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Jun. 10th, 2026 05:50 pm
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Going by the podcast, you can use 怎么样(zěnme yàng) like 어때.

(I'm getting zen and shen mixed up in my listening, and me and ma (I need to look those last two up). I presume this will all become clear eventually. And oof, my speaking in Duolingo is getting worse and worse. The app is like, "No, '大'!" and I'm like, "That's what I said!!" And it's just thrown a dozen new words at me too, aaaaah. /whine)

어제 날씨가 너무~~~~ 추운데 기분이 그낭 그랬어요. 왜 나갈다고 약속했어요? 아무튼, 우리가 저녁 먹으러 맛있는 식당에 갔어요. 나는 중국어로 쓸 수 있을까요?

昨天晚上,我和男朋友和我们的一个朋友去非常好吃采的饭馆。(이런 문장 맞아요? I had to look up yesterday and evening on chinese.yabla.com, because I couldn't remember the pinyin correctly.) 我们聊聊雪人。

Today in two images

Jun. 9th, 2026 09:28 pm
sholio: purple flower with yellow sun (Spring-flowers 2)
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It is finally summer, or at least summer-ish. (Never mind the frost warning two days ago.) I took a drive this evening and took this picture from a boat launch at a nearby river.

water with reflected trees and golden evening light

I also drew a birthday card for my sister and mailed it today.

Under the cut )
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Hi. I couldn't get online today until now, ten minutes before the end of Tuesday, so this can be for Wednesday. ♡

Today's theme is questions. All prompts must be in the form of a question. Fills don't necessarily need to include the prompt's question verbatim if it's asked/thought by a character.

Feel free to add specifics to your prompts, like whether you'd prefer a gen fill over something shippy, or if you have a squick or trigger you hope to avoid. Original fiction, fanfiction, and fanfic crossovers are always welcome. ~_^

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get things started...
+ any animated fandom, any morally gray character (+/ any), How did they get caught up in this mess?
+ any TV fandom, any +/ any, "Are you sure this will work?"
+ author's choice, any +/ any, "Who was that on the phone?"

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this option here.

Open for 2026: Summer of the 69

Jun. 9th, 2026 11:14 pm
soc_puppet: A sunflower against a blue sky with a few stray clouds; text reads, "Summer of the 69" (Summer of the 69)
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Starting today: Summer of the 69 is an old-fashioned panfandom fest that runs from June 9th through September 6th, to hit 6/9 in both common date formats. It's dedicated to creations featuring the sexual position in question, though it doesn't have to be the first, last, or only sexual position featured in a given work.

Contributions are open to all sorts of non-gen-AI works and content, from recs to fics to art to crafts to podfic to vids to just about anything legal you can think of, and are open to all fandoms and original works. The fest features themes introduced weekly that themselves typically run for two weeks, to give participants some inspiration to work off of. There's also a comment meme in the style of old-fashioned kink memes, where you can prompt scenarios to your heart's content!

To learn more, go to [community profile] summerofthe69; you can also check out this year's theme calendar right here, add prompts to the comment meme over here, and browse the AO3 collections for this and past years over here.

Come check it out!

Identification.

Jun. 9th, 2026 10:59 pm
hannah: (Robert Downey Jr. - riot__libertine)
[personal profile] hannah
Spending the day feeling at 80% at best and staying up late demonstrates an inability to learn a lesson. Freely admitting to that doesn't help any, but at least I'm identifying the problem.

Another problem I identified this afternoon was being unable to address people in the gym when they're being loud enough I can hear them over whatever podcast I'm listening to. Cranking up the volume to drown them out would be to put it at the maximum, which wouldn't be a fix.
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Fandom 50 #17

It's not an exaggeration to say that my entire fifty-song list hinged on my choice for 1993. This was the year that had the greatest number of favourite songs by favourite bands vying for a single space, and whatever I slotted in had a domino effect spanning almost forty years as I prioritized finding other spots for the bands that didn't win out.

Was 1993 just a stellar year for Canadian music? Possibly. I think in general there was a maturing alternative sound in the air, not just in the mainstream breakthrough of grunge but people doing interesting things with folk, country, adult contemporary, and what used to be called college rock. There was a lot of accessibly different stuff out there getting radio play.

But I think it's mostly just that I was nine years old in 1993, had my first job (delivering the Pennysaver), and had the money to buy cassettes for myself for the first time. I had a hand-me-down Walkman too, and even though I'd got it because the tape player part had stopped working, it still functioned as a portable FM radio. My sister was old enough to have a proper after-school job, and she brought even more new music into the house that I was eager to borrow. Totally with permission, every time.

In short, 1993 was the year I started discovering my own music, and nothing hits like that.

Settling on Crash Test Dummies was partly a practical choice based on the logic puzzle I inadvertently created for myself and partly because God Shuffled His Feet just still thoroughly delights me as an album. And this song in particular seemed a fitting one to share thirty-some years later in my life.

Afternoons & Coffeespoons by Crash Test Dummies

June Manga Wrap-Up 6

Jun. 9th, 2026 09:18 pm
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 Read ch. 14 of Akuyaku Reijou no Naka no Hito!

 Read ch. 14 of Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun.

 Read v5 ch. 1 of  Akuyaku Reijou desuga, Shiawase ni Nattemesemasu wa!.

 Read ch. 2 of Partition.

 Read Kamoku na Shinyuu ga Tada no Muttsuri deshita, rated it 6.5/10. 

 Read ch. 4 of Core Scramble.

 Read chapter 62 of Men of the Harem.

 Read Mairimashita! Iruma-kun ch. 205.

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Jun. 9th, 2026 09:34 pm
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Still enjoying the Legend of Vox Machina - each season is slightly better than the last, the characters (six leads) all have good arcs, and it's a adult animation. (ie. There are sex scenes, battles, and swearing, thank you very much. And sardonic ribald humor. With British accents.)

It's streaming on Prime, and each episode is 20- 30 minutes each.

It's about a bunch of adventurers who band together to fuck shit up. Has a gunslinger, two magical elves, a woodland spirit, a cleric gnome, a singing magical gnome, and an giant orc. Music, chaos, romance, adventure, magic and adventure ensues - while they fight dragons, warlocks and other beasties along the way. High fantasy at its comedic best.

Time got away from me. Off to bed.

Sick F-ck

Jun. 9th, 2026 08:36 pm
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[personal profile] theradicalchild
My cough, sore throat, and headache were a real bitch last night and still are today.

I called YourTexasBenefits to confirm their receipt of my parents' proof they're paying my monthly rent, and after struggling with the retarded AI robot I got on with a customer service agent and told me "fuck you" in that I didn't put their phone number on the proof, so I had to do so later today and rescan them. I really fucking hate it when they have unwritten rules like that, and I think I had put in my account online they were helping me with my rent. I will call them again tomorrow morning and hope they don't give me the runaround again.

My next door neighbor Lewis offered me $300 to watch his dog Apollo when he goes on vacation from June 22 to July 1, and I agreed since he told me I would simply need to let him out and take him to my complex's backyard so he could do his business and such, and I agreed. I could definitely use the money.

There's a local group called Bite Club that met at a local pizza place, Stoner's Pizza, that I went to this afternoon, and I talked a little to the people there and handed out one of my flyers to my stuff online, and I just had two slices of pepperoni pizza and a drink. The pizza was meh, and the cheese had the problem of being so fused together that it comes off when I try to take a bite, which I've seen on pizza in the past.

I went to the city park pool and they had some space so I went swimming.

Then I shopped for shit at Walmart including Campbell's tomato soup and chicken noodle soup for my sore throat. I cooked up the former but I get really impatient as fuck with hot soup and scalded my tongue a little. I am continuing to use sore throat lozenges.

I couldn't find out where to pay the tolls I likely got on my drive down to Austin even when asking Grok, and one said I would have to provide an invoice number that I don't have, so I'll have to wait until they send one to my parents' place since they own my car, and I'm sure they'll be nosy about where I went and why, but I'll try to be a grey rock.

I had a Zoom session for a gig on Upwork where I spoke with other ladies about ideas for new pet toys, and I only had a few like cat video games and pet translators. I got paid $20 before deductions for the session.

I also tested a self-help app for an hour, wrote some feedback on it and submitted a one-hour timesheet for it for another Upwork gig.

Also finished and reviewed this book. Very illuminating (image is link).

Image

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Jun. 9th, 2026 08:55 pm
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watched the pilot of the amazing digital circus today out of sheer curiosity since i needed some distraction.

* actually liked it more than i thought i would, but not really enough to keep watching. idk. not saying no, but i'd have to be bored.

* the animation is actually really damn good. possibly the first 3D cartoon that didn't make me think 'oh i recognize that stock pixar gesture' every thirty seconds.

* i completely understand why caine gets all of the Incredibly Bonkers Off the Wall porn. not my flavor of character but i can see how he'd give people the fun tingles. :D

* pommi (main jester looking character?) gives me the same energy as the eponymous toaster in brave little toaster of 'wait you're a girl????' after the first pronoun drop lol. something about the character design reminds me of toaster too (square-ish face, big eyes, black bang type of thing?); would not surprise me if that was in the list of the creator's main inspirations.

* the overall flavor of the show is the kind of surreal that one would get as an eight year old playing one of those janky CD-ROM licensed games like toy story 2 (or mario 64) and being let into the gameshark/mod/glitchy area unsupervised to have adventures completely unrelated to the actual game and then dreaming about it later, mixed with a touch of the 90's animation surrealist humor.

* overall it feels tight/well made in terms of story and character, just think i'm interested in a different kind of media right now.


End Results

Jun. 9th, 2026 07:25 pm
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1) When I came across this article about basketball players turned broadcasters, what it made me think of was a faceoff on The Floor where a former baseball player was up against a former WNBA player on the topic of basketball players.

It was really clear the baseball guy never watched the WNBA. He did get some of their players but missed too many and lost the match, whereas the female player did just as well with both sexes. I thought, for once, misogyny did a man in.

2) Another month, another rotten experience with healthcare providers. Read more... )

3) Being on Board Game Arena, I have not bought a physical game in some time. However while they have a great assortment of games, including well known ones, what they don't have is media content games. So when I saw this game on clearance at Wal Mart a while back, I decided to give it a try.



We finally broke open the box this past weekend. Right off the bat it seemed like a cute game full of Ted Lasso callbacks. Read more... )

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Jun. 9th, 2026 05:25 pm
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1. I drove the new car to work today. There's some stuff to get used to (I don't like that climate control is touch panel only!) but overall was a very smooth ride and only used about 5-10% of the battery (I can't remember exactly where it was this morning or where it was when I got home but it was definitely in that range of usage).

2. We're having some warm days this week but it's supposed to start going back down over the weekend and be cooler next week.

3. Ollie looks like such an angel here!

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