Wednesday Reading Meme

Mar. 25th, 2026 02:09 pm
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What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing. It's migraine time yet again.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

Dungeons of Doom #3, Fantastic Four #9, Iron Man #3, New Avengers #10, Ultimate Endgame #3, Wiccan Witches Road #4 )

What I'm Reading Next

IDEK. I'm gonna go have a NSAID.

Weekly Check In Post

Mar. 25th, 2026 07:57 am
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Posted by boothros

Hi BB’ers, I do hope spring has finally sprung in your corner of the world wherever that might be!
I always feel more productive when the weather is good and hope you good people have found the inspiration to make a decent start on your stories.

Whatever stage you’re at, remember to embrace the process, and celebrate the progress you make, no matter how small. Your voice matters, your story matters, and the journey is just beginning.

Most of all, just remember to enjoy it!
Best wishes.

FIC: Out of the Closet (2/2)

Mar. 23rd, 2026 12:49 am
luthien: (Heated Rivalry: Shane - wickedgame)
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Out of the Closet (3867 words) by Luthien
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, David Hollander/Yuna Hollander
Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, David Hollander, Yuna Hollander
Additional Tags: POV Outsider, Episode Tag, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, David Hollander takes charge, Marriage Proposal
Summary:

Of the two of them, Yuna is the worrier. Everyone who knows them, knows that. David is the quiet presence in the background, ready with calming words, or a convenient shoulder, always the one providing sustenance —and, if the situation proves sufficiently dire, cracking open a bottle of wine. Or vodka.

That's the face they show the world, anyway.

The truth is a little more complicated. Yuna worries out in the open, wearing her concerns on her sleeve the way lovers—though apparently that word has fallen out of fashion when David wasn't looking—wear hearts. But David is a closet worrier.

David's perspective on the end of season 1, and beyond. He winds up making a suggestion that maybe only he can make.

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Mar. 18th, 2026 07:54 pm
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Posted by krisserci5

Hi all

Hopefully you are busy typing, writing, scribbling with crayons or trying out hieroglyphs to get your story down.

There are times I wish I could throw ideas against the wall like pasta, but alas they don't stick the same.

If your are needing a wall to throw ideas against. . . .we are here!!!

Wednesday Reading Meme

Mar. 18th, 2026 09:18 am
sineala: Detail of Harry Wilson Watrous, "Just a Couple of Girls" (Reading)
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What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing. Still have not attempted books. Currently getting over a migraine. I have to say, if I am now down to one migraine a week (which would be great, actually) I don't see why it has to be on Comics Wednesday two weeks in a row so that all my comics reviews are ass because I am clearly having difficulty comprehending comics.

Perhaps I could wait until Thursday to read them? No. It must be Wednesday. Otherwise the internet will spoil me.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

Captain America #8, Sorcerer Supreme #4, Ultimate Wolverine #15, Ultimates #22 )

What I'm Reading Next

Look, I'd be happy if I just got to read a book ever again.

Vids Resurrected!

Mar. 17th, 2026 10:55 pm
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Since I took my vids site down years ago and then had my vidding machine crash on me, my vids have been spread scattershot in various places. A few on YouTube. A few on the Internet Archive. Most MIA. But I was poking around the basement and finally found the disk backups of a lot of them, so I'm going to start putting them back online and up on AO3.

First two show the fully crazy range of my vidding: wacky hijinks to existential dread.

The wacky hijinks part is on display in the first one:

Pop a Boner

A multifandom vid using every instance of male nudity I could get my grubby little paws on.

The song is from the Zero Patience soundtrack. (Zero Patience is a Canadian musical about the alleged first AIDS patient. It's funny and uplifting and fuelled by furious outrage. You should watch it.)

And for existential dread, have a little Withnail and I:

The Fear

The song is by Pulp, and I used every moment of dread and depression in Withmail & I. (Withnail is a really funny movie with a high angst quotient, and I chose the angst over the humour for this one.)

This is the vid I'm possibly most proud of, and I'd feared it was lost forever, so I was so happy to find it in my disk backups.

Slay the Spire 2

Mar. 17th, 2026 11:04 pm
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I have slightly more brain now and maybe enough energy to post more? Let's find out. I'm sure you've missed me posting about random video games.

Anyway, Slay the Spire 2, the sequel to my most favorite roguelike deckbuilder Slay the Spire came out in Early Access two weeks ago, and is apparently stunningly popular -- it had 500,000 concurrent players its first weekend, beating basically everything else on Steam at the time, which no one was really expecting from, you know, an indie card game.

I haven't played it enough to give a full review, because even in EA there is a lot more content -- there are five characters, two of which are brand new, all of which have new cards, and there are all sorts of new mechanics and events I haven't discovered yet. So far I have now beaten what exists of the game with four of the five characters and I know I haven't seen anywhere near everything yet. I think it's currently balanced harder than the original game, but the subreddit is full of people saying it is way too easy, so I guess we will see what happens when the balance patches start coming out.

But the really cool thing about this game is the multiplayer, which we only found out existed in a trailer that they released, like, two weeks before the actual game. It has co-op with up to four players! I only have one friend who plays this game, as far as I know -- [personal profile] gelishan, who actually introduced me to the original game -- and we played a game of it the other night, and I have to say that co-op is absolutely the most fun way to experience the game. It helps to be on voice chat, so you can coordinate things like 'who are we targeting first" or "if you have anything inflicting Vulnerable, please play that first" or "do you need this Strength Potion" or "do you want me to play Piercing Wail this turn so you don't take 35 damage straight to the face" or whatever, but I guess theoretically you could play it in silence and just deal with the fact that everyone is playing their turns simultaneously.

Anyway, that is clearly the way this game has always been meant to be played and I need to do this again at some point. The co-op multiplayer is absolutely amazing! I don't know that I would recommend the game in its current single-player state to people who haven't played the original, just because it is already a hard game and it helps to have some idea of how three of the five characters play, if you're going to play it by yourself. But if you are playing multiplayer, I think you can just go for it and you and your friends can take turns carrying each other through the game.

So, yeah, that's what I've been up to, as I slowly regain some brain. Slaying the Spire anew!

(Also it's really weird to actually talk to someone you have known on the internet for, like, 25 years, but you've never heard their voice before.)
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FIC: Regency Rivalry (2/?)

Mar. 16th, 2026 02:45 am
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Regency Rivalry (5742 words)
by Luthien
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander, Svetlana Vetrova, Yuna Hollander, David Hollander, Hayden Pike, Scott Hunter (Game Changers)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Regency, Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - Military, The Season, men in tight breeches, elaborate descriptions of clothing, Rivalry, obviously, conflicting duties, Lust at First Sight, inconvenient boners
Summary:

Former Russian cavalry captain Ilya Rozanov meets former British cavalry captain Shane Hollander during the Tsar's state visit to London for the peace celebrations in June 1814. Things progress in various unexpected directions.

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Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

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