hypertwink

- Seen on Bluesky, someone is seeking your old LJ icons for their icon zine.

- My top five songs for August according to Tidal were four live tracks from the Oasis tour and their one "unplugged" release from the upcoming anniversary edition of (What's the Story) Morning Glory? They're all from a playlist I made called "new Oasis," which is an amazing playlist to have in 2025!!

- At some point I want to make a post of some more shippy highlights from the Oasis tour, but I keep not doing it and they keep adding new ones. They just... like each other so much? That is not something I would say about them in any other era, even back when they were at their weirdest about each other. These days they are just uncomplicatedly happy to see each other. It's wild.

- Speaking of the tour, on Friday I fly down to LA to see my second and final show, at the ROSE BOWL. Check that one off the bucket list, I guess!! The logistics of that trip have changed a bunch of times in the past three weeks, but I think I might finally have all the pieces nailed down, as of tonight (then again I thought that yesterday, too...). This trip feels really self-indulgent, like come on, I saw them at Wembley Stadium, surely that's enough for any one person. I am very excited to get to see them from the general admission area this time, though, and excited about the buddy I'm going with.

- I decided to focus on this Oasis WIP instead of signing up for Jump Scare, which was a great decision, because I just crossed the 10k mark on the Oasis WIP, and I've been working on it less than three weeks. Alas, I'm now convinced this 10k I have written is just lots of pieces that don't fit together or add up to anything! I'm going to focus on one scene that I know the shape and let the others rest for a bit, and hopefully I'll find the thread again.

- There are a lot of reasons I really want to finish the WIP, but one is that there is just nothing in the tag right now that I want to read. ;__;

- In November I'll have been more or less active in Oasis fandom for six years, which makes it my longest running active fandom. Hockey is the next closest, and I was in it a little less than five years. I wrote my first MCU fic in 2014, but I wouldn't consider myself active in the fandom until 2018, and then I left in 2021. It feels crazy a) that I've been into Oasis that long and b) that it of all things is my longest fandom, but on the other hand it's been an incredibly newsworthy six years for the fandom.

- I had a nice time with Seasons of Drabbles after defaulting last time. (Yes, on a 100-word exchange. It was a very busy spring.) I mostly requested only actual drabbles this time, rather than the double or triple drabbles or series thereof, and that was really nice. I mainly read actual drabbles, too, and that was also really nice. Somehow 200 words is just a lot harder to read than 100 words!

- On the last day of Fic in a Box signups, I swapped out my Re-Animator request for, wait for it, Heimdall/Loki/Valkyrie. I haven't requested a Thor ship in a full-length exchange in five years, but I wasn't feeling Re-Animator, and the last I checked there were still zero of this ship on AO3. I'm much happier with my slate of requests now.

musesfool

I made this sheet pan pancake for dinner last night (pic) and it was good, but I don't know that I'd call it a pancake - it is much thicker and not particularly fluffy. The texture is more "cake" than "pancake". But it was good with butter and syrup and will also provide several days of breakfast so I can't complain. It's super easy to throw together, too - no buttermilk needed. The handful of strawbs I had left had gone moldy in the fridge, but I had about 3/4 cup of frozen berries left in the freezer that I folded in and also about 1/4 cup of mini chocolate chips that I sprinkled on top, so that worked out.

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Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Mets win!!!

resonant

I start my new job tomorrow! My brain is a hive of bees.

I've been out of work since I was laid off in July 2024. It would have been really inconvenient to be working for a lot of that time, as I was helping my brother see our mother through her decline and death from dementia and also having some serious health issues of my own. (And Mom left me some money, which allowed me to say "I'm too stressed to job-hunt" and then not job-hunt, a rare luxury that I'm very grateful for.)

But I have to admit I've also been bored and restless and lonely. It will be nice to have co-workers, and tasks, and a paycheck again.

On the other hand, it's been thirteen months since I consistently had to be any place in particular in the morning. And the cat is going to be sad.

snickfic

I both wrote and received Oasis drabbles, and I'm really tickled how neatly they slot together as the before and after of Noel Gallagher:
kidhood by Anonymous, Liam/Noel in the 90s
irreconcilable differences by me, Liam/Noel now

I also got some other goodies, all 100 words. <3
glovework by

TheFlirtMeister, Saw, Lawrence character study
Mouthwash by

embraidery, Stardew Valley, Willy/Marlon
Sunset by

embraidery, Stardew Valley, Willy/Marlon
Morning Musing, Stardew Valley, Sandy

And I bring some recs! All 100 words unless noted.
Brick and Bone by

Kantayra, The Haunting of Hill House, Nell post-canon
Cheek to Cheek by

septemberbells, ST:TOS, Chapel/Uhura, very sweet
The Seal's Child by

Daeger, OW, 200 words, daughter of a selkie, dark/horror
undeath by

Pornabus_Sockerton, 300 words, The Terror, Hodgson canon divergence, brrrrr
the ever-fleeting warmth by

Ekevka, 200 words, The Terror, Collins character study, also brrrr

sheafrotherdon

There was a time in my life where I would not articulate what I wanted or needed from people, and then would take their "inability" to provide what I wanted or needed as evidence that I was fucked up and broken.

This coalesced a lot around birthdays, especially in my 20s. I wanted to be made a fuss of, but never told anyone that yes, I would like a card, or yes, cake would be great, or yes, why don't you come over, and then I would feel lonely and isolated and sink further into dark places when there wasn't a 76-trombone parade on September 3rd.

I learned over time to state my needs and make plans. Buy a cake! Invite people over. Life is so much simpler when it's not an elaborate guessing game you're secretly making people play. And I no longer worry that I won't have a fun day on my birthday because I not only tell other people "hey come on over!" but I do things for myself too! Bonus!

This is all by way of saying I have an enormous bunch of flowers in front of me which I bought for myself for tomorrow, and they are making me so happy. Because not only are they gorgeous, and richly scented, they match the color scheme of my living room because that's what I asked for - purples, creams, and lots of greenery. And my neighbor is the florist, so it's a lovely celebration of her artistry, too.

Other happy things - a plumber has been here all day working on my downstairs bathroom. Said bathroom is literally a former coat closet - there are still coat hooks on the wall (which I should take down). My plumber's best guess is that it was changed to a tiny little toilet nook in the 60s, and that the toilet has been there since at least the 70s. There's no sink, and so for the last several years I've had a little Japanese-tank sink, where you hook it up so that the clean water coming into the toilet tank first flows through a faucet so you can wash your hands. It's neat, and it saves water, but washing your hands with ice-cold water in, say, January is not awesome. And the toilet tank is enormous - newer toilets are so much more water efficient.

So I'm having the toilet taken out and replaced with a taller, efficient model, and a tiiiiiiny little sink plumbed in. The sink is 7 inches wide and 12 inches long, and it is adorable. I'm having hot and cold water plumbed in, and the bathroom will be so much more usable as of tomorrow!

Plumber has worked super hard all day, and has so much done. All the basement work is finished, and he's finishing up the water lines before he leaves for the day. He was listened to Eminem earlier this morning, but then switched to The Andrews Sisters. He is maaaaaybe 30 years old, and was singing harmonies with 1940s hits. I am so charmed.

And lastly ( I watched Thunderbolts yesterday and adored it. Spoilers ahead )

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Laptop-TV combo with DVDs on top and smartphone on the desk

Anthology shows have been considered risky bets if one wants a long running series. Do you enjoy them? And are there shows which might be considered “stealth” anthology shows, where a lot, if not the main focus of the show, is on non-recurring characters?

troyswann

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fancake

Fandom: Batman
Pairings/Characters: Jason Todd, Tim Drake
Rating: teen
Length: 46k
Creator Links:

Megaerakles
Theme: food, fork in the road AU, domestic, family, fixit, gen, happy endings, secret identity reveal,

Summary: Tim is prepared to take the steps necessary to ensure that Bruce will not feel obligated to adopt Tim when a comatose Jack Drake inevitably dies. But what could be better than preventing Bruce from ending up with a son he doesn't want? Bringing back the one he does.

Jason agrees to the Replacement's stupid, stupid plan to invite some strange adult man he's never met to come live with him, if only to keep the idiot alive long enough for him to serve his purpose in the Great Red Hood Revenge Scheme.

Might this new roommate situation have an impact on either of their worldviews? Surely not...

Reccer's Notes: Both Tim and Jason are oblivious idiots in the best way in this. And Jason shows love through cooking (and teaching how to cook).

Fanwork Links: Say Uncle

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fancake

Fandom: MCU
Pairings/Characters: Steve Rogers/Maria Hill
Rating: Gen
Length: 3107 words
Creator Links:

tielan
Theme: food, working together, friends with benefits, female characters,

Summary: Maria can manage professional colleagues with Rogers, but she values her place in S.H.I.E.L.D more.

Reccer's Notes: Tielan's specialty is female characters who get overlooked by the rest of fandom, and I love the way she writes Maria Hill: a complex woman doing a difficult job in a world that doesn't respect her. And I love the way she writes Steve: a man who deeply and sincerely respects (and falls for) competent women.

Fanwork Links: Dinner In Other Languages

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recthething

Sharing some recs from

raremaleslashex and

caseficexchange (all authors still anonymous).

Brilliant Minds, Josh/Oliver (fic)
Bunnicula series, ensemble (fic)
due South, Fraser & Ray K & Dief (fic)
D&D: Honor Among Thieves, Edgin/Xenk (fic)
Jaws movies, Brody/Hooper (fic)
Legends of Tomorrow, Zari 1.0/Ray (fic)
Original Work, gen (mini comic)
Star Trek DS9, Jake/Nog (art)

Over at my journal.

cimorene

As of today, Wax's annual vacation is now fully over without us having accomplished anything (from our long list of house repair and renovating tasks) because we still haven't emerged from depression-anxiety-exhaustion since last fall.

Wax feels much worse than me, but it would not be fair to say I've recovered from it. I have enough energy to want to accomplish a project or go for a walk but not enough to start these things on my own (it takes about 1/2 as many spoons to do them together) and enough to want to see my friends but not enough to go beyond texting one of them once a month or so.

Anyway, Wax thinks she might have a thyroid issue. Or another physical issue, but the point is, she suspects she's not just depressed or burnt out. But her employer switched healthcare providers six months ago and the new one doesn't have a local branch, so going to an appointment will mean going into Turku (25-35 min drive). Her exhaustion is therefore holding her back from seeking treatment for it.

And I guess I also feel kinda bad. I am going to have to try to meet a new GP and discuss my medications and stuff. Sometimes, though, I think what I need (not instead of medication, just like... need most) is really a rigidly-scheduled regimen of eating enough calories and sleeping and exercising to gradually increase endurance at the same time every day, but as an ADHD sufferer, I can no more make myself do those than make myself suddenly speak Finnish fluently. It feels like there should be a trick - like it shouldn't be this hard to just create routines. Or leave the house alone to go for a walk. And yet.

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fancake

Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Books/Granada)
Pairings/Characters: Holmes/Watson
Rating: G
Length: 1114 words
Creator Links: MadamzelleG
Theme: food & cooking

Summary: Holmes never orders dinner for himself, but Watson has long since stopped asking why. Instead, he allows the quiet ritual to unfold—Holmes sipping his coffee, stealing a bite here and there from Watson’s plate with effortless precision. In the warm glow of the Café Royal, amidst the murmur of conversation and the clink of silverware, an unspoken understanding lingers between them: Holmes takes, and Watson never minds.

Reccer's Notes: An intimate little scene of Watson and Holmes dining out together. With some exploration of Holmes' canon issues around food, but not in clinical way, more like Watson observing Holmes.

Fanwork Links: Ao3

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fancake

Photograph of steel spoons and spices in a dramatic setting with added text that gives it the look of a gourmet magazine cover: September 2025. Food & Cooking, at Fancake. Steel teaspoons are arranged in an elogated oval to suggest a fish, with the bowls acting as scales and some of the handles left visible to create the fins and tail, giving the creature a spiky appearance. The concave bowls are dusted with a powdery orange spice for color and one spoon at the front of the fish is filled with a coarse black spice to create an eye. The fish is on a black surface with a rough texture and around it are three skinny green peppers, a mound of salt, a mound of orange spice, and a dipping bowl filled with a clear amber liquid.

Our theme for September is food & cooking!

The tag for this round is: theme: food & cooking

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dw_maintenance

Per the dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

musesfool

The bbq yesterday was fun! Baby Miss L continues to be a character - she's a little awkward but she manages to get up and down steps now. In fact, she stood on the steps and was like, "Jump! Jump!" and we were like, " um, no, no jumping off the steps!"

Anyway, there were a lot of desserts, but the strawberry cake was enjoyed. It smelled fantastic and tasted good too.

In other news, I did the August recs update earlier:

unfitforsociety has been updated for August 2025 with 12 recs in 2 fandoms:

* 11 Batfamily and 1 Batfamily/Spider-Man crossover

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Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Gravity - Vienna Teng

unfitforsociety

Batfamily

Alvin Draper of Crime Alley by

potofsoup
Jason is having a hard time finding Tim Drake, but he's been running into a kid by the name of Alvin Draper in the Alley.

In the meantime, Tim Drake totally has 5-step plan to bring get Jason and Bruce to reconcile! Nothing will go wrong. This is hilarious and amazing!

dolly-verse fics by

a_alene
gotham city senior dolores patton and the teenaged crime lord she hangs out with sometimes Jason is befriended by a little old lady in Gotham. She teaches him to crochet. <333

Hard Cash, Hard Liquor, and Hard Candies: The Crime Alley Grannies by

cookie_rock
They know everything that happens in Crime Alley.

EVERYTHING. <333

Killing the Past (And Coming Back to Life) by

RaaorQtpbpdy &

TaraLaurel
Tim is visiting Robin's grave when Jason Todd crawls out of it. Oh boys...

Magnets by

gender_bender08
On a Tuesday night, Bruce Wayne attends a circus. Halfway through, the trapeze artists are killed, leaving their eight year old son behind, hands wrapped in dancer’s tape and knees bloody with how he falls on them in his anguish. Bruce Wayne watches him for a moment, two, then turns around and leaves.

Sixteen years later, the thing who was once a man named Dick Grayson nurses a bottle of scotch as he stitches the gaping wound in his side from where Batman got him with a batarang. AU where Bruce doesn't take in any of his kids, but they all come together somehow anyway.

Penelope by

NerdyGay
Tim finds that there are more ways to protect the Bats than just Robin. A little magic never hurt anyone, after all. I enjoyed this!

The Pieces of What's Left by

mynameisjessejk
When Blockbuster burns down his whole life and Tarantula takes what isn't hers to claim, Dick ditches his life, his name, and his city for an anonymous, quiet life in the Bowery. Just till he can put himself back together.

Jason is doing his best to fix his corner of the city, keep Black Mask out of his business, and arrange a confrontation with Batman, the Joker, and all the water under the bridge. He has no idea what to do with a Dick Grayson who's apparently in hiding and joined his gang by accident.

But it turns out they need each other far more than they could have imagined, and if either of them are going to fix their broken pieces, it's going to have to be together. I enjoyed this! #hoods and birds

r/MaleLivingSpace by

Jackedrabbit
Stephanie Brown is many things: a vigilante, a gossip, an ally, a ragebaiter, and a friend. But when a blizzard knocks out her apartment's WiFi, she tacks on another label to that list - an uninvited houseguest. And uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave. Hilarious!

Red Hood's Shelter for Feral Kids by

dandelionlily
Jason has a plan for his return to Gotham. Steal the clown's old Red Hood identity? Check. Make sure meddling birds know to keep out of his territory? Check. Recruit some homeless youth to keep an ear to the street in exchange for shelter? Check. Take over the Crime Alley drug trade, convince Black Mask to break the clown out of Arkham, murder his Replacement and force Batman to finally avenge him? ...he's still working on it.

His plans are delayed when the homeless kids he's sheltering are joined by a fearful boy with hand-shaped bruises around his neck. Alvin Draper may not want to say who did it, but Red Hood isn't about to let anyone who beats up children go unpunished. This is fun!

3 Times Timmy Drake Meets Santa + 1 Time He Meets Bruce by

Writer_loves_tropes
Exactly what it says on the tin, though it's an AU where Tim is 6 while everyone else is their normal canon ages. It's adorable!

Whose Vault Unlocked by

myvividreams
Jason's war against emotional competency, ft. a concussion, nosy neighbors, superhero RPF, and the local library's writing circle.

...Not that he's winning or anything. Fuck. Oh Jason...this is a lovely look at how Jason begins reconciling with the family.

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Crossover

Spiderman/Batman

Fries With That Secret Identity? by

N0t_Sketchy
This is a fun crossover where Peter goes to Gotham on a photography assignment and runs into Robin. Banter and hijinks ensue.

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Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Please - Tom McRae

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recthething

I'm starting a Rarepair Recs series of posts (for ships with less than 250 complete works on AO3 using the otp:true filter) and I have shared two rec lists on my journal with several works in various mediums.

Sense8
Relationship: Kala/Rajan/Wolfgang
Medium: gifsets, fanfic, podfic
Link here.

The Bastard Son and The Devil Himself
Relationship: Annalise/Gabriel/Nathan
Medium: gifsets, fanart, fanfic, fanvid
Link here.

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A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.

The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.

In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.

The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.

Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.

feurioo posting in

tv_talk

More about August 2025 releases here on Soompi.com.
More about September 2025 releases here on Koreaboo.com.

jo posting in

tv_talk

It's that time of year again -- the "best new shows of the fall" preview time! The Guardian has a "50 Best TV shows to watch this autumn" listing, with the usual caveat that the Guardian is a UK paper so many are British productions that may never air outside of the UK (and also lists where the show will be available to watch in the UK, so it may be a different streaming service outside of the UK -- e.g. HBO productions tend to air on Sky Atlantic in the UK). That said, I think this year's listing includes more non-British shows than in previous years. Are there any here that look interesting to you?

Oasis and some other things

can't run out the clock

Going back to work

Seasons of Drabbles!

Beauty

TV Tuesday: New Faces

Marking the moment

Batman: Say Uncle by Megaerakles

MCU: Dinner In Other Languages by tielan

Recs from Rare Male Slash Exchange + Casefic Exchange

also we didn't get enough sun or warmth but it's autumn

Sherlock Holmes: Tea, Coffee, and a Bite of Beef by MadamzelleG

Round 178: Food & Cooking

Code deploy happening shortly

they've turned aside our stories of the gentle fall

city turns away from me

Sense8, The Bastard Son and The Devil Himself

Mississippi site block, plus a small restriction on Tennessee new accounts

K-Drama Update #17: August & September Releases

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