The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Ninety years after her grandmother's family was stalked by a witch, international student Minerva Contrera's studies land her in a similar position.
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Interesting Links for 04-07-2025
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- 1. Five baby beavers born at Cairngorms National Park in Scottish Highlands spotted for first time
- (tags:beavers Scotland video )
- 2. Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications
- (tags:globalwarming ocean doom )
- 3. Deafness reversed: Single injection brings hearing back within weeks | ScienceDaily
- (tags:hearing deafness genetics )
- 4. High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-To-Speech Translation
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- 5. Ita O'Brien: Up close and professional with the world's leading intimacy coordinator
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- 6. Trump seems to have decided that America should be more like Rome
- (tags:usa fighting republicans EpicWTF )
- 7. The perfect, but slow, way to boil an egg - according to science
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Photo cross-post
2025-Jul-04, Friday 02:49![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Got halfway to the bus stop to go to the pool and realised I didn't
have my shoulder bag. Sprinted home, got it, and made it to the bus.
Got off the bus at the other end, realised Sophia's bag didn't have her swimming costume in it. Got a bus home, grabbed it, now in a taxi.
Fingers crossed that nothing else comes between me and drop-off and work!
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Every time I run something
2025-Jul-03, Thursday 22:34![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
OK, except it turns out I can't tell blue from green under the ceiling light in the room where I DM and the names on the labels need to be bigger.
Blight (Sleep of Reason, volume 2) by Rachel A. Rosen
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Director of the nation formerly known as Canada Quinn Atherton is determined to deliver much mass murder as it takes to achieve peace, order, good government. Why do so many ingrates object?
Blight(Sleep of Reason, volume 2) by Rachel A. Rosen
Tedious and tired
2025-Jul-03, Thursday 13:38![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Making dinner was so hard I couldn't eat dinner. I just laid on my bed and couldn't talk or think properly at all.
It was scary because it meant that the problem wasn't contained in the immediate aftermath of counseling or whatever (not that I really expected it to be, given that I'd actually spent most of the session talking about how I was surprised not to be triggered by something that very reasonably could have been expected to leave me feeling really bad). And it was miserable.
I ended up sleeping for three or four hours and woke up because I needed to pee and D came to bed about that time. He thought I was asleep because I didn't move or talk. Until I had to get up for the bathroom and then after I came back to bed I was sobbing and we talked a little.
The conversation was good and useful. We came up with some plans. I know D has been struggling with poor sleep and I wouldn't have done this after midnight if I'd had much choice about it. But I did feel much better afterwards.
Today has started normally. But then so did yesterday (I was relieved when I could open the curtains and do chores while feeling okay), so who kmows.
Interesting Links for 03-07-2025
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- 1. Lemkin Institute Anti-genocide group issues 'red flag' to UK over transgender rights
- (tags:lgbt transgender UK rights OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- 2. The UK has an extremely low rate of homes per person
- (tags:UK housing doom )
- 3. Israel limits entry of baby formula in Gaza as infants die of hunger
- (tags:Israel babies murder Hunger genocide gaza Palestine )
- 4. Poor internet and offices partly to blame for length of Edinburgh Tram Inquiry
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- 5. TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3
- (tags:ai racism videos socialmedia )
My alt-Mummy film
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Imagine an Egyptian film company wanting to make a movie about idiots waking a horror in Canada that only the Egyptian lead can resolve.
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Bundle of Holding: The Dark Eye MEGA (from 2023)
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The June 2023 Dark Eye Megabundle featuring the English-language edition from Ulisses Spiele of the leading German tabletop roleplaying game of heroic fantasy, The Dark Eye.
Bundle of Holding: The Dark Eye MEGA (from 2023)
Touring After the Apocalypse, volume 5 by Sakae Saito
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Youko and Airi meet a new friend and encounter Chekov's Volcano.
Touring After the Apocalypse, volume 5 by Sakae Saito
Interesting Links for 02-07-2025
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- 1. How Common is Multiple Invention?
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- 2. The death of business attire? Just 7% of workers wear a suit to work
- (tags:clothing work UK )
- 3. FOI Exposes EHRC Anti-Trans Bias: Private Meetings, Legal Echoes, and Policy Capture
- (tags:rights UK bigotry OhForFucksSake corruption )
NATG XV Double Overtime: Elbows Up
2025-Jul-01, Tuesday 22:56![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

The only drawing that I hadn't coloured in this NATG was the first one, the "pony standing" one. Since the "makeup day" prompt is for late submissions and today is Canada day, I figured I'd slap on the red and white. Thus the white maned red pony, giving me a white field on red. Like the Canadian flag.
I used white paint for the mane but it doesn't really show. I tested white pastel on the upper edge of the mane and that doesn't show either. As for the leaves, they're quick and dirty "maple" leaves, filled in with glitter paint (handmade by Karen in the UK). It's late, I work tomorrow.
2025 CSFFA Hall of Fame Inductees
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CSFFA (The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association) is proud to announce the 2025 CSFFA Hall of Fame inductees.
Clint Budd, fan, convention organizer, modernized CSFFA and created the CSFFA Hall of Fame
Charles R. Saunders, author, journalist, and founder of the “sword and soul” literary genre
Diane L. Walton, editor, mentor, and a founding member of On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic
More information here.
Congratulations to the Inductees!
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax
2025-Jul-01, Tuesday 21:02![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I could barely do the morning chores I usually feel neutral-to-positive about this morning -- I open the curtains, unload the dishwasher, make a pot of tea, get breakfast for myself... Things that are always the same and always different. It can be very grounding.
Today I wasn't especially tired and I wasn't in pain or anything, I just didn't want to. I couldn't imagine doing the first tiniest step.
This is a sign of burnout. I need a break. I was telling my counselor this evening that a break for me has to be somewhere away from my house, because my house is full of reminders of chores I need to do, things that get on my nerves, etc. I am not good at relaxing, but when I can do it it doesn't tend to happen at home.
I did an okay amount of work today but near the end of the day I was in this focus group about "inclusion" in our workplace. These things can be kinda therapeutic but by the end I was thinking that we keep having surveys and stuff like this, where we tell some nice external person all our woes and we're assured that the feedback is anonymized into themes that cannot identify us, but all that means is our specific nuanced articulations all get flattened in to "we all have good colleagues who care about their work but the executive team keep letting us down," and we're going to get the same kind of response from said executive team about how impressed they are at everyone's honesty and how committed they are to addressing these themes, and then we'll do this all over again in a year or two.
I felt really tired by the end of it, which wasn't great because it was almost time for my first counseling session in almost a month. A real "let me explain, no there is too much let me sum up" kind of situation.
My counseling happens on the phone and usually in my bedroom; I normally come right back downstairs in search of dinner, but this time I just lay on my bed for something ridiculous like an hour. I kept trying to get up and go back downstairs but again: so many steps. And it was relatively peaceful just lying there.
Since I had to come downstairs and try to eat dinner I'm feeling more depersonalization, so maybe all of this has been more stressful or triggery than I realized. I hate feeling like this; is probably the most uncomfortable symptom of my anxiety/depression.
Photo cross-post
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"Sophia, will you pose with your brother for a photo?"
"I will, but I'm very angry about it!"
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