Charleston WV it like an hour and 10 minutes from me. It's closer than Columbus. I think it stems from when I moved down here and back then there wasn't a highway TO the city and you had to poke your way through cow country. I about cried when they moved Tsubasacon back here from Huntington (which is actually further from me!!)


Surely there has to be things to see over here, being a capitol city right? I'm only ever here for Madri Gras casino or Tsu. But the fact this is only 60 miles away is why I never stay for the con and only come one day (it's small and the panels have been...meh). However last year I got here like a half hour after it opened last year and I was in the check in line for TWO hours. It wasn't worth that. So I decided why not spend the night and do the evening stuff.

Turns out that was a such a good idea. Opening ceremonies were at 3. I got here 10 to 3 and was about to check in to the holiday inn across the street. I check in and decide I want to see the 630 panel SOOOO I'm getting too old and lazy to do multiple changes of clothing so I hop over to get my weekend badge and there is NO ONE in line. OMG. I whip in and now I have 1 1/2 hours before dinner (because of reasons)so I check out the vendors room because I know the Hellaverse shit will sell out asap.

I get more compliments on my walks in the graveyard t-shirt from Betty than I was likely to on my cosplay (I was right No one said boo about my Edalyn). I was going at mach one through it but yes I did notice a) almost all the same vendors as usual b) none of them seems to have changed their stock, sigh c) found the coaster guy who I got Valentino by at Mothman fest. Got more overpriced coasters (had to have huskerdust and a beautiful one of Roy Mustang, my forever anime husband) I know I will go much more slowly tomorrow, get some more holiday gifts (not you evil_little_dog I'm good through 4/26)

Don't let me buy more dice. Don't let me buy another t-shirt. Knee cap me if you see me going for wall art. Stickers dana, stick to stickers. Texted BFF from college to get her child. Should text others while tempting I probably should not get JK the wall art of Cherri and Pentious.

So I haul over my goods back to the hotel. The elevator makes worrisome sounds. I change into a non-t-shirt for dinner because the one thing I've noticed about Charleston, it had at least three James Beard nominated/winning chefs running around (That's like the Oscars for chefs for the non-foodies on my list) two are at restaurants with James Beard pricing (30$ for a salad, yeah No. 35$ for fried chicken? I'll hit KFC first). However Ristorante Abruzzi has barely over normal Italian prices and is supposed to be abruzzese inspired (and that's where my family is from)

I pull into the parking garage across the street, get out and into the elevator. It's for the hospital. Okay...I go to the first floor and it opens INTO the hospital. Well then. I return to the car and the lot next to the restaurant is for the ballpark behind it. I go across the street the other way where there is a huge parking lot for family dollar and a lung center and toss up my handicapped tag hoping I won't get towed and go in. Neat menu but I should have gone for the mushroom pasta instead of the blue crab/goat cheese ravioli with a wine cream sauce, sweet corn and asparagus. Honestly the corn seemed weird in this and the goat cheese overpowered the crab (except on my breath). It was good but I expected more. I did get a stuck up waiter who was obviously pissed off to get a solo patron at HIS table (in fancy jeans, not a pantsuit. Eye roll)

I return to the hotel, pull on my Edalyn Clawthorn (The Owl House) cosplay and walk over. I get three Japanese buns for dessert and late night snacks and try to find the panel I want Hot Anime Dads I can't find it. Find one on yokai but it's the same awful presenter I sat through last year. He was still awful and I'm only catching the tail end.

I leave and try my phone out of desperation as I don't have internet access on it...until today! After 3 weeks it's working again and I find my panel in the big room. Yay. Vitamin H are two sapphic partners who are 'professional panelists.' I did NOT know that was a thing but their quality shows that they are doing this often and well. They picked a bunch of dads throughout the years. They were funny and thorough and I really liked this panel. My only problem...my sugar bottomed out (in spite of pasta dinner) had to eat my buns. damn

My next panel isn't for an hour. I should have gone to find the band but instead I stop in to the manga library and read X-Gender (not for me) and made it halfway thru Hooves of Death about unicorns in Yellowstone protecting humans from zombies...

the 830 panel was on urban legends in Japan, also by Vitamin H. I thought this was even better than the first (with the one exception of they couldn't dim the lights and some stuff was hard to see) I couldn't believe how many girl ghost in the bathroom slasher movies there are.

Came back happy with this day. Found the groaning moaning elevator is broken (I'm on the 6th floor) at least one was working and oh this room basically has a fainting couch perfect for stretching out and using my lap desk. the twist I put on my knee yesterday has left it swollen

Have some fandom recs


No Going Back Stargate SG-1

Essentials Torchwood

He Didn't Even Touch It!Hazbin Hotel

Somewhere Between Torchwood

The Aftershow The Amazing Digital Circus

You'll Have to Try Harder Than This Hazbin Hotel

sex is art and you’re the muse (your soul’s my eternal bruise) 时光代理人 | Link Click

Stone Roses The Owl House

No Choice Torchwood

scale to feather, skin to skin 镇魂 | Guardian

Somnosensual Hazbin Hotel

Can You Hold Me? Hazbin Hotel

The Strangest Forms Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

Experimental Hazbin Hotel

Fuck Hazbin Hotel


This Is New. Sherlock&Co

So today I went to my PCP who was horrified by what that surgeon did. He didn't want to biopsy and grade 4 tumor?!? And the radiologist suggested waiting a full year? Yeah, no you need to see a ENT, where do you want to go? Well since I can't find the one my coworker's fiance went to in my insurance, so I said I don't trust the ones at Holzer and after this I don't want to go to Ohio Health for this so, fine send me to King's Daughters (I'm sure I can survive the nuns)

She agrees I need gastro too and I had one of those massive exhaustive spells (that came and went while in the room) She drew 6 vials of blood because she can see something ain't right. This is key to to the title of this post.

I go to the coffee shop having learned from Doc that not only are we getting a Starbuck's (I don't want) we're getting a Tim Horton's!! Poor Spot on Main (my coffee shop) first we got holy grounds this summer and now these so in 6 months more or less we went from 1 coffee shop to 4 in a town of like 6K And Tim's and Starbuck's will do well because they have drive thrus. the other two do not.

I write some. I go to Kroger for hotel snacks. Come home. I'm trying to wake up and the phone rings. It's King's Daughters. OMG how bad was my blood work that they called within 2 hours? Am I DYING?!? No, it was the main one in KY and now I'm seeing ENT in November.

I half assed packed. I washed dishes and somehow it's like 1030pm and I've done nothing else including something I promised students. Sob.


have some community stuff.

gluten_free This community is for sharing gluten-free recipes and resources.

lgbtrainbow a rainbow pass-it-on challenge focused on LGBTQ+ characters from any media

fandom50challenge 50 fannish posts a year.

Not even going to mention the ongoing online nightmare at work other than one of my coworkers asked was that your halloween stuff or are you screaming into the void again? (the void JM, the void)

Today I went to the library (my library this time) with TH for Spooky Storytelling. First we hit the Mexican place which had something new a tamarind aqua fresca that wasn't worth the money. Mostly it just tasted sweet. Eh. Oh well, not every new venture pays off.

There usual crew was at the library for this talk including two little girls with their mom who were jump square queens (one, the other wasn't paying attention) He keeps his stories on the mild side for them but he was an excellent story teller, definitely an actor doing a one man show.

My only issue was I had one of those exhausted spells where I kinda go down while actively doing shit and I was in and out for most of this. Embarrassing. He probably noticed. Sigh. I was only truly there for the last 10 minutes of the hour. (I do plan to tell the doc about this tomorrow)

TH would like to do storytelling at last night's library and the StoryTeller here is talking about a local Story Telling con in the works. I'd like to do that too. I'm not sure I'd be good at it though. I can do the theatrics. It's voices I'm not good at. Irony: half the panels at the con this weekend are all so you wanna be a voice actor....

What I Just Finished Reading:


Ash's Cabin - a YA graphic novel a queer coming of age Oh boy did I dislike this one. Ditto Fall Through by Nate Powell (a graphic novel about a punk rock group whose lyrics break the space/time continium)





What I am Currently Reading:

The Gallery Assistant - a mystery set in the aftermath of 911 and I already hate the protagonist (figures, it's an arc and I feel obligated to finish those) This is not getting better.

The Queen of Blood - a YA fantasy I've had on my shelf for too many years now. It's not bad so far but yes the first quarter is more dark academia, fit to survive school (eye roll)

The Cat Who Saved Books - my healing fic pic. I'm bored

Haunted Cemeteries of Ohio - you know why


What I Plan to Read Next: I'm so behind on my challenges. something for that.

today in lab they finally break out the bone boxes to study (after 7 weeks. the test was SUPPOSED to be in 2 weeks but I guess it'll be 3 now because I missed last week and we don't have lab this week because of the Bob Evans Farm Fest) So today they're like wait we have to know ALL the parts of the bones and not just the bones?!?

Me - Did I not do a 2 h our lecture on this AND give you like a half dozen tutoring videos? Do you not hear your radiology classmates hitting this shit like pros because you have to know this for your profession?? (but what I say is yes, this is why I keep encouraging you to study in lab. I will BURY you if you don't)

Them - we get these sheets with us right (holding up the selected bones of the body work sheet where everything is listed

Me - hell no (literally that just slipped out)

Them - WHAT?!? We don't get these

Me - no, you get a word bank. that's NOT in body regions like the work sheets. It's 100% alphabetical.

Them - weeping, wailing, rolling on the floor

Me - ah, your sadness tastes like cotton candy


I need a new phone carrier as tracfone is no longer cutting it. t-mobile is in town (if shit goes sideways. It always does) Can't help but notice the pricing is literally double what's in the tv/online ads. Hmmm must think on this

Went to trivia night for the first time in nearly a year TH asked me to come as a buffer between him and L . It actually was fine. There were three categories I didn't even need my team. Got all 10 per category o n my own (well one was horror movie icons (pictures) and one was magic (and the one I didn't think I'd do well on was ___ of _________ (Middle of nowhere, I dream of Jeannie etc) Nailed it. On the other hand I have no idea about world capitols. I might as well gone back to the donut table.

We won. I claimed 'a lame gift' (per the organizer) it's a 55 domino set of dominoes. I think it's cool. Oh yes it'll sit around in the shrink wrap for 3 years because I have no one to play with.

Raced home in the rain for my author's zoom but begged off after an hour when one of my exhaustion waves rolled me over. But I DID finish the rough draft of my fandomtrumpshate story about damn time. Started work on another fandomgiftbasket but man there are still SO many 0 or 1 gift people out there and I think I can do exactly one more. Again some are weird pairings (one I'm writing doesn't hit half the wants because they're all sex (but the prompts aren't so we're going with that) because wow these aren't my kinks (I don't get the whole wetting your pants kink at all, not kink shaming just saying I don't get it) And some of the fandoms I do know want only art or pairings I just can't make myself do. Oh well.