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The polar stars
With fixed purpose;
Thunderbolt iron
To open the power
(Great of strength)
to speak;
Confusion;
Discord;
Overcoming that which would
Annihilate;
The sinister and redheaded;
The foreign.
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Problematic
Men—
Angry drunks,
Queer,
And the ball-less.
Collected.
Let's talk
Today I wanted to talk about absolutely everything that's been going through my head lately. I don't know how this is going to work, so let's just pretend we're two unemployed aunts gossiping while having coffee. Well, speaking of unemployment, I am unemployed, lol. Yes, I'm currently unemployed, but I'll need to find my own job soon, and that makes me anxious, yk? I can barely talk to anyone irl without trying to turn everything into a joke. I do that with my own feelings too, because if I don't turn everything into a joke all the time, how am I going to deal with the pressure from my own mind? I'm quite anxious right now because I'm feeling a bit nauseous and I don't want to throw up again, so I'm doing my best to calm down and not throw all up. You might be thinking I need to see a doctor, well, maybe. But it's very difficult for me to find emotional balance, because the last time my mother took me to the doctor, she (the doc) said I had nothing wrong and that I was just an anxious hypochondriac who wasn't under the poperly medication, lol. (Now I'm taking the right medication for anxiety, always prescribed by my psychiatrist, don't worry.) But the problem is that I don't know when I'm exaggerating and being a hypochondriac or when I really need to seek help. I'm extremely hypochondriac; anything makes me think I only have a few days. But I don't think it's anything serious, I think I just drank too much water and now my stomach is full of liquid. I mean, it's better than being dehydrated, I guess... Drink water, yall! Also, updates on my sleep routine: I'm having a bit better sleep routine now. Well, I know it's already 2 AM as I write this, but I'm already becoming sleepy. Currently, I'm going to bed before 3 AM and waking up between 11 and 12 AM. It's not that early, I know! But i was going to bed at fckn 8 AM and wake up at 3 PM! So... little by little, maybe I'll be able to establish a stable sleep routine. It's always been like this: there were times when my routine was great, I had dinner at a good time, went to bed at a regular time and woke up early, even without have any commitment, and times when I struggled af to stay awake during the day, going to bed when the birds were already singing and waking up when the sun was almost gone. I have really, REALLY annoying problems with my mood. I have some moments of deep depression that can last a long time, and some peaks of euphoria that make me act more impulsively and stupidly than usual. That's why I'm seriously considering the possibility of having bipolar disorder. I think I should discuss this with my therapist at my next session. And using this topic to pull another hook... How about a story about people that time forgot?? (I hope that's the right name, Jesus, that's a big ass name! And I was the one who named it, btw, lol). Well, as I said before, an artist with a vivid mind has a wonderful blessing that is also a curse, it's the constant creativity. This means that my head is always full of new concepts and ideas, and that's why I have so many unfinished stories in my personal files, lol... So, it may take a while, but chapter three will come, chill out! I'm also struggling to finish the damn premise of the story I've been rewriting since 2023, but I always end up procrastinating. God, have patience with me, because I myself have none! But despite having so many problems with anxiety and wanting to bring all my ideas to life at the same time, I think I'm capable of organizing myself and finishing a story one day, and that day isn't too far away, I can feel it! And what about my personal and unhealthy problems with other trans guys? Oh, wait... didn't I mention that? Shit, that's a topic for another day! I have so much to talk about, it's a topic that makes me uncomfortable. I don't like having internalized prejudices, it's fucking with my life, but I'll still unravel everything in another entry, from when it started and what I'm trying to do to solve my problem. And any media I've consumed recently and enjoyed? Hmm... actually, not much new stuff. I watched a bit of Gachiakuta a while ago and thought it was pretty cool. Nice art style, open criticism of capitalism, nice character design, cool concepts, yes, it has a lot of potential. The first few episodes didn't captivate me much, but I'm sure that can change as I watch more. I also watched the first two episodes of Link Click, aka sad ass chinese anime. I liked the rhythm, though it sometimes made me a little sleepy. Interesting concepts, engaging premise, but I have some criticisms to make. First, I haven't yet connected with the two protagonists, and I don't even remember their names tbh, lol. But fineeee, I've only watched two episodes, so I won't judge yet! And it's a bit confusing to understand some concepts; I felt like I was watching Jujutsu Kaisen again, because I had to rack my brain to understand all that time travel stuff. But there are openly saphic characters, so that's already a positive point. And what about the other anime that, coincidentally, also has a boy with black hair and a boy with white hair (I think it just makes a good match, lol), which I won't name because I'm still recovering from the punch on stomatch this anime is? it's peak, that's all I can say without falling into tears. Enough updates for today, folks! I'm a little sleepy. I tried not to be too negative in this entry, hope it worked, Idk... let me know! And yeah, I'm feeling better now. My nausea was gone while I was writing this, seems like it was just a matter of waiting for my stomach to settle a bit. Stay hydrated and love your fucking selves.
(This iconic phrase belongs to Drama Kween, btw, check out her channel later, she's awesome, lol.)
Good News
What good news have you had recently? Are you anticipating any more? Have you found a cute picture or a video that makes you smile? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your life a little happier?
Women's History Month
3/3/2026 NYT games scores
“Everything's in place”
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Hard lowkey unparsable today.
Minoanmiss
I am devastated. She has been such a kind and generous friend to me. I have the pins she sent me fastened to my work bag and stickers she made pasted in my journals and poems and illustrations she made tacked up on my bulletin board in my office along with all these wonderful fandom magnets she sent me years ago. When I went to make this post, a message she'd just sent me when I took my hiatus from DW a couple of weeks ago was sitting in my inbox.
I will miss her terribly. I know this is a selfish thing to say, but I'm glad that we know what happened to her and that we have gotten this information so quickly instead of not having any closure.
I am holding all of you in my heart right now.
Fill- Challenge 553 (Once Upon a Time)
This is not so much a full story as a case of "I had an idea today while getting my nails done and didn't want to lose it." So now you get it. Again, this isn't much and I actually do that thing I saw a Tumblr post recently ask about wherein you're drafting and put notes in parentheses like )FIGURE THIS PART OUT LATER) or (Add smell)
Anyway...
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Unpacking claims Polymarket bets on Iran strikes point to insider knowledge
Poem: "Refusing to Melt"
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Who bombed girls' school in Iran? Examining unproven claims of military misfire
Email saying Hillary Clinton was 'much prettier in person' is real. Epstein didn't send it
Investigating claim US troops were told Iran war is for 'Armageddon,' return of Jesus
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Birdfeeding
I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and a male house finch.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 3/3/26 -- i did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 3/3/26 -- i did more work around the patio.
I am done for the night.
Maybe I'm missing something
Have just been reading a very odd book - sortes ereader, something it appears I bought when you could still convert Kindle books to Kobo epub, cannot recall if it was something someone had recommended or what.
LH Johnson, Tell Me of a Girl (2018) - independently published, a retelling of The Secret Garden.
I am not sure why. Because usually if people are doing a retelling they are remixing or shaking up in some way? Okay, this did do some kind of vaguely different backstory of Mary's relationship with her mother, but otherwise it followed the story pretty exactly though leaving stuff out, and much of what was actually in the original seemed terribly washed out.
Characters who are vivid presences in the original seemed muted (Martha, Ben Weatherstaff, Dickon, the robin) - and devoid of Yorkshire speech to boot.
One might have expected that maybe a retelling might do what that recent reworking of Katy did and be a bit more disability positive, but no.
Mary Lennox is already a stroppy young person who doesn't exactly need to grab more agency, hmmm?
It's also done in a rather annoying typographical style.
At the end the author indicates that it's not only in dialogue with Burnett's original but with a whole swathe of scholarship on Golden Age children's lit. Maybe it came out of the project for a course???
I could see it sort of working as the basis of a rather moody atmospheric movie version?
Has anyone else come across this? I'm really not sure what to make of it.
bad news about @minoanmiss
Update: Ny is gone. As of a couple of hours ago, she no longer has brain function, and will be moved off life support after evaluation for organ transplant, and allowed to die peacefully, not necessarily immediately.
[my earlier info was via princessofgeeks, who linked to
Poetry Fishbowl Open!
I'll be soliciting ideas for cooks, fusion chefs, immigrant cooks, eaters, farmers, foragers, food scientists, inventors, recipe writers, famous figures in food history, cooks of disadvantaged groups who should have become famous, superheroes, supervillains, failure analysts, ethicists, activists, rebels, other people active in the food world, cooking, gardening, harvesting, foraging, preserving, writing recipes, discovering things, decolonizing diets, building or using kitchen equipment, conducting experiments, observation changing experiments, troubleshooting, improvising, adapting, cooperating, bartering, taking over in an emergency, discovering yourself, studying others, testing boundaries, coming of age, learning what you can (and can't) do, sharing, fixing what's broke, upsetting the status quo, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, recovering from setbacks, kitchens, restaurants, food trucks or carts, campfires, barbecue sites, laboratories, makerspaces, nonhuman accommodations and adaptations, picnics, grocery stores, farmer's markets, roadside fruit stands, U-pick farms, gardens, food forests, other places where people make food, world cuisine, ethnic cuisines, cookbooks, online recipe archives, permaculture, heritage diets, climatarian diet, traditional foodways, culinary archaeology, food sovereignty, drought-resistant crops, trial and error, ethnic spice sets, weird food, fusion food, secret ingredients, supplements that turn out to be metagenic, new ideas in cuisine, alternate agriculture, lab conditions are not field conditions, ethics of food, innovation, problems that can't be solved by hitting, teamwork, found family, complementary strengths and weaknesses, personal growth, and poetic forms in particular.
Currently eligible bingo card(s) for donors wishing to sponsor a square:
National Crafting Month Bingo Card 3-1-26
Among my more relevant series for the main theme:
An Army of One has to figure out how to feed a diverse, far-flung group of people who sometimes have special dietary needs.
The Bear Tunnels introduces modern principles to people in the past, including some aspects of food science.
A Conflagration of Dragons has the Six Races (plus the dragons) who all have different diets. This often poses challenges for the refugees.
Daughters of the Apocalypse has people trying to find and prepare enough food to survive, when city libraries are out of reach.
Fiorenza the Wisewoman uses herbs and healing foods to care for her village.
Frankenstein's Family features two scientists running a valley in historic Romania. Igor enjoys cooking and has gotten at least one of the werewolves curious about cooking the human way.
Hart's Farm is a community with food used as one of the popular bonding methods.
Peculiar Obligations combines Quakers and pirates in the Caribbean, among other groups and places, leading to a wide variety of foods.
Polychrome Heroics has ordinary humans, supernaries, blue-plate specials, superheroes, supervillains, primal and animal soups all of whom need to eat. Primal soups and high-burn soups often have special dietary needs. Comfort food and healing food are also very popular here. The Rutledge thread includes Kardal and his food truck Syrian Foods, along with references to Vermont, French, and hippie cuisines. Pain's Gray, Shiv, and the Finns are all fond of cooking too.
The Wandering features old people who drift back in time, the first of whom lands in Goa, India.
Or you can ask for something new.
Linkbacks reveal a verse of any open linkback poem.
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