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Sunday, March 29th, 2026 09:25 pm
Monday, March 30th, 2026 02:06 pm
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Ilya Rozanov, the Pike twins
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: heohl-art on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: A wonderful pic of Ilya being prettied-up by Ruby and Jade Pike, complete with heart stickers, lipstick, and bunny ears! Amazing work!
Link: the pike sisters and their russian babysitter, backup link here
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Ilya Rozanov, the Pike twins
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: heohl-art on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: A wonderful pic of Ilya being prettied-up by Ruby and Jade Pike, complete with heart stickers, lipstick, and bunny ears! Amazing work!
Link: the pike sisters and their russian babysitter, backup link here
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Sunday, March 29th, 2026 07:25 pm
The thrift shop in my neighborhood is closing/moving to an as-yet-unfound new location, and today was the pay-what-you-wish final day; I now have a backgammon set and a few more mason jars (including a wide-mouth one, which are surprisingly hard to find) and one of those read-in-the-bath things. I resisted all the pretty glassware, please clap. (I love beautiful glassware and I inherited all of my grandmother's flea market finds; she had great taste and I have no more room for glassware, especially fancy glassware I don't, strictly speaking, need.)
I read 84, Charing Cross Road and loved it, and then figured out it was a memoir, not an incredibly well-written novella, and I may never recover.
The goddamn squirrels have uprooted many if not all of my crocuses and I extremely upset about it. It is not quite warm enough to go to the garden and cut back everything that died over the winter, but I yearn for the day. I lost my temper yesterday and ripped the window film off and threw open the windows, and god does it feel great to have fresh air in here, even if the fresh air is also cold.
Sunday, March 29th, 2026 05:47 pm
A Master Post of the Torn Veils series is available on ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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Reminder that the comm is members-locked, and the fics on SquidgeWorld Archive are site-locked. I grant membership readily, and I have invites for SqWA.
sylph_and_asp. Reminder that the comm is members-locked, and the fics on SquidgeWorld Archive are site-locked. I grant membership readily, and I have invites for SqWA.
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Sunday, March 29th, 2026 02:55 pm
These are from Steven Wright. I loved him.
I spilled spot remover on my dog, now he’s gone.
What’s another word for Thesaurus?
If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving isn’t for you.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time
These ones are from someone else.
1. My wife told me to stop impersonating a flamingo. I had to put my foot down.
2. I went to buy some camo pants but couldn’t find any.
3. I failed math so many times at school, I can’t even count.
4. I used to have a handle on life, but then it broke.
5. I was wondering why the frisbee kept getting bigger and bigger, but then it hit me.
I spilled spot remover on my dog, now he’s gone.
What’s another word for Thesaurus?
If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving isn’t for you.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time
These ones are from someone else.
1. My wife told me to stop impersonating a flamingo. I had to put my foot down.
2. I went to buy some camo pants but couldn’t find any.
3. I failed math so many times at school, I can’t even count.
4. I used to have a handle on life, but then it broke.
5. I was wondering why the frisbee kept getting bigger and bigger, but then it hit me.
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Sunday, March 29th, 2026 02:54 pm
* Hilary Knight is off of LTIR and is expected to play today. Let's fucking go! Yeah, I'm headed out to watch the game at Sports Bra in a bit.
* Vibes around the NHL right now. I don't know how accurate that is for other teams, but for the Kraken? Very accurate!
* Vibes around the NHL right now. I don't know how accurate that is for other teams, but for the Kraken? Very accurate!
Sunday, March 29th, 2026 05:48 pm
Blurgh I think I am coming down with something - my throat is incredibly scratchy and every third breath I need to cough loudly and horribly. It kept me from sleeping very well last night so tonight i think it's going to be Nyquil or bust. Bah.
I keep intending to share these links and forgetting, but at least I can do it while it's still Mika March:
= Mika Zibanejad and the lasting moments of a 1,000-game NHL journey
= A Forgettable Night, A Memorable Career: Mika Zibanejad’s Top Moments
since he's my favorite player now that Kreider is gone. Well, him and Shesterkin. Even though I gave up on this season fairly early (not earlier than JT Miller though!).
*
I keep intending to share these links and forgetting, but at least I can do it while it's still Mika March:
= Mika Zibanejad and the lasting moments of a 1,000-game NHL journey
= A Forgettable Night, A Memorable Career: Mika Zibanejad’s Top Moments
since he's my favorite player now that Kreider is gone. Well, him and Shesterkin. Even though I gave up on this season fairly early (not earlier than JT Miller though!).
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Sunday, March 29th, 2026 10:27 pm
I had a fun time hanging out with the D&D party, had veggie curry there (yay I got to eat chickpeas! which I don't get at home and I love them so it's always exciting to see them), had a snack at home, watched most of the Twins game (they lost, but it wasn't as bad as I feared!), and got ready for London tomorrow: packed most of my stuff, got the morning stuff ready, booked my passenger assistance, figured out how early I have to set my alarm, had a shower and a shave...
It felt like the day went weirdly quickly, and not just because of the lost hour (I'm so lucky that it no longer makes any difference to me when my Sunday morning starts).
I hope I sleep. My sleep has been less broken the last few days than the week or so before when I seemed to be awake as much as I was asleep. But my dreams have still been intense and exhausting.
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Sunday, March 29th, 2026 09:50 pm
Sophia has spent the last several weeks being very excited that she will, at some point in the near future, get to have her own bed in her own room.
This evening she suddenly realised that she would no longer be in her current bed and had a massive meltdown.
So we're currently reassuring her that she won't be rushed into anything. Fingers crossed for a better mood tomorrow.
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Sunday, March 29th, 2026 12:51 pm
Yesterday some friends and I all felt well enough to actually carry through on a tentative plan we made! (All of us are some flavor of chronically ill and in pain, so this was kind of a big deal.) We went to a local pop-up "flea market". It was not a flea market in the traditional sense, it was a market full of vintage clothing etc. vendors. It was fun to wander through, but the only thing I bought was a back issue of Fangoria - a vampire special! At one stall I looked at a really pretty ceramic trinket box; I turned it over to look at the price ($20), and found the scraps of a Goodwill sticker still clinging to it. Yeah, no.
After we grabbed a snack, we hit two thrift stores and I Got Things! Two very pretty trinket boxes (a glass one with roses painted on the lid, the other is wood with mother of pearl inlay), three vintage gothic romances, a pajama set that is very Gothic Heroine in style, a candle snuffer, and a footed silver serving platter. We also found one of the most terrifying dolls I've ever seen, and no, none of us bought it.
Look, I'm a connoisseur of creepy dolls, and even I wouldn't want that thing in my house.
Because Leaving The House means proper clothes, I wore one of the Selkie-style blouses that the Madwoman in the Attic made for me. This style of blouse is possibly my new favorite wardrobe item, so it's a good thing I have ... um ... four of them already.
(Yep, I need to take the bust in a little bit. Simple enough.)
Of course, yesterday's outing has left me sore and headache-y today, so it's a good thing I hadn't made plans.
After we grabbed a snack, we hit two thrift stores and I Got Things! Two very pretty trinket boxes (a glass one with roses painted on the lid, the other is wood with mother of pearl inlay), three vintage gothic romances, a pajama set that is very Gothic Heroine in style, a candle snuffer, and a footed silver serving platter. We also found one of the most terrifying dolls I've ever seen, and no, none of us bought it.
Look, I'm a connoisseur of creepy dolls, and even I wouldn't want that thing in my house.
Because Leaving The House means proper clothes, I wore one of the Selkie-style blouses that the Madwoman in the Attic made for me. This style of blouse is possibly my new favorite wardrobe item, so it's a good thing I have ... um ... four of them already.
(Yep, I need to take the bust in a little bit. Simple enough.)
Of course, yesterday's outing has left me sore and headache-y today, so it's a good thing I hadn't made plans.
Sunday, March 29th, 2026 03:31 pm
I have been so grumpy this month!! I have legitimate reasons for my bad attitude, but wow. I really need to lighten up a little. Here are a few things that made me happy:
She and Her Cat (on Crunchyroll here) is an update on Makoto Shinkai’s debut indie animation. There are four episodes, each of which is about seven minutes long, and they’re filled with soft and relaxing slice-of-life energy.
Brick (on Amazon here) is difficult to describe, but it’s safe to say it’s the opposite of Makoto Shinkai. This movie is from 2005, and it’s a classic noir murder mystery set in and around a Los Angeles high school. The focus is way more on “murder” than it is on “high school,” though. This is Rian Johnson’s debut film, so it’s fair to compare it to Knives Out, but it’s much grittier (in a good way). Also, I’m not super into Kylo Ren, but if you are: he’s there.
Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape (on Amazon here) is a 2021 collection of gorgeously written nonfiction essays about rewilding. Cal Flynn visited some interesting places to do the reporting for this book, and her descriptions of overgrown ruins are really something special.
Outset Emporium (on Etsy here) sells beautiful hand-painted sculptures of Koroks, pokémon, and other fantasy-themed creatures. He ships from the UK with no trouble at all, and believe me when I say that the quality of the craftsmanship is worth the price. I was going to get myself something from this shop as a present to mark a special occasion, but every day is special goddamn it. I posted a photo of my new Korok friend on Bluesky (here) if you’re interested.
She and Her Cat (on Crunchyroll here) is an update on Makoto Shinkai’s debut indie animation. There are four episodes, each of which is about seven minutes long, and they’re filled with soft and relaxing slice-of-life energy.
Brick (on Amazon here) is difficult to describe, but it’s safe to say it’s the opposite of Makoto Shinkai. This movie is from 2005, and it’s a classic noir murder mystery set in and around a Los Angeles high school. The focus is way more on “murder” than it is on “high school,” though. This is Rian Johnson’s debut film, so it’s fair to compare it to Knives Out, but it’s much grittier (in a good way). Also, I’m not super into Kylo Ren, but if you are: he’s there.
Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape (on Amazon here) is a 2021 collection of gorgeously written nonfiction essays about rewilding. Cal Flynn visited some interesting places to do the reporting for this book, and her descriptions of overgrown ruins are really something special.
Outset Emporium (on Etsy here) sells beautiful hand-painted sculptures of Koroks, pokémon, and other fantasy-themed creatures. He ships from the UK with no trouble at all, and believe me when I say that the quality of the craftsmanship is worth the price. I was going to get myself something from this shop as a present to mark a special occasion, but every day is special goddamn it. I posted a photo of my new Korok friend on Bluesky (here) if you’re interested.
Sunday, March 29th, 2026 03:12 pm
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Sunday, March 29th, 2026 03:51 pm
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Sunday, March 29th, 2026 03:49 pm
Media intake for the last week or so boils down to "a couple chapters of various non-fiction [nothing new] and Thursday's The Pitt." We'll probably try to get an episode or two of Frieren in tonight, before Dayjob swallows me whole for another week.
My main goal for this weekend has been accomplished: today![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
scruloose and I decanted some spices from bags into jars (including the cinnamons and chai spice baking blend replenished from Silk Road* since the last time we batch-prepped for banana bread) and then did a round of bagging up dry ingredients for nine quadruple batches of my breakfast banana bread while actually baking a tenth batch. It's only the second time we've done it, and having the dry ingredients bagged and ready makes such a difference, but the prospect was more exhausting than it had any right to be. (Actually doing it was fine. This time we [reversing how we did it last time] went with me reading off the amounts for each ingredient and rotating the bags while scruloose did the actual measuring and dumping ingredients in.)
*Last time we didn't have nearly enough of any one spice for ten quadruple batches, so some go the chair spice blend and some got the Vietnamese Saigon cinnamon and some got the Indonesian Korintje cinnamon. We also have some of their third type, the Sri Lankan true cinnamon, but the description on the jar says its flavor is pretty delicate, so it didn't seem likely to really shine in the banana bread.
(My erratic spices fascination has resulted in us currently having four kinds, actually, but little idea of what to make that will actually showcase the different types so I can really tell the difference. ^^; [The fourth is the Royal Cinnamon from Burlap and Barrel in the US.])
My main goal for this weekend has been accomplished: today
scruloose and I decanted some spices from bags into jars (including the cinnamons and chai spice baking blend replenished from Silk Road* since the last time we batch-prepped for banana bread) and then did a round of bagging up dry ingredients for nine quadruple batches of my breakfast banana bread while actually baking a tenth batch. It's only the second time we've done it, and having the dry ingredients bagged and ready makes such a difference, but the prospect was more exhausting than it had any right to be. (Actually doing it was fine. This time we [reversing how we did it last time] went with me reading off the amounts for each ingredient and rotating the bags while scruloose did the actual measuring and dumping ingredients in.)*Last time we didn't have nearly enough of any one spice for ten quadruple batches, so some go the chair spice blend and some got the Vietnamese Saigon cinnamon and some got the Indonesian Korintje cinnamon. We also have some of their third type, the Sri Lankan true cinnamon, but the description on the jar says its flavor is pretty delicate, so it didn't seem likely to really shine in the banana bread.
(My erratic spices fascination has resulted in us currently having four kinds, actually, but little idea of what to make that will actually showcase the different types so I can really tell the difference. ^^; [The fourth is the Royal Cinnamon from Burlap and Barrel in the US.])
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Sunday, March 29th, 2026 07:37 pm
Last week's bread held out pretty well, though got rather dry.
Enough left - though perhaps a bit too much on the dry side - to include in frittata for Friday night supper along with a yellow bell pepper and eggs also getting used up.
Saturday breakfast rolls: adaptable soft rolls recipe, Marriage's Light Spelt flour, maple syrup, ground ginger: turned out a little on the dense side.
Today's lunch: the Mediterranean roasted vegetable thing: garlic cloves, red onion, fennel, baby courgettes, green bell pepper, red, yellow and orange baby peppers, aubergine; served with couscous - this time I tried M&S, and while the packet instructions are a bit misleading, turned out a lot better than Waitrose.
Sunday, March 29th, 2026 12:00 am
Sunday, March 29th, 2026 02:35 pm
First contact as conducted by two groups of field researchers, both of whom want to observe the other without being observed.
Sunday, March 29th, 2026 12:39 pm
⌈ Secret Post #7023 ⌋
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