Monday

Apr. 27th, 2026 08:53 am
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This week promises to be a quiet one with nothing to dread. In other words, lovely.

My swim this morning was wonderful. I think I was just so grateful that the water was not ice cube cold. I've added about 10 minutes onto my swim for really no good reason - it just feels right. I do need to charge up my music player and change songs.

They are still delivering a newspaper to Jim Across The Hall every day and nothing has changed. No one has come to take his things. This week will mark 30 days since they took him and so the deadline for emptying his apartment. I guess the plan is to pay for another month. Curious but none of my beeswax.

No sun out this morning - no rain - just an eye pleasing cloudy. It would be a good day to run errands but I don't really need anything.

So I'll stay in and puzzle and knit and watch TV. The usual. The Mariners play at 5.

I was thinking yesterday about the life I lead now. And how lovely it is. And what I thought it would be when I was in my 20's and 30's. I have not worked now for more than a dozen years. I loved working. I really did. But, I think I really do like this better.

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crafting night

Apr. 27th, 2026 12:23 pm
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Hey all, if you'd like to join the crafting hangout, it is tonight from 6-8pm ET!
 
Video encouraged but not required!
 
Topic: Crafting Hangout
Time: Mondays 6:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
 
Join Zoom Meeting
 
Meeting ID: 973 2674 2763

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Most people come to French Leave Beach for the water, which is an entirely reasonable decision. The 1.2-mile crescent of pink sand on Eleuthera's Atlantic coast is the kind of place that makes people question all their other vacation choices. But walk up off the beach and into the scrub, and things get interesting fast.

Tucked behind the dunes are the crumbling remains of a Club Med resort that Hurricane Floyd flattened in 1999 and nobody ever bothered to rebuild. Concrete foundations, rusted metal, broken walkways, and old stone walls slowly disappear into the vegetation. Somewhere in the ruins of a site office, architectural blueprints for a resort redevelopment that never happened are reportedly still scattered on the floor. The place has been "for sale" and "about to be redeveloped" for roughly 25 years now.

There's also a fun bit of trivia baked into the name. The land was originally owned by a French nobleman named Count Alfred de Marigny, who named it "French Leave" after the expression for disappearing without a goodbye. He was later deported from the Bahamas under dramatic circumstances, meaning he was literally forced to make a French Leave from his own property. You can't make that up.

Locals still call this "Club Med Beach" even though the resort has been gone for over two decades. Sailors anchoring at Governor's Harbour make the walk over regularly. It's not a polished attraction in any way, which is honestly a big part of the appeal.

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  • stuff to read before bed
  • audiobooks/podcasts to fall asleep to/keep me company when I wake up in the middle of the night
  • the weather app
  • checking how badly the Twins lost last night
  • going to the gym (needs an app) (not that I've had time to go to the gym yet, but knowing that I couldn't -- without trying to get the silent young people behind the desk to help me anyway -- still made me sad)
  • reading my DW circle! it's so busy lately with [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth hooray, but I feel so out of touch!
  • podcasts to keep me company while I brush my teeth, empty the dishwasher, make tea
  • very easy game to play as a like a fidget toy
  • messaging the group chat that provides most of my social life these days
  • checking my e-mail
  • looking up a thing
  • taking a picture of a silly thing for social media
  • social media
  • looking up another thing
  • podcasts to keep me company
  • messaging the people in my house about tea etc.
  • telling the time
  • reading that tab I had open
  • adding something to the shopping list
  • planning when to leave the house to get the bus to transgym
  • checking I had booked for transgym
  • writing an e-mail
  • social media
  • texting the neighbor about walking Teddy
  • podcasts

I'm so tired.

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Fandom: BTS

Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Jeon Jungkook

Content Notes/Warnings: N/A

Medium: Cross stich

Artist on DW/LJ: N/A

Artist Website/Gallery: [twitter.com profile] kaseystitches

Why this piece is awesome: It's a cheeky interpretation of Jungkook's recent TikTok. It made me smile.

Link: i had to do it
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 The Lepage 20th century double bill premiered in 1993 and still impresses

https://bachtrack.com/22/296/view/30662

@bachtrack

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Day 3

Apr. 27th, 2026 05:49 pm
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So like I said yesterday, every day for the next three weeks I'm going to try to highlight a community I found by clicking "Random Community." Today's random community is...

[community profile] monkeyisland

This looks like a tiny community (three members) dedicated to a pirate-y, swashbuckle-y adventure video game series called Monkey Island. On a quick scroll through, I saw some fic, art, recs, and videos. It looks pretty fun and light-hearted overall. Might be worth checking out if you're into this kinda thing!

One small project and one big project

Apr. 27th, 2026 09:38 am
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This weekend I did one tiny upcycle and finished one big project.

First - I got these earrings at a local thrift store a while back. They're metal mesh and move and swing like rippling water. There aren't any maker's marks on them so I'm not exactly sure how old they are, but based on the style/quality I'm guessing 1950s-1980s. Only thing is they had screwbacks and I prefer to use my piercings. So I just swapped them out for leverbacks! The left is the before and the right is the after:
 

And then I finished crocheting throw blanket for my husband's cousin and his partner:


 

The yarn is Lion Brand Mandala Bonus Bundle in Satyrs. His favorite color is blue and her favorite color is red but I didn't want to make them anything too primary colored/flag looking. I thought this yarn was a nice compromise that would fit in with their living room. The pattern was just a basic 1 row crocheted ripple. As always, I attached my little "made by" label. :) I got them from a now defunct Etsy store and probably have enough to last me the rest of my life!

ergotism

Apr. 27th, 2026 07:26 am
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ergotism (UR-guh-tiz-uhm) - n., a condition, characterized by cramps, spasms, and a form of gangrene, caused by eating rye or other cereal that is infected with ergot fungus.


Also called St. Anthony's fire, from the tradition of praying to St. Anthony the Great for relief from several skin conditions, including ergotism and shingles, in part because monks (who often relied on rye as a staple) were often especially susceptible, and St. Anthony was considered the founder of Christian monasticism. The fungus Claviceps purpurea grows in the seed heads of rye and closely related grains, especially after cold winters followed by damp springs, and contains a family of alkaloids called ergolines. The connection between the fungus, the toxins, and the disease was untangled around 1840, though word ergot itself came into English in the 1650s, taking the French name for it, from Old French argot, cock's spur, from the distorted shape of infected rye heads.

---L.

Bad feels

Apr. 27th, 2026 10:37 am
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Grappling with the reality that my lack of success is entirely a function of where, when, and to whom I was born.

There is no alternate universe me who's living the dream, because there was no springboard for me to start from. There's no left turn to take. No amount of "doing things differently" would have changed my level of success without outside, external future knowledge.

It's not that I've done something wrong, it's that I had no opportunities to do anything right, and was sabotaged at every turn.

You'd think this might be comforting, but actually it's possibly the most frustrating reality I've ever had to deal with.

There was never any off-ramp.

Fremont Tree in Felton, California

Apr. 27th, 2026 10:00 am
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From the inside of a redwood

Tucked away in the redwood grove at Henry Cowell Redwood State Park, outside of Felton, CA in the Santa Cruz mountains, you could easily miss the Fremont Tree in the ancient forest. That’s because it’s located in a hidden bend off the main redwood grove loop trail and marked only by an unobtrusive sign.

The Fremont Tree looks much like its neighboring redwoods save for a small opening in its trunk and darkness beyond. Those brave enough to crawl through the hole will find themselves in the dark, quiet interior of the tree.

Inside, it’s big enough to stand up and exploration with your phone flashlight will reveal a small nook carved into the interior. Point the light upward and it will be swallowed by the hollow tunnel that soars above you into the heart of the tree.  

While the tale may be apocryphal, local legend says that the tree was used as a headquarters by General John C. Fremont when he explored the Santa Cruz mountains in 1848. An undated postcard in the collection of the Santa Cruz public library reads: 

“GEN'L John C. Fremont used the hollow base of this tree as a headquarters in the year 1846. The floor space in the tree is 20 x 13 feet, large enough to crowd in 75 people. Gen'l and Mrs. Fremont visited the tree in 1888."

 While 75 people seems like a stretch, it is certainly cozy and feel like a plausible location for a brief stay. Depending on when you visit the park you may have plenty of time inside to yourself to contemplate and soak up the wonder of being engulfed by an ancient living tree. 

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Liots of things to do, and places to see (there willl be a pic spam), but I did catch up on the two shows.

For All Mankind 5.06:

Spoilers think Mars is theirs… )

The Testaments 1.05:

Spoilers consider a Prom in Gilead to be incredibly creepy and aesthetic at hte same time… )

Feathering the Nest for April 2026

Apr. 27th, 2026 10:19 am
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Feathering the Nest is HERE!
Read more... )
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In between making my way through various nineteenth-century masterpieces in carefully timed chunks so I can discuss them with other weirdos on Discord, I did find time to read a whole book. Like last time, this whole book did have to be a fast-paced YA fantasy for me to fit it in around the 19th century masterpieces and also the rest of my life, which has been consumed with housing stuff, organizing drama, and generally having panic attacks.

Anyway, whatever difficulties I think I’m having in my own life, Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series is always good for making them seem very small and manageable by comparison. At least monsters aren’t coming out of my shower drains to eat me.

The second book of the Scholomance trilogy is The Last Graduate, which covers our heroine Galadriel’s senior year. El’s senior year turns out to be basically one long face-off against the school itself, in an even more targeted way than usual. The school is a fierce opponent: El’s not sure what it wants, at first, but the school is bound and determined to make her learn, and everybody else, too. One of the things the school forces them all to learn is how to work collaboratively, which it’s kind of also been doing the whole time but now it really ramps it up; this is the power fantasy aspect of the story (speaking as someone who’s ten years into an experiment of trying to get people to work collaboratively and somehow we’re worse at it than we were when I first joined). The competence porn really goes up to 11 with the introduction of the valedictorian character Liesel, who exists largely to make sure that we realize all the stuff El hasn’t managed to learn in the previous three years that she really should have. Liesel is, unsurprisingly, one of my new favorites, although even she cannot displace Aadhya in my heart, as a fan of ruthlessly pragmatic women.

El’s romance with Orion is also somewhat interesting as we begin to learn the depths of just how strange and socially obtuse Orion actually is, especially considering that social obtuseness is usually a death sentence in the Scholomance. Overall, though, this was the part of the plot I was the least invested in; El and Orion are at their most interesting when they are killing mals together, given the way their magical strengths are both geared toward that but in different ways.

The social/political commentary in here is not subtle but it is fun, and we get to keep learning more about the history of the school and the wizarding world outside, even as the student body is isolated from the current events of the wizarding world, with only a little bit of jumbled news brought in at the beginning of every year from the incoming class of freshmen. This year’s big news story was that the entire Bangkok enclave had mysteriously disappeared, which had lots of interesting potential explanations and possible political implications, which the kids have absolutely no way of verifying.

Anyway, I’m just really enjoying the worldbuilding in this series. I’ve put a hold on The Golden Enclaves and with luck it’ll come in today.

I got bars. Bars of service.

Apr. 27th, 2026 09:06 am
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love letters + shipping texts meme


  • comment with your character.
  • other people will reply to you.
  • your characters (in a relationship, in love, in some sort of attraction that gravitates around the other, in idk 'love' is a many-splendored thing) are commanicating via: passionate confessions written on parchment, furtive notes scrawled in code, passive-aggressive post-it notes, messages carved in trees, smoke signals, instant messages on space age computers, text messages complete with lovey-dovey pictures, whatever!
  • have fun!

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