CREATURE.
May. 20th, 2025 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettThis evening we went to the plot so I could water things (and say hi to people). We wandered up past the woodpecker nest; there was a Great Yelling; we heard some wood being pecked; all seemed well.
In the vicinity of ten minutes later, someone heading home realised that Things Sounded Wrong, and established that one of the babies had launched itself out of the nest while really not remotely being fledged yet (it. does not have that many feathers.) by dint of hearing that the yelling was not all coming from up, and also some of it was Louder Than Usual. (I am pretty sure we didn't miss this when we were ambling up? I think it genuinely did go on an incredibly misguided adventure somewhere in that ten minutes.)
... I was delegated to stand guard for the purposes of Dissuading Foxes. Other people went to fetch A Ladder. I subsequently provided A Torch, and Part Of The Ladder Steadying.
The Errand Child was delicately posted back into its hole.
The tenor of the yelling from the hole... changed.
An adult popped its head out, all "what the fuck just happened???" Paused. Quite clearly thought, upon Observing the Assembled, something along the lines of "... right then." Retracted.
And then everyone settled down apparently to sleep.
I was perhaps not in fact The Fae, but I did get to be at least fae-adjacent, and I got to see a shit tiny dinosaur that really I ought not to have but in a way that was minimally bad for the poor thing.
Fascinated by the evolutionary strategy of "screaming incessantly might get me eaten or might get me The Fae, but there's no good outcome from not screaming, so... screm?" Evidently in this case it worked!
(It had the start of its little red hat! It was simultaneously Tiny and Lorge, and definitely Distinctly Round! It was a BABY. I am so glad friend human realised Something Was Wrong.)
Moonpie's foot is swollen
May. 25th, 2025 03:49 pmconulyWe're pretty clear on the cause, she got tangled up in some vines, and we've washed her foot carefully with soap and water. We'll wash all of her later and maybe soak her foot with some epsom salt, that should help. Well, I mean, the bath will just make her smell better, but the soak should help. I really, really don't want to go to the vet this week if I can avoid it, but if the swelling won't go down we may have to.
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So you surf the earth's magnetic core to keep you aligned
May. 20th, 2025 11:31 amsovayWhile it seemed the most natural thing while dreaming to collect moon_custafer and thisbluespirit for the second such road trip we had taken together, when awake my brain's notions of geography seem positively Paleozoic.
moon_custafer and thisbluespirit for the second such road trip we had taken together, when awake my brain's notions of geography seem positively Paleozoic.I can't read your mind and I can't write your name
May. 20th, 2025 03:11 amsovayHow I am doing at the moment is extremely not great. spatch took a picture of me craning into frame like a cat. I took a picture of a blinkie my father made for me.
( I've opened my doors and I've closed all my windows. )
I was unironically charmed to discover The Wonderful World of Tupperware (1965). The hard sell can get a little hard to take, but the technical details are as good as all those short films from the Children's Television Workshop about the manufacture of peanut butter or saxophones.
The rediscovered 1983 Thomas the Tank Engine pilot which I had seen linked around my friendlist turns out to have been more like a screen test for the model work, which honestly makes it even neater to watch. I wrote a letter once to the Island of Sodor. It did occur to me years after the fact that my parents answered it.
If Richard Brody would just edit the collected film criticism of Virginia Tracy and Andre Sennwald, I would buy the books like two shots and consider it a service to art.
spatch took a picture of me craning into frame like a cat. I took a picture of a blinkie my father made for me.( I've opened my doors and I've closed all my windows. )
I was unironically charmed to discover The Wonderful World of Tupperware (1965). The hard sell can get a little hard to take, but the technical details are as good as all those short films from the Children's Television Workshop about the manufacture of peanut butter or saxophones.
The rediscovered 1983 Thomas the Tank Engine pilot which I had seen linked around my friendlist turns out to have been more like a screen test for the model work, which honestly makes it even neater to watch. I wrote a letter once to the Island of Sodor. It did occur to me years after the fact that my parents answered it.
If Richard Brody would just edit the collected film criticism of Virginia Tracy and Andre Sennwald, I would buy the books like two shots and consider it a service to art.
Give blanket permission, get podfics made of your work
May. 19th, 2025 08:24 pmpetraThere are three new podfics of my work today, which is a sure sign that somewhere on the internet, someone is hosting a podfic-creation party. Dark is Rising, Rivers of London, and Vorkosigan. Enjoy! Feed the podficcers!
[Podfic] Old ways (45 words) by FlightlessNotFightless
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Will Stanton (Dark is Rising)
Additional Tags: Drabble, Walking, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: Streaming
Summary:
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[Podfic] Not an asinine question (68 words) by GoLBPodfics
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Indigo & Abigail Kamara
Characters: Indigo (Rivers of London), Abigail Kamara
Additional Tags: Humor, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Summary:
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[Podfic] Cretaceous Park (68 words) by GoLBPodfics
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miles Vorkosigan & Ivan Vorpatril
Characters: Miles Vorkosigan, Ivan Vorpatril
Additional Tags: Dinosaurs, Drabble, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Summary:
[Podfic] Old ways (45 words) by FlightlessNotFightless
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Will Stanton (Dark is Rising)
Additional Tags: Drabble, Walking, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: Streaming
Summary:
Will goes for walks for his mental health.
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[Podfic] Not an asinine question (68 words) by GoLBPodfics
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Indigo & Abigail Kamara
Characters: Indigo (Rivers of London), Abigail Kamara
Additional Tags: Humor, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Summary:
Indigo and Abigail walk in the park.
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[Podfic] Cretaceous Park (68 words) by GoLBPodfics
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miles Vorkosigan & Ivan Vorpatril
Characters: Miles Vorkosigan, Ivan Vorpatril
Additional Tags: Dinosaurs, Drabble, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Summary:
I think they're Jacksonian.
I have a cabbage patch doll from childhood named Emma Charlotte
May. 24th, 2025 05:17 pmconulyI named her that, not the company. I thought it was a pretty, old-fashioned name, something buoyed by the fact that Charlotte in Charlotte Sometimes is told by her 50-years-ago counterpart's younger sister that it's funny that she has such an old-fashioned name - and that book was written in the 1960s!
Take a look at how often the names "Emma" and "Charlotte" appear on each state's top three names for girls.
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Ask a Manager is collectively losing their shit over how people flush toilets
May. 19th, 2025 05:04 pmconulyWith or without feet.
There's a few people in that thread adamantly going up and down asserting that, duh, how could the rest of us be so dumb as to not know that certain types of toilets are specifically designed to be flushed with the foot. None of them have provided any sort of evidence for this claim, which makes me think that their evidence boils down to "Mommy told me when I was a kid" or "Well, I flush with a foot so I just sort of assumed", and - man, I hate when people do that. Fucking back up your claims, or at least qualify them. "I was told by my preschool teacher, but I've never verified it" would be a lot more honest and less annoying.
Anyway, I have emailed the manufacturer most often mentioned in the comments to ask for their opinion. Mostly because that is how things ought to be done, but also because if these flushers are designed to be flushed with the foot, great, but if not then we have to ask if the other contingent, which is equally vociferously asserting that foot flushing increases wear and tear on the mechanism and causes breakdowns, needs to be taken seriously. Because what's really not okay is breaking the toilet for everybody who comes after you - and sure, you'll say that you are not the sole person responsible for breaking the toilet that much faster, but c'mon, everybody says that.
So let's see what we see, and in the meantime, let's also all wash our hands. With soap and water, thanks.
There's a few people in that thread adamantly going up and down asserting that, duh, how could the rest of us be so dumb as to not know that certain types of toilets are specifically designed to be flushed with the foot. None of them have provided any sort of evidence for this claim, which makes me think that their evidence boils down to "Mommy told me when I was a kid" or "Well, I flush with a foot so I just sort of assumed", and - man, I hate when people do that. Fucking back up your claims, or at least qualify them. "I was told by my preschool teacher, but I've never verified it" would be a lot more honest and less annoying.
Anyway, I have emailed the manufacturer most often mentioned in the comments to ask for their opinion. Mostly because that is how things ought to be done, but also because if these flushers are designed to be flushed with the foot, great, but if not then we have to ask if the other contingent, which is equally vociferously asserting that foot flushing increases wear and tear on the mechanism and causes breakdowns, needs to be taken seriously. Because what's really not okay is breaking the toilet for everybody who comes after you - and sure, you'll say that you are not the sole person responsible for breaking the toilet that much faster, but c'mon, everybody says that.
So let's see what we see, and in the meantime, let's also all wash our hands. With soap and water, thanks.
5/17/25 - 5/19/25
May. 19th, 2025 07:27 amgwydion* News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.
* "Israel begins 'extensive' ground operation in Gaza after devastating air strikes:" https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250518-more-than-100-killed-overnight-in-israel-s-military-assault-on-gaza-all-hospitals-out-of-service
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* "Zelenskyy meets Vance in Rome, hours after Russia's largest drone attack on Ukraine:" https://www.npr.org/2025/05/18/nx-s1-5402815/zelenskyy-meets-vance-in-rome-hours-after-russias-largest-drone-attack-on-ukraine
* "Pope Leo XIV and JD Vance meet ahead of US-led diplomatic flurry to reach ceasefire in Ukraine:" https://apnews.com/article/pope-vance-leo-vatican-ukraine-russia-trump-c1572b31e231e4eee61baaaad5c1445f
* "US allows Australia to send Abrams tanks to Ukraine despite private objections, media reports:" https://kyivindependent.com/australia-sending-retired-abrams-tanks-to-ukraine-despite-us-objections-media-reports/
* "Russia reportedly threatened to seize Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Sumy regions during Istanbul talks:" https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/16/russia-reportedly-threatened-to-seize-ukraine-s-kharkiv-and-sumy-regions-during-istanbul-talks
* "How India-Pakistan conflict pushed planes off course:" https://archive.ph/Ow9XT
* "UN agency, Rohingya refugees allege Indian authorities cast dozens of them into the sea near Myanmar:" https://apnews.com/article/india-rohingya-refugees-deportation-e724b7a9949192a5383f84eb98377026
* I am so happy for Romania! "Pro-EU moderate Nicușor Dan wins Romanian presidential election stunner:" https://www.politico.eu/article/romanian-presidential-election-results-nicusor-dan-george-simion/
* "The shadowy warlord behind Romania’s wrecked election :" https://www.politico.eu/article/shadowy-warlord-behind-romania-election-calin-georgescu-far-right-horatiu-potra-george-simion/
* "Taliban 'Suspends' Chess Playing In Afghanistan Citing Religious, Gambling Concerns:" https://www.rferl.org/a/afghan-chess-suspended-taliban-rights-sports/33410775.html
* "Food For Millions Rots in Storage After Trump’s USAID Cuts:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/food-for-millions-rots-in-storage-after-trumps-usaid-cuts/
* "Count the Dead by the Millions:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-rubio-musk-foreign-aid-millions-dead-1235321188/
* "The Trump Administration Thinks You Should Be OK With Being Poor:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-poverty-trade-war-economy_n_6814ee26e4b08575d39c9a8a
* "Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE:" https://theintercept.com/2025/05/15/trump-ice-immigrants-deport-prisons-cecot-libya/
* "Trump’s ICE Used a Woman’s Kids and Grandchild as ‘Bait’ to Arrest Her:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ice-kids-bait-arrest-woman-worcester-massachusetts-1235338539/
* "About 200 protesters demonstrate against immigration enforcement in South Nashville:" https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2025/05/17/protesters-ice-immigration-enforcement-nashville-andy-ogles/83697320007/
* "The Company Behind the Signal Clone Mike Waltz Used Has Direct Access to User Chats:" https://www.wired.com/story/tm-signal-telemessage-plaintext-message-archive/
Republican officials continue to refuse to use secure communications for classified data, because republicans give no fucks about National Security.
* "The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked:" https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/
* "USDA, DOGE demand states hand over personal data about food stamp recipients:" https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5389952/usda-snap-doge-data-immigration
* "NRA appeals to U.S. Supreme Court on Florida ban of purchases of long guns by under-21-year-olds:" https://www.wuwf.org/florida-news/2025-05-18/nra-appeals-to-u-s-supreme-court-on-florida-ban-of-purchases-of-long-guns-by-under-21-year-olds
* We need to fight the Budget Bill
If this budget passes, people die because they won't be able to afford the copays, especially as Trump economic policies kill jobs and keep causing prices to rise.
They are sacrificing people for the billionaires that bought them.
When you contact your Congress Critter, say what you need to say to keep Republicans split and keep Democratic spines stiff in the House.
* This is DANGEROUS: "Trump’s clash with the courts raises prospect of showdown over separation of powers:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-courts-rule-law-justice-contempt-congress-d588119540b8338e7b32e41fc8039dd0?
* "House budget panel approves Trump megabill following hardliner resistance:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/18/republicans-race-to-avoid-another-megabill-setback-00356424
* RE: SAVE ACT "Do This Today: Call Senators:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2036106.html
If these are your Senators, please stop what you are doing and call now:
KELLY (AZ)
WARNOCK (GA)
PETERS (MI)
SHAHEEN (NH)
HASSAN (NH)
CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
ROSEN (NV)
* This one is a super dangerous attack on the judiciary's ability to protect citizen's rights. "H.R. 1526: NORRA of 2025:" https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr1526
* On the Porn Ban Bill, Queerphobia, and Neo-Puritanism: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/783972047574499328/five-calls-to-your-critters?source=share
* Our job for the next two years is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.
We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.
Please add more below if you have them.
* "Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/
* Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide. https://indivisible.org/resource/guide
* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1
* "Resisting Fascism in 2025 and Beyond:" https://www.prideandpagesbookclub.com/resisting-fascism-in-2025-and-beyond
* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:
Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html
"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/
White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/
ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives
This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/
"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share
Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/
"Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/
Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share
Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events
How to render emergency aid in a riot: https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf
"How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely
"ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/
Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/
* "Nebraska Republican mayor loses reelection after running anti-transgender ads:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/nebraska-republican-mayor-loses-trans-ads
"Democrats didn’t sit back in the face of Stothert’s mailer blitz—they hit back hard. In the campaign’s final days, Nebraska Democrats launched their own countermessaging, mocking the incumbent’s fixation on culture war talking points. One viral image featured a bathroom stall with the tagline: “Jean’s focused on potties. John’s focused on fixing potholes.” The contrast was blunt, effective, and local."
It would be helpful if more Democrats pushed back like this when Republicans do this instead of throwing us under the bus like Sherrod Brown and Gavin Newsom decided to do.
Keep holding state and local candidates to account.
Stay noisy. Have each others' backs. VOTE! Vote in every election including special elections and primaries. It really makes a difference.
* "The FBI is investigating the explosion at a California fertility clinic as an act of terrorism:" https://apnews.com/article/california-explosion-palm-springs-eb8887fbe5877a20a40916aba86554ea
* "Online manifesto threatened clinic attack; FBI probes Palm Springs bomber’s radical ideology :" https://archive.ph/tiP76
* "When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years:" https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/10/23/cats-came-to-my-california-prison/
* CW: Rape, Child Abuse "Neil Gaiman & The Myth of the Perfect Victim:"
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* CW: Domestic Abuse. "Sean Combs trial: Cassie concludes four days of testimony:" https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5401461/sean-combs-trial-cassie-concludes-testimony
* "Why men get furious at women who say they prefer the “dad bod”:" https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2025/05/02/why-men-get-furious-at-women-who-say-they-prefer-the-dad-bod/
* "Federal judge in Texas rules LGBTQ+ people can be discriminated against at work:" https://www.advocate.com/news/judge-texas-lgbtq-discriminated-work
* "Neither Chaos Nor Quest: Toward a Nonnarrative Medicine:" https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/neither-chaos-nor-quest-toward-a-nonnarrative-medicine/
* "Inside the Long, Strange Trip of the World’s Best LSD:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/lsd-acid-owsley-stanley-research-trials-1235319250/
* "5 Killed, Many Missing In Flash Floods In China, Disaster Alert Issued:" https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/5-killed-many-missing-in-flash-floods-in-china-disaster-alert-issued-8449072
* "Severe floods hit Argentina farm region, thousands evacuate:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/severe-floods-hit-argentina-farm-region-thousands-evacuate-2025-05-17/
* "Tornadoes kill more than 20 in south-central US:" https://phys.org/news/2025-05-tornadoes-south-central.html
* "'I thought it was a movie': Mexican ship's crash into with Brooklyn Bridge leaves locals in disbelief:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mexican-ship-collision-brooklyn-bridge-rcna207537
* "The nurse in the NYC subway:" https://archive.ph/R1ta6
* "Linux Is Already Broken Before You Even Start:" https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/
* "Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List:" https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List
* "Millions of Apple Airplay-Enabled Devices Can Be Hacked via Wi-Fi:" https://www.wired.com/story/airborne-airplay-flaws/
* "The Cybertruck is all tricks and no truck, a musky Tesla fail:" https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-5/the-cybertruck-is-all-tricks-and-no-truck-a-musky-tesla-fail/
* "NASA Space 'Archaeology' Reconstructs Dead Star:" https://www.newsweek.com/nasa-reconstructs-ancient-dead-star-2052152
* "Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/private-japanese-lunar-lander-enters-orbit-moon-ahead-june-touchdown-rcna205308
* "Pigeon rescue crew find peace in tending London's flocks:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/pigeon-rescue-crew-find-peace-tending-londons-flocks-2025-05-12/
* "12 Things You Didn’t Know About the Bayeux Tapestry:" https://www.medievalists.net/2025/05/things-know-bayeux-tapestry/
* "How Medieval Popes Were Different to Modern Popes:"
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* "Introduction to Native American History: Ep 1 of Crash Course Native American History:"
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* "Tribal Sovereignty Explained: Ep 2 of Crash Course Native American History:"
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* He's not dead, just retiring. "Johnny Mathis, the queer trailblazer and global superstar, takes a final bow:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/johnny-mathis-final-concert
* "There’s White Stuff Growing on Your Cheese That Isn’t Mold:" https://www.thephcheese.com/theres-white-stuff-growing-on-your-cheese-that-isnt-mold
* "South Korea halted its adoption fraud investigation. Adoptees still demand the truth:" https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5387251/south-korea-adoption-fraud-investigation
* "Man found dead in animal enclosure at zoo after possible kangaroo fight:" https://local12.com/news/nation-world/kangaroo-zoo-fight-dead-dies-killed-kill-animal-enclosure-keeper-zookeeper-employee-staff-man-fought-roughhouse-highway-small-local-euthanized-wild-nature-living-conditions-farm-assault-brawl-wallabies-kangaroos-investigation
* "Legal Myths That Will Land You in Prison || r/BadLegalAdvice:"
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* "Kenya court fines four men for trafficking thousands of queen ants:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenya-court-convicts-four-ant-traffickers-fines-each-7700-2025-05-07/
* I am exhausted. In preparation for the preliminary to the preliminary to hopefully getting the city to fix a bunch of things in the apartment and replace the broken clothes washer, I spent 2-3 hours Saturday gathering documents. Most of it was dead easy as I had the packet of papers from the April bureaucracy about 2/3rds of which were the same ones for the new bureaucracy. Most of the rest were fairly easy as they were where I put them or where they were supposed to be in preparation for going up to seven year storage.
Three of them weren't. Sigh. One of them took an hour by itself, because it was in neither place I would reasonably have put it (I wasn't sure if I'd moved it out of the folder for things that are important to be able to grab in a hurry, to the less urgent, but still needs to be ready to hand after the superseding document went into the folder), It was in neither. I searched the ready to go to long term storage box three times. I checked the two places it could have fallen or reasonably misfiled. No dice.
I had turned up the document packet it superseded and tossed that into the pile because something is better than nothing, and I was completely at a loss.
Then I remembered the whole people repeatedly knocking things off my paperwork desk and casually putting them back in random locations they didn't belong over a several month stretch last year. The place I put superseded but still need to be easy to find documents is on that desk. I went over there and I imagined being a careless person who didn't notice or care where they knocked the papers from and searched counterintuitive to me places people would randomly jam a handful of important paperwork they didn't care about.
Found it!
The whole process would have taken about an hour what with circling gas expenditures on documents and sorting and the like if they'd just put the paperwork back where it went. (On top of the desk they knocked it from. Like not even a specific place on the desk. All they had to do was pick it up and put it back on the desk randomly).
So that's sorted. (I ordered an extra bit of documentation which may or may not come in time, but apparently I was so organized, I'd ordered it in March in anticipation of April Bureaucracy and submitted it without remembering, so that was a pleasant surprise when I went through April documentation packet. Go Past me! March me was ordering a whole pile of documentation for April Bureaucracy, and this was a lesser bit). We submit documentation and the second tier application near the end of them month during a meeting where they walk me through the paperwork.
I hope we get it. The current laundry situation is terrible and incommoding five people. The ventilation in Squirrel's bathroom has been a problem the whole time we lived here because they never connected the vent to outside. a bunch of smaller things the low bit contractor half assed keep causing issues, but really vents and clothes washer are a big deal.
* "Inside The New, Luxurious Air Force One:"
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* *Snicker* "The Husband's Clock:"
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* Re: Gurathian vs Murderbot on the show being more exaggeratedly antagonistic in the first two episodes:
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* "Sunday Sweets: Bridal Showers:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sundaysweetsbridalshowers2025
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
The help links are at the bottom under the cut.
* "United States Disappeared Tracker:" https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map
* "Nationwide Economic Blackout: Boycott Dates for Target, Amazon, Others:" https://www.newsweek.com/nationwide-economic-blackout-boycott-dates-target-amazon-others-2037986
* "Introducing Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network:" https://aflcio.org/2025/4/16/introducing-rise-federal-workers-legal-defense-network
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* "Israel begins 'extensive' ground operation in Gaza after devastating air strikes:" https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250518-more-than-100-killed-overnight-in-israel-s-military-assault-on-gaza-all-hospitals-out-of-service
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* "Zelenskyy meets Vance in Rome, hours after Russia's largest drone attack on Ukraine:" https://www.npr.org/2025/05/18/nx-s1-5402815/zelenskyy-meets-vance-in-rome-hours-after-russias-largest-drone-attack-on-ukraine
* "Pope Leo XIV and JD Vance meet ahead of US-led diplomatic flurry to reach ceasefire in Ukraine:" https://apnews.com/article/pope-vance-leo-vatican-ukraine-russia-trump-c1572b31e231e4eee61baaaad5c1445f
* "US allows Australia to send Abrams tanks to Ukraine despite private objections, media reports:" https://kyivindependent.com/australia-sending-retired-abrams-tanks-to-ukraine-despite-us-objections-media-reports/
* "Russia reportedly threatened to seize Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Sumy regions during Istanbul talks:" https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/16/russia-reportedly-threatened-to-seize-ukraine-s-kharkiv-and-sumy-regions-during-istanbul-talks
* "How India-Pakistan conflict pushed planes off course:" https://archive.ph/Ow9XT
* "UN agency, Rohingya refugees allege Indian authorities cast dozens of them into the sea near Myanmar:" https://apnews.com/article/india-rohingya-refugees-deportation-e724b7a9949192a5383f84eb98377026
* I am so happy for Romania! "Pro-EU moderate Nicușor Dan wins Romanian presidential election stunner:" https://www.politico.eu/article/romanian-presidential-election-results-nicusor-dan-george-simion/
* "The shadowy warlord behind Romania’s wrecked election :" https://www.politico.eu/article/shadowy-warlord-behind-romania-election-calin-georgescu-far-right-horatiu-potra-george-simion/
* "Taliban 'Suspends' Chess Playing In Afghanistan Citing Religious, Gambling Concerns:" https://www.rferl.org/a/afghan-chess-suspended-taliban-rights-sports/33410775.html
* "Food For Millions Rots in Storage After Trump’s USAID Cuts:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/food-for-millions-rots-in-storage-after-trumps-usaid-cuts/
* "Count the Dead by the Millions:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-rubio-musk-foreign-aid-millions-dead-1235321188/
* "The Trump Administration Thinks You Should Be OK With Being Poor:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-poverty-trade-war-economy_n_6814ee26e4b08575d39c9a8a
* "Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE:" https://theintercept.com/2025/05/15/trump-ice-immigrants-deport-prisons-cecot-libya/
* "Trump’s ICE Used a Woman’s Kids and Grandchild as ‘Bait’ to Arrest Her:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ice-kids-bait-arrest-woman-worcester-massachusetts-1235338539/
* "About 200 protesters demonstrate against immigration enforcement in South Nashville:" https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2025/05/17/protesters-ice-immigration-enforcement-nashville-andy-ogles/83697320007/
* "The Company Behind the Signal Clone Mike Waltz Used Has Direct Access to User Chats:" https://www.wired.com/story/tm-signal-telemessage-plaintext-message-archive/
Republican officials continue to refuse to use secure communications for classified data, because republicans give no fucks about National Security.
* "The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked:" https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/
* "USDA, DOGE demand states hand over personal data about food stamp recipients:" https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5389952/usda-snap-doge-data-immigration
* "NRA appeals to U.S. Supreme Court on Florida ban of purchases of long guns by under-21-year-olds:" https://www.wuwf.org/florida-news/2025-05-18/nra-appeals-to-u-s-supreme-court-on-florida-ban-of-purchases-of-long-guns-by-under-21-year-olds
* We need to fight the Budget Bill
If this budget passes, people die because they won't be able to afford the copays, especially as Trump economic policies kill jobs and keep causing prices to rise.
They are sacrificing people for the billionaires that bought them.
When you contact your Congress Critter, say what you need to say to keep Republicans split and keep Democratic spines stiff in the House.
* This is DANGEROUS: "Trump’s clash with the courts raises prospect of showdown over separation of powers:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-courts-rule-law-justice-contempt-congress-d588119540b8338e7b32e41fc8039dd0?
* "House budget panel approves Trump megabill following hardliner resistance:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/18/republicans-race-to-avoid-another-megabill-setback-00356424
* RE: SAVE ACT "Do This Today: Call Senators:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2036106.html
If these are your Senators, please stop what you are doing and call now:
KELLY (AZ)
WARNOCK (GA)
PETERS (MI)
SHAHEEN (NH)
HASSAN (NH)
CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
ROSEN (NV)
* This one is a super dangerous attack on the judiciary's ability to protect citizen's rights. "H.R. 1526: NORRA of 2025:" https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr1526
* On the Porn Ban Bill, Queerphobia, and Neo-Puritanism: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/783972047574499328/five-calls-to-your-critters?source=share
* Our job for the next two years is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.
We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.
Please add more below if you have them.
* "Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/
* Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide. https://indivisible.org/resource/guide
* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1
* "Resisting Fascism in 2025 and Beyond:" https://www.prideandpagesbookclub.com/resisting-fascism-in-2025-and-beyond
* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:
Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html
"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/
White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/
ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives
This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/
"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share
Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/
"Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/
Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share
Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events
How to render emergency aid in a riot: https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf
"How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely
"ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/
Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/
* "Nebraska Republican mayor loses reelection after running anti-transgender ads:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/nebraska-republican-mayor-loses-trans-ads
"Democrats didn’t sit back in the face of Stothert’s mailer blitz—they hit back hard. In the campaign’s final days, Nebraska Democrats launched their own countermessaging, mocking the incumbent’s fixation on culture war talking points. One viral image featured a bathroom stall with the tagline: “Jean’s focused on potties. John’s focused on fixing potholes.” The contrast was blunt, effective, and local."
It would be helpful if more Democrats pushed back like this when Republicans do this instead of throwing us under the bus like Sherrod Brown and Gavin Newsom decided to do.
Keep holding state and local candidates to account.
Stay noisy. Have each others' backs. VOTE! Vote in every election including special elections and primaries. It really makes a difference.
* "The FBI is investigating the explosion at a California fertility clinic as an act of terrorism:" https://apnews.com/article/california-explosion-palm-springs-eb8887fbe5877a20a40916aba86554ea
* "Online manifesto threatened clinic attack; FBI probes Palm Springs bomber’s radical ideology :" https://archive.ph/tiP76
* "When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years:" https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/10/23/cats-came-to-my-california-prison/
* CW: Rape, Child Abuse "Neil Gaiman & The Myth of the Perfect Victim:"
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* CW: Domestic Abuse. "Sean Combs trial: Cassie concludes four days of testimony:" https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5401461/sean-combs-trial-cassie-concludes-testimony
* "Why men get furious at women who say they prefer the “dad bod”:" https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2025/05/02/why-men-get-furious-at-women-who-say-they-prefer-the-dad-bod/
* "Federal judge in Texas rules LGBTQ+ people can be discriminated against at work:" https://www.advocate.com/news/judge-texas-lgbtq-discriminated-work
* "Neither Chaos Nor Quest: Toward a Nonnarrative Medicine:" https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/neither-chaos-nor-quest-toward-a-nonnarrative-medicine/
* "Inside the Long, Strange Trip of the World’s Best LSD:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/lsd-acid-owsley-stanley-research-trials-1235319250/
* "5 Killed, Many Missing In Flash Floods In China, Disaster Alert Issued:" https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/5-killed-many-missing-in-flash-floods-in-china-disaster-alert-issued-8449072
* "Severe floods hit Argentina farm region, thousands evacuate:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/severe-floods-hit-argentina-farm-region-thousands-evacuate-2025-05-17/
* "Tornadoes kill more than 20 in south-central US:" https://phys.org/news/2025-05-tornadoes-south-central.html
* "'I thought it was a movie': Mexican ship's crash into with Brooklyn Bridge leaves locals in disbelief:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mexican-ship-collision-brooklyn-bridge-rcna207537
* "The nurse in the NYC subway:" https://archive.ph/R1ta6
* "Linux Is Already Broken Before You Even Start:" https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/
* "Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List:" https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List
* "Millions of Apple Airplay-Enabled Devices Can Be Hacked via Wi-Fi:" https://www.wired.com/story/airborne-airplay-flaws/
* "The Cybertruck is all tricks and no truck, a musky Tesla fail:" https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-5/the-cybertruck-is-all-tricks-and-no-truck-a-musky-tesla-fail/
* "NASA Space 'Archaeology' Reconstructs Dead Star:" https://www.newsweek.com/nasa-reconstructs-ancient-dead-star-2052152
* "Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/private-japanese-lunar-lander-enters-orbit-moon-ahead-june-touchdown-rcna205308
* "Pigeon rescue crew find peace in tending London's flocks:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/pigeon-rescue-crew-find-peace-tending-londons-flocks-2025-05-12/
* "12 Things You Didn’t Know About the Bayeux Tapestry:" https://www.medievalists.net/2025/05/things-know-bayeux-tapestry/
* "How Medieval Popes Were Different to Modern Popes:"
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* "Introduction to Native American History: Ep 1 of Crash Course Native American History:"
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* "Tribal Sovereignty Explained: Ep 2 of Crash Course Native American History:"
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* He's not dead, just retiring. "Johnny Mathis, the queer trailblazer and global superstar, takes a final bow:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/johnny-mathis-final-concert
* "There’s White Stuff Growing on Your Cheese That Isn’t Mold:" https://www.thephcheese.com/theres-white-stuff-growing-on-your-cheese-that-isnt-mold
* "South Korea halted its adoption fraud investigation. Adoptees still demand the truth:" https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5387251/south-korea-adoption-fraud-investigation
* "Man found dead in animal enclosure at zoo after possible kangaroo fight:" https://local12.com/news/nation-world/kangaroo-zoo-fight-dead-dies-killed-kill-animal-enclosure-keeper-zookeeper-employee-staff-man-fought-roughhouse-highway-small-local-euthanized-wild-nature-living-conditions-farm-assault-brawl-wallabies-kangaroos-investigation
* "Legal Myths That Will Land You in Prison || r/BadLegalAdvice:"
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* "Kenya court fines four men for trafficking thousands of queen ants:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenya-court-convicts-four-ant-traffickers-fines-each-7700-2025-05-07/
* I am exhausted. In preparation for the preliminary to the preliminary to hopefully getting the city to fix a bunch of things in the apartment and replace the broken clothes washer, I spent 2-3 hours Saturday gathering documents. Most of it was dead easy as I had the packet of papers from the April bureaucracy about 2/3rds of which were the same ones for the new bureaucracy. Most of the rest were fairly easy as they were where I put them or where they were supposed to be in preparation for going up to seven year storage.
Three of them weren't. Sigh. One of them took an hour by itself, because it was in neither place I would reasonably have put it (I wasn't sure if I'd moved it out of the folder for things that are important to be able to grab in a hurry, to the less urgent, but still needs to be ready to hand after the superseding document went into the folder), It was in neither. I searched the ready to go to long term storage box three times. I checked the two places it could have fallen or reasonably misfiled. No dice.
I had turned up the document packet it superseded and tossed that into the pile because something is better than nothing, and I was completely at a loss.
Then I remembered the whole people repeatedly knocking things off my paperwork desk and casually putting them back in random locations they didn't belong over a several month stretch last year. The place I put superseded but still need to be easy to find documents is on that desk. I went over there and I imagined being a careless person who didn't notice or care where they knocked the papers from and searched counterintuitive to me places people would randomly jam a handful of important paperwork they didn't care about.
Found it!
The whole process would have taken about an hour what with circling gas expenditures on documents and sorting and the like if they'd just put the paperwork back where it went. (On top of the desk they knocked it from. Like not even a specific place on the desk. All they had to do was pick it up and put it back on the desk randomly).
So that's sorted. (I ordered an extra bit of documentation which may or may not come in time, but apparently I was so organized, I'd ordered it in March in anticipation of April Bureaucracy and submitted it without remembering, so that was a pleasant surprise when I went through April documentation packet. Go Past me! March me was ordering a whole pile of documentation for April Bureaucracy, and this was a lesser bit). We submit documentation and the second tier application near the end of them month during a meeting where they walk me through the paperwork.
I hope we get it. The current laundry situation is terrible and incommoding five people. The ventilation in Squirrel's bathroom has been a problem the whole time we lived here because they never connected the vent to outside. a bunch of smaller things the low bit contractor half assed keep causing issues, but really vents and clothes washer are a big deal.
* "Inside The New, Luxurious Air Force One:"
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* *Snicker* "The Husband's Clock:"
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* Re: Gurathian vs Murderbot on the show being more exaggeratedly antagonistic in the first two episodes:
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* "Sunday Sweets: Bridal Showers:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sundaysweetsbridalshowers2025
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
The help links are at the bottom under the cut.
* "United States Disappeared Tracker:" https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map
* "Nationwide Economic Blackout: Boycott Dates for Target, Amazon, Others:" https://www.newsweek.com/nationwide-economic-blackout-boycott-dates-target-amazon-others-2037986
* "Introducing Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network:" https://aflcio.org/2025/4/16/introducing-rise-federal-workers-legal-defense-network
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Well, Sebastian has still not been seen (except by my down the block neighbor)
May. 23rd, 2025 01:01 amconulybut we've got a new semi-feral slipping into our house, one of last year's kittens. So, uh, I'm still not allowed to fix that basement window I guess?
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Sherlock Holmes: Come If Convenient by rudbeckia
May. 18th, 2025 08:48 pmkingstoken posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fancakeFandom: Sherlock Holmes (tagged as both books and Granada)
Pairings/Characters: Holmes/Watson
Rating: E
Length: 13,317 words
Creator Links: rudbeckia
Theme: Angst with a Happy Ending, courting
Summary: Watson, finally pushed away by Holmes’s lack of regard for his feelings, has left 221B Baker Street and moved into his practice. Holmes is confused—he did nothing wrong! But when Holmes realises (because everyone who gives him advice tells him so) that he is to blame, he knows he has to do something meaningful to win Watson back.
Reccer's Notes: Watson gets tried of Holmes' mistreatment and decides to leave Baker St. Much angst in the beginning, but also a Holmes determined to get his Watson back, cue the wooing! I enjoyed the inclusion of side characters like Mrs Hudson, Mycroft and Lestrade, and there was also an original character, a woman doctor who works with Watson, that I greatly enjoyed. It is tagged as both books and Granada, but I pictured the Granada lads when reading it.
Fanwork Links: AO3
Pairings/Characters: Holmes/Watson
Rating: E
Length: 13,317 words
Creator Links: rudbeckia
Theme: Angst with a Happy Ending, courting
Summary: Watson, finally pushed away by Holmes’s lack of regard for his feelings, has left 221B Baker Street and moved into his practice. Holmes is confused—he did nothing wrong! But when Holmes realises (because everyone who gives him advice tells him so) that he is to blame, he knows he has to do something meaningful to win Watson back.
Reccer's Notes: Watson gets tried of Holmes' mistreatment and decides to leave Baker St. Much angst in the beginning, but also a Holmes determined to get his Watson back, cue the wooing! I enjoyed the inclusion of side characters like Mrs Hudson, Mycroft and Lestrade, and there was also an original character, a woman doctor who works with Watson, that I greatly enjoyed. It is tagged as both books and Granada, but I pictured the Granada lads when reading it.
Fanwork Links: AO3
vital functions
May. 18th, 2025 10:26 pmkaberettCelebrating. My 35th birthday! With a picnic at the allotment (and the allotment fox, and a slow worm, and THE WOODPECKERS); and birthday cake courtesy of my mother. :)
Reading. Finished The Ladies of Grace Adieu, Susanna Clarke, and enjoyed myself so doing!
Then What An Owl Knows, Jennifer Ackerman, showed back up from the library. I am making better progress this time and continue to enjoy Owl Facts.
I have made 0 progress on any of the books on pain, and The Silence Factory (Bridget Collins) has jumped to the top of my read-next list courtesy of getting to the front of the holds queue much sooner than I'd expected to...
Writing. PIP submission got to Good Enough by very early Friday morning. That has been most of my make-words-go brain this week, shockingly.
Playing. I Love Hue: I am Infuriatingly Stuck, presumably at more or less the point I got Infuriatingly Stuck last time. I am more-or-less at the point where I am going to just restart the level and hope I get luckier on my second attempt, but that is never a particularly satisfactory!
Cooking. Choy sum with oyster mushroom sauce, garlic, and peanuts: didn't really get the point of the peanutty topping; unlikely to bother with again. White miso ramen with asparagus and tofu: I was extremely dubious about this based on reading the recipe, and somewhat to my surprise wound up actually really liking the broth; not a high priority for eating in-season asparagus in future, though. Bay, rye and hazelnut cake with poached rhubarb: Y E S, especially using the poaching syrup as a drizzle!
Eating. A made me Saturday brunch waffles, and conveniently we had leftover picnic strawberries and some cream that needed using up, so I got fancy strawberries-and-Chantilly-cream waffles as a Birthday Treat :)
Also had a cream tea at Wimpole early on Sunday afternoon, and curry from a restaurant in Cottenham following Terrible Further Sunday Afternoon Adventures. Some of my mother's bread; birthday cake courtesy of my mother also; also also lentil moussaka ditto :)
Exploring. Visited Home Farm at Wimpole Hall, where we scritched piglets and observed a variety of rare breed hens, rare breed ducks, chicks and ducklings ditto, The Horses, The Rabbits, The Bogat Goats incl. Baby Goats, and we waved to the donkeys, in addition to being very pleased about the various swift-ish things and sparrows making their way in and out of the barns.
Also spent an afternoon sat at the junction of the A10 and Landbeach Road, for terrible hobby purposes, and relatedly a little bit of time poking around the even-more-immediate vicinity of the NEW SITE for Admin: the LRP, aaand also drove past the house we are not even remotely going to buy just to sort of wist at it.
Making & mending. Sawed some wood! All of the bits for railway sleeper raised bed #1 are now in position and I've filled it; but on reflection I deemed the 180mm screws Too Short so am awaiting delivery of some 300mm for Final Assembly. (Whereupon I get to decide to do it all again for bed #2...)
Growing. First broad beans will be ready for harvest any day now (and in fact if we wanted to eat some immature pods I could have the first handful already). Peas are starting to flower! Strawberries are extremely Set Fruit and might even start ripening at some point soonish!
I am extremely excited about how happy the raspberries are looking.
Have sown all of my remaining elderly quinoa seed, which I am not expecting to do much of anything, and will be pleasantly surprised if it does; having one final go at getting any viable plants out of the pineapple physalis seeds I bought at the beginning of the season; have been Donated some Moneymaker tomatoes and a basil plant from my mother; really really need to get the cucumbers started, but Not Quite Yet.
Have started putting squash various outside. Need to finish prepping beds for them to actually go into.
Oh! And the tomatoes are also going out! Annoyingly I lost track of which were Orange Banana and which were Blue Fire so I'm not entirely sure I'm going to actually manage planting up a rainbow of the things, but -- fingers crossed, eh?
Observing. IN ADDITION TO the excellent allotment wildlife and the Creatures at Home Farm, we enjoyed various plantings around Wimpole (including the incredibly striking Very Tall Straight-Stemmed Ferns), and while Doing A Traffic Survey At The A10/Landbeach Road Junction saw also: lambs! corvids harassing a red kite! more swift-y things! goldfinches??? wild rabbits, to A's delight. Some geese, honking merrily away to themselves.
It has been a particularly good week for Creatures. :)
Recent Media - Murderbot 1x01 and 1x02, Sinners
May. 18th, 2025 05:14 pmpetraShort version: Please pay to watch Murderbot and Sinners.
Long version on Murderbot:
( I was so skeptical; no spoilers )
Long version on Sinners:
( Twice the Michael B. Jordan; no spoilers )
Long version on Murderbot:
( I was so skeptical; no spoilers )
Long version on Sinners:
( Twice the Michael B. Jordan; no spoilers )
The weight of ritual - Star Wars story, Anakin Skywalker Matthew Stover-stylee
May. 18th, 2025 05:02 pmpetraThe weight of ritual (400 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Padmé Amidala & Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Padmé Amidala
Additional Tags: Superstition, Compulsive Behavior, Rituals
Summary:
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Padmé Amidala & Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Padmé Amidala
Additional Tags: Superstition, Compulsive Behavior, Rituals
Summary:
Obi-Wan Kenobi doesn't believe in luck.
Anakin Skywalker, on the other hand, is superstitious to a fault.