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Happy Wednesday! I'm very scattered this week. I've got the concert on Saturday, and that's where my attention really is. I'm getting through the day, but it's not easy. Saturday morning is going to be really bad. Especially if it's busy like last week. But money is money is money.

Adding to the overall vibe of the week, my article came out on the Johns Hopkins Radiology internal site. It was really well written and looked nice. I'm not going to attach it, since it was the internal site, though I will put a screencap of the blurb, but it really talked me up and I feel like I came off really well. My boss poked me to let me know that they sent it out to the entirety of radiology leadership throughout the health system, and that it was "Quite the email thread," of people I'd helped singing my praises, and them saying they were going to forward it to other employees to use me as the standard, and proof that we make a difference. If nothing else, the email was sent to our team via the big boss, Peg, who apparently now knows my name and face. (It had a picture I provided.) It was kind of a lot to take in.



After that, I struggled through my 8 hours, and then logged off to make more bracelets for the show. My boots actually did come, and are perfect. They're pretty comfortable right off the bat, and look fabulous. I'm going to wear them a couple of hours a day until the concert so they'll be comfy. They're just your standard shit kicker combat boots, but they'll look great with the fishnet leggings and outfit. Tonight, after the leggings come, I may do a full makeup fit check, just to make sure I'm good for the show. If so, I'll post pictures.

Tomorrow, we have a few more things coming, but nothing for the concert. Jess' hair dye is coming today, so that should be awesome. I think we're going to do it tomorrow, since they have a therapy appointment this afternoon and we have a game tonight.

After this concert, I'm going to have such an adrenaline let down. It's been so much fun to get ready, and I've really enjoyed being involved in the chats for the specific venues.

Okay, time to go forth and get myself ready for work. Everyone have an awesome Wednesday! We're halfway there!

Two Brief Murderbot thoughts

Jul. 15th, 2025 10:16 pm
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That I haven't seen anyone else mention.

ONE.
I like that they cast an older actor. AS is closing in on 50, and it might be a Hollywood 50, but he looks like he's seen some miles along the road. It makes things hit different than if they'd cast a thirty year old who looked like they just hatched. I know they compressed the timespan in the show, but in the book it'd been something in the range of four years between when it disabled its governor module and the start of All Systems Red, plus however long it'd been enslaved before that, which it doesn't even really remember. Which I think is better represented by someone with some lines around their eyes.

TWO.
Nenya speculated about if they were going to do the later books (and I think they'll do three seasons to cover the first four novellas, combining Artificial Condition and Rogue Protocol into the second season, and then call it a day), and if so, if we'd see the ship from System Collapse. I'd been thinking that, actually, Expandmild spoiler for System Collapse )

Daily Happiness

Jul. 15th, 2025 09:18 pm
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1. I had two meetings today but both went quicker than I thought they would.

2. The guys are coming to fix the back door tomorrow (they got the part in that they needed to order), so I decided to take the day off and then we can go to Disneyland afterwards for lunch or dinner.

3. Gemma is very put out at being interrupted.

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I've done this exercise some past years (2020 2019, I've also written up a few Philcons, I think...), mostly to show how inadequate and silly the treatment of fanfic has been at past Worldcons. But here's the list of all of the fanfic panels at the Seattle Worldcon, and it's frankly incredible. It's such a diverse group of panel topics, covering history, technique, craft, culture, community. I'm excited to be on a couple of these panels myself, and to attend some of the others. The team who came up with them and got them onto the schedule deserves all the kudos.

Full Program for Seattle Worldcon

Fix-It Fic
The “fix-it fic” is a staple of the fanfic community, but why do we write it? What do we get out of it? What tropes are fix-it fic writers drawn to, and how can it be done well? What happens when the fanfic is better than the show, and how do small tweaks in canon lore to “fix” canon mistakes change everything?

Star Trek and Fanfic
The earliest modern fanfic arose in the mid-1960s, while the original Star Trek was still on the air. It’s often called the ur-fandom in fanfic communities, even though the roots of fanfic can be traced to Homer or earlier. What made Trek fanfic different from the earlier stories-about-stories, and what’s made it so enduring?

Filk and Fanfic: Two Great Tastes
Filk and fanfic cover some of the same ground: character studies, missing scenes, genre twists (from dramatic to funny or vice-versa), new stories in an existing universe, adding a sexy twist, or shifting the POV character. Sometimes, they don’t use a single character or event from the original, but everyone recognizes it as specific commentary. Come explore what else these two often-neglected types of fan works have in common.

Is That Fanfic?
Some books that might be “fanfic” aren’t called fanfic: Unauthorized spinoffs (Wicked, Wide Sargasso Sea, The Wind Done Gone), sequels by different authors (most comic books), and authorized books based on TV series. It’s not limited to text: Gaming mods for video games, role-playing games in licensed settings (Middle Earth, Call of Cthulhu), and fan-made games like Jumpchain also put a new spin on existing content. Are they types of fanfic? What else would we call “I made a story about someone else’s story?”

Building Writing Skills Through Fan Fiction
Before we write, we read, and often, it’s our favorite stories and characters that inspire us to be writers in the first place. Whether you stick with fan fiction or not, fan fiction is a place where young writers can play in a familiar sandbox, honing their skills and building their own authorial voice. Which fanfic writing skills translate directly to pro-writer skills—and what fanfic skills don’t connect to commercial markets at all?

ao3 mcu a:aou a.b.o. bdsm ot3 hs au pwp
Do you know what the title of this panel means? Come learn about the specialized vocabulary of fanfic: how and why the abbreviations and other terms get invented, and how that language works to build and sustain fanfic communities. (The kink tomato is not a food; dead dove is not a bird. Does “HS” stand for high school or Homestuck?)

Filing Off the Serial Numbers
Plenty of fanfic authors have “filed off the serial numbers” and republished their fic as mainstream stories. The most famous is Fifty Shades of Grey, but the Vorkosigan Saga began as Star Trek fanfic. What works, and what doesn’t? Is this a reasonable career-starter for new would-be pro writers? Are there any tips to make it work better or any traps to avoid?

What Is the OTW/AO3?
In 2007, Astolat blogged that fanfic writers need an archive of their own, not beholden to corporate interests and censorship. Eighteen years after the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) started it, the Archive of Our Own (AO3) is going strong, with a Hugo Award in 2019, and now over 4 million users and 14 million works. Come find out how it happened, how it works, how you can find what you want to read—and, if you’re interested, how to get involved.

Fanfic as Therapy
Fanfic isn’t just writing practice or sharing ideas about what happens next when the series is over—it’s also used to explore personal emotions and reactions to trauma. Come discuss the therapeutic value of fanfic as both writers and readers in a moderated open discussion rather than a traditional panel.

What *Is* Fanfiction, Anyway?
What is fanfic, and why is it important to science fiction fandom? Panelists will discuss the history of fanfiction and its connections to SFF fandom, what makes it different from authorized spinoffs, and how the fanfic community perceives itself.

Licenced TTRPGs as Fanfic
TTRPGs have a long history of media-licensed game systems: Call of Cthulhu, Marvel Universe, Middle Earth Role-Playing, and dozens of lesser-known games for TV shows or movies. Panelists will explore the connections and differences between “Let’s play a game in this setting” and “I want to write a story in this setting.”

Fanfic Community as Gift Economy
The pros and cons of an artistic community with a strong non-economic, even anti-commercial, bias. How fanfic works outside of writing markets, and what happens when fanfic writers go pro. This will be a moderated group discussion, rather than a regular panel—everyone can participate.

Not Just Training Wheels
Fanfic is often claimed to be “good practice” on one’s route to becoming a professional author, but this is not the only reason people write fanfic. Panelists will discuss some of the others: bonding with a community, exploring story concepts with very niche appeal, enjoying a personal fantasy, and more.

Fanfic on Paper
From mimeograph with staples or comb-binding to small runs of offset printing and artisanal fanbindings with custom covers, fanfic has never been published like other literature. Find out how it used to be done, how it shifted to digital publishing, and how it’s shared on paper now. We’ll look at the history of fanzines and the current fanbinding hobby, the ethics of publishing in a niche community, and the controversies of commercialization.

Making It Gay… or Trans, Neurodivergent, BIPOC, and More
In a media world that too often does not represent women, queerness, BIPOC identities, neurodivergence, or people with disabilities, it’s no wonder we choose to represent ourselves and/or our desires in the fanfic we write. This panel isn’t about why we take cishet characters and make them gay, trans, or a dozen other things; it’s about why we should and the freedom and joy that goes with knowing we can.

The Absent S: (Fem)Slash and Sapphics
When most people hear slash, they think man-and-man (M/M), but in modern parlance the term actually applies to any “ship” that is same-sex. In some fandoms, femslash is the main “ship”! Let’s talk about the differences between F/F and M/M fanfic and fandoms, how femslash is often overlooked or looked down upon in fandom (even when it’s the main “ship” of certain fandoms!), and what femslash means to sapphics in fandom.

Dipping One Toe In: First-Time Fanfic
Have you never read fanfic or are a little interested but are not sure where to start? Come to this panel, where our set of talented and friendly experts will try to give you recommendations—suggestions on which fandoms, authors, and fics might be right up your alley.

Reclamation Through Fanfiction
Fanfiction often ignores the canon setting and relationships to tell stories the original creators never intended. But can it ignore the setting’s creator? From Lovecraft to Rowling to Gaiman, many authors of beloved works are later discovered to be prejudiced or predatory or both. Can fanfiction be used to take back some of these works and put distance between the author and the art?

Smut for Fun, Not Profit
Fanfic erotica is so famous that many believe it’s all of fanfic. Learn how the tropes and styles of kinky and erotic topics change when they are written by and for a shared community. Let’s discuss how kinky writing changes when there’s no potential of commercial activity and it’s all about what gets you hot and what gets your readers hot.

Gaming Update

Jul. 16th, 2025 02:33 pm
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Platinum'd Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and then took a break, although I have picked it up again to do a new game plus playthrough to get the other ending. I love the game and the world and the combat style, and I will play it again, but it's too soon to really sink myself back down into it. The new game plus also keeps all my team's final stats and builds, so I'm one-shotting most of the first and second act mobs, and some of the bosses, and while that's good for speed it means I'm not as involved as I was on the first playthrough. I think I just need more time.

I downloaded Balatro (poker rogue-like deck builder) as it was one of the free monthly games with my PS Plus membership, and then of course then discovered I also have it via Apple Arcade on my phone. I've played it for a bit and beat two decks on basic stakes using the same strategy, then put it down a bit, then accidentally got my nephew hooked on it and so started playing it again myself. I've done all the starting decks on white and the blue deck on red. I like it - it really does have amazing variety - and I am experimenting more with different strategies, but it's not something I throw myself into with reckless abandon.

I am still looking for another immersive game. I started playing Death Stranding, because the second one came out to good reviews but random internet commenters said I should do the first one first, and it is an oddly intriguing RPG/walking simulator - after an event that disrupts the boundaries between life and death, people live in isolated cities to protect them from horrific things that roam the land as well as timefall, a rain that vastly accelerates time in whatever living thing it touches. Sam, the protagonist, has bucketloads of trauma, a phobia about being touched, and important vulnerable relatives, and works as a Porter, taking shipments between settlements and helping them reconnect to the newly forming chiral network.

The stealth bits around enemies are terrifying - I got too close to one in the opening sequence and triggered a void-out, flooding the landscape with some sort of black liquid filled with things with tentacles - and in addition you have with you BB, a bridge baby, a fetus taken from a brain-dead mother that is attached to you and will signal enemies by crying when they get close. The countryside, when it's not trying to kill you, is great to walk through, and it also has very good music. The plot - hmm. It's a very cinematic style (when new characters show up they get credits, so I know I am not hallucinating that Guillermo del Toro wants to provide me with semi-helpful advice and shove me out in search of certain danger) and it's very atmospheric, and blends well with the gameplay, I'm just not convinced (yet) that it actually makes sense. Still. Clambering across rocky terrain, struggling to balance the body of my dead mother on my back and desperate to reach a crematorium to incinerate her before her corpse explodes is certainly compelling.

(and then Astro Bot put out more DLC, including a Cloud Strife bot! I determinedly played through all the DLC open levels to get him (and then bought him a Buster Sword so he can do his Omnislash animation) and then failed multiple times to get anywhere with the secret DLC level, which has a lurking Sephibot as the reward. I have got so frustrated doing this that I've actually now gone back and done all the other levels I was stuck on (including the horrendous Splashing Sprint - fight lava enemies with a water spraying duck - and To the Beat - everything is precisely timed except my reactions, woe - and am now trying to do the last core game level, the Great Master Challenge. I have managed to get two obstacles away from the end but it is a relentless nightmare of perfection.)

Hurry home to you.

Jul. 15th, 2025 09:15 pm
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I went across town to gather the last of my pay this morning; I'd gotten a text a couple hours earlier telling me that the main receptionist was doing fine and didn't need additional support, so all I had left to do was get paid. I ended up deciding to take that vacation opportunity, with plans to come back fairly early Friday to make the evening showtime.

Worth noting is packing's not nearly the stressor it used to be. Especially not for just a couple of days. Not even music for the trip or what to bring in my backpack. There's no getting around the nervousness that comes from waiting for a train - especially with the downpour earlier this week, which tends to mess with schedules - or trying to fall asleep the night before. But there's a predictability to that, which makes accepting it easier.

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Jul. 15th, 2025 08:39 pm
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Mmm an assortment of thoughts from the last like... week or two...


1.
KPop Demon Hunters (an animated netflix movie) was better than I had any expectation it would be, by which I mostly mean it made me cry. Lots of fun, solid music, you do not actually need to know much about kpop beyond "it has idol culture" in order to enjoy it.

2.
I have a mosquito bite on my left arm right under where my watch sits and it only itches when I forget it's there and start itching it by accident. If I remember it's there I can ignore it and it doesn't itch.

3.
At weapons class this past weekend, it was just me and sensei, and then nobody showed up for test prep so we just... kept going. xD It was fun! It's... weird, sort of, how much better I perform the kata we're working on than sensei does? Some of it is that she spends more time watching and teaching than practicing, but some of it is that this kata requires aggression and intent, which sensei just... doesn't want to focus on in her practice right now? idk.

She told me, at the end, that I'm a good teacher and that she looks forward to whenever I decide I'm gonna start taking on a teaching slot at the dojo instead of simply being a substitute.

4.
Sometimes (most of the time) I forget that I get migraines and then I get hit by one and am like "why does the world suck?" and then go "ohhhhh" when I figure it out. This is not helped by how, right now, it's hot out and the physical experience of migraines, dehydration, and overheating are all... okay not precisely the same but highly overlapping insofar as how I experience them.

5.
I have successfully begun incepting myself into plotting out an origfic novel while [personal profile] hafnia goes "oh good it's your turn :3" at me. Probably this will time out for me wanting to start actually writing it in like two months. xD

6.
[community profile] battleshipex has begun in earnest and, uh, the team I'm on is just going "WOW YES CREATE EVERYTHING YAY" and charging forth with zero strategy beyond the love of MAKING STUFF. I enjoy this deeply and also this is the first year of battleship where work has made me busy enough to not be able to throw myself in full-force. I'm still playing, still making stuff, but way slower. <3 That's fine, I'm having fun, and it's kind of nice to not be so completely consumed.

7.
For my birthday last week, my dojomates threw me around an appropriate number of times. (Birthday throws are: a minimum of your age, plus however many it takes to get to a number evenly divisible by the people present to throw you.) This meant I went hard enough and fast enough that I was, at the end, like "ah, yes, I can still drive myself to the edge of an asthma attack if I try". Good to know. Also good to know that I can push exactly to the edge without going over!

8.
At work today it was the rare day when I was in a QUIET area and working ALONE and so could actually listen to podcasts??? wild. very different vibe than listening to music that I only half-hear over noise!

Two non-fiction books

Jul. 15th, 2025 08:03 pm
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  • Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell (2023): [personal profile] lirazel posted about the audiobook version of this, which got me to put this on my list, but alas my library only has access to the print version; I feel that the audiobook version is probably superior. There were several parts in the book that were a slog to get through the paragraph, that would be perfectly fine if you were listening to a patented David Mitchell Rant about the subject. In fact, imagining them in David Mitchell's voice is how I got through them. ExpandRead more... )

  • Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors by Amber Share (2021): A bookified version of a Instagram account I never followed, a copy of which I read at someone's house who was using as a bookmark something that indicated they had gotten it as a gift when it came out and never got past the first fifth of the book. This book would have been fine if it had not decided it was going to fight the one star reviews, and instead just showed the artwork and mentioned how great the park was. As it was, it positioned itself as an argument between the one star reviewers and the author, and the one star reviewers won.ExpandRead more... )
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On Monday I finished The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow, about a trio of sisters in the American city of "New Salem" in Massachusetts in 1893 who take it upon themselves to revive witches' magic.
 
The Once and Future Witches dovetails historically with the movement for women's suffrage, creating some parallels between seeking the right to the vote and seeking the right to practice magic. I would have liked to have seen this carried more through the latter half of the novel, but I suppose I can see why it wasn't, particularly given it would be another nearly thirty years before the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. The suffragettes played a long game. 
 
The core focus of the novel is sisterhood, both blood and otherwise. Harrow presents a beautifully wounded and layered portrait of siblinghood in the relationship between the three protagonists: Bella, the oldest; Agnes, the middle child; and Juniper, the youngest. Raised without a mother (she passed birthing Juniper) under the thumb of their abusive and alcoholic father in rural poverty, all three girls learned early on what they would do to ensure their own survival. And while there is great love between them, there is also great hurt, and by the start of the book, the three are not on speaking terms. Harrow did a great job with the complexity here, and watching their relationships develop and begin to heal was very enjoyable. 
 
 

Solar Winds (1993)

Jul. 15th, 2025 12:35 pm
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In this top-down sci-fi RPG, you play as Jake Stone, a bounty hunter in a distant galaxy. In the course of your regularly scheduled bounty hunting, you discover a conspiracy to suppress hyperdrive technology and prevent your people and their nearby enemies the Rigians from exploring beyond the local star systems. You and you alone (for some reason) must figure out who is trying to keep you locked in together and how you can escape.

Jake converses with an alien who says he is there to evaluate his peoples technology

I have intense nostalgia for one specific aspect of this game. Interestingly, in retrospect I think it is probably also the worst aspect of this game.

ExpandNamely: in space everything is extremely far apart. )

Solar Winds is not commercially available, which is slightly surprising given the developer's later high-profile work. But if you are so inclined, you can play part one and part two in your browser. I've read that the game was heavily inspired by Star Control II, which I haven't played, but I would be interested to check it out and compare.

A Maze of Stars by John Brunner

Jul. 15th, 2025 09:07 am
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An intelligent ship crisscrosses space-time to track the progress of the colonies it established

A Maze of Stars by John Brunner
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[personal profile] troisoiseaux just reread A Brief History of Montmaray, reminding me of the existence of this series, which got my mind to churning.

There's a very specific sub-genre of books written for bookish teenage girls that I need a name for. They're either set in or written in a previous era (usually late Victorian to WWII), usually in the UK though occasionally in the US (though some have scenes set elsewhere, especially in Ibbotson). They're self-indulgent but well-written, focus on the inner lives of their heroines, are chock-full of lovely period details, and have a sense of whimsy without going too far into the precious or twee. They're often more episodic than plot-driven. The characters are always well-drawn, eccentric, and wide-ranging in age and sometimes class, though not (sadly) in race. Honestly, the books are...very white. They are not cozy in the sense that word gets thrown around today--there's always loss or death--but they feel cozy aesthetically despite this.

Here are the examples I've come up with:

Eva Ibbotson's young adult novels (A Countess Below Stairs, A Company of Swans, The Morning Gift, A Song for Summer, Magic Flutes)
I Capture the Castle
The Montmaray Journals
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion
the Gone-Away Lake books (this duology is an outlier in that it's MG and has a male co-protagonist, but they feel this way in my memory, though admittedly I haven't reread them in 20 years)
Daddy Long-legs

Strangely, I would not include L.M. Montgomery's books in these categories, except, maybe, The Blue Castle? I don't know why, but the vibe is different enough to me that they don't belong in this category.

O Caldeonia is this genre taken and turned sharper and crueler. It's this genre with an edge.

[eta] This is a sub-set of the Special Girl genre articulated by [personal profile] qian below. To me, Ibbotson is the epitome of this genre. It's got a glittering-ness to it that sets it apart from things like Little Women and Montgomery (The Blue Castle aside. Maybe it feels almost fairytale-adjacent? Like, the world they're operating in has things like crumbling castles, dukes (though they may be driving taxis now, as in Ibbotson), a kind of air of not-realism to the world they're operating in even if the emotions of our main character are realistic. Like I have to accept that I'm in a different world with different laws for how things work and to complain about the way things work would be as silly as complaining about how things work in a fantasy novel. They are the spiritual children of Frances Hodgson Burnett.



So my questions are:

a) what should we call this genre?

and

b) does anyone have any other titles they think belong in it? I'd like to compose a list and also I would like to read those books because this genre exists for me specifically and I eat it up with a spoon.
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Good lord, between my brain just refusing to shut off last night, and my cat, I feel like I got almost no sleep. I'm okay, just very tired. But it's okay, we shall deal. I don't have anything exciting scheduled for today. I'm just going to get through work, and then I shall be tired and maybe let Jess cook.

I got a bag from Ipsy last night. It's been fun, playing with makeup. I don't know how what I got is going to be in regular rotation, but it's cool. I found a couple of things last night that I picked up, including one last eye shadow palette. It's reds and blacks and silvers, which caught my eye. I'll give them a go and see how they look. This is possibly my cheapest palette, so we'll see what the quality is. If it looks pretty, I could use it for Ghost on Saturday. If not, oh well.

I cannot wait for the rest of my stuff to come in. Tomorrow, Jess' hair dye comes in. They're going to go darkest blue, which should look super cool.

I have an appt on 8/8 to get mine dyed again. I go professional, since most of my hair is grey, which takes dye differently. I wish she'd had something before then, but I just couldn't work it. I'm going like a dark blood red color. Not quite something you can say is unnatural, since redheads exist, but right on the line.

Torrid order #1 comes today, supposedly. When I looked this morning, the last tracking was in Kentucky, so I'm dubious. It would be really helpful if this one came today, but we'll see.

Yesterday, Jess' BPAL order came (in record time). We had so many smellies to go through. I liked a lot of them, especially the ones from the Gourmand imp pack. I do love my food scents. The Incense imp pack was less successful, though Cathedral was nice. My absolute favorite was a freebie they sent along. Scherezade. which lists itself as being red musk, Middle Eastern Spices and Saffron has an amazing scent, and I really love it. It's been on my wrist for almost an hour and has yet to go powdery, which, with my skin composition is fucking amazing. TweedleDee and Knave of Hearts are also really pretty, though I haven't tried them to see if they work on me. Knave of Hearts was a surprise, since I don't normally like rose perfume. But those currant tarts definitely shine in it.

We took Yoda to the vet yesterday. He of course, behaved like a little angel for the vet. The absolute only thing he took exception to was being lifted down after the checkup, when he shrieked in a little piss-baby tantrum. Oh, he also had a tantrum in the waiting area, because I would not let him go meet dogs. (He generally doesn't like dogs, but get him at the vet or the groomer and he's all about going to meet everyone.) It went fine, but was generally stressful, and I'm glad we don't have to do it again for a year.

Okay, time for me to go forth and get myself together. Everyone have an amazing Tuesday!

H/C Exchange

Jul. 14th, 2025 09:45 pm
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Authors have revealed!

I wrote: everybody's on the run, Cuckoo (2024), Ed/Gretchen and Gretchen & Alma, post-canon, 2k. This fic was a surprise. I matched on Creator's Choice of Fandom, which meant I could write whateverfandom I wanted, and fresh off finishing my 20k Re-Animator fic, I planned to write more Re-Animator. I came up with several ideas, managed to write a solid 1100 words on one, and just completely stalled out. Instead I wrote this entire fic on the day of the deadline.

I think it turned out okay, though! I enjoyed this movie so much when I saw it earlier this year, especially the messy worldbuilding, and the ending is very wish-fulfillment, I feel, for a certain kind of viewer (which I guess I am, lol). It was fun to try to imagine what the immediate aftermath of everything might look like for these three.

Meanwhile, I received: You, Me, and the Serum Makes Three, Re-Animator, by [archiveofourown.org profile] psychomachia. Dan/Herbert, mpreg, 3k. Absolute galaxy-brained way to knock Dan up, A+. Just a very fun series of relationship development and pregnancy vignettes.

Daily Happiness

Jul. 14th, 2025 08:53 pm
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1. Back to work today. Not too much going on. I got stuff done and was able to get home at a decent time, so that was nice.

2. When Carla was in Chicago she saw the Mitsuwa there was selling Tokyo Banana, which is really hard to get outside of Japan. She regretted not buying any, and didn't see it at Mitsuwa here, but when I googled, I saw people saying H-Mart was selling it, so she went to H-Mart today and they had it in stock! Alas, we'll have to wait until next year in Japan to have the sakura version again, since that's seasonal, but I'm sure the original will be just as delicious (we actually didn't try the original in Japan because the sakura one was too good and we just bought more of that instead).

3. Lately everyone loves to hide in this box. Only one I haven't seen using it is Jasper.

Happy Bastille Day!

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