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I kind of struggled deciding on an episode this week, but I'm going to go back to one from a couple weeks ago that I'm still thinking about a lot, A Bit Fruity's "Clavicular Is a Symptom, Not The Cause (with F.D. Signifier and Kat Tenbarge)." I love it when F.D. Signifier guests on podcasts; I would watch his YouTube but I don't really watch a lot of YouTube so it's nice when he does a thing I can listen to on the subway.

Anyway if you've been under a rock or don't have this shit forced on you, Clavicular is a 20-year-old influencer who promotes young incels hitting their face with a hammer (here is a quick explanation from mainstream media describing how most of us olds learned about him). It's kind of amazing just how completely far-right internet memes have made it into pop culture; like, I will say things like "[blank]maxxing" ironically despite being a normie old. This kid was one of the high school students who graduated under covid lockdown, if you want to know how recent all of this is.

Oh, he also has an eating disorder and is autistic. Things I didn't know. Apparently at least some of the appeal for viewers is watching this kid navigate social situations and failing miserably. Which is fucking gross and awful.

Looksmaxxing and Clavicular are things I learned about against my will, which is the case for everyone in this episode. The whole trend is weird and gross and misogynistic and racist and awful. Which is why the compassion and analysis that Matt, F.D., and Kat bring to the discussion is so important. They have compassion for Clavicular, who may be a terrible person but is also barely out of his teens and needed help and didn't get it. They have more compassion for the boys who follow this kind of content. This is a look into the nihilism of young men, and the degree to which it's an understandable reaction to a world that basically gaslights them.

Anyway, if you have kids in your life, it's definitely worth a listen.

galadhir

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUgh! 28°C today after several weeks of 11-14°C. I'm not acclimatized. Give me a run up at least. And it's going to be 32°C on Monday. Half of me is Neanderthal! I have the red(ish) hair, I have the pale skin that doesn't tan. I'm not built for this.

I cannot picture me cycling for an hour through the heat, then spending an hour weight lifting, then cycling back for another hour. Not without making myself sick. And it is Daughter's birthday party in London tomorrow.

That will involve much travelling by train and underground to get there, a lot of noise and socializing while there, and then much travelling back. That's enough in itself to result in a fibro flare-up. Doing it immediately after a strenuous day under hot sun would be extremely reckless.

Especially because we are also planning to go to the Crick Boat Show on Monday (32°C! You never used to get temperatures over 30° in England in my lifetime and now it's normal, apparently.) And I'm planning to go and help Son pump the boat out on Tuesday. All of which things require me to be reasonably functional.

I feel bad because I had almost a week off last week - I don't want to get out of condition - but equally, I ought not to be sick for Daughter's birthday. I think I might give today's exercise a miss and hope that I have become acclimatized to the heat by next Wednesday when it's time to do it again.

Chronic illness calculus. So much fun :)

snowynight

A setting premise inspired by books and blogs I have recently read:

In this world, people travel without the certainty that they'll arrive in their destination. It's easy to unknowingly go through the rifts between our reality and other worlds. Beware of fog, bridges and doors that appear suspiciously new. Rituals, customs and charms are developed to secure safe travel. People watch the sky to ensure that the sun, the moon and the stars are alight during their travel. Eclipse is a disaster as the supernatural roam freely in the land.

Some people dedicate themselves to navigate the unknown. The risk is great, but the potential reward is huge: magic items, creatures that thought to be mythical, knowledge beyond imagination.. Siilarly minded people group together to develop theory and practicalities to travel. The dreamers project themselves into the dreamland. The gmers play games that pass from the old to go to the the fey realm. The faithful throw themselves to saints and deities for blessings.

The astral sea is the realm of collective unconsciousness. Some powerful psychics's imprints re so strong that they trap unsuspecting travellers. They can only get free if they resolve their unfinished business. Powerful kingdoms compete to build ships to navigate the sea.

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Rewards of Patience
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1b of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1105
[Monday afternoon, 13 November of 2017]

:: Jules is back to work, and gets an unexpected opportunity by being a patient listener. Part of the Lodestar series in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::

Back to part one
:: Thanks for reading! ::

Noah Peterson clenched his jaw, but nodded. “They are. I’m going to institute tight kitchen rules as soon as the remodel is finished, and if anybody gives me any more crap about it, I’ll point out that I have to be able to eat while I’m working, don’t I?”

The younger man nodded. “I… might not be that polite about it,” Jules admitted. “Are you working here? I didn’t see any hints that the kitchen was going to be remodeled.”

“Not here, there’s a house outside of town that’s almost ready to open as a sort of halfway house,” Mister Peterson began.
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The AI Resist List.

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For No Clear Reason By Robert Creeley

I dreamt last night
the fright was over, that
the dust came, and then water,
and women and men, together
again, and all was quiet
in the dim moon’s light.

A paean of such patience—
laughing, laughing at me,
and the days extend over
the earth’s great cover,
grass, trees, and flower-
ing season, for no clear reason.

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Title: Trying To Be Helpful
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

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Characters: Willaway, Tarant.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: A Dream of Conquest.
Summary: While trying to do something helpful, Willaway gets himself into serious trouble.
Word Count: 1095
Written For: A challenge at

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Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.

( Trying To Be Helpful... )

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Title: Protocol
Author:

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Characters: Jack, Ianto, Aliens.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1562
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack and Ianto have an important diplomatic meeting with aliens who are sticklers for protocol.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Weekend Challenge: Songs From Musicals at

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Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( Protocol... )

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omens

Hellooo, it's been hectic, I guess. Or I just haven't felt like writing. I have been stressed, which makes everything kind of go on hold.

The good stuff:

Been planting some herbs and flowers on the deck, but not too many because we have to refinish the deck (ughghghghhh). And I finally plugged in my click and grow (indoor garden) this morning, so that is fun, too. Kelly is growing grass in the front yard and it is FINALLY sprouting. Our yard looks like shit, lol. We haven't started tackling the garden bed.

Got L a dentist appointment for tomorrow morning! He has cavities that need filling but isn't on our health insurance anymore :( so we wanted to sign him up for the canadian dental insurance thing but he needed to have his own taxes filed & not as our dependent on Kelly's, so we did that and it took forever but we finally got them back and then found out the canadian dental insurance applications open in june ...FOR 2027. They had warned me at the dentist's office that it wasn't immediate coverage but they were like "it's a few weeks, I think" ..LOL. So. Gonna do that in June but in the meantime, he needs 1200$ worth of dentistry. 2026 is the year of dental bills, let's say. Cat, dog, Liam. At least mine has been covered (60%, anyway, for the crown).

Anyway it was funny because I was like welp, make the appointment, we need to get it done asap, and they were like "we can book him in for July" and I was like lolol that's his birthday, maybe the next date?? And the next date was Sept 28th. :P But we were pretty confident a cancellation would come up bc summer etc. Did not expect a call the very next day but we will take it! :D

Oh yeah, also the cat's dentistry got pushed back a week and switched to the vet that did Nico's dentistry. He's willing to roll with how her cleaning looks and do whatever's needed on the fly, whereas the other guy wanted to do a cleaning and then decide what to do and make an appointment to do it after. And I was like, yeah, I think we'll only put her under once, thanks. For longer, yeah, but it seems way less stressful. I hope it is the right choice. I don't think I mentioned it here but we got her pre-dental bloodwork back and we had paid for a special test of her heart function bc we had been told in the past that she has a murmur, so anaesthetic was a very scary option. But!!! Her tiny little chicken heart is functioning perfectly! It was such a relief to get that result back because I was worried if we got the opposite result back it would be like, well... what do we do now? I still have to get a pee sample out of her but she is very stubborn and I am very scatterbrained.

Hmm what else is good... I got an intoabar assignment and it is Steph Brown x William Boimler and at first I was like nooooooooooooooo but idk, they maybe have things to talk about. I'll have to rewatch some Lower Decks (not a hardship). All else fails, I want to get back into watercolour so I might just paint it.

melagan

Well now, this is interesting.

Google Books Ngram Viewer

Word usage by timeline. Very handy for those period pieces.

I think I've finally got a handle on my Unconventional Romance plot. Of course, I still have to actually write it.

I haven't been posting much of late, but I am here. And only a little frazzled.

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shadowhive

So yesterday I had a call from uni.

Last week when I had the first letter about the hospital appointment I sent them a message about it, but the email bounced back and I didn’t expect to hear anything about it. Yesterday I had a call and it discussed options to do with the current course. I was given three options but my head was feeling fuzzy at the time (and I’d just eaten) but I was told not to worry, I’d be sent an email with the info about them and links about what to do that afternoon.

It’s about 24 hours later and I’ve still not received anything. It wouldn’t matter too much but she expressly said one option had a time limit: Friday. And she said to contact her if I had any questions..l but didn’t give me any contact info (and I, assuming the email would come through and be enough, didn’t ask) and just.. ugh.

My mood pretty much collapsed last night too, not helped by a nap which I had and woke feeling worse after it.

I had hoped to watch welcome to Derry but the bad mood, combined with a headache meant I didn’t. (I did watch an ep of amazing digital circus before my head worsened.

Ugh.

Good thing though, the new SFX came yesterday which is just another reminder I’ve not watched interview with the vampire. It did let me know that Touch Me is out, which I didn’t realise it would be. I might have to order that soon to see if it’s good.

As for today? I’d planned to do uni stuff but cause I’m in limbo after the call I just shut down until it was time to walk Naryu.

(And then I noticed my stranger things bracelet has lost the charms, I hope they’re just somewhere in the house. All that’s left is the d20)

Hopefully tonight’ll be better (and tomorrow) but right now I just feel… ugh.

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A bit out of season, I know, but one of the most recent poems I shared here reminded me of this one.
~~

ПОСЛАНИЕ ЮНЫМ ДРУЗЬЯМ

                Я, побывавший там, где вы не бывали,
  я, повидавший то, чего вы не видали,
  я, уже т а м стоявший одной ногою,
  я говорю вам — жизнь все равно прекрасна.

A Message to My Young Friends

I, who have been where you hadn't,
I, who have seen what you hadn't,
I, who had already stood t h e r e with one foot,
I say to you: life is still beautiful.


  Да, говорю я, жизнь все равно прекрасна,
  даже когда трудна и когда опасна,
  даже когда несносна, почти ужасна —
  жизнь, говорю я, жизнь все равно прекрасна.


Yes, say I, life is still beautiful,
Even when it's difficult and when it's dangerous,
Even when it's unbearable, and almost horrible--
Life, say I, life is still beautiful.

( Now, I look back-- )

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https://xkcd.com/3248/

They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect.

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dialecticdreamer

Rewards of Patience
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1a of 1, complete
Word count (story only):
[Monday afternoon, 13 November of 2017]

:: Jules is back to work, and gets an unexpected opportunity by being a patient listener. Part of the Lodestar series in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::

:: Author’s note: early appointment-1, my body- 0. Sorry all. ::

Jules checked the row of boxes, then dusted his hands together. He locked the door to the file room behind himself, then quietly made his way, late, to the lunch service. As he approached the kitchen, a louder voice carried clearly above the hum of chitchat and meal orders.

A young woman eeled between the waiting staff, taking orders as she passed. “Hey, Jules. Today’s a bit eclectic, because there’s a big delivery of fresh truck expected tomorrow. There’s some wor won ton soup, some shredded turkey breast, there’s potato salad, and for veg, broccoli slaw. Anything sound interesting?”
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182.8 Meters

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