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Well, I've had this create entries page open for over a week on two different computers trying to finish snowflake #1, or respond to a few comments and it just isn't happening so . . . blank slate pls? I no fault default because I am tired and itchy.

I think the cat across the street gave me fleas last month which I then distributed through the house. My dogs have flea collars and the cats get some juice on their necks, but I apparently taste delicious and can't stop itching everything. I'm still trying to win based on washing everything washable, vacuuming and spraying concoctions of peppermint or cedarwood/lemongrass. I don't want to figure out what to do with myself and the cats if I have to bomb the house, but it might come to that.

Transformative Works Policy: I don't really have any experience with transformative works. Some of my stuff has been translated, but that's it. I don't have any problem and give a wide permission statement on my DW and AO3 profiles. My two DNW are don't give my stuff to celebrities and don't add to goodreads. If anyone knows what I'd have to do to get my two fics off goodreads, I'd love to know. It's a weird feeling knowing that someone put them up there to let people rate my hobby fic there.

Current Passion: sleeping 8 hrs straight so I can survive another 6 wks of nightshift. But also, I still have Top Gun Maverick brainrot which includes a lot of Glen Powell and Miles Teller nonsense. Tumblr is every excited about awards season. I'm also still writing Sam/Bucky slowly but surely.

I like going to the theaters to see new movies. This year I've seen M3GAN and The Whale*, and I'm trying to fit in A Man Called Otto this week.

I love making character or pairing playlists on spotify.

Where to Find Me:
AO3
tumblr - I don't know how to interact with people, but I reblog things I like!
spotify
goodreads

I'm really looking forward to the yelling into the void post. I'm very good at shaking my fist at clouds.

* I really enjoyed both M3GAN and The Whale and I don't know that they could have been any more different from each other.

( M3GAN )

( The Whale )

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain on Amazon Prime starring Benedict Cumberbatch

"A biographical drama - English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings that seemed to reflect his declining sanity.

After his father's death, Louis Wain tries to look after his five sisters and his mother as a freelance artist. He is fortunate that Sir William Ingram, editor of the Illustrated London News, offers him a job as an illustrator. His life takes another positive turn when Emily Richardson, the new governess of his sisters, steps into it. She becomes the love of his life, and soon they take in a stray kitten they call Peter. It is unusual in the Victorian era to keep a cat as a pet, and the cat pictures that Louis paints from then on are just as unusual."

I really enjoyed this. It's quirky, it's sad, but the ending is so hopeful.

( some cats! )

I also saw Antlers where I wasn't expecting the metaphor to be ( spoiler )

but it was plenty fucked up and I . . . enjoyed it? Like not active enjoyment, but the kid was great in it, the monster was spectacular, and the atmosphere very tense.

Last Night in Soho was so good! I enjoyed everything except having "Downtown" ear-wormed inside me for the rest of the day.

multifandomhorrorexchange letter!

I love horror, all kinds of horror. I am super excited for this exchange! I’m okay with gore and violence, I’m good with suffocating tension, with dark/morbid comedy horror, and while I’m not necessarily asking for it, I am totally okay with endings that aren’t happily ever after whether it’s one of those creepy nobody knows what’s about to happen or straight up they’re dead and/or live in nightmare town now. I like the broad stokes in the genre tags, but don’t feel like you can’t mix and match please, even if I didn’t pick it on purpose.

In general: sharks, aliens (including the unfriendly aspects of space), demonic deals or possession, cursed objects, the darkness and what lives inside, doubting your own senses, impossible architecture, Annihilation (both movie and book), extreme weather events (though no sharknados, pls), the thing under the bed or in the closet, overwhelming dread, losing control of your thoughts and actions.

Specific fusions I’d like to see: Krampus (I love the dark Christmas themes and twisted takes on tradition.), Pennywise (put him anywhere he’s not supposed to be, let him twist into what scares the characters most, and then shine those deadlights), The Magnus Archives (would the characters be Avatars? Of what domain? Or what domain are they stuck in? Are they a statement?), Saw (the traps are interesting and awesome gore, but I was always more interested in the psychology of why these people were picked and if they were willing to change their ways)

( Fandom thoughts will go here before signups close hopefully: Falcon and Winter Soldier, Anne of Green Gables, Dragon Age, and Bioshock Infinite. )

Netflix: Daybreak - post apocalypse teenage nonsense of love, redemption, zombies, and cannibals. I only recognized Matthew Broderick as the principal and Colin Ford (young Sam Winchester from Supernatural) who plays the main lead Josh. It's a love it or hate it format of wall-breaking, flashback, genre shifts, unreliable narrators, and POV shifts. I loved it. There are plenty of unhealthy relationships, some examples of character growth, characters making really bad choices followed up by trying to fix it for reasons which may or may not be altruistic. I really liked the way it ended. The big mystery of what happened to the adults is only slightly resolved, and we get the supreme overlord we deserve (though I'm sure it's going to go very badly).

Netflix: Queer Eye Japan - mostly naw. The first episode was great, but I doubt I'll rewatch any of them.

Disney: Gargoyles - I'm enjoying it again so far. It's been so long since I tried to watch any of it. I'm glad it's holding up.

Disney: X-Men - holy soap opera Cyclops! I forgot how over melodramatic everything is. How on earth was this a kids show back in the day? I'm only a few eps in, but I'm excited to revisit Rogue/Gambit and the Dark Phoenix story lines. Maybe I just connected with Wolverine because he too acts like a misunderstood 13 year old girl?

Podcast: The Magnus Archives I've finished the first 80 episodes which is the first two seasons because rydra_wong started shouting about in in their journal (honestly, I am so here for when people start shouting about things they love!) and I am a lemming. This is honestly the best summary of it which I've shortened here from one entry:

The Magnus Archives is a horror podcast that starts out disguised as a horror anthology: Jonathan Sims, newly-appointed head archivist of the Magnus Institute, is making audio recordings of statements in the archives given by people who've had strange/supernatural encounters.

Fair enough, you think: this is an obvious framework for a dude to read horror stories into a microphone with a spooky posh British voice. And they really are good standalone short stories!

... then you start realizing that they're not standalones (though they all work on that level too).

And it gradually turns out that there's a complex over-arching meta-narrative (plotted from the start as a five-season arc with a proper ending; season four just finished) and an ensemble cast. And it's fucking AMAZING and the character development and relationships are Kill. Ing. Me.

They have more info in this post and several others around the same time.

IMDB TV: I have very little idea what this actually is. I found the channel when I was surfing through the Amazon streaming app. It currently has seasons of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Fringe, and Leverage free with ads. The ads aren't long or terribly spliced so I don't mind them. Through the Amazon app at least you also have access to their x-ray feature for trivia and other info and that's one of my favorite things. I watched two eps of Fringe last night. I never made it all the way through last time, but I remember really enjoying the first several seasons.

TV: Rick and Morty So far so good with this season. I don't know that many of y'all watch this show. It def isn't for everybody, and that's before you factor in the obnoxious fans who hold Rick up like the perfect example of male intellectual dominion. Episode one clearly told the fascists and the lets-not-talk-about-politics-lets-just-have-fun-adventures groups to go fuck themselves and I liked it. The second episode which is technically about shy pooping ending up gut punching me in the feels at the end. Rick is a lonely asshole because he's been an selfish asshole who has lost sight of the fact life means anything when you can just jump through the multiverse and start over. He is the only one he can blame for his life. And yet. . . maybe he's trying to change? IDK, but here is the end scene if anyone is interested. He set up the trap for someone else who was using his toilet, and then things happened and he ends up sitting there.

*

( A great time was had by none, but maybe a decent time was. )


*normally I post these on the last day of the month, or backdate them if I forget. hahaha, I'm mad with power! Also this was a bummer month, I like seeing more movies.

( Green Book )

( Captive State )

( Captain Marvel )

( Us )

( Dumbo )

Favorite: Us
Unfavorite: Captive State

I did mostly graphical stuff for the scavenger hunt. This is everything but the superhero stuff. Weird sizes, cause I have no sense of proportion.

Screencap a hero in a cape.
( “ZORRO” )

Make an icon with a magician/wizard/special power user.
( WILLOW (the movie, not the Buffy character )

Find a picture of a queen.
( For Narnia! )

Find/make a picspam (at least 5 images) of your favourite film / tv show (that matches our comm's criteria)
( Supernatural )

Screencap a king.
( And the Lion! )

Find any edited graphic from a horror movie
( Krampus )

A character with the same first letter of your name
( Ray Kowalski (close enough, Stanley) )


Screencap of a futuristic, magical or otherwise unusual clock
( TiMer )

Find a screencap of a fictional spaceship
( Moya from Farscape )

Make something featuring a fantasy movie
( I am fire. I am death. )


Make a picspam of your favourite sci-fi characters (minimum 6)
( Five Woman Band + baddie )


Find a cap of the scariest character in a horror movie that has haunted your dreams
( aliens man, creeping aliens )

Screencap of a character in fantasy setting with a horse
( the magnificent horse, the glory of the galaxy )

A character in a dress
( I may be dead, but I’m still pretty. )

Screencap of a group of at least three different kinds of non-human creatures
( FARSCAPE )

Okay, so I've probably slept more in the last two days than I did in the last two weeks put together. I escaped Oktoberfest with a horrible sunburn, three splinters, and a broken pinky toe after losing ten pounds. I only managed to eat one side of potato salad, but I think I ate about a dozen schnitzel sandwiches. Me and roommate number 3 are still hoping for death, but hopefully we'll get our mojo back this week.



I have sucked hard in my Pick'em sheets for the last two weeks. Mostly, I randomly checked boxes, but I'm gonna get in the zone starting this week. If you wanted to join, do it, because you can still make up some ground! ESPN gives you ten college games to pick a week and you arrange them by how confident you are that you're right. This is our group and the password is: livejournal.



Did I mention that I went to see Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and I hated it? Katie Holmes was not good, and the movie made classic horror movie mistakes. However, it did inspire the plot I'm gonna write for my Teen Wolf Halloween story. It's gonna be scary, guys. Scary and awesome. : )


I'm behind on everything, so I'm very sorry for late comments that pop up in the next couple of days. I'm trying to write sequels and it's just not happening. I might go troll the kink meme for an easy prompt to pop out. Feel free to point me at something if you'd like. My brain still feels like mush.