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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

today's canning: picked the remaining peaches off the tree, blanched them, skinned them, sliced them, and canned them in light syrup. is my hot pack technique flawless? NO (hence extra space in the jars). will these be a balm to my soul in wintertime when all fresh fruit has left this land? YES

two quart jars and two half-pint jars full of yellow skinned sliced peaches in syrup, pictured on blue trivets in front of my spice rack and kitchen window

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

actually, here - you can have just the list if you like (unable to image describe atm, sorry). it's my whole PHM playlist and it's chronological so the grocky songs start at #5 or #6

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

my beautiful pickled beets (9 pints). I love pickled beets on salad but buying them in the store is legitimately much more expensive than making them myself, especially since our farmshare has provided an endless supply of beets lately

a line of nine pint jars on a marble countertop, all with beautiful dark purple beets inside

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

the flashbacks to Grace's life on earth are in 2:35:1, but the current timeline on the Hail Mary is all in 16:9/1:7:1. then there's an occasional light rays effect over the flashbacks/memories that blur into the black boxes on the 2:35:1 shots, like so:

still from PHM in 2:35:1 aspect ratio, with large black bars at top and bottom. the scene is Stratt meeting Grace in his classroom.

still from PHM with smaller black bars at top and bottom, in 16:9 aspect ratio. The scene is Grace on the Hail Mary putting mustard on ramen.

still from PHM where the scene is in 2:35:1 but there is a light rays effect that blurs some of the image into the large black bars at top and bottom, making use of the 16:9 aspect ratio. The scene is one of Grace's memories of Ilyukhina.

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

yesterday during Wildfire Smoke Hours I needed an indoor activity so I picked all the black currants from the bushes in our backyard (while wearing a mask!) and then made black currant jam. It's rustic (aka, I didn't strain out the seeds and skins) but I did blend it, and it's super interesting

four pint jars labelled "Black currant jam, 07/16/26." The jars are filled with jam so dark purple it looks black.

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

girl you know I got you whenever a fun language meme goes around

headline from Variety, May 6 2026: "Robert Downey Jr. Says 'It's Absolute Horses--' to Declare That Social Media Influencers Are the 'Stars of the Future'"

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

rhubarb rhubarb! picked, washed, chopped, stewed, canned. though I left some in the fridge to eat later. perfect on toast with butter or on vanilla ice cream

picture of jars from the side so you can see the lovely red-brown colour inside

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I just want someone to appreciate how funny I am when I design a syllabus. This set of readings paired together makes me laugh every time I look at it

Reading: Ahmed, "Feminist Killjoys." Reading: Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." Reading: Kim, "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole."

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

trying to upload all the signed versions of my festivids but we're having a very "I consent!" "I consent!" "I don't!" situation with the AO3 at the moment

screenshot of a cloudfare error. It says YOU/Browser - working; Network/Cloudflare - working; archiveofourown.org/Host - ERROR

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I did a project on tv/film copaganda a while ago, and one of the most telling things I found was from the 1917 Charlie Chaplin film Easy Street, in which a woman chides Chaplin's police officer character and says "but you promised to reform!" It just goes round and round, decade after decade.

screenshot from Easy Street. Two women stand together, one looking poor and tired. The other woman is yelling at a police officer, played by Charlie Chaplin.

title card with dialogue for the preceding scene. It reads "A policeman? And you promised to reform!"

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons."

in Star Trek font, the meme asks "What can you say during sex, but also on the bridge of a Federation starship?"

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

it's just the vomit emoji over and over for me. it'd be farcical if it weren't also fucking dangerous

text from article: "There is a marriage 'crisis,' a loneliness 'epidemic,' a demographic 'collapse.' People are flirting with A.I. boyfriends and virtually undressing strangers on X. Could more technology help?"

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

YUP! or like this poem (sorry, can't alt-text atm) (it's a poem called "ChatGPT fucks my wife")

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

a beautiful gift for a canadian living in the states 😭

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

focus on this image until the bad dream fades

John Robins riding a fake bull while wering a black and white diamond-patterned onesie that clings to everything except his chest, which is bare

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

got some books from @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social in the mail! I usually shop at my local indie, which is also great, but I try to buy a few things from Room now and then just because I adore them. I'm looking forward to the Rivers Solomon one especially, as I loved An Unkindness of Ghosts

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Introduce yourself with four spaceships (yes two are from Star Trek, I couldn't pick)

the city of Atlantis from Stargate: Atlantis

The solar-sail ship from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode Explorers

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

it's VERY boring, but also, counterpoint:

still from Star Trek: The Motion Picture where Kirk and Spock are holding hands and staring into one another's eyes while Bones looks on in the background

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

very occasionally, if you are quiet and patient, you can observe one in the wild:

screenshot of an AO3 fic. text ellipses and line breaks around the "Oh." and then the italicized "Oh." before the story continues

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

today's the one-year anniversary of the day we lost Rorschach. I miss my boy. He was the best boy.

a black and white pitbull lying on his side amid blankets. His dual colour paw is prominent in the foreground and his inside out ear is adorable in the background.

a black and white pitbull looking up at a person who is offscreen. He looks patient and attentive.

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I only recently realized that the Lower Decks opening credits take this scene directly from TNG's Realm of Fear (in which the Enterprise is assisting the crew of the USS Yosemite (get it), a science vessel that got stuck in the plasma stream). Lower Decks you are an unending delight

screencap from TNG "Realm of Fear." The Enterprise is positioned near a sun with a big orange plasma stream that radiates outward and curls around a blue astronomical body

Screencap from the Lower Decks opening credits. The Cerritos is escaping from a plasma stream that curls around another astronomical body. It's very similar to the TNG screenshot, except the colors are reversed, so the plasma is blue and the astronomical body is orange.

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

lately I think a lot about this New American Movement poster from the seventies. as true now as it was then. (NAM is a precursor of the DSA)

hand-lettered poster. Title reads: "If you're unemployed it's not because there isn't any work." Text reads: "Just look around: a housing shortage, crime, pollution: we need better schools and parks. Whatever our needs, they all require work. And as long as we have unsatisfied needs, there's work to be done. So ask yourself, what kind of world has work but no jobs. It's a world where work is not related to satisfying our needs. A world where work is only related to satisfying the profit needs of business. This country was not built by the huge corporations or government bureaucracies. It was built by people who work. And, it is working people who should control the work to be done. Yet, as long as employment is tied to somebody else's profits, the work won't get done." At the bottom is some illegible text and the address for NAM 1 (New American Movement).

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

just want to point out that this middle section is exclusively Magnus Archives Scottish Safehouse fic (tho the sex is usually kissing. otherwise it's right on)

a list of tags from AO3: cosmic horror, eldritch horror, cottagecore, crying during sex, cryptids

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

literally I have a shirt that says MAKE BAD ART lol there's also the Cheap Art Manifesto (sorry, not image described, I gotta go to work)

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

here's the outfit he was wearing when about to use his saddle, hope that clears things up

Picard walking down the corridor of the Enterprise. He is wearing knee-high black leather boots, a red velvety coat, tight grey pants, and a cleavage-bearing green shirt. He is carrying a saddle.

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

trekkies: if you see this, post your first experience with Star Trek. (this is tough because I know I watched a lot of TNG as a kid that I don't remember, but this is the first episode I have a very concrete memory of watching when it aired. because it FREAKED ME THE HELL OUT)

two images from Star Trek: TNG. Both are Beverly Crusher, in her blue lab coat, standing and then sitting at the helm of the Enterprise. The first one has the caption "If there's nothing wrong with me . . . " and the second one has the caption "Maybe there's something wrong with the universe."

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

omg honey lavender ice cream sounds amazing! here's the recipe (from my stepmother).

Janet's Lavender Jelly   
3 1/2 cups water 
1/2 cup dried lavender flowers 
Juice of 1 lemon (1/4 cup) 
1 (1 3/4-ounces) box powdered pectin or 1 pouch (3-ounces) liquid pectin 
4 cups sugar

 In a large saucepan over high heat bring water just to a boil. Remove from heat, stir in dried lavender flowers, and let steep for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, strain mixture into a deep kettle or pot, discarding the lavender flowers. Stir in lemon juice and pectin; continue stirring until the pectin is dissolved. 

Over high heat, bring the mixture to a boil; add sugar. When the jelly solution returns to a hard rolling boil, let it boil for 2 to 4 minutes (see below), stirring occasionally. After boiling, transfer the jelly into hot sterilized jars. Fill them to within 1/4 inch of the top, wipe any spilled jam off the top, seat the lids and tighten the ring around them.

 Makes five 1/2 pints.

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

non-controversial list is something like: TOS Mudd's Women TNG Code of Honor ENT Cogenitor VOY Retrospect or TNG A Matter of Perspective DS9 Melora controversial list is more like: DS9 Far Beyond the Stars TOS Space Seed TNG A Fistful of Datas DS9 Sons of Mogh VOY Fury

screenshot of Benjamin Sisko pointing at someone offscreen, wearing a disappointed expression. Text: "You claim to love Star Trek? Then name 5 episodes you hate!!!"

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

baby groundhogs + mom groundhog chilling on the deck of our pool this morning

picture of a wooden deck by a pool surrounded by plants and a rose bush. A big groundhog sits facing away from camera, with a smaller groundhog in an identical pose slightly behind. a third groundhog, also small, sits on the grass behind them, just off the edge of the deck.

a picture of a wooden deck by a pool with three groundhogs sitting on the corner of the deck. One is bigger, lying down with its head up and alert; the other two are about half its size and cuddled up next to it.

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

scrolling through a selection of pride-themed t-shirts and I do have one question about whether Canadian Tire is inherently gay

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

what are your favourite titles from peer-reviewed academic articles? here are a few I have saved to show students different ways to title an essay, including rhyme, mimicking, sexy pun, and Just Keep It Simple. I'd love more examples, tho!

Academic article titled "Identifying species from pieces of feces"

Article titled "It's only a meme if it's from the knowledge organization region of information science, otherwise it's just a tweet"

Article titled "Gender is dynamic for all people"

Article titled "The Desire for a Yank: Sexual Relations Between Australian Women and American Servicemen during World War II"

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

best star trek crew, wrong answers only

photo of the Abbott Elementary cast huddled together and smiling

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

we have been showing Star Trek to some of our dear friends who haven't seen Star Trek before, and we finally got to the place where we could show them Voyager, so I made fake AO3 pages for DS9 and Voyager to clarify the differences between them and now I share them with you, the internet

AO3 page for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Tagged teen and up audience, graphic depictions of violence, major character death, F/M, Gen, other. Characters: Baseball Dad, Trans Space Worm, Terrorist Lesbian, Doctor Twink, Irish Mechanic, Goo Cop, Just Simple Garak, Crime Goblin, Guy From the Other Show, Freighter Captain Girlfriend, 30-Year-Old Crime Child, Jake Sisko. Additoinal Tags: Space Station, big hole in space, space politics, aliens, shapeshifters, interstellar war, noir crime solving, post-colonialism, baseball, lounge singing for some reason?, new orleans cuisine, wormhole aliens, prophecy, this space station needs an HR department, orbs, lots and lots of orbs, espionage, tailoring, pylons!, roleplay, costumes, the misogynist aliens with a gender caste system are our friends because cultural relativism, trauma, alternate universe shenanigans, what does it mean to be an alien. The summary is: the Federation manages this space station but kind of wishes they didn't.

AO3 page for Star Trek: Voyager. Tagged teen and up audiences, no archive warnings apply, F/M, gen, other. Characters: The Psychosexual Vortex That Is Captain Kathryn Janeway, guerilla fighter slash anthropologist, engineer with anger management issues, this vulcan does so many mind melds, not nick lacarno, the one who already knows he's a service sub, troll doll chef, telepathic disney princess, doctor hologram, cyborg lesbian. Additional tags: where no human has gone before, not so tough without your starfleet are ya, artificial intelligence but in the 90s when it was cool, time travel shenanigans, cyborgs, italian culture for some reason?, the prime directive a lot, coffee, resource management, a surprising number of fish people, hot science ladies, participatory holodeck fandoms, brat taming, service submission, telepathy, what is memory, white writers just making stuff up about Native cultures, meeting another version of yourself, what does it mean to be a person

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

as many times as you need to make people understand, in my opinion! also you reminded me of this Quora post that I think about a lot

Screenshot of a Quora question. The question reads "Is it 'for fucks sake' or 'for fuck sake'? It's for a work email so it has to sound professional."

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

anti-canadian linguistic discrimination by Outlook's grammar check tool, smh

screenshot of a sentence that begins "I know you're done your project but thought . . ." with the word "done" underlined by the grammar check

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

My dear beloved dog Rorschach, who had been my boy for 14 years, passed away this morning. I'm sad and grieving but coping okay. Here's a picture of him doing one of his favourite old man hobbies: lying in a hole under a bush

a black and white pitbull with a white blaze on his face lying in a small depression in the dirt among some green plants. He's looking at the camera.

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

I think about this tumblr post all the time

tumblr post by user pinehutch. text of the post reads "Everyone's a descriptivist until The Phrase shows up." The hashtag says "me when 'a tad bit'"

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 03/08/2024

here are some photos - on his first birthday in march 2011, and on our first adoptaversary in october 2011, then a couple of recent photos of my elder statesman

black and white pitbull with nose poking the camera, wearing a pink tiara that says happy birthday

black and white pitbull looking intensely up at the camera; the cameraperson's hand is in frame holding a french fry

a black and white pitbull with significantly more grey on his muzzle and paws lying in a little hole under a bush

a black and white pitbull with significantly more grey hair sleeping on a yellow pillow on a green couch

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

:) I believe this person posted it yearly! I'm not 100% sure this is the original source but I thought I'd offer the info I have.

screencap of a tweet from Feb 13 2021, from user @DrGrammar (Dennis Baron). Tweet reads: "Roses are red, violets are blue. Singular they is older than singular you."

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

gotta be Identifying Species from Pieces of Feces

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I'm still laughing that my latest Good Omens fic has me at 333 works on AO3, or 1/2 of The Number of the Beast. Like I've made Half a Beast of fanworks

screenshot of thingswithwings' ao3 page showing the header info for Covenant of Salt and the WORKS tab which says "Works (333)"

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

awww happy birthday! This OT3 is currently delighting me

Abigail, Phileas, and Jean from Around the World in 80 Days , arm in arm walking through the snow

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thingswithwings @thingswithwings.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

I did a bunch of vidding last night while trying to process all my good omens feelings (nb: this vid is not good omens, it's my giant challenging difficult cool secret project) and the timeline is coming along! I'm so proud of it so far

DaVinci Resolve edit tab, showing a timeline with four video tracks and one audio track. the video tracks are mostly full and the audio track is just over 6 minutes long. in the preview pane there is an image of hands pulling petals off a red flower.

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