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Apr. 21st, 2025 09:47 am
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Okie so when I said on [community profile] fandom50challenge I probably wouldn't be posting as much this month I didn't actually mean I'd be falling off the trolley altogether, but here we are? It's kind of been a possum scream couple of weeks.

This post is for a different kind of possum scream though!

The fannish kind where I go "Sunrise are you actually seriously putting new canon material for a Gundam setting into a goddamn mobile game?!" -- and honestly the mobile part isn't even what's getting me! If it was a bog standard console G Generation game I'd be just as fucking baffled!

(the timing is dumb as balls because it's for Cosmic Era and SEED Freedom was last year; I blame how delayed G Generation Eternal was)

But yeeeaaaahhhh filling in, apparently-supposedly, what Kira was doing and what Athrun was doing between SEED and SEED Destiny -- as opposed to SEED Eclipse, which is also between series but is about a new cast altogether -- and it's stuffed in a bloody SD G Generation game.

A mobile one at that.

I guess arguably being a mobile game actually makes it more accessible to fans ...?

Still. What the actual fuck.



Also where is my fucking new Wing material in this 35th anni Banrise where the fuck is it
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fun fact: Hollow Knight takes places in our house. what with all the pillbug corpses in every goddamn corner. -_-

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Apr. 17th, 2025 07:56 am
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not exactly a fandom dream but it felt like it SHOULD have been based on something.

dream theory? )

I know dreams aren't that deep but my brain rarely bothers with narrative so this certainly FEELS significant somehow.
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[personal profile] kingstoken's 2025 Book Bingo: Free Space - Indigenous Author

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer is a 2016 autobiography that covers writer/activist/artist Ma-Nee Chacaby's life from 1950 to 2014, from her birth in a tuberculosis sanatorium, to her childhood in Ombabika, through her adulthood in Thunder Bay where she's become a community elder and helped lead the city's first Pride parade.

This was the fifth of this year's Canada Reads nominees that I've read, and I saved it for last, feeling like it was a sure thing in terms of something I'd want to read. I wasn't wrong, and I was happy to see it win in the debates, championed by Shayla Stonechild.

The book is very candid, frank, and factually self-reflective, with a conversational tone that feels like sitting in on the friendly interviews that brought these stories forward. The author has lived through a lot of violence, as well as discrimination, addiction, disability and economic hardship. She is also someone who loves truly and deeply, gathers family, and builds community in a way that I really needed to read about right now.

I also really appreciated the book's afterword, which provides a lot of transparency on the writing process, which was assisted by social scientist and friend Mary Louisa Plummer due to Ma-Nee Chacaby being low-vision and speaking English as a fourth language.

An Excerpt )

FIC: Prime Time, chapter 15

Apr. 15th, 2025 06:49 pm
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guys I'm almost done writing this thing o_o

//What now?// Arcee whispered over short-range comms. (on AO3, account needed)

Kiss Fang Weekend (May 8th-11th)

Apr. 11th, 2025 09:37 pm
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xposted from [community profile] ourflagmeansgay

Kiss Fang Weekend (a challenge event with four days of prompts for shippy fanworks about Fang) is running on Bluesky this year!

The official prompts post is here and breaks down as follows:

Thursday, May 8th: Trope Thursday - Fang in an AU or trope of the creator's choice
Friday, May 9th: Captains (and First Mate) on Vacation - Fang/anyone but Ed, Stede, or Izzy
Saturday, May 10th: Time to Kiss Fang - a free space
Sunday, May 11th: Fang in the Middle - for Fang-centred threesomes

Official fills can be posted to the #kissfangweekend tag on Bluesky, but for folks who aren't on there, I think any archive or community will only be made better with some more Fang-kissing.
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Fandom 50 #12

Squish That Izzy by [tumblr.com profile] lordess-dickery-doof
Fandom: Our Flag Means Death
Relationships: Izzy Hands & the rest of the Feral Five (Fang, Archie, Frenchie, and Jim)
Medium: Vid
Length: 0:23
Rating: SFW
My Bookmark Tags: humour, happy ending, h/c (emotional), animals, cuddling, friendship, touch, trauma, denial/repression
Audio: How to pick up a cat like a pro - Vet advice on cat handling by [youtube.com profile] HelpfulVancouverVet

Excerpt:
Squishing is your best friend when dealing with a cat.

Look, I'm a simple creature. Overlaying vet advice about how to safely pick up a cat on a scene where my fave is distraught and struggling against being hugged is always going to bring me an outsize amount of enjoyment. The editing on this is great, making the most of a short scene without overstaying the life of the bit, and I especially love the zoom in at the end. Squish. That. Cat.

stir-fried random

Apr. 10th, 2025 10:38 am
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Have spent the last week with bleary eyes half on the news and half on trying to keep myself some kind of busy-distracted while the world burns and I slide down the glass trying to make some kind of difference. Bleh. Also the federal election is in less than three weeks and I expect an absolute fucking tire fire. Bleeeehhhh.

Mostly I've been reading some things I picked up in a get-now moment and lo and behold, for the first time in way too long I've actually managed to get books that aren't written by absolute fucking idiots. (seriously, if you want me to doubt you know any-fucking-thing-at-all about the history of hand manuscripts/texts/etc make the wtf claim that in Egypt they didn't write on both sides of a papyrus scroll so inventing the codex was so~ brilliant~ of the white folksGreco-Roman Christianity blah blah.)

The one on space stations in specfic is looking like it may fall on the 'slog' end of the 50/50 guess, though. But that's fine because Downcrawl has arrived and someday The Perilous Void will join it ...

Other than that it's been mostly hunting up packets of brightly-coloured papers because apparently I'm making little notebooks when I should be making zines >.>;; but I want to make little notebooks. And I haven't decided what fiction to zine first yet >.>;;;

I am not watching the new Gundam because fuck Anno, but I'm happy to rubberneck at it.

And climbing back onto the gaming horse again because what's the point of collecting Marfs if I don't play them -- also, I need to dig through Fire Emblem The Complete because it looks like a wonderful time capsule of pre-remakes Archanea/Valentia stuff ...