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At least three reasons not to date characters people suggested to me in this post, which is still open for prompts:

Cabin Pressure: Carolyn Knapp-Shappey

Call the Midwife: Phyllis Crane (just the one -- it's been an age since I watched Call the Midwife)

DC Comics: Roy Harper
Clark Kent

Discworld: Granny Weatherwax

The Expanse (Books): Naomi Nagata

Interview with the Vampire (TV): Daniel Molloy

The Middleman: Wendy Watson

Rivers of London: Peter Grant

Star Trek: Julian Bashir
Benjamin Sisko
Sylvia Tilly

Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (including his own reasons why he thinks he'd be a poor prospect)
Luke Skywalker

Tales of the City: Anna Madrigal

The True Meaning of Smekday: Gratuity "Tip" Tucci

Vorkosigan Saga: Gregor Vorbarra

Current Mood: not wanting to mingle
Current Music: I'm single! And my life's about me again!

beanside

It's almost that time again! If you'd like to receive a holiday card from

nilchance and I, this is the post for you!

Please put your name and address in the comments, which are of course screened. Also please indicate whether you want the profanity laden irreverent holiday card, or traditional.

Please note, if I've sent you a card before, dont assume I have your address! Assume it was lost in the move, because it probably was.

beanside

It's the weekend! And I am still up at 5:30am because I am working this morning. I realized how good my check was going to look today. I've got two Saturdays of OT, a team meeting that was OT and the second friend who got a job at Hopkins passed her six month mark on this past Wednesday, so I'll get that $1000 bonus. We're going to get something good for dinner on payday.

Work was pretty busy yesterday, and I spent a bit of time working on filling appointments, yet still had time to take 47 calls. Usually Friday is a little bit less busy, but we're heading into the most wonderful time of the year, where everyone tries to get in for appointments they've known they needed for months before their deductible resets in January. Late November and December are brutal for radiology. And may I just mention that these people have no Holliday Cheer. For December, I'm working on the 27th, and not looking forward to it.

After work, I did a quick run to the pharmacy to get my pills, and inhalers. With a game at 7, we decided to take the dog out for a walk, but there was a bigger dog outside, and Yoda barked. The other dog barked back, growling loudly, so we went back in, both Jess and I having flashbacks to Tucker. I swear, the scars prickled when he growled, and I was 100% sure that someone was going to get hurt. Instead, we ran inside, and settled down for a while before game.

I'm thinking about doing another day trip up to the Mt Hope Wine Shop. We had picked up a bit of wine and booze while we were up there for the Renn Faire. We still have wine, but we've nearly killed off the Rum Cream. And let me just say, that is a sad thing. It's basically a sweet creamy base that would make an awesome coffee creamer married with coconut rum. It is SO fucking good. I'll pour myself a large shotglass and sip on it during game. It's only about 18% alcohol, so not too strong, but perfect for sipping. They also have a mocha rum cream that I'm looking forward to trying.

We do have a trip planned for the Yuletide Faire, which is basically the renn faire with carolers and holiday themed plays and music. But that isn't until mid-December, so I'm debating on a trip before then Right now, they don't have their Eggnog, but I'm hoping they will by the time the Yultide faire rolls around.

Today, I work, Jess and my sister take Yoda for grooming, and then we have game after work, then game tonight.

Tomorrow, I believe Jess has game at 7, but nothing else.

Okay, time for me to get myself together and be ready for work. Everyone have the very best Saturday!

dine

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petra

For people running ublock origins, a link where you can read this: Batgirl (2000) #28.

I revisited this issue today because I refound this exquisite redraw of a page from it, which if you don't have Tumblr you can see here. I adore the redrawn and racebent Steph, and the whole thing feels like an expression of the purest form of fannish love I know.

I had forgotten just how gloriously kinetic Damion Scott's work is, and how much I adore Cass and Steph's relationship as it's developed in the issue. I don't think you need much backstory for this issue other than "Cass was raised in silence by a man who made her learn body language instead of spoken language." There's all sorts of other canon going on outside the context of the issue, but this one's pretty complete as it stands.

Current Mood: incredulous
Current Music: Never running from a real fight

petra

I haven't done this meme since 2011, but I refound it today and had a good laugh, so here we go:

Give me a character's name and I will tell you three reasons why it would be terrible to try to date them, have sex with them, or be in a long-term relationship with them.

For an extra challenge, pick characters you know I'm fond of. Anyone can tell you reasons not to date Cthulhu, after all.

For reference, my fandom list.

Current Mood: oh honey no
Current Music: I wanna fuck Jean-Luc Picard

devilc

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petra

Tim Drake's 16th birthday(s) (313 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bernard Dowd/Tim Drake, Tim Drake/Dick Grayson, Stephanie Brown/Tim Drake
Characters: Tim Drake
Additional Tags: Limericks, Poetry, Limerick Cycle, Birthday, Sweet Sixteen
Summary:

Only the really lucky characters get to turn 16 more than once.

Current Mood: festive
Current Music: And we were barely dressed

harpers_child

Have determined that the ren faire shop put me in the wrong size corset. Either that or their pattern is wildly bad for my body shape. It's an underbust so I was avoiding the worst of my fit issues. They only had the one length, so I knew to expect that it'd hit my thighs when sitting. (I am absurdly short-waisted.)

In an attempt to tighten the bottom enough to not be able to fit my closed fist longways on either side of hip while also having room for my closed fist shortways in front of my lower stomach, I have tightened the damn corset enough that the bottom two (of six) pairs of lacing are touching. Also despite having balcony seating for a family of four there is also significant gaping around the top of this thing. I have an inch maybe two of reduction around my middle.

This is comically ill-fitted at this point. I was wearing two thin linen dresses and a pair of linen pants I only wear under longer things when I got fitted. I thought the fit issues I had at faire were because the damn thing was too long.

I guess I'll take pictures and reach out to see how to return it. I might be able to get out to faire again before end of season, but I also might not.

beanside

It's Friday! Whoohoo! I'm still working tomorrow morning, but that's okay.

Yesterday was busy at work. I had multiple projects, and accomplished all of them. In the process, I may have gotten one of my coworkers in trouble, but she fucked up, so I don't feel bad about that.

When we get patients with STAT orders, and we don't have anything soon--like a cardiac MRI say, we send an email to management, letting them know, and they go on a giant spreadsheet. (Ususally, they'll also forward the email to me, since I'm Queen of the Cardiac appointments) I was looking to fill in an open cardiac MRI, so I was trawling through appts in January (Yes, that's when we're scheduling). I opened a chart for a patient and found a STAT order. The patient had some pretty serious comorbid health issues. I was worried that I had missed something, so I sent a message to the assistant manager asking if the patient was on their radar. He came back and said no email had been sent. So basically, my coworker put a patient who could basically drop dead at any moment in January and didn't even put them on the wait list, much less notify anyone. I have a feeling that that is going to be a coaching at the very least. Fortunately, I have an appointment for Tuesday, so I'm going to track them down and see if they'll take that.

Then, it was off to get my roots touched up at Madison Reed, because I looked like a fucking skunk, and we have brunch on Sunday and I'd like to look at least not bad. That took a little while, and then I headed back home to walk the dog and have a bit of dinner.

Tonight, we have game, so that should be fun. I need to do a bit of prep, which I will take care of after I finish typing this. Tomorrow, work, then game. Sunday, Brunch at Ammoora.

I also need to go pick up a couple of prescriptions, so the timeline might be tight tonight. We'll see.

The tree topper came yesterday,a nd I got it set up. It's a really pretty star of Bethlehem shaped golden cage topper with lights in it.

Our little tree.

Ornaments and a tree skirt are still en route, but once we have them, we'll get it decorated and it won't look so sparse.

And on that note, I'm going to go grab a shower and then do some prep work for game. Everyone have an excellent Friday!

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