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Мультфильм российского художника-мультипликатора Константина Бронзита «Три сестры» вошел в список номинантов на 98-ю премию «Оскар» в категории «Лучший короткометражный анимационный фильм».
До этого работы Константина Бронзита были дважды номинированы на «Оскар». В 2009 году — мультфильм «Уборная история — любовная история», в 2016-м — «Мы не можем жить без космоса». Мультфильм «На краю земли» был номинирован на премию Французской академии кинематографических искусств «Сезар».(с)

Очень рада за Бронзита. У меня сейчас один из любимых мультфильмов - его "Кот и лиса".

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356/365: Cottages, Wyre Hill, Bewdley
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Another day with basically nothing of consequence to report, so have a photo of some restored (some years back) cottages on Wyre Hill, a little outside Bewdley town centre. I don't know anything to speak of about the exact dates or original inhabitants, and I've never been inside. Still, they do the job of giving me a reasonably non-boring photo for tonight! :P

Current Mood: listless

sistawendy

No post yesterday because I woke up at 0330 and stayed awake for the rest of the day. It was one of those where I went to bed because I got dizzy from the fatigue.

So what happened to my theory that a lower hormone dose might help? Falsified.

The good news is that I got eight hours of sleep last night, even if it took me ten hours. And I had the sense not to ride my bike in the freezing fog this morning. Go me?

I got my bike pannier today. I hope there's no freezing fog tomorrow because I'm unduly excited about using it.

Current Mood: disappointed
Current Location: the living room of the Devil Girl House
Current Music: the dishwasher

badfalcon

So I have chronic insomnia, right? It’s pretty normal for me to still be awake at 2, 3 in the morning.

And usually this comes in extremely handy at certain times of year when the tennis is happening in the middle of the night.

Except.

EXCEPT.

I am sleeping really well right now??

Like… going to bed. Actually falling asleep. Turning off the 1:30 alarm for Sunshine. Having a day off today, not getting up for work, and turning off the 08:00 alarm for Jannik. And I’ve only woke up at 11:00 this morning like some kind of well-adjusted adult human. Who authorised this?

I don’t know if it’s since handing my notice in at my job (which, honestly, feels suspiciously relevant), but apparently my brain has chosen now - during prime nocturnal tennis season - to be like: “ah yes, rest. healing. circadian rhythm. wellness.”

Absolute traitor behaviour.

Li is also wondering if having an alarm set for the middle of the night makes my brain go “it’s okay, you’re only sleeping for a few hours,” like I’m tricking myself into thinking I’m just having a nap and that’s why it’s working?? Which is extremely stupid if true, but also… uncomfortably plausible. We might try it post-AO, because at this point I am open to psychological warfare against my own brain.

So now I’ve got some matches to catch up on while I finish the reading for my assignment, like a fool who accidentally became well-rested.

Honestly, I’m not mad about sleeping better. I am mad about the timing.

My insomnia saw the AO on the calendar and said “actually no 🧡”.

Current Mood: amused

kaberett

Saw the Child! Was given a Very Important Solar System Biscuit.
Successfully slogged through a Whole Entire Exercise Routine, thanks be to company, and only tried to fall over for balance reasons rather than presyncope reasons. The Socks Continue Good. (We shall leave aside the part where my watch firmly told me I should start winding down for bed right before I began it...)
A has indulged me to the tune of staying up late (post-wiggles and once we have finished our takeaway, which we have) so that the bread I did not manage to bake earlier in the day will be Ready To Be My Breakfast.
Brain was willing to put down sudoku and actually read some book today! I am a bit closer to finishing a reread and embarking on the new thing!
It feels like I might actually be able to fall asleep in reasonable time today. Goodnight. <3

cosmolinguist

I finally got around to watching the gay hockey show.

Highlights from my social media thread:

First impression is how nice it is to hear some people who talk normal! Aww, some Canadian raising! When I write smut about gay linguists north of the 49th parallel, I'm gonna call it Canadian Raising.

Okay yes it's nice to see some butts and clavicles and forearms and all that, but also this is just making me miss my BlackBerry.

I watched this with a friend who'd been told that stuff doesn't start happening until episode 4. So by the end of episode 1 he was like "What the fuck happens in episode 4?! What is my friends threshold for stuff happening?! Because this is my threshold!" I replied: "This is more stuff than happened to me in like the first thirtysome years of my entire life."

omg why has being that awkward never gotten me that...result [I relate to Kip a worrying amount] Why isn't someone else the one saying "can I be too intense for a bit" to me for a change?

Yeah it's hard when you can't be out. You can't even like go fuckin... art shopping or whatever. It gets everywhere, after a while. This is what homophobes don't get: they think gayness can just be hidden like evangelical hypocrites hide it, just a behavior that stays dark and shameful. They don't know what it's like when someone makes you light up and you can't put a bushel basket over that.

Do they get a gay sports bar?? I want a gay sports bar!

I want a Canadian boyfriend with a cottage!

I miss loons.

We watched the whole thing and it's exhausting. So many big feelings!

Also I read a Margaret Killjoy thread that made me cry (content notes: ICE, Minneapolis). But also laugh. Especially this bit

Another person put it: "we're Minnesotans. We're excited to get out our real winter gear out of the box for the year."

Because I can absolutely hear this in my dad's voice.

I kinda wish I could have a day off for the strike tomorrow, but instead I'm gonna have a particularly stressful day at work! And then get a train back to Manchester! Bleh. I am donating money to various things -- here's another collection of links -- and I will be following on social media and trying to support my friends as much as I can from a distance. But I feel really weird being expected to have a normal day.

dhampyresa

Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat, by Julian Walker, Matthew Remski & Derek Beres

The central idea of this book is that the underlying principles of New Age philosophy and consipracy theories are very similar: Karma = "nothing happens by accident"; Illusion = "nothing is at it seems" and Interdependance = "everything is connected". An interesting and well-argued read.

I read this book early in 2025, at roughly the same time as The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care, by Rina Raphael (it was fine) so I'm not sure which of the two -- or even the Decoding the Gurus podcast I was bingeing at the time -- had this additional tidbit: part of the appeal of alternative medicine is the personalised aspect of it. You're not special, getting the same vaccine as everyone else, but this homeopathy is tailored to you specifically/this diet aligns with your astrological chart/etc.

soemand

Quick update from the driveway: getting the old fan belt off turned out to be the easiest part of the whole job. No seized bolts, no scraped knuckles, just off it came. The real snag showed up when I tried to fit the replacement—turns out the parts counter handed me the longer belt meant for the model with AC. Mine doesn’t have it, so no surprise it didn’t line up.

Back to the store tomorrow to swap it for the right one. 🤷

rmc28

Heated Rivalry is on this year's Canada Reads longlist.

superborb

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merricatb

OMG Y'all

pattrose made me a Wolfie and Felix moodboard! Look at these dorks they love each other so much! I'm so happy I'm going to stare at it forever!

A moodboard of Felix and Wolfie being BFFs

A moodboard of Felix and Wolfie being BFFs

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soemand

Part two of the car repair saga kicks off tonight: replacing the fan belt. The engine’s still warm from the drive home, so I’m planning to dive in while the family settles around the table for supper later tonight. It feels like one of those small windows of opportunity where, if I don’t tackle it now, it’ll nag at me all evening. With any luck, it’ll be a straightforward swap and not one of those ‘why is this bolt suddenly my mortal enemy’ situations.

oursin

So, at long last, I finally have an email address associated with My New Academic Position (this has been A Saga to do with their system upgrade).

I have also achieved reader's card for library of former workplace (spat out from the bowels of their system with A Very Old Photo of Yrs Truly).

And went and looked at the items I wanted to check, and found that lo, I was right and they did NOT have anything pertinent, as I had in fact hoped they would not. Though I had hoped to look, for another thing, at a couple of closed stack items and discovered that these cannot be ordered on a day's notice INFAMY I am sure I recall the times when there were regular deliveries throughout the day. Not actually critical, but irksome. (Also irksome was that I moaned about this on bluesky and got various responses that had no relevance at all to research libraries, in the UK, in particular this one.)

I then managed to get a digital passport photo at one of the photobooths on Euston station and have applied for a new passport, as mine is well out of date and I seem to keep seeing things that want 'government ID' to verify WHO I AM (over here, making like Hemingway....) so thought this was probably the way to go.

Also this is a trivial thing but in the course of my perambs of the day I walked past the statue of Trim, and his human.

In the niggles department, I did that thing of putting my phone down in place I never usually put it and flapping about trying to find it.

The lockers at the library have really annoying electronic locks.

Printer playing up a bit again. Though I think this really is that one has to let it mutter and sulk for a bit between turning it on and actually trying to print anything.

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lydamorehouse

Your laser-eye loon art for the day is a faux Antifa Regimental Badge for the Northern Defenders, Loon Liberator Brigade.(warning: this may be AI generated. I never saw an artist attribution.)

It is such a shame that antifa is actually just a bunch of collective action groups because I would sign up for this brigade just for the gear! (Well, and the paycheck if that were real.)

So, yesterday in the Defendre le Nord regiment, I did a bunch of stuff that felt a little bit like nothing, but which is probably 100% mission critical. I have a friend who is acting as a drop-off point for folks who are donating things from out of state and I went over to their house yesterday to help them open packages, sort, and get stuff ready for delivery. Then, we drove together over to their contact's house and unloaded everything for distribution.

As we unloaded the last box, I asked the contact if there was specific immigrant owned/operated restaurant nearby that they knew was struggling and needed a couple of customers. Having gotten that info, we drove over and had lunch.

I should explain to folks from out of town what it is like to go into a Mexican restaurant right now. You don't just walk in. There's someone standing guard inside over a locked door, they unlock it long enough for you to slip in, and then they lock it up tight again. Somewhere on the door is posted a 4th amendment statement that says something to the effect that this business does not give permission for any search and seizure operations, including but not limited to the seizing of persons.

The atmosphere was a bit grim, but the food was amazing and I double-tipped the folks working there because holy shit none of this should be happening. They fucking kidnapped another child, y'all. None of this is right? But, that's fucking cruel beyond measure. (Not that that's news to them. They have no problem roughing up grandfathers either.)

I had hoped to join my singers again last night, but they have a tendency to gather exactly when I am making or eating dinner, so tonight I will have to try again. I just saw on Facebook that my mutual aid group, the Food Communists, are in desperate need for hands, so after I drop Mason off at his haircut (his partner is coming to town tomorrow!) I'm headed over there to help out for a couple of hours.

K. Also have to clean the house ocassionally, so I am off. Yesterday's dinner was knuefle soup, today's lunch: egg salad on an everything bun with cottage cheese! Fueling the revolution one meal at time!

Stay strong!

P.S. Vance is visiting us today, apparently. Wish us luck. They'll probably try to plant some aggitators to get violent.

mxcatmoon

Here's a new one on me: Has anyone ever gotten gibberish as a spam comment on AO3?

It was a huge block of text that looked like this:

.'smylxL2P>sS5j=RIE]ScX-7DR&V\FU?[79jO94@\f!IB:w[3"aJv%J:}pIRO$q=K `q4Bv_ C6=q%OD-8MY^(;|EHNh3bS7C3e#gf}IsNZ(ETXFlS'V4ZipY|rr^2_kVqs]?ty4a8

It was from a guest. Yes, I have guest comments turned on for most of my works, I get so little engagement with my work that I'm not going to turn it off unless I have to, heck I've only gotten a couple of spam comments in all the time I've been on AO3.

I marked it as Spam and moved on, but I've never seen it before. What's the point of this one?

Current Mood: confused

rejectomorph

Tuesday and Wednesday managed to come by again, but I didn't interact with them. I just kept to myself, and don't regret it. I stayed asleep for many hours, most of them daylight. I'm finding that I often crave naps just two or three hours after waking up. I also find lying awake in bed much easier than I used to.

It's partly the chilly weather, I'm sure, which makes huddling under warm blankets so much more appealing, but not that alone. I'm also sure that I'm slowing down. Each time I wake after nodding off I think, with a bit of surprise, hey, you still here? I expect that the answer will remain the same every time. At some point I just won't wake up and ask the question.

badly_knitted

Title: Not Restful
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Varian, Jonathan, Travellers.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Spending the night in a comfortable bed is proving less restful than Varian had expected.
Written For: The prompt ‘Luminance’ on my

1character table.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.

( Not Restful... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Adaptability
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: OCs, Ianto, Team.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1031
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Very little of what Torchwood find themselves dealing with can be prepared for in advance; it’s a good thing they’re so adaptable.
Written For: Weekend Challenge - Unprepared, Part II at

1_million_words.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( Adaptability... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Константина Бронзита в третий раз номинировали на «Оскар»

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