's mother administers the Tea of Forgetting after meals, and before bedtime.

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Posted by Emma Saven

https://cheezburger.com/42416645/manager-acts-like-im-on-call-247-office-worker-files-hr-complaint-after-manager-crosses-boundaries

If Dolly Parton were to write another song about working hours in 2025, we think she'd fall off her songwriting stool. We all know working 9-5 is just a term used to make a contract 'sound pretty'. If this employee had to collaborate on a song, he'd probably name it something like: Working 24/7, 7 days a week ft. my boss doesn't understand boundaries...Something along those lines. But Dolly would have to obviously approve.

This employee is fed up, after being contacted by his boss during Friday night family dinners, Sunday lunches, and practically any other hour he feels the need to do so. The thing is, it's not even like it's urgent…He just has zero respect for his boundaries and life outside of the workplace. To the point that this employee is forced to contact HR, after his manager threatens his job through a voicenote, following his refusal to answer any more of his calls on the weekend…

It's all takin' and no givin'.

https://cheezburger.com/42416645/manager-acts-like-im-on-call-247-office-worker-files-hr-complaint-after-manager-crosses-boundaries

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Title: Bring Your Own
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD) & Winnie-the-Pooh
Pairing/Characters: Sherlock Holmes & Tigger Holmes
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Prompt: September 16th - bring your own [choice]

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Writer: Bill Mantlo

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Inks: Joe Sinnott

Rom discovers there is trouble down t’ pit.

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Episode 2675: Ombrage à Trois

Bearers of bad news often get a bad rap. In reality they seldom deserve it, but in fiction or gaming...

Go ahead and take out your frustration on them! Especially if you're the bad guy.

aurilee writes:

Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

Chewbacca hardly counts as the third. That was just Han Solo pushing Chewie under the space bus. The Wookiee is such a chew toy sometimes.

And hey! We got those panel cracks again! Or maybe panel stabs? Either way, those were a neat edit to the comic. I wonder if we'll get another edit like that next comic.

Transcript

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Happy birthday,

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Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

But even so... What a week... and after the past... god knows how long, that is saying something.

The simplest summary of the murder of the Right wing provocateur and influencer is "I don't support the things that led to Charlie Kirk's death. But Charlie Kirk did."

However, watching the US Administration attempt to weaponise his death against some nebulous, ill-defined, left wing "conspiracy", despite so much of the evidence suggesting that the accused (but not yet charged) alleged perpetrator doesn't fit that preconceived notion, is chilling.

And now the UK is giving POTUS 47 a SECOND State visit. As a rather elegant act of protest, our Channel 4 will be broadcasting a collation of the longest uninterrupted reel of lies, misrepresentations of facts, and outright untruths from... POTUS47. It's nice that they have something about him on TV to watch when he's spending the evening at Windsor Castle (I am no ardent monarchist, but even I have to feel a bit of sympathy for the King over the next couple of days)

Oh, and 150,000 or so anti=immigration protesters marched in London, and had the "pleasure" of being addressed by Elon Musk, who was his usual charming self.

In more optimistic news, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been jailed for 27 years following an attempted coup to overturn the election he lost in 2023.

Not had much time for TV this week, so am open to suggestions.

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Today's thing to work on (yesterday's, really; day 1, 15th September) was a sparkly collar I crocheted years ago but never sewed the button onto.

The button is now on. It's a vintage metalwork and glass, very sparkly. Starting was delayed by the complete unfindability of the Danish butter cookies tin where sewing supplies live. Once I found some button & carpet thread and needles stashed elsewhere, it took me a while because I'm not at all good at sewing. But it's done now and seems sturdy.

When I tested the button, the buttonhole was too big and stretchier than was useful. So I set to work on that with the button and carpet thread, going around and around the edge, sometimes gathering things in a bit. Eventually it was a lot sturdier and a little smaller, and the button and buttonhole work together now.

The crocheted collar s several shades of blue, and very fuzzy and sparkly around the edges, and the button itself has great sparkle. When I can, I will try to do pictures.

Craft: crochet, although to be accurate it was the sewing part, the finishing of the crocheted part, that I did today
Time: one hour
Notes: I had The Leftist Cooks playing while I worked, which was pretty good company
Thoughts: perhaps sometime I will learn how hand-sewing is actually supposed to work

hamsterwoman

Picking up the Worldcon write-up on ( Saturday, Aug 16 with the Hugo Awards Ceremony )

The Hugo stats (final ballot voting) came out the next day, but the nomination/long list stuff took much longer and was only recently released (as I understand it, because that work had been done by the PREVIOUS Hugo committee, which all resigned in protest of the ChatGPT kerfuffle, and a different team took over) after the finalists were announced. Links to everything

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snickfic

- Yuletide nominations are upon us!! I don't know how this happened so fast, but here we are.

- AO3 is canonizing more freeform tags! Very, very slowly! This latest update includes cosmic horror and clit play, among others.

- Regal is doing a giant horror October release thing, with a classic horror movie every day of the movement (for variable definitions of classic). Because Regal's marketing is absolute pants, I couldn't find an official announcement of this anywhere, but here's a comprehensive listing on Reddit.

- I started posting my Oasis WIP, one vignette a day, ranging from less than 300 words (today) to probably around 3k (the sex scene if I can ever finish it!!). It is here if you are inclined to read along. I don't think I've ever done daily fic posting in all my years of fandom, and I'm excited about it. And the response so far has been really nice. :)

- And as of Saturday I broke 70k for the year!!!

- Speaking of Oasis... just look at these bozos. Look how happy they are. Can you believe. 😭😭😭

Please note Liam has balanced his maracas AND his tambourine on his sombrero. A shelf hat, exactly what he has always wanted.

mergatrude

After Torin died, the lad swore off owning a dog until a couple of months ago when he started whining about missing having "a mate" to hang out with. *sigh*

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This sweet goofball's name is now Bailey. ( more tl;dr )

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http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/09/laser-focused.html

When the regime was elected, they claimed to have a laser focus on bringing down the cost of living. So how's that working out for them? Badly:

Food prices are rising much faster than wages, putting more pressure on household budgets and creating a squeeze that's feeling worse for some than the global financial crisis, one economist says.
Stats NZ data for August shows prices were 5 percent higher than a year earlier.
Depending on how wage growth is measured, incomes are growing by as little as half that.
[...]
Higher prices for the grocery food group, up 4.7 percent, contributed most to the annual increase in food prices.
That was largely down to the increase in milk, cheese and butter. Milk was up 16.3 percent to $4.72 per two litres, cheese up 26.2 percent to $12.89 for a kilogram block and butter was up 31.8 percent year-on-year to $8.58 per 500g.

Meat, fruit, and vegetables are also all up. And what's the government's answer? Nothing. Oh, they'll tinker around the edges and wish for a deep-pocketed competitor to enter the market, but they won't actually do anything. They won't make a KiwiKai to provide competition, or forcibly break up the oligopoly which gouges us. And the Prime Minister's response to basic food prices being so high is to blame "international markets", without once asking why kiwis, the people who subsidise food production and bear its environmental costs, are paying those prices, or why food producers are allowed to export in preference to feeding us first. Because asking those questions would be very bad for the people who fund this regime, and who profit by gouging us.

But if this regime doesn't have an answer, then voters can and should look for one at the ballot box. Price gouging does terrible things for your social licence, and its time we reminded our grocery oligopolies of that. Regulate them properly, force them to sell to us first at a fair price before they export anything, and make it clear that their primary purpose is to serve the New Zealand market, not foreigners. The problem with having a food industry which exports 90% of its output is that they don't have to care about us; so maybe we need to challenge the problem at its root, stop those exports, shrink the industry to something more manageable (and less environmentally destructive), rather than letting them impoverish us economically, socially, and environmentally for their own profit?

http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/09/laser-focused.html

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Fandoms: Star Trek TNG/ Death Becomes Her (musical)
Pair: Beverly Crusher, Madeline Ashton
Word Count: 637
Rating: T
Prompt: How did this happen?

Medical Mystery

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Fandoms: Star Trek Voyager/ The Closer
Pair: Kathryn Janeway/ Sharon Raydor
Word Count: 926
Rating: T
Prompt: A little R&R

A Little Rum & Risa

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1. I slipped and fell during my walk this evening, but thankfully I just got my clothes wet and skinned my knee, nothing serious. I was walking down a hill and could see that someone had been watering and got it all over the sidewalk, but there weren't any puddles I didn't anticipate there being any issue walking through it, but some of the sidewalk squares were completely smooth rather than rough as they usually are, so there was no grip to them and I slid and fell and scraped one knee. It looked bad but when I got home to clean it up, it turned out most of the mess was dirt and there was only a little scraping and bleeding. Could have been a lot worse! Thankfully I had my phone with me and could have called Carla to pick me up if I hadn't been able to walk, but I made it home on my own.

2. I had several meetings today, which didn't leave a lot of time for actual work, but I did finish another of the tasks I've been assigned. I'm making progress!

3. Jasper's so casual.

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First, let me thank you for writing me a story in one of the fandoms we share. I'm excited about all of them. They're listed in alphabetical order, so as not to play favourites.

I'm also greerwatson on AO3. Treats are enabled.

GENERAL POINTS:

I love stories that explore canon more deeply, whether through backstory, or elaborating the setting/history/culture, or exploring people's motivations and personal interactions.

I prefer gen. DNW non-canon relationships unless requested. I'm not asking you to ignore canon relationships; but please don't make them the focus of the story. I don't care for anything more than PG-13: explicit sexual detail is definitely a DNW for me.

I love casefic; and, more generally, I like stories that are canon-compliant. The general exception to this is ignoring canonical character death if you want. Canon-divergent AUs are also fine. (There may be other specific exceptions.)

I'm okay with violence if necessary to the story; but not gore for the sake of gore. On the whole, I prefer not to have characters die in the story; but references to canonical deaths are okay. (I'm fine with having original characters murdered in casefic, and that sort of thing.)

I enjoy comedy—being able to recognize the ridiculous when it pops up; also wit and wordplay. Having said that, I totally leave it up to you whether you write a serious or comic story or, for that matter, a serious story with comic interludes.

No second-person fic, please. First person is definitely okay for book canons that were written that way by the author. However, I don't generally care for it with TV fandoms. Epistolary fic is fine.

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