solarbird | Network

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/1-dead-after-2-planes-collide-north-of-cornwall-9.6980463?cmp=rss

Two firefighters cross a rural road. Emergency vehicles line the street behind them.

Transportation Safety Board investigators have been dispatched to the scene of a fatal mid-air plane crash southeast of Ottawa that claimed the life of one pilot.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/1-dead-after-2-planes-collide-north-of-cornwall-9.6980463?cmp=rss

cupcake_goth

I'm once again thinking of going to the permanent makeup tattooist who did my brows to get a star-shaped permanent beauty mark. I'm trying to decide between bright BRIGHT fuchsia, or the darkest brown she has (I'd prefer black, but I don't know what color black cosmetic tattooing pigment fades to. I don't want a blue star eventually on my face.

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As far as the Stroppy One and I have been able to tell, the ear goop medicine for Miss Erzabet No Biting's hyperthyroidism is indeed reducing her peeing everywhere. An interesting side effect is that Vlad is now spending more time with us in the evening, instead of staying in the Madwoman in the Attic's room. So that's nice.

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I had an insane urge to reread what I consider to be Anne Rice's crackiest books in the Vampire Chronicles: Blackwood Farm and Blood Canticle. I've finished the first, and am about 1/4 through the second, and my god, I had forgotten how unhinged Lestat sounds during it. Lestat berates the people who didn't like Memnoch the Devil! (I am amongst those people.) Lestat fantasizes about becoming a saint and fixing everything wrong with the world! Everyone prays to him! Lestat imagines a conversation with the Pope about canonizing him! And that's just in the first chapter.

Also, you could tell me that Anne Rice was the person who wrote the mind-boggling fanfic classic My Immortal and I would agree. Look at how Lestat describes himself:

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scans_daily

“That relationship between Doom and Valeria is maybe one of the best in comics. It’s so unusual and almost impossible. The idea that your hated villain would be the goddaughter to your child seems ridiculous, but it works because, Doom, for all of his many faults, he does have this weird, twisted sense of honor. I love that he will be Emperor Doom, but also still wants to be Uncle Doom to this young woman. They’re both pulling each other in different directions, kind of towards each other. It’s so operatic and big, but it makes sense emotionally.” — Ryan North

( Scans under the cut... )

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fictional_fans

Ao3's Sweet Sixteen is today! It was launched November 15th, 2009.

Were you an early adopter, or did it take you a while to start posting? Were you writing fanfic elsewhere at the time, or were you not into fic yet? How has your writing changed since the first fic you posted? Do you even use Ao3 now, or do you post somewhere else?

This post is not sponsored by Ao3. I'm just a dork.

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⌈ Secret Post #6889 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

[Radiolight]

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

rosa_heartlily

A year ago, I was making progress with Nano and writing an initial draft response to The Letter, then battling the robot spider in Dollet.

Today was just a normal Saturday. Cleaning, gaming and bathing.

Now I'm watching the whole of Genesis of the Daleks as per favourite colleague's suggestion. It's such an important story in the Whoniverse.

I've made some decisions - or come to some realisations...? - about Keys to the Kingdom. I knew each of the women would tell her own story but I had thought they all accompanied Jarrick to the kingdom, which would have made the second half of their narrations rather dull. I've realised they do a kind of relay with Jarrick. Kiara accompanies him from their home village to the Oasis, then flounces off. He visits Nova who gives him her prophecy and goes with him part of the way, but then has to leave (why? where to?), so passes him on to MC. She is now trapped on the world and Jarrick promises to put her in touch with all the greatest mages in the kingdom, once he ascends the throne.

At the capital, it becomes apparent that Jarrick isn't the true monarch and the only way for MC to get home is for that person to ascend the throne and restore balance. MC heads back to where she left Nova and they travel together to Kiara's home village because she is the true monarch. She doesn't want anything to do with it but realises MC's presence is destroying the world. Once she is crowned, she puts Jarrick in charge as regent and goes back home for a quiet life with her herbs and potions. And MC and Captain return to our world.

Current Mood: creative
Current Location: bedroom

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fandomsecrets

[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #985 ]

The first secret from this batch will be posted on November 22nd.

RULES:
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Optional: If you would like your secret's fandom to be noted in the main post along with the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret. If your secret makes the fandom obvious, there's no need to do this. If your fandom is obscure, you should probably tell me what it is.

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assumptionprime_feed

https://assumptionprime.tumblr.com/post/800295293002432512

bloodraven55:

https://assumptionprime.tumblr.com/post/800295293002432512

assumptionprime_feed

https://assumptionprime.tumblr.com/post/800295076538515457

sometiktoksarevalid:

https://assumptionprime.tumblr.com/post/800295076538515457

assumptionprime_feed

https://assumptionprime.tumblr.com/post/800294533856477184

biblicallyaccuratemoth:

Me, “Makes an offhand comment about lack of pockets.”
Every Cis man within earshot, “Well…you see…you chose to wear….certain kinds of clothing…and well…it doesn’t tend to have pockets…and that was your choice…so maybe don’t…y’know…complain… :) :) :)”

https://assumptionprime.tumblr.com/post/800294533856477184

argyleteatime_feed

https://argyleteatime.tumblr.com/post/800300015292710912

I can’t decide if Duolingo is completely being run by an AI that thinks it knows what humans like, or an actual person who has never experienced life outside the internet.

https://argyleteatime.tumblr.com/post/800300015292710912

queen_ypolita

This morning brought sunshine, slightly hazy, but absolutely gorgeous nonetheless. I ventured out for some parkrun tourism and it was great to be out in that sunshine, even if the wind was rather brisk and chilly.

My train from Edinburgh departed at midday, so I didn't really have time for anything apart from parkrun. The journey was uneventful and I spent it reading. And the cross-London transfer and train journey home were equally unremarkable. There were some delays and changes on GWR trains after Storm Claudia, but that didn't really affect me, as I'd always aim for whichever would depart next. All the issues were apparently further west down the line.

pegkerr

About three or four months ago, I started feeling a vague pain deep in my right hip. Not a muscle problem, not an arthritis bone-on-bone feeling. It just...hurt.

I kept trying to exercise, but it kept getting more difficult. I vaguely thought, "I should see someone about this." I had my usual yearly appointment set with my doctor for several months away, so I waited.

I probably waited too long.

I have been walking around Lake Nokomis regularly but by the appointment came up, I had been reduced from walking all the way around to managing only about one-third of the way around, limping.

Then I realized I was starting to feel pain in my knee. And my lower back.

And then I realized it hurt just lying in bed.

My doctor sent me to an orthopedic specialist and I met with her this past week. The diagnosis: Gluteal tendinopathy, along with some mild osteoarthritis in the right hip and tranchaneric bursitis in both hips. What a mouthful.

Action plan: start physical therapy, and if that doesn’t help, will consider cortisone shots.

image description: a view of a pelvis portion of a skeleton with a muscular overstructure on one side. Lower left: close-up of one side of the hip, showing the IT band. Right: picture of a woman sitting on the ground, with legs pulled up close and forearms covering her face. Lower center: a cane.

Pain

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Current Mood: sore

ysabetwordsmith posting in

birdfeeding

Today is partly sunny and quite warm. It's already up to 75°F.

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, plus a male cardinal.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 11/15/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

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Current Mood: busy

shadowkat

1. Watched part of the Public Theater's presentation of Shakespeare's Twelth Night that premiered at the new theater in Central Park, this summer.
Didn't see it - for two reasons: 1) there were lines at all locations at 4 am in the morning and 2) no time. Also, I've seen Twelth Night about five times? And I'm not crazy about it. It's among Shakespeare's famous comedies, although I like "As You Like It", "Much Ado About Nothing", and "Midsummer Night's Dream" more.

It aired on Great Performances around 9pm, and will most likely be re-aired at some point, also on PBS Passport.
( brief review )

2. Fall is creeping along in NYC - we're experiencing a late fall. There are still green leaves and yellow leaves on many of the trees outside my window for example, there are still flowers about, and red leaves. It's pretty actually. It's normally not until after Thanksgiving that the leaves are gone, and snow arrives.

Struggling with blood sugar issues and balance issues today for some reason. I feel just a little off or dizzy.

3. Angel and Buffy Rewatch

I've completed the four episode Faith Arc now that arcs through Buffy S4 episode This Year's Girl/Who are You to Angel S1 episodes FivebyFive/Sancturary.

The Angel episodes are better - but that's mainly because Angel S1 has a better arc than Buffy S4, and there's no Adam. Also, Faith works better with Angel and Wes than Giles and Buffy, partly because Angel and Wes are trying to redeem themselves, while Giles and Buffy aren't.

The best of the four episodes is actually the last one, which is co-written by Tim Minear and Whedon, and unlike Whedon, Minear gets the whole redemption angle. Whedon struggles with it and slips into Daddy Issues or Mommy Issues. Minear doesn't. So in Angel, we get a little less of that - although it is readily apparent in Five by Five, which isn't Minear's episode, but written by Jim Kouff and possibly Jeanine Renshaw. The difference between the two episodes in regards to writing - is night and day.
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4. Finished reading Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik finally - and, the writing style didn't work for me. I liked the story and characters well enough, jus got bogged down by the writing style (which I've discussed in previous posts). Too many first person point of views.

Moving on to The Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem.

cbc_topnews_feed

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/afc-toronto-vancouver-rise-fc-nsl-final-nov-15-9.6979302?cmp=rss

A soccer player representing AFC Toronto battles for the ball with two opponents.

Vancouver Rise are the first-ever Northern Super League champions after a 2-1 win over AFC Toronto at BMO Field on Saturday.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/afc-toronto-vancouver-rise-fc-nsl-final-nov-15-9.6979302?cmp=rss

cbc_topnews_feed

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/topshots-2025-11-15-9.6978082?cmp=rss

A silhouetted football player leaves the field in a stadium tunnel that's painted on one said with words: 112th Grey Cup.

Photographers from CBC News, The Canadian Press, Reuters and others document our changing world every day. Here's a selection of the week's top images.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/topshots-2025-11-15-9.6978082?cmp=rss

susandennis

We got a puzzle lamp for the elbow! Yesterday Jan and Dick called with a tech emergency. On my way down there, I spied the new puzzle lamp. A long time ago, the floor leader, who is generally, down to her last marble, sent out an email asking if we wanted a puzzle table and lamp for our elbow. I responded, immediately, YES!! Turns out, I was supposed to gather the floor together and take a vote. Whatfucking ever. I like my way better. But, anyway since she's rarely right, I figure it was an exercise in email anyway and would never turn into anything but, now we have a lamp! And it's VERY helpful.

And Jan and Dick's issue was fairly easy to noodle out. People who don't use right clicks miss out on so much in life.

Volleyball was good again this morning. It was a good group of players.

Elbow coffee is next. And then, nothing planned til next week which turns out to be kind of busy. I do kind of have this idea of organizing my yarn but that idea might never see the outside of my head.

anthracite_feed

https://dragon.style/@anthracite/115554734801847148

I am looking at the Steam machine product page and I am struck by the choices made in the little videos of happy Cube users: Enby couple. Brown dude. Black lady. No trace of the angry white Gamer Dude who shows up in the Steam forums of every other game I buy to deride it for being "too woke".

https://dragon.style/@anthracite/115554734801847148