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renay posting in

We're counting down until mid-year!

Myy May TBR turned out to be more of a suggestion.

The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life you Deserve by Drew Afualo
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

I read What Moves the Dead because I managed to read What Feasts at Night. And although I didn't get to The Brides of High Hill, I did reread The Empress of Salt and Fortune and grab When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain on my way to it. :D

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1) I’m ever do thankful for my noise-cancelling headphones now a former jazz festival has returned to the park nearby. Clearly it is no longer only jazz and the noise levels are much higher. Luckily with my headphones on, I could forget about that

2) Dinner at my parents where hopefully the “music” will not be heard indoors

3) For the first time I’m happy it’s a rainy day

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settiai

I'm still not feeling particularly great, but my brain has at least stopped spiraling quite as badly. So that's something at least. I'm still definitely worried about covering upcoming bills, but it doesn't feel as completely impossible as it did when I made my last post.

If you reached out, thank you very much, and I want you to know that it really did help a lot. 💕

I'm not quite at a point brain-wise where I think that I can send out replies to people without being completely overwhelmed, and - while I'm not going to disable comments on this post like I did earlier - I probably won't be replying to any of them at least for the time being. I'm at a point where human interaction is definitely difficult right now, especially since I need to save up any spoons I can for work on Monday as I'm in the office that day.

After I made my post this afternoon, I got offline for several hours. I forced myself to clean the hotel room before buzzing my hair, taking a shower, bleaching my roots, and putting some dye in my hair to re-up the orange. Honestly, it wasn't much in the grand scheme of things, but it at least helped some.

And then I tried to go to bed early, although that clearly didn't work out very well considering it's a little after midnight and I've given up and am back on the computer. As is often the case when I go to bed too early, my body decided it was intended to be a nap rather than proper sleep, so I'm wide awake again and probably will remain so until at least 3am now.

Still, my spoons continue to be very much in the negative, but I at least feel more like a human being than I did earlier. One step at a time, I suppose?

Current Mood: exhausted

siderea

2025 Jun 7 11:40 am:

benjalvarez1 on Twitter:

WATCH THIS: https://x.com/BenjAlvarez1/status/1931375699786334704

Click through to see the video. You really, really should. Sound is irrelevant.

Text: "Tanks, fighting vehicles and howitzers arrive in Washington, D.C. ahead of next week's military parade. They departed from Texas on June 2." Two minutes and forty seconds.

Allegedly that train is a mile long and is transporting:

• 28 Abrams tanks (M1A2 main battle tank)
• 3 armored recovery vehicles (M88)
• 28 Bradleys (M2A3 infantry fighting vehicle)
• 5 Paladins (M109A7 self-propelled howitzer), and
• 28 Strykers (infantry carrier vehicle)

Source: 2025 Jun 6: @USAMilitaryChannel on YT [not official military channel]: "1-Mile Military Train -Texas to D.C. with Tanks, Armor, and More for Army's 250th Parade". I do not know if that source is reputable or if that inventory is accurate.

USA Today is reporting that "The military vehicles will be joined by 1,800 soldiers". (Source: 2025 Jun 6, USATODAY on YT: "Watch: Tanks, fighting vehicles head to DC for Trump's military parade", CW: face full of Trump, alt: screenshot).

I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I'm thinking that maybe the guy who attempted one coup already bringing a well-armed military force into our capitol city and, crucually, within artillery-range of the Pentagon, is just throwing himself a birthday party, but also maybe not.

luminious posting in

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Prompt: #445: In Your Shoes
Title: Fairest of Them All
Fandom: Hwang Jin-Yi (2006 TV Show)
Characters: Hwang Jin-Yi and Boo-Young
Pairings: Slightly implied reference to the scholar official both Jin-Yi and Boo-Young fawned over.
Rating: K
Notes: None.
Disclaimer: I do not own Hwang Jin-Yi, nor am I or will I ever profit from this work.

( HER MISTRESS IS BRIGHTLY SMILING AT MYEONG-WOL AGAIN, AND BOO-YOUNG TRIES HER BEST NOT TO BREAK HER DRUMSTICKS.... )

Current Mood: relaxed

james_davis_nicoll

Best Novel: Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)

Best Novella: The Dragonfly Gambit, A.D. Sui (Neon Hemlock)

Best Novelette: Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being, A.W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld 11/24)

Short Story: Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)

Andre Norton Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction: The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts, Vanessa Ricci-Thode (self-published)

Best Game Writing: A Death in Hyperspace, Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, M. Darusha Wehm, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (Infomancy.net)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation: Dune: Part Two by Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve (Warner Bros)

Kevin O'Donnell, Jr Special Service Award: C.J. Lavigne

psocoptera

The 2025 Infinity seems to have gone to Frank Herbert a month ago (here) and I didn't hear about it. Herbert seems like a timely choice with the Dune movies happening;

elysdir had once listed him as a possibility so I had him on my potentials list, although I will continue to be surprised every year it isn't DWJ, and I'm a little surprised they picked a white man at this time of official erasure of women and people of color. (Although in fact I think my whole potentials list is white, doh.)

Nice speech from Nicola Griffith.

Huh, they're adding a graphic novel Nebula next year! Fascinating! I wonder how this might shift who nominates for/votes for the graphic Hugo. And poetry! Neat!

Cut for the whole list of winners with my comments:
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adafrog posting in

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

Poll #33227 Daily poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 17

How are you doing?

I am okay
11 (64.7%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
6 (35.3%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
7 (41.2%)

One other person
8 (47.1%)

More than one other person
2 (11.8%)

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.

Late today because of a dinner with our organist search group. Last Saturday thing. :)

musesfool

I used decaf to make coffee granita last night, and I had it for dessert this evening along with a dollop of homemade whipped cream, and it seems to have worked out all right - no late evening side effects of caffeine that I can feel. And I think it's better later in the day as a treat than as my morning coffee, because I eat it so quickly and also it's sweet. I don't put any sugar in my regular coffee, but granita requires it so it doesn't freeze solid. I used vanilla sugar but can't really detect the vanilla (or, rather, differentiate it from the vanilla in the whipped cream).

Also, they were on sale, so I bought a pack of paper plates and they made cleanup after cooking so easy that I remembered why I used to use them regularly back before I had a dishwasher. My plan to replace my dead dishwasher is to try the 4th of July sales - Friend L is going to join me at the store to see if the model I want (Bosch) actually fits in the space I've got (and if it goes on sale - it did not for Memorial Day, that I saw, but maybe I don't need the more expensive/top-of-the-line model? It's just that it has something that will allegedly turn the machine off if it senses a leak, which seems like a good thing to have, especially when you live in an apartment above other people and are responsible if any leakage causes damages below you). Anyway, July is a three-paycheck month, which gives me some leeway for paying most of it off ASAP and not increasing my credit card debt any more than I have to.

*

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Mets vs Rockies on tv

sonia

One of the women in the Balkan community choir signed up to sing at the local farmer's market, and invited people to show up. Totally casual and disorganized, but it turned out well. About eight of us showed up (I was busy singing and didn't count, and people left and arrived at different times.) Everyone proposed songs at the same time and we all paged through our music. I had just alphabetized mine in its folder, but it still takes time to find things, and of course now I have to alphabetize it all over again.

We did manage to choose songs, and I awkwardly blew into my pitch pipe for starting notes, and we didn't even discuss who was singing which part, and we sounded pretty good. It was so casual that I wasn't even nervous about performing. It felt more like a private singing gathering that some people happened to hear.

It was a cool foggy day, so the market was uncrowded, and several small children watched us with pleased attention. Adults applauded, and even left money in the hat one of us put out.

Then there was an argument about what to do with $32.70 from the hat, and we ended up donating it to a homeless services center nearby, since there's an encampment right by the market. I bought my veggies and fruit for the week, and then sat with a few folks as they ate lunch and chatted.

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Check-in week has arrived! Please go over to this form and fill it in.

If you have multiple assignments (for example, an assignment and a pinch hit) please fill the form in separately for each assignment that you have.

You are required to check in by 11:59pm EDT 14 June 2024. (countdown) If you don't, I will assume you are defaulting. This is also the default deadline to avoid makeup assignments for future rounds.

Please note that all people participating in the exchange as a creator (either as a participant or as a pinch hitter) are required to check in. If you have already turned in your assignment, you're not required to check in, but it's no problem if you do.

I will hold off on posting new pinch hits until the end of the check-in period, so keep an eye out for those!

If you prefer not to use Google forms or have trouble with the form, you can leave a comment here answering the questions below the cut.

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The deadline has passed! There are still a few outstanding assignments due to extensions. If you have not received a gift and aren’t listed below, your assigned creator may have an extension. The collection will not open until everyone who completed their assignment and requested at least three distinct fandoms has a gift.

Post-deadline pinch hits are listed below. Comments are screened; please claim a pinch hit by commenting with the pinch hit number and your AO3 username. These pinch hits are due June 13 at 11:59 PM UTC (7:59 PM EDT).

( PH 1 - ワンパンマン | One-Punch Man, Gundam Wing, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった… - 山口悟 | My Next Life as a Villainess - Yamaguchi Satoru (Light Novels) )

( PH 2 - Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, 殺し愛 | Koroshi Ai (Manga), 2.5次元の誘惑 | 2.5-jigen no Ririsa | 2.5 Dimensional Seduction (Anime) )

( PH 10 - わんだふるぷりきゅあ! | Wonderful PreCure! (Anime), Crossover Fandom, Show By Rock!! (Video Games), 美男高校地球防衛部HAPPY KISS! | Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Happy Kiss!, Tokyo Mew Mew Olé (Manga), Fairy蘭丸~あなたの心お助けします~ | Fairy Ranmaru: Anata no Kokoro Otasuke Shimasu (Anime) )

( PH 12 - Naruto (Anime & Manga), Air Gear (Anime), Chainsaw Man (Manga) )

( PH 14 - Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Anime), Senjou no Merry Christmas | Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | Furyo (1983), Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu | Legend of the Galactic Heroes )

olivermoss

* Found one of the Little Free Libaries with The Librarians swag and nabbed one of these coin thingies:

It took a good bit of walking because the first I went to didn't have any of the items. They are also supposed to have free Librarians books, but I haven't found one with those yet.

* Am back on my quest to do all the Portland stairs. I've done the Washington park ones before, and actually photographed these stairs before, but not since I started tracking my journey to conquer them all:

* Books With Pictures Con was today:

They really get a great line up of artists each year.

siria

bend your branches down
ER | ~4700 words | Luka/Carter(/Gillian) | Thanks to

trinityofone for betaing. Set during ER 9.22, "Kisangani." Some lines of dialogue taken directly from the episode.

(Also on AO3)

( Gillian said, 'You should join me and Luka tonight.' )

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Posted by Zach Weinersmith

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/biology-3

Click here to go see the bonus panel!

Hovertext:
The explanation of the Fermi Paradox is no beings who practice internal fertilization are to be invited to the galactic party.

Today's News:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/biology-3

kaberett

goslings! (Canadian; one still very yellow and fluffy, several more rather larger.)
SNAILS. so many excellent snails. we went out on a couple of stupid little walks and saw MANY snails.
ate the last of my birthday cake, with discounted raspberries courtesy of one of said stupid little walks. <3
the post brought Several more books for me (two pain-related, ...some cookery) and I am very pleased with them. particularly looking forward to warm bread and honey cake, though given that I've still not actually read Salt Fat Acid Heat I don't rate my chances of getting to it any time soon...
current borrowed-on-a-whim-from-the-library book: Adventures in Stationery, James Ward. First chapter was paperclips; current chapter is a whistlestop tour of The History Of The Pen, including a much more loving biography of the BIC Cristal than I am normally exposed to via fountain pen fandom!

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1. Dear Care and Feeding,

I work from home. My kids are 8 and 12. When they were little, we hired a sitter to watch them on the random days off from school, but they don’t really need a sitter now.

For holidays when they are off and I’m working, my husband and I agreed to a set of rules for them: If the kids help with two small chores, read for 30 minutes, and play outside all before noon, then they can have screen time. The kids reluctantly agreed to this policy.

But they still demand my time. They will complete the list above, then ask to FaceTime with a grandparent (a clever loophole). They come into my office whining that they are bored. They are old enough to help themselves to snacks, but if I don’t supervise, they will eat everything before lunch. I make and serve lunch. Even after lunch, they play on their tablets and mindlessly snack. If they ate everything earlier, they come to my office whining for more snacks.

I feel like my husband is taking advantage of my work-from-home job. I feel like my work and time come second to his. I would like to have a full day off the weekend after one of the school holidays. A day when no one asks me for food or entertainment or a ride somewhere. A day when I’m not picking up after everyone. I don’t need a spa day; I need a day to myself. My husband says that’s not fair because his job doesn’t have working from home as an option, and I can’t just “quit parenting for a day.”

—Holidays Are Not Days Off

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2. Dear Care and Feeding,

When should I let my daughter learn lessons on her own? My daughter “Chloe” is 12 years old. She recently went with her two closest friends to the zoo. She really wanted to wear a summer dress and white sandals and tried to leave the house without wearing sunscreen.

I talked to Chloe and made her go wearing sunscreen, and also shoes that would be better for walking on the dirt paths at the zoo (I couldn’t change her mind about the dress, so I picked my battles). But I’m not sure I like doing that.

She’s 12 now, and none of the consequences would have been disastrous. The next time something like this comes up, should I just let her make her mistakes and experience the consequences?

—When to Intervene

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renay in ladybusiness - Let's Get Literate! June 2025 Hopefuls
lhune in 3_good_things_a_day - Sunday 09/06/2025
magnavox_23 in icons - Zahn McClarnon icons
magnavox_23 in graphics - Zahn McClarnon icons
dine - the public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth
settiai - . . .
siderea - Tanks, armored vehicles, howitzers delivered to DC [curr ev, US]
luminious in 100words - [Prompt #445: In Your Shoes.] Hwang Jin-Yi. "Fairest of Them All."
james_davis_nicoll - Nebula winners announced
psocoptera - 2025 Nebula Awards
adafrog in fandom_checkin - Daily Check In.
musesfool - that double just loosened him up last night
sonia - Singing at the farmers market
longficmod in fandom5k - 2025 Check-In Open
sakuramod in sakuraexchange - Post-Deadline Pinch Hits #1, 2, 4, 10, 12-15
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