#Tuesday again no problem

[crownorclover]

TUESDAY AGAIN NO PROBLEM

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[dimension20stuff]

happy worlds beyond number tuesday to those who celebrate

[twerkyvulture]

It's Terrible Tyrannosaurus Tuesday

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 2/25/2025

interview today please send good vibes if you have any to spare AND

calloo callay o frabjous day finally a fun lesbian romance!! faith in lesbian romances restored

listening: i always get what i want by findlay off their new 2025 album stay kinky

reading: hunter's pursuit by kim baldwin (2005)

watching: hombre (1967, dir ritt)

playing: pokemon (still)

making: pants maintenance, tumbling blocks blanket update

sorry about the emoji but no feet for free

listening

Findlay are indie/alt pop and the titular artist Findlay has a voice that you expect to be raspy or a little gravelly and it isn't. it's like a very matte powdercoated metal? i was about to describe this song as "could be on killing eve s1" but this song is the version of tswift's look what you made me do for someone who thrifts a lot of sixties vintage and is really into making their own bitters.

Baby won't you be my in flight movie Keep me amused when I get bored Give me a squeezе when I feel juicy Don't come begging likе the boys before

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reading

we did not have to resort to Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe bc while i was pants shopping at the local Out Of The Closet gay thrift store, i picked up a couple more gay and/or lesbian romance and/or erotica books. i meant to read one by author Kim Baldwin this week and switched to one of her other books bc this premise is WILD. one of the most fun debut novels ive ever read. a really effective thriller!

When the hunter becomes the hunted...do you trust your instincts or your heart? A killer for hire, Katarzyna Demetrious has grown weary of her violent and solitary life. Contemplating retirement, she has gone into hiding in her remote bunker home as a blizzard rages outside. But her seclusion is shattered by the appearance of a mysterious stranger, and, with a price tag on her head, Kat is thrust into the most perilous situation she has ever faced. Can she outwit the assassins on her trail? And could the woman she rescues...and is unexpectedly attracted to...be the deadliest of them all?

this is a 315p softcover published in 2005 by our friends at Bold Strokes Books, and the author thanks previous tuesdaypost author Radclyffe for her help on this, her first novel. she has an incredibly charming website with a visitor counter at the bottom.

one major caveat i have with this book is that the amnesiac lead goes by Jake for most of the book due to a silly joke. i wish they didn't. i wish romance authors were better at picking names. i am going to email the author when i am not resisting a migraine thanking her so much for such a fun debut novel and also hey hi how did you name this character?

i think my problem with so many of the books i have read for this project is that there isn't enough going on. i think i need an additional genre other than pure contemporary romance to be confident that it can fill a whole book with interesting words. SO many things happen in Hunter's Pursuit. we cover a lot of ground. this would be a very respectable b-movie action/thriller/intrigue. i wish i was in charge of gay movie rights.

so many romances are so so bad at getting you to care about the characters and why they would want to be together. not so here! they’re very smart very competent people but this book is very interested in: what are the extreme circumstances that make someone fuck up and forgo their usual precautions? there’s some real home alone shit!!!

my quibbles with this mostly not structural or wondering if the author knows what words mean, but more minor things i wish the book did even though it more than delivered on its premise. eg Kat is a surprisingly caring and gentle and protective person for being a trained assassin, and i would have loved to see that played up a little bit more or seen that veer off into possessiveness a little bit more. the beginning of the book had me SO excited, bc Kat has to undress Jake and patch up her extensive wounds and gets super turned on and thinks uh-oh! and then Jake finds out she had to be undressed while unconscious and gets super turned on about being so completely vulnerable and thinks uh-oh! GOOD SHIT!!! WISH THERE WAS MORE OF THAT!!!! THE REST OF IT WAS SURPRISINGLY VANILLA!!!

they don't fuck until the last three pages of the book (they are both Very Injured, makes sense, they do a lot of kissing and pining instead) they’re both extremely weird about fairly tame early relationship steps which at least makes sense here bc they’re assassins. they’re not normal. i would have liked for Kat to be a more unapologetic baddie or more morally gray, bc when we find out about her freelance jobs they are more about serving justice than getting paid. nothing particularly outstanding about the sex scene but it did not make me want to curl up into a ball and roll away.

this was just Fun. it has a really fun structural thing surrounding the twist i wish i could talk about without spoiling the whole thing. it is not a perfect slam dunk and i would have loved to see a darker draft, but it is very good at getting me to care about both halves of the couple and at maintaining tension. does what it says on the tin which is more than i can say for most of the other books in this project

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watching

Hombre (1967, dir. Ritt) a response to Stagecoach (1939, dir. Ford) that i liked much more than Stagecoach. i was trying to find something to watch on letterboxd, decided on this one, figured out it was on poob, and when i fired up poob it was the first recommended movie lmao. how could poob have possibly deduced that from my viewing pattern of only watching one western on their niche platform every quarter

John Russell (Paul Newman) finds that the world is not so welcoming when he returns to his Arizona home town to collect his inheritance. A white man raised by American Indians, Russell is subjected to numerous instances of racism when people discover his background. When the stagecoach Russell is riding in is held up by a gang run by one of the scheming passengers, Cicero Grimes (Richard Boone), it falls to Russell to defend the passengers -- the very people who have dismissed and insulted him.

this is based on an Elmore Leonard novel and was, tbqh, a fucking downer of a movie, more so than most revisionist westerns. this movie has a lot of things to say about race, humanity, and justice and doesn't get in its own way about it. i liked the flip from "white man saving white woman from indians" to "white man raised as indian saving a white woman from white men". i am woefully behind in watching all known american westerns and this makes me really excited to watch more of director ritt's work, bc this was so beautifully shot. even the night scenes looked good!

do NOT worry they ditch that fuckass wig early on. VERY sharp, noir-ish dialogue. infinitely quotable. i think Newman is my favorite of the taciturn leading men trend in westerns that Eastwood popularized, partly bc i think Newman deepens a character in a lot of subtle ways in scenes without a lot of dialogue, instead of just Performing Cowboy Actions. i also really loved the leading lady, Diane Cilento, who more than holds her own in scenes with Newman.

i have added it to the "westerns i would let other people watch" list with some caveats: attempted sexual assault, pretty good discussion of race that may not always perfectly match 2025 sensibilities, and i don't think this should be someone's first or fifth western. unfortunately i think you gotta wade through a bunch of racist dreck first in order to understand why this was such a marked contrast to other westerns of the time. oh i didn't know that's what the preview would be. hi sabata.

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playing

maybe this will be the Whatever Cool Pokemon Card I've Just Pulled space instead of the halfhearted sentence about genshin impact space for a while

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making

baby blanket progress: sorry i was in the middle of a row. just about done with the tenth repeat, on track to finish this by the child's second birthday. i have extended it a bit to twelve repeats instead of ten, i may be playing a bit of yarn chicken but she's unfortunately a little bit bigger than a newborn these days and needs an appropriately blanket cape.

also: pants. a faster way to feel bad about your body than pants shopping has not yet been devised. however i hunted and gathered three pairs of office-appropriate pants, did a lot of thread trimming and de-pilling and opening up pockets and reinforcing lower hems and buttonholes and buttons etc. Nice (TM) pants in plus sizes do not really exist in the local thrift ecosystem so i am holding my nose. all of these are really awful poly/ramie/rayon blends, but thrifting enough work-appropriate dresses would send a more conservative message than i want to at whatever fucking job i end up at, and i refuse to shave my legs every day, so awful plasticky pants it is. i wish popular plus-size retailer torrid knew how to clip a fucking thread. i also wish aforementioned torrid knew how to find a normal print instead of the loudest most fucked up prints available. the green plaid is basically thick leggings/ponte pants but they're loud enough that it probably won't be too noticeable.

i went to five different rich bitch consignment shops and thrifts downtown before giving up and going to the local Out Of The Closet thrift, where i almost immediately found two pairs of pants and a dress. i put back two more pairs bc tailoring them myself would have been extremely annoying. they are pricier than most thrifts in the area (these pants were $10 each) but it's still cheaper than department store or torrid clearance prices and now i don't have to think about pants for a little bit.

this brings me up to four real pairs of pants plus one pair of jeans, so even if i shit myself every day for a week i should be all right.

[canis-goofus]

doggust again? no problem

[weirdwyvern]

got to episode 17 and saw the title "Rohan Kishibe's Adventure," had a visceral response in the form of creating this meme

[honeyedheartss]

I haven't seen him in months. gotta do everything myself around here

[bogkeep]

Haiz Birthday In A Week...

[joyousmistake]

i am the best at birthday cards

[irradiate-space]

Last Lunesday of the Week

Listening: Mostly going through my library on "random by album" (latest: FMAB, Alestorm) and the local dance/EDM mix radio station's archives.

Reading: Finished issue 1 of "Speculative North", an anthology that I received as a gift many years mack. Also finished What If 2, and shelved a Pope Francis cartoon bio and The Salmon of Doubt, a Doug Adams autobio from found documents on his posthumous hard drives. Not really a theme here beyond cleaning off my shelves.

Recent fun read was H. Beam Piper's The Cosmic Computer, which I found after finishing Little Fuzzy.

It's not a Heinlein story, but the way that Piper draws these frontier worlds feels like Heinlein's settings. But where Heinlein writes stories of things which are solved by individual action, Piper writes (n: 2) about stories which are solved by processes set in motion, and the orderly functioning of the dregs of bureaucracy. Piper believes that Government will function, in a way that is very different from anything else I've read lately besides glowfic.

Writing: Gearing up for NaNoWriMo with more Gundam Iliad prep work. Besides the cyberdeck project, I'm going to be starting a scene-by-scene flowchart of different takes on The Iliad.

Spite/Research: might be editing gundam.fandom.com to add a bunch of missing stuff for Johnny Ridden and some related things.

Watching: It was a two-shot weekend, so I binged Saga of Tanya The Evil on a rewatch. Now I have to go watch the movie.

Injuries: +1 flu shot, +1 COVID booster, +2 elbow needles, -4.5 vials of blood for routine bloodwork (half a tube wasted when the needle backed out accidentaly). Lost a fair-weather biking glove on my way back from the jab, so I'm out like $50 there.

Playing: More Tears of the Kingdom, trying to find more quest items and caves and wells, but not in any organized fashion. Doing this in an organized fashion would require getting one of the checklist apps or signing up for an app, which I do not want to do.

Crafting: On the recommendation of a friend, I've gone and acquired all the parts for making an Ikea Vindriktning into an IOT AQI logger. Should be interesting.

Gotta model some revisions for the next phase of my Pi cyberdeck project, but I'm having trouble getting that Rasbian to load phosh/phoc, which is very annoying. Maybe I should stop fucking around and just use GNOME. Once that's done, I still need to figure out I2C addressing.

Halloween approacheth; it's time to actually sit down and remodel my 2023 NASFiC costume into something that can be worn for more than 4h. Big messes of orange filament in my future; it may be time to build a printer enclosure.

[workshop94]

TUESDAY AGAIN NO FCKIN PROBLEM!

TUESDAY AGAIN NO PROBLEM

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 1/21/2025

hey it's fucking snowing here in houston texas! what the fuck!

listening: toes by the glass animals

reading: the steerswoman series by rosemary kirstein, and the gay and lesbian erotica book of the week, candidate by tracey richardson

watching: various david attenborough documentaries

playing: brief genshin impact report

making: banana bread

listening

glass animals' toes: my best friend's husband and i were chatting about music my best friend introduced us to, and my god there's been so much! i remember back in 2018 i did not expect to like them bc we had wildly diverging indie rock tastes at the time, but they really do scratch something in my brain. very good writing music, bc each album has such a tightly curated vibe and the words are recognizable english but so poetic as to be mostly nonsense. this song is loosely about The Island of Dr Moreau. my best friend has described this song as "like listening to crayons melt"

I'm a man, I'm a twisted fool My hands are twisted too Five fingers, two black hooves I'm a man, don't spin me a lie Got toes, and I can smile I'm crooked but upright

a song for very few blorbos but when it hits for a blorbo it Hits yanno

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reading

im having a brain time that is favorable to reading many books in one week. we're going to start with some i loved and then go to the gay and lesbian erotica, which i did not love and did not finish.

talking about which post led me to this series would give you an enormous spoiler for the book. we're going to yoink the Setting from wikipedia:

A Steerswoman is a traveling scholar, required to answer any question asked of them, as long as the asker answers truthfully in return. Anyone refusing to answer a Steerswoman's question is placed under a ban, and no Steerswoman will answer their questions in future. Only wizards do not respect the Steerswomen, maintaining intense secrecy around their magic. Kirstein's work is often characterized as science fantasy. Jo Walton describes the Steerswoman series as "not only science fiction, but more science fictional than anything else."[1] Cory Doctorow says of The Steerswoman, "even the book's genre is a riddle that you'll have enormous great fun solving."[2] The Steerswoman series addresses themes of technological development, inter-species interaction, and distribution of knowledge.[4]

i ADORED these. i did basically nothing for two days except apply to jobs and read these books. these are physics brain books. these are Science Fiction with the capitals on books. the first chapter has someone derive a bit of orbital mechanics from first principles by making logical inferences from a chart she drew in the dirt about distribution of certain jewels. despite that, it's never boring! sometimes the steerswoman Rowan will puzzle over something for several chapters before something finally clicks for both you and her. the books are one big nested riddle, and you have all the pieces from the beginning! it just looks so strange from Rowan's eyes that you don't figure it out until she does! and even when you figure out one bit you just have more questions!!! and despite knowing a huge spoiler going in, part of it really blindsided me! it was a very clever bit of writing! good job rosemary!!!

and now for the gay and lesbian erotica book, which again has a 3.8 on goodreads and again i have no idea why. published in 2008 by Bella Press in a very indifferent perfect-bound ~250p softcover with the most creasable cover imaginable, our author Tracey Richardson is a Canadian writing about an American presidential candidate. from what i read, the political speeches were the best part of the book. this was genuinely groundbreaking and revolutionary in 2008 for a Democratic presidential candidate to openly support the LGBTQ+ community! i think Tracey put a more progressive veneer on some of JFK's speeches but that's okay they still hit! that man did have some talented staff members and a great stage presence!

i tortured my best friend by reading snippets of this aloud and removing her toddler daughter from various mischief as she cooked, and we got really stuck on the presidential candidate Jane's age. she is forty three. she is a medical doctor. she lost her husband ten years ago when she had her own private medical practice at THIRTY THREE. she left for a year to do Doctors Without Borders, started a nonprofit in America about healthcare access, and is now a second term senator. this had my bestie and i doing back of the envelope math and we can only conclude she never slept or went on vacation.

i have many beefs with this book, both petty and with regards to construction. my best friend got extremely peeved at the description of someone's accent as "a well heeled eastern seaboard accent". WHAT the fuck does that mean. WHERE on the eastern seaboard??? the standard American Newscaster Accent is faintly midwestern. did they have a sort of bland tidewater politician faint drawl? who knows! this canadian author cannot tell us :(

Tracey is a big fan of dropping details very late. eg we only find out on page 8 after a lot of dialogue that love interest/Secret Service agent Alex has a southern accent. Five pages into a party scene we find out she’s wearing a hawaiian shirt. i had to go back and reread the entire party scene with that in mind. on page 42 we find out Alex is an Olympic gold medal hockey player in the first year women were allowed to play Olympic hockey. earlier in the book we see her playing hockey for funsies with her rec league and we also go over her dossier in detail with Jane. either place would have been a great place to bring this up!!!

this book is also very reverent of the office of usa politicians in a way i find strange for a canadian. and for alex, a somewhat jaded civil servant. alex!!! she’s just a rich nepo baby and has good stage presence!!!! stop falling for it!!!

as a bisexual, novels about straight widows turning lesbian really bother me sometimes. this was one of the ones that really bothered me. it's kind of insane how little bisexual fiction there is compared to the strongly represented pan and poly communities. this was 2008 though so pansexuality wasn't really as mainstream, i don't remember hearing much about it until i went to college in western massachusetts in 2013.

i had to stop reading this book bc it hit me with the following:

these are both cis women. does she have an infection??????? is she okay???? the book is not going to get better from here. books rarely start out bad and then improve. i have only a limited amount of time here on god's green earth and i want to read the thirteenth volume of witch hat atelier instead. gentle reader, i hope you understand.

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watching

again if i could log individual children's tv show episodes i would be winning letterboxd. i half-watched a lot of david attenborough docs in the background and fell asleep on a couch to his soothing voice. there are some fucked up little guys on this planet.

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playing

good fucking riddance, even though this is basically a slap on the wrist. the multiple-step in-game currency exchanges in order to get the main in-game currency for pulling for characters is one of the more underhanded gacha systems. gambling is an ancient human activity, it is not instantly harmful or instantly addictive, and there will never be a good way to legislate it out of existence, but i do think some more predatory practices (like this one!) should be legislated.

nothing to report about actually playing genshin this week. a big yearly event approacheth, however. excited to bring you news of the new four-star character, a basket weaver

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making

banana bread embarrassment. i hate my kitchen so fucking much. my fridge and oven both need to be replaced but will my landlord do that???? no. this oven is from 2007 and does not hold a consistent temp, which is fine if im roasting chicken thighs and it randomly spikes the temp and doesn't heat in one quadrant, but it makes it Very Difficult to bake. i think this was a combo of an inconsistent inner temp and forming a slightly burnt crust that did not want to pull out of the perhaps undergreased pans. fuck an aldi nonstick spray i guess. i SLATHERED that thing and it still had to be persuaded out of the pan.

i consistently forget that martha stewart consistently produces baked goods that are just a touch oilier than i like. you could lose a good two tablespoons of butter in this and not notice it much, i think. a very wet recipe. added in one orange's worth of zest bc i like it.

[weirdgirlvampire]

Surely another insane day of traveling will cure me

[lorileopard]

Espresso shots.. save me..

Espresso shots

Save me espresso shots

[haroldjaffe]

Also makes me think this (:

https://www.tumblr.com/chickensnack/93947404481/tuesday-again-no-problem

[aoikasaa]

weekdays with dr stone

(i doodled all of them in <20min each day so dont think too hard lol)