Lectures d'avril

Apr. 30th, 2026 11:25 am
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Le Sang de la Sirène, Anatole Le Braz ) 7/10

The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin ) 9/10

La Russie fantastique ) 8/10

La prophétie des soeurs-serpents, Isis Labeau-Caberia ) 7/10

Train de nuit dans la voie lactée, Miyazawa Kenji ) 7/10

The Bog Wife, Kay Chronister ) 7/10



Progression : 29/52
"Risques de lecture" : Le sang de la sirène, The Dispossessed, La prophétie des soeurs-serpents, Train de nuit dans la voie lactée, The Bog Wife -> 20/26
Bingo-livres : 23/25
Reddit fantasy bingo : 6/25

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Apr. 30th, 2026 10:02 am
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Happy birthday, [personal profile] landofnowhere!

The Testaments 1.06

Apr. 30th, 2026 10:40 am
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Blessed be! The Aunt Lydia narrated episode has arrived!

Spoilers don’t know whether they’re a phoenix or a cockroach… )

Mental health and violence

Apr. 30th, 2026 09:59 am
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I am resisting the temptation to get into an argument on the book of face, and instead coming here to observe that it irks me when people say things like, "You shouldn't blame violent behaviour on people's mental illness. Mentally ill people are more likely to be the victim of violence than the perpetrator." As though it's not possible for the same factor to increase both vulnerability to and propensity to commit violence. The overwhelming majority of the violence that I've been on the receiving end of occurred whilst I was in psychiatric hospitals, surrounded by other mentally ill people.

Of course there's nuance to the conversation. Some varieties of mental illness, particularly the most prevalent ones of depression and anxiety, probably have little to no effect on violent tendencies, whereas others like addiction which have a major effect on impulse control almost certainly do, and still others literally have aggression and violence as part of the diagnostic criteria. It's also important to think carefully about how we assign culpability for violence committed by mentally ill people, and about the impact of speech which uncritically conflates all mental illness with violence. But the idea that violence committed against mentally ill people means we shouldn't speak about the link between mental illness and that which they commit, or even that no such links exists has absolutely none of that nuance. Thank you for listening to my TED Talk :)
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tl;dr my body is chewed up by medical conditions and their treatment and I have not slept more than two or three hours in five nights, but this afternoon I had to walk into Davis for a prescription and I photographed some flowering things along the way. The cherries are still blooming.

One step over the line. )

I am still watching almost nothing in the way of movies, but [personal profile] spatch and I are enjoying the introductory riffs on weird New England in Widow's Bay (2026–). The series so far feels more like a collection of strange stories than a puzzle-box, off-kilter without tipping as far as spoof. I hope it can hold. I'd had no idea I should have been following Matthew Rhys for his powers of +10 mortal fear. In other art, I had missed the gloriously angular revival of the Pylon Reenactment Society's Magnet Factory (2024). I believe [personal profile] moon_custafer that this musician is doing his impressive best in the absence of his natural frog form. The doom-folk of Jim Ghedi's "Wasteland" (2025) once again suggests a Cloudish cinema.

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Apr. 30th, 2026 05:37 am

For your consideration.

Apr. 30th, 2026 07:00 am
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Tomorrow is BandCamp Friday, meaning the artist gets a lot more of the money when you purchase their music. So I figured I'd recommend some recent-ish albums for y'all to check out.

War Child Records - Help 2.
Insupport of War Child's vital work delivering immediate aid, education, specialist mental health support, and protection to children affected by conflict around the world.

HELP(2) features an incredible line-up of contributors including Anna Calvi, Arctic Monkeys, Arlo Parks, Arooj Aftab, Bat For Lashes, Beabadoobee, Beck, Beth Gibbons, Big Thief, Black Country, New Road, Cameron Winter, Damon Albarn, Depeche Mode, Dove Ellis, Ellie Rowsell, English Teacher, Ezra Collective, Foals, Fontaines D.C., Graham Coxon, Greentea Peng, Grian Chatten, Kae Tempest, King Krule, Nilüfer Yanya, Olivia Rodrigo, Pulp, Sampha, The Last Dinner Party, Wet Leg and Young Fathers.


My World Is The Sun - Dominique Fils-Aimé
I've been listening to this a bunch the last couple of days. Soothing and emotional. Most likely my purchase tomorrow.

Anjimile - You're Free To Go
A songwriter that's new to me. Introspective, queer, aching, joyful. Reminds me it's been way too long since I've listened to Tracy Chapman.

Fantasy Life - Begonia
A voice I fell in love with the second I heard it. Soft, playful, great lyrics.

Altogether Stranger - Lael Neale
Indie pop tinged with strangeness in the best way.

The Former Site of - The New Pornographers
Complex arrangements and playfulness, but with a somber backbone.

And while I have you here I'm going to be a big sneaky cheeky and solicit your help in choosing my song for April. I have three I just can't decide between. Be my tie breakers? 🙏

trying times
make something up
wish you could see me i'm killing it

Poll #34538 Song of the Month
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 1


GBBs April Banger

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James Blake - Trying Times
0 (0.0%)

James Blake - Make Something Up
0 (0.0%)

The New Pornographers - Wish You Could See Me I'm Killing It
1 (100.0%)

汉字: 萬歲 , Galleta.

Apr. 29th, 2026 10:02 pm
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Exactly two weeks ago, my kitten died. Her name was 'Galleta', cookie in spanish. The first week was horrendous, I would disillusion myself that she was there in the house, hanging out in the spots where she liked to sway away. She was the most docile kitten in the street, and even randos would comment that she was such a pretty cat. Just the mackerel tabby that stole everyone's heart; what pains me the most about her passing is that she still had a long natural life to live. She was on track on 7 years, she at minimum still had 5 more healthy active years. Speculation in the house as to how she got her ribs broken, lungs pierced, but alas, we would never truly know; as much as we can say it was probably a motorbike/car, it's just...who in god's name is driving that fast at 5:30 in the morning. 

As such, I wanted to make this 汉字 edition in her honor, only to uh...find myself that chinese is chinese, and while I might feel my world is post Galleta right now, I am still living in the world I first knew her. 

Read more... )


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I won't have a chance to tuck in until tomorrow, but this year's [community profile] bethefirst collection is open!

This challenge involves writing the first fic for a fandom, and this time out there are 37 fics with 37 newly minted fandom tags, ranging from early 20th century contemporary novels to fantasy webcomics, horror podcasts, and art films.

The Collection on AO3

The Fic List on DW (since most fandoms aren't wrangled on AO3 yet)
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i worked from home today which meant i could sleep in and yet i could not. annoying. so i did the dishes instead of, you know, catching up on some delicious, delicious sleep. sigh. i don't think i'll ever be a morning person and i know i'm still a night owl - i mean i had to stay up last night and watch the lost boys - but man, who wouldn't rather sleep than wash dishes? right?

"The Imagination Completes Its Grand Circuit,"

sees my mother seated up in bed, unable to move

of her own accord, lips parched from medication,

she begins to sing, a chant, an Arab song,

from her childhood, eyes almost transparent.

My two aunts, or they would have been my aunts,

who died in infancy . . . from pneumonia? . . .

scarlet fever? . . . no one alive now knows.

What was, when my mother was a child, in the air

of the world’s most industrialized city? Blessings

and horrors, raw orange sunsets, that blue flame

burning is industry, the smell of incense rising

in the fabulous churches, Latin, Greek, Arabic, Aramaic

liturgies, descendants of inventors of alphabets.

After midnight humid and hot. The dead are wherever

we are. They’re not just details, these tears of bliss.

Survival’s what’s involved. Furious, the fate

that keeps watch. Everything’s something else and yet itself

at the same time. Home, you know? Everyone

and everything is related. Wet steel-blue morning, thin,

purple salvias near the backyard fence. Your Grandpa’s

dead, I, the baby, must have heard it said.

--Lawrence Joseph

phooey (concert adjacent)

Apr. 29th, 2026 08:19 pm
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I typed out a very long concert and art museum report but did it right in the composing window here instead of as a document that I frequently saved. I did something or other that deleted the whole post. I couldn't get it back through the history. I'm not going to do it again right now.
I'm just going to put this link here. One of their new songs includes four lines of an old traditional folk song. Have tens of thousands of people including me singing along on Sunday evening in someone's fan cam video (but not mostly the members, who were listening to the crowd)
https://youtube.com/shorts/YmMSKNrqcJM?si=aciiiGrSCIOkDOg6

Have this one too, which is focused on Jimin but gives a view of all the goings-on with the backup dancers at the time
https://youtube.com/shorts/FU-ZwHRdhZA?si=-GkmjSmQQCyGsXuv

Write Every Day: Day 29

Apr. 29th, 2026 05:30 pm
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Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15


Still looking for a volunteer to split hosting duties for May! If no one else is available, I'll split the month with [personal profile] dswdiane, but I want to put out the call one last time…


My check-in: Some rewrites to the beginning of a story that I might use for a charity auction fill.


Day 29: [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] trobadora

Day 28: [personal profile] acorn_squash, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] dswdiane, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] trobadora

Day 27: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] dswdiane, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

More days )

When you check in, please use the most recent post and say what day(s) you’re checking in for. Remember you can drop in or out at any time, and let me know if I missed anyone!
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This is another repeat bundle, set in the huge largely unexplored rift that splits the Empire and can make travel very difficult. It's a repeat offer adding some new material - if you previously bought it you will receive the new parts automatically. Apologies that I've posted this so late - I've been a bit busy tonight and it slipped my mind.

TRAVELLER GREAT RIFT (Nov 2022)
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2026GreatRift

  

Last time this was on offer (with another bundle containing the rules etc.) I said "OK - Traveller is probably the best-loved SF system out there, and the Mongoose version is VERY popular. You're getting a ton of stuff for your money. Need I say more? Unless you really dislike SF or the setting, or already have everything here, I'd recommend buying them." To which I might as well add that long-term exploration is something that earlier versions of Traveller didn't handle very well; you were mostly in a mapped and reasonably well-documented empire, and it was rare to encounter the complete unknown. This bundle, and others like it, have really changed that, and I really welcome the change.

焚情 Fanart

Apr. 29th, 2026 04:06 pm
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Douqi recently asked me if I'd put all my FenQing (To Ember's We Return) art in one place and the answer was a resounding No <3 ahhaha until today!

Put them up in 2 spots for image hosting reasons, as follows. Be warned, some pieces in there are NSFW! All the characters included are mentioned in the alt text.  I'm gonna try my best to update as I make more! 

- Dreamwidth Post

- Tumblr Post

decoined

Apr. 29th, 2026 02:44 pm
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Another reason I lost interest in coin collecting is the decreasing use of coins in our society. As recently as the end of the state quarters program in 2008 I would always have a fistful of coins in my pocket, and could search through any new arrivals for state quarters.

But now I rarely have coins at all, and I tend to decant any I get on arriving home. I just don't need them any more.

This is partly because of the decreasing value of coins. It's been years since you could buy anything, except maybe an hour on a parking meter in a low-congestion district - and they're mostly coin-free now - for a quarter. If you use coins at all, they're just markers on the way up to a greater value.

But just as much it's the move to cards. I was at the Freight & Salvage on Saturday for a concert by a Scottish folkish band called Gnoss (silent G) - it was all right, typical fiddle-driven fast music with occasional slower songs - and I stopped by the food counter for a snack. I picked up a bag of peanuts, $1.10 with tax. I remembered I had a dime in my pocket as well as a dollar bill, and I was reaching to pull them out when the clerk said "We're cards only." So, I now have a credit card charge for $1.10. Sheesh.
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I wrote a fic for The Pitt! Not the one I had originally been meaning to write, which I do still plan to. This one was supposed to be one I knocked out over the weekend, but it got quite a bit longer. Here it is.

a woman can't survive by her own breath alone (7491 words) by raven
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Relationships: Melissa "Mel" King/Trinity Santos, Trinity Santos & Dennis Whitaker, Michael "Robby" Robinavitch & Trinity Santos
Characters: Melissa "Mel" King, Trinity Santos, Dennis Whitaker, Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Additional Tags: Trinity Santos and Dennis Whitaker are Roommates, Trinity Santos is Bad at Feelings, Canon Lesbian Character, references to past sexual abuse
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“I don’t need a fucking script, Huckleberry!” Trinity says, furious. “I can ask a girl out, jesus.”

“I mean, that’s weird,” Whitaker says. “Because you haven’t. Like, that’s what this entire conversation is about.”

RIP (Read in Progress) Wednesday

Apr. 29th, 2026 02:45 pm
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Happy Wednesday once again! What are everyone reading this week?
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