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I'm still really enjoying it! I think episode three was a little woobly for me (I don't enjoy school bully plots, even if they come to a good resolution), but the others have been great, and I love how the episodic nature is letting us get to know all of the characters better, not just focusing on Caleb and Ake (though Caleb and Ake are great!). And there's 1.5 queer couples!

I like how much of it is about building a better future. The characters come from different cultures, and come with a certain amount of damage because the stable government hasn't been there for them, and that's an organic part of the plot too. So, the kids are trying to grow up and figure out who they are, and they've also found themselves at a pivot point of history, when the Federation tries to decide what it wants to be. It's a lot of the same themes as DS9 dealt with in the later seasons (though in that case, fending off what the Federation ought not to be, which I guess Picard was trying to do too, but in a very cludgy way). I like the credits being about growth and building (though could take or leave the theme), and the show also being that.

And yes I have been watching Jessie Gender again, but one of the things I agree with her about is how it's not leaning very hard on nostalgia, or trying to recreate a Star Trek the show runners grew up with, which honestly a lot of post-Voyager shows have leaned on. (Though Discovery didn't especially land for me, and I never gave it enough of a chance, I think it at least was trying to do something different, so it makes sense that it created the setting for SFA.) Like the shows I loved most, and which re-invented what the show could be in the '90s, they're not on a ship called Enterprise, and they're not on an exploratory mission backed by the strength of the Federation (and don't forget that people loathed every single one of the '90s shows on grounds of: "They changed it, and I don't like it!") The main challenges in SFA are different because the main characters are students, but the way of poking at moral themes remains. The show is about them building a better world, personally and politically, with respect for and in conversation with the world building that came before, but not beholden to it as a prefect object, and I'm really loving that.

(The mix of earnestness and silliness reminds me of this hilarious short by

SoOkayHeresTheThing: What It's Like to Watch Star Trek. Summarised in One Minute.)

I especially really liked these specific spoilery things: ( Spoilers for episodes 1x02 and 1x04. )

Two beats that I absolutely hated, for balance: ( Spoilers for episodes 1x01 and 1x02 )

silveradept

Let's begin with What Massachusetts schoolchildren came up with as names for their snowplows, which have some very delightful puns in them. (I also wonder if some of them were submitting "Abolish ICE" as something, and it might have been rejected for being too political.)

If you are looking for a single spot to find good organizations to support the resistance against the occupation of the State of Minnesota, Stand with Minnesota will help you find places that can use your spare resources. Their testimonies tell you about what life in Minnesota is currently like during this occupation, and they have news outlets and spaces to keep yourself informed of the real situation happening, rather than parroted lies and talking points dreamed up by an administration that desperately needs control of a narrative if they want to convince us that Minnesota has once again gone rogue in some way.

They're linked in Naomi Kritzer's guide about how to help Minnesota and prepare your own communities for your turn at the invasion. Additionally, the guide for helping from inside the cities.

Understand that abolition is not "better training," it is not "reduced funding," it is not "the system is working, but these actors have decided not to follow the system." Abolition is the need to completely get rid of a thing, because it is toxic to the population, and the situation we are currently in is because we have not yet managed abolition of state structures, or state-supported structures, the encourage violence against not-white people.

( A lot about Minnesota, in its ways and nuances, but also about other things in the United States and abroad )

Last out, A community legend in FromSoft's Elden Ring: A player with a request to solo a difficult boss, asking to be summoned in, who wears nothing but a pot on their head and wielding two katanas.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have decided the Oscars, including all of the pre-show coverage, will be exclusively streamed on YouTube starting in 2029.

A single rubber dick from a box of discount sex toys 1, the extremely fragile masculinity that resulted in violence and attacks on those who distributed the single rubber dick in their direction, 0.

And, at the very end, a letter signed by more than 400 millionaires and billionaires asking the governments of the world to tax them appropriately so they can provide revenue for the rest of the world to have a good standard of living.

(Materials via

adrian_turtle,

azurelunatic,

boxofdelights,

cmcmck,

conuly,

cosmolinguist,

elf,

finch,

firecat,

jadelennox,

jenett,

jjhunter,

kaberett,

lilysea,

oursin,

rydra_wong,

snowynight,

sonia,

the_future_modernes,

thewayne,

umadoshi,

vass, the

meta_warehouse community,

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.)

Current Music: Yoko Shimomura - Don't Think Twice

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Solo Series Updates, by fandom, by posting date
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Single fics, by fandom, by posting date (related fandoms may be organized by chronology)
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New Original Works posted at

sylph_and_asp this month
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senmut

Words	Goal Per Day: 500	Full Count: 44,089	Average Count: 1,422
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adevyish

We are fully in the swing of winter now (I say, while leaving my parka unzipped outside). We are also nearing the Olympics, so I will take this opportunity to make a PSA and say: under no circumstances should you support the French ice dance team and here is why.

On to the music.

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ranunculus

Someone came and took all the remaining iris starts which makes me happy.
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Drawesome Monthly Check-In Post

It's the last day of January, and we'd love to have you check in and chat with us. How have things been with you this past month?

Did you sign up for or take part in any fandom activities in January, or have you been working on any personal art projects? Are you currently trying to meet a deadline? Feel free to share upcoming art challenges that have got you excited, any frustrations you've been experiencing, possible goals for the next month, and so on.

troisoiseaux

Read Death on the Cherwell (1935) by Mavis Doriel Hay— I love a good campus mystery, especially when the campus is an all-girls school or women's college, and I love mystery novels where the detecting is primarily done by one or more random nosy civilians, so I thoroughly enjoyed this one, which starts with a group of undergraduate girls at the fictional Persephone College, Oxford, sneaking off to Etsy Witch Curse a loathed faculty member, only to immediately stumble across that same faculty member's dead body and decide that they ought to investigate her murder instead. Particularly enjoyed the mixed perspectives in this one: the narrative follows the official investigation, the self-appointed unofficial detective club, some guys from another college who get pulled into the mystery, etc., all of them metaphorically stepping on each others' toes.

I tried to follow with Hay's Murder Underground (1934), but ended up setting it aside out of sheer second-hand embarrassment: ( ... ) I might come back to this at some point, but as it stands, I'm glad I read/attempted these in reverse order.

olivermoss

My first attempt at hand carving the Seattle Kraken logo into rubber to make a stamp for my journal. Not great... but I don't hate it.

Oh, should probably provide a reference for what the logo looks like. *hastily makes icon* There! I will take a few more stabs are getting the center tentacle right, but also... is not terrible.

lightreads

The Last Soul Among Wolves

3/5. Sequel to The Last Hour Between Worlds, which I quite enjoyed. Secondary world adventure fantasy with F/F rivals to friends to enemies to lovers.

If you go by this blog, you’d think I read nothing in January. Which is not true, I did. I was also doing nanowrimo just because (I finished, obviously) and had few words left at the end of the day, so now we catch up.

Anyway, this was not as fun and stylish as the first, but was a pleasant enough romp. I will say, as enticement or warning, that it has become clear to me that Caruso writes her heroines as demi or ase. She is two for two by my count. More power to her, but I will say that either the book was slow to spell it out or I was slow to pick up the clues, because I had already started to wonder why this relationship felt so . . . nonsexual, non-electric, etc., a few hundred pages before I realized that yes, that is by design. She is doing a lot here to create emotional tension, which I liked, but if I’m being honest, the lack of sizzle took some of the air out of the emotional side for me. So, take that as you will.

celli

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trobadora

How have we already reached the end of the month?! Final check-in for January today! Tomorrow I'll post the final tally, and WED will continue over at

sakanawords. :D

Today's writing

A lot of writing - my deadline is in about 7 hours hours, and I've filled in all the gaps in my story by now, but there are still a few things I want to add before I post later tonight. *flails*

Tally

( Days 1-25 )

Day 26:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 27:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 28:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

chanter1944,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme

carenejeans,
Day 29:

badly_knitted,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 30:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula@sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 31:

china_shop,

trobadora

Let me know if I missed anyone! And remember you can drop in or out at any time. :)

shewhostaples

Snowflake Challenge: A flatlay of a snowflake shaped shortbread cake, a mug with coffee, and a string of holiday lights on top of a rustic napkin.

How Did the Fandom Snowflake Challenge Go?

Pretty well! I responded to all the prompts, more or less in the spirit in which they were intended, and it's still January as I write this last post. I didn't get much more involved in any specific fandom, but I do feel that I reengaged with fandom in general, which was my intention.

I am dreadfully behind with comments, both making and responding to, and am not going to become any less so tonight. But that's not exactly new!

I'm hoping to keep up the momentum and post more about my daily life, even if I don't manage much obviously fannish engagement for the time being.

Now I'm off to do the friending meme.

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Title: His True Color
Fandom: Viola come il mare (Violet Like the Sea)**
Author:

veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Viola Vitale/Francesco Demir
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 965 (Ellipsus)
Spoilers/Setting: Set post-S2.
Summary: Viola returned to Paris to forget her break up with Francesco. But she couldn’t forget him... and neither could he.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #504 - Second Chance

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( READ: His True Color )

**For the mods: this is an Italian TV show. You can use the tv (category) tag, thank you. ♥

sanguinity

David Macaulay, Ship (1993)

Lengthy (96 pages!) illustrated for-older-readers children's book detailing an underwater archaeology expedition to investigate the wreck of a fifteenth-century caravel, finishing with a builder's journal documenting the caravel's construction. Lots of information about archaeological planning, research, and methods, followed by a similarly detailed section on historic ship construction. The illustrations and diagrams are as information-rich as the text. (When reading this aloud to

grrlpup, I often stopped to elaborate further on some detail in the drawings.) For a fully-illustrated picture book, the reading level is fairly advanced (verbose and with lots of specialized vocabulary), providing lots of opportunity for an older child to nerd out undisturbed. (An older child -- or me!)

Lois McMaster Bujold, The Paladin of Souls (2003)

Immediate sequel to The Curse of Chalion, plus a few years. Our point-of-view character is someone who was mostly dismissed in the first novel for alleged madness -- and in fact, her early motivations are wholly about getting out from under the "protection" of people who think she's mad.

Of course, once she does get out, adventures start being had. And she's mad about it, because she wasn't planning on having adventures, she just wanted to have a nice life being left alone on her own terms. Alas.

Ripping yarn, I liveblogged most of it to

phoenixfalls as I read it, things kept snowballing in that classically Bujold way, and much like in The Curse of Chalion we were a good ways into it before figuring out what the larger plot ultimately even was. There were a number of moments that made me laugh out loud. (When she experimentally kisses the literally too-handsome-for-his-own-good guy to see if it will break a spell, and he isn't fazed in the least, just kisses her back as if this happens every so often and he considers it "impolite to duck".) Ista reminds me more than a little bit of Cordelia, and I wouldn't call that a bad thing.

Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore (2025) -- DNF

I don't usually post about my DNFs (Did Not Finish), because why bother, but I did read about half of this, and was hugely conflicted.

( Did Not Finish )

Anyway, it's a month overdue and four hundred people are waiting for it at the library, and I keep thinking about other books on my tbr list that I want to read but I "have to" read this one first. Boo. I hate it when I can see the book I would have found compelling around the margins of the book the author actually chose to write.

cosmolinguist

Mostly Moira of course.

But I'm also missing my DVD boxset that included Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind.

rekishi

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steepholm

We haven't heard yet from George - who, being born in 1813, is the youngest of Weeden Butler's Cheyne Walk correspondents. His letters to his eldest brother tend to focus on the garden and on animals, whether considered as pets, livestock or food. This is typical, written when he was ten years old:

Chelsea, October 23rd

Dear Weeden

I do Saesar [sic] with John, Edward, and Henry Wylde; and we have done three pages in it, since I began. I have left off Corderious [sic] a long time. Would you be so kind as to lend me an Ovid? Charles Giberne killed two rabbits, one black and the other brown, and he had a great feast with Strachy [sic] and the two Hancocks, Papa has given me an Enfield’s Speaker with four pictures in it, two men came to ask Papa’s leave to build a house in Mr Depuis’ [sic] Garden, and Papa said that he had no Objection; but that they were not to make any windows to look in the playground: and they have begun to build it. The Hancocks are making an arbour in their garden, and have lengthened it down to Bowerbank’s garden. They have made a trench round the earth, as I have made mine. Bowerbank and I collected a great many bones, and I emtyed [sic] them out two days ago, and they were all over good fishing gentles. Miss Brunell [sic] came here and she says, that her Papa and brother are ill. I remain, your affectionate brother,

George Butler

In case you don't know (I had to look it up), fishing gentles are blowfly larvae, good for bait. As for the people mentioned: Strachey we've already met; Charles Giberne would go on to be the father of Agnes Giberne, a children's and popular science writer; while Bowerbank is almost certainly Louis Quier Bowerbank, who (as any fule know) did so much to reform mental healthcare in his birthplace of Jamaica.

It's nice when letters by different people refer to the same events, and we get a bit more detail on the projected new house in a letter from Fanny, written at the same time. Fanny, aged twelve, is clearly testing her powers of literary expression. She would go on to become the family poet, or what her nephew Gerard would describe acerbically as "a determined rhymer", but I quite like her turn of phrase in describing the playing style of the infant Isabella:

A gentleman of the name of King is building a house at the bottom of our playground, in Mr Dupuis’ garden. He is a paper stainer, & says “he is building it to dry his paper.” He came the other day to ask Papa’s leave, without which Papa says he could not have done it. The windows are not to face the playground. George was mightily pleased with your letter and got through all the prosy part very heroically without once giving it to Papa to read. The Hancocks have been making their garden much longer. Mine is getting on very well and my Myrtle is beginning to blossom very nicely. The box of playthings that you gave to Isabella has begun Alas! to feel the heavy hand of time. Legs and arms have been broken off without mercy. However, the stumps still remain and she seems as fond of them as ever.

A couple of months later, in the run up to Christmas, we find elder sister Anne (aged 15) party planning. Have things changed much in the last two centuries? But of course, since her mother's death the previous year she is now mistress of the house, and takes these things seriously:

I hope we shall be able to have a little dance these holidays. I have planned it all, and have made out a list of about 40 or 42 persons, whom I should like to come. When you are at home, we must think about it. I think we might have the dance in the School room, if there were many people coming, or in the dancing room if there not above 16 or 20, and then we might have the tea and supper, in the study as that is a ???er room than the parlour, and would be more handy, as it opens into the Schoolroom. The only objection I have to the Schoolroom is that it is so much disfigured by the boys. The walls are so covered with ink. We might have the green forms from the dancing room down, and it would be very easy to cover two more with green, and I daresay 4 would be enough, and they take up much less room than chairs. I think that we might cover the part over the fireplace with artificial flowers, as those were made at Mrs Christie’s and that is the most conspicuous part, and I think the worst in the room. Out of my list of 40, perhaps not above 25 would come, but it is always best to send out about 20 invitations first and then see how many of them will come, and then if more are wanted to send about 10 more, and so on. Will you have as many as you want. I will send you a list of those I thought of, perhaps you will think of some more to add to it. I daresay you will not know all the names, but some of them are great friends of Fanny’s school and some are my friends. It is a good plan to make out a large list and then we can ask first those we wish most to come and if they can not, we can make up the numbers we want by others. I believe the party at Mrs Christie’s will be about the 30th of the next month.

Let us end in July 1825, where we find Anne reporting on a couple of delightful outings in a much more rural London, complete with gypsies:

On Monday Miss Gardiner, Fanny & I went for a walk to Putney, and along the towing path about a mile or rather more, we set out directly after breakfast & took our provisions with us, & also books and work [i.e. needlework]. We spent a delightful day in the fields & came home to tea at 7. Yesterday we had Mr Johson’s cart and set off at half past 9 in the morning round by Vauxhall, Miss Eady’s, Lewisham, Sydenham & to Norwood where we dined & had tea & came home at 6 through Brixton, Clapham, Kennington & Battersea. At Norwood we were surrounded [by] gypsies. Mary had her fortune told. They wanted me badly to have mine told, one of them said I was born to riches, that I should have a handsome present soon & a lot of nonsense. Isabella Gardiner is to marry once more. (I suppose they thought she was a widow.) We had a beautiful ride, and when we liked we got out and walked. We took a great many things with us. Isabella was quite out of her mind with joy. I never heard her laugh so & say such drole [sic] things before. ... I shall send you a piece of cake which I hope you will like. I am sorry to say Cook did not bake it half enough.

What became of these children? They had very different fates. The shortest-lived was young George, who died aged just 16, in 1830. He was followed by the end of the decade by Anne, who died in childbirth, aged 29, a couple of years after marrying. (Her son was still born.) Weeden himself made it to middle age, although he outlived all five children from his first marriage and was widowed, then remarried and fathered five more. Fanny made her three score and ten, while Tom, my own ancestor, was the longest lived of all, seeing ten children grow to adulthood before dying at the age of 97.

And Isabella? She was also long-lived - she almost made 88 - growing by the end to resemble Queen Victoria (with whom she was a near contemporary) to an almost uncanny degree.

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