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The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East by Andrew Scott Cooper. 2011. Edition with the 2015 preface. Not great, but some interesting details of the Nixon-Ford years.

The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran by Andrew Scott Cooper. 2016. Utterly misleading title. By and large, this is NOT HISTORY. This is a fawning, one-sided biography of the Pahlavi family. I mean, I'm sympathetic to Farah and the kids, but there's no need to write an apologia for the shah's actions. :(((

Decoding Iran’s Foreign Policy: Strategic Interests, Power and Influence by Ross Harrison. 2025. I'm just sitting here wondering what it would be like to have a president who's smart enough to read books like this one. It's been a while.

currently reading: Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer. 2006. Imperialism is so gross.

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Made the mushroom. Got the blue bunny put together and both in the mail. Waiting for more sales. Need to resume social media self-plugging. Here's something cute: Kitten Academy kittens doing a Statler & Waldorf on their mother's kickbunny:

healthcrap
Had Botox for migraines Friday. Usual doc wasn't there, and I couldn't recall the alterations we make to the standard protocol, so we'll see how this round works in their absence. Major cold front with torrential rain came in Friday night and knocked me flat for days. Had a much belated allergy shot Monday, which knocked me flat again.

#resist
I am utterly furious at the orange menace, Netanyahu, and their toadies.
May 1: No Kings 4 + general strike.

#astrology
Mars enters Aries on May 10, completing a major traffic jam of planets in Aries, sign of war, which has me exceptionally worried. Praying for peace.

I hope all of y'all are doing well and staying safe and sane and healthy. <333

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I had to get the car serviced. New oil et al. Of course, I had to vacuum it because I don't want mechanics knowing I really live like this. And also to the car wash I went. That turned out to be a "dumb woman driver" adventure.

The car washes I've gone to have all had two tracks you guide your tires on and you zip through. This one was like a baby car wash, half the size. You have to line your left tire up with a gadget near the curb. Anyway, wash guy had me back up, motions turn the steering wheel, back up. I finally understood the system and we were off.

Then I had to deal with more people at the garage. Left the car there and was shuttled back. Gave god awful directions, like I always do. Now I wait for a phone call on the cursed phone.

Poetry month.

Let No Charitable Hope

Elinor Wylie
1885 –1928

Now let no charitable hope
Confuse my mind with images
Of eagle and of antelope:
I am by nature none of these.
I was, being human, born alone;
I am, being woman, hard beset;
I live by squeezing from a stone
The little nourishment I get.
In masks outrageous and austere
The years go by in single file;
But none has merited my fear,
And none has quite escaped my smile.

And Music Monday.
This the first song of his I heard, he was on some late show. I said, that's my guy.

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https://xkcd.com/3230/

I think I accidentally installed an Overton window in my bedroom. A few months ago, the sun wasn't in my face in the morning, but now it is.

https://xkcd.com/3230/

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1. We took the Shinkansen today! I had originally planned for us to get in to Tokyo late morning or midday and then we could get lockers for the luggage and do some stuff in the city, but since we had a long amusement park day yesterday and another one tomorrow, we decided this would be a more take it easy day, so while we did get lockers and do a little bit of stuff and then took the train to Maihama, it wasn’t a whole long day of tramping around. Once in Maihama, we got dinner at Ikspiari and then took the monorail to our hotel.

2. Our hotel is nice, better than the first one, but not as nice as the Park Front Hotel at USJ. We’ll be here for seven nights, so I’m glad it’s not as tiny as the Respire, but they don’t have a coin laundry! I tried to do laundry this morning before we left, but the Park Front just has one machine per floor and it was in use, so I have a bunch of shirts and underwear/socks to wash. I went downstairs and asked if they really don’t have a laundry room and were apologetic and said we could use the one at the hotel next door, so I will be doing that tomorrow (it’s the hotel we stayed at last year, so I am familiar with the layout and the laundry room, and maybe even still have the app).

3. Disneyland tomorrow! It’s exciting just to be here in Maihama. Oh, and the monorail we took tonight had the DisneySea 25th anniversary wrap on it! The official anniversary celebration doesn’t start until the 15th, which is the day we leave, but they might already have some other decorations up and possibly even some merch out. Fingers crossed!

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ECLIPSE. April 6, 2026. Totality, beyond Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, revealing a view few in human history have ever witnessed.

First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon

Following the current Artemis mission + rolling around in art and nature photography is keeping me going atm. Slingshotting in space!

+ The seagulls are napping and grooming on our windowsills a lot and it's been a treat. I often find myself watching Bird TV. With the stains on the glass they don't seem to notice us there, so you get a wild animal puffing up and resting 30cm from your face. Always a delight.

+ If like me you're still enamored with Project Hail Mary and need images to make icons from,

theskyisnew's got you covered 👎

+ Sad Starfleet Academy got cancelled, though I strongly suspected that would be the case. What I didn't expect was that they'd already finished shooting season 2. So that's something. Probably a cliffhanger nightmare but I'll take it.

( Letter from Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau. )

+ Already considering rewarding myself with a purchase after the trip. The Embodied Ecosystems TarOracle is looking like a strong contender, both for the art/theming, and the chunky guidebook it comes with. But then there's the fanmade X-Files tarot I spotted that's calling to me. Hmm. (I finished season 1 btw. Mulder didn't know lycanthropy transferred through bites/scratches?? Press x-files to doubt. S2 will have Scully revert back to not believing in aliens, huh? I remember being extremely annoyed back in the day and surely that can't have been based off s1. Mulder's hot takes have been deserving of a defenestration sometimes multiple times per episode.)

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3weeks4dreamwidth is coming up, but I honestly feel there's not enough interest to make it work. I'm going to have to give it a think.

+ I'll be home in two and a half weeks so I'll just cling to that for now.

Current Music: Anjimile- Like You Really Mean It

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Title: Walking On The Moon
Fandom: Ryan Gosling
Movie: First Man
Music: Walking On The Moon by Ruelle
Length: 3:56
Streaming/download at: DW | Tumblr

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All the Roads Led Me to You (3630 words) by anr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chrissy Cunningham/Eddie Munson
Characters: Chrissy Cunningham, Eddie Munson
Additional Tags: Touching, Touch-Starved, Touch-Averse, Holding Hands, Post-Series, Fix-It, Chrissy Cunningham Lives, Eddie Munson Lives, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary: Chicago is too big for this.

Current Mood: working
Current Music: Alessia Cara - I Choose

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omg I swear this is what did it. My life has changed over the past week, I feel like a new person, and I feel crazy about it because I swear it's because I splurged on a new soft throw blanket. Something about touching that blanket healed me, y'all. It's a UGG Euphoria blanket, and I spent like 60 bucks on it. I didn't really have the money but I splurged anyway, and it is SO SOFT, and it does something to my brain. Like it tickles my brain when I rub my hands on it. This needs to be studied.

I doubt new improved me will last forever, but I'm doing what I can while I'm feeling this way.

Believe me, I know how crazy it sounds that a blanket has 'cured' my depression.

Current Mood: cheerful

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I didn't write down everything, but my initial feeling is that I managed to write down quite a lot this month. Lets see:

( 15 things I learned in March: lots of technical things this time, and some fun language stuff )

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artistalley is a community for convention artists to share event news, ideas, feedback & critiques, manufacturers, etc

allbingo will be running a Flower Fest Bingo throughout the month of April. There are more pre-made cards or you can create your own based on the available prompts.

vforvictoryexchange, a multi-fandom exchange about V-shaped polyamory, is open for sign-ups until April 10th, 10PM EDT.

fandom5k, a multi-fandom gift exchange for fic with a 5,000-word minimum and comics with a 5-page minimum, has opened sign-ups until April 11th, 10:59PM EDT.

bitesizedfandomsex, a multifandom exchange for fandoms you can pick up in eight hours or less, has opened sign-ups until April 11th, 11:59PM EDT.

everythingisfemslashex, a femslash exchange (genderbent characters/ships - both cis and transgender - are welcome too), is accepting nominations until April 12th, 8PM GMT+1 (link will go to the schedule/rules post and has tagset page as well).

seasonsofdrabbles is open for sign-ups until April 12th, 11:59PM EDT. Nominations are still open and will be until sign-ups close as well.

holmestice, a Sherlock Holmes fandom(s) fanworks exchange that runs twice a year, has opened sign-ups for the Summer 2026 round until April 13th.

allbutromance, a multifandom gift exchange focused on all kinds of platonic relationships, is accepting nominations until April 16th, 8PM CEST/UTC+1.

likealighthouse is running april iconathon—an icon prompt fest, where people can leave prompts and others can fill them with icons. The event will run until May 6th.

fancake's theme of the month is: arranged marriage. Click on the banner below to learn more! :)

Two gold rings photographed on top of a dictionary opened to the definition of marriage. Text: Arranged Marriage, at Fancake.

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