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A beige flag may be quirky, a little strange, harmless, or mundane--check out a Reddit conversation for some examples.

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Title: Some leave only Ripples
Artist: leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: n/a
Characters/Pairings: na
Content Notes:

After a busy day, and incidentally GMing a game where the PC's are all merfolk except for one water elemental, I had a little time to bring out the Kakimori dip pen once more and do a quick brush like sketch of this mermaid touching the surface and causing ripples.

I don't know if it's the ink - Van Diemen's Ink 9 Lives, but it didn't seem to flow as smoothly as previous inks. Or maybe the Kakimori is needing a bit of a scrub.

Anyway, I think she looks elegant for just a sketch.

petra

I recently got a new TENS device intended to stop migraines. The zap cycle lasts 45 minutes and makes it extremely uncomfortable to move one arm. I will report back when I know more.

This morning, the cat jumped on my lap at minute 46, just as I was going to peel off the electrodes. I could've been petting her with the other arm, but nooooo.

She is generally the entity in the house accused of cat-like reflexes, but humans can do it too.

Current Mood: what would anakin skywalker do
Current Music: I'm goin' on a party ride

prettygoodword

tulipant (too-li-PANT) - n., (obs.) a turban; (obs.) a tulip.

This and both of the words it means all come from Turkish tülbent, turban, from Classical Persian dulband/dōlband, turban, from dōl/dawl, revolving, + band, band/tie. Yes, the flower is named after turbans, for a supposed resemblance. For both meanings, tulipant was only used in the 17th century. And no, Wimsey didn't use the word, nor Sayers for that matter -- it was in a chapter epigraph taken from The Anatomy of Melancholy, which is just about the most 17th century prose work to have ever prosed.

---L.

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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!

sabotabby

Another new-to-me podcast, Against the Grain, did an episode with not new-to-me Jordan S. Carroll, "Science Fiction and the Far-Right." It is very good. I mean, I would want Jordan to have his own podcast as he's a podcast creator's dream to interview, except that he is busy doing other things that are more important. At any rate, as someone rather deep into the SFFH community in a variety of ways, it bears repeating how closely entwined it is with our current dystopian hellscape, and Jordan is really an expert in explaining why and how.

rmc28

The last of the Varsity ice hockey games between Oxford and Cambridge universities is tomorrow evening, at Cambridge Ice Arena, at 5pm. I will be playing for Cambridge Huskies B against Oxford Vikings C.

Will it be high quality hockey? No
Will it be entertaining? Absolutely
Will I fall over? Obviously
Will I get in a fight? Maybe, if someone touches my goalie

My goalie is one of the Men's Blues, who put on goalie pads for the first time on Tuesday. Generally the squad is the people who couldn't play Varsity for Huskies or Women's Blues, plus the aforementioned novice in goal and an experienced goalie skating out. Our attempt at an entire forward line of goalies was regrettably thwarted by people having other commitments.

The results of the other Varsity games this year were:

Cambridge Narwhals v Oxford Vikings A: won by Cambridge
Cambridge Huskies v Oxford Vikings B: won by Oxford
Cambridge Women's Blues v Oxford Women's Blues: won by Oxford
Cambridge Men's Blues v Oxford Men's Blues: won by Cambridge

So this is both a not very serious game, and vitally important to win the best of five.

I'm still getting used to my new skates so I'll be playing this (and my other game for Kodiaks on Sunday) in the old ones.

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This Lap Cheong Mei Fun is a deliciously simple way to enjoy mei fun, or thin rice vermicelli, with Chinese sausage and a bright variety of vegetables! We enjoyed a dish similar to this at a Chinese restaurant in Queens recently, and it snuck up on me how much I loved it. In a large […]

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sovay

Leaving the jewelry store this afternoon with a couple of options for repairing the clasp on my necklace which has finally broken down beyond my abilities with needle-nose pliers, I got back into the car just in time to catch an interview with a geophysicist that not only tipped me off to the 1859 Carrington Event which sounds like the science fiction of its day with its spark-throwing wireless sets and tropically lapped auroras and telegraphers communicating through atmospheric influence alone, it introduced me to the Pangaean block of the Piedmont Resistor which seems to lie beneath most of the Eastern Seaboard, just one more piece of deep—two hundred million years down to the mantle—strangeness underfoot. I may never have heard of the United States Magnetotelluric Array and I understand its utility to the fragile electrical grids we have made to stand between the crochets of solar flares and the conductivity of the earth, but in a country that preserved any care for knowledge its map of melted, sutured, fractured time would be its own payoff. I love how much is banked and shifting beneath the surfaces we interact with, from earth and sea to the structures of the universe. I have missed so many meteor showers this year.

Current Music: Pylon Reenactment Society, "Compression"

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“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”

Robert Frost

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https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/wistful-2026-05-08

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 8, 2026 is:

wistful • \WIST-ful\ • adjective

To be wistful is to have sad thoughts and feelings about something that you want to have or do, and especially about something that made you happy in the past. Wistful can also describe something, such as a smile or sigh, that shows or communicates such feelings.

// As the car pulled away, Lea cast one last wistful glance at the house where she'd spent so many happy years.

See the entry >

Examples:

"Postcards have always been an object of fascination for me. I remember flipping through photo albums as a young girl and coming across those sent to my parents, from people I had never met. When I asked who these people were, I would hear wistful stories." — Minoli Wijetunga, The Guardian (London), 10 Jan. 2026

Did you know?

We see you there, dear reader, gazing silently up at the moon, heart aching to know the history of wistful, as if it could be divined on the lunar surface. And we'd like to ease your melancholy by telling you that the knowledge you seek—nay, pine for—is closer at hand. The word wistful comes from wistly, a now-obsolete word meaning "intently," and the similar-sounding wishful. Wistly, in turn, likely comes from whist, an old term meaning "silent." What's more certain is that our modern wistful is a great word to describe someone full of pensive yearning, or something inspiring such yearning.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/wistful-2026-05-08

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flamingsword

• I started a new migraine preventative midafternoon today, and about 5 minutes later got a headache, 🤕. Hopefully it’ll sort itself out by morning.

• I finally remembered to book the moving van today, yay for brain dumps! They seem to be the pen and paper equivalent of taking everything out of your purse and shaking it to find the keys you know are in there but can’t find. Sometimes you really do have to turn things off and back on again.

• I have started packing up the bathroom and the closet, and I feel less ready for the move than I did a few days ago? Dunno what that’s about.

• I feel better enough to work tomorrow, and am encouraging everyone to mask up bc even the illnesses out there that aren’t the flu and Covid are apparently still fucking miserable to have. Seriously, do not get this thing. I don’t even remember Tuesday, and Monday is real sketchy in some places but what I know of from my texts sent at the time is that I was “sleepy, groggy, dizzy, achey, cough-y, headaching, and cold. It’s like the seven dwarves of sick in here.”

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Familect word: Cat-like reflexes / Cat-like timing

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Just One Thing (08 May 2026)

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Varsity! (one last time)

Concept? Meta? SOMETHING

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Lap Cheong Mei Fun

always putting the fun into dysfunction

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Out in space, coast to coast

Excerpt from Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

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