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well great, now my little power bank's screwing up and needs replacing. man idk where I got this from :U sigh. another problem to fix... yes it's a relatively minor one, but that's not the point... just... I'm just tired. I'm tired.

On a lighter note... oh am I going to miss being woken up by Mum going "WAKE UP, [THING] IS HAPPENING AT BTTF" x) so, four Lorraines, huh? great timing - it's the day after the WOS Awards :D So very convenient for us, hee hee! just required a couple'a tweaks to our pre-existing plans.

Ahhh so exciting!!! I hope they do more than they did for the Three Martys show, cause like... well what we _got_ was amazing, but it was like 5 mins out of a show that otherwise largely ran as normal. It would've been nice to get a bit more than that. Think that's about the general consensus in the fandom, so... hopefully they'll listen to us on that one, heh. I'm optimistic though since it's Lorraine - she only gets so many scenes in the first place - so yeah, hopefully that means we'll get more time with each Lorraine than what happened with the Marty show. (for that, going off what they said beforehand, I kinda assumed it'd be more evenly divvied up between the three... I could easily imagine how you could have done that. as it was we just got a song + short scene from Ben, same again for Olly, "Back in Time" with all three, and then Caden did the rest... fantastic but a bit of a "...wait, that's it?" all the same.) hopefully we'll get some more precise info on it soon... fingers crossed. cause that was really the main issue I had with the last time, that the info we DID get was vague and made out like they'd do more than they did... if they'd been more upfront about "they're just doing one song each" then it'd be like, alright, okay, we know what we're in for then. if that makes sense.

but yeah, let's see... Hello, Pretty Baby... oh, the window for My Myopia too, I guess. Be interesting to see how they do that. I'm assuming we won't get a swap for the bedroom scene following PB, that'd be a bit fiddly. So those, then lockers/Something About That Boy (again I feel like these would probably be treated as the same scene for this sort of thing)... that's act 1... then act 2, Something About Reprise, the bit before Teach Him A Lesson, PB Reprise/car park, EA/JBG (again assuming this section would be treated as one scene), then George McFly Day/Power of Love. oh and then Back in Time of course, but I feel like it's safe to assume they'll all do that xD so let's see, that's... basically 3 scenes for act 1, and.. hmmm, not sure how to count act 2 since that's less clear-cut, since how do you count those two fairly short scenes before the school dance.. hm... well yeah, still, I feel like this'll work better? I'm not gonna even try to speculate on how they'll do it (the only reason I'm rambling THIS much is because a) I've got five mins to kill and b) I'm pissed off/stressed out/etc about other shit and trying to distract myself)... but since she gets less scenes than Marty... feel like it'll be more of an even mix this time round. hopefully! ahhh I wonder who'll do Pretty Baby... oh... I shouldn't speculate, don't want to get my hopes up. ^^; But it's gonna be a wild ride...

(It's a bit annoying seeing ppl go OMG DOES THIS MEAN [X/Y/Z] WILL RETURN NEXT??? like guys, I get it, but let's not... I dunno, I don't get it when people make shit up and get overexcited like this. It's like that weird thing in the Adventure Time fandom a while back when people suddenly decided "the movie's going to be about JAKE DYING!!" and there's just... NO basis for that whatsoever - the movie hasn't even been greenlit yet!! geez! *shakes head* I mean at least with this, I can see the argument of "Well if they've done it twice.." but... can't we just be happy with what we DO get, and just wait and see if anything else happens... y'know?)

oh and that documentary we've heard whispers about before, is finally out? ohhh, gotta figure out when I can find time to watch THAT. not exactly thrilled that it's being called a BROADWAY MUSICAL right there in the title... or that the first couple of mins I watched (before I was like "Okay no, no, I don't have time to watch this right now") were all Broadway..... but eh I'll spare you my rant on things being framed to be as US-centric as possible. -_- It's not A Broadway Musical, goddamn it. It's a musical theatre show that has run in multiple places, including Broadway... for a small fraction of the time it's spent in the UK... man, I'm not saying it should be called "A West End musical", but just- cut the nothing-matters-other-than-Broadway crap. just pisses me off, sorry.

(of course if you're talking about a specific production, then yeah use the appropriate labels, obviously. I just mean when talking about the show in general. I mean, I think this of all shows! Actually I guess that's part of a bigger rant, how a lot of people - well, Americans - say "Broadway" when they really just mean "(musical) theatre". that's more nitpicky though, I suppose... but I hate the "oh everything before/after was just a warm-up for ~*BROADWAY!!!!11!!*~" crap. -_-)

Gah, sorry, got rantier there than I'd meant to. Ummm idk what else to say. Oh, except that I went ahead and archived all of my Stitch Week photos on my site so, that exists now. :B I'll try and remember to keep it updated. (Most likely I'll post them on here as usual and then add them to the site archive in one go later, rather than uhh "simulcast" the photos, as it were.) Cause yep, don't plan on stopping those pics any time soon :) can't guarantee I'll keep up with Stitch Week forever, of course, but y'know we'll see how it goes.

It's so satisfying looking back through the Reuben pics... since they're the only ones where I do make sure to include EVERYTHING rather than just whatever's nearby when I start setting up the pic. he's my favourite special baby angel boy, so he gets extra effort put into his photo, yes :P which means looking at them you can see the progression of my little Reuben army... gah, it still blows my freakin' mind that I can actually say that now! You just- I say this all the time but you have NO IDEA, I CANNOT overstress how badly I wanted Reuben merch when the show was originally running. It's so wonderful to finally be able to have even ONE thing of him, let alone all the lovely things I have now ^_^ Ditto the other experiments but especially Reuben. It's great to get merch of chars you love anyway, but it's extra nice and special-feeling when you waited soooo long for it. It's fun to do something and think "Oh man I wish I could nip back a few decades and show this to 2004-me, she'd flip her shit if she could see this!".

oh yeah, I saw those preview rehearsal clips of the German BTTF production! interesting stuff. I'm really impressed at how they managed to translate the line "The world will write my story in / this stainless steel DeLorean" into something that still rhymes. (IDK what, I only know a handful of German words and not many that are especially helpful outside the realm of girly 80s/90s kind of stuff, you know, like "himmelstanzer" or "prinzessin" or "Mondstein Flieg und Sieg" :P) But then Power of Love seems to be left in English completely? :O Huh, weird. Not surprised that the title's been kept as-is (Japan did that too) but the whole song, really? :O Although the films seem to be pretty popular over there, so maybe it's one of those things where they figured it was well-known enough it'd work fine as-is? I guess it saves on a translation too. It's always interesting to see how these things are handled. Ooooh I wonder what they'll do with the Dick Jagger joke... Japan changed it to something like "Jaguar, you mean like the car?" (Jaguar/Jagger being homophones in Japanese) which is pretty good, I think... just always curious to see how puns and such get handled in translations.

I like their Goldie, he sounds great on the clips I've seen. Although argh argh I hate the Broadway bench dancing so much. I mean it's okay I guess, I just prefer the West End choreo. another reminder that we'll probably be saddled with the damn benches come the UK tour >_< argh

alright, that's enough babbling from me for now...

(I love how the Japanese ver of "Cake" is still called "Cake" even though it no longer makes sense... since of course they didn't even try and translate "cake and eat it too". there's no refs to cake at all in the lyrics! it didn't translate over! but it still has the same name X3 pff I'm just amused by it being called "Cake" in the first place, don't mind me.)

Madness Level: pizza time
Voices In My Head Sing: Cake - Back to the Future: The Musical (Tokyo Cast Recording)

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ETA: DW has updated! Code Tour: 2024-12-01 to 2026-02-25. Some longed for fixes in there.

Fun Art & Stuff!

PBSVoices: How Navajo Weavers Keep an Ancient Art Alive (Video: 10 minutes).
This short film follows two Navajo weavers whose work preserves memory, identity, and ancestral knowledge.
Very cool! I don't know anything about Navajo weaving, and would love to watch a longer project about it.

spankulert: Icon post #122.
Including The X-Files, Star Treks: Starfleet Academy, Voyager + Discovery, Fallout and more.
Really nice to see the ST:SA icons!

NationalTheatre: Take Your Seats | Announcement | National Theatre at Home (Video: 30 seconds).
On Thursday 12 March (7pm GMT), lose yourself in the hit production of The Importance of Being Earnest at our free YouTube premiere. Can’t make it? The stream will remain accessible on demand, for free, for one week only.
FINALLY! I believe it will go up on the NT's subscription streaming site after that.

The Tyee: They Lit the Path for Women Photographers.
A couple of exhibit reviews for shows I can't see. LOLSOB.

Nanaimo News Now: Nanaimo’s Maffeo Sutton Park shines during ‘Lighting a Path’ public art exhibit.
Really cool way to do an art show!

Dead Language Society: How far back in time can you understand English?
I made it to like the fourteen hundreds. I'm sure most of you can get further back.

ecc-poetry/Elisa Chavez: What You Need to Be Warned (Or: Inventory and Appraisement of Neil Gaiman, Hereafter "Decedent").
I'm going to nominate this for a poetry Hugo. I'm haunted by the line: Even at your worst, you are replaceable.

Technology Bullshit:
The Conversation: This TikTok star sharing Australian animal stories doesn't exist – it's AI Blakface.
Fantastic. Just what Indigenous communities need: computer-generated Pretendians.

Electronic Frontier Foundation: So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
Advice for how to proceed with age verifications, since that's going to be part of our fucking lives now.

The Tyee: AI Is the Elephant in the Newsroom. How Are Journalists Reacting?
Ask yourself, why are you using the tool to do this? Do I have nine other things to do, and this will make my life faster? Or am I trying not to pay a journalist?

404 Media: This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby.
You might have to get a free account to see this? Anyway, nice that people are trying to code around other people's appalling privacy violations? Even if you don't get the app (which I haven't), good info about the stupid smart glasses.

Gender Bullshit (mostly men, tbh):
Comics Beat: Multiple women accuse Spider-Gwen co-creator Jason Latour of misconduct.
This is actually a few years old, but I'd missed it at the time (or forgotten it entirely). FFS.

Maureen Ryan on BlueSky: 'll just add, as someone who's been doing investigative reporting for decades, all publications doing real journalism (i.e., not a sockpuppet or Some Guy on the Internet)--they have MANY layers of editorial & legal review.
Thread about how real journalism is supposed to work. In this section due to the inciting incident.

The Politics of Dancing: Abuse is still rife in dance music: Here's how we break the cycle.
Great essay about structural problems.

The Tyee: SOGI Is Under Attack. Educators Say It’s Never Been More Needed.
It's a municipal and school board election year in B.C., and I think we're in for a fucking fight. PROTECT OUR KIDS!

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Between the train being a while and the train being delayed, I arrived just in time to be fashionably late: I walked into the party just as the guest of honor was being introduced. The woman of the hour, a newly published author, a friend of the people whose library I was hired to organize who decided to invite me to the book party as a parting gift. I was the last person to arrive and comfortably below the average age of the guests, and even recognized a handful of people from overlapping social Jewish circles. I felt nervous about being there until the man who was introducing the author talked about how her memoir was both nostalgic and sad, not a combination that comes up - and I waved my hand to get his attention, because I knew exactly what to say.

I quoted Anya Von Bremzen to say the phrase she used for that sensation was poisoned Madeline.

When I say the host, author, and room were suitably pleased and impressed at the phrase, that also says a lot about the rest of the guests at the party.

What's even better is that my interjection wasn't my high point of the party. As much fun as it was to be invited to that kind of thing, as deeply as I enjoyed putting some goat cheese inside dates for an amazing snack, I mostly attended to network. I knew my clients, I knew who their friends would be, and I worked that as much as I could. I introduced myself and said, "I'm the librarian." I explained how I'd come to be at the party. I hobbed, I nobbed, I was suitably impressive. I said, "My card," and handed over a business card. I commented to one of the hosts that if all that came out of it was being able to say I'd said "My card" it was worth the evening. It was an amazing feeling to do that. So very grown up.

I wore one of my nicer dresses, and it definitely helped me feel like I belonged there. After a while, the feeling simply settled in. I chatted about fiction, about the philosophy of library science and the psychology of letting go of books, about cakes and baking, about public transportation. I said cabs were the luxury of the people and that they were union. I joked about wanting to show off my party trick but since the party was over, too bad. I nibbled and had some wine, and took some grapes home at the hosts' insistence, though they didn't have to try very hard. I took a bike back instead of using the subway or walking, and it was the best way to come down from the elevated state. Not all the way down, though - it'll be with me for a while longer, and I'm doing what I can to savor it for as long as it lasts.

Madness Level: touched
Voices In My Head Sing: nothing now

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ALRIGHT time to write up this show report already. this is for last Sunday's matinee!

( Oliver! - Gielgud Theatre - 22/02/26 (Round 3) )

ahhh I'm no doubt forgetting a ton of stuff xD but yes it was SUCH a good show!!! ugh I love this show so soooo much, I want to see it sooo many more times.

Madness Level: woot, finally got this up
Voices In My Head Sing: Moe Yousotte Nandesuka? (Off Vocal) - Lucky Star

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And I'm getting paid for every last one of them, including the 6 hours when the house slept and so did I. Normally, we're not actually supposed to sleep on an overnight shift - but almost everybody really does, so it's more like "don't get caught" - but c'mon.

For everybody at home, leaving without a replacement is not simply a fireable offense but an actual, factual crime. Also, I'm not sure how I would've gotten to the bus. I mean, it's right outside the door, and buses were running all night, but man, it was brutal out there. We needed a little shoveling, and neither I nor manager wanted to shovel, so we had to wait for the neighbors to get their sidewalks and then sorta patch us into theirs. (The transportation issue is also why I'm not blaming any coworkers who didn't come in. It was impossible. I genuinely don't think that this was a fixable issue, Staten Island got a lot of snow.)

In retrospect, what probably ought to have been done would have had to have been done in advance:

1. Manager should've taken as much discretionary money as possible, agreed to let staff order Chinese or whatever for two, three meals - something that reheats nicely - and offered to pay all our carfare home in advance, and then used that to straight up bribe at least one extra staff member to stay over the storm. With three of us, we could've had one on each floor and also could've more easily arranged sleeping shifts so somebody was awake at all times.

2. She also should've called up the families of those residents who frequently go home for an overnight and asked if they'd take their relatives from Sunday afternoon until Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning. That's suboptimal for a lot of reasons - there's a reason they all live in a residence instead of with their families! - but it would've lightened the burden on us significantly if we'd had even just our two or three easiest residents away visiting their sisters and brothers.

But we all survived! My replacement actually showed up at midnight last night! But she declined to wake me on the grounds that I wasn't going home at midnight, and she was quite right. And then another staff member showed up this morning, and 90 or 100 minutes later my bus finally showed up. (And yes, I do insist on getting paid for that last hour and a half as well. I wasn't just sitting around, I was doing laundry, and supervising on the basement so that everybody else could handle the upper floors, and walking the guys out to their van so nobody slipped on ice.)

I'm home now, I showered, and I have the rest of the week off, off, off. Yay me!

If this happens again, I'm bringing a change of clothing.

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hello! im currently working on a fantasy story where the country it takes place in (or at the very least starts in- im still figuring out plot details) is inspired by indonesia, but im having trouble finding good resources about indonesian architecture in the vague time period im writing in- i dont have a specific idea beyond the vague medieval times setting most fantasy stories use, but im more than willing to try and narrow it down if it helps. if anyone has resources i could look into, that would be very helpful!

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The George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine Cookbook
Paperback – January 1, 2000
by george-foreman-connie-merydith (Author)

Today we finished reading our second cookbook of the year. The front matter includes Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction, and Smart Eating for Healthier Living. The recipe chapters are Bring Out the Best of Grilling -- Marinades, Sauces, and Rubs; A Cut Above -- Beef and Lamb; Smoky Sensations -- Pork Chops, Ribs, and Ham; Tender Choices from the Sea -- Fish and Shellfish; Savory Grilled Poultry -- Chicken and Turkey; Quick and Easy Favorites -- Burgers, Sandwiches, and Snacks; Tempting Companion Dishes -- Vegetables, Fruit, Salads, and Desserts. Then in the back are a basic cooking guide, glossary, and index. The index lists both recipe titles and ingredients.

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What's up party people?

If you've made it this far you've probably gathered that my name is Brandyn, and yeah I'm testing the waters here. I'm used to social media but never did anything live journal related and definitely don't entirely fit in with capital F Fandom spaces (Though all respect to the queer men, gals, and non-binary pals that spend their time in the trenches and help elevate certain fandoms, I like Star Trek and Gundam, I respect my history).

Mostly want to use this space to post a bit...vulnerably? Not necessarily in terms of my personal life or a place to vent necessarily (Though that's not off the table), but a space removed from the more performative persona I've put on for some other sites (Namely LeagueOfComicGeeks, cause big comic fan. Can find me under fatboyftw there). Not that I'm bitching, I love being known as a snarky but insightful asshole but it can take work to maintain. Alongside the inherent cynicism that having a space only dedicated to one niche hobby inherently brings since once you reach a certain threshold of something and learn how the sausage gets made you tend to get more bitter and critical. I love shouting into the ether about stuff but traditional social media has a way of getting me a bit heated sometimes, lmao.

So I'm going to use this space to be chill and just mainly talk about things I enjoy, comics and otherwise. A place I can go when I wanna post something that on another site I might have to defend or explain a bit more than I have the mental energy to do. As for what I would be posting about well, as we've established comics. Comics of all kinds, love the entire medium, not just superhero stuff. But also the occasional manga/anime, Kaiju Films, video games, and chats about fiction writing since it's not something I do nearly enough but something I love to do.

If any of that seems interesting then feel free to follow...subscribe...whatever it's called here.

(Yes if you check my profile this is just my first post copy and pasted, I realized I didn't have another introduction in me, I'm sowwy)

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Anyway in the interest of getting SOMETHING done and not sitting here feeling mopey, here's that swag pic I said I'd post:

no bg because I wanted to snip some of it out for privacy reasons and then got really into the editing :P but yeah, last Year 2 programme I was missing! the Ben/Roger programmes (there are two) are hard to find since they weren't on sale for very long before they swapped to the Ben/Cory ones. This is v10; I think the only difference between this and v11 (the other Ben/Roger programme) is Rhodri being in/not in the cast list, but it's nice to have. I always figured I'd go after it if it popped up for a good price :) I don't have all the programmes... I'm missing 2-5 and then.. let's see... I skipped v18 because it had the same Year 3 photos but just updated the cast list, that one seemed a bit pointless/silly to me (why not include rehearsal photos like they did for the last two years???), and v20 since that one only had minor updates I think... hm.. almost regret skipping them now that I've said that x) no, no, I don't need EVERY minor variation. V10 was one I did have my eye on though since again, it was the only Year 2 one I was missing, and I miss Year 2 :) I loved that cast... it felt right to have a complete set for that year.

and then yup managed to snag the other two pins in that Loungefly set I particularly wanted ^^ 627 and Ace! NEVER thought I'd see some Ace merch, holy crap! And I always love seeing 627, especially nowadays considering they usually focus on Leroy instead... I know they're similar, but they ARE different and distinct characters. So it's nice seeing official acknowledgement of that... and more merch ^_^ I love the contrast between these two, they really are foils, aren't they... never thought of it before now... man they should've done something with that!! did the anime pit them against each other?? *checks wiki* hm.. doesn't sound like it... actually the plots of the two anime eps Ace DID get sound really lame.. but eh, the anime's not for me. Man that'd be cool though.

I miss this style of programme. The new circuit-board-and-logo programmes really are kind of ugly ^^;; I just don't like them, what can I say. Even though I bought on Thursday :P well, you know!!!

I really should type up that show report, but lol not gonna do it at this time of night. ("But half of your show reports are posted at like 4 am" Yeah well it's different FINISHING them then... I do usually START writing them at like 11 pm-ish, they just take a while to type up ^^; or I get distracted, or w/e.) I'll try and get that done tomorrow, though. Cause it really was SUCH a good show :)

Madness Level: thinking about stuff
Voices In My Head Sing: Koibito ga Santa Claus - Rica Fukami (Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon)

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I've seen a few people participate in this lengthy survey about educational privilege, and the support one received from the adults in one's life. So, here's mine:

Adults responsible for your care actively helped facilitate your early learning. (Reading at bedtime, playing educational games, going to child-friendly museums...)
I don’t remember being read to at bedtime when I was little, but I’m 100% sure I was. My dad would sometimes read me books in the daytime; my mom would still sometimes read at night when I was a bit older, if I was sick. Mom & I played 3D tic-tac-toe, Connect 4, checkers, backgammon, cards, and other games that taught strategy and spatial awareness. I do know I got to attend a few kid-friendly science museums, although I don’t really remember that.

( The rest of my answers under here )

And we certainly tried our best to pass on that support to our own kids as they went through the school system, as well.

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It was beautifully quiet today. The snow helped, of course, and the snow was the cause - people staying home, cars not getting driven, taxis not cruising for passengers. Helicopters and planes staying on the ground. It took me a while to realize I wasn't hearing the usual sounds. When the snow let up and people started driving again, I honestly felt resentful that the travel ban wasn't going on longer. It'd been a nice glimpse into a quieter New York City. I feel like that's how it always is. Just a glimpse of a better world.

Or at least, a moment to resettle so I can realize just how noisy the West Side Highway really is. I went down to the park to walk a bit in the afternoon, after the snow stopped, and I don't mind noise from kids that are shouting about how happy they are or what a good time they're having when they're sledding down a big hill, or noise from people talking about an inflatable toy's weight limit before sledding down the big hill themselves. Human voices. There were a couple of shrieks right near me for some reason, and of course a very loud barking dog that its owner insisted was friendly, and overall, just nice sounds of people.

I had my headband on and my hood up, and both those things helped muffle the world. The coat itself was warm enough that when I lay back in the snow, twice, I stayed comfortable enough to settle in for a little bit. Not many minutes, but enough time to measure on a stopwatch, easily.

There were several taped-off CAUTION areas around fallen trees and threatening branches, and I found it wonderful that people had already made a single-file path underneath one of the trees in between the branches - sticking as close to the path that the tree had fallen over as best they all could. Ducking down to get under and through. A little ways away there was a bower made from bushes bent over with snow that also provided something of a roof, and some parents took pictures of their kids hanging out in there and posing at the entrance. It made for a nice echo of both adults and children doing more or less the same thing, if on different scales. The intent of play was close enough to call it the same.

There were snow men, snow women, snow people, and snow animals. There were snow structures made from hand packing it and snow structures made from using plastic bins to mold sturdy bricks. There was a moment I saw the sky start to come out and felt a pang of disappointment because it meant the day was moving on from the storm. I'd fallen back into the snow already then, and made a point to do it a second time. If I'd been more careful with my legs not getting wet, I'd have lain there a while longer. But I knew the day was going, so I might as well go, too, so I wouldn't have to see it end.

Madness Level: pleased
Voices In My Head Sing: nothing now

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It snowed until around 3 pm today! Just...so much snow. Friend L sent me a pic from her building in Manhattan and it was like the storm had barely had an impact, yet by me, even though the street had been plowed, it was all snowy again. Anyway, thankfully, my boss is also under about 2 ft of snow out on the island, so we are not going in tomorrow (the person who was supposed to come meet with us had their flight cancelled, so they never even made it to NY, so that will all get rescheduled, too). Whew.

Anyway, have some brief thoughts on recent TV:

- Shrinking: ( spoilers ) This show remains hilarious and endearing.

- Pluribus: I finished it and I don't love it but I am interested in seeing where it goes. ( spoilers )

- The Pitt: ( spoilers )

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Madness Level: tired
Voices In My Head Sing: Irresistible - Fall Out Boy

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I need to sit up, no slumping.

Still no contract.

I wonder if the HR manager has pushed back against the client group manager...

ETA 2 hours later: Apparently they are renewing me, but they're changing the payroll company they're paying me through, and I'm not sure what's going on with the rate, or how much longer the contract will go for.

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Also, per my icon: you should do a search on "political" quilts at QuiltCon '26. There are a bunch of conservatives with their panties in a knot because "suddenly" the quilts are "political"...

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We have two new chickens. Babies, 6 weeks old. We're keeping them inside for the moment, in a cage, mostly because the coop we'd put them in needs repair and I won't have proper time until Sunday (but am stealing lunchtimes and after work). We're also trying to get them used to cuddles.

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squidgiepdx belongs to this comm, but he’s perpetually been some combination of sick and busy, so I’ve taken the liberty of helping him out.

He’s trying to track down a particular BTS shot from Stargate: Atlantis:

And now on to the SGA Picture part of the deal. So I wrote a quickie story for romancingmcshep about John Sheppard's ass (the fest goes until February 28th if you're interested!) and the whole story is based on a picture that NOBODY can find anymore. I KNOW! It's frustrating! Anyway, there's what I think is a "behind the scenes" shot of most likely S01E03 "Hide and Seek" or S01E05 "Suspicion" where it's focused on Joe Flanigan's butt. Like kinda blatantly. He's kneeling on the Gateroom floor over Rodney, I believe and you can see where his t-shirt is pulled up and the waistband of his BDUs are lower - showing some skin and some of his boxers. This is what I think the camera sees in that shot, as Sheppard is kneeling like that but I remember there being a whole lot more skin. Does anyone remember a BTS photo like this? SO FRUSTRATING that I can't find it when I know I've seen it a hundred times.

His post: https://squidgiepdx.dreamwidth.org/341626.html

ETA 25 February 2026: The specific shot has yet to be identified, but

openidwouldwork has kindly provided a resource devoted to this extremely specialized topic: https://dailystargatebooty.tumblr.com/

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The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue
Read this because a) I'd been meaning to, b) it was a yuletide EPH (which obviously I didn't fill, but you know... good intentions).

In the past, I've found Donoghue rather bleak, and preferred her non, fiction. (Maybe it was just that I read the one where everyone died of Spanish Influenza?)

This takes place across several hours, on a train that runs from the coast of Normandy to Paris, where it will famously fail to brake and blast through the wall of the train station (this was re-enacted in the movie Hugo, and captured in a tonne of contemporary photographs). Which is not what the book's about, other than as a driving sense of inevitable ruin. The book is about a few dozen characters, including the train itself, a slice of life as the world teeters on the edge of a new century. Many of the characters are historical figures, some of whom were on the train that day, a bunch more who might have been. There's an anarchist with a bomb, the railway employees, a painter, a secretary, several politicians, a sex worker, a medical student, some children, a variety of day labourers, all forced to into each other's company for the course of several hours. Many of them are some flavour of queer, several are not white, each has their own story. All have a complicated relationship with the racing pace of technological and cultural change, at a time when France has only been a Republic (again) for a few decades, and it's (again) not at all clear if this time will stick.

I often get confused by books with this many characters, especially when there's not much in the way of plot, and the book jumps between them pretty fast, but Donoghue makes them all so distinct, with their own voices, that I didn't have trouble this time. I also appreciated her deft touch at making the characters feel of that moment in history, rather than being stand ins for the contemporary reader. We hear about the Dreyfus Affair, for example, and mostly people just believe he's a traitor, even the anarchist, who theoretically should know better. If there's any author stand in, it's an elderly Russian lady's companion, who mostly seems to have things figured out, and is also a cranky weirdo. Actually, a lot of characters are cranky weirdos, and not necessarily good people, but also not the kind of vile that are terrible to spend time with.

I'm perhaps not at my most articulate explaining why I liked this, but mostly that it scratched my brain as a deeply considered idea of how life might have looked at another time, when people were like us, but also different.

"Mr Rowl" by D.K. Broster
I'm not sure if this is the second most popular one after The Jacobite Trilogy, or if The Wounded Name is. Anyway, another 1920s book by a lesbian author, about plausibly deniable Historical Gays. This one is set during the Napoleonic wars, and centres on a French officer who is a prisoner of war in England. He's initial held on parole in a bucolic town, but following Events, he ends up in a prison stockade, then on the prison hulks (de-masted ships floating in the English Channel). He has a low-key romance with one of the girls from the original town, and a series of oddly intense interactions with English officers (one of whom appears to be canonically queer). There's also crossdressing, and quite a bit of hurt/comfort.

Having come in to Broster on The Flight of the Heron, I was expecting the same kind of emotional romance plot, with the pivot of the story being around the relationship between the two main male characters. Thus was initially discombobulated by how meandering the plot ended up being. We follow "Mr Rowl" (the English pronunciation of Raoul) across a series of misfortunes as he wanders about England, not meeting either of the other significant male characters until half way through the book. The most intense action is packed into two chapters in the last third, which makes the structure a little lopsided; however, the plotlines that have been building do come together rather neatly, which I enjoyed.

I started watching the new Star Trek show not long after I finished this, and was immediately struck by the connection between how Broster writes honour-obsessed men in the 18th and 19th century, and the Klingons. Some of the "I must do this Because Honour" choices in this book—though they more or less made sense—did feel a little load-bearing in terms of plot. And the heroine did spend some time going, "Um, holy shit, why?" at a few of those choices. It does also lead to several of the most tropy h/c scenes, however, so I suppose I shouldn't complain.

I like that the main antagonists of the book were a) the controlling asshole boyfriend, and b) the British penal system.

Orbital by Samantha Harvey, narrated by Sarah Naudi
Firstly, I remember some debate about this when this came out: this book is not science fiction. It's literary fiction set on the International Space Station. If you wanted to have an argument for why it was SF, you could say, "Well there's an ongoing Moon mission, which there wasn't at the time of this writing." But there being a Moon mission has been on the books for a decade, so setting it slightly in the future so that the mission could be happening at the same time as the book is, frankly, not science fiction, and I don't know why people thought it was.

Secondly, oh my god why? I guess this was so popular because most people haven't really thought about what life on the I.S.S. might be like, and this was more or less informative on that point. If you've never even one time thought about the space program. It rapidly became clear that someone who's read multiple astronaut biographies may not be the target audience.

There were several neat scenes! I liked the bit about the cosmonaut talking on a HAM radio with random Earthlings, for example. However, the majority of the book was poetic reflections on either inane details of space life, or just looking at the Earth being pretty. Eventually the Astronauts go to bed, and then we just close out with long descriptions of the Earth being pretty. I may not have gotten the point of this book.

(While writing this, I discovered that www.HowManyPeopleAreInSpaceRightNow.com is no longer being maintained, which makes me sad.)

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man Goodnight Sweetheart is weird, because the last two seasons are a lot goofier and wackier than the rest of the show

and then the penultimate series ends with this weirdly melancholy episode ("My Heart Belongs To Daddy"). it's not exactly sad? it's just... an odd tone. esp. coming after the ep with the scene of old, dementia-riddled Reg, which is shockingly depressing coming from this show. (the weird thing about that scene, to me, is that it starts off seemingly trying to play it for laughs?? the laughtrack's going and everything. and you're like "dude wtf, this isn't funny". then it suddenly gets _really_ serious and even the laughtrack shuts up. it's not a bad scene, it's just... an odd feeling, esp. given that the rest of the ep is nowhere near the same tone)

should start on the last series tonight, anyway... we got through the last one couple of days before we left for London and decided to hold off on watching any more 'til we got back, made more sense to me that way since we'd reached a natural stopping point, rather than interrupt the watch-through an ep or two into it.

(I'm rambling about this because I'm having a bad day, to put it mildly. Is it any wonder I prefer to be in London at this point... just feels like everything goes wrong when I'm at home. but yeahhh I'm trying to just... focus on anything other than the bad shit right now.)

ah, crap, I should write up my show report for yesterday. My head's fucking fried right now though. The worst thing is when you're at the point where you're like "Alright, it's no good [thinking/worrying/stressing] about this right now, it's not gonna get resolved [today/soon/at all] so I need to [think about/do/etc] something else right now" and you really WANT to. You're tired of the thing so you want to do something else. But also The Thing is all you can think about and you're mentally exhausted from [worrying/stressing/etc] about it. So you're just stuck. That's why I'm writing this right now.

It'd be nice if time travel was real. I feel like I'd be a hell of a lot happier if I could just hole up in the past for a while, lol. I know, I know, it's not helpful to think like that. Y'know a lot of those "old webcore" or w/e they're called, sites/blogs/etc, give me a headache. In part cause a lot of them are an attempt to recreate something without understanding it really, a lot of it is nowhere near what the old web was actually like, it's not "right". But also I find that a lot of it is, it's nice and then it becomes too much? Drowning in nostalgia is usually how I tend to think of it. It's hard to explain... I love old stuff, obviously. God knows the internet was better back in the day. But sometimes it also feels suffocating going through all the... It's not old stuff, specifically. Like if I look through an blog about 90s toys, that doesn't usually make me feel like that. Just specifically trying to RECREATE old times, I guess, is what triggers that response. I dunno if that makes sense, it's hard to explain.

Eh, even if time travel WAS real it probably wouldn't solve my problems anyway. lol I sound like Ed Bighead. "A 90s TV show won't solve the problems you have!" or however that line went. I dunno what I'm typing about, sorry, I slipped into "typing on autopilot" mode for a while there. I'm gonna stop and try and do something else now.

(This is more of a vent than a rant, really, but I don't have a tag for vents, so... whatever the fuck.)

Madness Level: it's a bad one today guys
Voices In My Head Sing: Koisuru Voc@loid - Hatsune Miku

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Forewords and Afterwords by W.H. Auden

A collection of essays, including reviews, all written on occasion, for a particular book.

It produces a great variety of subjects.

Some are of period interest, of various kinds. The appropriate treatment for migraines being psychoanalysis? On the other hand, this is where I read his observation about how going over to Rome was a shocking scandal in the upper classes -- like the birth of an illegitimate baby -- but something that did happen, whereas becoming a Baptist was inconceivable.

Much about poets and other writers, some interesting observations on heroes, and more.

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The queen is back! Long live the queen!

conuly

And I am trapped at work!

I mean, the buses are running, but nobody else is coming in, and it’s not a job you can just shut down for the day.

muccamukk

I just have such a strong reaction to the question: "Is it queerbaiting if straight actors play gay roles?"

My answer is neither "yes" nor "no."

It's "Not today, Satan!"

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The travel ban's up. Schools are going back to remote learning. Nobody's going anywhere if they can help it. I'd figured this was coming, and it's nice that it's settling in. The snow's coming down steadily and I can faintly hear human voices - going from where the light's coming from, the people in the next building over are either hosting some friends or having a very loud party by themselves. Either way, it's warm human voices on a cold night.

Not a dark night, though. The clouds aren't letting that happen. It's one of the nicer parts of nighttime snow.

Madness Level: pensive
Voices In My Head Sing: nothing now

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back home! had a nice 'n' fun day today, got ready while listening to/half-watching the Gary ep of Only Fools and Horses (for the third time in ~24 hours... thank you, GOLD), then went to the Oliver! matinee ^_^ I'll do a show report tomorrow, but it was a really great show. Although I swear we're cursed or something, cause yup still didn't get to see Simon!Fagin X'D But I can't complain cuz we got to see a second cover show instead and that's just as cool! But yeah, I'll talk about that tomorrow.

Then, let's see... it didn't take too long to walk around cuz all the roads around Chinatown are shut (for traffic; pedestrians are fine) for the Chinese New Year celebrations. had tea and killed a lotta time, then slooowly walked back to the hotel... hung out in the Actors' Church gardens for a bit, just killing time and enjoying the night, and talking about Flea and such... was really nice. killing over an hour at the train station (serenaded by two really enthusiastic guys, one on the piano, the other scatting/YEAH YEAH YEEEAHHHHing along with him... for over an hour....) was... less nice... and I was soooo tired on the train back... but, hey-ho. it was a nice end to a nice week :) I REALLY needed this trip away.

came home to some killer swag too, but I'll try and post about that tomorrow too (I have pics but I'm in bed, so I'll post 'em tomorrow).

uhhh what else did I want to type about.. oh YEAH RIGHT I know

So what about that "Glitter Glide" Stitch/Angel music video thingy, huh
apparently it's going to be a whole album? I think??? it's very generic. It really doesn't have anything to do with the characters or setting, apart from some tacked-in refs that could easily be snipped out... It's also really weird hearing them call her "624" over and over. ???? It feels unnatural.

the animation is also a bit TOO fluid, sort of uncanny. it reminds me of something, the slightly-too-good animation... the HSM crossover vid maybe??
looking at it again this ALSO has Jumba in a similar tank top dealio. is there any crew overlap between this and the HSM vid??? cuz that'd explain a lot lol

BUT HEY WHAT ABOUT THAT TINY CLYDE CAMEO HUH??? I have NO IDEA why they used Clyde, of all chars, but man I AM NOT COMPLAINING ahhh I love him
yes I did hear about that and watch the vid solely to see him, haha. and Reuben <3 <3 sweet Reuben.

but yeahhhh it's just generic bubblegum pop with Angel tacked on to sell it, and I don't care for the "Angel as an idol singer" concept anyway (tho I know it's nothing new, the anime created that... I guess that's why it feels so anime-esque to me... IS this anything to do with Disney Japan or are Disney US just cribbing off what sells in Japan again?) but... Clyde cameo... *thumbs up*

Madness Level: type type type
Voices In My Head Sing: Tonight It's You just finished

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I got up to watch the hockey this morning and despite Team USA pulling it off in OT, I do not accept that Bill Guerin was proved right in his choices. Eighty-five percent of the game was played in their defensive end and they only won because Connor Hellebuyck stood on his head. Maybe a little more scoring power on the team could have given them some breathing room. I am just saying. I'm happy for Hellebuyck and the Hughes brothers, and I got a little teary when they brought out the Gaudreau jersey and his kids, and I'm not gonna lie, watching Jon Cooper and Connor McDavid (along with Sam Bennett, Tom Wilson, and Brad Marchand) lose was pleasing to me on a deep, personal level, but overall, I'd still have preferred the Finns or the Swedes take home the gold.

I then baked some oatmeal for breakfast for the week, and made macaroni salad for a few days of lunch, and then for dinner, I made angel hair as planned, though when I actually read the recipe, it was not anything new to me - it was what I always do for a super quick tomato sauce, except they were adding chile crisp to it, which I guess is the thing nowadays - every recipe I read has chile crisp in it, but I'm not really a chile crisp person. I have the heat tolerance (in terms of spiciness, though I also don't like my food super hot temperature-wise either) of the whitest baby you know.

Anyway! It is a super easy but delicious meal and if you don't mind waiting a few extra minutes, you can do it all in one pot. Boil your pasta - angel hair is best for this, imo - and reserve a cup of pasta water before you drain it. Return the pot to the stove over low heat and add in a nice glug of olive oil (2 tbsp if you need a measurement), and then add a whole can or tube of tomato paste to the oil (so between 4 and 6 oz). Stir it around and season it as you like - I used garlic and onion powder, oregano and red pepper flakes and salt, but if you want to get fancy, you could probably saute a diced shallot and some minced garlic in the oil for a minute or two before adding the tomato paste - for 2-3 minutes, until it's all hot and sizzling. If you are so inclined, add chile crisp to suit your taste. Then add the pasta back, and about half the reserved water and toss it until the pasta is coated. I only used 4 oz of angel hair, so if you have more, you might need more water. Then put it in bowls and sprinkle it with parmesan cheese. If you are in an even bigger rush, you can sizzle the tomato paste in a frying pan while the pasta cooks and then combine it all back in the pasta pot. The couple of minutes you save isn't worth having to wash an extra pot to me, but it might be to some people.

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Madness Level: productive
Voices In My Head Sing: Cruel Summer = Taylor Swift

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I didn’t guess that I’d be stuck with the roads closed until at least noon tomorrow.

Well, I’m getting paid every hour I’m here, at least.

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Not going anywhere except to pick up Two from work eventually (please please close early, please), so here is a review of my most recent reads:

5. The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem (audio)
( Non-mythology-based Egyptian-based fantasy, m/f, New Adult/Adult )

6. Listen, Slowly by Thanhhà Lai (audio)
( Middle grade; Vietnamese-American girl must travel to Vietnam and discover her roots against her will. )

7. The Takedown by Lily Chu (audio)
( Modern Chinese-Canadian m/f romcom with themes of willful ignorance on DEI topics, toxic positivity, and the plot of taking down belligerent, predatory, and ignorant managers from the inside. )

8. Driftwood by Harper Fox (audio)
( In Cornwall, England, former Army doctor with PTSD rescues a former helicopter pilot from a surfing accident, they fall in insta-love, and then doctor tries to rescue former pilot from abusive ex. )

9. Cafe Con Lychee by Emery Lee (read-aloud)
( YA; an out Asian-American boy dislikes closeted Hispanic-American boy because their parents run rival cafes and both cafes are struggling. They reluctantly team up together to try to boost sales, and in working together, start to fall in love. )

10. The Charm Offensive* by Alison Cochrun (audio)
Needed a comfort re-read. I'm pretty sure I've read this book at least once a year since it came out. <3

11. Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams (audio)
( YA/New Adult What if Hogwarts was university-level and specifically for Black American youth? MC is straight but book is queer-friendly. )

12. Perfectly Imperfect Pixie by MJ May (audio)
( In fantasy-based America, giant pixie helps werewolf uncle retain custody of his niece/nephew and away from evil mobster grandpa. Pixie and uncle fall in love somehow, despite NEVER ACTUALLY TALKING TO EACH OTHER )

13. Scythe by Neal Shusterman (audio)
( YA: In a future where death and even injury have been conquered through internal nanobots, Scythes serve as an exalted calling, to kill with compassion and help keep the global population growth balanced. Two teens are apprenticed to a single, highly-principled Scythe, but when he dies, they are separated and complete their apprenticeships under two HUGELY different mentors. A++ book )

14. The Disillusionment of Nick and Jay by Ryan Douglass (read-aloud)
( Billed as a queer, Black retelling of The Great Gatsby, but it really ... isn't. )

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So I obviously fell off the DW wagon almost immediately. I really need to get better at turning to DW rather than obsessively checking IG or FB for memes, responses, etc. :-P

Since I last wrote, I started my new job as the leave-replacement librarian at our elementary school. I officially started on Jan 20 (Tues), with two days of overlap with the outgoing librarian, and then I was officially "on" by Thursday. ( Brief overview )

( The Monday Blues )

In the rest of my life: I've only been getting an average of 1 TKD lesson per week; it's been hard to find days that work with my schedule, my exhaustion level, their availability to do live streaming, etc. This past week I missed it entirely, although that's partly because I attended the NJ School Librarian Assn/NJ Library Assn conference in Atlantic City on Wed, necessitating my driving there on Tuesday night and back on Wed night, so no TKD class on either night. And in general I'm still working on doing more constructive things with my free time other than games or doomscrolling on my phone. I HAVE managed to watch all of Heated Rivalry (SO GOOD), and am midway through Bridgerton S4 (not done yet with the half that was already released). I have not gotten to see ANY of the Winter Olympics, because I'm usually doing something else when I DO get to sit down, and don't have time to just sit and WATCH something. *sadface* (The only way I watched Heated Rivalry and Bridgerton was when I was on the exercise bike/treadmill.)

It's the Chinese Year of the Horse! Both MiniPlu and Will are horses; in fact, Will is a fire horse, like this year. (Nina's a water horse.) ( In sadder news: an orphan is re-orphaned )

And speaking of death - this Thursday will be the one-year mark for my dad. Still doesn't feel real sometimes.

It's been a year since we left for NZ as well, and I wish so much I could go back. We're going to Europe over spring break this year, so it's not like we don't have something to look forward to, but still - NZ! *more sadface*

I think that's about it from here? Will do a separate post for books.

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Fandom: Stranger Things
Pairings/Characters: Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
Rating: Explicit
Length: 59,047 words
Content Notes: Bullying and homophobia.
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Theme: Inept in Love, Pretend Couple, Friends to Lovers, Canon LGBTQ+ Characters

Summary: Will needs a date to his mom's wedding. Mike volunteers.

"I have an idea," says Mike.

Ice cubes form in Will's stomach. "How dangerous is it? Like, should I call Dustin to talk you down, or should I call Nancy to be ready to drive us to the hospital?"

"No," says Mike, "you can't tell anyone or it won't work."

"Or what won't work?" Will asks. It's like picking up a rock you know a spider will be under.

Mike gets up and closes Will's door. Hopper doesn't make them keep it open but sometimes Will does anyway, because every now and then lying around alone with Mike on his bed just makes his chest ache too much. If the door is open he can tell himself You can't do anything right now, someone will see.

Mike leans back against the door. His eyes are lit up with that special maniacal gleam that the Wheelers get right before they do something insane, like when Nancy says, "Then we have to go kill Vecna ourselves," or whatever. "Take me to the wedding," says Mike.

"Yeah," says Will slowly, "you'll be at the wedding. Obviously."

"As your date."

Reccer's Notes: They've fixed Hawkins' Upside Down problem (though this predates the final season), and it's the kids' senior year, and Will is worried his mom is worried about him, so Mike hatches a plan to be Will's (fake) date to Joyce and Hopper's wedding because of course he does. That means we've got Will pretending to pretend he's into Mike and Mike playing gay chicken against himself and...losing? winning? both?? Neither of them is doing a great job (or any job) communicating, but their fake relationship thrives and does what all the best fake relationships do, becomes real. A sweet friends-to-lovers romance with just the right amount of agonizing feelings.

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So, you got my opinion on Heated Rivalry, but I gotta say, I will never not read fanfics structured like ongoing internet sagas.

Also, gotta love the one dude, BostonSportsBro69, who posts in both /r/relationship_advice and /r/hockey going around in /r/hockey saying "Uh, no, it's just normal sportsbro rival stuff, you're all reading way too much into this" ~~when~~ because he absolutely knows better. (I don't think he's supposed to be one of Ilya's teammates, just a fan.)

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Madness Level: calm

hannah

Trying to clear my calendar and hunker down for the next few days in light of the storm had me allowing myself a little bit of panic buying in the form of another bottle of olive oil. It's not on the same level as rescheduling an appointment because I know there's no point trying to get anywhere farther than two blocks, maximum, come Monday, but it helped a bit.

I'm also charging up my devices as something of an insurance policy and made sure to return all my outstanding library checkouts. Again, something that only helped a bit, and still helped. Mostly I'm now waiting for it to arrive so I can finally enjoy the snow. The build-up to it isn't nearly as enjoyable.

Madness Level: grateful
Voices In My Head Sing: nothing now

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Just got jumpscared on Tumblr, by which I mean I was scrolling through someone's AT tag and BAM KOO/TORONTO ART??? suddenly art of my OTP??? right out of nowhere?! HELL YEAH HELL YEAH haha it startled me, I wasn't expecting it! haha I miss those two. sometimes you forget how much you love a character (or characters, or ship, etc) until it suddenly pops up out of nowhere and you get all distracted and *O* THE CHARACTER!!! HOLY SHIT THE CHARACTER!!! and haaaa. ^//^;

ANYWAY had a fun and crazy chaotic cut show in Hill Valley tonight!

( BTTF:TM - 21/02/26 evening (Round 125) )

woof, bedtime for me... we made last-min plans to do one more show tomorrow after all X3 excited!! no, not BTTF... totally would've done, or MJ, but neither of them are on tomorrow. (MJ doesn't do Sundays at all, I don't think... BTTF doesn't have a Sunday show this week since, again, they did a matinee on Monday instead) So gotta sleep ^^ But yeahhhh it was a really fun show tonight! coulda done without the noisy kid but man it was still a GREAT show in spite of that.

oh also they had some year 3 (Ben+Cory) flyers by the box office? o.O I wonder where they dug those up from... I just glanced over to check they were different and huh wait what. wild xD okay, okay, gotta sleep now, gonna be a loooong day tomorrow. was a long day today! but a VERY fun one ^^

Madness Level: goodnight!

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This afternoon, I made this lemon cake because 1. I had an open container of ricotta I wanted to use up before it spoiled, and 2. I've been looking for a nut-free alternative to my favorite lemon cake since one of my nieces has a tree nut allergy. It turns out I did not have enough ricotta, but I made it up with sour cream, and the cake seems fine. It did stick to the pan in one small spot so I didn't take a picture of it since it had a gash in it, but it tastes great. The trick of adding turbinado sugar to the glaze to make it crunchy is a good one, too.

I also made dressing for coleslaw, which I've never done before - always just bought the pre-made deli version - and it's ok, not great. Not tangy enough, tbh. I wonder if replacing some of the mayo with buttermilk is the way to go. I ate some with a steak I pan-fried for dinner and that was nice. I don't have steak very often, but sometimes it goes on sale and I get it.

We're supposed to be getting between 12"-18" of snow tomorrow/Monday (wait, I just checked, and the current forecast is 39% likelihood of at least 18" if not more, wow), and I'm supposed to go into the office on Tuesday, so I guess we'll see what actually materializes, whether the streets are cleaned, and how I feel on Tuesday morning. Supposedly we're getting a free lunch, but I don't know when the consultant who is supposed to be buying it for our in person meeting is flying in, idk what is going to happen. There was some back and forth on Teams today about the storm and they are notifying everyone to be remote on Monday, which is the smart choice.

Anyway, my menu is not very cozy - I was planning on making that lemony macaroni salad for lunches, and some baked oatmeal with cherries and chocolate chips for breakfast. I do have bread, milk, and eggs, so there could always be French toast! Though I did make that on Wednesday when I realized it was Ash Wednesday (and that I'd completely forgotten Shrove Tuesday). I'll probably have pasta for dinner tomorrow regardless, since it's Sunday.

Today, I watched Batman Ninja, which features the Batfamily time traveling back to feudal Japan (but so much Joker and I am so tired of Joker), and then its sequel, Batman vs. the Yakuza League, which I enjoyed more because it has Wonder Woman in it and she's fantastic as always. It also features ( I guess this is a spoiler ) It was weird to me though that we got 4 Batboys (Jason's feudal Japan headgear is HILARIOUS), but no Cass or Babs at all, and I didn't love the art for Selina. Someday we'll get an animated version of Wayne Family Adventures and the girls and Duke will get their due!

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Voices In My Head Sing: So Far Away - Carole King

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Earlier in the week, a flock of robins and a flock of starlings descended on the small ornamental cherry (?) (I'm not so good with ornamental trees) and devoured all the remaining fruit.

For the last two days, I've heard the geese overhead and today I saw a pair scrambling at speed for the pond in the woods behind my house. I love living here so much.

I put a suet block out for the winter - the birds in Texas usually devoured it, but it looks almost completely untouched. Maybe all the birds leave? I'm still adjusting to life in the northern forest, and I don't remember enough about how it worked when I was growing up in the mountains. Surely cardinals stay all winter?

I'm planning to clean out the seed feeder and get it out tomorrow. Maybe that will be more tempting.

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Voices In My Head Sing: Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes

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The evening darkens over
After a day so bright
The windcapt waves discover
That wild will be the night.
There’s sound of distant thunder.

The latest sea-birds hover
Along the cliff’s sheer height;
As in the memory wander
Last flutterings of delight,
White wings lost on the white.

There’s not a ship in sight;
And as the sun goes under
Thick clouds conspire to cover
The moon that should rise yonder.
Thou art alone, fond lover.

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