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My number one want: I hope you create something you enjoy, and have fun. I've included my likes and opt-ins, in case you want something to start from, but it's absolutely fine with me if you want to go in a different direction.

This is my generic list of likes, opt-ins, and DNWs for exchanges where I didn't create a letter with specific prompts.

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It’s the 10th anniversary of the first broadcast of Lucifer, which is one of my top 3 favorite TV shows.*
I FEEL SO OLD 😭

*The other two are Star Trek the original series and Babylon 5, just don’t ask me in what order.

What makes you feel old or young?
What are your favorite TV shows?

*sigh* I was just reminded that Peet’s Coffee is owned by a larger corporation now (has been for some time). I‘d rather support a smaller company. If you make coffee from ground beans at home, what is your go-to source? Bonus for fair trade and all those other green, good-citizen buzzwords.

Turns out that listening to an audiobook of The Witcher in the vicinity of an iThing can cause a mildly irritating problem

From the “You don’t say!🙀” files
(Content note: The article uses language that frames ADHD as a problem)

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/adhd-advantage-hypercuriosity

The New Yorker is trying to convince me that Bluesky has become annoying and everyone’s back on Xitter. Not linking because it’s paywalled. True or false?

I never got the hang of Twitter. I have similar problems with Bluesky. I don’t need a social site to deliver me more links. I want conversation. Is conversation dead? Where is it? (I know there’s some here…)

I miss Usenet, lol

Just got out of a week intubated in the icu (not outta the woods but on the mend) and had lost my ability to walk I felt proud of being able to walk around as a fat person so I was embarrassed and described myself as ”weak as a newborn kitten” but when I thought about it I realized kittens come out pretty darn weak but they’re designed to develop into killing machines whch they do in short order yeah I got this. No plans to kill any one just, metaphors have power

OK, who should be the next Bond? I’m impressed by the wide range of suggestions here. I especially liked the suggestion for Rege-Jean Page. No one mentioned Joseph Mawle, Edward Bluemel, Harry Lloyd, or Matthew Goode, though. Or Tobias Menzies!

What do you think?

Guardian readers make nominations for the next Bond

My fave is the semicolon; however, I refuse to cede em-dashes or any other punctuation marks to ChatGPT.

These attacks on the em dash — a ChatGPT hyphen? How very dare you! — have in turn blazed across social media spaces populated by the kind of folks who will tell you, unprompted, that they have a favorite punctuation mark and what it is. (It is very likely the em dash.) — https://www.salon.com/2025/06/11/ai-cant-have-my-em-dash/

"Peter Stormare Gives Update on ‘Constantine 2’; Keanu Reeves Reportedly Unhappy with Script" by Meagan Navarro (very similar articles seen on a number of other entertainment news sites).

"'But to do a sequel, the studios want to have, you know, cars flying in the air. They want to have people doing flip-flops and fighting action scenes,' Stormare said."

I think I agree with Keanu. We already have the John Wick franchise. IT IS AWESOME. But we don't need the Keanu-as-Constantine franchise to turn into another John Wick franchise.

I hope they resolve this soon because I am DROOLING at the chance to see Stormare play Lucifer again.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/judge-blocks-passport-ban-citing

There’s lots to like in this temporary ruling, but the bit that makes my geeky soul sing is where the judge bases her ruling in part on the ban violating the Paperwork Reduction Act.

I’ll take “Weird little knowledge gaps” for 500, Alex

I have listened to “In A Gadda da Vida” more or less since it first came out and I was today days old when I realized the phrase comes from “in the Garden of Eden.”

It showed up in three posts in a row on my reading list. Who am I to ignore what the cool kids are doing?

PS: *squeee!!!*

Watch on YouTube

I’m mad about what Mump is doing everywhere but what it’s doing to Canada really bugs me; I guess I feel kind of like Canada is one of my best friends. I grew up near the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. I spent most of a year in Montreal. And I love how defiant they’re being toward Mump.

I’m not yet personally worried about money.

Should I:
-make a point of buying Canadian products to help Canada?
-avoid buying products subject to tariffs because that would mean less tariff money in Mump’s pocket?
-avoid buying anything unnecessary at all, in the hope that not participating in the economy will put more pressure on Mump?
-some combination of the above?
-something else?

I suppose I should make a poll but I am interested in people’s reasoning, not just their votes.

I’ve gotten out of the habit of posting my stories individually. Here are fifteen I wrote December 2024 – March 2025

They’re also at

genprompt_bingo:
https://genprompt-bingo.dreamwidth.org/140851.html
https://genprompt-bingo.dreamwidth.org/140731.html
https://genprompt-bingo.dreamwidth.org/140503.html

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firecat
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Babylon 5, The Bacchae - Euripides, Bridgerton (TV), Fairy Tales, James Bond (Craig), Lucifer (TV), Moon Knight, Original Work, Person of Interest, Ted Lasso

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I was paying more attention than usual to my regularly scheduled penis-enhancement spam today.

What makes a man?
Is it strength? A great career? Confidence in a crowd?
Yes, all of that matters.
But there's one key thing that defines your confidence, your pride, and even your relationship...
Can you get it up? And keep it up?
And I’m not talking about a few minutes—I mean for as long as you want.

It went on to say “P.S. Imagine her satisfaction when you can finally give her the night she's been craving.”

[274,638 eyerolls later…]

Anyway, the response that popped into my head was from back in 1970 when the fourth grade class had a module called “what makes man human?” (These days we’d say it differently, to deny a snarky fourth grader the opportunity to say “an H and a U.”) And back then one of the more popular answers to that question was “we use tools.”

You can probably figure out where I’m going with this…

Comment on my stories Twice-born and If Not Victory:
“My name is [redacted], and I am a research assistant at [a university] in the Netherlands. I am reaching out to kindly request your permission to include some sentences in an academic publications analyzing how characters die in fanfiction of Greek and Roman myths”

This describes the study the team is doing.
https://golemlab.eu/about/

‘The goal of GOLEM is to model the evolution of fiction in the context of digitalized and datafied culture, the so-called “digital literary sphere”’

I watched episode 1 of the new medical mystery show Watson. Three-word review: Flawed but satisfying.

I really enjoyed the character of Shinwell, played by Ritchie Coster.
( mild spoilers; perhaps larger spoilers in the comments )

January 27, 2025

Firecat: OMG! Why am I only now hearing about this TV show Watson? I’m so out of touch!

Wikipedia: Watson is an American television series created by Craig Sweeny which premiered on CBS on January 26, 2025.

Firecat: Oh…OK then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(TV_series)
It’s on Paramount+

Some numbers.

I was under the impression that I’d written a lot less in 2024 than 2023, so it was a pleasant surprise to learn I actually published more words in 2024, although I wrote fewer total.
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