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It occurred to me this morning
...that LJ and Dreamwidth would be a very nice place to come back to in this difficult time. How's everybody coping?
So far, my family and I are well, but I've got a nephew working in a big grocery store--I guess they're "first responders" now--so that's a little worrying. Mostly, we're trying to support my mom, who just turned 90, by getting her ( Read more... ) -
So who's watching Travelers?
I timed my Season One and Season Two re-watch to end yesterday, so I could launch right into Season Three (which just dropped on Netflix). I'm trying to figure out what I find so compelling about this show. The theme music was running in my head all day today, saying, "Go home! Turn on Netflix! Watch Season Three!" like some kind of addiction ( Read more... ) -
A duty of care
My two sisters and I weathered a crisis over the summer in which our mother, 88, underwent three surgeries. The third one was an emergency, during which she was taken from her condo on a stretcher, to the emergency room, to surgery, to rehab, and thence to her new assisted living apartment ( Read more... ) -
Sigil magic
I've been working with sigil magic lately. I don't know if it works, but it's turning into a form of creative expression that I didn't expect.
The concept is that written words have power (they don't call 'em "spells" for nothing). You distill a statement of intention down to a simple clear phrase, then remove the vowels, then remove any duplicate ( Read more... ) -
Byzantium
I'm still watching Supernatural. Season 14. The little show that could.
Show has had its ups and downs, and the fandom--which seems to have expanded rather than contracted over the years--is almost as nutty as ever. But I still like the boys.
I long since stopped being a focused enough fan to get involved in ship wars or fanwank.
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I didn't know...
...why I painted my porch bright purple (the paint color was actually called Red Meets Blue) until I got a security camera--and a bright, sunny (albeit VERY CHILLY) day. Now I can enjoy my color choice from indoors, on my phone.
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Since it's my birthday
I read yesterday that Flickr is about to change its retention policies, so I went there for the first time in quite a while to plan a kind of general rescue of my old photos.
The very earliest one was dated 2005, and corresponds to one of the first posts I ever made on LJ. Let's see if I can remember how to attach a photo to a DW post, because it ( Read more... ) -
Tell me about your ear
Who here likes audiobooks? Can I ask you some questions?
What's important to you in a reader/narrator/actor--particularly in fiction? Have you ever figuratively thrown an audiobook across the room because some particular thing about the reading bugged the crap out of you?
For example, do you value voice quality above all? Can't stand certain types of ( Read more... ) -
Receiving criticism
What's the best and worst criticism you've ever received? And how did you assimilate it?
I'm thinking mostly of feedback on writing, but I'm interested in experiences of any kind of critique you may have received on any kind of activity.
Here's why: In September I'll become a certified Story Grid Editor. There's a big discussion among Story Grid ( Read more... )
