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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Genfic. John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Evan Lorne, Ronon Dex, Carson Beckett, Teyla Emmagan, Original characters
Rating: Teen
Length: 79,623
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply. Grim at times, as it depicts an aspect of WWII.
Creator Links: kristen999 on AO3, everybetty on LJ
Themes: Working together, Action/adventure, Teamwork, Friendship, Genfic, AU: historical, Novel-length

Summary: WWII-based AU. The Team as we know it has been transplanted to the South Pacific.

Reccer's Notes:
This tour de force is a novel-length story by

kristen999, assisted by everybetty, an historical AU set in Papua-New Guinea, in WWII. It's pretty male-centric because of that, but does include Teyla as a local liaison with intel about the enemy. It's got lots of plot, great action and adventure, and an excellent sense of place - you can almost feel the tropical heat making you sweat and hear the mosquitoes whine. The story is illustrated throughout with lots of period photos from the time. It's told from all of the team's POVs, particularly John's (he's a pilot, of course, with Rodney and Ronon on his flight crew). Naturally, John gets thoroughly whumped, in the best genfic tradition. There's tons of atmosphere, friendship and teamwork, and it's a really great read.

Fanwork Links: Long Ago (and Far Away)

landofnowhere

Sorry, it's been a few weeks, but I have books to catch up on!

Homer's Daughter, Robert Graves. This continued to hold up well on reread -- though it does have the feature that you know there's going to be an absolute bloodbath at the end, just like in the Odyssey. I need to reread the Odyssey -- I'm sure there are references I missed, though at least I got the reference to the Iliad where after an important character died the plot stopped for his funeral games. The romance was a small part of the story, but surprisingly adorable. Trying to convince more people to read this so I have people to talk about it with!

Behind Frenemy Lines, Zen Cho. The second in Cho's series of contemporary romances set in London: this is in the same continuity as The Friend Zone Experiment, but there's only one very minor character overlap. Better than its title makes it sound -- it starts by quickly checking off the enemies-to-lovers and fake-dating trope bingo squares, but then goes on to become its own sweet workplace romance. Also super charmed by Charles's cousin who met her wife on Tumblr and their adorable cosplay wedding. I liked it better than The Friend Zone Experiment, though maybe it was that I hadn't read any genre romance in a while. If there's anything I didn't like it's that the characters and their situations felt stereotypical for their gender -- Kriya is dealing with workplace harassment, while Charles is a spectrum-coded workaholic.

Josephine Lang: her Life and Songs by Harald Krebs and Sharon Krebs. Josephine Lang is my newest forgotten woman composer obsession -- a respected contemporary of the Mendelssohns and Schumanns whose career was kickstarted when a Felix Mendelssohn heard her play her own songs. There aren't nearly enough recordings of her songs our there, which is a shame as they are delights: here's Fee'n-Reigen (Fairy Round Dance), one of the songs she composed as a teenager and played on her first meeting with Felix Mendelssohn, and the song of hers that first grabbed my attention -- an unaccompanied choral Ständchen (Lullaby, lyrics here ) from an unpublished manuscript.

Harald and Sharon Krebs are largely responsible for rehabilitating Lang's reputation as a composer, and this book was part of that: it was published in 2007 along with a companion CD, which is unavailable, but fortunately most of the songs discussed can be found to stream online, so I was able to listen along. This is a very readable book (though I skimmed the denser musical analysis) -- Lang's life story is fascinating, though at times depressing -- in her mid-twenties, she fell in love and married Christian Reinhold Köstlin, a law professor and poet, who comes off in the book as a bit of a Romantic failboat. This derailed her career as she took up her new position as a housewife in a small university town without a large musical scene and quickly had 6 children. She did find some time to compose, but had to deal with family health problems (she outlived not only her husband but three of her four sons), which makes for a rather depressing arc, though the book is able to point out the occasional moments of hilarity (link goes to my tumblr, where I've been posting more lately).

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lebateleur

What a week. I keep trying to find time to sit down and write about it only to have Things Keep Arising. But in the interest of getting back into the habit of posting these, here's an abbreviated:

What I Finished Reading This Week

Haha, nope.

What I Am Currently Reading

How To Dodge a Cannonball – Dennard Dayle
I'm hoping to finish this novel by next Wednesday.

The Beat Cop – Michael O'Malley
This book is fascinating and well written, and I'm steaming through it.

Crown Duel – Sherwood Smith
I'll have this one finished by next week too.

What I'm Reading Next

This week I picked up How To Draw The Human Figure by Jose Parramon and Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell.

これで以上です。

conuly

How bad of a faux pas is it if you're filling out a job application in person and then realize after you hand it in that you've gone ahead and proofread it?

(Asking for a friend!)

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sorcyress

Here's the Stardew footnote! Does Dreamwidth have Spoiler Tagging? ( like, maybe, but I'm just going to put it under a cut instead. Spoilers are below but also please try not to give me additional spoilers very much, I am trying mostly to figure things out on my own! )

There's probably more things I could say, but that feels good for now. I am enjoying this video game!

~Sor
MOOP!

olivermoss

(CW: SCA, self harm, lots of stuff) This about on reddit about the Maddison Devlin AKA Addison Beck situation is really well done. If I didn't know about it, I'd have been very confused for the past few days because wow, have I seen people subtweeting this and referencing this.

It's kind of interesting to me because it deals with the highly specific issue of 'whether or not this content is okay, it is NOT okay to put that content in that context / with those tags' That's something I've talked about in the past (and had drama about when I was reviewer) It also deals with, oh no, don't have *that* kind of content that late in a series unless you've made it's clear it's coming.

sorcyress

I am on a train to Providence!

Yes, my summer is _extremely_ flitting about from place to place and partner to partner. I am okay with this, mostly, although I do really wish I had a bunch of time to just...rest and do nothing? I think that's the short span of time between "home from Maryland" and "pre-the-thing".

(don't worry about the thing. I can't remember whether I've mentioned it explicitly on socials, and it is a good thing, but I'm superstitious and it's a complicated good thing. I'll tell y'all in late August.)

Despite the fact that I desperately would like to do Absolutely Nothing With My Life Except Play Stardew Valley¹, I did actually write myself a short list of normal goals and stretch goals for "what needs to happen before I go to Providence" and then I made progress on literally _all_ of them, including the stretchy ones! Here are some things I did today:

*Finshed unpacking from Pinewoods

*Packed for Providence

*Did partial packing for Maryland, by which I mean, made a pile of stuff on my floor. But it has probably enough clothes and a few other things I'll need? I don't think I will need a particularly large amount of stuff in MD, although I should a) remember to tell people I'll be in MD and want to hang and b) bring extra packing space because part of the point is helping mom clean out/sort all my grandparents' old stuff and some of it I might want to claim.

*Vacuumed the downstairs. It was a subpar vacuuming job, but I got a noticeable quantity of cat hair off the floor/furniture, so I'm counting it as a win. (I swept the kitchen yesterday).

*Cleaned the toilet and rinsed out the sink. I didn't like...bother to actually spray the sink with cleaner like I should've. I am a master of "half-assing a job is greater than no-assing a job" is what I'm saying.

*Brought my bike to the bike shop. It has been a while! It has also been a while since I've ridden my bike, being as I got a flat in like November and went "welp, that's it for the season" and just dumped my bike in the garage until the weather got warmer and then couldn't get the tyre off the rim. So. It will be some work. I will not get it back in time for the weekend, but they are okay with me leaving it in the shop until I return from Maryland.

*Went to the pharmacy and got a thing and didn't get another thing but know what date I can theoretically get the other thing (Friday).

So that's lots of good tasks, and then I rode on a train and played three days of Stardew and wrote most of the above (and the next post). Now I'm at Tuesday's house and we have eaten snax and watched good stuff with the initials BB². I am happy to be snuggling with my sweetie!

Not sure what my next plans are. Fuck around. More stardew. Maybe some photo organizing or other digital projects. Sleep. Is good. Happy summer.

~Sor

MOOP!

1: You know how sometimes you start to write a footnote and it becomes a whole _thing_? I'm just gonna make a separate post about Stardew.

2: We started Blues Brothers a couple weeks ago and then couldn't finish it because it turns out to be really fucking hard to get seats together on the train when you're not boarding at a terminus, so we finished that, and then watched S1E5 of Black Books, which is the one with Bernard getting locked out (a masterpiece, honestly).

thistleingrey

One may conclude that the KPop Demon Hunters OST has splashed in South Korea, specifically, by the range of individuals who've uploaded covers of "Golden" to YouTube, the better to ride a potentially global wave of publicity.

The cover by An Yujin of Ive has been produced, despite the short turnaround time. Clean phrasing, and almost boring in how effortless An makes it seem (she's worked very hard already).

The cover by Kwon Soon Il of Urban Zakapa isn't effortless, but he's done really well, including in the falsetto notes between his comfortable range and the belted G and A.

More than a dozen other professional performers have also uploaded covers to YouTube, she said blandly, not naming them. Most of those reveal that it's not all that hard to get to high G, even the topmost high A, if you're already sop-range or if you just throw some air at the phrases. I mean, if I wanted to wake up the smallest neighbor napping next door, I could still get that G on a good day. (Not the A, though! Not since I was ten or so. I think "Defying Gravity" in Wicked goes only to an F?---been a while since I checked.)

What seems hardest is to have enough reach for the high notes without sounding strangled, while also carrying all of the song's lower notes (which are comfortably middling for my current range; Kwon's falsetto overlaps mine). Props to Ejae, the lead song-writer and performer, for making an excellent pop vehicle several ways, including as an implicit showcase for her voice.

Here's the official Sony video for "Golden," with lyrics. Formally it's sung by a trio, but the other two voices have a pair of lines apiece---mostly they're backing vocals.

(Will reply to comments later, sorry!)

ETA Short interview with Ejae in Korean, uncorrected eng sub (subtitles---as people used to say for kdramas).

redbird

I read fewer books than I'd expected to while I was in London. Recently finished:

The Grimoire Grammar School Parent-Teacher Association, by Caitlin Rozakis, is a fantasy novel about a magical school, from the viewpoint of a student's parent.

The Eights, by Joanna Miller, is about four women students who enroll at Oxford University the year the university starts offering degrees to female students. It's set in 1920-21, with flashbacks to earlier in the four women's lives. (The "eights" in the title means the residents of corridor 8.)

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code-maker's War, by Leo Marks, describes working at one of the British government agencies that sent coded messages to underground agents in occupied Europe during the second world war. The author's job included deciphering messages that were mangled either in transit, or by the agent who encoded them, and coming up with new and hopefully better codes.

Evvie Blake Starts Over, by Linda Holmes, is about a woman who was in the process of leaving her husband when he died in a car accident, and her recovery from both the bad marriage and from all the people who expect her to be grieving him. A romance, more or less.

I enjoyed all of these, and don't remember who recommended ~~any~~ most of them to me (

adrian_turtle just reminded me that she recommended The Grimoire Grammar School PTA). There's a range of moods here, less because of planning than because of what came up on my library hold lists.

None of these books are useful for my Boston Public Library summer reading bingo cards: I'd already filled the squares for "book with a name in the title" and "published in 2025." I have a book with a green cover on my desk, and got email while I was in London telling me that it had been automatically renewed for another three weeks.

the_shoshanna

It's always been a while. I wish I posted more regularly. And who is to blame for that, I ask ~~you~~ me?

Yesterday Geoff and I went kayaking for the first time this year -- almost; he went with a friend last weekend while I went hiking with a different friend, but this was my first time this season and our first time together. This was also my first time with my new kayak! He wanted to upgrade our kayaks but couldn't find one he fitted comfortably in, so in the end I got a shiny new one -- longer and lighter than my old one, cuts through the water more cleanly -- and he is taking my old one, which although a bit clunky is still lighter than his old one. He's trying to sell his old one, but no bites so far, apparently. Anyway, we got out on the water for two hours and saw goslings, and cygnets, and even a baby loon with its mama! We've only seen a loon once before, so that was really special. (The chick was swimming on its own, not riding on its mom.) Also, the first clutch of cygnets we saw were young enough that one parent huddled at the edge of the reeds with them while the other came out to meet us and warn us off; when Geoff got a little closer than it liked, it rushed him with great flapping wings! No actual contact, but the message was clear and we rapidly paddled away. The second clutch we saw were a little older and were out on the water in an adorable toddling line between the parents, and we were able to pass by them rather closer than we'd been to the first family without anybody getting upset.

(Loon chicks don't seem to have a special name? We tried to think of one: Geoff suggested "lunatics" and I counterproposed "lunettes," French for "glasses.")

I've just finished going through the most recent season of Yellowjackets for the second time, since I've been watching it with two friends on slightly offset schedules. It continues to keep me riveted without being what I'd call "a good show"? I love how Shauna has been slowly revealed (yes, I know it's probably more like "how the writers have slowly changed their minds about Shauna" but I'm living in Watsonia here, okay) and we keep hoping that all the spouses and kids are safely off somewhere starting a mutual support and therapy group, never to be seen again. I'm dying to know where Melissa will turn up next, and what Jeff and Cally are going to do. (Poor Jeff and Cally.) I'm still not entirely sure which Taissa we've been seeing all season. And I love it when the teen and adult versions of the characters get to interact. I admire how the show has managed to hedge its bets on the supernatural-or-not? question for so long (I hope it's not), I'm delighted that we've finally wrapped around to the beginning of the show, and I really hope the mystery of the weird symbol does get explained in the end. The show was originally planned for five seasons, but it's hard to see how they could keep it going that long; I will be quite content if they wrap it up in the fourth season, especially since the alternative will be biting my nails hoping they actually get a fifth! I just hope they do actually wrap it up...

Having finished YJ, I'm now watching Interview with the Vampire with one friend (new to both of us) and Shetland with the other (a rewatch for me, but it's been a while). IwtV is slow-moving and sometimes I wonder why I'm interested, but I am, and now that previously unadmitted mysteries seem to be being hinted at I am more intrigued... (No spoilers, please! I read the original novel in like 1982, and saw the original movie when it came out, but remember basically nothing of either of them [except that I remembered for decades the stupid way in which movie-Claudia's hair curled when she was turned].) And I love Shetland and the way that (after a shaky bit at the end of the Perez stories) it refocused to center on my girl Tosh and our new DI Ruth Calder. I mean, it basically did what I wistfully hoped the fourth season of Ted Lasso would do: waved goodbye to the dudes and settled in to tell a story centering women. I absolutely adore Tosh.

I'm doing a bunch of traveling this summer, which used to be par for the course but is excitingly new since the pandemic! I had that brief trip to Virginia in May, and then my inlaws had two (TWO) family reunions in Quebec, and now I'm leaving on Friday for almost three weeks in the States, visiting friends, some of whom I haven't seen in years. I'm excited! And then (after my stepmother visits here for four days) Geoff and I are going on our first big trip since the Before Times, spending two weeks in Wales! I'm even more excited about that, and also somewhat intimidated; I'm out of practice at managing logistics for this kind of thing, plus the first week is going to involve some rather challenging hiking. And of course I am still afraid of COVID. But we're both over sixty, we won't be able to travel like this forever even in the best-case scenario, and COVID isn't going away, so we want to do this travel while we can. We're still going to take as many precautions as we reasonably can.

And I'm not reading much that's meaty, but last night I remembered that I was halfway through World War Z and picked it up again, which was a mistake at ten pm; I read for a while, freaked myself out, and had to do crossword puzzles for a while before trying to go to sleep, so today I am le tired.

vaguely political stuff

I mentioned to a Canadian friend the the day that I was about to go to the States, and she got that look you get when someone tells you someone has died and said, "Oh, I'm so sorry." I keep thinking I can't reel any more and then there's more. The volunteer work I was doing so much of last year for the Movement Voter Project is slowly beginning to start up again; two different people in the group have independently asked me to develop a training program to teach other people to do the kind of Zoom tech support that I do for them. (I'm not the only person who does that work, but they tell me I'm the best 😊) I don't have time to do that right now -- look at all my travel! -- but I brain-dumped a whole bunch of tips and advice for the first person, who has written them up and will incorporate them into a training she'll do, and told the second person to connect with the first. And the work itself will really start up again in the fall, when I'll be back and ready to take it on.

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The sort of beauty that's called human (1927 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Characters: Bran Davies, Will Stanton (Dark is Rising), Owen Davies, Herne the Hunter (Dark is Rising)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Loss of Parent(s), Immortality
Series: Part 4 of Wherein was bound a child
Summary:

“We have to go,” Bran said, his voice coming out hoarser than he’d expected. “Rhys called. Trouble with my da. A stroke.”

No more needed to be said aloud. They were going back to Wales.

nanila

After a gentle, slow decline into feeble old age, our beloved cranky gerbil, Nibbles, died last weekend.

( Description of pet death. )

I shall miss his almond-seeking nose boops. Rest well, Nibsy. Enjoy chasing your brother and Tiny the hamster in Small Rodent Valhalla.

luzula

My friend Annick Trent has a new historical m/m romance out: By Marsh and by Moor. It's about a pressed English sailor running from the press gang during the Napoleonic wars, and his companion on the run, who is running from something else entirely. Obviously I am not impartial here, but I've been enjoying beta reading this book even when I haven't been reading much other fiction.

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https://xkcd.com/3119/

"And in maritime news, the Coast Guard is on the scene today after an apparent collision between two lighthouses."

https://xkcd.com/3119/

adrian_turtle

I used to think the law of driving on the right side of the road was completely arbitrary. Socially determined, with no particular basis in any level of reality, but of course once it has been determined it becomes very important to abide by it. In a community where most people are right-handed, the choice is NOT arbitrary. When a right-handed driver is startled on a right-driving road (by, for instance, a bird hitting the windshield), their stronger arm tends to pull them off the road. On a left-driving road, that panicky flinch tends to pull them into oncoming traffic.

On my recent visit to London I learned the people there drive on the left side of roads and walk on the right side of sidewalks. I know such conventions don't have to make sense. The increased danger of driving cars on the left is pretty small. If cars and pedestrians both kept to the left, I suspect I would just chalk it up to Foreign Customs Are Different and it wouldn't itch my brain like this.

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There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.

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olivermoss

First off, VShojo stealing a half mill from charity. Ironmouse, a VTuber (Person who streams using an avatar instead of their face) who spent the first 7 years of her career streaming while laying in bed due to her chronic illness, did a fundraiser for the Immune Deficiency Foundation. Over the years, she's raised four million for the group that helps people like her. But, her agency isn't releasing the funds for the most recent one, and also owes some, if not all, of their talent large amounts of their salary.

Ironmouse started streaming because she was lonely. She has to be physically isolated due to immune system problems. VTubing is a space where you've got a lot of people with earning potential in the millions, but a lot of the talent is chronically ill, have severe anxiety disorders or are highly closeted trans people. One reason to use a face rig is living in an area where you have to be very gender conforming for physical safety reasons, and it's an outlet, a space for relief and community. This is a billion dollar industry, where a large chunk of the people are highly vulnerable. Agencies provide the separation between working with sponsors and other companies they need to safety. They can't just be giving out their bank info and can't manage to make their own corporate entity or shell company on their own. They need someone to provide privacy and also be vetting all the sponsorship offers.

The good news is that fans came together to raise, so far, over $857,000.00 to cover the missing half mil and then some. Since Conner, who was also involved in the charity streams, recently had to call them and say 'sorry, the promised funds aren't coming' I can't image what it's like to have people having their backs like this.

Hopefully, VShojo didn't lose the money on a failed start up or something and lawyers can whack them open like pinata to recover the money. It's amazing to see the support, but also fucked that people have to. And also, while big streamers have opened up about being owed 'Ferrari levels of money' we don't know if smaller streamers who have also been ripped off for money they can't lose.

Also, while it's not confirmed, very solid sources have said that VShojo employees were leaking appearances and relationship statuses of their employees. From the sounds of it, it was being done as a flex, being all 'I know what they really look like, who has a partner they don't talk about and who is actually single'

I want to post about two other things going on, but I'll do separate posts. While not everyone in the Vtubing space is disabled or has something else major going on, there is just such a intense intersection of highly vulnerable people, shit tons of money, and also people who can't just go get other jobs. And finally, a number of VTubers have said in very strong terms, that there is even more to this VShojo situation, but they can't talk about it for legal reasons. Legal proceedings are already underway. There's another shoe going to drop here.

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