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Yesterday, I learned that you can get a negative result in Semantle!

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Some of these are sweardle and lewdle.

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✨ holiday love meme 2021 ✨
my thread here

(I'm not actually playing Yuletide this year, but the icon was irresistible)

That gendered language meme that's been going around. I've added a few.

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Here is my thread: https://honigfrosch.dreamwidth.org/24079.html?thread=105231#cmt105231

New year! New 3rd digit on the year!

I feel like a proper sum-up of the past 10 years would be completely impossible. Some major bits:

( 2009-2015 )
2016:
Job at Virtual Hammer ended.
Open Source Bridge!
Declared my feelings to the artist soon to be known as Belovedest.
Had a few organs removed (cancer).
Had my bits irradiated gently (same).
Joined together with some friends to help support Belovedest in getting extracted from an abusive partner.
Kiddo started junior year
2017:
Helped Belovedest abscond with Yellface when the home situation with their abusive ex became intolerable.
Spent a week with Belovedest to see how we worked in person, relationship-wise.
Moved to Seattle, in one car and a moving pod.
Helped Belovedest render their house habitable again.
Open Source Bridge, together.
Moved in with Belovedest (unloading the moving pod).
Kiddo started senior year.
Goodbye to Vash, my faithful car.
Visited Belovedest's family in Michigan.
Important polycule bond dissolved.
2018:
Got a temp job with the Red Borg.
Kiddo graduated with honors and moved to San Diego for a new job.
Final Open Source Bridge.
Moat installed in basement.
Alex moved in with Murderface.
Adventures in car ownership.
Visit from Steph ♦️♦️♦️
2019:
Opened year by breaking foot in a sex swing accident (trip hazard while doing something else)
Further adventures in car ownership.
Red Borg job ended in March.
Spent April mostly asleep.
Spent May getting 2nd new-used car (long story) street legal.
Entire household with nasty cold for first half of June, obliterating my birthday.
Ev interviewing in Seattle and visiting.
Ev adopted Meow Meow!
Ev accepted job & moved to Kirkland, via the media room.
And that pretty much gets us up to date.

Via

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Find the nearest book to you, turn to page 45, and read the first sentence: this describes your sex life in 2018.

Mine is Cyteen.

Let her take me into her staff.

In context, this is about a sexually harassing boss attempting to add a pretty young thing to her harem.

Oh, dear.

I haven't necessarily had brain for much posting. So, snagged from

wild_irises:

What was the last thing you put in your mouth?
A scrap of bacon from the evening's cooking project.

Where was your profile picture taken?
Current default icon was taken in the Batcave, my apartment in Pacifica.

Worst pain you've ever experienced?
Physically, ( Read more... )
. Emotionally, the terror when my partner risked the wrath of their abusive ex by moving to safety, or the terror of possibly leaving them behind if I didn't survive the cancer.

Who was the last person to make you laugh?
Probably my partner; we chatted this evening after they got out of work.

How late did you stay up last night?
I went to bed early with The (physical) Woe, so 10:30-ish.

If you could move somewhere else, where would it be?
I just did! Tacoma.

Ever been kissed under fireworks?
Not yet.

Which of your Facebook friends lives closest to you?
Possibly rynia?

How do you feel about turkey burgers?
No, thank you. I like turkey just fine, but it is a non-food to me in ground form.

When was the last time you cried?
Tonight; something forcibly reminded me of some of the worst parts of 2007/2008.

Who took your profile photo?
I took my current default userpic. It's a little button I made at OSB '16, on the backdrop of a shiny little box.

Who was the last person you took a picture with?
My partner, at the solar eclipse. I took a picture with their cat this morning.

What's your favourite season?
I haven't met all the seasons yet in my new home, but I suspect Fall.

If you could have any career.
I very much liked my job being Department Assistant for that team at Virtual Hammer.

Do you think relationships are ever worth it?
Yes. This one has been literally life-saving. I'm not sure when I'd have noticed the cancer otherwise. Plus it's made both of us so much happier.

If you could talk to ANYONE right now who would it be?
There's an alternate-universe self I used to chat with a lot in high school. I could probably use to chat with her tonight.

Are you a good influence?
My internet daughter seems to think so.

Does pineapple belong on pizza?
Only on jd's.

You have the remote, what channel are you watching?
If it's the GBBO, it's probably BBC something.

Who do you think will fill this out?
IDK, half the internet?

(As ever, DW keeps its stuff in the same place as LJ, so I've retrieved mine; this grabs about 5,000 comments at once, so you can do the math to get your 5000 most recent.)

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littlebutfierce is hosting a love meme. This is the sort where comments are screened and approved, and pronouns are requested. (I tend to be hesitant to nominate others for auto-screened love memes, because screening means that the person who leaves the comment gets notifications, and I believe that unscreening in a thread you've subscribed to does not generate notifications.)

My thread is unscreened and may be replied to.

Why did you sign up for Dreamwidth? I was not in the room where it first happened, but I was in the room where it continued to happen, after denise and mark announced Hypothetical Journal. Therefore I was so there. azurelunatic.livejournal.com is userid 50, although I waited a little longer before actually creating my permanent journal, in case something needed doing, testing-wise.

Why did you choose your journal name? There was a punk band name generator on mp3.com back in 1997-ish. There were a number of silly names that I wrote down, but this was the one that magnetized me. It compelled me, even though I was hesitant to commit for a few years.

Do you crosspost? Why or why not? "Somebody That I Used To Know" is my song for LiveJournal. "I don't want to live that way." (Yes. I do have to treat them like a stranger.) I do not crosspost, but I did set up a syndicated feed for the public entries there, for the ease of my friends who still live there.

What do you do online when you're not on DW? Reading fanfiction, email, Twitter, IRC, ICB, various other forms of instant message. Sometimes clicky-games. Writing, though that can be offline as well. Work, too. Many of my previous jobs have been heavily computer, if not 100% online.

How about when you're not on the computer? Housework, spending time with family and friends, reading books, the portions of work which are not computer-enabled. Errands. The odd walk.

What do you wish people who read your journal knew about you? I'm fairly social for an introvert, but at the end of the day that's who I am. This means layers and layers of self-protection against exposure to too many people.

What is your favorite community on Dreamwidth? Lately it's been awesomeers, actually. A daily-ish reminder that I am still doing things, even when they seem small.

What community do you wish was more active? I miss the regular screaming in capslock_dreamwidth.

Are there two people on your reading list that you think should meet? I was just running an encircling meme! sithjawa and silveradept should meet, though.

Tell me about your default icon. My default icon shifts like the Aurora Borealis in the solar winds. Right now it's the Bastard's Prayer, from Lois McMaster Bujold's Five Gods universe, and it goes like this: "And the Bastard grant us, in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. In darkness, understanding." As soon as I met the Bastard, I knew that I was one of Theirs. They are the god of the out-of-season and weird, and while Bujold defaults to "Him", I feel rather strongly that the Bastard's gender cannot be encompassed by normal measure.

What features do you think Dreamwidth should have that it doesn't currently? This is a difficult one for me too, because when I think of one it goes into dw_suggestions. More work on the API and image hosting would be awesome of course!

What do you consider the five most "telling" interests from the list on your profile?
- the bullhorn of viola swamp: This is the magical item from Hogwarts which I would pull out of the Sorting Hat.
- center for talented youth: Nerd Camp, which I adored. This probably says a lot about my childhood.
- fishmumming the unfishmummable: While I wouldn't claim to have a "maternal instinct" as such, at some point I became the most likely grown-up in the room. Unless synecdochic is in the room, at which point I revert to being the one most likely to cause an item to be added to the local equivalent of Skippy's List.
- magick: extra k and all.
- [unicode goes here]: I wouldn't be me if I didn't test systems that I'm trying to use by also trying to break them. (Hold my flower.) I also have an enthusiastically frilly and/or sentimental side which is well-represented by the odd flower.

Do you have any unique interests on your user profile? What are they? How'd they get there? I've got a bunch. They mostly got there as the result of bizarre injokes and references, some of which I have already forgotten.

Did you have a gateway fandom? Still in it? Why or why not? Is there a community for it on DW? It was, technically, Star Trek. The animated series. As novelized by Alan Dean Foster. Or perhaps it was Pern. Dragonsong got me hooked on science fiction and fantasy. Star Trek introduced me to other people who liked the same things I did. Slightly different gateways. There are various Star Trek-related communities about. I haven't sought after Pern-based community, though I hear there are excellent angry feminist rants available in other parts of the internet. And I do love me some angry feminist ranting.

What's your current obsession? What about it captures your imagination? I don't believe I have a fannish obsession at the moment. Generally, though, the common themes when I dive deep into something tends to be that there are a lot of things to be discovered and delighted over. ... Or yelled about. I've had projects at work which qualified as obsessions where there was more yelling than delight. Still a lot of things to discover. So, infinite discovery with strong emotion, perhaps?

What are you glad you did but haven't really had a chance to post about? I ... did not walk into any stationary objects on the night of June 23rd??? I mean ... the most recent thing that I am delighted with has been the removal of my murderous uterus, but I've had the chance to post about that. So ... *hands*

How many people on your reading list do you know IRL? I stopped counting about 25% through the list and had already hit 30-ish, just with the people I have met at least once in person that I could think of, not including the people I have never met in person but who have become a part of my life. A lot.

What don't you talk about here, either because it's too personal or because you don't have the energy? It turns out that with an appropriate and sufficiently tight filter, I will talk about a lot of things on Dreamwidth. But there are a lot of things I won't talk about in public. Other people's business, mainly.

Any questions from the audience? Do feel free!

Yes, but what are your thoughts on yaoi? The format isn't my thing, but being queer means that m/m romance is My People, even though one might argue that people who look like me are not fully represented in it.

What's your favorite thing about Dreamwidth? I'm going to say what I said elsewhere: the conferences. I feel that some of the loveliest and luckiest moments in my recent life have been at conferences where People From Dreamwidth were about.

August Love Meme hosted by

alexseanchai: my thread

After a long hiatus, one of my friends has returned to Dreamwidth, and I thought: what better an opportunity to throw an encirclement meme?

I think my circle are nifty people who might possibly get along with each other. Feel free to introduce yourselves in the comments, and get to know other potentially like-minded people!

My crowd includes a lot of people who are tech-ish, who are writer-y, and who love a ~~bad~~ good pun.

Previously: https://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/7445756.html

http://www.katewillaert.com/ljstats/ will work if you substitute "dreamwidth.org" for "livejournal.com", as DW keeps its stats in the same place. This tool grabs about 5000 comments at once, so if you have more than 5000 comments in your journal, you can do some quick math to see where you want to put your startid if you'd like to see the most recent rather than the people from the beginning of time.

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nanila gave me a P quite some time ago.

Something I hate: Procrastination. It's a problem. I do it, and I don't like that I do it. The ADHD meds/depression meds are helping, and the PCOS meds are giving me more energy. (PCOS. Another thing I loathe. I don't think I'm too fond of progesterone either, given the effect the Pill tends to have on me...)
Something I love: Painting. I really enjoy taking colors and creating something out of nothing, and controlling the tools to get the exact effects I want. I like capturing a friend's expression in its essential lines and shadows.
Somewhere I've been: Pearl Creek. In winter there's not much there to see except for ski trails, but it's along Ballaine Road in Fairbanks, near where I grew up.
Somewhere I'd like to go: Prince Edward Island. Anne grew up there!
Someone I know: Purple, keeper of the One True Shade of Purple. Such a dear friend by now, even though his hair is in fact not purple as one might think.
A film I like: (The) Princess Bride. It's a struggle to think of any movies I've seen, but this was good though it scared me a lot the first time I saw it (I was small).

I will give letters if you ask for one!

When you think about stuff on the internet, where do you picture it being physically located? Even if you know it's not really how things work, is there a place you imagine websites and social media posts sitting before you look at them? If so, where is it?

A heavily air conditioned white room with large racks of equipment and a zillion cables and blinking lights. Some of the equipment is running programs that have been touched by people I know. The room is in a building that has one or two pieces of large construction equipment digging outside, ready to take down both of the redundant connections to the rest of the internet. There is an angry man with no cranial hair and a lot of tattoos with a mallet in a control booth, berating and occasionally beating people who interfere with those connections.

http://xkcd.com/1572/

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highlander_ii: http://www.katewillaert.com/ljstats/ will work if you substitute "dreamwidth.org" for "livejournal.com", as DW keeps its stats in the same place. This tool grabs about 5000 comments at once, so if you have more than 5000 comments in your journal, you can do some quick math to see where you want to put your startid if you'd like to see the most recent rather than the people from the beginning of time.

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Letter Meme

The letter I was given is L!

Something I hate: Losing. I am not great at competitive games. Both just kind of not good at them, and especially not good when I lose.

Something I love: Limerence.

Somewhere I've been: I've driven through Lawrence, CA. It's nice.

Somewhere I'd like to go: Liverpool. It has a great name.

Someone I know: I'm thinking of a particular friend from middle school. She had a reputation as a slut, because she talked to boys. She was actually a lesbian, as I later learned.

A film I like: Lion King was nice.

A book I like: Somehow, I suspect that Leaper may not hold up to re-reading as an adult.

Would you like a letter? I can give people letters.

Still working out my exact Thanksgiving plans.

There's a love meme over at

kaberett's, with nominations open until the end of November. http://kaberett.dreamwidth.org/331001.html

I'm not formally doing the December Posting Days thing, because that sort of schedule-thing and I usually get awry of each other, but if anyone has things that they would like me to hold forth on for a bit, I could probably do a thing.

I expect that this one will be all over my reading list by morning, and I hit a really depressing bit of the book before crashing out last night and then waking up OMG STARVING at 1:30 in the morning.

This is on shuffle from my top rated, which coincidentally also contains my top played. First lines. Songs with no lyrics, lyrics not in English, and lyrics that give away the title in the first line have been skipped. (In the interests of me not having to sift through a truly ridiculous volume of music, there may be some repetitions of artist.)

Guess the title & artist (or an artist who's done it, since some have been covered). Comments are screened, but may be unscreened once they've all been guessed by somebody. Googling the lyrics is cheating; Googling to figure out if you were right after making your guesses is fair play.

1. When the world is a monster bad to swallow you whole, kick the clay that holds the teeth in, throw your trolls out the door
2. Bust out the thought before its drip became insistent
3. Let's start in style let's dance for a while Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies
4. The time to rise has been engaged you're better best to rearrange
5. How do you document real life when real life's getting more like fiction each day?
6. In the town where I was born lived a man who sailed the sea
7. Please baby can't you see my mind's a burning hell
8. As you brush your shoes and stand before your mirror
9. As I raise my head to broadcast my objection
10. Smashing through the boundaries storming through the burning fields
11. I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad. I got sunshine in a bag
12. I returned a bag of groceries accidentally taken off the shelf before the expiration date
13. Oh baby you're young but that's okay, what's give or take nine years anyway
14. I met her in a club down in old Soho
15. Sundown all around walking through the summer's end
16. Dusk is dawn is day where did it go? I've been laughing fast and slow
17. Baby, don't understand why we can't just hold on to each other's hands?
18. How'd you do? I see you've met my faithful handyman
19. First the tide rushes in, plants a kiss on the shore, then rolls out to sea
20. Edith Sitwell giving readings 14 Moscow Road

Bonus 1: The internet is not - the internet is not a big truck. The internet is not something that you just dump something on.
Bonus 2: I thought about the Army; Dad said 'Son you're fucking high'

Current Music: ... guess. :-P
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Game results from the past few, all should be past

Several days of puzzle games, mostly for my own amusement (none of these should be current)

Seasonal love meme, for those who participate

Gendered language meme

A love meme

10 years makes a decade!

2018 fortunetelling, sex edition

20 things.

Recent comment stats thing!

Another love meme is on...

21 questions, as seen from a number of friends!

Love!

Encircling Meme!

Recent comment stats

Letter meme: P

From the XKCD survey:

Recent comments meme!

Letter meme, from rynia

Further things:

First lines