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renay posting in

It’s SFF awards season again.

Many of us are looking at the novella short lists for the popular awards (Hugos, Locus, Nebula) and going, “Ah, another Tor sweep!” When I first got into the Hugo Awards, the short fiction finalists were the magazines: Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Analog. It also included pieces from short fiction collections from when publishers still let editors put those together, with a smattering of other, lesser known (to me) outlets. I remember the Tordotcom announcement, too! We were excited and we’ve come a long way. Now I get the pleasure of paying almost $30 for a hardcover novella, which I’m not excited about. I'm not made of money, Macmillan! ( Read more... )

conuly

Your furnace has one setting: off/on.

Your air conditioner has one setting as well.

The thermostat is just a way of automating the offs and the ons.

Turning the heat to 80 doesn’t heat the house faster. Turning the a/c to 60 doesn’t cool the house faster.

Keeping the heat on 80 so your employees are forced to run the a/cs constantly in order to keep the house merely “sweltering” is deeply wasteful, and I have spent considerable time trying to discreetly open the case to the thermostat. Alas, I cannot pick the lock.

Trying to draft a text to the manager about this that doesn’t involve the words “I don’t want to tell you how to do your job”. Calling attention to what I’m doing is unlikely to help.

musesfool

what a fucking wild night of sports. the Mets scored TEN RUNS in the TWELFTH INNING and the Nats brought in a position player to pitch, and the umpires had to call the replay officials to find out if that was allowed! Spoiler: It was, because it was after the 10th inning? Or something? If you're within a regular 9-inning game, I think you have to be losing by 8 or winning by 10 before it's allowed, but apparently the rules change in extra innings. who knew? #LFGM

ANYWAY. It was bonkers, and then I turned away just in time to see the Canadiens score the winning goal in OT in Game 7!!! I would have been okay with either team winning, and now I just need them to beat Carolina and whoever comes out of the West to win it all and lift the Cup!

And tomorrow, the Knicks are back in action and will hopefully do well and go to the finals! #go ny go ny go

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Current Mood: shocked

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fancake

Fandom: Bungou Stray Dogs
Pairings/Characters: Dazai Osamu/Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dazai Osamu & Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Length: 57,127 words
Creator Links:

valleykey
Theme: journey & travel, trans & non-binary characters, ambiguous relationships, non-sexual intimacy, road trips, hurt/comfort

Summary: Fyodor’s weak heart thuds violently within its cage of flesh and bone, ba-thump. Dazai’s knife kisses cold on the skin of their throat. They swallow, and the bob of their Adam’s apple against it draws blood.

“Alright,” Fyodor decides, “let’s find a way to die.”

// In the Decay’s aftermath, Fyodor and Dazai quietly slip through the cracks, and set on a journey.

Reccer's Notes: After Fyodor’s defeat, Dazai agrees to a double suicide instead of killing him and the two set off on an unexpected road trip. It’s a fantastic exploration of Dazai and Fyodor’s characters and their relationship. The themes of recovery, philosophy, religion, disability, gender, mental health issues, codependency, and intimacy are handled beautifully, and the writing is absolutely gorgeous <3

Content Notes: suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, self harm, right to suicide stuff, progressive & disabling genetic condition, religious elements, codependency, more detailed content notes in the author's notes

Fanwork Links: tell me we do not live in vain

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https://xkcd.com/3247/

Remember, your answers to the physics census are confidential; we will not be issuing Pauli exclusion principle citations.

https://xkcd.com/3247/

birdylion posting in

fancake

Fandom: Schitt's Creek
Pairings/Characters: David Rose/Patrick Brewer
Rating: Mature
Length: 30758 words, 2:56h podfic
Creator Links: written by

MoreHuman, podfic available by

Amanita_Fierce
Theme: Journey & Travel, Canon LGBTQ+ characters, AU

Summary:
It’s an attractive thought, that changing your life could be as easy as doing a hard thing.

Instead of moving to Schitt’s Creek, Patrick decides to hike fifteen hundred miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, through the wilderness, alone. He ends up meeting someone else with something to prove.

Reccer's Notes:
This someone, obviously, being David Rose. The story has them meeting while both solo-hiking the PCT and running into each other again and again. The "Journey and Travel" part is not just a backdrop for a different first meeting and getting together. Instead, the difficulties they face on their journey feel true to my experience of long distance hiking in spirit if not in detail, loving and awe-inspiring descriptions of the landscape included.

The fic also inspired a very well produced podfic that is 100% worth listening to if you like podfics.

Fanwork Links: Fifteen Hundred Miles on ao3
podfic of Fifteen Hundred Miles on ao3

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musesfool

Usually, I shower at night, but last night, I stayed up too late reading and didn't feel like delaying bedtime so I put the shower off until this morning. While I was in there, I noticed a spider, but it was on the far wall, and I was naked and without my glasses, so I let it live and it disappeared somewhere (the whole room is tiled, floor to ceiling, so I don't know where? but also. I don't want to know where).

This evening, I had to wash my hair, so there I was back in the shower, and I turned off the water and stepped back while I was lathering the shampoo, and there was the spider, dropping down from god knows where right in the middle of my shower!

So I had to get out - with my hair still full of shampoo - grab my glasses and a paper towel, so I could kill it, because come the fuck on, spider, that is not okay! The shower is sacrosanct!

It's a good thing I still have to stay up for an hour to detangle because I would not have been able to go to sleep right away after that, omg.

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Current Mood: shocked
Current Music: if it's a mess you're in, i'm in

musesfool

Yesterday, I made these ricotta cheesecake bars, for which I had to shell 62g of pistachios (oh, the humanity!), and they are okay, but either there is not enough butter or I had too much graham cracker crumb because the crust does not cohere. (I used pre-smashed crumbs because that is what I had and probably used too much. Recipes really should give you some sort of measurement beyond "7 or 8 graham crackers, crushed" for these things.)

I also made KAB pretzel rolls (half the recipe) and as always, they are delicious, even if the whole boiling step is annoying. I definitely recommend them, and if like me, you never remember that they have a small amount of butter (2 tbsp) that needs to be softened ahead of time, you can always just substitute the same amount of olive oil, also like me. *wry*

With the LIRR on strike, I'm not going into the office this week (I had already decided that anyway), so I didn't have to do any other baking, and I just bought some spring mix and grilled chicken strips so that'll be lunch for the week.

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Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: the way you changed my life, no no, they can't take that away from me

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cosmolinguist

On the drive home from gym this morning (D was able to come along! it was so lovely to have him there with me for the first time since February), D was as usual pointing out the Good Dogs. We saw so many dogs enjoying a Saturday morning walk in the at-least-partly-sunny weather.

When my attention was directed to one particular dog, I couldn't help but notice that we were also going past a Greggs. I thought D would like to know that I was now thinking about pastry, so I said so.

We kept going, and my tired happy brain didn't think anything of it when he didn't turn the way he usually does to get home. We were chatting away, and he still hadn't turned, and then it occurred to me.

"Are you going this way so we can go to Greggs before we go home?" The one nearest our house was one of the few reasons that he'd still be driving this way.

So I got two vegan sausage rolls for brunch (I always eat breakfast before gym or I'll be too hungry to function). They were perfect: still hot (because Greggs is so busy on a Saturday morning, everything is fresh) and flaky and delicious.

As we left the shop, I said "Thanks for doing this. It really was just an offhand comment."

"Yeah," D said, "but a lot of the best stuff happens from following offhand comments."

It's true. I'm so glad we get to share so many silly little adventures.

runpunkrun posting in

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Poll #34603 round 187 theme poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 95

Pick the next theme of fancake:

Just Like Canon
39 (41.1%)

Power Dynamics
35 (36.8%)

Whump
21 (22.1%)

conuly

Person A: You know you're supposed to finish the laundry if you start it during your shift!

Me, silently: Don't think of it as my three loads of laundry that I didn't finish during my shift, think of it as your three loads of laundry that I got started for you. Though really, if Person B had done her laundry during her shift like she should have then neither of us would be having this conversation today.

(There was no reason for all four of the women to have their hampers literally overflowing with clothes. Somebody, or more like several somebodies, clearly has been falling down on the job here.)

conuly

The trick is that the top arm needs to be firmly clipped to the drawer - not jammed to the back wall. Time will tell if my fix lasts.

Edit: No, X*, not thank god, thank me. I'm the one who fixed it! God had nothing to do with any of it!

* Not the real initial.

conuly

Honestly have never heard of this person before, but what an apropos sentiment!

Ah. It seems he was "the real Doctor Strangelove", "the father of the hydrogen bomb". Well, there you have it!

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conuly

Trying not to think of you
yet your face colors
every contour
of my mind.
And every way I turn
inside of a minute
I collide
with your laughter.
I am wind,
and you
are chimes.

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mific posting in

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Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Hayden Pike, Wyatt Hayes
Rating: Explicit
Length: 7060
Content Notes: Underage, as both Shane and Ilya are seventeen.
Creator Links: toomuchplor on AO3
Themes: Journey and travel, Forced proximity, First time, AU: Fork in the road

Summary: Regina to Edmonton was nine hours by bus if the weather was decent; it took a bit longer if — for example — your bus lost power on Highway 11 just past Dundurn, Saskatchewan.

Team buses, night drives, and one way things might have started differently.

Reccer's Notes:
This is a lovely story about Shane and Ilya as teens, just after the first World Juniors Cup, being forced into proximity on a long nighttime bus ride. The inevitable happens, and it kick-starts their relationship and their friendship at a much earlier stage, allowing them to rewrite the MLH's narrative. Told from Shane's pov, with wonderful characterisation and details.

Fanwork Links: Torture Me (With All I’ve Wanted)
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renay in ladybusiness - The Novella Question, or, Wow, Marketing is Expensive in Late Stage Capitalism
conuly - I need to explain how thermostats work
musesfool - put it in the books!
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET POST #7073 ]
sasheneskywalker in fancake - Bungou Stray Dogs: tell me we do not live in vain by valleykey
xkcd_feed - Particle Census
birdylion in fancake - Schitt's Creek: Fifteen Hundred Miles, by MoreHuman
runpunkrun in fancake - Theme Reminder: Journey & Travel
musesfool - maybe take me with you, we can hide
musesfool - the way you hold your knife, the way we danced til three
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET POST #7072 ]
cosmolinguist - Greggsventure
runpunkrun in fancake - Round 187 Theme Poll
conuly - It really is all laundry all the time
conuly - I may have fixed the dishwasher at work!
conuly - Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
conuly - Thread by Essex Hemphill
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET POST #7071 ]
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #1011 ]
mific in fancake - Heated Rivalry: Torture Me (With All I’ve Wanted) by toomuchplor

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The Novella Question, or, Wow, Marketing is Expensive in Late Stage Capitalism

I need to explain how thermostats work

put it in the books!

[ SECRET POST #7073 ]

Bungou Stray Dogs: tell me we do not live in vain by valleykey

Particle Census

Schitt's Creek: Fifteen Hundred Miles, by MoreHuman

Theme Reminder: Journey & Travel

maybe take me with you, we can hide

the way you hold your knife, the way we danced til three

[ SECRET POST #7072 ]

Greggsventure

Round 187 Theme Poll

It really is all laundry all the time

I may have fixed the dishwasher at work!

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Thread by Essex Hemphill

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[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #1011 ]

Heated Rivalry: Torture Me (With All I’ve Wanted) by toomuchplor

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