It was an interesting ride to Enterprise. The guy I've been talking to picked me up and we were talking, got onto the topic of writing. He's doing a post apocalyptic thing where he wants to subvert the toxic masculinity you often see in dystopic fic and queer it as well (the character is a bi man) and he is a Huskerdust Hazbin fan. I'm surprised he was so comfortable to tell me about a queer story here in deep red southern Ohio. Maybe in the fall I'll try harder to get a SF/F/Horror writers group going at the library. Maybe there is more of us than I know.

The car is a Jetta. I haven't been in a Volkswagon since my mom's 1970s Bug. I had to dig out the owner's manual three times before I got home because shit wasn't where I'm used to it being in my Japanese cars. Also how to tell I haven't been in a car in almost a decade? Within an hour I bashed my knee into the steering column, knocked my skull into the top of the door, jabbed my elbow into that same door. I'm already over the Jetta and they gave it to me with no damn gas. Why is the gas tank on the wrong damn side?

I drove it to my coffee shop, went inside. Not one seat open and six people ahead of me in line. I leave, go to Kroger for road snacks (forgot my toothpaste) go back. It's still jammed but I get at seat. WTF? It's just a random Thursday morning. Are people taking off already for Memorial Day? I'm there trying to write and hoping my book will come at the library before I leave tomorrow. It didn't.

Come home, did laundry but didn't do much else. I don't have to leave until later tomorrow because Evil Little Dog has work and I don't want to be sitting in her driveway waiting. I have a list. I feel like I'm going to leave something.

At 4 pm I get an email. Book is at the library. Head desk. Well now I can get my toothpaste and the book tomorrow (I have to go to Jackson to get to where I'm going)

Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: Hudson & Rex

sturgeonslawyer

I did a quick look and actually found a reasonably priced copy of the 1964-5 NY World's Fair Guidebook.

How reasonable was it?

The USPS shipping actually cost more than the asking price fot the book. And when it arrived it was in quite good condition; the only issue is that I can't open it very far. As near as I can tell, it must have been kept closed on a shelf or in a box for sixty years, so the spine is very stiff, and I don't want to risk cracking it.

Weird detail: I found it on Etsy, which I have always thought of as a place for buying and selling handcrafted goodies.

Now, all I have to do is figure out what to give up to make room for it...

nineweaving

Happy 85th birthday to my folk hero, Martin Carthy. Half a century ago, I heard him sing "Willie's Lady," and it transfigured my imagination. Here's to his century!

Nine

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kenjari

Pretty Face
by Lucy Parker

This is the second in the London Celebrities romance series. Luc Savage is a well-regarded stage director about to open his own West End theater with a new historical drama. Lily is a soap opera actress whose looks have her typecast as a sultry scheming sexpot. However, her acting talent goes well beyond her TV role. Luc ends up casting Lily despite his misgivings. Sparks fly between them and they get under each other's skin. However, their positions in the production and in their careers make a relationship risky tabloid fodder.
I very much enjoyed this book. Lily and Luc are great characters - both driven and dedicated to their work, but also capable of giving that same devotion to each other. I really liked the way the story addressed Lily's trouble trusting that Luc would or even could put her above his work and how that tied into her relationships with her parents. Her arc of coming to terms with all of that was done very well.

Current Mood: relaxed

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Nominations have closed! We will be double-checking the tagset over the next few days, and signups will open on May 23 at 8:00 PM EDT.

Nomination questions

Original Work - Body & Body's Own Ghost: Nominator, do you have an edit for this that might imply the body is itself aware in some way? We usually don't accept nominations for objects, and it's implied the body in this case is dead.
Ronon Dex & Teyla Emmagan & Rodney McKay & a John Sheppard (Stargate): Nominator, can you confirm that the "a" in the last part of this nomination is a typo? Or are there John Sheppard clones/alternate versions, and you're open to any of them? (If we don't hear from you, we'll approve this as Ronon Dex & Teyla Emmagan & Rodney McKay & John Sheppard.
Warlock (1989): We have nominations for Warlock & Seer and Warlock & Unbaptized Boy. Nominator, we couldn't find any details on the Seer and the Unbaptized Boy. Could you clarify here where they appear in the film, just in case someone needs additional details?
Eleven | Jane Hopper (Stranger Things) & Carrie White (Carrie - All Media Types): Nominator, since the original novel and the various adaptations have some key differences, can you choose a specific canon version for Carrie White?
Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) & Carrie White (Carrie - All Media Types): Nominator, since the original novel and the various adaptations have some key differences, can you choose a specific canon version for Carrie White?
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Shane Hollander & Hockey Arenas (Heated Rivalry) and Ilya Rozanov & Hockey Arenas (Heated Rivalry): These nominations have been rejected due to the Hockey Arenas not counting as characters.

torachan

1. I started playing Yoshi and the Mysterious Book and it's super cute! It's an entirely exploration focused game, and I do love exploration. I do miss bashing enemies a bit, though, lol.

2. One of my meetings today got cancelled and one for tomorrow got rescheduled to next week, and when I was looking at the calendar I realized that a recurring meeting that's every other Thursday had somehow gotten deleted from my to-do list, so I wasn't expecting it today, but thankfully I realized well ahead of time and didn't miss the meeting.

3. If I fits, I sits!

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Pilates on the terrace: delightful, except that every time I stopped weighing the mat down with my personal body (due to, for example, lifting up a limb to wave it around) the wind started folding it back up under me.

Pilates more generally: realised today that in addition to normally doing clam and hip stretches at the end of Pilates, and the current Hip Trouble having started after a couple of weeks of not managing that part of the routine because I was only getting as far as doing my bare minimum get-on-the-mat-and-breathe... a whole bunch of the movements incorporate, essentially, sciatic nerve glides. There's another entry to the list of But What Has Pilates Ever Done For Us...

Meanwhile I am out of routine and therefore also eating less protein than I've been managing upcountry, and o have just for the first time since the initial DOMS wound up with post-gym soreness. I have a horrid feeling that my medium term future might contain protein powder; in the short term, dinner was heavy on eggs and tofu.

And, regarding DOMS, last night's "... huh" was about the (extent of) overlap of symptoms and progression with those of post-exertional malaise. This is not yet a fully-formed thought, but it's definitely trying to be a thought. (As part of the theme of "a whole bunch of the experiences of disabled people around embodiment actually do form a continuum with those of the temporarily able bodied, and so do management strategies".)

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kass

Seems like a good time to share (again) this bit of fic -- Firefly crossed over with the Book of Ruth. Though I can't quite get my head around the fact that it's 15 years old, it's still a pretty good story. :D

רות בגחלילית / Ruth on a Firefly (3783 words) by Kass
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Firefly, Hebrew Bible
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Malcolm Reynolds / Ruth
Characters: Ruth, Naomi, Malcolm Reynolds, Simon Tam, River Tam, Kaylee Frye, Jayne Cobb, Inara Serra
Additional Tags: Community: in_the_beginning, Shavuot
Series: Part 6 of Author's Favorites, Part 4 of Firefly fanworks
Summary:

"I see you found us a couple of wounded birds," the man says to Kaylee. The words are dismissive but his tone is kind.

"They're headed for Judah," Kaylee says. "And they're broke."

musesfool

Still with the don't wannas, but for once our All Staff call was mostly interesting (though it never fails to baffle me that people put their requests for different soda in the vending machine in the anonymous complaint form instead of just asking the office manager dude about it - as I said to my boss, no questions about COLAs but always questions about colas, which evoked a real out loud laugh from her so you know, score) and I got the 2 main things I had to do this week done, so tomorrow can just be waiting around for other people to send me their meeting materials (I loathe how they have no consideration for me and my summer Friday sign-off at 2:30 pm, but the C-suite level folks are always like that).

In other news, now I am not seeing Baby Miss L this weekend, because the weather is supposed to be rainy and chilly, so the party was postponed till next weekend. It's fine. I have gotten some lovely videos and pictures of her dancing at a wedding she attended last weekend, and that will suffice for now.

So Tuesday night, I turned off the Knicks game while they were down by double-digits in the 4th quarter and went to bed. Imagine my surprise to learn that they had tied it up and then won in OT! Let's hope they can win in regulation tonight.

And finally, I knew Mike Keenan was a piece of shit, but there's some stuff in this article about the 1994 Rangers (gift link) that I did not know. Interesting read. They won then and haven't since, so I guess it might really have to last a lifetime.

Now I have to figure out what to have for dinner. I guess it could be quesadillas again. Idk.

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Current Mood: ditzy
Current Music: Mets vs Nats on tv

greghousesgf

I'm starting to get real sick of hearing this. Every time somebody is in an abusive relationship, some well-meaning person ALWAYS tells them they'll "find somebody else". Well, I got out of an abusive relationship and I'm still single and that was OVER THIRTY YEARS AGO. Apparently there's something really wrong with me.

Current Music: S-Tone, Inc.

julesjones

Day 21: Favourite fanon/headcanon

Canon is canon. Anything else is AU. While I understand the concepts of fanon and headcanon (those are two different things, at least to me) it's not really something I do with regard to B7, beyond "yes, Avon did like the rest of them, even if he didn't like it". (Word Of God was that Avon's behaviour was deliberately written to be ambiguous - there was almost always potentially both a decent reason and a selfish reason for him doing something to/for other people.)

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julesjones

Sad news today with the death of Michael Keating, known and loved by Blake's 7 fans as Vila. As

kalypso notes, we have been watching the Blu-ray box sets saying "I hope they get a new interview with Michael Keating". With any luck they did.

We'd got to the end of series B last week and were contemplating rewatching Gambit to do a bit of research for a possible story. It will be no hardship to watch it again just to say farewell to the actor - it was a superb and very funny performance.

nineveh_uk

All week I have been thinking it is a day later than it is, and tomorrow morning is going to be very disappointing. It's in no way been a bad week: although I was too tired for a planned cinema trip on Tuesday evening, which was disappointing, work has gone well and I feel like I'm getting over a virus. But it is very discombobulating.

the_shoshanna

Today was supposed to be a nice short easy walk of a day.

We started walking a few minutes after eleven. We caught the bus home -- well, to the pub down the road from our hotel for dinner, because once we got to the hotel boy howdy were we not leaving again -- at quarter past five.

It wasn't challenging walking, it was all basically level and the hardest part was that we were often walking in roadways, pressing ourselves against the hedge or ducking into driveways when a car went by. And we did see some lovely things, including another dolmen, and we walked out onto a part-time island that's only accessible at low tide, which was very cool. But we also walked through a bunch of not that interesting residential areas, and had to scramble across a rocky beach and clamber up its bank onto private land and sneak away to the road when our GPS utterly lied to us; we think its trail was probably programmed before all the residential construction we were walking past and through, because it absolutely insisted that we were supposed to be walking through places that were absolutely not possible to walk through.

Anyway, I am wiped, and we have to be up and out early to get to the ferry port for our day trip to the even smaller island of Sark, population 500 people (rising to 1,000 in the tourist season when seasonal tourism workers arrive) and zero cars. Fortunately I do not need to squeeze in time for breakfast, since the only thing I'll be consuming before we make landfall is a pill. But we'll ask if we can grab some bread and cheese and breakfast meat from the cold buffet before we leave, and picnic when we get to Sark.

As for recounting today's adventures, though, that's not happening tonight, and probably not tomorrow either, given our schedule. Geoff's blog of today is up, though, with a few pictures; he is less wiped than me, and also he travels with his laptop so he can type on a proper keyboard whereas I'm swipe-typing on my iPad.

G'night.

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