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Mar. 22nd, 2026 09:39 pm
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Uploading Images to Dreamwidth
Finding Friends and Things to Do on Dreamwidth
Dreamwidth and Icons

All of these are links to [community profile] newcomers, but they're mirrored at [community profile] the_great_tumblr_purge. I spent a really long time on the icon one in particular, and am pretty damn proud of the results! Feel free to stop by and share a favorite icon or two at either version of that post 😃

Tumblr has currently pulled back from the trust thermocline, but it's not far from the edge, so I've got Dreamwidth tutorials on the mind.

Also, have a new icon! I am very fond of Crow Time.

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Mar. 21st, 2026 10:19 pm
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omgggggg that was the cough that wouldn't leave, urgh.

Let's see...
- whirlwind week of interviewing 3 candidates was horrible, but we have actually successfully hired 2 of them, and I'm pretty excited!
- then it was a week where Miss R got sick about halfway through the week, which threw everything off-balance. I was coughing a bit and descending into illness, but it was also the weekend of the comics pop-up so I just kind of .... pushed through it.... which is ultimately not great, because this week I really should have just called out from work, but instead I dragged myself into school and taught my classes while hacking my lungs out, yay. (I was masked and made sure to stay 6+ feet distant, and I only had to teach 3 classes, so it's actually not *that* bad. And I stayed in my car in-between classes so that I wouldn't infect anyone.) Wed-Friday was parent teacher conferences on Zoom, which was its own flavor of miserable, but at least I wasn't infecting anyone, and I did get to catch up on some work on Thursday. Friday afternoon (yesterday?!!) was when I finally started feeling better and getting energy back. And Miss R finally felt good enough to go back to school after missing 9 days, so ... yay!
- Just in time for the resumption of Chinese school today, and tomorrow Miss R has a joint minecraft-themed birthday party! Wow she is entering the double digits!!! I printed a bunch of minecraft block textures at work and last night I made some minecraft cubes (crafting table, furnace, cake, and chest).

Spouse is awesome and has made a Creeper piñata :)

So tomorrow is the big party!

Gotta remember to do tomorrow morning:
- make Minecraft cake
- buy candy to fill into Creeper
- maybe buy some chips/salsa? uncertain
- maybe buy some gluesticks and tape?
- disambiguate and put colored cubes in bags?

Gotta remember to bring:
- tape!!!
- boxes, made
- boxes, raw
- scissors and maybe exacto knife. ruler
- markers for folks who want to draw directly on the boxes
- cake!
- creeper!
- bandana for piñata hitting
- picnic blanket or tablecloth
- foods and snaxxx (cheese balls, chips & salsa)


Oh, I finished the Community Center in Stardew Valley on Year 2 Summer day 10, so now.... I've got nothing to do except to wait for Grandpa's approval, I guess. (I'm so disinterested in the late-game stuff lbr)

also

Mar. 20th, 2026 03:57 pm
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Unbidden, my mother apologized the other day for something that wasn't hers, namely the pressure to stay in college instead of taking a medical withdrawal the term I had surgery. (I would've been allowed to return to school subsequently without penalty, but they wouldn't have pro-rated the fees, of course.) I was off for our one week of spring break, and then I resumed carrying a backpack uphill to class daily.

It wasn't hers because I didn't grant her my choice (and she didn't know enough about how US universities operate to make a good guess about my options). The responsibility is shared unevenly between a dead person and me, and I think my concerns then were valid, given that he tried truncating my undergrad studies the next year---because, he said, not for the first time, I wasn't taking it seriously enough. Dude who had left secondary school unfinished told me I was doing undergrad wrong.

Unlike Sana in Jalaluddin's Detective Aunty, I always knew my mother was good for more than cleaning, cooking, and child-minding. It still took some effort to learn to see her as a person, however.

current reading

Mar. 17th, 2026 09:38 pm
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Uzma Jalaluddin, Detective Aunty (2025): when the landlord of her daughter's small clothing boutique is murdered, Kausar drops everything to go. Kausar's (white) friend feels sure that Kausar will find out what really happened. But her daughter wants help with housekeeping and child-minding, not an adult peer's support.

I'm only in ch. 3, I don't care currently whether books stick the landing (though I like this one so far), and ch. 2 is great for its tender forthrightness: when a kid (even a thirtysomething adult, like Kausar's daughter) is used to seeing a parent in a certain way, that's how the two are paused, unless the child makes an effort to grow a bit more. It's not something that the parent can shift solo.
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https://transrightsreadathon.carrd.co/

March 17-31, 2026

The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st.

We are calling on the reader community to read and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender-nonconforming authors and characters.


As before, I would like to request that people shout out their favourite eligible books in the comments!

Fics complete!

Mar. 17th, 2026 12:02 am
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The good news: I finished both of my fics for [community profile] pokepodproject! I got the second one fully typed three minutes before midnight 😮

The bad news: While I managed to get my Unown K story posted to the Into the Unown collection on AO3, the connection is timing out and not letting me post my Unown A story 😢 Hopefully AO3 will be back up for me soon, so I don't miss the posting deadline! (Even more hopefully it's not just my computer being fussy...)


The other bad news: Tumblr is imploding again! We'll see if this is the thing that finally kills the site.

friday five

Mar. 13th, 2026 08:54 pm
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Via a friend---

1. Have you ever watched illusion magic? Close-up, or in a stage show, or on television? Did it work for you?

I've seen Penn and Teller on YouTube a few times, not recently, and a few illusionists live, because two people I've dated previously were fascinated by the whole thing and somehow unable to understand why I wasn't similarly compelled. To me, it's small-space athletic feats plus emotional manipulation, and I can pretty much always do without the latter.

2. Have you ever wished on a star, or a lucky cat, or a coin in a wishing well? Did it work in some way?

No.

3. Have you ever cast a spell, made a love charm, or tried a curse? Did it work in some way?

Not in terms of rituals. In high school I read a few books on Wicca, went "Huh, okay," and decided it's not for me, a conclusion only strengthened by meeting pagans of assorted types during my few SCA years.

4. Are there any other traditional superstitions you pay attention to? Do they work in some way?

My Oma had a ton of these, and I heed a few of hers. Don't put luggage on the bed; that's gross. Picking up random bits of cash in one's path, if it doesn't belong to someone nearby, is fair game. I guess the person I dated who gave me a set of knives may've felt that it led to bad luck, since we broke up a few months later, but we really weren't well suited. The wooden knife block is still around; I've since swapped out most of the knives, which were cheap serrated ones.

5. Would you want major magical powers like in a fantasy story? Which powers, and how would you use them?

Nope!

Fic: Modern Day Date Night

Mar. 11th, 2026 06:43 pm
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Fandom: SVSSS
Summary: Shen Yuan tries bringing Luo Binghe to a karaoke bar; it doesn't go well.
Mirrors: On AO3, and here on [community profile] mxtx
Wordcount: 100
Ships: BingQiu
Notes: If I were to make a BingQiu FST, this song would be on it
Updated notes: Now with podfic?!?! (To explain my shock, the podfic went up less than four hours after the fic did. Fastest podfic in the west!)
Fic: Modern Day Date Night )

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