Homework report

Sat, Sep. 6th, 2025 19:35
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Honestly, this helps me psych myself up and keep on top of stuff, so I might make it a weekly thing. Just a heads up.

Homework report )

Fandom projects )

Okay, looking good! I'm going to try and finish my written assignments for class tonight, and if I do so with enough time/energy left over, I may "reward" myself by typing up and posting my first completed Poképod Project draft.

Saturday!

Sun, Sep. 7th, 2025 03:24
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The weather was AWESOME today, I ended up spending idk an hour, hour and a half weeding in the front yard. (The onion grass is blooming, it is the ideal time to attack it! >E >E >E) Extremely nice to be out in the sun, yessss.

I also darned two holes in a shawl, only for Mama to notice one we'd both missed several times as I was folding it to put away orz orz orz. It's mohair, so it's kinda a pain to darn, since the wool catches to much, and since it's a super loose knit it's SUPER obvious it's fixed, but! Also it is big and drapey so you can't really see the repaired bits when you wear it. (According to Mama, but they're not that big so I believe her!)

Anyway I'll finish that off tomorrow, and then put it at the BACK of the drawer, since it got its holes via Sushi clawing at it when even a tiny tiny bit was visible, sigh. Sushi really likes mohair, apparently??? I can't blame him it is super fluffy, but at the same time, Sushi do you have to show your love by destroying things??? (Of course he does, he is the biteiest of boys. Such a tiny jerk...)

Oops

Fri, Sep. 5th, 2025 23:09
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Me, today: Okay, this is it! Today, I'm going to be really good, and do my class readings and work on my homework, so I can take tomorrow off and finish anything else up on Sunday!

Me: *spends free time writing fanfic and not!fic instead*

Me: ...Well, that didn't work.

---

I'm going to try and at least read a chapter or two of my textbook before going to sleep, if nothing else. Damn you, college homework!

Why is sleeping at night so hard??

Sat, Sep. 6th, 2025 02:54
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ANOTHER bad night! Couldn't sleep because brain just would not shut the fuck up, siiiiiigh. Hate it. Brains are so dumb.

But! I used my new dragonite as a pillow and that was super great! :D So I'm happy about that, yessss.

Nothing too interesting today, honestly. Darned some socks?? Went for a short walk with Mama? Nothing huge.

And now back to bed! Hopefully I'll be able to sleep easily tonight...

[list] august's media

Fri, Sep. 5th, 2025 09:11
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(sure, july and early august were vacation months and saw lo o ots of media consuming, but during late august/early september, my e-reader broke down, Prime removed Doctor Who from its catalogue, and my dad failed to renew his Netflix account, so much on-going stuff got put on hold)

gen lit
The spellshop (Sarah Beth Durst) ♥
Klingon! (Dean Wesley Smith & Kathryn Kris?)
L'égyptienne (Gilbert Sinouhé, t1)
Notre part de nuit (Mariana Enriquez, Nuestra parte de noche)

graphic novels etc
Read more... )

movies
Partir un jour
Enzo
L’attachement
Der Prozess / Le procès / The Trial
Back to the future #2
Back to the future #3

docus & biopics
Pour un seul de mes deux yeux / Nekam Achat Mishtey Eynay
Kneecap *
Frida
Capote

series
Buffy s2 from e17
Love death & robots s4
Chair tendre
The second best hospital in the galaxy s1

on-going stuff
Haikai, La solitude du cirque, The big game
Toujours fâchée, Contes et légendes de bûcherons
La catedral del mar, L'arbre à poules, La fête à Boro
Dans les pantoufles de Darwin, Rogatons t2
bride storis t15, l'atelier des sorciers t14

Miraculous Ladybug, Seven Bears, Lower Decks s2, BtAS, VOY s4, House MD, Buffy s3

I am a sleepy yes

Fri, Sep. 5th, 2025 01:57
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Unsurprisingly, today I was very tired!

The fact that it was cold enough my ankle started bitching didn't help, either. :/

Anyway, A was good! :D Tiny exhibit was fun! Also I now have a massive roumb dragonite it's the best. (Mama is SUPER MAD, sigh.)

Um. Something something I keep drifting off trying to finish this post so uh I think I'll just. Go bed now. Yes.

Goddamnit brain

Thu, Sep. 4th, 2025 04:46
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So tomorrow I'mma meet A and we're gonna go poke a tiny art exhibition and etc.

So of course I'm still up at fucking almost 5am. I need to leave the house in about five hours!!! Omfg brain WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS. /o\

Anyway other than THAT... one of the chooks laid an egg again! :D They're clearly feeling much safer! This pleases me~!!!

I also cleaned out both the coop and the run and put in a bunch of straw for them in the run, so they should enjoy that. :3 :3 :3 Mama stayed out the back with me while I did that, just in case of foxes. Likelihood is pretty low, but, well. Makes me feel better if nothing else!

Nothing much other than that, though. Except I'm still fucking awake-! (I maybe played a LOT of minecraft this evening. In my defense I've been rearranging my storage and figured out a way to integrate botany pots into it and that is brain eating levels of fascinating because I am a super nerd, sigh.)

(no subject)

Wed, Sep. 3rd, 2025 08:33
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quite baffled and very amused (and only a tad disappointed, as it was on my LWD drabble collection) that i recieved a spam comment on AO3 that was a condescending rant about how fanfiction in general is bad-and-wrong-and-stupid and that Published Authors like JK Rawling (sic) should punish and sue us all, ending on a vague but fakely polite threat on my road safety(???)

i would think it's a bot but the comment was edited like a dozen times?

(and, yes, i've been in fandom over 25 years proudly writing shortfic and drabbles for many, many franchises; die mad about it!)

usually i answer to flames by doubling down on my bullshit but... as for reasons unrelated to fanfiction i've choosen to distance myself from the author they cited-and-misspelt as an example, i will not write 50 more drabbles specifically about HP... suggestions on how to get back at them otherwise?
(by the way, i anonymized my HP fic & art over AO3 this summer anyway, it shouldn't be directly traceable back to my username anymore)

i'm flipping the bird and shaking & slapping my butt at the screen

PHYSICS

Wed, Sep. 3rd, 2025 02:41
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So today I finally got my shit together and did the stud finding thing, and I was at the point where I was trying to get the shelf up onto the top of the bookshelves just to check if the places I'd marked would work (ie, not in the middle of the shelf). Aaaaand... it was too heavy for me to manage something that long on my own, so I had to get Mama to help, and... well. Physics is hard. )

So that's super annoying and I'm not sure what to do about it.

Other than that... nothing too interesting. Did get those shinies in pokemon, which is good! Haven't fought the new boss yet, but hopefully will be pretty straightforward... And one of the new set of mass outbreaks I've already got the shinies for, so I only need to catch four shinies total this time! :D Also ONE OF THEM IS VULPIX, which is SO EXCITING eeeeee :D :D :D :D :D

Ugh, paperwork.

Tue, Sep. 2nd, 2025 01:24
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Sooo made the stupid call, have to get info on their special form from ex-work, so who even KNOWS when that'll get back to me. :/ :/ :/ So annoying!

Other than that, nothing amazing today really. I am Officially Late with the pokemon event, too, gotta get those last two shinies before I download the new update whoops >>;;;; Gonna have to focus on that tomorrow, rather than minecraft!

Something something bed now, I feel like there was something else but I forget orz orz orz

Code deploy happening shortly

Sun, Aug. 31st, 2025 19:37
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[staff profile] mark posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance

Per the [site community profile] dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

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[staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_news

A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.

The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.

In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.

The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.

Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.

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