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I ended up marathoning all 8 episodes of Defenders last night. I enjoyed it. It doesn't have the same thematic cohesiveness that Jessica Jones does and the fights aren't as good as they were in the first season of Daredevil, but it's a fun ride if you enjoy the characters, and it helps that everyone else finds Danny Rand as annoying as the audience does. *hands*

( spoilers )

So it was a good way to spend 7-ish hours, and it didn't leave me in a state of existential dread the way JJ did.

the other day, in anticipation of this show, I was making a list of ladies with robot arms, and I couldn't come up with many - Misty Knight, Nina Sharp, Lirael, Furiosa... who else is there?

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Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: To the Bone - Thea Gilmore

jennaria

This one I am going to go with the original question:

06 - List your Top 5 Anime OTPs.

(I try to be the sane kind of shipper - I don't demand the whole fandom share my preferred pairings, nor do I yell at people who ship other pairings. If I have an OTP, then I simply politely refuse to read fanfic that breaks them up.)

Yuri!!! On Ice - Victor Nikiforov/Katsuki Yuuri (and lucky for me, canon ships it as well)
Hikaru no Go - Shindou Hikaru/Touya Akira
Sword Arts Online - Kirito/Asuna (and yet the author keeps creating new female characters to throw at Kirito - dammit, canon!)
Witch Hunter Robin - Robin/Amon
Spirited Away/Sen to Chihiro - Chihiro/Haku

tassosss

Right. So I've been having the same log in problems to DW that others seem to be experiencing. Firefox logins were not working, and I followed advice I saw on someone's DW about shutting down, restarting, and not using a bookmark to get to my page. The the log in worked. Safari was working but I use FB on Safari so I try not to cross the browser streams. I submitted a support ticket, and for anyone who didn't now you can do that without being logged in by email: support@dreamwidth.org

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Hey there's an eclipse tomorrow!

I haven't heard anything about that at work or anything /sarcasm.

But I am excited for it, though I'm in the 80 percent zone, so not a total for me. For the 2024 eclipse, I'll make the effort to get somewhere to see totality.

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Life experiments I am currently conducting:
1. Can I really go without washing my hair? I'm almost at the end of week 6, and it's been more of a trial than I was expecting. Backstory: I don't like showers. Don't ask. I don't know why. It's always been a thing. I tend to shower twice a week, often after exercising, and so my pattern for a long time has been to wash my hair twice a week. But then I got it in my head to try to transition away from shampoo, and the first step is to not wash your hair for 4-6 weeks to let your scalp's grease production stop being in overdrive. And I definitely turned a corner last weekend, when for the first time when I rinsed my hair it did not feel nearly as greasy as it had for the first five weeks. (To clarify: I still shower, I just am abstaining from hairwashing and only rinse with water.) It's still a little greasy but nowhere near where it was, and now that I've gotten this far I'm going to try the baking soda and vinegar this week to see how that goes.

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I continue to read lots of Dragon Age fanfic. As you can probably tell by my lack of recs, none of the ones from the last two weeks or so have been good enough to rec. The one I finished yesterday which was an insane amount words, I should have stopped reading 100,000 words before the end. But I finished it. Because I just want to read DA fic and I'm in the dregs of my pairing so.. Yeah.

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I'm really liking season 7 of Game of Thrones. I'm rewatching the first season since I have access to HBO for the moment, the good parts version, by which I mean Jon, Dany, Arya, Cersei, Jaime, Bran, and judicious skipping through Ned and Catlyn.

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There are so many shows I want to catch up on... but not enough to stop reading DA fic.

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Writing is still a chore and feels like I'm not getting anywhere.

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I'm judiciously blocking out the real world news for certain blocks of time each day.

eris_kyrall posting in

100words

Title: Spark
Fandom: Still Star-Croseed
Rating: G
Notes: For

100words , prompt #55 Slow Burn

The battle lines are drawn. Neither of you started this feud. You were born into it; cannon fodder for your elders' vanity.

You stare at each other across that divide.

Montague. Capulet.

You stare, but you do not see, and every word is a double-edged sword.

Yet, one of you extends a hand, and you are both surprised when the other does not slap it away, but holds on tight.

Enemies to allies, and friends to...

Can trust be given, then broken, and still be rebuild?

Are you both strong enough to break without losing sight of who you are?

copracat

I may be a bit sweary behind the cut.

( Teen Wolf 06x13 )

Just saying.

viridian5

Lately I've been working on the DVD commentary for my Aya/Yoji fic "In Two" and writing my SNAFU fic "Heavy," the latest fic in the And Yet, Hayama Hayato Can Still Surprise series. The main difficulty with "Heavy" is figuring out how and when to end it since it's 15,900 words already and seems determined to keep going on.

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( Summer/money/car/life troubles )

Current Mood: exanimate
Current Music: Hesitation Marks by Nine Inch Nails

allekha

After a long day of driving, we finally made it to Greenville, South Carolina, very much ready for the eclipse. On the way, we drove through some pretty country backroads, discussed how none of us are ever moving to Virginia*, and stopped at an actual working antique waterwheel mill (I love waterwheels) and a tiny town museum with an exhibit about the change of agriculture in Virginia. (*mostly because we do not really get or like the Thing Virginia has for slaveholding traitorous Confederate generals)

From the little bit of walking around we did near our hotel, Greenville seems like a nice place. At least, it's pretty when you're right on the river. We scoped out potential places to sit and watch the eclipse, if we get there early enough to claim them.

The one thing that keeps surprising me on this trip is the southern accent. I moved several hours north, and I don't hear any difference between how people in my hometown speak and how people up north speak, and only barely any difference when I've gone to California, which is on the other coast. But maybe a couple of hours south of my hometown, there are the southern accents. And it somehow sounds more different to me than, say, British accents; I guess I'm more used to hearing those from TV and British YouTubers.

I have not yet admitted defeat on the awful Tibetan culture book, but the thought of having only that to read on this trip gave me a feeling akin to dread, so I brought my copy of The Tale of Genji instead. After two chapters, so far I like it, but I think I need to start drawing relationship charts because I'm already starting to get lost with regard to how everyone's related. I think afterward I might see if I can grab a copy of the Seidensticker translation from the library just to see how he translated the poems; I've already seen examples of his prose translations and it's so blunt and bleh. But poetry is a different matter.

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You can call me Hal.

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