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Hello everyone!

Cheers to feel good weather, whether we are indoor or outdoors on our computers. 🌸


ALSO!!!! I am searching for a mod that can help me with this community. 🫶🏽 If you are interested, please comment "Interested" in the comments below. 👇 (MUST BE ACTIVE)


Lets make some new friends, to keep our online journaling aesthetic alive!

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Hello There!

May. 20th, 2026 05:34 pm
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Name: Ana

Age:36



I mostly post about: Book, Manga, Manhwa, and Manhua reviews or anything related to literature



My hobbies are: Reading, Learning Spanish, Chinese, and Korean



My fandoms are: Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Naruto, Stephen King, Game of Thrones, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Anime, Manga, Manhwa, Manhua, Jurassic Park, The Walking Dead, Supernatural, Sherlock, The Lord of the Rings, Disney, Studio Ghibli, Saiyuki, etc.



I'm looking to meet people who: Share some of my interests, so I don't feel like I'm talking into the void when I post, and give me something to read on my page. Ideally, I'd like to meet people around my age.



My posting schedule tends to be: Sometime I post weekly or sporadic depend on my mood.



When I add people, my dealbreakers are:Close-mindedness. Rudeness.



Before adding me, you should know: I post a lot about books, manga, or anything literature, which isn't for everyone. Also, I'm socially awkward and take a while to respond to comments or DMs. I try my best to comment, but sometimes I'm not able to think of something to say, so if it's okay with you, I might comment late on posts I've read.

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Don't worry, there will certainly be a few photos in future posts! It's just that I wanted to get this series started without having to wait too long. So: I stayed in Greenock (a bit west of Glasgow) over a long weekend, arriving on Friday afternoon and leaving on Monday afternoon. The weather was variable, as you'd expect for that part of the world, but only once did it really get bad and that was fortunately only for a relatively short time.

Why did I go? Several reasons. First, that it turned out to be cheaper than heading south! That was partly because my Premier Inn was one of the older, unrefurbished ones (opening windows and no aircon!) and partly because it's not a fashionable area. Second, that I was and still am rather concerned about what the ongoing events in the Middle East might do for prices, diesel etc later this year, and I wanted to get the break in first. Third, because I discovered Avanti had good deals on rail tickets.

I didn't know a lot about this corner of Scotland, but in spite of a few irritations I ended up quite liking it – and liking parts of it a lot. Stick with me over the coming days if you want more waffling from me!

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May. 20th, 2026 11:19 pm
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Name: Mr. Fox


Age: 30-something


I mostly post about:
Fragments of life, memory, war, and the strange feeling of trying to remain human while the world changes around you.

I write honest personal entries about life in Ukraine during wartime not as news reports, but as lived emotions. Memories of peaceful years, quiet evenings by the sea, conversations, fears, hope, exhaustion, music on empty streets, radio signals in the night, thoughts about humanity, loneliness, survival, and the fragile beauty that still somehow exists beside all of this.

Before the war, my life was deeply connected with the sea, travel, ships, people from different countries, and long roads between places. Some of those stories still appear here too.

This journal was reborn after a long silence. Every entry is published both in English and in its original language. I also share my own photography : small visual fragments of different periods of my life, usually connected to the mood of a specific post.

If I had to describe this journal simply:
these are probably letters from a person trying not to lose himself completely.

My hobbies are:
Photography (almost professionally), lomography and everyday street photography, music (acoustic, post-rock, instrumental covers, atmospheric music), psychology, radio communication, history, classical literature, travel, long night walks, and collecting strange little moments that most people pass by without noticing.

I love meaningful conversations and people who still know how to feel deeply.

My fandoms are:
Not really fandom-oriented.

But I love thoughtful writing, old internet culture, personal blogs, atmospheric media, documentaries, literature, music, photography, and people with their own inner worlds.

I'm looking to meet people who:
...feel something when they read my words.

Kind people. Thoughtful people. Quiet observers. Those who still value sincerity on the internet.

You absolutely do not have to share my experiences to understand the emotions behind them.

I’m open to meeting people from different countries and backgrounds — as long as empathy still exists in them.

(And yes, one exception remains:
I do not welcome people who support or justify the war.)

My posting schedule tends to be:
Usually several times a week.
Sometimes more often when thoughts become too loud to keep inside.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are:
Cruelty, dehumanization, propaganda, or people who completely lost the ability to empathize with others.

Otherwise, I prefer discovering people naturally through conversation and writing.

Before adding me, you should know:
I’m Ukrainian.
And I think that inevitably shapes many things I write now.

Still, this journal is not built around politics alone.
It is about trying to preserve memory, humanity, warmth, irony, curiosity, and the ability to notice beauty even during difficult times.

Welcome aboard.
These are still my messages in a bottle.

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📝 Оригинальный текст записи

Привет тем, кто всё ещё читает мои записи.
Я давно хотел написать этот текст, но всё время откладывал его. Наверное потому, что некоторые мысли слишком долго живут внутри, прежде чем становятся словами. Все знают слово «бикини». Кто-то вспоминает море, лето, рекламу, красивые фотографии, чьи-то отпуска. Но мало кто помнит, откуда вообще появилось это название. Когда-то в Тихом океане существовал и до сих пор существует атолл Бикини, место, ставшее крупнейшим полигоном ядерных испытаний. Тогда человечество только заходило в эпоху атомного оружия и до конца не понимало последствий собственных действий. Люди проводили испытания, просчитывали мощность взрывов, ошибались в расчётах, а рядом продолжали жить обычные люди.
Многие острова позже оказались уничтожены. Некоторые буквально исчезли с карты. Людей переселяли уже после того, как стало поздно. А испытания продолжались дальше. За ядерными взрывами пришли термоядерные.
Во время испытания Castle Bravo в 1954 году мощность взрыва оказалась значительно выше прогнозируемой. Радиоактивные осадки накрыли не только ближайшие острова, но и людей, которые вообще не понимали, что происходит. Многие жители позже вспоминали, как с неба начал падать белый пепел, похожий на снег. Они трогали его руками, дети играли с ним, не понимая, что это радиоактивная пыль. И самое страшное во всей этой истории даже не радиация, а то, насколько быстро трагедия превращается в фон. В название. В рекламу. В красивое слово, оторванное от памяти о том, что произошло на самом деле.
Французский дизайнер назвал свою линию купальников «Bikini» именно в честь этих испытаний, как символ чего-то «взрывного». Скандал сработал идеально. Мир запомнил название. Но почти забыл саму катастрофу.
Наверное, поэтому я снова вспомнил обо всём этом после годовщины Чернобыля. Люди очень плохо умеют помнить последствия собственных ошибок. Особенно если эти последствия растянуты во времени.
Когда я служил и работал с радиочастотами, я часто слышал один странный коротковолновый сигнал. Его знают многие радиолюбители по всему миру. Он звучит уже десятилетиями : монотонно, раздражающе, почти бессмысленно. Просто постоянный шум где-то на фоне мира.
Этот сигнал многие называют просто «Жужжалкой». Радиостанция УВБ-76. Она существует ещё со времён Советского Союза и продолжает работать до сих пор. Большую часть времени в эфире звучит монотонный шум, иногда короткие сообщения или наборы слов.
Существует множество теорий о её назначении. Одни считают её частью военной системы связи, другие связывают её с системой «Периметр», тем самым механизмом ответного ядерного удара, который на Западе часто называют Dead Hand.
Никто из обычных людей не знает всей правды. Но сам факт существования подобных систем уже многое говорит о мире, в котором мы живём.
Иногда мне кажется, что человечество живёт одновременно в двух состояниях:
в одном цветут каштаны, кто-то играет на гитаре на вечерней улице, люди влюбляются, заводят котов, планируют отпуска и спорят о мелочах.
в другом где-то глубоко под землёй продолжают существовать системы, созданные на случай конца света.
И, наверное, самое жуткое в этом то, что всё это давно стало фоном нашей жизни.
Мы живём в мире, где достаточно одной ошибки, одного человека, одной системы, одного приказа. И при этом люди всё равно продолжают пить кофе по утрам, гулять по улицам, влюбляться, слушать музыку, гладить котов и смотреть на цветущие деревья. Наверное, именно это я чувствую особенно остро в последнее время.
Вчера вечером мне очень хотелось чего-то настоящего. Не просто компании. Не случайного разговора ради шума. А чего-то по-настоящему живого.
Но сил на людей у меня сейчас почти не остаётся. Поэтому я просто пошёл в центр города. Почти пустой вечерний город. Девочка играла на гитаре где-то на улице, и я был едва ли не единственным человеком, который действительно её слушал. Вокруг шумели заведения, гремели басы из клубов, кто-то пил, смеялся, спорил, жил своей обычной жизнью.
Я стоял немного в стороне и слушал именно живую музыку.И почему-то именно в такие моменты особенно ощущается сама жизнь. Не в громком шуме вокруг. Не в бесконечном потоке информации. А в чьих-то пальцах на струнах, в случайном вечернем ветре, в листьях каштанов над головой, в нескольких минутах, где мир вдруг перестаёт давить так сильно.
Наверное, последнее время мне всё чаще не хватает не каких-то великих вещей, а очень простого человеческого присутствия. Иногда хочется, чтобы кто-то сам подошёл заговорить. Чтобы кто-то из знакомых просто написал или позвонил первым. Не потому что от меня что-то нужно, а просто так. Но проблема в том, что я слишком привык держаться и не подавать вида. И людей, которые действительно знали бы меня настоящего, кажется, почти не осталось.
Тех, кто мог бы прочитать по глазам то, что никогда не будет сказано словами. То, на что у меня самого иногда не хватает смелости. Наверное, в этом и есть один из моих главных страхов сейчас. Не только война, тревоги или будущее.
А просто снова учиться жить среди обычной жизни. Среди людей, далёких от армии, от постоянного напряжения, от всего этого внутреннего груза.
И, если честно, я боюсь самого себя в этой нормальной жизни немного больше, чем многих других вещей. Но я всё ещё помню собственную фразу:
там, где страшно — там и находится опыт.
Наверное поэтому я всё равно продолжаю идти дальше. Даже если пока не до конца понимаю куда именно.
Наверное, я просто очень не хочу однажды окончательно привыкнуть ко всему происходящему. Потому что пока человек всё ещё способен остановиться посреди вечернего города, слушать музыку и чувствовать что-то настоящее он всё ещё остаётся живым внутри.

Note translated in assistance with AI GPT

Greetings to those who still read my entries.

I had wanted to write this text for a long time, but I kept postponing it. Probably because some thoughts live inside for too long before they finally become words.

Everyone knows the word “bikini.” Some people think of the sea, summer, advertisements, beautiful photos, someone’s vacation. But very few remember where this name actually came from.

Once, in the Pacific Ocean, there was — and still is — Bikini Atoll, a place that became one of the largest nuclear testing sites in history. Humanity was only entering the atomic era back then and did not fully understand the consequences of its own actions. People conducted tests, calculated blast power, made mistakes in those calculations, while ordinary people continued living nearby.

Many islands were later destroyed. Some literally disappeared from the map. People were relocated only after it was already too late. And the tests continued. After nuclear explosions came thermonuclear ones.

During the Castle Bravo test in 1954, the explosion turned out to be far more powerful than expected. Radioactive fallout covered not only nearby islands, but also people who did not even understand what was happening. Many residents later remembered white ash falling from the sky like snow. They touched it with their hands, children played with it, not realizing it was radioactive dust.

And perhaps the most terrifying thing in this story is not even the radiation itself, but how quickly tragedy turns into background noise. Into a name. Into advertising. Into a beautiful word disconnected from the memory of what actually happened.

A French designer named his swimwear line “Bikini” specifically after those tests, as a symbol of something “explosive.” The scandal worked perfectly. The world remembered the name, but almost forgot the catastrophe itself.

Maybe that is why I thought about all of this again after the anniversary of Chernobyl. People are very bad at remembering the consequences of their own mistakes, especially when those consequences stretch across generations.

When I served and worked with radio frequencies, I often heard one strange shortwave signal. Many radio enthusiasts around the world know it as well. It has been sounding for decades — monotonous, irritating, almost meaningless. Just constant noise somewhere in the background of the world.

Many simply call it “The Buzzer.” UVB-76. The station has existed since Soviet times and still continues to broadcast today. Most of the time there is only a mechanical buzzing sound, sometimes interrupted by short coded messages or random sequences of words.

There are many theories about its purpose. Some believe it is part of a military communication system, others connect it to “Perimeter,” the retaliatory nuclear strike system often referred to in the West as the “Dead Hand.”

Ordinary people do not know the full truth. But the mere existence of systems like this already says a lot about the world we live in.

Sometimes it feels to me as if humanity exists in two states at once.

In one, chestnut trees bloom, someone plays guitar on an evening street, people fall in love, adopt cats, plan vacations, and argue over meaningless little things.

In the other, somewhere deep underground, systems created for the end of the world continue to exist.

And maybe the most frightening part is that all of this has long since become the background of our lives.

We live in a world where one mistake, one person, one system, one order could be enough. And yet people still drink coffee in the mornings, walk through cities, fall in love, listen to music, pet their cats, and look at blooming trees.

Lately, I feel this especially strongly.

Yesterday evening I wanted something real. Not simply company. Not random conversations just to fill silence. But something genuinely alive.

But I barely have energy left for people now.

So I simply went to the city center. An almost empty evening city. Somewhere on the street, a girl was playing guitar, and I was almost the only person actually listening to her. Around us bars were noisy, bass from clubs shook the streets, people drank, laughed, argued, lived their ordinary lives.

I stood slightly aside and listened to real music.

And for some reason, in moments like that, life itself becomes especially tangible. Not in loud noise. Not in endless streams of information. But in someone’s fingers touching guitar strings, in random evening wind, in chestnut leaves above your head, in a few short minutes where the world suddenly stops pressing down so hard.

Lately I increasingly realize that what I miss is not something grand, but simple human presence.

Sometimes I wish someone would simply walk up and start talking to me. That someone I know would text or call first. Not because they need something from me, but simply because they wanted to.

But the problem is that I became too used to holding myself together and never showing it.

And there are almost no people left who truly know the real me.

The kind of people who could read in someone’s eyes what will never be spoken aloud. The things I myself sometimes do not have enough courage to say.

Maybe this is one of my greatest fears right now.

Not only war, anxiety, or the future.

But simply learning how to live among ordinary life again. Among people far removed from the army, from constant tension, from all this invisible internal weight.

And honestly, I fear myself in that normal life slightly more than I fear many other things.

But I still remember my own phrase:

where it is frightening — that is where experience exists.

So I keep moving forward anyway. Even if I still do not fully understand where exactly I am going.

Maybe I simply do not want to completely get used to everything happening around us one day.

Because as long as a person is still capable of stopping in the middle of an evening city, listening to music, and feeling something real — they are still alive inside.

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русские: война, Украина, Одесса, дневник, личное, размышления, ядерная угроза, Чернобыль, Бикини атолл, радиосигналы, UVB-76, Периметр, Dead Hand, человеческое, одиночество, музыка, каштаны, вечерний город, внутренний мир, память, тревога, жизнь во время войны, искренность, коты, философия, атмосфера

english: ukraine, war diary, personal writing, reflections, nuclear anxiety, bikini atoll, chernobyl, uvb76, dead hand, perimeter system, shortwave radio, loneliness, urban nights, live music, chestnut trees, human nature, war trauma, atmosphere, introspection, quiet moments, emotional writing, diary entry, cats, survival, humanity

Isn't It Punny.....

May. 20th, 2026 10:39 am
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May 20th...


I Told My Girlfriend

She Drew Her Eyebrows

Too High...


She Seemed Surprised.

274 dungeon crawler carl

May. 20th, 2026 01:59 am
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x274 various, mostly Carl, Donut, & Mordecai

all here!
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80 Lolita icons (Adrian Lyne version) / some quotes from the book

Teasers:



here @ my journal

I'm home!

May. 19th, 2026 03:02 pm
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Actually I got back yesterday evening, but I was too tired to post. I've been in Scotland since Friday, based in Greenock a bit west of Glasgow, and I had a wonderful long weekend. I'll write about it over the coming days. I really did need that. :)

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May. 18th, 2026 03:06 pm
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Randy is back with a message that needs to be screamed by every sane American.....





Any ideas what song is being parodied here?

Songs From The Movies.....

May. 18th, 2026 11:34 am
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This week's song comes from the movie, "House of Gucci" from 2021,
But it's going to be dedicated to our weather here...
The Eurythmics "Here Comes The Rain Again".





Last night we had Thunderstorms roll through and also had another Tornado Warning.
With more rain coming through tonight...
Thankfully I was able to get to work in between systems. The worst of it after I got to work.
And one of my coworkers said she heard that Stewartville got hail.
So glad my car was sitting in the parking ramp at work, as I don't have a garage at home. :o :o :o
When I got home this morning I drove through the cemetery to see how the plants were looking...
OUCH... They took a beating in the storms last night.
I thought about going down to the nursery to get a planter or two for around the house.
I ended up coming home with three replacement pots for the cemetery and one for the house.
Not sure how well the battered ones will recover, so I have fresh ones to take their place.
New plants are sitting in the house, as we have more rain, hopefully not storms coming through tonight, and I picked up the cemetery ones and they are sitting in my car for now.
Dear Mother Nature, Please Be Kind.....

Monday At The Movies.....

May. 18th, 2026 11:22 am
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This Week's Movie Quote...

D. S.: No, not the flamingos!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 3


Which Movie Does This Quote Come From?

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Last Week's Movie Quote...

Yolanda Johnson: It's an old Carter family song, right?
Lola Johnson: A what?
Yolanda Johnson: Carter family, sweetheart. Just like us, only famous.

It comes from the 2006 movie, "A Prairie Home Companion".
It was based on the radio program of the same name by created and hosted by Minnesotan's own Garrison Keillor.
The movie starred Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Maya Randolph, Lindsey Lohan.........





Those Who Knew or Guessed Correctly...
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[profile] sidhe_uaine42
[profile] jobunches
[profile] hoobird

I guess last week was a little tougher.....

Media Post

May. 17th, 2026 12:44 pm
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Movies: None

Television/Streaming: Watching the latest season of Taskmaster.

Buffy season 4:
"Living Conditions," where Buffy contends with her bad roommate; even without all the other stuff going on, Kathy was annoying as hell. I remember so many horror stories my college friends told me that lived on campus, and it made me grateful I was able to be a commuter student and not have to deal with that bullshit.

"The Harsh Light of Day," where Spike returns to Sunnydale, looking for their version of the Holy Grail, the Gem of Amara. Spike is quickly becoming a favorite character for me. I felt sorry for Buffy dealing with Parker; I clocked him as this sort of guy when she met him in a previous episode and was very much hoping I was wrong, but . . . Ugh, fuck you, Parker.

Angel, Season 1:
"Lonely Heart," with that creature that invades bodies. I didn't particularly care for that, haha.

"In the Dark," which picks up from the Buffy episode "Harsh Light of Day" and has Oz traveling to LA to give the Gem to Angel for safekeeping. And Spike shows up, too. Marcus was perfectly creepy; literally made my skin crawl.

Farscape, Season 4:
Only briefly mentioned in the last media post, but up to now we've watched the first six episodes of this season. Aeryn is back and that wig is not great, but I do find it interesting that she is wearing her hair long and loose again. I'm sure this has been talked about elsewhere, but when we first see her, she has her hair tied back, very regimented, as is probably Peacekeeper requirement. Over time, as she gets closer to the other and especially John, the hairstyle becomes a bit more relaxed. After clone John dies, and she comes back to Moya, her hair is pulled back again, in a kind of echo to her closed-off attitude towards this John.

Aeryn's description of how Peacekeeper embryos can kind of stick around in a stasis for several years was an interesting point. I hope those crazy kids, her and John, can get themselves together again.

Listening to: two albums from the Rolling Stone Top 500 list.

Number 483 is the Muddy Waters Anthology. This was at 38 on the original list.

Rolling Stone blurb:
Muddy Waters started out playing acoustic Delta blues in Mississippi, but when he moved to Chicago in 1943, he needed an electric guitar to be heard over the tumult of South Side clubs. The sound he developed was the foundation of Chicago blues — and rock & roll; the thick, bleeding tones of his slide work anticipated rock-guitar distortion by nearly two decades. The 50 cuts on these two CDs run from guitar-and-stand-up-bass duets to full-band romps — and they still just scratch the surface of Waters’ legacy.


I did enjoy what I heard of this anthology, but it's a lot of tracks and after a while, they started to blend together for me. I also don't think I found the whole album they're referencing here online to stream (I use NewPipe or YouTube to find the playlist and then listen that way if it's something I don't already own).

Number 482 is Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde by the Pharcyde. This was not on the original list.

Rolling Stone blurb:
These high school friends from L.A. were a little like a West Coast answer to De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest, offering their own spin on alternative hip-hop in the Nineties and showing there was something going on in Southern California beyond G-funk. They rapped about innocent topics, like having a crush on a teacher in “Passin’ Me By,” which was a small hit, but also about dating a cute girl who turns out “to be a John Doe” and run-ins with the cops (the Public Enemy-homage “Officer”). It all came out as bright and refreshing as sorbet.


This is another one where I listened to it, but can't tell you much about it at all. There were some good hip-hop beats and some of the songs were light-hearted. I would have to spin it again to recall, as it was a few weeks ago now that I listened to this album.

Playing: I finished the first Danganronpa game, Trigger Happy Havoc. If you are not familiar, this is a visual novel style game with some murder mystery elements and courtroom drama puzzles like the Phoenix Wright/Ace Attorney games.

I had no idea what the difficulty levels were going in, so I picked middle-of-the-road, which turned out to make the trial battles a little more frustrating for me, as they kept adding elements in to complicate matters. But I did it. It was an interesting story and even though you're probably not supposed to, I do like Monokuma as a character.

The soundtrack was really good, as well. As I have finished the game, I've unlocked school mode, which I guess is more like a dating sim, and I'm curious how that looks here.

Books: The Original by Nell Stevens. This is next month's book club pick and I did not really gel with it. The publishing blurb begins, "In a grand English country house in 1899, an aspiring art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor." This was an intriguing premise; there are some queer characters in here, as well. Then I started reading it, and well, it didn't quite live up to its expectations. The central mystery here is wrapped up so very quickly in the final pages of the book, after drawing it out and complicating it with so much other unnecessary stuff. There are a bunch of potential plot points sprinkled in here and then sometimes they are never picked up again. The art descriptions were interesting, but overall, it wasn't for me. I'm interested to see what others in the group have to say about it.

There Never Was a Once Upon a Time by Carmen Naranjo. This was on my list from a "read around the world" project I had started a long time ago. It took me ages to get the list for A-C done (and then never finished it), as I wanted to find books that were written by authors from that country, and of course, translated into English if it's not an English-speaking country. The books still come up on my TBR from time to time, so I still am working my way through them, I guess, although I probably forgot to tag some or write anything much about them since then. I also came up with that list over a decade ago, so maybe there are other choices since then. (Or someone else did the work for me, haha).

Anyway, Carmen Naranjo was my selection from Costa Rica. This was pretty short, a collection of short stories told from the perspective of children on topics like death and growing up. It was middle-of-the-road for me, but it was translated in the 1980s and I don't know if some of the disconnect is because of the translation or it's just the stories themselves.

The Facts Of Life.....

May. 17th, 2026 10:43 am
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With a bit of LOL... thrown in...


Wombats Have

Cube-Shaped Poop.

On holiday

May. 17th, 2026 08:42 am
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I'm away for a long weekend, hence the lack of updates. Will talk about it when I'm back! :)

557 witch hat atelier

May. 16th, 2026 08:05 pm
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x122 Agott
x168 Coco
x43 Olruggio
x108 Qifrey
x29 Richeh
x87 Tetia

290 agott & coco & 267 olruggio & qifrey & richeh & tetia

Resident Evil Requiem [2026]

May. 16th, 2026 12:04 pm
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Hello there!

May. 16th, 2026 08:27 pm
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I just recently returned from a health-related hiatus and thought I'd like to meet a couple new people :)

Name:
Tina.
Age: Freshly turned 38 six days ago!

I mostly post about: My daily life and musings. Sometimes I also post surveys/memes, will share a song I found if I think my friends are going to like it and I do a weekly "What are you reading Wednesday?" post. My personal entries often contain pictures, but if there are more than three of them, I'll put the rest of them under a cut to spare your reading list.

My hobbies are: Reading, listening to music, hanging out with friends, taking walks, playing Pokémon Go (yes, "still"), taking pictures, going to concerts (when I can afford it), travelling (same), cuddling my cat, doing word searches, jigsaw puzzles.
My fandoms are: I don't really have any? I mean, I am a "fan" in the sense of liking things but I don't read/write fanfiction or the like. I don't have anything against fandom culture, in fact I love how passionate and creative people get about it! I just never got into it personally.

I'm looking to meet people who: are kind, empathetic, understand that life isn't always sunshine and puppies, and have a sense of humour. Shared interests are a plus, but not necessary - I have made some great friends on here who I have almost nothing in common with. I also find it so intriguing to learn about what people love and what makes them so passionate about it!
My posting schedule tends to be: I try to post at least once a week (not counting the "Reading Wednesday" entry). Same with commenting on my flist, if I have enough spoons.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: The usual (anti-feminism, queer-/transphobia, racism etc.). Both extreme zionists and anti-semites. I have been going through some health struggles in the past year or so (both physical and mental) and want to feel free to whine on my journal sometimes, so if you are a person who doesn't like "too much negativity", you might want to give me a pass. I don't mean to be an asshole, it's just that I am never sure where the line to "too much" would be crossed and in the end, either of us could get uncomfortable. I hope that makes sense?

Please also give me a pass if you think that autism spectrum disorders and/or ADHD are "overdiagnosed" or self-diagnosis isn't valid. I am very possibly on the spectrum myself and have been trying to seek an official diagnosis for years but it seems nigh impossible where I am, so this is a sensitive topic for me.

Lastly, I unfortunately have a tendency to put my foot in my mouth or just phrase things badly, which has lead to misunderstandings/drama before. So please, if I ever say something that ends up offending you, try to give me the benefit of the doubt and talk to me about it. I never intend to hurt anyone, and if I do, will apologize and do my best to make up for it. Sometimes I will just not realize I was being offensive, and I truly even appreciate the learning experience!

Before adding me, you should know:
I think I've pretty much covered that above? Just wanted to say that I might sound "complicated" or unapproachable, but in reality I am really quite nice and love getting to know people from all walks of life. Please do comment on here before adding me, thank you so much ♥

L.M.A.O......

May. 16th, 2026 10:20 am
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Or maybe they are groaners.....

May 16th.....

So What If I Can't Spell

Armageddon?

It's Not The End

Of The World.

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I Want To Hear Ninety-nine Men

Sing "Africa" by Toto. It's

Something That One Hundred

Men Or More Could Never Do.

The Friday Five for 15 May 2026

May. 15th, 2026 03:47 pm
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5. Who is your favorite musician?

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