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You can’t tell me this doesn’t have the same energy as this old meme - and more so when you know the mischief behind it! Via MTSOfan:

Piper was torn. As I squatted on the other side of the window, she wanted to interact with me. On the other hand, she'd had a quarrel with her roommate, Luani. She wanted to watch what he was doing.

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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

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My room is so nearly finished now that Husband has ticked it off his list as done. The cupboard doors went on yesterday, and I'm putting in the shelves as I put things inside them. We're probably going to have to go back and get the remaining two shelves that I initially thought I didn't want, though. I thought, with the layout, they would be too difficult to reach to be useful, but I no longer think this is true. Not urgent, though.

Nearly all my belongings are back in here now. There are still a few things in the lounge, but they will have to wait until I've got these boxes sorted out. It's all quite chaotic.

What remains to be done in here is just some details, like hanging pictures and such. There is also a shelf I want put back up on the wall, which Husband offered to put up for me today. It depends on how far I can get with the chaos already in here. Again, I need to deal with the current chaos before there's room for adding more chaos. I also want to get a cork board and a new bin (blue plastic from the mid-90s is frankly no longer doing it for me in my room of grey and purple!) but I haven't been looking at those yet.

These cupboards have given me so much more storage space than I had before, and they are large enough that I can have the sewing machine, the iron and the big sewing box actually put away and not hanging around on any available surface or the floor. It also makes it seem like I have more free floor space, but I'm pretty certain that's an illusion.

There's a weird empty space in the lounge behind the sofa now, though.

No pictures yet, because so much chaos!

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260321.html

Spiral NGC 1300 and elliptical NGC 1297 are galaxies that

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260321.html

On a single tube train alone the other day, I saw two people in black thin-rimmed aviators and all I could thin was well now I know what I want my next pair of glasses to look like!

Never felt so much like a dad, possibly because that style always reminded me of my dad since that's what he wore when I was a little kid.

But one of these two people was a young person of ambiguous gender presentation, so I have hope that such things can become fashionable among the queers.

I'm due an eye test, and presumably new glasses, so I've been keeping an eye out for what kind of frames I might want (since the narrow rectangular thick-framed "hipster glasses" that seem to suit me best are not as readily available as they once were! the frames I have now are boring as hell, too big and too round for me even though they're not as much of either as has been popular lately).

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Today was A Travel Day; yesterday, in preparation for same, I Ran Errands, including "acquiring Tiny Cake" and "visiting the pharmacy".

On the way from those two jobs to the next couple, I passed Several Good Things.

One was a new-to-me flavour of completely ridiculous daffodil:

a double daffodil, with white petals and inner trumpet, protruding past a much shorter orange outer trumpet

It's a double not in the sense of having a confusing froth of intermingled trumpets (as of Double Fashion or Double Camparnelle, both of which exist locally), but in the sense of having two nested trumpets, one shorter and orange, from which the longer white one protrudes. I have never! previously! seen a thing like this! I am really enjoying my current streak of encountering varieties of daffodil that make me go "what the fuck???"

Shortly thereafter I checked over my shoulder while crossing a tiny bridge and was startled and delighted to see A COOT UPON THE NEST that, last I passed it, was clearly still derelict. Obviously I went back and Gazed Upon It for Some Time and was eventually rewarded by it STANDING UP to reveal SEVEN??? (possibly) EGGS!!!

And the Egyptian goslings were peeping about the place when I subsequently passed them on my way back up the hill. A+ errands would run again.

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This week: Baku summarizes Zeztz so far, and the Girl Rules gang makes a bunch of questionable decisions.

No Andor this week because Bestie and I haven't had a chance to discuss the last episodes we watched yet. Hopefully will be back with that next week.

Title quote comes from Girl Rules... though now that I think about it... it also sounds like something cryptic Nox would say 😂

Minor spoilers below:

Kamen Rider Zeztz (episode 26)

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Girl Rules (episode 2)

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Volleyball was good. Elbow Coffee is next on the agenda. Then, at some point, hopefully, Amazon will deliver my order to the locker at the Dollar Store and I can pick it up along with toothpaste and the greeting cards that Bonny asked me to get. On the way home, I'll drop off the Amazon return.

Ok Elbow Coffee is done. It was ok. Bonny really is a key ingredient and she won't be there for at least one more Saturday. Today Noelle said her computer did not come back after the electrical outage. So after coffee I went in to look. Her computer is 9 years old and took a good 20 minutes to go from off to fully on. She's a Gmail user so I took her my spare Chromebook and showed her how to use it and told her is was a way better bet for what her uses, but not to decide anything until she'd used it for a while. She has an appointment with IT on Tuesday so I didn't even bother hooking up her printer. Let them do it. She has both computers up and operational now.

My pants are too long. I wear the same pants every day. They are actually yoga pants. They are nice looking and plain with perfect pockets. They launder beautifully and stretch 4 ways but pop right back to the original size. They are comfortable and I have about a dozen pair. They have always been a smidge too long. Not long enough to require hemming but longer than I would like. Now they are unattractively (and probably dangerously) too long. I don't need a smaller size - and actually, the smaller sizes have the same inseam length. I just need to take up the hem in all the pants. All of them. That's the project today.

Also I am near the end of Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall. I can probably stretch it out two days but I probably won't. I've enjoyed the heck out of it. His only other book is Broadchurch. I did not like the TV series but maybe I'll like the book.

I'm beyond dismayed to hear from multiple people that Project Hair Mary - the movie - is great. I could not imagine how they could make it credible, much less great. I'm still not sure I want to see it. But now I probably will. I did love that story so very much.

My Amazon is out for delivery so should probably land pretty soon. I should get a snack for lunch before I head out.

And I don't think I've had Edna before??

Recuerdo

We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—
But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.

We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;
And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.

We were very tired, we were very merry,
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
We hailed, “Good morrow, mother!” to a shawl-covered head,
And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;
And she wept, “God bless you!” for the apples and pears,
And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.

Thank you so much for making something for me! I have some overall likes and DNWs below, and then some fandom-specific ideas and things I like about the canon and characters. Please only consider all this as potential suggestions put out there in case you find them useful, though, and write/make whatever best calls to you. So long as it avoids my DNWs I am sure I will be happy; I love seeing other people's takes on characters and relationships I like and don't require them to follow my own ideas or headcanons. Treats always welcome!

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Fandoms: Babylon 5; Andor ; Silmarillion; LOTR; Rings of Power; Star Wars: original and prequel trilogies

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Me hearties, yo ho.

Disaster Otter

Just one thing: 22 March 2026

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Possibly my most #dadcore thought EVER

happy equinox, etc

"those who set the rules usually end up breaking them" (Weekly TV reviews)

It's time to hem the pants

World Poetry Day again, apparently

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