Monday 25/08/2025

Aug. 25th, 2025 01:53 pm
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1) Successfully tested a new rental bike ^__^ Don’t think I’ll be using the service a lot but I had been curious about it for quite some time

2) Reading my sunny balcony

3) Took care of the plants there that have survived my week of absence ^^’

Sunday 24/08/2025

Aug. 24th, 2025 12:51 pm
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1) Finishing our stay by the seaside in a different town by in the coastline

2) Lunch on a pier. Water surrounding us, even under us as we can see the waves under us ^__^

3) The weather has been much better than expected and there is more sun as we wave goodbye

Saturday 23/08/2025

Aug. 23rd, 2025 09:04 am
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1) last full day by the seaside

2) Delicious fish courses,om nom nom

3) last week we had better weather than expected ^_^

Sweet science.

Aug. 22nd, 2025 10:30 pm
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I used the last of the season's rhubarb to make my sister in law G. a tart birthday cake. I didn't try any, because she didn't want to slice it, but based on the batter and the sound of the crust when I tapped it, it came out the way I'd hoped. Not too sweet, with a bit of pucker you don't often find in cakes. If I make it again, I'll keep it at just one cup of sugar and use more rhubarb. Also, seeing about a lemon juice glaze to give it one last punch-up.

My dad's book group isn't meeting this coming Wednesday. However, I've still been tasked to bake for my parents' roof party in a few weeks, and I've decided on mocha and parsley for an extreme contrast. While I said I'd be happy to do this, I was told by one of my parents' friends that I was more or less tasked to make three cakes: two for the party, one for him. I'm thinking something with plums. Or possibly carrots. I'll see where the market takes me.
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Friday 22/08/2025

Aug. 22nd, 2025 12:55 pm
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1) our family weekend in the Ardennes has begun!

2) the world championships volley has started. Going to see if I can watch some of our national female team's games...

3) BBQ this evening

Thursday Recs

Aug. 21st, 2025 08:45 pm
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You know what time it is? Thursday Recs time!


Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!

Thursday 21/08/2025

Aug. 21st, 2025 09:40 am
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1) having fun coloring. It's so relaxing ^^

2) trying to get things ready for our weekend to the Ardennes

3) going swimming this evening :-)

Wednesday 20/08/2025

Aug. 20th, 2025 10:35 am
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1) delicious tea

2) fun chats with colleagues ^^

3) colouring or reading this evening. And an early night in. 

icons.

Aug. 19th, 2025 01:38 pm
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Vampire Diaries cast
Taylor Swift
Gigi Hadid
Elsa Hosk
Cats and books
Coffee/matcha


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Tuesday 19/08/2025

Aug. 19th, 2025 10:58 am
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1) a clean house!

2) going to watch Star Wars Rogue One again this evening

3) watching the adorable cats of our neighbour playing in the garden

Monday 18/08/2025

Aug. 18th, 2025 10:38 am
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1) Taking care of myself. Went to the doctor for a quick check-up (my ear hurts) and made a physio appointment for my ankle and my knee. Go me!

2) Probably going to the little fair around the corner with my daughter this afternoon. We're home alone this evening, so we're gonna have a good time. We'll probably end up eating pizza after the fair *grins*

3) Going to spend the evening reading or colouring. Bought a new mandala colour book *grins*

A Sick Elephant retrospective

Aug. 17th, 2025 11:57 pm
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Posted by David Malki !

Longtime readers will remember, seven years ago, when I posted several strips in a row that all seemed to be variations on the same joke.

What started as a way to explore how multiple punchlines could stem from the same premise became a sprawling, months-long adventure that referenced (whether you knew it or not) every single time I’d ever featured any elephant in Wondermark.

Because, as it turned out, most of those characters were played by the same few elephant actors! This is a recurring joke from my book collections: all the elephant strips are reviewed by a theater critic, evaluating the latest performance of the classically-trained Norbert.

In fact, when I pitch the books to folks, I say, “You can start reading with any volume. There’s no continuity, except for exactly one running gag.” The theater critic watches Norbert’s career rise and fall, as he acts in episode after episode.

Revisiting the storyline on GoComics

As you may know, I also run Wondermark comics regularly at GoComics. I’ve been working my way through the entire archive, slightly faster than real time, over there for almost a decade.

And now… The first “Check out my sick elephant” strip hit on August 4, and of course, the entire saga will now continue to unspool over the course of months.

I’m excited to watch the commenters discover what’s happening! They are a special breed of their own, on GoComics. Follow along over there if you like!

Remembering the origins

Recently, I returned from Gen Con in Indianapolis! It was an auspicious return to a show where almost exactly seven years ago that storyline began — at Gen Con itself.

That day in 2018, I arrived in Indy after a late flight from California. It was after midnight, but I still wanted to try and get a comic posted before the convention began.

On the hunt for a simple but funny concept, I batted ideas back and forth with my friend and boothmate Sam Logan, who had also arrived on a late flight from the West Coast (in his case, Vancouver) and was in a similarly punchy mood.

The phrase “sick elephant” somehow arose as something that could be interpreted in different ways, and the two of us went back and forth for a long while, trying to come up with ever-weirder punchlines to make each other laugh.

Eventually, so we wouldn’t forget the ideas we’d come up with, I pulled out my phone and recorded a voice memo.

This week, I was able to unearth that recording.

Enjoy, for the first time posted publicly… The very first conversation that birthed the entire Wondermark "sick elephant" saga. The first voice you hear is mine; the second, Sam's. @samandfuzzy.com

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— Wondermark Comics (@wondermark.com) August 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM

(My thanks to Sam for whipping up some cartoon heads of us both for this video!)

That summer of 2018, the storyline continued for months, and I put together a complete book collection that December.

Sick elephants were also the theme of that year’s Wondermark Calendar — which would become the last installment of the calendar series (at least so far). A few months into 2019, I was offered a job that radically changed my working availability, and my pace of making comics would slow for some time.

I’m as proud of that storyline as anything I’ve done with Wondermark. Now that that job has ended and I’m answerable only to myself again, I’m glad to look back on it as a reminder of how much fun all this can be creatively, given the right circumstances.

If you’re a newer reader or haven’t seen the whole saga — or simply want to revisit it with me! — start here. I’ve added links below each comic where there’s a reference to something that will add context.

Linger just a little long.

Aug. 17th, 2025 07:47 pm
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The Museum of the Moving Image's recent Tom Cruise retrospective ended this afternoon, with a grand total of twenty-two different movies being screened at least once, with some playing twice. I'd decided I'd see everything at least once - I didn't need to sit through the theatrical cuts of The Outsiders or Legend a second time - and managed it with very little trouble and fuss. Mostly just what's inherent in the subways, like lines being down for a weekend and not finding out until I'm in the station and had to find an alternate route that, thankfully, still took me to a station within six blocks of the museum.

It was like going to summer camp, honestly. A regular thing to keep me busy in the long, hot days. Something to look forward to. Shared experiences with voices that gradually grew more and more familiar and faces I came to recognize. And now that it's over, we've gone our separate ways. We might bump into each other again - as dense a city as it is, it's not huge, and the community of repertory movie screening enthusiasts is small enough it's more than likely to happen eventually. Even if we don't, it was fun while it lasted and I'll look back on it fondly.

None of the movies were a chore. All of them were a pleasure to see on the screen, some more than others - for example, Eyes Wide Shut is something I appreciate more than I enjoy. Plenty of them were overwhelming in the best ways, whether it was the immense, immersive sound or the rich colors of the film prints or simply letting myself get taken away for a little while in a really good story. It was just as much about having the experience of the big screen viewing as it was the movies themselves - not quite a compulsion, not exactly a fixation. Hearts that are true, as Dave Barry described them, and a line in the essay kept echoing throughout this summer: "If you ask her why, it shows you could never understand."

All right, that one and another: "And the hell with what people say." Tom Cruise is a good actor, a sharp producer, someone I can personally say has a lovely smile, and he doesn't need anyone defending him. At least, not in the context of internet snark, cheap jokes, flippant comments. He's not my friend. He's someone I'm glad to share the planet with for a little while because his art's good, and I find it inspiring and meaningful. I don't need more than that.

While I don't need more than that, sharing it for a little while made for a wonderful time.

Worth mentioning are:

This one guy who brought up Alan Moore's Superman work and wasn't prepared for me to bring up Top Ten and Tom Strong,

That same guy who argued that after a long week at work you'd want to unwind and see some light fair and as such might not go see a Tarkovsky or 8 1/2 and wasn't prepared for me to say I'd recently seen 8 1/2 and found it a buoyant and uplifting piece on the creative spirit,

This one guy who agreed Streets of Fire is a movie that needs to be seen at night,

This one couple who hung back a few minutes to talk about how Jerry Maguire picks up where other romcoms leave off and how these days there aren't enough movies in the "people trying to become better" and "good people trying not to be lonely" genres,

This one projectionist who answered a couple questions I had about who owns individual prints and lends them out for screenings,

The print of Magnolia that keeps playing around NYC that I've now seen six different times and can recognize the flickers because a print's an object that changes over time and seeing those flickers reminded me of the nature of film as something that's almost a living creature that breathes with you in the dark,

The projectionist who had to re-adjust Cocktail a bit to get it into focus which was a moment that added to the viewing experience in a good way,

The curtains that closed over the screen and pulled back to make sure we knew we were in for a good time,

The MOMI staff members who were always thoughtful and patient and were able to give me a couple extra copies of the various movie programs and got to know me on sight by the end of July,

The MOMI itself for putting it on,

Everyone who took their tickets home as mementos and souvenirs,

Everyone who crowed somewhere about seeing thirty-five and seventy millimeter prints because even bad movies look fabulous that way and good movies are an absolute joy to behold,

Everyone who'd seen the older works like Risky Business and Born on the Fourth of July and Top Gun when they'd first played in theaters decades ago and were happy to see on a big screen and be lifted up and pushed under again,

Everyone who brought kids to one or both of the Top Gun double features because I know those kids had a fantastic time,

Everyone who laughed,

Everyone who cried,

Everyone who sucked in a breath and held it and let it out as one because we were all feeling the exact same thing in that specific moment,

Everyone who clapped at the end credits,

Everyone who hollered at the director or the cinematographer or the title card whether that came early or late in the individual movie,

Everyone who had firm opinions about which movie theaters in the five boroughs are worth the time and energy it takes to visit them,

Everyone who hung around a while between movies or after the day's programming was over whether it was at the doors or in the courtyard or on the subway platform and let the conversation continue just a few minutes more,

Everyone who I already knew beforehand or recognized after a few screenings and looked forward to seeing because of the pleasure of seeing a movie in shared company,

Everyone who legged it out to Queens to see a beloved movie on the big screen for the first time or possibly the fortieth, traveling by car, train, bus, commercial airline, commuter light rail, crossing state lines and time zones, who brought their own food, who shared their popcorn, who was happy to exchange a few words in the theater or in line waiting for the bathroom as a way to make the waiting easier or just for the pleasure of exchanging a few words about the recently shared experience, everyone who wanted to have a good time at the movies, everyone who spent this last summer together with me like I haven't done since I was a kid and helped make it something worth remembering.

Sunday 17/08/2025

Aug. 17th, 2025 09:25 am
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1) Enjoyed a nice lie-in this morning simply listening to the birds

2) I returned some library books yesterday and couldn’t resist borrowing new ones. Love all those books ^_^

3) Dinner at my parents’s place and this time it will be cool enough to really enjoy their garden (and the canopied swing!)

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Aug. 17th, 2025 01:20 am
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Dear Care and Feeding,

My mom lives several states away. We see her a couple times a year, but my children don’t know her well because of the distance. Meanwhile, my sister lives around the corner from her, so her kids have a completely different relationship with “Grandma” than mine do.

She recently visited us, and I needed her to pick my 8-year-old up from day camp. It would be just the two of them for a few hours before I got off work, something that hasn’t happened before—usually I’m around or my sister’s kids. Well, that day, my son did not have a good time at camp and apparently didn’t talk much after pickup. He was even quiet with me once we met up. My mom said that she had to spend all afternoon with my son, and he wouldn’t talk to her. We had planned to get ice cream together, but my mom asked me to drop her off at the house instead.

She later told me that my son needs to be taught how to respond to people. I have tried reading him books about interacting with people, I have role-played with him and read many articles on how to help him. I don’t know how to make my shy, sensitive child respond to people he is uncomfortable with. Do you have tips? How can I help my mom to have a better relationship with him?

—Grandma/Grandson Mediator


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Aug. 17th, 2025 01:16 am
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Dear Prudence,

My husband got totally hammered at my sister’s wedding and somehow ended up falling into the wedding cake. I reimbursed them for the cost of it and made my husband write a letter of apology, but they are still furious, as are more than a few family members. What can we do to mend fences?

—Cake Catastrophe


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Saturday 16/08/2023

Aug. 16th, 2025 11:58 am
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1) Lazy day at home (with time te read?)

2) delicious vegetables for dinner with deliberate leftovers for later

3) Clean bedlinen for tonight now the heatwave seems to have passed

multifandom icons.

Aug. 16th, 2025 11:26 am
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 Fandoms: Beauty & The Beast, Chicago Fire, Country Comfort, Daredevil: Born Again, Dead Boy Detectives, DOC - Nelle Tue Mani, Good Trouble, Gotham Knights, Hawkeye, How To Get Away With Murder, Kevin Can F*** Himself, Nancy Drew, The Sandman, SkyMed, Warrior Nun, XO, Kitty, Young Royals

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Infrastructure.

Aug. 15th, 2025 04:15 pm
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About thirty one hours, all told, between water shut-off and hearing the pipes fill back up. Sputtering, struggling, deeply welcome. I made use of other buildings' bathrooms during the days and last night I managed a two-bucket scrub that did a decent job of getting my skin cleaned off. My hair, not so much, which is one of the bigger reasons I'm really looking forward to a shower tonight.

Last night, I realized I was getting ready to wash the dishes on reflex, and ended up feeling a little lost for a few minutes. Now they're all cleaned and the water I'd saved and didn't drink is still going to get drunk, but it's gone into the kettle so I don't have to draw more out of the taps - something that seems appropriate right now. Not getting "new" water, but using water I'd already gathered. Because in part, I know right now I can get more if I need it. But I've already gotten this, so I don't need to protect it. Just use it.

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