Saturday @ 8:08 pm

Jul. 5th, 2025 08:08 pm
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Apparently while procrastinating studying for her Korean exam, Mum got super into a cdrama about an esports team, and now she wants to know all about MOBAs. Adorable.

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Ridiculous weekend plans

Jul. 5th, 2025 02:06 pm
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I need some down time this weekend. I have any number of things I want to have done, but I'm restricting myself to things that can be done sitting on the bed, minimal movement. To whit:

  1. Finish reading The Dictionary of Lost Words - DONE! Highly recommended fictional account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary
  2. Read Attached - book on romantic relationships. in progress (started Saturday)
  3. Finish Creating a Second Brain - collected from the library yesterday, read a chapter on the bus
  4. Finish Library of the Dead - this one is due back on Monday, and being Libby, will get autoreturned.

Which, not actually outside the bounds, as long as I am actually doing those.

stretch goals, of which I'm hoping to achieve at least one

  1. close tabs (current: 526, goal: <500) in safari
  2. finish reading the fic I'm part way through (there might be more than one of these.
  3. progress Eldest's quilt (this is not an 'on the bed' activity; it is added so that if I need to get up and move around, I have a task)
  4. write up my goals for the next 6 months
  5. blog post about how the study is going.

Wednesday @ 8:43 pm

Jul. 2nd, 2025 08:43 pm
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mildly nsfw video game content

Playing Interdimensional Vending Machine and . . . this is the first thing you give me, game? Really?

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Aa-aa-aa-and done!

So I like Hualian better than the main pairings in SVSSS or MDZS (no shade on either, mostly just a personal preference thing), but the story itself I think suffered from being unfocused in places and with, honestly, a pretty disappointing villain reveal.

Still a fun read, and with some parts that will live rent free with me forever.

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Playcost.

Jul. 5th, 2025 11:15 am
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Terrifying tool that will estimate how much you’ve spent on Steam.

Mine was about $1.6k which . . . okay. Could be worse, I guess?

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Maybe it’s just me, today, but I came across the word loach (which I’m positive I’ve heard before; it’s a type of fish after all, and sounds familiar) and the word is so delicious, it makes my mouth water.

Strong contender for next year’s word of the year? I guess we’ll see.

Dear RMSE Creator

Jul. 4th, 2025 07:25 pm
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I'm so excited that you're creating something for me! I know I ramble a lot in my letter, but it's meant to be an inspiration more than anything. I'm not attached to any of my prompts, so feel free to ignore them. The division into art and fic prompts is only meant as a convenience, so feel free to mix and match.

I'm Rebecca on AO3. Treats are welcome.

DNWs

I don't have any triggers and I am very hard to squick. There are just a few things I do not want to read about:

  • death of requested characters
  • giving requested characters terminal illnesses or unrecoverable injuries
  • giving requested characters mental illnesses or trauma
  • trans and asexual interpretations of requested characters
  • rape/non-con involving requested characters
  • requested characters cheating on anyone (simply not mentioning canon partners is fine)
  • unrequested open relationships or poly involving requested characters (simply not mentioning canon partners is fine)
  • settings AU, e.g. vampires, coffee shop, different time period, omegaverse, soulmate AUs, ... (canon divergence/altering or ignoring canon events is fine)

(There are some canon-specific exceptions listed below.)

Albion (Video Game)

Drirr/Rainer Hofstedt

Requested: Art & Fic

I love the detailed world of Albion, especially the tropic Nakiridaani with all those lush plants and animals and the culture of Iskai. I can spend hours walking around there, looking at stuff and talking to people! (Glow-in-the-dark flora & fauna! Pretty buildings that are actually shaped out of living plants! Iskai magic! The Former's' guild house!)

Drirr has a couple of funny moments that amuse me greatly and I love his impulsiveness and the fighting ability he brings to the party—strong and quick and probably a joy to watch. Rainer I love because he's the level-headed, geeky scientist, and I'm probably the only person who is actually sad when he leaves the party. Together, they make the perfect opposites attract/unlikely couple, and there's a titbit of dialog where Drirr's rash actions and Rainer's prudence clash in a bicker-y way that just hits all my buttons. Add to that the cultural and physical differences and how they start out knowing nothing about each other's species, and it makes me all the more curious to see how anything between them would play out.

Fic Prompts

  • Cultural differences: Do Iskai kiss? Hug? Dance? Do they have any taboos? Do they have any rituals surrounding sex, dating, ...? Does that lead to confusions or misunderstandings? Maybe there are some gestures that one culture sees as platonic and the other as romantic/sexual and an accidental courtship ensues?
  • Differences in physique: Exploring each other's differences and loving them, or some awkward moments and creative workarounds. Maybe Iskai go through some sort of heat or Pon Farr and someone has to help Drirr out?
  • Drirr's tail: It's practically a tentacle—I mean long third arm and hand, so what fun uses for it are there? Is it unusually sensitive, maybe? Do Iskai attach any special meaning to things done with the tail vs with hands, or are there any specific gestures for it that Rainer learns to decipher bit by bit? Apart from sex, it could be good for inconspicuous hand-holding or other displays of affection? Or Drirr could use it to startle Rainer, maybe he finds that fun in a "pulling pigtails" sort of way. :D
  • AU where Rainer and Drirr already meet during the time when Tom is still in coma: Maybe Drirr is fascinated by this newcomer? How is it for Rainer to see this strange world for the very first time, to try to communicate, to try to learn the first words? Does the Iskai mind-meld help, maybe, and does that spark something between Rainer and Drirr?
  • Getting closer during a quiet night around the campfire when they are out with the party? I imagine that must be a little awkward, what with the lack of privacy...
  • Sex pollen/magic/...: There are so many weird plants and so many ancient places with forgotten magic, there's probably some fun stuff around! (I bet it's Drirr who accidentally triggers it and Rainer is pretty miffed about it. Or it's the other way round for once.) Could be something that induces lust, or that forces proximity or other intimate situations or... Maybe something weird/funny happens with some ancient magic designed for Iskai biology but Rainer is human?

Art Prompts

  • Drirr using his tail to touch Rainer (Sneakily? Boldly?)
  • A quiet moment at the campfire — leaning onto each other, sleeping close to each other, ...
  • Running fingers over each other's alien physique
  • Drirr protecting Rainer from wildlife
  • Drirr pinning Rainer against a convenient surface
  • A kiss (What' Drirr's tail doing during this?)

Availability

Albion is abandonware and as such downloadable in various places, and there are walkthroughs, Let's Plays etc available. It's a very long game, but pretty much everything I'm referencing above happens early on and it's not a story that goes very deep into characterisation, plus I'm not wedded to any of the cultural titbits we learn about the Iskai, so I'm good with taking the character archetypes and the basic facts and running with them in any direction you like. (If you do want to go deep into Iskai lore, though, I'm up for that, too!)

In any case, I've collected some resources here

Are You Being Served?

Wilberforce Claybourne Humphries/Stephen Peacock

Requested: Art & Fic

I love how Mr Humphries is so unapologetically himself, love his humour and the camp, love how he always seems to be throwing himself into things and having so much fun. Captain Peacock is the perfect foil with his grumpy, quiet, uptight personality; I'm always intrigued by quiet-waters-run-deep kind of characters and it amuses me greatly how he's perpetually baffled by Mr Humphries' lifestyle (without being judgemental usually). They seem to respect each other–Mr Humphries is the only of the staff that Captain Peacock ever has praise for afair–and canon gives us Mr Humphries' little flirtations here and there that Captain Peacock doesn't seem to mind, so I can imagine that, to both of their surprise maybe, something could develop between them.

Regarding Captain Peacock's wife: I'd prefer if she's either not mentioned, doesn't exist, or that they separated before anything shippy happens.

I love the entire staff and am always happy for them to appear, btw. Other favourites are Mrs Slocombe and Mr Rumbold.

Fic Prompts

  • Sharing a bed: There are so many moments where the staff have to sleep at the store. Captain Peacock and Mr Humphries should have to share at some point! Alternating the plot of an existing episode? A new scenario? What's Mr Humphries wearing to bed? What does Captain Peacock things of it?
  • I love the episode where they dance so much (Top Hat and Tails) and I'd love any scene based on that. The dancing leading to realisations? Them discovering they'd love to keep dancing even after the episode? Why did Captain Peacock agree to dance with Mr Humphries in the first place? How did they settle that?
  • The episode where Mrs Slocombe makes that perfume with that interesting effect (The Sweet Smell of Success)–maybe it hits Captain Peacock and Mr Humphries, like some sort of aphrodisiac or love potion or sex pollen-y stuff?
  • Mr Humphries helping to Captain Peacock to buy some clothes and that leading to more. Taking measurements, advising him, helping him in the fitting room?
  • Having to stay at each other's place. There's one episode where Captain Peacock gets thrown out by his wife and needs a place to stay, and one episode where Mr Humphries gets thrown out by his mother... something like that? Ending up liking the arrangement more than they thought? One consoling the other? Drowning their sorrows in alcohol together? Captain Peacock clashing with how Mr Humphries decorates his flat? Or with how Mr Humphries takes over his own place?

Art Prompts

  • Dancing! (Love the Episode "Top Hat and Tails). Either both of them wearing suits, or maybe Mr Humphries wearing something he'd put on in a gay club? Or a dress?
  • Helping each other dress: Tying ties, doing up zippers or buttons, ...
  • Mr Humphries taking Captain Peacock's measurements
  • Sharing a bed (voluntarily as a couple, or involuntarily?)
  • Mr Humphries impressing Captain Peacock with one of his skimpy outfits

Availability

A lot can be found on dailymotion. The channel "Britcome One" usually has the best quality, but they rigulously cut off the intro and outro (which were specially filmed for each episode). The episode that started my ship obsession is "Top Hats And Tails". Just look at them! The series is episodic so you can just watch a handful episodes.

Doom (Video Games)

Doomguy/Samuel Hayden

Requested: Art

I love the aesthetics of Doom 2016 especially, the Mars station scifi/indistrial environment. Love Dooguy's preator suit too, idk, all that stuff that it has going on visually. Doomguy's needles violence cracks me up, the way he punches the weapon update drones, or the Argent filters despite being told to carefully disable them.

Curious as to Samual Hayden's deal. He studies the Doom Slayer, he needs/uses him, but it can also easily be read as obsession, a fixation, curiosity... How much is he watching him? What's the deal with the three statues he has in his office? I think they are supposed to be just the suit, but there's nothing to say that Doomguy isn't meant to be in them....

Art Prompts

  • Samuel watching Doomguy tied up in the lab before he wakes up
  • Samuel patching Doomguy up, or installing an update on his suit?
  • Angry sex/hate sex. Don't mind if Doomguy is still a bit beat up from what's going on.
  • Sexy manhandling (whoever's doing the manhandling :). Maybe Doomguy just straight up shoving a gun in Samuel's face?
  • Samuel admiring the statues in his office. Maybe very handsyly?

Availability

(tbd)

Les fantômes du chapelier | The Hatter's Ghosts - Georges Simenon

Requested: Fic

Kachoudas&Léon Labbé, Kachoudas/Léon Labbé

(Note: My character death DNW and cheating DNW don't apply here.)

I find the book and the character of Léon Labbé very fascinating. The way he is on the one hand so precise, so carefully planning, so arrogant about his own abilities, so successful, but on the other hand pretty much deceiving himself about what he really needs or wants. I think he is so deeply trapped in his unhappy life that he doesn't even realise the depths of his own unhappiness until it all very suddenly starts to go wrong. What struck me about the book is that it's also pretty sensual, for example in the way it lingers on smell or other senses, while outwardly the controlled Labbé is anything but sensual, and nothing in his life is either. It's a contrast that makes me want to poke at it.

His relationship with Kachoudas is so interesting. You have these men that barely talk to each other or interact, but who are both obsessed which each other. They have their daily rituals they perform in an 'apart but together' way, they are always observing each other. The sensual descriptions apply to Kachoudas as well. And then, of course, Labbé gets completely fixated on Kachoudas as if he's the only one who could understand him, the only person that matters, the only one who could save him perhaps (even though he doesn't even seem to respect him much). I think it's telling that Labbé starts to truly break apart the moment Kachoudas dies.

I don't really have prompts, as such. I'd love any kind of encounter between them, whether before or during the book, whether canon-compliant or canon-divergent. How did they get to where they are? Could a difference in their relationship have changed anything at all?

I can easily see some sexual component. Labbé's only positive sexual encounters seem to be with with Mlle Berthe every once in a while, so I can imagine there's the potential for lots of suppression, unexamined desires etc. Honestly, I don't even know what exactly to picture, here. I'm not looking for a HEA between the two. Maybe a one-time thing, maybe some sort of regular thing? I imagine they still barely talk about anything. I wouldn't want noncon direction or Labbé taking advantage of someone who isn't somewhat reciprocating, but I'm on board with all kinds of ill-advised sex, feelings of guilt and disgust, dubcon. Would this change anything about how the story plays out?

Availability

It's a short French novel. An English translation is available, though personally I haven't read it.

A Place Called Glory | The Hell of Manitoba

Clint Brenner/Reese

I just love how much fun these two seem to have in every scene they share. All those smiles and the playfulness and the way they seem to instantly like each other despite now knowing much of each other! <3 I can see anything from casual hookup to romance between those two.

Fic Prompts

  • Their first meeting at the campfire reads like Reese hitting on Brenner to me, and Brenner at least contemplating it. I'd love anything exploring this, no matter if it leads to sex or not, if it's more flirting or fade to black or whatever. Reese can't possibly know whether his advances would be welcome within just a couple of minutes knowing Brenner — is he so smitten at first sight that he just has to try or is that just his general modus operandi? They don't trust each other yet (sleeping with their guns in their hands!) — does that influence things? (Reese at least seems like a person who finds a bit of risk extra fun...) If nothing happened that night, what's Brenner's fond smile in the morning about?
  • Their second meeting in the barn and especially the last lines ("coffee's good/see you later") always make me think that now they are definitely making a date for sex, whether or not they already slept together the first night or not. I'd love anything exploring this, be it the actual sex scene or things leading up to this. If Brenner declined the night before, what made him change his mind? Are they sitting through the whole poker game building up anticipation?
  • I find it pretty funny how the movie wants these two to become friends quickly but can't have them know each other's names. So, trying to fill plot holes with sex, maybe they were expecting an anonymous one-night-stand that makes it awkward to ask for names even when they started growing fond of each other? Resulting in pining while having sex because the other would never etc?
  • Alternate ending: How would the movie end if Brenner hadn't got back together with Jade? Would they just ride into the sunset together, or would Brenner still try his old running away trick (and would Reese let him?) Celebratory sex?
  • Post-movie reunion: How do they meet again? I'm up for all kinds of Western shenanigans if you want to go a bit plotty.

Regarding Jade, I'm fine with: ignoring that Brenner got back together with her, fic where Brenner/Reese stays casual and the movie events still happen (with possible threesome in the future?), fic set after Brenner and Jade broke up again, Brenner having feelings for both Jade and Reese, Jade not appearing or being mentioned in the fic at all.

Art Prompts

  • Strip poker
  • Riding into the sunset together
  • Brenner teaching Reese how he makes his coffee
  • Casual nudity in the wilderness: bathing in a river, laundry day, post-sex cuddling, ...
  • Kissing/touching/etc while on horseback or right next to the horses

Availability

The movie is up in it's entirety on free Youtube and is 90 minutes long.

General Likes

Any rating works for me, be it for sex, violence, language, or lack thereof. I'm here for the character interactions, and sex can be a great part of that, but isn't necessary for me.

General

  • getting together
  • romance
  • humour
  • banter & bickering
  • flirting
  • a pairing's first intimate moments: touches, kisses, sex, ...
  • ballroom dancing and slow dancing
  • friends to lovers
  • all variations of forced intimacy when they secretly want it anyway: X made them do it/mistletoe/sex pollen/undercover as a couple/fake dating/having to share a bed
  • games like truth or dare, bets, ...
  • mistaken for a couple/everyone things they are dating
  • coming to terms with things: one's past, one's feelings, ...
  • competence/people being good at their job
  • matchmaking/friends giving a gentle nudge
  • feels like an episode/episode related (missing scene, post-ep, casting a new light upon canon events); matching the canon's tone
  • bittersweet/melancholy atmosphere
  • geeky/nerdy/techy stuff; science
  • UST/becoming aware of one's feelings/trying to suppress one's feelings and failing
  • best buddies or colleagues/acting like a married couple/knowing how to handle each other's quirks/settling into routines
  • relationships that seem mismatched, unbalanced or unlikely at first glance, but aren't or work out against all odds; unlikely couples complementing each other
  • keeping romantic gestures under the radar (for example because of period-typical homophobia), relying on subtlety or one's own language; unexpected allies
  • a silly premise
  • imperfections/not being conventionally attractive
  • mixed media
  • pre-relationship, UST/pining that's not resolved

Art specific

  • stylised or realistic style, clean or sketchy
  • landscapes and scenery
  • costume porn
  • unusual lighting or a strong sense of lighting
  • contrast
  • limited colour palette
  • comics
  • illustrations to my fic
  • memes, visual jokes and other funny stuff
  • silly poses and expressions
  • relaxed poses, quiet intimacy
  • small domestic moments of living together, like sharing a bathroom and bedroom, doing chores together etc.
  • touching, almost touching, being in each other's space
  • hands
  • casual nudity
  • animals

Fic specific

  • all fic lengths
  • open or ambiguous endings
  • happy endings
  • five times fic
  • outsider POV: someone else's view on my pairings
  • plotty fic, case fic, adventures etc (including the shippy part being the B-plot)
  • descriptions of surroundings, sense of time and place
  • older characters re-evaluating their sexuality

Sex Scenes

Top/bottom preferences: As to what tab goes in which slot, I don't care at all. As to who's more assertive, I love a give and take between characters.

Random stuff that I like:

  • hand jobs, frottage, intercrural, blow jobs, rimming, anal, fingering
  • kissing
  • exploring each other's bodies with hands and tongues
  • acknowledging the messier aspects of sex, like spit, sweat, semen (though I do not like including other bodily fluids)
  • sex that develops spontaneously, diving in and seeing where things take you, trying out stuff and figuring things out on the go
  • imperfections and loving each other's imperfections
  • minor mishaps, laughing
  • bantering/bickering/teasing continuing through sex
  • those little moments of pause, or guessing, because you can't read your partner's mind—especially if it's the pairing's first time
  • quick frantic sex, slow sensual sex
  • touching through clothes
  • sex with clothes on, sex without clothes on
  • slowly stripping each other's clothes, quickly scrambling out of clothes
  • body hair, or naturally smooth skin
  • altered states of mind acting like a catalyst: adrenaline rush, alcohol, sex pollen... (as long as I can believe they both secretly want it anyway, I'm fine with dubcon-y scenarios)

Common DNWs I'm fine with

Feel free to include if it fits your story/canon!

  • Any kind of -isms, internalised -isms, offensive language etc; especially for historical settings.
  • Past relationships (canon and not canon), including past relationships that are important to the characters still. As far as my requested ships are the main focus, I'm fine.
  • Unrequested background ships
  • Teenagers (14 and above) havings sex, drinking, smoking, taking drugs
  • Original characters. As long as my requested characters play a main role, I'm fine. None of my DNWs apply to OCs.
  • OCs as POV characters. As long as the main focus is on their thoughts on my requested characters, I'm fine.
  • 1st person POV, 2nd person POV
  • Epistolary fic (be it traditional letters, or mails, chats and texts)
  • Pre-ship endings, UST/pining that's not resolved. As long as non-platonic feelings are had for requested ships, I'm fine.
  • Dubcon for requested ships. I want to be able to believe that both secretly want it anyway (I'm very willing to believe this!), and that there isn't one deliberately taking advantage of the other, but I'm fine with all kinds of outside forces, under the influence, things spiralling out of control, ill-advised sex etc.
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Photograph with added text: Working Together, at Fancake. Workers in India use wide wooden paddles with long handles to shove a huge yard of drying grains into big piles. The grain, most likely rice, is a beautiful golden color, and there's a mix of western and traditional clothing among the seven men and women.
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Friday @ 9:57 am

Jul. 4th, 2025 09:57 am
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They turned the water off in the building this morning for maintenance reasons and oh gods I just want to brush my teeeeeeeeeeeeeth . . .

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Friday @ 9:38 am

Jul. 4th, 2025 09:38 am
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I’ve pretty hard-blocked almost all bots from my sites over the last year or so and, yeah. This is why.

Fuck AI, basically.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@krinkle/114786998285436684

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Community Thursday

Jul. 3rd, 2025 07:20 am
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Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.


Over the last week...

Final (;v;) vigilantes chit-chat on [community profile] bnha_fans, for this season at least!

Commented on [community profile] common_nature.

Book chit-chat on [community profile] booknook.

Commented on [community profile] littleblackdressex about a duplicate nom..... My first exchange sign-up this year! Excited :D :D

Signal boost:

  • [community profile] sunshine_revival started! Each (chill) challenge will have journalling prompts, and so on. A good way to be active and meet other active people around Dreamwidth! There's a friending meme, too! As happens way too often (and I'm going to need to address that at some point...), I'm too overwhelmed with other things to take part in social challenges at the moment, but wishing everyone a super fun time with it! And who knows, maybe I will manage to squeeze in one or two challenges, too... It could happen!!

The shame.

Jul. 3rd, 2025 02:25 pm
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Why do we tolerate it? Because if you can’t fight it, you normalize it. That way, you don’t kill yourself from the shame of not fixing it. People much smarter than me have been writing about this for centuries. Artists, real artists, the kind that bleed themselves into their work compulsively, with disastrous consequences to their health and legacy, have only ever had this as their message. We are divided between lions and Cassandras. One side will win. The other side was right.

Film Freak Centrals reviews the Minecraft movie.

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typo du jour

Jul. 3rd, 2025 11:41 am
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..look at the underlying code or moth...

  • me, describing someone else's approach to understanding large language models.

wednesday reads and things

Jul. 2nd, 2025 06:17 pm
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What I've recently finished reading:

Lamentation by C.J. Sansom, the 6th Shardlake novel. This is all about the heresy hunts in the last few years before Henry VIII's death - one faction wanted to go back towards Catholicism, one wanted a radical re-imagining of religion and social structures, and if you wanted to stay in the regime's good graces, you walked the narrow path of "the King is the divinely ordained leader of the Church, and whatever he says goes." Warning for historical burning of heretics, plus canon-typical violence; also for weird religion and contentious legal cases. Matthew Shardlake still has a crush on the queen (Katherine Parr).

What I'm reading now:

My hold on Katherine Addison's The Tomb of Dragons came in, so that. Just barely started.

What I recently finished watching:

American Primeval, which, huh, I've never before encountered media in which the Mormons are the bad guys. (This is not a spoiler. It's pretty clear from the get-go, but it gets more pointed and cartoon-villainy toward the end.) Definitely violent and gory, though also it felt very clearly written to Tug The Heart Strings (and then, often, deliberately kill the character it's just tried to make you care about) at which at least for me it failed to do. I liked Abish, Two Moons, and Captain Edwin Dellinger, and James Bridger amused the hell out of me, but - I mostly enjoyed it, but I don't feel it was superlative. I got tired of the filter to wash out colors so it looked almost old-photo sepia.

I did enjoy the historical setting of the Mormon War; as I mentioned last time, I researched it for my Yuletide story, and I think it's just an interesting time, the settlement/colonization of western North America.

What I'm about to start watching:

Murderbot! We always wait until enough episodes are out that we can watch ~every other day and not have to wait.

What I'm playing now:

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, which was recommended to me as a "spooky atmospheric puzzle game", and I'm enjoying it a lot. You play as a mysterious woman who has come to a mysterious hotel full of locked doors in what might be Germany in 1963, at the request of a mysterious man for reasons of ??? I told my brother about it because it's cheap in the summer sale at Steam, and he decided it sounded good so he is playing it now, a bit behind my progress but because of the nonlinearity he's ahead of me in some things. We're trying to give each other elliptical hints when needed.

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Jul. 2nd, 2025 04:59 pm
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Face of sadness & rage: the public library here has had to cut its streaming services, likely in part because of the destruction of the IMLS, which funded a lot of that. This is a fucking travesty.

It's been too hot to bake, so I picked up a loaf of bread and am basking in the season's first tomato sandwiches. Bliss.

One thing I want to do before the end of the summer is borrow the ice cream maker and dehydrator from the Thing Library; my ice cream quest continues (Dutch Chocolate is perfectly fine but not a standout); blueberrying has not been scheduled but I have agreement that it sounds like fun from the people I want to go with. I am up to H.M.S. Surprise in the Aubreyad and enjoying myself thoroughly.

I love summer so much. I feel like a person.

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One of those thrillers that splits the narrative between two women—both twenty years old, working at the same grubby motel and living in the same apartment, one in 1982 and the other in 2017 trying to solve the mystery of the first one's disappearance—and their stories run so parallel they're basically interchangeable and you start wondering if maybe the author should have only told the story once. It certainly would have cut down on the amount of clunky exposition and awkward dialogue.

The thrills were not thrilling, but the mystery might have been interesting if we weren't getting it from both ends. As it is, not worth the time.

Contains: References to rape, domestic abuse, and child death; descriptions of dead bodies; ghosts.
lannamichaels: "In my defense the plums were delicious" written on a green background. (i ate your plums)
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Title: Drabble: Anti-Brooklynians.
Author: [personal profile] lannamichaels
Fandom: Captain America
Rating: G
Archives: Archive Of Our Own, SquidgeWorld

Summary: Aliens wrote Shakespeare, the Earl of Oxford built the pyramids, and Steve Rogers was never Captain America.


I started this in 2019 and then ignored it every time I saw it instead of getting it to fit wordcount )

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