Dept. of JFC We Don't Need This
Sep. 10th, 2025 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This is so bad. I loathe the man, but I want him disgraced and humiliated, not killed. No one, not even this smug SOB, deserves to be shot. Even though the worst angels of my nature are saying "Let the big-headed sonuvabitch leave us permanently, and take his place in one of the circles of Hell," I'm trying to kick those angels to the curb, so as to invite the better angels in for tea.
No one deserves to be shot.
I hate saying it, but it's true.
Also, you just know what's going to happen now: more fascist messaging and meldtowns on the far right - and more fascist thug clampdowns for the rest of us.
I'm dourly amused at the fact that That Man is offering thoughts and prayers for Charlie.
I'll probably amend this post as we learn Kirk's actual status, but for now, this is all I can say.
words, counted
Sep. 9th, 2025 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Nothing but alibi sentences for most of that time, now all typed up and word-counted. Turns out (not entirely unexpectedly) July and August this year were my second- and third-worst writing months ever since I started documenting my writing ... Time to get out of that slump NOW.
Does anyone have tips for restarting? I think I could use some ...
ETA: Specifically, what I'm struggling with is that I've been writing no more than a sentence or three at a go, for much too long, and now I'm out of the habit and can't seem to go beyond that without a major effort. *grumbles*
Weekend happiness
Sep. 8th, 2025 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Saturday and Sunday were both warm and if not sunny throughout had bursts of sunshine and I was able to spend a chunk of time on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon down on the allotment.
Despite being somewhat neglected over summer there were courgettes to harvest (and a ton of windfall apples which I will be picking up and stewing tomorrow). I got a significant amount of clearing for winter started which made me feel productive. Something about gardening and allotment feeds my soul in a way that few things do.
I also had a bit of a B&Q spree and bought a load more bulbs for the remaining pots at home - which will be planted over the next couple of weeks because gosh darn it I am finally learning to pace myself in the last few days of my 61st year.
I have varnish/stain for the back door and paint for the gate/front door some of which I intend to apply tomorrow as I celebrate the start of my 62nd year riding this burning hunk of rock through space.
Dear FFFX writer
Sep. 8th, 2025 05:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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thank you so much for writing a gift for me! I'll be absolutely thrilled about anything you can create about the relationships or worldbuilding themes I requested. and everything important is in the requests themselves, but if you'd like even more info, general likes etc., here you go.
My AO3 account is
General Preferences
( Likes & Dislikes/DNWs )
Fandoms, relationships, worldbuilding
In somewhat alphabetical order - note that one of them is expanded compared to what's in the sign-up form:
Jump directly to:
- Christabel/Grimm crossover: Worldbuilding
- 绅探 | Detective L: Huo Wensi/Luo Fei
- Grimm/Guardian (TV) crossover: Nick Burkhardt/Sean Renard/Juliette Silverton & Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Worldbuilding - expanded
- Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash & Raupasha
- 长公主在上 | Eldest Princess On Top: Li Yunzhen/Gu Xuanqing
( Christabel/Grimm crossover: Worldbuilding )
( 绅探 | Detective L: Huo Wensi/Luo Fei )
( Grimm/Guardian crossovers: )
( Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash & Raupasha )
( 长公主在上 | Eldest Princess On Top: Li Yunzhen/Gu Xuanqing )
Guardian Slo-Mo Rewatch
Sep. 7th, 2025 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Anyway: Over at
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Here's the first post, episode 1, part 1.
Almost a month since my last post
Sep. 6th, 2025 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Update Chez Ruric:
I had 2 weeks off at the end of August where I had plans to achieve things but did nothing because I was mentally and physically exhausted. Then I looked back at the end of 2024 and saw a similar kind of entry and things must change in late 2025/26. So I am making adjustments.
#project65days is plodding along - things are very slowly being sorted. I've started tackling my main Gmail account which at the beginning of the year had some 26,000 archived emails. I've had the account for 15 plus years and there's important stuff to keep in there along with everything else. I'm down to 16,500 stored emails and feeling quite proud of my progress! I mentally lighter with every 100 deletions.
Flat - between #project65days and the current round of #orjenise100 which has just started things are improving. I've started chipping away at the chaos in my bedroom, have bought a load of new houseplants as Lidl had large and medium sized pants at good prices which will make things feel greener. The ex is away mid September which means I can commandeer his washing machine and catch up on a backlog of washing.
Front garden - I got my act together last week and tidied the tiny front garden and pruned the roses. And I resolved not to try and do all my autumn window box and basket planting in one hit - which stresses me out and takes all the fun out of it - but rather space it out and do a few things at a time. So far I've planted a pot of pinks, a hanging basket, a window box of pinks for outside the kitchen window, bought and potted a new hebe.
Still to plant - 2 window boxes and 2 pots and sort out the raised bed in the front garden, 3 window boxes for in front of the living room windows, 2 window boxes and 4 large pots for the porch roof.
Winter prep still to do - sand and varnishing the exterior of the stable door into the garden, sand and paint the front gate and front door, touch up the White paint in the porch exterior and interior.
Back garden - so much pruning and sorting to do. Not worrying about that until October!
Allotment - harvesting and winter prep. I'll be down there for what's left of today, all day tomorrow and Tuesday.
Right - off to make coffee and then down to the lottie.
fests and exchanges
Sep. 5th, 2025 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
In order of reveals:
- There's
rarepairexchange, which has its deadline a little over two weeks from now, though reveals aren't until October. I've been poking at my assignment, and I have a bunch of things I know I want to be in it, but so far I haven't managed to pull it all together into a coherent narrative. Hopefully once I've conquered this one, things will be flowing again!
- Then there's
guardian_wishlist, for which I just finished my sign-up last night - and we've only just posted the first batch of wishlists. (Mine is here; I'm requesting Guardian drama and RPF, as well as Guardian/Grimm and Guardian/Stargate crossovers.) And there are so many tempting prompts already! Reveals are on 6 October, and I hope to make a bunch of stuff before then.
- Next comes
ficinabox, with a deadline in October and reveals in November - assignments aren't out yet, but should come soon. I won't seriously tackle that one until after Rarepair Exchange, though. Plenty of time if I brainstorm and have a plan by then!
- There's also the Guardian Bonus Bingo grace period in November, for which I hope to finish at least some of the things I started and didn't finish so far. *g*
- Yuletide is of course gearing up again as well, so that's what I'll be working on in December. Can't wait to find out which rare fandom I get to write this time!
- Then, hopefully
fandomtrees will also run again this year, and I'll get to make a bunch of stuff for that too! Reveals are genearally early to mid-January.
- And finally, there's
fffx which doesn't have its deadline until the second half of January. I still need to finish my sign-up for that (planning on doing that this weekend), but that deadline is so far away, there'd still be plenty of time even if I didn't start thinking about it until after Yuletide ends. (Though I hope to have a plan before then!) Of course, an idea might grab me right away and I might be working on this in parallel to everything else, you never know! *g*
What fests or exchanges is everyone else doing?
Dept. of Catching Up
Sep. 4th, 2025 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Since Aug. 24 - check, yes it was Aug. 24 - I've had a lot of living. A lot.
Let's see: I saw my shrink, and he put me on Rexulti (I usually prefer talking about drugs with their actual name, but I'm still learning how to say brexpiprazole without looking at how it's spelled) to see how it would work. He gave me some samples. Damned if it didn't do the trick. The drug isn't a panacea, but what it does is let me look at things a tad more logically. It kind of allows me to say "one step at a time, woman. It's OK to do life like that."
I had a couple of follow ups with him; he checked to see if I was still able to sleep, and that my eating habits hadn't done me wrong. I was fine, so he wrote me a prescription for it.
( Non-triggering medical fun below )
So I've yapped on at length about Fun With the American Medical System. I should end with a couple of nice things.
1. I'm going to meet some of the folks I've met over the Couch Crew discord channel on the 25th, We're meeting up for a movie double header with some Korean food in between a KDrama movie and then a movie about the BTS Wings tour. I know next to nothing about BTS, but as that band was indirectly responsible for me discovering all of my current obsession, I figure I'd best learn, and probably I'll enjoy it.
2. On the 17th, I turn 70. Yay! Actually, yay! Fewer years ahead than behind me, but still, a few more years in which to work hard on being happy and making people I love as happy as possible.
3. Oh, and this picture is of the new chair that I've been able to sit in without pain - WITHOUT PAIN DEAR LORD WHAT IS THIS NO-PAIN THING - an old, very heavy wooden office chair that we found in a kinda-going-outa-business secondhand office furniture place. (There's a funny story about it, but that must wait for another post because this one is already too damn long.) This was taken before we put wheels on the legs since the original ones were long gone. We had to find heavyweight casters and Bob blistered his hands getting then onto the legs, because the wood was almost impenetrable, and I love him for yet another reason.

So there you have it. Happy Thursday/Friday
Bohemian Rhapsody (Zulu version)
Sep. 4th, 2025 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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YULETIDE!!!!
Sep. 3rd, 2025 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Yuletide is still my favourite multifannish exchange, and this year's schedule is out - nominations start on the 15th. And they're running an experiment with giving us more nominations and requests this year! Very cool, and I hope it works out well!
What's new this year:
- The deadline is 12 hours earlier than it was the last few years. (First time in a while that the deadline will be when I'm actually awake, but I'll try not to cut it too close. *g*)
- Reveals are also 12 hours earlier than they've been the last few years. (First time in a while that I'll be awake when the collection opens!)
- We get 5 fandom nominations instead of 4. (Woohoo!)
- We get 8 requests instead of 6! (And again, woohoo! It's so hard to choose between rare fandoms.)
Who else is doing Yuletide? Have you thought about what you're going to nominate/request/offer this year?
September posting, and Guardian Wishlist
Sep. 2nd, 2025 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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But this month I'm trying to make that happen. Writing more than alibi sentences: something I need to relearn, LOL.
And I'm trying to post more again here too, finally! My plan for that is twofold:
- post something every day of September, and
- because I keep feeling like I did literally nothing at all since April other than work, but that's not in fact literally true, I want to remind myself of that by posting about stuff I did do during these months.
For today, here's another thing I did do recently, together with
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I really love this fest. It's our Guardian-and-related-fandoms version of
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Our schedule for 2025:
- 28 August: sign-ups open - open now!
- 5 September: first wishlists posted
- 15 September: sign-ups close
- 16 September: final wishlists posted
- 6 October: gifts revealed
We already have 8 sign-ups! I haven't finished mine yet, but soon. Definitely hoping so see some more of you there as well! ♥ ♥ ♥
东极岛 Dongji Rescue
Sep. 1st, 2025 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It's based on a historical episode from World War 2 (the sinking of the Lisbon Maru), though it's heavily fictionalised and in no way historically accurate. *g*
(There's a 2024 documentary on the real event, which I'd love to see if anyone knows where to find it!)
Anyway, Dongji Rescue is a really well done, effective film! ( spoilers below the cut )
Also, watching this movie was a very multilingual experience - the film itself has Chinese, Japanese and English dialogue all aplenty (which you don't see nearly enough of, IMO!), handling the language barriers really well - and then we had German subtitles on top of that. *g* They were good, too, and not as distracting as I might have expected. Since I've generally watched Chinese media with English subtitles, and also learned what Chinese I have with English-language material, all my Chinese is routed through English, and it's usually somewhat disorienting to watch something with German subtitles instead. But the multilingual mix of this film somehow balanced that out, and I didn't have an issue. Though I was happy to have the Chinese subtitles as well as they helped me follow along the Chinese dialogue where I could!
General Exchange Letter
Aug. 31st, 2025 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Hi! I have previous past letters with likes lists and prompts that still hold true, so feel free to peruse old letters, though please be aware of my current DNWs and requests. This is a general letter with likes lists, etc., but because I often request fandoms that I have requested in the past, please feel free to check out my fandom tags on the sidebar and see if there's anything in past letters you think might apply! There's probably a greater than 50% chance I have requested the fandom or ship before.
For ease of finding me: tuesday.
What I've written and what I want as a gift can differ, so for best results, please rely on my likes and DNWs over what you may find on my AO3 works page.
( Text Likes )
( Art Likes )
( General Likes )
( Ship Likes )
( Smut Likes )
( Vid Likes )( Do Not Wants )
Dear FIAB creator(s)
Aug. 31st, 2025 02:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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thank you so much for creating a gift for me! I'll be absolutely thrilled about anything you can create about the relationships or worldbuilding themes I requested. Here are all my request details and prompts, as well as general preferences/likes etc.!
My AO3 account is
General Preferences
( Likes & Dislikes/DNWs )
Fandoms, relationships, worldbuilding
In somewhat alphabetical order:
Jump directly to:
- Christabel/Grimm crossover: Christabel/Geraldine in Grimm
- Grimm: Nick/Renard/Juliette, Worldbuilding
- 镇魂 | Guardian (TV): Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Ya Qing/Zhu Hong, Worldbuilding
- Grimm/Guardian (TV) crossovers: various combinations of Shen Wei, Zhao Yunlan, Ya Qing, Sean Renard, Juliette Silverton, Nick Burkhardt
- Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash & Raupasha
- Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: Anastasia/Jabberwocky
- Sherlock (BBC): Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty
- 山河令 | Word of Honor: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu, Worldbuilding
( Christabel/Grimm crossover: Christabel/Geraldine in Grimm )
( Grimm: Nick/Renard/Juliette, Worldbuilding )
( 镇魂 | Guardian (TV): Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Ya Qing/Zhu Hong, Shen Wei & Ya Qing, Worldbuilding )
( Grimm/Guardian crossovers: various combinations of Shen Wei, Zhao Yunlan, Ya Qing, Sean Renard, Juliette Silverton, Nick Burkhardt )
( Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash & Raupasha )
( Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: Anastasia/Jabberwocky )
( Sherlock (BBC): Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty )
( 山河令 | Word of Honor: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu, Worldbuilding )