Murderbot fanvid rec: Bohemian Like You
Jul. 13th, 2025 12:11 amEdge Of The Seat
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poliphilo We introduced Wendy to Edna and Miriam. It's good to make such connections. You never know what good things may come of them. I introduced her as our "unofficially adopted daughter".
The Wimbledon Women's Final was postponed until tea time because of the heat. It was won and lost 6-0, 6-0- something that hasn't happened before in the open era. Not a good match, then, but an extraordinary one, with its own fascination. Was Swiatek going to make the clean sweep? In its own way this was edge of the seat stuff.
It looks like it might be cooler today. Ailz had a bad night and I'll be going to Meeting on my own. If I start walking in good time I can go by way of the beach....
The Wimbledon Women's Final was postponed until tea time because of the heat. It was won and lost 6-0, 6-0- something that hasn't happened before in the open era. Not a good match, then, but an extraordinary one, with its own fascination. Was Swiatek going to make the clean sweep? In its own way this was edge of the seat stuff.
It looks like it might be cooler today. Ailz had a bad night and I'll be going to Meeting on my own. If I start walking in good time I can go by way of the beach....
Murderbot fanficlet: Sanctuary Moon forum flame wars
Jul. 12th, 2025 09:44 pmsholioscioscribe gave me a delightful Murderbot TV-verse prompt, hidden because it's somewhat spoilery for the finale: Click to view
Post-finale Gurathin, burdened with all these memories of Sanctuary Moon, still doesn't like the show but now can't resist getting into nitpicky arguments about it on futuristic forums, where he and Murderbot keep crossing paths and gradually realize who they're talking to and get very fond about it without admitting to anything.( 600 words or so of future fan forum shenanigans )
Book #03 Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire
Jul. 13th, 2025 07:38 amtinny
Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire
Toby Daye #10
The king convenes a conclave to decide whether to allow the use of [the important thing Toby discovered last time]. Of course some people use the gathering to further their own political agenda - by murdering people.
Another wonderful installment of the Toby Daye series. I got through it very fast - it was a fun and easy read. Which doesn't mean fluffy. :D As usual for that series, there's lots of death and attempted assassinations (including Toby's and her loved ones'). I simply love Toby's snarking pov, and it makes reading those books a joy every time.
some thoughts WITH SPOILERS
* The stakes kinda can't go any higher for Toby, since she's virtually immortal already and her accelerated healing means she comes back even from being dead now. (She already did in the last book, so that's nothing new. :)) So the threats now expand to her loved ones. In this case, Tybalt and Quentin.
* I love Tybalt with Toby. Period.
* I loved how she pretty much resigned herself to Tybalt being dead and/or asleep for 100 years. Even if the book didn't go there, having her agonize over it was painful enough, thank you. Entertaining the thought for a few minutes was stressful enough for me.
* I also liked all the thoughts Toby has on growing up - not her own, Quentin's mostly. That gave the book some nice weight, in the sense that it brought out the amount of time that has passed in-verse, and that Toby develops and grows along with 'the kids'.
* Apropos kids, I really liked how she described the pyjama party. She's more of a mom now than she used to be (although Toby has always been a mom, but it wasn't as clear in the earlier books).
* Considering the book took place during a political meeting, the politicking was kept to a minimum and didn't get on my nerves. It always helps that Toby doesn't like it either. :D
* Plot-wise, I thought it was suspenseful and even though one would think that there's not much new to tell after this many installments, I didn't feel it was too repetitive.
4 stars - Another fun time with Toby being undiplomatic and almost dying a few times. :D
1 - 5 stars - Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky The Final Architecture #1 [DW link]
2 - 2 stars - Miss Merkel: Mord auf dem Friedhof by David Safier Miss Merkel #2 [DW link]
3 - 4 stars - Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire Toby Daye #10 [DW link]
(I'm terribly behind on those reviews... not on the books, luckily, but I have to write up a few more soon.)
Sunday Secrets
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post_secret_feedSunday Secrets began 20 years ago. This week I did not receive enough postcards to share back. Free your secrets today.
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PostSecret TED Talk
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Some things never change...
Jul. 12th, 2025 11:23 pmbrithistorianTwo days ago, Twice and Blackpink both had comebacks on the same day: Twice's "This is for" and Blackpink's "뛰어(JUMP)" (links go to the videos, so as not to spam your feed with two embedded videos).
Blackpink's song is a 1-song single, per YG's strategy of keeping Blinks starved for new music from Blackpink, while Twice's song is part of a 14-song album, keeping with JYP's strategy of giving Once as much music as they could possibly want from Twice. I prefer the JYP strategy — at first I was a bigger fan of Blackpink than of Twice, but eventually I got tired of waiting for new songs from Blackpink.
Two interesting things I noticed:
- Twice Jeongyeon has had difficulty meeting the ridiculous weight standards imposed on K-pop idols (i.e. still not fat by any measure), so in recent comebacks Twice's stylists have started dressing everyone but Jeongyeon in midriff-baring tops. I don't know if this was done at the company's request or at Jeongyeon's, but they did it again this time.
- Blackpink's song actually includes the English lyric "Are you not entertained?"
A couple interesting things
Jul. 12th, 2025 09:26 pmsine_nomineI just ordered a dinner that was iron-heavy. Which I haven’t wanted to do for some time. I wonder if part one of iron infusion did, in fact, start to blow open the doors of my iron processing etc.
Looking back at my pre-surgical clearance I was not, in fact, fully healthy. But it is only obvious through hindsight.
Someone described me as "A bit niche, undeniably potent, and totally unimpressed with trendy nonsense." Trying to decide how I feel about this.
I am proof positive that the sun is different now than when I was a kid. Also LA sun is different. And who knew that a sunburn could get a sunburn?
Looking back at my pre-surgical clearance I was not, in fact, fully healthy. But it is only obvious through hindsight.
Someone described me as "A bit niche, undeniably potent, and totally unimpressed with trendy nonsense." Trying to decide how I feel about this.
I am proof positive that the sun is different now than when I was a kid. Also LA sun is different. And who knew that a sunburn could get a sunburn?
Daily Happiness
Jul. 12th, 2025 08:01 pmtorachan1. We had originally been planning to go to Disneyland this morning, but last night I was just feeling tired and suggested we skip our weekend trip since we're going to a show (Paul F. Thompkins' Varietopia again) tomorrow already, and just have one stay at home day. Well, turned out to be for the best because apparently JD Vance is at Disneyland this weekend and so not only is there extremely heightened security inside and protests outside, but the thought of being at the park at the same time as him is a bummer and would just ruin the trip. So we'll just wait and go sometime this week. It's not like we haven't been recently lol.
2. Instead of going to the farmers market or Disneyland, our usual Saturday morning choices, we walked up to a local bagel place and got fancy bagels. We each got two half bagels with different toppings. She got the laika (smoked salmon, cream cheese, pickled red onions, cucumber, capers, and dill) and the scarlett (cream cheese, lightly grilled tomatoes, lemon zest, and chili flakes), and I got the mia (avocado, pickled red onions, chili flakes, and cilantro) and the pre-jam (cream cheese, peaches, honey, and mixed berries). We also got a yuzu strawberry lemonade ice tea and a vanilla orange latte. Everything was so good!
They always have super long lines on the weekends so we've been curious but I'd never been before. Carla's been a couple times on weekdays, when it's not as crowded, but she'd only gotten the scarlett before and hadn't tried anything else. They have online ordering but I didn't know what time Carla would wake up, so I didn't put in an order early, and by the time she woke up around 9:30, there were no more order slots, so we just walked up, but the line wasn't bad yet (maybe fifteen minutes or so and then a bit more of a wait to get the order). Definitely worth it, though.
3. Later in the morning, Carla was talking about some Lush product she'd seen mentioned recently and it got us thinking about Lush again. There was another product she used to use all the time when they had a location here in Santa Monica, but that one's been gone for ages and it was sort of out of sight out of mind. But it turns out there's one at the mall in Culver City, so we decided to go check it out.
We got several things and then headed to the Target at the end of the mall and passed by a super cute hobby shop that had a bunch of knock-off lego type bricks with all sorts of licensed characters, and they also had a bunch of book nooks and other wood craft type stuff and we ended up buying quite a few things lol. Facebook/Instagram has been pushing book nooks on me for a while so it felt like fate. I got one book nook and Carla got three wood craft dinosaur sets and a Kung Fu Panda brick set (this brand is a lot less cheap looking than most non-lego brand bricks I've seen).
I have been trying to find some new plain t-shirts I can wear to work as I currently only have one that both fits well and feels nice (though I do have others that are tolerable). It's really hard for me to find shirts because I am sensitive about fabrics. I usually buy most of my clothes from Target because I don't like shopping and am lazy, but they don't have any good t-shirts right now, so while we were at the mall I checked out Uniqlo and Old Navy, and neither had good shirts (the Uniqlo ones I couldn't even bear to try on because the fabric felt so NOPE to me just from a quick touch), but at least I can mark those off my list of possibilities.
We then went to Target and got some random stuff (mostly food, but also a nice Encanto puzzle) and then while I was waiting for Carla to check out I got a pepperoni cheese pretzel from Auntie Anne's. Haven't eaten there in literal decades, but it was delicious. Also had tasty watermelon lemonade.
Overall it was a very nice trip. We used to go to the mall all the time years and years ago and never go, but this one is not at all dead and has lots of nice shops. Kind of seemed like back in the heyday of malls. We should do that more often!
4. Look at Tuxie's snoot! So cute!
2. Instead of going to the farmers market or Disneyland, our usual Saturday morning choices, we walked up to a local bagel place and got fancy bagels. We each got two half bagels with different toppings. She got the laika (smoked salmon, cream cheese, pickled red onions, cucumber, capers, and dill) and the scarlett (cream cheese, lightly grilled tomatoes, lemon zest, and chili flakes), and I got the mia (avocado, pickled red onions, chili flakes, and cilantro) and the pre-jam (cream cheese, peaches, honey, and mixed berries). We also got a yuzu strawberry lemonade ice tea and a vanilla orange latte. Everything was so good!
They always have super long lines on the weekends so we've been curious but I'd never been before. Carla's been a couple times on weekdays, when it's not as crowded, but she'd only gotten the scarlett before and hadn't tried anything else. They have online ordering but I didn't know what time Carla would wake up, so I didn't put in an order early, and by the time she woke up around 9:30, there were no more order slots, so we just walked up, but the line wasn't bad yet (maybe fifteen minutes or so and then a bit more of a wait to get the order). Definitely worth it, though.
3. Later in the morning, Carla was talking about some Lush product she'd seen mentioned recently and it got us thinking about Lush again. There was another product she used to use all the time when they had a location here in Santa Monica, but that one's been gone for ages and it was sort of out of sight out of mind. But it turns out there's one at the mall in Culver City, so we decided to go check it out.
We got several things and then headed to the Target at the end of the mall and passed by a super cute hobby shop that had a bunch of knock-off lego type bricks with all sorts of licensed characters, and they also had a bunch of book nooks and other wood craft type stuff and we ended up buying quite a few things lol. Facebook/Instagram has been pushing book nooks on me for a while so it felt like fate. I got one book nook and Carla got three wood craft dinosaur sets and a Kung Fu Panda brick set (this brand is a lot less cheap looking than most non-lego brand bricks I've seen).
I have been trying to find some new plain t-shirts I can wear to work as I currently only have one that both fits well and feels nice (though I do have others that are tolerable). It's really hard for me to find shirts because I am sensitive about fabrics. I usually buy most of my clothes from Target because I don't like shopping and am lazy, but they don't have any good t-shirts right now, so while we were at the mall I checked out Uniqlo and Old Navy, and neither had good shirts (the Uniqlo ones I couldn't even bear to try on because the fabric felt so NOPE to me just from a quick touch), but at least I can mark those off my list of possibilities.
We then went to Target and got some random stuff (mostly food, but also a nice Encanto puzzle) and then while I was waiting for Carla to check out I got a pepperoni cheese pretzel from Auntie Anne's. Haven't eaten there in literal decades, but it was delicious. Also had tasty watermelon lemonade.
Overall it was a very nice trip. We used to go to the mall all the time years and years ago and never go, but this one is not at all dead and has lots of nice shops. Kind of seemed like back in the heyday of malls. We should do that more often!
4. Look at Tuxie's snoot! So cute!
get down, get down
Jul. 12th, 2025 09:52 pmmusesfoolAs I may have mentioned, Baby Miss L loves potatoes, so when I saw a t-shirt on Etsy that said, "Potatoes gonna potate!" around a picture of a potato, I thought, I have to get it for her! Unfortunately, it was only available in neon green, which I did not like the look of. Luckily, many other vendors were also selling t-shirts with pictures of friendly potatoes on them, so I got her this one that says, "Tater tot!"
This morning, I received a series of glamour shots and a video of Baby Miss L thoroughly excited about wearing the t-shirt. It was so great!
I also learned that The Muppets covering Jungle Boogie is one of her current favorite videos. AMAZING!
On all counts, her vibes are immaculate.
Tomorrow, I'm going to a birthday bbq at my brother's, and I'm bringing her the Batman and Robin t-shirts, plus some toddler books about Batman and the Justice League. Hopefully she enjoys them almost as much! (I also recently sent her a Captain America t-shirt, which I believe she wore for the 4th, and I also got pics of her in the Superman dress, with her arms up like she was flying. 😍😍😍)
In other news, I found this review of the new Superman movie really moving. Will I venture out to a theater to see it? Probably not, but I will be very excited to watch it when it makes its way onto HBO in a few months.
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This morning, I received a series of glamour shots and a video of Baby Miss L thoroughly excited about wearing the t-shirt. It was so great!
I also learned that The Muppets covering Jungle Boogie is one of her current favorite videos. AMAZING!
On all counts, her vibes are immaculate.
Tomorrow, I'm going to a birthday bbq at my brother's, and I'm bringing her the Batman and Robin t-shirts, plus some toddler books about Batman and the Justice League. Hopefully she enjoys them almost as much! (I also recently sent her a Captain America t-shirt, which I believe she wore for the 4th, and I also got pics of her in the Superman dress, with her arms up like she was flying. 😍😍😍)
In other news, I found this review of the new Superman movie really moving. Will I venture out to a theater to see it? Probably not, but I will be very excited to watch it when it makes its way onto HBO in a few months.
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Fanfic, Bionicle - All Media Types, Hahli/Jaller, writer's choice
Jul. 12th, 2025 06:53 pmbluerosekatie posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
smallfandomfestTitle: better than hospital food (interlude)
Author: bluerosekatie
Fandom: Bionicle - All Media Types
Pairing/Characters: Hahli/Jaller, background Gali/Takua | Takanuva
Rating/Category: Gen, Het
Prompt: Bionicle - All Media Types, Hahli/Jaller, writer's choice
Spoilers: References major events in the Toa Metru arc.
Summary: Hahli makes good on her promise to Jaller -- and they discuss a little of what they've learned since the Turaga decided to tell their story.
Notes/Warnings: Archive-locked to avoid AI scraping. Part of a larger series with this particular human AU.
Read it on AO3 here!
Author: bluerosekatie
Fandom: Bionicle - All Media Types
Pairing/Characters: Hahli/Jaller, background Gali/Takua | Takanuva
Rating/Category: Gen, Het
Prompt: Bionicle - All Media Types, Hahli/Jaller, writer's choice
Spoilers: References major events in the Toa Metru arc.
Summary: Hahli makes good on her promise to Jaller -- and they discuss a little of what they've learned since the Turaga decided to tell their story.
Notes/Warnings: Archive-locked to avoid AI scraping. Part of a larger series with this particular human AU.
Read it on AO3 here!
A question about plotting one of my fics
Jul. 12th, 2025 08:30 pmbrithistorianI've got an idea about the plotting one of my fics, but I'm not sure if the idea I've got right now is the right thing. So. . . if any of you have read my fic "Turning of the Year" — or if you feel like reading it right now — and you'd like to give your input on the future course of the story (at the risk of possibly getting spoiled), send me a message.
Even the pool was 95 degrees
Jul. 12th, 2025 09:13 pmcornerofmadnesstoday I went to my brother's place to a) see the new appliances b) to learn to use the new appliances and the new tv system because I'll be house/cat sitting.
My brother has a little pool. I spent hours hovering just at the waterline with my head (the rest of me submerged like a manatee) But with the water that hot, it wasn't that refreshing.
I had planned to go to the whiskey rebellion festival tomorrow but it was only friday/Sat. That's weird but oh well (it was too hot for festivals) I wanted to go to the Pittsburgh Pickle festival. (points to the too hot thing)
So what are you all doing this weekend? Anything fun?
My brother has a little pool. I spent hours hovering just at the waterline with my head (the rest of me submerged like a manatee) But with the water that hot, it wasn't that refreshing.
I had planned to go to the whiskey rebellion festival tomorrow but it was only friday/Sat. That's weird but oh well (it was too hot for festivals) I wanted to go to the Pittsburgh Pickle festival. (points to the too hot thing)
So what are you all doing this weekend? Anything fun?
