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I had my behind the knee scan today. My appointment was at 8:30, I was at the place by 8:10, waited until exactly half past, when I was taken to the scan room and scanned and done within ten minutes. Apparently results will be sent to my doctor in about a week, so guess we'll see if anything shows then.

As I was in the same building I'd always planned to go to the gym after my appointment, which is exactly what I did. The receptionist called me over on the way in, asking if I'd had news about Rosie, as it seems they're as clueless as me. We got to talking, and I was saying how I missed the class, and the receptionist said why didn't I try one of the actual gym classes.

I admitted to her that they still intimidate me a little, so she said there another class that was for beginners and could be adapted. It has two levels, one for people who need to sit while exercising, and a next level class for those that could stand but could adapt moves if needed.

I was a bit unsure, so she said she'd sent the trainer in to see me so we could have a talk, and well, I'm going back to the gym and to the level two class in about an hour. I have to admit though, after talking to him, where he gave me an example of the stuff they do, I suspect it won't be challenging enough. But, even if it's not, it's making me accountable to actually go back out and do something.

This burst of energy is helped by the fact it's a gorgeous day today, cool, but so sunny it lifted my spirits when I was out walking earlier.

ETA: I got distracted by a survey and had to leave in hurry to get there on time, so couldn't post before leaving. I'm back home again now and like I suspected the class was easy, only three circuits of 5 exercises, and you got to sit down between each circuit. I'll go back as I do like the community aspect of the classes, plus there's the walk either side on top, but doubt I'll break a sweat while there.

The survey I talked about amused me. The screener was have you watched Heated Rivalry, so of course I had to click yes, and then ended up with a survey that kept asking if I related to Shane and Ilya personally, and especially, to their sexual relationship. It was quite easy to say my own relationship may not be that intense.

I am likely going to finish all current projects, and then my writing I share with the public will only be what I sign up for in charity drives and exchanges.

I just don't have enough energy to warrant putting the effort into sharing/promoting fic when it is a source of stress, given comment dearth and spammer content.

I will not be removing any of my archives. I'm just going to stop trying to engage with others.

Basic summary: Herewiss, Prince of the Brightwood, is the only man in centuries to possess the Power of the Flame, but he cannot use or control it, not even to help his dearest friend, Freelorn, the exiled Prince of Arlen. But Herewiss does have a talent for sorcery, and, aided by the enigmatic creature Sunspark, he is able to rout the armies besieging Freelorn.

Now Herewiss faces a devastating choice. With or without the Power, he knows his time is running out. Shall he join Freelorn in his fight to regain his kingdom? Or shall he seek out the ancient castle where doors lead to other worlds, worlds Sunspark has hinted at, perhaps even the door that would teach him to control the Power...

My thoughts: ...I forgot I have the omnibus edition, I wondered why it was taking me so long to finish. 😭 Then BAM it started playing book two and I was like 'wait what?' I listened to the ebook via the Audify TTS speech, I did have to rewind a fair bit here and there. The magic is intricate so there were long descriptions when Herewiss was working on his swords and spells.

There might be a term for this but the world is one where polyamory and perhaps bisexuality is the norm, at least for the humans. Some are sex friends, some a one-off, some you love and want to spend the rest of your life with and some you don't. Herewiss' 'Loved' is Freelorn, and by the end he also has Sunspark or 'Spark', a fire god. Freelorn has a sex friend in Segnbora.

Segnbora is the opposite of Herewiss, where he couldn't bring out his true power, she can't control hers. We didn't get to see Segnbora fully open up though she came close with Herewiss, I hope she finds a solution to her problem like Herewiss did.

I loved Herewiss and Freelorn's relationship and backstory, they certainly have their problems but they're there for each other through thick and thin in the end. I did remember feeling Herewiss/Sunspark was a bit instalove the first time I read it and I still agree sorta, but looking at the world and how they see relationships it makes a lot more sense. I guess I just wish it was fleshed out just a bit more on Sunspark's side, maybe get their POV. BTW, Sunspark switches between his 'horse', man and woman forms at will.

I'm really excited to see Freelorn get his sword and take back his kingdom, and for Herewiss to settle more in himself and Segnbora as well.

update comments from 2010

November 15, 2010 – page 22: I have a feeling that I'm going to -love- this book. :)

November 15, 2010 – page 70: Very much enjoying this book! I love the characters and the world so far.

November 16, 2010 – page 95: (Your friend greets you by me,) Sunspark said, (and says, "Get me the Dark out of here.")

November 17, 2010 – page 104: "I am the Keeper of the Archive," he said solemnly, as if he were summoning Powers to hear him. "There must be something in here that would help you. I'm going to start looking. And when I find it-"

November 18, 2010 – page 146: The innkeeper sees her, and says, 'Madam, if you please, where are you going with those?' and Segnbora smiles at him and says, 'Sir, if you want every skin of wine or tun of ale in your place to get the rot, ask on. Otherwise-' and out the door she goes, gets the horses from the stables and rides off. We met her a few streets away and got out of there in a hurry.

November 23, 2010 – page 174: How is this book so awesome?

December 3, 2010 – page 304: No words can adequately describe how incredible I found this book to be. I never want to forget it, and I can't wait to get and read the next one!

Happy Purim, and happy purimgifts!

I got the most glorious fic (and image collage) -- this feels like it could be an outtake from the actual books, and that's high praise.


Hamentaschen (438 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lady Astronaut Series - Mary Robinette Kowal
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elma York/Nathaniel York
Characters: Elma York, Nathaniel York
Additional Tags: Canon Jewish Character, Baking, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Canon Compliant, Collection: Purimgifts Day 1
Summary:

Elma makes Hamentaschen for the first time after the meteor.

Miscellany from seasons_of_fandom round (season) one.
Tumblr grapics, 2 animated: (Nikolai Lantsov (Shadow and Bone); Han Solo (Star Wars); Dean Winchester (Supernatural); John Sheppard (Stargate: Atlantis), Magnum P.I. (1980 & 2018), stock
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Other graphics: bounding (fandom inspired outfits The Ark, The Witcher, Relic Hunter), triptych (Star Wars movies, stock), Font name illustrations (stock), fanmix cover art (Venom movies, Buffy TV, stock), bookmark (stock), personalised trading card
Other - book title poetry
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On very bad news: my belly dance teacher, Elizabeth, popped over to the Middle East to get some dancing in during the half term holiday, and she is now trapped there thanks to the war. We suggested she find the embassy and let them know she's there but that's all we've heard, so none of us know what's happening beyond that. Some prayers for her safety would not come amiss if anyone reading this has a prayer list :(

On slightly better news, DH and I are having a heat pump put in, to run our central heating, instead of the gas boiler we previously had. And when I say 'we're having a heat pump put in' I mean right now. One engineer is outside drilling something. One is putting sticky back plastic over our carpets to protect them, prior to checking which radiators need to be replaced.

(Apparently we need larger radiators because the water coming from the heat pump will be at a lower temperature than that coming from a boiler, so we'll need a larger surface area of radiator to provide equivalent heating.)

We were keen to get a heat pump because we are with an electricity provider who get all their electricity from renewables (mostly wind farms around here.) That way, once we swap our gas hob for an electric one, we will be freed from fossil fuel use except for the cars. (They're on the plan too, but second hand electric cars are not yet as available as we need, and who can afford a new car?)

I'm very impressed with our electricity people so far (Octopus Electric.) They said they'd be here by 8am and they were here at 8.10am. (In contrast to the scaffolding people who said they'd be here yesterday and never turned up at all.)

They're putting protectors on our carpeting where they intend to walk. They say it will take them three days to install the heat pump system, but we'll only have one day without heating. And they have given us three fan heaters to keep us warm on that one day, and told us we can keep them afterward.

It'll be hard to go back to a system where you have to heat up the hot water tank in order to have hot water, (rather than the current system where the boiler heats the water on demand.) But we're doing our bit for the planet, so that will have to be the consolation :)

"There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story.
You never quite know where they'll take you." (Beatrix Potter)

We're doing the occasional writing quote again this month. Today's quote was chosen by sylvanwitch on an image by ysilme.

Tally:
Welcome post

Day 1:: badly_knitted, brithistorian, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, 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: 566 works for the new drawer draft. I hadn't been able to properly focus on creative writing for several months due to circumstances outside my control, surviving on alibi sentences and random snippets. While it's been interesting to see where my writing mind went with the daily randomness it was and still is a bit of a struggle to get back into continous work at one project at a time. The first step had been alibi sentence but for the same WIP every day, followed by small snippets of the same. As a next step I've tackled revamping a larger drawer fic I wasn't happy with any longer and also wanted to convey into an English version, and am now completely rewriting it as a draft while getting rid of an embarrassing amount of bad plotting, characterisation and writing. *lol*

sylvanwitch here: 508 words on "Dixon and the Detective" for me today.

Rabbit, rabbit! To inaugurate the spring month, it snowed flurrily all yesterday morning. This afternoon we are flooded with freezing sun. I can't believe Purim is already upon us. So many names need to be blotted out.

As of the start of the month, I seem to have had over a hundred-dollar drop in my Patreon membership without any notification of a mass die-off in subscriptions. Any suggestions on interpreting this deficit would be appreciated since it is my only steady source of income at the moment and we are so broke.

I am still feeling in something of a mental blast crater about the news. I have spent my afternoon on the phone. rushthatspeaks who also spent his afternoon on the phone is coming over and we are going to lie on the couch and complain about doctors and lawyers. And business executives.

Using my movies boardgame.

I completed 7/7 movies from my last challenge and rated 'Night of the Reaper', 'Aquamarine' and 'The Quest for Camelot' the highest at 4/5 stars!

Avatar:

Mystery (Hercule Poirot)
Skill: Move one extra tile once (trap tile if even roll)

Roll #1

A 5, prompt: lowest rated on PTW oh boy...it's Elevated Game which is sitting at 1.6/5 stars.

Roll #2

A 3 and the 'generate from PTW list' tile. A #69 hah and Interesting, it's a movie called Climax,

Roll #3

A 9 and the trap tile, skill didn't work. :/ Alright, 8 now and thriller prompt. Primate. The horror movie youtuber I follow reviewed this and she's scared of monkeys. XD

Roll #4

A 7 with skill. Prompt: adventure. I am going to finally watch Wendell & Wild.

Roll #5

...I shouldn't have used my skill. A 7 and the trap tile again. :( A 4 now, prompt: highest rated on PTW this time lol. Oh, it's something I just added recently - Song of the Sea!

Roll #6

A 7, prompt: non-American centric, let's see what we got... How about I finally try watching Pan's Labyrinth. I've been putting it off because I'm afraid it'll put me in a mood.

Roll #7

I am hitting all the bad tiles today. *whiiiine* A 10 and generate from PTW AGAIN. #81 which is that holiday movie with Kristen Stewart, Happiest Season.

Roll #8

Oh NOW you give me a 12. Reward...hm, I want to rewatch Ne Zha in preparation to watch the 2nd one!

Greenland ('20): It's weird that I had not heard/seen this before but ah well. There were a couple of extremely tense moments. I feel like there was a lack of urgency in some scenes from background characters. Not the most original movie but I will definitely watch the second one to see what happens to them down the line. 3/5 stars

10.0 Earthquake ('14): Ah, I've seen this. I'm getting tired of family drama disaster movies. And the daughter with a gross love interest/friend. It had a few good points though. 2/5

Night of the Reaper ('25): The twist did manage to surprise me a little, probably because I'm not one to try to figure things out on my own, but it made sense, although the killer reveal should've been a flashback when she said 'I followed you after the funeral'. Would watch again. 4/5?

The Invitation ('15): Guy and his girlfriend along with their old friends are invited to the house he used to live in with his wife and kid until he died in an accident and she cheated on the guy with someone at her grief meetings. Come to find out, the ex-wife and her new boyfriend are in a cult together and acting strange. Turns out they almost poisoned them all to death. Not sure if it was going to be a murder/suicide or if they were just going for the friends. I ended up skimming after a certain point.

Aquamarine ('06): I've seen this movie on lists with stuff like She's the Man etc as ~cultural relics~ so i figured I should watch it lol, Two absolutely boy crazy girls encounter a mermaid who has to prove love exists to her father or be forced into an arranged marriage. They teach her through magazines like Cosmopolitan how to attract one guy in particular. Contains bad acting at times and plenty of cringe situations. 😂 I like the thing with Bonnie and Leonard. It has the whole 'true love can be platonic' thing like Frozen. You know what, I did enjoy this , can't resist 'friendship is love', 'people aren't always what you expect' not to mention 'parents are people too'. => I only sorta knew one song. I feel like I would rewatch it. 4/5 stars

Coherence ('13): I know you're supposed to be confused but I prefer a more clean-cut ending. 2/5 stars 

Quest for Camelot ('98) (rewatch) - Man, why wasn't that Ruber cut off the second he started being nasty. The music lyrics for the Camelot song were so straightforward. XD I don't understand what killed Lionel, was it the fall itself? Does the horn sounding only mean 'Excalibur has been stolen'? What do they do if Camelot is being attacked? Turns out I remembered "I Stand Alone" really well!There are plenty of references in this movie including Star Wars. Overall had a great time, I look forward to rewatching more animated movies!

Art: ⭐️⭐️
Sound: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Characters: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Humor Level: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Humor Landing: ⭐️
Overall Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

You know I had to try this out, asap. I see it suffers from the same issue the images have, that of being too big. With images, I resize before uploading to Squidge Images so they won't be so huge here... but I have no idea how to do that with video. Any suggestions?

Rico in jeans, which is a rare occasion, deserved something special. 😉 This is my first vid short. I'm sure I'll be making more eventually.

(Not that Rico taking up the entire screen is necessarily a bad thing...) But I'm guessing it doesn't look right on a lot of journals because it's too big? Again, I'm not sure how to make it smaller. And, any good, free, online video editing tools you can recommend? I used Video Cutter for this. Thanks!( Read more... )

* I am having a real struggle with physio. I am doing tons of prep, but keep having to go to bed before posting items or scaffolding them into the aggregate, but there are so many Action Items, Primaries have started, and we are literally at war, so I'm cutting this here, despite barely scratching the surface on the more than two weeks backlog. I'm so sorry.

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* "What to know about the latest US-Israeli attacks on Iran:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-us-israel-trump-979a41042f073f8f4004e34e67b470f5

* "Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led the Islamic Republic since 1989, is dead at 86:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-supreme-leader-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-dead-5b13b69b708c4ed38e8f95f5fb41a597

* "Yet another mid-talks attack jeopardizes chances of Iran taking Trump seriously:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/yet-another-mid-talks-attack-jeopardises-chances-of-iran-taking-trump-seriously

* "New Iranian strikes reported across region, including in Saudi Arabia, as US planes crash in Kuwait:" https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy0dp1l57nxt

* "War widens to include Iranian-backed militias as Israeli and American planes pound Iran:" https://www.seattletimes.com/

* "More strikes aimed at Iran after Khamenei's death, Trump issues new warning:" https://archive.ph/EqsnF

* "Washington state officials demand end to involvement in Iran strikes; call for Congress vote:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/washington-state-officials-demand-end-to-involvement-in-iran-strikes-call-for-congress-vote/281-73db0e03-dd35-4872-be17-5b52ae23a449

* "Pete Buttigieg & Robert Garcia join chorus of leaders condemning Donald Trump’s ‘war of choice’ with Iran:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/pete-buttigieg-trump-iran-war

* "Rachel Maddow urges Americans to consider ‘Who benefits?’ from Trump’s war with Iran:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/rachel-maddow-trump-iran-war

* "Retired Space Force colonel warns Trump’s Iran strikes are ‘reckless adventurism and distraction’:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-iran-war-bree-fram

* "To many WA Iranians, U.S. attack signals either freedom or imperialism:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/to-many-wa-iranians-u-s-attack-signals-either-freedom-or-imperialism/

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* "Four years into its full-scale war in Ukraine, Russia is feeling the effects:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gj20xzw39o?

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* "Resist logging in Oregon's old-growth forests:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/324102.html

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* Cruelty is the point. "Noem restricts disaster aid over shutdown that targets ICE:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/22/noem-restricts-disaster-aid-ice-budget-shutdown-00792447

She is doing this terrible thing because Democrats want I.C.E. to stop breaking the law.

It is important not to cave to terrorists like Noem.

Please call your Senators and encourage them to stay firm.

* "Trump said US is only country that allows mail-in ballots. Here's the truth:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-mail-in-voting/

* "How the SAVE America Act Republicans are touting will disenfranchise married & LGBTQ+ Americans:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/save-act-lgbtq-voters

The goal of this legislation is to make it illegal on a federal level for married women and trans people to vote.

Please tell Quisling Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar exactly what you think of his decision to vote to permanently disenfranchise so many American citizens if he is your Congress Critter.

Please contact your US Senators to tell them to vote AGAINST the SAVE ACT

* Here is a model email: https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2767709.html

* "A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives:" https://bookriot.com/hr7661-book-ban-legislation/

* "Trump’s surgeon general pick dodges vaccine questions at Senate hearing:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/casey-means-surgeon-general-nominee

Please tell your senators how much you don't want an anti-vaxxer for Surgeon General.

* "Trump surgeon general nominee dances around vaccine questions at Senate hearing:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-surgeon-general-nominee-dances-around-vaccine-questions-at-senate-hearing-2489290819806

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* Our until Midterms is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.

"Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.  https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share

"Swing Left:" https://swingleft.org/

Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

"Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

"ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

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* We are entering primary season just generally. States vote at different times, so I beg ALL of you to check when your state is voting. If you are in an in-person vote state, research ahead of time so you can vote for the candidate with views closest to your own. If you vote by mail, take the time to look them up when your ballot comes.

THIS is how you move the party further LEFT.

Primary schedule here:

* "2026 Statewide Primary Calendar:" https://www.270towin.com/2026-state-primary-calendar/

I don't know where you live, so I can't link this for you, but I find the Progressive Voter Guide online very helpful in narrowing down candidates in the often packed primaries where I live.

I also suggest looking at things like volunteer work and endorsements, because it really, really helps with things like sheriff and judicial elections, but can be useful in all sorts of primaries when you have multiple good options.

REMEMBER: Don't just vote for the big things like US Congress. Vote in every State and local race down to the smallest and on all the referendums.

State and local elections have a massive impact on your quality of life.

* Arkansas, North Carolina, Texas! Don't forget to vote in the Primary (And for some special Election) March 3rd!

* Mississippi! Don't forget to vote in the Primary March 10th!

* "Gov. Gavin Newsom again under fire for comments on trans athletes & pronouns:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/gavin-newsom-pronouns

This is one of so many reasons I’m scared Democrats will pick him next time.

* "Kansas immediately revokes transgender residents’ driver’s licenses:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/kansas-revokes-transgender-drivers-licenses

* "Kansas Trans People Warned by Letter: Surrender IDS or Go to Jail:"

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* "Transcontinental Pipeline:" https://tcpipeline.org/steps/

* "Donate to Kansas ACLU:" https://action.aclu.org/give/support-aclu-kansas

* "Lyft steps in to offer rides after Kansas voids transgender residents’ driver’s licenses:" https://www.advocate.com/business/lyft-rides-kansas-transgender

* "LGBTQ+ stories take center stage nationwide on National Day of Reading in an era of book bans:" https://www.advocate.com/news/national-day-of-reading-hrc

* "21 states now limit transgender people’s bathroom use, with criminal penalties in two:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/states-with-transgender-bathroom-bans

* "A gay man was killed outside popular LGBTQ+ nightclub SAVOY Orlando after a verbal and physical altercation early Feb. 22.:" https://watermarkoutnews.com/2026/02/23/gay-man-killed-in-shooting-outside-savoy-orlando-suspect-charged/

* "Body fat supports your health in surprisingly complex ways:" https://www.newscientist.com/article/2511715-body-fat-supports-your-health-in-surprisingly-complex-ways/

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* "Winter storm: Blizzard hits Northeast with extreme weather, power outages, heavy snow:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/northeast-winter-blizzard-live-updates-rcna260210

* "No business like snow business: blizzard shuts down the north-east US – in pictures:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2026/feb/23/blizzard-snow-storm-photos

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* Do not want D: "Meta Patented AI That Takes Over Your Account When You Die, Keeps Posting Forever:" https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-patented-ai-die-keeps-posting

* "Firefox 148 rolls out with the promised AI kill switch: here's how to enable it:" https://www.techspot.com/news/111453-firefox-148-rolls-out-promised-ai-kill-switch.html

* "Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead:" https://apnews.com/article/washington-dol-spanish-accent-ai-3a1b8438a5674c07242a8d48c057d5a3

There is no shortage of bilingual people in the state. I don't understand why they couldn't just hire someone to do it with less hassle and no racism.

* "Now recruiting: DW users who would be interested in the possibility of helping us out in one of these legal challenges, now or future!:" https://dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/815.html

* Monday morning I stayed up despite my exhaustion to push out a truncated aggregate and do phone bureaucracy. The first one went fast and got me enough more food benefits that I can go get perishables, probably Tuesday or Wednesday, which I surely need.

My suspicion that this was an ill omen for the second phone bureaucracy was correct. Spent nearly an hour and a half trying to trick my way past the voice bot gatekeeper that kept telling me to us their online AI assistant and then hung up over and over again, plus long waits on hold where they'd also randomly hang up so I had to start over and over and over. I lost track but I estimate about eight attempts just to get nothing solved when I did reach a live human. Sigh.

* This is why there was very little live posting Wednesday, and you shouldn’t be alarmed if I don’t post much Thursday.

Wednesday muscle spasms in my abdomen and thighs woke me up. I had potassium earlier in the week. I think this was related to the abdominal tremors that made me not do physio Monday. Spasms in general are both painful and exhausting, but the abdominal ones are far more exhausting than physio and harder to mitigate than, say, a charley horse.

I went and did the hot bath thing and I was thought I was mostly recovered, but spasms are exhausting and I needed to get the perishables, because I only have until the 28th to spend the extra food allotment and it only went through Monday. I needed a bunch of things badly, also including ingredients for New Millennial to take home for my food prep. I also need to do a library run, preferably Thursday, but Friday on the outside. Groceries is very close, and also, I’d have someone to put groceries away and feed me if I went right then.

It was rough and I deteriorated noticeably through the process. I went a little over, but over is better than under as it uses the whole benefit and I’d planned for it. I was late enough that it was self check only. I am objectively bad at self check. Most self check machines refuse to recognize my fingers as real, ad it can take 10-15 minutes for me to get one button to register. As a result I only do it when there is no other option, so I have very little experience.

Self check is basically useless for me 99 out of a hundred times and it also means fewer jobs.

About half the stuff in my cart was fruit or veg from the fresh produce section.

They had bought new readers since last time I’d been forced to use them and get this: They recognize my fingers as real. O.o I wonder if they will apply this new technology to cell phones. (The old school pressure mechanism ones I can use, but modern cell phones don’t do that and can’t identify my fingers as fingers. Apparently it’s not just me having this problem also at regular check out when they replaced the pads there to. It is annoying. I don’t understand how replacing a technology that works with one that only works for some people is an upgrade, but here we are).

Anyway, this is the first time since the new tech was introduced where I didn’t need attendant help for the buttons to believe I existed.

It is still so much faster if someone who does this for living does check out, but I made it.

I had nothing left when I got back, but I’d bought easy stuff for New Millennial to make while doing the usual kitchen stuff so I could just lie down. I’d eaten about half my dinner when the spasms came back worse.

So I spent a couple more hours on Spasms as an activity. Livia could tell something was very wrong and kept herding me back to bed. There was no way to explain to her lying down hurts worse, since I can’t easily move my body around into whatever hurts least for that set of muscles spasming, and also I can’t hydrate, which I needed to do.

I gave in anyway each time, as she was so distressed she was using her voice. I’d lie down and she’d lie next to me and I’d pet her butt because I couldn’t reach the rest. She’d get up. I’d shuffle back to try to mitigate. she’d come get me. Towards the end she’d herd me to bed, then run right off to do cat stuff and I’d painfully drag myself back out again.

She’s a sweet, sweet girl.

* Thursday, on top of the massive pile of urgent action items and being two week behind on news because of horrible physical challenges, Waterfox updated and scrambled every fucking thing. It's going to take hours I don't have to untangle it. Fucking A Waterfox!

* Friday I stayed up for a library run, then put away the forage stuff before bed. I managed physio okay, but was so exhausted after that I let Livia persuade me to stay in bed with her way too long. There are so many things needing doing here, and the effort of sitting up has me low key weepy. It is annoying. 4:37AM and I've accomplished nothing.

* "Kristi Noem: A Boss With Benefits | Obama's Alien Coverup | How Not To Eat Your Food:"

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* "The Fire Horse Arrives | Optimism Hits A New Low | Epstein Pals Face Consequences | Erotic Poetry:"

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* "Pope Leo XIV Won't Join The Board Of Peace | Record Disapproval | The MAHA Workout | Monkey Update:"

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* "Epstein Crony Andrew Faces Consequences | Trump's A-List Peace Board | Did Obama Leak Alien Intel?:"

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* "ICE & DHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "RFK and Kid Rock Strip Down for Workout Video & Kristi Noem Flies in a F**k Plane | The Daily Show:"

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* "LindellTV News Is QAnon Meets QVC, and Now They're in the White House Press Corps | The Daily Show:"

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* "DOJ Buries Epstein Files on Trump & Snowball Fight Turns MAGA Into Snowflakes | The Daily Show:"

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* "Blizzard of '26: Snowicane vs. Thundersnow | Miracles In Milano | SCOTUS: Trump Can't Tariff:"

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* "LIVE Monologue: A Dark Speech Filled With Divisive Lies | USA Women's Hockey Gets A Better Offer:"

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* "Trump's Speech Was Disborbing | Why DOJ Didn't Search Epstein's Storage Units | AI Wants To Nuke Us:"

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* "Camel Controversy | Iran's Nukes: Obliterated, Or A Week Away? | America's Top Doctor Isn't A Doctor:"

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* "Sex in Space? Michael Kosta Learns How to Join the Thousand-Mile-High Club | The Daily Show:"

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* "Meanwhile... Fast-Casual Fatigue | Logan Paul's Pokémon Haul | Hidden Kissing Room | Ice Volcano:"

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* "Why Dark Winds Can Never Fully Adapt The Leaphorn & Chee Books After Season 5 Renewal:" https://screenrant.com/dark-winds-leaphorn-chee-books-never-fully-adapt-zahn-mcclarnon/?user=bWFuZW0uZ2lsbGVzQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ&lctg=46aad7fdec15f8d38521c421f1c3c4905ba31f424f5994780e0991acf7a4ae80

* "Ten Titles to Read for Aromantic Awareness Week:" https://duckprintspress.dreamwidth.org/241433.html

* Caveat: I haven't seen this movie. The costumes seemed incoherent and I legitimately couldn't figure out why we are casting white Heathcliffs in the 21st century, so I was waiting for reviews. (This doesn't excuse any version with a white Heathcliff post Hayes code, but there is really no fucking excuse a quarter of the way into the 21st century). I suspect I'm not going to bother, especially now I know how the domestic violence is being handled.

(CW: Domestic Violence, Discussions of Historical Racism)

* "Merle Oberon and the Whiteness of Wuthering Heights:"

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* "Sadly, Wuthering Heights Discourse Is That Deep:"

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* "Why Emily Brontë Cared About Race | "Wuthering Heights" (2026) Review:"

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* "So What's Going on With the "Wuthering Heights" (2026) Costumes? [Review]:"

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* "The Wuthering Heights Discourse Is Bad. Let’s Talk About It:"

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* Suggestions for crafts a person can do in bed are in the notes: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/809534727291912192?source=share

* "Steve Agee REVEALS Secret Funeral Prank:"

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* "Secret Queer Valentine’s Traditions You’ve Never Heard Of:"

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* A haven't seen this, but the costumes really look terrible to me. "The Odyssey Costumes Look Bad and Boring.:"

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* "Homo Erectus Housing:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LSbIhAcAAW0

* "Aged Art:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6eMYRy5264o

* "Caesars Camp:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6efDsWiPKdI

* "Transformative Togas:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xTFHIkCPN2g

* "Antony Anathema:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SiNCNo0NCIU

* "Ludicrous Lionhearts:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p6l0wOYkdts

* "Knighthood Knowledge:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3iAUe6Fc46o

* "Rancid Revolting Richard (III):" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FEv1UESV4Yc

* "Sengoku Silliness:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/758hG4JzS8Y

* "Rowdy Rambling Roses:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x-3kvaMtK2I

* "Silly Shakespeare Summary:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S4-5bAl_4L0

* "Raunchy Raucous Restorations:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_xWd1zbVF0g

* Pirates in Fiction vs. History: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UucSPmimZ54

* "Bothered Beethoven:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k8Ewm-nU4_k

* "Horrendously Honest Hamilton:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VP8rMXbZ6QQ

* "Sardinian Simps:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XUDz7dSDaH8

* "Typical Titular Tactics:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tt8q-JYbC_c

* "Goofy Grandiose Gandalf:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sk5lF6iE8KQ

* "Raucous Romantasy Revisited:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/viTPxnwhEPs

* "Dynamic Dramatic Dogs:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F8z6S_gndIY

* "This Presidents' Day, Forget All Your Worries:"

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* "Starfleet Public Affairs Officer:"

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* "Kash Patel Ruins Hockey:"

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* "Donald Trump Is Deeply Unpopular:"

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* "Helping Families Deal With High Beef Prices:"

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* Zomvivor ate my brain. So good, so good. In related news, I really need to watch more Thai Horror.

* Starfleet Academy Really needs an episode with Kyle and Darem having to work together on something. Kyle needs fleshing out anyway and it would be an interesting way to do it while shifting the dynamic.

* "One of those animal bridegroom stories told from the prince's perspective where an evil witch kidnaps "him" and disguises her as a milkmaid or something but she's actually an egg and kind of a freak.:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/809354528998686720?source=share

* "the prince has begun practicing curtseying in the mirror. which could mean nothing.:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/809534369555496960?source=share

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Transcontinental Pipeline:" https://tcpipeline.org/steps/

* "Donate to Kansas ACLU:" https://action.aclu.org/give/support-aclu-kansas

* "Project Salt Box:" https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/

* "When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE :" https://crimethinc.com/2025/12/03/when-the-feds-come-to-your-city-standing-up-to-ice-a-guide-from-chicago-organizers

* "MASTER LIST OF WAYS TO HELP IN MINNEAPOLIS:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/807223113540599808?source=share

* "Here are Minnesota groups that need your help organizing against ICE and DHS operations:" https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-mutual-aid-groups-ice

* Links to Help organize in advance of ICE Occupation: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/807226885129060352?source=share

* "Swing Left:" https://swingleft.org/

* Contains link to trans girl sales pages. "Trans Girl Scouts On Cookie List Sell 71,000 Boxes Of Cookies And Growing:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-girl-scouts-on-cookie-list

* "2026 Statewide Primary Calendar:" https://www.270towin.com/2026-state-primary-calendar/

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It might've been the last snow of the season this morning. A light dusting, enough to make me think a coat would've been nice and not too much to make me need more than a sweatshirt. It was nice to feel the last bits of cold, especially since the sun was out a couple of hours later, so nothing much stuck around. Few people were at the market, which made it easier - I haven't been to the Sunday one in a while, and as anemic as this time of year is for produce, it's nice to see some depth of color when it comes to the root vegetables.

In other shopping news, from working in assorted doctor's offices, I found a good quality bandage brand, and online shopping being what it is, I had to resort to eBay for a couple boxes. Most medical supply places call for a minimum order of significantly more than a couple boxes of bandaids, which I understand, and convenience pushes me towards eBay because that's all I need right now. It was that or Amazon, and I'm slightly more trusting of eBay as a general institution.