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Mar. 17th, 2026 09:40 pm
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I'm already seeing posts with all capital letters and H1 titles saying shit like "never reblog something with a comment, keep it in the tags, leave a reply" and I'm afraid Tumblr's internal culture is going to take care of killing any and all interactions on the site.

First they made it so that OPs of posts will yell at me if I leave tags they don't like because they don't know how to turn off tag view in their Activity, and now I'm gonna get a totally different kind of person yelling at me for reblogging with a comment b/c I'm "taking away notes" from OP, and all this time I have replies disabled on my blog because a third kind of person will spend all their time arguing with someone else in my replies.

Kill Tumblr. Let it be over.

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Spin Control, by Chris Moriarty

Mar. 17th, 2026 11:44 am
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Sequel to Spin State, and, yes, you have to read that one first. Really solid hard science-fiction where the science is artificial intelligence (real AI, not fucking Claude), cloning, ecological collapse, complex adaptive systems and complexity theory, and I took the last two straight out of the "Further Reading" section at the end (yes there's homework) because hell if I know, even though Moriarty definitely expected me to know and says as much. The closest I can get to guessing what that field is about (without Further Reading) is E.O. Wilson and his ants, which are also here.

The fiction is set far in the future in a universe where the Earth is suffering from global climate catastrophe and the vast majority of people live in orbital stations or on terraformed planets. This includes huge hives of genetically engineered corporate clones, who are no longer considered human, and transhumans who have been technologically advanced to the point where they're not considered entirely human either. The only humans allowed to live on Earth are natural ones with hereditary exceptions, which, practically, seems to mainly mean indigenous groups, whatever's left of the United States after it broke with the U.N., and people with religious wars to fight. Half of the action is set in the middle of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.

So you can see how this book might be a bit too real at this stage of the horrors.

Unfortunately for both of us, due to my state of mind—and the state of the world—I couldn't concentrate on any of it. I could only read it sporadically and had trouble remembering all the spy intrigue (of which there's a lot) and who was on what side, but I'm sure it was great and tense and full of unexpected betrayals (iguess.jpg). However, I can say that even after days away from it, I could pick it up and just start reading because it's very well written and the (main) characters are all memorable and interesting.

If any of this sounds like your jam, read the first book (that one is about mining, Bose–Einstein condensates, corporate espionage, and AI), pick up this one, and then probably read the third in the trilogy, Ghost Spin. I'll pick it up one day, but probably not today, and probably not tomorrow, on account of my poor brains.

Contains: global climate disaster; Israel/Palestine; torture and interrogation; widespread infertility; unplanned pregnancy; amputation; slaughter of chickens for food; and an extended shoutout to Ender's Game.

LEP 17.3.

Mar. 17th, 2026 08:28 pm
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I am currently working night shift and the inability to play Beat Saber after work is genuinely making me a little bit stir crazy. Over on Tumblr I commented that I really want to make a mod that makes the song title increasingly gory the more times I've failed to pass a song -- I genuinely feel like that is more achievable than actually passing some of the songs in my queue b/c I feel the rust every time I have a chance to go back to the game.

Maybe I should see if I can struggle the Linux version to work. Then I could play in ten minute increments again and not have to commit to a full play session the way switching OSes requires.

Round 185 Theme Poll

Mar. 17th, 2026 09:38 am
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April will be a Flashback round where we revisit a classic theme from the early years of the comm.

Poll #34378 round 185 theme poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 37

Pick the next theme of fancake:

Arranged Marriage
16 (43.2%)

Forced Proximity
9 (24.3%)

Threesome
12 (32.4%)

Torchwood: Fanfic: Spring Planting

Mar. 17th, 2026 01:41 pm
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Title: Spring Planting
Fandom: Torchwood
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 767
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto and Jack are planting things in their garden.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 509: Nap.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.





Prompt: #486 - Coincidence

Mar. 17th, 2026 08:59 am
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This week's prompt is coincidence.

Your response should be exactly 100 words long. You do not have to include the prompt in your response -- it is meant as inspiration only.

Please use the tag "prompt: #486 - coincidence" with your response.

Please put your drabble under a cut tag if it contains potential triggers, mature or explicit content, or spoilers for media released in the last month.

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Subject: Original - Title (or) Fandom - Title

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Title:
Original
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Notes:




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Fandom: Vorkosigan
Pairings/Characters: Gregor Vorbarra, Ivan Vorpatril
Rating: Gen
Length: 7k
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] callmecasandra 
Theme: siblings, AU, fork in the road, family, gen, old fandoms, book fandoms

Summary: Gregor need not have worried.

Reccer's Notes: Gregor Vorbarra is Emperor of Barrayar, and he has monsters in his family tree. His father Serg was a rapist and a murderer who died when he was a small child (and Serg's own father Emperor Ezar arranged his death), and his great uncle was Mad Emperor Yuri who was paranoid and homicidal and awful. Gregor understandably has issues about his family.

But what if Ezar had seen the sort of person Serg was, and how many monsters are in the family tree, and not only made sure Serg died before inheriting the throne, but also ... made sure that Serg would not father the next emperor of Barrayar?

This is a short but compelling AU. The series is marked incomplete, but there are no dangling plot threads and it hasn't been updated in over a decade.

Fanwork Links: The Cuckoo
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Fandom: Star Wars
Pairings/Characters: Leia Organa
Rating: Gen
Length: 2k
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] Darkmagyk 
Theme: siblings, gen, family,

Summary: “We were very close.” Sola says, and Leia smiles her politician's smile in response.

This woman is convinced she and her sister were the best of friends. And she’s telling the secret daughter, from a secret marriage, all about it.

Leia doesn't need the force to know it wasn't true.

Reccer's Notes: This is about Padmé and her sister Sola, but it's also about Luke and Leia, and about family, and about memory.

Fanwork Links: Lonely In Your Company
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Fandom: Captain America
Characters/Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: G
Length: 16,400 words
Creator Links: [profile] odsbodkins
Theme: Outside POV, siblings, female characters, gen, 

Summary: Becca Barnes is eight years old, and her big brother can do no wrong. The events of the two Captain America movies, from the perspective of one of the sisters Bucky leaves behind.

Reccer's Notes: This story has an excellent child's perspective, and a deep and abiding love between Becca and Bucky. It's lovely and it makes me cry.

Fanwork Links: My Brother, the Hero
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https://transrightsreadathon.carrd.co/

March 17-31, 2026

The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st.

We are calling on the reader community to read and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender-nonconforming authors and characters.


As before, I would like to request that people shout out their favourite eligible books in the comments!
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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Jeannie Miller, Jack O'Neill
Rating: Explicit
Length: 23,191, 02:40:45
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply.
spoilery content noteRodney and John weren't raised as brothers, but they discover they are. After having fucked. This causes some angst for a while, and Rodney's rationalisations are amusing.

Creator Links: speranza on AO3, speranza's own site

Themes: Siblings, Action/adventure, Family, AU, AU - fork in the road

Summary: "Jean isn't your sister," Rodney said, speaking to John as if he was a small child. "Jean is my sister."

Reccer's Notes: Written as a slightly cracky Harlequin fic, this is a favourite story of mine, full of action, adventure, and family complications. John and Rodney meet at Patrick Sheppard's funeral and afterwards happen on an alien artifact at his apartment. A wild ride ensues as they try to get it to Area 51. Rodney's a physicist and John's air force, but at the start, neither of them know about the Stargate program. There's lots of excellent drama, romance, and snark as they gradually discover all the secrets their parents hid from them.

Fanwork Links: Last Will and Testament on speranza's site, and on AO3
And I podficced the story

Me-and-media update

Mar. 17th, 2026 03:49 pm
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Previous poll review
In the Fitness trackers poll, 18% of respondents regularly use a fitness tracker to monitor their activity, 10% also use an app, and 16% use the pedometer on their phone; 48% said "other no", proving that I really should have got more granular (and emphatic) for non-adopters. Sorry! (For me, I enjoy some of the "gamification of exercise" parts, but when Fitbit eventually insists that I have to merge my data with my Google account in a few months, I plan to delete the app and use my device as a standalone thingummy.)

In ticky-boxes, FANDOM SPARKLES came second to hugs hugs hugs, 56% to 68%. "I genuflect to the sanctity of the ticky-box" is a reference to/misquote of a line from a Courtney Milan romance. Thank you for your votes! ♥

Reading
Almost nothing. Andrew and I started (barely) The Warrior's Apprentice by Bujold, the first Miles Vorkosigan book, in audio, read by Grover Gardner. And in ebook I've just started Courtney Milan's m/m novella, The Pursuit of... set during the American War of Independence.

Kdramas
I was sure I'd have drifted away from One Spring Night by now in favour of the new thing, but I'm semi-managing to watch that and Undercover Miss Hong in tandem. I love both of them in very different ways. OSN is slow and as full of social nuance as an Austen novel; UMH is silly corporate spy shenanigans and found family.

(In Undercover Miss Hong, the 35-year-old lead is undercover as a 20-year-old, and every time she glances around quickly and her shoulders move too, I think, yep, it's the stiff neck that gives you away. #relatable)

As predicted, Pru and I started Love Scout. I am immediately obsessed with it all over again, ahhhhhh! How am I going to bear the wait between watchings??

Other TV
A bit more of Ponies, but it's so tense that I keep avoiding it. It's only an 8-episode season, and we're halfway, so I should probably bite the bullet and power through.

Episode 2 of R.J. Decker was terribly written, to the point where I don't know if I can keep going. (I think the Movie Briefs podcast may have ruined me for PI shows: I kept going, "Is this witness tampering?" and "Stop revealing case information to suspects!")

More of The Pitt (I am worried about Robbie) (no spoilers, please!!) and Cheers.

And last night we watched the bizarre combination of:
  1. the pilot of The Madison, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, a gorgeously cinematic show about loss, grief, and New York "society" people dealing with nature in Montana. It's like the love child of A River Somewhere (Australian fly-fishing show which I happen to own on DVD), Schitt's Creek (but without the humour; just the rich people out of their comfort zone part), and [something dealing with partner-loss], and
  2. The Naked Gun, starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson (surprisingly watchable; made us laugh).


We've also watched a bunch of stand-up lately: Marc Maron, Rose Matafeo, probably some others.

Audio entertainment
"Corporations have learned that when you have total buy-in, from everyone, and if you can make it impossible for people to not use your product, you determine what culture is. You just do." Gita Jackson on Tech Won't Save Us. (I am so grateful to Dreamwidth for not having an algorithm!)

Online life
Sign-ups are open for the 520 Day Guardian Reverse Exchange!! Yay!! This is our eighth year, and it's always a great time.

Writing/making things
I finished a round of rewrites on one of my started-for-Yuletide fics and sent it back to beta; now I need to apply the same rewriting strategy to my other started-for-Yuletide fic too. 520 Day assignments will out by the 8th, so that's my deadline for these: three weeks. In theory, that should be do-able.

I'm averaging one fic a month so far this year, which is pretty slow-paced for me, but it isn't nothing.

Life/health/mental state things
[Dog in burning house; everything is fine.gif, local politics edition] )

Link dump
The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited by Gita Jackson | Heroes Choose Danger - How to Make Your Passive Hero Active [Screenwriting Tips] by [youtube.com profile] heyjameshurst (Youtube, 12:57 min) | Night Train with Wyatt Cenac ep 1 (stand-up series made for streaming, but then the streamer went bust).

Good things
520 Day, yay!! FTH, eeee!! Writers' Hour continues to keep me showing up; it's a structure that works really well for me. Kdramas and those of you who recommend them to me. AO3 comments on some of my favourites of my fics. Sunday's long bike ride to buy the best hot cross buns didn't have any negative arm/wrist consequences. The air fryer I inherited is ridiculously tiny, but I'm enjoying it. Good weather. Reasonably good health. (*knocks on wood*) Cat! Andrew!

Poll #34375 Smoke alarms
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 36


Smoke alarms

View Answers

I have some on ceilings/walls
28 (77.8%)

I have some in piles around the place
7 (19.4%)

I have an inadequate number / inadequate coverage
4 (11.1%)

nope
2 (5.6%)

when one goes off, I assume it's serious and take action
9 (25.0%)

when one goes off, I assume it's a battery issue and silence it / take it off the wall
15 (41.7%)

my place/building has built-in alarms, and I trust them
4 (11.1%)

my place/building has built-in alarms, and they go off all the time, argh
0 (0.0%)

other
3 (8.3%)

ticky-box full of pizza, yeah!
18 (50.0%)

ticky-box full of iridescent bubbles
24 (66.7%)

ticky-box full of chopsticks
16 (44.4%)

ticky-box full of hiking
15 (41.7%)

ticky-box full of hugs
30 (83.3%)

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Poll #34373 Clothes
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12


How emphatic are your opinions on Shen Wei’s Haixing clothes?

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Not (clothes are clothes)
1 (8.3%)

Not with a few exceptions (accessories)
0 (0.0%)

Not with a few exceptions (outfits)
1 (8.3%)

Somewhat
2 (16.7%)

Very
5 (41.7%)

Extremely
3 (25.0%)

I will fight you!
1 (8.3%)

I didn't use to, but fandom has made me care
1 (8.3%)

How emphatic are your opinions on Zhao Yunlan's clothes?

View Answers

Not (clothes are clothes)
1 (8.3%)

Not with a few exceptions
1 (8.3%)

Somewhat
4 (33.3%)

Very
5 (41.7%)

Extremely
1 (8.3%)

I've papered my bedroom with screencaps of him in that grey sweater and distressed jeans
2 (16.7%)

What does Zhao Yunlan find sexiest about the Envoy? (check all that apply)

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mystery
8 (66.7%)

super-strength
5 (41.7%)

other powers
3 (25.0%)

authority
7 (58.3%)

mercy
8 (66.7%)

mouth
7 (58.3%)

eyelashes
7 (58.3%)

those slight, faint-hint-of-amusement smiles
9 (75.0%)

weapon
2 (16.7%)

the fact that Zhao Yunlan's father would strongly disapprove
4 (33.3%)

other (please specify in comments)
1 (8.3%)

Which of these best describes you?

View Answers

I speak/read Mandarin well / It's my first language
0 (0.0%)

I'm learning Mandarin
4 (33.3%)

I'm learning Mandarin because of Guardian
2 (16.7%)

I've picked up a few words
5 (41.7%)

I don't know any Mandarin but I'd like to learn
0 (0.0%)

Don’t know anything, languages are haaard
1 (8.3%)

No Mandarin, but I know (an)other Asian language(s)
2 (16.7%)

Other
1 (8.3%)

[ SECRET POST #7010 ]

Mar. 16th, 2026 05:17 pm
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Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Oscar winner Michael B Jordan! Woohoo! I did not watch the Oscars but I am so happy for MBJ!

Also for Kpop Demon Hunters and "Golden!"

Here are two links I enjoyed this morning:

= Don't Fence Ted McGinley In (NYT gift link) (also, spoilers for aired episodes of Shrinking)

= 'The Pitt,' as Told by Its Patients

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