words from a flying cat

Test post re image uploading.



Comments on post format, picture, or alt text welcome. So are comments that just say ‘Kitty!’

I have been meaning to make a Srs Post about Organized Thoughts at some point but here's the sketch notes: ( Read more... )

Warning for stuff. Mostly FEELING S and probably typoes.

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ETA: As you can see by the decrease in typos, non sequiturs, swear words, etc, I did in fact come back and edit the next day. If you read the whole thing before that I’m very grateful. If you made a mindful choice to head the tags/cuts and NOT read I am grateful for that too! 💜

I might not post today if I waited until I had a whole coherent thing waiting, so there is a big possibility of me repeatedly editing to add. As of the evening, it's a pretty solid list, and yes, there were multiple edits.

List of things DONE because I don't want to redo my to-do list and I need to notice positives and accomplishments. ( Read more... )

I did not think things could get worse, but they have.

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ETA: If I'm still (a) awake (b) having All The Bad Feelings (c) alone in the DAMNED house ... in an hour ( Read more... )

And ... despite L. also being a fan, because I don't choose to care right now ... here is a reminder of who and what I am as a fan and as a person: The Oath, from Diane Duane's Young Wizards / Feline Wizards 'verse:

In Life’s name and for Life’s sake,
I assert that I will employ the Art which is its gift in Life’s service alone, rejecting all other usages.
I will guard growth and ease pain. I will fight to preserve what grows and lives well in its own way; and I will Change no object or creature unless its growth and life, or that of the system of which it is part, are threatened.
To these ends, in the practice of my Art, I will put aside fear for courage, and death for life, when it is right to do so —
looking always toward the Heart of Time, where all our sundered times are one, and all our myriad worlds lie whole, in That from Which They Proceeded.

Sobeit.

Purple pancakes! They are a thing that we made today!

ETA: Since people have asked after ingredients... ( Read more... )

ETAA: This is particularly important since S bought the ingredients and suggested it and it's the first time we've done Saturday Pancake Day since I went completely gluten free for health reasons last summer and it's historically been an important family bonding thing. So <3 <3 <3 thank you S and may the word of tasty pancakes made with loved ones reach everyone interested.

Complainy cat is complaining in more detail. Yay?

Content Warning: comparatively less-sick person complaining about being sick and in pain; food, food problems; unpleasant medical details and symptoms; self-directed snark; internaliazed ableism and assorted brainweasels.

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discussion of genetics in science fictional context ( Read more... )

PS: This one is dicey! Let me know if I've messed up, in your opinion!

Here is my first April post of trying to write and post something daily, even if it is rough!

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Need a little art against oppression in your Monday? siliconshaman is taking prompts for 500-word ficlets, in any of their original universes or fandoms, and you can get MORE GOODEEZ for just a dollar or by boosting the signal.

http://siliconshaman.dreamwidth.org/1237254.html

Go ye forth and leave prompts!

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Also, I'll be listening to my Bone Walker CD on repeat in the car this week. It goes along with a very cool series of fantasy books, but it's also just a great mix of energizing flavors from traditional sea chanties to instrumental dances to a wildly energetic nerdcore remix of said dance music. The lead musician is also blogging extremely useful news updates for the resistance, here on Dreamwidth. Dara Korra'ti is a self-identified principled supervillian and one of the most badass people I've had the pleasure to listen to.

http://music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com/album/bone-walker

https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/

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ETA: For anyone using a screen reader, the following links may be more compatible, if you wish to get a taste of the music.

Content advisory: May contain supervillains, creepy monsters creeping up, snatches of story, traditional ballads with their silly sexism, brief ableist language in the form of commonly used metaphors, politically aware perspective pointing out that things really suck, deeply nerdy concepts, musical genre puree, epically noisy instruments, sounds that send shivers up my spine, and other scattered things.

Direct link to album:
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=915171139/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/

YouTube examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTWV9fu1ARY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwpic9iDkdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLMcauyWnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gbaXmDLBQI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MffSBEKeeCg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkpW7d6n5to

So there's a thing!