Halfway through "What We Are Seeking"
Apr. 11th, 2026 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rydra_wongand oh god it's so good, that unique polished authorial confidence of The Fortunate Fall is so back, and like The Fortunate Fall it's a book that's somehow slipped out of time, not exactly in sync with the present moment in sf/f but maybe both older and newer, and it's very quiet and calm except for that bit in a recent chapter which actually made me make an involuntary noise of shock and alarm out loud, and I have no idea where it's going and I hope she sticks the landing but right now the vibes are Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand and The Left Hand of Darkness, and what with those being two of my favourite novels ever, I'm having a very good time.
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Apr. 11th, 2026 10:04 amscifirenegadevriddy's account on her experiences on tiny fandoms is an interesting read.About The Man Without Desire (1923): This film has it all! Rococo, death, suspended animation via magic, people being the clones of their ancestors, a man being a fish out of water for five in-world minutes, erectile disfunction. Yet! It never goes all the way (and I'm bummed about it).
I would say this was a weird metaphor for comphet while being gay, but Novello was never really in the closet. And I'm talking about Novello less because he starred in the movie and mote because he was one of the producers.
(I would have said this was a metaphor for asexuality, but Vittorio, the man without desire himself, dies at the end. ED, comphet or asexuality, any lens you look at this movie through, is yikes.)
419. various, the pitt (day shift pt. 3), 115 icons.
Apr. 11th, 2026 01:57 pmperching posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
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help my family, we're in shambles
javadi - 16
mckay - 10
perlah - 05
mohan - 14
santos - 70
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049: Electric; Enhypen, ATEEZ; The Kindness of Strangers (Sunghoon & Mingi)
Apr. 10th, 2026 11:49 pmandersenmom posting in 100shipsCreator: andersenmom
Title: The Kindness of Strangers
Rating: PG
Type: Fic
Size/length/word count etc.: 1368
Prompt: 049: Electric
Fandom/Ship: Enhypen, ATEEZ; Sunghoon & Mingi
Notes/Warnings: None
Summary Mingi didn’t understand what had happened to him, that light hurt his eyes.
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andersenmomTitle: The Kindness of Strangers
Rating: PG
Type: Fic
Size/length/word count etc.: 1368
Prompt: 049: Electric
Fandom/Ship: Enhypen, ATEEZ; Sunghoon & Mingi
Notes/Warnings: None
Summary Mingi didn’t understand what had happened to him, that light hurt his eyes.
Find the table with the list of fics here
417. various, the pitt (day shift pt. 1), 190 icons.
Apr. 11th, 2026 01:38 pmperching posting in bangparty
day shift guys are a sliding scale of distress
langdon - 48
robby - 135
whitaker - 08
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416. various, the pitt (night shift); 65 icons.
Apr. 11th, 2026 01:18 pm
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Apr. 10th, 2026 08:12 pmkallowayA 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.
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.
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Apr. 10th, 2026 11:05 pmaurumcalendulaI tuned in to NASA's YouTube stream a little bit before Integrity's communication blackout ended. I remember the loss of the Columbia, so it was such relief they came home safe!
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Given E's predeliction for 1990s - 2000s tv, what is she going to watch next?
Apr. 11th, 2026 07:45 pmconulyEdit: 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
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: 31
What are we gonna watch together?
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Teen Wolf
3 (9.7%)
Stargate (any)
14 (45.2%)
Xena
11 (35.5%)
X-Files
10 (32.3%)
Scrubs
4 (12.9%)
Something else that you'll put in the comments
4 (12.9%)
Collage Journalling: Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell
Apr. 10th, 2026 07:38 pmstonepicnicking_okapiETA: there's a prompt fest at Spring Renewal if you are into that: https://spring-renewal.dreamwidth.org/
So I went by my public library and they were doing the tiny scrolls of poems for National Poetry Month so I got two (one for me and one for Minisculus who I was taking for his annual check-up) so I had us unroll them at lunch...and they were the same poem! No fair! This one. So I used it in a collage.
Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell
Cloud-topped and splendid, dominating all
The little lesser hills which compass thee,
Thou standest, bright with April’s buoyancy,
Yet holding Winter in some shaded wall
Of stern, steep rock; and startled by the call
Of Spring, thy trees flush with expectancy
And cast a cloud of crimson, silently,
Above thy snowy crevices where fall
Pale shrivelled oak leaves, while the snow beneath
Melts at their phantom touch. Another year
Is quick with import. Such each year has been.
Unmoved thou watchest all, and all bequeat
Some jewel to thy diadem of power,
Thou pledge of greater majesty unseen.
So I went by my public library and they were doing the tiny scrolls of poems for National Poetry Month so I got two (one for me and one for Minisculus who I was taking for his annual check-up) so I had us unroll them at lunch...and they were the same poem! No fair! This one. So I used it in a collage.
Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell
Cloud-topped and splendid, dominating all
The little lesser hills which compass thee,
Thou standest, bright with April’s buoyancy,
Yet holding Winter in some shaded wall
Of stern, steep rock; and startled by the call
Of Spring, thy trees flush with expectancy
And cast a cloud of crimson, silently,
Above thy snowy crevices where fall
Pale shrivelled oak leaves, while the snow beneath
Melts at their phantom touch. Another year
Is quick with import. Such each year has been.
Unmoved thou watchest all, and all bequeat
Some jewel to thy diadem of power,
Thou pledge of greater majesty unseen.
