Beards

Aug. 17th, 2025 04:03 pm
mxcatmoon: Good Omens Boa (Good Omens Boa)
[personal profile] mxcatmoon

Poll #33504 Opinion on Beards
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5


Do You Find People with Beards Attractive?

View Answers

Ooh, yes!!
0 (0.0%)

Can take or leave/depends on the person
3 (60.0%)

Neutral
0 (0.0%)

Clean-shaven, please!
2 (40.0%)

Not applicable to me
0 (0.0%)

Other/just want to feel included in poll
0 (0.0%)

ExpandRead more... )

(no subject)

Aug. 17th, 2025 04:27 pm
turps: (beach)
[personal profile] turps
It was our first craft fair of the year yesterday, so the days before involved checking through stock while James finished off new items. With him having to cancel a few fairs last year after breaking his elbow, there was lots to sell. It was held at our local cat only vet in aid of Consett Cats, and went very well. It's a small space so things got crowded, but we managed. And a bonus, I didn't adopt any of the adorable kittens there for cat cuddles. I was exhausted last night, though, ready for bed at eight, but managed to hold on to nine.

On the subject of broken elbows, James was finally discharged from physio. They said they've pretty much done all they can for him and his grip and strength is much better. He still can't get his hand to his mouth, but at this point the only thing that may help that is surgery and neither of us are keen on that happening as it would be very little gain for a big risk. Not that he's had an appointment to discuss the CT scan results yet, so surgery may not even be an option whether he wants it or not.

We went swimming again last week, got to the pool and the receptionist said, are you aware the pool shuts at 9:30 for an aqua aerobics class? And no, no I was not aware. But we got a good 40 minutes swimming so better than nothing.

B12 injection day again on Thursday and I went from the doctors to the gym. Can't say I felt any more energetic, though did do a 45 minute recumbent cycle session so maybe there was a bit of a boost going on. It was actually great at the gym as it was nearly empty for most of the time I was there. Which was good as they'd completely ran out of hygiene wipes so no one could wipe down the machines after use. Which was pretty gross and I cleaned mine the best I could with the hem on my t-shirt.

We went to see Freakier Friday and it was fun, a good way to spend a couple of hours.

Weight management class was about unhelpful thinking patterns, and it was one of the best classes I've been to yet Expandcut for those not interested )

Extreme amounts of "fun"

Aug. 16th, 2025 01:12 pm
azurelunatic: "beautiful addiction", electron microscope photo of caffeine (caffeine)
[personal profile] azurelunatic
Thursday's appointment was one that I knew was going to stir up trauma. The doctor ended up listing that aspect of it as PTSD, which I guess is fair. I always have thought of it as "trauma" rather than PTSD, which is kind of odd in retrospect.

I wound up taking a small dose of my "street cred" when I realized I was starting to have a trauma response. That turned out to be a good idea. There's a follow up in a few months, and I should pre-medicate for it.

Afterwards I got the 32 oz reverse mocha from a local coffee shack. (Not one of the bikini coffee shacks.) With chocolate whipped cream, thank you very much. My first time encountering white coffee espresso in a drink. Interesting and almost floral. I had Belovedest (a bitter supertaster) try it. Still coffee tasting, but not as strongly.

Although that's also possibly due to me only having 3 shots of espresso in the drink instead of the usual 6.

I would much rather discuss the coffee than the source of the trauma and the appointment, in any event.

AO3 Comments and Commentary on Youth

Aug. 15th, 2025 11:38 pm
mxcatmoon: IDIC (IDIC)
[personal profile] mxcatmoon
AO3 comments:

Have you ever had a nice comment on a fic of yours on AO3, and it made you feel glad you don't block guests? It's wonderful!

ExpandRead more... )

that's just human nature

Aug. 12th, 2025 10:03 pm
smilebackwards: chel looking horrified through her fingers (chel looking horrified through her finge)
[personal profile] smilebackwards
World War Z by Max Brooks. How the world reacts to the zombie apocalypse. This was very compelling and I liked the structure as various interviews. Not a huge fan of the writing. It's intended to be transcripts from a bunch of different people but the POVs didn't feel very distinct to me and a there were passages where it just felt like descriptive writing, which would be fine except it was supposed to be dialogue, and in my head I was like 'who talks like this'? Although dialogue is not my strong point so maybe that's just me. I watched the Brad Pitt movie after and it was fine but bears almost no resemblance to the the book at all lol.

False Value by Ben Aaronovitch. Magical police of London. I've fallen behind on reading this series but I still enjoy it. For some reason this particular book was incredibly hard to find in print. I remember having it on my Kindle at least twice and forgetting about it as I do with all ebooks.

In TV, I watched Department Q. Fine detective show though I didn't feel a strong spark for it. I appreciated that it's Scottish and that they gave us an interesting and borderline unlikeable female character to go along with the interesting and borderline unlikeable male lead.

life update

Aug. 12th, 2025 01:13 pm
scriggle: (Default)
[personal profile] scriggle
Today:
  • I had my yearly physical today.
  • The nurse wasn't able to do a blood draw today for blood work because the veins in my left arm were not cooperating and she didn't want to poke me multiple times. They're not allowed to jab my right arm for anything due to removed lymph nodes.
  • Pap smear - ugh.
  • I got the pneumonia vaccination
  • And the TDAP booster.
  • Went to my Tuesday old people zumba class
Wednesday:
  • Go to the lab for bloodwork with phlebotomists who can deal with my non-cooperative veins
  • Stop at MArket Basket and pick up a few necessities
Thursday:
  • Annual mammogram day - ugh.
  • Going to miss old people exercise class. See above
  • Go to the crafting social group and hopefully finish Frederick the Literate which has been a ufo for *mumblemumble* years
badfalcon: (Break Every Rule)
[personal profile] badfalcon
I've said it before and I'll say it again - but I hope I never get tired of the way my brain comes up with stories.

I've started documenting the process on Tumblr - because there's been some controversy in the fandom with one of the popular/prolific writers found to be using AI - and I'd already shared my planning process and my editing process, so now I'm also sharing how the bunny forms from the random place it's spawned from.

So a few weeks ago, when I was doing one of my Tennis Dads History posts - and it was a week where Simone had won the tournament he was in but I couldn't find pictures anywhere online because it was 'only' a Challenger. And I ended up lamenting to Li - at length - about the serious lack of pictures available online from Simone's SIXTEEN YEAR pro-playing career.
Right?

And Li - who is vehemently not an RPF person - turns around and says 'oh, he's an immortal and he's changed identities since then' and then apparently I have a Highlander AU. Which is fucking hilarious because I've never seen the movies, or the show, or been in the fandom. Of course, I'm aware of the fandom and I was chronically online in the mid-late 90s/early 00s so it's definitely part of my fandom cultural history/knowledge. Cue me jumping into wiki and fandom.com and rounding out the knowledge.

Then the next thing I know, I'm posting
... *sigh*

Another immortal resurfaces - one Simone thought was dead. Maybe they were once rivals, or lovers, or both.

This immortal is not as discreet. And their presence risks blowing Simone’s cover - unless he does something to stop them.

Cue: Simone beheading someone with a tennis racket behind Centre Court at 3 a.m.


Expandand the rest is going behind a cut because this got long ) so yeah... welcome to my brain?

Appointment Week

Aug. 12th, 2025 02:36 am
azurelunatic: Goes on land sometimes! A loon, struggling to walk on land, saying UGH. (Goes on land sometimes)
[personal profile] azurelunatic
I have:

* 3 appointments tomorrow, all remote (for later today versions of "tomorrow", because I rarely get to sleep before midnight)
* 2 appointments Wednesday
* Only one appointment Thursday, but it looks like a doozy
* The morning primary care adjacent appointment on Wednesday got scheduled today (Monday) by using the magic combination of phrases "my oncologist said" and "new lump"
* (it's probably a ganglion cyst, since I have a history of those going back to the 1980s)

And then I managed to drive myself to Pained Noises & a complete lack of energy today by:
* ExpandRead more... )

....!!!

Aug. 10th, 2025 07:44 pm
azurelunatic: SBURB loading gif from Homestuck. A green two-story house that flies apart into blocks, the smallest block spins, then the house re-forms. (SBURB)
[personal profile] azurelunatic
https://comicbook.com/anime/news/homestuck-animated-series-hazbin-hotel-creators/

From the little I've absorbed about Hazbin Hotel, the creators might just be the correct kind of disturbed to do justice to Homestuck.

Media Cannibals for All!

Aug. 10th, 2025 04:23 pm
mxcatmoon: Winter Star (Winter Star)
[personal profile] mxcatmoon
I feel like it needs to be announced that Media Cannibals have uploaded their songvid compilations to The Internet Archive for posterity.

These were a highlight of the conventions for me, back in the day, and I had of few of the VHS tapes. I'm so glad they are available for all now.

A fun result is that there are newer fans who are now watching shows like Wiseguy and The Sentinel 

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine


(no subject)

Aug. 10th, 2025 05:33 pm
turps: (cheerful duck)
[personal profile] turps
I called into the pharmacy on Friday to see if my new compressions had finally been delivered. Now, I've called in and asked twice since my initial appointment, and each time they'd said, not yet. Yesterday they admitted that while the script had been sent off, it had been done so without any measurements attached, and the right form had only been sent that morning.

Which is all kinds of frustrating, especially so as I had asked those two times. So, as they are made to measure, I'm looking at another fortnight at least to wait.

Yesterday I was Bodhisitting. She turns four next Sunday, so I was asking what she wanted for her birthday, and it's all superhero stuff as she's really into Spider-Man and the Hulk right now. Which okay, I can work with that. Kayleigh has actually bought a Spider-Man costume and intends to deliver Bode's birthday presents while dressed up. Which, way to go the extra mile.

Then last night we went to the theatre to see Chicago, and I enjoyed it lots. Roxie Hart was played by the ex Strictly pro Janette Manrara, and I wasn't sure what to expect as she's not the best as a presenter, but while she's obviously not a stage trained singer, I thought she did a good job. The whole cast did, in fact.

But in a what are the odds moment, two rows behind us was the woman who was thrown out of the Hamilton showing. She has a very distinctive voice and way of speaking, and I turned around and yep, there she was. This time much quieter, but she still chattered away throughout to her friends.

Today it was more Bodhisitting, and yet again I spent hours looking for criminals and getting arrested. Not sure what I ever did to require being arrested so often, but obviously I must be some kind of bad guy that needs locking away from the world.

Doctor’s Orders: Blankets & Tennis

Aug. 10th, 2025 12:49 pm
badfalcon: (Don't Ask)
[personal profile] badfalcon
This week has been… a lot

I ended up being off work sick all week, and by Thursday I knew I wouldn’t be in a fit state to go back on Monday. So I made a doctor’s appointment. Cried at her, because… well, there’s been a lot lately. Health stuff, work stuff, and the way the airport sale was handled was just the final straw. Like I told her - I’m exhausted, and I just need a fucking break.

She agreed, and signed me off for all of next week too. I’m hoping that having permission to be off will help take the edge off the guilt. Fingers crossed.

I also started a new med on Tuesday, which has left me bloated and given me super fun indigestion. Sigh.

So I’ve spent most of the week on the couch, under a pile of blankies, where it’s safe. I’ve read a lot, written a lot, and watched a lot of tennis. I slept almost 13 hours last night. I still feel fuzzy around the edges, but it feels like it might have helped.

Main goal for next week: keep doing the same. Resting, reading, writing, watching TV. But I’d also like to leave the house a couple of times - even if it’s just to walk down to the library.

Writing goals: finish editing Darren renting Jannik out to Juanki; write the one where Darren is a killer (his player nickname was Killer, and people still call him that - even his wife); write chapter 1 of the Supernatural AU so it’s ready for USO (because that’s where it’s set).

Expandcut for talk of weight loss )

Stay Around a Little Longer

Aug. 9th, 2025 03:01 am
mxcatmoon: Music (Music)
[personal profile] mxcatmoon
I know I'm perpetually and chronically behind on entertainment things, so it's not all that surprising I've never heard of Buddy Guy until now - but it's still a sad thing.

The man is 89 this year, and still performing, just put out his 20th album, and it's great. God bless him.

Here's a performance with B.B. King - who was also a great talent.

Weekend ahoy!

Aug. 9th, 2025 06:38 am
ruric: (Casa chaotica - clean all the things)
[personal profile] ruric
Work was busy Wednesday through Friday so not a huge amount of progress on #project65days.

It's now the weekend and day 12 of #project65days.

I'd planned to do half days on the allotment and half days cleaning the flat but due to weird sleep patterns (or lack of sleep) I'm going to do a full day on the flat today and tidy the tiny front garden. Then I plan to have an early night so I can do a full-ish day on the allotment tomorrow.

I've got a tip run around 9:30am today and at 10:30am tomorrow so I can get 2 hours of decluttering and sorting done before this morning's run.

Plan of action for Saturday:

* continue decluttering and load car
* tip run and garden centre
* pot up/sort out houseplants in bathroom
* wash and store empty plastic plant pots for use next year
* quick surface clean everywhere
* tidy & weed front garden
* prune roses
* empty and clean pots in front garden
* empty and clean pots on porch roof
* start tackling the chaos that is my bedroom (there's a whole 30 point bullet list for this)!

That will do for today. Onwards!

GO drabble: Feelings

Aug. 8th, 2025 11:53 pm
mxcatmoon: Crowley after the kiss (Good Omens - After the Kiss)
[personal profile] mxcatmoon
Written for the prompts 122 Dispiteous and 124 Fatuous, at [community profile] vocab_drabbles 
Title: Feelings
Fandom: Good Omens
Author: Cat Moon
Rating: PG
Words: 100
Character: Crowley
Summary: Just some words about Crowley's feelings


ExpandFeelings )

mxcatmoon: seagull in sky with moon (Default)
[personal profile] mxcatmoon
 Just wondering what everyone's plans are, now that censorship is increasing at a breakneck pace. Games have already been impacted, and of course people in the UK have to show ID or let AI determine their age, and that's coming soon to the US as well (YouTube, Spotify, and others are already gearing up for it and even Wikipedia isn't immune).

ExpandRead more... )

azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)
[personal profile] azurelunatic
Suspension of disbelief = I will not start verbally poking holes in the physics of this action movie until we are out of the movie theater

Suspension in disbelief = a frozen state of constant WTF

(no subject)

Aug. 7th, 2025 04:48 pm
turps: (cats and coffee)
[personal profile] turps
I picked up my fruit and veggie box this afternoon, and look Expandat the goodies )

I usually pick up from the Re-F-Use café, but this time, with it being a different day, it was a pickup from an address from Durham. It was a quick drive there, but then I stood knocking for ages. Finally messaged the person who runs the collections, and they said to just go down the drive and the boxes were under the car port and I could pick which one I liked the look of. Did that and yeah, there were four boxes to pick from, sheltered nicely out of the sun.

Once I knew what to do, it was so much easier than a café pick up. Now I have an excess of carrots to deal with, and yes, more lemons *g*

i can see it like a prophecy

Aug. 6th, 2025 09:56 am
smilebackwards: trees (trees)
[personal profile] smilebackwards
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Wow, this is one of the classics that did not disappoint me. I feel the rage over how capitalism and the quest for profits, by people and organizations who frankly do not need them, destroy the lives and dignity of ordinary people. This was written in 1939 and the fact that it's still so relevant is gutting. Not a fast-paced book by any means but overall just really well written details and emotional impact. East of Eden on my list for more Steinbeck later.

In TV, I watched The Undeclared War (season 1). Another show specifically watched due to my random sudden attachment to Simon Pegg and discovered through a tumblr post by someone else going through Simon Pegg obsession. This is a British show about cyberattacks and misinformation campaigns and while it was somewhat slow because it really does focus on the cyber stuff and doesn't just use that as a backdrop for more exciting spy things like a lot of shows would, it got pretty real. I was like, okay, this is indeed a political thriller and hits really close to some serious anxiety areas. That said, I will watch season 2 when it comes out. I like the way they visualized analyzing code as like an escape room type mystery and I find Saara to be an interesting and messy protagonist.

And movies! I went to see the new Superman which I thought was good and the new Fantastic Four which was fine but mostly just reminded me that no matter how good the cast is I unfortunately find Fantastic Four to be hopelessly boring.

Profile

The Rewatch Job

July 2020

S M T W T F S
   123 4
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031 

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

Expand All Cut TagsCollapse All Cut Tags
Page generated Aug. 18th, 2025 08:10 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios