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I woke up from a bizarre dream and immediately ended up with a phone call from the dentist saying they're sending me to collection if I don't pay now. I call them up and said whoa, you sent this bill back to my insurance and that was the last I heard of it (until yesterday. I did see a bill from them) I thought it was taken care of. It wasn't so I paid that.

I argue with the hotel people in Louisville to add a day to my reservation. Yes I know you can't give me the block price. That's fine. Stop apologizing and just add a day at full price. It's fine. I'll live.

I ran to Jackson to get meds and money and to relax a little before coming home.

I get home, finish my test for tomorrow and then realize I forgot I had a meeting today to learn this new syllabus software in Ohio's latest political overreach push (everything about my class has to be online, every topic, every room I'm in, every school I've ever attended)

By the time that was over it was time to start on my wacky wild Victorian/Edwardian medicine power point. I finished it at 11 pm. It's 40 slides. That should be plenty. I wanted more than I need better too long than too short. (I've been in these before twice when it was too short and it's awkward and annoying)

Finally start to pack. I'm sure I'm forgetting something. I still can't find my belt purse. NO clue where it is and I don't have time for this so suck it up and carry my tote bag with my little wallet and phone.

Tomorrow is going to be a nightmare between tests, finishing packing and driving nearly 4 hours at night.

Neighbors are watching Rocket.

So that dream. I was in some fancy all inclusive resort. It was very crowded. I had the vague feeling my family was with me. Also with me was my tenor sax and it's evening. I crack it out near the pool, shocked that the pads haven't dried out and fallen off. Suddenly I'm in the pool, wailing on this sax and people are into it. Water is splashing everywhere and people are telling me how great I am at this while I'm thinking I can't breathe, I havent' done this in years, I don't remember my fingering. Can I even still read music?

Someone claiming to be Frank Sinatra's kid (but didn't look older than me) wanted me to play for some party. I trot off and tell my brother about this. He is suitably impressed but then I get separated from everyone and I'm trying to find my room (in this high rise hotel). I'm in the elevator with escapees from a werewolf/vampire/goth movie and once I get to my floor it's chaos.

I don't know where to go ( cut because it gets gross )

What I Just Finished Reading:

Keeper of Lonely spirits - LGBT paranormal with older mains. - I liked this one

Death al Dente - crap

What I am Currently Reading:

The Death Card - is uncomfortably close to another series I've read with Afrocentric magic users (and the racist white ones getting in their way in New Orleans)

Dungeons and Danger - a paranormal mystery Vikings didn't have horned helmets for the love of god stop with the horns

What I Plan to Read Next:

Hooked on Murder - lousy so far

I'm too tired to share April's books. You'll get them next week.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Evil Lives Here

scrubjayspeaks

When she slipped out of the house that had to stop being her home, unsure where to go or how to get there, the latest bruise was turning greenish on her cheek, and the tandem bicycle at the end of the driveway was yellow. “There’s plenty of room for your bag in the back,” the strange middle-aged woman at the front said, jerking her thumb toward the dollhouse-like shack somehow balanced precariously on the end of the bike. There wasn’t time to answer all her questions, but no respectable serial killer would go about on a yellow tandem bike, so when the stranger said, “You’ll have to help pedal, but that’s good for the heart in more than one way,” she accepted a helmet and the notion that escape takes many forms.

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LL#1392

alchemicink

Nothing is claiming my attention during lunch break today, so here's an assortment of thoughts:

☆ I've been having trouble getting to sleep before 1 a.m. for the past week, which is very annoying, but on the bright side, I used my "I can't sleep yet" time last night to start writing something for

femslashfete 😂
☆ last night, I also thought about which fandoms and characters I wanna write for

toku100challenge's current drabblethon. One of them is gonna be my first Kamen Rider Amazon fic 😊
☆ in keeping with the subject of fics, I'm in the midst of putting together a rec post for

bnha_fans! The problem is that I keep looking through my old bookmarks and subscriptions and thinking "maybe I should reread this before recommending it" but then I don't have time to re-read a 100k word fic right now 😅 The eternal struggle!
☆ Animazement is two weeks from Friday! The schedule is already out 👀 (that's so early for them) I gotta start planning things.
☆ I wish I could catch up on watching some TV shows and movies but my ability to concentrate is at an all-time low right now (it's the lack of sleep). Today I was thinking about watching more Ultra Q
☆ my garden is currently looking pretty good! I will maybe hopefully write a post and share photos eventually

Hope everyone has a nice Wednesday 🥳

cornerofmadness

The test took forever, gave it at 11 AM finished grading it at 11 pm

Had to pop into the dean/president farewell for summer party.

Had a 2 hour biology dept meeting that sucked my will to live and accomplished...I have no damn idea

Half assed the draft of my last test

graded and graded and cried and realized I still have no powerpoint for Saturday and tomorrow is my only day off where I still have one test to make, grade more shit and pack everything. I still don't know how I'm pulling this all off.

I got this 30 day meme for our favorite fandoms from [Bad username or unknown identity: kitarella_imagines> Honestly I figure I can do it every Tuesday and pick an older fandom based on some of the questions. <lj-cut text=]
Day 1: Favourite season

Day 2: Favourite episode

Day 3: Favourite female character

Day 4: Least favourite female character

Day 5: Favourite male character

Day 6: Least favourite male character

Day 7: Favourite friendship

Day 8: Favourite romance

Day 9: Least favourite season

Day 10: Least favourite episode

Day 11: Best SFX / most woeful use of SFX

Day 12: Favourite villain

Day 13: Favourite guest character

Day 14: Character you relate to the most

Day 15: Character who didn’t get enough screen time

Day 16: Best use of a hoary old trope

Day 17: Two characters you wanted to get together that never did

Day 18: Favourite Liberator moment (change for other shows-how about Favourite unlikely friendship?)

Day 19: Favourite Scorpio moment (change for other shows- how about Favourite rivalry?)

Day 20: Favourite outfits

Day 21: Favourite fanon/headcanon

Day 22: Favourite audioplay

Day 23: Favourite cliffhanger

Day 24: Funniest moment

Day 25: Moment when you knew you were caught

Day 26: Favourite fanfiction

Day 27: Favourite scene

Day 28: Favourite quote

Day 29: Your song/fan mix for the show

Day 30: Would you like to see a modern remake?

I'm going with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer. My newer fandoms, Prodigal Son, Hazbin and The Owl House are all too short really to count

So for fannish 50 here we go

Day 1: Favourite season - Season two and three are tied. they had the best stories. Spike hadn't become annoying yet. We didn't have Andrew stinking up the joint. The villains were engaging. Giles was still involved. We didn't have the eyerolling Dark Willow magic as addiction crap and the less said about how Buffy was treated in S7-8 the better. The Mayor, Spike/Dru/Angelus were amazing. The introduction of Faith (and the anger at how badly she was treated or at least how indifferent) really kept me watching.

Current Mood: aggravated
Current Music: Hudson & Rex

lady_ragnell

It's that time again! Had some good ones and some medium ones and some forgettable ones, as usual.

Sunward by William Alexander

A really interesting sci fi novella that I wanted more of when it was done! A spaceship courier who raises AIs (the current LLM kind of "AI" is briefly referenced but these AIs are the more traditional sci fi sort, I'm continuing to be fascinated by the ways AI in sci fi is going to change and bend around the general distaste by authors for LLMs, someone's going to be able to write a banger dissertation on this shift in a few years) loses one, and goes on a tour of the previous ones she's raised to try to bring her back when it's thought to be impossible, and also AIs are being shut down or effectively lobotomized due to plot events. I liked this a lot! Still chewing over it.

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

I've seen this mentioned around, and it is a good history of textiles for the layperson! The chapters could sometimes lose focus, but that's a small quibble. I learned things about fiber, I learned things about history, I learned things about fiber history! I feel like this review is coming off like I didn't like it, when I really did! I just don't have anything to say about it, it's an oft-recced work for people who are interested in fibercrafts and their history, and I can see why.

Gnomon by Luchia Dertien

So, I loved this Les Mis fic back in the day! Dark and fun and angsty and thrilling. And everything that was in the fic is in the origfic version! But, uh. Everything that was in the fic is in the origfic version. There were, I think, two flashbacks inserted into this book, and I think Eponine and Courfeyrac were conflated into one character, and a few character backstory details were changed, but other than that ... the character names were changed. But unfortunately, that just made it a reread of a beloved fic no longer available on the AO3 where I had to go the annoying extra step of find-replacing everybody's names in my head. The thing with publishing fanfic is that you have to go in and add more character depth, because when the love interest in this story is Enjolras, one has the depth of canon and fanon to add to him and understand him better, but when the love interest is Delaurier, there's less of that softening sympathy so I was screaming at "Renaire" to get out in a way I wasn't in the fic. And also when you are publishing specifically Les Mis fanfic, you have GOT to condense your Amis. When writing fic they have to be there, if you're just missing Bossuet or Feuilly people will wonder why, but in a supposedly original work? They have GOT to be combined, or it's just a bunch of barely-there characters. Anyway, there were a lot of small changes that could have been made to make this stand alone better, and I'm sad that the distraction of this made it both an unsatisfying fic reread and an unsatisfying novel read.

An Admirer by Megan Derr

One of Derr's early and indulgent works, and thus one I enjoyed more than some of her more serious recent ones! Overworked mage student starts getting secret admirer gifts and also interacting with a warrior student who he's having some sparks with, and there's a little twist on the expected beat that made me do a surprise grin. I could have dealt with it being longer, but that was just because I read this on a sleepy day and I wanted more indulgence!

The Crystal Tree by Louise Platt Hauck

A family member's got a fondness for novels of this era (1935), so I grabbed this for her in a vintage shop and read it myself. If you've got a high tolerance for things that are Products Of Their Time, I did have fun with this, but I do know that's a MASSIVE caveat. Particularly there's one black character who sure is written in dialect Badly, and also some very serious ableism going on (in a mid-book twist, our heroine is a sole support of a family who her father's bad investments ruined, including their young lady daughter who is painted as having a disability that's essentially learned helplessness, and who is spoiled, vain, and manipulative. It's not great). However, I was also rather charmed by the fact that this is in many ways a found family story well before one thinks of that as a thing! Young woman wishes to rent a house but can't afford it, is advised to advertise for roommates, finds another young lady and two young men and an older lady to chaperone them, nesting and drama ensues. I am fairly sure I have read this fanfiction before, and if I haven't, I might have to write it if I can find the right fandom.

Take Back Magic by Casey Blair

Blair can be a bit uneven for me--I'd say her writing skill is always about the same, to be clear, it's just that sometimes she writes things I'm super into and sometimes she writes things I'm meh about, and her writing isn't good enough to change my mind on the things I'm less into (though it's still good! Just takes particularly good writing to make me have patience for subgenres I don't often do). So, this was urban-ish fantasy, which isn't always my jam, though the portal fantasy aspects DID work for me. I'm likely to read the rest of the series, but not super quickly or anything, just as I think of it.

The Sacred Space Between by Kalie Reid

A fantasy romance that, thank goodness, did not read as Romantasy. It is a bit patchy, though! Things I liked: the ~vibe, the romance between the hero and the heroine, the reveals of things as they came out, the concepts around the religion (thanks to my D&D game I'm a huge sucker for Sainthood Shit). Things I liked less: worldbuilding not really gone into in any depth, some reveals that felt a bit cheap, massive powerful cultural structural force dismantled by one (1) act of arson and the death of one (1) bad guy. Also, oh boy, there sure were some anachronisms. This was clearly meant to be a Medieval fantasy, but it was one where the narrative used a metaphor about a time bomb, with indoor plumbing including hot water, and where organs and I think even pianos existed. Removing any of those would not have taken much effort and would not have thrown me out of the story! Overall I'll be looking out for more from Reid, though, I suspect she's the sort who might improve with more seasoning as opposed to get worse now that she's not a debut author and doesn't have time to iterate extra drafts of things. (Truly it's a hard balance to strike.)

Taji From Beyond the Rings by R. Cooper

I always mean to read more Cooper, and when I discovered that they had a sci fi romance, I had to dive in! This one was a lot of fun, very tropey, some worldbuliding, some politics, some Romance, overall a good time if you like your sci fi romances rather indulgent and with a good amount of Action on the side. I will say that throughout I was deeply stressed by the way our viewpoint character kept processing through high-stakes political and linguistic problems just ... in public. In front of enemies. And getting accusatory about it quite often. It was a character choice by Cooper, and the character was only embassy staff because he was dragged into it when the previous staff was killed, but damn, nobody gave this man even a LITTLE bit of political training, including his boss who he's theoretically assisting but mostly actually hampering for most of this book. However, the difficulties of translation of cultural concepts in this book were SO fun for me.

The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel

Sci fi novella about a group of people who want to be the first to see rain on Mars. This one was interesting! I enjoyed the format (long-form article/essay by one of the people on the trip, interspersing narrative of the trip with the narratives of a few people and why they chose to come along), and some review on the cover said it felt Chaucer-ian and it's not too far off the vibe, really. I will say that a few of the backstories felt samey in kind of a weird way for such a short novella? But maybe the point of that is a bit that "the kind of person who wants to go on this kind of mad expedition is likely to be a burnout from a previous life with some trauma around drugs, family, and/or religion," so I might be being unkind to Kressel there. Anyway, I had some food poisoning and a stressful day yesterday and this was the perfect evening antidote to it.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End by Kanehito Yamada illus. Tsukasa Abe

Manga (actually the first I've read!), and a gift from a friend who knows I'm into D&D! This was quiet and sweet, and I like stories that deal in various ways with elvish lifespans and this is all about that, which is cool! I don't have a ton to say about it, because a volume of manga can be lovely but also because of the illustrations doesn't take a ton of time to get through. I'm always hesitant to buy graphic novels and manga because they take me so little time to read in comparison to the money one spends on them, but I do hear this one's being released as an anime so maybe I ought to check it out?

That's all for this time! I've got some travel upcoming, so probably there will be some airplane books coming up soon.

autobotscoutriella

Update from the Monday to-do list: No Phone Night was glorious. I hadn't realized how much work anxiety was bleeding into my evenings until I made a point of not letting the emails find me. I will absolutely be doing that again.

My brain is trying really hard to point me at Currents, so I guess I'm sort of doing Mermay, drawerfic-style? I'll post it if I ever finish enough of it, but it's long and rambly with way, way too much detail about sharks. (And I do mean way too much detail about sharks. I have institutional access to a bunch of academic journals, which means I can include scientifically accurate details about sharks. "Klavier/Daryan mermaid AU" is already a concept with a teeny-tiny audience and with enough research, I can bring that audience down to exactly two people!) It's nice to have something I actively want to write again, even if it's not the fic I was hoping to work on this week.

(Forsaken Road and broken beaten damned are still in progress! Just temporarily backburnered, for a couple reasons; I'll get back to them eventually.)

Current Mood: accomplished

tsuki_no_bara

may the fourth be with you!

(and also with you.)

( tiny death star on a non-star wars calendar )

of course a new hope is on tv. :D tonight is also the met gala so i've been reblogging clothes and occasionally judging over on tumblr and yes i know lauren sanchez bezos is an easy target but her attempt to channel john singer sargent's madame x is, uh, well, i guess i could give her a point for trying but as much as i love sargent (and i do), hers is a really boring interpretation. i was expecting something tight and tits-forward and tacky and definitely got two of those. (whether or not her bargain basement imitation is tacky or not is open to interpretation.)

in other fashion news, the kentucky derby was on saturday and the hats were fabulous.

also on saturday i got a haircut (which is important to no one but me) and met my sister at a market for makers, kind of like a craft fair. i got fish earrings and a very serene print and got a headache from smelling candles. they smelled great! but there were a lot of them. so, so many. also a lot of jewelry. it was fun tho. afterwards we went to costco, we got dinner, we went back to my sister's to watch wonder man which i really liked and highly recommend.

and sunday was somerville open studios! surprise. (i mean it was saturday too but i had other things to do.) i saw a bunch of potters and my former roommate and her friend who makes jewelry and a fiber artist altho i think the girl manning the table was actually the fiber artist's kid - they raise sheep, shear them, spin the wool, and knit it. everything except the dyeing. i even got to see some pics of the sheep. they're very cute, i'm sure you're surprised.

may totally snuck up on me. i mean, next week is the last week of classes at the u and i am un. prepared. for it to be summer. did april move really fast for anyone else or is it just me?

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: now i'm watching futurama

cornerofmadness

and three to go for the finals. I did get them both done but I can't count. thankfully I had time to do the answer key before I printed the test (I don't always) and I numbered it question 35 and the next one was 51. Well then. I swore I checked that last night but I didn't apparently. At least the micro test was numbered right (but found a repeated question I had to fix) and it was easy enough to fix the other.

I bought the current#1 of Star Trek Lower Decks comics and let me say this, the art is amazing. It looks just like an episode of the animated show AND it did call backs to the 1977 Star Trek animated series and the art was spot on. Kudos. Read the free comics for the Lego Batman (not nearly as funny as it wanted to be) and Stitch (just weird).

I got a lot of writing done during the test but forgot the names of the minor characters and just put XXXs in as place holders. Was thinking tonight I should have a list of these names I could just pull up instead of searching the document for it. And just realized I DID make one and forgot it.

I still haven't called the hotel to extend my stay. Still haven't made the powerpoint but if I'm honest I'm struggling to do that one my lap top. I need time on the big screens because (if I haven't mentioned it) when my right eye got all inflamed...it never got better. It no longer hurts but I also can't see well out of it.

It's music monday 30 weeks of music. This week's prompt is # 24 A song with a one word title. Share my friends, share

( There are so many from the 1980s )

here's the whole prompt list

( All under here )

Current Mood: nauseated
Current Music: Evil Lives Here

scrubjayspeaks

As we head into convention season and the subject of costumes and consent comes up again, we would like to remind everyone that large groups of costumed people usually contain at least one genuine article. We have found this holds true for witches on Halloween, werewolves at furry conventions, and superheroes at comics shows, among many other possibilities. While respecting others’ boundaries and bodily autonomy should be motivation enough, the possibility that the tail you are tugging comes attached to real fangs and claws may help encourage good behavior.

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LL#1391

autobotscoutriella

To-do list for Monday evening:
- Turn off phone
- Make popcorn
- Fold laundry
- Do dishes
- Write 200 words on a fic of my choice
- Pick either a book from the unread stack or a movie from the unwatched stack

Work is being extremely stressful in petty ways I can choose to ignore for a night, but actually doing that is...easier said than done. Thus, to-do lists. You won't get me that easily, work email!

Current Mood: indescribable

cornerofmadness

I'm still grading and making tests so it's just links tonight

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Current Mood: drained
Current Music: Death in Paradise

scrubjayspeaks

The two front tires on my car have consistently had very slow leaks for a very long time now. One of them had started getting a bit faster, though, and I was sick of needing to wonder if I would find it flat on any given morning. So I lost an afternoon to waiting around while they put two new ones on. Woo, spending money and time, yay…

Also lost another afternoon to waiting approximately three thousand years to donate blood, despite having an appointment. *sigh* So possibly my feelings of not being able to fit everything into the day or the week are reasonable.

All the same, I’m starting to hit the stage of light anxiety attacks every morning and afternoon, as I try to figure out how I’m going to do what I need to. Mostly, the answer so far has been “get to bed later,” which is not doing me any favors in the mental health department.

Ironically, many of the things I’m trying to jigsaw together are things that are supposed to be good for me. I work out daily. I have a trivia app that’s supposed to be chill and informative and better than doomscrolling. I have cut back on my social media time and watching Youtube mindlessly in favor of reading books or watching specific shows for controlled amounts of time. I appear to be doing everything right, yet I feel worse and worse.

So that’s a thing that’s happening!

Lewisia: 3 new pieces written

Day job: 42.5 hours

Crafting: finished another cotton crochet washcloth

Gardening: planted what turned out to be hyssop

Reading: We Won't All Survive by Kate Alice Marshall (so it looks like I have a new favorite author now, because this and These Fleeting Shadows were very much exactly my jam, creepy and mysterious and adventurous with a dose of “if we get out of this alive, let’s hold hands later” romance-ish)

Listening: 100 Cowboys by Carter Vail (yep, excellent, as expected)

Playing: new town-thing in Pokopia, and now there’s cooking???

Clock Mouse: 95 minutes of planning work, plus 2018 words written

Other: blood donation

alchemicink

Happy Sunday! I am sleepy, but I have a lot of things to share this week. Here we go:

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grimmrow

It sucked. Royally. I did not expect the ending. I am so upset for Catherine and Heathcliff. Stubborn woman.

cornerofmadness

And then back to 1992!

So I went to the Gallipolis Steampunk event at the train museum put on by the Bossard Library. If it wasn't for people like me dressing up there wouldn't be much steampunky about it. It's about a dozen vendors on the street and half of which I just saw at Final Boss Con last week. That said I found someone with steampunk themed badge holders (cheap) and I got one...one I could have easily made but eh it was 10 bucks. I also found a gift for someone for Christmas. And I got a cool D20 pendant that dangles a sizeable plague doctor from it. It might be my new favorite thing.

I ran into L there, doing a puppet show. She saw me first. I actually hadn't noticed her because if I'm honest, I hate puppets and was actively not looking at her booth. They freak me out. Also I'm over worrying about doing voices for my stories. I can at least do this good and L is out there doing shows all the time. I need to channel that confidence.

It wasn't much and I was done in an hour and only because I'm slow. I went to Remo's for a hot dog and changed in the library and then it was off to Free comic book day in Huntington. I had debated Remo's or Hillbilly Hot Dogs, buy gas in Gallipolis (50 cents cheaper than Jackson) or in Huntington.

Remo over Hillbilly good choice (there wasn't a place to park when I drove by and they were literally on the side of the street for a quarter mile). Got gas in Gallipolis, bad call, was another 50 cents cheaper in WV (a dollar less than here)

Free comic book day turns out to be the same day as a Renn fest in Huntington. Next year maybe I'll do that. Inner Geek must be so big they let you take as many free comics as you want. I took most.

Afterward I went back to 1992...which is what this mall always feels like. I skipped Macy's because they got rid of their plus sizes but then the TJ Maxx/Homegoods ALSO ditched their selection. I can't stress this enough. We are on average bigger now than ever and this is two stores in the last six months decided to ditch ALL plus clothing.

So I decide to go into the mall itself which I haven't done in years. I know there were three plus sized shops there. Torrid was there with a bra I loved but again the sizes were pretty small on the band sizes (but I shall check online) and they had a belt that I would love for my cosplay but it was way more than it needed to be.

They had a branch of Superhero Creamery (the comic book store/ice cream shop from Ashland KY) and I got a graphic novel (they only allowed you one free comic book)

There is a Dave and Busters in there. And I found the theater which I needed to because I've never seen it (have I never been behind the mall in 20 years?!?) and I have tickets for it for the finale of The Amazing Digital Circus

Even the Books a Million had a crowd. And publishers are trying hard to get us to buy books with those gorgeous sprayed edges and end pages. Love it.

Hit chili's. It was packed at 430. They had a popping bobba watermelon margarita (talk about mashing up cultures) but it was good.

Here have some science Saturday all from one source because I'm exhausted (so tired that if I didn't have a test to make for monday I swear I would have gone to a hotel in Huntington and gone to sleep at 5 pm. I walked around BAM for nearly an hour trying to work up

Heartbeats physically stop cardiac cancer from growing — and that could be key to thwarting other cancers, too

'Eventually, it becomes you': Inventors of new 'living' knee replacement describe why this tech is desperately needed and how it works Wonders if it'll be ready by the time I need mine

Early data links Wegovy to risk of 'eye stroke' — here's what to know

Poop-encrusted chamber pots from the Roman Empire reveal oldest known human cases of Crypto parasite

Why do cats and dogs shake their heads?

Mount Etna is like no other volcano on Earth, representing 'a new type of volcanism,' new research reveals

'We can no longer ignore diseases in the deep human past': Malaria influenced early humans' migrations across Africa, study suggests

'It cuts both ways': Positive tipping points can restore wrecked ecosystems — we just need to trigger them, Earth system scientist Tim Lenton says

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Whitstable Pearl

autobotscoutriella

Made it to both the first farmer's market of the year and early voting this morning, which was really nice. I always end up spending way too much money, but the variety of croissant-adjacent things I end up bringing home is usually worth it. (Our farmer's market has a lot of bakeries along with the veggie stands.)

I'm still working my way through Hades, but I've gotten the first ending and am in the fun "fulfilling prophecies and befriending random gods" stage, so it feels a little bit less intense. (And I got all the side character quests sorted out, which was extremely satisfying. We can fix these tragedies, after all!) I don't expect to write fic for it, but I've definitely been reading some.

Writing...has not been going great, for a lot of reasons, but it seems to be improving. It's MerMay, so I'm tempted to poke at Currents (the mershark!Daryan AU) a little bit and see if maybe that'll get my brain up and running again, especially now that the weather's getting nice. (Why is it easier to write fun mermaid stuff when it's warm outside? Who knows, but it sure works for me.)

alchemicink

This week: dream lore in Zeztz; manager woes in Girl Rules; and a stellar performance in Akane-banashi

The title quote was the funniest line from Zeztz this week. I couldn't resist using it 😂

Spoilers, as always, below:

Kamen Rider Zeztz (episode 32)

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Girl Rules (episode 7)

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Akane-banashi (episode 4)

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1. The classes are over (the bad is yet another student told me the organ with baby kittens falling out of it was the brain)

2. My heart is fine.

The bad? This doctor has seen the last of me. He's an ass. Yeah I made another appointment (mostly because I didn't want them calling). It's not for 6 months so I have plenty of time to find another cardiologist. You could see it in his eyes. I wasn't sick enough to be interesting. I'm not really that sick at all.

Me, being an absent minded idiot, even though i finished inputting info into my blood pressure log, I forgot to print it. I DID have it on my flashdrive in my purse. When I offered it his reply was 'I don't need to see it.'

Then why the fuck did you make me DO three blood pressures a day for a fucking month?!?

My echo hadn't changed in 9 years (which I knew) and he was ready to let it go with that but I was NOT (he was running behind because he'd been called into the ER)

Me: so I have mild tricuspid regurgitation
Him: not unusual in women (I know this but I plan to go over my results point by point and fuck him trying to race off)

Me: but also mild diastolic dysfunction. Is that from sleep apnea (I know it is and my psychiatrist was concerned by this)
Him: yes, see someone to get a sleep study (i.e. not me)

Me: what would cause my diasstolic pressure to be so low (it's been 50-65 most of the time. Normal is 80)? this I didn't know but has gone to mayo clinic to look up. Often it's dehydration which makes sense being diabetic.

Him: could be aortic regurgitation but you didn't have that on echo, could be some athersclerosis but I doubt it (could be though I am diabetic) but we can't do anything about that (okay fair)

Me: did you get my month long (I'm still itching my chest wounds) holter monitor?
Him: yes.

Me: And? It didn't tell me because most patients wouldn't understand it, I know but I want to see what it said.

Him: You're tachycardic
Me: no duh, that's why I've had two echos now, and?

Him: and nothing really. No afib (thank god), no real issues, just tachycardia and a few pauses.

Me: Pauses? From sleep apnea (most likely)

HIm: nothing to worry about. You really need to talk to your endocrinologist, a lot of this is metabolic.

Me: will do (and get that sleep apnea)

Eye roll. Yeah this is the last I'll see of him. Life's too short to deal with uninterested docs.

One month of blood pressures and he didn't care. It's Beltane and a full moon. You're lucky I'm not hexing you.

Came home and the cheap Victorian gown from Amazon was here. And it's actually not bad quality. Certainly something I can build on for my Rosie cosplay. Alas it does button down the front. I have boobs and it gaps open. I can pin it shut. Also doesn't button at the neck just under the chin but that's fair. I can not bear things around my neck. I can put a brooch on that part.

Have some fannish 50 friday recs

Watch Your Step! Teen Wolf

Sect Leader Jiang's 31 step program to happiness
陈情令 | The Untamed

Can’t Go Home Again Torchwood

The Last Dance Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Losing John Inspector George Gently

Worn Hazbin Hotel

Team Work Stargate Atlantis

Anniversary Problems Torchwood

Thursday Afternoons with You The Owl House

Incredible Hazbin Hotel

The Long Road Home The Amazing Digital Circus

listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Helluva Boss

To Ease The Pain Torchwood

Secrets in the Shadows Hazbin Hotel

Held Hazbin Hotel

no one can dream for you 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Death in Paradise

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How'd we get through April so fast?! I feel like I didn't have time to write anything! (Other than drabbles lol)

Last month's goals are here.

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Let's figure out what to write this month:

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So there you have it. Wishing everyone else good luck with all your own creative endeavors this month!

tsuki_no_bara

first of may, first of may, outdoor fucking starts today. :D and it's actually spring out here (the pink trees in front of my building are SO FLUFFY) so you really can get busy outside if you so desire.

yale's beinecke library contains, among other extremely rare items of historical value, the bicentennial schlock collection, a random collection of odds and ends celebrating the us bicentennial. odds and ends like, say, a roll of toilet paper and dry cleaner hangers and hats and paper placemats and a tv guide and a, er, novelty condom. not stuff you'd automatically think had historical value, except that twenty-five years ago someone though it did.

and one last poem now that poetry month is over.

"I’m Dating a Man Who’s Married"

to a man who’s dating a man who’s
married to a woman. The husband

of the man I’m dating knows he’s
dating me and my boyfriend knows his

husband is dating the man who’s
married to the woman who does not

know her husband is gay. The guy
she’s married to—the boyfriend

of my boyfriend’s husband—just told
his mom he’s gay and she’s happy

because she never liked his wife
which is kind of funny but mostly

sad and I feel sad that her husband
who’s dating a man is also a man

with a mother who has never liked her.
I tell my boyfriend to tell his husband

to tell his boyfriend that he needs
to tell his wife sooner rather than later

and I know he knows that but still it needs
to be said. My boyfriend said his husband

said his boyfriend plans to tell his wife
Memorial Day weekend when his grown

kids are home from college and everyone,
I imagine, is eating potato salad by the pool.

She works at a flower shop two towns
over. I want to go there when she’s not

there and buy her flowers, leave a note
with her coworker at the counter:

You deserve happiness, Natalie.
You deserve love.

Love,

Your husband’s boyfriend’s
husband’s boyfriend.

--Aaron Smith

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Current Music: x-men: days of future past

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