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Alright, I have tallied the ticky boxes and our winner is...29-31 May! That's over a month from now, so I'll be back closer to the time with the Chart of Temporal Mysteries and our anchor collection.

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Posted by Anonymous

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83641486

by Anonymous

Homura only cares about Madoka. If only because she doesn't feel she's strong enough to let herself care about anyone else.

Words: 1501, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/F
Characters: Akemi Homura, Tomoe Mami, Sakura Kyouko, Miki Sayaka
Relationships: Akemi Homura/Tomoe Mami, Akemi Homura/Sakura Kyouko, Akemi Homura/Miki Sayaka
Additional Tags: Character Study, Akemi Homura-centric, deranged intrusive gay thoughts

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83641486

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Jumping right in here...

This week's Minimum and Medium moods are: Enthralled, Happy, Indescribable

This week's Maximum moods are: Infuriated, Irate, Irritated

And here we are with Infuriated, the "How exactly do I differentiate this?" companion to last week's Enraged! Not helping things at all are the other two moods, Irate and Irritated.

If I had to differentiate between Irate and Irritated, I would suggest that Irritated is more likely to have something actively happening than Irate is, whereas Irate can have more of a "got up on the wrong side of the bed" quality; you can just be Irate for almost no reason, but if you're Irritated, something caused it, and may even still be causing it, even if that thing is no bigger than a mosquito.

What are your thoughts on this week's moods? Any ideas jumping immediately to mind, or do you need to work at them some more? Maybe you have a backup idea from Enraged you can recycle for Infuriated, or you've got a tossup between Irate and Irritated you'd like some input on? Or maybe you're coasting right along? However it's going, let's talk about it!

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Thursday, April 23, to midnight on Friday, April 24 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34514 Daily check-in poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 24

How are you doing?

I am OK
11 (45.8%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
13 (54.2%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
9 (37.5%)

One other person
9 (37.5%)

More than one other person
6 (25.0%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

hannah

Earlier today, I overheard someone saying that she ate "like a pig" last night, largely for her having eaten ice cream. I wanted to make a joke about acorns or truffles, but decided against it on the grounds that I knew she wouldn't know what I was talking about.

It did get me thinking, though, and it had me fairly pleased to find out that acorn ice cream is a thing people do - not on any commercial scale, but individual restaurants and kitchens. I'd thought it might taste malty, and all the descriptions provided agree with that.

I highly doubt I'll get a chance to try it anytime soon, but knowing it already exists is good enough for tonight.

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog

melagan

a map of the universe

I love APOD.

We are a tiny but unique piece of something grand.

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Scumbag System, Beauty and the beast , Wolf Pack

( URLs )

Current Mood: accomplished

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Current Location: it's a decent temperature so I'm enjoying it for all I'm worth

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https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/34811

Organization for Transformative Works: 2026 Budget

Through the last year, the OTW Finance team has continued to ensure that the organization's bills are paid, tax returns filed, and standard accounting procedures met. Preparation for the 2025 audit of financial statements is currently ongoing!

The team has also been diligently working to meet the OTW's 2026 needs, and is proud to present to you this year's budget (access the 2026 budget spreadsheet for more detailed information):

2026 Expenses

Expenses by program: Archive of Our Own: 71.2%. Open Doors: 0.7%. Transformative Works and Cultures: 0.5%. Fanlore: 3.9%. Legal Advocacy: 0.2%. Admin: 12.1%. Fundraising & Development: 11.4%.

Archive of Our Own (AO3)

US$58,283.93 spent; US$791,756.92 left

US$58,283.93 spent so far out of US$850,040.85 total this year, as of March 31, 2026.
71.2% of the OTW's expenses go towards maintaining AO3. This includes the bulk of our server expenses—both new purchases and ongoing colocation and maintenance—website performance monitoring tools, and various systems-related licenses, as well as costs highlighted below (access all program expenses).
This year's projected AO3 expenses also include US$500,000 to purchase new database servers, as well as US$60,000 for new firewalls and routers and US$35,000 in server related equipment to increase the capacity of existing servers to handle expected site traffic growth through the year.

Open Doors

US$1,957.84 spent; US$6,773.21 left

US$1,957.84 spent so far out of US$8,731.05 total this year, as of March 31, 2026.
Open Doors' expenses consist of hosting, backup, and domain costs for imported fanwork archives, as well as an allocated share of various OTW-wide productivity tools (access all program expenses).

Transformative Works and Cultures

US$317.00 spent; US$6,195.63 left

US$317.00 spent so far out of US$6,512.63 total this year, as of March 31, 2026.
Transformative Works and Cultures' expenses are the journal's website hosting, publishing, and storage fees, as well as an allocated share of various OTW-wide productivity tools (access all program expenses).
Additionally, in 2024, the University of Amsterdam provided €1,000 (US$1,061) to Transformative Works and Cultures, which will be used to help fund the Fans of Color Research Prize. One prize was awarded in 2025.

Fanlore

US$2,228.24 spent; US$44,460.06 left

US$2,228.24 spent so far out of US$46,688.30 total this year, as of March 31, 2026.
Fanlore's expenses are its share of allocated server hardware, maintenance and colocation costs, as well as its portion of various OTW-wide productivity tools (access all program expenses).

Legal Advocacy

US$0spent; US$2,927.92 left

US$0 spent so far out of US$2,927.92 total this year, as of March 31, 2026.
Legal's expenses consist of registration fees for conferences and hearings and funds set aside for legal filings if necessary, as well as an allocated share of OTW-wide productivity tools (access all program expenses).

Fundraising and Development

US$22,123.05 spent; US$113,881.76 left

US$22,123.05 spent so far out of US$136,004.81 total this year, as of March 31, 2026.
Our fundraising and development expenses consist of transaction fees charged by our third-party payment processors for each donation, thank-you gift purchases and shipping, outreach work by volunteers at various fan conventions, and the tools used to host the OTW's membership database and track communications with donors and potential donors, as well as an allocated share of OTW-wide productivity tools (access fundraising expenses).

Administration

US$32,837.40 spent; US$111,365.73 left

US$32,837.40 spent so far out of US$144,203.13 total this year, as of March 31, 2026.
The OTW’s administrative expenses include hosting for our website, trademarks, domains, insurance, tax filing, and annual financial statement audits, as well as productivity, management, and accounting tools (access all admin expenses).

2026 Revenue

OTW revenue: April drive donations: 18.1%. October drive donations: 18.1%. Non-drive donations: 54.1%. Donations from matching programs: 9.6%. Interest income: <0.1%. Royalties: <0.1%. Other Income: <0.1%.

The OTW is entirely supported by your donations—thank you for your generosity!
We receive a significant portion of our donations each year in the April and October fundraising drives, which together will account for about 36.2% of our income in 2026. We also receive donations via employer matching programs, royalties, and PayPal Giving Fund, which administers donations from programs like Humble Bundle and eBay for Charity. If you'd like to support us while making purchases on those websites, please select the Organization for Transformative Works as your charity of choice!
Thanks to your generosity in previous years, we have a healthy amount of money in our reserves, which we can use to pay for larger than usual purchases and keep on hand for legal contingencies. As mentioned previously, we plan to continue to upgrade the capacity of AO3's servers, which significantly increases server equipment and server hosting expenses. The growth of AO3 and other projects of the OTW also requires more volunteers and administrative support, further increasing expenses. The budget spreadsheet projects a withdrawal of US$375,000 from reserves to cover the costs that exceed the amount of revenue projected to be received this year. This amount may be withdrawn as needed during the year.
US$147,393.22 received so far (as of March 31, 2026) and US$830,450.00 projected to be received by the end of the year.

US$147,393.22 donated; US$683,056.78 left

Got questions?

If you have any questions about the budget or the OTW's finances, please contact the Finance committee. We'll get back to you as soon as possible!

To download the OTW's 2026 budget in spreadsheet format, please follow this link.

The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, OTW Legal Advocacy, and Transformative Works and Cultures. We are a fan-run, donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.

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lauradi7dw

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/23/nx-s1-5797482/michael-tilson-thomas-dead

Friends were in the Tanglewood festival chorus in the late 1970s. The version of TT they used was Twinkletoes, not Tilson-Thomas. What a goofy thing for me to remember after five decades. As usual, fuck cancer, especially glioblastoma.

mrkinch

There wasn't as much water as I'd hoped but it was still fun to be up there, and I didn't get rained on. I walked out the boardwalk, watched the Lake for a while, and returned up Loop Road, with a brief detour up Laurel Canyon and another down to the bench at the top of the Little Farm. The Anna's Hummingbird was still feeding babies, but I didn't see the Mallard ducklings; I hope their mother was able to shepherd them away from the runoff from two inches of rain. Only surprise was seeing a Swift high over the Lake, but not as high as I would expect a White-throated Swift. That behavior and the lack of visible contrast in the low light led me to report a disappointing swift sp. ( The list: )

It was "take the class to Tilden day". Yikes! I encountered at least six class groups, middle schoolers I think. They weren't disruptive except by being very loud.:(

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⌈ Secret Post #7048 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 08 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1006.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

musesfool

It's been a few years since I posted some Shakespeare on his birthday, but I am tired so have one of the most famous poems in the Western canon:

Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
By William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

*

I was all excited that it's Thursday, thinking about how there'd be a new episode of The Pitt until I remembered, alas, that there will be no new episodes until next January. Sigh.

I keep meaning to post my thoughts here and not doing it, so in brief, my thoughts on the season 2 finale of The Pitt: ( spoilers )

I guess this sounds like I had a lot of complaints but I really loved this season - I just thought the writing fell down a little sometimes, for some characters.

*

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Get Him Back - Olivia Rodrigo

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primeideal

I was feeling pretty optimistic about the sort-of-blank-verse poem I wrote a couple months ago, both in terms of how I felt about it personally and "no news is good news" when other people are getting rejections via Submission Grinder ;) but that didn't pan out. So now I get to try sending it (and some older stuff) to a new journal. (This is a spinoff of another magazine that I generally like and support but have been burned by in that they never responded, not even to the "hey did you get this," the first time I submitted to them. To their credit, the new mag has a policy of "if you don't hear anything after four weeks, assume rejection.")

Fun fact: in undergrad I semi-often wound up writing blank-verse-ish stuff as the result of a tug of war between my professors, who liked pretentious completely free verse, and me, who preferred more formal constraints like sonnets and stuff. ;) This time at least it's more deliberate.

I am out of the country seeing the world for the next few weeks! Not sure what my computer access will look like, I may have some downtime, but no promises--comments on exchange fic, etc. may be delayed. I have stocked up on plenty of reading material so hopefully there will be a couple bingo reviews coming later or sooner.

In the process of stocking up, there was a free giveaway of hardcopy books on a library shelf, and the original "Mistborn" was up for grabs, score! I don't think I need it on the plane, but good for canon review, or to give to someone else to get them into Sanderson :P

leanwellback

this is it
the empire of the dead
only crowns of bone
in these vast halls
sceptres pulled from sepulchres
in the form of femurs
ivory teeth bared
rictus grin triumphant
empty sockets surveying
the riches here below
in eternal imperium
that slowly conquers all

cupcake_goth

(The container from the refrigerated section.)

I had some for lunch Monday, felt unwell and had a lot of problems sleeping, then woke up early suffering nausea, chills and a fever, excruciating muscle pain, a bad headache, and overwhelming fatigue.

I did the right thing and tapped out on Tuesday and Wednesday with the hopes of being back to work today. The overwhelming vertigo and inability to think clearly killed that idea.

I am, of course, worrying about 1) the massive chaos I’ll return to, and 2) that’s three sick days that aren’t part of my intermittent leave, how does that look to management, something something job security?

ugh.

l33tminion

On Wednesday, we took the bullet train to Tokyo. Erica helped choose the afternoon activity, so we ended up going to Capyneko, a cat and capybara cafe in Harajuku. Beforehand, we had a snack of some very elaborate shaved ice (kakegouri) at PAP Coffee.

For dinner, we went to Denny's, which is mostly notable for the trivia that it's an entirely different restaurant chain licensing the Denny's branding. It's a good time, though, and "family restaurant" is a thing for a reason.

On Thursday, we went to visit my host parents, Kyoko and Isamu, in Shisui. Was really lovely catching up (making the most of my somewhat faded and not that strong in the first place Japanese language skills), and I'm so glad Erica had the chance to meet them in person. They took us out to a really nice lunch nearby.

On the way back, we stopped at Tokyo Skytree Town. Erica didn't want to check out the observation deck of the Skytree itself, the view from the floor 30 lounge in Skytree Town was high enough. The lower floors of the mall there had a lot of pop culture focused shops, among other things. Erica was very excited about the Pokemon Center and we had dinner at the Kirby Cafe, which was definitely very cute.

Current Mood: awake

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Name: reggie/reg

Age: 36

I mostly post about: stranger things, billy hargrove, dacre montgomery, joe keery, joseph quinn, fred hechinger, anime/manga, video games.

My hobbies are: drawing, writing, movies, spellwork/tarot/witchcraft.

My fandoms are: stranger things, gladiator ii, fantastic four, x-men, venom, anime/manga, the kray twins.

Before adding me, you should know: i am very gay and very trans, and will not tolerate any form of homophobia and transphobia. i'm also very witchy/pagan, and work with spiritual energy. if that bothers you, i understand! feel free to follow and/or unfollow at your leisure.

ysabetwordsmith

fuzzyred is hosting a pool for the half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics. Comment on that post to join the pool.

My main targets will be all of the Shiv poems and "Our Homemade Safety Nets." If there is more interest, I would like to contribute to the open epic "No Faster or Firmer Friendships," then possibly Rutledge poems if people are interested.
[---8<---]
If there is a specific poem you would like, let me know, and it can be added to the pool goals.

Current Mood: busy

greghousesgf

Shame on you Twinings. You got rid of Lapsang Souchong.

Current Music: Mozart

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- - -> enjoy the sunshine!<- - -

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01. <img src="https://tinpix.de/2026/wulei_dongji_8158688_4a.png" width="100" title="Dongji Rescue"> 
02. <img src="https://tinpix.de/2026/zyl_wulei_dongji_47888_4.png" width="100" title="Dongji Rescue"> 
03. <img src="https://tinpix.de/2026/nothingbut24_34.36a.png" width="100" title="Nothing But You"> 
04. <img src="https://tinpix.de/2026/wulei_ridenow201_4.52.png" width="100" title="Ride Now"> 
05. <img src="https://tinpix.de/2026/wulei_413667_2b.png" width="100" title="Ride Now">
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06. <img src="https://tinpix.de/2026/longballad114_24.37.png" width="100" title="The Long Ballad"> 
07. <img src="https://tinpix.de/2026/longballad138_30.01_02.png" width="100" title="The Long Ballad"> 
08. <img src="https://tinpix.de/2026/longballad125_28.15.png" width="100" title="The Long Ballad"> 
09. <img src="https://tinpix.de/2026/wulei_jianlai_iacl50ua.png" width="100" title="The One (Jianlai)"> 
10. <img src="https://tinpix.de/2026/wildrobot_5866.png" width="100" title="Wild Robot">
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tinny

This month's challenge #63 at

fandom10in30 was to icon characters outdoors.

Enjoy!
Nothing But You

( 10 icons, mostly of Wu Lei in different roles )

Comments are love - and concrit, too. <3 Take and use as many icons as you like, credit is appreciated. Texture and brush makers: here in my resource post.

Previous icon posts:

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https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26551792-darksight-dare-uploaded-today

The new Penric & Desdemona novella has just been uploaded on our five vendor platforms. It will take up to three days for some to show up on their vendor pages; I'll provide links as they emerge. This round, Kindle is first out of the gate:

Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2TBF7L

Nook: TBA

Kobo: TBA

Apple Books: TBA

Google Play books: TBA

To recap the description,

"Penric takes a chance…

Two intractable problems are brought to the door of sorcerer Learned Penric of Vilnoc and his Temple demon Desdemona. Cinar Camurat, a mutilated Cedonian cavalry captain, has traveled two thousand sea miles to Penric for aid. Iva of Bita, a secret hedge sorceress, lies dying in her Orban hill village, and wants no aid at all.

Penric and Desdemona know well the hazards of medicine and magic, but their greatest puzzle may lodge in the tangle of hopes and fears in human and demonic hearts."

As always, about the only push these indie e-novellas get from me are these blog posts, so any mention or reviews of my stories out and about on the Net and elsewhere by readers are much appreciated.

I just recently reposted the updated Bujold reading-order guide, to help out those welcome new readers daunted by the wall o' books: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... Do please pass the link along.

Onwards, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on April, 23

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26551792-darksight-dare-uploaded-today

kat_lair

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Title: Salt
Author:

kat_lair
Fandom: Stray Kids
Pairing: Changbin/Seungminn
Tags: Drabble, Ocean, Implied Sexual Content
Rating: T
Word count: 100

Summary: Afterwards, Seungmin follows Changbin into one of the many bathrooms of the beach house.

Author notes: Spring defiance from under the crushing forces of capitalism = a drabble a day in April. This one for

pushkin666 who provided the pairing and 'salt of the sea' as prompts. It immediately made me think of the Do It jacket making video. This takes place in the immediate aftermath, in case you want to like, picture outfits :D

Salt on AO3

( Salt )

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mekare

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ysabetwordsmith

scabrous (SKAB-ruhs) - adj., covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough; hence, disgusting, repellent; hence, dealing with suggestive, indecent, or scandalous themes; difficult, thorny, troublesome.

In botany, this lacks the negative connotations, and it is used heavily to describe things as diverse as tree bark, fruit, and squashes.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

The Pit of Bones: A Death Chamber Time Capsule

In 1997, scientists discovered this small chamber within a much larger complex cave system. They’ve found other human occupation sites within it, but The Pit of Bones was no place for the living. To date, more than 50,000 partially fossilized bones have been collected. These bones include more than 6500 belonging to an ancient hominid species, in addition to bones of over 160 individuals of an extinct species of cave bear, a panther, lynxes, canines, and small mammals.

In addition to some nice details and diagrams of the actual science, there is an amusing discussion of how badly this fits the "young Earth creationism" fantasy.

Current Mood: amused

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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.

This Week's Question: Does your crafting change with the seasons, certain crafts at certain times of the year?

If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

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Current Location: my desk

rekishi

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is sunny and hot, with fluffy white clouds in the sky.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 4/23/26 -- I took some pictures around the yard.

EDIT 4/23/26 -- I refilled potting soil into the hollow logs at the front of the log garden. Then I planted a 4-pack of white impatiens in the holes.

I put the flats of plants outside to get some sun.

I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a male cardinal.

EDIT 4/23/26 -- I watered the impatiens and flats of plants.

I've seen a starling at the hopper feeder.

EDIT 4/23/26 -- I potted up four green sweet basil plants and one purple ruffles basil, then watered them.

I've seen a fox squirrel at the hopper feeder.

EDIT 4/23/26 -- We hauled the new bag of grass seed out of the car.

EDIT 4/23/26 -- I sowed grass seed in the big bare patch at the west edge of the south lot.

EDIT 4/23/26 -- We hauled out the tape hose and the new sprinkler head. There is not enough hose to reach the grass patch, and with the low water pressure that we have, the spray only covers about 6 feet wide. *sigh*

EDIT 4/23/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 4/23/26 -- I planted a small trough pot with orange mint, mojito mint, and apple mint. There is room for one more mint there.

EDIT 4/23/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I watered the grass patch using the watering can.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

stardust_rifle

An Entirely Too Serious and Detailed Omegaverse Primer, which is essentially the author's personal worldbuilding headcanons for their version of the Omegaverse, but with an eye turned towards medical realism, given that they're writing for The Pitt. I <3 worldbuilding primers almost as much as I <3 Omegaverse.

Purist-Anarchist Ship Discourse Alignments, which made me laugh so hard. Gave me a flashback to arguing about Voltron ships on Tumblr, which I never actually thought I'd be nostalgic for.

And finally, Haruka Isn't Autistic-Coded – He Has an Intellectual Disability (And Why That Matters), a Milgram meta that I wish I could force everyone in the fandom to read. This came out before Trial 3, but it has overall aged wonderfully in spite of that.

maju

There's always something with Aria! She's had a loose upper front tooth for quite a while; the tooth has just been hanging by a thread but stubbornly refusing to completely disengage. Yesterday she was at a friend's place (with her mother and Eden) and when they came home she came rushing down to show Violet, who was with me in the basement, that her tooth was out. And the way it came out was surprising: somebody, probably my daughter, tied a thread around the tooth and tied the other end of the thread to a remote control car. Then the car was set in motion and boom, the tooth was out. I wish I'd been there to see it.

Aria is very excited about me going to her school performance tomorrow. She keeps reminding me, in case I forget.

I was thinking of going for a run before breakfast this morning but when it came to the time I just didn't feel like it, so I decided to go after breakfast instead, when it would be a bit warmer. It was above freezing early in the morning but the temperature rose slightly more later in the morning. By the time "after breakfast" rolled around I didn't feel very motivated but I made myself go out and did enjoy being out in the sun, but the humidity this week is higher than last week so it wasn't quite as enjoyable being out as it has been. Unfortunately I know it's usually very humid here all summer so I'm resigned to sweaty runs and walks.

raven

So mostly these days I am obsessed with The Pitt! I love the show so much, for itself, and because it's such a natural successor to MASH and other shows I have loved. I've said on Bluesky that it's the only show I've ever come across that really understands how teaching and growth and mentoring happen in a professional environment - fandom is full of academia stories, and indeed academics, and school and high school stories, but not so much the grown-up, affirming, important work of teaching someone to do your job because you, they and the job all matter. (What do I teach people to do! Not save lives. But it matters. I had a lovely, lovely email from one of my team before she went off on maternity leave that said wonderful things about my teaching, about what she'd learned from me, how her practice had changed as a result of me, at which point I had to go and lie down and cry for a while. When Robby says with emphasis, "This is a teaching hospital", it makes me think of it.

(Brief outline: Robby, otherwise Dr Michael Robinavitch, is a warm, scathing, compassionate soul who runs an emergency department in Pittsburgh, it's an ensemble cast of interns, resident doctors, patients, nurses and others and Robby is the keystone of it all in a tired, mentally ill kind of a way. Each episode of the show covers an hour, so the entire season covers a single shift. It's very good. Also Robby is played by Noah Wyle - and, as the show's executive producers lost a litigation against the IP-holders for ER, he is emphatically not John Carter. I love this. Robby feels, and is, beautifully imagined: a working-class Jewish man, who wears a magen David necklace, all because Carter was a WASP with a trust fund.)

I also love Trinity Santos, a brilliant lovely Filipina asshole of a lesbian, and Jack Abbot, who is Robby's friend and also mirror image - being to the night shift what Robby is the day - and also fascinating for himself. He's a former MASH combat medic which is what decided me for sure that the show deliberately draws on its predecessor. The Pitt isn't a sitcom, but it has the warmth MASH had; and Abbot, who is a lower-leg amputee, embodies some of its ambivalence. (And! In s2 they have someone deliver Henry Blake's "young men die" speech, with the same blocking as the original. I love it.)

Anyway I love this show. It is so rich and funny and so fucking human, all the damn time. Robby's PTSD is from covid, and his nightmares are of full PPE - and I was like, okay, do I want to watch this. Robby has PTSD from treating covid patients but my dad died from treating covid patients. But I did want to watch it, because it takes what it does seriously. I want to write a fic, about Robby and ( s2 spoiler ), and I also want it to be a daemon AU, because I am insane. I haven't written anything good in a year and like I said I am insane. Maybe I should just ask people to give me fic prompts.

rawbonedhound

The “rawboned” in my user name is supposed to mean like a really thin, really hungry dog. Not actual bones. But the bones look cool so I did them anyway for my new PFP