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Person A: You know you're supposed to finish the laundry if you start it during your shift!

Me, silently: Don't think of it as my three loads of laundry that I didn't finish during my shift, think of it as your three loads of laundry that I got started for you. Though really, if Person B had done her laundry during her shift like she should have then neither of us would be having this conversation today.

(There was no reason for all four of the women to have their hampers literally overflowing with clothes. Somebody, or more like several somebodies, clearly has been falling down on the job here.)

kazzy_cee

On Thursday, I went to three exhibitions in London as they were all very close to each other, and I had nothing better to do.

My first trip was to the National Gallery, where they have an exhibition of the Spanish painter Zubarán's amazing work. Francisco de Zurbarán was born in 1598 and was sent to Seville by his father to study art in 1614. His father was a haberdasher, and this must have influenced the young Zurbarán, as his attention to detail when painting fabric is really wonderful. His focus was mostly on religious paintings, but the exhibitions also included some still-life paintings created by himself and his son.

Under this cut for my favourites (with a few close-ups just because).
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From there, I went to a very small exhibition at the National Gallery about the painter George Stubbs and his work studying the anatomy of horses. He produced engravings of his drawings, which formed a treatise (with a very long title!), The Anatomy of the Horse. Including a particular description of the bones, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands. In eighteen tables, all done from nature (1766). It was recognised as the most accurate study of a horse's anatomy. His work allowed him to paint incredibly anatomically accurate horses.

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Finally, I walked to the Courtauld Gallery to see their exhibition: A View of One's Own: Landscapes by British Women Artists (1760-1860) as it was about to close. Women artists of this time were very limited in where they could train, but despite this, many still worked and exhibited their paintings and drawings. Many were supported by their families, but others struggled against the obstacles imposed by fathers and husbands.

A few of the landscapes under this cut.
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After all that, I headed home. Apologies for the very long post and many photos - feel free to scroll on past :D

conuly

The trick is that the top arm needs to be firmly clipped to the drawer - not jammed to the back wall. Time will tell if my fix lasts.

Edit: No, X*, not thank god, thank me. I'm the one who fixed it! God had nothing to do with any of it!

* Not the real initial.

shadowkat

Meme stolen from coffeeandink - who actually told us all to steal it, so it doesn't count.

Take five books off your bookshelf.

[with the exception of the first, they are all TBR, with the hopes I'll get around to reading them.]

Book #1 -- first sentence: "Rain drenched the city, cold and relentless."

Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty: "Unlike my horses, a Spider would never get cold or hot or tired."

[unexpected challenge do I pick the last sentence or the last complete one? I picked the last complete one.]

Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred: "People say that after this event, the rich man's family slipped into a decline, and in the end, went entirely to ruin."

(Unexpected challenge: do I pick the second sentence or the second complete sentence? - weirdly I had the same unexpected challenge as coffeeandink.)

Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty: "Within an hour, his strength had so depleted that he could no longer handle the weight in his pack, although he refused to let us remove anything, forcing us to fish out the heaviest items, such as his water bottles and his cameras, when he wasn't looking."

Book #5 -- final sentence of the book: The local sheriff met us in the street and eyed us suspiciously.
"Runaways?" he asked.
"We are," I said.
"Any of you named Nigger Jim?"
I pointed to each of us. "sadie, Lizzie, Morris, Buck."
"And who are you?"
"I am James."
"James what?"
"Just James."

(Yes, I am treating one paragraph of dialog as a single sentence for the purposes of the meme. Fight me!)

Make the five sentences into a paragraph:
Rain drenched the city, cold and relentless. Unlike my horses, a Spider would never get cold or hot or tired. People say that after this event, the rich man's family slipped into a decline, and in the end, went entirely to ruin. Within an hour, his strength had so depleted that he could no longer handle the weight in his pack, although he refused to let us remove anything, forcing us to fish out the heaviest items, such as his water bottles and his cameras, when he wasn't looking." The local sheriff met us in the street and eyed us suspiciously.
"Runaways?" he asked.
"We are," I said.
"Any of you named Nigger Jim?"
I pointed to each of us. "sadie, Lizzie, Morris, Buck."
"And who are you?"
"I am James."
"James what?"
"Just James."

I promise it wouldn't make any more sense if I chose another option for step 5.

Book #1: This Kingdom Will Not Me by Illona Andrews
Book #2: Antidote by Karen Russell
Book #3: Strange Tales from Japan - 99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural - collected and retold by Keisuke Nishimoto, Translated by William Scott Wilson.
Book #4: A Walk in the Park: the true story of a spectacular misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarku
Book #5:James by Percival Everett

conuly

Honestly have never heard of this person before, but what an apropos sentiment!

Ah. It seems he was "the real Doctor Strangelove", "the father of the hydrogen bomb". Well, there you have it!

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conuly

Trying not to think of you
yet your face colors
every contour
of my mind.
And every way I turn
inside of a minute
I collide
with your laughter.
I am wind,
and you
are chimes.

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lycomingst

Today's ADVENTURE: It was Spring Cleanup Day in my town. I got rid of a dead tv and a printer that always hated me. This involved going to a place I'd never been so that was fraught with fraughtness. But now I know where the city dump is and where the garbage trucks go at night to sleep. Check that off the list.

They check your ID to ensure you're from this town and not some charlatan sneak from Sweet Home or Tangent trying to unload refuse on US.

In my dvd watching, I finished Community and decided to give the dvds to the library. Only have about half the series. I don't like Chevy Chase and I can't stand his character. I just made a face every time he came on screen and really, I only enjoyed one episode on the rewatch. I'm about to start Deadwood but the show is intense and I have to be able to handle it.

yourlibrarian

1) Curious to know, for anyone who has taken part in

3weeks4dreamwidth activities, what did you enjoy doing?

2) Turns out my expected trip to Michigan later this year won't happen, but I am instead planning a trip that will spend some time in Cleveland and Buffalo. Any recommendations? (The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was a big draw).

3) I've begun playing in the tournaments on Board Game Arena, in part because my favorite game has been increasingly hard to find players for during certain hours. I started late during the last tournament round but still did ok, finishing in the top 100. I started early enough in this round that I was in the Top 10 for a little while, but started falling as more people joined in.

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4) I'd been hearing that Matlock is not a typical procedural, and I had tried out the first episode a while ago, soon after it launched. I could see why the ongoing series arc might make it a significant change. ( Read more... )

4) What I really enjoyed this past week was getting to see the play "Suffs" on Great Performances. (This is in contrast to my dislike of the PBS app, which is a pain to work with and apparently never added 4 or 5 other Great Performances episodes to my watchlist). It's so great to be able to see theater at home. ( Read more... )

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magnavox_23

It's been a few days. I have thoughts.

I will preface that I was not in the best head space coming into the finale, so forgive my down-ness.

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conuly

Going on week two of random mid-sleep wakeups wherein I am convinced I have badly overslept and missed my entire shift.

What even is causing this? (Don't say stress, I'm sure it's stress! But what is causing the stress!? Is it lack of sleep? Because the lack of sleep sure ain't helping, gotta say.)

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seasidefics

was actually gonna post abt this in my last entry, but i got carried away with the other topic and didn’t wanna loop these together, so separate post it is :)

but baby names. i’ve been thinking about them a lot recently because i was trying to find an author pen name that i liked and that suited the genre (think i finally found it for the spooky/horror/dark academia-centric themes). and that somehow led me down a rabbit hole of baby name sites and subreddits.

i thought i’d share my list bc ?? no real reason other than i like yapping. i honestly really don't get the secrecy or the gatekeeping around names, and that’s saying something for someone who as a kid would literally force their sister to bias someone else in a pop band just because they liked them first... i guess to me it’s like, i just don’t care if there are multiple so-and-sos out in the world? and like i actually expect that as some of the names i like are not uncommon whatsoever and like they’ll always be different and tied to me since they’d have my last name???

anyways, i have so many options i love for girl names, but i kind of struggle with boys.

girls:

elena
eliana
marie / maria
marissa (merissa)
mia

can you tell i freaking love m names??? i think it has to do with the fact that almost every older sister (and older sister figures) i grew up around had an m name as either a first or middle name, and even in-laws around me tended to have m names. and getting more into this topic, i’ve realized i looove liquid consonants and vowel-heavy names that are very flowy. i think most of these are classified as either modern classic or just classic.

boys:

alexander (xander for short)
elijah
gabriel
nolan

not really sure of the theme with this one but yeah.

astrogirl

Still very, very slowly working through this Gen Prompt Bingo card from last round. I think I've kind of gotten stuck on second person for a bit now, for some reason. Probably because so many people hate it, and I am nothing if not a contrary soul when it comes to these things. Anyway, have a small bad guy character study thingy, or something.

Title: Not Easy Having Yourself a Good Time
Fandom: Gravity Falls
Characters/Relationships: Bill Cipher
Rating/Warnings: G-rated, no warnings unless you count, y'know, destroying an entire dimension
Tags: character study, second person
Length: ~650 words
Summary: Says he's happy; he's a liar.
Author's Notes: Written for Gen Prompt Bingo, for the prompt "anhedonia (lack of pleasure)."

Not Easy Having Yourself a Good Time

Current Mood: okay

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Heated Rivalry
i know where to draw the line by

magneticwave
Shane/Ilya, 62k. After a rough few years with San Francisco, Ilya signs with Hollander's Metros as a restricted free agent. A fun canon divergence AU, very funny, many lines so funny I had to DM to the friend who recced them to me. A few thousand words in I was like I have to find out who this author is, and of course it's magneticwave, who wrote some great Sid/Geno fic way back when. An all-round delight of a fic.

Formula 1 RPF
For about a week last year I was reading F1 RPF, and friends, it was like I'd been directly transported to hockey fandom circa 2015. Crunchy character dynamics, lots of porn written by adults, cracked out porn premises treated totally seriously. Somehow F1 is like twice as big as hockey RPF on AO3 now, despite having only really existed for about four years? Anyway here are my two favorites.

crash landers by

crescenteluce
Oscar Piastri/Carlos Sainz Jr, 58k. Carlos is so obviously an alpha that Oscar has never considered anything else until Carlos goes into heat. Classic omegaverse combined with classic pining of the kind where everywhere is just fundamentally unable to see past their own messy issues... until they finally do, and it's so satisfying. I cried a bunch of times reading this.

like milk from a baby by

higgsbosonblues
Lando Norris/Oscar Piastri, 5k. Sometimes Lando needs to lay eggs, and this time he's asked Oscar for help. YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN about 2015 hockey fandom!! If you too reminisce about weird xenobio kinkfic, this is for you.

conuly

and why is this the first time I've seen this fanvid?

(It's short. Go watch it, you don't need to know literally anything.)

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purplecat

Wide flat grass and a blue sky with white clouds. A white cottage is visible on the horizon to the right. There are low hills in the far background. Two tall sharp pointed stones stand at the end of a mown grass walk. A further thin stone is visible sidways on between them and the cottage. The low remains of a further stone are beyond.

The Stones of Stenness, Orkney

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lirazel

Title: friendly advice
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cassie McKay & Samira Mohan
Characters: Samira Mohan, Cassie McKay
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 02, samira deserves a future she’s excited about!!!!, let her use her skills!!!, let women look out for each other!!!!, cassie Notices people and we love that about her
Series: Part 3 of unionizing the e.d.
Summary:

“You should think about applying to them,” McKay says. “I know it’ll be a time crunch, but you’ve got your reference letter already, right?”

“Abbot wrote it for me,” Samira says automatically, mind still whirling.

“Oh, great. I’m glad you asked him. Anyway, it shouldn’t take much for him to tweak it a bit, and I’m sure he’d do that for you.”

Samira places her hands flat on the desk in front of her, hoping the firmness beneath her hands will steady her. When did her heart start beating so fast? “You’re saying I should apply for a fellowship in emergency psychiatry?“

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