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Today's luxurious disappointments are in the fields of scheduling issues and data preservation.

The latter is because a hard drive stopped working. I got a couple error messages about moving and deleting files - "Error 0x8007045D: the request could not be performed because of an I/O device error" - which was soon followed by Error code 43, then "Cannot open drive for direct access". At this point, I'm pretty secure in saying it's not going to get fixed by trying the hard drive on another computer, or that I can fix it myself. As such, I'm going to leave it alone in the hopes it doesn't get worse and look into local data recovery centers to see which one can best help me.

In the former's case, it's because Escapade is scheduled opposite a few movie screenings at the MOMI I'd very much like to see. I can probably juggle them around, pick which movies versus which panels, and it's more than a little annoying to have to choose between two fun things to look forward to. As I said, luxurious disappointments.

Current Mood: irritated
Current Music: Will Ye Go, Lassie Go? - Sinners

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I was rewatching Avengers: Infinity War and it, again, struck me how bloody hypocritical Steve's "we don't trade lives" line(s) is. Friend. Pal. Bro. My man. Do you really think no Wakandan is gonna die fighting Thanos' armies. Like. Get a fucking grip, omg.

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I went to a master's program's commencement ceremony at the Apollo Theater today, and while I left after two hours and didn't see it end, based on how those first two hours and the setup went, I doubt anyone blasted any James Brown.

What a wasted opportunity.

I'm glad I went, though, for all its wasted opportunities and long-winded metaphor-straining speeches and a prerecorded speech from a chancellor that included a plug to sign up for the alumni association while detailing its many features. My sister in law E. and older brother J. seemed happy about it, and I'll know I was willing to make an effort to show up.

Current Mood: indifferent
Current Music: Breaking Glass - David Bowie

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hannah

Less than eighteen hours to go and still no texts, emails, or other forms of communication about my sister in law E.'s graduation tomorrow. It's information I can look up fairly easily, and that strikes me as being somewhat beside the point when I don't have anything beyond a verbal "come if you can" offer. It's not exactly sitting peacefully with me. I know a closed mouth doesn't get fed, and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to open my mouth or not.

I plan on going, and it's feeling a bit like it's under protest.

Current Mood: cranky
Current Music: Photobooth - Death Cab For Cutie

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hannah

In trying to tidy my closet and the dresses I've got in there, I'm now seeing how many "nice" dresses I have that cover a fairly wide variety of situations. It's nice to see that the ones I bought well over a decade ago are still largely holding up well.

In other news, while my sister in law E. and my brother J. are planning on going to Cancún, I somehow doubt they're at all interested in visiting the Chicxulub crater. Some people just don't know how to have a good time.

Current Mood: discontent
Current Music: nothing now

dhampyresa

8 episodes is way too short for Doctor Who. The core of the show is the Doctor + Companion(s) relationship(s) and there isn't any time for that in these Disney seasons.

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hannah

I spent several hours today not knowing where my towel was. I knew I'd taken it down to the laundry room and brought it out from the washer, and somewhere between the dryer and my apartment, it disappeared. Couldn't be found. I went back and checked, and didn't find it. I figured it wasn't a huge loss, all things considered, and tried to move on.

I just went back to check to be sure, and somewhere between the washer and the dryer, it got misplaced without leaving the laundry room, because that's where I found it. Someone had tossed it into the garbage bin - not even hanging it over the sink, but tossing it out entirely, which has me irritated on the general principle of throwing out a good hand towel being a bad idea because hey, free towel.

It's also got me relieved because I again know where my towel is. I couldn't well go hitchhiking otherwise.

Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: Iowa - Brian Perry

hannah

At present, settling into telling myself the story and figuring out how it's put together, is the important part. What the story's about, its purpose and intentions, can come later. Right now, I'm telling it to myself. Well, myself and the accountability readers. Mostly myself. Nobody else is thinking about it as much as I am.

Keeping to that tunnel vision of one word at a time, no matter how good the word happens to be or how much I like it, is where I'm at. I'm likely going to opt to stay in New York for most of the vacation my parents planned for upstate and that's only in part because I'm not sure how I feel about always automatically being included. It's a lot of complicated feelings, and what's not complicated is it's easier to keep writing when I'm in my apartment. All my stuff is here. My notes, my research materials. Also the practical momentum of sitting down and getting the words out.

Current Mood: melancholy
Current Music: Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) - Arcade Fire

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R. F. Kuang has a book called "Katabasis" that comes out on August 26, 2025. /insert here "good for her" gif

I have a duology of MCU fics I've been calling "katabasis" that I've been working on since I saw Endgame. It's about Natasha and Gamora making their ways out of the afterlife -- except, despite interacting, they're going through different afterlives: Natasha's is Dante's Hell, Gamora's Irkalla, the Mesopotamian underworld. Yes, I'm lots of fun at parties.

Anyway, point is, I want to finish and post those fics before Kuang's book comes out? Deadlines tend to help me do things. Technically the Natasha fic is finished but not the Gamora one and besides I need to make sure their dialogues make sense in both contexts.

Have a handful of lines I'm proud of, idk, I need validation.

1. It took a village to raise a child soldier.

2. Sirens, sirens everywhere and not a song to sing.

3. "I recognise the afterlife has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."

5. Dis was a necropolis in the purest sense; a city of the dead, skyscrapers of graves and tombstones reaching upwards like the drowned's grasping hands.

6. There on the rock sat Tony Stark. Not Iron Man, not the man who'd escape from a cave to dive into a wormhole with a nuke, but Anthony Edward Stark, self-made billionaire, Forbes' golden child, arms dealer, merchant-king of war and woe, Mammon of the Modern Age.

7. "I know I told you to die in a ditch, but I didn't mean it," continued Rocket's voice.

8. "It seems a terrible thing, to believe in sin," Gamora said.

9. But a poppy pod is a thing of death. It weeps sleep and bleeds a painless end.

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