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1. I had a WFH day today so we went down to DCA for lunch. It was such a nice day weather-wise (just the right amount of warm, lots of cloud cover for the most part but not just a grey sky) and the crowds were low. We had some delicious food from the Food and Wine Festival, which wraps up this weekend, and since it's been a month since we were there, there was lots of new merch to admire.

2. We were out for about five hours, which is the longest we've been away from home since we got back, and we were a little worried we might come home to another pee incident, but there was no pee! Jasper was super needy this morning (but he often is on mornings I work from home) and we had a good half-hour snuggle at my desk before leaving. He did hork on the sofa while we were out, but I would rather deal with a hundred incidents of vomit than a single pee incident, so while it wasn't ideal, it wasn't a big deal, either.

3. One thing I do not miss about Japan is the allergies. I have in the past decade or so developed some degree of allergies at home as well, having not ever had any growing up or in my early adulthood, but not to the degree that I get them in Japan. Before our trip, I think the weather here was bringing them out more as I did have some reactions many days, if not all, but I have been blessedly sniffle-free since getting back (though today my eyes are a bit stingy).

4. Molly's showing off her perfect snoot.

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Reading

Read some more of Grim Tuesday by Garth Nix. I really don't remember much of this one lol
I read The Heir and the Outlaw by Rena Butler. I'm not super into westerns, but it was pretty good. I do love a heist!
Ficwise, I'm still reading More Than He Bargained For by kerrikins and raelle. It's so long, jeez.

Watching

The roommate and I watched an episode of Running Man Thailand. Every episode has been hilarious, but there was a challenge in this one that had me laughing so hard I was crying and almost peed myself lol So fun!
The roommate and I watched more of We Are. They're so cute, I love this show :D
The roommate, best friend, and I watched the last episode of Duang With You. Really cute wrap up! Duang and Qin were fantastic, and Jamie and Mar were cute too. I was kind of hoping something would happen with Tong and Pae, but at least the teasing was fun.
The roommate, best friend, and I watched the latest episode of Only Friends: Dream On. Loved poor Rome being pathetic about Raffy. And Tua and Arnold finally getting together!
The roommate, best friend, and I watched the latest episode of Love Upon a Time. We got Victor! And Gems! Also loving the stuff with the fortune teller and Nakhun doing all he can to convince himself he's not in the situation he is in.
The roommate, best friend, and I watched the special episode of Yesterday. It was... unnecessary and pretty nothing burger, ngl. Ah well.
The roommate, best friend, and I watched the last two episodes of My Romance Scammer. What a cute ending! Loved this show, it was very sweet.
The roommate and I watched The Devil Wears Prada since she's very excited for the sequel coming up. I hadn't seen it in a long time, so that was fun.

Listening

Still watching Sangkron performance videos.

Writing

I went through my WIP folder and finished up a bunch of fics that could be finished with just a little work. Most of them I'd been intending to write a lot more on, but most of them had also been sitting there for uhhh years at this point. This still gets them to a reasonably finished place and I'm happy with that!
I wrote my seasonsofdrabbles assignment. Ahead of schedule, even :D

Learning

Thai: Did some more review.
WM: Read some more articles and did the quiz for the end of the preview on the course I'd been looking at. I think I'm gonna call it done for this course, because I'm not willing to pay for what turned out to be pretty subpar info imo.

snowynight

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

olivermoss

Tree growing out of a building:

(Might reshoot with a different lens. There may be a better shot there)

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chez_jae

The Misfits Of Copper County by May Archer

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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I finished reading The Misfits of Copper County last night. It’s the third book in author May Archer’s “Copper County” series of male/male romance. Main characters are investigative journalist Delaney Monroe and contractor Brewer Barnum.

Delaney has been clashing with Brewer over the renovations to his historic home. When he goes to confront Brewer, Delaney accidentally burns the man’s camper home to the ground. Feeling guilty, he insists that Brewer move into his house while its still being renovated, even if that means that Brewer’s giant dog, Teeny, moves in, too. Having Brewer right there, however, is making Delaney reconsider his life choices. He’s used to not putting down roots, but something about Brewer and the community of Copper County has Delaney thinking that maybe he needs to stop chasing the next story and settle down to write his.

Lovely story. Lots of humor, what with Delaney’s rather manic personality mixed with Brewer’s more stoic and laid-back manner. I loved reconnecting with characters familiar from other Archer books, and it’s always uplifting how people support the main characters on their path to one another. Very little angst or stress in this one, and the spicy bits were spicy.

Favorite lines:
♦ There were many scenarios in which a man like me would enjoy “getting 6 to 9 inches” on a Tuesday night. A blizzard was not one of them.
♦ This morning was already so far off the rails I couldn’t remember where the rails were supposed to be.
♦ “Fruit bonnets are the very soul of practicality.”
♦ For one absurd, alcohol-fueled moment, I thought: Alien abduction. This is how I die.

Delightfully fun, five stars

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Wild vs Stars, game 3

senmut

Are you on bsky? Are you on tumblr? AM I FOLLOWING YOU?

If the first two are yes, and the last is no (my bsky and my tumblr), and you're cool with me following, drop your links in the comments. Screening those, btw, so it would just be me me me seeing them!

olivermoss

Ever come across a place that makes you doubt how well you know your city? I think I'd heard that we had an antiques mall called Memory Den, but never pair attention because those places tend to be very same-y. I've been to the one in Sellwood and so on. I wound up walking past it yesterday because my plans for the day got not derailed, but stuck on the rails. The streetcars were down, so I just walked all the way to Guardian Game and back, somewhere between 4-5 miles.

Holy hell, not only is it huge and fully of resellers with their own vibes, it has a coffee shop, a library, a bar, pool tables in the back, and a large area for local artists to exhibit/sell/make work. There was stuff in there I hadn't seen in years and things that made me feel legit nostalgic. These photos don't do justice to the size.

Sign outside the library said 'Thank you for not discussing the outside world'

I recognized one of the artists. I've got two pieces from a ceramics artist here. They are NSFW so I'll put them under a cut. ( Read more... )

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torachan

It's been exactly a month since we've been to Disneyland. Well, our Disneyland anyway. We had originally planned to go last weekend, but were still too worn our from our trip, so we put in for a mid-week trip today and went down for lunch.

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Current Mood: listless
Current Location: no rain but also no sunbeams trying to stab me in the EYE

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday April 22, to midnight on Thursday, April 23. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34511 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 13

How are you doing?

I am OK.
6 (46.2%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
6 (46.2%)

I could use some help.
1 (7.7%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
5 (38.5%)

One other person.
4 (30.8%)

More than one other person.
4 (30.8%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

musesfool

Today's poem:

Pyrocumulus
by Arthur Sze

Peony shoots rise out of the earth;

at five a.m., walking up the ridge,

I mark how, in April, Orion's left arm

was an apex in the sky, and, by May,

only Venus flickered above the ridge

against the blue edge of sunrise.

In daylight, a pear tree explodes

with white blossoms—no black-

footed ferret slips across my path,

no boreal owl stirs on a branch.

At three a.m., dogs seethed and howled

when a black bear snagged a shriveled

apple off a branch; and, waking out

of a black pool, I glimpsed how

fire creates its own weather

in rising pyrocumulus. Reaching

the ditch, I drop the gate: it's time

for the downhill pipes to fill,

time for bamboo at the house

to suck up water, time to see sunlight

flare between leaves before

the scorching edge of afternoon.

***

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Mets vs Twins on tv

sineala

What I Just Finished Reading

Naomi Novik, The Summer War: Fantasy novella about a girl who ends up unwillingly married to a fairy prince as part of a treaty and/or revenge. Is it petty of me to be annoyed that an author who got here by writing queer fanfic and then did not write anything queer professionally (as far as I know; I haven't read the Scholomance books yet) has decided that now there can be queer characters in the background but mostly in unflattering ways? And also that the main character still needs to basically be rescued by her brothers even though the story wants me to believe she is Smart and Independent? Yeah, probably.

Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good:

lysimache keeps telling me I should read the second book of this historical m/m romance series but unfortunately I am the type of person who has to Read The Whole Thing From The Beginning so I said, no, I was reading the first one first. So this is the first one. It was kind of meh. It had a great 1950s NYC setting but nothing really happened and then it just kind of ended. Also we all know exactly what books the author read about being gay in NYC because there are only two and everyone's historical gay romance regurgitates the same facts from them (seriously, you can go to places other than the Navy Yards, I'm pretty sure) so I was really confused that the author seems to have missed the part where "fairy" actually has a really specific meaning. I guess now I read the second one? The second one is baseball.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( Captain America #9 )

What I'm Reading Next

I guess the second Cat Sebastian book in that series? Probably?

Current Mood: full

olivermoss

All The Lost Boys: The Invisible and Infamous Stories of Gay Men, Murder, and Media is listed under a psued, but if you look up that psued's tiktok account that's him and I Do Not reccomend doing so. Only a few posts, but... gross.

This isn't him first attempt at a comeback, but hopefully this attempt also crashes and burns. Everyone who said his plagiarism would not be detectable in the AI era, guess we're putting that to the test! (The funny part is that if his tiktok was just AI slop it wouldn't be obvious that it's him)

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⌈ Secret Post #7047 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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sage

The Vampire Lestat new trailer

Watch on YouTube

gnu MinoanMiss/Rubynye
update on Ny's cause of death: she had an asymptomatic covid infection, which caused the heart attacks, which caused the brain edema.
Covid: Speaking Out About Rubynye (1268 words) by werpiper
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work, Public Health - Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Me | Fanwork Creator(s), Rubynye
Additional Tags: COVID-19, Death
Summary:

Dearly loved fandom artist and author Rubynye died of covid, at age fifty.

She was a precious friend to me, and I talked about this at a memorial held for her online six weeks after. These are my notes.

GNU Ny.

( books (Cline, Cline, Jackson Bennett, Puhak, Kingfisher, Wodehouse) )

yarning
2 kickbunny orders! one green and one gray. Discovered late Saturday that I didn't have enough light green or enough gray yarn to finish either bunny. I got the green at walmart, but I had to order the gray from Amazon. (Evil empires either way, but cheaper than any other option.) Still putting them together, slower than usual, due to busted thumb.

healthcrap
Tendinosis in my left thumb again, from distal all the way to the wrist. Really super annoying. Almost as annoying as going to the allergist for a shot and being denied one because I'm having to use albuterol with my symbicort at night to stop me from coughing all night. And there was no earlier appt for me to move mine to (a month out), so I guess I'm not getting back to maintenance dose after all. She did prescribe me some nasal antihistamine I forget the name of, and they're delivering it, so I don't have to drive all the way over there again. SIGH.

( astrology )

#resist
May 1: No Kings 4: the general strike

I hope all of you are doing well! Happy Earth Day! I hope y'all can enjoy a bit of nature today! <333