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I've been trying very hard to cheerful!post this week because I'm frequently struggling to breathe, as one does these days. You all know how it is. I was planning on posting from the perfect 4 July book (The Westing Game). But when I looked at the exact words of the quotation, it felt much too on the nose:

The sun has set on your Uncle Sam. Happy birthday, Crow. And to all of my heirs, a very happy Fourth of July.

So, okay, I thinks to myself. I'll quote my other favorite Fourth of July bit from the end. But when I looked it up, uh. That didn't feel any less apropos to the moment?

Turtle?"

"I'm right here, Sandy." She took his hand.

"Turtle, tell Crow to pray for me."

His hands turned cold, not smooth, not waxy, just very, very cold.

Turtle turned to the window. The sun was rising out of Lake Michigan. It was tomorrow. It was the Fourth of July.

Ah, well. Ready for a nice game of chess?

jadelennox

The full case name is "City of Eugene v. Debutante Society of Oregon", but the abbreviated version is fine too.

-- tahnan

libitina

Sorry I'm not more interesting, but to see about motivating myself to not just be a lump all weekend, here's some things I might want to get done

( listy list )

queen_ypolita

Finished since the last reading post
The Blunders of Our Governments, where the passing of time meant no very recent blunders were discussed, but also perhaps has changed the perspective on some of the things considered successes. The chapters discussing reasons for the blunders were perhaps even more interesting than the chapters on the blunders themselves.

How to Survive a Plague by David France, which covers some of the same ground as And the Band Played on by Randy Shilts, which I've read before, but more from a New York City and the ACT UP and related activist point of view. Very interesting, informative, and moving.

Currently reading
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, which has been a good bus read—my bus journey to work isn't really long enough to really get into a book, so anything with longer chapters tends to be a bit frustrating, but this one works really well.

Reading next
No idea—I've got a few books on the shelves I could pick up, some e-books as well, and I should have a library reservation coming my way at some point.

rodo

► As I mentioned, I did Rough Draft Month this month, a small, cosy NaNo replacement. It was supposed to pick me up a bit, and it did. But of course it was also stressful. Still, managed to hit my word count, all on one story. It’s a shitty story, but since my goal wasn’t to write a good one, that’s okay. I find that I am far more experimental and free with my English when just writing for the sake of it, rather than to produce something good, and that’s something I can then use in other stories. It also helped me figure out some general things about the story, should I ever rewrite it, from the natural stopping point (which I actually hit at 50k, by some miracle), and the arc of one of the main characters that I’d been struggling with. One of these days, I need to try this kind of challenge with a pre-planned story, though, rather than winging it all the time.

► I somehow managed to write my

fandom5k story in addition to that. Which was A Lot. Fandom 5K is the one exchange where I really wish the writing period was longer, since I tend to do intensive canon review with a lot of notes, and since coming up with a story idea sometimes takes me some time as well. I still need to do some editing, which is rare for me. I’m usually done at least a week early.

► My cat: it is summer, woe is me, I am a sad puddle on the floor, please make it stop. Also my cat: it is now the middle of the night and we need to cuddle. I don’t care if it’s still hot, need cuddles. (She’s elderly now, and she lost a lot of weight – down to a healthier 4.5 kg – which was hopefully just due to a change in diet when she started taking her heart meds, but whatever the case, she gets to get away with everything and I suffer through sleepless nights with a furry furnace clinging to me.)

( obligatory picture of the puddle in her favourite melting place )

ursamajor

When

belladonna shares a tweet that got screencapped and put up on Insta:

@ madisontayt_: imagining a vegan who won't drink nyc's tap water because of the microscopic shrimp
@ TheWappleHouse: The what now

and I was like "Yeah! There was this whole thing about NYC's tap water possibly being not kosher because of copepods in the water supply a few years back. Which might've meant that NYC bagels, whose lauded taste and texture were credited to the tap water used to boil them, were potentially treyf. But then other rabbis weighed in and said as long as the proportion of these microscopic crustaceans was less than 1/60th of the total volume, it was okay by the principle of בטל בשישים (bitul b'shishim/beteil beshishim), thank you Shabot6000."

... and then I realized "a few years back" was 21 years ago.

Current Mood: silly

trobadora

It rained for three hours straight - thunderstorm, hail and torrential rain - and didn't cool done one bit. That shouldn't be allowed. And now we have all the heat and all the humidity, and ugh.

(Hi! I'm still here. Things are just very busy and I can't seem to find the time or energy for posting, much less keeping up with anything other than the

sid_guardian discussions ... I hope everyone's doing well, whether you're caught in this heat wave too or not.)

lannamichaels

Title: Drabble: Anti-Brooklynians.
Author:

lannamichaels
Fandom: Captain America
Rating: G
Archives: Archive Of Our Own, SquidgeWorld

Summary: Aliens wrote Shakespeare, the Earl of Oxford built the pyramids, and Steve Rogers was never Captain America.

( I started this in 2019 and then ignored it every time I saw it instead of getting it to fit wordcount )

jadelennox

Poll #33308 choices of varying difficulty

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 49

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pick one science!

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space
29 (60.4%)

dinosaurs
19 (39.6%)

pick one plastic pal who's fun to be with!

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murderbot
12 (25.0%)

lieutenant commander data
18 (37.5%)

lieutenant commander murderbot
6 (12.5%)

murderdata
12 (25.0%)

pick one cat!

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a cat who does crimes
1 (2.0%)

a cat who does naps
3 (6.1%)

trick question, they're the same cat
45 (91.8%)

pick one poll type!

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radio button
9 (18.4%)

ticky boxes
24 (49.0%)

free text answer
2 (4.1%)

scientifically constructed and balanced poll with an IRB approval and crosstabs
14 (28.6%)

pick one brassica!

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brussels sprouts
10 (20.4%)

box choy
5 (10.2%)

cauliflower
7 (14.3%)

turnip
2 (4.1%)

kohlrabi
4 (8.2%)

mustard
5 (10.2%)

sauerkraut
4 (8.2%)

candytuft
1 (2.0%)

horseradish
8 (16.3%)

purple pickled horseradish, maybe with a little charoset
3 (6.1%)

pick one way to feel better!

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petting the cat
8 (16.3%)

eating cheese
1 (2.0%)

throwing your phone into the fires of mount doom
2 (4.1%)

medication
1 (2.0%)

looking at pictures of nebulas
1 (2.0%)

throwing the technology of your choice into the fires of mount doom
1 (2.0%)

petting this other cat
7 (14.3%)

doing crimes
5 (10.2%)

reading
6 (12.2%)

writing
2 (4.1%)

'rithmetic
0 (0.0%)

digging in the dirt
1 (2.0%)

listening to music
2 (4.1%)

being in the ocean
5 (10.2%)

throwing mount doom into the fires of mount doom, just to see if you can create a singularity via recursive destruction
7 (14.3%)

Current Mood: exanimate

ursamajor

hyounpark and I wrapped up our extremely concert-filled June last weekend with two shows in Wine Country, backing up Andrea Bocelli and friends. Three rehearsals in ten days with almost entirely new-to-me repertoire - it felt good to have that kind of intensity of practice again. It's different from regular rehearsal, where we have a month, two, sometimes even three to slowly, steadily polish a single piece. Harder to cram into daily life, but always worth it.

Saturday was also Hyoun's birthday, so I was highly amused when the sound check opened with La donna è mobile from Rigoletto. Because I originally learned that melody in fourth grade as a birthday song!

( Archiving the lyrics here because I know I was able to find it on the internet at some point in the past, but no longer. )

( the rest of the Bocelli concert experience )

And now, my Wednesday nights are free for a (very) few weeks! (Summersings start July 23, and then after that we're right into rehearsals for Verdi; I hope I'll be able to cram in one or two Wednesday night Friends With Bikes rides during the time off, but we'll need to see.)

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: ride e canta nel sole l'infinita nostra felicita // gloria a te!

jadelennox

"Academia: Staying Afloat" by Timothy Burke from the end of January made me feel warmer. It's about everything. AI slop. Fascism. Modern employment. Greed. The broad gesture at everything. Hope. Determination.

You are the right person to do what you do, know what you know, study what you’re going to study. You do it.

You are a lifeboat.

You are not the passenger being rescued from a shipwreck. You are the rescuer. Your skills, your knowledge, your experience reside in you. You have pulled them from the cold ocean where cruel and careless captains have set them adrift.

You are a lifeboat.

Current Mood: we have no words anymore

lannamichaels

I'm not sure if it's a sign of improving mental health (less hoarding/control tendencies!) or a sign of worsening mental health (lack of interest/care about things) in that after discovering that, no, even logging in with my RSS reader to ao3 won't make archive-locked fics show up in RSS feed, my reaction is: eh, that's the author's problem that I never see their fic, not mine.

I fully disagree with a lot of the reasons people lock their fic on ao3 (especially the way many people on tumblr frame it as them being "forced" to do so) but hey, it's their decision.

Once upon a time, if you wanted people to see your fic, you would do things about it. Maybe you'd send it to a mailing list. Maybe you'd post on a LJ community.

And now what people seem to do a lot of is just post it to ao3 and never crosspost about it anywhere. Their assumption is, you'll see it on Ao3.

But I don't. Because a small one fandom archive, sure, I could look at it every so often and see the what's new.

But I'm following a lot of ao3 tags and I am not checking ao3 for 1) any locked fics, which don't show up in RSS, 2) any fics posted to collections which, because of changes ao3 made years ago, do not show up in the feed if there are 20 fics posted since that was posted.

And once upon a time, I was like "I need to see all these fics, especially ones in tiny fandoms I'd never see otherwise!"

And now I'm just like. Meh. That's their problem that I'll never see their fic, not mine.

Possibly this is because my "to read" list is so very very long and so is my author subscription emails that haven't been read yet.

But also it's like. If you make it hard for me to find your fic. Then you're just like those people back on LJ who would post a fic to a community with a note that they were going to friends-lock the fic after 3 days, and if you want to see previous ones in the series, you have to get them to add you to their friends list.

Because honestly why bother. If you're going to make it hard for me to read your fic, then clearly you don't want me personally to read it, and that's okay. There's plenty of others, from people who aren't making it hard.

Because, no, I am not going to be checking every single ao3 tag even monthly for archive locked/collections fics. I'm sure some people are checking them frequently. Those people will read your fic. And that's fine, honestly.

But I'm not putting in the work. And if I miss the world's great fic because I don't see it, then yeah, okay. That's fine. Go with god, do your own thing. Not my problem.

vass

Books
Still reading A Power Unbound.

Comics
Caught up on Order of the Stick (I was at about #1319, and the most recent one was #1328.) Welp, that was a thing that happened.

Things are also Happening in Dumbing of Age. I am looking at the title text in June 24's strip and glowering distrustfully at Willis after what happened last big finale.

Games
Playing a lot of Simon Tatham's Puzzle Games on my phone.
Slay the Spire: have now unlocked Ascension 4 on all four characters. Surprisingly (to me?) the hardest run on Ascension 3 was with the Defect.

Links

The Bedbound Activity Masterlist: Part 1 (Also good for insomnia or for when it's too cold to be anywhere but under the covers, even if you're not bedbound.)

A New Ballet by Underrepresented Artists: "The Little Mermaid reimagined as a disabled, queer and brown coming-of-age story for 7 dancers." The link is to a fundraiser, but even if you're not up for donating there's a video there from rehearsals that might be of interest. (Disclaimer: I can't be objective about this show, one of my best friends is dancing in it.)

Crowdfunders for the UK's Trans+ Solidarity Alliance: Support Trans+ Solidarity Alliance and Maybe I'm Trans? (with badges). (hattip: rydra_wong)
Internet users advised to change passwords after 16bn logins exposed. As usual, HaveIBeenPwned, you know the drill.

Cats
Ash is down an incisor and a canine as of last Tuesday. He was good and brave at the vet and, after he got home, patient with Dorian's mistaking him for a stranger because he smelled Wrong.

Phenology
No new kangaroo visits. It's been very cold out.

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