vital functions

Sep. 28th, 2025 09:56 pm
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Reading. Brosh, McMorland Hunter & Hughes, Melzack & Wall )

Dreamwidth! Down to two and a half months behind.

Writing. So many e-mails about objects. So many.

Watching. Farscape S02E06, Picture if You Will. The discussion about which of the Highly Specific Fetish Big Bads it was who was resurrecting in this particular context was entertaining in terms of highlighting the, you know, motifs. Of the work.

Playing. We have just managed some Fluxx. <3

Cooking. Batch of puff pastry for the sake of making two (of the three) things in East that call for it (because I could not quite bring myself to buy pre-made). Pleased with how the puff came out; mildly dubious about both the tomato, pistachio + saffron tart and the banana tarte tatin, but on the level of "I am unlikely to make these again", not "I regret making them".

Eating. On Tuesday we hit the point of Make The Internet Bring Us Pizza. The Pizza was very welcome.

Yesterday, Saturday, we went to say goodbye to Ruby Violet, i.e. we had cake for breakfast, along with hot chocolate. The flavours were all ones I was familiar with but I'm still pleased to have had them. (It is not impossible I will decide I want to make another trip by myself, though, especially given that they currently have the malted milk on...)

As mentioned we then also availed ourselves of an Ethiopian-and-Eritrean Veggie Combo and a piece of Japanese Curry Bread, both of which I am pleased to have experienced.

Exploring. St Pancras Waterpoint! Brief turn through Camley Street Natural Park.

Growing. Spinach that I thought was unlikely to still be viable turns out to in fact still be Extremely Viable! Spinach is go! And the lambs' lettuce has self-seeded nicely (so in fact I also had some of that plus some allotment rocket accompanying the tomato tart). Tomatoes continue to produce tomatoes. Peppers various looked very happy last time I went to see them so now I want to overwinter them all. At home, the pineapple continues to grow and the lemongrass isn't obviously dead yet (and I'm doing something right with at least the larger of the two orchids...)

Observing. BAT, extremely obliging with the aerobatics. Good sunsets. Cyclamen various. Moon.

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I cannot for the life of me get myself back into journaling and writing. Physical journaling and/or writing here. Ideally I'd like to do both but I'll settle for one or the other. Instead I do nothing. I don't know what the block is.

I really want to get back to it, but I feel so mentally unorganized. Half the time I forget I'm even trying to restart the habit, which obviously doesn't help.

Maybe I need to set some alarms on my phone or something.

ФЕГ П9Р

Sep. 28th, 2025 09:21 pm
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Месяц назад в приступе ностальгии описал Равен, мой первый ствол в штатах. А теперь опишу второй :)
Знакомьтесь - назаслуженно забытый и многими обхаяный пистолет венгерской армии и полиции FEG P9R.
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Хоть по меркам Чикаго начала 90х Равен это было "стильно, модно, молодёжно" душа требовала чего-то поприличнее :) К началу 94го уже начали образовываться нужные связи и знакомства, так что пришлось их напрячь и раздобыть себе приличный ствол. В то время я уже мог достать и позолоченный "Десерт Игл", но всё упиралось в гроши, а их особо и не было. Я как раз сбежал со школы, сдал экстерном GED и пошёл в бурсу. Которая занимала изрядно времени и на работу на полный рабочий день этого самого времени уже не оставалось. Зарабатывал мелким гешефтом, но весьма скромненько - чтоб было понятно, моя тогдашняя машина, Бьюик Регал Т-Тайп 84го года была куплена у равинна синагоги F.R.E.E. рэбе Каца за $600. Так что платить столько же за шпалер было выше моих возможностей. Поэтому когда мне предложили П9р за $300 долго носом не воротил, хоть его цена в магазине и была тогда $275. В тех краях левый ствол и сейчас продаётся с изрядной наценкой... В общем по сравнению с Равенчиком это был совсем другой уровень :)
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Ствол мне настолько защёл, что задержался у меня больше, чем на 10 лет, я его подарил товарищу где-то в 2005-2006м. И за эти годы я из него настрелял пожалуй больше, чем из любого другого пистолета в своей жизни. Это был мой любимый 9мм для тира.
Пистолет по сути сильно проапгредженый Браунинг Хай Пауер с самовзводным УСМ на базе Смит-Вессон 59. Но без смитовкого переусложнённого идиотизма. Единственная претензия - магазины. Они на 14 патронов и ни от чего другого не подходят. И найти их крайне не просто. Кстати моя первая оружейная интернет-покупка как раз эти самые магазины, которые я в Сенчури Армс заказал.
В отличии от Смит-Вессона разбирается и собирается он фонарно
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Чуть оттянуть затвор, вытащить затворную задержку и снять затвор.
Просто и понятно.
Очень толковый предохранитель, не только блокирует ударник и сбрасывает курок, но и утапливает хвост ударника, чтоб курок до него не достал.
Почему-то в сети ходят утверждения, что пистолет глючный, ненадёжный и т.д... Я отстрелял из него больше 10к и проблем не заметил. Только в конце концов сработался рычаг декукера и его пришлось заменить. С учётом настрела - мизер. Кроме, собственно, Венгрии пистолет поставлялся в два десятка стран и стоял на вооружение в оганиченных количествах даже в Грузии и Израиле. Причём в Израиле фирма Карин закупила станки в Венгрии и начала клепать клоны Хай Пауер и п9р очень так себе качеством. Лет несколько назад мне опять захотелось его купить. Но на фоне взлетевших в космос цен на Хай Пауер взлетели цены и на п9р. И платить $600-700 за этот пистолет я оказался сильно не готов... А тут звёзды сошлись - попался в хорошем сохране, с двумя магазинами и за вполне приемлемые $350. Так что какое-то время буду ностальгировать :)

Yuletide noms are getting approved!

Sep. 28th, 2025 02:15 pm
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(Yeah, I'm overly excited for no reason.)

Of the fandoms I nominated this year:

* Assemble with Care doesn't have any fic on the archive/isn't wrangled, so unsurprisingly it might take a bit for the mods to double check the character names.

* Cozy Grove is approved! I'm not surprised, because it's the easiest of my bunch to check (I'm essentially requesting the same characters as last year and it's a tiny tiny fandom).

* Fantasy Life is a canonical tag, but of the 3 characters I nominated, only Taylor (under Shushu | Taylor) is canonical; Chic and Madam Purl have never been tagged, and the last character is worldbuilding.

* Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time does not have a canonical tag. I would not be surprised if both games were put under Fantasy Life - and I'm not actually overly bothered by that. Also, one of my noms is a one-shot NPC quest giver with limited dialogue (Monsieur Cobra) who just got introduced recently so he might take a sec. (The others are Chemmel, his assistant Mira, and Worldbuilding, all of which are easy to find.)

* My Time at Sandrock: This is getting very close to the limit (900+ works complete in English over 1000 words; 1400+ all together), so it's definitely going to be over the limit next year. So even though I went with two characters with canonicals (Heidi and Trudy), this one might take a bit of time to get approved. ETA: Just after I hit "post" I rechecked and this is approved!

I'm holding off on my letter to see if the two Fantasy Life fandoms get merged or not in queries, but I wrote promo/review posts for the fandoms I nominated.
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Zhao Yunlan sprawled on a couch, grinning at his phone. The background shows a purple sky with stars. Text reads, "Slo-Mo Rewatch. Guardian - half an episode per week @ sid_guardian.dreamwidth.org"


Hi, welcome to this week's instalment of the Guardian drama Slo-Mo Rewatch! Watch half an episode a week, and then come and chat about it here in comments. Or you can just jump into the comments without rewatching, of course!

Here is last week's half-episode. On to the second half!

Episode 2, from 22:11

Summary: Zhao Yunlan puts some puzzle pieces together and confronts Li Qian, accusing her of killing her grandma. She doesn't deny it. Gao Tianyu intercepts Zhao Yunlan's car, drags Li Qian out of it and attacks her. Li Qian's grandma's spirit comes out of the Sundial to protect her (and to scold her for admitting to what she didn't do). The Envoy takes Gao Tianyu away. Zhao Yunlan and Professor Shen have a moment at Li Yufen's grave. At the SID, Zhao Yunlan summons the Envoy, and they talk about the Sundial. Chu Shuzhi meets up with the Envoy and draws some parallels between him and Zhao Yunlan. Meanwhile Zhu Jiu plans his next move.

Zhao Yunlan and the Envoy at the SID

Quote:

Li Qian: When someone you cherish is dying in front of your eyes, what would be the main thought in your mind?"
Shen Wei: "I'm willing to exchange my life for his."

(Yes, I know this is iconic and maybe doesn't need quoting again, but it gets me every time!)

Detail:

One of my favourite details that I only noticed during the last rewatch: Shen Wei interfering with Gao Tianyu's attack on Li Qian from inside the car! There's a moment when it cuts to Shen Wei very conspicuously and intently narrowing his eyes - and then suddenly there's a brief blue shield effect flash, Gao Tianyu's hold on Li Qian breaks, and he's thrown back.

Questions:

What's your favourite moment in this half-episode? How much are you feeling for Li Qian? Do you think Zhao Yunlan had sufficient reason to accuse her of murder? Any thoughts about how this compares to the novel? Which of the many things Li Qian says on the rooftop resonates the most with Shen Wei? What does Zhao Yunlan think about the Envoy at this time?

(These are all just conversation starters - feel free to answer all, some, or none, and to say as much or as little as you like! You don't have to be keeping up with the rewatch to join in!)

And here is our schedule - please do sign up to host a post if you can!

poetry sale!

Sep. 28th, 2025 02:08 pm
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I'm happy to announce that my poem "heroes" will appear in a future issue of Not One of Us. The title is a Bowie reference. I'm always delighted to have my work in this wonderful magazine.

Los Angeles managed a semblance of fall weather the last couple of days, though it's going to warm up a bit. (Considering we often have hellish blasts of heat until around Halloween, I am pleased.)

Soon it will be October, my favorite month, and I will once again become Gwynne Ghoulfinkle on Bluesky.

La muerte y la mierda

Sep. 28th, 2025 11:40 pm
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Друг давеча признался: «Нехорошо, конечно, радоваться смерти творческого человека, пусть и кончил он как жалкий пропагандон. Опять же, всё-таки — сын того, кто подарил нашему детству разудалый истерн про пионеров-убийц. Но всё-таки — есть позитивный момент».

«Да неужели?»

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Alestorm - The Storm

Sep. 28th, 2025 10:00 pm
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The School Reader: Second Book

Sep. 28th, 2025 03:27 pm
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The School Reader: Second Book by Charles Walton Sanders

A book concerned chiefly with reading. Vocabulary words listed before each story, poem, or bit. Interesting for the view of what they used to teach children. Views of science and of character.

2542 / Fic - IWTV

Sep. 28th, 2025 03:19 pm
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The Boys of Summer
Interview with the Vampire | Armand/Daniel | ~1000 words | For [tumblr.com profile] trinityofone, with thanks to [personal profile] sheafrotherdon for betaing.

(Also on AO3)

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Weird dream channel, September 2025

Sep. 28th, 2025 01:26 pm
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I've had a couple of weird dreams over the last two nights. I'm recording them more for my own reference than anything else, but if you decide to read them, I hope you enjoy them. In case you are (as I am) someone who doesn't enjoy reading other people's dreams, I'm putting them behind cuts.

To help distinguish states: IRL = "in real life" (obviously), ITD = "in the dream."

Night of 26-27 September:

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Night of 27-28 September:

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всё ближе к центру

Sep. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm
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вчера играли на частной тусовке в колумбийской башне. так сказать добровольное заточение
даже приготовились к варианту крепкого орешка, но не случилось. не тот город

на парковке башни оказались в 15:30 и полчаса перевозил аппаратуру на 4х (готтлиб!) четырёх лифтах! первый деплоймент с парковки до лобби, второй до 40го этажа, потом до 75го и последний рывок - ещё один подъём до 76го
в лобби и на 40м этаже аппаратуру пришлось тащить метров 20 до другого лифта
я взмок от такого забега

зато и видок сверху был огого

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до дома я добрался только пол второго, рухнул в кровать и уснул
сегодня же вечером хоккей
ура!

x-posted from livejournal.com.

[ SECRET POST #6841 ]

Sep. 28th, 2025 02:01 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6841 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

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Look mom! I killed another one!

Sep. 28th, 2025 07:45 pm
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Guess who picked up a super fun comic, tore through three trades, then wanted to find folks talking about it and searched on BluSky... to find it got cancelled the very day she picked it up? AYUP.

Why aren't people buying super fun team comics?? *shakes fist at universe*
(yes it was cancelled due to poor sales)

The comic in question? Birds of Prey, written by Kelly Thompson. It had team! Quips! Competency! Siblings! Big Barda and Tiny Bat!! Muscles and mind-controlled beefcakes!

The last issue comes out in December and I'd prefer to pick up the trade. When I went to check if we'd even get volume 4 - comics! they treat us so well! - there was some good sprinkled in there. Firstly, she's pitching a new book at DC featuring a couple of the characters from BoP. My feral mind is slamming both fists on the table, chanting "Big and tiny! Big and tiny!" Probably not but gimme.

Secondly, Thompson's heading up the new Buffy and Angel run at Dynamite!
In my early days trying to figure out how to be a writer and what stories mattered to me and why — no heroine quite broke through for me like Buffy Summers.

She was somehow everything my young geek heart had always wanted but hadn’t known to ask for. Something about that delicate alchemy of horror, fantasy, and comedy paired with a hero so pure of heart and yet flawed and relatable was… impossible to deny. I fell deeply in love with Buffy, and following that, her whole world. Her ex-boyfriend is now a supernatural detective in Los Angeles you say? Inject it directly into my veins! But unlike a lot of other worlds I loved, the world of Buffy and Angel somehow never fell to the wayside. I could always come back to it and find something new, or something I’d missed, or something I needed. And I hope this new story we’re telling can do the same for old and new fans everywhere.

Thank god BOOM! lost the license because oof. Outside of the pretty covers and first issue, that was rough to say the least.

But I'm excited for this! We could, dare I say it, get a good Buffy comic.

Юваль Ной Харари

Sep. 28th, 2025 10:56 am
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(русский перевод статьи из Financial Times)

Почему Украина выигрывает войну

Нации рождаются не из комков земли и не из капель крови.

Вопреки нарративу, продвигаемому российской пропагандой, Украина выигрывает войну. Даже президент США Дональд Трамп, который в феврале 2025 года наставлял украинского президента Владимира Зеленского уступить российским требованиям, потому что «у вас нет карт на руках», на этой неделе заявил, что «Украина при поддержке Европейского союза способна сражаться и ПОБЕЖДАТЬ».

... )
На море достижения Украины столь же впечатляющи. 24 февраля 2022 года Черноморский флот России обладал абсолютным превосходством, и казалось, у Украины нет никаких средств противостоять ему. Одним из самых известных эпизодов того дня стал инцидент на острове Змеиный. Флагман Черноморского флота, ракетный крейсер «Москва», передал по радио сообщение маленькому гарнизону: «Я — российский военный корабль. Предлагаю сложить оружие и сдаться, чтобы избежать кровопролития и ненужных жертв». В ответ гарнизон передал: «Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй».

... )
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