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In other, less spill my guts style news, we adopted another kitty a few weeks ago!

Her name is Eliza and she's a calico! She likes watching the world through windows and talking to her new humans. Also, fighting cat toys.

There's this forum I lurk on sometimes that had a thread recently about pyramid schemes and how they work on people, and how people move from being scammed to scamming, which is honestly all really interesting -

It's just. They keep referring to them as "MLM" short for "multi-level marketing" and I gotta tell you, my brain by this point just automatically parses that as "men who love men", as a community identification term, and it's just really disorienting.

Here's a link to a really neat site full of icons for games!

I've barely started looking at it, and it's fascinating. I like the feel of the art.

h/t to transilience!

I went to the laundromat this morning because our washing machine has been broken all month, and in the drainage marsh across the way, the male red winged blackbirds were having a very spirited discussion over territory.

Today is the fifty first anniversary of the first broadcast of the Star Trek: TOS episode "Devil in the Dark," in which the crew of the Enterprise meet a horta.

It was the first TOS episode I ever saw. It's also the episode I've watched the most: I nearly wore out the tape on our VHS copy. If I want to I can play large chunks of the story out in my head, pictures and sound arcs of paraphrased narration to patch over the bits that don't matter to me quite as much emotionally.

Maybe I'll rewatch it tomorrow.

It is nice when you reformat and reproof-read a fic you wrote years ago to put it up on AO3 and you like it all over again, you're delighted with and proud of it and happy to share it with new slice of the fandom!

And also, it's been so long that you get to laugh all over again at all your own jokes.

It's a good feeling.

Over the last several days I've rewatched "Darkness Rising", the five part pilot for Transformers: Primer. And also "Masters and Students" the first episode after the pilot, the one with Skyquake and Soundwave thwarting Starscream's scheming.

I really like this show. I really really do. I love Raf and Bumblebee's Platonic Soulmates At First Sight thing (Bumblebee spontaneously breaking out into a cheer for Raf on the space bridge when Raf disrupts Soundwave's navigational targeting is so incredibly dear), and Arcee's kindness and grief and anger, and Fowler's utter badassery and patriotically themed PG rated creative swearing (although this early in he has not come out with his better ones). And Soundwave's beautiful design and quiet menace and elegantly incisive intelligence. And Megatron in full horribly charismatic bombast, and Starscream's totally unfounded conviction that he counts as The Sensible One, and the way this show plays Megatron's violence towards Starscream as ominous and disturbing instead of for humor (all those foreboding little bits of music when Megatron is being threatening) and as part of the major dysfunction of what the Decepticon movement has become over the eons.

And Ratchet is so great, and the bit where Bulkhead tries to shield Miko's innocence and pretty much fails because Miko is a terror and a half and really is not listening to him and Miko glomming onto him just. Every. Single. Time. Ratchet flapping his hand at Arcee, "Your physcian says you're fine!" The several times Optimus saves Ratchet's life with a well timed shot or punch - - -

How seriously Optimus treats everyone, how his gravity is not that he takes himself seriously, but that he takes everyone else seriously -

*bwees and rolls around in narrative*

Researching candidates for this year's primary season! It's going okay, partly because I have decided that if you can't be bothered to reply to the local papers' Get To Know Your Candidate questionnaires or put your positions up anywhere they can actually be accessed and looked at critically, I can't be bothered to vote for you!

Conveniently, this leaves me multiple good candidates this time around. It doesn't always and then I'm tugging my hair out because the only person I can find anything out about has values and positions deeply antithetical to my own, that would endanger the survival and flourishing of people I care about. Not fun. This is more fun! Pleasantly surprising, even!

I need to work harder at posting regularly here, because I miss everybody.