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Main Fandoms: X-Men movies (I'm super hyperfixated on Quicksilver, who my username references), Wandavision, Criminal Minds, My Chemical Romance
Other Fandoms: Doctor Who, Evanescence, Muse, BBC Sherlock, Moulin Rouge!, Percy Jackson, Arrested Development, Succession, Barry, IDK How But They Found Me, Pride and Prejudice, Autumn's Grey Solace, and lots of Broadway shows (Les Miserables, Heathers, etc).
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About Me/Other Info: I'm AuDHD and have dysautonomia and hypermobility, so sometimes I'll talk about that. Other interests that I have besides fandom stuff include psychology, philosophy, disability studies, sewing, drawing, writing (usually fanfiction), photography, gothic architecture/decor, fashion (especially styles like dark academia or anything that incorporates victorian elements), and playing electric bass.
on the bright side
Aug. 20th, 2025 11:59 pmmarycatelliWent back and set up the opening more.
Fortunately, I realized that the next stage of action can kick off immediately now. The drama was pent up.
Fortunately, I realized that the next stage of action can kick off immediately now. The drama was pent up.
Unraveller - Francis Hardinge
Aug. 20th, 2025 07:12 pmsholioI haven't read Hardinge in ages, so I'm catching up some of her books I missed. I started with this one, and really enjoyed it! Although it's not specifically similar to it, I was reminded of Fly By Night in its general vibe - not as dark as some of her books (... I say this about a book in which with entertainingly unhinged worldbuilding including a kingdom partly ruled by spiders, and kid protagonists caught up in adult politics in which they're not sure which of the various morally gray adults around them they can trust.
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one protagonist's brother ate her sister and that's not even the worst trauma of her life),( Basic setup/characters/etc )
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wednesday books are all over time
Aug. 20th, 2025 07:16 pmlandofnowhereV. busy right now preparing for upcoming travel, but I did not post last week and probably will be too busy the next two weeks also, so I should catch up on books.
Bartholomew Fair, Ben Jonson. I read this in college, and all I can remember of the experience of reading it is that I was on the bus home from Thanksgiving. As with all public domain plays, I was reading this with half an eye as to whether it would make a good readaloud, and I think the answer is probably not; I suspect it actually works best on stage with actors who can get the characters across.
A Tale of Time City, Diana Wynne Jones. Hugo Award winning (!) podcast Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones released its episode on this book over the weekend. At some point I should actually try listening to the podcast, but I'm a text/instant gratification person, so I started reading, and midway through when they moved from the part of the book that is mostly setting to the part that is plot, decided I should reread the book before continuing, and fortunately realized that I had a copy in a box of books I hadn't unpacked. Things that struck me this read around: it is so very much a Diana Wynne Jones book, both in writing style and in themes. Vivian gets to be physically aggressive with the butter-pies, and I feel uncomfortable reading that. This is the sort of time travel book that doesn't fuss much about language barriers (aslannamichaels would say, everyone has the metaphorical fish in their ear); we know that Time City has developed its own writing system, which mainly exists for the purpose of the one hilarious translation scene, but everyone in Time City and the various bits of history we see is talking recognizable English.
A Nursery in the Nineties, Eleanor Farjeon. I know Farjeon as the author of Morning is Broken, and of Cats Sleep Everywhere, and for her novel The Glass Slipper that I read when I was about 8 or 9. Recently I was listening to a classical album with a track by her brother Harry Farjeon, and that caused me to look the entire family up on wikipedia, and they are incredibly fascinating. This is Eleanor's book about her family history and childhood.
The story so far: Benjamin Farjeon, Eleanor's father, ran off from his Orthodox Jewish family to make a fortune in Australia and New Zealand. After having set himself up there as a successful newspaper man, he receives a kind rejection letter from Charles Dickens and takes this as a signal that he should move back to England and start a literary career, which is remarkably successful (despite Dickens dying too early to be of any help). Meanwhile, Margaret Jefferson, Eleanor's mother, descended from a long line of popular actors, grows up in the US around the time of the Civil War. As a young woman she reads one of Benjamin's books and decides it is the best book ever -- now she is about to go to England where they will presumably meet and fall in love!
Bartholomew Fair, Ben Jonson. I read this in college, and all I can remember of the experience of reading it is that I was on the bus home from Thanksgiving. As with all public domain plays, I was reading this with half an eye as to whether it would make a good readaloud, and I think the answer is probably not; I suspect it actually works best on stage with actors who can get the characters across.
A Tale of Time City, Diana Wynne Jones. Hugo Award winning (!) podcast Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones released its episode on this book over the weekend. At some point I should actually try listening to the podcast, but I'm a text/instant gratification person, so I started reading, and midway through when they moved from the part of the book that is mostly setting to the part that is plot, decided I should reread the book before continuing, and fortunately realized that I had a copy in a box of books I hadn't unpacked. Things that struck me this read around: it is so very much a Diana Wynne Jones book, both in writing style and in themes. Vivian gets to be physically aggressive with the butter-pies, and I feel uncomfortable reading that. This is the sort of time travel book that doesn't fuss much about language barriers (as
lannamichaels would say, everyone has the metaphorical fish in their ear); we know that Time City has developed its own writing system, which mainly exists for the purpose of the one hilarious translation scene, but everyone in Time City and the various bits of history we see is talking recognizable English. A Nursery in the Nineties, Eleanor Farjeon. I know Farjeon as the author of Morning is Broken, and of Cats Sleep Everywhere, and for her novel The Glass Slipper that I read when I was about 8 or 9. Recently I was listening to a classical album with a track by her brother Harry Farjeon, and that caused me to look the entire family up on wikipedia, and they are incredibly fascinating. This is Eleanor's book about her family history and childhood.
The story so far: Benjamin Farjeon, Eleanor's father, ran off from his Orthodox Jewish family to make a fortune in Australia and New Zealand. After having set himself up there as a successful newspaper man, he receives a kind rejection letter from Charles Dickens and takes this as a signal that he should move back to England and start a literary career, which is remarkably successful (despite Dickens dying too early to be of any help). Meanwhile, Margaret Jefferson, Eleanor's mother, descended from a long line of popular actors, grows up in the US around the time of the Civil War. As a young woman she reads one of Benjamin's books and decides it is the best book ever -- now she is about to go to England where they will presumably meet and fall in love!
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wednesday reads and things
Aug. 20th, 2025 04:11 pmisisWhat I've recently finished reading:
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett, which, it's the third book in the series, so if you like this series you will probably like this book. I particularly enjoyed the trope (which is not uncommon - it's also an element of the Invisible Library series, for example) that the Fae are governed by tales and stories, so the things that happen in their kingdoms generally follow the well-known structures of fairy tales. I also appreciated that the story wrapped around to include elements of the first book.
What I'm reading now:
My hold on Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio came in, and - I can't remember why I put a hold on this book? Did one of you recommend it? I've started it but I am not finding the style particularly engaging. I'll stick with it for a while, though.
What I've recently finished watching:
Untamed, about which I must agree withtreewishes's assessment: "Excellent scenery and interesting characters, the plot, um." The drone shots of Yosemite are spectacular! The action taking place in meadows with cliffs in the background is beautiful! The very beginning has some really fingernail-biting rock climbing (both B and I, who used to climb, muttered at the total sketchiness of one of the placements...) and overall the scenery is just gorgeous. The characters and the way they interact, their backstories and their drama and trauma, are definitely interesting. The plot, um. I have a lot of niggling criticisms, like, there is no way an LA cop would be able to easily transfer to a park ranger job! There is no way an experienced law enforcement officer would go confront a dangerous person without backup! I am side-eyeing the idea of a hippie encampment being on park land and not cleared the hell out of there immediately they found it! I can't imagine a park far from major cities being a hub for [spoilers redacted]! But mostly it's just a ridiculously convoluted plot for the sake of ridiculous convolutions.
Apparently there will be a second season, but I have no idea what they are going to keep constant from the first - the people, the setting, ???
What I'm still playing:
I'm still playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and it's still entertaining.
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett, which, it's the third book in the series, so if you like this series you will probably like this book. I particularly enjoyed the trope (which is not uncommon - it's also an element of the Invisible Library series, for example) that the Fae are governed by tales and stories, so the things that happen in their kingdoms generally follow the well-known structures of fairy tales. I also appreciated that the story wrapped around to include elements of the first book.
What I'm reading now:
My hold on Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio came in, and - I can't remember why I put a hold on this book? Did one of you recommend it? I've started it but I am not finding the style particularly engaging. I'll stick with it for a while, though.
What I've recently finished watching:
Untamed, about which I must agree with
treewishes's assessment: "Excellent scenery and interesting characters, the plot, um." The drone shots of Yosemite are spectacular! The action taking place in meadows with cliffs in the background is beautiful! The very beginning has some really fingernail-biting rock climbing (both B and I, who used to climb, muttered at the total sketchiness of one of the placements...) and overall the scenery is just gorgeous. The characters and the way they interact, their backstories and their drama and trauma, are definitely interesting. The plot, um. I have a lot of niggling criticisms, like, there is no way an LA cop would be able to easily transfer to a park ranger job! There is no way an experienced law enforcement officer would go confront a dangerous person without backup! I am side-eyeing the idea of a hippie encampment being on park land and not cleared the hell out of there immediately they found it! I can't imagine a park far from major cities being a hub for [spoilers redacted]! But mostly it's just a ridiculously convoluted plot for the sake of ridiculous convolutions.Apparently there will be a second season, but I have no idea what they are going to keep constant from the first - the people, the setting, ???
What I'm still playing:
I'm still playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and it's still entertaining.
[migraine] peripheral vision nonsense
Aug. 20th, 2025 10:54 pmkaberettThe thing about buying new glasses, right, is that I've been feeling avoidant about it in part because I think I was slightly migrainey the day I had the most recent test done and I was already pretty sure that my vision goes... wrong... when migrainey -- most noticeable when moving, but always... there.
Slightly more specifically: it's neither scintillating scotoma nor loss-of-whole-field-of-vision nor any of the other very classic visual auras; instead it's a sense that I'm not managing to track movement properly along the lower edge and especially the lower corners of my field of vision.
... which matches up really well, actually, with the peripheral vision deficiencies that, er, showed up during my last eye test.
I've been noticing the Weirdness on-and-off for quite some time now, and was dithering back and forth about whether it was just confirmation bias in that I was only noticing it when otherwise migrainey -- but then on Monday, while on my way to my GP surgery to pick up some paperwork, it resulted in the railings I was going past (and that I go past regularly!) causing an extremely pronounced and unmistakeable strobing effect. I am very confident that that is not something I would somehow manage to confirmation bias myself out of noticing most of the time, so, hurrah, Definitely A Migraine Symptom (for lo, on Monday I was migrainey) it is.
The thing that is mildly baffling me is that I can't actually find (admittedly on a fairly cursory search) any description of specifically peripheral vision fuckery as a migraine thing! Lots of mentions of tunnel vision, lots of mentions of classic aura, and one case study in which "peripheral vision" is used metaphorically. So, you know, let the record show, &c.
spinning on a spinning wheel
Aug. 20th, 2025 04:19 pmyhleeSpinning at a spinning wheel - not a tutorial or demonstration of good spinning, and most of the wheel is out of frame so you can see the main ~action. I am still a beginner, and I think I foxed up some of the terminology. But my advisor was curious so I recorded this.
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Aug. 20th, 2025 09:49 pmbeccaelizabethI finished reading The Golden Key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Key_(novel) .
It is still an extremely good book, which one always worries about when revisiting something from significant time ago.
This time of reading I could not like the ending though. Understand, sure, locking him in with only finite light makes a wonderful commentary on what he considers his Light that he thought should never fail. And after all the effort he put in to being a monster the horror ending fits. Plus the simple thing where people are starting to laugh at the idea of magic, so they won't see what is happening when the light goes out.
But.
We do not give people to the Shadow.
It never even once improves the world to be the ones that construct Hell.
Ends the story well, but leaves you thinking hard about the ethics of all of it.
Like the painting girl, the possibility of being a person nobody sees, like the painting that drives the ending, but the other way around. That very brief ending did include people trying to be kind though. Seeing, but not knowing how to help.
Story has a lot of excellent layers in.
I looked up where to buy a hardback of it though because a thousand pages in a paperback is looking a bit less robust than I would like. Sure it might be a decade before I read it again but I'd like it to be in one piece when I do. Shall think about it.
It is still an extremely good book, which one always worries about when revisiting something from significant time ago.
This time of reading I could not like the ending though. Understand, sure, locking him in with only finite light makes a wonderful commentary on what he considers his Light that he thought should never fail. And after all the effort he put in to being a monster the horror ending fits. Plus the simple thing where people are starting to laugh at the idea of magic, so they won't see what is happening when the light goes out.
But.
We do not give people to the Shadow.
It never even once improves the world to be the ones that construct Hell.
Ends the story well, but leaves you thinking hard about the ethics of all of it.
Like the painting girl, the possibility of being a person nobody sees, like the painting that drives the ending, but the other way around. That very brief ending did include people trying to be kind though. Seeing, but not knowing how to help.
Story has a lot of excellent layers in.
I looked up where to buy a hardback of it though because a thousand pages in a paperback is looking a bit less robust than I would like. Sure it might be a decade before I read it again but I'd like it to be in one piece when I do. Shall think about it.
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Bundle of Holding: TinyZine
Aug. 20th, 2025 04:22 pmjames_davis_nicoll
The complete four-year run of TinyZine, the tabletop roleplaying magazine from Gallant Knight Games that supports the streamlined minimalist TinyD6 rules system.
Bundle of Holding: TinyZine
Health Update
Aug. 20th, 2025 03:24 pmlunabee341. Dylan seems to be tolerating the increased dose of hydroxychloroquine without much itching. They are definitely coming out of the flare and feel much better.
2. I will be taking the indomethacin until mid-October for insurance purposes and then getting on a biologic.
3. I got a bill yesterday for the lab work we did for Fi to the tune of nearly 2 grand. I called LabCorp, the pediatrician forgot to put our insurance on the form. So, it's fine, but damn. Between me and Dylan, we've had that same set of labwork like four times this summer. Why is this shit so expensive?
2. I will be taking the indomethacin until mid-October for insurance purposes and then getting on a biologic.
3. I got a bill yesterday for the lab work we did for Fi to the tune of nearly 2 grand. I called LabCorp, the pediatrician forgot to put our insurance on the form. So, it's fine, but damn. Between me and Dylan, we've had that same set of labwork like four times this summer. Why is this shit so expensive?