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Challenge #4

Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.

1. Ellita
2. Feeling hopeful about work (but also nervous)
3. Watching Ted Lasso with E (y’all were SO right! Thank you for encouraging me to stick with it)
4. My plants/garden
5. Sitting in the hammock with Ellita and talking with E
6. Having the time and energy to read
7. HEB Peach Guava sparkling water
8. Postcrossing
9. Changing up my work wardrobe
10. Having my ear piercings reopened so that I can wear earrings again

stonepicnicking_okapi

I was planning to post about The Hound of the Baskervilles in sections for the Sundays in the summer (i.e., before the boys return to school). I was intending to start last Sunday but my anxiety about the job was so high I could barely function so let's see if I can catch up a little but keep with the plan.

The Hound of the Baskervilles was published in The Strand from August 1901 - April 1902.

I actually managed to view a first edition (or at least an early edition) of it in an antique shop in one of the malls in Las Vegas when I visited there 2 years ago for the BTS concert.

It is the Sherlock Holmes work which has been most adapted, I think, into other media (film, TV, radio plays, etc.). I did a little research on the many adaptations but if you have a favorite, please drop it in the comments.

I only have the bandwidth to do the first chapter today.

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 we get a deduction (which is my favorite part of any story). A prospective client has left behind his walking stick (called a Penang lawyer) and Watson and Holmes deduce characteristics of its owner. In The Annotated Holmes one scholar remarks:

It is curious how frequenly Holmes' clients took insufficient care of their property. The result was always highly satisfactory for Holmes invariably made a reconstruction of the missing client from the missing article.

[We see this in "The Blue Carbuncle" with the hat.]

Here's Holmes looking at the stick.

We will meet the owner of the stick in Chapter 2 and learn what business he has with Holmes.

Chapter 1 page 2 of the manuscript

stonepicnicking_okapi

Adjusting to the job, I am behind on...everything. I am still figuring out when to do things and how to engineer motivation to do things and how to prioritize and what things will have to be cut from to the to-do list permanently because there simply isn't as much free time as there was. So please bear with me (I am speaking to myself more than you because I have discovered over and over again that my friends are MUCH kinder to me than I ever am to myself).

Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.
Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like

In 2023 and 2024, I did Fannish 50 so I have a nice list of things I like. Mysteries & detective stories, ghost stories, poetry, audiobooks, puzzles, collage, BTS, miniatures, art, libraries, coffee, chocolate, Christmas & Halloween, okapis & sea turtles, the ocean, the moon, tea, bees & honey, tarot, fireworks, autumn, Snoopy.

I watched the latest Venom movie last night. Parts of it were very good. I am glad they left The Girl out of it this time. I was glad Mrs. Chen got a beautiful cameo. I can't say it 'got my heart pumping' but I enjoyed it.

I finished the jigsaw puzzle below yesterday [Around the World in 50 Plants, 1000 pieces, art by Lucille Clerc, a decent puzzle, well-fitting pieces], and there is ALWAYS a satisfaction at putting the last piece in. Is it better than sex? My ace-spectrum self says YES. I also like poetry and this is poem #26 from Jo Bell's book 52: write a poem a week. Start now. Keep going. The prompt was erotica. I write PLENTY of explicit fic and have written explicit poetry, too, but I combined it with the journal prompt of the Sunshine Revival.

jigsaw by okapi

they spill into the lid. like shelling peas
like wheat from chaff. or sheep from goat.
soft noise, soft rhythm, fingers flick with ease
and satisfaction. bedlam’s antidote.

define fine boundaries and orient
the scene. an orgy. orifice and limb
are rife. there’s wanting and there’s turgescent
as error and trial make order of whim

But there. And there. And there. No. Yes. the frame
takes shape. union by union. head to tail
and tail to head. with time, the eye can name
the subtleties of hue and pattern scale

reward is the breath held ‘til the last piece
has found its way home, then sigh of release

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Title: Take Your Partners
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 458: Waltz.
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Dee and Ryo start ballroom dancing classes.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.

Take Your Partners

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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My answers to this week's questions!

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Fragments.

I got up very early this morning, took care of the animals and then went back to bed. Had a long involved dream about the woods down by the creek and how it had been turned into a playground with lots of things to climb on and play on. The people I was with (not sure who they were) were going to climb up on a super giant slide that had multiple parts to it. To get up to the top it had many disconnected ladders that were dangling from chains. Each higher ladder was harder and harder to reach, till the last one in the dream I just could not reach. I was thinking to myself, why did I even want to DO this? I couldn't do it. I couldn't go forward and I couldn't go back. So I woke up. I'm pretty sure the dream has to do with my worry about how the behavioral health volunteer job is going.

Having Sunday dinner here as usual. Salmon and vegan burgers. I still need to make macaroni salad.

susandennis

I started a new book last night. An random shot from the library. I had read other stuff by the author years ago but don't remember a thing. This book, however - at least the first 40 minutes - is captivating because of the narrator. I mean she just got right into my brain like she was sitting next to me telling me about the most amazing thing that had ever happened to her. It was wild. Even if the rest of the book sucks, I'm so delighted for that first part. I hated to go to sleep. How It Happened by Michael Koryta. Read by Christine Lakin.

Oh the other big news from yesterday was brought to you by Ingrid. My neighbor who is just whacked and not in a good way. As we began elbow coffee, Bonny reminded Ingrid that she still needed the $15 for the 3rd floor gathering next week. It was due 2 weeks ago and everyone has paid but her. She then proceeded to have a melt down/tantrum that would have honestly made a 3 year old proud. She ended up literally pounding on the table. It was pretty funny. Then everyone pretended it had not happened for about 30 minutes and this pissed her off so when we started passing around the snacks, she got up and marched through the gathering and left, muttering very loudly and venomously "I've lost my appetite due to Bonny."

I was delighted because the last time she had a tablet pounded tantrum it was due to me. (I had not checked in on her when an alarm went off.)

She is such a piece of work.

I pulled out another sweater from my stash and unraveled the sleeves for more hair. It was a sweater for about a 3 year old. Here is one sleeve and the hair already gotten from the other one. I'm guessing the one sleeve is hair for probably 7 or 8 dolls. And I still have the whole rest of the sweater. And one other one (pink). That should be enough to get me to the end of August when they start putting out the sweaters again in the charity shops.

And Dick and I worked on the puzzle. We've gotten a lot done but 1. Not all of it is correct. It's one of those where the same piece will feel like it fits and look like it fits but turns out to belong elsewhere. and 2. We still have grass and sky to do and I'm not sure how in the heck those will get done give #1.

My Costco membership expired in February. Two of the items I normally buy when they go on sale are now on sale (coffee and AREDs2) but, actually, I don't really need either one right now or soon ish so I was going to go reup this week and buy them but I think I'll let it slide some more. If I were going to go this week, it would be this morning. Sunday's first thing is THE only time according to me, but, not today, Costco.

Today will be some knitting. Some baseball. Some TV. Some puzzling. And whatever else happens.

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Hello on Sunday! What kind of a writing day has it been so far today -- or if today hasn't gotten going yet, how did you fare yesterday?

- I thought about my fic once or twice
- I wrote
- I did some planning and/or outlining
- I did research and/or canon review
- I edited
- I've sent my fic off to my beta
- I posted today!
- I'm taking a break
- I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

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poliphilo

Poem came to me in Meeting for Worship. When a poem comes you can't say "No" because it'll go on nagging til you say "Yes".

It's called.....

Burn 'Em

Penny for the guy,
Penny for the witches,
Send 'em to the sky
With bangers in their breeches.

Penny for yer Bruno,
Penny for Molay,
Penny for yer Joan of Arc.
Make 'em go away.

Penny for yer Cathars,
Twopence coloured, penny plain.
Up they go as sparkles.
Down they come as rain.....

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therealljidol

Greetings from Ohio. I came up for two different family reunions. Well, one "Cousin's Day" and the other is a cookout because they were looking for an excuse to have one, and since I was coming up and no one has seen me in years, a lot of different subgroups of the family are coming together (so in other words, a "family reunion" but only one of them was planned years in advance!

Don't forget to read, comment and vote for your favorites? therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1188979.html

The trip so far has been nice at points, but emotionally rough. Definitely some difficult insights into family dynamics.

Such as, it turns out that yes, my Dad IS just weirdly distant from the kids, family and pretty much everyone. But he *specifically* doesn't like me and doesn't want to talk to me because he "can't understand a word (I) say" and is embarrassed by me. (Due to my stutter) Found that out from my siblings after they were drinking a lot and speaking candidly about the issues in the family. One of them had the courage to say it out loud (after I said that I was positive my Dad didn't like me) and no one contradicted him. Maybe I can finally stop trying to gain his approval! It's just one more reason to be glad that I started therapy and have a session that afternoon I get back (Tuesday)

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How has YOUR week/weekend been going? Hopefully all of you are positive that I want to kick you!!! Because I do.

ofearthandstars

From

thefridayfive:

What was the most sick that you've ever been?
It would either be the time I had strep not long after having my Oldest kid, in which case I remember wondering if I might be dying as I couldn't leave the bed and had fever hallucinations, or when I contracted chicken pox as an adult in my late 20s because (surprise!) chicken pox vaccinations were not yet vogue when I was a little kid and I'd never been exposed (because maybe exposing your kid young was still vogue, but we moved around a lot and I was an awkward kid with few friends?). Anyway, if you have ever been covered head to toe in blisters (literally, I can remember crying while trying to find a way to lay my head on a pillow comfortably) while your vaccinated children run around in wildly energetic circles with only a tiny bump or two on their arm from the same illness, you will understand that chicken pox is not benign and actually VACCINES ARE GOOD.
What disease are you afraid of getting?
This has changed over time. Currently I think it's Alzheimer's. I live in my head a lot, and if my head becomes not my head, well then, who am I, exactly?
Are you a big baby when it comes to taking medicine/shots for your illnesses?
LOL, not at all. I give myself 5 shots a month to treat migraines and asthma/allergies. I used to be afraid of it, growing up with a Type 1 diabetic mother who gave herself shots all the time (when auto-injectors and retractable needles were not a thing). But that fear was also probably combined with watching a lot of weird daytime soaps/movies in the 80s in which someone was inevitably killed from an intravenous air bubble introduced by their jealous lover/son/etc. Young me understood that my mom needed the shot to live but also frequently worried if she might accidentally give herself a heart attack.
Is going to the doctor really THAT bad?
Only when they make notes about your dysphoric mood (*grumble grumble*).
Would you have the flu twice a month if you were paid $1,000 for having it?
Nope, nada, nopeapotamus. There's a reason we toast to our health!

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The "Lynton and Lynmouth funicular Cliff Railway opened in 1890 and is the highest and the steepest totally water powered railway in the world..." www.cliffrailwaylynton.co.uk/.

I popped briefly into Lynmouth for tea on my recent visit to Exmoor, and of course I couldn't resist taking the cliff railway, clanking my way up to Lynton, and back down again.

( A few pictures of Lynmouth )

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S LINE | July 11
Cast: Lee Soo Hyuk, Lee Da Hee, Arin, Lee Eun Saem

S Line; the red line that ties you and your sexual partner. Hyun-heup has lived since birth in a world filled with red threads. When a single pair of glasses appears, granting the same power to those wearing them, she and a detective team up to halt this crisis and find the person behind it.
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poliphilo

We introduced Wendy to Edna and Miriam. It's good to make such connections. You never know what good things may come of them. I introduced her as our "unofficially adopted daughter".

The Wimbledon Women's Final was postponed until tea time because of the heat. It was won and lost 6-0, 6-0- something that hasn't happened before in the open era. Not a good match, then, but an extraordinary one, with its own fascination. Was Swiatek going to make the clean sweep? In its own way this was edge of the seat stuff.

It looks like it might be cooler today. Ailz had a bad night and I'll be going to Meeting on my own. If I start walking in good time I can go by way of the beach....

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Theme Prompt: #266 - A walk in the park
Title: Walking into danger
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG. Spoilers for Big Finish Audiobook “Before the Fall”.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Even a perfect sunny day can’t dispel the feelings that Ianto is walking a tightrope of loyalties.

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FAKE: Take Your Partners [Challenge 458: Waltz]

Taskmaster Series 20 Line-Up

The Friday Five for 11 July 2025

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Transformers G1: Strange Ballroom [Challenge #458: Waltz]

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