etymology of the day

Aug. 12th, 2025 10:05 pm
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Arancini. The small balls of risotto coated in breadcrumbs and then deep fried.

*Little oranges*.

This is not in any way an obscure or difficult to look up etymology, and yet somehow it was not until yesterday, on the tube, that I suddenly needed to look up from the book I was reading and *stare*.

(Earlier this week -- no, wait, late last week -- I was indexing a cookbook that included arancini. This week I am reading *The Land Where Lemons Grow*, because it's mostly a history of citrus cultivation in Italy with occasional recipes, so I wanted to read it Properly before indexing it and getting rid of it again. Apparently what it took for me to Have A Realisation was the combination in temporal proximity...)

Lectures de juillet

Aug. 12th, 2025 09:19 pm
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Je suis super-en retard pour diverses raisons !

Thistlefoot, GennaRose Nethercott ) 9/10

Légendes fantastiques charentaises et gabayes, Eric Nowak ) 7/10

Au bord du précipice et autres nouvelles, Richard Matheson ) 6/10

Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon ) 7/10

D'obsidienne et de sang, Aliette de Bodard ) 7/10


Progression : 65/52
"Risques de lecture" : Thistlefoot, Sorrowland, D'obsidienne et de sang -> 29/26
Reddit fantasy bingo : 20/25

Four recent fics (Guardian, various)

Aug. 12th, 2025 07:38 pm
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Three flashfics for [community profile] fan_flashworks, plus another instalment of my Chu Shuzhi/Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan post-canon 'verse.

Title: Behind another face (100 words) [General Audiences]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Relationships: Zhang Shi & Shen Xi, Shen Xi/Zhao Xinci
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Complicated Relationships, Sharing a Body, Secrets, Drabble, Face challenge
Summary:

Zhang Shi meets Shen Xi.


Title: Take back the world (1288 words) [Teen and Up]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Wang Yike/Zhang Ruonan
Additional Tags: Reference to canon rape, Aftermath of canon rape, Pre-Canon, Upsetting Dixing powers, Revenge challenge
Summary:

One day, everything falls apart.


Title: two are halves of one (851 words) [Teen and Up]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Episode Related, Episode 22 after the blindness arc, First Kiss (for one of them), Crowd challenge
Summary:

A deep twist of desire makes Zhao Yunlan laugh. "After this—” He circles his chopsticks over the meal and has to clear his throat to keep his voice light. “Shen Wei, I think you should give me a thorough health check.”


Title: life in the silver lining (2732 words) [Teen and Up]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Relationships: Chu Shuzhi/Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Complicated Relationships, The emotional implications of the existence of time travel, intimacy is hard, rated for themes
Series: Part 4 of Breakage and Repair 'verse (CSZ/SW/ZYL)
Summary:

“You’ve time-travelled before.” Shuzhi’s voice was low and raw. “What if the next time you go to Dixing, the Hallows open a portal to the past? Would you go and stop Ye Zun, and put everything back how it’s supposed to be?”

(Follows on from Raw Nerves, Old Scars.)

My latest Guardian fanworks

Aug. 11th, 2025 05:30 pm
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2 drama Weilan fics, 1 novel drawing, 1 Zhubai drawing. :)

Sweet Surrender (1621 words) by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Shen Wei (Guardian), Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Lollipops, inappropriate use of a lollipop, Food Sex, food insertion, Object Insertion, Anal Play, Nipple Licking, a lot of licking in general, Established Relationship, The Author Regrets Nothing
Summary: Lollipop, inappropriate use of.

Poems on Your Skin (1940 words) by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Shen Wei (Guardian), Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Ye Olde Haixing Era, Writing on Skin, Body Calligraphy, Dixing Culture & Customs (Guardian), First Kiss, First Time, Frottage, Coming In Pants, Porn with Feelings, Guardian Bingo
Series: Part 8 of Guardian Bingo 2025, Part 5 of All the different first times for YOHE Weilan
Summary: Zhao Yunlan helps Shen Wei with a ritual.

Fading by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian - priest
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen San/Shen Wei (Guardian)
Characters: Shen San (Guardian), Shen Wei (Guardian)
Additional Tags: Illness, Bedside Vigils, Fanart, Drawing
Summary: Wei watches Shen San sleep.

I [Heart] You by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, Chinese Actor RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong
Characters: Bai Yu (Actor), Zhu Yilong
Additional Tags: video call, Fluff, finger hearts, Guardian Bingo, Fanart, Drawing
Series: Part 7 of Guardian Bingo 2025
Summary: Daily video call.

vital functions

Aug. 10th, 2025 10:43 pm
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Reading. Allie Brosh, Jeannie Di Bon, Helena Attlee, Louis MacNeice, friends misc. )

... and several of the magazines that have been sat around causing Guilt and a sense of Obligation, subsequent to which I have happily recycled them. Favourite fact from the three so far: Garden Organic/the Heritage Seed Library are trialling using tuning forks to pollinate their tomato crops! ( Facebook | Instagram )

Bonus: sifting through a pile of notebooks etc to try to work out who the hell they belong to, mostly salvaged from the pile that was due to go out to event-freecycle on the basis that SURELY I could do something useful with them if, you know, I sat down with them at a time that wasn't in a field under Significant time pressure while Very tired. And I could! One and a half remain unidentified (I say "half" because We're Working On It).

Writing. A lot of lost property e-mails.

Cooking. One new recipe from East: paneer, spinach and tomato salad, accompanied by the herbed naan from the Leiths How to Cook Bread book (this is probably on my To Cook Through list). I was into this!

Also vaghareli makai ("spiced Indian corn") by way of David Lebovitz, and a slightly underwhelming lemony fennel and broccoli pasta (significantly improved by the addition of pine nuts).

Eating. STRAWBERRIES. Blackberries. Local plums are starting to be ripe!

Exploring. Poked around the green belt a bit to see how the plums were doing! And I think that's most of it?

A very brief poke around the entrance to the Pimp Hall Nature Reserve following a successful drop-off of Objects to the adjacent Household Waste Recycling Centre; tragically the signs on the gates claimed that they'd be locked at 4 p.m., which we had not quite anticipated, and we only reached them at 3.58. Next time, perhaps!

Creating. Hmm. Does sitting around knolling for the purposes of the big lost property post count? I think it probably does; certainly while the photos still aren't good (am I contemplating a lightbox and a tripod of some kind of this specific terrible hobby? to my slight horror, I kind of am...) the arrangements are getting much easier to parse visually, I discovered upon going back through a bunch of them, which I am pleased about.

Growing. Found a surprise pocketful of dried Sugar Magnolia pods, so I am definitely in the black when it comes to number of seeds for next year, which is a pleasant surprise!

Upcoming media things!

Aug. 10th, 2025 02:49 pm
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Three unrelated things that have been announced recently:
  • K.B. Spangler says that the sixth Rachel Peng novel is coming out in late October!
  • Discotek has announced that they're releasing Monster: The Complete Series, which is very exciting since AFAIK only the first chunk was ever released in a physical edition the first time it was licensed. (I think the whole series is on Netflix, but I want to own a copy.)
  • ANN reports that Minekura-sensei is not only resuming Wild Adapter after a nine-year hiatus but aiming to wrap it up in its eighth volume. If it's actually completed, I imagine that increases the odds of it being re-licensed in English. (I was more attached to Saiyuki, personally, but even though she resumed that last fall [and ANY of this is pretty miraculous, given my vague understanding of her health], I'm not even hoping for anything on that front. If I'm pleasantly surprised, that'll be awesome.)
(Not an announcement, but FYI for fellow Canadians, Z1L's Dongji Rescue has made it to the Cineplex site with the expected August 22nd date. That's...that's next Friday! Less than two weeks! At some point, there should be actual theatres and showtimes! *_*)

Check-In #3

Aug. 10th, 2025 08:31 am
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Hello Wonderful Participants!

Welcome to the final check-in! You can check in via email (pod.together@gmail.com), dreamwidth comment (comments on this post are screened), or with a discord message to klb, shmaylor, minnabird, or rockinhamburger. Please try to check-in within 48 hours. We will send a follow-up email to all those we haven't heard from at that time. If you signed up as a group and did not opt in to check-ins, you obviously aren't required to check-in, but are certainly welcome to if you would like!

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Writers, as long as your podficcer checks in, you’re not required to, but if you’re up for it we’d love to hear about any particular parts of your experience you want to share. The positive will make us smile, and the negative will give us an opportunity to offer help or give us valuable feedback that will help us tweak next year’s challenge to be better!

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This contains major spoilers up to the epilogue, so I'm cut-tagging. Also, I'm not a huge fan of the relationship dynamic in the novel. Please approach with due caution.

Spoilery novel poll )

ETA: Oops, I reworded the "how much has Shen Wei changed?" question and made the scale unclear. /o\ 5 = he has changed completely; 1 = he hasn't changed at all.
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Reading: [personal profile] scruloose and I finished listening to All Systems Red and are now maybe a third of the way into Artificial Condition.

Yesterday I finished The Hands of the Emperor, which I think I read some of every day and still took me something like a week and a half even though I continued to really enjoy it all the way through. (I did find myself wishing that some of the emotional arc with Kip and his family had been shorter; [ROT13] uvf pbzcyvpngrq srryvatf nobhg uvf snzvyl abg ng nyy tenfcvat jub ur jnf be jung ur npghnyyl qvq jrer inyvq, ohg gung jnf n YBG bs cntrf qribgrq gb znal vafgnaprf va n ebj bs ehaavat vagb lrg nabgure crefba jub qvqa'g trg vg naq jnf qvfzvffvir be vafhygvat, be fbzrbar jub QVQ xabj jub ur jnf naq univat na vagrenpgvba, naq va rvgure pnfr gurer jnf gura lrg nabgure yratgul qryvirel bs rkcynangvba, naq vg jnf whfg...n ybg.

After finishing that last night, I completely at random started reading We'll Prescribe You a Cat (Syou Ishida), about which I have no particular feelings at this time.

Eating/baking: fruit, baking, salad (HelloFresh), sadness about still not liking tomatoes )
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Hi, and welcome to this week's installment of the Guardian novel readalong! We're finished with the main text of the novel, but the readalong continues - it's time for the first bonus stories. ♡

Here are last week's chapters, and you can find all previous discussions in the schedule posts (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5), or via the !readalong tag.

This week's chapters:

  • Sage 1: Many SID team shenanigans happen, including but not limited to: They have acquired a Samoyed puppy named Xiaomi who plays with Daqing. They talk about the new office they're moving to, and have some theories why Zhao Yunlan is not at work. No one tells Guo Changcheng that he's the wick, they just confuse him with questions and occasionally pluck his hair to experiment on. Meanwhile, Zhao Yunlan talks to Shennong's mortar about the primordial past and Shen Wei's oath, and explains that some things are meant to be confusing. Shennong's mortar announces that he's leaving Zhao Yunlan's father's body. Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan take a walk together and cause spring flowers to bloom.


  • Sage 2: The SID moves to their new office, which includes a sunny attic and Zhao Yunlan's vegetable garden, among other things. Everyone loves Shen Wei because his arrival means that Zhao Yunlan finally goes home. Lin Jing invents an invisible listening device. Daqing bickers with people, including Shen Wei. Zhao Yunlan falls asleep trying to learn gardening from a boring book, and cuddles with Shen Wei (while also bickering). Guo Changcheng goes on an arranged date with a girl. Chu Shuzhi accompanies him and listens in on their awkward conversation, and then interrupts the date and drags Guo Changcheng away. They start dating, which is revealed to the rest of the SID by Lin Jing's listening device.

The corresponding chapters:
Sage 1 = fan translation Extra 2
Sage 2 = fan translation Extra 3


Excerpts:

1) The SID team speculating about Zhao Yunlan's activities )

2) Shennong's mortar leaves, and Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan make flowers bloom )

3) The new SID office )

4) Daqing 'practices yoga' )

5) Chu Shuzhi interrupts Guo Changcheng's date )


Questions:

Favorite SID shenanigans moment? (Or several - there are so many!) Do you think Xiao-Guo should be told that he's the wick? Do you understand what Zhao Yunlan explained about the primordial gods, or are you also a few thousand years too young? Are Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan consciously making flowers bloom, or is it just what happens when nature gods are happy? What is your favorite thing about the new office? Whose garden idea do you like the best, and why is it (not) the slutty eggplant? Any thoughts about the drama adaptation of these chapters, especially Xiao Guo's date?

You can answer as many or as few questions as you like, or just comment without answering any of them at all! And if you see this post and you're not actually reading the novel, I would love to know what you think about any of this with limited context. :D

And here is the schedule, where you can sign up to host a post. (There are only two weeks left!)

victory of the day

Aug. 8th, 2025 11:58 pm
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Today I have got Somewhat Caught Up on last event's lost property Situation. My GREAT TRIUMPH was, partway through the paperwork, going "... I'm sure that brooch in particular is... Oddly... Familiar..."

-- and indeed upon going back through my records it transpires that I HAD RETURNED IT TO ITS PERSON AT THE FIRST EVENT THIS YEAR.

So my spreadsheet is duly updated and they can have it back again at the last event of the year :)

(Some other victories: cut-price overripe strawberries. More of my mother's birthday cake. Rye and caraway and poppyseed bread. the elderly niter kibbeh in the fridge still being Definitely Food and substantially enlivening dinner. Shitposting in the PD crew Discord. Starting Solutions and Other Problems with A, and the cake, and the strawberries.)

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Aug. 8th, 2025 10:21 am
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Fantastic 4:First Steps

Jews do not dance in this movie. I have seen four Fantastic 4 movies and Ben Grimm does not dance in any of them.

Redactle-related fact of the day

Aug. 7th, 2025 11:53 pm
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I did not, until a few hours ago, know that diesel was named after Rudolf Diesel, "... who invented the Diesel engine, which burns Diesel fuel".

(Some cheerful things, in brief: turns out shimmer inks really do work better when you thoroughly scrub the feed of your fountain pen clean at least occasionally; I am excited about tomorrow's bread; I was Greatly Honoured by the Toddler in a truly toddleresque fashion the details of which I shall not go into; I have finally got my act together to order a copy of the Roti King cookbook; glorious comfort reread of a thing I'd totally forgotten was even available for comfort reread, and for bonus points there are new bits!!!)

Blood over Bright Haven (Wang)

Aug. 6th, 2025 05:39 pm
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3+/5. As this book starts, Sciona Freynan, an extremely talented and driven mage who cares about magic and really nothing else, is going to take the exams to become a Highmage, one of the few elite magicians who is responsible for powering the magic city of Tiran. She's the only girl of her generation to even be asked to take the tests, because she lives in a deeply sexist society, which she knows and hates. Fortunately, she also knows she can ace the exams. However, the sexism of the other mages means that, even as a Highmage, she gets a janitor as a lab assistant, Thomil, who is from an immigrant group called the Kwen that are refugees from a magical Blight that has killed their lands and people; the Kwen are widely regarded to be subhuman. (That is to say, this society is deeply racist as well as deeply sexist!)

I was first recced this book during a conversation I had with someone in RL who said that she felt that Some Desperate Glory was kind of your run-of-the-mill YA dystopia and recommended this one instead. I also read [personal profile] rachelmanija's take on it, which was a helpful counterpoint to my RL convo. I ended up feeling about it maybe in the middle of the two reactions? I did end up liking it, but I also... thought it was much, much more of your run-of-the-mill YA dystopia than SDG.

Now... I have read a fair amount of YA dystopia for various reasons, and some of it can get incredibly and eye-rollingly anvilicious, where the heroine (it's always a heroine) talks like tumblr posts and the villains kick puppies for fun. This was actually in some sense not that way on the surface, in the sense that Sciona is herself reasonably realistically racist, and there is at least one of the Highmages who is presented as a reasonably nice and not-as-sexist person. However, by the end there is a sufficient divide between the Kwen (who are basically perfect) and Sciona (who is flawed) and pretty much everyone else (super racist) that I was feeling somewhat anvil-icized, even though at the same time I do think that it was much better on this front than the average YA dystopia.

There is a plot twist in the middle which I did not guess (although I did feel rather like I should have, and perhaps would have if I'd really sat down and thought about it) and which I greatly enjoyed. I suspect that one's enjoyment of this book may be predicated on whether one guesses it or not. That part was pretty great, but then I felt that much of the second half of the book was sort of a slog as Sciona then figures out what to do about the plot twist, but it got better once she had her plan in hand. I also did not guess her plan / the ending. I did not think that the book would go there, but it did and I admired it for having the courage of its convictions, and I admired the depiction of Sciona for being extremely consistent all through. I respect that Wang didn't try to make out like Sciona was better or more perfect than she actually was. Though the book, in my opinion, does suffer when compared to SDG, which doesn't just go for character consistency but for really hard change which takes an entire book to work through.

Spoilery thoughts
So yeah, I didn't guess that Sciona was going to burn the entire Magistry and government down! Literally! While she was herself poisoned!

But... it also seemed like maximum chaos for both Tiran and the Kwen, and a bunch of people, both Tiranish and Kwen, have already died and a lot more are probably gonna die, and it really isn't super clear that what is going to come out of all the chaos will be anything better than what was there before, except possibly it might be forced to be less dystopian because all the people running the dystopian technology have been destroyed. On the other hand, I did rather admire how Sciona's flaws of (a) not really caring about other humans and (b) not having any idea how other humans would react to things, because, well, see (a), were really consistent here.

And I loved how she does embrace all her flaws at the end: She had always belonged here with insatiable men, her brothers in greed and ego. Sciona's only distinction among these mages was that she was a more honest monster than any of them. Yeah, that's... pretty accurate! And like I said before, I respect that.

I must say I prefer books where the resolution at least makes stabs towards breaking the cycle of more and more violence, instead of accelerating the cycle (well, Thomil did make one effort towards that, which was nice; Sciona sure did not), but I do enjoy reading one of the latter every once in a while.

A couple of other spoilery issues I had:

- I totally did not buy that Sciona would have a different reaction to the plot twist (that all of their magic was causing the Blight) than every other Tiranish we see in the entire city (except maybe poor dumb Mordra, and it's not even entirely clear what his reaction is). I mean, to be fair, her negative reaction wasn't instant either (and that was well done), but she's grown up in Tiran her whole life, she's not devout but she's reasonably religious, she's been told her whole life that Kwen are inferior (and even says things to that effect), she just doesn't care about other people in general; it's not at all clear to me why she should be the one person to think differently than the others. The book explanation that no one else cares, I think, is that everyone else is horrible and racist, except I guess one offscreen guy who was so overcome that he committed suicide when he found out the truth before the book even started. Idk, I think there should have been more Tiranish who shared her reaction, or at least some who spanned more of a space of reactions. But I guess that would have been more complicated.

- What do people in Tiran eat? Aren't there, like, farms and things outside the city? Wouldn't the Blight affect those? Do they not trade with anyone? Use wood? It really seems to me that the ecological issues of the Blight would have a definite impact on Tiran by now.


I also thought the magic system was hilariously awesome. The mages use a typewriter -- they call it a spellograph -- to type up spells with very precise coordinates and variables (there's a great bit where Sciona is explaining to Thomil what a variable is, without using that exact term of course). So there are parts like this: She assigned the name POWER. Next, she wrote an action sub-spell called FIRE, inside which she assigned the carbon ball the name DEVICE. (I'm not even gonna get into the if and only if CONDITIONS of this spell, because it's quoted in [personal profile] rachelmanija's review.) I mean, yes, cool! I'm totally on board with algorithmic magic! Then I showed it to D and he was immediately like, "Wow, they use COBOL to do magic in this world!" (He does feel opposed to this on principle... mostly because it's COBOL.)
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For Redactle reasons, yesterday I wound up working my way through Wikipedia's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities.

This turned out not to be helpful for Terrible Game Purposes, but it did mean that I came across a city in Anatolia, Turkey, "founded by the Phrygians in at least 1000 BC[E], although it has been estimated to be older than 4,000 years old".

The name of this city? Eskişehir.

"Eski" is the Turkish (and possibly Turkic?) word for "old" (antonym of "new" -- antonym of "young" is a different word). "Şehir" means "city".

We are so good at this.

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A couple more pics. )

Poll #33468 Winded
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14


Why does Zhao Yunlan get winded running through Dragon City in episode 20?

View Answers

he's out of shape (he only went jogging that one time)
3 (23.1%)

he hasn't recovered from his earlier visions / energy corruption
6 (46.2%)

he's running at top speed
7 (53.8%)

it's just a really long way
6 (46.2%)

he didn't warm up first
1 (7.7%)

other
2 (15.4%)

When you first saw the flashbacks in the first few episodes, what did you think?

View Answers

reincarnation
3 (25.0%)

time travel
1 (8.3%)

amnesiac immortals
3 (25.0%)

robot doppelgangers
0 (0.0%)

other
2 (16.7%)

I was already spoiled
5 (41.7%)

I was misleadingly "spoiled".
1 (8.3%)

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The entire province is in a drought now, after a generally dry season that was already extremely dry in a lot of areas, and last I heard there was no rain in the forecast. Yesterday official word came out asking people to try to conserve water and telling everyone to stay the hell out of the woods. (Apparently there's a substantial fine, although my understanding is that no such fine has ever been successfully enforced, so that's...great.) So now is the time of hoping the farmers and crops come through as well as possible, and that wildfire season passes us by.

[embodiment] physio notes!

Aug. 5th, 2025 11:05 pm
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Today was Lower Limb Class #2, as ongoing follow-up for the most recent ankle reinjury. (On which status is: still a biiiit weaker when I'm pushing to limits, but not really noticeable in day-to-day life, e.g. I'm no longer regularly wincing when I jar it getting off a bike; definitely still feeling the work up the outside of my right leg when doing e.g. isometric holds on double heel raises.)

I am very amused by how "???!!!" the physios got when I tried to faint from things that "shouldn't" have been significant cardio and indeed aren't by my standards for cardio but crucially involved a lot of moving around and position changes while upright: sit-to-stand, lunges, crab-walking with knees bent. Apparently I have carefully selected for exercise done while seated or prone for really solid reasons, i.e. that would be the orthostatic hypotension. Which I apparently hadn't told the physios about as its own thing. ...whoops.

notes )

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Aug. 4th, 2025 08:33 pm
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Oh, I wanted to ask if anyone here will be at Worldcon? Let me know if you want to meet up!

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