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Title: 'Shadowed Corners'
Fandom: Pokémon (Spoilers for Pokémon Legends: Arceus)
Rating: G
Notes: Crossposted to [community profile] ficlet_zone

Shadowed Corners )

moar yarn

Aug. 19th, 2025 09:15 pm
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What I do when sick: more spinning.





Now that I can spin wool blends at all, next up: working on consistency.

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Aug. 19th, 2025 09:22 pm
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The last of the four Hugo Best Novel nominees I read (I did not get around to Service Model or Someone You Can Build A Nest In) was A Sorceress Comes to Call, which ... I think perhaps I have hit the point, officially, at which I've read Too Much Kingfisher; which is not, in the grand scheme of things, that much. But it's enough to identify and be slightly annoyed by repeated patterns, by the type of people who, in a Kingfisher book, are Always Good and Virtuous, and by the type of people who are Not.

A Sorceress Comes to Call is a sort of Regency riff; it's also a bit of a Goose Girl riff, although I have truly no idea what it's trying to say about the original story of the Goose Girl, a fairy tale about which one might have really a lot of things to say. Anyway, the plot involves an evil sorceress with an evil horse (named Falada after the Goose Girl horse) who brings her abused teen daughter along with her in an attempt to seduce a kindly but clueless aristocrat into marriage. The particular method by which the evil sorceress abuses her daughter is striking and terrible, and drawn with skill. Fortunately, the abused teen daughter then bonds with the aristocrat's practical middle-aged spinster sister and her practical middle-aged friends, and learns from them how to be a Practical Heroine in her own right, and they all team up to defeat the evil sorceress mother and her evil horse. The good end happily, and the bad unhappily. At no point is anybody required to feel sympathy for the abusive sorceress mother or the evil horse. If this is the sort of book you like you will probably like this book, and you can stop reading here.

ungenerous readings below )

cats: random cat pic roundup

Aug. 19th, 2025 07:00 pm
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2025 02 20 14.03.32

[Loiosh, an orange tabby, is curled up asleep in his cat stroller. Most of him is in the sun, and he appears to be pretty okay with that.]

Random cat pics! As you do! There are SO MANY cat pictures in my ‘camera uploads’ folder! It’s a problem!

… but it’s a hard problem to avoid, because I have the bestest & most photogenic cats in the world.

2025 02 25 12.15.28

[Loiosh is meatloafed in a cardboard priority mail box, once again asleep.]

He does things other than sleep, I swear. It’s just that when he’s running around I usually don’t have my camera to hand. I really need to just dig out an old phone with a not-too-awful camera & keep it downstairs …

2025 05 22 22.35.11

[This time he’s asleep in a cat bed that’s been tucked into the green rectangular basket that lives on my bed.]

Behold! Loiosh! Conscious! & apparently also angy.

2025 06 06 16.31.34

[Loiosh is standing on the van’s center console, glaring off to the left.]

What was his whole thing there? I don’t even remember, but there were sure Opinions about whatever it was.


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Robotics

Aug. 19th, 2025 07:41 pm
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WARNING: Do not watch with mouth full.

Robots race, play football, crash and collapse at China's 'robot Olympics'

BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - China kicked off the three-day long World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday, looking to showcase its advances in artificial intelligence and robotics with 280 teams from 16 countries.
Robots competed in sports such as track and field, and table tennis, as well as tackled robot-specific challenges from sorting medicines and handling materials to cleaning services



Watching the evolution of robotics on a primitive planet is hilarious.



Food

Aug. 19th, 2025 07:44 pm
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Build an Emergency Food Supply List

There are several ways to build an emergency food supply to stock a survival kit and a “bug out bag”. While you can purchase specialized food products or a self-contained emergency preparedness kit, these can be costly and wasteful.

Instead, you can simply assemble shelf-stable foods that you already buy or preserve at home. Many canned, dried, and pickled foods are quite suitable for use in an emergency kit
.


Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

In particular, watch for sales.  Anytime you see a shelf-stable food that you use, consider buying extra if feasible.

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New Steps and New Connections
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1760
[End of March 179-]


:: In the morning, Janika assesses Laszlo, and offers a bit of help. i Part of the “Lost Son” story arc in the Frankenstein’s Family universe. ::




The thunderstorm petered out long after sunset, leaving only the gentle thrumming of rain. That faded, too, while Laszlo fussed drowsily over a list, written in three columns of tight, small pen strokes. Eventually, he dropped to sleep leaning against the side of the enormous iron stove in the kitchen.

Someone nudged him, then stroked lightly along his cheek. “Wake up, or you won’t have hot water for bathing,” someone teased.
Read more... )

Sunflower auction

Aug. 20th, 2025 10:26 am
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Offers are up for the [personal profile] sunflower_auction to help Ukraine.

My offer to make art is here.

I've offered in these fandoms: Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG1, Murderbot, Sinners, The Old Guard, due South, and Hawaii five-O.

To see all the Offers (only 10 so not too difficult) scroll down the [personal profile] sunflower_auction entries past several sticky posts to reach them.

American Meadows Order

Aug. 19th, 2025 04:08 pm
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My fall order from American Meadows has arrived.  :D  Now I just need the weather to break so I can actually get out to plant things.  If you're still shopping, this nursery has some stock of fall bulbs left and some of those are on sale.

Dangerous Mood Bearded Iris (lavender standards with near-black falls)

Montmartre Bearded Iris (purple with yellow edges)

Ziggy Reblooming Bearded Iris (yellow standards with burgundy-and-yellow streaked falls)

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Aug. 19th, 2025 02:11 pm
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The library was interesting yesterday, I hung out and read for several hours, there was a very nice lady giving out free food for homeless people in front too. The only shitty thing was somebody clogged up the toilet and I had to go tell the librarian.

Home from Worldcon

Aug. 19th, 2025 01:55 pm
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I got home this morning (train from Seattle arrived around 8am, local buses got me to within half a block of home in another hour and a half). I'm feeling totally wrung out, so I'm not planning to be productive today. There's a relatively brief con report on my blog, including a slightly modified version of what would have been my Hugo acceptance speech (I changed the "win" bits to "finalist" bits) and a couple pictures. You can read it here: https://alpennia.com/blog/worldcon-wrap

I'd meant to get some sound editing for the podcast done on the train, but couldn't find a way to make Audible play through headphones rather than speakers, so that was a no-go. (The program has a selection menu for sound output, but I need to play with it to figure out what's wrong.) Instead, I managed to be productive by working on the lesbian history book. (I.e., converting existing material into book-version material.) I have most of the Introduction section revised at this point.

I have a week and a half and then it's my "official" celebrating retirement trip to New Zealand with Denise. That means I need to get two more podcast episodes uploaded. I also had to reschedule the Jury Duty notice that was waiting for me when I got home. And I won't be here to provide medical transport for my brother's cataract operation. But before I travel, I need to get the inspections sorted out for my solar system, including pulling retrospective permits for a couple of items that the city inspector asked about. (I've been assured that this will be trivial paperwork.) So I'm going to try not to add any other to-do items before the trip.

Birdfeeding

Aug. 19th, 2025 02:38 pm
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Today is partly cloudy and sweltering.  It rained a little last night.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

EDIT 8/19/25 -- I put out water for the birds.  I've seen a male cardinal.

EDIT 8/19/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 8/19/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 8/19/25 -- I watered the barrel garden and the old picnic table garden.

EDIT 8/19/25 -- I watered the new picnic table and the septic garden.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

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Aug. 19th, 2025 12:02 pm
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PROOF! OF! CONCEPT! 

 

Prompt: #456 - Forgotten

Aug. 19th, 2025 02:47 pm
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This week's prompt is forgotten.

Your response should be exactly 100 words long. You do not have to include the prompt in your response -- it is meant as inspiration only.

Please use the tag "prompt: #456 - forgotten" with your response.

Please put your drabble under a cut tag if it contains potential triggers, mature or explicit content, or spoilers for media released in the last month.

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Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius #21

Aug. 19th, 2025 01:55 pm
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Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius #21: An Entertainment in Londinium by Kaja Foglio and Phil Foglio

Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes

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Sometimes organ donation is voluntary. Sometimes, people (or aliens) just take what they want.

Five SF Works About Repurposing Organs and Other Body Parts

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