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today is national empanada day. i pass that on to my fellow americans without comment. :D

at work the admins had an opening day lunch even tho opening day was last week and i'm not sure when the red sox played their first home game. in any case it was a very baseball lunch - hot dogs, potato chips, cracker jack. the admin who organized it got salad and pizzas for any vegetarians who might be around, plus the makings of s'mores. it's not really a s'more unless your marshmallow stands a good chance of falling off a stick into an open flame but it wasn't campfire weather and we can't have open fires on campus anyway (i know you're all surprised) so we made them in the microwave. with peep bunnies instead of marshmallows. not quite the same but still fun. i made matzo crack - like christmas crack except with matzo instead of saltines - and it went over VERY well. it's sweet to rot your teeth (i mean mine had a cup and a half of sugar) but also chocolately and crunchy and delicious and i managed to get rid of almost all of it so i didn't have to take too much home.

you've probably read about this already but if you haven't i must share that artemis ii had problems with their outlook such that reid wiseman, mission commander, couldn't get his email. from space. nasa fixed it remotely but seriously, of all the things that could go wrong in that tin can, it was the email.

philadelphia broke the record for longest line of cheesesteaks by lining them up at the airport. it required almost 1300 cheesesteaks and after the record was certified volunteers handed out all those sandwiches to travelers and tsa workers and assorted airport employees. that's... a lot of cheesesteaks.

The music was turned up too loud for talking
but everybody talked. Someone I barely knew
was drinking wine and had an arm around me.
The liquid in my glass trembled. This was the year
the chokecherry in the yard grew tall enough
to find the wind, a thing like itself, shifting
and invisible, feeling all the leaves and turning them,
like once you turned my coat collar at the door
to make it even, and then I was ready.

--"Touching and Being Touched", Jenny George

Spring Has Sprung!

Apr. 8th, 2026 04:31 pm
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It's been busy times in the garden! I got the last of my cold-stratified seeds planted last night. On Sunday we took on the big project of replacing the old wooden bed out by the street that's been slowly rotting away and was full of grass anyway. It's all concrete underneath, and the bed was too shallow to be able to plant anything substantial, much less anything that I'd feel comfortable harvesting. In it's place we put in four 2x2 corrugated steel beds that are much taller, and there's space for another 3-4 small beds of that size if we decide we like how these first ones are working. Still some cleanup to do from that, but otherwise it's looking much better. 

I've gotten the feverfew, oregano, and thyme settled in those new spaces, with the last bed ready for the tulsi seedlings whenever they're big enough to transplant. The nights are still getting quite cold, so I'm waiting a while longer before making the little things have to brave the weather. It's supposed to be a temperate variety that can handle our cooler temperatures, but I've previously only grown the more tropical tulsi, which makes me a little more cautious than I maybe need to be. I'll be curious to see how the varieties differ.

The elecampane officially survived the winter, which I'm very happy to see! I thought for sure I had lost it. It's much slower to wake than the rest of the garden. I'm not sure if that's just how it is, or if it's a function of the place where it's been planted. It seemed to lag behind other plants in growth last year, too, but I imagine the second year will tell me quite a bit about how it feels where it is.

There's plenty of maintenance work to do in the garden, but in terms of plants, it's back to a waiting game. All the big plant sales and swaps won't happen until May, and none of the seedlings are quite ready for transplant yet, so I shall bide my time and be patient. I still haven't quite decided where everything will go, or what else I'll buy when the sales come along. There's a real risk I'll run out of space, but at least the soil is amended and weeded and ready to go. Hurrah for warmer days!

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Apr. 8th, 2026 05:28 pm
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Post-Deadline Pinch Hits

Apr. 8th, 2026 10:39 pm
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We still have 4 post-deadline pinch hits available!

Due Fri 10 Apr 17:00 CEST (in your timezone | countdown) negotiable. To claim, comment on this post with your AO3 username and the pinch hit you want to claim.

PDPH #1: Imperial Radch, Murderbot - Wells, Alliance-Union, Chanur, Machineries of Empire, Teixcalaan )

PDPH #3: Phantasy Star, Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Live a Live, Infinite Space, Legend of the Galactic Heroes )


PDPH #5: The Lost Fleet, Sins of a Solar Empire, FTL, Mass Effect, Hyperion Cantos, SG-1, Babylon 5 )

PDPH #6: Claimed!
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***

Title: Thaw
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: The Professionals
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Tags: Drabble, Spring
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: Everything is dripping

Author notes: Spring defiance from under the crushing forces of capitalism = a drabble a day in April. This one for [personal profile] kitarella_imagines who wanted some Bodie/Doyle.

Thaw on AO3

Thaw )

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Question to the readers and watchers

Apr. 8th, 2026 01:48 pm
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Since I definitely dragged us down a less happy path, I'm going to invite a question here:

Regardless of creator intent, what CANON had a positive, lasting impression on how you shape the world around you?


(context was some unsavory authors came up)
Answers can be from ANY STYLE OF FICTIONAL MEDIA, though so far I am getting a lot of Books in my discord discussion.

My own may seem simplistic, and maybe childish, but Anna Sewell's Black Beauty had me questioning the social strata ALL AROUND me from a very young age, in the Deep South.

as warm as the sun from up above

Apr. 8th, 2026 04:16 pm
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It is my LJ 21st anniversary. Amazing. Am still sad about LJ's demise, since DW, while plainly better functioning and better run, was too late to pick up on all the fandoms that fled, and so is less lively than LJ used to be. It transformed my fannish life.

*

I walked four kilometres (plus a little bit) today, to the hairdresser and back. It is a delightfully sunny, warm Spring day, and I regretted even putting on a cardigan to go out. Stuffed it into a bag on the way home.

*

My plantses are growing. Three green courgettes and two yellow (I broke the third, sigh); three pumpkins, a dozen sweetcorn stalks. A sole cauliflower and about four feeble kales, which is disappointing as I got a lot of tasty crunchy cake last year and would like to do more this time. The mange tout I planted in the garden have done nothing at all, but I have put out framework for beans and will plant them this week.

Worm Dirt Harvesting

Apr. 8th, 2026 08:01 am
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This is largely cross-posted from my personal blog, since I figure a lot of us spend a lot of time thinking about soil quality and composting! I love worm bins because they can be made to work for all kinds of lifestyles, including people who live in apartments, since a well-managed bin does not smell and can be designed to fit in all kinds of spaces.

I think I'm reaching the stage where there's something of a steady-state for managing my new-ish worm bin bench. To begin with, by myself I generate around 1 batch of kitchen scraps a week that can go into the bin. My kitchen scraps mostly include spent coffee grounds, banana peels, apple cores, and vegetable trimmings from whatever I happen to be cooking that week. Eggshells now get handled separately, and citrus goes into the yard compost outside because citrus is toxic to worms.

photos and description below the cut... )

Interest check

Apr. 8th, 2026 11:27 am
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Hey all,
We're in April already! I figured I'd check to see if there's interest in running 3 Weeks For Dreamwidth again this year, and also ask if anybody would like to host some activities in their journals or communities.

Also a good time to start thinking of posts you might want to make, for your hobbies or fandoms or those book reviews you've been meaning to make. After all, the whole point of the fest is to get more activity on DW.

Feel free to sound off and idea storm in the comments :)

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Starting a garden journal

Apr. 8th, 2026 08:58 am
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The below is a crosspost from my own dw. Has anybody else experimented with a garden journal? What sort of stuff did you write in it?

For Christmas Husband gave me a nice Critical Role notebook as 'something to go with', so I have been vaguely pondering what to use it for. I have now decided to have a go at making it a garden journal.

I have no idea how one does that. I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm basically just putting stuff in there and seeing where it goes. I don't even know how long I'll be able to keep it up,* but we're having a go anyway. So far I've put in a list of what's in the different beds off the top of my head, I've put a todo list of tasks I'd like to get done during the spring (lol!),** and I've put in a number of ideas for how I would like to do the terrace pots and a list of other plants I might like to try and plant.

It occurs to me that it might also come in handy when we go to the garden center because I can take it with me and look up what I was considering, which feels far more attractive than a note on my phone, and I could potentially also put in things that I saw at the garden center that might be interesting later on, especially if I remember to also bring a pencil.***

This decision coincides, or is probably partially born from, the effort Husband is currently making to get through a vast stack of garden magazines that have piled up. We tried putting them in a specific place, so that they weren't always lying around on the dining table. This worked splendidly for me because it was more tidy, and not at all for him because the magazines tended to just accumulate and he'd never actually get around to looking in them. So now the magazine storage situation is a bit unclear. Anyway, he's making his way through them, tearing out the pages he wants a closer look at, and I got trough after him and do the same.

On one page, I was mainly interested in a small bit in the bottom third, so in a fit of inspiration I cut it out and glued it into my journal. I had a bit of leftover hobby glue that was still good, so I used that. I discovered that the paper is really too thin for this to be an ideal solution, but on the other hand, I'm kind of enjoying the tactile way the paper has gone a bit crinkly now where it has dried. Might acquire more unsuitable glue and do it again.

---

*But it is giving me some opportunity to use highlighters. I have far too many highlighters. But they come in so many colours, and you obviously have to have one in each colour. I mean, obviously!
**If I do a third of them, I'll call it a success.
***Not a pen. A pencil. And definitely not a mechanical one. An old fashioned one that you have to sharpen. I've been favouring them for years now. I think it has something to do how it feels to write with it.

the nutella has escaped containment

Apr. 7th, 2026 11:22 pm
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I GOT SNOWED ON THIS MORNING. WHAT THE HELL. if you know anything about me you should know i love winter and i love snow but it is APRIL and it should NOT be SNOWING. what the fuck, i mean SERIOUSLY.

in more exciting basketball news, at least exciting if you're me, the u of michigan won the men's ncaa championship for the first time since 1989. i was in fact a student at um in 1989 and swarmed the streets with the entire rest of the school. we collectively went a bit apeshit - a bunch of people climbed onto the awning of a restaurant and, er, brought it down. oops. so i imagine there was much rejoicing in ann arbor last night. (they beat uconn 69-63 which implies a close and thrilling game.) and in equally exciting news for women's basketball, ucla won their first ncaa championship ever. they wiped the floor with south carolina, 79-51.

(when i was in atlanta we watched south carolina beat the pants off uconn to get to the final game. one of my local cousins is a huge fan of the uconn women's team so i really wanted south carolina to lose to ucla for his sake.)

do you want more pics from the artemis ii mission? of course you do. :D this set includes the eclipse the astronauts saw while they were up there, plus a random pic of a random jar of nutella randomly floating around the cabin.

on day 6 the astronauts woke to the voice of jim lovell, mission commander of apollo 13 and (along with his fellow astronauts jack swigert and fred haise) previous record holder for farthest distance ever traveled from the earth. don't forget to enjoy the view.

artemis ii was out of communication for a bit as they swung around the moon and afterwards christina koch had some words for earth. we will always choose earth. we will always choose each other.

I remember walking through the morning
after a night of heavy snow and drink
with headphones on and they played
me the most perfect song: no one
was awake and I was hungover
young as clean as a piano
I thought and at any moment
someone might fall in love with me I was
that woven into the electric
cold bright air and for weeks
after I went through the album
in search of the song but could not
find it and later much later I saw
that what I had taken to be the song
was in fact the joyous concordance of
a moment that would not come again

--"Perfect Song", Heather Cristle

April check-in poll

Apr. 7th, 2026 05:23 pm
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There were seven posts in the community in the last two months.

On February 3, [personal profile] rydra_wong posted a link to Naomi Kritzer's Bluesky thread about ways to donate and otherwise help people in Minneapolis, Springfield, OH, or wherever else ICE invades

On February 14, [personal profile] petra posted about public comments about gender-affirming care for minors

On February 20, [personal profile] lyr posted about [reporting GoFundMe pages that help the murderers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti]{https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/324071.html)

On February 28, [profile] chestnutpod posted about logging in Oregon's old growth forests

On March 7, [personal profile] sathari posted about a global women's general strike

On March 9, [personal profile] petra posted about mandatory conversion therapy for trans immates

On March 11, [personal profile] flamingsword posted about protecting LGBTQ kids from a proposed change in HHS policy

Please use this poll, or leave a comment, to let us know what you’ve been up to, or are planning.

Poll #34452 April check-in poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15


In the last couple of months, I...

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called one or both of my senators
6 (40.0%)

called my member of Congress
5 (33.3%)

called my governor
1 (6.7%)

called my mayor, state representative, or other local official
3 (20.0%)

voted
3 (20.0%)

did get-out-the-vote work, such as postcarding or phone banking
3 (20.0%)

sent a postcard/letter/email/fax to a government official or agency
6 (40.0%)

went to a protest
6 (40.0%)

attended an in-person activist group
3 (20.0%)

went to a town hall
1 (6.7%)

participated in phone or online training
0 (0.0%)

participated in community mutual aid
6 (40.0%)

donated money to a cause
9 (60.0%)

worked for a campaign
2 (13.3%)

did text banking or phone banking
0 (0.0%)

took care of myself
8 (53.3%)

not a US citizen or resident, but worked in solidarity in my community
0 (0.0%)

committed to action in the current month
2 (13.3%)

did something else--tell us in comments
1 (6.7%)

As usual, you can comment on the pinned post or DM me if you want a tag added or other help with the community.

[ SECRET POST #7032 ]

Apr. 7th, 2026 03:54 pm
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Spring Drabble 07/30: MCR, Yellow

Apr. 7th, 2026 06:42 pm
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***

Title: Yellow
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: My Chemical Romance/Bandom
Pairing: Gerard/Mikey
Tags: Drabble, Sibling Incest, painting
Rating: T
Word count: 100

Summary: There’s yellow paint on Gerard’s wrist.

Author notes: Spring defiance from under the crushing forces of capitalism = a drabble a day in April. This one for [personal profile] pushkin666's prompt 'MCR - Gerard/Mikey – yellow'.

Yellow on AO3

Yellow )

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A Few Words From The Wise

Speak to him, for there is none born wise.
-The Maxims of Ptahotep

In mourning or rejoicing, be not far from me.
- an Ancient Egyptian Love Song

But your embraces
alone give life to my heart
may Amun give me what I have found
for all eternity.
-Love Songs of the New Kingdom, Song #2

To Know the Dark

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings.
-Wendell Berry

Up in the morning's no for me,
Up in the morning early;
When a' the hills are covered wi' snaw,
I'm sure it's winter fairly.
-Robert Burns

Visit to the Hermit Ts'ui

Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies,
Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows.
I envy you, drunk with flowers,
Butterflies swirling in your dreams.
-Ch'ien Ch'i

Mistress of high achievement, O lady Truth,
do not let my understanding stumble
across some jagged falsehood.
-Pindar

Every Gaudy colour
Is a bit of truth.
-Nathalia Crane

I counted two-and-twenty stenches,
All well defined, and several stinks.
-Samuel Coleridge