Thirty Days, 30K: Day Twenty-Eight
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lizvogelWrote half of quota the day before Thanksgiving; good stuff, I'm happy with it, but it was one of those sessions where I hit an obvious stopping point and pushing past it would have resulted in words-for-words's-sake that I probably would've had to cut later. And then Turkey-day was good but tiring (an expected no-writing day). All of which ate into my lead and left me a lot closer to the target line than I expected to be at this point.
Today... started out crap, writing-wise: too many other things in my head, and my mood tanked. But the housemate brought home cheap Chinese for dinner, and we watched a couple eps of Murder In Suburbia, which despite the lack of gunfights and explosions had just the snark and cynicism I needed. And then I sat down to write.
Slowly.
Really slowly.
Okay, a little less slowly.
And then....
30,082 words!
Yes, I have met the thirty30K challenge, and kicked its ass!
The book is still not done (argh), but it is getting close. Three and a half post-it notes left to cover. Will I make it before the end of November? I doubt it. But I will get it done soon, dammit. And I did my 30K.
Woohoo!!!
Today... started out crap, writing-wise: too many other things in my head, and my mood tanked. But the housemate brought home cheap Chinese for dinner, and we watched a couple eps of Murder In Suburbia, which despite the lack of gunfights and explosions had just the snark and cynicism I needed. And then I sat down to write.
Slowly.
Really slowly.
Okay, a little less slowly.
And then....
30,082 words!
Yes, I have met the thirty30K challenge, and kicked its ass!
The book is still not done (argh), but it is getting close. Three and a half post-it notes left to cover. Will I make it before the end of November? I doubt it. But I will get it done soon, dammit. And I did my 30K.
Woohoo!!!
Pumpkin Autumn Challenge : Le singe de Hartlepool (Lupano, Moreau)
Nov. 29th, 2025 08:08 amflo_neljaCatégorie : Rester tout le temps avec Brindille (Amitié - Animaux - Soin - Aventurière - Changement - Jeunesse - Bande dessinée)
Un one-shot sur un évènement historique probablement mythique : pendant les guerres napoléoniennes, un bateau français fait naufrage, et seul un singe survit. Les habitants, le prenant pour un français, décident de le juger et finissent par le pendre.
C'est macabre (et oui, il y a de la mort d'animal) mais j'aime Lupano comme auteur, il réussit à bien montrer l'humour noir de la situation, à créer une ambiance, à faire un commentaire politique (il y a une post-face qui parle de la comparaison entre homme et singe dans les origines du racisme moderne), et même à mettre quelques personnages sympathiques dans l'histoire, surtout parmi les enfants. C'était très réussi !
Un one-shot sur un évènement historique probablement mythique : pendant les guerres napoléoniennes, un bateau français fait naufrage, et seul un singe survit. Les habitants, le prenant pour un français, décident de le juger et finissent par le pendre.
C'est macabre (et oui, il y a de la mort d'animal) mais j'aime Lupano comme auteur, il réussit à bien montrer l'humour noir de la situation, à créer une ambiance, à faire un commentaire politique (il y a une post-face qui parle de la comparaison entre homme et singe dans les origines du racisme moderne), et même à mettre quelques personnages sympathiques dans l'histoire, surtout parmi les enfants. C'était très réussi !
For Sale: Nintendo Switch games
Nov. 28th, 2025 09:54 pmsettiaiI've made this post a few times without any luck, but I wanted to try again just in case I have better luck this time. Would anyone be interested in any of the following Nintendo Switch games?
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (example on Amazon)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (example on Amazon)
TemTem (example on Amazon)
If you're not interested but know someone who might be, please point them my way. I'm about $65 shy of where I need to be to pay for my storage unit this month, because the universe hates me, and it would help a lot if I could manage to sell even one of them.
For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (example on Amazon)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (example on Amazon)
TemTem (example on Amazon)
If you're not interested but know someone who might be, please point them my way. I'm about $65 shy of where I need to be to pay for my storage unit this month, because the universe hates me, and it would help a lot if I could manage to sell even one of them.
For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).
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Pumpkin Autumn Challenge : Au chant des grenouilles 1 (Barbara Canepa et autres)
Nov. 28th, 2025 04:26 pmflo_neljaCatégorie : Le Cercle de la Com'thé (Fête - Gourmandise - Récomfort - Joie - Diversité - Singularité - Empathie - Vivre ensemble)
Une bande dessinée sur des enfants animaux anthropomorphiques (plus ou moins, l'araignée ressemble juste à une araignée, mais je suis contente qu'elle soit là) qui vont participer à un concours de cuisine, et qui sont amis avec une sorcière. Je comprends les gens qui trouvent ça mignon, mais pour moi c'est tellement lent ! Un tome entier et le concours commence à peine ! Et c'est trop mignon, au point que ça en devient trop pour moi parfois, comme le renard végétarien. Et en plus ils trichent au concours, et on est censés être de leur côté.
Je pense que c'est clair, même si j'en avais entendu dire beaucoup de bien, je n'ai pas accroché à celui-là.
Une bande dessinée sur des enfants animaux anthropomorphiques (plus ou moins, l'araignée ressemble juste à une araignée, mais je suis contente qu'elle soit là) qui vont participer à un concours de cuisine, et qui sont amis avec une sorcière. Je comprends les gens qui trouvent ça mignon, mais pour moi c'est tellement lent ! Un tome entier et le concours commence à peine ! Et c'est trop mignon, au point que ça en devient trop pour moi parfois, comme le renard végétarien. Et en plus ils trichent au concours, et on est censés être de leur côté.
Je pense que c'est clair, même si j'en avais entendu dire beaucoup de bien, je n'ai pas accroché à celui-là.
✨ it's that time of the yeeear ✨
Nov. 28th, 2025 03:29 pmgoodbyebirdmy thread here
Oh and only a few days until
rec_cember . intro . sign upsNow I'm going to try to make it to the store and back. Wish me luck 🤞
Pumpkin Autumn Challenge : Racines (Lou Lubie)
Nov. 28th, 2025 10:17 amflo_neljaCatégorie : Je ne couperai pas mes cheveux, je ne parlerai pas moins fort (Mythologie - Chasseresse - Liberté - Emancipation - Féminisme)
Rose a les cheveux crépus et rêve de les avoir lisses. Une histoire semi-fictionnelle, mais avec beaucoup d'analyse de la société, sur les origines et la signification des cheveux crépus chez les femmes.
J'ai aimé ! C'était touchant, intéressant, et j'ai appris plein de choses ! Et malgré le côté instructif, on n'a pas du tout le sentiment que Rose fait toujours les bons choix, plus qu'elle est coincée dans une situation inextricable, dont on peut très bien ne pas avoir conscience.
Rose a les cheveux crépus et rêve de les avoir lisses. Une histoire semi-fictionnelle, mais avec beaucoup d'analyse de la société, sur les origines et la signification des cheveux crépus chez les femmes.
J'ai aimé ! C'était touchant, intéressant, et j'ai appris plein de choses ! Et malgré le côté instructif, on n'a pas du tout le sentiment que Rose fait toujours les bons choix, plus qu'elle est coincée dans une situation inextricable, dont on peut très bien ne pas avoir conscience.
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Thanksgiving dinner is cooking
Nov. 27th, 2025 03:15 pmconulyI put my chicken in the oven and fried up the chicken skins and - listen, I gotta say, of all the food items I've tried because I read about them, fried chicken skins are fucking amazing. I don't mind saying that they are, hands down, the most brilliant thing Jews have contributed to the world, and I do hope my various Jewish friends take that in the spirit it's intended, because omg. I don't care if I find out later that you guys invented the wheel, this is better. I am very thankful.
Anyway, we've got chicken, creamed spinach, possibly creamed corn, maybe beets of some sort, maybe couscous, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (with marshmallows, contributed by a guest), stuffing, cornbread, cranberry sauce, and pies. I'm debating making some soup as well, buuuuuuut I think we may have enough food and not enough bowls. Oh, and there's green beans. Oh, and brussels sprouts and a salad.
(Maybe I should've made baked beans? I wonder if I have time to make baked beans. Oh, but the chicken is in the oven. Hm. Can you make not-baked baked beans? Is that a thing?)
Anyway, we've got chicken, creamed spinach, possibly creamed corn, maybe beets of some sort, maybe couscous, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (with marshmallows, contributed by a guest), stuffing, cornbread, cranberry sauce, and pies. I'm debating making some soup as well, buuuuuuut I think we may have enough food and not enough bowls. Oh, and there's green beans. Oh, and brussels sprouts and a salad.
(Maybe I should've made baked beans? I wonder if I have time to make baked beans. Oh, but the chicken is in the oven. Hm. Can you make not-baked baked beans? Is that a thing?)
Bimo's Farscape Rewatch - Random Observations: 3.16 "Revenging Angel" plus 3.17 "The Choice"
Nov. 27th, 2025 09:03 pmbimoCavendish and I finished season three today, and strangely enough it turns out that the two episodes I feel I have anything reasonably substantial to say about, are these two.
3.16 "Revenging Angel":
During previous watches I never noticed how incredibly calm and at peace Moya John seems in the life action coma scenes. Almost as if dying at this point wouldn't matter and the big scary traumatizing thing really is to continue living. An impression which is not only created by costuming (Crichton is wearing a civilian outfit, jeans and plaid shirt most of the time), but also by deliberate acting and directing choices. Ben Browder plays Crichton incredibly still in this episode, slower movements, kinetic energy and frantic running almost dimmed down to zero. This lends a very haunting undercurrent to an episode that is otherwise brilliantly funny.
3.17 "The Choice":
Speaking of haunting, apparently I had to watch this episode three different times (2003, 2011 and now) to notice how the episode's soundtrack picks up the death knells we hear ringing for Talyn John two episodes earlier. Also, with its setting mostly reduced to the oddly timeless hotel on Valldon where Aeryn is staying, there is a distinct "staged like a theatre play" vibe to this episode. The ghostly vision of Talyn John, mostly lit in silver and blue, comes across as mirroring Moya John's stillness in "Revenging Angel" while taking it just one tiny step further, into the realm of the dead. Also, civilian clothing again, the exact shirt and jeans John was wearing in 1.16 "A Human Reaction".
Pumpkin Autumn Challenge : Saga 1-2 (Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples)
Nov. 27th, 2025 08:04 pmflo_neljaCatégorie : Chaudron, Foudre, et Clair de Lune (Fantastique - Magie - Sorcière - Potion - Infusion - Herboristerie - Amour - Famille)
C'est un space opera, dont j'ai lu les deux premiers tomes, qui se passe sur un grand nombre de planètes et de systèmes. Marko et Alana étaient d'espèces différentes, dans des camps opposés. Elle a été sa geôlière, ils se sont rapprochés, et ils se sont enfuis ensemble. Maintenant ils essaient de survivre avec une toute petite fille et de nombreux chasseurs de primes à leurs trousses.
(On sait que la petite ne meurt pas. L'histoire est racontée de son point de vue, après)
J'aime beaucoup ! Le mélange d'humour est de sérieux est bien fait, la romance aussi, tous les personnages dans tous les camps, y compris ceux qui sont assez horribles, ont des personnalités intéressantes. L'univers est foisonnant, on a toujours l'impression qu'on va découvrir un nouveau concept. Là la suite est empruntée à la bibliothèque, mais clairement je vais en lire plus !
C'est un space opera, dont j'ai lu les deux premiers tomes, qui se passe sur un grand nombre de planètes et de systèmes. Marko et Alana étaient d'espèces différentes, dans des camps opposés. Elle a été sa geôlière, ils se sont rapprochés, et ils se sont enfuis ensemble. Maintenant ils essaient de survivre avec une toute petite fille et de nombreux chasseurs de primes à leurs trousses.
(On sait que la petite ne meurt pas. L'histoire est racontée de son point de vue, après)
J'aime beaucoup ! Le mélange d'humour est de sérieux est bien fait, la romance aussi, tous les personnages dans tous les camps, y compris ceux qui sont assez horribles, ont des personnalités intéressantes. L'univers est foisonnant, on a toujours l'impression qu'on va découvrir un nouveau concept. Là la suite est empruntée à la bibliothèque, mais clairement je vais en lire plus !
Pluribus 1.05
Nov. 27th, 2025 11:43 amselenakIn which the Hive just needs space, okay?
( Figures it would use the voice of Howard Hamlin to demand it… )
( Figures it would use the voice of Howard Hamlin to demand it… )
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The Mighty Nein 1x04
Nov. 26th, 2025 02:00 pmsettiaiContinuing on my previously posted thoughts about episode 1x03, I just finished watching episode 1x04.
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so why do people think gold is valuable?
Nov. 26th, 2025 01:06 pmwychwoodI saw another article today that mentioned something in passing about libertarians wanting to go back on the gold standard, preppers hoarding gold, etc, and the thing that I don't understand is - why do people think that gold will be valuable in an apocalyptic / post-apocalyptic scenario?
The idea seems to be that paper money is a fiat currency and therefore won't be worth anything when society collapses (not to mention that hardly anyone carries any paper money these days!), which is probably true, or close enough. Therefore you should put your money into gold, which will still be valuable.
But it seems to me that gold in this context is effectively just another form of currency, a medium of exchange - gold itself doesn't have any real use that I know of beyond a) looking pretty and b) being exchangeable for things of value. Maybe c) there's some electrical stuff that uses tiny amounts of gold I think? So it's only valuable because other people agree that it's valuable, because other people will take it in exchange for other goods or services, because we have culturally agreed that gold is valuable.
I just feel like, you know, after the apocalypse when the survivors are starving and everyone's trying to grow crops or whatever, to quote what is probably Revelations 6:6 (via Larry Norman) "a piece of bread will buy a bag of gold". Or as Peter Blegvad (via Fairport Convention) says, "gold is the lowliest of metals - too soft for serious use; pretty, of course, warm to the touch..."
On the other hand, a lot of different cultures from many parts of the world appear to have agreed that gold is valuable. So what am I missing? Why are you better to put your savings into gold than, I don't know, aluminium or seed stocks or liquid nitrogen or something - anything - that would have actual use-value?
The idea seems to be that paper money is a fiat currency and therefore won't be worth anything when society collapses (not to mention that hardly anyone carries any paper money these days!), which is probably true, or close enough. Therefore you should put your money into gold, which will still be valuable.
But it seems to me that gold in this context is effectively just another form of currency, a medium of exchange - gold itself doesn't have any real use that I know of beyond a) looking pretty and b) being exchangeable for things of value. Maybe c) there's some electrical stuff that uses tiny amounts of gold I think? So it's only valuable because other people agree that it's valuable, because other people will take it in exchange for other goods or services, because we have culturally agreed that gold is valuable.
I just feel like, you know, after the apocalypse when the survivors are starving and everyone's trying to grow crops or whatever, to quote what is probably Revelations 6:6 (via Larry Norman) "a piece of bread will buy a bag of gold". Or as Peter Blegvad (via Fairport Convention) says, "gold is the lowliest of metals - too soft for serious use; pretty, of course, warm to the touch..."
On the other hand, a lot of different cultures from many parts of the world appear to have agreed that gold is valuable. So what am I missing? Why are you better to put your savings into gold than, I don't know, aluminium or seed stocks or liquid nitrogen or something - anything - that would have actual use-value?