![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tygerNothing too much today, either - spent a couple of hours outside with Scout, which she definitely appreciated! :D
Mostly just replaying Cube Escape games and reading fic, other than that.
Computer's kept on suddenly logging out, though, which is EXTREMELY annoying. I'm starting to think it may just be Ubuntu, either it's a bad fit for me, or a bad fit for the hardware. Urge to get a nvme adapter and installing Endeavour on it: rising. I'll definitely bring back the micro SD with the install on it, when I go home for Christmas, and test that out more while I'm still here. Really, no reason not to! And might at least pinpoint wtf is up a little better...
piyavkingКстати, характерной софтверной тинденцией, каторая, в атличие от вездессущего АИ, мной гаречо преведствуется, есть ослепительный рывок в облости машенной абзвучки. Очень много редкостнейшей поебени осталось бы мною невпитанным, кабы не имел возможность загрузить её путём камфортнаво чтенея в слух.
tropicsbearThe 4chan-Coded Ideology Behind Elon Musk’s War on Normies
Aspie supremacists do real harm to autistic people in their embrace of gendered, racialized stereotypes, and in drawing spurious lines between themselves and anyone they consider “severely” autistic. Musk may simply be a jerk, but he’s a jerk with a tremendous platform—and one whose fans loudly, publicly connect his shitty personal behavior and fascistic policies to “mild” autism.
goodbyebird+ Got to see the latest Avatar movie at the cinemas. My least favorite of the three, lacking the genuine awe and beauty of the world. What they did try just felt forced, and one character in particular should have been left to die in the second movie ugh.
+ Big plus for the cozy and hazily lit curtain fic promo trailer thingy they did before the movie. IYKYK. Kinda made me wish I had an ear to the ground in that fandom still.
+ I think I've successfully broken through my iconning block!! Shout out to dysfunctional vampires and dysfunctional lesbians.
+ BIG psa: Apple shifted Pluribus to air on the 24th, two days earlier than usual. I'll have to get up extra early to see it before 2 Nøtter Til Askepott, because if not I'll be thinking about it and wanting to all day lol. It's been such a good series for me to watch? There's this whole thing where there's two wolves inside of me, one appreciating the thought and care put into every decision, and how slow it's allowed to move, the second wanting to pick into every detail and tear through it. Both enjoyable in different ways!
I have watched every episode a minimum of twice. It may be my new comfort watch show?¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Rec-cember Day 22
Pluribus ( I'd say spoilery for last week's episode. )
falenaThe Old Guard is a superhero movie about a bunch of inexplicably immortal mercenearies. >Superheroes are totally not my thing, I watched this movie because it had one of my Italian actor crushes, Luca Marinelli. Then I checked out the fic mostly only because sixthlight was writing in this fandom. See, I'm an extremely loyal reader. If I like an author I will try and read any stories they publish, no matter the fandom. I knew I was going to like whatever
sixthlight was going to dish out. I was right.
Also, Luca Marinelli played a medieval nobleman from my own hometown!And he was half of a canonical gay couple.
Predictably, my favourite stories are AU of the no-superhero-power kind. They can be read with little to no knowledge of canon and can be enjoyed as the tropetastic romance they are.
marriage of (in)convenience. Modern Royalty AU. In which my hometown is a small principality, Ruritania-style. Lolol. To be fair, Joe did know there were some things Nicky wasn’t quite telling him. But it didn’t matter to him who Nicky’s ancestors had been. What mattered was Nicky, who was kind, and thoughtful, and relentlessly committed to doing the right thing, including his share of the dishes. Really, what else did you need to know that someone was a keeper? I don't know why I have such a soft spot for modern monarchy romance but I just do. I'm very sad I can no longer link to the best of the lot, the X-Men royalty AU by Yahtzee (it's been published as proper romance! I bought it!).
Diplomatic Complications.A classic arranged marriage trope, but Yusuf is the nervous groom who gets shipped off to a strange country.
In The Heat of The Moment. This is history-flavoured fantasy and all names of historical locations should not be taken as referring to the serious historical nations/cities but, uh, places vaguely like them and vaguely located the same in relation to each other but with (checks notes) complete cross-faith acceptance of gay marriage, contact with the New World, and definitely no Crusades. We're all here for the arranged marriage romcom and that's just how it has to be. I also have, quite evidently, a thing for arranged marriage. :D This awesome story also comes as a podfic, by greedy_dancer.
The Pitt
except for breath, except for everything by sawdustdiamonds Pittsburgh Doctor Sentenced to Five Years in Drug Diversion and Theft Case. At 6:30 PM on a July evening, everyone in the city knew about Dr. Frank Langdon. This a WIP but it's one of the most powerful pieces of fiction I've ever read, It's emotionally devastating, brace yourselves. The best kind of what if/AU, the one which teaches you something about the fuckedupness of our world, in this instance the prison system in the US (the one in my country is equally inhumane).
falenaI don't think I'm going to be able to keep up with this meme, heh. Biting more than I can chew is the story of my life, basically. I'll just make a post whenever I can, my perfectionist tendencies be damned.
With this out of the way, this is surely another fandom that needs no introduction. I also know it's problematic for many thanks to JKR turning out to be a horrible, horrible human being. I totally can understand if you decide to give this a pass. I can still enjoy fic about this universe, though. I'm sure that my recs are familiar to anyone reading in this fandom, but they are big favourites for a reason, I guess. As usual, the stories I like the most are those that have little to do with canon, in terms of plot. I prefer fic set after the end of the war, preferably ignoring the blasted epilogue, with all our heroes grown-up (and fucked-up). I also was never into the Marauders, like at all.
To start you off, you could pick any of astolat's HP stories at random and be blown away by her talent. Most are Harry/Draco, but she just posted a Draco/Hermione fic only the other day. My favourite is House Proud, Harry/Draco, 23K, His house liked Draco Malfoy more than him. The snark, the fun, the romance. They slay me. The podfic by
Lazulus is sublime.
Hermione Granger's Hogwarts Crammer for Delinquents on the Run by waspabi. 93 K. AU for the Deathly Hallows, also huge canon divergence, Harry grew up as a muggle and never went to Hogwarts. It's also Harry/Draco eventually but the shipping is not the selling point. 'You're a wizard, Harry' is easier to hear from a half-giant when you're eleven, rather than from some kids on a tube platform when you're seventeen and late for work. Luckily for me
Lazulus podficced this too. What a masterpiece.
What we Pretend We Can't See by gyzym. 131 K. Draco/Harry Seven years out from the war, Harry learns the hard truth of old history: it’s never quite as far behind you as you thought. I've only ever consumed this as a podfic, which was made by the amazing
FayJay.
I must say back in the day I read a lot of Hermione/Snape, but most of it is no longer accessible or err, a bit crap, when I was able to re-read it with more adult eyes. Still, I wanted to rec at least one story, which is really not quite romance (no HEA) but it has the big plus of having an IC Snape (so a complete dickhead): Chaos is Come Again by Aashby. There's some iffy consent, this was written well before content warnings were a thing. The story can only be downloaded from here, AFAIK. I'm also quoting the summary from that review because I'm lazy: "A decade or more after the defeat of Voldemort, Severus Snape and Hermione Granger work together to stop the Ministry from grossly misusing its power to solve wizarding Britain’s genetic problems. Starts with Marriage Law, and approaches near dystopian levels of corruption." There's a lot of plot in this fic. Lots of politics. Some spying/intrigue. Could have benefited from an editor helping the author with the pacing...Still, totally worth reading.
I also enjoyed Harry/Luna quite a lot, but unfortunately my pre-Ao3 bookmarks for the few good stories I'd found are all broken. It's so sad when we lose pieces of fandom history. :(
The Pitt
I don't need to rec avocadomoon to anyone who's into Mel/Frank. There's a reason her stories are the ones with the highest number of hits on the Ao3. My favourite of hers is Confidence Game. 72K. "Everything's fucking falling apart," Abby croaked, her voice thick with snot. "And you're - of course you're like this, you're fucking nice. Oh my God." "I'm not that nice!" Mel said frantically. I stole your husband, she thought. For example. How Mel and Frank could have got together after the end of S1. Meg has written several iterations of this, all wonderful. She gets how messy these two would be, how complicated everything would be...and she makes it work. In this one Abby is an antagonist. And yet so human you can't help sympathising.
adevyishI have been battling a migraine, and the bad cold going around, to the point I typed font-face instead of font-family in my CSS. A theme for the year: I felt like I struggled to listen to as much music as I’d want this year. I did get to some albums I liked, though, and here they are.
( Read more... )tygerNothing huge today, really! Multiplayer Terraria was on, but it turns out that I really can't play it :( :( :( The latency was just. Unplayably bad, even worse than playing it solo. :/
Computer is also doing a weird, where it suddenly logs out of my session, and then when I log back in again it's lost the icon set I've picked? Very strange. Also firefox is lagging a lot, and I THINK it's related, but I wasn't really paying enough attention before it started happening to be sure, hahaha. ^^;;;
Anyway, there's some software updates available, so I'mma install them once I'm done here and we'll see how it goes tomorrow!
Scout got to go outside today! Twice, even! She was VERY HAPPY about this, adorable! :3 I uh. Ended up doing some weeding, just to keep my hands busy - phone is full of fun things, of course, but if I get sucked in I'm not keeping an eye on Scout and that is uh. Not great! There's only one way she can get out, but she can if you don't pay attention, sooooo... weeding. Yes. It's probably good for me, anyway!
I also went to the shops AGAIN, for the third day in a row (whyyy), because I needed milk. That's literally all I got! Just milk! Because I didn't even have enough left for breakfast tomorrow orz orz orz. I may have been drinking a bit too much milk, that's over two liters in three days... (But also milk is so great!!!)
Anyway, now is time for bed! A little earlier than I usually manage, so good job me for that, hahaha.
cimoreneBut I haven't had much of that problem since then. ( Read more... ) However, just in the last few years I've occasionally noticed a twinge or mini-cramp that goes away after a few seconds specifically in the arch of my left foot. It's never lasted beyond a moment or two until like... last week once when I was walking up the stairs and then yesterday in the grocery store, when it suddenly twinged so hard into a cramp that I spent a minute and a half limping and whispering "Ow, ow, ow!" until it subsided.
It doesn't have to be caused by age, of course, but I don't know what else could have caused it, unless it is protesting the fact that I have not been walking enough in the last year. I used to have a tennis-sized hard rubber ball to roll on the arch of my feet, when I was working on my feet a lot in retail. But I can't remember where I put it.
magnavox_23Author:
magnavox_23 Character/Pairing: Jack/Daniel
Rating: NC-17
Can you tell I am effing terrified posting this? It's been 8 long years since my last SG fic... Endless, eternal thanks to
eilidh17 for her amazing beta! mergatrude( If you haven't seen the movie I recommend seeing it unspoiled ) Okay, yeah. I really liked this movie.
sporky_ratWhy on earth would my three card draw be the Five of Coins, the Empress reversed, and the Emperor? Where's my Tower???
(I am constantly amused by my deck's intense sarcasm.)
goodbyebirdRec-cember Day 21
Killing Eve
baby, be gentle (it's my first time) by
So this is it. She’s going to kill Villanelle, and this is how it happens. To hell and fuck with everything that had happened. Their sort of half-truce in Scotland. Their agreement to not let things be boring. She is going to take that pretty, slender throat between her hands and squeeze her like a rubber chicken. “You are absolutely the stupidest, most selfish, most infuriating person I have ever met.”
“Oh, you flirt.” Villanelle smirks. She takes a few steps forward, hands on her hips.
“I’m going to—” Kill you, her brain completes. The words won’t come out of her mouth, stopgapped by rage, leaving Villanelle a wide opening to slip through.
“You’re going to what, Eve?” She sighs in a derisive voice, sticking out her bottom lip in a mockery of a pout. “Spank me? Have I really been that bad?”
The word spank grinds everything to a halt within Eve. It hits a switch in her, killing the rising steam in her stomach. Of course she can’t kill Villanelle. That would be silly and short-sighted. But spank her?
It could be just as effective and tremendously less permanent.
“Yes.” Eve says with bland finality. And oh, the way that word wipes the condescending smirk off Villanelle’s face and replaces it with surprise. To accentuate her point, Eve drops behind her onto the bed, sitting on the edge with her hands on her knees.
This makes for two fic recs featuring the holidays and two featuring spanking so far. Taking bets on which is gonna take the win *g*
doodlemancythere is currently no working browser version but i'm trying to figure out a solution for that lol RIP
