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ptahrrificChapters: 2/6
Fandom: Moon Knight (TV 2022), WandaVision (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Elias Spector & Marc Spector, Wanda Maximoff & Team Moon Knight, Steven Grant/Jake Lockley/Marc Spector
Characters: Elias Spector, Marc Spector, Wanda Maximoff, Steven Grant, Jake Lockley
Additional Tags: POV Elias Spector, POV Outsider, POV Various, Multiplicity/Plurality, Everyone Is Doing Their Best, Dissociation, references to canon-typical child abuse, Identity Reveal
Series: Part 24 of Cover of Knight Cinematic Universe
Summary:
Elias Spector has done some research on DID, including the articles Marc sent him. He's read up on the famous superheroes, like the Scarlet Witch, that Marc is apparently friends with. And, in particular, he's looked into the hero(es) that he's...about 90% sure Marc secretly is.
Marc, Steven, and Jake have hashed out exactly how much they're going to share with Marc's father. They've put together some visual aids. They've called in their loved ones to provide emotional support...and, if necessary, a getaway driver.
It's a lot of prep and care and effort, on all sides!
It just might be enough to get them through lunch.
3 Weeks - 20
21/5/25 20:05esteefee
Today I had a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast, my first in a long time, and I realized I slice up my banana the exact same way my pops did: diagonal cuts so the slices fall off the knife instead of sticking to it. I don't remember deciding to adopt his method. But there you go.
How do you slice your banana? Are there other tricks you picked up from parents or friends unconsciously?
new pet peeve
21/5/25 22:22archersangelaccording to wikipedia;
To be considered a true tuxedo cat, the feline's coloring should consist of a colored coat, with white fur limited to the paws, belly, chest, throat, and often the chin - sometimes the tail. Tuxedo cats can appear to have goatees due to the black coloration of their mandible, lower jaw, and chin. White muzzles or a white coloring on their faces are a common attribute of tuxedo cats.[6] Most tuxedo cats are also "black-mask cats" with a complete white blaze, a common name for felines who, due to their facial coloration, look as if they are wearing a black mask over their eyes, and often over their entire head. The ideal color distribution is symmetric, and the white areas are of modest size and limited to the desirable areas.
there are other bicolor patterns & the article has a couple of charts to understand the difference between them.
like most pet peeves it is a bit nitpick-y, but that's just the way some are.
china_shoptrobadora prodded me into making them actually talk about their feelings (what? who does that?!), and then it came into focus. I'm really happy with how it turned out. Also, this one had a title from pretty early on, so didn't cause me last-minute title stress. *pets it approvingly*Title: Trust Fall (6163 words) [Teen and Up]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Mutual Pining, Emotional and Physical hurt/comfort, Domestic Weilan, Clothes Sharing, Protectiveness, Weilan letting their guard down around each other, Shen Wei’s secrets and Zhao Yunlan’s feelings about them, Episode Related, Blindness Arc, Missing Scene, Getting Together, First Kiss, Zhao Xinci's A+ parenting
Summary: Shen Wei’s grip on Zhao Yunlan’s arms tightened in line with the tension in his voice. “You didn’t tell Minister Gao.”
“What? This? Eh, why bother him with minor operational details during a holiday?”
“Details.” Shen Wei’s tone was flat, which probably meant his brow was stern. Not Envoy-forbidding, but something in the Mildly Disapproving Professor range.
Zhao Yunlan refused to be disapproved of. Why let worry flood in and wash away their victory?
And then I picked up a late-ish pinch hit. Which would have been completely fine, except that I pounced on the "outsider POV" prompt (yes!!), without considering that my outsider POV fics always run long, because I feel like the POV character needs to get their own arc as well as the requested pairing being very present. Seven thousand words later... Yeah, this is why I've been AWOL for the last week and a half. (Well, and other reasons. But this was a big part of it.)
Anyway, this is one of those post-canon/everyone lives fics, told from Li Qian's POV. I always feel like, having had her life saved by Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan at the beginning of canon, she has a low-key life debt to them. Not like she should call them benefactor or anything, but like they're karmically linked now, which is only a tiny step away from being found family. I had a lot of fun with her perspective, and (again, thanks to
trobadora's beta) added more shippiness in the rewrite, and this is how it came out. Note: This did not come complete with a preordained title, and I was flailing until inspiration hit about an hour before reveals.
Title: The Life-Changing Magic of a Home-Cooked Meal (7341 words) [General Audiences]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Relationships: Lǐ Qiàn & Shěn Wēi, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, POV Outsider, Domestic, Politics, Dark Energy Science, Worldbuilding, Found Family, Sharing Clothes, Banter, Established Relationship, Long-Haired Shen Wei
Summary: Li Qian peered past him down the hall, but there was no sign of Professor Shen. What should she do with her gifts?
“He’s in the kitchen, cooking up a storm. I’ll take you.” Chief Zhao opened the door wider, and Li Qian squared her shoulders and walked into the home of Professor Shen, Shen Wei, hero, public figure, and Ambassador of Dixing.
Chief Zhao seemed completely at ease. He took her coat and hung it on a coat-rack that was already thickly layered with wool overcoats and leather and denim jackets. She left her shoes on the floor below, next to a pair of fine leather shoes, some casual sheepskin boots and some heavy black ones with buckles.
Her initial base assumption that the Black-Cloaked Envoy would live in eerie, solitary splendour was starting to seem shaky.
[stationery] ... twice so far this week...
21/5/25 23:46kaberett... have I done the "oh no, why has my pen stopped working, did I break it :(" dance only to realise that in fact, no, THE PEN IS EMPTY. (Once because my first attempt at filling it was apparently fairly inept unless I have massively misjudged how much ink it lays down, which given that it's a Pelikan is not totally implausible, but would still be... surprising.)
On the upside I think I might have worked out why a different pen seems particularly prone to evaporation and drying out. I am not sure how fixable it is, but I do at least have a workaround! (I think the inner cap is a bit reluctant to settle into place; it shouldn't be, but wiggling the pen a bit once capped seems to be helping...)
(This is such a ridiculous hobby.)
What I'm Doing Wednesday
21/5/25 16:33sageThe Hidden Story of the Mahabharata: With Inner Meanings from Paramhansa Yogananda by Nayaswami Gyandev. A classic for a reason. The annotations are useful, too.
Sweet Obsession (Dark Olympus, #8) by Katee Robert. 3.5 stars. I love this series. Good m/m romance, though this wasn't the best of the series. Looking forward to the December release getting deeper into the A-plot.
not quite finished with: Breathing Mindfulness: Discovering the Riches at the Heart of the Buddhist Path by Sarah Shaw. A history of Theravada Buddhism in southeast Asia. The roots of where modern mindfulness meditation came from.
next up: the new Vivan Shaw Doctor Greta Helsing book!
healthcrap
I changed my night guard and have been living in a trigeminal neuralgia flare ever since (like living in a nonstop migraine). I found some more of the old type of guards in a cabinet, though, so hopefully tonight will be better. Also, rt shoulder is sore since stopping PT and getting myself to DO PT on my own is so very hard. Also not succeeding at doing any Pilates while feeling so crummy. Lucky to do my 33 minutes of yoga. :/
( dirt )
#resist
May 20 to 26: Walmart Boycott 2
June 1: Pride LGBTQ Protest
June 3 to 9: Target Boycott
June 14: Flag Day & No King's Day (Trump's Birthday) Protest
June 19: Juneteenth Protest
June 27: Stonewall Anniversary Protest
June 24 to 30: McDonald’s Boycott
July 4: Independence Day Boycott and Protest
I hope y'all are all doing well! <333
wednesday media
21/5/25 15:13isisS3 of Dark Winds, which GRRM (who is an executive producer of the show) makes a cameo in, hee. Also Jenna Elfman guest stars as an FBI investigator in from DC. This one goes hard on the "dark" part of the title, with some fairly gruesome crimes going on, as well as the emotional darkness from the fallout of the events of the previous season.
As usual I really enjoyed seeing my local landscapes, and the general Indian-country vibe of the show. (As I've mentioned before, I live not far from Navajo, though the local tribe is actually the Southern Ute; also, the college down the road is free for enrolled tribal members of any US tribe.) I was less a fan of how the season really consisted of very separate storylines, Bernie in the Border Patrol and Joe and Jim on the rez, however, the Navajo police investigation was well integrated with Joe's personal story, which made it all that more interesting. (Also here I have to admit that although I like Jim Chee as a character, I don't find him very attractive - a combination of Kiowa Gordon's chubby face and his truly dreadful 1970's costuming - so the romantic storyline was a little flat for me.)
However, damn do I love Bernie! However, her storyline confused me a bit, because it started out being about human trafficking but ended up being about drugs? But there was also a frightened Mexican family involved? Not sure what was going on there. I did figure out before the reveal who the bad guys and the complicit guys were (and heh, I bet the Republicans are none too pleased at the show painting the Border Patrol as a den of corruption) and wow, the ending of that bit was very kickass.
What I'm watching now:
S2 of Andor, which I only remember certain points from S1 so I was pretty confused during the first episode. Hopefully it will become clear(er) after the second episode, tonight.
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
21/5/25 16:01lightreads4/5. Sequel in this fantasy biopunk Holmes & Watson universe.
One of the more successful sequels I’ve read in a long time, in the sense that this accomplishes the task of really blowing up and blowing out the world. I continue to be only middling interested in these characters (and also continue to be puzzled about why this series is first person, aside from the obvious stylistic nod). But the construction of this empire, whose people’s bodies and minds are modified in ways beyond our understanding by methods beyond their understanding, all while the leviathans come ever closer to breaking down the sea walls, is incredibly interesting to me.
I think this book is not as successful in its project of talking about kings and power structures by blood in general. It does that, but our protagonist is not really clocking the implications for his own life as an imperial subject, so it doesn’t quite come together the way intended. The first person gets in the way there, specifically, given our protagonist is not, shall we say, a political or philosophical thinker.
Still, I am way more interested in this now than I was after the first book.
Content notes: Body modification and body horror, threats of infection/contamination.
Pride (2014) + moving to music
21/5/25 21:32schneefinkSuch a good movie. Even before I watched it, a gif set of the ending (which of course I can't find again rn) was one of the few things on Tumblr to reliably get me teary-eyed. (The other one being the story of the RMS Carpathia.) Learning about the characters that were based on real people, and their fates, and then of course of the waves resulting from their actions, was a very good finish. (I was slightly embarrassed that I didn't remember where I knew Gethin's actor from until I read Andrew Scott in the end credits.)
I agreed to house&pet-sit a couple of times for friends that are leaving for a three week vacation next week, so on Monday I got the introduction to the house. I expected that I would most look forward to spending time in the garden and/or pool, and also take advantage of the fancy kitchen, maybe the Xbox Gamepass or Switch, but that's before I got the introduction to the VR glasses. Now I suspect I will spend a significant amount of time playing Beat Saber. You have lightsabers! And move to the music! Idk maybe the shine will wear off quick but I'm really looking forward to playing.
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oursinWhat I read
Finished The Life Revamp - okay, not mind-blowing?
Having another bout of lower-back misery, re-reads of KJ Charles, Any Old Diamonds (Lilywhite Boys, #1) (2019), Gilded Cage (Lilywhite Boys, #2) (2019) and Masters in This Hall (Lilywhite Boys, #3) (2022). Still querying the understanding of the divorce law at the time.... (there seems to be an assumption at one point that spouse in prison was grounds??).
On the go
Started Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth (Lanny Budd, #3) (1942). This is the one with spiritualism taken in the serious experimental fashion of the times along with New Thought, besides the whole international political situation. Also, spot-on fashions in child-rearing, though I don't think Truby King was actually name-checked over the strict 4-hour feeding regimen!
Set to one side as Vivian Shaw, Strange New World (Dr Greta Helsing, #4) came out yesterday.
Still dipping into Melissa Scott, Scenes from the City.
Still working on the book for review, which is rather dense: excellent work but not exactly light reading.
Up next
Should get to Anthony Powell, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960) in preparation for online discussion group.
Discovered that there is a new work by Gail Godwin, Getting to Know Death: A meditation (2024), a memoir generated by a serious accident at the age of 85.
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