Babylon 5 fanfic: One Safe Harbor

Jun. 6th, 2025 12:04 am
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The recent "only one bed" meme (which I still haven't finished, as per usual) led to only-one-bed thoughts and this missing scene for B5 5x16.

One Safe Harbor (also on Ao3 - G'Kar/Londo, 2300 words, explicit)
Missing scene on the flight from Babylon 5 to Centauri Prime in 5x16. Two people in a very small sleeping space. Also, some feelings are had.

One Safe Harbor - 2300 wds )

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Jun. 5th, 2025 08:44 pm
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I want so badly for Trump and Musk to destroy each other. Like, I'm not ignorant of the damage they could do but they're already doing damage, you feel me? I'm also aware that there's a non-zero chance of this whole feud being a charade BUT-- and, yes, I know that none of us actually know these people-- I simply cannot wrap my head around the idea of either of their egos suffering this humiliation. Idk. It's a cold satisfaction I'm feeling but it's still satisfaction.

So help me, though, if the Dems don't shut their collective traps about opening the door for Musk... I am so tired of being roped into whatever weird humiliation kink these fools are indulging.

It's Been A Week

Jun. 6th, 2025 12:24 pm
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I am still recovering from Bronchitis and a chest infection, and now I have Covid. I am starting to think someone has a voodoo doll of me and is busily sticking pins in it.

I am on a cocktail of meds, including antivirals. I am slowly recovering, but I will be happy when this is all over.

At least I have had this time to catch up on my reading and watching my favourite movies and tv shows.

Not much else has been happening, and I am looking forward to getting back up on my feet.

Hope everyone is having a good week.
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Cloudward, Ho! is the newest Dimension 20 campaign of actual-play D&D with its classic cast of comedy improvisers. This one is an aeronautical adventure set in a steampunk universe, about a motley crew who set out on a quest in search of a lost continent and the expedition that disappeared before them. The first episode just came out yesterday, and I really enjoyed it!



Some Notes About the Premise (Moderate Spoilers) )
I'm looking forward to seeing where the campaign goes from here! Anyone else watching or planning to watch?

June TV Shown PTW

Jun. 5th, 2025 04:58 pm
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Using my TV Show PTW boardgame.

Last time I completed 7/10 of the ones on my list. I was much more in a cartoon mood so when all that was left was not that I lost steam and ultimately made the choice to move on.

Avatar: Stranger Things (move two extra tiles one time, only works on trap tile if I roll even)


Roll #1

Ironic I got Stranger Things as my avatar when that's one of the shows I couldn't watch last time. 😅

I rolled and got an 8, but I see that's the PTW and I don't want that sooo using my skill already to make it 10. Prompt: mostly blue cover. I can't tell if the cover is blue or blueish green but whatever, Danny Phantom it is! I'll probably end up rewatching because I didn't mark in my trakt anything but episode 1...

Roll #2

A 9, prompt: weapon on the cover. Helluva Boss!!

Roll #3

FML a 2 and that's the PTW square again I knew this was going to happen I just knew it. Ended up going through my list and removing a few movies that should've been on my letterboxd and putting the sort setting on random. Generated a 21 and that's Invader Zim! I would've been about 13 when it came out, I wasn't watching much TV then as I got my first PC. I'm excited to see a piece of culture I missed out on!

Roll #4

A 1?? Whatever man... Prompt: fantasy creatures. Took me a minute but I picked out She-ra, It's been way too long since I watched it, by this point I generally know what happens.

Roll #5

A 2......prompt: favorite genre. Fantasy and I'm shoeing in Ninjago to make sure it gets in there.

Roll #6

An 8, prompt: weapon on the cover again. Miraculous Ladybug!

Roll #7

A 7 and the end. The reward could be either Cybersix or Dark... You know what, I need guaranteed happiness and that's Cybersix.

Where to watch:
Danny Phantom
Helluva Boss
Invader Zim
She-ra
Ninjago
Miraculous Ladybug
Cybersix



TV Show PTW List:

[Animation/Superhero] Danny Phantom
[Animation/Supernatural] Helluva Boss
[Animation/Sci-Fi] Invader Zim
[Animation/Fantasy] She-ra
[Animation/Superhero] Ninjago
[Animation/Superhero] Miraculous Ladybug
[Superhero/Animation] Cybersix
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I watched the first 15 minutes of "In the Beginning" back in May, and finally watched the rest last night. I enjoyed it, despite not being that interested in the 10-years-earlier part of the timeline (or the Minbari, for the most part). Annoyingly, the audio/video was a little out of sync for most of it, and I'm not sure why.

Spoilers for a 25-year-old TV movie )
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Miraculous Ladybug 6x01

Alya's new haircut is cute.

Marinette continuing to put Adrien on a pedestal. She was so busy paying attention to the happy couple behind her that she slapped Adrien and stuck her fingers up his nose when he tried to kiss her, good lord.

Why did Alya/Nino run off to detransform when they transformed in front of everyone already?

Sometimes I feel like the new style is lovely and other times it just looks plain weird. The old style wasn't perfect either though.

I know this is being done on purpose to later show growth but it's so annoying. I'm too old to watch teens fumble around for too long at a time. 😅

Alya's voice seems more mature too, I like it.

"I don't know how to act like a loving couple" girl you grew up with one, your parents. She could've gone to them for help.

Marinette's lucky Lila didn't follow her when she went to transform;;

Camp Cretaceous 5x02

First I rewatched 5x01 where Kenji is reunited with his dad, everyone is worried he's evil, he convinces them he's not aaand at the end he blackmails Mae with the kids into helping him and Cash with his new plan.

I love how sweet Sammy and Yaz are with Kenji and helping him get ready. :') So hard watching his insecurity towards his dad knowing his dad is evil. 😓

Who are the people Darius' brother is getting help from??

I want to watch more now but I have other things to watch ahhh.

Ninjago 5x02

First rewatched episode 1. I was able to watch it on tubi here! Wu is opening a tea shop, the ninjas are still doing odd jobs, Lloyd misses his father. He's grown so much! Buut then he's possessed by Wu's former student Morro and the guys can't use their powers. Kai doesn't want to leave Lloyd but has no choice. They're all upset about having to fight and then leave their friend. I enjoyed the bits of humor and friendship/family in this episode, can't believe it took me this long to watch this show again.

Okay on to two, the fallout...

Wu gave up the scroll after copying its contents to save them all, the ninja go after Ronin who stole something Morro needs, and Wu+Misako reveal to Nya that she and Kai's mother was the water ninja and she needs to train in water to defeat Morro. They ultimately need to find Wu's father's burial place.

Cybersix E01

I was not expecting to be hit with such a lovely opening song! And the ending too. That was quite enjoyable. :D I watched it here on YouTube btw. I look forward to watching more!

Animation Check-in: The Owl House

Jun. 5th, 2025 02:08 pm
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The Owl House 2x15-21

Pretty sure I forgot to mark some episodes watched on trakt but rewatching is fun!

2x15: The young Eda/Raine episode. I love their instant connection, and Raine came just in time because Eda's sister got so wrapped up in studying she grew apart from Eda.

2x16:
The one where Luz and Hunter end up in Belos' mindscape, Luz finds out Belos=Phillip and Hunter finds out the truth about himself right before getting sucked into a hole. Hunter is so frickin' tragic.

2x17:
Wow how far behind is my trakt?? I definitely remember at least a few episodes ahead of these events. It's the one where King gets the letter from 'his warrior family' and he and Luz go investigate. Eda crying over Luz and King being in danger. :'<

2x18: Badass Augustus episode. He saved the students from getting permanent sigils. Amity realizes Willow has changed. They did a very Sailor Moon like pose!



Aww they're so sweet. 😭❤️️

2x19: Poor King, from one disappointment to the next. Omg who draw those wanted posters, I love them.



Tubedemon!!

The bike guy Steve bawling at the two little old ladies in love. 😭

Oh, so Steve is Matt's brother.

2x20: Awwww the kiss episode. <3

2x21:



babiesss 😭

Aw Hunter blushed when Willow caught him. 😊

I definitely had not seen this episode. 😭😭😭

I'm sad there's only three episodes left since the show got cut off, but they're longer so that's something. I think I will stop here for now...as much as I hate to at that cliffhanger. x_x

Game Check-in: 🚇Honkai Star Rail

Jun. 5th, 2025 01:57 pm
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Okay I started the quest where the group talks about the next location, then the POV switches to...Sunday!! I guess Jade let him go?? "Go now. You are free - O chosen one, who dared to exceed his bounds. Sever your wings, descend to the mortal realm, and walk their lands. See what this world is truly like."

So he's just been wandering around Penacony with this Wonweek and using Harmony so no one recognizes him.

Sunday's wings and hair are so fluffy I want to touch...

Wonweek, Workday...

Six year old Sunday tried to fly with his ear feathers. :')

I just realized he's not wearing his halo. *blink*

Was no one told that Jade freed Sunday?? Maybe it's purely about the fact that he came back to Penacony.

Why is no one concerned that Phantylia may have done something to Tingyun besides taking her place?? And Wonweek's reaction shouldn't have been dismissed, nor Tingyun's appearance change. I love her new look though, she's a really lovely character looks-wise.

So through a lot of work, Ruan Mei brought Tingyun back by giving her the choice to live even though she'll have Phantylia's scars on/in her forever. Wonweek probably saw the Destruction/Phantylia's mark when he tuned her. Ruan Mei is both terrifying and inspirational...

Who was the traveling merchant who saved Tingyun by bringing her to Ruan Mei and what did they give her in return??

What exactly happened to Tingyun's tail? I never expected to get this whole storyline for Tingyun. Apparently she was switched with Phantalyia a lot earlier than March thought. She does seem a lot different than the Tingyun we met, but then again this Tingyun's been through so much. I'm feeling quite affectionate towards her right now. :')

Why is so much left out of the translation? For every three sentences spoken there's one small line of text sometimes...

Tingyun and Yukong. 😭

I'm surprised the Harmony worked against Robin.

So Sunday severed his halo. 😭 At least he didn't cut off his wings. *shudder* I understand his reasoning for doing it though.

Sunday doesn't like frivolous people...I guess he wouldn't get along well one on one with March or even Caelus/Stelle depending on how you play them;;

The Harmonious Choir fight was too hard, I had to lower the difficulty (really grateful we can do that). Sunday got his halo back! And he joined the Astral Express! I thought I saw something about that in fandom but thought maybe it was a fanon thing or a spoiler so I avoided looking too close. Good to know it's true!

Looks like something is going on with Herta, wonder if we need to go to the Space Station before Amorpheus.
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I'm opening my lecture by talking about aquatic life zones, and this video shows all the pelagic ones.

media update

Jun. 5th, 2025 11:33 am
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Well, I forgot to do a media update again yesterday! Not super necessary because all I have been doing are:

🌿 finished Miss Night and Day & very satisfied with the ending
🌿 started Tale of the Nine-Tailed - it is very gory and low on shenanigans but the worst part is how it's put together? Idk, it jumps between scenes so quickly, my bestie was like "sometimes this show is like a dream with these abrupt scene changes" and, yeah. It keeps making these little jumps like someone's telling you a story and saying "let me skip to the good part!" Lots of peril, often watching through my fingers, but am enjoying it so far. We want the prequel (not 1938) that is about Granny, please. I've had enough Lee Crazy Eyes Rang for a lifetime, and I suspect this is going to go badly for me. I hope Yuri is an Alolan Ninetails.
🌿 been on a tear with language learning, pretty much everything that's not that & kdrama has fallen (RIP writing, RIP Amphibia, RIP music, RIP library books)
🌿 have been playing some stardew (joja run?), though. And neko atsume for a minute.
🌿 I guess I did a lot of deck/gardening stuff - hung my hanging planters, finally. Planted a couple more things. My seedlings under the light are starting to get crazy.

Bonus birds:





Finch party - love the purple finch. Never actually got a pic of him before!



These 2 dunces! Waking me up in the morning, screaming after their mom, as she tries to teach them how to hunt for insects. They were doing laps under my window, screaming why can't she just keep feeding me forever?!?! They're just as big as her, and will bowl her over if she catches something. Very entertaining show (they're back today under the kitchen window, and I'm wondering how long she'll put up with them)!

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Details here: https://www.anti-robotclub.com/event-details/the-marketplace-cambridge-ma-2


Time: Sunday, June 8, 12-5 pm

Location:
The Foundry
101 Rogers st.
Cambridge, MA

We will have a bunch of short-run prose collections, including Perspichor Freelance Explorer (an asexual monster romance), Disabled Cyborgs, and more! Cone say hi!

In which I read therefore I am

Jun. 5th, 2025 11:08 am
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- To Read shelves, 72 on 1 June, which is down from 90 on 1 Jan 2025.

- Reading: 63 books to 5 June 2025.

56. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, by Heather Fawcett, 2023, fantasy romance (het), 4/5.
I liked the readable prose, presented mostly as diary entries, and especially the protagonist, but all the she-forgot-herself and voila she's a queen now with a wannabe prince charming waiting to rescue her from her unwanted king was tedious to me. However the author does emphasise, as do traditional folk and fairy tales, that aristocracy is arbitrary, capricious, and cruel, which took the edge off my discontent, lol. I especially enjoyed Fawcett's characterisation of the "common" fae "Poe" who lived in a tree by a hot spring and exchanged gift-for-gift with humans.

Unnecessary nitpicking which in no way spoiled my enjoyment. )

57. Never Anyone but You, by Rupert Thomson, 2018, novel historical (lgbt+), 4/5.
A historical novel about Lucie Schwob (Claude Cahun) and Suzanne Malherbe (Marcel Moore) which managed to combine the historical and the novel aspects very well.
Warning for the Second World War, plus suicides, and anorexia.

Quote: But they realised they didn't have anything we wanted, and they took our self-sufficiency as a kind of rejection, or even as an expression of contempt. If money, beauty and fame aren't coveted by the people who don't have them, they lose their value for the people who do.

59. Bad Influence, by C.J. Wray, 2025, technically a crime novel, 3.5/5.
If this was What Three Words it'd be heartwarming.popular.tropes.
Warning for spoilery but exceedingly obvious trope wrt elderly protagonists.

60. Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God, by Tony Hoagland, 2019, poetry, 3.5/5.
Specifically post-2016 dissatisfactions from Hoagland, to add to his usual satirical tendencies.

61. God on the Rocks, by Jane Gardam, 1978, literary slice-of-life novel, 4.5/5.
Half a point too Booker for me. :D

62. Oliver VII, by Antal Szerb (translation from Hungarian by Len Rix), 1942, ruritanian farce, 3/5.
I blame James Davis Nicoll. :-)

Another May

Jun. 5th, 2025 04:50 am
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Lynch angel and the citySeeing as how I'm not going to chance gimping around cemeteries in a podiatric boot for a while with how uneven the ground can be in places, I decided to post a bunch of photos I haven't yet from past visits to First Calvary Cemetery, most of them from May 2021, as well as a few more from last week. Thus, I have 15 new photos up at my Flickr.

+++

Anime I'm currently watching:
Oshi no Ko season 2
The Dangers in My Heart [Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu] season 2
2.5 Dimensional Seduction [Nitengo-jigen no Ririsa]
Ao-chan Can't Study [Midara na Ao-chan wa Benkyou ga Dekinai]

I recently finished season one of I Parry Everything: What Do You Mean I'm the Strongest? I'm Not Even an Adventurer Yet!

Biggles fic: Old Words

Jun. 4th, 2025 11:42 pm
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This was written for one of last year's prompt fests - Whumptober, I think - and never posted. At the time, I was really struggling to get words out, feeing pretty insecure about the words I did write, and I could tell this needed editing and didn't feel up to dealing with it. Also, it was too long to just post as a snippet of fic like most of the others. I sat on it for a while with the idea that it might be possible to clean it up and use it in an exchange, but it didn't fit anything I was writing for, and I finally got around to editing and posting it.

Old Words (1978 words) by Sholio
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Biggles Series - W. E. Johns
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Biggles" Bigglesworth & Erich Von Stalhein
Characters: Erich von Stalhein, James "Biggles" Bigglesworth
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Friendship, Developing Relationship, Secret Messages
Summary: Some time after Buries a Hatchet/Looks Back, Biggles and Erich find an old message in an abandoned dead drop.

Also posted under the cut.

Old Words - 2000 wds )

Look what you've done

Jun. 5th, 2025 12:12 am
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My right leg is killing me today far more than my sprained and fractured left ankle, because of the boot. Lots of new places hurt today as a result of the boot making me move and handle weights differently. Also, parts of my left leg hurt from the top and struts of the boot.



Around the house, I just tight-wrap the foot for compression and use a cane, because that way it's not too heavy for me to elevate it somewhat as I sit. I have the cane from a prior ankle injury.

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Jun. 4th, 2025 08:58 pm
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The forecast for Saturday keeps changing and it's driving me up the frikkin wall. I want to go to the farmer's market but I can't plan for it if I don't know what weather to expect when. If it's going to be raining at what's usually the optimal time, I'd rather stay home and get an early start on my reorganizing instead.

But, hey, there are still two more days to go before then. Two. whole. days. This week has been slooow.

current state of my life

Jun. 4th, 2025 09:26 pm
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