A purrrfect phone stand!

Aug. 31st, 2025 08:53 pm
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Since I've had a rough week, mom got me this super cool phone stand!
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How purrrfect is that?? Awww. <3 You really can find almost anything on the Internet :P

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Nice!! Hopefully now I won't knock my phone to the floor so much haha

My contribution to the Taylor Swift mania: on List Challenges someone made a list of their favorite Taylor Swift songs, and told us to check off our favorites from the list. I hadn't heard "Blank Space" in awhile, went to the music video to listen, and squeed when I saw this:
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Four-poster bed alert!! I wasn't expecting to see one, so I was very happy haha. You can't really tell in this picture, but she's also holding a cat..nice :P

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At first I thought she was cutting up the bed curtains, but then I saw it was the guy in the video's shirt. The whole mansion had great curtains! (Now the song is stuck in my head lol..but it reminds me of four-poster beds now, so I guess that's alright :P)

My back is still sore, but slowly getting better. I've never had to LITERALLY drop to the floor because the pain was so intense before!! I have another chiropractor appointment on Tuesday, so hopefully that'll help too. I'll definitely have to be careful at work for awhile!

I forgot to mention, when Jo's family first came up to say hi, Curti went right over to Jonny and intensely sniffed him haha, and he was like "yep, he smells my cat!" For some reason Curti is terrified of my neighbor Amy, but I'm glad he doesn't hide from all strangers!

Ryan made lasagna with plantains tonight, and it was actually REALLY good. He keeps making recipes from ChatGPT, so I guess we're eating AI food now LOL

aug 30-31 )

Code deploy happening shortly

Aug. 31st, 2025 07:37 pm
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Per the [site community profile] dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

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A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.

The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.

In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.

The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.

Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.

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There’s a line that’s been bouncing around my head ever since I picked up String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis. Wallace writes with this breathless, analytical intensity about watching players - their movements, their psychology, their impossible skill rendered into language so sharp it almost cuts. And what struck me is: this feels so much like reading fandom meta.

Not just match reports, not just journalism, but long-form meta. You know the kind: 3,000 words on how one player adjusts their stance under pressure, or how their rivalry with another player has this Shakespearean weight to it. The kind of thing that slides between gifsets and headcanons and actual technical breakdowns because all of it feels necessary to capture what you love.

And the thing is - this isn’t new.

In ancient Rome, fans used to carve their favourite charioteer’s name on their gravestone. They literally wanted to be remembered through their fandom. They bought vials of gladiator sweat (no, really) to keep like holy relics. They painted graffiti in stadiums, catalogued stats in painstaking detail, and shouted themselves hoarse for their team colours. The only difference between then and now is the medium: from stone walls to Tumblr dashboards, from sweat vials to match-worn shirts.

What Wallace is doing in String Theory isn’t so different either. His essays are part analysis, part poetry, part love letter to the sport - the same impulses that drive people to write sprawling livejournal posts about Aragorn’s arc in Lord of the Rings or to make 50-slide PowerPoints about why their ship dynamic works. He’s putting language around awe. Around obsession. Around the feeling of watching someone do something unbelievably human and larger-than-human at the same time.

So when I read him going deep on Federer or Michael Joyce, I don’t just see a writer explaining tennis. I see fandom-as-practice. I see continuity: from Roman sweat vials to Wallace’s reverent adjectives to that one gifset you keep reblogging because it perfectly captures the way your fave moves like liquid light across the court.

Sports fandom has always been fandom. And String Theory is just another text in the endless library of people trying to make sense of love and skill and spectacle with whatever tools we have to hand. Sometimes it’s chisels. Sometimes it’s gifs. Sometimes it’s a writer with a dictionary in one hand and an obsession burning in the other.

On Silver Shores by VT Hoang

Aug. 31st, 2025 05:35 pm
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On Silver Shores by VT Hoang was absolutely amazing! Detective Carver and analyst Jian investigate rebel werewolves together.

Here's to 5 more books on my to-read list, as the 6 novels of this exceptional urban fantasy saga were released within 6 months! The writing style is beautiful, the worldbuilding is complex and the characters are giving me intense feels.

The author is a Vietnamese trans man. Carver is a Black male half-siren. To be specific, all sirens are biologically female, Carver got his Y chromosome from his human father and is biologically intersex. He also has Severance Syndrome (a supernatural disability). Jian is Sino-Vietnamese and suffers from PTSD. There's major m/m, minor f/m/nb and a sapphic character.

Friday five

Aug. 29th, 2025 01:47 pm
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1. What do you consider nature’s perfect food? Strawberries
2. What was once difficult for you but now seems like second nature? Running the register at work. I was terrified!
3. What is your favorite way to commune with nature? Go to the mountains, go in the forest and enjoy the smell of the trees, etc
4. How have you tamed nature within your living space? I don't have any nature in it lol
5. When you were you last bitten, stung, or slimed by nature? Hmmm..not sure..

Last night my back pain was so painful that I went to the hospital! They gave me a bunch of pain meds, but they didn't really do anything. This morning I saw a chiropractor, who said my muscles were SUPER tight. He had me stand in front of him and he told me I was leaning forward a little and my left palm was up a weird way. He said no one else would notice something like that, but I have noticed that in pictures of me, and mom said I walk stiffly too. He put some pain-relieving gel on my back, and some kind of electrical thing, stretched me, etc. He showed me a couple stretches to do to improve pain/my posture, and said to come back on Tuesday so he can work on me more. He said I was too young to feel so old haha! My back is still pretty painful, but hopefully it'll heal quickly. Universe, please stop hurting me, I've had enough LOL

Of all the comfy places Curti can sleep, he chooses..the floor?? He can sleep behind a chair for HOURS. Whatever makes him happy, I guess :P

29. How would you describe luxury? )

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Aug. 29th, 2025 10:37 pm
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 I’ve been thinking (dangerous, I know) about the whole concept of “having a type.” People will ask you what your type is and expect, like, tall, dark, and handsome or short girls with tattoos or something quantifiable in the visible spectrum.

I keep saying I don’t really have a physical type, and that’s mostly true, but then I remember that I am extremely predictable when presented with:

  • boobs (yes, thank you. approved)
  • arms/shoulders/hands (the holy trinity, sculpted by the gods, perfect for hugs, holding, etc.)
  • and a cute smile with dimples (instant death, funerals on Tuesday.)

but honestly? my real type, the one that has haunted me across fandom after fandom like some eldritch repetition compulsion, is not about looks. it’s about vibe. it’s about the socially awkward nerd/geek archetype.

like:

  • the stammering genius who can calculate orbital trajectories but cannot flirt to save their life.
  • the bookish disaster whose entire love language is handing you lore.
  • the character who absolutely panics when someone sits too close to them but will recite a 40-minute lecture on obscure historical trivia if you so much as make eye contact.
  •  the ones who have arms, yes (thank you again), but also the emotional range of “confused owl who has never been in public before.”
so like, the ur-text for this type, the primordial soup from which all my future attractions would crawl out, was Willow Rosenberg. tiny hacker witch, babbling her way through sentences, nerdy sweaters, devastating magical power, zero chill when faced with a cute girl. that’s the blueprint right there.

and then it just… kept happening.

  • Sam Carter (Stargate SG-1): astrophysicist, genius, blows up suns in her free time, still somehow flustered when someone gets personal.
  • Daniel Jackson (also Stargate): the man who will translate a dead language on the fly but forgets how to hold a conversation with a living person. glasses, floppy hair, emotionally constipated: chef’s kiss.
  • Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds): maximalist hacker chaos gremlin, dresses like she’s powered by rainbows, says the most unhinged things with absolute sincerity.
  • Abby Sciuto (NCIS): goth lab queen, talks a mile a minute about forensics, deeply earnest under the eyeliner. if she doesn’t count she should.

and it spirals out from there. every fandom has one. the genius who trips over their own words, the hacker who overshares, the scholar who forgets to eat, the witch whose spellbook is better organized than their life.

yes, I like boobs. yes, shoulders/hands/arms are my eternal weakness. yes, dimples will ruin me every time.
but the real through-line? the thing that never changes?
give me the socially awkward nerd archetype and I will imprint like a baby duck.

(and then, as I said on Tumblr
#yes i have a type your honour #and it’s willow rosenberg with different hats #sam carter blew up a sun and my heart #daniel jackson tripped over his own shoelaces and i imprinted #penelope garcia maximalist chaos gremlin supreme #abby sciuto forensic goth princess #nerds my beloved #boobs are great but have you considered lore #dimples are fatal shoulders are eternal #socially awkward archetype continuum #from hacker witches to stargates to crime labs to the atp tour #tennis fandom dont look at me #actually do look at me #yes this is about jannik #gangly apologetic owl boy who calculates everything #sports but make it nerdy #my narrative gravitational pull remains undefeated)

The Thursday Murder Club

Aug. 29th, 2025 05:28 pm
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Netflix's movie The Thursday Murder Club was excellent. It has an amazing cast of senior actors, as well as David Tennant.

It's based on a novel that has sequels, so hopefully we'll get to see more of them.

Health Woes and Jo's Birthday

Aug. 28th, 2025 10:02 pm
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Ughh I've had a rough week..I've felt very tired, even before what happened last week. Two or three weeks ago I chomped hard on a popcorn kernel, and my tooth had been sore ever since. My face has been in constant pain, I've had awful migraines, my joints have ached, possibly because of the constant rainy weather this month. I was very grumpy those two sale days at work, and ended the week wiped out. I went to the dentist on Monday, and they took x-rays, but didn't see cracks or anything. He said that tooth was very worn from grinding my teeth and was too crowded in my small mouth, so he said the best thing would be to remove it, so I had that done (good thing it's one that was in the very back). I think this is revenge for me telling the dentist I'm boring because there's nothing wrong with my teeth LOL. I woke up on Tuesday EXHAUSTED, and knew I definitely wasn't going to work. I went to the doctor and they did All the Tests (bloodwork, etc), but the only thing they found was a high heartrate. The doctor said I probably had a virus, and I do remember feeling like I was coming down with something earlier in the month, but I drank some Emergen-C and that seemed to take care of it. Even though I didn't get all the way sick, my body was still tired from fighting the virus. It definitely felt like post-covid tiredness. I decided to take the rest of the week off of work..I definitely have been working too hard. I should listen to my body before I crash! This whole week I've felt SO tired, my jaw has ached, and I've had a terrible migraine, especially today. I went back to the dentist and he said there was no dry socket, and to take pain meds every six hours. I did a couple errands after that, and was COMPLETELY exhausted when I got home, so I took Motrin and Excedrin, and crashed into bed. I felt tired when I woke up, but my face and migraine felt SO much better! I could think again! I've been too exhausted and fuzzy brained to write until now. I took a shower and when I tried to get out, my back twinged weirdly, and now I can add back pain to my list of maladies. Are you kidding me?! I don't know who I angered, but please stop!! I'd like to return to normal life again, please :P (I've definitely had to sing "even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise" throughout the week lol)

Jo's birthday was this week, so his mom (Carmen), stepfather (Dorian) and brother (Jonny) came up to visit. We went to a hibachi restaurant for his birthday..dad had never been to one before, so his reactions were very amusing haha. Carmen also made some Puerto Rican food, and yesterday we ate at a Thai restaurant. I think they leave the day after tomorrow..hopefully they had a good trip!

a few pics from the week )

23. Describe your car: I don't have one

24. A movie that makes you cry: I've cried watching Passion of the Christ (the first one I remember crying to. I could never watch it again D:), Spider-Man 2, Temple Grandin, Raya and the Last Dragon, A Man Called Ove, The Road..that's all I can remember for now lol

25. What's your leadership style? Show people what to do in a kind and encouraging way (and try to be confident doing it haha). If someone makes a mistake, point it out, but still be positive, and give examples of my mistakes too. Positivity almost always gets the best results and makes people empowered and feel good about their work!

26. What's your favorite genre of TV shows? Action-y ones, detective ones like CB Strike, etc
27. How are you different from your siblings? I'm shorter, way more positive, terrible at cooking, I love to read, etc

28. Your first pet: I think it was a cat named Tiggy..if I remember correctly, my parents had to send him back to California for some reason..
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Herederas de Safo by ‪AM Irún was a lot of fun. Laura, a museum curator, and Irene, an insurance agent, must recover one of Sappho's amphoras. However, it turns out that they're exes.

This was a nice mix of adventure, humour and romance in Spain, with a few flashbacks from when the amphora was found in Greece a century ago.

There's major f/f, as well as minor f/f. Irene has a prosthetic leg.

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Netflix's Go k-movie The Match was excellent. It's a biopic about the champions Cho Hun-hyun and Lee Chang-ho (Cho Hun-hyun's student). Perfect for fans of Hikaru no Go and The Queen's Gambit!

It stars Lee Byung-hun (the Front Man in Squid Game).

Thanks for the release info to [personal profile] halfcactus!
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[staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_news

I'll start with the tl;dr summary to make sure everyone sees it and then explain further: As of September 1, we will temporarily be forced to block access to Dreamwidth from all IP addresses that geolocate to Mississippi for legal reasons. This block will need to continue until we either win the legal case entirely, or the district court issues another injunction preventing Mississippi from enforcing their social media age verification and parental consent law against us.

Mississippi residents, we are so, so sorry. We really don't want to do this, but the legal fight we and Netchoice have been fighting for you had a temporary setback last week. We genuinely and honestly believe that we're going to win it in the end, but the Fifth Circuit appellate court said that the district judge was wrong to issue the preliminary injunction back in June that would have maintained the status quo and prevented the state from enforcing the law requiring any social media website (which is very broadly defined, and which we definitely qualify as) to deanonymize and age-verify all users and obtain parental permission from the parent of anyone under 18 who wants to open an account.

Netchoice took that appellate ruling up to the Supreme Court, who declined to overrule the Fifth Circuit with no explanation -- except for Justice Kavanaugh agreeing that we are likely to win the fight in the end, but saying that it's no big deal to let the state enforce the law in the meantime.

Needless to say, it's a big deal to let the state enforce the law in the meantime. The Mississippi law is a breathtaking state overreach: it forces us to verify the identity and age of every person who accesses Dreamwidth from the state of Mississippi and determine who's under the age of 18 by collecting identity documents, to save that highly personal and sensitive information, and then to obtain a permission slip from those users' parents to allow them to finish creating an account. It also forces us to change our moderation policies and stop anyone under 18 from accessing a wide variety of legal and beneficial speech because the state of Mississippi doesn't like it -- which, given the way Dreamwidth works, would mean blocking people from talking about those things at all. (And if you think you know exactly what kind of content the state of Mississippi doesn't like, you're absolutely right.)

Needless to say, we don't want to do that, either. Even if we wanted to, though, we can't: the resources it would take for us to build the systems that would let us do it are well beyond our capacity. You can read the sworn declaration I provided to the court for some examples of how unworkable these requirements are in practice. (That isn't even everything! The lawyers gave me a page limit!)

Unfortunately, the penalties for failing to comply with the Mississippi law are incredibly steep: fines of $10,000 per user from Mississippi who we don't have identity documents verifying age for, per incident -- which means every time someone from Mississippi loaded Dreamwidth, we'd potentially owe Mississippi $10,000. Even a single $10,000 fine would be rough for us, but the per-user, per-incident nature of the actual fine structure is an existential threat. And because we're part of the organization suing Mississippi over it, and were explicitly named in the now-overturned preliminary injunction, we think the risk of the state deciding to engage in retaliatory prosecution while the full legal challenge continues to work its way through the courts is a lot higher than we're comfortable with. Mississippi has been itching to issue those fines for a while, and while normally we wouldn't worry much because we're a small and obscure site, the fact that we've been yelling at them in court about the law being unconstitutional means the chance of them lumping us in with the big social media giants and trying to fine us is just too high for us to want to risk it. (The excellent lawyers we've been working with are Netchoice's lawyers, not ours!)

All of this means we've made the extremely painful decision that our only possible option for the time being is to block Mississippi IP addresses from accessing Dreamwidth, until we win the case. (And I repeat: I am absolutely incredibly confident we'll win the case. And apparently Justice Kavanaugh agrees!) I repeat: I am so, so sorry. This is the last thing we wanted to do, and I've been fighting my ass off for the last three years to prevent it. But, as everyone who follows the legal system knows, the Fifth Circuit is gonna do what it's gonna do, whether or not what they want to do has any relationship to the actual law.

We don't collect geolocation information ourselves, and we have no idea which of our users are residents of Mississippi. (We also don't want to know that, unless you choose to tell us.) Because of that, and because access to highly accurate geolocation databases is extremely expensive, our only option is to use our network provider's geolocation-based blocking to prevent connections from IP addresses they identify as being from Mississippi from even reaching Dreamwidth in the first place. I have no idea how accurate their geolocation is, and it's possible that some people not in Mississippi might also be affected by this block. (The inaccuracy of geolocation is only, like, the 27th most important reason on the list of "why this law is practically impossible for any site to comply with, much less a tiny site like us".)

If your IP address is identified as coming from Mississippi, beginning on September 1, you'll see a shorter, simpler version of this message and be unable to proceed to the site itself. If you would otherwise be affected, but you have a VPN or proxy service that masks your IP address and changes where your connection appears to come from, you won't get the block message, and you can keep using Dreamwidth the way you usually would.

On a completely unrelated note while I have you all here, have I mentioned lately that I really like ProtonVPN's service, privacy practices, and pricing? They also have a free tier available that, although limited to one device, has no ads or data caps and doesn't log your activity, unlike most of the free VPN services out there. VPNs are an excellent privacy and security tool that every user of the internet should be familiar with! We aren't affiliated with Proton and we don't get any kickbacks if you sign up with them, but I'm a satisfied customer and I wanted to take this chance to let you know that.

Again, we're so incredibly sorry to have to make this announcement, and I personally promise you that I will continue to fight this law, and all of the others like it that various states are passing, with every inch of the New Jersey-bred stubborn fightiness you've come to know and love over the last 16 years. The instant we think it's less legally risky for us to allow connections from Mississippi IP addresses, we'll undo the block and let you know.

Bookstore's Grand Opening!

Aug. 22nd, 2025 07:03 pm
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Even though the bookstore has been open again since the end of May, today was the official grand opening ceremony. The Chamber of Commerce came over and staff and volunteers gathered for pictures, and Lucie and Shelby cut the ribbon with giant scissors haha (I held the tape roll and kept it taught..very important :P). The bookstore had food (cake, cookies, chips..I ate way too much sugar haha) for everyone, there was a musician, and most everything in the store was 50% off. It was busy, but not as busy as our winter sales, which was fine..we just want everyone to have fun! We made a little over $2000, nice! The sale continues tomorrow as well..it might be busier since it's a Saturday and people have work/school off. Yay, more cake and books for everyone :D

I imagine the pictures of the ribbon cutting ceremony will be online at some point, but here are some pics of me and Bill!
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CAKE!!!

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We are ready! (I look so short next to Bill haha)

On Wednesday me and mom and Ryan and Jo went to a Jamaican restaurant we hadn't been to before, and it was INSANELY hot, like 80 or 90 degrees in there! One of my meds makes me sensitive to heat, so while waiting for the food I started feeling very, very odd..I was thirsty, started feeling dizzy and nauseous and shaky, and eventually had to go outside..I was worried I would pass out (it felt the same way when I passed out at Chena Hot Springs from being overheated). I didn't, but still felt weird, even after drinking juice and being somewhere cooler. The food wasn't even that good, which was disappointing for everyone. None of us want to go back. Someone thought of going to Costco to get pizza and ice cream, so we did that. I was still feeling weak and weird, but thought eating something cold would help. After eating everyone was looking at a table, and I started feeling VERY unwell. I told mom to come to the bathroom with me..she said I looked very pale, and took me home after that. Yesterday morning I woke up still feeling shaky, so I took the day off work so I could rest..ugh, no fun! (And this was right after me thinking "wow, I haven't taken a day off work in a long time! Universe, PLEASE stop making me feel sick, if I have those kind of thoughts!) Thankfully this morning I felt better, though tired. I hope that doesn't happen again!!

There is a guy on Patreon/Facebook who has been making a film adaptation of The Worst Journey in the world for the past five years!! How did I miss that until now?? The pictures of the actors/sledges, etc look so authentic! I got to talking about Mark Gatiss' docudrama with him, and told him I couldn't find it anymore, so he sent me an email with the link so I could download it to my computer!! (He got the link from Sarah, who's making the graphic novel version of Worst Journey.) I really missed watching it, and now I can whenever, yay!! That made me SO happy. :D Vicki's been in California taking care of her sick mom, but she wants to watch it with me when she comes back. I can't wait, I know she'll love it! I can't wait to watch the film adaptation too, I'm so happy people still care about Cherry and the sacrifice and friendship of the expedition <3

Abby didn't really care about chasing lasers, but Curti LOVES it. He even knows the thing in my hand is what produces the red dot, and was looking at it like "why'd you turn it off??" when I stopped playing. He is such a smart kitty!

aug 16-22 )

Justice in the Dark

Aug. 22nd, 2025 05:36 pm
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The BL c-drama Justice in the Dark was fascinating! Luo Wei Zhao and Pei Su investigate violent crimes together.

I'm used to contemporary fantasy being adapted into sci-fi for censorship reasons, but contemporary crime being turned into sci-fi is new to me. This is based on one of Priest's novels, and very Guardian-coded (also by Priest, but I didn't get this feeling with her other works).

The plot is quite dark, but if you like competency porn, go for it. Despite censorship, the main pairing gave me a lot of feels from episode 13 onwards.

Note that the first 8 episodes, released in 2023, have proper subtitles, but the other ones, finally released this year in Japan, have terrible MTL subs.

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Aug. 21st, 2025 11:58 pm
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 I am so fucking done for.

Like. There are MULTIPLE videos going round right now - Team Sinner greeting Team Alcaraz, then Team Djokovic, some Jannik training clips. A veritable buffet of content. A smorgasbord. A feast.

And where are my eyes? Where are user <user name=tennisdadsaficionado site=tumblr> eyes supposed to be??

On the players? On the tennis? On the ACTUAL subject of the videos???

No. NO. All I see is Darren. Just Darren. I’m out here losing brain cells like a teenage llama with a crush.

I am not supposed to be like this. I am a grown adult with rent and bills and responsibilities. And yet here I am, screaming at pixels because some Australian man in his 50s tilted his head slightly to the left.

And the worst part? The absolute humiliation of it all?? He doesn’t even have to do anything. He just… breathes near a tennis court and my brain goes feral, like: “oh wow incredible stunning revolutionary showstopping never been done before.”

Sir, please. You are a coach. Why do you have this power over me.

Fucking hell, Cassie. Get a grip.

Captivated, By You

Aug. 21st, 2025 05:29 pm
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The first episode of Captivated, By You was fun! It's a slice-of-life anime taking place in an all-boys school. As you can guess from the title, there are BL vibes.

It's available on Crunchyroll. It's starting late in the season because there will be only 5 episodes.

What I'm Reading Wednesday

Aug. 20th, 2025 03:01 pm
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What are you currently reading?

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna (24%)
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (29%)
The Lamplighter’s Bookshop by Sophie Austin (35%)
What abigail did that summer by Ben Aaronovitch (56%)
String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis by David Foster Wallace (30%)

What did you recently finish reading?

False Value by Ben Aaronovitch 3.5/5 stars. I loved the dry humour and the tech satire, but this one wasn’t without its bumps. The pacing dragged in spots (but I always find his books have this), and I found myself losing track of some of the side characters in the crowd.

What do you think you’ll read next?

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh - for the [tumblr.com profile] tennisblrbookclub
Essex Dogs by Dane Jones - a [community profile] thestoryinside pick
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald - will hit prompts on 3 different reading challenges

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