I forgot I never did my May/June reading round up!! Lots of 4-and-5-star reads in here: if you're looking for some fun and weird fantasy I highly recommend checking out The Works of Vermin and The Red Winter. Then of course KJ Charles coming in clutch once again with another fun historical romance with How to Fake It in Society. But yeah, a great couple of months, I think Red Winter and Vermin are going to have to go in my general repertoire of recommendations.



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allbingo is running Winterfest in July. There is a premade card or you can create your own based on the available prompts.

beagoldfish, a multifandom, multimedia, microbang, is running from July 1st-August 31st.

fanmixexchange, an AO3 based multifandom character/relationship exchange for fanmixes (i.e. playlists), is accepting nominations until July 11th, 8:59PM Eastern.

narniaexchange, a fic exchange for Chronicles of Narnia, is open for sign-ups until July 11th, midnight EDT.

justmarriedexchange, a marriage-themed multifandom exchange for marriage tropes of all kinds, is open for sign-ups until July 12th, 11:59PM UTC.

multifandomtropefest, an exchange dedicated to tropes, variations on tropes, and trope subversions, is open for sign-ups until July 15th, 9PM EDT.

Sunset Archive, an archive for sapphic fanworks, is running Seasons of Sunsets Summer Round & Themed Prompt Meme. Sign-ups are open until July 15th, 8PM EDT.

classicfilmex, an exchange for fandoms in movies released before 1/1/1980, is accepting nominations until July 17th, 10PM UTC+2.

fallingforyoufallexchange, a multi fandom fall getting together exchange, is open for sign-ups until July 22nd, 11PM EDT. Nominations are also still being accepted until July 21st, 11PM EDT.

toothpastejuice is running Sapphic Summer, a f/f prompt meme, until September 15th.

fancake's theme of the month is 'unreliable narrator'. Click on the banner below to find out more!

Watched season 2 of the new A:tLA live-action remake. It’s good!

I also rewatched s2 of the cartoon…and, well, the more I think about it, the more I like the remake better.

The original series has the Gaang traveling across the Earth Kingdom for the first two-thirds of the season, getting into shenanigans with various towns and tribes they meet along the way. They meet a group of refugees, escort them to Ba Sing Se, and stay in the city for the last third.

The remake starts with the Gaang already escorting refugees from Omashu. The first episode is mostly traveling, with the Serpent’s Pass as the big set piece; the second episode has them meet Toph; they get to Ba Sing Se by episode 3, and the rest of the plot happens there.

 

Fandoms I requested: ( 6 fandoms (4 OW prompts not included) )

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Fandom-specific prompts:

( Noblesse Oblige )

( Beware of the Villainess! )

( KPop Demon Hunters )

( Grimshire )

( Kaos )

( Long Live the Queen )

( Original Work: Conquering Warlord/Princess of Conquered Country )

( Original Work: Female Knight/Noble Husband Trying to Treat Her Like a Lady )

( Original Work: miscellaneous )

Titre : Même pas malade
Auteurs : Christian Ornano et Yves Pointurier
Langue : français
Type : album jeunesse
Genre : acceptation de soi

1ère parution : 2010
Édition : Le sablier jeunesse
Format :



(je crois que j'ai chopé ça à une braderie de quartier au printemps l'an passé ?)

Zouko le petit zèbre est né tout noir, sans rayures. Ses parents, de crainte que les autres enfants ne se moquent de lui, décident le faire soigner...

...tout ça bien sûr pour qu'à la fin tout le monde l'accepte comme il est de base. Leurs craintes étaient vaines et délétères en fait.

Ok très bien ; je le refile à mon neveu ensuite ?

It's a good thing I had a super-productive June, because it's been a month since I got the shot and, right on schedule, my knee's started to twinge again. I might be overreacting, it might just be a bad day or two...or it might be a sign that in three weeks, at my next appointment, I'll have to talk to the rheumatologist about DMARDs.

The good news is that it's been almost twenty years and apparently they've been making great strides in specifically that area. However, I reserve the right to be grumpy about it.

Unexpected bingo square: Nietzsche quote in my Thai BL 😂

(I originally shared this on discord because that’s where I put microposting these days and then I figured: why not here?)

When things are stressful, I often find myself gravitating even more towards the relative calmness of Dreamwidth. However, I’ve been struggling with how to actually read updates here.

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So, I’m stuck!

Since we’re all melting, let’s enjoy a Pet Shop of Horrors reread-and-translation-comparison thread that opens with The Beach Episode.

Start of Tokyopop volume 8, and Seven Seas volume 6. Originally liveblogged in separate threads on Mastodon / Bluesky, combined here.

TP volume 8 has a “Parental Advisory: Explicit Content” warning on the front. None of the others have that! I just double-checked! Why only flag the Canon-Typical Violence that on this book…? (It’s the one with the cutest cover, too — Chris, surrounded by T-chan, Pon-chan, and Q-chan.)

Meanwhile: Chapter 2 of the Little Sister D fixit is up! Which is good, because I’m giving myself even more new plotbunnies in this one…

( You're just too good to be true / Can't take my eyes off of you )

mon frère a eu 40 ans samedi ce qui veut dire fiesta
on était une quinzaine de personnes, la moitié des profs, plus un gros chien peureux et un second marmot de l'âge du neveu, répartis dans trois gîtes proches
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me voilà chez mes parents à la montagne à la fraîche
avec le chat, des cousins à côté
et zéro plan !

too french didn't read
malu attended a nice birthday party
and is now vacationing in the moutains
(yay!!)
also, it involves a brand new butt-uggly bucket hat