hAPPy birthday!

Aug. 19th, 2025 09:45 am
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At the last minute I signed up for the hAPPy birthday flash exchange, where we celebrate [personal profile] karanguni's fantastically useful exchange app by writing fic for people's past requests. And I have received two fantastic fics for past requests, one for a request made a long time ago that I instantly remembered and which reminded me all over again of why I love the fandom, and another for a more recent and very fun request. They are:

Reaper at the Festival, a lovely spooky DS9 Odo-centric Halloween story, and in plane sight, a triple drabble for the deeply ridiculous were-plane EvS plot bunny. Thank you to both anonymous authors!

3 Post Deadline Pinch Hits Remaining!

Aug. 19th, 2025 08:52 am
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The Pinch Hits are due on Sunday 24 August at 20:00 UTC. You can view a countdown here.

To claim: please reply to this post with your AO3 username and the name and number of the pinch hit you want to claim. Comments are screened. You can also email tentaclemod@gmail.com.

Anon commenting is fine but bear in mind that I cannot reply if you comment anon!

You don't have to be signed up to the exchange to claim a pinch hit, but you do need an AO3 account.

All pinch hits must comply with the rules here. The minimum is a completed work of fanfiction of at least 1000 words or a completed piece of fanart or 500 words of podfic (depending on what the recipient has requested).



PDPH 9 - [All Fanfic] Dishonored (Video Games), BioShock 1 & 2 (Video Games), Revenge (1990) )


PDPH 11 - [All Fanfic] The Game and the Candle - Eleanor M. Ingram, Lucifer's Wife - Eleanor M. Ingram, Don Estevan's Honor - Eleanor M. Ingram )


PDPH 13 - [All Fanart + Fanfic] MF Ghost (Anime), 機動戦士ガンダム 閃光のハサウェイ | Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash (Movies), Tekken (Video Games), Limited Run (Webcomic), Psycho-Pass, フェルマーの料理 | Fermat no Ryouri (TV) )

Sunflower Auction: Open for bidding!

Aug. 19th, 2025 07:36 am
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Bidding on the [personal profile] sunflower_auction benefitting Ukraine started. It will end on September 15th.

This year, I'm offering written works for Boku no Hero Academia, Wind Breaker and Original Work. You can have a look at my offer post for more information as well as details on how to bid.

Tuesday, August 05: Corwina Park

Aug. 18th, 2025 08:19 pm
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Still catching up on posts!

A couple of weeks ago jesus how has it been a couple of weeks we decided to try another new-to-us park. This one borders Lair o' the Bear, but is actually a Denver park, rather than a county park. (Denver has a few mountain parks that they own and maintain, even though the mountains are well outside the city.) It's a bit farther up the road, but we drove past it on our detour the day we were coming back from Centennial Cone.

Taking a look at the info page on it, it looked like there was a decent 3-4 mile total out-and-back trail up to a spot called "Panorama Point," so hopefully there'd be a nice view. So we headed up!

...And it was "up." The trail is moderate difficulty, but it does pretty immediately head up, haha.

I've been disappointed this year that we really haven't seen any snakes. We finally saw one on this hike!


A really nice big, healthy looking garter snake! So cute.

The whole area was very pretty, a nice forest trail. The trail mostly paralleled a narrow little creek.


I was very taken by all the moss around the creek.


Fourteen more pictures:

Bella! I thought she looked cute next to the flowers.


The narrow creek. It was wider at some points, narrower or even entirely dry at others.


Detour around some big rocks.


Beebalm!


A little pond skater in a calm part of the creek.


Another shot of the snake. :) With his head in the sunbeam, haha. The snake was quite long, probably 18 inches or so? I was happy to see one that's clearly doing so well!


We also saw a bunch of woodpeckers! A hairy woodpecker.


A second one. There were at least three we saw at the same time.


A dramatic hollow stump. Very picturesque.

Alex was having some neck issues, and Bella was getting a bit warm, so we took a break for a couple minutes.


Bella set herself up on the trail. Toll road: must pet to pass. (Kidding. She was very good about coming off the trail when someone did come pass us. Even a couple of dogs.)


Not a great picture, but laying down on one of the branches, a black squirrel! (You can see his little ear against the tree trunk.) We rarely get black squirrels here (I've seen them elsewhere, but not much here! We get red squirrels, and sometimes grey ones, but black ones are a rarity.)


I liked all the little baby trees growing in this meadow.


A little bird! I think it's a junco, which are a winter-only bird down in the city, but sometimes stick around year-round at higher elevations.


We also saw so many of these little chipmunks. So cute!


Bella was still a little warm (it really wasn't too terribly hot, but it was humid, and it was all uphill). Wanting to let her cool down, we cut through one of the meadows along the trail to get back to the creek, which we could hear, but not see.

Where we found my favorite of the day...


*_* Tiny chorus frog froglet.

And well... I did have an unused habitat, from before we moved Berry Mad into the bigger one... And boreal chorus frogs are one of the native species it is legal to keep...


It's so small.

After this we turned around and headed back, since we were carrying precious (tiny) cargo.

We'll have to go back another day to see if we can make it all the way up to the promised "panorama point."

Daily Happiness

Aug. 18th, 2025 09:18 pm
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1. The area manager who has been out on maternity leave for three months is back to work today. I'm glad to have her back, but wow there was a lot to catch her up on while she's been gone. I feel like I did so much talking today lol.

2. Tomorrow I have a meeting in the afternoon, but can have a leisurely morning, which I am looking forward to, as today was spent almost entirely with the aforementioned catching up and then an afternoon meeting, and I got home lateish and didn't really have much time to do other stuff, either work or personal.

3. Tuxie loves curling up under these plants.

8/18/2025 Tilden Nature Area

Aug. 18th, 2025 08:42 pm
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Lower Packrat Trail was beautiful this morning but, as I've been saying for weeks, quiet. Swainson's Thrushes were calling but I heard not even a piece of a song. Wilson's Warblers were chipping and occasionally singing and I heard three singing Orange-crowned Warblers, which continues to surprise me. Those were all the migrants I encountered, but U and Chris found a Black-headed Grosbeak and a Warbling Vireo! At this point we assume they are migrants moving further south but who knows? The list: )

Along the way I heard several birds singing quietly, as though trying out song phrases. I couldn't be certain of their species but it's always very cool to hear.

第四年第二百二十二天

Aug. 18th, 2025 08:56 pm
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部首
口 part 9
吓, to scare/startle; 吗, question particle; 吞, to swallow pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=30

语法
跟 vs 也 (why are these two in the same article? 跟 vs 和 I could understand...)
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/gen1-ye3-difference/

词汇
烟, smoke (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
我不是被夜尊给吞了吗, wasn't I swallowed by Ye Zun?
我猜这回应该跟他没什么关系吧, my guess is this time has nothing to do with him.
刚开始戒烟嘴里非得叼一点什么, I just quit smoking and I've got to have something in my mouth

Me:
吓我一跳!
你少点抽烟吧,对嗓子不好。

Due South Geography Questions

Aug. 18th, 2025 09:02 pm
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Does anyone in the fandom hereabouts remember the address of Fraser's first apartment building, as well as the general neighbourhood of same?

I'm thinking this is a thing that must be added to The Atlas of Imagined Cities, and it didn't get included in the Chicago section.
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I'm wondering about two stars, WT 767 and 768, both in Indus (I believe, after checking Gaia Sky), and it looks to me as if they're barely a light-year from each other. If I'm correct, they might be a candidate as "host" stars for Sullivan's Planet from "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail".

In which case, maybe HD 205156 can serve as "Helicon"?

I'm also asking my WT 767+768 question on the Celestia Discord server.

Daily Check-in

Aug. 18th, 2025 06:21 pm
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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 Monday, June August 18, to midnight on Tuesday, August 19. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33507 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 20

How are you doing?

I am OK.
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I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
6 (31.6%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
8 (40.0%)

One other person.
11 (55.0%)

More than one other person.
1 (5.0%)




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.
 

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Aug. 19th, 2025 01:51 am
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T; Jurassic Park OT; Alan Grant/Ian Malcolm, 5800 words. Canon divergence post-The Lost World.

"All right, all right," Ian said dryly, dropping heavily into the chair across the desk from Alan. "Go ahead and say it. Get it out of your system."

A Timely Interruption

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Monday yawns...but is otherwise okay

Aug. 18th, 2025 06:04 pm
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It's a Monday. But at least the weather for the most part was pleasant. Over cast most of the day, until I got home, but in the low seventies. I took a long walk to McNally's Book Store, and back. Picked up a book that I'd been eyeing the last time I was there. Read more... )

Entertainment Items of note

1. To anyone who watched Angel the Series (and more importantly still remembers it well enough to answer this question) - someone on Facebook thinks Angel was turned human by Wolfram and Hart then turned into a vampire again because he had to fight the monsters in LA. They are referring to the fifth season. To my recollection, the only time Angel ever became human was in I Will Always Remember You. Granted it has been some time since I've seen Angel the Series, but I'd think I'd remember that? (Considering how many metas and reviews I wrote about it.) Anyone remember Angel turning human in Season 5? Or is this person completely deluded?

2. Buffy Revival - it's not a Reboot, although people keep calling it a Reboot, and people keep fighting over whether it is one or not, which I find amusing, because they've managed to completely confuse the fandom.
At any rate, Charisma Carpenter has finally clarified that she is not in it, she's not been contacted, and has no idea where they are with it, nor is she in contact with anyone involved. She's only made it known that she'd like to be in it.

I think the people who have been contacted and may be involved are Gellar's friends: Marsters, Hannigan, and Seth Green. They appear to know something.
But I could be wrong. Those are the three she still appears to be close to on some level and in contact with.

3. Alien Nation - the newest thing by Noah Hawley - who is best known for the television series: Fargo and Legion (he also worked on Bones for a bit). No, Ridely Scott isn't involved at all. And I could tell - after seeing the first two episodes. Scott is scarier. I can't watch Scott's Alien.

Once again, folks are fighting over whether it is a reboot. (It's not. It's an expansion on the previous series. Similar to say the Star Trek franchise.)

The first two are intriguing? But I'm on the fence about it. It's biological sci-fi leaning towards horror. [Anyone else see it?]

4. Alan Cummings reports loving filming Avengers Doomsday
excerpt )
***

Music and Religion

Finally, I decided to listen to the Superman 2025 soundtrack, Punkrocker, Nine Inch Nails...I need album recs. I only really have listened to Downward Spiral and Pretty Hate Machine.

Also Jimmi Hendrix's Machine Gun, rec'd by a Franciscan Priest on loan to a Unitarian Church during a sermon on how to tell the Jesus story. (Yes, I was intrigued by all the contradictions in that sentence as well.)

Mother: Wait. What is a Franciscan Priest doing at a Unitarian Church?
ME: No clue. But I find it intriguing. More intriguing than the wannabe Rabbi playing Unitarian Minister actually. Plus he's doing bible studies.
And is a Jimmi Hendrix fan. What are the odds? [And having done the wannabe Rabbi's bible studies, I'd like to try the Franciscan Priest's bible studies.]

I like contradictions. I'm contradictory. These are my people.

How *am* I doing, anyway?

Aug. 18th, 2025 09:37 pm
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Counseling after work today was about how I'm doing well in some ways -- I said I'm finally getting that much-needed holiday, we'll be away for nine days; she asked me how long it's been since I had that long a vacation; I said I didn't know if I ever had. (Turns out I probably have, but the fact that I legitimately couldn't think of any of those occasions is indicative (and that's partly because they're trips back to Minnesota and visiting family isn't really time off).)

So I talked about how fortunate I feel that I have the stability to do that: this is the first time I've had the money and the ability to have time off; before I either had time or money but never both at the same time.

But I also talked about how badly I spiraled on Saturday when some gloomy news about the Twins of all things. (tl;dr: billionaires ruin everything. The hope that things would improve when the team sold to different billionaires has been snatched away; the current ones are keeping the team and it's very clear they're going to starve it of funds -- bad teams make more money than good teams and this family believes they need money right now. They don't share the view that beat writers and podcasters and fans of the team have which is that a sportsball team is a civic institution; for them it's just a way to make money. Like Gleeman started his article the other day, "It's hope that hurts the most." Or as I learned it from English pals: "I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.") I was like I don't have a dog any more, awful things are happening in the country I'm from, I couldn't go back for my grandma's funeral or my family, work has been so stressful all year, I can't even manage to organize a hookup...and now I can't even have baseball as a little fun escapist thing??

So am I doing pretty good or pretty bad?? I feel bad about feeling bad, being aware that my bad-feelings are floating on a sea of basic-okayness and worrying that I'm being insufficiently grateful for it. But my counselor said that it's not like one is true and one is false; both can be valid.

I guess it's part of leveling up Maslow's hierarchy: once you get the basic shit sorted out you do start caring more about that higher-level shit. I didn't expect that to happen automatically; indeed against my will but it seems to have. I don't want to lose track of the fulfilment I do have. But also basic stuff isn't taking up all my time/mental capacity any more so I have to figure out what else to do with my adult life.

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