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I have read book 8 (the new one) and loved it, but I haven't posted about it for reasons of general mental overwhelm as mentioned in the last post. (There was a lot in that book!) I decided to reread the first few chapters of book 1 for the early character intros, and uhhhhh I've now reread my way through to fairly late in book 3.

Random thoughts about these early books below, including potential spoilers for the whole series here and in comments.

( In no particular order )

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All assignments are in!

Work reveals are scheduled for less than 24 hours from now: Sunday May 24 at 10 PM EDT (UTC-4). Reveals countdown: (link)

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The deadline has passed! We have several pinch hits.

These pinch hits assignments are for a complete story of 1,000+ words or a 1 finished art piece as per the requester's medium, in one of the requester's fandoms and featuring at least one of their requested characters or relationships, minding their DNWs.

All of these pinch hits now have a deadline of May 30 at 11:59 PM US Eastern time. To claim a pinch hit, please comment below with your AO3 username and the number of the PH you want to claim (all comments on this post are screened), or email us at bitesizedfandomsex@gmail.com.

We have granted extensions to some participants, so don't worry if you still don't have a gift but don't see your name here!

Treats for pinch hitters

( PH 1 - Pure Taboo (s4e26 Take What You Can Get), Pure Taboo (s2e89 His Brother's Blessing), Pure Taboo (s2e92 It Slipped In) )

( PH 3 - The Other Side of Paradise - Glass Animals (Music Video), ALICE - Erin LeCount (Music Video), Only Ever You - Shoto (Webcomic) )

( PH 4 - Alien Nine, Dragon Half (OVA), プラスチックリトル | Plastic Little (Anime), 魔法少女サイト | Mahou Shoujo Site | Magic Girl Site (Anime) )

( PH 8 - Sanctuary (2022), Best Sellers (2021), Wooing the Witch Queen - Stephanie Burgess )

( PH 12 - Ambition (Bagiński Short Film), A Matter of Profit - Hilari Bell, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), Escape from Divinity (Cartoon 2019), Idistaviso - Syr (Song), Tears of the Mountain (Short Film), South of Midnight (Video Game), Highlander (1986) )

( PH 13 - Nightmare - Cornell Woolrich (Novella), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), M3GAN (Movies - Johnstone), A Holy Terror (1931) )

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sholio

The first half of this month was A Lot - mostly family stuff, mostly not bad stuff, just A Lot - and I kept thinking I was going to summarize things, but in the end, I was too tired, and there was too much. (Basically a number of relatives were in town, some staying with me, and I was so peopled out past a certain point that I just sort of collapsed when everyone left.)

Things are much better now! I do have in-laws to deal with this upcoming week, but I'm looking forward to having more time to be online and more mental bandwidth.

So naturally I tripped and signed up for an exchange.

Outside POV Flash. This is a flash exchange - 300 wd minimum, 1 week writing period, 1 fandom request/offer minimum. Signups close tomorrow.

Yes, this is a shameless attempt to lure in more fandom-compatible people. It's only a week! It's only 300 wds! Maybe someone might want a warm-up for IPQ, you never know ...

Other things currently ongoing -

summerofhorrorexchange is in signups! This exchange has slightly unique rules so see post here. (I don't think I can do this one this summer, because I also have assignments in both Whumpex and IPQ, but I've really enjoyed it all the times I've done it!)

It's finally spring here, and I'm so ready. Except for the sudden but inevitable pollen.

mxcatmoon

I've been working on a fic series for the Album Challenge at

lyricaltitles. I'm using the Daughtry album, 'It's Not Over, the Hits So Far,' and writing a fic for every song. I have a few more to finish before I'm done, and I have till the end of the month. No sweat. I'll probably post them here at my journal at some point, but for now they are only at the com and AO3. I'm giving all the Miami Vice characters some time, including M/M, F/F, M/F, and gen. AO3 link, in case anyone wants to check them out there.

It's Not Over Series

I made a new icon in honor of the Valerie ficlet I wrote, and I love it. 🧡 (I deleted several of my Good Omens icons, so I now have a few more spots for new ones). Valerie was played by Pam Grier.

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sovay

Tonight being Kittening Day Observed, Hestia was miffed that I would not let her at my olive-and-pepper-tinned sardines, but for the actual twelfth anniversary of Kittening Day, she was fed on lox. A dozen years she has been in our lives, the cat of legend. Her brother grows into irises. I still remember the soft musk under his ears. She lay warm and purring on my feet all afternoon.

Current Music: The Smittens, "Burning Streets of Rome"

thawrecka

More anime watching:

• I gave Snowball Earth an episode, because people have talked it up, but it's just not for me. I didn't vibe with the tone, I think? I thought I would like it, given how much I like both Kaiju no 8 and various Gundam series, but it was just a mismatch.

• This week I watched the entirety of Zenshu, a 12 episode series from last year about an animator falling into the world of her favourite depressing children's film after she eats seafood that's gone off. I can see why this is so well regarded. It's so pretty and a lot of thought has been put into the story. I love the magical girl transformation sequence for when she sits down at her desk to draw! The kids fantasy movie she falls into visually feels very influenced by 80s animation (some parts are a clear shout out to He Man, for example), but also given it's a rocks fall, everyone dies scenario you can see why in universe it was not successful, LOL. This is such a love letter to fix-it-fic and self insert romance, LOL. There are parts that didn't work for me quite as well, but it was overall delightful. I think my favourite was Destiny deciding she was going to get super buff.

• 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy is fun, though a bit too neat for my tastes. Rishe's life is not actually carefree, and by the ending they are not actually married yet, but I did enjoy the tension created from her getting engaged to the guy who killed her in a previous life and started the war that got her killed in all the previous lives. The re-living the five years from being dumped by a previous fiance to her death repeatedly mostly means she's levelled up in skills and stats; I did kind of want more from her previous lives woven into the story. But it's a fun bit of fluff. Her outfits are mostly hideous, in an amazing way. There's various handsome men who come into her life to be interesting and handsome, and that's enjoyable.

• I'm finding the pattern with episodes of Go For It, Nakamura-kun!! is that the episodes that people tell me draw more heavily on the manga are a lot funnier. In terms of laughs it's sort of uneven for me, but always cute. The episode that made me laugh the hardest is two weeks ago with the closer friendship battle and the creepy clothes sniffing. It's so cringe in the most delightfully awkward teenage way, and the art is so lovely. Though my actual favourite bit from any episode is Nakamura and Hirose becoming officially friends in Yokohama Chinatown, which is just so sweet.

• I'm also keeping up with Marriagetoxin, though I don't know that I have a lot to say about it. Lovingly animated. I'm looking forward to continuing to ignore all the discourse.

• Witch Hat Atelier is pretty and enjoyable, but I'm also finding the increasing hype and the fandom around it super annoying. I would like manga fans to be less aggressively trying to spoil anime watchers, I would like the people obsessed with the discourse around it to stop telling me about it, I would like the people who think it should be gatekept for political reasons to STFU about that...

conuly

The washing machine at work is broken for real again :(

I got the towels done last night, but this involved hand-wringing them because the spin cycle wasn't really spinning. And then three times around in the dryer, yay!

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mrsluigivargas

I cleared out more of my Marked For Later list this week, so now those 8 pages have reduced...to one!

Fandoms: Ace Attorney, Dragon Quest XI, Harry Potter, Linked Universe, Empires SMP, Hermitcraft x DCU, Naruto, Pokemon, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, Murderbot Diaries, Xenoblade Chronicles Series

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hannah

In talking to

petra and

melannen, it hit me that Ryland Grace of Project Hail Mary, especially the movie version, is exactly the kind of person who'd ask, "Doesn't everyone have a system for socks?"

It's got me thinking there could be a piece of fandom shorthand about how to identify characters who'd have Systems for socks. Because they don't struggle with socks, they have a System for socks. It might be bad rats, though I think a way to say they have a System for socks is an easy way to describe something deeply specific.

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Current Music: Kindergarten - Voxtrot

conuly

Owl small be enough

The child for all his feathers was a cold.

Oh wow the owl.

The poem the vowels

The owl, look its vowels

That branch for you

Owl, are you an armature vector

And a large step for mankind?

Owl astronaut burgeoning owl is a gift

You give to me give to you

Terrible other things happen.

We stay on our branch.

A hundred eyes

Two will do

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conuly

Modern (by which I mean within my lifetime, + about ten years?), popular or popular-adjacent, good beat to allow dancing, no profanity or slurs, or at least, clean versions available.

Please and thankies!

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elayna

I zipped thru finally watching season 3 of "The Mandalorian" this week and yesterday I saw "The Mandalorian and Grogu" with friends. Since "The Mandalorian" began, Barbana and I go back and forth regularly where I say, "I just don't like watching the mask, I want to see his face," and Barbana responds with, "But he is committed to The Way!"

In season 3, a group of Mandalorians have gone on a rescue mission, it's night, dinner is handed out... and then they all separate to hide among the rocks to eat their meal, leaving the leader the honor of sitting by the fire, so no one sees anyone's face. Because that is The Way, no one sees your face once you put on the mask.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry Barb! I think it's freaking stupid and weird. I don't get The Way and I'm not going to. How do they live their whole lives without ever seeing the facial expressions of family or friends? To never know a person's smile, to wipe their tears, to see age lines develop? How do they fall in love? I guess it could be argued that it's a purer love, not influenced by physical attraction? Do they have sex with the masks on?

But watching this 'separate for dinner scene,' I did think: wow, I appreciate the Klingons more. The obvious love that the ST:TNG writers had for the warrior culture and its blatant sexism, to even the point that Picard never cared about the treatment of women in the Empire, was always annoying to me. But you know? At least when the Klingons go on a mission together, they feast together and smile and laugh and glare and boast at each other. They understand the importance of expressing emotions.

So for The Mandalorian, I guess all I have to say is... Grogu is cute.

susandennis

I'm not a people person. There are a lot of people I don't like. But there are some people who seem to spend a lot of energy making sure their position on that list is signed in stone.

The volleyball meeting went pretty well. Linda (the one who started this whole thing because she wants to sleep in), laid out what she wanted and asked if anyone objected. She looked right at me so I said that I did not object but that I would not be playing at later hours. I said that I had been ready for a break anyway so this was fine and I wanted to swim early so this plan - of playing later - worked out fine for me.

There was discussion. Wally asked how long I wanted a break for and if I would ever consider coming back. I said I'd absolutely consider it and I didn't know how long. There was discussion and one of the other players said he was dropping out but mainly for skin reasons. There was talk about new players and they all seem to think that they would get new players if they started after 8. BUT they need to stop no later than 9:30 because of other stuff scheduled. So there was more discussion.

About the time I was getting ready to excuse myself because I had no more to contribute, Wally suggested that we just put the whole thing on a break until Steve's foot healed and then revisit. Everyone agreed that that was the best course of action. I said I'd send out a note to everyone. We ended the meeting.

I got home, I sent an email to everyone. I got a response from one so I know it went out fine. 5 minutes later, I get an email from Linda saying "would you send out an email to everyone about the volleyball decision". Check your fucking inbox, jerk.

But, mainly, whew. I am off the hook for now and really for as long as I want. Nice.

On the down side - we're in the 5th inning and the Mariners are losing 5-0.

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Self-Care (2781 words) by Alethia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Characters: Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Jack Abbot (The Pitt), Parker Ellis
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 02, Episode Related, Established Relationship, Complicated Relationships, Porn, parker ellis is ahead of everyone, listening to your body
Summary:

Ellis made an amused noise, drawing Robby's attention. "You know, Dana's enlisted everyone in finding a kinship foster."

"Don't look at me," Robby said instantly, just like he'd said to Dana, an actual jolt of horror pitching his gut at the idea.

Ellis went entirely innocent. "What I'm seeing is you looking mighty comfortable over there. And you got nothing but time."

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sovay - I'm singing out this poem all the way back home
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conuly - My fix on the dishwasher seems to be working, yay me!
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serrico - The Pretender fic!
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