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Tonight is the first episodes of the new Libarians show. I don't have cable, so I don't know when I'll be able to see it. It will be on streaming, but idk if there will be a delay.

This has got to be so weird for the cast. They've filmed two whole seasons so far. They've already been in front of Librarians fans at an even where people came from as far as SE Asia (I think Singapore?), but it's not until tonight that the show finally comes out and we see how it hits.

Like that's going to be bizarre. Being the new cast of a sequel series, something fandom can be spicy about, and doing a fan event before anyone has seen the new show is weird enough.

I hope I love it. I've not been having a great luck with shows and movies I'd been looking forward to recently, and also the cast is adorable.

kaberett

Reading. ( Bridget Collins, Feather (lalaietha), Jenny Lawson )

Listening. More Hidden Almanac, including First Appearance of Pastor Drom; slightly grumpy with myself for dozing through a chunk of it (to a greater extent than I realised; I did get snippets, but missed more than was apparent at the time) and am steeling myself to relisten.

Cooking. More from East: aubergine katsu curry with pickled radish (meh on my part, but A liked it), roasted carrots and cabbage with gochujang (meh on A's part, but I liked it enough to nibble at it between meals even though I'm unlikely to make it again), asparagus and mangetout with chilli peanut crumb (not actually worth spending in-season asparagus on outside the Cook Everything In This Book project, but pleasing given that context).

Eating. WILD ASPARAGUS is I think the most exciting thing I have eaten this week.

I have been Disappointed by Wagamama. Much less disappointingly, I have been plied with blueberries and yoghurt. Finished the hazel-bay-rye-and-rhubarb cake; have made some progress on the birthday cake I got sent home with.

Exploring. I am currently Away From Home. There are postbox toppers. One of them is Many Round Hedgehogs; another is Sea Creatures including Mollusc. I am sort of curious about who else I might spot in the area.

Making & mending.

Growing. ... I did not get cucumbers started. I did get some more squash into the ground (well, raised beds), and planted out a bunch of tomatoes, and at least two kinds of pea are now flowering, and I will be mildly resentful if I get home and discover all the strawberries have been eaten.

Did I mention that my established rocket remains established? I was a little concerned that I'd buried it under too much manure, and then it showed up in the next bed over.

Observing. BABY WOODPECKER.

siria

The True Purpose of Tables
Doctor Who | Doctor/Rogue | ~1000 words | Missing scene for 15.07. Thanks to

trinityofone for betaing.

(Also on AO3)

( Rogue's doing the right thing. )

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部首
入 rù, to enter
入, to enter; 全, all; 氽, to float/to deep-fry (not to be confused with 汆, which looks almost identical and has a related meaning but a different radical, 哎哟) ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=11

语法
Chapter 19: sentence structure (this one makes no sense at all to me)
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138651142/quizzes.php

词汇
数量, quantity (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
我们进入虫洞之后到底发生什么了？ just what happened after we entered the wormhole?
我把全部都给你了, I gave you everything.

Me:
他以为全世界是自己的敌人。
我不知道货物数量。

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This eternal verity from

thanekos:

There's never yet been a definition of " ordinary people " without some kind of self-aggrandizing exclusion.

Context is a

scans_daily post on Nightwing #125 and law enforcement arms escalation.

mtbc

( A bit more rain. )

( An interruption in income. )

( Relaxing, taking a breath. )

( After relaxing, I should do something. )

( Turning to phenomenology, etc., to help actually get things done. )

( Rereading a Glasgow novel now that I live there. )

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The Secret History of Font Piracy

Today LinusBoman talks about font theft. Back in the 1990s I worked in a desktop publishing service bureau. Font foundries were still using a pricing model based on industrial customers with several blocks worth of printing presses and thousands of books. Font piracy was so widespread as to be fundamental. Good times—Linus brings it all back with an excellent news hook: how the unavoidable you wouldn’t steal a car message that scolded at the start of every VHS or DVD used a pirated font. Pro captions, silent title cards subdivide the video into eight sections.

Watch on YouTube
( or stream 21 minutes here )

Linus Boman is so my type of design nerd. More about him at TimesNewBoman.com

Kevin B Parry animates himself doing impossible things

Watch on YouTube

( stream six minutes of amazing here )

Audio is instrumental music. I invite you to write image descriptions; here are the first three:

Kevin in red hoodie stands in corner, falls slowly to ground — at moment of impact human becomes eight red balloons, bouncing lazily
Big cardboard boxes in empty room. Kevin stands behind one of them, jumps into the air and then into the box. His body sinks in and he’s suspended by his armpits — at the same time as his legs push up from inside another box
Leaning on a counter, Kevin slides his right hand along the corner towards the camera, and then his hand detaches and begins to slide all the way to the end of the counter, where he drums his fingers. Then the fingers slide back to his arm.

Watch Kevin on all the platforms: https://lnk.bio/kevinbparry/

Visual ASMR

Anthony Howe of HoweARTdotNET sculpts stainless steel into "kinetic sculpture," installed outside and set in motion by the wind. Most comprise a circular metal structure atop a 10 to 20 feet curved column. The circle supports four to eight rings that rotate perpendicular to the circle. Each of these rings is decorated with assorted shapes, including discs, commas, sticks, flaps, and blades. The rings are staggered so that the motion seems infinitely various; the shiny stainless steel creates cascading light and sparkles as it moves, along with the illusion of interlocking gears moving forward and backward at the same time.

If you’re at all photosensitive, scroll on by — do not open this "details" arrow

Many static pictures to admire at https://www.howeart.net

55 seconds of very flashy kinetic sculpture video, no audio

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Title: nothing is better
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: G
Length: 200
Content notes:
Author notes: Partly inspired by this quote and it can take place pretty much anywhere.
Summary: Using the override codes she entered the darkened living space, carefully removing her boots and uniform jacket before making her way to the bedroom.

( nothing is better )

paperghost

Cleaning out my bookmarks, and I found Pixilart buried in them - This appears to be a static in-browser pixel art program hosted on Neocities!

I'm considering moving to another host and buying a domain in the distant future... The host I'm considering allows more complex things like .php, but I've honestly grown to be attached to static HTML because it's simple and so versatile.

stonepicnicking_okapi

M is for May and for Mycroft, so we have "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter," which was published in The Strand in September 1893 and introduced the world to Holmes the elder and the Diogenes club.

Also I would like to reiterate that when ACD turned a phrase he turned it. One of my favorite lines in all of canon.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

Here Mycroft is judging you but is also too lazy to do anything about it.

Scholars think it may be Horace Vernet who Holmes refers to as uncle. He was a French military painter.

Italian Brigands Surprised by Papal Troops

I am just going to copy two items from The Annotated Sherlock Holmes that caught my attention (for different reasons).

The sexuality of Sherlock Holmes is oft debated by scholars, whose views range from traditional (Holmes loved Irene Adler) to outlandish (Holmes was a woman). The voyeur-reader is referred to Larry Townsend's The Sexual Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for a novel-length treatment of the possibiliy of Sherlock's (and Mycroft's and Watson's!) sexual preference for other men.

[so Holmes being a woman is outlandish but recommending a hardcore leather BSDM tome is not, hmm, and the ! after Watson's is so precious.]

And referring to ineffective charcoal fumes at the rescue at the end.

D. Martin Dakin marvels: "It is an odd thing how many of the scoundrels with whom Holmes had to deal seemed unable to resist the temptation to dispose of their victims by some complicated and lingering process which left them a chance of escape."

Here is the summary of the story:

Mr. Melas, a Greek interpreter, was summoned by Harold Latimer to translate on a mysterious business matter in Kensington. On the way in a coach with papered windows, Melas was threatened with a bludgeon. Eventually arriving at a large dark house, Melas met a captive man named Kratides, who revealed that Latimer and a woman were trying to coerce him into signing over property. Paul and the woman, Sophy, recognized each other unexpectedly. Melas is taken on a long coach ride and left far from home. He seeks help from Mycroft at the Diogenes Club, leading Sherlock Holmes to investigate. Mr. Davenport provides a lead to a house in Beckenham, where Melas and Kratides are found in danger. They are saved, but Kratides dies. It is revealed that Sophy sought revenge on Latimer and Kemp for mistreating them.

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atamascolily

Currently listening: "No Phone" - Cake

I got a new phone recently for the first time in ~5 years and immediately started deleting or disabling pretty much everything it came with. I don't think I've gotten everything yet, but it's a start, especially since the system is designed not to make it easy or obvious.

Out of the blue, the AI chatbot started messaging me this weekend, and WOULD NOT GO AWAY, and so I had to search online to find the exact sequence of commands to make it shut up. Since then, I've found other tutorials that I think have turned it off completely, but I'm going to keep working at it, just in case they try to slip something through.

Anyway: I hate this "AI" crap so much and I am extremely tempted to revert back to a basic flip phone just so I don't have to deal with this shit, except that somehow having a smartphone became mandatory, and it all really sucks. I don't really use my phone for much except calls and messaging, but I have resolved to get better about learning how to use it for other stuff in case I need it... and because it's the only way to get rid of all the crap they keep foisting upon me! But suffice to say I'm really pissed about it.

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This is from the House, MD season 3 episode Act Your Age. Bailee Madison is playing Lucy and Jennifer Morrison is playing Cameron. So, young Snow is with Emma. lol! Bailee is really good in this episode. She was 7.

Watch on YouTube

thisbluespirit

Two more

rainbowfic pieces, as I did let crossposting drop a way behind for a while:

Name: Hidden Lights
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet Red #28 (Beg steal or borrow); Azul #30 (Token of strength or loyalty)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + Pastels (also for

no_true_pair prompt March 26th - Leion & Pello at the beach) + resin (also for

allbingo May color fest square "true colors.") + Giftwrap + Triptych + Novelty Beads - https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/00/09/8b/00098b9d3a37c21ed8bd3ee00da58c7c.jpg (September Secrets 2020) + "Fire Opal" (Birthday prompts 2020) + Graffiti - for the May Parents challenge.
Word Count: 1918
Rating: PG
Warnings: Brief mention of possible death, risk of drowning, abandonment.
Notes: 1297-1306, Portcallan; Pello Ahblan, Joend Ahblan, Leion Valerno, Tana Veldiner, Tam Jadinor. (Introducing a new character who we're going to see more of in time. The end scene of this takes place immediately after the recent Atino and Leion sequence.)
Summary: Pello's fascination with starstone leads to an unexpected encounter on the beach at midnight.

Name: On the Trail
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #7 (Calm)
Supplies and Styles: Thread
Word Count: 2692
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray, Nin Valerno.
Summary: Leion has vanished.

ysabetwordsmith

Current feeling: busy

Today is cloudy and mild.

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

I set out the flats of pots and watered them.

EDIT 5/25/25 -- I spread the last of the fresh soil over the middle wedge of the septic garden. There I planted the last few 'Autumn Beauty' and 'Arikara' sunflowers, along with a lot of saved seed from my zinnias.

I've seen two mourning doves, two catbirds, a male cardinal, and a fox squirrel.

EDIT 5/25/25 -- Of the 6 pots I sowed with 'Hello Yellow' butterfly weed, 3 sprouted, one of which had 2 plants. Of the 6 pots I sowed with orange butterfly weed, 3 sprouted, all of which had 2 plants. That's a decent rate. I planted all of these along the north edge of the septic garden.

EDIT 5/25/25 -- I repotted one of the crosne knotroots into a larger pot.

EDIT 5/25/25 -- I potted up the last purple-and-white striped 'Wave' petunia, a white petunia, a 'Dusty Miller' artemesia, and two white sweet alyssums.

EDIT 5/25/25 -- I filled two more pots with assorted flowers.

EDIT 5/25/25 -- I filled three more pots with assorted flowers.

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