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Apr. 2nd, 2025 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyIT people are suggesting either my computer's getting overheated or there's a compatibility issue. The components got checked for compatibility, so I think it's the former. I fear I didn't put enough thermal paste between the CPU and the fan; I put it on wrong initially, and lost a lot of the paste that had come with the fan in the process, and I did what I could with what was left, but maybe I needed more.
This evening I manage to write a short ficlet for one of the prompts for the upcoming Beauyasha week. I'll see if the Wildemount Wildlings miniseries gives me any ideas for more. I'm looking forward to it. Between Sam running it, Beauyasha as camp counselors, and Brennan Lee Mulligan as a struggling camper, this is likely to be fun fun fun!
I've been slowly reading my way through Richard Hinckley Allen's Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, a reprint of a historical astronomy text from 1899. Obviously behind the times on many aspects, but it's interesting in itself to see what they knew back then, and when they learned it. And it records enough history to leave you marveling at how long some star lore has persisted, especially when it's done so long enough for the stars in question to even change positions and routes in the sky, a process that takes literally thousands of years. And I'm still relatively early into the individual entries about the constellations, each with details on the highest-profile stars in them-and little literary quotes in the front. I reached Crux, the Southern Cross, this evening-where of course the quote chosen by Allen was ignored in favor of Crosby, Stills, and Nash playing in my head-and that by itself carries another sense of how much time has passed, since a song that is old to us wasn't written until over half a century after this book was published. Though Mr. Stills and Mr. Allen actually had very different opinions on how people will react to seeing said constellation for the first time; the latter claimed it actually wasn't very impressive!
This evening I manage to write a short ficlet for one of the prompts for the upcoming Beauyasha week. I'll see if the Wildemount Wildlings miniseries gives me any ideas for more. I'm looking forward to it. Between Sam running it, Beauyasha as camp counselors, and Brennan Lee Mulligan as a struggling camper, this is likely to be fun fun fun!
I've been slowly reading my way through Richard Hinckley Allen's Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, a reprint of a historical astronomy text from 1899. Obviously behind the times on many aspects, but it's interesting in itself to see what they knew back then, and when they learned it. And it records enough history to leave you marveling at how long some star lore has persisted, especially when it's done so long enough for the stars in question to even change positions and routes in the sky, a process that takes literally thousands of years. And I'm still relatively early into the individual entries about the constellations, each with details on the highest-profile stars in them-and little literary quotes in the front. I reached Crux, the Southern Cross, this evening-where of course the quote chosen by Allen was ignored in favor of Crosby, Stills, and Nash playing in my head-and that by itself carries another sense of how much time has passed, since a song that is old to us wasn't written until over half a century after this book was published. Though Mr. Stills and Mr. Allen actually had very different opinions on how people will react to seeing said constellation for the first time; the latter claimed it actually wasn't very impressive!
