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Aurendor D&D: Summary for 7/4 Game (Evening Session)
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settiaiIn tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )
And that's where we left off and will be picking up tomorrow.
And that's where we left off and will be picking up tomorrow.
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Jul. 4th, 2025 11:38 pmaurumcalendulaI'm at the annoying vidding stage where I have an idea but not a song yet (and all the potential ones I've listened to feel not quite right).
Sailor Moon creator bringing back manga in color
Jul. 4th, 2025 10:55 pmfennectik posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
anime_mangaSo it seems Usagi will once grace us with her magical girl adventures.
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To celebrate the birthday of Sailor Moon’s main protagonist, Usagi Tsukino, new colored manga art has been released by the series creator, hinting at the publication of the next two volumes in the Japanese 'all-color' digital manga release."-CBR
Link to the full article
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To celebrate the birthday of Sailor Moon’s main protagonist, Usagi Tsukino, new colored manga art has been released by the series creator, hinting at the publication of the next two volumes in the Japanese 'all-color' digital manga release."-CBR
Link to the full article
https://www.cbr.com/sailor-moon-naoko-takeuchi-usagi-birthday-art/
Fireworks
Jul. 4th, 2025 09:13 pmysabetwordsmithTonight we did our home fireworks show. :D These are the things we bought from JT Fireworks Sales in Charleston...
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Layers of the Law (part 1 of 1, complete)
Jul. 4th, 2025 10:05 pmdialecticdreamerLayers of the Law
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1361
[Wednesday, 2 August, 2017, 5:30 p.m.]
:: More law enforcement personnel arrive to speak to the Cort parents. It quickly becomes a problem. Part of the Unfair Trades arc in Mercedes, within the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::
The door to the conference room opened without a warning knock.
The man who stepped inside wore a crisp, dark gray suit and a bone-white dress shirt. He opened his mouth to speak, glaring toward Maurwen, who was helping a groggy Theo into a clean shirt. “What’s that witness doing here? She’s supposed to be kept--”
Elisabeth Finn and Robert Cort stepped forward at the same moment. “You have no right to barge in on a medical consultation,” Robert snapped.
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By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1361
[Wednesday, 2 August, 2017, 5:30 p.m.]
:: More law enforcement personnel arrive to speak to the Cort parents. It quickly becomes a problem. Part of the Unfair Trades arc in Mercedes, within the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::
The door to the conference room opened without a warning knock.
The man who stepped inside wore a crisp, dark gray suit and a bone-white dress shirt. He opened his mouth to speak, glaring toward Maurwen, who was helping a groggy Theo into a clean shirt. “What’s that witness doing here? She’s supposed to be kept--”
Elisabeth Finn and Robert Cort stepped forward at the same moment. “You have no right to barge in on a medical consultation,” Robert snapped.
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Friday Flora: Tuber Time
Jul. 4th, 2025 09:45 pmlebateleurI'm a big fan of the "string of" plants: string of pearls, string of turtles, string of frogs, you name it. I have a string of hearts and a string of arrows among the various plants on one of my narrower windowsills.
They generally seemed pretty happy there. However, a series of calamities have befallen my houseplants over the last 11 months. Think scale, powdery mildew, mealybugs, and wildly fluctuating temperatures and humidity levels...sometimes in the course of a single day. So I was not pleased to find that some as-yet-unknown-to-me pest had started nesting in my string of hearts.
For some reason, I kept not doing anything about it. And for some reason, the string of hearts carried on living and growing quite happily in the face of my neglect. I started to wonder...
Turns out, those little globes aren't insect nests at all, but tubers. How cool--and cool looking--are these things? Better yet, I can clip some of them off, pop them in medium, and have a bunch of new baby string of hearts after they take root.
It's a constant battle between houseplants and books in this residence, and for the time being at least, it looks like the houseplants are in the ascendant.
これで以上です。
They generally seemed pretty happy there. However, a series of calamities have befallen my houseplants over the last 11 months. Think scale, powdery mildew, mealybugs, and wildly fluctuating temperatures and humidity levels...sometimes in the course of a single day. So I was not pleased to find that some as-yet-unknown-to-me pest had started nesting in my string of hearts.
For some reason, I kept not doing anything about it. And for some reason, the string of hearts carried on living and growing quite happily in the face of my neglect. I started to wonder...
Turns out, those little globes aren't insect nests at all, but tubers. How cool--and cool looking--are these things? Better yet, I can clip some of them off, pop them in medium, and have a bunch of new baby string of hearts after they take root.
It's a constant battle between houseplants and books in this residence, and for the time being at least, it looks like the houseplants are in the ascendant.
これで以上です。
Fandom Fifty: #19
Jul. 4th, 2025 08:54 pmsenmut1993. I graduated in June of this year, had committed to my late partner (and her husband) that year, got kicked out of my father's home by his wife with his assent before I even graduated, did not walk the stage... Yeah. Ups and Downs.
28 films, and I actually know I saw most of them in theater, at least half first run and the rest in the cheap second run theater (that had an arcade and mini golf and batting cages in the same complex).
( sure why not do all 28 since I have nothing else on tap? )
28 films, and I actually know I saw most of them in theater, at least half first run and the rest in the cheap second run theater (that had an arcade and mini golf and batting cages in the same complex).
( sure why not do all 28 since I have nothing else on tap? )
Glorious Fourth of Zenith
Jul. 4th, 2025 08:01 pmismoIt was a quiet Fourth of July (though it's not dark yet, so the fireworks haven't started). I woke up about 5:30 and put the flag out. I had to put my sunglasses on to do it, and I wore them indoors most of the morning, because my eyeball is still very light-sensitive after being lasered. I couldn't read very well with the sunglasses on, so I occupied myself with boiling the potatoes for potato salad, cleaning and cutting up the strawberries, and ditto for the lettuce while I waited for the Sparrowhawk to get up. After our usual First Breakfast, coffee and conversation time, and listening to Beethoven's Ninth, which was on Sirius XM, we considered going out for a walk again. By this time, it was around 80 degrees and getting steamy, and we came to a mutual decision to take a nap instead. We were awakened at noon by the monthly testing of the tornado sirens, but we fell asleep again before they had even stopped. Good thing it wasn't a real tornado.
So it was not a day of mighty accomplishments. The Sparrowhawk read the Declaration of Independence out loud, as he has from time immemorial. My favorite memory of this is the time we went to Blackjack Park in Kansas, site of John Brown's first battle, and he read it there--just before the mammatus clouds formed and the sky turned green and erupted in hail as we arrived home and ran pell-mell into the house and down into the basement. It wasn't actually a tornado that time either, but close enough. We watched "1776," which is something he likes to do. It's a bit sad not to have any kids around, but the benefit is that they can't mock our choice of traditions. Or our musical abilities when we start singing along.
They wouldn't have mocked our dinner, and I wish we could have shared it with them: steak, potato salad, caramelized onions and mushrooms, sweet corn, green beans, salad with radishes and cucumber. And we're about to take the cherry pie out of the oven. The Sparrowhawk was definite about turning down fireworks this year. It's hot out, and we have recently spent quite enough time plodding around in sweltering conditions. No doubt we'll hear them when it gets dark, although the trees will probably prevent us from seeing more than a few sparkles at the margins.
So it was not a day of mighty accomplishments. The Sparrowhawk read the Declaration of Independence out loud, as he has from time immemorial. My favorite memory of this is the time we went to Blackjack Park in Kansas, site of John Brown's first battle, and he read it there--just before the mammatus clouds formed and the sky turned green and erupted in hail as we arrived home and ran pell-mell into the house and down into the basement. It wasn't actually a tornado that time either, but close enough. We watched "1776," which is something he likes to do. It's a bit sad not to have any kids around, but the benefit is that they can't mock our choice of traditions. Or our musical abilities when we start singing along.
They wouldn't have mocked our dinner, and I wish we could have shared it with them: steak, potato salad, caramelized onions and mushrooms, sweet corn, green beans, salad with radishes and cucumber. And we're about to take the cherry pie out of the oven. The Sparrowhawk was definite about turning down fireworks this year. It's hot out, and we have recently spent quite enough time plodding around in sweltering conditions. No doubt we'll hear them when it gets dark, although the trees will probably prevent us from seeing more than a few sparkles at the margins.
ten good things
Jul. 4th, 2025 11:49 pmkaberett- Freegle has both provided (a 4'x8' piece of 6mm plywood, which I am intending to press into service as A SHED FLOOR) and taken away (a bag of used Jiffy Green padded envelopes).
- I have discovered to my delight that I do not have to wait for a submitted indexed recipe book to actually be approved before I can ask for (and be assigned) the next one. My submitted queue is currently two deep; I'm working on another of the very short books now, and will be entertained if I manage to get it three deep. I am finding this data entry very soothing. (Though I am also having an entire moment over the vegan cookie recipe entitled "Rrraw", developed in collaboration with the Rrraw Cacao Factory, featuring raw chocolate and raw cocoa powder and raw cacao nibs, that is then baked at 160°C.)
- ........... the internet just Provided someone's photo of a pet rabbit with googly eyes along its side. This is so perfectly engineered to A's interests that I'm kind of surprised it showed up in my feed because someone I actually know, who is not A, shared it.
- I think I had somehow not previously ever spent a significant amount of time removing dried peas from their pods? But one of this evening's
distractionsjobs (while A was removing the ratchets from the plywood in service of removing the plywood from the roof bars) was removing the pods from all the extremely dried-out peas for the purposes of being able to sow more of them next year, and... they go ping and twirl themselves up into neat little curls for broadcasting purposes? if you just look at them a bit funny? I somehow had NO IDEA about this and it's GREAT. (Somehow: all my attempts at growing significant quantities of drying peas have thus far failed dramatically.) - While double-checking the series-internal order for Murderbot because I needed to remind myself which novella came next, I discovered the existence of another short story I had inexplicably been entirely unaware of... because apparently it's being published on the 11th (and possibly in Reactor Magazine on the 10th? According to at least one misc website...).
- A, eating tonight's curry, suddenly went "... oh :( I meant to stop off at the supermarket opposite the pharmacy and get some lassi :(" (the last several places they have expected to be able to get salt lassi from having Not Provided). I, who had been aware of the Why Will Nobody Sell Me This problem, had been vaguely intending to get around to just making some and, up until this sad oh-ing, had been singularly failing to actually, you know, do so. But five minutes later A had acceptable salt lassi, and it was really nice to be able to Just Produce a Treet.
- First couple of really good blackberries, and lots more raspberries, while at the plot. (There have been blackberries for a week or so now provided you didn't mind that despite the fact they were black they weren't actually quite done ripening... but apparently Just Enough more time has now elapsed!)
- Facebook showing me the Mayor of London emphatically posting, as a caption to a photo containing at least 44 Progress Pride flags, "In our city you are free to be whoever you want to be, and love whoever you want to love. We must take a stand against those seeking to roll back hard-won rights."
- Tomorrow morning's elaborate breakfast plans are cherry clafoutis, with allotment cherries. (And then while the oven's on I'll bake the bread.)
- We are doing a pretty good job this week of remembering that mutual social grooming is good for us, and therefore actually managing brushing each other's hair first thing in the morning. Which for bonus points I am attempting to actively engage with as somatosensory rehabilitation, because I am having Thoughts about my constant background headache, and doing science on myself is my idea of a good time.
Bonuses (oh hey this practice is working): pink gooseberries -- plus yoghurt and hazelnuts, but also by themselves. tomatoes setting fruit. Murderbot novellas. fiddling with pens as fidget. The Fan made this afternoon's 28°C (or at least the bits of it I was awake for) much less unpleasant. A has just set the bat detector up and it's Detected A Bat!
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Aurendor D&D: Summary for 7/4 Game (Afternoon Session)
Jul. 4th, 2025 05:44 pmsettiaiIn this afternoon's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )
And that's where we left off and will be picking up later tonight.
And that's where we left off and will be picking up later tonight.
Independence Day?
Jul. 4th, 2025 10:25 pmelisiCame across this clip of James Akaster on Seth Meyers... Should start at 12:42 when he begins to talk about the No Kings Day:
His basic argument is that kings aren't a bad thing. Go on. Kick out Trump and re-join the Commonwealth! ;)
His basic argument is that kings aren't a bad thing. Go on. Kick out Trump and re-join the Commonwealth! ;)
Firefly
Jul. 4th, 2025 01:28 pmranunculusCarrie called around 9am and asked if I'd like to do a short ride. Yes.
I groomed and saddled Firefly, putting her bridle on over her halter, then moving the reins to the halter, not the bit. We walked out a little way to meet Carrie and I got on. For the first few yards Firefly was a tiny bit fussy. We were headed back toward home and she DID NOT want to go home. The minute it was clear we were going somewhere else she perked up. Honestly, for most of the ride I felt like I was on an old experienced trail horse. She was as good as gold. She looked carefully at the bank we had to walk down and then went down quietly. She looked carefully at the rather steep stream crossing and then walked quietly and carefully across, no jumping, no trying to move fast, just perfect. At one point she did spook a bit at a particularly black and suspicious cow pat. When I say "spook" I mean she stopped, looked at the cow pat , tensed up a tiny bit, looked at it again, put her head around to my boot to ask me if everything was ok, and when I said it was and encouraged her; she sniffed it, relaxed and walked on. That is the first time she has clearly asked for reassurance from me while I was mounted. Perfect. We rode through the herd of cows, passing several within a few feet with no incident. We watched the flock of turkeys without a spook or moving away, or any drama except stopping and looking. I never for an instant felt I needed to move the reins to the bit for more control, in fact quite the opposite. She accepted light contact with the reins and went where I directed her.
I'm thrilled. Maybe we will have issues next time, but for the mile we rode she was delightful. Very slow when we turned for home, but that was enough for one day.
I groomed and saddled Firefly, putting her bridle on over her halter, then moving the reins to the halter, not the bit. We walked out a little way to meet Carrie and I got on. For the first few yards Firefly was a tiny bit fussy. We were headed back toward home and she DID NOT want to go home. The minute it was clear we were going somewhere else she perked up. Honestly, for most of the ride I felt like I was on an old experienced trail horse. She was as good as gold. She looked carefully at the bank we had to walk down and then went down quietly. She looked carefully at the rather steep stream crossing and then walked quietly and carefully across, no jumping, no trying to move fast, just perfect. At one point she did spook a bit at a particularly black and suspicious cow pat. When I say "spook" I mean she stopped, looked at the cow pat , tensed up a tiny bit, looked at it again, put her head around to my boot to ask me if everything was ok, and when I said it was and encouraged her; she sniffed it, relaxed and walked on. That is the first time she has clearly asked for reassurance from me while I was mounted. Perfect. We rode through the herd of cows, passing several within a few feet with no incident. We watched the flock of turkeys without a spook or moving away, or any drama except stopping and looking. I never for an instant felt I needed to move the reins to the bit for more control, in fact quite the opposite. She accepted light contact with the reins and went where I directed her.
I'm thrilled. Maybe we will have issues next time, but for the mile we rode she was delightful. Very slow when we turned for home, but that was enough for one day.
