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Over at

recthething, I posted a few recs for

diagetic_exchange (Babylon 5, Murderbot, Megamind). Diagetic Exchange is for in-universe fic/RPF/etc; I did not participate in this one, although I enjoyed the results!

Meanwhile in exchanges I did participate in,

whumpex author reveals happened tonight. I wrote two things:

Mission of Mercy (Biggles, gen, 5800 words, Flies East AU)
My assignment! Rather than just letting it go, Biggles becomes determined to find EvS's crashed Bristol fighter. Is this really just an excuse to write EvS suffering the effects of a crash and heatstroke? Mmmmaybe.

A few ending-spoilery author's notes on the story

My biggest problem, once I'd started writing it, was figuring out a way for EvS to get away given how I had set up the situation. I had trouble with Biggles just letting him go, at this point in time, but no ending that involved him being taken back to be tried and interrogated or shot felt good either. Eventually, I came up with the eventual sort-of compromise that involves Biggles finding a way to justify (to himself) letting EvS plausibly-deniably escape. (For certain values of plausible.) It is really interesting to write them when they're so young!

High G Maneuver (Babylon 5, Londo & Vir, 1700 words)
This was a treat for a recipient who had requested (among other things) a "Dust to Dust" tag in which Vir stays on the station longer so they can deal with the events of the episode.

A few notes

I've been wanting to write more about aftermath from that episode, so I immediately jumped on that prompt. But I realized when I started writing it that this is actually a really difficult time in canon to write emotional h/c for, because Londo is so closed off, and really doesn't start opening up to people, including Vir, until a season or so later. And he's going to be even more shut down in the wake of being physically and mentally hurt as badly as he is in the episode. I ended up wrapping it in a metaphor about Centauri fighter pilots, as a way of getting at the emotions that they won't talk about.

lannamichaels

1.6 sure was a combination of "funny" and "I cannot look at the screen". So there's that. It's still entertaining but I may be getting to the point where I have to fast forward through my extreme embarrassment squick going on with Ratthi when it comes to Pin-Lee.

The situation: Arada and Pin-Lee are married. Arada wants to bring Ratthi into their relationship; they've had a third in their relationship before and it hasn't worked out. Pin-Lee isn't really into the idea, it's being heavily pushed by Arada. Pin-Lee then eventually agrees to it for Arada's sake.

Here's where it gets to the part where I just keep having second-hand embarrassment: Ratthi doesn't know this. Ratthi thinks that both Arada and Pin-Lee are equally happy to have him in the relationship, and he's really really into this relationship. He seems to want this to be permanent and is just really happy with it. And he keeps having interactions with Pin-Lee where Pin-Lee is very uncomfortable and doesn't want to be having these interactions with Ratthi, but, crucially, has not said any of this to Ratthi. Ratthi has no way to know that Pin-Lee isn't as into him as he's into them.

And so we keep getting these moments where Ratthi doesn't fucking know that the person he's trying to have a good faith relationship interaction with does not want this, but yet has never said anything about it.

Somebody please break up Ratthi from Arada/Pin-Lee for the sake of everyone. Or maybe Pin-Lee can actually say something, rather than seemingly 1) being content to suffer in silence for the sake of the Arada/Pin-Lee relationship (Arada has never said Ratthi was a necessary addition to the Arada/Pin-Lee relationship for the sake of its continuance), or 2) expecting someone in this relationship to read their mind and magically divine their discomfort and break it up for them.

I suspect this was added to the show for narrative reasons, including mirroring with the Sanctuary Moon stuff (still delightful, still clear that everyone involved in that is having the time of their life), but zomg. It is excruciating.

mrkinch

This morning was the weather I dream about, cool, sunny and calm. I walked Loop Road and up Laurel Canyon about as far as last week to check on the Red-breasted Nuthatch nest. An adult was moving about the snag and I watched her feed an insect to a chick that I expect will have fledged next time I go. The oak behind the snag was full of birds, Acorn Woodpeckers and American Robins as well as the inevitable Chestnut-backed Chickadees. Coming down a I saw some Spotted Towhee-sized birds out in the trail, one of whom did not have Spotted Towhee coloring, and sure enough, an adult fed them although they were beginning to scratch for themselves. Western Wood-pewees were still calling and there were Chestnut-backed Chickadees and Dark-eyed Juncos everywhere. ( The list: )

I guess Loop Road/Laurel Canyon is now my secondary patch.:)

sholio

1. Vir and Delenn

From the "Only One Bed" meme (which at the moment has gone the way of most of my attempts at memes, alas), for a request for Vir and anyone.

( 700 words of Vir and Delenn )

2. Basking Narns

Posted as commentfic as a result of a comment discussion about cool-blooded Narns. (Also posted on Tumblr.)

( 400 words of basking Narns and Londo not being normal about it )

3. Ta'Lon and Vir

From a request on Tumblr for anything about Ta'Lon which actually ended up being not that much about Ta'Lon and more about the new ambassadors post-canon.

( 1000 words of Ta'Lon and Vir )

mrkinch

I walked Lower Packrat again while U and Chris climbed to Upper Packrat. The lower trail has challenges but many uneven steps isn't one of them. Still Swainson's Thrushes singing and calling everywhere. They have a gorgeous song and a lot of startlingly strange calls. Highlight for all of us was that the hummingbird nest we've been watching for so long we feared it had failed had two chicks, and we watched the mother feed them. What a relief! ( The list: )

No California Quail today.:(

Two groups of summer day camp kids came through Lower Packrat while I was there. It's good to see kids outside but wow, were they noisy.

mrkinch

It was cold and foggy in Berkeley this morning but only cold up on the Trail. Had I known I might have tried to go up earlier, but it was an hour after dawn when I started my list. For most of the morning the migrant breeders were quiet and invisible; eventually I heard the expected warblers and a Blackheaded Grosbeak, but no vireos and no buntings. Highlights were, again, a few MacGillivray's songs but not right on the Trail, and one, possibly two Blue-gray gnatcatchers. I apparently traded in Western Wood-pewee for Western Flycatcher.:) Wish I could have heard both. ( The list: )

I'd treated my pants and socks with Permithrin and the weeds seemed to have been whacked in spots but kind of halfheartedly. I still had to flick a couple of ticks off my pant legs, so better but not great.

lannamichaels

Title: And Though The Static Walls Surround Me.
Author:

lannamichaels
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga
Series: Part 11 of Are You Out There, Can You Hear This?
Rating: G
A/N: The title is from Are You Out There by Dar Williams.
Archives: Archive Of Our Own, SquidgeWorld

Summary: Miles is hanging out with mercenaries. Gregor has a headache and would rather be listening to the radio. Or: Warrior's Apprentice in radioverse.

( Let's do the time skip again! )

thisbluespirit

A couple more belated

rainbowfic crossposts, which bring me very nearly up to date:

Name: Something Fishy
Story: Starfall
Colors: Vert #19 (Rescue from a dragon)
Supplies and Styles: Thread
Word Count: 1871
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray, Nin Valerno, Leion Valerno. Follows on immediately from On the Trail and Trap for the Unwary.
Summary: Leion has been found.

Name: Leftovers
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #6 (Comfort)
Supplies and Styles: Novelty Bead (From 11 Years of Rainbowfic Space Month "sauce") + Thread
Word Count: 2604
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray/Leion Valerno, Imenna Pollens. Follows on directly from Something Fishy
Summary: Leion attempts to thank Viyony.

sholio

Treats welcome!

I would be perfectly happy if you swap tags between requests. I think all my requests are pretty similar, and if a different request's tags give you an idea, please go for it with my enthusiastic consent.

I would love to receive any of my requests equally, and optional details aside, the tags are the primary prompts; please feel free to do what you like with them.

( Relationship likes and dislikes )

Fandoms

( Babylon 5 - TV )

( Biggles books - W.E. Johns )

( Agent Carter - TV )

lea_hazel

I obviously had a bad couple of nights in terms of sleep etc., but I'm coping mainly by trying to distract myself.

Distractions I've indulged in:

1. Palia. Still very heavily playing this, especially this weekend, making up for the fact that I didn't play much over the week.

2. Reading the tagset/request summary for

justmarriedexchange. Probably gonna sign up today or tomorrow, and yes, I did nom Palia, too.

3. Over the last week, I've watched enough Kruggsmash Dwarf Fortress videos that I had to talk myself down from getting the game (for reasons).

4. Finally watched the last season of Community. It sure is a bunch of television episodes.

5. Also catching up on the most recent season of Leverage: Redemption, and yes, there was a moment that made me scream at a pitch audible only to dogs.

6. When I fail to do these things, I read the news, which depresses me.

sholio

justmarriedexchange signups are open through the 22nd. I immediately pounced on it, to no one's shock, but I SWEAR this is the last thing I'm signing up for until I at least get my casefic and Summer of Horror written.

Also,

hurtcomfortex is having a long reveals delay (until early July) in case you might want to treat someone. Hurt/Comfort-Ex requests on the AO3 app.

mrkinch

We took the first of our three scheduled Least Tern Watch shifts today, 10 am to 1 pm at the old Alameda Naval Air Station. Over three hundred nests have been counted, but not many chicks have hatched yet though we saw a few fuzzy balls moving around. It must be said that the chicks are exactly the color of the sand, so there may have been more around than I spotted. Other species seen were a few gulls sp., a Great Blue Heron heading for the nest colony a bit to the south, five flyover Brown Pelicans, a Red-tailed Hawk, a Common Raven or two, some probable Horned Larks though neither of us got a really good view of them, and a barn swallow. And, tragically, a Northern Harrier flew into the nest area. The Fish and Game person was not there and we only call off-site when a falcon shows up, so there was nothing we could do but watch as they took presumably an adult tern (chicks wouldn't be worthwhile) and ate it by the west fence.:( First time there's been a bird taken during our shift. She was far enough away that we were not treated to anything graphic, but it was very sad.

sholio

( Spoilers )

Edit: Also a spoilery thing about show vs trailer.

( More spoilers )

sholio

After a couple of years of really struggling with mood and creativity, between burnout and family issues and god knows what (and I know I've been hard to deal with in fandom, at times), things are suddenly ... good! I can write again, I'm signing up for exchanges, whatever has been blocking me has gotten a whole lot better.

July is my birthday month, therefore Best Month, obviously, and I would really like to try to do some kind of "post a short fic every day" thing if I can make it work. Unfortunately I'm suffering a dearth of appropriate challenges, because of course now that I want one and have the mental bandwidth to do something with one, daily month-long prompt challenges and/or bingo card challenges for July are nowhere in sight. The closest thing is July Break Bingo, but I've asked for cards for this before, and I just ... never really do anything with them; I appreciate that it exists, but I think I need more of a - I don't know, social element to it, I guess? Less open-ended, more directed? Their cards just don't really click with me somehow. And I can't find a Tumblr prompt/whump/whatever themed promptfest thing for July.

So I'm kicking around a few different ideas. Why not throw it out to a completely nonbinding poll?

Poll #33243

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 30

View Respondents

What should I do for July?

View Answers

A custom bingo card/prompt list created (by me) from all my favorite tropes
17 (56.7%)

A personal challenge to finish older inbox prompts/unwritten prompts from past fests
8 (26.7%)

Find a prompt list from a previous (non-July) fest that I didn't do at the time, and use that
6 (20.0%)

Ask my flist for new prompts until I get 31 of them for fresh inspiration
11 (36.7%)

Run a comment fest over at the Biggles comm
7 (23.3%)

Something else that I will suggest in comments
0 (0.0%)

copracat

Question of the Day
Do you have some table items you only bring out when you entertain guests for dinner?

I picked up this question from

dine. I like to use my precious things rather than save them for special. Otherwise why have them? If it has function, let it function. Some things though are too large for one or two person eating. I have a tin-lined copper couscoussier that is not suitable for cooking small amounts. It also looks amazing when you bring it out and put it on the table, gleaming and full of deliciousness.

Other than that there are platters, serving spoons and such that only come out when I'm feeding a few.

Current Mood: hungry

mrkinch

It was overcast and surprisingly windy for a morning, and I didn't start my list tile 9:45. I was only out about two hours, walking out Loop Road an a shorter way up Laurel Canyon than usual, but just about everyone I expected was there. I got a great view of a gorgeous male Purple Finch; I usually only hear them. I feared Northern House Wren was going to be a no show, but I heard them on the way back. The Lesser Goldfinches were eating thistle seed, I heard all the woodpeckers, even a Downy, and the big flycatchers were calling. Walking up Laurel Canyon Road I found another Red-breasted Nuthatch nest hole. I heard the chatter and found a bird on a snag, watched it go in and out of a hole with a perfect overhang, and eventually drop a fecal sac.:) Nesting is definitely ongoing. ( The list: )

I also heard a Western Tanager in about the same place we had them last week. He didn't call very long but those loud, short, burry phrases are distinctive, not to say electrifying. Wish I could have recorded since in June they are considered unusual, it but it was too far away.

cinaed

( In which the Hooligans spend some time shopping for magical weapons with the wizard’s assassin girlfriend, who gets them a useful connection )

cinaed

Trying to be better about posting at least short book recs, and also I was part of a Trans and Nonbinary Pride book talk panel for World Pride in May so I read so many queer books last month.

Linus and Etta Could Use a Win by Caroline Huntoon - A middle grade series about a trans boy moving to a new school and a girl he befriends. Very sweet, I especially loved Linus, who came out and it went fine, everyone was supportive, but then he just kept having to come out again and again and he wanted a fresh start with people who only know him as a guy when his family moves to be closer to his elderly grandmother.

Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia - A YA novel set in an alternate Virginia about a trans girl trying to get into an elite group at her private school. This was an interesting read-- it's very much the POV of a self-absorbed teenage girl who does not want to be face of the trans right movement, she just wants to date this other girl and talk about historical speeches. There's transphobia and racism, but Tara carves out a happy life for herself.

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy - A post-apocalyptic punk horror fantasy story about a woman trying to figure out why her best friend killed himself after leaving a mysterious town. This was a little slight for me, but the horror elements were great and I enjoyed a lot of the characters and enjoyed it enough to seek out the sequel.

The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by G. Parry - An adult fantasy novel set post-WWI in which a woman discovers faeries and magic are real and gets a scholarship to a magic university to try and save her older brother from a faerie curse. Probably my favorite of the books I read, the worldbuilding is cool, the friendships are fascinating and complicated, there's interesting classism involved, and I just really liked the main character a lot.

In the Form of a Question by Amy Schneider - A memoir of the longest-running female contestant on Jeopardy and her journey to that and figuring out she was trans. This was a great read, I really loved how Amy's love of learning came across and her anecdotes were funny and sad and complicated but all ultimately hopeful.

The City in Glass by Nghi Vo - A fantasy novel about a demon whose mortal city is destroyed by angels and her relationship with an angel she cursed that stays in the dead city with her. What a weird book, I say with great affection. The demon has such a completely alien mind which is a great POV, and her grief over her lost city and efforts to build a new one is a compelling read. Probably my other favorite of what I read but then I love all of Nghi Vo's works.

These Fragile Graces This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein - A post-apocalyptic scifi noir novella in which a trans woman is trying to solve the murder of her ex-girlfriend in the commune she self-exiled herself from a few years earlier. Also a wild ride! The main character makes some interesting decisions, the mystery is engaging and twisty, and I really enjoyed the ending.

sholio

whumpex revealed tonight! (And H/C-ex is supposed to in a few days, if it's not delayed. All the hurtcomfort all the time.)

I got:

Staying Power (Babylon 5, Londo & Vir, 4200 wds)

I asked for (among other things) Londo reacting to something bad happening to Vir, or Vir taking a hit for him, and my Mysterious Gifter took me up on it most delightfully!

As usual, there is a fic or two of mine running around loose in the collection as well.

estirose

Just like the original 3DS game, when you accomplish enough to get to the rank of Master, you get something special.
( Small spoilers )

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