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disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-14 08:48 pm

Happy Pride.....

I totally forgot my Pride entry with everything that was happened this morning...


Pride 14
disneydream06: (Disney Angry)
disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-14 10:14 am

WTF News.....

O.M.g. and W.T.F.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Felon's horror has come to Minnesota in the worst possible way.....

Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, husband shot and killed; Sen. John Hoffman and wife also shot

By KSTP


https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/speaker-emerita-melissa-hortman-husband-killed-rep-john-hoffman-and-wife-also-shot/


My deepest sympathies for these families.

And my worst Hatred for the behind this and those pushing for this kind of thing to happen...
disneydream06: (Disney Shocked)
disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-14 10:01 am

A Day In The Life.....

Cue the Twilight Zone music...



Last night I was plugging away with my rebooted computer last night.
Trying to remember sites I had book marked and such things.
Late into the night it was starting to act a bit slow, so I thought I would turn it off and give it a rest.
When I went to turn it back on, it again started spinning and taking it's time loading up.
I thought, here we go again.

Then my body took over and decided it was time to fall asleep. lol...

When I did wake back up, I also woke up my computer and logged onto it.

And ALL MY STUFF WAS BACK ON THE COMPUTER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
disneydream06: (Disney Angry)
disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-13 05:34 pm

A Day In The Life.....

Excuse my language but,

F*CK F*CK F*CK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I just opened my computer about a half hour ago, and it's has completely wiped itself.
Or factory reset itself, or whatever you want to call it.

EVERYTHING, well almost everything, is gone on it.
It still acknowledges that I have Norton on the computer and it showed my "name" on the computer,
and one or two passwords showed when logging onto something, but EVERYTHING else is gone.
All my pictures. All my bookmarks.
EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am beyond pissed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
disneydream06: (Disney Happy)
disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-13 09:57 am
disneydream06: (Disney Birthday)
disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-13 09:47 am

(no subject)

Today I get to send out...

*~*~*~*~*GREAT BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES*~*~*~*~*

To a very special preson, my future husband...

Chris Evans 172

Chris Evans 7 - Copy (9)

I hope he has an extra special day.


AA Happy Birthday1
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sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2025-06-13 07:11 am
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podcast friday

I dunno, why not make yourself more anxious this week. It Could Happen Here has the ability to send James Stout, an experienced war journalist, to LA to cover the uprising against ICE kidnappings. There's a lot of coverage in today's episode, which I'm currently listening to, but for detailed reporting, listen to "On the Ground in LA."

The scale of the so-called riots will surprise you—they surprised me, and I've been to LA. It's a very big city and unlike during the wildfires, very little of it is actually on fire. The uprisings, which are direct responses to people's families, neighbours, and colleagues being kidnapped by an out-of-control paramilitary organization, are actually only a few thousand people. Which is not to denigrate the bravery of those people—quite the opposite!—but to poke holes in the regime's propaganda.

P.S. If you are going to a protest this weekend, please ignore that "non-violent wave" thing and other similar memes going around. It is an op. If violence erupts and you do not want to be involved, don't sit down. Get out of there. I do not want to see a generation of young protestors with traumatic brain injuries, please. Also avoid bridges (don't let yourself get kettled or arrested en masse), and if you get teargassed, use water, not milk or anything else. Stay safe, I love you.
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disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-12 09:54 am

Happy Pride.....

Gay Trivia.....


In 2012 which country's senate unanimously
approved the "Gender Law", praised by the UN
and World Heath Organization as one of the
most comprehensive transgender rights laws?

A: France
B: Denmark
C: Sweden
D: Argentina


Da Answer )
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disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-11 10:50 am

In The News.....

Because this needs to be said.....


Politics 1.34
disneydream06: (Disney Happy)
disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-11 10:32 am
disneydream06: (Disney Angry)
disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-11 08:44 am

WTF News.....

The States of America no longer have a free and independent Press.
Our Press is now run by our dictator...

Terry Moran Terminated from ABC After X Post Criticizing Trump Administration

The former ABC News reporter referred to the president as "a world-class hater"

By Angel Saunders


https://people.com/terry-moran-terminated-abc-x-post-criticizing-trump-president-11752244?hid=7f1109a25d2362f31854399df255b82ba78f015e&did=18087003-20250611&utm_source=ppl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ppl-news_newsletter&utm_content=061125&lctg=7f1109a25d2362f31854399df255b82ba78f015e&lr_input=758ad690760192cf49795c3f52223721cac5324e3e862e41c5d4db73a4d43f32&utm_term=AM
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sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2025-06-11 07:23 am
Entry tags:

Reading Wednesday

Just finished: Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls, I don't have tons to say about this comic—it'll take you maybe an hour to read if that, and it's really cute and fun, and then you read the context around it and it's quite moving and beautiful as well. It's basically a language revitalization project wrapped up in a pew-pew-pew space opera story. It's cool that this exists and I want there to be more of it.

Withered by A.G.A. Wilmot. Listen, cozy horror and other cozy authors! I will make you a deal. You get one (1) scene where the asexual protagonist comes out to their appropriately diverse love interest and they talk about their sexuality and consent in a mature, healthy way, infused with Tumblr therapyspeak, and agree to just hold hands or whatever. In exchange, I want y'all to try excise or subvert toxic tropes like having your main human antagonist being a woman who is haunted by a ghost no one else can see and locked up in a mental institution for 25 years, who has no agency at all, and who at the end realizes the error of her ways and is...cut loose to just be homeless and wander forever, I guess????

Like, aesthetically, I hate cozy. I fucking hate it. I try really hard to not judge the taste of people who like it, because intellectually I get the appeal and there's nothing wrong with liking what you like, but it's very much not for me. And when I have to read and rate a cozy book, I try to keep the ideal reader in mind, not me, a grim and cynical person who likes messy characters and tension in my storytelling. I think there are some cozy, or cozy-adjacent books that are done well (Regency and Regency+magic does low-stakes, mostly good characters in ways that I enjoy, for example) and I don't want to judge the entire subgenre either.

But I do think that there's a tendency for specifically cozy fiction to use didactic storytelling (casts include one of everyone and/or a lot of twofer characters, but these identities tend to be very shallowly written except for where they reflect the author's, conflicts are easily resolved by talking things out, good behaviour is rewarded and bad behaviour is punished or reformed, discussions about emotion or sexuality are always direct and never in conflict). So if you are going to write a book that includes, for example, instructions for the reader on how to navigate a relationship with an ace person, or how to approach therapy for a mental illness, I'm going to also need you to examine your work for unintentional messaging in a way that I wouldn't necessarily do if you're writing, say, Gothic horror where the protagonist can't decide whether she wants the vampire to eat her or fuck her. 

Which is to say that in a world where we get to see multiple Zoom therapy sessions, I do not buy that a mental institution merely drugs a character and does not attempt to help her heal at all. I think that sets up a dichotomy between Good Mental Illness (you know, the kind that makes you pretty and kinda tragic) and Bad Mental Illness (where you get your mess all over other people/try to burn down the family house) that is not good or wholesome at all.

Also, the climactic battle at the end was a huge WTF.

If you, like me, would like to join in on Cozy Horror Discourse multiple years after it was live, here are some links I appreciated:

The Material Basis of Cozy Horror by Moreau Vazh
In Praise of Discomfort by Simon O'Neill

Currently reading: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky. This one starts with a robot valet murdering his master and not knowing why he did it, so, promising beginning. Humanity increasingly relies on robots to do everything, and as a result, is dying out. Charles, the valet in question, doesn't know what to do without explicit orders, and so he reports to Diagnostics, only to find that robot repairs are backed up due to funding cuts that have eliminated the entire human staff. Also he may have developed a Protagonist Virus that gives him agency and self-awareness, which he very much doesn't want.

The voice in this is great—the first two chapters are basically the robots navigating their way through the murder without being able to deviate from their programming, and it's bitingly satirical and very funny. I'm rather enjoying this.
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disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-10 09:19 am

Happy Pride.....

You are important and you are loved.....

Pride 8
sabotabby: (molotov)
sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2025-06-09 07:40 pm
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Pro-tip

 They are going to beat you, and eventually kill you, regardless of whether your protest is violent or non-violent.
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disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-09 07:47 am

Songs From The Movies.....

Not a lot of explaination needed here......


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disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-09 07:34 am

Monday At The Movies.....

This Week's Movie Quote...

V. B.: When a lady says no, she means... get your hand off my dick, buddy!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4


Which Movie Does This Quote Come From?

View Answers

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert
1 (25.0%)

Muriel's Wedding
1 (25.0%)

To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar
2 (50.0%)

I Don't Have A Clue...
0 (0.0%)




Last Week's Movie Quote...

Celsius: Chewing gum helps me think.
Albert: Sweetie, you're wasting your gum!

It came from the 1996 movie, "The Birdcage".
It starred Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as a Gay couple who's son is about to marry the daughter of a Conservative US Senator.
What could go wrong?



Those Who Knew or Guessed Correctly...
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disneydream06: (Disney Happy)
disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-09 06:53 am

Happy Pride.....

Again mixed with a little Political Rant.....


Pride 11
sabotabby: (doom doom doom)
sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2025-06-09 07:23 am
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Years when decades happen

 I dunno, what do you guys want me to rant about? The Freedom Flotilla? LA vs. ICE? The fact that my government is planning more pipelines while sending in the army to deal with out-of-control wildfires? Or, closer to home, Bill 5 or the Toronto bubble zone law, or...?

This is why people curl up and retreat into fiction.
disneydream06: (Disney Happy)
disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-08 07:47 am

Happy Pride.....

On a lighter note...


Pride 12
disneydream06: (Disney Angry)
disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-06-08 07:45 am

Political Rant.....

People have to stop calling "ICE agents" government employees.

Call them what they are Political Thugs and the new Gestapo.

I am willing to bet that most of them are part of "The Proud Boys" organization,
and were actively at the Insurrection at the US Capital on January 6th.

Stop legitimizing them.