Photos: Dark Gardening
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ysabetwordsmithI enjoy growing dark-colored plants. I have black flowers, bronze leaves, black fruits, all kinds of interesting things.
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Dept. of Music Says Goodbye
Jun. 11th, 2025 10:48 pmkaffy_rSly and Brian
It's tempting to say they received the gift of creating music from the angels. That's not the case. They made that music all themselves. They worked at it, struggled to get it right; just right, as they interpreted "just right." They worked with others. They worked alone. They got it wrong. They swore. They fell down. They got up. They won and they failed. And they won again.
They both were visited by demons. They fought them. Sometimes they lost. Sometimes they won. They did a lot of falling down and getting back up again. And when they could, they went back to making that music.
And the angels were just a little shocked; just a little jealous. A little glad the music had come into being.
I hope they're somewhere, exchanging notes about how they made some celestial bangers even before they got there.
(Don't mind the spotty visual - it's live and it's dynamic, and it's him and his family, so it's just right.)
It's tempting to say they received the gift of creating music from the angels. That's not the case. They made that music all themselves. They worked at it, struggled to get it right; just right, as they interpreted "just right." They worked with others. They worked alone. They got it wrong. They swore. They fell down. They got up. They won and they failed. And they won again.
They both were visited by demons. They fought them. Sometimes they lost. Sometimes they won. They did a lot of falling down and getting back up again. And when they could, they went back to making that music.
And the angels were just a little shocked; just a little jealous. A little glad the music had come into being.
I hope they're somewhere, exchanging notes about how they made some celestial bangers even before they got there.
(Don't mind the spotty visual - it's live and it's dynamic, and it's him and his family, so it's just right.)
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Jun. 12th, 2025 04:40 am![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
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Do you know the names of some of the brightest stars?
RIP: Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, aged 82
Jun. 11th, 2025 10:25 pmthewayneBrian was the last of the three Wilson brothers, Brian played bass, Carl lead guitar and Dennis drums. The other two members of the Beach Boys, Mike Love - a cousin - and Al Jardine, are still alive.
Brian has been in a medical conservatorship for the last year. Trouble with alcohol and drugs probably accelerated things. He met his last wife at a car dealership where she was working, which began a chapter where it was found that Wilson's psychiatrist was exploiting him and his finances, eventually resulting in a restraining order. When his wife died, Wilson entered into a decline, finally culminating in the conservatorship.
There's so much that can be said about The Beach Boys and their influence on music and various groups and musicians, and their being a core for surf/beach music in the '60s. I spent a few hours tonight revising a bunch of my Beach Boys music for my band in Lord of the Rings Online and adding some more songs to my catalog, I think I'll be performing them tomorrow night in an impromptu concert as I need to do some testing on my band as I've been having some system problems.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/brian-wilson-beach-boys-dead-1234810073/
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/brian-wilson-beach-boys-visionary-165711806.html
Brian has been in a medical conservatorship for the last year. Trouble with alcohol and drugs probably accelerated things. He met his last wife at a car dealership where she was working, which began a chapter where it was found that Wilson's psychiatrist was exploiting him and his finances, eventually resulting in a restraining order. When his wife died, Wilson entered into a decline, finally culminating in the conservatorship.
There's so much that can be said about The Beach Boys and their influence on music and various groups and musicians, and their being a core for surf/beach music in the '60s. I spent a few hours tonight revising a bunch of my Beach Boys music for my band in Lord of the Rings Online and adding some more songs to my catalog, I think I'll be performing them tomorrow night in an impromptu concert as I need to do some testing on my band as I've been having some system problems.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/brian-wilson-beach-boys-dead-1234810073/
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/brian-wilson-beach-boys-visionary-165711806.html
Write Every Day Day 12
Jun. 12th, 2025 12:32 amcornerofmadness
I think this realization is an important one.
Noodled on the new Hazbin thing trying to get it there by Friday’s deadline, made 1200 words so good job me.
Let me know what day you’re reporting in for. If I've missed you on the tally let me know. Feel free to jump in at any time.
Day eleven -
china_shop, cornerofmadness, badly_knitted, nafs, luzula, cmk418, trobadora, sylvanwitch, carenejeans, ysilme, goddess47, ( other days )
FIC: None of Us Stand Alone
Jun. 11th, 2025 11:43 pmalexcatTitle: None of Us Stand Alone
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: PG
Length: 681 words
Content notes: This is post Endgame
Author notes: My grandmother used to say 'Charity begins at home' because she never gave anyone anything.
Summary: Tony has a surprise for Steve at his charity ball.
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: PG
Length: 681 words
Content notes: This is post Endgame
Author notes: My grandmother used to say 'Charity begins at home' because she never gave anyone anything.
Summary: Tony has a surprise for Steve at his charity ball.
PSA: beware this scam: it's not AO3
Jun. 11th, 2025 10:11 pmride_4eververushka70 will give you all the details about this comment scam being perpetrated by bots in fic comments on AO3. Do not react to the bot threats that falsely claim they are from AO3! Check out her very important warning in her DW post.Please signal-boost this if you are so inclined.
The urge to slap CVS into next week
Jun. 11th, 2025 09:57 pmcornerofmadnessSo I went to pick up an ungodly amount of meds from the cvs near the parents' they texted me yesterday about 2 that it was too early to fill. I get there and get the others but NOT my toujeo insulin. Where is this?
CVS - um it's on hold
Me - you texted me about everything else why not this?
CVS - we don't know
Me - WHY is it on hold?
CVS - you have to get in another line to ask that question
Me- goes to other line, muttering
CVS - we don't know WHY it's on hold
Me - is it covered because my insurance keeps threatening to kick this one out of formulary.
CVS -yes, we can fill it now or do you want to come back?
Me - i live 18 miles away. FILL IT (took them over an hour to manage it which should be a good thing because they didn't have the humalog yesterday. You know the most common insulin out there)
I keep saying I'll be doing a pride month book rec and I keep failing so here have all the LGBT books I've read this year (amazon links, no covers because I'm tired and in pain)
Books:
Under This Red Rock YA, horror/mystery, heavy on mental health issues
Disco Witches of Fire Island magic realism 1980s so this is steeped in both the casual sex scene and the horrors of the rise of AIDS (so this is not really a happy story)
Graphic Novels
Carmilla: The First Vampire Chinese-American retelling of Carmilla (in two volumes)
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich fantasy rom-com
here.Les Normaux: A Dark and Dreamy Tale of Forbidden Love, Dare to Be Seduced by the Supernatural (Les Normaux, 1) supernatural romance webtoon
Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus
If you have questions or want to chat about any of them please do
What I Just Finished Reading:
The Witch's Orchard by Archer Sullivan PI mystery very much enjoyed this (no having the sleuth do something stupid to get in danger!)
West By God - horror, this was...honestly it could have been a journalist mystery without any supernatural elements and been better for it.
What I am Currently Reading:
Anima rising - a good reads Frankenstein retelling giveaway win but also real person fanfic of Klimt and others and so far it's not great.
Dark Entry - a short suspense/horror novel I got last year
A Spell to Wake the Dead - a YA horror arc that is...good but man one of the main characters I want to drop in the ocean
What I Plan to Read Next: Something for the popsugar challenge probably or one of the books I won from Goodreads
CVS - um it's on hold
Me - you texted me about everything else why not this?
CVS - we don't know
Me - WHY is it on hold?
CVS - you have to get in another line to ask that question
Me- goes to other line, muttering
CVS - we don't know WHY it's on hold
Me - is it covered because my insurance keeps threatening to kick this one out of formulary.
CVS -yes, we can fill it now or do you want to come back?
Me - i live 18 miles away. FILL IT (took them over an hour to manage it which should be a good thing because they didn't have the humalog yesterday. You know the most common insulin out there)
I keep saying I'll be doing a pride month book rec and I keep failing so here have all the LGBT books I've read this year (amazon links, no covers because I'm tired and in pain)
Books:
Under This Red Rock YA, horror/mystery, heavy on mental health issues
Disco Witches of Fire Island magic realism 1980s so this is steeped in both the casual sex scene and the horrors of the rise of AIDS (so this is not really a happy story)
Graphic Novels
Carmilla: The First Vampire Chinese-American retelling of Carmilla (in two volumes)
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich fantasy rom-com
here.Les Normaux: A Dark and Dreamy Tale of Forbidden Love, Dare to Be Seduced by the Supernatural (Les Normaux, 1) supernatural romance webtoon
Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus
If you have questions or want to chat about any of them please do
What I Just Finished Reading:
The Witch's Orchard by Archer Sullivan PI mystery very much enjoyed this (no having the sleuth do something stupid to get in danger!)
West By God - horror, this was...honestly it could have been a journalist mystery without any supernatural elements and been better for it.
What I am Currently Reading:
Anima rising - a good reads Frankenstein retelling giveaway win but also real person fanfic of Klimt and others and so far it's not great.
Dark Entry - a short suspense/horror novel I got last year
A Spell to Wake the Dead - a YA horror arc that is...good but man one of the main characters I want to drop in the ocean
What I Plan to Read Next: Something for the popsugar challenge probably or one of the books I won from Goodreads
current reading
Jun. 11th, 2025 08:02 pmthistleingreyAt this very moment I'm reading what may be my last necessary (assigned) chapter from Principles of Economics, 4th ed., by Dirk Mateer and Lee Coppock---introductory macro- and microeconomics. Its microecon chapters are well done as textbooks go (no idea about its macroecon coverage).
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Jun. 11th, 2025 07:10 pmjelizaLife continues sludging along. I'm sure some things have happened, but I can't really remember what.
D injured his back somehow, and time between diagnosis and first available PT appoint is over 3 weeks, while the pain meds/muscle relaxer prescriptions ran out in 1. Yay. He's taken the first steps in going back to school, but taking assessment tests for the first time in ages while in acute pain was exceedingly difficult, and he is as a result disappointed by a result that I was pleased with even before finding out how much of the test he missed due to pain. Luckily, for everything forward, the IEP/504 plans should be applicable.
The program for O to get back to school is much less communicative (they are too old for the other), so that ball is more rocking back and forth than rolling.
My notebook of new box, tray, useful things, etc designs continues to grow, but I continue to get nowhere with the new laser, which is gone from frustrating to terrifying, because WorldCon is imminent and I have nothing I am pleased with and am blocked in 3 out of 4 classes of work due to the bloody laser not working. Even the boxes I outsourced the cutting of are not presentable because apparently they used a weird wood? And none of the normal finishing methods are working. Basically, this is feeling like a horribly expensive mistake and that I should give up and go get a bookkeeping certificate or something.
S is in Chicago on business; there has been a bit more travel with the new gig than I think either of us was expecting, but it isn't onerous yet. Just odd, and requiring of hiring dog walkers. My feet may have finally healed, but the rest of me is not currently capable of half-hour+ walks with a frisky 30 pound dog.
There is finally enough distance from the stupid infinity cycle MCU movies that I can read Marvel fic again, though I am being excessively choosy, mostly sticking to Fraction-ish Hawkeye or extremely AU, and mostly re-reading at that.
My favorite fics I've read/reread lately are To the Stars, which is about a Lina Lamont that becomes obsessed with space, The Food Cart Job which is a sweet leverage case fic, and a work in progress (ready) to live, which is a potter-verse do-over fic that is completely unhinged and funny except when it's intense. And I'm rereading LeGuin's Earthsea books when I have more of an available brain.
D injured his back somehow, and time between diagnosis and first available PT appoint is over 3 weeks, while the pain meds/muscle relaxer prescriptions ran out in 1. Yay. He's taken the first steps in going back to school, but taking assessment tests for the first time in ages while in acute pain was exceedingly difficult, and he is as a result disappointed by a result that I was pleased with even before finding out how much of the test he missed due to pain. Luckily, for everything forward, the IEP/504 plans should be applicable.
The program for O to get back to school is much less communicative (they are too old for the other), so that ball is more rocking back and forth than rolling.
My notebook of new box, tray, useful things, etc designs continues to grow, but I continue to get nowhere with the new laser, which is gone from frustrating to terrifying, because WorldCon is imminent and I have nothing I am pleased with and am blocked in 3 out of 4 classes of work due to the bloody laser not working. Even the boxes I outsourced the cutting of are not presentable because apparently they used a weird wood? And none of the normal finishing methods are working. Basically, this is feeling like a horribly expensive mistake and that I should give up and go get a bookkeeping certificate or something.
S is in Chicago on business; there has been a bit more travel with the new gig than I think either of us was expecting, but it isn't onerous yet. Just odd, and requiring of hiring dog walkers. My feet may have finally healed, but the rest of me is not currently capable of half-hour+ walks with a frisky 30 pound dog.
There is finally enough distance from the stupid infinity cycle MCU movies that I can read Marvel fic again, though I am being excessively choosy, mostly sticking to Fraction-ish Hawkeye or extremely AU, and mostly re-reading at that.
My favorite fics I've read/reread lately are To the Stars, which is about a Lina Lamont that becomes obsessed with space, The Food Cart Job which is a sweet leverage case fic, and a work in progress (ready) to live, which is a potter-verse do-over fic that is completely unhinged and funny except when it's intense. And I'm rereading LeGuin's Earthsea books when I have more of an available brain.
June Theme - Nooks & Crannies
Jun. 12th, 2025 03:34 ampeaceful_sands posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
bitesizedcleaningWe're a bit further into the second week of June than I intended but work days are long and relaxation time to post (or do my own bite-sizing) is brief. The focus this week is to turn attention to the nooks and crannies in the kitchen - is there a little used cupboard or drawer or maybe even just a shelf or windowsill that needs a bit of a clean and clear? Or maybe it's a time to clean the filter in above your stove if you had one or to clean the kettle or dishwasher out. Remember the job doesn't need to be huge, it just needs to be in one of those that get missed in the big clean, that little spot you always think 'I'll catch that later/next time'.
Enjoy what's left of your week.
Enjoy what's left of your week.
New Fic Chapter: The Roller Rink on the Edge of Forever, Chapter 46
Jun. 11th, 2025 08:31 pmdeifireOn the Edge of Tomorrow
It's over. They're over. Now what?
( Full fic summary and a link to read from the beginning )
One more to come!
It's over. They're over. Now what?
( Full fic summary and a link to read from the beginning )
One more to come!
