white_lotus | Member Posts

Blurgh I think I am coming down with something - my throat is incredibly scratchy and every third breath I need to cough loudly and horribly. It kept me from sleeping very well last night so tonight i think it's going to be Nyquil or bust. Bah.

I keep intending to share these links and forgetting, but at least I can do it while it's still Mika March:

= Mika Zibanejad and the lasting moments of a 1,000-game NHL journey
= A Forgettable Night, A Memorable Career: Mika Zibanejad’s Top Moments

since he's my favorite player now that Kreider is gone. Well, him and Shesterkin. Even though I gave up on this season fairly early (not earlier than JT Miller though!).

*

Current Mood: sick
Current Music: Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

kaberett

Reading. Preeeeetty much just progressing further through the She's A Beast archives, and continuing to develop opinions. I... think that's it? I think that's it; it has been A Busy Week.

Writing. Words Go Up: over 9.5k. Two more subsections titled. I continue to chew things over.

Listening. More Hidden Almanac. Technically up to May 2015, but I'm going to be going back over most of 2015 on account of Tragically, Some Dozing. (It is Car Noise, you see, and we have been. Travelling.)

Eating. A lot of food made for me by a variety of other people, notably including dosa + thali by Chai Station Chester, hot chocolate from [Knoops] in Chester, bread/cake/cookies/waffles by the Jaunty Goat and petits fours by Biscotti di Debora. Petits fours AMAZING; further thoughts possibly to follow.

Exploring. Southport Botanic Gardens, which struck me as much more of a park and rather less of a botanical garden than I'd quite expected based on the name, though perhaps this is because the fernery was closed by the time we got to it; very much enjoyed THE AVIARY.

Minimal exploration of Chester Zoo, once again culminating in staying in the bat cave until kicking out time.

Little bit of poking around Salisbury, feat. excellent tulips, excellent irises, FREE BLUE AGAPANTHUS that someone had divided, excellent bee doorknocker.

And then finally we made it HOME.

Making & mending. Progressed A's second glove some more! Stalled when I got to starting increases for the thumb gusset on account of my additional stitch markers were in the roof box and ... no.

Growing. Kept the lemongrass alive through The Travels. Acquired, as mentioned, a chunk of agapanthus. Unshockingly, the aubergine I sowed immediately before leaving has not sprouted, but hey, I'll turn the propagator back on. Nothing else seems to have died while I was away, hurrah.

Observing. MOON. The Dog. Creatures, including A having an excellent time Experiencing Bats (and also Flamingoes With Wings, A Rhinoceros, some grey-crowned cranes, and Monkeys).

sanguinity

Back in 2016, I had just published what I believed would be my magnum opus, that massively multi-Holmes vid, Something Good Would Come From That. From the depths of my emotional crash afterwards, I strongly suspected I would never make anything else good again. To console myself, I wrote an id-fic for

language_escapes' birthday: kid fic for an obscure Holmes and Watson adaptation. It was just for the two of us; no one else would ever care.

To my everlasting shock, it proved wildly popular.

During the next year or two, I noodled with other stories in the same 'verse, even writing a good 4-5K on one of them, but alas, I drifted out of Holmes fandom before finishing any of them.

But now I seem to be drifting Holmes-ward again? Or anyway, I've been pulling out old Holmesian WIPs and finishing them off.

Which is the long way of saying: here, have a sequel to Baker Street Papas!

Five Times They Didn’t Share A Bed, and One Time They Did

Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson (1980 Whitehead & Pickering)

Holmes/Watson, Mycroft

5+1 Things, Developing Relationship, Injury Recovery, Kid Fic, Only One Bed

Part 2 of Baker Street Papas

Mature; No Warnings Apply

To kiss a man in the heat of the moment is one thing. To cold-bloodedly change the entire basis of your relationship is another.

Holmes' wound festers. Watson blames himself.

Around 9K total, and I'll be posting updates daily through the end of the week. Only a short update today, but I figure at least some may want to re-read the original, so that's all right.

I hope you enjoy!

malurette

dernière semaine de "cours" avant mon second stage
j'ai séché lundi matin sans vergogne
qu'est-ce qu'on a fait l'après-midi? je ne me souviens même pas
mercredi et jeudi on a terminé notre installation, vérifié notre programmation et commencé à résoudre quelques exercices de panne

j'ai fait un scoubidou de plus, tenté de tricoter du câble électrique - sans succès - et finalement fait une tentative de crochet (sans crochet avec juste mes doigts)
qu'est-ce qu'on ~~se marre~~ se fait chier dans cette formation j'vous jure

( Read more... )

j'ai fini ma carte pour

ladiesbingo
yay~

et je suis en train de compiler tellement de personnages féminins pour

tournoi-des-femmes-de-vos-vies ♥

Too French Didn't Read;
getting bored at school
getting ready for second work placement
stuff is happening in my city
and on tumblr too

dolorosa_12

It's been another homebody weekend, which I don't regret in the slightest. I did go out on Friday night to an event at the tiny local museum, which was a launch of sorts for its latest temporary exhibition. The museum is so small that the temporary exhibitions are housed in a single room about the size of my kitchen; this one was about the history of beer-making, and so the launch event involved talks and tasters from a trio of local breweries. We followed this up with a drink in our favourite cafe/bar, which was heaving with customers — always a good sign on a Friday night.

Other than that, it's been spring cleaning — I cleaned all the external windows and windowsills, including clambering onto the kitchen roof in order to get at our upper floor bedroom windows — classes and swimming at the gym, and batch-cooking. Matthias and I also spent half an hour or so this morning planting wildflower seeds in the front and back garden raised beds, plus beetroot seeds in the vegetable beds. The other seeds that I started off in the growhouse — chives, cucumbers, rocket, salad greens, and spring onions — are coming along nicely, even though it's been cold.

Other good things: Pretty Lethal, the ridiculous black comedy/luridly violent action thriller involving a troupe of American ballet dancers stranded in a Hungarian forest en route to a competition in Budapest, and swept up into a deadly showdown between two rival gangs of goons who want to kill them, one of which is headed up by bitter ex-ballet dancer Uma Thurman (sporting an indeterminate Eastern European accent). The soundtrack is all scores from famous ballets, and all the action scenes involve a sort of intersection of martial arts and ballet. It's as silly as it sounds, and made for a great Saturday night film.

I finished up my Earthsea reread over lunch with The Other Wind, which I think I've only ever read once or twice, but which remains achingly beautiful, like a dragon's half-remembered flight across a sunset sky. I think the peak of the series is probably Tehanu, though, which always renders me awestruck. I have read the Earthsea short story collections at some point, but I don't own copies, so those will have to wait if I want the reread to be fully complete. For now, though, I plan to turn to one of the books from my stack of five from the public library, or possibly Amal El-Mohtar's new short story collection, which I'd preordered and was delivered to me last week.

I hope you've all been having similarly cosy weekends.

dustbunny105

I'll still have a wrap-up post to do on Tuesday but this is the last curriculum accountability post of the quarter already... I did not have the strong finish I'd hoped for, alas. Gonna keep this brief and say more during the Tuesday post.

Clarinet: Possibly the biggest fall-off since my trip, definitely the biggest fall-off of the month. The hour-long practices, largely because of my sleep schedule struggles, ended up feeling a lot more like a chore than a hobby and I haven't been consistent with them like I was previously. I even did some experimenting with the timing, either splitting half hours before and after work or waiting until after work altogether. Awful idea, lol, I should've listened to myself. Forty-five minutes really seems to have been the sweet spot. I'm not exactly dreading my little recital for my sister and niblings tomorrow but I'm not excited about it like I was either. I never ended up buying another music book and I didn't remember to print anything off at work Friday and as I may or may not have mentioned, most of the book is beyond my current skill level. I'm going to end up doing a selection from my exercise books, making an honest effort at two of the planned songs from the music book and finish strong with "Never Smile at a Crocodile" because I have that one nailed even if I have nothing else :,) I also didn't take the time to get a music stand, so that's gonna be fun to figure out, haha.

Korean: Okay, this is probably actually the biggest drop-off, lol. I do an amount of Korean practice each day but I never really picked up in force after the disruption of my trip. Something to reflect on, I guess. I'm gonna finish out the first quarter of the program but it's gonna take some cramming. I don't like the idea of doing that but I know my brain and if I don't at least technically finish a ninety-day course in ninety days, I might as well give up on ever moving on to the next levels.

Coding: Probably the one I'm still having the most fun with at this point. I'm not quite where I want to be, mostly because I'm at a point where the structure of the assignments is very tedious, but I know I can get through it within the next few days. I am considering, at this last stage, dropping the "final project" I assigned myself. If you don't remember, that was to publish a website. I still intend to do that, don't get me wrong, but in hindsight, it feels like something I should've been breaking into, like, weekly assignments. Y'know, putting up a site in progress and then fleshing it out each week or something like that. At the very least, I probably should've been doing more prep before now. I just had it categorized in my head as the thing I would do at the end and so I kinda sabotaged myself there. I still could do it, probably, but it would be rushed to an extent that it wouldn't really be a reflection of what I've learned. Besides which, this course ends with a certification exam and that feels like a more fitting way to finish. I know, I know, Actual Real School has final projects and final exams. Doesn't mean the fake school I'm doing for fun has to, though.

Algebra: ... Oh, yeah, I was supposed to be doing math, wasn't I |D Okay, fine, this was the biggest drop-off. I was supposed to switch to a weekday schedule this past week to catch up after my vacation but, uh. Well, frankly, I forgot. So, I'll be cramming for this one, too, at least a little. I've got a lot more confidence here, though, funny as it is to think about. I still need to find a free exam that suits what I learned but I didn't have any trouble finding quizzes or assignments, so I'm fairly confident in that regard too. Y'know, this is making me realize that I never came up with A Plan for what happens if I fail... I'll cross that bridge if I come to it, I guess!

dhampyresa

A book being slow-burn doesn’t mean it has to be slow.

musesfool

I know I owe comment replies and I am going to get to them. The intermittent internet situation this week made me very reluctant as it would drop and I'd lose track of what I was planning to say by the time it came back etc. But! My new modem and router arrived yesterday and early this afternoon, I hooked them up. It worked, though at first I was like, what is happening? Because you do all this waiting for the modem to boot up and activate and then the first thing the router instructions say is "reboot your modem" and I'm like "are you for real? I literally just activated it!" but I did it and plugged everything in and it worked briefly! And then the router started blinking and my phone told me I had no internet and I was like WTF? Because it could 100% be an outside the apartment problem, or it could be a cabling problem because I did not swap out the coaxial cables - why would I do that? They are all nice and tight and the splitter is connected and I have had no issues with my cable box. So I unplugged everything and then plugged it back in and went to the Spectrum website to activate everything and it told me I had nothing ot activate, everything was working! And it has been so far! I will keep the old equipment for a couple of days, just in case, and bring it back to the Spectrum store midweek, probably.

After that adventure, I baked these whipped shortbread cookies (pic). I did not separate into lemon vanilla/orange chocolate. Instead, I used 1 tsp of almond extract in place of the citrus zest, and added chocolate sprinkles once they were piped but before they were refrigerated.

I've mentioned this before, but I am trying to replicate a childhood favorite cookie from an old Italian bakery that closed long before I even moved out of Ozone Park. They were not kept with the fancy butter cookies but with the S-cookies and the biscotti and the anginetti, and they had a much crumblier/drier texture than the typical Italian bakery butter cookies (you know the ones, either dipped in chocolate on one end or sandwiched with apricot or raspberry jam etc.). they were piped round and a slightly darker brown than the butter cookies too. And they were my absolute favorites. I've never found them at another bakery either.

I've tried a few Italian butter cookie recipes but none were quite right (though the one from Dolci was pretty close!), and then last week on thee second or third day of the pecan shortbread, I was like, this is the texture! And almost the taste, but the pecans obviously made the flavor different, though they do have almond extract in them (almond extract is the smell of Italian bakeries to me). So I googled to see if there was a chocolate sprinkle shortbread recipe out there, and found the one I linked above, and they also seemed like they'd be close. So after checking to make sure I wouldn't leave myself out of butter if I made them (I had another pound way in the back of the fridge), I got to baking. I think these also need a little longer in the oven, but we'll see how they taste tomorrow - I think that will be the test. but I think I'm getting close!

*

Current Mood: surprised
Current Music: Mets winning in extra innings over the Pirates!!!

delphi

Fandom 50 #6

Continuing my list of fifty Canadian songs I love from the past fifty years, 1982 is just a good old-fashioned banger.

Your Daddy Don't Know by Toronto

Watch on YouTube

malurette

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

dustbunny105

Idk what's going on tonight but it took forever to get a ride under forty bucks. Completely threw off my plans, as if my brain doesn't sabotage me enough on that front, lol. Ah, well. Some goals weren't totally met but at least I'll be getting to bed soon, so I can get up at a reasonable time in the morning. I've got all sorts of stuff I need to get done and I'm going to be very cross with myself if I don't hit at least a seventy-five-percent finish ratio.

musesfool

I made it through this work week unscathed! I logged off last night at 4:45 and took a 2 hour nap where I slept like a rock, got up, watched The Pitt (more on that below) and went to bed and again slept hard. This weekend could not have come at a better time! ;)

In other news, I am sure you have all see this, but in case you haven't: Himesh Patel joins the Ryan Coogler X-Files Reboot. Danielle Deadwyler was already on board. I am seated and ready! Though it will probably be several years before it premieres (if it doesn't get shitcanned the way the Buffy revival did).

My impression - not based on anything except how it's described in that article - is that this is more of a sequel than a reboot? Like a reopening of the X-Files several years later? But I could be wrong. It could be a straight up reboot. I am curious, though, how it will go, especially after we've had Fringe and, more recently, Evil treading similar ground.

As for The Pitt: ( spoilers )

And now I am just going to hit post while I still have an internet connection. The router has been worse today than ever before. I guess it knows its replacement is sitting five feet away, ready to be installed tomorrow.

*

Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: Stampede - Genesis Owusu

dolorosa_12

It's been a challengingly busy week (if I owe you comments, I will get to them at some point this weekend, sorry), and my brain is a bit rubbish at coming up with a prompt this time around, so I'm going with the following:

What is the most memorable icebreaker question you've been asked, in any context?

tassosss

I've been listening to the audio book, and it's good. It's a classic romance structure and the show is a really faithful adaptation. What I'm really enjoying about it is the inner voice we get to hear from both Shane and Ilya. They are so head over heels for each other but they won't admit it, or look at those feelings because they're so afraid of what that means.

Good stuff.

muladhara

The other day my friend from work, Andrea, texted me and was like, "Wanna hang out and do some art stuff?" Obviously, I was like, "HECK YES!", so we did, and I had a great time!

It wasn't long enough, but times like this never are - even if she'd stayed all day, it wouldn't have been long enough.

She did some linocut designs, and I mostly worked on a cross stitch design that I am embarrassed to say I had not touched since November last year. I thought it had only been waiting since January, but not according to the date on the squared paper ¬_¬

Anyway, I've nearly finished it now. I just need to get it so it all looks good together, and then I can try it out. When I have finished being sidetracked by the maybe five other things I've thought of since then, lol. Some of them are listed below, but my brain is like a percolator right now, and it's great (but also annoying because I can't split myself into multiple parts to do all the things at once).

# Instagram kept recommending me this guy who customises clothes by covering them in running stitches, mostly sewn with sashiko threads and the end results look AMAZING. I think he also makes some of his own clothes as well, and I am obviously WELL INTO THAT AT THE MOMENT. Obviously I started following him, even though every day I get closer and closer to packing IG in. This is him, if you're interested.

tl;dr to that: I've dug out an old pair of black jeans that no longer fit me, as well as a pair of jeans I got from a charity shop. I'm going to practice on both of those with designs and see what happens. The charity shop pair I'd bought to cut up and do something else with but they do, in theory, fit me, so if whatever I do turns out good, then maybe I can actually wear them!

(This is also not a new idea - I wanted to do similar a few years ago with a denim jacket that I've since got rid of, but tattoo designs I wanted but couldn't afford or wouldn't get. Obviously my brain was just waiting for the right moment to actually do it).

# I went to Burnley yesterday, and bought a whole bunch of things I didn't need (and also some I did), which included a needle punching kit, to give it a go and see if I liked it. And I think I do? I have a couple of criticisms with the kit, but given I paid a fiver for it in The Range, I'm not going to moan too much.

I love how textural it comes out using DK weight yarn to make the design with, though. Which figures, given you can make rugs with this technique.

I'm obviously going to have another few goes with things I already own, and see what I can do with the needle I have, rather than putting in another order for stuff I might end up not wanting or using.

# I also bought fabric medium so that I can paint designs directly onto fabric, or print on it with blocks I have, or linocuts I may make myself (because I do actually like printing, I just don't talk about it a whole lot). Also I figured fabric medium was a better way to go, since I already have a bunch of acrylic paints that I can use with it.

~

I don't think I have anything else to say, and I'm actually feeling well enough now to go and do some chores, so I guess I should do that!

Current Music: The Princess - Brandon Boone

malurette

Titre : Idriss petit apprenti
Auteur : Robert Gaillot
Langue : français
Type : roman jeunesse
Genre : drama/social

1ère parution : 2005
Édition : Magnard
Format : poche illustré n&b, 60 pages

(est-ce que j'ai pioché ça dans la bibliothèque partagée de la salle d'escalade, ou acheté à la foire aux livres l'an passé ?)

Idriss, 9 ans, vit dans une banlieue grise seul avec sa mère - son père a dû repartir au bled. Le hasard le met entre les mains du "Brigadier", un vieux bonhomme local, artisan peintre en lettres - c'est à dire qu'il fait à la main des affiches des enseignes des banderoles. Idriss n'a pas l'âge légal mais commence quand même un apprentissage parce que si c'est ça ou le deal...

Oui. Bon. Mais les dessins sont très moches, et excusez-moi le dernier paragraphe est atroce ?
comment ça le gentil capitaine de police attend que la petite sœur soit assez grande pour la demander en mariage ils ont au moins 25 ans de différence !!!
si y'avait moyen d'arracher un bout de texte avant de le larguer dans une boîte à livres...
...ah fuck mais celle de la salle d'escalade semble ne plus exister il me faut un plan B

~~j'ai pas le voabulaire spécifique en anglais pour faire le résumé résumé ce matin~~

dustbunny105

Coming up on the last weekend of the month and I'm having to hold myself back from over-committing to things I want to get done. Writing up a to-do list/schedule is hit or miss for me but I might do it anyway to try to get my priorities in order...

psocoptera

Here's my entire nominating ballot, unless I make any last-minute changes.

( Read more... )

malurette

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

psocoptera

Short stories:

Wire Mother, Isabel J. Kim, Clarkesworld.

Tell Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness, B Pladek, Lightspeed.

The Repairers of Reality, Shaenon K. Garrity, Drabblecast.

10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days, Samantha Mills, Uncanny.

Six People to Revise You, J.R. Dawson, Uncanny.

Novelettes:

The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, Cameron Reed, Reactor.

Phantom View, John Wiswell, Reactor.

The Twenty-One Second God, Peter Watts, Lightspeed.

Barnacle, Kate Elliott, Reactor.

Profile

White Lotus

October 2025

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

Page Summary

Style Credit

Style: Earthy Green for Funky Circles by ninetydegrees
Resources: Good Mood Bug

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags

Page generated Mar. 30th, 2026 03:38 am

White Lotus

a place for all things avatar: the last airbender

Member Posts

just call my name, i'll be there in a hurry

vital functions

[Fic] 2 Baker Street 2 Papas

(no subject)

Further west than west

(no subject)

Short PSA

his talent is unlimited

Post and Jam: Your Daddy Don't Know by Toronto (1982)

[book] Conclave ~Robert Harris

(no subject)

Time to start a riot, where you at

Friday open thread: icebreaker questions

Heated Rivalry the book

you're here to slay her

[livre] Idriss petit apprenti ~Robert Gaillot

(no subject)

my full 2026 Hugo nominations

[film] The Meg

my 2026 Hugo short fiction nominations

Profile

Links

Tags

October 2025

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags