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Ray’s Void (100 words) by look_turtles
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: due South
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ray Kowalski
Summary:

Ray has a void in his heart

( due south )

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Posted by Laerke Christensen

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-run-president-venezuela/

It was unclear whether Trump was joking when he made the comment during a news conference.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-run-president-venezuela/

calimac

Some of those photos the Artemis II crew have sent back from the far side of the Moon are really impressive. (Too bad none of the Apollo 8 astronauts, who first explored that region, are still alive to see it.) Too bad, also, that we can't just sit back and enjoy it, but have to deal with a maniac at the same time.

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I wake up every weekday morning to CBC Radio's Ottawa Morning. Quite often they are playing a "golden oldie" and although I like the music, my heart sinks because there's a strong possibility that someone has died. Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian Tyson and today: David Wiffen, singing "More Often Than Not". Admittedly there have been a few false alarms, like Joni Mitchell, who was in the news for her achievements, not her death. Maybe this summer we'll hear Randy Bachman (of Guess Who and BTO and Vinyl Tap), as he apparently will be at Bluesfest, and he's still very much alive AFAIK.

Anyway, back to David Wiffen. He was a featured performer back in the 1970s, during orientation week at Carleton University, where I did my undergrad degree and later, a masters' degree in public administration.
He also appeared at least once (probably more) at Le Hibou, which I wrote about in my last entry. But I digress. Here's Youtube video about him and his passing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfkv-vPCmCc

The old folkies are dying and that saddens me.

Current Mood: sad
Current Location: the listening room
Current Music: More Often Than Not

asakiyume

I was taking a shortcut from one strip of depressing stores to another, and it had me scrabbling down a slope, covered in these landscaping rocks, when I spotted this playing card and nips bottle:

A faded playing card and a nips bottle lying amid landscaping rocks.

A faded playing card and a nips bottle lying amid landscaping rocks.

Like out of a story.

The Jack of Hearts strikes me as a trickster character. Is that an established thing, or just something I'm imagining? I mean, the jack isn't as powerful as the king, he's the interloping male who can enchant the women, steal them away from the king. And hearts! Hearts is hearts.

(Side Quest: You are in charge of creating four new suits of cards. What are they?)

And then the nips bottle. Cards and drink are stereotypical downfalls, but there's something extra mean and tragic about a nips bottle, fortunes fallen so low that that's all you can afford. Maybe the Jack of Hearts was your lucky card... now it's lying in a wasteland between strips of stores, beside a state highway, next to the nips bottle.

(Side Note: Actually now it is lying in the pocket of my coat. I am not sure what quest I've accepted by picking it up.)

The real-life Captain Morgan raided Spanish galleons hither and yon, plundered cities, engaged in torture now and then, and owned several slave-run plantations. He also drank a lot. I wonder what he'd think about his image decorating nips bottles?

Current Music: Cat-Eye Willy Claims His Lover: Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer

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The Third Station, Mary of Magdala meets Jesus in the garden.

This was part of the Easter garden at Polesworth Abbey church a few years ago.

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Committing poetry!

(Along with fiction, demifiction, research notes, and other literary MAYHEM!)

Ahem. Announcing Ysabetwordsmith's Poetry Fishbowl, in which that writer collects prompts, writes like a MANIAC all day/night, and offers funding options to sponsor publicly sharing the goodies.

https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/15422855.html

My /personal/ challenge, for myself and others, based on a recent conversation:
Think of the weirdest science fiction you're read (or watched, played etc) recently.
(Other speculative forms also welcome).
Now think of something WEIRDER.
Now go prompt /that./

Prompt -- for the Poetry Fishbowl, and/or your favorite other author, and/or a fannish kinkmeme somewhere, and/or a patch of sidewalk in need of chalking...anywhere it's going to inspire people (not chatbots) to make things. Please!

You can even give /me/ a writing prompt. Ideas and plot bunnies welcome! But, my response tim,e varies from two minutes to two centuries, overall, and my creative time is quite crunched right now. Ysabet, on the other hand, WILL be writing something, TODAY.

I am ABSOLUTELY making this post for the linkback poetry reveal perk, FYI. But it's a fun event and a good writer and new prompters do get some freebies, so why not take a look?

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: April
Current Music: birdsong

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Posted by Nur Ibrahim

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-iran-whole-civilization-die/

Screenshots featuring the president's alleged ominous statement began circulating on April 7, 2026.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-iran-whole-civilization-die/

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( In a specific case… )

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Laptop-TV combo with DVDs on top and smartphone on the desk

Vince Gilligan was recently quoted as saying “[Slow storytelling] is a plus in a world of very fast-paced editing and TikTok videos that are only a minute long. If the whole world were to move at that pace...that would be very sad to me. I think there is a certain percentage of the viewership… is ready for a slower pace. It’s fast food versus home cooking.”

Have you found that the pace of TV storytelling has increased? Have you seen patterns in different time periods? And how slow is slow enough for your viewing taste?

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Posted by Taija PerryCook

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-parade-north-korean-news/

The popular North Korean reporter Ri Chun-hee did not say Trump looked pudgy and overweight "at a time when Americans struggle for food."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-parade-north-korean-news/

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St Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio by Stefano di Giovanni, better known as Sasetta

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It illustrates one of the stories in the Fioretti (Little Flowers) of St Francis.

The town of Gubbio is being terrorised by a man-eating wolf. The citizens appeal to St Francis to do something about it. He approaches the beast's lair and when it comes out to him makes the sign of the cross. The wolf immediately becomes tractable, Francis shakes it by the paw and makes the following covenant with it- that if the wolf will stop eating people the towns people will feed it. The placid beast accompanies Francis to the town square where the terms of the agreement are restated. Thereafter the wolf becomes a beloved pet, wandering round the town and in and out of the houses.

Just a pretty story? In 1872 a grave at the church of San Francesco della Pace which had always been supposed to be that of the wolf was dug up and there- right enough- lay its bones

The grave, with its ornate gravestone, is still to be seen in the crypt of the church.

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Posted by Anna Rascouët-Paz

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-pardon-joseph-schwartz/

Schwartz's federal indictment accused him of a $39 million fraud scheme.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-pardon-joseph-schwartz/

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Title: Feeling Wanted
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Relationships: Ilya Rozanov/Shane Hollander
Tags: Established Relationship, Plot What Plot, Ass Eating, Shane Teases Ilya
Summary: Ilya was beautiful with the sun on him. Shane couldn't help himself.
Word Count: 5,240

( Feeling Wanted )