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More of This Time Next Year (previously), which is still kind of a surreal experience. It's partly a traditional frontier narrative (and one self-admittedly silent about the problems inherent in the concept of a "frontier") that uses omegaverse tropes to help bolster the red-blooded violence of some of its male characters, but then it's also got this fascinating religious worldbuilding around omegas and what they mean to the people around them. I feel like there's a universe next door where the author filed off the hockey RPF serial numbers, published it as mainstream fiction (but not SF, for some reason, despite the speculative element), and blew the minds of a generation.
I also read Halloween on Christmas byrionaleonhart and ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
th_esaurus, which is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse fic featuring grief, awkwardness, and ill-advised makeouts between the forty-ish Peter Parker of the movie and a nineteen year old Gwen. If that sounds like your kind of thing, it probably is!
And just tonight I read speak truth to knowledge by equivalence relation byalexseanchai, which I'd seen recced before Yuletide reveals but didn't get around to reading until now, because I'm much too tired to brain. But this fic, omg. It's written for the fandom of the music video to Taylor Swift's "Ready For It", but although I watched said video before reading it, I don't think that's a necessary prerequisite to enjoying the heck out of it. Mostly, it's a thoughtful look at the lead-up to the cyborg revolution.
Here also is a poem by Emily Short that I forgot to link last week, which speaks briefly on the subject of joy, and of its necessity and strength.
WATCHED
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel spoilers through episode 3x04, "Hands!":
So, I love Susie blossoming as a manager. That's fantastic. I don't really care about Rose and Abe giving up their money and home, but I guess that's a thing that happened. Mei Lin is fantastic and I love her, and if having Joel would make her happy then I hope she gets him. But mostly: a Vegas wedding putting Midge and Joel back at square one with respect to their marriage? Why???
Sym-Bionic Titan spoilers through episode 1x05:
Episode four abruptly caught my interest through a combination of having Octus spell out Lance's sexual attractiveness with a) the readiness of someone who has thought this through already and b) a small pleased smile, and by producing a horrible creature that tortures and controls its victims by worming its way down their throats and lurking somewhere within their bodies. Queer robots and noncon kink are very relevant to my interests! But then I guess that was a hard act for episode five to follow.
I can't tell, are the racial stereotypes supposed to be ironic? It's from approximately the same era as Glee, so I guess I'll put that at a solid maybe. I don't think I like them better here than I did on Glee. Mike Chan did have a certain flair, though.
Also, parts one through three of Parallax by Adam Westbrook, which is a short video series (five episodes @ ~5 minutes each) investigating a mildly interesting planet that is by some of its inhabitants called Earth. I'm digging it. (Only auto-generated closed captions, unfortunately.)
More of This Time Next Year (previously), which is still kind of a surreal experience. It's partly a traditional frontier narrative (and one self-admittedly silent about the problems inherent in the concept of a "frontier") that uses omegaverse tropes to help bolster the red-blooded violence of some of its male characters, but then it's also got this fascinating religious worldbuilding around omegas and what they mean to the people around them. I feel like there's a universe next door where the author filed off the hockey RPF serial numbers, published it as mainstream fiction (but not SF, for some reason, despite the speculative element), and blew the minds of a generation.
I also read Halloween on Christmas by
rionaleonhart and And just tonight I read speak truth to knowledge by equivalence relation by
alexseanchai, which I'd seen recced before Yuletide reveals but didn't get around to reading until now, because I'm much too tired to brain. But this fic, omg. It's written for the fandom of the music video to Taylor Swift's "Ready For It", but although I watched said video before reading it, I don't think that's a necessary prerequisite to enjoying the heck out of it. Mostly, it's a thoughtful look at the lead-up to the cyborg revolution.Here also is a poem by Emily Short that I forgot to link last week, which speaks briefly on the subject of joy, and of its necessity and strength.
WATCHED
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel spoilers through episode 3x04, "Hands!":
So, I love Susie blossoming as a manager. That's fantastic. I don't really care about Rose and Abe giving up their money and home, but I guess that's a thing that happened. Mei Lin is fantastic and I love her, and if having Joel would make her happy then I hope she gets him. But mostly: a Vegas wedding putting Midge and Joel back at square one with respect to their marriage? Why???
Sym-Bionic Titan spoilers through episode 1x05:
Episode four abruptly caught my interest through a combination of having Octus spell out Lance's sexual attractiveness with a) the readiness of someone who has thought this through already and b) a small pleased smile, and by producing a horrible creature that tortures and controls its victims by worming its way down their throats and lurking somewhere within their bodies. Queer robots and noncon kink are very relevant to my interests! But then I guess that was a hard act for episode five to follow.
I can't tell, are the racial stereotypes supposed to be ironic? It's from approximately the same era as Glee, so I guess I'll put that at a solid maybe. I don't think I like them better here than I did on Glee. Mike Chan did have a certain flair, though.
Also, parts one through three of Parallax by Adam Westbrook, which is a short video series (five episodes @ ~5 minutes each) investigating a mildly interesting planet that is by some of its inhabitants called Earth. I'm digging it. (Only auto-generated closed captions, unfortunately.)
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