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Gunn: Our new agency.
Wesley: Wyndham-Price Agency.
Cordelia and Gunn: The what?
Wesley: You don't like it? - It's classy.
Cordelia: It's stuffy. - The Chase Agency! *That* has the right ring.
Wesley: Why?
Cordelia: Because it's my name.
~~Blood Money~~
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- The Sunnydale Imp, Chapter 49 by Bloodredtiger (OC & Ensemble, T)
- The Ex-Files: Charming, CA, Chapter 11 by Viwiel (Buffy & Dawn, Sons of Anarchy crossover, G)
- The Willow Factor, Chapter 4 by fatalfae, MadeInGold (Buffy/Riley, T)
- A Witchy Wedding, Chapter 3 by storiwr (Willow/Tara, M)
- Your Space, Chapter 2 by StakeAndEggs (Buffy/Faith, E)
- Second choice Princess, Chapter 5 by Dragonprincess19961 (Cordelia/Faith, Once Upon a Time crossover, not rated)
- today doesn’t count, Chapter 23 by modestlobster (Buffy/Spike, M)
- The Younger Miss Summers, Chapters 1-10 (complete!) by Gojirob (Dawn, T)
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| Valley So Low: Southern Mountain Stories by Manly Wade Wellman
A collection of uncanny tales. Some are Silver John. Some feature other men who wander about and know some of the matters -- each one with his tales grouped -- and it's clear that it's one continuity, with their loosely knowing each other, with Judge Pursuivant the sage old man of their knowledge. Others are people who get mixed up in such matters and may or may not escape.
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Willow: What did you think, Buffy?
Buffy: The test isn't till tomorrow, right? I don't have an opinion till then.
Willow: But, you read it, right?
Buffy: Kinda not. I rented the movie.
Tara: Oh, with, um, with Charles Laughton?
Buffy: I don't know. Was he one of the singing gargoyles?
~~Crush~~
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- The Healing (Series), Parts 1-7 (Angel, M) by DeezBoots
- All Grown Up (Series), Parts 1-3 (Buffy/Angel, M) by DeezBoots
- Revenge is a Dish Best Served Hot, Chapter 3 (Multi, E) by BenMSanchez and Magnificat
- The Younger Miss Summers, Chapter 10 (Dawn, T) by Gojirob
- Choices, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Angel, T) by DeezBoots
- Second choice Princess, Chapter 3 (Crossover with Once Upon a Time, NR) by Dragonprincess19961
- On the Run, Chapter 19 (Buffy/Spike, E) by zinjadu
- The Sunnydale Imp, Chapter 48 (OC, T) by Bloodredtiger
- because the night belongs to lovers, Chapter 2 (Angel/Spike/Drusilla, M) by fainting_couch
- Fracture, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Holly
- What Happened on Saturday, Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by thehuntress
- If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck..., Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, R) by zinjadu
- Let's Hear it for the Flashkick Ace, Chapter 21 (Crossover with DC Comics, FR15) by batzulger
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| The Property of Hate Volume 4 by Sarah Jolley The continuing adventure. ( Read more... ) | |
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| Somewhat sleep deprived, but hanging in there? I'm still in a reading slump. It may be somewhat affected by the amount of technical information I have to read at work daily on a computer screen. Very dry technical and legal information. Things like how many cubic yards of Permeable low-density cellular concrete (PLDCC) is required for a job, and what a credit should be in cost savings for not installing that many cubic yards. Add to that contractual information, which is a lot less interesting than the technical data, not to mention editing financial documentation and legal documentation. Yeah, that may have an effect. And it probably explains why I am doing lots of fantasy audio books. Finished Crooked Kingdom - the sequel to "Six of Crows", which was a long, but ultimately satisfying conclusion to Six of Crows. I kind of fell for Kaz Brekker and Inej. The others, I was ambivalent about. Similar to the television series Shadow and Bone, actually. Although I think it would have been better if it had just focused on the Crows. The audio book works because it has different narrators for each characters perspective in the books, of which there are eight, two villains. Some are better than others - the Inej narrator is by far the best, and I kind of wish they were reading Kaz's pov instead of the guy reading Kaz's. Struggled to find something to follow it with. Tried Peter Watts Blindside, a sci-fi novel about a group of oddities who are sent into space to confront an alien presence. Part philosophy, part morality, part hard sci-fi. It was dirt cheap, but also hard to listen to. The Narrator is good, but it's not holding my attention. Nor did Susannah Clark's follow up her popular novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel (which I also tried to read, gave up on, and watched the mini-series instead), Piransi. What is it about? I have no idea, I gave up after two chapters. Here's what I found on Google: ( Read more... ) Which I guess explains why I gave up on it? My brain has no room for it. Finally decided on Graphic Audio Dramatization of another of the Kate Daniels novels, which basically have an entire cast - it's like listening to a radio play of your favorite books. And I've forgotten most of the story by now, so... These are rather cheap - just cost me $9.99 a month. Because I have a subscription and with that you get a credit each month, and I had about five credits. So, I have about fifty books to listen to, plus free podcasts, etc. Am plodding my way through Remarkable Creatures - I don't get why people recommended it as delightful and funny, and a happy book? Right now, it's very depressing, no one is happy, all the characters are trapped, frustrated, angry and lonely, and it just keeps jumping points of view. I thought it would just be two points of view? But noooo, it's about four to date. It may be more. Each time I think it's done with character pov, it adds another one. (Reminds me of Eternity Station in that respect, also GRR Martin). And outside of Tova and the octopus, I'm not really interested in them, and want to go back to Tova and the octopus. I've decided that maybe Cameron is Tova's missing son, but that doesn't quite work, so maybe not. Look, I don't need to read a book - to get frustrated, trapped, angry and lonely...or mundane. Escapism it's not. We'll see how long I stick with this. I'd read the Faire Folk book - but it's bigger, and not an e-book, so not conducive to reading on subways. | |
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GILES: What review, Quentin? Let's just stop a moment and talk about this.
TRAVERS: (to Anya) Miss, excuse me, you, uh, you work here?
Anya stops walking, turns back looking apprehensive.
ANYA: Yes I do. Ever since I moved here from southeastern Indiana, where I was raised by both a mother and a father.
~~Checkpoint~~
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- Buffy Summers Is Doomed - ch. 1 of 4 by thisyearsgrrl (Buffy/Faith, M)
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- Hold Fast the Thread - ch. 26 by SchrodingersKatInABox (Giles/Faith, M)
- Bed, Blood, & Beyond - ch. 13-15 by LadyLegolas (Buffy/Angel, M)
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- Moodboard: Buffy Summers color coded moodboards! by wishverse-angel (Buffy, worksafe)
- Moodboard: bisexual buffy summers by courtillyy (worksafe)
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- Gifset: THE I IN TEAM don’t worry. i’ve patrolled in this halter many times. by detectivedawnsummers (Buffy, Scoobies, mostly worksafe)
- Gifset: DOPPELGANGLAND + but just the gayest parts That’s me as a vampire? I’m so evil and… skanky. And I think I’m kinda gay. by detectivedawnsummers (Willow, Buffy, Faith, Anya, Cordelia, Vamp Willow, mostly worksafe)
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| 1) The next day we were headed to Eugene by way of a stop at Silver Falls Park. This was our first bust of the trip, in that the falls required a walk to get to them. We had not found the entrance to the waterfall area easy to find either as we were looking for the wrong name. However the drive into the forest had been quite nice and we had time before check in at the hotel anyway. Finding the hotel in Eugene proved a challenge due to one way streets, blocks and blocks of dividers preventing turns, and similar names, or streets that changed name on each side of the boulevard. When we finally arrived at our hotel (where even the entrance wasn't easy to spot, confusing our food deliverer as well as us!) we were amused by the painting in our room which seemed to echo the driving experience. ( Read more... )2) When I returned to the room, M and I made some microwave popcorn and settled in to watch Captain America: Brave New World. My two takeaways were that Anthony Mackie did a good job as Sam, anchoring the film and giving it heart, as well as no doubt influencing Sam's perspective on the world. The second is that the overall plot mirrored Winter Soldier in many ways. I didn't mind that, as I thought that the changes both said something about our present time compared to CA:WS, and it also made both the similarities and differences between Steve and Sam stand out more clearly. ( Read more... )3) After, we watched The Eternals, which was new to M as she was curious about the adamantium source in the sea in Captain America. I continue to think that it's a pity this film didn't do well. I liked the story, as I like using the MCU as a framework for different kinds of tales. I figured my friend would like it too as she's fond of origin myths. And she did, appreciating the variety of characters in it, even though this is also a sort of weakness in that we don't have time to explore them all properly. It's also a shame that we probably won't have a follow up to either credit scene. 4) On the last day of the trip, M and I drove down to L.A. together. We passed a lot of nice sights during our crossing of the CA-152 West. Some were entertaining, such as all the garlic farms in Gilroy advertising things like garlic ice cream and garlic honey (also 10 avocados for $1!) Some were just pretty. One was the San Luis reservoir, which was huge. ( Read more... )5) My week+ since the trip has been fairly occupied with catching up on things, dealing with the bed issue, and frankly just being tired. I thought it was interesting that both my friends took an extra day off work after their return than they'd planned. I had less to jump into than they did but felt so draggy my first day back I feared I'd managed to pick up a bug, despite consistent masking. But nope, just tired. This poll is anonymous.
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| ZOMG what a day!!!
I was in a training this morning when around 10:30 am, my internet went out and didn't come back in 30 seconds the way it usually does. And my cable was out also. But Spectrum said there was no outage in my area, so it was a me problem. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And so I was in the middle of texting with a Spectrum chatbot (or maybe it was a real person?) when the cleaning ladies showed up but the bell wasn't working and then they called me and I didn't respond because I was in the middle of chatting with Spectrum (doing all the things I had already done, i.e., unplugging and re-plugging in the modem and router) with no success, but luckily I realized who was calling so I went and opened the door and they began their work and I went back to chatting with Spectrum.
The CSR/bot told me they would schedule the next open appointment and I was like sure, while thinking, "am I going to have to into the office for my meetings tomorrow? I need to be here when the tech comes but it probably won't be until Friday or Monday?" and then they texted me the appointment and it was for TODAY at NOON so of course I was like, YES, I WILL. TAKE IT. And then he showed up at 11:55 am!!! And told me there was a major outage in my area, so it was unlikely that he could do anything, but I was getting texts saying that the outage should be fixed by 1 pm. No, we mean 1:30 pm. No, we mean 2 pm. (It came back for me around 1 pm.) And finally at 4:05 pm a text saying the outage was over.
Meanwhile, yesterday, we were supposed to be sending materials out for a meeting tomorrow, but I hadn't received them by 5 pm yesterday, and I hadn't received them by 9 am this morning, and while I was in training and then offline, my boss was poking the CFO who was like, "we don't have them, should we cancel?" so my boss was texting me like, "We should cancel!!!" and I was like, that's fine but we can't reschedule for next week since the board members are not available, and then the board meeting is the week after, so we would need to get approval by unanimous written consent. But then the CFO is like, "I'm calling you!" and I'm like, "I have no internet, I can't get into any files, please don't!" But she was already calling, so I spoke with her and she was like, "We got the documents! I'm reviewing them! I will let you know when it's ok to send!" and I was like ok.
A little while after that, my service had returned and I discovered another committee member had sent out an invite to a meeting on Friday with incorrect information while trying to accept the correct invite for Friday's meeting? I don't even know, but it didn't replace the correct invite on anyone's calendars, so I just declined it. Then she emailed saying she was now getting all these RSVPs and I was like, "can you cancel it? It shouldn't affect the correct invitation, which I will then forward to you." So she cancelled it, but it looked to other people like the meeting was cancelled, even though the correct invitation remained on their calendars. So I had to send a teams message internally and an email externally to explain to everyone that the meeting was not cancelled, it was just a technological glitch of some sort. Idek.
I ate breakfast after the cable guy left, so I didn't eat lunch, and at around 3:30 I was like, "the CFO still hasn't given me the go-ahead to send this out - they are going to complain about getting a complicated set of documents less than 24 hours ahead of the meeting!" to my boss and then the email telling me the materials were good to go dropped into my inbox, so I was able to send them out.
Then while I was trying to catch up on email, a nasty looking bee (hornet? wasp?) started hovering around my window, and as you may recall, I had problems with them somehow getting into my apartment last summer, so I immediately slammed down the window and put the AC on, even though it was comfortable enough with the fan with the window open. I appreciate bees, but not in my living room! Especially not ones that look mean.
And then I read that Brian Wilson died. And Sly Stone died earlier this week. And I thought that was sad. #legends only #RIP
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| I have been reading the TTRPG space on bluesky. 1) Everything is commercial. Soooo much "buy my thing." You might think there'd be a mix of "buy my thing" and "hey come watch/listen to our playthroughs" but no. It's all "buy my thing." 2) It's really, really hard to avoid D&D and Pathfinder. 3) I had managed to forget how wank in TTRPG spaces goes down. It's never just "D&D has taken over the hobby and that sucks." It has to include "people who play D&D are stupid/cowards/wimps/conformist shills." Possibly with a side of, "if people were paying attention to what's good, they would buy my thing..." (I do not like D&D. I do not play D&D. I have thought many negative things about D&D, and about D&D evangelists. I have never thought the only reason people play D&D was because they were too stupid to look at other game systems. I am damn well aware there is a ton of inertia involved, plus the hassle of convincing your entire gaming group to try something different.) 4) We don't have any shared vocabulary and this is a problem. Or rather: We have some words - crunchy, rules-lite, narrative game, OSR, "role-play vs roll-play," meta-gaming, RAW, probably a few more - but we have zero agreement on what they actually mean, on which games or play styles fall under which term. 5) Unlike the fanfic communities, there has been no serious meta looking into what's changed when a former on-paper hobby went digital. There are blog posts and such, but they're scattered as hell. And 2/3 of the discussion is weird hand-wringing about what people will or won't buy, not about how the hobby itself changes when the rules are on a screen rather than paper. +1) If there are discussion groups about TTRPGs-as-a-fandom, I can't find them. Dammit. +2) Don't get me started on the gleeblor. | |
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| The Hanging Stones by Manly Wade Wellman A Silver John story, Works as a stand-alone. ( Read more... ) | |
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SPIKE: Knock knock, robot boy. Need you to look at my chip.
JONATHAN: Is that like, British slang or something? 'Cause we're not-
SPIKE: In my head, the chip in my head.
WARREN: We're kind of in the middle of something.
SPIKE: Well, you can play holodeck another time. Right now, I'm in charge.
WARREN: Yeah, what are you gonna do if we don't especially feel like maybe playing your- What are, wait, what are you doing?
SPIKE: Examine my chip, or else Mister... Fett here is the first to die.
~~Buffy Season 6 Episode #109: "Smashed"~~
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- Untitled (Buffy/Kendra, unrated) by finalgirl1984
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- Nobody Escapes Ch. 17 (Ensemble, M) by batcauldron
- Moonlit Roads Ch. 7 (Xander, M, True Blood xover) by Noctiluna (Wynterstorm)
- Shadows of Paternity Ch. 4 (Xander, Spike, Angel, M) by
- Mystical Girl Ch. 20/20 (COMPLETE) (Buffy, G, TVD xover) by Aya1600
- The Witching Hour Ch. 10 (Willow/Tara, E) by TheLightdancer
- It Is Not A Curse Ch. 6 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Poetry_Arcade
- Playing Hero Ch. 1 (Xander, Willow, T) by arcanedreamer
- https://archiveofourown.org/works/60624271/chapters/171086923 Ch. 33 by EagleAlwaysFliesAlone
- Gemini Ch. 16 (Buffy/Angel, M) by
- today doesn’t count Ch. 20 (Buffy/Spike, M) by modestlobster
- Flames Ch. 5 (Buffy/Spike, T) by AnnieDolnar
- The Deadly Poet's Society Ch. 4 (Buffy/Spike, T) by AnnieDolnar
- No Rest for the Wicked Ch. 8 (Buffy/Faith, unrated) by TargaryenPug
- Chasing the Light Ch. 22 (Angel/Lindsey, E) by CloudSeeker
- Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning: Rise of Faith Ch. 6 (Faith, M, Kingdoms of Amalur xover) by era30
- I Don't Want to Be the One Ch. 28 (Buffy/Spike, T) by
- The Leech Ch. 3/3 (COMPLETE) (OC Slayer, OC Watcher, T) by OGSamsa
- always gray, never simple Ch. 4 (Lilah/Wesley, M) by welcometocaritas
- Your Space Ch. 1 (Buffy/Faith, E) by StakeAndEggs
- The Sunnydale Imp Ch. 46 (OC, Ensemble, T) by Bloodredtiger
- Sunnydale : nuit après nuit Ch. 9 (Buffy/Spike, T) by Petite_Laitue
- Hold Fast the Thread Ch. 25 (Faith/Giles, M) by SchrodingersKatInABox
- First Day of My Life Ch. 2 (Buffy/Faith, E) by hayley128
- Corrigendo Tabulam Ch. 67 (Willow/Tara, unrated) by lyrical_echoes
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| ugh how is it only tuesday???
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| I made this black cocoa loaf cake yesterday, and followed it exactly as written despite some skepticism, which turned out to be warranted, because the middle of the loaf collapsed as it cooled. Even as I was measuring out 1 TBSP of baking powder(!!!), I was like, this seems excessive, but maybe it's because the cocoa is so alkalinized??? So I might cut that back slightly to 1.5 or 2 tsps if I make it again, which I might, because the flavor is good, despite all that baking powder. I didn't bother with the ganache since I don't have room in the fridge for the cake. But it would also disguise that kind of collapse, so if I were serving it to other people I probably would make it. It's been gray and cool since last night, but it hasn't rained yet, so I've been able to keep the windows open. I did have to use the AC a couple times last week, especially to sleep, and I'll put it on again when necessary, but it was nice just using the fan last night. Anyway, work remains busy, the world is on fire, but the Mets stay winning! Gotta take the little joys while you can... * | |
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Forrest: Whoever he was, the guy was big.
Graham: Strong, too.
Riley: Whoever... Or whatever.
Walsh: I'm not interested in guess work, gentlemen. Call me old-fashioned. I like results. This report reads like a child's riddle book. Agent Finn, tell me something good. My implant?
Riley: The implant works. Hostile 17 can't harm any living creature, In any way, without intense neurological pain. We'll bag it.
Walsh: Yes, you will. Dismissed.
~~The Initiative~~
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- Legados dos Sobrenaturais: Landon Kirby A Fênix Mutante ( Fanfic LGBT), Chapter 8 (Portuguese, Multiple Crossovers, M) by Roxenazuliano
- Hold Fast the Thread, Chapter 23 (Giles/Faith, BtVS Ensemble, M) by SchrodingersKatInABox
- Shadows of Paternity, Chapter 4 (BtVS Ensemble, Angelus, M) by Noctiluna (Wynterstorm), Wynterstorm
- today doesn’t count, Chapter 19 (Spike/Buffy, Dawn, M) by modestlobster
- One Track Mind, Chapter 11 (Multiple Crossovers, E) by TBJRomeo
- Shadow Over Hellmouth, Chapter 135 (BtVS & AtS Ensembles, E) by Tuxedo_Mark
- The Slayer From Another Dimension, Chapter 5 (BtVS & AtS Ensembles, M) by alsmith786
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- Solemates, Ch. 8 (COMPLETE!) by Maxine Eden, ClowniestLivEver (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
- For Research Purposes, Ch. 3 by shekissedmedead, William Pratt (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
- The Worst Hope, Ch. 4 by TwilightChild (Buffy/Spike, R)
- Strong Anthropic Principles, Ch. 26–31 (COMPLETE!) by acekoomboom (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
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| 1) We only spent one day in Portland, and M had to nurse her feet after all the walking required the day before. So K and I went to see the International Rose Test Garden which was supposed to have hundreds of rose varieties which were expected to be in bloom by mid-May. While some clearly were, the beds were hit and miss with many varieties not yet available. What roses were in bloom however were attractive to see and some of the blooms were huge. The garden itself though was smaller than expected. Nonetheless despite the overcast day and the difficulty with parking, the visit to the park was worthwhile as it's overall a great feature of the city. We drove up to the top of the hill for the trees and the view, though none were in a spot where we could park and take pictures. ( Read more... )Anyhow, discussing the cards made us discuss the Star Wars series as K had recently watched Ahsoka but found it confusing. I told her this seemed inevitable to me because so much of the meaning in the series comes from it being a stealth 5th season of Rebels. So we started watching. M really liked Hera and Chopper. K liked making the connections to what came later in Ahsoka. My partner and I had rewatched S4 before seeing Ahsoka so it would be fresh. But I hadn't seen the first 3 seasons for some 4 years or so. I found it really picked up speed quickly, and I my favorite thing was the mentor and apprentice relationship between Ezra and Kanan. The first time around I'd seen it mostly from Ezra's viewpoint since we're in it for much of the series. But this time I was seeing it from Kanan's and really liked how well done this was. And while most of it was in the writing I also liked the animation and the small gestures and expressions. It was quite rich and certainly had a long arc. We got all the way through S2 during the trip and it made me want to see S3 through as well. I remember how tense I found it watching the season finale the first time around because it seemed quite possible anything could happen. 3) The time since my return has been something of a headache. My partner's sister had a roof leak which damaged a mattress in the room where he stays on his visits. The roof has been patched but reroofing will take place soon. In the meantime he is planning to leave for Ohio around the 25th. After discussion we decided to have him take his current bed to Ohio as a replacement. (She has already removed the damaged mattress but the box spring is ok). That means a new bed on our end. ( Read more... )4) In less important news, my 3 water weights arrived, 2 while I was away and the last after. The laggard proved not to be worth the wait. While my partner tested out the first two while I was away this third one has a poor design that had it leaking within an hour. I contacted Amazon to return it and they refunded me and told me not to bother sending it back. I re-ordered a second copy of the smaller weight instead. 5) We've signed back up to Apple+ and so are going to pick up new seasons of things and try out some new shows. So far we've started up the latest seasons of Slow Horses, Mythic Quest, and Pachinko and are trying out Buccaneers and Your Friends and Neighbors. This poll is anonymous.
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| I used decaf to make coffee granita last night, and I had it for dessert this evening along with a dollop of homemade whipped cream, and it seems to have worked out all right - no late evening side effects of caffeine that I can feel. And I think it's better later in the day as a treat than as my morning coffee, because I eat it so quickly and also it's sweet. I don't put any sugar in my regular coffee, but granita requires it so it doesn't freeze solid. I used vanilla sugar but can't really detect the vanilla (or, rather, differentiate it from the vanilla in the whipped cream).
Also, they were on sale, so I bought a pack of paper plates and they made cleanup after cooking so easy that I remembered why I used to use them regularly back before I had a dishwasher. My plan to replace my dead dishwasher is to try the 4th of July sales - Friend L is going to join me at the store to see if the model I want (Bosch) actually fits in the space I've got (and if it goes on sale - it did not for Memorial Day, that I saw, but maybe I don't need the more expensive/top-of-the-line model? It's just that it has something that will allegedly turn the machine off if it senses a leak, which seems like a good thing to have, especially when you live in an apartment above other people and are responsible if any leakage causes damages below you). Anyway, July is a three-paycheck month, which gives me some leeway for paying most of it off ASAP and not increasing my credit card debt any more than I have to.
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| CNN Aired An Exclusive Live Broadcast of the Broadway Play: Good Night and Good Luck - adapted for the stage from the film of the same name. The reason they aired it is made clear upon the airing - at the very end, Edward R Murrow, the CBS News See it Now broadcaster who famously took on McCarthy, during the Black List and McCarthy Hearings, stands front and center in front of a screen displaying multiple screens of the news. He states in a halting speech, enunciating each word, with a slight tremor to his voice, "we've seen what happens when power goes unchecked, that's not the question before us now, the question is - what will you do about it?"I was thinking as I was watching it live on MAX (I no longer have access to CNN), that evil is like a spider, sitting in the dark corner of the room, smoking a cigar, wih a red top hat and tails smirking. And asking in a whisper of a voice, low and barely audible, "what do you want?" And indicating with a smile - "come into my parlor my dear and I shall give it to you, with a price of course". It's insidious, and shadows egos. Self-importance. Self-righteousness. Power. Fame. Fortune. Wealth. Beware the righteous, and the self-important, and most of all the arrogant and narcissistic hunting awards and acknowledgment and power. I don't know what I personally can do to check the power or stop it. I've been pondering it. I can write, I can post, I can draw, I can paint, I can do my job at a public agency. And I can hope people listen. People aren't very good at listening? Have you noticed that? Too busy thinking about themselves or what they are going to say next or how they'll respond. Too filled up with thoughts to hear...ones that lie outside of their own minds and brains. I tell people a story and they tell me their own back again, and mine....slides off unheard, lost somehow within theirs? The meaning gone. And they tell me theirs and I tell them my own, and it happens all over again from the other side - with their story being lost. I did social group therapy once - and we were for the most part forced to listen, but everyone tended to flounder at it. Either they'd ask pointed questions, correct the person's choice of words or syntax or speech (which isn't listening by the way - it's judging, and helps no one), interrupt, direct the conversation to themselves, provide advice, try to fix whatever it was, dismiss it as already solved or playing the victim, but seldom did they listen. And once on a fan discussion board - we fell into a discussion about writing carefully, and I thought - no that's not the problem here or not that alone, we also need to learn how to read carefully. And people don't? Too busy reading quickly, flying through or past the text, to see it clearly let alone truly comprehend it? Now, for example, raise your hand if you just skimmed this passage and oh so many others? Be honest? How many have you skimmed, jumping over words and phrases and reacting to a sentence here or a paragraph there - but not seeing the whole? I know I do. Try a little experiment, if you will? Read just one paragraph of a post, or the unhidden bit. Then take a moment, and read the rest later, has your opinion of it changed? We live in an age of content overload, and we surf and read and look at so many things simultaneously. Texts fly by. Our memory of them fleeting or garbled. And more often than not - people just read blurbs. If I post something with information below a "cut tag" - how many will read what's below the tag, and just respond to the top of the post? Losing the point of it. Or respond to the post, without reading the comments below? We don't read carefully - and most mistakes are made because of it. They were on the discussion boards. 90% of the arguments online are the result of "miscommunication" or the inability to politely ask for clarification prior to snarking, judging or condemning. I think the flaw in the human brain is a tendency to assume everyone thinks the same and perceives things the same? When no one does? And well...a failure to communicate as a result? ** You'll have to excuse me, I'm exhausted. But the weather is shifting, and I'm hurting less all of a sudden - which means the arthritis isn't being pinged by the human weather vane. I'm also frustrated with my fellow humans. And perhaps with myself and my own limitations. And a touch depressed, no more than a touch, as a result. But hey at least I don't hurt as much as last night. So maybe the back brace is helping? It's a warm spring evening. The sky has cleared of clouds, and it's sliding towards dark, from twilight. Nine PM on the East Coast. But I can still see puffs of cloud moving slowly across the pale blue sky, lit from within by moonlight. Our swiftly turning planet in the vacuum of space, surrounded by stars and galaxies which far too many of us take for granted as we bumble upon it babbling and gurgling at one another as is our way.  | |
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SPIKE: I'm in. Everybody okay with that?
LOOSE-SKINNED DEMON: Ante up.
BUFFY: You play for kittens?!
SPIKE: So, who's gonna advance me a tiny tabby, get me started? Come on, someone's gotta stake me.
BUFFY: I'll do it! What, you thought I was just gonna let that lie there?
~~BtVS 6x05 “Life Serial”~~
[Drabbles & Short Fiction]
- Belated Calvary (Angel & Kate, Cordelia/Doyle, G) by InsaneTrollLogic
- phone calls (Willow & Buffy, Giles & Buffy, T) by mistyintherivers
- Faith: Overboard (Buffy & Faith, Faith/Connor, Buffy/Connor, T) by StrangeBint
- For you, the living, this mash was meant (pre Drusilla/Spike/Buffy, T) by tenderjock
[Chaptered Fiction]
- Cultivating Chaos, Chapter 21/? (Giles & OCs, Spike/OFCs, M) by BunnyQuill
- The Ex-Files: Charming, CA, Chapter 10/? (Buffy & Dawn, Buffy/Jax, Sons of Anarchy xover, G) by Viwiel
- today doesn’t count, Chapter 17 (Buffy/Spike, M) by modestlobster
- Red Xandra: Season One, Chapter 38/38 Complete! (Xander, Ensemble, T) by Kickaha
- Faith No More, Chapter 5/? (Buffy/Faith, M) by QuillBard
- The Bar at the End of the World (Totally edited. Duplicats deleted), Chapter 8/8 (Buffy, Spike, multiple xovers, not rated) by RoseWineGoddess
- Mystical Girl, Chapter 18/20 (Buffy/Damon Salvatore, TVD xover, G) by Aya1600
- Anti-Hero, Chapter 7/14 (Buffy/Spike, T) by Willow25
- undone with you, Chapter 8/8 Complete! (Buffy/Giles, E) by guin_ramble, TheScholarlyStrumpet (equipoise)
- Soldiers of the Light, Chapter 15/? (Buffy/Spike, E) by sandy_s
- [French language] Le test de grossesse, Chapter 6/6 Complete! (Buffy/Spike, G) by MissKitty28
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- Textposts: BTVS textposts Vol. 3 (ensemble, worksafe) by no-resolution
- Gifset: BEST OF BTVS: Buffy & Joyce — Season Two (worksafe) by clarkgriffon
- Gifset: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 5 Episode 22 | “The Gift” (worksafe) by flarky
- Artwork: buffy (the vampire slayer) (worksafe) by salamandertoast
- Crafts/Poster: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer poster I designed myself (ensemble, worksafe) by isaacjanaya
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- Textposts: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Text Posts 10 (Cordelia, Angel, Spike, Buffy, worksafe) by ofteaandsparrows
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| Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup A comic tale of a writer taking off into fantasy romance for a break. And to escape her frustrating job. Her notion of a heroine hits the actual heroine, who is middle-aged, a widow, and the mother of two children trying desperately to protect them. ( Read more... ) | |
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Oz: The monkey's the only cookie animal that gets to wear clothes, you know that?
Willow smiles brightly.
Oz: You have the sweetest smile I've ever seen.
Oz: (continues down the hall) So, I'm wondering, do the other cookie animals feel sorta ripped? Like, is the hippo going, 'Hey, man, where are *my* pants? I have my hippo dignity!'
Willow laughs.
Oz: And you know the monkey's just, (with a French accent) 'I mock you with my monkey pants!'
~~What's My Line? Part 2~~
[Drabbles & Short Fiction]
[Chaptered Fiction]
- With Sprinkles, Chapter 61 by dogbertcarroll, Narsil (Xander, multiple crossovers, M)
- Becoming, Chapter 6 by ElsieHopea (Buffy, Teen Wolf crossover, M)
- The joining of souls, Chapter 23 by Ondeline (Buffy, Tolkien crossover, not rated)
- Red Xandra: Season One, Chapter 35 by Kickaha (Xander, Ensemble, T)
- Saturday, Chapter 3 by PetraMustafina (Buffy/Spike, E)
- Corrigendo Tabulam, Chapter 66 by lyrical_echoes (Willow/Tara, not rated)
- Twelfth Labour, Chapter 13 by xaeyrnofnbe (Angel/Spike, T)
- Chasing the Light, Chapter 21 by CloudSeeker (Angel/Lindsey, E)
- The Blood Of A Slayer, Chapter 6 by Cosmic__Cowgirl (Buffy/Giles, E)
- Buffy and the Slayer, Season 1, Chapter 10 by SunnydaleSentinel (Buffy & Dawn, T)
- Raise of the Hellmouth, Chapter 7 by SidneyPrescottFan (Buffy/Faith, Batwoman and Supergirl crossover, M)
- The Sunnydale Imp, Chapter 42 by Bloodredtiger (OC & Scoobies, not rated)
- Shared Skin, Chapter 8 by Sting99 (Buffy/Faith, E)
- The Bar at the End of the World (Totally edited. Duplicats deleted), Chapter 7 (complete!) by RoseWineGoddess (Buffy, Spike, multiple crossovers, not rated)
- Used to Bite People, Now I’m Tracking IPs with Buffy Bloody Summers, Chapter 5 by Fangellic (Buffy/Spike, M)
- today doesn’t count, Chapter 16 by modestlobster (Buffy/Spike, M)
- The Willow Factor, Chapter 3 by fatalfae, MadeInGold (Buffy/Riley, T)
- Mystical Girl, Chapter 16 by Aya1600 (Buffy/Damon, The Vampire Diaries crossover, G)
- Moonlit Roads, Chapter 6 by Noctiluna (Wynterstorm), Wynterstorm (Xander/Eric Northman, True Blood crossover, M)
- Buffy: Nineteen Years Later, Chapter 1 by Jordietheshortie9012 (Scoobies, G)
- Chez Willy, Chapter 1 by Petite_Laitue (Willy, G, in French)
- Willow's Dream, Chapter 1 by tbssparkle (Willow/Tara, E)
- love's the death of peace of mind, Chapters 1-3 (complete!) by Skyson (Buffy/Giles, E)
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| The Mets lost a game yesterday they should have won, but I guess it doesn't matter that much because they took the season series from the Dodgers, which means if they are both divisional winners and meet in the NLCS in October, the Mets will have home field advantage. I mean, it would have been nice for them to win on a day when both Atlanta and Philly lost, but I guess you can't have everything.
Anyway, staying up for the previous games in the series (they were out in LA) caught up with me and I couldn't keep my eyes open last night, so I ended up going right to bed at 8:30. It wasn't even fully dark yet! But I slept through till 4:15, got up to use the bathroom, and then slept through again till my alarm went off at 8:15, so I guess I really needed it. I had a lot of dreams, but the one that stuck with me was something where I was already in the hospital visiting someone, and the doctor was like, "we need to talk about your appendix, it needs to come out!" And I was like, "that's news to me since I haven't had an appendix since 1976!" (truth!) And she was like, "what?" and I was like, "what?" and then the dream moved on - I don't remember anything else.
There's really not a whole lot else going on. Work is busy - our CFO keeps trying to steal me away from my boss, but like, there's nothing in Finance for me to do? My main job is board support, and that belongs either in legal or the CEO's office, so...*hands* I guess if something ever happened to my position I might consider trying to transfer, but I just don't see how that would work. No one is indispensable, but no one else in this organization does what I do (and frankly, no one else wants to). If a new CEO comes in and has different ideas, that could be a problem, but I'm trying not to think about that too much. There are closer threats to my job right now. *gestures at everything*
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Introducing seasons_of_fandom, an interactive fandom challenge community/landcomm that allows you to create work for any fandom you can think of! We were previously lands_of_magic, a name we ran under for over 10 years, but we figured we needed a facelift and a name change since it has been a long time since we had only focused on fantasy fandoms. We welcome TV, movies, books, games, music, anime, celebrities... almost anything goes! We have all kinds of challenges- writing, graphics, games, and some challenges that are miscellaneous fanworks! This round we'll also be trying out monthly drabble and icon contests.
We have four wonderful teams- The Spring Court, The Summer Court, The Autumn Court, and The Winter Court.
Sign-ups for new members start today, and though our first round under our new name doesn't start until August, we will have two challenges open before the round officially starts. To sign up, all you have to do is read the rules and fill out the survey here.
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Xander: No one is judging you. It's understandable. Spike is strong and mysterious and sort of compact but well-muscled.
Buffy: I am not having sex with Spike! But I'm starting to think that you might be.
~~Intervention~~
[Chaptered Fiction]
- Fake It 'Til You Make It, Chapter 7 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Cazzy
- Agape, Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Lilacsandorangeblossoms
- Back to the Light, Chapter 14 (Crossover with Dr. Who/Torchwood, Fr18) by MountainKing
- Buffy Slays, Chapter 15 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by violettathepiratequeen
- Woke Up In Love, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Lilacsandorangeblossoms
- Fleur Ephemere, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Maxine Eden
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PHILIP: Do either of you know anything about the key?
ANYA: Nope, but it sounds demony to me. I don't hold with that demon nonsense.
(picks up a basket of muffins and holds it toward Philip)
ANYA: Muffin? I cooked them myself.
~~Checkpoint~~
[Drabbles & Short Fiction]
[Chaptered Fiction]
- Arrive Before the Birds - ch. 16 by EverythingElse (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) COMPLETE!
- The Deadly Poet’s Society - ch. 7 by Annie Dolnar (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)
- Toward a New Unknown - ch. 1-2 by abismos (Buffy/Spike, R)
- Strong Anthropic Principles - ch. 24-25 by acekoomboom (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
- Things I Can't Spell - ch. 9-10 by Cazzy (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
- The Demon With No Name - ch. 6 by Cazzy (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)
- Rewind the Rebound - ch. 3 by Tikiriaaa (Buffy/Spike, R)
- Mile Markers and Blood Moons - ch. 8 by JamesMFan (Buffy/Spike, R)
- Solemates - ch. 7 by Maxine Eden, ClowniestLivEver (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
- Anti-Hero - ch. 8 by Willow25 (Buffy/Spike, R)
- The Plan - ch. 20 by NotYourGrave (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
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- Artwork: HAPPY PRIDE by shaesinflames (Buffy/Faith, worksafe)
- Artwork: Happy Pride Month! by jackalb0nes (Fanged Four, worksafe)
- Artwork: Been busy prepping for hellmouth con so here’s a happy pride doodle by blue-star-charmer-art (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)
- Artwork: Failwife by peixe-art (Faith, worksafe)
- Artwork: 🤖🤖🤖 by garscrucible (Warren, worksafe)
- Artwork: Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Elizabeth The Severe by elizabeththesevere (Spike, worksafe)
- Icons: Angel — Buffy the Vampire Slayer, S02E14 (1998) by slashericons (Angel, worksafe)
- Icons: Drusilla — Buffy the Vampire Slayer, S02E13 & S02E14 (1998) by slashericons (Drusilla, worksafe)
- Icons: like or rb if you save by editshit (Buffy, worksafe)
- Collage: hacker girl turned witchy powerhouse 💻🔮 by just-turned-aesthetic (Willow, worksafe)
- Collage: collage of a girl who saved the world (a lot) 📁 by just-turned-aesthetic (Buffy, worksafe)
- Moodboard: lesbian faith lehane by courtillyy (worksafe)
- Moodboard: wesley x lilah by courtillyy (worksafe)
- Moodboard: polyam greyrose autigender demigirlflux fred burkle by courtillyy (worksafe)
- Moodboard: wesley x fred x gunn by courtillyy (worksafe)
- Meme: the silly Angel/Angelus thing feels like it was made for this meme by aphony-cree (Angel, worksafe)
- Gifset: buffy the vampire slayer, 6x07 “once more, with feeling” (2001) [parallels with] star trek strange new worlds by redcheekdays (ensemble, worksafe)
- Gifset: SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR & ELIZA DUSHKU as BUFFY SUMMERS & FAITH LEHANE S03E14, “Bad Girls” by horrorwomensource (Buffy/Faith, worksafe)
- Gifset: Buffy Summers + Outfits (16/∞) by clarkgriffon (Buffy, worksafe)
- Gifset: spot the difference [anti Spike] by sulietsexual (Spike, worksafe with canon violence)
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| I really hate to give up on a book, but sometimes, there are too many other tempting things on the horizon to keep ploughing through an active read in the hopes it gets better. Today I put aside Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling. While I would have liked to have gone all the way to the end before making a judgement, there just over 9 hours still to go on the audiobook and the book has simply not given me enough to power through that. At nearly 9 hours in (about halfway) my overall feeling towards this book is indifference. Towards the plot, towards the characters, towards the setting. It's very generic fantasy and just doesn't give much to bite onto outside of that. The first half of the plot has some fun adventure elements, but when the mentor-figure, Seregil, becomes incapacitated partway through, the youthful protagonist Alec is simply not enough to carry the story. The second half of the story is more political intrigue, and I can't help but compare it to The Traitor Baru Cormorant which I'm also currently reading, and that comparison does Luck in the Shadows no favors.
Seregil and Alec's escapades are fun, and it's interesting to see the creative ways they go about their tasks, but for me it's not enough to make up for the lackluster plot and detailed but unremarkable worldbuilding. There's a disappointing dearth of women in the story, although one of the fantasy kingdoms in which the second half of the story takes place has been ruled by a succession of queens for centuries. There is some casual queerness in the story which I liked, but when I looked for more reviews on this to help me decide if it was worth pressing on, I learned (SPOILER) that Alec and Seregil become a couple later on. Given that Alec is barely sixteen at the start of this book, and Seregil is a middle-aged man, I'm just not here for it. This is the first book of a series (the Nightrunner series), but my general feeling on series is that it's a cop-out to rely on later books to make up for weaknesses in earlier books. Particularly here, where each book gets longer, the author is asking for me to take a lot on trust that this story will get better with time. I really wanted to like this book, as I really want to like all fantasy novels, but it's just not worth the amount of time investment needed. Also, in general, not looking for stories about adults falling in love with teenagers. Disappointing, but there are other things to move on to. | |
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