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tarlanx

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sweetandshort

June: BINGO - 4 ICONS

Crown	Artist

Favorite	Time

FANDOMS:
Crown: Snow White (2025), Evil Queen
Artist: Under the Skin (TV), Shen Yi
Favorite: The Heart (TV 2023), Zhou Xiaofeng
Time: L'Oreal Time Engraver Commercial, The Time Engraver

ridic posting in

dwrp_icons

CANON: Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
CHARACTERS: Nancy Holbrook (Rooney Mara)
CREDIT TO:

ridic /

ridicons

find them here at

ridicons !

kaffy_r

It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity ...

... which is, of course, a rank lie, at least here in Chicago and a fair amount of the American Midwest. *checks weather site* It is currently 98F, with a heat index of 108F, thanks to the aforementioned humidity. This is the third day, and I imagine I should be grateful that the heat index wasn't up at 117F, as it was yesterday and the day before.

( Griping, etc. under here )

Current Mood: uncomfortable
Current Location: the living room
Current Music: Bump of Chicken "Sleep Walking Orchestra"

cupcake_goth

Over the past week we watched both Conclave and Immaculate. Both were fun, even if I don't understand the section of fandom that looked at Conclave and said "YES, let's write smut". Not my beautiful cake, but rock on you crazy diamonds.

Immaculate wasn't groundbreaking, and actually kind of predictable, but it was still enjoyable. And yet another entry in the "Yep, I like Catholic-themed horror" category; look I really like the aesthetics and music of the Church. As an institution, fuck no. All the art it's created? Yes. What this means is I bought the soundtrack on bandcamp, and need to look up the soundtrack for Conclave to see if I want it. (I probably don't, as I prefer my Latin liturgical music sung by female voices. As evidence, I listen to this Gregorian chants female voices playlist on Spotify fairly often.) Which leads me to one of my favorite set of tweets:

emrinalexander

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conuly

Taken from

archersangel

ysobel posting in

agonyaunt

Dear Eric: My sister-in-law made quilts for two of her nieces. They unwrapped them to oohs, aahs and applause on Christmas Eve at my house. My daughter did not receive a gift. I sent a polite email to sister-in-law explaining that my daughter was disappointed. I received a snail mail reply that included a gift certificate and a note. Sister-in-law wrote that I was a bully and stated that she would never set foot in my house again. She hasn’t for several years. What should I do?

— Stitchy Situation

Situation: Your sister-in-law’s reaction was a bit extreme, all things considered (or at least all things detailed in your letter). This suggests to me that maybe there’s something else under it for her, whether it’s other issues she has with your relationship or a sensitivity around the particular gift. Or maybe her feelings were hurt by your email, even though it was polite.

The best way to sort it all out is by asking. It’s been years and she hasn’t come back, so I’m curious what your relationship is like outside of visits. Has this escalated to grudge territory? Does she speak to you at all? If she doesn’t, you may have to make a bigger gesture in order to reset things. Telling her, “I don’t like what happened between us” and “I’m sorry for my part” could help lay a foundation for reconciliation.

Try, if you can, not to let the conversation get too caught up in what happened years ago, though. The gift card, the email, et cetera. All the details can become places where you both get stuck relitigating and rehashing. Instead, focus on the objective of the conversation — you want to re-establish contact. It will also help to have a concrete goal, as well as an emotional one. Perhaps something like extending an invitation for her to come for lunch.

If she’s not receptive to a phone call or face-to-face conversation, an email or letter will work, but a spoken conversation is vastly more effective.

shadaras

My dojo had a seminar this past weekend, which was lovely. The mat was full but not crowded, the energy was fantastic, got to see a lot of excellent people, and we had more than enough food for everyone to eat after the seminar. (And none pizza, because we know better and are willing to put in a bit more effort to provide better sustenance.) Everyone had a good time! Great practice! Love to take ukemi for sensei's demonstrations, and to get the vibe that she selected me not just for being a yudansha from the host dojo but because she enjoyed throwing me around!

Now we can start looking ahead to next year's seminar, which will be the dojo's 50th anniversary seminar. I think that the goal is for me to take nidan at that seminar, but it's far enough out (May 30th) that there's no particular plans yet.

When I was talking to my mom about this (a sidebar in a conversation mostly about scheduling me flying out to visit my family), she told me that next year would also be the 50th year since women could attend the air force academy.

She was a member of that first class of women.

She is much more excited about my dojo's 50th anniversary.

anyway it is TOO HOT right now and I can't wait for the heat dome currently covering the east coast to break so that it stops being high 90s F/feels like over 100 F. At least the seminar only had normal summer heat! Not this nonsense!

(this nonsense, btw, is hot enough that the building fire alarms went off because of the heat! nothing was actually wrong! it's just Too Hot! isn't that fun!)

lydamorehouse

This week is the week of appointments. The appointments range from a haircut (for me) to neurologists to taking my brother-in-law to see his cancer specialists. Today was the neurologist (for Shawn.) I've long noticed that there was a small park behind the office, but I had never explored it before. I discovered it's called Hazelwood Park.

A suburban lake. It has a name, which I am sure is lovely, but I am filled with such jealousy that I can't be bothered to look it up.

Sometimes I regret buying a house in Midway. The other thing I had to do today was drive over to a friend's house in Minneapolis. This friend lives on (like literally, he has lake front property) Diamond Lake. GPS, in its infinite wisdom, drove me there via all of the parkways in Minneapolis. I started on Minnehaha and then turned off to the Lake Nokomis Parkway. I spend the entire time... well, enjoying the view, but also green with envy. I am literally looking out at concrete and garbage on a daily basis. The most lovely thing near my house is the statue of a loon near LITERALLY the busiest interesction in the entire Twin Cities (University and Snelling.) It is ugly, industrial, and garbage strewn.

Sigh.

But, I mean, you live where you can afford, right?

Imagine having this for your backyard, though, eh?

someone's backyard

Image: that house on the hill has one helluva backyard, even if it technically belongs to the city.

conuly

Above me, the branches toss toward and away from each other
the way privacy does with what ends up
showing, despite ourselves, of
who we are, inside.

Then they’re branches again—hickory, I think.

—It’s not too late, then.

******

Link

yuerstruly posting in

baihe_media

Discussion for Chapter 1 to 10 here.

The link to the novel on JJWXC can be found here.

You can also follow the novel through the audiobook on Himalaya, though there may be slight changes and ommissions from the original.

conuly

Can't wait to hear the exaggerated anger at how dare they retaliate....

schneefink

The main gameplay phase of

mcytblraufest Battleship is over. Team Nether! *raises fist in triumph* We finished third (out of five teams), and we fully cleared all three boards, before work reveals even. I had such a great time on my team, with our two strider mascots Dirk Slow and Aragorn Steady. Massive props to the mods, everything ran very smoothly. In the first board every field had very cool flavor text even, and the bosses were very cool (we defeated the Wither Storm!)

I ended up with ten (!!!) gifts!
And I'm proud to say that despite that I reached my semi-serious goal of creating more gifts than I received. ~~Though if I get more treats after this I'll give up.~~ I've never received so many comments on one day as I did yesterday, it was great.

My wonderful gifts:
Sharp teeth and spring rain, Hermitcraft SMP
3.4k, Mumbo & Etho, fantasy AU, platonic kink
Summary: That anticipation, now cooled, mingled with fresh dread as the blank, flat space on the horizon tore open.
A thousand-year old dragon emerged from the void and blocked out the sun with his wings.
Mumbo gulped.
“Oh, Gem!” he fretted. “You expect me to dom that?”
Why I love it: Excellent premise, very cool worldbuilding, great character voices and development of their relationship.

Careful People, Hermitcraft SMP
1.3k, Cleo/Etho, cyberpunk AU post-divorce
Summary: "We'll be careful," says Etho.
"We're not careful people," Cleo reminds him.
"Maybe we know better now!"
Why I love it: I love the banter. Them. So divorced and yet.

( seven more shorter ones and one piece of art under the cut because this got long )

The three weeks of the event were very intense. Multifandom Battleship starts soon and I don't think I'll sign up for it even though I had a great time last year, but that'd be a bit too much.

And now, off to read more from the collections! All Ages and 18 Plus, almost 1.200 works in total already, and there are still almost two weeks of the anon period.

goddess47 posting in

stargateficrec

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Characters:Pairings: None
Categories: Gen, Humor, Five times
Warnings: none
Word Count: 1421
Author on DW: none found
Author's Website: AO3 Profile
Link: Five Times the Cleaning Lady Wondered (and One Time She Didn’t)

Author's Summary:

Mrs. Halvorsen was hired by the U.S. Air Force to clean a few houses around Colorado Springs.

The clients are quiet, rarely home, and oddly fond of glowing books, deep freezers with warning labels, and candles that look like they’re summoning something.

She doesn’t ask questions. But sometimes… she wonders.

Why This Must Be Read:

It's just a cute little fic with a lovely outside POV about some of our favorite SG-1 characters.

( snippet of fic )

pauraque

Flashing forward 75 years from The Autobiography of an Androgyne...

Stone Butch Blues is an autobiographical novel following Jess Goldberg, a queer working-class Jewish kid from upstate New York. It covers her 1950s childhood in which she is punished and rejected by her parents for not conforming to gender norms, her coming-of-age and finding a place as a butch in the lesbian community despite relentless police brutality, her decision to pursue medical transition, her partial detransition when she realizes she's neither a man nor a woman, her loves and losses, and her political awakening as a union organizer.

So, I came out as trans in the late 1990s, and two questions I soon grew to hate hearing were "Have you seen Boys Don't Cry?" and "Have you read Stone Butch Blues?" No, I hadn't, because I was already having a difficult time and I did not think I would find it helpful to consume media about people like me being raped and murdered, thanks. Well, I still haven't seen Boys Don't Cry (not planning to!) but now I have read Stone Butch Blues and I think I was right that reading it back then wouldn't have helped, except in that it would have given me more context for what some of the older people in the queer community had been through and why some of them treated me the way they did.

( Cut for length and content: hate crimes (in the book) and in-community hostility towards nonbinary people (in my own life). This post is more about me than about the book. )

Stone Butch Blues is available for free on Feinberg's website.

fox

When my mother moved into assisted living last summer, we got her a landline phone with big buttons and six presets where you can put pictures to make it super easy to tell who it is you're calling. Alas, the pictures are hard for her to make out because the contrast isn't great at that size, so I turned them over and just printed everyone's initials, black on white, easiest thing. Her brother, her sister, her um-friend, and her cousin all have different initials, no problem. My brother and I have the same first initial so all our lives we've been designated on family calendars and things by our first and middle initials together.

She can't remember our middle names.

Current Mood: okay

duckprintspress

This Saturday, June 28th, Duck Prints Press will be joining over 100 other vendors, food trucks, fannish organizations, and others to turn Main Street in Johnstown into a geeky awesome block party! This event is hosted by Toying Around, and last year it was a great time – I have high hopes for 2025, too. We’ll be there 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. If you’re in the area, come say hi!

You can learn more about this event on the Toying Around Facebook page. See ya there!

aurumcalendula

I'm fretting a bit about my VidUKon program and USB not arriving yet (I think some folks sideside have received theirs already), but I think there was a delay in mailing them out so I'm probably worrying over nothing.

On an unrelated note I'm wondering if I should track down the rest of the Justice in the Dark episodes now that they've all aired. It sounds like people who liked the initial episodes enjoyed the rest, but considering those episodes didn't quite click with me, I'm debating if it would be worth the effort.

On A Trail of Breadcrumbs

[ SECRET POST #6744 ]

[ICONS] Various Fandoms

[JUNE: BINGO] Various icons

nancy holbrook | nightmare on elm st.

Dept. of Surfacing

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Types of medications known to cause heat intolerance

Gimme a quilt!

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A Walk in the Park

Of the Shining Underlife by Carl Phillips

Miss Forensics 我亲爱的法医小姐 Read Along: Chapters 11 to 20

Well, at least Iran is limiting themselves to legitimate military targets

Team Nether: so many treasures

Five Times the Cleaning Lady Wondered (and One Time She Didn’t), by JanineD (G)

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (1993)

it's happening slowly, but it is happening

This Saturday: The Johnstown Toying Around Block Party!

You can learn more about this event on the Toying Around Facebook page. See ya there!

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