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AO3 Link | Do It Again? (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:

Leia asks a question.






"Would you follow him again?" Leia asked as she watched Luke working on a servo for Artoo. Luke paused, looking up at the woman he'd been infatuated with by a clip of a recording, one that he now knew was his very own twin.

He thought about all the ups and downs they had seen, the fall of the Emperor, the more shadowy war against Thrawn's Imperial Remnant, and he smiled brightly.

"Over and over again, Leia. That little adventure might have had a lot of tragedy for all of us, but… we're here, we're family, and we are together."
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 Because we all need to hear some good, heart-warming news these days.

Streamer crushes MrBeast charity record with $70 million raised for kids with cancer - Dexerto

Thanks! And optional update

May. 4th, 2026 11:56 am
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Thanks to everyone who's send their well wishes! 🧡🧡 It's really appreciated. I'm feeling a bit less sore now. I don't have the spoons or function to respond to everyone, but I wanted to say thank you!

I'm putting an update on my issues under a cut, but please don't feel it necessary to read. This is just 1. for me to rant, and 2. for anyone who might be interested in the shit-show of dealing with the medical profession in the US.

details feel free to skip )

Well, crap on a stick

May. 4th, 2026 08:38 am
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Dreamwidth just ate the entry that I was in the middle of creating. That rarely happens but is very annoying when it does.

Oh well.

I got up at 4:30 and picked up a very stressed Bonny in the elbow and off we went to the hospital in Bellevue. Except... the garage door was locked. I knew they locked it down at night and should have figured out that it might be locked in the morning and then moved my car to the street last night. But, I did not. It took two calls to Security to get the door opened. (Yes, at 4:45 in the morning, we are not out for a leisurely drive but, in fact, are on a timeline that does not allow for us to idle in garage.)

Anyway, there was, wonderfully, no traffic at all. It was sure different. We got there with 10 minutes to spare. She just wanted a drop off so that's what she got and I was home by 6. And the door opened.

Today I'll pop into the security office and get the exact garage door hours.

I had an early and long, lovely swim.

Now I'm dressed and breakfasted and ready for the day and it's not even 9 am yet!

I am signed up now to go to the alpaca farm on Thursday. I marked today as the day I would decide to bail or not. I am not wildly enthusiastic about going but I think that's just laziness. None of the others signed up are particularly annoying. The weather is supposed to be dry and cooler (it's been way too hot for a couple of days). There is no reason for me not to go so I guess I will just do it.

Biggie and Julio have just joined forces to request Breakfast Number Two. So I guess I'll go do that.
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...pun in the title is definitely intended here...May the Fourth Be With You.

Happy Star Wars Day!

May. 4th, 2026 09:05 am
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May the 4th be with you. Always.

💫🪐🚀✨

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May. 3rd, 2026 11:02 pm
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I took my tipsy self to bed last night without looking at the time but am pretty sure it was well before my usual hour. Woke briefly at 2 something, then slept until 6:30, and then couldn't get back to sleep. That common wisdom of every hour before midnight counting as two may well be true because I was awake awake, even if heavy-eyed and yawning through the morning. Did get to see a marvellous sunrise all gold and blue behind the cherry blossoms doing their winter snow routine, which was nice, but not nearly as good as three more hours of sleep would have been. And I ached all over all day in spite of physio and acupuncture yesterday. Consequently have accomplished very little: got milk from the super, washed dishes, and vacuumed the living room because bro proposes to visit me at some point next week and the carpet was disgustingly dusty. 

Really hope I feel better tomorrow.

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May. 3rd, 2026 08:47 pm
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Tried "Widow's Bay" on Apple + and it's okay? Kind of mildly amusing, and mildly scary? The first episode wasn't all that compelling. But I may try a few more.

It's a Stephen King style horror - but kind of styled as a comedy? Absurdist comedy? Reminds me of Plurbist (which is apocalyptic horror absurdist comedy). Both are on Apple.

Some example lines from Widow's Bay?

Mayor: Have you heard of the Sea Hag?
Old Crochety Town Story Teller (sings the ditty of the sea hag)
Mayor (at the end of the creepy song): So uhm, how does she kill you exactly?
Old CTST (aka Stephen Root): She crawls into your bed and sits on your face.

Or

NY Times Writer: So, did you have cannibalism in your town's history?
Mayor: No, no that's just a story, I don't know where you got that idea.
Writer: It's on a framed news story in your historical society (he turns to point to the large framed story and exhibit - they are standing in the historical society.)

****

Read the following blurbs on social media this past week:

If you are in a reader's slump, it may be for other reasons:

* Your brain is overwhelmed and can't handle any more information.
* The books aren't fitting your mood.
* That's not the book your brain wants to deal with right now.

Or? You just don't like those books and need to find a different source for recommendations, preferably not twenty-somethings getting money off of providing marketing content for books geared towards twenty-somethings?

If it were like the 1990s again - with no cell phones, doom scrolling, social media...what is the first thing you'd do?

Go to the movies. Seriously - cell phones ruined movie theaters for me. [Not that they didn't have issues to begin with - but give people a little computer or computer on a watch that they can talk to, text in, and play with? Forget about it.]
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Question a Day Meme - May:

1. Have you ever contributed to something being crowdfunded? Was there an incentive to do so?

No. Although I did contribute to an acquaintance's Go Fund Me for cancer treatment once or twice. (She died, so it's not like it necessarily worked? But I guess it helped keep her alive a bit longer...)

2. Have you heard of the ‘Language of Flowers’, published in 1884? Victorian Britain and America were caught up in the concept in the 19th Century. Do you know the secret meaning of any flowers?

Yes, I've heard of it. I don't remember any of it.

3. Have you ever traced any of your family tree?

Yes, I fell down the genealogy rabbit hole a few years ago - traced it back to the 1600s in the Americas and Britain. Got bored. And forgot most of it. That of course didn't prevent various extended family members from doing it? The most famous person I'm related to - appears to be Eisenhower - 9th cousin nine times removed. (See? That's genealogy.)

I'm not sure how accurate most of it is? There's a couple of countries that were good at preserving records of well, just about everybody, and the records weren't destroyed in bombings. Also they weren't in danger of people tracking them down to kill them or enslave them.

Britain, Ireland, and their descendants in the US. Also the Mormons. So if you are British, Irish, British-Canadian, Scottish, or Mormon - you can probably trace it back fairly easily. Germany? Not so much, it was brutally bombed during the first and second World Wars, as was France and a good portion of Western Europe. We also had a lot of records changed or destroyed because of the Holocaust and the Nazis. Scandinavia didn't tend to keep records of anyone who was well not of a certain class.
And good luck hunting accurate records of ancestry if you are Black or Native American descent - those records were destroyed on purpose in the US or altered to protect people from being found and enslaved or killed by armed militias.

****

It's a beautiful but chilly day for spring. In the 40s, looks like the 60s.
Comfortable indoors for a change - in the low 70s. Lots of green outside my window. And blue sky, with streaks of cloud cover. I'm battling a headache and irritability. Have two scheduled doctor's visits next week - PT (vestibular) and lab work, then a doctor's appointment (virtual) the next week and somewhere in there - I have to plug in X-rays. I'm tired of doctor's appointments - I don't think I've had a week off from any of them in a while. I need a vacation from waiting for doctors and going to work.

Making my way slowly through This Kingdom will Not Kill Me - which isn't the book's fault. I can only read it in snatches at home. I can't cart it around with me - it's a hard cover book. It's interesting because it is employing the unreliable narrator tactic. The narrator thinks they know everything about the world they are in and the people in it - because they read the book it's based on? But alas, they don't and get quite a few things wrong. The writer's are slyly commenting on how fans misinterpret the stories they love and read over and over again. Thinking they know everything about it. Or that their interpretation is the correct one. Or their memory of it is right. (It's not, people are human and fallible.)
I may have to re-read the book when I finish it and stuff is revealed.

My reading slump has more to do with system overload than anything else.
But it is what it is.

**

I'm up to date now on From - ie, I can't be spoiled any longer. It's an interesting set-up, but I'm not sure I trust the writers not to go for the shiny/creepy Twilight Zone ending in S5. (ie. Everyone dies and a whole new batch of people enter the town to struggle. I've seen this trope done a few times before. Usually that's how it ends. No one gets out and it just keeps rinsing and repeating itself in an endless frustrating loop.) Maybe I should stop now?

On the other hand, I'm curious. So will probably keep watching until the end. I want to see how quickly they figure out the latest plot development?

And so it begins

May. 3rd, 2026 09:22 am
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Sometime yesterday the crew arranged the outside terrace furniture. It was all kind of piled together from when they did a big landscaping a month or so ago. Now it's all back the way it is for the Summer. Next they will bring out the cushions. I'm guessing they are shooting for this week. It's supposed to be very warm today so they will have complaints.

Old people LOOOOVE to complain - especially about stuff they used to control and now no longer do. When they had their own homes, they did it this way... When they hired their own services, they made sure...

Bonny and Joan both get newspapers delivered. The security staff does the door deliveries. And, according to Joan and Bonny, they NEVER get it right. Sometimes they leave it on the floor. Now, in fairness, neither Joan nor Bonny can pick up shit from the floor easily. So I made them signs taped to their shelves in English and Spanish asking that the newspapers be left on the shelves. This has worked flawlessly.

HOWEVER, yesterday at Elbow Coffee they were both bitching because they leave the paper vertically when they should leave it horizontally. WTF??? I give up. I'm going to train myself to ignore all complaints except mine which, of course, are always valid.

This is NOT a complaint. I weigh myself on my Wyze scale every morning. It sends the data to Fitbit and the weight then goes to Trendweight.Com where I can easily see progress and trend. The Wyze to Fitbit transition is true but nearly every single day, a 10th of a pound is lost between Fitbit and Trendweight. It amuses the heck out of me and I appreciate the gesture. If it added a 10th of a pound, I'd be using the pant off of both of them for false data manipulation. If that is not a thing I'd make it one. ha!

The Mariner game started late thanks to The Big Eunuch celebration and so ran late. They played great until the end of the game when they made not one but two stupid and, turns out, fatal, errors and lost it in the 10th. They deserved to lose. And, honestly, I blame The Big Eunuch. And just love using that nickname.

Today's game starts at 1. And, at least my favorite announcer is doing the color.

Our pool has 4 lanes and today there were swimmers in 3 of them! That's as crowded as I've ever seen it.

Tomorrow is the Bonny to the hospital at 0 dark 30. Should be fun.

Oh, I finally got into the new MyChart. I had to verify with a text about fiftybigillion times but I finally got it done, got my brother access, set up my notifications - never call me and never send me snail mail. My money says within the next week, I'll get a letter in the mail and at least one robo call welcoming me to the system. MyChart is now Epic and Epic says 'come link all your accounts at this umbrella site!!!' I got the one linked but, of course, the new one is listed as a non-linker. Thanks for that help.

Also the software now offers up no way to change your password. At one point I was allowed to set a passkey but, there does not appear to be any way to use it. And two factor authentication goes to both my email and my phone number with no way to change it.

They have some details to work out but the funniest one is this...



Those are ALL the options. Seems like they might want to think about adding at least one more.

Now I think I'll go brush my teeth and then watch my Sunday morning Tia Watson YouTube update.

Just an update

May. 3rd, 2026 10:32 am
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Just wanted to provide an update.

All the aches and pains are making themselves felt. I'm still feeling miserable. Some of the pains are a little better, and some of them are a little worse. I'm finding it hard to concentrate on doing anything to distract me, like writing fan fiction. I've been watching TV.

Doing everything one handed is really difficult. I'm still dictating my posts. I can't deal with life right now. I'm stressed out and if my disability pay doesn't get through really fast I'm going to be in big trouble next month when the rent is due. I live month to month. But I can't worry about any of that now because I'm in pain and I can't deal with it. I gave myself the weekend to do as little thing as possible. Come Monday I’m going to have to deal with doctors, and red tape, and god knows what else. I’m worried I also did damage to my retina when I fell (there is a black line floater thing, but it’s only on the eye I fell on. I’m hoping it will get better but I have no idea. Health insurance doesn’t cover vision, either), but there’s nothing I can do on the weekend about any of this.

I’m wondering if this is IT. The time my life falls apart beyond repair and it’s all downhill from here.

Sorry, just venting.
 

Film Recommendation- Eat Pray Bark

May. 3rd, 2026 11:20 am
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I don't often do film recommendations, maybe I should do more as I am a film buff.

This film Eat Pray Bark is one of my favourite tropes:

"A group of troubled people meet somewhere to pursue a common goal, and this causes unexpected changes in their lives.'

I LOVE that story plot, I might start writing fics like this, that just occurred to me.

Anyway, in this case it is a group of dog owners taking their difficult dogs to a dog training camp in the Tyrolean mountains. The camp is run by a man who follows the Earth's seasons and natural cycle, so he makes the guests do the same.

We have a politician who was given a dog to soften her public image; a gay couple whose dog seems to be coming between them; a woman with a very nervous dog; a man with an aggressive dog. And the camp leader and his assistant who have their own secrets.

They all spend a lot of time in nature and guess what? It's not the dogs which are difficult after all, it is the owners' problems upsetting the dogs!

Please bear in mind this is a German film but Netflix has English subtitles and dubbing available. We used the dubbing, I'm a bit past peering at subtitles late at night.

I think this film not being American is a benefit- the usual American corny sentimentality is missing, thank goodness! There are no extreme emotions, no redeeming of characters, no romcom plot. It is more subtle and stark, like Europeans generally.

More details:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39465484/

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May. 2nd, 2026 02:00 pm
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1. Pleased for the weekend, finally. Got the trash taken out. Did exercises. Slept in - so got the requisite 8 hours. End of a stressful work week. And, I discovered that it takes anywhere between 6-8 weeks to get insurance approval and additional four to order and receive the injection from the pharmacy - for the knee injections. So that doctor's appointment was pushed out to June. Means only PT, lab and maybe X-rays next week.
June's going to be dicey scheduling doc appointments around work.

2. From - I've binged S3 now, which wasn't quite as good as S1-2. S3 has a few really annoying story threads. I'll warn anyone intending to watch this? The last three episodes have a torture sequence that I could have done without. [*Note - it is no where near as bad as the torture sequences in Game of Thrones, and you don't see the torture - just the aftermath. So more implied - than actually watching it? While in Game of Thrones - they actually showed it. So it's nothing like Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, or The Last of Us - mainly because it's on MGM+ and not HBO and AMC. Word to the wise - if you don't like graphic violence and torture steer clear of these types of series on AMC and HBO.] I spoiled myself for it - so at least I knew it was coming and was prepared for it. S1-2 aren't quite as violent and unsavory as S3 (where the writers clearly got bored and decided to get a touch sadistic). Also, S3, suffers greatly from annoying character syndrome or disposable side-character syndrome, replacing some highly likable characters with a few new and highly annoying ones?

The writers have a tendency to show conflict by having various characters explode with rage (yelling at everyone and smashing things) or having mini-temper tantrums, often lashing out at other characters who are either trying to be helpful, or trying to communicate something, or just get them to calm down. No one listens to each other in this show? Communication is a major problem. If they could communicate and listen to each other - they'd probably figure it out and find a way out of the town. But alas, no. (That said? It is realistic. I'll give it that. People really are like that. So, hyper-realistic horror?)

spoilers )

BROTPPPPPP

May. 2nd, 2026 04:03 pm
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For as much as I'm a very hardcore Kirk/Spock shipper with big gay!Spock feelings, it probably says something about my tastes that the moment that absolutely sealed TOS Kirk as my Star Trek blorbo was not "he seems a generic dude hero but we love him because he adores Spock so much" but this:

KIRK: At least try cutting him off!
UHURA: Sir, if I could cut him off, don't you think I—!
RILEY: ♪ I'll take you home again, Kathleen— ♪
UHURA: Yes, sir, I'll keep trying.
KIRK [penitently]: Sorry.

"The Naked Time" lingers on this for a few seconds more, mid-crisis, to give the distinct impression that receiving immediate public apologies from a man in power is not an everyday experience for Uhura:





I'm actually reminded of the more famous, fantastic scene from "Balance of Terror" in which Kirk gets progressively more menacing as he shuts down Stiles' racism towards Spock, and Nimoy absolutely plays Spock as having to emotionally process that someone leaping to his defense is a thing that could even happen; Nichols and Nimoy play these reactions properly for their very different characters, but I think the emotional beat is similar.

Also, the single most purely heartwarming time anyone is called beautiful is when Kirk is describing Uhura's *checks hand* facility for brazen lying and trickery in "I, Mudd":

Read more... )

trip prep checklist

May. 2nd, 2026 04:25 pm
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Do Before Leaving list: 72 items checked off, 19 remaining

Pack And Bring list: 33 items checked off, 16 remaining (including 5 items to be worn for travel, not packed)

Pretty good, for three days in advance!

A friend has offered to give us a ride to the train (that goes to the train that goes to the plane that goes to the plane that goes to where we want to end up, whee), so that's very nice indeed.

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