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I guess I wrote more Brilliant Minds fic. It's cheering me up rn.

Title: It Isn't Meddling If They Really Need Help
Rating: T
Pairing: Nichols/Wolf
Summary: Dana’s eyes widen. “Oh!” She pauses, and everyone watches her. “I have a plan to get mom and dad back together.”

It Isn't Meddling )
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Photograph with added text: Female Relationships, at Fancake. Four old Nepalese women sit together on a low brick wall, their feet dangling, most of them barefoot, their shoes kicked off below them. They're dressed in loose patterned fabrics in various shades of red and the mood is relaxed.
[community profile] fancake's theme for June is Female Relationships! That's any kind of relationship with any kind of female—cis, trans, alligator priestess, whatever you got! We already have recs in Star Trek Reboot, Mo Dao Zu Shi/Chen Qing Ling, a stop animation film featuring Barbie dolls and a Cher song (yes, it's as amazing as it sounds), Ghosts (US), and King Falls AM.

If you have any questions about this theme, or the comm, come talk to me!
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[personal profile] runpunkrun
Miserable teenage lesbian makes bad dating (and life) choices while her best friend looks miserable about it: A Graphic Novel.

I didn't love all the bad choices and self-induced misery, but I did enjoy how effortlessly queer this is, and the ebb and flow of the friend group. I also loved how on target the fortune teller's advice was, but that Freddy was just too deep in her own bullshit to understand it. The greyscale art is modern and expressive, with a lot of movement and delightful pink highlights. A good read, and the ending improves on the beginning.

Also the cover is just so good.

Contains: infidelity; unplanned pregnancy; abortion.

Ghost Post!

Jun. 3rd, 2025 12:05 pm
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It's funny, because I feel like I'm spamming about Ghost ALL THE TIME, but I looked thru my dw to figure out the last photos I posted of her so that I wouldn't repeat pics again and it turns out the last Ghost Post was in February. 🫠

SO! Ghost backlog! With bonus green yard transformation, lol.

March: the dead time )

April: last snow, first green )

May: fully and abruptly GREEN )

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Go By Feel (10623 words) by Alethia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Characters: Jack Abbot (The Pitt), Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Dana Evans, Parker Ellis
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 01, Secret Crush, Pining, Touching, First Kiss, First Time, Porn, robby's gay awakening, abbot has the best ideas, dana knows everything
Summary:

Robby sagged a little, another tiny rush of air out. Jack pretended not to notice any of it even as it slid through him, his hypothesis gaining evidence, firming in his mind.

No, Jack didn't think anyone ever touched Robby.

He was going to change that.

Recent reads

May. 31st, 2025 11:50 am
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A books update!

Recently finished:
Sonnets to Orpheus, Rainer Maria Rilke. Continuing my foray into Rilke's entire bibliography! I think this is my favorite of his works so far, with a clearer narrative arc than his other works that I've read.

The Siege of Burning Grass, Premee Mohamed. This started off strong, but the second half got messy and felt a bit rushed. I can see what Mohamed was going for - the complete devastation of war, how even peace movements fall to violence when a situation is desperate enough, how looking at your enemy can be looking at a mirror - but it didn't stick the landing for me.

The Fox Wife, Yangsze Choo. The first of two murder mysteries I read recently (I'll get to the second in a moment)! Loved the take on fox spirits in this and how they sit uneasily between the world of humans and the world of gods. I also really liked the elderly gentleman detective and his long-lost first love. There are a couple plot points I wanted more development of (I thought the people without shadows were underutilized), but on the whole I really liked this.

Catching the Big Fish, David Lynch. A series of essays on film-making, life, and meditation (a passion of Lynch's). I really liked the film-making essays - they put me in mind of Ray Bradbury's more autobiographical writing - but the meditation proselytizing got to be a bit too much woo for me.

A Song to Drown Rivers, Ann Liang. A retelling of the story of Xi Shi, one of the four great beauties of China. I wanted to like this more than I did, but I felt like it did a lot more telling than showing. I think it would make a great movie, but it was emotionally distant as a book, and I had a hard time connecting with the POV character.

Most Ardently, Gabe Cole Novoa. A YA trans retelling of Pride and Prejudice. This was recommended to me by my sister (a huge Jane Austen fan) and my nephew (he read it twice in a week lol), and it was very cute. I like some of the tweaks Novoa made, and Oliver's family's acceptance of his gender felt earned and cathartic when it very easily could have been treacly. I recommend it if you like P&P but want it queer!

Hyo the Hellmaker, Mina Ikemoto Ghosh. My favorite read of May! A kind of steampunk fantasy murder mystery set in a place that is not exactly Japan, but not not Japan, too. I mentioned on bluesky that it hits some really interesting notes on colonialism/colonization with its worldbuilding, though that isn't the focus of the story. It also has really cool takes on gods and patronage thereof, and you can definitely see the influence of both Japanese mythology and British mythology/fairy stories in the writing (the author is British-Japanese). And it's illustrated by the author!

Current Reads:
Unromance, Erin Connor
Think Little, Wendell Berry

whoopsie, media update

May. 29th, 2025 12:40 pm
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[personal profile] omens
Forgot to post my media update yesterday! Unrelatedly, saw this chipmunk today :D



A lucky catch!


TV/movies:

Miss Night and Day we are 2 eps from the end and this one has stuck the landing, imo. I have quibbles, the whole murder plot is kinda - well, we kinda thought it would make more sense, lol. But this is, at its core, the cat magic shenanigans show.

Amphibia L really likes this show & we are doing a cultural exchange (he is watching Owl House). And I usually am so annoyed by all the "but it's so ugly" complaints that people have about cartoons when they just don't appreciate style & especially don't appreciate animation, but god, it's so ugly. And screamy. Perhaps it will grow on me. The nagging to get more episodes in is not growing on me, lol. I've only seen the first episode so far.


Games: Stardew Valley brought my wilderness farm to year 3, been needing a no brain media option lately.


Books/Comics: I think I'm quitting all of my books, ngl. Because Internet will come back around bc I had to return it but renewed the hold. Hammajang Luck seemed like it would be fun if I could look past one of my most loathed tropes (falling for the ice queen/king who betrayed you in the past) and might even go beyond that and give her A Real Good Reason She Had To. No thanks :D


Writing and other wips: I actually wrote a bit!! Brainstorming on a new wip, LOLOL. ;_; but you know what, I'll take it! Going to host next week at [community profile] writethisfanfic, don't expect good convo prompts!! *cough* or possibly any, lol

BONUS PARK PICS :D pretty )

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Onward to The King of Attolia, my fav in the series! This is the high point for me, though it requires everything before it to have the impact it does, and it needs everything afterward to bring the greater story to its conclusion. It's still so good, so well-paced, so satisfying, and this time I greatly appreciated how they have the assassination attempt just a little before halfway into the book (instead of the near end), so Costis becomes privy to the deception that Eugenides has been pulling on everyone and is given the rest of the book to process this information, and thus share in our frustration as the reader by knowing that Eugenides isn't what he appears to be.

cut for length )

Brilliant Minds

May. 28th, 2025 12:52 pm
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I went ahead and bought Brilliant Minds S1 and binged. It doesn't have the central tensions I'm used to because the characters are canonically gay, and they're all human, hahahaha. In fact, pretty much everyone on the show is gay. Which is awesome. And it is really nice to see two hot 47-year-old dudes making out in an elevator.

The worst thing I can say about the show is that it is cheesy AF. Like, to an incredible degree. But it has heart, and it tackles neurodivergence and aging.

Zachary Quinto is absolutely HOT.

Sadly, the fandom action seems to all be on tumblr, the platform I hate most in this life, but if you search for Brilliant Minds, you can see ZQ's adorkable outfits and enthusiastic kissing. AO3 only has 212 fics so far, and for the most part they have tags I hate: h/c, whump, angst. This fandom needs some wacky humor fic. I am here to write it.

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