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Spent time this morning doing something I didn't want to do and constantly asking myself why I was doing it.

It's a trauma response, Jack, and you've been heavily dissociating.

Also perimenopause is fucking horrible. Our PMS flipped right into PMDD about a year ago, and those are some uncomfortable emotions we get to deal with. Good thing we have plenty of practice?

objectively silly use case but cute

Nov. 19th, 2025 09:45 pm
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Not sentient enough to suss out ESP-IDF on three hours of sleep, but M5stack Cardputer v.1.1 (ESP32-S3) running VoidNoi's BadCard (via m5burner) to the rescue!

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Nov. 19th, 2025 10:03 am
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From bsky:

11/15/2025
it really upsets me that children play with toys less. in the last 5 years i've seen literal babies holding phones instead of a doll or rattle. how will their motor or thinking skills develop if they just Hold Phones and Look At Screens instead of imaginative playing with toys and playsets
most modern toys are gambling blind boxes. and fyi i've worked exclusively retail and some modern brands are ok but sit on shelves until they're discounted. why? some of them aren't even bad. well, i guess they're expensive lol.

11/19/2025
i told my mom and she said one of her coworkers has her daughter read books instead. and people will comment on a child (under 10) reading books in public like it's novel and she's quirky for this. clown world
i really don't buy any excuse for this. "the cost of living is higher and raising kids is hard" a toy or book is cheaper than a smartphone. i get a new phone every 5+ years. a $5-20 action figure or doll or plush toy is cheaper than a $100-200 smartphone
also. speaking of things parents should not give their children

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-stuffed-animal-pulled-after-disturbing-interactions

Wednesday Reading Meme

Nov. 19th, 2025 10:05 am
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1. What have you recently finished reading?
The City & The City by China Miéville, recommended by [personal profile] cruisedirector. An interesting and twisty read, that I felt ultimately fell short because it was trying to do much.

2. What are you currently reading?
  • Empire of Grass by Tad Williams. Still reading

  • A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. A hardback from the library that is in high demand so I'm not allowed to renew it. I'm struggling with this, and I've been tempted to DNF it several times, but I'm soldiering on.


3. What will you be reading next?​
I'm going to finish the Lily Adler mysteries.
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I won't claim this is good weaving (it is not). The handspun is janky, the selvedges and tension are janky, but baby's first WIP on a floor loom was bound to be janky. Other than the unhinged levels of fog this morning, this is very enjoyable. I'm not weaving for production or efficiency at this point, just the joy of working with my hands and learning something new to me.

short reviews for short films

Nov. 18th, 2025 09:54 pm
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watched a couple this week, so here are some short reviews :3. mostly spoiler free and in case ur curious all of these films are free on yt :3

the following review will contain mentions of abuse and violence
my little goat (2018): quite a famous short film, but truly deserves its fame. the plot is surprisingly well built for such a short runtime, and i think thats largely due to its wonderful use of visual parallelisms, which subtly hint towards the story of characters we dont know much about yet, but still takes its time to build up their individual conflicts…which is seriously impressive. it has a very lovely stop motion animation, which balances the cutesy designs of its characters (smth logical as the main characters are children) with the very horrifying Horrors that happen, and the lighting…ohhh…lovely ambience. More on the topic of parallelisms, the similarities with both of the protagonists situations are very similar (as both have suffered abuse) but have WILDLY different contexts, SPECIALLY taking into account that in a interview (full disclaimer: i read this from a japanese page that was translated of the short which included what the autor has said about it…but i cant find the link yet, so take this with a grain of salt and in case this rings a bell and you happen to have the link that reminds u of this, link it and correct it if necessary), which was meant to contrast two different types of parenting and how they affect children, which only makes this more interesting imo. overall recommend A LOT :D, jst content warnings for child sexual abuse, violence, trauma, mild gore.

the following review will contain mentions of violence and gore
DA MOTHERFUCKING CHAINSAW MAAIIIID (chainsaw maid): la piba motosierra es real xd. the short has a fairly simple story, nothing too deep on that regard but efficient for the type of story it seeks to tell, which is VIOLENCEEEE :D. unlike the previous short, who also uses stop motion, the animation here isnt nearly as complex and is mostly based on modeling clay figures alongside bright sets, but still manages to have a charactheristic visual style, and ngl the clay makes the figures/GORE AND BLOOOOD look very good and meaty. again, the plot ain’t very complex, is jst a zombie invation and uhhh there’s a maid who fucking kills them with…guess what…a chainsaw :D. nice if u need to watch smth short

also been watching videos of nana825763, and yeah he’s very good :3. the “walk through of my house” one, while somewhat monotonous, had a VERY creepy climax. also i love how this dude does blood; both in this video, pokopokopikotan, the username 666 one and the pokopoko shopping one the blood looks lovely (in a “it does look meaty AND it looks like is genuinely rotting :D) and is done on very original ways (who would’ve thought to use wet tissues to show decay :D??) i would like to check more of his work, as he’s very talented and insanely dedicated (content warnings: all of the videos ive mentioned have gore and blood, SPECIALLY pokopoko shopping; username666 has disturbing abstract content, the house one has rotting spaces and blood, pokopokopikotan is basically a sexual abuse allegory…and yeah thats it lol)
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Voted first place by the FWF participants for best use of prompt.


My FWF First Place Winner - Category: "Best Use of Prompt" - Shocktober Edition

Title: Things Counter, Original, Spare, Strange
Fandoms: due South, Wristcutters
Rating: Mature
Category: Gen, M/M
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Characters: Robert "Bob" Fraser, Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski, mention of Uncle Tiberius Fraser, mention of Diefenbaker (the half-wolf, not the former Canadian Prime Minister), mention of Nanuk (from Wristcutters), mention of Raife Kneller (from Wristcutters)
Word count: 400 (quadruple drabble)

Summary: Sergeant Robert Fraser -- dead Robert Fraser -- knows first-hand that All Hallow’s Eve is when The Veil between the living and the dead is at its most thin...but he doesn't know anything about Halloween-themed sex toys until Ray Kowalski has something to say about it.

Author's Notes: Written for the recurring Firewhiskey Fic Challenge, a 48-hour period during which fanworks creators drink "adult beverages" or "do the 420" and create their fanworks "under the influence" with no editing allowed. Participants then view all the fanworks and vote on them in the categories of Most Coherent Entry, Least Coherent Entry, Funniest Entry, Favorite Entry, Best Use of Prompt, and Best Smut.

Fic on AO3.

lol

Nov. 18th, 2025 07:25 am
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Seeing my old art yesterday kind of killed my mood... But my time management has been too bad to focus on drawing, and I'm going out again on Thursday (probably).

Also Cloudflare going offline killed nearly every website I use.

iPhone saga, #2

Nov. 18th, 2025 09:28 pm
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Since I last posted, my new phone sat there accusingly while I tried to ignore it. Then a friend said they'd have no idea and would need to take it to a shop to get it done, and I remembered I could get tech support!

Today a guy from GeeksOnWheels came by and struggled to get my wifi sorted so Apple would stop putting up warnings about "weak security". It took him four hours, and across much of that time I had no wifi to one or more of my devices (I'd planned ahead and downloaded fanfic). Eventually he decided my router was faulty, so I bought a new one from him and then it was resolved quickly (not a rip-off, he was very genuine). The call-out & router cost me almost as much as the new phone but it's done now and the phone (and my other devices) are working. Painless transfer of my data and apps, too. I'll need to update my iPad as well at some later point, but that should be manageable now the tricky stuff is sorted. So much for "user friendly" technology!

Got myself a Thai curry and gadogado via DoorDash as consolation for an angsty day, and now for an audiobook and arting session. Onwards!

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