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Dear Yuletide Writer,

Hey there. I hope you're enthusiastic to excited about writing something for me!

A quick overview: I'm brandnewsoul on AO3, and you can also check me out on Tumblr at viewparadise. Bookmarks can kind of give you an idea of what I'm interested in reading, and the Tumblr is to, IDK, give you an idea of what piques my interest/hopefully link you to some fun stuff to look at.

As far as things that I enjoy in stories: pining that leads to love, banter, that moment when Character A really Sees Character B, rivals to lovers, epistolary works, teamwork making the dream work, angst that leads to a happy ending, silliness, smarts and snark. I'm not into character death, noncon, or Dead Dove situations.

So, here's what I'm wishing for: ( American Girl: Samantha, Sinners, Salute Your Shorts, Roman Holiday, The Sting. )

Thanks again, and happy Yuletide!

Current Mood: good

devilc

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omens

There is something about me that really drives old people to initiate agonizingly oversharing conversations. Like, I'm kinda glad I could be there for the old lady in the grocery store who is still really going thru it with her mother's death just before 2020. And her declining mobility. The last old lady I chatted with at the lake was also having extremely valid big feelings about her declining mobility. And tbf, I do not have enough adults to talk to IRL so like. Maybe it works out for both of us?? Still, hard to guard my natural O_O face when I am feeling very "why are you telling me this, a complete stranger, please," when the conversation maybe should have ended with "after you!"

This woman, in particular reminded me of my grandma, who would just have really strong opinions about things and charge in with them like you had been arguing against them or maybe she could tell you intended to (whether you did or not, or even knew wtf she was talking about lol) - either way, she was already deep in the trenches 😅

My neighbour was another one, with the awful details of his cat's death. I mean. O_O He was obviously suffering, too. And also, I liked that cat a lot. He was very noisy and had much to say about us being in ~~our~~ his backyard.

These pics have probably far less broad appeal than northern animals, but when I was at the grocery store we were getting buzzed by planes and I was like "THERE ARE HORNETS IN MY TOWN!" and very upset I was doing the stupid shopping when I could be lookin at em. LOL. The grocery store is right beside the airport, so the planes all land and take off right over the parking lot. We don't often get fighter jets!

But!! I got outside finally (after hearing the hornets 4x and a globemaster once), and they were just doing a final lap before landing. You can see their little feetsies sticking out:

( 2 cf-18 hornets )

In unrelated news, one of my peppers started turning red ON THE VINE! I had lost hope completely and was going to bring them all inside anyway, just to see what happens. AHHH a baby 🥹

Off to go buy Pokemon Z-A with L! I did not like Arceus so I'm not going in on this with him, but he is very excited.

frogmajick

The Shape of Solidarity
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1. The Real Story of Rosie the Riveter: Propaganda and Labor Rights
2. Rebuilding After Slavery: Reconstruction-Era Labor Justice and Its Living Legacy

merridia

Hello it is Wednesday and I am at work. Thanksgiving was fine, mostly notable because all weekends should be three-day weekends. I took the BUS to go to the MOVIES all by MYSELF, because the new bus routes absolutely live up to the hype for the time being, and it no longer takes an hour and a half (if I'm lucky) to get across town! Hot diggity! My options for entertaining myself without the ability to drive have just opened up massively!! Also I found an old long wool coat of my grandmother's that fits me perfectly, it just needs a belt. Wins upon wins!

It is WrestleDream go home day, so I will need to make time for three hours of graps today and tomorrow (probably tomorrow, sometimes my favourite torrent provider can be slow on the upload) while still trying to catch up on Dracula Daily (I came back from vacation just as the entries started getting super long, so it was easy to fall behind). Also need to do my nails and buy booze for the PPV and get my brother to close my mother's sticky bedroom window, because it's that time of year where she leaves it open even though it's below zero outside, so the heater constantly kicks in and I wake up in a sauna at the other end of the house in the middle of the night. Except for last night, because I stayed up way too late reading and listening to a pair of professional wrestling-themed electronica/pow-wow concept EPs (WHAT) and just kinda experienced the creep into hothouse territory firsthand.

It's snowed a few times now, but never enough for it to actually stay on the ground, so I refuse to count it. AUTUMN LINGERS.

15. Can Money Buy You Happiness?

Not directly, but it can certainly buy you the means to take it for yourself in a way that 'no money' cannot.

October Movies: TRON: Ares, Lurker, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Roofman, The Smashing Machine, The Fly, Sorcerer, Gladiator

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I thought I might stay up last night to watch the hostage release, but I started flagging after midnight and thought it might be better to take it all in first thing in the morning anyway. Then Gingko woke up around 5:30 needing very badly to go out, and I didn't go back to sleep then. I went straight to Twitter, where the first video I saw was Bar Kupershtein reuniting with his family.

Bar is related to a close friend of mine. He looks so, so much like my friend's kids. He is one of three hostages I am two or three degrees removed from (that I'm aware of, it could be more), and the only one who's alive. Bar's father was unable to walk or speak because of a stroke following a car accident, but he was determined to do both by the time his son came back, and he did.

I've spent hours watching every reunion: Noa Argamani and her partner Avinatan Or, who the hospital says lost 40% of his body weight. The Horn brothers from Argentina, the Berman twins whom Emily Damari loves, the absolutely ridiculous Cunio brothers whose partners and very young children were also hostages, Evyatar David who looked like a skeleton forced to dig his own grave in a tunnel on camera. More, more, more, more of them. Two people especially stand out.

One is this video of Segev Kalfon reuniting with his parents, who didn't know if he was alive for a year and a half after 10/7. I have never, ever heard a sound like the noise his father makes. The fathers are the ones losing it, in so many of these videos.

Then there's this one — not of a hostage, but an anonymous? guy alone in what looks like a highway tunnel somewhere in the desert around sunrise. He takes the coolest drag of his cigarette you've ever seen and then launches into the Shema like I've never heard it. Just incredible. Thrilling, beautiful, defiant, gorgeous. Takes another drag in the middle!

Now for the dead to come home. Hamas has only released four of the promised 28, including Eli Sharabi's brother Yossi, including Nepalese ag student Bipin Joshi. I wish I could take a nap (Gingko is snoring softly beside me on the bed), but I'm working until 7. I can't stop trawling for videos and images and information and stories. I can't believe they're finally, finally (almost, mostly) home.

nomelon

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merridia

Uuuuugh what a waste of a week. I've done fuck all at work, fuck all at home, I'm still coughing, and now I'm cold all the time as well because winter is imminent. The sun is just starting to rise as I head off to work, which means that come Tuesday I will be leaving in pitch darkness once again. I just want to go home, curl up in some blankets, eat noodles, and write some more fic. At least it's a three-day weekend, though I'm sure my family will find some way to make Thanksgiving a stressful nightmare and I'll end up yearning for the relative peace of the office, where salespeople actively try to sell rotting vehicles no matter how many times we tell them that's dumb. WHY ARE YOU REPLACING A CV BOOT AND WINDSHIELD, THIS TRUCK IS NEVER GOING TO GET INSURED TO DRIVE???

when will my old man yaoi return from the war (the beekeeper 2)

14. What Assumptions Do People Make About You?

I dunno, you tell me.

October Movies: Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Roofman, The Smashing Machine, The Fly, Sorcerer, Gladiator

omens

Okay, it's been... a long time.. since I've done a media update. Oops! Haven't had much to talk about but I guess it's all added up enough to be enough by now.

Some books:

The Lower Decks book, Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North (comics novel) - read this twice, need to read a few more times :D (It's a choose your adventure book)

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein (non-fiction) - didn't get through this before the library yoinked it back (I had it largely thru my couple discord listening challenge weeks, whoops), put myself back on the list. Pretty interesting, kinda awful.

Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (fiction, sequel) - reading this in bits. As much as these are "cozy fantasy," only the relationships are. The plot and background ambiance is upsetting, in general, lol.

Couple Kdramas:

Doctor Cha - do not waste your time on this one! We made it through but it fought us almost the entire time. LOL I appreciate

pikron so much in these times XD oooof tease an imminent divorce in the first couple eps, spend the entire series making the husband irredeemable and then only have the divorce in the LAST EPISODE?? Ughhh we were suffering. Props to minor character Jeon Sora for being a tiny bright light. And the actor Kim Mi-kyung (who played the main character's mother), who is ALWAYS excellent.

Business Proposal - CHARMING. Do recommend! Very silly! We are only four or five episodes in, so this might change, but we are enjoying it a lot. It does a lot of stupid special effects stuff & musical things that should be obnoxious but are somehow only charming. These dorks are mfeo. It's so enjoyable we have much less to talk about than in Doctor Cha, though LOL.

Some games:

Sims4 (computer) I spent a week and a half or so playing this. It got too much time out of me. I think it actually isn't very fun? But it is incredibly absorbing. I will probably get sucked in again at some point.

Meow Tower (mobile) - they added more puzzles and a new music box thing.

Word Trails (mobile, thru Netflix) - still doing this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3ds) - I restarted on a whim and am enjoying it. I like how the villagers are more unpredictable but I do not like when they shame me for playing too long :P

Writing & other creative things:

I have been writing, here and there! and a couple new ideas, which is fun. And crocheting! I've been working on a blanket for Kelly and speeding along with these granny squares until I got to the biggest colour chunk and now I'm like ehhhhhhhhhhhhh. Gotta do it!

That's it for me, aside from language learning stuff!

merridia

Another weekend in which I accomplished absolutely nothing around the house is done and gone, back to work! I got all caught up on my Stories, at least (wrestling). The ChocoPro/Mystery Wrestling joint show was a particular delight. Also went to the movies last night (Dwayne finally did a real acting!!), and when I got out of the theatre I had two whole comments on the first piece of fic I've posted in two years, which honestly made my night, so all in all it was a pretty good weekend. Now I've just got to do all of the real stuff that I should have been doing instead. Laundry, and manicures and whatnot.

The temperature fell below zero for the first time this morning, and while the weather forecasts have threatened snow a few times now, it either never manifested or didn't stick around long enough for me to see it, which doesn't count. The last vestiges of the two-week wonder that is fall are clinging on for at least a few more hours, so I'm going to take that as a win.

Feeling a bit of inexplicable anxiety today. Hopefully a Monday Mystery Movie after work will help (and that mom will be feeling up to it this time). I think it's gonna be Roofman?

13. Should Couples Live Together Before Marriage?

lol yes, fucking obviously. Most of the time, they should just skip the last part, too.

October Movies: The Smashing Machine, The Fly, Sorcerer, Gladiator

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Deadbeat Club

all the lights are shining so brightly everywhere

Wait, I'm supposed to believe what?!

Dear Yuletide Writer

nothing in particular

3rd submission for the Dorothy Day Labor Forum Monthly

re: Happiness

It's been a fortnight.

Sensory overload

I finally have enough recs for a recs post!!

re: Assumptions

media update

re: Living in Sin

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