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- I am currently typing this at a Panera Bread restaurant like it was 2009.

- I got a Nine Inch Nails ticket! I go next week! This is the first time I have seen NIN live since the disastrous show at Fair Park in 1995, when the opening act was The Melvins, and Trent Reznor almost didn't go on because some assholes in the pit were heckling and throwing things at The Melvins. (I was in the stands, I didn't do it.)

Someone posted about it on reddit here. And yeah, that's pretty much what happened.

- The last "goth show" and concert I went to previous to this one was the Sisters Of Mercy in October 2024. And goddamn it, we are getting old. It was like the Gothic Old Folks Home turned out for that one. I imagine I'll see a lot of familiar faces at the NIN show, too.

- I'm also going to see Carpenter Brut in May. Which is Gothic Synthwave.

ysabetwordsmith

Today is partly sunny and chilly.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 2/21/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I put out more birdseed in the hopper feeder.

I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Tomorrow is the last day of the half-price sale in Not Quite Kansas.

fuzzyred is running a pool that will close later today, so if you want in on the quarter-price sale, now's the time to make your selections. If you're still shopping solo, the sale as a whole will close Sunday night.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Time and Date has a [Bad username or unknown identity: https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/list.html]meteor shower calendar. Next up:

Apr 22–23, 2026
Lyrids
Both Hemispheres

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rydra_wong

can, to some small degree, be simulated by a blindfolded person trying to push buttons while someone else shouts confused and panicked instructions at them:

Watch on YouTube

(Except that these guys mastered jumping WAY faster than I did.)

It's hilarious and delightful to me to watch people having an experience of Dark Souls which is not wholly unlike mine. In a weird way I feel kind of #represented.

In later vids, they have (like me) discovered the joys of the halberd as adaptive technology for people who are bad at spacing and aiming.

ysabetwordsmith

People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

Is it right or wrong that everyone seems to be accustomed to the fact that all of humanity and most of the life on Earth could be wiped out at the whim of a handful of people?

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ysabetwordsmith

I picked out what to get from Edible Landscaping. There's not much left this season. I should try them in fall to see if they have a better selection then.

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alias_sqbr

Watch on YouTube

ysabetwordsmith

Because it's nice to let people know that we appreciate them.

In the spirit of love memes, this meme is a place to thank someone who's created something you love, or done something kind that you still remember after all this time, or who has made your fandom life (or your life in general!) better in some way.

🩵Appreciation Meme🩵
my thread is here!

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alias_sqbr

I didn't watch Dunc and Egg but Cam did, and he found himself thinking about how fun it could be to have a story where a somewhat loner knight (disgraced/unproven/just antisocial, whatever) takes on a determined and surprisingly knowledgable page, who he eventually realises is a girl in disguise, and they have Adventures (but no romance, preferably)

He asked if I knew of any stories like that, since it feels like a really obvious premise, and I felt like I must have seen something along those lines by Tamora Pierce/ Mercedes Lackey etc but nothing came to mind. eg the Alanna series has the crossdressing page part but not the loner knight, Kel doesn't have the cross-dressing, etc.

So I come to you! At this point we're mostly just curious if it exists at all, but actual recs are definitely not unwelcome. Books/tv/movies, whatever.

ysabetwordsmith

Today's project was creating an enclosure behind the log garden. I dragged some more logs back there so I can dump dead leaves inside. That way, they'll stay put, create habitat, hold moisture, and remain available in case I want some leaf litter during the warm season. This is a good use for old logs if you have any lying around.

( Walk with me ... )

Current Mood: accomplished

redbird

While I was dealing with trying to figure out whether I could see my psychiatrist, and what it would cost if so, I got an email from medicare.gov about the Medicare Advantage "open enrollment" period: anyone who enrolled in a Medicare Advantage (part C) plan at the end of the previous year can change to a different Medicare Advantage plan between January 1 and March 31st. I decided that it would be worth it to get into a PPO instead of the HMO I had somehow signed up for, even though it means I'll be starting over on the annual out-of-pocket maximums for prescription drugs and for medical care generally. I put the application in this afternoon, and was told the process might take 10 days, but I also think it's supposed to be effective the first day of the month after I requested the change. My confirmation email from Medicare says the plan will notify me after they verify my information and confirm my enrollment, so I will wait and see.

Fortunately, I can afford to do this, rather than having to find new specialists who are in that stupid HMO's network, or spend large amounts to see my current doctors. (Switching now is expensive because I take one very expensive drug, the Kesimpta.)

ysabetwordsmith

UN declares Earth has entered a period of 'water bankruptcy' that is likely impossible to reverse

A new report from the United Nations warns humanity has entered an era that researchers call “water bankruptcy.” In many regions, yearly rainfall and river flows are no longer enough to meet demand.

In response, countries are increasingly drawing down groundwater reserves that can take centuries, or even millennia, to refill.

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kaberett

Breakfast dal. This experiment continues to work extremely well.
I have definitely reached the point with the Incomplete White Puzzle where it's speeding up significantly on account of enough pieces are in place to significantly reduce the number of possible combinations that need checking. Today's decision was to start filling in from the bottom edge, where I still had a chunk that was just edge and no middles, because I think that up in the top left (interior) corner I've identified The Missing Piece, and will get annoyed if I wind up with non-contiguous gaps...
Today alternating Locate One Puzzle Piece with Do One Useful Job has been nice and smooth and easy. I have got Several things done. Is pleased.
Really really enjoying my ridiculous washi tape collection. Today I self-indulgently Added More Week Dividers, including replacing some pre-existing ones that I was Not Enjoying, Actually.
( Exercise & embodiment. )

redbird

Wikipedia has blacklisted the site archive.today a.k.a. archive.is, .li, .ph, .fo, .md, and .vn), because Wikipedia editors discovered that the pseudonymous owners of the site were altering some archived pages. The alterations inserted the name of a blogger that the pseudonymous person who runs archive.today has a grudge against, because the blogger speculated about their identity.

Wikipedia editors were already debating whether to blacklist the site, after discovering it was being used in a distributed denial-of-service attack against that same blogger. The argument for blacklisting the site was straightforward: archive.today captchas were running malicious code on people's computers. The argument against was that it would be difficult to replace hundreds of thousands of links, an argument that made sense only as long as the saved websites were considered trustworthy.

My decidedly non-expert hunch is that using the site to look at static content behind a paywall is probably safe unless the site asks you to complete a captcha.

ysabetwordsmith

Today is partly cloudy, chilly, and windy.

I haven't fed the birds yet. Already I've seen one male and two female house finches, plus a male cardinal. :D

EDIT 2/20/26 -- I fed the birds. I've seen a fox squirrel at the hopper feeder.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 2/20/26 -- Under the big mulberry tree in the house yard, I hauled several logs toward the log garden. I am working on creating a sort of enclosure there where I can pile dead leaves. That will contain raked-off leaves, create habitat, store moisture, and keep the leaf litter available into the growing season.

EDIT 2/20/26 -- I hauled more logs to complete the enclosure. \o/

I flushed the great horned owl from the ritual meadow when I went back there.

EDIT 2/20/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I took a few pictures of the log garden enclosure.

I've seen a large flock of sparrows and a mourning dove.

EDIT 2/20/26 -- I raked leaves away from the base of the barrel garden. So many tulips are sprouting there! :D

EDIT 2/20/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

8 Queer (mostly M/M) Hockey Books We Love!

A week and a half ago, we posted about our favorite sports books with queer characters. When we were collecting the recommendations for that post, we got so many recommendations for hockey books that we decided to break them out into their own post! Today, we bring that post to you, in celebration of the Olympic men’s hockey semi-finals taking place today (game one started just a few minutes before I started this post, in fact). Most of these are m/m, which wasn’t intentional, but here we are I suppose.

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snowgrouse

Title: Anal Slave
Author: Snowgrouse
Fandom: The Longest Day in Chang'an (2019)
Pairing: Gan Shoucheng/Tan Qi
Rating: NC-17
Genre: PWP, BDSM, Ravishment, Darkfic, Fetish (anal, leather gloves)
Warnings: Hard BDSM, very rough non-con (a ravishment, so she gets orgasms, but still). Some serious kink/fetish action (heed the Ao3 tags). Not for the faint-hearted. That dove is in hospice care right now and off its tits on Brompton cocktails. On the upside? Hard anal fucking *and* pussy spanking at the same time, baby. >8-}
Length: ~11 600 words
Summary: General Gan overhears Tan Qi being very prudish about the thought of anal sex. He decides to kidnap her and teach her a lesson or two about the joys of sodomy: if he ties her down, beats her up and fucks her arse hard enough, surely, she'll learn to love it...

A/N: General Gan being really fuckin' healthy and romantic in his fantasies again! If you liked Pussy Torture, Ravishing the Rose and Dance to The Whip, this may very well be right up your street. Otherwise, run.

("Do you know why I brought you here?"

She yanks her head free from his grip. "My master will kill you for this."

He tugs her by the chin to face himself again, grinning. "Don't you want to know what I've got planned for you?"

She scoffs. "Isn't it obvious?"

He tuts and shakes his head, pouting outrageously; he caresses her cheek with the backs of his fingers, tickling her pussy with his other hand to make her jerk. "Do you think I'm going to stick my prick up this pretty little cunny of yours?"

She rolls her eyes. "Oh, so that's what this is all about." She glares at him. "You overheard us, and decided to educate me about the joys of anal sex," she spits, her every word dripping with scorn.

He pats her cheek and gives her lips a little peck. "Clever girl."

In fact, he decides to reward her for that with a proper kiss: he cups her face in his hands and kisses her deeply, passionately, pleasuring her mouth with his. He kisses her for so long, so well that he can feel her shivering in true arousal; she can't help but let out a little mewl into his mouth, obviously shocked--like they all are--that a brute like him can be such a fantastic kisser.

When he finally pulls back, her eyes are glazed, half-open; her little brown nipples stand out hard, her breasts covered in goosebumps.

"What makes you think I won't just shit all over you?" she mumbles.

Grinning widely, he picks up an enema syringe and shows it to her. "Because I'm going to prepare you."

"No!" she screams, thrashing in her bonds.

With the kind of strength known only to a woman fighting off a fate worse than death, she lifts herself off the floor by the hook and kicks him in the belly with both feet, blowing the air out of his lungs.

He staggers back, staring at her in shock, panting; then, with a roar of rage, he grabs her by the throat and slams her up against the wall.

"Yes!" he snarls and pushes two gloved fingers straight in her pussy, making her scream. "Yes, yes, yes!" he cries, curling his fingers with every 'yes' he barks out.

This, of course, makes her scream "No!" even louder, hurting his ear; he pulls his hand out and slaps her face. "While you're in this room, I'm in charge, and don't you forget it!"

Now that she knows what's going to happen to her, her panic is all the greater; when he takes her off the hook, she still squirms and writhes, managing to deliver quite a nasty kick to his shin and a bite to his arm.

He just laughs, turns her around and slams her face against the wall, now; he clasps his hand over her mouth and nose to suffocate her, ramming into her with the full weight of his body. When she screams in anger, he rams into her again, then a third time. It really is a shame he isn't wearing his armour, because he could do some excellent damage with that in order to teach her a little discipline; nevertheless, he hopes that this will bruise her at least, to give her something to remember him by.

When she finally goes silent from the pain, he traps her arms against her body, hugging her against himself to keep her still; he savours her struggling for a while, rocking her in his arms and capturing her sobs and whimpers into his palm, groaning deeply in pleasure.

"I love it when a woman puts up a fight," he sighs happily, rutting his erection against her arse. "Feel that?" he says, thrusting into the cleft of her buttocks through layers of cotton and silk. "That's what you're going to take in your arse," he purrs. "It's big, it's thick, and it's so hard for you, my sweet," he pants into her neck, licking it, sucking her skin against his teeth hard enough to bruise. "It's going to hurt. So. Much.")

kore

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vass

Books
Finished (last week) Ursula Whitcher's North Continent Ribbon. As everyone said, it really is very good (and, moreover, I really liked it.) What impressed me the most was the structure: I was expecting a collection of short stories linked by theme and setting. I hadn't known the order of the stories and their timeline would amount to a novel in itself.

Finished (last week) Asterix and the Golden Sickle and didn't really... get it. I don't think I know anyone who read the Asterix books and didn't love them, but I feel like I'm missing something.

Maybe it's that the literary conventions of comics have moved on over the decades, to the extent that the level of exposition makes me feel like a modern science fiction reader reading pulp SF from the 1930s, or a modern TV viewer grappling with the stage conventions of Elizabethan or even ancient Greek theatre. As in: oh, you're explaining that again, alright. Oh, you're explaining that too? Okay.

Unfortunately I'm also unfamiliar with the history, societies, and cultures of Gaul in 50 BCE, so I'm probably missing most of the charm, to say nothing of the Easter eggs.

Read (this week) Balancing Stone by Victoria Goddard, and it was okay. I have now read all of the Greenwing & Dart books currently available, and have a clearer idea of what's happened yet in that part of the Nine Worlds, which is useful for fandom purposes. But I don't really like G&D. It's not for me. But I like some of its fans.

Finished (this week) KC Davis' How To Keep House While Drowning. Mainly a mixture of things that wouldn't work for me but which I could see working for someone else; concepts and skills that do work for me that I'd already learned but could have been absolutely vital if I hadn't learned them yet; and a few nuggets I didn't know as well as plenty that I knew but for which I could use a refresher or some reinforcement.

Reading Sarah Kurchak's I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder on audiobook. I forget who recommended it (Rydra?) but I'm surprised at just how much I'm relating.

Fandom
Received this lovely, meditative story by

justjourneys for Fanoa'ary: Love Beyond Definition.

I wrote Charting a Course for

Crackfoxx, on the prompt "I want the version of Kip being Fitzroy's wingman that includes the joy and the spreadsheets. Let me be very very clear. This expression of love must actually include spreadsheets.", went nearly entirely for rule of funny over characterisation or plausibility, and had way too much fun with the CSS and HTML.

Side note: who here knew what AO3's HTML parser does if you didn't close a <strike> tag?

...Bad, isn't it? (If you guessed "Everything from the open tag down to the end of the chapter is struck through", you're... well, you're not wrong, but you are underestimating the scope of the problem.)

Links

If only this discussion thread about a mathplotlib pull request were a mixed media work of fiction, and not a case in point of how things are going in tech at the moment, I would enjoy it so much.

Garden
Still alive, producing about a handful a week of tiny ripe cherry tomatoes.

Cats
Are a serious threat to the local plastic mouse from KMart population. Are also very good alarm cats when it's time to wake up in the morning and I don' wanna, very alarming.

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numb3r_5ev3n - Actual Real Life Update that is not just ranting.
ysabetwordsmith - Birdfeeding
ysabetwordsmith - Half-Price Sale in Not Quite Kansas
ysabetwordsmith - Meteor Shower Calendar
rydra_wong - My motor cortex learning to play Dark Souls
ysabetwordsmith - Philosophical Questions: Life
ysabetwordsmith - Edible Landscaping Order
alias_sqbr - Music: Full Flower Moon Band – Smoking ft. Drunk Mums
ysabetwordsmith - Meme
alias_sqbr - Fantasy story with loner male knight and cross-dressing female page
ysabetwordsmith - Photos: House Yard
redbird - Medicare advantage, again
ysabetwordsmith - Water
kaberett - some good things
redbird - PSA: archive.today not trustworthy
ysabetwordsmith - Birdfeeding
ysabetwordsmith - Books
snowgrouse - FIC: General Gan's Secret Diary: Anal Slave (Gan Shoucheng/Tan Qi, NC-17)
kore - JILL SCOTT TINY DESK THIS IS NOT A DRILL
vass - Things

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