bleodswean

There are two challenges on

allbingo this month, but realistically I don't have time for both, so I've decided to go for the Hazbin Hotel Challenge, using Places prompts, but going with a Pride theme.

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but_can_i_be_trusted posting in

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Title: 'Things Happen'
Fandom: Original Fiction
Author:

but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Challenge: #70: Reverse Fandom: Frasier ('Call Me Irresponsible'/'Oops!'/'It Takes Two to Tangle'/'Flour Child')
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to

genprompt_bingo

Summary: Victor grinned mischievously at her.

( Things Happen )

poliphilo

They want to set up an learning/study group at the Meeting House. Great idea. I'm in favour of all such initiatives.

An initial suggestion is that the group should study Faith and Practice- the Bible-sized tome I think of as The Big Red Book- as distinguished from Advices and Queries which I think of as The Little Red Book.

I express approval.

"But you hate Faith and Practice" says Ailz who is sitting beside me.

"Well, yes, but...."

Jacob comes to my resue. "It's rather prescriptive." he says.

"Yes, exactly...."

"So do you have any favourite Quaker books we could look at..." he suggests. Ever so kindly.

I'm on the back foot now. Can I think of any? No I can't. "I don't read Quaker books," I say. And that's true. I don't.

"That's very odd," he says, still kindly (he's a psychotherapist).

"Yes," I agree. "It is odd......"

Had I been all bright and sparkly instead of tired and tongue-tied I might have said- turning a negative into a positive- "But it's one of the things I love about Quakers. that they're not a people of the Book."

Holy books are such a drag. They calcify past movements of the spirit, turning insight into law. I love the story of the newly appointed Zen abbot who was handed the monastery's greatest treasure- an irreplaceable manuscript book in which previous abbots had written their deepest thoughts- and threw it straight on the fire....

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Today's theme is adulthood. Maybe you're already an expert on being an adult... Or maybe you're really good at pretending. Everyone seems like they know what they're doing, right? Think of characters' impressions of adults, expectations of their lives as adults, and what marks adulthood (or its many checkpoints) in their eyes.

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ranunculus

My recent reading has either been complete fluff, or about soil management. Books with "No Till Farming", "Soil Biology" and "Bio Char" in the titles. Reading about the advances in our understanding of soil biology has been fascinating and useful. All this reading, plus watching what is going on in my own garden, is continuing to alter the way I garden. That plus the very warm spring we have had here means that I have tomatoes that have flung themselves up their trellises. Many are well over 4 feet tall with big thick stems, and have their first crop of tomatoes growing rapidly. Some have struggled to set fruit, possibly because we are still getting swings of temperature that are 40 or more degrees F. between day and night. Today it was 95F during the day, but the forecast low is 55.
Chores for tomorrow are to finish unloading the fourth pickup load of wood compost, and start digging a ditch for a new faucet. While I'm putting in a faucet I want to install a underground box for valves. It is long past time to set up timers on my beds. I've got all the stuff to do it!
My solar stuff was supposed to be here Friday, didn't come, was supposed to be here today, but no word. The tracking on it just says "In Transit", which isn't very helpful.

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Quick note that post-by-email and comment-by-email is (sometimes?) failing silently without actually posting right now! I'm pretty sure this is related to last night's shenanigans and will be fixed once Mark can finish the full fix for it, which he's working on, but if you've posted or replied by email in the last 24 hours, fish it out of your sent folder to check if it posted!

kalloway

Here's Oberon, finished! I meant to post last night but DW said no-u.

white, winged robot model kit posed on an old washing machine

Yes, his wing-span is basically my washer, and yes, those are quill-pen dragoons.

( two more under the cut )

stonepicnicking_okapi

Today in jazz tells me this album was recorded on this day. Here's the title track.

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I don't know much about Spongebob or memes but SUGA of BTS did a vlog of himself running the Bay to Breakers race and afterward he expressed his regret by singing a line of a Spongebob song.

Watch on YouTube

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Did you get some writing in today?

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yourlibrarian

1) I finished the series Hacks. I was very ambivalent about the show's first season, and was not enthusiastic about the second either. But I definitely get that in order to end where we did in the last season the two characters had to start poles apart. So I felt like the final season was a huge payoff to viewers who had stuck through the show all the way through. Would definitely recommend.

I was reading a good article (about TV shows on the tech industry) that included this: "the show is uniquely skilled at depicting the complicated mix of emotions that animate creative partnerships, and makes a strong argument for the idea that your true soulmate is the person that you most love making stuff with." It was talking about a show I loved, Halt and Catch Fire, but it applies equally well to Hacks. The fact that both shows featured female partnerships is a real bonus.

2) I had wondered a while back why Disney was partnering with Max to do a bundle (whereas Hulu + Disney + ESPN was all in-house, so an obvious option). Apparently, it's because bundling is very successful in keeping people subscribed. "Two years ago, only 10 percent of every new subscription for a major streaming service was for a bundled offering…Now, bundles account for a third of all new subscriptions, and 28 percent of all subscriptions, double the share in 2024." ( Read more... )

3) I was commenting over on Pillowfort about Tumblr's latest move to make commenting more prominent on the site. As I said there "As a totally anecdotal point, I rarely follow Tumblr links anymore because so often I'm blocked from seeing the linked content. But when I do get through I'm often surprised how little response I see the posts getting." So I'm wondering if this move is because, between the repeated exodus of people and the blocking of content to visitors, that the site traffic is actually in sharp decline. One way to make it more obvious people are active and to encourage them to speak up, is to surface comments more prominently.

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badly_knitted posting in

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Title: Self-Doubt
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Varian, Jonathan, Fred, Scott, Liana.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 503: Bicker.
Spoilers/Setting: Funhouse.
Summary: As they make their way out of Apollonius’ zone, Varian is plagued with worry and doubt.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.

Self-Doubt

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

susandennis

I was so sleepy all day yesterday that I went to bed early last night which meant I was asleep before daylight ended. When I was a kid, I thought that was criminal to make me go to bed before the day did. But as an old lady, I think it's delicious. I didn't wake up any earlier so I must be caught up on sleep now.

I spent a good bit of yesterday finishing the collar on my sweatshirt. Plan B turned out much better.

At one point yesterday, Bonny came in here with a small leaf blower and said "do you want your deck blown out?" hahaha Ok. She had just done hers and thot maybe mine might want it. It's actually not been touched since I moved in so she had a lot o' shit to blow. I stayed in behind the glass and I'm glad I did. My lungs may be better but they aren't that much better. Yikes. It was cute of her to come do it.

They finally updated the Bridge program webpage - https://www.cms.gov/medicare/coverage/prescription-drug-coverage/medicare-glp-1-bridge - and the key factoid is that it starts with the doctor submission and no submissions will be accepted before July 1. So. I'll buy another month at the current price of $350. The Bridge program gives me coverage (via Medicare) of my Wegovy shots and so my cost will go down to $50 a month. I'm grateful I can afford to pay for it but I'll be even more grateful when I can pay way less!

Nothing special going on here today. I already remembered to turn my wall calendar. I'm so on top of things.

kradeelav

had a funny-in-hindsight-annoying-in-the-present moment where BOTH my ear (implant) and laptop keyboard didn't work there for a hot minute and it was like all of my devices were playing a bad prank on me on monday morning.

thankfully it got sorted quickly with mom's help and both of us debugging swiftly; imagine two people with the personalities of ER techs triaging All The Things calmly in my bedroom first thing XD

or if you prefer the greentext version:

> be me, groggy af on a monday because i stayed up way too late drawing
> ear doesn't work
>> ahfuckherewegoagain.gif [wide awake now, a RARITY lol]
> [mom's helping me by this point] 'ok let's try the other battery' doesn't work
> hmm parts issue, so mom takes out the implant box where i have five million backups in and starts switching in a backup cord
> 'maybe it's the cord' doesn't work
> 'hm ...guess it's time to call the audiologist and get a speed dial appointment for further debugging'
> try to bang in an email while she's switching in the next part on our mental list
> LAPTOP KEYBOARD doesn't work
>> mentally: (╯'□')╯︵ ┻━┻
> 'this is why you have backups i guess..' grab the new laptop i literally just backed up three days ago lol
> mom's switched out the magnet disk/(coil)
> THANKFULLY THAT WORKS
> laptop reboot is also finishing and it works too.

;;;orz

thankfully i was not like, full five alarm Worried because things had been humid recently and if it does go out, 90% of the time it's a humidity issue playing havoc on the individual lil' parts. (that said that's still pretty rare; i'd say the coil/cable part goes out maybe once every three-six years? and those are by far the usual culprits.)

anyway, a moment in the life of krad XD

Current Mood: relieved

poliphilo

Eastbourne in summer smells of the Easbourne Sewage Treatment Works.

The Sewage Treatment Works is run by Southern Water- a private company. They have a long history of not doing their job very well. Josh Babarinde, our local MP, is reported in The Argus as wanting a law prohibiting the CEOs of companies that serve the public badly from awarding themselves bonuses. Yes, that would be nice, and I don't suppose any Eastbourne resident would disagree....

I'm told Venice smells rather similar- in fact probably worse. Ah, but there's a price to be paid for living in paradise!

The Treatment Works is modelled on the Napoleonic era forts that occur at regular intervals along the south east coast. It dates from 1997- and is not unattractive considered simply as architecture. I have seen it referred to as Castle Poo.

prisca posting in

sweetandshort

Time for our monthly overview. We have posted many great works during May. Thank you to everyone who participated.

Let's have a tiny statistic:
Participants: 8
Works posted: 30 in total

Most fills: 10 in total by

peppermint_shamrock
10 out of 20 : completed by

peppermint_shamrock
This and That: completed by

tarlanx and

writtenwordsaloud
Rare Words: completed by

tarlanx and

writtenwordsaloud
Bingo: completed by

tarlanx and

writtenwordsaloud

Check out all the great works H E R E.

I hope to see lots of you again this month for even more fun and amazing works.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please don't hesitate to comment here or send me a private message.