a what now?

Sep. 4th, 2025 07:40 am
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Currently listening to an audiobook that has taught me a new British pronunciation! Very funny to have zebras in any historical romance novel set in Scotland, but EXTRA funny to be completely taken aback by the narrator pronouncing it 'zehbra' (rather than the US American pronunciation 'zeebra').

The internet tells me this is Super Normal and that both pronunciations are considered correct! And it's definitely giving me Stargate: Atlantis 'zed-pm' vibes, which I am enjoying very much.
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Posted by Jack Izzo

The claim came from a journalist who worked to discredit Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, which Muller investigated.

Day 8 Reveals 2025

Sep. 4th, 2025 07:11 am
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"Your body or mine?" [text, audio] (The Magicians (TV))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] OfTheDirewolves, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] Koschei_B
Summary: Eliot Waugh got kicked out of Brakebills right after coming back from South which means he wasn't there to greet one Quentin Coldwater.
Brakebills Student Quentin Coldwater meets Hedge Witch Eliot Waugh and somehow that makes all the difference

The Lady's Favor (Check Please! (Webcomic))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] Denois, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] MistbornHero
Summary: Working at least three jobs at the faire doesn't leave a lot of time in Will's schedule, but it's pretty rewarding. Especially when he meets the lovely and serious Lady Isabella and is granted her favor before his job as a tournament knight.
Derek only has certain times that he can manage to flirt as a prince of the faire, but he's determined to make it work this time by giving Sir William a special favor before the tournament. Obviously, his plan is flawless and his flirtations will finally work.

The Nomadic Tea Shop (Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] Burdenedwithpointlesspurpose, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] thunder_of_dragons
Summary: Spending some downtime with Aang, who is very happy to talk about tea with his Uncle, Zuko reflects a bit on how his life has turned out. Sure, it sounds boring and mundane, traveling around the world selling tea, but it’s a simplicity he greatly enjoys. Quite the contrast to being the sitting Fire Lord… and the Avatar’s soulmate. Luckily, there is tea for that, that they can happily share.

and the first time that you kissed me i drank dry the river lethe (Good Omens (TV))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] shadoweddepths, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] Elle_dubs
Summary: Aziraphale turns his head at just the right moment, just the right angle – and Crawley leans in with just the right intention – that what would have been a friendly peck on the cheek, a perfectly respectable human custom of farewell, turns into –
Into a kiss.
A real, honest-to-God kiss.
It’s –
Warm.
He discovers that Crawley’s lips are warm and soft and achingly gentle. That he takes a sharp breath when he’s caught by surprise, a puff of air that Aziraphale can feel against his skin. That he leans into the contact, into that brief, tantalizing touch, before his whole body stiffens and he pulls away.
five times Aziraphale and Crowley kiss, and the one time it matters

You're Just a Chance I Take to Keep on Dreaming (All For The Game - Nora Sakavic)
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] Opalsong, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] flowerparrish, [archiveofourown.org profile] mistbornhero, [archiveofourown.org profile] opalsong, and Sophie
Summary: Jean was gorgeous on his knees. Jeremy had to keep it together and not dissolve into a puddle of gay desire as he taught his ex-Raven switch!teammate that kneeling didn't require pain and came with the promise of boundaries and respect. He didn't expect for Jean to eventually turn the tables on him and show him that Jeremy wasn't really a brat. Just a very gay sub who also needed respect during a scene.

Late shift [text, audio] (Naruto (Anime & Manga))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] Big_bunbun, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] AppleSapling
Summary: Iruka gets a visitor on his late night shift.

better days (are coming) (山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] coffee_and_cardamom, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] Gavilan
Summary: Grief, Wen Kexing, has discovered, is a funny thing. Oftentimes, it doesn’t look that different from joy. It creeps up on you, quiet and sneaky as an assassin of the Window of Heaven, and then stays there, lying in wait until you are at your most vulnerable. One moment, you’re doing fine, and the next you’re curled up, because there is glass in your throat and you can’t breathe.
That is the thing about turning your grief into revenge. What do you do when it’s over? When you’ve killed them all, and the only person left standing is you?
Or: Wen Kexing, and Zhou Zishu through the years.

Stuck in the Middle With You (Supernatural (TV 2005))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] darali_starscream, [archiveofourown.org profile] jinkieswouldyoulookatthis, and [archiveofourown.org profile] Sam_Is_My_Safe_Word, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] talltalesandbedtimestories
Summary: Sam and Dean have been told, time and time again, that they argue like an old married couple. It used to bother them. But when you spend your life with someone, regardless of who that someone is, you’re bound to have disagreements about things like money—how you get it and what you spend it on. Here are three little moments over the years when money was an issue and how priorities change when you learn to accept and appreciate what you’ve got.

A Picnic in the Arboretum (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] RisalSoran, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] BardicRavenReads
Summary: Garak has finished his work for the day; his feline companion, Jade, has made it clear that she does not want him to begin the next day's work; and Julian has stopped by with a most ... interesting ... suggestion: that the two of them participate in the rather ridiculous human tradition of packing food merely to eat it out-of-doors while sitting on the floor. Yet perhaps bringing food to eat while one happens to be out-of-doors for the purpose of participating in another activity - such as walking through a garden and caring for its plants - even if it were someone silly to do while the 'outdoor' location is merely a simulation of such a location - may not be such a silly idea, after all ... and even it is, participating in such an activity because one's ... dear Doctor wishes to do so may not be such a bad idea at all.

The Apple of Knowledge (Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types)
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] Dokuhan, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] NotBatman52
Summary: Ra's made Tim an offer he couldn't refuse, and it backfired on him as expected.
It's even worse when the family finds out.

Smoke and Mirrors (Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling)
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] cardoon, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] mangotart_reads
Summary: The Mirror of Erised is a powerful tool, and Dumbledore wields it deftly, using the haunting image of Lily's eyes to guilt Severus first into forgiving, and then befriending, Lily's son.
But soon, that very same mirror may drive Snape and Harry apart. When it appears in an unused classroom, both Snape and Harry are determined to have it to themselves. But who will win that argument -- who has a stronger claim to Lily's gaze?
And will their relationship survive the conflict?

Clorox as a Love Language (방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS)
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] strangecobwebs, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] celli
Summary: Hoseok tossed his bag on the floor and put his (empty, broken) travel mug on his desk. He carefully pulled off his dripping wet coat so he didn't splatter raindrops all over his monitors and desk, and hung it on the hook on the back wall of his cube. Once that was done, he stood directly in front of his chair (if this chair rolled out from under him during his little fit, he might actually cry) and dropped down into it with an audible, "Hmph," and a pout.
Yoongi was picking up something from the printer that sat right outside Hoseok’s cube and looked over at him with a raised eyebrow. "Everything okay?" he asked.
Hoseok groaned and dropped his head onto his desk. "No, everything sucks today," he whined.

shelter in place

Sep. 4th, 2025 06:37 pm
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I've found somewhere to stay for the next three days and moved there.

there was a bit of drama )

Hopefully this marks the end of the change-in-programming part of my trip.

I mean, I've done this before. I've worn it and managed it. But it puts me off. And with my health in the mix, I'm anxious. And tired.

I need to have something to eat. Take my medication, and go to bed. Friday and Saturday await, and at least I'm somewhere I don't feel guilty about being in someone else's space (where I was before, although she was very nice about me being sick).
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I didn't have time to write up my comments on the latest finished book, which led to me completely forgetting that yesterday was Wednesday. o_O


What I Just Finished Reading: Since last Wednesday I have read/finished reading: The Golden One (An Amelia Peabody Mystery) by Elizabeth Peters and To Dwell in Darkness (A Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Mystery) by Deborah Crombie.


What I am Currently Reading: Copper Script by KJ Charles. I keep forgetting about An Archer's Awakening (Of Crowns & Quills) by Casey Morales because I’d rather read a physical book while visiting mom; if I read on Kindle it eats up my battery.


What I Plan to Read Next: I did start something off my own shelf! But I still have a library book out, so probably that so I can return it instead of having to renew it.




Book 95 of 2025: The Golden One (An Amelia Peabody Mystery) (Elizabeth Peters)

I enjoyed this book so much!! spoilers )

This book was really good; I'm giving it five hearts.

♥♥♥♥♥



Book 95 of 2025: To Dwell in Darkness (A Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Mystery) (Deborah Crombie)

This book was really good. spoilers )

I enjoyed this book and am giving it five hearts.

♥♥♥♥♥

Chicken jockey, video from [personal profile] isis

Sep. 5th, 2025 04:21 am
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(And who knew there was a whole event for skating in inflatables!?)



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Read more... )
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2025/137: The Dream Hotel — Laila Lalami
“I didn’t do anything.” In a whisper this time.
Lucy nods. “Right. But what’d they say you were going to do?” [loc. 400]

Historian Sara Hussein, returning from a conference in London and eager to see her husband and their two small children, is detained by authorities at LAX. Her risk score -- the likelihood of her committing a crime in the near future -- has been calculated as over 500, marking her as a potential threat to her family. She's sent to a retention centre ('not a prison or a jail') known as Madison, for 21 days of forensic observation.

Nearly a year later, she's still there.

There are several contributory factors to Sara's 'retention': she's Moroccan-American, and she was impatient with the airport security officers. Most significantly, though, she has a Dreamsaver implant, which improves sleep quality and depth (invaluable for a mother of young children) -- and also (as mentioned in the small print of the EULA) records the dreams of the user. That data is just one of the two hundred inputs to the Risk Assessment Administration's crime-prediction algorithm.Read more... )

Thursday ✎ Genre AUs [DW]

Sep. 4th, 2025 06:15 am
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Happy Thursday, everyone! I hope you're having a great week. :3 Thanks for checking us out, whether to provide inspiration or to find it. ♫

Today's theme is genre AUs. Crime/mystery drama to action adventure? High fantasy to modern Earth? Horror/suspense to romantic comedy? Dystopian sci-fi to '70s pop/rock musical? Let's put some familiar characters (fanfic or original!) into unfamiliar territories. Their level of genre-savvy, fourth-wall-breaking awareness is up to you. You can keep the canon universe more or less the same (ex. it's still a magical fairy tale land but now they have a detective agency), or you can dive into a radical AU setting (ex. coffee shop, organized crime, sports, etc).

Feel free to add specifics to your prompts, like whether you'd prefer a gen fill over something shippy, or if you have a squick or trigger you hope to avoid. Original fiction, fanfiction, and fanfic crossovers are always welcome. ~_^

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get things started...
+ Avengers/Loki (MCU), Thor + Loki (+/ Mobius M. Mobius) + Frigga/Odin (+ Hela + Valkyrie + B-15 + any), a (WandaVision-like?) family sitcom AU (Asgard or modern Earth)
+ Star Wars, Armitage Hux/Kylo Ren (Ben Solo) (+ any), workplace romcom AU (canon setting or modern Earth)
+ author's choice, any character with a special set of skills (+/ any character who can protect or might need protection), organized crime AU

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].

While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

As a friendly reminder about our schedule, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications!

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word! [community profile] comment_fic


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Is This Thing On?     HD720p 28MB
Trailer for a comedic drama directed by Cooper (Maestro, A Star Is Born). As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess (Laura Dern) confronts the sacrifices she made for their family - forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form. Andra Day, Amy Sedaris, Sean Hayes, Christine Ebersole, Ciarán Hinds and also Cooper are also part of the cast.

Bugonia     HD720p 34MB
Full trailer for the latest movie directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite, Dogtooth). It's another dark satire in which two conspiracy obsessed young men (Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis) kidnap the high-powered CEO (Emma Stone) of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. Alicia Silverstone is also part of the cast.
Looks pretty insane. It's clear the two men did their own research in the internet. Premiered this week in Venice and received very favourable reviews. Since I previously mentioned the movie could be three hours long, I want to correct it's only just exactly two.

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple     HD720p 29MB
Violent trailer for another instalment of the horror franchise. In a continuation of the epic story, Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself in a shocking new relationship - with consequences that could change the world as they know it - and Spike's (Alfie Williams) encounter with Jimmy Crystal (Jack O'Connell) becomes a nightmare he can't escape. In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival - the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying. Again written by Alex Garland, but this time directed by Nia DaCosta (The Marvels, Little Woods, Candyman).
Apparently shot back-to-back with 28 Years Later, there are plans to make a third one.

The Woman in Cabin 10     HD1080p 22MB
Mystery thriller based on crime novel by Ruth Ware. While on board a luxury yacht for a travel assignment, a journalist (Keira Knightley) witnesses a passenger thrown overboard late at night, only to be told that it didn’t happen, as all passengers and crew are accounted for. Despite no one believing her, she continues to look for answers, putting her own life in danger. Guy Pearce, David Ajala, Art Malik, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kaya Scodelario, David Morrissey, Hannah Waddingham and Amanda Collin are also part of the cast. Directed by Simon Stone (The Daughter, The Dig).
Will start streaming on Netflix October 10th.

Megadoc     HD1080p 36MB
Fly-on-the-wall documentary about Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long journey in creating his self-financed passion project, Megalopolis. It weaves together archival material, unfiltered cast interviews, and a close-up view of how the legendary filmmaker drew from Roman history, political allegory, and his own singular vision to shape the world of Megalopolis. Directed by Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, Stormy Monday, Internal Affairs).
Festival reviews confirm the doc is more interesting than the movie itself. Though you probably should've seen it in order to put things in perspective.
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I had a chiropractic appointment this morning. I hit Price Chopper while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park.

I did a load of laundry (washed and dried), hand-washed dishes, went to mom’s (paid her school tax and called the generator guy), hit the bank drive-thru, filled my gas tank, went for a couple walks with Pip and the dogs when they got home, baked chicken for the dogs’ meals and cut up said chicken for said meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered.

I started a KJ Charles book and watched an HGTV program.

Temps started out at 54.5(F) and reached 77.2. The afternoon got a bit humid and overcast.


Mom Update:

Mom was feeling more blah today. more back here )

Strange New Worlds S3 E9 "Terrarium"

Sep. 4th, 2025 05:44 pm
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This is me officially squeeing over a Star Trek episode for the first time since...oh, sometime during DS9, I think?

Last week's episode was a rather unpleasant mess on many fronts - a surprising swing and a miss for a show that's overall quite good at comedy - but this one is a downright bullseye. #Moretegas, yes please, if this is what we get when they finally write for her! I have just one minor quibble, namely that while I understand why they're there, I stand firmly with John Crichton on the subject of godlike aliens, and so would very much rather they weren't.

The critter can stay, though. She was a good critter.

Community Thursday

Sep. 4th, 2025 08:41 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...

Commented on [site community profile] dw_news.

Posted on [community profile] bbtp_challenge.

Signal boosts:

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ANGEL: Are you gonna tell me that I'm jealous?
WILLOW: Well, you do sometimes get that way.
ANGEL: You know, I never used to. (sits on her bed) Things used to be pretty simple. (Willow types) A hundred years, just hanging out, feeling guilty... I really honed my brooding skills.

~~Lie To Me~~




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Lucky Day

Sep. 4th, 2025 07:44 am
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 I draw the curtains and raise the blinds- and there's a black cat walking down the garden path towards me.

"Hello, black cat. Are you lucky or unlucky? I can never remember....."

"Unlucky if you're a Christian. Lucky if you're a witch."

"Ah, I'm sort of both- but maybe a little more Witch than Christian....."

Begging for more again

Sep. 4th, 2025 02:37 am
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In reading Murderbot (TV) fic, something small has been niggling at me. A lot of authors seem invested in Gurathin's nails being bog standard black, down to sometimes including the hexadecimal color code #000000, and as a goth and someone who's been decorating her nails for decades, I know there's so much more they can do. Undertones, temperatures, and shades of black. Truly matte black, textured, ombre, iridescent, shimmery, metallic. It's the future, with spaceships, so they could have him do Black 4.0/Acktar Black/Vantablack (f--- you, Anish Kapoor) or a black that looks like an oil slick. I do decals these days since my body now reacts to nail polish, even the ones supposedly free of all toxic materials, like it's poisoning me, so those are an option too. Some fics have him attending fancy affairs and sometimes applying eye makeup for it, so it's not like he doesn't do dress-up.

Another option I like? The metallic gun metal color. ~nods~

But I am not going to start writing Murderbot fic just to do Gurathin's nails!


(One author has it that he started painting his nails as more of an obstacle to biting them, and I salute them since that's why I started.)
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My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU slash:The Best Girl”   [@ AO3]
RATING: PG. Totsuka/Hikigaya.
SUMMARY: Hikki made his decision, but Saika helps him make the announcement about it to the Service Club. Yui tries to figure some things out.
NOTES: A sequel to “Option E” in the Out in the Open series. Thanks to [personal profile] akira17 for the beta.
A lot of things I thought would happen in season three hadn’t and a lot of things I hadn’t expected did. I hated most of season three and was incandescently angry over the finale, to the point that it retroactively ruins all of SNAFU for me to some extent. Aside from Hachiman’s choice, how he makes and executes it, and how everything happens after it, Totsuka is supposedly spending every second he isn’t asleep or at school doing something tennis-related and has no time for anyone or anything else, so this fic is completely on “Option E” canon instead of being season three-compliant.

current reading

Sep. 3rd, 2025 10:17 pm
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I've decided not to read The Future of the Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's 50 Years (2023), which is available plentifully at the big-city library system but would cost me nontrivial transit fees and time to consult. Were a copy available at one of the systems closer by, I'd skim it. Sort of hilariously, I have a mini-paper to write on Patagonia's company culture, which must be related to why the big-city system owns about a dozen copies of what really sounds like a self-pub puff piece, but I can write it without a pilgrimage.

Spolsky is on hold again (though not for three years, I hope) while I evict my small bias about the monograph's approach.

Meanwhile, I've begun Laura Spinney's Proto, as in Proto-Indo-European. Spinney is a journalist, not a specialist in a relevant domain, which is consistent with how the book reads. (If I could identify more than one minor error at a 20-year-plus remove from my small learning of relevance, I bet an active practitioner would find more.) I'm not worried about reading with a sure sense of bias here---it's this: Spinney has inherited the shameful blindness to Afro-Asiatic concerns that her chief sources had---because her take isn't potentially controversial.

Nearly traversed: Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which someone once recced to a roomful of people that included me. Still WIP, besides Spolsky: Everett's James, which I'm enjoying but needed to let rest a bit; Allingham's Case of the Late Pig.

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