oh, right, THIS part

Feb. 16th, 2026 08:27 am
heresluck: (vidding: vid ALL the things!)
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It's been so long since I watched a show not just fannishly but in full fannish company that I had somehow forgotten just HOW MANY false positives I end up with when testing out possible vidsongs for zeitgeist-y shows or movies. I get all excited on the start of a walk to work or at the beginning of cooking dinner, and then by the end I'm reminding myself that "song with one startlingly apropos verse" is not the same as "actually workable vidsong." BUT THEN I think about how some of my favorite vids are my favorites because they take a song that is a slightly weird fit in some way and make it feel inevitable, and I start second-guessing myself.

As with so many vid-related things in the last twenty-five years, I blame [personal profile] sisabet.

3 Good Things

Feb. 15th, 2026 08:51 pm
jjhunter: Watercolor sketch of self-satisfied corvid winking with flaming phoenix feather in its beak (corvid with phoenix feather)
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1. The snow has stayed on the ground here long enough that we're finally Acquiring Some Sleds in anticipation of going sledding with friends next weekend. It is so wonderful to have a winter feel like winter again.

2. Hosted a neat new-to-me game yesterday with some close friends and a potential new friend I met through my Awesome Neighbor friend. We all had a great time! We immediately rolled right into plotting More Fun Like This Soon. It's good to be exercising my making-new-friends muscles again.

2a. The game being Molly House, with its gripping shifts between personal queer joy, community delight, and pressuring fears (constables, rogues, and gossip all threatening to trigger police raids of the central molly houses),I would be fascinated to play it again... )

3. I am looking forward to some quiet time at home tomorrow, I say, also having ambitions of Bake & Roast All The Things, do my taxes so I can get my solar panel credits reimbursed (yay, solar!), and maybe get some extra time in at the local studio before my pottery class starts.

Bonus: This being the cold hard dark slog time of year, it helps to have something joyous to move to. I went and looked up what all the musicians I last bought music from (mostly 5+ years ago) have put out in the last few years since, and bought the latest album of each. So far I'm particularly enjoying Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn's debut collaboration merging American old-time music and Chinese folksong, and the latest from MEUTE.

Have you been listening to anything particularly good lately? What is bringing you joy, defiant or otherwise?
jjhunter: Watercolor of daisy with blue dots zooming around it like Bohr model electrons (science flower)
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Happy Galentines/Valentines Day! We are midway through February. If you started the year with some intentions, or have accumulated some new intentions since, how are they going? Is there anything you want to prune back or lean into?

How Are You? (in Haiku)

Feb. 14th, 2026 10:07 am
jjhunter: Serene person of color with shaved head against abstract background half blue half brown (scientific sage)
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Pick a thing or two that sums up how you're doing today, this week, in general, and tell me about it in the 5-7-5 syllables of a haiku.

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Signal-boosting much appreciated!

Poem: "Choosing to Sprout"

Feb. 13th, 2026 12:53 pm
jjhunter: watercolor & ink blue bird raises its wings and opens its beak in joyous song (blue bird singing)
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The seeds lying in their wombs of earth are turning now
preparing to kick out taproots through their coats
I rewatch the video of bluebird chicks cracking their own eggshells
Wondering at babies battering through barriers to birth themselves
Choosing again and again to leave every womb that once held them
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