Wednesday @ 5:40 pm
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1. Rhea and Iyo are thiiiiiiiiiiiiis close to forcing me to get over my squick re. RPF I stg. (I know y’all are doing it intentionally, girls, so none of us can be blamed.)
2. Damian Priest being like "wtf??? okay whatevs" in the wake of R-Truth and Danhausen doing . . . whatever that all is shouldn’t work as well as it does. And yet.
3. Someone call Kevin Owens. Mate needs to come get his boy Sami, who’s going through some shit and needs to be moonsaulted and/or hugged out of it, hey.
4. I feel I am both too old and too white to know what a "lemon pepper stepper" is. (I mean. A shoe, obviously. But, also . . . ????)
5. Related: Why are there suddenly so many random celebrities hanging around all at once for weeks at a time??? Also, who tf is Pat Antivirus and why is everyone making out like I should know and/or care???
6. Related: As someone who, for my sins, is generally into wrestlers with "oOoOh So cRaZy!!!!" gimmicks (Mankind was my Baby’s First Favorite), I will never, ever be into Randy Orton. Dude just has "beats his wife and blames it on ~the voices~" energy, and he could be the IRL nicest guy in the universe and it would never not feel like that. Sorry not sorry. Put on a spooky mask or some face paint or some shit (and also some pants and/or hair) and maybe I will revise my opinion.
7. Oba Femi seems fun or whatever but I will never know because I refuse to watch anything with that cock chested rapist. Fuck that piece of shit.
8. Glad Bronson Reed’s started wearing more shirts because I will never buy a bloke with a giant ornate tattoo of his high school sweetheart’s name over his heart (and his daughter’s next to it) as a heel. He’s just a big boy. Glad he’s getting some more to do, even if it’s just standing around looking big, but . . . yeah. Bless.
9. Women’s div is great and fun to watch. Wish I’d had this as a kid. No notes.
10. Men’s div . . . fucking yawn. There’s too much introspective meta bullshit at the top and it’s boring and tedious and I just . . . do not care about these dudes and their hurt egos and manfeels. It’s not like the roster is hurting for talent, it’s just the actual fun stuff is mostly happening outside of the headline storylines and getting all the oxygen sucked out because of it.
Wednesday @ 3:06 pm
Apr. 15th, 2026 03:06 pmalisxGetting that "I see you seeing me" look from a famous person in public and it’s like, gurl I have no fucking clue who you are I just like your cardigan.
(Mum was the one who did the "isn’t that . . .?" double-take.)
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Challenge 234: justified villain
Apr. 14th, 2026 06:48 pmthesleepingbeauty posting in your_favourites
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, April 14
Apr. 14th, 2026 06:47 pmrahirah posting in su_heraldAngel: "Here is the deal: you can go.”
Knox: "What?"
Angel: "*If* you go now - and I don't ever see any of you again, you get to live."
Knox: "Are you high?"
Angel: "LA is my territory, you want to stay out of it for the rest of your eternal lives. These kids, my town, off limits form now on."
Knox: "Who the hell are you? You know who you're talking to, you fool?"
Angel: "The name's Angelus. (Stakes Knox) And I wasn't actually talking to you.”
~~Angel Episode #20: "War Zone"~~
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- "This Wrong" (Buffy/Spike) by Planet_Mars_13
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- Motorcycles, Busses, and Pedestrianism Ch. 30 (COMPLETE) (Buffy/Spike, M) by zinjadu
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Apr. 14th, 2026 08:45 pmsettiaiOh, don't get me wrong. It was a very positive comment overall. But, still. Oof. I'm used to getting comments like that on some of my really early fics, but I was already out of college when I posted this one.
Book review: The Black Fantastic
Apr. 14th, 2026 04:18 pmrocky41_7 posting in booknookAnthologist: Andre M. Carrington
Genre: Short story anthology, science-fiction, futurism
I don’t know how I keep timing these so that I finish my audiobook and my paper book one right after the other. This weekend I also wrapped up The Black Fantastic, an anthology compiled by Andre M. Carrington. Thank you to pauraque for bringing this one to my attention! This is a collection of “Afrofuturist” stories by Black authors. If you want more detail, Pauraque has done individual reviews of each story which you can read here; I won’t get that specific.
With the usual caveat that all anthologies vary in quality, I enjoyed this one. There were a lot of very different stories, from some really fantastical stuff to ones that are just a little bit to the left of the world as it stands. On the high end of things, pieces like A Guide to the Native Fruits of Hawai’i by Alayna Dawn Johnson, where the protagonist grapples with her decision to collaborate with a group of vampire invaders to prey on the locals (and the metaphor of vampirism for the way Hawaii is treated by wealthy Americans is not lost in the shuffle); or The Orb by Tara Campbell, which was both strange and unexplained, choosing to focus not on the “why” or “how” of the situation but again on the moral quandary of its main character.
On the lower end, ones like The Ones Who Stay and Fight by NK Jemisin, which felt…narratively unclear, to say the least. It is either a satire of the kind of utopia writers create where its status as utopia is essentially dependent on eliminating any disagreement or contact with the outside world…or it’s a whole-hearted endorsement of that view. And if I can’t tell which, I tend to think the author’s failed at their purpose; or Ruler of the Rear Guard by Maurice Broaddus, which seemed to end just as it was getting to the plot.
Overall, I had fun with this anthology. SFF short story collections, done well, are such a scintillating showcase of creativity and I felt that here.
Westie's Basic Ass Exchange Letter
Apr. 14th, 2026 06:04 pmwestiecOVERALL LIKES:
Trans Characters & Genderfuckery | Established Relationships | Rarepairs(+) | Polyamory | Non-Sexual Intimacy | Ace & Aro Headcanons | Queerplatonic Relationships | Fealty Kink | Identity Porn | Humor | Fairytale & Mythology AUs | Monsters & Supernatural Creatures | Vampires | Tentacles | Wings | Fangs & Claws | Body-Sharing | Feels About Having a Body | Body Modification as Self-Expression | Non-Consensual Body Modification as a Thing To Be Grappled With | Casual/Non-Sexual Nudity | Realistic & Loving Depictions of Fat/Trans/Disabled/Otherwise "Non-Normative" Bodies | taboo/"unhealthy" relationships that are nevertheless soft for those in them (including incest and underage) | 1st and 2nd Person POVs | Experimental Formats
ART LIKES:
Pin-Up Poses! | Cuddling! | Action Poses! | Casual Nudity | Haircare | Fun Clothes | Realistic Art | Cartoony Art | Symbolic or Abstract Art | Really Fucking Horny Art | "X-Ray" Details | Bara Art | Art that plays with scale and environments | Realistic & Loving Depictions of Fat/Trans/Disabled/Otherwise "Non-Normative" Bodies | Characters as Animals/Anthros/Mythical Creatures/Monsters | Characters Redesigns for a Fusion AU (as benders, as pokemon trainers, as Jedi, etc.) | I genuinely love lots of styles of art!
SEX/KINK LIKES:
Platonic/Non-Romantic Kink | Laughing During Sex | Genderplay | Gender-Affirming Kink | Body Worship | Fealty Kink (again) | Predicament Scenes | Bondage | Earned Praise | Masturbation | Selfcest | Voyeurism | Exhibitionism | Semi-Public Sex | Sneaky Public Kink | Erotic Rituals as a Normal Part of Society | BDSM AUs | "no, no, yes" Dynamics | Hypnosis | Body Modification for Horny Reasons | Monsterfucking | Alternate Erogenous Zones | Nonhuman Genitalia | Unrealistic Porn Physics | Watersports | Sex Toys | Magic/Cultivation Used for Horny Purposes | "Improper Use of [Canon Object]" Tags | Object Insertion | Un(der)-Negotiated Kink
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medical madness
Apr. 14th, 2026 03:23 pmsistawendyBut then the Sculptor's office asked for a "clearance" letter that says I'm "medically optimized" for surgery as planned. I, uh, thought that was part of what he sent, but I guess not. I called again, and Dr. Funnyname's office says they'll send it. I guess I'll find out in a matter of hours.
So I'm not completely out of the woods, but the trees are thinning out. If somebody's trying to make me feel better about what's likely to be a hellacious recovery, it's working.
Jeez.
Why Tho: Can we leave out the horrible kid?
Apr. 14th, 2026 02:25 pmpetrea_mitchell posting in agonyauntDear Lizzy,
My son is in third grade, and his birthday is coming up. He’s told me he wants to invite his whole class to his party (at a park) except for one kid.
This kid is a menace, if I am honest. He breaks things in class and yells and hits. He is actually quite mean to my son. I want to respect my son’s wishes here, but is it fair to invite everyone except him?
To Exclude or Not to Exclude
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Book Cull Reviews
Apr. 14th, 2026 01:30 pmrachelmanijaYesterday I did a quick book cull by pulling books off my shelves that have been sitting there for ages, reading the first couple chapters, and deciding if I was likely to continue. I focused on books I'd started before and not gotten very far into. Here are the books that landed in the "move to Paper & Clay's used section" bag.
Trouble and Her Friends, by Melissa Scott
See the new cover? If you've been wanting to read this, it's now available as an ebook!
This is a classic lesbian cyberpunk novel that I have tried to read at least three times, and never managed to get very far into. I kept putting it back on the shelf because it's a classic and probably objectively good, but I'm just not that into cyberpunk. If a lot of the action is taking place online, I tend to lose interest. Also, some books just don't grab me, due to a mismatch between me and the book, rather than being objectively or even subjectively bad. This is clearly one of them. Someone else can be thrilled to find it at Paper & Clay, take it home, and enjoy it.
The Splinter in the Sky, by Kemi Ashling-Garcia
A tea specialist becomes a spy in a far-future colonized world! Unfortunately, this starts with a prologue which reads much like the infamous "trade war" crawl at the top of The Phantom Menace. Yes, I know that turned out to be prescient, but the problem was that it was written in a stultifying manner. The next couple chapters were much more lively, but also had a tendency to clunky exposition - some of which was pretty cool, to be fair. This was the second time I attempted this book, and had essentially the same reaction I did to Trouble and Her Friends - not bad, but not for me.
Furies of Calderon, by Jim Butcher
This has been described to me as "Pokemon in alternate ancient Rome," which sounds amazing. For at least the third time, it failed to grab me. I got about four chapters in and there's still no Pokemon. Someone else will like it more than me.
The Hum and the Shiver, by Alex Bledsoe
A race of people called the Tufa have lived amongst normal humans in Appalachia since the beginning of time. They can see ghosts, have music-based magic, etc. This opens with a Tufa woman very very clearly based on Jessica Lynch, who was a real-life American soldier who was wounded and captured in the US/Iraq war, returning from Iraq. I found this in poor taste. The general style also got on my nerves.
While doing this, I got sufficiently grabbed by the openings to keep reading and finish Maureen McHugh's Nekropolis, which hopefully I will actually review. I also returned Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and Tanya Huff's Sing the Four Quarters to the shelf.