Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity. I can handle myself.

Wash ,'War Stories'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Sheryl - Oct 14, 2022 2:40:26 pm PDT #18011 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

I'm sorry the chemo didn't work like it should, Epic. ~ma for the next round doing its job.


Laura - Oct 14, 2022 4:25:16 pm PDT #18012 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Epic, sending lots of shrink~ma in your direction. May the radiation be effective and clear the way for surgery.


JenP - Oct 14, 2022 4:34:22 pm PDT #18013 of 30000

Bucket list: Visit Laura in Ft. Lauderdale

But you all are a wonderful counter, because it is a differ dynamic.

A truly magical one, at that.

Epic, I am concentrating (and will keep on doing that) on all the shrinking that the radiation ad oral chemo will achieve so that they can operate. So much strength to you -- physical, emotional, mental.


Laura - Oct 14, 2022 4:47:23 pm PDT #18014 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Bucket list: Visit Laura in Ft. Lauderdale

Doing a happy dance here. Anytime, except ya know summer, because I am too sane to be there in the summer.


meara - Oct 14, 2022 5:02:35 pm PDT #18015 of 30000

Y’all. Omg. So I’m on tiktok and the below comes up, talking about a guy in his 70s(?) writing red white and royal blue fanfic. Which, ok awesome! Dude writing fanfic, older dude, newer fandom, cute! But then. Then I read the comments. Talking about fanfic writers in their 40s like “aww isn’t it so cute?” And I’m like “you’re all of 21 did you think you invented fanfic? Or that AO3 was entirely run by teenagers? Or that you stop being fannish at 30?” Da fuq?

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I had to share my angst with y’all


askye - Oct 14, 2022 5:20:45 pm PDT #18016 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

This comes up on Tumblr a lot. There is one account I follow and people show up in the Asks of that person just having a horrible time because they are in their 20s (sometimes mid to late, sometimes early) and STILL read /write fanfic and how childish it is and how they feel ashamed and guilty for being SO OLD .

And there is usually the comments along the lines of how OLD do you think the people who run AO3 ARE??? How old do you think the people who started writing ST TOS fanfic or Starsky & Hutch or whatever are now?

Of course there are plenty of people popping up about how they are in their 50s or 40s or 60s and still writing /reading fanfic and it's ok and not to worry and there are people who have written fanfic for decades and didn't get into until their late 20s or 30s or 40s ,e tc.


juliana - Oct 14, 2022 6:16:53 pm PDT #18017 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

This comes up on Tumblr a lot. There is one account I follow and people show up in the Asks of that person just having a horrible time because they are in their 20s (sometimes mid to late, sometimes early) and STILL read /write fanfic and how childish it is and how they feel ashamed and guilty for being SO OLD .

Yeah, I see those threads on Tumblr often. So ridiculous. (I'm famishedeye over there, if anyone wants to say hi.)


meara - Oct 14, 2022 9:06:09 pm PDT #18018 of 30000

Ah, i am not on tumbler so I guess I’ve avoided some


JenP - Oct 15, 2022 7:38:12 am PDT #18019 of 30000

TJ's: Welp, they were out of pumpkin butter ("for the season," at mine, they said. For the season? It's the beginning of the season!)

Autumn Harvest soup is really good, though. So are the GF pumpkin muffins, as reported earlier by Steph. Haven't tried the pancake mix yet, but that might be dinner.

We are going to a craft show today, and then I have some work to do tomorrow. Beautiful day. We should go hiking or something. I mean, we won't, to but it would probably be fun.

What are y'all doing this weekend?


Steph L. - Oct 15, 2022 7:43:11 am PDT #18020 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

What are y'all doing this weekend?

Going to TJs for more pumpkin stuff! Also continuing to monitor the recuperating patient. He's doing great, but will be off work for one more week.