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Hi all,

I had to push some code live today to fix something, and that brought with it a couple of new things like if you have two-factor authentication (2FA/MFA) enabled, you got automatically logged out and it is now required to log in. If you don't, you can set it up if you want (you don't have to.)

This also means that if you have 2FA enabled, you will not be able to use 3P clients using your username and password anymore. You should be able to use API keys in most cases, but there's some nuance to that (and tbh, I just am not precisely sure what clients anybody even uses.)

Please do comment if you're seeing anything weird, as per usual, and we'll work on it. Thank you!

katriona_s

Yesterday morning I went to the orthopaedic clinic to get the physical therapy. In early summer I have hurt my left shoulder and still have some slight pain there. It's not serious but with this problem I can't go to kayaking now :(

After I came home my mother went to the clinic to get some vaccination.

In the afternoon I took my rabbit Krurun to see the vet for her monthly medical checkup. Recently her teeth tend to grow irregularly so the vet cuts the edge of them every month :( This time the vet X-rayed her and thankfully, no serious problem was found.

During the last 2 months I got 2 medical checkup, visited some small clinic and dentist's. I had a long summer holiday then retired from the office, but I have not traveled anywhere. Instead visited many clinics. Older we get, more visit to the hospitals and clinics :( I don't like this situation :(

Krurun in the carrying bag in the waiting room of the vet.

"I don't like being here... want to come home..."

astrogirl

Goodbye September, hello October!

My September book count is a little higher than it usually has been lately. I spent a couple of weeks of vacation time mostly offline, reading during the day and spending time with family in the evenings and on the weekends, something I very much recommend. (I'd say it's good for both the mental health and the TBR, except that I managed to acquire enough books in the same period of time that the TBR didn't actually go down any. I'm never entirely sure how this happens.)

I do hope to have other things to post here in the near-ish future than just these book logs, though. I really want to get back to doing some more writing. I just need to find the time and energy to do it. But first I need to find the time and energy to clean the keyboard I use to write with, because a bunch of the keys have been sticking and it's very distracting trying to write when the words you're typing keep having the wrong number of letters in them.

Anyway, here's what September looked like for me, book-wise:

( 63. The Thing in the Snow by Sean Adams )

( 64. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 edited by Nnedi Okorafor )

( 65. Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography by Mia Fineman )

( 66. Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout )

( 67. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie )

( 68. The Art of Gravity Falls by Alex Hirsch and Rob Renzetti )

( 69. The Troop by Nick Cutter )

( 70. Assumption by Percival Everett )

( 71. This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together by Jon Mooallem )

( 72. Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor: Gaze of the Medusa by Gordon Rennie et al. )

Current Mood: busy

reapermum

It's the end of the month, so I'm closing the door on this set of photos I like. I hope you liked them too. I'll probably be back in December with the next Christmas Countdown.

Old red church doors

katriona_s

This morning it's raining again. In September we have had so many rainy days. On some days it rained heavily, on some we had just a little rain... and, rain has been recorded on 35 consecutive days in Tokyo area now. This is the record, I heard. This means we have had a little sunshine for whole month, farmers must have much trouble, let alone the damages caused by the terrible floods in various areas. I often buy green vegetables for my rabbit and found their prices were going up :( It's really unusual situation, this continuous rain makes us feel rather depressed, weakens our motivation :(

Though the weather forecast says we'd have some sunshine on coming weekend, I'm going to meet my friend and enjoy walking somewhere - hopefully. At the moment rain seems to ceased but the sky is grey and very gloomy :( I hope the weather forecast is right...

reapermum

I just like the pattern of colours.

Colours of oil on tarmac

reapermum

In my early days of having a digital camera I took it to Atherstone, a neighbouring small town that had somehow missed out on getting major shops. I took pictures of the independents before they disappeared and made this collage centred around a statue commemorating the Shrove Tuesday Ball Game which has been played annually since 1199. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atherstone_Ball_Game

Cokkage of shops in Atherstone

katriona_s

This morning I went to the Yoga class, had lunch in a small but nice Vietnamese restaurant, took some clothes to the cleaners, went to the beauty salon to cut my hair, then went to some clinic to get some medicine. I left home at 10:00 and came home at 17:50. This was a bit long, tiring day X)

Meanwhile, my rabbit Krurun was...

Sleeping or relaxing under the armchair all day :(

vilakins

Title: Best Eaten Cold
Fandom: Blake's 7
Pairing/Characters: Kerr Avon & Dayna Mellanby
Content Notes: Dayna has unfinished business.
Prompt: 28 September - Kerr Avon & Dayna Mellanby - five, four, three, two, one

Best Eaten Cold on AO3

And that's it for this challenge. There were 28 prompts (8 characters paired in every way). Three were impossible (Gan and Cally never meeting later crew members) and some just didn't spark any ideas. Still, I did 15 which is just over half; better than I thought I'd do.

With only eight characters, I left Tarrant out. He's getting his turn in next month's rare pair challenge.

reapermum

Chateaux usually have very nice formal gardens. But at ground level you can't enjoy the overall view. So they also have belvederes, raised places to see the garden from. This is the ceiling of one in Burgundy.

Ironwork against the sky

elayna

I read Head Over Feet as a Reylo fanfic by ever-so-reylo, and enjoyed it. Fake dating trope with a Rey and Ben who were both at Stanford, Rey as the doctoral student, Ben as the higher level post-doc (IIRC, I never did much science).

The fanfic was taken down and published as The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood and I read that version. There were changes and I think overall I decided I preferred the fanfic (though I couldn't reliably list the differences now).

Sis and I watched it last night as The Love Hypothesis, a new romcom from Prime Video. I laughed quite a bit (appropriately), it's lovely to watch a romcom where the leads are charming and actually funny. Some plot points have changed once again, though the main highlights of the Reylo romance remain. I love that there are multiple women in science at Stanford and though there's one reference to men being uncomfortable, that's all. Women are smart! In science! Yay! But also the lead character has flaws and very human struggles while persevering in her academic studies.

Amusingly enough, the lead male actor in the Kylo-Ben role is played by Daisy Ridley's husband.

As far as I know, it's the first fanfic made into a movie. If anyone knows others, I'd love to hear them! I understand Red, White, and Royal Blue was written by a slasher but never published as a fanfic. Anyway, two thumbs up from us.

katriona_s

Today it's cloudy. No rain, little wind. Cool but rather dark, depressing day. Because of the high humidity there is another mushroom appeared in our garden :(

At least with not-high temperature and no rain, garden cats can relax on the wooden verandah. It's good.

I have done some necessary research on internet, wrote one letter, did some trivial domestic duties. But the things I have wanted to do did not progressed much :( I long for the fresh, fine autumn days...

reapermum

This is late because I spent yesterday peeling pickling onions and didn't have time to put the computer on.

This is a genuine sky over our garden about ten years ago. It had been overcast all day until early evening when the sun dropped low enough to shine below cloud level. And the entire light changed suddenly.

Dramatic sunset

vilakins

Title: Entropy
Fandom: Blake's 7
Pairing/Characters: Vila Restal & Dayna Mellanby
Content Notes: Dayna is fed up with all the chores they have to do on Xenon base, yet Vila is not as bothered.
Prompt: 27 September - Vila Restal, Dayna Mellanby, and the endless to-do list

Entropy on AO3

kerravonsen

Creator registration for Marvel Trumps Hate 2026 is officially open! Make Marvel-themed fannish works for charity!

(No, this has got NOTHING to do with the Orange Menace, the word "trump" actually means stuff to do with card games, y'know.)

Sign-ups are open from now until 11:59 PM ET on Saturday, October 10, with Auction Week taking place from November 1 to November 7. All auction deadlines will be at 11:59 PM Eastern Time (ET) USA.

Full announcement here.

I WILL be signing up! I will be making my fabulous stealth-fannish jewellery again.

katriona_s

Yesterday it's cloudy with occasional weak sunshine. The weather was better than I have expected, so I decided to weed our garden. During the looong severe summer heat then rainy days we have had just a few opportunity to weed thus our garden is a kind of mess at the moment X) When I crouched and weeded I found it's still a bit hot - not hot but humid and unpleasant, I sweated much :( But it's good to clear - even just a small patch of garden :) Maybe (hopefully) I'd have much more opportunity to do this soon, I mean, the cooler day without rain nor strong sunshine :D

I found an unseasonable flower of Kerria Japonica. This is the spring flower, but this plant sometimes shows such lone flower out of season.

reapermum

A rather nice collection of paper flowers I saw this spring.

elayna

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Happy 925 Day!

katriona_s

Now it’s becoming cooler day by day, the autumn comes. Though we have had unusual changeable weather this year still the autumn cooler air makes me feel … this is the good time of trip! Last week I went to Aomori, not for fun but to help the house-cleaning, still taking a bullet train, the long train journey, staying in the unfamiliar city are somewhat touched my “traveler’s sentiment”.

Hakkoda-maru, the former train ferry connecting Hokkaido and Honsyu(main island) before the underwater tunnel was opened on 1988, now moored at the wharf near Aomori train station as a museum. I have used the ferry boart when I was young many times and loved the voyage to Hokkaido, so it’s great to visit this museum ship on my visit to Aomori.

The view from the window of the bullet train going back to Tokyo from Aomori.

So, I’d like to travel somewhere. But it’s a bit difficult at the moment, for I still have some necessary steps after the retirement and am uncertain about some schedules, also, recently the weather is quite uncertain, sometimes dangerously so. Maybe I’ll plan some day trip in coming Oct., and maybe at the end of this year I’d be able to make some pattern of my life…

reapermum

There it stands, part of the wall of the ruined castle in Bridgnorth. And how it hasn't fallen over in the past 400 years I don't know. After being captured by the Roundheads during the Civil War it was blown up in 1647 to prevent its reuse.

Ruined wall that looks as if it should have fallen down.

Ruined wall that looks as if it should have fallen down.

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