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what i watched

What I Watched September 29 - October 5

New (to me) TV:

Only Murders in the Building 5x06
High Potential 2x03
English Teacher 2x02 & 2x03
Abbott Elementary 5x01

Movies:

Honey Don't (2025)

Link Post

I am alive! I have been writing fics and reading books and finding links and... comprehensively failing to post about them.

So. Trying to fix that.

On the book side of things, I recently finished Stars of Chaos by priest. It's an m/m steampunk political drama and I had a lot of fun with it. Chang Geng is a tiny adorable capitalist and I love him for it.

(Though, on a related note: wow are the days of the English speaking danmei community being BAD AT WARNINGS coming to a middle.)

On the topic of trigger warnings, an essay about safety techniques in roleplaying, and why a lot of the common ones don't work for everyone.
essay written by a prisoner that is about a harvest moon game is very popular in their prison
thoughts on rpg design
KJ Charles on implausibility in historical fiction
We win these! The sun is finally setting on the British Empire
Why do LLMs keep naming sci fi characters Elara Voss?
TIL Mississipi has very good literacy rates, and their techniques would likely work elsewhere.

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"The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day."

"The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing."

~ Gerard Butler

Horror Movie music:

The Lost Boys: Cry Little Sister (Theme From The Lost Boys) – By Gerard McMann

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rambles about writing

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Well, I wasn't planning on doing Kinktober this year, but five days and five fills in...I need to figure out where I'm going to post these, I guess! A couple of them can stand alone, but most of them are just short scenes.

I could do a multi-chapter fic on AO3 to collect them (they're almost all for the same ship, so it would just be a bunch of Klavdar porn fics), but I don't really love doing those, and I also don't want to post twenty-odd short fics. (I know both of those are allowed and a lot of people do them, I just don't like them for me.) Or I could just do what I've been doing with the FFA 100-words prompts and put them all up on Dreamwidth...

"I don't know where to post all of this writing" is a pretty good problem to have, so I'm not too worried, haha. Still, why do the logistics have to be so much harder than actually writing the fic?

(If you saw the unedited version of this, shh, no you didn't, Mirage was Helping.)121

(Edit #2: I see those extra numbers, but when I tried to remove them she stepped on the power key, so I'm leaving them in tribute.)

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Writing ramblings: Vampire!Stiles AU

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Fic Roundup - September 2025

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Fandom Update

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ICONS: Various Fandoms

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Spooktober Fic 5 - Waiting in the Shadows, BU, Shane/Ryan

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Eat Drink and Make Merry (Dear Creator)

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"Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more."

"All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player."

~ Tobin Bell

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Saw IV: X-Japan – IV

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Fannish Fifty #43: Yet Another Blessed Maiden AU Snippet

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Fic Reading Update August - September 2025

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personal: work

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Job is going well! I completed my first week with no freakouts and crying, which is pretty great, and the knowledge that I'm bringing from previous experience has proven to be incredibly useful. It's possible I have a higher expectation for my job than my boss does, which is an interesting feeling (I shaved a pup's paw pads pretty sloppily but she said they looked great???? thank you). A lot of the things I struggle with are the extra security measures a corporate bather needs to take. For example, always making sure a lead is on the dog, even if you're just moving them from the bath to the drying table; in the small business grooming salon I worked at before, things were a lot more lackadaisical (I would just pick the dog up and move them myself, easy peasy).

Also, learning new software to check-in/checkout clients is also a thing. But it's pretty straightforward so I'm learning quickly, I think. :3 Oh, and getting my confidence back when it comes to interacting with strangers, which for the most part I'm already there.

(getting paid weekly is AMAZING and so good for my ADHD when I'm like where is my reward for doing this work, boom there it is! and also I LOVE BUYING PET SUPPLIES FOR MY OWN LIL BABIES it's very enjoyable to me, hehe)

Bluesky leadership continues to shit the bed. It continues to be so frustrating. :\a

Kinktober continues pretty well, although I'm a bit stumped for day 5. I was set on doing voyeurism but that's not really a kink I vibe well with. Although I'm working a fic (of all things!) that I could add a little bit to, to make it work for that prompt. :\a

I'm finding myself pulled into the Darkest Dungeon fandom, by which I mean I kinda of want to draw them all for

eatdrinkmakemerry. The game itself is so weirdly comforting to me; going off on horrific adventures and then coming back to drink/gamble/romance their stress away. It's got a nice groove going for it and I just recently completed a long quest for the first time! I've not played the sequel at all because I've heard they have very different play styles and I really, really love the play style of the first one.

I'm already tired of fall. XD; Please give me the sun back. I don't even care about the warms, I just want the sun, thank you. Getting dark before 7pm is terrible.

I think that's all I wanted to share today. I hope you are all doing well and I'm planning on getting some comments out there soon. :3

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la maladie tm,
life

Aten't dead

Wish I could blame being tired on giving platelets earlier this week, but no, it is La Maladie TM. And the less said about that the better.

Things I've been enjoying recently:

- L and I finished watching Arcane recently and now I have brainrot.

- T and I are watching Andor (currently on s2e3). It's fine? With occasional moments of great, but somehow I expected more. Hype got me, mea culpa.

- The colours of K-Pop Demon Hunters made my brain go brrrrrrrrrr.

- I've fallen back into the SCP Foundation hole, to no one's surprise. My hole, made for me, etc. I wonder if I could make a rec list?

- The pilot for Knights of Guinevere was fun!

- The first 5 seasons of the White Vault podcast (I've not listened to more yet). I'm not sure it does anything new with eldritch beings but it is well done.

- Did I ever do a proper rec post for the music of The Mechanisms? I should.

- October means it's Short Box Comics Fair. As ever I don't know where to start.

- The two issues of the Sing O Muse zine.

- The Missing Madonna is a true crime podcast mini-series that's not about murder.

There should be more. But alas.

Anyway, soon the yuletide tagset will be out and that's kind of like a rec list, innit?

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Current Music: the voices in my head :D

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Spooktober Fic 4 - Dead Men Tell Tales, BTVS, Spike/Giles

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Current Location: Bamberg

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R. F. .Kuang: Katabasis

This is the third novel of R. F. Kuang I've read (after being impressed by the The Poppy Wars, first volume, but also emotionally so exhausted I didn't read the rest of the trilogy, amused and captivated in an emotionally distant way by Yellowface, and turned so much by Babel that I only read the first twenty pages or so and then gave up), and I think my favourite so far. There is academic satire but also genuine emotion throughout, there is great ambition epically realised (i.e. writing a trip to the underworld in the grand tradition of all the obvious suspects, but specifically one that reflects the present), and the horror parts hit home in a way that feels not derivative but specific for this particular version. (The novel is set in a universe where magic is real, but isn't concerned with how this altered history or not, just what it means you can study it at university.) Our main character, Alice Law, is the kind of messy, complicated and morally ambiguous (and not in a "nice" way) woman the author specializes in, though for me personally preferable because I had the sense of the narrative being on board with what it was saying about Alice's strengths and weaknesses through her initially very skewered perspective. Also she had a genuine learning process through that trip through the Underworld, and... but that would be spoilery.

( Spoilers realize the Underworld is modelled on a British University )

Also improving my week: This trailer for Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein:

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multifandom questionnaire

multifandom questionnaire pt 4

I forgot I was doing this. Well, here's part 4 of

maevedarcy's 72 Multifandom questions to ask a fangirl

Favorites and Preferences

1. Who is your favorite character or member within your fandom, and why?
When it comes to Smallville, well, Superman has always been my favorite hero and even SV Clark had my heart early on and then Lois once she showed up. I think as I got older, I somehow got more sympathetic towards him. He's so young and tried his best, even when he made mistakes. With the MCU, it's Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson. Again, the "boy scout" characters tend to have my heart, especially when they're more complex than on paper. With my current fandom, 9-1-1, that would be Eddie Diaz. I was really drawn to him from the first episode he was in and he just kept growing on me. He's just fun and snarky and competent and such a good dad.

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2. What is your favorite installment, episode, or album from your fandom?
I do like the early seasons of Smallville, specifically 3, but even though it's wacky, for a long time, 4 was my favorite. Probably because it leaned into the really weird and I kinda enjoyed the cracky moments. I don't love the doom and gloom all the time. The first half of s8 was strong and then it weakened. 9 was my favorite after that.

I don't love the handling of SHIELD but CA: TWS is probably my favorite MCU movie.

Season 3 and season 4 are tied for my favorite 9-1-1 seasons.

3. Do you have a favorite quote, lyric, or saying from your fandom?
Clark's "I stand for truth, justice, and ... other stuff" does still make me laugh, because of the delivery.

Athena's voice over in the s2 finale of 9-1-1 (I miss the voice overs), specifically, "This is how we save ourselves, by saving each other, because nobody, not anybody, has ever been saved alone."

4. What’s your favorite fan-created content (art, music, video, story) related to your fandom?
Yeah, there's no chance I can narrow it down to one or even five for any fandom. :D

5. Who is your favorite pair or group within the fandom in terms of chemistry or dynamics?
I've always been drawn to Clois in most versions of Superman and Smallville wasn't an exception. I did start writing fic for Clark/Oliver, a ship that snuck up on me and then inspired me to join fandom because barely anyone else was writing them and I figured I would give it a shot. I love a bit of a push/pull dynamic with ships so Steve/Tony after The Avengers and Sam/Bucky post CACW. With 9-1-1, it's Buck/Eddie. I actually didn't expect to ship them when I started watching the show. As much as I like friends to lovers, the best friend ships rarely appeal to me and I tend to prefer them as just friends, and my brain can be a little contradictory in general when it comes to the juggernaut, but this one really stuck.

6. Do you have a preferred genre when it comes to fan fiction or fan works in your fandom?
Probably romance/drama. I like canon level action fics (can't handle anything too violent), and while I enjoy fluff, if it is longer than a couple of thousand words, I need some sort of plot.

7. What’s your favorite piece of lore or backstory within your fandom’s universe?
With Smallville, I've read that Lois's nickname for Clark (calling him "Smallville") was an accidental slip by Erica Durance and it just stuck, which I love. I also like that it was her idea to nix the kiss in 8.15 "Infamous" and to jump on Clark after the secret reveal in 10.05 'Isis'.

When it comes to 9-1-1, the fact that Ryan Guzman and Oliver Stark seemed to have a hand in naming "Buddie" is my favorite. I wasn't in the fandom/watching back then, but I found a screencap of an old post from the official 9-1-1 account asking people if they were on "Team Buck or Team Eddie". And I think Oliver Stark must've called them "Beddie" because RG's replied, correcting it to Buddie, and OStark agreed that they can go with that. So if that was the first showing of the ship name, that's pretty great.

8. Is there a particular scene, moment, or episode that always makes you emotional or excited?
With Smallville, Clark & Ryan always gets me emotional, especially in the hot air balloon moment. There are a ton of Clois moments I love, but one of my favorites will always be the Dunk Tank scene because Clark & Lois have such good chemistry already and it's just a few episodes in. Plus she is a pro at getting him to smile, even when he tries to be annoyed with her. Even Tom Welling had said that Lois brings out a different side of Clark. It's true, she does. The Piggy Bank conversation also gets to me because she understands him so well even without knowing his secret, and isn't afraid to be firm while being sympathetic at the same time (which is something I love about her). There was also a moment toward the end of 9.04 "Echo" with Clark & Oliver talking on the balcony and the way Clark told Oliver he still believed in him was so good, even if they handled Oliver's very real suicide attempt badly. s8 was such a rough go for their relationship and I was frustrated. To see them have a moment like this in s9 really gave me hope.

In 9-1-1, all the Tsunami scenes in early season 3 get to me, especially the one where Buck is explaining to Eddie that he lost Christopher. It's so painful to watch Buck try to explain and the resignation, moving on to grieving look on Eddie's face, before Chris is found. Of course Eddie telling Buck about his will remains a top moment too.

9. What’s your preferred platform for engaging with fellow fans and content (forums, social media, etc.)?
I've always preferred journal based sites, probably because I was mostly on fandom in the peak LJ days, so I still love Dreamwidth best, but I do like Tumblr for the gifs, and it is nice to chat on Discord from time to time, even if I can't really keep up with any of the servers.

10. Can you name a favorite moment when the community came together to support the fandom or a cause?
I've seen a lot of works created for a 9-1-1 for Gaza event but I can't say I know the origins, but that was awesome. I generally think it's great when fandom does that kind of thing. Whether it's the

sunflower_auction or Marvel Trumps Hate or Fandom Trumps Hate.

11. What’s your favorite way to show your fandom pride (cosplay, apparel, tattoos, etc.)?
I don't know if I really have a way. I don't really go out searching for fandom merch, mostly because I know it will collect dust somewhere and I'm so bad about being organized already. The only time I actively went out for something was Tom Welling & Erica Durance were featured on the TV Guide cover. I still have that issue.

12. Who’s your favorite content creator, artist, or writer within the fandom, and what do you love about their work?
Fanfic is hard to narrow down, but I've enjoyed watching fanvids again once I got to 9-1-1/Buddie so a couple of vidders I like are:

butchdiaz

JuliGrisel

akapotatogirl

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It is one in the morning and I just kicked Metroid Prime's ASS

(no, technically that's not a super hard game to beat, but have you considered that I am extremely bad at video games and I no longer have access to a younger brother to handle all the boss battles for me)

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"Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream."

"You have to get your hands dirty. You've got to really deliver the goods, and when you do, you can get something really special."

~ Robert Englund

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A Nightmare on Elm Street theme song

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