Hugo Homework (from four months ago)

Sep. 7th, 2025 09:36 pm
muccamukk: Darcy sitting at a table drinking coffee, flowers on her right. (Thor: Breakfast Table)
[personal profile] muccamukk
I read these back in May, and my memories are not 100%. Here's my best stab at the three noms for best novel, one for novella, and one tangential to the Lodestar.

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher, narrated by Eliza Foss & Jennifer Pickens Read more... )

Rainbow heart sticker The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley Read more... )

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky Read more... )

The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed Read more... )

Rainbow heart sticker Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger, narrated by Kinsale Drake Read more... )

Two Prompt Fests

Sep. 7th, 2025 03:03 pm
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[personal profile] muccamukk
[personal profile] spook_me posted: Spook Me Multi-Fandom Ficathon 2025
All fandoms are welcome. Stories can be Gen, Het, Slash or Femslash. All ratings are accepted.

We have TWO new Creatures this year: RAVEN and GRAVEYARD

I have royally failed at this the last like five years, but I do want to keep trying. It's really my favourite prompt fest.



[community profile] fandomgiftbasket posted: Spreadsheet of All Requests
Here is the spreadsheet of all requests!

Link.

There are two sheets on it. The first one is a list of all baskets sorted alphabetically by username, and this is where I'll keep track of the number of gifts. The second is every single fandom request posted individually in alphabetical order, for ease of finding. If you spot anything missing or any mistakes, let me know ASAP.

I don't have a basket this year, but hope to maybe write drabbles or something? Possibly?

college perks

Sep. 6th, 2025 07:11 pm
muccamukk: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson walking arm in arm. Text: "We strolled about together." (SH: Strolling)
[personal profile] muccamukk
Holy shit: university library access. It's probably good that I'm not in a historical fandom right now, because guess what I'd be doing instead of homework.

*remembers doing a bunch of Afghan War reading for Sherlock Holmes fandom last time around*

Heron fic: Manoeuvres Under Fire

Sep. 5th, 2025 01:23 pm
sanguinity: Woodcut of a heron landing (flight of the heron - landing)
[personal profile] sanguinity
Manoeuvres Under Fire (2013 words) by sanguinity
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy | The Flight of the Heron Series - D. K. Broster
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Alison Grant/Keith Windham, Alison Grant/Keith Windham, Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham, Ewen Cameron/Alison Grant
Characters: Alison Grant, Keith Windham, Ewen Cameron
Additional Tags: Emotional Repression, Angst, Affection, Midnight Confessions, Polyamory
Summary:

Alison's husband's new lover is all irony, deflection, and formality. She likes him well enough, but she also finds his reserve frustrating — and apparently so does he.



Because I've been on a Keith and Alison kick lately. (At least judging by my wip folder.)

For [personal profile] tgarnsl, because we both have an obsession with Keith being feral cat who never properly learned affection as a kitten.

Music Friday

Sep. 5th, 2025 12:37 pm
muccamukk: Billie tips his face towards the bi-flag sky, eyes closed, as Tré and Mike kiss his cheeks. (Music: Bisexual Green Day)
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This live show is great, also. Low-key looking at tickets for when they're on the coast next month.

Hearing From Everyone

Sep. 4th, 2025 02:34 pm
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1) I posted several things to [community profile] everykindofcraft the last few weeks. We seem to have a good number of subscribers but could use more posts from them!

2) Watched Thunderbolts and thought it was ok. Read more... )

3) Picked up the question from [personal profile] kazzy_cee, Has the area where you live changed much over the last decade? Read more... )

One thing that happened this year that's been particularly curious is the disappearance of donut stores. Read more... )

4) Speaking of food, I made some very tasty burgers recently. This all began with an effort to find an air pump for our car tires.Read more... )

5) Due to foot problems I can't walk much anymore but just a few days ago took a stroll to our mailbox center and was reminded of how a visiting friend said that she was so struck by the quiet of our apartment. And it wasn't that early, but I could hear the slap of my shoes on the pavement, the scratch of the squirrels chasing one another around a tree, crickets and birds chirping in the trees, and the wind rustling through the corn.

We aren't in the middle of nowhere. I also heard a train whistling a mile away, and if one listened closely the whoosh of cars on the nearby interstate was clear, as are planes and helicopters that pass overhead from time to time. But it was a wonderfully peaceful 10 minutes where everything outdoors felt very close and calm.

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Rest in Power Graham Greene

Sep. 2nd, 2025 04:40 pm
muccamukk: Cluster of purple and white lilac flowers. (Misc: Lilacs)
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I think there will be more in depth obituaries to follow, but here's a couple I liked.

CBC: 'Like watching Gretzky play hockey:' Colleagues remember actor Graham Greene.

CBC (Video): Remembering Graham Greene (interview with Jesse Wente).

I just saw him in Sweet Summer Pow Wow last week. Hard to imagine he's gone.

N.A.M. Rodgers, The Wooden World

Sep. 1st, 2025 03:31 pm
sanguinity: HMS Lydia under tow from the 1951 Hornblower film (Hornblower - Lydia)
[personal profile] sanguinity
From N.A.M. Rodger's The Wooden World: Anatomy of the Georgian Navy (1986), copied here for my reference, since this needs to go back to the libary. (Do not take copying as endorsement, please.)

Homosexuality in the Georgian Royal Navy )

Recent Reading

Sep. 1st, 2025 03:13 pm
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[personal profile] sanguinity
Alison Bechdel, Spent: A Comic Novel (2025)

The Dykes to Watch Out For cast returns, absent Mo, who is replaced by "Alison," a neurotic graphic novelist who is suffering (not very graciously) through the indignity of her bestselling graphic novel about her father's death, Death and Taxidermy, being made into a hit TV show. Meanwhile, Alison is struggling to write $UM: An Accounting, a graphic memoir about the role of money in Alison's life.

(...which is, presumably, Spent itself. Spent does talk a little bit about Alison's finances, but I didn't think it had much to say on the subject that was terribly insightful.)

Mo always annoyed me back in the day, and I don't like her doppleganger "Alison" any better. In fact, "Alison's" griping about the success of Death and Taxidermy leaves me wondering if Alison Bechdel resents those of us who loved the musical Fun Home? Idk, it all just left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

However, I loved getting to hang out with the core the DTWOF squad: Ginger, Lois, Sparrow, and Stuart. Sparrow and Stuart's offspring, J.R. (they/them), is college-aged now, and absolutely steals the show. They are so righteous and black-and-white and angry. The kid believes that the older DTWOF generation are all bourgeois sell-outs, and everything the older generation says only confirms it. J.R. is aces at pushing all the DTWOF crew's buttons, and I love the kid to pieces.


Neil Sharpson (illus. Dan Santat), Don't Trust Fish (2025)

Children's book riffing on the cladistic incoherence of "fish" and launching from there into a full-blown conspiracy theory. (After all, every conspiracy is fueled by a seed of truth, is it not?) I note, however, that this conspiracy theory serves a second purpose as pro-crab propaganda, and internal evidence suggests that the book may even have been written by a crab! (The author's bio strenuously denies this, but the book's pro-crab agenda cannot be denied.) Those of us well up on our evolutionary biology, however, note that "crabs" are also cladistically incoherent, and thus no more trustworthy than fish. Hmmm...

Moral: trust neither fish nor crabs, and most of all, do not trust this book.


Jonathan Green, The Vulgar Tongue: Green's History of Slang (2015)

Less a history of slang, and more a history of lexicographer's sources for slang. Beginning with beggar books of the fifteenth and sixteeth centuries, Green traces the ever-expanding sources for English slang up through the present moment. Early on, sources mostly consist of moralizing glossaries serving the dual purpose of titillation and warning; later on there were lexicographies for lexicography's sake; eventually, however, slang expanded into plays, novels, lyrics, and newspapers. There are dedicated chapters for the slang of Cockneys, Australians, Gays, African-Americans, the military, and other groups, as well as a dedicated chapter on (hetero)sexual slang. Most chapters give a smattering of newly coined words from each source, plus a discussion of how the source (and its description or use of slang) fit into its societal moment. For some topics, he'll also discuss trends, influences, and evolution in the slang itself.

Random notes )

Anyway, it was a fascinating read, lots of good gossip, learned a ton of stuff, nice multi-century tour of the underbelly of Anglophone social history, and you could build a suggested reading list from this that would keep you going for the rest of your life, easily.

Labour Day

Sep. 1st, 2025 10:03 am
muccamukk: Text: Love > Anger, Hope > Fear, Optimism > Despair. (Misc: Canadian Politics)
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Heather Cox Richardson: August 31, 2025.
Almost one hundred and forty-three years ago, on September 5, 1882, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day holiday with a parade.

The Tyee: Why One Young Union Organizer Sees a Brighter Future.

Some Encouraging Signs

Aug. 29th, 2025 01:50 pm
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1) Too long ago now, I shared some DS9 related meta posts at [community profile] meta_warehouse and found that I was interested in the suggestions about older Trek being more character oriented than newer Trek shows. Although the post involved DS9 and Discovery, if we look at Star Trek Enterprise versus Discovery, "bad writing" doesn't cover it all. Read more... )

2) In Germany, news readers asked to identify AI created news often couldn't, and were more likely to stay subscribed. (You can test yourself on some of the samples at the link)

3) Watched another season of Silent Witness and came to a realization about why I took to Clarissa so quickly. Read more... )

4) I have yet to get back to Boston Legal, interrupted as I was by new subscriptions, shows returning, etc. But I had left myself some notes about something I still think is worth mentioning even if I don't develop this out into a longer essay.

I was struck by the way political issues were engaged with in shows taking place in the 1990s vs 2000s. Read more... )

5) Encouraging news about the Briet startup which aims to make digital books ownable by libraries instead of the hamstringing rental agreements they now have to contend with. I hope it succeeds and grows.

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Pod-Together Rolling Remix

Aug. 29th, 2025 09:01 am
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[community profile] pod_together has begun reveals, releasing a few more creations each day. [personal profile] phoenixfalls and I worked together again this year, and our creations went live today!

We decided to do a multi-fandom Rolling Remix, in which I would write a story and pass it to her, she'd write a story riffing off mine and pass it back, I'd write a story riffing off hers and pass it back... Nothing was barred: we could change fandoms and pairings as we liked. We ended with eight stories in six fandoms, whee! And then we each podfic'd what the other one wrote.

Readers/listeners interested in a single fandom may enjoy any story as a stand-alone. (That said, we suggest reading the three Vorkosigan Saga stories in order as a set.) More adventurous readers/listeners, however, may choose to explore the entire project -- and to that end, we've included "What You Need to Know" summaries about each fandom, in both text and audio.

Pod-Together Rolling Remix by [archiveofourown.org profile] PhoenixFalls and [archiveofourown.org profile] Sanguinity

Link to the series page. Includes all-in-one audio download, a map of how the stories are connected (and an image description for the map), plus links to each of the stories. Use the map to explore, or follow the series order, or pick and choose as you please. Please heed the warnings for the individual stories.


And here are the individual stories! Audio (both the what-you-need-to-know and the story) are included on each page.



...and that was a lot, so maybe I'll just make this an announcement post and leave the bit where I talk about the stories and process to another post.

Very big thanks to [personal profile] garonne and [personal profile] tgarnsl for their pronunciation help with the French and Gaelic! Any remaining pronunciation errors or oddities are very much our own.

Hornblower fanworks: art and playlist

Aug. 26th, 2025 01:48 pm
sanguinity: Horatio Hornblower laughing while having a deck shower (Hornblower shower laughter)
[personal profile] sanguinity
I keep getting distracted by other things and not posting here, but two lovely people made tie-in fanworks for three of my Hornblower stories this... we'll call it summer, okay? (Shit, they were in February and March -- I am quite laggardly!)

Art [tumblr.com profile] 1ventipls aka [archiveofourown.org profile] Zeka for Gwir Good Gold

on tumblr // on dropbox // leave a comment for the artist

(story is explicit; art is non-explicit but has soft-focus nudity)


Art by [tumblr.com profile] 1ventipls aka [archiveofourown.org profile] Zeka for His Captain's Favour

on Dropbox // leave a comment for the artist

(story is explicit; art is non-explicit but suggestive with some nudity)


Playlist by [tumblr.com profile] vastwinterskies for Hornblower's Lost Honour

on tumblr // on Spotify // on YouTube


As always, I am impressed by the thought and care that went into these, and am deeply flattered by their creation!

Doctor Odyssey fic

Aug. 26th, 2025 09:34 am
sanguinity: HMS Lydia under tow from the 1951 Hornblower film (Hornblower - Lydia)
[personal profile] sanguinity
Spoilers for the mid-season cliffhanger of Doctor Odyssey. (Which was back in March, so I'm not using a cut tag -- just unfocus your eyes and scroll past if you don't want to know.)

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Mifepristone With a Side of Gummi Bears (2316 words) by sanguinity
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Odyssey (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Max Bankman/Avery Morgan/Tristan Silva
Characters: Avery Morgan, Max Bankman, Tristan Silva
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Episode: s01e08 Quackers (Doctor Odyssey), Unplanned Pregnancy, Abortion, Comfort, Comfort/Angst, Cuddling
Words: 2,316


Summary:

Avery decides not to keep the pregnancy.



When that mid-season cliffhanger aired, I knew the showrunners wouldn't let Avery keep the baby, just as I knew that the network would never let her have an abortion. Which pissed me off. So here's my "fuck you, let that woman have an abortion" fic.

Substantially delayed, because researching the practicalities of abortion in 2025 US-of-fucking-A was as depressing as hell.

Thanks to [personal profile] phoenixfalls, [personal profile] bookherd, [personal profile] beanarie, and [personal profile] grrlpup for encouragement and assistance!


I have SO MANY ship icons and NOT ONE that is appropriate for this post. Here, have the Lydia, who "so graceful and willing when under sail, was a perfect bitch when being towed." May we all be perfect bitches while being towed!

Music Monday

Aug. 25th, 2025 10:04 pm
muccamukk: Orville Peck in a red Nudie suit, singing and playing guitar, while a pink and white musical score swirl behind him. (Music: Orville Peck)
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Obsessed with the guitar here, for real.
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