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sartorias (sartorias) wrote2025-08-13 06:50 pm
sartorias) wrote2025-08-13 06:50 pmEntry tags:
Evelina again
I don't know how many times I've read this, but as my book group is meeting Saturday, I dug it back out of the box and have been rereading it. The influence on Jane Austen is clearer with each reread. Astonishing that it was considered so genteel at the time, with all the thoughtless animal cruelty as well as abuse of the characters set up as comic villains.
The hero and heroine are dull as ditchwater, of course; she is unswerving in her maidenly modesty (and beauty) and purity, and he remains at a distance, regarded by all as a cynosure, and ever ready to rescue her though they scarcely have an actual conversation. But there's too much delicacy to actually get to know one another as people; she has to know that he's a gentleman, and he has to know her virtue before the wedding bells can ring.
The fun is in the secondary characters in all their vulgarity, and in the minute descriptions of life in London in the 1770s.
I'm halfway through, maybe more to come.
The hero and heroine are dull as ditchwater, of course; she is unswerving in her maidenly modesty (and beauty) and purity, and he remains at a distance, regarded by all as a cynosure, and ever ready to rescue her though they scarcely have an actual conversation. But there's too much delicacy to actually get to know one another as people; she has to know that he's a gentleman, and he has to know her virtue before the wedding bells can ring.
The fun is in the secondary characters in all their vulgarity, and in the minute descriptions of life in London in the 1770s.
I'm halfway through, maybe more to come.
Lis (staranise) wrote2025-08-13 06:15 pm
staranise) wrote2025-08-13 06:15 pm(no subject)
😔 Another month when I have to ask for help with rent again. (My landlord lets me split it into two payments, but uh the second payment is coming up fast)
A GoFundMe for keeping my business (and me) afloat.
A GoFundMe for keeping my business (and me) afloat.
Zwei Hexen (zwei_hexen) wrote2025-08-13 09:41 pm
zwei_hexen) wrote2025-08-13 09:41 pmWrite every day! - August 2025 - Day 13
Tally:
Welcome post
( Days 1-10 )
Day 11:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman,ysilme
Day 12:badly_knitted, callmesandyk, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 13:china_shop
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ysilme here: 700 words for a blog entry, plus more WIP-noodling.
sylvanwitch here: We were at the county fair for most of the day, but I wrote a travel journal entry about yesterday’s adventures before we left for today’s.
Welcome post
( Days 1-10 )
Day 11:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman,ysilmeDay 12:
badly_knitted, callmesandyk, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 13:
china_shopLet us know if we missed you or if you didn't check in for a while, so we can add you. Of course joining the fun is possible at any point.
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ysilme here: 700 words for a blog entry, plus more WIP-noodling.sylvanwitch here: We were at the county fair for most of the day, but I wrote a travel journal entry about yesterday’s adventures before we left for today’s.
it only hurts when i breathe (spikedluv) wrote2025-08-13 03:40 pm
spikedluv) wrote2025-08-13 03:40 pmWednesday Reading Meme & Books 85 - 88 of 2025
What I Just Finished Reading: Since last Wednesday I have read/finished reading: Lord of the Silent (An Amelia Peabody Mystery) by Elizabeth Peters, The Sound of Broken Glass (A Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Mystery) by Deborah Crombie, Kidnapped in the Kitchen (The Inn at Holiday Bay) by Kathi Daley and Through the Evil Days (Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries) by Julia Spencer-Fleming.
What I am Currently Reading: I just finished a book last night so haven’t started another one, but I’m hoping it’ll be the book I requested on a whim, The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney. (Yes, I requested it while reading the last Amelia Peabody book.)
What I Plan to Read Next: Uncertain. I do have another library book out, but I might actually read one of my own books first.
Book 85 of 2025: Lord of the Silent (An Amelia Peabody Mystery) (Elizabeth Peters)
This book is so good!! ( spoilers )
I enjoyed this very much and am giving it five hearts.
♥♥♥♥♥
Book 86 of 2025: The Sound of Broken Glass (A Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Mystery) (Deborah Crombie)
This book was so good! ( spoilers )
I enjoyed this very much and am giving it five hearts.
♥♥♥♥♥
Book 87 of 2025: Kidnapped in the Kitchen (The Inn at Holiday Bay) (Kathi Daley)
This book was okay. ( spoilers )
I'm starting to get tired of this series, but I also have the need to know what happens, so I'll most likely continue with it. Unless I forget about it when the two new books come out in the fall (there is one left to read that is already out). I'm giving this one three hearts.
♥♥♥
Book 88 of 2025: Through the Evil Days (Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries) (Julia Spencer-Fleming)
This book was (mostly) good. ( spoilers )
I enjoyed this book right up until the author cut out my heart at the end; I’m deducting a heart because it still stings.
♥♥♥♥
What I am Currently Reading: I just finished a book last night so haven’t started another one, but I’m hoping it’ll be the book I requested on a whim, The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney. (Yes, I requested it while reading the last Amelia Peabody book.)
What I Plan to Read Next: Uncertain. I do have another library book out, but I might actually read one of my own books first.
Book 85 of 2025: Lord of the Silent (An Amelia Peabody Mystery) (Elizabeth Peters)
This book is so good!! ( spoilers )
I enjoyed this very much and am giving it five hearts.
♥♥♥♥♥
Book 86 of 2025: The Sound of Broken Glass (A Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Mystery) (Deborah Crombie)
This book was so good! ( spoilers )
I enjoyed this very much and am giving it five hearts.
♥♥♥♥♥
Book 87 of 2025: Kidnapped in the Kitchen (The Inn at Holiday Bay) (Kathi Daley)
This book was okay. ( spoilers )
I'm starting to get tired of this series, but I also have the need to know what happens, so I'll most likely continue with it. Unless I forget about it when the two new books come out in the fall (there is one left to read that is already out). I'm giving this one three hearts.
♥♥♥
Book 88 of 2025: Through the Evil Days (Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries) (Julia Spencer-Fleming)
This book was (mostly) good. ( spoilers )
I enjoyed this book right up until the author cut out my heart at the end; I’m deducting a heart because it still stings.
♥♥♥♥
Cimorene (cimorene) wrote2025-08-13 09:53 pm
cimorene) wrote2025-08-13 09:53 pmDriving theory test tomorrow
I've mentioned before that our van is a 1999 Citroën Berlingo. We named him Bernie because he's an old white guy. Bernie was a white van man's van: he belonged to a company for twenty years and sat in their warehouse being taken care of, but mostly not used, so he was in practically mint condition when we bought him in 2019, but he only cost 2000€. Now contemporary Finnish driving education is teaching me about safety features that are common or required in modern-day cars that he doesn't have: traction and skid control, smart cruise control, side door airbags that you can disable in the back, front and rear fog lights, a screen that recommends which gear to use, warning messages when you exceed the detected speed limit.
Obviously a 1999 van doesn't have any of those. Butwaxjism has also been scaring me for weeks saying he's too old to have anti-lock brakes, but today I finally read the manual and he is not. He has anti-lock brakes! That one was the only one that was seriously upsetting (the car I learned to drive in didn't have any of the others: it was a 1993 Buick Skylark).
I have to get up early to go to Turku to take the driver's license theory test tomorrow, and today I took the practice theory test again as soon as I got back from my last driving simulator lesson, and failed with the worst score I've gotten on the practice tests yet (42/50 "situation" questions). Then I took it again immediately and passed with a perfect score for the first time.
I've taken the practice test 7 times in all, but I've also gone through all the practice question sets, which amounts to 60 tests' worth of situation questions and 40 tests' worth of verbal questions (with repetition!), and I have consequently pretty much been at saturation for a while. I can't predict whether I will miss situation questions when I do a set, but that's not because I haven't learned the material, it's because the questions are not at all like a situation you actually encounter while driving; they're more like a sort of Where's Waldo-esque detailed visual search game plus logic puzzle. About half the time I miss them because of something like not noticing that the car is on a priority road (when the sole clue that it's a priority road is the tiny triangular edge of the sign with 80% of the sign cropped off on the extreme edge of the image blending into the windows of an apartment building in the background) or not noticing that it's on a one-way street (when the sole clue that it's a one-way street is some painting on the road facing the wrong way that you can only see if you look in the left side mirror image but it's very small). So I just have to take methylphenidate and count breaths and try to make sure I take my time. And try not to get distracted.
(After the theory test I still have driving lessons in a real car, and then the driving test.)
Obviously a 1999 van doesn't have any of those. But
waxjism has also been scaring me for weeks saying he's too old to have anti-lock brakes, but today I finally read the manual and he is not. He has anti-lock brakes! That one was the only one that was seriously upsetting (the car I learned to drive in didn't have any of the others: it was a 1993 Buick Skylark). I have to get up early to go to Turku to take the driver's license theory test tomorrow, and today I took the practice theory test again as soon as I got back from my last driving simulator lesson, and failed with the worst score I've gotten on the practice tests yet (42/50 "situation" questions). Then I took it again immediately and passed with a perfect score for the first time.
I've taken the practice test 7 times in all, but I've also gone through all the practice question sets, which amounts to 60 tests' worth of situation questions and 40 tests' worth of verbal questions (with repetition!), and I have consequently pretty much been at saturation for a while. I can't predict whether I will miss situation questions when I do a set, but that's not because I haven't learned the material, it's because the questions are not at all like a situation you actually encounter while driving; they're more like a sort of Where's Waldo-esque detailed visual search game plus logic puzzle. About half the time I miss them because of something like not noticing that the car is on a priority road (when the sole clue that it's a priority road is the tiny triangular edge of the sign with 80% of the sign cropped off on the extreme edge of the image blending into the windows of an apartment building in the background) or not noticing that it's on a one-way street (when the sole clue that it's a one-way street is some painting on the road facing the wrong way that you can only see if you look in the left side mirror image but it's very small). So I just have to take methylphenidate and count breaths and try to make sure I take my time. And try not to get distracted.
(After the theory test I still have driving lessons in a real car, and then the driving test.)
mx. tozka (tozka) wrote2025-08-09 05:14 am
tozka) wrote2025-08-09 05:14 amEntry tags:
📖 reading log: climate resilience by kylie flanagan
Book Info
Topics: Nonfiction, Feminism, Environmental Activism, Climate Change
LibraryThing: https://www.librarything.com/work/book/291465827
Acquired from: Little Free Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA [see visit log]
Started reading: August 9, 2025
Finished reading: August 13, 2025 (DNF’d)
Reading Updates
Page 0: Picked this book to read next because it’s the heaviest— I don’t want to have to worry about trying to pack it and take it with me!
It’s a relatively new book (published 2023) and is basically a collection of interviews with climate activists.
Came with a bookmark from the Ann Arbor District Library (Seed Sampler, which promotes their seed library!). It’s a really nice bookmark and I’m probably gonna keep it for my collection.
( Read the rest of this entry » )Crossposted from Pixietails Club Blog.
mx. tozka (tozka) wrote2025-08-13 11:48 am
tozka) wrote2025-08-13 11:48 amlfl visit log (2)
Went on a re-visiting circuit of Little Free Libraries from the first log, and found a new library! Plus some more good books.
Was a really nice walk, too, though I was sweating by the end because it was like 80F by 8am yeesh.
On another day, I went into the main downtown part of Ann Arbor and visited two LFLs that’re near the Farmer’s Market, though I didn’t find any books to take with me.
New LFL visited:
- LFL #167052 – Jones Community Garden Library – Ann Arbor, MI
- LFL #189363 – Ann Arbor, MI (not listed on the map somehow)
- LFL #198908 – Detroit Street Filling Station – Ann Arbor, MI
Dropped off Moby-Duck, Seasons of the Wild and Climate Resilience!
Obtained Into the Wild, Granta issue 138, The Forest Unseen, Sweet Days of Discipline
( Photos under here! )🌟 All LFL Visited / All LFL Visit Logs
Crossposted from Pixietails Club Blog.
sabotabby (sabotabby) wrote2025-08-13 08:22 am
sabotabby) wrote2025-08-13 08:22 amEntry tags:
Reading Wednesday
Just finished: Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age by Ada Palmer. I went to art school semi-on-purpose. Which is to say I always loved art, loved drawing, but was it my passion? Who knows what a 13-year-old's passion is? I was nerdier about other things. But I was bullied in grade school and wanted only to get away from my tormentors when I finally graduated, and so I auditioned for the art school as an escape. I was good at drawing, good enough that they plucked me out of my boring town and away from everyone I hated. There I had teachers who truly were passionate about art, and art history, and I fell in love with not just the paintings and sculpture and architecture but the stories and personalities behind them. We scrimped and saved so that I could go on the school trip to Italy and there I got to see the art, and fall in love with Florence in particular, and walk in the footsteps of Michelangelo and Leonardo and Machiavelli and Lorenzo the Magnificent and it was the most incredible thing to happen to me in my life thus far.
So anyway reading this book was like reliving that, only—as Ada Palmer says throughout the book—"Ever-So-Much-But-More-So." Because there is more history than I knew, or learned since, more stories, more people, about 100 pages of footnotes, and it's contested history, histories complicated by someone who loves this era even more than I do. Despite the book's heft, it's a very fast read. Also I cried a l'il. Fight me. But read it.
Currently reading: Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. This is a re-read of my favourite SM-G book For Reasons and my God, Meche is even worse than I remembered. I love her. Ahaha. What a nightmare child.
So anyway reading this book was like reliving that, only—as Ada Palmer says throughout the book—"Ever-So-Much-But-More-So." Because there is more history than I knew, or learned since, more stories, more people, about 100 pages of footnotes, and it's contested history, histories complicated by someone who loves this era even more than I do. Despite the book's heft, it's a very fast read. Also I cried a l'il. Fight me. But read it.
Currently reading: Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. This is a re-read of my favourite SM-G book For Reasons and my God, Meche is even worse than I remembered. I love her. Ahaha. What a nightmare child.
osprey_archer (osprey_archer) wrote2025-08-13 08:03 am
osprey_archer) wrote2025-08-13 08:03 amWednesday Reading Meme
What I’ve Just Finished Reading
My Unread Bookshelf Book this month was Meredith Nicholson’s Rosalind at Red Gate, which I originally picked for its gorgeous cover illustration of a canoe festival illuminated by Chinese lanterns, which I am happy to say is a scene that actually occurs in the book. The author is good at beautiful set pieces and lively action, but not so good at things like “coherent motivation” and “keeping track of which of the two almost-identical girls is in this scene.” (Also, although the Rosalind of the title is definitely a hat-tip to As You Like It - Nicholson quotes from the play, just in case we didn’t get there ourselves - there is no cross-dressing at all.)
The title of Tasha Tudor’s Heirloom Crafts might give you the impression that this book will contain crafting instructions, but it does not, possibly because when Tasha Tudor does a craft it’s something like “Well, if you want to make a linen shirt, first you sew the flax…” (I hasten to add that Tasha Tudor did not grow all her linen from seed. Sometimes she bought the fibers and merely spun, wove, and sewed.) Gorgeously photographed. I wish I could step back in time to attend one of the barn dances Tasha Tudor threw when her crafting friends all got together.
And I finished Dorothy Gilman’s Incident at Badamyâ, which was a delight! In Burma, not long after World War II, half a dozen people are kidnapped and held for ransom, and in the forced proximity of their captivity these strangers who don’t much like each other learn each other’s stories and grow as people and come to rely on each other, and also put on a puppet show, and I was so afraid they were going to escape before they did the puppet show but NO. Gilman knows we NEED the puppet show.
Now is this in any way an accurate depiction of Burma, you ask. Well, unfortunately my only other source of information about Burma/Myanmar is Amy Tan’s Saving Fish from Drowning, which is also about a bunch of tourists who get kidnapped (did Tan read Incident at Badamyâ at an impressionable age?), so I have no idea. Gilman’s book is very good at what it does, but what it’s doing is “Westerners (plus the daughter of a very depressed missionary who mostly let her run wild, so she has a lot of inside knowledge about Burmese culture without being fully an insider) in forced proximity,” so if you want something from a Burmese point of view this is not the book for you.
What I’m Reading Now
Continuing on in Puck of Pook’s Hill. I’ve gotten to the Roman Britain part, and even if I didn’t know already that Rosemary Sutcliff was a big Kipling fan (she wrote a book about his children’s books!), the influence is obvious. I just got to the story where our Centurion hero is posted to Hadrian's Wall and I'm getting STRONG Frontier Wolf vibes.
I also started Gothic Tales, a collection of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Gothic short stories, which I’m loving so far. I just finished the one featuring a spectral child who beats on the windows during snow storms and begs to be let in…
What I Plan to Read Next
Has anyone read Amy Tan’s The Backyard Bird Chronicles? I’ve been eyeing it thoughtfully but haven’t taken the plunge.
My Unread Bookshelf Book this month was Meredith Nicholson’s Rosalind at Red Gate, which I originally picked for its gorgeous cover illustration of a canoe festival illuminated by Chinese lanterns, which I am happy to say is a scene that actually occurs in the book. The author is good at beautiful set pieces and lively action, but not so good at things like “coherent motivation” and “keeping track of which of the two almost-identical girls is in this scene.” (Also, although the Rosalind of the title is definitely a hat-tip to As You Like It - Nicholson quotes from the play, just in case we didn’t get there ourselves - there is no cross-dressing at all.)
The title of Tasha Tudor’s Heirloom Crafts might give you the impression that this book will contain crafting instructions, but it does not, possibly because when Tasha Tudor does a craft it’s something like “Well, if you want to make a linen shirt, first you sew the flax…” (I hasten to add that Tasha Tudor did not grow all her linen from seed. Sometimes she bought the fibers and merely spun, wove, and sewed.) Gorgeously photographed. I wish I could step back in time to attend one of the barn dances Tasha Tudor threw when her crafting friends all got together.
And I finished Dorothy Gilman’s Incident at Badamyâ, which was a delight! In Burma, not long after World War II, half a dozen people are kidnapped and held for ransom, and in the forced proximity of their captivity these strangers who don’t much like each other learn each other’s stories and grow as people and come to rely on each other, and also put on a puppet show, and I was so afraid they were going to escape before they did the puppet show but NO. Gilman knows we NEED the puppet show.
Now is this in any way an accurate depiction of Burma, you ask. Well, unfortunately my only other source of information about Burma/Myanmar is Amy Tan’s Saving Fish from Drowning, which is also about a bunch of tourists who get kidnapped (did Tan read Incident at Badamyâ at an impressionable age?), so I have no idea. Gilman’s book is very good at what it does, but what it’s doing is “Westerners (plus the daughter of a very depressed missionary who mostly let her run wild, so she has a lot of inside knowledge about Burmese culture without being fully an insider) in forced proximity,” so if you want something from a Burmese point of view this is not the book for you.
What I’m Reading Now
Continuing on in Puck of Pook’s Hill. I’ve gotten to the Roman Britain part, and even if I didn’t know already that Rosemary Sutcliff was a big Kipling fan (she wrote a book about his children’s books!), the influence is obvious. I just got to the story where our Centurion hero is posted to Hadrian's Wall and I'm getting STRONG Frontier Wolf vibes.
I also started Gothic Tales, a collection of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Gothic short stories, which I’m loving so far. I just finished the one featuring a spectral child who beats on the windows during snow storms and begs to be let in…
What I Plan to Read Next
Has anyone read Amy Tan’s The Backyard Bird Chronicles? I’ve been eyeing it thoughtfully but haven’t taken the plunge.
it only hurts when i breathe (spikedluv) wrote2025-08-13 07:14 am
spikedluv) wrote2025-08-13 07:14 amEntry tags:
The Day in Spikedluv (Tuesday, Aug 12)
I hit Walmart and the Dollar Tree while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park.
I did two loads of laundry (both washed, dried AND folded), hand-washed dishes, baked and cut up chicken for the dogs’ meals, scooped kitty litter, and shaved. I grilled steak for Pip’s supper.
I visited mom and finished the Clare Fergusson book.
Temps started out at 68.0(F) and reached 92.3. The temps should be a tad lower after this (low- to mid-80s for a few days) before dropping to mid-70s. We’ll see if that holds.
Mom Update:
Mom was very tired today. ( more back here )
I did two loads of laundry (both washed, dried AND folded), hand-washed dishes, baked and cut up chicken for the dogs’ meals, scooped kitty litter, and shaved. I grilled steak for Pip’s supper.
I visited mom and finished the Clare Fergusson book.
Temps started out at 68.0(F) and reached 92.3. The temps should be a tad lower after this (low- to mid-80s for a few days) before dropping to mid-70s. We’ll see if that holds.
Mom Update:
Mom was very tired today. ( more back here )
Zwei Hexen (zwei_hexen) wrote2025-08-12 08:44 pm
zwei_hexen) wrote2025-08-12 08:44 pmWrite every day! - August 2025 - Day 12
Tally:
Welcome post
Day 1:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 2:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 3:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 4:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 5:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 6:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 7:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 8:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 9:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 10:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 11:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman,ysilme
Let us know if we missed you or if you didn't check in for a while, so we can add you. Of course joining the fun is possible at any point.
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ysilme here: another day of noodling and going through the old files, with the odd note taken here and there.
Sorry for not having replied to any check-ins and replies to me for a few days, I'll try to catch up soon!
sylvanwitch here: Today’s words were a description of this past Saturday’s local adventures in my travel/hiking journal.
Welcome post
Day 1:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 2:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 3:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 4:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 5:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 6:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 7:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 8:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 9:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 10:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 11:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman,ysilmeLet us know if we missed you or if you didn't check in for a while, so we can add you. Of course joining the fun is possible at any point.
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ysilme here: another day of noodling and going through the old files, with the odd note taken here and there. Sorry for not having replied to any check-ins and replies to me for a few days, I'll try to catch up soon!
sylvanwitch here: Today’s words were a description of this past Saturday’s local adventures in my travel/hiking journal.
Cimorene (cimorene) wrote2025-08-12 08:49 pm
cimorene) wrote2025-08-12 08:49 pmEntry tags:
Tristana has pica, but at least she isn't going to the emergency vet hospital in Raisio tonight
Tristana never misses an opportunity to eat hair. She can't have toys with feathers, and she has to be watched like a hawk when I'm brushing or grooming bunnies, because she will stalk the balls of discarded fur with a surprising amount of tenacity and sneakiness. She frequently manages to steal tiny tufts of bunny fur from the edges of doorways that Rowan passes through (which always accumulate a small fringe of faintly-waving fronds every few days if I don't clean them off), but since bunny grooming is a discrete activity that requires a lot of attention, it is usually possible to simply carry the fur away and put it in a closed trash can that she can't reach without incident (although there have been past incidents with her stealing fur from the trashcan, but she's never managed to get very much).
So half an hour ago Tristana started being both extremely distressed and moderately distressing: ( cw: vomit )
(When picturing a ping-pong-sized ball of fur, recall that Tristana, while fully grown, is tiny. She was a runt and never fully made up for two weeks as an infant when she didn't gain weight. She weighed 2.3 kg or about 5 lb last year, and she is slim and wiry, the typical bundle-of-twigs/greyhoundish Oriental breed build.)
She's finished regurgitating now, and we put a bowl of clean water and the turtle bed, opened up so she could crawl inside, on the heated floor of the upstairs bathroom for her, and she immediately slunk in there to think about her misfortunes. I mean, to feel sorry for herself, not to analyze; I doubt she has any idea the fur-eating was related to her current distress.
But backing up to about midday today, earlier I had brushed Rowan and then neatly rolled up the excess fluff into a ball like I always do; but instead of carrying it into the kitchen and hiding it in the trash under the sink where Tristana couldn't get it, I left it on top of the trashcan because I was going to come right back and use the same trashbag to change the liners in the bunny litterboxes. I was going to put the soiled paper on top of the fur, so it would have been just as inaccessible. However, I got distracted and forgot.
So this is actually kind of an ADHD tax.
So half an hour ago Tristana started being both extremely distressed and moderately distressing: ( cw: vomit )
(When picturing a ping-pong-sized ball of fur, recall that Tristana, while fully grown, is tiny. She was a runt and never fully made up for two weeks as an infant when she didn't gain weight. She weighed 2.3 kg or about 5 lb last year, and she is slim and wiry, the typical bundle-of-twigs/greyhoundish Oriental breed build.)
She's finished regurgitating now, and we put a bowl of clean water and the turtle bed, opened up so she could crawl inside, on the heated floor of the upstairs bathroom for her, and she immediately slunk in there to think about her misfortunes. I mean, to feel sorry for herself, not to analyze; I doubt she has any idea the fur-eating was related to her current distress.
But backing up to about midday today, earlier I had brushed Rowan and then neatly rolled up the excess fluff into a ball like I always do; but instead of carrying it into the kitchen and hiding it in the trash under the sink where Tristana couldn't get it, I left it on top of the trashcan because I was going to come right back and use the same trashbag to change the liners in the bunny litterboxes. I was going to put the soiled paper on top of the fur, so it would have been just as inaccessible. However, I got distracted and forgot.
So this is actually kind of an ADHD tax.
oldtoadwoman (oldtoadwoman) wrote2025-08-12 01:06 pm
oldtoadwoman) wrote2025-08-12 01:06 pm
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public post / screened comments : cleaning up Circle
I realized I haven't cleaned up my Dreamwidth Circle (reading list, access list, etc) in ages, so I just went through and un-subscribed and removed access to everyone who hasn't posted anything in a year.
If you are one of those people who actively reads your Dreamwidth but chooses not to post, please leave a comment and ask to be re-added. I've screened the comments so that no one else can see them.
I'm not trying to gatekeep. I'm just trying to trim out the inactive and/or possibly spam accounts.
If you are one of those people who actively reads your Dreamwidth but chooses not to post, please leave a comment and ask to be re-added. I've screened the comments so that no one else can see them.
I'm not trying to gatekeep. I'm just trying to trim out the inactive and/or possibly spam accounts.
osprey_archer (osprey_archer) wrote2025-08-12 11:26 am
osprey_archer) wrote2025-08-12 11:26 amEntry tags:
State of the Hobbies
When Joann’s closed (RIP), I decided to take advantage of the sale prices to get supplies for a couple of hobbies I’ve long meant to try: a crochet hook and yarn to crochet a scarf, and a cross-stitch kit featuring a motel on Route 66.
I still haven’t attempted the scarf, but I started the cross-stitch in July and I really took to it! I’ve already finished the Route 66 cross-stitch kit, acquired a second cross-stitch kit (from Michael’s, alas) featuring a handsome coffee cup, and spent a delightful afternoon at the library browsing cross-stitch books until I finally winnowed my selection down to Linday Swearingen’s Creepy Cross-Stitch, from which I have selected a favorite pattern that I am anxious to start except I’ve already started the coffee cup so I need to finish that first…
I’ve decided that the path of wisdom is to do one cross-stitch at a time, as the other pathway lies littered with unfinished cross-stitches. Not sure how to balance this with other potential fiber arts? As well as the crochet supplies, I’ve also gotten my little paws on a simple embroidery kit…
However, I remind myself that one does not take to every hobby. For instance, I’ve done some paper-crafting with my friend Christina (who is always happy to set us loose on her paper stash, as getting rid of some paper means she can buy MORE paper), and although I always enjoy our card-making sessions, I’ve never felt the urge to go into card-making myself.
The “one project at a time” principle is bearing fruit in another direction as well. Normally when I get a new cookbook, I mark every recipe I want to try and then make none of them, but this birthday a friend gave me Elizabeth Alston’s Biscuits and Scones, and I put a bookmark at the mushroom pie recipe, and made it… and then the herb scone recipe, and made it… and then the tattie scones recipe, which I made as well… and it’s been just a month since I got the book! (My bookmark now rests at the recipe for apricot swirl scones.)
Now of course it helps that this is just the kind of baking I like, but still, it’s rather magical to find myself actually trying these new recipes. Amazing!
Other hobby news. The garden does not perhaps rise to the level of a hobby yet, although it certainly ought to, as there’s some serious weeding that needs to be done. Sorry to report the tragic news that last week the condo mowers felled my thyme and my cherry tomato plant. The one that had actual baby tomatolets on it! The survivor has at last put forth a baby tomato of its own, but alas, alas, I mourn the tomatoes cut down in their prime…
In keeping with this newfound “one project at a time” theory, I am winnowing down my reading projects. There are currently four, but two of them are close to completion:
Newbery books (2 left!)
Postcard books (3 left!) (one of my friends gave me a set of twelve Famous Author postcards and I decided to read a book for each author. Actually, this coincided with my L. M. Montgomery reread, and so I ended up reading all of L. M. Montgomery… and there was another postcard for Jane Austen, and I had been meaning to finish up my Jane Austen reread… and Charlotte Bronte had a card, and, well, a Charlotte Bronte reread had ALSO been on my list… but then I managed to shake free of this “complete works” business, or else I would probably still be working my way through the complete works of Frances Hodgson Burnett, with a weary eye on the complete works of William Shakespeare, Jules Verne, and Charles Dickens.)
This leaves me with two projects. First, the Unread Bookshelf, and if I continue with my current pace of one book a month, that will be complete by 2027.
Second, when I was making my booklog, I noticed how many authors were on there whose works I had long meant to revisit. “What if,” I pondered, “I went through a year and wrote down each author I wanted to revisit, and then read one book by each author? And at the end moved onto the next year?”
I started in 2012 (that was the first year I had complete-enough records to make a book log possible) and have now reached 2014, so the great Saunter through the Book Log will keep me busy for a while.
Unfortunately for my hope of getting down to a single reading project, I’ve also been vaguely planning a readthrough of E. M. Forster’s novels (except Maurice, I did it one and three-quarters times and that was enough), and I don’t particularly want to put that off until 2027 or later… However that IS just five books (plus maybe some of his short stories, but those are strictly optional!) so perhaps I could sneak it in…
But not till I’ve finished the Newberys and the postcard books!
I still haven’t attempted the scarf, but I started the cross-stitch in July and I really took to it! I’ve already finished the Route 66 cross-stitch kit, acquired a second cross-stitch kit (from Michael’s, alas) featuring a handsome coffee cup, and spent a delightful afternoon at the library browsing cross-stitch books until I finally winnowed my selection down to Linday Swearingen’s Creepy Cross-Stitch, from which I have selected a favorite pattern that I am anxious to start except I’ve already started the coffee cup so I need to finish that first…
I’ve decided that the path of wisdom is to do one cross-stitch at a time, as the other pathway lies littered with unfinished cross-stitches. Not sure how to balance this with other potential fiber arts? As well as the crochet supplies, I’ve also gotten my little paws on a simple embroidery kit…
However, I remind myself that one does not take to every hobby. For instance, I’ve done some paper-crafting with my friend Christina (who is always happy to set us loose on her paper stash, as getting rid of some paper means she can buy MORE paper), and although I always enjoy our card-making sessions, I’ve never felt the urge to go into card-making myself.
The “one project at a time” principle is bearing fruit in another direction as well. Normally when I get a new cookbook, I mark every recipe I want to try and then make none of them, but this birthday a friend gave me Elizabeth Alston’s Biscuits and Scones, and I put a bookmark at the mushroom pie recipe, and made it… and then the herb scone recipe, and made it… and then the tattie scones recipe, which I made as well… and it’s been just a month since I got the book! (My bookmark now rests at the recipe for apricot swirl scones.)
Now of course it helps that this is just the kind of baking I like, but still, it’s rather magical to find myself actually trying these new recipes. Amazing!
Other hobby news. The garden does not perhaps rise to the level of a hobby yet, although it certainly ought to, as there’s some serious weeding that needs to be done. Sorry to report the tragic news that last week the condo mowers felled my thyme and my cherry tomato plant. The one that had actual baby tomatolets on it! The survivor has at last put forth a baby tomato of its own, but alas, alas, I mourn the tomatoes cut down in their prime…
In keeping with this newfound “one project at a time” theory, I am winnowing down my reading projects. There are currently four, but two of them are close to completion:
Newbery books (2 left!)
Postcard books (3 left!) (one of my friends gave me a set of twelve Famous Author postcards and I decided to read a book for each author. Actually, this coincided with my L. M. Montgomery reread, and so I ended up reading all of L. M. Montgomery… and there was another postcard for Jane Austen, and I had been meaning to finish up my Jane Austen reread… and Charlotte Bronte had a card, and, well, a Charlotte Bronte reread had ALSO been on my list… but then I managed to shake free of this “complete works” business, or else I would probably still be working my way through the complete works of Frances Hodgson Burnett, with a weary eye on the complete works of William Shakespeare, Jules Verne, and Charles Dickens.)
This leaves me with two projects. First, the Unread Bookshelf, and if I continue with my current pace of one book a month, that will be complete by 2027.
Second, when I was making my booklog, I noticed how many authors were on there whose works I had long meant to revisit. “What if,” I pondered, “I went through a year and wrote down each author I wanted to revisit, and then read one book by each author? And at the end moved onto the next year?”
I started in 2012 (that was the first year I had complete-enough records to make a book log possible) and have now reached 2014, so the great Saunter through the Book Log will keep me busy for a while.
Unfortunately for my hope of getting down to a single reading project, I’ve also been vaguely planning a readthrough of E. M. Forster’s novels (except Maurice, I did it one and three-quarters times and that was enough), and I don’t particularly want to put that off until 2027 or later… However that IS just five books (plus maybe some of his short stories, but those are strictly optional!) so perhaps I could sneak it in…
But not till I’ve finished the Newberys and the postcard books!
it only hurts when i breathe (spikedluv) wrote2025-08-12 07:26 am
spikedluv) wrote2025-08-12 07:26 amEntry tags:
The Day in Spikedluv (Monday, Aug 11)
Pip had a procedure this morning, basically an endoscopy, to remove a nodule they’d found in a previous endoscopy. The annoying bit is that the doctor looked at it and said it didn’t need to be removed. Why did they schedule the procedure, then?!! (Pip’s regular gastro doc, the one who saw him back when he got really sick and diagnosed him with celiac, had this other doc look at the pictures he took AND the tests had already come back that it was benign, so why we needed to go through this I have no idea.) *deep sigh*
I did a load of laundry (washed, dried AND folded!!), hand-washed dishes, cut up chicken for dogs’ meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered. I also visited mom briefly and stopped at Stewart’s on the way home. I grilled country style pork ribs for supper.
I read more in the Clare Fergusson book.
Thank you for the additional birthday wishes fromadafrog, celli, cordeliadelayne, lunabee34, malinaldarose, pattrose, reeby10, silver_chipmunk, sperrywink, thatjustwontbreak, turps, umadoshi, and vysila.
I also forgot to mention that I received birthday wishes and an invite to breakfast from my used book store friends, so I'll be meeting them on Friday! I haven't seen them in a while. It still feels weird. BC (before Covid) we saw each other several times a week, now it's several times a year.
Temps started out at 63.3(F) and reached 93.2. Again, so hot. I think we have one more day where it’s going to be this hot, then around 80, then a full week of mid-70s. That’s gonna feel so strange.
Mom Update:
Mom had her chemo today and once again it started the process of her being knocked on her butt. ( more back here )
I did a load of laundry (washed, dried AND folded!!), hand-washed dishes, cut up chicken for dogs’ meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered. I also visited mom briefly and stopped at Stewart’s on the way home. I grilled country style pork ribs for supper.
I read more in the Clare Fergusson book.
Thank you for the additional birthday wishes from
adafrog, celli, cordeliadelayne, lunabee34, malinaldarose, pattrose, reeby10, silver_chipmunk, sperrywink, thatjustwontbreak, turps, umadoshi, and vysila.I also forgot to mention that I received birthday wishes and an invite to breakfast from my used book store friends, so I'll be meeting them on Friday! I haven't seen them in a while. It still feels weird. BC (before Covid) we saw each other several times a week, now it's several times a year.
Temps started out at 63.3(F) and reached 93.2. Again, so hot. I think we have one more day where it’s going to be this hot, then around 80, then a full week of mid-70s. That’s gonna feel so strange.
Mom Update:
Mom had her chemo today and once again it started the process of her being knocked on her butt. ( more back here )
Prix (prixmium) wrote2025-08-11 07:59 pm
prixmium) wrote2025-08-11 07:59 pm
Summer break
It's been a little while since I was on this website.
I started my new job on April 1 of this year at an international school in Tokyo. I had a couple of weeks before that to settle into my new apartment, but the moment I got moved in, I got sick for a few days. My body really does seem to just give in and give up every time I have a moment of peace from expectation and obligation.
I am currently writing from my dad's house in Tennessee. It's the first time I've been back in over a year. I was nervous about coming through the airport, as outspoken as I am online about things that suck about the encroaching fascism in the US, but I should know that for the most part as a white woman, no one is really paying attention.
My flight home ended up being delayed by 3 hours in total which cost me spending 12 extra hours in airports in total. Kinda sucked, but I dislike airports less than most people I've heard talk about it.
My new job is night and day better than my job that I left, so I feel confident that I made the right decision there. It's a really lovely job most of the time, even though every job has its bullshit. The two things that are most difficult in this job: my direct-report boss is a True Believer in AI and as an English teacher this makes me want to pull my hair out and, because the international school is private and people choose their junior and senior high schools in Japan based on a variety of factors, June and July were just a blur of hardly ever getting a full weekend from my job. We get flex time at this job, though, so most of those events I got paid back in hours I could use. Means I have a few extra paid leave days left over after taking several during the month of August. I think they gave us 10 or so days off besides weekends, and I ended up taking 8 in total.
And yet, I am stuck in this limbo of feeling of having too much free time and too little.
While I am here, my dad and stepmom are planning to go out of town for a few days, since they never have a dog sitter. Maybe I'll start to have creative thought again in that quiet. My stepmom is old enough that she turns up the TV loud enough to bother me a little, but I want to sit in the den both as a social grace and because it's where the air conditioning is the coolest.
I was hoping to get time and inspiration to write or otherwise do fandom interaction or contribution, but my last two fics have gotten next to no traffic or engagement. I did post them a few places, and I have at least one or two kudos, but it's just so lonely to get NO comments in spite of showing it to people. I feel like my greatest strength to make anything is writing, but no one bothers to act like fanfic authors are people offering them their ideas anymore.
Even before that, I participated in a secret santa type exchange, and my recipient kind of ghosted the entire thing.
I just really have... idk... a sense of lost competence? I've written over a hundred fics, and I know that it's a cultural shift, but I just... don't have whatever it takes to get people's attention anymore.
Maybe I should post them here, since people actually treat people like people here, but I feel like it's hard to find the audience... anywhere... for any specific thing I write.
Anyway, that's my current mope. And because of it, I lost steam on the few WIPs I had and can't think of anything new.
I started my new job on April 1 of this year at an international school in Tokyo. I had a couple of weeks before that to settle into my new apartment, but the moment I got moved in, I got sick for a few days. My body really does seem to just give in and give up every time I have a moment of peace from expectation and obligation.
I am currently writing from my dad's house in Tennessee. It's the first time I've been back in over a year. I was nervous about coming through the airport, as outspoken as I am online about things that suck about the encroaching fascism in the US, but I should know that for the most part as a white woman, no one is really paying attention.
My flight home ended up being delayed by 3 hours in total which cost me spending 12 extra hours in airports in total. Kinda sucked, but I dislike airports less than most people I've heard talk about it.
My new job is night and day better than my job that I left, so I feel confident that I made the right decision there. It's a really lovely job most of the time, even though every job has its bullshit. The two things that are most difficult in this job: my direct-report boss is a True Believer in AI and as an English teacher this makes me want to pull my hair out and, because the international school is private and people choose their junior and senior high schools in Japan based on a variety of factors, June and July were just a blur of hardly ever getting a full weekend from my job. We get flex time at this job, though, so most of those events I got paid back in hours I could use. Means I have a few extra paid leave days left over after taking several during the month of August. I think they gave us 10 or so days off besides weekends, and I ended up taking 8 in total.
And yet, I am stuck in this limbo of feeling of having too much free time and too little.
While I am here, my dad and stepmom are planning to go out of town for a few days, since they never have a dog sitter. Maybe I'll start to have creative thought again in that quiet. My stepmom is old enough that she turns up the TV loud enough to bother me a little, but I want to sit in the den both as a social grace and because it's where the air conditioning is the coolest.
I was hoping to get time and inspiration to write or otherwise do fandom interaction or contribution, but my last two fics have gotten next to no traffic or engagement. I did post them a few places, and I have at least one or two kudos, but it's just so lonely to get NO comments in spite of showing it to people. I feel like my greatest strength to make anything is writing, but no one bothers to act like fanfic authors are people offering them their ideas anymore.
Even before that, I participated in a secret santa type exchange, and my recipient kind of ghosted the entire thing.
I just really have... idk... a sense of lost competence? I've written over a hundred fics, and I know that it's a cultural shift, but I just... don't have whatever it takes to get people's attention anymore.
Maybe I should post them here, since people actually treat people like people here, but I feel like it's hard to find the audience... anywhere... for any specific thing I write.
Anyway, that's my current mope. And because of it, I lost steam on the few WIPs I had and can't think of anything new.
Zwei Hexen (zwei_hexen) wrote2025-08-11 09:54 pm
zwei_hexen) wrote2025-08-11 09:54 pmWrite every day! - August 2025 - Day 11
Tally:
Welcome post
Day 1:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 2:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 3:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 4:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 5:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 6:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
Day 7:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman,ysilme
Day 8:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 9:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme
Day 10:badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 11:china_shop
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ysilme here: more noodling with the old WIP, if not many new words: I started to sort through the various versions of my partly reworks and started the process of finding out where I were, and to put things together so I can continue to work at it. It's a major mess, so that's going to be fun... ;op
sylvanwitch here: I edited chapter three of the novel. This one had some rough patches, expression-wise, but was thankfully mostly clear of bracketed placeholders. Happily, I do seem to like the story, and it really is rather like I'm reading someone else's work because I wrote this one so long ago.
Welcome post
Day 1:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 2:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 3:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 4:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 5:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 6:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilmeDay 7:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman,ysilmeDay 8:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddes47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 9:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilmeDay 10:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddes47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme Day 11:
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ysilme here: more noodling with the old WIP, if not many new words: I started to sort through the various versions of my partly reworks and started the process of finding out where I were, and to put things together so I can continue to work at it. It's a major mess, so that's going to be fun... ;opsylvanwitch here: I edited chapter three of the novel. This one had some rough patches, expression-wise, but was thankfully mostly clear of bracketed placeholders. Happily, I do seem to like the story, and it really is rather like I'm reading someone else's work because I wrote this one so long ago.
osprey_archer (osprey_archer) wrote2025-08-11 02:01 pm
osprey_archer) wrote2025-08-11 02:01 pmMCU meme
sholio posted this MCU meme, and as you know I love nothing more than lists, so I couldn't resist filling it out. Bold = Watched Entirety
Italic = Watched Part
* Watched more than once.
† Watched in the first few weeks of release (at least initially, for TV shows).
Phase One:
*Iron Man (2008)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
*Iron Man 2 (2010)
*Thor (2011)
*Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
*The Avengers (2012)
Phase Two:
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV 2013–2020)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
*†Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
†Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Ant-Man (2015)
Daredevil (TV 2015–2018)
*Agent Carter (TV 2015–2016)
Jessica Jones (TV 2015–2019)
Phase Three:
†Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Luke Cage (TV 2016–2018)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Iron Fist (TV 2017–2018)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
The Defenders (TV 2017)
The Punisher (TV 2017–2019)
Inhumans (TV 2017)
Runaways (TV 2017–2019)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
†Black Panther (2018)
Cloak & Dagger (TV 2018–2019)
†Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
†Captain Marvel (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Phase Four:
†Black Widow (2021)
WandaVision (TV 2021)
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV 2021)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Eternals (2021)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Loki (TV 2021-2023)
Hawkeye (TV 2021)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Moon Knight (TV 2022)
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Ms. Marvel (TV 2022)
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV 2022)
Phase Five:
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Secret Invasion (TV 2023)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
†The Marvels (2023)
Echo (TV 2024)
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Agatha All Along (TV 2024)
Daredevil: Born Again (TV 2025-2026)
Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
Thunderbolts (2025)
Ironheart (TV 2025)
Phase Six:
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
Wonder Man (TV 2025)
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)
Vision Quest (TV 2026)
Avengers: Doomsday (2026)
Avengers: Secret Wars (2027)
A few notes: Captain America: The Winter Soldier was my MCU gateway drug, and I was always more of a Captain America fan than an MCU fan as a whole. I rewatched most of the phase one movies in 2014 and 2015 as research for my massive Captain America fic Reciprocity, which is why I've seen most of the phase one movies twice.
For the same reason, I'm pretty sure I watched the first two seasons of Agents of SHIELD twice. What a show! I mean that in a mostly derogatory manner! But at the same time it did an amazing job creating characters that I still remember years later and liked even as they were making incredibly terrible choices in an inconsistently written show. I jumped ship after season 3 because I'd finished my fic and also was falling hard out of love with the MCU following Captain America: Civil War.
Even after Civil War, I tried to stay on top of the movies for a while. But after phase 2, I never even tried to keep on top of the TV shows, and it's startling to look at this list and realize how many MCU shows there are that I've never even heard of. Hawkeye had his own show? What?
Agent Carter is one of the few MCU properties I've rewatched for its own sake and not as fic research. I was very sad when it was canceled, but given the general downhill trend of my MCU feelings it may be just as well that it got canceled when it did... However, I've heard the third season was supposed to be set in London, which would have been fantastic and in my heart I'm still sorry we didn't get it even though season 2 was a mess and there's no reason to believe season 3 would have been an improvement.
I do vaguely intend to see a few of the later movies: The Eternals (big Chloe Zhao fan!), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and of course Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts. But they're somewhere below Moana 2 and catching up with all the Pixar movies I've missed since 2020, so it may or may not ever happen.