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冫(两点水) part 1
冬, winter; 冰, ice; 冲, to collide with/against ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=15

语法
Chapter 23 quiz: Passive voice
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138651142/quizzes.php

词汇
谈, talk; 谈话, conversation; 谈判, negotiation ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
看起来像个大冰棍, he's like a big icicle
专业的事就得由专业的人来做, professional things need to be done by professionals
必要时候你就用这个跟她谈判吧, when it's needed, use this to negotiate with her

Me:
我比夏天更喜欢冬天。
我们的谈话被他打断了。

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https://xkcd.com/3098/

Ultimately, history would imperfectly record the story of the Foal of Troy.

https://xkcd.com/3098/

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(Threat level: MCR lyrics as post titles)

Work is still :: hands ::

I've talked to some other folks, cone of silence engaged, about how to get better at communication with boss lady. I feel pretty confident now, but who knows how long that will last.

One funny thing about all of those conversations: apparently very few people realize how many people I manage. In the writing/design/research ... community at work, the only person who manages more people than me is my boss. Ahahahahaha.

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The Seattle MCR concert is next month! I had an outfit idea which involves being sleeveless. Cue the Body Image Demons. In an attempt to shut them up, I turned to Tumblr for a pep talk and my G-D did they deliver. I think my favorite tag responses from reblogs were "I'm not sure if I want to fuck you or be you" and "Not to be a lesbian but omg omg omg omg".

So YES, I will wear my planned outfit and not give a fuck about my flabby arms. My therapist will be very proud of me.

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There's apparently a goth book club starting up near me! I'm going to do my damndest to attend, because it sounds like a great idea. There's dancing at the venue after the book club is over. Part of me wants to stay for that, but it's all on a Sunday night, so I should probably be a responsible adult and head home after book club. Dammit, I hate being a responsible adult.

tozka

2025 Reading Log | 35/200 yearly goal (+2 from last update)

I've gotten sucked into a fanfic-reading frenzy (Naruto, of all things) so my book-reading has been sparse these past few weeks. However, I did read two books since my last Reading Wednesday post!

First, I decided to read the Oz books (including the post-Baum books by Ruth Plumly Thompson) as a kind of reading project thing, and I of course started with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

I've read it before, but the last time was (I'm pretty sure) back in 2007 when I got my first ereader and put a bunch of public domain books on it.

It's a charming book, and I especially liked the intro from Baum in the beginning that spells out the aim of the book: to be a modern fairy tale for kids that isn't focused on morality lessons. And it does that!

( Chatter about Wonderful Wizard of Oz, including spoilers )

Besides that, I also read a novella by KL Noone called The Pooka's Share. It's a m/m urban fantasy romance between a paranormal police officer and a pookah (Celtic shape-changing spirit) with surprise (to me, because I hadn't read the summary) BDSM elements. A cute story! Perhaps spent a bit too much time on the worldbuilding when this is just a one-off and short to boot, but overall good.

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Happy June!

What are you reading?

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I was playing with the bunnies last week, and Juniper was sitting with me letting me photograph her and video her.
Then someone who was in the litter tray, got jealous of all the attention! XD

Video here

james_davis_nicoll

by trying to force an election.

sineala

What I Just Finished Reading

Marie Javins, Iron Man: Extremis Prose Novel: Extremis is an Iron Man arc I have read a lot, and I read this prose adaptation because I was interested in comparing the two; novelizations often flesh out the stories with additional details and I wanted to see what additional material was in here and what it was like.

(Also I promised myself I'd read one book a month and I finished this on the 31st in, like, an hour. I had a lot of migraines last month.)

The answer is that it's... weird. There is a lot of MCUification -- Tony has an arc reactor, a public superhero identity, and an AI named JARVIS, as well as a massive crush on Pepper -- but then it's also very comics -- Tony is sober, is clearly a working superhero and has been one for many many years, has a human butler named Jarvis who still works for the Avengers (who are clearly Tony's longtime friends), and has undergone at least a few of his bigger comics storylines, like being drunk and losing his company to Stane and being broke and living on the streets. You know. That one.

So I'm not really sure who this is for, because it's gonna annoy die-hard comics fans. I guess it's for fans who want to read some Iron Man and don't care much about continuity. Also, if you want a whole bunch of body-horror details about how Extremis works that are even more body-horrific than canon (like, Tony is conscious, mostly lucid, and blind and paralyzed and in pain the entire time he's in the cocoon and he is aware that Maya is talking to him) then I guess this is for you?

Also, weirdly, one of the ongoing themes is basically that it's Sexual Humiliation Hour for Tony? The first page of this book wants to tell us that there are tabloid stories about how Tony can't get it up, and the big Extremis reveal features Maya making fun of Tony because his dick's not bigger. I, uh. Okay? Yeah? Wasn't expecting any of that.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( Doctor Strange of Asgard #4, Imperial #1, Ultimate Spider-Man Incursion #1, Ultimate Wolverine #1 )

What I'm Reading Next

IDK. All my Not Having Migraines time is going to finishing this exchange fic and not reading.

Current Mood: creative

frith

Still trying to get the drawings flowing. I keep stalling. This prompt is for "on the move" and "walking the walk".

maju

I love using my bank's app for depositing cheques, but until today I did not know there is a monthly maximum for mobile deposits. I had received some money from a life insurance policy a few weeks ago, which came with drafts which I can use like cheques. Early in May I transferred a smallish amount to my bank account by writing one of these drafts and depositing it via the mobile app, but today I tried to transfer a much larger amount and the deposit was refused because it was more than my monthly limit. Therefore I had to go to a bank (apparently bank branches are now known as "financial centres/centers") and make the deposit in person. Later I received an email from the bank saying they had put a hold on the deposit because there might be insufficient funds to cover it (which I know is not true), so now I'm waiting for confirmation that the money has in fact been credited to my account, but I can't help feeling like I'm being treated with suspicion. Also handling this amount of money doesn't feel real to me, which is also what S said when she inherited money from her mother years ago.

Around lunch time I had an out of the blue email from someone I'd never heard of from S's employer saying the S had some equipment that he needed to retrieve (her computer), and he could let me have a shipping label so I could send it in, or if I was close enough he could come and pick it up in person. I told him my location and he said he could come and get it, and in fact he was here only about 20 minutes later. I was very happy to finally have this taken off my hands.

stonepicnicking_okapi

I haven't don't one of these since April, but I've come across some new-to-me words.

Wednesday's word is...

...banjax.

1. ruin, incapacitate, or break.

I found this new-to-me word in the Inspector Rebus I just finished (Saints of the Shadow Bible).

"...Reckons we banjaxed the Saunders case to keep a good snitch on the street."

I would also like to add this saying (also new-to-me) from the same which is very Rebus.

Fair exchange is no robbery

That is definitely going to be the title of my next hard-boiled detective fic. It's great.

paperghost

Cat was at the vet while I was working. Fleas are gone, she has thyroid and bladder issues. Fast metabolism is why she's so skinny. So she's old as fuck but not at death's door quite yet.

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We've made it to mid-week \o/!

Poll #33199 Writing!

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twistedchick

ICE pretending to be utility workers giving 'free estimates'. BEWARE!

stonepicnicking_okapi

This bingo card was created by

kingstoken. More about the challenge here: https://kingstoken.dreamwidth.org/109837.html

LBGTQ+: Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Derby. An interesting life. This is a long work, however, and at times was a slog just because of the length. 500+ pages.

Multiple POV: The Guest List by Lucy Foley. Of course, you can't think of a Multiple POV book when you want to, so I googled it and got this, and my library had it on audiobook. It's a modern And then there were none with everyone coming to a wedding on an island. No one is likeable. Really, they're all sort of awful. And it wasn't clever. And public school boys bullying someone to death is too cliche for me. But it held my attention enough to finish it. 10+hours. Ensemble narrator cast.

Anthology/Collection: The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón. An excellent collection of poetry by the US Poet Laureate. I listened to audio verison in her own voice, which I recommend. I included some of my favorites in an April post: https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/598098.html

Friendship: Seafire by Natalie C. Parker. This was my 'blind date' book I got at the library in February. It was a YA fantasy book of a kind of Mad Max world on the water. The main characters are young women who are captain and crew of a ship which is renegade/rogue, fighting against the warlord who controls the area. It was good. The world building was interesting. I'm not going to read the next in the series but I enjoyed it. Friendship is definitely a main theme. [I am also trying to do as many squares as I can of

garonne's 2025 Book Bingo here: https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/58219.html so I think this qualifies as G-B-3: Set at sea.]

Movie/TV-tie in: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. This was the first book on the 'Reading List for 4th graders' sent Minisculus' teacher, and I decided to make a Mother-Son book club. It's a sweet little book about a girl in Florida. They made a movie out of it. Winn-Dixie for unfamiliar is a grocery store chain and the girl names the stray dog (like Annie and Sandy) after the grocery store she finds it in. Minisculus, of course, reads manga and Percy Jackson. But he needs more torture in his life :) [also for G-I-1: children's book]

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