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olivermoss* Yes, Firebirds won last night pushing out the series against the Condors by another games so I could watch at least one. And then they won again tonight! Condors eliminated and they are off to face the Reign.
* Watching AHL hockey as an NHL fan is weird. It's like 'yes, keep seasoning your top players, shame if they disappeared forever'. One of the announcers said that the team would look completely different without Jacob Melanson and, yeah, they are right... and sadly for the Firebirds...
* The ONE Condors game I see and no #77 on the ice? No Luke Prokop content for me? Was he a healthy scratch? I was looking forward to watching some gay hockey. ... more gay hockey, I just saw some gay hockey in Seattle. Never enough gay hockey.
* Buffalo was just very mean to Boston. Buffalo is going to be nuts next week with those final game/games of the series. The vibes have got to be insane
* Watching AHL hockey as an NHL fan is weird. It's like 'yes, keep seasoning your top players, shame if they disappeared forever'. One of the announcers said that the team would look completely different without Jacob Melanson and, yeah, they are right... and sadly for the Firebirds...
* The ONE Condors game I see and no #77 on the ice? No Luke Prokop content for me? Was he a healthy scratch? I was looking forward to watching some gay hockey. ... more gay hockey, I just saw some gay hockey in Seattle. Never enough gay hockey.
* Buffalo was just very mean to Boston. Buffalo is going to be nuts next week with those final game/games of the series. The vibes have got to be insane
Poem: "Our Homemade Safety Nets"
Apr. 26th, 2026 09:36 pmysabetwordsmithThis poem came out of the March 17, 2026 Bonus Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "Thread" square in my 3-1-26 card for the National Crafting Month Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by fuzzyred. It belongs to the Mercedes thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.
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dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "Thread" square in my 3-1-26 card for the National Crafting Month Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by fuzzyred. It belongs to the Mercedes thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.( Read more... )
Book Log: Empire of Refugees
Apr. 27th, 2026 10:38 amscaramoucheVladimir Hamed-Troyansky's Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State was a spontaneous get in an unfamiliar topic, and on top of that more of an academic text with dry prose, which made it a bit of a challenging read to get through. When I say "dry" I also mean functional and clear, and it's still a well-written book that lays out its arguments and paints a very thorough picture of the late Ottoman refugee crises and population exchanges with Russia through the end of the Ottoman empire, and with particular focus on North Caucasians and Circassians in particular.
Very new topic to me so a bit of a hurdle in there as well, though I have read about the Ottoman empire before and, well, Armenian genocide and the bad choices through WWI, but this book really delves into a specific topic I didn't know anything about. It's really interesting to look at a time as nation-states were developing and borders hardening, and how that influences choices in which refugees to take and which to reject, and how said refugees were accepted and integrated (well, or badly, or extremely badly) and the political considerations that have so many consequences to today.
Like, of course in the aftermath of various wars, the Ottoman empire would want to get rid of as much of its non-Muslim population and fill that gap with Muslim refugees (or muhajir, as some would describe), with Russia wanting the opposite by getting rid of its unwanted Muslim populations in trade for Christians. It's population manipulation on a grand scale, dressed up in promises of an Islamic empire (dar-al salam) accepting its needy co-religionists into their bosom, but also cold in its usage of those refugees to strengthen borders, improve its tax collection, put pressure on rebellious bedouin, and increase productivity of the land. The implication of the belief coreligionists will be more loyal to the state than not, and is a crucial factor along with ethnicity in actualization of a nation-state -- all elements that play out to painful conclusions through WI and WII, but here are elaborated on in their specificity. The book also argues that some of the mechanisms and lessons these population exchanges were used in later population exchanges after WWI, up to the India-Pakistan Partition.
The book also zooms down, to the human cost of these population exchanges, of what people sacrificed (if they went willingly), of what people did to survive and sometimes thrive, of the desperate attempts to hold on to family and cultural heritage through these upheavals, of those who fled their homelands but returned. Surviving letters are used to flesh these stories out, and the book specifically uses three case studies of North Caucasian refugee areas, with the Balkans representing an area that failed in many ways, and the Levant as an area that succeeded greatly, in part because of the Hijaz railway that allowed economic prosperity up to the future nation-state existence of Jordan (whose current capital is a former refugee site). Interesting stuff, though a little overwhelming in its newness to me.
Very new topic to me so a bit of a hurdle in there as well, though I have read about the Ottoman empire before and, well, Armenian genocide and the bad choices through WWI, but this book really delves into a specific topic I didn't know anything about. It's really interesting to look at a time as nation-states were developing and borders hardening, and how that influences choices in which refugees to take and which to reject, and how said refugees were accepted and integrated (well, or badly, or extremely badly) and the political considerations that have so many consequences to today.
Like, of course in the aftermath of various wars, the Ottoman empire would want to get rid of as much of its non-Muslim population and fill that gap with Muslim refugees (or muhajir, as some would describe), with Russia wanting the opposite by getting rid of its unwanted Muslim populations in trade for Christians. It's population manipulation on a grand scale, dressed up in promises of an Islamic empire (dar-al salam) accepting its needy co-religionists into their bosom, but also cold in its usage of those refugees to strengthen borders, improve its tax collection, put pressure on rebellious bedouin, and increase productivity of the land. The implication of the belief coreligionists will be more loyal to the state than not, and is a crucial factor along with ethnicity in actualization of a nation-state -- all elements that play out to painful conclusions through WI and WII, but here are elaborated on in their specificity. The book also argues that some of the mechanisms and lessons these population exchanges were used in later population exchanges after WWI, up to the India-Pakistan Partition.
The book also zooms down, to the human cost of these population exchanges, of what people sacrificed (if they went willingly), of what people did to survive and sometimes thrive, of the desperate attempts to hold on to family and cultural heritage through these upheavals, of those who fled their homelands but returned. Surviving letters are used to flesh these stories out, and the book specifically uses three case studies of North Caucasian refugee areas, with the Balkans representing an area that failed in many ways, and the Levant as an area that succeeded greatly, in part because of the Hijaz railway that allowed economic prosperity up to the future nation-state existence of Jordan (whose current capital is a former refugee site). Interesting stuff, though a little overwhelming in its newness to me.
3W4DW Icon Request Fest 2026
Apr. 26th, 2026 10:33 pmreeby10
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3weeks4dreamwidth this year, I thought it would be fun to run an icon request fest! I'm largely basing this on the one run on smallbatchicons by goodbyebird in 2022. Thanks for the inspo!The Basics
- Anyone is welcome to join in to request and/or fill.
- This fest is open to any fandoms and stock.
- If you're interested in filling requests, you might want to track the comments on this post.
- Comments on icons are always appreciated, and be sure the credit the maker if you snag an icon.
- All icons will be sharable and usable by anyone.
- Requests are open through May 15.
The more the merrier! Here is code for sharing this fest at your own journal if you'd like:
New verses in "No Faster or Firmer Friendships"
Apr. 26th, 2026 09:12 pmysabetwordsmithThanks to a donation from fuzzyred, there are 50 new verses in "No Faster or Firmer Friendships." Josué and Maria-Vera begin reading The Last Calabash together, a story about family loss and recovery.
fuzzyred, there are 50 new verses in "No Faster or Firmer Friendships." Josué and Maria-Vera begin reading The Last Calabash together, a story about family loss and recovery.AO3 spam, more AI toy fails, the myth of Mythos, and other LLM news
Apr. 26th, 2026 10:00 pmerinptahOfficial AO3 newspost: “Below is a list of different types of spam comments that have been posted on AO3 over the last year. […] None of the accusations these spam comments make are true. The bots are merely spamming false accusations in order to alarm or harass AO3 users. It is generally safe to ignore these comments once you’ve removed and/or reported them as outlined below.”
“When one five-year-old said, “I love you,” to the toy, it replied: “As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed.”” (This article claims professionals are “divided” over the potential of LLM toys…even though they only managed to find professionals who say the toys are bad for kids.)
“Back in August of last year, Grammarly shipped a feature called Expert Review, which allowed you to get writing suggestions from AI-cloned “experts,” and reporters at The Verge and other outlets discovered that those experts included us. It included me. […] I’ve been an editor for over 15 years. I’ve literally never said anything like that.“
“Ikonomou emailed the journal on September 23 requesting the removal of the article and also asked for an explanation for “how this submission was accepted given the fake email address and affiliation.” On October 6, a representative from the publisher named Dwayne Harrison emailed back saying the journal would need a “confirmation regarding the withdrawal charges,” telling Ikonomou he would have to pay a fee.“
“There were several other instances where it wrote c++ code that was technically correct, but horrible inefficient […] I also had a instance where a file was being read from the wrong path and instead of prepending the right path it tried to completely rewrite my library. Ironically it also had a problem with const. It recompiled the program three times randomly changing where const appeared. I feel for ya. I have spent a lot time over this experiment correcting AI.“
“Last week, Anthropic surprised the world by declaring that its latest model, Mythos, is so good at finding vulns that it would create chaos if released. […] But just how many problems have they really discovered? According to VulnCheck researcher Patrick Garrity, the answer is…drumroll…maybe 40. Or maybe none at all.”
“The flagship demonstration document [of “Mythos”] turns out to be like the ending of the Wizard of Oz, a sorry disappointment about a model weaponizing two bugs that a different model found, in software the vendor had already patched, in a test environment with the browser sandbox and defense-in-depth mitigations stripped out. Anthropic failed, and somehow the story was flipped into a warning about its success. Whomp. Whomp. Sad trombone.“
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Apr. 26th, 2026 05:59 pmolivermossI am back from the final game of the Torrent's inaugural season. The worst season of any team in PWHL history! Sold out crowd at an area 2-3x the size some other teams even get. I may make a separate post about the team's problems and the issues that could create for the league, but I am going to try to ignore that. Just hard today after some player statements today in their exit interviews >.>
I went up on the bus that Sports Bra charted for the game. The bus had a bit of a wait list. Good thing I kept an eye on that and nabbed my seat immediately. The group for the bus was really cool. I sat next to a girl was was knitting scarves for the trinket exchange people do at Torrent games. (I'd hope to do that but my project did not come together...) Half way through the ride she knotted some yarn to make a little holder for her cell phone to hook on the back of the seat in front of her so she could watch the Goldeneyes at the Frost on her way to see the Victoire take on the Torrent.
My first visit to Climate Pledge Arena, the place I've seen on TV so often! I thought my seat would be pretty bad, but it was great. People who say there are no bad seats in that house might not be wrong. My cheap seat was waaaay better than I expected.
The food situation was dire. Well, when we arrived my priority was trying to get some of the PWHL Pride Collection, only being sold at pride nights at pride games. Teams have been struggling to meet demand for even basic generic shirts, so I expected stuff to sell out and it did. Even with our bus dropping us off at the lesser-used entrance and not having a bag at all, sizes where gone by the time I got the merch.
I did get some, but when I got it home I realize it's all too big. There was no way to try things on, sizing was wonky overall, and I got that sweatshirt in the smallest size they had left. I wasn't going to get the sweatshirt, but other people had nabbed it and put it on already, and it seemed to wear really nicely on them, especially the trim around the waist. It's too big on me, not in an intentionally-oversized way, but it's still a sweatshirt disappointing but I can get some use out of it. The T shirts are a problem. I grabbed it in 2 sizes and both are two big for me, but I am pretty sure a size smaller would have been too small. I need to figure out what to do with them, sadly even the smaller one makes me look like I am wearing scrubs. Maybe if I figure out how to style them right? Might need to just use the larger one as raw material for something.
If I can make these pieces work, they will solve several problems with my wardrobe, including my perennial 'what to wear to pride / this queer event' problem. They are currently air drying after a very gentle wash to get the stadium smell out of them. I will find a way. I paid [redacted] for them PLUS this thing called sales tax that I forgot about.
Yeah, if I hadn't been so focused on the exclusive drop and also team store exclusives, I might have found a food option that wasn't... beer.
The game was a lot of fun. The crowd was hype. For the puck drop, they started listing the accomplishments and awards of the person who was going to drop the puck. People around me started freaking out. Lots of 'no way... no way... omg really... it's her!!!!' The very hype person brought out for the ceremonial first puck drop of the Pride Night game turned out to be Brandi Carlile. I have no idea who that is. Everyone around me was losing their shit. I will look up some songs by her later.
The game did go double overtime. The bus service we had was great, but around 1 AM I was feeling it a bit.
Really, really hope to see more of those buses next year! Also, with Amtrak finally getting more rolling stock so they can start to meet demand for train travel between Seattle and Portland, maybe train/ticket combo packages for both teams next year?? One of the PDX teams has an Amtrak deal so fans all ride down together, would love to see the squids or toothpaste get in on that.
Also, I was in the same building as Alison Lukan. I <3 Alison Lukan. Maybe someday I'll meet her. I'd love for her to be involved in one of the Kraken or Torrent events in Portland next season
I went up on the bus that Sports Bra charted for the game. The bus had a bit of a wait list. Good thing I kept an eye on that and nabbed my seat immediately. The group for the bus was really cool. I sat next to a girl was was knitting scarves for the trinket exchange people do at Torrent games. (I'd hope to do that but my project did not come together...) Half way through the ride she knotted some yarn to make a little holder for her cell phone to hook on the back of the seat in front of her so she could watch the Goldeneyes at the Frost on her way to see the Victoire take on the Torrent.
My first visit to Climate Pledge Arena, the place I've seen on TV so often! I thought my seat would be pretty bad, but it was great. People who say there are no bad seats in that house might not be wrong. My cheap seat was waaaay better than I expected.
The food situation was dire. Well, when we arrived my priority was trying to get some of the PWHL Pride Collection, only being sold at pride nights at pride games. Teams have been struggling to meet demand for even basic generic shirts, so I expected stuff to sell out and it did. Even with our bus dropping us off at the lesser-used entrance and not having a bag at all, sizes where gone by the time I got the merch.
I did get some, but when I got it home I realize it's all too big. There was no way to try things on, sizing was wonky overall, and I got that sweatshirt in the smallest size they had left. I wasn't going to get the sweatshirt, but other people had nabbed it and put it on already, and it seemed to wear really nicely on them, especially the trim around the waist. It's too big on me, not in an intentionally-oversized way, but it's still a sweatshirt disappointing but I can get some use out of it. The T shirts are a problem. I grabbed it in 2 sizes and both are two big for me, but I am pretty sure a size smaller would have been too small. I need to figure out what to do with them, sadly even the smaller one makes me look like I am wearing scrubs. Maybe if I figure out how to style them right? Might need to just use the larger one as raw material for something.
If I can make these pieces work, they will solve several problems with my wardrobe, including my perennial 'what to wear to pride / this queer event' problem. They are currently air drying after a very gentle wash to get the stadium smell out of them. I will find a way. I paid [redacted] for them PLUS this thing called sales tax that I forgot about.
Yeah, if I hadn't been so focused on the exclusive drop and also team store exclusives, I might have found a food option that wasn't... beer.
The game was a lot of fun. The crowd was hype. For the puck drop, they started listing the accomplishments and awards of the person who was going to drop the puck. People around me started freaking out. Lots of 'no way... no way... omg really... it's her!!!!' The very hype person brought out for the ceremonial first puck drop of the Pride Night game turned out to be Brandi Carlile. I have no idea who that is. Everyone around me was losing their shit. I will look up some songs by her later.
The game did go double overtime. The bus service we had was great, but around 1 AM I was feeling it a bit.
Really, really hope to see more of those buses next year! Also, with Amtrak finally getting more rolling stock so they can start to meet demand for train travel between Seattle and Portland, maybe train/ticket combo packages for both teams next year?? One of the PDX teams has an Amtrak deal so fans all ride down together, would love to see the squids or toothpaste get in on that.
Also, I was in the same building as Alison Lukan. I <3 Alison Lukan. Maybe someday I'll meet her. I'd love for her to be involved in one of the Kraken or Torrent events in Portland next season
🌈GL Manga Check-in: "Ouji-sama Nante Iranai" ch. 23-30
Apr. 26th, 2026 07:57 pmbluapapilio[Previous]
Chapter 23: Lol at Misa being the token het. Exam season is coming and Nobara has deplorable grades;;
Chapter 24: Nobara has unexpected strong points, English and Italian.
Yukino introducing Nobara to dagashi (cheap sweets). 😂 Cheap doesn't always mean nasty, thankfully.
So sweeet, more than the snacks, Nobara wants to go out with Yukino.
Chapter 25: Yukino and Ookami made top 20 on the exams!
Lmao at Okisaki getting jealous over Kinoshita's roommate (I forgot her name).
Aw Nobara got slightly above average. <3
Chapter 26: Casual clothes!!
Sounds like Ookami's parents are absent. I nearly teared up when Yukino invited her to have her birthday over summer break at her place. Yes!! And they'll go to a festival too!!! This is healing my soul.
Chapter 27: Aw, Botan got into dagashi because of Nobara sharing after Yukino told her to try. <3
Chapter 28-29: Summer vacay and camps. Lol at Yukino's tomato shirt. Nobara charging up on Yukino so they won't see each for five days. 🥹
...Except they somehow got booked at the same place. *side-eyes Okisaki*
Chapter 30: Finally some info on Kinoshita and Okisaki. They were childhood friends. Okisaki's parents were absent and she couldn't trust kids who tried to befriend her because their parents forced them. People found her creepy because she acted older than her age and didn't show much emotion. She also has a sadistic side that likes to see Kinoshita suffer sometimes...
it's 8pm and the last bit of twilight still lingers
Apr. 26th, 2026 06:45 pmshadarasso the last time I posted here was at the beginning of the month, hm. well! hello, I still exist!
1.
I've been at a different work site for 2.5wks, which was a lovely break. Chill worksite, small job; just me and one journeyman who I enjoy working with. He was like "this is one of the best jobs I've ever worked" about it, which is a wild contrast to how the big job we'd both been working (and are returning to tomorrow) is one of the worst.
The little job isn't fully done, but we can't do anything else until they get all the remaining parts in. The hope is that when that happens (in a month, maybe...? nobody had estimates.) they'll call us back to finish it, since we know what's going on and what the plan was. This is especially pertinent because we were not given particularly detailed plans, and then proceeded to change a lot of it (memorably: one unit we were supposed to install couldn't be installed where they wanted it because of service requirements, so it had to be flipped and therefore everything coming from it had to be re-routed to accommodate that).
also, we just want to go back, since it was a nice job.
Back to the big job tomorrow, and...
well, not looking forward to it. In theory it'll wrap at some point this summer. idk when. But it's a job site where everyone always seems stressed and that trickles down and makes it so much harder than it needs to be.
(also, like, having lunch at 10:30am as the only break in the day is. not ideal? yes we get out at 2:30 but man the clock usually feels so slow between 11am-2pm...)
2.
I drew a cover for On the Lord's Estate the other week!
Left to right: Mal, El, and Benny.
I've known more or less what I wanted to draw for bk2 since... mm, the halfway mark of writing it, maybe? Important to have all three of them together, important to show Mal happy, important to place it in the conservatory. I'm very happy with how it came out—especially Mal. <3 Mal turned out just as I was hoping as far as expression/vibe goes.
This also means thathafnia and I have started posting bk3! Of the Lord's Family is the happy ending. <3 featuring healthy communication, family feelings (if the title wasn't a giveaway), and everyone settling into their lives. It'll be the end of this trilogy, and then it'll be time for various stories about the kids.
(which means more thinking about what I want to do with Rhei, and also continuing to noodle about Tolly... many ideas, only so much time and energy, but also no rush beyond my own internal "BUT I WANNA HAVE THIS DONE SOONER" feelings. xD)
3.
I've been keeping up with the new Star Wars cartoon Maul: Shadow Lord, and it is such a funny example of Disney Star Wars Overconnected Bullshit in a few very specific ways.
a. No characters are really introduced. You are expected to simply already know who they are. Even as someone who has watched pretty much all the Star Wars cartoons, I was not aware of who some characters were because some of them were introduced in comics about Maul. (Additionally: the prequel comic series for this show has 2/5 issues out as of right now, as the show airs. I think this is hilarious.) HOWEVER.
b. Even the characters who were not previously introduced are given particularly in-depth introductions. This is mostly confusing because I expected them to be introduced somewhere, since it took until episode three for two major characters to have their names spoken on-screen. Their names have been known via promo material? But didn't show up in the show? This is fine if it's intentional but it's so weird when it's the same vibes as characters who were introduced in comics.
c. I mean this isn't a Disney problem specifically but it sure is very Star Wars: There is only one (1) prominent female character, one (1) prominent secondary female character, and one (1) tertiary female character allowed at a time. It was honestly really funny when the tertiary character got Sent Away and then a new tertiary female character showed up a couple scenes later?
anyway I like it well enough when it's not Fight Scenes, and sort of don't care when it's Fight Scenes, but since it's a show for like tweens I think it's forced to have Fight Scenes in every episode. Which, like, that's fine but I find it more fun to watch Maul attempt to seduce everyone into helping him than I do watching the flashy lights show of a combat sequence involving blasters and/or lightsabers.
4.
It is finally spring. Flowers are blooming, the trees are turning green with new leaves, and the weather is consistently above freezing! These are all good things!
5.
anyway while I'm thinking about it, right, I meant to post this (which I wrote like a month ago at least) and now I have! Mouse! :D
The Question of Crushes, 2.4k, gen, wherein a teenager is interrogated by a like eight year old about if they have a crush on the kid's oldest sibling.
1.
I've been at a different work site for 2.5wks, which was a lovely break. Chill worksite, small job; just me and one journeyman who I enjoy working with. He was like "this is one of the best jobs I've ever worked" about it, which is a wild contrast to how the big job we'd both been working (and are returning to tomorrow) is one of the worst.
The little job isn't fully done, but we can't do anything else until they get all the remaining parts in. The hope is that when that happens (in a month, maybe...? nobody had estimates.) they'll call us back to finish it, since we know what's going on and what the plan was. This is especially pertinent because we were not given particularly detailed plans, and then proceeded to change a lot of it (memorably: one unit we were supposed to install couldn't be installed where they wanted it because of service requirements, so it had to be flipped and therefore everything coming from it had to be re-routed to accommodate that).
also, we just want to go back, since it was a nice job.
Back to the big job tomorrow, and...
well, not looking forward to it. In theory it'll wrap at some point this summer. idk when. But it's a job site where everyone always seems stressed and that trickles down and makes it so much harder than it needs to be.
(also, like, having lunch at 10:30am as the only break in the day is. not ideal? yes we get out at 2:30 but man the clock usually feels so slow between 11am-2pm...)
2.
I drew a cover for On the Lord's Estate the other week!
[Click to View Image]
Left to right: Mal, El, and Benny.
I've known more or less what I wanted to draw for bk2 since... mm, the halfway mark of writing it, maybe? Important to have all three of them together, important to show Mal happy, important to place it in the conservatory. I'm very happy with how it came out—especially Mal. <3 Mal turned out just as I was hoping as far as expression/vibe goes.
This also means that
hafnia and I have started posting bk3! Of the Lord's Family is the happy ending. <3 featuring healthy communication, family feelings (if the title wasn't a giveaway), and everyone settling into their lives. It'll be the end of this trilogy, and then it'll be time for various stories about the kids.(which means more thinking about what I want to do with Rhei, and also continuing to noodle about Tolly... many ideas, only so much time and energy, but also no rush beyond my own internal "BUT I WANNA HAVE THIS DONE SOONER" feelings. xD)
3.
I've been keeping up with the new Star Wars cartoon Maul: Shadow Lord, and it is such a funny example of Disney Star Wars Overconnected Bullshit in a few very specific ways.
a. No characters are really introduced. You are expected to simply already know who they are. Even as someone who has watched pretty much all the Star Wars cartoons, I was not aware of who some characters were because some of them were introduced in comics about Maul. (Additionally: the prequel comic series for this show has 2/5 issues out as of right now, as the show airs. I think this is hilarious.) HOWEVER.
b. Even the characters who were not previously introduced are given particularly in-depth introductions. This is mostly confusing because I expected them to be introduced somewhere, since it took until episode three for two major characters to have their names spoken on-screen. Their names have been known via promo material? But didn't show up in the show? This is fine if it's intentional but it's so weird when it's the same vibes as characters who were introduced in comics.
c. I mean this isn't a Disney problem specifically but it sure is very Star Wars: There is only one (1) prominent female character, one (1) prominent secondary female character, and one (1) tertiary female character allowed at a time. It was honestly really funny when the tertiary character got Sent Away and then a new tertiary female character showed up a couple scenes later?
anyway I like it well enough when it's not Fight Scenes, and sort of don't care when it's Fight Scenes, but since it's a show for like tweens I think it's forced to have Fight Scenes in every episode. Which, like, that's fine but I find it more fun to watch Maul attempt to seduce everyone into helping him than I do watching the flashy lights show of a combat sequence involving blasters and/or lightsabers.
4.
It is finally spring. Flowers are blooming, the trees are turning green with new leaves, and the weather is consistently above freezing! These are all good things!
5.
anyway while I'm thinking about it, right, I meant to post this (which I wrote like a month ago at least) and now I have! Mouse! :D
The Question of Crushes, 2.4k, gen, wherein a teenager is interrogated by a like eight year old about if they have a crush on the kid's oldest sibling.
they must have some sort of SAD lamp lighting on b5, right
Apr. 26th, 2026 10:04 amwychwoodIt's 3weeks4dreamwidth time! I'm not sure how much I have to contribute (and I already know that I'm never going to succeed at any sort of "post every day" routine), but I'm enjoying seeing other people's posts about it.
This has been an entirely delightful weekend of doing basically nothing; I did a handful of one-off tiny tasks, which is always very satisfying (e.g. Tesco finally brought me the funnel I had ordered, so I decanted shower gel from the big tub I used to capture the contents of the leaking shower gel refill packet a few months back into saved and washed-out shower gel bottles) and the laundry, but that was about it. I do need to get back into doing the washing up more-or-less every day, though; after three days of avoidance I forced myself to do it this afternoon, but only had space for half on the draining board, so it's all to do again tomorrow...
But the weather has been beautiful (I've had all the windows open except when I was out at church) and I have done some pleasant reading, including some fanfic and most of the Tablet backlog, and I've done another grocery shop because I suddenly realised that my entire fruit and veg stock was down to two-thirds of a cabbage and some apples, and I played some more Terra Nil, and I have not touched any of the obligations I might have done, and sometimes that is just what I want from a weekend.
And then tonight it's "Signs and Portents" and shit is about to get real on Babylon 5. Excited to see it!
3weeks4dreamwidth time! I'm not sure how much I have to contribute (and I already know that I'm never going to succeed at any sort of "post every day" routine), but I'm enjoying seeing other people's posts about it.This has been an entirely delightful weekend of doing basically nothing; I did a handful of one-off tiny tasks, which is always very satisfying (e.g. Tesco finally brought me the funnel I had ordered, so I decanted shower gel from the big tub I used to capture the contents of the leaking shower gel refill packet a few months back into saved and washed-out shower gel bottles) and the laundry, but that was about it. I do need to get back into doing the washing up more-or-less every day, though; after three days of avoidance I forced myself to do it this afternoon, but only had space for half on the draining board, so it's all to do again tomorrow...
But the weather has been beautiful (I've had all the windows open except when I was out at church) and I have done some pleasant reading, including some fanfic and most of the Tablet backlog, and I've done another grocery shop because I suddenly realised that my entire fruit and veg stock was down to two-thirds of a cabbage and some apples, and I played some more Terra Nil, and I have not touched any of the obligations I might have done, and sometimes that is just what I want from a weekend.
And then tonight it's "Signs and Portents" and shit is about to get real on Babylon 5. Excited to see it!
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Apr. 26th, 2026 06:47 pmprincessal posting in vkotdChallenge: Never Before Seen
Warnings: It's not particularly graphic but they do kill Naoto in this one. lol
Comment: A somewhat jazzy and very gay classic off Virgin, which remains my favorite album. I always love it when Jyou and Miko do a duet, and with the phantom thief theme this song has going on, I feel like Miko's channeling Fujiko Mine a bit. So fun!!
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Apr. 26th, 2026 03:31 pmgreghousesgfI had so much fun yesterday! I went to a whole bunch of bookstores and I got a couple of books and they were giving out snacks and I entered a few raffles and they were doing karaoke at Green Apple at the end of the run (which I participated in). Green Apple is my favorite second hand bookstore and they always have the most fun stuff on Indy Bookstore Day, I've gotten everything from free tequila shots to John Lennon buttons to tarot readings there at both branches. I only went to the 9th Avenue branch yesterday because there wasn't time to go to both. They were selling a Yellow Submarine poster at Moe's I really wanted but I was going all over the place taking public transit with a backpack which is fine for books but a bit risky for posters.
Then I got home and somebody pulled the fire alarm in the middle of the damn night. Earlier this afternoon I was trying to ask around to see if there was actually a fire but all I was able to find out is one of my neighbors' has a very stupid daughter who apparently thought it was more important to lecture me about Jesus than whether there was a fire or not. I knew she was a dumbass because I got on the elevator with her while I was wearing a bathing suit, dripping wet and carrying a towel and she asked me if I had been swimming!
Then I got home and somebody pulled the fire alarm in the middle of the damn night. Earlier this afternoon I was trying to ask around to see if there was actually a fire but all I was able to find out is one of my neighbors' has a very stupid daughter who apparently thought it was more important to lecture me about Jesus than whether there was a fire or not. I knew she was a dumbass because I got on the elevator with her while I was wearing a bathing suit, dripping wet and carrying a towel and she asked me if I had been swimming!
"you don't give up so easily, that's how I know you won't surrender me" (dar williams)
Apr. 26th, 2026 05:54 pmstarandreaIt's been a little dry here, to the point where I've been wondering: will I have to start watering the gardens in April?? But today I noticed the daffodils are shriveling as soon as they try to open and the poor Icelandic poppy is fading again, plus I'd been meaning to put more water on the transplanted blueberries, so hose time has arrived.
I got the front and back hoses hooked up, and I brought out the hose butler for the fence gardens. Then since I was there anyway I watered some of the shade garden, and I've left the long hose out there because I spotted my neighbor pulling out pachysandra. I asked if he was going to throw it away, and when he said yes I asked if I could have it. So now I have a cart full of pachysandra and a new plan for the evening.
What I do not have is groceries, but that's really not as important as plants, so.
I got a couple more mesh protectors set up for my winter sown seedlings, just to keep the squirrels out when I take the tops off to give them fresh air and extra sunshine. I watered the greenhouse houseplants and didn't entirely forget that I have a couple of coreopsis still in the canna greenhouse (in the sense that I walked past it, thought "oh right," and kept going).
Now I'm pondering an Untamed series about the cave under the cold springs (still a little puzzled about the geology of that area) based onlilly_c's ficlet a day prompts for 3weeks4dreamwidth. That would be fun, although though I have no idea what would happen in it. But the cave is both pretty and magical, and that goes a long way.
Daphne says I'll be taking her out first. Then probably the pachysandra. Then... not groceries, I'm guessing. So writing, clearly.
I got the front and back hoses hooked up, and I brought out the hose butler for the fence gardens. Then since I was there anyway I watered some of the shade garden, and I've left the long hose out there because I spotted my neighbor pulling out pachysandra. I asked if he was going to throw it away, and when he said yes I asked if I could have it. So now I have a cart full of pachysandra and a new plan for the evening.
What I do not have is groceries, but that's really not as important as plants, so.
I got a couple more mesh protectors set up for my winter sown seedlings, just to keep the squirrels out when I take the tops off to give them fresh air and extra sunshine. I watered the greenhouse houseplants and didn't entirely forget that I have a couple of coreopsis still in the canna greenhouse (in the sense that I walked past it, thought "oh right," and kept going).
Now I'm pondering an Untamed series about the cave under the cold springs (still a little puzzled about the geology of that area) based on
lilly_c's ficlet a day prompts for 3weeks4dreamwidth. That would be fun, although though I have no idea what would happen in it. But the cave is both pretty and magical, and that goes a long way.Daphne says I'll be taking her out first. Then probably the pachysandra. Then... not groceries, I'm guessing. So writing, clearly.
