Daily Happiness

Nov. 13th, 2025 06:58 pm
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1. I had late afternoon meetings today, but both were by web, so rather than take them at work and then get home later, I came home early and took them at home, which worked out nicely.

2. Carla made egg salad and we had sandwiches for dinner and they were very tasty. Had some zesty yuzu potato chips with them, which I brought home from work the other day, and those were also very tasty.

3. I always see people doing Throwback Thursday photos after I've already uploaded my cat photo for the day, but today I remembered before uploading! Look how cuddly Molly and Chloe were when they were babies!

Podfic!

Nov. 13th, 2025 08:18 pm
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[Podfic] Beginning, Middle, and Continuing (18 words) by peasina
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Deanna Troi/Tasha Yar
Characters: Deanna Troi, Tasha Yar
Additional Tags: Developing Relationship, Slice of Life, Podfic, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes
Summary:

Deanna has an encounter with Tasha that sets in motion a slow slide to more.

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I'm very pleased to report that the most recent Penric & Desdemona novella, "Testimony of Mute Things", has just been licensed to Blackstone Audiobooks for its usual production. Narrator is again expected to be Grover Gardner.

No, I don't know when it will emerge from the other end of the production pipeline; prior experience suggests 2 to 6 months, probabilities leaning to the shorter end.

Re-using Ron Miller's art, which they've been doing for a while, should help speed things up on their vendor-page assembly. I've no idea what arcana is involved in recording, except I'm glad it's them and not me.

Subterranean Press has also offered for the novella. They'll have a much longer lead-time, probably into 2027, so breath-holding is contraindicated. I did get a look at Lauren Saint-Onge's final art for their upcoming "The Adventure of the Demonic Ox", which is particularly lovely this round. Publication sometime in the first half of 2026, I don't have a date yet. (Or the 1300 tip sheets to be signed, another necessary precursor. That will be a nice brainless task for this winter.)

Ta, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on November, 13

Wednesday What I'm...

Nov. 13th, 2025 02:08 pm
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On a Thursday! And for the first time in several weeks! I have not been on top of things...

Reading
  • I DNF'd No Body No Crime by Tess Sharpe. I just couldn't bring myself to care about the characters or their relationship and I was not digging the back and forth timeline.
  • I started reading The Language of Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy by Ursula K. Le Guin. I thought this would be really interesting, but I'm not really vibing with Le Guin's takes on writing and genre, so I think it's another DNF.
  • I finished Lirael by Garth Nix! So funny that nothing really resolves at all, but it's still my favorite in the series.
  • Ficwise, I have... not really read anything much tbh. Nothing's sounded very appealing lately, so I've just been clearing out things I'll never actually read from my to be read list.
Watching
  • The roommate and I finished Bad Buddy. I liked it a lot! The amount of scent kink was surprising but fun, and I loved seeing Jimmy. It was a little sad going into it knowing OhmNanon is no more because I did enjoy them together.
  • The roommate and I watched Bites of Promise. Which is not a real show, just a webseries that's an ad for Korean fried chicken, but it did have GeminiFourth so.
  • The roommate and I watched Enchante. What a wild show, at least in the last two episodes lol Otherwise my favorite version of ForceBook though. Force getting to be silly was great. Also loved Gawin and pre-AouBoom AouBoom.
  • The roommate and I watched ThamePo Heart That Skips a Beat. I really wanted to see more of the boys from LYKN, and this so did not disappoint! So cute and fun! Loved the WilliamEst of it (though I will certainly argue for EstWilliam...), but Nut is the one who really stole my heart lol
  • The roommate and I watched Kidnap. Another show that was sad going in knowing OhmLeng is no more, and honestly maybe even sadder because I liked Leng with Ohm even more than Nanon with him. (And finding out bits about why both the breakups... oof.) This was much lighter fare than I was expecting from the premise, but I liked it a lot.
  • The roommate and I watched Sweet Tooth, Good Dentist. Incredibly silly show, but fun, no matter what the haters say. I love Mark, even if I'm not 100% sold on MarkOhm yet. The less than five minutes of JimmySea might have been the best part though lol
  • The roommate, best friend, and I finished Revamp the Undead Story. I know a lot of people were disappointed by the ending, but I thought it was fine. It was a good show overall! Plus surprise werewolf!Junior with Mark at the end?? That makes up for anything for me lmao Fingers so crossed for a season 2.
  • The roommate, best friend, and I finished Khemjira. Very spooky and fun show! I loved FirstOne as Jet so much, what a cutie. Super excited for the special next year.
  • The roommate, best friend, and I started watching Goddess Bless You From Death. There's only two episodes out so far, but it's been good. Very Hannibal vibes, plus the actual supernatural shit, so I'm having fun.
  • The roommate, best friend, and I started watching My Golden Blood. I was so excited to finally see JossGawin and they have not disappointed so far. We're halfway through and I'm intrigued to see where things are going.
  • The roommate, best friend, and I watched the latest episodes of That Summer. It continues to be great. I have way more Lava feels than I was expecting lol Only two episodes to go, and it looks like shit's really going to be going down!
  • The roommate and I went to see Frankenstein in theaters. Pretty good. Beautiful, of course, considering del Toro's aesthetic. He did change quite a few things, but I felt like it still felt closer to the book than a lot of other adaptations.
  • The roommate and I have watched like... maybe an episode and a half collectively of AEW in the past month. It's just not doing it for us right now :/
Listening
  • I continue to listen to pretty much exclusively t-pop. Starting to branch out into some of the girl groups as well as the boy groups! Mirror Mirror by VIIS has been stuck in my head a lot lately.
Writing
  • I got my [community profile] seasonsofdrabbles assignment done pretty early this round, feeling good about that.
  • I started on my [community profile] omegaverseexchange assignment and it's going pretty well. I've got a couple more days until it's due, so I just need to buckle down and get through the sex scene.
  • Wrote some more on the ArmTae fic I started in September. Honestly I really want to get through all my open assignments so I have time to get back to it lol
  • Wrote a ficlet for Fic or Treat!
  • I've gotten a pretty good start on my [community profile] yuletide assignment. It's a fandom I don't think I've written for, so I was struggling with it at first, but I think it's going well now.

thursday

Nov. 13th, 2025 01:40 pm
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The view this afternoon from my window. It's been lovely lying on my bed with intermittent clouds and then the sun flooding in and warming me. Watching the clouds float over is relaxing. I'm glad I got the window bed. I'm done with my tests (echocardiogram and stress test) and am just waiting to hear the results of the stress test so I can go home this afternoon. I doubt there will be a problem. Thank you everyone for your good wishes! It'll be good to get home to Dave, Little Rainy, Andy, Skye and the chickens. I am feeling a greater appreciation for them at the moment.
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AO3 Link | Not Babysitting (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) [2020]
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Renee Montoya, Dinah Laurel Lance
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:

With Dinah hurt, Renee keeps watch






Renee played with the beer bottle in that way she had when she really didn't know what to say.

Dinah turned her head that way, one eye still shut. "Don't have to babysit me. I'm not nine anymore."

"Ain't about that, chica," Renee rasped out. "It's about standing with my chosen family, and yeah, maybe it's about picking up the pieces I dropped then."

Dinah closed the eye that was still working. "You couldn't have protected me this time, either. I chose it."

"Maybe. Doesn't mean I'm willing to step out on you."

Dinah half-smiled. "Alright then."

"Damn straight, alright."

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Nov. 13th, 2025 08:05 am
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This was another off-duty day for me, as sister S was once again taking mom to her appointment. I hit the Pharmacy while I was downtown and dropped off a car insurance payment to State Farm. (Convenient, as they’re located in the same ‘mall’.) I stopped at the bank drive-thru on the way home and Stewart’s (for gas and milk) on the way to pick up the dogs. At home I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter. We had hot dogs for supper. I have a feeling there won't be very much grilling going on from here on out (although the temps are supposed to hit the 40s next week, so maybe . . .)

I had breakfast at Burger King this morning. I was talking to myself as if explaining the process as I was opening the ketchup packets because I often get ketchup on my fingers. So I’m on the last one and I’m like, push the ketchup away from the arrow thingy so when you rip it open you don’t get ketchup all over your fingers. Yes, success! And then I immediately dropped the ketchup packet into the pile of ketchup already on the tray. I clean up the mess that results from me having to pick up the ketchup-covered packet and then shake my OJ, only to get it all over because I hadn’t put the cap back on tightly. I was like, what even is this morning?!!

I typed in all of the transcript notes I’d taken for Top Gun: Maverick, and watched a Hallmark Christmas movie and some HGTV programs.

Temps started out at 32.4(F) and reached 41.2. Both temps again higher than forecasted by a few degrees; it’s not much, but I’ll take it. At one point we even had a little sun.


Mom Update:

Mom sounded good when I talked to her. more )
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Buzzing
Written by Samuel Sattin with art by Rye Hickman

Description
A moving middle grade graphic novel about friendship, belonging, and learning to love yourself despite the voices in your head.

Isaac Itkin can't get away from his thoughts.

As a lonely twelve-year-old kid with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), everything from studying to looking in the mirror becomes a battle between him and a swarm of unhelpful thoughts.

The strict therapy his mother insists on doesn't seem to be working, but when a group of friends invites him to join their after-school role-playing game, the thoughts feel a little less loud, and the world feels a little brighter.

But Isaac's therapist says that exposure to games can have negative effects on kids with OCD, and when his grades slip, his helicopter mother won't let him play anymore. Now Isaac needs to find a way to prove to himself, to his mother, and to the world that the way to quiet the noise in his head may have been inside him all along.

Review
This book has the best depiction of intrusive thoughts I've ever seen. Issac's OCD is represented by cartoon bees that swarm his head, saying awful (and often repetitive things). The bees can become fewer in number when Isaac is interested in something and if something (or someone!) is really engaging they can disappear completely. Or if things are going badly, they can swarm Isaac and drown out almost everything else.

Isaac's friends are a great comfort to him and he's most animated and engaged when he's with them. In contrast, he shuts down when he's with his overbearing mother and hateful sister. The art does an amazing job of reflecting it, with the colour literally leeching from the panels when Isaac's family are present. As someone who grew up with a mental illness in a shitful Family of Origin, this all feels so real and believeable. The mother especially is a hall-mark 'doing my best' but actually ignores the emotional needs of both her children, constantly criticises them and has a sour comment for every interaction.

Unfortunately its this strong identify I have with Isaac that makes the ending fall really flat for me.
Spoilers hereAfter spending half the book despising Isaac, his sister suddenly decides to help him connect with his friends after his mother bans him from hanging out with them. And then at the end the mother puts aside her over-bearing self-absorbtion and starts taking an interest in Isaac and his hobbies, letting him hang out with his friends again and is generally a totally different person.
If you've ever dealt with schemas in Family of Origin you'll know that those roles don't just get thrown aside on a whim. So... I didn't like the ending. But it's a middle grade book. Isaac growing up, moving out, finally getting therapy and going no contact was not an option. Shame though, because I would read the hell out of that.

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Nov. 12th, 2025 09:01 pm
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1. Weather change has knocked me over. That's possibly unfair to the weather change as I've been knocked over since I had covid in August. I should make a doctor's appointment about it, except I don't have the brain bandwidth to make it. I need to make several different doctor's appointments and just can't make myself do it. (ADHD and chronic fatigue make for a fun combination.)

2. Pulled down and uprooted the black eyed pea plants. They've been dead for a few weeks and I've been grabbing the pods as they dry out. No more pods for a few days so it's time for the dead plants to go. (Did find a few pods while pulling down the vines.) About a third of the vines got cut up and put into the composter. Stopped about there due to combination of blister forming on my finger and running out of room.

3. It's not seasonal depression when it's been ongoing for more than a year, but I've fallen deeper into the hole since the time change. ("this is not your grave, get out of this hole.") I'd been doing better. The backslide is hitting me almost as hard as the increased bad brain.

Daily Happiness

Nov. 12th, 2025 07:05 pm
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1. My evening meeting got cancelled today, so that was nice.

2. The rain isn't supposed to start until late night tomorrow, but both yesterday and today have been super overcast. I took an after lunch walk today and it was muggy, which was less than ideal, but still very nice to be able to take a walk without the sun blazing down.

3. Carla wanted to go to Disneyland today and get that bulgogi baked potato one more time before it's gone (hopefully just for the season and will be back again next year), so she went down for a solo trip for lunch and had a really nice time. Since it's between holiday seasons, it's a little less crowded right now, especially on weekdays (I'm sure it got busy with the after school/work crowd but she was gone before then), and it was nice and overcast down there, too.

4. Ollie getting his mall portrait taken again.

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Like many circus students, my sense of what's typical/standard in terms of fitness and body type is skewed by my surroundings -- and this is perhaps made even more so since I started taking more private lessons in the daytime, although I still see my fellow students around too. I am, in short, surrounded by professional circus teachers, all of whom are strong and capable. If I log on to Instagram, I see yoga teachers and mobility bros and handstand teachers doing highlight-reel stuff, and these are all beautiful and strong and capable.

Sometimes this can indeed make me feel a little bit sub-par, not in a self-hating way but just matter-of-factly. Then I go out on the street and remember what "average" is, or someone compliments me at the gym, and I'm like: oh yeah. I'm actually super athletic and not-a-beginner.

But you know what's funny? I like living in my curated world where many beautiful people can do these difficult, gravity-defying things, and where I get to watch them. I like how many of them are sharing, whether it's the beautiful things themselves or the drills that helped them get the skills. It makes me feel like people are awesome, and keeps me inspired.

Does it help that I am looking at things I could theoretically learn, rather than at things one basically has to be born with? Or is this just being in my 40s, not my teens? I know that Instagram and the like can make people feel truly awful, and that there are real dangers to the comparison game.

(I had a nice handstand lesson this morning, in which Spring and I worked on my jumps. My jumps, truly, lag behind the rest of my skills, but we were able to slow them down and regress, and work with my new understanding of the rib cage. And they started to feel better! We also did a lot of very detailed ab work, inverted on the shoulderstand device, which has generally not felt helpful but which did feel helpful today. I have hope. All of that predated the thoughts above, which came about when I was practicing acro with my partner and we talked about Instagram.)

Wednesday Reading Meme

Nov. 12th, 2025 04:45 pm
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What I Just Finished Reading

Diane Duane, Dark Mirror: Reviewed here.

Avengers Disassembled: Reread this for 616 Book Club; giving myself credit because otherwise I will not make my Goodreads goal.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

1776 #1, Fantastic Four #5, Iron and Frost #2, New Avengers #6, Ultimate Black Panther #22, Ultimate Wolverine #11 )

What I'm Reading Next

Not sure yet.

FUGA: Melodies of Steel - Stalemate

Nov. 12th, 2025 07:45 pm
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Title: Stalemate
Fandom: FUGA: Melodies of Steel
Characters/Ships: Baum/Stollen
Rating: PG-13/slash
Note: potential spoilers


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