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Finally starting to feel better, which means I now have to fight the mental illness that says "since you stopped doing something every day, now you'll never be able to do it again!!!!!!" about things like graphics, updating my fucking journal, you know.....super helpful stuff like that ;w;

ANYWAY.

I've had this tab open for like a week and been unable to keep writing BUT NOT FOR LONG!!!!!!!!!! I have great news!!!!!!!

I HAD A JOB INTERVIEW TODAY AND ALREADY GOT A CALL BACK FOR A SECOND INTERVIEW IN A COUPLE DAYS I'M SO PUUUUUUUUUMPED!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway. Last week Pat had to pick up lube, so we went to Lion's Den, which acquired a different small chain of adult stores a few years back, and I just. idk man. I walked in and it was everything I'd been missing ;w; They weren't hiring at that location, but they were hiring an assistant manager at another location. So I went home and almost immediately applied to it.

Jump to today: I figured weekdays would be the best time to swing by and follow up with a manager, and I was right. The store manager was in, and she was supposed to interview someone today...but they didn't show up. SO. GOOD FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The interview went so well, it was everything I'm looking for in working in retail again, and just...idk man I felt like I really clicked with the store manager. And I did! She called me back less than two hours I left to set up a second interview, this time with the district manager. It's on Wednesday afternoon and I am SO EXCITED I want to go back to slinging dildos. I miss my stupid fun retail life ;w;

It would be evenings and weekends, which sucks but also I haven't worked in 2.5 years and I'm going insaaaaaane I need to get out of the fucking house. And this seems like SUCH a good fit.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Location: Garwyn Oaks, MD
Crossposts: https://kirrianu.insanejournal.com/47396.html

impala_chick

Title: Intertwined by Circumstance
Pairing: Max/Liz/Kyle
Rated: Teen
Word Count: 2,492

Summary: When Kyle shows up in Los Angeles to talk to Liz, he brings Max with him. Max's confession forces Liz to face her complicated feelings about both of them.

A/N: Written late for the multiamory march prompt 14. confessions and the no_true_pair prompt March Twenty-Sixth - Max & Liz at the beach. This takes place during episode 3x01.

Fic on AO3

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impala_chick

Come join us at

seasons_of_fandom! It's the landcomm formerly known as

lands_of_magic. A landcomm is a super fun community where the mods post challenges that you complete for points. Challenges could be related to writing prompts, art/graphic prompts, or just general meme-type questions/games. It was a blast last round, and you can use any fandom(s) you like. This comm reminds me of how participatory things used to be on Livejournal! I'm on team Summer. Tell them I sent you :)

I'm also super excited for

sunshine_revival which starts on July 1!

thisbluespirit

A couple more belated

rainbowfic crossposts, which bring me very nearly up to date:

Name: Something Fishy
Story: Starfall
Colors: Vert #19 (Rescue from a dragon)
Supplies and Styles: Thread
Word Count: 1871
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray, Nin Valerno, Leion Valerno. Follows on immediately from On the Trail and Trap for the Unwary.
Summary: Leion has been found.

Name: Leftovers
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #6 (Comfort)
Supplies and Styles: Novelty Bead (From 11 Years of Rainbowfic Space Month "sauce") + Thread
Word Count: 2604
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray/Leion Valerno, Imenna Pollens. Follows on directly from Something Fishy
Summary: Leion attempts to thank Viyony.

aliensamba

Medium: film
Fandom: The Imitation Game
Character: Alan Turing
Prompt: Mathematics
Notes: 1 collage for week 5 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: hueco mundo
Current Music: three coins in the fountain - the four aces -

aliensamba

Medium: film
Fandom: The Life of Pi
Notes: 3 "friends only" banners for challenge 24.18 ("working at the zoo") at Land of Art.

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Current Mood: sore
Current Location: hueco mundo
Current Music: dynamite - taio cruz

linky

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Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Sayonara No Memai

aliensamba

Medium: film
Additional: team alpha
Fandom: Joker (2019)
Character: Arthur Fleck
Prompt: talk show
Warnings: Clown. Blood.
Notes: 1 collage for week 5 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Location: hueco mundo
Current Music: casanova posse - ali

xeena

this is a sign-up post. you can sign up >> here if interested!
(the timing is perfect, I was just thinking how I miss the last season!)

nondenomifan

( Click here for my Star Wars meta! )

(Credits: This questionnaire was originally posted on this site though

pebbleinalake modified and re-ordered the questions, and I snarfed it from them!)

Current Mood: calm

aliensamba

Medium: film
Additional: team alpha
Fandom: New Moon
Characters/Pairings: Jacob Black, Bella Swan
Prompt: hugs
Notes: 2 gif sets for week 5 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Location: hueco mundo
Current Music: devotion - hurts

linky

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Current Mood: hot

impala_chick

Hooray for another round of

comment_bingo!

a work from a fandom with an open/ongoing canon	a podfic	a work from an event from 2014	a remix	a work from an event from 2016
a work about your first 'ship	a work about your current favorite 'ship	a work posted in 2015	a work with a trope you rarely seek out	a work from a movie canon
a fic that's over 5k	a work from your newest fandom	FREE SPACE	5 drabbles (works of 100 words each)	a work from an event from 2022
a comment where you quote your favourite line	a work from a horror canon	a work from a fandom with a closed canon	a work you've bookmarked	the first comment on a work
leave a comment on dreamwidth/livejournal	a work with your favorite trope	an art you go back to	3 works by the same creator	a oneshot

impala_chick

Here are the answers for the music meme. Thanks to

likeadeuce

adastreia

scintilla10 and

svgurl for the questions!

4. Is there a song you love but don't like its music video?

There's nothing inherently wrong with the Waffle House music video, but it disappointed me. I love the song, and when I first heard it I thought it had such a great message about being humble/remembering where you came from. But the music video is this huge musical production that feels a bit sterile and very distant from the lyrics.

7. Would you wear a t-shirt of a band you're not into?

No, because I wouldn't want to answer awkward questions about the shirt :P

8. Is there an artist or song that you like, despite being of a genre you don't usually like?

I like Andy Black's solo work, but I don't really listen to emo or Black Veil Brides (maybe I should?).

Watch on YouTube

10. Favorite solo artist?

Halsey or Demi Lovato.

The rest of the questions:

14. A song or album from the 50s or earlier:

Watch on YouTube

21. A song or album from this year or last year:

Music for People Who Believe in Love by Joe Jonas ♥ There's only one song I'm not crazy about on the entire album.

22. What’s your favorite song or album from the year you where born?

Watch on YouTube

28. Have you ever made/got a mixtape as gift to/from a friend?

Of course! This was so common, I remember burning CDs for my friends for their birthdays or special events in high school. I think the last time I got a burned CD was from a boyfriend in college, but it wasn't a mixtape - just a copy of a CD.

35. A song you like in a language you don’t speak:

Watch on YouTube

No idea what's being said, but it's so lovely!

38. Which was the first concert you went to?

I'm not entirely sure but probably a band that was playing for free at the Fair. Maybe Tower of Power?

40. Which was the best concert you’ve ever been to?

Fall Out Boy was super fun - that also had a lot to do with the crowd but they sounded so good. Brooks and Dunn had such an impressive stage production - even from the cheap seats it looked fantastic and every song had a cohesive theme, plus I loved their banter. And then I have to mention the very first Jonas Brothers show I ever went to, when they weren't famous and Joe jumped into the small crowd and serenaded everyone with "Mandy" and it was totally incredible.

42. Your favorite(s) “no skips” album(s):

Badlands by Halsey (2019). Youngblood by 5 Seconds of Summer (2018).

49. Is there a cover you like more than the original version?

Of course the original (1975) is great, but The Chicks cover of Landslide is SO epic imo (2002).

56. A song/album/artist you wish you could forget so you could have the experience of hearing it for the first time again:

A Little Bit Longer by Jonas Brothers in 2008. This was the album that launched their career into superstar territory and I really remember every single song on that album. It came at just the right time in my life and it made me feel so understood. That album was so important to me, it's hard to capture how amazing it felt to listen to it for the first time but I'd gladly feel all that again :)

pebbleinalake

My responses to

thefridayfive for 6/13/25.

1. What item would you be embarrassed for people to know you own?
None that I can think of.

2. What is something you splurged on just for you?
I'm on a tight budget, so I try not to splurge often. But I did cave in and buy a bunch of new funko pops last month.

3. What is something that you own with no real world value that is priceless to you?
Probably my scrapbooks and my box of keepsake items.

4. Do you collect anything?
So much stuff! My main collections are Star Wars, Comic Books, Funko Pops, Furby, My Little Pony, and dragon figurines.

5. What item belonging to a friend/family member do you covet?
My younger brother has an autographed photo of Roy Rogers that my mom gifted to him ages ago. (We had a few DVDs of old westerns while growing up and Roy Rogers was one of our favorites.) I'd love to add it to my western movie collection if he ever wants to sell it.

tinny

Tout Va Bien - English title: Everything Is Fine

It's a French 8-episode drama about a family whose child has leukemia - basically it's a study on how people deal with grief.

This show is amazingly well-written. I read a few interviews and it turns out that screen-writer and producer Camille de Castelnau's niece had leukemia, and that explains the incredible realism both concerning hospital routine and emotions.

It stars Virginie Efira, Sara Girardeau, and Nicole Garcia. (And Mehdi Nebbou.)

What I personally loved about it is how calmly everything flows. The situation itself is so horrible, there's no need for added dramatics. The hospital routine, the facts, the medical details, it all speaks for itself. You can clearly see the cracks appearing in all the characters, but there's barely any shouting, there are barely any tears except for characters crying quietly when they're alone, there are no major fights. Everyone is high-strung and weighed down to their breaking point, but it's never exploited for shock value.

Is this a rec? Yes! Although there's one major thing I did not like.

Does it have a happy ending:

ending spoilers

I'm double-spoiler-cutting this. Unfortunately, yes. The show sets up this extremely painful and realistic family drama about a child dying, and then the child does not die at the end. This annoyed me very very much, because they completely robbed us of that well-earned katharsis of how life could have continued after Rose's death. Fuck Disney. Ymmv.

Where can I watch it? It's on hulu and Disney+.

non-spoilery character screencaps

Rose in the hospital, getting her blood transplant

Tout Va Bien - Marion and Stephane

Marion and Stephane - Rose's parents, struggling to cope

Tout Va Bien - Antonio and Claire

Claire, Marion's sister and Rose's aunt, with her boyfriend Antonio

Tout Va Bien - Lou and her mother

Antonio's ex-wife with their daughter Lou, about whom she's fighting a custody battle

Tout Va Bien - Vincent

Vincent - Rose's uncle (the youngesst of the three children) and steward for an airline

Tout Va Bien - Vincent hates hospitals

Vincent hates hospitals, but can't turn down the requests for his help

Tout Va Bien - Anne and Pascal

Anne, Rose's grandmother and famous author, always working, and her husband Pascal

Tout Va Bien - Louis

Louis, Marion's secret affair - yes that is Mehdi Nebbou and I watched the whole thing for him

Tout Va Bien - the psychologist

the hospital psychologist, one of my favorite characters, she gives the best advice

my comments (also non-spoilery)

* What makes this series so brilliant is that each character deals with the situation in their own way, and I found it realistic that even within one family, the approaches of every person would be different.

* Rose herself, despite being a young girl, is shown in a way that I could empathize with. She's not the unfortunate carrier that causes all the problems but is herself unaffected. She's afraid but cautiously optimistic, sometimes dead tired, sometimes annoying, sometimes happy. All very normal, I thought.

* The mother, Marion, strikes up an anonymous (mostly sexual) relationship with a man she meets in the parking lot of the hospital, just to get away from everything for a little while.

* The uncle, Vincent, has a phobia of hospitals and the whole situation gives him panic attacks. His life as a steward for an airline - complete with "a girl in every port" - slowly falls apart. He's probably the most cruelly affected by the story. <3

* The younger sister, Leonie, is acting up because her parents are focused mostly on her dying sister - and because she's losing her sister, of course.

* The father, Stephane, is probably the single underdeveloped character in the show. He only gets a few scenes with his wife and daughter, and one scene at work, and that's it. The women are by far better developd (and I can't say I minded).

* The grandmother, Anne, is a famous author of self-help books and tries to push her "helpful" attitude on everyone around her, including Rose.

* The aunt, Claire, tries to deal with the tragedy by taking on as many tasks as she can, to help in any way she can, neglecting everyone else in favor of Rose (and her sister Marion).

* Plus, a lot of the characters are grieving about more than one thing:

** Anne is confronted with the fact that her editor and long-time lover has been sexually abusing other clients of his and his image and company are imploding.

** Claire is dealing with the custody battle for her boyfriend Antonio's daughter, and struggling with her inability to connect with that girl, Lou. Lou herself also acts out sometimes due to the conflict between her divorced parents.

** The ex-wife of Antonio is mourning her failed relationship and tries to sabotage his new happiness in every way she can.

** The grandfather, Pascal, is mourning his own relationship (his wife cheating on him with her editor for years) and getting older and not being needed by anyone.

* All of this is marvellously interwoven and sometimes it's like watching a train-wreck in slow motion. Nobody knows how the cancer will progress/react, and everyone is caught in their own bubble, unable to escape.

* A minor nitpick is that some of the supporting characters are a little 'too supportive'. Louis, Marion's secret lover, doesn't seem to have his own goals and seemingly just exists to support Marion. Antonio, Claire's boyfriend, has an endless amount of patience for both Claire and his ex-wife. Alice, one of Vincent's girlfriends, becomes part of the family and gives him far more love than their casual relationship warrants.

* I personally loved the hospital psychologist - a family therapist who gets to say a lot of the best lines.

* In general, there are quite a few amazing lines of dialogue. Like when the grandmother says (about herself) "it's so hard to watch your daughter suffer and not being able to help" - like, no shit, Anne, you selfish ass! Or when Louis says "the palliative care unit is no place for clowns" and Marion answers, "it's no place for children." Or the editor, explaining to Anne why he never assaulted her, "because I never needed to." Or when Marion says to her husband that "without her hair, she looks even more like you." There are so many good lines of dialogue in this, those are just the ones that I remember off the top of my head.

* Last but not least, I would never have watched this if Mehdi Nebbou wasn't in it. He has a much bigger role than I'd expected - probably the biggest non-family-member role in the show - and it was very very much worth watching it for him. But I ended up loving the show for its amazing writing, and I can absolutely rec it on its own merits, Mehdi or no.

aliensamba

Medium: film
Fandoms: The Last Jedi; Jane Eyre (2011)
Characters/Pairings: Rey/Kylo Ren; Jane Eyre/Mr. Rochester
Prompt: Passion
Lucky Color: orange (write a crossover or create a graphic work based on two different fandoms)
Notes: 1 header and 2 alternatives (gif sets) for week 5 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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Current Mood: sick
Current Location: hueco mundo
Current Music: devotion - hurts

dani_meows

Jasper is currently resting comfortably with me checking on him frequently to make sure he doesn't scratch his eye area or need anything. In exchange he doesn't have to wear the cone.

So far he's being a real trooper about it just like last time. I really do think cats understand English and he understood my explanations of what was happening.

The opthalmologist took out everything they could and hopefully the biopsy will show the cancer not all the way through the removed tissue.

Ian gets paid in ten minutes so we don't have to worry about not having enough money for groceries/expenses after that.

The above picture is of Jasper at our vet the day we went to understand his diagnosis.

Besides Jasper I've mostly been reading fanfiction and making sure the other three cats aren't jealous of the attention Jasper's getting.

The headache I've had for days is getting better. And I'm glad the cancer cells are hopefully out of my cat.

Three weeks or so we should know for sure.

Which will put us in July. Hopefully after the anniversary of the cat who's death still feels fresh rather than almost a year ago.

Anyway Jasper is asleep and safe for now. I'm going to go back to reading fanfiction mostly about Harry Potter being raised by his godfather. Sometimes with manipulative Dumbledore... They are my weakness.