andraste

Except I think that my pupil distance was 56 instead of 55, and also the bridge seems a bit flimsy. That, I don't like, but it may be my amorphous anxiety talking.

In other news, Moonpie has completely scratched and licked up her nipples and now they're bleeding and infected, and apparently the vet prefers to do a blood test at this age, but as the blood test is $400 we declined. (E asked if I thought they judged us for that, lol, sweetie, I always think everybody judges me for everything, but that's not a rational mindset, so no, upon reflection I don't think that. We're hardly the only family to make petcare decisions based on affordability, and even if they do judge us, great, they can pay for this bloodwork themselves.) Also, NYC now mandates a new vaccine for cats and dogs. They can mandate what they like, but they can't make people follow that law. However, after the vet explained that this disease spreads pretty easily and now is spreading to humans, in whom it can cause kidney and/or liver failure, I decided, reluctantly, to make vaxxing the cats a priority. Which means full vet appointments for each one and new rabies shots as well. It's not going to be a quick process, is what I'm saying. (And we still need to replace those water heaters before they break!)

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labingi

I'm looking for names of public figures, still alive today, who progressive thinkers might consider morally good conservatives, by some definition. I'm thinking of people like Pope Leo, for example. This could include, for example, political figures, religious leaders, authors, journalists, actors, philanthropists, etc.

This is for an essay I'm writing on making broad alliances. I'd welcome your thoughts.

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settiai

On Monday, I noticed that the small cat tree that allows the cats to look out the window at people/dogs/geese wandering around outside was looking a little rough. By which I mean that the tallest part of it was noticeably leaning when it had a cat on it.

( Cat pictures under the cut. )

Current Mood: accomplished

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Stolen from

petra :)

As of today, with 670 works:

1. What rating do you write most fics under?

General Audiences - 355 (I actually would not have guessed this!)

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?

DCU (Comics) (36)
Batman (All media types) (32)
Star Trek: Enterprise (26)/Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (26)

This is a little deceptive, because I don't tag with the generic Kamen Rider or Super Sentai fandom tags. If I did...whew. As an example, my #7 fandom is Boonboomger at 22, so if I'd tagged that and Gokaiger with Super Sentai, plus all the other sentai, it would easily beat DCU and maybe beat DCU and Batman combined.

3. What is your top character you write about?

To no shock whatsoever, #1 is Bruce Wayne with 33, followed by Tim Drake with 24. I wrote a *lot* of Batman/DCU fic back in the day, folks!

4. What are the 3 top pairings?

Hahahahaha, this is more representative of my recent fic habits!

Godai Yusuke/Ichijou Kaoru (12)
Tharn Thara Kirigun/Type Thiwat Phawattakun (10) tied with Kurogane Spanner/Minato (10)
Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan (8)

I have a Tharn/Type fic in the works. Oh, and for those in the know, the Boonboomger OT6 is in 6th place with 7 fics, so I strongly suspect that will move up the list, but Spanner/Minato will likely stay strong.

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?

Humor (151) Not a shock at all
Drama (85) This one...I wonder if I used it on older fics, because I can't recall using it in years!
Friendship (65) No shock whatsoever

If we remove Drama, which is a weird choice, the #4 is Crossover with 44. I used to write a buttload of those :D

Current Mood: amused

flo_nelja

When the movie was out, I wrote a small Anna/Marnie (Ghibli's When Marnie Was There) ficlet. For a French fic it was quite successful, among other things because the fandom is so small there's still not one full AO3 page for the ship.

And today someone posted a translation of my fic in English! <3

Title : Not the Right Way
Writer : Nelja, translated by culinarydorks
Fandom : When Marnie was there
Ship : Anna/Marnie
Genre : Angst
Summary : Marnie will never come back again. Anna wants to understand why she was there in the first place. (She'd like to see her again, too.)
Rating : T
Disclaimer : This version of the character belongs to Ghibli
Word count : ~800
Warnings : It's still incest (no incest AUs seem to be a thing) but nothing actually happens.

selenak

Busy, busy days. Some media consumed in the last weeks were:

The Diplomat, Season 3: I was afraid the same would happen as with The West Wing - which series creator Deborah Cahn had also been involved in - , i.e. the reality I live in would make it impossible for me to watch a show in which the people working for the US administration might be fucked up in varying degrees, but all sincerely dedicated to the common good in terms of their motivation, and by implication the US public would not vote a creature like the Orange Menace into office (twice). (Hence my personal impossibility of a WW rewatch right now.) This turned out not to be the case. By and large, I enjoyed the season, though its global dangers not withstanding, I would still rather live in that reality (where the US President might ( do spoilery things ), but would not want to change the US into a mixture of ultimate corruption and theocratic autocracy, and the British PM is still a Boris Johnson expo with the thinnest of egos, but at least Nigel Farage doesn't exist. (BTW: it's not clear where The Diplomat's timeline departs from ours; resident Rayburn was clearly a Joe Biden avatar when the show started and there is some occasional talk about restoring the US image abroad, but they never say from what, and whether the Orange Menace's first assault on democracy happened or whether something else did.) Seaosn 3 deals with the fallout from season 2's cliffhanger ending, throws in some new twists (and characters), andwhile wrapping up its seasonal storyline again throws in a tag scene with a big new reveal/hook, while playing to its two strengths, i.e. bringing its central character into a series of convoluted political situations in which she has to extricate not just herself but others (including the US and GB), and her screwed up but intense relationship with her husband. ( More spoilery observations to follow. ) In conclusion, I continue to like this entertaining AU. I hope it gets another season, though if it doesn't, this finale despite its last moment reveal would also work as a finale.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps : Which I missed in the cinema but which is now on Disney +. Personal state of knowledge: I saw none of the earlier Fantastic Four movies, to which this one isn't connected anyway; the comicverse characters I encountered a) in an historical AU version via the comics 1602, and b) in the comicverse Civil War storylilne, which means I hardly saw them at their best. (Unforgotten: Reed Richards fanboying Joe McCarthy.) I'm happy to report these latest MCU versions are a delightful bunch, living in a canonical alternate universe (818) in the 1960s, and keeping in trend with both MCU Spiderman and the latest DCU Superman, we're not going through the origin story again but the movie introduces us to the character(s) when they're already superheroiing, albeit not that long. The cast includes Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, Pedro Pasqual as Reed Richards, and Joe Quinn, since Stranger Things a Geek celebrity, as Sue's brother Johnny, with the unknown-to-me Ebon Moss-Bachrach playing Ben Grimm. Something that struck me as very sympathetic is that the movie treats the four as a true ensemble, i.e. Johnny and Ben aren't the sidekicks, and that the central dilemna when it's revealed ( and which is spoilery )

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Munich

flo_nelja

Catégorie : Je ne couperai pas mes cheveux, je ne parlerai pas moins fort (Mythologie - Chasseresse - Liberté - Emancipation - Féminisme)

Un manga en deux tomes (dans l'édition française ; ce sont deux très gros tomes). Dans une école japonaise, une nouvelle élève arrive en milieu d'années. Sayoko est belle, élégante, riche, et va mettre un pavé dans la mare sur l'équilibre entre les différents élèves de grande famille - et quelques autres. Bientôt, il commence à y avoir des morts.

C'est intéressant, parce que c'est un manga qui répond à toutes ses questions niveau scénario, avec une vraie fin, mais qui laisse entièrement décider ses lecteurs niveau message. Sayoko est-elle un monstre, ou une héroïne, une figure du féminisme vengeur ? Est-elle réellement la descendante d'une nymphe céleste, et si oui, est-ce important ? Cela la rend d'autant plus fascinante.

A côté, les autres personnages m'intéressent moins ; en particulier, Yuiko, sa camarade de classe "normale" qui est le personnage point de vue au début, est vite ignorée, voire oubliée, et je regrette qu'elle ne soit pas lesbienne, juste traumatisée.

Mais cela reste un très bon manga quand on aime les histoires de complots, de manipulation et de vengeance !

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https://xkcd.com/3165/

At least people who make religious predictions of the apocalypse have an answer to the question 'Why didn't you predict any of the other ones that happened recently?'

https://xkcd.com/3165/

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Yesterday was a day off: I had a dentist appointment and assorted errands, and also I was almost two thousand words ahead. :-) Though tempted by the shiny 7-days badge, I decided not to squeeze in a quick fifty words or so just to keep up the writing streak, because days off are good for me. Letting the streak break felt like a proclamation against the write-every-day pushers.

And last night, contemplating the next day's tasks, I was heard to say, "I get to write tomorrow!"

I even managed to sustain some of that enthusiasm through to today. ;-) And yes, I wrote. And yes, it was good; it was even relatively easy. I clocked 1192 words in 2.5 hours, which is a lot fast for me. (I had hoped to pack in a second mini-writing-session, but after a break to feed the cats and a quick research check, I really had to go get ready for the evening's social obligations.) I like what I wrote; it's progressing the way I need it to, my characters surprised me a little but not so much so as to cause problems, and I'm closing in on the end of the chapter, which means I'll soon be able to hand it off to the housemate for alpha-reading. Dare I say it, I had fun.

And that is why I took the day off yesterday. And why I will take a couple more days off during November, as life demands and wordcount permits.

8141 new words and counting.

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Tears For Fears, "My Demons"

musesfool

Imagine my excitement at reading this interview with Bob Mould this morning: How Bob Mould rediscovered the great, lost live Husker Du record not because of Hüsker Dü, whom I liked but didn't love, but because he mentions that Sugar reunited. I LOVED SUGAR!!! If I Can't Change Your Mind is 3 minutes of PURE POP PERFECTION and one of my top 5 songs of ALL TIME. Back in the 90s, I saw Bob live solo at least twice (once pressed right up to the stage beneath him and his guitar at...Irving Plaza? I think?), and saw Sugar in concert at least once (maybe twice?). Copper Blue is full of great songs, as is Bob's first solo album, Workbook. (Black Sheets of Rain was also good but less accessible, imo.)

If Sugar actually tours, I might leave the house to see them!

I have other, less fun, work news, but I should probably save it for a locked post sometime later. Sigh.

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Current Mood: excited
Current Music: standing on the edge of Hoover Dam, I am

flo_nelja

Catégorie : Seriez-vous capable de l'arrêter ? (Thriller - Enquête - Suspense - Identité - Philosophie - Paradoxe - Manga)

Encore un tome 1 de la sélection du Priw Mangawa ! Le personnage principal prépare un manga sur un homme invisible, mais n'arrive pas à le faire accepter à son éditeur. Un jour, il faut une prière à un temple, et se retrouve à pouvoir rendre invisble les gens et les choses.

A partir de ce moment, tout va devenir très noir.

Je suis partagée par rapport à ce manga. Les thèmes sont intéressants, la façon dont est écrite le milieu du manga aussi, la relation entre le héros et son assistant fanboy est mignonne. Et malgré cela, je ne suis pas rentrée dans l'histoire et je n'ai pas l'intention de lire la suite. Peut-être parce que c'est écrit comme de l'horreur : beaucoup de lenteur pour faire monter le suspense, des gros plans sur des cadavres volontairement répugnants et pas spécialement thématiquement intéressants... J'aime l'horreur, mais je voulais de l'horreur psychologique, pas ça.

flo_nelja

Two fics this time!

Title : Haunting Victories
Author : Nelja
Fandom : Our Flag Means Death
Characters/Ships : Izzy/Ed
Genre : Ghost story
Summary : Ed and his crew, disguised as a ghost ship for a fuckery, meet a real ghost ship.
Rating : T
Disclaimer : This doesn't belong to me!
Word Count : ~1250

( Link to AO3 )

Title : Hands in Hands
Author : Nelja
Fandom : Penny Dreadful
Characters/Ships : Ethan/Vanessa/Dorian
Genre : Romance, canon divergence
Summary : Ethan crashes Vanessa's and Dorian's date by accident. He's weirdly welcome.
Rating : T
Disclaimer : This doesn't belong to me!
Word Count : ~1000
Warnings : A vampire dog dies in this one.

( Link to AO3 )

And I got two too!

Of Ghosts and Gamins by C-chan (1001paperboxes) (Les Misérables, Gavroche, T)
It wasn't so bad being a ghost, Gavroche decided. In fact, it was rather like being a gamin forever.

Quiet by Nary (Mo dao zu shi, Wei Wuxian/Wen Ning et Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji, T)
The Burial Mounds were never entirely quiet - or at least, not to Wei Wuxian. He was acutely aware at all times of the whispers of the restless spirits there, the constant low thrum of resentful energy that seemed to press against him when he was trying to sleep at night, the way the very ground was suffused with unwholesome qi.

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Creators are now revealed, and you can continue enjoying the collection here.

The final tally on the treat sheet was 79 out of the starting 225 -- that puts us just shy of reaching tier 2 (75 remaining). That's still a very good percentage, so cheers to the valiant treaters!

Thank you everyone for another wonderful Trick or Treat!

conuly

It was a penny more than the old ones, so there's that. (But I paid for super expedited shipping, so actually it's like $40 more.)

They're green. I'm not so sure about this, but there will be NO MORE TAKE-BACKS. I triple checked that they weren't safety glasses with the things on the side, which would've been great if I was in a field where I needed those but, as it is, was unwearable, and they're the exact same measurement as my old glasses, I checked that as well.

conuly

I liked it, but that was because I liked laughing at how stupidly oblivious the protagonist was to his not-rival's extraordinarily obvious crush on him. And also because I like most things I read.

But then, here I was, 20 minutes from the finish line, our two dudes are about to finally resolve all their deep-seated personal issues that have kept them apart - and my coworkers start a loud conversation right next to me and they will not shut up. I did, eventually, have to ask them to please stop for half an hour so I could finish my book.

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nevanna

I shared some of my early reactions to X-Men: Evolution, from when I was a teenager still trying - in all probability - to pretend that I was too cool for this show.

If I had the time and energy, I would try to answer some of the questions on the list, with the hindsight of nearly 25 years and many repeat viewings, all of which were on purpose.

Well, I like them well enough

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