Viridian5's House of "...What?"

From musesfool, the AO3 alphabet meme:


Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

A - About-face (Doctor Who, Fifth Doctor/Vislor Turlough, Tegan Jovanka/Nyssa)
B - Babes in Toyland (Buffy the Vampire Slayer [movie], Pike/Benny)
C - Canadian Shack #24 (The X-Files, Fox Mulder/Alex Krycek)
D - Daily Free Spin (Weiß Kreuz, Schuldig & Brad Crawford)
E - Early in the Mourning (Andromeda)
F - Fallout (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU [anime], Hayama Hayato/Hikigaya Hachiman)
G - Games People Play (Andromeda)
H - Halber Mensch (Weiss Kreuz, The Sandman, Schuldig/Fujimiya Aya (Ran), Brad Crawford/Schuldig)
I - I Lost My Limbs But Not My Lover (Twitch City, Newbie/Curtis)
J - Journey Plus Destination: Strangers on a Train (due South, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski)
K - Keeping Score (The X-Files)
L - Left in the Dark (Once a Thief [TV], Victor Mansfield/Nathan Muckle)
M - Mad Love (Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place, Michael Bergen (Berg)/Pete Dunville, Michael Bergen (Berg)/Irene)
N - Naming and Being (Saiyuki)
O - Oblique (The X-Files, Fox Mulder/Alex Krycek)
P - Paradox (The X-Files, Fox Mulder/Alex Krycek)
Q - Quagmire (X-Men [comicverse], Marvel [Comics])
R - Rant (Saiyuki)
S - The Safest Place (A Quiet Place: Day One, Eric & Samira "Sam")
T - Table Scraps (due South, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Diefenbaker & Ray Kowalski)
U - Ugly Side (Doctor Who)
V - The Very Secret Thoughts of Clark Kent (Smallville, Clark Kent/Lex Luthor)
W - Waiting (due South, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski)
X -
Y - You Can Bend, or You Can Break (Saiyuki, Cho Hakkai/Sha Gojyo)
Z - Zero Hours (Andromeda, Seamus Harper/Dylan Hunt)

25/26, out of 590 stories on AO3. I picked the very first entry for each letter and ignored the fics that start with numbers. I have one Q fic and one Z fic.

Guys! I got tired of my Archive of Our Own icon being stretched out sideways due to it not being exactly 100x100, so I was forced to put a white border on the sides to make it 100x100. I did a PrtSc to get the exact white AO3 uses. Is it perfect? No. In some situations on AO3, like in a reply chain, it'll look a bit weird. But it's better than me looking at AO3 and constantly thinking, "No! Wrong!" and "Why is she bloated?" when I saw my icon on the site.

::hums, "Look What You Made Me Do"::

I have been using exactly this image, at exactly this cropping, for 24 years, since I started LJ in 2001. Changing that to try to hit 100x100 would change the image and lead to me having cognitive dissonance every time I'd see that version on AO3, so I just don't.

Ever since the recent downtime at Archive of Our Own, my user icon there hasn't been loading on the pages for me or anyone else. Unwilling to try uploading a new version in case there's something going on, I've put in a Support request about it.

I saw Deadpool & Wolverine Saturday and mostly enjoyed it, though I thought it was too long in places and the pacing was sometimes a bit off. It's unfortunate that I'd inadvertently gotten spoiled on one thing--( spoiler )--because it would've been a fun surprise. ( spoilers )

I visited my due South friend of nearly 25 years to see it, and my Elantra did the 100+-mile round trip, something I was a bit nervous about. With the too many places in NYC that have a 25-mph speed limit these days, it was healing for me to fly down two highways at 65-75 mph in New Jersey.

After seeing the movie, Kasha and I figured that AO3 would soon have slash fics set in ( spoiler ), and sure enough, they immediately started showing up.

By the way, the episode of Hot Ones that has Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds was fun.

I've just put up a ton more previously unposted Christmas/holiday windows from 2016 and 2018 at my Flickr. A lot. ~sigh~ It's what I did instead of writing fic.

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I wrote four fics last year, which is sad to me given how fic prolific I used to be. It probably doesn't help that it's been years since I found a new fandom I was compelled to write in or felt myself to be part of a fandom that put out a lot of discourse to read and spark ideas. These days, I'm completely self-generating.

Some of the few comments I get at AO3 do the opposite of inspiring me. I get more and better better comments and conversation at Flickr.


Andromeda/Stargate Atlantis gen: “A Place on Earth”   [@ AO3]
RATING: PG-13
SPOILERS: Spoilers for Stargate Atlantis’ “Enemy at the Gates” and Andromeda’s “Angel Dark, Demon Bright,” “Harper 2.0,” and “The Heart of the Journey (part 1 and 2).”
SUMMARY: Harper’s experience and impressions of the people of Atlantis and Earth in the 21st century.
NOTES: This fic takes place in 2010, the year I wrote the original “Swap.”
This is a much longer, with more bits, version of a comment I wrote on the AO3 edition of “Show and Tell” about Harper’s experience and impressions of Atlantis and its Earth, along with some ideas of what Atlantis would have to deal with in its current placement on Earth.
3rd in The Alternatives series [@ AO3].

Andromeda slash: “Lost Like Me”   [@ AO3]
RATING: NC-17, Harper/Tyr.
SPOILERS: “Bunker Hill,” “Mad to Be Saved,” “Shadows Cast by a Final Salute,” “Soon the Nearing Vortex,” “The World Turns All Around Her,” “Immaculate Perception,” “Phear Phactor Phenom,” “Chaos and the Stillness of It,” and “The Heart of the Journey Part 2.”
SUMMARY: A freshly kidnapped Harper has to deal with his captor, Tyr, trying to convince him to cooperate and work with him. It doesn't help--or does it?--that you could cut their sexual tension with a knife.
NOTES: Sequel to “All That’s Mine” in the A Lot Like You series.

Saiyuki slash: “Push”   [@ AO3]
RATING: PG-13, Hakkai/Gojyo.
SPOILERS: “Burial ‘Gojyo and Hakkai’” and “Be There.”
SUMMARY: Sometimes Hakkai just can’t help himself.

Saiyuki slash: “Interruption”   [@ AO3]
RATING: PG-13, Gojyo/Sanzo.
SPOILERS: the “Shot 4: Kouten” arc and chapter 22 of Saiyuki Reload Blast.
SUMMARY: Gojyo looks after people he cares about in his own ways.


I have so many Weiß Kreuz WIPs I haven't finished....

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That said, what fandoms I'm currently reading in are The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, Gotham, and Nimona, with a dip into The Witcher, Loki, and Blue Eye Samurai. It's unfortunate that the fic on AO3 for Blue Eye Samurai mostly isn't hitting the points I'd like to see, but it doesn't make me want to write fic to fill the gap.

I have an idea for a Gotham fic but don't have the access to seeing the episodes I'd need for it. That show had some insane highs but its lost potential....

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The crack in my iPhone's glass has deepened, which is frustrating.

Is anybody getting spam comments on AO3 again? I've gotten two comments that seem somewhat suspect.

Like This fanfic is a perfect blend of romance, action, and suspense. Great job! For my short slice of life story, "Push."

Same fic. Kudos to you for tackling such a complex and sensitive topic with grace and sensitivity. Your thoughtful approach and respectful portrayal really impressed me. This is an important piece of fiction.

They use the usernames of real AO3 accounts but in anon style, without actually linking the accounts like a logged-in comment would.

I was so excited to get the comments until I read them and went, "...wait a minute."

Introducing the ability to mute users on Archive of Our Own

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Pointer dog pointing, motionless, at a squirrel for more than ten minutes, while its owner couldn't care less, seen at Juniper Valley Park 2/5/23 on Pokémon Go February Community Day.



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The recent debate about gas stoves versus electric have me at a position people might consider conservative but I have reasons. New York state is also talking about making it a law that new buildings have to be heated by electricity, not gas or oil. From my perspective, based on the area of Queens I live in, those are absolutely non-starters because our electricity here, despite the rates we have to pay going up yet again recently, completely sucks. I've lived here 17 years and I was stunned that we didn't have a single blackout last summer that went on for more than an hour because that was the first time. I live on the third floor of my building and can see very well that the overhead power lines--that also often get messed up in major storms, resulting in blackouts--have almost no casing left on them and look threadbare and ancient. (We constantly ask for our power lines to be put underground, where they'd be safer, but know that'll never happen.) I don't know where the electric utility puts all the money they keep extorting out of us, but it's certainly not in maintaining or improving anything. If we had to pay for more electricity to heat our homes or cook our food, we couldn't afford it and since our infrastructure is in terrible shape we'd probably be unable to heat ourselves and our food a lot of times even if we could.

Besides, I'm a renter and a poor, and I don't have a say in these things. I can barely get my landlord to fix anything we already have, let alone provide something new or especially something upgraded.

The number of people dying locally in building fires caused by off-market e-scooter and e-bike batteries exploding during charging or regular e-scooter and e-bike batteries just being charged incorrectly recently isn't endearing the use of electricity as a better or safer option for everything in the world either.

But in recent years NYC has had a number of well-intentioned goals they institute or try to institute that currently lack the means to get to the point where they can truly be adopted without a lot of lower-level people with less money suffering and experiencing a lot of problems from them... and that's not being addressed by anyone in a position to do much about it.

I just got a comment on AO3 of "omfg the first obimaul fic ever" and my first reaction was "Hardly!" but then I looked things up and saw that I am... on Archive of Our Own. It was in the Sith Academy universe, where that story is #57 chronologically. Not all of them were ObiMaul by any means, but I wasn't the first to hint at the attraction. That doesn't even count all the other things coming out on different sites after the release of The Phantom Menace. (Only 25 of the Sith Academy fics have made their way to AO3, out of 181.)

Today I got two e-mails that someone (who's not me) tried to reset my password for Archive of Our Own. WTF.



eta: AO3 support answered me on the password thing with this: ( Read more... )


That said, I've received two more password reset e-mails since this response.

On a recent night drive, only Bloomingdale's had anything interesting going on in its windows, and then only a few windows. Here's a video of the window in the photo, because its background changes. Bloomingdale's had a bit of a rainbow lightshow going on the building itself for Pride month.

I recently discovered SquidgeWorld Archive, which looks and acts somewhat like AO3 because it uses the same open source code, and that 56 of my fics are there from its incorporation of Peja's Wonderful World of Makebelieve, which takes me back. I'm currently correcting some coding stuff and some of the presentation of those fics. Interestingly, some of them there have gotten many more hits than they have on AO3.

My brain recently made a frankly cursed connection between Schuldig and Gritty, and I resent it.

Voting in the NYC primaries netted me yet another new pen from the city of New York, my third since voting during the pandemic.

The saga of my two bad teeth continues on, with me attempting to get the necessary work done feeling like slowly pushing a boulder up a hill with my nose while dentists and endodontists do nothing aside from pretending they don't notice me. Also, Medicaid's lists of practitioners who supposedly take Medicaid continue to be trash, offering wrong addresses and/or phone numbers, practitioners who aren't in the specialty you asked for, and practitioners who don't take Medicaid. Also, it is strangely difficult to get dental offices to answer their phones these days. Medicaid sent a letter saying the post and crown have been approved for the right side tooth I had the root canal on, but my dentist hasn't gotten notice so.... I have a telephone hearing on the topic scheduled for June 30 and don't know if I should cancel it.

While the people at the new neurologist's office are nice people, they don't tend to get anything done. When I last saw the neurologist at the end of April, she said it would take a few weeks to order the Botox in and then I can get the injections for my head and neck done. Two months later I'm still waiting. Last Monday they said on the phone they'd prescribe me Ubrelvy and have their pharmacy deliver it to me, and I never got anything. Today they said, after me calling to look into it, that there was a problem and now I'll be getting it soon. Nice people, but if this keeps up I'll be shopping for a new neurologist again.