NYC 2025 Election: Judges
Oct. 26th, 2025 04:05 amDaily Check In.
Oct. 25th, 2025 06:04 pmThis is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Saturday to midnight on Sunday (8pm Eastern Time).
How are you doing?
I am okay
6 (40.0%)
I am not okay, but don't need help right now
9 (60.0%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans are you living with?
I am living single
5 (33.3%)
One other person
7 (46.7%)
More than one other person
3 (20.0%)
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
Celebrating Halloween my way
Oct. 25th, 2025 04:47 pm(In fact, that was the first time I began watching it.)
I'm also watching episodes of Ghost Sweeper Mikami with the same goal of finishing it up as well.
Anyone here also watching Horror/Supernatural themed Anime this month?

It's not meant to be a cryptic crossword!
Oct. 25th, 2025 05:18 pmI've got an Asda order due for delivery later, but a couple of the substitutions in the confirmation email confused me, What the hell are "slice cheoni" or "pizza pepsal"?
Finally worked out it's a cheese and onion slice (euuww, that's going back), and a pepperoni salami pizza. C'mon, Asda, it's not meant to be an intelligence test!
emotional support spinning
Oct. 25th, 2025 08:12 am
Three-ply yarns where each single is a different wool variety since I was going through and spinning up some samples. Next up will be an experiment in dyeing.

Also, the next owner of this spinning wheel is going to have to live with the aftermarket addition of Warhammer 40,000 base magnets to hold the hecking orifice hook because I keep losing them (and having to DIY new ones out of paper clips - this works quite well and is easy but also, I'm running embarrassingly low on paper clips).
With The Possible Exception Of Monokuma.
Oct. 25th, 2025 11:49 am( Dreams from August to October. )
It didn't occur to me until I looked at all of these together that I've had multiple dreams about bears lately. Perplexing! Bears aren't really something I often have on the mind.
And, huh. It looks like I lost my bank card
Oct. 26th, 2025 11:48 pmAnyway, speaking of protests and politics and food banks,
If you donate at least $25 in cash or in-kind to a food bank at any point between now and the end of the Trump Administration, and you either share a fandom of mine and want a drabble or fannish poetry, or you want original poetry, drop me a comment, and I will write for you.
So, there you go, that's a win-win for everybody.
Edit: Well! As you might expect, as soon as I posted I happened to roll my chair over my card! It's fine, chair and card are both fine. I still need to make them fix my name, but it can wait.
Welp, my glasses have reached the point of no return with superglue
Oct. 25th, 2025 08:40 pm(Though, looking on the website, it seems glow in the dark frames are an option!? I would never, sounds like a real visual annoyance, but man, so much respect for anybody who goes in that direction!)
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Daily Check In.
Oct. 24th, 2025 06:48 pmOpen to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 25
How are you doing?
I am okay
12 (48.0%)
I am not okay, but don't need help right now
13 (52.0%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans are you living with?
I am living single
7 (28.0%)
One other person
14 (56.0%)
More than one other person
4 (16.0%)
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo, in print!
Oct. 24th, 2025 11:42 pmAnyway, my epistolary novella The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo is being republished by indie press Homeward Books and for the first time, it will be available in hard copy form! With a jazzy new cover featuring art by Kim Nguyen, it is SO cute and chic. Homeward Books are fundraising to put out their first two releases (Jade is the second) and you can pre-order both via the Kickstarter here.
💡
Oct. 24th, 2025 03:36 pmOh well, once I’m home and have gotten a meal together I’ll be too tired to get up to shenanigans…
(Watching the Thai drama The Cursed Love right now and I’ve only watched episode 1 but so far it feels like a cross between Indiana Jones and Percy Jackson plus, according to the comments, Hindu mythology? Anyway, I’m having a good time.)
Powerwash Simulator 2...spoilers?
Oct. 24th, 2025 09:15 pm"I saw an ad for the talking dog car movie on the toilet that came up out of the ground!"
That's a real sentence that I heard
diffrentcolours say this afternoon.
Sunflower Stories
Oct. 24th, 2025 01:49 pm
Trying to sneak into the In Crowd
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NYC 2025 Election: Ballot Proposals
Oct. 26th, 2025 04:05 am(no subject)
Oct. 24th, 2025 12:28 pmT. Kingfisher's latest Sworn Soldier novella, What Stalks The Deep, is enormously comforting, insofar as everyone, even the monster lurking in the depths, is trying their best under difficult circumstances and wants to do the right thing. I needed that, for so many reasons, oh my gosh.
My plan for fixing my life this weekend is going to demand levels of focus and time management and a willingness to confront gross surfaces that frankly I have never exhibited in my entire life, so obviously that's gonna go great.
I have a month to write either the next fake investigative journalism piece or finish the Roman engineer/selkie story. You'd think that the story where I roughly know what happens (emotionally) and have 1.2K words written would be the easy one, right? You would be wrong. I'll try writing the ending first and maybe that will help.
Timebomb-Based Governance
Oct. 24th, 2025 11:07 amMeanwhile, Trump's demolished an entire wing of the White House to turn it into Mar-a-Lago 2. Apparently there's a really pressing need for event space, so it's a shame that Trump's inevitably going to fill that niche with tacky garbage. And it's insane to unilaterally demolish a WH wing during a government shutdown. Imagine the reaction if Obama did anything even remotely like that.
[pain] further notes on chronic pain statistics
Oct. 24th, 2025 03:51 pmSummary: nobody seems to have done the data analysis I actually want, because data collection is hard and then actually making it internationally comparable ditto, but the proportion of chronic pain cases that are primarily attributable to back pain Of Some Kind seems to be very roughly in the region of 20%-50%, depending.
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boffo
Oct. 24th, 2025 07:33 amThe etymology of slang is often confusing, but this is exceptionally tangled. Complicating things is the existence of boff, which aside from the verb meaning to have sex with also is US show-biz slang, meaning a gag or line that produces a hearty laugh as well as a hit in general. Many authorities think one of these is derived from the other but disagree on which is the source. Other authorities suggest separate sources for the two words, without any clear consensus on what. Proposed sources, btw, include, buffo, a comic opera character (related to buffoon), bouffo, a comic opera genre, and a shortening of bo(x o)ff(ice), as in the total receipts paid for admission. On a personal level, I'm surprised to learn this is specifically US slang -- I had the impression that is was UK slang from, perhaps, 19th century music-hall, rather than 1930s Hollywood.
---L.