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Some Americans are withholding their federal taxes to protest against Trump and illegal wars. The potential consequences of withholding.
Welp, that viral story of dogs escaping a truck to travel hundreds of miles home was fake. Apparently the German shepherd was in heat and the dogs were just following her around.
Apparently Trump is now bored with the Cuba embargo and is allowing a Russian oil tanker to enter.
Reading is currently cool in pop culture. Man I really hope so.
Stanford University models how many people could die if vaccines were no longer available. We're also going to have to talk about the culpability Stanford has for championing anti-vaccine professionals, though, and the long-term consequences of that.
MAHA may not guarantee Republican victories anymore.
How to search for things on the Internet, via Google and other search engines.

I haven’t quite finished the 2017 books yet, but I had some extra time at work Friday and what better use of that time than to go through my 2019 reading list and decide which authors to revisit? So here we are.

Katherine Applegate - Pocket Bear

Grace Lin - Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods

Shaun Tan - The Arrival. I read Tales of the City in 2019 and found it pretty downbeat, but

littlerhymes clued me in that Tan also wrote picture books so of course I have to give those a try.

C. S. Lewis - considering The World’s Last Night and Other Essays, although I’m also interested in Studies in Words

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Ben MacIntyre - Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy

Lisa See - Daughters of the Sun and Moon. Her newest book! Not yet out, in fact.

Jacqueline Woodson

Penelope Farmer - the university library has Eve: Her Story, but also a book called Soumchi which appears to be written by an Israeli writer named Amos Oz, but nonetheless has Farmer’s name attached in the catalog. Did she translate? Or write the preface? May check it out just to solve the mystery.

Dorothy Gilman

George Gissing - Demos. After New Grub Street, I felt I had to explore Gissing further, and according to Wikipedia, George Orwell thought Demos was one of Gissing’s best novels.

E. M. Delafield - The Provincial Lady in Wartime

George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier

Vivien Alcock - A Kind of Thief. I found this book at a used bookstore so it has become my next Alcock

William Dean Howells - Their Wedding Journey

Booth Tarkington - Penrod. I’ve meant to explore more Booth Tarkington since I read Seventeen. At last I’m getting around to it!

Barbara Cooney - Letting Swift River Go. When I visited

asakiyume we went to the Quabbin on a foggy day, and

asakiyume mentioned that Cooney illustrated a book about the building of the Quabbin, so of course that's next on my list.

Susan Cooper - torn between Dreams and Wishes: Essays on Writing for Children and Green Boy

William Bowen - Merrimeg. Bowen was a children’s fantasy author in the 1920s. I’d really like to read his book The Enchanted Forest, but it doesn’t appear to be on Gutenberg or FadedPage, so I’ll content myself with Merrimeg for now.

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Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/apples-camera-indicator-lights.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71816

A thoughtful review of Apple’s system to alert users that the camera is on. It’s really well-designed, and important in a world where malware could surreptitiously start recording.

The reason it’s tempting to think that a dedicated camera indicator light is more secure than an on-display indicator is the fact that hardware is generally more secure than software, because it’s harder to tamper with. With hardware, a dedicated hardware indicator light can be connected to the camera hardware such that if the camera is accessed, the light must turn on, with no way for software running on the device, no matter its privileges, to change that. With an indicator light that is rendered on the display, it’s not foolish to worry that malicious software, with sufficient privileges, could draw over the pixels on the display where the camera indicator is rendered, disguising that the camera is in use.

If this were implemented simplistically, that concern would be completely valid. But Apple’s implementation of this is far from simplistic.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/apples-camera-indicator-lights.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71816

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Posted by Angie

https://youlookfab.com/2026/03/30/update-spanx-quality-issue/

http://youlookfab.com/?p=310399

I had a quality issue on six Spanx Air Essentials items I bought last year. They pilled after a few washes and wears. The pilling got worse and the items look worn and older than they are. Four of the items were bought directly from Spanx, and two from Nordstrom. I took up the quality issue with both companies.

I reached out to Spanx customer service. They didn’t respond so I filled out an online Spanx survey. An automatic reply indicated that someone would follow up with me, but no-one did. I received the survey a second time and dutifully filled it out again. This time, I mentioned I had written a blog post about the quality issue. Whether it was mentioning the blog post or just an accumulation of all my messages, I received an email from a person in customer service the next day.

Spanx customer service asked for photos of the pilled items, which I provided. I made it very clear that I did not want replacements of the exact Air Essentials items because I no longer trusted the fabric. Spanx was very apologetic, saying they would let their product development team know about the quality issues.

They couldn’t refund my orders because about 5 months had elapsed between purchase and my complaints. Instead, they could give me a store credit in the form of a gift voucher. I would have preferred a refund, but I’m satisfied with the credit. It shows goodwill from Spanx. I’ll spend my Spanx credit on woven Spanx items. I am done with their knits for a while.

I took the other two Spanx items back to Nordstrom, who, as I expected, refunded the items right away. No questions asked. They were very apologetic about the quality issue, and would take it up with Spanx. This is the type of customer service I expect from Nordstrom and I appreciate it enormously.

Reach out to Spanx customer service if your Air Essentials sweats have pilled. Or take them back to Nordstrom if you bought them there. Hopefully it will be a good outcome for you too.

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oursin

Happy birthday,

sam_t and

shrewreader!

turps

I got excellent mail from

dine, thank you!

They cancelled Starfleet Academy, which is typical considering how much I enjoyed the show. I know we still have the second season to watch, but I wanted more.

The Pitt is finally being shown here, and one morning James saw his first episode, and said he wanted to see episode two as soon as one was finished. And I was like, I know that feeling! It was strange seeing these early episodes again, knowing what was going to come for each character. Strange but good, I mean, it's not like a rewatch is a bad thing.

Let's see, since I last posted one day I Bodhisat from after school to about eight so the mams could go on a date. Bodhi is really into KPop Demon Hunters right now, and I lost aunty points for being unable to belt out the songs while she pretended to take out some demons. I was also told I was terrible at concentrating and asked why I walked strangely. Then, when I told her it was because I have a poorly knee, she wanted to know every detail of how that happened, and you and me both, Bodes.

Wednesday it was class, there was only me and three older guys who turned up, so it was a focussed class. ( cut for exercise stuff )

We went to see Project Hail Mary at the cinema. I thought it was great, but for those who like to play along with the game, James fell asleep watching it.

Though he gets a pass as he had a busy end of the week, volunteering to go teach pyrography to a group one afternoon, which he was nervous about as it's not something he'd done before. Then the next day, had to go for a health screening that included the longest attempt to take blood yet. Seriously, nearly an hour, and two doctors later I was ready to call it on his behalf when finally, the younger doctor finally managed to find a vein.

He's at work today, then off from tomorrow starting the last week of his use it or lose it annual leave. As of now our only concrete plans are going to the Odeon to the The Magic Faraway Tree, which I'm looking forward to so much, and James to do his second pyrography class. But, I'm sure the remaining days will soon be filled.

Oh, and Murphy caught a mouse yesterday. I was having a sleep-in and woke up to James at the bottom of the bed holding a mouse. Turned out Murphy had caught it downstairs, then when James went to see what all the commotion was, ran upstairs. I'm just glad James did follow and get the mouse from him, as I would have hated to wake to it actually on the bed with me.

Today is exercise only class again, but until then, this house isn't going to tidy itself. I may even put the first wash of the year on the line as it looks sunny and breezy out there.

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cahn

Last week: Mass suicide (canonical), Constantinople (not present in canon), pro-surrender factions, the translation of "bandits/terrorists/troublemakers" (apparently "lestes" in Greek). Anyone familiar with the Talmud want to weigh in about the question of marrying a raped-by-a-Roman woman in Jewish society?

This week: Jerusalem continues to be torn apart by various factions. Simon son of Gioras makes his appearance. The Year of the Four Emperors happens, with Vespasian finally making his bid for emperor.

Next week: Half of book 5? To where?

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cornerofmadness

I don't have a lot of thoughts today. I have a question. If you self publish, what is your biggest tip? What resources do you use? Do you mind sharing?

It's not easy to find good reliable articles on that. A quick search will, however, bring up a lot of predatory sites offering to publish for you. So you need to be careful out there.

I'm thinking about it for an anthology (down the road, so much to consider) of historic horror. I was turned down for the Stephen King Overlook thing. I expected that of course and appreciate it was quick. What took me by surprise was not the generic 'this isn't right for this anthology' spiel. They said 'we decided to go in another direction.' Huh? Away from me obviously. But they changed the perimeters of this anthology so many times I wonder if they decided to NOT do historical stories and just revolve around the 70-80s where we were told not to write because it was covered. Anyhow, it was a no and on I roll. I did send one out today.

And since people asked to see chapter two of my new novel, I will tuck it in at the end.

OPEN CALL

Revenants Anthology Spirits, ghosts, and revenants ( I plan to submit some small story to this)

KIRBY Fantasy Fiction Magazine Issue 1 Reborn Genre: Second-world fantasy only (I had to look that term up!)

WAXEN Theme: Weird, experimental, and literary horror Genre: Horror with an emphasis on surreal, occult, and experimental work

Ruadán Books is Open For Novellas In April 2026! Theme: Dark speculative fiction exploring the darker aspects of humanity
Genre: Speculative fiction including horror, science fiction, and fantasy (I have to finish that novella. I HAVE to!)

Tales from the Cryptids Theme: Cryptids with agency, transformation, and liminal storytelling

Open submission calls for writers: March 2026

Notes from The Editor’s Desk (March 2026)

Cahava: Now Seeking Submissions

42 Publishers that Accept Direct Submissions of Speculative Fiction

From Around the Web

I'm starting this with some youtubes about self pubbing

Watch on YouTube

Finding The Heart of the Story

Is Your Story Cohesive? What You Should Know

How to Create a Consistent Story Tone (And Why It Matters)

Pacing as Moral Choice

3 Common Mistakes Committed by Self-Published Novelists (And How to Avoid Them).

From Betty

Five Underplayed Commodities for Kingdoms to Fight Over

Should You Give Non-Human Groups Marginalized Traits?

Is It Romance If It Doesn’t End Happily? (I come down on the no it's not if it's not got a HEA)

What Is Subtext? How Does It Work?

How to Identify & Avoid Author Scams Betty unknowingly added right to the self pub question here with this one

Focus on Finishing And this one is coming right for me

Truncating Phrases

Five Tips to Keep Track of Characters Behind the Scenes.

Free Workshop: How to Write Fear That Feels Real

Coping Mechanism Thesaurus: Seeking Therapy

How to Raise Stakes in Your Story: Why Your Hero Must Face Death (and Why It Matters)

Tolkien Reading Day: 4 Writing Lessons from J.R.R. Tolkien Every Author Should Know

A Lesson in Perseverance from Walt Disney

And as promised here's chapter two of the novel. If you want to see chapter one it's
here. I am curious as to what you think if you read them (I will probably be locking both of these soon)

( this one is three points of view )

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Tournament of Champions

starandrea

March! I'm like the gray cat in that meme where it's looking in one direction going, "What was that?!" and then the image is flipped so it's looking in the other direction going, "What was that?!"

Those cannas are up because of course they are, a couple of dwarf irises bloomed in the front garden this week (first flowers!) and the mystery sprouts out back are definitely probably crocuses. Just, maybe, very large crocuses? One of them has a bud so we'll know for sure soon. Yay crocuses!

Also I just ordered a DNA test for Daphne, my head hurts, and 75fluent starts on Tuesday. Luckily I've already given up so it shouldn't be too hard. None of those things are related. I mean, I assume.

Ima go to sleep but know that I love you ♥

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Shows: SGA
Rec Category: John Sheppard
Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Jennifer Keller, Marshall Sumner, Aiden Ford, Carson Beckett, Clone Carson Beckett, Elizabeth Weir
Categories: M/M
Words: 24,853
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW:

rheanna
Author's Website: rheanna on AO3
Link: A Matter of Death and Life on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: John does something heroic again when Atlantis is in San Francisco harbour after season five. It should kill him, but, inexplicably, it doesn't. Afterwards, there's something increasingly wrong with his brain. This plays out medically and through hallucinations (or are they?) in which John encounters a series of dead friends (and a commanding officer), and is also kind of on trial, having to make a case as to whether he should be allowed to live or not. Along the way, John and Rodney also find each other. A tour de force - gripping, profound, and with wonderful characterisations of John and Rodney, in particular. Don't miss it.

( snippet of the fic under here )

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409-conflict:

I cannot stop thinking about what a fucking year Ilya had in 2014
Putin warns gay people not to spread propaganda during Sochi Olympics
Every Western media outlet wants a sound bite from Ilya, a Russian superstar who’s lived in the West for five years, regarding the gay propaganda laws
Ilya has to thread the needle of neither denouncing or promoting Russia’s stance
Ilya leads the National Hockey Team to a demoralising crash out
The prettiest man in the world makes the unbelievably stupid decision that now is a good time and place to talk to each other in public for the first time ever
He is upbraided by his Papa
Sveta completely misreads what he needs, and he can’t even be mad about it because at least she’s trying
The Bolotnaya Square protesters are convicted
Russia moves troops into Crimea
He keeps frantically googling pictures of Shane in the middle of the night
Russian opposition leaders are detained
G8 suspends Russian membership
Boston makes the playoffs
The Russian government enacts laws tightening control of dissemination of information, categorising bloggers alongside journalists
The Donetsk and Luhansk referenda, unrecognised by the international community
Boston wins the Stanley Cup
Has panic attack in a bathroom, is immediately accused of being an asshole for arriving on time
Successfully convinces himself he’s capable of having sex with Shane without feelings, definitely doesn’t cry once he’s alone
Super super fun happy times summer with his ailing father
MH17 shot down by Russian-made missile
Russia hits back at sanctions by banning food imports, sends food prices soaring
Oil prices crash, halving Russia’s national budget
Foreign ownership in Russia media is capped
Has Totally No Strings No Feelings secret sex with Shane, everything is Chill
Russian financial crisis hits, prices of food up 40 to 50%, some KHL teams can’t even pay their players
And all throughout this, every time he opens Facebook he’s tagged in yet another hundred fucking ALS ice bucket challenges

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Sunday, March 29, to midnight on March 30 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34425 Daily check-in poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 17

How are you doing?

I am OK
9 (52.9%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
8 (47.1%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
7 (41.2%)

One other person
6 (35.3%)

More than one other person
4 (23.5%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

julian

Ny (that is,

minoanmiss) is having a virtual gathering/memorial on April 12, 1 pm EST, GMT-4. It's going til 3:30. Drop in, drop out, drop back in again, it's fine.

For various good and sufficient reasons, we'd like a headcount, so if anyone's thinking they'll be able to attend, plz sign up here, via SignUpGenius, which has ads aplenty but is at least useful.

I say "we" because I'm the one who volunteered the Zoom account. (I have a client who can't use Doxy for Telehealth because their internet won't support it, so I shrugged and bought paid Zoom for them, awhile back.) If we go above the 300-person limit, I'll buy their expanded audience for the month.

Other announcements are still going to the Google Announce List. If you want on, just tell the nice shiny boxes how you knew Ny. Also, Vicka has a memorial page. Which has an awesome picture up top.

(I would imagine that people will spread the Zoom link without the SignUpGenius request attached. That's inevitable and not unreasonable and not something that's possible to police. Mostly we want to know how many people will want to speak.)

independence1776

I watched two movies this weekend, one on Netflix and the other in the theater.

Finding 'Ohana was a fun kids' adventure movie set in Hawaii with a predominantly Hawaiian and/or Asian cast. It turned surprisingly touching in the climax and was a pretty good romp all around.

Project Hail Mary: ( Spoilers )

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I still think about you

Wonder if you finally quit,

Do you still speak to your mom?

I remember when you went to Japan

How you swore you’d never forgive him.

I can’t remember to take my meds but

I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat.

It’s a strange intimacy,

all of us unspooling across decades of internet space

Like balls of yarn

leaving a trail behind us of everywhere

and everyone we’ve ever been

I hope you got your houseboat.

I hope you got everything.

Current Mood: nostalgic

kaberett

Reading. Preeeeetty much just progressing further through the She's A Beast archives, and continuing to develop opinions. I... think that's it? I think that's it; it has been A Busy Week.

Writing. Words Go Up: over 9.5k. Two more subsections titled. I continue to chew things over.

Listening. More Hidden Almanac. Technically up to May 2015, but I'm going to be going back over most of 2015 on account of Tragically, Some Dozing. (It is Car Noise, you see, and we have been. Travelling.)

Eating. A lot of food made for me by a variety of other people, notably including dosa + thali by Chai Station Chester, hot chocolate from [Knoops] in Chester, bread/cake/cookies/waffles by the Jaunty Goat and petits fours by Biscotti di Debora. Petits fours AMAZING; further thoughts possibly to follow.

Exploring. Southport Botanic Gardens, which struck me as much more of a park and rather less of a botanical garden than I'd quite expected based on the name, though perhaps this is because the fernery was closed by the time we got to it; very much enjoyed THE AVIARY.

Minimal exploration of Chester Zoo, once again culminating in staying in the bat cave until kicking out time.

Little bit of poking around Salisbury, feat. excellent tulips, excellent irises, FREE BLUE AGAPANTHUS that someone had divided, excellent bee doorknocker.

And then finally we made it HOME.

Making & mending. Progressed A's second glove some more! Stalled when I got to starting increases for the thumb gusset on account of my additional stitch markers were in the roof box and ... no.

Growing. Kept the lemongrass alive through The Travels. Acquired, as mentioned, a chunk of agapanthus. Unshockingly, the aubergine I sowed immediately before leaving has not sprouted, but hey, I'll turn the propagator back on. Nothing else seems to have died while I was away, hurrah.

Observing. MOON. The Dog. Creatures, including A having an excellent time Experiencing Bats (and also Flamingoes With Wings, A Rhinoceros, some grey-crowned cranes, and Monkeys).

andrewducker

Sophia has spent the last several weeks being very excited that she will, at some point in the near future, get to have her own bed in her own room.

This evening she suddenly realised that she would no longer be in her current bed and had a massive meltdown.

So we're currently reassuring her that she won't be rushed into anything. Fingers crossed for a better mood tomorrow.

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lucydacusgirl:

lucydacusgirl:
Thinking about Hudson Williams saying that Shane thinks he’s better at masking how he feels than he actually is and the way that Shane’s queerness shines through under his facade… the way he is actually not very good at playing straight and when people ask him about women he just tries to ignore it and deflect… the way his entire life is built around a lie and it’s not even one he’s very good at holding up but he doesn’t have to be good at it because nobody is even assuming he’s gay because he’s a hockey player how could he be gay. If anyone was paying attention they would figure it out but until rose nobody does. His parents suspect but don’t ask. He doesn’t even have to outright lie he’s just so isolated by the fact that nobody wants to look too close for fear of seeing him.
And obviously part of this is that Ilya clocks him immediately. And I think that’s part of what scares him about Ilya, he can’t hide from him. Ilya is not looking away and not only can he tell that Shane is gay he works out very quickly exactly what Shane wants. Finally someone is seeing him but it’s the person who could ruin his career and his reputation the fastest. And yet he trusts him because god what other choice does he have! Only one person in the world really sees him and doesn’t look away!

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troisoiseaux

( As of 3/29/2026, I have seen 41 versions of 18 Shakespeare plays )

umadoshi

Media intake for the last week or so boils down to "a couple chapters of various non-fiction [nothing new] and Thursday's The Pitt." We'll probably try to get an episode or two of Frieren in tonight, before Dayjob swallows me whole for another week.

My main goal for this weekend has been accomplished: today

scruloose and I decanted some spices from bags into jars (including the cinnamons and chai spice baking blend replenished from Silk Road* since the last time we batch-prepped for banana bread) and then did a round of bagging up dry ingredients for nine quadruple batches of my breakfast banana bread while actually baking a tenth batch. It's only the second time we've done it, and having the dry ingredients bagged and ready makes such a difference, but the prospect was more exhausting than it had any right to be. (Actually doing it was fine. This time we [reversing how we did it last time] went with me reading off the amounts for each ingredient and rotating the bags while

scruloose did the actual measuring and dumping ingredients in.)

*Last time we didn't have nearly enough of any one spice for ten quadruple batches, so some go the chair spice blend and some got the Vietnamese Saigon cinnamon and some got the Indonesian Korintje cinnamon. We also have some of their third type, the Sri Lankan true cinnamon, but the description on the jar says its flavor is pretty delicate, so it didn't seem likely to really shine in the banana bread.

(My erratic spices fascination has resulted in us currently having four kinds, actually, but little idea of what to make that will actually showcase the different types so I can really tell the difference. ^^; [The fourth is the Royal Cinnamon from Burlap and Barrel in the US.])

Current Mood: exhausted

oursin

Last week's bread held out pretty well, though got rather dry.

Enough left - though perhaps a bit too much on the dry side - to include in frittata for Friday night supper along with a yellow bell pepper and eggs also getting used up.

Saturday breakfast rolls: adaptable soft rolls recipe, Marriage's Light Spelt flour, maple syrup, ground ginger: turned out a little on the dense side.

Today's lunch: the Mediterranean roasted vegetable thing: garlic cloves, red onion, fennel, baby courgettes, green bell pepper, red, yellow and orange baby peppers, aubergine; served with couscous - this time I tried M&S, and while the packet instructions are a bit misleading, turned out a lot better than Waitrose.

james_davis_nicoll

First contact as conducted by two groups of field researchers, both of whom want to observe the other without being observed.

luzula

Now You Know by Anais Mitchell, which I stumbled on today, is SUCH a middle age song. It sounds like someone in perimenopause. It's not hitting me personally head on (among other things I don't think about children that way) but I found it gripping and beautiful.

melagan

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Title: Leaving The Nest
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Bikky.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 495: Letting Go.
Setting: During and after the manga.
Summary: Bikky has grown up so fast….
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.

Leaving The Nest

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

jesse_the_k

The musician explains:

In 2018, I recorded and filmed a cover of "Yellow" by Coldplay under my former name, Lots Holloway. In 2026, I returned to the exact same place to film it again, this time as Dylan Holloway (Dylan And The Moon). What you're watching is both versions, woven together.

Lyrics at the band’s page: https://www.coldplay.com/song/yellow/

Watch on YouTube or ( stream it here )

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Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough: I picked up this package of bake-it-yourself cookie dough because it's grain-free. I'm not a huge fan of almond flour, but I was hoping because it was in a blend it wouldn't have the usual almond flour characteristics (nubbly, greasy, almondy (honestly it felt like I hit some shell once or twice)), but it does. Still, I persisted. The chocolate is nice and there's a lot of it, and the cookies were the right amount of sweetness for me, though the coconut sugar gives it that burnt marshmallow flavor I like in burnt marshmallows but find distracting elsewhere.

The cookie lumps don't spread on their own in the oven, so I flattened them with a spatula after about ten minutes and then let them cook about four minutes longer. They bake up chewy on the edges and nice and gooey on the inside.

I have other DIY doughs I like better, but this is a decent vegan paleo chocolate chip cookie. Miss Jones also has a keto version. I found these at my fancy local natural grocery store.

Current Ingredients: Grain-Free Flour Blend (almond, tapioca, arrowroot), Coconut Sugar, Chocolate Chips (unsweetened chocolate, chocolate liquor, cane sugar, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanilla), Coconut Oil, Water, Coconut Flour, Vanilla Flavor, Salt, Baking Soda, Cream of Tartar.

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oknotgood:

it’s crazy to me that out of all the different social media platforms, tumblr is the one where Heated Rivalry fans are the most normal. that feels so backwards. we’re all so old.
whether in literal years or just in our souls, we are elderly. we are worldweary. we’re like, “i am NOT here for reality. fantasy only, baby! i just want to live in this fictional world and forget about the real one for a while. i want to think and write and talk about made-up scenarios for these fictional characters. even if we’re talking about the real people, we’re talking about the fictionalized versions of the actors’ public personas. we’re playing with dolls, here, people. this is not real life. that’s kinda the point. idgaf who that 25-year-old is actually fucking. that’s his business. that has nothing to do with this. leave the kid alone ffs”
and i love that. it’s a pleasure to play dolls with you, fellow ‘old’ people

https://bomberqueen17.tumblr.com/post/812421882613727232

andrewducker

Triptych (IKEA)
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

andrewducker

Triptych (IKEA)
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

jacieleigh

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siria

Apply Kleenex as Needed
The Pitt | Cassie, Gen | ~1700 words | Episode fic for 2.12. Thanks to

sheafrotherdon for betating.

(Also on AO3)

( Maybe if Cassie cried, she'd feel better. )

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Title: Braces
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Rating: G

( In my quest )

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Hello on Sunday! What kind of a writing day has it been so far today -- or if today hasn't gotten going yet, how did you fare yesterday?

- I thought about my fic once or twice
- I wrote
- I did some planning and/or outlining
- I did research and/or canon review
- I edited
- I've sent my fic off to my beta
- I posted today!
- I'm taking a break
- I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Sunday Discussion: It's a new writing week, and the last week of the current month. How are you doing so far with meeting writing goals for the month?

james_davis_nicoll

Everything about the Boy excited Terry; the Boy's good looks, the Boy's appealingly mod fashion sense, and especially his pointy, pointy teeth.

The Shiny Narrow Grin by Jane Gaskell

alias_sqbr

Masterlist

I decided to poke my writers block by getting back to this and immediately hit a thick wall of Fear of Failure even though that makes no sense with writing exercises. But I persisted!

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dolorosa_12

It's been another homebody weekend, which I don't regret in the slightest. I did go out on Friday night to an event at the tiny local museum, which was a launch of sorts for its latest temporary exhibition. The museum is so small that the temporary exhibitions are housed in a single room about the size of my kitchen; this one was about the history of beer-making, and so the launch event involved talks and tasters from a trio of local breweries. We followed this up with a drink in our favourite cafe/bar, which was heaving with customers — always a good sign on a Friday night.

Other than that, it's been spring cleaning — I cleaned all the external windows and windowsills, including clambering onto the kitchen roof in order to get at our upper floor bedroom windows — classes and swimming at the gym, and batch-cooking. Matthias and I also spent half an hour or so this morning planting wildflower seeds in the front and back garden raised beds, plus beetroot seeds in the vegetable beds. The other seeds that I started off in the growhouse — chives, cucumbers, rocket, salad greens, and spring onions — are coming along nicely, even though it's been cold.

Other good things: Pretty Lethal, the ridiculous black comedy/luridly violent action thriller involving a troupe of American ballet dancers stranded in a Hungarian forest en route to a competition in Budapest, and swept up into a deadly showdown between two rival gangs of goons who want to kill them, one of which is headed up by bitter ex-ballet dancer Uma Thurman (sporting an indeterminate Eastern European accent). The soundtrack is all scores from famous ballets, and all the action scenes involve a sort of intersection of martial arts and ballet. It's as silly as it sounds, and made for a great Saturday night film.

I finished up my Earthsea reread over lunch with The Other Wind, which I think I've only ever read once or twice, but which remains achingly beautiful, like a dragon's half-remembered flight across a sunset sky. I think the peak of the series is probably Tehanu, though, which always renders me awestruck. I have read the Earthsea short story collections at some point, but I don't own copies, so those will have to wait if I want the reread to be fully complete. For now, though, I plan to turn to one of the books from my stack of five from the public library, or possibly Amal El-Mohtar's new short story collection, which I'd preordered and was delivered to me last week.

I hope you've all been having similarly cosy weekends.

oursin

Happy birthday,

thatyourefuse!

moon_custafer

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77509026/chapters/215938916

Walter and Livia continue their adventure underground. Hannah’s search for them takes her to an unexpected place.

selenak

I finished s4 of For All Mankind with mixed feelings - you can read my review of the season 4 finale here, which goes into details as to why - but not so much that I wasn't curious about s5, which started on Friday.

( Spoilers finally found out what happened to Oleg from The Americans )

Current Mood: chipper
Current Location: Munich

viridian5

I just finished and posted a WIP I've been working on, one and off, for four years, which is a sequel to a fic I posted 22 years ago, "The Tightening Noose."

A Low Place Like Home (12726 words) by Viridian5
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Weiß Kreuz
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Fujimiya "Aya" Ran/Kudou Yohji, Kudou Yohji/Schuldig, Fujimiya "Aya" Ran/Kudou Yohji/Schuldig, Fujimiya "Aya" Ran/Schuldig
Characters: Kudou Yohji, Fujimiya "Aya" Ran, Schuldig (Weiß Kreuz)
Additional Tags: Consent issues due to telepathy, Mind Games, Episode Related, Amnesia, Stalking, Identity Issues, Canon-Typical Violence, Drama, Angst, Unreliable Narrator, Depression, Reunions, No-Win Situations, My beta says this is fucked-up and sweet, Threats, Pining
Series: Part 2 of Find Yourself
Summary:

Some of Yoji’s missing memories have been returning, and he’s on the run. Tired of it all, isolated, drifting, Yoji returns to Aya in London for help....

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: "We Looked Like Giants" by Death Cab for Cutie

cornerofmadness

I had to be up before the sun to get to the SE Ohio prelims for the State Science Fair. I don't actually mind. It's good to see kids excited for science rather than what I usually get. I teamed up with my coworker DM and we had three teams of kids, two from 8th grade and one from 5th.

One group of 8th grade girls was experimenting with the molding of clarinet/sax reeds and the other set did one we're going to steal (as did they) and modify, the effect of musical genres on heart rate. That's right up my alley. The 10 year old boys did one entitled 'the effect of rollercoasters on 10 year old boys.' Their parents took them on park hopper passes to Disney/Epicot/Isles of Adventure and they tested their heart rates before and after the rides, making predictions on which would get their hearts pumping more. they came armed with specs on drop heights and speed and talked to us for vagal tone and heart rate.

Who wants to bet my students miss the vagus nerve in two weeks? We were impressed with all of them. A couple of them will go on to state.

After that I went to my coffee shop near campus to write and have a rose/lavender macha latte (I had this and three cups of coffee in about 3 hours. bet that gave the Holter monitor something to talk about). From there I went to point pleasant. I wanted to try the ice cream place. I did. I got the Indira Cold (go research him, it's interesting) chocolate peanut butter ice cream with recees' cups jammed in, a chocolate peanut butter moonpie kinda cookie and recees pieces with whipped cream. So much sweets but after this week I deserved a treat.

Look at it. NOTHING about this helps my blood sugar or weight loss but I figure I'm not going to be there every week.

From there I hit the Mason Jar the antique store in PP. They had a surprisingly large collection of uranium glass this time. They had a few sets I didn't want to pay the price for but they were lovely (and I didn't want to break up the set by getting just one) These aren't owned by the store which basically has multiple vendors and there were 3 vendors for the various bits of Ur glass I wanted and it felt like too much trouble contacting them to see if they'd haggle. I did get two Ur glass sherbet cups that were pretty.

I also finally tried Ichiban2 the Japanese restaurant in PP that I mistakenly thought was the dinner and a show type but wasn't. Then had a two roll lunch that was affordable and for the first time I tried sweet potato roll and it was delicious. i must have that again

It was a good, tiring day and now I have a cat chin on my elbow as I type because that's not awkward.

And we can't have science day without science links

What Do Blue Crabs, Spotted Salamanders, And Birds Have In Common? They’ve Got Some Of Nature’s Weirdest Eggs

Sperm Loses Its Sense Of Direction In Microgravity – No Space Babies For Us Just Yet

After Hopes Of Eradication, The World's Deadliest Infection Is Creeping Back In The US With A Vengeance (It's TB and it's back and nastier yet)

The Landscape of Skin and Wounds: Exploring the Role of the Microbiome in Podiatric Health and Chronic Wound Healing again if you're not reading on gut biome stuff, you should.

Repair Workers Accidentally Stumble Upon Lost Remains of Legendary ‘Fourth Musketeer’ From Betty

Fossil with well-preserved soft tissue seems to prove Darwin was right all along From JK

Massive Iron Age hoards discovered in England may be from funeral of powerful Celtic queen

Drought could fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs as climate change worsens, new research suggests

I was at ground zero for the AIDS epidemic. RFK's cuts could fuel a new pandemic, just when elimination seemed within reach.

A gene carried by 99% of humanity raises Alzheimer's risk dramatically. Could gene therapy correct it?

Current Mood: good
Current Music: Hudson & Rex

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