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Posting now because I predict being way too sweaty and exhausted for that after Stray Kids gig. And in honour of that, I'm posting the MV and dance practice of one of my favourite songs by them.

The song is beautiful but I also have a lot of feelings about the choreo, mainly: 1) The way it starts with everyone holding Chan's heart 😭😭😭, 2) the sequenced kneeling of Minho, Seungmin and Jeongin (the bdsm au feels I have about this), 3) Seungmin solo choreo!

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ysabetwordsmith

TRANSFORM Your Garden To A FIREFLY Habitat!

* Avoid pesticides and other agrochemicals.

* Protect from light pollution.

* Plant native species.

* Leave some tall grass.

* Provide moisture.

* Leaf litter and woodpiles also offer cover.

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berryfairyghost

All I've been wanting this week is to come here and yap but life happened a lot this week! I'll be back later to catch up but I need to unload brain soup a little.

1. I went to get a bob-like haircut. It's the shortest it's been since college. heart kaomoji smiling with sparkles

( 💇🏻 haircut. we bob now. 💇🏻 )

2. I went with my MIL, who is a very cool fellow bi. She is in a happy WLW relationship and I love'em both. But she dropped some Lore (with a capital L) when she drove me back home. It's not my story to tell all haphazardly, but I'll just say it was full of heartbreak, queer yearning, US south-flavored religious trauma, internalized lesbophobia, sorrow, tragedy, and an untimely death. :(
But I've barely gotten to process all that because...

3. The next day, I had to scramble because I completely forgot my I had agreed with my friend to reschedule our body doubling meetings to Wednesday. She kindly waited for me on Discord, and we got to hanging.
I fear I've been yapping too much during what's supposed to be work time. :( I would like to be a bit more mindful of that.
Either way! I finished a Litleo for

javert who was a darling and released some super cute Trubbish icons to the world.
I posted the art with bg color in my art journal, but~

( 🎨 here's the transparent PNG version! 🎨 )
Will I ever figure out how to properly make images responsive is the question...

4. ANYWAY, THAT SAME DAY (at night)... after I was done with the drawing... I got a migraine!! :(
I started feeling funny but I thought a gummy was hitting me weird. Then I closed the office room and by the time I went to bed I had a ~gnarly~ headache on the right side of my head. I was also dizzy, sound-sensitive, light-sensitive, and all that jazz.
I only started getting migraines in adulthood. My mom has gotten pretty bad migraines occasionally, though I don't remember having any as a child. Mom says I need to talk to my doctor about it. Which, yes, I know I do. I just need the executive function to make an appointment with the doctor's office in the first place.
Either way, MIL is helping me with that so hopefully I get to go soon to address stuff. Maybe before the orange overlord's Medicaid Cuts kick my ass. :(

5. Same Body Double Friend and I videocall on Thursdays for Baldur's Gate. But we decided to turn this day into "movie time." We watched KPop Demon Hunters. I posted my thoughts about it on letterboxd but I'll add them here.

( 👹 Thoughts on KPop Demon Hunters 👹 )
6. Then I finished the day with a 4 hour phone talk with my mom. I hadn't talked to her in over 2 weeks, and she was too sick to answer my calls this past week so we had much to catch up on. I've missed her dearly so I'm glad we chatted. I'm happy that she's trying to take better care of her health. We both have the type of ADHD that we kind of leave things be for too long. Hearing her want to try to do better is motivating though. I was already trying to eat a bit better, so I'm more inspired to do so. We have to mind our sugar and kidneys.

Omg, I wanted to be done with this in 20 minutes but the yappin' just don't stopppp (and HTML learning curves... hmph mad kaomoji

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Okokok good night!! After I get some rest, I want catch up with Sunshine Revival and some very sweet comments I've been spotting from my e-mail! :^) I love it here in dreamwidth btw. People are so nice and attentive.

xoxo!

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Infected Mushroom - Artillery

ysabetwordsmith

They Say Growing Fruit Trees From Seed is a "Bad Idea." They're Wrong! Here's why.

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ysabetwordsmith

We crossed 25 watermelon varieties and got this!

These are landrace watermelons grown in a food forest permaculture. David the Good is one of the few people other than myself who seems to grow what I would consider laissez-faire permaculture, which turns the yard into a messy but productive jungle. :D

Remember that when you're growing landraces or even open-pollinated crops that you save, your plants will adapt to what you do. If you don't want to weed or water, then select for plants that can beat the competition. I throw garlic chives and other alliums all over the place. Comfrey can take care of itself. The vegetables are still in pots to minimize weeds, but I'm hoping to get a sunflower landrace going eventually because I am having crap luck with commercial ones. I get a few that bloom but not many. I'm getting a few volunteers, though, so I'm encouraging that.

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ysabetwordsmith

The Deadly Cascade Volcanoes Are Waking Up! Is A Mega Eruption Coming?

The Cascade Range, stretching from Northern California to British Columbia, is home to some of the most dangerous volcanoes in North America. Towering over cities like Seattle and Portland, these volcanoes sit silently now—but silence, in geology, is never a guarantee of safety. In 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with the force of hundreds of atomic bombs, flattening forests, choking skies, and shocking a nation. That was just one volcano. There are over a dozen more. And recently, subtle signs—swarms of earthquakes, shifting ground, whispers of gas from hidden vents—have begun to stir beneath their surface. Could this be a sign of what is to come? Are the Cascade volcanoes waking up? Let’s find out!

Well, that's alarming -- especially in context of the Cascadian Subduction Zone with its ability to cause earthquakes and tsunamis.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today's theme is Homestuck.

100quadrantedships -- Because We Don't Have Enough Of Quadrants
Quadrants, homestuck, shipping.
[Somewhat active with last post in May.]

addme_fandom -- addme fandom
Find friends who share your fannish obsessions.
[Active with one post in July.]

unconventionalcourtship -- Unconventional Courtship
Brooding Strangers! Secret Pregnancies! Enigmatic Rakes! All those tropes (or conventions, if you will) you love to hate (until you discover their secret, tragic backstory and fall head over heels for them) are here, ready to be used for humour and awesomeness in a new fic about your favourite star-crossed lovers. 'Unconventional Courtship' is a panfandom challenge that aims to produce fics longer than 1,000 words based on a Mills & Boon/Harlequin novel summary.
[Active with multiple posts in July.]

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haunted_cherries

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ysabetwordsmith

Sunshine Challenge 5: Carnival Barker

Journaling prompt: Be a carnival barker for your favorite movie, book, or show (or any other of your choice - game, comic, anything else)! Write a post that showcases the best your chosen title has to offer and entices passersby to check it out.

Creative prompt: Write a fic or original story about a character reluctantly doing something they are hesitant about.

Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

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ysabetwordsmith

Folks have mentioned an interest in questions and conversations that make them think. So I've decided to offer more of those. This batch features hobbies.

Makeup art is a hobby that spans branches such as facepainting, bodypainting, cosplay, special effects, theatrical makeup, drag, kink, otherkin, gyaru, boudoir, glamour, and more. It all depends on what you want to make up yourself or a playmate as.

On Dreamwidth, consider communities like

daily_gyaru,

edgoreyanfashion,

justcreate,

sw_costumes, and

thefreaksclub.

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dialecticdreamer

Targeting the Wrong Person
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1470
[Saturday, 5 August, 2017, 7 a.m.]

:: Alphonse Durante is a lot of things, but his favorite is that he is a relentless reporter of facts. Part of the Unfair Trades arc in Mercedes, within the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::

Targeting the Wrong Person
by Alfonso Durante

Yesterday evening, a Surrey driver was targeted by persons unknown, but with very clear intent. Their temporary housing for quake refugees was vandalized so severely that the city inspectors expressed concern that the units in the same row would also need to be evacuated until the damage is repaired. A few questions led to more information about the words scrawled on the walls, which tied to the Surrey which had been stolen in the same incident.
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ysabetwordsmith

The Thunder of Bison Finally Returns to the Osage Prairie

60 million American bison, commonly known as buffalo, once thundered across the prairies of North America — until 1889, when they were almost driven to extinction.

These mighty giants terraformed the land, diversified prairie ecosystems, and sustained many native tribes across the continent. Now, tribes and conservationists join forces to bring the species back from the brink, finally returning the American bison to their native grasslands.

The Osage Nation in Oklahoma, with help from allies at the Nature Conservancy and the Bronx Zoo, are reviving their cultural and spiritual connection to buffalo by rebuilding a herd that once shared their land. By reigniting traditional land management practices like prescribed fire, the Osage support the herd as it continues to grow, which in turn, restores natural balance that helps the entire prairie ecosystem thrive.

As a keystone species, buffalo restore prairie habitat to health. They also help restore the tribal nations who depended upon them.

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ysabetwordsmith

Cognitive collapse and the nuclear codes: When leaders lose control

A shocking study reveals that many leaders of nuclear-armed nations—including US presidents and Israeli prime ministers—were afflicted by serious health problems while in office, sometimes with their conditions hidden from the public. From dementia and depression to addiction and chronic diseases, these impairments may have affected their decision-making during pivotal global crises.

Hardly a surprise. Sanity isn't often a requirement of leadership. Venereal transmission only requires falling out of the right vagina; election only requires being popular.

Have you ever wondered how you'd handle the gold-madness of Thror? Consider that in this context. And then compare the effects of a dragon to those of a bomb.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

These dogs are trained to sniff out an invasive insect—and they're shockingly good at it

Virginia Tech researchers discovered that everyday dogs can be trained to effectively sniff out destructive agricultural pests.

Dogs trained by everyday pet owners are proving to be surprisingly powerful allies in the fight against the invasive spotted lanternfly. In a groundbreaking study, citizen scientists taught their dogs to sniff out the pests’ hard-to-spot egg masses with impressive accuracy. The initiative not only taps into the huge community of recreational scent-detection dog enthusiasts, but also opens a promising new front in protecting agriculture. And it doesn’t stop there—these canine teams are now sniffing out vineyard diseases too, hinting at a whole new future of four-legged fieldwork.

If you feel helpless against environmental threats, here's one thing you can do about it, if you're a dog lover. Dogs excel at finding things -- pretty much anything with a scent can be made interesting to a dog if you attach a reward to it.

Also, when it comes to invasive species? Never underestimate humanity's ability to destroy things.

Current Mood: busy

johncomic

The heat wave finally broke! It's been weeks!

Current Mood: cooler
Current Music: Nick Hempton/Cory Weeds - Horns Locked

ysabetwordsmith

Today is mostly sunny, humid, and hot. It rained copiously yesterday.

The internet serviceman came out today and installed some new equipment, which will hopefully fix the problems we've been having. We went outside to look at that. The antenna is now atop the bathroom roof, much higher and pointing south instead of east, so we have a better signal already.

My partner Doug had already started bushwhacking a path to the east edge of the yard, where the old antenna pointed. We still want to finish that for the sake of edge access. It didn't get mowed last year. We expected it to be full of weeds. We did not expect it to be full of 10-12' high hackberry and walnut saplings that obviously show multiple years of growth. :/ I strongly suspect that they waded into that position. I told them very firmly to move it or lose it, because we are serious about restoring that path.

I have not yet fed the birds. I have seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a mourning dove at the feeders. A cardinal was trying to get through the living room window, so I had to shut my office door to block the false flyway between the south living room window and the north office window.

I fed the birds.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 7/17/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 7/17/25 -- I planted 2 wild senna, one under the contorta willow and one under the apricot tree. The ones in the wildflower garden are blooming. :D I sowed seeds of apricot, white peach, and cherry plum. The latter look like beach plums to me -- they're smaller than apricots -- and we got a whole carton of them. It will be interesting to see if they sprout.

I've been hearing thunder.

EDIT 7/17/25 -- I took some pictures around the yard.

EDIT 7/17/25 -- I refilled the birdfeeders.

EDIT 7/17/25 -- I potted up 3 apples fallen from the birdgift tree.

I've heard a red-winged blackbird and a house wren, but didn't see them.

Cicadas are singing. Fireflies are coming out.

EDIT 7/17/25 -- It's raining, so I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Since some people persist in denying the existence of the Anthropocene, I've been keeping an eye out for hard evidence, especially geologic evidence.

A Mysterious New Rock Is Forming on Earth

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ride_4ever

Five years ago today Representative John Lewis -- an icon of civil rights -- died, but his message lives on and we declare it today all across America with this Good Trouble Lives On National Day of Action. As Representative John Lewis said: "Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America".

Click here to find today's event details including a map that shows where a "Good Trouble" event is taking place near you today.

Current Mood: trouble-maker
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

kat_lair

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Whoop! In London with pushkin666 and dreamersdare, getting ready for Stray Kids tomorrow!

For now, however, TXT serving moods with their concept clips. Like...

70s softcore soulmate-names-written-on-skin OT5 mood

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Aesthetically bloodied dystopian angst mood

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Woke up ready for the intergalactic technowar mood

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Starship troopers with big guns mood

Watch on YouTube

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