Busy weekend ahead
Mar. 13th, 2026 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cmk418Got home from work and made pizza for dinner- mom had mixed up the crust before she had to deal with my aunt's crisis (she was just needy & emotional), but I didn't realize that that's all the farther she'd gotten on it, so I had some barely risen dough that was oh-so-sticky to work with. Nevertheless, I prevailed and it still wound up being delicious.
Since my mom had to deal with my aunt, we're putting off my hair coloring til Sunday afternoon. She always helps me with it and I didn't want her to have to do it when she's stressed.
Tomorrow, I start the day with an allergy shot and maybe a load of laundry, then off to yoga, then weight training, then I have to get to the store and pick up food for trivia night, then it's prepping food for trivia night, before finally departing for what will hopefully be a fun night for everyone involved.
Sunday, I'll do more laundry, go to church, get my hair done, maybe watch some hockey, and then watch the Oscars in the evening. We used to have everybody over for Oscar night and make a real thing of it, but the past few years everyone has done their own things. Which is fine.
I'd like to be able to see "Sinners" one more time before Sunday night, but I think that might be pushing it.
That's it for now. See you all tomorrow!
Since my mom had to deal with my aunt, we're putting off my hair coloring til Sunday afternoon. She always helps me with it and I didn't want her to have to do it when she's stressed.
Tomorrow, I start the day with an allergy shot and maybe a load of laundry, then off to yoga, then weight training, then I have to get to the store and pick up food for trivia night, then it's prepping food for trivia night, before finally departing for what will hopefully be a fun night for everyone involved.
Sunday, I'll do more laundry, go to church, get my hair done, maybe watch some hockey, and then watch the Oscars in the evening. We used to have everybody over for Oscar night and make a real thing of it, but the past few years everyone has done their own things. Which is fine.
I'd like to be able to see "Sinners" one more time before Sunday night, but I think that might be pushing it.
That's it for now. See you all tomorrow!
Aloha
Mar. 12th, 2026 09:02 pmcmk418Mood is much better this evening. Watched the last "Starfleet Academy" of the season. It wasn't bad. Then watched the end of the Blues game and they surprisingly won (sorry for the "trap" game, Carolina. It happens.)
One of the things I do when I get a roll of quarters is open them and see if I have any of the American Women set (easily identifiable since the profile of George Washington on the front is facing the other way). They started releasing them in 2022 and I believe this is the last year of the set (surprising since you'd think they'd have stopped due to being a DEI initiative.) I found a 2025 quarter of Althea Gibson in this group, which is new to me, so I'll save that one. There were 8 others in this group too, but I've already got them in my collection, so I'll put them back into circulation so hopefully someone else will get it and want to learn things about the fabulous women on them.
That's all I've got for now. See you all tomorrow.
One of the things I do when I get a roll of quarters is open them and see if I have any of the American Women set (easily identifiable since the profile of George Washington on the front is facing the other way). They started releasing them in 2022 and I believe this is the last year of the set (surprising since you'd think they'd have stopped due to being a DEI initiative.) I found a 2025 quarter of Althea Gibson in this group, which is new to me, so I'll save that one. There were 8 others in this group too, but I've already got them in my collection, so I'll put them back into circulation so hopefully someone else will get it and want to learn things about the fabulous women on them.
That's all I've got for now. See you all tomorrow.
Dead Boy: A Hard Core Logo fanmix
Mar. 12th, 2026 03:12 pmstargore posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fanmix
I'm a rolling stone, all alone and lost. For this life of sin, I have paid the cost....
Title: Dead Boy
Fandom: Hard Core Logo (1996)
Subject: fanmix for the movie and for Joe and Bily.
Find this on my website or ao3.
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Fannish Fifty Challenge 2026: Post # 10: due South fen Happy Eleventh of March!
Mar. 11th, 2026 02:02 amConsent in Ep 1 and 2 of Heated Rivalry
Mar. 9th, 2026 09:15 pmimpala_chickFor the marchmetamatterschallenge I'd like to do four meta posts this month and cross-post them to comms and/or Tumblr. This one is about consent in the first two episodes of Heated Rivalry!
In our current internet culture, it seems like there is plenty of purity wank to go around. ( This is based on the show only as I haven't read the books )
OF COURSE Sex scenes can just be enjoyed for what they are, and shouldn't have to be justified. But I'm really grateful the show did not shy away from depicting sex in this way. It's essential for us to see the entire sex scene to understand Shane and Ilya's points of view in these intimate moments.
The TLDR; is that consent is not always black and white and requires good judgment.
marchmetamatterschallenge I'd like to do four meta posts this month and cross-post them to comms and/or Tumblr. This one is about consent in the first two episodes of Heated Rivalry!In our current internet culture, it seems like there is plenty of purity wank to go around. ( This is based on the show only as I haven't read the books )
OF COURSE Sex scenes can just be enjoyed for what they are, and shouldn't have to be justified. But I'm really grateful the show did not shy away from depicting sex in this way. It's essential for us to see the entire sex scene to understand Shane and Ilya's points of view in these intimate moments.
The TLDR; is that consent is not always black and white and requires good judgment.
Connor on SNL
Mar. 9th, 2026 08:25 pmimpala_chickConnor Storrie hosted season 51, episode 13 of SNL! Someone over at gamechangerhr posted the playlist of the whole episode. I think he did a great job, plenty of laughs and silliness to go around. They brought out Knight and Keller from the USA women's hockey team during the monologue! I know the US has very little to celebrate right now but at least we got women's hockey and Alysa Liu. Very proud that Knight and Keller got such applause and that the Hughes brothers took the deserved jokes well enough.
The funniest sketch wasn't even in the episode though! Here it is, with a Rozanov mention :D
Very cute how they included Hudson in the ice skating sketch. And the stripper sketch was also hilarious even though morbid and NSFW.
gamechangerhr posted the playlist of the whole episode. I think he did a great job, plenty of laughs and silliness to go around. They brought out Knight and Keller from the USA women's hockey team during the monologue! I know the US has very little to celebrate right now but at least we got women's hockey and Alysa Liu. Very proud that Knight and Keller got such applause and that the Hughes brothers took the deserved jokes well enough. The funniest sketch wasn't even in the episode though! Here it is, with a Rozanov mention :D
Very cute how they included Hudson in the ice skating sketch. And the stripper sketch was also hilarious even though morbid and NSFW.
Where'd the time go
Mar. 9th, 2026 08:33 pmcmk418Immersed myself in reading a bunch of Starfleet Academy fanfics and lost the last hour and a half.
Watched the latest episode of "Paradise" tonight. This season is so disjointed. They're formatting it to cover just one part of the story in an episode which is a choice, but I'd rather they at least touched base with the rest of the cast just so we know what's going on with them. And I can only take so much of certain characters so if we're waiting for a full episode devoted to them, it's going to be no fun.
Hockey game with Dad tomorrow night. They'll have a tribute video for the Captain (who has technically only been gone since Friday.) I'll need to grab a handful of Kleenex to take along.
Still haven't heard anything about choir, so I guess they still may be deciding.
That's it for now. See you all tomorrow!
Watched the latest episode of "Paradise" tonight. This season is so disjointed. They're formatting it to cover just one part of the story in an episode which is a choice, but I'd rather they at least touched base with the rest of the cast just so we know what's going on with them. And I can only take so much of certain characters so if we're waiting for a full episode devoted to them, it's going to be no fun.
Hockey game with Dad tomorrow night. They'll have a tribute video for the Captain (who has technically only been gone since Friday.) I'll need to grab a handful of Kleenex to take along.
Still haven't heard anything about choir, so I guess they still may be deciding.
That's it for now. See you all tomorrow!
Times Have Changed
Mar. 8th, 2026 08:22 pmcmk418Happy International Women's Day to all who celebrate. I was thinking about my journey of feminism and how even not so long ago (within the last 10 years), I was still reluctant to call myself a feminist. And in the early 2000s, I would swear up and down that I would never vote for a woman to be President of the United States. (I hadn't had the Donald Trump experience at that point, so it was easy for me to believe that.) But the older I've gotten, the more progressive I've become and the less apt I am to see things the way I saw them previously. Feminism is no longer a label I shun. It's one I embrace. And the more I hear from men and men's opinions, the more I want to see what women could do if they ran the world. That's not to say there aren't women who are assholes and racists and homophobes and predators, but if we're looking for a gentler world, I'm not sure men in charge is the answer.
We had an absolutely beautiful day today. I went to the bookstore and picked up two books- "Play You For It" by Samantha Saldiver, a Sapphic basketball romance between a coach and a journalist, and "Vampires of El Norte" by Isabel Canas, which was recommended during the Snowflake Challenge a couple of years ago (because woman cannot live on Sapphic romance novels alone). And then I sat outside for a half an hour and read the first chapters of both books. It was lovely.
That's all I've got for now. See you tomorrow!
We had an absolutely beautiful day today. I went to the bookstore and picked up two books- "Play You For It" by Samantha Saldiver, a Sapphic basketball romance between a coach and a journalist, and "Vampires of El Norte" by Isabel Canas, which was recommended during the Snowflake Challenge a couple of years ago (because woman cannot live on Sapphic romance novels alone). And then I sat outside for a half an hour and read the first chapters of both books. It was lovely.
That's all I've got for now. See you tomorrow!
week 2 of war / 22 of life-to-be
Mar. 8th, 2026 08:03 pmrogaAs usual, one just goes ahead and gets used to things, more or less.
( war and life )
TV: Am all caught up on Shrinking, The Pitt, Grey's (yes, still), most other shows I'm following. Started Young Sherlock, will probably continue. Started Vladimir, will probably not.
Raading: I have finished all of Ari Baran's books, have downloaded samples of basically every sports romance I could find recommended anywhere and am starting to explore them one by one, currently finishing E. L. Massey's Like Real People Do. Am definitely in the market for (a) sports romances you've loved recently, (b) general romances you've loved recently, (c) general novels you've loved recently that will kick me off this sports romance binge, and (d) your absolute heart-clenchingly favorite 20k+ Heated Rivalry fics.
(I read a bunch of HR fic after the show finished airing, and not really since. It's hard to find by kudos simply due to the massive volumes of kudos in this fandom and the bias towards popular fic posted earlier; I enjoyed various WAG-group-chat and epistolary/online media fics that I read early on, but at some point they started feeling a little repetitive and at this point what I'd really like is just: really fucking good long or semi-long fics that make you feel a lot of feels.)
( war and life )
TV: Am all caught up on Shrinking, The Pitt, Grey's (yes, still), most other shows I'm following. Started Young Sherlock, will probably continue. Started Vladimir, will probably not.
Raading: I have finished all of Ari Baran's books, have downloaded samples of basically every sports romance I could find recommended anywhere and am starting to explore them one by one, currently finishing E. L. Massey's Like Real People Do. Am definitely in the market for (a) sports romances you've loved recently, (b) general romances you've loved recently, (c) general novels you've loved recently that will kick me off this sports romance binge, and (d) your absolute heart-clenchingly favorite 20k+ Heated Rivalry fics.
(I read a bunch of HR fic after the show finished airing, and not really since. It's hard to find by kudos simply due to the massive volumes of kudos in this fandom and the bias towards popular fic posted earlier; I enjoyed various WAG-group-chat and epistolary/online media fics that I read early on, but at some point they started feeling a little repetitive and at this point what I'd really like is just: really fucking good long or semi-long fics that make you feel a lot of feels.)
Yawn
Mar. 5th, 2026 09:01 pmcmk418Was up late watching hockey last night so this will be quick.
Watched "Starfleet Academy" tonight. This was mostly a setup episode and had its moments, but was fairly standard compared to some of the others we've seen. The bonding ceremony in the beginning was nice. Can't believe that the season is ending next week. I like the 10 episode seasons, but I think they should accelerate the time between them, so we're not waiting forever to find out what happens next. We grew up on 22-episode seasons with reruns in the summer (at least I did) and you could do a one-off, one-on thing for series now and still call them seasons 1 and 2. It's not like there's DVD revenue that's going to be generated because not many people are buying physical media when they can stream it. Turning us into a binge-watching society and then making us wait a year or longer between seasons is crazy. /end rant
So far, the Blues have made zero successful trades because no one wants to waive their NTC to go to beautiful Buffalo. Maybe tomorrow.
That's it for now. See you all tomorrow!
Watched "Starfleet Academy" tonight. This was mostly a setup episode and had its moments, but was fairly standard compared to some of the others we've seen. The bonding ceremony in the beginning was nice. Can't believe that the season is ending next week. I like the 10 episode seasons, but I think they should accelerate the time between them, so we're not waiting forever to find out what happens next. We grew up on 22-episode seasons with reruns in the summer (at least I did) and you could do a one-off, one-on thing for series now and still call them seasons 1 and 2. It's not like there's DVD revenue that's going to be generated because not many people are buying physical media when they can stream it. Turning us into a binge-watching society and then making us wait a year or longer between seasons is crazy. /end rant
So far, the Blues have made zero successful trades because no one wants to waive their NTC to go to beautiful Buffalo. Maybe tomorrow.
That's it for now. See you all tomorrow!
that poem Sonya wrote about Ny in 2022
Mar. 4th, 2026 11:33 pmride_4everMost of you -- or perhaps all of you -- will understand why I am currently fixated on the last three lines of the Sonya Taaffe poem "The House Snakes: For Nyani Martin":
...our earth will always shake,
our restless scales unfurling to enfold
your arms of wine-dark honey as you come home.
The full poem appears in issue 44 of "Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy".
...our earth will always shake,
our restless scales unfurling to enfold
your arms of wine-dark honey as you come home.
The full poem appears in issue 44 of "Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy".
Fannish 50 - A NHL Trade Deadline Primer
Mar. 4th, 2026 08:38 pmcmk418This is one of the most exciting and also one of the most frustrating times of year for NHL fans. The trade deadline is 3pm EST on Friday and things are starting to ramp up. There are rumors everywhere and some moves are being made. Some years there's nothing until the final day and some years there are significant trades that happen in the days ahead and then crickets on the deadline day.
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In Memoriam: tragic, shocking news about minoanmiss
Mar. 3rd, 2026 08:55 pmride_4everVia a post from goss: tragic, shocking news about minoanmiss AKA Rubynye on AO3.
My icon says "sad" but this is way beyond that. I am utterly shocked and crushed.minoanmiss and I met once at a con and I hoped to meet up again...and now never will. We communicated regularly on DW and often sent each other postal mail...and now never will again.
May her memory be a blessing...and an inspiration.
goss: tragic, shocking news about minoanmiss AKA Rubynye on AO3.My icon says "sad" but this is way beyond that. I am utterly shocked and crushed.
minoanmiss and I met once at a con and I hoped to meet up again...and now never will. We communicated regularly on DW and often sent each other postal mail...and now never will again. May her memory be a blessing...and an inspiration.