Wednesday @ 5:33 pm
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alisxHAIRDRESER: And we should be able to get some good volume in here without going the full 80s frizz.
ME: (deadass wearing That Cure Shirt) . . . uuuuh.
alisx
Wednesday @ 5:18 pm
Jul. 9th, 2025 05:18 pmalisxTo give an indication of how prevalent this myth is, I know someone who was literally taught it as part of the MBA they did at Harvard.
Wednesday @ 10:19 am
Jul. 9th, 2025 10:19 amalisxFor what it’s worth, website owners can already (sort of) see a version of this, because every time a link to your site gets posted to a Mastodon server, it gets hit by the bot that creates the preview cards. This bot clearly identifies which server it originates from in its user agent string. Which is good behavior!
Sending explicit referrers makes this information a bit more visible (and more linked to click-through metrics), but on the privacy angle, it’s not something that was particularly secret before.
Fallout New Vegas: Capgras Syndrome
Jul. 8th, 2025 11:56 amlaridianCapgras Syndrome (924 words) by laridian
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fallout: New Vegas
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Courier (Fallout: New Vegas), Arcade Gannon, Craig Boone, Veronica Santangelo, Rose of Sharon Cassidy
Additional Tags: The Enclave (Fallout), Alternate Universe - Shapeshifters
Summary:
The Courier and companions tell scary stories around the campfire; Arcade is there to point out how they couldn't be real.
Entry for 2025 AU Roulette, prompt "Shapeshifters".BAD MEME, chapter 18.
Jul. 8th, 2025 02:23 pmalisx
Eighteen
Roxanne Lee, more recently known as the Tooth Girl, didn’t know where she was running to. Only what she was running from.
I’m sorry, Roxx. Just trust me, Bri had said. Or, rather, the girl Roxx had always thought of as Brianna Tran had said it. But standing there, in gloom of the church, Roxx had had to admit she wasn’t sure who her friend was. Not any more.
She’d been . . . dulled, somehow, Bri had. Roxx didn’t know how to explain it another way, didn’t yet know how to work the new senses that’d come along with the . . . the thing inside her. The thing she was. Roxx and the Tooth Girl, forever and ever, amen. And things looked so different now, if she only opened her eyes, opened her maw, and sought to taste it. Emotions with flavor, dreams with texture, fears with scents. One new sense exploding across all the others, described and interpreted in the only way Roxx’s still-human brain could comprehend.
For everyone and everything, that was, except for Brianna Tran. Bri had tasted dusty when she’d walked into the church. Thin, somehow. And the people who’d followed her? Well, they didn’t taste like anything at all.
ack, sorry I forgot to post
Jul. 7th, 2025 06:03 pmunicorndukeHey all, if you'd like to join the crafting hangout, it is tonight from 6-8pm ET!
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It's Not a Typical Animal, Chapter 3
Jul. 7th, 2025 02:10 pmlaridianIt's Not a Typical Animal (2302 words) by laridian
Chapters: 3/9
Fandom: Fallout 76
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Beckett (Fallout 76)
Additional Tags: Art
Series: Part 4 of The Accidental Raider
Summary: When a thrill ride at Nuka-World On Tour goes awry, it awakes a monster from the depths. It goes on a rampage, and it appears nothing can stop it.
Accidental Raider Rowan Dane has something of a "Disney Princess" way with animals. But will that work on an ultracite titan?
This chapter: Things continue to go wrong.
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Jul. 7th, 2025 01:42 pmunicorndukewhen I was working at my previous job, I had been worried I had lost my work ethic, I didn't like working long hours and I didn't really feel motivated or like I was working that hard.
good news is that I was wrong. I do still have a work ethic and can work hard. bad news is that I'm working very hard.
today is technically my day off, we aren't open, we don't have groups out, we don't have workers so we can really be off work. I sprayed weeds in the blueberries all this morning with the backpack sprayer which is sweaty irritating work. I have to walk up and down each row of blueberries on both sides and carefully spot spray each weed (horsenettles were the big one to hit right now, but milkweed, knotweed, bindweed, ground elder are also big). the perennials are hard to get when we're open for customers because of re-entry intervals, so we're closed tomorrow too.
Then I went down to the creek, took some lunch and sat in the water for an hour. read a book. enjoyed the cool
We got a lot of stuff done this past week and had an enjoyable family party where I stayed up until midnight around the campfire chatting with my cousin, my gay cousin, gousin who is a delight and also a soil scientist. good stuff. also got some vegetables planted in extra plastic we laid for squash, so I'm pleased I'll have some stuff. I will plant some more things since there's still another 100 feet open.
I'm spending this afternoon goofing off and doing fun stuff, then groceries first thing tomorrow then back to work work. Thursday night, I have dinner planned with a friend.
Before we get wildly busy with fall stuff, I want to take a trip away, maybe late august when everyone will be getting back to school. I'm thinking somewhere cooler, like the adirondacks or maine or something. maybe see if my sister wants to come along. This needs to be planned between my parents hopefully going somewhere and the open house they're going to have with the event business. As I checked my calendar, it looks like there's an SCA event I wanted to go to late in August, so maybe I'll roll that in somehow. Might be the wrong direction but worth a look.
good news is that I was wrong. I do still have a work ethic and can work hard. bad news is that I'm working very hard.
today is technically my day off, we aren't open, we don't have groups out, we don't have workers so we can really be off work. I sprayed weeds in the blueberries all this morning with the backpack sprayer which is sweaty irritating work. I have to walk up and down each row of blueberries on both sides and carefully spot spray each weed (horsenettles were the big one to hit right now, but milkweed, knotweed, bindweed, ground elder are also big). the perennials are hard to get when we're open for customers because of re-entry intervals, so we're closed tomorrow too.
Then I went down to the creek, took some lunch and sat in the water for an hour. read a book. enjoyed the cool
We got a lot of stuff done this past week and had an enjoyable family party where I stayed up until midnight around the campfire chatting with my cousin, my gay cousin, gousin who is a delight and also a soil scientist. good stuff. also got some vegetables planted in extra plastic we laid for squash, so I'm pleased I'll have some stuff. I will plant some more things since there's still another 100 feet open.
I'm spending this afternoon goofing off and doing fun stuff, then groceries first thing tomorrow then back to work work. Thursday night, I have dinner planned with a friend.
Before we get wildly busy with fall stuff, I want to take a trip away, maybe late august when everyone will be getting back to school. I'm thinking somewhere cooler, like the adirondacks or maine or something. maybe see if my sister wants to come along. This needs to be planned between my parents hopefully going somewhere and the open house they're going to have with the event business. As I checked my calendar, it looks like there's an SCA event I wanted to go to late in August, so maybe I'll roll that in somehow. Might be the wrong direction but worth a look.
Tiny home(pages).
Jul. 7th, 2025 12:00 pmalisxA cute little that makes me vaguely nostalgic for the days when I ran this blog on a CMS I’d written myself . . .
Sunday @ 11:59 am
Jul. 6th, 2025 11:59 amalisxCleaning up my blog and re-rediscovering this old post, because lol.
From memory, these are from Aurelio Voltaire’s What Is Goth?, but I think what’s most interesting looking at these twenty years later is that they represent a variety of goth looks that . . . wouldn’t necessarily read as goth to The Youth nowadays? Hm.
(Something something tradgoth discourse something something???)
It's Not a Typical Animal, Chapter 2
Jul. 3rd, 2025 09:25 amlaridianIt's Not a Typical Animal (1537 words) by laridian
Chapters: 2/9
Fandom: Fallout 76
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Beckett (Fallout 76)
Additional Tags: Art
Series: Part 4 of The Accidental Raider
Summary: When a thrill ride at Nuka-World On Tour goes awry, it awakes a monster from the depths. It goes on a rampage, and it appears nothing can stop it.
Accidental Raider Rowan Dane has something of a "Disney Princess" way with animals. But will that work on an ultracite titan?
Saturday @ 8:08 pm
Jul. 5th, 2025 08:08 pmalisxApparently while procrastinating studying for her Korean exam, Mum got super into a cdrama about an esports team, and now she wants to know all about MOBAs. Adorable.
Wednesday @ 8:43 pm
Jul. 2nd, 2025 08:43 pmalisxmildly nsfw video game content
Playing Interdimensional Vending Machine and . . . this is the first thing you give me, game? Really?
Finished reading: Heaven Official’s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 8
Jul. 5th, 2025 11:24 amalisxAa-aa-aa-and done!
So I like Hualian better than the main pairings in SVSSS or MDZS (no shade on either, mostly just a personal preference thing), but the story itself I think suffered from being unfocused in places and with, honestly, a pretty disappointing villain reveal.
Still a fun read, and with some parts that will live rent free with me forever.
Friday @ 9:57 am
Jul. 4th, 2025 09:57 amalisxThey turned the water off in the building this morning for maintenance reasons and oh gods I just want to brush my teeeeeeeeeeeeeth . . .
Friday @ 9:38 am
Jul. 4th, 2025 09:38 amalisxI’ve pretty hard-blocked almost all bots from my sites over the last year or so and, yeah. This is why.
Fuck AI, basically.
The shame.
Jul. 3rd, 2025 02:25 pmalisxWhy do we tolerate it? Because if you can’t fight it, you normalize it. That way, you don’t kill yourself from the shame of not fixing it. People much smarter than me have been writing about this for centuries. Artists, real artists, the kind that bleed themselves into their work compulsively, with disastrous consequences to their health and legacy, have only ever had this as their message. We are divided between lions and Cassandras. One side will win. The other side was right.
Film Freak Centrals reviews the .