glowingfish

Currently, I have what is quite possibly a migraine? My brain feels like my cognition is normal but pain level is bad, light is more stabby than usual, sound is nauseating. Also since I’ve been having so many headaches, lately, I have been taking too many NSAIDs and have apparently given myself another stomach ulcer. So in all I’m doing great. /s 😅😩😣

I’m nearly done with the clinical volunteer hours for school, I’ll be done with those hopefully by next Saturday. On Friday I passed the national massage exam, the MBLEx, so now I just need to get the legislative exam taken care of before my paperwork is together for getting licensed in this state. And I would be studying for legislative test right now … if I didn’t have such an awful headache.

I just took the last of the Ubrelvy and I’m about to go take an anti-emetic bc that is feeling very necessary all of a sudden. This morning I started the two weeks of Omeprazole/stomach acid reducer pills that will help heal the ulcer (eventually). I just have to eat a fair amount of bread between now and the hypothetical day when my stomach will be healed up.

Wish me strength in the fight against the headache spirits, I guess. And for the ulcer to go the fuck away.

Current Mood: cranky
Current Location: Bed
Current Music: Silence

javert

This is my first year doing Fandom Trumps Hate! I just thought I’d do a little post showing off what I’m offering for 2026. If you don’t know what Fandom Trumps Hate is, it’s a charity fandom event where people bid on auctions others are putting up, and then they donate their bid amount to charity and get fanworks (or other fandom-related stuff) in return. For mine, I’m letting the person doing the bidding pick the charity they like best out of the list

fandomtrumpshate has put together.

Both of my auctions are only for Pokémon fanworks. The first one, for fanart, is open to all ages and all ratings. The second one, for fanfic, is for people over 18 only and open to all ratings.

You can check them both out at the following links:

Auction 1 | Auction 2

All important information is available on there! I’m not going to type it all back up because I don’t really see the point, but if you want to get Pokémon art and/or fic from me*, there’s one way to get it! I don’t know if I’ll ever take fic commissions (especially for fandom stuff) so outside of exchanges this will most likely be the only way to ever get fic written by me. Auctions open tomorrow, March 3rd, at 8am EST!

Thank you! 🙂‍↕️

*with some caveats that are listed on the relevant auctions. you can always email me at the address listed on the auctions if you have any questions or need clarification about anything.

Other news to whomst it may concern: I'm exhausted after Citrus Con, but it went great! My Ko-Fi sketches are still open if you're interested, and I'm going to be sending out invoices for my merch stuff later this week, so that's also still available until I get to it. For now I'm going to sleep forever lol. o7 o7 o7

Current Mood: exhausted

ysabetwordsmith

My order has arrived from John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds. :D

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Current Mood: excited

ysabetwordsmith

My willow cuttings have arrived! :D I will need to unpack them and set them up. My plan is to put some in water, which makes willow water, which can be used to root other things. I shall take cuttings from some dogwoods and other things here to see if this works. I also intend to put some willow cuttings in soil to see how that works. Since willows are pretty much the easiest thing to propagate from cuttings, and I have 3 of each color, I figure at least one of each should survive.

Willow is a keystone plant, supporting many other species. Early blooms feed bees. Birds like to nest in willows. Many species of insects, especially butterfly and moth larvae, feed on them. They also make great craft materials and, as mentioned above, spew out rooting hormones.

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Current Mood: excited

oursin

Two reading groups - one in person, one online - on consecutive days - plus various assorted frazzlements - has left me not feeling like coming up with the wonted witty badinage and repartee to delight dr rdrz.

(Who said 'What witty badinage and repartee'???)

Moderately entertaining coincidence: RL book group was being hosted in a part of London in which (lightly disguised) work discussed in online group takes place (snarked at by the author). I suspect it has changed Quite A Lot since those days....

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Talking of London: Square Mile strikes back: how the City of London is fighting disinformation about crime. I discover from that that we have a Lady Mayor of London, and upon further research, she is not even the first woman to hold the office but the first to take the style of Lady Mayor, go her.

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Do we not find it annoying when academic publishers do not reveal, until you have actually made a purchase, that their ebooks can only be consumed via their walled-garden app? In this particular instance at least the work was open-access and I had not taken a loss except in the expenditure of time in the process. But really. If you are offering your product as a ebook, I think this should be made clear from the outset.

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tenminutesaday

Sorry. The days have just been flying by for me. No excuses to make. But here's today's challenge.

Create a character in your mind (or use one you've already created) that has at least this much backstory and personality figured out:

* In general, are they optimistic/glass-half-full or pessimistic/glass-half-empty?
* In general, do they have enough money/income to do whatever they might want (within reason) or are they struggling to make ends meet?
* They have a skill learned while they were young or in school that they're passable at but not great at and that they haven't done in at least ten years, such as drawing, playing a musical instrument, playing a sport, dancing, or doing a hobby.

Now, write a couple of paragraphs of them responding to someone inviting them to do that skill again (like joining a community band, dancing at a party, or check out a knitting club). Be sure that they respond in a way that makes sense for their outlook and situation.

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1word1day

smaragdine [sməˈragdə̇n]

adjective

of or relating to emerald

examples

1. On a transverse axis, vision reached from glittering blue across the Sea of Marmora to a mast-crowded Golden Horn and the rich suburbs and smaragdine heights beyond. Two in Time. Paul Anderson, 1970

2. It hath reached me, O auspicious King, the director, the right-guiding, lord of the rede which is benefiting and of deeds fair-seeming and worthy celebrating, that Mohammed Son of the Sultan craved leave to return to his own motherland, when his father-in-law gave him an hundred clusters of the diamantine and smaragdine grapes, after which he farewelled the King and taking his bride fared without the city.
Arabian nights. English. Anonymous. 1855

origin
Latin smaragdinus, from smaragdus emerald + -inus -ine

bluapapilio

Using my movies boardgame.

I completed 7/7 movies from my last challenge and rated 'Night of the Reaper', 'Aquamarine' and 'The Quest for Camelot' the highest at 4/5 stars!

Avatar:

Mystery (Hercule Poirot)
Skill: Move one extra tile once (trap tile if even roll)

Roll #1

A 5, prompt: lowest rated on PTW oh boy...it's Elevated Game which is sitting at 1.6/5 stars.

Roll #2

A 3 and the 'generate from PTW list' tile. A #69 hah and Interesting, it's a movie called Climax,

Roll #3

A 9 and the trap tile, skill didn't work. :/ Alright, 8 now and thriller prompt. Primate. The horror movie youtuber I follow reviewed this and she's scared of monkeys. XD

Roll #4

A 7 with skill. Prompt: adventure. I am going to finally watch Wendell & Wild.

Roll #5

...I shouldn't have used my skill. A 7 and the trap tile again. :( A 4 now, prompt: highest rated on PTW this time lol. Oh, it's something I just added recently - Song of the Sea!

Roll #6

A 7, prompt: non-American centric, let's see what we got... How about I finally try watching Pan's Labyrinth. I've been putting it off because I'm afraid it'll put me in a mood.

Roll #7

I am hitting all the bad tiles today. *whiiiine* A 10 and generate from PTW AGAIN. #81 which is that holiday movie with Kristen Stewart, Happiest Season.

Roll #8

Oh NOW you give me a 12. Reward...hm, I want to rewatch Ne Zha in preparation to watch the 2nd one!

Movie PTW List:

[Horror] Elevator Game
[Horror/Drama] Climax
[Horror/Thriller] Primate
[Fantasy/Adventure] Wendell & Wild
[Fantasy/Family] Song of the Sea
[Drama/Fantasy] Pan's Labyrinth
[Romance/Comedy] Happiest Season
[Adventure/Fantasy] Ne Zha

Current Mood: hot

ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy, cold, and damp. Last night it snowed a bit, then sleeted, and seems to have rained later. Now most of the ice has melted off.

I fed the birds. I've seen a flock of sparrows and a male cardinal.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 3/2/26 -- I transplanted snowdrops from the parking lot to the white garden.

EDIT 3/2/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I set up a label with the new Sharpie Oil Paint Pen (Extra Fine) and took pictures.

I saw a squirrel in the trees.

EDIT 3/2/26 -- My red curly willow cuttings arrived, as did my order from John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds. I have set up two of the willow cuttings in water, one in potting soil. I also took a cutting from the fishpond mulberry tree and one from a red dogwood, which I added to the water cups to see if the willows will help those root too.

EDIT 3/2/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 3/2/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I've seen a male cardinal chasing a female, and a fox squirrel at the hopper feeder.

I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

bluapapilio

For my PTW challenge:

Greenland ('20): It's weird that I had not heard/seen this before but ah well. There were a couple of extremely tense moments. I feel like there was a lack of urgency in some scenes from background characters. Not the most original movie but I will definitely watch the second one to see what happens to them down the line. 3/5 stars

10.0 Earthquake ('14): Ah, I've seen this. I'm getting tired of family drama disaster movies. And the daughter with a gross love interest/friend. It had a few good points though. 2/5

Night of the Reaper ('25): The twist did manage to surprise me a little, probably because I'm not one to try to figure things out on my own, but it made sense, although the killer reveal should've been a flashback when she said 'I followed you after the funeral'. Would watch again. 4/5?

The Invitation ('15): Guy and his girlfriend along with their old friends are invited to the house he used to live in with his wife and kid until he died in an accident and she cheated on the guy with someone at her grief meetings. Come to find out, the ex-wife and her new boyfriend are in a cult together and acting strange. Turns out they almost poisoned them all to death. Not sure if it was going to be a murder/suicide or if they were just going for the friends. I ended up skimming after a certain point.

Aquamarine ('06): I've seen this movie on lists with stuff like She's the Man etc as ~cultural relics~ so i figured I should watch it lol, Two absolutely boy crazy girls encounter a mermaid who has to prove love exists to her father or be forced into an arranged marriage. They teach her through magazines like Cosmopolitan how to attract one guy in particular. Contains bad acting at times and plenty of cringe situations. 😂 I like the thing with Bonnie and Leonard. It has the whole 'true love can be platonic' thing like Frozen. You know what, I did enjoy this , can't resist 'friendship is love', 'people aren't always what you expect' not to mention 'parents are people too'. => I only sorta knew one song. I feel like I would rewatch it. 4/5 stars

Coherence ('13): I know you're supposed to be confused but I prefer a more clean-cut ending. 2/5 stars

Quest for Camelot ('98) (rewatch) - Man, why wasn't that Ruber cut off the second he started being nasty. The music lyrics for the Camelot song were so straightforward. XD I don't understand what killed Lionel, was it the fall itself? Does the horn sounding only mean 'Excalibur has been stolen'? What do they do if Camelot is being attacked? Turns out I remembered "I Stand Alone" really well!There are plenty of references in this movie including Star Wars. Overall had a great time, I look forward to rewatching more animated movies!

Art: ⭐️⭐️
Sound: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Characters: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Humor Level: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Humor Landing: ⭐️
Overall Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Current Mood: tired

neonvincent

Crazy Eddie's Motie News earned 101,841 page views and 6 comments on 28 posts during the 28 days of February 2026.

( Most read, commented on, liked, shared, clicked on, and saved posts at Crazy Eddie's Motie News last month behind the cut. )( Most read, commented on, liked, shared, clicked on, and saved posts at Crazy Eddie's Motie News last month behind the cut. )

Current Mood: full
Current Location: House in the woods at the edge of town
Current Music: Majority Report Twitch stream

bluapapilio

Watch on YouTube

Baby don’t you wanna play the game?
All the warning signs but still you know you wanna
Cause it’s dark inside, but a beautiful crime
You can’t run and hide🎵
Emily Mei - MANIA (Where Them Girls At)

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greghousesgf

Some idiot pulled the fire alarm at about 5 this morning so I have a headache. Today I have to reestablish my credit card info with my internet and phone accounts, pay my rent, make an appointment regarding the damn rent raise and take out the garbage. It's a little too early right now to do any of that.

Current Music: "Friendship is Witchcraft"

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100words

Title: Hazards
Fandom: Gundam SEED
Rating: All-Ages
Notes: Hawthorne (OC, Aktaeon engineer)

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Name: C.K. or Chester
Age group: mid-to-late 30s -- 36 specifically.
Country: USA
Subscription/Access Policy: 18+ only. No Harry Potter fans. No antis.

Main Fandoms: Culture Club (the greatest band of the '80s!)
Other Fandoms: Linkin Park, WWE, Smoky Mountain Wrestling
Fannish Interests: Fanfiction mostly, and doing deep dives on my many OCs.
OTPs and Ships: Culture Club: Boy George/Jon Moss, Roy Hay/Mikey Craig; Linkin Park: Bennoda [Chester Bennington/Mike Shinoda]; Wrestling: Hartbreak (Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels), Shawnter (Shawn Michaels/Hunter Hearst-Helmsley), Candy (Cody Rhodes/Randy Orton); and then I have a lot of ships in my fandoms involving OCs.

Favourite Movies: The Room (lol), Pretty in Pink, Borat, Major League, man there's so many and I can't think of all of them.
TV Shows: I actually don't watch TV.
Books: Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart by Martha Hart
Music: I listen to a lot of '80s. My faves are Culture Club (and yes, that means I like Boy George's solo work too), a-ha, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Information Society, New Order, The Cure, A Flock of Seagulls, Real Life, Johnny Hates Jazz, Mr. Mister, Oingo Boingo. Then outside of '80s music I like Massive Ego, $uicideboy$, Linkin Park, and Fort Minor.
Games: Sonic the Hedgehog (1, 2, 3), Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic 3D Blast, Pokemon, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, GTA series, Hitman series, WWE series, Tomb Raider (original games series), Crash Bandicoot 1 & 2, Legacy of Kain series
Comics/Anime/Misc: Not really into much comics or anime, but my fave anime is Death Note.

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me - Culture Club

cakewrecks_feed

Posted by Jen

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/faulty-towers-2026

Marisa F. writes,

"My sister-in-law had a beach destination wedding in Mexico, and decided that she loved this sand castle cake:"

"Upon speaking with the baker, she explained that she understood that the baker may not be able to recreate the cake exactly, but would be happy with something similar. The baker insisted that she could make a cake as equally beautiful. They agreed that the cake would be 3 tiers, with the sand castle on the top.

"On the wedding day, she instead got 3 separate tiers, each topped with its own version of a flesh colored sand castle:

That door and window are what really sell it.

"Luckily, the Bride and guests have a great sense of humor, so the Penis Cake was the hit of the reception."

To be fair, they could also be mushrooms. Really happy, attentive mushrooms.

[insert "fun guy" joke here]

"My sister-in-law was disappointed, of course, but even she had to laugh."

Wow, talk about a good-natured bride! I'm totally sending this to the next newly-wed who e-mails me complaining that her cake's shade of cerulean was a little off. PERSPECTIVE.

Oh, and here's the real kicker:

"After the reception, they discovered that the 'castles' were merely frosting covered Styrofoam, so this cake topper now has a place of honor in the loving couple's home."

Bwahahaa! Now that's my kind of wedding memento!

Thanks to Marisa for letting me use an epic John Cleese pun for the title, even if I couldn't think of any more Fawlty Towers jokes to work into the post. You must excuse me; I'm from Barcelona. (Ok, so that's ONE.)

*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/faulty-towers-2026

prettygoodword

carbolic (kahr-BOL-ik) - n., a caustic white crystalline compound, C₆H₅OH, derived from benzene and used in resins, plastics, and pharmaceuticals and in dilute form as a disinfectant and antiseptic, now more commonly called phenol.

And as a short form for carbolic soap, a mildly antiseptic soap containing it, which was the first commercially available disinfectant soap. The name was coined in 1834 in German as Carbolsäure (modern German Karbolsäure), carbolic acid by the chemist, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, who first derived it, from coal tar -- thus the carbon connection.

---L.

mrissa

New story out in Clarkesworld: Person, Place, Thing! This was such a fun voice for me to fall into writing, and it ended up surprising me with how many Muppet references it wanted. Usually I am opposed to "I am but a servant of the muse" claptrap from writers, but when that muse is demanding aliens who have very earnestly learned from mid-to-late period Henson...well, what am I to do?

osteophage

In the controversy surrounding Cory Doctorow’s anniversary post, many people have engaged with the spirit of the thing, but I have yet to see any in-depth discussion of his choice to invoke the term purity culture. Purity culture is a term with very particular origins, and it’s not some general term for people being mean on the internet. It’s a term for a specific enculturation into a pattern of sexual abuse.

But before we get into that, let me give you an overview of why we’re talking about this again. I say “again” because — as long-time readers may recall — I posted about this subject before back in 2019. With that said, that post was written for a different audience, and there are some new facets to address this time, so let’s take it from the top.

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