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I saw over on singedsun that MasterClass is making Black History Month free through the end of February, and I definitely want to check it out.

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I had a weird last week, it included a 90lb dog having digestive issues, my first kitchen pan on fire, the worst zoom/phone interview I've done so far, and not enough time with my girl Aloy in Horizon: Forbidden West. Thankfully this week I got tonight off for the weather, so I enjoy another three (c'mon make it four!) day 'weekend' shooting a bunch of arrows into things. I have had some roller-coaster feelings about this game.

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I wrote Ask Again a teen and up Final Fantasy 7 Remake (<- lies I am still angry) Cloud/Barret fic about running into each other at a gay bar.
I got Anyway a Loki/Mobius explicit fic in which a safeword is used, they talk it out, and then they get back up to sexy times. The tags are scary, but it's a sweet, sweet story with some choking and bondage. I love this fic, it was so spot on to a lot of my likes!



with this link, you too can pretend to be a cat pawing at musical instruments!

I got mail from dine I enjoyed the update quite a bit! If you don't have them as part of your circle, you're missing out on entertainment and great recs. : )

I made egg sandwiches for breakfast, both eggs were double yolked monstrosities. Creepy yet delicious. I'm making a lasagna now, it's my first attempt and I hope it goes well because I've been craving it for a couple of weeks now. I miss Fazoli's, it was a great fast food Italian option. The Everyplates meal kits have really upped my confidence in the kitchen. Is it false confidence? probably. Do I still have all my fingers? so far.

OTOH - I've gotten sucked into Epicurious' Basic Skills Challenge which takes 50 people gives them ALL the kitchen gadgets and then asks them to do something like core and peel an apple (spoiler alert, someone tries to use a meat tenderizer mallet and I absolutely lost all my shit) or separate an egg (which one man manages to technically do in the most wrong way possible) and then an expert shows you how to do it the right way. So I also see that I'm clearly not the worst in the kitchen.

I'm reading The Testaments right now and I'm enjoying it now that I checked the wiki page and know there are actually three narrators. I'm dim sometimes. I enjoyed hating the The Handmaid's Tale which I read a couple of years ago. It's just infuriating, and even though obviously everyone jumped on the bandwagon because of the current state of politics in so many places, I probably should have waited for a better time to read it. But since I'd already done it to myself, I figured I might as well read the sequel and see what happens. I tried to watch the Hulu series despite my distaste for Elizabeth Moss, but didn't make it out of season 1.

While reading, I got an idea for a AU Hydra rises/Winter Soldier army fic for Sam/Bucky. It glances the tropes for a slavery fic, but also lets me stage a coup and do some other things with the Avengers characters. Not sure it'll ever see the light of day. Sam fans have to deal with the short end of the stick a lot when it comes to race and fandom, and I don't want to add to that. But I wrote a real easy 1,500 words last night at work and I like a lot of the sex/vulnerability/trust/consent/political issues involved. I mean, sure I could have been writing my assignment for idproquo but y'know, why do what you're supposed to?

I took last Fri, the 31st off work to go hang out with a couple of friends for a late birthday celebration. It was . . . fine. She turned some music on for background noise while we cackled through several games of Villainous, but then she started humming/singing along to everything and I kinda wanted to smash her with a hammer while I was playing Yzma. I was more excited to see the dog I raised and he barely left my side all night. I feel bad for leaving him with her, but he's her dog and his medical bills are way outside my reach.

I teared up through the entire Good Place finale. Ridiculous show.

I'm doing cardio work outs from teambodyproject.com and they're mostly fun and doable with options for low impact. I haven't been the best about doing them every day, but I'm still feeling it in some places I wasn't getting just on my elliptical.

I added the Falcon and Winter Solider et al Disney+ trailer over at winterfalcon here And I know it's not much but I love Sam and he looks hella good here!

Here is a good explanation about how the massacre of Black Wall Street occurred in 1921 in Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood. Warning for some graphic imagery, but the illustrations are so good. check out the artist's twitter.

John Boyega and Anthony Mackie did a mighty fine job! Will Poulter is such a weird dude, and it's so easy to hate him here. IDK? This is a rough one, and I know there's a lot of criticisms going around. I didn't enjoy watching it, but I think the story is important, even if the movie never becomes important.