Любопытно...
Мы смотрели на BQ Pocket, но в отзывах пишут, что у него не очень хорошо со звонками - собеседника плохо слышно, и потому он нам не подходит (а так - всем бы неплох был бы, но...).
vital functions is once again a placeholder
... to be expanded on tomorrow. <3
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Title: Dive In
Fandom: Castle
Pairing: Castle/Beckett
Rating: Explicit/Adult
Summary: They take their first nap in the Hamptons.
Notes: 1843 words.
Чудовищный итог путинщины. Идиотическая чекистская клепто-криминало-кратия.
Кто в авангарде строительства постКПССного олигархизма?
Да всё те же самые омерзительнейшие ублюдочные рожи и чекистские кувшинные рыла, что были в авангарде стройки коммунизма. А в итоге идиотическая чекистская клепто-криминало-кратия.
https://verybigfish.livejournal.com/5810504.html
какая-то у дрима жопа сегодня
Фиксится, ежели ты через index.html зайдёшь на дрим, вылогинишься, залогинишься, тогда он тебя начнёт узнавать.
love meme time!
my thread here
Just finished sorting the puzzle pieces of a puzzle I started sorting the pieces of uh, a year ago? Maybe longer? They've been in various boxes and those boxes' lids taking up one of the drawers in my old desk, where I kind of want to put my coffee stuff since I keep my espresso machine on that desk now, so I wanted to reorganize things a bit. I reorganized my sewing stuff already. I'd originally got a cloth organizer that I didn't realize was divided by flimsy mesh, so that wasn't really great for holding, say, thread spools and zippers. I put it on one of the shelves of my new ("new" as in, not as old, not new-new, I got it for my birthday two years ago now, whereas my other desk is almost as old as I am) desk though, and so far it's where all the manuals are going. Might put some more books I want to have on hand there, so they don't take up as much space elsewhere? Could be good for fabric while it's in use too.
The new microphone someone (I don't know if they want to be thanked by name) got me for my birthday is working wonderfully and also makes me feel really cool tbh. And the cats have no interest in it at all! Probably helps that it can be kept vertical but yeah, they haven't even gone for a sniff. I'm so relieved. The portable sewing machine I still need to make sure works -- think I'm gonna try to make a sweater for Ciri to get the hang of it, because she's always shivering but hates going under the covers with me, and I need to learn basically everything about how to use a sewing machine. See, I do have access to a proper one that's as old as I am and cost actual money, but that thing is a behemoth, and, because it belongs to my mom, my brain insists that I ask her how to use it. My mom sucks at teaching, and I absorbed nothing when she showed me how to thread it, so I'm kinda starting from scratch.
Also on the learning docket, how to use these LED soft light things my friend got me so I can take selfies in the depressing dark of winter, and map-making.
Financial stuff is, bad, whatever, I'm not gonna talk about it. I'm aware of it but I try not to wallow. And not to feel guilty about having bought the PS5 after all with limited leftover emergency fund. It will be good for my mental health and I got the cheapest version while on sale, like, I made the best decision possible within the circumstances. It gets here on Tuesday, at which point I guess I'll find out if they'll let me transfer any games over from my PS4 for free or cheap, because I am not in a place to buy games right now.
What else... Oh, I have a
Can't believe it's December tomorrow. Hopefully I can get some motivation out of the year ending like I do every other year.
November recs: 3x Hermitcraft 1x Life series
I don't think canon knowledge is required for any of them: definitely not the first two, and I think the important parts of the other two become clear very quickly.
in too deep by
digital art, Geminitay
Summary: additional tags: Imminent Character Death, she is literally drowning, Hallucinations, Eye strain, highly saturated colors, Hermitcraft Season 10, Anthropologist Geminitay, Sea Monsters
Why I like it: The tags say "hallucinations" but I also really like the idea of scientist Gem looking too deep. Very cool colors.
Why is everyone sucking Farlands' dick over their new ship??? by
6k, SF AU, implied Scar/Grian, social media outsider PoV with in-universe RPF
Summary: Hey, uh, what's with everyone losing their minds over Farlands' Good Times? I thought we all agreed Farlands was evil incarnate? Last big colony mission they launched, even half the people at Brave Voyages were like "wow so sick of Farlands' bullshit, hope Farlands explodes," but this thing has been around for less than a year and people HERE are like, writing romantic poetry about it? Can someone explain? Obviously I too am fascinated by whether they're using tuned mass dampers or something else to keep the gravity steady, and the reflex rewiring they have to do to the pilots to get something that big through hyperspace is wild, but uh. This is not that.
A forum thread from the future.
Why I love it: Reccing part 2 here so I have a good reason to rec the series when it's done; I also recommend part 1 but I like this one even better. Scar is a Pilot, which means he controls a spaceship with his brain, and Grian is his doctor. Very cool worldbuilding and very funny.
feeling a gold hand unfolding on me by
3.3k, Grian & Xisuma, non-sexual kink (body modification, admin powers)
Summary: It was daylight, not that you could tell from the enclosed room Xisuma had teleported Grian into. A bright, fantastic Hermitcraft day, his friends bustling about the server engaged in activities, cheerfully oblivious to what Xisuma and Grian were about to do in this room together. To what Xisuma was about to do to Grian.
Most Hermits weren’t big on tradition, when you got down to it. They’d been around too long, seen enough of the universe to have set preferences about their bodies, or they had their own plans for each season. Scar and Cub had recently finished with their predatory ConVex business, for instance, and Cleo kept her zombieness– zombitude? Zombiehood?-- firmly under her own control, and the less said about Joe’s usual brand of shenanigans, the better.
So it had been unusual, having a new player such as Grian bring the concept up in the roundabout fashion he had, side-eyeing Xisuma like he wasn’t sure whether Xisuma would just snatch him up one day, like he was checking off a box on some haphazard to-do list-- like he’d smacked himself on the helmet and gone oh, silly me, that’s right! I forgot to modify Grian to my personal preferences last month!
Why I like it: Wonderful take on admin Xisuma taking care of his player even with an unusual request. I like how Xisuma needs the encouragement and reassurances to keep going but he does enjoy getting into his evil role when he feels comfortable and he is good at it, too. And Grian is very good at prodding him just enough and having to admit he doesn't not want this, delicious.
a weave that can be unpicked by
3.4k, Scar&/Grian, Third Life
Summary: Grian's eyes widen. “Wait, did you think I’d made a plug-in to force players into turning hostile?”
Scar blinks. “Didn’t you?”
“Wh— No, of course not!”
“Oh.” Scar deflates, but then, just as quickly, perks back up. “Could you though?”
Or: Scar has some ideas to make Third Life more fun. Grian has some concerns.
Why I like it: Excellent recursive fic of the above, and another case of a player prodding an admin into using their powers on them. I love the intimacy of the admin power used on a willing subject.
30-Е /// А шарик вернулся. А он хрен знает какой!

Когда читаю про супер-пупер секретные переговоры с подробным изложением кто с кем и о чём, почему то вспоминается "Твин Пикс" и эпизод с визитом в город глуховатого шефа Купера (сыграл его сам Дэвид Линч), который орёт буквально на весь лес, да так громко, что наверняка слышно в самой Канаде:
- Купер!!! Я вам хочу по большому секрету сказать, что...!!!
Суперсекретные переговоры, а под столом сидит Джеймс Бонд от журналистики и всё записывает на диктофон.
Ох, уж эти уфологи! Сказочные долб....ы... Вроде как металлический шар, якобы летит над городом, но ощущение, что кто-то положил шарик на экран - освещённость "НЛО" совершенно не меняется и он подозрительно ясно виден на этом фоне. И границы шарика слишком чётко обрисованы. То есть пейзаж движется, фон, а сам шарик выглядит чужеродным. Халтурщики...
Что видел сам - уже об этом писал. И, когда говорили о "тарелочках" имелось ввиду, что неведомый аппарат покачивался в воздухе, как тарелочка фрисби. То есть мало походил на блюдце из бабушкиного сервиза, но изображал кораблик свидетель похожим скорее на маслёнку. И большеголовыми и большеглазами так нас видят младенцы в первую неделю жизни. Но мотивацию и характеры пришельцев мы срисовываем с самих себя, а чего на самом деле могут хотеть визитёры с других планет никто не знает, но то, что делится технологиями с нами они не будут - совершенно точно. Спички детям не игрушка. А спички и динамитные шашки... Нема дурных.
Чудовищные корни путинщины. Гиперконформизм как следствие сатанизма.
Больше всего интересует меня - "система обществоведения РФ".
Там с первых курсов вуза нужен конформизм.
Далее - аспирантура, защита диссертаций - нужен конформизм.
Гранты получить, должность, ценные командировки - конформизм.
Конформизм в в путинской РФ - больше, чем конформизм.
В РФ - гиперКОНФОРМИЗМ.
Критически мыслить постсоветские големы просто не способны.
Нет у них для этого в их отравленных мозгах нейронных связей - они были полностью и окончательно уничтожены в сатанистском СССР.
https://verybigfish.livejournal.com/5808671.html
См. также:
Чудовищные корни путинщины. То нелепейшее слово, которое совершенно не отвечает действительности.
https://ukhudshanskiy.livejournal.com/16245643.html
Это при их поддержке происходящего Путин и его чекистская банда осуществляют целенаправленно и планомерно геноцид Русского Народа и творят массу других чудовищнейших гнуснейших преступлений
https://verybigfish.livejournal.com/5809290.html
Мартин Эмис, "Записки о Рейчел"

В 1973 году Мартин Эмис, известный английский прозаик и критик, удачно дебютировал романом "Записки о Рейчел". Действие романа происходит за сутки до того, как герою-повествователю, Чарльзу Хайвэю, исполнится двадцать, и сосредоточено на его болезненных амурных переживаниях. Критики, за малым исключением, оценили мастерство создания комических ситуаций. В следующем году книга удостоилась премии Сомерсета Моэма.
https://www.livelib.ru/book/1000108189-zapiski-o-rejchel-martin-emis
Эту дочитала. Довольно любопытно взглянуть на жизнь тинейджеров своего поколения (в 73-м мне 16) из другого мира.
Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!
The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.
( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )
Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.
On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.
Stoppard.
Mr Ford took me to London (first class, yet, as he had to use up a lot of frequent flyer miles on a reorganizing airline, so we went fancy) to see Arcadia at the NT. It was stunning.
Glad we had him on the planet. He will be missed.
Still resting LIKE A POTATO but with small bits of work in between, and ASKING YOUR FAVOR
HOWEVER, what is not so good is that I'm considerably behind on getting things into the Etsy store.
Also what is not so good is that a new computer is needed. (Shopping will be done, the passive voice will be employed, and so forth.) Also, since other debts are also had, the means to pay them must be acquired.
YOUR KINDNESS is hereby requested in the form of sending people to my shop (or going yourself, yes please!) so that I may exchange the fruits of my labors for money that I can then give the computer-making people and the other-stuff-I-have-to-pay-people. If it works out right, we're all happy. (Also it will help me not freak out about money, which turns out to make resting LIKE A POTATO a little harder.)
The shop is: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LionessElise
Also also, being at the workbench is the most calming thing I know, so I'm doing a tiny bit of that, but I need to put things into the shop for people to be able to see them. Commerce does not work so well otherwise. (I am reminded of Patricia C. Wrede, who upon receiving a sheepish negative answer when she asked me if I had sent a certain story in yet, declaimed in ringing tones, "PUBLISHERS DO NOT CONDUCT HOUSE-TO-HOUSE SEARCHES FOR PUBLISHABLE MANUSCRIPTS! SEND IT IN! YOU HAVE TO SEND IT IN!")
Anyhow, yeah, I very much need to make some moneys happen, and the most direct route for me is making shinies happen for people that want shinies, so if you can help them find my work that would be awesomely helpful.
You have my deep gratitude, and if there's anything I can do for you, please let me know.
Любопытно...
Но теперь мне интересно, что это за новости, о которых на сайте не пишут и, соответственно, узнать, можно ли что-то отправить и до какого времени, невозможно. Или это просто в данном п/о проблемы и/или нежелание работать?..









