Reading (rl stuff)

Current Location: Living in the past

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June challenge III.(c): from 2002 to 1490 by bus, feet, and time machine

June challenge III.(c): flanage report at my journal, with a list of grey things and links to antique wall art. How could you possibly resist? Enjoy!

Sea Fog

I have been playing hide-and-seek with the rooks in the sea fog up on St Alhelm's Head.

( Not a glimpse of the sea )

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projects: collaborations: sidetracks

Sidetracks - June 26, 2025

Sidetracks is a collaborative project featuring various essays, videos, reviews, or other Internet content that we want to share with each other. All past and current links for the Sidetracks project can be found in our Sidetracks tag. You can also support Sidetracks and our other work on Patreon.

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The Friday Five for 27 June 2025

This week's questions were suggested by

bindyree.

1. Who was your favorite teacher?

2. Why was that teacher so special?

3. Do you think teachers get paid enough?

4. Do you have a favorite year of school?

5. If you could travel back in time and tell yourself something now that would have helped you get through school, what would you say?

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A5 A'Zone Notebooks

Got these brand spanking notebooks today! Where I live, this brand is pretty popular among students.

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The pages insides are coloured and make doing homework a little less boring:

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Anyone else prefer writing on off-white or coloured paper? It's easier on the eyes and basically the analog version of 'dark mode'.

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Disability benefits: email templates

Lots of options if you're having a hard timing coming up with your own words!

Obviously if you can make something look individual rather than a template, it may be more likely to be noticed, but a template email that gets SENT is infinitely better than the perfect personal email you didn't have the spoons to write.

General campaign/disability organizaions:

https://takingthepip.co.uk/write-to-your-mp/
https://www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/campaigns-and-policy/act-now/stand-up-against-cuts-to-disability-benefits-write-to-your-mp-today/

Specific disability groups:

Mencap: https://secure.mencap.org.uk/protectpip
National Autistic Society: https://act.autism.org.uk/page/170245/action/1
RNIB: https://www.rnib.org.uk/news/time-to-act-ask-your-mp-to-vote-against-the-universal-credit-and-personal-independence-payment-bill/
https://www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/the-cost-of-cuts

Basically, search for the group for a disability you have (or that a person in your life has) and they'll probably have a campaign; Deaf and disabled people's organizations have been unanimous in condemning the proposed cuts as devastating.

It's June challenge time again

Anybody else planning to squeeze in a June challenge attempt before the end of this month? Or later? Or perhaps you calmly and coolly thought ahead and have already completed a flan that you can't wait to share with us?

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Disability benefit cuts: e-mail your MP now

This is a critical moment when it looks like the tide could potentially be turned against the horrific proposed cuts.

Especially if you have a Labour MP -- see if you can find out if they signed the reasoned amendment opposing the bill, praise them if they did, and encourage them to sign it if they haven't yet.

https://x.com/jessicaelgot/status/1937300328996581854 was the list as of yesterday, but since then they've apparently lost one and gained 16 - if anyone's got a more current list, let me know.

If your MP is from another party, it's probably less crucial to lobby them, but since Badenoch's offering opposition support to Starmer to get the bill through, could be worth making it clear that you expect them to oppose it.

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Latourelle and Coopey Falls

We drove down the historic 30, a 2 lane road that wound around the hills and which crossed paths with numerous waterfalls. Our first stop was Latourelle, which was just off the road.

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Current Mood: quixotic
Current Location: parents' home
Current Music: "Antonymph" by Vylet Pony

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post type: advice wanted

Archiving Fandom Stuff Analog Style

So, because of i found my mom's secret fanfiction stash by

ColeyDoesThings has made me wanna archive my own fandom stuff analog style (maybe even the fics & art I find beautiful). I'm currently not in a possition to do this project because of lack of cash, sadly. But I'm not sure how to go about it, so I thought of asking here if people had done similar things?

Here are some ideas of my own for now:

Printing my fics at my shared housing, and printing my art by my parents' house because they can print in colour.

Same for others' fanfics & fanart, but seperate them into a diffrent folder.

This might give me the excuse needed to make collages &/or mini-shires? IDK

One of the things I'm not sure how to handle is how to organize the future folders. I thought of doing it by fandom, but my fandoms can change rapitly. And I also thought of doing specific challenges like minifemslashfebs in their own categories (since I'm not doing them on time anyway). The reason I wanna do this besides "I can" is that the comments in Coley's video mention the archiving of this is basically helping archaeology &/or anthropology. Which I think is important and cool/neat, so I wanna do my part.

Current Mood: accomplished

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Photos: Charleston Library Butterfly Gardens

We visited the butterfly gardens at the Charleston Library, on June 19 although this is dated 20 because it's after midnight. They were filled with birds, although I didn't manage to catch any pictures of them.

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The Friday Five for 20 June 2025

1. If you were a fruit, which would you be and why?

2. If you wake up and smell smoke, and you have to get everybody (pets included) out of the house safely, but you have time to grab one item, what would you grab?

3. If you were stuck on an island, who would be the one person you would want with you and why?

4. If you could change one thing about your physical appearance, what would it be?

5. If you could spend the day with one famous person, dead or alive, who would you choose?

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Current Mood: photographical
Current Location: 'ere

A forest walk

We headed up Lime Kiln Lane and over to New Works then into the forest.

Things are now very green indeed although this is always a green landscape being on the west coast side of things:

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Abstract Art on a Northern Lake

I’m staying near a northern Wisconsin lake at 45.658965, -89.497625, where I’ll be revelling in 15:45 hours of daylight on the summer solstice. The logged-over forest is mostly red pine, and wow they’re pollinating—creating very abstract art near the dock

Pine pollen forms semi-opaque circles over shallow sandy beach described in entry

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Dogwood Leaf Beetle

off-white beetle with dark markings resembling calligraphy

Getting into my car after a walk, I found this elegantly decorated beetle on my shirt. It has the very appropriate scientific name of Calligrapha philadelphica, also known as the Dogwood Leaf Beetle.

When it opened its wings to fly, I was surprised to see its inner wings were red. I guess that could be the wax seal on the parchment. :)

( photo showing the red wings )

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International Rose Test Garden

We were only in Portland for a day but we had enough time for a few hours in the International Rose Test Garden. In fact we didn't even spend that long because it was smaller than expected and some bushes hadn't even bloomed yet (despite what the website said as mid-May being an ideal viewing time). We took about half the time we were there trying to park. It was also the most overcast morning of the trip -- we had amazing weather the rest of the time.

Nonetheless what was in bloom was lovely.

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