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Random Stuff: So the thing about polio . . .
So I was reminded the other day that a lot of people don't actually realize why polio was so terrifying. Because like: it really was. Enough so that when Jonas Salk, the creator of the first...
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Hand out call, if anyone's got a few spare bucks.
Hey guys: A friend of mine and her wife are in a bit of a pickle, largely because Em's parents are pretty fucking awful. Em and Jaime are not awful at all, and have really worked hella hard already to...
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Free Card Draw: Hey, it's been a while!
ETA: and CLOSED. Thanks everyone who participated!!( Read more... ) comments
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A potentially useful thought, also:
This is a reminder that positive reinforcement is a powerful tool and motivator and if you're feeling like you have nothing you can do about a current situation that upsets you, a thing you can do is...
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Free Card Draw: That time again!
ETA Wednesday afternoon: AND DONE! Thank you everyone, and I will finish these up this evening and tomorrow morning. ( Read more... ) comments
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Quick note because otherwise I swear I will forget x.x
Thank you to the lovely anonymous person who noticed that my premium paid DW had run out and renewed it for me. <3 I appreciate that a lot. comments
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So I know I JUST said no politics . . .
. . . and I still mean it IN GENERAL, but this is a specific, potentially-actionable thing close to my heart where the sharing of information is GENUINELY MORE RELEVANT than it is just churning...
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It is All Hallows.
Tonight I decided, very on impulse, to light the last year on fire. In effigy, that is: I have been wanting to light the actual year on fire for the whole year, but as years are metaphorical...
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11/11/18
Today I went to the public ceremony at Cates Park, which is the first public ceremony I've been to in several years. I had a lot of thoughts and feelings that I don't feel up to sharing. But one was: A...
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It's been a long week. (Yes I know it's only Tuesday.)
1. Hi people finding me from tumblr! I'm super lazy so I'm going to link my only slightly out of date sticky post and note that mostly I post on lockdown these days and while I'm genuinely pretty free...
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TWO TRUTHS THAT ARE NOT ACTUALLY CONTRADICTORY:
Truth the First: Doing things because they are fun has huge value and if something is your area where you Just Like Doing This Thing you are absolutely allowed to zealously and jealously guard it...
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Free Card Draw: Hey y'all so it's this!
( closed! Thank you everyone ) I will also note that I do have a Patreon (where you get me reading books on audio as a bedtime story, if that's your kind of jam, as well as some extra written content...
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Free Card Draw: Hey y'all so it's this!
( Closed for this time around! Thank you all <3 ) I will also note that I do have a Patreon (where you get me reading books on audio as a bedtime story, if that's your kind of jam, as well as some...
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Card Draw update!
Draw is now closed! Thank you for participating, all. <3 I have (to the best of my knowledge) done all the single-card draws; I hope to have the three-card draws done by later tonight, and will do...
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For the record:
Among the things one should not do, if one wishes to have any interaction with me whatsoever, is equate someone dying of mental illness (which generally kills through suicide) in any way, shape, or...
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House-cleaning:
I've done some removal of access, largely of accounts that appear to be inactive, accounts that don't appear to follow this one anymore (in which case what's the point), and in a couple cases accounts...
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WE HAVE ARRIVED AT MY SECOND FAVOURITE PART OF THE SILM.
IE the point where Lúthien does her first major "hold my flower and watch this" moment by literally walking up to Sauron's fortress, shouting "MARCO!!!!" in order to find her shiny human.(We will reach...
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Free Card Draw: January 2021
HEY BEEN A WHILE HASN'T IT. (Since May 2019 actually.) ETA: CLOSED FOR TODAY but it's my hope to do these a little more often in future. ( CLOSED )Feel free to direct others here if you think they'd...
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Free card reading update!
Unexpected things were unexpected, so I will get a start on these hopefully tomorrow evening but possibly Tuesday morning; I am also leaving the post open and up until then if anyone else wants to jump...
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Scary Podcasts: Weeping Cedars
Starting with the one I'm currently relistening to, let's talk about some of the podcasts I've consumed over the past couple years, given there have been a lot of them. Podcast: Weeping Cedars(created,...
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Scary Podcasts: Samite
Part of the same universe as Weeping Cedars but also functioning as a standalone, and with a second season currently being worked on, I wanted to give Samite its own post because not only does it stand...
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Scary Podcast: Tiny Terrors
So not all of my scary podcasts are "story is told through various ways that it's something within throwing distance of plausible that this would actually be recorded" (faux documentaries, found audio,...
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Hello Dreamwidth. Would you like a Yuletide fandom?
Do you enjoy horror? Do you enjoy half-hour short films wherein hapless Basically Ordinary British Characters get put through a random spurt of horror and deal with it poorly but believably? Do you...
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