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Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore
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Hodge would like nothing better than to study American history. Be careful what you wish for.
Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore
Theatre with music in it
Mar. 15th, 2026 09:27 amantisoppistPeter Grimes (Opera North)
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Operation Mincemeat (Touring Cast, Bath Theatre Royal)
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Life with two children: Gideon updates
Mar. 15th, 2026 08:50 amandrewduckerFollowing yesterday's illness, I was vaguely hoping that he would stay asleep through the night. Alas:
12:05
"I need a wee"
Took him to the toilet.
"Daddy, my tummy hurts"
Gave him some medicine
"Do you want to be in pyjamas or just straight back to bed?"
"Back to bed"
And then he closed his eyes.
12:20
Thundering footsteps "Daddy, I feel sick"
Told him to go to the toilet. Kept him company, got him a bucket.
He wasn't sick.
Persuaded him to take the bucket to bed.
Sat on the floor next to his bed until he closed his eyes.
12:35
More thundering steps
"Daddy, my arm and leg hurt"
By the time I'd found him medicine he was asleep again.
But woke up again and let me give him some Calpol.
03:30
"I'm hungry" (not surprising as he didn't eat yesterday)
We agreed on cream cheese crackers.
He ate ⅘ of the cracker and drank some juice and passed out again.
06:30
"I checked the light coming under the curtain and it's morning time"
I told him to go play games on the Switch downstairs.
Fifteen minutes later I could still hear him wandering about and I hadn't heard any game noises.
Went to check on him and he told him that he'd found various points around the house where the floor isn't flat.
Got him settled with the Switch, and then went back to bed and stared vacantly at my phone for an hour, before getting up to face the day.
12:05
"I need a wee"
Took him to the toilet.
"Daddy, my tummy hurts"
Gave him some medicine
"Do you want to be in pyjamas or just straight back to bed?"
"Back to bed"
And then he closed his eyes.
12:20
Thundering footsteps "Daddy, I feel sick"
Told him to go to the toilet. Kept him company, got him a bucket.
He wasn't sick.
Persuaded him to take the bucket to bed.
Sat on the floor next to his bed until he closed his eyes.
12:35
More thundering steps
"Daddy, my arm and leg hurt"
By the time I'd found him medicine he was asleep again.
But woke up again and let me give him some Calpol.
03:30
"I'm hungry" (not surprising as he didn't eat yesterday)
We agreed on cream cheese crackers.
He ate ⅘ of the cracker and drank some juice and passed out again.
06:30
"I checked the light coming under the curtain and it's morning time"
I told him to go play games on the Switch downstairs.
Fifteen minutes later I could still hear him wandering about and I hadn't heard any game noises.
Went to check on him and he told him that he'd found various points around the house where the floor isn't flat.
Got him settled with the Switch, and then went back to bed and stared vacantly at my phone for an hour, before getting up to face the day.
Topics for talk March
Mar. 15th, 2026 12:23 ampattroseTopics for talk
Feelings I Am Having Right Now.
I am feeling loved and blessed. We celebrated my birthday tonight. Brett, my son-in-law, made Hibachi food. Oh my god. It was so awesome. I'm so full. We had filet mignon, shrimp, and chicken with lots of zucchini. He makes the best stir-fried rice I've ever had. Our grandson, whom we raised, and his daughter, Jayla. She is going on 18 already. Everyone is growing up too fast. We all got in the big hot tub and relaxed while Brett did all the cooking. Doesn't seem fair, does it? I love Brett. He's not only a good hubby to our daughter but also a wonderful father to our 35-year-old granddaughter. Her name is Alexa. She had to work at the last minute. The joys of being a manager. It was a great night.
Feelings I Am Having Right Now.
I am feeling loved and blessed. We celebrated my birthday tonight. Brett, my son-in-law, made Hibachi food. Oh my god. It was so awesome. I'm so full. We had filet mignon, shrimp, and chicken with lots of zucchini. He makes the best stir-fried rice I've ever had. Our grandson, whom we raised, and his daughter, Jayla. She is going on 18 already. Everyone is growing up too fast. We all got in the big hot tub and relaxed while Brett did all the cooking. Doesn't seem fair, does it? I love Brett. He's not only a good hubby to our daughter but also a wonderful father to our 35-year-old granddaughter. Her name is Alexa. She had to work at the last minute. The joys of being a manager. It was a great night.
90 discussion questions
Mar. 15th, 2026 12:20 ampattrose90 questions
What foods or meals feel life-giving to you? How do they make you feel, and what memories do you connect with them?
For every one of my children, their spouses, their kids, and great-grandkids, I make a very special dinner of their choice for their birthdays. I've been doing this for many years. It's so much fun. They don't have to share with the cousins or Aunts and Uncles. They all feel very special on their day. I love doing it and hope we'll be able to do this for many more years.
What foods or meals feel life-giving to you? How do they make you feel, and what memories do you connect with them?
For every one of my children, their spouses, their kids, and great-grandkids, I make a very special dinner of their choice for their birthdays. I've been doing this for many years. It's so much fun. They don't have to share with the cousins or Aunts and Uncles. They all feel very special on their day. I love doing it and hope we'll be able to do this for many more years.
Not quiteb365 days questions March
Mar. 15th, 2026 12:18 ampattroseNot quite 365 days questions March
15. What’s the weather like today?
Arizona thinks it's summer. It's way past spring with the temperature. Today was 85° beautiful, but way too warm for March. It's going to be in the 90° range in two days. 100° in a week. Did I already mention that it's March? What the fuck is going on? I love the heat, but not for March. That's too warm for April, too. We have to leave some things for the summer. I'm dying to hear how your weather is right now. Fill me in.
15. What’s the weather like today?
Arizona thinks it's summer. It's way past spring with the temperature. Today was 85° beautiful, but way too warm for March. It's going to be in the 90° range in two days. 100° in a week. Did I already mention that it's March? What the fuck is going on? I love the heat, but not for March. That's too warm for April, too. We have to leave some things for the summer. I'm dying to hear how your weather is right now. Fill me in.
SGA: Postcards to Jeannie by Sholio
Mar. 15th, 2026 05:00 pmmific posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fancakeFandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Jeannie Miller, Teyla Emmagan, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex
Rating: Gen
Length: 5000-10,000 (best guess) - the individual postcards are mostly text-based, in different fonts, but it's too hard to add it all up. There are 8 or so sets of postcards/images, plus two longer narrative interludes.
Content Notes: Not all of the postcards or notes have text equivalents, so it's not fully accessible. Rodney at one point talks about a relationship he had at uni with an older woman he describes as a "sex addict".
Creator Links: Sholio on AO3, Sholio's own site
Themes: Siblings, Epistolary, Friendship, Family, Team as family, Unconventional format and style
Summary: (more notes than a summary) Contains spoilers for the Season 3 episode "McKay & Mrs. Miller". I might be taking a certain amount of liberty with the timeline; let's assume that a few months went by between "M&MM" and "Return".
This is a very image-intensive story. Illustrations and photos are all by me, aside from one or two photos taken by my husband. A couple of the postcards utilize (heavily Photoshopped) patterns that I got off the Internet to represent fabrics and such, because I didn't have anything suitable.
Reccer's Notes: This is a heartwarming epistolary story in which Teyla and Jeannie (Rodney's sister) write to each other. Eventually the other team members are brought in as well, especially John and Rodney. It's a mix of tales about Jeannie's life, and of the team's, especially Teyla's, adventures, and although the format as a series of postcard/image pages is a little awkward to negotiate, it's very much worth reading. The postcards start off somewhat formally, and quickly become more personal, and one theme is of the correspondence bringing Rodney and Jeannie closer together. It's touching, funny, tinged with the realities and sadnesses of life in the Pegasus galaxy, and an excellent read.
Fanwork Links: Postcards to Jeannie (and the sequel is Pictures for Jeannie)
Characters/Pairings: Jeannie Miller, Teyla Emmagan, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex
Rating: Gen
Length: 5000-10,000 (best guess) - the individual postcards are mostly text-based, in different fonts, but it's too hard to add it all up. There are 8 or so sets of postcards/images, plus two longer narrative interludes.
Content Notes: Not all of the postcards or notes have text equivalents, so it's not fully accessible. Rodney at one point talks about a relationship he had at uni with an older woman he describes as a "sex addict".
Creator Links: Sholio on AO3, Sholio's own site
Themes: Siblings, Epistolary, Friendship, Family, Team as family, Unconventional format and style
Summary: (more notes than a summary) Contains spoilers for the Season 3 episode "McKay & Mrs. Miller". I might be taking a certain amount of liberty with the timeline; let's assume that a few months went by between "M&MM" and "Return".
This is a very image-intensive story. Illustrations and photos are all by me, aside from one or two photos taken by my husband. A couple of the postcards utilize (heavily Photoshopped) patterns that I got off the Internet to represent fabrics and such, because I didn't have anything suitable.
Reccer's Notes: This is a heartwarming epistolary story in which Teyla and Jeannie (Rodney's sister) write to each other. Eventually the other team members are brought in as well, especially John and Rodney. It's a mix of tales about Jeannie's life, and of the team's, especially Teyla's, adventures, and although the format as a series of postcard/image pages is a little awkward to negotiate, it's very much worth reading. The postcards start off somewhat formally, and quickly become more personal, and one theme is of the correspondence bringing Rodney and Jeannie closer together. It's touching, funny, tinged with the realities and sadnesses of life in the Pegasus galaxy, and an excellent read.
Fanwork Links: Postcards to Jeannie (and the sequel is Pictures for Jeannie)
Shower scene by real cardiac (marginally NSFW)
Mar. 15th, 2026 03:15 pmmific posting in fanart_recsFandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Content Notes/Warnings: implied nudity, but this version's not explicit.
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: realcardiac on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: These are season 1 shower scene portraits, but with female Hollander and Rozanov. It's the first rule 63 version of them I've seen where the likenesses are convincing. Femme Ilya is especially compelling.
Link: Shower scene, backup link here
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Content Notes/Warnings: implied nudity, but this version's not explicit.
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: realcardiac on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: These are season 1 shower scene portraits, but with female Hollander and Rozanov. It's the first rule 63 version of them I've seen where the likenesses are convincing. Femme Ilya is especially compelling.
Link: Shower scene, backup link here
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Mar. 14th, 2026 08:05 pmmissizzyI think in the future, I may actually hold off on buying badges for AwesomeCon until the schedule is actually announced. I can't do that for any event I travel to, perhaps, but I don't think this one even sells out like that. If I'd done that this time, I'd have gone yesterday and tomorrow, and my foot probably would've been very grateful for the day off in between to boot.
As it is, the highlight of the event for me this year was absolutely Neil and Devora. Doing a podcast together has made the two of them a brilliant double act. They were playing off each other perfectly even before they had cause to demonstrate some of the practical issues of mocap using their water bottles. But the audience also helped with some of their very creative questions; Devora even joked she might come back to DC just for the questions. One of them was what was the last line each of them recorded for BG3. Unfortunately Devora couldn't remember what she'd done last, and Neil couldn't remember the last line, either, but he did remember and relate the last thing he did for it, which now makes me want to play origin Astarion.
I managed to buy a few things as well, including a cute drawing of Mulder and Scully eating Chinese food. Today I also attended a panel of those searching for any signs of life in outer space, which ended up feeling more like a reminder of just how much we have found in space this century, even if we haven't yet found that.
But I am currently planning for my first ever stream to be in a week's time, so now I must buckle down. I finally downloaded OBS this evening, though I haven't tried to install it yet.
As it is, the highlight of the event for me this year was absolutely Neil and Devora. Doing a podcast together has made the two of them a brilliant double act. They were playing off each other perfectly even before they had cause to demonstrate some of the practical issues of mocap using their water bottles. But the audience also helped with some of their very creative questions; Devora even joked she might come back to DC just for the questions. One of them was what was the last line each of them recorded for BG3. Unfortunately Devora couldn't remember what she'd done last, and Neil couldn't remember the last line, either, but he did remember and relate the last thing he did for it, which now makes me want to play origin Astarion.
I managed to buy a few things as well, including a cute drawing of Mulder and Scully eating Chinese food. Today I also attended a panel of those searching for any signs of life in outer space, which ended up feeling more like a reminder of just how much we have found in space this century, even if we haven't yet found that.
But I am currently planning for my first ever stream to be in a week's time, so now I must buckle down. I finally downloaded OBS this evening, though I haven't tried to install it yet.
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Mar. 14th, 2026 08:00 pmsettiaiOkay, I've got to admit that this is probably some of the best Pi Day news that I've ever gotten. I just found out that I completely missed the fact that Giordano's is going to be opening a restaurant in DC this spring.
Proper stuffed pizza! In DC! I never thought that I'd see the day.
Proper stuffed pizza! In DC! I never thought that I'd see the day.
seeking beta reader (Scott/Kip, Heated Rivalry)?
Mar. 14th, 2026 06:33 pmverushka70I'm in the middle of a slow burn, angst with a happy ending, explicit Scott/Kip fic. I'm 13K+ words in and about halfway through. It's basically S1E03 (and their parts in S1E05 and S1E06) but entirely from Scott's fucked up perspective.
( why fic the series canon from Scott's POV? well, because he's my tragic, angsty hero, that's why, among other major reasons, here, including that you don't get Scott's depths in the Game Changer novel )
There just wasn't the depth or exploration of character and backstory in the novel, that seeing the series and the excellent acting had led me to expect and hope for.
So I decided to write it myself.
I tried the Scott/Kip Discord, briefly, to ask if anyone was interested in beta-ing. But I don't know anyone on it and I don't think anyone saw my request in the midst of the ongoing conversations flying by between people who clearly all knew each other.
So I thought I'd ask here.
If anyone would be interested in beta-ing, I can be reached at verushka70(at)Gmail(dot)com.
*Yes I know Demian doesn't explicitly posit a homoerotic relationship and that Herman Hesse was not gay and the different characters were largely projections of the main characters and psychoanalysis and Freud informed it all - I know. But his male characters and their relationships read as gay/slashy to me. And if Reddit and Tumblr are anything to go by, I am hardly the only one who thought that.
( why fic the series canon from Scott's POV? well, because he's my tragic, angsty hero, that's why, among other major reasons, here, including that you don't get Scott's depths in the Game Changer novel )
There just wasn't the depth or exploration of character and backstory in the novel, that seeing the series and the excellent acting had led me to expect and hope for.
So I decided to write it myself.
I tried the Scott/Kip Discord, briefly, to ask if anyone was interested in beta-ing. But I don't know anyone on it and I don't think anyone saw my request in the midst of the ongoing conversations flying by between people who clearly all knew each other.
So I thought I'd ask here.
If anyone would be interested in beta-ing, I can be reached at verushka70(at)Gmail(dot)com.
*Yes I know Demian doesn't explicitly posit a homoerotic relationship and that Herman Hesse was not gay and the different characters were largely projections of the main characters and psychoanalysis and Freud informed it all - I know. But his male characters and their relationships read as gay/slashy to me. And if Reddit and Tumblr are anything to go by, I am hardly the only one who thought that.
New Medieval Books: Widow City
Mar. 14th, 2026 10:37 pmmedievalists_rss_feedIn late medieval Italy, women often outlived their husbands. This book examines writings from the period to explore the different ways widows mourned their spouses and how they chose to carry on with their lives afterwards.