Gonna start this again instead of a paper bullet planner.

• Washed linens
• Planned meals for the week
• Did check-in for the Consistency Collective
• Screwed around on archive.org organizing favorites
• Put tissue paper on lamp over my desk to diffuse the light

Just wanted to clarify my previous post about Corvyx. I encourage everyone to support these artists via Patreon and elsewhere, because they deserve it. I'm just very grateful that people like me who can barely afford to buy groceries are blessed to be able to listen to these artists even when we don't have the money to pay. (That's why I like, sub, and share as much as I can).

He's also on Spotify, FYI. I'm about to head over there now.

So, while I'm here, have another video. This seems to be one of his most popular ones.

I'm ashamed to say I've just discovered Corvyx tonight. He is a phenomenal talent. The kind of performer you listen to with your mouth hanging open. His videos are professional quality, too. There are so many amazingly talented musicians on YouTube, and they share their art with us, and you can listen for free. I love YouTube artists.

I know, I know. Disturbed did the ultimate cover of this song, but just... give it a listen.

This poem is spillover from the March 4, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from wyld_dandelyon. It also fills the "Secrets" square in my 3-1-25 card for the Tolkien Bingo Fest. This poem has been sponsored by Anthony Barrette. It belongs to the series Polychrome Heroics.

( Read more... )

Trying my hand at a ReNagi fic for a scenario I had a dream about…wish me luck…giggling and kicking my feet…🥰

(Because sometimes if you want the food and food is scarce YOU GOTTA MAKE IT YOURSELF >:3 Fingers crossed!! Hoping I do them justice b/c it’s what they deserve!! ; u;)

This poem came out of the July 1, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by janetmiles. It also fills the "close-knit community" square in my 7-1-25 card for the Western Bingo fest. It belongs to the series Frankenstein's Family; it follows "Signs of Their Trespass," so read that first or this won't make much sense.

( Read more... )

We were on the sofa together watching Murderbot so Purrcy had to come supervise. Not shown: how he was thwapping me with his tail to make sure I knew he was there. This shot makes it looks like he was watching the screen with us but I'm pretty sure he wasn't.



I've been watching Moon Embracing the Sun with feklar42 and libitina, which is my first kdrama. I have a question. I know that double eyelid surgery is extremely common in South Korea. Do we assume that most Korean actors/actresses have had this surgery, the way we assume that most (all) Western actors are on diets?

These are the notes for "Always Surprised by Consequences."

( Read more... )

This poem came out of the July 1, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from rix_scaedu. It also fills "The Harder They Fall" square in my 7-1-25 card for the Western Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by janetmiles. It belongs to the series Polychrome Heroics.

( Read more... )

I'm pretty satisfied with how today went, as far as reorganizing. I tricked myself into believing it would look a little more put together already but aside from some minor sprucing up I've not bothered to do I've gone as far as I can go without those furniture pieces I don't have yet. I'll be keeping an eye out for those but, as I said, they're not high priority, financially speaking. I can wait a few more months for the room I want. Even just moving the furniture has made it feel so much better already.

Now that I'm this far along, I'm shifting my focus to listing the eBay items and using up the excess yarn and other craft supplies. Also to deciding how I'm going to approach my decorating. I wasn't able to completely clear that one bookcase-- the bottom shelf still has a couple cube drawers' worth of things I decided I didn't want to put out of convenient reach-- but I've still got a bunch of space to work with. I have the top of my bookcase-for-actual-books cleared available now as well, though I'll probably treat that as a more miscellaneous display space rather than a space to expand my main collection. I still don't want to put up my wall art again until I've got the future furniture sorted out.

These are the notes for "No Such Thing as Finished."

( Read more... )

As always, this letter is meant for inspiration purposes only - if you already have something in mind, please go for it! I am really not very picky, especially when concerning my little black dress characters - I'm sure I'll love whatever you create!

I do have gifts enabled, and treats are always welcome.

( In general... )

( Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Makoto )

( Bleach: Yumichika, Shinji )

( Harvest Moon SNES: Jack )

( Naruto: Haku, Kagami, Tobirama, Touka )

This poem is spillover from the July 1, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from jake67jake. It also fills the "He's all hat and no cattle." square in my 7-1-25 card for the Western Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by janetmiles. It belongs to the series Polychrome Heroics.

( Read more... )

I'll never make a living as a fish photographer, but I managed to get at least a few decent shots. Four hours at the aquarium is my favorite way to spend an extra day off.

( photos under the cut to spare your reading page )

Not pictured: the cownose ray in the stingray touch tank that took a liking to me. Her name was Big Splash and she lived up to it. I was still damp when I got home six hours later.

There often comes a point when I'm building a model kit that I realize that ah, I am being watched right back. There is a tiny plastic soul* in there of some sort, and sometimes not quite the one I'm expecting.

( The last month or so of model kits/gunpla! )

*which is not to say I think that my kits are actually-alive in any way, this is more in the fun way that my aunt and I used to leave offerings of jellybeans for my grandmother's porcelain doll collection so they wouldn't eat us in our sleep.**
**at least I think we weren't serious about that.***
***I should probably email my aunt.

After a lunch I couldn't do more than pick at, and a difficult conversation that both did and didn't surprise me, regarding the particulars of the factually-inaccurate version of me that I already knew lived in someone else's head, and then having to talk to my parents (without being able to tell my mom "that is none of my business" all the time like I wanted to)... By the end of all that it was 8:30 and I was too exhausted to go seek out food even though I needed more food.

So when angelofthenorth offered to make me scrambled eggs on a couple of crumpets... "there's cream in the fridge...with tarragon...and cheese..." I wanted to say no (she's made so much of the food I've eaten lately!) but apparently my facial expression answered for me.

It was delicious and it helped so much.

My head still feels like a browser that has too many tabs open, but at least my body can crash now.

It's been such a busy but good week actually 🥰 I have lots to ramble about this time. Let's get to it!

( Read more... )

Defying physics: This rare crystal cools itself using pure magnetism

Research team identifies atacamite as a magnetocaloric material.
Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself dramatically when placed in a magnetic field. Unlike a regular fridge, this effect doesn’t rely on gases or compressors. Instead, it’s tied to the crystal’s unusual inner structure, where tiny magnetic forces get tangled in a kind of “frustration.” When those tangled forces are disrupted by magnetism, the crystal suddenly drops in temperature. It’s a strange, natural trick that could someday help us build greener, more efficient ways to cool things.