LightGetsIn
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fandom, disability, books, parenting
Just got a work email with unqualified good news in it.
I am confused by this.
I am confused by this.
February 4, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Just got a work email with unqualified good news in it.
I am confused by this.
I am confused by this.
Book checkpoint
Last: The Everlasting, Alix Harrow
Current: I mean, how much time you got? Let's stick with Slow Gods, Claire North; Will of the Many, James Islington; Lone Women, Victor LaValle; Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Next: Lol, you're asking me?
Last: The Everlasting, Alix Harrow
Current: I mean, how much time you got? Let's stick with Slow Gods, Claire North; Will of the Many, James Islington; Lone Women, Victor LaValle; Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Next: Lol, you're asking me?
January 31, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Book checkpoint
Last: The Everlasting, Alix Harrow
Current: I mean, how much time you got? Let's stick with Slow Gods, Claire North; Will of the Many, James Islington; Lone Women, Victor LaValle; Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Next: Lol, you're asking me?
Last: The Everlasting, Alix Harrow
Current: I mean, how much time you got? Let's stick with Slow Gods, Claire North; Will of the Many, James Islington; Lone Women, Victor LaValle; Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Next: Lol, you're asking me?
Can able-bodied people just, like, not?
January 31, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Can able-bodied people just, like, not?
we've gone from "secure your devices when crossing the U.S. border" to "actually don't carry your work laptop across the border" to "also your work phone, do not bring it" to "okay not any personal devices either." There have been....incidents.
January 30, 2026 at 2:15 AM
we've gone from "secure your devices when crossing the U.S. border" to "actually don't carry your work laptop across the border" to "also your work phone, do not bring it" to "okay not any personal devices either." There have been....incidents.
I kept hearing about how bad things were getting on bluesky re alt tags and I didn't get it because my feed was very consistent about it.
Then I started following people who reskeet critical role art.
Oh.
I get it now. Maybe 1/10 has an alt. Maybe.
Feeling a certain not good way about that.
Then I started following people who reskeet critical role art.
Oh.
I get it now. Maybe 1/10 has an alt. Maybe.
Feeling a certain not good way about that.
January 28, 2026 at 2:06 AM
I kept hearing about how bad things were getting on bluesky re alt tags and I didn't get it because my feed was very consistent about it.
Then I started following people who reskeet critical role art.
Oh.
I get it now. Maybe 1/10 has an alt. Maybe.
Feeling a certain not good way about that.
Then I started following people who reskeet critical role art.
Oh.
I get it now. Maybe 1/10 has an alt. Maybe.
Feeling a certain not good way about that.
I have been working a huge amount because [points at the news] and there were giant holes in my kitchen for a third of the month, but I figured this was the time to secretly do nanowrimo. And I just finished today so hey, the month is not a total loss.
January 26, 2026 at 1:24 AM
I have been working a huge amount because [points at the news] and there were giant holes in my kitchen for a third of the month, but I figured this was the time to secretly do nanowrimo. And I just finished today so hey, the month is not a total loss.
Sometimes waiting for the seizure is more annoying than just having the damn seizure.
This sounds like I am proclaiming a metaphor about life but I am being entirely literal.
This sounds like I am proclaiming a metaphor about life but I am being entirely literal.
January 20, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Sometimes waiting for the seizure is more annoying than just having the damn seizure.
This sounds like I am proclaiming a metaphor about life but I am being entirely literal.
This sounds like I am proclaiming a metaphor about life but I am being entirely literal.
Screams in the key of kitchen renovation.
2-3 days without fridge/freezer now an indeterminate 7+? days.
2-3 days without fridge/freezer now an indeterminate 7+? days.
January 13, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Screams in the key of kitchen renovation.
2-3 days without fridge/freezer now an indeterminate 7+? days.
2-3 days without fridge/freezer now an indeterminate 7+? days.
Yes cool great. the morning the kitchen reno starts (kitchen currently in pieces) is definitely the New England morning the heat should go out.
I'm cold, and if I'm cold, you know it's bad.
I'm cold, and if I'm cold, you know it's bad.
January 12, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Yes cool great. the morning the kitchen reno starts (kitchen currently in pieces) is definitely the New England morning the heat should go out.
I'm cold, and if I'm cold, you know it's bad.
I'm cold, and if I'm cold, you know it's bad.
Best books I read this year thread, starting with:
Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler. Intense near-ish future European scifi-adjacent thriller about fascism and AI. Beautiful writing, short and all the better for it. Thought about this one for months.
Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler. Intense near-ish future European scifi-adjacent thriller about fascism and AI. Beautiful writing, short and all the better for it. Thought about this one for months.
December 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Best books I read this year thread, starting with:
Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler. Intense near-ish future European scifi-adjacent thriller about fascism and AI. Beautiful writing, short and all the better for it. Thought about this one for months.
Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler. Intense near-ish future European scifi-adjacent thriller about fascism and AI. Beautiful writing, short and all the better for it. Thought about this one for months.
Find myself wanting to add some new recipients to my usual list of charities. Anyone want to sell me on an org you feel strongly about? (It does have to be a real charity with tax status because I give out of a DAF)
December 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Find myself wanting to add some new recipients to my usual list of charities. Anyone want to sell me on an org you feel strongly about? (It does have to be a real charity with tax status because I give out of a DAF)
You know what sucks? I've had a headache for a month straight. A bad one. Impervious to otc pain meds. And I eventually concluded it was from my right retina, which is currently in the last stages of dying for good. just a guess because there are like 3 experts in this disorder in the world
December 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
You know what sucks? I've had a headache for a month straight. A bad one. Impervious to otc pain meds. And I eventually concluded it was from my right retina, which is currently in the last stages of dying for good. just a guess because there are like 3 experts in this disorder in the world
For christmas I got a giant mast cell flare and now I am back on 3 antihistamines 2x/day.
At least now I've connected the dots on what's been wrong with me for a month. very slow to put that one together.
At least now I've connected the dots on what's been wrong with me for a month. very slow to put that one together.
December 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
For christmas I got a giant mast cell flare and now I am back on 3 antihistamines 2x/day.
At least now I've connected the dots on what's been wrong with me for a month. very slow to put that one together.
At least now I've connected the dots on what's been wrong with me for a month. very slow to put that one together.
School is out so wife is handling the feral Christmas goblin child while I have been frantically scrambling on a work emergency (it's about the almost impossibility of defeating anti-trans ballot measures, it's grim out here). Pretty sure she is more tired than me though.
December 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
School is out so wife is handling the feral Christmas goblin child while I have been frantically scrambling on a work emergency (it's about the almost impossibility of defeating anti-trans ballot measures, it's grim out here). Pretty sure she is more tired than me though.
Tired: There was something....off about those harry potter time travel fix-it stories that there was such a craze for years ago
Wired: it's that so many of them were written by men. you'd be skimming along, and there'd be an author's note that gender identified and it would be like '...ah.'
Wired: it's that so many of them were written by men. you'd be skimming along, and there'd be an author's note that gender identified and it would be like '...ah.'
December 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Tired: There was something....off about those harry potter time travel fix-it stories that there was such a craze for years ago
Wired: it's that so many of them were written by men. you'd be skimming along, and there'd be an author's note that gender identified and it would be like '...ah.'
Wired: it's that so many of them were written by men. you'd be skimming along, and there'd be an author's note that gender identified and it would be like '...ah.'
Just solved wordle in 2 after getting only one letter correct on the first guess, and it is 100% because the wordle editor has been making very obvious choices on a theme for over a week and like. that is not the point of wordle?
December 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Just solved wordle in 2 after getting only one letter correct on the first guess, and it is 100% because the wordle editor has been making very obvious choices on a theme for over a week and like. that is not the point of wordle?
Yeah sex is great but have you ever made a weekly meal plan that tetrises so perfectly that you use up all of the fresh herbs and specialty ingredients you buy
December 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Yeah sex is great but have you ever made a weekly meal plan that tetrises so perfectly that you use up all of the fresh herbs and specialty ingredients you buy
"[your child] is learning to ask people to join him using his words rather than his hands, and has made great improvements."
Truly, elementary school teachers could run rings around the U.S. diplomatic corps.
Truly, elementary school teachers could run rings around the U.S. diplomatic corps.
December 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"[your child] is learning to ask people to join him using his words rather than his hands, and has made great improvements."
Truly, elementary school teachers could run rings around the U.S. diplomatic corps.
Truly, elementary school teachers could run rings around the U.S. diplomatic corps.
I have smashed the ritual chocolate orange. Happy holidays, motherfuckers.
December 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I have smashed the ritual chocolate orange. Happy holidays, motherfuckers.
Keep seeing a lot of “this damage is permanent, I will never unthinkingly trust a CDC guideline again” and man, IDK. I really don’t think “I want to go back to uncritically swallowing information without a thought in my empty head, that was great” is the slam dunk take, you know?
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Keep seeing a lot of “this damage is permanent, I will never unthinkingly trust a CDC guideline again” and man, IDK. I really don’t think “I want to go back to uncritically swallowing information without a thought in my empty head, that was great” is the slam dunk take, you know?
That moment in a reno when you hit go on a five-figure financial transaction and it's like oh shit yeah, we're for real doing this now.
December 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
That moment in a reno when you hit go on a five-figure financial transaction and it's like oh shit yeah, we're for real doing this now.
The amount of executive function I am spending on getting kitchen reno phase 1 going is unbelievable. And I say that as someone with a lot of executive function to spare.
December 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The amount of executive function I am spending on getting kitchen reno phase 1 going is unbelievable. And I say that as someone with a lot of executive function to spare.
trying to say this as fair warning rather than raining on the parade: I liked the Heated Rivalry book a lot and *really* did not like the sequel. Actively bad authorial decisionmaking IMHO.
December 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
trying to say this as fair warning rather than raining on the parade: I liked the Heated Rivalry book a lot and *really* did not like the sequel. Actively bad authorial decisionmaking IMHO.
the problem with Adrian Tchaikovsky is that I feel like I'm finally catching up on his backlist, then I look away for three months and he's like "oh I have four books coming out next year." Like chill dude, I'm dying out here.
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
the problem with Adrian Tchaikovsky is that I feel like I'm finally catching up on his backlist, then I look away for three months and he's like "oh I have four books coming out next year." Like chill dude, I'm dying out here.
The Westing Game still slaps.
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The Westing Game still slaps.