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First of all, in celebration of (finally!) getting to the end of Twin Peaks' decades-long tale, I got a new default icon of my best beloved girl: Laura Fucking Palmer.

Second of all: in my community dedicated to femslash ships in the DC universe, after a little Self-Promotion event in April, I'm running an OTP weekend later in May, from the 22nd to the 24th. Everyone is welcome to participate!

Image of two swans with their beaks together in semblance of a kiss. It's been edited so it looks like a difusse oil painting, and it largely contains white, blue, black and pink tones. It features the text "DCU FEMSLASH OTP WEEKEND."

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Florence + The Machine - Drink Deep

adore

I didn't post yesterday because I was recovering from the upset stomach. And I still have to catch up on replying to comments. But here's a mini post for today. I came across some absolutely synapse-firing art and found out it's Mo Dao Zu Shi fanart. I don't even go here, but here I am.

by @aimeeaprilpp on Twitter

It's beautiful and so sensual. I could fawn over his fingers for paragraphs, about how delicate they are and how evident their expertise, but this is a mini post. He looks like he's climaxing, and I don't mean the plot. The arch of his neck is perfect. The trees in the background look like nerve endings. It all gets one thinking. Not aloud, but definitely Thinking. 100/10 would poke my head into this fandom again.

Current Mood: horny

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dolorosa_12

It's been a busy month (about which more later in a further post), and that's meant I've only managed to complete three TV shows, all of which were fairly short in length. These shows were:

The latest season of The Capture, a BBC crime/spy/political thriller whose premise is that the British police and security services have been engaged in a clandestine programme of 'correction' — planting nonexistent deepfake evidence in order to convict people of crimes for which there is no real evidence, supposedly justified as serving some greater security or political good. At the end of the last season, this was all exposed and out in the open, and the latest season deals with the ongoing messy fallout (surprise surprise, simply revealing the shadowy iniquities perpetuated by the British political and security elite does not result in an immediate transformation of the country for the better). In this season, along with the deepfakes, there's generative AI to contend with, and everything proceeds at breakneck pace with terrifying consequences. The sense of not having a solid grip on observable reality, and the sickening ease with which the characters justify the unbelievably unethical things they do is terrifying. The acting and writing are as sharp as ever, and the show is the televisual equivalent of a page-turner, but I couldn't help but find the plot completely ludicrous: not because the UK police, military, or security services wouldn't be attracted to doing all the dodgy technological things they're portrayed as doing, but because their competence at doing so and seemingly bottomless funds to support these actions strained the bounds of credulity.

Kleo, a surreal, darkly comedic spy thriller set in the dying days of partitioned Germany, in which the titular Stasi assassin gets framed and thrown into prison by those above her in the chain of command, released several years later after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and immediately sets about trying to hunt down those responsible for the stitch-up and attempting to uncover the larger political reasons why it happened. The story barrels along on an international chase, zipping from a Berlin left reeling at the overwhelming political and social changes bursting forth, to Spain and Chile, filled with a fabulous cast of characters (the side characters are particularly fun), against a backdrop of crumbling modernist architecture and an absolutely glorious soundtrack. I enjoyed this immensely.

Midnight at the Pera Palace, a Turkish historical drama in which Esra, a struggling journalist, gets assigned to write a puff piece about the history of a (real) luxury Istanbul hotel, and gets sucked back in time to 1919, where she has to foil a nefarious British plot to assassinate Mustafa Kemal. I wanted to like this more than I did: it has all the seeds of a silly piece of popcorn TV (ludicrous premise, the potential for lots of humorous time-travel shenanigans — to be fair there were some of those, like the point at which Esra needs to read a plot-relevant diary, but can't, as it is in Arabic script, which got replaced by Latin script as part of the reforms introduced in the wake of the founding of the modern Turkish state — a gorgeous setting, and a glimpse back into the cosmopolitan world of this hotel in its heyday), but it was just a bit too melodramatic and overacted for my taste.

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cornerofmadness

1. The classes are over (the bad is yet another student told me the organ with baby kittens falling out of it was the brain)

2. My heart is fine.

The bad? This doctor has seen the last of me. He's an ass. Yeah I made another appointment (mostly because I didn't want them calling). It's not for 6 months so I have plenty of time to find another cardiologist. You could see it in his eyes. I wasn't sick enough to be interesting. I'm not really that sick at all.

Me, being an absent minded idiot, even though i finished inputting info into my blood pressure log, I forgot to print it. I DID have it on my flashdrive in my purse. When I offered it his reply was 'I don't need to see it.'

Then why the fuck did you make me DO three blood pressures a day for a fucking month?!?

My echo hadn't changed in 9 years (which I knew) and he was ready to let it go with that but I was NOT (he was running behind because he'd been called into the ER)

Me: so I have mild tricuspid regurgitation
Him: not unusual in women (I know this but I plan to go over my results point by point and fuck him trying to race off)

Me: but also mild diastolic dysfunction. Is that from sleep apnea (I know it is and my psychiatrist was concerned by this)
Him: yes, see someone to get a sleep study (i.e. not me)

Me: what would cause my diasstolic pressure to be so low (it's been 50-65 most of the time. Normal is 80)? this I didn't know but has gone to mayo clinic to look up. Often it's dehydration which makes sense being diabetic.

Him: could be aortic regurgitation but you didn't have that on echo, could be some athersclerosis but I doubt it (could be though I am diabetic) but we can't do anything about that (okay fair)

Me: did you get my month long (I'm still itching my chest wounds) holter monitor?
Him: yes.

Me: And? It didn't tell me because most patients wouldn't understand it, I know but I want to see what it said.

Him: You're tachycardic
Me: no duh, that's why I've had two echos now, and?

Him: and nothing really. No afib (thank god), no real issues, just tachycardia and a few pauses.

Me: Pauses? From sleep apnea (most likely)

HIm: nothing to worry about. You really need to talk to your endocrinologist, a lot of this is metabolic.

Me: will do (and get that sleep apnea)

Eye roll. Yeah this is the last I'll see of him. Life's too short to deal with uninterested docs.

One month of blood pressures and he didn't care. It's Beltane and a full moon. You're lucky I'm not hexing you.

Came home and the cheap Victorian gown from Amazon was here. And it's actually not bad quality. Certainly something I can build on for my Rosie cosplay. Alas it does button down the front. I have boobs and it gaps open. I can pin it shut. Also doesn't button at the neck just under the chin but that's fair. I can not bear things around my neck. I can put a brooch on that part.

Have some fannish 50 friday recs

Watch Your Step! Teen Wolf

Sect Leader Jiang's 31 step program to happiness
陈情令 | The Untamed

Can’t Go Home Again Torchwood

The Last Dance Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Losing John Inspector George Gently

Worn Hazbin Hotel

Team Work Stargate Atlantis

Anniversary Problems Torchwood

Thursday Afternoons with You The Owl House

Incredible Hazbin Hotel

The Long Road Home The Amazing Digital Circus

listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Helluva Boss

To Ease The Pain Torchwood

Secrets in the Shadows Hazbin Hotel

Held Hazbin Hotel

no one can dream for you 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Death in Paradise

torachan

1. It's the weekend! I have been feeling very stressed about work lately and now I have two days where I don't have to think about it. Yay!

2. Last year Carla got a Franz Ferdinand CD box set that came with a reusable cloth shopping bag and it has short handles and also a long strap so it can be worn crossbody and it has become my favorite shopping bag because it's so comfortable! Shoulder straps always fall off my shoulder or are just uncomfortable but this is like wearing nothing at all (queue sexy Flanders meme).

Anyway, it was in the wash yesterday when I wanted to use it (cat pee again...our fault for leaving a pile of shopping bags out on an area where he'd peed before, even if it had been cleaned with enzyme cleaner) so I went looking online for any similar crossbody shopping bags so I could have a backup in the future and while the pickings were very slim, I did find one that looked about right and it arrived today and is perfect! It's this bag, specifically in the blue cat print, if it doesn't go directly to that one. It's a smallish size, which is what I want, and folds down super small and doesn't have a bunch of extra pockets or anything. I just want a small, simple bag with a crossbody strap, but apparently no one else does because this is like the only one I found that was just right (the others were all too large or too complicated or both).

3. I love Gemma's curly tail so much.

torachan

Recently Finished
My Life in Propaganda
Memoir about growing up in communist Poland + the author's thoughts on propaganda in general. This was less interesting than I thought it would be, though I found the parts about how communism worked in Poland in particular to be very interesting and I wish there had been more of that.

Who Is Vera Kelly?
This is told in two timelines, the past when the MC is a teenager and the present when she's a spy in Argentina in the 60s. The first half or so of this was honestly so boring. I did enjoy it more in the second half, but it was really dragging and it didn't help that I was reading this on the Libby app and having connectivity issues while traveling (idk why it won't let me download the file to my phone). It seems like the second book might be more interesting, so I am going to check it out.

Killers of a Certain Age
Four middle aged women are retired assassins who now find themselves targeted by the organization they used to work with. This was a lot of fun. Definitely looking forward to the second book.

Ghost Roast
YA graphic novel about a girl whose dad is a ghost buster type and she herself (unbeknownst to him) can see and even speak with ghosts. This was cute but her friends were pretty awful and I kept expecting that they would either change and apologize for their behavior or she would realize they were awful and dump them, but neither of those happened.

Shiny Misfits
Middle grade graphic novel about a girl with cerebral palsy who loves to dance and is obsessed with going viral and becoming famous. The premise sounded cute but the pacing was all over the place and the dialogue was always trying to be quippy and just came off as obnoxious. Everything was just dialed up to 11 and it was kind of exhausing to read. The random talking (in rhymes, no less) cat also came off as another element that was supposed to be wacky and random but just fell flat for me. I was expecting to love this but was just disappointed. Very cute art, though.

Goodbye, Dolly!
I'm just going to c&p the blurb here: "When celebrity clone sheep Dolly dies, her adult Nepo Lambs come together for the first time to forge an identity as second-generation clones, confront their upbringing, and process their grief around their famous, trailblazing mother. Unreliably narrated by the ghost of Dolly in a mixed media style, GOODBYE, DOLLY! explores the connection, disconnection, hijinks, and despair of six siblings trying to put together the pieces of their broken family and forge a path to their wooly future."

I found this in a Little Library down the street from me and thought it could be interesting. Got home and found multiple copies of it, along with some other works by the author, in my Little Library, so I assume the author is local and trying to promote her stuff. I had to create the entry on goodreads and I feel bad that the first review it now has on there is two stars, but this was just too weird for me lol.

The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos vol. 3

mxcatmoon

Well. I need prayers again. I fell going into the doctor's office this morning. And broke my arm. Now I'm going to be off work again. And hoping my short-term disability comes through fast. Because the situation is not good. I now must dictate everything into the computer and then cut and paste it because I can't type. So much bad luck lately.

I'm in a lot of pain because I also hurt my back ribs and knee. I don't know if they're broken. The doctor only sent me for X-rays for the arm. I don't know how bad it is yet because I saw the results in My Chart online, but no doctor has reviewed it yet. I'm in a lot of trouble here. So, I need lots of prayers. Thank you.

I guess Miami Vice is going to be distracting me again. It's the only thing that can help. I'm not sure how I'm going to sleep, I guess in the recliner for a while. I have no idea how I'm going to take care of the daily household stuff with only one hand. And stiff and sore. It happened on a Friday too, so I probably won't be able to talk to anyone until Monday.

Current Mood: distressed

kaberett

Today has been. the first time in A While that I have spent mostly horizontal and mostly asleep on account of migraine, despite drugs. I am Not A Fan.

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I wasn't planning anything for

3weeks4dreamwidth, but then I realized today is my account creation anniversary! I've been on Dreamwidth for 17 years, since the second day of open beta.

Occasionally I am in the position of explaining to people what Dreamwidth is, and I usually say it's an indie social media site with no ads or algorithm. I feel like sometimes people don't know what I mean by that, or have a hard time wrapping their minds around how it can possibly exist. Like what do you mean, it doesn't exploit you for profit? It lets you look at things you have chosen to look at without cramming trending topics and promoted content down your throat?? You visit it every day because you enjoy it, not because it is designed to manipulate you into feeling addicted to it??? Increasingly over the past 17 years I have felt like a lot of people experience a very different internet than I do, and if I had to experience that internet I probably wouldn't go online much.

Thank you all for being here and creating a space where the internet is still thoughtful and human and fun.

rachelmanija

A modern take on La Ronde: a novel in the form of twelve short stories linked by airplane trips. Each has a main character who meets the main character of the next story. A pilot has a brief fling with a journalist in Brazil; the journalist flies to Toronto to interview a writer; the writer flies to Seattle where she meets two of her fans; one of the fans flies to Hong Kong, and so forth.

The blurb says each meeting causes a ripple effect as they change each other's lives, but that's not actually what happens in many of them. Some are minor chance encounters, some are present at a crucial moment in someone else's life but don't directly affect it, and some are important encounters but those are the ones where the people have pre-existing relationships. Most of the characters are disconnected, discontented, and lonely, despite the literal connections they have in a six degrees of separation way; the only character who seems happy and is focused on the people they love is about to get hit with a terrible tragedy that's someone else's traffic delay.

As we go from person to person, we get to see the characters from different angles, and understand things about them that others don't. The pilot, who in his story was wondering what would have happened if his younger sister hadn't died in a childhood accent, asks his one night stand how old she is. She says 33, which is the age his sister would have been. But she has no idea of any of this, and when he doesn't reply she thinks he's fallen asleep.

There's an impressively diverse set of locales and characters, sketched-in but real-feeling; I knew we were in Delhi before it was stated just from the description of the air. The emotional tenor is a bit distanced and chilly. Overall it reminded me of Raymond Carver, but with less striking prose.

Szalay won last year's Booker Prize for Flesh, a novel which sounds really unappealing.

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https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026/05/01/at-the-speed-of-hell

The only time I feel bad for not having a newer console is when Housemarque drops something. With a pedigree that goes back to the Amiga, they have developed and honed their taste to Jamon Iberico levels - I wouldn't be surprised if they let their games feed on acorns, free-range. They've perfected arcade feel, itself a kind of artisanal, out-of-time style, and now with Returnal and (from Mork tells me) Saros, they've mastered progression as well.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026/05/01/at-the-speed-of-hell

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JLA Giffen-DeMatteis-Sears, JLE Giffen-Jones-Robertson.

It’s time to face off against Dreamslayer, the wroth foe with a face like a Rothko. Except just now, he’s borrowed Max Lord’s handsome mug and an entire population of islanders. ( He could do even more damage with Max’s body in a single afternoon if he understood finance. )

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https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026/05/01/saros-thoughts

I think Saros is a super fun game whenever it isn’t trying to tell me whatever this story is. The bullet hell gameplay is really well done and if that’s all the game was I would probably love it, but they have layered in this inscrutable story that I find completely uninteresting and unnecessary. Jerry and I often say that something is “too grand for chicken” when trying to explain that a thing can be simple and great without needing an extra layer of gravitas. I will keep playing it, but that is how I feel about Saros.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026/05/01/saros-thoughts

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I'm listening to thunder rumbling in the distance. (And I missed a month. No connection.)

How's everyone doing?

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