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tropicsbearRandom stuff that I've read/watched lately that I don't have to say much about, but still wanted to mention!
📚 Read a couple of BL manga; Boku no Mii-chan and Hugpai (⚠️ the Hugpai cover is suggestive, in case there might be smol bebe eyes in the room). Both have NSFW chapters, though Boku no Mii-chan is more serious and story focused while Hugpai is more comedic and pretty NSFW throughout. The couples were both cute! (Sidenote: Thanks to Hugpai for giving me the motivation to dust off and finish writing Malleable.)
📽️ I haven't seen a Jurassic Park movie since Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (which I can barely remember), so I wasn't sure what to expect for Jurassic World Rebirth. It was fine; straightforward plot, forgettable but likable characters, cool dinosaurs. I thought the (budding) friendship between Zora Bennett and Dr. Henry Loomis was nice. This was the first time I saw ScarJo starting to look older (the neck will always betray you). This isn't a dig; just something I noticed.
alisxSurmounting obstacles with the power of friendship is easy if we all work together and also one of our friends is Nyarlathotep!
kteaWhat exactly I'm anxious about, I could not say--it's just a fun thing my brain likes to do, even when I've had an okay day.
A few more life updates:
A couple of weeks ago, I went to California to attend CAT CON! My friends and I had a fabulous time, and I am already excited for next year. I spent an absurd amount of money and came home with a lot of goodies and treats for the cats in my life.
Then, I saw one of my very best friends conduct at a flute concert! She was amazing, and so were the performers.
My cat came to work with me today--I wish it was a fun visit, but alas, I work at a vet's office, and he was in need of an appointment. He is doing alright, but has been dealing with really awful stomatitis--even after we extracted all of his teeth. We're going to try some pain medication and see if that helps a bit. <3 But my 'lil guy did a very good job with his carrier, and only got a little stressed when we cleaned his ears and gave him an antibiotic injection. And really, who can blame him?
I just finished reading You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model by Sarah Hartshorne (hence watching old episodes of the show). It was an entertaining read, and offers an important and poignant perspective on reality TV and the fashion industry. It's been wild to revisit this show when so much of it felt normal when it aired. But the spell that ANTM is incredible--even now, knowing how terrible conditions were, knowing how problematic it all is, I'm starting to believe I could become America's next top model.
(Reader, I absolutely could not.)
I suppose I am in a mood for traumatic memoirs, because I just started reading Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar. I'm already so fascinated, and so angry. I'm also listening to Class by Stephanie Land, which is incredible. I'm almost ready for my next audiobook, so let me know if you have any recommendations!
It's been hard for me to do much other than nap and watch TV. I think I am finally starting to get out of a depressive episode funk, but I'm still feeling a little off. I'm hoping to immerse myself in a few creative projects. I have started putting together a poetry chapbook, and I think a cat-related zine would be a fun project! I also love making friendship bracelets.
Alright, enough rambling for today. Kudos to you if you read all of this, and kudos even if you didn't. Until next time.
alisxAnyone writing a review of Weapons without using the term "Naruto running" is a coward.
alias_sqbranghraine tagged me in a tumblr meme to make your username with songs, my reaction was "Hah, only four letters, that'll be- WAIT do I like ANY songs with Q in the title??" but a quick search found One, and I built the rest of the list around it to consist of songs on my computer which (a) I like at least a moderate amount and (b) make a funny sentence. Thus:Song For The Dumped (Ben Folds Five)
Queer (Garbage)
Being Boring (Petshop Boys)
Right Here Right Now (Moby)
Runner up:
Speed Kills (Bush)
Queer (Garbage)
Bachelorette (Bjork)
Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)
Since I haven't gotten around to downloading and rating as many recent songs the selection leaned towards older stuff, but I did happen to buy "Stay The Fuck Away From Me" by Emily Wurramura today and I am sure something fun could be done with that too.
And I am going to tag anyone else with a short username to see if they can come up with something fun :) (People with long usernames can play too if they like a challenge)
alisxNot gonna lie, as someone who tends to wear "men’s" clothing, and having been in the UK recently, this was absolutely something I worried about.
Like this 90s sexploitation comedy universe TERFs apparently live in where men are constantly sneaking into women’s bathrooms and changerooms is entirely imaginary, but back here in the really real world the actual tangible harms of gender policing can and will come for you, and quicker than you realize, because they are by design about shrinking the presence of anyone who isn’t a masc cis man in public spaces.
picoriand i did well!!!!!
two As and two B-minuses—honestly, i couldn't ask for anything more. i'm certainly happy with them! now if only i could get rid of this constant feeling of exhaustion (likely from burnout, lmao) that i'm dealing with...
but hey! i'm 75% done with my degree! three more semesters—fall, spring and summer—and i'm FREE! i think the only downside that leaves me is worrying about ~the future~, since i know the (tech) job market is...not great, right now (especially for junior developers) and i don't know how much better or worse it'll get between now and next summer. PLUS the fact that i don't have any experience in the tech industry (because i'm taking full-time semester loads EVERY semester) which is a huge negative. and i hardly have time to work on projects (or even know where to start with those!) for a resumé or anything....also because i'm constantly busy with classes! it's a lose-lose. especially since i hate school and would genuinely rather be working and i'm so serious about that. i'll deal with annoying coworkers over exams any day of the week because ultimately one place pays you and one puts you further into debt. i don't even care how little i make at my first job! i want OUT.
my fall semester schedule is looking to be busy as hell, too (and one of my classes is with a professor whose "teaching methods", if they can even be called that, i GREATLY despise), but on the bright side i'm done with the more "difficult" math classes! linear algebra was one of the ones i finished with a B-minus. i do have to take a statistics class in the fall (i was going to put it off until next summer, but i needed another class to make my schedule full-time for the sake of financial aid, SOOOO), but it's like...an intro class? and the prerequisite for it is literally just calculus I. which was easy as hell compared to some of the other shit i've had to do since. so y'know. i looked the professor up on ratemyprofessors and people seem to agree that she's friendly and offers extra credit and test reviews even if she does assign a lot of homework, which is about all i can really ask for. managing it on top of my other CS classes should be...interesting, though, but i've gotten through all the other classes thus far so i guess i have no choice but to make it through these ones too (though i noticed that at least two of my fall classes expect me to work in groups. they're online classes. oh boy).
purplecatRomana in Destiny of the Daleks and Martha in Blink, both with 15 votes.
Outfit with the least votes
Bill in The Pilot.
Highest Average Votes per outfit (excluding characters with only one outfit in the round)
Winner: Romana 2 (12 votes per outfit)
Second Place: Martha (11 votes per outfit)
Third Place: Yaz (10.6 votes per outfit)
Most Winning Outfits
Yaz (2 outfits)
Highest Average number of winning outfits
Ryan (1 outfit, 100% success rate)
Second Place: Yaz (3 outfits, 66% success rate)
Third Place: Nyssa, the Romanas, Martha, Bill (2 outfits, 50% success rate)
Taking a week off since I'm on leave, then I'll start the quarter finals!
azurelunatic* 3 appointments tomorrow, all remote (for later today versions of "tomorrow", because I rarely get to sleep before midnight)
* 2 appointments Wednesday
* Only one appointment Thursday, but it looks like a doozy
* The morning primary care adjacent appointment on Wednesday got scheduled today (Monday) by using the magic combination of phrases "my oncologist said" and "new lump"
* (it's probably a ganglion cyst, since I have a history of those going back to the 1980s)
And then I managed to drive myself to Pained Noises & a complete lack of energy today by:
* ( Read more... )
alisxAnyway today I discovered there’s an idol waifu Cthulhu figure and never before have I considered myself the anime girl statue collecting type but . . . 
purplecatWell it's just gone and won the journal's best paper award.
I continue to think one should be wary of indulging in futurism and remain glad I managed to keep the words "Rogue AI" out of it.
tropicsbearNote to self: Do not drink co-amoxiclav ever again unless it's the only antibiotic available/that will work.
Drank the first tablet Saturday night because of a possible ear infection and was out of commission because of side effects until this morning đź’€ I'm now on other meds, but omfg. That was horrible.
azurelunaticFrom the little I've absorbed about Hazbin Hotel, the creators might just be the correct kind of disturbed to do justice to Homestuck.
kallowayThe quick version:
- new toolboxen!
- new chair for the male parent!
- work was A Lot!
- old toolboxen in my garage!
- hmm why does my back hurt?!
Old toolboxen got a rinse at the car wash hose at the other end of the complex; while I moved it once a year to sweep and dust, the bottom and wheels were impressively grody after more than a decade. But it's back together in my garage and I've started moving some extra tools and utility room tools into it. Plan is basically to have a shoebox of basics in here and the rest in the garage as needed. This will give me at least a bit of space back in the utility room; a full transfer will probably wait til my traditional Tokyo Game Show Dead Zone Utility Room Cleanout.
Got about 3/5 of stuff done that I wanted to do; I'll take it.