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Title: Melting Moments
Fandom: Original
Rating: G
Length: 7 photos
Summary: I baked 24 melting moments

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umadoshi

In the comments of

spikedluv's final post, which she made on Feb. 2, there's info saying that she died unexpectedly later that day, with a link to her obituary. :( No cause of death given.

Thank you,

shipperslist, for the heads-up.

(Note: I'm taking the info in good faith as posted; I don't know the person who shared it, and while

spikedluv and I were mutuals for a long time, I never knew her wallet name. But the obit info matches what I did know and she was an extremely regular poster, so even a day or two of silence was worrying.)

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Title: Ice Melts
Fandom: Mass Effect: Andromeda
Rating: G
Length: 75 words
Summary: 3 sentence fic. The Andromeda Initiative encounters another obstacle.

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The weekly chat posts are intended for just that, chatting among each other. What are you currently watching? Reading? What actor/idol are you currently following? What are you looking forward to? Are you busy writing, creating art? Or did you have no time at all for anything, and are bemoaning that fact?

Whatever it is, talk to us about it here. Tell us what you liked or didn't like, and if you want to talk about spoilery things, please hide them under either of these codes:
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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

starandrea

It appears I did not manage to journal more often this week, but Marci and I made dumplings last night with some of her work peeps, and we got flowers delivered today because she won a thing. (I don't remember what, but flowers were one of the prize options.)

I made a little succulent planter at a greenhouse (I've always wanted to do a succulent make-n-take, finally my day has come!) and started an iris diamond painting (neither fox nor dragon, but a secret third option). I learned about winter seed sowing, which has a great motto: "If it's not easy, you're not doing it right."

Tonight we watched Star Trek, and I posted my

chenqing_100 drabble. Deadlines are so helpful to me. I still have a couple of days to make our spring couplet.

Tomorrow we will go see some seasonal lights, so it all feels very festive.

skygiants

Syr Hayati Beker's What A Fish Looks Like is perhaps the weirdest/coolest/most interesting thing I've read so far this year -- an apocalyptic collage novel(la), told in letters, posters, angry breakup notes, and a series of strange fairy tale riffs about breakups and loss and change and transformation on both the personal and the planetary level.

In the frame story for What A Fish Looks Like, a queer radical collective in a city living through massive climate collapse has gotten its hands on 100 tickets for the last big trip off-planet. It's T minus ten days: who's going? Who's staying? Who heard the gossip about Jay and Seb making out on the dance floor, even though they had a really messy breakup and Jay has a ticket out and Seb has no interest in leaving, and who wants to use the Saga of Jay and Seb to distract themselves from the fact that the oceans are rising and the skies are red and this year's bad fire season never ended?

In the interstitials, a community outlined in personal letters and party invites and notes on the bathroom door of a favorite bar counts down to the point of decision. In the stories themselves, a person has a bad break-up and and takes on some polar bear DNA about it; a closeted teacher loses a student to a big wave in the new and frightening ocean, and meets a mermaid about it; a stage manager forges ahead with a production of Antigone in a burning city and turns into a spider about it. The people who appear in the stories also appear in the interstitials, part of the community; the book is slippery about to what degree the stories are meant to be read literally as an accounting of events and to what degree they're metaphors, wishes, retellings. The interstitials make it clear that there is certainly a theater and a fire. Probably nobody actually turned into a spider about it, but who could say. The world is getting weirder, and who knows what's possible or plausible anymore?

I'm including a screenshot of one of my favorite pages of the book -- most of the stories are text but a lot of the interstitials are in images like this one -- which I think gives a good sense of the kind of community portraiture that makes What A Fish Look Like stand out so much to me.

Highly recommend checking this one out: you might be confused, you might be depressed, you might be inspired, you absolutely won't be bored.

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部首
手 part 20
拼, to put together/to spell; 拽, to drag; 拿, to take ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=64

词汇
促进, to promote; 促使, to urge; 促销, (sales) promotion ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/

Guardian:
虽然我没拿到资料，但是我拿到了那个东西, I didn't get the documents, but I got the thing
那里的气候条件与他们产生了奇妙的化学反应促使了这些地星人的基因同样产生了变异重组, the climatic conditions and the odd chemical reaction they produced promoted the similarly produced mutation in the Dixingren's genes

Me:
你喜欢拼图吗？
我不太相信促销的话。

ehyde

February is Renegade Bindery's "encourage everyone to make a lot of books and learn new things" month and while I'm not going as all-out as some people, and haven't managed to watch any of the presentations yet, I am doing a bit more bookbinding work than I have in the past few months!

The main project I'm working on is for Fandom Trumps Hate from last year, and I will admit I procrastinated on it because I was honestly intimidated with how much my recipient donated. But I'm now at a point where I think I can safely say I'll finish in the next day or two!

I also finished up my own copy of How Dare You?! being prompted by the drama's release (I bound it for last year's Cnovel bookbinding exchange, and my own copy has been sitting half finished since the summer). I've typeset two small books since the start of the month--first, the script for the War of the Worlds audiodrama, and second, a short Guardian fic that I read and immediately went "this needs to be a tiny book!" I have been neglecting working on my dad's late Christmas present, which honestly also doesn't need a lot more work, but what it does need is maps and I'm putting that off (it's a binding of my great great grandfather's civil war diary). Another project I'll probably finish up soon is Mo Du, which someone else typeset for last year's exchange, so I've printed and sewn their typeset but haven't made the covers yet. There are a lot of good typesets from past cnovel exchanges, some other I want to bind are Guardian, Lord Seventh, Kaleidoscope of Death, and Purely By Accident.

(...yes. Bookbinding is very much an "eyes bigger than stomach" hobby. I have a few fanfics typeset and ready to print/bind, too).

Recently read and would recommend: I, Your Emperor, Have Been Wronged! and I will put the same promo I wrote up on tumblr under the cut

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(I've basically peaced out on answering comments, apologies. I'll try to catch up on at least the fandom ones. I appreciate you all!)

denise posted the thread about LJ going Russia-locked (ETA: see comments for corrections) and/or selling off six weeks ago now, which feels like twenty years in Internet time, but is probably not that long in business time. Has anyone heard updates on what's happening with LJ since then? Is this like the x-number of times ff.net was definitely going offline?

Relatedly, is anyone in touch with the mods of

camp_toccoa,

skyearth85 and/or

skew_whiff? Sky used to be active on Discord, but I haven't seen her in ages. Has there been any talk of moving that comm to Dreamwidth?

I remember it was a bit of a voyage through broken links and broken dreams last time I looked at it, but there's still a bunch of fic that never moved to either AO3 or DW.

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dolorosa_12

It's cold, it's rainy, and a flock of wood pigeons has descended on the back garden. Let's do this week's open thread.

Today's open thread concept came to me when I was thinking about how frequently I reread books (there are certain books within my line of sight right now that I'm pretty sure I have probably reread several hundred times), and how rarely in comparison I rewatch films or TV shows. I definitely rewatched stuff a lot more when I was a teenager — this was the 1990s, when video rental shops were still a thing, and my friends and I used to have sleepovers almost every weekend, where we'd borrow three or four movies and fall asleep in someone's living room while watching them. We had a rotating series of favourites that we'd watch again and again — the first Matrix film and The Fifth Element were firm favourites, as were a bunch of the classic 1990s slasher films, plus the usual suspects among 1990s teen romantic comedies, The Craft, etc. My sister and I also used to rent and watch the same films over and over again.

But other than a couple of Buffy and Angel rewatches at various points in the past twenty years, and Matthias and I occasionally rewatching previously viewed films as part of our New Year's Eve themed movie nights (e.g. all three LotR films), rewatching is definitely less common for me than rereading. I assume this is because it's much more of a timesuck — in general I read much more quickly than I can watch a film or a TV show, and I have more control over how much I read in a single sitting, whereas viewing is dictated by the lenghth of the film or the TV episode.

What about you? Do you return to longform audiovisual media for repeat viewings? Has this changed over time? Is this different to your approach to rereading books?

maggie33

RL is meh. My hip is much better, but the rest is ugh. My elbow was a bit better and then I overdid it by writing two more treats for Candy Hearts. I feel very accomplished now of course, but at what cost. *sigh* And I am now officially diagnosed with hypertension. And I have new meds, but I think my intestines don’t like them, so I have to make another appointment with my cardiologist. *sigh again*

And the weather is ugh, too – it’s dark, rainy and gloomy. All this pretty white snow that was here just a few days ago now took form of dirty, brown slush. One good thing is that last week we discovered a great new sushi place. Everything was very yummy, and we plan to eat there the next week, too.

Because of all of the reasons above, the things I did watch lately were mostly cute and fluffy, because I’m so not in the mood for anything angsty or depressing. And those cute things were:

Cat For Cash - Thai BL drama with pretty boys and talking cats, what’s not to like? 😊

My Romance Scammer - another Thai BL drama about two scammers (one who is good at what he does, and one who is really not) who fall for their marks – two cousins from a very rich family. 2 episodes aired for now and I really liked them. Junior is fantastic, and this is the first drama of the new ship OhmPoon, and I enjoy them so much here.

I Wanna Be Sup'tar - Thai GL drama about the romance between a famous and rich, but very unhappy girl and a poor girl with dreams about a big career in the entertainment industry. The 1st episode aired last week and I liked it. It’s cheesy and fun and I really like the main ship Lilly and Belle (who were the secondary ship in Harmony Secret).

Read, White & Royal Blue - I finally watched this movie yesterday, and I enjoyed it so much. It was cute, sexy, funny and touching. Alex and Henry are very adorable and hot together, and I love them to pieces. I’m so glad there will be a sequel. And I might try reading the book again, because I did try reading it a few years ago, and managed maybe 20 or 30 pages, because I found it rather bad. But that might be because I was reading a Polish translation. Will try the original this time.

Not so cute was the finale of Burnout Syndrome. It was a good drama, but I was rather disappointed with the ending. Even though I did expect an ending exactly like that. Since it is a Thai BL drama with a very popular fixed ship.

Spoilers here (and it's all complaining).

Because really, they want me to, what? Cheer for Koh and Jira to be happy together? Feel sorry for Koh? I don’t feel sorry for a tech bro obsessed with AI, who still can’t understand why his lover, whom he professes to love so much, was angry at him about what he did. Koh still seems to think that this was just such a small thing and that Jira was overreacting. And he still blames everyone else for him being miserable. It’s never something he did, it’s always someone else’s fault.

And that ending felt so empty and boring to me. And I read a few opinions and some people seem to think this was not a happy ending and that viewers should wonder if Koh and Jira will stay together in the future. But to me, I think the drama does actually mean for us to believe they have a chance at a long-term relationship. It was filmed like a straightforward romance with appropriate music, and all that.

And earlier there was this song playing at one time over Jira’s image – “I will be his angel, I will be his savior”. And Pheem told Jira that Koh sold his AI interests like it’s supposed to be a good thing, and something that redeems Koh.

And don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that Koh is a monster and Jira is a blameless angel. Jira is toxic, too. And I even can believe that Koh in his own way loves Jira. But for Jira – ehhh... All I can see is sexual lust and desire to keep Koh as his Muse. Also they are both obsessed with money. After all one of Jira's first lines in the first episode is: "I'll do anything that pays". So who knows maybe they will live happily ever after. It’s just that I personally didn’t really care about that.

Last but not least – finally the official trailer for Only Friends Dream On is here. And it looks good.

Watch on YouTube

Mix as a seductive manipulator, Earth looking gorgeous in glasses, my beloveds AouBoom being toxic and messy and hot as hell (that scene in the pool, wow... *fans self*), and Boston coming back to stir the pot even more. I already love it. 17th of February can’t come soon enough.

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Title: Bad Weather Blues
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Dee is NOT in a good mood today.
Word Count: 400
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 506: Melt.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.

( Bad Weather Blues... )

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Current Location: my desk

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