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koiotchka
replied to your post “Morning, 23 May 17”

*hug* hopefully it will go okay today

*hugs back* Thank you. 🙂 The rescheduling the appointment went fine, though next Wednesday is going to involve being up and out the door pretty much immediately, and the cat fed early because I’d rather feed her early than late.

Now I need to get up and actually feed the cat her morning kibble, and probably should get myself food too.

leahelizabeth89
replied to your post “I am enjoying this show. And right now am wanting very much to take…”

“I’m not a philosopher, Harry,“ [Michael] said. "But here’s something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what’s coming around.” He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. “And sometimes you are what’s coming around.”

-The Dresden Files

This is an interesting quote. It is also making me crankier than usual, though I doubt that was the intent.

I’m gonna put the rest of this under a cut because I have some strong opinions and my tradition is not everyone’s tradition, and dude, if something works for someone else, cool beans. If not, that’s ok too.

Also because deities and spirituality and people should have the option to be able to skip that if they’re not interested.

Rule of Three still doesn’t apply outside of the tradition from which it came. 

Now, Newton’s Laws of Motion? Those apply for the magic I use. Which is why, if doing something that’s going to have a lot of reaction, I use an anchor and shielding.

Which is another part of why I look at that concept that “harm comes back three-fold” and laugh on a good day, and loudly bitch about it on a bad day. Because equal and opposite reaction. Conservation of energy.

Yes, I apply physics as I understand them to magic. It makes sense to me. And it makes magic work. For me. For other people, other rules and limitations apply, because they work from a different tradition/baseline.

Add to the magic I tend to use that I’m typically invoking deities, and all my deities are related in some manner to death and change and conflict? I’m not going to use magic often, and when I do, I am the aspect of my deities, I am invoking the Winnower of Death, the Chooser of the Slain, the Queens of the Dead – of the dishonored and the forgotten and the outcast*. The Mother of Monsters, Hunger, the Listener and World Snake, the Judge, the Lord of the House, the Protector, War, and Death. (In order – Anat, The Morrígan, Hel and Persephone, Loki, Fenrir, Jörmungandr, Hades, Baal, Cerubus, Ares, Mot.)

These are the aspects of my deities that speak to me. This is the magic I work.

And yeah, it’s entirely possible I’ve done permanent and irreparable harm to my body in the magic I work. It’s worth it. It’s worth it to see someone walk free of what would have swallowed her whole and eaten her soul while her grandmother could do nothing but try to warn her. It’s worth it to see a friend smile again. It’s worth it to see those who would do – and have done – harm to others have that harm repaid to them.

And I would do it all again in a heartbeat.

*Outcast, not outlaw. Those who the powerful of society would harm because they merely exist.

godoflaundrybaskets
replied to your post “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wish!Verse: To Rescue Angelus”

I’ve been reminiscing about the BtVS fandom of late and then serendipitously you post this 😀 Lovely how that works out.

godoflaundrybaskets
replied to your post “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wish!Verse: To Rescue Angelus”

This is pretty fun 😀

*beams* Thank you!

It’s an older piece that has since been abandoned, though there’s more in the AU that hasn’t been posted yet. I’m planning on going through my abandoned stuff at some point (once the spreadsheet of doom is as caught up as it’s going to get), and deciding what to just post, and what I’m not willing to let out into the world yet (or perhaps, in some cases, at all).

eldritchwug
replied to your post “.. and there was the not-quite-panic-attack right on schedule after I…”

*extends sympathy*

*accepts* Thank you.

They got the tree down without killing or injuring anyone, though I think there was a close call at one point. The guy on the ground had to make a fast jump and run to not get hit, and the ladder he’d been on went down, but he was shouting at the guy in the tree after, so no blood, no foul.

And then there was cutting up of the tree, and the cutting up of a tree on another neighbor’s lot that had come down recently, and so chainsaw until it was getting dark, but at least no more heavy thumps.

Which particular fic are you working on right now?

Two, really, at the moment, back and forth.

One is an AU to Admit Me, Chorus to This History, where the battle of Agincourt goes slightly differently in the aftermath, and thus Henry V will be followed not by a son, but by his eldest daughter, Margaret, who is in many ways very much her father’s daughter. She doesn’t have the military training (yet), but she has his ability to charm people and to easily gain their affection, and his stubborn and ruthless resolve.

The other is the second story in the main sequence of Mistress to Queen (of which Admit Me is the first story in the main sequence), Spirit All Compact of Fire. Margaret is fourteen at the beginning, it’s September of 1422, Henry V is dead, and she has no intention of acknowledging her brother as her king. It’s about to get her in a lot of trouble, and then it’s going to get Scotland in a lot of trouble in this particular alternate history. (Because a couple major plot points, and one dead person later, and, well. Margaret is very much her father’s daughter, no matter which AU I’m writing.)

Robert is just as glad Margaret is someone else’s problem at that point, because he has other problems on his hands. Like fractious French nobility who aren’t too happy about having an English king, much less an adult son of Henry who is as stubborn, ruthless, and well-versed in military tactics and strategy as his father, and equally willing to apply all of that to holding onto what was conquered.

(And then I have four other siblings of theirs to tell the stories of. Edward and Joan and Richard and Elizabeth. Two royal dukes, one for war and his brother’s right hand, and one with a desire to follow stories to the ends of the earth; one sister married to secure peace, the other to a convent with a vocation and a lurking mental instability.)

elegantmess-southernbelle
replied to your post “Dear iTunes, I do not want you to rate my music for me. I do not want…”

Oh, is THAT what Cleo was trying to d/l tonight? Fuck that noise.

It’s been doing that since an update sometime before the Estrella/Gulf trip, it just got really, really annoying when I had to go through the entire album list again because I’d done some work with the unrated stuff, and iTunes decided that it meant I wanted it to automatically pick a rating for the albums and thus, move my unrated songs into the playlists of rated songs.

*sighs, and thumps iTunes with a stick* I hope they take it out in the next iteration, because that’s not anything resembling useful for anyone I know, and I seriously don’t understand why they keep it. Of course, most of the people I know have iTunes do some extensive stuff with playlists that involves needing to know exactly which songs they’ve listened to, and where they stand in their ratings. Or just really don’t like other people fucking with their organization… which is exactly what this non-feature does.

ladybold
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morgynleri
replied to your post “Here I was, thinking…”

Australian tomato sauce most be different as it is savor

Technically, tomato sauce is supposed to be savory. For a lot of people, it probably still is. But when we made our own, mom would add a pinch of sugar to cut the acid, and I’m pretty sure that commercial makers add more than a pinch, even accounting for different batch sizes. So to me it tastes a lot of the sugar + tomato sweet that is usually balanced by the acidity in fresh tomatoes.

Also, I tend to be sensitive to sweet – refined sugar tastes sickly sweet, brown sugar is only a little better but also has depth of flavor, molasses is sweet with a faint hint of bitter aftertaste and also has flavor, and honey is sweet and generally light and some kinds have different other flavors*. No artificial “sweetener” that I have encountered actually tastes sweet to me. At best, they taste waxy (stevia, sucralose), at worst they taste bitter (saccarine) or foul (aspertame).

*I have a cabinet full of honeys from different types of flowers, and not one of them is the same.