Lui by CM Deiana
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profiterole_readsI bought this novel through crowdfunding, so I got:
- 3 bonus chapters about various secondary characters
- 1 fanfic written by Auriane Velten (Ainsi soient-illes) and printed like a fanzine: it's an AU where Alex and Sam meet 25 years later, in a fascist France (we're sadly heading there, but I sure hope that it's not going to last that long)
- a few goodies
I love that the book is a little mixed-media, with illustrations of notebook pages between chapters.
There's major m/m, with Alex being demisexual and on the autism spectrum. The secondary characters mostly include gay men, but also two sapphics and an enby. There are a few POC, and Covid-related anti-Asian racism is tackled.
Fanfic, Sense8, Rajan/Wolfgang/Kala, After
Jul. 6th, 2025 07:56 ammerricatb posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
smallfandomfestAuthor: MerricatB
Fandom: Sense8
Pairing/Characters: Rajan/Wolfgang/Kala
Rating/Category: Teen & up
Prompt: After
Spoilers: N/A
Summary: In the morning after Nomi and Amanita's wedding, some concerns begin to arise.
Notes/Warnings: Read on Ao3
Rec(Fic)- Smothered by Shivver
Jul. 6th, 2025 10:06 amromanajo123 posting in tardis_libraryCreator:
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 576
Creator's Summary: The view from below, looking up
Characters/Pairings: Original Character(s)
Warnings/Notes:
None. But it helps if you know what happens in "The Poison Sky"
Reasons for reccing:
Rec Bingo! For the box "Outsider POV" . This is a very well-done look into one of the ordinary people in the midst of the ATMOS disaster. Thoughtful and detailed.
Link: archiveofourown.org/works/12240069
The Agatha Christie reread: The Hollow
Jul. 6th, 2025 03:04 pmscripsiThis is a spoiler-free post.
The Hollow was first published in 1946, during Agatha Christie’s Golden Age. It’s not one of her more well-known mysteries, which I always thought was a bit strange, because it’s my favourite Christie. On the surface the plot is typical for her: A murder in a stately home where several guests have gathered for the weekend. Hercule Poirot investigates. Personally I think this book is rather invisible because it belies a very common statement about Christie, that she only writes cardboard stock characters with no depths and complexity. In The Hollow we have plenty of complex characters and I would say the main theme in the book is obsession. Obsessive love, obsession for science, the artist's obsession towards their work, and so on. If you wanted a stock Christie, you may be disappointed. There is also the fact that even if this is a Poirot novel, he doesn’t enter until halfway, and he is actually not the first to figure out who the murderer is. In fact I’ve always felt this book may have been better liked if there had been no Poirot in it at all. Checking the publishing order, this was the first Poirot since 1942, and Christie had written five books in between. I wonder if the publisher put pressure on her to include Poirot in this one… You also get the POV from more characters than usual. I have never read any of Christie's Mary Westmacott novels, but I’ve read that The Hollow is more like them in writing style.
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Season 8 Slashed - Stargate SG-1 icons
Jul. 6th, 2025 10:45 pmmagnavox_23 posting in fandom_icons
Check out the rest here. <3
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What I have been reading, June edition
Jul. 6th, 2025 02:45 pmscripsiWhat I finished reading in June was the first four books in the YA Lockwood & Co series by Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase, The Whispering Skull, The Creeping Shadow and The Hollow Boy. Husband wanted to rewatch the Netflix show, and as I hadn’t seen it, I joined in. I liked it, and as it ended after one season, which covered book 1 and 2, I promptly started to read the books.
The concept is that the UK is suffering from a spreading ghost infection, and as being touched by a ghost is fatal unless you get medical aid, it’s not a good thing. It doesn't help that only children and teenagers are able to actually see the ghosts. So gifted children work for ghost hunting agencies, which is a pretty nifty device for putting teenagers in the forefront of the action, while still not always being very sensible, because teenagers. The narrator is a girl, Lucy, who starts working for the very small agency Lockwood & Co, and gradually they are getting closer and closer to why this ghost infection has started.
I find the books very enjoyable. Lucy is a pretty engaging narrator, if not always a stellar character. But my favourite character is Skull, a ghost trapped in a jar that only Lucy can talk to.
I also actually counted the books I’m in various stages of reading… Yikes! I think I should focus on finishing some of them this month. Here they are, in no particular order.
The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud
Det ockulta sekelskiftet (The Occult Turn of the Century) by Per Faxneld. How occultism influenced a number of Swedish artists in the late 19/early 20th century.
Never Flinch and Fairy Tale by Stephen King
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. (A re-read.)
A Better Man by Louise Penney
Furstinnan (The Princess) by Eva Mattson. A biography over the 16th century Swedish queen Catherine Jagiellon.
Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
The Treasure by Selma Lagerlöf
This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer
Midnight Rooms by Donyae Coles
Exhibits from the Hong Kong Palace Museum
Jul. 6th, 2025 12:13 pmgrayswandir posting in c_ent( To connect this at least slightly to Cnovels/Cdramas... )
Anyway, I thought I'd share some of what's on display. This is nowhere near everything, just a selection; there are hundreds and hundreds of objects in the galleries. (Er, also apologies for the low quality. My phone is old and the museum has very low lighting. :P)
( Museum exterior )
( Entering the Forbidden City )
( Life and Art in the Forbidden City )
( The Art of Armaments: Qing Dynasty Military Collection )
And moving backwards in history:
( Ming Dynasty Ceramic Treasures from the Palace Museum, 1368-1644. )
And the last gallery I visited, ( the Founding Donations gallery, which had some even older items on display. )
( A couple of scenery shots outside. )
(I'm not sure how best to tag this! Let me know. :)
[#265] INFLUENCER (TORCHWOOD)
Jul. 6th, 2025 05:09 pmm_findlow posting in fandomweeklyTitle: Influencer
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: M
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Jack is certain that he can’t be corrupted.
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Today's Smoothie
Jul. 5th, 2025 10:39 pmysabetwordsmith1 cup orange juice
1 cup Brown Cow vanilla yogurt
1 banana
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup ice
The result is bright pink and on the thin side. It tastes mostly of orange. It's okay, but not as good as the tropical version from earlier.
DC Universe, Sandman: We could be heroes, just for one night, by Leigh Woosey.
Jul. 5th, 2025 10:09 pmfull_metal_ox posting in fancakePairings/Characters: Gen; Morpheus, Alan Scott, Tomar-Re, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, OCs by the billions (including Reader?)
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 297
Content Notes: Nothing icky happens, but the story references Neil Gaiman’s Endless mythos;(1) dream transcript.
Creator Links: (Website): https://leighwoosey.co.uk/; (Instagram)
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woogledesigns; (Twitter) Theme: Working Together, Action/Adventure, Gen, Just Plain Fun, Non-AO3 Fics
Summary: One for Sandman fans: I had a dream of Morpheus, who saw an invasion of earth that would go through the dreaming to reach target. Morpheus, who foresaw the plan even as it was being dreamt up by the aliens, was obligated to mount a defense. He recruited two sleeping Green Lanterns, one of Alan Scott of Earth and one Tomar-Re.
Author’s Notes: People are always telling me to keep a dream diary, this is a concession.
Reccer's Notes: Raw dream content notoriously tends to be some-assembly-required narrative material, but in a 29 August 2010 LiveJournal post(2), Woosey described this downright jackpot he received from Dreamland: a cool premise complete with plot, grand spectacle, a firm grounding in the canon lore (note the smooth incorporation of the various Elseworlds Batman scenarios), implicit invitation to the audience (what would you have been doing during the Big Event?) and a clear if haunting resolution. The title is my own
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metaquotes header.Fanwork Links: We could be heroes, just for one night, by Leigh Woosey.
(1) Note that some commenters envisioned Morpheus from The Matrix.
(2) The entry has since been deleted; archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170821194033/https://woogledesigns.livejournal.com/69811.html
Al-anon and Starsky and Hutch
Jul. 5th, 2025 10:32 pmsilver_chipmunkFortunately the 28 had not been rerouted, just a lot of stops removed, so I was able to get there. The meeting was very good, quite large.
Went to the diner afterward, and had a bacon, egg and cheese on a croissant, and an iced coffee.
Then I had to figure how to get home. The 13 still stops at that stop but has been rerouted, but still goes to Flushing. Nothing on their signs told me where it actually ends though. I took the risk and took the 13, to the end and found that it ends at Roosevelt and (supposedly) Union St. Actually it stops about a half blovk past Union, but close enough.
So I walked from there, no big deal. Next eek however, I'll try the alternate route of taking the 13 to the 23 and see where THAT goes.
Anyway, I got home, and went to the Starsky and Hutch chat. The episodes this week were Los Vegas Strangler parts 1 and 2. I got here in time for part 2. So that was nice.
We chatted til a little after 7:00, when we got off and I Teamed the FWiB.
We talked for about an hour and a half. Then I got off and puttered online. I called the Kid but she didn't pick up, so I texted her.
Then I went to the bedroom and called
mashfanficchick for a bit, then played solitaire til pet feeding time, then came out and fed the pets and started here. Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. My meetings and the people in them.
3. The 28 bus not rerouted.
4. Able to get home on the 13.
5. The Starsky and Hutch fandom.
6. Lovely weather.
Early Humans
Jul. 5th, 2025 05:19 pmysabetwordsmithStone Age humans living by a lake in what’s now Germany systematically processed animal carcasses for fatty nutrients — essentially running what scientists describe as a “fat factory” to boil bones on a vast scale, according to new research.
Note that another thing you can make with animal fat is pemmican: a stable, high-energy trail food made with fat, powdered meat, and a carbohydrate such as berries. Since it's not something you'd make in a hot climate like Africa (where humans evolved) but rather in a cold climate (such as northern Europe), I'm suddenly wondering if it is in fact a Neanderthal or Denisovan recipe.
Birdfeeding
Jul. 5th, 2025 03:14 pmysabetwordsmith posting in birdfeedingI fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, plus some brown birds that might be female blackbirds.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 4/5/25 -- I refilled the thistle feeder.
I picked up the concrete paver that we used for fireworks last night, along with scraps of paper and cardboard left behind.
Volunteer sunflowers are blooming under the fly-through feeder.
EDIT 4/5/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 4/5/25 -- I picked a handful of blackberries in the prairie garden.
EDIT 4/5/25 -- I watered the telephone pole garden and some of the savanna seedlings. A sunflower in the telephone pole garden is close to blooming. :D
EDIT 4/5/25 -- I pulled some weeds from the septic garden.
Fireflies are out. Cicadas are singing.
As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.
Birdfeeding
Jul. 5th, 2025 03:12 pmysabetwordsmithI fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, plus some brown birds that might be female blackbirds.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 4/5/25 -- I refilled the thistle feeder.
I picked up the concrete paver that we used for fireworks last night, along with scraps of paper and cardboard left behind.
Volunteer sunflowers are blooming under the fly-through feeder.
EDIT 4/5/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 4/5/25 -- I picked a handful of blackberries in the prairie garden.
EDIT 4/5/25 -- I watered the telephone pole garden and some of the savanna seedlings. A sunflower in the telephone pole garden is close to blooming. :D
EDIT 4/5/25 -- I pulled some weeds from the septic garden.
Fireflies are out. Cicadas are singing.
As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.
Poem: "Legs of Grass, Feet of Flowers"
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Sunshine Revival Challenge 2: Tunnel of Love
Jul. 5th, 2025 12:56 pmysabetwordsmithJournaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.
Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like
See "Poem: Legs of Grass, Feet of Flowers."
Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
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Rec [fic]: All the Ragged People: A 7th Doctor ShortTrip by theOther
Jul. 5th, 2025 07:53 pmparanoidangel posting in tardis_libraryCreator: theOther
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 1200 words
Creator's Summary: "For her, whose life was dictated by chaos and adventure and personal suffering even the Doctor knew nothing about, life was to end not with a bang, but with a whisper."
Characters/Pairings: Ace McShane, Seventh Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None
Reasons for reccing: For the Death square on my bingo card. It's a lovely moment between the Seventh Doctor and Ace which shows their relationship and what life with the Doctor is like.
Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=48932