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tvmovie20in20 this time with Marry My husband-the Japanese version. Here are 20 icons and some alts! Enjoy! All icons are free to take. Comments are loved!phantomtomato posting in journalsandplannerswatersword posting in thisfinecrewThe Don’t Stand for Taking Employed Americans’ Livings (Don’t STEAL) Act is being reintroduced to Congress; it would make wage theft a felony nationwide.
Wage theft costs American workers more than $50 billion annually. That is more than the value of all robberies, burglaries, and motor vehicle thefts combined.
Contact your representative and tell them to co-sponsor and commit to voting yes on this.
jadelennoxAmericans, you know how we did just get updated covid vaccines approved, but because of RFK Junior's fuckery, your insurance will only pay for them if you are over 65 or have at least one condition that puts you at higher risk? I want to assure you that almost everyone reading this probably has at least one condition that puts you at higher risk.
The list of conditions includes, among the more obvious things (ie. cancer and immune conditions):
and last but not least, and, I can't stress enough that this is literally on the list:
My siblings in middle aged (mostly): if any of you have nothing on the list of underlying health conditions, I salute you. Even your kids have a non negligible chance of being covered under that list.
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snickficficinabox," I said, and then promptly wrote most of a letter. I now have a request I can match to and spent the morning making a list of other requests that I could swap for. I've submitted a swap request, maximum two swaps of 2k each, but there's time to change my mind before swaps close.oursinWhat I read
Finished A World to Win, and decided not to go straight on to next.
Read Anthony Powell, The Soldier's Art (Dance to the Music of Time #8) (1966), which is a very different angle on WW2 as Nick Jenkins is stuck in a backwater with Widmerpool. A particularly grim episode in its much quieter register.
Started Elaine Castillo, Moderation (2025) which started out fairly strongly, then hit a saggy point, and then I discovered I'd been a bit misled over its genre position, and anyway didn't feel much like continuing.
Picked off the shelf Susan Kelly, And Soon I'll Come to Kill You (Liz Connors #5) (1991), from the period when I was reading a lot more crime novels like this. It's not bad - at least Our Heroine has a plausible reason for getting mixed up in criminal matters, as a journalist specialising in crime reporting, but she has the almost obigatory for period/genre cop boyfriend. This one was probably a bit atypical of the series as a whole as it involved someone with a grudge against her (there are several suspects for Reasons to do with past reporting etc) stalking her with malign intent.
Andrea Long Chu, Females (2025), because I'd found Authority interesting and read something about this but while I am all for rediscovery of the out-there voices of the 'second wave', riffing off V Solanas was just a bit niche.
Laurie R King, Knave of Diamonds (Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes, #19) (2025) - Kobo deal at the weekend - seriously phoning it in - scraping the bottom of the barrel -
On the go
Val McDermid, A Darker Domain (Inspector Karen Pirie #2) (2008) for some reason Kobo were doing a serious promotional deal on the McDermid Pirie series at the weekend so I thought, why not?
Up next
New Slightly Foxed perhaps.
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cakewrecks_feedA while back one of our readers suggested a fun activity for the next book tour: set up plain frosted cakes, and let contestants hurl various bits of candy, flotsam, and ribbon at said cakes. Whichever looks "best" wins.
Unfortunately, I think some wreckerators out there took this as career advice.
And believe me: there are no winners here.
Wow. I didn't know you could get that kind of distance out of mini marshmallows.
You know what they always say about edible splatter paint!:
Nothing, actually. They're all too busy trying to avoid the pieces with the poo-colored jelly beans.
Here's one that made use of the drop method:
Most of it even landed on the cake!
Of course, when you're lobbing across such great distances, some breakage is to be expected:
Boops.
You can see that a lot of throwing went into this one:
(Psst. Throwing up counts, right?)
Hang on a sec, something's wrong.
This one's making me hungry:
Mmmm.
I mean, what next? Will a professional chef on a national reality show get in on the act??
[holding head] We're too late! AAHHHH!!
Thanks to Jill N., Ashlee M., Cassie G., Julie V., Kimberly B., & Elizabeth L., who all get to be first in line come book-tour-throwing time.
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P.S., Speaking of books, I just found one right up our wrecky alley:
A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking
I don't even need a synopsis. I'm sold.
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And from my other blog, Epbot:
asakiyumerachelmanija's write up, and when I said so, she said, "You specifically would enjoy it." And I DO. The language is gorgeous, and the story moves along. Rachel quotes the final line of a sermon in her post, but man, that entire sermon! Here's more from it:"Death dealing is the devil's duty.
"The devil's still swishing his long reptilian tail, hooding his ruby snake eyes, walking up and down seeing who he can devour, strewing banana peels on the steep path of life trying to see who he can trick into slipping. Be aware!
"Carry a light in your heart. Some of you're already shining like neon. Don't even need batteries;** you've got everything you require to keep the light going."
The twelfth and most abject of the Quadoni apologies was the truest word Lanie had ever spoken. It could be no louder than a breath; it was that fragile ...
All three sounds hung in the air, and together created a fourth sound, an overtone that hovered so delicately, so tremendously, over them all.
And burst.
And rained down such music that all their voices fell silent.
Do salt and sugar work
to build a white tower?
Is it true that in an anthill
dreams are a duty?
Do you know what the earth
meditates upon in autumn?
(Why not give a medal
to the first golden leaf?)
~ ~ ~
Trabajan la sal y el azúcar
construyendo una torre blanca?
Es verdad que en el hormiguero
los sueños son obligatorios?
Sabes qué meditaciones
rumia la tierra en el otoño?
(Por qué no dar una medalla
a la priemera hoja de oro?)
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rahirah posting in su_herald~~Buffy Episode #26: "Innocence"~~
starwatcher posting in fandom_checkinHow are you doing?
I am OK.
18 (66.7%)
I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
9 (33.3%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans live with you?
I am living single.
8 (29.6%)
One other person.
14 (51.9%)
More than one other person.
5 (18.5%)
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