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Sooo today I was up during the morning and then slept most of the afternoon so I uh. Did NOT get a lot of work on the blinds done, whoops. Gonna have to stay up tomorrow morning too, which is annoying. :/ TRYING to get to bed early, but I keep getting distracted, siiiigh.

I DID spend a few hours playing MP SDV though, that was fun! :D Also reading yessssss.

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sorcyress

So, I was poking around some old journal entries today, and found this gem¹ from 2012. It's me, saying I'd like to start a dance, host something regular. A chance for my friends to get together with me and do a wide variety of fun stuff.

It's from me not-quite-a-year out of college. Bright and a little naive and always the kind of optimistic that says "what if I could get all my friends to come dance with me!?". Not really thinking about the stress of balancing schedules and the difficulties in advertising and promoting and ensuing the regulars have reasons to come back and the new people have reasons to try it out and everyone can have some fun. I do appreciate the part where I say "in an ideal world I'd just pay for it myself".

It took me twelve and a half years after that post to have the first instance of GenderFree SCD in Somerville. It's not Oella North --this is not an open format "whatever kinds of dance we feel like" melange. It's just Scottish, with a waltz thrown in at the end.

But tonight I was one of twelve dancers, and it was a week with no "newbies" as it were. I looked around at one point and my brain said "I am here with my friends!" and that is true, that is what it is. One of the friends is someone I only met because of this, because she found it random and started attending regularly. Some of the friends primarily do other dance forms, and this is how I am slowly dragging them into SCD. Some of the friends are more experienced than me. One of the friends is my high school friend!

It was twelve tonight, and I think at least 2/3 of the April nights had seven couples. This wasn't even everyone who's shown up more than a few times! I have _regulars_ and I have enough regulars that it feels increasingly like I have something _sustainable_. There are still more steps to go to reach the highest dreams, but oh gods, the dreams that have already come true are so amazing!

part of the genesis for this is the idea of having a space to do Scottish Country where no one cares about your gender or who you're dancing with

I have _successfully given myself that space_. I built it with my own two hands, except that's not true at all, I built it with my own community and all our hands together! And we are continuing to build it, and expand it outwards. A floor where we care about each other's genders in the sense that we love and respect these myriad identities, but no one thinks any of them have anything to do with where you dance.

Tonight we were doing presumptive dances from Book 55, and it felt _so good_ to approach that as a team and a puzzle. We tried out four of them (part of my words goal for tonight is to type up the notes so I can pass those along) and it was great fun! I don't think we would've done so many if we'd actually had beginners this week, but we didn't and so it was marvelous!

It felt good also to be able to make eyes at each other about the various divisors being so clunky about their language. And also, honestly, to be in a space where I could start us off with "hey y'all, I think I'm gonna just do a mental find/replace on role terms" and have people think that's dandy.

And if I'm being extremely vain and just a little smug, it felt really good to be in a space where we tried one of the dances that CambridgeClass tried Monday night. I didn't dance it then, my observation from the side of the room was "hm. That seemed. Semi-disasterous". The two people who did dance it then, seemed to like it much better tonight, and several of the rest of us thought it was extremely good as dances go.

And yeah, a little bit of that is me! I am good at teaching and I'm especially and increasingly good at teaching this class. But a lot more is that I successfully recognized the space that wanted to exist, and bullied it into existing. I built it, and they came, and by they, let's just say, well. The dancers!

It's real great and it makes me _abundantly_ happy, every single week.

I hope you are also happy!

~Sor
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1: 2012 02 06

groundsky

Watched the Gameoverse pilot yesterday and it’s so good!

I really like Gobbles, Kit, and Flappers. Kit’s character design is so good! I’ve heard about Gameoverse a few years ago but I never looked much into it. I’m happy to see more of this series! It looks vastly interesting!

tyger

Today was. Difficult. With more blind stuff.

But! They're getting there! Well, one of them is closer than it was, anyway, it was enough trouble all on its own, sigh. Still being a bastard, but will ask Mama for advice about it tomorrow at some point.

Also I am VERY ANNOYED, the painters painted over my purple on the window ledge, which. Just. AAAAARGH. I spent so long on that! It was an extremely clear line between what I did and what needed doing! AND YET. :|

So, gonna have to fix that up at some point. :/ Noooot right now though, I think, I'm too grumpy AND it's cold out. Hopefully it won't take another nine fucking coats to fix it up, at least...

Also my father's having surgery tomorrow, so that's gonna be. A thing. We'll see how it goes, I guess!

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rionaleonhart

More Goes Wrong Show questions from Tumblr! I'm always delighted to receive these.

Anonymous: How would the girls feel about playing boys?

Annie throws herself with enthusiasm into male roles and has a great time. Even in the Cornley Drama Festival, when she had control over the staging and casting, she actively chose to play a man in her farce; it’s definitely something she’s happy to do!

Vanessa is more or less neutral on playing male roles; a role is a role like any other. However, male roles do add an extra source of stress; she worries about whether she’s believably depicting a man, and she’ll panic if she messes up in some way, e.g. if her voice slips.

Sandra dislikes playing male roles. She’s here to be a sexy lady, and she feels that being cross-cast gets in the way of that. Which is a shame, because she looked great as a boy in 'The Most Lamentable...'!

Lucy is stressed out in any role, but she slightly prefers playing boys because it means she doesn’t have to hear Robert’s bizarre ideas about How to Be Feminine.

mosswall: What does the venn diagram look like between Robert Goes Wrong Show and Jeremy Clarkson?

Extremely heavy but not quite complete overlap!

- Robert only: fictional, obsessed with acting.
- Clarkson only: non-fictional, obsessed with cars.
- Both: large, loud, aggressive, ridiculous, attention-grabbing, destructive, distinctive style of speaking, oblivious to others, highly entertaining, cause a lot of problems, part of a close-knit but frequently antagonistic group of friends who manage to make everything into a disaster, outrageously fun to write, people give me weird looks when they learn that I think they’re hot.

Anonymous: I don’t know a lot about “the show that goes wrong” but do you think they would perform death note the musical and if they did perform death note the musical who would get which role.

I’m going to say that Max would play Ryuk - he’s got the grin for it - and Chris would give himself the role of Light. Annie would be fun as Misa! I can see Sandra as Rem.

Robert demands to be L. Chris refuses to cast him as L; he instead casts Robert as Light’s father and gives the role of L to Jonathan. Inevitably, though, Jonathan is unable to get onto the stage during the performance, and Robert gleefully steps in. Chris and Robert definitely capture the intense hostile homoeroticism of Light and L’s duets, although some parts of the audience are confused by L apparently being Light’s father.

Anonymous: I was going to ask "shag marry kill" for the Goes Wrong crew, but there are too many of them! How many of them are there, nine? Okay. Shag, marry, kill, roommate, stuck in elevator with, fake married to, coworker, owe £10000 to, unexpectedly related to. I think that's nine.

Shag: Robert. It's unlikely to be a good idea, but, look, if I've got to shag one of them, I'm going to shag the hottest man I've ever seen.

Marry: Vanessa. I don't want to be married to anyone, and I think Vanessa's likely to accept 'actually, this was a mistake, wasn't it? let's get divorced' without complaint. Even if we end up permanently married, Vanessa is one of the more liveable-with members of the society, despite being a little high-strung.

Kill: Jonathan. He won't be able to get through the pearly gates, and they'll have to send him back to Earth.

Roommate: Annie. She's very warm and friendly and enthusiastic; I think we'd get along!

Owe £10,000 to: Dennis. He will forget, meaning I can pay him back in small instalments over a long period without Dennis ever hounding me or getting upset; he will, in fact, be surprised and delighted every time I give him money.

Unexpectedly related to: Maybe Max? He seems to have a wealthy and supportive family, after all! Maybe they can help out with the £10,000 I owe to Dennis.

At this point I realise, to my mild horror, that I have to choose between Chris and Trevor for 'stuck in elevator with' and 'fake married to'.

Stuck in elevator with: Chris. He will be stressed out, but he is a better option than Trevor, who will attempt to force the lift's doors open, causing it to plummet to the bottom of the shaft and killing us both.

Therefore, by process of elimination, I will end up fake married to Trevor. I'm not sure my family will be thrilled by my apparent marriage to a man who lives in a layby in two thirds of a caravan, but it beats dying in a falling lift.

WAIT, HOLD ON, I FORGOT SANDRA AND COWORKER WERE OPTIONS

In that case, I'll get stuck in the lift with Sandra and have Chris as a coworker. Chris is testy and I'm sure we'll rub each other the wrong way sometimes, but I'm also sure he will get his work done and respond to emails. Sandra will complain loudly the whole time we're stuck in the lift, but I can handle that. Again, the crucial thing, for my own safety, is that I do not end up stuck in a lift with Trevor.

I was also asked for my five favourite costumes Robert wears in The Goes Wrong Show; I'm going to link to my response on my Goes Wrong website because it includes a handful of screenshots.

kradeelav

I forgot to do my April links roundup because that month was ~*hairy*~ bandwidth-wise, but here's my collection of links saved from then. :)

- radio.garden - listen to the radio station...from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world, via web browser. a whole new medium entirely accessible from the seat. (this plus live captioning would be so cool to have in the background while designing something??)

- understanding snapewives (video essay) - a dear friend tossed this over; found it fascinating, incredibly nuanced, more sympathetic to selfshipping than it looks like on the surface (being one myself) while being able to keep an academic point of view about this (and adjacent) topics.

- text.blogosphere - a HN-skinned curation of (text) blog posts, based on submitted time.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20190731055246/https://tinyletter.com/hypotext/letters/can-humanism-scale - vertigo, scale, systems thinking, made me think about the world in a new way.

- found this blog through the hilarious 'installing every firefox extension (at the same time)' post, and thought the web design rules so much. lots of great web links to peruse through at the bottom. :)

- i was curious if it was possible to reverse-engineer the vague amount of RSS subscribers one has (given my art RSS has been around for a while) while still being privacy-respecting, and it is indeed, somewhat possible.

- IRC channel searcher - want to move to IRC soon, this is a fantastic IRC-general resource blog, but also a way to search up topics and active/popular channels much like google circa 2005. ohhh i want to get my FE-specific channel up there soon...

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kradeelav

given google's recent moves (ditching search for AI, invasive gmail changes), i'm hitting fast forward on removing google entirely from my few use-cases.

ironically the hardest two things to replace:

1) google meets specifically due to close captioning. (proton meets is awesome and has been working for me in the recent past but damn, i really miss/use my close captioning even if the google text accuracy has gotten noticeably god awful lately. :c ) i would love hearing if there's a non big-tech alternative to meetings-specific captioning (that's not basic assistive tech tools; i've been aware of those).

2) google translate. i'll pay (and have paid) for human translators for longer more important chunks of text, but for quick one-off replies to JP social media accounts (and to double check game scripts and JP artbooks), this works in a pinch.

that said, a few startpage searches later i did find a few options! while none of them are completely AI-free, some of these have offline, open source local options, and smell much more like the old school machine translation (that existed ten-fifteen years ago) versus the inaccurate slop fetes of today.

- libretranslate (web version) powered by argos translate (offline, technical version). file translation available. free, but with more custom bells and whistles available at a price (eg, custom models).

- apertium - read somewhere that it's more rules-based versus pure machine learning based. specific language pairs may be very limited depending on how similar they are. document & web-page translation options available. free, open source.

- linux live captioning - borderline assistive tech (not a bad thing; just trying to keep focus narrow here) but worth mentioning if you're like me on linux and looking for a hybrid of options to paste together. this plus proton meets looks promising with no (unnecessary) data sent elsewhere.

happy to hear more options, or amends to these ~

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Before the war, my life was deeply connected with the sea, travel, ships, people from different countries, and long roads between places. Some of those stories still appear here too.

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tyger

Today's blind sewing has gone... not great. I REALISE the only way to get better at this shit is to keep doing it, but also. I am so bad at sewing. So, so bad. /o\ And possibly even worse at measuring things properly. (These things are indeed related. Ugh.)

Other than that... animal maintenance! Played MP SDV again! That's about it? Yeah. :/

Painters were here today! They got everything prepped and undercoated, which is EXTREMELY impressive to me! I mean sure, they're professionals - well, I think one's an apprentice, but you know - but given how long shit takes to DRY the way they're able to schedule stuff to get it all done is a lot, even on top of the physical skills.

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Podcasts have officially overtaken AM/FM talk radio as the more popular medium for spoken-word audio in the United States. "Netflix is inking deals with iHeartMedia and Barstool Sports to bring podcasts to the streaming service as a more trendy version of the daytime talk show."

YouTube has said that viewers watched 700 million hours of podcasts each month in 2025 on living room devices, like TVs, up from 400 million the previous year.

Would you be interested in seeing more podcasts on offer at streaming services? Any particular kind?

tyger

So today I got the Box O Sewing Machine Feet out, and... well first I spent quite a while doing research, because it was surprisingly hard to find a guide on them. ( Sewing Machine Rambles Here )

I suspect the next step is going to be cutting bits of wood to size, but I was so focused on getting this figured out I didn't actually ask A while she was here today, so I'll have to text her. Anyway hopefully tomorrow will be sunny enough to do that, I don't want to use the circular saw unless I'm sure it's dry. If it's not I'll ask my father if he can show me how some of the other tools work, I guess? We'll see.

Also yes A came over and that was very fun! :D :D :D She even brought me snacks, which was very sweet of her! And Mama is doing better - she's allowed to take the eye not-patch off except for when she's sleeping now, which helps a lot. Still frustrated about being wiped, though. Maybe one year I'll be able to convince her healing is work, but not today, apparently.

Tomorrow is Painters Are Here day the first, so that'll be. Uh. Well probably quieter than the weatherboard guys, who were here today as well (and will probably be back on Saturday)... Still! Will be nice to have that stuff done! :D

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tyger

Mama's operation seems to have gone well! Not exactly easy to tell how her vision is now, 'cause even by the time she went to bed her pupil was suuuuuper dilated, but she seems okay! The eye cover thing is already driving her mad, which, I mean. It looks SUPER uncomfortable, it's a hard plastic thing just kinda taped onto her face, IDEK. But at least it's transparent, so she'll have colours through it if nothing else, gotta be less annoying than an eyepatch!

My doctor's appointment went okay! Apparently my cholesterol's still borderline not great (it's probably the zucchini bread), but also my thyroid's underperforming a bit, which is a new thing! She wants me to do a bit more vigorous exercise and up my heart rate a bit, see if that kicks my metabolism into a higher gear and if that changes anything. Which. I can try?? I guess? Will have to figure out how to get it into my routine in a way that doesn't make my brainweasels act up. Anyway, plan is for me to get another blood test about a week before I have to go in for my next meds appointment, which is uh. Five months from now. So it's definitely nothing urgent at all!

Other than that mostly played multiplayer stardew valley this afternoon/evening! Very fun! :D But tiring, mostly from the social. Also got that unpicking done, but didn't work on the blinds other than that. >>;;;

A is coming over tomorrow, though! Will work on blinds more then, and also yay! Friendtime!

Anyway, sleeps now. I haven't had a nap ALL DAY, which means I've been up uh. 18 hours. That is a bit too many, whoops...

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makz

Amazingly, I have not run out of things to talk about re: the comparisons I'm drawing in my brain between what Hathaway seems to be doing with its parallels between Char's singleminded and past-facing actions and Hathaway's hesitance to let go of the past even though he knows it's ruinous.

I saw the movie a second time yesterday, which let me pay slightly more attention to the details I'd found most interesting during my first viewing, and… well, all the same warnings apply as for the last two posts, if you wanna read what I'm thinking about.

( really i just want to talk more about mishima parallels; will you please indulge me on that )

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Current Music: Imogen Heap, I think?

groundsky

Hey there…

I’ve been quite busy with school this year and I’m finally out! But I got a little sick and I’m still coughing.

There’s some outbreak called hantavirus and the rodents would spread it to people on a cruise ship. Therefore, I had heard about it a few days ago before I got sick.

Days ago, very late at night, I heard a bird practicing and mimicking bird calls outside near me. I had no idea what bird it was but I feel like it’s a mockingbird. Other than that, there are barred owls living near me because our house is nearby some trees. And yes, their calls are so weird!

I feel like I have a lot of owl plushies. But most of them are beanie boos. I think I remember giving one away which was a snowy owl beanie boo to my big sister. Because I thought I had too many owl plush toys. But now I kind of want it back or see it again.

Im still reading Redwall, still on page 164. But I was on hiatus on it because of school.

My mom and my big sister gave me lots of money… which I wasn’t expecting. But I can’t wait to buy anyway!

She also gave me a letter, chocolate, it made me happy!

But yea, but now, though there is this weird thing that is happening on YouTube but I’m trying my best not to talk about it.

Watching YouTube, I discovered a channel which had an OC series called "Kakisanfriends". The OC designs looked cute but… I kind of regretted translating what they actually are. But Kaki really looks like Puso or Teach the Cat though.

I want to decorate my walls so bad but I need posters which I don’t have any but I do have little cards and decor. I also draw so I guess I could hang up my own paintings too!

Now, I’ve learned something I wish I knew before. Studying early. It’s a good advice to hear and it did help me without my brain feeling overloaded.

My computer had become slow and losing storage which sucks. My big sister wants to get me a gaming computer. I have a type of computer in mind I want to buy which is ASUS.

I’ve been learning more about dinosaurs. I’m still fascinated by them and how they live, even though I mostly like pterosaurs than dinosaurs. I can’t wait to get back on Netflix again. My big sister recommended me something called "The Dinosaurs." This has been a really good time to be a dinosaur fan recently!

tyger

I am Very Stressed, and it's because of things that are either completely out of my control, or I actively want to happen. BRAIN WHY. STAHP.

To be somewhat fair, this week is going to be A Lot, even if everything goes perfectly. I'mma list it all for posterity:

( Too many things... )

Still, stressing about it isn't helpful, brain! :/

Today I did some painting cleanup, and also attempted to sew the blinds to the good fabric. It went. Very badly! :/ I did some research and it looks like this is a Known Issue with thermal fabric, and there's a different foot suggested, so I'mma see if we have one of those tomorrow. (If they were being made when our machine was bought we probably do! I just don't know if they were.) After I finish the unpicking. >>;; Shoulda done that tonight, I just. Nooooo.

Anyway, no nap allowed tomorrow morning, otherwise I won't make it to my appointment, so I am going the fuck to sleep now. Yes. Or at least trying, given my fucking brain, ugh.

Current Mood: stressed
Current Location: Birthplace

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Y'all I finally finished a Capheus fic!!! I swear I have half a dozen Capheus POV WIPS that I've basically abandoned because every time I start writing him my inner gloom comes out and I just cannot get where I need to go with such a sunshiny character. But I did it! Aaaaaaand it's 888 words which is very on point for this show!

A Friend in Need
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888 Words
Capheus heads to Berlin for an unexpectedly reassuring conversation
Takes place during episode 2.1 Happy F*cking New Year

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