rawbonedhound

I reread all the Wayward Children books leading up to this new one and then read this one.
... I think my main feeling is I recommend you not do that.
it's kind of like reading a lot of sonnets in a row, when everything goes a bit dedum dedum and the imagery has so much in common it goes from feeling like rhyme makes it stronger to feeling like it repeats itself.

I remember each individual story being strong and leading up to cathartic moments, but I whooshed througb them this time and they rhyme a lot.

I'm pretty sure this was a good strong story
but also that if I'd had a sleep after I read the previous one and enough sleep before I started reading this I would appreciate it more.

though I did try to sleep after I got back from my nice walk
and the fire alarm test happened
and someone played Lets Get Rocked as loud as the song wants but considerably louder than the neighbours do.

I think I like what the story did with each character, it progresses them by steps, but I was surprised that some of them still needed a next step.

I shall read this again later and give it more space to be itself.

bluapapilio

Youtuber: Chinese with Jessie - She does the best skits about Chinese and American culture.

[Fanfic] [Dragon Age | Cullrian]] Darkness Peering - AU where Cullen gets sent to the worst place possible, Tevinter, after Kinloch Hold and meets Dorian, who is struggling with the fact that he's a Dreamer. I love the fresh ideas in this and the pacing was just right.

A Reader’s Guide to the Omegaverse - Most people in fandom already know what they need to but this article does link to books I didn't know about in the genre.

A Guide to DYNAMIC CHORD: The Rise and Fall (and its Resurgence) - One I was always curious about and know I know. I didn't realize it was linked to otome games for one. It has the same art as A3!

The Evolution of “Boys’ Love” Culture: Can BL Spark Social Change? (Drama)

2015-2019: A Fandom Culture Metamorphosis

aflaminghalo

Just took my sister and nephew home (she didn't have her car bc mum took her to the walk-in centre because she brained herself on the guinea pig hutch this morning) and my nephew wanted me to go see the piggies.

And we found one doing an escape act from my sisters "inescapable" hutch/run complex, and one who has completely escaped the hutch and will be caught no more (no foul play suspected).

So then I had to try and find somewhere the shovel didn't hit bricks six inches down, and when that failed, lay yoshi in state in a shoebox and leave him for my dad to go around tomorrow and sort it out.

rynling

Last week, a few of my students told me that my Japanese fiction class has inspired them to visit Tokyo this May, and they asked for recommendations. I’m the sort of boring nerd who loves bookstores and bases my travels on a foundation of finding nice cafés to sit down and chill out, but I did my best to make a list of places that might be fun for people in their early 20s. This was a labor of love, so I thought I’d share it here too.

So here are some of my favorite spots in Tokyo:

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And now for some daytrips:

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squirmelia

I watch the ripples in the river from Blackfriars Station, and the sun is shining, but looking at the foreshore - the heaps of pebbles and bits of wood sticking out and the rocky patches, I feel incredibly sad.

I had a good year, finding treasure, all of it treasure, on the Thames foreshore. In reality I found pottery sherds and bits of glass and all kinds of discarded things, but it seemed like they were the most amazing things I'd ever seen, as they were from the river.

I learnt so much, about everything from Bovril jars to uranium glass to vulcanite bottle stoppers to milk trains to hat polish to aerated bread to bearded men to bullets to knucklebones to eels to fossils to ink. I also learnt a lot more about Londoners of the past, about what people drank (ginger beer and R White’s) and ate (marmalade) and smoked (clay pipes). But also about cafes and pubs that once existed and shops and societies, and also who made the items I found, the factories and the kilns and the bottle makers, and the streets that are no longer there. I saw a different side of London, a side of London directly entwined with the past.

I walked along the foreshore in many different parts of London, from Kew to Putney to Chelsea to Battersea to Vauxhall to the Southbank to Wapping to Rotherhithe to Limehouse to Greenwich to Surrey Quays to the Isle of Dogs, and at different times of day, at sunrise and sunset, early in the morning, sometimes even at night when it was dark and I'd take a torch. I saw London from a different angle, watching commuters walk by above me, oblivious. I hadn't explored the foreshore much before and walking along there, across the pebbles, the sand, the mud, with the river beside me was a delight.

Mudlarking became such an important part of my life. I consulted tide times and organised things around them, I carried wellies around with me and rubber gloves.

Mudlarking gave me a reason to want to get back to London when I'd been away and made London feel like it was my home and the place I really wanted to be.

I am sad that now my permit has expired I can’t go mudlarking anymore. The river and the foreshore will still be there for me though, and London, of course, will still be there, and I learnt to love it even more through mudlarking. In a few years, perhaps I'll get another chance.

squirmelia

Low tide was conveniently just after work so for my last mudlark, I headed to Ernie’s Beach and walked along to the spot outside the National Theatre and to Waterloo Bridge. I've found so much here.

There was one other mudlark there and they said hello to me as I walked past, feeling grumpy. The tide was quite high for a low tide again and I just picked up anything really, sad and desperate, as it was my last time.

A last piece of Willow and a last piece of ABC and a last piece of Express Dairies Aster pattern.

There is a sherd that looks like it could have said Rutland. But what else did it say? Rutland Arms Hotel, J&B G.., London?

The sherd with Burslem on it is from Newport Potteries who were in operation from 1920.

The brown piece is likely to be from a stoneware R White’s bottle.

There's a mysterious number on one piece.

I also found a broken button.

My favourite find on this day was the glass bottle stopper.

(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)

bluapapilio

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rowdyflowergirl

April 19th 2026

Dude I’ve felt sick as hell all day I don’t know wtf is happening. This better go away before I go to school tomorrow because this is bullshit

I’m gonna take a nap I think

Song of the Day: Todd Rundgren - Zen Archer

I NEED TO LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM AGAIN IT’S SO DAMN GOOD

24 days until Good Omens 3

Current Mood: crappy

wispywillow

TMNT Adventures

Midnight Sun (pt. 3)

March 1992

April 19, 2026

mindstalk

Falling behind on daily updates, oh well. Quick check-in:

I don't particularly like Sapporo as a city; it feels like the USA and USSR had an ugly baby. Wide streets, lots of parking lots, lots of blocky high buildings, not enough businesses and street life for the inferred density (possibly incorrect: high building + parking lot = not that dense.)

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dustbunny105

I think this is the worst day I've had in a while in terms of doing things I want to do. It started with getting online to check email and look up a couple of things. Then it felt like I blinked and I'd wasted the entire day. Which, I mean, I guess it technically started last night when I didn't log off and go to bed when I meant to, which led to sleeping in. I didn't sleep in that long, though...

Tbf, I was able to make myself get some stuff done. Just I did a couple of things I'd been putting off and it was like that took all of my productive energy. I didn't feel depressed or anything either, just distracted for no reason. Idk.

Gonna try to get to bed early, see if I can wake up in enough time to do at least a little. It's kinda funny because early rising has never felt as natural to me but I've noticed that when I do manage an earlier start on the right foot, I tend to get more easily into the groove. Something to do with energy levels at different points, maybe.

no_apologies

I'm going to go ahead and get out what has frustrated and pissed me off so much yesterday. What really got me in a mood.

I'm still disappointed at the friend who's been a selfish and stupid bratty fair-weather person towards my mom and me. According to her "logic" it's WRONG to be concerned about not having our things stolen by her incompetent and dishonest man child of a son, and for our good rep from the current landlord to be reduced to shit!

Also, my cautious hope of ever visiting Pumpkin, Sam, or Xena--it feels like that got fucking squashed. All my hopes of seeing them and playing their songs, they keep getting diminished, no matter how cautious I get! I've been hating that so much, and it's out of THIS frustration that leads to this next song...

(Mood: So frustrated, hurt, and immensely angry. Gotta get LOUD, angry as fuck, and make noise. Genre: Screamo and Cyber Heavy Metal hybrid)

( Explicit lyrics incoming... )

https://suno.com/s/q1V7CI7QbXnWCuuO I feel lighter and I am so glad with how heavy and emotional this sounds. Oliver and Naoki, thank you for lending your amazing angry gritty voices and visceral screams alongside my self-insert's. <3

shadowkat

April Question a Day Memage:

18. How often do you listen to the radio? If you do, what kind of things do you listen to (talk/pop/classical)?

I don't really listen to the radio? But if I do - it's usually music, and a mix. I have an Apple Music account - so I just download music, and its unlimited.

19. In 1934, Shirley Temple starred in her first film. Have you ever seen any of her films?

Yes. In law school during the 1990s, I had a friend who adored Shirley Temple films - so we binge watched a few of them. (I'm not a fan - Temple annoyed me. So, I suffered through them? Also saw a lot of them in the 1970s during the afternoon movie. I've suffered through Shirley Temple, Godzilla, Elvis, Frankie and Annette Beach Party, Sandra Dee, and Kurt Russell films in the 70s. The best were the Kurt Russell films. )

We didn't have cable or streaming back then - so the pickings were kind of slim?

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Started watching From on Prime, although it's an MGM + series. It's rather good. Surprisingly so. I don't find it scary so much as...suspenseful with an air of dread? Also kind of gory, but not overly violent. It's a common enough horror trope - made rather popular in the 1950s and 60s, actually (Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits loved this trope) - in which a group of people find themselves stuck in a town or specific local, there's no way out, and monsters hunt them at night. All they have to depend on is each other - which being human beings whose default is selfish entitled stupid asshole syndrome, isn't necessarily helpful? In these series, it's really the human beings that cause all the problems. Actually that's true in most horror tales. Let's face it - the worst monster is well, us.

The setup is written rather well - or the trap. I enjoyed the first episode, and the tension didn't let up and delivered. It has some nice jump scares. Stars Harold Perrineau of LOST, except with a much bigger role - he's the lead. (Note LOST is part of this particular horror trope - and among the better entries. Where folks are stuck somewhere and keep trying to escape, yet keep finding themselves back there.)

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Online kerfuffles

People will fight about anything online.

I joined a Gluten Free for Beginner's Site on FB, and they keep breaking out into fights on that site.
It's painful.
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Also, there are still, STILL, idiotic judgemental holier than thou kerfuffles over Spike/Buffy and the attempted sexual assault in Seeing Red. That episode happened over 25 years ago? Seriously, people. Get a grip.

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And, sigh, political kerfuffles over literally everything you can think of.

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I've been battling a sinus headache verging on a migraine, with vertigo lurking in the background all day long. It's made me irritable. I blame it on the weather, allergies, and neck issues. It's also made it hard to do any exercises. I just want to sit very still and pray it goes away.

It appears to be dissipating now, along with the storm clouds.

evilkat_meow

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rowdyflowergirl

April 18th 2026

I feel like a genius but this homework is kicking my ass

RAAAHHHH I NEED TO LISTEN TO EVERY ALBUM EVER MADE EVER

Song of the Day: Cream - Sunshine of Your Love

“This song is such a banger I wish Eric Clapton wasn't a piece of shit”

25 days until Good Omens 3

Current Mood: determined

rowdyflowergirl

April 17th 2026

I’m so friggin tired and I don’t even know why

I made myself in Zepeto again!!!

I think I’m pretty cute ^w^

Pictured

Left - 2000s nu-metal pose Nora

Top right - Me when I’m crushing again #CauseEverydayIBuildOnPreciousHerAndI

Bottom right - Nora can’t ball for shit but she’s confident

Top Left - “I’m the princess of green!”

Top Right - “How did you know I like girls?”

Bottom Left - How I look at my crush

Bottom Center - How I look trying to be “sexy”

Bottom Right - “I’m the queen of Team Plasma.”

I’m probably not gonna use this app much, I just thought it would be cute and silly.

Apparently some of the backgrounds on this app are AI, which I’m not a fan of. I tried to avoid using the AI backgrounds and most of the ones I used are just solid colors!

Song of the Day: The Magnetic Fields - Fido, Your Leash is Too Long.

I still need to listen to this album at some point.

26 days until Good Omens 3

Current Mood: loved

delphi

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discohospital

Watch on YouTube

rowdyflowergirl

April 16th 2026

Tomodachi Life is out! I sadly don’t have the game yet… but it looks so fun I’m happy for everyone who has it. I’m lowkey gonna start planning out my 70 Miis when I have the time. Definitely gotta get some of my OCs in there. My sona too of course, maybe both sonas if I have space.

Maybe I’ll do it like I did on the 3DS and just put characters from everything I like in there… Damnnn 70 might not be enough then!!!

We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it, hm?

Song of the Day: Maroon 5 - Harder to Breathe

Their first album was so good then they decided to never release a good album again

27 days until Good Omens 3!

Current Mood: excited

rowdyflowergirl

April 15th 2026

MY 17776 PRESENTATION WENT GREAT!!! I THINK I CONVINCED THREE OF MY CLASSMATES TO READ IT AND ONE OF THEM WAS ACTUALLY A FAN.

The only problem is I was incredibly visibly nervous and that affected my actual presentation a bit, but the contents were good and a lot of them liked the powerpoint and said it was cool how I put in quotes and made it in the style of the way the story is told (color coded text)

I feel good… now to work on the essay and my Spanish homework!

Song of the Day: Oingo Boingo - Gratitude

I forgot how crazy this album goes actually oops

Tomodachi Life tomorrow

Media Log 2026 - April 15th:

45. Danny Elfman - So-Lo

1984 Album, Rating: Good

Current Mood: accomplished

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I think I did well on my civil service test

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I'm kinda cute in Zepeto?

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