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thawrecka, and I'm excited to read whatever you write. If you want to see more about what I like about these canons, or if you want to find more of what I like in fiction feel free to browse here or my tumblr.

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( Prince of Tennis )

( Bleach )

( Pet Shop of Horrors )

( Blood River )

siderea

This is legitimately one of the most alarming things I've heard about AI. I can see no lie.

2026 Apr 6: Alberta Tech [YT]: "Vibe Coding is Gambling" [56 seconds]:

Watch on YouTube

grammarwoman

In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, I have fallen deep into "Heated Rivalry". It's so refreshing to be only a few months late to a TV show fandom's debut! I absolutely love every part of it, from the steamy love scenes, to the tropealicious romance arc, to the gorgeous and talented leads, to the unhinged interviews with the cast (Hudson Williams, you horny chaos gremlin, never change), to the showrunner Jacob Tierney and his uncompromising vision of a gay love story with passionate love scenes that doesn't end in punishing tragedy, as well as his media savvy and whip-smart presence. The only thing that could have made me love it even more is if they had hired some of the old gang from the Seacouver Acting Mafia. David Hewlett as a crotchety coach? Tahmoh Penikett as a hockey enforcer? Throw us a bone here, Jacob!

I love everybody in this bar and have a ridiculous number of tabs open and a huge swath of fic marked for later on A03.

In no particular order, here are some of my favorites:

Gay Hockey Show
An absolute gem of a filk + vid (do I need to call them edits now? Fuck I'm old). This had me literally clapping and kicking my feet. I may have hit octaves only my dog heard with my squees of joy.

Shane & Ilya - We Found Love [Heated Rivalry]
Do you ever get lost in new relationship energy and every song on your playlist could be the soundtrack for a vid? And then sometimes you get lucky enough that someone has already had your brilliant idea and done a fantastic job so you don't have to? Yeah, that's this one with Rihanna's "We Found Love". I swear I watched it on repeat for a week to get my micro dopamine hits for this show. I really want to learn how to incorporate dialogue and audio from the source with the vid song to be able to make something like this.

clear to a hedgehog by magneticwave
An AU where Boston Raider Ilya Rozanov wonders if his casual fling Doctor Shane Hollander thinks he's actually in the Russian mafia. If I could send the author flowers and accolades and beg for more of this, I would. Delicious prose, fantastic character voices, super hot.

the secret society of stick handlers by gurlsrool
A screamingly funny epistolary series which had me shrieking so loud my husband was laughing at me.

So yeah, that's where my brain is at. What are you up to?

Current Mood: cheerful

hannah

Starting tomorrow, I'll have a full week and change where every day has some obligation or appointment, one Tuesday to another. Movie tickets, dentist visits, concerts, a whole bunch of stuff. Making a cake, too, though that's more within the bounds of my apartment and doesn't require me to show up anywhere besides the grocery store, and even then it's just to buy some fresh ingredients.

Is it strange I'm looking forward to it? There's parts that are going to be slightly inconvenient, and I'm looking forward to some things more than others, and overall I'm liking the idea of having places to go, things to do. Things to get done, really.

I started the at-home cataloging gig today. I didn't do much, just a few entries, because I wanted to touch base with the client as soon as was possible within the timeline of the project. I'm waiting on a response to let me know if it's what he wants, or what he wants changed. Certainly having other things to occupy my time is going to make waiting for an email or a phone call that much easier. There's only going to be so much Lunar live footage before they have to come back to Earth.

Current Mood: curious
Current Music: nothing now

sholio

I finished edits on Luke over the weekend (Westerly Cove 4). Feel free to grab a copy 'til it goes live on Amazon on April 17!

book cover with a bear framed against a sunset

Get it on Bookfunnel:
https://dl.bookfunnel.com/30s06n16u7

(Blurb is still a work in progress.)

sovay

It took a month to wing its way from Münster in a small international envelope stickered with a great tit, but a bisexual oystercatcher just arrived in the mail courtesy of

spatch. It is currently in situ on my shelf between the axolotl and the white quartz, backed by A. E. Housman, A. C. Jacobs, and Robinson Jeffers. I saw some ordinary and really nice ivy while out walking.

Current Music: Mike Doughty, "27 Jennifers"

ladyjax

After much low-key drama (original ortho referral to UCSF got hooked in with my nutritionist, who also happens to be in ortho but not for this) I got another referral and will be seeing ortho on this side of the Bay. I start with the P.A. and there's probably going to be more imaging, most likely an MRI which means I need to take my nose stud out. JFC, that's going to be a thing but whatever. In any case, back stuff is moving along.

Went out for a walk this morning without my walking poles for the first time and things are feeling a lot better. Only did an easy 30 minutes so as not to aggravate anything but overall, it felt good. I know the surrounding neighborhoods pretty well so I can easily eke out a route that doesn't have a lot of people around while I am having big feelings about my body.

Saturdays I am part of a group working through "The Artist's Way." Participants have ebbed and flowed through according to our various schedules but the time working on it has been valuable. There's definitely some class issues embedded in it which are much more evident to me now as opposed to when the book came out in the 90s, especially when we're talking about time, being able to make space within your current situation. However, it's been useful to do this and meeting new folks is always fun.

Have a quilt or two I want to start. Mostly just have to cut things and prep and get on it. Also have to start a wedding quilt for the godson. After I do one the first one that's scratching my brain, I'll start on the one for the wedding. The wedding is in October but I know me and how I work/not work with time. I already have the fabric so it's just a matter of getting started.

Our sportsgay transformation continues. Baseball is incoming. We went to the second exhibition game between the Oakland Ballers and the San Jose Giants in San Jose. Got to see our baseball friends and enjoy a mostly dry game. Shirley and I came prepared for rain and there was a bit of a drizzle but nothing too bad. Our team got waxed but we all still had a good time anyway. The Ballers were able to get the original Battle of the Bay trophy from NBC Sports and the original artist refashioned it to reflect that it is now the San Jose Giants vs. the Ballers instead of the SF Giants and the (formerly) Oakland As. The Ballers' season opener is May 19 so not too long now.

lassarina

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larissa

i'm a ways into chapter two of trails to azure, so once again let's talk about my current thoughts.

( spoilers below )

on the whole, i'm really enjoying the crossbell duology. i'm gonna be sad when i'm finished it, because it's been a fantastic time so far. still, i have so much more of the series ahead of me that i can't be too upset; it's a thrill to know i have so many more games to get through.

Current Music: fairyland (Hex Hector remix) — ayumi hamasaki

sovay

Following a rather friably sleepless Easter, I slept nine or ten hours and resent dreaming of poetry without bringing it out with me this time. I was spending time in evocatively broken-down places by the sea.

March ran out so disastrously, I never got around to linking either of these novelettes: M.E. Bronstein's "Bitter as the Sea" (2026) and Michael Cisco's "Tatterdemalion" (2026).

After nearly twenty years of doing nothing with the extras on my Criterion DVD of A Canterbury Tale (1944), I watched the interview with Sheila Sim which was recorded in 2006. I had never seen her as herself with so much time between her memories and her own ghost of hillsides and reflected sunlight, the house in the country where Alison exclaimed, "What wouldn't I give to grow old in a place like that!" exactly as Sim realizes, as if she caught her character's dream, in the more than sixty years since she spoke that line she has done. It was her first film, straight out of drama school with the careful accent that sounds so artificial to her now; she had to learn to act for the camera, in the open air; she did not have to know that the part had been written originally for someone else, whom I have never been able to imagine in it without losing the earth wire of the character. She was right that it became its own kind of continuity through time, more so than even the regular haunting of film:

"I think I'm a little surprised that the film works for young people today—not necessarily young people, middle-aged people as well—but I'm very touched and very pleased in the best sense of the word that it does. Maybe we feel today, rightly or wrongly, that we are losing certain things that we had then. Maybe a kind of nostalgia that makes people love the film. The connection with history and the people who've gone before and the countryside that goes on, the countryside that we to some extent take for granted. We're realizing now in our present world that we are not entitled to take it for granted. It's not going to last."

Not even the film is going to, but on its own terms of folk anti-horror, I do not expect that hillside ever to be without the imprint of Alison Smith and Sheila Sim, even when it's under ocean again, even after the seas run dry.

Current Music: Sydney Carter with Bob and Carole Pegg, "The Holy Horses"

althea_valara

The Finch App is doing a challenge this month where you check in with your friends. The latest check-in is to ask what's bringing your friend(s) joy right now. So, let me know! What is bring you joy these days?

My current joy is Final Fantasy XI. I'm working on my former main character (who I want to make main again eventually) so I got some good gear for her, and started farming telepoints and Survival Guides, both of which make it a lot easier and quicker to get around the world.

I have plans to do Rhapsodies of Vana'diel on her, and if I'm doing *that* then I might as well work on documenting it for my Neocities site. I went back through my logs to find the ones for previous Rhapsodies missions, but I must've played some without using Windower (the third party tool that captures the logs for me, along with doing other neat things). This means I don't have the cutscenes for some of the early missions. What to do? Why, play them on another character!

So I reactivated Valara, my Tarutaru alt. She's adorable! But I forgot that she was pretty much just a mule - her highest job is Red Mage at level 30, and she hasn't unlocked subjobs yet (which you can do at level 18, oops). That's fine, I don't mind playing on her a bit to get her up to scratch.

I also figured that if I'm doing Rhapsodies on her, I should do the Rank 1-5 missions. I've already got Bastok missions documented, and I streamed San d'Oria missions, which leaves Windurst. So I set about last night moving her from Bastok to Windurst. I had to teleport to her home point in Jeuno and then rent a chocobo to ride there. It occurred to me I should have done the raptor mount quest, but too late now - I'll do it later.

Finally made it to Windurst, went to Walls to change my allegiance - nope, wouldn't allow me to do so because I'm on a Bastok mission currently. Oops? At least the Bastok mission takes you to Windurst. I'll knock that out and then switch allegiances.

But that was all I did last night because I was tired from family time. Still, I had fun! Looking forward to more messing around on alts and mains.

fanhackers_feed

Posted by aninfiniteweirdo

https://fanhackers.tumblr.com/post/813150610546360320

“The activities of fan translators and distributors can be explained with the conceptual tools drawn from the existing literature (e.g. working consumers, consumers put to work, consumers co-creating with producers and consumers as a source of innovation). Yet, this paper tries to draw attention to the fact that the above participatory consumers are undertaking tasks of cultural intermediation that are essential to bring a cultural product to an overseas audience, i.e. the tasks of reproduction of the original product, translation and editing, mass-production, advertising and promotion, and dissemination. (…) However, recent years has seen the decoupling of manga scanlators from their initial support for the market economy of translated manga production and distribution. This has come with the globalization of scanlation production and consumption and with advanced digital technologies and communication tools. Due to the wider penetration of online networks around the globe, the English scanlation community has expanded to include many fans – either scanlators or their viewers – outside the USA. (…) What can be noticed by now is that scanlation created huge “missing markets” of digital manga on a global scale. (…) The industry views these missing markets as something that can be transformed into its markets once the viewing of scanlated manga is discouraged. However, it is not known to what extent this can happen given that the missing markets are a product of manga fandom and have served as a significant part of the fandom itself.”

Lee, Hye‐Kyung. “Cultural Consumers as ‘New Cultural Intermediaries’: Manga Scanlators.” Arts Marketing: An International Journal 2, no. 2 (October 19, 2012): 131–43. https://doi.org/10.1108/20442081211274011.

https://fanhackers.tumblr.com/post/813150610546360320

sabotabby

Yesterday, reviewing the Melania movie nearly ended me, but like Christ, I have RISEN to give you the harrowing conclusion. Truly, no one has suffered for their art as I have. Except, I guess, whoever had to edit this nonsense.

( read on if you dare but horrors lie beneath )

cielsosinfel

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Current Music: Mirel Wagner - What Love Looks Like

zarla

TOMODACHI LIFE DROPPING ON THE 16TH AND I CAN'T WAIT I CAN'T WAAAAIIITTT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I can't remember the last time I was counting days this intensely, haha. I'm so excited!! I can't wait to make so many Miis with all the great customization tools and the CLOTHES and the PETS and MPREG/FPREG AAAAAAAAA
the lack of a filter is also hilarious lol. I'm a little sad there doesn't seem to be a way to share Miis like with Streetpass back in the original! But who knows, maybe there'll be something, we don't know! It could get updates or something if it's like super popular or something, haha. The hype for it seems real! I don't remember people flipping out about the original but people definitely seem to be flipping out over this one. At least in my circles, haha.

Anyway, I thought the first game also didn't have a filter but it turns out that's not true! The 3DS ITSELF has a filter, but the game itself doesn't! So I was halfway right? It's really easy to get around though if you just stick words together. I tried to find my Tomodachi Life cartridge to test for myself but no matter where I looked I couldn't find it! Then I got curious if maybe it was just a Streetpass thing, since the screencap I had was from a Streetpass I got. Then it turned out there's a way to get Streetpasses over the net called Netpass! I loved getting Streetpasses back in the day, but it's hard when you don't live in a huge city where a lot of people have DS's, and you're definitely not going to get any nowadays, so the idea of Streetpassing again was very appealing! I could play my stupid flower breeding game again!

However, it only works on hacked DSes, but people told me that hacking a DS is actually pretty easy. :O There's a site that lists all the steps in detail, and following that, I actually did it! And all my data's intact and everything. :O I tested out Netpass and I can indeed get Streetpasses again! When my internet connection decides to work anyway, haha. My DS always had shaky wifi... well in general my wifi is always a bit shaky. But I've been having fun trying out new things on my 3DS again! I COULD technically redownload Tomodachi Life if I wanted, apparently my data for it is still on my DS? But I don't want to Tomodachi myself out before the new drop, haha. I HAVE TO SAVOR IT

So instead I've been playing Miitopia, which is also fun! I like the relationship system in it, where each party member has a relationship that goes up or down depending on what you do, and at certain thresholds you get new little abilities, like helping each other with attacks or comforting each other or taking hits for each other. It's cute! My current team is my old lady Mii, Dahlia, Yanni, and Disco. I wanted a team of all olds but I didn't have another old character on my Tomodachi Island, haha. Though if I get a chance at another team member I'm going to make Wickerbottom.

Anyway, in more interesting news, I UPDATED VARGAS!! It hasn't QUITE been five years but it's incredibly close, haha. The longest gap was five years and I MANAGED TO BEAT IT. It's shorter than most chapters but pretty intense, some big things happen in it! A very complicated pivotal scene that went through many iterations, I have tons of scraps from it on the cutting room floor. I don't want to get into more detail since I just posted it and some people might not have read it yet. It's getting the reaction I was hoping for though, hehe. Updating Vargas feels like such a huge momentous deal to me every time I do it and I can only imagine it as another "eh, don't care, what's the big deal" for most people who follow me lol. VARGAS FANS ARE PASSIONATE BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT PROPORTION OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING ME THEY MAKE

The 16th feels so far awaaaayyyyy

Current Mood: headaaacheee
Current Music: 37167. Stephan Wells (feat. Stina Nyman & Jennifer Petersson) - MGS3: In a Dream

cielsosinfel

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Current Music: Hannah Mayree - "Petaluma"

celli

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shamanicshaymin

I've almost caught up to where I stopped previously on Ultra Moon, and I've got a controversial opinion: I don't think the Ultra games "neutered" Lusamine like fandom says they did. Granted, I still haven't gotten to the post-game with Rainbow Rocket yet, but Lusamine's motivations and tragic past (which fandom seems to believe is Game Freak absolving her, which uh... it didn't?) were already alluded to, even brought up, in the original Sun/Moon games. Despite her noble intentions regarding Necrozma, she's still depicted as a narcissistic mother who abused her children for her own ends. Hell, Lillie literally spells out that Lusamine is a selfish person who believes she knows what's best for everyone. The game makes a point that shitty people can still do good things no matter their intentions. It also does a Fassad and the Mouse example where Plumeria tells the player and Lillie that Lusamine was the only adult who believed Guzma could be a champion, and that's why he's so devoted to her. One's Ghetsis could be another's Toriel; both can be true at the same time. Guzma, Lillie, and Gladion's feelings about Lusamine are validated. But I guess that's too Big-Brained for Pokémon's general audience. (siiiiiiigh)

That said, I do agree that cutting the cave scene with Lillie on Exeggutor Island was one of the Ultra games' biggest mistakes. Not only was the conversation between Lillie and the player absolutely adorable, it also shows how complex her relationship with her mom really is. The Singing in the Rain-inspired moment is one of the rare times Lusamine is actually a Good Parent (the "Before Times" if you will), and then everything with Mohn happened and... yeah. :(

I did fanart before comparing Lusamine, Lillie, and Gladion with Brad, Buddy, and Dustin. Except I find Brad way more sympathetic and redeemable than Lusamine, lol (Don't get me wrong, Lusamine is one of my all-time favorite Pokémon villains. But for all the horrible abusive shit Brad has done, he's also the biggest woobie in the universe, RIP)

I ran into a female Shiny Crabrawler while gathering berries and caught it! You can find shinies in Sword/Shield and Scarlet/Violet with the Shiny Charm and tons and TONS of patience, but finding a Shiny in the early gens? Now that is lucky. 8)

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: The Moody Blues - Steppin' in a Slide Zone

lassarina

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hannah

Every three months, I swap my sheet set. Living alone and showering daily means I don't need to change my sheets more than once every two weeks, and they get swapped out for the next set every three months. Four in total. It's not quite one-to-one with the seasons, but the sentiment's close enough.

In doing the laundry, I found out two of the machines were broken. Someone else was trying to use them, and without either of us knowing what was happening - the spin cycle's not working for the moment - I suggested she try seeing if it'd work to press the main "on" button again. It ran through another cycle without paying, stopping at the point it'd otherwise spin. I'd suspected as much, so I came prepared. I went to the laundry room with an extra roll of quarters because I know how much of a pain in the ass sopping laundry is, and any feelings of having even accidentally contributed to that to someone were ones I wanted to banish through direct action. Which was why I had the extra roll: I gave them to the person who'd been unfortunate enough to use the machine a second time, on my suggestion. She was agog, astonished, and after loading up a working machine, offered to give me back the $3.25 she hadn't used.

"Buy yourself a cup of coffee," I said.

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: nothing now

Susan

Fandom5k letter

The other, OTHER mental health problem with generative AI [ai, tech]

Heated Rivalry - I wasn't using that attention span for anything anyway

Monday night.

The latest book

You might be the strange delightful

'Sup

Reading log, or something of the sort

trails to azure initial thoughts

Your body cannot lie

JOY

“The activities of fan translators and distributors can be explained with the conceptual tools

Melania, Part 2

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~God, the human body is hideous

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26/46

In which Puri loves the Alola games

Goals post of a sort

Laundry antics.

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