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Friday, 31 October 2025 11:36
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I am trying to remember a quotation that may or may not exist.

It is a bit like Kiss of the Spider Woman's "This dream is short, but this dream is happy."

Something like "this is a (something) story for bad times."

Any contenders?

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Happy Halloween! Having not slept for a variety of stupid reasons, I am appearing this year as the world's most tired Green Man.

Cuckmere Haven

Friday, 31 October 2025 10:21
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 We were at the Meeting House yesterday and the kids took themselves off to Cuckmere Haven- which is the best vantage point for viewing the White Cliffs- not, please note, the White Cliffs of Dover- which are 50 to 60 miles east of here- but the range known as the Seven Sisters. They had passable weather for it. 

Cuckmere Haven isn't exactly isolated , but you can't drive to it. The nearest car pasrks are a mile away- and you have to walk- or possibly paddle-board- the winding course of the Cuckmere river to get to the beach and the coastguard cottages. 

Coastguard cottages? Of yeah, back in the day, this is one of the secluded spots where smugglers unloaded their French contraband- "Brandy for the parson, Baccy for the clerk...etc etc..."  As the chalk erodes so the cottages come closer and closer to sliding into the sea. We'll miss them when they're gone because they serve as the perfect foreground objects for the picture that everyone takes.....

Here's my version, snapped on a glorious September Day in 2021.....

Cuckmere_Haven,_Sept_2021_08-1.jpeg

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Thursday, 30 October 2025 15:50
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For nearly the first time since the Cape, I slept. It required me to spend hours after midnight waiting for my body to get the unconsciousness memo and then repeat the process this morning after a doctor's office called back at the crack of business, but construction has been precluded by the recurrent nor'easter rain and it worked. The dreams were nothing to write home about, but at least I had them. And then we had a mild power outage, but still. Sleep! I could get used to it.

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Thursday, 30 October 2025 19:29
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Problems for tomorrow

Thursday, 30 October 2025 19:20
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You ever look at all the tabs open on your work computer as you turn it off and think man, that's so much garbage that Tomorrow Me has to sort out, that poor guy, he's gonna hate me?

Had a kinda disappointing day at work today. I didn't get enough done, and next week is going to be busy so I really can't afford to do so little.

Life with two kids: Wednesday shoes

Thursday, 30 October 2025 17:45
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This morning Sophia announced, as we were about to leave the house, that she couldn't find her school shoes.

Her black school shoes.

The ones that are and integral part of her Wednesday costume. For the school Halloween disco. This evening.

Jane and I frantically tore the house apart for fifteen minutes and checked *everywhere*. Eventually we forced her, crying, to put on her trainers, promising her that if her shoes turned up we would bring them in to her.

Because we left fifteen minutes late we missed the bus. And so it was that we were halfway through the walk to school when Sophia quietly said "Oh."

And then told me that she'd just remembered that yesterday she'd come home from school in her welly boots, leaving her shoes at her peg.

You'll be delighted to hear that I didn't murder her.

The Accessibility Nails Collection

Wednesday, 29 October 2025 21:39
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Somebody had brought their not-really-wanted nail polish to the queer social event I was at last night, encouraging people to use or take home anything they liked.

And just because I was sitting at the table near them for a while without much to do, and because I like bright colors, I ended up painting my nails. Bright yellow. (I was drawn to it because it looked like a fluorescent hi-vis yellow in the bottle. Once it was on it's "just" a nice bright primary yellow (someone else looked at it on me and said "I wore that color for a Simpsons drag show once," to give you an idea of what yellow it is), but that's still good.

I used to love nail polish, that and really chunky colorful jewelry were the only "girly" things I ever got excited about. And even then, my mom was always trying to steer me toward soft pinks and stuff and I chose more blue and green and the most "unnatural" colors.

But I haven't done my nails since before I left my old house. I was...busy, and then for a long time it felt too femme, like I struggled so much to get people to stop misgendering me, I didn't want to make that any more likely. And by the time that stopped being a concern I was well and truly out of the habit and all my nail polish that hasn't been touched in five or six years should probably be thrown away.

But here I did my nails very happily. It was nice that it didn't feel weird or feminine at all now. It just felt queer.

Also while making dinner tonight, I realized that when I'm chopping vegetables it's way easier to tell where my fingers end and the peppers or whatever begin if the ends of my fingers are bright yellow.

Not that I usually struggle with this, I'm used to doing it mostly by feel. It was weird that my eyes could help out!

That got me thinking about starting to acquire new nail polish (the old stuff I have needs to be thrown out really) based on what colors are easy for me to pick up!

The yellow has already half chipped off, so I'll have to see if there's any nail polish remover in the house that works! But this probably won't be the last time I paint my nails.

Inflatable Gravestones

Thursday, 30 October 2025 07:46
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 I'm not seeing much in the way of Halloween decor in Eastbourne this year. We passed a house that had filled its front garden with junk and it stood out because it had no competition.

I asked Mike if was the same in Greenwich and he said, Well, no, his street had a lot of skeletons and such. They're going home tomorrow morning because he has some inflatable gravestones on order and he needs time to blow them up and get them installed before the evening's candy fest.

We don't give out sweets. We give out plastic doodads. I sort of enjoy the mad rush. 

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Thursday, 30 October 2025 14:14
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I read: Salem's Lot by Stephen King for my book club, and I think everyone who claimed it was scarier than Twilight owes me $5. Though King does have it right in his introduction when he says it's a bit like Peyton Place; certainly enough of it was a soap opera with occasional appearance of vampires that I compared it to that time on Days of Our Lives when Marlena was possessed by the devil, but there continued to be non-demon possession storylines... Well, it was fine overall, I guess. (I can't truly comparee it to Peyton Place, the book, but I've watched the movie, which I had a better time with than with Salem's Lot.) And in comparison to Dracula, which I know partially inspired it... it is more sexist than Dracula, and has fewer interesting characters. I continue to be convinced that King is better when he writes short.

I watched: Well, I'm continuing to watch episodes of Blood River as they come out, and as you can guess, I'm getting increasingly unhinged about it. Not only because Su Changhe and Su Muyu love each other very much, but also because they're bringing other people into lives and trying to establish a lovely domesticity with friends and sort-of-family, but I've seen The Blood of Youth and I know where this goes. The slow motion trainwreck of this all, where if you didn't know better you might think they're dragging themselves out of the muck, but you do know better, you know they'll never be able to escape the darkness they grew up in... Absolute killer, and the fight scenes are totally bomb.

Blood River fic

Thursday, 30 October 2025 12:47
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Like Real People Do (607 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 暗河传 | Blood River (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Su Changhe/Su Muyu
Characters: Su Changhe (The Blood of Youth), Su Muyu (The Blood of Youth)
Additional Tags: Missing Scene
Summary:

A little extra moment set during the flashback in episode 14.

Tiring House

Wednesday, 29 October 2025 09:35
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 Family coming to visit and I need to put on my paterfamilias face. It's not the best fit. 

Right now I'm in my dressing room- or tiring house to be Shakespearian about it- waiting for my cue. Things will become easier once I'm on stage.
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The construction turned out not to be on an adjacent street; we were misled by it not being roadwork. It is the re-roofing of a house diagonally across our street and we have no idea how many days it will last except two is already more than enough. I can't believe we are still afflicted with construction, it just changed levels. I wanted to do anything with my brain this evening and fell asleep instead. On the bright side, it occurred to me to look into the current whereabouts of the members of my beloved Schmekel, the short-lived and brilliant, all-trans, all-Jewish klezmer-punk band that gave the world such gems as "I'll Be Your Maccabee" (2010)" and "I'm Sorry, It's Yom Kippur" (2011) and discovered that while the keyboardist has remained a musician, the bassist went into the medical profession, the guitarist became an award-winning game designer, and as of last year the drummer is the rabbi of a congregation in western Massachusetts, which is great. Any mention of Martin Buber will to this day instantly earworm me with "FTM at the DMV" (2013).

Cardigan nights

Tuesday, 28 October 2025 18:05
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There's a gorgeous windstorm going on. Beautiful for listening to, not so great for trying to hear the UPS truck.

Like a fool who thinks it's 2015, I ordered clothing online from the United States and have been fretting about it ever since. All shipping interfaces were as incoherent as you might expect.

But Blamo was having a deep-discount flash sale and I have been drooling over this non-species-specific sock-animal onesie for... a long time.

Sadly, that magnificent garment was not on sale and incidentally profoundly impractical. So I ordered this Completely Normal Cardigan(tm) instead:



... it happens to have this hood:





(Not sure why the resolution is so crap here.)

There did end up being tariff charges, but not that bad.

I... feel more whole as a person.

§rf§

PS I swear it did not have to be a rabbit.

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Tuesday, 28 October 2025 17:25
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Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.


A Answered Questions from Theatrical Muse for Rupert Giles
B Bowl-a-Rama Crossover,The Bourne Legacy. The Heat
C California Dreaming Cordelia, Doyle
D Daddy: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know Essay on fathers in the Whedonverse
E The Examined Life of Mr. Gordo What it says
F Four Pairs of Shoes That Giles Never Bought and One He Did
G Giles, Drabbles
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J Justine, Drabbles AtS
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M The Mallrats
Crossover, BtVS, The Office (US)
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O On the Way Back from Hell The Last of Us
P Philadelphia Darla, AtS
Q
R Reunion
Ghosts (UK)
S Sadder and Wiser Girls
T Transition The Bourne Legacy
U
V Vampires of Tlme Community, Dean Pelton
W What We Know about Baudelaire AtS
X Xander, Drabbles
Y
Z

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So gay we bleed glitter

Tuesday, 28 October 2025 23:19
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Queer club Halloween party tonight: the blood-red face paint dripping from one of the organizers' foreheads was in fact glittery.

There was also a LARP vampire, a few sets of fairy wings, some witches, somebody wearing a shirt he'd attached forks to and covered in fake blood to make it look like they were stabbing his torso and arms, who only belatedly realized that this meant he couldn't hug anyone, or squeeze as close to anyone else for the group photo as had been encouraged...

...and D and I as sheet ghosts, underneath fitted bedsheets that'd had the elastic taken out and holes cut for our eyes. D insisted on a slot for his mouth too, which he intended as a way to consume snacks, but the slot was too small to fit a cookie through. "I can see the crumbs on the mouth," from it someone later commented when he explained his costume.

V loves sheet ghosts and it was very nice to have costumes that they helped us make.

Tuesday, 28th October 2025

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