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*waves at everyone* I've been ill and haven't been around much, but I'm feeling distinctly better today, so I'm posting while it lasts. (I really hope it lasts longer than the posting, LOL.) Have some randomness!

Cnovels: Faraway Wanderers, one of my favourite danmei novels (aka the source for Word of Honor), is apparently finally open for licensing!

Trek: Captain Janeway says RPF is good for morale, hee!

Writing: I woke up today with words in my head and scribbled them down before falling back asleep! It's been a while since that happened, and it's such a good feeling. :D

(I'm currently editing/rewriting my fandom5k fic, and also playing with a sequel idea for my original space opera Zhentari's Choice, which is very slowly coming together. Still having so much fun playing with this 'verse!)

Enshittification: after reading Google Search as you know it is over (in May) I switched all my default search engines (personal and work) to Startpage, and it's honestly such a relief. (Though of course sometimes I cycle through a bunch of search engines and still don't find what I know Google would have turned up in 10 seconds a few years ago, and that's only partially due to there being so much more crap on the web. *grumbles*)

Guardian: Our slo-mo rewatch (1/2 episode per week) is still so much fun! I can't always manage to comment right away, but thanks to the magic of DW, the discussion is just as good no matter when I get there. ♥ ♥ ♥

(Seriously, this is one of my top reasons for preferring DW-style fandom over any other kind.)

Trope meme: Give me a fanfiction trope and I'll grade it:
A: Love it. Spend my time combing AO3 for it.
B: Like it. Not one of my bigger cravings, but it can scratch a certain itch if I’m in the right mood.
C: Neutral. A good author might be able to sell it, but a bad one will kill it deader than dead.
D: Not my favorite. I avoid it if I can, but it won't necessarily put me off reading something.
F: Hate it. Will immediately make me nope out of a fic.

Hope everyone else is doing well!

Current Mood: awake

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4 shorter ficlets, all dramaverse (one crossover with Detective L). :)

Soft Landing (200 words) by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Shen Wei (Guardian), Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Fluff, Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Airports, Cuddling & Snuggling, Double Drabble
Summary: Shen Wei arranges the jacket around Zhao Yunlan's shoulders, and Zhao Yunlan smiles in his sleep.

After (255 words) by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Da Qing & Zhao Yunlan, Da Qing & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Da Qing (Guardian), Mentioned Zhao Yunlan, mentioned Shen Wei
Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, Canon Compliant, Angst, So much angst, Grief/Mourning, Hurt No Comfort, Cat Da Qing (Guardian), POV Da Qing (Guardian), Guardian Bingo
Series: Part 11 of Guardian Bingo 2026
Summary: He digs for the stupid-ass lollipop wrapper left under the pillow — he wants to bite it and kick it to shreds. He wants to sleep on it for years until it falls apart. He wants to frame it so that it never does.

Fragile (214 words) by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jiajia/Wang Zheng (Guardian)
Characters: Jiajia (Guardian), Wang Zheng (Guardian)
Additional Tags: Crushes, Protectiveness, Gentleness, Episode: e009 Shen Wei Happily Receives, ToothpasteCheesecake's Sapphic Summer 2026
Summary: Wang Zheng pours water for everyone to toast with, and Jiajia can't look away.

Out of Place, Out of Time (562 words) by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 绅探 | Detective L (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lin Jing (Guardian) & Luo Fei (Detective L)
Characters: Lin Jing (Guardian), Luo Fei (Detective L), Qin Xiaoman, Ben Jieming (Detective L)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Time Travel, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Mistaken Identity, POV Lin Jing (Guardian), Minor Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Community: intoabar, Guardian Bingo
Series: Part 10 of Guardian Bingo 2026
Summary: "And you are?" he asks.

Lin Jing stammers for a moment, and then leans forward to give Chief Zhao a better view, pointing to himself with both hands. "I'm... me? Lin Jing."

He gets a curious stare in response. Maybe the time travel is affecting Chief Zhao's memory? He has never felt particularly well after interacting with the Hallows.

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Zhao Yunlan sprawled on a couch, grinning at his phone. The background shows a purply sky with stars. Text reads "Slo-Mo Rewatch. Guardian - half an episode per week @ sid-guardian.dreamwidth.org."

Hi, and welcome back to the Guardian drama Slo-Mo Rewatch. Watch half an episode a week, at your leisure, and then come and chat about it here in comments. Or you can just jump into the comments without rewatching, of course!

Here are the previous weeks' rewatch posts.

Episode 17, up to 22:31

Summary
We get Bao Laosan's tragic backstory, which Zhu Jiu uses to incite him to attack the SID. Shen Wei searches Dixing for Zhao Yunlan, starting (as far as we know) in the bar, where everyone is rowdy and disrespectful. He quells them with a display of power, and the quaking bartender whispers something in his ear. In Haixing, the SID team confront Bao Laosan, and he takes Lao Li hostage. Zhao Xinci, who has zero de-escalation skills, struggles with Bao Laosan and shoots him. The team are horrified. Meanwhile, Zhao Yunlan and Wu Tian'en are running around Dixing in search of the missing book. Shen Wei finds An Bai and friends and intimidates them for information about Zhao Yunlan's whereabouts. Zhu Jiu and Ya Qing talk about loyalty/ethics and Ye Zun, and we see Zhu Jiu's backstory, being bullied in his job as a palace guard. Zhao Yunlan and Wu Tian'en find an information broker. At the SID, everyone is upset about the case; Zhao Xinci tells them they did well and leaves, returning Zhao Yunlan's gun to Da Qing on his way out. Zhao Yunlan bargains with the information broker for intel, but the masked man stabs him with a poisoned syringe and reveals himself as Ding Dun. Zhao Yunlan falls to the ground in agony. Shen Wei arrives just in time to stop Ding Dun finishing him off. They fight with dark energy, and Shen Wei kills Ding Dun.

Shen Wei and Wu Tian'en tend to an unconscious Zhao Yunlan on the streets of Dixing.

Shen Wei and Wu Tian'en tend to an unconscious Zhao Yunlan on the streets of Dixing.

Quote
Ding Dun: You want to ask about marriage.
Zhao Yunlan: I... have been a huge asshole since the day I was born; so cold and heartless. I don't want marriage.

Detail
Ding Dun's sign says 包打听 which is translated in every version of the subs as "Knows everything." Google Translate rendered it as "Know-It-All" one time, and "Gossip" another, and Pleco as "nosey parker" -- which explains Zhao Yunlan's bemused reaction.

Questions
Do you have a favourite scene or line of dialogue from this half episode? On a scale from 1 to 10, how upsetting is it to see the SID façade crack? Is the bar the first place Shen Wei looks for Zhao Yunlan? Why do the bar patrons assume Shen Wei is an imposter Envoy? On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you blame Zhao Xinci for Bao Laosan's death? When Shen Wei intimidates An Bai and co, An Bai folds pretty quickly -- is that due to cowardice, latent respect for the Envoy, or some other reason? Zhu Jiu is unpowered in his backstory; when does he acquire his powers? When Wu Tian'en says he can't teleport anymore, is he telling the truth or lying to spare Zhao Yunlan's health and give him face? When Zhao Xinci tells the SID, "You are truly worthy of being members of the Special Investigations Department" (Viki subs), does he mean it, or is he just trying to cheer them up? Does Ye Zun want Zhao Yunlan dead, or is Ding Dun acting unilaterally when he attacks, or (third option) has Ding Dun conspired with Zhu Jiu and/or the Deacon to take Zhao Yunlan out? If the last option, does Ye Zun know their plan?

Did you see any parallels in these scenes with other parts of the drama? If you're familiar with the novel, any thoughts about how the drama adaptation compares, if at all?

(As usual, these are all just conversation starters - feel free to answer all, some, or none, and to say as much or as little as you like! You don't have to be keeping up with the rewatch to join in. We'd love to hear your thoughts!)

And here is our schedule -- if you can, please sign up to host a post!

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Before even more time passes, I want to tell you all that last weekend it was our Jinksy!bear (and Claudia!kitten)'s thirteenth birthday. I'm managing not to let my brain actually crunch the numbers to figure out exactly when in the coming year he'll (please, God) cross the line of "has now lived half of his life without her".

He's unmistakably showing his age, although he doesn't yet seem old. I can never shake the fact that when I was a kid, thirteen would have seemed OLD for a cat; it always seemed to be such a marvel when a cat lived well into their teens. (One of my childhood cats, Jenny, lived until after

scruloose and I moved home from Toronto! She made it to nineteen, which is still a fairly impressive age now.)

I will forever wish we'd had the chance to see what kind of little old lady cat Claud would have been, and forever be grateful for how long we've had Jinksy. He continues to be just ridiculously sweet. We are so lucky to have him and the blues.

Today wasn't

scruloose's first market visit of the year, but it was mine. They went to pick up a meat order at one of the year-around main ones last week, and that errand meant that we didn't go to the little in-walking-distance market when it had its first day of the season last Saturday. But today we made it out, and since there wasn't much of a crowd--presumably due to the steady, if not heavy, rain passing through this morning--there were still plenty of strawberries available when we got there. (I wasn't surprised that things were quiet with the weather, and obviously financial pressures are hitting so many people brutally hard, but it was still quieter than I expected, esp. given that it was the first of the strawberries.)

First market haul of the year: strawberries (two quarts), salad greens, a sweet potato, eggs, a small dense sourdough loaf, kimchi, and kimbap (the sort that look exactly like onigiri--triangular and fully wrapped in nori, rather than rolled).

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1. Got in my car on Thursday (to take a friend to lunch), and it wouldn't start. *headdesks forever* So I emailed the mechanics, they came and took it away on Friday, disconnected the stereo (it was shorting out the battery), and brought the car back, all for free. I'm assuming my troubles are now over. *knocks on every wooden surface within reach*

(I feel a bit foolish about all this. I bought a new battery a month ago because of repeated issues, and I have a trickle charger. So ot1h, I kind of did the best I could. But otoh, the stereo was making occasional weird thumping noises to the point where I had "call the mechanic" on my to-do list for weeks. I just never actually did because talking to mechanics is awkward. Doh! Anyway.)

2. Blocco 181 is a beautifully filmed Italian show about drug dealers and gangs, with three central characters who quickly get into an m/m/f relationship. The sex is Sense8 levels of explicit, and the ship is so good -- very little of the angst is about its configuration; it's all divided loyalties and "Two households [...] from ancient grudge break to new mutiny," etc. Loving it. Carefully not checking AO3 for fic, because I don't want to be spoiled for season 2.

3. Our @*%$&#$% government is trying to pass some UK-style "definition of a man and a woman" nonsense, so I went to a trans rights rally today. ( My sign. )

4. Duolingo is still eating me alive, ahhhhhhhh. (It's trying to teach me characters for real now; so satisfying.)

How are you? *waves*

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All right, I am back in Finland, and so is my stuff! For the forseeable future, my lifestyle will consist of doing laundry (bc bedbugs yay).

My battleship replacement,

taggle, is currently in sign-ups! We've already got a hair over 50 people, which means we're going to be able to make teams and run it. Slightly behind schedule on a number of things (my new hobby is moving internationally while in the setup phase of my events), but we're doing it! If interested, go and join the discord (link in the rule post at

taggle) or just drop some prompts. Sign-ups will run for at least another 24h, unless we have a huge surge for some reason. (Hard cap 140 people; currently still under 60.)

Also I need to write a bit on

vidukon_cardiff, which I experienced online, mostly either on airport wifi or on a train. (Again, my new hobby is moving internationally.) I premiered three vids, one in the Then vs Now vidshow.

Current Location: 3 km from the nearest bus stop

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What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing!

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( Avengers Armageddon #1, Captain Marvel Dark Past #3, Civil War Unmasked #2 )

What I'm Reading Next

Not sure. Still slowly working through this baseball autobiography of Billy Bean that

lysimache got me I think for Christmas. (Not Billy Beane with an e, that is a different former baseball player. This one is the gay one.)

Current Mood: hot

trobadora posting in

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Zhao Yunlan sprawled on a couch, grinning at his phone. The background shows a purple sky with stars. Text reads, "Slo-Mo Rewatch. Guardian - half an episode per week @ sid_guardian.dreamwidth.org"

Hi, welcome back to our Guardian drama Slo-Mo Rewatch! Watch half an episode a week, and then come and chat about it here in comments. Or you can just jump into the comments without rewatching, of course!

Here is the first half of episode 16. On to the second half!

Episode 16, from 23:53:

Summary:

In Dixing, the Envoy discovers Ding Dun's filed have been destroyed. Zhao Yunlan is still on the run from An Bai and friends. He finds a bar, steals a mask and chats up the barkeeper - dropping unfamiliar terminology and talking about the surface, immediately making himself suspicious. When An Bai et al. arrive and start a fight, Wu Tian'en saves him with his teleportation power. Wu Tian'en warns him about the Regent, who Zhao Yunlan is underestimating as weak and harmless. The Regent appears, and they return him to the palace, where they learn Shen Wei has just left.

Chu Shuzhi and his puppet in the same pose

In Haixing, the case isn't progressing, and Zhao Xinci criticises Zhao Yunlan's methods and suggests dismissing him as chief if even one of the team agrees. Guo Changcheng is the last one Zhao Xinci talks to, offering a lot of leading questions and provocation. Xiao-Guo stands up to him, and Zhao Xinci is satisfied. Then his eyes are yellow, and Zhang Shi tells Xiao-Guo he's his hand-picked weapon. New developments appear in the case: a street has been torn up. When the team arrive at the site, they also learn the security guard witness from the first site has disappeared ... In fact, he's outside the SID right now with Zhu Jiu, who's convinced him destroying the SID will let Dixingren live freely in Haixing.

Quote:

Zhao Xinci to Guo Changcheng: "Da Qing has worked at the SID the longest. The others either possess a risky identity or don't have potential for greatness. Only you have a clean communist background. So if Zhao Yunlan were to be demoted ... You understand my meaning, right?"

Detail(s):

Every time I watch this episode, it stands out to me how many of them notice something off about Zhao Xinci, but they don't talk to each other, so nothing comes of it:

Lin Jing's black energy detector goes off (in last week's half-episode)
Sang Zan notices him switching between being left-handed and right-handed
Xiao-Guo sees him turn all yellow-eyed
and Chu Shuzhi says in the lab: "This father of Zhao Yunlan's, I keep feeling a bit ..." so he's picked up on something too!

Questions:

Which this your favourite part/scene/moment in this half-episode? Any favourite lines? What's going on with the masks at the bar? How often do An Bai et al. start a bar fight? What would have happened if Wu Tian'en hadn't been there to save Zhao Yunlan? What does the Regent think happened to the Dijun Register? How much do you think Zhao Xinci means his criticism of Zhao Yunlan? Did he concoct this loyalty test on the spot when it turned out Zhao Yunlan was absent, or would he have done something similar regardless? Why do none of the team talk to each other about Zhao Xinci's suspicious traits? Did Zhu Hong shout at Zhao Xinci in their one-on-one interview? What did Zhao Xinci ask Chu Shuzhi?

And finally, any thoughts about how any of this compares to the novel? Does any of it have any direct relation, besides Papa Zhao having a hitchhiker?

(These are all just conversation starters - feel free to answer all, some, or none, and to say as much or as little as you like! You don't have to be keeping up with the rewatch to join in!)

Here is our schedule for the current batch of episodes - please do sign up to host a post if you can!

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Reading: On the fiction front, over the last couple of weeks I read:

--Remember You Will Die (Eden Robins), which is SF told entirely through news and obits and correspondence and does some very neat things. It didn't give me any particular feelings, but I enjoyed it.

--The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Shannon Chakraborty), which is pretty much a delight from start to finish.

--The Book of Love (Kelly Link) unfolds in all kinds of interesting ways and had a lot of...emotional momentum?...for me, although I didn't come away with deep feelings about or attachment to any of the characters.

--The Everlasting (Alix E. Harrow), which I finished a few days ago and have seen several people discussing since (probably because it's up for a Hugo). I liked it more than some of you did, but didn't love it.

I haven't started another novel(la) since. After talking to Kas (who's most of the way through the series-so-far) last weekend, I went ahead and put the second Dungeon Crawler Carl on hold, and somehow my brain seems to think that's what I'm going to read next, which is awkward given that I don't expect it to arrive in the super near future.

On the nonfiction front, I read a bit more of Braiding Sweetgrass, flipped through some gardening books, and started rereading Tamar Adler's An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace in hard copy (I read it in ebook almost exactly a year ago). I really like the feel and the spirit of this, and it's packed full of information that flows in a way that makes it hard for me to actually retain a lot of said information. I picked up the hard copy from Book Outlet in hopes that having a physical book would give me better odds of actually being able to usefully refer to bit of it.

Watching: Some more of both Justice in the Dark and Witch Hat Atelier.

Growing: Yesterday we acquired and planted five tomato seedlings (and a few other seedlings that still need planting). More on that in another post later, hopefully.

Current Mood: hungry

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Previous poll reviews
In the Space poll, 44.7% went with Douglas Adams ("that's just peanuts to space"), and the other options were pretty evenly split. Books came second to hugs, 57.4% to 70.2%.

In the Legacy media poll, 82.8% of respondents have a lot of DVDs and access to a DVD or Blu-ray player. Far fewer have cassetts or VHS tapes, and there's only one other person who has Super8/MiniDVD/etc tapes. *high fives* "At this point, it's just a lot of old stuff, help!" garnered 31%. Thank you for your votes! ♥

Reading
A little more Cetaganda (Bujold, narrated by Grover Gardner), and that's all. I haven't even started the little Chinese grammar book I bought for 99 cents. *hides* (It's not that I don't want to; my attention span is currently not conducive to sitting down and doing one thing.)

Kdramas/Cdramas
I finished To My Beloved Thief, which had a slightly draggy ending, but was otherwise a delight. Historical magic realism ftw! It made me want to rewatch the old Hong sisters' version of the Hong Gil-dong story, too (unfortunately, not available in streaming).

Also finished Absolute Value of Romance, which

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navigated between the ending I didn't want (teacher/student romance), and the ending I craved (teacher is gay) to find a slightly unsatisfying middle ground. I don't know if Ga Woo-Su was actually oblivious to Ui-Ju's love confession or just ignoring it to avoid the awkwardness of rejecting her outright, but an unnecessary childhood connection and significant "first snow" moment kind of point to them getting together in the future, when a) that would still be completely inappropriate and jeopardise his teaching career, AND b) Ga Woo-Su has previously shown no sign of interest in her at all (imo). He and Yoon Dong-Ju are obviously boyfriends or pining for each other! Why on earth else would he have reacted so weirdly to being the second lead in Ui-Ju's webnovel? (Which, btw, was wildly inappropriate.) Someone please write me slash for this!! (Note to self: tag this post for Yuletide.)

So now, in solo-watching, I've started episode 1 of Hong Gil Dong on my phone (ie, on my exercise machine), and gone back to The Spirealm (fantasy horror Cdrama) when I'm in front of the TV.

We're still watching Miraculous Brothers (contemporary thriller, time travel) with a friend at a rate of two episodes per week. The central character is a hot mess with no moral compass but somehow likeable enough that I'm engaged, and the mystery built around a cold case is pretty cool. I'd put it in the same category as Glitch and Sisyphus. Hopefully it will delve into the scifi/supernatural aspects more at some point.

Pru came over for some Love Scout, and even with our erratic viewing schedule, it's completely swoony and great. I think once we're done I'm going to zoom through it again by myself.

Andrew and I watched two episodes of The Story of Pearl Girl (Netflix Cdrama), but the acting is too melodramatic for him, and I want some humour in my shows, so I think we're calling it.

Other TV
We're halfway through the first season of Italian drama Blocco 181, which I heard about on

polyamships. It contains a trope I find super stressful

to wit:

leading characters steal drugs from drug dealers, argh,

but the three leads are all really charming. Warning for violence and a ton of drug use.

Finished season 1 of Scottish sitcom Dinosaur, about an autistic woman and her newly engaged sister. It's not laugh-out-loud, but I really like it and am looking forward to season 2.

A bit more Night Train with Wyatt Cenac on Youtube. Vaguely looking around for a new show, preferably English-language.

Audio entertainment
Writing Excuses, Cross Party Lines, and approximately a billion newbie lessons of ChinesePod. (I feel like I'm fiddling while Rome burns, but oh well.)

Writing/making things
This fic is never going to end. I don't even know why I'm writing it anymore. Maybe when we get to

fan_flashworks' amnesty round I'll get some momentum back? /o\

Life/health/mental state things
Messing around with storage and sorting out stuff. Biking a lot. Battling brain weasels at night. I'm in my mid-fifties, and I don't know what I'm doing with my life. My arms are hanging in there, just.

Language Learning
I've been posting Chinese practice sentences, vocab, and occasional observations to

china_shops_kjnl; feel free to follow. * The fact that I can parrot phrases from the podcast into Google Translate and it mostly comes out with the right characters/meaning still feels like magic. * I'm not learning enough characters. (I don't really know how to learn them except through Duolingo? Possibly ChinesePod's character course?) * I have little previous exposure to gamificiation, ergo no immunity, so Duolingo had eaten a big chunk of my life -- and would be gobbling more if my arms were up for it. (Stylus has arrived; shorter than I expected, but a vast improvement over fingers. I might get another, full-size one.) But I think the podcasts are better for listening and pronunciation anyway.

Goals
1. Sort out my stuff. Throw some of it away. (Do I want to start in on my books/DVDs? /o\)
2. Learn enough Chinese characters that I can read a graded reader.
3. Get started on the project of replacing my ancient gas oven with an induction hob/electric one.

Good things
Making sentences in a new language is really satisfying, and I love noticing grammar patterns and looking them up to see how they work. Podcasts generally. TV-watching-with friends. Walk in the bird sanctuary in the not-quite-rain. Good biking weather forecast for this week. Guardian and the Dreamwidth corner of Guardian fandom. *loves*

Poll #34692 Reading speed

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 52

View Respondents

I estimate my fiction reading speed as

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faster than average
29 (55.8%)

average
11 (21.2%)

slower than average
3 (5.8%)

it would be faster if my so-called attention span didn't keep dropping out
12 (23.1%)

depends on the language (I read fluently in more than one language)
7 (13.5%)

other
1 (1.9%)

ticky-box of 我喜欢在家里休息 (I like to rest at home)
18 (34.6%)

ticky-box full of ever more elaborate breakfasts
15 (28.8%)

ticky-box of a raindrop sliding down a glossy green leaf
25 (48.1%)

ticky-box full of stripes waiting for a cat
23 (44.2%)

ticky-box full of hugs
34 (65.4%)

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While I have the brain energy, I figured I would repost a useful resource for my fellow writers using Scrivener, namely that someone on the r/scrivener subreddit has made dozens of free Scrivener themes for both Mac and Windows versions of Scrivener, if you would like to change up the color scheme of Scrivener a bit. (There's also a guide to Scrivener's Compile system there, if you need one.)

As a Mac user, this is exciting, because the Mac and Windows themes for Scrivener are not cross-compatible and I am pretty sure that every other Scrivener theme I have ever seen available for download is for the Windows version. But these come in Mac versions too! Now I can finally have a selection of pretty colors to choose from!

(This is also doubly exciting because the person who was making them was taking suggestions as they were posting them in packs to the subreddit and I asked if they could please make a version of the Cobalt2 IDE theme and they made a Cobalt2 IDE theme! For me! It's pretty great. I understand that not everyone wants Scrivener to look like their favorite VSCode or JetBrains theme, but I love this theme a lot, so.)

Current Mood: creative

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What I Just Finished Reading

Jenny Teichmann, Pegasos: An Easy Ancient Greek Reader: A very short original novella in Ancient Greek, retelling the story of Bellerophon and Pegasus, with a facing glossary including basically every word on the page. It's fun! I liked it! Yay, horsies!

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( Doctor Strange #7, Fantastic Four #12, Iron Man #6 )

What I'm Reading Next

Who knows? I mean, I'm awake right now; I feel like this is a victory.

Current Mood: accomplished

umadoshi

The tab situation doesn't bear thinking about. I have so many tabs open with posts I want to reply to. I don't know how good my odds are of getting through them, friends. :/

Our Monday morning dental appointments were scheduled to start at 9 AM. At about 7:57, we got a call canceling them because the hygienist was out sick; someone from the front desk made the successful effort to call us before the office opened in hopes of catching us before we made the drive, which we appreciated. (Shame about the four-hour carshare booking we still had to pay for. Ah, well.) So that's unfortunate, but I'm glad the hygienist did call out rather than sharing air with patients. I've rebooked us for next month, and here's hoping local covid levels will still be low then.

Suddenly we're having weather that actually feels like early summer, at least during the day. Still not entirely confident that there won't be frosts at all, but nonetheless, Friday we're hoping to venture out and buy tomato seedlings and more soil to plant them in. We still have a heap of fabric plant pots of a few sizes (which we need to shake out and inspect in case something has somehow gone horribly wrong with them during their several years of disuse, and replace if need be, but here's hoping not) and several tomato ladders to put to use.

(That "hoping to venture out" uncertainty is primarily because we're both taking the day off, but gambling and not booking a carshare in advance so that we don't have to commit to a departure time or try to guess how long we'll be out. Hopefully on a weekday we'll be able to get a flex car--that is, a first-come-first-served car that you can just park anywhere in ~the zone~ [which doesn't include our place, but comes fairly close, so there are quite often cars parked right along its border] when you're done with it, leaving it up for grabs--without too much trouble.)

A random garden-adjacent thing that keeps annoying me even though there's nothing to be done about it: given last year's drought situation, I keep having the thought of buying some sort of rain barrel. But the roof of the townhouse row is flat and all of the rainwater channels down into the drains through the building, so there's no spout or anything where the water can actually be caught. Alas. So I wish the notion would stop popping into my head as if it's something we've never considered.

Current Mood: tired

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Wednesday? Wednesday. If you say so. (A rescheduled appointment and a hope of seedlings soon.)

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February 2021

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