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mergatrudeFinished The Iron Will of Genie Lo and I really enjoyed it. Genie is such an unreliable narrator in a very fun way. The other characters are all charming and I liked the direction the book went in. I also liked how it felt satisfactorily concluded.
Watched KPop Demon Hunters with the dude, who's a bit of a KPop fan. It was a lot of fun and hit all the typical 'slayer' beats. The animation style was cool.
Continuing with the girl power theme, I have Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson (author of Vespertine, which I believe some of you have read) and Skipshock by Caroline O'Donoghue to read next.
We have acquired a copy of Flow to watch because it was only in cinemas for a week and we missed it.
And of course I'm still listening to Murderbot on the bus to and from work. If they make a second season of the TV series based on Artificial Condition I really hope they get Kevin R. Free to voice ART. He's so good!
Watched KPop Demon Hunters with the dude, who's a bit of a KPop fan. It was a lot of fun and hit all the typical 'slayer' beats. The animation style was cool.
Continuing with the girl power theme, I have Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson (author of Vespertine, which I believe some of you have read) and Skipshock by Caroline O'Donoghue to read next.
We have acquired a copy of Flow to watch because it was only in cinemas for a week and we missed it.
And of course I'm still listening to Murderbot on the bus to and from work. If they make a second season of the TV series based on Artificial Condition I really hope they get Kevin R. Free to voice ART. He's so good!
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Jul. 7th, 2025 11:27 pmharpers_child1. Brain raccoons in full force in the few days leading up to this trip. In part because I got my period and being in your 40s evidently means you just lose your mind for a few days every month. (This has been going in for like 6? months. Maybe more. I swear every god that knows my name I'm going mad. The internet says this is just what peri-menopause is and suck it up buttercup.)
1b. Brain raccoons are insisting that the new music player is inadequate because it only has a handful of albums and every mashup I could find on my various drives (600-ish). The raccoons say I need to bring my ipod that only holds charge for the length of a shower as well because my comfort playlists are on there.
My music collection is disorganized enough that I don't have the brain bandwidth to organize it and rebuild the comfort playlists on the new device before leaving. My brain bandwidth is taken up with other things
2. New fountain pen owner milestone: have completely taken apart and put back together two of my four TWSBI Ecos. One had the end cap come off during cleaning today and the other had water get in on the wrong side of the plunger. For personal future reference this is the video I used -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUPaXQpXOEY
2b. The TWSBI Eco is my current favorite fountain pen. Easy to fill, chunky enough for my hands, and the stub nib works nicely with my awful handwriting.
3. I am running into packing problems mostly because a third of my suitcase is taken up by the collapsible bag I'm bringing for souvenirs.
1b. Brain raccoons are insisting that the new music player is inadequate because it only has a handful of albums and every mashup I could find on my various drives (600-ish). The raccoons say I need to bring my ipod that only holds charge for the length of a shower as well because my comfort playlists are on there.
My music collection is disorganized enough that I don't have the brain bandwidth to organize it and rebuild the comfort playlists on the new device before leaving. My brain bandwidth is taken up with other things
2. New fountain pen owner milestone: have completely taken apart and put back together two of my four TWSBI Ecos. One had the end cap come off during cleaning today and the other had water get in on the wrong side of the plunger. For personal future reference this is the video I used -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUPaXQpXOEY
2b. The TWSBI Eco is my current favorite fountain pen. Easy to fill, chunky enough for my hands, and the stub nib works nicely with my awful handwriting.
3. I am running into packing problems mostly because a third of my suitcase is taken up by the collapsible bag I'm bringing for souvenirs.
Small successes and mixed-up veggies
Jul. 6th, 2025 01:33 pmmificI'm very much in winter mode here as although some days are sunny, it's cold, and a lot of days are very wet. So not going outside much and not doing gardening, which I don't feel great about. I seem a bit beset by inertia in terms of things physical, possibly a mid-winter slump, but I'm doing indoors things just fine - well, the things I like doing, anyway. Not cleaning or organising! I do tidy up once a week before Fionna comes to vacuum, and occasionally the dishes get washed, but that's about it.
I've started another longer podfic - this one for the due South Big Bang. Am also continuing to add lots of new podfics to the Audiofic Archive (we got inundated by >600 short ones from a recent Voiceteam challenge). And I finished a personal project with the Audiofic Archive of adding streaming links to all the SGA podfics there so they can be enjoyed easily with no need to download zip files. That's 138 pages of SGA podfics! - and increasing each week, as we make more. Next fandom to complete is due South.
In the process I stumbled on Lim's old Fanvid page on Wayback, and the vid downloads still worked. Lim made avant garde vids with lots of altered graphics. Some are on AO3 but a lot of the SGA ones aren't. The Wayback page is here (with additional info and credits), and I downloaded the SGA ones and converted them to mp4 format here. CW for flashing, fast cuts, loud music in some of them. One, Mission Report, (lyrics) is a multimedia podvid where Lim created the lyrics, music, and vid, and sang it for the SGA flashfic comm.
In "first world problem" news, a grocery mix-up. My online delivery packer needs help with alliums! Ordered a bunch of spring (green) onions:
And got a giant leek. Size matters! (in terms of making salads, anyway)
Finally, I saw this amazing poem on tumblr, apparently written by nine-for-a-kiss as a teenager. It's very Dark-is-Rising-ish.
I've started another longer podfic - this one for the due South Big Bang. Am also continuing to add lots of new podfics to the Audiofic Archive (we got inundated by >600 short ones from a recent Voiceteam challenge). And I finished a personal project with the Audiofic Archive of adding streaming links to all the SGA podfics there so they can be enjoyed easily with no need to download zip files. That's 138 pages of SGA podfics! - and increasing each week, as we make more. Next fandom to complete is due South.
In the process I stumbled on Lim's old Fanvid page on Wayback, and the vid downloads still worked. Lim made avant garde vids with lots of altered graphics. Some are on AO3 but a lot of the SGA ones aren't. The Wayback page is here (with additional info and credits), and I downloaded the SGA ones and converted them to mp4 format here. CW for flashing, fast cuts, loud music in some of them. One, Mission Report, (lyrics) is a multimedia podvid where Lim created the lyrics, music, and vid, and sang it for the SGA flashfic comm.
In "first world problem" news, a grocery mix-up. My online delivery packer needs help with alliums! Ordered a bunch of spring (green) onions:
And got a giant leek. Size matters! (in terms of making salads, anyway)
Finally, I saw this amazing poem on tumblr, apparently written by nine-for-a-kiss as a teenager. It's very Dark-is-Rising-ish.
the playlists off my ipod by Harper age 42
Jul. 4th, 2025 05:59 pmharpers_childI need to write down my ipod playlists somewhere and this journal is likely to outlive whatever notebook I write them in. The ipod was last attached to a computer and new music put on in 2014, so it's a little bit of a time capsule.
( bucky and steve )
( misc )
( unpublished fanmixes )
saving here while I go eat.
( bucky and steve )
( misc )
( unpublished fanmixes )
saving here while I go eat.
Venting
Jul. 2nd, 2025 05:01 pmscriggleA former co-worker called me last week. We were...work friends. We never socialized outside of work.
She left the company before I did and moved to Ohio; she'd call me occasionally to talk.
She's one of those people who 1) thinks she's knows everything and 2) makes everything about her. The last time she called before this most recent one was probably 18 months ago. She asked so I was trying to tell her about everything I was going through with my father. Her response was to tell me not to trust doctors and do some woo-woo shit. Then going on about how terrible her life is. Then she started in on how she wanted to move back up here and she needed people to help her.
This time I told her dad had passed. She started with how she knows how hard that is. Her mother died (so did mine). Her brother died (so did mine). Then she started with how the landlord and other tenants were harassing her. Playing loud music ALL THE TIME (except for when she was on he phone with me.) And somehow causing electro-magnetic interference that destroyed her phone and that she could feel and measure. Again she told me how she wanted to move back and needed help. I basically just hmm'd in response to everything she said.
She's called twice more. First early Monday morning (I didn't answer) asking me to call someone in government to help her. How I, in MA, was going to do that, I don't know, considering I only know she lives in Ohio somewhere. And again a half hour ago (didn't answer) telling me she was being evicted. The other tenants were sending electrical shocks through the floor. She needed help to move. She has two kids in their early to mid twenties. Her oldest got married and moved to Finland. The other one lives with her.
I think she thinks I'll say "Hey, no problem. I'll help you move and you can stay with me." Nope. Ain't gonna happen. I can't block her because the phone number she has for me is a landline. Honestly it sounds likes she's in the middle of a mental health crisis. But there's really not much I can do about that.
/venting
She left the company before I did and moved to Ohio; she'd call me occasionally to talk.
She's one of those people who 1) thinks she's knows everything and 2) makes everything about her. The last time she called before this most recent one was probably 18 months ago. She asked so I was trying to tell her about everything I was going through with my father. Her response was to tell me not to trust doctors and do some woo-woo shit. Then going on about how terrible her life is. Then she started in on how she wanted to move back up here and she needed people to help her.
This time I told her dad had passed. She started with how she knows how hard that is. Her mother died (so did mine). Her brother died (so did mine). Then she started with how the landlord and other tenants were harassing her. Playing loud music ALL THE TIME (except for when she was on he phone with me.) And somehow causing electro-magnetic interference that destroyed her phone and that she could feel and measure. Again she told me how she wanted to move back and needed help. I basically just hmm'd in response to everything she said.
She's called twice more. First early Monday morning (I didn't answer) asking me to call someone in government to help her. How I, in MA, was going to do that, I don't know, considering I only know she lives in Ohio somewhere. And again a half hour ago (didn't answer) telling me she was being evicted. The other tenants were sending electrical shocks through the floor. She needed help to move. She has two kids in their early to mid twenties. Her oldest got married and moved to Finland. The other one lives with her.
I think she thinks I'll say "Hey, no problem. I'll help you move and you can stay with me." Nope. Ain't gonna happen. I can't block her because the phone number she has for me is a landline. Honestly it sounds likes she's in the middle of a mental health crisis. But there's really not much I can do about that.
/venting
June Reading List
Jul. 1st, 2025 12:12 amchibifukurou1. People From My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami (Translation)
2. The Clearing by Allison Adair (Poems)
3. Uncommon Measure by Natalie Hodge (nfn)
4. Hell Phone by Benji Nate (Graphic)
5. Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis (Graphic)(Queer MC)
6. All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran (Poetry)(Queer Author)
7. Grief is for Humans by Sloane Crosley (nfn)
8. We Called them Giants by Kieron Gillen (Graphic)
9. Home of the American Circus byAllison Larkin
10. Believe The Untold Story of Ted Lasso by Jeremy Egner (nfn)
11. Checked Out by Katie Fricas
12. Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix (Translation)
13. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom (Trans MC)
14. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (Translation)
15. So Many Stars by Caro De Robertis (nfn)
16. The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown (JR)
17. Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec (Nfn)(Indigenous)
18. Grow a Novel in Verse by Juanita Kodman (JR)(Verse)
19. A Spindle Splintered by Alix Harrow (Queer Romance)
20. Blue Light Hour by Bruna Dantas Lobato (Brazilian)
21. Paranoia Cage by Coolkyousinnjya (Graphic)
22. She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai (Translation)
23. Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Poetry)
24. The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Belc (nfn)(Queer Author)
25. It Rhymes with Takei by George Takei (Graphic)(nfn)(Queer Author)
26. Bad Badger A Love Story by Maryrose Wood (Jr)
27. Girl meets Boy by Ali Smith
28. Defekt by Nino Cipri (Queer MC)
29. Blood Feast by Malika Moustadraf (Translation)
30. The Secret of Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (Graphic)(nfn)(Queer Author)
2. The Clearing by Allison Adair (Poems)
3. Uncommon Measure by Natalie Hodge (nfn)
4. Hell Phone by Benji Nate (Graphic)
5. Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis (Graphic)(Queer MC)
6. All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran (Poetry)(Queer Author)
7. Grief is for Humans by Sloane Crosley (nfn)
8. We Called them Giants by Kieron Gillen (Graphic)
9. Home of the American Circus byAllison Larkin
10. Believe The Untold Story of Ted Lasso by Jeremy Egner (nfn)
11. Checked Out by Katie Fricas
12. Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix (Translation)
13. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom (Trans MC)
14. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (Translation)
15. So Many Stars by Caro De Robertis (nfn)
16. The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown (JR)
17. Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec (Nfn)(Indigenous)
18. Grow a Novel in Verse by Juanita Kodman (JR)(Verse)
19. A Spindle Splintered by Alix Harrow (Queer Romance)
20. Blue Light Hour by Bruna Dantas Lobato (Brazilian)
21. Paranoia Cage by Coolkyousinnjya (Graphic)
22. She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai (Translation)
23. Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Poetry)
24. The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Belc (nfn)(Queer Author)
25. It Rhymes with Takei by George Takei (Graphic)(nfn)(Queer Author)
26. Bad Badger A Love Story by Maryrose Wood (Jr)
27. Girl meets Boy by Ali Smith
28. Defekt by Nino Cipri (Queer MC)
29. Blood Feast by Malika Moustadraf (Translation)
30. The Secret of Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (Graphic)(nfn)(Queer Author)