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"I wasn't expecting you to know the words to a song that I don't at Goths on a Field!" D just said.

I wasn't either. I'm here because I love doing anything with him and I didn't want to be away from him all weekend (especially after I was away the precious two days!). But I don't like camping and I don't like a lot of goth music.

But this evening has been a lot of folk and vaudeville kind of things. The song I knew, sung so amazingly by The Midsommars, I know as "Magpie" from the amazing Unthanks album Mount the Air.

ysabetwordsmith

This art workshop made a "landscape" out of loose parts for the artists to use as inspiration. Every art room should have a generous collection of objects to mix and match like this.

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teaotter

I promised y'all a post about making my first sweater this year. Here it is!

tldr: Finished in all its glory:

a hand-knitted sweater with a complex pattern: something kind of like a black houndstooth on a background of shifting burnt umber / purple-ish brown / golden brown, with black knitted cuffs and crew neck collar.

a hand-knitted sweater with a complex pattern: something kind of like a black houndstooth on a background of shifting burnt umber / purple-ish brown / golden brown, with black knitted cuffs and crew neck collar.

(Though I have to say, the colors in this sweater do *not* photograph properly with my phone. It's a lot more brick than yellow, and there's a gradient from the bottom to the top. The digital editor in my camera is determined to edit this like there's no tomorrow.)

( more process nattering and photos under the cut )

ysabetwordsmith

Today is sunny and sweltering.

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a house wren.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 7/11/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I've seen a fox squirrel.

EDIT 7/11/25 -- Yesterday I collected 5 little pink crabapples while out and about. These are almost marble size, much more useful than the pea-sized ones. So I potted up those today to see if they'll sprout.

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spikedluv

Good season finale! ( spoilers )

As it says on the tin: Good news, stupid humans: Murderbot has been renewed (avclub.com) [The big question is, who is going to play ART?!!]

conuly

Adrian Tchaikovsky is amazingly hit-or-miss for me, but this looks like it's coming up "hit". The sapient arthropods are a swarm of bees. If there are any spiders, I haven't met them yet!

ysabetwordsmith

There will be a bonus fishbowl on Tuesday, July 15. The theme will be "anything goes." If you want a continuation of an earlier piece, or something totally new, that doesn't fit the usual themes, then now's your chance. Brainstorm in advance and jot down ideas for later. You can also request any favorite series, character, setting, etc.

Note that our internet connection has been bad for well over a month. Sometimes it's down completely, other times things like Dreamwidth and searches won't run. So I'm losing a lot of work time and may only have access for half a day or less. Given this limitation, there's a higher chance of actually getting things written for prompts that use characters, settings, etc. that are already established.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today's theme is History.

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lauradi7dw

In April I mentioned the term "celebrity boyfriend" as used among my Korean class friends (bottom of this post)
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/945571.html

A lot of the time I think of Jay Powell as my celebrity boyfriend, although as usual I don't think I would have him as my real boyfriend, even if he were single, which he's not. Despite all the sh*t that has been flung at him, he's still a registered Republican. WTH?

This morning I decided that maybe my new celebrity boyfriend (coincidentally in line with the class's Korean focus) is Kang Soobin, a bespoke tailor in Seoul. Derek Guy had a couple of Atelier Willow's IG stories embedded in a twitter thread, and I got a zing from watching an impeccably dressed person doing hand sewing.
I spent quite a while trying to track him/the store down in two languages, one of which I can't really read.
I found someone's blog about buying a jacket from them (in Korean on Naver, with a translate button that made it possible to me to figure out what is going on). (the owner of the new jacket also had a couple of photos of cute twins, a plus).
I don't use Meta products so I can't link to the little videos. I found a video interview with him on youtube, but he's talking, not sewing. English captions are available
https://youtu.be/oXoDPuKjbvU?feature=shared
I found an architecture firm in Alabama with the same name. There's an herbal store in Montreal, also.

Speaking of a commonly chosen celebrity boyfriend, Kim Seokjin (mentioned in the post linked) is doing a solo tour with a fairly limited number of cities. A twitter thread this morning was talking about how far people are traveling to see him. Someone in CA is driving 400 miles. She was one-upped by someone driving 600 miles to Tampa. Someone else said that she had considered flying to Tampa but was afraid she'd be turned away by ICE at the airport. This is someone (judging from her profile) who would be coming from Peru. Are her fears sensible? I looked on orbitz. There are no nonstop flights from Lima to Tampa, but lots of connecting choices. The shortest trips connect through Panama City, another place that is not the US, so she'd have to have her passport checked twice on the way. The airlines would not be offering flights if most of their passengers were being denied entry. If she's worried, should she be posting like that?

lirazel

I want some conversation! So let's talk about the stuff we love that nobody else loves. I feel certain I've asked about this before, but it can never hurt to ask about it again!

What is the one (or two or three) canon that you love so very much that you're ravenous for fic/meta/fanart/squee about it but you simply can't find it?

The three that come to mind for me are:

+ The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, which has such rich worldbuilding and side characters that I wish could read a thousand fics about virtually anything!

+ M.M. Kaye's The Shadow of the Moon, which has one of my ultimate OTPs, who I would like to read a thousand canon divergence fics in which Alex and Winter fall in love in a thousand different ways.

+ Shut Up! Flower Boy Band, a kdrama about a rock band that has a brush with fame, which has such rich characters and relationships that I would could (again) read a thousand fics about these characters bumping into each other! Jamie wrote me one OT4 fic back in the long-ago days after the show came out, but other than that, there's almost nothing.

spikedluv

I might have asked this before, but I don't recall. Is there anyway to create folders in the Library?

I would like to separate books I've purchased from those I'm reading for free and will need to/be able to return. I'd also like to separate books I've read from books I haven't read, because going through the entire library every time I want to pick a book to read is a pain in the butt.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

sabotabby

I finally processed these. They're all from St. John's and Ferryland.

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spikedluv

Mom suggested I not get to her house super early so I can get some stuff done, and we agreed that I’d stop in after my visit to my aunt. I returned home after I dropped Grant off at the garage and did two loads of laundry (even got one dried and folded!), hand-washed dishes, baked chicken for the dogs’ meals, vacuumed the bedroom rug, and changed kitty litter. Whew! That’s a full days worth of work for me!

I visited my aunt (she was awake! I showed her some pics of Midnight and Baby A – who is not a baby anymore! She starts pre-K this fall!) and hit the Price Chopper down there because the one I went to yesterday had zero bananas and none of the red grapes I like. I have them now. I got to mom’s about 10:15am and left at 3pm.

I stopped at the library on the way home to return a book (and talked to the librarian about it and the other series she recommended) and hit the bank drive-thru. I baked salmon for Pip’s supper, dried and folded the second load of laundry, hand-washed more dishes, and showered.

I finished the Duncan Kincaid book and read the next Inn at Holiday Bay cozy. (They’re very easy reads and kind of short.)

Temps started out at 62.6(F) and reached 86.4. It was warm out, but not as horrible as when the temps hit the 90s. We were originally supposed to have scattered thunderstorms but they never materialized.

Mom Update:

Mom was sitting on the porch for the second time when I got there. ( more back here )

ysabetwordsmith

Here's a cool Dreamwidth tool: take the URL of any community and add /read to the end. It will show you posts by all the members. So for instance:

https://birdfeeding.dreamwidth.org/read

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ysabetwordsmith

This is why some people hate interruptions and find it hard to switch from one activity to another. It includes people with ADHD, autism, executive function disorder, post-concussion-syndrome, other cognitive issues; many introverts; and most people who spend a lot of time doing things they are bad at (e.g. a linguistically inclined person doing math, or an athletic person forced to write text). Discuss with the people in your life what kinds of interruptions are okay or not, when, and how.

Focus is broken by interruption.

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ysabetwordsmith

Bigger crops, fewer nutrients: The hidden cost of climate change

Climate change is silently sapping the nutrients from our food. A pioneering study finds that rising CO2 and higher temperatures are not only reshaping how crops grow but are also degrading their nutritional value especially in vital leafy greens like kale and spinach. This shift could spell trouble for global health, particularly in communities already facing nutritional stress. Researchers warn that while crops may grow faster, they may also become less nourishing, with fewer minerals, proteins, and antioxidants raising concerns about obesity, weakened immunity, and chronic diseases.

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sholio

( Finale spoilers )

( Brand new thought about the finale )

SEASON 2 WHEN

solarbird

The last couple of posts I’ve made with images didn’t have their alt text make it to the Federation. It made it to Dreamwidth, but didn’t federate.

Let’s try this one:

A highly complicated cluster of street names on bike infrastructure and/or high-bike-use streets in east Seattle around Madrona. Is this alt-text visible to the Fediverse?

Posted via Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected.

dine

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

sholio

Finished the season finale, immediately turned around and wrote an episode tag.

Arrow (~2K words, gen, Mensah & Gurathin)
Set right during/after the end of the last scene in the episode.

I also saw on Tumblr that it's been renewed for a season two. Something delightful to look forward to!

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