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Day 28: Favourite quote

Once again, I can't pick one or even a few because there are just so many; in fact, a web page of Vila and Avon quotes was what convinced me to watch B7.

Vila and Avon provide the most, followed, I think, by Avon and Blake - so much snark - then Blake and Vila - those two are especially funny in Seek-Locate-Destroy. The dialogue in B7 is wonderful and their voices so distinct that they're a joy to write and must have been for the scriptwriters.

All the original questions are on Tumblr.

settiai

I've been eating a lot of pasta lately what with it being cheap and filling, and after some experimentation I've figured out the best way to make store-bought pasta and sauce (tomato-based at least) taste significantly better without adding much to the cost.

Basically, while the pasta is cooking on one of the eyes of my double burner, I put the sauce in a pan on the other and let it slowly heat up. Once the pasta finishes, I put it in the pan with the sauce, add some of the pasta water, plop in a pat of butter or some olive oil, and let it simmer on high for a few minutes. Then I sprinkle some parmesan and Italian seasoning on top and add another splash of pasta water if needed.

Once the sauce is at the consistency that I want, I transfer everything to a plate. Then I put some black pepper and more parmesan on top, drizzle it with a bit of olive oil, and call it a day. It's quick and easy, uses things that I have on hand, doesn't increase the cost of the meal very much, and makes it taste at approximately 10x better than it would otherwise.

Current Mood: accomplished

thawrecka

I started watching Champignon Witch because I heard good things about it, and there was something compelling about it in spite of the tonal weirdness, but I just finished episode 8 and the kid Luna is raising is now in love with her and NOPE NOPE NOPE. Not looking for the Bunny Drop experience. Someone on FFA said they knew the kid was a love interest as soon as he became the narrator, so I do feel like I should have seen it coming, but either way I'm dropping that one with a vengeance.

silverflight8

I've been doing more customizations of things I own by fixing, or decorating, or modifying them. It's been interesting because I think it's a combination of both cultural change as I perceive it, and the changes in my life.

Obviously as a non-vampire who was born after the industrial revolution, mass manufacture for most of the objects I own and am around has always been true. As a child, the things available for purchase were pretty much universally better than things I could cobble together - the adults who made the things, or who designed the machines who then made the item, were just better at it. Better hand and eye control, more design chops, years to get it right, whole design/engineering teams, insights into how people use objects, etc. But as I've gotten older, I've finally, finally managed to move into the phase where I really do believe in myself. In my hands and my brain and my eye. It's been a long journey.

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https://xkcd.com/3251/

It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians.

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nevanna

NerdyKeppie is one of my favorite online small businesses; I’ve bought a number of their clothing items and accessories for myself and others, and I’ll probably buy more in the future. But while I understand the sentiment behind this shirt, I have some complicated feelings about “Don’t Read” as a moral imperative, even though I recognize that it’s talking about works by a specific author (whose politics, as well as some of her writing choices, I find repellent) as opposed to reading in general.

( Harry Potter and the Conflicted Librarian )

conuly

And I slept all day, too. I'm gonna start this post, but I'll finish it when I get back from this shift, so by that time I will either be awake or even more sleepy.

Edit: I was awake! But I hung out with E all day, so.

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thawrecka

Fic stats meme:

I normally do this in April, but I completely forgot last month.

Top five stories by hits
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 10,419 hits
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 3,933 hits
Visit (1,792 words) Harry Potter - Harry/Hermione - 3,595 hits
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 3,320 hits
Infinite Jest and Wisdom (975 words) DC Comics - The Joker/The Riddler - 2,471 hits

That MLC threesome fic has skipped up to second place, wow! The power of porn, I guess.

TBH, I have been considering deleting my HP fic from AO3, and if I did number 5 would be Thousand Autumns fic I wrote for an exchange last year.

Top five stories by kudos
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 978 kudos
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 401 kudos
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 374 kudos
The Mission (1,499 words) Naruto - Sakura/Lee - 241 kudos
Everyday Life With a Menace of a Man (1,416 words) Thousand Autumns - Yan Wushi/Shen Qiao - 241 kudos

Discovery has gone up literally 50 kudos since last year, LOL, how. That fic is 11 years old! I'm honestly kind of impressed now. I'm also shocked at how well that Thousand Autumns fic has done, finally unseating Bleach fic I wrote in the late 2010s from the fifth position. I'm surprised, because I don't think it's one of my better written exchange fics, but I must have captured something believable about the pairing and there must be a lot of thirst for that pairing right now.

Top fic stories by bookmarks
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 272 bookmarks
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 119 bookmarks
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 116 bookmarks
Everyday Life With a Menace of a Man (1,416 words) Thousand Autumns - Yan Wushi/Shen Qiao - 41 bookmarks
What Comes After (1,712 words) Bleach - Byakuya/Kenpachi, Yumichika/Ikkaku - 34 bookmarks

The Ace Attorney fic got another 30 bookmarks since last year! Also, wild how well that Thousand Autumns fic has done in literally a year. I feel like that fandom is small, but the people know what they want.

Top five stories by comment threads
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 59 comment threads
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 30 comment threads
Third Option (355 words) Legend of Fei - Li Yan/Yang Jin/Ying Hecong - 19 comment threads
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 17 comment threads
Little Waves (12,982 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 15 comment threads

The Ace Attorney fic gained another 12 comment threads in the last year!!! Crazy business. For the most part everything else there is very stable; I have not received a lot of fic comments overall in the last year. I'm kind of intrigued by how in the long run Little Waves, which is about an mpreg abortion (among other things) in a wuxia world, has slowly accumulated comments. Within the first week of posting that fic I assumed it had totally bombed, but slowly it found an audience, and I'm really glad of it. I felt like I tried different and interesting things in it, and TBH the Fang Duobing/Di Feisheng sex scene has a tone that I think makes it some of my best/most mature work.

General thoughts
You know, sometimes I think I should get into a megafandom or something so I can get some sweet sweet megafandom kudos and unseat some of my older fic, but then I see how batshit the megafandoms of the past year are and I'm like... nah, I'm good. I do feel like my more popular fic is increasingly dominated by M/M now and, idk, it's weird. Maybe I should get into an F/F megafandom 😂

Top 3s for the last couple of years under the cut:
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vilakins

~~Day 27: Favourite scene~~

Day 27: Worst inconsistencies and/or continuity errors

Inconsistencies
The worst is Cally's backstory.

Was she sent from Auron to help on Saurian Major, or was she exiled for wanting to rebel?
She sees her parents in the Sopron yet is a clone.
Is telepathy part of her alienness, or is it only among the recent clones, as Orac says?
I think she's also referred to as human at some point.

Continuity errors
The costume ones in S4 are pretty glaring.

Vila leaves the dying Liberator in a cream Russian-stye outfit in Terminal, but is wearing brown in the next episode, Rescue.
In Traitor, Dayna and Tarrant teleport down to Helotrix in one set of outfits, then they're suddenly in other clothes, Tarrant wearing one of Avon's leather outfits earlier seen on an unfortunate Helot shot by a trooper. Either Tarrant's wearing a corpse's clothes, or it's a popular fashion icon.

I couldn't resist writing a short fic to explain both of these: Rebel Chic.

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I just now read of Michael Keating's death. Seventy-nine is not a shabby age, but I am saddened.

musesfool

Now you know I'm not a big basketball fan but with the Knicks in the finals I will probably be talking about it some, especially since the Mets are so terrible and it looks like the Habs might not be moving on. I don't wanna root for the Canes. I do not like them! But I cannot root for VGK, so it is what it is.

Anyway, this was a fun article about Victor Wembanyama, the Spurs center, and the "Read like Wemby" campaign a library in San Antonio started. (Ignore the snobs in the comments talking about how he should read "real" literature instead of SFF - they are not serious people.) I love when libraries do stuff like this and they are always doing cool stuff like this.

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nevanna

I think that it’s safe to say that Five Things is one of my favorite storytelling formats as both a fanfiction reader and writer. When I look at the fandoms in which I’ve posted the most works on AO3, at least one fic in each category uses this structure in some form (and there are several ways to approach it!). But I also want to acknowledge some of my favorite offerings by other writers over the years, and although I missed my chance to share this list on the fifth day of the fifth month (life, as they say, has been lifing), I wanted to note that the appropriateness did occur to me.

1. Chess Problems by Penknife (X-Men movieverse)

In this series of vignettes, Penknife – one of my favorite writers from the old-school X-Men movie fandom – imagines alternative first meetings or life trajectories for two characters with an already long and complex history, exploring what would have changed, and what might not have, if even one step on their separate and shared journeys had been different.

2. Consanguinitas by Selena K (Torchwood)

The Children of Earth miniseries introduced a number of memorable new characters to the Torchwood universe, including Jack Harkness’s daughter Alice, who – since Jack doesn’t age – is at least as old as he appears to be when we meet her. To say that their relationship is complicated would be an understatement, and Selena has done a fantastic job of unpacking those complexities. I don’t think anybody will be surprised to know that the third section is my favorite (and I was thrilled to discover that a remix from Jack’s perspective exists and is linked in the endnotes), but the whole story accomplishes what I frequently love to see in fanfic: an exploration of family relationships that evolve under extraordinary circumstances.

3. The Short List by victoria p (Supernatural)

I started reading victoria’s blog because we had other fandoms in common, but back when almost all of my Supernatural knowledge was secondhand (which a lot of it still is), a significant amount of that knowledge came from her fanfic and other assorted posts. She wrote a pretty extensive AU in which Sam Winchester was a cis woman but much of her backstory unfolded as it did in canon (apart from her romantic and sexual entanglement with her brother Dean, which is obviously not canon), and although I felt pretty neutral about most of the entries in that series, I found this little story particularly striking, probably because it combines the Five Things device with an outsider POV, which is one of my other very favorite tropes.

4. Training and Development by NevillesGran (The Magnus Archives)

By the author’s own admission, this is only “sort of” a Five Things fic, but I wanted to represent TMA on this list, and I’m beyond happy to do so through an entry in the shared vampire AU to which we both contributed. The story offers plenty of cruelty from vampire bureaucrat Elias and defiance from Melanie as his thrall, which were two of the things that drew me irresistibly to this world in the first place.

5. Doubt of the Benefit by an_sceal (Cobra Kai)

Although the first season of Cobra Kai establishes that Johnny Lawrence had never heard of Terry Silver (the villain from the third Karate Kid movie, who also eventually turns up on the show), this story – and the ones that follow in the series – stem from the idea that they did in fact know each other, in some very intimate, traumatic ways. It’s an emotionally tough read, but Johnny’s narrative voice, dynamics with the other characters, and understandably skewed perspective on his own horrific experiences and attempts to be a better person, are absolutely note-perfect.

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~~Day 26: Favourite fanfiction~~

Day 26: Favourite computer

I read a lot of B7 fanfiction, but that's too big a field for me to pick one or even a few.

There are only three main computers, but there was a question about cliffhangers and there were only three (or four) of those.

My favourite is Zen, even though he was occasionally mysteriously obstructive and not as chatty as Orac and Slave, but he was otherwise helpful and reliable. Plus, any computer that can devastate me when he said sorry that he had failed them when he was dying has to be the one - I never trusted Orac, and Slave annoyed me.

I also have a soft spot for Gambit. I wish Vila had managed to rescue enough of her to have had a friend.

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Fics are out for the monsterfucking exchange!

Title : On a knife's edge
Author : Nelja
Fandom : The Magnus Archives
Characters/Ships : Michael/sasha
Genre : Smut, mystery
Summary : Sasha sure had thought about inviting the hot monster in her house. The thing is, she doesn't remember the previous one and isn't sure she didn't actually do it.
Rating : NC-17
Disclaimer : This belongs to Rusty Quill.
Word Count : ~3000
Warnings : Consent is dubiuos due to mindfuckk situations.

( Link to AO3 )

Ans here is the gift I got:

to the lily of the valley by Eat0crow (Mo dao zu shi, Wei Wuxian/Wen Ning, M)
It’’s a little funny, that the first time Wei Wuxian kisses Wen Ning—kisses anyone— he’s elbows deep in his guts.

settiai

Welp. I ended up being kidnapped by a friend for a large chunk of the day, so there went all of my plans to catch up on things that I'm behind on.

I need to get up early to head into the office tomorrow, but I'm currently wide awake so we'll see how things go. My sleep schedule always gets out of whack when I have a long weekend, so I'm not going to be surprised if I end up staying up half the night, get 2-3 hours of sleep in, and then crash for a few hours after work. Maybe my body will surprise me, though.

If it does as I'm expecting it to go, at least I'll have a few hours to try to catch up on some things before I get tired enough to actually fall asleep.

Current Mood: awake

musesfool

New York Knicks are going to the NBA Finals! Go New York Go New York Go! Bing bong!

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Current Music: Knicks post-game show

30 Days of Blake's 7 - day 28

Experiments in Cooking

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Time Machine Conversation

"Don't Read?" Don't Like.

Wow, I'm sleepy from that unexpected double

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30 Days of Blake's 7 - day 27

DC100 > BI-WEEKLY PROMPT CHALLENGE

Rest in Peace Michael Keating

gimme the ring, kissed and told

Tuesday Top Five: Five Times Nevanna Was Delighted By A Writing Device

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30 Days of Blake's 7 - day 26

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