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MY BRAIN IS SITTING HERE LIKE 'look at all these tiny things i can write about' juxtaposted with 'well dreamwidth isn't a microposting site u can't just dump out ur two-liner thoughts or two paragraphs of rambling' and im like AUGH ... maybe ... like i know i could just opt to be like 'don't put on reading page', sometimes i'd like ppl to see it in case they want to comment!!!

i know i could also yap and do my microposting on tumblr or pillowfort but i. i dunno. i just find dreamwidth weirdly more comfortable to do it on. WHICH IS WEIRD bc pillowfort is JUST as private if i wanted it to be. i guess it's because this feels like MY journal vs just posting on a social media site. probably why i also used twitter for so long before it went into the absolute shithole because i had a private account and could limit who sees what; it was MY hole. tumblr is great, but it doesn't have that

i could always return to my website microblog but it's tedious to write anything because i'd continually go back to it and have to edit the HTML then do the HTML in the first place to make said new micropost ... thoughts.page exists literally for microposting but ... its just ... microposting. no tags, no longform stuff, no real way to view what others post, nothing to support that.

i know i can do it, but its hard to tell my brain!!!!!

edit: wait im stupid i could technically make my pillowfort private but its like...... it doesnt feel the same i guess? with it being a much slower social media, i dont feel the need to private it vs twitter which is an avalanche of content and u just wanna hide amidst it all

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Some weeks back I saw one of the most fiery color sunsets I've yet seen. It's usually the case that sunsets look even more colorful to the camera, but in this case it was already a strong red, and was widespread.

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asuraid

some part of me wonders if i should do some game logs like ... what i do in games every day. maybe not every day but like when i remember to. i do log my gaming on backloggd when i remember to (or at least my play times) but not what i do ... to be fair, some part of me worries more that i'll forget what i've literally done.

it's a struggle sometimes to even log my day to day since it's sometimes just the motions that you do by habit, so having to reflect back on that sometimes draws a blank for me. and i hate it so much. :(

to be fair today is also a bit of a blur in general, so that doesn't help much but ... i guess if i had to think...

tomodachi life: usual shenanigans. its hard to remember exacts, but it's funny watching one of my ocs try to befriend his nephew (not related in game, just in their canonical relationship) and fail at doing so ... and fail at then befriending sylvie. LOL. otherwise pretty lowkey, conflict resolutions ... TWO MIIS CONTINUALLY TRYING TO PUSH TWO OCS TOGETHER THAT WOULD NOT DATE EACH OTHER ... damn i will be so glad to have aroace miis and NOT have to deal with this shit. the lil baby between my two oldest oc blorbos is growing well :]

warframe: just a simple survival omni fissure ... finished a dupe rhino to snackrifice for roar but i forgot you need to wait 23h to have access to it. got the pupper decoration armour :)

Current Mood: pensive

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Thursday, February 5, to midnight on Friday, February 6 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34187 Daily check-in poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 8

How are you doing?

I am OK
6 (75.0%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
2 (25.0%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
3 (37.5%)

One other person
1 (12.5%)

More than one other person
4 (50.0%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

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Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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stonepicnicking_okapi

For Black History Month, I am reading This is Honey: an Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets edited by Kwame Alexander. This is the first poem in this anthology. This is the first stanza. It is a long poem and the formatting (which I can't do here) is important.

Here is the whole poem formatted properly: https://issues.org/quilting-the-black-eyed-pea-going-to-mars-poem-giovanni/

Here is a video of her reading it aloud in 1994: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMKSSlaqTLE

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea by Nikki Giovanni

We're going to Mars

for the same reason Marco Polo rocketed to China,

for the same reason Columbus trimmed his sails on a dream of spices,

for the very same reason Shackelford was enchanted with penguins,

for the reason we fall in love.

It's the only adventure.

mecurtin

Sometimes as I head to the bathroom for my bedtime rituals Purrcy comes racing to the windowsill outside the door for Wild! Shenanigans! Who can spot such a creature?!?

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is crouched on a wide windowsill, peering around the edge with a single wide eye showing, tail waving wildly. He is truly a ferocious predator!

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is crouched on a wide windowsill, peering around the edge with a single wide eye showing, tail waving wildly. He is truly a ferocious predator!

Comfort and self-care are SO important In These Trying Times, says Purrcy. Don't you agree? You, too, can combine sprawling with personal hygiene, if you're a cat!

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby lies splat on his back on the bed, furry tummy up, stretching out one arm and cleaning it with his large pink tongue in a way that is both efficient and very relaxed

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby lies splat on his back on the bed, furry tummy up, stretching out one arm and cleaning it with his large pink tongue in a way that is both efficient and very relaxed

This week in books (up through yesterday, because I completely blanked on that's what Wednesday is for).

#21 There Is No Antimemetics Division, by qntm
It's very mind-bendingly creepy, but it fundamentally doesn't work for me because there's an underlying premise that the only minds on Earth are human. I spend too much time reading science where we deduce the existence of things we can't see to be convinced that there could be things that would be that good at messing with human minds without leaving 2nd or 3rd-order effects on the physical world.

#22 Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz
An extremely cheerful post-this-apoc story about robots & humans clawing their way out of war and societal collapse to make good-tasting food, dammit. A love note to San Francisco. I described the vibe as "you're wet now, but you're going to get dried off and have some delicious noodles to warm up while you hang with your friends".

#23 The Poet Empress, by Shen Tao
Such a relief to read a book based on Chinese imperial harem/court politics that reflects the power-driven, unromantic historical reality. Also a relief to read a book about *any* royal-level struggle where the protagonist understands how much and how little royalty are truly important.

#24 Asunder, by Kerstin Hall
The cover represents this book *extremely* poorly: it implies the subject is a contemporary young woman (judging by haircut & clothing), which is 100% not the case, and the grasping/entangling hands are very hard to see.

The actual setting is extremely interesting & deserved to be conveyed by the cover: it's a fantasy landscape inspired by South Africa, which took me a while to pick up. Just like our South Africa, the world has a complex, layered history -- in this case of magic, invasion, gods and their deaths, and of how most people are just trying to make their lives among the machinations of the powerful. The *feel* of the history as well as the landscape isn't the usual pseudo-Euroasian, but I don't get the feeling that it maps to the history of southern Africa in any direct way. But it's definitely *different*, which is good.

Karys Eska is bound twice, once to the terrifying eldritch entity Sabaster who gives her the power of a deathspeaker by which she earns her living, and now to the spirit of Ferrian, a wealthy young man who promises he can pay her all the money she needs if she can carry him to safety--inside her head. Her journey to try to release herself from these two bindings is vivid and increasingly complex. The ending is not completely satisfying, and I see that's because she's writing a direct sequel.

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snickfic

Cleaning ALL my non-fandom links out of my to-rec list. Enjoy?

How Nicki Broke the Blueprint (YouTube) by FD Signifier. She's been going ever farther off the deep end the past few years, but damn when she was good, she was good. I really loved this older look at the hip hop landscape at the time she got big, and what she meant to a lot of female hip hop fans at the time.

The Year Without Sunshine by Naomi Kritzer. Short story about mutual aid and community building during an apocalypse. Hopeful.

Older LGBT science fiction database. I've not really explored this yet, but seems cool.

Why the Democratic Tea Party Failed (and How It Could Succeed) (New Republic). What this article says about the giant hole in mainstream normie liberal media has shifted my whole perspective of the political landscape and the barriers we're facing.

Twins’ peaks: The Gilbertson brothers want to rewrite your country’s map (originally NYT). About two mountain climbing brothers who are measuring a bunch of tall peaks with more accurate instruments. A fun coda to all my mountain climbing reading last fall.

What Horrible Things Did We Do To Our Penises Last Year? (Defector). You cannot read these all at once; it'd be like looking into the sun. You have to savor.

‘I can understand being brought to your knees’: Amanda Seyfried on obsession, devotion and the joy of socks (Gaurdian). Really interesting interview Amanda Seyfried and director Mona Fastvold on The Testament of Ann Lee. I read a number of pieces on the movie, but this was my favorite.

pensnest

Lovely rehearsal this evening, with lots of singing, though we did spend a little while working on the new song. When we sang Good Vibrations, we danced!

I didn't go to rehearsal last week because on Wednesday I had to leave my lentil soup and chips rather hurriedly in order to do some highly dramatic vomiting. My ribs hurt all the next day, so I didn't want to sing. Neither my homemade lentil soup nor chips has ever had that effect on me before, and I didn't care for it.

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Yesterday, funeral for one of my chorus members. The chapel was gratifyingly full. I had to stand, not because I was too late for a seat but because a fellow chorus-member was standing next to me and I knew she has back problems. Managed to sing two of the hymns more or less convincingly, but the third I did not know at all. It has been a very long time since I was in church for anything other than tourism or a funeral.

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I have been listening to The Wordsmiths of Gorsemere, the fabulous BBC Radio 4 production featuring Simon Callow as Colerick (or possibly Cholerick) and Miriam Margolees as Stinking Iris. It is very funny indeed. Dorothy Wordsmith is so devoted to William, and his fiancée/wife Mary never gets to finish a phrase. Several literary associates have dropped in to Vole Cottage with varying degrees of success, but Quinine is currently resident there.

It's old but I have been wanting to listen to it for years, and Beast got it for me for Christmas.

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asuraid

i say as if i haven't also posted it here haha, augh. i'm so thankful for the people who have opted to sign up to review the book. i genuinely want my friend to have a success with her second debut (esp since i did the cover art with a full humanoid illustration this time), it's just definitely so hard to get people hooked in if you don't have a giant outreach or money to dump on review sites to try to scrape a few people who may pick up the book, and may review it ...

marketing for books sucks so bad bro. and her previous book only had a 1-star review that was AI generated which completely tanked a lot of the chances of that book (and said person came from a review site!!! i was like wattahell!!! we paid to get reviewers and ur here dumping out stupid shit to inflate ur reviews!!!!!)

it's just so hard to work through the feeling of reaching out and not feeling like i'm shilling myself LOOOL. i gotta make a list of book reviewers to reach out to as well slowly through the month ... the thing is--its more like idm mentioning it once, but having to repost, re-mention things makes me feel insane in bad ways like 'oh god im being fucking annoying' AUSASUAH to be fair im the same w/posting commission info, id rather just post it once and sit and wait (but life doesnt work like that)

(even though i dont think the same of others also reposting commissions/aid posts/other posts of reaching out)

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erinptah

Library hold for The Rose Field came in. The TOC divides it into 3 parts, so this is the liveblog for Part One. Previous HDM-related posts here.

I’m going in mostly-cold. Got spoiled for a few individual details, but the rest, including basically all the actual plot, is a mystery.

When doing the original reactions, I usually don’t stop and rewind the audiobook to make sure all the quotes are exact. For this roundup, I have an ebook version I can text-search, so I’ll try to correct them. Carefully, because I’ve only read chapters 1-17 in total, and don’t want to spoil myself by seeing search results from chapters 18-36.

For visual interest, I’ll throw in some screencaps of relevant people/places/items from the HDM TV series.

Chapters 1-8 ahead:

Rose Field cover art

( Look, I’m connecting some dots here (one of the things that generates Dust is conscious beings using their imagination, the red building is a source of roses whose oil lets you see Dust), but I have no idea how or whether Pan is connecting those dots. )

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I finished books 1-7 of Dungeon Crawler Carl in two weeks, and more importantly I managed to drag both my gf and DD into it too - I think that's one of my strengths :) I had a great time.
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Slight downside, DD and I haven't started our Hades 2 1.0 playthroughs yet, since we planned to start at the same time and she just got to book 6 of DCC ^^ Hopefully soon though.

Instead I played a few runs of Vampire Survivors again. Good for occasional short play sessions that don't require much brainpower (though it is easy to forget to look at the time...) I don't unlock something every run but almost, which feels very cool and like I'm getting somewhere even though I have no idea what to do/where to go for actual game "progression." I might look it up at some point, idk.

(I also considered exploring the new Minecraft updates - I want to find a happy ghast! And ride a nautilus!, among other things - but I lost one set of good armor/tools in the End and another in the Nether a few months ago, and both are very possible to retrieve but I haven't found the motivation yet to either get one of them or make myself new gear. Possibly keepInventory would have been a good idea after all.)

Speaking of games, specifically board games: in early January with L and two of her friends we played Wingspan, which was a lot of fun, and then we tried out Earth, which we also enjoyed a lot. That one we tried first in single player, and then we decided to try the version where you play in teams but quickly switched back because it gets a lot more tactical quickly. The third long game the three of them played was Forest Shuffle - I detect a theme ^^
We also played a quick game of Pandemic. And this reminds me that L and I didn't get a chance to play Hanabi yet, hopefully soon.

It's also been ages since I gave an update on my group's TTRPG games and our current Stars Without Number campaign! We got to level six, which means I can now do "normal" teleports without Committing Effort and it feels fantastic. And I got some other cool abilities too, like imprinting on a party member to teleport back to their side even when they are out of sight.
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I love some green veg at lunch. Commercial frozen green veg are hard as rocks and nastily overcooked. Here’s how I bulk prep fresh swiss chard for my lunches

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Title: January
Author: Grey/Grey853
Fandom: Due South
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Tags: Male Slash, explicit language, explicit sex, alternate universe-canon divergent, case fic
Word Count: 40,274
Summary: In this next step in the Alphabet series, Ray and Ben start the New Year together. Ray wants to become a Canadian. Frannie wants to get married. Ray helps Ben with his case of exotic animal trafficking.

Link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/78962371

Snippet:

″So how much longer?″ Ray clapped his gloved hands together and stomped his feet. He could hardly feel them. ″It’s freezing.″

″It shouldn’t be much longer, Ray. Why don’t you head home? I’ll be there shortly.″

″Not going to happen. I’ll go home when you do.″

Ben smiled and leaned in for a quick kiss, but lingered instead. He rarely did that while on duty, but it was dark out and everyone else was kissing their way into the New Year. Ray gave as good as he got and that was plenty. Pulling back, Ben whispered, ″Happy New Year, Ray.″

″Right back at you. It’s a shame you have to work for a living.″

Ben chuckled. ″I rather enjoyed the fireworks to see in the new year.″

″Who needs fireworks when you’ve got the Northern Lights?″

″I have to agree that the Aurora Borealis is spectacular this time of year. Still, it was a rather excellent pyrotechnic display for the celebration.″

″Wasn’t bad. A little loud. I’m glad we left the dogs at home. Yuki would’ve had a fit.″

″He is rather sensitive to loud noises.″

″Which is ironic considering Dief is as deaf as a door nail.″

″Even so, Diefenbaker takes notice of Yuki’s reactions. Together they can be rather rambunctious. It’s best they’re at home.″

″I think I just said that.″

″So you did.″

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Current Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Current Music: "Dancing in the Dark" by Bruce Spingsteen

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