June 17th, 2025
spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
I had plans to get a lot of stuff (including stuff for mom) done in the afternoon after visiting mom, but my sister got out of work later than she thought and I stayed later because the surgeon had come in and so I got none of that stuff done.

I did do a load of laundry, the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, and scooped kitty litter. I read and watched an HGTV program.

I was hungry by the time I left the hospital as I hadn’t had lunch yet, and I didn’t want to wait until I got home to eat. So I went to a place called the Hawkeye Bar & Grill in the Otesaga Hotel and had some very good fish and chips. This was the view from my seat on the patio:



Temps started out at 57.4(F) and reached 81. (According to Pip. I’m not sure whether to believe him, but he actually had a number instead of yesterday when he just said ‘it got hot’.) The whole day was overcast/hazy, for which we should be thankful, I guess, if it really did reach 81.


Mom Update:

Mom was feeling better today, which was a relief. A lot of stuff happened, so I expect this to get long. it did get long )
June 16th, 2025
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posted by [personal profile] chicating at 02:49pm on 16/06/2025 under ,
we'd never spend the money for ourselves...it's fun and stuff, but I'm greedy enough to want a positive thing in my life that doesn't involve movies or TV. Something I'm not just watching, even if it's neat to lie in bed and pull up Hamilton.
Also, I can't get past the feeling that somebody thought "Aw, poor thing, she can't get out, it's the least we could do," which bothers me even if it being three million degrees at this time of the year does make me feel closer to pitiful than would be my heart's desire.
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posted by [personal profile] runpunkrun in [community profile] fancake at 08:46am on 16/06/2025 under
Poll #33259 round 176 theme poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 78

Pick the next theme of fancake:

Books & Writing
26 (33.3%)

Protest & Revolt
22 (28.2%)

Working Together
30 (38.5%)

spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
I did a load of laundry, the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, and scooped kitty litter. I finished one book and started another. I talked with mom on the telephone and visited her, as well as sent messages to her.

I forgot to mention that Pip’s buddy dropped off more BBQ chicken quarters yesterday, lol! At least I didn’t have to worry about what he was going to have for supper.

ETA: I forgot to mention the sad news that the four killdeer eggs are missing completely. No sign that they hatched. Pip caught sight of a red fox eating the sunflower seed he puts out, so we think that's what got them. I can't believe that just a day or two after I decide to tell you all about them, they're toast. *sniffle*

Temps started out at 57.9(F) and reached 69.2. (Pip said it had gotten higher, but that’s the high I saw when I got home.) It was mostly hazy all day.


Mom Update:

I called mom in the morning (now that she’s in SCU she has a phone). cutting for those who don’t want to read )
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June 15th, 2025
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posted by [personal profile] chicating at 04:07pm on 15/06/2025
From two weeks ago--
. Have you ever been to summer camp?
Yeah, but my crip camp wasn't like in the doc.(That movie still did bring back memories, though.) Didn't really love camp, but maybe I just expected too much. Like...I don't know, finding My People or entering some world where I'd be hot. I found out I'm bad at adaptive sports, too.

2. Have you ever made a s'more? No, you know, I haven't. Although I've bought candy that's like...an homage and liked it but I've never had a real one.

3. Have you ever slept under the stars (no tent/tarp)?the one thing about camping I wish I could do!

4. Have you ever had a member of the opposite sex sleep over at your house?Yeah, but not since college.

5. What type of bed do you have (queen, twin, bunk, etc.)? I have a brand-new full mattress.

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Sounds: Big Bang Theory
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posted by [personal profile] chicating at 02:48pm on 15/06/2025
--writing has been different since I no longer look at the abled world with the same combination of fangirlishness "I wanna be *just.like. you*and that thing when you see a happy couple in public and think "I want one of those."--It's kind of hard to know what to strive for since that happened, though.(There's not enough crip culture in my life to make that another option. Besides, I buy Alice Wong's books to support AW, but that's not the same as relating a whole bunch.) Knockoff assimilation might have been a sad template, but it was one.
-It's been a few years, but I think I can admit that I find Ken Jennings to be something of a lady-boner killer(Which is ironic since he got so busted for writing on twitter that seeing a pretty crip lady made him sad, or some shit like that.)
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posted by [personal profile] case in [community profile] fandomsecrets at 04:07pm on 15/06/2025

⌈ Secret Post #6736 ⌋

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Regina Keim took many screen shots of Paul Gross (and the star and play's author, George Clooney, lol) in the CNN broadcast of Good Night, and Good Luck in Broadway, and she shared them on the Due South! Facebook group, if you want to go have a look.
Enjoy!
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posted by [personal profile] spikedluv at 08:28am on 15/06/2025 under , ,
Murderbot: Good ep! spoilers )


Resident Alien: Good ep! spoilers )
spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
I hit Price Chopper, the Pharmacy and the Bakery while I was downtown. I stopped at the library on the way home to pick up a book. I made spaghetti sauce for supper when I got home. I did a load of laundry, the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, and scooped kitty litter.

For fun stuff I watched the current ep of Resident Alien and some HGTV programs, read some more Lily Adler, and sent more messages to mom. I also wrote ~550 words on a new fic.

Temps started out at 55.0(F) and reached 61.2. It was originally supposed to rain all day, but the forecast showed that the percentage was going to drop to very low after 9am, though we weren’t going to have any sun. And that’s sort of what happened; there were still sprinkles, but not a soaking rain. Still it was very chilly.


Mom Update:

Mom had been moved to the SCU when my sister, A, arrived this morning. She’s talkative and actually ‘eating’ her lunch (beef broth and Italian ice – still on liquid diet). My sister said she’s much more herself today, which is great news! She’s getting a roommate, which is not good news as we were hoping for a private room, but what can you do. They didn’t get her up to walk at all, so that must’ve been PT coming around yesterday, not just the nurse. It’s ridiculous that the patients get zero PT on the weekend. Seems like they'd lose some of the progress they made.
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posted by [personal profile] china_shop at 06:00pm on 15/06/2025 under
Does anyone know where referring to diamonds dismissively as "the most boring form of carbon" is from? We picked it up somewhere (movie, tv, or book), and now we can't even remember if it was an ordinary character being geeky and pedantic, or a supernatural being eye-rolling at a human.

It could even have been Douglas Adams, except then I'm pretty sure a) I'd be able to identify it, and/or b) it would come up in an internet search.
mific: (Natasha)
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America, The Avengers
Characters/Pairings: Natasha Romanov/Maria Hill, James 'Bucky' Barnes/Steve Rogers, James 'Bucky' Barnes/Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Nick Fury, Phil Coulsen, various MCU characters
Rating: Mature
Length: 04:21:03 (41,322 words)
Content Notes: Graphic depictions of violence, abuse of children by the Red Room, recollection of past pet death
Creator Links: Quietnight on the Audiofic Archive, Quietnight on AO3, notcaycepollard on AO3
Themes: Female relationships, Action/adventure, Families of choice, Time travel, Fix-it

Summary: The fall is longer than Natasha expects.

It’s tears cold on her face, teeth bitten all the way through her lip and the taste of copper in her mouth; she’s falling and falling and then, bracing for impact—she wakes up.

Reccer's Notes: This is one of my favourite podfics by one of my favourite podficcers, and it's a tour de force. It's a long story by notcaycepollard that puts right Natasha's death with the soul stone - instead of dying she's sent back in time to the moment in her Red Room training she most regrets, and from that moment lives her life anew and, with her knowledge of the first time around, is able to fix the worst, most tragic disasters and losses of canon. It starts with Natasha rescuing her sister trainee black widows from the Red Room, plus Bucky the Winter Soldier who's there as well. There's a lovely, slow-burn relationship with Maria Hill in the story, but the key relationships for Natasha are with her sisters, aged from a four-year-old to teenagers when they escape, and the podfic's centre is the found family they create. The fix-it aspects are enormously satisfying and Quietnight's reading is, as ever, nuanced and fluent, beautifully performed - including all the Russian names and words, and a pleasure to listen to. An epic story and a wonderful podfic, stirring and heartwarming, and infinitely better than canon.

Fanwork Links: when i die i’ll sacrifice (more than enough for the afterlife) on the Audiofic Archive, and on AO3
(the fic is the first in a series of three stories)

June 14th, 2025
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posted by [personal profile] case in [community profile] fandomsecrets at 03:56pm on 14/06/2025
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posted by [personal profile] tafadhali in [community profile] vidding at 02:22pm on 14/06/2025 under
[personal profile] periru3 and I have posted the first two vids in our ongoing vid album Jagged Little Slayer, a mashup of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Alanis Morissette:


Title:
 All I Really Want
Character/Pairing: Buffy-centric, minor Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Faith, Buffy/Spike
Summary: Here, can you handle this?
Notes: Premiered at VidUKon 2025.

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Title:
 Hand in My Pocket
Character/Pairing: Scoobies gen
Summary: Everything's gonna be quite alright.

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posted by [personal profile] feurioo in [community profile] tv_talk at 03:53pm on 14/06/2025 under ,
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