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Current Mood: determined

I made a mistake the other day, the skeptics in the pub thing isn't today, it's Tuesday. In the meantime the band schedule for the North Beach festival has still not been announced and that's next week.

Current Music: Chambers Brothers

silveradept posting in

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maju

Woke up to a very dark and gloomy morning. It had been raining slightly before I got up so I decided I wasn't going to go to parkrun. Instead I walked to Safeway in very light rain, and then to the post office in slightly heavier rain. At parkrun time (9 am) it was raining quite heavily and I was glad I wasn't there, but now it has cleared up and the sun has come out, and I'm feeling annoyed at the lack of cooperation from the weather this morning. I did buy some groceries (milk - essential for my cups of tea, plus a few other things) and also dropped off some unwanted books at the little book exchange in the post office building.

I also browsed quickly through the farmers market which was just opening outside the post office. I did not buy anything healthy; instead I bought a small lemon meringue pie. It was a toss-up between that and a chocolate whoopie pie.

duckprintspress

Next Saturday, June 14th, I’ll be driving down to Kingston NY to join A Big Gay Market in vending at the Unicorn Bar! This awesome venue is the only queer-focused nightlife space in the Hudson Valley region, and I know I’m dang excited to get to go there for the first time. There’ll be over 25 vendors there, and a share of the proceeds from the market as a whole and from some individual booths (mine included!) will be donated to AYNI Farm, a queer-, trans-, and BIPOC-cenetered herb farm in Hillsdale.

We’ll be at Unicorn Bar, rain or shine, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday June 14th! I hope to see you there!

shadowkat

Snagged from various places, mainly svgurl: 72 questions to ask a fan
(She says fangirl - but I just took Gender Identity Training (web module) this week and it kind of goes against the grain to use gender exclusive as opposed to gender inclusive language at the moment.)

Also, the Good News Report...

As always, good news is often in the eye of the beholder, but hopefully something makes you smile, outside of the link to the fan questions. Which I may or may not try to answer at a later date. I'm weirdly private about my fandoms.

1.Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’
Exclusive: Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body.

Via the Guardian

"Exclusive: Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body."

2. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues Alina Habba, alleging ‘false arrest and malicious prosecution’. Alina Habba's criminal case against Ras Baraka collapsed quickly. Now, the tables have turned, and the Newark mayor is suing the prosecutor.

Via Democracy Docket

3.Judge says some migrants sent to an El Salvador prison must have a chance to challenge their detention. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to provide hundreds of migrants sent to CECOT, a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, the opportunity to challenge their detention and removal. The ruling is related to deportations ordered under the Alien Enemies Act.

Via NBC News

This doesn't apply to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man whose deportation became a focal point of Democratic resistance to Trump's immigration policies.

4. The Trump regime has returned a Guatemalan man who was improperly deported to Mexico, obeying a federal judge’s order.

Via Politico

5. More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity. Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols on Sunday unveiled a $105 million reparations plan for the descendants of the Tulsa race massacre — the deadly 1921 attack by a white mob on a Black neighborhood.

ABC News

Via NY Times

( the rest )

cosmolinguist

Last month I met someone whose visa has just been approved and who started T today.

What a good day.

I was excited to meet another trans immigrant... so much that I immediately behaved as if there was a kind of intimacy between us that does not in fact exist: I teased him about how he only had a few hours left until he started being stinky...and then as we were leaving he asked me "wait, so about that smell thing, was that serious, because I've been wondering...."

oh no!

But! It worked out okay: I saw him again a fortnight later, and he made a point of telling me I was right about the stinkiness. Which made me smile but also gave me a chance to apologize for saying something that could be so easily misconstrued. I tried to explain about the false sense of intimacy I immediately felt when

He said it was fine, it was funny. To be understood as I'd intended was a relief!

He told me that the person standing next to him, an acquaintance of mine, someone he had been draped over all evening, has been counting his facial hairs.

As of that day there were eight of them.

It was so heartwarming and delightful to see early transition so intimately documented like that. Especially for a masc person; the loving detail is something I'm so much more used to seeing from trans fems.

mallorys_camera

Oh, this is sad! 😢

The Pine Bush UFO Fair & parade is scheduled for today, and it is raining.

In the mid-1980s, Pine Bush, New York, was the UFO Capital of the Western World. Hundreds of reports described a V-shaped craft adorned with colored lights that hovered slowly and silently in the sky, a sighting that became known as "the Westchester Boomerang" 'cause I guess it was sighted in Westchester County, too.

Of course, Pine Bush is relatively near what was, in the mid-80s, a military base, Stewart Airfield.

I remain agnostic on the subject of UFOs.

And will probably toddle off to Pine Bush anyway in a few minutes 'cause short drive.

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Meanwhile, despite the humid, hot, sticky weather of the past few days, I have been trying to hold off on AC because AC is terrible for the environment (energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions 'cause refrigerants.)

So, yesterday I bought myself a portable DREO fan, which I gotta say, is just amazing 'cause it keeps me cool even when the Patrizia-torium is a sauna.

DREO is made in China, which I don't like. I've been boycotting goods made in China since forever for a reason nobody really cares about anymore: Tibet.

But sometimes ya gotta buy what ya gotta buy.

disneydream06

Gay Trivia...

In which year did the World Health Organization declare that homosexuality was not an illness?

A: 1977
B: 1985
C: 1990
D: 2000

( The Answer )

veronyxk84 posting in

100words

Title: Wrecking Ball
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author:

veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Buffy
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S6, during ep. 6x08 “Tabula Rasa”
Summary: Buffy suddenly gets her memories back.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Prompt: #445 - In Your Shoes

Crossposted:

drabble_zone,

anythingdrabble, My journal, Sunnydale After Dark

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( READ: Wrecking Ball )

paranoidangel posting in

tardis_library

Title: 15th Doctor Leaked Scene With Dalek
Creator: TopHatCrew
Rating: Unrated, but I'd say this was General/All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 0:22
Creator's Summary: Worked super hard on this. Almost 20 hours of rendering time, 4 hours of CGI animation, 2 hours of sound work, 2 hours of compositing and did the voice myself. Hope you like it
Characters/Pairings: Fifteenth Doctor, Dalek
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's short and silly.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW_kRolrz0o

the_siobhan

Steroids are fucking magic, yo. They have returned my cat to his normal bitchy emotionally needy self. They have also taken most of the stabbing out of my foot so I can walk without limping, at least while I'm moving around the house. I cheated a bit and put some of the foot cream on my arm because I officially overdid it with the shovelling, and as a result I can now lift a water glass without wincing.

What a country.

Upper third of my yard is now graded and seeded. My daughter came over and helped. She's not getting a lot of hours at work so she has an open invitation to come over and help me move dirt from one place to another whenever she wants to make a few bucks and be given beer and dinner. It works out well for both of us.

Basement guys came back today - they said they figured they had about three hours of work to finish. More swearing in Polish ensued. In the end they were in my basement for eight hours, but they got it all done. They had to build entirely new frames to hang the doors from and there was at least one hardware store trip to replace borked parts in the storm door and BOY HOWDY did they have something to say about that, but everything is now perfect and the basement apartment has functional doors that work and close and lock and everything.

Next step: I got somebody to come over and have a look at finishing the wood work. This consists of:
1. The stairs from the kitchen door to the backyard. Currently about a three foot drop, which I have been climbing up and down but that's not a perfect long term solution. (Especially in winter.)
2. The stairs from the basement apartment into the yard, are flimsy, wobbly, and don't have any hand rails so they are definitely not code. They are also resting on a base of wooden slats that just randomly shift if you put your weight in the wrong spot. I have no fucking idea what Original Contractor was even thinking. They need to be replaced with something that will pass a city inspection and that also will not kill you when you try to use them.
3. I want to put some kind of a sound-proof bench over the sump pump, because that fucker is loud. Also I figure an exposed ginormous battery is possibly a safety hazard of some kind. So the guy who looked at it said they can build something that acts as a solid bench but you can flip the top up if it needs maintenance, which sounds perfect.
4. My original blueprints include a deck on the kitchen roof. That would be really nice if I can swing it, but we'll see how much this all costs. Mainly it would be an additional place for me to grow herbs and stuff so it's in the "nice to have" pile.

( CUT FOR GROSS, SERIOUSLY YOU WERE WARNED )

Every time I see my doctor she asks me how the Not Drinking is going and every single time I'm all, FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK.

fairyniamh

Quote:

"I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back."

"When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us."

~ Prince

Facts: (Unique Town/City Names)

Utah :

American Fork - Settlers changed the name from Lake City to American Fork in 1860, after the American Fork River that ran through the town. (That's it, they'd had. Put a fork in it, it's done.)

Hurricane - which is pronounced "Her-a-kun" by local residents. Received its name after a whirlwind blew the top off a buggy in which Erastus Snow was riding. Snow exclaimed, "Well, that was a Hurricane. We'll name this 'Hurricane Hill'." (Well now, I think that a hurricane has a better chance of hitting the Dallas, TX area than land locked Utah.)

Crossposts: https://fairyniamh.insanejournal.com/375117.html

koshka_the_cat

That's all that's left! Unless I want a belt. Or don't like the buttons I just made. I like them, but they're wooden buttons covered in knitting, so large.

I tried it on as much as I could with the side straps, and I think they're the right size. I hope. I wove the ends in because there were so annoying.

I know the straps will be annoying to get the right length. I'll knit them at the same time so I don't have to worry about making them match.

cornerofmadness

Now this quote is easier said than done.

I managed to finish and post my

intoabar story. I’m not 100% happy with it but it’s a worthy sequel to the first one. Got about 1000 words accomplishing that.

If I've missed you on the tally let me know. Feel free to jump in at any time.

Day Six

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

ysilme,

goddess47,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

goddess47,

nafs,

the_siobhan,

lilly_c,

brithistorian,

cmk418,

( other days )

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Doctor Strange

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3099/

The installation of the pipes on the inside of the insulation can be challenging, especially when the neighbor could come home at any minute.

https://xkcd.com/3099/

conuly

has got to be shrinkflation of dumb phone games.

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cornerofmadness

Since nothing interesting happened today have stories. Look I finished my

intoabar story. I'm not as happy with it as I was the one that came before it last year but it's still fun

Title: Somebody’s Eyes

Fandom: Hazbin Hotel/The Owl House

Character/Pairing: Edalyn Clawthorn/Raine Whispers, Angel Dust/Husk, Charlie Morningstar/Vaggie

Summary: Edalyn decides to take Raine and Lilith through the portal to revisit the people she met at the Hazbin Hotel on her last visit. They have even more fun than last time.

Rating: teen and up

Author Note - Written for my into a bar challenge for 2025. My challenge was exactly the same as last year so how could I not write a sequel? My challenge was Eda Clawthorne goes into a bar and meets... Niffty (Hazbin Hotel)! And if you want to see last year’s story (they’re stand alones but if you want to, please do) head here to read To Travel is To Live

Also written for the lyrical titles album challenge 2025 using the Footloose album and the song Somebody’s Eyes by Karla Bonoff. (I was thinking of all the eyes on things in both fandoms. I admit it, it’s a lame title).

Also written for spikesgirl58’s six word challenge. The six words were Repeat, Amuse, Official, Sword, Captivate, & Reform and for the allbingo prompt of Nonbinary

( story at the above link or under here )

Here's my fannish 50 recs of the week

our sadness provides us a home Star Trek: Prodigy

A Blessing or a Curse? Hazbin Hotel

Invasion Of Privacy Torchwood

Out Of The Storm FAKE

Meraki The Owl House

Stupidity Torchwood

Kept Unspoken Criminal Minds

crawl into my heart, take me apart
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The Outlier The Murderbot Diaries

Body Image The Owl House

New Discoveries The Owl House

Faraway Lands Torchwood

Bitter Victory Buffy the Vampire Slayer

nothing is better Star Trek: Voyager

Planning for the Winter Solstice Celebration
Stargate Atlantis/Stargate SG-1

Natural Hazbin Hotel

Pretty Boy Hazbin Hotel

The Night of the Third Task Harry Potter

Steve Week Shorties The Owl House

Stop and Smell the The Murderbot Diaries

Introducing the Hale Pack Teen Wolf

An Unexpected Form of Belonging Teen Wolf

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: The Golden Girls

senmut

Almost the end of a decade in 1989. Revolutions, crackdowns, changes in power ... look, 1989 left a mark on my psyche. Evidently I was escaping into the cinema as much as I was to the roller rink, judging from me opening 20 tabs even with me being picky. Going to narrow that down some. Okay, 11 in the final cut.

( kinda grouped in genre broadly )

circii posting in

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Name:circii or bunnii

Age: 30s

Country: Australia

I mostly post about: My journal is very new, i think I decided to make it because I was feeling a bit low and just wanted to write about my feelings and interests and hopefully find like-minded people. I'm also trying to make my web experience a more pleasant one, so I like looking at journals and personal websites. Indie web, small web, that kind of thing I yearn for so I might share things I find! But so far, I like to yap about my daily life and my practice in fighting games. I just started a fight log so I can hopefully more clearly see my progress! I will probably generally just talk about other things like anime, video games and maybe I'll post art or photos taken on my digicam. Also I'm queer and figuring things out still lmao

My hobbies are: Currently I'm focused in on fighting games (granblue rising, but I'm also a street fighter and guilty gear enjoyer), working on my art, vtubing, crochet and the smallest smattering of baby guitar when I can find time after all that. Other interests that can come back into my rotation is language study (Japanese and Spanish), miniature painting, nail art, weightlifting, snorkeling (I dream of scuba/free diving tho!)

My fandoms are:I'm not deep in any fandom at the moment but I enjoy content from sailor moon, granblue, guilty gear, general DnD stuff, hololive, vshojo and arcane. I'm also a huge Lady Gaga fan. And a lover of My Chemical Romance.

I'm looking to meet people who: I think are cool! I enjoy reading other people's day-to-day life and their passions, might get me excited about something new , too! If we hype over similar things that's a tasty cherry on top ;9

My posting schedule tends to be: aiming for at least a few times a week.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: if you don't support LGBTQ+, if you excuse any wars, if you support generative AI, you know if you lean in those kinds of directions - please don't talk to me.

Before adding me, you should know: I'm sorry if my post was too long! And I might be using this as a form of therapy (cuz therapy is expensive) so if I do post something that's a bit heavier, I'll learn how to put it behind a cut and maybe make it friends only. But I think I'll try and keep cheery here! I'm still learning how to use this site