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kaffy_r) wrote2025-05-28 08:24 pm
kaffy_r) wrote2025-05-28 08:24 pmEntry tags:
Dept. of Kitchen Work
Orange Cake and Daily Tasks
Very quickly, because I'm busily rewatching a Korean music group challenge show (because of course I am), I wanted to announce to a waiting world that the second time I baked this particular orange cake, it was just as good as the first time. I am satisfied.
Today was supposed to be the first day that I gathered up all the paperwork we need to prepare Bob's Canadian permanent residence application. I ended up dealing with other things, but I hope it wasn't just a case of me trying to avoid a tough job. It's undoubtedly not nearly as tough as my fears make it seem. I'm going to do my best tomorrow to get the job done. Then Bob and I will figure out the following day's tasks wrt the application. We figured that we'd try to tackle one job each every day, and we're going to try to stick to that.
Well, except for me, obviously. Sigh.
Wish us both luck tomorrow.
Very quickly, because I'm busily rewatching a Korean music group challenge show (because of course I am), I wanted to announce to a waiting world that the second time I baked this particular orange cake, it was just as good as the first time. I am satisfied.
Today was supposed to be the first day that I gathered up all the paperwork we need to prepare Bob's Canadian permanent residence application. I ended up dealing with other things, but I hope it wasn't just a case of me trying to avoid a tough job. It's undoubtedly not nearly as tough as my fears make it seem. I'm going to do my best tomorrow to get the job done. Then Bob and I will figure out the following day's tasks wrt the application. We figured that we'd try to tackle one job each every day, and we're going to try to stick to that.
Well, except for me, obviously. Sigh.
Wish us both luck tomorrow.
shadowkat (shadowkat) wrote2025-05-28 06:01 pm
shadowkat) wrote2025-05-28 06:01 pmThis and that and the other thing
I woke up in a decent mood and started the day, happy and carefree - yet by the end of it? Grumpy. I think the world likes to chip away at us at times?
Also it's raining, and my right leg is bothering me again. It was fine this morning - more or less, but started bugging me again at lunch time. To cheer myself up - I got a discounted Grand Central mouse pad/post-card, and a NYC 2025 Guide Book (both discounted off by 20%). Also, got a matcha latte. (I'm in love with matcha lattes - with almond milk - they are unsweetened, have almost no calories, and healthy). Sitting at home now, with a heating pad on my back.
1. The Truth About Why You Keep Waking Up at 3AM
I've basically done everything that has been suggested. I'm working on the diet bit - because I think that may be a factor. I realized that my sleep deprivation over the years is most likely why I have some of the health issues that I currently have - well that and menopause and ceiliac disease are probably factors, plus genetics. Honestly there's never one solution or one cause, if there was, the pharmaceutical industry would be out of business.
2. My Buffy Re-Watch - has made me aware of a few things? I'm still in S2.
( Read more... )
3. I do not know what to make of Amanda Palmer. I tried to unsubscribe to her Patreon, but it keeps popping up in my inbox. And I keep deleting. And she keeps talking about how all she does is love, gets browbeaten by trolls, but fights back, and can't talk about what happened until the lawsuit is over. I feel sorry for her - she gets trolled, but I also think that she's been infected by Fame and can't let go of the addiction? What I don't get is why people troll her? I get the anger? But trolling solves little? We're all flawed, let people be.
4. Bono (U2) of all people gave me a smattering of hope today.
Bono on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Kimmel asks him where he stands on the Trump vs. Springsteen issue. He's of course in Springsteen's corner...yada yada yada. But what he says that gave me a smattering of hope is this: "I founded a non-profit bipartisan foundation called ONE and it is made up of a lot of conservative and highly religious people, Anglicans, Catholics, Fundamentalist Christians, etc and they are VERY angry about what the person they voted for is doing to their country and how he is dismantling various fundamental and important life saving aid programs such as US AID and the Peace Corps which have saved millions of lives from AIDS and other diseases and poverty around the world. Taking away programs of compassion and kindness - which are what America is all about. What we are about. So angry that trust me on this, they and we are about to make a lot of good trouble."
I can't emphasize this enough to anyone who stumbles upon my journal, there are numerous coalitions forming around the United States and Globally to fight this administration and it's project 2025 plan. And they are growing daily.
5. MTA vs. the Federal Government.
Tee Hee, the MTA is winning!
MTA: The Feds want us to give up congestion pricing and tell us how to control traffic and transportation in our city. But the Federal court prevented them from vindictively punishing us by removing Federal funding. We are not giving it up. Look here? The New York Times dug deep and proved it is working.
I feel sorry for the MTA, they are fighting everybody. Including idiotic talk radio hosts who think the subways are dangerous. They are not dangerous. I take the subways twice daily, five days a week and sometimes on weekends and to doctor's appointments, basically everywhere. They are safer than cars or buses. And far less stressful. Not to mention cheaper.
Very few people die on the subway. The worst thing I've seen on the subway was a man who was scarred from third degree burns on every inch of his body and begging for money. Also once during the pandemic - a homeless man with a knife. But we were perfectly safe - the conductor stopped the train, got us all off, and called for assistance at the next station.
Also it's raining, and my right leg is bothering me again. It was fine this morning - more or less, but started bugging me again at lunch time. To cheer myself up - I got a discounted Grand Central mouse pad/post-card, and a NYC 2025 Guide Book (both discounted off by 20%). Also, got a matcha latte. (I'm in love with matcha lattes - with almond milk - they are unsweetened, have almost no calories, and healthy). Sitting at home now, with a heating pad on my back.
1. The Truth About Why You Keep Waking Up at 3AM
I've basically done everything that has been suggested. I'm working on the diet bit - because I think that may be a factor. I realized that my sleep deprivation over the years is most likely why I have some of the health issues that I currently have - well that and menopause and ceiliac disease are probably factors, plus genetics. Honestly there's never one solution or one cause, if there was, the pharmaceutical industry would be out of business.
2. My Buffy Re-Watch - has made me aware of a few things? I'm still in S2.
( Read more... )
3. I do not know what to make of Amanda Palmer. I tried to unsubscribe to her Patreon, but it keeps popping up in my inbox. And I keep deleting. And she keeps talking about how all she does is love, gets browbeaten by trolls, but fights back, and can't talk about what happened until the lawsuit is over. I feel sorry for her - she gets trolled, but I also think that she's been infected by Fame and can't let go of the addiction? What I don't get is why people troll her? I get the anger? But trolling solves little? We're all flawed, let people be.
4. Bono (U2) of all people gave me a smattering of hope today.
Bono on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Kimmel asks him where he stands on the Trump vs. Springsteen issue. He's of course in Springsteen's corner...yada yada yada. But what he says that gave me a smattering of hope is this: "I founded a non-profit bipartisan foundation called ONE and it is made up of a lot of conservative and highly religious people, Anglicans, Catholics, Fundamentalist Christians, etc and they are VERY angry about what the person they voted for is doing to their country and how he is dismantling various fundamental and important life saving aid programs such as US AID and the Peace Corps which have saved millions of lives from AIDS and other diseases and poverty around the world. Taking away programs of compassion and kindness - which are what America is all about. What we are about. So angry that trust me on this, they and we are about to make a lot of good trouble."
I can't emphasize this enough to anyone who stumbles upon my journal, there are numerous coalitions forming around the United States and Globally to fight this administration and it's project 2025 plan. And they are growing daily.
5. MTA vs. the Federal Government.
Tee Hee, the MTA is winning!
MTA: The Feds want us to give up congestion pricing and tell us how to control traffic and transportation in our city. But the Federal court prevented them from vindictively punishing us by removing Federal funding. We are not giving it up. Look here? The New York Times dug deep and proved it is working.
I feel sorry for the MTA, they are fighting everybody. Including idiotic talk radio hosts who think the subways are dangerous. They are not dangerous. I take the subways twice daily, five days a week and sometimes on weekends and to doctor's appointments, basically everywhere. They are safer than cars or buses. And far less stressful. Not to mention cheaper.
Very few people die on the subway. The worst thing I've seen on the subway was a man who was scarred from third degree burns on every inch of his body and begging for money. Also once during the pandemic - a homeless man with a knife. But we were perfectly safe - the conductor stopped the train, got us all off, and called for assistance at the next station.
rebeccmeister (rebeccmeister) wrote2025-05-28 08:52 pm
rebeccmeister) wrote2025-05-28 08:52 pmEntry tags:
Day 2, high speed, low budget [bicycling]
Lockport continued to be awesome in the morning.
We got to watch a group of fourth graders lock through on a tour boat! I took several short videos.
On our way out of town we encountered three tall bike tourers headed the other way.
https://flic.kr/p/2r7Eu37
We went across a point where there’s a waterfall *under* the canal, and another spot where a road goes underneath. Not as impressive as some of the European aqueducts but still great.
Brockport has a lovely welcome center right next to the canal, with showers, laundry, space for tents on shore, and moorings for canal boats.
We had some headwinds and rain today, so I am tired and it’s time to fall asleep.
We got to watch a group of fourth graders lock through on a tour boat! I took several short videos.
On our way out of town we encountered three tall bike tourers headed the other way.
https://flic.kr/p/2r7Eu37
We went across a point where there’s a waterfall *under* the canal, and another spot where a road goes underneath. Not as impressive as some of the European aqueducts but still great.
Brockport has a lovely welcome center right next to the canal, with showers, laundry, space for tents on shore, and moorings for canal boats.
We had some headwinds and rain today, so I am tired and it’s time to fall asleep.
kenjari (kenjari) wrote2025-05-28 08:19 pm
kenjari) wrote2025-05-28 08:19 pmEntry tags:
Book Review
Chasing Cassandra
by Lisa Kleypas
This historical romance is the penultimate in the Ravenel series. After seeing her sister married, Cassandra Ravenel feels lonely and out of sorts. A surprising encounter with business magnate tom Severin creates an undeniable spark between them. However, Casssandra is unsure that he can give her the quiet, domestic life she wants, and Tom is convinced that love is not for him. Yet, they cannot stop thinking about and wanting each other. When Cassandra finds herself the victim of a cruel scandal, Tom proposes marriage and she accepts his marriage proposal, hoping that her desire to be loved will be fulfilled. And this is a romance novel, so it ultimately is.
This one started out a little iffy for me. It took me quite a while to warm up to Tom, as he starts out as a ruthless businessman who has trouble dealing with people and admitting his feelings and thus keeps himself emotionally locked down. He was very much not the kind of hero that appeals to me. His attraction to and developing feelings for Cassandra break down his walls, but, thankfully, he was already doing some of that work himself before they became involved. I did grow to like the way he cared deeply and fiercely for her, even before he recognized or admitted it. I also liked the way he always listened to Cassandra and considered her viewpoint. Cassandra was very likeable, as a woman who knows what she wants and won't settle for less. Their differences truly complemented each other.
by Lisa Kleypas
This historical romance is the penultimate in the Ravenel series. After seeing her sister married, Cassandra Ravenel feels lonely and out of sorts. A surprising encounter with business magnate tom Severin creates an undeniable spark between them. However, Casssandra is unsure that he can give her the quiet, domestic life she wants, and Tom is convinced that love is not for him. Yet, they cannot stop thinking about and wanting each other. When Cassandra finds herself the victim of a cruel scandal, Tom proposes marriage and she accepts his marriage proposal, hoping that her desire to be loved will be fulfilled. And this is a romance novel, so it ultimately is.
This one started out a little iffy for me. It took me quite a while to warm up to Tom, as he starts out as a ruthless businessman who has trouble dealing with people and admitting his feelings and thus keeps himself emotionally locked down. He was very much not the kind of hero that appeals to me. His attraction to and developing feelings for Cassandra break down his walls, but, thankfully, he was already doing some of that work himself before they became involved. I did grow to like the way he cared deeply and fiercely for her, even before he recognized or admitted it. I also liked the way he always listened to Cassandra and considered her viewpoint. Cassandra was very likeable, as a woman who knows what she wants and won't settle for less. Their differences truly complemented each other.
fanf (fanf) wrote2025-05-29 01:23 am
fanf) wrote2025-05-29 01:23 amthe algebra of dependent types
https://dotat.at/@/2025-05-28-types.html
TIL (or this week-ish I learned) why big-sigma and big-pi turn up in the notation of dependent type theory.
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Lynn | Settiai (settiai) wrote2025-05-28 08:05 pm
settiai) wrote2025-05-28 08:05 pmEntry tags:
Oops?
"I'm exhausted from not getting enough sleep, and my spoons are gone after the hell that was work today," I said yesterday evening after getting home from work.
"I have so many things that I need to get done this evening, but I don't have the energy right now," I said. "Plus my head's really starting to hurt."
"You know what?" I asked myself. "A short nap will be the perfect solution."
Spoiler: it was not the perfect solution for accomplishing things yesterday evening. Why not? Because instead of it being a short nap, it turned into a full night's sleep.
Oops?
Seriously, I didn't even turn out the lights. I curled up on top of the comforter on the bed. I wasn't even under the sheets. And I still slept for hours.
Luckily, I woke up for something like twenty minutes a little before midnight. That gave me time to take care of a couple of things that I really had to do, and then I was able to at least turn out the lights and such. But, yeah. That wasn't exactly what my plan was for yesterday. It's certainly what happened, though.
"I have so many things that I need to get done this evening, but I don't have the energy right now," I said. "Plus my head's really starting to hurt."
"You know what?" I asked myself. "A short nap will be the perfect solution."
Spoiler: it was not the perfect solution for accomplishing things yesterday evening. Why not? Because instead of it being a short nap, it turned into a full night's sleep.
Oops?
Seriously, I didn't even turn out the lights. I curled up on top of the comforter on the bed. I wasn't even under the sheets. And I still slept for hours.
Luckily, I woke up for something like twenty minutes a little before midnight. That gave me time to take care of a couple of things that I really had to do, and then I was able to at least turn out the lights and such. But, yeah. That wasn't exactly what my plan was for yesterday. It's certainly what happened, though.
kindkit (kindkit) wrote2025-05-28 05:53 pm
kindkit) wrote2025-05-28 05:53 pmEntry tags:
fic: "Unsatisfied" (Murderbot TV)
Speaking of the Murderbot TV show, I have written a thing for the first time in quite a while. It's about Gurathin, who is, predictably enough, my favorite.
Unsatisfied (1003 words) by kindkit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Murderbot (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dr. Gurathin (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: Backstory, Character Study
Summary: Five things Gurathin has wanted and not been able to have.
The fic is archive-locked on AO3 (they all are, due to AI scraping incidents). So I'm also pasting it in below.
( Story under the cut )
Unsatisfied (1003 words) by kindkit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Murderbot (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dr. Gurathin (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: Backstory, Character Study
Summary: Five things Gurathin has wanted and not been able to have.
The fic is archive-locked on AO3 (they all are, due to AI scraping incidents). So I'm also pasting it in below.
( Story under the cut )
kindkit (kindkit) wrote2025-05-28 05:25 pm
kindkit) wrote2025-05-28 05:25 pmEntry tags:
Wednesday updates
The state of me in general:
Meh. Nothing in particular to report, just, you know, everything.
Reading:
Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet. I'm a bit more than halfway through with this, but stalled at the point where the main character is about to make another very bad, self-destructive choice. There are other novels by Waters I like more.
T. Kingfisher, A Sorceress Comes to Call. Kingfisher's novels are always worth a read. I found this one quite harrowing on an emotional level--something about the particular brand of abuse the main character goes through really gets to me. But Kingfisher never just drops her characters into hell and leaves them there, which is an assurance I need these days. Bonus points for how she plays with the "lonely girl bonds with a magical horse" trope.
And I'm re-reading the Murderbot books (after having finally finished the series) to see if I get more out of them this time.
Watching:
The Murderbot TV show, which (at the risk of heresy) I'll admit I like more than the books. I've never found it easy to connect emotionally with Martha Wells' writing, so I think the story benefits greatly from being performed. Alexander Skarsgard is very, very good as Murderbot, managing to convey huge amounts of layered characterization using mostly his eyes, his voice, and some body language. And David Dastmalchian, whom I'd never heard of before, almost steals the show as Murderbot's semi-nemesis Gurathin. The two of them play off each other very well, as two similar personalities who, naturally, can't stand each other and are incredibly awkward about it.
Leverage: Redemption, which I like fine but which can't quite hold up to the original show. The (mostly) lack of Hardison changes the emotional dynamic I loved in the original, although at least, mercifully, the show quickly stopped trying to make parenthood its new dynamic. I do like Breanna, and I like that there's now a canonically queer person in the main team, but it's just not the same.
I'm still watching, though. I'm only up to the first episode of S3, so no spoilers past that, please.
Taskmaster S19 is a delight. I love this series' cast and they are very, very funny together. I was nervous about Jason Mantzoukas, because I only knew him as Derek from The Good Place and that character irritated me, but he brings beautiful chaos to Taskmaster.
Meh. Nothing in particular to report, just, you know, everything.
Reading:
Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet. I'm a bit more than halfway through with this, but stalled at the point where the main character is about to make another very bad, self-destructive choice. There are other novels by Waters I like more.
T. Kingfisher, A Sorceress Comes to Call. Kingfisher's novels are always worth a read. I found this one quite harrowing on an emotional level--something about the particular brand of abuse the main character goes through really gets to me. But Kingfisher never just drops her characters into hell and leaves them there, which is an assurance I need these days. Bonus points for how she plays with the "lonely girl bonds with a magical horse" trope.
And I'm re-reading the Murderbot books (after having finally finished the series) to see if I get more out of them this time.
Watching:
The Murderbot TV show, which (at the risk of heresy) I'll admit I like more than the books. I've never found it easy to connect emotionally with Martha Wells' writing, so I think the story benefits greatly from being performed. Alexander Skarsgard is very, very good as Murderbot, managing to convey huge amounts of layered characterization using mostly his eyes, his voice, and some body language. And David Dastmalchian, whom I'd never heard of before, almost steals the show as Murderbot's semi-nemesis Gurathin. The two of them play off each other very well, as two similar personalities who, naturally, can't stand each other and are incredibly awkward about it.
Leverage: Redemption, which I like fine but which can't quite hold up to the original show. The (mostly) lack of Hardison changes the emotional dynamic I loved in the original, although at least, mercifully, the show quickly stopped trying to make parenthood its new dynamic. I do like Breanna, and I like that there's now a canonically queer person in the main team, but it's just not the same.
I'm still watching, though. I'm only up to the first episode of S3, so no spoilers past that, please.
Taskmaster S19 is a delight. I love this series' cast and they are very, very funny together. I was nervous about Jason Mantzoukas, because I only knew him as Derek from The Good Place and that character irritated me, but he brings beautiful chaos to Taskmaster.
Isis (isis) wrote2025-05-28 05:05 pm
isis) wrote2025-05-28 05:05 pmwednesday reads and things
What I've recently finished reading:
A Drop of Corruption, the sequel to The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. I liked it a lot (Din and Ana are great characters!), and I thought it was easier to follow than the first book, in the sense that I figured out the major twists and culprits before they happened (which is not a criticism, it means the appropriate breadcrumbs were dropped). The worldbuilding continues to be very weird and cool. Definitely one of the best Sherlock Holmes fanfics I've read! :-)
What I'm reading now:
I've gone back to the Shardlake series by C. J. Sansom and am now on the fifth book, Heartstone.
What I'm watching now:
Still Andor. The other night I dreamed we were giving a party, except our house was basically Mon Mothma's house on Chandrila and the party was like the wedding episode. And then I went into the bathroom to change clothes and I noticed that my husband had left the tap dripping water so the cats could drink it, just like in real life :-) And then I woke up.
What I'm playing now:
Still Mass Effect: Andromeda, heading toward the endgame. It's still fun! Except for having to kill another Architect, which is basically the thresher maw of the Andromeda galaxy, and I still hate both of those enemies!
A Drop of Corruption, the sequel to The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. I liked it a lot (Din and Ana are great characters!), and I thought it was easier to follow than the first book, in the sense that I figured out the major twists and culprits before they happened (which is not a criticism, it means the appropriate breadcrumbs were dropped). The worldbuilding continues to be very weird and cool. Definitely one of the best Sherlock Holmes fanfics I've read! :-)
What I'm reading now:
I've gone back to the Shardlake series by C. J. Sansom and am now on the fifth book, Heartstone.
What I'm watching now:
Still Andor. The other night I dreamed we were giving a party, except our house was basically Mon Mothma's house on Chandrila and the party was like the wedding episode. And then I went into the bathroom to change clothes and I noticed that my husband had left the tap dripping water so the cats could drink it, just like in real life :-) And then I woke up.
What I'm playing now:
Still Mass Effect: Andromeda, heading toward the endgame. It's still fun! Except for having to kill another Architect, which is basically the thresher maw of the Andromeda galaxy, and I still hate both of those enemies!
Redbird (redbird) wrote2025-05-28 06:39 pm
redbird) wrote2025-05-28 06:39 pmblood draw, etc.
I'm fine, as far as I know everyone's fine, but my trip to get blood drawn was more exciting than anticipated: the bus driver had to slam on the brakes to avoid either a bicycle or a pedestrian crossing in mid-block. She did that, checked to make sure that everyone on the bus was OK, then drove to the next corner, pulled over, and asked again if everyone was sure they were OK.
A few stops after that, someone asked me where he should get off the bus to get to "the little mall with Trader Joe's and MicroCenter." It took me a moment to figure out what he meant, because the bus we were on doesn't go there. So first I told him I wasn't sure, because this bus didn't go there, and then I started thinking about the problem. He said he wasn't good at directions, so I suggested a route that involved more walking but less chance of getting lost. I wound up signaling for his bus stop, and then telling him I was sorry, I'd forgotten they'd moved the bus stop, so [revised directions]. I should note, he didn't ask me for most of this, just what bus stop to use, and I was in the mood to do the extra bits.
The rest of the trip to Mt. Auburn to get blood drawn went smoothly. Once I got there, I had very little wait, and the phlebotomist did a very good job; I made a point of telling him so. On the way back, I stopped in Harvard Square to put more money on my Charlie card; buy and eat a slice of Otto's mashed potato and bacon pizza; and then went to Lizzy's to get Adrian a pint of non-dairy chocolate ice cream.
I was going to withdraw some cash from the ATM at the 7-11 at Comm Ave and Harvard Ave, but when I got there the screen said "windows 7. Press ctrl-alt-del to log in," which was literally impossible with the numeric keypad, so I just came home.
A few stops after that, someone asked me where he should get off the bus to get to "the little mall with Trader Joe's and MicroCenter." It took me a moment to figure out what he meant, because the bus we were on doesn't go there. So first I told him I wasn't sure, because this bus didn't go there, and then I started thinking about the problem. He said he wasn't good at directions, so I suggested a route that involved more walking but less chance of getting lost. I wound up signaling for his bus stop, and then telling him I was sorry, I'd forgotten they'd moved the bus stop, so [revised directions]. I should note, he didn't ask me for most of this, just what bus stop to use, and I was in the mood to do the extra bits.
The rest of the trip to Mt. Auburn to get blood drawn went smoothly. Once I got there, I had very little wait, and the phlebotomist did a very good job; I made a point of telling him so. On the way back, I stopped in Harvard Square to put more money on my Charlie card; buy and eat a slice of Otto's mashed potato and bacon pizza; and then went to Lizzy's to get Adrian a pint of non-dairy chocolate ice cream.
I was going to withdraw some cash from the ATM at the 7-11 at Comm Ave and Harvard Ave, but when I got there the screen said "windows 7. Press ctrl-alt-del to log in," which was literally impossible with the numeric keypad, so I just came home.
The Gauche in the Machine (china_shop) wrote2025-05-29 10:37 am
china_shop) wrote2025-05-29 10:37 amEntry tags:
Guardian flashfic: softening (post-canon Da Qing & Shen Wei)
I just posted a Guardian flashfic for the Nap challenge on ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fan_flashworks:
Title: softening (1176 words) [General Audiences]
Tags: Da Qing & Shen Wei, Shen Wei & Ye Zun, background Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Post-Canon, Alternate Universe – Everyone Lives, Aftermath, Feelings, Cat Tribe Best Tribe
Summary:
Da Qing curls up and assesses. He likes this lap, with its faint aroma of dark energy and its feeling of safety, but the thighs reveal a thrumming tension. If Da Qing doesn’t mend Shen Wei’s mood, his nap will surely be cut short.
fan_flashworks:Title: softening (1176 words) [General Audiences]
Tags: Da Qing & Shen Wei, Shen Wei & Ye Zun, background Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Post-Canon, Alternate Universe – Everyone Lives, Aftermath, Feelings, Cat Tribe Best Tribe
Summary:
Da Qing curls up and assesses. He likes this lap, with its faint aroma of dark energy and its feeling of safety, but the thighs reveal a thrumming tension. If Da Qing doesn’t mend Shen Wei’s mood, his nap will surely be cut short.
kaberett (kaberett) wrote2025-05-28 11:36 pm
kaberett) wrote2025-05-28 11:36 pmEntry tags:
things I wish to consolidate the cope to talk about
... include:
- six months on from surgery: what's recovery looking like?
- this is actually secretly mostly (but not entirely) about Pilates
- grousing about getting the Framework actually set up Adequately under Debian (power management noooot doing what I want it to and the GPU seems to keep falling over; have not yet had time/brain to sit down with either the guide to Debian 12 or cross-referencing the way the Linux battery life tuning thread disagrees with the various guides for Ubuntu (which is an officially supported distribution)
- What I Am Up To This Week
But everything is Very, so for now you just get the list.
autobotscoutriella (autobotscoutriella) wrote2025-05-28 06:29 pm
autobotscoutriella) wrote2025-05-28 06:29 pmEntry tags:
(no subject)
Managed to get Parts 1/2/5 of the PWKM catalogued on the spreadsheet! Tonight I think I'll take a shot at getting part 3a finished since parts 3/4 are both partial, and then I'm thinking maybe I'll skip to more recent parts and work my way backward for a bit.
But for now...Sonata editing. Check back in an hour to see if I managed to do at least the Daryan section.
But for now...Sonata editing. Check back in an hour to see if I managed to do at least the Daryan section.
james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-05-28 04:42 pm
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-05-28 04:42 pmEntry tags:
Bundle of Holding: Sine Nomine Corebooks (from 2023)
The complete Deluxe Editions of Worlds Without Number and Stars Without Number, along with Wolves of God, Silent Legions, and more.
Bundle of Holding: Sine Nomine Corebooks (from 2023)
Socchan (soc_puppet) wrote2025-05-28 03:16 pm
soc_puppet) wrote2025-05-28 03:16 pmEntry tags:
School Routine
Currently between classes! I spent the first couple of hours after my morning class studying, and now I'm seeing what I can do to spend the rest of the time before my evening class. If either of the classes were in my hometown, I'd just go home for a nap and some relaxation, but unfortunately they're both in the same city where I work, which is half an hour away by car and seems like a waste to drive. I mean, I could still technically get almost five hours at home between classes? But that's a lot of time and especially gas money that I'd just as soon not spend, for the time being. I may change my mind by the end of the semester, but until then...
I only had one item left to do for this week's evening class (one evening a week): A quiz on the first chapter of our textbook, all multiple choice or true/false, three attempts allowed. I got 90% on the first two tries, and 100% on the last one. So far, so good!
I also figured I'd try and get a little bit ahead for my evening class stuff. I have the time, so why not? Unfortunately, I can't actually tell at the moment if what we're going to be assigned this week is three whole textbook chapters, or just the introduction for those three chapters. I read the entirety of the first of the assigned chapters just in case, then threw in the towel for today; I plan to ask for clarification tonight, since the website I access the (legit free) textbook through marks the to-do item complete once I open just the intro part of the chapter. Our reading for last week had been the opening of the first chapter and all three sub-parts, each of which got checked off as I opened them, so I would say I have reason to be confused!
ANYWAY. Wednesdays aside, I have a morning class Monday through Thursday, after which I usually visit the college library to work on homework for an hour or so. I'm pretty sure this is something I can keep up for the rest of my classes, so I'm cautiously optimistic about keeping my grades up for these last few semesters and actually getting my Associate's degree!
So far, so good ✌
I only had one item left to do for this week's evening class (one evening a week): A quiz on the first chapter of our textbook, all multiple choice or true/false, three attempts allowed. I got 90% on the first two tries, and 100% on the last one. So far, so good!
I also figured I'd try and get a little bit ahead for my evening class stuff. I have the time, so why not? Unfortunately, I can't actually tell at the moment if what we're going to be assigned this week is three whole textbook chapters, or just the introduction for those three chapters. I read the entirety of the first of the assigned chapters just in case, then threw in the towel for today; I plan to ask for clarification tonight, since the website I access the (legit free) textbook through marks the to-do item complete once I open just the intro part of the chapter. Our reading for last week had been the opening of the first chapter and all three sub-parts, each of which got checked off as I opened them, so I would say I have reason to be confused!
ANYWAY. Wednesdays aside, I have a morning class Monday through Thursday, after which I usually visit the college library to work on homework for an hour or so. I'm pretty sure this is something I can keep up for the rest of my classes, so I'm cautiously optimistic about keeping my grades up for these last few semesters and actually getting my Associate's degree!
So far, so good ✌
the cosmolinguist (cosmolinguist) wrote2025-05-28 09:21 pm
cosmolinguist) wrote2025-05-28 09:21 pmEntry tags:
This is what happens when we go to the gym unsupervised
I can never remember which one's "adductor" and which one's "abductor," but now one of those is the machine in the gym that's for practicing to crush a watermelon between your thighs, and I think after I described it thusly to him tonight, that's what diffrentcolours and I are gonna be calling it from now on.
After that I started explaining all the machines in terms of watermelons. "This one's lifting watermelons, this one's punching watermelons..."
badly_knitted (badly_knitted) wrote in get_knitted2025-05-28 08:52 pm
badly_knitted) wrote in get_knitted2025-05-28 08:52 pmEntry tags:
Check-In Post - May 28th 2025
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