Bed

Jul. 24th, 2025 07:01 am
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Luz wakes up on the day before summer camp. With Amity in the same bed. Shennanigans ensue.

Words: 528, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

china_shop: Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan crouched down, stroking a black cat, on a gree background. (Guardian - meet cute)
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A couple more pics. )

Poll #33412 I didn't expect you to have such skillful hands.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 3


In the liniment scene, why does Zhao Yunlan wince?

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it hurts and he doesn't want to admit it
3 (100.0%)

it hurts in a sexy way
1 (33.3%)

he's having a Feeling about Shen Wei touching him
3 (100.0%)

other
0 (0.0%)

Why does Shen Wei have a first aid kit?

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it came with the house
0 (0.0%)

it's part of his passing-as-human camouflage; he has excellent attention to detail
0 (0.0%)

when he was living in the staff dorm, he was the go-to guy for when people got minor injuries (and they always healed suspiciously quickly)
2 (66.7%)

for Zhao Yunlan
3 (100.0%)

other
0 (0.0%)



Also, feel free to say in comments what your favourite aspect of the liniment scene is. I was going to do a poll question for that, too, but it would have had about a hundred checkboxes. ;-D

thursday

Jul. 24th, 2025 01:48 am
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Bubbles the Cat.

Yesterday I decided to quit the hospital volunteer job. It just didn't bring me much joy. I didn't feel connected. It was like I was always on the outside looking in while there. Nobody (much) talked to me. But as usual I am second guessing myself now (in the middle of the night, trying to sleep, I'm still going over the whole thing in my mind) but at the time it truly felt like the right thing to quit. I was tired of doing busy work and organizing closets there when I could be at home creating my own clean and organized spaces instead. While Hazel was here last weekend we went through multiple bags of her old clothes that had been stored in the basement so now I have a huge pile of clothes that needs washed to take to goodwill. With those clothes out of there I'm finally getting somewhere with the basement cleanup! I felt that pulling at me while at the hospital yesterday morning and it annoyed me to be there. I had useful things I could have been doing at home. Anyway I gave them the excuse that I want to switch my volunteer time to the Sugar Creek nursing home instead because it's closer. That's not a lie. It is much easier to drive to the nursing home. It only takes a few minutes to get there, instead of half an hour to get to the hospital. And I'm only at the nursing home for less than an hour at a time to help with bingo, instead of tying up an entire morning at the hospital. So it's done. My experiment of volunteering at the hospital is over.
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[personal profile] squidgiepdx has been showing fandom the love for 31 years (he founded Squidge.Org in 1994 to provide both website hosting and mailing lists for fandom and in 2020 he created the SquidgeWorld Archive) and I'm here to say let's have fandom show some love back with a successful fundraiser. (And I'm putting my money where my mouth is: I donated $100.00 to this fundraiser.)

Click here for detailed post about the fundraiser and about how to donate.

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Title: Consent: A Memoir
Author: Vanessa Springora
Genre: Nonfiction, memoir

We're back to the "Women in Translation" rec list, with book #10: Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora, translated from French by Natasha Lehrer. This autobiographical novel is the story of Springora's sexual abuse as a young teenager at the hands of Gabriel Matzneff, a well-regarded and prolific French writer, who was in his late forties when he entered a romantic and sexual relationship with Springora (called "V" in the book).

The rest of this review is under the cut, given the nature of the content.

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Recent Reading: Consent

Jul. 23rd, 2025 10:02 pm
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We're back to the "Women in Translation" rec list, with book #10: Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora, translated from French by Natasha Lehrer. This autobiographical novel is the story of Springora's sexual abuse as a young teenager at the hands of Gabriel Matzneff, a well-regarded and prolific French writer, who was in his late forties when he entered a romantic and sexual relationship with Springora (called "V" in the book).

The rest of this review is under the cut, given the nature of the content.

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Surprise (by Brighid) (G)

Jul. 24th, 2025 04:41 pm
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Shows: SGA
Rec Category: Alternate Universe (as I consider "A Beautiful Lifetime Event" to be canon-divergent)
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Original child character (Hypatia, their daughter)
Categories: M/M, Gen
Words: 514
Warnings: No AO3-type warnings apply
Author on DW: n/a
Author's Website: Brighid on AO3, Brighid's old website on Wayback
Link: Surprise on Wayback
Why This Must Be Read: This is a delightful fic probably unknown to most as it's only on Wayback. It was inspired by "A Beautiful Lifetime Event" and is a sequel snippet. John briefly loses track of Hyp, and when he finds her, she floors him with a revelation. Lovely!

panacea

Jul. 24th, 2025 01:00 am
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 24, 2025 is:

panacea • \pan-uh-SEE-uh\  • noun

A panacea is something that is regarded as a cure-all—that is, something that will make everything about a situation better.

// The new program should help with the city’s housing crisis, but it’s no panacea.

See the entry >

Examples:

“It was a mistake to regard and romanticize information as a panacea for the world’s problems. For they are completely different things: information, knowledge and wisdom. Every day we are bombarded with thousands of snippets of information, but there is very little knowledge, and no time to slow down to gain knowledge, much less wisdom.” — Elif Shafak, 1984: 75th Anniversary Edition by George Orwell, 2024

Did you know?

The maxim “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” isn’t true, but belief in a miraculous botanical “cure for whatever ails ya” has existed for millennia and is at the root of the word panacea. In current use, panacea most often refers to a remedy—medical or otherwise—that inevitably falls far short of what some claim or hope it can do, but the word’s Latin and Greek forebears referred to plants with legit healing properties, including mints and yarrows. Both the Latin word panacēa and its Greek antecedent panákeia (from the word panakēs, meaning “all-healing”) were applied especially to flowering herbs (genus Opopanax) of the carrot family used to treat various ailments.



Timelessly Bound, Return Again

Jul. 24th, 2025 03:32 am
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“One bound to fate, a little witch has lost their way, for backwards time has turned once more, as the record shows a changing score. For once they’ve found their feet again, the little witch must find their friends, but will they take the call for fame or make a fool of their family name?”

Or

Mattholomule wasn’t a complicated witch, not in his opinion atleast. Atleast, not until the Day of Unity. With the Draining Spell done and the collectors spies spying, he and Jerbo had been out near the tide near the side towers, practicing spells when Matt had been pushed through a time pool by a large blast just before the tide came in. Oddly enough, the magic seemed to stick him in his past body instead of by himself separately.

Stuck in the past for the foreseeable future, with no knowing what repercussions it could have on the future, he might as well try to actually figure out what he’s trying to do, right?

 

Addition -

I know this isn’t how time pools work but I genuinely don’t care, I’m bored as hell and writing a fanfiction to deal with my Gustholomule drought.

Words: 9, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

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Title: If Anything's Worth My Love, It's Worth a Fight
author: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel

Character/Pairing: Angel Dust/Husk, Pentious/Cherri Bomb
Summary: Husk and Angel are agents Whiskey and Webs for the Agency, dedicated to keeping the balance of power in hell and dealing with the worst of hell upon request. When a newly fallen upstart set out to disrupt the balance by taking on Carmilla Carmine, Husk and Angel are assigned to the task of discovering who it is and stopping them. Unfortunately for Angel it takes him into conflict with his family’s web of crime and that is not going to go unanswered.
Rating: explicit
Warnings: kidnapping, canon level violence, explicit sex, psychos in hell

Artist: Kenny Loggins
Album: Footloose Soundtrack
Song: I’m Free
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I internet-know a guy who's really struggling; he's fighting cancer, his wife is on dialysis for kidney failure, and his mother-in-law is dying, but the hospital she's in wants to send her away. Todd writes:
I don't know what to do. It seems that Valerie's Mom is beginning the dying process but the hospital is trying to force her out and into a nursing home which isn't covered. She doesn't have the funds, but nor can she qualify for Medicaid.

We have funeral costs that we have set aside-we tried to be frugal and she even chose to do cremation to save costs but there are still a couple of thousand left.

We planned for that. But the hospice process I don't understand. That is hundreds a day I guess upfront, we are trying to figure that out now. If we do in-home Valerie and I will have to be responsible for something she we aren't trained for and with her on dialysis, that is scary. The hospital doesn't seem to care. I don't know what to do. I am sad, and scared, and need advice. Any help is much, much appreciated but I really need to know who to talk to. And please share this, if you can. I will be doing an update later on detailing everything we have been through, and it is just so much..so much.

I didn't think a hospital would do this when she is in this much distress.


Todd has a GoFundMe; I don't know if it's possible to contact someone through that.

If you have any suggestions, and can't contact Todd through the GoFundMe, leave your suggestions in a comment, and I'll send it to him via email.

 
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Temporary Work
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1209
[Saturday, 5 August, 2017, 1 p.m.]


:: LaQuinta is restless in her new living quarters, so she goes looking for work without her Surrey. Things become complicated fairly quickly. Part of the Unfair Trades arc in Mercedes, within the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::




LaQuinta stared around the interior of the converted schoolbus, called a ‘skoolie’ though that insulted both the bus’ origins and the education of anyone who repeated the term. She sniffed, surprised to smell cedar. Leaning close to the light-colored paint, she shook her head. Standing on the sofa, she brought her face close to the wooden strips on the ceiling and laughed.

When she stepped down, she quickly smoothed the cushion and checked the surface for dirt. The whole place, contained in a forty-foot schoolbus, was a bit larger than the motel room converted into emergency housing for earthquake refugees, felt very, very different.
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It released either today or just recently, and is typical in length with the recent Penric and Desdemona books. Usual platforms, including Kindle and Apple stores.

VERY good story! I'm about 60% or so through it, Russet finished it already but she had more time to read today than I did. I'm quite enjoying it, looking forward to the ending.

I think this is something like #14 in the series.

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