raisedbymoogles

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The projects I’m currently working on are all fantastic, but I haven’t been feeling the flow with anything this week. I’m literally like: if I can just work on this thing for three minutes today, that’s enough. If I put enough “three minutes” together, they will eventually add up. And they do, but having to work at such a slow pace is frustrating.

I hate November. When will the sun come back. Asking for myself.

senmut

AO3 Link | Owed a Favor (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Batman [Movies 1989-1997]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth
Additional Tags: Drabble, Post-Break Up
Summary:

Alfred is a bit disappointed.

Alfred raised one eyebrow at his charge arriving alone for the night.

"I presume the absence of Miss Vale is the reason you insisted on driving yourself to the date?"

Bruce grimaced. "She's got a prime opportunity to do some reporting in Hong Kong," he deflected.

"And were I to inquire on the ultimate ownership of the press agency she will be going there for, would I find it under one of our ledgers?"

That got silence and a pointed removal of his coat at first, which Alfred took.

"No," Bruce said, relenting. "But someone did owe me a favor."

senmut

BWAHAHA, 2012! YES!

( Tharks DO fly! )

senmut

AO3 Link | Paris Trip (150 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Superman
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lois Lane, Clark Kent, Perry White
Additional Tags: Drabble and a Half
Summary:

It's business; why's Clark nervous?

"Lane! Kent!"

Clark hastily put his pen down and stood up, taking that first stride and nearly bumped into Lois. He paused and made the gesture for her to precede him, not that she'd ever done much more than glare. He followed behind her, and shut the door at Perry's irritable wave at that.

"Yes, Mister White?" Clark asked after Lois's more irritated "What is it?"

"Talk to Daphne for tickets; sending you both to Paris to cover their reaction to the Euro Parliament elections," Perry said. "Try not to get off-beat on this one!"

Lois smiled. "Thank you, Perry."

Clark was suspicious of that sudden shift in her voice and mood, but he followed her out with a 'yes sir', to go see Daphne. Paris might be an interesting place to visit, without it being about world peace or saving the world.

Lois seemed to see it as good.

senmut

sweettartheart - shirt has arrived, also had a card from you recently!

kalloway - loved the license plate sticker in your card!

springsodas

The PC build that's been over a month in the making is FINALLY complete. I spent both yesterday evening and this morning putting this bad boy together and I couldn't be more happy with the final results; I just wish I knew why only the CPU cooler fans are running and not the ones that were preinstalled in the case.

Especially grateful for the tech bros over on r/buildapcforme; they made choosing the parts so much easier and answered all the questions I had. I wish I knew the best way to thank them properly. Now the only thing left to do is get all my personal preferences set up, the most bothersome of which is going to be Clip Studio Paint. (I am boo-boo the fool and did not back up ANY of my custom materials onto the cloud, meaning I'll need to go back on my laptop and toggle them so they get transferred over to my new PC. Ahhh, the ways I sometimes make things harder on myself XD)

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Let it all Burn (AmaLee)

senmut

[Podfic] Beginning, Middle, and Continuing (18 words) by peasina
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Deanna Troi/Tasha Yar
Characters: Deanna Troi, Tasha Yar
Additional Tags: Developing Relationship, Slice of Life, Podfic, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes
Summary:

Deanna has an encounter with Tasha that sets in motion a slow slide to more.

senmut

AO3 Link | Not Babysitting (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) [2020]
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Renee Montoya, Dinah Laurel Lance
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:

With Dinah hurt, Renee keeps watch

Renee played with the beer bottle in that way she had when she really didn't know what to say.

Dinah turned her head that way, one eye still shut. "Don't have to babysit me. I'm not nine anymore."

"Ain't about that, chica," Renee rasped out. "It's about standing with my chosen family, and yeah, maybe it's about picking up the pieces I dropped then."

Dinah closed the eye that was still working. "You couldn't have protected me this time, either. I chose it."

"Maybe. Doesn't mean I'm willing to step out on you."

Dinah half-smiled. "Alright then."

"Damn straight, alright."

white_aster

I totally fell off the wagon with these. I have been reading, just...keep missing Wednesday somehow. (I had to think really hard about whether it was Wednesday again). Also I've been reading a lot of books that I just wasn't excited about (and some I DNFed or kind of wish I'd DNFed.) But I am brought back by the need to talk about this awesome book I read:

Finder by Suzanne Palmer

Palmer also wrote The Secret Life of Bots, which I loved. This Finder series I originally passed over because I thought "a space repo man named Fergus Ferguson tries to steal back a spaceship in an old mining colony made of hollowed-out asteroids and various large tin cans" was going to be more absurd than I usually enjoy. Oh boy, I could NOT have been more wrong. 5-star book, A+ characterization and wonderful worldbuilding, totally.

The more I thought about what was working in this book, the more I was really, really impressed with how (despite Fergus' terrible name) this book took its characters so seriously. Like...ALL the characters, from Fergus to the side characters to random folks Fergus met for a page or less. Everyone had understandable goals and motivations which changed realistically as the plot unfolded and they reacted to events as much as Fergus did. This led to very wonderfully ALIVE-feeling settings. The asteroid colony and Mars both felt filled with peoples' hopes and dreams and tragedies. Somehow this author made the politics of this collection of asteroids and tin cans feel messy and realistic and interesting.

I was also super impressed by how this author dealt with the really rather high amount of randomness in the plot. Fergus is a thief. He's doing a heist, scheming some schemes, and things go ass-up fairly early on. He's realistically forced many, many times to make a bad plan, just because it'll make SOMETHING change and then he can reassess. This could very easily have felt capricious and slapstick and unearned (a pet peeve of mine in some books), but it did NOT, because of the wonderful CHARACTERIZATION. Fergus spent the whole book understandably stressed about everything, convinced that he was going to get himself and everyone he cared about killed. He felt the GRAVITY of all this unplanned chaos, and passed that tension on to the reader, while moving forward anyway in the smartest way he could come up with (and he is SMART! It's a whole plot point that he several times amazes people with his knowledge because the first thing he does is READ THE ENTIRETY OF THE ASTEROID INTERNET so he knows what's what. A protagonist! Actually looking shit up rather than winging it! <3 <3!) Yes, he was lucky, and yes, he had some help from many quarters, but it somehow all made sense and held together without feeling random.

Also, the science felt like it held. There was a lot of dealing with zero- and low-G and crawling around on the outside of asteroids and habitats, and it felt realistic without being overwhelming. Which was just icing on the great characterization and smart-plot cake.

Also there was no extraneous romance, which is also a plus for me.

I immediately needed to track down everything in this series, after reading this.

A++, do recommend.

senmut

AO3 Link | Measurements (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Justice League & Justice League Unlimited [Cartoons]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: J'onn J'onzz | Martian Manhunter, Clark Kent | Superman
Additional Tags: Drabble, Episode Tag
Summary:

Ma wants to make a better one

"Ma wants the measurements this year," Clark said as he sipped a cup of hot cocoa and peered over at J'onn.

The Martian chuckled. "I still have the previous sweater, and wear it on occasion," J'onn pointed out.

"She wants to make one that fits you, in the form you are most likely to wear one," Clark rebutted. "Please?"

"Do you have a measuring tape handy?" J'onn asked with good humor, setting his empty glass down. His form shifted to that of a nondescript average guy in a fedora and trench coat when Clark produced it, so they could measure.

rynling

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So here's the question: I grew up in and around Atlanta and now live in the place I'm writing about. Would it be considered "appropriation" if I wrote the character speaking in my own natural dialect?

And here's the answer: This is not something normal people care about. You can't write in fear of bad-faith dipshits on the internet. As long as I'm not doing some sort of Stephen King level of caricature, I think I'm probably fine.

ETA: I think I got the voice down, and it's good. What gave me trouble ended up being my speculation on what robotics technology will look like fifty years in the future. But again, I decided that it's best to listen to the story itself and not think about the meta too hard.

springsodas

The video card/GPU, which was the last thing I needed for the internal components, finally arrived today. While I haven't officially started hooking everything in, I did go ahead and unpack both the tower and the monitor and good gravy, does this already look fantastic. I can't wait to fire this up once I've gone and hooked everything in.

...Of course, I still don't know if the build is actually going to work once I have everything installed in the tower. Assuming it does, I'm then going to have to deal with the long process of transferring all my files over from my laptop (or at least the ones I consider necessary), as well as reinstalling all of my programs and games (and some of them do have mods on top of that, so I might have to reinstall those too. UUUUUGH...)

Current Mood: anxious

senmut

AO3 Link | First Aid (300 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Titans (Franchise)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Slade Wilson, Dick Grayson
Additional Tags: Triple Drabble, +Modern Age (1986-Present), Post-Crisis, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:

Dick's surprised he showed up bleeding but he'll help

First Aid

Dick didn't say a word of protest when he opened his door to see Slade there, not once the man moved the heavy jacket and showed blood seeping out of a hasty bandage. Maybe he should have; the man had to have other safe houses nearby.

He was going to land on the side of 'Slade thought it was bad enough to ask for help' and leave it at that.

"Any tail?"

"Partner's dealing with it; she'll go her own way after."

Ahh, the elusive — "You have her in the States?" Dick asked, startled even as he helped peel the clothes off.

Hell, that looked like shrapnel from an explosive.

"Kind of unavoidable this time," but Slade didn't elucidate beyond that about her. "I promise nothing I was doing would get me back on the wanted list here. Someone had a vendetta, and my healing's been slowed by whatever toxin was on the slivers."

"Cheshire?"

Slade's eye hardened, his jaw set. "There's a reason my partner is handling the cleanup."

Who in the hell was this woman? Had to be meta, to keep up with Slade, but no one had pieced together a solid profile on her.

"And you let her?" Dick asked, before huffing out an amused air. "Now I have heard everything."

"She's got people I prefer not to be known by, and leave it at that, Kid?"

"Alright." Dick shut up about it, and just saw to cleaning everything out, so that Slade could heal. He'd file a note with Vic later, for their unofficial file on the partner. Right now, he just wanted his… complicated to stop bleeding and probably get some rest.

"Not bad," Slade said, once everything was dealt with. "Appreciate the help, Kid."

"I'd say any time, but I bet I was closest."

piratequeen

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

[Goodreads | Storygraph]

4 / 5 stars

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rynling

Sorry, I want to try to articulate my frustration with this discourse more clearly.

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What I'm trying to say is that this type of reading is doing a lot of work, and I'm not sure that this work is achieving its intended purpose of pushing back against problematic messaging. Cultural critique is important and necessary, but it should probably be directed at media that can support it.

rynling

I’m not going to go looking for this, nor am I going to let it find me, but I suspect there are people in the Zelda fandom who are going to attempt to apply some sort of half-baked political reading onto Age of Imprisonment – a game that really, really doesn’t support a political reading.

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But trying to interpose real-world politics onto the basic “good vs. evil” fantasy trope that informs this game is a lost cause, and the attempt is only going to make people unhappy. If you want political nuance in a high fantasy setting, there are many other video games to play! If you want elves and furries teaming up together to defeat waves of monsters with the power of friendship, then Age of Imprisonment does this remarkably well. And that’s cool.

To give an analogy: Redwall could be Game of Thrones, but it’s not. And that doesn’t make Redwall any less valid for being what it is. Two cakes is better than one cake.

Or, more to the point: You can have Breath of the Wild (gorgeous nuance, complex carbs), and you can have Age of Imprisonment (zero nuance, pure sugar). Two cakes!

senmut

AO3 Link | Seductive Distraction (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Labyrinth
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jareth [Labyrinth]
Additional Tags: Drabble, Stealth Crossover
Summary:

Jareth has an interloper in his realm

Seductive Distaction

A grimace touched the Goblin King's lips, before fully settling into a scowl.

"I thought I told you, babies and toddlers only!" he snapped at his closest goblin lieutenant.

"But you said he was pretty and you wanted —" the words were cut off abruptly as Jareth used his riding crop to smack the chair the goblin was on.

"How to head him off before he seduces every denizen of my realm," Jareth mused, watching the handsome man in his uniform handily winning directions from everyone he met.

"Maybe you can seduce him?"

Jareth glowered at the speaker.

"Maybe I shall."

click here for who it is

Jack Harkness

rynling

Some minor, non-spoiler lore notes, mainly about Ganondorf:

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Also:
- It’s so much fun to play as the Korok. Hands-down my favorite character.
- The Korok has a strong Osaka accent. This is a joy and a delight.
- Apparently ProZDvoices is his voice actor in the English version. Amazing.

springsodas

“The third oldest brother and the brains of the family. He has high health with a focus on utility.” (Illustration Source: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate Digital Artbook)

Profile

Like most versions of the turtles, Donatello is the team's highly intelligent engineer and mechanic who prefers a practical, scientific approach when faced with a challenge. Similar to versions such as the Mirage comics and 2003 animated series, he's considered a quiet, thoughtful personality with a very laid-back temperament, being extremely patient with those around him and almost never losing his temper. His speech mannerisms of the turtles also tend to be the most eloquent, although he has his occasional moments of awkwardness and is terrible when it comes to cracking jokes.

Donatello has been noted by the game's developers to have a sensitive, empathetic side. Like Michelangelo, he shows little to no antagonism towards Leatherhead despite him attacking them and even sometimes quietly apologizes to him after the fight for his suffering. The Metalhead DLC for Arcade Mode also seems to imply that, similar to his brother Leonardo, he can be rather hard on himself when he believes he's let down those he cares about, becoming much more serious and even a little curt than he usually is in the process. Due to his preference for scientific explanations for unnatural phenomena, Donatello spends much of main game insisting that the portals are the result of advanced technology rather than magic—it isn't until close to the end of the story that he finally admits that they are more than likely arcane in origin and that he was overthinking it.

In-Game

While not a weak fighter by any means, Donatello's playstyle is the least aggressive of the turtles, instead emphasizing defense and positive status buffs. His first inspiration restores a small amount of health upon starting an encounter, and his second decreases the amount of time it takes for his tool to charge. His default tool is the Hardened Shell, which deals physical damage to nearby enemies and gives total immunity for a few brief seconds.

Notes and Trivia

Donatello is voiced by Dale Inghram, who also provides the voice of Metalhead.
- Of the voice actors for the turtles, Inghram is the only one who has not worked on any major TMNT projects prior to Splintered Fate.
Strangely, he is the only one of his brothers never to have a personal conversation with Splinter.
A number of Donatello's dialogue and battle lines reference classical literature, poetry, and philosophy, suggesting a fondness for them.
Upon defeating the Shredder for the fourth time, the turtles obtain Splinter's cooking apron. Dialogue from Donatello afterwards reveals that he was the one who got it and came up with the “I wok, therefore I yam” pun printed on it.

senmut

Decided I am not going back over the hell that was dental this past week. More happening this week. And next year.

No, I wanted to share the "food crime" I made today:

So the other day I saw a post, ostensibly about food crimes:

Butter Chicken Poutine
Folks, that sounded tasty, and I asked

ilyena_sylph if I could. She said yes.
The sauce was store bought as typical for me, I added browned hamburger, and I made home fries from scratch.

Tasty meal was had. Very filling. Our son was over, so I had the joy of feeding him in addition to us. And tonight will be Mozzarella Ravioli with Garlic Marinara with mother-in-law. Food is love, people.

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