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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Explicit
Length: 18,910
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: crysothemis on AO3, nny (villainny) on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Inept in love, Friends to lovers, First time, Humor, Pining

Summary: John never sleeps with anyone twice.

Reccer's Notes: Rodney (who's attracted to John) bumps into a few women, and then Ronon, leaving John's quarters. He clumsily asks John about these goings on, and mostly accidentally challenges John to have sex with him (because why not with Rodney if everyone else gets to?). It doesn't go swimmingly so Rodney demands a do-over, then another do-over, and another, because there's always something wrong with their encounters. This is partly as Rodney's bisexual and he mistakenly thinks John must be as well, and Rodney also manufactures "mistakes", until they're both entirely hooked and John's joining in with the pretense enthusiastically. It's hot, funny, and clever - a great read.

Fanwork Links: Do Over
And there's a podfic by nny

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Title: Towards A Common Purpose
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Varian, Willaway, Fred, Liana, Halyana, Others.
Rating: PG
Setting: Turnabout.
Summary: The travellers must work together, alongside Queen Halyana’s people, to deal with the Complex and the computer’s mobile protectors.
Word Count: 350
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 507: Amnesty 84, using Challenge 65: Teamwork.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble and a half, 350 words.

( Towards A Common Purpose... )

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1. Probably Hans Zimmer's finest work: (tags:music movies Disney video funny )

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Shows: SGA
Rec Category: threesomes+
Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay/Ronon Dex
Categories: M/M/M
Words: 1600
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW: n/a
Author's Website: n/a (orphan_account)
Link: C. Pegasi on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: This is a glimpse into an AU where (I think) the expedition have been cut off from Earth, and have also suffered the city being invaded. They've survived it all, but they have scars, both physical and psychological, and this is very much hurt/comfort as John, Ronon, and Rodney take comfort in each other. As the title suggests, they've also developed a secret crop that helps them survive by trading it in the Pegasus markets. Interesting and evocative.

( snippet of the fic under here )

sholio

I watched this over the last couple of days. (8 30-minute episodes on D+.) It's really unusual - not like anything else in Marvel's backlist. Somehow it felt like it belonged to a different era, like the type of superhero show that might've been made in the 70s or 80s. It's a comedy-drama-satire about two out of work actors trying to get a role on the superhero movie Wonder Man, which (in universe) is a remake of a cult hit show from a few decades ago. And that's about 90% of the plot. There is SOME other stuff going on which provides a superhero-related throughline for the movie, namely

spoilers for things revealed in the first couple of episodes

one of the actors (the protagonist) actually does have superpowers and is hiding it because in the MCU, super-powered individuals have to carry insane amounts of liability insurance to work in Hollywood and no production would hire him; and the other is spying for the government. So obviously both of these things provide the show's main sources of will they? won't they? who'll find out? tension.

But mostly it's just an indie-ish show about being an actor. It's unglamorous, it's full of slow-paced scenes of people doing ordinary things, trying out for parts, dealing with petty professional jealousy and eccentric directors, having long conversations in cars. The staging and lighting and the very ordinary-looking supporting characters are all more art-film than Marvel movie. It's about people who love movies both personally and professionally, and know them inside and out. It's at least partly framed around Midnight Cowboy, at a showing of which the two protagonists meet, and it's also framed around beats from the script for the Wonder Man movie that the two are memorizing and acting out scenes from. At least some of the actors on the show are simply doing cameos as themselves, in the form of people that the protagonists might have plausibly run into in their careers.

I wasn't on board with every creative choice the show made, and in fact I sort of went back and forth between episodes on whether I actually liked it all that much (though I was sold by the end), but it's fascinating and thoughtful and interesting and a bit unpolished-feeling in a way that Marvel productions never feel anymore. In fact, the naturalistic dialogue and slightly clumsy/awkward way the characters relate to each other felt real enough that I would sometimes stumble a bit when it would hit a more typical Marvel beat, as it sometimes does, because it felt a little out of place.

I'm legitimately unsure who the target audience for this show is, and maybe so were Marvel's TPTB. I'm honestly surprised it got made at all.

( Some actual spoilers )

It made me remember how, in the early days of the MCU, it felt like the movies were all doing something different and being something different, and then they just all kinda came to feel like the same thing. This one is doing something different and being something different - in this case: 1970s arthouse film - and even if I wasn't on board with everything, I liked what it was doing and being.

tielan

Finished Draft 2 of The Nullifae: And If I Rise. Had to rewrite a whole section in the middle, then cram in a sequence where they meet the Oracle, who's a Fae.

There's still some stuff to be done - I need to rewrite the opening scene so it's more happening, less infodumping. And I think I want to write a snapshot at the end where Jenna is getting more or less fired from her job. Do I write her getting fired from her work, or do I just show her in the doghouse before she calls the Director of Crossover who gave her his number if she decided she wanted a change of scenery?

Choices choices.

It's about 60K finished, which isn't huge but isn't small potatoes either.

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starandrea

♥ zines!

♥ winter sow round 1 week 1:

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♥ fuchsia!

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♥ Daphne is bored with the snow, so we are taking her to quiet parking lots to run around.

( pictures )

She does better without sleeves. I wonder if I can remove them from her Spark Paws sweatshirt without destroying it.

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https://xkcd.com/3212/

After a lot of analysis, I've determined that they're actually big red dots; they're just very far away.

https://xkcd.com/3212/

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https://www.transformativeworks.org/ao3-releases-0-9-447-0-9-452-change-log/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=279879

We released several batches of bug fixes and code updates in December, focusing on error handling, improvements to the posting and browsing of works, and largely invisible code optimization. Many thanks to our coders, code reviewers, and testers!

Credits

Coders: anna; Bilka; Brian Austin; Danaël / Rever; Edgar San Martin, Jr.; marcus8448; warlockmel; WelpThatWorked; Zooms; ömer faruk
Code reviewers: Bilka, Brian Austin, ceithir, lydia-theda, marcus8448, Sarken
Testers: Brian Austin, calamario, Deniz, Dre, Lute, megidola, slavalamp, Teyris, Bilka, therealmorticia, marcus8448, Yuca, pk2317

Details

0.9.447

On December 3, we made some improvements to how we index information for admin user search.

[AO3-7216] – Updates to the admin-facing user search feature were getting stuck due to their size, so we’ve reduced the amount of data we index.
[AO3-7217] – We originally put updates for our admin-facing user search feature in the same queue as updates to user-facing search features (like work search). This meant that slowdowns in updating user search would also slow down updates to work search, so we’ve moved the admin search updates to a separate queue to prevent that.

0.9.449

On December 11, we deployed a batch of miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements. (We skipped version 0.9.448.)

[AO3-7151] – Some buttons would become unreadable on hover and focus in the Low Vision Default skin, so we made sure all buttons have the correct border and text color to make them readable again.
[AO3-7186] – In rare cases, trying to create a skin with the same title as an existing skin would throw an error 500 instead of telling you what’s wrong. Now you should always get the proper error message.
[AO3-6851] – We removed a column from the challenge assignments table that is no longer used after some code changes.
[AO3-7218] – We updated one of the utilities we use to deploy AO3 to its testing environment.
[AO3-5871] – Renamed an ambiguously named method in the Works model code.
[AO3-6738] – We improved the performance of the page that lists pseuds for a creator.
[AO3-7084] – In several places, we disallow embedded images and will instead turn the <img> HTML into a plain link. We have now updated our help text to reflect this practice where it applies.
[AO3-7152] – In work downloads (such as epub or HTML files), links would use the http protocol instead of https. We now make sure that all links start with https.
[AO3-7209] – We optimized our code to prepare the help text pop-ups for translated versions once language options become available on the Archive.

0.9.450

We deployed another batch of improvements on December 15, including some small fixes to the work form in particular.

[AO3-6797] – Trying to post a work with invalid comment permissions (which can sometimes happen due to browser translation tools affecting parts of the Archive code) would throw an error 500. Now a proper error message is displayed in that case.
[AO3-7177] – Trying to add a new first chapter before the part that was already posted, without previewing first, would result in two second chapters. Now, when you add a new chapter and assign the first position to it, the database will actually respect your artistic process.
[AO3-7228] – Optimized the code used to put together work headers.
[AO3-7044] – Migrated the tagging table (not to be confused with the tags table) to the BIGINT format, to allow for a BIG integer number of records to be added in the future.
[AO3-7049] – Restricted the ability to manage users invite requests to Policy and Abuse volunteers (and superadmins).

0.9.451

December 18 saw another release of a few fixes and updates. The Open Challenges page will now show all challenges that currently accept sign-ups, even if they aren’t allowing new works to be added yet.

[AO3-4666] – The Open Challenges page wasn’t including closed collections, even if the gift exchange or prompt meme in question was open to sign-ups. This has been fixed!
[AO3-7224] – Some places in the AO3 code relied on an old feature in Ruby, our programming language of choice. They were not made better by doing that, so we stopped in order to make ourselves ready for new Ruby versions.
[AO3-7203] – The mailer preview for a deleted work notification now allows for a work ID to be specified for the preview.
[AO3-7232] – Some elements of our Terms of Service were missing the proper CSS list styles. Now everything that should be a lowercase alphabetical list, is.
[AO3-7230] – Before upgrading Ruby on Rails, the framework that powers AO3, we took a snapshot of the current database structure for historical purposes.
[AO3-7233], [AO3-7234] – Updated a couple of dependencies.

0.9.452

On December 29, another small batch of fixes went out to ring in the new year!

[AO3-6944] – There’s no option to sort a list of prompts by prompter if the list includes anonymous prompts. However, if you tried to do it manually by editing the URL, or refreshed a tab you had open from before anonymous prompts were added, it would cause an error 500. Now it just reverts to the default sort order.
[AO3-7184] – If someone tried to access the related works page of a non-existent user (due to a misspelled link, for example), they would be redirected to the user search. Since the desired page does not exist, we now properly serve an error 404, like others for pages that don’t exist.
[AO3-7245] – We made the help text explaining the locale preference translatable, matching the code changes included in release 0.9.449.
[AO3-7225], [AO3-7235] – Updated a couple of dependencies.

https://www.transformativeworks.org/ao3-releases-0-9-447-0-9-452-change-log/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=279879

mickeym

We are having fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, and green beans for dinner. Donnie asked if we wanted to join them, so I contributed a bag of chicken, and some green beans (I think). Then I asked if we have gravy, could they use my bouillon (Herb Ox, shelf stable granulated bouillon) rather than their Better than Bouillon, to make the gravy.

Why? Because it says right on the freakin' label to *refrigerate after opening*. And Donnie doesn't. Just goes about doing her thing (she ate queso from Qdoba last night that had been sitting out for two days). I asked nicely, and I stated why. And I feel like I kind of got mocked for asking/requesting -- because I was informed that there's "no difference between the two, just the one has more moisture in it, that's why it's a paste, and mine just has had the moisture pulled out of it".

Well, yes. Sort of. But the BtB, after I googled it, contains actual meat within the paste, as well as vegetables. And that is what helps generate the growth of bacteria within the BtB. My HerbOx is dehydrated, and has a bit higher salt content, and it doesn't grow bacteria--there's nothing to help it grow.

I think I have a jar of chicken gravy in the fridge, from when I got a rotisserie chicken at the store a week or two ago. i can use that, if Donnie uses her bacteria farm to make gravy from. Of course, that will probably create all sorts of problems itself, but it's better than getting diarrhea (or worse) that can be prevented. One month, possibly less, before they're gone. Can't wait.

X-posted to Dreamwidth and Livejournal. Read/comment where you prefer :)

hannah

Odd nausea, fading in and out, has marked the day. I don't know where it's coming from, but I feel like I should write it down somewhere. I drank a pot of ginger tea and I'm hoping it kicks in soon.

In other news, because I didn't want it to be the last Michael Mann movie I haven't seen, I started watching Public Enemies, and it's quite something how the last few years make it easy to see John Dillinger as a duplicitous, murdering criminal no matter the face he puts on for the public.

Current Mood: nauseated
Current Music: nothing now

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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 Wednesday, February 25, to midnight on Thursday, February 26. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34292 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 16

How are you doing?

I am OK.
11 (68.8%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
5 (31.2%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
6 (37.5%)

One other person.
6 (37.5%)

More than one other person.
4 (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.

troisoiseaux

I seem to be on a kick of books about cults, with horror novels Herculine by Grace Byron (a trans woman with religious trauma is pulled back into the orbit of an ex-girlfriend who started a cult) and It's Not A Cult by Joey Batey (reviewed here), and also Mike Rinder's A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology (what it says on the tin).

In War and Peace, I've hit the first scene that made it into Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812— Pierre challenged Dolokhov to a duel (technically over a minor affront at a club dinner! actually over rumors of Dolokhov having an affair with Pierre's wife!) and, to everyone's surprise, managed both to hit Dolokhov and to avoid being hit— and recalled how many of the lyrics are just verbatim lines from the book. At the same time, Andrei (presumed dead after the battle of Austerlitz) returned home just in time for his wife, Lise, to die in childbirth. :( One thing I've started to notice is that everything in this book seems to happen in pairs: Pierre's and Andrei's marriages ended, albeit in very different ways, in almost back-to-back chapters; as discussed in my last post, Nikolai and Andrei had foil-like experiences of meeting their heroes at Austerlitz; Kuragin successfully maneuvers his daughter Helene into a marriage to Pierre and then immediately fails to marry off his son Anatole to Mary Bolkonskaya...?

Current Music: My Body's Made of Crushed Little Stars - Mitski

Don't be surprised by the fact you can smile.

(Find joy in life, you fucker.)

SGA: Do Over by crysothemis

Teamwork Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Towards A Common Purpose

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