Looking for housemates in Minnesota

May. 22nd, 2025 02:32 am
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I've been living at my childhood home, a hobby farm in Minnesota, taking care of my dad. Soon my dad will be moving to assisted living, along with my mom who is moving there from the nursing home.

I'll be staying at the farm and looking after the animals. I'd rather live here with other people, as it's safer and more fun. I have multiple disabilities which make managing a whole farm rather difficult on my own. I've had a couple of seizures which make it safer for me to have people around me. Minnesota is one of the better places to live right now in the US and this could be a good opportunity for someone to live here.

So, if you know of anyone that would like a nice place to live, please direct them my way, especially queer and trans people looking for a relatively safe place. There is a lot of space in the house (3 full bathrooms, 4 bedrooms), and plenty of outdoor space.

I have one cat and one dog in the house, and outside there are a few sheep, one aging horse that is strictly a pasture pet, and some guinea fowl. Amenities include a dishwasher, laundry, wifi, some streaming services, 2 gas fireplaces. This is a wonderful place for hobbies such as gardening, woodworking, fiber arts, baking, etc. In addition to the house there are some outbuildings and a nice garden shed. Opportunities for fishing, golf, biking abound in the region.

Couples (+) are welcome as are kids. There is a good elementary school just a few miles away.

The house needs a bit of work, but overall it's very nice and peaceful. One thing I do contend with here is bugs. There is no central AC but we can do window AC units when needed. Sometimes the dog barks in an annoying manner (we are working on it). I could use help with mowing, weeding, cutting brush.

You could live here for cheap as I mostly am looking for company and help. I can't live with smokers due to my disabilities. I have lived with roommates for most of my life and can provide references.

The house is rural but only a few miles from the nearest shopping area, and close to a small city. You would probably need to have a car, though we can get grocery delivery here.

My interests include watching TV shows and movies, gardening, science fiction, jigsaw puzzles, thrifting. I'm a queer woman in my 40s. I'm a rather extreme night owl.

If interested you can comment here or email me, sandphin at gmail dot com. Share this link with people you think might be interested!
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[personal profile] kingstoken's 2025 Book Bingo: Over 300 Pages

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams is a 2025 tell-all about the author's time as Facebook's Director of Global Public Policy in the 2010s. The book focuses on the ill-preparedness of Facebook executives to navigate the geopolitical situations they inserted themselves into in their obsession with perpetual expansion, including their role in the Rohingya genocide, as well as the general bizarre work environment and the sexual harassment that the author experienced.

Wynn-Williams comes off as a deeply careless person herself, albeit one buoyed along on a slightly different type of inflated self-importance than her former colleagues. There's a lot of what feels like completely unreflected-upon self-incrimination in the book that lends credibility to her stories. The seams show clearly enough where she's edited her interactions with others (usually to give herself the winning last word in conversations that clearly would have continued) that I'm inclined to believe the bulk of what's there, even if I don't buy the characterization of her responses or her assessment of her own moral fibre.

When this book first came out, I wondered if reading it was going to feel redundant alongside all the media coverage it was surely going to get. But the gag order Facebook imposed on the author banning her from promoting the book—combined with the avalanche of other news in early 2025 about tech billionaires dismantling democracy—seemed to result in fewer articles about the content crossing my path than I would have expected. For that reason, I'm glad I took the time to read it.

Also, it's worth noting that in my searching, I found many results on other search engines that didn't turn up on Google, even when they involved sources that Google usually indexes.

An Excerpt )

Wednesday Reading Meme

May. 21st, 2025 05:31 pm
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What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing. My ability to finish reading books has declined a lot, I guess.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

Fantastic Four #32, Iron Man #8, Superior Avengers #2, Thunderbolts Doomstrike #5, Ultimates #12, Vision and the Scarlet Witch #1 )

What I'm Reading Next

Still very slowly reading a book about the World Series.

[BD] Rainette

May. 20th, 2025 11:09 am
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je ne crois pas que j'ai déjà fait cette fiche ? c'est ça le problème de ne plus mettre en posts en memories, rah

Titre : Rainette
Auteure : Biscuit
Langue : français
Type : BD
Genre : adolescent ?

1ère parution :
Édition : n/a
Format :



prépublication sur tapas.io :
https://tapas.io/series/Rainette-FR

deux tomes autoédités le troisième en préparation

Rainette a deux mamans - l'une est sorcière l'autre scientifique - et la peau verte, qu'elle cache avec du maquillage. Le jour où son secret est accidentellement révélé elle subit du harcèlement ligne et scolaire ; La petite famille s'empresse de déménager pour un village de sorcières.
La voilà obligée de se faire de nouveaux camarades de classe, de nouvelles amies
Oh et puis il y a des chats aussi, et d'autres non-dits.

(Marjolaine est en forme d'amie et Laura is so very Gender.)

J'attends beaucoup du futur tome 3 !
La campagne de financement participatif est là : https://fr.ulule.com/rainette-chapitre-3/
si vous voulez y jeter un œil...

Cute webcomics about a green-skinned teenage witch facing a bout of cyber-bullying and dealing with the hassle of moving house and getting to a witch town. Doesn't shy from the angst, though. And has queer potential, hmm.
(There is an english translation too i should hunt down the link.
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Title: Can't spell treason without tea (Tomes & Tea t1)
Author: Rebecca Thorne
Language: English
Type: novel
Genre: cosy fantasy

1st release: 2022
Publisher: looks self published?
Length: 435 pages



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The A-plot is over but the B-plot with dragons continues for a few more books!
I've already pirated the second one and am considering buying it directly after all 'cause there's a very good chance i'll enjoy it and i'd like it better in physical form.

Une ex-garde royal et une puissante mage décident de s'enfuir ensemble pour ouvrir une librairie-salon de thé ! yay!!
...le problème si c'est auto-édité c'est que ça va être compliqué de trouver une traduction pour mes amis
qui pratiquent bien moins l'anglais ; zut de flûte.
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In 2005, artist Rhea Ewing had a lot of questions about their own gender identity. Some of those questions were so big and so formless that they didn't even know how to ask them.

They started a kind of study, gathering people who were willing to talk to Ewing about their gender identities. Because Ewing thought in visuals, they turned it into a comic. It was originally meant to be maybe 30 pages, a little project for their final university project. Ewing soon realized that this work was too complex and multifaceted to be that simple booklet, and in fact, they didn't finish the comic until the early 2020s.

The book is arranged by topics, starting with Femininity and Masculinity and then working through more of the interviewees' experiences within themselves and then out in the world of other people, through Hormones, Healthcare, Queer Community, and much more. Under each topic are relevant snippets of the actual interviews, drawn as lively, expressive comics, and the words of the interviewees are thought-provoking and sometimes heart-rending.

Some reviewers I've read are miffed with Ewing, because the artist doesn't come up with a specific plan or specific answers to the issue of gender in today's society (and yes, there is acknowledgement and discussion of variations in culture within that society). But in fact, there are conclusions, expressed on the last couple of pages before the acknowledgments. What there isn't is a step-by-step recipe for "solving" the question of gender. And if you really read that far, you should appreciate why.

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Titre : Jamais contente (Le journal d'Aurore t1)
Auteure : Marie Desplechin
Langue : français
Type : roman jeunesse
Genre : société/crise d'adolescence

1ère parution : 2006
Édition : L'école des loisirs
Format : medium-poche, 180 pages



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Et ça se finit un peu en cliffhanger, alors je vais lire la suite.

Starfall Stories 45

May. 16th, 2025 08:24 pm
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I have a few more [community profile] rainbowfic pieces to catch up with again, so here's a start:

Name: Boxed In
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #15 (Anger); Azul #18 (Trust your own strength); Beet Red #24 (Try, try, try again)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + Novelty Beads (October 2024 Challenge "hate.")
Word Count: 1781
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Fighting, swearing.
Notes: 1306, Portcallan; Leion Valerno, Tana Veldiner, Atino Barra, Donn Chiulder, Tam Jadinor. Carries on from Whispers in the Mind.
Summary: Leion and Tana attempt an escape.




Name: Big City
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #21 (Caution)
Supplies and Styles: Pastel (also for [community profile] no_true_pair's March mini-round prompt "March Thirtieth - Leion & Viyony with the title "Big City".")
Word Count: 957
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Notes: 1313, Portcallan; Viyony Eseray, Leion Valerno, Imai Lullers.
Summary: Viyony and Leion cross paths for the first time, unknowing.

Wednesday Reading Meme

May. 14th, 2025 04:40 pm
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What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing, but I had a migraine all week.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

Doctor Strange of Asgard #3, One World Under Doom #4, Thunderbolts Doomstrike #4, Ultimate Black Panther #16,Ultimate X-Men #15 )

What I'm Reading Next

I should probably start on the Hugo nominees. I am not sure if I will have the brain to do so.

Fandom 5K letter

May. 12th, 2025 04:36 am
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Thanks for checking this out! Feel free to play around with these ideas or just go with your own, as long as the DNWs are kept to.

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