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mindstalk) wrote2026-01-06 07:49 pm
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Jan 4-6
Jan 4: I'd gotten 4 hours sleep before yesterday's museum visit. Woke up after 9-10 hours today, still tired, ankle still hurting. So I wasn't ambitious. I did try to go to the Fabre Insect Museum a short walk away, but it turned out to be closed.
I noticed a bunch of street advertising that looks like official street signs, a la: ( Read more... )
beanside (beanside) wrote2026-01-06 05:07 am
beanside) wrote2026-01-06 05:07 amFor the dreams that you dreamt can become just as real as the blood that was shed
It's Tuesday! I survived Monday! Work was bugfuck busy, so I tried to limit the amount of time I spent off the phones doing callbacks. I ended up taking about 50 calls. By the end of that, my voice was drifting. I sounded kinda porn star-ish most of the day, my voice getting progressively more throaty. By 4:30, it was starting to fade out for a syllable here and there. So it would be "thank you for call--- Johns Hopk-- Radiology." It was kinda sad.
Patients were mostly nice though. And we got great news mid day in the form of an email asking if we wanted to do the same thing we did last year for MLK. Technically, we're closed, but because the sites are open, they asked for a few volunteers to work that day. You get time and a half, plus 8 hours of PTO put into your bank. 1. I can always make use of the money. 2. I can damn sure use the extra PTO! I'm going to be cutting it close for the cruise, but an extra day will loosen thing up just a touch. And it'll mean that in 4 weeks when I get that PTO, I can book out both of the Mondays I need. They're harder to get, so I want to do them first up. Then, I'll fill in the rest as we go. I hit reply on that email SO fast, and now I'm scheduled for 10hr that day.
Still feeling like ass today. Coughing, sneezing and congested. I am not enjoying this cold or whatever the fuck it is. It's tested negative for everything. I tried to get an appt last night to just touch base with the doctor, but she never showed up. I sat in the virtual meeting room for 45 min, and no doctor. I'm a little pissed about that. I'm going to call during my break and see what the fuck happened, and ask if my doctor can prescribe something for the nighttime cough. I'm tired of not sleeping.
Wow, the blue/green dress took that poll in a landslide victory! I have one more dress coming, but I think it'll be tough for it to top how flattering the green dress is on me. I'll put up another poll when it gets here, or at least a picture. I had kind of wanted a longer dress, but if I put on some nice tights, It'll look good. Plus, no pile of alterations! Thank you all for voting. (The Black dress will probably be coming on the cruise too for the gala night, so It'll get it's chance to shine.)
I'm debating on dining for the cruise. As part of the Have It All package, Jess and I got free dining credits to the specialty dining. The Morimoto pop up isn't part of the package, so we've got two specialty dining credits banging around. I'm tempted to book something else, but I don't know which one, and on which night. I kind of want to start and finish in Club Orange, which is the special dining room for suite passengers. Which leaves four nights we could do it. First sea night on Sunday, Tuesday in Skagway, Thursday in Ketchikan. Or, I could do it on our last sea night if I wanted to finish with a specialty.
As far as the cuisine, there's the steakhouse, or there's the French restaurant or there's the Asian fusion. Steakhouse would probably be better for everyone, but I also love French Food. I probably would skip the Asian, as we're doing Morimoto on Wednesday. I will think on this and look at menus.
Today is sure to be another busy day at work. We'll see if my voice holds out! For now, time to consider getting ready for work. Everyone have the very best Tuesday!
Patients were mostly nice though. And we got great news mid day in the form of an email asking if we wanted to do the same thing we did last year for MLK. Technically, we're closed, but because the sites are open, they asked for a few volunteers to work that day. You get time and a half, plus 8 hours of PTO put into your bank. 1. I can always make use of the money. 2. I can damn sure use the extra PTO! I'm going to be cutting it close for the cruise, but an extra day will loosen thing up just a touch. And it'll mean that in 4 weeks when I get that PTO, I can book out both of the Mondays I need. They're harder to get, so I want to do them first up. Then, I'll fill in the rest as we go. I hit reply on that email SO fast, and now I'm scheduled for 10hr that day.
Still feeling like ass today. Coughing, sneezing and congested. I am not enjoying this cold or whatever the fuck it is. It's tested negative for everything. I tried to get an appt last night to just touch base with the doctor, but she never showed up. I sat in the virtual meeting room for 45 min, and no doctor. I'm a little pissed about that. I'm going to call during my break and see what the fuck happened, and ask if my doctor can prescribe something for the nighttime cough. I'm tired of not sleeping.
Wow, the blue/green dress took that poll in a landslide victory! I have one more dress coming, but I think it'll be tough for it to top how flattering the green dress is on me. I'll put up another poll when it gets here, or at least a picture. I had kind of wanted a longer dress, but if I put on some nice tights, It'll look good. Plus, no pile of alterations! Thank you all for voting. (The Black dress will probably be coming on the cruise too for the gala night, so It'll get it's chance to shine.)
I'm debating on dining for the cruise. As part of the Have It All package, Jess and I got free dining credits to the specialty dining. The Morimoto pop up isn't part of the package, so we've got two specialty dining credits banging around. I'm tempted to book something else, but I don't know which one, and on which night. I kind of want to start and finish in Club Orange, which is the special dining room for suite passengers. Which leaves four nights we could do it. First sea night on Sunday, Tuesday in Skagway, Thursday in Ketchikan. Or, I could do it on our last sea night if I wanted to finish with a specialty.
As far as the cuisine, there's the steakhouse, or there's the French restaurant or there's the Asian fusion. Steakhouse would probably be better for everyone, but I also love French Food. I probably would skip the Asian, as we're doing Morimoto on Wednesday. I will think on this and look at menus.
Today is sure to be another busy day at work. We'll see if my voice holds out! For now, time to consider getting ready for work. Everyone have the very best Tuesday!
katriona_s (katriona_s) wrote2026-01-06 07:26 pm
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The happy but not delightful days.
On the sunny weekend, or on holiday, I often feel happy to see the birds visiting the persimmon or other trees in our garden, colourful flowers, or the relaxing garden cats on the wooden verandah. When I see my rabbit Krurun running around in my room or I hold her in my arms I feel the quiet but sheer happiness, and feel very grateful about them, think I'm fortunate. Though, I noticed that I don't "enjoy" things much lately, I have been seldom absorbed in anything. I remember I had enjoyed something very much and lost track of time - but lately no such excitement. Is this because I got older now? Anyway I'm not happy about this, I should find something I can be addicted sometimes...
sabethea (sabethea) wrote2026-01-06 09:48 am
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Snowflake 3
Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.
Dear fandom,
Thank you for welcoming me, whatever age I’ve been and whatever age the rest of you have been around me. I’ve been the younger one in a group (despite coming to interactive fandom comparatively late) and the oldest one; and yet everyone has accepted me. And when I say that, I mean you’ve accepted me, the autistic, really crap at people-ing, anxiety-ridden mess of a bisexual enby.
I remember the first mini-con I went to. There were only about ten of us max, but there was this moment, surrounded by people I’d never met, when I suddenly realised I’d found “my kind”. All the things I usually bit back and stopped myself from saying out loud, I could say and people would appreciate them, or at least not act as if there was anything wrong with saying them.
Online or offline, fandom friends have been some of the best friends I’ve made. One of my long time close friends originally friended me because I was the only other person with Chalet School as an interest on LJ, many many many years ago. We’ve seen each other through a lot of things. Fandom folk, you are my people, and I love you. Thank you for everything you’ve given me.
Love,
Sabethea
Dear fandom,
Thank you for welcoming me, whatever age I’ve been and whatever age the rest of you have been around me. I’ve been the younger one in a group (despite coming to interactive fandom comparatively late) and the oldest one; and yet everyone has accepted me. And when I say that, I mean you’ve accepted me, the autistic, really crap at people-ing, anxiety-ridden mess of a bisexual enby.
I remember the first mini-con I went to. There were only about ten of us max, but there was this moment, surrounded by people I’d never met, when I suddenly realised I’d found “my kind”. All the things I usually bit back and stopped myself from saying out loud, I could say and people would appreciate them, or at least not act as if there was anything wrong with saying them.
Online or offline, fandom friends have been some of the best friends I’ve made. One of my long time close friends originally friended me because I was the only other person with Chalet School as an interest on LJ, many many many years ago. We’ve seen each other through a lot of things. Fandom folk, you are my people, and I love you. Thank you for everything you’ve given me.
Love,
Sabethea
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Heated Rivalry comm
There's a new comm for Heated Rivalry:
gamechangerhr
A community dedicated to the Game Changer Book series and the Heated Rivalry TV series
and they have a friending meme, too: https://gamechangerhr.dreamwidth.org/855.html
gamechangerhrA community dedicated to the Game Changer Book series and the Heated Rivalry TV series
and they have a friending meme, too: https://gamechangerhr.dreamwidth.org/855.html
kitarella_imagines (kitarella_imagines) wrote2026-01-06 08:35 am
kitarella_imagines) wrote2026-01-06 08:35 am
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Snowflake Challenge #3
So friends, this is quite a personal post but I have been discussing it with friends a lot recently, because some have been telling me what I should and shouldn't write. Not people on Dreamwidth of course! On other sites.
Why I write RPF fanfiction
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Vriddy (vriddy) wrote2026-01-06 07:55 am
vriddy) wrote2026-01-06 07:55 amEntry tags:
Kaijuu No. 8 fic update: Warm as life (Kafka/Reno/Narumi, Reno/Iharu, Kafka/Hoshina) - WIP 4/7
Warm as life | Kaijuu No. 8 | Kafka/Reno/Narumi, Reno/Iharu, Kafka/Hoshina | 7.3k words (WIP, 4/7) | rated M
Summary: The new threat posed by No. 9 weighs heavily on everyone. Under these circumstances, emotions run high and what starts as a way of relieving stress can easily bloom into unexpected feelings. Some people find that easier to admit than others.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
Summary: The new threat posed by No. 9 weighs heavily on everyone. Under these circumstances, emotions run high and what starts as a way of relieving stress can easily bloom into unexpected feelings. Some people find that easier to admit than others.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
viridian5 (viridian5) wrote2026-01-06 01:54 am
viridian5) wrote2026-01-06 01:54 am
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I had to reach back
For 2025, I posted 8 fics and one WIP in progress, which is a pretty good output for me for recent years.
( The fics )
Meanwhile, I have some long WIPs I'm working on, even aside from "Long, Long Way to Go."
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One of the LJ accounts I'm trying to import, Aya's, has failed at the "Verifying username/password" stage four times, and since nothing else happens without verification, nothing is importing. DreamWidth Support says it's probably an issue on LiveJournal's side; hope things work out for you! Which is not helpful. The other LJ account I did, Schuldig's, didn't have this problem. WTF do I do now?
Wait for another time, I guess, and see if a different day makes a difference. I'll have to manually keep retrying, since the verification attempt is a one and done thing. It failed. Oh well.
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A longtime fandom friend of mine has gotten into The Pitt, and I managed to catch the last two episodes of season one during an HBO marathon this weekend. It's fun having a fandom in common I can talk about with her again.
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I put up my 2025'sthreeforthememories post.
( The fics )
Meanwhile, I have some long WIPs I'm working on, even aside from "Long, Long Way to Go."
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One of the LJ accounts I'm trying to import, Aya's, has failed at the "Verifying username/password" stage four times, and since nothing else happens without verification, nothing is importing. DreamWidth Support says it's probably an issue on LiveJournal's side; hope things work out for you! Which is not helpful. The other LJ account I did, Schuldig's, didn't have this problem. WTF do I do now?
Wait for another time, I guess, and see if a different day makes a difference. I'll have to manually keep retrying, since the verification attempt is a one and done thing. It failed. Oh well.
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A longtime fandom friend of mine has gotten into The Pitt, and I managed to catch the last two episodes of season one during an HBO marathon this weekend. It's fun having a fandom in common I can talk about with her again.
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I put up my 2025's
threeforthememories post.
Anghraine (anghraine) wrote2026-01-05 10:06 pm
anghraine) wrote2026-01-05 10:06 pm(no subject)
J and I recently re-watched "The Return of the Archons" (after concluding it was the peak Christmas episode for various silly reasons), and there's this small and wonderfully in-character scene when the away party has found sanctuary with a local ally during the Red Hour. They're able to hide in this private room with some bunks, allowing for all but one of the entire party to sleep in the meanwhile. We don't actually see the decision get made. We just cut to the crew members all in the beds and Kirk having taken off his coat to wrap himself in a blanket, protectively keeping watch over his resting crew members. We just get a few quiet moments of this interspliced with the insanity of the Red Hour outside, which he observes with quiet disgust between pacing quietly around the little room, adding some folded clothes to cushion McCoy's head, making sure the young ones are sleeping in their bunks, and checking on Spock (who is lying on his back and either meditating or simply awake the whole time, not needing the sleep but—given how easy the nonverbal communication between them is in this episode—likely aware that trying to convince Kirk to take the bed is not, let's say, a logical use of his time).
It's very cute, honestly, and the episode is so beautifully made that it has an incredibly warm, pleasant quality on a purely visual level. It's the kind of thing that I think gets the kind of kneejerk "oh he's such a father to his men" despite TOS Kirk's very consistent aversion from anything smacking of fatherhood (very obviously for gender role reasons, not reactionary nuclear-family-meets-gender-essentialism retcons from 20 years later reasons). But I definitely ended up thinking "I can't believe I've seen multiple posts straining to frame Janeway as some kind of maternal figure as captain when she doesn't have a parental bone in her body—she's not Team Mom she's Team Captain—and meanwhile Kirk has 100x more fretful mama energy as captain to the point that his long-suffering maternal authority becomes the actual premise of an actual later episode."
In conclusion:
captain, are we there yettttttttt
It's very cute, honestly, and the episode is so beautifully made that it has an incredibly warm, pleasant quality on a purely visual level. It's the kind of thing that I think gets the kind of kneejerk "oh he's such a father to his men" despite TOS Kirk's very consistent aversion from anything smacking of fatherhood (very obviously for gender role reasons, not reactionary nuclear-family-meets-gender-essentialism retcons from 20 years later reasons). But I definitely ended up thinking "I can't believe I've seen multiple posts straining to frame Janeway as some kind of maternal figure as captain when she doesn't have a parental bone in her body—she's not Team Mom she's Team Captain—and meanwhile Kirk has 100x more fretful mama energy as captain to the point that his long-suffering maternal authority becomes the actual premise of an actual later episode."
In conclusion:
captain, are we there yettttttttt
Jenn (hafnia) wrote2026-01-05 10:07 pm
hafnia) wrote2026-01-05 10:07 pmRemix Through the Seasons 2026
So...
shadaras and I were talking last week about fandom remix events and how it might be fun to do one that's trope-centric.
One thing led to another, as it often does, and out of it came...
seasonalremix!
Current aim is to be quarterly, so this will be Winter 2026, next will be Spring 2026 (assuming there's interest, ofc), and so on and so forth.
It's multifandom, open to any/all that want to participate. Minimum fic length of 1000 words, maximum 5000. Original work is welcomed — the sole thing we request is that your work contains at least one of the tropes from the trope list.
There's an event overview and FAQ that outlines how we're defining a remix, what is/is not welcome, and what to expect, along with calendar info, where to sign up, etc, all linked in the community sticky post.
Even if you're reading this going, "I don't really write fic, though...", please note that we are encouraging and welcoming any and all comers, whether you're new to writing, want to get back to writing fanfic, or are interested in submitting original work. The goal is to make something new and have fun riffing off what other people come up with — we're not writing the next award-winning short story, you know? We're having fun and engaging with creative work during the dark time of the year. :)
I hope to see you there, and if you can think of anyone you know that might want to participate, please feel free to point them at the community ♥
shadaras and I were talking last week about fandom remix events and how it might be fun to do one that's trope-centric. One thing led to another, as it often does, and out of it came...
seasonalremix! Current aim is to be quarterly, so this will be Winter 2026, next will be Spring 2026 (assuming there's interest, ofc), and so on and so forth.
It's multifandom, open to any/all that want to participate. Minimum fic length of 1000 words, maximum 5000. Original work is welcomed — the sole thing we request is that your work contains at least one of the tropes from the trope list.
There's an event overview and FAQ that outlines how we're defining a remix, what is/is not welcome, and what to expect, along with calendar info, where to sign up, etc, all linked in the community sticky post.
Even if you're reading this going, "I don't really write fic, though...", please note that we are encouraging and welcoming any and all comers, whether you're new to writing, want to get back to writing fanfic, or are interested in submitting original work. The goal is to make something new and have fun riffing off what other people come up with — we're not writing the next award-winning short story, you know? We're having fun and engaging with creative work during the dark time of the year. :)
I hope to see you there, and if you can think of anyone you know that might want to participate, please feel free to point them at the community ♥
FairyNiamh (fairyniamh) wrote2026-01-06 12:04 am
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Quote...
Quotes:
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
"Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten."
"Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows."
~ Carl Sandburg
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
"Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten."
"Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows."
~ Carl Sandburg
ysabetwordsmith (ysabetwordsmith) wrote2026-01-06 12:02 am
ysabetwordsmith) wrote2026-01-06 12:02 am
Poem: Darrow Poems 12-12-25
These poems were written outside the regular prompt calls. They have been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred.
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fuzzyred. ( Read more... )
ysabetwordsmith (ysabetwordsmith) wrote2026-01-06 12:00 am
ysabetwordsmith) wrote2026-01-06 12:00 amScience
A NASA satellite caught a giant tsunami doing something scientists didn’t expect
When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were far more complex and scattered than scientists expected, overturning the idea that large tsunamis travel as a single, stable wave. Ocean sensors confirmed the quake’s rupture was longer than earlier models suggested. Together, the findings could reshape how tsunamis are modeled and predicted.
When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were far more complex and scattered than scientists expected, overturning the idea that large tsunamis travel as a single, stable wave. Ocean sensors confirmed the quake’s rupture was longer than earlier models suggested. Together, the findings could reshape how tsunamis are modeled and predicted.