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So the Boston Immigrant Justice Accompaniment Network, where I volunteer, is scraping the bottom of their bond fund. If you have a few pennies to toss, now would be a really exceptional time.

(I personally have been scratching my head trying to figure out what kind of best talent show this town has ever seen might be helpful to the overall cause, so I guess if there's anything you've ever wanted to see me do or post about particularly that might work as a fundraising incentive, let me know???)

sovay

Thanks to the escalation in their heartbreakingly necessary work of bonding out people kidnapped and imprisoned by ICE and helping with their legal fees and families, the Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network has depleted its bond fund in record time since the start of the year. There is no shortage of detainees in our profitably carceral system and no one in need should have more locks across their path. You got a sixpence you want, they are taking donations. It's actually Shavuos at the moment, but it is always a good time to open the door to the stranger.

Current Music: Lucy Dacus, "Planting Tomatoes"

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https://xkcd.com/3249/

We definitely put the pool in a mine for shielding. It was absolutely not to hide it from the funding people.

https://xkcd.com/3249/

petra

I really need there to be a Baby Yoda in Spaceballs II: The Search For More Money.

Extra bonus points if he's called Go-Gurt.

I have no plans to watch the Grogu movie. But I want a Go-Gurt shirt.

Current Mood: sorry wrong muppet icon
Current Music: Spaceballs: The Animated Series Food Tie-In Merch

oursin

Anyway, I was dipping in again to the Violet Hunt Tales of the Uneasy and in 'The Operation' there is the backstory where a man's first wife -

had smoothed and made easy the path of divorce for the man she loved.... full of zeal to give him his freedom. It was hardly human, so the woman who had profited by her action thought, and certainly not very womanly. Florence could not imagine herself allowing a cold business-like lawyer to dictate her a letter bidding Joe come back to her herewith; a summons intended, of course, for ultimate publication. It disgusted Florence, this horrible business of sueing for restitution of conjugal rights!

Only a divorce-law nerd like moi would probably be able to decode this?

This was the cleanest way a woman could get quit of a husband pre 1923 - he had of course to be adulterous (or appear to have been) and refusing to restitute conjugal rights counted as desertion.

Otherwise she had to prove cruelty (which could include knowing infection with a loathsome disease) or that he was guilty of a sexual crime (rape, sodomy, incest....).

But in a situation where the man had, presumably, already run off with Another Woman, having to go through that legal rigmarole of asking him to come back so that he could refuse and be legally deserting does strike one as a very chagrining procedure.

petra

Here on Tumblr. Truly a tour de force. Only a few pages long, alas. Someone needs get this person a gig doing this for money so I can buy their work immediately.

Current Mood: overwhelmed
Current Music: And I think that Schopenhauer was right

petra

Stephen Colbert made an OnlyFans joke less than two minutes into his final monologue.

hannah and I want him to go through with it and strip while giving monologues.

You know, like the incredibly famous stripper with the unfortunate name.

Elaine Stritch telling stories about Ethel Merman, then singing "Zip," which is a song about interviewing the stripper with the racist slur for a name.

It'd be like that.

I deeply do not want to face the next exactly this long -- just over 973 days as of right now -- without the leavening of Colbert. This is gonna suck.

Current Mood: sing the fucking song
Current Music: Walter Lippmann wasn't brilliant today

philomytha

It's nearly my five-year Bigglesversary! And that means there has to be fic. My plans for actually finishing one of the fics I started practically five years ago to the day have not quite come off yet, so instead have this bit of ridiculousness that wandered into my head yesterday and wouldn't go away.

Title: Touch
Content: Biggles/EvS, a bit of EvS/Zorotov and Biggles/Marie, UST, resolved UST, 1000 words
Summary: months later, Erich could still feel each separate touch

( Touch )

brightknightie

I recently bumped into the information that Penguin Classics had been using the Arthur Waley abridged translation (1942) of The Journey to the West right up until the Julia Lovell abridged translation (2021). This startled me. It shouldn't have. What could they have used instead? It was Waley or nothing in English until the '80s. And the two translations from the '80s (Yu and Jenner) are unabridged. JttW is approximately the same length as The Lord of the Rings. Anthony Yu did abridge his own translation in 2006! But Yu is a challenging read, not least because his meticulously-faithful-to-the-original paragraphing (no breaks when different characters speak) gets exhausting.

As you may know, The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en (1592) is a masterpiece of Chinese literature and the source of loads of tropes in all media. (Look behind the waterfall? JttW.) To oversimplify, think of it as: the Homeric epics, Le Morte d'Arthur, and The Faerie Queene rolled into one by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). Or recognize it in Dragonball Z, Lego Monkie Kid, Black Myth Wukong... Watch the delightful Overly Sarcastic Productions retelling.

Arthur Waley's 1942 abridgement introduced the English-speaking world to JttW. While highly entertaining and accessible, it treated the text exclusively as a collection of folktales, deliberately omitting the theology, philosophy, and politics. He gave us the indelible, beloved English names Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy for the iconic characters, names which are simultaneously perfect and severe misrepresentations. I gather that Waley did this sincerely, not ignorantly or oppressively; he was consciously modernist and following the lead of Chinese scholars of his day, but... ouch! Arriving at Waley from this end of history makes for some cringing.

So, yay, Julia Lovell's lovely abridged translation for our era, and yay, Penguin Classics for getting it into more people's hands and imaginations. (See it on Amazon.)

dolorosa_12

The sun is shining, it's the start of a long weekend, and I can hear the teenage girls next door singing along enthusiastically to a medley of Disney songs. I feel — for the first time in a while — relaxed and happy, so long may that continue!

For today's open thread, I had the idea to do a modification of something we sometimes ask at work as a job interview activity (although obviously without that added pressure!): talk about one of your interests or hobbies, and why you like it. (If you want to make it really challenging, do it with the constraints we use in the job interviews: explain what it is as if to people who have never heard of this hobby/activity before, treat it like an elevator pitch where you have to 'sell' the benefits of this hobby, and do so with an extremely limited wordcount.)

Since I think it goes without saying that almost everyone here will recognise the value of a) social blogging, b) writing original fiction, fanfiction or both, and c) engaging fannishly with works of media, maybe pick a different hobby or interest?

( Picking things up, putting them down, and dancing to very cheesy music )

So, talk to me about your (non-fandom, non-writing, non-Dreamwidth) hobbies!

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selenak

For All Mankind: In which the scriptwriting duo Weddle & Thompson, who first made their name on the later seasons of DS9 and were subsequently recruited by Ron Moore for BSG now script For all Mankind: War Against Your Population Is Fucked Up, the episode.

( Spoilers also spend some time continuing the quest for life, of course )

The Testaments 1.09: Marat/Sade .

This was really the title of the episode, I kid you not. Being a theatre and a French Revolution nerd sometimes really pays off.

( Spoilers were raised in a society which loves their Old Testament Style vengeance )

Current Mood: pensive
Current Location: Bamberg

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Here's an older post where I was having fun with Snapchat filters on Guardian, The Untamed and Till the end of the moon in my journal.
Check out the video clips and pictures here.

Mods, please help with the correct type of tag.

I sure hope to do more of these purely for unhinged fun. /o\

siria

no such word as indifference
Carmilla | Carmilla/Laura | ~1500 words

(Also on AO3)

( A fragment of manuscript, today filed away in an archive, reveals the fate of Laura—and, ultimately, of Carmilla herself. )

profiterole_reads

The graphic novel Just Between Us by Adeline Kon was fun. Lydia and Elaine compete for the gold in figure skating.

I like the fact that it's in black & white & golden. The story is well done, but there's never anything unexpected about it.

Lydia is Chinese American, with a few hanzi here and there. Elaine is Malaysian. There's major f/f, as well as a semi-major trans sapphic character.

princessofgeeks

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has marked as possibly inappropriate for anyone under the age of 18. )

Current Mood: busy

umadoshi

A current very-Canadian thing is that payments for the Loblaws (one of the national grocery giants) bread settlement (the Canadian Packaged Bread Class Actions Settlement) are trickling out to the tune of $49.01 per claimant. I've been seeing mention of it all week on Bluesky. The notification about mine arrived this morning. I doubt Loblaws even feels the settlement amount, and God knows the mainstream chains are wringing every cent out of people that they can, one way or another, but it's still nice to see them actually paying for a wrongdoing. I will take my not-quite-fifty-dollars, thank you.

I was happy to see this morning that The Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible is on sale in ebook, so I've snagged that to supplement the hard copy of The Vegetable Gardener's Bible.

On the weekend,

scruloose and I decided that we'll take a Friday off to visit the local non-profit's seedling sale, since it's Friday to Sunday for the duration of its run. We were having a few very warm days, so we briefly considered doing it today, but thankfully sense prevailed, given that there was a frost warning last night and there's another tonight. So. Maybe next Friday, but going in two weeks is probably a better idea. (The local standard for "we're FINALLY sure there won't be more frost" is "after the full moon in June", but this year's isn't until June 30th. [There are two this month--May 1st and May 31st.])

(I know lettuce and spinach are very fond of cool weather, so I'm as reasonably sure as possible before going out to look that our seedlings will be okay, but I can't help a bit of reflexive worry.)

Occasionally I remember that I can just upload images on Dreamwidth. Have a pic of some of our tiny lettuce seedlings on their second day poking up from the soil. (These are the Freckles variety, and yesterday it looked like we had some popping up from all the lettuce types except the Black Seeded Simpson.) The plant marker behind them, despite appearances, is not a popsicle stick; the markers we bought are noticeably larger than that.

A row of very tiny lettuce seedlings peeking up from the soil.

Current Mood: groggy

omens

The dentist's office called today because they'd accidentally made Liam a hygienist apppointment and not a dentist appointment this morning, lol. We ended up getting there before they could get ahold of us. So now he has a new appointment for June 2 (still way better than Sept 28!).. we went and bought snacks anyway, which we'd planned to do afterward because I needed tomatoes, and all he had to do was wake up early :D it worked out very well for him, if not his teeth :P

Kelly is working from home today and is in the front yard fighting a war against dandelions. We both love dandelions but the difference between our yard and the retirees' yards on either side of us is stark. :/

I started de-chaos-ing the office where my computer lives, but it is a big project. Sorting hobby supplies, figuring out storage, etc. Dreaming up a better desk situation, maybe. It's such a weird little dark room. I want it to be great but it has never quite been comfortable. Other than that, I have my daily Kdrama date at 3pm! We're watching Undercover Miss Hong & at 7 eps in, it is EXCELLENT. It takes place in 1997 and is a lot of fun. Wall to wall great characters & many shenanigans.

A funny bonus picture I forgot to share of Sunny

Her little stick legs under that floof! From after her bloodwork appointment on the 6th. They had to poke both legs! No wonder she went ballistic. She's usually calm as heck but not that time. Or, you know, I guess cause and effect could be reversed lolol. Either way, she walked it off and so did Christina, the technician /o\ sorry, Christina

james_davis_nicoll

A Gun For Godzilla, which is along the lines of de Camp's A Gun for Dinosaur or Drake's Time Safari, except the excessively optimistic rich people are hunting Kaiju.

The hunters have .600 Nitro Express rifles while their prey can melt steel with their body heat.

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This is really, really niche

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US Politics: Stephen Colbert's next gig

Fic: Touch

The Penguin Classics version of Journey to the West

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