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Yesterday there was a newspaper headline in one of the newspapers whose headlines I still follow, about how a wealthy fascist man who sells electric cars and turns social media sites into propaganda machines has now gone and tried to make his own alternative-facts website as an alternative to Wikipedia.

I cringed before I started reading, but then I was glad to read the entire article for the sake of learning what types of questions and searches the journalist carried out in the process of reporting about this thing.

The article also noted that site visits to Wikipedia by real, live humans have declined, whereas site visits by scraper bots have risen. Much of this is probably tied to how certain search engines have transitioned from providing links/url's to websites (i.e. doing their presumed job), to instead scraping and summarizing what's on those websites instead, obscuring the actual sources of information used (i.e. enshittifying).

I see this stuff and I think, wow, I have so much work to do (as an academic and educator).

Then I went over to Wikipedia and gave them some more money. Not that I think Wikipedia is always right, mind you. It's at least still trying to be as transparent as possible, that's all.

How unuseable can it all get, I wonder.

The icon fits

Oct. 29th, 2025 03:33 pm
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Last week I posted this "Oh and because I noted some odd looking colors on the bandage change Thursday, doc sent in a culture just to make sure things are kosher. That'll ease the mind further."

Yeah, got an email from labcorp.
Igotcooties.jpg

Seriously? Can I not get a break already? Haven't heard from the doctor's office yet but I see antibiotics in my near future. I am so annoyed. I was hoping for "no growth" and get a two fer one.

Epitaphs [status, work]

Oct. 29th, 2025 12:36 pm
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I personally love it when people turn their front lawns into fake cemeteries ahead of Halloween. This morning out in front of our closest fire station, I observed a tombstone for Chris P. Bacon. Maybe someday I'll have a more extensive Goth Garden to call my own, complete with fun statuary.

Meanwhile, I suspect that my own eventual epitaph will NOT read, "Her only regret is that she didn't do more grading!"

Which is to say, it sure feels like the middle of the semester right now. Ugh. It's sometimes hard to keep my eyes on the prize when there's this much grading to be done. I just have to keep telling myself that every little concrete bit of progress on SOMETHING, matters.

Gari is looking better today, doing more running around again. She has eaten all of the banana chunks I gave her yesterday and today.

Bonjour tout le monde!

Oct. 29th, 2025 09:41 am
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Name: Rina.

Age: 41 years.

I mostly post about: My everyday life, my thoughts, the emotional turmoil I am going through day by day, music (A LOT OF MUSIC TALK; this is more than just something I am interested in, it really is my passion :D!), lyrics/quotes/etc references, movies & books (When I can), struggles in my psyche, career talk *__*, spirituality, and also sometimes politics. And generally: LOVE!

My hobbies are: Creative writing [poetry (that can often be used as lyrics later) and general fictional stories], crocheting [Ironically I struggle less with magic rings than just simple chains?! Oô], cycling [I would *LOVE* to travel to places by bike, too!], dancing [To express myself; influenced mainly by industrial dancing, hiphop, acrobatics, bellydance, jazz dance, etc. I usually do not like dancing with partners, though :P, and I would LOVE to try hoop and pole dance!], DIY, drawing & painting [No matter the canvas! Mainly portraits, seals (and other animals) and lots of surrealist influences!], knitting, learning foreign languages, learning new things, listening to music, martial arts, mixing and mastering knowledge acquisation ;D, photography, playing the electric guitar, playing the keyboard/piano, recording music, sewing, singing, songwriting [music & lyrics], spiritual practices [Tropical and Chinese astrology, tarot/cartomancy, numerology, palmistry, tossing witches runes, scrying, aura readings, etc.], travelling, watching movies.

My fandoms are: I do not really know whether this counts as "fandom", because, yes, there are e. g. bands and musicians I really like a lot, but then again, I am not really part of any true "fandoms"... Unless you count in platforms (Reddit, Discord, etc.) dedicated to the people in question... Either way, here is a (non-exhaustive) list, categorised a bit, though...
BOOKS - Alan And Naomi (M. Levoy), Antonio Im Wunderland (J. Weiler), Big Magic (E. Gilbert), Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified (R. O. Friedel), Die Kinder Erwachen (C. Polar), Hab Ich Selbst Gemacht (S. Klingner), Ich Geh Jetzt In Dein Karma Rein (B. Wagner), I'm Off Then (H. Kerkeling), Last Quarter (all; Ai Yazawa), Living Out Loud (K. Smith), Many Lives Many Masters (Dr. B. Weiss), Maria Ihm Schmeckt's Nicht (J. Weiler), Mort (T. Pratchett), Only Love Is Real (Dr. B. Weiss), Old Magic (M. Curley), Popular Music From Vittula (M. Niemi), Reasons To Stay Alive (M. Haig), Rebel Witch (K.-A. Maddox), Remix 1 (B. v. Stuckrad-Barre), Same Soul Many Bodies (Dr. B. Weiss), Show Your Work (A. Kleon), Steal Like An Artist (A. Kleon), The Dark (M. Curley), The Key (M. Curley), The Metamorphosis (F. Kafka), The Named (M. Curley), The Trial (F. Kafka), Yes Man (D. Wallace), You Are A Medium (S. Dillard), Your Head Is A Houseboat (C. Walker).
MOVIES - A Clockwork Orange, Amadeus, Animalympics, Anne Frank's Diary, A Time To Kill, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Back To The Future (all), Bandits, Beetlejuice, Billy Elliot, Blue Is The Warmest Color, Coco, Control, Dancer In The Dark, Dangerous Minds, Dark Shadows, Dead Poets Society, Demolition Man, Dracula: Dead And Loving It, 23 (1998), Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Encanto, Fight Club, Flashdance, Fucking Amal, Gattaca, Ghostbusters, Girl: Interrupted, Good Bye Lenin, Hangin' Out, Hocus Pocus, Inception, Inside Out (1 & 2), Interview With The Vampire, Kopps, Labyrinth, Light Of Day, Mind Game, Mulan (1998), Murder By Death, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Richy Guitar, Run Lola Run, School Of Rock, Sing, Sing Street, Sister Act (1 & 2), Slumdog Millionaire, Song Of The Sea, Soul, Soylent Green, Speed, Teen Witch, Thank You For Smoking, The Basketball Diaries, The Boat That Rocked, The Bob's Burgers Movie, The Celebration, The Crow, The Cure (1995), The Disaster Artist, The Hate U Give, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The Linguini Incident, The Matrix, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Craft, The Naked Gun (All, except for the reboot :P!), The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Pink Panther (2006), The Plague Dogs, The Secret Of NIMH, The Return Of Captain Invincible, The Runaways, The Sixth Sense, The Truman Show, The Twelve Tasks Of Asterix, This Boy's Life, This Is Spinal Tap, Too Hard To Handle, Trainspotting, Tron: Ares, Twister, Velvet Goldmine, Wach, Wasted Youth, What's Eating Gilber Grape, What To Do In Case Of Fire, What We Do In The Shadows, While You Were Sleeping, Yes Man, You Instead.
MUSIC - Alice Cooper, Alien Sex Fiend, Alizée, All Gone Dead, A Perfect Circle, Apulanta, Bauhaus, Bela B., Billy Idol, Blur, Bronski Beat, Boy Harsher, Camouflage, Cinemascope, Cinema Strange, Clan Of Xymox, David Bowie, Dead Or Alive, Depeche Mode, Die Ärzte, Die Fantastischen Vier, Don Huonot, Duran Duran, Esoterik, Farin Urlaub (Racing Team), Fettes Brot, Fiction, Foo Fighters, Garbage, Ghosting, Goethes Erben, Green Day, Grossstadtgeflüster, Inkubus Sukkubus, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Joy Division, Julien Bam, Käärijä, Kino Carey, Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga, L'Âme Immortelle, Leaether Strip, Linkin Park, London After Midnight, Luci'fer Luscious Violenoué, Maître Gims, Mark Forster, Marteria, Marusha, Mia., Minuit Machine, Mylène Farmer, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Pharao, Project Pitchfork, Psycho Le Cému, Rihanna, Rob Zombie, Roman Rain, ЯR, Santa Hates You, She Wants Revenge, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Slam Bamboo, Soft Cell, Space Tribe, Specimen, Spinal Tap, Stromae, Tears For Fears, The Clash, The Cramps, The Crüxshadows, The Cult, The Cure, The Mission, The Offspring, The Prodigy, The Runaways, The Sisters Of Mercy, The 69 Eyes, The Weeknd, Thomas D, Tic Tac Toe, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Van Halen, Vanished Empire, Virgin Prunes, Xmal Deutschland... Most likely I forgot a gazillion in this list D:, because this happens so often.

I'm looking to meet people who: I'm looking to meet people who don't tame their souls! Who are authentic beyond words, who stand up for their ideals, who are open-minded, kind, creative, intuitive, etc. :D

My posting schedule tends to be: Almost daily, though I will not promise it will always be like this!

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Ableism, animal cruelty, animal testing, anti-semitism, arrogance, body shaming, elitism, fascism, fatphobia, homophobia, ignorance, islamophobia, racism, religious fanatism, sexism, transphobia.

Before adding me, you should know: I struggle with my mental health (ORLY?), mainly in terms of C-PTSD, BPD, EDNOS/OSFED, and severe depression, and while I try not to overdo it in terms of expressing what this means, there could be entries in this regard... I will put potentially triggering entries behind cuts, though. Also: I'll be gone from Sunday (2nd) until Saturday (8th), so it might take a bit in case you comment then to answer you or add you back. If you have any more questions/comments, please let me know.

intro post.

Oct. 29th, 2025 04:52 am
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 <b>Name:</b> amanda</p>
 
<p><b>Age:</b>30's</p>
 
<p><b>I mostly post about:</b>personal things and venting</p>
 
<p><b>My hobbies are:</b>anime, gaming , fashion, roleplaying</p>
 
<p><b>My fandoms are:</b> most are old so.. lol pokemon, sailor moon, cardcaptor sakura, detective conan, demon slayer, inuyasha, final fantasy, kingdom hearts to name some.</p>
 
<p><b>I'm looking to meet people who:</b>i dunno.. doesn't matter to me lol</p>
 
<p><b>My posting schedule tends to be:</b> pretty much spordiac due to life and health.</p>
 
<p><b>When I add people, my dealbreakers are:</b> minors, being rude, dishonest and what not</p>
 
<p><b>Before adding me, you should know:</b> i'm not the most social person or nicest but i am shy so give me space and time get back to you.
 

October Link List

Oct. 28th, 2025 11:35 am
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Very scattered, some references to U.S. Politics.

On the YouTubes (and a Podcast)
[youtube.com profile] Schmowd3r: PI Investigates the Blake Lively "Situation" (3:42h).
Probably not a lot of new information on the Blake Lively piece if you've been following the case, but it's well laid out. The first section is largely about trying to detect bot campaigns, and he has some really interesting thoughts there. Also, he's an entertaining presenter, and am adding him to my subs.

[youtube.com profile] LilShopofAli: Some of y’all still don’t understand desirability and it shows (1:40h).
This is a bit dated as it's about the topic du jour from a couple months ago, but I really like how Ali can take the discussion of the moment and expand it into a video about the wider cultural context. Very well done.

[youtube.com profile] olurinatti: How “This Didn’t Age Well” Destroyed Media Literacy (0:42hr).
Great video about thought-terminating cliches and how they affect the way we talk about media.

[youtube.com profile] ophie-dokie: censorship is coming for you next (& you're cheering it on) (1:02hr).
Can we stop running to cling to mommy's apron the state and demand stuff get cancelled? It's not going to end well.

Search Engine Podcast: A Dubai Chocolate theory of the internet (0:47hr, no transcript?).
If the medium is the message, and the medium is algorithmically-driven short-form video, what messages are we dealing with right now? Thoughts on Gen Z, and the world they're stuck in.


I Failed to Think of a Theme, and Failed, so Random Shit Posted in Order Bookmarked:
Kyrianna: Portraits.
Surrealist watercolour portraits of people with disabilities, manifesting symptoms of pain and restriction on their bodies. Really beautiful and affecting.

The Tyee: Unifor Undaunted as Amazon Ramps Up Its Anti-Union Fight.
"A union leader says newly certified workers are keen despite the company’s legal counteroffensive."

Tom's Guide: How to disable Copilot in Windows 11.
This was quite easy, and I wish I'd done it months ago.

TGEU: International Day of Action for Trans Depathologisation 2025.
I thought the demand list was really well laid out. These folks are doing such important work.

Spitfire News: Survivors deserve better storytelling.
A call to improve how journalists and content creators talk about violence and abuse. There's an open letter linked, and Kat also helped set up [instagram.com profile] survivorstoriesdeservebetter.

CBC: 'A healing event': Heiltsuk doctor performs rare delivery of Heiltsuk baby in own homelands.
An early labour in Bella Bella, B.C., where the hospital isn't equipped to deliver babies, had a happy ending.

The AV Club: Spotify stands by ICE recruitment ads despite artist backlash.
A growing number of artists have boycotted the service over its founder's investment in military AI.
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I am SO THRILLED that I can FINALLY check "build coxbox charging station" off of my project list!!

Recent boathouse projects

One of the most annoying aspects of the project was figuring out how to mount this shelf onto existing boathouse structures. It's resting on top of a metal wall support beam, but the shelf sticks out so far that it needed additional support underneath. I bought a set of L-braces that I bolted through the existing holes in the support beam, but they weren't quite tall enough to meet the upper edge of the lip of the support beam.

What I really needed for the project was a nice pile of scrap wood, but during boathouse cleanups people really wanted to throw away all of the scrap wood, so there was none to be had at the boathouse anymore. So I had to scrounge around at home to come up with stuff. I found three pieces that helped to support the underside and fill the gap between the L-braces and the shelf, but the whole shelf still seemed too tippy to just rest on the brackets and wood. So I went home again and searched some more for some longer pieces of wood to make the front legs. In other words, the front legs aren't really doing much structural work, they're more of a safety measure.

Anyway, ultimately, it isn't perfect, but it's DONE.

While I was at it, I also worked on testing out a method for displaying the zillions of rowing plaques the club has won over the years.

Two magnetic strips weren't enough, so I had to add a third magnetic strip:

Recent boathouse projects

Someone had suggested lining up all the plaques along one of the ceiling beams, but upon reflection, I got to worrying about what would happen if one of the plaques wasn't secured adequately and came tumbling down onto a fragile boat or human head.

So I set up this test plaque on a side beam instead:

Recent boathouse projects

And maybe this is just what we should do with all of these, anyway.

I would like to find better adhesive magnets to work with, though. It's annoying to have to put on a bunch of strips of this 1/2-inch-wide adhesive/magnetic stuff. Suggestions welcome.

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In the meantime, shenanigans are important.

A couple years ago, a teammate gave chicken socks to myself and a couple other people. A month or two ago, she commented that we should really get a "chicken quad" together where we all wear our chicken socks and row in the same boat. That made me think about my chicken hat from my friend E, so I ordered some chicken hats for my teammates and handed them out as a surprise when we got ready to row our Chicken Quad on Monday.

Chicken 4x

We all greatly amused ourselves.

Chicken 4x

Chicken 4x

These should probably exist as an animated gif:
Chicken 4x

Chicken 4x

Chicken 4x

Chicken 4x
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This morning, I had to skip rowing practice to drive into work and pick up Gari so I could bring her over to the vet for surgery.

She's had a growth develop on the right side of her neck over the last couple of months. You can see it just in front of her right front leg:

Gari's surgery

The vet called to let me know how things went while I was in the middle of teaching. He was able to remove all of the tissue he was concerned about, and Gari seemed to be doing well with regards to coming out of anesthesia. Along with that, the vet was able to stitch up Gari's wound satisfactorily (he had said that wound closure and healing can be tricky and different for reptiles as compared to mammals). So at lunchtime, I drove back over to pick her up.

Gari's surgery

She seemed a little woozy when I put her back in her cage. Understandable, all told.

I am so glad that I normally don't drive to work. Today will have involved almost 3 hours of driving to and fro. The weather is lovely and I would greatly prefer to be riding my bike.

On the other hand, there are a ton of people who really love Gari, so it's worth it to do all the driving to take good care of her.

This and that

Oct. 27th, 2025 05:52 pm
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Got my Yuletide assignment, which is going to be fun - I just have to refresh my canon memories, and it's not a long canon. Also, I just finished the (short) first season of Dark Winds. Now I dimly remember reaidng one of Hillerman's novels decades ago, but only a very few details remained with me - the asking about the clans, for example - which meant that basically I went into this unspoiled. And was v. amused that apparantly Noah Emmerich now gets typecast as an F.B.I agent, though Stan from The Americans and High Pockets here are very different types.

Spoilers thought it was a solid first season and will continue the show )

Meanwhile, thinking back to ye olde days when shows had 22 episodes per season, I just found this well crafted retroscpective on Six Feet Under, which reminded me of how much I loved and appreciated it:


The Family Tomb: A Six Feet Under Retrospective
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We had our last big fall regatta on Saturday. The weather was excellent. The rowing was all right - some tough competition out there. But a great day all around. I continue to be grateful for wonderful teammates and coaches.

Sunday was yet another projects and errands day. As evidence that I was tired, when I finally got to the point of baking a big fruit pie in the early evening, I made lots of smoke in the oven. The pie came out okay but I should try making this particular one again sometime when I am not quite so tired. It is yet another fun one from Rustic Fruit Desserts, a winter deep-dish pie with apples, pears, figs, and (cranberries but I used tart cherries), with a walnut crumb crust. I'll bake the next one in a cast-iron frying pan instead of a springform pan, and I will try and leave it in the oven even longer.

I somehow still have a lot more grading to do this week. And I need to bring Geri the Gerrhosaurus major to the vet tomorrow morning for her tumor surgery. Can't stop won't stop. Or something like that.

Fingers crossed

Oct. 26th, 2025 08:06 pm
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This was a very stressful couple of weeks at work - not in a bad way, in a 'big important deadlines ahhh' kind of way - but I might be getting my first independent research project if my proposal is selected for funding!

Will be taking a couple of days off this week after all that; Z also has a minor surgery on Friday, so I'd like to be free in case needs anything.

The free time that I haven't been spending on the submission has mostly been spent on writing the latest chapter of my Morrowind WIP. I was nervous about posting it, because it's a very important chapter that the story has been building up to for a while, plus I ended the last chapter on a cliffhanger and took a week off, and then I would have wanted the time to do one more pass over it... but based on the heartbroken comments, it had the impact I was hoping it would, so that was a relief.

Artistic gymnastics Worlds were this past week, and although I really enjoyed rhythmic Worlds (I watched with my parents - my dad enjoyed it a lot more than he expected to), and I made time to watch some of the figure skating GPs so far, between work and my recent meh feelings on artistic, I didn't end up watching more than a couple of videos. After the Paris fuck-up, the fan reactions to the Paris fuck-up (hoo boy did some fans who think of themselves as progressive let their racism fly), the recent Simone transphobia fuckery (glad to know our human rights mean just as much as Covid masking did to her when the sponsors call! really nice that she found the time to apologize someone who used her own sexual assault as a gotcha but not someone she ran off social media for not liking her floor music!), and who got through the "neutral" athlete screening from Russia... I wasn't feeling like trying to fit it in. Can't even be that happy that Leanne first proved wrong everyone proclaiming US gymnastics done, over with, won't win a single medal, because I don't like her, lol. (She's almost certainly an anti-vaxxer despite being pre-med, and I find her constant resume-fluffing endeavors annoying.) Nice results for Josc and Kaylia and Aiko, I guess.

On a happier note, now that I have free time again this weekend, I've been catching up on my reading. I just finished Renault's Fire From Heaven, her first Alexander the Great book. I'm not entirely sure exactly how I feel about it yet or whether I want to try another one of her novels; it was a very up-and-down book for me, with some parts that captured my attention for a long time, and others that felt like a slog.

One thing I did enjoy is that you can tell Renault put a lot of love into the setting, though I did learn quite fast that I shouldn't be looking up every unfamiliar name and place, because there were simply too many, and let them flow over me for the most part. The way she wrote it feels very immersive, with the characters just living their lives in a very different world than the one I live in. And while I'm sure she's over-romanticizing the historical Alexander, he made for an interesting central character, and there were still undertones in things like his relationship with Hephaestion that made him not feel 100% like a hero.

There was also a lot more stated indirectly or by implication than in other books I've read recently, which was a nice change of pace, though it did occasionally get confusing when I was tired or felt like I was missing some historical context. I also had a bit of trouble with the number of characters and how spaced out their appearances sometimes were - for instance, the backstory of Pausanias, who is central to the climax, is told briefly maybe a third of the way through, and then he doesn't appear again for another third of the novel, at which point I had completely forgotten who he was. However, the fact that I read some of the book slowly and had to give it back to the library for a few weeks definitely didn't help there.

I think one of the things that made some parts more difficult for me to get through is that her use of grammar is often pretty loose, more so in some scenes than others. While this can be used for good effect, I'm pretty sure some of her excess commas were mistakes, and there was at least one sentence that looked like it got mangled by OCRing the original into an ebook and didn't get fixed. She uses a lot of comma splices, sometimes chains together multiple phrases with semicolons, and does whatever this thing is with using a semicolon to add a dependent clause, which I associate with older works:
Those in his path would dress ranks anxiously, or fidget with their equipment; then stand easier, aware that he had not looked at them.
Again, sometimes these added nicely to the feel and rhythm of the scenes, but when there's too many comma splices and 'a; b; c; d; e.' sentences together, I found it tiring to read. It did remind me to watch out for overusing those kinds of sentence structures in my own writing where they feel like they fit the tone of the story.

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Oct. 26th, 2025 02:43 pm
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Name: Max Natan (Or just Max)

Age: 61, but reversed lol.

I mostly post about: Anything I want to express, but I usually talk about my life experiences and my thoughts on random topics.

My hobbies are: Writing, drawing, making comics, petting my cat, taking photos, observing nature, sometimes reading, imagining surreal things, watching YouTube animations.

My fandoms are: I’m not really a fandom guy, I like some media, but I don’t interact with the fandom often. There are some media I like: Madoka Magica, Dandadan, Deltarune, Undertale, Ghost and Pals, Gorillaz, Weezer, Vewn Channel, Ghosttundra Channel.

I’m looking to meet people who: Enjoy things like romance stories, horror stories, surrealism, nature, and people who don’t mind me being a little weird.

My posting schedule tends to be: irregular lol.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: extremists, people over 19.

Before adding me, you should know: I’m Brazilian, so my English isn’t the best, I’m kinda obsessed with certain words, like “lol,” I’m a bit insecure and anxious, My memory is kinda bad, and I don’t know very well how to start a conversation.

Alphabetical Fic Meme

Oct. 26th, 2025 10:19 am
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From [personal profile] astrogirl. Clearly, I must write stories to cover the J and X gaps.


Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.



A - Age of Iron (I Medici, Lorenzo "Il Magnifico" de' Medici/Francesco de' Pazzi)

B - Bad Reputation (16th Century CE RPF, Barbara Blomberg & Fernando Álverez Toledo III. Duque de Alba)

C - Cover her face ( The King's Touch - Jude Morgan, 17th Century RPF; Henriette Anne Stuart (Henriette d'Angleterre)

D - Discordance (Merlin (TV), Morgana & Gwen)

E - Eve of Destruction (To Walk Invisible (2016), 19th Century RPF, Branwell Bronte/ Joseph Bentley Leyland)

F - Five ways in which Frederick the Great and Maria Theresia did not meet (18th Century CE RPF, Frederick the Great & Maria Theresia)

G - Graham O'Brien's Survival Kit for Companions (Doctor Who, Graham O'Brien & Thirteenth Doctor)

H - Here lie we (Merlin (TV), Gwen & Morgana)

I - Invicta (3rd Century CE RPF, Helena (Mother of Constantine)


J -

K -Kin (Merlin (TV), Arthur & Morgana)

L - Learning Frederick (18th Century CE RPF, Frederick the Great/Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf)

M - Murder in Florence (16th Century RPF, Margaret of Parma, Alessandro "Il Moro" de'Medici/ Lorenzo "Lorenzino" di Pierfrancesco de' Medici)

N - Nusquam (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Ziyal & Dukat)

O - Opposites (Beatles RPF, Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono & Paul McCartney)

P - Prussian Doll (18th Century RPF, Frederick the Great & Prince Henry of Prussia, Frederick the Great/Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf)

Q - Queen's Gambit (Don Carlos - Friedrich Schiller, Elisabeth de Valois & Princess Eboli, Elisabeth de Valois & Philipp II of Spain)

R - Repercutio (Babylon 5, Londo Mollari & G'kar)

S - She blinded me with science (18th Century RPF', Émilie du Chatelet/Voltaire)

T - Till our shadows blend (Babylon 5, Delenn & Londo Mollari)

U - Unforgivable (Angel the Series, Holtz & Connor)

V - Vita Guineveris (Merlin (TV), Gwen (Guinevere)

W - We happy few (Beatles RPF, Brian Epstein & The Beatles)

X -

Y - You should see me in a crown (18th Century CE RPF, Catherine the Great & Prince Henry of Prussia)

Z - Zinc Man (The Americans (TV), Elizabeth Jennings/Philip Jennings)


That's 24 letters out of 275 stories. For easiness, I started with the most recent ones, but even so, clearly history is a dominating theme. Also, I would have bet Z to be the most difficult letter to find, but no, The Americans came through for me.

Alphabetical Fic Meme

Oct. 25th, 2025 05:09 pm
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I can never resist a fic-related meme, so of course I had to do this one I've seen going around lately:

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

For each letter, I've just picked the one that comes first alphabetically. I will note that this leaves a couple of my stories out of consideration entirely because they start with non-letter characters. But never mind those, let's se what the alphabet gives us.

A - After the World (Good Omens (TV)/Disco Elysium, Aziraphale, Crowley, Harry du Bois (sort of))
B - Back from Outer Space (Gravity Falls, Bill Cipher/Ford Pines)
C - Captive Audience (The Good Place, Vicky, Janet)
D - The Dad Joke (Undertale, Sans/Toriel, Frisk)
E - Earthly Pleasures (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
F - Fail Until You're Good Enough at It That It Starts to Look Like Hope (Disco Elysium, Harry du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi)
G - Galactic Peace Never Solved Anything (Farscape, John Crichton)
H - Hair Today, Gun Tomorrow (Blake's 7, Jenna Stannis, Jarriere, Jarvik)
I - I Could Give All to Time Except (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale)
J - Just a Few Bonecalls (Undertale, Sans/Toriel, Papyrus)
K - Keep One Place, Just for Us (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale, Crowley)
L - The Last Stop on the Tour (Doctor Who/Once Upon a Time, Clara Oswald, Emma Swan)
M - Maybe This Time (Doctor Who, Twelfth Doctor/Missy)
N - The Natural Attraction of Opposites (physics anthropomorfic, electron/positron)
O - The Observer Effect (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley, Gabriel, Beelzebub)
P - The Pale, the Sea, and the Shore (Disco Elysium/Our Flag Means Death, Lena, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach)
Q - A Question of Interior Design (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
R - A Re-Examination of the Origins of the Doctor Myth (Doctor Who, OCs)
S - Save the Date (Doctor Who, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, multiple Doctors)
T - That Thing They Say About the Road to Hell (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale, hints of Aziraphale/Crowley)
U - Uncommanded and Unforbidden (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
V - Vaster Than Empires (Doctor Who/Farscape, Zotoh Zhaan/Jabe)
W - Waning (The A Capella Version) (Farscape, Stark)
X -
Y - You (Gravity Falls, Stan Pines, Ford Pines)
Z - The Zombie Master, or PGP of the Living Dead (Blake's 7, Kerr Avon, Roj Blake, Vila Restal, Del Tarrant, Dayna Mellanby, Soolin)

That's 25 letters represented out of 363 fics. You'd think by now I'd have written something starting with X, but no.

And, man, that's an interesting list of fics. I suppose it does actually represent my fic-writing range pretty well? Certainly there's a good mix of fandoms (with that period where I spewed forth insane numbers of Good Omens fics accurately represented). And quite a time span, too, with a couple of things I wrote just this year, and a few I wrote decades ago in what feels like an entirely different world, when I was an entirely different person and fandom was, you guessed it, entirely different. Or at least very different, anyway.

Shot in the arm

Oct. 25th, 2025 11:08 am
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Alrighty then. 😄

Our Flu and covid shots are all done for another year now🥳.

We got our invites Wednesday, and Thursday morning was available as an appointment, so we snagged 9:30am. Funny thing was that the system was a bit wonked, so there were five or six of us booked in at the 9:30am slot. 😂  Didn't really matter too much, as the pharmacy we go to for the shots just whipped through each person at a good pace, so no one was waiting too long. 
Once we got our shots we stopped off at a nearby (next door to the pharmacy 😄) restaurant and had a nice breakfast before heading home. ❤️


It's been pretty normal on the shots front so far. Yay! 🥳
Getting the usual side effects we tend to get every time, aches and fatigue for us both.  And for me, a mean ole sore ichy and hot welt on my arm on the site. 

Today the welt is better on me, and I don't notice the shot site as much anymore, so it's getting there. Usually is fine after a week or so.

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Oct. 25th, 2025 10:23 am
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Heard there was a possible tornado in last night's nightmare storms in Texas. Hope my San Marcos and Kyle friends are okay out there.

Those storms looked bad, even for me.

Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

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