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Love Between Fairy and Devil, Vol. 1 by Jiu Lu Fei Xiang (translated by Yu):

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Kei × Yaku: Bound by Law 6 by Kaoruhara Yoshie (translated by Leo McDonagh):

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Star Trek Discovery and the Female Gothic: Tell Fear No by Carey Millsap-Spears:

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faith_girl222

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musesfool

So I did watch the last couple of episodes of Elsbeth and enjoyed them a lot. ( spoilers )

Mets have won 2 ugly games from the Pirates. Let's hope they take the third one tomorrow, too. And the Knicks! Wow!

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Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Mets post game show

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agonyaunt

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china_shop

Everything else is on hold while I work on my 520 Day fic. (I'm on an extension!) In the meantime:

Poll #33120 this only got political-adjacent by accident, I swear

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 54

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Eggs

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hard boiled
33 (61.1%)

soft boiled
24 (44.4%)

sunny-side up
21 (38.9%)

over easy
28 (51.9%)

poached
24 (44.4%)

meringue
15 (27.8%)

none
2 (3.7%)

other
22 (40.7%)

ticky-box full of deadlines
13 (24.1%)

ticky-box full of the road to Hell is paved with broken handcarts
14 (25.9%)

ticky-box full of starfish constellations on an empty beach at dawn
24 (44.4%)

ticky-box full of tuning a guitar to match gibbon hoots and seeing where that takes you
9 (16.7%)

ticky-box of how do we feel about the hyphen in "sunny-side up"?
18 (33.3%)

ticky-box full of much hugs
40 (74.1%)

pushkin666

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Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: on my Chandler/Joey chair
Current Music: Eurovision Semi Final 1

troyswann

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Current Mood: accomplished

troyswann

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sixbeforelunch

Watch on YouTube

I can vouch for the fact that Sunbasin makes good soap. I use Enigma (unscented) and it works great. Yes, it's pricy for a bar of soap, but it actually reduced the amount of products I was buying overall because it's gentle enough to work as face soap¹ so I stopped buying a separate facial cleaner. I also use their shampoo bars, specifically the juniper pine and rosemary mint. I get it as a subscription, three soap bars and two shampoo bars mailed very three months², which is convenient, and now my shower is so much less cluttered, with only a soap bar, a shampoo bar, and a bottle of conditioner.

The socks are also nice. I don't subscribe, but I have occasionally bought a pair on clearance. The quality is good, and I appreciate that they have more than one size.

But even if you're not in the market for soap or socks, the video is worth watching if just for a bit of happy news about what can happen when people actually care about something and work to make it better.

¹ Your skin may vary. FWIW, I have what I would describe as sensitive but not very sensitive or problem skin. I don't have any specific skin conditions that I'm managing.

² My last order in March cost me $54.90 including tax and shipping (shipping was free) which works out to $18.30/month over 3 months which seems like a reasonable amount to spend on luxury shower products.

petra

I Speak Six Languages is a song about the weight of overachieving from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a musical by William Finn.

I think it would make a good song for my beleaguered blorbo, who gets saddled with a problem child when he's 25, paracanonically speaks a lot of languages, and is the master of a subclass of his martial art.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: I don't like to brag, and I won't 'cause I don't have to

princessofgeeks

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petra

The first stage of grief (500 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala
Additional Tags: Drabble Sequence, Overhearing Sex, Denial, Obi-Wan Kenobi's A+ Parenting, A+ Jedi Pedagogy
Summary:

Obi-Wan inadvertently listens to Anakin and Padmé having sex multiple times and concludes that it's no big deal.

Current Mood: la la la i can't hear you
Current Music: She wouldn't/Therefore they didn't/So then it wasn't, not unless it -- would he?

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ourflagmeansgay

A roundup of the stories I wrote for the recent Kiss Fang Weekend:

Title: Primal
Relationship: Fang/Izzy
Rating: Teen
Word Count: ~800
Content Info: Contains descriptions of werewolves butchering and eating an animal carcass.
Summary: Werewolf AU: In the aftermath of losing his leg and leader, Izzy can't help but swoon when Fang provides for the pack.
Notes: Prompt: Trope Thursday (Theme Your Art or Fic to a Trope)
DW: https://delphi.dreamwidth.org/642764.html
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65387767

Title: Hungry
Relationship: Fang/Roach
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 200
Content Info: n/a
Summary: A good cook tastes his food, and an appreciative diner kisses the cook.
Notes: Prompt: Captains on Vacation (Any Pairing/Combo Minus Ed/Stede/Izzy)
DW: https://delphi.dreamwidth.org/642866.html
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65412787

Title: Starstruck
Relationship: Fang/Izzy
Rating: General
Word Count: 400
Content Info: Genderplay
Summary: Fang is favoured with a kiss from his favourite performer.
Notes: Prompt: Kiss Fang
DW: https://delphi.dreamwidth.org/643076.html
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65441434

Title: Ample
Relationship: Archie/Fang/Frenchie/Izzy/Jim
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: ~1100
Content Info: Size Difference/Size Kink
Summary: In which there is plenty of Fang to go around.
Notes: Prompt: Fang in the Middle (Fang Gets Kissed by Two People)
DW: https://delphi.dreamwidth.org/643562.html
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65475781

rmc28

I managed to kick my cold enough to play the ice hockey tournament Saturday and Sunday afternoons. One of my teammates gave me a lift from Cambridge rink to Romford each day. It's an easy drive and we get on well, and the tournament itself was great fun. Exhausting, but fun and definitely great for developing and improving play. The other four teams playing were pretty friendly and we made some connections and enthusiasm for playing more games against each other as individual teams.

Unfortunately my ride home got injured in the last few seconds of the last game of the tournament on Sunday evening, a "needs A&E and good drugs" level injury. So I went with him to the local A&E on the grounds they'd probably want a responsible non-drugged adult to get him home, and it'd only be a few hours, right? Ahahaha, it was 16 hours before we got out and it was not a good experience.

I got no sleep at all but at least got plenty of rest sitting on terrible waiting room chairs and plenty of time to stretch and loosen up as my body started to notice all the ways it was sore after playing the tournament. My injured buddy was left in serious pain for over 6 hours, but when he was finally treated he was able to sleep a fair bit in the hospital bed while we waited in assorted places to get assorted scans and tests done that were apparently necessary to discharge him, but not necessary to do with any urgency or information about how long each step would take. Beds in corridors everywhere, a "ward" that was simply a closed off section of corridor where beds were stashed holding people waiting for scans and tests, not a lot of dignity and just no urgency at all about pain management. My buddy was very stoic but shouldn't have had to be.

Also neither of us had showered between "playing lots of ice hockey" and "showing up at A&E", so very sorry to anyone who had to sit too near either of us.

I got a very minimal amount of work done today on my phone from the hospital, but went to bed for a few hours as soon as I finally got home and feel more human now. I will have to figure out whether I take leave for today or make up the effort elsewhere in the week. But that is a problem for tomorrow; tonight I'm hoping to reset my sleep schedule by going to bed on time.

pushkin666

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little_details

Hello! I'm currently working on a project for a character who is a amateur (but enthusiastic) cartographer. They exist in the world of Outer Wilds, a game with multiple simulated planets(none more than a few kilometers in diameter). The simulated planets each have their own gimmicks (i.e Brittle Hollow, a hollow planet with a black hole in the center. Its crust falls into the black hole during gameplay, and most of what you can explore is under the crust).
How might I go about mapping these places in a way that'd be accurate and believable in the sense that my character could have drawn them up while exploring? What sort of notes should I be taking?

asakiyume

A tale of two rivers. Here's high waters on the Amazon....

And here's high waters on the Connecticut. This road (Aqua Vitae Road! Great name!) floods easily:

The speed limit sign enjoins you to drive your water-worthy car no faster than 25 mph:

The high waters create our very own "selva inundada"

Current Music: Dirk Powell and the Transatlantic Musicians: Waterbound

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DEAR ABBY: I haven't had a holiday with my grown daughter, "Charly," since she left the state 12 years ago. When she came out as a lesbian, I wasn't very accepting and didn't handle it well. I have since apologized.

Charly and her partner refuse to visit here unless I allow them to share the same bed in my house. I say they can't tell me what to do in my own home, just as I can't tell them what to do in theirs. I stayed with them once, and they slept in the same bed. Now they no longer invite me to stay there. Charly told me her partner is uncomfortable with anyone staying there.

I haven't spoken to my daughter about their relationship in many years. My heart is broken. I don't get any holidays with them, but her partner's parents are there every year and live in the next neighborhood. I don't understand. Any suggestions? -- MISSING HER IN TEXAS

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Dear Eric: I grew up with highly educated parents, with a strong work ethic. Because of my and my also well-educated and accomplished husband’s many years of hard work, we have been able to provide well for our children. Unfortunately, all of them have had health difficulties from birth, and instead of growing and recovering, they each developed long-term substance abuse. They barely got their high school diplomas and only one has made it through two years of college and wants to give up because she is tired of trying.

Meanwhile, my husband and I have continued to work hard to cover all their needs. We are way past retirement age and have our own health problems. We are exhausted. And very worried about our children who seem incapable and uninterested in supporting themselves.

How on earth are they all going to be able to manage? We feel sure any money they inherit will disappear because they are ignorant of investing, taxes, managing finances, adverse to chores, etc., and refuse to learn. They all used to be smart enough but now they seem so stupid. (We get along and even have laughs but can’t connect on anything serious or important.) We are wondering how we can leave our hard-earned money to them just for them to waste it and continue to decline in the way they already are?

How can we persuade our adult children to go to and complete college and become financially literate (and responsible) despite being older? Two are working at menial jobs and one will be limited in his job prospects, and one is not working at all.

It’s painful to spend time with them because we don’t have any interests or values in common, and they are completely uninterested and ignorant about almost any subject. We are grieving and we are ashamed of our children; their former schoolmates are growing and thriving. Are we asking too much or too little?

– Disappointed Parent

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you were supposed to be with him!

sinking away from him

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Proof of life

Fic - Where Your Eyes Land - The Lost Boys (1987)

Sky Whales: art art art and words and art

Pegasus B

signal boost: some good news among all the bad

Vids that will never be: Obi-Wan speaks six languages

Smiley's People from the BBC, etc.

The first stage of grief - Star Wars story, Padmé/Anakin

new K-pop art: Taemin from SHINee

4 x Fang Fics

90% of the weekend was great ...

Fic - Born Wrong - My Chemical Romance - Gerard/Mikey

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LW, you're lucky your daughter even talks to you

Is it just me or are these parents awful?

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