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Two New Vids (BtVS)
Another month and another update on ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
periru3 and my vid album Jagged Little Slayer, a mashup of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Alanis Morissette. Here are the two we've posted since last time — we're very excited about these two:
periru3 and my vid album Jagged Little Slayer, a mashup of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Alanis Morissette. Here are the two we've posted since last time — we're very excited about these two:
Lynn | Settiai (settiai) wrote2025-09-07 04:48 pm
settiai) wrote2025-09-07 04:48 pmEntry tags:
Fic: Side by Side (Dragon Age)
Side by Side (1506 words) by Settiai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Oghren & Female Surana (Dragon Age)
Characters: Female Surana (Dragon Age), Oghren (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Alcohol, The Black Emporium Exchange, Friendship, One Shot, Sparring
Summary: Oghren might have been a nug humping bastard, but he couldn't just stand by and do nothing after he realized that the big scary Warden everyone was talking about was barely more than a kid.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Oghren & Female Surana (Dragon Age)
Characters: Female Surana (Dragon Age), Oghren (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Alcohol, The Black Emporium Exchange, Friendship, One Shot, Sparring
Summary: Oghren might have been a nug humping bastard, but he couldn't just stand by and do nothing after he realized that the big scary Warden everyone was talking about was barely more than a kid.
skygiants (skygiants) wrote2025-09-06 12:18 am
skygiants) wrote2025-09-06 12:18 amEntry tags:
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genarti and I have been working our very slow but delighted way through We Are Lady Parts, the British sitcom about an all-Muslim punk rock band composed of opinionated women with beautiful and compelling faces. I'd been seeing a lot of gifsets of these faces before we watched the show and I am pleased to report that they are even more beautiful and compelling at full length. For those of you who have missed the gifsets, please enjoy Lady Parts performing "Villain Era":The two most protagonist-y protagonists are Saira, the band's lead singer/guitarist, who is at all times extremely punk rock, and Amina, a stressed-out trad-Muslim scientist with terrible stage fright, who really has to work to access her inner punk rock. The cast is rounded out with Ayesha, the angry lesbian drummer; Bisma, who plays the role of maternal peacemaker until she starts to chafe at it; and Momtaz, the band's go-getter manager. The first season focuses mostly on the question of whether Amina can conquer her own inhibitions enough to contribute her excellent guitar skills and huge Disney eyes to the band after Saira press-gangs her into joining them. The second season brings the whole band up against the music industry more generally, and the various ways that the public pressure of moderate fame starts to push each of them into re-examining their self-image and relationships to their music and identity. It's a good show! I liked it very much!
Also, like everyone else in the world, we have recently watched KPop Demon Hunters. Also a very good time featuring banger music tracks -- I'd seen it described as 'a series of really good music videos' and broadly I agree with this assessment -- plus twenty pounds of fun kdrama tropes stuffed into a five-pound bag. Probably would not have felt compelled to write anything about it except for the fact that by an accident of timing, we ended up watching the season finale of Lady Parts the day after we watched KPop Demon Hunters which made for a very funny accidental wine pairing. Both funny and telling to go from ( high-level spoilers for both KPop Demon Hunters and Lady Parts )
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fandomcalendar2025-09-05 09:24 am
elesteria) wrote in fandomcalendar2025-09-05 09:24 am괴담출근 (GSGW): GSGW Reverse Big Bang 2026
Jin Nasol of GSGW, with text saying 1 Day Reverse Big Bang. Credit to happ13unni
Description: A collaborative fan event between Artists & Authors for
Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work (GSGW)
by Baek Deoksoo.
Schedule:
Artist and Writer sign-ups begin September 6
Posting Begins March 13
Links:
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thisbluespirit (thisbluespirit) wrote2025-09-05 02:48 pm
thisbluespirit) wrote2025-09-05 02:48 pmEntry tags:
Ficlet: Masquerade Ball (Wish Me Luck)
Another of the AU_gust ficlets, this one for the prompt "Masquerade Ball" and also for allbingo Crime Classics square "Foreign Bodies." I put 0 research and accuracy into it and the fandom doesn't have enough fic to warrant an AU, but I was thinking about WML when I saw the prompt. Anyway, less traumatic than the actual incident's end in 1.6, one trusts.
Masquerade Ball (633 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wish Me Luck (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Colin Beale/Matty Firman
Characters: Colin Beale (Wish Me Luck), Matty Firman
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Regency, Spies & Secret Agents, Ficlet, Community: allbingo, Costume Parties & Masquerades, Alternate Universe - Napoleonic Wars, handwaves accuracy, Matty just being Matty in any time period, Implied Sexual Content
Summary: Matty and Colin get caught in a compromising position.
(I thought I was doing better today but I just failed at the summary sentencethree four FIVE times in a row, so I do hope my editing was actually okay. It was only tweaking, so let's hope so.)
allbingo Crime Classics square "Foreign Bodies." I put 0 research and accuracy into it and the fandom doesn't have enough fic to warrant an AU, but I was thinking about WML when I saw the prompt. Anyway, less traumatic than the actual incident's end in 1.6, one trusts.Masquerade Ball (633 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wish Me Luck (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Colin Beale/Matty Firman
Characters: Colin Beale (Wish Me Luck), Matty Firman
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Regency, Spies & Secret Agents, Ficlet, Community: allbingo, Costume Parties & Masquerades, Alternate Universe - Napoleonic Wars, handwaves accuracy, Matty just being Matty in any time period, Implied Sexual Content
Summary: Matty and Colin get caught in a compromising position.
(I thought I was doing better today but I just failed at the summary sentence
Lynn | Settiai (settiai) wrote2025-09-05 09:20 am
settiai) wrote2025-09-05 09:20 am
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For Sale: Nintendo Switch games
I'm still trying to raise some more money to throw at debts, so 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)
For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).
If you know anyone who might be interested, please point them my way. I managed to sell the Echo Show from yesterday, which definitely helped, but I could still really use another $150-200 and managing to sell these games would take a chunk out of that.
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (example on Amazon)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (example on Amazon)
TemTem (example on Amazon)
For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).
If you know anyone who might be interested, please point them my way. I managed to sell the Echo Show from yesterday, which definitely helped, but I could still really use another $150-200 and managing to sell these games would take a chunk out of that.
Lynn | Settiai (settiai) wrote2025-09-04 09:42 pm
settiai) wrote2025-09-04 09:42 pm
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Yuletide
It's been a stressful kind of day because Capitalism™, so let's try to pull my brain over to fandom for at least a little bit tonight.
The Yuletide team posted an announcement that they're going to experiment this year with letting people have more nominations and requests. It's up to 5 fandoms per nomination and 8 fandoms per request for 2025, and they'll make decisions on future years once they see how much chaos is unleashed this year.
I'm very excited, because that means I have extra spots to play with! On the other hand, my current list of possible Yuletide fandoms is at 30something at the moment. Which, you know, is probably less than helpful. I really need to start narrowing it down, huh?
The Yuletide team posted an announcement that they're going to experiment this year with letting people have more nominations and requests. It's up to 5 fandoms per nomination and 8 fandoms per request for 2025, and they'll make decisions on future years once they see how much chaos is unleashed this year.
I'm very excited, because that means I have extra spots to play with! On the other hand, my current list of possible Yuletide fandoms is at 30something at the moment. Which, you know, is probably less than helpful. I really need to start narrowing it down, huh?
AurumCalendula (aurumcalendula) wrote2025-09-04 02:22 pm
aurumcalendula) wrote2025-09-04 02:22 pm(no subject)
I might have a more cooperative vid idea to poke at while I let my Star Trek ones percolate!
I definitely need to do a full Discovery rewatch soon! Strange New Worlds still doesn't sound like my thing, but I'll have to check out episode 3x09 the next time I have Paramount+, since it looks like it was a good Ortegas episode.
I definitely need to do a full Discovery rewatch soon! Strange New Worlds still doesn't sound like my thing, but I'll have to check out episode 3x09 the next time I have Paramount+, since it looks like it was a good Ortegas episode.
Lynn | Settiai (settiai) wrote2025-09-04 12:10 pm
settiai) wrote2025-09-04 12:10 pm
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For Sale: Echo Show (2nd Generation)
I'd be willing to accept any reasonable offer, as I really need to come up with some extra money as soon as possible. It's used but in good shape. There's no listings on Amazon since it's an older model, but there are some available on eBay for comparison. I could have it in the mail either this weekend or early next week at the latest.
For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).
If you know anyone who might be interested, please point them my way.
And it's gone!
pauraque (pauraque) wrote2025-09-04 08:59 am
pauraque) wrote2025-09-04 08:59 amThe Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi (2020)
In turn-of-the-millennium Nigeria, an Indian immigrant named Kavita is married to a Nigerian man. They have one son, young adult Vivek. On the same day that rioters burn the local marketplace to the ground, Kavita finds Vivek on her doorstep, naked and wrapped in cloth, dead of a head wound. From there, the progression of the novel is nonlinear, moving among Kavita's desperate search for answers, Vivek's life as a kid who was always different, and the perspectives of Vivek's friends and family in this complex multicultural community.
Like Emezi's earlier novel Freshwater, this one clearly draws inspiration from their own life and childhood, and it benefits from the same keen eye for the reality of what culture and tradition look like on the ground. But it's not as directly autobiographical, reading less like a memoir and more like an actual novel. The prose style and handling of the themes really worked for me. Vivek is queer in a country where homosexuality is illegal, but Emezi hasn't written a story where queer people are tragic victims, nor have they written a one-note condemnation of Nigerian culture. They include a variety of queer characters who are flawed and human, some of whom are pretty well-adjusted given the circumstances, and some of whom make terrible mistakes. Despite the difficult subject matter, the book orients itself towards a world where some of these kids will grow up okay, some of the ignorant will learn, and the future of queer Nigeria hasn't been written yet.
But "almost certain" is the operative phrase. As it turns out, Vivek wasn't murdered. He died in an accident that could have happened to anyone at any time, and it had nothing to do with his presentation or his queerness at all.
This subverted expectation turns the entire book on its head and makes it land in a completely different place than I thought it was going to. The message of the book is not that being queer will get you killed in this terrible, terrible world; it's that nobody knows what the future will bring, so you shouldn't let fears of what might happen hold you back. You should be yourself—and allow yourself joy—while you still have time.
This ending really stunned me and it took me a bit to process it. I think it's the right ending, but I didn't see it coming at all, and it made me feel the book had turned a sobering and much-needed mirror on me and my own assumptions about queer stories and about the world.
I don't know what I think about Osita (Vivek's cousin/boyfriend) keeping the full truth to himself. Letting Vivek's parents believe he was murdered opens the door for them to feel empathy rather than disgust, but can that be a justification to tell such a massive lie by omission? I don't know, it's messy, but so was Osita and Vivek's relationship from start to finish.
The book is not long (250 pages) and I think it could have benefited from being a little longer and spending some more time with each character and their arc. Some threads seemed to wrap up too quickly at the end. But overall I found it a thought-provoking read and I'm up for more of Emezi's work. Next I'll probably go for their YA novel Pet.
Like Emezi's earlier novel Freshwater, this one clearly draws inspiration from their own life and childhood, and it benefits from the same keen eye for the reality of what culture and tradition look like on the ground. But it's not as directly autobiographical, reading less like a memoir and more like an actual novel. The prose style and handling of the themes really worked for me. Vivek is queer in a country where homosexuality is illegal, but Emezi hasn't written a story where queer people are tragic victims, nor have they written a one-note condemnation of Nigerian culture. They include a variety of queer characters who are flawed and human, some of whom are pretty well-adjusted given the circumstances, and some of whom make terrible mistakes. Despite the difficult subject matter, the book orients itself towards a world where some of these kids will grow up okay, some of the ignorant will learn, and the future of queer Nigeria hasn't been written yet.
spoilery thoughts
It was clear to me fairly early on that Vivek was some flavor of transfeminine (anachronistic labels aren't used, but bigender seems about right, and 'he' and 'she' are both accepted). Circumstantial evidence leads you and many of the characters to suspect he was killed in a hate crime. Towards the end, this scenario seems almost certain when you learn that he went out presenting as a woman on the night of his death, even though his friends tried to stop him because they thought it was too dangerous.But "almost certain" is the operative phrase. As it turns out, Vivek wasn't murdered. He died in an accident that could have happened to anyone at any time, and it had nothing to do with his presentation or his queerness at all.
This subverted expectation turns the entire book on its head and makes it land in a completely different place than I thought it was going to. The message of the book is not that being queer will get you killed in this terrible, terrible world; it's that nobody knows what the future will bring, so you shouldn't let fears of what might happen hold you back. You should be yourself—and allow yourself joy—while you still have time.
This ending really stunned me and it took me a bit to process it. I think it's the right ending, but I didn't see it coming at all, and it made me feel the book had turned a sobering and much-needed mirror on me and my own assumptions about queer stories and about the world.
I don't know what I think about Osita (Vivek's cousin/boyfriend) keeping the full truth to himself. Letting Vivek's parents believe he was murdered opens the door for them to feel empathy rather than disgust, but can that be a justification to tell such a massive lie by omission? I don't know, it's messy, but so was Osita and Vivek's relationship from start to finish.
The book is not long (250 pages) and I think it could have benefited from being a little longer and spending some more time with each character and their arc. Some threads seemed to wrap up too quickly at the end. But overall I found it a thought-provoking read and I'm up for more of Emezi's work. Next I'll probably go for their YA novel Pet.