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Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 22: SquidgeWorld Fundraiser

squidgiepdx has been showing fandom the love for 31 years (he founded Squidge.Org in 1994 to provide both website hosting and mailing lists for fandom and in 2020 he created the SquidgeWorld Archive) and I'm here to say let's have fandom show some love back with a successful fundraiser. (And I'm putting my money where my mouth is: I donated $100.00 to this fundraiser.)

Click here for detailed post about the fundraiser and about how to donate.

Click here for Fanlore page about Squidge.Org and SquidgeWorld.

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What I'm Doing Wednesday

( books (Oken, Hope, Tarnas, Hamaker-Zondag) )

yarning
no yarn group this week. I was all showered and dressed and ready to go, and boom, migraine. Apparently my pulse skyrocketed to 144 when just out of the shower, so that triggered the migraine. Stupid hEDS.

healthcrap
Had a useless appt with physical medicine Monday, where they put me on the Hypermobile Spectrum Disorder spectrum, instead of doing a full exam for hEDS. Irritating. They also confirmed that they couldn't help me, since I don't need further PT or equipment (like a walker or wheelchair) at this time. HSD is basically the same thing, but you don't meet the diagnostic criteria of hEDS. I wish I'd been up to arguing with them, but I wasn't. Also, still haven't worked out. :(

dirt
I watered the plants today for the first time in over 3 weeks, which means I've been taking my terrible mood out on the innocents in my household. I hope I haven't lost any, but it's the (moderate) depression's fault if I have. At least I did get them watered. That's something.

#resist
August 2: 50501 Rage Against the Regime National Protest
August 3: first Move On "Won't Back Down" rally.

I hope all of y'all are doing well! <333

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Book recommendation

My friend Annick Trent has a new historical m/m romance out: By Marsh and by Moor. It's about a pressed English sailor running from the press gang during the Napoleonic wars, and his companion on the run, who is running from something else entirely. Obviously I am not impartial here, but I've been enjoying beta reading this book even when I haven't been reading much other fiction.

Current Mood: trouble-maker
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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PSA: Across America Let's Make "Good Trouble"

Five years ago today Representative John Lewis -- an icon of civil rights -- died, but his message lives on and we declare it today all across America with this Good Trouble Lives On National Day of Action. As Representative John Lewis said: "Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America".

Click here to find today's event details including a map that shows where a "Good Trouble" event is taking place near you today.

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What I'm Doing Wednesday

( books (Aaronovitch, Greene & Sasportas, Erlewine, Billock, Wells, McCord, Kaufman, Odyssey, Oken, Hamaker-Zondag) )

healthcrap
Yay, I'm not anemic anymore, though I've still got another 3 months of iron supps ahead of me. I had a psych appt today to confirm my meds are still doing their thing. Boo, I'm temporarily off the rhodiola rosea and back on Adderall for the next month (because rhodiola hasn't been safety tested for long-term use). ( cut for mention of weight loss )

yay!
As has been posted everywhere, Murderbot is getting a Season 2! That means ART! \o/ I haven't yet caught up with the last few eps of S1, but I'll get there in due time. (Viewing, such a challenge when I'm on a reading kick. And when I'm NOT on a reading kick. Sigh.)

( rl )

yarning
I went to yarn group Sunday and had a really nice time. Great turnout, and it's good for me to see human beings in person. Pain in the shoulder, though. I want my crochet arm back! But I met a few new people, including one young woman who also has Ehlers-Danlos. So cool to commiserate in person.

natural disaster: Texas floods
My parents were finally able to leave their ridgetop and run errands, though all the intact bridges are missing guardrails (at minimum). One of them was completely surrounded with gear and detritus from the kids camp upriver. So heartbreaking. Thankfully, their POA jumped right on finding engineers and requesting bids for repairing their main bridge & its banks, and the low water crossing is sound, now that it's clear of downed trees. I am still so sad about the catastrophe, even though I'm not directly affected. Camps were a safe space for me when I was a kid, and though they were in a different part of the state, it's all too easy to imagine the worst happening.

kitty

KittenAcademy has moved to Pennsylvania and is searching for a new rescue/shelter to work with in the Bethlehem/Allentown general vicinity. If you know of one that is willing to provide pregnant momcats and manage adoption apps, please let me know so I can pass it along to them. ION, the family of black cats and kittens who had been living part time in my backyard are no longer around. I hope they got scooped up by a shelter and/or TNR'd somewhere safe.

#resist
July 17: Good Trouble Lives On protests/marches tomorrow. If you participate, please think of me & everyone else who would like to march but can't.

Note: Mercury stations retrograde tomorrow, July 17, at 15*34' Leo (and stays retrograde until August 11 at 4*14' Leo). I'm curious what that will mean for the protests. At least they're on a Thursday, so maybe that will help keep people safe amid the likely miscommunications.

I hope all of y'all are doing well! <333

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fandom: other tv

Two Brief Murderbot thoughts

That I haven't seen anyone else mention.

ONE.
I like that they cast an older actor. AS is closing in on 50, and it might be a Hollywood 50, but he looks like he's seen some miles along the road. It makes things hit different than if they'd cast a thirty year old who looked like they just hatched. I know they compressed the timespan in the show, but in the book it'd been something in the range of four years between when it disabled its governor module and the start of All Systems Red, plus however long it'd been enslaved before that, which it doesn't even really remember. Which I think is better represented by someone with some lines around their eyes.

TWO.
Nenya speculated about if they were going to do the later books (and I think they'll do three seasons to cover the first four novellas, combining Artificial Condition and Rogue Protocol into the second season, and then call it a day), and if so, if we'd see the ship from System Collapse. I'd been thinking that, actually, ( mild spoiler for System Collapse )