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SGA: Looking for Lamour by trinityofone

May. 21st, 2026 09:29 pm
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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Teen
Length: 5473
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: trinityofone on AO3
Themes: Journeys and Travel, Road trips, First time, Friends to lovers, Pining

Summary: “Don’t be silly,” John says. “You’re Bob and I’m Bing; now get in the car and let’s go find ourselves a Dorothy.”

Reccer's Notes: A classic road trip fic, with John and Rodney meandering across the USA toward California. Eventually, after some pining on John's part, the inevitable happens and the trip becomes a metaphor for them wandering towards each other.

Fanwork Links: Looking for Lamour

In tonight's game, the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

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May. 20th, 2026 07:43 pm
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Crazy Org is having a bad week. First the railroad strike. Then issues on subways - with various delays...and well... one of its cars caught fire and exploded.

The disabled were also protesting out front of the building about twenty four elevators being out of commission and not having enough elevators. (Sigh. They aren't wrong.) And maybe Crazy Org should consider settling that law suit with the elevator repair company, so they could have elevators.

Other than that, it was business as usual.

The weather got funky. It made it into the upper 90s in the city today (with the humidity felt like a 100 degrees) then we had a huge thunderstorm and the temperatures are rapidly dropping into the 50s and 60s by morning. It's 75 degrees now, after being around 98 degrees at 4pm. The storm was rather brutal.

***

Catching up on May Question a Day Meme:

18. There are hundreds of different shapes of pasta – Farfalle (butterflies), Campanelle (little bell flowers), Orecchiette (little ears), Rigatoni (ridged), amongst others. Which is your favourite pasta shape to have with a sauce?

Marconi, although rigatoni can be fun.

19. How’s your gut microbiome? Your gut is linked to your immune system, so eating a large variety of plants each week (at least 30), and eating fermented foods regularly (such as live yoghurt, kefir, fresh sauerkraut and kimchi) is said to have a huge impact on your gut health and therefore your weight and immune system. Do you make an effort to do that every week?

Yes. Read more... )

20. It’s International Customer Support Day. When was the last time you had to contact customer support? Were they able to help you?

Sigh. I think it was Amazon, and kind of? Customer Support has become increasingly difficult to deal with since the advent of AI. AI makes a horrid customer support specialist. I gave up on Optimum's which is even worse - they just type in a set script and get upset with you when you go off script. I'd rather have the AI.

21. It’s International Tea Day – do you like a cup of tea every now and again? What type of tea do you drink?

Yes - definite tea drinker. Read more... )
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Hee!

May. 20th, 2026 08:15 pm
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[personal profile] settiai
I think one of my favorite things about people make podfics based on my fanfiction is how many different ways I've heard Settiai pronounced over the years.

No, really, you wouldn't think there were that many possible ways for people to try to say it, but there are. "Set-tie" (the pronunciation that I and most people familiar with Babylon 5 use) and "set-tea-eye" are the most common ones, but I've probably heard at least half a dozen different pronunciations in addition to those over the years. Every time I think that there's no possible way someone could come up with a new one, they prove me wrong.

There was one person who actually managed to turn it into four syllables, which I quite honestly found very fucking impressive.
GILES: (weakly) In order... to be worthy...
ANGELUS: Yeah?
GILES: (weakly) You must perform the ritual... in a tutu. Pillock!
ANGELUS: All right. Someone get the chainsaw.
SPIKE: (wheels himself in) Now, now, don't let's lose our temper.
ANGELUS: Keep out of it, sit 'n' spin.
SPIKE: Look, you cut him up, you'll never get your answers.
ANGELUS: Since when did you become so levelheaded?
SPIKE: Right about the time you became so pig-headed. You have your way with him, you'll never get to destroy the world. And I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet.

~~BtVS 2x22 “Becoming Part 2”~~



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Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: M/M; Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 3,343
Content Notes: No AO3 Warnings Apply; winter weather as relentless atmosphere and adversary; public transportation as a liminal zone; possible unreality—the situation is open to interpretation.
Creator Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
Creator Links: (AO3–locked) [archiveofourown.org profile] Suspicious_Popsicle, (Dreamwidth) [personal profile] suspicious_popsicle,(Tumblr-locked) [tumblr.com profile] suspiciouspopsicle
Theme: Journey & Travel, Hurt/Comfort, Modern AU

Summary: When he came to, the bus was on the freeway. The windows were dewed with drops of melted snow that shone with captured light. Outside, traffic was at a standstill. Dingy slush covered the roads, gradually accumulating as snow drifted down from the woolen sky, the flakes picked out in sharp contrast where they plunged into the light of streetlamps and headlights. Wei WuXian laughed softly to see it. When he turned away from the window, he saw that the beautiful man from earlier was still sitting next to him, watching him with an expression that might, optimistically, be called inquisitive.

“The snow,” Wei WuXian said, gesturing outside. “It looks like champagne bubbles, only going the wrong way.” He laughed again, and rubbed his head. “Have you ever felt drunk, but been pretty sure you weren't drinking? Haha, no, never mind me. I'm just tired.” He rubbed a hand over his face, wanting desperately to sleep.


Author’s Notes: For [archiveofourown.org profile] firesonic152.
For my friend, who got stuck on a bus and sent me photos. XD

(See the end of the work for other works inspired by this one.)


Reccer's Notes: A modern AU account of a snowy night when Lan Wangji serves as Public Transit Guardian Angel to an exhausted, dissociating, and hypothermic Wei Wuxian—who has been in far more trouble than he realizes.

Until the summer of 2023, shanks’ mare and Dayton, Ohio’s city bus system were my primary modes of transportation. This hazy grey winter ghost-story-or-is-it? is anchored in Suspicious_Popsicle’s concrete lived-in detail, nailing the experience of looping interminably around just to shelter from the elements, waiting for the next opportunity for a stop or transfer (better hope you have at least a day pass and a sympathetic driver, and that you don’t drowse off again!) And of trudging wearily forward through the hostile frigid weather in sodden Vimes’ Boots! Boots! Boots!

Suffice to say that the idea of rescue by a steadfast, devoted, and ethereally handsome Saint Bernard held a profound appeal.

(This hits similar narrative pressure points to [archiveofourown.org profile] willowcatkin’s Guardian fic The White Umbrella, recced here.)

Fanwork Links: (AO3-locked): Night Bus, by [archiveofourown.org profile] Suspicious_Popsicle : https://archiveofourown.org/works/16792465
Collections: fics that cured ser’s depression
Inspired Works:
Little Talks, by [archiveofourown.org profile] firesonic152.
[Podfic] Night Bus, by [archiveofourown.org profile] flamingwell.
Just got my [community profile] intoabar assignment, and, as usual, my immediate response was to burst out laughing. Not sure how this one's going to go, but given that the dynamic is "multiverse's most unsubtly flirty woman meets multiverse's most socially oblivious man," it can surely only be entertaining.
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Reading Wednesday

May. 20th, 2026 06:58 am
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[personal profile] sabotabby
Just finished: Five Points On an Invisible Line by Su J Sokol. I don't have a lot to add since I'd almost finished it last week, but the final setpiece, a massive, multi-tactic demonstration, is really well done. 

Currently reading: Written On the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay. Time to start Aurora Awards reading. TBH I started one of the best novels—won't say which one—and found it very much unparsable in the way that some secondary world fantasy is just too much for me, so I moved on to this one. I'm around halfway through and the jury's still out.

This one is set in Fantasy Medieval France and follows a tavern poet who's recruited by the local provost to help him solve the murder of a duke who is running the country, since his brother, the king, suffers from an undisclosed madness. Great concept, cool characters, the setting is a breath of fresh air, and I cannot argue that Kay is a superb prose stylist.

And yet I almost always bounce off his work. There's a certain Tolkienesque narrative distance that I think works for Tolkien but feels peculiarly pre-modern. Objectively, I respect this as a deliberately alienating technique, but it means that I don't bond with it in quite the same way, and takes a tremendous feat of writing elsewhere to make me love it. It's entirely possible that this will hit that and I'm giving it a chance but so far I'm feeling that I like what he's doing but don't feel emotionally invested.
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274 dungeon crawler carl

May. 20th, 2026 01:57 am
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x274 various, mostly Carl, Donut, & Mordecai

all here!
Doyle: "How are you going to explain this to Harry, huh?"
Richard: "Oh, Harry will understand. She loves and accepts our culture, just like loved and accepted yours."
Dad: "Nick, what's this?"
Nick: "You said, get a utensil."
Dad: "This is a shrimp fork. He's going to eat the guy's brains with a shrimp fork?"
Nick: "Well pardon me if our ancient ancestors didn't leave behind any former-husband-brain-eating forks."
Dad: "Get a soup spoon, you moron."

~~Angel Episode #7: "The Bachelor Party"~~



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L&O season 3: Episode 10

May. 19th, 2026 07:42 pm
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The season finale was...again, not bad. In general I'd say that season 3 is relatively strong by L&O standards. Not by like, good TV standards, but entirely watchable.


XOXO )

I hope you've enjoyed watching this garbage show with me. See you next season!
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\o/

May. 19th, 2026 07:58 pm
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Oh, hey! I just realized that our office is closed on Friday as well as Monday, so I get a four day weekend!

I'm going to try to do some grocery shopping after work on Thursday and maybe pick up a 12-pack of Corona to see me through the long weekend, and then I'm going to plan on not leaving the house for the entirety of those four days.
For bringing me some much-needed comic relief at work today, I would like to thank the guy who, during a conversation about Star Trek, informed me in the tones of someone imparting a rich, strange, scandalous, juicy secret that there was a lot of fanfiction out there, and did I know a ton of it was about Kirk and Spock having a relationship? Isn't that weird?

I think I deserve an Oscar for mostly keeping a straight face at that point.
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What You Are Looking for Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

A short-story cycle, with delicate threads weaving it together past the main connection, which is that, in every story, someone comes to the library while troubled at heart.

The librarian gives recommendations for books, one of which is off-the-wall, and also a felted object such as a plane. In each story, the character finds this cryptic, but reads the book.

TV Tuesday: Talk, Talk

May. 19th, 2026 12:11 pm
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Laptop-TV combo with DVDs on top and smartphone on the desk



Podcasts have officially overtaken AM/FM talk radio as the more popular medium for spoken-word audio in the United States. "Netflix is inking deals with iHeartMedia and Barstool Sports to bring podcasts to the streaming service as a more trendy version of the daytime talk show."

YouTube has said that viewers watched 700 million hours of podcasts each month in 2025 on living room devices, like TVs, up from 400 million the previous year.

Would you be interested in seeing more podcasts on offer at streaming services? Any particular kind?

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May. 19th, 2026 06:05 pm
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In 24 12 hours, the UN will vote on a landmark climate resolution recognizing that governments have a legal obligation to fight the climate crisis.

Add your name now to help tip the vote!
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The Time of the Doctor icons
Sorry, I made the most depressing icons ever ;____; There's one icon at the end that is kind of cracky (albeit still depressing). So 35 icons total. Major spoilers for Eleven's regeneration episode.

Teasers:



here @ my journal
GILES: Buffy, I—I-I know you're tired.
BUFFY:(resolute) I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared. I'm standing on the mouth of hell, and it is gonna swallow me whole. And it'll choke on me.

~~S7E10: "Bring on the Night"~~



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