May. 29th, 2025 09:49 pm
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sholioAppleTV posted the full credits for "The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon," Murderbot's show-within-a-show. 10/10 no notes.
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May. 30th, 2025 04:00 am
Girl Genius for Friday, May 30, 2025
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May. 29th, 2025 11:29 pm
Anyone seen my lungs?
cornerofmadnessI coughed them out and they ran away. I can't say as I blame them.
I'll be hosting write every day starting in June so a) feel free to join us. b) I'll probably be posting two posts a day, just warning you (but seriously, do join us, the more the merrier)
Speaking of joining let me share my community recs for the week. There is a new one starting up, a multi-fandom one![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
seasons_of_fandom It seems rather involved so you're better off reading their sticky post than listening to me babble.
And resharingrewrite_a_fic mostly because I'm sure I'm not the only one out there with old fanfic that you might want to reedit and reshare. I started with one of my old Buffy stories (which are the ones I've been trying to get up on AO3 and got derailed by newer fandoms about 5 years ago) Unfortunately the Buffy story I selected really didn't need much other than some grammar clean up so I don't think it counts as a rewrite.
Today was my writers' zoom meeting and I finished my supernatural infestation story. I need to knock out 200 words. I need a beta reader for this one I think. I also worked on a couple other things.
And I got my cryptid story back to the publisher. So I'm good.
I'll be hosting write every day starting in June so a) feel free to join us. b) I'll probably be posting two posts a day, just warning you (but seriously, do join us, the more the merrier)
Speaking of joining let me share my community recs for the week. There is a new one starting up, a multi-fandom one
seasons_of_fandom It seems rather involved so you're better off reading their sticky post than listening to me babble.And resharing
rewrite_a_fic mostly because I'm sure I'm not the only one out there with old fanfic that you might want to reedit and reshare. I started with one of my old Buffy stories (which are the ones I've been trying to get up on AO3 and got derailed by newer fandoms about 5 years ago) Unfortunately the Buffy story I selected really didn't need much other than some grammar clean up so I don't think it counts as a rewrite.Today was my writers' zoom meeting and I finished my supernatural infestation story. I need to knock out 200 words. I need a beta reader for this one I think. I also worked on a couple other things.
And I got my cryptid story back to the publisher. So I'm good.
May. 29th, 2025 08:57 pm
spring in Dairyland
chanter1944A few small but significant warm fuzzies from my corner of the isthmus, because why not?
My winter thyme (insert temporality jokes here, I already have) is happy, as is the pineapple sage. The [vehement swearing redacted] squirrels are still digging in my daylily pot, but the daylily doesn't seem to be too bothered. And both my spinach and dill are growing so well they need harvesting; the dill's getting long, and the spinach is flourishing in all directions. :)
We may, and I'm not certain I can be sure without a visual ID, have a northern mockingbird in the area! I didn't think we got them this far west, but I was absolutely hearing snippets of multiple other birds' songs in succession - cardinal, robin, house finch - from exactly the same location, none of them duplicated in full. Next time I hear whoever that is, I'll call AIRA and see if they can pin down a visual. I wish them luck searching through the local trees. :P
Blooming lilacs are a joy all their own. Sniff sniff sniffity sniiiiiff. :D
And speaking of sniffing. On my usual lunch break walk, I met a passerby going in the other direction, clearly accompanied by at least one puppydog. I melted, asked if I could say hi, and got an affirmative, but a warning that both (!) dogs were bouncy friendlies with a tendency to jump for joy. I took a guess, said they sounded like retrievers, and yep! Two goldens, neither very old. One was just a year, which is absolutely still a puppy when you're a retriever, and particularly when you're a golden goofball. I said as much to said teenage floof, while snuggling him and getting licked in the face. Awww. They were both super sweet, which... well, retrievers. <3 My day was brightened, which is also not unexpected when retrievers are around.
My winter thyme (insert temporality jokes here, I already have) is happy, as is the pineapple sage. The [vehement swearing redacted] squirrels are still digging in my daylily pot, but the daylily doesn't seem to be too bothered. And both my spinach and dill are growing so well they need harvesting; the dill's getting long, and the spinach is flourishing in all directions. :)
We may, and I'm not certain I can be sure without a visual ID, have a northern mockingbird in the area! I didn't think we got them this far west, but I was absolutely hearing snippets of multiple other birds' songs in succession - cardinal, robin, house finch - from exactly the same location, none of them duplicated in full. Next time I hear whoever that is, I'll call AIRA and see if they can pin down a visual. I wish them luck searching through the local trees. :P
Blooming lilacs are a joy all their own. Sniff sniff sniffity sniiiiiff. :D
And speaking of sniffing. On my usual lunch break walk, I met a passerby going in the other direction, clearly accompanied by at least one puppydog. I melted, asked if I could say hi, and got an affirmative, but a warning that both (!) dogs were bouncy friendlies with a tendency to jump for joy. I took a guess, said they sounded like retrievers, and yep! Two goldens, neither very old. One was just a year, which is absolutely still a puppy when you're a retriever, and particularly when you're a golden goofball. I said as much to said teenage floof, while snuggling him and getting licked in the face. Awww. They were both super sweet, which... well, retrievers. <3 My day was brightened, which is also not unexpected when retrievers are around.
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May. 29th, 2025 09:09 pm
Daily Check In
May. 29th, 2025 09:08 pm
Wishful Thinking (part 7 of ?)
dialecticdreamerWishful Thinking
By Sarah Williams
Part 7 of ?
Word count (story only): 1097
[Landing #7, day 2, evening]
:: After a long day, the Ashton family, and Backstep, are sitting down to dinner. Conversation turns to longer term plans. Part of the Sidestep Travelers universe. ::
The dark haired man took long, utterly silent strides to the front door. “You should let him in,” Zipper suggested. “Juan Carlos is overcautious and safety-minded, but you’ll need to warn him not to display weapons in front of the children,” the curly-haired man finished quietly.
Arthur stepped close, opening the door a bare inch. “Yes?”
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By Sarah Williams
Part 7 of ?
Word count (story only): 1097
[Landing #7, day 2, evening]
:: After a long day, the Ashton family, and Backstep, are sitting down to dinner. Conversation turns to longer term plans. Part of the Sidestep Travelers universe. ::
The dark haired man took long, utterly silent strides to the front door. “You should let him in,” Zipper suggested. “Juan Carlos is overcautious and safety-minded, but you’ll need to warn him not to display weapons in front of the children,” the curly-haired man finished quietly.
Arthur stepped close, opening the door a bare inch. “Yes?”
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May. 29th, 2025 05:50 pm
Did some writing...
hrjI worked on some fiction this morning. Nothing new, but I'm doing light revisions on my skinsinger stories so I can self-publish a collection (with one new story). I completed story #1 (of 7) today, mostly fixing some consistency and continuity issues of the sort that arise when you write seven related stories over the course of twenty years and had no overall plan at the beginning.
Yesterday I did a Berkeley Bowl grocery run and met up with former co-workers for lunch. Yesterday was also the start of the Rodent Mitigation in my crawlspace and attic. They were supposed to do more of it today but were having issues with the Giant Rodent Dropping Vacuum that needed to get sorted out. Unfortunately, this meant I hung around the house all day waiting for them to maybe show up and didn't get the final "not until tomorrow" until 4pm.
I finally got around to looking into the gym membership thing I get with my Kaiser Medicare Advantage. One of the member gyms is the Planet Fitness that I used for a while pre-Covid through Bayer's fitness plan, but there are a couple other possibilities within a similar distance. Biking is good for cardio, but I'd like to get back to some weight training too.
Yesterday I did a Berkeley Bowl grocery run and met up with former co-workers for lunch. Yesterday was also the start of the Rodent Mitigation in my crawlspace and attic. They were supposed to do more of it today but were having issues with the Giant Rodent Dropping Vacuum that needed to get sorted out. Unfortunately, this meant I hung around the house all day waiting for them to maybe show up and didn't get the final "not until tomorrow" until 4pm.
I finally got around to looking into the gym membership thing I get with my Kaiser Medicare Advantage. One of the member gyms is the Planet Fitness that I used for a while pre-Covid through Bayer's fitness plan, but there are a couple other possibilities within a similar distance. Biking is good for cardio, but I'd like to get back to some weight training too.
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May. 29th, 2025 06:48 pm
Soothing Noises from the BBC Shipping Forecast
jesse_the_kThe Met Office’s Shipping Forecast Key announces weather conditions in 31 areas around the UK. For internet users, real-time info is now available for each area via a handy-drop down
But it's the radio broadcast which has soothed me on many an anxious evening. Here’s five hours worth: https://youtu.be/CxHa5KaMBcM
They use a highly structured, compact format limited to 370 words:
- Time and Date of the active forecast being read
- List Gale Warnings current around the British Isles
- General Synopsis
- Area Forecasts, within each
- Location
- Wind direction
- Wind speed according to Beaufort scale
- Precipitation
- Visibility
- Inshore Waters Forecast
The Beaufort Scale provides vivid descriptions of different wind patterns, as befits a tool standardized before radio or photography. For example,
Wind force 5, also known as "Fresh Breeze," is 29-38 km/h or 19-24 miles per hour or 17-21 knots. You can recognize this force when Small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters. Moderate waves, many white horses. Probable wave height of 2.0 meters, 2.5 meters max, with a "sea state" of 4.
The newsreaders develop a very soothing rhythm—so consistent that many people have created "better sleeping through weather awareness" content on YouTube.
For radio nerds like me, nothing finer than this 30 minute deep dive: The Shipping Forecast: A Beginner’s Guide
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May. 29th, 2025 04:39 pm
Unlucky
azurelunaticA hundred years from now, chroma key colors are going to be considered unlucky to wear in a set of professions like newscasting, and nobody is going to quite realize why.
May. 29th, 2025 06:16 pm
[ SECRET POST #6719 ]
case posting in fandomsecrets⌈ Secret Post #6719 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 07 secrets from Secret Submission Post #960..
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
May. 29th, 2025 04:37 pm
The Sixth of the Recced Book Reviews: Rules for Ghosting
bethbethbethOn May 8th, I offered to read the first five books people recced - assuming they were available (preferably from the library) - and I'd give a short review [https://bethbethbeth.dreamwidth.org/701769.html].
This is the sixth recced book review.
Rules for Ghosting (2024), by Shelly Jay Shore (recced by mx-sno on bluesky)
Yes, this is a romance (gay cis man/bi trans-man), but it's also a story about family dynamics, grief, birth and death, found family, Judaism, and a dog named Sappho.
Oh, and ghosts!
I'm passing on the rec, but I'd offer two caveats:
One...if you have anxiety surrounding death rituals, including taharah (the "ritual washing, purification, and dressing of a deceased Jewish person before burial"), you might want to think twice.
Second, on a pure story level, there's sometimes a little too much "not telling people important things either for their own good or because you don't know how to start the conversation" for my personal tastes, but for all I know, that's your favorite trope. :)
However, Rules for Ghosting is generally an interesting, good-hearted story with a clever premise and a diverse group of likable characters.
This is the sixth recced book review.
Rules for Ghosting (2024), by Shelly Jay Shore (recced by mx-sno on bluesky)
Yes, this is a romance (gay cis man/bi trans-man), but it's also a story about family dynamics, grief, birth and death, found family, Judaism, and a dog named Sappho.
Oh, and ghosts!
I'm passing on the rec, but I'd offer two caveats:
One...if you have anxiety surrounding death rituals, including taharah (the "ritual washing, purification, and dressing of a deceased Jewish person before burial"), you might want to think twice.
Second, on a pure story level, there's sometimes a little too much "not telling people important things either for their own good or because you don't know how to start the conversation" for my personal tastes, but for all I know, that's your favorite trope. :)
However, Rules for Ghosting is generally an interesting, good-hearted story with a clever premise and a diverse group of likable characters.
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May. 29th, 2025 11:12 am
New Post at Lady Business!
forestofgloryI am once again contributing to cozy SFF discourse: Domestic Labor and Community Building Rec List
This list is for all of you who said "I'd like cozy SFF, if it was the thing you talked about"
This list is for all of you who said "I'd like cozy SFF, if it was the thing you talked about"
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- sf
May. 29th, 2025 09:43 am
It's the boiler, stupid...
susandennisI just got a note from Erica that the pool's issue which was a thermostat, is now a boiler. Very sad trombone.
No telling how long that's going to take. And, so, it means I'm going to have to do something else physical in the meantime. And, apparently, knitting does not count.
I just reviewed all the classes they have and they have a lot and none, not one, appeals.
So I think it's going to be the machines down in the gym. They have treadmills and elliptical and bikes. I need to get my ass over there and do one of those for some minutes every day. I should start today. But I probably won't.
No telling how long that's going to take. And, so, it means I'm going to have to do something else physical in the meantime. And, apparently, knitting does not count.
I just reviewed all the classes they have and they have a lot and none, not one, appeals.
So I think it's going to be the machines down in the gym. They have treadmills and elliptical and bikes. I need to get my ass over there and do one of those for some minutes every day. I should start today. But I probably won't.
May. 29th, 2025 06:54 am
Thursday
susandennisI checked my alarm a million times. It's been more than a week since I had to get up at 5:30 for volleyball and I did not want to miss it. So I woke up at 4, 4:30, 5 and 5:30 and the alarm did actually go off. I fed the cats and hopped into my suit and went to the pool. Where I found Steve sitting in a chair on the deck and no one else around.
"Waiting for me?" "Waiting for you to find out if you want to play in the cold water." So the pool was supposed to be fixed yesterday and warm today. We don't know about the former but the latter definitely did not happen. Steve and I agreed that playing the cold just was not fun and we called it. We put a sign on the door and split.
I set Alexa to close the blinds at 1 am so that the morning sun will not scream at me first thing. Alexa got the shades all lowered and I think it pissed off the sun. No sign of sun. It's a drizzly day.
Biggie has decided he does not like any pill pockets any more but he's fine with my just tossing the pills down his throat so ok.
The Phillies play two games today! The first one starts at 10. Excellent.
I had this giant decorative plate that I picked up at Goodwill years ago. It just appealed to me. When I moved in here, Christian picked a great spot for it. Except. Julio also picked that spot to climb, sit, crawl on so for a year and a half now, I've been waiting for the crash. It finally happened last night. Scare the bejesus out of Julio. I replaced it with a nice tall basket. And now there's no more waiting.
I forgot to attend my last HOA meeting on Tuesday. Oh well. The end. Tomorrow.
Time to hop in the shower and get this day really going.
"Waiting for me?" "Waiting for you to find out if you want to play in the cold water." So the pool was supposed to be fixed yesterday and warm today. We don't know about the former but the latter definitely did not happen. Steve and I agreed that playing the cold just was not fun and we called it. We put a sign on the door and split.
I set Alexa to close the blinds at 1 am so that the morning sun will not scream at me first thing. Alexa got the shades all lowered and I think it pissed off the sun. No sign of sun. It's a drizzly day.
Biggie has decided he does not like any pill pockets any more but he's fine with my just tossing the pills down his throat so ok.
The Phillies play two games today! The first one starts at 10. Excellent.
I had this giant decorative plate that I picked up at Goodwill years ago. It just appealed to me. When I moved in here, Christian picked a great spot for it. Except. Julio also picked that spot to climb, sit, crawl on so for a year and a half now, I've been waiting for the crash. It finally happened last night. Scare the bejesus out of Julio. I replaced it with a nice tall basket. And now there's no more waiting.
I forgot to attend my last HOA meeting on Tuesday. Oh well. The end. Tomorrow.
Time to hop in the shower and get this day really going.
May. 28th, 2025 11:30 pm
Daily Check In
May. 29th, 2025 02:37 am
Babylon 5 fic for Mismatched Tropes Flash
sholioThe Mismatched Tropes Flash exchange had author reveals while I was traveling, and I wrote:
Last Minute Save (Vir & Londo, 1600 words)
In which Vir gets drugged and almost kidnapped/intergalactically trafficked, and Londo gets to be a Big Damn Hero.
p.s. Incredibly random Tumblr poll on whether Centauri or Narns have a higher body temperature FOR SCIENCE. (And fic.) If you do not have a Tumblr account, feel free to provide opinions in a comment.
Last Minute Save (Vir & Londo, 1600 words)
In which Vir gets drugged and almost kidnapped/intergalactically trafficked, and Londo gets to be a Big Damn Hero.
p.s. Incredibly random Tumblr poll on whether Centauri or Narns have a higher body temperature FOR SCIENCE. (And fic.) If you do not have a Tumblr account, feel free to provide opinions in a comment.
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May. 29th, 2025 10:51 am
You've Got Some Balls, Beefucker.
rionaleonhartMore of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy! Just finished day forty-seven of a route that involves a surprising quantity of bees.
I think, when we're getting ready for battle, we should allow Yugamu to stab everyone with their Infusers. I think he would really enjoy that. A nice little treat for him.
( Notes on The Hundred Line. )
Out-of-context The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy:
Yugamu: Don't worry about that. I'm really good at ramming stuff in holes that look like they'd be too small to fit.
This game is so weird and horny. I'm having a blast.
I think, when we're getting ready for battle, we should allow Yugamu to stab everyone with their Infusers. I think he would really enjoy that. A nice little treat for him.
( Notes on The Hundred Line. )
Out-of-context The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy:
Yugamu: Don't worry about that. I'm really good at ramming stuff in holes that look like they'd be too small to fit.
This game is so weird and horny. I'm having a blast.
May. 28th, 2025 11:25 pm
Wishful Thinking (part 6 of ?)
dialecticdreamerWishful Thinking
By Sarah Williams
Part 6 of ?
Word count (story only): 1122
[Landing #7, day 2, evening]
:: After a long day, the Ashton family, and Backstep, are sitting down to dinner. Conversation turns to longer term plans. Part of the Sidestep Travelers universe. ::
Backstep began to pace, her sneakers squeaking on the hardwood floor. “If…” She stopped abruptly, staring at Arthur. “Get everybody together in the living room or somewhere comfortable, please. And… I’m going to need about as many calories as there are in a cooked turkey.”
“A turkey dinner?” His brow furrowed.
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By Sarah Williams
Part 6 of ?
Word count (story only): 1122
[Landing #7, day 2, evening]
:: After a long day, the Ashton family, and Backstep, are sitting down to dinner. Conversation turns to longer term plans. Part of the Sidestep Travelers universe. ::
Backstep began to pace, her sneakers squeaking on the hardwood floor. “If…” She stopped abruptly, staring at Arthur. “Get everybody together in the living room or somewhere comfortable, please. And… I’m going to need about as many calories as there are in a cooked turkey.”
“A turkey dinner?” His brow furrowed.
( Read more... )
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