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Title: Another Stolen Life
Author:

lucy_roman
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: Starsky and Hutch are at the scene of another homicide
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Challenge: Praise
Word Count: 425

( Another Stolen Life )

beccaelizabeth

The new Hellblazer omnibus arrived 😎 at 0700 and inconveniently but in good order and in one piece so yaays.

I relistened to Corpse Day and The Hope, giving them a day each to digest, and they are as good, vivid, dark, engrossing, as I remember. Undead Owen brings a lot of weight to the argument that alive is better. But it is also funny listening to him getting weirdly intense about watching Andy eat, since Owen can't any more. Plausible and sad and weird at once. Good stuff.

I had started the last of the Temeraire books so I plan to finish before I change books, but I have to say I am finding them much less fun this time. The distance the style adds is just not what I am looking for today and the innovations with the ways dragons are treated by societies and the politics that ensue are good but no longer surprising or new so I find myself admiring the craft but not engrossed.

I am getting enough sleep for once but when I don't spend all day wanting to go back to sleep I find I am getting more bored. ... I am quite a lot bored. It isn't that the books are boring but rather that there are only entertainments to do. Books, audios, video, games, all feel like only getting chocolate and potato snacks to live on.

I need a project. A proper productive project. I keep on circling around the same few ideas but not getting anything written. I should try just rolling up a character and throwing them at a problem somehow, get back into the creative swing a bit. Or get a Scrivener project together and put all the different parts of the ideas on a page somewhere. I feel like they're circling a thing rather than landing upon it, but it might be an interesting circle if I set it down somewhere.

At least I can hope the weather stays sane for an entire week this time. Roll on autumn...

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Title: Map of the Problematique
Movie: Project Hail Mary
Character: Ryland Grace
Music: Map of the Problematique by Muse
Length: 4:15
Summary: When will this loneliness be over?
Streaming at: DW | Tumblr

princessofgeeks

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torachan

1. I finished the last of that Star Wars puzzle multi-pack. The limited color pallette of this one made it not as fun as the others, especially when I was down to nothing but Vader's cape lol. I did enjoy it, though, and now the whole set is out in the Little Library for someone else to enjoy.

2. I am still sick, though definitely feeling better than yesterday if for no other reason than I actually got a fair amount of sleep last night. I did wake up more than usual, both due to congestion and the heat, but feel much more rested, and in general my symptoms seem to be improving. I will probably mask up and go in to work tomorrow (with how runny my nose was yesterday, masking was definitely not an option, even if I had felt safe to drive after no sleep, which I didn't).

3. Sidecar announced yet another new seasonal flavor. Actually they announced it yesterday after I'd already eaten breakfast, and I stopped in there after Shake Shack, since it's just a block away, but they were temporarily out and said it would be another 15-20 minutes, so I didn't stick around. I got one this morning, though, and it was so good! It's mango sticky rice, and it has a little ball of actual sticky rice in the center of the donut, as well as some puffed rice on top (and mango of course). They're known for their huckleberry donuts (which are also delicious) and now offer huckleberry foam on any drink, so I got a cold brew with the foam and that was very tasty, too. (Hopefully early enough in the morning it doesn't keep me up tonight.)

4. Carla is on the train home. She should be arriving in LA early Saturday morning.

5. Gemma being suspicious again.

settiai

Child's Play (1850 words) by Settiai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: The Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate)
Additional Tags: Child Death, Deception, Evil Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate), Gaslighting, Half-Elf Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate), Male Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate), Named Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate), Past Character Death, Questline: Emerald Grove (Baldur's Gate), Rogue Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate), Temporary Character Death
Summary: It had been laughably easy to make everything at the grove fall apart.

Current Mood: accomplished

kaberett

I have been having A Bit Of A Struggle since Friday with discovering all in one go that I Am Doing Everything!!! Wrong With Lifting, courtesy of Footage.

What is actually going on, of course, is that my proprioception remains shit but/and my interoception remains really very good, and the only actual difference between lifting and Pilates is that for the latter I have accepted that The Process involves me gamely trying to do a thing, and doing it wrong for quite a while in ways that aren't an injury risk but also aren't optimal, until finally the right muscles fire and I can go OH. OH THAT'S WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO FEEL LIKE. and merrily reproduce that sensation via interoception forever after.

With lifting I am set up to film myself and weirdly much less twitchy about looking at myself in video than I'd expected to be, and specifically I have abruptly become Set Up To Film Myself, and what this means is that I'm sidestepping the do-it-wrong-until-it-feels-right trial-and-error mapping of interoception to What My Body Is Actual Doing and instead... getting near-immediate feedback, by dint of watching video between sets and using that to identify Limbs Not In The Right Places (&c). I'm setting myself up to consider the trial-and-error a failure because I can immediately See It's Wrong even though I can't yet feel that it's wrong, with a sense that simply being able to see it's Wrong should mean I can now do it Right, and that's... not actually how this goes.

I am... working on hauling my brain around to considering this a tool to help me speed-run doing it right, rather than A Stick With Which To Beat Myself, and I'm sure it is good psychological practice but also, right now, oof.

... except that it really is kinda cool, when it does work, to have that immediate mapping of "oh so I need it to feel like THAT--" and just Fix Things; and I am also trying to remember that the interoception is a massive asset here, given that I could perfectly well have neither.

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fan_flashworks

Title: In Praise of the Staff
Fandom: Original
Rating: G
Length: 331 words
Summary: My praise following my arm operation on Sunday

( Praise )

pauraque

According to the eBird newsletter, July is the least active birdwatching month. This makes sense to me from a North American perspective, since spring migration is over and fall migration hasn't started yet, and a lot of species are less active/visible/audible as their breeding activity is winding down. Not to mention in a lot of places it's very hot and people may be less excited about going outside. Vermont summers aren't too hot but we do get a lot of thunderstorms. I've been getting out there when I can, but I haven't added any new species to my year list since my last update.

What I have been seeing a lot of are the babies in our yard.

black and white woodpecker with a red cap clings to a suet feeder

black and white woodpecker with a red cap clings to a suet feeder

This little boy is a juvenile Hairy Woodpecker, with red on the top of his head. When he gets his adult plumage the red will only appear on the back of his head. He has a sister, but I can't really distinguish her from their mom anymore now that she's more independent and doesn't follow the parents around begging for food. We've also had a juvenile male Downy Woodpecker who looks the same but smaller.

A Tufted Titmouse pair have also fledged at least two young in our yard. The babies really make a racket! The Black-capped Chickadees have fledglings too and have been very active shuttling food to them from the feeders. I've also seen a very put-upon adult Blue Jay with two screamy juveniles. They don't have fully formed crests yet and they're kind of grayish on the back, but you don't really need the plumage to tell that they're kids; they follow their parent around with mouths wide open, demanding to be fed!

After about a month of daily sightings, our juvenile Northern Cardinal seems to have moved on. I did see it a couple of times in a tree a bit further away from the feeders where the parents hang out, so I'm guessing it's left to find its own territory. They grow up so fast!

Something random that amused me: eBird now allows you to attach non-bird photos to your reports—other animals you saw, scenery, habitat, and so on. I was uploading some pictures, and noticed one was not publicly displayed because it was "flagged as containing people." It was this one.

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vass

Books
Started reading Casey Johnston's LIFTOFF!, and think I'd like it better if the ratio of programme and explanations of the programme to trying to convince the reader (who has already bought the book) of the merits of the programme were more favourable. Also the "Women! Scared lifting weights will make you 'too bulky'? It won't, and here's why..." bit is laid on about as thick as I was worried it would be in A Physical Education. Which is not a criticism of the book (the start of this paragraph was, but this part isn't) because there are always more of today's lucky 10K who need to know that, and the fact that I personally a) am not a woman, and b) already had that information, and c) am running more T than E these days (which is true of some women too) is not the book's fault.

Started listening to the audiobook of S.A. Chakraborty's City of Brass for car reading. It reads far more YA than I was expecting, and also I'm having the problem I sometimes have with audiobooks where my auditory processing is insufficient to the task: I keep missing bits. (With podcasts, and audiobooks I own in mp3 form that I can import into my podcast app, I can just press a button on my steering wheel and jump back 10 seconds. But alas, this is a library book, and the library's app maps that button to "jump back to the start of the chapter", which won't work for "I missed the start of the last sentence." Even while not driving and with the app open in front of me, the shorter "jump back" button on that app is 30 seconds, not 10.

(Even with the ability to jump back ten seconds I have been known to have to jump back five times in a row because I kept getting distracted or forgetting to listen at the same place four times in a row.)

Fashion
For absolutely no reason, spent a day in a research spiral on r/malefashionadvice and updating my measurements, after which I went looking for new pants and couldn't find anything suitable except a pair of jeans the same colour and general style as the one I wear most days.

Links

Australians: prepare for your phone to do something extremely obnoxious at 2pm AEST on Monday the 27th of July
If you haven't already seen this article about Arabic fonts: it's really good.

Remember Softbank? One of my microfandoms got some new canon

Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age

The Frogs Are Calling You

Food
Realised that I can make a protein shake the night before and leave it, in its shaker, in the fridge.

jadelennox

Yesterday I cleaned all the HEPA filters in the house and ran them on full roar, wore an N95 mask when out, wore a KN95 indoors in my house during the worst of it, and still was absolutely laid out by the particulates. This smoke plume is no joke even on the east coast. Take it seriously.

Grateful to live somewhere that has so normalized masks that I lost count of how many I saw outdoors yesterday.

princessofgeeks

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DEAR ABBY: My husband throws a fit over every minor inconvenience, from the trash can being knocked over to the screen door being in his way. He starts yelling and cursing and slamming doors. I don't understand it. When things like this happen to other people, they simply pick up the mess or move the object and go about their day.

I try to help and move stuff around to avoid his fits, but they are inevitable, it seems. I cannot handle the negativity over something so trivial. Our neighbors can hear him, and I'd feel embarrassed, if I were him, to be heard cursing like a child having a tantrum.

How would you advise I handle this situation? I am at my wits' end. I feel as though I will have to live with the yelling and anger forever. -- IN THE LINE OF FIRE

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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. Well, yesterday I was still coughing and was hoping it was just continued throat/lung irritation from the weekend but then in the evening I suddenly got mega congested, so I've officially got a cold, yay. I couldn't get any sleep last night due to the congestion, so between that and my nose running non-stop I decided it was best to work from home today. I am actually not feeling that bad, though, aside from being super tired from not getting any sleep. I'm going to work from home again tomorrow and we'll see about Friday.

2. I rode my bike to Shake Shack for lunch. They're pretty much my favorite burger place these days.

3. In the afternoon/early evening I was feeling super hungry but had no energy to make anything so I ordered dinner. I decided to get from Sweetgreen, which I've never had before. Being pretty much all salads, it's not something Carla would be that interested in, so I figured now was a good time to try them. I got their super green goddess salad, which has roasted sweet potatoes and was very tasty.

4. I perked up quite a bit after dinner and decided to walk over to the nearby ice cream place for dessert. Haven't been there in a while and it was perfect for a hot evening.

5. Look at this sweet boy!

settiai

I swear that I'm going to force my brain to actually get back into properly doing fannish things again even if it kills me. That's my plan for this weekend, whether said brain likes it or not. I'm setting my alarm in the mornings on Saturday and Sunday, and I'm forcing myself to get up no matter how little sleep I get. I can always take a short nap in the afternoon if needed (also with an alarm).

I have approximately five million fic WIPs, but lately I haven't been working on anything that isn't specifically for an exchange. My plan is to to pick a WIP, open the file, and not allow myself to do anything else until I write at least 500 words. Minimum. I'm really hoping that will kickstart my muse if I'm not allowing myself to do anything else until I hit that goal.

We're also edging closer and closer to Yuletide season, so I really want to start re-reading/re-watching/etc. a few things now both for requesting and offering purposes. Reading is easier, since I can fit that in at work between calls and such, but the re-watching part is harder to fit into my schedule. I'm going to try to set aside time every day (within reason - Wednesdays and Fridays will probably be out since I have work all day and then D&D in the evening) for that purpose if I can manage it.

Not to mention that I still need to get caught up on Critical Role, especially since they're taking a break right now which is the perfect opportunity. I think part of my problem is that I left off when they were split into my least favorite group of the new campaign (The Seekers) so that's why it's been harder to convince my brain to just shut up and catch up.

My plan right now is that I'm going to watch the next episode (maybe tomorrow if my brain isn't mush after work? Saturday if it is) with a summary pulled up. That way I can more easily fast-forward if I get to a point where I've lost interest without losing track of what's going on, which is the biggest reason that I usually force myself to not fast-forward with Critical Role.

I'm not sure if any of those plans will actually work, but I'm going to try. Because lately it feels like all I've been doing is working, sleeping, and blinking only to find out that hours have passed without me accomplishing anything.

Current Mood: hopeful

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musesfool

Yesterday, I made a key lime pie, and this morning, I had it for breakfast, because that is what I do on my birthday! (And Thanksgiving - pie for breakfast is a Thanksgiving tradition in my family.) Here's the recipe I used:

( key lime pie recipe )

I just bought a premade graham cracker crust though, so it was even easier than it sounds.

I also started clearing out some clothes I no longer wear or that no longer fit etc., one drawer a day to keep it manageable.

For dinner, I made the King Arthur small batch focaccia, but for some reason it stuck to the pan. It was still delicious, just annoying. I still recommend the recipe, just maybe not on a 95°F day. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mostly, I've been reading fic and scrolling on tumblr - it's been a good, relaxing day.

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Current Music: Black Water - Doobie Brothers

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Starsky & Hutch: Fanfiction: Another Stolen Life

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Ryland Grace Fan Video - Map of the Problematique

AI makes Jesus facepalm

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Fic: Child's Play (Baldur's Gate)

once again contemplating jury-rigged proprioception

Praise: Original: Meta: In Praise of the Staff

report from the bird nursery

Multifandom: Iddy Iddy Bang Bang! 2026 - Signups open July 25!

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Blame Canada? (Sorry Canada. Probably blame us.)

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Aurendor D&D: Summary for 7/15 Game

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