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Writing Updates 2025, Week 41

Days Written (This Week): 1 day
Days Written (This Month): 3 days
Days Written (2025 Total): 117 days

Words Written (This Week): 485 words
Words Written (This Month): 982 words
Words Written (2025 Total): 59,035 words

First Line (Written This Week): (All snippets this week are from a TRON drabble, prompt "fear".) It’s a long time before Quorra stops looking over her shoulder.

Last Line (Written This Week): She starts to master the fear that ruled so many of her cycles on the Grid, and learns to live with the unexpected.

Favorite Line (Written This Week): She’s aware, on some level, that she is safe here, but the unfamiliar complexities of the User world have awakened old fears.

Other Stuff: I did... not have a good week last week. I think it was a combination of coming down from the anxiety of my dad being in the hospital (he's doing much better, by the way!!), and then the growing dread of what TRON: Ares was going to be like before I saw it on Thursday. I wanted to write, but I was too full of Thoughts to actually get anything down on paper until yesterday/Saturday.

I'm glad I was able to write, though! I drafted a TRON drabble and got some words in, and that's all great. I'm hoping I can get a little more momentum going this week? Either writing TRON drabbles, or working on another fic. I found a printout of my second TRON/Pacific Rim crossover story in my TRON fic notebook, and I reread that last night. It needs a little work, I think, and I still have to write the last scene, but... it might be nice to work on that again. I don't know! We'll see what happens!!

My pledge for

communal_creators is 3k words, and I'm sitting at 2,549 words right now. So I thankfully don't have to write too much to hit that before the the event ends on Wednesday this week. I'm hoping I can get it done soon, though, so I can stop worrying about it.

Weekly(ish) check in

How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?

Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.

Also: I've very much appreciated the posts people have been putting up through the week, I just haven't had the spoons to respond.

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haircare,
self

In lieu of a real post

today's important news is that I've cut all my hair off.

This has been planned since the beginning of 2023; with the 'when I'm obviously going grey' as the trigger point; I then waited until after the wedding. Hair at the back was long enough to repeatedly get caught in the waistband of trousers. Hair is halfway to packaged up to send to one of the wig making mobs. Thanks to chaomanor and maharetr for the loan of the clippers, and Youngest for a mostly even cut.

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The Menace From Earth by Robert A. Heinlein

A diverse assortment of (mostly) non-Future History science fiction stories from Robert A. Heinlein.

The Menace From Earth by Robert A. Heinlein

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'Preptober'

Preptober? hahahahahaha more like 'denial-tober' for me! Every year I imagine there is some sort of time that exists after October, but before November, in which to ponder writing something in November. Unfortunately, I never seem to remember that this time does not, in fact, exist.

I have no idea if I'm going to write anything in November. I am thinking about it, in the sense that right now November feels very far away (19 days is far away, right?), and technically, anything is possible.

Current Mood: amused

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Comet says no

It's a grim, cold, foggy day. Comet is not at all interested in participating in it.

Current Mood: stressed
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag

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done,
links

Done Since 2025-10-05

A couple of good things happened, but I also procrastinated way too much, which increases the stress level for this week. So does that make it a good week or a bad week? Maybe not.

So let's start with the good stuff for a change: N's book, The World as It Ought To Be, has been published! The eBook can be had right now from Smashwords, which has a free sample you can read online. My signal boost post from yesterday lists more sellers. Go take a look -- it's hopepunk, solarpunk, protopian gentle fiction, and if you're a fan of ysabetwordsmith's Terramagne poems, you'll probably like it.

Also, according to pv magazine International, Solar tops [the] EU power mix in June with [a] record 22% share. And I got my flu and pneumonia jabs, to go with CCOVID last week.

Somewhere in between, I had a gastroscopy Wednesday -- I'll find out the results this coming Friday. I don't expect really bad news, but they sent me away with a prescription for a proton pump inhibitor.

On the down side, I've procrastinated a whole lot, with the result that the HyperSpace Express website needed some fast work, and needs more this week. So do my US federal income taxes. Our plans for the Kaleidofolk studio album are slightly up in the air at this point, only in part because I haven't been practicing enough. And I still don't have a medical alarm pendant.

If time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once, it's not working! And I'm not helping.

And on the way down side, of course, the US is still in the hands of a fascist regime led by a convicted felon and his gang of thugs and unindicted traitors, and I'm extremely worried about my friends and family members who are still there. Not to mention the planet.

( Notes & links, as usual )

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Happy birthday,

arlie and

kalmn!

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Sunday Word: Asphodel

asphodel [as-fuh-del]

noun:
1 any of various southern European plants of the genera Asphodelus and Asphodeline, of the lily family, having white, pink, or yellow flowers in elongated clusters.
2 an everlasting flower said to grow in the Elysian fields

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Examples:

On that memorable trip, I wandered unexpectedly into a glade absolutely filled with bright asphodel. Crowded spires of luminous white, punctuating the misty evergreen dimness, was about the last thing I expected; the scene was remarkable. (Matt Collins, Why I've fallen in love with the asphodel – the glamorous bulb from the Med , Telegraph, August 2021)

Bosa was once renowned for its leather-making industry and is still filled with historical boutiques, where the art of tannery has been passed down across generations, as well as stores selling coral jewelry and asphodel baskets. (Silvia Marchetti, 20 of the most beautiful villages in Italy, CNN, August 2022)

So lovely is the asphodel that it was said to grow in the Elysian Fields: blessed fields of the afterlife in ancient Greek literature. (Katherine Wagner-Reiss, What’s in a Plant Name? Narcissus, Daffodils, and Jonquils, NYBG, April 2017)

I pity you, Milanion, for when thou dost race with me, the goal is assuredly the meadows of asphodel near where sit Pluto and Persephone on their gloomy thrones. (Jean Lang, A Book of Myths)

The Graces assembling seemed to have joined hands in meadows of asphodel to compose that face. (Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse)

Within a Hell of godless emptiness
submit yourself ever more to sleep's spell.
All is a dream, all is nothingness:
the flower of the world is the asphodel. (Gabriele D'Annunzio, 'Poema paradisiaco')

Origin:
late 14c, from Latin asphodelus, from Greek asphodelos, also sphodelos, spodelos, 'asphodel, king's spear, plant of the lily kind,' which is of unknown origin; 'A substrate word, as is shown by the variants' [Beekes]. It was the peculiar plant of the dead; and in Greek mythology and English poetic use it overspreads the Elysian meadows. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

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Marvel Trumps Hate 2025 Preview Week

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Multifandom: Ghost of You Shrine Challenge

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Write Every Day Day 12

another writing prompt

Con all day concert all night, too tired to update. I'll get it fixed up tomorrow. as for me 464 words tonight

How is it going for you? Let know and if i forgot you somewhere along the way let me know

Day 11 - Update TBA

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Portable power chair

There's a new power scooter out, the Golden Buzzaround Carry-On HD. The HD part is important. This is the heavy duty one, which is also first-in-class lithium ion battery scooter. But that's not what this entry is about (and the scheduled arrival date is Tuesday).

Since the scooter was backordered and not going to arrive in time for the Michigan trip, I ordered a (not too expensive for the specs) power wheelchair off Amazon. The choice was partly informed by the advertised shipping time: two days. Plenty of time for it to arrive. And then I watched the shipment crawl over what was clearly ground transport, likely because of the battery. Eventually the package arrival date got down to our departure date. Meanwhile, I was paralyzed with anxiety about the trip, and was barely able to pack. At least I was able to make checklists for when I eventually unfroze on the day of departure.

FedEx said my power chair would arrive between 1 and 3. This was inaccurate, and at some point the forecast switched to "end of day".

When it hadn't arrived by 4, we loaded into the car with my upright (unpowered) walker. At the last minute as we fled out the door, I thought our snack supply looked a little too small and grabbed a random bag to toss a few more things into. As we pulled out of the neighborhood I called the airline accessibility services line to report the change. Which took a little while, as I had to explain that no, I hadn't "changed my mind" about bringing the power wheelchair, the reason I wasn't taking the power wheelchair was because it hadn't arrived yet, so I couldn't take it. At that point I got the appropriate amount of sympathy.

Within the MINUTE I told the very nice customer service person goodbye, Alex spotted the FedEx truck.

By that point Silver and I were on I-5, but with a very nice turn off opportunity. (Silver had taken that specific route because it's a pain in the ass to get over another couple lanes that quickly and in traffic.)

So we went back, we thanked the Bastard profusely and profanely, with the double thumb-tap to the lips (both of us, simultaneously). Silver offloaded the walker and onloaded the chair while I talked to the airline accessibility department again and tried to figure out what the battery voltage was. The footrests fit into the duffel bag with the extra snacks, just as if I had planned it intentionally. I asked Silver to empty my padded tote bag, so we could use it for the battery.

We got to the airport on time for all of that.

I got the best of both worlds: chair coming with me, but since the battery wasn't charged we checked the main body of the chair at the Special Services counter and got wheelchair service through the airport. Security was less of a zoo than usual because we went through the wheelchair lane instead of the endless maze. I got pornoscanned for the first time.

That got us to the gate an hour earlier than we'd intended.

I was very glad to have the power chair with us, as it made some of the bits that would have been excessively strenuous much much better. Silver got used to lifting the thing into the back of their mom's SUV, and eventually we banged our heads on the car less often.

Coming back, it wasn't quite as easy going through security since I was still new at steering the chair and we didn't have the professional chair-pusher to finesse security. (No, not the ateva way.) We gate-checked the chair. I checked in with the two wheelchair-pushers who met us at the Seattle end of things, and assured the one who was waiting for me that I had my chair (as Silver cussed gently at the footrests).

And when we eventually got home, Yellface cussed us both out like I've never seen her cuss before. She was Peeved! That we! Had Abandoned! Her!!!!

I have since decked it out with retroreflective tape, electroluminescent wire, and a miniature disco projector meant for a bike.

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i read things

Three picture books and a Sanderson

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (2023): DNF. Not unenjoyable but also not gripping. His prose here was more engaging than the last Sanderson I tried to read, which actually isn't saying much. Also it was short enough that it didn't physically hurt to try to read it, which is another point in its favor. It had a strange tone, not quite funny, not quite satirical. Despite having nothing in common with Princess Bride The Book, it strangely felt like it was trying to be Princess Bride The Book.

Then after DNFing, I flipped to the end to see that, yes, it was trying to riff on the tone of Princess Bride The Book, so I guess it did it well enough that I could be like "...is this trying to be Princess Bride without understanding what makes Princess Bride funny/satirical?" But hey, the intention came through.

The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story by Lemony Snicket (2007): Excellent, hilarious book about a latke that jumps out of the pan while being fried and deals with the fact that that family are the only Jews in the picturesque village full of people celebrating Christmas. Then the latke is eaten. A++, no notes.

I Am Anne Frank by Brad Meltzer (2020): internets, I read this book for content for a 4 year old. I don't even believe in doing that, but here I am. The 4 year old is a big fan of this series, and Somehow, both me and his parents, when getting books from this series out of the library for him, and seeing all the books that there are in the catalog, have not gotten him this one. Then one day he went to the library and picked it out himself. And a lot of the time, he treats getting out books as the joy is just getting them out, not reading them, so I was going to just return this one unread on the logic that he wouldn't remember, and let this problem be his parents problem, but okay, fine, let's read this book and see how bad this would be to read this to him.

I went in fully expecting this to be a Saint Anne book and I was 100% correct. But it's worse than that. Now, this book series, it focuses a lot on the famous person as a kid (because of the target audience), then goes into them doing what makes them famous, and stops before death, and ends with a lovely heartwarming moral lesson for the target audience. This is a problem with Anne Frank, who never did anything notable in her life, because she never had the opportunity, because she was Jewish. There is no "and then I grew up and did the thing that made me famous". There is no "and then I did anything". She has no accomplishments. This already doesn't fit in at all with the other books in the series: those books are about triumphing over adversity, about working hard and accomplishing great things. Anne Frank did not do any of that.

So what can Anne Frank do? Well, you see, she dies and thus teaches you a moral lesson. That's how these books end: they have the person do what makes them famous and then it has a moral lesson for the target audience. The moral lesson of a dead Jewish girl is, *checks notes*, help other people and be kind. The last line of the book is "I am Anne Frank and I believe that people are truly good at heart." Okay. Well, I suspect if you go back in time and ask her in the concentration camp, you may get a different answer. But no one wants to hear that. They want to know that a tragic victim forgave them for it even as she died. No hard feelings!

I've made a metric I call "do they expect any X to read this book/attend this training/watch this video about X". Applicable to many things! Does this book about disability expect anyone with this disability to read it? Does this presentation about mental health problems expect anyone in the audience to have any mental health problems? Does this book about a Jew expect any Jews to read it?

This book is a bit meh on that. (I know the author is Jewish. That's irrelevant to the intended audience.)

But, hey, I had no great expectations anyway.

Anne Frank by Clémentine V. Baron, translated by Catherine Nolan (2018): Gotten out by an older kid at the same time, so the reading for content was less severe, although months ago this kid DNFed the I Survived the Nazi Invasion book really early on because it was too sad (which we were glad of; when she picked it up, we were all like, uh, let us know if you want to talk about it, and then she read for a bit and asked if something really happened, we said yes, and she put the book down), and has complained of nightmares from certain things, so, like, there was some checking the content, but I skimmed it more. On the whole, better than the above book. I think it did a much better job of not flinching at the end. I'd rather read this book to the 4 year old.

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Brewers vs Cubs post game interviews

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charlie in dairyland

Warm fuzzies in Wisconsin tonight!

The Brewers just punched their ticket to the NLCS! Boom, my dears! I was more than a little nervous that we weren't going to pull that off, but I'm delighted I was worrying about nothing!

Yes, I've been following the season all the way along. Folks who know me RL have heard me squeaking over baseball all summer. There's more squeaking to follow, now! My youngest sister and I are batting around (pun totally intended) getting tickets to one of the NLCS games in Milwaukee, if we're able and prices aren't too high for us. I know, and she knows, that I'll be bringing a portable radio for the play-by-play if we do go. Right now, I'm just going to roll around in the warm fuzzies for a minute. XD

Current Mood: tired

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#25 Shopping Surprises (part 1 of 1, complete)

Shopping Surprises
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1390
[Thursday, May 7, 2020, midmorning]

:: In the local home improvement store, Aidan experiences several shocks in quick succession. Liana’s arrival is far more than a distraction, however. Part of the Edison’s Mirror arc. ::

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To the Edison's Mirror Index
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“Your vehicle is amazing,” Aidan murmured, but frowned as he faced the rows of bays stacked with different sizes of cut lumber. “This wood, however…” He shook his head quietly. “Some of it is fit only for firewood, and that’s even before I try to understand the pricing.”

Nik snickered. “Everything has to come from the mainland. You saw those very long trucks in two sections? They have to pay ferry fees both outbound and back to the mainland, and a fraction of that cost is added to everything, absolutely everything, that has to be shipped in.”

“I’m a decent bodger, but making garden furniture like your tables from green wood will only last two or maybe three years.” Aidan shook his head. “That’s not a good return on the hours of work involved.”
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My Body doesn't know what's happening to it

My knee is in business for itself and the rest of me is thinking WTF are you DOING? I was over at the con by 10 AM to hear the first of my planned panels. (Here's the funny thing THREE of the four panels I picked out today were all Vitamin H panels) This one was not. It was run by a cute nerdy kid who was SO thrilled to see me as I was only the 4th person through the door and the other three were his friends. (more people did come but the con didn't open until 10 so it's like maybe schedule the panels on the half hour?)

It was about all the literature in Bungo Stray Dogs. If you don't know this anime/manga all its characters are named for literary figures and/or references. He had slides for all the references and did a kahoots quiz at the end. It was a lot of fun but damn I need to reread this (and you know finish it. I trailed off midway)

From there I went to a slasher movie panel (all the remaining ones are by Vitamin H) which was just a blast. Hey they put in Suspiria, Italian horror from 77 (I just learned the other day it had been remade about 8 years ago) After that I had a BIG break with nothing much I wanted to see until 3 pm.

Here I go into the vendor's room unsupervised. I'm thirsty and this asshole convention center has NO water fountains so you have to buy from their concessions (this is not Tsu's fault) which is like 8$ a damn glass so I get in line for Wild Bill's boutique pop brewery because he FINALLY has a zero sugar option. I get up there and the cheapest you can do it for (because you HAVE to buy the 'collector's stainless steel mug') was THIRTY-FIVE fucking dollars. FOR POP! He wanted another 15$ for the lid/straw. Thanks. I'll take my fucking chances and the cooler mugs were north of 50 bucks. And the zero sugar blueberry pop SUCKED. It was SO bad. So I said fuck it, this is like Dana at a buffet. I'm consuming 35$ worth of stuff to offset the rip off pricing. I made a choice 'just be gross about it. Consume all you can. You have insulin. Get the full sugar birch or root beer which are the only 2 pops you like outside of gingerale (i don't like pop. I don't like carbonation) I have a full mug in my fridge right now. It was COMING WITH ME. I drank so damn much pop.

Lunch was a shitty pepperoni roll and pop.

I got a few more gifts for friends. Keep me away from dice. I was really annoyed that I wanted to get Loona (helluva boss) for a friend's daughter and every Helluva boss woman I found from bigger vendors were grossly sexualized. You know the type, gravity defying boobs of doom and barely clothed with tongue lolling out just for youuuuuu. Ugh. I did find her a little keychain. I got dice with little purple owls in them for reasons. But my favorite purchase of the whole con was from
Pink Pig studios who had sweet shippy stuff for Cherri/Pen (the one I mentioned last night) Huskerdust (guilty I bought it) and Vaggie/Charlie but also she was a huge Keith David fan and she did one of Husk in Keith's role in John Carpenter's The Thing!!! Yes it's mine. And I'm obsessed. I told her I am absolutely writing fanfic to this. Husk can't wait for me to find time. Too bad none of my

spook_me prompts fit it.

I wander to the hotel to rest up for a bit since I'm done shopping and no panels I want. Open my social media to ALL the Hazbin and Glitch news from NY comic con (will share on tuesday's post) and people have been clipping Valentino's beautiful art of Vox he drew in the meeting and now I can't get it out of my head, he drew Angel too back in the love bombing days. Plot bunnies all over the damn place. Found calls from my brother and Mom (I had the phone silenced). Thought maybe someone died. No. My brother go another kitten. Cute bugger too.

I go to my last panels (grabbing pop before, between and after because dammit 35$) one on Studio Ghibli behind the scenes and one on Youkai (the theme this year) both excellent. I had never heard that Kappa will reach up your ass to grab out your soul. Well then. Or that tanuki have balls that can be stretched out for yards to form tents, blankets, whatever it needs. side eyes Japan hard.

Runs for more pop. Attends the great manga swap and fail at it miserably. HAHA. Honestly I didn't want to swap. I had a bunch of manga. Sorted it last night, left about 6 here because I realize I only had half a set for a few so back home they go. Before it started I asked the traveling manga library librarian, if no one wants this ancient manga (all of it was from 2000-2015) can I donate it to you? YES. Great.

I didn't even have it all laid out before someone swooped up 'you have tactics!!' what do you want for them? I look at her offerings. Nothing, they're yours. She danced off. A young girl sweeps up from nowhere, 'Vampire Knight?!?' I want nothing from that disappointment of a series. Take it from my sight (I said it nicer naturally)

I give my single volume one offs to the library for two volumes of Interlocken and now I'm left with 5 volumes of Venus vs Virus and the only thing I really want is the drifting classroom omnibus but the guy is like no, I have that (meanwhile it was HIS girlfriend who scooped up tactics but whatever dude) I find one guy with some BL stuff and I know who he is, a vendor who is trying to get stuff to take to his stand. Give me these Stars of Chaos light novels for this 5 volumes? no? 2? yes.

I'm now done. I get more pop. Leave and look to go to Fazio's. rated best Italian restaurant in WV. I find it. No one is on the street, park out front. Go in and it was as I feared. I was WOEFULLY underdressed. See, my dress shirt? It got trashed by blue crab/goat cheese cream sauce yesterday. And why I didn't think of putting on my Edalyn shirt/skirt until just now...I'm tired yinz. I'm the only one in a t-shirt (thank god it was the dark blue one you can barely make out). I'm shocked I wasn't turned away. There were kids in black tie (Prom? Nah that's spring. Wedding? Probably)

They had both Negronis and Aperol Spritzs on the menu so I am content they at least know Italian cocktails and the place has no windows (comforting, for reasons) and a diverse menu. They bring a salad (body is going what is this, no it has vitamin K but OMG Italian dressing. Face down yummy) and then give me three pieces of garlic bread sopping in garlic butter/cheese yay for scarpettas! (Wait, bread? AGAIN! You had four slices last night. Your diabetes....shut up and eat the bread). I got the baked manicotti. Oooo good. I got the aperol spritz too (see, T-Shirt girl can afford your cocktails). By the time I leave (I got there at like 630) the line was out the door to get in. At least this waitress wasn't a snot like last time.

Roll on home to have like an hour before the online Abney Park Halloween concert I had bought before realizing I'd be sitting in a hotel room listening.

And guess what I'm drinking. That's right POP (and my blood sugar is 130...go figure)

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Today's Adventures

Today we planned to visit the Apple Festival in Greenup.

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[#277] ALL WE ARE (TORCHWOOD)

Theme Prompt: #277 - Abandoned mansion
Title: All we are
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Gwen is left wondering whether knowing their place in the universe brings any comfort at all.

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