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nacreous [ney-kree-uhs]

adjective
resembling mother-of-pearl; lustrous; pearly, iridescent

examples
1. This one is tough--its nacreous, butterfly shell swings shut on its hinges, small black wings locked like a mouth. "Mussels" [poem] by Lucinda Roy.

2. "Looking like a "portal to the next dimension" or possibly a spaceship, the shimmering colours of nacreous cloud were spotted. "Rare 'rainbow cloud' spotted in UK skies." BBC. 21 December 2023

origin
1590s, "type of shellfish that yields mother-of-pearl," from French nacre (Old French nacaire, 14c.), from Italian naccaro (now nacchera), possibly from Arabic naqur "hunting horn" (from nakara "to hollow out"), in reference to the shape of the mollusk shell. Meaning "mother-of-pearl" is from 1718. The French adjectival form nacré was applied in English to decorative objects iridescent like mother of pearl (1895).

May the fourth be with you!

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"Looking back on it, I probably should have realized then that you had become more than just a friend to me."

It has been many a month since I last drew any Leonardo x Cecilia, and even longer since I drew Cecilia in her original human form. Hell, I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've drawn anything romance-tinged with Cece as a human. (Then again, it's a lot easier to give them soft, fluffy moments after her turtle transformation happens. Prior to that, it's pretty much angst-central.)

Thought process with this is that they somehow ended up in a sort of survival situation. Maybe they washed up on a desert island, maybe there was the usual dimension-hopping shenanigans—either way, Leo is separated from his brothers and the only one he has to rely on is Cece. They end up bonding a lot during their time alone and when they go to sleep one night, Leo embraces her from behind. He thought at the time he was just trying to help her stay warm, but... no, he just wanted to be close to her.

Note: While this is meant to be 2003-verse, I did draw Leonardo with gear loosely inspired by the look he has in the new Empire City game. Still mad I can't play it, but VR headsets are expensive and I don't even have anyone to play it with. (It's one of those games that heavily emphasizes multiplayer...)

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I have no idea how interesting this is going to be for people who aren't hardcore manga/anime fans, but if you want to see Logan Paul and scalpers/speculators in general get hyperbolically and humorously Dunked On, this is a good watch.

frith

A few years ago, might have been four, the person who dropped off llamas on my property starting over a decade ago, wanted to grow catnip for a cat toy project. On my front lawn. Sure, why not. So he rented a rototiller, dug up a section, planted a bunch of plants, which never grew big enough to harvest. The crowd of volunteer weeders never materialized, and by the next year I think he lost interest. It's easier and probably cheaper to buy dried catnip in bulk. So I have a lumpy overgrown "garden" area, and I have a small mountain of woodshavings/llama manure compost. What to do, what to do. I hear that blueberry bushes like woodchip compost. Could be true. I sent an email this week to the catnip farmer indicating that I think the crop is pining for the fjords and that I'm toying with removing the plastic tarp weed suppressor material and burying the area in mulch... No answer yet. Often times, like when I say I'm running low on hay, he just shows up several days later.

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heresiarch [huh-ree-zee-ahrk, -see-, her-uh-see-]

noun:
a leader in heresy; the leader of a heretical sect.

Examples:

His son labels him a 'Heresiarch,' though this particular heresy is an attack not on religion but on the banality of life. (Ruth Franklin, The Lost, The New Yorker, December 2002)

The Waldenses are so called from their heresiarch, Waldus, who, of his own will (suo spiritu ductus), not sent by God, started a new sect, presuming forsooth to preach without the authority of a Bishop, without the inspiration of God, without learning. (Alan de Insulis, quoted in Henry James Warner, The Albigensian Heresy)

When he discusses Nestorius, the great episcopal heresiarch condemned at Ephesus, he says that his error was to think of himself as "the first and only one to understand Scripture (Thomas Guarino, 'St Vincent of Lerins and the development of Christian doctrine' Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, June 2014)

At first I skipped to the second volume, containing the "Philosophy of Abélard," and, after reading that with the greatest interest, I returned to the first, to the life of the great heresiarch. (Prosper Mérimée, Abbé Aubain and Mosaics)

He is constantly provocative of adverse, even of severe criticism; of half the heresies from which he has suffered - not only that of impressionism - he was himself the unconscious heresiarch. (George Saintsbury, A History of Nineteenth Century Literature)

Origin:
'arch-heretic; leader in heresy,' 1620s, from Church Latin haeresiarcha, from Late Greek hairesiarkhes 'leader of a school;' in classical use chiefly a medical school; in ecclesiastical writers, leader of a sect or heresy (see heresy + arch-)(Online Etymology Dictionary)

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---[133]RESIDENT EVIL: DEATH ISLAND
[x]133 chris redfield (+leon, jill, and claire are there a bit too)

( We've been in this fight for so long, we're getting numb to it." )

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It has been a while since we've had a challenge here, so I thought I'd check in to see how everyone's going. :)

What's new? Is your writing going well at the moment?

Rather than include a writing challenge in this post, I'm also going to ask how your writing goals are going this year. Are you on track with what you're wanting to achieve? What would help you most in the coming months?

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Taken at 22:25 Eastern US Daylight Time over the parking lot joining Winn-Dixie and a local hotel, the latter outlined by its lights.

Once again, the photo doesn’t reflect what my corrective-lensed eyes actually saw—a serenely luminous disc the pale yellow of Muenster cheese—but the image is stark and dramatic. The lens flare on my cheap-ass burner phone made it resemble a black star sapphire (or, to read the image as suitably floral and local, a spider lily):

(I wasn’t the only one prowling this clear moonlit tropical night in search of food; two of the Burrowing Owls at my apartment complex were out hunting on the side lawn, as a third stood perched at the nest; this represents a full year of continuous occupancy and breeding, reflecting how safe they must feel here. They squawked at my approach, but did not hiss.)

Current Music: “Witches’ Song”.

soemand

Waiting for launch on May 21 feels like someone circled the least useful date on the calendar and said, “Yes, that one.” The Victoria Day weekend lands before it, naturally — a whole stretch of prime sailing weather I can only admire from land. And today? 7‑knot NE breeze, sunshine, 16°C. Practically a love letter from the sea.

Meanwhile, I’m here, boat still high and dry, typing like a man resisting the urge to scream into the void.
At least next spring’s new marina launches on April 15. A radical concept: sailing in spring.

springsodas

I've been trying to write up something to put in my About page over on Neocities so that I can finally make a little progress towards finally making use of my site, but... well, explaining who I am and what I do is a little tricky. Like okay, I do art, I do writing, I stream on Twitch, and I've become something of a proponent for utilizing alternatives to corporate social media and web services, but how do I talk about that? Unless you're asking me about the shows I watch, the games I enjoy, and the characters I gush over, I can't talk about things at a length for shit.

On a less pleasant note, besides the creeper who showed up in my chat who asked me to friend him on Discord likely so he could hit on me in private, the VOD for my Sims 2 stream last night was muted and it's even worse than what happened with one of my Stardew Valley streams; first, it got muted in two areas for around 2 - 3 minutes each, which is already annoying. But unlike last time where Twitch got the in-game music mixed up with an AI "cover" that didn't even try to sound different from the original, this time... it's literally just the in-game music. Like full stop, the literal audio, which is covered under fair use for streaming purposes. And while I can be a little forgiving of one of the songs because it's an actual classical piece, the other was just one of the build themes. Like what the fuck, Twitch?

Anyway, I'm looking towards my goals for May this month, a lot of which is self-improvement kind of stuff. Some of it is basic "being a human being" like fixing my sleep schedule, eating healthier, going outside, and getting more exercise, but I also wanna work more on properly blocking out my time and budgeting my money; I know I'm being a Captain Obvious when I say "things have gotten expensive," but... things have gotten expensive. Really expensive. So expensive that I pretty much told myself that I'm going to spend this month figuring out how much of my expenses go towards necessities like food, clothes, and household supplies so that I know how much money I can put aside for things that are "for fun." I also need to finally sit down and get my room cleaned up. I've been living in a pigsty for ages and having a clean space to live in would do wonders for me. (It's mostly just... starting, really. And also making sure to sort things into bags of "keep," "donate/sell," and "toss," and arranging things with my parents so we can do the second.)

I'm also working more on managing my mental health better... I mentioned in my last post that I struggle a bit with intrusive thoughts and actually doing what people say and just letting the thought happen while acknowledging it is just an intrusive thought is doing a lot to alleviate the distress/anxiety I feel when one happens and make them go away faster. (It even works when dealing with a sudden, angry thought. Huh.) I'm also reminding myself that it's okay to make and create things I enjoy while still being critical of the mentalities surrounding them. I've realized recently I've been holding myself back from drawing and writing things I want to make because some people might see them as contradictory to my views. I mean I have some pretty harsh criticisms of shipping culture, yet I do enjoy drawing and writing romance-focused fanworks. Isn't that kind of hypocritical on my end? And that ultimately ends up leading to a lot of unnecessary stress, which is incredibly exhausting and just... demotivates me from making anything at the end of the day.

There are quite a few other things I'm trying to be better about, but some of those are probably worth discussing at another time if I feel like it. Right now, I got a R.E.P.O. session with friends coming up before tonight's House Flipper session and I am very excited for that.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Lofi

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It seems timely to read about America’s past experience with unjust detention of people based on perceived threats to national security, so last night I finished Together in Manzanar by Tracy Slater, a true story about one of the families in a Japanese internment camp during WWII. The situation of the Yonedas was somewhat unusual as they were a mixed-race family—Karl Yoneda was a Japanese-American citizen and his wife Elaine was white and Jewish.

The Yonedas make for a very interesting case study in what happened in the camps because a) their mixed-race family status (including their 3-year-old son, Tommy) made it clear how little the American military had really thought about this plan, given how thrown-off they were by the mere existence of mixed-raced families; and b) Karl and Elaine had been vocal social activists well before they were imprisoned in the Manzanar camp, speaking up for labor rights, racial justice, and participating in Communist advocacy. They had the language, tools, and knowledge to speak up and speak out, and they did.

Slater has done her research and provides a thorough list of sources at the end of the book, which include interviews with the Yonedas’ grandchildren as well as their own diaries and news clippings.

Together in Manzanar provides an in-depth look at the politics within the Japanese-American community at this time, both leading up to the camps and within. It ably tackles the question of “Why did they go? Why wasn’t there resistance?” (There was.) For the Yonedas in particular, the importance of an Axis defeat was difficult to overstate: as horror stories of German atrocities in Europe began to trickle out, they knew that a German or Japanese take-over of the United States would almost undoubtedly lead to Elaine and their son Tommy going into a death camp.

It provides a three-dimensional look at the discussions on the ground at the time, as well as following up with details from interviews Karl and Elaine gave many years later reflecting back on their statements and advocacy at the time.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the writing style, but this is one of those books you read for content, not style. It jumps around from perspectives in a way that’s occasionally confusing, but I also appreciated getting some more background information on some of those in the camp who opposed the Yonedas’ view on cooperating with the US government. Slater does a good job showing how each person highlighted got to their perspective and why the tension both within the camps and in the world generally at the time put everyone so on edge.

The book is also helpful for reminding us of the names of the hateful racists (architect Karl Bendetsen) who propagated this plan and then later tried to lie about why it was implemented or how bad it was. It’s also a useful reminder that when these people were released, they didn’t get to just waltz back into the lives they had been living before being imprisoned. Many of them were forcibly resettled further into the US, away from the coastal cities where they had lived, and forced to restart their lives from scratch, away from their communities and businesses.

It just seemed like a particularly relevant time to remember this.

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Chronomancy - noun.

My apologies--I was at the comic expo last week and still recovering! Thanks to the magic of chronomancy, I can at least backdate my post :-D

Chronomancy is a fantasy word yet at the same time, yet legit enough for Merriam-Webster!. That's because it has been around a long time, and not just in modern usage. Sometimes called hemerology, the practice of using calendar astrology or divination to determine lucky (or unlucky) days has long been used since ancient times.

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Did I mention that I gave up waiting for the few missing DVD's to show up and watched all of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series? A quick search and oh yeah, I did, in February of last yeah. Well, I'm still salty. It was not worth the hype. The interactions and the characters were good (I like the Uncle character the most) but the basic Element "bending" aspect was really half baked. Especially the water bending. When it gets revealed that the Fire tribe captured and held captive a bunch of Water Benders, we find out that any little bit of water can be used as a lethal weapon. Everybody _urinates_ several times a day. There's your water supply right there. As long as a bender can dance, they're armed and dangerous, but did they use urine? How about sweat? Nope, one Bender succeeded in extracting blood from a guard and bent that. Similarly, there's the Earth Benders. I wondered what was special about refined earth: metal, that kept adept Earth Benders from breaking out of metal prisons. Then along comes Ms Champion Earth Bender and even wood qualifies as earth. By the time they assembled a strike force and assault the Fire fortress, I didn't care that I didn't have the final DVD for that part. It all went back to Goodwill.

I saw a Sunny Starscout plush at goodwill the other day (Generation five My Little Pony, the series that got lobotomized and then aborted mid series, along with whatever toys that might have been). I did not buy it. On another day I saw a Furreal Friends winged unicorn which I did not buy. Nor had anyone else when I went back about a week later. It did finally get picked up after maybe two weeks. Last time, I bought a sickle. I've been wanting one, I've been using a bread knife to cut tall grass. I also picked up a knife sharpener while I was there. I've tried the sickle since then, with mixed results. It was good for harvesting narcissus blooms that had been bent double by the snow. If I can just get up and go before 9 AM today, I'll go do a grocery run and see what else I can scrounge at Goodwill. The first garage sale weekend of 2026 is in two weeks. I want another lava lamp, the one I have has lost its pizzazz, the wax no longer makes globs that rise and fall.

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Yesterday on a lovely walk through then neighborhood I reached the end of The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso. This is fantasy/action novel, set in a world in “prime” reality, beneath which sits ever-descending “echo” layers of reality. The further down you go, the stranger and more dangerous things get. At a New Year’s party, things get unexpectedly tricky when the entire party is pulled down through the echoes.

Our protagonist is Kembral Thorne, a “hound” whose job is to retrieve people, animals, and other things that are pulled or “fall” into the echoes. This party is Kem’s first step back into society after having her first baby two months earlier.

Of course, when things start going wrong, Kem can’t help but get involved. It’s her job.

I’ll say again, I do love queer lit with adults. YA is great and I’m so happy that teens today have access to so much queer lit, but online queer book recs can skew very YA. Here, Kem is very much someone at least in her thirties—she’s got a baby, she’s reached a senior role in her career, and her concerns reflect this position in her life. While she and her quasi-rival Rika have the sort of skittish interactions you might expect from people who are into each other and unwilling to admit they are into each other, they don’t reach the level of comic avoidance or overwrought drama of teens or young adults.

I liked the ebb and flow of Kem and Rika’s relationship. These are two people who already have history and have kind of already had their big, relationship-ending squabble before we even get to this party, which is fun to unravel over the course of the evening. They have some cute moments, some artificially-amplified angst, but are generally enjoyable.

The worldbuilding here is fine. It’s serviceable for what the novel is doing, but we don’t really get a look at much else outside of the party except when Kem ventures out into the echoes, which becomes increasingly less frequent as they descend. There’s some fun stuff, some spooky stuff, some aesthetic stuff.

The book pushes a little hard on maintaining the status quo when the status quo isn’t that great (I think it could have made this more believable with more discussion, but the book is really more about the action than the political debate) and I did think one character’s fate was a cop-out, especially given the former. Violent change to the system is wrong but we’ll all shrug and smile when this criminal we couldn’t nail down conveniently dies without a trial.

On the whole, I enjoyed this one, but it’s nothing earth-shattering. I put the next book on my TBR though because I do want to see what Rika and Kem get up to next.

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The wind felt like the kind of wind that comes to tidy up, so we can all move on.

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It's still 3 weeks for Dreamwidth time! Day... something of 21 days. It's like an advent calendar for Dreamwidth. So welcome to day whatever! (It be day seventh.) Let's open the little door on day 7 and see who's there. Why it's Harry Potter and his friend A.I! A.I. Harry Potter riding a magical pony in a LLM generated image, how à propos! Perfect for Three Weeks For Dreamwidth. *rainbow*

The mods are asleep!
Post Harry Potter and anything A.I.

because Dreamwidth is for virtually everypony.

Thanks to M who hopped the extra distance and milked a LLM for the wacky rainbow Harry image (the pony is like a cherry on the Dream Whip *chef's kiss*)!

I'd like another installment of Fantastic Creatures, I recall that they left the story hanging. Maybe I should relax my 'Pony fiction only' policy and finally read Potter's school book, not that it'll have any notes on the Voldemort/Dumbledore affair.

Consider this tagged threeweeks.

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4. Have you ever kept a garden? If so, what did you grow?

5. Do you know how to swim?

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Hi, folks!

I'm currently writing crime fiction set in contemporary London, and I'm trying to figure out whether a police officer on the radio would be specifically identifiable to someone listening in.

Does the Met use radio callsigns that are unique to each officer? Or are callsigns assigned to specific beats, instead? Or a secret third thing?

Thanks!

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kylinn! I hope it's been a good day.

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The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 7 by Grrr and Irinbi

The tale continues. Mid-cliffhanger, so spoiler warning for the earlier volumes

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The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 7 by Grrr and Irinbi

The tale continues. Mid-cliffhanger, so spoiler warning for the earlier volumes

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So part of this is NSFW-adjacent, but not seriously:

I am on a certain adult dating site. I've been on it for years, mostly for fun.

Recently, as could be believed, there are a lot of bot profiles with AI pictures.

And what has made me very good looking at cabinets. Of course, some of what I look at is just the foreground. And using some common sense: why is this woman who looks like a model revealing her entire face on a dodgy site, for strangers? Something is being sold here!

But also, I've started looking at the cabinets. Or furniture. And I've started noticing lots of furniture that doesn't make sense. Tall, narrow cabinets on the wall that only have things on one shelf, and when I look at those things, they are indescribable little knick-knacks. Sure, sexy looking model lady, it is nice to see your cabinet, with a glass door, over your bed, where you have a shelf with a scattering of little figurines I can't quite make out.

The other thing about this is, a lot of these weird background details are not impossible. There are all sorts of interior decorating trends I don't know about. Most of them don't break the laws of physics. But I've just started to suspect that every gestalt I see just doesn't quite make sense.

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Drawesome Monthly Check-In Post

Today's the last day of April, and we'd love to have you check in and chat with us. How have things been with you this past month?

Did you sign up for or take part in any fandom activities in April, or have you been working on any personal art projects? Are you currently trying to meet a deadline? Feel free to share upcoming art challenges that have got you excited, any frustrations you've been experiencing, possible goals for the next month, and so on.

Reminders:
- MerMay begins tomorrow!
- Our community Challenge #77: Windows and Openings continues until the end of May. :)

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About 95% Eleventh Doctor, with a few Eleven & Rory, Eleven & Amy, and one of Amy by herself.

Teasers:

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I guess I don't have anything to say, besides that.

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We had some severe storms come through our area this week, and had tornado sirens going off both in the morning and evening. Luckily the first set of storms had a mild tornado farther south of us. The second set had a potential formation going over us but luckily nothing actually came together and we only got a bit of hail.

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Result of anxiety/fear
Happens out of nowhere
Can range from mildly irritating to very disturbing
Never reflective of my beliefs and values
Sometimes involve actions I would never do (ex: making a mean comment on someone's post with the intent to start an argument)
Trying to push the thought away makes it persist and sometimes even worsens/intensifies it
Apparently, the main and most effective way of dealing with intrusive thoughts is to just let the thought happen without trying to fight it, which is easier said than done when you don't want to have it to begin with.

I don't know if it's a possible indicator of OCD or just a result of stress/depression (probably the latter), but uuuuuuugh.

Current Mood: anxious

frith

The ladybird apocalypse continues. Vacuuming wasn't doing anything, except encouraging me to vacuum up the cobwebs off the ceiling and walls. Those spiders aren't keeping up with the ladybird hordes. Maybe they're more into silverfish. So I pulled out the squeeze bottle of diatomaceous earth. Now I have blobs of diatomaceous earth in my windows, but also fewer beetles, despite it being over 20°C and sunny outside. Could be worse. Could be bedbugs.

In somewhat related beetle abundance, I happened on a beetle rave. Or a festival. Or a Family Day. Something popular. I'd accidentally ripped out a peony tuber from the flower garden in front of the house while clearing some dead stems. I chose a spot visible from the bay window on the side of my house, a ridge of raised ground left over from when a drainage ditch was excavated along the property line 35 years ago, and got down with a trowel to replant it there. That might be a bad choice, there are trees there. While I was doing that I noticed several native spotted lady beetles Coleomegilla maculata hanging out in the leaf litter. Then I looked around a bit more. There were hundreds in the half bowl formed by that old mound of overgrown dirt. I have frequently seen this species of beetle working the early spring flowers and I guess I stumbled on their overwintering spot. It has been unusually warm this week.

By the next day, I'd decided that planting a peony in a shallow scrape on a mound under some trees was probably a bad choice, so I scooped up about a half gallon of cedar mulch, grabbed the tuber, hopped the ditch and gave it to my neighbour. Easy gardening tip: give it to someone else. While I was there and shooting the breeze, they offered to put my summer tires on my car. I tried to weasel my way out. It could snow! (It was over 20°C a few days in a row this week, T-shirt weather.) My mechanic will do it soon, when I get around to making an appointment! Won't anyone please think of the starving mechanics?! It was a lost cause. I went back home and got my car.

Later, after storing my winter tires in the basement, I caught the tail end of the news. There was a piece about Buffalo, New York, USA. At a hockey game Tuesday night, where both teams present that night were US teams, the singer was singing the Canadian anthem. I learned that at Buffalo, which is about 8 km from the Canada/US border, they do that every game, regardless of who's playing. OK, neat. But the fun started when the singer's microphone went on the fritz and cut out halfway through. The fans picked up from there and sang the Canadian anthem all the way to the end! Awesome. The lyrics must have been displayed on the scoreboard because there is no way the entire stadium knew all the words to the Canadian anthem.

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Ranarian [ruh-NAIR-ee-un] (adj.)

- Of, relating to, or resembling frogs; frog-like.

Early 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), satirical novelist and poet. From classical Latin rāna frog + -arian.

Used in a sentence:

“Mr. Thistlewick, possessed of a most regrettably ranarian visage, suggested a creature far better suited to a dank and ancient bog than to the refinements of polite society.”

(from The Grandiloquent Word of the Day FB page)

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Stargate SG1 x9
Star Trek: The Next Generation x6
Star Trek: Nemesis x2
Star Trek: Picard x1
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 x3
Star Trek: Voyager x3
Star Trek: Lower Decks x5
Star Trek: Prodigy x1
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DCU x4

It's been a hard, uh, decade. It's okay if you need a hug ... or 36.

Preview:

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Had some gold toned shell beads that matched the pendant well for size and color, though they look a bit washed out here, I guess because they're reflecting light.

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... but maybe you'll glean something if you're new to learning any language at all. I'm sharing this entry I wrote for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth last year, edited a bit. Hope somebody out there enjoys!

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I'm having another go at trying to germinate amaryllis from seeds. I can get a good crop of seeds off my amaryllis by pollinating it with a paint brush and I've done so successfully about three times now, but I've found out that the seeds don't keep. That could be why I don't seem to have succeeded in getting any to germinate yet. That and my brown thumbs. It's amazing that my one amaryllis still flowers every year.

So I'm at the point where the amaryllis seed pods are open, the wilted and dried flowers have fallen off, and if you give it a small shake, seeds fall out. Stuff I read had long spiels about drying the seeds for a month or more, but I figure, if the seeds just fall out and they have to be planted this year, then they must be ready to grow already, no frost or drought.

Four months of drying out in my basement killed whatever had been growing in my planter last year, the one I used for a first pass attempt at sprouting amaryllis and campanula (bellflowers). I thought that a drought would be OK since I don't water the amaryllis I have all winter and the bulbs aren't wet when you buy them. If there were any amaryllis sprouts last year, it looks like they bit the dust along with all the campanulas. When I brought the planter up from the basement and gave it sun and water, the only plants to emerge were a few dandelions and one or two sowbugs. I ate fresh dandelion greens this Spring and I think the sowbug(s) finished off the bits that were left.

Well, I've sprinkled amaryllis seeds over the top of the bare soil in the planter and watered it. Maybe I'll add some potting soil on top. And more amaryllis seeds. I have a lot.

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