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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thanks for the timely notification! (wheee! I got my flu and covid jabs today)

And email subject line in bold that says, "Your CVS appointment is today at 3:15pm."

Which it was! But if you look at the timestamp on the email, this notice was received at 10:42pm (7.5 hours after the appointment)

Both of those times are circled in red for extra emphasis.

Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Everything else in this collection fuckingyoung.es/jw-anderson-... seems to have functional sleeves. But what do I know of fashion fuckingyoung.es/wp-content/u...

Image from the JW Anderson lookbook with a model wearing the strange yellow and blue sweater that Yibo wore for a recent photoshoot. It seems to have a functional right sleeve. But the left one is somehow attached to the front of the shirt in a closed loop (that you can drape a towel through) and your left arm just has to stick out from the bottom hem. Which is not the way to keep warm in the winter. And how do you put a coat on over it?

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Oh... Found it. But it's sunscreen with whitening concealer, so.... 😬 But yamibuy has it

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

From the weeeeee frozen foods

A skewer of frozen tanghulu (candied hawthorn berries)

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I have no idea how repression is so low on my list. I thought I was always voting for it.

1 - unreliable narrator; 1 - awkward sexual situations; 3 - stop making love to me while I'm trying to fuck you; 3 - homoerotic cannibalism ; 5 - romantic stabbing; 6 - sex pollen; 7 - monsterfucking; 8 mutual non-con; 9 - sexual repression; 10 - accidental voyeurism ; 11 - AU that makes canon worse ; 12 - soulbonding but it's a horror concept; 13 - transactional sex ; 14 - their love language is torture ; 15 - body horror ; 16 - romantic immolation ; 17 corruption arc ; 18 - dubious consent ; 19 - immortality as horror ; 20 - lovers to enemies

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I... I think we knew about orbits before this

A section from the article talking about an asteroid with a particularly short transit time: "during the October 2020 opposition - when Earth and Mars were aligned on the same side of the sun, and closest together in their orbits"

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

this was from episode 6. And he really likes the game of go.

This is a Chinese student's test on learning English and it approximately says, "The Game of Go. My favorite game is go. I like it because it's very interesting. I like it because it's helpful. When I play it, I like it. I like it because it gives me fun. I like it because it's a very good thing. I like it because it helps me to be a better boy! I like it because I feel confident when I [missing]. I like it because it's a special sport [missing] exercise your heart [missing]. It's really good for me. [missing] because my mother will I [missing] could be a [missing] it because it [missing]

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

So far I've run into two. And they are offended anyone would ever question their humanitarian/felinitarian efforts. www.alleykattz.org www.petfinder.com/member/us/pa...

Screenshot of an email from January 2025
"Hi [redacted]. Prince is available. Prince is A Persian. He came from Egypt last week. The fee to adopt is 1300. That fee covers his airfare, vetting, vaccines, rabies, testing and neuter. Please advise if you would like to proceed. Ty

Thank you
alleykattz inc"

Screenshot of an email from Journeys adoption:
I'm sorry, I didn't explain that very well!

Prior to February, most of our foster cats have come from dire situations in Kuwait. We have a long history with helping the overwhelmed rescuers in Kuwait with their foster cats because there are just about zero good homes in Kuwait. We would never support breeders or anyone who is gaining financially from cats. (You can do some googling to learn about rescuing cats from Kuwait - there's a lot more info out there now than when we started working with them 13 years ago!)

I had just received a message from another rescuer here in PA who asked for help from Journeys to take in a few of these cats that are already here. We would love to help but just don't have the current capacity, which is especially sad because the cats who come from Kuwait are some of the sweetest cats I've ever seen. But they also have tended to have some higher needs when they first arrive because of their past neglect and the Kuwait rescues being very overwhelmed there.

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Ah! Did I mention obsessed? And I still missed like 5. Here's also the best score I had going was 0.00032. I think it might be possible to win if I keep trying.

My special color differentiating number is now 0.00060

"Okay either you're a Mantis shrimp in a trenchcoat or your display has a secret wide-gamut mode nobody told me about. Suspiciously impressive."

Showing what looks like a completely brick red screen. I'm on round 29 and the in progress score was 0.00032

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I'm going to say it wasn't even dumb luck

This time the number was 0.0036, which is still very good

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Huh. It didn't automatically share pretty. Here's the screenshot

My [something that means ability to tell different shades of color apart] number is 0.0022

"Genuinely remarkable. You sailed past the theoretical human limit like it owed you money. I'd accuse you of cheating but I don't actually know how you'd cheat at this."

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Is this show not being advertised? I ran across a random Instagram ad for Eddie Izzard doing Hamlet in *Philly* and there were still seats left! So I've got plans tonight. But maybe you all don't want to miss out - only this weekend. www.ensembleartsphilly.org/tickets-and-...

Screenshot of receipt from Ensemble Arts Philadelphia for an 8pm seat tonight watching Eddie Izzard perform Hamlet at the Suzanne Roberts Theater on Broad Street

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

OMG - what a promising review!

A comment from my drama list that says: "Edit: what a struggle. finally finished. my overall impression didn’t change much. but Chenzhou, Shirong and Suifeng ended up being the most interesting of all characters. what a waste sigh
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I’m only 12 eps in and I’m speechless. I don’t get how the same director, writer and production team as MLC made this. The quality across all aspects is poor. Nothing gripping about the story, and none of the characters are captivating me, even XQS! The only redeeming factor is the action scenes but that’s only limited to Cheng Yi’s scenes which are more or less consistent. Action scenes involving all others are hit and miss. Some are good while others just look like they’re rehearsing choreo, it is kinda ridiculous those takes made the final cut. Argh!"

This comment has 2 likes.

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

What I mean when I say, "I'm not much of a baker."

A sealed plastic packet with three individual portions of instant yeast. The label says, "product: instant yeast, ingredients: saccharomyces cerevisear, product of turkey, best before January 2017. I am taking this picture in 2026. And it's not like I was using other yeast and just lost this one.

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Looking up how to cite social media sources in the Chicago Manual of Style, and I am enjoying their examples.

Excerpt starts in the middle of the section with the part for citing:

"Readers’ comments (including replies to comments) are usually mentioned in the text in terms of the original post. Though a note is usually unnecessary, it may be styled as follows:

"2. Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea), “do the stars have six points as an artifact because of the hexagonal mirrors?,” reply to NASA Webb Telescope, July 11, 2022, https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/1546633841649016832.

"Facebook and other platforms may be treated similarly.

"3. Chicago Manual of Style (@ChicagoManual), “Is the world ready for singular they? We thought so back in 1993,” Facebook, April 17, 2015, https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoManual/posts/10152906193679151."

Notable because both of these examples are supporting trans inclusion in citations.

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

So how long does it take to order vaccine supplies to meet demand?

screenshot of an email send December 31st from CVS saying they had to cancel my appointment on February 4th because they don't have the vaccine(s) I requested in stock right now.

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Work kitten at the cat cafe

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

It looks like I have not yet tried Ultimate Note

Screenshot of the list of shows I've dropped. I've circled both Reunion The Sound of Providence (dropped at episode 6) and The Lost Tomb 2 (dropped at episode 12).

Other dropped shows that might cause consternation include: Beyond Evil, Everyone Loves Me, secret Crush on You, and The Best Thing

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

*looks at your list* *looks at you* You did this!

A post from less than 2 hours ago in which Nickel says: "Things on my to-do list:
- two lengthy podfic recordings
- Yuletide
- finishing fic for Katla
- filing off the serial numbers on my notting hill AU, I guess, sigh
- writing my book proposal
- endlessly applying for jobs
- endlessly watching c-dramas
- endless housecleaning

Also me: I'm bored"

endlessly watching c-dramas is highlighted

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Just yesterday I was reading a thing that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with any new or recent movies.

The book cover for Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China by Margaret Hillenbrand (2020)

Highlighted section from p.47

The story of how the Nanjing Massacre "all but disappeared" (D. Yang 2001, 55) from public view in China only to storm back to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s is a well-known one whose telling has been dominated by the tropes of remembering and forgetting.^3 After the Communist victory in 1949, the narrative of the long Second Sino-Japanese War was edited into an account that told only of the rightfulness of the CCP's mandate, and of the Manichean struggle against Japan's Imperial Army in which the moral strength of Mao and his fighters won out. The victims of Nanjing, however, received no succor from "Communist superheroes" in 1937 and no redress in the early postwar period either (Chen 2009, 30). The Massacre thus became the unsayable part of China's past suffering and weakness, the most gaping lacuna of CCP historiography,^4 missing from school textbooks,^5 unmarked in the memorial landscape.^6 Pragmatically, too, the fledgeling regime was focused more on marshaling its resources for survival than on past affliction: the struggles of the here-and-now were so fierce that "to turn attention to the disasters of a bygone day would seem a luxury" (Link 2002, xiii).

Highlighted excepts from p.48

The status of Nanjing as the Kuomingtang (KMT) capital prompted further forgetfulness, since mourning the Nationalist dead scarcely served the propaganda war that the CCP was waging both at home and across the Taiwan Strait and that designated the KMT as the national foe. The dead of Nanjing were, in this sense, the "wrong" victims; to commemorate them would have contravened Communist goals.^7

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But in the mid-1980s, consciousness of the Sino-Japanese War began to surge back, first coaxed by the state and its agents, and later animated by the less biddable forces of public passion (Gries 2005; He 2007b, 51-59). The advancing reform process had cracked open social fissures that the old rhetoric of class struggle could no longer seal over: A new glue was required, and it took the form of nationalism (Christensen 19956; Zhao 1998, 288-91).

More from page 48

"Remembering" the Sino-Japanese War also dovetailed with another pressing policy drive: reunification with Taiwan. The war was a crucible of memory in which comradeship with "Taiwanese compatriots" could be forged, as writing the Nationalists back into China's victory narrative reminded rivals across the Strait that they were also brothers-in-arms who had fought the same foe. Last, rising China needed a moral banner for its bid to supersede Japan as the region's next "great nation."

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Okay, I like a harmless meme, but I gotta complicate it. Hearts are shows I enjoyed and would gladly enthuse about. Checks are for the shows that were pretty good, but should have been edited to about a quarter or a third of the length. Stars are for shows I'm actively curious about watching.

Chart of Fantasy Xianxia Cdramas.
I put hearts on Love & Redemption, The Legend of ShenLi, Love between Fairy and Devil, Til the End of the Moon, The Starry Love, Song of the Moon, Love You Seven Times, Back from the Brink, and Miss the Dragon
I just gave a check mark to Immortal Samsara and The Blue Whisper
I put Xs on Ten Miles of Peach Blosson, Ashes of Love, Eternal Love of Dream, and Fox Spirit Matchmaker
And I put Stars on Ancient Love Poetry and Love's Rebellion

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This is now a spectator sport.

Episode 7 of The Way Home now has two female characters eager to "help" the boys train. Mostly by watching with big smiles on their faces while Jiashu bends Jiahao in half to help him stretch. This is a distant shot of the bridge where you see the two sets of people in relation to each other. The subtitles say, "Jiashu, it hurts."

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

For having such a low account number (1768), I feel a bit guilty for not having written more

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The only thing I changes was adding a "Warn First" before non-sexual nudity. But my setting for my following feed have not changed since before I checked them.

a screenshot of the Following Feed Preferences with ticks for show replies, show reposts, and show quote posts. But no tick for "Experimental show samples of your saved feeds in your Following feed."

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It seemed reasonable for this thread to document when it hit an amusing number of likes

For the comment where OP is saying, "Have a blessed day" to the proselytizer, the likes hit number 666 just as I was liking it.

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

You mean like this? (your red is delightful!)

In the middle of redoing my guest room - a vivid solid purple wall

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

www.thetimes.com/imageserver/...

Siân Phillips as Livia in the BBC production of I, Claudius. In which it is heavily implied that she poisons several people.

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Hah! I have part of a picture of it (I'm at work, so I can't just go take a picture of the whole art for you)

bits of a frame (at the framing store) around a intricate tree limb in yellow tracery with yellow and red feathery leaves and an intricate black and white lines of texture sort of background

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

People are sharing movies, books, and art. I have a terrible memory and a fear of commitment, so I have no idea whether I'll share a set number, but I figured I might as well start here with the painting (or poster of a painting) we had framed and hanging in my family den when I was growing up.

On a white deckled paper background, the bottom half of the image is a black ink splotch, spread with a breyer and spattered around the edges. The top half of the composition is a red circle with some bleed around the edges. The originals were lithographs.

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I'm trying the third mango! This time I wore gloves and cut the flesh away from the skin and tried not to mourn how much more thorough I could have been scraping it out with my teeth.

A pile of sweet sticky rice and strips of mango next to it

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I bet I know what the confusion is! It's very thin like some fine blonde hair can be

Pulling up a piece of lotus root to show a fine filament

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Having a couple friends over who are c-ent enjoyers, so I'm making The Soup

A large pot with pork rib and lotus root soup

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

#TheRiseOfNing #spoilers #cdrama You guys! Y'ALL! The cliff has a NAME!!! I am so happy right now.

One character (played by Ci Sha) is telling another character that they need to go "to the top of No-turning-back Cliff"

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

If this character were leaning on an ethnic stereotype, which ethnicity is being referenced? #cdrama #StrangeTalesOfTangDynasty

Shi Yi Niang from episode 5 of Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty - she is a woman with strong martial arts, and distinctively curled wisps of hair by her ears, strong straight eyebrows, a pointed nose, and an enhanced chin. Her clothes emphasize her long neck and generous breasts.

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Okay, I've replaced all of my black plastic cooking tools with red. No one tell me anything bad about the red plastic. Also, if you have a red plastic potato masher to recommend, I didn't see any good ones.

Ginormous metal utensil holder next to my stove full of red cooking spatulas and spoons and tongs and stuff. You can also see part of a ridiculously oversized knife block I inherited from my mother and some teas and a salt cellar and a pepper grinder on the counter in front.

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

And some Ni Ni (also from The Rise of Phoenixes)

Just NiNi looking tense with her dude clothes made out of fancy fabric in a tasteful thick olive silk and a mesh cap of a court official, episode 24

Feng Zhi Wei standing by an open window and offering her bodyguard a walnut, but the body language is very confident and slightly seductive and definitely masculine - The Rise of Phoenixes, episode 23

The 3 gender presentations of The Rise of Phoenixes! On the far left, you have a princess in masculine dress because that's the school uniform but she's not in disguise as a man. In the middle you have Feng Zhi Wei in masculine clothing because she's cross dressing as a man. And on the right you have Gu Nanyi in men's clothing and he's a man.

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Some Bai Jing Ting from Rise of Phoenixes

Lounging in an open window in women's clothes, but no makeup or posture change, but still backlit and low key stunning - Gu Nanyi in The Rise of Phoenixes (ep 27) played by Bai Jing Ting

Getting the full body effect of Gu Nanyi in women's clothing and a weimao (veiled hat) - The Rise of Phoenixes, episode 28

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

She was damn hot as a random bicycle repair butch in Cupid's Kitchen

Cupid's Kitchen, episode 25 - full body jeans jumpsuit with boots for Zing En

Cupid's Kitchen, episode 25 - close up of Xing En's indignant face (with less pink lipstick and eye shadow than her male/cross dressed characters)

Cupid's Kitchen episode 30 - Butch Xing En in a black t-shirt

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

I Will Never Let You Go at least has her hair up

I Will Never Let You Go, episode 15 - Xing En in masc clothes (I haven't watched this show)

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Huh... screenshots are not as convincing for Ni Chang if you can't see her walking and talking. And I haven't seen I Will Never Let You Go

Ni Chang, episode 3 - Xing En does such a good job with crossdressing in voice and movement that they didn't even style her particularly masculine

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Totally getting to Xing En (UNF!) but first a quick stop by Joy of Life. I did not even realize this character was played by a woman until months later and I was looking her up from a completely different show. (I haven't seen season 2, so I don't know if this is plot relevant or just casting)

The Northern Qi Emperor in Joy of Life is played by Liu Mei Tong (episode 37)

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Libitina @libitina.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

How hard is it to pull images from here to dreamwidth? Because I have time now to contribute

Everyone remembers Tang Fan crossdressing, but Jin San was so convincing that most people forget her entirely (Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, episode 30)

Jin San needed so much patience for Tan Fan's shenanigans (Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, episode 30)

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