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More than a year after writing it, we've finally reached the point in our schedule where I can start posting my next Matthew story, Fish or Cut Bait.

Title: Fish or Cut Bait
Summary: A new case with a personal connection to Diana Chase takes the team to a town Matthew called home a century ago. There, with Diana closely involved in the investigation, he must also determine how Talbot's newfound knowledge of his Immortality will affect their partnership and his position within the FBI.
Rating: G for now. Probably up to a T later.
Word Count: ~43,000 (when complete)
Tags: Casefic, Canon Typical Violence, Other Additional Tags to be Added

I'm ridiculously excited about this story, in part because of how long it's been waiting. I hope you all enjoy it too.

southernmedicine

Anyone watch that new Young Sherlock show?

On the one hand, it's one of Guy Ritchie's.

On the other hand, modern television has given me a lot of reasons to be wary. I have always loved Holmesian media, but I've been burned before.

I'll probably check it out either way.

Current Mood: curious

j_crew_guy

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princessofgeeks

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jadelennox

I was writing up a navel-gazing post about grief (tl;dr turned out I think "oh MM would like that!" more often than I would have suspected) and it somehow spiraled into how I could make beautiful and accessible no-Javascript footnotes CSS given the Dreamwidth CSS restrictions. This resulted in me, among other things, reading the DW codebase to see all the CSS restrictions, and then finally after a couple of hours getting my perfect CSS, even though it's completely useless because it will only work when reading in my journal style.

(ETA: That's only because I'm being a perfectionist about placement for the purposes of this exercise, and DW doesn't allow absolute positioning in inline HTML.)

(Also even making this post resulted in me reading the code for Perl's Text::Markdown since I couldn't remember which code block syntax it used.

Hyperfixation FTW!

( CSS, FWIW )

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thisfinecrew

On March 9, there's a global women's general strike--- more information on the range of activities can be found here. (I tagged for a lot of different types of actions, accordingly, but there may be more ways to participate that I didn't see.)

watersword

Good gravy, this semester is tough. I'm juggling a million different things and keeping my head above water, but only just. Admittedly, a number of things I am juggling are not work things (birthday trip planning! proof of Canadian-ness! community service!) and everything will get 100% easier when it is above 50° every day and the world isn't pitch black at 6pm, but until that time is upon us, I am apparently going to be surviving on pizza and hummus.

My internet, which is allegedly FIOS, is periodically deciding that it does not want to be an internet, it wants to be a lumberjack, and rebooting the router does not do a whole lot. This is kind of a problem given that I work from home and build things on the internet. I feel like I'm back in 1998 on dial-up. I spent thirty minutes fighting the phone tree and then the customer service agent tried to sell me a new router and a new plan, which: no. I want the thing I am already paying for to work!

Implementing a shared zookeeper routine is working out super well so far; I get to play with a friend's kid so she can concentrate on chores and she keeps me from becoming one with the couch, which is my true desire.

rekishi

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⌈ Secret Post #7001 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 32 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1000.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #1001 ]

The first secret from this batch will be posted on March 14th.

RULES:
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2. 750x750 px or smaller.
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Optional: If you would like your secret's fandom to be noted in the main post along with the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret. If your secret makes the fandom obvious, there's no need to do this. If your fandom is obscure, you should probably tell me what it is.

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oursin

Imagine! a good old fashioned scam without embedded link to dodgy site or anything, wow, the nostalgia is nostalgiaful, eh?

My humble greetings,
I feel the need to approach you securing and moving my late father fund. It's just My urgent need for a foreign partner/investor. I have a significant fund to transfer. My Whatsap [---] for more details

Awwwww.

This had a charming naivety lacking in yet another solicitation to become involved with some academic journal, in this case:

Given your expertise and contributions to medical and surgical research, we believe your involvement would greatly strengthen the journal’s academic quality and reputation.

It's bad enough when some predatory publisher cites My Important Work and it's actually a 500-word review, but this is above and beyond WHUT.

Plus they not only want a CV they want a photo. Tempted to send them one of the photobooth efforts I got done for passport purposes, which have 'inmate of criminal lunatic asylum, c. 1880' vibes.

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In other nostalgic news, apparently the annual eight-day Thomas Hardy fest still occurs.

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And I was utterly charmed when finally flicking through the pages of the most recent Travel Which to discover Madison WI rated one of the top less-visited North American cities (cannot find this online), bless, with particular mention of the Monoma Terrace.

Though I am honestly boggling a bit at the decision to run an article on North American cities as touristic destinations at the present time, even if a significant proportion of the actual recommendations do turn out to be in Canada.

peasina

Unfortunately, flu and forgetfulness means I'm late with what I'd hoped would be monthly event roundup posts, but that's okay - I can combine January and February in one post, then I'm all caught up! Maybe, by December, I'll be better at keeping a regular schedule for these XD

Also unfortunately, DW is absolute ass at formatting anything with multiple cuts, font styles, or images, so to avoid pulling my hair our for hours, I'm not going to style this like my last roundup post as I hoped (where you can open the cuts of events you might be interested in) and instead put everything under one cut. If DW continues to fight me, please forgive any spacing issues you may encounter.

Events covered are: Voice Team Mystery Box, Fandom Trees, Seasons of Drabbles, Candy Hearts Exchange, Three is Not a Crowd, Fresh Femslash Salad Bar, Femslash February Podfic Edition, and Perfect World Shipping Week. I also ramble about upcoming events at the end.

( Under here... )

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Noting here for posterity that I'm doing another of my "whenever I remember to do it" sweeps of all privs that have been granted, to remove privs from people who aren't currently actively volunteering with the thing that needs that priv. If I accidentally yanked something someone is using (the interface is hella janky and I would not be surprised if I do accidentally at least once), just holler and I'll add it back! Likewise, if you're still doing one thing but have privs for another thing you aren't using, you can let me know by replying here so I can remove those too.

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naye

You know what's awesome? Vids. Which is why I had the best time watching almost all of the 128 Festivids from this year. I am avoiding certain spoilers, warnings and tags, so I did not in fact watch all of them, but I definitely got through well over a hundred. An absolute feast!

While I was watching (mostly before reveals) I was also putting together a document of vids I really liked so I'd be able to go back and check who'd made them after reveals. It's not the most intricate of rec systems - it's got the title, vidder, fandom and the comment I left after watching, and they are sort of but not fully in reverse alphabetical order. But if you like vids, you will probably enjoy these!

Fandoms include: A Man on the Inside, Dimension 20, Steerswoman, The Pitt, Jeongnyeon: The Star is Born, Men's Pole Vaulting (the sport), Murderbot, Babylon 5, Conclave, Dykes to Watch Out For (the comic), Star Trek: Lower Decks and Hades. This is not an exhaustive list! Check out all the Festivid fandoms here. (Or rather: all the fandoms with canon AO3 tags. One of my vids isn't in this list, so I guess there are plenty of others that aren't either.)

( Come get your recs here! )

rionaleonhart

Here are some dreams I've had lately!

( Dreams from December to March. )

On a final and unrelated note: I forgot to mention the most important part of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage!

At one point, protagonist Swann comes across a little pile of rabbit droppings. The game gives you the opportunity to point this out to Swann's friends with the dialogue option 'Hey! Poop!'

I did not take this option, because I thought Swann's friends might find it offputting. My real-life friends are a different matter. Tem and I have been saying 'Hey! Poop!' to each other at every opportunity ever since.

princessofgeeks

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I'm not sure the rabbit's inability to give an accurate account of its age is all that relevant to the question of whether or not it deserves [colorful sugary cereal].

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Fic: Fish or Cut Bait (Highlander: the Agent)

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