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* As a new hockey fan, CBC losing the NHL broadcast contract feels big? Is this as big as I feel it is?

* Torts fired

* I ship Oilers with misery, but not like this, damn. The Babcock stuff is bad, and not the fun kind of bad.

* Pdub draft is being dramatic, but things looking good for Seattle getting Laila Edwards

I'm probably forgetting like 5 things

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Jun. 16th, 2026 09:02 am
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I started rereading The Vulcan Academy Murders the other day (I read it a number of years ago, but managed to forget basically everything about it), but noped out around page 50.

Read more... )

I'm hoping Vulcan's Glory and/or Ishmael will work better for me.

Update

Jun. 16th, 2026 02:12 pm
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Good news: those scammers have repaid me. Not willingly, but they have.

Books

Jun. 15th, 2026 10:56 pm
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* Captive Prince C S Pacat- ... that's it? That's the book that I've seen endless discourse about for ages? Read more... )

Wolf at Bay by Charlie Adhara- The book starts building up the characters of both MCs right out the gate. I liked the first book a lot, but also I was pretty sure that the reccs for Wolf at the Door had more to do with it being the start to a strong series than as a stand-alone book. This book jumps right into shoring up some of the weak points of the first book.

The way the author establishes so much about the characters is to have them go to Cooper's home town and... there they discover a murder! It's a bit much for a second book to go so Murder She Wrote, but I don't mind it. The grasp of characters and complicated family relationships is amazing.

One thing I really like about the books is that the mystery, and also Oliver's backstory, are delivered really clearly. It's all a step more complicated than most authors would tackle, but it's handled so well it doesn't feel complicated or confusing.

* The Deep by Rivers Solomon and others

It's a novella based on a clipping. song, that is based on earlier music and that's based on... there is a whole history and evolving mythology around The Deep and this is one link in it. The evolution is interesting, as are the concepts. I've since listened to some of the music and might get into this more.

However, while I like this as an idea and as a thought experiment, as a story this iteration falls very flat for me. The main character is meant to be childish because they haven't had much time to even be themselves, but still the relationships felt... obligatory? No sense of caring just 'because you are my daughter' or 'because you fed me'. Read more... )

Quote...

Jun. 16th, 2026 12:35 am
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Quotes:

"Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day."

"Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it." ~

"Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it."

~ Thaddeus Golas

Staying over again

Jun. 15th, 2026 11:37 pm
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Though I came unprepared to spend the night. Got up this morning at 10:00, had breakfast and coffee. Called the oncologist again to try and speak with her, put in for a call back at 3:00. Called the CPAP vendor, they still haven't heard from the insurance company. They'll call me when they do.

I showered and dressed, and headed into Flushing to Duane Reade for a prescription. Of course I got there just after they closed for their half hour lunch, so I waited til 2:00. Got my prescription and headed over to [personal profile] mashfanficchick's.

Got here just before 3:00 so we hung out while I waited to see if the oncologist's office would call me back. They did, and I once again left a message for the doctor to call me about the approval letter.

Around that time we realized it made more sense for me to stay here tonight and go to my doctor's appointment (pcp, not the oncologist) tomorrow from here. Ze is coming with me, we will have lunch and go shopping and hopefully go to Barnes and Noble.

We hung out for awhile longer, then a bit after 6:00 we walked down Austin street and ze dropped some things off at the UPS store, and then we went to dinner in a Japanese restaurant. We had bento boxes. Salad, shrimp tempura, one sushi roll, rice, and green tea ice cream for dessert. We also got FIFA cups that are being offered in different places around the country at some restaurants.

After dinner we walked back and [personal profile] mashfanficchick put the Mets game on, muted, while I Teamed the FWiB on my phone. The game was a disaster (12 - 0) but we had a good time talking to the FWiB.

After the game ended, and so did the Teaming, we hung out for awhile, then realized there was no coffee for me to have tomorrow, so we walked down to CVS and I got two cans of iced mocha.

Since then we've just been hanging out until I started here.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Got my meds.

3. The oncologist's office called back.

4. Saw more tiger lilies.

5. Saw a firefly, first of the season!

6. Yummy dinner.
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Whispered Kiss (66 words) by KD writes
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Higurashi Kagome/Sesshoumaru
Additional Tags: Poetry, Inspired by Fanart
Summary:

a short poem

Just an FYI RE: fanfics

Jun. 15th, 2026 03:13 pm
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In the midst of everything else going on, I am reading some of the oldest fanfics in the OTPs that I love or have loved. Got the inspiration for this from a Sterek discord, so if you see older fics pop up from me posting, then that's why 
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Confessions (958 words) by Chie (Chierafied)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Higurashi Kagome/Sesshoumaru
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Love Confessions, One-Sided Attraction, Love Letters, Character Death, Resurrection, Short One Shot, Originally Posted on FanFiction.Net

Summary:

Kagome writes a loveletter where she confesses her feelings.. But to whom is she writing?

 

TW Pet Death discussion

Jun. 15th, 2026 01:46 pm
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Loki isn't at rest yet but I have been emotional all day sinceRead more... )

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Jun. 15th, 2026 06:27 pm
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We got home to discover that Geraint, bless his furry paws, had opened the door to the freezer, with the result that about half of the contents are defrosted.

Little bastard.

Sorta Music Monday

Jun. 15th, 2026 09:51 am
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[personal profile] muccamukk
So I was listening to "Move On" by Kevin Powers* because Shaboozey features on it. The song is from a guy to his ex, who has gotten over him a hell of a lot faster than he's gotten over her.** The chorus asks, Who taught you how to move on? Who showed you how to make it look so damn easy? ... I know you didn't learn on your own. Girl, who taught you how to move on?

Which is, all and all, misogynistic: she can't just have gotten over this loser, some dude has to have helped, and he's now mad at the dude because dudes have more agency. Et cetera.

However, it does sound a little like he's asking for a hook up, since his rebound flings have not been satisfactory, and he would like to try out the dude who's been working so well for her. As the bridge says:
Who's been keeping you up at night?
Seems like you've been doing alright.
Maybe I'd be too if I knew:
Who taught you how to move on?
🤔🤔🤔



* I just watched the video so I could link to it, and it's very funny to me that they don't show Shaboozey actually in the motorhome because he is tol.
** I guess he could be saying "Girl" in a gay way, but I suspect not coming from Kevin Powers. Note, also, that she seems to have moved to California and cut her hair, so...

Quote...

Jun. 15th, 2026 12:43 am
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Quotes:

""No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them."

"When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn."

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Jun. 14th, 2026 08:15 pm
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VGK lost!

Someone else won the cup. Woo!

And Bussi got a shut out in the final game.

Wrote a little, chatted a lot

Jun. 14th, 2026 10:22 pm
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Woke up at 10:00, actually got out of bed around 11:00. Had breakfast and coffee. Put in a Shipt order. Then puttered around until 1:30 when I went to the Starsky and Hutch creative work session.

I got a little writing done, and the Shipt order arrived and I put it away. Part of it was two items for [personal profile] mashfanficchick which I will bring to zer when I next see zer, hopefully tomorrow.

We got off at 5:00 or so, and I had a little something to eat, Then puttered around some more until 7:00 when I Teamed the FWiB.

We talked until 8:30 when I called Middle Brother. He is fine, went to 7-11 on Friday. And they have the swimming pool at his group home set up and he went swimming today.

Talked a few more minutes with the FWiB, then got off and had dinner. Then went to the bedroom and called the Kid, who didn't answer of course. I sent her a text.

Then I played solitaire until pet feeding time.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The Starsky and Hutch fandom.

3. Shipt.

4. The Knicks championship!

5. Middle Brother is fine.

6. John sent me great pictures to use for Oldest Brother's memorial service.

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Jun. 14th, 2026 04:09 pm
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Trash clean up is one thing, but brush clearing in a heatwave is a very stupid thing for me to sign up for. But...
Grab your gardening gloves & come join us for a day of brush removal in Section 114 of our cemetery! This is an area of our cemetery that was lost to time for many years until a map confirming it's existence was discovered in 2017

Yeah, so I spent my morning helping clear brush to prepare the area for ground penetrating radar to help map the area. One reason for the mapping, is that there are bodies that shouldn't be there. various trigger warnings )

And OH, OH! The people who work for the cemetery/mausoleum there, they haven't been to Portland Mausoleum because they are newer to the area and weren't around when it was more accessible, but also they are like... suspicious of people working for other mausoleums? They've taken badly to them even asking to take a look around. There is like drama between the non-profit and for-profit mausoleums? Man, if I hadn't gotten involved in this clean up stuff I might have missed all this.

So, I am sending one of the mausoleum employees a link to the Librarians episode filmed in Portland Mausoleum so she can see the inside. I could also send my own pics, but I mentioned to her about a TV show filmed in there and she was curious.

I am definitely going to be spending some time down there, learning more and also walking all of it. Not until the heat breaks, though.
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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).

Quote...

Jun. 14th, 2026 02:27 am
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[personal profile] fairyniamh
Quotes:

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy."

"If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree."

~ William Butler Yeats

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