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I'm not a big fan Will Ferrell movies or when he's doing a bit. I loved Stranger Than Fiction where he is a boringly routine IRS agent who one day starts to hear someone narrate his life and then predict his death. He falls in love with a baker, and then it gets super meta with the author trying to get over writer's block and also save the character's life.

I do, for no good reason I can recall, think he's just a good dude. So when I heard he and his friend were doing a documentary about a road trip and discussing his friend's transition to living as a woman, I was interested enough to check out the trailer. I think it looks good and is definitely going to make me cry both funny and heartfelt tears. (also everything makes me cry now - what are these getting older hormones?!?)




I got into a funk after my last post. There's a small chance I didn't know I didn't mean that I like walking without a dog. It's so weird to not have a dog. IDK. So, I've just been longing for the cool front this weekend - after working to get used to sweat, the football game is going to start at 71 degrees and now I'm worried my dad will need a jacket.


I put in my time off request for Nov 5th-7th. I figure we'll either know who won the election by then, or everyone will be tired of talking about it. Either way, I'll have the new Dragon Age game to entertain me. I hope it's good. I can't even replay Mass Effect: Andromeda anymore, it such a waste of time in a wide but shallow quest log.


However, I did get obsessed with Match Factory you match three like things to clear the board. You don't have to watch any adds, there are pretty colors, and it's both relaxing/mindless fun and a little difficult enough to engage a bit of strategy. I'm on level 1,400 or something.

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Challenge #1: In your own space, introduce yourself!

Howdy! I usually enjoy Snowflake, so we'll see how this year goes. Of course, seeing how this year goes is pretty much my default for most questions I pose lately. Should I focus on selling my house and moving somewhere better -> distinct seasons, better government, more stuff to do? who knows. Should I let my doctor put me on a new medication? I'm guessing no, but still, what fresh horrors will this March bring?

But, most importantly, back to me. I need a haircut, and to dye my gray hair. My glasses are great, one lens is for near sightedness and the other is for far sightedness, so one eye always looks bigger than the other. My favorite hoodie is gray and orange. I have a big dog and a little dog, a friendly cat and a slightly feral cat. I hate my very secure, well paying, shift work job, but I'm good at it and every once or a while I get to help someone.

I'm currently watching season two of Star Trek Discovery for the first time and enjoying it. I really liked Bridgerton and Mandalorian which I just watched last week. Not a fan of WW84. I'm so excited for Falcon and Winter Soldier. I listen to Pod Save America and several other Crooked podcasts. I'm excited to finish up The Magnus Archives.

While I'm watching these weirdos, I'm doing a jigsaw puzzle: Dragon Age: Cast of Thousands
( that would be one awkward group photo )

Someone finally picked one of my male!Adaar/Dorian Pavus prompts to write for me and I was so pleased! There were bears! And pining! And confessions! Kisses!

Enclosed by Zilentdreamer
“Will it make you feel better if I admit you were right?”

Crouched over Dorian on all fours and surrounded by rock that was still making ominous rumbling noises above them, Jarad thought about it for a second. “Not right now it won’t. Maybe once we’re not half buried under a mountain.”

It was for a male slash flash challenge where the due dates were not especially well explained and ended up with me writing mine in about an hour. I also asked for cop/criminal but when it came to writing it, I froze in the implications of making Sam a criminal. Like sure I could have gone with the comics fauxpas of Snap Wilson and tried to make it better, but I was scared of fucking it up. As much as I like the trope and wanted a more straight take of it, I remembered The Fugitive and off I went.

The Fugitive Sam Wilson/Bucky Barnes -G -1,377 words
“I didn’t kill my partner,” Sam yelled, desperation fueling his voice when all he wanted to do was whimper and mourn. He’d been running for days now and every time he thought he’d found a way back inside his life something had gotten in his way, most recently a particularly aggravating and attractive Federal Marshal.

I also posted a bingo fill for "awkward sex" and now I'm googling "how to spank an adult" and I fear for my search history.

Lube -> Not Just for Weird Stuff Sam Wilson/Bucky Barnes -R -2,144 words
"Listen," Sam said, moving the pot of oatmeal off the lit burner so it could cool. He let his mouth carry him forward before he put this conversation off again. "I have mostly resigned myself to having awkward conversations with time broken, old, white dudes."

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We won the football game yesterday. I mean we were 17.5 pt favorites so, duh, but we also got the drama of the first string qb getting a thumb ouchie the back-up (who is well loved and the fans have been asking for all season) got to play, threw a long-bomb on his first series, and generally didn't make mistakes. The refs weren't calling the other team for some rather egregious chippiness so I also got to boo a lot. I love boo-ing the refs.

Dad was in a mostly good mood. We had a 10am beer and bratwurst. I was not the best seeing-eye-human for him and I felt bad, but he was real sweet. He's a yeller at these things, but he listens to the game on the radio, so he's about 5 seconds behind everyone else when he's congratulating the guy the just caught the ball or whatever. I really enjoyed watching folks react to him.

( All of my gross conflicted feelings and also my dislike of Scarlett Johansson. )




And here's the first tidbit of hope for a new Dragon Age game! That is a beautiful red lyrium idol, though #thedreadwolfcanbitehisowntail. If I get my hands on Solas, that is one dead egg. Hopefully they learned their lesson from Mass Effect Andromeda, that game was stupidly big while still being incredibly shallow with wildly inferior antagonists. I just want a good, deep lore game that's like 30-40 hours doing 100% completion. Take a look at this year's game of the year God Of War, you can finish it in about 25 hours, but doing those sidequests and challenges add double the time but didn't feel repetitive or tacked on.

I still haven't finished the new Tomb Raider or Spider-Man games, because they got stretched out so much. My attention span is apparently still shrinking.

More season two stuff


AND

Hard in Hightown is a legit book now. Apparently a short book, don't be fooled by the prop in the video is what the reviews tell me. I want it for my collection, but I'll probably wait until the price drops a bit. : )





I want to play DA2 now.

Smut Swap exchange:

Thanks so much for anyone reading this and thinking about writing something for me! I'm really easy, and if you have fun writing whatever then I'll have fun reading whatever. : ) I think the kink tags are a pretty good indicator of what pushes my buttons, so Imma just talk a little bit about why I like the characters and the relationship, and then throw out some prompts which of course are completely optional. Honestly, you're writing a fic in my fandom/pairing so take as much or as little as you need from this letter.

I marked the warnings that I don't mind receiving, so I'm overall good with Graphic Depictions of Violence, Rape/Non-con, Underage, and whether No Archive Warnings Apply. So, that's fine along with all the specific tags associated with each pairing.

Also, I think I added 'Safeword Use' to a lot of places, so obviously, that's a button masher for me, but please don't feel like you have to crowbar it in somewhere. I'm more interested in tapping out because of emotional reasons than physical ones, but I like the dynamic of care involved, and the conflicting emotions in whoever used the word because they like their partner, they like sex, but something somewhere wasn't right.

I don't have a lot of 'do not wants' but I'm not particularly fond of: 1st or 2nd person point of view, unrelenting fluff, pregnancy (for any A/B/O fic, I just imagine that birth control works great, even if they still like to dirty talk about making babies), everyone unrealistically paired off, and mundane alternate universes without a hint of magic/magical realism.

I realized while I was writing that a bunch of these prompts are kind of wanting an 'asshole' character, but even for all that (which I'm apparently in the mood for) I'd like them to be redeemable, to care at least a little bit about their partner in most circumstances.



( H50 - Steve/Danny )



( Dragon Age - Male Adaar/Dorian Pavus )



( The Hobbit - Bilbo/Fili )



( Fast and the Furious Series - Brian/Dom )



( MCU - Bucky/Sam )



( Psych - Shawn/Lassiter )

No really, there's no excuse for this. I'm sorry. Challenge points!

Teen Dragon Age
In which Teen Wolf is a medieval fantasy ala Dragon Age
slight Derek/Stiles
<1000 words

( Teen Dragon Age )