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Bonny asked me a while ago if I would drive her to the hospital for her surgery on Monday. She said it would probably be early 'and you are always up early anyway.' Whatever. Then she said her friend Chris would take her and then she said her son would take her (she's still not speaking to her daughter). Then yesterday afternoon, I learned it was back to me. She said she would find out today exactly what time. Fine. I don't care, really. She's going to the same hospital I took Myrna to a million times. It's not convenient but at least I know how to get there.

She just texted me that her check in time is 5:20 am. Honestly, I would not have enough nerve to ask anyone to take me somewhere 30 minutes away at 5:20 in the morning. God made Uber and Lyft for that. But, I'm not Bonny! It's fine. And as I pointed out, at least we'll dodge the morning rush hour. Her son is on the hook to pick her up after which is a relief.

So, yesterday, I went into the storage room to find one of my swiss army knives to keep in the car. I found one but I also found my glucose monitoring kit. A few years ago, I got a wild hair to monitor my glucose daily. Then I had my annual doctor visit and my numbers were down and he didn't even mention diabetes or pre diabetes so I abandoned the effort.

My numbers were back up this past January so I decided yesterday to see if the Wegovy was making a difference. My kit is a little stabber and then a little reader and an app. I remember from before that the instructions were confusing and incomplete and the app sucked and it was incredibly difficult to find out what my readings indicated. That's all I remembered. I opened the kit and found the stabber, the little stabbing pins, the strips and the reader. The reader wanted batteries. I couldn't get the pins into the stabber so I just jammed one into a finger. Then I could't get the reader to read. I tried this several times until I was out of fingers. Finally, I went to gemini. Oh that stabber is WAY easier when you know how to load and operate it! And, the little strips do not go in blood first. And, I should have done a fasting draw. Otherwise, all was good. hahahahha

My fasting draw this morning was 111 - I was expecting much better. But, I was also expecting to have lost more weight so whatfuckingever. The glucose kit goes back into the storage area this morning.

Friday is menu day and next week's selections are dreadful. Next week is also the last week of the meal allowance month. So, this morning I ordered 3 dinners. 2 for the freezer and 1 for me. That leaves me enough for necessities (yogurt, quiche, eggs) next week and lunch tomorrow. This week they had decent lunches and dinners. So I took advantage.

The Mariners game tonight is the start of the whole retirement of the asshole's jersey. I'm thinking it will be a good game to watch on mute.

Meomensteeen - a fellow Mariner fan - left a comment on yesterday's entry which turned my asshole pitcher's frown upside down. The asshole's nickname is The Big Unit. She said "Once my grandma misheard my dad when he was talking about Randy Johnson. She asked me, "What is this big eunuch your father keeps talking about?" Ever since then, my family has called him The Big Eunuch."

I am so so so so sorry that my Mom died without hearing this.

I just ordered more yarn. I have a house full of yarn. I have yarn for the blanket I just started. I have yarn for the vest I just started. I clearly have a yarn problem. But I found this yarn and put it in my basket and waited for a free shipping deal. I got the free shipping code so what was I supposed to do??

Ok, enough. Before I spend another penny this morning, I need to get dressed and make up my bed. Them's the rules.

This is the project I settled on for this yarn. It's one of those go until it's big enough or you are tired of it projects.

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polyamships is participating in

3weeks4dreamwidth and today's post is all about reccing fics (you can see that post here)

This is my own post answering that call for recs.

Fandoms included in my post:
Teen Wolf
The Raven Cycle
The Infernal Devices
3 will be free
Arcane
The bastard son and the devil himself
Heated Rivalry
All for the game
Sense8

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sid_guardian

How's it going, everyone?

Just a reminder that the 520 Day Reverse Exchange deadline is less than two weeks from now, at 11:59PM UTC on Wednesday 13 May. (What time is that for me?)

When you're ready, please post your completed assignment to the AO3 collection. We're looking forward to everyone's creations!

If you're unsure how to post, see the instructions here, and if you have any questions or, for any reason, you can't make the deadline, please let us know NOW by replying to your assignment email (please don't change the subject line) or commenting here. Comments here are screened.

General info, schedule and minimum requirements

*cheers everyone on*

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awesomeers

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!

digthewriter

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halfshellvenus

I managed to avoid running over a snake today, which is a plus. It was around 83F, and they tend to come out in the heat... and then lie on the pavement in the shade. Most of the time, I wind up running over them because I think they're a stick and it's too late to avoid them anyway. :(

This one was not a rattlesnake, thank goodness. And it was a chonk! Wow.

I also saw some turklets. It's that time of year! These were young enough to be cute (which doesn't last long). And I spotted the aftermath of a fish hoping to chomp a black butterfly that was hovering over the river.

Being early May, the wild grape buds are out. They have a sweet, peppery smell that is nothing like actual grapes. The cottonwood trees are also releasing fluff into the air, and that can come and go for a month depending on how often we transition back into winter weather. Soon, squirrel mating season will be running full tilt, and I'll have something else to dodge while biking out there. But in the meantime, I hope the sweetness of spring lingers a little bit longer. :)

fairyniamh

Quotes:

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."

"You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length."

~ Carl Friedrich Gauss

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starandrea

The dahlias are outside. I hope I don't regret that in the morning,* but they looked so happy and there are just so many of them. Originally I thought putting them on a tray near the back door meant we could carry them outside (on the tray) during the day and bring them back in the same way at night. Ha ha. They are much too big for that.

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*"Star, didn't you set up not one but two popup greenhouses outside the back door?" I did, yes, and one of them is full of unsprouted cannas and the other one is full of patio furniture and houseplants, so clearly the space is well-planned and efficiently utilized.

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I should clarify, all the dahlias are too big to easily move, but some are tall and spindly despite my efforts to feed them artificial sun. I see now that putting the smaller tubers in smaller pots disadvantaged them in the race for light: the smaller pots were shorter, and that inch or two made a difference. Anyway, I put the bushy ones outside and left the skinny ones inside under the plant lights for now.

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I moved the blueberry twigs out too and put the indoor cannas where the blueberries used to be. I set up a dedicated seedling light next to them for the nasturtiums (and Cheri's cosmos and Marci's sagelings). I hope the seedling light turned itself off. I just realized I didn't check, but hopefully I plugged it into the timer side of the outlet strip.

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I also have some montauk daisy cuttings inside: my neighbor told me to just put them in the ground, but it's been so dry, and they'd be great out by the street if I can get them growing, so I started them in water. They are not happy. But another neighbor dug up some geraniums for the shade garden, and they bounced back after just a day, so the spring plant migration has begun. (All that discarded pachysandra and vinca definitely didn't hurt.)

In conclusion, here is a relatable short video by jesuisbaggsy on youtube: The thing that threw me most about neurotypical living was their homes. (They have spare rooms! "that's different")

In further conclusion, here are some pretty pictures for reading all of that.

( bridge garden - with bridge! )

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Hi, folks!

I'm currently writing crime fiction set in contemporary London, and I'm trying to figure out whether a police officer on the radio would be specifically identifiable to someone listening in.

Does the Met use radio callsigns that are unique to each officer? Or are callsigns assigned to specific beats, instead? Or a secret third thing?

Thanks!

mistressofmuses

This Saturday is Ritual Noize Fest, a first-time local goth/industrial music festival that I am very excited for!

I'm especially excited for Whorticulture, a local band that I do really like, and Aesthetic Perfection.

I really wish that the lineup still looked like it originally did:

Sadly, VNV Nation had to cancel due to Ronan's ongoing health issues. (Apparently he's doing much better, but traveling overseas ~~to an uncivilized country~~ is a risk that he and his doctor agree he shouldn't take, just in case.)

This was supposed to be the first real Voicecoil show of the year, and we were all looking forward to it. It's still really heartbreaking that there won't ever be another Voicecoil show. I miss you, Mark.

As excited as I am for the festival, it's definitely also feeling really bittersweet, because it should have been a chance to hang out with my friend, celebrating him getting to be part of a really cool lineup. The lineup remains cool... but I'm not hanging out with my friend, and I really wish I was. </3 Still, it should be a good time, and I am looking forward to it!

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はなはいつから鈴を鳴らし始めたのか、ちょっと記憶が定かではなかったのではなの鈴鳴らしの歴史を振り返ってみました。 I don’t remember when Hana started ringing its […]

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lyricaltitles

Album Challenge returns! It will run during the month of May (though entries will be accepted afterwards).

The challenge is to take an album of your choice and for each song, write a fic, using a lyric from the song as the title. This is a low-stakes, personal challenge, of course; there's no penalty for not finishing or running late.

The AO3 collection can be found here. If the collection name doesn't appear in the dropdown when posting your fic, you can either use the Post to Collection button, or manually enter LyricalTitlesAlbumChallenge2026. Even if the drop-down doesn't find it, it will be added to the collection without trouble.

Rules, Guidelines, and FAQ:

All works must be your own and not previously posted.
All works must use either the title of the song or a portion of its lyrics as the work title.
Works have a minimum wordcount of 100 words.
Please indicate the album name, song title, and artist in each entry for this challenge. You're not required to link to the song, but feel free to do so if you want!
Work text should be under a cut or linked offsite. Please indicate any warnings in your post.
You can begin working on the fics at any time, but please don't post them until May.

What kind of works are allowed?
All fandoms and original work are allowed. Works must be your own and not previously posted, but do not need to be exclusive to this event - they can also be used as entries for concurrent events. This is a writing focused event, and there is a minimum wordcount of 100 words, and no maximum wordcount.
What kind of music is allowed?
Any genre of music is welcome. For this challenge, songs used should all be from the same album.
How many fics do I need to write?
That's up to your choice of album! There's no minimum or maximum length, so you can set the pace of this challenge. A small EP, a big compilation album, or anything in between, is all permitted.
Do the songs/lyrics I pick need to be in English?/Can I translate non-English lyrics?
You can use songs from any language. Titles/Lyrics may be in their original language, or you may translate them if you wish. For that matter, works can be in any language as well.
There's an instrumental song on the album, can I still use it?
Since both lyrics and titles of songs are allowed as the work titles, an instrumental song can still have a work written for it. If you don't think you can make that title work, however, you can skip that song.
Someone is already doing the album I wanted to do, do I need to pick something else?
No, multiple people can use the same album.
Do I need to post in the same order as the songs on the album?
You can if you want to! But it's not required.
Do the lyrics need to be incorporated into the work?
No, this event is focused on titles, lyrics do not need to be used in the work itself.

Have fun!

Any questions, comments, or suggestions? Please don't hesitate to ask below! Feel free to tell everyone what album you're planning on using, if you want!

lycomingst

The last day of Poetry Month

Silence by Billy Collins

Now it is time to say what you have to say.
The room is quiet.
The whirring fan has been unplugged,
and the girl who was tapping
a pencil on her desktop has been removed.

So tell us what is on your mind.
We want to hear the sound of your foliage,
the unraveling of your tool kit,
your songs of loneliness,
your songs of hurt.

The trains are motionless on the tracks,
the ships are at rest in the harbor.
The dogs are cocking their heads
and the gods are peering down from their balloons.
The town is hushed,

and everyone here has a copy.
So tell us about your parents—
your father behind the steering wheel,
your cruel mother at the sink.
Let's hear about all the clouds you saw, all the trees.

Read the poem you brought with you tonight.
The ocean has stopped sloshing around,
and even Beethoven
is sitting up in his deathbed,
his cold hearing horn inserted in one ear.

And what the heck, Music Monday.

Watch on YouTube

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I've continued adding fics to my db, as I'm going through the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman fandom currently. Normally on any given week I might add one or two favorite fics at most, ones that I periodically re-read (though all fics I add are enjoyable to some degree), and those are easy to post in a comment to the community recs post. But I started adding one old favorite author, Nan Smith, and realized there were too many of her fics that I would want to share, so I decided to wait until I was done adding her fic, and now I can share them all, organized by the series. She wrote a number of series and given that they're only hosted on FFN (not the easiest place to navigate) and the fandom-specific archive (which has a separate series guide but no organized page with links that I know of), I decided I should make a post of my favorite series and share with everyone.

Nan's specialty is blending a good casefic with B-plot, especially in progressing an overall investigation over multiple fics, so if that sounds up your alley, check these out! While I highly recommend watching the Lois & Clark show itself, most people have enough background knowledge of Superman to be able to follow many of the stories written for the show, so these may be more canon-blind-friendly than most.

There's nearly 1.7 million words in all of these fics combined, so this should keep you reading for quite some time!

( Icon guide )

( Explanation of ratings )

( Ships )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

Below are the recs, organized by series in alphabetical order (using the series titles I think of them as):

( Alternate Mazik )

( Alt-World series )

( Dagger )

( Home )

( Night )

( Nightfall )

( Pheromone (1) )

( Pheromone (2) )

( Supercop )

( Tsunami )

( Wedding )

If any of the non-dead links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

stonepicnicking_okapi

Thank you to all my friends who posted poems during this month. I think we did a good job of celebrating the power of poetry.

A Jelly-Fish by Marianne Moore

Visible, invisible,
A fluctuating charm,
An amber-colored amethyst
Inhabits it; your arm
Approaches, and
It opens and
It closes;
You have meant
To catch it,
And it shrivels;
You abandon
Your intent—
It opens, and it
Closes and you
Reach for it—
The blue
Surrounding it
Grows cloudy, and
It floats away
From you.

Watch on YouTube

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Posted by Wil

https://wilwheaton.net/2026/04/come-closer-and-see/

https://wilwheaton.net/?p=9972

I want to take a moment and say thank you for all the messages of comfort and support that so many of y’all have shared with me since Marlowe passed. I haven’t ever felt this kind of grief, for this long, in my life. When I am feeling the most sad, when I’m sobbing until I can’t breathe, I feel closest to her, so all I can do is go through it, honor it, and embrace her memory.

There’s a dog on Instagram called Wesley the Chicken Nugget. I adore him, and I love it when his person shares photos and video of him being a dog, so I completely understand how we can love animals we’ve never met. I know that lots of you loved Marlowe, and that comforts me every day.

So thank you, from Anne and me, for choosing to be kind.

I had to take a couple weeks off from recording stories for It’s Storytime (I’ve come to believe that four or five weeks of bereavement leave isn’t unreasonable) but we’re back to work and there’s a new story this week that I wanted everyone to know about.

It’s called To Carry You Inside You, by Tia Tashiro. Here’s my intro:

I grew up in the entertainment industry, not by choice, so I had a front row seat to the abuse and exploitation of child actors like myself. I grew up absolutely terrified of upsetting anyone on the set, robotically doing whatever I was told, so I could just get through it and have one of the precious and rare hours of my childhood where I got to just be a kid, before I was ripped out of childhood and thrust back into a place I never wanted to be.

Today, we are going to visit a future where child actors are still exploited, still used up and discarded, facing an adult life without purpose, that they were never prepared for, because nobody cared what happened to them past an arbitrary age.

We will meet a young woman who is doing her best to assemble the pieces of a stolen childhood into a fulfilling adult life. It isn’t what she wanted, or would have chosen for herself, but she’s doing her best, which is all any of us can do.

This is one of those examples of speculative fiction that I point to when I talk about the power of storytelling that lands on different people for different reasons. This story isn’t about me, but holy shit is it about me. In fact, when I reached out to Tia and asked for permission to do the narration, I mentioned that she captured the experience of being a child actor so perfectly and honestly, she must have some firsthand experience … imagine my surprise when she told me that she didn’t, that she used her imagination to create those moments.

Holy shit. That’s incredible. Please let me know what you think, if you listen.

Anyway, I’m doing my best to promote the show and just let people know it exists, but I keep getting crushed by the algorithm. On Threads, the posts before and after I talked about the podcast have thousands of views and hundreds of interactions, but my post about this episode has like 20 interactions and has only been seen by about 2000 of the 5000000 accounts that follow me. That seems … odd. And honestly, it’s kind demoralizing that one of the few direct ways I have to tell people this exists seems to work against supporting that. I’ve tried letting Bluesky know, and the 13 people who tend to notice me there are excited about it, I’m sure, but it just doesn’t seem to get traction there at all. If anyone reading this has experience bringing something to an audience who will probably love it, but just don’t know about it, I’d be grateful to hear anything you have to say about it.

Last thing, that is explicitly in service of promotion: If you listen to the podcast, you can help me out by rating and reviewing it wherever you are subscribed. The show’s audience is growing slowly but steadily, and I know it isn’t because of me; it’s because listeners are recommending it. That means so much to me. Thank you.

https://wilwheaton.net/2026/04/come-closer-and-see/

https://wilwheaton.net/?p=9972

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