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May. 30th, 2025 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsThe Boston Ballet production of Maillot's Romeo et Juliette has turned out to be not only my favorite Boston Ballet production that I've seen so far but also tbh one of my favorite Romeo and Juliets full stop. It is Taking Swings and Making Choices and some of them are very weird but all of them are interesting.
( we're just gonna go ahead and cut for length )
( we're just gonna go ahead and cut for length )
Times had already changed.
May. 30th, 2025 09:18 pmhannahEarlier this week, my older brother J. wanted to inflate an exercise ball for his wife E. My younger brother R. and his wife G. who live about a block away have several bike pumps that could be used to that precise task. Now, they're a block away from each other. J. doesn't walk to R.'s apartment to borrow the pump, inflate the ball at his place, and walk back to return the pump when he's done. He doesn't ask R. or G. to bring a bike pump over to inflate the ball at his apartment. He brings the un-flated ball to their apartment to inflate it there.
I know I have my own set of strengths and weaknesses, and I know I'd aim for a more practical solution to the problem of how to move around a fully inflated exercise ball. Like keeping it in one location. The pump's a far more modular device.
Also of note is that E. told G. - not in confidence, not in secret - that she wasn't interested in coming to Friday night dinners anymore. She didn't feel up to it. I know she's pregnant right now, but even before she was expecting, she was pulling the exact same excuse of having a long week at work. She's been using that excuse for several years now, and I'd figured not every week could be that long. I'd apparently figured right. At the same time, it's nice to know that if she's not making the effort, I don't have to worry about it. I'd had a small bit of concern my attempt at polite behavior - attentive listening, eye contact, not interrupting, waiting patiently for people to finish their sentences - had sent the wrong message, what with being told that she probably found it intimidating. Maybe she did, and thinking it's just on me is something where I can't afford that level of vanity. This part isn't me thinking, this part is me realizing: no matter what I do, at some point she needs to make the effort. And G. told me she told E. that at some point, she needed to make the effort, and E. didn't seem all that interested.
I know I have my own set of strengths and weaknesses, and I know I'd aim for a more practical solution to the problem of how to move around a fully inflated exercise ball. Like keeping it in one location. The pump's a far more modular device.
Also of note is that E. told G. - not in confidence, not in secret - that she wasn't interested in coming to Friday night dinners anymore. She didn't feel up to it. I know she's pregnant right now, but even before she was expecting, she was pulling the exact same excuse of having a long week at work. She's been using that excuse for several years now, and I'd figured not every week could be that long. I'd apparently figured right. At the same time, it's nice to know that if she's not making the effort, I don't have to worry about it. I'd had a small bit of concern my attempt at polite behavior - attentive listening, eye contact, not interrupting, waiting patiently for people to finish their sentences - had sent the wrong message, what with being told that she probably found it intimidating. Maybe she did, and thinking it's just on me is something where I can't afford that level of vanity. This part isn't me thinking, this part is me realizing: no matter what I do, at some point she needs to make the effort. And G. told me she told E. that at some point, she needed to make the effort, and E. didn't seem all that interested.
Fandom50: #13
May. 30th, 2025 08:15 pmsenmutThe year is 1988. The shoulder pads were dying, skirts were high, Keds were in style. And don't forget the parachute pants. Huh, I was dialing down in being a cinephile.
~ Beetlejuice - OH YEAH! Geena Davis Crush Ignited. Also hella fun.
~ Willow - WILLOW!!!! Such a good, fun movie.
~ Big - Saw this in theater with Mom, really enjoyed how they handled it.
~ Who Framed Roger Rabbit - BOB HOSKINS made this movie. Just. He acted against the animation SO PERFECTLY.
~ Die Hard - Did you know this was a July release? Funny thing is, Alan didn't actually make an impression on me as an actor of note for this one.
~ Tucker: The Man and His Dream - Saw this in theater with Mom. And I absolutely loved it for Bridges. He so fully GOT the man he was playing.
~ Young Guns - Hello my beloved heart throbs! (there's been a dearth of westerns in these posts)
~ Alien Nation - I am, without a doubt, a fan of both the movie and the TV show. And feel like it should have left a bigger presence in pop culture.
~ The Accused - Watched on VHS with Mom, and it was another one of those serious talk movies. Hard, in some ways to watch, because my aunt had been attacked the year prior.
~ The Land Before Time - Ya know, despite being a mom, and showing some of the franchise to the kids, I don't think I have ever seen this one in English? Like a few other movies, I watched it in French class.
~ Oliver & Company - MY BELOVED VERSION OF OLIVER TWIST, as told with cats and dogs. "If this is torture..." AHH CHEECH.
~ Scrooged - Once upon a time, a preferred version of Dickens' Christmas Carol. I rewatched in recent years and... well, Carol Kane is funny.
~ Beetlejuice - OH YEAH! Geena Davis Crush Ignited. Also hella fun.
~ Willow - WILLOW!!!! Such a good, fun movie.
~ Big - Saw this in theater with Mom, really enjoyed how they handled it.
~ Who Framed Roger Rabbit - BOB HOSKINS made this movie. Just. He acted against the animation SO PERFECTLY.
~ Die Hard - Did you know this was a July release? Funny thing is, Alan didn't actually make an impression on me as an actor of note for this one.
~ Tucker: The Man and His Dream - Saw this in theater with Mom. And I absolutely loved it for Bridges. He so fully GOT the man he was playing.
~ Young Guns - Hello my beloved heart throbs! (there's been a dearth of westerns in these posts)
~ Alien Nation - I am, without a doubt, a fan of both the movie and the TV show. And feel like it should have left a bigger presence in pop culture.
~ The Accused - Watched on VHS with Mom, and it was another one of those serious talk movies. Hard, in some ways to watch, because my aunt had been attacked the year prior.
~ The Land Before Time - Ya know, despite being a mom, and showing some of the franchise to the kids, I don't think I have ever seen this one in English? Like a few other movies, I watched it in French class.
~ Oliver & Company - MY BELOVED VERSION OF OLIVER TWIST, as told with cats and dogs. "If this is torture..." AHH CHEECH.
~ Scrooged - Once upon a time, a preferred version of Dickens' Christmas Carol. I rewatched in recent years and... well, Carol Kane is funny.
went to the curveball, bounced it
May. 30th, 2025 07:45 pmmusesfoolI slept very poorly last night and woke up with a blinding headache and some serious nausea, so I called out of work and went back to bed for a couple of hours.
I keep meaning to post then forgetting what I want to say, since it's mostly just about work. I did get several amazing photos of Baby Miss L in a Spider-Gwen outfit with a hood (with a glittery pink mask on it), a cute blue spider on the torso (when I first saw it, I admit my initial response was "Khaji Da?" so it's more scarab than spider but also she's 2 and a half, so) and a skirt decorated with webbing. It's so cute and she apparently approved of it by saying "Spider-Man! Spider-Man!" in her specific toddler lingo. And the Superman dress finally arrived so I hope to see pictures of that soon, too! Also, she has taken to carrying her Easter basket over her shoulder like a purse and calling it her bag, so she is definitely getting a headstart on her fashionista personality.
In other news, I was reading some fic I was otherwise enjoying but I will never ever ever understand why in EVERY SINGLE FANDOM I have ever read fic in, there are some gobsmackingly awful non-canon nicknames that proliferate. Sometimes for characters who already have a canonical nickname, so why? I mean, I get that the use of a nickname can be intimacy marker (much like the switch from last name to first name, or full first name to canon nickname), but the fact is, none of the characters this is applied to would ever allow themselves to be called these names by ANYONE, not even an intimate partner. The worst is when Jason calls Talia "Tals." NO. WHO thinks TALIA AL GHUL, DAUGHTER OF THE DEMON, is going to let ANYONE call her "Tals." No, really, meet me in the parking lot, I just have some questions.
I also don't understand when people apologize for...well, anything really, in their author's notes, but especially when they say shit like, "Sorry this chapter is mostly dialogue! We'll get back to the introspection soon!" I mean, I guess some people don't like dialogue??? Obviously mileage varies. But it is frequently the best part of a story for me. If your story holds off on dialogue for too long in favor of maundering introspection, I will likely wander away and never come back (like, obviously if it's a 900-word plotless character ramble that's fine, but then you are not posting it in chapters, at least I'd hope not).
I guess if you're not confident in your character voices, dialogue can be difficult, but you're still going to need to get the character voice right in the narration/introspection, and some characters are not really going to be doing a lot of introspection at all, even in their own heads, so it's even harder to get them right. Which is probably when it's time to revisit canon. But I admit, dialogue is pretty much the easiest thing I find to write, so possibly it's just me.
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I keep meaning to post then forgetting what I want to say, since it's mostly just about work. I did get several amazing photos of Baby Miss L in a Spider-Gwen outfit with a hood (with a glittery pink mask on it), a cute blue spider on the torso (when I first saw it, I admit my initial response was "Khaji Da?" so it's more scarab than spider but also she's 2 and a half, so) and a skirt decorated with webbing. It's so cute and she apparently approved of it by saying "Spider-Man! Spider-Man!" in her specific toddler lingo. And the Superman dress finally arrived so I hope to see pictures of that soon, too! Also, she has taken to carrying her Easter basket over her shoulder like a purse and calling it her bag, so she is definitely getting a headstart on her fashionista personality.
In other news, I was reading some fic I was otherwise enjoying but I will never ever ever understand why in EVERY SINGLE FANDOM I have ever read fic in, there are some gobsmackingly awful non-canon nicknames that proliferate. Sometimes for characters who already have a canonical nickname, so why? I mean, I get that the use of a nickname can be intimacy marker (much like the switch from last name to first name, or full first name to canon nickname), but the fact is, none of the characters this is applied to would ever allow themselves to be called these names by ANYONE, not even an intimate partner. The worst is when Jason calls Talia "Tals." NO. WHO thinks TALIA AL GHUL, DAUGHTER OF THE DEMON, is going to let ANYONE call her "Tals." No, really, meet me in the parking lot, I just have some questions.
I also don't understand when people apologize for...well, anything really, in their author's notes, but especially when they say shit like, "Sorry this chapter is mostly dialogue! We'll get back to the introspection soon!" I mean, I guess some people don't like dialogue??? Obviously mileage varies. But it is frequently the best part of a story for me. If your story holds off on dialogue for too long in favor of maundering introspection, I will likely wander away and never come back (like, obviously if it's a 900-word plotless character ramble that's fine, but then you are not posting it in chapters, at least I'd hope not).
I guess if you're not confident in your character voices, dialogue can be difficult, but you're still going to need to get the character voice right in the narration/introspection, and some characters are not really going to be doing a lot of introspection at all, even in their own heads, so it's even harder to get them right. Which is probably when it's time to revisit canon. But I admit, dialogue is pretty much the easiest thing I find to write, so possibly it's just me.
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GenPrompt Bingo: Diaries and Journals
May. 30th, 2025 06:26 pmsenmutIgnite the mind’s spark to rise the sun in you (300 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: M.A.S.H. (MASH) [TV]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Margaret J. "Hot Lips" Houlihan
Additional Tags: Introspection, Memories
Summary:
Margaret hadn't actually kept a diary during her first war. By the second, she had picked up the habit. But she had taken all of the letters, so carefully saved, always packed in the bottom of her bug-out bag, and pieced together her memories in a journal of sorts.
The letters had served to remind her of antics, as her correspondents replied to ask more about this incident or that. She was glad of it, having opened that era of her life more frequently than later diaries, reminding herself of what had built her into the woman she had become.
Word would come of those who had passed on, and she would flip through, remembering them alive and sharing the survival in war with her. She had cried, and the journal bore marks from those tears.
Sometimes, she remembered the woman she started the war as. Father's disappointment for not being a son, father's hope for another medal-studded soldier… oh but she had been shaped in his shadow too much to know who she could be in those first months.
She touched the page where she had carefully fixed snapshots of each of her nurses, finger lingering under Kellye's picture, remembering how bold and firm she had been in the face of adversity. Ginger and that others — Margaret had learned to be human, but still firm, by coming to understand what her nurses needed to make it through the hell they lived in.
Other pictures, with one of the few serious shots of Hawkeye, were also lingered over, while a smile touched her lips at Klinger in one of his fabulous costumes.
She was tired this time, looking at her memories. What life might have been if she hadn't known them…
…her eyes closed, fingers placed near her colonel's picture.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: M.A.S.H. (MASH) [TV]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Margaret J. "Hot Lips" Houlihan
Additional Tags: Introspection, Memories
Summary:
Margaret looks back...
Ignite the mind’s spark to rise the sun in you
Margaret hadn't actually kept a diary during her first war. By the second, she had picked up the habit. But she had taken all of the letters, so carefully saved, always packed in the bottom of her bug-out bag, and pieced together her memories in a journal of sorts.
The letters had served to remind her of antics, as her correspondents replied to ask more about this incident or that. She was glad of it, having opened that era of her life more frequently than later diaries, reminding herself of what had built her into the woman she had become.
Word would come of those who had passed on, and she would flip through, remembering them alive and sharing the survival in war with her. She had cried, and the journal bore marks from those tears.
Sometimes, she remembered the woman she started the war as. Father's disappointment for not being a son, father's hope for another medal-studded soldier… oh but she had been shaped in his shadow too much to know who she could be in those first months.
She touched the page where she had carefully fixed snapshots of each of her nurses, finger lingering under Kellye's picture, remembering how bold and firm she had been in the face of adversity. Ginger and that others — Margaret had learned to be human, but still firm, by coming to understand what her nurses needed to make it through the hell they lived in.
Other pictures, with one of the few serious shots of Hawkeye, were also lingered over, while a smile touched her lips at Klinger in one of his fabulous costumes.
She was tired this time, looking at her memories. What life might have been if she hadn't known them…
…her eyes closed, fingers placed near her colonel's picture.
Loretta Swit
May. 30th, 2025 05:34 pmsenmutIt's not just losing an icon, both the actress for herself and for the roles I loved.
It's losing my paternal grandparents all over again.
Night time with Granny was Johnny Carson and M*A*S*H. Me eating crackers on Papaw's side of the bed. Waiting for him to call us on his lunch from the post office.
Thank you, Loretta Swit, for those memories.
It's losing my paternal grandparents all over again.
Night time with Granny was Johnny Carson and M*A*S*H. Me eating crackers on Papaw's side of the bed. Waiting for him to call us on his lunch from the post office.
Thank you, Loretta Swit, for those memories.
May the 4th art dump
May. 30th, 2025 04:38 pmtelophaseSorry for no other real update but I have just been "bleh" at the thought of sitting down and typing when I have other things to do. Oops.
ANYWAY. I did seven pictures for the May the 4th Star Wars fanworks exchange! And I received 3 stories!
( WHAT I GOT: )
The seven pictures I did, in no particular order:
Stolen Moment (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order Series (Video Games), Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cal Kestis/Merrin the Nightsister
Characters: Cal Kestis, Merrin the Nightsister (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:
Irresistable Force Meets a Movable Object (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Leia Organa
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Leia Organa
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:
Target Practice (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: CT-9904 | Crosshair & Omega (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
Characters: CT-9904 | Crosshair, Omega (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
Additional Tags: Fanart, Treat
Summary:
Guardian (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jocasta Nu
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:
Formal Portrait (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Leia Organa
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:
A Fistful of Credits (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Character & Original Character
Characters: Original Sith, Original Jedi
Additional Tags: love them western vibes, Space Cowboys - Freeform, Fanart, Treat
Summary:
Dark Seduction (39 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Corran Horn/Exar Kun
Characters: Corran Horn, Exar Kun
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:
ANYWAY. I did seven pictures for the May the 4th Star Wars fanworks exchange! And I received 3 stories!
( WHAT I GOT: )
The seven pictures I did, in no particular order:
Stolen Moment (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order Series (Video Games), Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cal Kestis/Merrin the Nightsister
Characters: Cal Kestis, Merrin the Nightsister (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:
It will have to be enough
Irresistable Force Meets a Movable Object (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Leia Organa
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Leia Organa
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:
I know that feel, Obi-Wan.
Target Practice (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: CT-9904 | Crosshair & Omega (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
Characters: CT-9904 | Crosshair, Omega (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
Additional Tags: Fanart, Treat
Summary:
A little practice never hurt anyone. Well maybe not *anyone*...
Guardian (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jocasta Nu
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:
She would guard it with her life...and did.
Formal Portrait (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Leia Organa
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:
What would young Leia choose for her first senatorial portrait?
A Fistful of Credits (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Character & Original Character
Characters: Original Sith, Original Jedi
Additional Tags: love them western vibes, Space Cowboys - Freeform, Fanart, Treat
Summary:
It's the first holodrama of its kind! It won't be the last!
Dark Seduction (39 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Corran Horn/Exar Kun
Characters: Corran Horn, Exar Kun
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:
Prompt: "That scene where he appears to Corran at night but sexy"
Podfic!
May. 30th, 2025 01:42 pmsenmut[Podfic] Five Titan Encounters (32 words) by mistbornhero
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU (Comics), Leverage
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Eliot Spencer (Leverage), Roy Harper, Parker (Leverage), Garfield Logan, Sophie Devereaux (Leverage), Dick Grayson, Alec Hardison, Victor Stone, Nathan Ford, Donna Troy
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fusion, Podfic, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming, Audio Format: Download, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Summary:
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU (Comics), Leverage
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Eliot Spencer (Leverage), Roy Harper, Parker (Leverage), Garfield Logan, Sophie Devereaux (Leverage), Dick Grayson, Alec Hardison, Victor Stone, Nathan Ford, Donna Troy
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fusion, Podfic, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming, Audio Format: Download, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Summary:
Five moments a member of Leverage encountered a Titan
Podfic of Five Titan Encounters by Merfilly.
Recipe: Honey Cornbread from Minimalist Baker
May. 30th, 2025 09:59 amrunpunkrun posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
gluten_freeThis Honey Cornbread from Minimalist Baker is very easy to put together and bakes up tender, fluffy, and sweet. The honey flavor really comes through, so be sure to use one you like. It was nice next to some chili, but it was also fantastic under some strawberries as a dessert.
I used Trader Joe's unsweetened almond/cashew/macadamia milk, avocado oil, Bob's Red Mill medium grind cornmeal, and Minimalist Baker's GF flour mix, which is something you can just throw together yourself. I used math and made just enough for this recipe.
I used Trader Joe's unsweetened almond/cashew/macadamia milk, avocado oil, Bob's Red Mill medium grind cornmeal, and Minimalist Baker's GF flour mix, which is something you can just throw together yourself. I used math and made just enough for this recipe.
A girl in need.
May. 29th, 2025 11:46 pmhannahYou know a drink's good when you take a sip and all you can say is, "Hot damn." It was a 35mm at Metrograph, one of the in-house cocktails. I was in the mood to give something like that a try and I'm happy I did. Also worth a "hot damn" tonight was the bar making two Pink Flamingos by accident and giving us one for free, and getting home by midnight.
I took my younger brother and his wife out to see Magnolia on, yes, 35mm film. They covered the tickets and I covered dinner, food and drinks both. They said it was a lot, and it might have been; I don't have a good frame of reference for a fairly upscale dinner for three with dessert and drinks included, especially when I usually drink at home and the closest I ordinarily come to eating out is buying some ready-made food at a grocery store. Especially when it was my genuine pleasure to do so. A great movie followed by a good meal with lovely company - well worth the end cost.
I took my younger brother and his wife out to see Magnolia on, yes, 35mm film. They covered the tickets and I covered dinner, food and drinks both. They said it was a lot, and it might have been; I don't have a good frame of reference for a fairly upscale dinner for three with dessert and drinks included, especially when I usually drink at home and the closest I ordinarily come to eating out is buying some ready-made food at a grocery store. Especially when it was my genuine pleasure to do so. A great movie followed by a good meal with lovely company - well worth the end cost.
