ride_4ever | Reading

My life remains much too medical, but with neat things to read.

1. Via

selkie: "Undzer Mishpokhe: A Queer Yiddish Curriculum Supplement" Let's hear it nokh a mol for In geveb.

2. Via

a_reasonable_man: the Catalogue of Ships incorporated into a Roman-era mummy. It makes sense as a magical text to me. Who wouldn't want so many heroes and ships on their side with all that underworld to cross?

3. I had forgotten until I saw the illustrations as well as the title that I had read Leon Garfield's Mister Corbett's Ghost (1968).

Current Music: Hen Ogledd, "Dead in a post-truth world"

ysabetwordsmith

This poem is spillover from the August 5, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from

dialecticdreamer,

rix_scaedu, and

jake67jake. It also fills the "Somebody at the Door" square in my 8-1-25 card for the Crime Classics Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by

janetmiles. It belongs to the Big One thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. It is the second in a triptych, between "Where You Find Light" and "No Faster or Firmer Friendships."

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ysabetwordsmith

Bruce the Parrot Landed Atop the Pecking Order, Without a Beak

In 2021, a disabled parrot named Bruce made headlines worldwide for creating his own prosthetic beak. He didn’t stop there: Scientists reported on Monday that Bruce has now become the alpha male of his group.

And he did it by learning to joust.

I had heard about the prosthetic beak, but the jousting is new. :D

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Today is sunny and warm.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few house finches. Red-winged blackbirds are singing in the trees. I've seen others at the drainage ditch, so I wonder how long these will stick around.

I put out water for the birds. Honeybees have been draining the birdbaths.

I set out my small flats of seedlings.

EDIT 4/22/26 -- I planted 4 snapdragons and a yellow-and-orange lantana in the barrel garden. I realized that I forgot to pick up the firecracker plant for hummingbirds that I meant to get yesterday. >_< I may get back to DeBurh's another day, or somewhere else might have it.

EDIT 4/22/26 -- I planted a pineapple sage besides the barrel garden.

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Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

settiai

I've been playing Pokémon Go since it was first released back in 2016. The thing is, I've always been fairly off-and-on with my playing.

It's mostly been because I've never had any PokéStops or gyms that I could access from home/work. On the days when I'm out and about, I could walk around and visit them, but that's definitely not something I could do every day. Especially now that my job is hybrid. I only have so much capability to deal with people in a given week, so on days when I'm working remotely it's not unusual for me to avoid all human contact whatsoever.

And, well, the game intentionally punishes you for that. Outside of a brief period during the height of the pandemic where they extended the range of PokéStops and gyms, you miss out on things if you don't actually go outside and spin those regularly as that's where you get a lot of items that can be used in the game to do things like catch new Pokémon.

Anyway, I do have a point! There's a PokéStop that I can access from anywhere in my new apartment. I've been playing the game significantly more the past month or so because it's so much more rewarding when I can easily access new items (including Poké Balls).

Current Mood: cheerful

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goss

Covid: Speaking Out About Rubynye by

werpiper on AO3.

princessofgeeks

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princessofgeeks

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badly_knitted posting in

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Title: After The Rain
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Varian, Fred, Jonathan Willaway, Liana, Sil-El, Scott.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Drenched though they are the travellers still welcome the sight of a rainbow.
Word Count: 400
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 513: Amnesty 85, using Challenge 452: Rainbow.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.

( After The Rain... )

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Current Location: my desk

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Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Ilya Rozanov
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: christianpuppetshow HR art on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Gorgeous colours in this nearly single-colour painting of Ilya by the lake, bathed in sunset.
Link: Drawing Ilya at sunset, backup link here

ysabetwordsmith

Life is full of things which are hard or tedious or otherwise unpleasant that need doing anyhow. They help make the world go 'round, they improve skills, and they boost your sense of self-respect. But doing them still kinda sucks. It's all the more difficult to do those things when nobody appreciates it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our accomplishments and pat each other on the back.

What are some of the hard things you've done recently? What are some hard things you haven't gotten to yet, but need to do? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your hard things a little easier?

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fancake

Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Elizabeth Weir, Teyla Emmagan, Radek Zelenka
Rating: Mature
Length: 13,319
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: Rachael Sabotini on AO3
Themes: Arranged marriage, AU - royalty, Diplomatic marriage, Politics, Mutual pining

Summary: "It is your duty to the empire to marry Rodney McKay."

Reccer's Notes: This is an interesting romantic romp set in a somewhat steampunk AU where John is married off by his cousin the empress Elizabeth, to Rodney, a leader in the neighbouring nation. John is part of treaty agreements to negotiate peace. Consummating his marriage proves difficult due to Rodney being a workaholic, anxious about never having had sex with a man before, and, that common marriage of convenience trope, as John can end the marriage after a year and a day if he chooses. There are obstacles and pining and inadequate communication, but eventually John makes a place for himself in Rodney's labs, proves his loyalty, and we get the happy ending. A fun read!

Fanwork Links: The Spare

dine

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ysabetwordsmith

These are the content notes for "Where You Find Light."

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ysabetwordsmith

These are the location notes for "Where You Find Light."

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brightknightie

I unfortunately got a weird (and inevitably mildly distressing) spam reply on the AO3 today, but the good news is that, between the last time I got one and tonight, the AO3 launched a convenient "Spam" button right there on comments. No fuss, no looking up how to report it. Excellent UI addition. Much appreciated.

ysabetwordsmith

This poem came out of the August 5, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from

dialecticdreamer,

rix_scaedu, and

jake67jake. It also fills the "Before the Fact" square in my 8-1-25 card for the Crime Classics Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by

janetmiles. It belongs to the Big One thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. It is the first in a triptych, followed by "When You Learn to Read" and "No Faster or Firmer Friendships."

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sovay - Ma twll yn y pridd yn Alltwalis lle taflaf fy mhryderon
ysabetwordsmith - Poem: "When You Learn to Read"
ysabetwordsmith - Wildlife
ysabetwordsmith - Birdfeeding
mark in dw_maintenance - Search maintenance
settiai - Pokémon Go
hughville in house_memories - April 22, 2026
princessofgeeks - Greece 2026
goss - Ny | Rubynye | MinoanMiss | browngirl's cause of death - COVID-19
princessofgeeks - Heated Rivalry rec
princessofgeeks - Heated Rivalry rec
badly_knitted in fan_flashworks - Rainbow Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: After The Rain
mific in fanart_recs - Drawing Ilya at sunset by christianpuppetshow (SFW)
ysabetwordsmith - Hard Things
mific in fancake - SGA: The Spare by Rachael Sabotini (wickedwords)
dine - stupid Canadian wolf bird
ysabetwordsmith - Content notes for "Where You Find Light"
ysabetwordsmith - Location notes for "Where You Find Light"
brightknightie - New (?) "Spam" button on AO3 comments
ysabetwordsmith - Poem: "Where You Find Light"

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