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I've been quiet in terms of general journaling, mostly as I've been busy with projects. I've almost finished my SGA podfic for the podfic big bang, should be posting it in 2-3 days. Am now starting my first HR podfic, which will be interesting as I'm not going to be able to do Ilya's accent. But podficcers mostly don't attempt accents in podfics - except in HR, for Ilya, perhaps encouraged by Connor Storrie's virtuoso performance. A high bar.

I'm still reading lots of HR fanfic and not really interested in anything else, including profic. And writing. Have started my Hollanov big bang fic and have an AU WIP going as well. I can see that I'm going to lean pretty heavily towards writing AUs and fics that require bugger all knowledge of hockey, because I don't have any! But I'm writing, which feels really good.

It's early autumn here, a dry March until rain started yesterday, and now a much-needed soak. I should be tidying and mulching my garden beds, but my energy's mostly been directed to indoors creative stuff. Caught up with friends yesterday for a yummy Thai dinner, and it's hot cross bun time of year, so things have been excellent on the food front.

Not excellent at all elsewhere in the world, of course. I hope you're all okay and, for the northerners, enjoying spring. Hugs to you all.

mific

I wrote another HR fic, one I've been thinking about for a while, but it wanted to come out now. It's a therapy session with Galina, set a bit after the end of The Long Game, in which Ilya and Galina finally explore his tendency to idealize Irina. About 2100 words, background Shane/Ilya.

Sad and Funny and Beautiful

ysabetwordsmith

Today we visited the Charleston Food Forest. These pictures show the left side. (Begin with the right side.)

( Walk with me ... )

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Today we visited the Charleston Food Forest. These pictures show the front and right side.

( Walk with me ... )

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https://xkcd.com/3224/

Yes, the cosmic microwave background is great, but what about the earthly microwave foreground?

https://xkcd.com/3224/

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Today we ran errands and visited the Charleston Food Forest. It's been drizzling rain on and off today.

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That's what we're being driven to. Nursing is probably pissed at me because I refuse to do one of my classes online. It's for the freshman. No, we're not. So far these online classes are a nightmare of failing software.

We had a pointless all-school meeting (we do every month) and I'm like why are we voting on this? It's mandated by the state. We have to do it.

Sigh. And again no one but me cares.

Maybe others might have thoughts/suggestions. I'm thinking I'm revealing one character's backstory too much too soon. I think I would like it to remain hidden a little longer but the problem is Asha (a detective) knows his secrets. Lilian (her new partner) would ask about this guy. His employee is the sex worker/dancer who is killed in chapter 1. She would ask. So I'm like great now everyone knows his secret and we're only in chapter 4.

I'm not sure I see a good way around it other than maybe his history isn't as well known as I thought but really that makes no sense either. He was taken by a m ajor sex trafficker as a child. Asha knows what Goren did to children. He was one of those they couldn't make things stick to (rich buddies buying him out of trouble) so not sure how to write my way out of this hole. Maybe it's not as disappointing as I think it is.

Yoga went really well tonight. She modified it so I could do 90% of it but one thing I did (and easily) was one that it was easy to move past my natural joint movement into bad zones (which I often can't tell because of my condition) and I think that elevated butterfly move pulled my groin. Rolls eyes.

What I Just Finished Reading:

With Friends Like These by Alissa Lee

What I am Currently Reading:

Violet Thistlewaite is not a villain any more so far, I really like this one

Back to Zombie Day Care just to get it over with and tick off a few challenge boxes

What I Plan to Read Next: The Death Card (an arc I just got in the mail) and The Book woman of troublesome creek for the book club

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Current Music: Evil Lives Here

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1. Today was the last of my recent round of store visits, to the Little Tokyo store. Since I didn't need to go to any other stores in addition, and was just planning to work from home in the afternoon, I decided to take the train instead of driving. In good traffic (which I would have had based on the time of day), it would be about half an hour or so by car, and the train trip is 45 minutes, so it's not significantly longer (and during rush hour can be as much as half the time), and there's now a station right in the heart of Little Tokyo, so it's just a couple blocks' walk to the store. I got my mid day walk in that way, and was able to stop and get lunch while I was down there as well. The Korean corn dog place is still there, so that was lunch, and Carla had stopped at Beard Papa when she was out doing stuff and sent me a picture of their new sakura matcha cream puff, so I stopped at the Beard Papa in Little Tokyo to get one of those before heading back as well. And bonus, even though the train only cost me $1.75 each way, I'm submitting my mileage reimbursement for work as if I'd driven. :p

2. I have to wear insoles with my shoes or I get terrible foot pain, but for some reason the ones I have can be very squeaky. I tried some of the tips for making insoles stop squeaking, but it didn't work, so I ordered a different brand ones, which I found on some hiking website as like the best of the best, and they came today and do not squeak! The fit is honestly not quite as good as the ones I usually get, but I also just wore them for a little over a mile walk this evening, so I'm hoping that I can break them in a bit more before our trip.

3. Look at these calico beans of Chloe's!

ysabetwordsmith

This poem came out of the March 17, 2026 Bonus Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from

alatefeline and

janetmiles. It also fills the "WILD CARD: Paint" square in my 3-1-26 card for the National Crafting Month Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by

janetmiles. It belongs to the series Feathered Nests.

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A new rug arrived today that V bought for the spare room. I took it upstairs and was admiring how soft it is. It's very differently printed -- leaves and swirls on a teal background -- but seems to be made of the same kind of material as my "space rug" in my bedroom, which has a colorful stylized rendition of the solar system.

Gary would love this, was my first thought. Because he loved my space rug. He'd rub his face on it and wiggle all over its soft smooth finish.

The other day I opened the box my new webcam came in, and admired how its internal cardboard packaging, along with its size and shape, would've made it the absolute perfect box for Gary, we liked to use the cardboard recycling to hide treats in for him to find. We re-used the ones he didn't joyoualy tear apart, but we were always on the lookout for new Good Boxes. And I guess that habit hasn't died out yet.

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Name: Return to the T'arsi Fair
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Bittersweet #2: Memories
Styles and Supplies: Canvas (I can use this here, right?)
Word Count: 1611
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali, Liselye
In-Universe Date: 1912.5.4.2, Summer 1904
Summary: Setsiana and Qhoroali go back to the Fair.

( Return to the T'arsi Fair )

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janetmiles has sponsored the following poems from the bonus fishbowl. I will get them posted as soon as I can.

"Become for Us a Highway"
"A Generous Impulse"
"A Darkness in the Sky"

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Today is cloudy and mild.

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

I put out water for the birds.

I saw the first butterfly today, a tiny periwinkle one that might be an eastern tailed blue. It was visiting the grape hyacinths blooming by the log garden.

EDIT 3/25/26 -- We visited the Charleston Food Forest and Coles County Community Garden.

On the way into town, we saw a herd of deer and a tortoiseshell fox. Very clearly a fox, with a white tail-tip, but with streaks and patches of black and cinnamon; not the usual rust-red of a red fox nor the salt-and-pepper of a gray fox. Fascinating. Excellent camouflage.

EDIT 3/25/26 -- I planted two clumps of crosne knotroots, one by the maple tree and one in a pot on the new picnic garden.

EDIT 3/25/26 -- I planted five clumps of Egyptian walking onions including below the barrel garden, mulberry tree in the house yard, and several saplings in the savanna.

EDIT 3/25/26 -- I planted groundnuts in a trough pot and a large pot by the new picnic table garden, and under the apricot tree.

EDIT 3/25/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

It's been drizzling on and off today.

I am done for the night.

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