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([personal profile] cornerofmadness Jun. 6th, 2025 12:16 am)


Thought another writing prompt would fit the bill.

I was gone most of the day. I did work on my [community profile] intoabar story.


If I've missed you on the tally let me know. Feel free to jump in at any time.

Day five- [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] nafs, [personal profile] china_shop,


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([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith Jun. 5th, 2025 11:11 pm)
Someone mentioned efforts to increase use of offal.  The much simpler way to get more people to eat organ meat is to present delicious recipes using it. This is easily accomplished by scouting cuisines that already use a lot of organ meat, such as soul food or some Asian cuisines. Use everything but the squeal!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_soul_foods_and_dishes

https://www.butterforall.com/traditional-cooking-traditional-living/category/nutrient-dense/

https://foragerchef.com/category/carnivore/offal/
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([personal profile] sovay Jun. 5th, 2025 11:13 pm)
As my day centrally involved a very long-awaited referral finally coming through and foundering immediately on the shoals of the American healthcare system, it wasn't a very good one. The CDC called for my opinions on vaccination which it turned out I was not permitted to state for the record without a minor child in the house. Because the call was recorded for quality assurance, I said just in case that I had children in my life if not my legal residence and I supported their vaccination so as to protect them from otherwise life-threatening communicable diseases and did not express my opinion of the incumbent secretary of health and human services and his purity of essence. I got hung up on before I could tell my family stories from before the polio vaccine and the MMR.

Of course the man in the White House used the Boulder attack to justify his latest travel ban. Burned Jews are good for his business. I appreciate this op-ed from Eric K. Ward. I hope it reaches anyone it's meant to. I thought I was jaundiced about people and now I think I'm just in liver failure.

It would never have occurred to me that a video for Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" (1977) should have anything to do with psychological realism, but Saoirse Ronan seems to have had a great time with it.
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([personal profile] catherineldf Jun. 5th, 2025 09:55 pm)
Melissa Scott and i and have once again curated the Pride StoryBundle and it is full of great queer books by great queer writers! This year's lineup:

  • We're Here: Best Queer Speculative Fiction of 2023 edited by Darcie Little Badger and Charles Payseur
  • Point of Dreams (Astreiant #3) by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett
  • The Map and the Territory by A.M. Tuomolo
  • These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein
  • Be the Sea by Clara Ward
  • Fallen by Melissa Scott
  • A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert
  • Luminescent Machinations edited by Rhiannon Rasmussen and dave ring
  • Fairs' Point (Astreiant #4)
  • So You Want to be a Robot by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
  • Price of a Thousand Blessings by Ginn Hale
  • Reforged by Seth Haddan
  • Welcome to Boy.Net by Lyda Morehouse
  • Power to Yield by Bogi Takács
Everything from queer high fantasy to trans cyberpunk, short stories to novels, award-winning authors to debut authors and for $25 you get all 14 books AND you can designate part of your purchase price (no extra cost!) for Rainbow Railroad's work with LGBTQ refugees! Heckuva way to kick off Pride Month!
Wishful Thinking
By Sarah Williams
Part 14 of 15
Word count (story only): 1368
[Landing #7, day 3, a bit before six a.m. local time]


:: After a long day, the Ashton family, and Backstep, are sitting down to dinner. Conversation turns to longer term plans. Part of the Sidestep Travelers universe. ::




Smashup had just finished the bridge of “House of the Rising Sun when a curly-haired preteen stepped into the living room, carrying a tall tumbler full of lemonade. “Hi. I brought you something to drink.” He brought the tumbler to the end table near Backstep’s head and eased it onto a leaf-shaped cork coaster. “I’m Derek.”

“I’m Smashup.” He grinned slyly. “Has Zipper fallen asleep sitting up yet?”
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([personal profile] cornerofmadness Jun. 5th, 2025 09:39 pm)
The day was broken up into car maintenance, casino time and a webinar for data literacy by the Howard's Hughes Medical Institute. Two were boring but necessary.

The casino however, was better than expected. At first I was losing like there was a hole in my pocket. Finally found the Lucky 8 machine that I liked last time, every 8th spin it gives you all the wilds you hit in the previous 7 wins. I do good on these and made back the 60 I lost and got to 10 over. Mom was 100 over. We decided to go home and while I was waiting on mom who was in the restroom I found the haunted house machine. I love this older machine at my casino. Two spins, hit the bonus, won another 50$. whee. Would have won more but this machine is SO old that the bonus touch screen was dead and I couldn't select half the offerings. Ah well.

I think I recced some of these communities before.

[community profile] fancake - a thematic multifandom recommendation community.

[community profile] fan_flashworks - Multimedia, Multifandom Flash Challenges

[community profile] drabble_zone - A community for people who enjoy writing 100 word drabbles.
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([personal profile] soc_puppet posting in [community profile] queerly_beloved Jun. 5th, 2025 08:48 pm)
Power's out at my house, so I'm going extra minimal today 😅


Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!
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([personal profile] leiacat Jun. 5th, 2025 09:32 pm)
One more successful Balticon under my belt.

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Narrated by Wil Wheaton
Fantasy, science fiction or pure absurdist literature? You’ll need to make your own mind up about that. It’s probably all three. The premise is that the moon, all of a sudden, turns to cheese. What kind of cheese? Not sure, but because cheese is less dense than rock and because the moon’s mass has not altered, it’s suddenly bigger and brighter and everyone notices. Rather than following one main character this book works as a series of interspersed stories as people from different walks of life react differently. First we meet the staff of a museum which holds a piece of moon rock; rock until it isn’t. Then there’s an academic turned pop-science author, a bunch of NASA astronauts whose dreams have been shattered, three retirees who meet in a diner to put the world to rights, a young girl who simply wants to write her great fantasy novel, and a tech-bro billionaire who manages to stowaway on his own rocket -- not to mention the American top-brass and the president of the United States. This is quirky and absurd. Wil Wheaton’s reading is at once serious and funny. Maybe this isn’t for everyone, but I enjoyed the listen.


Audiobook narrated by Humphrey Bower.

The final book in the Chaos Walking trilogy whicfh follows Todd and Viola, sometimes together, sometimes apart, as they get sucked into the politics of New Prentisstown and a manufactured war with the Spackle. Whether he wishes it or not Todd gets semi-adopted by the mayor (now President) Prentiss, and begins to follow a dark path even though he resists as much as he can. Viola is swept up in a rebellion of sorts as the women healers go on the rampage, using terror tactics against the mayor and his army. Add to that the arrival of a new scout ship with two of Viola’s old friends, and the impending arrival of thousands of settlers with no other option but to make the planet their home. Complicate all this with the mayor’s mental powers, and the ‘noise’ that all men acquire on exposure to the planet, and this is an excellent conclusion to the trilogy. Humphrey Bower’s reading is excellent. He switches accents and voices seamlessly. There’s a bonus short story, Snowscape, tagged on to the end of this recording.


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([personal profile] unicornduke Jun. 5th, 2025 07:28 pm)
I actually took a nap today which is not a thing I normally do. 

We opened for strawberry picking today for a half day from 8am to 12pm. This meant I was down at the field setting up at 6:45am because there was much to do. Me and dad had moved the RST (rolling selling thingy which is a prototype ice fishing house they got ten years ago now) and plopped it down at the west farm late last night but didn't finish setup because it was already 8pm. I had trouble falling asleep because I ate dinner almost at 9pm.

First customer got there at 7:15am. Sigh. We had lots of pickers and everything ripe pretty much got picked. It's light picking currently, we only have a few early varieties and so they ripen ahead of the main season. We warn people picking is light and they simply don't listen. 

I was On Register the whole time. It's exhausting doing retail stuff. I understand why my mom doesn't want to do it anymore but my god I absolutely 100% don't want to do it. We're getting a worker for half of the days and she's starting next week, so I have to suffer through this weekend. I need to find a farm partner/worker who really likes that shit because it's terrible. I don't mind doing it for a little bit but ugh. Exhausting

While chatting with a customer, I got the idea to make pancakes for lunch with strawberries and whipped cream. So I did that. And then I had a 30 min nap on the couch. 

I successfully did a new thing this afternoon: fertigating! Irrigation + fertilizer, it has a whole complicated setup. 

One thing I've been trying to figure out how to manage is my garden. I haven't worked on it at all. Once I'm done for the day, I'm tired enough that I don't want to go back out and do more stuff out there. Part of it is that I thought about my work hours (6 days a week, 8am to 7pm with an hour lunch = 60 hours a week), well duh I'm tired a lot. So I think I'm just going to give it up for now and figure out something for next year. I've got peas and potatoes in the ground and I'll be happy to eat them when they're ready. I think I need to narrow my focus a bunch to maybe some small flowers around the house and then see if I can manage something else at some point. 

I started watching The Repair Shop again and boy howdy it's a delight as always. I also have realized I want to be like Jay, the host. He's so dapper and also a furniture restorer. And I started the next season of Taskmaster which has been a gosh darn delight. 

Thank goodness it won't be as hot for a couple of days coming up. Full body sweating. Ick. 
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([personal profile] athenais Jun. 5th, 2025 03:34 pm)
The Corflu 42 anthology of fannish writing about music experiences is now available as a link: https://taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=Dancing

This is where my own article on the concerts and music I've liked over the years is published. Yes, K-pop makes an appearance, but I don't think it's too dire. And if you didn't know I used to be a Deadhead as well as a Club Kid during the New Wave years, here you go.
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([personal profile] kaberett Jun. 5th, 2025 11:11 pm)
  1. On Tuesday, I picked a kohlrabi. The stem itself got eaten at the plot; the leaves I brought home to cook and eat subsequently rather than compost them. I stuck them in a glass of water to keep them going while I work out what exactly it is I want to do, and -- they are stunning. I am enjoying them so much every time I go past them: dark blue-tinged green leaves, pink-purple stems and veins (the cultivar is Azur; I do not currently have photos but will attempt to get my act together tomorrow.)
  2. I have four spikes of ginger, one thoroughly unfurled into leaves, and at least one more thinking hard about it. I do not expect to wind up self-sufficient in ginger but I am very much enjoying the experiment.
  3. a word you've never understood (Prophet, 9k words). I did not read it all in one gulp -- I paused to take notes -- and I'm now on my second read through, which could in theory be more of a gulp but mysteriously I seem to be taking more notes and also remembering that I wanted to shake the internet for more information about the experience termed "aftersensations", for Book Purposes. (Also I think I've lured another person into at least starting the book...)
  4. Asparagus for lunch! Still in season; still delicious.
  5. My house once again contains Large Quantities of hazelnuts and pecans. I Monch.
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([personal profile] nonesensed Jun. 5th, 2025 11:58 pm)
Back when I was a nerdy teenager, I was convinced I was an "introvert" (in quotation marks 'cause it's a vague term, but I think we're all familiar with it as a pop culture thing). Why? Because that's what media told me: you're nerdy = you're introverted.

However, as I grew into an even nerdier adult, I realized that's Very Much Not The Case. Can you believe that media lied to me??? 😱😱😱

Yeah, I really should have seen that coming, what with the Hymen Myth still being a thing and all 😅 But once I moved out to live on my own, it became pretty obvious I'm more the kind of super chatty person who's the last to leave the party and who gets super grumpy and up in my own head if I don't hang out with people enough for non-work-related reasons. I just happen to really enjoy writing too, which is hard to do in a group setting (for me, 'cause I'm so talkative 😆).

Due to overworking (both at work and otherwise), I've now been in a sour mood for days on end. I've gotten far too caught up in my own thoughts. Solution? I spent my breaks today scheduling future hangouts with all my local friends who have time to spare. My old roommate is coming over for lunch and/or dinner tomorrow (Sweden's national day, so no work), Saturday I'm attending a birthday party + DMing D&D, and Sunday I'm having dinner with a friend at her place, and I have orders to take pictures of her kids and send to my parents. And that's just this weekend. I have more social plans for the rest of June, and I already feel my mood improving 😊

Will also be playing more Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, 'cause it's a very cool game 💗💗💗

Anyone else have a similar kind of major self-realization you'd like to share? I'm oh so curious to know what else media has tricked people into falsely believing about themselves 👀

Btw, Sweden's national day has only been a holiday since 2005 and everyone I know is still pissed at that ('cause now we have less free days during Easter), so unlike many other countries, few people here in Sweden have any actual plans or traditions related to the day. I even keep forgetting why this specific date is our National Day 😅😅😅
This poem came out of the June 3, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] siliconshaman. It also fills the "comfort" square in my 6-2-25 card for the Pride Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by [personal profile] librarygeek. It belongs to the Cuoio and Chiara / Marionettes threads of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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