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Fandom 50 #18

Untitled Chibi Jim by StarBramble
Fandom: Our Flag Means Death
Character: Jim Jimenez
Medium: Art
Length: 1 piece
Rating: SFW
My Bookmark Tags: action/adventure, happy ending, portrait, clothing, blades

Description:
A chibi-style drawing of a smiling Jim Jimenez in a fencing pose with their dagger, dressed in their season 2 outfit.

This is just super cute. I love Jim's adorkable moments on the show, and I always love a good juxtaposition of cuteness and deadliness. Jim's ready to star in their own stabby Little Golden Book here, complete with a loving representation of my favourite ensemble of theirs: the undercut, the mustard-colour shirt hanging artfully open at the collar, the suspenders, the earring. I just want to take them home with me.
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[personal profile] genarti
1. Roméo et Juliette at the Boston Ballet

This was incredible???

More rambling about that )

If you're in the Boston area and interested, it's open through June 8 and I highly recommend it.

(ETA: [personal profile] skygiants has also written this up in a much more detailed blow-by-blow way!)

2. Fun Home with The Burlington Players

Another great show, although this one isn't still going; we saw one of the last performances of the run, a couple weeks ago.

More thoughts (briefer) )

...And I'll leave this post there, because it's already long and the hour is late. I was going to add in an art show that I had a pottery piece in (!?!?! I'm delighted and that still feels fake) but that'll get its own post, instead, in a day or two. I'm mentioning it all the same to remind myself to follow through.

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May. 30th, 2025 11:23 pm
skygiants: Rue from Princess Tutu dancing with a raven (belle et la bete)
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The Boston Ballet production of Maillot's Romeo et Juliette has turned out to be not only my favorite Boston Ballet production that I've seen so far but also tbh one of my favorite Romeo and Juliets full stop. It is Taking Swings and Making Choices and some of them are very weird but all of them are interesting.

we're just gonna go ahead and cut for length )

Not as it was [early music, MA]

May. 31st, 2025 12:23 am
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Back in 2013, I winnowed down the entire listings of Boston Early Music Festival events, official and fringe, to a curated concentrate of just concerts and other events featuring music from before 1600 AD. There were about 35 of them.

The 2025 BEMF is just nine days out and the Fringe Concerts listings updated today has a total of fewer than 30 listings.

went to the curveball, bounced it

May. 30th, 2025 07:45 pm
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I slept very poorly last night and woke up with a blinding headache and some serious nausea, so I called out of work and went back to bed for a couple of hours.

I keep meaning to post then forgetting what I want to say, since it's mostly just about work. I did get several amazing photos of Baby Miss L in a Spider-Gwen outfit with a hood (with a glittery pink mask on it), a cute blue spider on the torso (when I first saw it, I admit my initial response was "Khaji Da?" so it's more scarab than spider but also she's 2 and a half, so) and a skirt decorated with webbing. It's so cute and she apparently approved of it by saying "Spider-Man! Spider-Man!" in her specific toddler lingo. And the Superman dress finally arrived so I hope to see pictures of that soon, too! Also, she has taken to carrying her Easter basket over her shoulder like a purse and calling it her bag, so she is definitely getting a headstart on her fashionista personality.

In other news, I was reading some fic I was otherwise enjoying but I will never ever ever understand why in EVERY SINGLE FANDOM I have ever read fic in, there are some gobsmackingly awful non-canon nicknames that proliferate. Sometimes for characters who already have a canonical nickname, so why? I mean, I get that the use of a nickname can be intimacy marker (much like the switch from last name to first name, or full first name to canon nickname), but the fact is, none of the characters this is applied to would ever allow themselves to be called these names by ANYONE, not even an intimate partner. The worst is when Jason calls Talia "Tals." NO. WHO thinks TALIA AL GHUL, DAUGHTER OF THE DEMON, is going to let ANYONE call her "Tals." No, really, meet me in the parking lot, I just have some questions.

I also don't understand when people apologize for...well, anything really, in their author's notes, but especially when they say shit like, "Sorry this chapter is mostly dialogue! We'll get back to the introspection soon!" I mean, I guess some people don't like dialogue??? Obviously mileage varies. But it is frequently the best part of a story for me. If your story holds off on dialogue for too long in favor of maundering introspection, I will likely wander away and never come back (like, obviously if it's a 900-word plotless character ramble that's fine, but then you are not posting it in chapters, at least I'd hope not).

I guess if you're not confident in your character voices, dialogue can be difficult, but you're still going to need to get the character voice right in the narration/introspection, and some characters are not really going to be doing a lot of introspection at all, even in their own heads, so it's even harder to get them right. Which is probably when it's time to revisit canon. But I admit, dialogue is pretty much the easiest thing I find to write, so possibly it's just me.

*

Rabbit & Steel (2024)

May. 30th, 2025 04:55 pm
pauraque: Guybrush writing in his journal adrift on the sea in a bumper car (monkey island adrift)
[personal profile] pauraque
Rabbit & Steel is a bullet hell roguelike with fast-paced gameplay inspired by MMO combat and boss encounter mechanics. You have to learn how to optimally use your offensive and defensive abilities, sustaining enough damage to beat each boss within the time limit while constantly dodging projectiles and other hazards.

players try to wedge into a narrow safe zone while fighting a giant dragon

You can play solo, in which case it's primarily a bullet hell game, but co-op is where it really shines. In a group the bosses have multiplayer mechanics that will be familiar if you've played WoW or FF14: stack together for protection, spread apart so you don't blow each other up, etc. If you enjoy the feel of MMO combat and the process of planning strategies and mastering the unique dance of each boss encounter, but you don't like (or want a break from) all the long-term character power progression aspects of an MMO, this might be your new favorite game.

Read more... )

Rabbit & Steel is on Steam for $14.99 USD. There's also a free demo.

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May. 30th, 2025 10:09 pm
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[personal profile] fred_mouse

I've not been posting, because life has been exhausting. Some paperwork, some attempting to get the house under control with a different deadline than previous, some house-guest G, visiting from Canberra. They arrived Tuesday. Wednesday they had sorted to go out with a friend, and I spent much of the afternoon scanning SwanCon history stuff. Thursday we went to the Shipwrecks Museum and talked about what I know of Fremantle history; had a very mediocre lunch at a cafe that wasn't as good as I remembered from a couple of years ago; failed to go to the library; and went and watched Thunderbolts (I have opinions, but I haven't attempted to articulate them much). Today, we did a potted tour of the hills, going up Crystal Brook Road, stopping at the lookout at the junction of that and Welshpool Road; lunch at the Kalamunda Dome; G learning that gum nut babies (of May Gibbs fame) are actually based on real gum nuts and that May Gibbs is claimed as a local; a detour to the car park at Lesmurdie Falls and discovering that the path is short but too many stairs for G to see the Falls; wandering out to Mundaring Weir; taking a random set of roads that seem like home to me and meant that we could see the cut of the ZigZag down the hill; not doing a stack of things that would have been good due to limited time and energy. And then a small dinner party where we half arsed a range of things, but the food was tasty and the friends were fabulous.

and having written that out, I don't have the oomph to edit into more coherent and less run on sentences.

Fic: Clean Session

May. 29th, 2025 02:15 pm
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[personal profile] blueraccoon
Title: Clean Session
Author: blueraccoon/rebecca
Fandom: original characters, a/b/o tropes
Pairing: Will Greene/Jesse, aka original/original
Rating: NC-17/Explicit
Summary: It's a weird system for weird biology. And it's very weird to realize your kid has to go through it.
Notes: The author's id, let her show you it. Or, rather: This fic is what happens when an author obsessed with worldbuilding tries to make sense out of a trope that inherently defies reality, but also wants to write smut.

This is the first thing I've posted to AO3 in eight years and it's fucking original a/b/o. I don't even know, y'all, but I've written more in the last two and a half months than I did in all of 2023 so I'm not complaining too much, and I think there's some nicely hot smut in there.

More notes over at AO3 explain how the universe came to be (tl;dr it's an AU of an AU of a ST:AOS fic but by this point there's no Trek in it whatsoever) so while you might not recognize anyone in this fic, this is actually the prequel to the main storyline and there might be a familiar face or two in that. The main storyline is written to a point; the problem is that it just kind of keeps going and I can't figure out where to cut it. I figured out a break point for the first story but I can't figure out where the second one should end. Once I figure it out I'll post. Assuming anyone cares about this.

Yeah, so. Be nice, I'm very out of practice.

New Post at Lady Business!

May. 29th, 2025 11:12 am
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[personal profile] forestofglory
I am once again contributing to cozy SFF discourse: Domestic Labor and Community Building Rec List

This list is for all of you who said "I'd like cozy SFF, if it was the thing you talked about"

Doing my stretches

May. 29th, 2025 04:02 pm
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Title: Doing My Stretches
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: Dip pen mermaid
Content Notes:This Mermaid was drawn using a dip pen, and Diamine's Upon A Star Chameleon shimmer ink.
The Chameleon inks are really hard for me to photograph, they're sparkly, but very tiny sparkles,
and on a rainy day like today there's no sunlight.
 
My phone light does bring them out, but without bringing out a real camera it's probably a lost cause, and I would rather just get it posted. If you look at the close up of the tail you can see that it's got quite a sheen going on, and also I did manage to capture a tiny tiny sparkle. There's more there, really, but I just can't get it to show. Click on the images to embiggen.
 
 

inkstand


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[personal profile] mergatrude
Okay, in the spirit of "I read all your posts eagerly so I should be reciprocal" I'm dragging an entry out of myself with bloodied nails. I've been feeling pretty low energy mood-wise as I've been reducing my physical activity to try and let my shoulder heal. The downsides to inactivity include a circularity of no longer wanting to be active, leading to less ability to be active, so I've been pretty much stuck on flicking through my tumblr dash and reblogging cats. Cheap, low-stakes dopamine. :-\

Winter and it's cold fronts from the Antarctic are finally here. I don't like being cold, but at least today there's blue skies and light winds. I made myself go for a walk before having my lunch and I think that's the trick. Otherwise I sit there and play sudoku on my phone for the best part of an hour. It was so good for me, to the point where I've deleted several dolorous sentences from this post (yes, it was much worse than this).

Cheerful things! I finished my latest jigsaw. I admit to being addicted. A sunny afternoon in Amsterdam )

Dude is making me re-watch all three Sonic the Hedgehog movies on Blu-ray (because he does his best to cheer me up) and they are a lot of fun. Agent Stone is THE best henchman in the history of henching! We're also watching Andor and I keep saying, "This is about to go horribly wrong, isn't it?" I am holding off on Murderbot until all the episodes are out and I can binge them over a seven day free trial! I feel MB would approve of this strategy.

I recently finished reading The epic crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee, and it was a lot of fun. Monkey was something I watched and loved as a teenager (the original Japanese series) so I was primed to love this. Thanks [personal profile] isis for the rec, and everyone else for your book posts. Even if I don't comment I'm always taking notes. ♥

Currently, I'm reading The ruby's curse : a River song, Melody Malone mystery by Alex Kingston. So far it's as fun as a Doctor Who episode. I have The iron will of Genie Lo ready to go when I'm done with that.

I've been playing Ori and the Blind Forest (definitive edition) and it's so pretty. I bought myself a controller to make playing easier, but my hand-eye coordination is still not great and I got frustrated yesterday when I got to an energy gate and didn't have enough energy to open it. I didn't feel like back-tracking so I played through Florence for easy comfort gaming.

At work it's the start of exams, so things are about to get busy. I have to remember to stand up more often and not lift anything.

In conclusion, here is a picture of Ashah, who has decided that my Oodie is just wrong and refuses to sit on it. Read more... )

Hope you're all travelling well! ♥

shout out to all my townies

May. 28th, 2025 10:08 pm
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[personal profile] jadelennox

As a lifelong resident of greater boston, I will never, ever, forgive these assholes for making me root for harvard.

A newspaper with the headline DOG RIVER BEATS WULLERTON (SPIT) with Corner Gas characters Hank, Wanda, and Brent

wednesday reads and things

May. 28th, 2025 05:05 pm
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[personal profile] isis
What I've recently finished reading:

A Drop of Corruption, the sequel to The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. I liked it a lot (Din and Ana are great characters!), and I thought it was easier to follow than the first book, in the sense that I figured out the major twists and culprits before they happened (which is not a criticism, it means the appropriate breadcrumbs were dropped). The worldbuilding continues to be very weird and cool. Definitely one of the best Sherlock Holmes fanfics I've read! :-)

What I'm reading now:

I've gone back to the Shardlake series by C. J. Sansom and am now on the fifth book, Heartstone.

What I'm watching now:

Still Andor. The other night I dreamed we were giving a party, except our house was basically Mon Mothma's house on Chandrila and the party was like the wedding episode. And then I went into the bathroom to change clothes and I noticed that my husband had left the tap dripping water so the cats could drink it, just like in real life :-) And then I woke up.

What I'm playing now:

Still Mass Effect: Andromeda, heading toward the endgame. It's still fun! Except for having to kill another Architect, which is basically the thresher maw of the Andromeda galaxy, and I still hate both of those enemies!
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Metal From Heaven by August Clarke
I recommend to everyone [personal profile] skygiants' review for a perspective from someone who enjoyed this book more than me. I respected it, but I can't say I liked it. However, it is clear to me that many people would like this very much! A violently purple, ambitious fantasy story about lesbians who hate each other and the workers' revolution (sort of).

I felt like it careened out of its own control around the 2/3 mark (which is also where one can audibly start hearing the Evangelion theme song). However, if you like swirly-marbled psychedelic books with 90s anime antecedents where every character can be described as The [attractiveness adjective] [morality adjective] Lesbian, evil blue tangerines, and other people's trip diaries, this is for you. It's very very different, ambitious, and fresh, which one likes to reward, so I hope it gets lots of attention, even if it wasn't totally for me.


But Not Too Bold, by Hache Pueyo
This was… basically okay. "Lady Mary and Mr. Fox" but lesbian horror-spiders. I appreciated how the Folklore Flavor details were specific in a way that I find sadly uncommon in this species of contemporary "monster" "romance" fantasy. It is stuck halfway between the broad strokes of a fairytale and the demands of a lengthier novella trying to have a mystery plot, and the romance is really just armature.


The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands, by Sarah Brooks
This is a blown egg of a book. There's a shell of cool things, like trans-continental trains, eco-horror gaslamp-style, a quasi-Rusalki in ambiguous love with the orphaned Chinese train-foundling, and alt-history, but the shell is all there is. Bombastic but substanceless.


Hopefully in the next few months I will read some new-to-me F/F which I can wholeheartedly love.
pauraque: Marina Sirtis in costume as Deanna reads Women Who Love Too Much on the Enterprise bridge (st women who love too much)
[personal profile] pauraque
In this Hainish novella set sometime before Rocannon's World, the pacifist inhabitants of an idyllic forest planet are enslaved and brutalized by colonizers from the Terran military who are there to ecocidally clear-cut the forest for wood because Earth is nearly out of trees.

I have read this book before, but not in a long time because I'm afraid I don't like it. (cut for negativity) )

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