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Jul. 4th, 2025 08:40 am
anghraine: darcy and elizabeth after the second proposal in the 1979 p&p (darcy and elizabeth [proposal])
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I reblogged a poll from bethanydelleman, which itself was a response to an anon ask she received about which Austen couple would be most likely to have sex before marriage. She included Darcy/Elizabeth for completeness but said they are absolutely not the correct answer, lol.

My tags: #despite darcy/elizabeth being my god tier maximum otp i completely agree that they would not lmao #i voted anne/wentworth! those two are practically venting steam at this point

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Jul. 4th, 2025 07:58 am
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I was looking up a random S1 factoid in one of the okay but lesser TOS episodes and this bit from “What Are Little Girls Made Of” sure hits differently now:

KIRK: Well, there’s one difference between us. I’m hungry.
ANDROID KIRK: The difference is your weakness, captain, not mine.
KORBY: One at a time, gentlemen. Captain?
KIRK: Eating is a pleasure, sir. Unfortunately, one you will never know.
ANDROID KIRK: Perhaps, but I will never starve, sir.

me, drafting a post on “The Conscience of the King”: hey robot feel free to shut the fuck up forever

Tagged: #not quite up there with lenore being like 'who do you think you are to judge my father for orchestrating a genocide you survived' #or kodos himself defending himself by claiming kirk is basically subhuman which is. uhhh layers of horrifying #but. you know. good god. #(this was produced only a few weeks before 'conscience of the king' btw which almost immediately precedes 'shore leave'. despite the episodic quality the air order does make spock and mccoy's machinations #to get kirk to take some shore leave and decompress VERY understandable #also mccoy's remark in 'shore leave' #that kirk was a very serious young man in his early academy days and kirk's correction that he was not just serious but grim ...yeah)

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Jul. 4th, 2025 03:35 am
anghraine: A female version of Spock from Star Trek made in Star Trek Online; she is slender, with a short bob; she is wearing loose black trousers instead of a miniskirt (s'paak [figure])
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My other housemate has only watched a few episodes from the ST marathon, and none of the movies (and has kind of magically escaped a lot of pop culture awareness), but that was enough for her (someone with her own deep investment in very different fandoms) to be O_O at the Kirk and Spock interactions.

We were talking about how shitty the parent corporations etc were towards many slash shippers of the 70s and 80s, and she was like, “I don’t really get why anyone would be mad about people seeing their particular relationship as romantic, it’s just… this isn’t coming out of nowhere. There’s a lot of intensity and they obviously care deeply.”

me: Yeah, the series finale includes Kirk saying that Spock is closer to him than anyone else in the universe.

Ash: Wait, really? Like, literally?

me: Yes. That’s just about the exact wording, actually.

Ash: Damn.

Tagged: #also hilariously we were talking about potential star trek cosplay because j is SUCH a trekkie and i catapulted into joining him ash loves authoritative miniskirts so we proposed the romulan commander for her and j was like 'i mean. i'm an emotive blond haired square built jew. there is an obvious choice here' and ash brightened and went 'elizabeth i honestly think the best choice for you would just be female spock' me [trying to avoid revealing that i've written over six thousand words of spirk femslash in the last week]: ah. that's very flattering ash: i wonder how a female spock would even be addressed... like. miss? it seems weird. me: >_> me: <_< me: ah well. i. uh. noticed that female crewmembers are much more often addressed by rank than a gendered title at all. so commander. the conversational equivalent of hiding my stories under my bed lmao

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Jul. 4th, 2025 06:24 am
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Dear Pay Dirt,

I grew up in poverty, where we were always on the edge of eviction. If it wasn’t for school, my siblings and I wouldn’t have eaten. It left a large mark on me. I am much more financially conservative than my husband. I have also been the main breadwinner since we married. We need a cushion before even thinking about kids, it’s really important to me. But my in-laws don’t care!

My sisters-in-law grew up in luxury, graduated with degrees they never used, and married rich. Ever since we got married, they constantly try to pressure us to have kids. When I’ve said we want to be more financially stable, they blow me off and say that “families do it all the time” and that “God will provide.” I have told my mother-in-law and husband how condescending this nonsense is to me. They both said that everyone just wants the “best” for us.

Recently, my sister-in-law started in on me again with her breeding propaganda: How I wasn’t getting any younger (I turned 33 this year); That there “never a perfect time to have a baby;” and how “Divine Providence provides for everyone.” Well I finally lost my temper. I asked her where was God the times I went hungry to give food to my younger siblings? Or how is he providing for starving kids in war zones? She started to cry, so now I am the villain. My in-laws told my husband I need therapy. My reply is that maybe my actual life experience and personhood is worth a drop of empathy, and they should stop treating me like I was a sow at market. How can I get them to realize that not everyone is rich like they are and that some of us do need to save and plan for kids?

—Not Breeding Anytime Soon


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Jul. 4th, 2025 09:55 am
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Happy birthday, [personal profile] silveradept!

Murderbot 1x09

Jul. 3rd, 2025 09:09 pm
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This show is such a freakin' delight.

Spoilers )

and this guy right here

Jul. 3rd, 2025 08:16 pm
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The Old Guard 2 aka 2 Old 2 Guard dropped yesterday. I enjoyed it for the most part. spoilers )

*

Whoam, whoam, like a wounded maggit

Jul. 3rd, 2025 09:30 pm
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Well, in further conferencing misadventures, woke up around 5 am with what I came to realise was a crashing migraine - it is so long since I have had one of these as opposed to 'headache from lying orkard' - took medication, and after some little while must have gone to sleep, because I woke up to discover it was nearly 9.30, and I had slept well past the alarm I had set in anticipation of the 9.00 first conference session. But feeling a lot better.

I was only just in time to grab some breakfast before they started clearing it up.

The day's papers were perhaps a bit less geared towards my own specific interests - and I was sorry to miss the ones I did - but still that there Dr [personal profile] oursin managed the occasional intervention. There were also some good conversations had.

So the conference, as a conference, was generally judged a success, if somewhat exhausting.

I managed to get the train from the University to Birmingham New Street with no great difficulty.

However, the train I was booked on was somewhat delayed (though not greatly, not cancelled, and no issues of taking buses as in various announcements) and I initially positioned myself at the wrong bit of the platform and had to scurry along through densely packed waiting passengers.

Journey okay, with free snacks, though onboard wifi somewhat recalcitrant.

At Euston, the taxi rank was closed!!!!

Fortunately one can usually grab a cab in the Euston Road very expeditious, and I did.

So I am now home and more or less unpacked.

Given that Mercury is, I recollect, the deity of travellers, is Mercury in retrograde?

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Jul. 3rd, 2025 09:29 pm
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Happy birthday, [personal profile] stardyst!

Purrcy; Pride

Jul. 3rd, 2025 12:20 am
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I finished taking the laundry out of this basket & put it down on its side for Purrcy investigation. It was worth snooping in, but not really good for long-term use, he found.

What's that in the sky? he wondered, after several days of rain & thunder-growler attacks.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby stands in a brown cloth laundry bin lying on its side. He peers out and up at the sunlight coming from the skylight above, his whiskers looking long but rather doubtful.

My back continues to be better, while not being anything like *all* better. Prednisone has the reputation of being Side Effects City, my biggest ones so far are dry mouth making my voice all scratchy, and a certain amount of ADHD/mania type behavior, trouble settling & sleeping. Only 3 more days of tapering to go, though.

Amid all The Horrors ramping up & up, here's something that's given me active joy in the past couple of days: Sir Ian McKellan joining Scissor Sisters onstage at Glastonbury Festival:



My god, he's still got that full Royal Shakespeare voice.

It makes me cry a bit with joy at the end there, seeing Sir Ian being able to lead his people in a public celebration of being out & proud. And to see an old man being *venerated*, for once, admired for achievements but in this case also as a symbol of what people like those in the audience can have with age: a *full* life, a *long* life, a life with everything in it, despite what they may have been told. You don't have to be young to be queer, it's not a phase, it's part of a complete human life.

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Jul. 2nd, 2025 11:38 pm
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[personal profile] conuly posting in [community profile] agonyaunt
Dear Care and Feeding,

Our house sits on a heavily wooded hill, and there isn’t much in terms of street lights—and no sidewalks. Though there are only a few houses on our bend of the road, we get people speeding through. We have new neighbors. The mother’s behavior is going to end in tragedy.

The neighbors have several very small children. The mom, for some unholy reason, thinks nothing of letting them bike in the street. She lets her babies ride around well ahead of her as she strolls leisurely several yards behind. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it myself.

My husband has already had a close call with one of the kids. He was backing out and the toddler zoomed right behind the bumper. Luckily, my husband was paying attention and was fast to put his foot on the brake. Even going as slow as he was, just a few miles per hour, it would have been a tragedy if he hadn’t been alert.

The mother’s reaction was to lay into my husband for not being careful enough! The kicker is that she said her kids have a right to play in the street. (There is a park five blocks away, but that is too far for her to go, apparently.) My husband said it was a bad conversation.

What do we do here? It would haunt me if one of these kids got hit because their mother was too lazy to care.

—Blind Corner


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2 Old 2 Guard

Jul. 2nd, 2025 07:08 pm
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Tl;dr: I liked it a lot.

Spoilers )

Life advice

Jul. 2nd, 2025 04:35 pm
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Do not allow ants in your pants. They might bite you on the genitals, which would Really, Really Hurt. They do not make you fidgety; they make you miserable.
oursin: Sleeping hedgehog (sleepy hedgehog)
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For hedjog is going floppp.

Travel troubles today: being unable to see where the hell the alleged railway station near hotel was, and taking a taxi instead; railway out of order this evening, Ubers were summoned to take participants to hotel.

Yr hedjog was Living Bit of History in opening roundtable.

And in later sessions, there was a certain amount of That There Dr [personal profile] oursin going on in the questions/comments....

Some good conversation - even if hearing aids not too helpful in crowded rooms - but have noped out from evening meal, feeling too tired, will go for light meal here and early night (I hope).

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