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this one is currently active but I HAD to bring it here. Content advisory: nudity Read more... )

Seattle Worldcon Report

Aug. 22nd, 2025 03:51 am
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There is not just one Worldcon. In Seattle this year, there were 5500 registered attendees plus another 2000 or so bought single-day memberships, meaning there were ~7500 different Worldcons this year.

Worldcon is many things to many people, but the one thing it always is, is an intentional community. It’s an event that happens because people give their time, their energy, their skills, and their care to make it happen.

In this way, Worldcon is, and always has been, what we make of it. It is simultaneously the home of one of our genre’s most important awards, a premiere costuming event, a professional development incubator, a social structure, an important economic opportunity for some, a schmoozefest, and a celebration of all that the science fiction/fantasy genres have to offer. It’s also a microcosm of all the stresses and problems of our society, and really, how could it not be?

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Mirrored from Cecilia Tan.

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If this is incoherent I apologize, I just finished How to Blow Up a Pipeline, which I picked up from the library on a whim earlier today, and it was excellentIt's, as it sounds, about a group of environmental activists who try to blow up an oil pipeline.

That premise may put some people on edge, but the movie does a fantastic job of digging into each individual's reason for being a part of this. None of them are just hellraisers; they all feel like they have skin in this game, and they are portrayed quite sympathetically. They're a diverse group too, in every sense. This isn't a group of friends who came up with this plot together; this is a group of ideologues driven by a powerful sense that sabotage of the oil industry is the only way for humanity to survive. To me, this makes them even more interesting. They are not ride or die for each other because they like each other--they're ride or die for each other because they have a mission

The whole film is a masterclass in establishing and maintaining tension; I was on the edge of my seat from start to finish. It is, in most ways, a heist thriller. And heist thrillers, though we love them, can only go so many ways. Yet the way How to Blow Up a Pipeline works with its timeline and the gradual feeding out of information to the audience works to keep you riveted the entire runtime. It manages twists without feeling like it's yanking the rug out from under you or deus ex machina-ing it to make things work. There are so many things that could go wrong, obviously, and the movie keeps tension in all of these moments without dragging or feeling repetitive. It also excels at showing how much work these protagonists have to put in, from knowledge acquisition like teaching themselves to build explosives to managing a dozen alibis to the physical labor of setting this whole thing up.

It also drives home how desperate I think many of us feel about the climate crisis. We may not be ready to blow up a pipeline, but many of us would at least not really disapprove of someone who did. The film does not fall prey to simply goading on destruction to stick it to the oil execs though; there are many moments when the real stakes of the climate crisis are put on display, and while our protagonists may have moments of celebrating their efforts, for the most part we feel that they would rather not being doing any of this. They would rather it had not come to this. As a result, there is a sobering grief that underlies much of the anger and bombast in the film: grief for what has been done to the environment, for what people have already suffered as a result, for the future that many young people feel has been slowly stolen from them over generations of environmental abuse. 

Overall a fantastic movie; I would definitely watch this again.

I am ill prepared for tomorrow

Aug. 21st, 2025 10:17 pm
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It's the all day faculty meeting. Heck I'm just plain ill. It hit me this afternoon at Kroger (I think the coffee didn't play well with my GERD but it cost me most of the afternoon)

I did run around all morning. Spoke to the Post Office because no one (not even them) can tell me if my mail forwarding has ended or not. I had to drive on the dirt roads to get there quickly and I'm not amused to learn 'well the forwarding happens in MI but I'll look into this and be sure they've ended the forwarding.' Yeah and does no one know how snowbirding works.

I did find out that the old ladies who I shared a table with (and wouldn't stop talking to me) were right, they really DID build another coffee shop like 1 1/2 blocks from the one we have had for years (and there are still Starbuck rumors) This one is across from a church so they called it Holy Grounds which is clever. I will check it out but I DO think it has had a bad affect already on The Spot because it was empty today. (and I noticed the menu has not changed since June)

I also set up my thyroid ultrasound for the same day as my neurologist so I don't have to drive up there twice. Yay.

I also went off on United Healthcare who called me to set up home nursing. I'm like WRONG DANA. He actually argued with me, that it HAD to be me and not texas Dana because how else would they have my phone number. I am furious at this point. I said we had this conversation in June. You people promised again to fix this. I'm really beginning to think I need to look into what else I can do about this.


I found a cool open call about appalachian characters and authors and I jumped right into this.


DW community recs

[community profile] makezines a community for, well, making zines. We want to make zines, and we want to encourage others to make zines! (I honestly didn't know people were still doing this which is kinda cool)


[community profile] small_fandoms Events for small fandoms!


[community profile] videogamefanworks Fanworks for video games! (I know some of you are really into this)

Back from Worldcon

Aug. 21st, 2025 07:17 pm
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I took off a week ago Tuesday to fly to Seattle. The trip went well, apart from my flight being moved to 0 Dark Thirty, which was painful. I landed at our hotel, rendezvoused with the Merriams and we headed off to the Chihuly Museum and the Museum of Pop Culture.  For those playing along at home, that means that on 4 hours of sleep, I rode in a car, a plane, a monorail and a train in a day. But it was delightful! I hadn't been to the Chihuly Museum before - many of the exhibits were lovely. I had been to the Museum of Pop Culture before, back when my friend Brooks was the curator of the sf and f collection and enjoyed it. This time was fun as well, if a tad crowded.

After that, I picked up my reg stuff and met Nicole Kimberling of Blindeye Books for dinner at the ASEAN Food Hall. We had a long chat and got caught up; we last got to hang out pre-lockdown so it's been awhile. She puts out some excellent books - check them out! And when I got back, my friend and roomie for the weekend, Hugo Award Finalist Heather Rose Jones had arrived so we got caught up. Next day, I was on the queer-coded villains panel, which was fun. Then it was off to a delightful lunch with the glorious "steampunk personalities" (as we were all dubbed in The Steampunk Explorer), Madame Askew and the Grand Arbiter and one of their friends. I puttered around the con running into people and dropping books off at the Liminal Fiction table in the Dealer's Room before heading out to meet my friend Brooks and his sweetie Lisa for dinner. Then Brooks and I were off to the Clarion West party at Hugo House. Got to chat with a bunch of folks there, including Casey Blair, who I hadn't seen for a few years, Charlie Jane Anders and more, as well as hanging out with Jennie Goloboy and meeting Astrid Bear.

Thursday was my "light" day so I went to Concurrent at the Union Theater for an interesting panel on publishing short fiction. A friend who was on the panel became ill so I sat with her for awhile after the panel. Multiple people checked in and fortunately, she was doing better after some rest so after checking a couple of times, I got her a Lyft and sent her back to her hotel. She was doing much better all weekend so I was very glad that things turned around!
  I think I went to a good panel on Medieval Women Writers after that and the art show and such. I had lunch with my former editor and friend, Evan J. Peterson, an hour or so before he found out that he was a finalist for the Endeavor Award. I did some more puttering about and spent some time with delightful pals Monica Valentinelli, Matt McElroy and LaShawn Wanak. After that, it was off to dinner with Heather, the Merriams, Jody Wurl and her friend Cynthia. Friday was my Table Talk, which was fun! Someone showed up to talk about my gaming, someone else stopped by to ask about the werewolf books and another person wanted to talk publishing. Then I grabbed lunch with LaShawn and worked a shift at the Liminal Fiction table, where I finally met J. Scott Coatsworth in person. Then I got to hang out with Martha Wells and her husband for a nice chat. After that, I went off to a fun-filled Seattle Underground tour with the Merriams. 

Saturday was my reading, which could have gone better (I had a coughing fit), but was well attended. I chatted with folks and sold some books, which was nice. I met up with various folks (apologies for things blurring a bit by then), worked another table shift, did some other things, then went and did the Joanna Russ panel. It went well - lot of good discussion and some anecdotes. 

I then grabbed dinner and went back to our room to watch the Hugo Awards. A brief pause from general goodwill: I watched the first 45 minutes of the ceremony with the sound on, got tired of the song repetition and the mispronunciations of finalist names and switched to captions. So I missed the part where the editorial staff of Khoreo got skipped over and the Lodestar finalist was skipped completely and a bunch of things covered elsewhere. I will just say that when GRRM mangled multiple finalist names at the 2020 Hugo Awards in New Zealand, there was an understandable hue and cry about it and it was deemed highly disrespectful (which it was). This is no different and the impacted finalists are due an apology. Also: for the love of whatever you hold sacred, Hugo Admins, address the damn issue. Hire transcriptionists, compel the hosts to practice names, record the names ahead of time, but DO SOMETHING so we stop experiencing this frankly xenophobic nonsense every year.


Sunday, I went to a panel on romantasy, then had lunch with Heather (who did not win, but enjoyed herself anyway). Then we toddled off to the Amtrak station where Jody, the Merriams and I ran into local author powerhouse Pat Wrede. We all hung out until we boarded the bus to Spokane (there were train issues) for a four hour trip across the state of Washington. They did let us board the train and get into the sleepers around 10 even though the train wasn't leaving until 1AM. I got a couple of hours of broken napping, then roused Jody from the upper bunk so we could grab breakfast before watching morning over Glacier National Park. It was glorious!

The rest of the trip was lively. The dining car ran out of most food because they were supposed to stock up in Seattle, but couldn't. Staff was very stiff upper lip about it and did the best they could and we were sympathetic (and tipped). I didn't get much sleep what with the train rattling and all, but Monday night was better than Saturday. All in all, though, it was a fun expedition and I'm glad I did it! Big shoutout to Tony for picking up Jody and Kevin for picking up the rest of us to go home.

I'm currently in the midst of a two day women in publishing virtual conference and scrambling to get caught up on sundries. Still job hunting, but unemployment came through so that helps a bunch. Tomorrow, more conference and other things, before going to the State Fair with my friend Matt. More updates on the conference as soon as it wraps!


All For The Game: KevJean Rec List

Aug. 21st, 2025 07:09 pm
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I'm starting a Rarepair Recs series of posts (for ships with less than 250 complete works on AO3 using the otp:true filter) and I have shared a rec list on my journal with several works for KevJean (Kevin Day/Jean Moreau) to get it started. I encourage more people to make their Rarepair Recs!

Fandom: All for the Game
Relationship: Kevin/Jean
Medium: art, fic

See the rec list at my journal.

[ SECRET POST #6803 ]

Aug. 21st, 2025 06:54 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6803 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.


More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 07 secrets from Secret Submission Post #971.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

BL trip a success

Aug. 21st, 2025 11:42 pm
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In brief: book is the least I've been annoyed by any such book I have yet read, which is fairly impressive going, especially since the copy in the BL's collection is the first edition originally published in 2003 rather than the second edition updated in 2013; more notes possibly to follow (subject to reaching a decision about whether I want to hold out for getting my hands on a copy of the second edition before talking about it in public).

Entertainment: shortly after I finally settled myself down in my nice corner desk against a window with my back to the wall and a whole enclosed-in-glass booth between me and Any Other Readers... my watch buzzed to let me know that I'd just finished a Period Of High Stress. The high stress was, obviously, sitting quietly wedged into a corner on public transport while reading a relaxing book. I did know public transport was exhausting! I have been saying! I'm still kind of impressed at the watch Earnestly Informing Me, In Case I Didn't? Know? and mildly regretting that I'm planning to do the same-ish again tomorrow, and also also I am reassessing A Lot of my wheelchair use in light of this...

Related entertainment: how much my hypervigilance kicked up when I returned from lunch to discover that neatly leaving my notebook and reading-book in a stack on my desk had not had sufficient inhibitory effect, and a Noisy Person had decided to sit diagonally across from me, in my Space, being Noisy. The amount I relaxed when they (temporarily) fucked off is another one for the "yep I can see how not leaving the house for over a year and then staying Hyper Local has added up to me looking much more functional" files...

hey yall

Aug. 21st, 2025 06:08 pm
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 the name's jay.

an og LJ poster, moved here recently. missed the anonymity of it all.
i havent had to do my asl in so long, but im figuring the fact that i just called it asl tells you how old i am anyhow lol.

i live in the south, but i am not one of those kind of south people. i mostly just use yall a lot and say "hold my beer" sometimes. 

alright. fandoms. hm. i guess im pretty into the marvel universes. have been since the first iron man came out. never really got into the comics, for no reason but i just havent. (i do read comics, mostly manga or graphic novels if i do.) im in love with Loki. love his porpoise. love his soul. not really into tom hiddleston himself, but ill watch his movies. (also ive gotten really into Hel from norse mythology, which is who Hela was loosely "based" on - they changed almost everything about who Hel actually is, but thats another post all together.) the entirety of guardians of the galaxy is the best thing ever. the epcot ride is the epitome of perfect. god its so good. uh, my favorite author is neil gaiman. i think his works are very visual and simple. keeps my wandering mind focused.

other than that, im really into thinking. there is no box. there never has been. i enjoy conversations about ideas and constructs and ghosts and time and whatever else. im usually the 'weird friend' of the group they shake their head at and go "thats jay".

im the one at a party in the kitchen 9 beers deep holding a cat talking at strangers about why the watch in 'Somewhere In Time' never existed lol

in irl i am a DJ and host of event nights: trivia, name that tune, music bingo, and any kind of parties really. one of my favorites was a 70s/80s/90s dance party. the playlist was fire. i also just recently joined a local coverband. we play mostly 60s/70s funky dancey music. 

so. if you feel interested, add me (or i guess its call subscribe on here. which threw me off) and ill add you back.
more the merrier 

J.

Shorelines

Aug. 21st, 2025 03:21 pm
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A nearby beach had lots of surfers out. I liked the look of this tree high above them.

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Thankful Thursday

Aug. 21st, 2025 09:30 pm
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Today I am thankful for...

  • My health, what's left of it. Beats the alternative.
  • USB-C Power Delivery making some of the random chargers I need to carry around obsolete. Less thanks to things that take IEC 60320 cables. NO thanks for the many things that still use wall-warts. Power bricks with IEC cables are somewhere in between, because brick. So are charging cables with USB on one end and some random connector on the other.
  • My bandmates, m and N.
  • My little Zoom H2 recorder, which I have had since August 2007. Eighteen years later, it still does a great job of recording concerts and practice sessions.
  • High-capacity SD cards and micro-SD cards. (I usually get micro-SD and use an adapter, of which I have more than I can use at any one time.) Pro tip: wrap a post-it around your micro-SD and label that.

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(I cannot) touch her, make her conscious [Or, the eternal WIP where things go very, very differently near the ending of Feed] (15393 words) by umadoshi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Newsflesh Series - Mira Grant
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Georgia Mason/Shaun Mason
Characters: Georgia Mason, Shaun Mason, Mahir Gowda
Additional Tags: POV First Person, Adopted Sibling Incest, Canon Divergence, Abandoned Work - Unfinished and Discontinued, incomplete but not a WIP, as finished as it's getting
Summary:

In which Shaun learns something significant late in Feed that he canonically doesn't find out until Deadline, and everything goes very (very, very) differently.



I started writing this canon-divergence AU a looong time ago, and I've likewise known for a long time now that I was never going to finish it--partly because Newsflesh hasn't been my primary fandom for several years, and partly because of how much plotting it was going to take to do it to my satisfaction. This parts ways with the series canon toward the end of Feed, and thus everything that happens to the main characters in Deadline and Blackout would never have happened, but all the political machinations and truths about the virus were still things that would have to be played out and...yeah.

But the emotional arc of this story, most of which I did get written down, is some of my favorite writing I ever did in this fandom; I kinda think that if I'd ever managed to assemble an intact story, it would be among the things I'd be proudest of.

I've decided to post it anyway, because what else would there be to do with it? So this is the heart of it--a bit fractured and strung like beads along a thread of story, but all there. Please ignore any minor wobbliness in the timeline/internal continuity, 'kay? And towards the end, I've left in a few plottier bits to give some idea of where this would have gone as an intact story.

This should make sense if you've only read Feed, but it does include one of the series' largest spoilers and hint at another one (both revealed in Deadline in canon).

And the standard notes: this is unbetaed, and the title comes from Linda Gregg's poem "There She Is".

The Friday Five for 22 August 2025

Aug. 21st, 2025 02:12 pm
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This week's questions were suggested by [livejournal.com profile] canuckfetish

1. Have you ever stayed in a hostel? If so, where? Did you like it? If you haven't stayed in a hostel, would you?

2. What is your favo(u)rite airport that you've been to? Why?

3. What is the best museum you have visited on vacation?

4. Have you ever made friends while traveling whom you keep in touch with on a regular basis?

5. Have you ever had a conversation with a seatmate on a plane?

Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!

I love RAYE so much!

Aug. 21st, 2025 08:26 am
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It's only half an hour of a 75 minute set, but it has all of her new songs, and she's really getting down doing Genesis live (in this case only Part II), which has taken a lot of workshopping over the last year.

Community Recs Post!

Aug. 21st, 2025 10:20 am
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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fics/podfics/fancrafts/fanvids/fanart/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

Michigan, again

Aug. 21st, 2025 08:28 am
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Visiting the out-laws with Belovedest. Last night we had dinner out at the Dirty Bird (chicken bar & grill) so this morning's breakfast is leftovers. Which I had in bed, due to the scarcity of tables in the hotel room, and my general unwillingness to get out of bed before nine.

Unfortunately, breakfast was crispy chicken Caesar salad, with buffalo sauce on the side. And after I finished that, I was dipping baby carrots in the sauce. And there was a spill.
I can't seem to face up to the facts
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax
I can't sleep, 'cause my bed's on fire
Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire
Spicy pillow, qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa, far better
Run-run, run-run-run away
Oh-oh-oh

hi!

Aug. 20th, 2025 11:03 pm
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Name: xmcu_fietro

Age group: 20's

Country: USA

Subscription/Access Policy: I'm so new to DW that I'm actually not 100% sure what this means, sorry!


Main Fandoms: X-Men movies (I'm super hyperfixated on Quicksilver, who my username references), Wandavision, Criminal Minds, My Chemical Romance

Other Fandoms: Doctor Who, Evanescence, Muse, BBC Sherlock, Moulin Rouge!, Percy Jackson, Arrested Development, Succession, Barry, IDK How But They Found Me, Pride and Prejudice, Autumn's Grey Solace, and lots of Broadway shows (Les Miserables, Heathers, etc).

I like to post about: I only have one post so far, but I'll probably post a mix of assorted fandom content and personal posts!

About Me/Other Info: I'm AuDHD and have dysautonomia and hypermobility, so sometimes I'll talk about that. Other interests that I have besides fandom stuff include psychology, philosophy, disability studies, sewing, drawing, writing (usually fanfiction), photography, gothic architecture/decor, fashion (especially styles like dark academia or anything that incorporates victorian elements), and playing electric bass.

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