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Fandom: Pokemon (Juicebox Collective ARPG)
Rating: T
Length: 565
Prompt: Lyric with "sleep" or "wake" (song here)
Summary: the strange eevee has an experience

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soc_puppet

Big project for Intro to Human Services: History project (5 to 7 minute presentation, needs visual aid(s)); can work in groups of up to three. I'm working solo, and my project is on the history of the ADA. It's due Monday the 22nd, aaaaand I haven't really done a lot yet 😑 On the plus side, no homework next week?

No big project for Social Problems! I just gotta read another textbook chapter, originally by Thursday but now possibly not until Tuesday. (I may try for Thursday anyway.) No Asynchronous Course Materials this week, because last week's was two-and-a-half hours long.

Big project for Ceramics: Two coil-and-pinch projects due for bisque (initial, pre-glaze) firing by end of day Friday. I've got one finished, and have only barely started the second. To be fair, I tried starting the second twice already, and had to scrap it both times, because I just kept pinching the bowl larger when I was trying to smooth the coils together. And then yesterday, though I finished cleaning up my fish (that I love and can't wait to share), we did some practice of taking stuff out of the kiln, and that ate up some class time I would have otherwise used to work on my bowl.

Our next class period, tomorrow, will be dedicated to Raku firing our test pieces, so I doubt I'll have a lot of time to work then, and will have to leave class ASAP to get to an appointment back home. So I anticipate staying late on Thursday and coming in on Friday, neither of which is an official Ceramics day, to finish my bowl.

I probably should not have slacked off quite as much as I did over the weekend, but slacking off felt so gooooood 😭 Ah, well; back to work!

Current Mood: busy

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yuuago

The local library is doing an "Exploring Horror Subgenres" challenge. The idea is to try out various different types of horror, read one from each category, maybe give something new a shot, etc. They have a list of recommended reading (you can also pick stuff for the challenge that isn't on their list, though).

Here's the library's recommended list (plus notes on what I've read):
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For books not on the list, I'm planning on reading these two:

Slasher: My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. I really enjoyed The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and have been meaning to read more of this guy's work.

Sci-Fi horror: Authority by Jeff VanderMeer. I've already read Annihilation, and enjoyed it enough to put the sequel on the to-read list, soooo I guess there's no time like the present. :V

Anyway! Has anyone read any of these? Thoughts etc? I find with a lot of horror the premise sounds interesting but the execution doesn't live up to my hopes. Which goes for movies too, I suppose.

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/70907111

by CardinalBang

After a slight incident involving his recording equipment, voice actor and Twitch streamer Tim Meredith must navigate the sudden yet inescapable reality that his wildest creations have come to life! Or have they? In this short adventure, hijinks will befall our cavalier creator as he flails to discern between reality and fantasy - all before dinner!

Words: 1427, Chapters: 1/3, Language: English

Fandoms: Video Blogging RPF, TheBrothersMeredith, Stellar Firma (Podcast), Rusty Quill RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/M, Gen, Multi, Other
Characters: Tim Meredith, Sam Rae, Amy Dickinson, Erin Enfys, Trexel Geistman, David 7 (Stellar Firma)
Relationships: Tim Meredith/Amy Dickinson, Sam Rae/Erin Enfys, Monty/Attention
Additional Tags: Fluff and Humor, Humor, Slice of Life, Friendship, Platonic Soulmates, Mentioned Adam Cole, Temporary Amnesia, Not Beta Read We Slurp Like Trexel, slurry, Clones, Kidnapping, Cosmic Horror

https://archiveofourown.org/works/70907111

days_unfolding

Sigh. The dogs had the whole time that I was gone to wrestle, but they waited until I went to bed. I told them loudly to cut it out, and, to my surprise, they kind of listened. But they kept on going back to it until I turned off the light.

Woke up a little after 7 AM. I'm tired. No nap at lunch because I was covering tickets for a colleague until 12 and had a webinar at 1.

Crap, crap, crap. The cats knocked down my work laptop. I didn't notice that my glasses fell down with it. And Gracie chewed up my glasses. I ordered another pair from Zenni, but I'll need to be careful until they arrive. Crap. I ordered another pair expedited.

The garage people said that they would be here at 3 to take down the shed. It's now 4:30, and they haven't showed up yet. Sigh. Now it's 5:30 and nothing.

It took a long time, but my dental insurance said that the claim for my bridge is currently in an appeal (after first saying my tooth wasn't extracted when it was, but they finally found it). I'll tell the dentist that.

The guys came and took down the shed at 6 PM. The guy driving the machinery messed up one of the back gates, so he’s going to replace it. Meanwhile, I have to take Bella out on a leash as well as Gracie. The guys left a mound of gravel and dirt in the back yard, and Gracie really, really wanted to climb it.

I found a place called Overnight Glasses that make glasses same day (if ordered before noon) or next day and send them overnight mail. I’m going to order another set of glasses later tonight.

Watered the outside plants.

I’m feeling cranky. I chewed the guys out for being late.

Got the garbage out (which includes dumping litter boxes). Ordered my "overnight" pair of glasses, which should get here on Thursday. They're cute glasses with a brown-and-black-striped frame.

Now I need to crash fairly quickly because I want to eat breakfast before I shower and go to the dentist.

Oh, and RIP Robert Redford. That shocked me, although I don't know why.

skygiants

I liked the Korean movie Phantom (2023) enough that I decided to hunt down the novel on which it's based, Mai Jia's The Message -- in large part out of curiosity about whether it's also lesbians.

The answer: ... sort of! The lesbians are not technically textual but there's a bit of Lesbian Speculation and then a big pointed narrative hole where lesbians could potentially be. It is, however, without a doubt, Women Being Really Weird About Each Other, to the point where I'm considering it as a Yuletide fandom (perhaps even moreso than the movie, where the women are also weird about each other but in a more triumphant cinematic way and less of an ambiguous, psychologically complex and melancholic way. you know.)

The plot: well, as in the movie, there's a spy, and there's the Japanese Occupation, and there's a Big Haunted House where we're keeping all the possible spies to play mind games with until somebody fesses up. Because the book is set in 1941 China, there are actually three factions at play -- the Japanese and collaborators, the Communists and the Nationalists -- and for the whole first part of the book, fascinatingly enough, we are almost entirely in the head of the Japanese officer who's running the operation and choreographing all the mind games in an attempt to ferret out the Communist agent in his codebreaking division. The result is sort of a weird and almost darkly funny anti-heroic anti-Poirot situation, in which Hihara is constantly engineering increasingly complicated locked-room scenarios designed to get the spy to confess like the culprit in a Thin Man movie, and is constantly thwarted by his suspects inconveniently refusing to stick to the script, even when presented with apparently incontrovertible evidence, placed under torture, lied to about the deaths of other members of the party, etc. etc.

The suspects include several variously annoying men, plus two women whom we and everyone else are clearly intended to find the most interesting people there: quiet and competent Li Ningyu, cryptography division head, mother of two, whom everyone knows is semi-separated from an abusive husband, and who somehow manages to keep calmly slithering her way out of every accusation Hihara tries to stick on her; and her opposite, loud bratty chic Gu Xiaomeng, whom Hihara would very much like to rule out as a suspect as quickly as possible because she's the daughter of a very wealthy collaborator, and who seems moderately obsessed with her boss Li Ningyu For Some Reason.

Both book and movie spend, like, sixty percent of their length on this big house espionage mind games scenario and then abruptly take a left turn, with the next forty percent being Something Completely Different. In the film this left turn involves DRAMATIC ROMANTIC ACTION HEROICS!!!! so I was quite surprised to find that the book's left turn ( involves spoilers )

alchemise

I had so much fun writing this Veronica Mars/Daredevil crossover. I feel like both shows share a lot in common, and I loved exploring those similarities.

Murdock, McDuffie, and Mars (5201 words) by alchemise
Fandom: Veronica Mars (TV), Daredevil (TV), The Defenders (Marvel TV)
Relationships: Veronica Mars & Matt Murdock
Characters: Veronica Mars, Matt Murdock, Kirsten McDuffie, Cherry (Daredevil)
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Crossover, Future Fic
Summary: Veronica’s first case at her new job leads to even bigger questions.

( fic behind the cut! )

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https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2025/09/17/new-lookouts-art

My eldest son Gabe is in his second year at Digipen and we like working on projects together. We’ve attempted to make some games before and while none of them made it past family testing, we both had fun and learned a bunch of cool new skills. Our latest endeavor has already reached the "testing with friends" phase which is a big step for us and a sign I think that this one might have legs. Speaking of legs, the project we are working on is an Eyrewood step tracking app.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2025/09/17/new-lookouts-art

stonepicnicking_okapi

1. If you would like a homemade collage Halloween card (or two! I have a lot of material!) and I don't have your mailing address, please message it to me. I have plenty of international stamps so in or out of the US.

2. We got some rain today and it was nice.

3. I fell victim to candy corn already and have made myself sick twice. There is no such thing as moderation when it comes to candy corn.

4. I finished the Miles Davis autobiography. Amazing artist but not someone who respected the women in his life at all. Also I am glad I never tried heroin. I also finished the third book in the Tracker series. I think I am done with Tracker for a while. He's getting to be a Bit Much. I am almost finished with Rebus #21 and I am sad because there aren't many more books in the series and Rebus has COPD from all the cigarettes :(

5. I have decided to time my UK trip with this exhibit at the British Museum: https://events.bl.uk/exhibitions/agathachristie

In case there isn't enough tap dancing on your feed: Arthur Duncan, Bunny Briggs, Jimmy Slyde, Steve Condos, Harold Nicholas, Sandman Sims, Sammy Davis Jr.

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Tuesday, September 16, to midnight on Wednesday, September 17. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33628 Daily Check-in

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I am OK.
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I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
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I could use some help.
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I am living single.
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Unfamiliar Terrain
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1627
[May 4, 2020, afternoon]

:: Vic is in a strange area, looking for landmarks to keep himself from becoming lost. Instead, he finds items forgotten at a bus stop. Handing them into a nearby business’ lost and found creates an unexpected opportunity. Written for the September of 2025 Magpie Monday, from a prompt suggested by

readera, this story is now revealed to be part of the Edison’s Mirror arc. ::

Vic walked steadily, despite the growing limp and the heavy, stiff feeling in his right knee. He may have wrenched it harder than he’d thought, trying to climb over a fallen evergreen tree on the long walk to the two lane road that hinted at civilization. That was an hour before he found the tiny grocery store, and three hours before he found the current intersection of narrow roads with no shoulders.

At the lonely intersection, a royal blue bus stop sign marked “Route 3” also had two metal seats bolted to it, parallel to the road surface. There was no sidewalk.
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Current Mood: excited

musesfool

Last night at this time, I was on what ended up to be a 90 minute (or more - I left after 90 minutes) call with other shareholders in my building to discuss options for complying with local law 97, which is all about reducing carbon emissions. It was informative, though as usual, the people running these meetings are bad at it it, and 2 people basically monopolized all the Q&A time with very specific-to-them concerns instead of applicable-to-all-tenants stuff, but at least nobody accused the board of being racist for muting them, which is what happened the last time I joined a building-related zoom call. Still only about a quarter of the people who live here showed up, which I find inexplicable considering the financial considerations involved. While no final decision was made, it seems like there will be a recommendation to take one of the incremental measures while continuing to explore the more expensive (but not the ludicrously expensive most expensive) options. So we'll see how that goes. If it helps my apartment not to turn into a sauna going forward, I am interested!

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Baby Miss L is still trying to finalize her Halloween costume, but as with last year, there may be multiple outfits as she has a very full social calendar. She has gotten better about school, too - apparently she waves hello to everyone as she enters, and I imagine they all appreciate her attention. *g* I have also started compiling a list of books to buy her for her birthday and Christmas, which I guess I'll start shopping for soon.

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I complain about work fairly often, but today I learned that 1. they've confirmed that our insurance will cover covid jabs for everyone who uses it, and 2. they're giving us 2 extra paid holidays this year since both 12/26 and 1/2 fall on Fridays. So I know I have it pretty good despite...everything happening in the world to try to ruin public health and nonprofits.

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I can't remember if I posted about the very addictive phone game I recently downloaded, but after several lelvels where the only way to advance was to spend money to get helpful items, I deleted it. I can't be spending that kind of money and I am definitely the kind of person who needs to defeat the puzzles, even though I can see they are specifically designed to not be beatable without those helpful items. It's one reason I don't gamble or play "real" video games - I tend to get feverishly obsessive about winning and neither sleep nor money matter to me in that state. *hands* At least I know this about myself? Idk, but it felt good to delete the game even though I am still craving it.

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The Mets snapped their losing streak on Sunday and still control their destiny in terms of a wild card spot, but given how poorly they've played for so long, this series with San Diego feels like a playoff game already. We'll see if they can hold the early lead. ....and now Lindor goes deep! <333

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Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: Mets vs Padres on tv

yourlibrarian

1) Some interesting posts at Henry Jenkins blog about the Peabody Awards process and disruption in the entertainment industry. "So, Peabody meets 3 times face-to-face. And it is an award that is decided across genres and platforms: television, radio, podcasting, and interactive, which is games and VR, etc. And across genre: entertainment, news, documentary, etc. But in particular, it's decided by a unanimous vote of a board of 18...who represent lots of different facets. There's critics, which include academics and TV critics, media executives, writers, and showrunners. ..which is different from a campaign for 26,000 voting members, in which you have no control of what they've watched and what they've not watched...Aziz Ansari was famous for coming to our show and saying, “You know, this is pretty cool. It's like you watch all of our shit, and you just decided it was good, and we didn't have to go to a bunch of weird-ass parties and stuff"

Two other factors: "It's not just celebrating entertainment. It's trying to talk about the ways that popular culture and entertainment can deeply shape who we are and want to be as a people, as empathetic citizens in the world" and "also...is it a story that matters? So, sometimes the craft can be brilliant, but it may not be a story that matters." ( Read more... )

2) A few more notes about Silent Witness as I move into S26. S23 seemed a really unusual season, enough so that I wondered about its production dates. ( Read more... )

3) Watched a documentary on the BeeGees which, like a lot of documentaries, goes very light on the time after their popularity peaked. (That was one thing the Billy Joel and Bon Jovi ones avoided). ( Read more... )

4) A Spy Among Friends was well written and interesting to watch but I kept constantly thinking about the 2003 Cambridge Spies which I saw last year and suspect it's much closer to the truth. ( Read more... )

5) Just a few comments about the Emmys, mostly in how unsurprising it was that Stephen Colbert finally won an Emmy for Best Show more because voters were jolted into a show of support. Yet John Oliver won yet again, twice. (Particular irony given the broadcast was on CBS).

Otherwise can't say it was entertaining and I wish a lot of stuff not involved in handing out awards had been cut. The tribute to Gilmore Girls seemed to really exemplify "too little, too late" since it and so many shows from the WB had been overlooked through sheer snobbery decades ago, when the attention would have done more good.

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I contacted my rheumatologist because I've been having increased pain--hurting enough to wake me at night and keep me awake, hurting enough to make walking difficult--and have gotten a referral to PT to learn how to use a cane. Fiona's gonna help me bling her out once I get her. The doc also went ahead and started the process of getting me a biologic; it's so fucking involved, y'all.

You can't get a biologic at a regular pharmacy; only specialty pharmacies carry them. So right now I'm at the stage where the RX has been sent to the specialty pharmacy and they're in the process of doing the prior authorization and figuring out how much my insurance will pay. I'm just waiting for them to get back to me to let me know if it's been approved and what the copay will be.

Assuming it gets approved and is affordable, I'll be taking once weekly injections of Enbrel.

Anybody here take Enbrel and want to share?

pennyarcade_feed

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2025/09/16/star-wars-outlaws-on-switch2

I started playing Star Wars Outlaws when it came out last year on the PS5 and I really liked it. Eventually other games came out though and I didn’t end up finishing Outlaws. Well I heard the Switch 2 version was excellent and I honestly had a hard time believing that so I decided to grab it and check it out for myself. It supports cross save so I was able to pick up right where I left off on the Playstation. I was expecting to load it up, be disappointed in how it ran and call it a day but it was so good I ended up playing another 10 hours and beat the damn game.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2025/09/16/star-wars-outlaws-on-switch2

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