This time it's gonna last forever, forever...
Jun. 28th, 2025 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
regshoe----> This icon is an actual picture of me watching Kidnapped live two years ago. Yes, Geneviève, darling, isn't that exactly how it feels <333
I rewatched the finale! Yesterday evening, when I was very tired, and proceeded to be very silly about it for several hours. I could try to say some sensible things about how much I feel for Cheyenne and how great Jack and Nicholas are and I think there might have been something else that happened that I thought was pretty good, but honestly, my main feeling is just: what a beautiful ending, I love it so much.
And I was thinking: why have I got so attached to Geneviève, then? Is it just because she's really cute and Charlotte Gainsbourgh's manner is so endearing? Well, that's part of it, but I think the real appeal of her character is just here: the big dramatic ending she gets isn't about relationship drama or even explicitly about whether her job is safe after all, it's her being just utterly, joyfully happy about the madness and beauty of art. One of the bits of this show that doesn't greatly work for me is the element of embarrassment-based humour, when Geneviève goes to pieces in meetings with Cléa or those interviews where she has to defend Crispin—but I say 'doesn't work', if that's all it was intended to be then it didn't work, but it's not all it is—those scenes just make me like Geneviève more, that she does badly in situations where she's forced to be false. And, you know, she doesn't have Jack's polished suavity, but she is good at her job! She's good enough at the 'corporate caving' bits to manage, and she understands the true bits perfectly. She made this happen (whatever this is).
(I should hope her job is safe, though, now. And perhaps Cléa would be amenable to the suggestion that Cheyenne staying in New York might open up more opportunities for other, newer ballerinas here in Paris...?)
Meanwhile, that silly Tobias/Gabin ficlet is now my second most kudosed fic of all time, which just goes to show what a new, active fandom can do. I'll write another one and see how that does.
Someone else has nominated it for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
raremaleslashex, so I didn't have to; I've used up about half my slots so far on obscure old book fandoms (and NTS Kidnapped). I've paused in the middle of my ballet history book to read the short unfinished novel Nottingham Lace by E. M. Forster, which had the well-timed effect of reminding me that The Longest Journey exists and I love it more than anything, so I made sure to include that too. And that's two ships I'll struggle to say anything coherent about in my sign-up, but I'm sure I'll manage something.
I rewatched the finale! Yesterday evening, when I was very tired, and proceeded to be very silly about it for several hours. I could try to say some sensible things about how much I feel for Cheyenne and how great Jack and Nicholas are and I think there might have been something else that happened that I thought was pretty good, but honestly, my main feeling is just: what a beautiful ending, I love it so much.
And I was thinking: why have I got so attached to Geneviève, then? Is it just because she's really cute and Charlotte Gainsbourgh's manner is so endearing? Well, that's part of it, but I think the real appeal of her character is just here: the big dramatic ending she gets isn't about relationship drama or even explicitly about whether her job is safe after all, it's her being just utterly, joyfully happy about the madness and beauty of art. One of the bits of this show that doesn't greatly work for me is the element of embarrassment-based humour, when Geneviève goes to pieces in meetings with Cléa or those interviews where she has to defend Crispin—but I say 'doesn't work', if that's all it was intended to be then it didn't work, but it's not all it is—those scenes just make me like Geneviève more, that she does badly in situations where she's forced to be false. And, you know, she doesn't have Jack's polished suavity, but she is good at her job! She's good enough at the 'corporate caving' bits to manage, and she understands the true bits perfectly. She made this happen (whatever this is).
(I should hope her job is safe, though, now. And perhaps Cléa would be amenable to the suggestion that Cheyenne staying in New York might open up more opportunities for other, newer ballerinas here in Paris...?)
Meanwhile, that silly Tobias/Gabin ficlet is now my second most kudosed fic of all time, which just goes to show what a new, active fandom can do. I'll write another one and see how that does.
Someone else has nominated it for
raremaleslashex, so I didn't have to; I've used up about half my slots so far on obscure old book fandoms (and NTS Kidnapped). I've paused in the middle of my ballet history book to read the short unfinished novel Nottingham Lace by E. M. Forster, which had the well-timed effect of reminding me that The Longest Journey exists and I love it more than anything, so I made sure to include that too. And that's two ships I'll struggle to say anything coherent about in my sign-up, but I'm sure I'll manage something.(no subject)
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farsidecomics_feed“Well, this better not be just a wild goose chase. …Little Big Horn, huh?”
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Jun. 28th, 2025 01:33 pmfarsidecomics_feed“The dentist just buzzed me, Mrs. Lewellyn—he’s ready to see Bobby now.”
Gosh, I wonder why these adult kids don't want their overbearing parents in their lives...!
Jun. 28th, 2025 04:42 amconuly in agonyaunt1. DEAR ABBY: My son and daughter-in-law had their first child three months ago. This was the first grandchild on both sides. Her mother stayed with her for two weeks after the cesarean birth. I have no issues with that.
My issue is, my son told me I needed to leave when they and the baby came home from the hospital. Mind you, I live 6 1/2 hours away. I fought him to get at least three days when they got home. Then he said I needed to leave, but he never told his father-in-law to leave. Also, on the days I did stay, they asked me to get a motel while her parents stayed with them. I only got to go over during the day.
When I told my son my feelings were hurt, he said I was being a drama queen. I did respect everything they asked. I just want to know if I was wrong for sharing my feelings or should I have remained quiet. It has caused friction between us now. -- SECOND-CLASS IN TENNESSEE
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2. DEAR ABBY: My 19-year-old son, who is on the spectrum but high-functioning, has left home. He's legally an adult but wouldn't allow me to teach him normal survival skills, such as balancing a checkbook, paying with a debit card, etc. He knows very little about the world; he learns from his online friends.
It has been four months, and he has now changed his phone number and won't call, email or text. He moved across the country to live with an online friend. I'm very concerned about him. What should I do? I don't email him often, but when I do, I just tell him I love him, and I never say anything negative. -- LOST IN CALIFORNIA
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My issue is, my son told me I needed to leave when they and the baby came home from the hospital. Mind you, I live 6 1/2 hours away. I fought him to get at least three days when they got home. Then he said I needed to leave, but he never told his father-in-law to leave. Also, on the days I did stay, they asked me to get a motel while her parents stayed with them. I only got to go over during the day.
When I told my son my feelings were hurt, he said I was being a drama queen. I did respect everything they asked. I just want to know if I was wrong for sharing my feelings or should I have remained quiet. It has caused friction between us now. -- SECOND-CLASS IN TENNESSEE
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2. DEAR ABBY: My 19-year-old son, who is on the spectrum but high-functioning, has left home. He's legally an adult but wouldn't allow me to teach him normal survival skills, such as balancing a checkbook, paying with a debit card, etc. He knows very little about the world; he learns from his online friends.
It has been four months, and he has now changed his phone number and won't call, email or text. He moved across the country to live with an online friend. I'm very concerned about him. What should I do? I don't email him often, but when I do, I just tell him I love him, and I never say anything negative. -- LOST IN CALIFORNIA
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Daily Happiness
Jun. 28th, 2025 01:25 amtorachan1. We had an award ceremony for one of the stores today and I got some cakes for the ceremony and they were really good. Would definitely get from that bakery again.
2. This evening after I got home Carla asked if I'd be interested in going down to Disneyland for an after dinner trip and even though we just went yesterday, I decided going tonight and then having Saturday and Sunday just for staying home and resting would be nice, so we went down there tonight and had dessert and watched the parade. I'm super tired now but I had a great time.
3. It's the weekend!
4. Yawn!
2. This evening after I got home Carla asked if I'd be interested in going down to Disneyland for an after dinner trip and even though we just went yesterday, I decided going tonight and then having Saturday and Sunday just for staying home and resting would be nice, so we went down there tonight and had dessert and watched the parade. I'm super tired now but I had a great time.
3. It's the weekend!
4. Yawn!
JFC
Jul. 2nd, 2025 12:14 amconulyHow is it that we literally are talking on the internet, we have access to all the information, and people are still saying whatever bullshit they made up in their heads instead of taking a minute, a second even, to ask themselves "Wait! Is this even true?"
On a happier note, the newest episode of The Strange Case of the Starship Iris answered a question I thought we'd never get answered, which is "How on earth did Brian get a price on his head from three different mafias?" and - wow, beware the quiet ones, I guess.
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On a happier note, the newest episode of The Strange Case of the Starship Iris answered a question I thought we'd never get answered, which is "How on earth did Brian get a price on his head from three different mafias?" and - wow, beware the quiet ones, I guess.
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Jun. 28th, 2025 03:28 amconuly in agonyauntDear Care and Feeding,
I just learned my son has been doing something truly vile.
The warmer weather has been back in our area for a little over a month now. Many of our friends and relatives have swimming pools (we do, too). Last weekend, we were at my sister’s place and had been in the pool for a good three hours when it came time to leave. Before we went home, I asked my 7-year-old son, “Noah” if he needed to use the restroom, and he said, “No.”
On the drive back home, I joked that Noah must have a bladder of steel since he’d had no fewer than three iced teas while he was in the pool! Noah replied that no, he just urinated when he was in the pool, so he didn’t have to get out and use the bathroom. I was horrified and asked if this was something he had done before. He said, “All the time.”
I laid down the law with him. I made clear that this was never to happen again. I explained how harmful and disrespectful it was to everyone in the water around him and that it throws the pool chemicals out of balance. Noah agreed not to do it again, but I’m not sure I completely trust him. I got the sense he didn’t seem to think he did anything wrong. What can I do to make sure he keeps his word?
—Parent of a Pool Pisser
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I just learned my son has been doing something truly vile.
The warmer weather has been back in our area for a little over a month now. Many of our friends and relatives have swimming pools (we do, too). Last weekend, we were at my sister’s place and had been in the pool for a good three hours when it came time to leave. Before we went home, I asked my 7-year-old son, “Noah” if he needed to use the restroom, and he said, “No.”
On the drive back home, I joked that Noah must have a bladder of steel since he’d had no fewer than three iced teas while he was in the pool! Noah replied that no, he just urinated when he was in the pool, so he didn’t have to get out and use the bathroom. I was horrified and asked if this was something he had done before. He said, “All the time.”
I laid down the law with him. I made clear that this was never to happen again. I explained how harmful and disrespectful it was to everyone in the water around him and that it throws the pool chemicals out of balance. Noah agreed not to do it again, but I’m not sure I completely trust him. I got the sense he didn’t seem to think he did anything wrong. What can I do to make sure he keeps his word?
—Parent of a Pool Pisser
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Book review: "The Monster Baru Cormorant" by Seth Dickinson
Jun. 27th, 2025 09:51 pmrocky41_7 in fffridayThe day after finishing The Traitor Baru Cormorant I had to rush over to the library to pick up book 2, The Monster Baru Cormorant, which I finished earlier today.
Spoilers for The Traitor Baru Cormorant below!
Spoilers for The Traitor Baru Cormorant below!
The second book of a fantasy series of any kind often bears a very difficult burden. It is most often the place where the scope of the story grows significantly. A conflict which before was local to the protagonist's home and surrounding area may expand, often to the extent of the known world. New players are often added to the cast, bigger and scarier problems and challenges arise. The protagonist may have gone up in the world, wielding new power and influence, with new responsibilities. As a result, this is where many series lose their footing; a tightly-woven book or season 1 may give way to a muddled, watered down part 2 as the writers struggle to juggle this expanded focus.
The Monster suffers from none of those things. It is the place where Baru's story expands—in The Traitor, her focus was almost entirely on Aurdwynn; it was the full field of play and outside players mattered only as they influenced events on Aurdwynn. In The Monster, Baru has become a true agent of the Imperial Throne of Falcrest, and with these new powers, the entire field of the empire is opened up for her play, and it is fascinating to watch.
In The Traitor, Baru was narrowly focused on managing the situation in Aurdwynn; everything she did was to that end. In The Monster, Baru can do whatever she wants, and we get to see her finally on the open field. Even where she flounders and flails, it's delightful to watch the machinations of her mind constantly at work. Her cleverness rows against her bursts of sentimentality to produce some impressively chaotic effects, but she is as slippery as an eel to pin down, even when her rivals think they've gotten the best of her.
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PTSD Reaction to Sarah McLachlan - due South story, INCOMPLETE, story amnesty
Jun. 27th, 2025 11:04 pmpetraI ran across this Tumblr post about being entitled to financial compensation for having a visceral reaction to hearing "Carry On My Wayward Son" in public, and I made a silly addition, as one does.
Then something stirred in my deep memory and I remembered I'd made the joke I'd just made before.
Here, this is from my gdocs. It's the first two-and-a-bit pages of a story I wrote in 2012. I have no idea what the plot was going to be.
Title: PTSD Reaction to Sarah McLachlan (abandoned WIP)
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: It took Ray two weeks on the trail to feel like if Fraser got abducted by aliens, he wouldn't necessarily die within the next ten minutes.
Notes: This is my experiment with writing a post-Call of the Wild story and I chickened out right when the plot kicks in, but the RayK voice makes me happy.
( It took Ray two weeks on the trail to feel like if Fraser got abducted by aliens, he wouldn't necessarily die within the next ten minutes. It wasn't the best feeling he'd ever had in his life, that dependence on somebody else for stuff like what to eat and how to pee without freezing off the family jewels, but he got used to it, worked through it, and got to thinking about how Fraser'd been depending on him and Vecchio for years for Chicago survival stuff. That thought took the edge off of the sheer unadulterated what the fuck of the Arctic. )
Then something stirred in my deep memory and I remembered I'd made the joke I'd just made before.
Here, this is from my gdocs. It's the first two-and-a-bit pages of a story I wrote in 2012. I have no idea what the plot was going to be.
Title: PTSD Reaction to Sarah McLachlan (abandoned WIP)
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: It took Ray two weeks on the trail to feel like if Fraser got abducted by aliens, he wouldn't necessarily die within the next ten minutes.
Notes: This is my experiment with writing a post-Call of the Wild story and I chickened out right when the plot kicks in, but the RayK voice makes me happy.
( It took Ray two weeks on the trail to feel like if Fraser got abducted by aliens, he wouldn't necessarily die within the next ten minutes. It wasn't the best feeling he'd ever had in his life, that dependence on somebody else for stuff like what to eat and how to pee without freezing off the family jewels, but he got used to it, worked through it, and got to thinking about how Fraser'd been depending on him and Vecchio for years for Chicago survival stuff. That thought took the edge off of the sheer unadulterated what the fuck of the Arctic. )
Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone
Jun. 27th, 2025 09:22 pmsovayAfter many travails and an extra plague year in transit, the latest of the Paleozoic Pals has made landfall from the Carboniferous.
My father adores his Diplocaulus salamandroides. My niece has been sent a picture of hers with its accompanying book, to be held in trust until her next visit. My mother has been presented with its enamel pin form, which is done in bands of lighter and darker purple instead of newt-like red and black. I had forgotten entirely about the stretch bonus of Bandringa rayi, whose spoonbill suggests the Amazon river dolphin of the Pennsylvanian period. I really am invested in the continued existence of the Paleontological Research Institution, which is one of the reasons I have gladly thrown in to its Kickstarters for almost ten years. The present being so very full of horror and stupidity, it is important that it can also produce such snuggable plush of the past.
My father adores his Diplocaulus salamandroides. My niece has been sent a picture of hers with its accompanying book, to be held in trust until her next visit. My mother has been presented with its enamel pin form, which is done in bands of lighter and darker purple instead of newt-like red and black. I had forgotten entirely about the stretch bonus of Bandringa rayi, whose spoonbill suggests the Amazon river dolphin of the Pennsylvanian period. I really am invested in the continued existence of the Paleontological Research Institution, which is one of the reasons I have gladly thrown in to its Kickstarters for almost ten years. The present being so very full of horror and stupidity, it is important that it can also produce such snuggable plush of the past.
[2025 Album Challenge] The Legend of Zelda: 'That was Patrol; This is the War'
Jun. 27th, 2025 04:18 pmbut_can_i_be_trusted in lyricaltitlesTitle: 'That was Patrol; This is the War'
Author:but_can_i_be_trusted
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda (Spoilers for 'Breath of the Wild', and potentially 'Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity')
Characters: Mipha, Daruk, Urbosa, and Revali
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Implied violence; implied canon character death
Notes: Crossposted toanythingdrabble
Artist: David Bowie
Album: Blackstar
Song: ''Tis a Pity She Was a Whore'
Summary: This is not a war that they were expecting to fight.
( That was Patrol; This is the War )
Author:
but_can_i_be_trustedFandom: The Legend of Zelda (Spoilers for 'Breath of the Wild', and potentially 'Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity')
Characters: Mipha, Daruk, Urbosa, and Revali
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Implied violence; implied canon character death
Notes: Crossposted to
anythingdrabbleArtist: David Bowie
Album: Blackstar
Song: ''Tis a Pity She Was a Whore'
Summary: This is not a war that they were expecting to fight.
( That was Patrol; This is the War )
Dept. of Success
Jun. 27th, 2025 05:30 pmkaffy_rGot Through to the IRS
Huzzah!
I don't have to say much about it, but yes, I managed to complete my IRS account, and got approved for a timed repayment plan. Huzzah indeed!
Huzzah!
I don't have to say much about it, but yes, I managed to complete my IRS account, and got approved for a timed repayment plan. Huzzah indeed!
Album Challenge 2025 Hazbin Hotel / Make Me Feel Alive
Jun. 27th, 2025 06:26 pmcornerofmadness in lyricaltitlesTitle Make Me Feel Alive
author:cornerofmadness
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairing: Angel Dust/Husk
Summary: Angel wants to show Husk a great date night and he succeeds. The only problem with his plan is he needed a car. He helped himself to Arackniss.’
Warnings: explicit sex
Artist: Foreigner
Album: Footloose Soundtrack
Song: Waiting for a Girl Like You
author:
cornerofmadness Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairing: Angel Dust/Husk
Summary: Angel wants to show Husk a great date night and he succeeds. The only problem with his plan is he needed a car. He helped himself to Arackniss.’
Warnings: explicit sex
Artist: Foreigner
Album: Footloose Soundtrack
Song: Waiting for a Girl Like You
Birdfeeding
Jun. 27th, 2025 04:07 pmysabetwordsmith in birdfeedingToday is cloudy, muggy, and hot. It's been raining off and on.
I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 6/27/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
The first of the blackberry lilies is blooming. :D
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I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 6/27/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
The first of the blackberry lilies is blooming. :D
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