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harpers_child) wrote2025-07-04 05:59 pm
harpers_child) wrote2025-07-04 05:59 pmthe playlists off my ipod by Harper age 42
I need to write down my ipod playlists somewhere and this journal is likely to outlive whatever notebook I write them in. The ipod was last attached to a computer and new music put on in 2014, so it's a little bit of a time capsule.
( bucky and steve )
( misc )
( unpublished fanmixes )
saving here while I go eat.
( bucky and steve )
( misc )
( unpublished fanmixes )
saving here while I go eat.
Punk (runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-04 09:25 am
runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-04 09:25 amEntry tags:
Fancake's Theme for July: Working Together
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fancake's theme for July is Working Together!If you have any questions about this theme, or the comm, come talk to me!
Punk (runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-02 08:27 am
runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-02 08:27 amEntry tags:
The Sun Down Motel, by Simone St. James
One of those thrillers that splits the narrative between two women—both twenty years old, working at the same grubby motel and living in the same apartment, one in 1982 and the other in 2017 trying to solve the mystery of the first one's disappearance—and their stories run so parallel they're basically interchangeable and you start wondering if maybe the author should have only told the story once. It certainly would have cut down on the amount of clunky exposition and awkward dialogue.
The thrills were not thrilling, but the mystery might have been interesting if we weren't getting it from both ends. As it is, not worth the time.
Contains: References to rape, domestic abuse, and child death; descriptions of dead bodies; ghosts.
The thrills were not thrilling, but the mystery might have been interesting if we weren't getting it from both ends. As it is, not worth the time.
Contains: References to rape, domestic abuse, and child death; descriptions of dead bodies; ghosts.
omens (omens) wrote2025-07-02 09:23 am
omens) wrote2025-07-02 09:23 amEntry tags:
media update, now on wednesdays (1 week only!)
A very flux week, with much running around for the last of the garden centres lol. I think we went out every day aside from Canada Day, and Kelly had a five day weekend, so we did not do a lot.
TV/movies: we'd planned to watch Kpop Demon Hunters but didn't even get that done, lol. Also realised I never wrote my review of Tale of the Nine-Tailed, lol. Unsure if I want to dig that all up out of discord (my memory is like, what drama now? that was so long ago (two weeks))
Games: finished Game Dev Tycoon, it was a lot of fun but I didn't think it had a lot of replaybility (for me, idc about my score, i already won), so I deleted it immediately and sure enough, the day after I was like 🤔 and was glad I had deleted :P sims are so bad for both my physical and mental health, but they are so GOOOOD.
Inched a bit further into What Remains of Edith Finch & continue to enjoy it.
Books: the House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune - a sweet story, sweetly weird and sweetly optimistic. I liked it a lot and immediately ordered the sequel.
Writing and other wips: No writing! Not even a glimmer of hope on the horizon, lol. I have gathered supplies to embroider, inspired by thesunshine_revival challenge.
TV/movies: we'd planned to watch Kpop Demon Hunters but didn't even get that done, lol. Also realised I never wrote my review of Tale of the Nine-Tailed, lol. Unsure if I want to dig that all up out of discord (my memory is like, what drama now? that was so long ago (two weeks))
Games: finished Game Dev Tycoon, it was a lot of fun but I didn't think it had a lot of replaybility (for me, idc about my score, i already won), so I deleted it immediately and sure enough, the day after I was like 🤔 and was glad I had deleted :P sims are so bad for both my physical and mental health, but they are so GOOOOD.
Inched a bit further into What Remains of Edith Finch & continue to enjoy it.
Books: the House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune - a sweet story, sweetly weird and sweetly optimistic. I liked it a lot and immediately ordered the sequel.
spoiler
I figured immediately that Arthur was probably magical, but I also figured that Linus definitely was a repressed case, and was wrong about that! Dang. Coulda been fun.Writing and other wips: No writing! Not even a glimmer of hope on the horizon, lol. I have gathered supplies to embroider, inspired by the
sunshine_revival challenge.
trobadora (trobadora) wrote2025-07-01 09:44 pm
trobadora) wrote2025-07-01 09:44 pmwhat fresh hell is this?
It rained for three hours straight - thunderstorm, hail and torrential rain - and didn't cool done one bit. That shouldn't be allowed. And now we have all the heat and all the humidity, and ugh.
(Hi! I'm still here. Things are just very busy and I can't seem to find the time or energy for posting, much less keeping up with anything other than thesid_guardian discussions ... I hope everyone's doing well, whether you're caught in this heat wave too or not.)
(Hi! I'm still here. Things are just very busy and I can't seem to find the time or energy for posting, much less keeping up with anything other than the
sid_guardian discussions ... I hope everyone's doing well, whether you're caught in this heat wave too or not.)
omens (omens) wrote2025-06-28 06:00 pm
omens) wrote2025-06-28 06:00 pmEntry tags:
been all over
We have been to Many Shopping the last couple days since getting the car back, and the day before last we saw some ducklings :D there are 2 groups of babies in this photo, one regular duck. One group was obviously the outgoing extrovert children and the other group was anxious stragglers. They were really fun to watch.
A couple yard pics ( Under here )
Some not great Ghost news (warning: illness? injury?) ( nothing gory )
Oh, ETA: in unrelated news and tonal whiplash - does anyone else use focumon? It's a focus app with a pokemon knockoff theme. If you liked habitica, same kinda thing. We should be friends if you try it! I am only on day 1, so idk if I will stick to it. It seems very complicated at first, so I'm trying to streamline it for myself. I basically only need the "focus now" bit.
A couple yard pics ( Under here )
Some not great Ghost news (warning: illness? injury?) ( nothing gory )
Oh, ETA: in unrelated news and tonal whiplash - does anyone else use focumon? It's a focus app with a pokemon knockoff theme. If you liked habitica, same kinda thing. We should be friends if you try it! I am only on day 1, so idk if I will stick to it. It seems very complicated at first, so I'm trying to streamline it for myself. I basically only need the "focus now" bit.
rivkat (rivkat) wrote2025-06-27 02:02 pm
rivkat) wrote2025-06-27 02:02 pmself-censorship
no good, very bad thing: for the first time ever, I carefully concealed my Star of David scrunchie to do an interview in case it became a distraction. I try hard not to self-censor, but ...
the cannibal next door (harpers_child) wrote2025-06-26 04:07 pm
harpers_child) wrote2025-06-26 04:07 pm(no subject)
1. I got a Surfans F20 for my birthday to replace my dying ipod touch. (It was last hooked up to a computer in 2012 and spent it's life in airplane mode. Battery no longer holds a charge for more than 20 mins and charging is unreliable.) I combed through all the backups on my external to find all my little stashes of music. Now to comb through it all and figure out what of the 263GB (+ because some of it's zipped/rar'd) I want to load.
1b. If you have a suggestion for music organization software, please share. Especially something that can find and replace duplicates.
1c. I should check to see if I've got any podfic that had been lost.
2. I'm going to be in Seattle early July for the My Chemical Romance show on the 11th. If you'll also be going and want to hang out while waiting for doors, I'd love to hang. Siblings, BiL, and Spouse will also be attending.
3. I've been dealing with a ovarian cyst the last few days and I'd like it to be over now, thank you. Pain is finally fading, but the first 24hrs were awful.
edit: I've unzipped everything. 259 GB over 20,819 files in 11,339 folders. The Surfans only sees 15,000 files so I've got to cut 5,819. I guess first pass will be album art. I know I have a lot of fanmixes in there. Second pass will be podfic and audiobooks because it turns out I don't actually like those.
edit2: Found a stash of unzipped fanmixes in a folder. After deleting non-music stuff from the I-tunes folders I've got 107 GB over 21,490 Files, 11,275 Folders. Mostly deleted video I have elsewhere and old copies of podcasts I don't listen to anymore.
1b. If you have a suggestion for music organization software, please share. Especially something that can find and replace duplicates.
1c. I should check to see if I've got any podfic that had been lost.
2. I'm going to be in Seattle early July for the My Chemical Romance show on the 11th. If you'll also be going and want to hang out while waiting for doors, I'd love to hang. Siblings, BiL, and Spouse will also be attending.
3. I've been dealing with a ovarian cyst the last few days and I'd like it to be over now, thank you. Pain is finally fading, but the first 24hrs were awful.
edit: I've unzipped everything. 259 GB over 20,819 files in 11,339 folders. The Surfans only sees 15,000 files so I've got to cut 5,819. I guess first pass will be album art. I know I have a lot of fanmixes in there. Second pass will be podfic and audiobooks because it turns out I don't actually like those.
edit2: Found a stash of unzipped fanmixes in a folder. After deleting non-music stuff from the I-tunes folders I've got 107 GB over 21,490 Files, 11,275 Folders. Mostly deleted video I have elsewhere and old copies of podcasts I don't listen to anymore.
omens (omens) wrote2025-06-26 09:58 am
omens) wrote2025-06-26 09:58 amEntry tags:
media update (late again)
Still not doing much, but last week:
Played some What Remains of Edith Finch, on switch. What a cool and pretty game! I am not very far into it.
Read several people are typing by Calvin Kasulke, been wanting to read this for ages, because it takes place in slack, and I have slack nostalgia, but I was expecting a "workplace lulz about capitalism gone awry" kind of book - which it definitely is! But it's also very Weird Existential Horror. LOL. I had no idea that was coming, but I enjoyed it a lot. The end is kind of abrupt & easy, but I still rec it. Very weird book & a very quick read (bc slack chat format). (I need more Lydia!!)
Didn't write anything!!
Still reading a ton of fic, mostly rereads but some new.
I think that's it, tbh.
updated to add:
Iphoto tells me it's a northern pearly eye. I WAS VERY BRAVE!
Played some What Remains of Edith Finch, on switch. What a cool and pretty game! I am not very far into it.
Read several people are typing by Calvin Kasulke, been wanting to read this for ages, because it takes place in slack, and I have slack nostalgia, but I was expecting a "workplace lulz about capitalism gone awry" kind of book - which it definitely is! But it's also very Weird Existential Horror. LOL. I had no idea that was coming, but I enjoyed it a lot. The end is kind of abrupt & easy, but I still rec it. Very weird book & a very quick read (bc slack chat format). (I need more Lydia!!)
Didn't write anything!!
Still reading a ton of fic, mostly rereads but some new.
I think that's it, tbh.
updated to add:
Iphoto tells me it's a northern pearly eye. I WAS VERY BRAVE!
Punk (runpunkrun) wrote2025-06-25 08:52 am
runpunkrun) wrote2025-06-25 08:52 amEntry tags:
Service Model, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
I will read anything Adrian Tchaikovsky writes, and I read this, where a robot valet makes a decision his programming can't account for and is then thrust out of the safety and predictability of his manor home and into the chaos of the unknown, but it's a book that can't seem to commit to a perspective or tone. I mean:
This is not a page turner. At one point, I swear to god, Libby predicted it would take me 23 years to finish reading it. But it's Tchaikovsky, and so finish it I did. Even when dealing almost entirely with robots, his science fiction is humanist, concerned with individual choices, with no one person or group being the big bad. Instead the friction comes where systems overlap without comprehension.
There's also a short story set before this book that you can read at Reactor: Human Resources by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Contains: the collapse of human civilization, robot harm and death.
Inside his decision-making software there were two subroutines in the shape of wolves, and one insisted that he stay, and the other insisted that he could not stay.Is this robot valet on Tumblr? Nothing in the text justifies such a distracting choice.
This is not a page turner. At one point, I swear to god, Libby predicted it would take me 23 years to finish reading it. But it's Tchaikovsky, and so finish it I did. Even when dealing almost entirely with robots, his science fiction is humanist, concerned with individual choices, with no one person or group being the big bad. Instead the friction comes where systems overlap without comprehension.
Charles, House said at last. We are only following instructions.This book is a world-building slow burn that examines the overlap of automation and humanity, and comes to a dire—but logical—conclusion.
There's also a short story set before this book that you can read at Reactor: Human Resources by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Contains: the collapse of human civilization, robot harm and death.
omens (omens) wrote2025-06-24 01:23 pm
omens) wrote2025-06-24 01:23 pmEntry tags:
hello from the heatwave
Kelly is home :D and to welcome him home, the car did the thing I told him it was doing, right before we were supposed to go shopping! Disastrous >:( It doesn't like to shift out of park, sometimes. Like one of those times, when I was in the drive thru, which was extremely anxiety provoking (trapped AND inconveniencing someone?? NIGHTMARE). But anyway, we put off shopping and he took it to the mechanic on his way to work yesterday morning and they were like "lol we had no idea what you meant until we tried to move the car later." :D Anyway, needs a new shift assembly. They don't have the part, so they have our car a couple days. And we have no car (but a full fridge, so it's fine, just kinda stir crazy)..
Of course, Sunny's eye immediately starts watering. Just clear, no conjunctivitis, but what's with that, Sunny?? I start panicking because our vet is 40 minutes away because I hate change. Anyway, seems resolved today. She slept by my head purring like a machine, which only worried me more, lol.
And then yesterday the AC broke! HAHA 🫠 it's getting pretty sticky here. The dog and cat are into it, though. We are mid-heatwave and it is melting my entire insides. An upside: I have ice cream cones!! Idk how, bc ice cream is already so great, but cones really do make it 300% better. Appt for the AC to be looked at tomorrow morning (hopefully)
Some crow pics ( 4 of em )
It looks like he's missing a couple feathers - you can see the down poking out. There was a whole tree full of crows yelling about something (no hawk that I could see, but man, I looked!) and this guy was the straggler who stuck around a little longer.
Of course, Sunny's eye immediately starts watering. Just clear, no conjunctivitis, but what's with that, Sunny?? I start panicking because our vet is 40 minutes away because I hate change. Anyway, seems resolved today. She slept by my head purring like a machine, which only worried me more, lol.
And then yesterday the AC broke! HAHA 🫠 it's getting pretty sticky here. The dog and cat are into it, though. We are mid-heatwave and it is melting my entire insides. An upside: I have ice cream cones!! Idk how, bc ice cream is already so great, but cones really do make it 300% better. Appt for the AC to be looked at tomorrow morning (hopefully)
Some crow pics ( 4 of em )
It looks like he's missing a couple feathers - you can see the down poking out. There was a whole tree full of crows yelling about something (no hawk that I could see, but man, I looked!) and this guy was the straggler who stuck around a little longer.