Oh also I am re-working my entire neocities site... it's very bare-bones right now but I'm building it from scratch. You can view it here

https://softwareangel.neocities.org/

softwareangel

hiiii today is my last day before I officially go back to work for the summer... so here's what i did!

After doing errands, I went out and got two new games [Dragon Quest 1+2+3 HD 2-D remake]! I had no idea they rewrote all of Hargon's story... and added more to the original game.. its wild, Im looking forward to playing through them! Even if I don't really vibe with Hargon's new backstory... I'll still give it a chance, and explore the remakes for what they have to offer.

I also got myself new shoes... my old ones were pretty old and falling apart [like, holes in the bottom of them lol]

They're so cute.. reminds me of Zig...

Also a couple of days ago I thrifted a really really nice digital camera... a Sony Cyber-Shot dsc-wx150 !

The photos it takes is really nice. I can't wait for this to be part of my everyday carry...

i alsooooo ordered myself a flip phone from japan <3 its a kyocera digno 3 902kc/903kc ! i got it in black <3

i'll be keeping my current phone as a work-only/gps phone with a different number, so its strictly for work only. my flip phone wont have any social media or youtube or anything like that... just messaging and music and pictures. im really excited to get it in the mail!

i took an edible so now im just chilling and am going to collect some new music before bed... gotta wake up early tomorrow.. goodnight

Mood: sleepy

curious_quail_feed

Posted by curiousquail

https://blog.curiousquail.com/heard-you-was-cardinal-june/

Photo of a cardinal resting on a power line in front of greenery

TALKIN SHIT

zoomed in photo of the cardinal's face, now turned to face the camera

(Oh no, two blog posts in one day what has happened to me)

I-guess-this-is-just-gonna-be-a-format-I-use-from-now-on
photography

https://blog.curiousquail.com/heard-you-was-cardinal-june/

malymin

Ok... of the castle shells I've downloaded so far, "Castle Shell Challenge 2" by lordcloss76 meets a lot of my personal standards for house shells. I'm fine with using moveobjects and a bajillion (totally legitimately acquired) packs on my own terms, but I like a relatively "clean slate" if I want to move into a home.

no (or minimal) moveobjects cheat
not overloaded with debug scenery
uses as few packs as possible (in this case Castle Estate Kit)

It is, admittedly, a bit small for a "castle" (fits on a 30x20 lot), but that at least gives room for building on, or makes it easier to fit into a world with limited lots.

I like Maxis' own "grand castle estate" shell fine... except for the fact it has no predefined rooms. Even unfurnished, it's currently outside of this save file's budget. Lilsimsie's wedding venue version of it is nice, and easy enough to convert into a house, but is like... over 650k simoleons furnished. For the record, my wealthiest sims at the moment are sitting at like... 75k simoleons.

I tried looking for a good wood lodge shell for Moonwood Mill (Werewolves pack world) also, but the only one I found that met my third criterion failed my first and second criteria.

The thing about moveobjects spam is that it makes it hard to know if a sim can actually, uh... access things.

ysabetwordsmith

dialecticdreamer is hosting Feathering the Nest today, always with a theme of fluff and comfort. Leave prompts, get ficlets!

Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Still catching on details after Wednesday's storm. Thursday the power was still out when we woke up. That meant the refrigerator and its small freezer were losses. We already had plans for a trip to Champaign-Urbana, so we went ahead with that.

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Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy, mild, and damp. It rained copiously yesterday and probably some in the night.

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 6/22/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 6/22/26 -- I potted up 6 pots of Pink Apple sprouts, 5 per pot, for a total of 30. There are still lots more in that baggie.

EDIT 6/22/26 -- We hauled the big branch from the south lot to the brushpile in the ritual meadow. We also dragged a dead fallen branch near the firepit to break down later.

EDIT 6/22/26 -- I potted up 6 pots of Pink Apple sprouts, 5 per pot, for a total of 30. That is 60 overall. There are a few left in the baggie but they are smaller and harder to see, so I put them back in the fridge.

The tree sprouts I planted before the storm are already appearing above the soil. \o/

EDIT 6/22/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 6/22/26 -- I potted up 5 pots of Jonathan Apple sprouts, 5 per pot, for a total of 25. There are a few left in the baggie but they are smaller and harder to see, so I put them back in the fridge.

EDIT 6/22/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 6/22/26 -- I bagged up some black cherry pits in damp sand to stratify in the refrigerator.

EDIT 6/22/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I also walked down to the new picnic table garden. The obelisk fell over; I'll need to set that back up. Several tomato plants have green fruit. So do several of the peppers. :D

EDIT 6/22/26 -- I filled a trolley with big sticks from the south lot, then dumped that in the firepit.

EDIT 6/22/26 -- I started breaking up the branch by the firepit. I reduced the size pretty well but some is too big for me to break.

I've seen at least one bat. A skunk ambled around the end of the driveway. Fireflies are swarming all over. Killdeer are calling in the fields. There's a bit of fluddle left across the road to the west, and they love the water. :D

I am done for the night.

Mood: busy

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Posted by curiousquail

https://blog.curiousquail.com/camera-focus-adventures-saturdays-daymoon/

These are so fun to do

If you've been here a while, you might remember how in March I caught covid and it absolutely fucked my life for about 2+ months. I went from "going on walks regularly and photographing stuff outside as much as possible" to "getting the mail leaves me out of breath, what the fuck"

Happy to say I've been more or less better since Mid may, but I hadn't quite gotten back to doing photo walks until this weekend. What this means for you is that more moon and wildlife photos are in your future if you stick around (and maybe a pokemon post or two, who can say??)

Please enjoy the daymoon I saw on my Saturday photo walk. (Grab the slider in the middle and pull one way or the other)

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Full res:
Moon | Power line

Anyway, for reasons I don't understand in the CSS, if I try to add more than one slider to a post, only the first one works? Otherwise I'd hit you with a few but hey, it is what it is. Appreciate a moon and an animal at a time I guess.

msds-camera-focus-adventures
photography

https://blog.curiousquail.com/camera-focus-adventures-saturdays-daymoon/

kossai

wish concept of mystery box / mystery bag toys just did not exist .

momentary surprise over " rare item " is not worth all of package waste , money waste , and duplicate toys that will collect dust or go straight to landfill .

for every person who is genuine and responsible in engagement of mystery toys , there will be 5 more who try to make these things " viral trend " or collect every single one , and then harder for people who would genuinely appreciate to find .

people unfortunately do this with non-mystery toys too , but mystery toys add another seriously awful element - if everything is hidden , then need to spend immense amounts of money to even have chance at find favourite outcome .

if engagement in these trends is " for childhood fun and whimsy " like some claim , why not look at actual modes of childhood play ?

put some toys in sandbox , even if this is just small bowl , and dig out again . ask someone trusted to hide toys around room . play shell game with really small ones . if really want this idea of unbox experience , reuse bags and boxes that already have around house to put toys back into - boxes can be rocket ships , adoption shelters , anything .

could even just change out display of toys , so arrangement feel new again .

Mood: thoughtful
Music: dragon shrine ~ palia ost

ysabetwordsmith

15 forgotten skills every 1950s boy mastered before 12

Step back to the 1950s with a glimpse into rural life, where childhood memories were made by creeks and willow sticks. here on America's Forgotten Fathers This vintage scene captures the simple joy of a boy with his pocket knives, engaging in wood carving. A wave of nostalgia is sure to wash over you, recalling simpler times.

This video is a little slanted, a little exaggerated, a lot nostalgic. Not all boys learned these skills; not everyone who did was a boy. Some children and even adults still learn them today. But it remains true that this is a bundle of highly useful survival skills that are vastly scarcer today than they used to be. That's a problem. So let's look at the featured skills...

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Mood: busy

softwareangel

Hello again... redid everything and aiming on coming back to posting on Dreamwidth. I need a place to dump my thoughts lol

ysabetwordsmith

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Review: "Shadows in the Forest"
Wildlife
Litha
Conservation
Wednesday
Tornado Alley
Wildlife
Birdfeeding
How to Reclaim the Past
Science
Philosophical Questions: Help
Birdfeeding
Space Exploration
Creative Jam
Follow Friday 6-19-26: Mythology
Breck's Order
Conservation
Poetry Fishbowl Themes for Late 2026
Birdfeeding
Storm Recovery Poetry Event
I Aten't Ded
Birdfeeding
Food
Read "Fragmentation"
Good News

Poem: "Walnut Park" has 46 comments. Early Humans has 22 comments. Safety has 87 comments.

There are no open epics.

"No Faster or Firmer Friendships" is now complete. Josué reaches out to Aidan to help the refugees.

"Let’s Go on This Journey Together" is now complete. Linus finds that tools and support make his current situation a lot easier to deal with.

The weather has been violent this past week. There has been copious rain and multiple tornadoes in the area. O_O We are okay, the house and yard are okay, but just Sunday a friend had 5 tornadoes in his area. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a male cardinal , an indigo bunting, and a fox squirrel. We saw a skunk in the yard. Fireflies are swarming. Currently blooming: pansies, violas, sweet alyssum, marigolds, honeysuckle, snapdragons, lantana, million bells, blue lobelia, petunias, portulaca, nemesia, fan flowers, wild chives, firecracker plant, pineapple sage, yucca, Asiatic lilies, daylilies, snowball viburnum, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, spiderwort, narrow-leaved mountain mint, elderberries, golden rain tree. Green fruit: tomatoes, cucumbers. Pink fruit: blackberries. Ripe fruit: mulberries, black raspberries.

Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

This past Wednesday, we played Shadows in the Forest for the first time. It is a modern American version of Waldschattenspiel. This is a blackout game meant to be played in the dark (more or less). Every game collection should include at least one game in this category, and this one makes an excellent choice.

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Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Science Newsfrom research organizations

As lakes turn brown, trout and bass decline while pike and walleye thrive.

Freshwater lakes across North America and Europe are becoming noticeably browner, reducing underwater visibility and reshaping fish populations. Research found that several popular sport fish, including trout, bass, perch, and whitefish, tend to decline in darker waters. Meanwhile, walleye and northern pike often become more abundant because they are better adapted to low-visibility conditions. The shift could change both lake ecosystems and the fishing experience for millions of anglers.

This reminds me of how a pond can have two stable modes: one cloudy with many minnows and few bass, the other clear with many bass and few minnows. Cloudy water lets the minnows hide, and they stir it up. Clear lets the bass eat most of the minnows.

Another excellent catching and eating fish for cloudy water is catfish. There are many kinds. Many of the sunfish family -- bluegill, punkinseed, etc. -- are also comfortable in cloudy water.

Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Happy Litha to those celebrating the summer solstice! Fieldhaven Coven is 23 years old today. That feels like quite an accomplishment.

This year we've been doing creation stories from different cultures for the sabbats. This time we featured the Yoruban tale from what is now Nigeria. The ritual had the structure of a play with a Narrator and several divine figures, with each participant reading one role. I was the Narrator. All of us really liked this format and wish to do it again.

Mood: happy

ysabetwordsmith

Traditional farms reveal how food and nature can thrive together

Maria Chiara Camporese, a PhD researcher at the University of Göttingen in Germany, led the work. Her team studied landscapes that are known as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization gives that label to farming landscapes where crops and wild nature have coexisted for generations.

These landscapes look nothing alike. They range from alpine pastures in Austria where cattle graze for hay milk to date-palm oases in North Africa and rye fields high in Portugal’s mountains. Traditional farming here looks nothing like an industrial field. What ties them together runs against common sense.

“Food production and nature conservation do not have to be in opposition,” said Camporese. Each must shelter biodiversity while still feeding its people, yet food and habitat usually fight over the same acres.

Here in central Illinois, a key part of traditional agriculture is the fencerow, a long narrow strip of trees, bushes, and wildflowers full of birds, insects, and other critters. It has a number of crucial benefits, including but not limited to:
* It slows and disrupts wind to reduce airborne erosion and damaging winds.
* It slows water from running rapidly across fields to reduce that erosion.
* It shelters beneficial species, especially predators, to minimize the risk of pest populations exploding. This also greatly improves birdwatching.
* And it's a great place to hunt along if you're into that.

Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

I'm trying to catch up with more details about recent events. This is Today's Adventures for Wednesday, June 17. (See the Thursday post.)

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Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Tornado Alley Is Moving — And It's Heading Somewhere Terrifying

The United States gets about 1,200 tornadoes a year — roughly 75% of the world's total — and for the last 40 to 50 years, the center of that activity has been quietly moving east, off the Great Plains and into the Mid-South. The storms aren't disappearing; they're relocating onto ground where tornadoes are far deadlier: faster, striking at night, in any season, over more people in more fragile homes.

The oldest Tornado Alley (pre-1970s) looked like this, a near-vertical swath through the Great Plains. This was the least-worst place for tornados.

When I was growing up, Tornado Alley was more of a sweep from Texas and Oklahoma through the Midwest of Illinois and Indiana up toward Ohio. This was worse, but not too much worse.

Now Tornado Alley is approaching horizontal, still with its roots in Texas and Oklahoma, but cutting through the Mid-South. This is an absolute disaster.

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Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

World’s Largest ‘Whale Graveyard’ Teems with Deep-Sea Life Including Species Unknown to Science

Chinese scientists have discovered the world’s largest “whale graveyard” in a trench deep below the Indian Ocean—and it teems with life.

Bivalves, brittle stars, different kinds of worms, and jellyfish—many of which may be new to science, thrived in what the scientists suggested might have acted as an “evolutionary hotspot.”

This is fascinating.

Mood: busy

seaglassgarden

this past winter, my favorite podcast network, ranged touch, released a free bonus episode for their podcast about genre fiction. the episode is about a christmas-themed murder mystery hallmark movie, but it goes off the rails after they discover a hilarious string of projects on a contributor’s imdb page. it’s one of my favorite podcast episodes because of its chaos, but what stuck with me about it was something one of the hosts said in response to their unexpected deep dive: “the world is so big”

that’s been such a comfort to me since then. the world is so big. there are huge expanses of information i haven’t learned. there are too many people in the world to meet, or even imagine meeting. the history of human creativity spreads endlessly in all directions. there is expertise everywhere, depth in everything, nuance in every possible topic, limitless complexity to all people.

whenever my world feels too small, too constrained by the petty details of my current heartbreak or my past trauma, too boxed in by an anxiety i can’t seem to shake or an ocd compulsion i can’t get out of, i remember: it is always an option to turn to the hugeness of the world and make my own life a little bigger.

i have a tendency to shrink my world down to make it easier to manage. i focus intensely on my desire for one (unattainable) person, or i put off things i want to do out of fear of doing them wrong. i have a history of playing it safe. other people’s lives seemed to go off on so many tangents, and i resented myself for not being able to compare. im learning not to do that anymore—both the resentment and the habit of barricading my life in one small, predictable room.

my life is bigger now. ive become part of an online friend group that’s everything ive been dreaming of since i was a teenager trying to find a digital home. i discovered that there’s a covid-safe group in my area, so ive been able to safely meet new people for the first time since the pandemic began. ive let myself be influenced by passions of my new friends, and ive discovered so many new things as a result.

it’s a struggle, learning to let my life take a more complex shape.

but the world is so big. and my life is growing to meet it.

Mood: pensive

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