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Horns Up, Fangs Out (2564 words) by Settiai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: The Iron Bull/Solas (Dragon Age)
Characters: The Iron Bull (Dragon Age), Solas (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Complicated Relationships, Developing Relationship, Fade to Black, One Shot, Pride's Solace Exchange
Summary: The Iron Bull was a complication that Solas hadn't planned on.

Current Mood: accomplished

musesfool

I realize I never followed up on the vanilla cupcakes and they did stay moist for 4 days in an airtight container and didn't get that weird texture where you can tell they're going bad, nor did they dry out, so. A++ on the hot milk method. So I am making them today, as well as my favorite chocolate cupcake recipe (it is actually a cake recipe but it makes 40 mini cupcakes as written) and then tomorrow I will make whipped ganache for the vanilla and vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream for the chocolate, and bring them to work on Tuesday, since one of my attorneys is pregnant, and this is likely the last time she'll be in the office with us until the fall. She was all, "no need to make a fuss!" but my boss was like, "Cupakes? :D :D :D" so of course, I was also like, "Cupcakes! :D :D :D"

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Today's poem:

Mother, Kitchen
By Ouyang Jianghe
(Translated from the Chinese by Austin Woerner )

Where the immemorial and the instant meet, opening and distance appear.
Through the opening: a door, crack of light.
Behind the door, a kitchen.

Where the knife rises and falls, clouds gather, disperse.
A lightspeed joining of life and death, cut
in two: halves of a sun, of slowness.

Halves of a turnip.
A mother in the kitchen, a lifetime of cuts.
A cabbage cut into mountains and rivers,
a fish, cut along its leaping curves,
laid on the table
still yearning for the pond.

Summer's tofu
cut into premonitions of snow.
A potato listens to the onion-counterpoint
of the knife, dropping petals at its strokes:
self and thing, halves of nothing
at the center of time.
Where gone and here meet, the knife rises, falls.

But this mother is not holding a knife.

What she has been given is not a knife
but a few fallen leaves.
The fish leaps over the blade from the sea
to the stars. The table is in the sky now,
the market has been crammed into the refrigerator,
and she cannot open cold time.

***

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Mets vs Cubs on tv

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Title: Trouble in a Miniskirt
Fandom: Viola come il mare (Italian TV show)
Author:

veronyxk84
Pairing: Viola Vitale/Francesco Demir
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Ellipsus)
Spoilers/Setting: Set after S2.
Summary: Francesco tries to stay professional. Viola’s miniskirt won’t let him.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Prompt: #153 - Tease [Amnesty Week]

Crossposted:

anythingdrabble, My journal (with bonus Italian version), “Chiamami Ancora Amore” - the Series

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Kana Manga is here this time, bringing a manga mini collection!

This bundle includes:

Eden of Witches, volumes 1 thru 6

Leviathan, volumes 1 thru 3

Manhole, volumes 1 thru 3

You can get the entire bundle of manga in PDF form for only $18 USD. Unlike most other Humble Manga Bundles, this one is only available as the full set, so you cannot, for example, buy the first volume of each series for $1 USD.

This bundle supports Book Industry Charitable Foundation, which has helped bookstore and comic book store employees and owners who encounter unexpected financial crises. The Binc Foundation works to keep book people in their homes, in their jobs, and with their families – stabilizing the brick and mortar bookstore community. With some bundles, you can pick which charity you want your donation to go to, but that doesn't seem to be the case with this one. If you scroll down on the right hand side of the Humble Bundle page, you can also find an area where you can adjust how much of your purchase goes to which organization (the charity, the publisher, and Humble Bundle, respectively), with a minimum mandatory amount to Humble Bundle as the host.

This bundle is available for the next 16 days.

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Title: 'Take Heed'
Fandom: Original Poetry
Rating: G
Notes: Crossposted to

drabble_zone. ( Challenges used cut for length. )

( Take Heed )

musesfool

Today's poem:

A Certain Kind of Eden
by Kay Ryan

It seems like you could, but you can't go back and pull
the roots and runners and replant.
It's all too deep for that.
You've overprized intention,
have mistaken any bent you're given
for control. You thought you chose
the bean and chose the soil.
You even thought you abandoned
one or two gardens. But those things
keep growing where we put them—
if we put them at all.
A certain kind of Eden holds us thrall.
Even the one vine that tendrils out alone
in time turns on its own impulse,
twisting back down its upward course
a strong and then a stronger rope,
the greenest saddest strongest
kind of hope.

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Current Mood: busy
Current Music: At the Beach, In Every Life - Gigi Perez

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Watch on YouTube

I'd heard that Studio Pierrot was doing a new magical idol anime for the first time in almost twenty years, and then forgot to follow up on it, and then saw that it's on youtube in English now. get hype. It's making some very clear callbacks to Creamy Mami, but the music design honestly reminds me of more modern American cartoons. bee and puppycat. idk. Real interested to see where this goes.

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The Plainview Trader Joe's that played Depeche Mode's "Behind the Wheel" and Howard Jones' "Life in One Day" during my first visit and Garbage's "Only Happy When It Rains" on my second, played Gary Numan's "Metal" tonight. I don't know who's behind their music selection, but it's another reason why I've been driving extra miles to go to this store. (It's also a spacious and pleasant looking store with a better than usual selection of products.)

Current Mood: tired

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Title: 'Rehearsals'
Fandom: Original Poetry
Rating: G
Notes: Using Challenge #451: Work of art; Challenge #469: Rehearse; Challenge #468: Endless; and Challenge #463: End in -ay

( Rehearsals )

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Title: 'The Ghost Town'
Fandom: Original Fiction
Rating: G
Notes: Crossposted to

drabble_zone. ( Challenges cut due to length. )

( The Ghost Town )

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*if you live in certain countries.

I just wanted to spread the word! (Because I don't know anyone else watching the series) It's currently available to watch in North and Latin America, and I recently saw that it's now available in Australia and New Zealand too.

I think it's also available on Netflix worldwide without the region-locking, but since I don't have Netflix, I appreciate this free alternative to watch.

The official YouTube channel is here. There are different playlists for different language subtitles.

I really enjoyed the first two episodes! I knew nothing about the series beforehand other than it's about rakugo (a kind of comedic storytelling). But I think Akane is a delightful character, the voice acting is top notch, and the animation is lovely so far. (I have a review for the first episode on my journal in this post)

Has anyone here read the manga? Did you enjoy it?

I'll wrap up by linking this ANN article from back in February that mentions the YouTube streaming and includes a trailer for the show.

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musesfool

Just woke up from an unexpected 2 hour nap, so thoughts on The Pitt finale will have to wait. Here's today's poem:

Materials for a Gravestone Rubbing

I have long wanted to be starlight in spring
and the late snow that lingers there, coming down
at Harpers Ferry over the river or gathered
on a windowsill on third street in Brooklyn
when I was twenty-two — the potpourri
of sky the wind carries after a storm.
The gray darkening on a far ridge. If you are reading this
there is still a way. I can take your smooth palm in mine
and lead you toward a distant city and a night
when you were on the mountain and dreaming of the other world
and we can walk together past the pre-war homes
converted now to low-rent apartments for college students
or workers come in from long days on a road crew,
coveralls draped over the backs of kitchen chairs
and the light swaying just so. We can go on —
along the cracked sidewalks above the train tracks
that can't exist again even as the grasses come up between them
and look through a fog and a single pair of headlights
making definite beams in the material cold.
No moonlight to get netted up in on the surface of the water
no traffic at this hour just the scraps of paper blown
into gutters and the electric hum of streetlights,
a few voices, which almost walk like footfall down alleys
overgrown with briars and creeping vines, their crude
latticework against the brick and the exhale
of a bartender on a smoke break and the smoke
which still drifts. Now it must be all worn through
but then it was barely remarkable though I stop
to look back at the homes and at snow melt on roads
the flat glitter on the black road, the moiré pattern
yet to be captured by language — and for a minute believe
in something as my stepfather believed in the smell of fire
whenever he left in the middle of the night
and returned before dawn and spoke to no one, didn’t
wake anyone up. Sometimes I feel that alone,
that pure, as if looking back at myself
through the scrim of time and you are there
standing in our kitchen at this hour and I can almost
hear you and the first singing caught-up there in the back
of your throat. Lately I've stopped worrying about the end.
Each day my hand is smaller on your shoulders. New birds
still return and the hillsides green all around, the stars
have traveled over the horizon and in the blink
of an eye you are here — grape-vine charcoal in your hand;
little hyphen I have become.

--Matthew Wimberley

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Current Mood: sleepy

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Title: Resting Place
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Ellipsus)
Setting/Spoilers: Set post-series.
Summary: Buffy and Spike hear about some plans to rebuild Sunnydale. They are not thrilled.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Prompt: #123 - Ghost [Amnesty Week]

Crossposted:

drabble_zone, My journal

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Here is a list of some stuff I've been reading lately:

The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi. True crime about the search for a serial killer who operated in Florence, Italy in the '70s and '80s. This case - or rather, the investigation - is absolutely batshit. And glancing at more recent developments, it managed to get even more batshit after this book was published.

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. About a pair of con artists in Dickensian England who set out to swindle some rich people. I'm not very far into it, but so far I'm really enjoying the story. I've already seen the Korean film adaptation, The Handmaiden, and really enjoyed it, so I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes.

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow. I'm only about 1/3 into this, but it's really interesting so far. It discusses a lot of stuff about the internet (and other things) that I've noticed and seen discussions about but never had laid out in such an approachable way. Like, the business practices always went over my head; why the hell would a company deliberately make their product worse, and how could making their product worse make the company more money? It still seems crazy to me, but at least I'm kind of grasping it now. The writer's style is very flippant, and that's kind of grating at times, but it's not a deal breaker.

Going to read next: Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti, the f/f romance novel about two rival authors of gothic fiction. It's on one of the goodreads challenge lists, so I figured I might as well tackle it next.

musesfool

Almost forgot to post!

Shoulders
by Naomi Shihab Nye

A man crosses the street in rain,
stepping gently, looking two times north and south,
because his son is asleep on his shoulder.

No car must splash him.
No car drive too near to his shadow.

This man carries the world's most sensitive cargo
but he's not marked.
Nowhere does his jacket say FRAGILE,
HANDLE WITH CARE.

His ear fills up with breathing.
He hears the hum of a boy's dream
deep inside him.

We're not going to be able
to live in this world
if we're not willing to do what he's doing
with one another.

The road will only be wide.
The rain will never stop falling.

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Current Mood: tired

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(crossposted from my journal)

I want to get back into posting about the anime I'm watching, especially since I wanted to check out a bunch of things this season.

Snowball Earth looks likely to become the show I keep desperately recommending to my fellow Worldcon members until Hugo nominations close next spring. Episode 1 speedruns an entire mecha show about a teenager with a special gift and his special robot fighting off an alien invasion, until things go disastrously wrong and the protagonist finds himself back on Earth after a very sudden climate change. Worse, he was planning to make up for his social isolation and awkwardness by making a bunch of friends after the final battle, and the population of Earth seems to have dropped precipitously.

It's about 75% comedy, 20% earnest mecha action, 5% horror, and all good so far. It's also like someone saw Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet and set out to prove that the premise had a much better show hiding in it.

Rooster Fighter has a pretty thin premise (tough-guy fighter except he's an actual chicken) and yet it's so well executed that I keep deciding to watch one more episode. At some point I think I'll hit a wall and suddenly not care anymore, but today is not that day.

Daemons of the Shadow Realm has managed to conceal a very important piece of its information about its setting from its trailers, which makes for a pretty big shock in the first episode. Congrats to the marketing department, except had I known that piece of information from the beginning, I would have been more interested. Anyway, the last Arakawa Hiromu adaptation I saw felt meh (Arslan) but this is going very well so far.

Mao is the other big adaptation of a manga by a famous long-running author, and um... if you like Takahashi Rumiko's work, this is definitely another Takahashi Rumiko work. I was not gripped.

Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun! season 4 inspired me to finally finish season 3, where I'd gotten bogged down in the Harvest Festival arc. Hoping the Music Festival goes better. So far, so good.

Kujima: Why Sing When You Can Warble? is about a boy who meets a migratory anthropomorphic bird-thing and invites it home to live with him. Mildly heartwarming things ensue. This was billed as a "horror comedy", and I feel like the premiere could have used more of both. OTOH, there is some delightfully demented voice acting. I'm going to give this one one more episode.

Killed Again, Mr. Detective? had an interesting-sounding premise, but it's very, very much a light novel adaptation full of light novel tropes that I'm sick of.

Witch Hat Atelier had an excellent first episode featuring the rare anime fantasy world where it all fits together, unlike the usual visual mishmash. Then episode 2 introduced a few characters I feel like I've seen in a million other school and school-like shows, and I was a lot less excited. I'll see how the rest of the season goes.

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settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: accomplished

settiai

I've finally started my rewatch of the early episodes of CR4 so that I can properly get caught up on Critical Role. Actually starting it has been the hardest part, so I'm hoping that now that I've begun I can stick to at least one episode a day and more if possible.

It's definitely easier to keep track of things in the early episodes now that I actually know who everyone is and what's going on. Having advance knowledge of just what groups everyone will be splitting up into shortly seems to be helping as well, as I have a better idea of what's really important to focus on and what's not. I'm also picking up on some smaller details that I completely missed the first time around just because I was already struggling to keep track of who was who and such.

I'm hoping that this rewatch will help it keep my attention better than it was the first time around. 🤞🏻

Current Mood: hopeful

resonant

( The Hero's Journey, by Tony Hoagland )

sineala

What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing! My big accomplishment is having the energy to put together a Book Club for the 616 Discord. It consists of two comics about the Avengers doing their taxes.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( Ultimate Wolverine #16 )

What I'm Reading Next

Not sure yet; it's hard to tell how much brain I will have at any given time, as I am currently getting two or three days between migraines. In baseball non-fiction reading, I am partway through Billy Bean's autobiography but I don't know what fiction to try reading. Probably I should just go for some more tropey m/m romance or something.

Current Mood: dorky

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settiai - Fic: Horns Up, Fangs Out (Dragon Age)
musesfool - halves of nothing at the center of time
veronyxk84 in 100words - [Amnesty XLIX: Prompt #153] Viola come il mare / Trouble in a Miniskirt
queenslayerbee in fandomcalendar - DCU FEMSLASH SELF-PROMO WEEKEND
dine - time is fleeting child. it waits for no one, not man, nor Sidhe, nor wizard
soc_puppet in anime_manga - Humble Bundle: Kana Manga Mini-Bundle
but_can_i_be_trusted in 100words - [Amnesty: Multiple Challenges] Original Poetry: 'Take Heed'
musesfool - the greenest saddest strongest kind of hope
stepnix in anime_manga - LuluttoLilly ambush
prisca in fandomcalendar - Fic Promptly - A Comment Fic Community for Writing
dine - everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt
viridian5 - Plug me in and turn me on
ineptshieldmaid - Brain reset
but_can_i_be_trusted in 100words - [Amnesty: Multiple Challenges] Original Poetry: 'Rehearsals'
but_can_i_be_trusted in 100words - [Amnesty: Multiple Challenges] Original Fiction: 'The Ghost Town'
alchemicink in anime_manga - You can watch Akane-banashi on YouTube*
mobsession in fandomcalendar - Mob Psycho 100: Shitei Swap
musesfool - Lately I've stopped worrying about the end.
veronyxk84 in 100words - [Amnesty XLIX: Prompt #123] BtVS / Spuffy — Resting Place
james - Year of the Mer by L.D. Lewis
seleneheart in fandomcalendar - Dreamwidth Book Club: April
dine - "quickly, quickly," said the magician
yuuago - Stuff I've been reading lately
musesfool - the rain will never stop falling
petrea_mitchell in anime_manga - Spring premiere thoughts
dine - when will you realize Vienna waits for you?
settiai - Aurendor D&D: Summary for 4/15 Game
settiai - Critical Role
resonant - Poetry: The Hero's Journey, by Tony Hoagland
sineala - Wednesday Reading Meme

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Fic: Horns Up, Fangs Out (Dragon Age)

halves of nothing at the center of time

[Amnesty XLIX: Prompt #153] Viola come il mare / Trouble in a Miniskirt

DCU FEMSLASH SELF-PROMO WEEKEND

time is fleeting child. it waits for no one, not man, nor Sidhe, nor wizard

Humble Bundle: Kana Manga Mini-Bundle

[Amnesty: Multiple Challenges] Original Poetry: 'Take Heed'

the greenest saddest strongest kind of hope

LuluttoLilly ambush

Fic Promptly - A Comment Fic Community for Writing

everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt

Plug me in and turn me on

Brain reset

[Amnesty: Multiple Challenges] Original Poetry: 'Rehearsals'

[Amnesty: Multiple Challenges] Original Fiction: 'The Ghost Town'

You can watch Akane-banashi on YouTube*

Mob Psycho 100: Shitei Swap

Lately I've stopped worrying about the end.

[Amnesty XLIX: Prompt #123] BtVS / Spuffy — Resting Place

Year of the Mer by L.D. Lewis

Dreamwidth Book Club: April

"quickly, quickly," said the magician

Stuff I've been reading lately

the rain will never stop falling

Spring premiere thoughts

when will you realize Vienna waits for you?

Aurendor D&D: Summary for 4/15 Game

Critical Role

Poetry: The Hero's Journey, by Tony Hoagland

Wednesday Reading Meme

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