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1) When I came across this article about basketball players turned broadcasters, what it made me think of was a faceoff on The Floor where a former baseball player was up against a former WNBA player on the topic of basketball players.

It was really clear the baseball guy never watched the WNBA. He did get some of their players but missed too many and lost the match, whereas the female player did just as well with both sexes. I thought, for once, misogyny did a man in.

2) Another month, another rotten experience with healthcare providers. ( Read more... )

3) Being on Board Game Arena, I have not bought a physical game in some time. However while they have a great assortment of games, including well known ones, what they don't have is media content games. So when I saw this game on clearance at Wal Mart a while back, I decided to give it a try.

We finally broke open the box this past weekend. Right off the bat it seemed like a cute game full of Ted Lasso callbacks. ( Read more... )

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senmut

All people, past and present have warts and nasties that throw a tarnish on them, not denying that. BUT. The power of the past people to inspire (or warn) present generations persists.

Mine is likely no surprise to any, but it is Hatshepsut, who took the reins of government and ruled well by most accounts we can piece together. Her era of prosperity laid the grounds for Thutmose III to rebuild a solid Egyptian power in the region. By all rights, the weakness of the Dynasty had reached a point that it could very well have collapsed, given Hatshepsut's first consort, Thutmose II was not destined to excel. Hatshepsut, however, took matters in hand while Thutmose III grew into manhood. She expanded trade, began the restoration of many monuments and temples, ushered in a grand period of art.

greghousesgf

Had some Lapsang Souchong, tried to get more when I did a major grocery run this morning but the store didn't have any. I'll have to look for it at another store some other day. Looking forward to dinner and drinks tonight with the Skeptics club.

Current Music: Bill Withers

ravensilversea

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A month-long drabble challenge run by thedrabblecollective on Tumblr. The challenge theme was Alternate Universes, so all of the prompts were inspired by different kinds of AUs (Full Prompt List Here). I managed to complete the first six days of prompts, and I've listed the fics below:

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senmut

What's the first movie you actually know you saw in theater?

As possibly a warning to all parents out there, unexpected runaway hit sci-fi movies can imprint themselves on toddlers brains.

Star Wars, retroactively Star Wars: A New Hope, was the first movie that I formed conscious memories around. This was tested at a re-release, when I began telling my dad what was going to happen next. Granted, I was also 'helpfully' translating for Artoo, as I imprinted strongest on him.

I was not quite 2. I know it was not the first I saw in theater; my mother bemoaned the fact that I slept through a re-release of Sleeping Beauty EXCEPT for the dragon.

I do not have the memory of seeing SW in theater myself NOW. But it was family lore that I did know the full plot and character names at that re-release, so I accept it as the first I formed memories of.

greghousesgf

Just had some spaghetti for lunch, it was yummy.

Current Music: Cyndi Lauper

solenne

Well, my classes are officially over, I'm graduating very soon. Maybe, that's why I've been doing everything else but thinking about it.

On Saturday we went to a wine event at the botanical garden. Thank god they pour you very little wine cus we tried around 20 kinds. I should be thankful I'm young enough to not have a massive hangover. My favourite is definitely the blackberry wine. Not that strong, and super sweet. There was live music, food, desserts, and, most importantly, the beautiful environment of the garden. The band playing was amazing, the audience was more lively than at some concerts I've been to. People brought blankets to lie down in the grass. Somethin something we yearn for community. People smoking, drinking, eating, laughing, dancing, talking, even sleeping.

Yesterday I watched The Phantom Menace. Can't remember when the last time I watched Star Wars was, or If I've ever done it more than once. Thought it was time. Yes, I'm mostly trying to ignore the fact that I'm not actually on a break right now and that I need to study. Anyway, really enjoyed the Darth Maul fight. I love a little bit of fight choreography, and I love Darth Maul's design. Wish we saw a bit more of him. Thought I'd continue today, but in the meantime I've convinced my friends to have a star wars marathon some time during the exam period (we are very responsible lol). Instead of continuing Star Wars, I watched To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. I cried, which is not really a surprise. Movies make me cry so easily. But there is something about this one that really does it. Couldn't help but think about whether my mother would like the movie the whole time I was watching it. Very unrealistic, even though she loves Patrick Swayze. Maybe that's why I thought about it the whole time. I think in some other universe she would have loved it.

All I can write right now.

Solenne

Current Mood: optimistic
Current Location: dorm room bed

rionaleonhart

I went to Bristol to visit my cousins over the weekend and had an absolutely lovely time!

These were the cousins who originally introduced me to The Goes Wrong Show, so they had a lot to answer for. I confessed to how hot I was for Robert, and I was heartened when my cousin S said she understood completely. "He's not my usual type," she said, "but he has such presence."

S doesn't really know anything about fanfiction, but she read my Goes Wrong fic about Vanessa joining the Cornley Drama Society, The Outsider, and she seemed to enjoy it! She laughed quietly a few times while reading, which was very gratifying.

"You should get in touch with Mischief Theatre!" she said, very earnestly. "You should send this to them. I'm sure they'd love knowing that someone put this much thought into their characters."

I thought that this was a) extremely sweet and b) a suggestion only someone who isn't into fanfiction would ever make. If Mischief ever come across my fanfiction, it is going to be because a third party sent them the link to my Goes Wrong website with the message 'lol look at this weirdo', as God intended.

Being in Bristol also meant I had the opportunity to visit the Clifton Suspension Bridge, one of my favourite places in the UK! It was absolutely bucketing with rain, so we couldn't admire the view for long, but it's still a gorgeous place even in terrible weather. Here's a sketch of the bridge I did back in 2018, in a Bristol café, just after seeing it for the first time:

The photograph I took in 2018 and used as the basis for the above sketch:

And the photograph I took two days ago, in worse conditions but with a better camera:

It's such a pretty place! Highly recommended if you ever happen to find yourself in Bristol.

rionaleonhart

Yesterday, I was on the bus. It was almost empty; I was one of five passengers on the top floor, all of us travelling alone and scattered throughout the seating.

I was a little nervous when one of the other passengers - a man - left his seat at the front and walked back, past all the empty seats and the two men sitting between us, to sit next to me, the sole woman on the upper deck.

This story ends well.

( Being hassled, and then being rescued. )

Anyway! This whole thing really got me thinking about kindness and humanity and brief connections with strangers. I don't know the name of the man who helped me out, and it's very unlikely that I'll ever see him again. But I'm glad he was there, and I hope good things happen for him.

And, if you have your own tales of a stranger doing something kind for you, I'd love to hear them!

greghousesgf

Swam my laps earlier this morning. Yesterday my friend came over but he couldn't get the phone/internet crap hooked up so we just went back to the old setting for now. I'm supposed to call him either tomorrow or the day after so he can come back and do it but I may have to bypass my home phone completely and just have direct connection with the internet and use my cell all the time for phone stuff. At least my cell works.

Current Music: David Bowie

senmut

I'm not asking for bashing of the original, or even that you dislike the one and love the other.

I'm just looking for a song that you (either for musicality or because you heard the cover first) prefer the cover.

Mine is definitely a "I heard the cover first so the original sounds off".

"Hazy Shade of Winter" was released by the Bangles in 1987, had apparently been a staple of their live shows for 5 years at that point. I don't think I consciously heard the Simon & Garfunkel version until I was in my 20s.

don't click here until you choose your own to share

I am firmly expecting someone to mention "Hurt" and "Sounds of Silence" in comments.

rawbonedhound

Current Mood: indescribable

senmut

So I am being a sap. As today is the 20th anniversary of my now wife and I exchanging contact information and starting on the road that led to here.

Do you have an oh moment you would be comfortable sharing?

Mine was almost definitely in the month after I moved here, and a perfectly normal conversation where I was watching this bright, lovely woman who had offered me freedom... and I knew I could not see a future without her. Just... had to grow into what it wished to be from there.

senmut

1. Aegon the Conqueror
2. Aenys I (son)
3. Maegor the Cruel (brother)
4. Jaehaerys the Wise (brother)
5. Viserys I (grandson)
6. Aegon the Usurper (son)*
7. Aegon the Dragonbane (nephew)
8. Daeron the Young Dragon (son)
9. Baelor the Beloved (brother)
10. Viserys II (uncle)
11. Aegon the Unworthy (son)
12. Daeron the Good (son)
13. Aerys I (son)
14. Maekar I (brother)
15. Aegon the Unlikely (brother)
16. Jaehaerys II (son)
17. Aerys the Mad King (son)

283 years of dragon kings. Average length of rule at 16.6 years. Relationship to previous king in parentheses.

*Rhaenyra was the sworn-by-lords heiress but passed over for this one.

paperghost

Still not really blogging here for awhile. Might just repost things.

I hate hate HATE the Red Scare Pod, but this was a link I had bookmarked and wanted to let go of:

Redditor book reviews/media literacy

Just saw some reddit thread about “tv shows they couldn’t get into”. Somebody said succession, because “they couldn’t root for any of the characters, they were all bad people.” Elsewhere I’ve seen people say that don’t like Blood Meridian because the characters do bad things, or the classic “Holden Caulfield is a whiny loser!” I’m serious, go to r/books and read any of these threads, it’s fucking insane. A favorite of mine is a guy who dismissed catcher in the rye entirely because “the logistics of the train rides he took didn’t work out.”

What’s up with this style of media consumption where you must be able to identify with the character? I never really took any English classes so I don’t have the word for it, maybe it’s the affective fallacy? But it even feels wrong to call it a fallacy, it just seems like a totally babybrained way to read something. I see it all the time, everywhere, and I don’t know if the state of media is creating it or if media adapted to fit people who don’t want to be challenged.

I think a lot of people narcissistically want to see themselves reflected in a character or want to completely insert themselves into the world of a book as a character. Since they see themselves as fundamentally good people, unethical characters prevent them from accomplishing this. They don’t want to read a book like Blood Meridian and examine the fundamental violence and depravity of man and how it permeates civil society and even the societies of people we’ve culturally elevated as noble savages. The want a comfortable reading experience where good overcomes evil, uncomfortable human deficiencies are erased and unexplored in favor tepid lib moralizing. These are the same people that consider depiction to be prescription, as though racism or misogyny existing in the world of the book is an endorsement of bigotry by the author.

You are right that it is babybrained. It’s just people who don’t want to be challenged by anything they read. They just want easily digestible slop.

senmut

AO3 Link | Not In My Head (1211 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Babylon 5, Star Wars: The Clone Wars [2008] - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: CT-7567 | Rex, Alfred Bester [Babylon 5]
Additional Tags: Crossover, Walk Into A Bar
Summary:

Bester escaped the island, but ran afoul of something else taking him to the GFFA for better or worse.

Not In My Head

Escaping the island had been easy enough, ahead of the trap that the leader of the resistance was. He'd have to regroup, but the PsiCorps lived in him, would be the salvation of all in due time. Telepaths under strict rules, laying down the foundation of society for the others to live in? One way or another, that would be the reality of life, just as soon as Alfred Bester found his feet planted on solid ground again.

His mistake, though, was in thinking the galaxy as a whole was done throwing curve balls.

Maybe it was a remnant of the Shadow War. Maybe it had been a nascent threat brought fully to life from the Vorlon meddling in humanity. Either way, when Bester reached the coordinates he'd memorized from a very early memory of meeting the Director, it was not the haven he'd made himself believe it would be. His genetic code, delivered in a drop of blood, activated the technology without any hesitation.

The device that came up around him pushed through every shield he'd ever built more effortlessly than Ironheart could have done. What it saw and recorded rendered a judgment to his helpless mind, his body frozen, before triggering a random implosion of quantum events to shunt the catalyst of so much suffering into a time/place far from this one.

Captain Rex, formerly of the 212th, currently in command of the 501st without either of his Jedi for back-up did not like the look of the ridged ovoid with a panel missing. At least he had found the 'meteor' they had tracked before finally breaking the Separatist stranglehold on the system.

"You deserve a light mission. Just scout it out, figure out if it's a weapon, and then get the legion back up. Snips and I will handle this thing for Master Tiin and be right back."

The skepticism Rex had felt then was nothing like the bad feeling he now had. This thing had been occupied, based on the scans. And no one was visible.

"Jesse, get the unit formed up and prepped for return to the Resolute," he called over his comm. "My squad and I have a tracking task now."

"Yes sir, Captain." The man waited a beat, then continued on personal frequencies instead of the regimental one. "Keep yourself alive, little brother."

Rex snorted. Jesse liked throwing around that he was a very early decant, but it did help unwind Rex's nerves.

"Alright men, let's find where the being went, probably headed for that town over there. Light jog, eyes and ears out!"

Bester had staggered his way to what passed as civilization, felt more than understood an overpowering relief in the locals. They seemed human, but the language was not any of his. Fortunately, he could filter through minds swiftly, accommodating his needs nearly as fast as he'd acquired clothing that let him blend in better.

There were a few non-humans present, and those, he avoided. He'd paid enough attention to other species to know that telepathy came in varying degrees, that the senses of a human were considered disadvantaged by many, and that just lifting the language wasn't going to let him pass as a local.

The idea that there were many worlds, that technology was so far in advance of this particular place elsewhere, gave him a yearning to find such. Rifling more minds told him to stake out a cantina, and he should be able to find a pilot and ship… once the newer military that had run off the other military left the system.

The people he'd taken information from were skeptical that they hadn't just exchanged one yoke for another, and Bester wondered if he might do better by using his abilities on a member of the occupying army to get away from here.

There was a lot of frustration building in the back of Rex's mind as the locals were the most unhelpful sapient species he'd seen in quite a few systems. No one had seen anything strange, couldn't point to strange arrivals, or anything… outside of making back-handed mentions of the G.A.R. troops.

It was enough to make him wonder why they even bothered to break places like this out of Seppie control.

"Alright, we're going over to that cantina, and I have enough credits to get us all one drink," Rex told the four men with him. "Nurse it, listen, and if you do start talking, try to keep it nice and calm. They don't seem to like us any better than their former occupiers, but we have to know who was in that pod, in case it's a bio-weapon or something else the Seppies dreamed up."

He passed out the currency that General Kenobi had put in his keeping for discretionary maneuvers, and they headed to the building with live music and plenty of people to scout for their objective. Rex had to believe that the discipline would hold up, that there wouldn't be any fights with the locals.

None of his men would embarrass him to the General or Commander that way, after all.

Fate was smiling, if Bester was willing to believe in such mysticism. Five of the soldiers, wearing armor with blue markings against the white, all of it heavily scarred by the war they were a part of. A cursory search of the four that had shifted out among the patrons of this dive told him their purpose. They were seeking him, thinking him to be a potential threat.

The one who had stayed at the bar was the officer. That was the one Bester needed. He would not go into the introduction without understanding that one intently, and he prepared to slice through the man's experiences to best craft the story he would use to insinuate himself near something like a power, to begin pursuing his dreams in this far away place, away from Vorlon manipulations and Shadow plots.

Rex had survived having Asajj Ventress in his head, controlling him, and managed to still find a way to warn his Jedi that he'd been compromised. There might not have been a real reason for him to realize he wasn't alone in his head this time; whomever it was wasn't the witch, holding him against a wall by his throat after all.

But he did know. More, he knew where the source was.

Maybe it was working hand in hand with Anakin Skywalker so much, or honing his instincts to keep track of the padawan-commander.

Either way, his blaster was in his hand and he was turning before that intrusion caught the intent.

One clean shot, and the stranger — looked human — slumped at the table he'd been keeping between him and the world.

"Sorry for the mess," Rex said quickly, and put the last of the credits on the bar, as his people moved to acquire the body.

Turned out, with the body not belonging to a local, they didn't care all that much about the stranger's fate, leaving the G.A.R. men to do as they wished.

Rex decided they'd recover the ovoid, put the body in stasis, and turn it all over to the Jedi when they got back to puzzle it out.

greghousesgf

Sheep Detectives was just great! Unfortunately I had to walk part of the way to the movie theater because the bus couldn't go anywhere because a passenger got on in one of those cart things (not a wheelchair) and it was busted so I just got off the bus and walked the rest of the way.
Also my phone upgrade equipment showed up in the mail yesterday, I think it's some sort of modem and I don't having fucking clue one how to install the thing so some friends are going to come over this afternoon and one of them is going to do it for me. It's annoying, the AT&T guy I talked to on the phone several days ago said it was easy. Well, it's not. What was easy was adjusting my cell phone so I could look at my e mail on it. I wish L. was here, she could have done it. I haven't gotten so much as an answered text from her in 5 days. She hasn't moved to Pennsylvania yet but from my POV she might as well have, I haven't seen her in a long time.

Current Music: Thelonious Monk

flo_nelja

4 juin : Vieux couple marié
Gradalis, Bédivère/Kay, PG
Une des raisons sur AO3

5 juin : Juste une phase
Fringe, William/Walter, PG-13
Le pouvoir des statistiques sur AO3

6 juin : Right person, wrong time
Read or Die, Yomiko/Nancy, PG
Un monde meilleur sur AO3

senmut

The Way of Ressiliencce (1277 words) by CinnamonBunWrites
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jedi Master Character(s) & Jedi Padawan Character(s), Clone Troopers & Jedi Characters (Star Wars)
Characters: Lissarkh (Star Wars), the only canon character in this fic, Original Jedi Character(s) (Star Wars), Original Clone Trooper Character(s) (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Jedi are space Buddhists and you cannot change my mind, Pro Jedi, jedi order, a mix of legends and canon lore, Philosophy, Martial Arts, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, no beta we die like the Republic, canon is an orchard and I am baking a single pie, Oneshot, Jedi June Appreciation Event 2026, Jedi as Found Family (Star Wars), Clone Troopers and Jedi as Found Family (Star Wars), Jedi Training (Star Wars), Jedi Culture & Customs (Star Wars), Editing what editing
Summary:

Week 1 Prompt: Resilience
Knight Lissarkh starts a demonstration Soresu for her Padawan learner, discussing its philosophy, and ends up with more than one student.

senmut

Hmm, still not feeling the pull to create much in new fandoms. Still dabbling in Drizzt and Star Wars fics as the mood strikes.

Have fallen for House of the Dragon, and read the story collection. Yes, I know I will have my heart murdered this coming season. I just hope the creative team sticks the landing.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84429766/chapters/222714561 - Have a rec for a fic that is Rhaenyra/Alicent and a delight to me. 5/7 chapters posted, trust in the author when she says the other chapters are being edited.

Was never solidly a Buffy fan, but Giles was dear to me, and many other roles ASH had touched me in some way. His memory is a blessing. (And in checking if his brother was still alive, I learned that ASH's daughter was Sofina the Red in DND: Honor Among Thieves.) (Yes, Murray is still alive.)

Hmm, not much else. HotD is too big a fandom for me to dive in on tumblr or AO3 (bad takes, not my cuppa in so many fics), so if you have writers/artists YOU trust in those fandoms, please enlighten me. (I learned my lesson in GoT of being VERY careful how I touched fandom.)

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