exultation is the going

May. 23rd, 2025 07:05 pm
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I'd say something about how May 22 and July 22 have the same amount of sunshine but the temperature didn't even break 50 F yesterday and, last year, July 27 was 87 degrees but I can't really speak of sunshine hours when I can't even remember the last time I've seen a clear sky. Maybe last Friday.
There was also thunder, which is weird because we see thu. And a month of rain.

I went to Cava and got a salad of mixed greens, harissa, fire-roasted corn, pickled onions, cabbage slaw, spicy meatballs, fiery broccoli (which apparently uses aleppo pepper), kalamata olives, feta, and harissa viniagrette, and a drink of blueberry lavender. There was a cybertruck outside and I swear this is because most people who drive in Boston are actually from Maine, Vermont, or New Hampshire.

Arvo Pärt, Fratres for violin & piano
The violinist, at the begining, was moving the bow up and down like a lever.
I swear I heard this in a different form, since it exists for unspecified instrument, you can play it on the violin and piano or a string quartet with percussion or trombones or saxophones or even a theremin and water bowl if you please.

York Bowen, Phantasy Quintet
It's an unusual instrumentation; bass clarinet and string quartet.

Exultation is the going of an inland soul to sea
–Emily Dickinson

Yep, that’s Kevin Puts all right. I wish I could find some notes that were more detailed than the brief biography and artist statement in which he talks about the ocean and Peter Grimes.

A lone gray bird… alone in the shadows and grandeurs and tumults of night and the sea
–Carl Sandburg

it’s rather abrupt with a blast from the flute. The flute is the gray bird, the low strings and piano notes are the night and sea.

A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea
–Douglas Adams

It’s not meant to be a Vogon poem or that of the Azgoths of Kria. And definitely not those poems of Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings. There’d be dead and rotting swans with bits of flesh dropping off of them from time to time.
It rises up and down, up and down.

Out of the darkness… jets of sparks in fountains of blue come leaping
–D.H. Lawrence

and then swirls.

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric
–Virginia Woolf

this one’s mostly ambient.

I, while the gods laugh, the world’s vortex am; maelström of passions in that hidden sea
–Mervyn Peake

Yeah, it sounds like that.

…let us find a place ‘neath ocean’s breast and bid her lie where waves are kind
–Benjamin Franklin Field

The longest movement. It ends with quietude.

Beethoven's Archduke Trio is in four movements and lasts a little over 40 minutes.
Allegro moderato is a sonata. Then the scherzo. Then a variation and then a rondo played with great force. It was written during a prolific and sucessful time in his career in Vienna, and even his deafness was holding off.

I met a husky and the world’s skinniest pug. Since she was also a black pug, I was even more surprised to find out she was a pug. She gets a lot of exercise, her human says. I also saw a shih tzu but it was rather far away from me.
Abby’s not an artist. She seems relatively normal. There were two passengers but they got off at Broadway and one was wearing a leopard-print jacket so I had to attempt every detail and the other is just kinda minimalistic.

burning question: Can the sailor understand / The divine intoxication /
Of the first league out from land?

I'll go to Goodwill for you anytime!!

May. 23rd, 2025 03:45 pm
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When I took Dixie's sweater to her this morning, she kept saying 'let me pay you' and I said 'no no no' I told her I'd rather have her in my debt. She did give me a whole pile of adorable buttons - buttons like for kids' stuff - little toys and animals - really cute ones. As I was leaving she was still trying to pay me.

Cut to just now - 4 pm - here comes Dixie with a big bag.

Fridays after lunch there is a knitting group who meets. I went once. It was enough. But, apparently, she took her sweater to the knitting group to unravel and got a bunch of helpers! So smart. She took a bunch for her project and brought me the rest - a bag full - already mostly unraveled!!

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Perfect doll hair. I told her that I'll go to Goodwill for her anytime.

A mere diversion

May. 23rd, 2025 11:41 pm
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The Mere, Ellesmere, 23rd May 2025
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I had a full day free today, so I thought I'd set off on a bus adventure! It's a good job I did choose that, actually, since rail turned out to be out of the question thanks to a train hitting a tractor on the line I might have used. Fortunately the buses weren't affected, so they ran as normal. As it was a nice day, I chose to go to Ellesmere. This was somewhere I'd never been before, in spite of its being in Shropshire, the next county over. It's a big county, though! It took me three buses and several hours to get here, and just three miles further north I'd be in Wrexham County Borough in Wales. Ellesmere is at the heart of the rather grandly named "Shropshire Lake District", which is a rather overblown designation really as there aren't any mountains to go with the lakes.

A couple of the meres are privately owned and are not really accessible to walkers, and a couple more are a bit of a step from the town. Fortunately, the biggest and best known -- which is called simply "The Mere" -- is on the edge of Ellesmere itself, just a few minutes' walk from the town centre. You can walk around most of it, partly along a pleasant wooded trail and partly on an open concreted promenade with the odd ice cream hut and the like. I did about half of the walk today. Ellesmere town itself has Norman origins but most of its buildings date from the 18th and 19th centuries, especially the years after 1805 when it was linked by canal to Ellesmere Port and thence Liverpool. (There's still a thriving canal trade here, though these days it's pleasure narrowboats that ply the canal.)

I'm very pleased that today's little adventure worked out, since it wasn't all that cheap and I really can't justify the spend to do extensive excursions too often. (You may have noticed that most of my days out are to fairly local spots.) I doubt I'll be going as far as this again for a while -- it's around 50 miles from home, which I think is enough for me to omit the "local" tag from this post despite my destination being in Shropshire. I don't especially mind, as I've never been a really extensive traveller and I'm lucky enough to have a lot of interesting things to see either in my own area or accessible via a shorter and/or cheaper trip. I do recommend Ellesmere, though only if the weather is good as there's not much to do indoors there.

Black Is The New Black

May. 23rd, 2025 10:04 pm
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Black Is The New Black
Pairing: Matt Davies-Kreye, Lucas Woodland
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Rubber, mindbreak
Notes: So I had hoped, as always, to get one of the main WIPs out. Indeed it was an intent to get a prompt fic out. However between a certain someone reading through the rubber fics and giving me a suggestion I’m back with a whole new fic (as if I needed more!) but I’d always intended to do more of the ‘rubber verse’ although this wasn’t what I thought I would do.
This is set late 2023 (and I really need to find a pic of Matt but can’t find one quickly). A companion fic is coming too and will probably be the next thing before I go back to the prompts
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I broke my rule

May. 23rd, 2025 12:02 pm
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Dixie said she went to Value Village (the local reuse shop) and they only had about 3 sweaters and none were the right color. It's so not the right time of year for sweaters.

But, I had been wanting to check out the Goodwill in Redmond and ... why not now? So I just grabbed my keys and went. Stopped to get Biggie's drugs first. They had them ready this time and charged me more :( but stil l way cheaper than another surgery!

It was morning rush hour so Google took me the back way to Redmond and it was a beautiful drive. I mean really spectacularly, if-I-didn't-live-here-I'd-move-tomorrow beautiful. Lush green tree canopy over the road and nearly no traffic. The Redmond store is easy to get to with good, easy parking. It's big and bright and well organized. Probably about half the size of the Seattle store, maybe less. But lovely and well staffed. I found way too many clothes. I do not need clothes. I bought them anyway. Now I have to go to the storage area and get more hangers. I promised I would not do that. I am such a liar.

The clothes are in the wash now.

But, more importantly, I found Dixie's perfect sweater. Exactly the right color and a good size of yarn for kinky unraveling. I took it to her when I got back. She had left me some buttons in my mail room cubby and I picked those up and they are DARLING. Little toy's and shapes. And there are a bunch of them.

The woman at the title company who calls me from a different phone every time and rarely to tell me anything new, called again today from still another number to tell me exactly what she told me in her reply to my email earlier in the week. I asked her to quit calling. And to please communicate via email. And so she sent me an email saying the notary would be scheduled for Tuesday morning at 10. Then the notary sent me an email saying she's coming Tuesday at 10. Wonder when the signing will be?? I'm thinking maybe Tuesday at 10.

How glad will I be when all this shit is over? Very.

I did not get to the grocery. Maybe tomorrow. I would like some ice cream but I can get some down at the Bistro.

Now I'd better go get those hangers.

Birdfeeding

May. 23rd, 2025 12:49 pm
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Today is partly sunny and mild.  It rained a little yesterday.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a catbird, a blackbird, a blue jay, a young fox squirrel on the hopper feeder, and an adult fox squirrel running through the trees.

I put out water for the birds.

I set out the flats of pots and watered them.

EDIT 5/23/25 -- I pulled grass from inside the septic garden.

EDIT 5/23/25 -- I pulled more grass from inside the septic garden.  I discovered that a few gladioli are still surviving there.

Also there are mosquito larvae in the trough pond on the old picnic table, so I need to get some mosquito dunks for that. :/

EDIT 5/23/25 -- I pulled more grass from inside the septic garden.  

EDIT 5/23/25 -- I pulled more grass from inside the septic garden.  

I've seen two fox squirrels in the forest garden.

EDIT 5/23/25 -- I potted up a purple-and-yellow torenia, a yellow portulaca, two yellow snapdragons, and two white lobelias in a big clay pot on the patio.

I've seen a female cardinal.

EDIT 5/23/25 -- I potted up crosne knotroots in one of the big taupe pots that I put on the north side of the new picnic table.  I have 2 of those pots left to fill.

EDIT 5/23/25 -- I filled the last two of the big taupe pots with half composted manure and half potting soil.  I sowed one with ground cherry seeds from Pinetree Garden Seeds, which emptied that packet; it didn't come with a lot of seeds in it.  I sowed the other pot with goldenberry seeds from John Scheeper's Kitchen Garden Seeds, which still has plenty left.

EDIT 5/23/25 -- I potted up a purple-and-white picotee petunia, a purple-and-white striped 'Wave' petunia, a 'Dusty Miller' artemesia, and two white lobelias in a clay pot on the patio.  I also added a 'Dusty Miller' artemesia to the pot of yellow flowers from earlier.

I've seen a skunk on the patio.



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Baseball bon mots

May. 23rd, 2025 07:31 am
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This probably loses its spark in the telling but it really cracked me up.

Phillies broadcaster 1: [opposing pitcher] is really talking to himself out there.

broadcaster 2: Good communications is key, Tom.


A fair number of people here have cellphones. A small percentage of those people have been trained on the value of texting by their children and grandchildren. Turns out Dixie - the woman who came over Wednesday to find out how to do kinky hair on knitted dolls - is one of them. I got a text this morning from an unknown number that just said 'test'. I replied 'A+'. Then she sent me her question and remember to add her name. Well done, Dixie!

And in other Timber Ridge peops news... I was looking up something in the Timber Ridge app and spied that the new person moving into Gail and Roger's apartment is now listed! moving in June 3. with picture and bio and wow. She's not a frail old wallflower. She spent many years as admin in the county court system and also many years in local politics. And still works as a travel agent part time.

Martha has been whining that our floor is running out of people with enough marbles left to contribute. I sent her the link to Jackie (new girl) this morning and she's all excited. I also sent Jackie an email.

I had dinner last night with my friend, Steve (who is also a good texter). He's so nice but he's so boring. Hilariously, yesterday, he got hearing aids for the first time and he was having fun listening to everything. It was pretty funny. 'This dining room is noisy!'

Just got a note from Erica that the pool fix it guy isn't coming until Monday. Still icy. No volleyball. Sigh.

The vet left a voice mail that Biggie's drugs were in. So I'll go back again and hope this time they really mean it. Also I might stop at the grocery. I have this idea for a cuke and melon chopped salad but I don't have any cukes or melons.

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Follow Friday 5-23-25: Het

May. 23rd, 2025 02:31 am
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Today's theme is Het (heterosexual pairings).

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Waterfox

May. 23rd, 2025 02:12 am
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Waterfox - a new privacy-oriented search engine option

This could be useful. Even if you don't want to make it your primary search engine, it's ideal for searches you want to keep secret.  Regrettably the only means of support seem to be ads or subscription.  A voluntary donation model would be much more flexible and appealing.

hmmm

May. 22nd, 2025 10:38 pm
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I think I might do my monthly donation to a website with whatever remaining money I have before my next paycheck. My hours at work were fixed but my paycheck earlier this week wasn't as good as it was for the last few months because I worked one 6 hour shift among them, so I should be back to having more leisure money next time. I think I'll either donate to Side7 or Marapets, but I haven't played the latter in a hot minute lol. I also do need to get a rename token because this username was something I pulled out of my ass when I was 17 / freshly 18.
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This is what I wrote for the [community profile] unsent_letters_exchange. :)

Title: my heart is with you
Fandom: DCEU
Pairing/Characters: Diana/Steve
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 1983
Summary: Diana writes letters for Steve, until she no longer has to.
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These were the fics I received from the [community profile] unsent_letters_exchange. :D

Title: Please Mr Postman
Author: [archiveofourown.org profile] Ultra
Fandom: Gilmore Girls
Pairing/Characters: Lane/Dave
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 2855
Summary: When Dave goes off to California for college, he and Lane agree to do the long distance thing, largely through letters... and a lot of pop and rock music references, of course

I was so excited to get Lane/Dave! Loved all the fun music references and the letters were very them. :D

Title: Please Mr Postman - Post Credits Scene
Author: [archiveofourown.org profile] Ultra
Fandom: Gilmore Girls
Pairing/Characters: Rory/Jess
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 1097
Summary: Inspired by Dave & Lane's letter writing, Rory writes to Jess.

The Rory/Jess references in the original fic was already nice but it was a lovely delight to get a followup fic with giving them a chance at a happy ending too!

ADHD thoughts

May. 22nd, 2025 01:36 pm
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Don't use Twitter anymore outside of browsing on a locked burner account, but I wanted to share this thread from [profile] droptineart:

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Today marks the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, one of the most influential authors of modern detective stories. To honor his legacy, May 22 has been dubbed the Sherlock Holmes Day. Last year, we celebrated with a roundtable chat about the beloved sleuth. This year, we’re shifting our focus to his spiritual successors, wrapped in the rainbow flag. Enjoy the list of 21 Queer Detective Reads, compiled thanks to: Nina Waters, Shadaras, Owl Outerbridge, theirprofoundbond, hullosweetpea, Mikki Madison, Shea Sullivan, Dei Walker, Shannon, Rhosyn Goodfellow and an anonymous contributor.

Pony 365!

May. 22nd, 2025 09:20 pm
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Funko Rainbow Dash, 22nd May 2025
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Quite late this evening, I realised that I hadn't taken a single 365-able photo today! Needs must, so I hauled this out of the appropriate cupboard. Although Funko is known these days for its Pop! figures, which are absolutely everywhere and frankly don't interest me much, that wasn't always so. Come back with me to 2012 or so, and we had these. Show-style figures of My Little Pony characters. They were pretty decent for the price (£15-ish, from memory) and a fairly large range was produced. Sadly, when Pop! started to take over the world, Funko decided to call a halt to the show-style series. One or two of the most keenly awaited characters only made it to prototype stage, and a couple of other late releases are now rare and expensive. My heart won't ever quite forgive Funko for doing that, however much my head acknowledges the commercial realities. Anyway, here's Rainbow Dash. AA battery for scale.

March 2025 Prompts

May. 22nd, 2025 03:43 pm
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Continuing the catch-up ...

1. Name three things in your fridge right now that you are looking forward to eating I have corn tortillas and Mexican cheese blend, which means I can make quesadillas. I also have surimi and ramen noodles (and there are frozen Asian vegetables in the freezer) which will make a nice stir fry with the addition of sesame oil and soy sauce. And there are a couple of containers of Trader Joe’s strawberry-vanilla Greek yogurt. Aside from that, except for some eggs and a jar of spaghetti sauce (which really doesn’t need to be refrigerated since it’s unopened), almost everything in the refrigerator is some sort of condiment or a beverage.

2. What is the price of a dozen eggs at the store near you? Is there a price at which you will choose to not buy eggs? I think I paid $4.29 at Trader Joe’s a couple of days ago.

3. What does "copy cat,” mean to you? Someone with the good taste to imitate me.

4. What was your first pet? Why did you choose this pet? My brother and I both had turtles when we were really little. I don’t think there was any choice involved, since my parents bought them for us. Later on, we had Rosie the mouse, who we got from my next-door-neighbor after her mother objected to having a mouse. (I think her name was officially Rose Petal. She was a very cute white mouse.)

5. What is my earliest or happiest memory? My earliest memory is of being at my grandparents’ bungalow in the Catskills. I may have been chased by a cow, so it wasn’t actually a happy memory. I do have happier memories there which involve all the women playing mahjongg.

6. How are you going to make tomorrow a joyful day? Maybe working my way through my to-do list.

7. What are a few qualities you dislike in other people, and why? At the top of the list of annoying qualities is interrupting people. Mansplaining is a particular example of this.

8. What was your favourite thing to collect as a child, and why? I collected foreign coins, which started with buying a packet of them. I know I bought some at Expo ’67 in Montreal, but I may have gotten some earlier than that at the New York World’s Fair in 1964.

9. What is your greatest fear and how often do you think about it? I am terrified of heights. I can’t say I think about that a lot, however, since it is easy to avoid high places in my day to day life.

10. Have you ever moved? Tell about one of your moves. I’ve moved several times. Probably the most interesting was driving from Los Angeles to northern Virginia in 2002. I stopped at the Meteor Crater in Arizona and went to both the Cadillac Ranch and the less famous Bug Ranch in Texas. I ate some very good Mexican food in Tucumcari, New Mexico. I did not stand on the corner in Winslow, Arizona, but I resented the sign suggesting I should do so since I was then earwormed by the song “Hotel California” all the way to Oklahoma, where there was a sign telling me that the land was grand. I was also surprised in Russell, Arkansas where overhearing a conversation between two guys and a motel desk clerk informed me that dry counties still exist in some places.

11. Tell about a time you were given, or gave, flowers. My mother was really thrilled with the bouquet of flowers I had sent for her 80th birthday.

12. What is something that made your mother happy. Aside from getting flowers, Mom loved going to the theatre and I took her to Broadway shows for Mothers’ Day for several years.

13. What did your family do on Sundays as a child? My brother and I rode our bikes to Rhodes (officially called a delicatessen, but really more or less a general store) to pick up the Sunday New York Times and a box of “mixed fancies” (i.e. Italian pastries). We ate pastries as well as things like bagels or pletzel for brunch. We had to wait for Mom to finish with the NYT Sunday crossword before we were allowed to even look at it to try to fill in the words she didn’t know.

14. As a whole, do you live for tomorrow or today? Explain. I do both. I have long to-do lists for today, but I am also always planning things for the future.

15. Which talent would you most like to have? I’d like to have actual musical talent.

16. Which holiday has the most meaning for you-—and why? Passover brings back a lot of family memories.

17. What’s something exciting you are looking forward to? My upcoming paper conservation workshop in Greece.

18. Who do you feel most connected to right now and why? Probably Cindy, because we talk on the phone or text almost every day.

19. How much money is enough for you? As much as it takes to pay for my condo fees, food and other necessities (e.g. housewares and drugstore purchases), books, and a couple of trips a year.

20. How have your views on friendship changed as you’ve gotten older? I recognize that some friendships will inevitably end, just because of people moving or changing interests.

21. Make a list of 10 fun things you could do this week. I’m going to Balticon this coming weekend, so that probably accounts for 10 in and of itself.

22. What author, book or series do you refuse to read? I have no interest in the Fifty Shades series.

23. What helps you feel grounded and centered? This is a tough question. I guess completing some home organizing chores would qualify.

24. How are you and your parents alike? I share my parents’ love of books, especially mysteries. I also share some of their musical tastes, especially Broadway show tunes and humorous songs, e.g. Tom Lehrer and Allan Sherman.

25. What did your parents do for fun? My parents liked to go to the theatre and to play board games. Those are also things I do for fun.

26. If you had the option of living forever, would you take it? Only if that included perfect health and if the people I’m close to would also live healthily ever after.

27. What is your favorite day of the week? I don’t think there is any particular day of the week that is always my favorite. For any given week, there may be some event I am looking forward to, however.

28. Who do you talk to when you have a problem? One of my friends, usually either Cindy or Kim, depending on what the problem is.

29. What did you see today that was beautiful? The fabric that one of the women in my crafts group dyed.

30. Did you have a good sleep last night? Pretty good.

31. What are some things you are proud of yourself - for accomplishing, for being, for surviving, for changing, for not changing? I’m proud of how many places I have managed to travel to.

Pennies

May. 22nd, 2025 01:41 pm
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People are trying again to kill the penny.  Just to add insult to injury, the law would require all prices to be rounded up

Birdfeeding

May. 22nd, 2025 12:59 pm
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Today is cloudy and cool.

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

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 5/22/25 -- I set out the flats of pots and watered them.

I've seen a young fox squirrel.

EDIT 5/22/25 -- Of the 6 pots I sowed with Gaillardia 'Firewheel' seeds on 2/23/25, three sprouted.  One of those has since died, but one of the remaining pots had two seedlings in it.  I planted the survivors in one of the mowed strips of the prairie garden.  So that's roughly 50% success if you count by pots, but less if you count by seeds since I put two in each pot.  I plant them by pots, though, so it's not a terrible result.

EDIT 5/22/25 -- I started trying to trim grass around the septic garden, but the grass shears broke.  >_<  Fortunately I had an older pair that I could use, but I need new ones.  I did get one section trimmed.  I'm taking advantage of the cool, cloudy weather for a laborious project.

EDIT 5/22/25 -- I trimmed more grass around the septic garden.  

I've seen a mourning dove, a phoebe, and two young ground squirrels.

The first peas sprouted a couple days ago and more are up now.  :D  The 'Chocolate Sprinkles' cherry tomato has the first green fruit, although it's among the last ones I planted, just over a week ago.

EDIT 5/22/25 -- I wanted to go back out, but it was raining.

EDIT 5/22/25 -- Eventually it stopped raining long enough for me to do more trimming.

EDIT 5/22/25 -- Aaaaand now it's raining again.

EDIT 5/22/25 -- I brought in the flats of pots.

EDIT 5/22/25 -- I got back outside and started pulling weeds from inside the septic garden.

EDIT 5/22/25 -- I pulled more weeds from inside the septic garden.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

NDRV3 Quadranted Queerness Headcanons

May. 22nd, 2025 05:18 pm
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Our new main headcanons! These orienatations are based on the quadrants romance system from homestuck, which you can read about here on fanlore. Here we've used ⭐ to denote panquarted individuals (aka who's quadranted feelings have little to no barrier between the quadrants) & 💫 to denote quadrant-blurrers (basically the grey area between panquadranted and regular quadranted feelings). Note that we know these guys are Japanese, and thus wouldn't use the same pronouns, what's used here is just what we imagine them using if they knew english. Also characters we headcanon as intersex are also noted here.

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Film post: I, Robot

May. 22nd, 2025 02:04 pm
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I, Robot (2004) film poster
I, Robot (2004)

First things first here: if you're a fan of Isaac Asimov's robot story of the same name, then don't expect a faithful adaptation here. In 2035, the Three Laws of Robotics exist, there's a rather emotionless US Robotics scientist called Susan Calvin... and that's mostly it. This I, Robot is a plain old sci-fi action flick. Fortunately it's not a bad one, with detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) doing quite well as he investigates the apparent murder of US Robotics' founder by a robot – something that the Three Laws should render impossible. Later we get into familiar territory with both a full-on robot rebellion and Spooner coming to terms with a particular robot apparently displaying emotions. Talking of which, or lack of, Bridget Moynahan makes a watchable Calvin. Interestingly, I think the 21-year-old CGI actually plays in the film's favour: the serried ranks of robots' disconcertingly insectoid movements enhance the sense of strangeness. The overdone motorcycle stunt scenes and the level of Audi product placement, though, are tiresome even by Hollywood blockbuster standards. I, Robot isn't remotely groundbreaking, but in its own genre it's efficient enough and even provides just the occasional moment to provoke thought about the direction our own society was (in 2004) and still is heading. ★★★
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