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I'm writing this with a cat on my lap. I have to periodically remind Carter that he can't grab for balance at shirt. There are breasts under there, my dude, and your claws are unwelcome. Really. But I can't bring myself to knock him off my lap. That's partly because I love him, and partly because I know it won't do much good; in a minute or two, he'll be back on my lap. I have found myself repeatedly surprised by finding him back on my lap after dumping him - I don't even notice him coming up to my lap until after he's made himself comfortable and me uncomfortable. Cats. Go figure.

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Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Ateez "Sunrise"

aurumcalendula

The Xena fanvid VHS arrived safely!

There's 33 fanvids on it (~2 hours of time in total)

Most don't have vidders listed.

I think it might be a mix of VCR and digital vids (there's some with effects and/or fanart included) and I think the tape is from sometime after 2001 (since there's footage of the finale in some vids).

Some (not all) have significant horizontal pink and green lines - I'm wondering if that's from the VHS or the footage in those vids (and/or a result of me initially having the VCR set on LP instead of SP).

I have a DVD-R of it recorded in LP quality and I'm recording one in SP quality.

conuly

I'm worried I lost my kindle when I misplaced my red bag in which everything is. Well, not everything, but perhaps my kindle. Or maybe not. My kindle might be under my bed. If it's not under my bed, I'll have to replace it sooner or later. I'm a bit wary of looking and finding out one way or another.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today was unseasonably warm and sunny, so I took pictures around the yard. The first few are from indoors, then the rest are the house yard.

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hannah

In helping one of my clients sort through several decades of personal photos, we found the Polaroids of the man sitting on a bed and masturbating with his head out of frame came with a note where he extorted his adoration for her and his desire to masturbate while she watched. Our best guess is he followed her to her building and gave the doorman some story about knowing her and needing her apartment number to get back in touch.

I didn't get a good look and they're long gone by now. I didn't ask why she'd kept them these last few decades or why she decided now was the time to throw them out, either. But the story lives on, and proof positive unsolicited dick pics have been around for as long as the technology for the pics themselves. It was something I'd suspected and in an odd way, it was nice to see the firsthand confirmation.

Only slightly more surprising was seeing someone else pick a cigarette pack out of the trash, fish through the pack, pull out the last one in there, toss the pack away, and start smoking it. I didn't stay to watch, knowing it'd be rude to stare, but boy, what an addiction that is.

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SPIKE: Buckle up, kids. Daddy's puttin' the hammer down.

~~Spiral~~

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Music Hath Charms by Aadler (Oz, T)

All the other animals are laughing by Blooddebt (Buffy/Spike, E)
Souls, and other forms of conscience by Murderpart1 (Willow & Scoobies, not rated)
Be Not Afraid by OGSamsa (Angelus, Darla, T)

Stark Contrast, Chapters 1-3 by BlueStories (Buffy, MCU/Iron Man crossover, FR15)
An Elf In Darkness, Chapter 4 by BlueStories (Faith, Lord of the Rings crossover, FR15)
For Her, Chapter 5 by Tjin (Xander, Lord of the Rings crossover, FR13)
Teams Meeting by EllenBrand (Scoobies, FR7)

[Chaptered Fiction]

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion, Chapter 416 by madimpossibledreamer (Ensemble, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure crossover, T)

Flying, Chapter 5 by Jasmine_Shigeru (Angel/Cordelia, T)
Faith: Wicked Game, Chapter 13 (complete!) by Michaelt (Faith, not rated)
Second Time Is the Charm. That is The Saying, Right? Chapter 20 by Laqt15 (Spike/Andrew, E)
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Boston Doll, Chapter 5 by QuillBard (Buffy/Faith, M)
Put Me Down, Chapter 13 by Inspectorrr (Faith/Buffy, E)
Addiction, Chapter 2 by Sunnydays530 (Angelus/Buffy, M)
Painting Over Scars, Chapter 1 by OlaZofia (Buffy/Giles, E)

Stark Contrast, Chapters 1-3 by BlueStories (Buffy, MCU/Iron Man crossover, FR15)
An Elf In Darkness, Chapter 4 by BlueStories (Faith, Lord of the Rings crossover, FR15)
For Her, Chapter 5 by Tjin (Xander, Lord of the Rings crossover, FR13)

In Your Dreams, Chapter 8 by Geliot99 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
Revelations, Chapter 60 by Niamh (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
Re-heated, Chapter 17 by splendidchapette (Buffy/Spike, R)
Short and Spuffy 26, Chapter 6 by Sarahvampgrl (Buffy/Spike, PG)
A Series of Unfortunate Spins, Chapter 6 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)
Home Sweet Home, Chapter 6 by Lilacsandorangeblossoms (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)
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Dearest Gentle Slayer, Chapter 6 by LadyInQuest (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
I Can’t Make You Fall in Love Again, Chapter 6 by Maxine Eden (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
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Captive Audience, Chapter 5 by Grief Counseling (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
Idiosyncratic Use of Advanced Dimensional Folding as Mediated Through an Organic System, Chapter 2 by zinjadu (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)
Riding Shotgun on the Hunt, Chapter 6 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)
The Map that Leads to You, Chapter 1 by VioletMoon (Buffy/Spike, R)
The Big Pig-ture, Chaoter 2 by Rea (Buffy/Spike, G)

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1) At the grocery this morning and their clothing displays mirror the seesaw of our weather – puffy coats next to sundresses. It was so warm today than when I came back to drop the groceries off, I had to change into a t-shirt before I went out again, and it was barely 10 AM.

2) Had a nice piece of luck as well. The grocery was running a $10 coupon for $100 or more of purchases. I had to drop my partner off at work this morning because he had an all-day thing, and in the rush forgot to take the grocery list. So as I was putting stuff in the trunk I remembered I'd forgotten his celery. Went back and decided to pick up a few more things since I had the $10 coupon now. Got to the register and realized someone had left that same coupon sitting in the machine when they left! So I got the $10 off and still have my coupon for next week.

It amazes me how people don't bother taking their coupons. It's usually for things they're buying anyway and a free item is not unusual. And this was literally $10 in cash sitting there, when groceries are so expensive! I didn't even know what it was at first, just saw that someone hadn't taken their coupon and figured I'd look to see if it was something I could use.

3) Also on the grocery front, I have recently become addicted to Sumo oranges. Came across them during a sale, and got just one bag because they're pricey. Came back home with 3 the following week.

Oranges have never been my favorite, even though we had incredibly good ones growing in our backyard growing up. These are the closest I've gotten to those. I never end up eating only one.

3) As part of

marchmetamatterschallenge, I have been going through my

tv_talk comments in case I discussed much about a show (mostly, no). However it was a good reminder about a great many shows I watched which I liked and would recommend, but might not think of if someone asked me.

Some of these were strong throughout, and some long running ones have some weaker seasons but still worth watching. In no particular order, just as they came up on my entries: ( Read more... )

4) One of the things reviewing all these past posts made me aware of is how much more TV I'm watching, but overall with less enjoyment. Every so often I hit a show I would really recommend, but usually they fall into the "ok" category or I just nope out of it a few episodes in.

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pauraque

Though written before it, this book chronologically follows Wild Seed. It picks up the story in 1970s Los Angeles, where the body-hopping immortal Doro has continued his human breeding program, now focused on creating a race of telepaths who can mind-control ordinary humans into total subjugation. He has high hopes for his daughter/lover Mary to become his most powerful telepath yet, but when her abilities fully mature, she accidentally links herself to several other telepaths, gaining psychic power over them. Now, for the first time in thousands of years, there's a real threat to Doro's control and the continuation of his eugenics project.

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As I think about this book, a thought keeps arising: This book has no good guys. Mary is not a good guy. She's is positioned as the protagonist because she opposes Doro, and in the world of the books Doro is, if not literally the worst person on Earth, at least the person with the most power to do the most harm over the longest period of time. He is a merciless sociopath who will not stop until he is the absolute ruler of humanity. Being a better person than him is a low, low bar.

To be fair, Mary never intended to bring others under her control and she doesn't know how to stop it, and she at least has some conception of using her power to help others, even if only other telepaths. And yes, most telepaths were dying or succumbing to mental breakdowns before she set up a plan to help them. But she has no qualms about enslaving the mutes (non-telepaths) and using them as an underclass to serve her and the Patternists. Some characters voice concerns, but by that time it's basically too late, she's already consolidated her power and there's no going back.

Doro's downfall has the shape of classical tragedy, as his obsession with controlling others spectacularly backfires and rebounds on him. Everything he's been working towards points inevitably to this outcome, as he creates people with stronger and stronger powers while believing he would somehow remain in control of them. But he can't have it both ways. He's made Mary everything she is, and while she lacks his immortality, she has something he doesn't: followers who see her as a savior, who love her because she's made their lives better, not just because they're scared of her.

No reader is ever going to be sad about Doro finally being defeated, but his defeat means the triumph of a society where an enslaved majority serve a privileged minority. The best you can say for it is that power is shared with a sizeable elite rather than concentrated in one absolute despot. It's the victory of the lesser of two evils—emphasis on the evil. (And again, I am reminded of Kindred's chilling examination of "less bad" enslavers in real world history.)

There actually is one good guy in the book, though. Anyanwu (here called Emma) is a tertiary character. Of course, this was written before her character had been fully revealed in Wild Seed; I wonder how much Butler already knew about her? I'm not sure what I would have thought of her if this book were all I knew. This reading order emphasizes that the best Anyanwu could ever do was to fight Doro to a stalemate, and suggests that she could never defeat him in part because she wasn't ruthless enough. Unlike Mary, she wasn't born into his twisted world, and she has a moral code that goes beyond mere self-preservation. No wonder Mary can't stand her.

With this book I felt more of a sense of it being backstory to an existing work, setting up for what's to come. Which is exactly what it is—it was written as a prequel to the first-published book in the series. And Wild Seed was in turn a prequel to Mind of My Mind, but I got more of a stand-alone vibe from that one. I still do not actually know what eventually becomes of Doro and Mary's descendants, but I am guessing it doesn't go super great for humanity!

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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 Friday to midnight on Saturday (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34333 Daily poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 9

How are you doing?

I am okay
6 (66.7%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
3 (33.3%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
4 (44.4%)

One other person
4 (44.4%)

More than one other person
1 (11.1%)

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.

althea_valara

And maybe not tomorrow, either - I did a TON of knitting the past three days and my hands are OUCH, so I need to rest them. Gonna take a break and read tonight.

Worst case scenario, we'll get back to it next Friday with more FFXI: Wings of the Goddess.

pegkerr

This was one of the weeks where the theme of this week's collage wasn't immediately obvious. I was buried in administrative projects, which included the work I'm not talking about relating the ICE Metro Surge here in Minnesota, various Things That Had to Get Done, and taxes. I checked a lot of things off my personal checklist this week, but feel stiff and logey, as I spent much too much time stuck behind a computer screen rather than being up and moving around.

Taxes are now done and filed, and I will be getting a modest return back.

As I worked on the collage during a Zoom get-together with friends today, I fretted about the collage as I assembled it. Sometimes I really like what I put together, and sometimes I'm vaguely dissatisfied. "It's boring," I complained to my friends.

"Put a dragon in it," Eleanor Arnason told me. "Dragons always make everything better."

You will notice the small brass dragon paperweight to the right of the keyboard.

Image description: Lower half: a woman's hands rest on the keyboard of a laptop. A spreadsheet is displayed on the screen. A cup of coffee and a brass dragon paperweight rests on the table to the right of the keyboard. Upper half: a heap of notebooks and paperwork related to taxes cover the surface of a table.

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[65x] Hazbin Hotel (Angel Dust)
[35x] RWBY (Blake/Yang)

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caramarie

I went to ‘Wuthering Heights’ last night, spontaneously, and enjoyed myself. Cried copiously at the end (as well as the montage after Cathy’s marriage). Although I also appreciate the woman in the audience who on the very final shot said, ‘What the fuck?’ Indeed.

I haven’t read the book, so have no feelings about the film as adaptation. I do apparently think that period-breaking is okay, but NOT with plastic dresses. No plastic please.

Also, getting rid of Heathcliff’s beard was a mistake. Pre-timeskip with long hair and beard = hot; clean-shaven and short hair = not. It’s not like I’m even into beards! Or so I thought -_-

muccamukk

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I guess the joint tour is going well. This is the most wholesome fucking shit I've ever seen.

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KarQ posted two videos so far of new hero mythbusting, testing a bunch of interactions with all these new abilities in the game! I found them super helpful:

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js_thrill

Today's song is Black Molly

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This is "Firearms Suite #3". That Hippolytine feeling has the narrator under threat from someone else wielding a gun, while Going to Georgia and this track both feature the narrator exhibiting troubling behavior with firearms. The sound of the song is nice. The music is good, and the way he sings it works with the music. This narrator feels more troubled and troublesome than the narrator of Going to Georgia (maybe the fact that the narrator in Going to Georgia traveled with the gun is more troubling; but this narrator—described by Darnielle as having their anxiety turned all the way up—is engaging in much clearer violent ideation.

Darnielle's novel Wolf in White Van also features a troubled protagonist with a disturbing interest in a firearm, though the narrative is largely set subsequent to that protagonist's primary encounter with firearms, in the aftermath. I saw that Darnielle started writing Wolf in White Van almost immediately after finishing Master of Reality, and that actually helped click some things into place about the protagonist of Wolf in White Van, who shares some DNA (figuratively speaking) with the narrator of Master of Reality.

Darnielle's choice to label these songs as "firearm suite" suggests that he wants us to focus on the brief period when his writing leaned into romanticization of guns, but the actual annotations tend to be almost entirely about other aspects of the stories, punctuated by maybe one comment on the presence of firearms in the song. In this case, he doesn't really linger on the presence of the gun, except to mention that he feels nervous about whether the fish tank will get shot when he sings the song (even knowing how it turns out).

I suspect that this song didn't have the crowd appeal and staying power of Going to Georgia, and so doesn't get the same level of scrutiny or mixed feelings from him.

Darnielle's annotations did give me something else to look forward to; a date I suspect will be one of my favorite songs (March 22nd), since he mentioned buying a particular pack of peanuts that we will hear more about on March 22nd. Now that one is a song I love and don't have conflicted feelings about its role in the Mountain Goats fandom hierarchy or Darnielle's reflections on his own unfortunate narrative fascinations as a young writer.

Current Music: Black Molly — The Mountain Goats

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Blade Runner (1982)

Since I know all you Blade Runner fans need to know this, I was watching the Final Cut. Anyway, this was a good experience for the most part, if not "BEST FILM EVAR" level. The city was really interesting since I love world-building in films, and you could imagine spending time there if you could hack the weather and the general dystopia. Harrison Ford was very solid as Deckard, and I really grew to enjoy the 1980s notion of what future tech would be. No smartphones or LCD screens in 2019, folks, you heard it here first! I dunno, maybe they'd just have all seized up in the rain.

I mean, I do kind of get the feeling that Ridley Scott thought up this incredible setting and then asked himself, "So, what about a plot?" because what I get from it is not massively original even for 44 years ago. Replicants, designed with a built-in expiry date, going rogue, your friendly neighbourhood blade runner (who amusingly cannot fight for toffee) has to sort them out. Aged less well in a few points, not least a thankfully short scene with Rachael that sits uncomfortably with today's views of consent. I get that it's playing on noir films that did similar, but still.

Okay, to the "Tears in Rain" speech. It was... okay, I guess. I suspect having seen it everywhere for decades has robbed it of the power it probably had in 1982, since the underlying concept is still worthwhile. The movie's slow pace is nice for the most part, especially in the city driving shots. That bloody ESPER image enhancer scene went on and on and on, though. Vangelis's music works well, and seeing big ads for Pan Am is amusing more than distracting. Oh, and there's a unicorn, so yay for that. ★★★½

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susandennis

Today, I received in the snail mail, a single sheet of paper telling me my tax return had been filed electronically. WTF? Stamps aren't free or cheap. Email works a lot faster. Holy crap.

A long while back, they served fried okra on the dinner buffet and it was fabulous. I bought extra and froze it then heated it up in the air fryer. It was better than fabulous. I love fried okra but I hate cutting it, breading it and frying it. So, on a whim, I asked the food and bev people if I could buy a batch of fried okra. I didn't care when, I didn't care how much. They said 'sure' just let us know when you are ready. Then I went on Wegovy and I wanted to wait a bit to see how that would go.

Finally, last week, I emailed that I was ready. They said $15 for 3 lbs. I said great. And today they made it happen. 6 gynormous bags of fried okra. For $15!!!

I put 5 in the freezer and pulled out 3 handfuls to crisp up for lunch. 2 would have been plenty. But so yum.

What a happy camper am I???!!!!

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asakiyume

We eat rice almost every night, so I buy it in 20-pound bags--Goya medium-grain rice. For us, it's pretty much as good as Japanese short-grain rice and less expensive. (Sometimes we have different rice--basmati or jasmine or wild rice, or any style of brown rice, but generally it's white Goya medium-grain rice.)

I like the look of the bags, and I thought it would be fun to use an empty bag as a bag ... and finally I got round to making one:

Here's the front, with a fold-over flap

woman modeling a long-strapped bag made from a 20-lb Goya rice bag

And here's the back

woman modeling a long-strapped bag made from a 20-lb Goya rice bag

Might take it grocery shopping with me next time I go!

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Guardian Reverse Exchange 2026. Image shows Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan facing each other, gripping the Sundial between them.

The Annual Interdimensional Haixing-Dixing 520 Day Reverse Exchange is coming back for 2026!

520 sounds like "I love you" in Mandarin, so May 20th is a bit like Valentine's Day. To celebrate, we're back with the eighth annual 520 Day Reverse Exchange. As the name says, this is a reverse exchange: instead of making your request and that request being assigned to a writer/artist/fanwork creator, here:

You sign up with the kinds of things you enjoy creating.
You choose three writers/artists/fanwork creators based on anonymised ads.
You make a request of each of them based on what they enjoy creating.
You are assigned one request to create for, based on your offer.
You receive a gift from one of the creators you chose.

(An updated rules/info post will go up before sign-ups open, but here is last year's for reference.)

This year's schedule

Sign-ups part 1 - offers: Sunday 15 March - Friday 27 March
Sign-ups part 2 - requests: Saturday 28 March - Friday 3 April
Matching: Saturday 4 April - Tuesday 7 April
Assignments out: Wednesday 8 April at the latest
Deadline: Wednesday 13 May
Work reveals: Wednesday 20 May (there is no anon period)

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davidlevine

As you may now if you've been following me for some time, I'm a big fan of European-style Live Action Role Playing (LARP). One LARP I was really excited about back in 2024 was called Odysseus. Inspired by Battlestar Galactica (and other SF TV shows and movies), the game was played in Finland on an incredibly detailed and interactive spaceship set, and had a lot of hype after its successful 2019 run. So much hype, in fact, that the two 2024 runs were massively oversubscribed, and I was very disappointed not to get a ticket in the lottery.

But now Odysseus is back, in an exciting new form. The organizers, realizing that the massive volunteer effort and cost to create and then disassemble the spaceship set were unsustainable, have decided to crowdfund ten more runs of the game in 2026-2027. If the campaign succeeds -- which depends on them selling out all ten runs -- they'll have nearly a million dollars to play with, and will be able to set up a permanent spaceship set and pay the staff to run it. That'll give people choices about when to attend, create the possibility of runs in Finnish and Swedish (and maybe more!), and provide a facility that can be used for corporate events, educational events, and new and different science fiction LARPs. If the 2026-2027 runs demonstrate that this can be run as a sustainable business, it might go even longer than that.

But none of this will happen unless the crowdfunding campaign succeeds. I've backed it, pledging for 3 tickets for myself and my partners plus an additional pledge to increase the campaign's chances of success. I encourage you to check it out, and pledge if you can. I think I can guarantee that if you attend this LARP you will have a fabulous time.

Back the campaign here: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/ellarion-tales/odysseus-first-light

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Title: Eight by Thirteen
Creator:

TrishyEves
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1972 words
Creator's Summary: Whatever the Doctor had planned for them, an unexpected stop in Cardiff leads to a strange appearance on the monitor: a second TARDIS, sitting next to theirs.
Characters/Pairings: Thirteenth Doctor/Charley Pollard, Eighth Doctor, C'rizz
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's fun and sweet and a fluffy uncomplicated Doctors meeting.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29871504

ysabetwordsmith

Water bears on Mars: Tardiguardians of the Galaxy?

Tardigrades – also known as water bears – are tiny animals about 1 mm or less in size. They’re known for being able to survive in extreme environments.
Tardigrades can survive in simulated Martian regolith, researchers found … if you rinse it with water first.
Future astronauts could use tardigrades to help grow plants and survive in habitats on Mars.

Tardigrades are interesting little extremophiles. They can survive a wide array of harsh conditions, such as radiation and starvation. Some live in desolate conditions; others live in warm, green places hence their nickname "moss bears." This implies that they excel at colonizing harsh terrain, but they can also take advantage of better conditions. They're about as close to indestructible as life on Earth has gotten. So it makes sense to take them along for space exploration.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is mostly sunny, unseasonably warm, and windy. It drizzled on and off yesterday and last night. Today the wind is drying things out some.

I fed the birds. I haven't seen any yet.

I put out water for the birds.

Lots of flowers are blooming -- the crocuses are open and I spotted a winter aconite.

EDIT 3/6/26 -- I took some pictures around the yard.

I saw a turkey vulture wheeling overhead. I've also seen a small flock of house finches and some sparrows at the hopper feeder.

EDIT 3/6/26 -- I transplanted volunteer snowdrops from the parking lot to the apricot tree.

EDIT 3/6/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 3/6/26 -- I tried using a pruning saw on one of the remaining saplings in the parking lot. I managed to make a small cut, but clearly this method is too inefficient to bring down a sapling. *sigh*

EDIT 3/6/26 -- I transplanted more snowdrops from the parking lot to the apricot tree.

The first Ginger Gold apple seedling has appeared in the milk jug, and indoors, one of the apple seeds has also sprouted. :D 3q3q3q!!! All my willow cuttings are leafed out. Last night the lower stems had tiny white dots; today they have distinct little root buds. Their speed is impressive.

The first peony shoots are appearing in the tulip bed and under the apricot tree.

EDIT 3/6/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 3/6/26 -- I started trimming brush along the north edge of the house.

I am done for the night.

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I connected with this graphic novel about a mental health journey in a way that I tried to but never did with Allie Brosh's work. Stevenson (who has undergone a gender transition since publishing this in 2020) is maybe more relatable to me personally, as a gifted and driven overachiever who pushes to the brink of burnout and beyond. That being said, it probably does help when reading this to already be familiar with the author's other works, especially Nimona (which I have only read in audiobook format - I should fix that).

lovelyangel

Last night I was puzzled as to why Backblaze wasn’t backing up Homura II. But it was late, and I decided to follow up in the morning.

This morning, no backup was occurring, and I forced a Backup Now. After a few minutes of wheels turning, everything stopped again. Backblaze reported 0 files to be backed up.

Backblaze Backup Status • March 6, 2026

But I could see that 7.6TB was selected for backup. Could it be that backup was done?

I began the process to request a data restore so I could see what was in the cloud. Amazingly, all 5+ TB of Homura II was there.

Backblaze Restore Files screen • March 6, 2026

I drilled down into the tree structure and confirmed that both folders from TWICE concerts in January 2026 were there.

It appears that Backblaze was smart enough to connect stored data from Homura (I) with the new Homura II drive. All my Lightroom data is backed up to the cloud – and I even know how to do a restore from that backup!

(They say you should always test your backup with a restore. Consider my backup tested.)

Previously
Well, That’s Not Good...
Home System 2026

chickenfeet

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/03/06/the-herald/

sarajayechan

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dolorosa_12

I had to catch the bus home after work on Tuesday, instead of my regular train, but this longer, more frustrating journey was made somewhat enjoyable by the conversation two teenage boys were having behind me. They began the trip updating their respective mothers over the phone that they were going to be late home (with many repeated 'love you Mum! Yeah, love you Mum!' and so on), then pivoted to the epic online sleuthing they had undertaken when one of their friends claimed to have a new girlfriend but only provided photographic evidence of this ('It was so easy! All I had to do was reverse image-search the photo and it was obvious he'd just taken photos of a random girl on Instagram and Pinterest!'), then pivoted to the sort of inane philosophising that teenagers think is deep ('Religion is obviously just a tool for social control ... all wars in history were started because of religion — apart from economic wars'), and finally, having exhausted all other lines of conversation, started talking about how much they loved cheese and just naming different types of cheese ('Halloumi!' 'Gouda!' 'Do you know you can make your own mozzarella?' and so on).

I found the whole thing kind of endearing, and it certainly provided entertainment over the course of the 50-minute bus ride.

I never use headphones in public spaces as I like to stay alert, so I have overheard the most ridiculous things over the years, including:

A woman updating one of her friends about a family member who had just been released from prison

A guy spending the entire hour-long train ride from Cambridge to London instructing his letting agent on how to make a legal case for evicting a tenant from his property

A guy spending the entire Cambridge-London train ride talking through various complex financial market trades he was making

A young guy explaining to his girlfriend (I was sitting across from them on one of those sets of four seats around a table) that his afternoon had involved a) stealing a car, b) being chased by police as he attempted to steal said car, c) crashing the car in the police car chase and getting injured, d) the police attempting to take him to the emergency department at the hospital but refusing to go ('The car owner decided not to press charges, so I said to the police that if they weren't arresting me I didn't want to go with them to hospital') — all at absolute top volume such that the entire crowded carriage could hear every single word

I have also overheard so many specialist doctors call up their colleagues and convey huge amounts of sensitive patient information over the phone, in the reception area of our library, seemingly oblivious to the fact that a person sitting at a reception desk is actually a human being with functioning ears.

I find it absolutely excruciating to talk over the phone in public — anything more than arranging meeting times/places or letting someone know I'm running late and I'll basically immediately tell the person that I'll call them back when I'm at home — so it's always mind-boggling to me the amount of highly personal stuff that some people feel comfortable discussing at top volume in crowded public transport.

So, my question for this week's open thread: what is the strangest thing you've ever overheard on public transport?

susandennis

I noticed this morning that my bone conducting headphones for swimming had the beginning of a life ending split where the mechanics' house begins. They still work but it looks like their future is not certain. So, while I swam, I dreamed of getting the next iteration which can be used on land and sea and has Bluetooth. I figured I'd gorilla tape these for insurance and then contemplate the upgrade.

But, first, when I got home I checked the company website to see what their support looks like. I bought them from Amazon so I went to get the date and order number. July 14, 2024. Oh! They have a 2 year warranty. Well, all right then. No upgrade for me. I filled out their form and got an email and now wait for instructions. Depending on their process I might still get that upgrade.

Also while swimming, I crafted a tactful email to the CPA that asked WHEN THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING TO FILE MY RETURN???? I've been logging onto my IRS account every day looking ... except, it turns out, I was looking in the wrong place. Before I sent that email, I found the right place and discovered that, in fact, they did file it and the IRS has it and all is cool. So whew. Also the IRS now, finally, has a 'send me an email when stuff happens' option. And one for refund info. Both are opt out but now I've opted in. So I wait.

I got a nice text from the vet last night asking me about Biggie since he had two vaccinations yesterday. His only issue now is attitude.

Of course the water fountain has now started fountaining again. The new one arrives today. I may just return it.

I need some yogurt. And salt and sugar. So, I'm thinking Safeway this morning.

And that's about it for plans. I think I'll go find the gorilla tape as an interim fix for the headphones and then get dressed.

aurumcalendula

I was watching

killabeez's awesome Special Ops: Lioness fanvid the other day, and now I have a bit of a vidbunny for a different fandom.

Any idea if there's a cover of Can't Help Falling in Love with a similar vibe, but with a male vocalist? (there's a ton of covers of it, but I haven't found one that fits what I'm looking for yet)

theurbanspaceboi posting in

beagoldfish

what a round! it was quite a challenge to narrow down so many favourites to just a few works, but i've done so nevertheless. highlighted here are the pieces which especially spoke to me amidst the nearly two hundred incredible works which emerged over the past two months. thanks to everyone who participated, whether you’re included in this list or not; it has been such a pleasure to engage with a community so creative, cool, and curious. i’m already looking forward to bag26b!

arts & crafts:

art by coopbella. dc. on tumblr.
art by deathsdaisy. dispatch. on tumblr.
crochet gloves by marcicat. heated rivalry. on dw.
icons by marcicat. murderbot. on dw.
zines by xinger. mo dao zu shi. on dw.

fic:

“in my dreams” by naomileyers. gladiator. on ao3.
“not even whole” by naomileyers. gladiator. on ao3.
“out of aces” by naomileyers gladiator. on ao3.
“she loves me not” by trentcrimminallybeautiful. ted lasso. on ao3.
“sorrow the hollowed heart” by aureliamayy. gladiator. on ao3.
“super rare” by devinwolfi. heated rivalry. on ao3 and dw.
“unwrap” by trentcrimminallybeautiful. ted lasso. on ao3.

gifs:

top five hollonav kisses by devinwolfi. heated rivalry. on tumblr and dw.

miscellaneous:

first fandom mashup by xinger. star trek, power rangers, & mo dao zu shi. on dw.
kitchen raktajino by marcicat & starandrea . star trek. on dw.
“the lightning bolt [filk]” by farkenshnoffingottom. percy jackson and the olympians. on ao3.

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