Stuff and Things (and pronouns)
Apr. 5th, 2026 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peasinaI updated the colour palette of my journal today and somehow managed to lose bullet points entirely in the process. They don’t show up on my reading page or main blog anymore, and I have no idea how that’s possible when I just changed the colours. Oops!
I’m not sure how to say this, so I’ll get right to it: I’ve changed my preferred pronouns. I am going by they/them at the moment. Uh, thanks!
Mushroom update: Pink oysters are very hard to grow in the UK. A small handful of the first fruiting was salvageable, but they were well past their prime. Then I managed to use too much oil when cooking them and ruined them. I’ve shared a pic of that first lot pre-cooking below (with the weird, dry, mutated ones in the background that had to go in the bin.) A second flush is now trying to decide what its doing, with some of it pale/brittle/moulding while the rest seem happy yet tiny. I hope they will settle soon.
The blue oysters were completely absent for three weeks (and one of the two boxes still hasn’t done anything) but after building a makeshift martha tent—basically a clear plastic bag with a tray of perlite in the bottom that I regularly open to fan and mist—they suddenly started to show up a few days ago! Pic under the cut of their freaky forms. I’m hoping to put them in a miso soup, but don’t tell them that.
I’m challenging myself to watch 15 films in April, so one every other day. So far I’ve watched Her (2013) and Thor: Love & Thunder (2022), and tonight it’s Gravity (2013). I also watched Conclave recently and was pleased it lived up to the hype. I put all the films I wanted to give a go in a pot and have been pulling them out at random. It’s been fun so far!
Happy Easter to my friends here if you celebrate. I hope March was good to everyone ๐งก
I’m not sure how to say this, so I’ll get right to it: I’ve changed my preferred pronouns. I am going by they/them at the moment. Uh, thanks!
Mushroom update: Pink oysters are very hard to grow in the UK. A small handful of the first fruiting was salvageable, but they were well past their prime. Then I managed to use too much oil when cooking them and ruined them. I’ve shared a pic of that first lot pre-cooking below (with the weird, dry, mutated ones in the background that had to go in the bin.) A second flush is now trying to decide what its doing, with some of it pale/brittle/moulding while the rest seem happy yet tiny. I hope they will settle soon.
The blue oysters were completely absent for three weeks (and one of the two boxes still hasn’t done anything) but after building a makeshift martha tent—basically a clear plastic bag with a tray of perlite in the bottom that I regularly open to fan and mist—they suddenly started to show up a few days ago! Pic under the cut of their freaky forms. I’m hoping to put them in a miso soup, but don’t tell them that.
I’m challenging myself to watch 15 films in April, so one every other day. So far I’ve watched Her (2013) and Thor: Love & Thunder (2022), and tonight it’s Gravity (2013). I also watched Conclave recently and was pleased it lived up to the hype. I put all the films I wanted to give a go in a pot and have been pulling them out at random. It’s been fun so far!
Happy Easter to my friends here if you celebrate. I hope March was good to everyone ๐งก
