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nilchancethis isn't an update or a TTRPG-related post, but I've been obsessed with this mashup lately and I wanted to share it:
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2 Jun 2025 07:57lunabee341. I absolutely adore my ridiculous children. Fiona is reading War and Peace. It's the book with the most AR points, and we kept telling her that she was probably not going to like it or understand it well, which just fueled her desire to read it more. Joke's on us, I guess, because she's moving through it a pretty fair clip, and while I'm certain that a significant amount of it is going over her head, she seems to be understanding the plot well enough (we debrief what everyone is reading over dinner every evening).
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A Century of Poems - TLS 100 by The Times Literary Supplement
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Well, this makes clear that I do not share taste in poetry with the editors of the Times Lierary Supplement, all however many of them served for the 20th century. Lol
So many war poems, which I get given the time period, but I am not a fan of most war poetry. Also so much rhyming, way more than I'd anticipated.
I did like some of the poems, but on the whole not for me.
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( Scholomance by Naomi Novik--major spoilers )
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The Best Cook in the World by Rick Bragg
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I kept finding myself in the pages of this book as I read it. My people are not mountain Southern, but some things about being Southern are universal. The backstory of poverty and wringing a living out of the land with backbreaking work in Bragg's memoir could easily describe many aspects of the backstory on both side of my family. Most especially, though, reflected here is that truth that no matter how poor my grandparents were or how stingy my parents were when I was growing up to avoid poverty we still ate well. Like Bragg, my family was almost self-sustaining in eating what we grew, caught, and raised, and we ate like kings. Still do.
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5.
The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Christopher Looby
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This collection of short stories is divided into four sections: queer places, queer genders, queer attachments, and queer things. Most of the stories in the queer things section don't seem to be queer to me (especially the Melville one where the protagonist is obsessed with his chimney and the Hartman story where a little waif girl drowns herself in the sea). Many of these stories are sad and/or violent, but a few of them are happy and hopeful--notably the Walt Whitman and the Mary Wilkins Freeman. The titular story of the book is incredibly fascinating.
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I have a PDF copy of this book, so if you'd like to read me, PM me and I'll email it to you.
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A Century of Poems - TLS 100 by The Times Literary SupplementMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Well, this makes clear that I do not share taste in poetry with the editors of the Times Lierary Supplement, all however many of them served for the 20th century. Lol
So many war poems, which I get given the time period, but I am not a fan of most war poetry. Also so much rhyming, way more than I'd anticipated.
I did like some of the poems, but on the whole not for me.
View all my reviews
3.
( Scholomance by Naomi Novik--major spoilers )
4.
The Best Cook in the World by Rick BraggMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I kept finding myself in the pages of this book as I read it. My people are not mountain Southern, but some things about being Southern are universal. The backstory of poverty and wringing a living out of the land with backbreaking work in Bragg's memoir could easily describe many aspects of the backstory on both side of my family. Most especially, though, reflected here is that truth that no matter how poor my grandparents were or how stingy my parents were when I was growing up to avoid poverty we still ate well. Like Bragg, my family was almost self-sustaining in eating what we grew, caught, and raised, and we ate like kings. Still do.
View all my reviews
5.
The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Christopher LoobyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This collection of short stories is divided into four sections: queer places, queer genders, queer attachments, and queer things. Most of the stories in the queer things section don't seem to be queer to me (especially the Melville one where the protagonist is obsessed with his chimney and the Hartman story where a little waif girl drowns herself in the sea). Many of these stories are sad and/or violent, but a few of them are happy and hopeful--notably the Walt Whitman and the Mary Wilkins Freeman. The titular story of the book is incredibly fascinating.
View all my reviews
I have a PDF copy of this book, so if you'd like to read me, PM me and I'll email it to you.
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30 May 2025 09:38nilchanceit's Frostmaiden day again! we're headed back to my paladin Skink's hometown. he's.... not very happy about it. so here's a song for his years in Baldur's Gate:
( a rambling explanation )
( a rambling explanation )
Fic: Clean Session
29 May 2025 14:15blueraccoonTitle: Clean Session
Author: blueraccoon/rebecca
Fandom: original characters, a/b/o tropes
Pairing: Will Greene/Jesse, aka original/original
Rating: NC-17/Explicit
Summary: It's a weird system for weird biology. And it's very weird to realize your kid has to go through it.
Notes: The author's id, let her show you it. Or, rather: This fic is what happens when an author obsessed with worldbuilding tries to make sense out of a trope that inherently defies reality, but also wants to write smut.
This is the first thing I've posted to AO3 in eight years and it's fucking original a/b/o. I don't even know, y'all, but I've written more in the last two and a half months than I did in all of 2023 so I'm not complaining too much, and I think there's some nicely hot smut in there.
More notes over at AO3 explain how the universe came to be (tl;dr it's an AU of an AU of a ST:AOS fic but by this point there's no Trek in it whatsoever) so while you might not recognize anyone in this fic, this is actually the prequel to the main storyline and there might be a familiar face or two in that. The main storyline is written to a point; the problem is that it just kind of keeps going and I can't figure out where to cut it. I figured out a break point for the first story but I can't figure out where the second one should end. Once I figure it out I'll post. Assuming anyone cares about this.
Yeah, so. Be nice, I'm very out of practice.
Author: blueraccoon/rebecca
Fandom: original characters, a/b/o tropes
Pairing: Will Greene/Jesse, aka original/original
Rating: NC-17/Explicit
Summary: It's a weird system for weird biology. And it's very weird to realize your kid has to go through it.
Notes: The author's id, let her show you it. Or, rather: This fic is what happens when an author obsessed with worldbuilding tries to make sense out of a trope that inherently defies reality, but also wants to write smut.
This is the first thing I've posted to AO3 in eight years and it's fucking original a/b/o. I don't even know, y'all, but I've written more in the last two and a half months than I did in all of 2023 so I'm not complaining too much, and I think there's some nicely hot smut in there.
More notes over at AO3 explain how the universe came to be (tl;dr it's an AU of an AU of a ST:AOS fic but by this point there's no Trek in it whatsoever) so while you might not recognize anyone in this fic, this is actually the prequel to the main storyline and there might be a familiar face or two in that. The main storyline is written to a point; the problem is that it just kind of keeps going and I can't figure out where to cut it. I figured out a break point for the first story but I can't figure out where the second one should end. Once I figure it out I'll post. Assuming anyone cares about this.
Yeah, so. Be nice, I'm very out of practice.
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28 May 2025 12:57martianmooncrabhave given money to ford and firestone in honor of still driving my van. sigh. I am trying to collect the rebate on the new tires, but, they are bound and determined to make me use a QR code, give them my email, or do crap I dont want to on electronic devices. What ever happened to just filling out a piece of paper, xeroxing the invoice and mailing it in? so simple and easy. And it doesnt take screen time, just a xerox machine. I am really rejecting this modern age now. Of course they want to track you and sending you emails and texts, because thats what they are rebating you for I guess. Maybe they should call it a ReBait instead. I already have their damn credit card, I think thats enough data sharing.
this is the 3rd week of the 3.0 dose of trulicity. Still having odd moments, and when it hits the sleep phase its 10-12 hours before I can function. If this higher dose doesnt bring down my A1C then the last increase will be to 4.5 and thats it on the diabetes train for me.
Got 2 raised beds cleared and planted with tomatoes, weed whacked the front lawn only, and have been attacking the blackberries that think my flower beds are their new homes. Not.
went and saw the new Stitch movie with my niece, its movie lite.... and they left out my favorite line "its okay, my puppy has a chainsaw" We both wanted to see the new Karate Kid movie, but its not out yet.
Some days its a struggle to read, and to even play my game online, but I still not giving up.
this is the 3rd week of the 3.0 dose of trulicity. Still having odd moments, and when it hits the sleep phase its 10-12 hours before I can function. If this higher dose doesnt bring down my A1C then the last increase will be to 4.5 and thats it on the diabetes train for me.
Got 2 raised beds cleared and planted with tomatoes, weed whacked the front lawn only, and have been attacking the blackberries that think my flower beds are their new homes. Not.
went and saw the new Stitch movie with my niece, its movie lite.... and they left out my favorite line "its okay, my puppy has a chainsaw" We both wanted to see the new Karate Kid movie, but its not out yet.
Some days its a struggle to read, and to even play my game online, but I still not giving up.
It's a Wednesday
28 May 2025 06:32lunabee341. Ha ha! I am vindicated.
So, my family will sometimes say stob for a small stump or a stick sticking up out of the ground or a broken off piece of fencing. Josh has insisted repeatedly over the years that this is not a real word and just something weird my family says. However, I'm reading one of Rick Bragg's memoirs and he uses the word stob, which prompted me to look it up in the dictionary and confirm it is indeed a real word and not just another example of the ways in which I belong to a bunch of hicks. I've always assumed it's a bastardization of the word stave.
2. Fiona is sick again. She has the flu now, and the pediatrician had us go to the hospital so she could get a chest x-ray (I guess their machine is better than the one at the pediatrician's, IDK). We haven't heard back about the results of the x-ray, but I really hope she doesn't have pneumonia again. I just don't understand why she keeps getting these respiratory things.
3. Dylan has a weird lump on her shoulder that we think might be lupus-related. The rheumatologist is sending her to an orthopedist to look at it (which makes no sense to me), so hopefully we'll know more about it soon.
4. I have to go to the dentist today. I've been putting it off as long as I can because I am a ding ding, but I hate going to the dentist so much. :(
5. We watched The Wild Robot on Netflix. Fiona loves the book(s?), and she was satisfied with the movie as an adaptation even though it made some minor changes to character and plot. All three of us ended up crying multiple times throughout; Josh popped into the living room at one point and turned heel and left again immediately. LOL Definitely worth a watch.
So, my family will sometimes say stob for a small stump or a stick sticking up out of the ground or a broken off piece of fencing. Josh has insisted repeatedly over the years that this is not a real word and just something weird my family says. However, I'm reading one of Rick Bragg's memoirs and he uses the word stob, which prompted me to look it up in the dictionary and confirm it is indeed a real word and not just another example of the ways in which I belong to a bunch of hicks. I've always assumed it's a bastardization of the word stave.
2. Fiona is sick again. She has the flu now, and the pediatrician had us go to the hospital so she could get a chest x-ray (I guess their machine is better than the one at the pediatrician's, IDK). We haven't heard back about the results of the x-ray, but I really hope she doesn't have pneumonia again. I just don't understand why she keeps getting these respiratory things.
3. Dylan has a weird lump on her shoulder that we think might be lupus-related. The rheumatologist is sending her to an orthopedist to look at it (which makes no sense to me), so hopefully we'll know more about it soon.
4. I have to go to the dentist today. I've been putting it off as long as I can because I am a ding ding, but I hate going to the dentist so much. :(
5. We watched The Wild Robot on Netflix. Fiona loves the book(s?), and she was satisfied with the movie as an adaptation even though it made some minor changes to character and plot. All three of us ended up crying multiple times throughout; Josh popped into the living room at one point and turned heel and left again immediately. LOL Definitely worth a watch.