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Remixes are revealed! My awesome Trek AOS remix was written by

LadyMerlin and mine is:

Let's See What Happens (The False Destiny Remix) (1205 words) by celli
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gregor Vorbarra/Laisa Toscane Vorbarra
Characters: Gregor Vorbarra, Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan, Laisa Toscane Vorbarra, Alys Vorpatril
Summary:
She didn’t know what shoes had to do with anything, but her superiors had been firm: anything was a possible lever with the Emperor, track and report it all.

Done:
* Coursera Style week 4 story (600/600)
* Coursera Setting week 1 story (308/300)

New:
* Coursera Setting week 2 story (0/500)
* PODSA bedsharing/glasses fic (76/whatever)
* PODSA election night 2008 fic (863/whatever) (DON'T @ ME)

Other:
* PODSA gift story (1069/whatever)
* basic income contest story (124/5000) (I may drop this...the Coursera classes are taking up a lot of my writing time.)
* PODSA mpreg (2062/whatever)
* Star Wars auction fic, two scenes left (704/1000+)
* AIRPF AU with

rajkumari905 (3316/whatever)
* AIRPF auction fic (0/1000+)

monanotlisa

selena_k has some thoughts on the German election results that I highly recommend.

giandujakiss

Except the horse isn't dead and I truly believe the nation's entire healthcare system is at risk. Graham-Cassidy 2.0 is out, with increases tailored to win the votes of specific holdout Republican Senators, while punishing Blue states, basically, by withdrawing their funding. Please call your senators. And while you're at it, your governor.

And while you have the senators' office on the phone maybe mention that over 3 million Americans are drowning in Puerto Rico and our president is more worried about football.

brainwane

Years ago, when Leonard was writing Constellation Games, he named the various alien species after different human words for "alien" or "foreigner". So there are Aliens, Foreigners, Farang, Gaijin, Extraterrestrials, the Others, and so on. One species of them is the Auslanders; later a German-speaking friend told us the spelling of the plural ought to be Auslender.

Today I was rereading a little chunk of Lake Wobegon Days and came across Keillor referring to Ausländers, and was reminded of that moment years ago. And then just after that was the passage about Flag Day, and I was catapulted far further back, to fourth grade and the first time I read (or was read?) any of this book. I was in a Gifted and Talented class in an elementary school in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, with that teacher who had a chunk of the Berlin Wall in her classroom. Did she read that to us or did I read it by myself?

Saturday I was on the 7 train back home from Maker Faire and I was sitting near some girls who -- as they happened to say aloud, in their conversation with each other -- were 12 or 13 years old. I am about three times their age. Yet I wanted them to look at me not as an alien grownup but as someone they might be like. They all have smartphones and evidently deal with boys sending them dick pics. And they act blasé about it; I don't know how they actually feel. The next day I talked about this with the people staffing the table next to mine. One of them suggested that boys have always done sort of body-part-display to girls less as a sexual come-on and more as a thrill-of-the-forbidden act, with dick pics as analogous to mooning. We joked about the dedication of an imaginary man from a previous century who worked in rotogravure or lithograph or woodcut. Or at least, like, Matthew Brady or someone using silver nitrate film.

cue "Ashokan Farewell"

My dearest Elizabeth. Tonight the Union Army rests. We know not what battle the general will order us to tomorrow. But know that my love for you is the wind that calls your name through the trees. Here's a dick pic. I had to sit for five hours for the army portrait painter boy to make this.

Sergeant Cowling was killed at the Battle of Bull Run.

I was laughing pretty hard by the end of this.

Maybe one reason I like laughing with others, and making others laugh, is because it is a kind of proof that we are not entirely aliens to each other.

rydra_wong

McCain's a no, Susan Collins is finding it "very difficult" to envision voting for the bill, and others are dithering or have expressed concern. But as I understand it you need three Republican "no" votes to stop Pence from tie-breaking, and Trump and co. are leaning hard on people to fall in line.

The latest trick is revising the bill to send money towards the states of potential holdouts.

plaidadder: Zombie Trumpcare 3.0 continues to stagger through the streets. It is time to call your elected representatives again.

bengaliprincess: heads up: as of right now, whip count for the graham-cassidy health care bill (trumpcare 3.0? i think it’s 3.0 honestly i’ve lost track) is split evenly at 50-50.

sashayed: Hello! Good morning! Did you know Congress is trying to kill millions of people, again? (includes script, with screaming; maybe leave out the screaming? or maybe don't?)

digoxin-purpurea: Anonymous asked: yeah that's part of the issue.... phone anxiety means i don't like to make people uncomfortable even if it's Very Worth It (contains very brief and good phone script)

WaPo current tally:

Cassidy-Graham whip count

Satirical commentary:

McSweeney's: Why Won’t You Just Let Us Pass a Health Care Bill and Kill a Few Million People?

(Cross-posted to

thisfinecrew.)

shopfront

Only a day late, which I am so impressed by given how big the needy list was right up until the last day or two, but

fandomgiftbox reveals have happened! I wrote:

Happy Accident (1146 words) by shopfront
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak
Characters: Miles O'Brien, Jadzia Dax, Odo (Star Trek), Kira Nerys, Benjamin Sisko
Additional Tags: Invisibility, Accidents, Pre-Slash
Summary: To Julian's dismay, his colleagues aren't as helpful as he would like when a minor technical mishap renders him invisible. Garak, however, is only too pleased to offer comfort and support instead.

Warmth: A Synonym for Affection (1768 words) by shopfront
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mulan/Red Riding Hood | Ruby
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - In Storybrooke | Cursed, Camping, First Kiss, Getting Together, Huddling For Warmth
Summary: Ruby can't believe there's someone living in Storybrooke she's never met before. (Canon divergence: Mulan was part of the first curse)

A Bar At The End Of A Universe (the one with the cranky bartender) (1608 words) by shopfront
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bill Potts & Clara Oswin Oswald, background Ashildr | Lady Me/Clara Oswin Oswald, background Bill Potts/Heather
Characters: Bill Potts, Clara Oswin Oswald
Additional Tags: Drinking, Slice of Life, Walk Into A Bar
Summary: The road to a happy ending always comes with a few minor bumps along the way. Clara and Bill meet in a bar, get drunk, and talk about girls, while they work out the best way around theirs. (Post-Hell Bent and The Doctor Falls)

Pieces of a Puzzle (2877 words) by shopfront
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Arrow (TV 2012)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Skye | Daisy Johnson/Laurel Lance
Characters: Laurel Lance, Skye | Daisy Johnson, Cisco Ramon, Thea Queen, John Diggle
Additional Tags: Parallel Universes, Crossover, Getting Together, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary: When Skye accidentally hops between Earths, Laurel finds a kindred spirit in an unexpected place while they wait to send her home. (Set in season one of SHIELD, and between season 3-4 of Arrow with a handful of Cisco related spoilers for Flash)

Crime of Opportunity (4093 words) by shopfront
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Ray Palmer/Mick Rory
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Moving In Together, Trust, First Dates, Mick to the Rescue
Summary: Ray likes to tell people he's great at making decisions. Really, he is. They absolutely never go pear shaped and they always turn out really well, like when he set up Palmer Tech. That was a great decision. He's not so sure how inviting a known criminal to live with him is going to work out, but he's fairly certain it's also going to be just great. He has a good feeling about it.

(The No Superheroes, and Mick planned to rob him before saving his life but Ray thinks suggesting they become fake boyfriends is a great idea anyway, AU)

pray let her know that I am quite in raptures with her (1841 words) by shopfront
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth Bennet & Jane Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet & Georgiana Darcy, Caroline Bingley/Georgiana Darcy
Characters: Fitzwilliam Darcy, Charles Bingley
Additional Tags: Secret Relationship, Post-Canon, Coming Out
Summary: When Jane takes over Caroline's responsibility for Charles' household, Caroline quits Netherfield Park in favour of Pemberley. Much to Elizabeth's consternation and confusion.

Six fics, seven fandoms, and 13k later I have had lots (and lots and lots) of fun playing in this particular sandbox. And it looks like I got an awesome giftbox of my own that I need to go explore! If you're curious about other peoples fills, the mods have an awesome spreadsheet of fills that you can sort by fandom here, as a lot of stuff didn't get cross-posted to AO3.

shopfront

I thought I was doing so well yesterday and then I crumpled like a wet tissue later in the day before I got around to posting, so a double post today sorry about that folks.

I did manage some writing yesterday before the accidental afternoon nap that ended this morning, mostly in the form of a few zero drafts for treats in various places. That brought me up to a nice round 80k by the end of the week, which I was pleased by.

No writing yet today, but I want to get this up in case of further flimsy health catastrophes later in the day heh. If you don't pop dates on your checkin, I'll assume you're checking in for both days, so lemme know if you only wrote on one or the other.

Tally
( Days 1-20 )
Day 21:

alexseanchai,

auroracloud,

cornerofmadness,

esteliel,

miss_morland,

navaan,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme (9/18)
Day 22:

alexseanchai,

auroracloud,

cornerofmadness,

esteliel,

fangirlishness,

miss_morland,

shopfront,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme (10/18)
Day 23:

alexseanchai,

auroracloud,

cornerofmadness,

esteliel,

fangirlishness,

navaan,

shopfront,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme (10/18)

Let me know if you forgot to check in and need me to add you to the tally! And new people are welcome to join us at any time, if you wrote today just hop into the comments.

torachan

1. I actually got to sleep in this morning and didn't have to go in to work until around noon! I was so worried I was going to get called in for something or other, but thankfully no.

2. I have jury duty tomorrow. Bleh. But on the plus side, I did the online orientation, so I don't have to be there until 9:30am instead of the usual 7:30 or something ridiculous.

3. It was supposed to get hot again this weekend and into the week, but although it did get a little warmer, it's not really hot, and the humidity is low, so it's pretty nice.

4. Such a pretty kitty!

ladyjax

::Insert obligatory acknowledgement that a seriously long time has passed since I last posted anything of note::

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monanotlisa

No time to watch yet, wedding and work, plus my father in town, but I just purchased an annual CBS "All Access" subscription so I can immerse myself in Star Trek: Discovery for the next few weeks, and in The Good Fight come 2018.

I really wish the television model were different, though. Not because of the money; I purchase shows on iTunes consistently (Wynonna Earp, Killjoys, Orphan Black, iZombie). But I worry that the no-network model of CBS here means the opposite of its name: less access to smart, well-written, diverse, and feminist shows for normal people who aren't able to drop yet more money on a limited slice of entertainment, good as it may be.

monanotlisa

...are predictably depressing.

Please send love and virtual hugs. Also, punch a nazi for me, or ten.

sasha_feather

The last few days we've had a record-setting heat wave, with temps in the high 80s and low 90s (right now it's 25 C/ 77 F AT NIGHT). My asthma is acting up and I have been feeling more sad than usual. I get this burning pain in my ribs and sternum and mouth. I've been napping during the day and staying up late, but I haven't been doing much with my time.

To get some good AC I went to the cheap seat movie theater tonight and saw "Step." This is a documentary about a Step dance team at a girls' high school in Baltimore. The film focuses entirely on black girls and women. Recommended.

jesse_the_k

This is a 10,000-year rabbit hole!

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) was designed to store radioactive waste in Nevada. The storage area would not be safe to enter until 10,000 years had passed. Several groups of smart people came together to design warning messages that could outlive our civilization and protect future explorers. These designers knew they couldn't rely on any current language surviving that long, so they worked on landscape designs that project "this is toxic waste, don't mess!" ( audio/text background and four fanfics )

One of the forbidding-landscape proposals is incorporated into California, a meh dystopian novel published by a non-genre writer in 2014. If the WIPP project follows up on the experts' suggestions, elements of those proposal should be showing up in pop culture for millennia.

The WIPP-fic tag: http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Expert%20Judgment%20on%20Markers%20to%20Deter%20Inadvertent%20Human%20Intrusion*d*dd%20-%20Sandia%20Labs/works ( WIPP Discussions on Metafilter: )

monanotlisa

For two bisexuals, my wife and I sure tick a lot of the lesbian boxes*. The one thing I regret about yesterday's wedding celebration up in Tilden Park, on a golden fall Saturday in Berkeley, is that we didn't get to pin a note to our little board with the photos and such, to remind people of Bi Visibility Day.

* A love for cats, hardware stores, tea,...

I'll post photos when they come in -- my former work wife took some GREAT ones, obviously already posted with acerbic commentary to social media. Ah. I miss her snark. My wife's sister-in-law, one of them, took photos with a nice DSLR, and I got a few shots in.

(I have hundreds of icons, but this is the singular one of two queer women together and alive by the end of canon -- skins' Naomi and Emily.)

davidgillon

I seem to have been lacking in energy the last week or so, which is probably mostly down to travelling back from visiting my folks - a tiring journey, adjusting back to coping for myself, plus being away from family again and all wrapped up in the end of summer seems to leach the agency out of me. I've even been failing to keep up with DW reading, which is most unusual. Hopefully I can get back in gear this week.

I did get out to a quiz with friends on Thursday, which had quite a setting - the crypt at Rochester Cathedral. As crypts go it was very cosy, they've turned the oldest half (c1083) into a display area for the Textus Roffensis (c1122-24, which contains the only known copies of the codes of laws of Aethelberht, Alfred and Cnut, and minor fripperies like the coronation charter of Heny I), while the area we used , a brash newcomer, built in the 1180s, has just been reworked as an event space - I think we may have been one of the first events to use it. A crypt with a bar gets my vote! Fortunately the refurbishment included a wheelchair lift (doubly so as we had another wheelchair user on our team), though my friends who volunteer as cathedral guides tell me it isn't where initially intended, when they excavated that area they found a completely unexpected Norman staircase and are still trying to figure out where it went to..

A picture of the bit we were in here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Cathedral#/media/File:Rochester_cathedral_011.JPG, for scale the capitals on the columns are probably about 5 feet off the ground. They comfortably fitted a table for 8 in each of the bays. We won, of course, though the prizes caused a raised eyebrow or two - 200ml cans of fizzy Hungarian pinot grigio. 'They seemed like fun' according to the organiser. Umm, yeah. At least the fish supper was reasonably good.

I went out yesterday for my usual Saturday lunch, which was a little disappointing. I had the duck confit flatbread and the duck had clearly been overcooked, it was tasty, but very, very dry, where normally it's quite moist. So dry I decided to stay and have another drink, which was actually fortuitous. Just as I was finally about to ask for the bill the friend I used to have lunch with every Saturday appeared.. It's the first time she's been out on a Saturday since spring last year, having spent the year nursing her son through terminal cancer. Hopefully it's a sign she's getting her life back to normal. She had her eldest daughter with her, plus her 7 month old granddaughter, who is a little cutie. So we talked babies and it turned out her daughter had just moved house earlier in the week. 'Where too?' I asked, lazily assuming they must simply have swapped from one London suburb to another, and was puzzled when she started with a street number, but then laughed when she completed the address - she's moved just opposite the end of the street her mum lives on, granny is obviously quite firmly on tap for babysittting!

Current Mood: content
Current Location: Home (the other one)

rydra_wong

Politico: Russia probes pose loyalty test for Team Trump

Vanity Fair: Mike Flynn’s Nuclear Side-Hustle Gets Even Shadier

Vanity Fair: Did Jared Kushner’s Data Operation Help Select Facebook Targets for the Russians?

Talking Points Memo: Report: Trump Using RNC, Campaign Funds For Russia Probe Legal Bills

Huffington Post: The blow-it-all-up billionaires

Mother Jones: How Donald Trump Lied to Conceal His Moscow Business Partner

Salon: How Trump followed a Russian map straight to Paul Manafort

Deadspin: Teresa Kaepernick On Trump Calling Injustice Protesters Sons Of Bitches: “It’s What Most Of Us Have Come To Expect From Him” (her magnificent Twitter response: "Guess that makes me a proud bitch!")

Vanity Fair: Has Milo Yiannopoulos’s Berkeley Troll Circus Become a Fyre Festival for the Right? (answer: looks like it, and it's glorious)

torachan

1. Welp, I ended up having to go in at 8:30 this morning, and I had to be there at night, too, because our weekend closing stocker is on vacation, and it was super busy, but thankfully I was able to come home for a couple hours mid-afternoon and have lunch and rest for a bit. I'm always glad to live so close to work, but at times like this, especially so.

2. Look at this sweetie baby!

sasha_feather

1. What's the happiest thing to ever happen to you?
Getting a horse for Christmas when I was 11. Penny and I were soul-friends and I had so many good times with her. Here is a photo of us the next summer: https://flic.kr/p/63nL6f

2. What's the saddest thing to ever happen to you?
Maybe when my 2 best friends broke up with me when we were 11-ish (6th grade). In therapy, I determined this to be a watershed event for learning to shut down my emotions; and also the ringleader probably sensed something gay about me, and that is why she decided to stop talking to me. Also, the way they did it! They just stopped talking to me one day. I was bewildered more than anything.

3. What's the thing that got you the most angry in your life?
Probably at a therapist. I was about a day or two into a hypo-manic episode (?) after coming out and I thought she could help me. She didn't. I did write about it at the time http://sasha-feather.dreamwidth.org/375687.html (post was filtered but it's so long ago I will unfilter it, temporarily. Many of my older posts are locked down to private).
I got so angry about the Vivid Con ableism stuff in 2010 that I made myself ill. But, that anger has faded. I don't really feel it anymore.
I didn't get angry a lot before I came out; and then I was angry *all the time*; it seems better now a few years on.

4. What's the most frightening thing to ever happen to you?
Scary situations don't really "happen to me" so much as arise from my anxiety. I have gotten super anxious in totally mundane situations. It seemed like the only way out of the problem was to speak, and I was so anxious I could not speak, so I was stuck and frozen. Also, I didn't know why this was happening. Everyone else seemed to have no problem in these ordinary situations, like speaking to a teacher or knocking on a door. Then having random panic attacks sent me to therapy.
In a more traditional sense of frightening-- there was some scary-to-outsiders stuff with the horses, like getting bucked off. But it never seemed scary to me. Animals are easier than people, and that basic fear is easier to deal with than anxiety.

5. What's the most unbelievable thing to happen to you in your life?
a. Getting scholarships that paid for my college education
b. Getting a horse for Christmas!!!11!1!!!
c. Not realizing I was queer until age mumblety
d. getting facial pain that has no real diagnosis
e. Being on the State Champion poutlry quiz bowl team!

skygiants

Thanks to the kindness of

aamcnamara in loaning a copy so I did not have to fight through the library line, I read The Stone Sky - third in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, following up on The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate - last weekend.

I don't think Essun destroyed any cities at all this book! I'm so proud!

( The rest is disconnected spoilery thoughts )

bironic

synn and I went to Universal Studios in Orlando to celebrate our twentieth friendiversary! The main purpose, besides seeing each other, was to wander around Harry Potter World.

( We were dorks, albeit adventurous ones. W/pix. )

I am glad to be out of the land of $20 sandwiches and ubiquitous soundtracks, though. Whew.

Obviously this hurricane season is a nightmare and a lot of people fall somewhere between inconvenienced and in dire straits, and I'm doing what I can do help, but at the same time I was selfishly glad that our timing worked out so that we made it there and back between storms. I met some people on the flight down who were hoping to find their houses relatively undamaged and some families at the hotel who were waiting for power to be restored from Orlando and Tampa all the way down to Miami. Good luck to everyone.

Crossposts: https://bironic.livejournal.com/393114.html

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Remix fic! and fic report

German Election Results Commentary

Sorry to keep beating this dead horse

little moments of alienness and not

Graham-Cassidy: it ain't over until it's over

fandomgiftbox reveals!

Write Every Day, Day 24-25

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Star Trek: Discovery (and also The Good Fight)

The German Election Results...

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Fanfics about Nuclear Waste Storage

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