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If I've got long-ish author's notes for a fic, would you suggest I include them on the endnotes on AO3, in a fic announcement post here on DW, in a separate DW post, or a combination thereof?

Also, should I crosspost the text of the fic on DW under a cut (it's around 2700 words), as well as posting it on AO3? I think I see less of this nowadays.

jesse_the_k

One hundred eighty-eight days after we brought him home, we surrendered Shadow back to Underdog Pet Rescue. It’s been a journey. Comments off because I can’t cope with responding.

After my mid-June post, all progress stopped. We tried many things. We consulted two behaviorists, including one who came to our house, observed our interactions, and said “You are truly amazing guardians—this situation is so unusual. There are many dogs who would be so happy in your home.”

With us, Shadow was always tense, yawning and lip-licking, avoiding our eyes. We never once saw him let his jaw down or his tongue out—the canine version of a smile.

The only time Shadow seemed comfortable was in the presence of another dog. We can’t handle more than one pet. When a human (who’d transported him from Tennessee and fostered him for the first month) came to visit with her dog, Shadow happily began to explore the edges of our yard on his own for the first time. He gently jostled the other dog when the human was dispensing treats.

We did provide him a safe place to recover from the heartworm treatment, and did learn that he’s a dog who needs to be with other dogs. I know someone is out there with room for a low-energy, polite little pup with silky silky fur.

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Authors seem to be feeling more empowered to speak out about how faithful adaptations are, sometimes even before they’re being released. Under what conditions do you want to hear from authors about their concerns?

omens

Well, we definitely laboured this labour weekend. An extra long one because Kelly took Friday off for my birthday.

🦄 Found everything required for watercolour painting: paper, brushes, tape, paint, etc.

🦄 Got the table clear (a regular dumping ground for Stuff), and set up for lego dates and watercolour painting.

🦄 Took down two of my cucumber plants and a couple mite-killed flowerpots for the yardwaste landfill. Found ANTS living in/underneath one of the cucumber plants and that explains why it looked so bad. I fucking hate ants.

🦄 Kelly did a bunch of mowing, weeding, reseeding of the lawn (we are not Lawn People but we are in between 2 sets of retirees and you can tell.... you can REALLY tell)

🦄 Cleaned my desk in my office, which was another dumping ground for Stuff since it's been a long time since I've regularly sat at my desktop computer. It is such a good computer, though! And now the desk is clear. I found a bin full of fandom shit from the early 2010s that hadn't been opened in many moves and put them up on my trinket shelf: a beelzebot, pokemon, animal crossing guys and SO MANY Thors. LOL. And Dean & Cas funko keychains. Very cute but I am glad I don't buy so many toys anymore.

🦄 Put up fall vibes curtains in the living room and switched out one of the deck door curtains. Looking up halloween ideas for window art this year! Excited :D

🦄 Helped L with his room, long overdue for a cleaning. It was to the point where he was completely frozen about it. So, the organization is yet to come but at least the floor is clean and the bed is clean and the shelves are decluttered. So much hair and dust removed!

🦄 And Kelly bbq'd!

We are exhausted!

Didn't do the deck stuff though, despite having enough sun to do so .....the neighbours are doing their deck stuff! So, it's awkward, lol. I do not wish to labour in company. They took down the nice wooden privacy screen they had because they're replacing all their deck railing with glass ones. I hope it goes quickly because we are just O_O looking into each others spaces as it is. I guess we could get a privacy screen but I'm fairly confident they'll put theirs back up. I hope??

Cat is still not eating alot but otherwise doing well. Her improvements are happening but soooooo s l o w l y

This was my birthday Sparkle Smash btw, and it turns out: SHE EXISTS IN THE WORLD. She is a real monster truck :O the lego version will zoom off if you pull it backwards and the dog wants to eat the tires SO BAD. So chewy! So forbidden!

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I'm trying to track down info on any analog (VCR) vidding that was going on in femslash fandoms in the 1990s (or earlier). Any suggestions on who might know about it?

The analog femslash vidding I know about:

Katharine made Ice (Babylon 5, Susan/Talia) in 1997/1998 and it was released on Media Cannibals Tape #3.

tarae made femslash vids for Xena and Voyager around 1998/1999, including 'The Mind of Love' (Janeway/Seven), 'Kiss The Girl' (Xena/Gabrielle), and 'Show Me' (Xena/Gabrielle). She later digitized the tape they were on and uploaded some to youtube.

I believe some analog vids were shown at Xena conventions in the US and Germany, but I don't know if anyone kept track of what was shown.

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3295/

The speed of light in air is 50% faster than in fiber, but it's a challenge to get the arms to move fast enough to realize the latency advantage.

https://xkcd.com/3295/

siria

Good Trouble
The Pitt | Jack/Robby | ~3000 words | A belated birthday gift for

sheafrotherdon; thanks to

ghostalservice and

trinityofone for audiencing.

(Also on AO3)

( 'My account was suspended for erotically seditious content.' Jack has some pressing questions for Robby. )

selenak

You know, fictional dystopias have the advantage that there are usually far more courageous, intelligent and most importantly empathetic people in them than real life presents you with. People (as in, many of them, not just one or two) who do abandon plain human decency in favour of authoritarianism get motivation that amounts to more than “I feel dissatisfied and also these guys give me someone to hate and blame”, i.e. they often start out in genuinely awful situations that make them consider the authoritarians as a better alternative.

In fiction.

In real life, the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt has chosen to become the very first German state since 1945 with a Nazi government (and I’m not using the “right wing extremist” euphemism today, not today), and to choose the immortal words of painter Max Liebermann in 1933, “I can’t eat as much as I want to throw up”. Another awful aspect of this is that it didn’t come unexpected. Now you can soothe yourself by saying “well, there are less people eligible to vote in Sachsen-Anhalt than there are inhabitants of Berlin”, or, “at least they didn’t get the absolute majority (around 43% ish, if anyone is interested), but for me, that does not mitigate the shame. 🤮 The usual suspects and sponsors - Musk, Putin, the Orange Menace - have already congratulated.

I would rather live in a fictional dystopia. On to such a one, which has just finished its (excellent) third season.

Silo, season 3:

( Spoilers want to know Why… )

Current Mood: indescribable
Current Location: On the train

sholio

Technically using the prompts for day 9 & 10.

6. Erich & Zorotov - "defeat"
(Set after In The Blue, 500 wds)

( 500 wds of depressed Soviet spies under the cut )

7. Biggles & Algy - "torrential downpour"
(Set during Biggles Flies Again, 500 wds)

( 500 wds of cousins bonding under the cut )

aurumcalendula

I made a reddit account so I could post on the Xena and Voyager reddit pages asking if anyone was in fandom in the 1990s and knew about any analog femslash vids. Both posts got auto removed because my karma was too low (I guess I need to comment more - I'm not really clear on how reddit works), but the mods were nice enough to approve them once I messaged them.

No luck so far, but hopefully someone will know something (it's a bit alarming how many views the Voyager post has).

kay_brooke

Haven't posted in a while. I know I say that pretty much every time I post, and I'm just struggling to get back into any kind of posting pattern. Work has continued to be pretty busy, and when I get home I just want to be lazy and not put any effort into anything. I've been having some depressive episodes lately. Greg and I went to Michigan for a few days a couple weeks ago. For about the past month, my afternoons and early evenings have been spent helping with flood recovery. I live in the Ravenswood neighborhood, which was one of the areas hit hardest by the flooding in Indianapolis on August 15th. I am fine and my house is fine; the flooding didn't reach my block. But a lot of my neighbors lost everything, so I have been doing what I can to help with cleanup, organizing donations, and whatever is needed to help with recovery. That has often left me too tired in the evenings to do much more than shower and go to bed. I might talk some more about that in a later entry. And due to the flooding I was without internet for two straight weeks.

I'll also catch up on the garden posts. I really wanted to be more timely with those this year. I have pictures for August 1st and August 15th, I just need to post them. I didn't take any for September 1st, because at this point the garden is slowing down so I think I can go back to just once a month and do a post for September 15th instead.

But in this entry I'm going to talk about books. You may have noticed (or not) that I haven't posted a monthly roundup in a while. I have been in a serious reading slump all summer, but I have managed to read some things. The plan is to make a big summer round-up, so I'll be working on that.

August was the month of DNFs, and I can't decide if I really just started a bunch of duds in a row, or if I've just been too tired/distracted/impatient to give these books the attention they deserve. But there are two new books I bought recently that I tore through in just a couple days, so the takeaway is that when I'm excited to read a book, I should probably just read it instead of sticking it at the bottom of the TBR pile to get to whenever I get to it.

I let all my e-books I had borrowed from the library lapse. I need a reset there because it's just been one disappointment after another, and I don't know if that's the fault of the books or me just getting tired of reading on my phone. I might go back to just borrowing one at a time; I think part of the problem is that I always had four or five books sitting in my Libby app and lately seeing them all just makes me tired. Especially when I'm not enjoying one or more of them but feel compelled to slog through a few chapters just to "earn" some time with a book I actually like. I don't know why I'm like this. I just need to be better at DNFing. I also want to clean out my tags on Libby and just remove books that are not sparking my interest. A lot of them have been on there for years, because I keep adding more and more each year but not getting through even a fraction of what I add. There are so many books that sound interesting, but I cannot actually read them all. And I really do think I am at least temporarily getting tired of e-books and audiobooks, as I've been finding physical books a lot easier to get through/focus on lately. I should probably get into the habit of going to the library and checking out physical books instead of just doing e-books. Being able to download a new library e-book anywhere, anytime is certainly convenient, but I am getting sick of reading on my phone.

Hopefully more later.

umadoshi

Well, there's definitely no need to water the garden this weekend. We haven't been getting a massive amount of rain here, but it's added up to a very respectable amount; Cape Breton and other areas, OTOH, are dealing with flooding and whatnot. :/

(Unsurprisingly, the outdoor theatre performance I was hoping to attend was called on account of the rain. Here's hoping the weather is better for the rain date and that I have the energy to go once the crunch is underway.)

I keep thinking strawberries are over for the year, but while our beloved produce stand didn't have any this week, their Instagram update yesterday mentioned hopefully having some again next weekend. This morning we headed out into the distinctly-autumnal damp and picked up blueberries, peaches, nectarines, and red heart plums from them. I've completely blanked on how late into the fall they work, but forgot to ask while we were there. (Our farmshare runs until the end of October, IIRC, which is also our deadline for getting the raised planter moved back, so that's how long our couple of cabbage plants--although if need be we'll move the planter with them still in it, as carefully as possible, as hope for the best.)

Since my last post,

scruloose and I have finished season 1 of Reacher; we haven't talked about whether we're going to watch more, but with the Dayjob crunch about to start and a handful of Silo episodes still to watch, we won't need to decide about another "hour-long" show in the immediate future. I also finished reading This Inevitable Ruin, and there was no waitlist for A Parade of Horribles and it was available from the library with three-week rather than two-week loans, so I went ahead and borrowed it and we'll see how it goes.

A couple of weeks ago I was offered a one-shot manga rewrite that would've been due a few weeks from now, same as the rewrite I'm starting in on today (having just caught up on my simulpub chapter), and I knew when I did it that turning it down was the smart move, but with the crunch right in front of us, I'm very viscerally grateful to my past self for having sense about it. I'm almost through my fifth year of full-time employment and still find it very hard to decline freelance work (and fortunately don't have to very often; I try hard to make things work. Part of why I was offered that book was that I recently mentioned being open to one-shots and very short series, in hopes of padding out my freelance schedule between seasonal Dayjob crunches, but alas, the timing was just not good for this one).

Current Mood: busy

sanguinity

To Whom it May Concern...

I just threw a bunch of noms into

trickortreatex:

( Read more... )

(I also note that someone nominated the Hornblower TV movies: Cotard, Kennedy, Matthews/Styles, and Bush/Cotard.)

I'm out of fandom slots, but in most fandoms I have more character/ship slots, if anyone wants me to add something!

dolorosa_12

This has been a much needed homebody weekend, like a big breath in between bouts of busyness. Last week was A Lot at work — involving, among other things, sitting on the exam board for an MPhil course, which was a new experience for me, and unbelievably exhausting! My manager and I were involved as we graded one piece of assessment for this course, and it counted towards the students' overall grades (a first for us as a library). It was really interesting to meet the other examiners, and see the whole degree programme in full, since we're so used to just seeing and working with students for a small segment of it all. Next week will be busy in a different way, as all our first year medical students start their course, and I have to give lectures to all 300 of them, and then deal with them showing up in confusion in the library about various things in dribs and drabs as the week continues.

As planned, Matthias and I assembled the futon sofabed yesterday. It went about as well as expected: the instructions claimed that assembly would take 45 minutes, and it took us ... 1.5 hours, but at the end of it all, we have a functioning sofabed, and Matthias even lay down on it to test that it wouldn't collapse on contact. So far, so good.

Classes at the gym yesterday were hard. My attendance has been so haphazard over the summer, and while that's been for a range of good things (travel, visitors, etc) and I don't want to be the sort of person who organises her life around her fitness regime, it will be good to settle back into more of a routine as we move into autumn. One of the leg tracks in the first class involved lots of jumping up and down off a step, and I am definitely feeling it today (and I say this as someone who loves jumping)! The pool, on the other hand, was an absolute delight this morning, and I feel fortunate indeed to have ended up in a lane whose other swimmers essentially swam at speeds compatible with my own.

By the time Saturday film night came around, Matthias and I were too exhausted by our struggles with flatpack furniture to watch anything more demanding than The Mandalorian and Grogu, so that was our viewing fare. I wasn't expecting much, but it really was just a compilation of nostalgia throwbacks and tropes, and I found myself delighted in spite of myself. (Pander to me more, I said to Matthias when the credits rolled.)

Other than that, it's been a weekend of cooking (a

loveleluu recipe last night, and one from

labnoon this evening), reading, and dealing with the neverending glut of tomatoes that continues to burst forth in the garden. I'll finish with the books read, but I also wanted to flag a couple of fic I've enjoyed in the past week.

The first is not technically fanfic — author Rivers Solomon announced that they were going to be serialising a new original epic fantasy story on Ao3, and the first instalment is written already:

Once I Was Made of Earth (4814 words) by rivers
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Angst, Fantasy, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Original Fiction, Nonbinary Character, Author Is Sleep Deprived, The Author Regrets Everything, Trauma
Summary:

Maybe you will knit the poem that makes the world where I might live

She flings herself into animals to see different worlds, and he writes tales that make and remake reality. In a land steeped in civil war and bids for power, they are prey.

And we've got another new Shetland fic from

raven:

to pull wild mountain thyme (what we need is here) (7216 words) by raven
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Shetland (TV)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Duncan Hunter/Jimmy Perez, Alison McIntosh & Jimmy Perez
Characters: Duncan Hunter, Jimmy Perez, Alison McIntosh
Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Ghosts, Magical Realism, Romance, big swoony romance, I’m having a time
Summary:

This little house could be the world’s heart. This place, Duncan thinks, with awful wryness, is his heart.

(On music; ghosts; coming home.)

( On to the books )

I hope everyone else has been having lovely weekends!

rodo

Title: Web of Fate
Fandom: Carnival Row
Author:

rodo
Chapter: 16/17+E
Length: 4,288 words (77,000 in total)
Rating: 16+
Genre: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Rycroft Philostrate, Jonah Breakspear, Vignette Stonemoss, Runyan Millworthy, Darius Prowell, Absalom Breakspear
Pairing: Philo/Vignette
Warnings/Labels: war, and mentions/occasional depictions of associated atrocities; canon-typical fantasy racism
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise belongs to Amazon, of course
A/N: I started this story in August 2021, and I finished the draft in 2022, so this was all written prior to the second season. So some of the worldbuilding contradicts what was shown in season 2. Still, I had so much fun re-reading this lately that I thought I’d polish it up some more and post it anyway, in case some of you will like it as well. Since it’s an AU, the plot of the second season is not that relevant anyway.

Summary: A year after the attempted assassination of Chancellor Absalom Breakspear, The Burgue is at war, and it’s not going well. In order to break the stalemate at the front, some unlikely soldiers are recruited to fight in a place nobody expected, and Philo and Jonah find themselves caught up in it against their expectations.

( Jonah Breakspear winced. )

sholio

We have a (fairly new) driveway sensor that dings when anything sets it off. Usually this is delivery trucks, but sometimes it's something else - a couple of times it's been a fox, and every now and then you hear the ding and look out the window and see something else entirely.

a moose standing alertly, you can just see the legs of a smaller moose behind it

a moose walking with a small moose behind it

Mother moose was VERY alert, and in the first picture she's heard me in the house and stopped to listen with Baby behind her. Then they went on, around the house and on about their business.

the same two moose walking off into the woods

(It so happened that I was thinking about going for a walk in this exact direction - they came walking up the driveway - so I guess I'm glad I decided to procrastinate about it.)

amalthia

Today I made the mistake of trying to setup the id.me so I can log into Treasury Direct, because next month you can no longer log in with the original credentials used for the site.

After an hour of trying to set this up, my account was suspended.

I had to switch browsers on my phone from FireFox to Chrome, clear my cache so I could receive text message with link, and just when I thought things were working I took too many selfies and they suspended my account. I'm not sure what went wrong with the selfie, maybe not enough light, or bad angle for my face they didn't say and they didn't tell me there was a limit. Otherwise, I would have stopped and switched to the video call option. If I don't get this fixed in the next two months I won't be able to log into any of the government services that are now requiring id.me verification.

My recommendation for anyone starting out, is to skip the doing it yourself and opt for the video call, though prepare for plenty of time, on reddit some users are reporting waiting for hours.

What really bugs me though is finding out id.me isn't even a government service website, it's a 3rd party contractor that the United States Government paid to perform online identity verification.

I personally think it's a VERY bad idea to put all the ID eggs in one basket for cyber-criminals (or government criminals) to target. But what do I know about data security beyond reading about all the hacked databases with user information stolen on a monthly basis.

luzula

I haven't written in months, but recently I started writing a short fic, just to see if I could. And lo, I can! \o/ Am also considering the Trick or Treat Exchange (it's only a 300 word minimum). Three days left to nominate...

I promised flail photos, and they are coming, though I can't say my flail is very pretty. We also now have a sickle, which is much prettier! : D I am not a communist, but I am tempted to invite people to a work day featuring grain harvesting and a building project that involves nails.

Anyway, reading! I have been reading very little during 2026, but here is what I have read so far. Reviews are mixed up with farm reports, where applicable.( Read more... )

tinny

Not a very enlightening month, but better than June... :)

( the nine things I learned in August... lots of medieval things? )

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Dystopias all around.

No True Pair day 6 & 7: Biggles

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Weekly proof of life: produce, a bit more media, and work/work balance

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