Weekend Links, June 9, 2024

[cleolinda]

Once again, the weekly roundup of my corner of Tumblr:

My posts

MY ABELIAS HAVE POWDERY MILDEW. We have now acquired a fungicide and sprayed down everything in a six-foot radius of Patient Zero, a crape myrtle that had “mysteriously” not grown much foliage back this year. Thrilling, I know.

If you want to know what post-exertion malaise is, it’s me cleaning for an hour and then being laid out for three days. Coincidentally, I had someone else’s post about chronic fatigue and taking constant breaks in my queue. To round it off, here’s an old post of mine about giving yourself and your fatigue the same grace you’d give other people’s.

Side note, I have realized that mobile now cuts off my profile bio to 

 

She/her. Classy dame, sparkle consultant, vampire

New followers, I have some very disappointing news for you. 
 

 

Reblogs of interest

Pride Month: Spotlight on activist/drag queen Marsha P. Johnson

Related: I think the Pride Moth should become the next Tumblr Animal Mascot.

Great Uncles Angelo and Bill, a love story

The Hot Vintage Lady to Rule Them All: Eartha Kitt. 

Hozier Watch 2024: Here’s “Too Sweet” on--I nearly said “The Colbert Report” and I kind of wish it was. 

Dante inventing the circles of hell: It’s the “Thank you king I am commissioning fan art of you” that always sends me.

The flowered houses of Zalipie, Poland

I have had to get a few crowns because I grind my teeth, and I am very excited about the idea of this tooth regeneration therapy, which my dental insurance won’t cover either. 

Come for the five things food banks want most (money), and stay for the tale of the chaos penny drive.

“One of the most dangerous things we tend to do is treat insights as rules”

Translating Sappho is more complex than you might think

The more you know: a breakdown of the differences between “Rromani,” “Romany,” “Ro[u]manian,” and ethnic slurs in Dracula

Vampire Therapist, available to wishlist on Steam

1000 Books You May Have Actually Read: The implied “you” here is “U.S. readers,” I think. I hit 200 (”better than 86% of users on this list”) because I have read a lot of Shakespeare, “I’m Bella Swan and my hobbies are English class” books, and Stephen King. If you have read YA of the last 20 years, James Patterson, or Colleen Hoover, you will blow past me. 

 

Video

“The Golden Sandwich, made 95% out of aid package contents, 5% with love and resilience 🍉🚨” 

Hey, so, Adobe is forcing you to agree to let them go through all your shit. Adobe responds, and I don’t believe them. 

Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty raising the Progress Pride flag

A guy playing piano and the cat who loves him

“cut to me, playing my horror instrument at 4 am” Okay, but now imagine a hellhound nestled up lovingly against the player of this instrument. 

A roan, a rider, a pride flag, and no tack

 

The sacred texts

The duality of bun

“Poob has it for you” is probably too new to be a sacred text, but I’m investing

“why are you microwaving carbonated drinks” is not the shocking part

 

Personal tags of the week

Dune, for some reason, bunnying, and tumblr therapy, a tag that will just body you over and over. 

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Comments

[phosfate]

239 of 1,000 · 24%

But a lot of them were "Yes, but I hated it" books (see Fangirl).

[cleolinda]

Yeah, I was like… 200 books, but At What Cost?

[phosfate]

Also, I've only read the genderswapped version of Twilight, but I figure it still counts.

[cleolinda]

By the sparkle invested in me, I say it counts.

[phosfate]

Thanking you.

[spawn_of_kong]

I always hate these "How Many Have You Read?" polls, because I always get anxious and think, "Crap, do they mean ones I've read all the way through? Or the ones I've read or remember, like, over 50% of, do those count too? Why am I thinking about this so hard?!"

In any case, I scored 9%, but I am proud I managed to select at least one title for each page.

the future of dentistry is about to be so cool!
Sure, to those who'll be able to afford it. [/bitter]

“One of the most dangerous things we tend to do is treat insights as rules”
Agreed.

[writerkit]

My question is always "should I be counting the ones I stopped partway through because I hated them." Like, I got some ways into Bali in "Eat, Pray, Love," and then I finally got aggravated with her whininess and realized I didn't have to finish it.

Counting only ones I'm certain I've read all the way through, I get 184, most of which I read for reasons unrelated to having a free choice.

It says something about John Grisham that I had to look up each one on Wikipedia and skim for plots I remembered to be like "Did I read this one?" (I spent a lot of summers in Maine with no internet and parents who restricted the number of books I could bring with me. My grandfather was apparently a big John Grisham fan because there were a lot of them lying around.)