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I'm just. I'm ALL OVER THE PLACE. And have drunk rather a lot of gin this evening, meaning you guys get to hear the unfiltered reactions while I'm too compromised to try and make myself sound smart about any of it.

Reading: Saint Augustine's Confessions (blowing my mind, this guy can really Theology) and Elyne Mitchell's The Silver Brumby (haven't read since I was like eight, but remembering everything literally beat for beat as I read, this is honestly such amazing children's literature and I can't wait to post about it in more detail when I'm done).

Watching: The Autopsy of Jane Doe (scared the everloving shit out of me), Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (didn't scare me even a tiny bit, I literally set up a VPN just so I could access this, everyone was saying it's so scary but it isn't), and Inside the World's Toughest Prisons (are you guys going to think I'm a complete fucking weirdo if I admit that this is a semi-regular comfort watch for me).

Listening: Iron Maiden. So much Iron Maiden. I've been trying to do deep dives into a bunch of different albums, but right now I'm so in love with A Matter of Life and Death that I don't want to move on to a different album, and it's rather hampering my progress.

pattrose

April not quite 365 days

13. Have you ever volunteered to do something long-term?

When my friend and neighbor first got cancer fourteen years ago, she went through hell and back with her chemo. She was too week to do much so for 2 months I made her meals for her family, three times a week. It really helped her get through the tough parts. That's about the longest I've ever volunteered to do anything long-term.

pattrose

Crunchy questions

Do you believe that CBD oils work, that they're placebos, or something in between? I don't know about the oils. I do know that gummy’s really help fight pain. It's better than getting hooked on pain pills.

Is anyone familiar with the oils. If you recommend it, I would love to hear why.

pattrose

90 discussion questions.

1. What are the most important things we can teach children?
TWo things. Kindness and respect. With these two, you can do almost anything.

pattrose

Funny quotes

1. “Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” – Leslie Nielsen

pattrose

Jokes

I told my wife she should embrace her mistakes. She gave me a hug.

I just found out that I’m colorblind. The diagnosis came completely out of the 9

You have two parts of the brain, “left” and “right”. On the left side, there’s nothing right and on the right side, there’s nothing left.

Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side got amputated? He’s all right now.

pattrose

Funny questions

30. Do you sleep with the lights on or off?

Off, of course.

31. What is the silliest thing you’ve ever seen a stranger do in public?

I can't think of anything.

32. If you could have a superpower, what would it be?

I wanted to be Samantha from Bewitched.

33. What do you typically do when you’re bored?

I pick up the house and bake and cook.

pattrose

Steven Wright Fun

1. My grandmother is also insane, she’s got pierced hearing aids.
2. My brother was a clown for the Ringling Brothers Circus and when he died all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
3. I remember when I was a fetus I used to sneak out at night when my mother was sleeping.
4. If I ever had twins, I would use one for parts.
5. I wrote a few children’s books… not on purpose.
6. I was arrested for lip-syncing Karaoke.
7. Every morning I get up and make instant coffee so I’ll have enough energy to make the regular coffee.
8. I woke up and was folding my bed back into a couch and I almost broke both my arms because it’s not one of those beds.

This is the last of Steven Wrights quotes. I'm sad about that.

aliensamba

Behind the cut are sig tags I received for Seasons of Fandom Pre-Round: Sig Tag Exchange.

Thank you for these!

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Current Mood: grateful
Current Location: hueco mundo
Current Music: skins - asian kung-fu generation

pattrose

What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear.

What did one cannibal say to the other while they were eating a clown? “Does this taste funny to you?”

What do you call a mobster who’s buried in cement? A hardened criminal.

What do fish say when they hit a concrete wall? Dam!

What do you need in order to make a small fortune on Wall Street? A large fortune.

tinny

Ooops it's April already, and I haven't posted my

100fandomicons table for 2026 yet! Okay, then, here it is! There are already 23 icons in it, and it needs to be filled by the end of November. So far that's looking good. All of these icons have been posted to my journal before, the challenge states they have to be made between my signup dates (Dec 25 to Nov 26) but not specifically for this challenge, and I love to make full use of that and try not to make any specifically until the very end. Lets see how that will go this year.

Teasers:

( 23 of 100 icons in 100 fandoms )

fandoms list

Arcane
Amidst a Snowstorm of Love
Asterix (comics)
Bridget Jones's Diary
Calvin and Hobbes (comics)
Dr. Seuss (comics)
Farewell My Concubine
Filter
Frozen
HPI
Lost You Forever
Love Like The Galaxy
Love on the Turquoise Land
Musician (Hoshino Gen)
North of North
Pirates of the Carribean
Sports (Football Player)
Squid Game
The Jungle Book
The Mandalorian
The Matrix
The Orville
The Witcher

I love comments, and if you have concrit for me, I'm open for that, too. All my icons are free to take and use, credit is appreciated. The list of makers whose textures and brushes I like to use is here in my resource post.

Previous icon posts:

badly_knitted

Title: Almost Love
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Susan Ivanova, Marcus Cole.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 350
Spoilers/Setting: Rising Star.
Summary: Susan is grieving for what might have been if she’d only taken the chance.
Written Using: The prompt ‘Heal’ from my B5 prompt table.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Triple drabble and a half, 350 words.

( Almost Love... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

galadhir

So, it was Louise's hafla last night, aka the 'Hob al Raqs' Hafla. I wonder if I can get a copy of the running list up here? Hm... but it's very big, so here is a link to the pdf instead.

After having been sick with nerves and dreading it for two days prior, the nerves cleared up on the day, and I gradually got ready by ironing my veil (for the Nawwarat group dance) and practicing putting on a dramatic blue eye make up look from YouTube.

(Did you know that you can use cellotape on your face to get a sharp wing to your eyeshadow? I didn't. But I do now.)( Read more... )

DH of course, who turned up with two huge cameras, (one for video and one for stills) was very popular and everyone wanted to pose and show off their sparkling outfits. There will be much excitement when he posts the finished photos to a friends-locked group on the web. I'm looking forward to that too. He is a treasure and everyone knows it :)

PS. The other lady from my class who said she might do a solo did not in fact do a solo despite being objectively much better than me. I don't understand - surely the point of practicing a dance is to perform it?

PPS. I wonder when I will feel as though I have the right to use the dance name I picked out? I mean I'm not good and I'm certainly not professional, but I am up there performing. Does that make me a dancer yet or is there another trial you have to pass first?

badly_knitted

Title: Crowded
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 497: Ghost Town at

drabble_zone.
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Coney Island has never seemed so crowded.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Crowded... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Persuasion
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Tosh, Rhys, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 912: Refuse, at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Aliens can be stubborn.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Persuasion... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

zimena

Believe it or not, I've bought my own flat!!!

I can't move in until June, but that's still not very far away.

In fact, I've been searching for a flat for many years. I think I started even before I moved out from my childhood home in 2020, so probably around 2018 or so. In 8 years of searching, and going to look at various places, I've never found anything that felt right. Either, I had to discard it because the bathroom was impossible for me to use, and also because of things like doors being too narrow for me to get through with the wheelchair, or once - when I thought I had found a perfect place - I had to discard that idea because the building had no lift. Or also, I've been to places where I just didn't like the area at all.

Then, about 2.5 weeks ago, just before Easter, I got a non-renewal notice for my current flat. I live in an adapted council flat, and they apparently decided that I don't need those adoptions anymore. I don't really understand their reasoning, because my disability is life-long and static, so what changed since I moved in six years ago?

Well, whatever - the important thing is that I ended up flat-searching again... and I found the dream place. It is:

* Brand new, in a building that's still being finished up as of now.
* Sold for a fixed price, because of the point above.
* Near the main bus line in my town - 5-6 buses per hour.
* A little bit outside the main town centre - about 10 minutes by bus or so.
* Near a shopping mall with basically everything, and also near a couple of streets with things like a pharmacy, a sushi place, a pizza place, and the local branch of the activity centre where my exercise group is.
* 66 square meters - a little bit bigger than where I live now.
* It has two bedrooms. I intend to make the smaller one of them a combined guest room and office/computer room.
* There's no separate kitchen - the kitchen is in a corner of the living area.
* I'm getting a dishwasher for the first time in my life - yes, it's included, and so are a number of other fancy kitchen appliances.
* On the first floor when you see the building from the front, but it feels more like a "high" ground floor when you see it from the side where my flat is.
* It has its own terrace space, which is partly roofed. It's very big - 27 square meters!

I've already signed the first papers for it, and I have a legal document saying that I've bought it. The contract itself will be signed during next week, though. But still - I'm a flat owner now!

The next few months will be wild! I need to sort through all of my stuff from here, and probably through away a bunch of things. But also, in about two months' time I'll be living in a different place and learning to feel at home there.

I'm so excited and happy! ❤️