Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

we all know I have no life, so:

Simon Wu-Tang's first day as an adventurer isn't going well.

Since I'm still arguably technically Looking For Work, I get occasional emails with bundles of "ideal" jobs, and without fail every single one is either working with AI or "the blockchain."

I used to be smart, I swear.

A glossy black kitten snoozes on an upholstered chair.

The problem with fostering kittens is that you have to give them back.

Anyone in Central Massachusetts want to adopt this handsome sleepy boy? He likes to scamper, chase, snuggle, and sometimes (gently) bite. We're returning him to Second Chance tomorrow.
www.secondchanceanimals.org/adopt/

Wait, do I have to read Moby Dick?

Congratulations! We are coming up on seventeen years and are also stupid in love, which I feel is the ideal way to be married.

I *will* have an answer.

There's almost certainly a better quality recording of this out there somewhere, and probably a bunch of different renditions, on account of being from a live concert series.

The Symphony Of Evangelion - Fly Me To The Moon YouTube video by transylvania06

Evangelion in concert Fly me to the Moon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoKC...

Something like 30 people at our Strixhaven prerelease tonight. I went 2-1, which is the same as I did at the much smaller Lorwyn event. I've clearly found my level: adequacy.

There's plenty of good anime, of which I am a fan, but anyone calling themself an "anime fan" is to be suspected, I fear. The medium is too broad to be embraced so openly, and too much of it is weirdly problematic, and people who can't handle critique of that are Not Normal.

Not to knock your homeland, but I would simply melt. But a crisp autumn hike in the (New England or Canadian or Minnesotan) woods? That's the stuff.

The second cousins lesbian crush is the most wholesome ship in this whole damn comic I swear. And that one features crushing on the daughter of the cousin your mother was crushing on a generation ago, so it's still weird.

I'm on volume 2 of Cardcaptor Sakura now so I have another update: Boys! Boys! Do not date your teachers! Girls! Do not date your teachers who are the ex-girlfriends of your older brothers! From when she was his teacher! Also probably don't date your brother's boyfriend. Sorry.

Wasn't he the first person born on Mars? That was a whole thing, right? My brain struggles to remember these details.

Same way your house handles a meteor, I guess--don't get hit!

(Granted, your house is also protected by a thick atmosphere and ::checks notes:: oh dear. The Moon.)

Is it possible that Ed Baldwin was ... (moon) based?

I hope they never fix that typo. I hope it becomes part of the Lexicon.

Pro tip: run your government so that naming a spaceship "Integrity" doesn't sound like a direct critique of the administration.

Both are relevant concepts where you work, though.

Today was probably a bad day to try Globle for the first time.

I need this to be the start of a fiction series where someone finishes the duet with him when he thought he was alone and it turns out there’s a sewer haunter who’s an insane soprano

I guess I should specify that this is a novel, given how many other media I talk about on here.

I've just started Ann Leckie's the Raven Tower and it's very interesting so far. Playing around with (un)reliable narrator tropes in a way that has some serious potential. Layers, progressive revelation, big feelings, all sorts of stuff I dig.

This is not a surprise given Leckie's track record.

It was a fun movie!

I didn't even realize he was a recruitable companion; I was too busy counter-murdering his entire society before they could murderfuck me.

Avasarala from the Expanse with a speech bubble to a tweet insulting the Martian eclipse and saying it was another W for Earth, the best planet in the universe

stolen from @ausir.bsky.social

Homa is having a remarkably normal dinner with a bunch of strangers in a lovely little inn.