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2026/055: The Weaver of the Middle Desert — Victoria Goddard

She could weave those falling descants, those trilling calls, those infinitely varied notes into her work. Could she weave sound and silence together, craft a curtain that would keep a tent silent or hold the songs of mourning or merriment within its folds? [loc. 530]

Arzu is the eldest of the three daughters of the Bandit Queen, desert nomads whose world is strongly reminiscent of the Arabian Nights. Her younger sisters, Pali and Sardeet, have each had a novella to themselves (I find that I haven't read Pali's, The Warrior of the Third Veil), so it's Arzu's turn. But she is not as young nor as ambitious as her sisters. She's already happily married to a man of the clan, and her magic is founded on the gentle arts of weaving and threadcraft.

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Round and Round She Goes

Apr. 16th, 2026 05:25 am
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Answer to Trek BBS “old” challenge: Tendi, Rutherford, and Shaxs have a mission on a station that uses an outdated method for producing artificial gravity. One of them does not enjoy it.

Words: 1259, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

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Starfleet Health & Safety has determined that there is a critical-level bug with the latest holodeck driver update (SFHOLO-Lollypop-24g, released SD 59980). This bug appears to sporadically affect starships running LCARS 72 or later in combination with a holodeck with a model year after 2264. Immediate action should be taken to prevent potentially serious or life-threatening injuries when the system is being used for erotic recreational purposes.

Words: 1879, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Quiet day, mostly indoors

Apr. 14th, 2026 11:51 pm
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I mentioned that it was unseasonably warm (but very pleasant) a week or two ago. Well, today we had hail, twice, and it’s nearly freezing tonight!

I woke early today with a cough, and with all the rain I don’t think it’s likely that it’s allergies, so maybe I’m coming down with something? I napped for an hour in the evening, to catch up on sleep, but the cough is still there – a tickle in my throat.

I helped J’s mom with some genealogy things, because she’s not adept at using web browsers, and I did some reading. I did walk to the store once it was dark outside, because the rain had stopped, and the sky had cleared - I had a nice view of Venus.
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Happy Thursday, y'all. We're sliding towards the weekend! It's going to be a busy one for us, but I wouldn't trade it.

For some reason my knee is still hella pissed off at me. I think I must have stepped wrong somehow and tweaked it. It's better than yesterday, and def better than it was Tuesday night, but it's annoying. I did get a cane to take with us to NYC on Saturday and also to take on vacation, just in case. It's bright blue and matches my fanny pack.

Yesterday was a quiet day, yet I was still tired out. I did most of my day either on the phone or calling patients to fill in slots, up til 12. At 12, J asked if I could take over the teams help chat for an hour from 1-2pm since one of the other PAS III's were out. Sure no problem. I manned the chat for an hour after my lunch, and had a few weird questions, but none that I couldn't handle. Once I hopped off, five minutes later, J asked if I could go back on so that Jason could work on RADSETS (scheduling errors). Sure, why not? Not two minutes later, I have a coworker arguing with me about an answer I gave. I was very good, and did not reach through the screen to smack her.

Mostly it was fine. The chat varies between dead and three questions at once, so it's alternately boring and stressful. I kind of enjoy it. It tests my knowledge of weird esoteric topics. Usually it's "How long should these MRIs take?" or "Can we do these tests together." But once in a while it's things like "Breastfeeding after an MRI, can the pt do it?" (Yes, you can.)

Today, I think the 3rd of the III's is back, so I'll probably have a much easier and quieter day. Now that I've said that, I've probably jinxed myself.

Last night, Jess was telling me that there's a convention in Vegas in a couple of weeks that the voice actors from both Hazbin Hotel and the Amazing Digital Circus are attending. I don't think we can manage that, but I did some research, and there's one in Philadelphia in October that has almost the entire Hazbin cast. They're still adding people, so hopefully they get a few Amazing Digital Circus people.

I immediately ordered two passes, plus photo ops with the guys who play Alastor and Vox, and one with the people who play the Vs. That means meeting Christian Borle who plays Vox twice. What a hardship. I'll keep an eye on the con site in case they add more people that Jess would want to meet. I want to as well, but y'know, I want Jess to have a blast. They deserve nice things.

So, the weekend of October 2nd, we'll be heading up to Philly. We'll see if we're able to do dinner with friends while we're there. It'll be another day that I have to take off, but that's okay. Totally worth it.

This weekend is going to be so much fun! On Friday we need to drop the dog off for his big overnight visit. It'll be quiet in the house for a couple of days. But, at least on Saturday, we won't be there. We'll be heading up to NYC to go see the Lost Boys Musical. The car should pick us up about 9:30am, and then we'll go up and pick a friend up in Philly, then off to New York. After the musical, we're going to dinner at Langan's, which is directly down the block from the theater. I'm profoundly grateful that past me decided to do the car service, so that I won't have a ton of walking on my janky knee. Even with the cane that could be tough. I have to decide what to wear. To dress up a little bit or go in leggings and a t-shirt? It's a matinee, so I don't need to dress up that much, but maybe a skirt or dressy pants and a nice-ish shirt. It's supposed to be 62 in NYC on Saturday, so that will be nice. Cloudy, but that's fine.

Sunday, we shall pick up a puppy and get barked at. Then, we shall have the inaugural game of Marchen. I'm super looking forward to getting this started and taking it out for a spin. I think it's going to be a fun world to play in, and I hope my players enjoy it as much playing as I have writing it.

We are down to T-Minus 3 weeks until vacation. I'm tidying up the various details and making sure that I have everything locked down. In another week, we should get our boarding passes, and the choice of what we want for breakfast on the plane. I've been watching all the videos about Pike Place Market and Granville Public Market. There's so many things I want to eat, and so little time. The nice thing is that we will have from noon onwards on the day the ship docks to go play in Seattle, so if we miss something, we can do back on the last full day of vacation. Granville, there's no do-overs, but they have less vendors.

The first night in Vancouver, we're going to a steakhouse with all four of us. The second night, we're splitting up. Jess and I are going for Korean BBQ and a movie, and I think my sister and BIL are going to a seafood bistro. It looks very good.

I've started packing. I should have everything but the stuff that can't go in til the morning of ready by the end of the week. Yesterday, my short sleeved tops came, also with more leggings. Tomorrow, I may start packing Jess's suitcase, just to have something to do. As time goes on, I'm getting more and more excited. I think I have one or two more things to come in, but after that, I'll be done. I hate this part. It's so close, but I've planned out everything, and there's nothing more to do. I'm not particularly patient, so waiting is very hard.

We've got so many things coming up that I feel like it's an embarrassment of riches. And I keep adding more things to it! Right now, I think the only months there isn't something planned is August and Sept. But that's made up for with two things in June and October. That overnight bag is going to get a serious workout. I think December is still clear, though.

Jess feels a little bad about torpedoing so many weekends for games, but I'm okay with it. For 5 years, we've barely had a weekend we couldn't play. Now that we're able to, I want to grab every bit of life we had to pause because of taking care of Dad. I saw a reel that said "Gen X is taking vacations like it's our job, because we saw so many Boomers who never made it there." I feel that on a deep level.

Aside from overnight or two night trips, we haven't been anywhere in 3 years, which was the Disney trip. And we felt guilty about that, since Dad was just back from the rehab and not doing well. In retrospect, that was the beginning of his down slope. After that round of Covid, he never fully bounced back. That was 100% on him. If he'd worked in that first rehab, maybe he would have lasted longer. As it was, his primary care physician said that the only reason he lasted another 2 years was because we broke ourselves to keep him as healthy as possible. And he's not kidding. We broke ourselves mentally, emotionally, physically and financially to keep him going. And he did almost nothing during that time to help himself. He wouldn't keep up with physical therapy, he didn't want to get up, even while he was physically able. He ordered us around like servants, and criticized everything we fed him. Honestly, it's amazing that none of us smothered him with a pillow.

And we were worried about leaving my sister with Yoda, but now we have an alternative! Yoda can board and we can go wherever. No worrying about my sister on the stairs with a small pulling dog. No wondering how he's doing. I'll just get daily pictures and report cards. And, we're able to just up and go if we want to. It's a lovely feeling.

Okay, time to go forth and get ready for work. Everyone have a lovely Thursday!

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Apr. 16th, 2026 09:35 am
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Happy birthday, [personal profile] girlyswot!

@Pemberley

Apr. 16th, 2026 07:59 am
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The Other Bennet Girl - 1.6/Chapter 6

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Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant #3

Apr. 16th, 2026 12:11 am
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I need you all to understand how batshit crazy the ongoing Storm comic is.

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Small fandom pleasures

Apr. 15th, 2026 10:08 pm
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I had a need for fluff and so I wrote me some (plus banter and a smidgeon of angst and sex) from my nebulous Babylon 5 post-canon fixit future: A Nice Little House on Narn.

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Today I discovered the existence of Murderbot Maladies, basically a whump / h/c event for May, but the list of prompts is AMAZING and I am going to reproduce it under the cut. As someone who has participated in h/c events basically since they have existed on LJ and similar, I can only say that this is perhaps the best prompt list I've seen, mixing as it does a number of serious h/c staples with such glorious inventions as "harpooned", "inhaled a drone", and "accidentally called Mensah 'Mom'".

The prompt list )

Community Thursdays

Apr. 16th, 2026 12:05 am
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This year I'm doing Community Thursdays. Some of my activity will involve maintaining communities I run, and my favorites. Some will involve checking my list of subscriptions and posting in lower-traffic ones. Today I have interacted with the following communities...


* "Books" in [community profile] history

* "Female Leads" in [community profile] hooked_on_heroines

* "Follow Friday Master Post" in [community profile] interested_in_that

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Apr. 16th, 2026 05:32 am
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Nope, that is not an alien spaceship landing on the Moon! This is an image of Nope, that is not an alien spaceship landing on the Moon! This is an image of


Room enough, and time

Apr. 15th, 2026 08:18 pm
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Had a woman stop in last Saturday, said she'd been by before, looking at pots, but never bought any, because there just wasn't room in her tiny apartment. But now she's gotten a house, just moved in. I have cupboards! she declared.

And bought a set of four soup bowls.

Fear no more the heat o' the sun

Apr. 16th, 2026 12:19 am
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from Cymbeline, Act IV, Scene 2



Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

Fear no more the frown o' the great;
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke:
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.

Fear no more the lightning-flash,
Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan;
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.



Edit: The verses were set to music and sung by Loreena McKennitt. You can listen to it here.
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This was originally posted to this comm in October 2010 by stillsparkling over here

brazen

Apr. 16th, 2026 01:00 am
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 16, 2026 is:

brazen • \BRAY-zun\  • adjective

Brazen describes someone who is acting, or something that is done, in a very open and shocking way without shame or embarrassment.

// The opposition party’s campaign has not been shy in assailing the brazen corruption of the incumbent for funneling public funds into private coffers.

See the entry >

Examples:

“There are no coyotes on Block Island. However, they have a presence in all of Rhode Island’s other communities. ... This all makes sense, because Rhode Island, for the most part, is a heavily wooded area. Furthermore, rabbits, berries, mice and voles are in plentiful supply; add to this a burgeoning population, eventually food may become an issue. This is where the clever coyote is perhaps becoming more brazen and bold while hunting for food in certain neighborhoods.” — J. V. Houlihan, The Block Island (Rhode Island) Times, 30 Jan. 2026

Did you know?

The oldest meaning of brazen, which traces back to the Old English word for “brass,” bræs, is a literal one: “made of brass” (you might on occasion encounter “brazen cups” or “brazen doors” in something you’re reading). Over the centuries, brazen picked up a number of figurative senses stemming from the physical properties of brass, from its strength to its sound to its color, as when poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote of “The glory that the wood receives, / At sunset, in its brazen leaves.” But it’s the hardness of brass that led eventually to the now common “shameless” meaning of brazen. Consider this passage written by the minister Thomas Doolittle in the late 1600s: “... though thinkest it no shame, or if thou dost, thou has a face of brass ... and blushest not ...” A face of brass, or a “brazen face” (a phrase recorded in writing as early as the late 1500s) is one that is more or less immobile, betraying no sign of shame of wrongdoing. Today, brazen is used not just for people who are openly shameless or disrespectful, but for openly shameless or disrespectful behavior, as in “a brazen disregard for the rules.”



16 Initial Pinch Hits

Apr. 16th, 2026 12:05 am
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We have 16 initial pinch hits, which are due at the assignment deadline, Saturday, April 25 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown).

If you would like to claim a pinch hit, please comment on this post with the name/number of the pinch hit you would like. Make sure to include your AO3 username! Comments are screened.

PH 1 - Elden Ring (Video Game), Elden Ring Nightreign (Video Game), Bloodborne (Video Game), Dark Souls (Video Games), SCP Foundation, Redtape Series - Rounderhouse, Elisabeth - Takarazuka Revue, Still Wakes the Deep (Video Game), 1899 (TV), 괴담에 떨어져도 출근을 해야 하는구나 - 백덕수 | Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story I Still Have to Go to Work - Baek Deoksoo )


PH 2 - Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Metal Fight Beyblade | Beyblade Metal Saga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure )


PH 3 - Men's Hockey RPF, Slap Shot (1977), Youngblood (1986) )


PH 4 - Into the Woods - Sondheim/Lapine, The Wheel of Time (TV), Fate: The Winx Saga (TV) )


PH 5 - Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan, 崩坏:星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), Final Fantasy XVI, Naruto (Anime & Manga), 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), Zenless Zone Zero (Video Game) )


PH 6 - Liar Game (Manga), Persona 2, 时光代理人 | Link Click (Live Action TV), BlazBlue Series (Video Games), 宇宙戦艦ヤマト2199 | Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (Anime), Tales of Rebirth (Video Game), Kamen Rider Zi-O, Kamen Rider W, 全职高手 - 蝴蝶蓝 | Quánzhí Gāoshǒu - Húdié Lán, Keroro Gunsou | Sgt. Frog )


PH 7 - Elder Scrolls Online, Divinity: Original Sin (Video Games), Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games) )


PH 8 - Look Outside (Video Game), There is No Antimemetics Division - qntm, 어쩌면 해피엔딩 - Aronson/박 | Maybe Happy Ending - Aronson/Park )


PH 9 - Fireworks (1947)/Succession (TV 2018), O Fantasma (2000), O Fantasma (2000)/Succession (TV 2018), The Sergeant (1968), Succession (TV 2018) )


PH 10 - The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, Hellsing, The Paying Guests - Sarah Waters, Saltburn (2023), Tex - S. E. Hinton, That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton, Thoroughbreds (2017), Война и мир - Лев Толстой | War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy )


PH 11 - ด้วงกับเธอ | Duang With You (TV), เขาจ้างให้ผมจีบนักฆ่า | The Heart Killers (Thailand TV), ลับ-จ้าง-รัก | Kidnap (Thailand TV), KinnPorsche: The Series (TV), เพื่อนายแค่หนึ่งเดียว | Never Let Me Go (TV 2022), บ้านหลอน ON SALE | Peaceful Property (TV), Thai Actor RPF, เธม-โป้ Heart That Skips a Beat | Thame-Po: Heart That Skips a Beat (TV), 천둥구름 비바람 | Thundercloud Rainstorm (TV), We Are คือเรารักกัน | We Are (Thailand TV 2024) )


PH 12 - Emergency! (TV 1972), Magic School Bus & Magic School Bus Rides Again (Cartoons 1994-2018), Sesame Street (US TV), The Love Boat (TV 1977), It Takes a Thief (TV 1968) )


PH 13 - Ready or Not (2019), The Housemaid (2025), Forbidden Fruits (Movie 2026), Oasis (Band), Kyle Murchison Booth Stories - Sarah Monette )


PH 14 - 水属性の魔法使い | The Water Magician (Anime), Skip Beat!, Gundam Wing, Final Fantasy IX )


PH 15 - The Adventure Zone (Podcast), Stellar Firma (Podcast), Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan - The Mountain Goats (Album) )


PH 16 - Recursive: My Name is John Sheppard: I'm a Mathematician - thingswithwings, Ping Pong Summer (2014), Sneaky Sasquatch/What the Golf? )

Hairy potter

Apr. 15th, 2026 08:51 pm
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My friend Jon was digging through his stuff, looking for baby pictures of his daughter Elizabeth, when he came across this pic.

That's me, sometime in the mid-1980's, in grad school.

So much hair.

Playing to the gallery

Apr. 15th, 2026 08:33 pm
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So I mentioned in the firing post that a good third of the kiln was work for my gallery in Olympia. It was an enormous order: 18 mugs, 12 soup bowls, a dozen serving bowls of various sizes, eight pasta bowls, three each colanders and honey pots. Way too much to pack and ship.

Time for a road trip!

Denise usually accompanies me on these expeditions. We trade off driving--I get us through Portland, she takes the boring stretches of central Washington, and we have a nice lunch at a restaurant near Childhood's End. This time, though, she's been having tendon pain in her left leg, so wasn't up for a long drive. I got to do the trip solo.

Well, except for my navigator. This is Brewer, the bear we found in a Milwaukee Goodwill. We braved the grey overcast, which, predictably, turned to torrential rains somewhere around central Washington. (It always rains in Centralia, for some reason.) Headed out early, got through Portland without slowing down, arrived at the gallery around 12:30. Unloaded the boxes, caught Chinese lunch in a little cafe next door--$15 for a small serving of Ginger Chicken, including tip. Quite tasty, though I could have done with less celery. Stopped at the Costco in Tumwater to gas up, and was back on the road by 1:00.

Stopped in at Georgies Ceramic Supply in Portland to buy a hole-cutter. I'd broken mine, couldn't seem to rig a replacement. I miss having their store in Eugene; I didn't use them a lot, but it was handy to have supplies available just across town. They've made a distribution deal with Wildling Studio Arts to carry their clay and a selection of tools, but it's by nature a limited supply.

3 pm meant afternoon rush hour traffic in Portland, things were stop-and-go until Wilsonville, but once past, the freeway was pretty clear all the way home. Arrived in Eugene a little after 6 pm, to a supper of leftover quiche, and spent an hour in the studio finishing or covering pots from Monday. And went to bed early.

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