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senmut: Screen shot of Mikaela dirty in the end of '07 TF, Warrior Goddess in blue above and below (Transformers: Mikaela)
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PRIDE 5: Bucky/Steve

Jun. 9th, 2025 07:02 pm
senmut: still of Aunt May from Into the Spider Verse drinking tea (Marvel: Aunt May)
[personal profile] senmut
Experiencing Pride (100 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America [Movies]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/James "Bucky" Barnes [MCU]
Characters: Steve Rogers, James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: Drabble, Pride Parades
Summary:

Pride Parade for the reunited couple.



Experiencing Pride

"I think you'd look good in that," Bucky murmured in Steve's ear, discreetly calling attention to some of the leather crowd.

Steve snorted. "Not really my style, but maybe for a night," he answered, still taking in the whole pageant of queer life on display, eyes roving over the ones that were shyly experiencing it, and those openly embracing it.

"D'you read the history?"

"Hell of a thing," Steve agreed with that respectful tone. "Still a long way to go," he added as he spotted the trouble spoiling for a fight. Bucky looked, and the pair made their way over.
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[personal profile] umadoshi
Cat Herding: Our beloved Jinksy!bear turned twelve on Saturday. Twelve! He's (by a margin of a good few years) the second-oldest cat I've ever had, and continues to be just the sweetest, softest boy. May he be with us in good health for years to come.

It was also Claudia's birthday, of course, and I always think of her on their birthday. Oh, my darling baby cat.

*The oldest was Jenny, the cat of my childhood who was still with my parents for years after I moved out. She made it to nineteen, most of that time in rock-solid health, and never really forgave me for moving to Toronto and thus straight-up vanishing from her life for months at a time.

Reading: I finished reading Jennifer 8 Lee's The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food, which remained an interesting read right through, and read Adrian Tchaikovsky's City of Last Chances, which I think is only the second thing of his I've read? (Elder Race is the other one I'm sure of.) Having finished it, I'm in a position that's annoyingly familiar, where I liked the book quite a bit and am curious about what happens next, but am not sure I cared enough that I'll ever actually get around to picking up the sequel.

(The thing where I've almost entirely been reading books I own for years now doesn't really help, where I've often picked up the first book of a trilogy of series or whatever on sale in ebook because I've heard it's good, and then am not sure I'm invested enough to pay full price on the next one when I own literally hundreds of yet-unread books. Feh.)

Watching: [personal profile] scruloose and I are up to date on Murderbot and have seen the first episode of Kingdom season 2.

In the case of the former, I'm skeptical about the nqqvgvba bs n punenpgre jub qbrfa'g nccrne va gur obbxf ng nyy--juvpu V'z abg vaureragyl ntnvafg, tvira gung gur fubj vf pyrneyl vgf bja guvat, naq V'z thrffvat fur'f gurer gb pbairl fbzrguvat gung jbhyq'ir orra gevpxl gb qb gur fnzr jnl va guvf sbezng nf va gur abiryyn. Ohg fur'f naablvat, naq V'yy cebonoyl xrrc svaqvat ure naablvat jurgure fur vf va snpg freivat jung V pheeragyl guvax vf ure cebonoyr shapgvba (rarzl ntrag znfdhrenqvat nf nyyl) be fbzrguvat zber vagrerfgvat. [ROT13] Guess we'll find out soon!

Working: Thank goodness the manga I'm working right now is (as usual) a fairly easy rewrite and not a tight deadline, because scrounging the mental energy for freelance work has been frustratingly hard recently. I'm almost halfway through my draft and have about a week and a half left with it, so it's fine, but. :/

Weathering/Householding: We've had a lot of gray days and some high-ish temperatures combined with humidity (which I hate), and the air quality, while not remotely as bad as it is in a lot of places, has been fluctuating significantly...and the AC function of the heat pumps is essentially nonfunctional. >.< This is crappy timing, given how much of the time over the last several days has required having the windows closed (and the air purifiers running for good measure, although they don't address some of the nastiness from wildfire smoke). And for bonus fun, while the heat pumps are still under warranty, the company we bought them from went under a few months ago, which complicates things. (I think possibly the main person died. :/)

That said, [personal profile] scruloose made a bunch of calls today and we have reason to hope that someone can come in and take a look at them soon, if that particular company has the parts in stock. And while it's been uncomfortably warm inside some of the time because of this, at least it's not full summer yet. Hopefully we can get things dealt with by the time summer heat arrives in earnest.

And on a purely pleasant note, a couple nights ago we were in a phase of "somehow the air quality is fine outside right now, so we can just open the windows and run fans" while it was pleasantly cool and raining atmospherically and the wind was doing a wonderful job of wafting the smell of the lilacs into the living room.

Comedy & Drama Actress Roundtables

Jun. 9th, 2025 08:23 pm
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[personal profile] feurioo posting in [community profile] tv_talk

Hannah Einbinder ('Hacks'), Jessica Williams ('Shrinking'), Kathryn Hahn ('Agatha All Along,' 'The Studio'), Kristen Bell ('Nobody Wants This'), Michelle Williams ('Dying for Sex'), and Natasha Lyonne ('Poker Face') join THR in Off Script With The Hollywood Reporter.
Drama Roundtable with Cristin Milioti, Helen Mirren, Kathy Bates, Keri Russell, Niecy Nash-Betts, and Parker Posey under the cut! )

Male Character + Close Crop

Jun. 9th, 2025 08:21 pm
wickedgame: always & forever (Legend of the Seeker)
[personal profile] wickedgame posting in [community profile] nexticon
 
Zorro

https://i.imgur.com/k9yOIlB.png

Updated PHs #2, 4, 7 & NEW 8 & 9

Jun. 9th, 2025 07:02 pm
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[personal profile] morbane posting in [community profile] jukebox_fest
Thanks for considering these assignments! Please reply (comments are screened) or email jukebox.mod@gmail.com in order to claim a pinch hit.

Due: 11:59pm EDT Sunday 29 June

Minimum requirements: A work about one requested song or music video (or crossovers if specifically encouraged by your recipient), complete and polished, no generation of content via "AI" assistive tools. 1,000+ words for fic; a complete piece for art; 1,000+ words of podfic of an existing fic OR 500+ words of podfic of a work both written and recorded for this exchange.

Song/video/lyrics links for all requested canons can be found here.

Pinch hit #2 - The Questions Still Entertain Me - Hussalonia (Song), Passerby - Dave Smallen (Song), St. Elmo's Fire - Brian Eno (Song) - fic )

CLAIMED - Pinch hit #4 - Deutschland - Rammstein (Music Video), Le Jardin Des Larmes - ZAZ ft. Till Lindemann (Music Video), Blacksnake - Charming Disaster (Song) - art, fic )

Pinch hit #7 - My Therapy - Kamelot (Music Video), So Handsome Hello - Woodkid (Song), Until Eternity - Blackbriar (Music Video), Moonflower - Blackbriar (Music Video) - fic )

Pinch hit #8 - Someone New - Hozier (Music Video), Please Please Please - Sabrina Carpenter feat. Dolly Parton (Music Video), Blow - Ke$ha (Music Video) - fic )

CLAIMED - Pinch hit #9 - Blow - Ke$ha (Music Video), Rocket Man - Elton John (Song), Dead Ringer For Love - Meat Loaf ft. Cher (Music Video), Fancy - Reba McEntire (Song), Fast Car - Tracy Chapman - Song, The Devil Came Up to Boston - Adam Ezra Group (Song), Gentlemen Who Fell - Milla Jovovich (Song), If I Had A Boat - Lyle Lovett (Song), Maggie May - Rod Stewart (Song), Re: Your Brains - Jonathan Coulton (Song) - art, fic, podfic [varies by request] )

Just one thing: 09 June 2025

Jun. 8th, 2025 06:43 pm
[personal profile] jazzyjj posting in [community profile] awesomeers
It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

New Comm

Jun. 8th, 2025 06:41 pm
senmut: Capitol in distance, Washington Monument in foreground, all in fog (Scenic: Patriotism and Politics)
[personal profile] senmut
[community profile] communityactionusa is set up now. As you can probably tell by the name, it's intended as a place to help guide action, and the sticky is referencing "Project Mailstorm". Go look, see if it's your cuppa.

Neurodivergent reward cycle

Jun. 8th, 2025 07:33 pm
petra: A blonde woman with both hands over her face (Britta - Twohanded facepalm)
[personal profile] petra
My brain reward cycle is fucked, and the longer I think about it, the more I recognize that it's always been this way.

Case in point: I performed recently after preparing for 5 months.

My mother said, "It went well! That must feel good."

Me: "..."

It didn't. It never really does, not unless someone else gives me external validation.

Whenever I do something hard, my brain's response is, "Well, I did it, so how hard could it have been?"

This applies to excelling academically (which I have done frequently), excelling at my job (which I have done on occasion), every type of performance I've ever undertaken (and there have been a lot), every form of art/craft I've ever done (writing, knitting, crocheting, etc.), and helping friends.

Mostly I just feel relief that it's over, and my brain isn't going to give me the constant round of "You should work on [thing]!" anymore. Nah, the shoulds will switch to something else, but at least it'll be new at first.

Facial Hair

Jun. 8th, 2025 06:28 pm
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FBI - Jubal Valentine

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[personal profile] cosmolinguist

The other day I overhead D telling someone that I now naturally have the voice that I put on for my character in our D&D game a couple of years ago.

I was an orc barbarian, heh.

I was delighted to hear this because I hadn't consciously been doing a voice for Bulrik (I went through dozens of orc names I hated in one of the online name generators before finding one I could live with at all, only much later realizing it's most of the name I chose for my self!) and I didn't know that's what I sound like all the time now! How delightful.

I haven't done any conscious voice training at all, just let the testosterone do its work. And I didn't record my voice at any point with the intent of tracking the change, which I guess is a norm in some online cultures. Both of these choices have been conscious decisions made to protect my mental health and I feel really good about that, but it does mean my boundless self-absorption has nothing to work with here! So it's nice to have some external observation.

The other stuff I've been meaning to write about is gonna have to wait; I'm too tired now apparently.

Various Links 6/2 - 6/8

Jun. 8th, 2025 03:16 pm
senmut: Grand Admiral Thrawn in repose (Star Wars: Thrawn)
[personal profile] senmut
13 links today

The Old Guard 2 Trailer

Rodimus Prime cross-stitch

Epistolary Avatar: the Last Airbender fic

Leverage Filk

Cat Dad update - mentions the passing of the mother cat, but the babies are thriving. 7 years of wholesome Cat Dad.

Very WOW but very dangerous standing swing stunt - if any of the more dangerous Cirque de Soleil stunts give you anxiety, skip this.

Seattle Mariners Pride vid

The Great Escape (performed by a cat)

Oslo Pride video

Skeletor and He-Man UK commercials for something - link opens on first vid, scroll down for second.

See Snoopy flying on his dog house

Great vid of a dust devil sans dust

Egyptian Blue pigment re-discovered? - caveat is that I did not research to see if this is a "Discovery" where the locals never lost it.

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