What I'm Doing Wednesday

Sep. 3rd, 2025 05:02 pm
sage: a closeup profile head shot of Murderbot (murderbot 2)
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books (Dunnett, Dunnett, Herron, Tierney) )

media
I finally finished watching Murderbot S1! (It only took forever bc I suck at visual media.) I loved it and want more! I'm hesitant to dive into fic, though, due to the "murderbot has a penis" and "Gurathin/Murderbot" tags. I want canon-compliant Murderbot adventures, not forcing it to behave in any manner like a sexbot. So, those are 2 things for me to filter out of search... But re the ending, wow, evidently they spent their whole series budget on ep 10 & it became a whole different show. Really satisfying.

dirt )

yarning
no yarn group this week, as too many people were sick or busy. I haven't crocheted on my own in well over a month, as I'm not at all motivated. It's SO frustrating. I'm hoping I can get off one of my meds that affects creativity & regain inspiration. I did at least get 3 kickbunnies listed on etsy...though I haven't promoted them on social media yet due to lack of motivation. OTOH, I have a potential customer waiting on an address to send a bunny to? That's something.

healthcrap
Still having frequent headaches and rationing triptans (I'm not low on them (yet), just being frugal with the stash). The vertigo/feeling faint is bad. Generally, I'm getting 2-16 minutes of Deep sleep per night and not feeling rested at all. cut for discussion of weight loss )

yuletide!
noms open in less than 2 weeks, on the 15th, yay! Get your fandoms ready! \o/ And they've upped the number of fandoms you can nom and request! I need to have a look back at the books I've read this year and see what I can manage to offer. Hrm.

#resist
10/18/25: No Kings Day #2
ride_4ever: (Fandom Porn People)
[personal profile] ride_4ever
Here's what I wrote for the 19th Annual Bring Back The Porn Challenge.

Title: Hotter Otter
Author: [personal profile] ride_4ever
Fandom and Pairing: due South; Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 200 words (double drabble)
Summary: Negotiations during sex: RayK wants something that Fraser isn't quick to give but eventually relents.
No Archive Warnings Apply

Fic on AO3.

Dear self (and partial to-do list)

Aug. 30th, 2025 09:41 am
china_shop: Guo Changcheng writing in his notebook (Guardian - rookie taking notes)
[personal profile] china_shop
Dear self,
You are not allowed to post any more discussion posts or similar until you've answered the majority of outstanding comments. (Great to see your corner of Dreamwidth being so active, though! Wheee! <3)
Love, me

Partial to-do list:
  1. [community profile] guardian_wishlist signup
  2. outstanding comments on the Guardian readalong, [community profile] fan_writers discussion and intro posts, and Guardian drama polls
  3. a fill for this round of [community profile] fan_flashworks
  4. behind-the-scenes FFW stuff & mod post draft
  5. write to MP and mayoral candidate; submit on All The Things
  6. finish my DNW-kink WIP ASAP
  7. finish my other WIP after that, and prepare for my annual Wishlist writing frenzy *fingers crossed, knock on wood*
  8. close a bunch of tabs, seriously
  9. rest my arms.

Mount TBR

Aug. 28th, 2025 12:12 am
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Mount TBR )

We Do This Til We Free Us for Slow Book Club, which had its first (online) meeting Monday. We discussed parts 1 and 2. We'll discuss parts 3, 4 and 5 next month. I thought the discussion was really good! It's open to new members, so if you would like to jump in, let me know.

Always Coming Home for Solarpunk Futures bookgroup, later today (Thursday). This bookgroup is also online and open to new members, so if you are interested in discussing Always Coming Home this evening, let me know.

The Meadow for Classics bookgroup
Artful for 1000 Books To Read Before You Die
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books for Fort Collins Reads
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton for Tawanda bookgroup
Lonely Castle in the Mirror for SF bookgroup

Mathematical Mindsets for ideas on working with a kid who is way behind where school wants her to be in fourth grade

The Paper Playhouse and Craft The Rainbow due back at the library soon.

Me-and-media update

Aug. 28th, 2025 03:32 pm
china_shop: An orange cartoon dog waving, with a blue-green abstract background. (Bingo!)
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Pandemic life
Colds and so forth. )

Previous poll review
In the Plaguefic poll, 46% of respondents were okay reading about Covid and related subjects, 52% didn't mind mentions, and 28% like it when characters mask sometimes, while 22% said there are aspects of the pandemic they avoid, and 22% prefer their reading matter to avoid the subject entirely.

In ticky-boxes, hugs won with 74%, followed by wallabies at a disco with 48%, and battery acid and protest signs with 36%. Thank you for your votes! <3

Reading
Audio: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer, read by Candida Gubbins. This continues to be fascinating and put present times into dryly alarming perspective, in a "thus has it ever been" kind of way. Most of the names and all the dates are in one ear and out the other, but Palmer spins an excellent yarn and kindly gives key figures nicknames (Battle Pope!). I'm up to Lucrezia Borgia, ie, about halfway.

Library book: A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall. I'm about halfway through this, too. Everything I know about Regency is from non-contemporaneous novels (Heyer), but still. These characters are clearly modern LARPers, but the central conflict is good.

Kdramas/Cdramas
I'm restricting my Nothing But Love rewatch to the exercise machine, to make it last.

Other TV
We finished Bookish. I came around to it in the end; the flashback to Book's long-lost love was heartrending. Looking forward to season 2.

Nothing else. It turns out I don't watch much TV on my own.

Guardian/Fandom
I posted a poll to [community profile] fan_writers about whether sharing is part of your creative process, and there's some great discussion there.

Upcoming in Guardian fandom: [community profile] guardian_wishlist sign-ups open tomorrow. And the Slo-mo Drama Rewatch starts on [community profile] sid_guardian next week. \o/

Audio entertainment
Writing Excuses. Letters from an American. More Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones (which aside from being really fun, highlighted this line from Archer's Goon: Mum always said that you could tell what people were like by their houses. So naturally now I keep thinking about Guardian through that lens and wondering what everyone's living spaces look like). I tried a local politics podcast (RNZ, equivalent of NPR), but apparently our political commentary has been reduced to economics, blah.

Online life
  • I need to stop making discussion posts when my arms aren't great.
  • I've found the frame-by-frame key in VLC, and nothing will stop my screencapping now, mwahaha!
  • Randomly alternating my comments between Casual HTML and Markdown. What could go wrong?


Writing/making things
My DNW-kinkfic continues, as I turn 1625 words of zero draft into Draft 1.0. Ot1h, it's very freeing to know almost no one will read this; otoh, the zero drafting comes with that feeling people talk about with outlining, where the impetus starts to leak out of the balloon... I'm going to finish it anyway, and I need to hurry up so I can make stuff for Wishlist.

Life/health/mental state things
For most of my adult life, I needed 8 to 9 hours of sleep a night to function well and be healthy. A couple of years ago, I read an article about how people over fifty shouldn't get more than 8 hours, and actually 7 is better. (Cannot remember the reasoning.) My expectations and sleep needs immediately dropped to 7ish hours per night, for lo, I am profoundly susceptible to the power of suggestion. Except that this week while Andrew's been sick, I've been getting 8 hours, and I feel good actually. So much more energy. tl;dr: I am ridiculous.

Cat
Sometimes during morning on-the-bed strokes, Halle crawls between two layers of blanket, and I never know if she's calling time on the stroking, or if this is some hide-and-seek cat game I'm supposed to know the rules of.

Food
I cook mostly vegetarian when it's just me. I really want a burger.

Good things
Immune systems. Fresh fruit. Several days of sunshine. Guardian. Dreamwidth activity generally. Cat. Andrew. LWS Writers' Hour. This cover of Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" (Youtube).

Poll #33544 Cluedo
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 45


Your murder weapon of choice

View Answers

asp
10 (22.2%)

cyanide
6 (13.3%)

bulldozer
5 (11.1%)

heartbreak
7 (15.6%)

industrial freezer
2 (4.4%)

fright
1 (2.2%)

cassowary
24 (53.3%)

extremely elegant clothing
15 (33.3%)

other
3 (6.7%)

ticky-box full of musical frogs jamming away on their bongos
19 (42.2%)

ticky-box full of neglected-houseplant guilt
13 (28.9%)

ticky-box full of throwing coins into the wishing abyss
19 (42.2%)

ticky-box full of cartoon dogs going to the movies
15 (33.3%)

ticky-box of what would a Gamma/Delta/Epsilon AU look like? radioactive river permittivity?
10 (22.2%)

ticky-box full of vertical stripes
14 (31.1%)

ticky-box full of hugs
34 (75.6%)

ride_4ever: (RayK - on the inside I'm a poet)
[personal profile] ride_4ever
Assorted due South haiku that I wrote in April for International Haiku Day (April 17) and National Poetry Month. Some -- as noted in my AO3 AN -- are derived from prompts of the dSC6D snipppets comm on DW.

Title: Two due South Double-Stanza Haiku in Honor of April's International Haiku Day and April's
National Poetry Month
Author: [personal profile] ride_4ever
Fandom: due South
Category: Gen, F/M
Relationship: Benton Fraser/Victoria Metcalf
Characters: Benton Fraser, Victoria Metcalf, Ray Vecchio
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 63 words
Fic on AO3.

Title: Five due South Haiku in Honor of April's International Haiku Day and April's National Poetry
Month
Author: [personal profile] ride_4ever
Fandom: due South
Category: Gen
Characters: Implied characters: Benton Fraser, Diefenbaker, both Rays, Robert "Bob" Fraser, Jack
Huey, Tom Dewey
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 78 words
Fic on AO3.

Title: Three due South Haiku in Honor of April's International Haiku Day and April's National Poetry
Month
Author: [personal profile] ride_4ever
Fandom: due South
Category: Gen
Characters: Benton Fraser, both Rays mentioned or implied
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 42 words
Fic on AO3.

What I'm Doing Wednesday

Aug. 27th, 2025 06:31 pm
sage: a library with a spiral staircase (library)
[personal profile] sage
Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes and the paid time! I appreciate it so much! <333

books: Smith, Kingfisher, Smith, Abulafia, Herron, Tierney) )

home
So glad to be home. Though I came home just in time to discover chigger bites up my legs from repotting mom's new money tree...which at least weren't a mosquito or spider in my bed like I first thought they were? (The bites take 2-3 days to appear, so I was confused.) I didn't make it to yarn group Sunday thanks to a vicious migraine that took forever to pass, even with meds. Frustrating.

dirt
I lost a few plants from being out of town so long, but they were already in fragile shape so I'm not that surprised. The bougainvillea is blooming in the sweltering heat. I need to get the spider plants planted into the Buddha head planter. The drainage hole is unexpectedly small, so I'm pondering the planting mix. I would redrill it, but it's concrete and I don't have a bit that large.

healthcrap
splitting headaches all too frequent, inc today. I called the pain clinic finally and got an appt set for more botox. Stupid head/jaw. I'm so impatient to feel better.

#resist
Labor Day: Monday, 9/01: Workers over Billionaires (#5051)

I hope all of y'all are doing well! <333

Update

Aug. 26th, 2025 01:05 pm
mergatrude: a skein, a ball and a swatch of home spun and dyed blue yarn (Default)
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Reading: I've managed to put aside both ROL and Murderbot this week, finally! Currently reading Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments, the second book in the Edinburgh Nights series by T.L. Huchu. Very cool, magical post-apocalyptic setting, with a poor POC girl bucking the traditions. In audiobooks I'm listening to The Dictionary of Forgotten Words by Pip Williams, read by Imogen Sage. Another girl, though white and middle class, bucking Victorian conventions.

Watching: The Good Place, with a side of Bluey. Also, my dude keeps making me watch "Honest Trailers" on the ytube, and honestly? They're pretty damn funny.

Work: continues to be hectic, with a side order of "why does the Vice Chancellor want to wreck this place?" I have three separate draft submissions to finish off and post this week. /o\

Making: I've gotten back into the groove with spinning (after an enforced break while my right shoulder was borked). I've been working on a cabled sock yarn made with a blend of Blue-Faced Leicester (a nice, long-stapled sheep fibre) with a dash of Ramie (a plant fibre that's been in use since ancient times). It involves spinning four very fine threads that are plied in pairs and then the pairs plied together, giving you a strong yarn that your feet (theoretically) won't wear out too quickly. I've started on the third bobbin.
one of my blurry photos )

Other things: We went to the Walk for Gaza on Sunday. There were around 2,000 people there. The weather has been beautiful.

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