I want to watch Festivids, but also I have a low level migraine

Witness me, I am signing several sets of paperwork and mailing them! Defeating the admin of parental #death one small document at a time

Roger Ebert often said that we cry (at movies) not because things are sad but because people are good. They're often called to be good in the face of terrible things. There is so much goodness in Minnesota right now.

This thread is beautiful

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence: Let me shake you by the hand, sir, and wish you joy.

Yay vidding! 😍

I’ll be over here having feelings about the pool scene in The Night Manager 2

Witness me, I talked myself into staying home tomorrow because my lungs are still fucked instead of going back to work because “maybe I’m not really sick enough not to go to work”. Actually felt worse today than yesterday. Do not approve, virus!

I am disproportionately pissed that I have been laid up with a cold this week when we’ve had amazing snowy weather and now they say next week we will have plus temps and everything will melt

We marathoned The Pitt s1 to fit a rewatch in just before s2. Still so good. I know some of you are in fic fandom for this show. Do you have any recs? I can roll with pretty much any ships for this, I think.

@perclexed.bsky.social is someone I’ve known since way back in Smallville fandom, a great person whose had a lot of crap in her life. She’s currently living on disability and trying to scrape together the money to cover med costs related to a surgery in January. Any help hugely appreciated!

We have watched Wake Up Dead Man! Daniel Craig was looking fine and clearly having so much fun, and Father Jud is my favourite Knives Out protagonist so far. Fun!

I had better do a lot of drawing and pastel painting next year, because E gave me so many art supplies for Christmas

Because my coworkers took turns being off sick last week, my last few days of work for the year were super busy and stressful, but now I am free until January 5th. Yay, Christmas break! (I will work a bit from home on Boxing Day for reasons, but that’s mostly good because overtime pay)

Hey go buy my wife's horny books so I can someday quit my job and live the trophy wife lifestyle I was destined for

For the third year running, E and I are doing an Exit: The Game advent calendar this December, a puzzle calendar where you have to use the contents behind each day’s door to solve a riddle and advance in a silly little story. Do recommend!

I haven’t read this yet, but Hannah is a cool person and I’m excited that she has a book coming out

#AllIsBrightAdvent Day 19: OTTER!!!

It’s past midnight here, and seeing the date in writing, I just realised it’s my mum’s birthday. That was a weirdly unexpected sudden #grief hit (my mum passed away this August)

I am reading @llincathryn.bsky.social’s f/f romance novella All Is Bright as an advent calendar, one short chapter a day in December as recommended by the wonderful author. It’s a perfect warm, fuzzy bedtime ending to the day #AllIsBrightAdvent

#AllIsBrightAdvent starts today! I'll be sharing BTS info, Welsh context and other non-spoilery bits and bobs related to the day's chapter. You can use the hashtag to react as you read, too! Plus, it's still on sale for today (Dec 1) if you haven't grabbed it yet: books2read.com/u/bPOa0d

E is rewatching Stargate Atlantis as background TV, and I regret to inform you from here at the end of The Siege Part II that I still have a ridiculous amount of John Sheppard feelings

Seasonally important Swedish pronunciation guide

I know that a lot of US people won't be online today, but my storage unit and the hotel need paid, and I don't have enough to cover both bills. If anyone has even a few dollars to spare, every bit helps. 💕 #MutualAidRequest #TransCrowdFund cash.app/$Settiai paypal.me/poicelle venmo.com/u/Settiai

I am not autistic, but nevertheless I am this woman

Metal from Heaven by August Clark

My beloved Will and his emotional support knife! (Idk, Will as a character just hits a note with me; the bisexual rep I deserve? 😂)

#PetHealth I was very anxious about removing Jarvis-dog’s post-surgery bandage, but he was very good and it came off without much bother at all with the special plaster removal wipes. Wound and stitches look good, which was a concern because it’s near a joint that necessarily moves a lot

From an outing yesterday. The lake and sky at the horizon were exactly the same colour, an amazing effect badly captured here. The island in the far distance appeared to be floating in the sky

Share someone who looks stylish in a hat. 🎩

Mumblety years later, and look at me having feelings about this

Very amused that I apparently read this at the same time as KJ Charles. I also loved it. Don’t know why it took me so long to get to Bujold’s fantasy after having done all the Vorkosigan novels a few years ago

I wrote a trilogy of novels published by HarperCollins about a brother and sister caught on opposite sides of the war to unite Viking Age Norway. Today is my birthday and if you are inclined to share this, it would be a lovely present! The first: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-half-d...

All Is Bright, my Christmassy F/F romance novella set in a little village in Wales, is out TODAY! You can get it in these places and more: Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... AZ: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

Agree on all counts with the below!

Read my own Running Close to the Wind fanfic and remembered how much I love those horny fail-pirates. Maybe it’s time for a book reread

Feeling pretty shitty atm. Hard stuff is hard, don’t feel like I’m doing very well at being a functioning person with decision-making capabilities or executive function. Mostly just running the anxiety subroutines

my friend @llincathryn.bsky.social’s latest, All Is Bright, is a lovely tender Welsh f/f that lifts & deepens with Advent, and you can in fact read a chapter a day in December, and preorder now www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

Today a coworker told us he’d found a lost 16-week-old kitten near his home, brought it to the vet to be checked & now had it staying with him. We helped him find the places online to post about local found cats. His post was only up a few hours before the owner replied. Smol ginger safely returned!

Getting US political news through people’s reactions to other people’s reactions to something someone said about a thing that happened is very confusing and on some days makes Bluesky unreadable

Having happened to take up painting as a hobby, after painting not at all in the previous decades of my adult life, at the same time as the AI boom hit, I feel this sentiment acutely. My art is def bad, bc I have no skill yet, but the experience of making it with my own hands AI could never give

Very much don’t want to go to work tomorrow. Weekends are too short.

Was at a six hour meeting with a project group (good project, constructive work) and then had intended to work more from home to get a full workday, but decided “fuck it” and took a nap instead. Then did a study of fall trees for my landscape painting course & it didn’t suck. Good choices.

#death Caught myself lying to my Finch app when it asks how I’m doing because it’s Saturday & I did my strength training & had a nice walk with the dogs & now E & I will have coffee & later I will cook a nice meal for us & paint a tree for my pastel course, surely that means I’m feeling good? (1/2)

I ordered a fancy (but surprisingly inexpensive) box for my pastels from the UK a few weeks ago, and having them all neatly arranged and visible has made painting so much easier. Yay for investing in your hobbies?

The Kiruna church move (literally putting a whole church on wheels and driving it across town) is marvellous slow TV. I think they’re done for the day put will start again early tomorrow morning CET. Lots of cool detailed info in English and another live stream here: lkab.com/en/events/th...

Apparently cooking dinner from scratch is too complicated a thing for me right now, I stressed myself out and then got really upset when the dog was annoying. Very tasty dinner, though.

#death Yesterday we cleaned out my mum’s room at the care home, with the help of a good friend and two guys with a van we hired. Today I’ve set up a time with the funeral director for next week to plan the funeral and called government service to order death certificate and proof I’m next of kin.

#death My mum passed away last night. I’m doing okay-ish under the circumstances, but feel unbelievably tired.

Went to visit my mum at the care facility. E was kind enough to come with me (this restricts visit time because we can’t leave the dogs alone for too long, but I needed the moral support). Mum is indeed doing worse, as reported, but she was calm while we were there and happy to see us. Glad we went!