The soldiers standing and the roots twist underneath
Today was overtaken by an entirely unnecessary amount of medical drama and I am still pettily resentful that a film I had looked forward to for months didn't run on TCM this weekend after all, but I am the farthest thing imaginable from a big-name fan and therefore I find it pretty neat that the fic I wrote a week ago now has the highest number of kudos of anything of mine on AO3. It probably helps that it is in a supermassive fandom, but still. I write this stuff on an average of slightly less than once a year. The best thing that can be said for the rest of the day is that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selkie sent a care package and Autolycus slept in the small of my back. My mother has nine monarchs in chrysalis from the milkweed in her back yard and I keep wanting to name them out of Zelazny.
selkie sent a care package and Autolycus slept in the small of my back. My mother has nine monarchs in chrysalis from the milkweed in her back yard and I keep wanting to name them out of Zelazny.
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Yay fic!
(I haven't read it yet only because I want to watch the canon first.)
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Entirely legit!
*hugs*
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Thank you. The medical drama is still going, although at a somewhat lower pitch of anxiety than last night into this afternoon; the movie was The Glass Wall (1953), which I was so excited to see announced as part of Noir Alley and which seems to have been replaced at the last minute by Hollow Triumph (1948). Which I quite like! I keep meaning to write about it! But I own it on DVD and I have never seen The Glass Wall anywhere. I ran across mention of it in 2015, courtesy of Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) introducing me to Vittorio Gassman, and have been waiting for it to come around ever since. Alas.
That is very cool about the monarchs, though.
They are all milk-green flecked with gold and hanging from different points of the habitat! There are also two smaller caterpillars that are not yet metamorphosis size. My niece is entranced by them and I see no reason she should not be.
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"...like the jade earring of a Manchu princess."
Nine
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I haven't thought of that line in decades.
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I think it never left me. I am glad to reacquaint you.
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Nine
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*hugs*
Hi, I have to work at 9 am, I hate it.
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If there weren't a bottle in my refrigerator, I would squint at that for a metaphor. It is a very good something.
Hi, I have to work at 9 am, I hate it.
I would, too.
*hugs*
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Or jasmine. /petty
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I leave this perfume here because I love you.
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*whimpers*
It seems a bit “florist on a bender in a patisserie,” but I have no olfactory reference for two of its components so I can’t stack them right. Also I… I need coffee. And a blanket.
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I'd link a frozen orange perfume if they made it.
(It turned up in a search for jasmine and I had to share. It also looks far too sweet to me. The name would have led me to expect a lot more salt.)
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*hugs*
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Thank you!
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Thank you. He is a very good cat.
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Meantime, if I were to drop off a care package, would you want it Now or Some Other Week, and do you have requests or should I just send the traditional Brownies-with-stuff, maybe with a side of buffalo jerky or whatever?
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Thank you on all fronts!
Meantime, if I were to drop off a care package, would you want it Now or Some Other Week, and do you have requests or should I just send the traditional Brownies-with-stuff, maybe with a side of buffalo jerky or whatever?
The medical drama is affecting my relationship with food, so if it were going to be this week, like, buffalo jerky sounds lovely and I don't suppose you know how to make congee?
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It is not something I have ever particularly kept track of before, but it is peculiarly heartening to me right now. And I am glad that people are still liking the things that are in the world because of you!
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My mother has nine monarchs in chrysalis from the milkweed in her back yard and I keep wanting to name them out of Zelazny.
I love this! You should dub them. Monarchs were part of my childhood, as were fireflies, and without a big countryish backyard, I see neither.
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Thank you. It is displeasingly persisting, but I am seeing doctors (I hate seeing doctors) and with any luck it will produce results in the form of someone making me feel better.
I love this! You should dub them. Monarchs were part of my childhood, as were fireflies, and without a big countryish backyard, I see neither.
My mother has agreed that we will at least name one of them Corwin. The current theory is that she's getting so many because for the last two years she and Charlotte have been raising them from egg to butterfly and therefore her back yard has been generationally fixed as a site of migration. I like this theory.
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Awww.
I like this theory.
I think it's marvellous. All praise to their good work!
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CASE, UNHELPED
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I was thinking of your mother's monarchs this morning when I was talking with the ninja girl---it ended up with us talking about chrysalis coming from the Greek word for gold, and now I need to google images of the golden chrysalises butterflies make on the Greek islands.
Hoping, as I always do, that the medical drama can ebb so greatly that it's basically nonexistent....
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Thank you. It is making me happy.
I was thinking of your mother's monarchs this morning when I was talking with the ninja girl---it ended up with us talking about chrysalis coming from the Greek word for gold, and now I need to google images of the golden chrysalises butterflies make on the Greek islands.
I don't think I've ever seen any of those, either, so I look forward to your findings. It's why I think the English plural can't be chrysalides, but it's what I always say.
Hoping, as I always do, that the medical drama can ebb so greatly that it's basically nonexistent....
Thank you! I am personally tired of medical drama and could do without!
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