sheep in the clouds

On July 20, 1969 - 55 years ago today! - humans first stepped foot on another world.

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mira/Rumi/Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters), Mira/Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters) Characters: Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters), Mira (KPop Demon Hunters), Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters), Bobby (KPop Demon Hunters) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Light Angst, Fluff, look i know this premise sounds angsty but it’s me, Pregnancy, it’s not the focus but it is there, Lovergirl Mira (KPop Demon Hunters), Confident Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters), (at least after chapter 1), Zoey shows up in chapter 2, Rotating POVs, Alternate Universe - No Demons (KPop Demon Hunters) Summary:

Everyone knows that co-stars Rumi and Mira are soulmates, even if their marks haven’t come in yet. And when an incident on set prevents Rumi’s mark from ever forming, Mira is committed to making sure that Rumi never forgets the bond that ties them together.

Seven years later, a stranger named Zoey shows up bearing Mira’s soulmate mark. And that… that’s going to be a problem.

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In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:

Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.

This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.

art by a mysterious and unknowable being who does not wish to be named

A story and artwork for my beloved friend @chrysa3tos! I hope that you are having a wonderful day. Thank you for your art, thank you for being you, thank you for your friendship - thanks for an innumerable many things!

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“You’re not writing.” Rumi, while blunt, is more curious than accusatory. Zoey stares at her with a little tilt of her head, and it isn’t until she mutters a confused ’huh?’ that Rumi stammers out an explanation. “Oh. I just meant,” she scratches the back of her neck, setting down a tray of juice as she crouches near Zoey. “Your pencil moves differently when you’re writing—fast, like how you think. And you’re, uh.” Rumi awkwardly gestures towards her notebook, balanced on her knees as she sits on the floor by the opened sliding door of the hanok. “Oh!” Zoey grins. “I’m drawing! It’s—uh—come here.” She beckons Rumi over with an enthusiastic wave of her hand, until Rumi is peering over her shoulder. “It’s an oriental greenfinch—or at least I think so? There’s so many new birds here that I’ve never seen back home, I kinda wanna start drawing them all. I mean, I guess I lived in the city, so there wasn’t all that many birds to find, and I definitely didn’t hike as much as I could have, so—well, yeah, I’m just rambling now, and—” Rumi's listening. She's listening and looking intently at the margins of her notebook as Zoey holds it up for her to see, and there, a little ways to the side of a random drafted verse, is a drawing of the greenfinch. She’s pleasantly surprised by how carefully Rumi looks at it. "It's beautiful."

Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.

Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.

All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.

After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.

It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.

And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.

The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.

Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.

ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.

Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.

*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.

If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.

items needed are: food, diapers, medical masks, men’s and women’s joggers (all sizes), children’s clothing (newborn to size 14), children’s shoes, summer clothing, men’s clothing, toiletries (lotion, Vaseline, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, etc.), strollers, adult depends-all sizes, dog & cat food

It has come to my attention that some of you have never seen what I firmly believe to be the greatest music video of all time: Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart. It is the perfect marriage of a galactically bombastic power ballad and a writhing mass of 1980s video clichés, thrown into the path of a wind machine and blasted down a moodily lit corridor into the realm of legend.

In case you’re wondering what the heck they were thinking of when they made it, I remember Bonnie once explaining on TV that it’s about the dreams of a headmaster’s daughter, hence all the boys in (and out of) uniform. In retrospect, the whole shebang is quite fascinatingly female gaze-y, and I’m pretty sure it was a major formative influence on my pubescent imagination.