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Remember when I said my nibling was getting here in four weekends?

Well, yeah, now it's this weekend.

I have not gotten remotely everything I wanted done, but there's a place for him to sleep and a mattress and we can figure everything else out I guess.

At some point I started clearing out the vanity in our room because Bug wants to get a tree frog and that seemed like the best surface to put a vivarium on, and then I also cleaned out the secretary dresser because we were considering moving it into the other room for Nibling to use, and a few months ago I switched to floor sitting so I had emptied out my desk and....

...well the takeaway is there's a lot of stuff in our bedroom, unsurprisingly, and I'm trying to actually sort/declutter it instead of just... popping it all away again.

I've been categorizing and binning things in useful ways but I just hit the realization that I need a bigger bin for notebooks unless I want to put the larger ones somewhere else, which I don't. And that I have painting stuff stored in multiple bins right now, and also I have sewing stuff in multiple bins. Both of those started because I had loose stuff wherever and I was trying to corral it, but I don't have enough space in the current storage to put it away, so those both also need to be re-sorted into different bins.

(And the ephemera/junk journal stuff is in a temporary box but I don't have a good larger category to put them in, and zines keep ending up in with it Because Paper and that's Not Correct, and then I realize my memory bin could probably stand to be switched out too, but if I'm doing that I should figure out how to solve the problem where Moth's memory box doesn't close correctly, and and and...)

And I know there are other things I should be spending my time on, and I also wish that I had a more "aesthetic" alternative to the sturdy, stackable plastic bins I end up using (they come in multiple sizes that work together, though!) except that more aesthetic ones are generally not clear and not matching and I don't have the space to properly store things aesthetically yet and I need to accecpt that.

But regardless my brain is stuck on "I cAN't PuT tHe ThInGS Aw4Y c0rREcTLy!!!11!" and it is profoundly unhelpful.

Hope y'all are doing better than I am in this department! And honestly I'm not that bad off, I promise. This is just the thing driving me crazy this morning.

muccamukk

So I've got "Paint the Town Red" by Doja Cat stuck in my head. What about y'all?

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Monday, October 6, 2025 - 09:00

The Lesbian Historic Motif Project

Continuing with some articles on ancient Greek topics, this one offers some entirely different interpretations of Anacreon's disinterested Lesbian.

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LHMP #514 Davidson 1987 Anacreon, Homer and the Young Woman from Lesbos

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Davidson, J.F. 1987. “Anacreon, Homer and the Young Woman from Lesbos” in Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, Vol. 40, Fasc. 1/2: 132-137.

Like Pellicia 1995, this article takes a stab at identifying and evaluating possible intended meanings contained in Anacreon’s “she doesn’t like my grey hair” epigram. After reviewing some of the more common suggestions (“she prefers another [hair color]”, “she prefers another [woman]” either in a sexual or non-sexual context) and some less common ones (“she prefers another [type of hair]” – playing on the reputation of Lesbos for fellatio), Davidson adds a couple of possible scenarios inspired by the reference to “Eros hitting me with his ball” (i.e., inspiring my desire), suggesting that an actual game of ball may have been involved. Davidson discusses references to young women playing ball games as with Nausicaa in the Odyssey, or ball-throwing games by young men as entertainment elsewhere in the Odyssey. There are other stylistic allusions to Homer in Anacreon’s poem, so this is a reasonable suggestion.

Two possible scenarios for the inspiration of the poem are suggested. In one possible scenaro, the young woman has deliberately thrown a ball to/at Anacreon in flirtation, but only then notices his grey hair and spurns him. In a second possible scenario, an accidentally thrown ball has drawn Anacreon’s attention to the woman, stimulating his erotic interest in her, but she can’t be bothered and is more enthusiastic about continuing the game. In the second scenario, the woman “gaping after another” simply refers to her interest in continuing the game rather than paying attention to Anacreon.

Davidson admits that neither of these scenarios offers the “dramatic twist” that the structure and genre of the poem seem to call for (and that Pellicia indicates is required by the grammatical structure), but have the advantage [for those who consider it an advantage] of not invoking a homoerotic scenario for the woman’s disinterest.

Time period:

Classical Era

Place:

Greece

Event / person:

Anacreon

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yhlee

I'm now aware that Imgur images are broken for people with UK IP addresses; will repair those image links eventually by hosting own my own space but I have a bunch of work/school to deal with so it'll be slow.

alicevangeline

We've had endless sunny days this summer to the point where we're in a severe/extreme drought and a burn ban is in effect. It's very dry.
HOWEVER, it's because it's one gorgeous day after another.

It's been in the 70s or 80s for the last few days (but in the 50s at night or lower), and the leaves are not quite peak - maybe a little muted from the drought.

Also, clear moonlight.

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I went with anka & her buddies to the vermont sheep & wool festival, and it was almost too warm (80 degrees and sunny) and crowded but it got better. I managed to only get cheeses and a needle felting kit and a soap (and not a million yarns or hats, or an angora bunny or angora goat, even though I wanted to).

I'm glad she switched from knee scooter to wheelchair for the duration but it's rough on dusty fairgrounds anyway.

--
The zinnias are in full bloom and surprises ensue daily.

I got a nice compliment on my Large Fairy Garden (Now with Cemetery!)

Sat with Ty by a tree on campus yesterday (we delivered him a minifridge - it wasn't being used at our house) and he's doin fine and happy.

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I let the Lizz take a day off on Friday due to brain-problems, and I think it helped a lot. She had a bad mood crash on Sunday but also bounced back from that eventually and wasn't doing bad this morning. I had very Judging Self feelings about it but also felt like it was right.

Things:

She MIGHT be happier at a charter school. Quieter, less pressure, less frantic, but also the chance to move on to things she hasn't learned yet.
She might not, tho, because it is tough to satisfy this one. Maybe nothing would make her happy.
We are trying a ~~three~~ four pronged approach:
- working with psych for therapy (Change your attitude)
- investigating charter schools (change your circumstances)
- working with psych to updating medications (biology)
- Spending Quality Time with her (chatting, watching shows, bike ride, crafting, shopping)
Other factors that have nothing to do with me and dan --- credit where it is due --- time, growth, determination, perspective (all things she's doing, not us. but we're trying to do what is in our power to do.)

yhlee

This fiber colorway is from a monthly subscription (Feral Scene in Texas, so semi-local to me) - usually wool-based blends to push me out of my comfort zone. (I find wool to be the second-most difficult fiber to spin. First is cotton, which is more "normal" for a beginning spinner.)

I think of this as Pumpkin Spice yarn! It'll be going to

ursula.

The current emotional support spinning WIP is cotton, widely regarded as hard mode for treadle wheel spinning. It only took six months of dedicated practice to skill up...

Shout-out to Mohairandmore [Etsy], which sells superlatively prepared fiber; the combed top for ramie and cotton are exquisite. They're also in Texas, so also semi-local to me, although I think most of their non-mohair fiber (they raise angora goats) is from other suppliers. I've got to budget for some of their merino blends at some point because I bet they're amazing to spin.

I wanted to learn to spin cotton because

(a) It's less wildly expensive than mulberry, eri, muga silk (my faves). You can get 4 oz. cotton fiber for ~$6 USD (not including shipping or tax). Silk fiber (unless it's "sari silk" loom waste) usually costs three times as much if not more.

(b) I'm in the US South. This is about as local as you get for fiber production! There's a little silk fiber production in the USA but not a lot of it, and again, whatever the source of the fiber, it's an inherently spendier fiber.

I went all-in on spinning because

(a) It's weirdly difficult to doomscroll on the internet while spinning. :p It's much better for my mental health; that alone would make it worthwhile.

(b) For my own use, I'm personally most interested in thread for needle lace, embroidery, cross stitch, hand-sewing, weaving. But I don't do any of those things very fast so I don't need very much for myself, and I'm narrowly interested in cotton or ramie or silk. I don't knit or crochet, but I have friends who do, and who can make use of yarns spun from Those Other Fibers! (I have functionally zero use for wool ever.) So anything I spin for my own learning/pleasure can go to a good home.

(c) I have wrecked ankle tendons (medical), and treadling on a spinning wheel is surprisingly good sneak physical therapy.

(d) I have neuropathy in my hands and feet, prognosis unknown. I don't want to wait five or ten years to pursue physical crafts further. My favorite thing is working with my hands (obviously, this isn't especially visible online). I regret I was never able to take a shop class because my high school didn't offer one. I don't know that I'm going to have sufficient use of my hands/feet in five to ten years (assuming the world hasn't imploded, a big assumption). So I might as well get some enjoyment out of hand/physical crafts now.

kiya

Dramatis Personae

Izgil, who is profoundly offended by the irrationality of these accusations
Viepuck, who manages PR rather a lot for a twelve-year-old
Celyn, who has a little box of white-hot rage that he opens up, for a treat
Robin, who as always really wants to protect everyone

When we left off we were about to be tried on a trumped-up necromancy accusation put together by a person we were pretty sure was an actual necromancer.

( So we settle in for an uneasy sort of night in the courtyard to the baronial keep. )

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yhlee

Gilt edges not pictured, largely because I couldn't wrangle a photo setup for them.

tinny

This time, only about half a year has passed until I remembered to make a few more icons for my

100ships table. \o/

There are eight new ones - hover for fandom and pairing:

#12 – Sunlight	#18 – Blush	#43 – Yellow	#54 – Rainbow

#58 – Ash	#64 – Lipstick	#69 – Flirt	#78 – Leather

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I'm especially happy with these:

* the Sunlight one, it says "[you used to] shine so brightly", a comment that the FL made about the ML multiple times in the first few episodes, and here they're kissing in the light of the setting sun, surrounded by beautiful grass.
* the Yellow one, which is from the proposal scene in Amidst a Snowstorm of Love, where he sings a song to her. Someone made a clip on twitter where it's evident that Wu Lei actually sang Coldplay's Yellow to her, but since they couldn't use the song in the final product, they had to write another song (which he sings in the OST).
* the Lipstick one, where Song Sanchuan uses Liang You'an's lipstick to write her name on the alumni board of her university. That's her name as he wrote it, on the icon.
* the Leather one, where Ling Buyi is wearing the leather armor she sewed for him, which everyone thinks is chicken (why?) but it's supposed to be Mandarin duck. The "why a duck" quote is from the Marx Brothers (youtube clip).

The table is here: https://tinny.dreamwidth.org/704185.html. There are currently 48 icons in it.

flamingsword

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56332/dog-in-bed
Dog In Bed by Joyce Sidman

Nose tucked under tail,
you are a warm, furred planet
centered in my bed.
All night I orbit, tangle-limbed,
in the slim space
allotted to me.

If I accidentally
bump you from sleep,
you shift, groan,
drape your chin on my hip.

O, that languid, movie-star drape!
I can never resist it.
Digging my fingers into your fur,
kneading,
I wonder:
How do you dream?
What do you adore?
Why should your black silk ears
feel like happiness?

This is how it is with love.
Once invited,
it steps in gently,
circles twice,
and takes up as much space
as you will give it.

yhlee

Two-ply ramie handspun. I still have to BOIL it with soda ash to set the twist, but this will be going to

ilyena_sylph. ♥

liv

Content note: mentions antisemitic murders and police violence. I personally am completely safe, I'm only talking about dealing with news.

It's around midday Yom Kippur. I'm leading the morning service with a tiny community in the southwest corner of England. There's a slight hiatus as this congregation only have two Torah scrolls, so we have to roll through from the first reading in Exodus to the second reading in Leviticus, saving the second scroll for the afternoon reading from Deuteronomy. (In this community, like most of the Progressive world, our second reading is Leviticus 19, not the verses that are sometimes used as clobber texts to support homophobia.) While there's milling about, the volunteers running the tech for Zoom approach me at the bimah and let me know that there has been an attack in a synagogue in Manchester.

( reactions ) Also, I am deeply grateful for the kind people who checked in with me personally when they heard the news, and for all the leaders, Muslim, Christian and civic, who sent messages of support to the Jewish community and continue to be in solidarity with us.

Current Mood: scared
Current Music: Avinu Malkenu

flamingsword

Who has two thumbs and is probably going into a depressive episode? Yeah. It’s me. I’m going to be fine, but yesterday my time-blindness came back, my executive dysfunction was off the rails, and so I messed up some medium important stuff. And then afterwards I felt like I was responsible for the heat death of the universe I felt so guilty. Then I got home, super tired from clinic hours, made dinner, and had two separate crying jags about unrelated things.

So I’m preparing for a few weeks of suck, and if it winds up being more than that … then it does. I will deal like I have dealt before.

Current Mood: apathetic

cosmolinguist

Had a fun afternoon celebrating (belatedly) the birthdays of a couple who are both among my favorite people. One asked for sourdough pizza and a wander around the market at Manchester Leather Weekend.

I bought a trans-pride earring at the market and was delighted to see, but didn't manage to determine if available in appropriate size, a t-shirt with a lot of Care-Bear-looking colorful cartoon bears with symbols on their tummies, including a rainbow which is canon in one of the bears I remember from my childhood, but this time the other bears have trans/leather/bear/pup symbols or flags. It seems the absolutely perfect thing for someone like me or A who had to live through being a girl in the 80s but are now cautiously leaning into our bear-y selves. (Like I told the other birthday boy, I, this week when he lamented Fat Bear Week coming to an end: hey, some of us are here all year!)

D bought himself a leather waistcoat too which he looks amazing in, so that's fun. I tried on one like it was that technically my size but made me feel unusually dysphoric. I'm glad the market included vendors with explicitly trans stuff but it also had a lot of very normative bodies. Or, diversity of some kinds but not others. I guess it's why I've always steered clear of such things, despite my long-term yearnings...which I used to think were (just) yearning to be with rather than (also) to be -- lots of queers have this problem.

It was great to hang out with our friends and be silly together for an afternoon/evening.

Tomorrow will be busy in a really different way so I'm going to try to get some sleep.

jesse_the_k

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exploreoceans features both livestreams and highlight reels. Super soothing is the 2025 Highlights of Pacific Walruses Hauling Out on a Beach—no narration or music, just surf on the beach and moaning walruses for 25 minutes. It’s part of the explore.org network, which I discovered via their delightful Fat Bear Week contest.

Admire Our Planet from Space

I love astronauticast’s 3-5 minute timelapse compilations from the International Space Station. They’re compiled by ISAA, the Italian Space and Astronautics Association. They travel at a steady rate over various parts of our globe, with a handy reference diagram in the upper left corner. Witness hundreds of thunderstorms from the west coast of Mexico all the way to Portugal. Admire auroras and airflows above North America. I shouldn’t have been surprised that deserts are readily visible because so few clouds. No words—pleasant classical-ish music.

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