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Title: Medovina
Author:

kat_lair
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Radek/Rodney
Tags: Drabble, Alcohol
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: Radek cradles the bottle with care and reverence.

Author notes: Spring defiance from under the crushing forces of capitalism = a drabble a day in April. This one for verdande_mi who wanted something for SGA and remembered that I was fond of Zelenka.

Medovina on AO3

( Medovina )

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kalloway

A long weekend, since I will be helping my father with things on Sunday.

Through no fault of its own, Lord of Heroes will be shutting down in the near future. The developers put all their money and LoH's money into developing a game that went straight into development hell and then tanked upon release, bankrupting the entire company. It's the kind of ultra-grindy Korean gacha that has a really good story, but I never got more than halfway because the grindwalls are real. OG Shadowverse is also shutting down but at this point that'll mostly be reclaimed space on my phone. I just cannot brain card games.

Probably going to bounce in and out of both Ever Crisis and Dissidia. That'll put me down to ~7 phone games. I guess Eternal, Last Cloudia, and Seven Knights will be my mains. Still need to get back to playing FFVII on Switch; I'm right before Wutai, which I've never actually played through, and feel like I need to put a little more effort into it. ^^;;

Picked up my new glasses, which are baby's first progressives and so far they're okay? I haven't quite figured out the proper angle to look at some things but I'll get there.

Should have the blue Estailev finished up tonight. Then, jokingly, I'm going to build like 10 HGs. But maybe. Definitely time for a few smaller things.

marginaliana

Various Opinions:

--The hour-long Dimension 20: On A Bus was a delight but probably would have been more of a delight at half the length. I think the concept couldn't quite carry that much time and the humor of 'everyone is losing their shit' got repetitive after a while. That said, Brennan's "I'm sad because of capitalism" made me choke on my own spit.

--I've been re-watching my favorite playthrough of Hollow Knight and we just got to the episode that makes me choke up as we learn that ( spoilers )

--This is the absolute smallest of the horrible things JKR has done, but remember when it used to be a fun little fan game to chat about your blorbos and assign them Hogwarts houses? It's not fun anymore. I hate that.

--I'm writing a smut fic and I might actually have to go watch some porn to work out the logistics of how the bodies fit together for this particular situation. Not something I've done before!

--Iceland was magnificent, by the way. We went inside a tunnel in a glacier!

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Hello, everyone! Over at

moodthemeinayear, the second Medium Track run has just started.

For those not familiar with the schedule over there, the Medium Mood Track lasts about three months, and covers all of the higher-level moods: The fifteen absolute minimum moods you need for a complete custom mood theme, and the next nineteen that have moods that branch off of them (plus two extra). If you want to create a custom mood theme that's fairly well filled out but don't want to go for the whole 132 graphics, the Medium Track may be for you!

If you want to try and min-max your mood theme, on the other hand, the Minimum Track has also restarted; it lasts six weeks, and takes you through the bare minimum fifteen moods you need for a complete custom mood theme, plus the next three most populous higher-level moods, so you get the most image diversity for the least amount of work 👍

Feeling ambitious and want to go for the whole thing? Jump in now and follow along with the Medium and Maximum Tracks simultaneously! The Medium Track will catch you up to all of the moods the Maximum Track has already covered, while the Maximum Track covers all of the moods that aren't in the Medium Track.

Come check it out, and maybe earn some Dreamwidth points while you're at it!

Current Mood: bouncy

ranalore

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conuly

Edit: fuck, I forgot to include Smallville! Uh, vote for that as the last option I guess.

1. Results will be non-binding

2. I will not watch anything starring anybody who then went on to perform in the God's Not Dead franchise. This isn't even about their abhorrent beliefs, it's about their apparently low artistic standards. I only am barely including Xena on this list because we can just skip crossover episodes. Please do let me know if I accidentally listed a Big Mistake in that regard

Poll #34464 Old TV

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26

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What are we gonna watch together?

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Teen Wolf
2 (7.7%)

Stargate (any)
12 (46.2%)

Xena
10 (38.5%)

X-Files
9 (34.6%)

Scrubs
3 (11.5%)

Something else that you'll put in the comments
2 (7.7%)

hannah

In less than an hour, I leave to see Voxtrot. It's hard for me to understand, even as nervous as I am about it, even though I'm already dressed up for dancing at a concert. When I first started listening, they were already over, and a band getting back together after so many years apart isn't something that happens. It just isn't. This is almost too much to take in. I'm getting tingles. I've been listening to both their albums over and over this week. I don't think they're going to play previously unknown material, as I've heard a few other bands do before - City Swans by Neko Case, for example - but I don't know how far back they're going to go. It could go all the way back to their EPs. It could be a playthrough of the second album. I'll find out when they start playing.

Does Dreamwidth load slowly for anyone else? If I'm opening it in a new tab, it takes a measurably longer amount of time to load up than, say, anything else on the internet. It could be something on my end - I mostly want to gather data right now.

The mourning doves stopped by my place today, cooing loud enough to make it seem worthwhile for me to call back to them and greet them in return. Spring keeps arriving.

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Change - Voxtrot

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Title: Manual Labour
Author:

kat_lair
Fandom: Shetland
Pairing: Jimmy/Duncan
Tags: Drabble, Gardens/Gardening
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: “What are you doing?”

Author notes: Spring defiance from under the crushing forces of capitalism = a drabble a day in April. This one for verdande_mi who wanted something for Shetland.

Manual Labour on AO3

( Manual Labour )

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conuly

and despite the fact that this is coming out to more than projected we didn't need to ask them to split it into two bills and I still have enough money for groceries!

princessofgeeks

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torachan

We had a nice, relatively relaxing day today that kept us mostly out of the rain. There actually wasn’t much rain most of the day, just sprinkling off and on, though it did start coming down harder here and there in the evening.

We went to a little train museum not too far from the resort area that required taking a train and then a bus, and I’ve never taken a bus in Japan before so that was fun. We also ate at a family restaurant (Gusto), which is another thing I’ve never done before. This one was very high tech. You order off a tablet (which we’ve seen a fair amount of), the food comes to you by robot, and then it’s self-checkout at the register. There was also a Book Off right nearby so we got some books and CDs, and then since it wasn’t raining right then, instead of getting on the bus where we got off, we walked several stops towards our destination before getting on, which got us a nice little neighborhood walk in a less touristy area than where we’ve mainly been so far. In the evening we went to Ikspiari for dinner and more shopping. I definitely feel like we’re getting the hang of Ikspiari now. It was soooooo confusing last time and I stil hate the layout, but we were able to navigate without too much trouble this time. Now we’re back at the hotel early and can just relax before our big DisneySea day tomorrow.

selenak

The first three episodes of The Testaments have been dropped in my part of the world on Disney +. It's an adapatation of Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name, which is a decades later written sequel to her famous dystopian classic The Handmaid's Tale; when it was published, I reviewed it here. Just to make their lives more complicated, though, the show is also a sequel to the tv series The Handmaid's Tale. The first (very good) season of which I watched, but not the later ones, as word of mouth about diminishing quality and lack of time have detained me, but I did osmose this presents a problem because not only is the backstory the showin its later seasons developed for one of the central characters (Aunt Lydia) very different from her backstory in the novel, but the timeline of another central character is different as well. With this in mind, my spoilery reaction to the first three episodes is beneath the cut. Above cut: those first three episodes are well acted and produced and make some interesting choices re: adapting the source material - and I don't mean "interesting" as a euphemism for bad -, but haven't revealed yet how they'll solve the Lydia problem.

( The perils of being a female teenager in Gilead )

Current Mood: calm
Currently Reading Munich

viridian5

I'm trying to self-file my taxes and I've hit a segment I don't think they had last year that's stopped me dead. I can't get it to make sense as to what information from where they want me to enter. I think I don't have to do the lump sum payment section because I didn't get one but I'm not sure, so I'll be traveling to a RL site to try to get some free help since the person who answered my call for help through taxslayer.com wasn't very helpful for me. I don't know if it's their fault, my fault, or both our faults, but....

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I uploaded these photos to include on a comment to someone, but since I put them up I figured I'd share them with you guys.

I was born in 1973, and looking at old photos of my childhood shows that I was dressed in... some things. In the ones below, my parents seem to have been aiming for a "literal embodiment of the 1970s" vibe. ( photos )

(I do get such a big smile at the last photo though.)

Continuing the "very 70s" thing, I remember my childhood clothes in that decade being either very girly or rather butch, which went along with how my toys were dolls, plushes, trucks, cars, and action figures. Also in my childhood wardrobe were some clothes my mother made for me off Simplicity patterns: I remember in particular a dark blue jumpsuit that had several patches sewn to the knees since even then I fell a lot and a Holly Hobbie sundress and a Raggedy Ann one.

Current Mood: sore
Current Music: "Maschinerie" by Pzychobitch

conuly

And we can barely pay it if we don't pay for a few other things. Maybe they'll let us write two checks.

On the other hand, if the USA decides drop nukes during the installation, probably the company won't trouble themselves too much about payment. We'll be home free! Well, assuming nobody retaliates on NYC specifically....

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hamsterwoman

Taskmaster is back!!

Taskmaster s21 interviews – I like the format a lot better this series than the last couple – it’s probably one of my favorite gimmicky ones (I had also liked s17’s, but mostly I feel like the format detracts rather than adds to the interview on the other recent ones; OK, s20’s table tennis was not too bad, but I thought the table tennis was too disruptive to the chat, in a way texting was not really). ( First impressions, before watching the episode )

Episode itself: Taskmaster s21e01 – oh, this was FUN! ( spoilers )

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I caught up on the Christmas 2025 House of Games, which had what is probably my favorite lineup ever: Mathew Baynton, Mel Giedroyc, and Harriet Kemsley (and a fourth non-Britcom/non-Taskmaster person I didn’t know, but he was fun, too). ( spoilers )

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I finished watching James Acaster’s Repertoire on Netflix – a 4-part stand-up show which I found really interestingly constructed but enjoyed less than the shows by the comedians it turns out I really vibe with, like John Robins or, based on a smaller sample size, (Lesser) Tom Cashman or Pierre Novellie. Also, it really is a single four-part show, even though the first three parts are fairly stand-alone, and I did not have 4 hours to watch it all the way through – nor do I really think that’s a reasonable, like, aliquot for standup. And I was still able to appreciate it watching it in several chunks over a matter of weeks, but not as well – by the time I got to the last part, which calls back to the previous ones a lot, and loops around to the first one, there were definitely details I had forgotten – I could tell from the audience laughing at things that were clearly callbacks but ones I did not recognize. But I did recognize some inter-episode callbacks, and even within each episode (Recognise, Represent, Reset, and Recap) there are callbacks and loop-arounds.

If I had to describe Repertoire in one word, it would be ( intricate )

skygiants

Made a extremely silly decision this past weekend, which was to break up our long drive to and from Philly by Exactly long enough to see one (one) show in NYC on the way down, and another on the way back. Literally put the car in a garage by the theater, went into the show, got the car out of the garage, and kept driving. And to make matters even sillier the show that we saw on the way down was Bad -- and we knew it was going to be! Or at least we had a reasonable suspicion! But were we not going to go out of our way to see Norm Lewis play Villefort in a Count of Monte Cristo musical? Of course we were. The path before us had simply been prepared.

Q: When you say it was bad, do you mean it was a bad musical as a musical, or a bad adaptation of Count of Monte Cristo?
A: Oh, both! Absolutely both.

Q: What made it a bad musical?
A: Well, the music. And the lyrics. They hit exactly every beat on the Musical Sheet while constantly feeling like less subtle knockoff versions of other songs you might know slightly better. The song you might know slightly better is not a subtle one, you say? Well, I guarantee you that songs such as "Dangerous Times," in which the full cast explain that they are living in dangerous times, and "How Did I Get So Far Away [From Me]," in which Mercedes sadly wonders how she has gotten so far away from herself, are less so. When the best you can say of a song is that it felt like pallid diet Frank Wildhorn -- as in, lacking the noted power and vibrancy of real Frank Wildhorn, composer of such deathless works as Death Note: The Musical -- then you know we're scraping the bottom of the barrel. And that's not even mentioning the frenetic stream of mediocre jokes.

Q: And what made it a bad adaptation?
A: I mean I know there are probably people in the past who have said that Edmond Dantès literally did nothing wrong but I want you to understand: in this show, Edmond Dantès literally does nothing wrong. His backstory takes up the entire first act, and by the time we hit intermission I was already like "huh, there's not going to be a lot of time in here for revenge schemes," but I didn't actually understand how dire the situation was going to be until ( this part of the Q&A gets into quite detailed plot spoilers )

Q: So do you regret your objectively silly decision to go out of your way to see this musical?
A: No I do not, not in the least, and I would have regretted missing it. There is something very nutritious in bad theater, I think. It forces you to consider what good theater might look like. Also, the surprise appearance of Lucrezia Borgia was one of the funniest things I experienced all weekend.

hannah

I'd very much like to rant about an article I saw in The New York Times Magazine about people trying to get away from smartphones, except it'd boil down to my firm hypothesis they'd achieve the same result by taking the internet off the smart phone. If the apps don't work, you can't get a quick hit of anything. I still don't understand how that manages to be the default for pretty much everyone else and how other people's phones can't also be set to only get internet access when they're logged into a network. It's baffling.

I suppose to ask what goes into making this possible is to get the answer that it's built into the settings with few people bothering to change them, or even consider that as something which could be done - and that cellular data roaming functions aren't something people think to play around with, either.

Who benefits from this is very much the people pushing for the constant immediate gratification and ongoing distractions.

What's the desired outcome is the reliance on the smartphone as distraction device, giving attention and money, rather than a useful tool that can be modified as desired by the owners and end-users.

Current Mood: disappointed
Current Music: nothing now

princessofgeeks

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Susan

Spring Drabble 11/30: SGA, Medovina

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Sighs Queen

Mood Theme in a Year: Second Medium Track Run

Mood Theme in a Year: Second Medium Track Run

my imperfections remind you of theirs

Given E's predeliction for 1990s - 2000s tv, what is she going to watch next?

Rivers they can change but water stays the same.

Spring Drabble 10/30: Shetland, Manual Labour

Well, we looked under every last couch cushion

Episode 4 HR--SPOILERS

Daily Happiness

The Testaments (1.01 - 1.03

Meanwhile, in RL...

We have our water heater replacement first thing tomorrow

Taskmaster s21 and other Brticom rabbit hole things

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Data pointing.

sadface

a citrus scent will linger there all day

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