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Oof.

My doctor’s appointment was interesting. She ordered a ton of bloodwork, EKG, MRI etc etc.

I’m sort of sad. Really quite sad about the implications of this and that.

Maybe I’ll feel better later.

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Title: The Image of an Image
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Rating: Gen, Nijimura & Akashi
Notes: It was hard replacing me.
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silver_chipmunk

Got up at 10:00 and had breakfast and coffee. Showered and dressed.

At 1:00 I left for Flushing to meet

mashfanficchick for lunch. I went to the bank first, then went to meet zer at Duane Reade. But ze called and said that there were delays on the E train, and ze was going to switch to the bus instead. That meant I had a longer time to wait, so I went to wait in the Flushing Library, However it's closed for renovations, so instead I went to Hey Tea, the bubble tea place I went to awhile ago, to wait there.

My order took an awfully long time for some reason, though it was quite tasty. I was just finishing it when ze got there. We were going to go to the rice noodle place, but for some reason their A health department rating has been shifted to Rating Pending. So since we didn't know why they lost the A, we decided to go somewhere else.

We went to the food court of one of the shopping markets there, and got skewers of spicy stuff. I got two skewers of lamb and on of mushrooms. Delicious.

Then we did some quick shopping in the store, and then went to my place.

The first thing i did was put in a very quick Shipt order, because I needed creamer for my coffee tomorrow. Then we cleaned the cat pan. Ze emptied it and took out the litter, I opened the new litter and filled the pan.

Then we started on the Christmas stuff. We got the tree undecorated without any breakage, which always makes me happy. It took a long time, and was hot even though I opened the living room window as much as I dared (because of the cat) and turned on the fan. But it is done, and all the decorations in the apartment are down and everything is neatly packed away.

Then I got out the box for the tree itself, and while I had the box out and the TV moved, I got out the boxes of the ashes of my parents, which have been behind the TV under the Christmas tree box for years. I put them under the table the printer is on (Oldest Brother's ashes are on top of the printer). That's so I have easy access to them for taking them upstate to the cottage in July.

Then I got the Christmas tree in the box and behind the TV where it stays all year. And I have a more normal apartment now.

Then we took a break, to rest for a bit. And then we took care of the turtle tank. The water was low, and needed changing, so I used my nifty pump and we did that. I drained it and

mashfanficchick dumped the water and carried buckets of clean water to refill it.

Then it was too late to go to Busy Bee, but J's Confections, the sweet shop, is open til 8:00, so we went there. Ze had bubble tea, I had a mango milkshake. We stayed there til a bit after 7:00.

Then ze went home, and I went home too and Teamed the FWiB. At 8:00 I popped into Discord to see if anyone was there for D&D (the DM is away tonight and next week) but no one was, so we kept talking til about 8:30.

Then I caught up on my internet reading, and called the Kid who didn't answer and pointed out to me by text that we spoke last Thursday. *grumble*

Then it was pet feeding time and I fed the pets, and started here. All-in-all a very productive day.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2.

mashfanficchick

3. The rain held off til the evening.

4. Bubble tea.

5. The Christmas decorations are away!

6. Cleaner turtle tank.

Current Mood: accomplished

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Posted by Idiot/Savant

http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/drawn.html

A ballot for four member's bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn:

Better Regional Boundaries Bill (Tim Costley)
Concealment of Location of Victim Remains Bill (Tom Rutherford)
Criminal Records (Clean Slate) (Additional Eligibility) Amendment Bill (Tangi Utikere)
Crimes (Virginity Testing Practices) Amendment Bill (Priyanca Radhakrishnan)

So, could be better, and looking at some of what is in the ballot, it could have been a lot worse.

These bills are unlikely to come up for first reading until June, or even July, depending on how much the regime abuses urgency in the next month.

http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/drawn.html

mistressofmuses

My most frivolous collectible thing that I like to amass is...

Enamel pins!

And I've finally gotten basically all of my current ones onto display boards. (I don't have the wall space to hang the boards on, but that's beside the point.)

My "gothy" pins. Several "creepy curio" type ones, a bunch of band ones, a few dark folklore inspired ones... Many of these are among my favorites.
(The backing material is an old lace shirt that didn't fit well.)

These ones are sort of a mix of naturalist and historical. Some paleo art ones over to the right, and the ones above and to the left of those are based on tattoos of a recovered ice mummy. Lots of cool and mildly spooky insect ones. Some sea creatures. I just like 'em.
(The backing material is a flannel that I purchased years ago without a real plan for.)

This one looks a little busy, but also includes a lot of my favorites. This board is the bulk of my queer-themed pins and the majority of my book-related pins, and quite a few that are both. Underneath my art friends' Atomic Tarot pins, I really like my set of October Daye preorder pins. Also a fan of the various corvids. Also the cat ones at the bottom, though they aren't very clear, and I'll have to get a better picture of them sometime. Also the "proud to the bone" pins, the various skulls with flower crowns.
(The backing is an old t-shirt that eventually had too many holes in it for even a sleep shirt. But an Edward Gorey illustration with cats and books seemed like a good backdrop for the book-themed pins.)

This one clearly has the most room left, but is nebulously all the geeky or nerdy pins I have that don't count as bookish. Especially fond of

kawree's Hot Monster Summer Kingdom Hearts pins. And a couple of my fave OT3 pins from zine projects. And also also my Over the Garden Wall pins (and some generic Halloween ones.)
(The backing is obviously another old t-shirt. RIP Firefly merch.)

This one is my Everything Else board, though it's getting fairly full, so they'll start spilling over to others. Lots of these are from the Atomic Pixies, a few are souvenirs, some are other fun designs that just don't quite fit on other boards. I am a big fan of Sleipnir, the little gingerbread horse skeleton, The More You No jackalope, and the fancy year of the dragon/year of the snake pins up in the upper right. Also all the rest.
(The backing is Halloween fabric I bought at one point. I think this one I did maybe have plans for, but whatever those plans were didn't happen, ha.)

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my apartment

torachan

1. When Carla called the second plumbers yesterday, they told her they'd be out between 12 and 2 today, but then immediately after sent a message saying 10-12 instead, and they were indeed here by around 10:45. They got the water heater replaced quickly and even cleaned a lot of the cobwebs and weeds out of the shed, and they adjusted the placement of the new one so it sits further back inside and just generally looks better, so that was nice! It cost about ten times more than when they replaced the previous one eight years ago, but that was still significantly cheaper than the first guys quoted us, so I'll take it.

2. I've had the same headphones for my desktop PC for ages and the coating has started to flake off for at least the past year or so, but then yesterday I noticed the foam was now coming out of place as well. But! We have a pair of exactly the same ones that Carla had bought (actually she got hers first and I liked them and got a pair myself) but eventually replaced with better quality ones, and they were still in perfectly good condition, so I just switched to those and don't have to buy a new pair. The things about them that bothered her don't bother me, and I don't use headphones at my desk that much anyway, so I'm fine with sticking with these until they eventually wear out, too.

3. Carla made hamburg the other night for dinner and we had some patties leftover and decided to make sandwiches with them tonight. It's basically meatloaf with a slightly different flavor profile, and I love meatloaf sandwiches. We used tonkatsu sauce instead of ketchup, and while I would have gone for cabbage or lettuce, all we had on hand was some arugula and I'd literally just gotten back from walking to the store for something else, so we tried that and it worked really well.

4. I love his little crossed wrists!

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Current Location: neither these streets nor these feets were made for walking

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olivermoss

Last chapter of Leyfarers was pirate themed. At the end of every chapter we have things that unlock depending on our actions. (It's a custom written adventure / world setting for the ~180 people in the group, at a brewpub themed to be a building in the world) We had a challenge where new races would unlock depending on how many people would post a memory from the adventure in Discord. If we got 140 Leyfarers to participate, we'd unlock Otterfolk. Not everyone is on Discord so it was a challenge.

Every since advisor got in on trying to wrangle our groups to post. We hit... 140/140. Margin of zero. Literally every member we got to post was needed. The new player's guide hasn't posted yet, but I am 100% retiring Alec and rolling an Otterfolk at the end of this chapter.

I should have rerolled my main sooner. I play a Barbarian with Charisma as a dump stat. At first it gave some character to him, especially since he thought he was great at telling stories. But I am so tired of playing a low charisma character. Part of the problem is that I like tracking lore and details. So, when we need to interact with an NPC to get trust, I try to use that tracking to help convince them... and then get told to roll Cha. So, no matter how good I am at knowing things, doesn't matter because NPCs wont ever trust me. This is not fun and doesn't reward my playstyle. I should have rerolled sooner, but I get attached to my characters and also was trying to outplay the debuff, take it as a challenge. It just wasn't working.

So, I am going to roll a high Cha Otterfolk. Probably a sorcerer/thief multi-class. I want to present as not-a-thief, but have most of my levels in thief. I was considering being 'just a bard', but I think a 'wandering sorcerer, just trying to progress, learn new spells' will make for a better build. Having literally 1 in bard and 14 in thief would be fun, but I am also trying to have a more effective build this time. I can reroll at my current level if I permanently retire Alec and... all his acquired bonuses from two years of play. Thaaaat's going to suck.

Still need to figure out a name and backstory. Problem with world settings of mostly egalitarian societies, is that it makes certain backstories tricky. I like the idea of being from a small, hidden enclave and being out to get treasures for us, make the hidden space we hang out in cooler. Maybe flesh out a few side characters.

Anyway, Otterfolk! Us advisors made a whole project of hitting the goal for the unlock and I intend to enjoy the unlock. A LOT of higher level characters are talking about rerolling, so the Leyfarers might be about to have a fuzzy invasion.

lb_lee

This Saturday, May 2, we'll be tabling at Hampshire Pride in the Armory Street parking lot behind Thornes Marketplace, in Northampton MA! We'll be at the white booth, #29, and we're sharing the space with Bee Leake!

We'll be loaded up with all sorts of goodies. Hope to see you there! We also will be offline once we leave tomorrow morning, so if you need to reach us, call, text, or wait.

Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/32144.html

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It’s been wonderful weather for outdoor work: more mulching has been done and brush has been cut and removed. I also gave the rototiller a quick pre-season going over: motor and gear oil topped off and a flat tire taken care of.*

I’ve had a furry friend keeping me company out by the shed since February; a rabbit has taken up residence nearby :o)

Waiting patiently to see what might be available.

Soooon…

Edit - I just noticed that this bunny is probably a New England Cottontail: there is a dark patch on the forehead and not the white spot of the Eastern Cottontail! Click the pics to expand them.

* I probably mentioned this before in regards to the tiller… When I was about 16 I watched, in awe, mind you, a friend of my sister manually replace a tire on his 1970 Road Runner. He took the original tire off the rim, and replaced it with another, with tire irons. To seat the bead he looped and tied a rope around the center of the tire, tightening it by turning a lug wrench slipped beneath it while filling the tire with air. Heh, I use the rope trick on the tiller tires, when necessary, with baling twine, a crescent wrench, and a hand pump.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Turn! Turn! Turn! various

senmut

Poll #34537 Mother May I

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 9

Pick a Mother

Ayla (Earth's Children)
1 (11.1%)

Damia Raven-Lyon (Talents Series)
1 (11.1%)

Alustriel Silverhand (Forgotten Realms)
0 (0.0%)

Lwaxana Troi (Star Trek)
6 (66.7%)

Dejah Thoris (Barsoom)
1 (11.1%)

Pick a Situation

Impending Grandchildren
2 (22.2%)

Meeting the Significant Other
1 (11.1%)

A New Pet
1 (11.1%)

Balancing Professional and Private Lives
3 (33.3%)

It's the End of the World As We Know It
2 (22.2%)

Parenting Alone?

Yes
7 (77.8%)

No
2 (22.2%)

Mood

Cracktastic
3 (33.3%)

Joyful
3 (33.3%)

Angsty
0 (0.0%)

Tragedy
1 (11.1%)

Neutral
2 (22.2%)

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1word1day

Ranarian [ruh-NAIR-ee-un] (adj.)

- Of, relating to, or resembling frogs; frog-like.

Early 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), satirical novelist and poet. From classical Latin rāna frog + -arian.

Used in a sentence:

“Mr. Thistlewick, possessed of a most regrettably ranarian visage, suggested a creature far better suited to a dank and ancient bog than to the refinements of polite society.”

(from The Grandiloquent Word of the Day FB page)

sanguinity

Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15

Still looking for a volunteer to split hosting duties for May! If no one else is available, I'll split the month with

dswdiane, but I want to put out the call one last time…

My check-in: Some rewrites to the beginning of a story that I might use for a charity auction fill.

Day 29:

china_shop,

sanguinity,

trobadora

Day 28:

acorn_squash,

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

sanguinity,

the_siobhan,

trobadora

Day 27:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

ysilme

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When you check in, please use the most recent post and say what day(s) you’re checking in for. Remember you can drop in or out at any time, and let me know if I missed anyone!

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Posted by Matt Kiser

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2026/04/29/day-1926/

Day 1926

Today in one sentence: The Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act, striking down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district and limiting the law’s main tool against racial vote dilution; Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature approved Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new congressional map, which could give Republicans up to four more House seats in November’s midterm elections; the Supreme Court ruled that a Christian faith-based anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy center” can challenge a New Jersey subpoena tied to a state investigation into whether they misled donors and clients about abortion services; Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will remain a Fed governor when his term as chairman ends; Trump rejected Iran’s offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, saying the U.S. naval blockade will continue until Tehran accepts a nuclear deal; and the Iran war has cost about $25 billion so far.

1/ The Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act, striking down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district and limiting the law’s main tool against racial vote dilution. Louisiana created the district after Black voters sued over a post-2020 map that gave them one of the state’s six House seats, despite Black residents making up about one-third of the population. While the ruling doesn’t erase Section 2, it narrows the provision Congress updated in 1982 to stop maps that diluted minority voting power. Justice Samuel Alito wrote that Louisiana’s map was an “unconstitutional gerrymander,” while Justice Elena Kagan said the court had rendered Section 2 “all but a dead letter” and left states free to “systematically dilute minority citizens’ voting power.” Republicans, meanwhile, in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana immediately called for special sessions to draw new maps, saying “There is no time to waste” and “LET’S GO!” (Associated Press / Politico / Reuters / New York Times / Axios / Washington Post / NPR / CBS News / NBC News / CNN / Wall Street Journal / Politico / ABC News)

2/ Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature approved Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new congressional map, which could give Republicans up to four more House seats in November’s midterm elections. The map targets Democratic seats around Tampa, Orlando, and Fort Lauderdale, giving Republicans a strong chance to win in 24 of 28 districts. Democrats said the map is “designed and intended to rig outcomes.” Voting rights groups are expected to sue, citing Florida’s Fair Districts Amendments, which bars maps drawn to favor a party or incumbent. (Politico / New York Times / Bloomberg / CBS News / Washington Post / ABC News)

3/ The Supreme Court ruled that a Christian faith-based anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy center” can challenge a New Jersey subpoena tied to a state investigation into whether they misled donors and clients about abortion services. In 2023, when New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin issued a subpoena as part of an investigation into whether First Choice Women’s Resource Centers was misleading patients and donors by implying it offered abortions and referrals while obscuring its antiabortion mission. The unanimous ruling revives First Choice’s First Amendment lawsuit, but doesn’t stop New Jersey’s investigation. (Reuters / Associated Press / Politico / CNN / Washington Post)

4/ Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will remain a Fed governor when his term as chairman ends May 15, preventing Trump the opportunity to fill a vacancy on the central bank’s board. Powell said “legal attacks on the Fed” had left him “no choice” but to stay until the investigation into the Fed’s renovations is “well and truly over with transparency and finality.” Powell called the Trump administration’s legal actions “unprecedented,” saying they “threaten our ability to conduct monetary policy without considering political factors.” While the Justice Department said it would close its criminal probe, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said her office could reopen the investigation if “the facts warrant doing so.” The Fed also held rates steady at 3.5% to 3.75%. The four dissents were the most since 1992. (Bloomberg / NBC News / CNBC / Associated Press / Wall Street Journal / Axios / Washington Post / New York Times)

5/ Trump rejected Iran’s offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, saying the U.S. naval blockade will continue until Tehran accepts a nuclear deal. He called the blockade “somewhat more effective than the bombing,” and that Iran is “choking” and must “cry uncle.” Iran’s state media warned the blockade could bring “practical and unprecedented action.” The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and its strike group, however, are expected to leave the Middle East in the coming days. The war has cost about $25 billion so far. (NPR / NBC News / CBS News / Axios / CNN / Bloomberg / Politico / Washington Post / New York Times / ABC News)

The 2026 midterms are in 188 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 923 days.

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musesfool

Today's poem:

Bright Wings

I was walking in the garden looking for the intermediaries
between me and the clear light. I had left the hose running
much too long. Something was eating holes in the ear-soft
leaves of the morning glories. I saw for the first time
that the neighbor was growing corn - the yellow shocks
were leaning just above the cinder-block fence, and they
looked delicate and scruffy, like city corn, like alien corn,
and suddenly there was so much to be done, so much to
put in order, not the ordinary business of loving and dying,
but the ordinary business that comes bundled with them:
Sunlight behaved perfectly in every corner, the shadows breathed
in their one direction and told stories, our cat crouched in the flower bed
aching to kill something: How do you explain being so convinced,
so utterly taken by the idea that beauty is somehow moral?
I mean in this day and age? I mean now when no one can even get
that equation to hold up? But the ants have formed a black
ribbon that leads to a dead snail. But the Pipers and Cessnas
and Beechcraft are circling and banking for the airport with
so much color and precision. But the dogs two houses down
have heard the mail-carrier's foot, and they have erupted.
This is not the argument I'm looking for. And I have been lazy.
Tangerines and lemons have swollen and dropped from their
impatient branches. They lie among the fern and the vine, bruised
and mushy. They are being swarmed. They are being devoured.

--Frank X. Gaspar

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Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Canadiens vs Lightning on tv

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Star Trek: Nemesis x2
Star Trek: Picard x1
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 x3
Star Trek: Voyager x3
Star Trek: Lower Decks x5
Star Trek: Prodigy x1
Star Trek cast photos x2
DCU x4

It's been a hard, uh, decade. It's okay if you need a hug ... or 36.

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday April 29, to midnight on Thursday, April 30. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34536 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 13

How are you doing?

I am OK.
6 (46.2%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
7 (53.8%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
6 (46.2%)

One other person.
3 (23.1%)

More than one other person.
4 (30.8%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

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LB is tabling at Hampshire Pride!

Tiller time again!

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Day 1926: “Designed and intended to rig outcomes.”

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