Previous poll reviewIn
the vegetables poll, 90.4% of respondents clicked fresh vegetables (bought), 46.2% clicked frozen vegetables, and 44.2% clicked fresh vegetables (homegrown). I was surprised; I thought more people would go frozen for the convenience. (I wonder what that says, if anything, about Dreamwidth demographics.)
In ticky-boxes, hugs came first with 78.8%, followed by a tie between "hanging in there until things settle down and I can sort my life out" and "sunbeams playing in a tree, daring each other to peek around the shadowed side" with 63.5% each. Thank you for your votes!
ReadingStill going on
The Horse and His Boy (I am slow and distractable) and the
Guardian novel read-along (it's on a schedule). Nothing in audio.
KdramasWe started
Tale of the Nine Tailed, a sweeping epic about a powerful immortal, the reincarnated love of his life, and his bratty younger brother. (Nothing at all like
Guardian the novel, why do you ask?) I'm hoping it has enough plot and worldbuilding to hold Andrew's interest; he gets bored during extended romance scenes.
More of
Sell Your Haunted House with Pru. And in solo-watching, I started
Heesu in Class 2; it's pretty adorable, but also Heesu is the living embodiment of Idiots In Love, and sometimes I have to watch through my fingers.
Other TVThis week's
Doctor Who was very silly and meta, set against a background of ominous racism. Hm. But I did enjoy the jokes, and Belinda is great. Episode 1 of
Sherlock & Daughter. We were just going to try out the first ten minutes to get a sense of it, but we ended up watching the whole episode. I can forgive Holmes for being a grumpy old man when he has a reason for it.
Our
Deadloch rewatch-with-a-friend continues, plus
Jentry Chau vs the Underworld, about which I still have no opinion.
My sister and I watched
Into the Night (1985 film; Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Goldblum, and a vast number of film directors as extras, the only one of whom I knew on sight was Jim Henson). The caper was silly, and the romance plotline was very thin, but Goldblum and Pfeiffer are so watchable that it hung together despite the weird pacing when it lingered on random extras we were supposed to recognise. Lovely to see David Bowie in a small (albeit violently psychotic) role.
Guardian/FandomI archived
my Murderbot flashficlet, and wow, Murderbot fans are generous with their kudosing. *hearts so much* (In my experience, some fandoms are just more kudosy than others.)
Audio entertainmentI listened my way through all of
The Setup, a romance audiodrama about Juan, an anxious art museum curator in NYC, and Fernando, the con artist who's trying to steal a painting. It's great! I'm really into it. And then I got to the end of the available episodes and realised it's not finished yet, ahhhhh! I need to check these things before I start!
(Is it just me or are depictions of anxiety becoming more common in romances? I feel like there's some wish fulfilment going on: people longing to meet The One who is hot, super into them, and will also be incredibly kind and patient and give them effective tips for handling their panic attacks. Not that romances aren't all about wish fulfilment, so why not? Add dimensions to your dream partner!)
Writing/making thingsMy little 4k exchange fic is becoming somewhat tortured by all the writing advice I'm trying to enact on it. Hopefully I'm not engineering the spark out of the thing. Also, hopefully I emerge from this process wiser and more capable. (It could happen!) Note to self: this story still doesn't have an ending, oops.
Other than that, I'm spending a lot of my life rolling around in meta discussions, yay!
Life/health/mental state thingsOh, look, let's not even talk about it. /o\
Note to self: I had a flu jab on Saturday.
Online lifeI'm switching ISPs on Friday. Wish me luck! If I disappear off the face of the internet, that will be why.
FoodToday marks my first attempt at baked potatoes in the slow cooker. *fingers crossed* I forgot to prickle them with a fork before I wrapped them in foil, so who knows.
Good thingsFandom. Writing. Lunchtime dumplings on the back deck. Cephalopod plushies. Queer audiodramas. Friends coming over to watch stuff. Guardian. Home-made salsa. Trivia quizzes. Music and kindness and laughter and love.
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Do you have face-blindness?
View Answersyes
2 (4.9%)
technically no, but it's not unusual for me to get people confused
23 (56.1%)
especially when they're dressed the same
13 (31.7%)
no
11 (26.8%)
I mix up similar usernames
13 (31.7%)
honestly, they don't have to be that similar
11 (26.8%)
other
1 (2.4%)
ticky-box full of black cats slinking mysteriously in the shadows
27 (65.9%)
ticky-box full of starting a howl
14 (34.1%)
ticky-box of overthinking
20 (48.8%)
ticky-box full of squirrel-dragons with floofy tails, guarding their golden acorns
21 (51.2%)
ticky-box full of hugs
32 (78.0%)
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