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I finished my first playthrough of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and I enjoyed it a LOT. I want to make a proper post about it, but I do not have the energy right now, so you get my thoughts on TV instead.

( The Pitt, spoilers up to the last episode to be safe. )

I watched the last two episodes of 9-1-1 and the Nashville crossover and all I really want to say -- because I mostly enjoy the show for what it is, and I hate spec -- is that I hope that's all the second-hand embarrassment they make me put up with this season. They were fun episodes, but I had to distract myself through some scenes. Also, I cannot believe the Nashville set-up is... that. Every time they cut to the two mothers of Chris O'Donnell's children, I cringed so bad. If they were going to do something interesting, like have them forget him (I've only known him for one episode and if anything happened to him, I would cheer, oh my god, he sucks? He sucks worse than Owen!) for each other, sure. But this shit is the most trite, misogynistic trope and I feel like every time they make a new 9-1-1, they just go backwards.

setsuntamew

The final rankings are in, and here's how it shook out for me:

Anyway, I'll be moving to Sea World with the rest of the whales, see y'all on the other side~

Seriously, nearly being in the top 100 in a JP event is insane. Like. Yeah, MaM isn't the most popular unit by any means, but still. I'm not gonna top this for awhile (largely because I cannot be spending this much money on enstars regularly lmao). Also Kohaku is much more popular, so even if I get as many points in whatever his next center is, I probably won't be as high ranked. So I will hold onto this proudly!!!!

Also, I'm up early because 1) I didn't sleep Sunday night so I made myself stay awake all of Monday so I could actually sleep at regular hour for once, and 2) big enstars announcement stream at 8 am. MELLOW DEAR US is finally being added in game as playable characters, after months of edging us~ I'm so pumped!!!!! I've been intrigued by them ever since they were teased in name only during VS★AUDIENCE nearly two years ago now, so it's exciting that it's all coming together~ Nice Arneb Thunder abandoned them to ES - which seems to be a pattern with him, sorry esupuri - and now they're gonna be part of RhythLin.

~~hopefully that goes better for them than all the other RhythLin units lmao~~

ANYWAY. The stream was very good, the new VAs seem to slot right in with enstars vibes already ngl, so it's probs gonna be good things moving forward. They're also the next JP event, which looks sick as hell aesthetically but why is Juis the center for it? He's the leader, so he's managing to debut with three 5 stars while everyone else gets one. Greedy XD I like him and his stupid green hair tho, so I'm not complaining....it's just funny. tbh from the vibes of the MV, Nozomi looks more central, but what do I know?

The other thing occupying my time and attention is the new Pokemon game.........I can't fucking put it down. Pokopia is so good; I just think it's unfair that it's Switch 2 exclusive. I wish Liz and Pat could play with me ;w; Everyone's been enjoying watching me play, but it's definitely the kind of game that's most fun when you can play it yourself. It's like if Animal Crossing and Minecraft had a baby, and the baby was full of Pokemon. Which is to say, addictive as hell.

.....after I finish this entry I'm gonna go play it some more XD My house in the beach area should be done being built!!! It's just really good, okay. It was absolutely worth spending a chunk of my severance pay on a Switch 2 as my birthday present to myself. It's a legitimately good system (better than I expected, ngl), and I just. Look. Pokemon is so good ;w;

OH AND I DID GET KOHAKU'S SECOND FEATURE SCOUT IN ENG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He came home on the first 10 scout ;w; I was so worried that I wouldn't get him, cuz like....his and Madara's FS2s run the same week and I've had two years to save for it and then I blew all my savings on Madara's stupid global exclusive because I hate him. And then I spent $$$ on the JP event, also for Madara, also so he could ruin my life, which means I don't have a lot to spend on scouting right now. BUT KOHAKU LOVES ME. HE'S A GOOD BOY. I can only hope it goes as well when Madara's scout starts on Friday D: Fingers crossed!!!!!

Current Mood: pleased
Current Location: Garwyn Oaks, MD
Current Music: サヨナラ・ヘヴン ♪ 猫叉Master
Crossposts: https://kirrianu.insanejournal.com/54084.html

intothisshadow

I could've sworn I'd posted these, but apparently not! Here are the AO3 site skins I've made in the last few weeks. They all can be download at either So Obsessed or my Github.

Stargazer

Breath of Life

( More this way... )

impala_chick

For the

marchmetamatterschallenge I'd like to do four meta posts this month and cross-post them to comms and/or Tumblr. This one is about consent in the first two episodes of Heated Rivalry!

In our current internet culture, it seems like there is plenty of purity wank to go around. ( This is based on the show only as I haven't read the books )

OF COURSE Sex scenes can just be enjoyed for what they are, and shouldn't have to be justified. But I'm really grateful the show did not shy away from depicting sex in this way. It's essential for us to see the entire sex scene to understand Shane and Ilya's points of view in these intimate moments.

The TLDR; is that consent is not always black and white and requires good judgment.

aliensamba

Tumblr got banned in my country (the provided reason: "it's a gambling site" ).

Like what?!?!?!?!?

Who labeled it that? It's not a gambling site!

Current Mood: angry

kaffy_r

Music Meme, Day 21

A song that you listen to at 3 a.m. in the morning

I decided to get back in the music meme game after

owlboy picked up the exercise and commented that they got the idea from me. And of course, Day 21 asks me to share a song that I listen to in the wee small hours. There are at least a couple of problems with that. First, I rarely stay awake past 10 p.m. these days because I am older than the solar system. Secondly, on those extremely rare occasions when I think about being awake at that time, I find myself imagining walking outside and listening to the relative silence of Chicago at 3 a.m. Much as I love music, walking outside at that time of day calls for silence.

So what music could I possibly show you? I couldn't think of anything at all for a while.

My first choice isn't one piece; it's a rotating number of somewhat-more-than-ambient pieces (I think there are somewhere between five and 10 pieces) by the owner of a YouTube radio station, Cyber Jazz/Blues Ambient Radio (which I talked about in an earlier post). Its music has what is clearly a deliberate nod to the original Blade Runner movie, with titles such as "Deckard's Blues" and "Rachael". It shares both feeling and sound with the movie's soundtrack, although it's a lot more limited. I find it very soothing, and it feels like nighttime music or, at the least, music for nights of rain glinting off neon illuminated streets. And in that world, one could walk through the rain at 3 a.m. and this music would be appropriate.

Here is the link to that station.

But there are other 3 a.m. songs. Although I'm not generally a fan of Frank Sinatra, I reluctantly admit that his rendition of this song is better than that of the crooner I like better, Tony Bennett.

Watch on YouTube

Still, Cyber Jazz/Blues feels closer to what I would listen to at 3 a.m.

My previous entries in this meme can be sussed out via my Day 20 entry.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Cyber Jazz/Blues Ambient Radio

impala_chick

Connor Storrie hosted season 51, episode 13 of SNL! Someone over at

gamechangerhr posted the playlist of the whole episode. I think he did a great job, plenty of laughs and silliness to go around. They brought out Knight and Keller from the USA women's hockey team during the monologue! I know the US has very little to celebrate right now but at least we got women's hockey and Alysa Liu. Very proud that Knight and Keller got such applause and that the Hughes brothers took the deserved jokes well enough.

Watch on YouTube

The funniest sketch wasn't even in the episode though! Here it is, with a Rozanov mention :D

Watch on YouTube

Very cute how they included Hudson in the ice skating sketch. And the stripper sketch was also hilarious even though morbid and NSFW.

shuufleur93

Catégories du défi lecture | #91 - Un roman de SF

Résumé : Pauvre Arthur Accroc! Apprendre qu'on est devenu père sans avoir... enfin rien fait pour ça, voilà de quoi ébranler le flegme le plus involontaire de toute la Galaxie! Suffisamment, en tout cas, pour aller se saouler sur une lointaine planète, dans un modeste bar tenu par une légende - toujours! vivante du rock' n roll...
Pas de panique! Car l'imprévisible Guide galactique, décidément irremplaçable, dévoilera enfin tous les mystères d'une odyssée digne des plus belles pages de Marx - Groucho Marx; entre autres, les raisons de la destruction approximative de la Terre, cette petite planète honteusement qualifiée de globalement inoffensive.

Choix du livre : C'est un livre de SF, jusque là tout va bien...

( Avis )

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Title: "The Power of the Spirits"
Artist:

magnavox_23
Character/Pairing: Team, Tonane
Rating: G

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2x13 Spirits

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20 Drop Dead Gorgeous icons for

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Title: Weary Traveler
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing/Characters: Ronon Dex/Michael, John/Rodney
Rating: E
Summary: After Lieutenant Kenmore shakes off the retrovirus inoculation making him human, that was given to him by the meddling of Doctor Beckett, he becomes the Wraith known as Michael. He tries to find a way to survive, a person caught between two cultures, Wraith and human, but forever an 'other' to both.
Warnings: extremely dubious consent, ambiguous ending
Notes: originally written in 2006; diverges from canon as to what eventually happened to the Wraith named Michael.

On AO3: Weary Traveller

On

raselgethi: Weary Traveller

Current Music: Adele - Someone Like You

seleneheart

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Blurb:

Far beneath the surface of the earth, upon the shores of the Starless Sea, there is a labyrinthine collection of tunnels and rooms filled with stories. The entryways that lead to this sanctuary are often hidden, sometimes on forest floors, sometimes in private homes, sometimes in plain sight. But those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is searching for his door, though he does not know it. He follows a silent siren song, an inexplicable knowledge that he is meant for another place. When he discovers a mysterious book in the stacks of his campus library he begins to read, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities, and nameless acolytes. Suddenly a turn of the page brings Zachary to a story from his own childhood impossibly written in this book that is older than he is.

A bee, a key, and a sword emblazoned on the book lead Zachary to two people who will change the course of his life: Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired painter, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances. These strangers guide Zachary through masquerade party dances and whispered back room stories to the headquarters of a secret society where doorknobs hang from ribbons, and finally through a door conjured from paint to the place he has always yearned for. Amid twisting tunnels filled with books, gilded ballrooms, and wine-dark shores Zachary falls into an intoxicating world soaked in romance and mystery. But a battle is raging over the fate of this place and though there are those who would willingly sacrifice everything to protect it, there are just as many intent on its destruction. As Zachary, Mirabel, and Dorian venture deeper into the space and its histories and myths, searching for answers and each other, a timeless love story unspools, casting a spell of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a Starless Sea.

I found myself in tears by the end of this book, although I couldn't say why. Maybe because it was ending. A gorgeous, gorgeous story, full of lovely moments that took my breath away.

This is from a reviewer on Goodreads who hated the book:

The Starless Sea is a book written for true readers. I’m talking about the kind of person who spent their childhood in and out of libraries and bookshops; the kind of person who sits and imagines adventure and an escape from the mundaneness of every single endless day without magic: the kind of person who lives for books and reading.

That pretty much describes my entire childhood, so yes, I loved this book.

However, I understand why it would not work for some people - the story twists on itself, and requires a *lot* of attention to what has happened in previous chapters.

Current Mood: full
Current Music: Momma - Rockstar

lycomingst

From the other room I heard my cat screech a sound that stopped my heart. I thought he was hanging from something or was badly hurt. I rush in and he is on the window sill looking at a cat on the porch like he's found his arch nemesis. If he could get to him he would tear him limb from limb. The porch cat had a 'S UP? attitude.

wolfish_willow

tinny

I keep forgetting to write down what I learned... /o\ There are a few fun things, though:

( 13+1 things I learned in February )

magnavox_23

The Doctor + Fam go back in time to witness Mary birth the genre of science fiction, but someone's missing, the house is puzzling, skeletons are creepin' about the place, & Bryon has designs on the Doc. Unfortunately for him, she preferred to go forward to the past to hang with his daughter. Anywho, no one has any idea how Capt Jack knew a lone cyberman was going to break in to steal a lifeform from the future hiding in a lake in the past, but the half baked automaton seems to be suffering a little protractile dysfunction, so he and the Doc stay up all night and talk. After a metaphysical game of hide and seek, Percy is found to be harbouring doom, Mary tries to reason with it, and the Doctor turns out to be more of a weekend guardian...

12x08 The Haunting of Villa Diodati

aliensamba

Medium: anime
Title: The Matador of Love
Fandom: SK8 the Infinity
Character: Shindo Ainosuke (Adam)
Prompt: Jump Street - "charismatic"
Notes: 2 gifs for week 08 of "26.01 - Monopoly" at Fandom Empire.

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Current Mood: amused
Current Location: hueco mundo
Current Music: paradise - Rude-α

kaffy_r

Diaries

I'm writing this with a cat on my lap. I have to periodically remind Carter that he can't grab for balance at shirt. There are breasts under there, my dude, and your claws are unwelcome. Really. But I can't bring myself to knock him off my lap. That's partly because I love him, and partly because I know it won't do much good; in a minute or two, he'll be back on my lap. I have found myself repeatedly surprised by finding him back on my lap after dumping him - I don't even notice him coming up to my lap until after he's made himself comfortable and me uncomfortable. Cats. Go figure.

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Current Mood: sad
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Ateez "Sunrise"

althea_valara

And maybe not tomorrow, either - I did a TON of knitting the past three days and my hands are OUCH, so I need to rest them. Gonna take a break and read tonight.

Worst case scenario, we'll get back to it next Friday with more FFXI: Wings of the Goddess.

seleneheart

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Beck Chambers

Blurb:

Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend.

Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They will need to ask it a lot. Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?

An enjoyable story about a monk who becomes dissatisfied with their life and therefore treks into the wilderness to try to find their purpose. The world is a sort of utopia where the humans gave up their mastery of the machines they built when the machines gained awareness. They let the robots go without a fuss. The humans also ceded their mastery of the wilderness.

'Wild-built' turns out to refer to robots who were built by other robots once the robots gained their freedom and moved to the 'wilds'. Such an interesting idea - to put the robots in the wilderness.

A hopeful vision of what things could be like if humans weren't so arrogant. I may or may not read the next book in the series; there's only the two books and both are short.

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Joe Cocker - Come Together

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