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hex plant growing game - quick game, simple mechanics, simple win condition. You have to infer those from your interaction with the page; if it isn't clear leave a comment and I'll explain.

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I couldn't get the sudoko land to work - not sure if that is a brower or an extensions issue, but I didn't care to work it out.

paperghost

I think I might do my monthly donation to a website with whatever remaining money I have before my next paycheck. My hours at work were fixed but my paycheck earlier this week wasn't as good as it was for the last few months because I worked one 6 hour shift among them, so I should be back to having more leisure money next time. I think I'll either donate to Side7 or Marapets, but I haven't played the latter in a hot minute lol. I also do need to get a rename token because this username was something I pulled out of my ass when I was 17 / freshly 18.

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This is what I wrote for the

unsent_letters_exchange. :)

Title: my heart is with you
Fandom: DCEU
Pairing/Characters: Diana/Steve
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 1983
Summary: Diana writes letters for Steve, until she no longer has to.

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These were the fics I received from the

unsent_letters_exchange. :D

Title: Please Mr Postman
Author:

Ultra
Fandom: Gilmore Girls
Pairing/Characters: Lane/Dave
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 2855
Summary: When Dave goes off to California for college, he and Lane agree to do the long distance thing, largely through letters... and a lot of pop and rock music references, of course

I was so excited to get Lane/Dave! Loved all the fun music references and the letters were very them. :D

Title: Please Mr Postman - Post Credits Scene
Author:

Ultra
Fandom: Gilmore Girls
Pairing/Characters: Rory/Jess
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 1097
Summary: Inspired by Dave & Lane's letter writing, Rory writes to Jess.

The Rory/Jess references in the original fic was already nice but it was a lovely delight to get a followup fic with giving them a chance at a happy ending too!

paperghost

Don't use Twitter anymore outside of browsing on a locked burner account, but I wanted to share this thread from

droptineart:

( ADHD discussion )

kaberett

Wagamama have once again Done The Thing, by which I mean: the reliable Always Food For Alexes thing they've been doing for the last little while has rotated back off their menu.

The thing I tried instead today was sufficiently food for me to finish the rice but not sufficiently food for me to finish all of the toppings; I am suspicious of pho in "a clear yuzu broth" (which is not the same thing as "I won't try it").

(This is a Thing they have now done Twice, the first time about 15 years ago, and YES I AM HOLDING A GRUDGE.)

tozka

I'm "at" WisCon this weekend! It's hosted online this year, so I expect to be glue to my computer screen all weekend, but I'm really looking forward to interacting with a bunch of new folks without having to, like, put on pants.

You can still sign up for tickets if you want to attend! It's pay-what-you-want, too.

sunshine_revival is happening in July! More info here!

the-lemonaut made this cute comic about solarpunk and how it needs to be grounded in reality if it's actually going to become reality, and not just another aesthetic.

If you have a personal fic archive, why not join the fan archives directory? (via

smallweb)

And head's up about a "Deprecated Fandoms" Spam Bot that's showing up in fic comments.

( More links under here )

arlie

Quite a few decades ago, when I was a child or a very young adult, still living in Canada though possibly attending university in the US, there was a major news and political event known as "the repatriation of the (Canadian) constitution". I was not involved in politics, or an active student of the history and constitutional questions involved; I was merely a random resident of Quebec, from a family with mostly British ancestry, who spoke English at home.

I'm intentionally not looking up the details as I write this, because the initial point I want to make involves what it looked like to J. Random, not what it looked like to the well informed. It's been a "hot" political issue for me ever since, as it had major effects on both my attitude and my future life choices; this has only been somewhat mitigated by recent examination of the actual history. I'm hoping "what it looked like to me" might cast some light on non-specialist perception of current and recent political issues, still too hot for most people to discuss - or even think about - objectively or even calmly.

There first thing to know is that I had no clue why the constitution was being repatriated, or even what the term "repatriation" was intended to mean. The whole thing was being presented as a good thing (TM), so I was clear that the political classes wanted it. (Later review suggests this was spin, not reality.) As I (mis)understood it, the idea was that Canada would take control of its own constitution, previously controlled by the United Kingdom and its parliament. This was good and necessary ... but why? Ah, nationalism. "We" wanted to control "our" own destiny, and were taking that control.

( Read more... )

stonepicnicking_okapi

Adlestrop by Edward Thomas

Yes. I remember Adlestrop—
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.

The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop—only the name

And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

sporky_rat

Muscles are annoying. I understand the biological method by which we develop our muscles after using them; they're still annoying when the delayed onset muscle soreness hits. Which it has, and now my hips and quads and hams are in misery.

I am working on pullups as well, and my deltoids hate me. That's fine, I can hate them back just as equally.

On the more cheerful side of working a body and being reasonably good at it, I have had several people ask me to teach them stretching so they don't do anything awkward to themselves during high impact activity.

Current Mood: sore
Current Location: Rat te Kāinga
Current Music: Cicadas

tyger

I've only got one more category of my stuff left to audit. And then obviously I'll go and double check stuff, but still! Only one! And it shouldn't be a super huge one, either, so maybe done tomorrow???

Real question is once I'm done with my categories if I can go back to doing other stuff, or if I'll have to help other people out with their categories. Hopefully I can go back to other things!!! Will have to ask in the meeting tomorrow.

Other than that... nothing too interesting. Had to pull back the switch cover, it was waaaaay too wide, so that was annoying. The pattern is pretty straightforward though, so there's that. Watched some JJK, read some fic... yup, pretty standard.

Now for naps! Before midnight even! Whaaaaat???

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

paperghost

The Chinese political RPF writers on AO3 seem to enjoy subjecting Antony Blinken to various antics. I was looking in the tag again and was jumpscared by a 35 chapter A/B/O including Joe Biden and Bill Clinton with the big two archive warnings. I'm almost too scared to run it through Google translate to see what it is.

I'm learning a lot.

EDIT: No fucking way... I saw the words "mob/Antony Blinken"...
Is this out of love or hate?!?! I assumed the latter since he has hawkish policies, but political RPF in general likes to treat politicians as characters the same way celebrities and actors have character-like public personas...

kaberett

... have I done the "oh no, why has my pen stopped working, did I break it :(" dance only to realise that in fact, no, THE PEN IS EMPTY. (Once because my first attempt at filling it was apparently fairly inept unless I have massively misjudged how much ink it lays down, which given that it's a Pelikan is not totally implausible, but would still be... surprising.)

On the upside I think I might have worked out why a different pen seems particularly prone to evaporation and drying out. I am not sure how fixable it is, but I do at least have a workaround! (I think the inner cap is a bit reluctant to settle into place; it shouldn't be, but wiggling the pen a bit once capped seems to be helping...)

(This is such a ridiculous hobby.)

paperghost

Mom sprayed Raid in my room while at work today. It feels like a safe haven now. I notice I get bites but less so compared to last night, and the rest of the house needs to get vacuumed too, AND the cat needs to go to the vet. I really hope this shit ends soon because I've been running on less than 6 hours of sleep, a zero sugar Monster and a Bubblr.

I think the cat needing a vet is more important, she's very old and can't have over the counter flea treatment. And you know, the fleas came from her. Sigh.

Still getting bit. But slightly less. Better than nothing.

tyger

Work was work, nothing special really.

Met up with A - she found me a second hand glaceon plush! It's so great!! :D :D :D - and we derped around for a bunch, which was fun. :3

Also watched the JJK movie, since I had a bit more time once I got home. It's pretty great! I want to smack Getou, of course, but that's like. Half of the point of the movie, so. Okkotsu and Rika remain ridiculously adorbs, though, yessssss >D

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

cyare

What are you currently reading?

Aurora Australis, of course! This week we're reading another poem, Southward Bound by Lapsus Linguæ, written by an anonymous writer.

What have you recently finished reading?

I finished K.J. Charles' "A Charm of Magpies" series. I started listening to the first audiobook last week and I didn't stop until I'd listened to all the books and novellas I could get my hands on. As usual, my opinion is under the cut to avoid spoilers.

( Lots of words :P )

What will you be reading next?

Either porn or some crime books *has very clear ideas* I don't know, I could either go for something light, fun and porny or something extremely heavy and plotty with intense criminal activity. I still have to decide.

A friend recently pointed out that most of the books I've been reading are m/m books and I was like... Yes? Half my library is filled with LGBT books, why is it a surprise if I read them? *shrugs*

Current Mood: pleased

kaberett

This evening we went to the plot so I could water things (and say hi to people). We wandered up past the woodpecker nest; there was a Great Yelling; we heard some wood being pecked; all seemed well.

In the vicinity of ten minutes later, someone heading home realised that Things Sounded Wrong, and established that one of the babies had launched itself out of the nest while really not remotely being fledged yet (it. does not have that many feathers.) by dint of hearing that the yelling was not all coming from up, and also some of it was Louder Than Usual. (I am pretty sure we didn't miss this when we were ambling up? I think it genuinely did go on an incredibly misguided adventure somewhere in that ten minutes.)

... I was delegated to stand guard for the purposes of Dissuading Foxes. Other people went to fetch A Ladder. I subsequently provided A Torch, and Part Of The Ladder Steadying.

The Errant Child was delicately posted back into its hole.

The tenor of the yelling from the hole... changed.

An adult popped its head out, all "what the fuck just happened???" Paused. Quite clearly thought, upon Observing the Assembled, something along the lines of "... right then." Retracted.

And then everyone settled down apparently to sleep.

I was perhaps not in fact The Fae, but I did get to be at least fae-adjacent, and I got to see a shit tiny dinosaur that really I ought not to have but in a way that was minimally bad for the poor thing.

Fascinated by the evolutionary strategy of "screaming incessantly might get me eaten or might get me The Fae, but there's no good outcome from not screaming, so... screm?" Evidently in this case it worked!

(It had the start of its little red hat! It was simultaneously Tiny and Lorge, and definitely Distinctly Round! It was a BABY. I am so glad friend human realised Something Was Wrong.)

wychwood

I continued the culture theme - actually I forgot to post about it, but I also went to the opera! That was ten days ago now, Peter Grimes, a Britten piece I'd never actually heard before. What a downer though.

Anyway. On Saturday I went to the cinema to go and see Ocean, a new David Attenborough that was having a theatrical release. Excellent as ever, although mostly not new; I liked the juxtaposition of "incoming climate disaster" with the example of Save the Whales as a campaign that really worked. Afterwards I had a couple of hours to kill before church, and they were offering £5 tickets, so I took myself across the building to see Thunderbolts*, which was entertaining, had some genuinely touching character moments, and did not go in for too many extended fight scenes as a replacement for plot. I mean, there definitely were plenty of fight scenes, it's still Marvel, but sometimes you think "really we could have cut half an hour of fight scenes out of this film without losing anything" and I didn't, here. Helped that it was a two-hour film, probably.

Then on Sunday my dad got confused answering one of the crossword questions and produced the concept of Douglas Adam's Watership Down, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since.

arlie

My vet practice changes the mail order pharmacy it uses far too frequently. That would be a PITA even if they were all pleasant to work with. They aren't.

The latest excrescence is Blue Rabbit.

These people - or perhaps my vet - believe that prescription medicines are discretionary purchases, which one waits to buy until they are on special. And they have enough specials that I feel cheated when I pay full price, but not so many that I can reliably get the meds my dog needs, when she needs them, without paying full price - even if the med in question is a monthly pill the dog will be taking for the rest of her life. (Also, they have an autoship feature, enabled by default, which presumably guarantees missing out on all those specials.)

But that's not the worst of it.

On Saturday, I tried to reorder one of my dog's flea medications. AFAICT, they simply did not stock that medication. So today I called the practice to ask them (a) what to switch to and/or (b) to give me written prescriptions I could take to a vet pharmacy with a more complete selection. Fortunately (?) I got a ring-no-answer from the veterinarian's office, at a time that might have been a late weekday lunch hour (after 13:30). Naturally, they don't have their hours posted on their web site. So I started composing an email to the veterinarian.

Well, in the course of this I decided to check what the pharmacy actually offered. On Saturday, they had alternatives I'd never heard of - none listed with the active ingredients prominent - and where I'd clicked through I hadn't been able to find the same drug , except with additional drugs duplicating the function of one of the dog's other meds. I wanted to document this as an appendix to my email.

Well guess what? The excrescence of a pharmacy had the usual product today. I doubt they've just started carrying it. Most likely, it was out of stock, and their stupid site couldn't communicate that. Next most likely, their search-by-name and search-by-function were both broken, and have since been fixed, or at least broken in new ways.

Meanwhile, the web site promises vets that using their service will "put profits back in your pocket". So I presume they are overpriced, or sell only the more expensive products, either way with commissions to the vet.

Or maybe not, since they also claim to offer "a world-class experience for your pet owners," which they certainly do not. So maybe the supposed profits for the veterinarian are equally illusory.

Meanwhile, the system (TM) makes it really hard for me to switch to an alternative pet pharmacy. I've tried. I need to mail original paper prescriptions to the new pharmacy; meanwhile the vet office didn't believe that and gave me soft copies.

paperghost

Tomorrow after I go to work my mom is going to spray out my room with Raid, so it'll sit for 8 hours before I come home. So I've been cleaning my room until Kotte DMed me just now. I really hope this work and the fleas don't damage any personal belonging, I'm evacuating a lot of stuff from my room so the spray won't affect it.

Kotte's been offline more in the past year due to career changes and having an IRL circle, but I'm still struggling to find one myself since I'm tired of "online-ness" and wanting to get offline. But I was told that was found from an IRL friend who knew someone, and I... Well... Don't have that still. I never know how to go forward when there's no step one, I guess. It'll be a year since we broke up next week and I only started to get better last month, but I don't know how to go forward. I still feel sad when I see other people in a relationship, I feel like that's something I'm not allowed to have. I just want to move on and find someone new because I hate being single, most people in the 25-40 range are taken so I feel like the odd one out there.

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fic: my heart is with you (diana/steve)

unsent_letters gift fics (1 lane/dave, 1 rory/jess)

ADHD thoughts

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solarpunk, romantasy drama, bad bad ai

Long Ago and Far Away: Repatriation of the Canadian Constitution

Poet's Corner: Adlestrop by Edward Thomas

Self propulsion is a crock

Maybe audit almost done???

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