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([personal profile] donutsweeper Apr. 23rd, 2026 07:48 pm)
After a light dusting of snow on the 19th spring has finally sprung and sprung with a vengeance here (to be fair it was unseasonably hot before that snow and now again after, 20+ degrees (f) warmer than usual which is making my least favorite time of year even worse due to a combo of Blargh-Pollen-Everywhere allergies and encroaching ants (dudes, the outside is where you should be! You do not pay rent, do not be in my house). Sigh. Usual tactics to get them gone aren't working either, it might be exterminator time which I hate to do, but oh well.

This is neat: NASA's Your Name in Landsat (see your name spelled out in landsat imagery of the Earth)

Nothing much else interesting is happening in my neck of the woods, I've been doing a lot of cleaning and organizing (a cute self-care/tracking app I use, Finch, had a challenge last month where it suggested little tasks to do each day/every few days and I found it a great way to do things without being overwhelmed - like dust a shelf, go through one drawer, etc - so I've been trying to keep it up and do something most days.) And craftwise, I'm nearly finished with a blanket. Not sure what project I'll do next, something will come to me, though I'm sure.

And for the main reason for this post... here, have three weeks of [community profile] recthething recs (lots of tumblr art and one MDZS/Untamed fic):

Doctor Who (Classic)
- More Four Stuff (A whole bunch of adorable Four doodles)

Discworld
- its a heavy burden, having a heart as big as a city. and heavier still when it loves you back (love the way the Ankh Morpork is silhouetted in the background with Vetinari and Sybil looking down at Vimes)

MDZS/The Untamed
- my baby my baby (gorgeous LWJ holding a bunny sketch)

Merlin
- The Favour (love the dreaminess of this)

Nirvana in Fire
- Consort Jing (gorgeous)

Sherlock Holmes
- "Labours of Love" English paper piecing: Doodles and Research (fascinating read and wonderful art)

Supernatural
- Happy Easter!! ✨🐝 "Thought the boys deserved at least one nice, happy Easter egg hunt and in my mind Bobby did so too :)" (adorable comic)

X-Files
- awoo (hilarious Mulder and Scully comic)

MDZS/Untamed fic:
A Fork in the Road by Bodldops (142k)
Summary: With a small change, Wei Wuxian has a chance to reconsider his stance. That change leads to others. The most important words you can say, after all, are thank you, and I am sorry. It is better to say them earlier, than later through tears. ( an interesting turn-left AU where canon events shift post WWX punching JZN in Cloud Recessess. FYI contains some Jiang, especially Madam Yu, bashing)
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([personal profile] greghousesgf Apr. 23rd, 2026 01:27 pm)
Shame on you Twinings. You got rid of Lapsang Souchong.
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([personal profile] twistedchick Apr. 23rd, 2026 02:24 pm)
Today is my grandfather's birthday; he would be 155 years old.
cut for family history )
USS Cerritos has its latest Second Contact mission at an M-class planet nearly entirely covered in water and inhabited by aquatic humanoids near the Klingon Border.

fanfiction.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14562456/1/

Archive Of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/works/83623316
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([personal profile] greghousesgf Apr. 22nd, 2026 02:38 pm)
Yesterday my sister called me and said that when I come to Texas to see my family a week from tomorrow, because we live far apart and have missed a lot of holidays and birthdays, because I love the Beatles and my most recent birthday was the 64th one, they wanted to give me a Beatle themed birthday party, even though my actual birthday was two months ago. This friend of my sister's husband owns a local restaurant and they're going to have a Beatle cover band there! I'm super happy they're doing this although I kind of suspect at least part of the reason they're doing this is because they feel sorry for me because of L. leaving.
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([personal profile] ffutures Apr. 22nd, 2026 08:01 pm)
This is a bundle of material in the "Voidrunner's Codex Special" featuring a spacefaring expansion for D&D 5E and Level Up from EN Publishing.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Voidrunners

  

The idea is to use the D&D or compatible rules for SF adventures; it's aimed primarily at SF-only campaigns, but designed so that combinations of SF and fantasy can be used.

This isn't actually something I need, since I already have plenty of SF games and settings including several I've written myself, but if you're mostly familiar with D&D or Level Up this may be a good route to running SF adventures. It's reasonably priced and you're getting more than a gigabyte of material (admittedly including a lot of deck plans etc.) and may be interesting to others who want to mine it for ideas, cool ship designs, etc.

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([personal profile] twistedchick Apr. 21st, 2026 10:36 pm)
I am posting from the computer before my present one -- this one dates from the early 2000s, and is a bit slow. My good 2019 computer is in the shop getting a new keyboard -- apparently when one key is busted all of them are and the entire top of the laptop gets replaced. It's the down arrow that didn't work.

And because of that I have about 10 days either with only my phone (I will not describe going through 100+ new emails there; it is tedious) or this elderly one that I have purposely kept on an older operating system because this lappie has really excellent older software that simply doesn't work on the more recent op systems. So I am relaxing, watching old stored movies (Skyfall, anyone?) and doing offline sorting of books and papers and so on.

ETA: The guy at the shop said I could have them do the work in-house, for about 10 days, or they could send it to another shop where they would mail it back after about 5 days. I do not trust the current postmaster, or his cuts to service, or the possibility that it would end up sitting on a shelf somewhere and not come back, so I agreed to the 10 days or so.

I'm also feeling the losses, and letting myself feel them and letting them go through me instead of "braving it out" or trying to ignore them and having everything get worse later. I don't want worse later; now is enough. I can bear now. I am remembering so many little things, and big things, aond old things and it all just works.

It also means I'm sleeping a lot, around my meds schedule, which is less easy than it sounds. Basically, I have a BP pill and a blood thinner, each of which needs to be taken 2x a day about 12 hours apart, but not at the same time because the stress on my heart is too much. So I am carefully scheduling the one for 9 am and pm and the other for 10-11 am and pm, and that is working. Otherwise my heart bangs until it wakes me up, which is not fun.

I'm also handspinning silk roving in various colors; it's one of my favorite things to do while watching tv, because looking from the work in my hands to the set across the room keeps my eyes from getting stuck at the shorter distance. I did maybe 15 yards, three ply, today, which is 45 yards of single ply. You do the 3-ply by putting a big slipknot loop into the end of it, then continue to loop through the loop and twirl the spindle in the opposite direction of the single ply's twist. The result is useful, not so thin that it falls apart, and looks good. I am thinking of crocheting small keepsake bags from them.

That's about what's happening here, give or take a freeze warning or hearing the fox calling in the park half a block away late at night. I'm glad of that fox and its kin; they are welcome to come to my yard to eat mice whenever they wish.
Covid: Speaking Out About Rubynye by [archiveofourown.org profile] werpiper.
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