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Name: Lucy
Age: 38
Location: Wales, UK

Describe yourself in five sentences or less: I'm Lucy, I'm a 38-year old woman who is trying to figure out this whole 'life' thing. I'm bisexual and poly, living in Wales with my partners. I'm a home maker, love to bake and cook, and am a huge sci-fi fan. I really enjoy playing board games, I'm learning to knit, trying to learn German and I'm also a little obsessed with journals/planners right now.

Top 5 fandoms: OK as of right now? Doctor Who, Stargate, Marvel/DC, MacGyver and Lucifer. There's loads more and I will happily chat your ears off about the things I love :)

I mostly post about: My family, mental health, movies/tv and just... life in general

I rarely post about: I always try not to post about politics and religion. I was always taught never to discuss them.

My three last posts were about: Star Trek Discovery, moving house, a random compliment from one of my partners.

How often do you post? Usually a couple of times a week but I've been absent recently due to moving house

How about commenting? Probably about 75% of the time, if I've got something to say, I'll say it :)

andrewducker

Researcher blocked from researching detransition because it might offend people: (tags: transgender research )
Labour conference 2017: Russell Brand calls for drugs to be decriminalised and regulated to combat addiction: (tags: drugs legalisation uk )
Brexit: EU chief negotiator says no talks on transition period until divorce bill is settled: Was the obvious response to May's speech
(tags: UK europe )
Squirrel, apparently, cannot die from falling: Although nobody seems to know what terminal velocity is for a squirrel
(tags: squirrel video height )
The effect of robots on the German labour market: (tags: economics automation robots Germany manufacturing )
It's ok to be stuck. And you need to be ok with that: (tags: psychology learning mathematics viaFanf )
A really clear explanation of what Europe needs from the UK on the Irish border: (tags: Ireland NorthernIreland UK europe )
Live in a flat in Edinburgh? The council have a survey on recycling: (tags: recycling Edinburgh survey )
The Banned 1910s Magazine That Started a Feminist Movement in Japan: (tags: japan history feminism )
Reddit asks "Russians who were adults back while the Soviet Union existed: How does life in Russia now compare to back then?": (tags: russia history )
Man banned from Twitter over mosquito death threat: (tags: twitter abuse fail OhForFucksSake )
Debunking the Standard Narrative on the "Opioid Epidemic": (tags: drugs )
Gender pay gap for managers £3,000 more than thought: (tags: gender pay uk OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3620229.html

poliphilo

If only we could view our history as we view its artefacts- with an admiring and affectionate detachment- holding it up to the light, admitting the flaws. How much bad stuff has gone down because your grandfather was mean to my grandfather? Our ancestors were interesting people, delightful people, creative people but let's let their hatreds die with them.

ysabetwordsmith

These are the footnotes for "Everything That Is Real About Us."

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Notes:

These are the characters appearing in "Everything That Is Real About Us."

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Crossposts: https://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/4460409.html

ysabetwordsmith

This poem is spillover from the August 15, 2017 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "family of choice" square in my 7-31-17 card for the Cottoncandy Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by Anthony & Shirley Barrette. It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series, and directly follows "An Atmosphere of Shame."

Warning: This poem is flangst. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. Shiv has trouble relaxing and having fun, due to his history of abuse and neglect, so a beach trip is more complicated for him than for most people. ECR Boy! The poem includes multiple flashbacks, social anxiety, financial anxiety, extreme body modesty, hypervigilance, reference to past near-drowning, emergency manhandling (by Aida of Shiv and by Shiv of Edison), flibbering over acceptance vs. rejection, awkward interactions with another family, mild overstrain of superpowers, awkward apologies, Edison is blunt as a bowling ball and has no filter because he is four, and Shiv is little better due to past abuse, frustration over solar limitations, and other challenges. On the whole, though, it has a positive tone. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward. This is the second in the beach thread, and you'll need it to make sense of later poetry as well as

dialecticdreamer's story "Family Stories."

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ysabetwordsmith

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Poem: "We Must Bear Witness"
Poem: "An Atmosphere of Shame"
Poem: "Black Swan Lake"
Saturday Yardening
Crowdfunding Creative Jam
The Jewel in the Heart of Quantum Physics
Birdfeeding
Hard Things

The half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics is now complete. I have a few new poems up already, and more to post.

"Branded in His Memory" is fully committed, so if you pledged money toward that, now is the time to send it (not counting the person who specified a later date of donation). Look on the sale page to see the tally; I had to put it there because the donor comments kind of spread around several posts.

The discussion "Working Around Microphones" has gained a lot of attention. If you're concerned about accessibility and diversity, please check out this list of ideas for supporting everyone's comfort and communication. If you're an organizer, or you know someone who is, by all means print it out and pass it around.

Poetry in Microfunding:
"The Inner Transition" belongs to Polychrome Heroics: Berettaflies. Stylet enjoys a shower and Valor's Widow starts cooking. "The Higher a Monkey Climbs" belongs to Polychrome Heroics and has 23 new verses. Pips and Jules discuss what to get for G and Joshua after the fire. "Two Foxes" belongs to Polychrome Heroics: Iron Horses. The Iron Horses tell Kenzie what happened to the gaybashers.

Weather has been hot and muggy. Currently blooming: dandelions, marigolds, petunias, lantana, million bells, firecracker plant, white and red clover, morning glories, frost asters, torenia, purple aster, sawtooth sunflowers, pink sedum, purple sedum.

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Crossposts: https://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/4460270.html

poliphilo

I believe my grandparents may once have lived in Highgate. If not they lived nearby. My father certainly attended Highgate School; we have the sports trophies to prove it.

My grandparents were fairly well-to-do but they couldn't afford to live there now.

Our family party was held in a house belonging to the Methodist church which was probably purchased new because no church would be able to justify buying it today- even if it had the money. An identical house across the road is on the market for £2.3 million. And what do you get for that- a mansion? No, just a decent but unexceptional mock-Tudor detached house- on a narrow plot- with a small garden at the back- the sort of house that went up in its hundreds of thousands in the years between the wars, a starter home for a city clerk. There's no garage so you have to park your Merc on the street.

London prices are mad.

andrewducker

Brazil Judge Rules Homosexuality a Disease, Approves 'Conversion Therapy': (tags: Brazil lgbt )
Catastrophic lack of sleep in modern society is killing us: (tags: sleep health )
Behind New Obamacare Repeal Vote: Furious Republican Donors: (tags: money politics usa )
NHS Anti-immigration language rules to be relaxed after they prevented native-English speaking nurses: They were failing people for incorrect tenses and essay structure. What were they thinking? (Other than the obvious hatred of foreigners)
(tags: language uk OhForFucksSake nhs immigration )
1912 Newspaper Article Anticipates Global Warming: (tags: globalwarming history co2 )
Time to ditch GDP (are there better measures which have broad support from experts?): (tags: economics )
Britain Is Cracking Down on Gender Stereotypes in Ads: (tags: gender stereotypes advertising uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3620094.html

andrewducker

Germany just got a 13% vote for the populist anti-foreigner party. In 2015 Britain also got a 13% vote for their populist anti-foreigner party.

In Germany that will result in them getting some MPs in a separate party, and their centre-right party will do a deal with someone more central (their centre-left party last time, probably the Greens and the liberals this time around). Total influence of the far-right: almost zero.

In Britain this resulted in the Conservatives basically implementing the manifesto commitments of UKIP in order to stop their party fragmenting. Total influence of the far-right: Brexit.

This is _entirely_ down to the voting system. Germany has basically had the equivalent of a Lab+Con coalition for most of the last ten years, and the parties are constantly moderated by having to work with each other. Even France's two-tier presidential elections allowed people to vote for a relative outsider.

In Britain you end up with two main parties which spend all of their time scrambling to keep both wings together. It's a political system which, frankly, encourages extremism by making the more central politicians reliant on the further-out wings of their parties.

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3619808.html

poliphilo

We were at a family birthday party in Highgate. After lunch I walked up hill with Mike and Jay (and, Jeez, is that a hill!) into the village to view the George Michael memorial garden- which occupies a green space- about the size of a regular suburban back yard- across from what used to be George's house. It was full of people- including some with brooms who were keeping it tidy- and there are tributes all round the fence and hanging from trees. I've never seen the like, at least not on such a scale.

The first picture has George's house in the background. Lots of famous people lived and live round here. Someone mentioned Jude Law. Someone else said Kate Moss or was it Kate Bush. Just down the road from George's house is one with two plaques on it- one for Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the other for J.B. Priestley.

ysabetwordsmith

This poem came out of the June 6, 2017 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from ZB on Dreamwidth,

mirrorofsmoke,

chanter_greenie,

ari_the_dodecahedron,

alexseanchai,

ng_moonmoth, and

serpentine. It also fills the "punishment" square in my 5-29-17 card for the Pride Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by

janetmiles. It belongs to the Dr. Infanta thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem contains imagery which may disturb some readers. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It takes place during and after World War II. Thus it features genocide, discrimination, extreme violence, death and destruction, killing captive Nazis via superpower, jailbreaking, erotic art, orphaning, traumatic rage, war trials, extrajudicial execution, and other mayhem. Please consider your tastes and headspace before deciding if this is something you want to read.

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This poem is spillover from the August 15, 2017 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "naked / vulnerable" square in my 7-31-17 card for the Cottoncandy Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by Anthony & Shirley Barrette. It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem contains some touchy topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It features multiple references to past child abuse and neglect, social anxiety, financial anxiety, extreme body modesty, jealousy, shame, sex/gender diversity, creepy mannequins, visible scars from past abuse, unwelcome attention from Dr. G who quickly extrapolates the origin of Shiv's scars, unwelcome touching of Shiv by Edison who is too young to have learned better, lingering awkwardness from Halley's prior violation of Shiv's boundaries, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward. However, this is the beginning of the whole beach thread, so you need it to make sense of the later poems and the story "Family Stories" by

dialecticdreamer.

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addme

NAME: Kimi
AGE: 28 (29 on October 3rd though)
INTERESTS & HOBBIES: Tom Hiddleston, Pokemon, All Time Low, 5 Seconds of Summer, Simple Plan, visual kei/J-rock, oldies music, writing, fangirling.
LOOKING FOR: Nothing special. I don't really mind because I'm accepting of everyone. :3
ANYTHING ELSE?: I lost the account info for my old DW. I think it was AdorbzFangirl or something. But yeah. I figured it was better just to start over. Keep in mind too, that I won't be very active. I'm pretty much limited to my dad's computer (on occasion) to my iPad Pro. My laptop stopped functioning properly, and if Apple can't fix it... it may be a while before I can get another one. :|

Oh! I forgot to mention that I'm autistic. There's a good chance I won't reply to other people's journals. It puts a lot of pressure on me and my social skills. I'll do my best to post on yours, but I expect the same in return. :3
So yeah.

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addme

NAME: Dido
AGE: 37

INTERESTS & HOBBIES: Hiking, Travel, Singing, Car Repair, GIS, Sarcasm, Marshmallow Childfree, Silliness, Gardening, Lib'rul Laziness, Sailing, Local community building/environmental action, Good beer

LOOKING FOR: Fellow oldies. Comment wars, oblivion to fanfic/dom (sorry, I ain't got the time), global outlook, people who might laugh at my jokes when I bother to post without judging me for not bothering to post a ton, your candid reviews of lifehacks, well-constructed enthusing or rants, cat photos, non-comic book and movie recs, engagement in life on this ball o' dirt.

ANYTHING ELSE?: I'm working on recognizing my ingrained NWL flaws in the current moment. I'm cishet chicky, and I enjoy hearing most points of view.

ysabetwordsmith

mama_kestrel says, "I'll be able to put in $50 on the 29th. Can anyone join me?"

I am willing to extend the quarter-price option for "Branded in His Memory" beyond the sale proper if people have confirmed their intent to sponsor it. These mega-epics are so big, they rarely sell at full price, so it's to everyone's benefit to catch them in a sale. If you're looking to shop in the sale but have not yet done so, here's a great opportunity to get the most bang for your buck. The one person who's seen this piece so far is raving about it.

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Crossposts: https://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/4459893.html

andrewducker

Another delay for ScotRail's £370m Edinburgh to Glasgow electric train service plans: (tags: Edinburgh Glasgow trains electricity fail )
Superaccurate GPS Chips Coming to Smartphones in 2018: (tags: GPS location phones viaFanf )
Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious (And Play Super Mario Bros.): (tags: games ai personality learning )
A Ukrainian born billionaire who does biz w/ Russian oligarchs is funding Trump's legal representation via RNC: (tags: politics Russia usa EpicWTF )
Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly: (tags: web programming thefuture )
I'm ggoing to Thing Explaining with Randall Munroe Tickets on Wed, 4 Oct - anyone else going?: (tags: xkcd viaSwampers )
A 1979 War-Game That Takes 1,500 Hours to Complete: (tags: games time history wwii )
Why rejecting the modern world is a privileged fantasy: (tags: Technology medicine life society )
Watch how long a two-euro coin can balance on Fuxing train traveling at 350 kph, on #HighSpeedRail linking Beijing with Shanghai: So, how long until we get trains that fast and smooth in the UK?
(tags: trains )
More than half UK population has no religion: (tags: UK religion GoodNews )
Rick And Morty’s worst fans don’t deserve Rick And Morty: It really bothers me that most of the t-shirts I've seen are clearly aimed at people who want to be Rick.
(tags: tv fandom fail abuse )
Sea salt around the world is contaminated by plastic: Because, of course, the sea around the world is contaminated by plastic
(tags: pollution plastic ocean food salt )
I have done without any form of technology for six months and my life is utterly shit: (tags: satire technology media )
Students are biased against female lecturers: (tags: patriarchy women academia OhForFucksSake )
Project Black Bus – using taxis like buses: (tags: technology transport taxi )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3619387.html

poliphilo

My mother has been watching bicycle racing from Bergen. The cameras track and follow the action through the streets of the town and up into the hills above the estuary. I don't take much interest in the sport but I'm enjoying the scenery. I love how the Norwegians paint their houses in bright primary colours.

ysabetwordsmith

Thanks to a donation from

dialecticdreamer, there are 23 new verses in "The Higher a Monkey Climbs." Jules and Pips discuss how to support G's family after the fire.

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Crossposts: https://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/4459728.html

ysabetwordsmith

This is the freebie for the September 2017

crowdfunding Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from

wyld_dandelyon. It also fills the "merfolk" square in my 9-1-17 card for the Pirate Fest bingo.

"Black Swan Lake"

She swims,
her long neck
a graceful curve,
her black feathers
sleek and unruffled.

Sometimes,
she changes.

She swims,
her two feet
now a single fin,
her black breasts
bobbing in the water.

In both forms, she
is the secret mistress
of Black Swan Lake.

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Notes:

See the black swan in bird form and mermaid form.

Mermaids appear in legends from around the world, including Africa.

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Poem: "An Atmosphere of Shame"

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