Sunday, January 25th, 2026 10:38 pm
Sunday, January 25th, 2026 10:27 pm
I have a lot of plants. That's what I thought when I woke up this morning and stared at my very out-of-focus wall of greenery. (I never have to turn on lights anymore. All of the plant lights are on timers this year, and they start coming on down the hall around 6:30, a kind of artifical rolling dawn as one timer after another ticks over.)
I spent all of last year journaling daily in Chinese to hit my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
inkingitout goal, and it may have worked: it now feels so much easier to write 500 words in Chinese that apparently I have energy left over to journal in English as well. So far I haven't written about the same thing in both journals once, not by design but just out of sheer verbosity.
( journaling and ADHD )
( speaking practice, and LLM-as-AI chatbots, including Duolingo )
In conclusion, thesnowflake_challenge. Dreamwidth, I appreciate you tremendously, as I hope I indicated above somewhere in my ramble about journaling. And also youtube, which I was going to use as a lead-in to the speaking challenge, but since it's now at the end, here are three insights that youtube has (usually accidentally) given me about language learning.
( youtube and language learning )
Which brings me to my favorite part which is, I watch the occasional vlog in English, just for variety, and do you know how smart these kids are? It really bolsters my faith in humanity to see people being thoughtful and competent and insightful on youtube. And everywhere. So thanks, internet communities. You make my life so much better.
I spent all of last year journaling daily in Chinese to hit my
inkingitout goal, and it may have worked: it now feels so much easier to write 500 words in Chinese that apparently I have energy left over to journal in English as well. So far I haven't written about the same thing in both journals once, not by design but just out of sheer verbosity.( journaling and ADHD )
( speaking practice, and LLM-as-AI chatbots, including Duolingo )
In conclusion, the
snowflake_challenge. Dreamwidth, I appreciate you tremendously, as I hope I indicated above somewhere in my ramble about journaling. And also youtube, which I was going to use as a lead-in to the speaking challenge, but since it's now at the end, here are three insights that youtube has (usually accidentally) given me about language learning.( youtube and language learning )
Which brings me to my favorite part which is, I watch the occasional vlog in English, just for variety, and do you know how smart these kids are? It really bolsters my faith in humanity to see people being thoughtful and competent and insightful on youtube. And everywhere. So thanks, internet communities. You make my life so much better.
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Sunday, January 25th, 2026 07:54 pm
Having Fun Yet?
Not really. Not with the latest murder in Minneapolis, a city I have connections with and memories of. I flinched when I heard the gun shots that killed Alex Pretti yesterday. So very loud.
Only a couple of weeks earlier, again in Minneapolis, Renee Nicole Good, was killed by ICE. Her last words were "I'm not mad at you guys." After - after - she was shot, one of the ICE agents called her a "fucking bitch." Professional attitude there, buddy.
But let's not forget others who were shot, either killed or injured, across the country.
Last September, undocumented immigrant Silverio Villegas González, a 20-year resident of Franklin Park, was killed by ICE thugs in that Chicago suburb, after dropping off his children at school. The narrative from ICE was one we're very familiar with now: he "severely injured" an ICE agent, and dragged the agent with his car.
That agent told his buddies at the scene of González' murder that his own injury was "nothing major." Oops.
American citizen Marimar Martinez was shot five times by CBP agent Charles Exum, who later boasted about it in texts to friends. She survived, and charges against her were dropped. It turns out that she didn't ram any agent's car. Someone rammed her car. Quel surprise.
There have been at least eight other shootings by ICE or CBP agents across the country since last September, of U.S. citizens,and non-citizens. They were lucky enough not to be killed, but some of them are still in ICE custody.
They were all domestic terrorists who used their vehicles to ruthlessly hunt down blameless ICE and CPB agents. At least, that's the message that ICE Barbie and her Trumpian buddies like Greg Bovino have repeatedly given out at press conferences. Not only are they lying, they're not even creatively lying.
Can we have the midterms next week, please, before That Man and his criminal team figure out how to shut elections down?
No?
Well then, we'd best be on our guard.
Not really. Not with the latest murder in Minneapolis, a city I have connections with and memories of. I flinched when I heard the gun shots that killed Alex Pretti yesterday. So very loud.
Only a couple of weeks earlier, again in Minneapolis, Renee Nicole Good, was killed by ICE. Her last words were "I'm not mad at you guys." After - after - she was shot, one of the ICE agents called her a "fucking bitch." Professional attitude there, buddy.
But let's not forget others who were shot, either killed or injured, across the country.
Last September, undocumented immigrant Silverio Villegas González, a 20-year resident of Franklin Park, was killed by ICE thugs in that Chicago suburb, after dropping off his children at school. The narrative from ICE was one we're very familiar with now: he "severely injured" an ICE agent, and dragged the agent with his car.
That agent told his buddies at the scene of González' murder that his own injury was "nothing major." Oops.
American citizen Marimar Martinez was shot five times by CBP agent Charles Exum, who later boasted about it in texts to friends. She survived, and charges against her were dropped. It turns out that she didn't ram any agent's car. Someone rammed her car. Quel surprise.
There have been at least eight other shootings by ICE or CBP agents across the country since last September, of U.S. citizens,and non-citizens. They were lucky enough not to be killed, but some of them are still in ICE custody.
They were all domestic terrorists who used their vehicles to ruthlessly hunt down blameless ICE and CPB agents. At least, that's the message that ICE Barbie and her Trumpian buddies like Greg Bovino have repeatedly given out at press conferences. Not only are they lying, they're not even creatively lying.
Can we have the midterms next week, please, before That Man and his criminal team figure out how to shut elections down?
No?
Well then, we'd best be on our guard.
Monday, January 26th, 2026 02:42 am
Sorry for lateness; will reply to comments and update the tally tomorrow!
Sunday, January 25th, 2026 07:12 pm
It's maybe a little odd to phrase it this way, but only after like 4+ years of on and off watching BL dramas (and getting into GL dramas) am I getting to stage of actually being okay with/open to "bad" endings again because it's not about the gay, it's about the plot. You now have my trust that you're not “killing off the gays” because they're gay, so I'm okay with killing off main characters if the plot makes sense that way.
And I probably would not have been ready to like it 4 years ago.
Right now I'm making personal bets about characters dying in and having a lovely time.
(Okay I’m still not going to watch heavy political/etc. type dramas but that’s just a general preference.)
[spoiler about a 2025 GL series]
I really loved Runaway.Right now I'm making personal bets about characters dying in
[vague not-really spoiler about a currently airing BL series]
Goddess bless you from death(Okay I’m still not going to watch heavy political/etc. type dramas but that’s just a general preference.)
Sunday, January 25th, 2026 11:26 am
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Sunday, January 25th, 2026 10:18 am
Sunday, January 25th, 2026 12:16 pm
What I knew before going in: this is serial-numbers-very-very-very-slightly-filed-off Sidney Crosby/Alexander Ovechkin RPF. There's a lot of sex scenes. There is a cup kiss on ice.
( Then I watched it )
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Saturday, January 24th, 2026 07:48 pm
Menachos! Basically Zevachim except with flour offerings... FOR NOW.
My notes on perek 1:
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Saturday, January 24th, 2026 11:30 pm
Cannot sleep due to overabundance of fandom joy tonight (don't cure me). Did my first ever threesentenceficathon fill today too :D It is not three sentences, but there'll be more opportunities to try I'm sure ;)
Lost & Found | K-9 | Oboro/Fujimaru | <300 words | rated T
Summary: Oboro slips up.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
threesentenceficathon fill today too :D It is not three sentences, but there'll be more opportunities to try I'm sure ;)Lost & Found | K-9 | Oboro/Fujimaru | <300 words | rated T
Summary: Oboro slips up.
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Saturday, January 24th, 2026 10:49 pm
This is a crossover between the Harry Potter books, the Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series, and the film Bedazzled (1967, not the 2000 remake), with some other crossovers and Easter eggs, so far including Dogma (1999) and Time Bandits (1981). All characters belong to their respective creators / owners / megacorporations of doom and not to me, please don't sue...
( VII - Out of Time )
Comments please before I post to archives. Previous chapters are posted on these sites:
On Twisting the Hellmouth - https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34251/MarcusRowland+Harry+Potter+Undazzled.htm
On Fanfiction.net - https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14336114/1/Harry-Potter-Undazzled
On Archive of Our Own - https://archiveofourown.org/works/54407350
( VII - Out of Time )
Comments please before I post to archives. Previous chapters are posted on these sites:
On Twisting the Hellmouth - https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34251/MarcusRowland+Harry+Potter+Undazzled.htm
On Fanfiction.net - https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14336114/1/Harry-Potter-Undazzled
On Archive of Our Own - https://archiveofourown.org/works/54407350
Saturday, January 24th, 2026 11:24 pm
*rushes in* Where did the day go?!
Today's writing
Still treading water. *sighs*
Tally
( Days 1-20 )
Day 21:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
alightbuthappypen, badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme
Day 22:badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora
Day 23:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora
Day 24:china_shop, trobadora
Let me know if I missed anyone! And remember you can drop in or out at any time. :)
Today's writing
Still treading water. *sighs*
Tally
( Days 1-20 )
Day 21:
alightbuthappypen, badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilmeDay 22:
badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadoraDay 23:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadoraDay 24:
china_shop, trobadoraLet me know if I missed anyone! And remember you can drop in or out at any time. :)
Saturday, January 24th, 2026 11:38 am
I used a different upload with a better description for 'The Perfect Neighbor' leads Gold Derby odds for Documentary Feature at the Oscars.
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Saturday, January 24th, 2026 01:12 pm
As expected the pacing check didn't really do anything as a pacing check lolsob. The new bits were super fun and the old bits kinda felt draggy. However I have Thoughts regardless! Also I waited to have a 4h block of time to read but tat wasn't enough orz I think it took over a little 5h to reread overall, for 56k words - just noting this down as a reminder for my future self.
I wanted to just "jot down a few notes" but I'm gonna have to use headers again. Whoops. This got long.
Waiting to have a lot of time to do writerly stuff = no
Also: as much as doing a full reread at once appeals, postponing over and over until such a magical block of time manifests isn't reasonable. This is kinda funny to relearn because this used to be a source for writing block for me back in my early writing days (wayyy back). I had to wait until I had a Big Chunk Of Free Time for focus reasons. Things have gotten a lot happier for me since I learnt how to write in 30 minutes (or sometimes 15 minutes!) blocks, and also that doesn't preclude the occasional delightful Big Chunk Of Writerly Time from happening either.
Full reread good for some things, even if not for pacing exactly
Otherwise, the full reread was good to see how the changes hold together. While a rewritten scene toward the end does need a bit more air, the first half where I did the bulk of the work imo flow super well. While I can see the seams where I attached the old to the new, it's mostly because I remember the old version(s). I'm just really really enjoying what the story is turning into. I was a bit worried because when reworking stuff, you can also see what it no longer is and no longer says, but whatever it is now, it sure is something I like :D The chapter that many beta-readers said felt too long, and which is now nearly twice as long, didn't drag at all for me. It's hard to tell if it's because I care too much already about these characters, or because a lot of was rewritten and therefore falsely feels more fresh to my brain, but that's what valiant beta-readers will help me find out soon enough :D
How many drafts is enough drafts?
( writing writing editing blah blah happy :D )
What next?
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