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seekingferretOh, I wanted to ask if anyone here will be at Worldcon? Let me know if you want to meet up!
Wrong Guesses
Aug. 2nd, 2025 08:49 pmyourlibrarian1) Just a quick follow-up note to the ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sunshine_revival's Challenge 6 which asked about gaming. One thing I started doing earlier this year was crosswords. I'm rather surprised I never did them as a kid given how much I read and how verbal I was, plus I liked puzzles. I guess no one ever introduced them to me, though I suppose puzzles for kids was a less discoverable publication.
And trying them now I can see that even stuff labeled as "for the whole family" would have been too hard. One definitely needs to learn the conventions and accept that some clues are not only unguessable but the creators sure take a lot of license with words used. ( Read more... )
2) Have started posting photos of our stay in Agate Beach atcommon_nature
3) Back in December I began having arm pain centered around each elbow which would radiate down to the right hand sometimes. I brought it up at my annual checkup in April, at which time I had already been doing PT exercises for it for months, wearing braces on both hands to sleep, to exercise and to type at the computer, and yet it wasn't any better. ( Read more... )
sunshine_revival's Challenge 6 which asked about gaming. One thing I started doing earlier this year was crosswords. I'm rather surprised I never did them as a kid given how much I read and how verbal I was, plus I liked puzzles. I guess no one ever introduced them to me, though I suppose puzzles for kids was a less discoverable publication.And trying them now I can see that even stuff labeled as "for the whole family" would have been too hard. One definitely needs to learn the conventions and accept that some clues are not only unguessable but the creators sure take a lot of license with words used. ( Read more... )
2) Have started posting photos of our stay in Agate Beach at
common_nature3) Back in December I began having arm pain centered around each elbow which would radiate down to the right hand sometimes. I brought it up at my annual checkup in April, at which time I had already been doing PT exercises for it for months, wearing braces on both hands to sleep, to exercise and to type at the computer, and yet it wasn't any better. ( Read more... )
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allbingo Crime Classics Bingo Card
Aug. 1st, 2025 05:58 pmthisbluespiritOkay, I knoooooow I am being rubbish at all my other bingos currently, but if allbingo's August theme happens to be irresistible, everything will be different this time, right? XD
(Tbf, the odds are rather better than the last few weeks anyway...)
But, I give you a Crime Classics Bingo Card made from titles from the British Library's crime catalogue:
I love it. I even got the source for The Lady Vanishes, go me! Any suggestions? (With the usual caveat of me probably doing something else anyway, heh.)
allbingo's August theme happens to be irresistible, everything will be different this time, right? XD(Tbf, the odds are rather better than the last few weeks anyway...)
But, I give you a Crime Classics Bingo Card made from titles from the British Library's crime catalogue:
| Someone from the Past | He Who Whispers | Tour de Force | Fear Stalks the Village | Antidote to Venom |
| Family Matters | Foreign Bodies | Tea on Sunday | It Walks by Night | Green for Danger |
| Settling Scores | As If By Magic | WILD CARD | The Black Spectacles | Somebody at the Door |
| Twice Round the Clock | The Man Who Didn’t Fly | Excellent Intentions | Crossed Skis | Serpents in Eden |
| The Wheel Spins | Final Acts | Deep Waters | Not to Be Taken | Bats in the Belfry |
I love it. I even got the source for The Lady Vanishes, go me! Any suggestions? (With the usual caveat of me probably doing something else anyway, heh.)
Game: Gorogoa
Jul. 30th, 2025 05:46 pmisisHuh, I still haven't finished a book or a show (getting close on Tombland though) but I have played another game!
As I mentioned before, I told my brother about Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, and he enjoyed it so much he bought a bundle from the same publisher, Annapurna Games, and Gorogoa is one of those games, which he recommended to me. I bought it while it was still on sale for $5; it's back to $15, which, it's a great game but also very short (my time was 4.4 hours, and I'm a slow gamer!) so if it sounds interesting to you I recommend wishlisting it and buying it on sale.
This is a beautiful hand-drawn puzzle game. The plot is - obscure, to say the least (I looked at a Steam thread of people giving their interpretations, and they varied very widely!) but the basic story is a young boy's quest to collect five colored fruits. The puzzle mechanism, though, is something I'd never seen: the game window is divided into four panels (like a windowpane), and to progress you must zoom in and out on the panels, drag panels over one another (some of them have holes through which the lower panel can be seen), and move them around the game window (sometimes the panel is just a view on a larger area, which is revealed by moving; sometimes you must line up two panels in a particular way so something can pass between them). The panels are often not static art but contain moving parts, which you often must figure out how to take advantage of. Actually the Steam page "About this game" section does a pretty good job of showing how this works!
Now I am on to Dragon Age: The Veilguard. I have already died twice and I'm not even through the prologue part of the game, oog.
As I mentioned before, I told my brother about Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, and he enjoyed it so much he bought a bundle from the same publisher, Annapurna Games, and Gorogoa is one of those games, which he recommended to me. I bought it while it was still on sale for $5; it's back to $15, which, it's a great game but also very short (my time was 4.4 hours, and I'm a slow gamer!) so if it sounds interesting to you I recommend wishlisting it and buying it on sale.
This is a beautiful hand-drawn puzzle game. The plot is - obscure, to say the least (I looked at a Steam thread of people giving their interpretations, and they varied very widely!) but the basic story is a young boy's quest to collect five colored fruits. The puzzle mechanism, though, is something I'd never seen: the game window is divided into four panels (like a windowpane), and to progress you must zoom in and out on the panels, drag panels over one another (some of them have holes through which the lower panel can be seen), and move them around the game window (sometimes the panel is just a view on a larger area, which is revealed by moving; sometimes you must line up two panels in a particular way so something can pass between them). The panels are often not static art but contain moving parts, which you often must figure out how to take advantage of. Actually the Steam page "About this game" section does a pretty good job of showing how this works!
Now I am on to Dragon Age: The Veilguard. I have already died twice and I'm not even through the prologue part of the game, oog.
Breaking the Mold
Jul. 30th, 2025 02:07 pmyourlibrarian1) When person after person said they watched Penguin even when it was uncomfortable to keep going with it, it sounded rather familiar. I saw it with The Wire and especially with S2 of Andor. These were stories exploring the failures of systems, their purposes sabotaged by failing to account for personal agendas and human nature.
To me, Penguin and Andor share other similarities of the "it's so well written I had to see more" variety. Both are shows set within a franchise that do not feature the main features of that franchise, and which deal with the ruthlessness of societies in recognizable and everyday ways. ( Read more... )
2) Finished watching Girls on the Bus. It was apparently meant to go on for another season though I think it ended in a good enough place. Shame though as it really came together as a story of four different women in the same professional arena and the political angles are very familiar. Girls on the Bus is about female political reporters following a presidential campaign and has a nice diversity of characters. It's also interesting to pick up details from actual candidate reporting. ( Read more... )
3) In movies, I watched Fahrenheit 451 because I never read the book. Had Michael B. Jordan not starred I don't know as I could have gotten through half of it. Depressingly topical yet also doesn't make a lot of sense, since they apparently tried to update it to account for current events. ( Read more... )
To me, Penguin and Andor share other similarities of the "it's so well written I had to see more" variety. Both are shows set within a franchise that do not feature the main features of that franchise, and which deal with the ruthlessness of societies in recognizable and everyday ways. ( Read more... )
2) Finished watching Girls on the Bus. It was apparently meant to go on for another season though I think it ended in a good enough place. Shame though as it really came together as a story of four different women in the same professional arena and the political angles are very familiar. Girls on the Bus is about female political reporters following a presidential campaign and has a nice diversity of characters. It's also interesting to pick up details from actual candidate reporting. ( Read more... )
3) In movies, I watched Fahrenheit 451 because I never read the book. Had Michael B. Jordan not starred I don't know as I could have gotten through half of it. Depressingly topical yet also doesn't make a lot of sense, since they apparently tried to update it to account for current events. ( Read more... )
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Comedy as poetry
Jul. 29th, 2025 02:11 pmteaotterThe barista at my local coffee shop just saw Chris Fleming at a local comedy show and was raving about it, so I had to go look them up. The comedy style is intensely physical, rambly, and surreal, and several people I've showed this to have bounced off very quickly.
But I realized that one of the things I love about this clip (and some of their other clips) is how much the pieces seem like poetry to me. They start out fairly well grounded, then take a turn, then take another turn, and end up in these intensely personal metaphorical spaces that I associate with modern poetry.
I saw a woman's not born yet
not even conceived yet
daughter appear to her
in the frozen aisle
and her fist burst through the blueberries
to reveal
a new vegan chex mix
I mean, yes, half of me is definitely going WTF, but at the same time I am absolutely here for the poetic exploration of gender from a nonbinary perspective and a sub rosa critique of the assumption that women somehow have a mystical grocery shopping power.
Old School Brilliant Minds Picspam
Jul. 28th, 2025 03:02 pmgarryowenA few of you on here are not yet Brilliant Minds converts, so I thought I'd do an old school picspam like I used to do for Heroes. Remember that?
I'm having the most incredibly bad month, and this show has been helping me through. Maybe you need it, too!
( here be picspam--pretty nonspoilery )
ETA: Someone on discord posted this video. And I'm dying. It's like if you said: You can have ANYTHING YOU WANT, just no nudity or sex. I would have asked for this: Zachary Quinto half in character, discussing ferns, and Teddy Sears, half in character, telling you you better fucking like his boyfriend's ferns.
I'm having the most incredibly bad month, and this show has been helping me through. Maybe you need it, too!
( here be picspam--pretty nonspoilery )
ETA: Someone on discord posted this video. And I'm dying. It's like if you said: You can have ANYTHING YOU WANT, just no nudity or sex. I would have asked for this: Zachary Quinto half in character, discussing ferns, and Teddy Sears, half in character, telling you you better fucking like his boyfriend's ferns.
A post
Jul. 27th, 2025 01:31 pmthisbluespiritThings continue much as before. I wanted to make a post, but I haven't quite the brain for reviews or the like, so here are two random quick things:
1. Back when we were all making top 100 lists,osprey_archer did a picture books one, and there was a discussion in the comments about US vs UK picture books, so I did a UK one, with the best/most popular/influential picture book illustrators I could think of (up to 2010 when I stopped being a children's librarian and, indeed, anything much), but it took ages to try and make sure I wasn't missing people and put all the covers on, and then I kept forgetting I'd made it.
It's here for those who like clicking on books in a list.
(I apologise for the lack of 2010s and 2020s; but I have not kept up at all! Also I included picture books only for the most part, with a few honourable exceptions, so this means there are very few early reader type books & no comics, but there are picture books for older readers. It needs to be an unorthodox size and shelved in the kinder boxes! Also, I focused on illustrators not authors. Plus a tiny handful were just personal favourites, but it is my list. ;-p)
2. I was talking about Outrageous, the U&Drama/Britbox TV series about the Mitfords last time. It continued to be excellent and it finally occurred to me that I could link the trailer, which would be helpful:
1. Back when we were all making top 100 lists,
osprey_archer did a picture books one, and there was a discussion in the comments about US vs UK picture books, so I did a UK one, with the best/most popular/influential picture book illustrators I could think of (up to 2010 when I stopped being a children's librarian and, indeed, anything much), but it took ages to try and make sure I wasn't missing people and put all the covers on, and then I kept forgetting I'd made it.It's here for those who like clicking on books in a list.
(I apologise for the lack of 2010s and 2020s; but I have not kept up at all! Also I included picture books only for the most part, with a few honourable exceptions, so this means there are very few early reader type books & no comics, but there are picture books for older readers. It needs to be an unorthodox size and shelved in the kinder boxes! Also, I focused on illustrators not authors. Plus a tiny handful were just personal favourites, but it is my list. ;-p)
2. I was talking about Outrageous, the U&Drama/Britbox TV series about the Mitfords last time. It continued to be excellent and it finally occurred to me that I could link the trailer, which would be helpful:
2 Purrcys, looking forward to Worldcon
Jul. 26th, 2025 11:52 pmmecurtinWho's that? #Purrcy being adorable? I was walking by and I had to ask ...
#cats #CatsOfBluesky #Caturday
Under the breakfast table, up against the sunny window, keeping an eye on the human while cleaning his paws -- it's a good life if you're a cat. And you get to rest your head on a metal window crank, which is apparently choice.
We've now finished the online WSFS Business Meetings, it's just a question of how much Business Meeting stuff will get down in-person at Worldcon. But at least this time, unlike Glasgow, I can plan to spend most of my Worldcon time *at Worldcon*, which should be much more fun.
One of the things the Business Meeting did was vote for a Trial Committee to decide what to do about those accused of mis- and malfeasance around the 2023 Chengdu Hugo Awards, and ... I'm on it. So I guess I'm officially a BNF now 👀! That'll be an adventure, all right.
One of the things I'm looking forward to at Worldcon is that Martha Wells is the Guest of Honor, so there will be *lots* of Murderbot content, it'll be more or less the first Murderbot con. I'm not really *in* Murderbot fandom, yet, I read some of the fic but I don't really have time/brain cells for fannish immersion right now. But it's just so nice to have something that makes both halves of my fannish life, the SFF half & the fanfic/AO3 half, so *happy*. And when we all know Wells is a good person who's worked really hard for her success, and who's had to deal with a lot of crap in the last few years and now a ship full of money has come in for her.
#cats #CatsOfBluesky #Caturday
Under the breakfast table, up against the sunny window, keeping an eye on the human while cleaning his paws -- it's a good life if you're a cat. And you get to rest your head on a metal window crank, which is apparently choice.
We've now finished the online WSFS Business Meetings, it's just a question of how much Business Meeting stuff will get down in-person at Worldcon. But at least this time, unlike Glasgow, I can plan to spend most of my Worldcon time *at Worldcon*, which should be much more fun.
One of the things the Business Meeting did was vote for a Trial Committee to decide what to do about those accused of mis- and malfeasance around the 2023 Chengdu Hugo Awards, and ... I'm on it. So I guess I'm officially a BNF now 👀! That'll be an adventure, all right.
One of the things I'm looking forward to at Worldcon is that Martha Wells is the Guest of Honor, so there will be *lots* of Murderbot content, it'll be more or less the first Murderbot con. I'm not really *in* Murderbot fandom, yet, I read some of the fic but I don't really have time/brain cells for fannish immersion right now. But it's just so nice to have something that makes both halves of my fannish life, the SFF half & the fanfic/AO3 half, so *happy*. And when we all know Wells is a good person who's worked really hard for her success, and who's had to deal with a lot of crap in the last few years and now a ship full of money has come in for her.
Brilliant Minds tarot cards
Jul. 26th, 2025 10:02 amgarryowenI started a new project because I'm depressed, and I need something silly to cheer me up. I present...Brilliant Minds tarot cards, inspired by Episode 6: The Girl Who Cried Pregnant, which features a tarot reading.
There are like 70 fucking cards in a tarot deck, so this is gonna take me a while. I made backings, but it was really hard to line them up, so I think I'll do a full sheet backing that spreads across all four cards on a sheet.
( The first four cards )
There are like 70 fucking cards in a tarot deck, so this is gonna take me a while. I made backings, but it was really hard to line them up, so I think I'll do a full sheet backing that spreads across all four cards on a sheet.
( The first four cards )