Flying Solo, by Linda Holmes

Apr. 23rd, 2025 08:32 am
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Reminiscent of early modern Jennifer Cruisie: A single woman (size 18) (approaching forty) returns to her small Maine hometown to clean out her great-aunt's house, reconnects with her high school boyfriend, and runs afoul of a local antique dealer.

Reminiscent, only not as smooth or as charming as Cruisie's earlier work. The writing is filled with pointless detail, the banter isn't as fun as it should be, and it takes nearly half the book for something interesting to happen. I'm not sorry I read it—because they do put a crew together and there is a heist—but I could have bailed out early on and wouldn't have missed much. Also, while there is romance, this isn't a Romance as the ending is hand-wavy in a way that doesn't fit the genre, but even without the expectation of a happily ever after, I found it annoyingly vague about the logistics of the relationship.

Contains: death of a family member, though not much grief; brief mention of infertility; starts off extremely heterosexual but eventually throws in two queers; non-explicit m/f sex.

THERE IS MORE PET SHOP OF HORRORS

Apr. 22nd, 2025 10:05 pm
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I AM SCREAMING

SEVEN SEAS STARTED RELEASING A NEW TRANSLATION OF PET SHOP OF HORRORS IN FEBRUARY

AND THERE'S TWO NEW SPIN-OFFS

AND I LITERALLY ONLY JUST LEARNED ABOUT IT TODAY OH MY FUCKING GOD I AM FIRING MYSELF AS A FAN HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS

Limericks!

Apr. 21st, 2025 10:15 pm
petra: Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, and Han Solo beaming at each other (Star Wars OT3 - Yavin)
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I have recently written limericks in: due South, Interview with the Vampire (TV), Murderbot, Star Wars Original & Prequel Trilogies, and Venom (Movies). Go here for the links and summaries, in alphabetical order by fandom.

I would be happy to write more, so if reading my limericks makes you want more of them, prompt at will.
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Give me a kink or a sex-related trope and/or one or more characters (ideally one(s) I know, though I have osmosed quite a bit from many other sources), and I will write you a limerick.

Please publicize this! Requests are welcome, no matter whether I know you or not. Anon commenting is on; just leave a name so I know who to dedicate the poem to.

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Limericks thus far, alphabetical by fandom:

due South )

Interview with the Vampire (TV) )

Murderbot Diaries )

Star Wars Original Trilogy )

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy )

Venom Movies )

Community Thursday

Apr. 17th, 2025 07:02 am
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Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.


Over the last week...

Posted and commented on [community profile] bnha_fans! Vigilantes anime watch-along continues :D

Signal boosts:

  • [community profile] newcomers may get busy again as more Tumblr people consider migrating (I understand there were more layoffs and the skeleton crew is now extra-skeleton). If you like helping folks settle in, consider keeping an eye on the comm! Saw crossposts on the [community profile] the_great_tumblr_purge as well, which may or may not pick up again.
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Okay didn’t expect to be typing up some random Lan Xichen meta type stuff this evening on my phone, but here I am writing about lxc trying to stay calm and do the right thing when everything around him is falling apart.

Sort of prompted by screencap showing where when things were going wrong - such as in Guanyin temple, LXC just sits down and meditates, like he is just so chill about it all. And a few people were saying that it was odd or silly or useless.
Basically he's going ‘things are awful, but I can’t panic about it, I’m not allowed to panic about it, because if I do that will make it worse and I need to make this better somehow’ )

Meta: Nie Mingjue

Apr. 16th, 2025 06:23 pm
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Nie Mingjue thoughts, previously posted on Tumblr Feb 2024

It feels like so many people forget how young Nie Mingjue was. He was only old 6 years older than Nie Huaisang.

Which makes Nie Mingjue, Chifeng-Zun, who’s a well established leader in combat, all of 23/24 years old at the start of the Sunshot Campaign, and barely/maybe not even 30 at his death.

It’s so easy to see him as being of an equal age to the other sect leaders of the time - Wen Rouhan, Jin Guangshan, Jiang Fengmian, Lan Qiren (standing in for Qingheng-Jun) when he’s basically the same age their kids.

He probably around the same age as Wen Xu. He’s only 3 or so years older than Lan Xichen, about 2 or 3 older than Jiang Yanli.

In his early 20’s he had also been a sect leader for nearly a decade.
NMJ has such a rigid view of things and of right and wrong. Childishly simple seems an unfair way of putting it, but he was a child when he had to lead. )
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I Just Got a Kitten. What Do I Do?: How to Buy, Train, Understand, and Enjoy Your Kitten, by Mordecai Siegal:

Why do all these books with titles like What The Heck Do I Do With This Kitten??? insist on starting with a lengthy explanation of what cats are, how they work, and where to find them? I already have a kitten or I wouldn't have picked up this book which seemed to understand that I Just Got A Kitten.

It's a good resource if you're going to get a kitten and want advice on how to pick one and what to do once you've brought the guy home, but if you already have a kitten in hand, the last two chapters are the most relevant.

Fun Fact: The kitten on the cover of this book looks almost exactly like my kitten, though this kitten is fuzzier, and mine started out that small but has since tripled in size.

Figuring It Out

Apr. 15th, 2025 07:29 pm
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1) Nothing like returning from the post office having mailed our tax returns to get an email saying "Your corrected tax form is now available."

2) Got some really nice pics of the moon this week, posted over at common_nature

3) New watch, the Brokenwood Mysteries, saw 3 episodes. They were alright, I liked them mostly for the New Zealand angle. Figured out both of the first two mysteries well in advance, and in fact figured out why we were having various elements introduced in E2 and how they fit into the resolution.

4) Speaking of music, Name That Tune has passed the exercise test. I do often recognize a song but will then generally struggle to remember the name (or exact name). What I notice I do better on is looking at them as a trivia question. For example they had 2 TV theme clues in the last episode I watched and I got them both immediately.

5) Don't know when or if a Tumblr collapse will happen, but there have been some good explainers for new-ish people over at [community profile] newcomers.

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petra: Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) with his hand on Luke Skywalker's stormtrooper-armored shoulder (Obi-Wan and Luke - ANH)
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Winter companions (500 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Hondo Ohnaka
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, Hondo Ohnaka
Additional Tags: Quintuple Drabble, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:

When Obi-Wan walks into the cantina in Mos Eisley, there is only one pilot there. On the plus side, he's very happy to see Obi-Wan.

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Apr. 14th, 2025 12:00 am
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Going to attept to post here more regularly. So here is some fic for Some Sentences Sunday - and it is still actually Sunday here for a whole five more minutes.

So more from Before the Dawn. This is from right at the start of the next part. I'm hoping to have it posted around mid week

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In the end Fang Duobing is gone for less than an hour before returning. He looks a little too pale and his eyes are red from the hurt and angry tears he's shed, but there is a quiet determination in them. Even if he has to hear all those hurtful things again he will.

Sitting at the table, Li Lianhua hasn't moved, his shoulder still leaning against Di Feisheng who hasn't found the need to move away either. His breathing has returned to normal now, but Li Lianhua can still see a lingering tension about him. Whatever fears or feelings he has are being suppressed by sheer force of will.

There is clear relief in his eyes as he turns to see Fang Duobing letting himself back in. All the same he isn't in any mood for further discussions or maybe he fears Li Lianhua denying what he considers already agreed. Before anyone else has a chance to say anything, Di Feisheng says, "He going to try."

Something like panic wells up, and Li Lianhua wants to tell them that it wasn't like that. It was a misunderstanding. He hasn't decided yet. He should say something. He should-

Fang Duobing closes the remaining distance between them in an instant. Wrapping his arms around them both, he hugs them tight, like he's never wants to let go.

Read more... )

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