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bluapapilio

Using my TV Show PTW boardgame.

I somehow managed to watch 5/5 from my last challenge. Hoo boy this is my first TV show challenge using the new trakt update, let's see how this goes... Urgh the links are weird.

Avatar: Dark/Thriller
Skill: Cover two promtps with one show

Roll #1

A 6, horror element - Hell Motel,

Roll #2

Another 6, prompt: highest rated on PTW - it's Over the Garden Wall, something I've been meaning to watch for ages but keep hesitating for some reason.

Roll #3

An 8, prompt: favorite genre using skill to cover Over the Garden Wall.

Roll #4

Another 8, prompt: longest runtime - (1978) Hercule Poirots.

Roll #5

A 7, prompt: LGBTQ+ - The Owl House.

Roll #6

A 4 and the end. Reward...let's do She-ra and the Princesses of Power.

TV Show PTW List:

[Horror/Thriller] Hell Motel
[Animation/Fantasy] Over the Garden Wall
[Mystery/Crime] 1978 Hercule Poirot
[Animation/Fantasy] The Owl House
[Animation/Fantasy] She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

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lannamichaels

Can the person who keeps putting in AO3 password reset requests for me please knock it off?

They did this last year too but at least that was only a bunch in one day, these keep happening.

Ughhhh.

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china_shop

I was telling my sister how the Chinese for "New Zealander" is:

新 = Chinese for "new"
西兰 = transliteration of "Zealand"
人 = Chinese for "person"

She pointed out the same is true in French:

Nouvelle = French for "new"
Zéland = transliteration
-aise = suffix for "person from"

In Korean, the "New" part of "New Zealander" is included in the transliteration, and the "er" becomes "인" (person from): 뉴질랜드인

This is all especially entertaining since our "Zealand" is an anglicisation of "Zeeland", which itself, according to wikipedia, 'consists of a number of islands and peninsulas (hence its name, meaning "Sealand")'. Transliterations of transliterations of transliterations!

Anyway, now I'm curious about "New Zealander" in other languages. If you speak another language, how much of the term is translated and how much transliterated?

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部首
艹 part 6
苹, as in 苹果, apple; 范, pattern; 茄, eggplant ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=140

语法
4.4 part 2 由, starting from (a place)
https://www.digmandarin.com/hsk-4-grammar

词汇
猜, to guess (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/

Guardian:
我示范给你看, I'll show you an example
[no 由 of this kind that I can find]
如果我没猜错的话, unless I miss my guess

Me:
为晚饭我做给你麻婆茄子。
由龙城坐火车到这儿不到一个小时。

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maevedarcy. I changed it a little to suit myself, so maybe take the code from over there. Answers are not deeply considered, and are open to review.

The Characters: Superlatives
Rules: Choose one piece of media (book, tv show, movie, video game, whatever), then answer the questions.

I choose... Guardian

The questions:
Most likely to be unemployed: Sang Zan (if the SID didn't exist) or Da Qing
Most likely to do drugs at work: Wang Zheng
Most likely to get caught breaking the law: I'd say Lin Jing, except that he didn't get caught sneaking around for ages; Changcheng wouldn't break the law (except under orders); Zhao Yunlan, Chu Shuzhi, Da Qing, Wang Zheng and Sang Zan wouldn't get caught; Shen Wei kind of is the law. By process of elimination, that leaves Zhu Hong, but I'm not super convinced.
Most likely to do crime and escape unscathed: Da Qing, especially if the crime involved food, or Chu Shuzhi
Most likely to commit arson: Ye Huo (cheaty answer); Zhu Hong with the power of her fierce glare
Most likely to get scammed: Guo Changcheng
Most likely to lose their cool in an emergency: Guo Changcheng
Most likely to have a threesome: three-way tie between Lin Jing, Wang Zheng, and pre-Shen Wei Zhao Yunlan (but not with each other)
Most likely to sleep with their ex: Wang Zheng
Most likely to forget someone's name during sex: pre-Shen Wei Zhao Yunlan
Most likely to lie to their friends about something they did: three-way tie between Zhao Yunlan, Lin Jing, Shen Wei
Most likely to have a one-night stand: It's easier to list those who wouldn't: Shen Wei, Guo Changcheng, Da Qing
Most likely to get caught having sex in public: Zhao Yunlan
Most likely to marry someone they just met: contemporary Zhao Yunlan, YOHE Shen Wei
Most likely to fake their own death: Zhao Yunlan
Most likely to forget the name of a person they hooked up with: pre-Shen Wei Zhao Yunlan
Most likely to make a sex tape: Lin Jing (for science!)
Most likely to join the Mile-High Club: Zhao Yunlan or Lin Jing
Most likely to bring up astrology to explain literally everything: Wang Zheng
Most likely to have a crush on three people at the same time: Lin Jing
Most likely to win at trivia: Lin Jing
Most likely to know zero memes: Shen Wei
Most likely to start a band just for the aesthetic: Zhu Hong
Most likely to flirt their way out of trouble: Zhao Yunlan
Most likely to end up in a news headline: any and all of them
Most likely to open a PowerPoint presentation about why they deserve the last slice of pizza: Lin Jing (I was going to say Da Qing, but he would consider the ppt beneath him, and just take the pizza as his right.)

yourlibrarian

1) I find the results of this research on people finding medical information to be sad but unsurprising. "Certain groups are particularly likely to say they get health and wellness information from influencers, including adults under 50; Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans; and those without health insurance."

The thing is though, the topics revealed in the study have very little to do with health and medicine and a lot more to do with appearance and weight (plastic surgeons are influencers!) This makes sense, both because women outnumber men as both influencers and viewers, and also because this area of "health" is particularly apt to be a source of revenue for influencers, whether trolling for clients or selling people stuff they think will help them. The number of people who even claim a medical background or auxiliary medical training are outnumbered by people who don't.

2) I mentioned in my last post watching the Roku Soccer Comes to America documentary. Although not that enlightening to somebody who lived through virtually all of it, two things were singled out as being critical to truly establishing the sport which I hadn't thought about. I found it an interesting coincidence that Ted Turner should die at the same time I was seeing it. ( Read more... )

3) Saw all of S2 of Percy Jackson and I think I enjoyed it more than S1. ( Read more... )

4) Daredevil's second season is more of a favorite for me than the 1st. ( Read more... )

5) I speed watched High Country. ( Read more... )

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anneapocalypse

These are just my initial reactions, and my opinions on things could change in the future.

Spoilers, obviously, and I will be talking about things revealed about 8.0 at Fanfest as well.

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luzula

It's been insanely busy around here, mostly of course for E, who is setting up his market garden, but also for me, since I have consequently been taking most of the responsibility for the household vegetable beds. Have some photos!

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ysabetwordsmith

The Trump administration is removing bison herds from public land in Montana

The Trump administration is ordering the removal of hundreds of bison from BLM land in Montana, reversing a 2022 authorization that allowed the nonprofit American Prairie to graze its herds. The bison were allowed to graze on federal land by multiple administrations, including President Donald Trump’s first administration, which faced opposition from some ranchers who preferred the land be used to graze cattle. In a Notice of Proposed Decision issued in January, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum stated that American Prairie’s bison should be managed as wildlife rather than “production-oriented” livestock, making them ineligible for grazing permits under the Taylor Grazing Act.

The hell of it is that buffalo should be recognized as wildlife and thus free to go where they please, just like elk and deer and everything else. But they're not. Every buffalo in America is owned by someone, restricted to land they control, forced to put up with some amount of human interference, and subject to being killed should they stray. That's a problem. It would be bad for any species, but it's especially bad for a keystone species that is urgently needed to fix the human fuckups affecting the Great Plains. >_<

Just in case you hadn't noticed, America is headed for another Dustbowl, and this is one of several reasons why.

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petra

There are a thousand spots to sit at home:
Upon the couch, on laundry, not just laps.
But just as all the old roads lead to Rome,
The cat returns to sit on me. Perhaps
She smells the cortisol of stress, and knows
That I'm inclined to stroke her velvet fur --
Once void-black, now specked galaxy, it flows
Softer than kitten fluff. And so she purrs,
Then settles with her head upon my wrist
And tush on laptop keys, immune to shame.
Despite spring air, my little cat finds bliss
In cuddling up and acting nearly tame.
Nine pounds of feline is enough to pin
Me to the couch, and so her reign begins.

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elisi

Happy Birthday Sir David Attenborough! Congratulations on the century. 👑

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the_shoshanna

Sea kayaking!

Today we had an early breakfast, because we had to walk out the door at 8:40 to catch a bus to the place where our kayak tour would launch. The earliest option for breakfast at this small guesthouse is 8, which is what we'd requested, but we went into the breakfast room at 7:40, since the muesli and fruit and such were already out, and she'd said we could take milk from the fridge if we were making coffee or tea with the kettle and supplies in our room, so we figured the same would apply to taking it for an early muesli breakfast. She came in about ten minutes later and when we said we didn't need a cooked breakfast today, given our time limitations, she was having none of it! She pressed us ("You have to eat!") until I said I'd have one egg -- yesterday we had two each, plus baked beans and tomato and basically the full English™️ -- whereupon she brought out two eggs for each of us, plus toast, slices of cheese (Geoff's not a big fan of cheese and I didn't eat the cheddar because this was getting to be a lot of food! but I admit I delightedly chowed down on the Wensleydale with cranberries, mmmmmm), and sliced tomato and cucumber, not to mention trying to give us beans as well, but that we did manage to fend off. She's very enthusiastic!

Even so, we did manage to get out in good time, and walked down to the center of town to catch a bus to a stop called Ouaisne Junction, and if you think we had the slightest idea how to pronounce that, you're mad. We'd asked our host (who is from Latvia) and she took a guess as more or less "wash-neh," but when we showed the written word to the bus driver he pronounced it basically "way-nay" or "way-neh," so that's what we're going with.

Anyway, here on Jersey the buses only stop at a stop if a stop is requested, if someone on board presses the signal that they want to get off there or if someone is waiting there to get on; otherwise they just blow past it. Nor are the stops announced. So you can't just figure you want the ninth stop and count, and you can't always see the stop name as you blow by, and of course we have no idea what our stop looks like. Fortunately the local bus app can track you along a bus route map that shows the stops; it's supposedly also showing live tracking of the bus, but the "live" tracking is often a minute or two outdated, so our little location dot was often a stop or two ahead of the bus icon 😂. Still, I was able to track us and know when to signal that we wanted the next stop. Yet another way in which travel without a phone and a data plan just isn't really feasible any more...

We walked ten minutes from the bus stop down a country road to a lovely beach, and the van from the kayak company, towing a giant rack of kayaks, passed us on the way. We got there and meet up with our guide Derek, who was indeed the husband of Trudie who was our guide yesterday; we were already in bathing suits under our clothes, so we stripped down and got fitted with sleeveless wetsuits and windbreaker jackets and floatation vests and also helmets juuuuuust in case we dumped a kayak and landed headfirst on a rock, and put on the water shoes we'd brought from home (which we wear for lake kayaking there). There were supposed to be three other people on this morning's tour, but their ferry had been delayed, so it was just me and Geoff. And then we launched! The water was cool when we waded in to launch, I wouldn't have wanted to go swimming, but with the wetsuits and jackets -- and exertion -- we were perfectly comfortable.

We spent a good two hours paddling along the coast, with almost constant (and fascinating) narration from Derek. He pointed out Nazi fortifications (including what we'd thought was a seawall along the edge of our launch beach, but nope, it was an anti-tank barricade) and caves that were inhabited by Neanderthals for thousands of years, and different kinds of seabirds (many of which are experiencing population crashes) and geological features and formations, and told us lots of stories about life and resistance during the Occupation (which his mother lived through). The wind and water were active but not too strong or choppy; paddling was quite manageable even for us lake-kayaking amateurs.

Exxxxxxxcept when Geoff didn't see a barely submerged rock in front of him, bumped it, momentarily grounded his kayak, and then tipped and dumped it and himself trying to get unstuck! But Derek had walked us through how to get back in before we even put the kayaks in the water -- these were sit-on kayaks, so they didn't fill up with water or anything -- and he paddled over, righted the kayak, and steadied it for Geoff to hoist himself back into (onto) it, while I hovered a safe distance away. Geoff was drenched, of course, but not even bruised, and the helmet was not needed, and it was warm and sunny enough that he didn't get chilled or anything, and mostly dried off pretty quickly.

After two hours we returned to our launch point, stripped out of all our borrowed gear, and said goodbye to Derek with many thanks; both this and yesterday's walk were great experiences, well worth their cost, and we plan to leave some glowing Tripadvisor reviews. The beach had perfectly acceptable public toilets, which I ducked into to change out of my swimsuit into the bra and underwear I'd brought with me, a bathing suit not being particularly comfortable as everyday walking clothing; Geoff's suit, of course, functioned fine as walking shorts. Derek had told us the pub next to the beach had excellent beer, but we wanted food more and also, having had a very pricy though tasty dinner last night, didn't want to pay their prices, so instead we got a couple of sandwiches from the beach-shack cafe, plus a few handfuls of the trail mix we hit a grocery the other day to put together, and that did the trick just fine. Geoff had filled a water bottle at the guesthouse this morning, but unfortunately I really dislike the taste of the tap water there, so I only had a swallow.

Then we walked along the long wide sweeping curve of the beach in the opposite direction from where we'd kayaked; we'd gone south and east around a point, and now we walked north and west, passing a variety of people enjoying the beach, a group gathered and getting ready around a rack of canoes whose towing van identified them as Healing Waves Ocean Therapy, pretty cool! and also a number of waterfront hotels, one of which Geoff just looked up as I'm typing this and informed me costs about $400 a night, jeepers.

We ended up at St Brelade's Parish Church, which had a beautiful stone ceiling inside, and very warm and welcoming flyers and info posted, and also a vast and fascinating graveyard around it, with stones as old as [illegible] and as recent as last year. There was also an older side chapel building with partially preserved paintings on the ceiling that the posted info said dated from 1375 and 1425, mostly too faint to fully appreciate but including a beautiful and well-preserved (or perhaps well-restored?) Annunciation.

By that time we were pretty wiped, so we walked up to the main road and waited only ten minutes or so for a bus back into the center of St Helier, the capital, where we're staying. No need to paranoically track our progress when we're taking it to the end of the line! We wandered homeward through a big shopping area, and I seized the opportunity to check the backpack options at the local outdoors supply store, but my ideal unicorn backpack remains sadly mythical. We weren't terribly hungry, but stopped at the same nearby cafe we went to before, where we split a really good teriyaki salmon bowl, and Geoff got a pint of a draft beer he'd liked the other day and I tried a bottle from what Derek had told us is now the only craft brewery still operating on the island. The brewery is unappetizingly called Stinky Bay, but the IPA I got of theirs was delicious.

Then we staggered home at about five-thirty, showered (unfortunately both the water pressure and the hot water supply could be better here, but it's a functional shower and that's what we needed), and started writing up the day. And here we are!

If you're enjoying my trip blog, you might also enjoy Geoff's, which is at https://geoff-hart.com/fiction/Channel-Islands-2026/index.html -- he sets up the outline in advance, so click each day that has actually happened to see his writeup. Eventually he'll probably post some pictures, which I won't be doing (except maybe after we get home); I'm the logistics officer of our trips, but he's the photographer.

Tomorrow is Liberation Day! Our plan is just to head into the center of town after breakfast and try to find a place from which we can watch the ceremonies and reenactments, and then hopefully there will be festivities and whatnot. Also hopefully it won't rain much; today's weather was spectacular but it's not going to last.

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