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France 1940: an elderly British man struggles to transport an ever-growing number of children--and a kitten!--out of the war-zone and far from the tender mercies of the Luftwaffe, the Heer, and the Gestapo.

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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

mindstalk

Revisiting the "cook vs. order" question. We know cooking is cheaper, but how much, for burgers? ( Read more... )

Edit: let me re-iterate that Giant is mid-range in price, cheaper than ACME or Whole Foods, more expensive than Aldi or Walmart. Aldi 80/20 beef is $5.79/lb on Instacart, cheaper in the store. $2.19 for a pack of 8 potato buns, sans sesame. This yields $0.85 for the most basic plain 1.6 oz hamburger, vs. $1.23 at the top of the post.

Or, at Giant, you can get frozen beef patties. $4.00/lb at the cheapest end, for Philly Gourmet patties including some amount of soy flour. $5 to $5.50/lb for meat or meat+seasonings.

dolorosa_12

I've returned from a week away in Amsterdam, which I visited with my mum. The two of us were last there together in the winter of 2005 (although I've been back since, mainly to change trains en route to Matthias's family in Germany), and it was great to revisit the same places in the sunshine — and discover the city, much changed.

I kept a haphazard paper journal throughout the week, and will transcribe it behind the cut.

( Canals like the veins of a city )

I've put up two photosets over at

ronnidolorosa: a general Amsterdam batch, and a collection of cats.

The less said about the chaotic journey home the better (suffice it to say that I made it onto my Eurostar train in Brussels with twenty minutes to spare), but I returned to a fully stocked fridge (so many strawberries and tomatoes!), a bottle of pink sparkling wine, and an incredibly lush garden.

I'm only peripherally engaged with the men's World Cup, but I accidentally stumbled into a very Balkans corner of Instagram, and discovered the absolute banger that is the Bosnian team anthem (a thirteen-year-old song about the bittersweet experience of being an immigrant, reworked by the surprised and ecstatic fans into an anthem for their team). It's so catchy, and the video is gold!

Watch on YouTube

Now to catch up with ten days' worth of Dreamwidth!

rodo

Title: Web of Fate
Fandom: Carnival Row
Author:

rodo
Chapter: 4/17+E
Length: 4,238 words (77,000 in total)
Rating: 16+
Genre: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Rycroft Philostrate, Jonah Breakspear, Vignette Stonemoss, Runyan Millworthy, Darius Prowell, Absalom Breakspear
Pairing: Philo/Vignette
Warnings/Labels: war, and mentions/occasional depictions of associated atrocities; canon-typical fantasy racism
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise belongs to Amazon, of course
A/N: I started this story in August 2021, and I finished the draft in 2022, so this was all written prior to the second season. So some of the worldbuilding contradicts what was shown in season 2. Still, I had so much fun re-reading this lately that I thought I’d polish it up some more and post it anyway, in case some of you will like it as well. Since it’s an AU, the plot of the second season is not that relevant anyway.

Summary: A year after the attempted assassination of Chancellor Absalom Breakspear, The Burgue is at war, and it’s not going well. In order to break the stalemate at the front, some unlikely soldiers are recruited to fight in a place nobody expected, and Philo and Jonah find themselves caught up in it against their expectations.

( Eavesdropping had become a bad habit that proved difficult to shake for Jonah Breakspear, if only because most of his usual entertainments had fallen by the wayside of late. )

ride_4ever

On this day in 2011 I got my first LiveJournal account. I consider my LJversary to also be my fanniversary since it marks the time I found online fandom community. LJ has been and continues to be one of only two social media platforms where I am consistently active (the other one being Dreamwidth here).

Current Mood: celebratory
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

poliphilo

Quakers veer to the left and a Friend who admires right-wing demagogues like Rupert Lowe is an anomaly, but not so much of an anomaly that he wouldn't find supporters among the Friends if he made a point of broadcasting his views. There is a potential here for in-fighting and schism.

As a Quietist I think we should leave our political views at the Meeting House door, though I'm aware that this is also a political view.

Some people love conflict and thrive on it. I don't. Not any more.....

mific

Clean Sweep by YankingAwry, a favourite writer of mine. An AU where Shane's with the Metros and Ilya's a Janitor at Bell Centre (he and Irina having emigrated to Canada). Great writing, funny, interesting changes in both Shane and Ilya due to the AU.

Scott Hunter's Side Gig (series) by nestorius.
Most of nestorius's fics are a tad too grim for me, but these are great, although they're still a bit dark, being horror, but in a more amusing way. Scott is basically Dean Winchester when he's not playing for the NHL, and Kip turns out to be bitey, and to find Scott's side gig very hot. Ilya intermittently gets sucked into the madness, and finally Shane as well, although he immediately represses it. Extreme though the AU is it makes perfect sense with Scott's backstory. Very much recommended if you like darker stuff where only the monsters end up permanently dead. Great competency kink, too!

And

siegeofangels is writing HR! Well-written porn, with a twist:
Designated Penalty is a little like the Winners Room trope, with a League-mandated system where a "Designated Penalty" team member takes punishment for team losses, and provides a sexual reward for any player who does well. This year, the DP for the Centaurs is Shane. Siegeofangels writes this very explicit stuff in a no-nonsense style where it's all very much routine and "the way things are", and Ilya's fine with it, having been the DP himself with Boston, previously. Shane is of course very into being used and proud to "take it for the team", and the Centaurs are all lovely with him. Very hot and weirdly sweet, in a trippy idfic kind of way.

Swagger is omegaverse with Shane helping Ilya through a heat. The twist here is that Ilya's a dominant omega, and Shane's a subby service-alpha. Once again, very hot, interesting dynamics, and again with the straightforward writing, making the very cracky premise seem just another part of life.

dine

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apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260613.html

In an interplanetary first, on July 19, 2013

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torachan

1. The other day I noticed a new Vietnamese coffee shop had opened nearby and this morning I rode my bike over there to try it out. They are famous for their banana coffee, which was sort of a frappuccino style drink, so I got that. It was super delicious, but they had only drinks, no food, and I wanted some sort of pastry or something. There's a bakery a couple doors down that is suuuuuuper trendy and has a line down the block all the time so although I would love to try them, I didn't want to wait in a line so long my drink would be gone by the time I got my food.

So I decided to leave my bike parked there and walk a few blocks down to Randy's Donuts, which is a famous LA donut shop that started opening new locations in recent years after having just been a single location for ages. I've never actually been to the one in Santa Monica. As I was walking, I saw there was a Dunkin Donuts across the street just one block down and was briefly tempted to just go there, but I knew Randy's would be better so I continued on and I'm so glad I did because they had a Pride donut and also a mango tajin one and both were so good. Their donuts are big and I really only should have gotten one, but I wanted both lol. The mango one had mango tajin frosting and a delicious mango filling. The Pride one was just a frosted glazed donut with rainbow stripes, but even for a basic donut it was really tasty. I was very full afterwards but it was such good breakfast.

2. It was still hot today so we went to Disneyland for dinner instead of going earlier in the day. Sadly it was warmer than I would prefer even at 6pm when we got there, and super muggy. But we did have a delicious dinner.

3. Tuxie's fur has been growing back on his forehead. I don't think you can really even see where the wound was anymore. So handsome!

thistleingrey

Seen variously---

General Questions
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alethia

It's bonkers that The Pitt is about to overtake GK in the number of stories I've written...

Sloppy Seconds (3594 words) by Alethia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Jack Abbot/Emery Walsh, Michael "Robby" Robinavitch & Emery Walsh
Characters: Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Jack Abbot (The Pitt), Emery Walsh, Dana Evans
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Coitus Interruptus, First Kiss, First Time, Banter, everyone annoying each other through it, why do robby and walsh hate each other, let's explore, It's really just porn
Summary:

Robby shifted the takeout bag to his left hand as he unlocked the door to Jack's condo, then walked in. He started to call out—

A moan stopped him short. He zeroed in on the black leather couch, spotting a naked woman riding an equally naked Jack, flat on his back, his hands obscene on her hips as he pulled her down onto him.

No, not just a naked woman. A naked Emery Walsh.

Current Mood: bouncy

sorcyress

It is a well known fact at Pinewoods that there is exactly one shower in all of camp, so here I am, sitting and writing some of my words while waiting for it to become available unto me.

(This is extra funny, because waiting for it necessitates being directly across from the open empty room with another shower. In a building that has at least two more showers beyond that, none of which are currently occupied. But no, the outdoor shower is the single and only shower and I will not be hearing any arguments to the contrary.)

Anyways, I am having a _wonderful_ time at Lavender spring camp. Here are some things from today!

*Ben Sachs-Hamilton hosted a callers confab, which was a completely unplanned/unstructured session devoted to "hey, uh.........let's chat about stuff!" and it was a really interesting glimpse into the How Contra Callers Do Things situation. I was able to say some hopefully useful things and learn a lot of hopefully useful things, and it was a nice situation!

*Lindsay Dono, who I deeply adore, stopped me very briefly to be all "hey, I'd love to pick your brain sometime about how I can work on getting the Seattle SCD scene ganderfree" which OH GODS YES PLEASE ME TOO! So we didn't actually have that conversation yet, but I'm so very excited to do it later.

*At the very end of the evening, after last waltz and people are packing up and the like, a couple of the young spry gremlin-like creatures at camp suddenly went full goofy beast mode, scrobbling around on the floor in a squat and bounding forward on their hands. There were two of them, and some wry lad shouted "do a reel" to which they replied "we can't with only two". Which meant inevitably there were suddenly six of us. Four of us, me included, did manage a really quite fantastically weird reel, kinda leapfrogging around our partners, and then we had to do Quite A Lot Of Balance And Petronella as well, which was _extremely_ satisfying because we got a good rhythm and quite literally, "everyone clapped" to keep time for us. Really fun and stupid and goofy.

I am so _so_ thrilled for a body that I somehow do manage to take enough care of that I can do absolute nonsense bullshit like that sometimes, on very little notice.

*Everyone is unbelievably attractive, and that's great in and of itself, but it's also extremely charming to have moments where I am hanging out with one attractive person, and we are both very wistfully commisserating as we look from the porch to the suddenly-at-eye-level extremely short white tennis skirt being worn by another attractive person.

*The music is making me gay? Like, by which I mean, I have an emotion in my chest that I've long since identified as "I am attracted to this person in a gay way" and I have received that feeling multiple times in response to the music. Which is _fucking fantastic_ honestly, I would be very very happy to continue to be queer for music for a long long time.

*SAW A LUNA MOTH! Best part was one person pointing it out and a whole bunch of us scrambling over to also see it! It was _so_ large and _so_ beautiful! I don't think I've ever seen one at camp before? Maybe just once, but years ago and high up in the rafters of Hands Across and not going anywhere, this one was fluttering marvelously around Ampleforth.

*Also saw a dragonfly this afternoon that landed on my shorts in a very photogenic way, and as I was photographing it, I noticed it had something sightly weird going on, which I eventually determined was the damselfly it was in the process of eating! That was VERY COOL TO WATCH and I got a lot of photos of it with various amounts of blue darner sticking out of its mouth.

*I have been talking so much about Scottish Dancing, and it has been with SO MUCH MORE LOVE than I norally feel like I get to talk about SCD with non SCDers, and I'm sososososoososos happy about that! I've also been putting some conversational thought into "what is the difference between SCD and contra/ECD, and that's been _really_ fun to puzzle through and work out the many differences that actually mean anything!

*I am going to run an SCD class tomorrow and I really hope it goes well to Do Hard Things Badly, and also I hope I have chosen some good hard things, but also I was looking through my collection of dances and had SO MANY OPTIONS! Some of them are much more accessible than others, but I'm really looking forward to seeing what I can get away with!

I looked unbeleivably good for the costume dance tonight, wearing clothing that I have all gotten in the relatively recent past. I own so much Good Clothing and I really enjoy getting to peacock it up!

*The mustard tempe tonight for dinner was so fucking good, damn

*I have gotten to meet a new friend! He doesn't necessarily realize we're friends yet, and to be fair, we do not have to be friends, but I hope we will. He is FOUR MONTHS OLD and his parents love him so much and also love each other so much and watching all this community be all starry-eyed at each other is really fucking wonderful!

*Now the shower is open so I'm gonna do that! Then maybe I walk to the camphouse party past the wifi shed to see if I need to write any more, or can just post these. I really fucking love LCFD, which I have been informed stands for "Lets Contra Fucking Dance"!

*Finished showering and now my hair is clllllleeeeeean which I am extremely excited about (I love the Pinewoods shampoo/conditioner/water situation very much --in 2023 I washed my hair at camp for the first time (normally I wash it just before camp) and realized How Good It Was For My Hair and now it's my *favourite*!)

*Speaking of good hair, a friend of mine is going through a really tough time, and I was hearing about some of it while braiding my hair this morning. So then I offered to braid their hair, as a social friendliness thing, and they were all "actually, it really needs buzzing on the sides" and immediately I was like "I ALSO DO THAT FOR PEOPLE I DO IT REAL GOOD" and I got to have the amazingly queer experience of being at queer camp and touching up a beloved friend's badly grown-out undercut to look fresh and fuzzy and new just like, out on the camphouse back porch and that felt Very Gay And Good. Great times!

Now I'm at the wifi shed. Let's check word count...

Yep, 1149. Let's party!

~Sor
MOOP!

chez_jae

Alaskan Wolf by Linda O. Johnston

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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I brought my work book home on Friday. I only had two chapters left, and it was getting tense. LOL! I finished the book last night. It was Alaskan Wolf by Linda O Johnston, and it’s part of Harlequin’s “Nocturne” line of paranormal romance. The main characters are nature journalist Mariah Garver and paramilitary shapeshifter Patrick Worley.

With a recent spate of glacier loss, Mariah wants to document how it is affecting wildlife in Tadoga Bay, AK. Hoping to get out on the glaciers themselves, Mariah hires a dogsled to make the trek. The musher, Patrick, is standoffish, which both annoys and attracts Mariah. As the two of them continually cross paths, Mariah finds herself wanting to know more about the enigmatic Patrick.

Patrick has been sent to AK to learn why the glaciers are calving at a much more rapid pace than can be attributed to climate change. As a shapeshifter, he can learn more in wolf form than as a human. When he keeps encountering Mariah, Patrick doesn’t know if she’s legit or if she’s possibly doing a more investigative piece for her publisher. After joining forces, the two of them get too close to the truth, putting their lives in danger.

I liked this story. It was an unusual setting and an interesting mystery. I appreciated that Mariah and Patrick never declared undying love for one another. Rather, they owned up to their mutual attraction and admiration and agreed to pursue it. Characters were three-dimensional and the plot was well-structured.

Favorite line: Games like that were not appropriate tonight.

“Breath” line: Patrick carefully inhaled and realized he had all but held his breath.

Decent read, four stars.

Current Mood: okay

olivermoss

I had to sort of push through a bunch of people out on the sidewalk coming back from getting groceries. There's a sports bar near me where you can easily see the screens from outside and people were gathered watching. Just as I was passing I heard 'oh my god, I think they did it...'

I assumed it was a World Cup of Soccer thing. But I stopped and also looked for a second and realized those were basketball jerseys.

The prophecy was true: Knicks in five.

I guess this was a big deal? Big enough that people loitered outside a bar in Portland? (While the planned Soccer viewing parties downtown kinda flopped from what I saw?) Cool that I sort of caught the moment

james_davis_nicoll

Scarcely a month goes by when I don’t receive an email, phone call, or manuscript from someone, more often than not a retired engineer, who has their own theory of relativity. These people have read something about Einstein’s theory of relativity, noticed that something about it doesn’t accord with their own intuition, decided that therefore Einstein must be wrong, and come up with their own theory which they are convinced must be right. It is certainly true that there are aspects of relativity that are counterintuitive, not only to retired engineers but also to many physicists. Therefore if one’s own intuition were to be the final arbiter of correctness of a theory, that would be good reason to reject relativity. But of course science doesn’t work that way: the final arbiter for correctness of a theory is experimental evidence. So if a counterintuitive theory is supported by the evidence, one should retrain ones intuition to think in the ways required by the theory.

musesfool

The New York Knicks are your 2026 NBA Champs!!! Jalen Brunson scored half the points the Knicks had! MVP!

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Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Knicks post-game show

flemmings

Another hot blowy day. Played clothesline bingo, got several tanktops and sleep bottoms out to dry/ bleach in the hot hot sun, and lost a tanktop and a shirt to the birds, not the cherries. The cherries themselves are beginning to both ripen and fall so that's it for clotheslines until maybe a month from now. Underwear of course is hanging from the living room chandelier and drying in the living room fan.

It felt hotter than yesterday, which is probably the difference between going outside at noon like today, and 4 pm like yesterday. But what I wanted was a Johnson cocktail-- that's gin, dry vermouth and sweet vermouth-- and I didn't want to go out to buy the fixings. So I put in an order with UberEats and all was tickety-boo until the very end when they wanted me to take a photo of my ID, take a photo of myself, and upload both. Previously it's been the delivery guy who photo'd my ID and in each case had extreme difficulty in so doing, so I was pretty sure I wouldn't manage it either. So hell, let's try SkipTheDishes, even if I keep having to correct my address with them. They said the Dupont LCBO has gin and sweet vermouth but no dry; the Bathurst outlet has gin and dry vermouth but no sweet. Uber said they could get both. Yeah, and both Skip and Uber's interface lagged like a lagging thing. The hell with it, I said, and closed the browser. Johnson cocktail erases the owies better than anything but my system really hates it, a fact I tried to ignore.

SNDs were out back gardening. He-SND was hacking away at the great overgrown clump of vines on the fence between our yards, with a battery operated trimmer and a manual hacksaw. And even with both those and a male's upper body strength was finding it hard going, so thick are the stems now. I have a bigger trimmer that might work but I've never used it in the seven years I've had it and discover that it needs some assembly. Also an outlet and extension cord, of course.

But tomorrow will be rain all day so no gardening happening. I slept with just the fan last night but am not sure that will work tonight: and I did keep waking up sweating. A modest hydro bill came in last week and I overpaid 300% so maybe I can afford the luxury of a window AC, especially since next week is forecast to be window fan cool at night.

hannah

Tonight's Escapade panel suggestion hangout had me making people laugh, so it was the high point of the day, easily. Moreso even than my brother J., his daughter A., and his wife E. coming over for lunch - a rare Manhattan visit on E.'s part, but my parents thought more of it than I did, so not my day's high point.

Also not a high point but a good one was taking the night to write for a challenge, and letting myself be surprised by the story. I took a prompt without knowing what I'd do with it, then let the story tell me how to take me where I wanted to go. I always enjoy it when that happens.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: nothing now

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