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I woke up late at

mashfanficchick's place, had coffee and showered and dressed.

We hung out together until 3:00 and then ze left for the dentist and I left for home. I had a large heavy bag of the stuff I bought yesterday, plus the shoes and the dates I got on Friday, so I took the bus rather than having to cllimb up and down stairs for transferring on the subway.

Got home, everything was OK, except for the heat of course, which is still very hot. I turned the fans on again, and it's tolerable.

I heated up my leftover sandwich from the other day and had that for a late lunch/early dinner. Then at 7:00 I had technical issues Teaming the FWiB. We finally did connect though.

After we talked I went to the bedroom and played solitaire. Also called the Kid, who didn't answer, so I texted and asked her to call cause we have many things to discuss, especially Thanksgiving. She hasn't yet.

I did text L from Friday and asked her how she was doing. She's good.

Then it was pet feeding time, though of course I gave Oreo food when I got home. I gave him a little bit more, and I fed Christie who did eat some, so that's good.

Then I started here, and that's about all.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Got all my stuff home OK.

3. Thanksgiving soon.

4. Eggnog.

5. My fans.

6. The pets were all right while I was gone overnight.

Current Mood: hot

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lannamichaels

As superhero movies go, this is a very good superhero movie. As regular movies go, I kept being annoyed about the seriously compressed timeline and some really basic suspension of disbelief, like "is anyone going to say Lex Luthor is lying about translation" because, uh. Also, how does anyone know Kryptonian? So many little things just drove me up the wall.

However! It was a good movie, and the Clark/Lois stuff was very well done, I actually really loved their interview/fight because it worked so well in with characterization, it didn't strike my "I cannot, I cannot, I cannot" that I tend to have about couples arguing.

The main effect of the movie was, after it was revealed that Lex had people going over every inch of every Superman fight so he could get a single strand of Superman's hair so he could clone him -- I went and reread some old favorite Smallville fics. Good times.

The movie also did something I noticed with the Knives Out 2: Glass Onion film, where it made the Cool Evil Rich Villain... not come off very compelling on the slash goggles. I did not walk out of this movie shipping Clark/Lex, even though I ship Clark/Lex. Lex Luthor, played by Why Do I Recognize Him Oh That's The Boy From About A Boy, is very well done and very well performed and is not a magnificent bastard and he has zero chemistry with Clark, but not in a way that detracts from the film. This is not a film where Clark and Lex have ever been on good terms; this is not a film where they even ever knew each other. There was nothing about the movie that was in the same flavor or theme as Smallville, but hey, always fun to go reread some stuff.

But for a movie that did Lois so well, did we have to have Eve The Awful Clingy Obsessive Wannabe Girlfriend with Jimmy who did not want to date her, just wanted info from her? That was so hard to endure. I think worse of the movie for making that decision, it casts a long tail on the movie even a week after I finished it, like "oh yeah so that was a movie that made me go reread some old fics from 20 years ago, and also had this unnecessarily misogynistic sideplotline played for laughs (?)".

Nathan Fillion also appeared to be treating this film as "I will do bad acting on purpose to show that my character is a buffoon" but mostly it just came off annoying.

I also have a nit to pick with this movie that is solely from watching it with the DVD closed captions, which kept noting when the main Superman theme was playing, which is: the soundtrack to this movie is ... well, it's got some perfectly acceptable pop songs peppered in. But the rest of it is just so bland.

But this movie is better than every MCU movie I've seen, with the exception of Captain America 2: A Good Spy Movie With I Guess Absolutely Zero Repercussions For The Worldbuilding Oh Well.

senmut

AO3 Link | Training Opportunity (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tasha Yar, Worf
Additional Tags: Drabble, Slice of Life
Summary:

Yar shows Worf a flaw

Yar circled to the left, and Worf watched as he adjusted himself. When she lunged, he was as ready as he could be, and still she managed to foul his leg, and get him off balance. From there it was only two quick moves and he stumbled out of the circle they had made.

"You are a formidable warrior."

"So are you, but you're not accustomed to smaller, faster opponents who know how to use their body," Yar said. "So, joining my class?"

"Yes."

She smiled, then beckoned him in for another round. He took the invitation, eager to learn.

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While I was admiring the Habsburg women's hats a while back I noticed Elisabeth of Guelders, with her haute hat couture, and that she was described as an abbess. Long time readers might remember that I'm interested in the European "princess-abbesses" who held their religious offices heading various monastic institutions simultaneously with their secular lives and titles. AFAIK this Elisabeth with the good hat wasn't that sort of abbess, although wikipedia might know more than me, but plenty of her posh relatives were.

When you imagine a portrait of an abbess you might think of somebody like this lady, who wikipedia claims was an abbess from 1796 to 1808 (warning for skull as memento mori): Mother Abbess Kunigunde Schilling von Hintschingen.

You probably aren't thinking of Maria Elisabeth of Austria in this 1781 portrait specifically of her as a princess-abbess with crozier.

And you might not expect an abbess to have her official portrait for her religious office painted featuring an enslaved boy.

Here's another later official abbessly portrait with an enslaved (or ex-enslaved) man.

But all this must've stopped a long time ago and definitely wasn't still a thing in 1918, no? No.
Princess Abbess, 1918.

And I'm sure an abbess wouldn't find herself at a high society horse racing event.

In conclusion: Princess-abbess was a thing until surprisingly recently.... something something.... IDEK.

Note: (ex-)enslaved men, often used as subjects of social experiments, were also occasionally held in these courts as servants e.g. Mmadi Make / Angelo Soliman and Couchi / Gustav Badin. How "free" they actually were legally or in daily life is open to many unanswerable historical questions. And in a different court with differing customs Abram Petrovich Gannibal was the Ethiopian/Eritrean Russian ancestor of the current Duke of Westminster. And then there's Zamor whose evidence against his "owner" helped make the case for her legal execution.

larryhammer

For Poetry Monday:

Stills, R.A. Ammons

I have nowhere
to go and

nowhere to go

when I get
back from there.

---L.

Subject quote from The Boxer, Simon & Garfunkel.

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FE3H

Sylvain Jose Gautier / Felix Hugo Fraldarius
Marianne von Edmund / Hilda Valentine Goneril
Caspar von Bergliez / Linhardt von Hevring
- I'm also into Caspar von Bergliez / Ashe Ubert / Linhardt von Hevring <3

My Hero Academia

Todoroki Shouto / Bakugo Katsuki / Midoriya Izuku (poly ship/OT3, but all variations are okay too, like BakuDeku or TodoBaku, etc.)
- In order of preference, it's BakuDeku, TodoDeku, and TodoBaku
Kaminari Denki / Jiro Kyouka
Togata Mirio / Amajiki Tamaki

Other ships: Killugon, Hisoillu, Okubade, Twiyor, Damianya, USUK, GerIta

Movies: Chicago, Spirited Away, Forrest Gump, Star Wars (1-6; I've also watched 7-9 but I honestly don't remember much)
Other Anime/Manga: Code Geass, 86, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Naruto, Chainsaw Man, The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity, Dungeon Meshi, Sousou no Frieren; I tend to like a lot of shounen/seinen, but I also like slice-of-life, comedy, and romcoms.

Books: I used to read a lot when I was a teenager, but now, not so much. I did like The Hunger Games series, and The Princess Diaries.

Music: BTS, NMIXX, Fall Out Boy, Vaundy, Yorushika, Two Door Cinema Club, etc.

Games: Some other Fire Emblem games (9, 10, 13, 14, 17); Civilization VI; Persona 3; Persona 5; Pokémon
Webcomics/Manhwa: The Remarried Empress, True Beauty

Current Mood: nervous

kalloway

As usual, these are all free to a good home in the US. Alas, international shipping is beyond my budget, never mind the ridiculousness of the current everything. If you'd like something, it's yours. Please just say thank you and let me know it arrived.

* One lot of BPAL perfume, including a couple of little bottles and quite a few of the tiny vials. I'll have to inquire how best to ship these but I'm guessing in bubblewrap and tupperware.

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scripsi

I haven’t written any fanfic in a long time, and I feel I need to get back into it. I know from experience it’s good for my mental wellbeing to write, and as the world continues to hassle us, I need what I can get to feel good. I had been thinking of signing up for Yuletide, but completely missed the sign-up window. But when I checked what other people wish for, I found 2 letters that gave me ideas. So I will try to get those done as treats. I’ll try to write 300 words every day. More if I get in a flow, of course, but 300 words is doable even days with little writing time.

Fanfic meme gakked from all over my f-list.

From your AO3 Works page, look at the tags and find the answers to these questions.

I currently have 123 works published, in 28 fandoms.

1. Under what rating do you write most?
Teen and up audience, with 47 works.

I thought Explicit or Mature would be on top, but they are number 3 and 4. But as it is my longer fics that tends to get that rating, while my one-shots usually have a lower rating, that isn’t so surprising.

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?

Doctor Who with 32 fics.
Peter Pan with 17 fics.
And Harry Potter and Versailles both come third with 8 fics each.

Peter Pan was my first big fandom in the early 2000s, and Doctor Who my second one, ten years later, so no surprise with those. I was also super into Versailles for a bit, so that’s not odd either. But I’ve never really been very big on Harry Potter. I was over 30 when I first read the series, and I never really thought they were particularly well-written, though I was hooked enough to read every new book. But 3 of my fics are written as part of a re-mix challenge, so I didn’t really choose which fandom I would match on.

3. Which character do you write about most?

Captain Hook, who is in all my Peter Pan-fics. The Delgado version of the Master comes second, and River Song third. Though if you want to argue that the Master is the same character regardless of regeneration s/he is definitely my most written one, in 30 fics in total.

4. What are the 3 top pairings you've written?

On shared first place are Wendy Darling/James Hook (Peter Pan), Sophie de Clermont/Fabien Marchal (Versailles) and The Master/River Song (Doctor Who), who all have 7 fics each. Second pairing is Beth Harmon/Vasily Borgov (The Queen’s Gambit) with 6 fics. And third place are Evy Carnahan O'Connell/Rick O'Connell and Imhotep/Evy Carnahan O'Connell (The Mummy), and Vanessa Ives/Sir Malcolm Murray (Penny Dreadful) with 3 fics each.

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?

On shared first place I have Humor, Angst, Dark, which have 14 fics each. Second is Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence with 9 fics, and in third place is Spanking with 8. Which I feel gives a pretty good general overview over my fanfics.

vriddy

Editing a fic in which one of the characters has an eyepatch and replacing ~~too~~ many instances of "eyes" with "eye".

Only singular orbs in this house!!

silver_chipmunk

Got up at 10:00 and had breakfast and coffee, and showered and dressed, then headed over to meet

mashfanficchick at Dunkin' Donuts.

I took the bus there, and had a pepprmint mocha latte. The clerk and a customer had a screaming fight while I waited for

mashfanficchick, which was mildly entertaining in a way.

Anyway, after ze got there, e went out for lunch at the sushi place, and while we were there we reserved a room for the Arisia SF convention in January. It's a great con, I went back some time in the teens, I forget the exact year. The Kid goes most years.

Then we took the bus to Bath and Bodyworks. From there we went to Trader Joe's. We shopped there for awhile, then went by bus to Stop and Shop. I got nutmeg and eggnog.

Then we went to another Trader Joe's because the first one didn't have gluten free pumpkin pie. The second one did, so we got that.

Then we went to a Jemboro, 5 Below, and another 99 cent store looking for a cheap mixing bowl. We took the subway back.

Then we came back here and hung out for awhile. I Teamed the FWiB on my phone.

Then we had dinner, a rotisserie chicken and sides.

Then we watched K-Pop Demon Hunters. It was a lot of fun, I had heard about if but didn't know anything about it.

Finally we had the pumpkin pie for dessert. Yummy!

So by then it was late enough that I decided to stay over.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Sushi for lunch.

3. Lots of exercise walking around.

4. The Kid is happy we're going to Arisia.

5. Good movie.

6. Can stay over.

Edited to add: Forgot to say I called Middle Brother, he is fine.

Current Mood: cheerful

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Hello from Canada! I am asking for mostly virtual gifts:

1. Kudos and Comments: on my fanworks, my AO3. I have lots of fics from Good Omens, OFMD, Sherlock Holmes, and the older Star Treks (TOS, VOY, TNG), among many others. My Big Bang art and my fanvids are also over there.

2. Subscribe to Fanlore on Tumblr or Twitter: I'm part of Fanlore's social media team and we work really hard on some of those posts, so it would be nice if more people saw them: Tumblr, X/Twitter, and the Dreamwidth feed.

3. Read the Spones Zine: I am one of the editors for the "We Go Together" Spock/McCoy zine, we've had a lot of talented people contribute to it, so it would be nice if more people had read it. Plus, it's FREE to download! Our most recent issue is an NSFW work "Mirrorverse" issue, which you can download here. Be warned, because it is the Mirroverse there are a lot of dark elements like non-con, dub-con, mind-break, etc. If you're looking for something a little lighter you can check out our last SFW issue which had the theme of "Shore Leave".

4. Drabbles/Ficlets: I have fallen hard into Sherlock Holmes fandom this year, so I would love some Holmes/Watson fic, my faves are the Granada series and the Rathbone films, but I even love the mouse versions! See my Holmestice sign-up for inspiration.

5. Sherlock Holmes Pastiches: Speaking of Sherlock Holmes, I know there are probably hundreds of published pastiches out there (especially now that all the stories are in the public domain), but I would love to know which ones you think are worth the read. I would really love ones that get the relationship between Holmes and Watson right, I don't mean in a shippy way, because I have fanfic for that, but that gets their dynamic right and doesn't downplay Watson's role (I love Watson!). Also, I know Doyle's son, with the help of another writer, wrote a whole series of Holmes stories after his father's death, has anyone read these, are they worth checking out?
(Just a note, I have recently read A Study in Emerald, because everyone recs that one to Holmes' fans)

6. Check out my Spotify playlists: my profile, most of them are fandom related.

7. Click to Donate: go over to arab.org and "click to donate", it costs you nothing and all funds go towards UN agencies helping refugees.

8. Rec me a Moving Company: this one is kind of specific, but we're moving in early 2026 and I'm looking for suggestions for a trust worthy moving company, one that is going to treat our stuff right. If you live in the greater Toronto area (or southern Ontario generally) and have had good experiences with certain moving companies I would love recommendations.

9. Donate to my local women's shelter: my local women's shelter has an amazon wishlist of items it needs, so if you are feeling extra generous maybe you could send them something.

queenlua

"Verso," Sciel says, smiling brightly, "I'm starting to think you don't want our little expedition to succeed."

---

Verso’s working toward another end. Sciel won’t let that happen.

Set during Act 3.

Sciel &/ Verso, ~7k words.

Read here on AO3.

( author's notes (contains spoilers for the fic) )

autobotscoutriella

Cleaning for visitors is kicking my butt :( I know it doesn't matter (my best friend is coming up for the holiday and she's not going to care whether or not I dusted the living room) but it's going to bug me if I don't get it done.

Current Mood: tired

senmut

I am currently working on my

ladiesbingo card for my December posting goals.

Sinners (Annie & Mary)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy & Dawn about Willow)
DC Comics (Dinah Lance & Selina Kyle)
Partners in Crime (Carole & Sydney)

Now, I have been the first to put fandom tags up on AO3 a lot in the distant past. But I never thought I'd be doing it again in 2025. The last time I did was 2021, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that The Jeffersons now has more than my one work. So I double checked that last fandom up there, got briefly excited because "Partners in Crime" was a tag in the TV Show fandoms.

However, it is actually for Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime, from the year before my one season detective American show. So yep, gotta disambiguate the name when I create it.

(I am trying to mentally fortify myself for the first TG dinner I am partly responsible for in ... a very long time, so no misc.exhausted.me this week)

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Main Fandom: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure; it has a chokehold on me. I’m an experienced roleplayer with an OC for Stardust Crusaders that I’m very proud of and love talking about!
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