This and that and a very tired me.

Oct. 6th, 2025 10:01 am
goodbyebird: Birds of prey: Big Barda and Cassandra Cain. There is most certainly a size difference oh yes. (C โˆž big lady tiny bat)
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+ All I've done since making it home is sleep, download some stuff, watch the entire season of Wayward, and play undemanding video games. Man have I slept. Would like to lie down right now and sleep some more, but I'm headed back to work for the day (we abruptly left Thursday instead of Friday as planned, so I left behind a wee bit more chaos that I'm comfortable with).

Surprisingly smooth ride on the ferry though, given the weather.

+ Dear Vidder letters for Festivids are cropping up, and they're such a pleasure to read through. Aww fandom โค๏ธ

+ Hunting down the digital singles for Birds of Prey, bc waiting for the trade to drop in six months is just not on the table. More Big Barda and Tiny Bat NOW. And they cancelled it, so I ain't giving them extra money, no sir :p

Now to figure out how to read them in an enjoyable manner.

Oh! And posted some scans to [community profile] capshare from the second and third trade.

+ Watched the new Fantastic Four. It was cozy! I'm enjoying this new return to more child-friendly superhero movies. Like, I can see letting my nephew watch both this and the new Superman movie with me. I don't need all this dark stuff for grownups; the world is dark enough as is, gimme escapism!
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If you followed me from livejournal, you may have remembered I used to do a 40 Days of Drabbles (or at least a few times), instead of just keeping it to myself in this upcoming year, I figured I'd make a community dedicated to it because why not and change it from just being during lent and starting it whenever you want.

So check out [community profile] 40daysofdrabbles!!

Check out the profile page for more information!
tozka: the Fourth Doctor pointing accusingly at someone off-screen (doctor who fourth hey)
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Life Updates

Another week gone by, and now it’s a new month! The end of the year is racing towards me and it’s very annoying(/stressful) to think about, so I’m trying not to.

Another overall mellow week where I mostly stayed home and read/wrote, but I did go to a clothing sale this weekend and got two pairs of shoes for $8: one pair suede booties, one pair corduroy sneakers.

I’m not entirely sure they actually go with my current wardrobe, which is very summer-focused. These shoes are definitely more fall/winter.

I think I can make it work if I get one new pair of dark-colored medium-weight pants (or skirt), so I’m going to keep my eyes open at the thrift stores. On the plus side, if they don’t work out, I spent so little on them I won’t feel bad for donating them if I have to.

๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ› I still haven’t done the cat info post for this sit (apologies) BUT rest assured these cats are adorable and friendly and want to me near me without being annoying about it. Their food must have some kind of anti-hairball thing in it because I haven’t found one yet, despite one cat being long-haired.

Media Consumption

๐Ÿ“บ Got a Peacock promo subscription for a month (for free) and while I haven’t started watching these YET, I do have them on my watchlist and am looking forward to watching them at some point:

  • Poker Face (TV)
  • The Paper (TV)
  • The Phoenician Scheme (movie)
  • Drive Away Dolls (movie)
  • Honey, Don’t (movie)

๐Ÿ“– Still deep into the Star Wars fanfics and ignoring everything else. ;D

Beloved recent fanfics: Why Not’s and How To’s by Trixree; And Back We Go by miyaji_08; The Force of My Love by Quarra; Second ‘Verse by LauraBWrites; Your Smile In Stone by ecarian

๐ŸŽฎ Started playing Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds on my 3DS, which I’ve played at least once before AND completed! It’s one of the easier Zelda games, I think, but the mechanic is really fun (you flatten out onto walls and go through cracks into another reality) so I’m enjoying it. It IS a little strange to go back to the simpler style Zelda games compared to, like, Breath of the Wild, but it’s still got a good story/gameplay.

Food & Dining

Tried a new-to-me brand of soy milk and it’s horrible, curdles weirdly in my coffee and has a sweetness to it that makes my mashed potatoes taste weird. Bleh.

Web Updates

Gave up on completing the change-over in a timely fashion and put the Docuwiki version of my site back up for now. I think the bots are still attacking, but I have it set up on Cloudflare and I blocked Brazil (where most of the bots were coming from apparently) so that should help.

Looking Forward

I’m currently working on a) setting up various emails tied to various personal domains and b) swapping over everything I want swapped from my Gmail to those new emails.

Some things are harder to change emails for than others AND one of my domains refuses to update its DNS records for some reason, so it’s annoying on both ends. However, I’m hoping to mostly have everything forwarding into my Fastmail account by the end of the week. And perhaps I can even close some of my lesser-used Gmail accounts!

Crossposted from Pixietails Club Blog.

8 new icons for my 100ships table

Oct. 5th, 2025 07:26 pm
tinny: Something Else holding up its colorful drawing - "be different" (Default)
[personal profile] tinny
This time, only about half a year has passed until I remembered to make a few more icons for my [community profile] 100ships table. \o/

There are eight new ones - hover for fandom and pairing:

#12 โ€“ Sunlight #18 โ€“ Blush #43 โ€“ Yellow #54 โ€“ Rainbow
#58 โ€“ Ash #64 โ€“ Lipstick #69 โ€“ Flirt #78 โ€“ Leather


blathering
I'm especially happy with these:

* the Sunlight one, it says "[you used to] shine so brightly", a comment that the FL made about the ML multiple times in the first few episodes, and here they're kissing in the light of the setting sun, surrounded by beautiful grass.
* the Yellow one, which is from the proposal scene in Amidst a Snowstorm of Love, where he sings a song to her. Someone made a clip on twitter where it's evident that Wu Lei actually sang Coldplay's Yellow to her, but since they couldn't use the song in the final product, they had to write another song (which he sings in the OST).
* the Lipstick one, where Song Sanchuan uses Liang You'an's lipstick to write her name on the alumni board of her university. That's her name as he wrote it, on the icon.
* the Leather one, where Ling Buyi is wearing the leather armor she sewed for him, which everyone thinks is chicken (why?) but it's supposed to be Mandarin duck. The "why a duck" quote is from the Marx Brothers (youtube clip).



The table is here: https://tinny.dreamwidth.org/704185.html. There are currently 48 icons in it.

Belated Podfic Notice

Oct. 5th, 2025 11:47 am
senmut: Autobot symbol (Transformers: Autobots)
[personal profile] senmut
[Podfic] Where He Soars (53 words) by Gilraina
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (Cartoon Generation One)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Cosmos (Transformers)
Additional Tags: Introspection, Drabble, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming, Voiceteam 2023
Series: Part 16 of Dabble in Drabbles (Voiceteam 2023)
Summary:

Cosmos is not a land-mech.

An audio recording of Where He Soars by Merfilly.

New Prompts at xmen100 & mcu100

Oct. 5th, 2025 12:11 pm
flareonfury: (Scarlet Witch)
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[community profile] xmen100
 

 
[community profile] mcu100
 
Both challenges have become bi-weekly, so there are TWO weeks to participate in these challenges! Please join us!

Carpal tunnel, books, oh my

Oct. 4th, 2025 07:45 pm
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Realized I haven't really done a personal or semi-personal post in a while, since I've mostly been posting to [community profile] tv_talk for any show discussions and mainly just posting fics for [community profile] xmen100  and [community profile] mcu100, I'll start posting here with my TV comments again, just so I have them in one place again.

Well I officially got the diagnosis of carpal tunnel of my wrists & elbows (didn't even know it could go up to the elbow) so yay? At least I got the official diagnosis and not just wondering if I'm just making up in my head. The doctor said I should be okay without surgery for now unless I want it to happen, otherwise my next check up with him is in six months. (Or sooner if it gets worse) I guess between working my full time job (plus part-time job) and spending time at home on the computer within the last few months made my symptoms flare up again - since I feel like it's been ages since it was this bad. Which might be one of the reasons I stopped going on the computer? I can't remember. I think it was just working too much and being too exhausted to go to the basement (where the computer was). However while I was at the appointments I didn't feel any pain or achiness/stiffness/numbness but literally a day later and here's the pain back. FML. That always happens to me.

Also got my first tooth removed since my wisdom teeth like 10+ years ago so dealing with that sucked. Honestly just the anxiety before hand was worse (and the bill). Besides that the taste of blood that for two days and then the bone marrow/blood clot disgusting taste was horrible (I thought I was infected it was so gross). Otherwise I didn't have a lot of pain so that was good. A lot of mashed potatoes and egg sandwiches for the last week.

In other news I joined [community profile] thestoryinside for their October books/buddy exchange - my buddy [personal profile] monkiainen picked The Meg by Steve Alten (horror), Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli (LGBT, contemporary, female author), and The Alienist - Caleb Carr (historical fiction) for me. In return I picked out Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown (LGBTQ, contemporary, female author), Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall (LGBTQ, contemporary) and Alien: Echo by Mira Grant (Horror, LGBTQ, female author). I picked out the first two books for them since I really enjoyed them (I have Boyfriend Material in audio & book forms heh^^ & I can't wait for the 3rd book in the series/trilogy? - But I also recommend anything Alexis Hall BTW, I've read/listened to most of them). I'm pretty sure I know where the books I need to grab are (luckily they're from the front of the alphabet so I'm pretty sure they are actually where they are supposed to be). I might actually do the Meg first - I was thinking of maybe doing Leah on the Offbeat first since I technically had it on my TBR pile for ages compared to the other two, but I think Meg is shorter so it might be easier to read? We'll see, I'll try to find them tomorrow so I can start on them.

In other book news, I started to listening to audiobooks again at work since most of my current podcasts don't have enough for me to binge without touching my phone a lot (and since that's a big no-no at work, audiobooks are the way to go since they are USUALLY at least 6+hrs). So far I listened to:
  • The Singles Dads Club (books: The Dare, The Soul Mate, Penthouse Prince, & Only for Tonight) by Kendall Ryan - which were just okay.... I can't really recommend them unless you just want to listen to that type of romance books but if they are super cheap, sure why not. I think they were on sale at libro.fm when I bought them.
  • Zomromcom by Olivia Dade - I really definitely recommend this one! Zombies, Vampires, trolls, fae, and witches included! I really hope this won't be the last supernatural/fantasy novel by Olivia. I think there at least has to be a sequel. I also have the paperbook copy... 'cause just in case.
  • Time to Shine by Rachel Reid - I recommend this if you like MM hockey romance. It's pretty good, longer than you expect so a bit of a slow burn. I identify very heavily with the Landon character which probably makes me like it more than anyone. If only I could find my own Casey. 
  • Heartless by Gena Showalter - Very dark fae romance like super dark, where even I almost stopped a few times from listening/finishing. It has mixed reviews on Goodreads due to that so just beware if you start it. While it was like instant attraction, it was actually a bit of a slow burn for the major of it. I'm still not sure if I want to read the second book... maybe if it goes on sale. 
  • In Charm's Way by Lana Harper - Part of the Thistle Grove book series that I started either last year or this year in paperback but never finished. It's a witch/half-fae romance. It's so weird that this is the third book that dealt with the fae - I feel like I never read those books. Anyway, still haven't finished it yet but probably on Monday since I only five hours left. I definitely recommend the series BTW especially if you like queer romance & supernatural type stuff.
I'm also reading Voidwalker by S. A. MacLean, I'm on chapter 15, it's oddly addictive and unlike trying to read the Orange Priory of last year, the world-building of this book is sooo much better. It helps it's only one POV and not like twenty, but yeah. And yay a monster romance for October. Reading it alongside [community profile] villagewitch so it's kinda like a mini-bookclub. :) 

Worked on [community profile] galorechallenge prompt website this week. Still not complete, but I'm trying. Merging all the Marvel stuff together as well as all the DC stuff together minus the Smallville one, so those pages are going to probably be the last ones worked on. I merged them just because it all the characters are basically set in the same universe anyway and having the MCU/DCEU separate was annoying me. Anyway NEW PROMPTS WILL BE NEEDED so feel free to suggest new ones (even if you don't plan to join in - maybe someone will write them).

Made some icons for [community profile] seasons_of_fandom... I'll have to add those to [community profile] harpieicons eventually. Also participated in a couple challenges (see the Book Title Poetry - previous entry).

Anyway that's it for now, since I have to get to some sleep.

Sunflower Auction - ST:TOS ficlet

Oct. 4th, 2025 09:22 pm
senmut: A painted picture of Bones McCoy (Star Trek: Bones McCoy)
[personal profile] senmut
Thank you, [personal profile] kingstoken!

K-7 Surprise or Here on AdAstra (853 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock (Star Trek), Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Joanna McCoy
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Charity Auctions, Fluff
Summary:

A much needed R&R rotation garners a visitor eager to meet the other parts of her daddy's life.



K-7 Surprise

The U.S.S. Enterprise limped into Deep Space Station K-7's orbit, glad that no Klingon ships were in sight. They had a lot of scientific data to upload, needed time in friendly space to effect repairs, and would spend some time revising the data from their battle with the unknown vessels to forward to Starfleet Command.

Right now, though, Captain James T. Kirk intended to see that all of his crew took at least a full day of leisure aboard the station. He had gone over the roster with Bones, scheduling the away parties with an eye to who needed the down time fastest, and who needed specific crewmen to go with them. Spock had added a few tweaks to the rosters on his own, showing deep insight to the needs of the science personnel.

Bones had even nodded, with a wave for Jim to listen, because that bunch was almost as insular and workaholic as Scotty's engineers.

Scotty showed up on the bridge just as the good doctor was counter-signing the rosters, and his face was set in purposeful glares at the CMO, Captain, and First Officer.

"The three of ye, off the ship on the first rotation, aye?" he demanded.

Spock opened his mouth, closed it, arched an eye brow, then nodded. "Logical. If we go first, we will be back in time to allow you your time away, and then true repairs can begin without anything interrupting you as all of us will be back on duty."

"Annotated and amended in the report," Jim said, smiling as his chief engineer proved as wedded to the ship as he was. "Well, gentlemen, shall we?"

"We shall," Bones agreed, grinning at Scotty a moment before the trio made their way to quarters to gather their away bags.





Bones was discussing with Spock about the effectiveness of various types of scheduling for different crew needs. Jim supposed to outsiders it looked like arguing, but he could tell his friends were practicing their own version of relaxation from stress. That meant it was Jim who spotted the woman turning their way, her face lighting up, and he placed that dimpling smile against pictures in Bones' quarters.

"Gentlemen, we have company coming," he said, breaking the give-and-take of conversation so that both looked, and then it was Bones with matching dimples to the young woman.

"Joanna!" Bones cried out with joy, and then the pair were hugging with the intensity of people who only rarely got to see one another.

"When the leader of my project found out your ship was incoming, she insisted I take some time off and come up!"

"Up? You didn't tell me Sherman's Planet was your residency project!" Bones said, while placing a hand at the small of her back to guide her to a table.

"You two come sit with us," Joanna said firmly. "I want to actually talk to the two men Daddy has filled his comms with."

Spock's look was a study in Vulcan-not-being-smug-and-curious, while Jim bet his own let a little surprise show.

"Does he now?" Jim twitted, as Bones reached up to rub the back of his neck.

"Well, I see more of you and our resident pointy-eared hobgoblin than just about anyone other than Christine!"

"Statistically speaking, I find that highly improbable," Spock said, "but I am interested in making your acquaintance, Miss McCoy."

"If you would, call me Joanne; I get Miss McCoy'd all day by the colony children taking my first aid course."

"A worthwhile subject to teach." Spock glanced, briefly, at Bones, and the doctor rolled his eyes heavenward with a knowledge of where this would go. "Likely without causing any injuries to be demonstrated on."

"One time, Joanne. One time, because someone failed to secure a storage bin, not even my doing!" Bones protested, leading to his daughter laughing and smiling. She then looked at Jim, sizing him up.

"How do you manage to put up with Daddy's ways and sayings, sir?"

Jim gave a smile. "Once I realized the gruff and pretense of good-ole country doc hid more expertise than the medical academy, I rolled with it. And it does provide unique counterpoints to my executive officer's logical ways."

"Counter-intuitive arguments, you likely meant to say, Captain," Spock said in his mildest tone.

Joanna propped her chin on her hands, watching the interplay, soaking it up as part of the happy chance of seeing her father again.





Jim glanced over the efficiency reports starting to come in from various departments, now that they were back underway. He was unsurprised to find them top-notch, given how thorough everyone had been once they had had their needed rests.

Even Spock was moreโ€ฆ nuanced in his reports without being a stickler for the science of them. And Bones?

Jim smiled to himself. Bones was going to be walking on air for weeks, just for the sheer happiness of seeing for himself that Joanna was thriving.

It promised to make off-shift mingling with both men that mattered to him almost as much as the ship all the better for that rest.

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I will try and make a post again soon, but am now recovering from parental visit (due to me and the ME/CFS, not any fault of said parents). Yesterday, though, I got lucky at the BNA while searching for a newly-discovered address for an ancestor's siblings and found him accidentally involved in a plot to steal a painting by Petrus van Schendel. (London ancestors are v hard to find, especially when they have common names, but the joy of London is that every so often your relatives are briefly entangled with someone or something famous).

Anyway, the fraud was discovered, I was rewarded by a description of two rooms in a relative's house (29 St Mary-at-hill) and I thought some of you might enjoy the resulting magistrate's hearings:

A Cunning Plot )

fic or treat - melo's door

Oct. 4th, 2025 10:57 am
luckyzukky: cassandra cain from dc comics (dc | cass #3)
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Fic or Treat
[community profile] ficortreat

melo's Door
DW username: [personal profile] luckyzukky

Light is on for: any mutuals/friends and anyone in the neighborhood! if you don't count in either and want to pop in anyway, that's fine, just be kind!

What's in the Bowl?
  • short fic from any of my fandoms as listed here. by "short" i mean under 1k words, but if i go over then bonus treat!
  • 1-4 icons, any fandom
  • song recs! please let me ramble to you about idol music
Let Me Know: if you're requesting fic then please give me a prompt of any kind, even if it's just a word or something. i'm using prompt very loosely here; basically, give me something to go off of, be it an idea or AU or a song lyric, anything you can come up with! i just work way better with some guidance like that. also, if you want icons, let me know if you want gifs (if the source material allows for it) or static icons (the default).

Other info: i reserve the right to refuse requests and take my time within the duration of the event. also, if i'm uncomfortable with a topic, i'll just tell you and you can try again lol

Fandom Fifty: #32

Oct. 3rd, 2025 07:26 pm
senmut: Cutter cradling the injured Redlance to his chest (Elfquest: Cutter with Redlance)
[personal profile] senmut
2006, the year I asked my late partner's family for help and got told to tough it out and stick with it "for the kids" without them listening to how dangerous everything was getting.

Did I see any movies? Let's find out.

Well, six films stood out enough for me to write up )

Fic Or Treat 2025

Oct. 3rd, 2025 06:29 pm
senmut: spooky cat on a jackolantern (General: Halloween 3)
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Fic or Treat
[community profile] ficortreat

Asp's Door


DW username: [personal profile] senmut

Light is on for: All trick or treaters who come in good faith.

What's in the Bowl? Drabbles (Ask for fandom & character(s); if I know it, I'll give it a shot!), random internet links or pictures (you provide me a topic, I find what I like about it), or 5 Things meta (again, provide topic, fandom, or character)

Let Me Know: Ask for fandom & character(s); if I know it, I'll give it a shot! | you provide me a topic, I find what I like about it | Provide topic, fandom, or character

Other info: I don't typically do dark anymore, I will NOT do non-con or child-harm, and I reserve the right to say 'no' to anything that makes me uncomfortable while also promising to offer you a second chance
tinny: Close-up of Wu Lei with long Dongji hair, his head propped up on his hand, looking so soft (wulei_so soft)
[personal profile] tinny
Ahem, and another [community profile] celebrity20in20 round... O_O . I'm on vacation, I have a lot of time... These icons are for round 17, and it's a Wu Lei set again. I hope you enjoy looking at it even half as much as I enjoyed making it. :)

Teasers:


20 icons of Wu Lei )

Every single comment is treasured. All icons shareable! Concrit welcome. Check out my resource post for makers of textures and brushes I use.

Previous icon posts:

Icon Drop July and August

Oct. 2nd, 2025 12:11 pm
tinny: Close-up of Wu Lei with long Dongji hair, his head propped up on his hand, looking so soft (wulei_so soft)
[personal profile] tinny
Here are all my icons from July and August. Most of those already fall into me discovering Wu Lei, so that's a large part, including a ton of Dongji Rescue trailer icons. Enjoy!

Teasers:


84 icons - mostly Wu Lei dramas + Dongji, some HPI, various BLs )


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:

mercurios: meg from hercules (meg)
[personal profile] mercurios
so there's a tsn sequel in the works, officially

as someone who holds the social network dear to their heart and should probably be excited about this sequel, i find it hard to muster the same excitement for a couple of reasons:

1. the social network was released FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, so once again i am being slapped in the face with the unrelentless passage of time
2. no andrew garfield :( disappointing. like i understand eduardo saverin has no monkeys in the current facebook circus (or if he does it's a very small amount) but idk, cast him as someone else! give him a different haircut! he has the range!
3. why the hell is sorkin directing. it's not like david fincher is doing anything useful nowadays
4. jeremy strong is a bit old for mark (in 2021)? not that he deserves better, but still

but there's also good things!:
1. mickey madison and jeremy allen white could make this interesting
2. jeremy strong will absolutely give the performance of a lifetime. but at what cost
3. i am IN for any media that portrays how harmful facebook has been for.... everything. existing. life. (i still need to read careless people now that i think about it)
4. maybe trent reznor and atticus ross will score it and it will be amazing

i lied, i am a bit excited. like even if it's trash i will be watching it release day. it's hard to believe it will be able to catch the same momentum and space as the first one did, but i'd be lying if tsn wasn't one of the best parts of my online life fifteen years ago (ew i need to stop typing that)

change the director!

(no subject)

Oct. 1st, 2025 07:39 pm
goodbyebird: Agent Carter: Peggy looking down. (Agent Carter)
[personal profile] goodbyebird
+ My brain is mush. We dock sometime during tonight, so tomorrow will be another hectic day. Thankfully come Friday I shall have freedoooommmm.

+ I want a Big Barda icon but I'm too zapped to make one *sulk*

Maybe after I've had my shower.

+ Not helping: my mom constantly asking me when I can come see her in Oslo, and for plans this Christmas when she'll be visiting and living at my brother's. I do not have capacity for this. Love her to bits but it's tough to convey that SOCIAL BANK EMPTY, PLAN QUEUE FULL.

+ Booked my flu shot for next Thursday. Apparently they're not doing Covid shots at the doctor anymore, boo. And the only information I can find is that it becomes available week 42. Hopefully I manage to get in there early enough that it will mostly be in full effect by the time I go to Thailand.

+ One Battle After Another will be showing at the small local cinema next week. There's been some very positive buzz. I may try to lure some friends to come with.

+ Decided to try and move away from using GoodReads, and so far StoryGraph seems a good fit. I know there's quite a few options out there, but I only made it through two before settling on StoryGraph. (Fable being the second option, but just way too busy for me. Someone looking for a move involved and social experience might vibe with it!)

One of the fun things is you can make your own book lists or challenges. I started putting together a small Queer Comics one. I could only find two other comic/graphic novel challenges by searching, so that's certainly a void in need of filling that's what she said.

Anyways, I'm here, in case anybody else is stretching their wings.

Sad eta: Jane Goodall has passed.
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A "tiger team" is a temporary, expert group assembled to quickly solve a specific, complex problem or achieve a particular goal.

--

A rap on his door had Vance cursing under his breath )


This was written for the new season of [community profile] therealljidol, Wheel of Chaos! If you liked my entry, please consider voting for me or any of the other amazing contestants. You can find all the entries here. Looking for the voting post on Tuesday night!

Fannish September

Sep. 30th, 2025 01:04 pm
tinny: Song Sanchuan and Liang You'an from Nothing But You kissing in grungy brown-orange coloring and the word 'anchor' (cdrama_nothing_kiss)
[personal profile] tinny
Work stress continued, so the fluff-binge-watching did, too.

TV new (finished)


I went through all 56 (!) episodes of Love Like The Galaxy, a costume drama starring Wu Lei and Zhao Lusi. I like them both, but the drama is so much not my cup of tea that I was ranting about it to my friends the whole time. If you want to subject yourself to it, it's on viki (and youtube). I really just finished it for Wu Lei's face, which I was able to enjoy even in period costume for a change. The drama itself is about a young noble lady with little education or grace but a knack for physics and construction who falls in love with a young general traumatized by his whole family getting killed and bent on revenge. The characters are all cardboard cutouts and/or comic relief, the conflicts are all people being mean to each other in increasingly devious and despicable ways, and the love story is larger than life and blown this way and that by the superficial plot only meant to evoke maximum emotion from the viewer without much regard for logic. For some reason, none of this kept me from watching it to the very end, all just to see Wu Lei smile. My priorities, I show you them. This left little room for anything else this month.

HPI ended! *sob* The last four episodes all aired in September, and I enjoyed them all, especially 5x07, which was a shipper's delight from start to finish. I also liked the last episode, and it leaves us with a nice ending to a wonderful show. 5 stars no comments.

TV new (ongoing)


Oh, I forgot about Dream Within a Dream! A transmigration parody that immediately endeared itself to me by parodying Love Like The Galaxy in its first episode. :D I posted the comparison here. I have by now seen three eps and find it pretty funny! It parodies all the tropes, which is the best thing you can do with tropes, anyway. :) It's on viki.

TV continued


Phineas and Ferb, season 5. Slowly going through this instead of more meaty things (see work stress), and enjoying it. It's really still just as good as it's always been, it makes me laugh a lot. I also very much enjoy how many *friendly* scenes between Doofenschmirtz and Perry there are. (Yes, I ship them, who doesn't?)

TV (dropped)


Shine. Maybe later. I made it to ep 5 and then couldn't be bothered to continue.


Future


Things I looked at (like 20 minutes each) but did not really pick up (yet) :

Remembrance of Things Past - a short cdrama with Zhou Yutong

My Youth - a kdrama starring Song Joong Ki who I really like and would enjoy seeing in a romance (I hope?)

Dongji Rescue - screeners in terrible quality, I will wait. (But what I saw so far was very good. Better than I expected.)

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