Pho pho pho pho fashion
Sep. 1st, 2017 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I had pho for lunch yesterday and I will do the same today. It has a fuckton of ginger in it and I have a streaming cold so hopefully it will help. Yesterday, David Bowie came on while I was eating. ETA: Omg so much ginger. So much chilli. *fans face*
I have been quiet! But here and reading and also writing. Australia is (maybe) having a postal vote to determine if we will (finally) have same sex marriage. You'd think that would be a good thing, but the campaign for No is utterly vomitous. Like, I get up in the morning, casually read about how my relationship is the gateway to legalising bestiality, then get on with my job. As you do. And I know there are bigger and more life-endangering crises happening around the world, but that's a nasty and heavy stone to for me carry around. It has been leaving me very wordless at the end of each day.
It is also making me quite tense. AS YOU CAN FREAKING IMAGINE. But there's a stupid platform game where Tony Abbott appears and shoots lasers from his eyes. It's cheap. But it made me laugh: Going Postal
I can tell from my linkspam collection that I went into silent survival mode around the time of the Charlottesville attacks.
Activism and Disaster Recovery
Charlottesville
- Hymn: A New Poem by Sherman Alexie
This was shared on
poetry on the weekend of Charlottesville and I was glad I had read it. I've kept "We will be courageous in our love" at the front of my mind since.
- Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
via
thisfinecrew which has been great at rounding up links these past few weeks.
Southeast Asia Flooding:
Via goats and soda: Epic Floods Challenge Aid Workers On Opposite Sides Of The World
Donate at Oxfam's portal: South Asia floods
Hurricane Harvey:
- via
sage:
This ActBlue donation page lets you give to 14 different Texas nonprofits (all of whom are doing hurricane recovery) at once, either dividing your donation equally among them or letting you apportion as you like. It includes Portlight, the Houston, Galveston & Corpus food banks, animal rescues, a diaper bank, Meals on Wheels, etc.
- San Antonio foodbank is pooling its resources with all of South Texas, including Rockport, Aransas Pass, etc. for Harvey survivors.
- Via
thisfinecrew again, Here Are Ways You Can Help People During Hurricane Harvey
There's also a fandom auction comm started:
harvey_fanaid
Science Links. For Science!
This reminds me: the first ep of Ch 4's Bake-Off was actually pretty good - I mention this under Science because I am currently rooting for the science lesbian who is adorable and hilarious and very, very clearly one of us.
- Heart Rhythm Disorders
Apologies for the facebook link, but this video explaining heart rhythm disorders is super cute. (FWIW, disco sinus is not actually a thing.)
- How do reusable coffee cups stack up?.
Choice did a review of BYO coffee cups. I have a keepcup, which didn't rate highly in terms of keeping coffee hot, but was pretty good otherwise. Also it's super pretty, which has value for me in terms of cheering me up. (
lilacsigil's is lilac!)
- Australian Genetics of Depression Study
Fellow depressed Aussies! I'm in this depression study, and it's looking for more people to recruit. You do an online survey and if you meet their criteria for further investigation, they send you a tube which you fill with spit. If you'd like to be in some science, this is an easy and free way to do it.
It was a bit difficult to generate all the saliva they needed for the sample (I think it was 15ml?) because the dose of Pristiq I'm on has been giving me mega dry mouth. But I made a discovery! Sugarless gum really helps me make saliva! I know it's kind of obvious, and it's something I suggest whenever I dispense an initiating script for someone starting an antidepressant, but you know. It takes a while for me to take my own advice. So I've been chewing gum before bed, and it's definitely helped with my morning dry mouth, but it's also unexpectedly improved my eustachian tube function. I'm a glue ear baby, and my ears only pop when I manually do the Valsalva manoeuvre. (And you can hear it across the room, like a really loud click.) But they've started venting on their own since I've been using gum. My sinuses are clear, my crops are watered etc, all thanks to gum. *weird*
- Speech study finds ‘Al’ of a sound in the south-west (I love these old school headlines they use in our paper.)
Apparently my region is developing an accent.
lilacsigil and I tried on each other, and yeah, we can't tell the difference between Ellen and Allan. Even though I think I'm making different sounds when I say them. It's interesting because Australia doesn't so much have regional accents as social ones. I can pick an Adelaide person (clipped, a hint of British/German) and Queensland (much more broad than Melbourne, a bit more rural sounding to my ear), but that's about it for regional accents.
Craft
- Aviator cat hat (Paid pattern, but super cute.)
- Via boing boing, How to make a good lighting rig with a hamburger box and a flashlight
- Knitters wanted as War Memorial plans to unveil handmade poppies display (Also crocheters!)
Joy
- Westeros: trailer for spoof Thrones spinoff set in the 21st century
Via boing boing, this trailer is seriously fun and I would watch the crap out of this show.
-
shitduosays. (Shit Duolingo Says)
I am so pleased that it's not just Italian that throws out some really weird stuff. (Italian Duolingo is really obsessed with death.)
- via
umadoshi, Black Widow and Elektra fight (or at least their stunt doubles do, and it's AWESOME.)
- there's a Steve/Bucky exchange starting up:
stevebucky_exchange.
Fic Recs
Surveillance by
nestra
(Person of Interest, G)
Short and bitey Carter ficlet.
It's all fire and brimstone, baby by
canadianwheatpirates
(Person of Interest, Root/Shaw, Teen)
AU in which Root is a crossroads demon. I don't usually rec (or even read) wips but what's here is really good.
hush, hush (we both can't fight it) by
citadelofswords
(The Penumbra podcast, Juno Steel/Peter Nureyev, Teen)
Just a really goofy, romantic five kisses, set some time before Season Two.
this is how it began (this is the secret between) by
notcaycepollard
(MCU, Clint/Natasha/Laura, Mature)
I really like fic where Laura has a job, you know? She's a professional and she knows what she's getting into when you start a relationship with an agent. She's a translator here.
Clint Barton's Wedding Rules by
out_there
(MCU, Clint/Coulson, Mature)
For
unconventionalcourtship. I love that SHIELD has a wedding season - it's that kind of close-quarters high-danger work environment that would generate such a thing. And Clint is delightfully Clint in this - tripping over the very obvious, creating elaborate plans that are just disastrous. Really romantic and lovely.
It's a Pleasure by
willowbilly
(Kilgrave/Jessica/?Will, Hannibal/Will, Mature)
This is a mindfuck of a crossover, and really, really tense. Non-con warnings for the canon level of nastiness that is Killgrave. I love fics that turn Hannibal's tendencies to the heroic without changing his fundamental nature. I found this so satisfying.
Stay safe, people. If you're in a flood-risk area, I am thinking of you and hoping you are high and dry.
If you're an Aussie and you're suffering the onslaught of homophobia that is the media right now, please look after yourself. Remember self-care. Remember you don't have to interact with the garbage that is being spouted in your face. You are beautiful, and valuable and belong here in the world.
I have been quiet! But here and reading and also writing. Australia is (maybe) having a postal vote to determine if we will (finally) have same sex marriage. You'd think that would be a good thing, but the campaign for No is utterly vomitous. Like, I get up in the morning, casually read about how my relationship is the gateway to legalising bestiality, then get on with my job. As you do. And I know there are bigger and more life-endangering crises happening around the world, but that's a nasty and heavy stone to for me carry around. It has been leaving me very wordless at the end of each day.
It is also making me quite tense. AS YOU CAN FREAKING IMAGINE. But there's a stupid platform game where Tony Abbott appears and shoots lasers from his eyes. It's cheap. But it made me laugh: Going Postal
I can tell from my linkspam collection that I went into silent survival mode around the time of the Charlottesville attacks.
Activism and Disaster Recovery
Charlottesville
- Hymn: A New Poem by Sherman Alexie
This was shared on
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
- Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
via
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
Southeast Asia Flooding:
Via goats and soda: Epic Floods Challenge Aid Workers On Opposite Sides Of The World
Donate at Oxfam's portal: South Asia floods
Hurricane Harvey:
- via
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This ActBlue donation page lets you give to 14 different Texas nonprofits (all of whom are doing hurricane recovery) at once, either dividing your donation equally among them or letting you apportion as you like. It includes Portlight, the Houston, Galveston & Corpus food banks, animal rescues, a diaper bank, Meals on Wheels, etc.
- San Antonio foodbank is pooling its resources with all of South Texas, including Rockport, Aransas Pass, etc. for Harvey survivors.
- Via
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
There's also a fandom auction comm started:
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
Science Links. For Science!
This reminds me: the first ep of Ch 4's Bake-Off was actually pretty good - I mention this under Science because I am currently rooting for the science lesbian who is adorable and hilarious and very, very clearly one of us.
- Heart Rhythm Disorders
Apologies for the facebook link, but this video explaining heart rhythm disorders is super cute. (FWIW, disco sinus is not actually a thing.)
- How do reusable coffee cups stack up?.
Choice did a review of BYO coffee cups. I have a keepcup, which didn't rate highly in terms of keeping coffee hot, but was pretty good otherwise. Also it's super pretty, which has value for me in terms of cheering me up. (
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- Australian Genetics of Depression Study
Fellow depressed Aussies! I'm in this depression study, and it's looking for more people to recruit. You do an online survey and if you meet their criteria for further investigation, they send you a tube which you fill with spit. If you'd like to be in some science, this is an easy and free way to do it.
It was a bit difficult to generate all the saliva they needed for the sample (I think it was 15ml?) because the dose of Pristiq I'm on has been giving me mega dry mouth. But I made a discovery! Sugarless gum really helps me make saliva! I know it's kind of obvious, and it's something I suggest whenever I dispense an initiating script for someone starting an antidepressant, but you know. It takes a while for me to take my own advice. So I've been chewing gum before bed, and it's definitely helped with my morning dry mouth, but it's also unexpectedly improved my eustachian tube function. I'm a glue ear baby, and my ears only pop when I manually do the Valsalva manoeuvre. (And you can hear it across the room, like a really loud click.) But they've started venting on their own since I've been using gum. My sinuses are clear, my crops are watered etc, all thanks to gum. *weird*
- Speech study finds ‘Al’ of a sound in the south-west (I love these old school headlines they use in our paper.)
Apparently my region is developing an accent.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Craft
- Aviator cat hat (Paid pattern, but super cute.)
- Via boing boing, How to make a good lighting rig with a hamburger box and a flashlight
- Knitters wanted as War Memorial plans to unveil handmade poppies display (Also crocheters!)
Joy
- Westeros: trailer for spoof Thrones spinoff set in the 21st century
Via boing boing, this trailer is seriously fun and I would watch the crap out of this show.
-
I am so pleased that it's not just Italian that throws out some really weird stuff. (Italian Duolingo is really obsessed with death.)
- via
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- there's a Steve/Bucky exchange starting up:
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
Fic Recs
Surveillance by
(Person of Interest, G)
Short and bitey Carter ficlet.
It's all fire and brimstone, baby by
(Person of Interest, Root/Shaw, Teen)
AU in which Root is a crossroads demon. I don't usually rec (or even read) wips but what's here is really good.
hush, hush (we both can't fight it) by
(The Penumbra podcast, Juno Steel/Peter Nureyev, Teen)
Just a really goofy, romantic five kisses, set some time before Season Two.
this is how it began (this is the secret between) by
(MCU, Clint/Natasha/Laura, Mature)
I really like fic where Laura has a job, you know? She's a professional and she knows what she's getting into when you start a relationship with an agent. She's a translator here.
Clint Barton's Wedding Rules by
(MCU, Clint/Coulson, Mature)
For
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
It's a Pleasure by
(Kilgrave/Jessica/?Will, Hannibal/Will, Mature)
This is a mindfuck of a crossover, and really, really tense. Non-con warnings for the canon level of nastiness that is Killgrave. I love fics that turn Hannibal's tendencies to the heroic without changing his fundamental nature. I found this so satisfying.
Stay safe, people. If you're in a flood-risk area, I am thinking of you and hoping you are high and dry.
If you're an Aussie and you're suffering the onslaught of homophobia that is the media right now, please look after yourself. Remember self-care. Remember you don't have to interact with the garbage that is being spouted in your face. You are beautiful, and valuable and belong here in the world.
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Date: 2017-09-01 07:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 10:55 am (UTC)I will never forgive John Howard for that man and woman thing because at my brother's wedding it kind of punched me in the face. I wish they'd thought to do to drown it out, but I didn't feel like I had the right to ask, and they obviously didn't even register that I might be uncomfortable with it (I honestly don't think they realised what it meant) and that's what Howard wanted. Ugh.
I will use my fat brides icon to cheer me up.
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From:no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 08:18 am (UTC)Also, I am totally with you on the new Bake-Off. I'm so glad C4 did not tamper with a thing that wasn't broken, and have continued to focus on finding the sweetest bakers ever (aahhhh Yan and Liam, SO ADORBS, CANNOT COPE).
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Date: 2017-09-01 08:59 am (UTC)Polling vastly in favour at the moment - but postal votes traditionally skew older and more conservative (which is why the government is choosing to do it) so, yeah, fingers crossed. And singing "Just don't look! Just don't look!" at all the homophobic posters and TV ads.
Eeee, Bake off! Yan is wonderful, I have all the heart-eyes for her and her molecular gastronomy techniques. And Liam is omg adorbs - his friends call him Cake Boy! I hope they both go far. They all seem like a good bunch, and I really liked Paul and Flo's verbal sparring. Honestly, the thing I was most worried about was missing Mel and Sue, and I do miss them but Sandi and Noel were great together.
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From:no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 09:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 10:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 10:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 11:06 am (UTC)Ugh.
I have a lot of Netflix to watch. And a lot of crochet to do. (And a lot of wine to drink, possibly.) And so I will get through this.
(no subject)
From:no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 10:51 am (UTC)The cat aviator hat was cute, but also somewhat disappointing: I was hoping for a hat that would turn me into a cat aviator.
I hope the postal vote goes well. The antis on votes like that make me shudder. When we had a similar vote in my area a couple of years ago, I was very pleasantly surprised by some of my neighbors, who I had expected to be antis based on their religion but instead turned out in favor of same-sex marriage. It was still disheartening how many antis there were, and how horrid they were. *hugs* Best wishes.
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Date: 2017-09-01 11:28 am (UTC)The postal vote will hopefully go okay, but it's a terrible waste of money and the whole thing seems designed to make it fail. On the plus side, I've been very pleasantly surprised by my local region which is normally very conservative - there have been really positive articles in the paper, and business are putting up supportive signs. That's a good thing to know - that there are people out there who are okay.
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From:no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 10:53 am (UTC)Also, I'm glad I'm not the only one who has noticed Duo!Italian is obsessed with death. Sono uomini morti! XD I have learnt more phrases involving death in the year I've spent using duolingo than the five years I spent learning Italian in high school. Woo! :D
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Date: 2017-09-01 11:36 am (UTC)Duolingo gets positively gruesome!!
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Date: 2017-09-01 12:46 pm (UTC)Reckon he'll have a hard time doing it without being personally offensive.
no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 01:04 pm (UTC)"I'm sorry that there is so much biphobia and discrimination against bisexuals, and so much misinformation and ignorance about bisexuality" is an acceptable statement
"I'm sorry you're bisexual" is not.
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Date: 2017-09-01 12:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-02 01:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 01:25 pm (UTC)Good luck on the postal vote! I'll be rooting for your entire country
*crosses fingers
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Date: 2017-09-02 02:16 am (UTC)And yeah, thank you.
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Date: 2017-09-01 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-09-02 02:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 02:39 pm (UTC)(I had no idea it was THAT bad. :/)
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Date: 2017-09-02 03:34 am (UTC)Blehhh.
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Date: 2017-09-01 04:09 pm (UTC)thanks for the MCU recs - I look forward to reading those :)
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Date: 2017-09-02 03:44 am (UTC)Pho is, like, my new favourite cold cure. I feel better!
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From:no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 07:38 pm (UTC)That's really interesting about regional accents though - I had no idea Australia doesn't really have them, I guess because the U.S. and Canada both have some really noticeable ones, so I just would've assumed Australia, having a vaguely similar colonial history, would be the same.
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Date: 2017-09-02 03:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 07:57 pm (UTC)Re: Aussie accents - Anglo-Aussie friend enjoys playing guess where from for Aussie rugby league players. He's significantly better at NSW and Victoria (where his Australian family are from) than the rest of the country.
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Date: 2017-09-02 03:53 am (UTC)I cannot tell NSW from Victoria at all - they're identical to my ear. But Queensland is definitely a drawl, and SA is clipped. It's so weird.
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Date: 2017-09-01 08:54 pm (UTC)I would so watch the 21st century GoT thing!
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Date: 2017-09-01 08:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-04 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 09:21 pm (UTC)Look after yourself. I'm so sorry that you're having to deal with that level of horrible every day. I really, really hope the postal vote goes in favour of same-sex marriage.
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Date: 2017-09-04 01:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-02 12:51 am (UTC)Garlic is also good for colds!
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Date: 2017-09-04 02:00 am (UTC)I miss garlic! I can't eat it anymore - too much digestive upset. It makes me a sad Italian.
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From:no subject
Date: 2017-09-02 04:08 am (UTC)I hope the vote goes toward the right side of history, and makes it easier for the people in Australia to love one another openly. There are a lot of us in the US that are sending positive thoughts your way.
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Date: 2017-09-04 02:03 am (UTC)Thank you - the homophobia this is flushing out is really horrible, and it takes a toll. As you obviously know. *hugs*
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Date: 2017-09-02 06:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-04 02:06 am (UTC)The local paper has been really scathing of the decision to have the vote at all, and while I usually never read the comments, those have been very positive too. It's been heartening, at least.
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Date: 2017-09-02 10:38 am (UTC)We are beautiful pink Trojan horses according to the fuckheads. I don't know about you, but I like being a pink Trojan horse, and I hope the government gets the sack because of this.
Thank you for the chewing gum tip.
I was digging through my Tumblr tags for something else, and found this Texts from the Machine reblog that made me think of your Sentinel AU: Shaw vs business attire and fluorescent lights.
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Date: 2017-09-04 02:08 am (UTC)Chewing gum is so good. I am surprised. And the wastepaper bin beside my bed is really minty.
*hugs you* Thank you for the tumblr link! I heart Shoot. (I use smush names now, it's the end times)
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Date: 2017-09-02 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-04 02:13 am (UTC)Thanks. It'll pass, if not now, then soon, but the process is really so much more painful than it should be.