Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 4

Jul. 17th, 2025 06:59 pm
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 4 by Kanehito Yamada

Spoilers for the earlier books.

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Jul. 17th, 2025 06:49 pm
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My 4-year-old transitioned to a big-kid bed more than six months ago. Since the switch, every time he wakes up (at night, super early in the morning, etc.), he comes into our room needing us (and waking us up). Sometimes he is crying because he is scared, but often it just feels like an automatic thing he’s doing. We always march him back to his room and don’t let him get in bed with us. We have tried what feels like everything: a reward chart for a bigger reward he gets to pick, a small reward each day he stays in his room, a light that changes color when he can come out of his room, talks at times other than when we’re dealing with it in the moment about staying in his room, some books about being afraid of the dark, a special box of toys to play with when he wakes up, a fun galaxy light, a Yoto he can listen to … nothing has worked.

I don’t want to lock him in for a variety of reasons. I feel like we’re almost back in the baby stages of being woken up at night! I was hoping it was just a phase we’d get through, but it’s really dragging on at this point. He’s also been tired during the day so he’s not getting enough sleep. Any ideas?

—Mom in the Land of 10,000 Yawns


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Knee update

Jul. 17th, 2025 05:19 pm
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My knee has been doing a bit better in the last week, as well as my hamstrings. Once the weather cools off a bit (it's been in the low to mid 30s Celsius), I'm hoping to try another long walk. I'm fine with short walks at those temperatures, but 12 hours is a bit much.

My partner and I had this funny exchange:

Me: Hopefully no thunderstorms this weekend.
Me: It's hard to plan 12-hour walks if you know it might lightning on you.
Her: yeah
Her: i mean, i believe you, i don't really know what 12 hr walks are
Her: even as a concept, it's a bit like "not even light can escape a black hole", ok I trust you, but I don't understand
Me: 😂

The Phone Rang

Jul. 17th, 2025 02:08 pm
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The phone rang at 7am yesterday morning.   It was our neighbor Mr Wachs (pronounced "wax"), reporting that the cows were out. I called Cody.  A few minutes later Cody called me and asked if I would come down and open the wire gate that leads into Rudy's place.  Rudy is Wach's neighbor to the south.  It wasn't just one or two cows that were out, it was pretty much the whole herd.  Cody thinks that one of the calves, closely followed by his buddy in trouble, a slightly younger calf; got out onto Wach's place. These aren't little calves, the bigger one probably weighs 350 lb, and is clearly a teenager with a big attitude. The first calf's  mamma, who is a good cow mamma, couldn't get through the same place, but did push through Rudy's fence in order to stay with her calf.  The rest of the herd followed. 
Cody pushed the herd back to Rudy's fenceline where none of the cows walked the extra 30 feet to the gate, they all climbed back through the fence.  I knew I'd seen two calves on the Wach's property but by the time the rest of the herd was through I could only see one, who I hazed back through the fence.  Cody and I stapled up the old, old fence to old, old redwood posts.  There was field fencing below topped with two strands of what had once been barbed wire.  The barbs are now so rusted that they are little more than nubs on the wire. There were some new  t-posts that had been installed the wrong way around, making them almost useless.   We then added two or three vertical wires between each post, a lot, considering that the line posts were only about 8 feet apart.  The vertical wires help tie everything together and make it hard for a cow to get their head between the wires.  Once a cow can put their head through the wire they will use their weight to push on through, so stopping the head is important. 
Cody has some fairly serious medical stuff going on and was headed for UCSF in San Francisco for further testing. 
I got another phone call last night around 8pm.  It was Mr Wachs reporting that the last calf had shown up and was safely back through the fence.  With that in mind, this morning, a lovely cool foggy morning (pretty much unheard of in July), I took the chainsaw down, cut up one of the PG&E trees and went on to the Wach fence.  If those calves hadn't been trouble-making teens they wouldn't have challenged that fence, but it was -just- decrepit enough to let them through.  I added staples and lots of verticals.  It should be good for a few more years. 
Now I need to mount the chain saw sharpener. 

sunshine revival challenge #4

Jul. 17th, 2025 02:30 pm
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Challenge #4

Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.
I love music so I'm going to just post a top 10 songs I've been listening to recently (though not all time) and in no particular order. All links go to YouTube! :D

1. Stargazing by Myles Smith
2. Three Six Five by Shinedown
3. That's Not How This Works by Charlie Puth & Dan+Shay
4. Ordinary by Alex Warren - first song of his I've heard and I really like it
5. back to friends by sombr - it was a crazy coincidence how spotify recommended them to me and then all of a sudden, a couple of their songs started playing on the radio like a few weeks later. i like this one and 'undressed'.
6. Revolving Door by Tate McRae - she has really catchy songs.
7. can't slow down by almost monday
8. Azizam by Ed Sheeran
9. Bad Dreams by Teddy Swims - ngl at first I thought he was saying "closer when I cry" and I only found out later it was "no sound when I cry"
10. Me Without You by Evan Cline

Sunshine Revival Challenge #5

Jul. 17th, 2025 05:18 pm
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[community profile] sunshine_revival's next challenge is:
Carnival Barker
Journaling prompt: Be a carnival barker for your favorite movie, book, or show! Write a post that showcases the best your chosen title has to offer and entices passersby to check it out.
Creative prompt: Write a fic or original story about a character reluctantly doing something they are hesitant about.

My favorite show is, as it has been since 1987, Star Trek: The Next Generation. It's my go-to comfort watch. I'm not big on blanket recommendations since, hey, I don't know what you like! But here are five of the things I love about it:

  • Competence porn. These people are the best at what they do and excel under pressure. I never get tired of watching them work together like a well-oiled machine.

  • A crew that loves each other. The chemistry among the crew just gets better as the show goes on and they grow into their relationships and comfort with each other. Interesting friendships, earned respect and trust, and a lot of different kinds of love.

  • An optimistic future. The core premise of Star Trek is that in the future humans will stop fighting each other, learn to value diversity, and travel into space on missions of peaceful exploration. I need this kind of hope in my life.

  • Ethical dilemmas. How do you write stories with conflict when everyone likes each other and is on the same side? Ethical quandaries! Some of my favorite scenes involve people who respect each other seriously discussing and/or passionately arguing about what the right thing to do is, and the answer isn't obvious. This is catnip for me.

  • Nostalgia. The show was a fixture of my childhood (and adolescence, since reruns are forever) so that's obviously going to be a factor! As decades have passed and we've entered the era of streaming prestige dramas—which are great in their own way, don't get me wrong—I find that revisiting an earlier era of lower budgets and leisurely season lengths has an increasingly appealing old-school charm.

Challenge 196: Red

Jul. 17th, 2025 11:01 pm
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Severance (Mark S.)
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Next color: Orange

Birdfeeding

Jul. 17th, 2025 02:59 pm
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Today is mostly sunny, humid, and hot. It rained copiously yesterday.

The internet serviceman came out today and installed some new equipment, which will hopefully fix the problems we've been having. We went outside to look at that. The antenna is now atop the bathroom roof, much higher and pointing south instead of east, so we have a better signal already.

My partner Doug had already started bushwhacking a path to the east edge of the yard, where the old antenna pointed. We still want to finish that for the sake of edge access. It didn't get mowed last year. We expected it to be full of weeds. We did not expect it to be full of 10-12' high hackberry and walnut saplings that obviously show multiple years of growth. :/ I strongly suspect that they waded into that position. I told them very firmly to move it or lose it, because we are serious about restoring that path.

I have not yet fed the birds. I have seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a mourning dove at the feeders. A cardinal was trying to get through the living room window, so I had to shut my office door to block the false flyway between the south living room window and the north office window.

I fed the birds.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 7/17/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 7/17/25 -- I planted 2 wild senna, one under the contorta willow and one under the apricot tree. The ones in the wildflower garden are blooming. :D I sowed seeds of apricot, white peach, and cherry plum. The latter look like beach plums to me -- they're smaller than apricots -- and we got a whole carton of them. It will be interesting to see if they sprout.

I've been hearing thunder.








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Challenge 196: Violet

Jul. 17th, 2025 03:58 pm
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Spanner Kurogane from Kamen Rider Gotchard
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Next Color: Red

(First time doing this! Let me know if I messed something up.)

Challenge 196: Blue

Jul. 17th, 2025 09:53 pm
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High-contrast graphic of Iwan Rheon as Joe Pritchard

Joe from Y Golau/The Light in the Hall
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Next color: Violet.

Anthropocene

Jul. 17th, 2025 02:26 pm
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Since some people persist in denying the existence of the Anthropocene, I've been keeping an eye out for hard evidence, especially geologic evidence.

A Mysterious New Rock Is Forming on Earth

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I'd like to point out that I first used the dw tag "zachary quinto owns me forever" in 2009. And I'm still using it. I mean, in fandom years, that's pretty much forever. Is this tag longevity due to my loyal and consistent personality? Or is it due to the fact that ZQ is...ZQ, and he has not decreased in hotness since I first used the tag? 🤷🏼‍♂️

Anyway, I added to the shirt catalogue. I'm updating at ao3, too.

Also, I made myself a Brilliant Minds icon. It's not great. If you have photoshop skills and make me a better one, you'll make me a really happy dog.

shirts from eps 3 and 4 of Brilliant Minds )
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oin us for the next Digital Defenders this Tuesday, July 22 at 8PM ET!

We’re diving into the wild side of the web where feminism meets fan culture, from stan wars to shitposts, fanfic to fandom memes. Let’s talk about how fan spaces and meme culture are part of feminist movement building!

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6 things I love

Jul. 17th, 2025 08:12 pm
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The current round at [community profile] retro_icontest was about things we love. It was originally meant for entertainment-type things, but the challenge explicitly included stock, and my muse decided to use that opportunity for a change. So, the things I love: HPI, my current favorite show and obsession, and... my cat. :D




Reasons I love HPI: because Morgane can't resist a puzzle, because Karadec is soft-spoken and sensitive, and of course because of the romance.
Reasons I love cats: because they're cute, because they're curious and often hilarious, and because their fur is so soft.

I'm happy to receive all kind of comments, including concrit! All icons shareable. Credit for brushes and textures I use can be found here in my resource post.

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I guess today's coin flip has landed on "pivot to popcorn". If the world is burning we may as well get some use out of it, right? Popcorn all around!



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New Zealand slang needed please 🙏

Jul. 17th, 2025 05:50 pm
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I write RPF and due to sheer stupidity thought a guy (L) was Australian but he's from New Zealand 🤦‍♀️ Is there anyone who could translate these Australianisms (which I really love and got from Home & Away and Neighbours) into New Zealandisms? I don't watch any NZ soaps.

Also, do New Zealanders play keepy uppy? When you bounce a football on your knee and see how many times you can do that without dropping it. A well known British game but maybe it's called something different in New Zealand?

~~~

“G’day mate,” said the Australian. “Sorry, we're playing keepy uppy and the ball got away from us.” He was smirking as he picked up the football.


“Don't be such a flaming galah.” L threw the ball at N.


“Strewth mate, that’s 50 already.”


“Here we are,” said L. “Enjoy, you pair of hoons.”

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