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kaffy_r ([personal profile] kaffy_r) wrote2025-12-12 09:17 am
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Dept. of Memes

Music Meme, Day 14

A song that someone showed you: 

I'm going to go with one that I saw one of my favorite reactors, Roscoe, react to this morning, "Save Me" by BTS. (He actually reacted to it some time ago, but there's a "Roscoe reacts to BTS video marathon going on and I dropped in just in time to see the music video from their early days, and to listen to the song.)

The tune has an extremely catchy hook, and I'm impressed by the fact that both the camera operator(s?) and the group members were working on ground that was partly shifting sand and still managing to both sing and dance (with some pretty complicated choreography) during a number of single-shot camera works. 

I didn't enter Kpop via BTS, the way so many people, including those I've met through the Couch Crew discord community, did. I enjoy their music when I hear it, but I'm not Army (the name of BTS's fandom). Despite that, I can appreciate a well-written tune and some smart choreography, even when it's obvious the group and the producers didn't have much money which with to work. So here you go.* 


* I thought about using "Spring Day," which was part of the reaction marathon, but it's pretty intense, with regard to its subject, and I didn't want to put that into the post.  

Also, here's a link to Day 13 which in itself has a link to the previous 12 meme answers. 

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kaffy_r ([personal profile] kaffy_r) wrote2025-12-11 06:08 pm

Dept. of Adulting

Alert the Press

I have finally put in my I-90 application for a renewal of my Green Card into to Citizenship and Immigration, along with the $415 it costs to start the process. That's a lot of money I could do a lot of things with, but I need to remain legal in this second country of mine, so one bites the bullet when one has to. Sigh. 

I'm happy, though; I'd been putting this off because for some reason I had convinced myself that it was going to be a lot more difficult than it was. Somehow, I geared myself up enough to tackle the job and - surprise - it wasn't all that difficult. There are further things that I'll probably have to do; get my picture taken again, since the picture on my current card was taken a decade ago, and possibly have some biometric information taken. I don't know if all of that will involve further money heading the goverrnment's way, but I wouldn't be surprised. 

The one thing that truly disgusted me when I went to the CIS home page on the .gov website: up at the top, in very gaudy gold, was an advertisement for That Man's credit card. I fucking kid you not. I have no words. 

Still, I did what I'd been putting off. I adulted! Huzzah!

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kaffy_r ([personal profile] kaffy_r) wrote2025-12-10 06:16 pm

Dept. of Unexpected Goodbye

Arthur Hlavaty is Gone

I don't know how many people in my Dreamwidth circles are from OG science fiction fandom; those who are there may know this. Other people, especially those who aren't familiar with OG science fiction/fantasy fandom, will undoubtedly not be aware that the world lost an amazing man last night/the early hours of this morning.

Arthur Hlavaty, one of the most brilliant people it was my honor to know and communicate with, died unexpectedly, leaving his spouse Bernadette Bosky and co-husband Kevin Marony bereft. Even though Arthur was 83 and had been in poor health following a broken hip many months ago, no one expected him to leave this circle of the world so soon. He was Supergee on LJ and on Dreamwidth, where he should still be, dammit. 

I am fairly certain that I have known, or at least known of, Arthur since the mid-1990s Usenet days of rec.arts.sf.fandom. When he responded to anything I posted, I was proud of having said something worthy of his notice. I once wrote a defense of good politicians/government officials that he acknowledged might have moved the needle slightly from his mostly cynical view of both. I was quietly over the moon at that immense praise. He was kind, wry, gentle about much of life and merciless about fools. He was very deaf, and thought that popular music ceased being good after about 1966. I occasionally twigged him about that, and he was able to reply in kind. Bob and I were lucky enough to have a meal with Arthur around 2002 during a Minicon. He was as impressive in person as he was on the printed page or pixel. 

He was a ... well, the best description of Arthur comes from Arthur himself, although this is also useful. His personal zines Nice Distinctions and Derogatory Reference were two I always was happy to receive in the mail and I treasure his occasional letters to me. Oddly, or sadly, enough, I dug up a Nice Distinctions from my files about three days ago so that I could find Arthur's Bernadette's and Kevin's physical address. I mailed my holiday card to the three of them last night. Less than 12 hours later, he died. 

I cried out this afternoon when I read Bernadette's announcement. The world is darker today. 


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kaffy_r ([personal profile] kaffy_r) wrote2025-12-09 08:13 pm

Dept. of Officially Weird Days

Weird is as Weird Does

Life itself is rather weird, but I've had several days of weirdity beyond the usual. Here's at least one or two of them.

Read more... )
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jjhunter ([personal profile] jjhunter) wrote2025-12-06 08:25 pm

Poem: "Portrait of the Artist Feeling Liminal"

The pearl at my ear is a lacquered grey seed
My lips strong red from wind's chaffing
I do not feel my middle age as any lessening
Here I am, a portrait of myself more vividly

Among old oaks I am still a hot young thing
Mind like a swallow sketching possibility on the wing
They say uncertainty ferments fear
I feel the old familiar thrill of stepping out of known into becoming

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Marina ([personal profile] marina) wrote2025-12-05 09:37 pm
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10 things about the gay hockey show

So, I've been stuck at home for 3 weeks now with a broken ankle. I've watched so much TV. SO. MUCH. TV. Some of it utterly delightful ("The Summer I Turned Pretty", "Queen of the South"), some of it utterly forgettable. Then "Heated Rivalry" came out, and due to the tragic circumstances of being stuck at home, I've watched the first 2 episodes. Let us acknowledge this up front: I should have only watched this show after it finished airing. Like, week-to-week is a very bad format for me with this show.

However, episodes have been consumed, this show is already doing numbers in fannish circles for obvious reasons, my guess is that that trend will continue, and so I need to get stuff off my chest I guess. Think of this not as a public statement but more as a private space where I process stuff, just for the sake of framing the below.

thoughts in no particular order )
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trobadora ([personal profile] trobadora) wrote2025-12-02 08:42 pm

fandomtrees reminder

[community profile] fandomtrees sign-ups are closing on the 5th! There's still time to come and join!

(This is purely selfish, you undestand. As far as I can see, so far there are a just two or three requests for things I could write for - I'm really hoping for a bit more in my fandoms. *g*)