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It has been warm, and I have been sowing seeds and giving my tomatoes holidays outside. It has also been very cold at night, with a white frost, and I had to put the extra blanket back on top of my bed! To my relief the rocket and lettuce seedlings survived the cold all right, and everything else was still safe beneath the soil...

( Poppies )

Some of the strawberry plants are showing signs of life (though at least one appears to have had its new growth eaten off, and is trying again to put out a fresh set of leaves). Some of them look as if they may have died over the winter.

I soaked a dozen or so dwarf peas and they are now in a newspaper jar, but have shown no signs of sprouting just yet. I also sowed a tray with the last of the assorted purple flower seed, though so far as I remember it didn't come up terribly purple and didn't appear to contain any of the listed species other than cornflowers! Certainly most of the seed remaining in the packet looks like cornflower tufts, though they may simply be the biggest...

( Gypsophila elegans, Gypsophila vaccaria, Swan River daisy and pink Linaria )

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Name: Sam
Age group: Early 20's
Country: Australia
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Main Fandoms: Haikyuu!, sk8 the infinity, Cute high earth defense club LOVE!, Cute high earth defense club HAIKARA,
Other Fandoms: Powerpuff Girls Z, Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun, WataNare
Fannish Interests: I read a lot of fanfiction, and write it too, but I write slower than I can read, lol
OTPs and Ships: Nanjo Kojiro/Sakurayashiki Kaoru (sk8), Miya Atsumu/ Suna Rintarou (haikyuu), Bokuto Koutarou/Kuroo Tetsurou (haikyuu), Kozume Kenma/Yamamoto Taketora (haikyuu), Nishinoya Yuu/Tanaka Ryuunosuke (haikyuu), Kuroo Tetsurou/Sawamura Daichi (haikyuu)

While these are my main ships in haikyuu, I have read all sorts of ships and if the story is well-written I will read most ships for haikyuu. Miya Atsumu/ Suna Rintarou (haikyuu) is my ultimate long standing favourite though.

I also have ships that have stuck around even tho I'd say I have left the fandom, mainly Voltron and BNHA, I left BNHA cause I dropped the show years ago and now only read fics of a couple of my favourite pairings that don't go into the actual plot of the show (I do not plan to pick it back up). Whereas with Voltron I was there as the last season at least was dropping but I only go back occasionally only for certain tropes or certain ships.

These ships are primarily, Bakugou Katsuki/Kaminari Denki (BNHA), Lance/Shiro (Voltron).

I like to post about: I've been posting my fanfiction so far, may post some original work, may post some reviews of whatever I'm watching or whatever, may post about stuff that comes up as I learn Japanese that I find interesting.
About Me/Other Info: I'm a writer, read a lot of BL manga and watch BL shows. I love mind reading and fake dating as tropes, especially. I dabble in truth potion/serum works quite a bit too. (If I'm being honest, in most of the fandoms I read for I've read almost every mind reading fic on ao3 and even started just reading random pairings for fandoms I'm not in just cause I wanted to read mind reading as a trope)

I would love to brainstorm haikyuu fanfic with others, or talk about the show especially.

igenlode

we shall see how the 1990s book introduces the subject when it arrives in that course.

Well, in my next lesson in *that* book I now have to memorise the declension of eleven pronouns† across six cases :-p
Fortunately I actually have more or less subliminally absorbed/remembered those already, to the degree that I can simply ask myself 'what sounds right' when I can't remember the answer and mostly come up with the correct result. Mostly.

† First person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person masculine, feminine, neuter and plural, 'who', 'what', and 'itself' (also masculine, feminine, neuter and plural, so I suppose it's fourteen rather than eleven...)

igenlode

I took a packet of chive seed (hand-labelled '26 but presumably harvested last year, unless someone had overwintering chives!) from the local seed library -- a fair return for all the marigold and calendula seeds I had given them :-)
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But when I went to file the rest of the unused seed away, I discovered that I already *had* an unopened packet of commercial seed that had evidently been given to me at some point last year on the grounds that it was date-expired, so I could have tried simply sowing that first rather than helping myself to the fresh seed... However, it was dated 'sow by 2023', so this swap seed will undoubtedly be more likely to germinate reliably.

igenlode

I had a strange experience this morning after listening to another chapter of "The Three Musketeers" in Russian (last night I was already too sleepy to even attempt it). YouTube subsequently showed me a video of a Polish priest conversing in the Vatican with an American via the medium of Latin, and I genuinely could not work out whether I was hearing Russian or not :-p( Read more... )

I found an envelope of spring onion seeds which I evidently harvested last year from the spring onion that flowered, so have tried sowing those, since the two surviving stubs of the old ones are looking pretty sick. It didn't help that something came along and ate the tops off them -- and also ate the flowers off the calendulas, quite deliberately, half a head at a time, coming back every night to finish the job and then moving on to the next plant -- I would be more annoyed about that if they hadn't been flowering all winter so that I was rather bored with them!

The tulips are all blooming heartily, with the exception of the bulb at the end, in between where the two garlics were put in, which is only just showing a bud. Presumably due to competition from the neighbouring bulbs, even though the garlic cloves were much smaller....

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About Me: After going through a few years of really dire health problems, I'm finally back at a hundred percent and I'm getting back into Dreamwidth and back into writing! I also do some drawing/painting.

About My Journal: I post a lot about writing, reading, my various fandoms, and some artwork as well.

What I Write: Fantasy, sci-fi, and horror! I love deep worldbuilding and lore and creating magic systems! Occasionally, I'll dabble in romance or erotica. The current novel I'm working on is a high fantasy adventure with enemies-to-lovers!

What I Don't Write: Slice of life stuff, or most genre fiction besides the ones I mentioned above.

What I Read: My favorites are the same genres I write in, but I'll give just about any type of book a read!

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Main Fandoms: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss
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OTPs and Ships: LuciLillith, Enjolras/Grantaire, Utena/Anthy, radioapple (guilty pleasure, though appleradio is hotter)

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Books: War of the Flowers (Tad Williams), Good Omens, Man of His Word series, Incarnations of Immortality, Vorkosigan Saga, El Dorado (Baroness Orczy), Mordant's Need series (Donaldson) Tailchaser's Song (Williams), etc. I'm a book whore.
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igenlode

I finally got round to winnowing the flax that I harvested last autumn, via the age-old method of crushing the seed-heads and allowing the chaff to blow away on a windy day while pouring the crop again and again from one hand to the other -- even when combined with the packet of 2024 flax seed that I hadn't planted after I failed to find it last year (but which turned up later) there was only about a tablespoon at most. About the same as before; plenty to sow and barely enough to eat. I have saved twenty or so seeds and put the rest into the 'seed mix' bag I use for salads, which already contains "golden linseed" according to the label!

( Sweet peas )
I should probably be starting some more of the dwarf peas for eating.

( Rocket )

The lettuce/mixed salad seed has definitely germinated, though not especially thickly, presumably because it was old seed. Sowed dill and coriander, the former very thickly as the packet was dated 'use by December 2022"! (But I added some of my saved dill seed, so should get something coming up.)

( Tomatoes )

igenlode

I have spent what feels like a week (certainly multiple days) in trying to memorise the Russian verbs of motion, going so far as to write them out and carry them around with me to study in spare moments, and when I finally ventured on the exercises at the end of the chapter I still managed to get almost 50% of them wrong -- just as often via simply mistaking the (irregular) verb form as via picking the wrong version of the verb! I seem to remember that I never really mastered verbs of motion the first time round ( Read more... )

So far I have made it to Chapter 15 -- 4:26 hours out of 9:30 -- in my Smekhov-narrated "Three Musketeers" audiobook, although admittedly I tend to predictably fall asleep within the first ten minutes or so every night (or at least realise that I have mentally 'tuned out' and haven't understood a word of what has just been said, and get up to turn it off). "Brave New World" to the contrary, having mellifluous Russian administered to my sleeping ear doesn't seem to result in any subconscious acquisition of knowledge :-p
(And to be fair, some of the recent chapters do appear to have been very much shorter than the others!)

firecat

”In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad” by several authors

The details about which countries line up where on the individual issues that Pew chose to use in its survey is interesting, but what really strikes me about this article is the list of issues itself.

Married ppl having an affair
Using marijuana
Viewing pornography
Gambling
Having an abortion
Homosexuality
Drinking alcohol
Getting a divorce
Using contraceptives

How did they come up with this silly list and what does it have with morality? At first I thought it was based in monotheistic religions, but there’s only one overlap with the Ten Commandments and I don’t remember anything about most of those in the New Testament either. (I don’t know much about the others.) All of the things in this list are either completely morally acceptable (contraceptives, being gay) or are unacceptable only insofar as they often lead to harming others (alcohol). Whereas murdering, stealing, and telling lies about other people should be in any list of potentially immoral behaviors. Because “does it cause lasting harm to others” is the most important determinant of what’s moral and immoral. At least that’s how it looks from here.
/soapbox

How does the concept of morality fit into your life?

igenlode

I was sick with myself because I managed to lose one of my brand *new* cycling gloves in the stupidest way possible; it was raining, I needed to take my gloves off to get to my wallet, and I quite consciously thought about putting them away in the 'proper place' in my side pocket of my bike bag, and took a deliberate decision not to, because they were wet and/or the bag was wet, I forget which, and it was only going to be for a moment or two while I got out the money...

( Search & rescue )

Memo to self: *always* put the gloves back in their appointed place, even if it's only intended to be for a moment or two!

(On the other hand, my bike lights behaved perfectly, as they have done on the other shortish journeys I've made since December -- and the one long one. So I still don't know what is/was going on there.)

igenlode

I went to the supermarket to buy another month's worth of groceries (red and green lentils, evaporated milk, lard, brown rice, etc.) and came away with a pound of very heavily discounted minced lamb that was being reduced because it was (a) date expiring that evening and (b) "20% fat" (evil!evil!evil!)
So I had a quick change of cooking plans and used half of it to make a 'dry curry' from a successful recipe in my scrapbook: https://101things.wordpress.com/2006/06/17/kheema-matar-minced-lamb-curry-with-peas/
(it's very handy to have a non-tomato-based curry, though I don't have lamb mince available very often :-)

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( Piquant Beef )

(I froze the rest of the minced lamb; I can use it in meatballs, or I believe I do have some Caucasian recipes in the Russian cookbook that call for fat lamb... or possibly 'fat-tailed lamb', which is not necessarily the same thing!)

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marchmetamatterschallenge is running this month. :D Here is my introductory post. So what is meta? Well, it can be a lot of things ...

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igenlode

Took the eiderdown off my bed and put it away for the year, a rather rash procedure prompted by a series of nightmares (usually a sign that my sleeping temperatures are too high). Also a non-trivial one that requires quite a lot of furniture-shifting in order for me to be able to pull the bed out far enough past the chest of drawers and the radiator so that I can access the storage underneath, so it's not a choice that is reversible at a whim. But I have been sleeping for some time with the eiderdown thrown back so that it only covers my feet, and that is obviously still too much.

I have taken one of the blankets off for good measure, as I found myself sweating while trying to remake the bed -- the sun has come round far enough to heat my room in the afternoons now, and the temperature in there after dark with the window open was still on its way up towards seventy :-O
But I haven't put the blanket away, so I can retrieve that easily if necessary.

( Sweet peas )

Marie Antoinette has managed to pull off its usual trick of giving even the most unsympathetic characters moments of humanity, which is one of the things that is so good about it; ( Read more... )

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OTPs and Ships: Culture Club: Boy George/Jon Moss, Roy Hay/Mikey Craig; Linkin Park: Bennoda [Chester Bennington/Mike Shinoda]; Wrestling: Hartbreak (Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels), Shawnter (Shawn Michaels/Hunter Hearst-Helmsley), Candy (Cody Rhodes/Randy Orton); and then I have a lot of ships in my fandoms involving OCs.

Favourite Movies: The Room (lol), Pretty in Pink, Borat, Major League, man there's so many and I can't think of all of them.
TV Shows: I actually don't watch TV.
Books: Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart by Martha Hart
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Comics/Anime/Misc: Not really into much comics or anime, but my fave anime is Death Note.

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me - Culture Club

igenlode

To quote March 3rd last year, it has been warmer, and I sowed a batch of chilli, towel-tomato and Roma tomato seeds.
Although stupidly I deliberately elected to sow the 'bad' towel-tomato seeds, being the ones that I managed to glean early on in the season from the few fruits that had seeds in, rather than the known 'good' ones that came from later fruit bursting with seed, on the grounds that I didn't want to risk my best seed on a too-early sowing. But of course if these do germinate than I shall end up with adult plants from possibly-defective genetic stock (although to be honest all the plants behaved the same way, and they are probably seeds from the very same stock, just picked later in the year).

I also planted out some more of the mixed salad/lettuce seed from last year, as it was pretty successful. I don't know how well it will have lasted, so I sowed it quite thickly.

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