Daily check-in

Jul. 6th, 2025 08:36 pm
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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 Sunday, July 6, to midnight on Monday, July 7 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33329 Daily check-in poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 1

How are you doing?

I am OK
0 (0.0%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
1 (100.0%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
0 (0.0%)

One other person
0 (0.0%)

More than one other person
1 (100.0%)



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.

Tiny Plastic Souls

Jul. 6th, 2025 07:46 pm
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[personal profile] kalloway
There often comes a point when I'm building a model kit that I realize that ah, I am being watched right back. There is a tiny plastic soul* in there of some sort, and sometimes not quite the one I'm expecting.

The last month or so of model kits/gunpla! )

*which is not to say I think that I think my kits are actually-alive in any way, this is more in the fun way that my aunt and I used to leave offerings of jellybeans for my grandmother's porcelain doll collection so they wouldn't eat us in our sleep.**
**at least I think we weren't serious about that.***
***I should probably email my aunt.
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[personal profile] garryowen posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Star Trek AOS (Reboot)
Pairings/Characters: Kirk/inappropriateness, hints of Kirk/Spock
Rating: Teen +
Length: 3,235 for the fic, 23 minutes for the podfic
Creator Links: [livejournal.com profile] insaneidiot [archiveofourown.org profile] reena_jenkins
Theme: Working Together

Summary: The crew of the Enterprise is subjected to a compulsory seminar on Inappropriate Workplace Behavior, and Jim Kirk finds this to be particularly challenging.

Content notes: In addition to Kirk being inappropriate in the ways one might expect from canon, the seminar leader is stereotyped in a way that might be considered offensive.

Reccer's Notes: I'm reccing both the story and the podfic here because the story is only on LJ, and the writer does not seem to be active anymore. The podficcer, however, is still around, and the pod is hosted on AO3, which may be more accessible for some. It is also the way I first encountered this story.

Now that we have all that out of the way, I can gush about how hilarious this story is because Jim Kirk + Starfleet bullshit is fertile territory, and I always laugh really loudly when listening to the podfic. Jim is so deeply wounded by any attempt to rein in his obnoxiousness, inappropriateness, and mouthiness. The best thing about this fic, though, is Jim's relationship with his crew. Throughout the seminar, we see the dynamics play out, and it becomes clear that the seminar was put together for a very different kind of workplace and a very different kind of crew. As Jim puts it: "All the team unity and 'synergy' exercises in the universe aren’t going to build real trust or strong relationships amongst a crew."

As you might expect, Jim gets kicked down a couple notches by the seminar leader, but the tables turn in an unexpected way by the end of the seminar.

Reena, as usual, does a wonderful job with the podfic.

Fanwork Links: Wrote the Book fic at LJ and Wrote the Book podfic at AO3
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Taken on 28 May 2024 at 21:00 US Eastern Daylight Time:

(Warning for flashing lights and shaky camera.)

Cut. )

(Not included: the sound of passing sirens.)

Taken on 9 June 2024 at 07:21 US Eastern Daylight Time:



Taken on 27 June 2025 at 19:46 US Eastern Daylight Time:



Taken on 27 June 2025 at 19:47 US Eastern Daylight Time:



Taken on 2 July 2025 at 19:43 US Eastern Daylight Time:



This gradually took shape across the parking lot from a local Asian fusion restaurant over 2024; between recovering from Hurricane Ian and the COVID quarantine, changing hands, and changing formats (from the mid-century Cantonese-American the original owners had served for forty years to a pan-Asian combination of sushi, ramen, and Chinese), they’d spent the previous couple years uneasily gaining their bearings.

The garden’s proximity to the street, along with the lack of any obvious receptacle for offerings, makes it clear that this is an ornamental rather than devotional site. (A Web search indicates the presence of a local Buddhist temple, but the address is a private residence, and home worship services are for who they’re for, not for curiosity-gawking spiritual tourists.)

My guess is that the white-flowering shrubs are Star Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides), aka Confederate Jasmine, Chinese Star Jessamine, and Trader’s Compass, native to warm regions in South and East Asia, and widely planted in the Southeastern U.S. The flowers’ heady indolic fragrance is prized in perfumery, but I’m afraid I haven’t the right sensory range to enjoy them.
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[personal profile] yamamanama
Here are some songs. I've got nothing else right now.

Anju - Fall Into Me
Clairo - Slow Dance
Mazzy Star - Still Cold
OK Goodnight - The Falcon
The Shallows - Collider
Godfuck - End of Everything
Lesser Glow - I Am The Island
Billie Eilish - Birds of a Feather
Coral Moons - Jaded
Sleepyhead - Some
Liminal Space - ECILA
Otis Shanty - Daylight Savings
Poppy - They're All Around Us
Atomic Guava - Charon's Lullaby - If you liked OK Goodnight's The Bear and The Mountain, you'll like this.
Sleepwalk Circus - The Start
My Lucky Day - Ameagari
Charli XCX - Apple
Dropbear - Bloodshot Moonlight
Popol Vuh - Mantra I
Heather Maloney - Oh My Green
Sunset Mission - Lunar castellum - someone described this as like The Fox and the Bird’s more mellow songs, like the title track, The Raccoon, The Journey, The Dream, The Bird, The Rain. In fact, the song even ends with the sound of rain but here it sounds like the rain is part of the human world and it follows the rain with crickets and a bit more music.
Rachael McShane - The Molecatcher
Mitski - Francis Forever
Ohio State Fair - Last Time
Acid Mothers Temple - Pink Lady Lemonade: You're From Inner Space
Paper Lady - Amaranth
Katy Rose - Lemon

Dishonorable mention: Kanye West. You know which one I’m talking about. Also, Vox Day is churning about terrible AI music.

burning question: Did Elon really have to use AI instead of using a meme template that already exists? Are we supposed to believe he’s some kind of genius?

Supper

Jul. 6th, 2025 10:11 pm
[personal profile] cosmolinguist

After a lunch I couldn't do more than pick at, and a difficult conversation that both did and didn't surprise me, regarding the particulars of the factually-inaccurate version of me that I already knew lived in someone else's head, and then having to talk to my parents (without being able to tell my mom "that is none of my business" all the time like I wanted to)... By the end of all that it was 8:30 and I was too exhausted to go seek out food even though I needed more food.

So when [personal profile] angelofthenorth offered to make me scrambled eggs on a couple of crumpets... "there's cream in the fridge...with tarragon...and cheese..." I wanted to say no (she's made so much of the food I've eaten lately!) but apparently my facial expression answered for me.

It was delicious and it helped so much.

My head still feels like a browser that has too many tabs open, but at least my body can crash now.

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[personal profile] musesfool
I know I had some stuff I wanted to post about but now I can't remember what it was. Oh well.

I finally watched Captain America: Brave New World and it was fine. spoilers )

*

RIP Julian McMahon and Mark Snow.

*
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[personal profile] hunningham

I do not know what my cat has been up to, but last night was clearly very exciting & maybe stressful.

Today he did not come in until about 11am, and then he came up the stairs very tired, very disheveled and very very wet. And then collapsed dramatically into sleep. No wash & brush up. No catfood. No loud demands for attention. Just thud. Sleep. In the middle of the hall. He got up about mid-day, ate a sachet of catfood with a minimum of fuss, had a little wash and straight back to sleep. And that's been it all day. This afternoon I applied flea treatment to the back of his neck and he did. not. move. (Normally Himself & I do this together because cat is uncooperative)

I really don't know what he's been up to.

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We started our Summer Sleepaway Camp Fundraiser on the first day of Summer 2025, and I'm proud to say that we have managed to reach - and surpass - our goal!

Over the last three weeks, generous donors have stepped forward and together, we have raised $2,187.46 - almost 10% above our goal!  We should be in good form for the next year, but the fundraiser will continue in case anyone wants to donate, with the chance to get either a sticker (with $10 minimum donation) or a t-shirt (with a minimum $100 donation).

Thank you to everyone who has donated, ensuring we can cover our expenses for the next year.  And for those of you who have donated, we will be in touch with outstanding questions like addresses and shirt sizes.
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[personal profile] scruloose and I did make it to the little farmers' market down the road for its opening day of the season, and even managed to get there earlier than later! (I think it's open from 8 to 1, and we probably were there...a bit after 10?)

We made it home with two quarts of strawberries and one of cherries, new potatoes, a dozen eggs, and boneless chicken thighs, plus a bee balm for the garden, which we quickly tucked into a fairly open space in our little garden bed yesterday evening. (What was there before? UNKNOWN. Will I manage to reconstruct it from old posts or something? Also unknown. But hey, a plant!)

Reading: I finished Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi), which was fantastic. On the fiction front, I followed it up with Tamsyn Muir's novella Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower (not really my thing--I continue to rarely bond with novellas, I guess--but interestingly done), Sacha Lamb's When the Angels Left the Old Country (marvelous), and Sofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (again, didn't really bond emotionally, but it executed what it was doing beautifully).

Non-fiction: David Chang and Priya Krishna's Cooking at Home: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Recipes (And Love My Microwave), which is, like...primarily actually a David Chang book that Priya Krishna did a ton of heavy-lifting assisting on (which may be very normal for co-written cookbooks, but in this case she was interjecting and clarifying in her own voice as well as doing a fair bit of the actual writing in his voice, and it was all very transparent that it was being done that way, but also a little odd to read). I think I bought this as a sale ebook before hearing that Chang (the Momofuku guy) is something of an asshole, but then when I was reading it, it felt really promising as a book that might be genuinely useful for me (and even by cookbook standards, its ebook is terribly formatted), so I was pleasantly surprised to readily find a used half-price hard copy available on line, which is winging its way to me now. I've also made sure that Krishna's own Indian-Ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family is now on the wishlist where I keep an eye out for ebook sales.

And now I'm reading An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler, which is a cookbook mostly in the form of essays on cooking as a thoughtful/mindful practice.

Watching: One more Murderbot episode to go in this season, and oh, I hope we get a second one. I'm going to miss this little show.

We finished watching the second season of Kingdom (the historical zombies k-drama), which I found very satisfying. The ending very much sets up a subsequent season, and there's a movie out that fills in the backstory of the person/people we glimpse at the end of season 2 who would presumably be extremely central in any further season, but I don't think we feel inspired to watch said backstory movie unless a third season of the show is ever announced and it becomes relevant in that way.

Rare Male Slash Exchange letter 2025

Jul. 6th, 2025 02:20 pm
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[personal profile] regshoe
Thank you for writing me a fic in one of these lovely rare slash ships! I'm [archiveofourown.org profile] regshoe on AO3. I've said a bit below about what I like about my requested ships and given some prompts, but if you have a completely different idea you want to write, please go for it—I'll look forward to seeing whatever you come up with!

Fandoms are Étoile (TV), Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped - McArthur & McCarthy & Stevenson and The Longest Journey - E. M. Forster )

Media Post

Jul. 6th, 2025 08:09 am
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Movies: Sinners is now on Max/HBO/whatever we're calling it these days, so we watched that last night. A rewatch for Scott, as he saw it in the theatre; I don't go to the movies much these days (spoiled to pause and such) and also, I wasn't sure how gory it was going to be. There's obviously some due to the nature of the movie, but nothing beyond what I could handle.

I thought it was a very well-done movie. Diverse casting is important, so while obviously Black and white folks lived in Mississippi during that time, so did Native American and Asian folks, so it was good to see that recognized. The music was really good; I had not heard of Miles Caton before, but that VOICE - I hope we see more great things from him. (I know this was his first movie, but I also had not heard of him as a musician, either; more's the pity). Michael B. Jordan playing two roles in this movie was great - I know eye candy is not the point here, but it is a bonus (that man is hot, what can I say?)

The end was a little at sea, I think, but overall, I'm really glad that I watched it and I thought it was a interesting take on the vampire genre.

Television/Streaming: last episode of these series of Taskmaster. Will miss them. As I've said every week, they were a fun group.

Books: I finished The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, the second Flavia de Luce novel. Flavia in any other book I think would annoy me to no end, but here she is endearing. I can't explain it. It does take a bit to get to the mystery here, but honestly, I feel like in these books the mystery is secondary to the characters' interactions with each other and Bishop's Lacey as a whole. I will pick up the third one.

I tried picking up various versions of the travels of Ibn Batuta, which has been on my list for a while, but one was super old, so wouldn't have any footnotes on what the modern names of the countries or cities are, and the other, also on Hoopla, had footnotes that weren't linked properly (so when you clicked on them, they took you to the title page). Maddening. I have given up. Hah.

I am now reading The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings for book club. We really thought her debut novel, Lakewood, was well done, so we're excited for this one, which is about witches.

Games: haven't been out much so my Pikmin are languishing a bit. Need to plant some flowers today.

Played some more Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe; am trying to unlock all the levels.

Mostly it's been Virtue's Last Reward, of which I've gotten one of the "official" endings so far. Also have hit some game overs (you lose and are stuck forever) and two that are "to be continued . . . " which I suppose I can go back to after gleaning other information. What I like about this sequel over its predecessor is that you don't have to replay rooms you already played, and you can see the options you already have chosen from the decision tree and can jump back through those at any time if need be. You do occasionally get information that is repeated, especially in the early part of a playthrough - however, you can also fast-forward through the dialogue, which is also helpful.

There was one glitch I found last night, however; normally, you can save right when you get into a room, which is what I was intending to do before dinner and pick up escaping it later. However, the "save" option was greyed out, so I had to play through the entire thing before it would let me save. Very annoying.

Playing it in a world that recently went through a pandemic does hit a little different (the game was released in 2012, and you are playing in the "future" of 2028).

I also started Witchy Life Story on PC, which was part of a cozy bundle of games I got a year or two ago. You play a teen witch who visits the village of Floria to help them with their annual festival (your grandma was going to go, but she sent you instead, I'm guessing to prove yourself). You make potions and interact with villagers. You have a crow familiar that brings you shiny things. It's cute. You can also pick your pronouns and there are some bigger body types to choose from when you create your character.

Season 8 Slashed.

Jul. 6th, 2025 10:06 pm
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[personal profile] magnavox_23
We start the season with Jack O'Neill inside the Daniel Jackson...*bg* where he tinkers with tech, learns all the things, and is Generally almost a wry spark. Back in his body, and expressing his daddyness, Jack finds himself to be The Man, with Daniel as his trusty advisor, confidant and sidepiece kick. As is the way of things, Daniel quickly goes missing offworld, gets kidnapped a few times onworld, on a spaceship, and online... before dying once once? more before the Ancients dump his nakedness right under Jack's nose, as it were. The season ends with some superfluous fishing, as Jack has already (insert your own jokes about bottom fishing, chumming and fingerlings, etc... why am I doing all the work? *g*)

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An icon per episode of Season 8 that both characters were in plus some extras... <3

I am planning to do another set for their appearances together in seasons 6, 9 & 10, Continuum, as well as SGA and SGU, I just need to find screencaps for the later two, if those still exists online.

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[personal profile] full_metal_ox posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: DC Universe; Sandman
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Morpheus, Alan Scott, Tomar-Re, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, OCs by the billions (including Reader?)
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 297
Content Notes: Nothing icky happens, but the story references Neil Gaiman’s Endless mythos;(1) dream transcript.
Creator Links: (Website): https://leighwoosey.co.uk/; (Instagram) [instagram.com profile] leighwoosey; (LiveJournal) [livejournal.com profile] woogledesigns; (Twitter) [twitter.com profile] Leighwoosey

Theme: Working Together, Action/Adventure, Gen, Just Plain Fun, Non-AO3 Fics

Summary: One for Sandman fans: I had a dream of Morpheus, who saw an invasion of earth that would go through the dreaming to reach target. Morpheus, who foresaw the plan even as it was being dreamt up by the aliens, was obligated to mount a defense. He recruited two sleeping Green Lanterns, one of Alan Scott of Earth and one Tomar-Re.

Author’s Notes: People are always telling me to keep a dream diary, this is a concession.

Reccer's Notes: Raw dream content notoriously tends to be some-assembly-required narrative material, but in a 29 August 2010 LiveJournal post(2), Woosey described this downright jackpot he received from Dreamland: a cool premise complete with plot, grand spectacle, a firm grounding in the canon lore (note the smooth incorporation of the various Elseworlds Batman scenarios), implicit invitation to the audience (what would you have been doing during the Big Event?) and a clear if haunting resolution. The title is my own [livejournal.com profile] metaquotes header.

Fanwork Links: We could be heroes, just for one night, by Leigh Woosey.

(1) Note that some commenters envisioned Morpheus from The Matrix.

(2) The entry has since been deleted; archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170821194033/https://woogledesigns.livejournal.com/69811.html

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