cypher and I have been married a full year! That's wild! I mean, we've been together since 2019 and have been living together since 2020, but you know. Marriage! :D But yes, yesterday was our one year anniversary; we went to lunch at a nearby Mexican restaurant that I'd never been to and they hadn't been to in over six years. It was delicious! I did get a flight of margaritas (mango, blueberry, and tamarind) and extremely tasty enchiladas (salsa verde for Will and mole for me). The vibes were immaculate! It was busy but still chill and everyone seemed to be in a great mood. It was just, ah, so nice.

Will baked this adorable cake! Extremely tasty, please admire!


And I had bought this super cute card set:

with card hits like this that you then decide which one you want to do and scratch it off to see what exactly it is!
(we didn't do this one, it's just an example)

We picked one that was free and only took an hour and scratched it off to reveal a "Try Not to Laugh" challenge! We did something similar, which was queue up some Real Facts videos by ZeFrank on the TV and laugh as much as we want. It was so nice! We're both really bad at watching things so it was nice to pile on the couch together and watch something funny but informative, haha. It was really, really nice to cuddle and laugh together. ;3;

Unfortunately not all is well in Nanland. My dog Selphie has been acting a little odd lately. Panting a lot, drinking a lot, peeing a lot, not having any energy. We ended up getting her an emergency appointment and at first, the vet assumed both diabetes and Cushing's but after bloodwork, it definitely looks more like Cushing's. She's gonna have to spend the day at the vet on Monday while they figure out her medication dosages and then she'll likely be on them for the rest of her life. ;3; But all my research tells me that after she's on medication she'll be doing so much better. Which is a relief! I miss my little hiking pal. ;3;

But in better pet news, a couple of nights ago I was watching youtube videos with Dale (my bearded dragon). Lil man climbed to my back, nuzzled his snoot into the hair behind my ear, and went to sleep. ;o; Aaaaahhhh I love him a lot. <3

And in gardening news! Radishes, beets, and turnips going strong, lettuces thriving, and tomatoes started. I feel like it's been kind of a slow start for gardening but I suspect last year we jumped the gun a bit for getting things started. XD; Gotta contain the enthusiasm for when it's actually warm enough!

Fandom 50 #8

For 1984, it's a song that was baby's first trans/gnc anthem and remains a classic of the Canadian drag scene.

Let It Go by Luba

Happy Easter to those who celebrate! I do not but my store closes early so I get to leave early. That's very nice, aaaahhh. <3 I'm trying SO HARD hard to not waste my mornings before work, so I'm updating DW and also watching a Smosh video.

I've finished a Chris/Leon fic, I just need to go back over it and make sure there aren't too many egregious grammar issues. I don't care about, like, purposefully fucking around with grammar (I love commas and semicolons) but I don't want a simple typo to ruin the vibes, you know?

Aaahhh, okay. I have less than an hour until my shift starts. I'd better start getting ready. ;o; I have Wed-Fri off next week due to WEDDING ANNIVERSARY and I'm just trying to make it until then.

OH ALSO I GOT BIT BY A DOG YESTERDAY. Immediate bruising, a little blood, and swelling, but today it seems to have calmed down.

A bit of a catch-up on two things I watched recently through National Theatre at Home:

Good (directed by Dominic Cooke) is a 2022 production of the 1981 play by Cecil Philip Taylor, about a professor in pre-war Germany whose decisions take him from a life as a progressive academic and family man whose closest friend is Jewish to an active contributor to the Final Solution.

The production stars David Tennant as protagonist John Halder, with Sharon Small and Elliot Levey playing virtually all other characters. I don't know if that's the norm for this play, but having the people around Halder share faces was extremely effective in bringing home the self-centeredness that guides his actions and the way he conceives of people in his life by the role they play in his conception of himself. Tennant, Small, and Levey all turn in fantastic performances, but Levey in particular just knocked it out of the park, especially in a scene near the end that differs slightly from the original play in a way that hit even harder for me. This was really something special.



The Estate (directed by Daniel Raggett) is the debut play from Shaan Sahota, starring Adeel Akhtar as MP Angad Singh—the unexpected frontrunner for party leadership on a platform of change—whose image of himself as the underdog progressive son of a working class father is put to the test when his father dies, leaving a significant estate to him with nothing going to his older sisters on the basis of sex.

There was some unevenness across the performances, a key moment at the climax kind of wobbled for me, and I personally think the political elements would have worked a lot better if this had maybe been set in the 2010s (because specifically name-checking it as 2025 just drove home the ways it doesn't resemble the political climate of the moment), but it was firing on all cylinders when it came to the family drama, the poison of unexamined privilege and unspoken trauma, and the pressure to keep conflicts in marginalized communities out of the public eye even if it means demanding more sacrifices from the more vulnerable members of that community. Adeel Akhtar's performance was incredibly impressive given all of the ugly and painful things that come out of Angad over the course of the play, and Thusitha Jayasundera (playing Angad's eldest sister, Gyan) was an immediate "Oh, I need to see more of what she's been in." Also, the staging and music were great and made me really wish I'd been able to see this one in person.

Fandom 50 #7

This pick from 1983 isn't necessarily the most representative of the sound the Payola$ are known for, but it's a certified bop with a hook that still gets stuck in my head on a regular basis.

I'll Find Another (Who Can Do It Right) by The Payola$

Last year, as an interstitial segment on Game Changer, the folks over at Dropout.tv filmed an improv skit called Dimension 20: On a Bus, where the concept was four professional GMs sitting down to play D&D with a GM who had a limited understanding of how the game was played.



It was a funny bit, but I don't think anyone expected the calls for more to actually result in anything. Until now, when for April Fool's Day, Dropout released a full one-hour episode of it. It's only up on their streaming service, but here's the teaser trailer that dropped without warning:



And man, the actual episode did not disappoint. It was a hilarious mess that hit just the right balance of winding up a bunch of professional storytellers, but also letting them do what they best as they tried to salvage things. I laughed to the point of tears, but I also legitimately picked up pointers about character-building and how to move a plot along (to get to LAX to fly out to an M&M wedding in Lisbon when everything keeps blowing up).

Fandom 50 #6

Continuing my list of fifty Canadian songs I love from the past fifty years, 1982 is just a good old-fashioned banger.

Your Daddy Don't Know by Toronto