sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2026-06-26 10:55 pm

When you're in as deep as we are, honey, it's so easy to get washed out to sea

I began my day by cleaning the bedroom, the bathroom, and the kitchen and dispatching the contents of the recycling and the trash because there was a distressing smell of cold rot in the air when I woke up and I am dearly hoping it is not an inhabitant of either the walls or the central air. My mother has been medically recommended to eat more sardines, so I walked to Berman's in the afternoon and collected her three tins of the lightly fancy kind with preserved lemon from Fishwife. I had missed the news of the identification of John Pumphrey as part of the Camden Burials Project, but then I just heard about the monument for Absalom and Hannah Cook Boston. The splinteringly angular, female-led post-punk that WHRS played as I was driving home turns out to have been Duchess Says' "Melon" (2008). Phoebe Bridgers' "Lost Boys" (2026) has also crossed my radar. I just saw that Cape Verde is going to the knockout stage to face Argentina. Hestia drank goat's milk from my cupped hands and followed me throughout the apartment afterward, emotionally blackmailing me with huge golden eyes for the contents of my mug.
asakiyume: (bluebird)

[personal profile] asakiyume 2026-06-27 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
During the World Cup, Duolingo's been outfitting your on-screen icon with a different competitor country's flag each day, and today I got Cape Verde ^_^

(This isn't my icon; it's some random person on the internet's, but it shows you what I mean.)
asakiyume: (Timor-Leste nia bandeira)

[personal profile] asakiyume 2026-06-27 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
I'm doing maintenance on Spanish, Portuguese, and Indonesian (Spanish and Portuguese do add new content, but Indonesian they don't update, so it's just the same thing over and over, but it's better than nothing), but I've added Haitian Creole, Italian, and Chinese to the mix. I'm doing these much more passively than I did the original three, but even so, I can sometimes hear and recognize whole phrases on the C-drama we're watching. (I don't have an icon for the flag of any of the countries that speak those languages, so here's Timor-Leste's)
asakiyume: The Red Detachment of Women (1961, Xie Jin) (emancipating collectively)

I maybe need an icon from earlier than the Red Detachment of Women, but she's what I have, so

[personal profile] asakiyume 2026-06-29 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
It's Pursuit of Jade on Netflix, and I love it a lot. It has an indomitable heroine, a butcher's daughter (so she and the world believe, but it quickly becomes clear there are hidden origins at work) who's endowed with preternatural strength (she can dispatch a pig with a single barehanded blow), who rescues a man left for dead after he was attacked by bandits ... although he too, even more immediately and clearly, has a hidden back story.

The characters are intensely likable, and the drama is almost entirely circumstantial rather than interpersonal, by which I mean that people's liking of each other (friendship liking, or familial liking, or romantic liking) is not complicated by misunderstandings very much. Instead, exterior things--other people and events--provide the complications. This is SUCH a relief for me, such a salve for my soul. And I just like the side characters who turn up and how they relate to the central cast a whole lot!
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2026-06-27 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Hestia drank goat's milk from my cupped hands and followed me throughout the apartment afterward, emotionally blackmailing me with huge golden eyes for the contents of my mug.

Awww! <3
umadoshi: (Kittenbus friends w/cats (theidolhands))

[personal profile] umadoshi 2026-07-02 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Hestia drank goat's milk from my cupped hands and followed me throughout the apartment afterward, emotionally blackmailing me with huge golden eyes for the contents of my mug.

Wondrous beastie maintaining the traditions of her people!