perniciouslizard

The town yard sale was kind of fun.  We made like $100??  but more importantly I got rid of some things without just throwing them away.  I also got some things because I love garage sales too much. 

My current mission is to make the walls less blank at my place without spending that much money, and I've had really good luck at these sales. 

 i wasn't able to watch the steven universe movie when it premiered but apparently my brain was really interested in it and tried to dream the entire movie for me

steven basically walked around town trying to convince the villain i saw in the trailer to love earth like he does.  notably, blue diamond and white diamond had long since gone back to homeworld but yellow diamond read too many kilt romances while she was there and ended up moving to scotland.  uhh...the people in beach city kept trying to surprise!attack! the villain while she was chatting with steven and it never worked.  i think she was actually steven's sister - like a chunk of pink diamond was separated in an early attempt to have a kid and made her, and her motivation was to like take the rest of the gem from steven and also destroy earth because it pissed her off??  

i think those were the highlights

I just finished reading a good omens fic by isozyne and i really recommend it:  you're not a religious person (but)

the author also wrote one of my favorite pacrim fics iirc (first a darling, then a marvel)

whenever i read something of theirs i always vaguely recognize their name and then start to read and i'm like OH IT'S THEM from the style

 my brain finally admitted what was going on and was like "you don't DESERVE it" when i thought again about getting some medicine for my stomach, so i was able to notice and acknowledge the absurdity of what was going on in my head and get up and take some medicine

 my parents had their 50th anniversary this week, which is...weird to think about?  my dad's response to how they made it so long is basically "laziness."  i got them a new table for their tv room since it was glass and my nephew managed to break it last week.  i wasn't planning on doing that, but i spotted it and was like "oh that's nice it's a shame it's probably too expensive" and then it wasn't.  so my poor roommate helped me figure out how to get a table to fit in the back seat of my toyota lmao

my sister's boyfriend helped me carry it up the stairs at my parents' house and my dad was like "the table is for your mother bringing it up the stairs is for me"  

i worked six days this week which makes me kinda tired but ehh i mean i bought a table so it's probably for the best

 haven't been online all that much 'cause of the heat.  i've been reading fanfic in my air conditioned bedroom when i'm not working.  lots of aziraphale/crowley, unsurprisingly.  i always meant to read a few about those two, since there are always gems when you sort a pairing by kudos and work your way down.  there are some fandoms i just, like, have had enough knowledge of that i read the best regarded fics in the fandom and then move on, which is nice.  my brain tends to attach itself to things, so occasionally just reading and enjoying something and letting go is nice.  will that be the case with this fandom?  i don't know.  i sort of hope so, because current "in" fandoms always have a lot of discourse and drama and personality clashes as people who've successfully avoided each other ram into each other again - and, like, i honestly don't blame people for having those important conversations or being a little dramatic or silly.  it's just the huge number of people all smashing together at one time that causes the problems.  it usually smooths out, after a while.

besides fic, i've been reading the new book by Effie Calvin, "The Queen of Rhodia."  It's the third book in the series (though the author also has a couple short stories in the same universe for free on her website.  I had enough money to get a book and was really delighted to see that series had a new book.

The series is f/f fantasy fiction about several different pairings.  The world's kind of neat - gods are pretty real and around, and getting blessings from one of them has a well known, immediate effect on your life.  Like, the people blessed by one god all have wings and oftentimes work as couriers.  There are also agender people and other trans people, and the magic of one of the goddesses means that trans people are able to transition without trouble.  There are still issues - like the first book is about two princesses who are courting as part of a political alliance, and while magic would allow them to eventually have children, so it's not forbidden, there's still a lot of pressure on them to pump out an heir.  

most of the conflicts are political and interpersonal and the stuff keeping the various ladies apart has very little to do with them being ladies.  it's nice, honestly, though i could definitely see someone reading it and finding that aspect of it unrealistic.  it does fit my own current preferences, however.  


anyway, i dig it.  if anyone's curious about more details, i can share them.  i'm just too hot to think what i'd want to say, right now.

 i watched a bunch of that documentary on netflix about the failures of forensic science (or, the failures of people to interpret it when it doesn't fit with their narrative) in the criminal justice system and holy crap is it depressing.

 rained out another day, so i'm working tomorrow.  i sort of had a mid week weekend, anyway.  the problem with this long weather breaks is that when i go back, i feel weirdly anxious about it.  what if i've forgotten how to put new shakes on a building??????  what if i can't get it done because it rains again and i delay the job??????

well, the cure for that is probably just to go and remember it's not a big deal

 room by room work list:

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 i'm feeling a bit numb today. maybe it's allergies?  had a lot of anxiety earlier, so maybe it's a reaction to that?