Topics for talk March
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pattroseTopics for discussion
Ways I Can Control My Anger.
I have little control over my anger. I prefer to get it out of me. I'm not a violent person, but I do get angry. I usually use my voice to speak about what has made me angry. And believe me, everyone would hear. But once I let my anger out, I am able to go back to my sweet self in no time. You just never know with me.
How about you?
Ways I Can Control My Anger.
I have little control over my anger. I prefer to get it out of me. I'm not a violent person, but I do get angry. I usually use my voice to speak about what has made me angry. And believe me, everyone would hear. But once I let my anger out, I am able to go back to my sweet self in no time. You just never know with me.
How about you?
90 discussion questions
Mar. 10th, 2026 12:21 ampattrose90 questions
What are the best things in your life right now?
Gosh, I have so many, I might have to come back to this one.
I'm back!
1. My family
2. My friends
3. My fandoms
4. My life
5. My upcoming cruise
What are the best things in your life right now?
Gosh, I have so many, I might have to come back to this one.
I'm back!
1. My family
2. My friends
3. My fandoms
4. My life
5. My upcoming cruise
Not quite 365 days questions March
Mar. 10th, 2026 12:19 ampattroseNot quite 365 days
10. It’s International Wig Day – have you ever worn a wig or a hairpiece?
Nope, I never have. This was sure easy. 😁. How about anyone else?
10. It’s International Wig Day – have you ever worn a wig or a hairpiece?
Nope, I never have. This was sure easy. 😁. How about anyone else?
Consent in Ep 1 and 2 of Heated Rivalry
Mar. 9th, 2026 09:15 pmimpala_chickFor the ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
marchmetamatterschallenge I'd like to do four meta posts this month and cross-post them to comms and/or Tumblr. This one is about consent in the first two episodes of Heated Rivalry!
In our current internet culture, it seems like there is plenty of purity wank to go around. ( This is based on the show only as I haven't read the books )
OF COURSE Sex scenes can just be enjoyed for what they are, and shouldn't have to be justified. But I'm really grateful the show did not shy away from depicting sex in this way. It's essential for us to see the entire sex scene to understand Shane and Ilya's points of view in these intimate moments.
The TLDR; is that consent is not always black and white and requires good judgment.
marchmetamatterschallenge I'd like to do four meta posts this month and cross-post them to comms and/or Tumblr. This one is about consent in the first two episodes of Heated Rivalry!In our current internet culture, it seems like there is plenty of purity wank to go around. ( This is based on the show only as I haven't read the books )
OF COURSE Sex scenes can just be enjoyed for what they are, and shouldn't have to be justified. But I'm really grateful the show did not shy away from depicting sex in this way. It's essential for us to see the entire sex scene to understand Shane and Ilya's points of view in these intimate moments.
The TLDR; is that consent is not always black and white and requires good judgment.
Connor on SNL
Mar. 9th, 2026 08:25 pmimpala_chickConnor Storrie hosted season 51, episode 13 of SNL! Someone over at gamechangerhr posted the playlist of the whole episode. I think he did a great job, plenty of laughs and silliness to go around. They brought out Knight and Keller from the USA women's hockey team during the monologue! I know the US has very little to celebrate right now but at least we got women's hockey and Alysa Liu. Very proud that Knight and Keller got such applause and that the Hughes brothers took the deserved jokes well enough.
The funniest sketch wasn't even in the episode though! Here it is, with a Rozanov mention :D
Very cute how they included Hudson in the ice skating sketch. And the stripper sketch was also hilarious even though morbid and NSFW.
gamechangerhr posted the playlist of the whole episode. I think he did a great job, plenty of laughs and silliness to go around. They brought out Knight and Keller from the USA women's hockey team during the monologue! I know the US has very little to celebrate right now but at least we got women's hockey and Alysa Liu. Very proud that Knight and Keller got such applause and that the Hughes brothers took the deserved jokes well enough. The funniest sketch wasn't even in the episode though! Here it is, with a Rozanov mention :D
Very cute how they included Hudson in the ice skating sketch. And the stripper sketch was also hilarious even though morbid and NSFW.
I posted fic!
Mar. 10th, 2026 02:41 pmalasse_irenaOver at fan_flashworks I posted a little fic! It will go on AO3 later, but for now you can read it there.
The round's theme is anticipation. I think there's probably half a day left to post in this round if you are suddenly keen.
Title: waiting for someone else
Fandom: Ponies (TV 2026)
Rating: Mature
Length: 1031
Content notes: n/a
Author notes: I guess this is loosely about anticipating, in that it is about waiting? Anyway, my first fan_flashworks entry! And also the only fic I have ever written for this fandom. Is it the only fic I ever will write? Unclear
Summary: Ivanna and Twila understand each other, but they both know Twila would rather be with someone else. A specific someone else.
Read it at the community!
fan_flashworks I posted a little fic! It will go on AO3 later, but for now you can read it there.The round's theme is anticipation. I think there's probably half a day left to post in this round if you are suddenly keen.
Title: waiting for someone else
Fandom: Ponies (TV 2026)
Rating: Mature
Length: 1031
Content notes: n/a
Author notes: I guess this is loosely about anticipating, in that it is about waiting? Anyway, my first fan_flashworks entry! And also the only fic I have ever written for this fandom. Is it the only fic I ever will write? Unclear
Summary: Ivanna and Twila understand each other, but they both know Twila would rather be with someone else. A specific someone else.
Read it at the community!
crochet: some coasters (?) and more!
Mar. 9th, 2026 08:14 pmbatiferriteOops, it's been a long time since I updated here again! In the meantime, I've gotten really into crochet and wanted to show off (and yap :3) about a few things I've just finished up.
I wanted to make some little doll house rugs and I've always thought the rugs from Pokemon RSE were adorable, so I wanted to try my hand at that! Also, I don't actually have a doll house, but I do have some miniature kits I've been meaning to do... Meanwhile, these might be able to work as coasters or just decorations? IDK. I'm sure they'll find somewhere to live, eventually...
The first one I tried was the spikes mat, mostly because it seemed the most straight forward. I found an equation on Reddit to plan out the stitch numbers and increases per row, and just kinda went for it. I did a prototype before this and figured out that putting a single row of a color change isn't that pretty, so I did some surface crochet instead (same for the X's and Y's).
It does fit surprisingly nicely in a wooden bowl I bought a while back, though! (And it makes it so I don't have to weave in the ends, at least. ^^")
With that lesson learned, I started a new rug-thing, the attract mat! The same equation from earlier works, you just multiply everything by 8 rather than six, so that's locked down pretty easily. But this design was quite a bit more complex; I simplified the original quite a bit, but I still probably should've gone further, oops. A comparison between the plan and final result:
In the long run, I do really like this color scheme; I think it would work really well for making, like, a coleus in the future or something! And I found the color changes to be surprisingly fun and somehow more easy to keep track of than just a flat color (even if it's kinda crazy having three working yarns at once! so much untangling...). I'm not sure how well the design actually translated, though? Inherently in tapestry crochet, you end up with a bunch of colors going in strange places.... Also, working in the round makes it so the rows didn't quite line up -- I probably should've done invisible joins, instead. In fact, frankly, I think the most "accurate" solution here would be to just cross stitch the original pixel art on plastic canvas, but whatever. This was a fun experiment nevertheless!
I have a page on my site for other little crochet fellas I've made, but the one I'm most proud of (so far, at least ^^) is this Mimikyu:
....There's a lot more I could say about my life and the world, obviously, but I just don't have the mental or physical bandwidth for that at the moment, so I'm just gonna sign off here. Thanks for reading and wish you luck with whatever you might be working on! ^^
I wanted to make some little doll house rugs and I've always thought the rugs from Pokemon RSE were adorable, so I wanted to try my hand at that! Also, I don't actually have a doll house, but I do have some miniature kits I've been meaning to do... Meanwhile, these might be able to work as coasters or just decorations? IDK. I'm sure they'll find somewhere to live, eventually...
The first one I tried was the spikes mat, mostly because it seemed the most straight forward. I found an equation on Reddit to plan out the stitch numbers and increases per row, and just kinda went for it. I did a prototype before this and figured out that putting a single row of a color change isn't that pretty, so I did some surface crochet instead (same for the X's and Y's).
It does fit surprisingly nicely in a wooden bowl I bought a while back, though! (And it makes it so I don't have to weave in the ends, at least. ^^")
With that lesson learned, I started a new rug-thing, the attract mat! The same equation from earlier works, you just multiply everything by 8 rather than six, so that's locked down pretty easily. But this design was quite a bit more complex; I simplified the original quite a bit, but I still probably should've gone further, oops. A comparison between the plan and final result:
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I have a page on my site for other little crochet fellas I've made, but the one I'm most proud of (so far, at least ^^) is this Mimikyu:
....There's a lot more I could say about my life and the world, obviously, but I just don't have the mental or physical bandwidth for that at the moment, so I'm just gonna sign off here. Thanks for reading and wish you luck with whatever you might be working on! ^^
Monday Media - March 9 Edition
Mar. 9th, 2026 05:19 pmlebateleurGames: Pretty much the typical go-tos.
Music: We have seen some great shows. The first was Peaches ( Cut because Peaches. ) Everything about it: the costumes, the choreography, the energy, was so good. Absolutely phenomenal show. A++ please don't make us wait another three years before you come back again.
The following day we saw Timecop1983 with Bad Dreamers and Brent Michael Woods opening. Woods is very much of the "Richard Marx with an acoustic guitar" mode of mid-80s nostalgia pastiche, which is not my thing per se, but he is very talented at it and thus fun to watch live. Bad Dreamers joined the tour at the last minute when the scheduled opening act was unable to get US visas; I'd been aware of him through his vocals on a bunch of Timecop tracks, and he was just as good live. (And I particularly appreciated his insistence that the venue turn the stage lights off so that he could see the audience despite it's meaning that the audience could not see him.
Timecop1983 was fabulous, as expected. Just a really energetic show that sounded as good or better than the albums live. He was joined by Josh Dally on guitar and vocals as well as a killer live drummer, which really added to the energy (the drummer was clearly having the time of his life), and Dally and Timecop had great onstage chemistry, with Dally providing the garrulous crowd engagement and running commentary, and Timecop the well-timed laconic one-liners. (Dally also graciously handled the very drunk woman in the crowd who kept loudly insisting he go for drinks with her after the show despite the conspicuous wedding band on his hand.)
They played a good selection from their back catalogue as well as some new tracks we weren't familiar with, as well as a few numbers with one or both of Bad Dreamers and Woods on the stage with them. This too was an excellent show and I will certainly see any or all of these acts if they're ever in town again.
Podcasts/Articles: I listened to The Women's Podcast episode The Digital War on Women and How To Fight Back, which was unsurprisingly as horrifying as the title suggests. The panel members were (rightly) so energized about how vile this stuff is that they were unfortunately often not as clear about explaining to the audience what it was they were discussing as one would have wished but they made up for it by explicitly pointing out that the primary solution to all this shit and enshitification is to stop. Just stop. Get off these platforms and go do something else with your time. (That said, how you convince anyone under 15 to do so...)
For long form articles, I read:
Roleplaying: Nothing. The GC is DMing some one shots, but since they're on the days that I am step dancing and I can't be in two places at once, dancing it is 🩰
Television: When the TV's on, pretty much all AEW, all the time. The pendulum is very much swinging back toward Restaurant Quality 😁 these days. Of course, the usual suspects (Hangman, Mox, Young Bucks) are still there with predictable plotlines, but everything going on around them has been great. FTR and Stokely steal the show for every promo and match they're in. You wouldn't necessarily think Brody King vs. Swerve would make sense but it does, and Prince Nana is clearly having the time of his life. The Brawling Birds won me over with the throwback name alone, but they are more than living up to its promise. Jet Speed and Speedball are great. Kyle Fletcher is great. The IInspiration should annoy the living bejeezus out of me but they were hysterical and I wish they'd got five times the screen/ring time, TK please bring them back. Don Callas is as oily and entertaining as ever. The Thunder Rosa vs. Thekla match was fire.
Speaking of wrestling, we also finished out Dimension 20: Titan Takedown group watch, which had a very satisfying (if a bit railroaded, probably due to time constraints) conclusion. Humor, action, lore and iterating in-jokes, and some really affecting emotional character arcs: this is what I want from wrestling and from a D&D game, and this D:20 season had them all in spades. I enjoyed the nostalgia of (most of) The New Day and Bailey, and while I don't watch WWE anymore, it absolutely sold me on Chelsea Green and I hope she makes it over to AEW some day soon.
Video Games: The gaming computer is acting up *sigh* so nothing these past few weeks. We did get Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2, which seems to have inspired divergent takes among the people who've played it, so we'll see.
これで以上です。
Music: We have seen some great shows. The first was Peaches ( Cut because Peaches. ) Everything about it: the costumes, the choreography, the energy, was so good. Absolutely phenomenal show. A++ please don't make us wait another three years before you come back again.
The following day we saw Timecop1983 with Bad Dreamers and Brent Michael Woods opening. Woods is very much of the "Richard Marx with an acoustic guitar" mode of mid-80s nostalgia pastiche, which is not my thing per se, but he is very talented at it and thus fun to watch live. Bad Dreamers joined the tour at the last minute when the scheduled opening act was unable to get US visas; I'd been aware of him through his vocals on a bunch of Timecop tracks, and he was just as good live. (And I particularly appreciated his insistence that the venue turn the stage lights off so that he could see the audience despite it's meaning that the audience could not see him.
Timecop1983 was fabulous, as expected. Just a really energetic show that sounded as good or better than the albums live. He was joined by Josh Dally on guitar and vocals as well as a killer live drummer, which really added to the energy (the drummer was clearly having the time of his life), and Dally and Timecop had great onstage chemistry, with Dally providing the garrulous crowd engagement and running commentary, and Timecop the well-timed laconic one-liners. (Dally also graciously handled the very drunk woman in the crowd who kept loudly insisting he go for drinks with her after the show despite the conspicuous wedding band on his hand.)
They played a good selection from their back catalogue as well as some new tracks we weren't familiar with, as well as a few numbers with one or both of Bad Dreamers and Woods on the stage with them. This too was an excellent show and I will certainly see any or all of these acts if they're ever in town again.
Podcasts/Articles: I listened to The Women's Podcast episode The Digital War on Women and How To Fight Back, which was unsurprisingly as horrifying as the title suggests. The panel members were (rightly) so energized about how vile this stuff is that they were unfortunately often not as clear about explaining to the audience what it was they were discussing as one would have wished but they made up for it by explicitly pointing out that the primary solution to all this shit and enshitification is to stop. Just stop. Get off these platforms and go do something else with your time. (That said, how you convince anyone under 15 to do so...)
For long form articles, I read:
- Gisèle Pelicot on rape, courage and her ex-husband: ‘He was loved by everyone. That’s what is so terrifying’
- Inside voice: what can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousness
- The new science of death: brain activity, consciousness, and near death experience
- They pushed so many lies about recycling: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics
Roleplaying: Nothing. The GC is DMing some one shots, but since they're on the days that I am step dancing and I can't be in two places at once, dancing it is 🩰
Television: When the TV's on, pretty much all AEW, all the time. The pendulum is very much swinging back toward Restaurant Quality 😁 these days. Of course, the usual suspects (Hangman, Mox, Young Bucks) are still there with predictable plotlines, but everything going on around them has been great. FTR and Stokely steal the show for every promo and match they're in. You wouldn't necessarily think Brody King vs. Swerve would make sense but it does, and Prince Nana is clearly having the time of his life. The Brawling Birds won me over with the throwback name alone, but they are more than living up to its promise. Jet Speed and Speedball are great. Kyle Fletcher is great. The IInspiration should annoy the living bejeezus out of me but they were hysterical and I wish they'd got five times the screen/ring time, TK please bring them back. Don Callas is as oily and entertaining as ever. The Thunder Rosa vs. Thekla match was fire.
Speaking of wrestling, we also finished out Dimension 20: Titan Takedown group watch, which had a very satisfying (if a bit railroaded, probably due to time constraints) conclusion. Humor, action, lore and iterating in-jokes, and some really affecting emotional character arcs: this is what I want from wrestling and from a D&D game, and this D:20 season had them all in spades. I enjoyed the nostalgia of (most of) The New Day and Bailey, and while I don't watch WWE anymore, it absolutely sold me on Chelsea Green and I hope she makes it over to AEW some day soon.
Video Games: The gaming computer is acting up *sigh* so nothing these past few weeks. We did get Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2, which seems to have inspired divergent takes among the people who've played it, so we'll see.
これで以上です。
Entry #1 [3/9/26]
Mar. 9th, 2026 04:06 pmtrashburgersblairMight as well make a diary out of this while I learn more about the site.
I customized the journal theme a bit. It now matches my trademarked color pallet (black, purple, and green). I joined some communities for short fic writing. I don't write fanfic often really, I mean I've been working on my current one for... 4 months? At this point? And its under 3k words. I am a horribly slow writer lol. But hopefully having a prompt and the expectation for it to be short might help encourage me to write more.
The journal title is from Alice by The Mechanisms btw. It's my favorite Mechs long song and I did go by dormouse for a while, so it's only fitting.
I think I might use this to share my fanart & fanfics, because why not. Oh! and because I started making podfics too I could share those here as well.
okk done with Dreamwidth talk now for other things uhhh
I apparently have almost no work to do this week. It's actually quite helpful for the things I have planned. It'll also give me time to get the performance critique done because I am so behind on those (I should have 2 done by now, I only have half of 1. oops). I got tickets to an opera next month though, so hopefully I should catch up on those soon. (side note, I've never been to an opera before and have almost no knowledge of the medium, I am excited(?) to see how I go about writing a critique for that)
I'm also watching Katiegobrr's Bannerfall stream as I type this and OH MY GOD THE ANGST. I love joining in the middle of lore conversations. This is great. Someone please talk to me about Bannerfall omggg
Okk, that's it I think. Idk how often I'll do these entries, probably whenever I feel like it.
I customized the journal theme a bit. It now matches my trademarked color pallet (black, purple, and green). I joined some communities for short fic writing. I don't write fanfic often really, I mean I've been working on my current one for... 4 months? At this point? And its under 3k words. I am a horribly slow writer lol. But hopefully having a prompt and the expectation for it to be short might help encourage me to write more.
The journal title is from Alice by The Mechanisms btw. It's my favorite Mechs long song and I did go by dormouse for a while, so it's only fitting.
I think I might use this to share my fanart & fanfics, because why not. Oh! and because I started making podfics too I could share those here as well.
okk done with Dreamwidth talk now for other things uhhh
I apparently have almost no work to do this week. It's actually quite helpful for the things I have planned. It'll also give me time to get the performance critique done because I am so behind on those (I should have 2 done by now, I only have half of 1. oops). I got tickets to an opera next month though, so hopefully I should catch up on those soon. (side note, I've never been to an opera before and have almost no knowledge of the medium, I am excited(?) to see how I go about writing a critique for that)
I'm also watching Katiegobrr's Bannerfall stream as I type this and OH MY GOD THE ANGST. I love joining in the middle of lore conversations. This is great. Someone please talk to me about Bannerfall omggg
Okk, that's it I think. Idk how often I'll do these entries, probably whenever I feel like it.
[BD] Des éclats de diamant
Mar. 9th, 2026 09:29 pmmaluretteTitre :
Auteure : Nuria Tamarit
Langue : traduction française de l'espagnol ?
Type : roman graphique
Genre : coming of age
1ère parution :
Édition :
Format : 40 pages
(lu à la médiathèque)
Mar (la même que dans Toubab ? une autre ?) est une ado renfermée, avide de lecture. Et puis un jour elle se retrouve inscrite de force au club de basket par sa mère, histoire de sociabiliser un peu...
...et ça marche. Çaa lui fait du bien, elle se fait des amies, et potentiellement un petit copain.
Sauf que c'est un sale con ; heureusement elle a ses nouvelles amies !
Heh. Pas mauvais mais pas le plus intéressant de cette auteure.
Auteure : Nuria Tamarit
Langue : traduction française de l'espagnol ?
Type : roman graphique
Genre : coming of age
1ère parution :
Édition :
Format : 40 pages
(lu à la médiathèque)
Mar (la même que dans Toubab ? une autre ?) est une ado renfermée, avide de lecture. Et puis un jour elle se retrouve inscrite de force au club de basket par sa mère, histoire de sociabiliser un peu...
...et ça marche. Çaa lui fait du bien, elle se fait des amies, et potentiellement un petit copain.
Sauf que c'est un sale con ; heureusement elle a ses nouvelles amies !
Heh. Pas mauvais mais pas le plus intéressant de cette auteure.
The Fantastic Journey Triple Drabble: A Friend In Need
Mar. 9th, 2026 06:43 pmbadly_knittedTitle: A Friend In Need
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Willaway, Varian.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 492: Talk at
drabble_zone.Setting: After An Act of Love.
Summary: Following Gwenith’s death, Varian is cutting himself off from the others. Willaway decides it’s time someone talked to their grieving friend.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.
( A Friend In Need... )
TW-DW Ficlet: Finding Happiness
Mar. 9th, 2026 06:37 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Finding Happiness
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Jack, Ianto.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 631
Spoilers: End of Days, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and Doctor Who: Utopia, The Sound of Drums, Last of the Time Lords.
Summary: Jack only realises how happy he was back in Cardiff when he’s chained in the Valiant’s engine room, serving as the Master’s plaything.
Written For: The prompt ‘Any, Any, Happiness comes’, at
threesentenceficathon.Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
Falling in Love with Sketching
Mar. 9th, 2026 01:49 pmhermenoodleA sad thing I realize while looking at a particular artist's sketchdumps online is that I miss sketching and not feeling judged by my little perfectionist in my brain. Because that little perfectionist didn't judge; it didn't really care much about the presentation.
It was merely a dump to not be seen as serious. Yet sketchdumps do have an allure to them in how an artist just merely practices and sets some sketch aside, not as if it were nothing, but that it is done and could be elaborated on later with another iteration. Somehow, I let the perfectionist inside mess with stopping those iterations when I should have let it loose to not make me halt that engine.
However, as many old folks like to say: the buck stops here. I wanna sketch more of my favorite artists just to study them and still put my own spin, combination, and imagination on their work because the way they imagine things inspire me so much in what I want to express from my stories and faith.
Some of my favorite artists, just to name some (if not all) them:
It was merely a dump to not be seen as serious. Yet sketchdumps do have an allure to them in how an artist just merely practices and sets some sketch aside, not as if it were nothing, but that it is done and could be elaborated on later with another iteration. Somehow, I let the perfectionist inside mess with stopping those iterations when I should have let it loose to not make me halt that engine.
However, as many old folks like to say: the buck stops here. I wanna sketch more of my favorite artists just to study them and still put my own spin, combination, and imagination on their work because the way they imagine things inspire me so much in what I want to express from my stories and faith.
Some of my favorite artists, just to name some (if not all) them:
- Janet McKenzie
- Thomas Blackshear II
- Edward Knippers
- Father John Giuliani
- Rose Datoc Doll
- Michelangelo
- Arina Tanemura
- William Holman Hunt
- Edward Burne-Jones
- Edmonia Lewis
- Riyoko Ikeda
(no subject)
Mar. 9th, 2026 02:59 pmshadowhiveSo I had been hoping to do more things this past week. I’d hoped to do posts, to fic, to watch stuff (I was planning on watching Clown In A Cornfield again finally) but everything went wrong.
I had been low energy at the start of the week and that got worse, not helped by the loud noises from the drilling outside, which got steadily worse until Friday morning when I was so bad I had a terrible headache even after it ended.
Then. My stomach felt a bit funny. I think it started Thursday but it got worse over Friday, but I put it down to the headache.
Then Saturday morning hit and I was consumed by a fever. I spent the entire day in bed, in a dizzy haze with no voice or anything. It meant I couldn’t do anything of what I planned, nor could I do dnd on Sunday. (Even though it had eased up some I was still incredibly hazy and out of it at times).
TodayI finally felt better voice wise, so of course mum decides to be bitchy. I dunno why she yelled at me because she didn’t get things, or because she didn’t try something on that she saw when we got her meds (which she didn’t even tell me at the time) but ugh. It just irked me even more.
Then I had my stupid call which ugh. It’s still not with the usual guy and was half an hour later, both which would have annoyed me and made me chase up on if I wasn’t feeling rough still. (I had no desire to waste my voice on that). But ugh.
(Plus side though being sick has meant mums friend didn’t come today but she will be next week which ughhhhh)
***
Oh the plus side Pokopia was released a few days ago yay! If got it on digital which feels a good decision cause I feel this is gonna be a big time sink. But ahh it’s so cute! I was sold on it cause it looked like animal crossing meets Pokémon but it’s so much more than that. Though it is very similar. The world is just so… big. I got to the second area today (if I’d not been sick I’d have done it sooner) and it’s a whole other huge area.
But ahh I’ve seen some of my favs already, there’s scyther, goomy and Bulbasaur, plus so many others (I even found a suicune!) and ahh it’s just so cute, I love all the Pokémon and all the things you can find. I’ll post more thoughts sometime.
And I also popped into a charity shop and got a dvds of contact and day of the triffids.
I had been low energy at the start of the week and that got worse, not helped by the loud noises from the drilling outside, which got steadily worse until Friday morning when I was so bad I had a terrible headache even after it ended.
Then. My stomach felt a bit funny. I think it started Thursday but it got worse over Friday, but I put it down to the headache.
Then Saturday morning hit and I was consumed by a fever. I spent the entire day in bed, in a dizzy haze with no voice or anything. It meant I couldn’t do anything of what I planned, nor could I do dnd on Sunday. (Even though it had eased up some I was still incredibly hazy and out of it at times).
TodayI finally felt better voice wise, so of course mum decides to be bitchy. I dunno why she yelled at me because she didn’t get things, or because she didn’t try something on that she saw when we got her meds (which she didn’t even tell me at the time) but ugh. It just irked me even more.
Then I had my stupid call which ugh. It’s still not with the usual guy and was half an hour later, both which would have annoyed me and made me chase up on if I wasn’t feeling rough still. (I had no desire to waste my voice on that). But ugh.
(Plus side though being sick has meant mums friend didn’t come today but she will be next week which ughhhhh)
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Oh the plus side Pokopia was released a few days ago yay! If got it on digital which feels a good decision cause I feel this is gonna be a big time sink. But ahh it’s so cute! I was sold on it cause it looked like animal crossing meets Pokémon but it’s so much more than that. Though it is very similar. The world is just so… big. I got to the second area today (if I’d not been sick I’d have done it sooner) and it’s a whole other huge area.
But ahh I’ve seen some of my favs already, there’s scyther, goomy and Bulbasaur, plus so many others (I even found a suicune!) and ahh it’s just so cute, I love all the Pokémon and all the things you can find. I’ll post more thoughts sometime.
And I also popped into a charity shop and got a dvds of contact and day of the triffids.
Monday Music Meme!
Mar. 9th, 2026 11:11 pmalasse_irenaIt's for real Monday this time! Today's prompt was "a song that makes you smile", so here is a poppy little song from Maisie Peters about how she's too good for the boy she's with and she's leaving him. Good for her.
Also I fixed the embed problem, somehow. Mysteriously. I guess I'll go back and see if I can fix up the previous one.
( Prompst list )
Also I fixed the embed problem, somehow. Mysteriously. I guess I'll go back and see if I can fix up the previous one.
( Prompst list )
February 2026 Books
Mar. 9th, 2026 07:02 amkay_brookeSeven books read in February, no DNFs.
Previous books posts:
Books 1-7 (January)
( 8. The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hildebrand - 3.5 stars )
( 9. Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen - 2 stars - slight spoilers )
( 10. Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse - 2.5 stars )
( 11. The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson - 3.5 stars )
( 12. Here Beside the Rising Tide by Emily Jane - 4 stars )
( 13. Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King - 4.5 stars )
( 14. The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull - 2.5 stars )
Previous books posts:
Books 1-7 (January)
( 8. The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hildebrand - 3.5 stars )
( 9. Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen - 2 stars - slight spoilers )
( 10. Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse - 2.5 stars )
( 11. The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson - 3.5 stars )
( 12. Here Beside the Rising Tide by Emily Jane - 4 stars )
( 13. Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King - 4.5 stars )
( 14. The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull - 2.5 stars )
bad chicken news
Mar. 9th, 2026 06:25 pmtielanThe two pullets we got a couple of weeks ago started going downhill from probably Friday night. We could only get them to the vet this afternoon (Monday).
They have antibiotics and we're crop-feeding them, but I don't think it's going to do much good.
Fifteen minutes later: Nien-Go is dead. We're not sure if Jima-wu is going to survive, although she was always doing better than dainty little Nien-Go.
( feeling like I failed )
They have antibiotics and we're crop-feeding them, but I don't think it's going to do much good.
Fifteen minutes later: Nien-Go is dead. We're not sure if Jima-wu is going to survive, although she was always doing better than dainty little Nien-Go.
( feeling like I failed )