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New Wind Breaker fic: Our Sakura (Sakura/Nirei/Suou)

The start of episode 20 in the last season looked SO MUCH like Nirei and Suou were taking Sakura out on a date, but hadn't told him. Versions of this vignette have been rattling in my head since then XD :D

Our Sakura | Wind Breaker | Sakura/Nirei/Suou | 1.5k words | rated T

Summary: Suou and Nirei take Sakura out on a date. Not that Sakura realises it.

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Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Kool and the Gang - Celebration

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Aryana (10.5% completed)

I'm 20 episodes into 189 for Aryana (each episode is like 20 minutes once you skip the recap and future teases), and there's stuff I like about this show!

Aryana, despite being the sweet, kind, thoughtful heroine of the show, also stands up for herself and gets to argue/fight back! Not only against her enemies (heheh "enemies") but also against the people she loves, including her mother and best friend, and that's just so nice. Love doesn't preclude disagreement, and being good does not mean having to accept injustices meted upon yourself. No idea if this is more common in the genre now (I've only watched three other Filipino shows at this point, so I'm speaking about telenovelas of the past in general), or if it's because Aryana is thirteen instead of an adult woman and the rules for a teenaged main character are different. Either way, I like it.

There are still certain conventions in play, i.e. the good characters are very good, and the mean characters are very mean, but I did like that Aryana made a genuine mistake when she first met her future-rival (and secret half-sister) Megan. Which means that Megan doesn't hate Aryana out of nowhere -- it was a legit off-the-wrong-foot situation. A good character would, of course, have listened to Aryana's explanation instead of elevating it to an unnecessary rivalry, but Aryana isn't 100% blameless, and that's neat. I also like that the rivalry lives rent-free in Megan's head while Aryana only ever seems to remember Megan exists whenever Megan actively harasses her. Basically, the power dynamics aren't what I thought they would be, with Aryana being a poor girl on a scholarship in a fancy school.

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Fencing

This morning I put some stuff in the truck and trundled down to Winter Quarters. The first chore was to get the tractor, scoop up some gravel and fill a couple of big mudpuddles. The second chore was to spray the weeds around the edge of the arena. I sprayed out a whole gallon of weed killer.
Firefly got a good grooming and a tiny bit of work on backing and moving various bits of her body when asked. I really wanted a short ride, but it wasn't to be.
Maddie, her new husband Hunter along with Lily came to help with the new pasture. We ran a line up the hill from Winter Quarters to Upper Deadwood Pasture. The girls want to call the pasture Cow Patty Pasture. I'm voting no.
The new fence is just some t-posts with two strands of 3/4 inch electric tape, so it wasn't hard to build. While finishing up I noticed that the fence we were tying into had a brace wire run on the wrong diagonal. Oops. It took a couple of trips back to the Red Barn for the right supplies but that is now fixed.
Last but not least was to remove some most of the remaining electric fence that runs around Winter Quarters. That was only about 60 feet of very ugly old fence. I replaced it with equally ugly old metal fence panels. That allowed me to put a metal gate in the fence so we can get the horses into and out of the new pasture. Getting that done and the horses down the hill for the first time took until it was fully dark, but it is DONE.
Tomorrow I want to take some really good measurements and then order new fence panels to install. The temporary ones are a miserable lot of bent, badly dented, and miss-matched junk. In many cases the loops that allow panels to connect together are broken off. Some have lost their legs and have to be held up by the neighbors. There are at least 4 different manufacturers so the pattern and kind of connecting loops (if they are still there) don't match up. To top the misery off, the panels don't fit into the space correctly so my fence is zig zag with at least two different lengths of panels. The zig zag is fine as it helps hold the fence up, but it isn't something I want to look at forever.

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Mattel announces K-pop Demon Hunters dolls!

You can see them here. They look really great, and you can pre-order them by 9AM PST on 12 November 2025, for delivery in October 2026. Unfortunately, you can only order them as a set of three for $150, which seems a bit excessive to me. I'm sure they'll set a bunch of them, but not to me.

I even double-checked to be sure this wasn't just another example of "prices going up while I wasn't looking," and it wasn't — $50 per doll is 4-5 times the price of a regular Barbie doll, which just strikes me as excessive. I could see twice the price of a regular Barbie, and at that price I'd think about it. But that at this price. At this price I look at the page and immediately nope right out.

Current Mood: excited

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Aurora

Solar flares are causing auroras to appear in the northern half of the continental USA.

We caught a great show here in central Illinois. :D There was a large bright green blob to the northwest, a paler green streak just south of that, a larger red area just north of it, and some pink off toward the northeast. It's the most distinctive aurora we've seen -- previous examples tended to be solid sheets and less bright.

What is this crap!?

Democrats rebel after 8 senators cut a deal to end the shutdown without ACA funds

Bunch of weak-willed cowards.

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Music: Mother May I Murder

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fannish 50,
music

Today was frustrating

So let's just do the fannish 50. It's a two parter but first let me say sorry. I still owe tons of comments and haven't looked at blogs all week.

Because Amazon put up Niffty's song with subtitles and I could actually follow what was being said and now I have questions.

Watch on YouTube

( spoilery sort of questions under here )

As for part two You know I love dance. that's it, end of fannish 50. I love dance so have some of the dance videos I've been watching lately.

( Come Dance With Me )

Today is my grandmother's birthday

She was inordinately pleased to have been born on the anniversary of the Armistice, not that it kept her country from being invaded again when she was a young woman.

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China's Shenzhou-20 return mission delayed due to space debris impact

BEIJING, Nov 5 (Reuters) - China's Shenzhou-20 crewed spacecraft has delayed its return mission to Earth after the vessel was possibly hit by tiny bits of space debris, the country's human spaceflight agency said on Wednesday, an unusual situation that could disrupt the operation of the country's space station Tiangong.

Current Mood: tired

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Asian Drama Check-in: "Weak Hero Class 1" ep. 2

Episode 2: Yeon Si-eun proved that the bully drugged him but by the look on said bully's face, it's not over yet...

Daamn he stopped the bully's lackeys with a pen click!

Welp, that drug dealer is getting involved more.

"Maybe we were married in our past lives." An Su-ho 😂

Yeon Si-eun apologized to An Su-ho. He refused an apology from Beom-seok. The latter goes to An Hu-so for help when Yeon Si-eun is taken away by the bad guys.

An Su-ho is a frickin' badass. And Beom-seok coming in clutch!!

Aww the three eating together, please let them in Yeon Si-eun!!

Edit: I have GOT to be more careful when picking shows!!! I kinda spoiled myself and I do NOT like where these guys end up in the end. I thought I'd read the webtoon instead but seems like it's ending isn't great either. *sigh*

Entitlement Beyond Belief, Part 2

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Caller: "I don’t believe in shipping fees. Please take it off."
Me: "Uhm… I can’t do that, sir. Shipping fees are applied to all orders."
Caller: "But I don’t believe in shipping fees."

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Current Mood: working
Current Music: AlphaStorm - Heartache

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pics

~You'll have to leave it with my secretary since my torso was just scissored in half

It's been two weeks since the surgery now! I should've been posting daily updates really but I DID take pictures every day to keep track of how it was doing! I took him in to get the last stitches taken out today and he's healing very well, very alert, eating and drinking good, all good news! His other eye seems to be fine too, although they haven't gotten back to me about the pathology on that yet. He DOES have some redness at the corner of his eye though, so I'm going to have to put ointment on them and keep the cone on him another week. He's so close to being free though!

Anyway, DO YOU WANT CAT PICTURES of course you do! Of a cat post-eye surgery? Well maybe not as much. They're not gory or anything! It's just a stitched incision healing up. If you're squeamish about that though maybe give this a pass? It slowly gets more and more normal by the day, haha. It was mostly a quiet two weeks, except for one day...

( did i INTRIGUE YOU )

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prompt: #468 - endless

[Prompt: #468: Endless] Christian Religion & Lore - Endless

Title: Endless
Fandom: Christian Religion & Lore
Characters/Ships: Lucifer
Rating: G
Note: Also for my

allbingo November card prompt "devil"

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No Fandom: Junk Journal Page: Pisces

Title: Pisces
Fandom: None
Rating: G
Length: One page
Summary: Pisces, the Fish
Note: Acrostic from Horoscope.com

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Making A Stand On The Brand

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Me: "Which brand is that?"
Woman: "The one on sale."
Me: "Would that be [Brand A] or [Brand B]?"
Woman: "The one on sale."

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The Gordian Iris

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5699

less painful than an apology

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5699

Current Mood: surprised
Current Music: Hudson Line - Mercury Rev

Eleventh of the Eleventh.

One of my clients tasked me to do some computer work for her - it's something I'm doing from my apartment so it's less than the usual rate, and as it's something I'm doing from my apartment, I'm genuinely fine with that. It involves checking to see if her webpage is up to date, going through and seeing if each page that lists certain January events has those events listed on the January masterpost in turn, or if the masterpost for each month is missing certain items.

To keep track of everything as I went, I made a spreadsheet to stay organized. After a couple hours, I sent it her way to make sure I was doing it right from the get-go and wouldn't need to redo more than a couple of hours. She said the work I was doing was fine, and to compile all the missing masterpost items when I was done, but she was confused by the spreadsheet. I explained it to her, and she said that wasn't the issue: she understood what I was doing, it was that she'd never used a spreadsheet.

I understand her professional life began and ended before spreadsheets became a thing, but I hadn't thought she'd never used one. Even as a way to keep track of addresses or manage a list with a lot of moving parts. I'm inclined to believe her that she's been informed they exist and she's simply never had reason to bother.

In some ways, I envy and admire that.

Current Mood: pensive
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Stray Kids, "Hollow"

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holy days

Dept. of Remembrance

The Cruel Stupidity of War ...

... and our proper hatred of it, does not allow us to dismiss those who were sent to fight, who died on the battlefields of the air, ocean, and blood-soaked dirt, who died years later still chained by PTSD and the memories of those things they saw happen in front of them, of friends they saw die in front of them, of the non-combatants they saw die in front of them, about whose deaths they had nightmares year after year.

It took me until the end of the day to write anything at all. And this is the best I can come up with.

War is stupid and cruel and, with only a very, very few exceptions, largely useless.

But we need to remember them. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, when the wind blows the poppies back and forth in their fields, when we see name after name of the killing fields all across our blessed and cursed world.

We must. Not just on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day, of the eleventh hour; every damned day.

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Tuesday word: Pinchbeck

Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025

Pinchbeck (noun, adjective)
pinchbeck [pinch-bek]

noun
1. an alloy of copper and zinc, used in imitation of gold.
2. something sham, spurious, or counterfeit.

adjective
3. made of pinchbeck.
4. sham, spurious, or counterfeit: pinchbeck heroism.

Origin: 1725–35; named after Christopher Pinchbeck (died 1732), English watchmaker and its inventor

Example Sentences
With rough and homely fist he had copied this pinchbeck fervour.
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There was Robert--haggard and unkempt--still in the pinchbeck uniform, torn and bespattered now, with a peasant's frieze-coat thrown over it--a ridiculous disguise.
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What a snake in the grass, with his clever military plan and pinchbeck enthusiasm!
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But for love of the dear old Karnak, I must show up this pinchbeck Isabel; this dirty, disorderly floating prison, where no kind care alleviated one's miseries, and no suitable diet helped one's recovery.
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The public has in turn learned to expect the sudden start, the swift pace, the placarded climax, the clever paradox, the crisp repartee, the pinchbeck style, the bared realism, the concluding click.
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Current Mood: confused
Current Music: Got Me Wrong - Alice in Chains

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threadbare tapestry unwinding slow

So I'm back on my HGTV bullshit again, and I just watched an episode where Egypt and Mike designed "the ultimate bachelor pad" for a dude who plans to entertain his friends and family for cards and football games, and who has two enormous dogs, and they put a WHITE COUCH in his living room. Who DOES that?

Otherwise, it was a nice reno - the three-seasons deck especially. But a white couch just seems like a terrible idea for 99% of people, let alone a guy with 2 huge dogs.

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