the library

We invited cousins out for an early dinner at 4. It's now 10:30 and they just left. So nothing but links today because my brain is very very tired.


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Like a lot. Like buckets. The dog birthday party was canceled. We did go out with my brother and SiL for the parentals' anniversary and my upcoming birthday. It wasn't bad. Got to play with their crazed kitten.

My brother taped my leg up to see if part of this pain is a fibular nerve entrapment.

Last night Dad liked my hair (because inside it looks brown) but tonight outside noticed hey it's violet and of course it becomes 'you sure know how to attract attention to yourself.' (i.e. how dare you?) Did not engage.


I found a few fun things mostly for spikesgirl58 but I think we can all 'enjoy' these.

As for this one, I want to know what combo of drugs you're on to come up with this combo. And also what possessed anyone to publish this recipe.


Speaking of I can't believe they published it, here a easy dinner for when you h ate your family of 4

Today I went to the expensive greenhouse today and got chocolate mint and trailing rosemary which I have never seen before. Still edible like the standard rosemary this one cascades and can be used as ground cover. I like that idea.

The surgeon here refused to see me because I'm from out of state and at this point by the time we got the ball rolling I'd have to go b ack. If the pcp I wanted to take over here would have called me back....but I did find out my phone was called two days ago but never rang thru. Gah. Whatever. I have an appointment when a new to me surgeon back in OH. His name is sever...not the best name or THE best name for a surgeon depending on how you look at it.

OPI nail polish did a zodiac theme. Gemini was boring white so I bought Scorpio instead beautiful blue

My friends sent my parents 60th anniversary cards. They were so happy with that.

Here's a chapter from a long delayed upcoming Hazbin Hotel sequel written for allbingo's drag prompt and spikesgirl58's 6 word challenge. the 6 words were Wacky, Patch, Moldy, Voiceless, Easy & Ragged

( story scene under here )


Fannish 50 recs


Ellipsism The Owl House

new friends in strange place
陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng TóngxiùThe Avengers (Marvel Movies)

Bad Judgement Torchwood

Out Of The Shadows Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Sweetness Follows ゴールデンカムイ | Golden Kamuy (Manga)/Suikoden III

Solar Smash II The Murderbot Diaries

substitute Star Trek: Voyager

Learning to Bear Overwhelming Grief 9-1-1/Teen Wolf

One Good Hoax Deserves Another Murder She Wrote/V

Marked The Murderbot Diaries

It Doesn't Matter Anymore Hazbin Hotel

Temporary Host Torchwood


Wish I had the power to make you stay Oxventure (Web Series)

Bottled Poetry Stargate Atlantis

petals in a storm 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Eating Weird Things At the Fair 9-1-1

Musical Poetry Hazbin Hotel

Beach Blanket Bimbos Stargate Atlantis/Real Genius

SHOW ME YOUR FEET! –Bryrin #1FanCritic Hazbin Hotel

Love And Trust Torchwood

Have the king of horror for Friday the Thirteenth. This is probably one of King’s more controversial quotes and often misinterpreted too but regardless, editing is important. I wish I enjoyed it more. It was funny one of the author’s group on that zoom meeting prefers editing to drafting, complete opposite of me.

Word faulted out HARD on me today. Lost a lot of what I wrote for the finish of the story. I recreated it but it’s not nearly as funny as the original. And then when it saved, Word put it under a complete different file name which thankfully I had posted that story so I could retrieve it. Sigh.


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Day twelve - goddess47, china_shop, cornerofmadness, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, nafs, cmk418, trobadora, yasaman, brithistorian,

( other days )

I think this realization is an important one.


Noodled on the new Hazbin thing trying to get it there by Friday’s deadline, made 1200 words so good job me.


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Day eleven - china_shop, cornerofmadness, badly_knitted, nafs, luzula, cmk418, trobadora, sylvanwitch, carenejeans, ysilme, goddess47,


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After all that rain. I even sat outside and worked some. Tried to garden but the empty pots were filled with spiders and bugs and I ran away. I shall try again another day. Zucchini and me and spiders don't mix.

I've also been learning odd things lately like in my search for things to do in Kansas City MO (for my conference next year) I was nosing about a historic cemetery and found this lady. I am always interested in the women who went up the ranks from prostitute to madam to one of the richest women in town, like Madam Dufran in Deadwood SD. Well meet Leannah Loveall She had the same career path as Dufran and something amuses me about a prostitute named Loveall. If I wrote that people would be annoyed at me being clever.

Also I'm reading a book with the tag line Klimt, Freud and Jung meet the bride of Frankenstein (Anima Rising) it's not what I was hoping for (I have a love/hate relationship with professional RPF usually falling on the hate side) but it mentioned Felix Salten, the author of Bambi, is now considered the probable author of Josephine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself , a famous early erotic novel (not one I've read and I've oddly read a lot of these things, none of which that were very good IMO)

So my brother calls me yesterday to tell me it's my turn to rent a cabin in the Hocking Hills (he did it last year for the group) and he has the perfect one for me to rent because I love caves. He said he'll kick in 100$. It's 1600/night....dream on, bro but man, it's something. Check it out




I am a bit tired so I'm pushing off my fannish 50 women of fandom til friday. Instead I'm going to fall back on a fannish 50 standard for me: the fan animatics.

Satana came out with a new one for Hazbin a few weeks ago (but YT just recced it to me) and they have another one to the song ricochet by starset. The new one is to Paranoid DJ's fan songs for Hazbin. I've recced their work before. This song Get Hooked is not my favorite by them but I love that DJ experiments with style. This one has a mumble rap feel which is what I don't like because the lyrics are very hard to hear over the unbalanced instrumental but the animatic is pretty amazing. Satana does not make Angel smooth around the bend like a Ken doll like so many fan artists do. He's decidedly male.

Warning BOTH animatics have Angel Dust in his drug-addicted, sex worker role (including pole dance/stripping) and the allusion to sexual assault is very apparent. His and Val's relationship is a toxic abusive mess. This doesn't shy away from that. (Honestly as prudish as YT is getting i'm surprised they haven't been hidden)