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maluretteTitre : La petite fille orageuse
Auteure : Pauline Delmais
Langue : français
Type : album jeunesse
Genre : poétique ?
1ère parution : 2026
Édition : Paulsen
Format :
(acheté à l'auteure dans la boutique de créateurices chez mes parents cet été, lu en y retournant à l'automne)
Un été où il fait trop chaud, une petite fille en a assez de la chaleur et du soleil, guette l'orage et espère jusqu'à ce qu'il éclate enfin
De très très belle couleurs, je ne sais pas quel type de peinture ; gouache peut-être ? on ne dirait pas
de l'aquarelle ?
Les personnages humains ne sont peut être pas très très bien dessinés mais il y a notamment une vue en contreplongée et une double page de paysage absolument magnifiques !
...et visionnaire avec ça quand on voit l'été qui a suivi...
Pretty picture book about a little girl waiting for a thunderstorm during an already too hot summer.
Auteure : Pauline Delmais
Langue : français
Type : album jeunesse
Genre : poétique ?
1ère parution : 2026
Édition : Paulsen
Format :
(acheté à l'auteure dans la boutique de créateurices chez mes parents cet été, lu en y retournant à l'automne)
Un été où il fait trop chaud, une petite fille en a assez de la chaleur et du soleil, guette l'orage et espère jusqu'à ce qu'il éclate enfin
De très très belle couleurs, je ne sais pas quel type de peinture ; gouache peut-être ? on ne dirait pas
de l'aquarelle ?
Les personnages humains ne sont peut être pas très très bien dessinés mais il y a notamment une vue en contreplongée et une double page de paysage absolument magnifiques !
...et visionnaire avec ça quand on voit l'été qui a suivi...
Pretty picture book about a little girl waiting for a thunderstorm during an already too hot summer.
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Oct. 21st, 2026 08:50 pmdustbunny105Alright, so. I'm definitely not getting my room done to my satisfaction before I leave, lol. But! I think I can get it to a good enough spot that I should be able to blitz it when I'm back on Monday. At least the room proper. Fixing up my closet into a functional workspace again might have to wait until next weekend. That'll be easier to do with everything else taken care of, though, so I'm not super worried about it.
Maybe I can convince one of the older niblings to come help me out as an early birthday present... lol.
Maybe I can convince one of the older niblings to come help me out as an early birthday present... lol.
AKC Courtneyyyyyy Culture Festival #312: Shiratori Sari
Oct. 21st, 2026 09:40 amsonofgodzillaFriends, it's time we spoke about Shiratori Sari. At last, you might all be saying right now!
Here's the bad news: Sarii graduated in May, earlier this year. In the time we've taken to go through these Team AKB Oshi introductions, another member has sadly departed, and in Sarii's case, aged 16 and probably seriously thinking about her ambitions and her education, two years, two months, and fourteen days were enough for her to know that her future wasn't on the stage at Don Quijote in Akihabara. If I was being cruel, I might suggest that having not been featured in the senbatsu for a single, it's conceivable that Sarii's choice might be the right one, but we know that singles aren't the right way to measure a member's career and we also know that senbatsu in AKB is always so much more of a gamble than in the sister groups, something that rests on so many other factors.
During her time with AKB, Sarii was a member of the nineteenth generation, debuting in 2024 as the youngest member amongst her peers with a production of Tadaima Renaichuu and a schedule for livestreams. As an older member of the audience, I feel that livestreaming at 14-years-old is a big deal, but I know some of you have grown up with this sort of interaction being a natural part of your childhood, so I think this immediate reaction is either evidence of how out of touch I am or the fact that you don't realise the internet has made child actors of you all. Whatever the case, I'm assuming (hoping) girls like Sarii got the support they needed during these activities from both management and SHOWROOM, although it's worth noting that I feel there's more than one reason why SHOWROOM is locked outside of Japan unless you have a VPN and the fact that the platform is like this is an acknowledgement of how things could go wrong and the limits of the staff there and their capability for addressing such things.
Hopefully guiding Sarii along the way either way were the older members of her generation, Hanada Mei, Ito Momoka, Okumoto Kairi, and Kawamura Yui, and together they appeared on Yumemite Gomen, Koi Tsun Jatta B side. In fact, reading through Sarii's discography, it is almost a litany of B sides we have covered before—Kimi to Boku no Polestar, Sakura no Hanabiratachi 2025, Skipping Stone, Ishi no Taiboku, and, last by not least, Tan! Cy! Borg! Because of this, it's easy maybe to characterise Sarii as someone present to fill out the numbers, but to think of her in this way is to do her a disservice. Although she clearly wasn't top of the list, I think a longer run in the group would have definitely seen her begin to appear regularly in the senbatsu as it was only in 2025 that she was promoted to the regular members. It's a shame then that the demands of being an idol and progressing at school got the better of her as whilst leaving was obviously the best move for her personally, we never really got to see what Sarii could do as an idol if given a real chance. Perhaps later in her career, we might see her return as a member of a different group, as many others have before her, but I am sad that this moment passed us all by so quickly and never bore the fruit we all hoped for.
Shiratori Sari, born after Heavy Rotation had been released, AKB48 a part of her childhood, a girl whose most admired member were Miyawaki Sakura and Oguri Yui, girls who we saw grow up, has momentarily left behind her dreams of being an idol, but, despite this, I hope she doesn't forget the stage completely in what she does next.
Here's the bad news: Sarii graduated in May, earlier this year. In the time we've taken to go through these Team AKB Oshi introductions, another member has sadly departed, and in Sarii's case, aged 16 and probably seriously thinking about her ambitions and her education, two years, two months, and fourteen days were enough for her to know that her future wasn't on the stage at Don Quijote in Akihabara. If I was being cruel, I might suggest that having not been featured in the senbatsu for a single, it's conceivable that Sarii's choice might be the right one, but we know that singles aren't the right way to measure a member's career and we also know that senbatsu in AKB is always so much more of a gamble than in the sister groups, something that rests on so many other factors.
During her time with AKB, Sarii was a member of the nineteenth generation, debuting in 2024 as the youngest member amongst her peers with a production of Tadaima Renaichuu and a schedule for livestreams. As an older member of the audience, I feel that livestreaming at 14-years-old is a big deal, but I know some of you have grown up with this sort of interaction being a natural part of your childhood, so I think this immediate reaction is either evidence of how out of touch I am or the fact that you don't realise the internet has made child actors of you all. Whatever the case, I'm assuming (hoping) girls like Sarii got the support they needed during these activities from both management and SHOWROOM, although it's worth noting that I feel there's more than one reason why SHOWROOM is locked outside of Japan unless you have a VPN and the fact that the platform is like this is an acknowledgement of how things could go wrong and the limits of the staff there and their capability for addressing such things.
Hopefully guiding Sarii along the way either way were the older members of her generation, Hanada Mei, Ito Momoka, Okumoto Kairi, and Kawamura Yui, and together they appeared on Yumemite Gomen, Koi Tsun Jatta B side. In fact, reading through Sarii's discography, it is almost a litany of B sides we have covered before—Kimi to Boku no Polestar, Sakura no Hanabiratachi 2025, Skipping Stone, Ishi no Taiboku, and, last by not least, Tan! Cy! Borg! Because of this, it's easy maybe to characterise Sarii as someone present to fill out the numbers, but to think of her in this way is to do her a disservice. Although she clearly wasn't top of the list, I think a longer run in the group would have definitely seen her begin to appear regularly in the senbatsu as it was only in 2025 that she was promoted to the regular members. It's a shame then that the demands of being an idol and progressing at school got the better of her as whilst leaving was obviously the best move for her personally, we never really got to see what Sarii could do as an idol if given a real chance. Perhaps later in her career, we might see her return as a member of a different group, as many others have before her, but I am sad that this moment passed us all by so quickly and never bore the fruit we all hoped for.
Shiratori Sari, born after Heavy Rotation had been released, AKB48 a part of her childhood, a girl whose most admired member were Miyawaki Sakura and Oguri Yui, girls who we saw grow up, has momentarily left behind her dreams of being an idol, but, despite this, I hope she doesn't forget the stage completely in what she does next.
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Oct. 20th, 2026 08:59 pmdustbunny105My mom's car broke down right as she came to pick me up from work because of course it did, lol. My sister's fiancé came out to try to fix it and we thought it was good to go a few times but we didn't get far along the highway before having to pull off and leave it. Didn't get home until almost ten o'clock. I had stuff I wanted to do T_T
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Oct. 19th, 2026 08:59 pmdustbunny105This week is either going to feel super slow because of the four (about to be three!) days of work standing between me and my vacation or super fast because of the tidying up I still need to get done. Or maybe I'll get lucky and they'll balance each other out, lol.
I still need to make my spreadsheets and shopping list of the con but at least that won't take long. Tbh, part of the problem is trying to narrow down which Beast Wars toys I most want to look for. Might be best to not try to sort out priorities and just focus on what's available in the best condition at the best price. I'm worried I'll go in for some good deals and then find something I'd have liked more when it's no longer within the budget, lol. Ah, well, still a few days to decide. One thing that's quite helpful is that a lot of the folks in artist alley have put together a directory and some have even posted catalogues of their offerings. With the toys available on the floor being so variable, I spend a lot of my con budget in the artist alley and I do on occasion regret that. Having a better idea ahead of time how much to put aside for the alley vs the vendor hall is a big help.
Of course, it's not all about spending money. The (tentative) panel schedule is up and I'm a little unsure how to split my time. I haven't decided whether I'll do Friday. The venue is about ten minutes from my hotel by foot, per Maps, which is a fine walk but Idk about taking it at night in a strange city. I'd really like to go to the Cullen memorial panel, though, and that's not until eight in the PM. Might see if any other attendees are staying at the same hotel I am and would be willing to walk together. My Saturday ticket gets me into the toys and merch area starting at two o'clock, which would be much more helpful if I was interested in the earlier panels. As it is, there are only two panels I'm kind of interested in attending before the Beast Wars panel at-- wait for it-- two o'clock. Might not even bother to head that way until it's almost time, though I'm sort of interested in the TCG open play. The guys who run that will be offering free starter packs and promo cards and teaching new players (of which I would be one), plus there'll be donuts while supplies last. Could be fun. Not sure I care enough to go early for it, though, and I'd be disappointed if I went and found out I missed the donuts, lol. The only other "must attend" panel for me is the script reading at six, which I just hope doesn't run too late since, again, not super keen to take that walk. Granted, it was a longer walk in Baltimore and I came out of that unscathed... Didn't love it then either, though, even still.
Anyway, Sunday is the real conundrum. That's usually the day I find the best deals but the panel lineup is s t a c k e d. The first one is about creating stop-motion animation and the second is about making cosplay. I'm not especially interested in actually doing what either panel is teaching but I love hearing other fans talk about their creative processes and I'd like to support the more unusual panels that have been popping up in the con's recent years. I know I don't want to miss the Q&A with Stan Bush and Vince DiCola, nor the panel for fan designs presented through customs and digibashes. After that is the one panel I have no interest in, a TFP Q&A. That gives me at least an hour I can be back perusing vendors without feeling like I'm missing anything. The last panel (minus the feedback panel for the organizers) is about TFA deleted scenes and might be a repeat but there's also a chance that it'll include new information, maybe about the upcoming comic. Still easily the second-most skippable to me (minus, again, the feedback panel that I usually skip and so rarely count anyway), so I might not even bother to stay to see the hall close. Long drive back home, after all, and I'm not sure my mom bothered to take next Monday off like I did.
So, yeah, very much looking forward to my vacation but there is much to be done and much to think about.
I still need to make my spreadsheets and shopping list of the con but at least that won't take long. Tbh, part of the problem is trying to narrow down which Beast Wars toys I most want to look for. Might be best to not try to sort out priorities and just focus on what's available in the best condition at the best price. I'm worried I'll go in for some good deals and then find something I'd have liked more when it's no longer within the budget, lol. Ah, well, still a few days to decide. One thing that's quite helpful is that a lot of the folks in artist alley have put together a directory and some have even posted catalogues of their offerings. With the toys available on the floor being so variable, I spend a lot of my con budget in the artist alley and I do on occasion regret that. Having a better idea ahead of time how much to put aside for the alley vs the vendor hall is a big help.
Of course, it's not all about spending money. The (tentative) panel schedule is up and I'm a little unsure how to split my time. I haven't decided whether I'll do Friday. The venue is about ten minutes from my hotel by foot, per Maps, which is a fine walk but Idk about taking it at night in a strange city. I'd really like to go to the Cullen memorial panel, though, and that's not until eight in the PM. Might see if any other attendees are staying at the same hotel I am and would be willing to walk together. My Saturday ticket gets me into the toys and merch area starting at two o'clock, which would be much more helpful if I was interested in the earlier panels. As it is, there are only two panels I'm kind of interested in attending before the Beast Wars panel at-- wait for it-- two o'clock. Might not even bother to head that way until it's almost time, though I'm sort of interested in the TCG open play. The guys who run that will be offering free starter packs and promo cards and teaching new players (of which I would be one), plus there'll be donuts while supplies last. Could be fun. Not sure I care enough to go early for it, though, and I'd be disappointed if I went and found out I missed the donuts, lol. The only other "must attend" panel for me is the script reading at six, which I just hope doesn't run too late since, again, not super keen to take that walk. Granted, it was a longer walk in Baltimore and I came out of that unscathed... Didn't love it then either, though, even still.
Anyway, Sunday is the real conundrum. That's usually the day I find the best deals but the panel lineup is s t a c k e d. The first one is about creating stop-motion animation and the second is about making cosplay. I'm not especially interested in actually doing what either panel is teaching but I love hearing other fans talk about their creative processes and I'd like to support the more unusual panels that have been popping up in the con's recent years. I know I don't want to miss the Q&A with Stan Bush and Vince DiCola, nor the panel for fan designs presented through customs and digibashes. After that is the one panel I have no interest in, a TFP Q&A. That gives me at least an hour I can be back perusing vendors without feeling like I'm missing anything. The last panel (minus the feedback panel for the organizers) is about TFA deleted scenes and might be a repeat but there's also a chance that it'll include new information, maybe about the upcoming comic. Still easily the second-most skippable to me (minus, again, the feedback panel that I usually skip and so rarely count anyway), so I might not even bother to stay to see the hall close. Long drive back home, after all, and I'm not sure my mom bothered to take next Monday off like I did.
So, yeah, very much looking forward to my vacation but there is much to be done and much to think about.
Yuletide letter 2026
Oct. 19th, 2026 10:13 amkatarikHello, Yulegoat!
I'm entirely here for Queering the Tide, Yuleporn, Three Turtle Doves, and any character, Yulegoat, that you are interested in exploring gender with I am Here For, if you want to play with Trans Tide.
( DNW )
Clocktaur War
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DQ8, here's the youtube video of the Marcello cutscenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuqpgWfTZnc
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Brat Farrar
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I'm entirely here for Queering the Tide, Yuleporn, Three Turtle Doves, and any character, Yulegoat, that you are interested in exploring gender with I am Here For, if you want to play with Trans Tide.
( DNW )
Clocktaur War
( Read more... )
DQ8, here's the youtube video of the Marcello cutscenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuqpgWfTZnc
( Read more... )
Brat Farrar
( Read more... )
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Oct. 18th, 2026 08:14 pmdustbunny105Fell short again today but I feel much better about what I accomplished. In fact, the room looks pretty good as long as I'm looking only a specific part of it, lol. If I can continue through my to-do list during the upcoming week, I should have everything where I want it by the time of my trip. I'm hoping my sister can take me to work at least once this week so I can get the recycling taken care of, too, since I've gone and let that sit too long again.
Aside from cleaning up, I also did some crochet. I... think I like it so far? It's a solid-ish colorway, so I chose a shawl pattern with an asymmetrical shape and some ribbing. I really like how the ribbing looks but I'm not convinced I've got the shape right. Idk how it could be wrong when I'm following the pattern for the rows exactly, granted. It just doesn't look the way I expected it to at this point. Not that I really know what I expected either, lol. I think what's really getting to me is the size. It's going to be on the small side since I'm only using one skein but I thought it'd be bigger by now. Maybe I misread the recommended materials? Ah, well. If i get to the end of the skein and don't like what I have, I can always make something else out of it.
It occurs to me that I intended to post pictures of my latest scarves this weekend. It's late enough that I'm not going to bother with that now but I'm adding this paragraph in hopes that it'll make me remember later, lol. Although maybe posting everything I make this month at the end of the month is the way to go for this. That might encourage me to do more so I have more to show off at once. Edit: Wtf was I talking about, lol, I always intended to post at the end of the month ToT
Last thing I'm gonna do tonight is fix Phil's screen (for new people, Phil is my cellphone). I meant to do that earlier but, well, I meant to do a lot of things earlier. I'm really hoping this one works out better. Someone be a pal and remind me to get a screen protector so I don't have to worry about this again for awhile.
Aside from cleaning up, I also did some crochet. I... think I like it so far? It's a solid-ish colorway, so I chose a shawl pattern with an asymmetrical shape and some ribbing. I really like how the ribbing looks but I'm not convinced I've got the shape right. Idk how it could be wrong when I'm following the pattern for the rows exactly, granted. It just doesn't look the way I expected it to at this point. Not that I really know what I expected either, lol. I think what's really getting to me is the size. It's going to be on the small side since I'm only using one skein but I thought it'd be bigger by now. Maybe I misread the recommended materials? Ah, well. If i get to the end of the skein and don't like what I have, I can always make something else out of it.
Last thing I'm gonna do tonight is fix Phil's screen (for new people, Phil is my cellphone). I meant to do that earlier but, well, I meant to do a lot of things earlier. I'm really hoping this one works out better. Someone be a pal and remind me to get a screen protector so I don't have to worry about this again for awhile.
Weekly proof of life, in brief(ish)
Oct. 18th, 2026 02:55 pmumadoshiTech annoyances: For the last several days my browser was loading many things slowly and erratically in a weird variety of ways, primarily but definitely not exclusively with DW pages. Restarting the browser didn't help. Rebooting didn't help. Managing to grimly knock my number of tabs down (barely) under 1700 didn't help. But about an hour ago it occurred to me that maybe it was VPN-related, and either that's the case or it magically just happened to clear up when I switched the VPN to a different region. *knocks wood*
Has anyone else been in the habit of getting daily roundup emails from Goodreads and had them just...stop...recently? I don't think I've gotten one in a week and a half. Maybe it's a sign. (Maybe the incredibly annoying change they've made to the processing of applying tags is also a sign.)
Media intake: Last week I read Bitten, the first of Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series. It was her debut, and I think it said it was from 2001? And it is very much an early book from another time. I don't think I'm going to read further in the series, but at the same time I can see why it launched a successful career.
scruloose and I finished season 3 of Silo a couple of days ago. (And conveniently, when I went to cancel our AppleTV subscription the next day, it was just about to renew, so I got that done just under the wire.) The show continues to be excellent and also to just keep on getting relentlessly weirder, which is not a complaint.
And last Sunday we saw Zhu Yilong's new movie, V (previously Empty Gun, which was a way better title; it's on MDL as Kong Qiang)--our fourth movie in theatres since covid arrived, since Z1L continues to be the only force able to get me into a cinema. (With the usual internal conflict where I'm a] sad that more people don't go see his movies but b] grateful when we're practically alone in there during a matinee.)
It was really not at all my kind of movie, but he was his usual brilliant self. It was also, I think, my first actual exposure to Tan Jianci, although I've heard the name a lot.
Farmshare etc.: Week sixteen: celery, black kale, cherry tomatoes, parsley, dill, and leeks, plus some broccoli. There's also still half a Savoy cabbage in the freezer. The majority of these things are destined (we hope) for soups.
I need to post about soup.
Anyway, the farm's Instagram says this probably is/was the last week of tomatoes. And I forget if I've mentioned that the farm/store is doing another short farmshare between Hallowe'en and Christmas, which we're still unsure about. (I got the impression there aren't a huge number of openings, so the decision may be taken from us if the waffling continues much longer.) It's only being offered in one size, but it's the same size we've been getting (six items per week), and it sounds like they expect to still have a solid array of veggies, if not of fruit. (It's apple season in Nova Scotia. Soooooo many apples.)
Has anyone else been in the habit of getting daily roundup emails from Goodreads and had them just...stop...recently? I don't think I've gotten one in a week and a half. Maybe it's a sign. (Maybe the incredibly annoying change they've made to the processing of applying tags is also a sign.)
Media intake: Last week I read Bitten, the first of Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series. It was her debut, and I think it said it was from 2001? And it is very much an early book from another time. I don't think I'm going to read further in the series, but at the same time I can see why it launched a successful career.
scruloose and I finished season 3 of Silo a couple of days ago. (And conveniently, when I went to cancel our AppleTV subscription the next day, it was just about to renew, so I got that done just under the wire.) The show continues to be excellent and also to just keep on getting relentlessly weirder, which is not a complaint.And last Sunday we saw Zhu Yilong's new movie, V (previously Empty Gun, which was a way better title; it's on MDL as Kong Qiang)--our fourth movie in theatres since covid arrived, since Z1L continues to be the only force able to get me into a cinema. (With the usual internal conflict where I'm a] sad that more people don't go see his movies but b] grateful when we're practically alone in there during a matinee.)
It was really not at all my kind of movie, but he was his usual brilliant self. It was also, I think, my first actual exposure to Tan Jianci, although I've heard the name a lot.
Farmshare etc.: Week sixteen: celery, black kale, cherry tomatoes, parsley, dill, and leeks, plus some broccoli. There's also still half a Savoy cabbage in the freezer. The majority of these things are destined (we hope) for soups.
I need to post about soup.
Anyway, the farm's Instagram says this probably is/was the last week of tomatoes. And I forget if I've mentioned that the farm/store is doing another short farmshare between Hallowe'en and Christmas, which we're still unsure about. (I got the impression there aren't a huge number of openings, so the decision may be taken from us if the waffling continues much longer.) It's only being offered in one size, but it's the same size we've been getting (six items per week), and it sounds like they expect to still have a solid array of veggies, if not of fruit. (It's apple season in Nova Scotia. Soooooo many apples.)
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Oct. 17th, 2026 08:59 pmdustbunny105Made it to the farmers market today and got almost everything I went for. That's pretty much the only thing I accomplished today but I'm going to bed soon, so here's hoping tomorrow goes better.