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I'm pretty worried about Blair.

She gets migraines from time to time; bad enough, and frequently enough, that she has a prescription medication for migraine medicine. Lately, though, she has been getting them almost every day, and that is... not good, and not normal. She's completely taken out by the migraine and then completely taken out in a different way by the medicine she has to take to treat it.

She's going to try to work with her doctor to figure out what's happening and what to do about it, and in the meantime, she's going to take a week-long leave of absence from school and work. What I'm worried most about is the knowledge that she has (has had, for a few years now) a small brain tumor. So far as they know it's benign and she's been on prolactin to shrink it (which is working). Still.

Worried.

On a completely different note, does anyone here use the Finch app? Let me know if you do, so we can be friends!

Current Mood: worried

Whoa, another journal entry! It's only been, like, a month and a half! This is unprecedented work!

Let's talk drugs, motherlovers.

( In which I talk about ADD, and the prescription medication I have been taking for it for almost two weeks now. ) When I started writing this I thought it was going to be a few short paragraphs about the Vyvanse and then I was going to do, like, a Tekken character costume rating. Alas, I have now been typing this post for almost ten thousand years, and thus simply do not care to do something else. Sorry, Tekken Character As Yet Undecided. Perhaps next time I update, it will be to rank your costumes from across the various games. Or perhaps I will never do this at all.

Let's be real. I'm never going to do it. (Sorry FFVIII post I hinted at last time. Sorry everything I've ever considered ever.)

Title: Where Love Goes
Fandom: ClaireBell
Music: Where Love Goes by Kai Mata
Summary: 'this could be the start of something special'
Notes: Premiered at Escapade 36!

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Tuesday, February 24, to midnight on Wednesday, February 25. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34289 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 11

How are you doing?

I am OK.
6 (54.5%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
5 (45.5%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
5 (45.5%)

One other person.
3 (27.3%)

More than one other person.
3 (27.3%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

...I somehow missed that Escapade was this last weekend, despite sending vids to it (and apparently I overlooked the email about the Discord invite too)

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Happy year of the horse! Lunar new year was on Tuesday the 17th. This sticker is a Prezwalski horse by artist Featherbone.

This week was kind of a drag. The week started with the extremely sad news about my friend spikedluv passing away. While she'd passed away a couple weeks ago, I didn't learn about it until Sunday, and I very much miss her presence. I'm still sick, and at this point I'm just tired of it dragging on! I'm coughing a lot, and I'm tired, and I'm going through kleenex way faster than I'd like. Otherwise I feel mostly okay, but I'm just so tired of it, ha. Alex and I did have a lovely day on Monday, visiting the botanic gardens, but everything else was pretty blah. I did push through to get a lot done on Saturday, which sort of felt like it redeemed the do-nothing of the rest of the week, but I still did very little writing and am frustrated by how slow reading has been.

Goals for the week:

I did not finish reading Hell Bent, though I did read some almost every night
I did work on reviews
We did pet-sit for mom and Taylor
We went to the botanic gardens as a bit of a belated Valentine's day
I did not make my phone calls
I did not work on my reading page
I did not work on my WIP outline
I did water my plants. My poor plants.

Tracked habits:

Work - 5/7
Household Maintenance - 5/7
Physical Activity - 3/7
Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 0/7
Non-fiction Writing - 1/7 - over 1000 words
Meta Work - 2/7
Personal Writing - 4/7
Other Creative Things - 1/7
Reading - 7/7 - mostly I read Hell Bent, though I read a bit of my ebook; Alex and I read some of The Luminous Dead
Attention to Media - 7/7 - Sunday we watched the Olympics, and I fell asleep watching youtube; Monday we also watched some youtube; Tuesday we watched some Olympic figure skating, some news coverage, and later a review; Wednesday we watched some news and storm chasing, and then some game playthroughs; Thursday we watched more Olympic figure skating and ski mountaineering (which seems horrible, lol); Friday watched a gaming livestream and some Olympics; Saturday had some Olympics in the background.
Video Games - 0/7
Social Interaction - 3/7

Total words written: 1221 on reviews

Current Mood: tired

inCompleted White Puzzle!!! We were right about That One Piece being the missing one, and now that I'm not worried about spoilers I have poked the internet and it (mostly in the form of reddit) confirms that Those Are The Missing Bit.
one (1) orchid flower is all the way open!
supermarket had discount fancy croissant, so we are most of the way to prepped for Fancy Breakfast tomorrow morning :)

tardis_remix is running again this year, so once again I went and threw my fez into the ring for anybody who might feel like remixing one of my stories. Not sure yet if I'll write one myself, since this is a prompt-based thingy, rather than an exchange. I did enjoy doing it last year, but it'll depend on time, motivation, and whether anything leaps out and grabs me by the throat yelling, "Remix Me!"

Man, I still miss the old multi-fandom Remix (or Remix Redux, or any of the other names it went by), though. I think I'm constantly holding out hope somewhere in the back of my mind that one day it'll be back. Not enough to step forward and offer to run it myself, obviously. But still.

Current Mood: busy

Theme Prompt: #285 - Fresh Start
Title: Emotion Made Manifest
Fandom: MDZS
Rating/Warnings: G - some thoughts about parental neglect
Bonus: No.
Word Count: 745
Summary: Jiang Cheng prepares his art studio and reflects.

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Current Mood: surprised

Theme Prompt: #286 - Working Together
Title: Bitter Stars
Fandom: MDZS
Rating/Warnings: NC-17 - discussions of war, trauma, and other heavy topics.
Bonus: No.
Word Count: 1,000
Summary: Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji are united for a common purpose. It isn't what either one expected but that part doesn't matter. What matters is their goal; finding Wei Wuxian.

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Current Mood: surprised

This is part two of my book club notes on The Black Fantastic. (Part one is here.)

"Sanford and Sun" by Dawolu Jabari Anderson (2015)

( Sun Ra makes a guest appearance on the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son. )

"A Song for You" by Jennifer Marie Brissett (2015)

( A girl finds the disembodied head of a singing android who lived out the legend of Orpheus during wartime. )

"Tender" by Sofia Samatar (2015)

( A woman who wrecked her life as a human undergoes a cyborg transformation so she can monitor a radioactive waste disposal site. )

"The Malady of Need" by Kiini Ibura Salaam (2016)

( This is the second time I've read this story and I still don't know what happens in it. )

The internet is worthless these days, except for mindless entertainment (nothing wrong with that, as long as you realize it). I remember when a search engine gave me an answer I knew was a lie, so I told it it was lying. It immediately said the opposite of what it did the first time.

Here's another example. Try to find out what color eyes an actor really has. In this case, I use Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas. Well, every website says something different. Green, blue, hazel -- some even say red and black! They just make up shit. That they both have green eyes seems to be a popular take, but going from how rare green eyes are... I find it hard to believe that, coincidentally, both stars of a series would have green eyes. (I'm not good at being able to tell eye color unless they are very obviously blue or brown).

Height is another hysterical one. PMT is anywhere from 5'7 to 6'6!! Each website says something different. Same for Don. Maybe they just can't do the math conversions? 😁😂🤣 Now, I do know neither of them is especially tall (which I love). I'm willing to believe Wiki.

And have a vid I just found. OMG. I have a head-canon that Sonny immediately drops his pants when Rico starts singing this. I know I want to! 😉 PMT really does have a beautiful voice. The video is a bit dumb too, but it's pretty.

Watch on YouTube

Current Mood: horny

Milestone! I've finally recovered enough from my big abdominal incision five months ago that the cat can knead my stomach again.

I'm home sick today with a cold (negative flu and covid tests) and it's reminding me what good chronic pain flare company he used to be. I'd wake up from pain naps to find him curled into my side to share the warmth of my heating pad. All of which is to say that someone's earned himself a go with his treat puzzle. Or will, once he gets bored of purring in my lap.

In the wake of the blizzard, the temperature rose a degree above freezing in the blue-and-white brilliance of sun and the local topography of snow-walls to shoulder-height compressed and calved like ice shelves. I had the impulse to visit the Robbins Cemetery on Mass. Ave. while out running errands and was prevented by absolutely nobody having shoveled within a block of the gates. I took a picture of a leftover slam-dunk of snow instead.

Tickets have hiked considerably in price since the last production of theirs I attended, but I am intrigued that the Apollinaire Theatre Company is currently doing Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge—I assume it was proposed last season because of the topical-political of the undocumented immigrant angle which has only gone Mach 10 in relevance since. I have never seen the play; I read it in 2016 because Van Heflin originated the role of Eddie Carbone in the original 1955 one-act version. I am wondering how I convince their box office that I am actively pursuing a professional arts career.

Current Music: The Pack a.d., "Seasick"

Today's prompt is: visitor

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01-04 the x-files
05-12 starfleet academy
13-16 st voyager + discovery
17-20 sw prequel movies + mandalorian
21-26 fallout
27-31 comics
32-36 misc tv
37-40 movies (eileen, inside out, batman returns)

A handful are old icons I'd forgotten to post here *hands*

( We tried fun security, but nobody felt safe. )

Current Music: Emilie Nicolas - To The Moon

Okay, I get it now. I think I figured it out.

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Current Mood: frustrated

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Setting new tracks in the snow

Vid: Where Love Goes (ClaireBell, Claire/Bell)

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Never ending winter

Where Love Goes | ClaireBell

Habit Tracking: Week 08 (February 15 - February 21)

some good things make a post

Remixin' In The TARDIS

[AMNESTY #029] Emotion Made Manifest (MDZS)

[AMNESTY #029] Bitter Stars (MDZS)

The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, ed. andré m. carrington (2025) [part 2]

The internet is worthless, but has some beauty

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Drabblethon: Creating memories (Leviathan – Project Moon)

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Why writers shouldn't try to win disagreements with their characters

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