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Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
almost home
oozey mess
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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@inyri
I do not know why my husband somehow always manages to pick the month of May to have to spend time in the hospital.
Not every year, mind you- we had a good run of a few uneventful years recently- but now he’s back recovering after a surgery. My birthday’s coming up and people keep asking “oh, what do you want” and at the moment a bitch could really just use a fucking break-
for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits
I know they say “dress for the job you want” but this seems suspicious-
I’ve been trying to write.
I have, honestly, and the new content sent a few little ideas crawling in my head (and a few dozen new nightmares in Nine’s- cursed inevitability of betrayal, etc, etc)-
But life really is imitating art quite badly right now.
I moved again this past summer. The place where I used to work- the building where I used to work, an office that wasn’t mine but that I visited more than once- was hit by drones two weeks ago. It burned, in part. Other places I’ve been, buildings I’ve worked in, places I’ve visited, were hit as well. Everyone was safe, mostly. But my successor’s still there working. What I do- we’re essential. We don’t get to leave during a drawdown, not right away. Not until they turn the lights off and lock the door.
We as Americans like to consider ourselves insulated from war, don’t we? If we are not soldiers, not there in the thick of it, we are safe. It is far away and we are safe.
Until we aren’t.
It’s… a lot to process.
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic Teaser Trailer
"Developed by Arcanaut Studios in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is a new single-player narrative-driven action RPG and spiritual successor to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Led by Casey Hudson, Game director of the original Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic and the Mass Effect trilogy, the team of veteran game developers and storytellers at Arcanaut Studios is crafting an epic interactive adventure across a galaxy on the brink of rebirth where every decision shapes your path towards light or darkness. Fate is in your hands. Visit SWFOTOR.com for more information, follow on X, Instagram and TikTok."
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A new singleplayer action-roleplaying game set in the Old Republic era.
Cocktails over Coruscant
(Guangzhou, China. Dec 2025.)
Showing my age for a moment…
I did a mobile order at Starbucks so I could grab breakfast on my way to work as an end of week treat (I haven’t had a paycheck in a month thanks to the shutdown so one deserves a little treat every once in a while…)
I use the English version of the Chinese Starbucks app due to my very poor Mandarin reading skills. When you do a mobile order it gives you an order confirmation code- instead of a number it’s a short phrase in either Mandarin or English.
This is probably a coincidence but my college brain jumped immediately to a very specific scene when I read:
(I immediately burst out laughing in the middle of the train.)
The State of the Inyri, the “I Moved Again” edition
I’ve gotten a bunch of new likes on Equivalent Exchange recently, so I felt obligated to pop my head up with a little update.
Not dead. Still writing. Just moved to China for work and quite desperately trying to get things sorted out, including but not limited to:
-getting Miss Q settled in school
-not being able to set up WeChat (how is one app used for LITERALLY EVERYTHING), then setting it up and immediately getting punted to WC jail for adding three entire friends
-finally getting SWTOR up and running, though it’s still madly temperamental on this network
-not speaking, y’know, Mandarin (which I am working on, mind you, but the tones are going to kill me)
-work chaos, as usual- always chaos but this time it’s Chaos Minus Budget which is an entirely unfun form of chaos
Never a dull moment. Writing continues apace. Very slowly apace. Sorry. (对不起?)
Rest in peace to a legend
Lived to 97 years old, invented the Jello Shot, Wrote some of the best satire I’ve ever heard.
“If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.” - Tom Lehrer
Listen to Poisoning Pigeons in The Park, Listen to The Elements, Listen to The Masochism Tango. His contributions shall not be forgotten.
It should be noted that, in 1973, Tom Lehrer quit performing because “political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize.”
A fucking gift to the world <3
So sad to hear that he's no longer with us ;-;
RIP to an absolute legend.
My personal favorite:
god I’d forgotten how much DC smells like weed
(no judgment- just the same as I don’t care to breathe cigarette smoke I don’t particularly want a secondhand high when I’m just trying to walk to a shop…)
finally finished the comic based on the post by @rollercoasterwords
7 days to go, here.
Half the house is in boxes (the other half gets packed up today) and despite having spent most of my life moving from place to place it never really gets easier. Certainly less so with both all of the job insecurity happening now in my current line of work - though my being overseas cushions me from that a little- and having to wrangle all the Big Feelings of Miss Q having to leave her friends.
I won’t miss the summers here, at least. Only 42C today. Balmy, really.
IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST
OR ‘PEAKED’
BUT PIQUED
‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’
THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA
THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU
ADDITIONALLY:
YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’
IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.
ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME
‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’
THANK YOU
BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE
BREATH - THE NOUN FORM
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE
WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY
WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)
DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN
WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)
WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING
BAWL- TO SOB/CRY
BALL- A FUCKING BALL
YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT
AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.
THANK YOU.
*slams reblog*
IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.
SLEIGHT - DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’) SLIGHT - VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE
IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.
DISCRETE - SEPARATE, DISTINCT, PARTED
DISCREET - SUBTLE, STEALTHY, DIPLOMATIC
BORN= existing as a result of birth
BORNE= carried or transported by
LIGHTENING = to make something less dark in color or to lessen its weight
LIGHTNING = bright flash of light during electrical storms
{This is quite helpful. Thank you Rebloggers.}
((adm: I just want to add-
Loose- untight
Lose- opposite of winning))
((ALSO: A fun trick - Affect = Action Effect = End Result ))
There = In that place
Their = belonging to them
can’t = a contraction for cannot
cant = a tilt or lean at an angle, usually to accommodate accessibility
Me thinking that this is child’s play and that I know it all already:
Me realising there are some things I didn’t already know:
TO- GOING ONE PLACE TOWARDS ANOTHER
TWO- 2, A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 AND 3
TOO- A DESCRIPTIVE WORD, THE MUSIC IS TOO LOUD, THE SHIRT IS TOO LOOSE.
Trick for telling whether to use “me” or “i”
Drop the other subject(s) and if the sentence makes sense, you’re using the right one.
Examples:
Incorrect- Arthur and me are going to the mall//me am going to the mall -no
Correct- Arthur and i are going to the mall//i am going to the mall
Incorrect- they brought presents for Henry and i//they brought presents for i -no
Correct- they brought presents for Henry and me//they brought presents for me
Rogue - a scoundrel or disreputable person
Rouge - a kind of makeup
IT IS A TENET OF YOUR RELIGION
IT IS NOT A TENANT OF YOUR RELIGION
Vicious- mean
Viscous- sticky
Conscious- awake, mindful
Conscience- Jiminy Cricket
The affect vs effect thing is very useful! Until you learn that you can effect (to cause to occur; bring about; accomplish) an affect (feeling or emotion, OR outward expression of same; yes, this is two nouns!) because English is a garbage fire.
UNCONSCIOUS: NOT AWAKE
SUBCONSCIOUS: NOT AWARE
You do not make a decision unconsciously, it’s SUBCONSCIOUSLY.
If you wanna say someone made a decision without realizing, you use SUBCONSCIOUS.
If you wanna say you made a decision while sleeping (how??) you use UNCONSCIOUS
So many writers don’t know this and it drives me nuts
You do not make a
decision unconsciously,
it’s SUBCONSCIOUSLY.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
IT’S — CONTRACTION FORM OF “IT IS”
It’s perfectly fine. Don’t claim it’s something it’s not.
ITS — POSSESSIVE FORM OF AN OBJECT
Its color was faintly blue. That wasn’t in its nature.
guys you have no clue how much i needed this
REIN: the straps attached to a horse’s bit that a rider uses to control and direct the animal
REIGN: the action of a monarch ruling
So you’ve given someone “free rein” when they get to do whatever they want, because you’ve let go of the reins and are no longer providing direction. That person may then use the free rein to start a reign, but they do not have “free reign”.
And another one:
Canon: a sanctioned or accepted group or body of related works (“I know it’s not game canon, but…”)
Cannon:
I love when a meme gets so many steps away from its source material that it would be completely incomprehensible if I didn't know what today's date was
Edge of the World/Tuwaiq mountains (Saudi Arabia)
(Yes, it’s as high as it looks. About 1km down…)
(There’s the “edge.” See the little stone point at the far end?)
(One obligatory shot of your intrepid photographer.)
