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oursin

Happy birthday,

landofnowhere!

selenak

Blessed be! The Aunt Lydia narrated episode has arrived!

( Spoilers don’t know whether they’re a phoenix or a cockroach… )

Current Mood: enthralled
Current Location: on the train

rejectomorph

Wednesday was another crappy day, I'm glad it's over and I don't want to talk about it. I'm going to sleep now and hope Thursday will be better.

goodbyebird posting in

3weeks4dreamwidth

Community culture used to be big back in the day, but as fics drifted over to AO3, fanart and graphics to tumblr, and random thoughts/reviews sprinkled in just about everywhere, the communities have been somewhat left behind. But they're such a wonderful hub for potential new folks to stumble across!

This is your opportunity to tell others about wonderful communities you enjoy, and those you wish to breathe life back into.

Current Music: Qveen Herby - Sensational

sovay

tl;dr my body is chewed up by medical conditions and their treatment and I have not slept more than two or three hours in five nights, but this afternoon I had to walk into Davis for a prescription and I photographed some flowering things along the way. The cherries are still blooming.

( One step over the line. )

I am still watching almost nothing in the way of movies, but

spatch and I are enjoying the introductory riffs on weird New England in Widow's Bay (2026–). The series so far feels more like a collection of strange stories than a puzzle-box, off-kilter without tipping as far as spoof. I hope it can hold. I'd had no idea I should have been following Matthew Rhys for his powers of +10 mortal fear. In other art, I had missed the gloriously angular revival of the Pylon Reenactment Society's Magnet Factory (2024). I believe

moon_custafer that this musician is doing his impressive best in the absence of his natural frog form. The doom-folk of Jim Ghedi's "Wasteland" (2025) once again suggests a Cloudish cinema.

Current Music: Pylon Reenactment Society, "Fix It (feat. Kate Pierson)"

goodbyebird

Tomorrow is BandCamp Friday, meaning the artist gets a lot more of the money when you purchase their music. So I figured I'd recommend some recent-ish albums for y'all to check out.

War Child Records - Help 2.
Insupport of War Child's vital work delivering immediate aid, education, specialist mental health support, and protection to children affected by conflict around the world.

HELP(2) features an incredible line-up of contributors including Anna Calvi, Arctic Monkeys, Arlo Parks, Arooj Aftab, Bat For Lashes, Beabadoobee, Beck, Beth Gibbons, Big Thief, Black Country, New Road, Cameron Winter, Damon Albarn, Depeche Mode, Dove Ellis, Ellie Rowsell, English Teacher, Ezra Collective, Foals, Fontaines D.C., Graham Coxon, Greentea Peng, Grian Chatten, Kae Tempest, King Krule, Nilüfer Yanya, Olivia Rodrigo, Pulp, Sampha, The Last Dinner Party, Wet Leg and Young Fathers.

My World Is The Sun - Dominique Fils-Aimé
I've been listening to this a bunch the last couple of days. Soothing and emotional. Most likely my purchase tomorrow.

Anjimile - You're Free To Go
A songwriter that's new to me. Introspective, queer, aching, joyful. Reminds me it's been way too long since I've listened to Tracy Chapman.

Fantasy Life - Begonia
A voice I fell in love with the second I heard it. Soft, playful, great lyrics.

Altogether Stranger - Lael Neale
Indie pop tinged with strangeness in the best way.

The Former Site of - The New Pornographers
Complex arrangements and playfulness, but with a somber backbone.

And while I have you here I'm going to be a big sneaky cheeky and solicit your help in choosing my song for April. I have three I just can't decide between. Be my tie breakers? 🙏

trying times
make something up
wish you could see me i'm killing it

Poll #34538 Song of the Month

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 1

View Respondents

GBBs April Banger

View Answers

James Blake - Trying Times
0 (0.0%)

James Blake - Make Something Up
0 (0.0%)

The New Pornographers - Wish You Could See Me I'm Killing It
1 (100.0%)

Current Music: Nemahsis - fine print

princessofgeeks

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torachan

1. When Carla called the second plumbers yesterday, they told her they'd be out between 12 and 2 today, but then immediately after sent a message saying 10-12 instead, and they were indeed here by around 10:45. They got the water heater replaced quickly and even cleaned a lot of the cobwebs and weeds out of the shed, and they adjusted the placement of the new one so it sits further back inside and just generally looks better, so that was nice! It cost about ten times more than when they replaced the previous one eight years ago, but that was still significantly cheaper than the first guys quoted us, so I'll take it.

2. I've had the same headphones for my desktop PC for ages and the coating has started to flake off for at least the past year or so, but then yesterday I noticed the foam was now coming out of place as well. But! We have a pair of exactly the same ones that Carla had bought (actually she got hers first and I liked them and got a pair myself) but eventually replaced with better quality ones, and they were still in perfectly good condition, so I just switched to those and don't have to buy a new pair. The things about them that bothered her don't bother me, and I don't use headphones at my desk that much anyway, so I'm fine with sticking with these until they eventually wear out, too.

3. Carla made hamburg the other night for dinner and we had some patties leftover and decided to make sandwiches with them tonight. It's basically meatloaf with a slightly different flavor profile, and I love meatloaf sandwiches. We used tonkatsu sauce instead of ketchup, and while I would have gone for cabbage or lettuce, all we had on hand was some arugula and I'd literally just gotten back from walking to the store for something else, so we tried that and it worked really well.

4. I love his little crossed wrists!

lassarina

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http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5819

when Momray said "Cubetown messes up sometimes" she specifically meant Mooby

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gardening

It’s been wonderful weather for outdoor work: more mulching has been done and brush has been cut and removed. I also gave the rototiller a quick pre-season going over: motor and gear oil topped off and a flat tire taken care of.*

I’ve had a furry friend keeping me company out by the shed since February; a rabbit has taken up residence nearby :o)

Waiting patiently to see what might be available.

Soooon…

Edit - I just noticed that this bunny is probably a New England Cottontail: there is a dark patch on the forehead and not the white spot of the Eastern Cottontail! Click the pics to expand them.

* I probably mentioned this before in regards to the tiller… When I was about 16 I watched, in awe, mind you, a friend of my sister manually replace a tire on his 1970 Road Runner. He took the original tire off the rim, and replaced it with another, with tire irons. To seat the bead he looped and tied a rope around the center of the tire, tightening it by turning a lug wrench slipped beneath it while filling the tire with air. Heh, I use the rope trick on the tiller tires, when necessary, with baling twine, a crescent wrench, and a hand pump.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Turn! Turn! Turn! various

senmut

Poll #34537 Mother May I

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 14

Pick a Mother

Ayla (Earth's Children)
1 (7.1%)

Damia Raven-Lyon (Talents Series)
1 (7.1%)

Alustriel Silverhand (Forgotten Realms)
1 (7.1%)

Lwaxana Troi (Star Trek)
10 (71.4%)

Dejah Thoris (Barsoom)
1 (7.1%)

Pick a Situation

Impending Grandchildren
2 (14.3%)

Meeting the Significant Other
3 (21.4%)

A New Pet
2 (14.3%)

Balancing Professional and Private Lives
3 (21.4%)

It's the End of the World As We Know It
4 (28.6%)

Parenting Alone?

Yes
10 (71.4%)

No
4 (28.6%)

Mood

Cracktastic
6 (42.9%)

Joyful
4 (28.6%)

Angsty
1 (7.1%)

Tragedy
1 (7.1%)

Neutral
2 (14.3%)

tsuki_no_bara

i worked from home today which meant i could sleep in and yet i could not. annoying. so i did the dishes instead of, you know, catching up on some delicious, delicious sleep. sigh. i don't think i'll ever be a morning person and i know i'm still a night owl - i mean i had to stay up last night and watch the lost boys - but man, who wouldn't rather sleep than wash dishes? right?

"The Imagination Completes Its Grand Circuit,"

sees my mother seated up in bed, unable to move

of her own accord, lips parched from medication,

she begins to sing, a chant, an Arab song,

from her childhood, eyes almost transparent.

My two aunts, or they would have been my aunts,

who died in infancy . . . from pneumonia? . . .

scarlet fever? . . . no one alive now knows.

What was, when my mother was a child, in the air

of the world’s most industrialized city? Blessings

and horrors, raw orange sunsets, that blue flame

burning is industry, the smell of incense rising

in the fabulous churches, Latin, Greek, Arabic, Aramaic

liturgies, descendants of inventors of alphabets.

After midnight humid and hot. The dead are wherever

we are. They’re not just details, these tears of bliss.

Survival’s what’s involved. Furious, the fate

that keeps watch. Everything’s something else and yet itself

at the same time. Home, you know? Everyone

and everything is related. Wet steel-blue morning, thin,

purple salvias near the backyard fence. Your Grandpa’s

dead, I, the baby, must have heard it said.

--Lawrence Joseph

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: national treasure

armiphlage

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sanguinity

Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15

Still looking for a volunteer to split hosting duties for May! If no one else is available, I'll split the month with

dswdiane, but I want to put out the call one last time…

My check-in: Some rewrites to the beginning of a story that I might use for a charity auction fill.

Day 29:

china_shop,

sanguinity,

trobadora

Day 28:

acorn_squash,

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

sanguinity,

the_siobhan,

trobadora

Day 27:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

ysilme

( More days )

When you check in, please use the most recent post and say what day(s) you’re checking in for. Remember you can drop in or out at any time, and let me know if I missed anyone!

musesfool

Today's poem:

Bright Wings

I was walking in the garden looking for the intermediaries
between me and the clear light. I had left the hose running
much too long. Something was eating holes in the ear-soft
leaves of the morning glories. I saw for the first time
that the neighbor was growing corn - the yellow shocks
were leaning just above the cinder-block fence, and they
looked delicate and scruffy, like city corn, like alien corn,
and suddenly there was so much to be done, so much to
put in order, not the ordinary business of loving and dying,
but the ordinary business that comes bundled with them:
Sunlight behaved perfectly in every corner, the shadows breathed
in their one direction and told stories, our cat crouched in the flower bed
aching to kill something: How do you explain being so convinced,
so utterly taken by the idea that beauty is somehow moral?
I mean in this day and age? I mean now when no one can even get
that equation to hold up? But the ants have formed a black
ribbon that leads to a dead snail. But the Pipers and Cessnas
and Beechcraft are circling and banking for the airport with
so much color and precision. But the dogs two houses down
have heard the mail-carrier's foot, and they have erupted.
This is not the argument I'm looking for. And I have been lazy.
Tangerines and lemons have swollen and dropped from their
impatient branches. They lie among the fern and the vine, bruised
and mushy. They are being swarmed. They are being devoured.

--Frank X. Gaspar

***

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Canadiens vs Lightning on tv

sixbeforelunch

Stargate SG1 x9
Star Trek: The Next Generation x6
Star Trek: Nemesis x2
Star Trek: Picard x1
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 x3
Star Trek: Voyager x3
Star Trek: Lower Decks x5
Star Trek: Prodigy x1
Star Trek cast photos x2
DCU x4

It's been a hard, uh, decade. It's okay if you need a hug ... or 36.

Preview:

( *hugs* )

ljgeoff

I once burned hot
with passion
with words
with outrage

now my words are fewer
some days I hardly speak at all
my passion takes longer to kindle
my outrage

my outrage still burns
but it burns cold
I give no fucks
for these pissant demagogues
or the thugs on my street
go a head and try me

An old man, a beekeeper
told me how his grandfather
was taken by the Nazis
taken as a teenager to the camps
and survived

"I'll take my gun up"
he told me
burning cold
"I have grandchildren.
Let them try me."

LJG 4/29/26

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