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My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's Vol. 6 by Matsuri Akai

Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes.

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purplecat

Jodie Whittaker dressed as the Doctor talks to Susan Lynch and Shaun Dooley in their costumes as Anstrom and Epzo.

Behind the Scenes of the Ghost Monument.

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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

beccaelizabeth

I started trying to reread The Dresden Files and Harry's point of view is making me feel slimed.
I am up to page 60 and it has taken me a while, I keep finding out I've decided staring into space is more fun.
In the first few pages he tells on himself so hard. He thinks he's being cute and funny when he's actually telling us that he ignores a woman's No Don't because he enjoys treating them his way. Every woman is assumed to be doing things for the sole reason of manipulating him personally, like they don't have inside feelings, just toolkits. The extent to which he is mixing up violent and erotic imagery is kind of a genre thing but also ew.

Plus, he just walked into and out of a crime scene before forensics got there, described how the carpet squelched under his shoes, then just... left. No protection before he went in, logically a trail of blood footprints when he walked out. That's the kind of incompetence indistinguishable from malice.

Yet I have all these books up until Cold Days.

... how?

... I am unsure if I will be finishing this one.

Maybe I can keep reading to get some idea if the author knows he did that...

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Sam Carter
Rating: Unrated. I'd say, Teen.
Length: 8260
Content Notes: The author chose not to warn.

If you'd much rather know about major AO3 warnings and be spoiled for the reveal at the end, click the arrow at left. SPOILERS

John has died and it's his ghost or semi-ascended self keeping the team company on their memorial road trip. He's kind of in denial about this until the end, after which he ascends.

Creator Links: vain_glorious on AO3
Themes: Mystery and suspense, Road trips, Team, Friendship, AU: fork in the road

Summary: Following the events of 5X01, Team Sheppard goes to Earth and takes a roadtrip across the US.

Reccer's Notes: The team, plus newborn Torren, are back in the USA, travelling across the country and stopping at all John's favourite attractions. It should be a fun time, but they're all in unhappy moods and John can't get them to perk up at all. As the story progresses, we become aware that something's off, but it's hard to figure out what. The mystery's finally made clear in a possibly hopeful ending, depending on your point of view. It's not for those who don't like any darkness in their fics, but there's great characterisation and it's very well written, surprisingly funny at times, and the ending is powerful.

Fanwork Links: Unmanifest Destiny

kat_lair

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Title: Protector
Author:

kat_lair
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Evan Lorne/John Sheppard
Tags: Alternate Universe - Werecreatures, Pre-Slash, Power Dynamics, Military Ranks
Rating: T
Word count: 2,248

Summary:

John’s government assigned Protector arrives to Atlantis within a week of them re-establishing the connection to Earth. Only the high-ranking personnel warrant one, and since Sumner and his Protector both died and John had become the military leader of the expedition by default and bad luck, he apparently qualified now. He’d thought about fighting the order but both Elizabeth and Rodney had told him not to bother, because ultimately, he would either lose the argument or lose the command, there was no middle ground here.

So, along with supplies and guns and field rations and new personnel arrives one Major Evan Lorne, level three Protector.

Werecoyote.

Author notes: Written as a

fandomgiftbasket gift for

logans_girl2001. I was struck by the idea which however turned out to be far too expansive to really do justice for. So what you have a is more of a start or a tease of a larger story I can make no promises about delivering. But hopefully hit the recipient's love for Were AUs and arranged marriage (of sorts) nonetheless... Unbetaed so if anyone spots a typo or mistake, please let me know.

Protector on AO3

( Protector )

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shallowness

As seen on

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From your AO3 Works page, look at the tags and find the answers to these questions. I'm

shallowness on AO3.

1. Under what rating do you write most?
General (219)
Teen (39)
Mature (5)

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
Dark Angel (TV) (39)
Sky High (2005) (28)
Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (23)

3. Which character do you write about most?
Alec McDowell | X5-494 (28)
Max Guevara | X5-452 (26)
Layla Williams (21)

4. What are the 3 top pairings you've written?
Max Guevara | X5-452/Alec McDowell | X5-494 (21)
Warren Peace/Layla Williams (18)
Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne (12)

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
Comment Fic (37)
Drabble (24)
Future Fic (20)

I imagine that hasn’t changed much since I last did this meme, IF I’ve ever done this exact meme. If I had posted all my fics to AO3, perhaps some of the numbers would change, but not the positions.

weofodthignen

A breeze came through and swept away the fug, and the sunshine was pretty. But it's time for me to give up and switch from long-sleeved shirts to full-on turtlenecks.

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Elsewhere, I’ve covered the many identities of Reagan in superhero comics. Gorbachev’s portrayals are fewer but no less fascinating. In GREEN LANTERN CORPS #209, 1986, he is intelligent and charming…far more so than Reagan in the same issue (one of the few portrayals I missed). But he is also, at the end of the day, a two-faced bad guy.

( Not Two-Face, though. His scar isn’t THAT pronounced. )

billroper

Gretchen hopped in the car with me and we headed out to get lunch and after that to the La-Z-boy store out in Schaumburg. This required driving past Woodfield Mall which was closer than I wanted to be today. Traffic trying to get in was fantastically backed up. The furniture store, on the other hand, had fairly light traffic. Gretchen had done research on-line looking for a suitable chair and had narrowed it down to two models. Since the chair was for Gretchen, this seemed fair.

We were looking for a chair that was correctly sized and built for Gretchen to be able to sit comfortably and get in and out of without difficulty. One of the two models turned out to be the correct one, so it is now on order and will show up eventually in a fabric that should suit our needs.

Once we got home, I ran out to Sam's Club to pick up hamburger for meat loaf tomorrow. Then Gretchen and I went to Home Depot where I picked out a suitable Christmas tree. It is reasonably tall, but narrow, which seems to be how they are coming lately. This may be advantageous. We'll see. :)

And that was quite *enough* shopping for Black Friday.

Tomorrow, Snowmageddon is supposed to occur. We'll see how it goes. If nothing else, I have two teenagers here to help shovel...

settiai

I've made this post a few times without any luck, but I wanted to try again just in case I have better luck this time. Would anyone be interested in any of the following Nintendo Switch games?

Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (example on Amazon)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (example on Amazon)
TemTem (example on Amazon)

If you're not interested but know someone who might be, please point them my way. I'm about $65 shy of where I need to be to pay for my storage unit this month, because the universe hates me, and it would help a lot if I could manage to sell even one of them.

For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).

Current Mood: hopeful

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endou mamoru, matsukaze tenma, and inazumori asuto welcoming the new protagonist sasanami unmei

New to the Inazuma Eleven (IE) fandom, or looking for your next read? Come and have a look at these algorithm-free recommendations!

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All entries will be crossposted between Dreamwidth and Tumblr.

Current Mood: nervous

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rolanni

58 The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman (e) (bkclb)
57 The Bookshop of Dust and Dreams, Mindy Thompson (e)
56 Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt (e) (bkclb)
55 Hunting Ground, Patricia Briggs (Alpha&Omega 2)(re-read) (e)
54 Cry Wolf, Patricia Briggs (Alpha & Omega 1) (re-read) (e)
53 Alpha and Omega, Patricia Briggs (Alpha&Omega.5(re-read) (e)
52 Blind Date with a Werewolf, Patricia Briggs (e)
51 The Women, Kristin Hannah (e) (bkclb)
50 Emilie and the Hollow World, (Emilie Adventures #1) Martha Wells (e)
49 Black Tie & Tails (Black Wolves of Boston #2), Wen Spencer (e)
48 Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky(The Final Architecture #1)e)
47 Hemlock and Silver, T. Kingfisher (e)
46 Outcrossing, Celia Lake (Mysterious Charm #1) (e)
45 Outfoxing Fate, Zoe Chant/Murphy Lawless (Virtue Shifters)(e)
44 Atonement Sky, Nalini Singh (Psy-Changeling Trinity #9) (e)
43 Stone and Sky, Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London #10) (e)
42 Regency Buck, Georgette Heyer (re-re-re-&c-read)
41 I Dare, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (Liaden Universe #7) (page proofs)
40 To Hive and to Hold, Amy Crook (The Future of Magic #1) (e)
39 These Old Shades, Georgette Heyer, narrated by Sarah Nichols (re-re-re-&c-read, 1st time audio)
38 Faking it (Dempsey Family #2), Jennifer Crusie, narrated by Aasne Vigesaa (re-re-re-&c-read, 1st time audio)
37 Copper Script, K.J. Charles (e)
36 The Masqueraders, Georgette Heyer, narrated by Eleanor Yates (re-re-re-&c-read; 1st time audio)
35 Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard, Nora Ellen Groce (e)
34 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson, narrated by Frances McDormand (re-re-re-&c-read; 1st time audio)
33 The Wings upon Her Back, Samantha Mills (e)
32 Death on the Green (Dublin Driver #2), Catie Murphy (e)
31 The Elusive Earl (Bad Heir Days #3), Grace Burrowes (e)
30 The Mysterious Marquess (Bad Heir Days #2), Grace Burrowes (e)
29 Who Will Remember (Sebastian St. Cyr #20), C.S. Harris (e)
28 The Teller of Small Fortunes, Julie Leong (e)
27 Check and Mate, Ali Hazelwood (e)
26 The Dangerous Duke (Bad Heir Days #1), Grace Burrowes (e)
25 Night's Master (Flat Earth #1) (re-read), Tanith Lee (e)
24 The Honey Pot Plot (Rocky Start #3), Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer (e)
23 Very Nice Funerals (Rocky Start #2), Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer (e)
22 The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (e)
21 The Tomb of Dragons, (The Cemeteries of Amalo Trilogy, Book 3), Katherine Addison (e)
20 A Gentleman of Sinister Schemes (Lord Julian #8), Grace Burrowes (e)
19 The Thirteen Clocks (re-re-re-&c read), James Thurber (e)
18 A Gentleman Under the Mistletoe (Lord Julian #7), Grace Burrowes (e)
17 All Conditions Red (Murderbot Diaries #1) (re-re-re-&c read) (audio 1st time)
16 Destiny's Way (Doomed Earth #2), Jack Campbell (e)
15 The Sign of the Dragon, Mary Soon Lee
14 A Gentleman of Unreliable Honor (Lord Julian #6), Grace Burrowes (e)
13 Market Forces in Gretna Green (#7 Midlife Recorder), Linzi Day (e)
12 Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent, Judi Dench with Brendan O'Hea (e)
11 Code Yellow in Gretna Green (#6 Midlife Recorder), Linzi Day (e)
10 Seeing Red in Gretna Green (#5 Midlife Recorder), Linzi Day (e)
9 House Party in Gretna Green (#4 Midlife Recorder), Linzi Day (e)*
8    Ties that Bond in Gretna Green (#3 Midlife Recorder), Linzi Day (e)
7    Painting the Blues in Gretna Green (#2 Midlife Recorder), Linzi Day (e)
6 Midlife in Gretna Green (#1 Midlife Recorder), Linzi Day (e)
5    The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Author), Kyle McCarley (Narrator) re-re-re&c-read (audio)
4    The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune (e)
3    A Gentleman in Search of a Wife (Lord Julian #5) Grace Burrowes (e)
2    A Gentleman in Pursuit of the Truth (Lord Julian #4) Grace Burrowes (e)
1    A Gentleman in Challenging Circumstances (Lord Julian #3) Grace Burrowes (e)

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*Note: The list has been corrected. I did not realize that the Gretna Green novella was part of the main path, rather than a pleasant discursion, and my numbering was off. All fixed now.

muccamukk

Some impactful opinion pieces by First Nations authors:

Niigaan Sinclair: The inconvenient truth: Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Cherokee hits hard.

Tanya Talaga: Thomas King’s storytelling now feels like a betrayal.

Jesse Wente: Jesse Wente on Thomas King and finding hope in a hard moment (Video: 42min).

Thoughts:
I'm glad Lee Maracle and Murray Sinclair didn't see this betrayal. I wonder how many more are to come.

Personally, as a basic white girl who casually follows CanLit discourse, I'd heard the rumours for close to ten years, and assumed they weren't true because it seemed like the Cherokee Nation would've said something. And it just felt to obvious, maybe? Surely someone would've looked into it when the Michelle Latimer situation happened? Guess not! Or maybe they did, and this is how long it takes to gather that level of detail.

My hot take (which I've heard going around a bit): you can't be in King's position and not know that. A lot of us with roots in that part of the world have family stories about Cherokee ancestors, myself included. Which a lot of people believe because why would their families lie to them? Then you learn it's a whole trope, and look into it, and realise it's just family mythology. Or don't, because you're not claiming anything based on it, anyway. But if you're speaking on behalf of a people, as King was, not having the least curiosity, or desire to reconnect with family, feels like wilful ignorance at best. (Which is why the rumours felt too obvious. Surely, I thought, he must have made sure.)

It's not something that is making me, personally, reconsider my CanLit canon. I read a few books by King, and enjoyed them, but he wasn't a favourite author.

Palate cleansers:
Elamin asked Jesse Wente for some recs, and here's his list (copied from the episode description on YouTube):

Books:
The Knowing by Tanya Talaga
Bad Indians Book Club by Patty Krawec
The Idea of an Entire Life by Billy Ray Belcourt
The Boy From Buzwah: A Life in Indian Education by Cecil King
Survival Ojibwe by Patricia Ningewance
Danger Eagle written by Jesse Wente and illustrated by Shaikara David

Film & TV:
Saints and Warriors (coming soon to Crave)
The Knowing - documentary series based on Tanya Talaga's book (on CBC Gem)
Aki by Darlene Naponse
Uiksaringitara: Wrong Husband by Zacharias Kunuk
Meadowlarks by Tasha Hubbard (coming soon to theatres -- it’s a drama adaptation of her documentary, Birth of a Family, available on the NFB website)
Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man by Sinakson Trevor Solway

Finally, let's laugh about a funny time someone got fooled: 'Made-up quote' in Canadian satire site The Beaverton fools Time Magazine.

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gs_silva

Heather and Jon used to date, broke up, and now they're together again. The other girl is nameless at the moment, but she also knew Jon before his motorcycle accident.

Prompt: Quirks in romantic relationships
from

tesariel

jazzfish

Been a minute. Again.

September was rough. October was actively bad and November showed every sign of being worse. Sometime around the end of October I made an appointment with my doctor to talk about antidepressants.

I had intended to try them once I got my job situation sorted out. Then again I had intended to have my job situation sorted out long before it got this bad. The thing about me and depression is that episodes always have an external trigger. It's not precisely something that's a part of me. Except for how it's always lurking, waiting for something to go wrong badly enough that it can slip through.

Long story short, I've been on Wellbutrin for a little over a week. It's been ... good? The week or two before I had reached the point of strugging with getting up off the couch to do anything fun, because I couldn't conceive of enjoying anything. That particular weight is lessened. I'm baking, and generally making decent food, and reading things for fun rather than "because this is what i'm reading now".

It's disrupting my sleep, I think. I'm waking up three or four times a night rather than once or twice. I am sticking with it for at least another week in the hope that this sorts itself out; if not, there's plenty of other flavours of drug I can try.

So that's what I've been up to for the last couple of months.

Other than that ... reading, playing with and sitting with Mr Tuppert, applying for jobs. Some boardgaming. More videogaming than I care to admit, less Getting Outside or Seeing People than I would like.

Hanging in, I guess.

Happy birthday-plus-one to me.