So cold this morning. For values of cold in Australia, which is to say there's frost on the grass and I have my giant scarf on. I am having crappy, crappy low moods but weirdly and ferociously creative times. It is strange and I don't understand the rhythms of it at all. I feel like the world is being sucked into a black hole, and yet I cannot stop writing POI fic.
Five things about winter Saturdays in rural Australia:
- Frosty, foggy mornings that will become clear and sunny by twelve
- The footy scoreboard shining orange through the fog as the under-twelves play the 8am match
- Teenage girls in netball skirts with goosepimpled legs, poor things
- People leaving their shoes at the front door so they don't track mud through the pharmacy
- Farmers all hollow-eyed from helping calves into the world, eating hot pies for breakfast
I want to say some things about media I've been enjoying but I keep procrastinating because I don't have the time to write long and involved things. So, here are some short thinkings on things:
Five things about Wonder Woman
( Not very spoilery but I wouldn't want to ruin anyone's joy ) Five things about Legion
( Not too spoilery. Defs not addressing the big spoilers, anyway. ) Five things about Twin Peaks
( I have seen episode five, so assume spoilers for up to there ) Five Things to Do
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leecetheartist, a zooniverse project based in Western Australia:
Western Shield Camera Watch. Their description:
Western Shield is a government funded conservation project that is dedicated to managing introduced predators, primarily foxes and cats, that threaten native wildlife in Western Australia.This is a very gentle and calming kind of thing to do, I enjoy it a lot. You get to identify kangaroos and emus and all sorts of weird little hopping things. You could also identify this murderous looking bird:
[A giant, yellow eyed bird, going at the lens of a camera with an angry beak]
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anandrine is talking about communities on Dreamwidth: active comms, comms you'd like to see become more active.
let's talk communities- read this Beatles zombie AU webcomic:
Eleanor Rigby(
when i was very small i assumed this song was about some lady who literally kept a human face in a jar by the door and since father mckenzie buried her that meant that he also killed her and basically i thought eleanor rigby was about zombies until i was like 12 years old)
- Check out this new prompt comm,
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picture_prompt_fun, write a story for a picture prompt.
- sign-up for
multifandomdrabble, and write someone 100 words. I did this last year, when it was being trialled at Imzy, and it was fun!
More details here.
Five Linkspams to make your day a little better
- This woman's joyful reaction at a woman proposing to her girlfriend at a museum:
No One Can Get Over This Older Lady's Reaction To A Woman Proposing To Her Girlfriend (This gave me life at a time when I was feeling very bitter at yet another friend's marriage where they did not do anything about the hateful 'Man and woman' clause of the marriage act that must be read out at a wedding in Australia. Like this:
Objectors block out Marriage Act's 'union of man and woman' words at civil weddings.)
- The Grenfell Tower fire is a horrible, terrifying tragedy. I am buoyed by the stories of how people have helped, how emergency workers have been amazing. (Like Mr Rogers:
"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.' To this day, especially in times of disaster, I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers — so many caring people in this world.) Today in my email, I saw this about pharmacists dealing with the logistics of people losing all their medication and prescriptions and records:
Pharmacists in West London have been working to help people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy.
- Remember Tommy Westphall and the snowglobe phenomenon? Check in with it again here:
The Tommy Westphall Universe. Apparently reboots have really kicked the database into overdrive this year. I saw a pack of Morley cigarettes on Twin Peaks, which means the Twin Peaks verse doesn't exist. No surprises there, though.
- Knitting spies!!
The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool- From some of my Person of Interest research:
The 10 Best Bottles of Vodka in the World. Linked because the tasting notes are even more amazing and wanky than wine tasting notes. For example:
Soft and laser-precise on the palate with a seamless balance and great length of flavor.Now I want vodka. But it is illegal for me to drink vodka and be a health professional. So cruel.
Son of ETA: As people have asked, yes, I am legally forbidden to drink vodka only while I am at work being a health professional. After work, I may freely engage in the drinking of vodka, and indeed, many other spirits.
