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1. I got some cardamom buns from the farmers market this morning. Tried a sample at the stall and they were delicious, but haven't eaten the ones I bought yet. There was another stall that had really good smelling strawberries, so I got some berries and am planning on having those with the buns in a little bit. I think it will be a good combo!

2. I finished up a puzzle this morning. This was a nice one but not one I think I'll keep.

3. We have a new car!

If you missed my other recent posts talking about what we were leaning towards, it's a Hyundai Ioniq 5. I'm so excited to make the switch to an EV. We've still got the Telluride, which is gas, but we won't be using it as much. I'll use the new car for my commute and when we do longer drives like Disneyland, and leave the Telluride for when Carla needs a car when I'm at work. But with the ebikes as well, there should be less around town driving, too.

Now we just need to get an electrician in to set up a charger at home.

4. Speaking of the bikes, I got some smaller plastic containers to store our Christmas decorations, so that got rid of the giant tub that was sticking out from the shelf in the shed and now there's more room for the bikes in the center.

5. We went to the dealership around eleven or so but of course it took several hours to get through everything, so it was like three when we got out of there and we were so hungry. But it's right near the Italian deli, so we stopped off there on the way home and got sandwiches.

6. And then because buying the car had been emotionally exhausting, even if not physically so, we decided to order dinner rather than cook and got curry from Coco Ichibanya, so today was a very good food day.

7. This may be one of the cutest pictures of Gemma I've ever taken. Definitely one of the cutest!

musesfool

Yesterday after I logged off work, I made a ricotta cheesecake, and since I know my springform pans are leaky (they are old and need to be replaced), I just used a deep dish pie plate, and it was fine. I also added about 2/3 cup of mini chocolate chips that the recipe did not call for, but which seemed necessary, though it is also a delicious cake without them (the cinnamon/orange/vanilla flavor is actually super Christmassy to me? but the heart wants what it wants, even if it's June rather than December). Also the vanilla bean paste gives it those little speckles which means it's even more delicious than usual! *g* Anyway, if you need a cheesecake but don't have a springform pan or a stand mixer, and don't want to deal with a water bath, this is the way to go.

Then today, I tried to make baked mozzarella sticks instead of fried - mainly because cleaning up after frying is a lot and also the smell lingers - but I didn't realize you are supposed to freeze them for TWO HOURS so I got a late start and didn't eat until almost 6:30. They were okay but not as wonderfully crisp as they get when fried, even though I used panko. Also, despite what some of these recipes say, you really should season every layer - the flour, the egg, and the breadcrumbs. I am just saying.

My plan for tomorrow is to make bacon so there's that for lunch for the week, along with some chicken pesto meatballs - we'll see how they are. I am apparently on a ground chicken kick, because I have a bunch of recipes I want to try, and as long as it keeps being on sale, I'm good to go!

In other news, the Knicks are up 2-0 on the Spurs and only TWO GAMES away from winning a chip! They've won 13 in a row in these playoffs! What even is happening??? MSG is going to be nuts on Monday. But remember, you absolutely do not have to hand it to James Dolan. #go new york go new york go

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Current Music: Bad Reputation - Freedy Johnston

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Title: The Analyst
Fandom: 御赐小仵 |The Imperial Coroner (2021)
Music: The Analyst by Delta Goodrem
Summary: 'she's always the analyst'
Notes: Premiered at

vidukon_cardiff 2026.
Warnings: flickering lights, mild gore, violence

AO3 | bsky | DW | tumblr | YouTube

torachan

We decided to go down to Disneyland tonight for dinner rather than tomorrow. It was a bit more crowded than usual due to grad nite, but not too bad.

( Read more... )

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: accomplished

torachan

1. Today is National Donut Day. My work schedule just happened to be such that I had time to ride my bike to Sidecar this morning and get us some donuts. I recently signed up for their app and got a voucher for a free donut and drink for doing so, so I used that today, plus if you made a purchase today with their rewards program, you got some sort of free offer, and mine turned out to be another one for a free drink, so I have that to use in the future.

2. We went to Disneyland for dinner today. It was a bit on the crowded side; they've got grad nite going for another week or so and today is a grad nite day so there were more teenagers than usual (grad nite used to be an after-hours event only but in recent years they've added higher tiers that also include daytime tickets plus the after-hours event, so there are large groups of teens throughout the day), but we still had a nice dinner.

3. This morning there was the beginnings of an ant invasion, but I seem to have stopped it in time and we did not come home to more ants this evening, which I had been worried about.

4. You wouldn't think this was the most comfortable bag to lie on, but apparently for a kitty, it's great!

musesfool

RIP Anthony Stewart Head. He will be missed.

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isis

First I will say that The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden is out now, for those of you intrigued by slightly-supernatural-alternate-history Anne of Brittany. (I reviewed it here from a NetGalley ARC)

Second, hply sjot has it really been a month and a half since I've posted here? Well, I've been traveling a lot. But being on a lot of airplanes means I've also read a lot. (And I probably should have taken notes, because I'm squinting at these book titles and trying to remember what they're about...) I swear I started this post on Wednesday, but...it's taken a while to finish!

The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson ( Sort of an AU Triwizard Tournament in a Hogwarts with many more Houses )

Timeline by Michael Crichton ( Time traveling archaeologists, right up my alley )

A Voice Like Mine by Deb Haaland ( Political memoir of former Secretary of the Interior, current candidate for governor of New Mexico )

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig ( Sliding Doors trope, entertaining but predictable )

The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann ( Basically 16th Century RPF fanfiction in which Anne Boleyn wakes up the day after her execution )

Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey ( Space opera except with multiple AU Earths instead of multiple planets )

A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst ( An odd sort of biography about two unpleasant people getting shipwrecked, I guess )

The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang ( Entertaining YA-ish slum kid goes to military school that turns to grimdark Sino-Japanese War Fantasy AU )

The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey ( I was not expecting zombie apocalypse )

Platform Decay by Martha Wells ( Yay more Murderbot! )

settiai

It looks like Anthony Head passed away due to complications from pneumonia.

I've got to admit, this one hurts.

Current Mood: sad

settiai

I previously made a post about the gifts that I received for the Arlathan eXchange, a Dragon Age exchange that focuses on elves. Since golive on Sunday, though, I've received another gift!

some pain relief, a Fenris/Solas fic. 1,133 words.

Teen And Up Audiences for the rating.

Current Mood: excited

torachan

Recently Finished
The Maid's Secret and The Inventor
Next two in the Penny Green mystery series. Enjoying these a lot.

Scarlet Morning
Middle grade novel by ND Stevenson of Nimona and She-Ra fame. I had assumed this was going to be a graphic novel, but it is prose with a lot of illustrations (by the author himself, of course). I really loved it. It has that typical Stevenson whimsy and some really interesting world-building. I'm looking forward to the next book.

White Is for Witching
Ugh. I hated this. I have read several other books by Oyeyemi and they ranged from liked it a lot to okay I guess but not really for me. The Icarus Girl is the only one I really liked. This was all over the place in every possible way. Characters feature heavily in the story then randomly disappear, multiple POVs all with the exact same voice and no way to tell them apart until the names of other characters are mentioned so you know it's not that one, and a wandering plot that never really comes together. And it's not a long book, but it felt never-ending. If I were the sort to drop a book midway, I would have done so, but I powered through because I find it difficult to give up once started. I think at this point I'm just going to acknolwedge that she's not my style and avoid reading more by her, even if the plot sounds interesting.

My Time Machine
Graphic novel about a woman whose ancestor was the guy from HG Well's The Time Machine, and her ex-husband builds a time machine according to the guy's plans and then she follows the dates in his account to see if she encounters the same things. It was pretty depressing in a lot of ways (she leaves right as the pandemic is about to start, and covid and Trump and other current events feature heavily in the near future stops she makes), but not without hope. Also how often do you have a middle aged woman as a time traveller?

Nodame Cantabile vol. 9-10

torachan

1. I had a meeting this morning that felt very productive. I think we've finally gotten things hashed out in terms of procedures and how things will actually function versus the IT department's theoretical (but utterly impractical and impossible in reality) ideas that we had been told is how we would have to use the new system.

2. We had Trader Joe's frozen kung pao chicken tonight for dinner and it's been quite a while (maybe even like six months or so) since we've had it and I forgot how good it is. We were making it a lot for a while and while I never got tired of it, I do feel like having it again after such a long time made me appreciate it more.

3. Saw this baby crow while out on our walk tonight. He was just stopped there and didn't fly or hop away when we walked by. Seemed like maybe he was waiting for his parents, so I hope they came back soon!

4. Jasper!

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: accomplished

torachan

1. The week is halfway through!

2. Since we are planning on trading in our older car when we get a new car, I have decided to use that one for the next few days instead of the newer car, since the old car had just recently been refueled and I do not want to give it to them with a full tank, as it's not like they're going to give us any extra money for all that gas lol. I've got to go to Gardena tomorrow and Friday for work, and we'll go to Disneyland on Saturday, so that should get it down quite a bit and at least let me feel like I'm not totally wasting money for having filled it up.

3. Carla wanted me to stop and get her a bagel this morning on my walk, so I did, and I stopped in at the bakery nextdoor to get a pastry for myself. They have a couple fancy danishes that I've seen in the window recently and wanted to try, so I got the orange one and it was so good! The other one is chocolate strawberry (with the pastry itself being chocolate, not any sort of coating), so I will try that next time.

4. I finished a book I hated today. I wish I could just stop reading, but it really bugs me to do so, so I plodded through, and now I am finally done!

5. Look at this cutie!

settiai

The first three episodes of The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4 are available, so it's time to start watching and see just how many changes they've made from the campaign this season.

( Spoilers for 4x01 under the cut. )

( Spoilers for 4x02 under the cut. )

( Spoilers for 4x03 under the cut. )

Current Mood: impressed

musesfool

So as you may have surmised from my posts over the years, I've been a sports fan all my life. I'm pretty well versed in baseball, football, hockey, and used to follow tennis as well, but I've only ever been a playoffs basketball fan, though since the Knicks have been in the playoffs the last couple of years, I've become more familiar with them (I was pretty familiar with the Ewing-era Knicks, because all my college friends were into basketball, and the spring/summer of 1994 when both the Rangers and the Knicks were in the playoffs was pretty memorable), so I didn't actually need this, but I did think it was pretty funny: The Knicks Are in the Finals. Act Like You've Been Here Before. #Go New York go New York go!

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Current Music: Mets post-game show

laurajv

with each breathing (4771 words) by Laura JV
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock
Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock (Star Trek), Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Nyota Uhura
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Episode: s02e05 Amok Time (Star Trek: The Original Series), TOS Canon Only, including that Spock's meld with Van Gelder was the first he did with a Human, Accidental Bonding, Intentional Bonding, in which Spock had a screaming match with the Vulcan government offscreen, also T'Pring is pregnant offscreen, you don't really need to know either of those things but they're both true
Summary:

The Enterprise does not go to Vulcan.

torachan

1. This morning when I was out for my walk I encountered a coyote!

They've been getting more and more common in the neighborhood in recent years, so I knew they were around, and it's one reason among many I would never allow any of our cats to free roam outdoors (I worry enough about Tuxie). But this guy was just doing his thing, trotting along the sidewalk and even looked both ways before crossing the street. There were several other people out dog-walking, but not a lot of cars yet (it was around 7am). He didn't seem interested in any of the dogs or people, and I lost sight of him after a couple blocks. I wish they weren't around because it's not good that their habitat has been so encroached upon, and it's not safe for smaller animals, but I am glad I finally saw one in person. It made my day.

2. I checked the Hyundai website and the incentives for this month are not as good as May, but it's not that much lower, so we've decided we're going to go ahead with a new one, since the used prices aren't significantly lower unless we go for one with a lot more mileage on it. Right now we're planning on going back to the dealership this weekend so we may have a new car soon!

3. Stretch!

settiai

I really, really, really need to get caught up on Critical Role, but it's just so hard to find the time. 🙃

On Monday and Tuesday evenings, by the time I make it home from work, my brain is done for the day so watching something new-to-me is off the table. Then I have D&D on Wednesdays and Fridays, so watching anything longer than an hour or two isn't possible. Which means Thursday is my only real day to watch things after work, but it's also usually my day to run errands so... yeah.

Theoretically, I should have time on the weekends, but I've been using them to catch up on sleep lately.

Luckily, things seem to be calming down at work again as the big rush from May grads is dying down, so I'm hoping that I'll get to the point where I can start watching an episode or two throughout the day when I'm working from home and not on phone calls. I'm not holding my breath it will get to that point this week, but hey. Anything's possible.

Current Mood: hopeful

schneefink

I made a friend in Hermitcraft fandom. After many months they got into a new fandom, one I wasn't familiar with.
Me, not thinking, trying to tempt them into writing more HC: You could write a crossover!
A few months later, they start writing a crossover, I volunteer to beta. So of course to understand the story I need more information, and they start sending me links and stuff...
Me, finally: oh. This was a trap. /o\
xD

tamsin

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torachan

1. I got my hair cut this morning. I was worried that maybe my stylist was leaving the salon or something because I had tried to reschedule and their website was not showing any availability for her at all (like even checking several months down the line), but I think it's just that their system will only allow you to reschedule to the same day in a different week, and she changed the days she works, so since my appointment was on a Monday and she's no longer doing Mondays, it wouldn't show anything. I feel like their system used to allow you to choose a different day of the week and that's an annoying change, but there's always the option to call and reschedule that way, I guess. I'm just glad she's not leaving the salon!

2. We cleared a bit more space in the shed so it's easier to get the new bikes in and out. They're definitely a bit chonkier than our old ones (especially with them both having baskets). I had a couple fans in there that I'd been planning on putting out on the curb once it was warmer weather, so I took those out (now that we have ceiling fans in the living room and bedrooms, we don't need the stand-alone fans as much, and we've still got a couple in the house if we really need them) and some other stuff got reorganized a bit. It will be even better once I get some of the Christmas decorations transferred from the giant plastic tub they're in now to some smaller tubs that will fit on the shelves better.

3. Look at this sweet face!

denise posting in

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Quick note that post-by-email and comment-by-email is (sometimes?) failing silently without actually posting right now! I'm pretty sure this is related to last night's shenanigans and will be fixed once Mark can finish the full fix for it, which he's working on, but if you've posted or replied by email in the last 24 hours, fish it out of your sent folder to check if it posted!

EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.

musesfool

Bedtime is repealed!

I must say, I really am enjoying the Mayor Mamdani experience. And go Knicks!

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Current Music: Mets vs Mariners on tv

voleuse

( Four books, one concert, seven movies, one theatre production, 49 episodes of TV. )

( Notes on Daredevil: Born Again, Criminal Minds: Evolution, Heated Rivalry, The Mandalorian and Grogu, The Devil Wears Prada 2. )

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Hi Bob!: A Bald Move For All Mankind podcast

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I did check the tags before posting this, but I didn't see anything. There are a lot of styles that look great on a computer, but condense the text/entry area to a narrow vertical column when read on a mobile device. Mobility seems to be the best one for mobile (obviously) but I kind of hate the way it looks on a computer. Does anyone know a decent theme which allows for some customization (like custom backgrounds) but looks decent and reads decently on a mobile device? Or is there something I can throw into the custom CSS section of the customize theme page to fix this? I'd love to use the 5 AM theme, but it kind of looks like crap on my phone. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I have switched back to Practicality. Thanks for your feedback, everyone.

settiai

How is June already? Seriously, how?

(Yes, it's only a little past midnight for me. It still counts.)

On a related note, Season 4 of The Legend of Vox Machina starts airing this week, so I did a marathon of the first three seasons while I was working on various things around the apartment this weekend. I made it through the first two seasons on Saturday, and then I picked up with the third season late this afternoon and just finished up a bit before midnight.

It's been ages since I watched the entire series back-to-back like that, and it really made it stand out just how much the characters have grown and evolved over the course of those three seasons. As much as I love Campaign 1 of Critical Role, the animated series really does a better job at telling the story of Vox Machina in a lot of ways. Which makes sense, as the D&D series was essentially the rough draft of the story while the show is the version that's been cleaned up and edited.

Now I just have to wait for Season 4 to get here.

Current Mood: accomplished

denise posting in

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Robby has managed to put in a temporary fix for the site errors and things failing to refresh or not showing up where they should! The permanent fix is going to need Mark's experience, and unfortunately -- seriously, this literally never fails -- Mark has been on an international flight all day, because of course he has. (Never. Fails. He and I are not allowed to both take vacation at once.)

The site will work just fine with the temporary fix in place, things just might be a little slow here and there. We'll keep you updated.

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musesfool

I meant to post earlier but then I kind of dozed off, whoops! Yesterday, I took my 90 mini cheesecakes and Baby Miss L's books and headed out to my sister's for Alyssa's birthday barbecue that was postponed from last weekend due to all the rain. Well, unfortunately, the weather yesterday was not really conducive to an outside party, so we ended up staying in the house. And my youngest niece, whose birthday was also yesterday, already had plans, so she (and my brother's family) couldn't make it. But it was nice.

When I got home today, I ended up having a long call with Friend L, who let me know that she's moving back to Atlanta (after being in New York for 30 years) to help out her sister with their mom, whose health has been declining. I kind of had a feeling this was going to happen, with how often she was going down there and how long she was staying each time, but she was in denial about it for a while. Hopefully I'll get to see her before she goes, and we can always facetime.

I also did the May recs update, and though there was some wonkiness with DW earlier, I think it's fixed now.

unfitforsociety has been updated for May 2026 with 8 recs in 2 fandoms:

* 7 Heated Rivalry
* 1 The Pitt

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Current Music: Borderline - Madonna

denise posting in

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We're aware of site traffic issues and are working to fix them for the people who are having problems! (The tactics the damn bot traffic uses are endlessly shifting, and they're really good at looking like real traffic, sigh.)

unfitforsociety

Heated Rivalry

2.0 by

orangememory
Twenty-seven years, and not once has a stranger looked at David Hollander and his son and seen a father. Then Ilya Rozanov sits beside him in a restaurant and a server says, "Can I get anything else for you and your son?" David does not correct him. Sad and quiet and lovely.

Boston Lily & the Queens of Montreal by

thekatriarch
Lily joins the WAG group chat and makes some new friends. <333 I love Ilya + WAGS stories.

Keptin Canada by

hoosierbitch
"Well. If the C goes to one of us, of course Ilya will be captain."

There was a moment of silence before half the cameras turned towards Ilya and the sound of shutters struck like a tsunami.

Ilya Rozanov, not just in a red Canada jersey, but with a "C" on the front—?

The MLH, the media, and apparently the entirety of Canada reacted Very Normally to this. <333

Lessons in Two-Factor Authentication by

merakily
Ilya Rozanov's gmail gets hacked in February 2021. To everyone's surprise, they find zero sex tapes, one Shane Hollander-shaped grocery list, and one list of travel notes. this is adorable.

Lily My Friend by

AshwinMeird
Hayden gets unwittingly roped into a business partnership with Shane’s secret girl Lily behind Shane’s back but at least he gets a kind of cool friend out of it… even if she is oddly reluctant to call them that. Oh heart... this is a lot of fun.

my love's ugly bloom by Anonymous
Ilya gets Hanahaki disease. Not usually a trope I'm into, but this is really lovely and soft.

Unsportsmanlike Flirting by

aleksandriel
Shane Hollander is trying to win a hockey game. Ilya Rozanov is trying to win a hockey game, commit psychological warfare, and maybe flirt so aggressively it becomes a league-wide PR incident. Hee!

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Current Music: Cut to the Feeling - Carly Rae Jepsen

unfitforsociety

The Pitt

a woman can't survive by her own breath alone by

singlecrow
This is a really fantastic look at Santos.

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Current Music: Shake It Out - Florence + the Machine

settiai

Is anyone else having issues with Dreamwidth today?

I made a a post earlier today, but when I went to my journal it wasn't there. I assumed that I'd done something wrong, so I tried again. The post also disappeared and didn't show on my main journal page, nor did it show on the Edit Entries page.

Then I looked at my Reading Page, and both entries were there. I tried clicking the Edit button on both of them so that I could try to delete the duplicate, but when I do it says that the entries don't exist. They're still clearly showing on my Reading Page, though, even though they're not showing on my journal or in the tags attached to the posts.

Since something was clearly wrong, I tried putting in a support ticket, and I got the various confirmations that it was submitted. When I click the links that you're supposed to use to track the ticket, though, it simply says "Unknown support number." So I'm not 100% certain whether or not the ticket was even submitted properly or not despite getting the confirmation that it was.

Also, just to be clear, I don't have beta testing turned on. This is just the vanilla site.

So... is anyone else noticing odd things happening, or am I just the lucky one today?

Current Mood: confused

settiai

The Arlathan eXchange, a Dragon Age exchange focused on elves, went live earlier today. I ended up getting not one but two lovely gifts this year.

First up was imagination calling mirrors for you, a F!Mahariel/Morrigan fic. 1,057 words. It's focus is the Dark Ritual from DA:O and how it could have gone if there was a way to magically make F!Mahariel the "father" of Kieran.

Then there was baby, put some faith in me, which focuses on Davrin/Lucanis and Davrin/Lucanis/Spite. 5,169 words. It's set during "Inner Demons" but with Davrin being the one who Spite pulls into Lucanis's psyche rather than Rook.

Both fics are Explicit, ratings-wise.

Current Mood: excited

bryant

To celebrate my retirement (which is a retrofitted justification; I’d have done this anyhow), S. and I woke up at 5 AM Friday, left the house at 5:30, and drove down to Portland for the Criterion Mobile Closet. We didn’t get back home until 10 PM. This… is our story.

Seattle to Portland chews up about 80-90% of our ID.4’s battery, depending on weather. Usually we pause for a 30 minute charge somewhere north of Portland, so we have more flexibility coming home. This time we knew we had to get there early in order to secure a spot in line, so we just pushed through, arriving with around 60 miles of range left. Plenty.

Full post: https://popone.innocence.com/archives/2026/05/30/closeted/

musesfool

Made 92 mini cheesecakes, 90 of which are now resting in the fridge before the trip out to the island tomorrow (I accidentally smushed 2 with the oven mitt when taking them out of the oven, so I ate them), along with the girls' birthday presents (cute socks!) and Baby Miss L's various books.

I had a bunch of orange cupcake papers, and just a small handful of blue ones, so I did kind of go for a Knicks theme. We'll see if anyone notices.

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Current Music: Mets vs Marlins on tv

musesfool

So here is a thing that happened this week: I have a monthly set of subscription deliveries from Amazon - stuff like dish soap, razor cartridges, paper towels, etc. - and it usually gets delivered the last Tuesday of the month, which was this week. I also had another book I ordered for Baby Miss L since the party got postponed to this weekend. Over the weekend, I get an email that my stuff has shipped. And then on Tuesday, instead of my stuff arriving, I get several emails saying everything in the package was undeliverable and is being refunded. So I check and my credit card has indeed been refunded. Most of it wasn't super necessary, so it was annoying but fine, but I did want the book (How to Catch a Star, recommended by

justwontbreak), so I reordered it. I got an email this morning that it had been delivered, and when I went down to the package room, there it was...along with another box from Amazon, containing all the items from my order which had been "undeliverable" and refunded. It wasn't banged up or in bad shape at all, so I don't even know what happened, but I got my stuff, and now I have 2 copies of the book for Baby Miss L (one can stay with the grandparents or be given away, I don't even care). *hands*

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Current Music: Prayers for Rain - the Cure

schneefink

After I was recently reminded of the vast treasure trove of SGA fic, I spent some time updating my bookmarks with working links where possible, and that of course led to me rereading many fics, and suddenly the month is almost over before I could get a proper list together, so just have some of my favorites. Still themed though because I'm not in the mood for the effort it would take to shut up the little voice in my head saying that's required for a proper rec list: Stargate 'verse crossovers with significant pre-canon canon divergences. These also happen to be some of my favorite SGA fics.

Retrograde series by

LtLJ
107k (main series) + 22k of extras, mostly gen, SGA/SG-1 crossover, canon divergence AU
Summary: The Atlantis expedition has been lost for three years. SG-1 goes to find them, and arrives just a little too late.
Why I love it: I love (real and perceived) betrayal stories so this was already catnip to me - something which applies to all of these, come to think of it. Also some good old-fashioned whump, action, rescues, bonding, plot, comfort... So, so good. Very high up on my list of favorite fics I've read.

Gypsies, Pirates, and Thieves by

auburn
372.2k, John/Rodney/Vala, SGA/SG-1 crossover, canon divergence AU
Summary: Vala Mal Doran and her partners, renegades Jehan abd-Ba'al and Meredith McKay, hijack the Tau'ri ship Prometheus and leave the Milky Way behind in search of the Lost City of the Ancients, Atlantis.
Why I love it: Action, rescues, bonding, plot, this time with a touch more past trauma and codependency and a larger cast. The second part in the series is my favorite (and the one I've reread most often, though that's also because it's significantly shorter then the others.)

Raiders of the Seven Systems by

LtLJ
32.2k, gen, SGA/SG-1/Firefly crossover, canon divergence AU
Summary: John Sheppard leads a crew of Athosian space pirates in the Pegasus Galaxy. They rescue Earth refugees Rodney McKay and Sam Carter, but then things get complicated.
Why I like it: Space pirates! Also Zoe Washburn is there. This is kind of the space pirate!John version of Retrograde, at least vibes-wise, and I am here for it.

Unnatural Selection by

auburn
164.4k, John/Todd & John/Rodney, SGA/SG-1/SGU crossover, canon divergence AU
Summary:Human error, operant conditioning, survival instinct and evolution as horror. An examination of the SGC's failure to anticipate and prevent the losses of Atlantis and the Alterran survey ship Destiny. One year after the first, the second Earth Expedition to Wraith-occupied Atlantis is diverted to an Ancient ship and struggles to survive with no way home and enemies within, while John Sheppard, considered a traitor by everyone who once knew him, tries to hold onto what humanity he has left and save them all.
Why I like it: Featuring the horrors of being marooned on a space ship that's falling apart with people you can't trust and struggling to survive, Wraith xenobiology and worldbuilding, transformation/body horror, and much more in a delicious mix.

denise posting in

dw_maintenance

It's been a while since we've done a full code push rather than just hotfixes for bugs, so we are well overdue! Depending on availability, we're aiming to do one sometime soon; we'll let you know specifics once we've worked out good timing for everyone who needs to be available.

However! The reason it's been so long is we kept trying to get some of the stuff that's pending to "really finished" instead of just "mostly finished", and then we once again looked around and went "oh no, this is a really big code push with a lot of changes". Those make us nervous, because while we do a lot of testing ourselves, y'all are really creative in how you use the site and we inevitably find a bunch of edge cases when we let you loose on new code with your real-world data!

So, if folks have some spare time in the next few days, it would be a huge help if you could spend half an hour or so using the site the same way you normally do but with the "Site-Wide Canary" beta features flag turned on. Canary mode is a sort of "live testing" mode: it's your real data, but running the most up-to-date code.

Canary mode always does have a few glitches -- there may be missing text strings or errors about missing database properties, which is a limitation of how we run it. We don't need to know about those, but anything else weird that you run into, leave a comment with what you were trying to do and the error message you got.

I'll repeat that the "here be dragons" caution that's on the beta features page: some things may be broken, so don't use it for when you're doing something important. But a few more eyeballs on it before the push will help the push go more smoothly for everyone.

For folks who want to concentrate on what's changing, we haven't finished the second code tour of what's going to be in this push, but the ffirst one has a good chunk of what's going to be going live. (We'll get the second half done ASAP!)

settiai

I've been eating a lot of pasta lately what with it being cheap and filling, and after some experimentation I've figured out the best way to make store-bought pasta and sauce (tomato-based at least) taste significantly better without adding much to the cost.

Basically, while the pasta is cooking on one of the eyes of my double burner, I put the sauce in a pan on the other and let it slowly heat up. Once the pasta finishes, I put it in the pan with the sauce, add some of the pasta water, plop in a pat of butter or some olive oil, and let it simmer on high for a few minutes. Then I sprinkle some parmesan and Italian seasoning on top and add another splash of pasta water if needed.

Once the sauce is at the consistency that I want, I transfer everything to a plate. Then I put some black pepper and more parmesan on top, drizzle it with a bit of olive oil, and call it a day. It's quick and easy, uses things that I have on hand, doesn't increase the cost of the meal very much, and makes it taste at approximately 10x better than it would otherwise.

Current Mood: accomplished

musesfool

Now you know I'm not a big basketball fan but with the Knicks in the finals I will probably be talking about it some, especially since the Mets are so terrible and it looks like the Habs might not be moving on. I don't wanna root for the Canes. I do not like them! But I cannot root for VGK, so it is what it is.

Anyway, this was a fun article about Victor Wembanyama, the Spurs center, and the "Read like Wemby" campaign a library in San Antonio started. (Ignore the snobs in the comments talking about how he should read "real" literature instead of SFF - they are not serious people.) I love when libraries do stuff like this and they are always doing cool stuff like this.

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Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: This Corrosion - Sisters of Mercy

settiai

Welp. I ended up being kidnapped by a friend for a large chunk of the day, so there went all of my plans to catch up on things that I'm behind on.

I need to get up early to head into the office tomorrow, but I'm currently wide awake so we'll see how things go. My sleep schedule always gets out of whack when I have a long weekend, so I'm not going to be surprised if I end up staying up half the night, get 2-3 hours of sleep in, and then crash for a few hours after work. Maybe my body will surprise me, though.

If it does as I'm expecting it to go, at least I'll have a few hours to try to catch up on some things before I get tired enough to actually fall asleep.

Current Mood: awake

musesfool

New York Knicks are going to the NBA Finals! Go New York Go New York Go! Bing bong!

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Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Knicks post-game show

bryant

Now that I’ve slept for a week or so, it’s about time I wrote a post about my SIFF experience. (Link goes to the stable film program page for 2026, not the top level page which is subject to change.) I made a mistake by attending a midnight showing the first Friday of the festival, which left me pretty wrung out for the rest of the week. I feel better now, though.

Full post: https://popone.innocence.com/archives/2026/05/25/siff-2026/

settiai

For the record, I've discovered that cooking hot dogs in the air fryer on 385°F for five minutes (turning them over halfway through) makes them turn out absolutely delicious.

I normally either boil them or cook them on my George Foreman grill, but I decided to experiment this weekend. It took a bit of trial and error, but the temperature and time that I mentioned above turned out to be the winner. I mainly only eat them in the summer, but it's good to know that I've found a quick and easy way of cooking the considering they're one of those foods that's filling but cheap.

Also? I dipped potato chips in melted chocolate, which was an A+ idea that I should definitely make again sometime.

Current Mood: amused

musesfool

Frequently when we reschedule something because of a bad weather forecast, the weather turns out to not be that bad after all, but this weekend, it was the smart move. It seems to have finally stopped raining for bit after it rained heavily for most of yesterday and all of today. It's been a real chilly and kind of gray spring, tbh, those few days of high 80s/low 90s notwithstanding.

Anyway, I've taken the chance to try out some recipes - yesterday, I made chicken meatballs with garlic butter orzo, which is good and I have some leftover, but I would say that the meatballs are sort of unnecessary? And the garlic butter needs a little more seasoning imo - some rosemary and oregano and basil would not go amiss - but the orzo in garlic butter is good stuff.

I also made Ina Garten's shortbread, though I kept the teaspoon of almond extract from the pecan shortbread and covered them with chocolate sprinkles - I made the dough yesterday and then baked them off this morning. 20 minutes was probably a minute or 2 too long in the oven, but they still taste good.

I also baked a loaf of bread, on which I might make French bread pizza tomorrow. We'll see. I might also bake some kind of lemon cake, since I have a bunch of lemons, but maybe not. Again, I'll see how I feel. But for dinner tonight, I made these ricotta and breadcrumb balls. Which again, I seasoned to my own taste rather than following the instructions. They're pretty good if you like ricotta.

I think that's one of the most important things you can do when you learn to cook - learn to make things taste the way you like them. I save a ton of recipes and have a bunch of cookbooks, but mainly I need them for measurements and techniques, not flavorings. I mean, don't get me wrong, sometimes they will come up with a combination that would never have occurred to me which is delicious! But a lot of the time, I'm going, I'll swap in X for Y and I will like it better. If there are too many of these in one recipe, then it's not really that recipe (not that I would comment to say so!), but the technique might be useful just the same.

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Current Mood: full
Current Music: who's gonna ride your wild horses? - u2

aurumcalendula posting in

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Title: My Redemption
Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery & Star Trek: Section 31
Music: My Redemption by Halestorm
Summary: 'don't need saving to save myself/ don't need forgiveness to bless my guilt'
Notes: Premiered at

wiscon_vidparty 2026!
Warnings: quick cuts, flashing lights, blood, violence

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