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Sunday, July 6th, 2025 15:34
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I seem to have a new sleep pattern lately. I have a few bad nights in a row, where I can't get to sleep or I wake up too early or I wake up often during the night, then comes a night where I can't keep my eyes open for long enough to stay up until my normal bedtime. Last night was the night for not being able to stay awake, and I slept well, but still felt slightly tired when I got up this morning.

Today's photo prompt is "urgent", so I walked over to the nearby Urgent Care place to take a photo of all their signage, then continued on to the nearest Giant supermarket to take a photo of their signage for an upcoming prompt of "giant". The walk to and from Giant turned out to be slightly longer than I had thought and I ended up covering about 8 km/5 miles. I wasn't unhappy about that but I was getting very hungry by the time I got home as I'd only had one piece of toast at around 5 am before I left.

When I got back I found my new phone had been delivered in my absence, so after breakfast I spent about an hour getting it set up. The thing that took the longest was transferring my Signal account over from my old phone, but that was essential because that's what we use for the photo challenges.

It's not extremely hot today (about 28°C/83°F) but it's cloudy and feels very oppressive and the forecast says there's a chance of showers.

Birdfeeding

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 14:06
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Today is mostly cloudy and sweltering. 

I fed the birds.  I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.  Bees are visiting the small metal birdbath again.













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Sunday, July 6th, 2025 18:05
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(I’m sitting in a class in my freshman year which I don’t particularly enjoy, mainly because of the students in it. I sit in the first available seat I see next to a guy. Note that I’m a female who likes makeup and dressing fashionably. I’m “ethnic”, and so is the guy next to me.) […]

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You Mexican’t Be Serious

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 17:55
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Manager: "I thought you said you went to Mexico?"
Coworker: "I did."
Manager: "But Mexico is a desert."
Coworker: "The north is; close to the US border. Southern Mexico is actually a rainforest. I was in Cancún, so I was way down south."
Manager: "Rainforest? So you went to Brazil, then?"

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Some Customers Are Particularly Pun-gent

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 17:45
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I scan the first item, a bag of oranges.
Dad: "Orange you glad we started with that?"
His daughter exhales like she’s aged a year. I scan a loaf of bread. 
Dad: "That's the yeast I could do!"

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When You Get A Sink-ing Feeling

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 17:00
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Customer: "Our dishwasher died, and all these newer ones are too [sexist slur equating women to being weak]! You got any dishwashers that don’t take two hours to run? I don’t have all day to wait around for clean forks!"

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Aurendor D&D: Summary for 7/6 Game

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 13:50
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In this afternoon's game, the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

✨glimmers and good things - day 3 ✨

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 18:16
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today was a hard one. everything felt heavy and off-kilter, and finding glimmers wasn’t easy — but it felt important. small anchors, even if they’re a little wobbly.

🛏️ I had a proper lie-in this morning. Didn’t rush, didn’t feel guilty. Just let myself rest, and it felt right.

🍃 My Isabelle plushie was soft and solid and there when I needed grounding during a panic attack. Small comfort, big anchor.

📝 Coming back to blogging has felt really good — like reclaiming a piece of myself. Even better, I’ve been getting some lovely comments that have made me feel seen and appreciated.

That’s me for today. If you feel like sharing your glimmers, I’d love to read them 💛
Be gentle with yourself, especially if the good things were hard to find.

OTW Board Meeting, July 20, 2025

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 15:38
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The OTW Board will be holding its next public meeting from midnight to 1 a.m. UTC on July 20 (what time is that for me?).

This meeting will be held in the Board Discord server. The server will have a team of moderators, a set of rules (including question rules), and community guidelines. The server will remain open even after the meeting, but the channels for meeting and asking questions will be read-only. Board will be posting replies to questions that do not get addressed during the scheduled meeting two weeks after the meeting in the server’s #questions-answers channel.

The agenda will include:

  • Decisions made since the last public board meeting
  • OTW Board Election
  • Updates to the Board Year Roadmap
  • Updates to the OTW Culture Roadmap
  • Any other business (Questions & Answers)

Prior to this meeting, there is an opportunity to ask questions in advance to be answered as part of the meeting. This allows anyone who wishes to ask the Board questions, whether they will be able to attend the meeting live or not. (The Board will also accept questions during the meeting.)

Questions submitted to this Google Form will be accepted up to three days before the meeting begins or until 50 questions have been submitted. At that point, the form will be turned off. You need to be logged in to a Google account to submit a question. In the future, these rules may be amended to adjust as needed. Further information will be available in the OTW Board Discord server.

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Bacon-cheese wheel, almond croissant, apricots (!!), red plums, strawberries, yellow raspberries, black raspberries, sour cherries (pie!), donut nectarines, strawberry lemonade, a gallon of herbal lemonade, brown sugar kettle corn, caramel kettle corn.

Next week I will buy red sweet cherries (for ketchup) and peaches (for salsa), and actually enter my canning in the county's agricultural fair this year.

Fun fact, red currants used to be illegal to plant in the United States -- they are the second host for white pine blister rust disease, and that is a threat to the lumber industry as white pine is very susceptible to it. This is why purple candy in the USA is grape-flavored, while in Europe purple candy is currant-flavored; we didn't *have* currants (or gooseberries) legally for almost 100 years.

Give The Old Guy Free Pizza!

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 15:00
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Last night I took an order, and on the receipt were directions to call when about five minutes out. I called, and a heavily-accented guy answered and said he ran to the store and his dad would answer the door, and to give him the phone when I got there. 
When I got to the door, an old, probably in his 80s, guy answered. He certainly didn't match the accent of the caller. He seemed super confused as I handed off the phone.

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Maybe Virtua-Maui Is Still Affordable?

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 14:30
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Cousin: "The thing about decentralized finance is, you gotta think long-term. That’s how the big players move."
Uncle: "Last month, you said you were selling your car to invest in 'digital land.'"
Cousin: "It’s called the metaverse. And yeah, it’s appreciating."

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Title: “I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you”
(still uncertain if I'm going to run out of plot bunnies or Taylor Swift lyrics for tennis rps fic - all but about 5 fics so far have her lyrics for titles)

Chapter 1 is already posted at https://archiveofourown.org/works/66563692

This one started because I fell asleep watching a booktuber absolutely eviscerate the worldbuilding in romantasy — like, full destruction with timestamps and citations - and dreamed up two booktubers who get into a feud over it. Duelling videos, increasingly petty reading challenges, and unsubtle one-star reviews. It was meant to be a joke, and then, of course, it turned into a slow burn.

Carlos is the chaotic romantasy lover with warm lighting and overexcited hand gestures.
Jannik is the dry fantasy purist who edits his videos like he’s building a cathedral.
Their video styles hate each other.
They are, obviously, soulmates.

It’s still early days - I've written and posted Jannik's opening video, I'm editing Carlos’ first response - but I’m having so much fun with the format. It’s another one where I’m playing with a different style: mixing prose with video transcripts, comment threads, DMs, and maybe even playlists later on. It feels like a multimedia fic without quite going full AO3 PowerPoint mode.

this is a little snippet from chapter 2 )
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[personal profile] scruloose and I did make it to the little farmers' market down the road for its opening day of the season, and even managed to get there earlier than later! (I think it's open from 8 to 1, and we probably were there...a bit after 10?)

We made it home with two quarts of strawberries and one of cherries, new potatoes, a dozen eggs, and boneless chicken thighs, plus a bee balm for the garden, which we quickly tucked into a fairly open space in our little garden bed yesterday evening. (What was there before? UNKNOWN. Will I manage to reconstruct it from old posts or something? Also unknown. But hey, a plant!)

Reading: I finished Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi), which was fantastic. On the fiction front, I followed it up with Tamsyn Muir's novella Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower (not really my thing--I continue to rarely bond with novellas, I guess--but interestingly done), Sacha Lamb's When the Angels Left the Old Country (marvelous), and Sofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (again, didn't really bond emotionally, but it executed what it was doing beautifully).

Non-fiction: David Chang and Priya Krishna's Cooking at Home: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Recipes (And Love My Microwave), which is, like...primarily actually a David Chang book that Priya Krishna did a ton of heavy-lifting assisting on (which may be very normal for co-written cookbooks, but in this case she was interjecting and clarifying in her own voice as well as doing a fair bit of the actual writing in his voice, and it was all very transparent that it was being done that way, but also a little odd to read). I think I bought this as a sale ebook before hearing that Chang (the Momofuku guy) is something of an asshole, but then when I was reading it, it felt really promising as a book that might be genuinely useful for me (and even by cookbook standards, its ebook is terribly formatted), so I was pleasantly surprised to readily find a used half-price hard copy available on line, which is winging its way to me now. I've also made sure that Krishna's own Indian-Ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family is now on the wishlist where I keep an eye out for ebook sales.

And now I'm reading An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler, which is a cookbook mostly in the form of essays on cooking as a thoughtful/mindful practice.

Watching: One more Murderbot episode to go in this season, and oh, I hope we get a second one. I'm going to miss this little show.

We finished watching the second season of Kingdom (the historical zombies k-drama), which I found very satisfying. The ending very much sets up a subsequent season, and there's a movie out that fills in the backstory of the person/people we glimpse at the end of season 2 who would presumably be extremely central in any further season, but I don't think we feel inspired to watch said backstory movie unless a third season of the show is ever announced and it becomes relevant in that way.

Rare Male Slash Exchange letter 2025

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 14:20
regshoe: Redwing, a brown bird with a red wing patch, perched in a tree (Default)
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Thank you for writing me a fic in one of these lovely rare slash ships! I'm [archiveofourown.org profile] regshoe on AO3. I've said a bit below about what I like about my requested ships and given some prompts, but if you have a completely different idea you want to write, please go for it—I'll look forward to seeing whatever you come up with!

Fandoms are Étoile (TV), Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped - McArthur & McCarthy & Stevenson and The Longest Journey - E. M. Forster )

The Gabriel Hounds, Chapters 19 and 20

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 14:34
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Chapter 19 )

Chapter 20 )

The end!

Next book: [personal profile] coughingbear will be leading Death of a Dormouse by Reginald Hill aka Patrick Ruell; let us know your planned start date, [personal profile] coughingbear!

Supernatural Natural Childbirth

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 13:30
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My mom and I were at a fundraising event for Alzheimer's research. There was a lot of chatting and pleasant conversation, but one woman started dominating it all, going on about her lifestyle and how great it was, and telling us how we all should be doing these same things that SHE had discovered and surely NONE of the rest of us had ever heard of.

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