I just learned about a new series called K-pop Demon Hunters that premiers on Netflix on 20 June. It looks great, and it features a song by Twice's Jihyo, Jeongyeon, and Chaeyoung. I'm really looking forward to it!
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Run don't walk, as a new Stargate Atlantis fic by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
punk has just gone live! It's a collab where I did the podfic and cover art, and I love the story to bits. It's here on AO3, and here on Punk's DW.
In other news, I'm having fun inserting "mer" into various characters' names for Mermay art. so far, Merdurbot, Aquamer, and Steve MerGarrett. And I organised all my mer art into a series called just stick a mer in it (innuendo fully intended).
My Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia Diversifolia) is gradually getting more spectacular - visitors are starting to comment on it and ask what it is. Here's a pic.
I took that photo yesterday - a lovely, sunny Autumn day. Today it's cloudy, cool and grey, and I'm going to make middle-eastern orange almond cake but as muffins, and will stew all my apples up as the small red ones are decidedly underwhelming but if I add in the 4 remaining Granny Smiths and some lemon juice, it'll be fine. Are you cooking anything interesting? Hugs to you all!
punk has just gone live! It's a collab where I did the podfic and cover art, and I love the story to bits. It's here on AO3, and here on Punk's DW.In other news, I'm having fun inserting "mer" into various characters' names for Mermay art. so far, Merdurbot, Aquamer, and Steve MerGarrett. And I organised all my mer art into a series called just stick a mer in it (innuendo fully intended).
My Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia Diversifolia) is gradually getting more spectacular - visitors are starting to comment on it and ask what it is. Here's a pic.
I took that photo yesterday - a lovely, sunny Autumn day. Today it's cloudy, cool and grey, and I'm going to make middle-eastern orange almond cake but as muffins, and will stew all my apples up as the small red ones are decidedly underwhelming but if I add in the 4 remaining Granny Smiths and some lemon juice, it'll be fine. Are you cooking anything interesting? Hugs to you all!
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Willow: Oh, God! Remember in sixth grade with the field trip?
Xander: Right! Right! The guy with the antlers on his belt!
Willow: Be my Deputy!
Xander: And remember the, the hat?
Willow: Oh God! The hat!
Buffy: Gee, it's fun that we're speaking in tongues.
Xander: Right! Right! The guy with the antlers on his belt!
Willow: Be my Deputy!
Xander: And remember the, the hat?
Willow: Oh God! The hat!
Buffy: Gee, it's fun that we're speaking in tongues.
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[Drabbles & Short Fiction]
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I seem to have spent much of this day driving in a nor'easter, when all the potholes overflowed and every other driver in between the streaming gutters drove like a hydroplaning yak. I got to see rushthatspeaks and secured a new inhaler and an appointment with a pulmonologist. Foods of the hour look like pastrami, scones, and a Zagnut.
Last night's shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum is still going around in my head, even if I didn't have people in the Jewish professional community of D.C. I don't want to entertain a referendum on the politics of the victims any more than I want to hear it about detained students or deportees, but it feels too cheap for irony that the shooter targeted an event with a focus on humanitarian aid in Gaza: all that mattered was that it aggregated Jews. The word antisemitism should be like hot iron in the mouth of the man in the White House. What he has to offer, none of us need.
In stark contrast to the mishegos with FB, when Criterion's website refused to honor a gift certificate I had received from them in the last month, I was able to get a real live person on their customer support staff who solved the problem for me so that I could ship a DVD of Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) to a relative who really needed it. Maybe I should try to bribe them for editions of my favorite films.
rushthatspeaks and secured a new inhaler and an appointment with a pulmonologist. Foods of the hour look like pastrami, scones, and a Zagnut.Last night's shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum is still going around in my head, even if I didn't have people in the Jewish professional community of D.C. I don't want to entertain a referendum on the politics of the victims any more than I want to hear it about detained students or deportees, but it feels too cheap for irony that the shooter targeted an event with a focus on humanitarian aid in Gaza: all that mattered was that it aggregated Jews. The word antisemitism should be like hot iron in the mouth of the man in the White House. What he has to offer, none of us need.
In stark contrast to the mishegos with FB, when Criterion's website refused to honor a gift certificate I had received from them in the last month, I was able to get a real live person on their customer support staff who solved the problem for me so that I could ship a DVD of Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) to a relative who really needed it. Maybe I should try to bribe them for editions of my favorite films.
(siriareads_feed May. 23rd, 2025 12:59 am)
siriareads_feed May. 23rd, 2025 12:59 am)An exploration of Judaism, medicine, and what it means to heal.
Set pre and post-season 1.
Set pre and post-season 1.
Creator reveals have happened for the Unsent Letters exchange, so here's the silly little thing I did for it:
Title: A Series of Notes Attached to a UNIT Equipment Requisition Form
Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005)
Characters/Relationships: Third Doctor & Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: How hard is it to get your scientific advisor the equipment he clearly needs?
Tags: Epistolary, Humor
Length: ~1100 words
Author's Notes: Written for the Unsent Letters exchange.
A Series of Notes Attached to a UNIT Equipment Requisition Form
Title: A Series of Notes Attached to a UNIT Equipment Requisition Form
Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005)
Characters/Relationships: Third Doctor & Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: How hard is it to get your scientific advisor the equipment he clearly needs?
Tags: Epistolary, Humor
Length: ~1100 words
Author's Notes: Written for the Unsent Letters exchange.
A Series of Notes Attached to a UNIT Equipment Requisition Form
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unsent_letters_exchange author reveals are out, and my shockingly unsurprising entry is Eloquent (Biggles/EvS, 2100 words).In other recent exchange developments, I joined in the Mismatched Tropes flash exchange and got two lovely small gifts: A Safe Landing (Biggles wingfic) and Cuddly Circumstances (B5, Londo & Vir, literal cuddle pollen).
There is also this thoroughly satisfying snippet written by
philomytha for a prompt I left her: Any Biggles characters, revolutions.Tags:
This morning's outing was short, not even to the Laurel Canyon Trail, although I did spend some time down in Big Leaf picnic area, which is what I do when I can't keep going but don't want to go home. Merlin frustrated me a lot, suggesting birds that absolutely should be there, that I've heard there, but that I could not hear today. Hate that. Anyway, not a long list. The Northern House Wrens are here in greater numbers than earlier and I got a brief but gorgeous view of a Red-shouldered Hawk in flight. ( The list: )
Needed to get further to find Hummingbirds or vireos.
Needed to get further to find Hummingbirds or vireos.
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I finally stopped procrastinating and scheduled the first of my Shingles shots. (I've had Shingels, an admittedly mild case, and do not want it again. It's a burning itch and painful. Also takes forever to go away, with periodic phantom burning itches long afterward.) Doing it tomorrow, because that will give me two-three days - in case I get sick. (I didn't with the other vaccines, so it's unlikely I will. But one never knows.)
Tomorrow - Bob Dylan's musical "Girl from the North Country" premiers on Great Performances. I'm enjoying the televised presentations of Broadway shows. Means I can see them, and so can everyone else?
Rainy day. Cool. But I have the A/C and fans on - because they are blasting the heat again. Radiator heat.
Didn't sleep well last night - due to digestive issues and restless leg syndrome. (My legs and back were bothering me.) Hopefully will be better tonight.
More May Memage...or rather I'm catching up
10. Ellen Ochoa was born today in 1958 and was the first Hispanic woman to travel to space in 1993. Would you like to travel to space?
No. I've seen spaceships - they are not made for tall people. Or anyone who is even a little claustrophobic. Also, I get motion sickness. And I know what happens to the human body while it is in space - it's not pleasant. We were not created for 0 gravity. I have enough medical issues.
I rather like what William Shatner said after going to space, which is - there's nothing there. Stay here.
11. What’s your favourite way to eat eggs?
Poached on greens with lemon juice and lemon pepper. Or scrambled with a little cream.
I had coddled eggs with mother, but I prefer poached.
12. Do you regularly moisturize your feet?
No. Probably should. But my feet are a long ways from my torso. I'm six foot, and most of my height is in my legs. I'm long limbed.
13. Do you remember when you bought your first computer?
Yes. It was in the 1990s. A Macintosh - small screen. Prior to that - my parents did - and that was an Apple II way back in the 1980s. Big a clunky, with MS DOS. It was before we had Windows.
14. Have you still got access to an Avon representative locally? Have you ever bought products from Avon?
No. No. Although there were reps at my workplace, I ignored them. I don't like spending money on makeup and buy little of it. Also we can get better products at Wallgreens or Sapphora.
15. Who cleans the toilets in your home?
There's only one. And there's only me. And I refuse to hire anyone to do house work for a one bedroom apartment. So...
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Another photo...hopefully you can see it, I never know with FB links.
Tomorrow - Bob Dylan's musical "Girl from the North Country" premiers on Great Performances. I'm enjoying the televised presentations of Broadway shows. Means I can see them, and so can everyone else?
Rainy day. Cool. But I have the A/C and fans on - because they are blasting the heat again. Radiator heat.
Didn't sleep well last night - due to digestive issues and restless leg syndrome. (My legs and back were bothering me.) Hopefully will be better tonight.
More May Memage...or rather I'm catching up
10. Ellen Ochoa was born today in 1958 and was the first Hispanic woman to travel to space in 1993. Would you like to travel to space?
No. I've seen spaceships - they are not made for tall people. Or anyone who is even a little claustrophobic. Also, I get motion sickness. And I know what happens to the human body while it is in space - it's not pleasant. We were not created for 0 gravity. I have enough medical issues.
I rather like what William Shatner said after going to space, which is - there's nothing there. Stay here.
11. What’s your favourite way to eat eggs?
Poached on greens with lemon juice and lemon pepper. Or scrambled with a little cream.
I had coddled eggs with mother, but I prefer poached.
12. Do you regularly moisturize your feet?
No. Probably should. But my feet are a long ways from my torso. I'm six foot, and most of my height is in my legs. I'm long limbed.
13. Do you remember when you bought your first computer?
Yes. It was in the 1990s. A Macintosh - small screen. Prior to that - my parents did - and that was an Apple II way back in the 1980s. Big a clunky, with MS DOS. It was before we had Windows.
14. Have you still got access to an Avon representative locally? Have you ever bought products from Avon?
No. No. Although there were reps at my workplace, I ignored them. I don't like spending money on makeup and buy little of it. Also we can get better products at Wallgreens or Sapphora.
15. Who cleans the toilets in your home?
There's only one. And there's only me. And I refuse to hire anyone to do house work for a one bedroom apartment. So...
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Another photo...hopefully you can see it, I never know with FB links.
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Thursday, May 22, to midnight on Friday, May 23 (8pm Eastern Time).
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.
Poll #33150 Daily check-in poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 17
How are you doing?
I am OK
7 (41.2%)
I am not OK, but don't need help right now
10 (58.8%)
I could use some help
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans live with you?
I am living single
4 (23.5%)
One other person
8 (47.1%)
More than one other person
5 (29.4%)
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.
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I meant to make these recs earlier in the day -- as it is, I'm skating this in right before author reveals! But three quick recs from unsent_letters_exchange...
(ETA: Now edited to include authors!)
For years I've been asking to see more of Keith Windham's journal -- the bits we get in canon are so tantalizing, with its "my Warrior" this and "Achilles" that. This year forunsent_letters_exchange a lovely anon (I'm guessing luzula!) gave us an additional few days of his journal -- cranky, bitchy, and smitten!
I also want to rec two other works. The first is a gift forgaronne:
This next I suspect is bygaronne -- but is indeed lovely, whoever is the author:
unsent_letters_exchange...(ETA: Now edited to include authors!)
For years I've been asking to see more of Keith Windham's journal -- the bits we get in canon are so tantalizing, with its "my Warrior" this and "Achilles" that. This year for
unsent_letters_exchange a lovely anon (I'm guessing luzula!) gave us an additional few days of his journal -- cranky, bitchy, and smitten!Excerpt from the Journal of Captain Keith Windham for August 14-16, 1745 byLuzula
General Audiences, No Warnings Apply
The Flight of the Heron - D.K. Broster
Keith/Ewen pre-slash
Diary/Journal, Missing Scene
1,011 words
I also want to rec two other works. The first is a gift for
garonne:Now and Forever by
Teen, Choose Not To Warn
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Hill House/Theodora/Nell
Horror, Diary/Journal, Letters, Found Documents
2,751 words
Long after Nell Vance's death at Hill House and Theo's mysterious disappearance some years later, a stack of letters and a diary are uncovered which may shed more - or less - light on events all those years ago.
This next I suspect is by
garonne -- but is indeed lovely, whoever is the author:In All These Empty Halls by
Explicit, No Warnings Apply
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Héloïse/Marianne
Established Relationship, Canon Compliant
1,089 words
After her mother's death, Héloïse returns to the island where she was living when she and Marianne met.
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I'm off work for my "weekend" now. I am, however, on-call for potential overtime during the next 6 days, because I volunteered my name on the list.
I didn't watch either livestream, because it was busy at work this evening. As I type this message, the Board of Trustees issued their vote on the closure of several university campuses in Pennsylvania. The President of the university also ended a livestream discussion about these profound changes. There is a special phone queue setup for handling calls about this issue. Who attends that campus closure line? Why, it's IT Support, of course, you silly goose.
If it gets too busy for regular staffing levels, they'll call in people to help out. I've turned on the ringer on my smart phone, so I can respond if I'm called to report for duty.
I hope it's dull. I hope there's no increase. It's rational that they're trying to be prepared. I'm just not in the mood to get yelled at, even though all of us are always (not just for this event) empowered to immediately hang up on anybody who is verbally abusive, which is a wonderful policy that I appreciate immensely.
Here is the roadmap for the closures. The data is solidly behind these closures. They did a good job on the recommendations here (PDF file, 15.8MB, 143 pages). I hope all of this phone preparation is completely unnecessary. I don't want to get called in for overtime.
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Show: SGA
Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan
Pairings: Rodney/John
Categories: slash, hurt/comfort, angst, episode related, episode: s02e14 grace under pressure
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, (minor character death, hallucinations)
Words: 7,361
Author's Journal: n/a
Author's Website: ladyflowdi on AO3
Link: Guardian
Author’s summary: Rodney deals with survivors guilt. Tag for Grace Under Pressure.
Why This Must Be Read: The fic, already written in 2006 right after the episode Grace under Pressure, is so beautifully, so compassionately, and so full of love. It's heartwarming and wonderful, and it holds a beautiful balance between drama and lightheartedness—providing a heartbreaking overlap of Rodney’s childhood experiences with current events, making everything even more intense. It's an intriguing take on his character, his background and his development to the Rodney we know and love.
Mixing in a caring John and a tender and blossoming Mcshep relationship and you get a perfect fic I can't recommend enough.
( snippet of fic )
Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan
Pairings: Rodney/John
Categories: slash, hurt/comfort, angst, episode related, episode: s02e14 grace under pressure
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, (minor character death, hallucinations)
Words: 7,361
Author's Journal: n/a
Author's Website: ladyflowdi on AO3
Link: Guardian
Author’s summary: Rodney deals with survivors guilt. Tag for Grace Under Pressure.
Why This Must Be Read: The fic, already written in 2006 right after the episode Grace under Pressure, is so beautifully, so compassionately, and so full of love. It's heartwarming and wonderful, and it holds a beautiful balance between drama and lightheartedness—providing a heartbreaking overlap of Rodney’s childhood experiences with current events, making everything even more intense. It's an intriguing take on his character, his background and his development to the Rodney we know and love.
Mixing in a caring John and a tender and blossoming Mcshep relationship and you get a perfect fic I can't recommend enough.
( snippet of fic )
There was one story I missed out about my hospital stay.
I think it was on the Friday, the quiet lady in the next bed was having seizures several times a day. They were not epileptic seizures - I didn’t know there were other types, but it seems there are.
She came out of a particularly bad one and her brother said something I didn’t catch. She started to cry. And when I say cry, we’re not talking quiet sobs, but loud howls of anguish which cut down to the soul. She went on to cry for two hours. I have never cried for two hours, even when my parents died. Maybe I’m just hard hearted.
Meanwhile, the five others in the bay, including me, were all on drips. IV lines run through a little machine which I think is both a pump and a measure. If the cannula gets blocked or the IV finishes the machine makes a burbling sound like a mobile phone to alert the nurse.
Just after the anguished lady started to cry and all the nurses were round her, every one of the machines started to burble their alarms. All five.
It was bedlam. I’ve never heard anything like it.
All five of us were looking at each other wondering if there was anything we could do, but obviously there wasn’t. So that was a stand-out moment. I still wonder what it was that the lady’s brother said that so upset her.
I think it was on the Friday, the quiet lady in the next bed was having seizures several times a day. They were not epileptic seizures - I didn’t know there were other types, but it seems there are.
She came out of a particularly bad one and her brother said something I didn’t catch. She started to cry. And when I say cry, we’re not talking quiet sobs, but loud howls of anguish which cut down to the soul. She went on to cry for two hours. I have never cried for two hours, even when my parents died. Maybe I’m just hard hearted.
Meanwhile, the five others in the bay, including me, were all on drips. IV lines run through a little machine which I think is both a pump and a measure. If the cannula gets blocked or the IV finishes the machine makes a burbling sound like a mobile phone to alert the nurse.
Just after the anguished lady started to cry and all the nurses were round her, every one of the machines started to burble their alarms. All five.
It was bedlam. I’ve never heard anything like it.
All five of us were looking at each other wondering if there was anything we could do, but obviously there wasn’t. So that was a stand-out moment. I still wonder what it was that the lady’s brother said that so upset her.
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⌈ Secret Post #6712 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
(siriareads_feed May. 22nd, 2025 08:05 pm)
siriareads_feed May. 22nd, 2025 08:05 pm)Jack Abbot is 41 years old.
He is a grown-ass man, a decorated Army officer, a widower, and someone with completely uncomplicated relationships with terrible coffee, ringing telephones, and the 24-hour clock.
Some of the preceding statements are even true.
Or: Robby and Jack, Pittsburgh, 2016: The beginning of it all.
He is a grown-ass man, a decorated Army officer, a widower, and someone with completely uncomplicated relationships with terrible coffee, ringing telephones, and the 24-hour clock.
Some of the preceding statements are even true.
Or: Robby and Jack, Pittsburgh, 2016: The beginning of it all.
(siriareads_feed May. 22nd, 2025 06:12 pm)
siriareads_feed May. 22nd, 2025 06:12 pm)this was what they meant, he thought, in the haftarot of consolation, behold I will set your stones with carbuncle, and I will lay your foundations with sapphires, the foundations of his soul had been cleared out and replaced with glittering stones and he felt— free, unencumbered, like nothing and nobody could hurt him, not ever again.
Pittsburgh, 1986-1990.
Pittsburgh, 1986-1990.
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