This that and the other thingamagig
Feb. 12th, 2026 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. Snagged from colls - "You can help NASA classify telescope images of
galaxies, helping researchers identify very distant
galaxies and black holes and distinguish real signals
from noise. Each classification takes about a minute,
and tutorials guide you every step of the way."
Here's How
I don't know about anyone else? But I'm certainly tempted.
2. RIP James Van Der Beek aka Dawson from Dawson's Creek. He died of cancer at the age of 48. It was announced multiple times on the news this morning. He apparently had six kids - which, well, virile?
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3. Work and public transportation and this week (starting with Sunday)...have made me want to avoid people for the next four days (and since I'm taking Friday off and have Monday off as a paid Federal Bank Holiday - I can do that). To further this? I rescheduled my hair appointment for May. (Well that, and I can't handle going up and down four flights of steps on Monday, with this knee. I need more time. I'm hoping by May, I can do it without too much pain.)
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4. Question a Day Memage February:
12. Do you have any siblings?
Yes. One. A younger brother. Who has gifted me with a beautiful niece.
Siblings are a double-edged thing - both gift and curse, those who have them probably know whereof I speak?
5. People are using AI...to help with commenting on various sites - with ahem amusing results? ( Or it's bots, can't decide.)
( Where I'm complimented for my excellent story-telling abilities in...writing film reviews?? )
Sigh, people continue to bewilder me?
galaxies, helping researchers identify very distant
galaxies and black holes and distinguish real signals
from noise. Each classification takes about a minute,
and tutorials guide you every step of the way."
Here's How
I don't know about anyone else? But I'm certainly tempted.
2. RIP James Van Der Beek aka Dawson from Dawson's Creek. He died of cancer at the age of 48. It was announced multiple times on the news this morning. He apparently had six kids - which, well, virile?
( Read more... )
3. Work and public transportation and this week (starting with Sunday)...have made me want to avoid people for the next four days (and since I'm taking Friday off and have Monday off as a paid Federal Bank Holiday - I can do that). To further this? I rescheduled my hair appointment for May. (Well that, and I can't handle going up and down four flights of steps on Monday, with this knee. I need more time. I'm hoping by May, I can do it without too much pain.)
( Read more... )
4. Question a Day Memage February:
12. Do you have any siblings?
Yes. One. A younger brother. Who has gifted me with a beautiful niece.
Siblings are a double-edged thing - both gift and curse, those who have them probably know whereof I speak?
5. People are using AI...to help with commenting on various sites - with ahem amusing results? ( Or it's bots, can't decide.)
( Where I'm complimented for my excellent story-telling abilities in...writing film reviews?? )
Sigh, people continue to bewilder me?
Intersection of Magic: the Gathering and the Olympics
Feb. 12th, 2026 02:38 pmbrithistorianThe other night on the Olympic broadcast[^1], US figure skater Amber Glenn said in an interview that she is a huge fan of Magic: the Gathering and also that she is queer. So of course I had to make a custom Magic card of her!
[^1] For those of you in the US who are streaming on Peacock, it was during the women's free skate section of the team competition.
The Fantastic Journey Triple Drabble: Finding Happiness
Feb. 12th, 2026 05:52 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Finding Happiness
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Varian, Gwenith, Scott, Travellers.
Rating: PG
Setting: An Act of Love.
Summary: Varian doesn’t want to be anywhere but exactly where he is.
Written For: Challenge 501: Amnesty 83 at
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fan_flashworks, using Challenge 3: Anywhere But Here.Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.
Ficlet: Not Letting Go
Feb. 12th, 2026 05:42 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Not Letting Go
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 565
Spoilers: Sort of Children of Earth. Fix-it.
Summary: There is nothing Ianto wouldn’t do for Jack, and nothing Jack wouldn’t do to keep his lover by his side.
Written For:
ravenlilyrose’s prompt ‘any, any, nothing I wouldn't do’, at threesentenceficathon.Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
generalized anxiety
Feb. 12th, 2026 08:36 amserafaeryWoke up in floods of anxiety. More nightmares about my mom. omg so awful. (She was not well in this last dream. And I was upending my now-stable life to help her.)
In this dream, she was deteriorating more like the way my grandmother did. And I had sort of pushed that death out of my mind and it was unspeakably painful for me to witness in my early 20s and omg my heart is screaming over it, today.
(My grandfather's death was even worse. He died when I was 12.)
Scared about the future, Josh and I aging, and scared about the house, which has not felt scary since xmas. Money feels impossible to collect after starting on taxes yesterday. How will we ever keep paying to live here?
I found a rotten spot on the outside of the kitchen window frame, I think maybe that's where the water disappeared to that I panicked about a couple months ago when I was washing the window on the inside and rinsed it with the kitchen sink sprayer and all the water just... vanished.
If all I wrecked was a small section of the window frame, I am fine with that. Fixable.
But now with all the rain recently, the backyard is soup and the floor under the kitchen feels... less flat. Which worries me.
But honestly I'm sure it's the same amount not-exactly-flat it's always been and I am just worried because I am flooded with anxiety chemicals.
Also. We never really got winter. We've had maybe 3 nights when we hit freezing, and there was frost in the morning. My snowman is still on the porch, I am wearing snowman socks, I am trying so hard to maintain hope, but we never get snow after valentine's day. Except that one time in April recently. :( We do get ice in March though, holding out hope for that. I will tolerate ice and loss of power to refill our empty snow-pack on the mountain.
I know everyone else in the country got excessive winter. But it's also terrifying to just skip over it entirely.
I am late for showering and getting ready for a long day of sparkling. I love my job, I am looking forward to work. Since the intense migraine on Monday I've been mostly resting, which has made me feel guilty and despondent. It will feel good to get some movement in.
Teeth cleaning went well despite my neglectfulness lately.
I have not been able to shower or brush my teeth consistently, again.
I hope it gets better. I will keep trying. I was doing okay for a minute, but things have fallen apart again.
I think I need to take a break from The Schopenhauer Cure book. It is too depressing. I will switch to Strange Animals, I have been waiting for this book with baited breath for more than six months. The author is so delightful (Jarod K Anderson). He is everything I need when it comes to writing. It's just, so relaxing.
But also I still cry sometimes. In good ways. The this-is-too-much-love kind of tears.
In my self-care birb app (Finch), I legit got teary-eyed this morning when my birb hugged the Red Queen - who was threatening to steal Sarooroo's heart because she thinks she doesn't have a heart of her own. omg too much cuteness overload. (We are doing a Wonderland themed event this month. So cute.)
Avalanche helps. She's always happy no matter what. She softly mewed at me this morning to alert me to the spectacular sunrise. It lasted forever. It was so vivid. I can't really get photos of them here because of all the trees, but I can still enjoy them through the gaps in the branches.
One thing I do love about winter months. Getting up with the sun.
In this dream, she was deteriorating more like the way my grandmother did. And I had sort of pushed that death out of my mind and it was unspeakably painful for me to witness in my early 20s and omg my heart is screaming over it, today.
(My grandfather's death was even worse. He died when I was 12.)
Scared about the future, Josh and I aging, and scared about the house, which has not felt scary since xmas. Money feels impossible to collect after starting on taxes yesterday. How will we ever keep paying to live here?
I found a rotten spot on the outside of the kitchen window frame, I think maybe that's where the water disappeared to that I panicked about a couple months ago when I was washing the window on the inside and rinsed it with the kitchen sink sprayer and all the water just... vanished.
If all I wrecked was a small section of the window frame, I am fine with that. Fixable.
But now with all the rain recently, the backyard is soup and the floor under the kitchen feels... less flat. Which worries me.
But honestly I'm sure it's the same amount not-exactly-flat it's always been and I am just worried because I am flooded with anxiety chemicals.
Also. We never really got winter. We've had maybe 3 nights when we hit freezing, and there was frost in the morning. My snowman is still on the porch, I am wearing snowman socks, I am trying so hard to maintain hope, but we never get snow after valentine's day. Except that one time in April recently. :( We do get ice in March though, holding out hope for that. I will tolerate ice and loss of power to refill our empty snow-pack on the mountain.
I know everyone else in the country got excessive winter. But it's also terrifying to just skip over it entirely.
I am late for showering and getting ready for a long day of sparkling. I love my job, I am looking forward to work. Since the intense migraine on Monday I've been mostly resting, which has made me feel guilty and despondent. It will feel good to get some movement in.
Teeth cleaning went well despite my neglectfulness lately.
I have not been able to shower or brush my teeth consistently, again.
I hope it gets better. I will keep trying. I was doing okay for a minute, but things have fallen apart again.
I think I need to take a break from The Schopenhauer Cure book. It is too depressing. I will switch to Strange Animals, I have been waiting for this book with baited breath for more than six months. The author is so delightful (Jarod K Anderson). He is everything I need when it comes to writing. It's just, so relaxing.
But also I still cry sometimes. In good ways. The this-is-too-much-love kind of tears.
In my self-care birb app (Finch), I legit got teary-eyed this morning when my birb hugged the Red Queen - who was threatening to steal Sarooroo's heart because she thinks she doesn't have a heart of her own. omg too much cuteness overload. (We are doing a Wonderland themed event this month. So cute.)
Avalanche helps. She's always happy no matter what. She softly mewed at me this morning to alert me to the spectacular sunrise. It lasted forever. It was so vivid. I can't really get photos of them here because of all the trees, but I can still enjoy them through the gaps in the branches.
One thing I do love about winter months. Getting up with the sun.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1.01. - 1.06
Feb. 12th, 2026 05:10 pmselenakBecause there was good word of mouth from various friends and trusty reviewers, I decided to give the latest Star Trek show a go, have now marathoned the six episodes released so far, and can report that word of mouth was correct: this latest installment, which is set in the 31rd century last seen in Star Trek: Discovery, shows none of the weaknesses of the third season of ST: SNW and is actually really good. Mind you, watching the first three episodes I thought, okay, they're good, not not groundbreaking, and some of the reactions made me expect more, but then came episodes 3 - 6 . building on the previous ones and fleshing out more characters, and I went "wow!" myself. And also "awwwww" at certain points. More beneath the spoiler cut.
The reason why I wasn't wowed by the first three in the way I was by the later three is that they included some clichés I never much cared for, such as a Marine, err, Starfleet instructor yelling "give me 100 pushups" . And the only school/school prank war I enjoyed fictionally was Das fliegende Klassenzimmer by Erich Kästner, plus I thought, really, do we need more mean Vulcans. These nitpicks aside (and the prank war did have its plusses as well), the first three episodes do a solid job in introducing the premise, the setting, and some of the main characters. They also showed versatality in format: the pilot episode has more action while the second episode is a classic ST ethical dilemma with lots of debate type of episode (and not the last one of the first six), and the third episode while having some serious character stuff mainly goes for broad comedy. Which is all fine, and confidence-building, but with episode 4, the show simply becomes more than that as we get our first hardcore (previously supporting) character episode which simultanously is an ethical dilemma episode and adds to the overall Star Trek lore because it tells us how the Klingons fared post Burn, something Disco did not. Now after a quiet spotlight on supporting character episode I expected the next to revert back to ensemble or main character format, but no! We got another " (different) supporting character in the spotlight" episode - which also doubled as an unabashed love declaration to one Benjamin Sisko in particular and DS9 in general. Which was great, because while other more recent ST shows did include some nods to DS9, it never got as much love as TOS and TNG did from the new kids on the block. Until now. And it was especially lovely to see because it did nostalgia right instead of going ST: Picard season 3, sigh, or follow ST:STNW's increasing tendency to become ST: TOS in its cast. Instead, it did a Star Trek: Prodigy. By which I mean: The love for the "old" characters as strong and great - but it was used in service of character fleshing out and growth of the new characters of the new show. Complimenting them, instead of replacing them. Homage, instead of a rerun. It was great. And then episode 6 went for a taut space thriller while also using what we learned so far about the characters and sharpening the profile of who seems to be the season's main villain. (And it took me until this episode to finally recall where I had heard the voice before. It was John Adams, I mean Paul Giametti!)
One more general observation: As a Discovery fan, I was delighted to see Admiral Vance again in most of the episodes, being his calm and responsible self, ditto for Jett Reno snarkng and being dead-pan as ever, and a bit surprised that Mary Wiseman has yet to make an appearance because I thought she was supposed to be a regular. Speaking of Discovery, its last two seasons feature a supporting guest star, Laira Rillak, who has both Bajoran and Cardassian heritage, and I thought that was great and that by the 31st Centuy, there ought to be a lot more "hybrids" of spacefaring nations with centuries of interaction . Starfleet Academy thought so, too, and we got indeed not just another hybrid in the regular cast but also several others popping up. And I really like the sheer number of middle-aged women we get in addition to the kids. Oh, and evidently the return to Discovery territory also meant the return to featured queer relationships. Excellent.
( Now onto more spoilery territory with comments on the individiual characters and their development so far. )
In conclusion: it's a really good first season so far! May it continue to be!
The reason why I wasn't wowed by the first three in the way I was by the later three is that they included some clichés I never much cared for, such as a Marine, err, Starfleet instructor yelling "give me 100 pushups" . And the only school/school prank war I enjoyed fictionally was Das fliegende Klassenzimmer by Erich Kästner, plus I thought, really, do we need more mean Vulcans. These nitpicks aside (and the prank war did have its plusses as well), the first three episodes do a solid job in introducing the premise, the setting, and some of the main characters. They also showed versatality in format: the pilot episode has more action while the second episode is a classic ST ethical dilemma with lots of debate type of episode (and not the last one of the first six), and the third episode while having some serious character stuff mainly goes for broad comedy. Which is all fine, and confidence-building, but with episode 4, the show simply becomes more than that as we get our first hardcore (previously supporting) character episode which simultanously is an ethical dilemma episode and adds to the overall Star Trek lore because it tells us how the Klingons fared post Burn, something Disco did not. Now after a quiet spotlight on supporting character episode I expected the next to revert back to ensemble or main character format, but no! We got another " (different) supporting character in the spotlight" episode - which also doubled as an unabashed love declaration to one Benjamin Sisko in particular and DS9 in general. Which was great, because while other more recent ST shows did include some nods to DS9, it never got as much love as TOS and TNG did from the new kids on the block. Until now. And it was especially lovely to see because it did nostalgia right instead of going ST: Picard season 3, sigh, or follow ST:STNW's increasing tendency to become ST: TOS in its cast. Instead, it did a Star Trek: Prodigy. By which I mean: The love for the "old" characters as strong and great - but it was used in service of character fleshing out and growth of the new characters of the new show. Complimenting them, instead of replacing them. Homage, instead of a rerun. It was great. And then episode 6 went for a taut space thriller while also using what we learned so far about the characters and sharpening the profile of who seems to be the season's main villain. (And it took me until this episode to finally recall where I had heard the voice before. It was John Adams, I mean Paul Giametti!)
One more general observation: As a Discovery fan, I was delighted to see Admiral Vance again in most of the episodes, being his calm and responsible self, ditto for Jett Reno snarkng and being dead-pan as ever, and a bit surprised that Mary Wiseman has yet to make an appearance because I thought she was supposed to be a regular. Speaking of Discovery, its last two seasons feature a supporting guest star, Laira Rillak, who has both Bajoran and Cardassian heritage, and I thought that was great and that by the 31st Centuy, there ought to be a lot more "hybrids" of spacefaring nations with centuries of interaction . Starfleet Academy thought so, too, and we got indeed not just another hybrid in the regular cast but also several others popping up. And I really like the sheer number of middle-aged women we get in addition to the kids. Oh, and evidently the return to Discovery territory also meant the return to featured queer relationships. Excellent.
( Now onto more spoilery territory with comments on the individiual characters and their development so far. )
In conclusion: it's a really good first season so far! May it continue to be!
This that and catching up on the Question a Day Meme for February
Feb. 11th, 2026 08:54 pmshadowkatMother told me all about what my niece is up to. Apparently she has a new boyfriend - a California Forest Ranger, who she met last year. (She's also living with a guy, but he's not her boyfriend, and he's apparently writing a book for his thesis - it's not clear if it is fiction or non-fiction. I'm guessing non-fiction?) And she's come up with an idea for an investigative journalism piece on the political corruption surround fire retardation use and how forest fires are put out or not as the case may be. Her advisor is excited about it - he wants her to pursue journalism and writing. (She's an excellent writer). Statistics is causing her difficulty though - apparently no one in our immediate family has the math gene? She finds calculus and statistics boring, and it doesn't make a lot of sense. (I can relate.)
Feeling rather bored and apathetic with my own life at the moment, not helped by the bad knee, which refuses to get better and makes it difficult to do much of anything but get to and from work, and the occasional errand (including physical therapy). It still hurts. Although my physical therapist, Vishanti, appears to think it is getting stronger and better, so there's that at least. Also, it's warming up - a little outside?
It reached a rather balmy 41 degrees F today, and a low of 29 F.
After some negotiation - I finally managed to convince the Super to turn off the sparkling brand new radiator that they installed in my kitchen. It's black. It takes up more space than I'd like? But I think I can fit a small cabinet in front of it. And since it's turned off - I cancelled my purchase of the window fan. Also it's not quite as warm in the apartment at the moment as it was last night, which made it difficult to sleep. Although the radiators are blasting now - so that could always change?
Every day on my commute, I run across old homeless folks. Today, it was an old white woman, who looked a bit like a gnome. ( Read more... )
Sometimes I think - if I can just help one person in this world. Then maybe the rest won't matter? See? George Bailey moment. [If you don't get it? Look it up. We have the internet - it's easy. Hint: it's a cultural reference from a 1940s Christmas Movie starring Jimmy Stewart. ;-)].
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Question a Day Meme
8. How often do you read fiction?
95% of the time. I also write it. And tell it in my head. And listen to it on audio-book, and read graphic novels or comics that are fictional.
I read non-fiction for work. Fiction for pleasure.
9. This year is the 40th anniversary of the release of the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – have you ever seen it? Bueller…. Bueller…. Bueller…..
Yes. I saw it in the movie theater when it first came out - admittedly with the wrong person (my mother - which ahem, not a movie to see with one's mother). And numerous times on television.
40 years? Damn. I feel old. It was, I think, a 1980s John Hughes film. John Hughes was the King of teen flicks in the 1980s, he, Francis Ford Coppola and a few others - kind of redefined teen cinema.
It grated though - because I identified a bit too much with Ferris' sister.
That said? Required back to back viewing is Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Election - where Broderick is the stumbling adult, to Reese Witherspoon's ambitious and annoying teen.
10. Have you ever owned a Tamagotchi?
I had to look it up - because I had no clue what it was. So clearly no.
Tamagotchi can be found here. Hint? It kind of reminds me of the electronic version of what they were trying to give out in the Buffy Episode Bad Eggs. If it had been electronic - Bad Eggs would have gone VERY differently.
11. Would you consider yourself superstitious?
Not really. I might flirt with it - but I am a born skeptic. I question everything. So no, not superstitious.
Feeling rather bored and apathetic with my own life at the moment, not helped by the bad knee, which refuses to get better and makes it difficult to do much of anything but get to and from work, and the occasional errand (including physical therapy). It still hurts. Although my physical therapist, Vishanti, appears to think it is getting stronger and better, so there's that at least. Also, it's warming up - a little outside?
It reached a rather balmy 41 degrees F today, and a low of 29 F.
After some negotiation - I finally managed to convince the Super to turn off the sparkling brand new radiator that they installed in my kitchen. It's black. It takes up more space than I'd like? But I think I can fit a small cabinet in front of it. And since it's turned off - I cancelled my purchase of the window fan. Also it's not quite as warm in the apartment at the moment as it was last night, which made it difficult to sleep. Although the radiators are blasting now - so that could always change?
Every day on my commute, I run across old homeless folks. Today, it was an old white woman, who looked a bit like a gnome. ( Read more... )
Sometimes I think - if I can just help one person in this world. Then maybe the rest won't matter? See? George Bailey moment. [If you don't get it? Look it up. We have the internet - it's easy. Hint: it's a cultural reference from a 1940s Christmas Movie starring Jimmy Stewart. ;-)].
***
Question a Day Meme
8. How often do you read fiction?
95% of the time. I also write it. And tell it in my head. And listen to it on audio-book, and read graphic novels or comics that are fictional.
I read non-fiction for work. Fiction for pleasure.
9. This year is the 40th anniversary of the release of the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – have you ever seen it? Bueller…. Bueller…. Bueller…..
Yes. I saw it in the movie theater when it first came out - admittedly with the wrong person (my mother - which ahem, not a movie to see with one's mother). And numerous times on television.
40 years? Damn. I feel old. It was, I think, a 1980s John Hughes film. John Hughes was the King of teen flicks in the 1980s, he, Francis Ford Coppola and a few others - kind of redefined teen cinema.
It grated though - because I identified a bit too much with Ferris' sister.
That said? Required back to back viewing is Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Election - where Broderick is the stumbling adult, to Reese Witherspoon's ambitious and annoying teen.
10. Have you ever owned a Tamagotchi?
I had to look it up - because I had no clue what it was. So clearly no.
Tamagotchi can be found here. Hint? It kind of reminds me of the electronic version of what they were trying to give out in the Buffy Episode Bad Eggs. If it had been electronic - Bad Eggs would have gone VERY differently.
11. Would you consider yourself superstitious?
Not really. I might flirt with it - but I am a born skeptic. I question everything. So no, not superstitious.
Bad Men/Dead Fools: JUSTICE LEAGUE EUROPE #18-19 (JLI 56)
Feb. 11th, 2026 05:01 pmtcampbell1000 posting in scans_dailyWhen we last left our intrepid heroes, they were at Doomer Disneyworld, trying to figure out how theme park employees have outlived the rest of the population of this alternate Earth. As you may have deduced, they haven’t: the employees are all animatronic robots.
The JLE keeps trying to investigate in the face of the robots’ relentless cheer, but they can only hear “It’s a Mauled World After All” so many times before they snap.
( 🎶 It’s a world of fallout, a world of trash, it’s a world of rubble, a world of ash, and it has to be said, it’s too bad we’re all dead… 🎶 )
The JLE keeps trying to investigate in the face of the robots’ relentless cheer, but they can only hear “It’s a Mauled World After All” so many times before they snap.
( 🎶 It’s a world of fallout, a world of trash, it’s a world of rubble, a world of ash, and it has to be said, it’s too bad we’re all dead… 🎶 )
BtVS Double Drabble: Childhood Dreams
Feb. 11th, 2026 04:48 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Childhood Dreams
Fandom: BtVS
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Buffy.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 488: Childhood Hero at
drabble_zone.Spoilers/Setting: Years after the series ended.
Summary: Sometime in the future, Buffy looks back at her early life, when things were simpler.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
FAKE Double Drabble: Vote Rose
Feb. 11th, 2026 04:33 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Vote Rose
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Dee, Ryo, Commissioner Rose.
Rating: PG
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Commissioner Rose has political ambitions.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Candidate’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
( Vote Rose... )
Double Drabble: Sliding
Feb. 11th, 2026 04:25 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Sliding
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Ianto.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 904: Ice, at
torchwood100.Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Sometimes ice is just too tempting.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
( Sliding... )
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The Silver Bullet
Feb. 11th, 2026 10:52 ammarycatelli posting in booksThe Silver Bullet, and Other American Witch Stories by Hubert J. Davis
A selection of folktales gathered in the 1930s. A number of people claimed to have been the actual victims, others to know the people involved. A number are just told without a connection. Two are recognizable fairy tales.
It has sections about how to become a witch, how they worked, how to counter them, and tales of their witchery for money or mischief. Many references to witch doctors (or white witches).
A selection of folktales gathered in the 1930s. A number of people claimed to have been the actual victims, others to know the people involved. A number are just told without a connection. Two are recognizable fairy tales.
It has sections about how to become a witch, how they worked, how to counter them, and tales of their witchery for money or mischief. Many references to witch doctors (or white witches).
The Silver Bullet
Feb. 11th, 2026 10:52 ammarycatelli posting in book_loveThe Silver Bullet, and Other American Witch Stories by Hubert J. Davis
A selection of folktales gathered in the 1930s. A number of people claimed to have been the actual victims, others to know the people involved. A number are just told without a connection. Two are recognizable fairy tales.
It has sections about how to become a witch, how they worked, how to counter them, and tales of their witchery for money or mischief. Many references to witch doctors (or white witches).
A selection of folktales gathered in the 1930s. A number of people claimed to have been the actual victims, others to know the people involved. A number are just told without a connection. Two are recognizable fairy tales.
It has sections about how to become a witch, how they worked, how to counter them, and tales of their witchery for money or mischief. Many references to witch doctors (or white witches).
Creole Sauce
Feb. 11th, 2026 04:30 amnverland posting in creative_cooks
Creole Sauce
Prep: 10 minutes mins Cook: 30 minutes mins Total: 40 minutes mins Makes: 2-3 cups
Ingredients
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon garlic, minced
⅓ cup onions, chopped
⅓ cup celery, chopped
⅓ cup green onions, chopped
⅓ cup green bell peppers, chopped
1 tablespoon fresh oregano
1 tablespoon fresh thyme
1 14-ounce can roasted tomatoes
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
3 cups chicken stock
2-3 teaspoons Creole seasoning
2-3 tablespoons butter
Instructions
Heat a medium skillet on medium-high heat and add oil, followed by garlic, onions, celery, bell pepper, green onions, oregano, and thyme. Cook for 3-4 minutes until onion wilts.
Add tomatoes, Worcestershire sauce, chicken broth, Creole seasoning, and cayenne pepper.
Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low. Simmer until sauce slightly thickens, 15-20 minutes. Adjust with stock as needed.
Stir in green onions, cook for another minute, and add butter until melted.
Adjust seasonings with salt and pepper to taste, remove from heat, and serve warm with fish or desired protein.
Tips & Notes:
Make sure to cut the veggies into small, uniform dice shapes to cook them quickly and evenly.
No roasted tomatoes? Fresh or regular canned tomatoes will also work. The fresh tomatoes are juicier and will take a little longer to thicken.