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LGBT organizations Egale Canada and Skipping Stone have won an injunction against Bill 26, a law meant to ban gender-affirming care for youth in Alberta. [CBC, Egale Canada]

They initiated litigation against the government of Alberta in March. More info here.

This is a temporary stop, and unfortunately the injunction only covers the trans healthcare issue, not all the other trans-relevant issues the UCP has been trying to push through. However, it buys us some time, and that's very important.

I expect we'll be talking about this at the next local pride meeting, trying to see if there's any clear next steps for what we can do (or what Wood Buffalo Pride can do, rather).

Happy pride month.

( Copy of CBC's article )
( Copy of Egale Canada's press release )

donutsweeper

The fifth season of Battleship is about to start. Freeform tag suggestions has closed and is being made into a final list while canon/pairing/character nominations continue. It's looking to be a huge exchange again this year, they've even put a hard cap of 280 signups in the rules. (Last year, when sign ups absolutely exploded, they debated closing early if they reached 280 but it ending up closing just shy of that which was still SO much more than earlier years. According to the AO3 profile pages-which will be vaguely but not 100% accurate for various reasons-it went from 63 signups in 2020 to 62 then 80 then 131 then 263). I'm always a little torn about Battleship, I love aspects of it, but some others are oooof. Apparently signups won't be on AO3 itself this year but via some kind of signup form and will be separate from the AO3 signup/prompt collection? But you have to do both? Or Something. IDK, hopefully it'll make more sense once it actually opens. We'll see how it goes.

Since my last post I finished the Use-Up-This-One-Stashed-Yarn afghan I'd been working on (I had to redo the border 4x to not lose at yarn chicken, but I succeeded eventually!) and made another rug. This time I tried something different with the rug and just followed a green->blue->brown order of adding new strips and didn't stress over making full rounds of any one color nor bothered to try to match up the runner with the color being knotted over it. The result was quite different, but I like it.

53”x42" give or take 'Vintage Lace' afghan

Three tshirt rug, 27” x 18” give or take

And, last but not least, 2 weeks of

recthething recs (Tumblr art for Batman, Discworld, Dungeon Meshi, Guardian, MDZS/Untamed, Sherlock Holmes-ACD, ST:TOS):

Batman (DCU)
- The Oracle’s hand (love the way the computer circuitry lines mimics spiderwebbing in this)

Discworld
- Nanny Ogg (love this art's take on her and the witches)

Delicious in Dungeon | Dungeon Meshi
- Farcille witch AU- nothing better than crafting potions with your gf (this is so cute)

Guardian
- Sleepy cats (absolutely adorable art of Da Qing sprawled over Zhao Yunlan with both sacked out, sleeping on the couch)

MDZS/The Untamed
- Lan Wanji's morning hair routine (hilarious comic)
- The Headshaker (The animation on the fan is incredible)
- I’ll settle for the ghost of you (this is jut gorgeous)
- when you’re starting to forget your soulmate’s face and there’s nothing you can do about it (oh ooof the feeling behind this one)

Sherlock Holmes- ACD
- doctor, soldier, poet, lover (wonderful set of Watson art, love the gun in the rain one in particular)

Star Trek: TOS
- Whale Song (love this ST IV: The Voyage Home art)

starwatcher

This one has multiple genres.

Books for sale, mostly $1 to $3

Hit the "Genres" button at the top of the page to narrow your search.

Happy reading!

ETA: Jesse_the_k notes that "This is a meta-search engine, compiling deals from Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google and Kobo." I didn't realize that was note-worthy, but yeah. Whatever platform you use to read, you're covered.

kalloway

Got notice yesterday afternoon that my old website would be shuffling off in short order. A backup exists and I should have all the files/fics that haven't been archived yet, so I am not terribly upset or anything.

A 20+ year run... o7

fred_mouse

thestory inside is doing July signups. I'm not taking on any extra commitments, not even suggested reading, at the moment, but I have very much enjoyed the suggestions I have had from this group. If you have a TBR list you can share, you too can have this excitement in your life!

It works on a buddy system - they pick three books from your list for you to read, you pick three books from their list for them to read. Sign ups close on the 1st July.

shamanicshaymin

1. A character you absolutely worship
2. A character you like
3. A character you could give or take
4. A character you don't really care for
5. A character you'd like to spork

1: Name a pairing that you absolutely would die for
2: The pairing that you like
3: You would give this pairing, or keep it
4: The pairing that you wouldn't really care about but still support it
5: You really hate this pairing to hell, and you wish it was never alive.

If asking about Deltarune, I've played and beaten the latest chapters so you'll be seeing new characters and ships. :D

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: The bf chatting on voice call

mistressofmuses

On Monday we decided to head up toward the Pawnee National Grasslands. Back when I was in college we lived much closer, and went out there pretty often. There's a birding "trail" (it's a driving route with a handful of stops around where certain birds are frequently seen), some good scenery, and sometimes other wildlife. We were hoping to see a rattlesnake, since we often did when we were up there before, but alas.

We didn't have a terribly specific plan, beyond maybe some of the birding areas, or just anywhere that seemed interesting to pull over and check out. Part of the road for the birding route is closed, and while it seemed like you could still go through, it also headed into a fee camping area, which I do not remember from before... but it has been 15+ years since we were exploring up there, so things may simply have changed! (The website also has one stop on the birding trail crossed out, just saying "this stop has been removed" and I want to know why!)

We pulled over at one informative sign, and went on a brief walk into the grasslands. Mostly there were a ton of wildflowers! It was lovely.

~~Unfortunately I also got bit by a fuckoff big mosquito and some of her friends. I swatted her while she was biting me and there was a pretty gross explosion of blood. Uuuuugh.~~

A beeplant! Actually mostly being visited by ants. With a photobomb from a little tiny wasp or some sort coming in from the lower right.

I took more cactus flower pictures than anything else, ha.

Ten more pictures:

Globemallow again!

A mystery fungal pod. (Probably some sort of small puffball?)

A lone prickly pear.

Asters.

I just really love prickly pear flowers! The petals are so delicate looking for something so stabby.

More prickly pear flowers. With bonus bug friends.

Not sure what these are, but they looked neat.

Seems like we'd just missed whatever these were blooming.

One more cactus flower picture!

We did drive one stretch of the birding route, and we did see quite a few birds! Lark buntings, horned larks, a few I couldn't quite identify... of course they mostly flew off as soon as the car was close, haha.

But...

One lark bunting, I swear! (On the top fence wire.) Lark buntings are the state bird of Colorado, but I only ever see them up on the plains here.

A pretty long drive both there and home, but it was still nice to see some areas we haven't been in quite a long while.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: my apartment
Current Music: That Unwanted Animal - The Amazing Devil

ride_4ever

If you are in due South fandom you know about the "infamous due South troll," she of many names and one obsession: for decades she has been seeking out due South fic and vids that don't jibe with her personal opinion about which ships and which storylines are "true or not". She was flaming me even before I posted my first fic...back in 2011 she flamed my comment that I made on YouTube about a due South vid that I liked, telling me what was "wrong" with the perspective of the vid and how I was "wrong" for liking it. She actively seeks out for reading and for watching stuff that she knows she won't like and then she reads it or watches it and then she spews out her hatred. The last most recent time that she flamed me -- before TODAY -- was in 2023 when she pounced on a fic that I had written eleven years earlier and said hateful things about it -- I did not respond to her hate and TODAY she returned to that same fic and in even greater detail than previously FLAMED THE SAME FIC A SECOND TIME. Hells, that is some tenacity -- REREADING a fic to which she had already "objected" (she told me that she "disagreed" with my fic) and then commenting further in the face of my previous non-response. /o\

Current Mood: smh
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

badass_tiger

This is not a real review and is full of spoilers. It's just yapping.

( Read more... )

lassarina

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

ride_4ever

Today is Yuri Day! For details about Yuri Day see this page on Fanlore. For details about yuri in general see this page on Fanlore.

The very talented and very generous

petra is offering to write prompted drabbles and poems for Yuri Day. See their post and leave them a comment for your drabble or poem at

petra's Yuri Day post on DW.

Current Mood: celebratory
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

starwatcher

I don't know how to embed images that aren't mine, so here's the link to the ~~Reddit~~ Quora post --

https://qr.ae/pAl6KF

mistressofmuses

This week I picked sea creatures, because it was my grandmother's memorial, and she was a volunteer at the Oregon Coast Aquarium for 25 years. Jellies were one of her favorites.

Business card from the hotel we stayed at. The logo is nice. (Though again, "The Sage: A Concept Hotel" seemed to mean that, conceptually, this hotel is like a lower-end Motel 6.)

This week was better than last, but I still had a rough time sometimes. Going down to New Mexico was nice. Bittersweet, but nice to see family, and it was a pleasant break from work. The memorial itself was nice. I started the week sick, but recovered reasonably quickly. Trying to get caught up with all the things I feel behind on, trying to figure out a plan. The state of the world isn't great!

Goals for the week:

I did attend my grandparents' memorial
I called my dad... but his phone was broken
I packed for my trip
I did not call my dentist
I did not finish Camp Damascus, though I did read more of it
I watered my plants
I got crickets
I transferred things into my new notebook
I did not update my reading page
I did work on reviewing the book I did read this month
We visited my mom so that Alex could get the cat routine down
I did not finish the third part of the snowflake outline

Tracked habits:

Work - 3/7 - I took Sunday and Wednesday off for the memorial
Household Maintenance - 3/7
Physical Activity - 3/7
Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 0/7
Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/7
Meta Work - 4/7
Personal Writing - 4/7
Other Creative Things - 2/7
Reading - 5/7 - Read some of Installment Immortality with Taylor, read Camp Damascus, read some Duma Key with Alex, read a bit of my ebook side-read
Attention to Media - 6/7 - Sunday I listened to music; Monday and Wednesday we listened to music on the drive; Thursday I don't remember; Friday I caught up on Re: Dracula and we watched some storm chasing and listened to music; Saturday, music again.
Video Games - 1/7 - Taylor and I played a bit of Final Fantasy XIV, starting part four of Shadowbringers
Social Interaction - 7/7

Total words written: 0

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: my apartment
Current Music: Tomorrow - Aesthetic Perfection

fred_mouse

in the paper I'm reading right now, I found the sentence

"All these models end up being specific cases of a generalized stochastic differential equation."

and actually laughed out loud (it helps that I'm working from home today; specifically from bed, so that maybe my lower back will stop hating me. I can read just as well in bed, having spent a lot of the last year training to read from the laptop in exactly this position :) And thus laughing is not disruptive)

Why did I laugh? As I explained to artisanat, that is the first jargon filled sentence where I've understood every word and what it means. And then I was asked for examples of words I don't know, which at this point I can think of 'constructivist framework' and 'epistemological' (I'm starting to get a feel for the latter; the former I have zero idea)

ETA: the next sentence read

"We cannot provide a detailed account of these models since they require a certain level of mathematical expertise."

lebateleur

Life has been A Lot this year due to work things, home things, health things, and ::gestures vaguely at the world:: things.

But sometimes it can also be absolutely lovely. A few days ago I ordered some CDs--including one from one of my all time favorite groups--from the website of a trad musician and left a quick comment in the delivery instructions box to the effect of Hey, if you ever have you guys's fourth CD back in stock, please let me know.

I hit "purchase", watched the transaction go through, and went about my evening.

A day later, an email with the musician's name in the "sender" field popped up in my inbox during an extremely trying afternoon. Surely not, I thought.

But guys. Guys. It was. It was a real, an-actual-human-sat-down-and-wrote-this email from the actual musician expressing surprise and pleasure that someone had bought these CDs, giving some updates about the group (including that one of the members had passed away two years ago--a fact I'd already known, but hearing it directly from this person who was his bandmate and friend...😭😭), and musing about the music the group had made together. The email contained both proper punctuation and grammar and proper emoji usage. The email also contained a proof of shipping photo of the packaged CDs in which the slightly messy interior of this person's car is visible. The whole thing is about as far away from social media influencer presentation as you can get and I cannot express how delightful I find this.

I replied saying that I'd been really sad to hear of the group member's passing and how much I absolutely loved their albums. He sent a second email thanking me again, adding that the group had never felt successful (PS: 😱) and that it really meant something whenever someone said they enjoyed their music.

And, just. It would be hard to overstate how 🤩🤩🤩 I am over this entire situation. I have been listening to this group for 27 years and this individual's other projects for almost as long. This group has had a HUGE influence on my own playing, stylistically and in terms of repertoire. Two of their CDs are in my in my top 25 most-played albums of all time. On top of that, this person is widely regarded as one of the best players of his instrument, in this genre, in the world. And it turns he is also a genuine and down-to-earth human being. I would never in a million years have imagined I would have any kind of interaction with him, let alone that he would act like I'm the one doing him a favor by appreciating the art he has helped put out into the world.

Seriously. This has made my week and will quite possibly be one of the high points of this entire year. So yeah. Sometimes life is wonderful.

これで以上です。

taichara

I did at least finish the lineart (sans any icons, doodles or labels) for a world map for my own-FF-project though. Also been chewing on a scattershot mix of the rules I'll be using, mostly classes and spells atm.

But mostly I've been screaming into the void about *gestures at entire fucking universe omfg*

Also work is finding new ways to raise my blood pressure. Also also it's just sure a thing when you can tell one coworker is back from ~vacation~ because now our ~~dungeon~~office smells weird again. (the last two weeks were so nice in that regard.) Vapers deserve to be drowned in a toilet.

I guess the next stop from here is to keep trying to chew on the FF project and/or anything else that can keep me making things and not completely giving up on everything, tempting as that is ...

Today it would be nice if my parcel of ink arrived. The brainweasels work overtime shaming me for said ink but I will not be swayed, because it's nice Ferris Wheel Press ink and it's official licensed Superman and the colours are amazing. (sorry not sorry Tolkien wonks your ink colours are sad in comparison oh yeah I said that.) I have a pen waiting to go and everything ~~but I'll have to pick which colour ohnoes~~

kalloway

I am constantly finding parts of aspirational projects that were abandoned or otherwise lost to time. While cleaning up my hobby desk, I found four bottles of DecoArt craft paint and have no idea what I was intending to do with them... (black, white, red, purple - so a very basic set of colors that isn't helpful) Reddit helpfully let me know that while it's physically possibly to thin it down to airbrush consistency, it's not fun anywhere in the process. So that's out.

I also have an olive and a grey that I will someday tinker with and mix to repair worn spots on a wooden figure, but I've been putting that off for like a decade now and intend to put it off for a bit longer. I suppose the black and white can stick around for that?

(I guess these can all stick around for the hangar/manger if I ever get back to that? Not so much the red, but maybe the others can get used...)

The dining room table is also covered in zine-binding/related debris. I need to see what's there and what needs to be bound and do some little projects when I'm otherwise just watching something or being a mushroom.

But right now I'm a mushroom because it's too fucking hot.

mistressofmuses

I've read 30 books this year, which is something I'm really happy about. (That's more than the last several years combined!) Yet somehow the TBR list just keeps getting longer.

I finished up my old writing notebook (the bugs-and-mushrooms one that I keep getting gifted new copies of, haha.) Starting a new notebook always means I copy over a few pages of things that I refer back to fairly often, and one of those things is my TBR list, because I like having a physical version of it that I can look at. It got a minor reshuffle from the version I put together at the beginning of the year, accounting for some new purchases, and moving a few titles up or down based on interest. (According to a complicated system of vibes, trying to space out the books I am most excited about, as well as the ones I expect I might struggle with, or to avoid a bunch of really long or short books in a row, going back and forth between physical and ebooks, etc.)

I was upset at the beginning of the year when I discovered that I had more than 90 books on my list, which is what prompted me to really start pushing to read more than the 25 I'd originally set as my goal for the year. (I also quickly realized I'd forgotten some books, and I knew that didn't account for instances where, say, I have book one of a series as a TBR but may end up liking it well enough to immediately add the rest once I read it, etc.)

And then of course I acquired more:

I bought a charity book bundle of queer-themed ebooks, so I'll start on those once I'm done with the horror ebooks. The physical books I got for my birthday, and the ones I bought for myself a couple months ago have been added in. Toward the later part of the list, I did start working in the Ursula K Le Guin books as well as some of the Terry Pratchett ones, though I haven't added in all of their works yet, so there are plenty not yet counted in the total. The TBR list also doesn't include all the other ebooks I've acquired. I keep picking up free indie romances and such from promotional events, and now have SO VERY MANY of them. I count them toward my total number of books read, but I pick them based on the whim of the moment, so they don't get TBR slots. It also also does not include some that I want to read but don't own yet. (They probably deserve to be formally on the list, but I have enough books on there that I do own in some fashion, it makes sense to focus on those first.)

That dismaying list of 90, minus the 30 I've read this year, has turned into... 153. :/

Not sure how, but it feels like I really need to pick the reading speed up a bit more!

-

Unrelated, but I got a really sweet comment on one of my fics this morning, and it made me really happy.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: my apartment
Current Music: Vapor - Aesthetic Perfection

dhampyresa

One of the books I'm reading right now is Anne Crignon's Une belle grève de femmes: Les Penn Sardin, Douarnenez 1924 (A women's strike: The Penn sardin [1], Douarnenez, 1924). I'm two-thirds of the way through and it has been really good book so far.

[1] "Penn sardin" is Breton for "sardine head"; it's the name of the headdress for women of Douarnenez and, by extension those same women.

There is one thing, though. Because of the time/place the book is set in (Brittany, 1920s) the book occasionally uses Breton -- the dominant language in that era/area -- to transcribe the exact words of slogans, songs, announcements, etc. Now. I speak a little Breton. A very little Breton, but enough to know that "Pemp real a vo" did not translate directly to "twenty-five sous per hour" -- "pemp" means five, not twenty-five. It bugged me enough that I eventually went and got my Breton-French dictionnary: a "real" is worth five sous. A literal translation would be "Five five-sous we'll get" (the "per hour" is implied).

There was another moment where I also had to fetch the dictionnary because I got tripped up by sentence structure in the Breton vs the French translation. So I would appreciate literal translations as well as accurate ones -- though possibly this is mostly because or where my language skills are: were I better or worse, I'm not sure I would have cared or noticed.

What is your preference for in-text translations? Literal, accurate, both? A secret other option?

yuuago

Stuff I did this weekend:

- Went to the physiotherapist. As I suspected, the injury that put me out of judo since the beginning of June was a sprained tendon in the elbow area. Current plan is to rest and recover during summer, and pick up judo again in September when the new season starts. In the meantime, no pushups, planks, or breakfalls for me. (Or carrying heavy groceries with that particular arm for that matter)

- Went to a pride event. Drag brunch put on by the local drag group, the Oil Royals! Some of my acquaintances are involved in that, so it was cool to see them perform. They'll also be performing at the pride festival next Saturday, I think. Anyway, it was nice. I think I'll see if I can coordinate with somebody next time - it was fun by myself, but stuff like this is more fun with somebody else, too.

- Worked on a fic. Felt good. This particular draft is kind of meh, but it has one line that's absolutely amazing. I'm kind of hoping I'll be able to massage the overall result into something that I'll be more satisfied with on the whole. Ain't that always the way.

- I'm going to feel kind of relieved when pride month is over. I've been going to a lot of events, and it's been super fun, but I think I've been over extending myself a bit (and that's after cutting back on some of the things I'd wanted to go to).

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Page Summary

yuuago - [News] Injunction granted to block Alberta's anti-trans bill
donutsweeper - Battleship incoming, crafting and recs
starwatcher - Ebook sale, today only, Friday 27th
kalloway - What Was
fred_mouse - Signal boost
shamanicshaymin - Stolen from Sara
mistressofmuses - Monday: wildflowers on the Pawnee grasslands
ride_4ever - Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 19: the infamous due South troll
badass_tiger - Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma 'review'
lassarina - What Are You Playing Wednesday
ride_4ever - Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 18: Happy Yuri Day!
starwatcher - For SallyMn (and anyone else who likes to read)
mistressofmuses - Habit Tracking: Week 24 (June 15 - June 21)
fred_mouse - Things that make me laugh
lebateleur - Sometimes life is wonderful.
taichara - the map is not the territory
kalloway - Aspirations
mistressofmuses - TBR dismay... again
dhampyresa - Additional literal translations, yes or no?
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