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Humble Bundle's running a sale where you can pick up 65 science fiction, fantasy, and horror books by women for only $18 through January 31st.

Pretty good deal, if you ask me!

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Edited: Apparently this bundle is only available in the US (unsure if it's available in Canada?).

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My first sighting of Ralph Fiennes: Quiz Show.

There was a nice Yahoo group called fiennes-fans; we always referred to him as OWO, for "our wonderful one." :-)

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sistawendy

Weeks ago, the Tickler, got excited for Darkwave Mixtape's and Lovecats'* gig at Nectar, which happens to be in my neighborhood. And why? Because Lovecats were going to do an entire set of covers of the Cure, natch, and the Tickler is a huge fan of the Cure. (They're also a huge fan of Depeche Mode and can identify even the deepest cut of DM in about one bar.)

So down the hill we went, nomming at Made In House** and going to Nectar. I felt a bit underdressed with the kids all gothed up to the max, and some of the elders all dolled up normie style. But not to worry: the only table we found was in a drafty corner, so I put on the Coat and was fine.

Fidelity to the original? Uncanny. If the guy at the mixer board hadn't made some mistakes, I might have though they were faking it. I guess they knew their audience.

Spotted: C, Diminutive,

aaminahlefae, and that whole gang. I believe they know people in at least one of the bands.

Do I appreciate the Cure more? Grudgingly, yes. The Tickler wrote down the playlist and gave it to me.

Dancer is here. Must dash!

*If that sounds familiar, it's because I've written here about Prom Date Mixtape, with whom Darkwave shares personnel. It's another 80's cover band.
**They do dinner these days. Aw, yeah.

Current Mood: rushed
Current Location: the living room of the Devil Girl House
Current Music: The Cure, "In Between Days"

lovelyangel

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Tamon’s B-side, Episode 1

The last couple of days I’ve been doing volunteer work for my church – and also working with medical clinics for evaluations. It’s not been a quiet week.

At times over the next two weeks I’ll be traveling and staying in cities on the West Coast to see concerts performed by TWICE. I love seeing TWICE – but generally hate to travel. Tomorrow I’ll be making checklists and itineraries, reviewing transportation and lodging logistics, preparing camera equipment, and packing for the first leg of the adventure. For a fair portion of mid-month I will be offline and unavailable.

Also, the new season of anime kicked off last week. I try to sample all the new shows within the first three weeks of the season – but I won’t be successful this quarter because of away time. Maybe I can post my assessment at the end of the month?

As of today, I’ve checked out 16 shows and have 13 yet to be reviewed (with additional shows premiering all the time). I’m not counting Jujutsu Kaisen and Fire Force and Oshi no Ko, which are known quantities – nor Frieren, which shows up in another week but without question is in my watchlist. I haven’t even started on HIDIVE. Anyway, there’s a lot to check out. Eventually.

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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

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344/365: Bird mural, Worcester
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Thanks in part to the icy weather of late meaning two people didn't feel able to risk the journey to Worcester, there were only five of us at the My Little Pony fan meetup today. It was still a very nice few hours, though, as it nearly always is. The mural I've posted here was awkward to photograph, since the road it's facing (Cherry Tree Walk) is rather narrow. I had to use the wide-angle setting on my phone, which is why the quality is a bit lower than sometimes. This striking piece is by Curtis Hylton, and was painted in 2021.

Current Mood: happy

aurumcalendula

Jan 10 - 'I think my main problem with Section 31 was that what was clearly intended as the first season of a show, plot wise, was hacked together to make the plot of a movie. Provided you'd knew in advance there would be only room for a Georgiou movie, and bearing real life restrictions in mind (i.e. guest stars from other Trek shows can only appear as they are today or have to be recast), what should a mirror Georgiou centric movie have been about?' for

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mific

I finally got around to watching the Empty Netters podcast on YT, their breakdowns of HR eps 1 & 2. It's such fun watching them get caught up in the show while still critiquing the hockey details (two of them are brothers and previously high-level hockey players, now in what they call "the beer leagues". And as they get more and more invested in the show they don't care as much about the minor mistakes and unrealistic hockey-world details. Also, the comments are great, very positive and with no trolling or bigotry at all that I've seen so far (maybe they curate that?).
My initial main takeaways from these first two eps are:

The team logos were analysed. Shane's is M for the Metros (a bottom), and Ilya's is a cannon for the Raiders! (obvious symbolism). That has to be deliberate, right? Also hilarious!

Then these two comments, that added details I hadn't known.

I won't do a full transcript but the first says Reid wrote a bonus chapter on her website (a remix of the Vegas penthouse chapter, end of S2 in the show) with a bit more about Ilya's thoughts and feelings, his conflicts about returning to Russia and why he treats Shane badly. Here's the link.

The second comment clarifies that Putin only cracked down on gay people just before the Sochi Olympics. Before 2013 Russia had apparently become reasonably progressive. So Ilya would have been especially paranoid and freaked out at Sochi and would definitely have cold-shouldered Shane, as in canon. Also a nice pick-up that although Carter Vaughan means well, assuming the ice skater is gay was a microaggression, worse for Shane as Carter blithely assumes he's straight (and for Scott, but the Empty Netters don't know about Scott yet!).

I'm going to watch all the Empty Netters vids, but not right now. Jesus, I have to do something other than wallow in HR stuff all the time!

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I took some pictures yesterday but didn't have time to upload and post them until today. The night before, a windstorm blew down the contorta willow sapling that used to stand between the house yard and the south lot, near the big maple tree.

( Walk with me ... )

Current Mood: accomplished

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Dear Care and Feeding,

My ex came from serious money, and our 12-year-old daughter is her parents’ only grandchild. My daughter gets what she wants the moment she voices it; her grandparents claim it is their duty to spoil her. My daughter is very grounded and knows that most people can’t afford everything her family can, but that doesn’t change the fact that her experiences have been very privileged.

My partner’s kids haven’t been so lucky. He provides a good life, but the vacations he can take them on are to the local lake, not Europe. The problem is that my daughter can’t talk about her life without the other kids getting jealous and accusing her of bragging. She can’t say that her favorite city is Paris or identify a castle on TV without them taking offense and ganging up on her. This situation has started to heat up because my daughter has recently been hanging out with a pair of twins who have moved into our neighborhood. Their dad has left military service, but in their lives as military brats, they’ve lived everywhere in the world. They are joined at the hip with my daughter, and my partner hates the fact that his 13-year-old daughter, “Melinda,” doesn’t get automatically included.

Alas, Melinda is in her mean girl phase. Everything and everyone is stupid and sucks. She routinely picks on her younger brother. There are problems with both her behavior in school and in the after-school activities she is enrolled in. She was asked to leave her sports team for bullying another member to the point where it got physical. My daughter avoids Melinda when she can, and I have to mediate every moment we are together as a family.

My partner does not “see” Melinda’s behavior until another adult points it out. He and I do not live together, and his blindness to his daughter’s flaws is one reason for this, even though I love him. Another reason is that Melinda is hard enough to be around on a good weekend, let alone every day. I have tried to stay in my own lane and let my partner parent his kids his own way, but he keeps pushing that Melinda is being “excluded” by my daughter and her friends. They are in different grades and have very different interests.

Between his kids giving mine a hard time every time she opens her mouth, and all this, things are getting tense. Recently, he commented on how excited my daughter was for the holidays because her dad was taking her skiing and had told her that maybe the twins could come too. My partner insinuated that this enthusiasm was somehow malevolent. I responded by reminding him that both of his kids have been talking nonstop about seeing their grandparents and cousins over the holidays. He said it wasn’t even close to the same and that his kids have never even seen snow. I don’t know how to resolve this. Considering the ages of our kids, and the fact that they’re not even living in the same household, their just being civil toward each other should be enough, but civility is hard to come by, and Melinda is the agitator most of the time. How do I get through to my partner and protect my daughter?

—Mean Melinda

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Not so belated, because it must have been delivered yesterday and slunk down in the mailbox, which annoyingly is just wide enough for a regular sized envelope to get stuck on its side at the bottom. Do people not think if these things? Anyway, was a thick envelope from the city, clearly my property taxes moan groan tremble, unless someone has factored in the 5% drop in housing prices in the last year. Though I think they've been factored already: I seem to recall a 200K drop in my assessment that took it to 'still badly overpriced' from 'are you effing joking??!!'

But is not my taxes. Is a utility bill for water and garbage. Um yeah. That would be the water meter reading I sent them after who knows how many years of estimated usage. People in this situation have been faced with high four figure adjustments so I was preparing for the worst. And the damage is... a credit on my account because I'd overpaid to the tune of nearly $150. So all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

pensnest

In response to Rahaeli's recent suggestions on Bluesky (I think) about the way LiveJournal is going, I thought it might be a good idea to see if I could figure out how to import the fic_requests community. Back in the day it provided very considerable inspiration for me—I should think at least fifty of my ficlets were inspired by something in that community.

And I noticed a community on my DW that I had completely forgotten existed. It is called

popslash_lollipops and it is, in fact, a repository of the fic_requests community from the old popslash-on-LiveJournal days. I don't think there's any point attempting to import the Index, which wouldn't work anyway as all the links will be different, but the stories (or at least the links) are here on DW.

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agonyaunt

Dear Prudence,

I just got married, and while the day was beautiful, my family left me feeling heartbroken. I have a strained relationship with my younger sister. She left her diabetic cat with our parents, and when they had to suddenly leave town, I stepped in to care for it for two weeks.

At our wedding after-party, my husband gently suggested she thank me. Instead, she stormed off, blocked me on social media, and refused to see me for the rest of the trip. When I turned to my parents for support, they sided with her, saying she spent her own time and money to attend the wedding and telling me to “drop the drama” and “be an adult.” I’m left feeling dismissed and deeply hurt, wondering how to move forward from this.

—Bride Without a Break

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dewline

It was with a job-search-support service specializing in helping neurodivergent job-seekers. I plan to keep in touch with them through my upcoming contract, because said contract is going to end when March does. So, planning has to be for at least the medium term.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Under the Influence on CBC Radio

hunningham

Christmas is over, father-in-law is away staying with the other bit of the family, I've had a long & tiring visit with my mother, but I'm back home now and it's just me & himself for the next week. And it's so nice just being us. Having an extra in the house - even a much-loved & gentle family member - it's an effort. It's odd working out where the stresses are, but today we had lunch with books and without conversation - such a delight.

My mother has given me a teeny-tiny bucket armchair to replace the one which I had moved into father-in-law's room. This has made my cat very happy. I knew that I missed having a comfy chair in the office; I hadn't realised that cat also wanted to be comfortable in same room as me. Yesterday he sat and stared until I got a clue and put his blanket on the chair. And then he sat and had a very thorough wash and a long sleep. Focusmate partner was charmed.

Greens are being awful. I want to save the world, stop climate change etc etc but people keep on getting in the way. We've got a lot of personalities going on at the moment, and the local party is doing office politics (only without the office). People muttering in the break room, getting their feelings hurt, toes trodden on, accusing each other of whatevering, plotting behind the bike shed, little power groups, conspiracy theories and it's like living through an episode of Mean Girls. Fascinating to see how some people absolutely revel in it and just want Drama! Excitement! He said! She said! while I just want to retreat like a distressed snail.

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Mum, standing in front of the open fridge: I’ve made a decision.

Me, at the kitchen table: Oh?

Mum: I’ve decided, with the mushrooms….*muttering to herself as she rearranges the fridge* that needs to go in the freezer. So does this. Oh I need that. That doesn’t go there, why does he always put it there. Hm…*long pause to consider fridge geography*

Me: Don’t keep me in suspense.

Mum: Shush. I’ve decided, with the mushrooms *opening the freezer* there’s never any damn room in here. Oh, this should come out to thaw anyway. I didn’t know I had green beans in here! What do you make with this cut of beef?

Me: *cracking up laughing* the decision?

Mum: oh, I decided – *holding up a bag of frozen Trader Joe’s mushrooms* do you know if anything else is added to these, like garlic or anything?

Me: Is that your final decision?

Mum: What?

Me: What did you decide about the mushrooms?

Mum: Oh, we’re going to use frozen instead of fresh in the recipe we’re making.

Jesus wept. I’d worry about Alzheimer’s but this is just how my life with her has always been. No wonder I have the bad and rude habit of finishing other peoples’ sentences with my best guess at what they were about to say. If I didn’t do that at home she would NEVER FINISH A SENTENCE. I love her but it’s so evident where my ADHD comes from that it’s absurd.

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