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Morning Dance (part 1 of 1, complete)

Morning Dance
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1339
[Morning of Saturday, 4 November of 2017]

:: Just after Dawn, Jules wakes feeling wonderfully rested and calm. He starts fitting his possessions back into his room, until he notices a potential problem. Part of the “Lodestar” arc, set in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::

Jules woke up as he exhaled. As soon as he inhaled, without opening his eyes, he knew that he was home. He smelled his father’s shampoo and cologne, then realized that his pillow was warmer than he was. Slowly, Jules opened his eyes.

Bennett lay slantways on the sofa, partially upright, and Jules was beside him, barely more upright. The teen chuckled to himself as he eased upright, then to his feet. He pulled the old afghan over his father, then padded into the kitchen.

It took petting the coffee machine for a moment for Jules to re-familiarize himself with the machine, but he soon had the water in the reservoir heating and mugs waiting on the counter. He grabbed his backpack to take it to his room, or the room that he had shared with Blainn.
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I’ve been on Tumblr since 2012 and I have never seen the code get reversed due to user rage be

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copperbadge:

I’ve been on Tumblr since 2012 and I have never seen the code get reversed due to user rage before. The closest I can think of is when they took comments away for like a year and then put them back different. I’m very proud of all the yelling that got it done but this is wildly (and honestly a little suspiciously) out of character. Is my memory failing me? Can anyone name another time this has happened?

I never even saw the “new” format except in screengrabs. I suspect I’m on some weird segmented server because I almost always get the site changes either way ahead of everyone else or way behind, and this was no exception. Y'all killed the beast so fast I never even saw it. I’m certainly not mad about it but I am waiting for a second shoe to drop.

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FREE HIM

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A photograph of a corner of a fenced in yard in Chicago. An ornamental concrete lion, the kind that is sitting with one paw raised, is positioned so that it looks like he's reaching plaintively through the fence.

FREE HIM

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home again

I am back from Montreal. The trip home had some annoying delays while they found us an airplane, or figured out how to tow the one they had, or something, but was otherwise fine.

Rysmiel gave me a back rub last night that did significant good for the tension in my neck and right shoulder. I currently have an unrelated shoulder pain, from spending too much time poking at my phone while spending several hours at the airport, but if I'm somewhat cautious now that I'm home, that should take care of itself in a day or three.

I am catching up on some of the PT exercises I didn't do while traveling because they require elastics, or the foam roller, or weights, but doing all of them tonight would be imprudent.

But Tumblr says this will build engagement; and Tumblr is an honorable site.

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david-goldrock:

incomingalbatross:
But Tumblr says this will build engagement; and Tumblr is an honorable site.
(feel free to reblog this any way you want, if you want.)
Friends, tumblerinas, feigalach of all kinds, lend me your ears. I come to mourn the reblog chain, not to praise her
The good that features do, is mentioned after them. Their frustrating parts are oft intered with their bones, so let it be, with the reblog chain
The noble tumblr hath told you the reblog chain denied engagement. If it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath the reblog chain paid for it
Here, under leave of tumblr and its @staff, for tumblr is an honorable site, so are its @staff, honorable in their help, come I to speak, at the reblog chain’s final moments
She was a good feature. Simple, and engaging to me, but tumblr says she denied engagement and tumblr is an honorable site
She had brought many memes to the world, who’s sharing did the userbase grow, did this, in the reblog chain, deny engagement?
When that the meme did flop, the reblog chain had not notes! Engagement denial should be made of lesser stuff, yet tumblr says she denied engagement and tumblr is an honorable site
You all did see that in the last 3 years thrice users of other sites flocked to it, and thrice they had not stayed because opening Tumblr for the first time sucks, and absolutely never for the reblog chain, but tumblr says she did deny engagement, and Tumblr, is an honorable site
I speak not to disprove what tumblr spoke, but here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love her once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for her? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And @changes have lost their reason. Bear with me; my heart is in the coffin there with the reblog chain, and I must pause till it come back to me.

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Spanish class experiences of the week

- My Russian classmate explaining ski mountaineering to us in Spanish, limited by the fact that neither I nor the prof had ever seen or heard of it before (it was a new event at the winter Olympics this year) and that in Spanish it's called "esprint skimo" which does not convey much meaning to the uninitiated. We eventually found a video online (after I pointed out to the prof that "eskimo" means something else.)
- Talking about laundromats and whether people in the US actually use them (yes) and why US apartment buildings have communal laundry rooms, unlike here where having a washing machine in every unit is standard (I could only guess it might be because US clothes dryers need a higher voltage electrical outlet than standard, and Americans expect a washer and dryer, so installing them in every unit is more work?)
- Most of my classmates were absent today so I gave my little presentation about shape note music to an audience of zero Americans, zero Protestants and zero musicians of any kind.
- I went home and looked up statistics and found that Spain is 53% Catholic, 40% atheist/agnostic/non-religious, and 3.7% Every Other Religion And Every Other Christian Denomination. Hashtag I don't know what I expected.

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镇魂 | Guardian: 520 Day Reverse Exchange 2026

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i do appreciate the way that we tumblr users have evolved our language to discuss our feelings&helli

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twobeesornottwobees:

oldbutchdanielcraig:
i do appreciate the way that we tumblr users have evolved our language to discuss our feelings related to The Character/The Guy. you used to have to just say he was hot or he was making your ovaries explode or he was a precious cinnamon roll even if he looked bad or was just kind of standing there or whatever. now you can say things like “the creature” or “he looks so sopping wet here” or “i want to chain him to my radiator” like it’s just more inclusive and adaptable to the situation
as someone on the asexual spectrum, this shift in language genuinely made me feel more comfortable and happy in fandom spaces. i’ve never once wanted to lick a man’s abs. i HAVE wanted to chain a man to my radiator. and that’s beautiful.

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book report

Spin Control, by Chris Moriarty

Sequel to Spin State, and, yes, you have to read that one first. Really solid hard science-fiction where the science is artificial intelligence (real AI, not fucking Claude), cloning, ecological collapse, complex adaptive systems and complexity theory, and I took the last two straight out of the "Further Reading" section at the end (yes there's homework) because hell if I know, even though Moriarty definitely expected me to know and says as much. The closest I can get to guessing what that field is about (without Further Reading) is E.O. Wilson and his ants, which are also here.

The fiction is set far in the future in a universe where the Earth is suffering from global climate catastrophe and the vast majority of people live in orbital stations or on terraformed planets. This includes huge hives of genetically engineered corporate clones, who are no longer considered human, and transhumans who have been technologically advanced to the point where they're not considered entirely human either. The only humans allowed to live on Earth are natural ones with hereditary exceptions, which, practically, seems to mainly mean indigenous groups, whatever's left of the United States after it broke with the U.N., and people with religious wars to fight. Half of the action is set in the middle of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.

So you can see how this book might be a bit too real at this stage of the horrors.

Unfortunately for both of us, due to my state of mind—and the state of the world—I couldn't concentrate on any of it. I could only read it sporadically and had trouble remembering all the spy intrigue (of which there's a lot) and who was on what side, but I'm sure it was great and tense and full of unexpected betrayals (iguess.jpg). However, I can say that even after days away from it, I could pick it up and just start reading because it's very well written and the (main) characters are all memorable and interesting.

If any of this sounds like your jam, read the first book (that one is about mining, Bose–Einstein condensates, corporate espionage, and AI), pick up this one, and then probably read the third in the trilogy, Ghost Spin. I'll pick it up one day, but probably not today, and probably not tomorrow, on account of my poor brains.

Contains: global climate disaster; Israel/Palestine; torture and interrogation; widespread infertility; unplanned pregnancy; amputation; slaughter of chickens for food; and an extended shoutout to Ender's Game.

I got a book on cryptids a few weeks ago and it has (a) Hodag in it! It’s called “The Explorer’s

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Aw, as Hodag illustrations go that one's pretty adorable! I like that it's kind of a cute cryptid, that's why I picked it, although admittedly Wisconsin cryptids are a little thin on the ground to start with. And I'm already stealing the schtick from @thebibliosphere and @mothman-etd so I couldn't go with Mothman.

It's a shame Rhinelander, the "home" of the hodag, is so far north -- my Hodag can't travel super far (it's why they haven't visited me in Chicago and we're trying to work out if they can make the roughly 2 1/2 hour drive from Milwaukee to Spring Green this summer) or I'd suggest we go pay a visit.

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chore accountability

Chore Accountability

This always works for my brain when it's buzzing, and it's BUZZING today. So here's a post for me to edit with updates as I get writing done and tidy the house. ADHD meds, save me from myself! I've locked myself out of my phone for 120 minutes, so my only options are writing, chores, and staring into space.

Wrote a few hundred words on a Rare Kink Buffet prompt. When I'm this jittery with directionless ADHD energy, my cleaning hack is to do roughly five units each of several tasks instead of trying to pin myself to one. So I put away about five dishes, folded five pieces of clean laundry, and picked up five things from the bedroom floor.

200 words of a different Rare Kink Buffet prompt. I can really feel the hyperactivity (and associated misery) today. Absolutely horrid. I put away five more dishes, folded the rest of the laundry, cleaned the stovetop and counters, and spot-vacuumed the corners and under furniture. I know I took my meds this morning because I was there when I took them and the drink I got to take them with is still on the table. But I sure FEEL unmedicated and I'm glad I don't have to drive anywhere this afternoon.

200 words of a third prompt. I took a break for lunch, then put away the rest of the laundry and five dishes and cleaned the toilet. Buzzing, buzzing, buzzing. Would you believe it if I told you that current geopolitics have me kind of on edge?

400 words of another prompt. I put away the rest of the dishes, then loaded the dishes from the sink into the dishwasher and did some vague kitchen tidying. It's beginning to look cleaner in here.

Current Mood: pissed off
Current Music: Favorite Liar - The Wrecks

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tumblr

Tumblr... grr.

For those who aren't active on Tumblr right now, a tl;dr. A new update to how notes on reblogs work, which has so far rolled out on desktop and to some mobile users, is breaking the way most people use Tumblr. Each reblog-with-text now has its own likes, comments, and notes section. This means that not all interactions on posts are visible to the OP. Artists are in an uproar, but this also breaks aspects of the block function and removes the ability to turn off reblogs on posts that have been reblogged with text.

With that in mind, I've tentatively offered to give mutuals and longtime followers of my personal tumblr access to this account if they DM me. I'm nervous about that, because I like keeping my online identities pretty siloed. I'd previously only connected this account to my fandom identity. I have a good group of followers over there, though, and I'd be sad to lose them.

I don't think this is The Big One where everyone flees the Tumblr site like rats from a sinking ship, but it does feel as big as the 2018 porn ban, with the added uncertainty that these changes rolled out the day they were announced. The Changes blog on Tumblr has blithely said that they can see the userbase has strong feelings, which they claim they'll monitor over the "next weeks" of this rollout. I'm certainly concerned and making backup plans.

Those of you who use Tumblr, what do you think of all this? What are you planning?

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Them: Go look at any official communication from a company. Have you ever received a ConEd bill that says, “Ya should of paid ya bill on time, now we gonna haveta cut off ya powa”? Of course not. Why? Because that is not standard English, and it would reflect poorly on the company.

Me: I take it you've never called ConEd on the phone in NYC? Because, whew, that'd disabuse you of this fiction pretty quick. Them and National Grid, wow. And I'm not even talking about their representatives, I'm talking about their recordings! Never heard such a thick NYC accent in my life, and I grew up here!

Current Mood: aggravated
Current Music: The Mendoza Line - Lethal Temptress

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My nemesis appears

Evidence of his foul presence:

2026-13-16 - Evidence of my bird nemesis

Or perhaps I should say...fowl presence?

A pigeon has decided that it wants to just hang out near our back door, in the rafters of the roof above our back stairwell. It's not nesting there, as far as I can tell, since there's no nest in our planting pots nor up on the rafters. It's just found its favorite spot and sits up there often, and of course, wherever a bird habitually sits, the ground below becomes a toilet. There's a ton of bird poop all over our back stairwell now and it's too cold for me to easily go out and clean it up.

I've taken to using a paintroller poll to just periodically go out and poke the pigeon when it's sitting up there in the hope that if I make staying near our door too annoying, it'll give up and hang out somewhere else. Watch this space to see if that happens.

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"My name is Ozymandias, King of Things!
Look upon my Works, ye Mighty, and Repair!"
Everything inside remains. Round the tools
Of that colossal Bench, all arranged
The shiny level and sander are neatly put away.

This is the best comment in that thread, nothing will top it.

"The best have strong convictions, while the worst / Are full of resignation and are sad.
[...]
And if a lion slouches toward Bethlehem, / That's 'cause it's native to the Levant."

Gosh, I wish.

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March snow, ugh.

It snowed last night, enough to cover the ground. I'm not a huge fan of snow in March, but this post is not actually about the weather.

( Fiber arts! )

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apropos of the top-down structural attack on Tumblr community ties

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Interesting Links for 17-03-2026

1. "Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story": (tags:iran israel journalism gambling ohforfuckssake )
2. Subnautica 2 Publisher Followed ChatGPT's Advice On How To Break The Law: (tags:law ai games OhForFucksSake )
3. Nvidia's Next-Gen Photo-Realistic Lighting looks, frankly, amazing: (tags:games lighting nvidia video )
4. Regression, Not Progress: A Response to World Athletics' Return to Sex Testing: (tags:gender testing OhForFucksSake women LGBT transgender biology )
5. Have some simple but inspiring images about growth through making mistakes: (tags:inspiration visualisation )
6. Almost 25 years ago, a war game exercise had an Iran-stand in use asymmetric warfare to obliterate a US military force. So they re-ran it to force a US victory.: (tags:usa military ohforfuckssake iran games )

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Grumpy about overly-simplistic polling

I do wish that polls wouldn't ask if people thought that the PM was handling something "Well" or "Badly". Because two people answering "Badly" might mean completely different things by it.

Also, me saying "Immigration is important to me" means the opposite of what a Reform voter would mean by it.

This because of reporting of how many people think that Starmer is handling the Iran situation well or badly. When I can guarantee that some of the "badly" think we should be bombing Iran right now, and some think that we shouldn't be involved even slightly.