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Monday, March 30th, 2026 11:14 pm
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Monday, March 30th, 2026 10:39 pm
so it's been a while, huh. can i blame it on the fact that it might finally actually be spring out here? a week ago i woke up and there was snow on the ground and then it was cold and then it warmed up a bit and now i think it's spring for real. yay.
also i caught a cold last week but seem to be on the mend which is good because i'm going to atlanta on wednesday to spend passover with the cousins and the last thing i want to bring with me is a headcold. i mean, just having to get on a plane with all that congestion is bad enough, nevermind potentially giving it to someone. my cousin with the twins who are old enough to be adults, the boytwin is in a band - have i mentioned this? boys go to jupiter, highly recommended - they played around here on thursday and i did not go because a. i felt crappy but more importantly b. i did not want to feel crappier. it was sold out! which is very exciting but at the same time i'm bummed i couldn't go.
also also my car is still in the shop because they fixed it and then something else went wrong and they're trying to figure out what it is. sigh.
other things worth mentioning:
went to a book fair with one of the admins m and one of the admins a (plus admin a's hubs) from work and bought a couple of bookmarks and a magnet of tomatoes making faces. and a book, ok (the space between worlds, by micaiah johnson). sunny, warmish, a good day to hang with some of my fellow admins under non work circumstances.
watched the immortal man, the peaky blinders movie, which felt oddly detached from the series (altho there were a bunch of returning characters) but i think you kind of needed to have seen the show to fully understand what was going on. not sorry i saw it, also not sorry i didn't see it in a theater. ( spoiler! )
attended approximately half a million meetings with my fellow admins over what we want to happen now that the admin manager's gone even tho it's not actually our decision. we just kept chewing on the same ideas over and over until finally one of the admins n pointed out that we can talk all we want but if hq wants [whatever] then we're getting [whatever]. they're going to replace the admin manager with three "team leads" - all admins - and we've seen the job description but no one's been asked to do it yet so who knows what's going on.
saw how to make a killing with my sister and it was fine mostly because i like margaret qualley (altho she played an awful person) and some of the killings are inventive. i think glen powell is overrated tho.
watched the first couple episodes of wonder man and liked it! super curious about the super powers.
watched the entirety (minus the last episode) of paradise which i also like! altho it can be a really hard watch and i have a lot of questions about the worldbuilding.
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tamalinn for lunch and had mac&cheese which was yummy and extremely comforting but could have used more cheese. altho let's be honest - even the cheesiest mac&cheese could use more cheese.
curled a lot, made some decent shots (last week my last two shots were perfect) and more not-so-decent shots, as per usual. last night was the last game which means i need something else to do with my sundays besides talk to the family unit and go to the grocery store.
because it's almost passover i must share the story of the house of maqswel haggadah for the jewish trek fan(s) in your life. it's less a haggadah and more the klingon flavored story of one. (there's an excerpt on amazon if you're curious.)
japan has an interesting way to combat loneliness for folks who live alone - yogurt delivery women. yes, really.
there's a world championship cheese contest which honestly should not surprise anyone. this year's winner was a dutch gouda. a goud gouda. :D
400k kitkats were stolen in europe en route to poland from italy. the whole truck just... vanished. poof. someone is going to have an absolutely insane crispetty chocolatey easter.
also i caught a cold last week but seem to be on the mend which is good because i'm going to atlanta on wednesday to spend passover with the cousins and the last thing i want to bring with me is a headcold. i mean, just having to get on a plane with all that congestion is bad enough, nevermind potentially giving it to someone. my cousin with the twins who are old enough to be adults, the boytwin is in a band - have i mentioned this? boys go to jupiter, highly recommended - they played around here on thursday and i did not go because a. i felt crappy but more importantly b. i did not want to feel crappier. it was sold out! which is very exciting but at the same time i'm bummed i couldn't go.
also also my car is still in the shop because they fixed it and then something else went wrong and they're trying to figure out what it is. sigh.
other things worth mentioning:
went to a book fair with one of the admins m and one of the admins a (plus admin a's hubs) from work and bought a couple of bookmarks and a magnet of tomatoes making faces. and a book, ok (the space between worlds, by micaiah johnson). sunny, warmish, a good day to hang with some of my fellow admins under non work circumstances.
watched the immortal man, the peaky blinders movie, which felt oddly detached from the series (altho there were a bunch of returning characters) but i think you kind of needed to have seen the show to fully understand what was going on. not sorry i saw it, also not sorry i didn't see it in a theater. ( spoiler! )
attended approximately half a million meetings with my fellow admins over what we want to happen now that the admin manager's gone even tho it's not actually our decision. we just kept chewing on the same ideas over and over until finally one of the admins n pointed out that we can talk all we want but if hq wants [whatever] then we're getting [whatever]. they're going to replace the admin manager with three "team leads" - all admins - and we've seen the job description but no one's been asked to do it yet so who knows what's going on.
saw how to make a killing with my sister and it was fine mostly because i like margaret qualley (altho she played an awful person) and some of the killings are inventive. i think glen powell is overrated tho.
watched the first couple episodes of wonder man and liked it! super curious about the super powers.
watched the entirety (minus the last episode) of paradise which i also like! altho it can be a really hard watch and i have a lot of questions about the worldbuilding.
met
tamalinn for lunch and had mac&cheese which was yummy and extremely comforting but could have used more cheese. altho let's be honest - even the cheesiest mac&cheese could use more cheese.curled a lot, made some decent shots (last week my last two shots were perfect) and more not-so-decent shots, as per usual. last night was the last game which means i need something else to do with my sundays besides talk to the family unit and go to the grocery store.
because it's almost passover i must share the story of the house of maqswel haggadah for the jewish trek fan(s) in your life. it's less a haggadah and more the klingon flavored story of one. (there's an excerpt on amazon if you're curious.)
japan has an interesting way to combat loneliness for folks who live alone - yogurt delivery women. yes, really.
there's a world championship cheese contest which honestly should not surprise anyone. this year's winner was a dutch gouda. a goud gouda. :D
400k kitkats were stolen in europe en route to poland from italy. the whole truck just... vanished. poof. someone is going to have an absolutely insane crispetty chocolatey easter.
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Monday, March 30th, 2026 09:37 pm
Some of you received comments from me today, as I've finally started to actually make time to read DW on a regular basis! I'm looking forward to being around here more often. Hope you're all doing well!
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2026 10:34 am
I suspect my site is one of great frustration for these guys.
There is no space near our switchboard, so they have to make a stand-alone space for the battery and inverter to go. They have to dig down to make a base. There are tree roots like crazy.
It's not a nice site for installation - the house was not designed like modern houses: the land cleared of trees, the slab poured all over and everywhere. This house was built on enclosed brick footings - a base wall on clay that has lasted surprisingly long.
I'm probably also not the kind of homeowner they want to work for, someone who'll let them do their job instead of asking all kinds of questions and stuff.
Okay, and I'm stressed too rn.
There is no space near our switchboard, so they have to make a stand-alone space for the battery and inverter to go. They have to dig down to make a base. There are tree roots like crazy.
It's not a nice site for installation - the house was not designed like modern houses: the land cleared of trees, the slab poured all over and everywhere. This house was built on enclosed brick footings - a base wall on clay that has lasted surprisingly long.
I'm probably also not the kind of homeowner they want to work for, someone who'll let them do their job instead of asking all kinds of questions and stuff.
Okay, and I'm stressed too rn.
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Monday, March 30th, 2026 05:06 pm
⌈ Secret Post #7024 ⌋
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Monday, March 30th, 2026 05:20 pm
On the one hand, I have an incipient double ear infection to match my eyes and probable RSV as the cause of it all and in consequence have just slammed a dosage of prednisone intended to open my head like a Saturn V. On the other, partly because I make references of this nature in conversation with doctors and partly because of the tone of voice, apparently, in which I exclaimed during a discussion of the over-prescription of antibiotics, "You're a homeostasis! Don't kick it!" the urgent care doctor who is four chapters into Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary (2021) declared that she is going to hear the rest of the book in my voice, which I am counting as a win.
Monday, March 30th, 2026 09:10 pm
I've only begun to read through the massive MCYT Battleship collection (all ages collection, 18+ collection) and new works are still being posted. And I got wonderful gifts! (Separate post for these later.)
Some early recs in late March: 3 art pieces and 8 fics, mostly Hermitcraft/Life Series but also Emduo, Vampires SMP, and MCSR RPF.
Worldhopper, Hermitcraft/Life Series/Empires/VBRPF
Art, Gem-centric
Summary: oops all geminitay! a digital spread of the many lives of gem :)
Why I love it: This is incredible. Nine different Gems, all in different lives with different outfits and worlds, and they all look fantastic.
( 2 more art pieces + 8 fics )
Some early recs in late March: 3 art pieces and 8 fics, mostly Hermitcraft/Life Series but also Emduo, Vampires SMP, and MCSR RPF.
Worldhopper, Hermitcraft/Life Series/Empires/VBRPF
Art, Gem-centric
Summary: oops all geminitay! a digital spread of the many lives of gem :)
Why I love it: This is incredible. Nine different Gems, all in different lives with different outfits and worlds, and they all look fantastic.
( 2 more art pieces + 8 fics )
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Monday, March 30th, 2026 07:33 pm
Well, I suppose getting a text from the GPs apropos slots opening up for Covid booster was not entirely unanticipated - I was looking the other day to see whether these were on the horizon - so anyway, my dearios, I am scheduled for mine in just over a fortnight.
But the other thing was getting an email from radio people as to whether I could talk to them about History of Criminalisation/Decriminalisation of Abortion THIS VERY AFTERNOON -
- which it so happened I could, and these days, it is not just talking to them, it is being on Zoom as well with instructions re camera -
So I am always up for saying that the way the police have been carrying on of very recent years, and the health professionals who have been grassing women up to them, is worse than the Victorians as historians have pretty much failed to find anything much in the way of prosecutions of women rather than abortionists -
- possibly because in most cases that even came to light it was because the woman had died, though there are a few cited In The Literature where she lived and testified in the court case, and presumably was granted immunity.
I suppose it is not totally improbable that a very detailed search of the British Newspaper Archives using the various likely search terms under which one would anyway search for cases of abortion (not the word mostly used) would turn up a case or two of women prosecuted for procuring their own, but I really think it's more likely to turn up a lot of fascinating detail about who was doing illicit abortions, and whether local juries thought they were performing a public service and had just had bad luck in this one case (came across at least one in a fairly random swoop myself).
Unfortunately time constraints and what they actually wanted me to talk about (like why the 1861 Act still pertains, cue me ranting about having to defend the 1967 Act, which just introduced Exceptions to the existing Act, for decades because of the RtL mobs rather than press forward with further reform) prevented me from doing the full ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oursin Boring For Europe on the subject.
Mr 'warm leads for archivists' is still badgering me.
Monday, March 30th, 2026 11:42 am
Hilary Knight coming off of the Long Term Injured Reserve list changed my plans for yesterday. Yesterday was also the Trans Town Marketplace. Trans Town is a group I was unfamiliar with and I'll need to look into them more.
I wore my Torrent shirt because I was going to go right from one event to Sports Bra. I knew that a shirt with a logo, any sort of brand, was not going to be the vibe. It never is for a queer art event. But, it still felt good to wear because the Torrent have CJ, who is non-binary. They are the only person in top level professional hockey who is openly nb or trans. So, it felt right to wear. Sometimes wearing a shirt that is a little not the vibe is fine, if you feel confident in it. Sometimes.
Turned out, the event was far more punk/street that I expected and some vendors didn't even interact with me and I am reasonably sure that it was because of how I was dressed. And, fair enough. I go to a LOT of queer art pop ups and mostly it's people who art have a street/punk edge as an aesthetic, this was different. No one was LARPing here. I did not expect that, especially considering the venue.
They also had a prosthetics vendor with samples you can handle, which I've never seen at any event before. This event was... very much what I would have expected from a trans marketplace before I started going to queer art pops ups. I really liked it and want to find out a bit more about this group.
So, that was a lot of words to say 'even though some people there side-eyed my logo shirt and decided to not interact with me, I actually felt more comfortable there than at most queer events I've been to'.
Also, there was someone selling dairy /soy free mochi-based brownies that had the most perfect fluffy texture and I would like to eat 5 of those every day for the rest of my life.
And then I went to Sports Bra to see the return of Hilary Knight, and sadly the Torrent lost. It's not too surprising because from what I've seen so far, first game back for a top player is often not a great game for them. They need a few games to get back in the swing.
I wore my Torrent shirt because I was going to go right from one event to Sports Bra. I knew that a shirt with a logo, any sort of brand, was not going to be the vibe. It never is for a queer art event. But, it still felt good to wear because the Torrent have CJ, who is non-binary. They are the only person in top level professional hockey who is openly nb or trans. So, it felt right to wear. Sometimes wearing a shirt that is a little not the vibe is fine, if you feel confident in it. Sometimes.
Turned out, the event was far more punk/street that I expected and some vendors didn't even interact with me and I am reasonably sure that it was because of how I was dressed. And, fair enough. I go to a LOT of queer art pop ups and mostly it's people who art have a street/punk edge as an aesthetic, this was different. No one was LARPing here. I did not expect that, especially considering the venue.
They also had a prosthetics vendor with samples you can handle, which I've never seen at any event before. This event was... very much what I would have expected from a trans marketplace before I started going to queer art pops ups. I really liked it and want to find out a bit more about this group.
So, that was a lot of words to say 'even though some people there side-eyed my logo shirt and decided to not interact with me, I actually felt more comfortable there than at most queer events I've been to'.
Also, there was someone selling dairy /soy free mochi-based brownies that had the most perfect fluffy texture and I would like to eat 5 of those every day for the rest of my life.
And then I went to Sports Bra to see the return of Hilary Knight, and sadly the Torrent lost. It's not too surprising because from what I've seen so far, first game back for a top player is often not a great game for them. They need a few games to get back in the swing.
Monday, March 30th, 2026 02:05 pm
A new Magpie Games Apocalypse Megabundle presenting a diverse abundance of Powered by the Apocalypse tabletop roleplaying games from Magpie Games.
Bundle of Holding: Magpie Apocalypse MEGA
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Monday, March 30th, 2026 01:09 pm
By my standards, a luxurious social whirl.
I’d found out earlier in the week that the Yorkdale Mall has a sushi concession, so I stopped on the way home Friday and, after wandering past enormous stores well out of my price range (props to the shopper I saw wearing Gucci wellies, though), eventually found the food court.
Saturday I did my usual trip to the coffee-shop, then the thrift store. Found several nice things, the best one being a 1970s-style three-quarter-length green print dress that makes me look like a murderous guest-star on Columbo. In the evening I had a weed gummy and painted, while Andrew watched a couple of episodes of Columbo.
Sunday Andrew wanted to go to the Scribe bookshop on the Danforth, and we arranged with Don to meet at the pub afterwards. As it turned out, Line 2 was down and we had to reroute, stopping at another bookshop on College—which ended up being a good thing because Scribe turned out to be closed— they were down at the Old Paper Show & Sale instead. Andrew’d already found a Robert E. Howard hardback for thirty dollars, though, so the only downside was having to wait fifteen minutes for the pub to open (turns out The Auld Spot doesn’t open till 2pm, at least on Sundays). I let Andrew have at least one cider more than he should have had, and we taxied home with Don in tow for more conversation.
I checked oceanofpdf in the hope of finding Lou Rand’s The Gay Detective (1960). No dice, but they do have his non-fiction work The Gay Cookbook.
I’d found out earlier in the week that the Yorkdale Mall has a sushi concession, so I stopped on the way home Friday and, after wandering past enormous stores well out of my price range (props to the shopper I saw wearing Gucci wellies, though), eventually found the food court.
Saturday I did my usual trip to the coffee-shop, then the thrift store. Found several nice things, the best one being a 1970s-style three-quarter-length green print dress that makes me look like a murderous guest-star on Columbo. In the evening I had a weed gummy and painted, while Andrew watched a couple of episodes of Columbo.
Sunday Andrew wanted to go to the Scribe bookshop on the Danforth, and we arranged with Don to meet at the pub afterwards. As it turned out, Line 2 was down and we had to reroute, stopping at another bookshop on College—which ended up being a good thing because Scribe turned out to be closed— they were down at the Old Paper Show & Sale instead. Andrew’d already found a Robert E. Howard hardback for thirty dollars, though, so the only downside was having to wait fifteen minutes for the pub to open (turns out The Auld Spot doesn’t open till 2pm, at least on Sundays). I let Andrew have at least one cider more than he should have had, and we taxied home with Don in tow for more conversation.
I checked oceanofpdf in the hope of finding Lou Rand’s The Gay Detective (1960). No dice, but they do have his non-fiction work The Gay Cookbook.
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Monday, March 30th, 2026 09:56 am
movies
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. A bunch of characters from classic literature get together to save the world. Not only does it not pass the Bechdel test, but I think there's only one female character that even had lines by the time I quit, and Quatermain had already been outrageously sexist to her on three separate occasions. Also it was boring. I'd osmosed that this was unfairly maligned but uhhhh I don't think it was.
Titane. A psychopathic woman does a bunch of apparently disconnected, increasingly violent stuff. I thought this was going to exactly my kind of freaky shit, but alas it was a different kind of freaky shit. Once she got done getting fucked/knocked up by the car, it was all downhill from there.
Heart Eyes. Slasher romcom starring Mason Gooding from the new Scream movies, among other things. The slasher half of the story is by the book, although there's one impressively gnarly kill. The real problem was I didn't buy the romcom half at all. These people have no chemistry, and I don't care about either of them.
The Void. The local lawman brings an injured, raving guy to a hospital where he knows literally everyone by their first name, which is then immediately hemmed in first by creepy Klan/cult types and then by two angry rednecks with guns. Also people start turning into flesh monsters. A bottle story like this lives or dies by the dynamic between its characters, and this one has got nothing going on at all in that department. Also they'd already been grudgingly teaming up with the rednecks for twenty minutes and still no one had asked the rednecks WHY they were trying to kill the injured raving guy, which was just too stupid for me to handle.
books
Like in Love With You by Emma R. Alban. Regency romance where two young woman trying to marry the same man fall in love with each other instead. I could pretty much roll with the modern-sounding dialogue, but then they professed their feelings and had sex and there was still a third of the book left, and I couldn't muster any interest in continuing.
Fayne by Ann-Marie MacDonald. Young woman raised on an isolated estate in the north of England discovers big family secrets. I picked this up because the premise sounded like it had great Gothic vibes, but I was not prepared for it to be 700 pages, and I found the prose to be labored in that "trying to be old-timey" way. I lasted like 20 pages.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. A bunch of characters from classic literature get together to save the world. Not only does it not pass the Bechdel test, but I think there's only one female character that even had lines by the time I quit, and Quatermain had already been outrageously sexist to her on three separate occasions. Also it was boring. I'd osmosed that this was unfairly maligned but uhhhh I don't think it was.
Titane. A psychopathic woman does a bunch of apparently disconnected, increasingly violent stuff. I thought this was going to exactly my kind of freaky shit, but alas it was a different kind of freaky shit. Once she got done getting fucked/knocked up by the car, it was all downhill from there.
Heart Eyes. Slasher romcom starring Mason Gooding from the new Scream movies, among other things. The slasher half of the story is by the book, although there's one impressively gnarly kill. The real problem was I didn't buy the romcom half at all. These people have no chemistry, and I don't care about either of them.
The Void. The local lawman brings an injured, raving guy to a hospital where he knows literally everyone by their first name, which is then immediately hemmed in first by creepy Klan/cult types and then by two angry rednecks with guns. Also people start turning into flesh monsters. A bottle story like this lives or dies by the dynamic between its characters, and this one has got nothing going on at all in that department. Also they'd already been grudgingly teaming up with the rednecks for twenty minutes and still no one had asked the rednecks WHY they were trying to kill the injured raving guy, which was just too stupid for me to handle.
books
Like in Love With You by Emma R. Alban. Regency romance where two young woman trying to marry the same man fall in love with each other instead. I could pretty much roll with the modern-sounding dialogue, but then they professed their feelings and had sex and there was still a third of the book left, and I couldn't muster any interest in continuing.
Fayne by Ann-Marie MacDonald. Young woman raised on an isolated estate in the north of England discovers big family secrets. I picked this up because the premise sounded like it had great Gothic vibes, but I was not prepared for it to be 700 pages, and I found the prose to be labored in that "trying to be old-timey" way. I lasted like 20 pages.
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Monday, March 30th, 2026 09:46 am
I'm not saying I'm ordering more book-themed hockey jerseys, although the manufacturer did send me a 30% off coupon.
But if I were, what are some good goofy literary team names? Any genre, any joke. Maybe leaning towards classics.
Like even just "Readers" or "Poets" or "Critics" is fun (to me) when sportsified into that jersey script. Or "Weirdos".
[ETA: Now that I think of it, political ideas are good, too. "No Kings" instead of Kings, etc.]
(Look, I need something to teach in this summer. Baggy cropped trousers and theme jerseys. That seems like earth people clothing, right?)
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But if I were, what are some good goofy literary team names? Any genre, any joke. Maybe leaning towards classics.
Like even just "Readers" or "Poets" or "Critics" is fun (to me) when sportsified into that jersey script. Or "Weirdos".
[ETA: Now that I think of it, political ideas are good, too. "No Kings" instead of Kings, etc.]
(Look, I need something to teach in this summer. Baggy cropped trousers and theme jerseys. That seems like earth people clothing, right?)
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Monday, March 30th, 2026 11:12 am
Here we are again! Normally I would do this tomorrow, but tomorrow is looking like a busy day, so here we are!
Music
Movies
TV Shows
Other
D&D
Creative Projects
Things I'm Looking Forward To
And that's all for now! What should I watch to replace Elementary when I finish that? I like to have a show with a decent amount of episodes to default to when nothing else is new or interesting. I do have a couple seasons of Murder She Wrote sitting around, at least, but I'm feeling uninspired about it. Usually I'm doing those default-y shows with my mother, and our tastes don't overlap on much but murder mysteries and Leverage, but if you've got a genius idea, lay it on me!
Music
Keeping up with my weekly song recs with my sister! "It Gets Funkier" by Vulfpeck has been on my brain a lot, as well as "Caledonia" as sung by the New York Vocal Collective. Plus, thanks to a "guess the musical theater song" blog on tumblr, "Du maste finnas" as sung by Helen Sjoholm.
Movies
I watched part of one singular movie, the 2003 live action Cat in the Hat. Mike Myers was absolutely dreadful, attempting to be Robin Williams and failing utterly at having his charm. Painful to view. I was guiltily glad when my babysitting evening ended before we could get more than halfway. But yeah, there are movies I want to watch but my brain hasn't been doing them. Someday!
TV Shows
Much longer list! Keeping up with The Pitt, 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Nashville, Animal Control, and High Potential. Watched the rest of season one of Farscape but haven't continued it, for no good reason, my brain just hasn't gone for it. Only eight episodes from finishing Elementary. I watched season one of Heated Rivalry (enjoyed it but am slightly baffled what people are writing so much fic about when it felt like a really complete story to me), season four of Bridgerton (much better than s3, which I think was the weakest outing so far), season six of All Creatures Great and Small, and Seven Dials on Netflix because I love a Christie adaptation. Oh, and I've watched two episodes of Pluribus, which is amazingly well done but A Lot, which is why I've only seen two episodes. Phew! Lots of shows!
ETA right before posting: Antiques Roadshow!!! How could I forget?
ETA right before posting: Antiques Roadshow!!! How could I forget?
Other
Not a ton here! Keeping up with Make Some Noise on Dropout but haven't done much of their other programming lately (I'd love to have the brain to watch some of the Dimension 20 I desperately want to watch, but those episodes are So Long). Keeping up with the usual YouTube channels but not a ton of nw ones. Playing a bunch of internet games, which I don't think I've talked about in this section before? But at this point I've picked up an impressive roster of puzzles that I play most days: Wordle, Quordle, Octordle, Connections, Squaredle, Raddle, and recently cluesbysam. Got to keep my brain busy through the horrors, I guess!
I also saw two pieces of theater over the past couple of months! I saw the National Theatre production of The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa, which was fun and bright and colorful and fast-paced and a bit overacted for my taste in a lot of places (it was fun! They were doing it on purpose! It was a directorial choice and they played it to perfection! Just not the choices I would have made), but the Aunt Augusta was PERFECT. I will say that I always forget the brother reveal at the end and it sure does make queering this show awkward, at least they leaned more on the women for that. The other was a local production of a lesser-known play (not going to say what it is, sorry, no idea how many places put this show on in a given year and don't really want to doxx myself), which was a really fun night and a deeper show than I expected it to be from the summary! Some really cool staging and a fun set in a black-box-esque theater, and a show that tried to say some things and succeeded like 75-80% on it.
I also saw two pieces of theater over the past couple of months! I saw the National Theatre production of The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa, which was fun and bright and colorful and fast-paced and a bit overacted for my taste in a lot of places (it was fun! They were doing it on purpose! It was a directorial choice and they played it to perfection! Just not the choices I would have made), but the Aunt Augusta was PERFECT. I will say that I always forget the brother reveal at the end and it sure does make queering this show awkward, at least they leaned more on the women for that. The other was a local production of a lesser-known play (not going to say what it is, sorry, no idea how many places put this show on in a given year and don't really want to doxx myself), which was a really fun night and a deeper show than I expected it to be from the summary! Some really cool staging and a fun set in a black-box-esque theater, and a show that tried to say some things and succeeded like 75-80% on it.
D&D
God, what was I even up to in D&D three months ago. Wait, I can answer this! I literally posted a recap like two weeks ago! Our paladin got some gender-affirming care, that happened early on. And our warlock decoded a language that implies people are living on the Ethereal Plane, which was previously considered sterile. Then we did another hell, which was Bad Thing On Bad Thing (investigating a weird abandoned cult town! Preventing new gods from being created by the cult town's energy! Fighting a scary extraplanar creature! Finding a baby on a mountainside! Relationship struggles!). Following that, there was some courtship and some quicker things and the discovery that a guy they've met before in fact is one of the people from the Ethereal Plane.
And then they went to the Underdark, and with my players' full consent, I violated one of the strictest and most beloved rules of D&D and I scripted a bunch of scenes! They were going to visit the party's boyfriend's family, and he has a large and complicated family and they really wanted to lean into the drama so I just ... wrote a play? And we all took a few characters and acted it out and had a marvelous time! And then back in improv-land they had to find a missing teenager who was being preyed upon by monsters that force you to listen to your deepest insecurities, so it was very fun to throw that emotions bomb onto the players, we're still dealing with some fallout from that.
And then they went to the Underdark, and with my players' full consent, I violated one of the strictest and most beloved rules of D&D and I scripted a bunch of scenes! They were going to visit the party's boyfriend's family, and he has a large and complicated family and they really wanted to lean into the drama so I just ... wrote a play? And we all took a few characters and acted it out and had a marvelous time! And then back in improv-land they had to find a missing teenager who was being preyed upon by monsters that force you to listen to your deepest insecurities, so it was very fun to throw that emotions bomb onto the players, we're still dealing with some fallout from that.
Creative Projects
I have been doing very well with writing and medium well with other things!
Writing: I started off my year with an edit of one of my original works. You know, if you follow these posts, that I spent a good chunk of last year, and a bit of the year before if I recall correctly, absolutely miserably struggling with an edit that didn't want to happen. And then I got to this one and it practically edited itself in six weeks into a much stronger book. I don't know what possessed me but I would fucking LOVE for it to happen again, holy shit. Then once that was done I had a D&D play to write, see above, and I've done a bit of fic since then (D&D summary, accidentally wrote a 9-1-1 episode tag, currently writing some D&D porn). Overall, feeling consistent and good about my writing so far this year!
Crafting: Less consistent on this so far, since I've been sinking all my attention into D&D and an edit. However, the big news is that I finally finished the Tortall map! I'm really pleased with how it came out, I'm not always the most precise of stitchers but I'm really glad I put the time and energy into this. Now I'm in the slow process of mocking up a new dress pattern, and I need to move into higher gear for that because the past few years I've had a new me-made dress for me to wear for my birthday in early May and I would LOVE to make that happen. Right now the bust is giving me conniption fits, got to figure out how to fit that better. Also, I'm missing having an embroidery project on the go! Got to think about what to do next.
Writing: I started off my year with an edit of one of my original works. You know, if you follow these posts, that I spent a good chunk of last year, and a bit of the year before if I recall correctly, absolutely miserably struggling with an edit that didn't want to happen. And then I got to this one and it practically edited itself in six weeks into a much stronger book. I don't know what possessed me but I would fucking LOVE for it to happen again, holy shit. Then once that was done I had a D&D play to write, see above, and I've done a bit of fic since then (D&D summary, accidentally wrote a 9-1-1 episode tag, currently writing some D&D porn). Overall, feeling consistent and good about my writing so far this year!
Crafting: Less consistent on this so far, since I've been sinking all my attention into D&D and an edit. However, the big news is that I finally finished the Tortall map! I'm really pleased with how it came out, I'm not always the most precise of stitchers but I'm really glad I put the time and energy into this. Now I'm in the slow process of mocking up a new dress pattern, and I need to move into higher gear for that because the past few years I've had a new me-made dress for me to wear for my birthday in early May and I would LOVE to make that happen. Right now the bust is giving me conniption fits, got to figure out how to fit that better. Also, I'm missing having an embroidery project on the go! Got to think about what to do next.
Things I'm Looking Forward To
Media-wise, I'm looking forward to the ends of the seasons of the shows I'm watching, for sure, including Pluribus when I'm feeling brave! I really want to have some movie energy, I want to watch last year's Superman movie and The Testament of Ann Lee seems really interesting and stranger and I want to watch it VERY badly.
For creativity, I've got two Fandom Trumps Hate fics to write and I'm looking forward to getting to those (well, the first one, second person hasn't prompted me yet), and then I'll see where the wind takes me! More D&D porn, probably, but still interested in more Tortall and 9-1-1 fics, and the first edit this year went so well that I'm looking ahead in the series ...
For creativity, I've got two Fandom Trumps Hate fics to write and I'm looking forward to getting to those (well, the first one, second person hasn't prompted me yet), and then I'll see where the wind takes me! More D&D porn, probably, but still interested in more Tortall and 9-1-1 fics, and the first edit this year went so well that I'm looking ahead in the series ...
And that's all for now! What should I watch to replace Elementary when I finish that? I like to have a show with a decent amount of episodes to default to when nothing else is new or interesting. I do have a couple seasons of Murder She Wrote sitting around, at least, but I'm feeling uninspired about it. Usually I'm doing those default-y shows with my mother, and our tastes don't overlap on much but murder mysteries and Leverage, but if you've got a genius idea, lay it on me!
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Monday, March 30th, 2026 11:25 am
Fandom: BTS
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Kim Taehyung | V and Jungkook
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Why this piece is awesome: Adorable dolls are adorable! But it's got a sprinkle of cuteness since it's based on a pic that j-hope posted on his IG some time ago.
Link: Untitled Taehyung and Jungkook crochet dolls (link 1) and link 2
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Kim Taehyung | V and Jungkook
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Crochet art
Artist on DW/LJ: N/A
Artist Website/Gallery:
knity_knoty Why this piece is awesome: Adorable dolls are adorable! But it's got a sprinkle of cuteness since it's based on a pic that j-hope posted on his IG some time ago.
Link: Untitled Taehyung and Jungkook crochet dolls (link 1) and link 2
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Monday, March 30th, 2026 11:23 am
My poem "The Cryptogamists" is now online at Strange Horizons.
I am honored to have it appear as part of the magazine's special issue on fungi in SFF, an entangled network of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art by Mary Soon Lee, Ruthanna Emrys, Romie Stott, Yri Hansen, and branching more.
Given an invitation to write about mushrooms, mosses, lichens, my brain responded, "But what if Geoffrey Tandy had been posted to Bletchley Park because they really did need specialists in cryptogams?" It was written almost entirely to a combination of Kele Fleming's "Turing Test" (2024) and Rabbitology's "The Bog Bodies" (2026) plus the occasional "Five Minutes of Pink Oyster Mushroom Playing Modular Synthesizer" (2020). It is the first poem I have been able to write all year.
I am honored to have it appear as part of the magazine's special issue on fungi in SFF, an entangled network of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art by Mary Soon Lee, Ruthanna Emrys, Romie Stott, Yri Hansen, and branching more.
Given an invitation to write about mushrooms, mosses, lichens, my brain responded, "But what if Geoffrey Tandy had been posted to Bletchley Park because they really did need specialists in cryptogams?" It was written almost entirely to a combination of Kele Fleming's "Turing Test" (2024) and Rabbitology's "The Bog Bodies" (2026) plus the occasional "Five Minutes of Pink Oyster Mushroom Playing Modular Synthesizer" (2020). It is the first poem I have been able to write all year.
Bingo: 3 lines
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