Reading

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: and I howled at my ma in the driving rain

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i was born in a crossfire hurricane

3 things make a post:

a. So I hurt my back yesterday doing something normal and innocuous. Ugh. Everything about it is terrible. Icy-hot helps, and tylenol, but it was hard to find a comfortable position to sleep in last night. I did eventually get to sleep, but only for like 5 or 6 hours.

b. I did still manage to make this fried rice recipe with ground pork, but it's only okay. I think the meat could use more seasoning before it gets fried and sauced, and I'll probably stick with the Woks of Life recipe going forward, but it'll do for lunch for the week.

c. In other news, Baby Miss L is having a rough time going to school 2 days a week. I sent her a couple of books about it (including a Pete the Cat one, though it's Pete the Kitty in this case), so hopefully that will help (as much as anything helps other than time and patience). Poor kid - I wouldn't want to go be around strangers all day either!

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Sinners (2025)

36 icons from the movie Sinners here at

gwenhazel. Spoilers in the icons at the link.

Current Mood: spatulate
Current Music: And what better way to say, "I love you"

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music: weird al

Who ya gonna call?

My household needs a new spatula.

Watch on YouTube

But actually we went to GIR.co because Spatula City doesn't have an outlet in our ~~state~~ ~~decade~~ timeline.

Current Mood: full

This weekend I've eaten nothing but sweet corn, peaches, raspberries, and nachos w/homemade salsa.

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Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Mets pregame show

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books: dungeon crawler carl

he got a great charge on it

Arrgh, book 7 is not the last book! And the next one doesn't come out until next year! Arrgh!

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Current Mood: hopeful

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Name: April Lynn Jolley

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Current Mood: curious
Current Music: Into the Spin - Dessa

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slow climb, but quick to descend

They are installing some fancy new app-based intercom system in my building, which I'm not particularly a fan of, but I dutifully downloaded the app as directed. They haven't told us when the new system is going to go live, or given us really any other instructions on how it works, but I hope I won't have to keep the ringer on because unless I'm expecting an important call, I Do Not Do That. I guess we'll see what happens!

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Reading Wednesday!

What I've just finished
So a number of people have been talking about the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, and I thought it was graphic novels, so I checked out a sample on Saturday. It's not comics, it's something called LitRPG, the trappings of which are a little tedious to me, but overall, it is pretty engrossing reading. I've finished the first 4 books of the series (out of 7) and I'm 2/3 of the way through book 5. It is about our eponymous protagonist Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, surviving a Hunger Games like set up after aliens invade earth. ( spoilers )

What I'm reading now
Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade. So far I find the setting more compelling than the last 2 books (though the train book was my least favorite in terms of settings) and I'm wondering how the rest of the book is going to go!

What I'm reading next
The last(?) 2 books in the series! I don't know for certain if #7 is the last book and I haven't wanted to google because I don't want to be spoiled. The series has taken some interesting turns I wasn't expecting and I enjoy that when it happens. Hopefully they can stick the landing!

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Current Mood: lazy

Things I Watched Recently

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Current Mood: productive
Current Music: Mets vs Giants on tv

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adventures in cooking

the summer of four to three

I made a half-batch of corn fritters this morning, but having neither scallions nor chives, I used garlic and onion powder and Italian seasoning, and Parmesan instead of cheddar for the cheese. They are a little bland. Also, I definitely need to dig out my splatter guard, because they do spit and pop while they fry. If you have a fear of frying - and I know some people (reasonably) do - definitely invest in a splatter guard.

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20 Star Trek: Enterprise

to boldly go where no man has gone before.

20 Star Trek: Enterprise

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Name: Pom
Age group: 30+
Country: United States ~~and I want out~~
Subscription/Access Policy: Open but prefer people to be 18 and older. No minors, no conservatives, no racists, no transphobes, no homophobes.

Main Fandoms: Team Fortress 2, Dungeon Meshi, Marvel, Ace Attorney
Other Fandoms: Pokemon, Hetalia (But I'm America/Alfred focused. Focused on the North America brothers Matthew and Alfred, too.), Story of Seasons, South Park, and Octopath Traveler.

Fannish Interests: yuri mangas/animes, cooking recipes online, tarot cards, oracle cards, paganism, mythology, video games, writing fanfiction and writing about OCs, on the hunt for novels with sapphic representation, talking about pets, herbs/herbalism, tea, witchcraft, spirituality. (I meditate, lately)

Maybe we can laugh at brainrot content on youtube such as Team Fortress 2 SFM shorts.

OTPs and Ships: (ships in bold are my OTPs.)
Team Fortress 2:
Heavy/Medic
Heavy/Medic/Engineer
Medic/Engineer
Heavy/Spy

Dungeon Meshi:
Falin/Marcille
Kabru/Laios

Ace Attorney:
Klavier/Apollo
Phoenix/Edgeworth

Marvel:
Deadpool/Wolverine
Deadpool/Spiderman (Spideypool)
Captain America/Iron Man (Steve/Tony. Stony)
Storm/Wolverine

Hetalia:
America/Japan (Alfred/Kiko)
America/Russia (Alfred/Ivan)
Canada/Cuba (Matthew/Carlos)

Octopath Traveler:
Alfyn/Therion
Primrose/H'aanit

Favourite Movies: Practical Magic, Promare, The Last Unicorn, Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Deadpool & Wolverine, Good Burger, Super Mario Brothers
TV Shows: a lot of 80's and 90's cartoons, mindless reality shows like 1000 lbs Sisters or 4 Weddings.
Books: "The Fire's Stone" by Tanya Huff, "Between Mischief and Magic" by Marissa Serrao, "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (I'm trying to get the rest of his books. I just learned he wrote more.)
Music: Fleetwood Mac, Cigarettes After Sex, BUMP OF CHICKEN, Radiohead, Queen, Black Sabbath
Games: Team Fortress 2, Pokemon, Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons, Metal Gear Solid, Octopath Traveler, Sengoku Basara, Super Smash Brothers, Stardew Valley, Undertale
Comics/Anime/Misc: Deadpool, X-men, Spiderman, Yuri on Ice, CLAMP, Sengoku Basara, She Likes To Cook and She likes To Eat (manga & live action),

Current Mood: curious
Current Music: Mets vs Giants on tv

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adventures in cooking

he is throwing a gem tonight

Anyone got a good recipe for corn fritters? We used to make them when I was a kid, but I have not turned up a recipe in the folder of old recipes I inherited from my parents, and neither my brother nor sister had a recipe. I'm guessing it was probably the Bisquick recipe, but I don't have any Bisquick, so I will probably end up halving the Smitten Kitchen recipe.

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ebooks,
sales

Today only -- Aug 1st -- big ebook sale.

As in the title. Sale ends at midnight; I assume USA Eastern time (GMT -5, I believe). Links to all the booksellers -- Amazon, Apple, B&N, Google, Kobol.

This is the main link; you can filter by genre in the top menu.

Happy reading!

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20 Mulan (1998) icons

I will never pass for a perfect bride, or a perfect daughter

20 Mulan (1998) icons

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Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Into the Great Wide Open - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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the future was wide open

I spent most of the day glued to trade deadline updates - the Mets did pretty well. I would say they got 90% of what they needed. I would have loved for them to get a top of the rotation starter in addition to 3 excellent relievers, but I guess the price was too high.

I also had to complete a 90 minute cybersecurity training which was incredibly boring and repetitive, but if it finally gets our CEO or our AP department to recognize fake invoices as phishing emails, I guess it's worth it.

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I finally watched Thunderbolts and I enjoyed it, mostly because of Yelena. She is so great! I'll never stop being mad about what they did to Natasha in Endgame, but at least we got Yelena out of the fun but way too late Black Widow movie. She is fantastic! I also enjoyed Ava Starr. Hannah John-Kamen needs to be in more things. I could have done without Walker, but whatever. He's nothing.

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Here's the July recs update:

unfitforsociety has been updated for July 2025 with 16 recs in 3 fandoms:

✭ 13 Batfamily
✭ 2 Percy Jackson/Batfamily crossovers
✭ 1 Lord of the Rings

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Name: MerricatB
Age group: 40s
Country: USA unfortunately

Main Fandoms: Sense8
Other Fandoms: AMC Interview with the Vampire; NBC Hannibal; Good Omens; Our Flag Means Death; The Old Guard (not the sequel blergh); Killing Eve
Fannish Interests: Fanfiction
OTPs and Ships: Wolfgang/Kala/Rajan + Felix for Sense8 is my main one.

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icons

Multifandom Icons

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Multifandom Icons

Ten Multifandom icons. (Kamen Rider Gotchard, Chojin Sentai Jetman, Avataro Sentai Donbrothers, Queen Millennia, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)

Find them here at

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