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Silver Adept ([personal profile] silveradept) wrote2025-09-17 09:47 pm

Sex and Violence, Tech and Violence, and some genuinely neat stuff - Early September 02025

Let's begin here with celebrating fifty years of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and fifty years of what might be the most unique theatrical experience someone goes to when they go to see Rocky. (And the fact that while the thing on the screen stays the same when you go to see Rocky, everything else changes depending on where you are and what time it is.)

Organizations that fail to consider intersectionality in their diversity, equity, and inclusion will create things like employee resource groups that only capture a part of someone's experience and that elide the places where the intersectionality is unique and important. Which should make you unsurprised, but also horrified, that the Institute for Museum and Library Services budget is being given directly to propagandists for a project that will present a white man-centric view of history and demand that we all believe it as the sole and only truthful narrative of the United States.

James Dobson, creator of such abominations unto his God as Focus on the Family and the Family Policy Alliance, has gone to receive judgment at 89 years of age. Our world is far better off without him, and the damage that he has done to the world would take generations to heal if he were the only one doing his kind of damage. But like so many others, he has disciples and followers, and they will continue to perpetuate his damage into the world for generations to come.

A man who believed that violence was an answer, and who aggressively sowed the wind wherever he went, has reaped the whirlwind, killed by the violence he promoted, by a gun that he believed should have more rights than the people killed by it. He is no longer able to use his organization to promote and encourage harm to others.

The fallout from such, and plenty of other things, inside )

Last out, Bohemian Rhapsody translated and performed in Zulu and with the visual and singing styles of several other African traditions. It's worth a watch and a listen, absolutely.

The concept of Queer Time, where the signifiers of "adulthood" like marriage, children, and houses are not achieved on any kind of regular time, if at all, and therefore queer adults have to find their own ways of demonstrating to the community that they are full grown-ass adults.

And the iconic Atari CX-10 joystick as a decanter for drinking, along with a couple of Atari-logo glasses.

(Materials via [personal profile] adrian_turtle, [personal profile] azurelunatic, [personal profile] boxofdelights, [personal profile] cmcmck, [personal profile] conuly, [personal profile] cosmolinguist, [personal profile] elf, [personal profile] finch, [personal profile] firecat, [personal profile] jadelennox, [personal profile] jenett, [personal profile] jjhunter, [personal profile] kaberett, [personal profile] lilysea, [personal profile] oursin, [personal profile] rydra_wong, [personal profile] snowynight, [personal profile] sonia, [personal profile] the_future_modernes, [personal profile] thewayne, [personal profile] umadoshi, [personal profile] vass, the [community profile] meta_warehouse community, [community profile] little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
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Lynn | Settiai ([personal profile] settiai) wrote2025-09-18 12:28 am
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Aurendor D&D: Summary for 9/17 Game

In tonight's game, the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.
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citrinesunset ([personal profile] citrinesunset) wrote2025-09-17 11:34 pm

Trick or Treat Letter 2025

Thank you for writing a fic or creating art for me! Or considering it!

I enjoy a wide range of fic and art and encourage you to go wild with whatever inspires you. I've tried to include a few ideas/things I like for each of the fandoms I requested, but don't feel like you need to adhere to that.

 

General likes and DNWs )

 

 

Piranesi )

 


Marvel 616 )

X-Men Alternate Timeline Movies )



Alien Prequel Movies )

Legion )
Penny Dreadful )

Thoroughbreds )
Poker Face )

Flight of the Conchords )
Severance )
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Travis ([personal profile] torachan) wrote2025-09-17 08:24 pm
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Daily Happiness

1. I got my covid and flu shots today. Since I didn't have any meetings or other time-sensitive things this morning at work, I just stopped in the same medical offices where I'd made my appointment for next week and asked if they were doing walk-ins, too, and they were. Had to wait about ten minutes or so, but otherwise it was over pretty quickly. Carla hasn't been able to get hers yet because she's sick. D: (First test said not covid, but she's going to keep testing throughout the duration to make sure. So far I am not showing any signs of catching it, but we'll see. It is hard to avoid each other in our smallish house, though at least since it's summer all the windows and doors are open and the fans going all the time, so there's a lot of air circulation.)

2. Molly just loves this scratcher/ball toy. Sometimes for the scratcher, once in a while for the ball, but mostly just to lie on. It's apparently very comfy.

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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote in [community profile] books2025-09-17 10:49 pm

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse

Another Jeeves novel. Spoilers ahead for the earlier ones.

Read more... )
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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-09-17 10:02 pm
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Backsliding

My sugar crashed out hard but I'm fine. So the drug is lowering my sugar (yay) but it's tearing up my stomach (boo). I'll stick it out a little longer. It took me a couple weeks to adjust to gabapentin after all. But if the GERD gets worse I'll have to give up.

Got a letter from the hospital because they don't know phones apparently. They scheduled my abdominal ct scan at 7 pm on the first. Okay I love that they HAVE a night appointment for those who work. On the other hand I live over an hour away...I'll call them and see if it can be a thursday.

My dentist called monday to reschedule. I keep calling back and no one returns that call.

Aspen called me and the girl keeps repeating what I wrote about them, as if trying to....I'm not sure. You don't need to repeat what I said. I know what I said. I appreciate the apology but I am keeping my eye on you. Also they tried to blame the other Aspen in PA which fair, they didn't reach out to me. Eye roll.


I got my [personal profile] spook_me prompts.

For cannibal I got
one and
two Not sure which one to use, probably one


And for Graveyard I got
one and
https://public.fotki.com/trillingstar/spook-me/spook-me-2025/graveyard-8.html I'm leaning toward two for this one

What I Just Finished Reading:

Wrong Side of the Grave - Bryna Butler mothman as an alien...she's a local author


What Moves the Dead - T. Kingfisher a very cool, queer coded retelling of the Fall of the House of Usher

The Road to Strange: Travel Tales of the Paranormal and Beyond by Rosemary Ellen Guilley and Michael Brein, one of the last thing I bought from her at a Mothman festival before her passing. I wish this were more interesting.



What I am Currently Reading:

Nothing Special vol 2 - a fantasy webtoon, it's cute

Jaws - I needed as J and one of my dentists handed me this to read. Someone's thesis on why there is so much malocclusion. Riveting (no, it's not)

Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World - imagine Gavin or Lindsey trying to get promoted at Wolfram and Hart and you more or less have it. It's interesting but it's hard to root for Colin since he's actively evil and petty


What I Plan to Read Next: I'm so behind on my challenges. something for that. I've lost track of where I put the books. I mean I know they're in the computer room but what box did I stick them in?
FAIL Blog ([syndicated profile] fail_feed) wrote2025-09-22 06:00 am

'Everyone laughed except me and Leo': Woman walks out of family dinner after her father repeatedly i

Posted by Emma Saven

We love our partners for who they are, not for how much they earn or the kinds of passions they pursue, but our fathers don't always share that same supportive outlook. And when they don't, they often make sure to remind us at every opportunity. In this case, a woman's father repeatedly belittles her fiancé for working as a school art teacher, and after enduring one too many condescending remarks, she finally decides enough is enough. Refusing to sit through another dinner where his hurtful comments are covered up with the classic, overused two-word phrase, "I'm joking." So, she and her fiancé chose to leave the restaurant in the middle of the family meal.

Though her family is quick to defend her father, she's not interested in making excuses for someone who tries to reduce her partner's worth to a paycheck. Her fiancé intentionally chose a meaningful career he's passionate about, something she really admires, and something she knows deep down, her father was never brave enough to do himself.

FAIL Blog ([syndicated profile] fail_feed) wrote2025-09-17 05:00 pm

'A string of cheese was still hanging from my mouth to the plate': 18+ Servers share their most unhi

Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer

Now and then, a waitress will spill a drink or the hostess will trip over the corner of a priceless fur coat, but it's not every day that a server drops an entire lasagna into a customer's Louis Vuitton purse. It's those moments that keep hospitality and customer service employees up at night, but at least we can all laugh our way to the break room and be a good sport about it. 

This bride never considered the dangers of having tomato soup served by a clumsy caterer, but alas, we're all human, and humans make mistakes sometimes. Servers are not immune to awkward moments and clumsy behavior in the workplace just because they put on a face of immaculate decorum whenever they start a shift. Sometimes, caterers experience unhinged, jaw-droppingly embarrassing moments that will follow them for the rest of their days. It's just food service after all, isn't it? How serious could it be?

For the customer with dwarfism being mistakenly asked if they want a kid's menu, perhaps it's very serious… Seriously funny.

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Elise Matthesen ([personal profile] elisem) wrote2025-09-17 08:46 pm

silly body continues to be silly, yet I trudge forward, for I am frikkin' stubborn

 In the course of dealing with silly body stuff with which I will not bore you, my sleep cycle got turned upside down again, so I am busy with various attempts at precessing back to a more manageable situation.

Somewhere in some book or other, a character said something about the phrase for having a hangover in a certain language was "my eyes are not opposite the holes." It's not a hangover, but when my sleep schedule is deeply out of synch and I'm trying to do stuff connected to the outside world's schedule, I kind of feel like my life is not opposite the holes.

How's your life matching your hours of access lately?
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firecat (attention machine in need of calibration) ([personal profile] firecat) wrote in [community profile] iddyiddybangbang2025-09-17 06:49 pm

The Anatomy Model [Original Work]

Title: The Anatomy Model
Author: firecat on AO3
Fandom: Original Work
Characters: Anatomy Model, Professor of Hands-on Sex Ed Class, Students of Sex Ed Class
Word Count: ~8560
Rating: E
Warnings: Rape/Non-con (although it’s mostly dub-con), Underage Sex (late teens)

Summary:
“We do have one way you can earn your way out of the disgrace you’re in,” said the headmaster.
Agatha shyly raised her eyes to his face.
“You can serve as a teaching assistant to Professor Fallon. He teaches biology and sexual education. Mostly the work is grading papers, but occasionally other jobs will be assigned.”

The Anatomy Model on AO3
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Elise Matthesen ([personal profile] elisem) wrote2025-09-17 08:28 pm

Om nom: food combinations, or, playing with what's here

 So a little while back, for. my birthday I got various tasty things to nibble. One of them was salmon skin and salted egg crisps, with curry leaves in the mix, and some spice. Extremely tasty. When I got down to the bottom of the bag, there were a lot of little shards and crumbs that were particularly spicy. A mental note was. made for possible future uses.

Today was a future use. There wasn't a fresh vegetable in the house, but I wanted something with both softness and crunch, and wanted it to be in something that had umami plus. The last of the bread gave me toast. There was some braunsweiger (liver paste, Nueske's in particular) which went onto the toast, cut pretty thinly. (I am from people who like thick slices of braunsweiger on toast or bread, and normally I do too, but this was a special application, part flavor and part structural adhesive.) Then I spooned out some of the fragments from the bottom of the bag of salted egg and salmon skin crisps, laying them on top of the liver paste and pressing them in with the back of the spoon, and had it open-faced. 

Big win. Big tasty win. Especially the way the curry leaves went with the braunsweiger. 

Must remember this and make it again.

Part of the idea for this one was looking at the braunsweiger and wishing I could magically make a banh mi from the place in Global Market appear. So some of the taste combo came from that. Lettuce or bok choy or other green or variously colored thinly sliced vegetables, with vinegar or not, would have been great, but there was no such suppy in the house, alas. Although hey, there is a little new kraut in the back of the fridge which should get eaten up. Hmmm. Although we are out of bread now. Hmm. I wonder how it would be on top of ramen noodles. Pity that the boiled eggs are all et up.

Do you have any tasty kludged-together food that you are fond of? What gave you the idea?  

(My term for kludged-together food is "cream of refrigerator soup," which explains the tag. No actual soup was generated in this particular instance.)
FAIL Blog ([syndicated profile] fail_feed) wrote2025-09-17 04:00 pm

‘Crack in the sidewalk? Kyle gets a phone call': Security workers bombard their new client with safe

Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer

An overbearing client insulted the efficacy of his new security team, so they decided to prove their work ethic by blowing up his phone notifications with benign updates. As requested, they reported EVERY SINGLE INCIDENT to their new boss, even down to the last crack in the sidewalk. Sometimes, malicious compliance makes our bosses realize their idiocracy, but this story made a man lose his cool and lose hours of sleep over useless security updates. 

Maybe from now on, he'll trust his team's judgement on their usual reports. 

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StarWatcher ([personal profile] starwatcher) wrote in [community profile] fandom_checkin2025-09-17 05:58 pm
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Daily Check-in

 
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, September 17, to midnight on Thursday, September 18. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33630 Daily Check-in
This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 26

How are you doing?

I am OK.
14 (53.8%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
12 (46.2%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
10 (38.5%)

One other person.
11 (42.3%)

More than one other person.
5 (19.2%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
 
Language Log ([syndicated profile] languagelog_feed) wrote2025-09-17 10:34 pm

"China" vs. "My / Our Country"

Posted by Victor Mair

Mark Metcalf wrote:

Currently working my way through an excellent book on Jūnshì lúnlǐ wénhuà 军事伦理文化 (The culture of military ethics) and started noticing that the author ping-pongs between Zhōngguó 中国 and wǒguó 我国 when discussing various aspects of the PRC's history and alleged achievements. Are you aware of any general guidance regarding how the decision is made to use one term or the other? Topical? Polical? Tone?  I'll keep digging and let you know if anything jumps out at me.
 
BTW, one UVA colleague described how he had to teach first year PRC students that "my country" was not an acceptable synonym for China when writing literature essays.

I have to agree with Mark's UVA colleague that, in most cases, "wǒguó" 我国 (lit., "my/our country") should not be translated into English as "my country", although it is common for most bilingual speakers of Chinese to do so. On the other hand, Zhōngguó 中国 (lit., "central country"), should be translated into English as "China", and vice versa.

This is an issue that has bothered me for decades.  Just when do Chinese choose one of these expressions over the other?   

My intuition is that they tend to use wǒguó 我国 more when they want to be sentimental and patriotic, whereas Zhōngguó 中国 seems to be more straightforward, neutral, and political.

I asked my colleague, Jing Hu, a lecturer on Chinese at Penn, her opinion:

What do you think?

Would you ever use wǒguó 我国?  If so, when / why?

I don't think that the distribution between Zhōngguó 中国 and wǒguó 我国 is purely random.  Do you? 

jing responded:

I’d never use wǒguó 我国 because I’ve been living in the U.S. for the last 22 years and now I am a U.S. citizen. And when I was a student in China, I didn’t have the “right context" to say that as a news reporter, or spokesperson, or researcher/analyzer, etc. You are right, Zhōngguó 中国 is straightforward and neutral and can be used by anyone — Chinese or non-Chinese. While wǒguó 我国 can only be used by Chinese who normally represent the Chinese government or officials… and normally in professional contexts such as government and news reports, business documents, something self-referential and from the perspective of China, such as "wǒguó rénkǒu zhèngcè 我国人口政策 ("China's population policy")… "wǒguó jīngjì fāzhǎn 我国经济发展" ("China's economic development")… "2024 nián wǒguó shēngchǎnle 3 qiān wàn liàng qìchē 2024 年 我国生产了3千万辆汽车 ("In 2024, China produced 30 million cars")… "wǒguó réngōng zhìnéng fāzhǎn hěn kuài 我国人工智能发展很快" ("China's artificial intelligence is developing rapidly")….

No,  the distribution between 中国 and 我国 is not purely random.

For the record:

中国 3,020,000,000 ghits

我国 182,000,000 ghits

 

Selected readings

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Asp ([personal profile] senmut) wrote in [community profile] no_true_pair2025-09-17 06:25 pm

Leech (Transformers [Bay Movies], Starscream & Scion [OC]

Title: Leech
Fandom: Transformers [Bay Movies]
Pairing/Characters: Starscream & Scion [OC]
Content Notes: Starscream?
Prompt: September Seventeen - 2 & 7 - energy




"Leech."

The ghostly presence laughed with a keen edge to it that tortured only the mechling the ghost had bound itself to.

"You have no idea, Scion, just how much I will take from you, in energy and existence," Starscream crooned once he stopped laughing.

"I will not let you. I will find a way to defeat you, you glitch." Scion brought himself up to his full height, slight as it was compared to a final-framed Seeker.

"You will find, scrapling, that when I set my processors to a goal, I get my way," Starscream said, threateningly.

"Not. This. Time."
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desertvixen ([personal profile] desertvixen) wrote2025-09-17 06:00 pm

Trick or Treat 2025

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