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I don't usually have too much trouble falling asleep these years (thanks mainly to a low dose of amitriptyline), although it's never as easy as it seems like it should be, going by frequent evening sleepiness. (No, I still have not sent feelers out about restarting attempts at trying CPAP. >.< I think I'm a bit resistant because as long as I don't try it, there's the hope that it'll help when I do, but what if I do and it doesn't? *sighs*) But last night involved lying awake for well over two hours because my brain would not stop. Ugh.

Firm reminder to self: that used to be the norm. And at least there's no Dayjob today.

We didn't go to the wee local market this weekend, because when we were out with a car on Friday we were able to stop by the stall for a produce place ("place") I love, even though this was only our second time there. It's produce from a variety of farms down in the Valley, and they usually have a lot of different things, but for us it's not super feasible to get to without driving, even though it's not that far.

We came home with a pint of blueberries and three quarts of peaches, encompassing four peach varieties! cut in case you DGAF about peaches )

Back when we lived in Toronto (over twenty years ago now--what even?), of course, we had access to Ontario peaches, which are a glory upon the earth. And because my exposure to popular music (or, y'know, an awful lot of music generally) was even worse then than it is now, a couple decades later, I didn't actually know the "millions of peaches" song other than the "millions of peaches, peaches for me; millions of peaches, peaches for free" bit. Like. At all. But I would go around singing that bit in sheer joy over peaches, and sometimes about other things that I loved. No context.

(The classic example of that last bit is the time or three I was singing about "millions of Quake-chans", because a] the original Quake is one of my lifetime favorite games {am I still ridiculously annoyed both that the name/"franchise" has had absolutely nothing to do with the original game beyond the fucking game engine AND how bad Quake II was? Yes} and b] I had mostly left behind my early-anime-fangirl habit of using fragments of Japanese, but was still blithely appending "-chan" now and then for fun.)

Anyway, the point of this ramble is that (if I'm remembering correctly at this distance) one time Em was visiting and I merrily sang out "millions of kittens" etc. (this was before [personal profile] scruloose and I were married, but we were already in it for the long haul, and at this point I had zero reason to think I would ever be able to have cats again because of their allergies), and when I finished the scrap of the song I knew and stopped, she quite reasonably belted out "KITTENS COME! IN A CAN!", which I had no way of predicting, and I probably didn't literally hit the floor in horror, but it came close.

Then she and [personal profile] scruloose had to explain WTF had just happened and talk me down a bit, I think. ^^;
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My mother volunteers at the local library, and sometimes I help her process the new books, which is how I discovered Sandra Nickel’s Making Light Bloom: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Lamps.

Picture book biographies seem to be having a real moment, which is convenient for me as I’ve apparently got a weakness for them. Most of the current run focus on a lesser-known woman or person of color who did a cool thing, for values of “lesser-known” that vary from “actually I think this person is really pretty famous” to “no one has ever heard of this person.”

Clara Driscoll definitely falls in the latter category. Not only is she not famous now, but she was unknown in her own lifetime, as she did her work under contract in the Tiffany factory. She started out cutting out glass for the famous Tiffany windows, a job that required quite a bit of artistic taste as these windows are famous, among other things, for their gorgeous variegated glass - the cutters had to select the particular part of the big sheet of glass that would look best in the whole window.

Eventually, it occurred to Driscoll that one might also make stained glass lamps. Her design for a dragonfly lamp caught Louis Tiffany’s eye, and the lamp went to the World’s Fair, where it was a big hit. Tiffany gave Driscoll permission to design more lamps, and she went on to design at least sixty, all with beautiful nature themes.

The illustrations by Julie Paschkis are in a striking stained glass style: it was this reason that the cover caught my eye. Like Tiffany windows, the colors vary within one panel, orange drifting into red and green to yellow. A rich and lovely array of colors.
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A new month is upon us and that means it’s time for new bonus bingo prompts!

September (G) Prompts:

Hands | Midnight | Good Fortune

You only need to create for one of these prompts to earn a fill for this month, though you’re welcome to create more if you feel so inspired.

Are you new to the fest or have you missed some of the previous prompts? No worries! We love having new people join in and you can post any missed fills in our November grace period month.

While the fest account is located on Tumblr, you don't have to be a Tumblr user to participate or to earn a badge at the end of the fest. (Filling one prompt per month over five months is what matters for earning the badge, not where you post your fills.)

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  • This is a low-stress fest. The point is to create fan works and have fun.
  • All modes of creation are accepted!
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  • Three prompts per month instead of one. This is to give people more options. You only need to create for one prompt to earn a fill. (You are, however, welcome to complete or combine all of them if you’d like.)
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Fest Prompt Master List:

June (B): Chase | Door Key | Respite

July (I): Cake | Reconciliation | Emergency

August (N): Incoming Call | Free Space | Festival

September (G): Hands | Midnight | Good Fortune

September reccers

Sep. 1st, 2025 04:43 pm
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Many thanks to [personal profile] cassiope25, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] mific, and [personal profile] nuh_s for all their August recs! We had 9 recs this past month.

Our same wonderful reccers are back again for September:

[personal profile] cassiope25: Rodney McKay
[personal profile] goddess47: Jack O'Neill
[personal profile] mific: AU
[personal profile] nuh_s: Crossover

Reccers, you all have access and can start posting at any time. Remember that you have committed yourself to reccing at least two fics over the course of the month, although of course we will be happy with more. Feel free to use the copy-and-paste template from the reccer's FAQ for your convenience.

If you wanted to volunteer for this month and didn't have a chance to sign up, drop a comment here and I'll happily add you to the list.

Fluchtpunkt Stato

Sep. 1st, 2025 02:37 pm
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Posted by Enpunkt

Seit einiger Zeit halten sich Perry Rhodan und seine Gefährten – eine sehr kleine Gruppe – in einer Art Mini-Universum auf, einem sogenannten Granulon. Dort werden sie von den Laren gejagt, während sie gleichzeitig versuchen, wichtige Informationen in die Milchstraße zu bringen … Soweit der Ausgangspunkt für den Roman, der in der vergangenen Woche in unserer Serie PERRY RHODAN NEO erschienen ist.

Ruben Wickenhäuser schrieb »Fluchtpunkt Stato«, und auf dem Titelbild bietet Dirk Schulz eine Anmutung des kosmischen Gebildes, in das sich Perry Rhodan und seine Gefährten flüchten. Der spannende Roman gibt unter anderem starke Einblicke von Gucky, dem Mausbiber, und stellt einen faszinierenden Planeten vor. Der Autor hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren als ein Spezialist für fremdartige Welten etabliert und zeigt sein Talent auch in diesem Werk – das wiederum gefiel mir bei der Lektüre des Manuskripts sehr gut.

todayborday is labor day!

Sep. 1st, 2025 07:58 am
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This has been all over my tumblr dash, and luckily know your meme came to my rescue with the source.

Originating waaaaaay back in 2004, from the cartoon "Homestar Runner." (A thing I had never heard of, but apparently it was extremely meme-able.) Big 'early 2000s i can haz cheezburger' energy. (PS: wikipedia says that was 2007)

Video on youtube!

Superman #34

Sep. 1st, 2025 12:52 pm
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Writer: Jerry Ordway

Pencils: Kerry Gammill

Finishes: Dennis Janke


Superman assists Maggie Sawyer in the search for her missing daughter.


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Sep. 1st, 2025 12:08 pm
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Thanks to the anonymous person who bought six months of paid account time for me! That was very surprising and very kind.

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