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Day 11: Fic Self Rec - Sukeban Deka - Saki/Jin

For today I have a self-rec of a fic I did centering Saki from Sukeban Deka that I feel fits into the prompt of "The Explorer".

Title: Whims of Youth
Fandom: Sukeban Deka
Pairing/Characters: Saki/Jin
Rating: T
Word count: 1466
Content Notes: Age Gap, Non-Consensual Kissing Initiated Via Saki, Canon-Typical Mentions of Teacher/Student Relationships, Teen Crush, Complicated Feelings, Developing Feelings, Introspection
Summary: This was a gamble. Saki didn’t know how Jin was going to react.

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IDs and phones

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DEAR ABBY: It seems that everywhere I go, people expect tips. Yesterday, I pulled up to the drive-through at a cookie store, and before I paid or was handed my cookies, the clerk asked, "Would you like to leave a tip?" My niece recently told me that after she left a tip at a restaurant, the server followed her outside and asked if she hadn't been a very good server because the tip was small. I can give you more examples just from my family regarding their experience with tipping.

In this economy, I don't feel the 20% rule should apply. For the price of a lunch for two at a sit-down restaurant these days, the tip costs as much as a small entree. When I go through a drive-through, I don't feel I need to tip because I'm not inside using their facility. But if I don't, I get a disappointed look from the gal who gets paid to make and hand me my drink. What are your thoughts? -- TIPPED OUT IN IDAHO

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Wednesday, February 11 - Gifts that Keep on Giving

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Drabblethon: But who prays for Satan? (A Woman's Face)

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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BtVS: Childhood Dreams [Challenge 488: Childhood Hero]

Title: Childhood Dreams
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 488: Childhood Hero.
Spoilers/Setting: Years after the series ended.
Summary: Sometime in the future, Buffy looks back at her early life, when things were simpler.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

Childhood Dreams

Current Mood: thoughtful

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Relatability of villains

I’m randomly shifting into Batman Fan Mode again, so I’m thinking about his rogues gallery again. And villains on general. (But tbf I do think about villains in general on a daily basis.)

And I think some of the most effective villains are the ones can relate to a little too much. They make you confront aspects of yourself that you’re uncomfortable with.

For a personal example, the Batman villain I relate the most to is … the BTAS version of Jervis Tetch. 😅 I just relate a lot to being a lonely, quiet person who has difficulty connecting with others.

I also unfortunately relate to getting way too attached to somebody, whether platonically or romantically, and potentially overstepping someone’s comfort zone. I’m not proud of this. It is something I have worked to improve on. But it is a very specific, negative trait within Jervis that I recognize within myself as well. It creates discomfort and reflection. That’s something powerful that some of the best villains can do.

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Star Wars: Jar Jar #1

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Current Mood: cold

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rambles about life

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We had lovely warm (unseasonable) weather yesterday, and now it's back down to freezing temperatures again. :( I know it's supposed to be cold here this time of year, but that brief glimpse of spring was so nice. I am not built for winters. Bring back the nice warm weather and the birds and the green!

At least the sun is shining, and we're out of the darkest weeks of the year. My goal for tonight is to do the dishes, and cook something. Could be scones, could be chicken, whatever. I've got both. But something needs to go in my oven.

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Wednesday is still not sleeping very well

What I read

Finished Cakes and Ale, which is partly that early C20th litfic convention of a first-person narrator who just happens be around to hear a lot about the actual protags and the plot or at critical moments of same, but actually complicates it with Ashenden knowing that Rosie is not actually dead as everyone else supposes. Not sure the ending really worked.

I then, having got into an Edwardian/Georgian novelist rhythm, went 'ah! time for some Arnold Bennett! the one about the hotel', except I picked up The Grand Babylon Hotel (1902), which is 1900s thriller hijinx mode with European royalty shenanigans, false identities, etc etc (though I was wondering whether it might adapt into a screwball comedy movie?), and wasn't actually the one I'd read many years ago that I was thinking of.

Which was Imperial Palace (1930), which struck me as, although lacking the highspeed thriller plot element, remarkably like D Francis in its fascination for infrastructure (in this case, running a luxury hotel in London) and competence porn. The running-the-hotel bits and the trials posed for the new supervising housekeeper are, perhaps, at least these days, more interesting than the bits involving Hotel Manager and Rich Man's Daughter Gracie. To give her (and actually, Bennett as author) her due, she is not, whereas she would be in a lot of novels by his contemporaries, an unmitigated bitch (Aldous Huxley's Lucy Tantamount) or a tragic bitch (Michael Arlen's Iris Storm), she has some good points and was a competent racing driver, but she is still annoyingly entitled and egocentric.

I took a break from this because I suddenly had a whim to re-read Mary Renault, The King Must Die (1958) for the first time in absolute yonks. You know, Mary, the sexism and misogyny is not entirely just being Accurate for Period, is it, hmmmm? There is some great stuff in there, but.

On the go

Imperial Palace is very long, and still on the go.

Up next

I think I am up for some Agatha Christie, seriously.

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A way more than 3 sentence 3SF fill

I owe comments! I haven't forgotten!

I drafted this a few years ago but never finished it. I was reminded of it by a great prompt from this year's 3SF, went back and edited it. I'm only 85-90% satisfied with how it turned out, but it's fanfic not ofic, so it's time to move on.

( Hadestown, Hermes )

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I like language, and I like the fun of crrafting intentionally obfuscating language sometimes. Because today, the answer if any of my students ask "hey Mx [lastname], why were you crying on the bus?" is "I was watching a slime tutorial of finale from the 2009 Tony for best musical"

But the simple answer is you find out you don't have to be happy at all, to be happy you're alive".

And that's pretty good too.

~Sor
MOOP!

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Ask a Manager: my employee was excluded from a team-building event because of their weight...

my employee was excluded from a team-building event because of their weight — how do I make this right?

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Dear Prudence: Caught In A Lie

Help! I’ve Told Everyone in My Life a Lie About My Family for Years. It’s Finally Caught Up to Me.

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The Silver Bullet

The Silver Bullet, and Other American Witch Stories by Hubert J. Davis

A selection of folktales gathered in the 1930s. A number of people claimed to have been the actual victims, others to know the people involved. A number are just told without a connection. Two are recognizable fairy tales.

It has sections about how to become a witch, how they worked, how to counter them, and tales of their witchery for money or mischief. Many references to witch doctors (or white witches).

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www wednesday

WWW Wednesday

1. What are you currently reading?

Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault: I made some progress, tho I continue to drag. My current Libby loan of it will get returned today so I'll have to borrow it again. I think I just don't match well with something this slow paced, I keep wanting, ya know, something to happen.
盗墓笔记 by 南派三叔: I'd fallen behind on my "aiming for a page a day" pace but I've almost gotten back on track... I'm at 41 pages in 42 days... but I'll probably not keep that catch-up over the next week cause I'm traveling a couple times, sigh.

No progress on the Jemisin.

2. What have you recently finish reading?

Dandadan vol. 9 by Yukinobu Tatsu
Cooking with Monsters: The Beginner's Guide to Culinary Combat by Jordan Alsaqa and Vivian Truong: this was fine, but the conflict/rivalry between the main characters felt kinda contrived and drawn out.
Killer Queens by David M. Booher: pulp sci-fi about a lesbian and a gay guy who are former assassins and working partners. The premise was delightful but the pacing was flawed; I wish it'd been longer to really follow through on the ideas.
Fox and Puppy by Nayuta Nago: modern BL. I really liked Star and Hedgehog by this author; this one was about the ml from that one's brother. I liked it, if not quite as much.
My Fluffy Moody Crush by Nayuta Nago: fantasy BL. This was okay but needed more breathing room imo.
Kase-san and Shortcake and Kase-san and an Apron (Kase-san and... vol. 3 and 4) by Hiromi Takashima: the first of these was probably my favorite of the Kase-san titles so far. The second was more miscommunication and jealousy drag. I wish the author would stop circling back on that.
Priceless Honey by Shiuko Kano: so tired of this publisher not accurately marking which are single-volume BLs and which are a single volume of multiple BL short stories.
It Rhymes with Takei by George Takei: excellent autobiographical graphic novel. Hard to read at times, given the subject matter, but.

3. What will you read next?

Novels: theoretically I should read A Drop of Corruption, as it's definitely my next-due book, but idk. I've been slogging through multiple novels that don't interest me tons. I might relinquish my Libby borrow and actually read something I want to read instead. My next danmei/BL is Don't You Like Me by Lv Tian Yi and I might just. read that.

Physical Graphic Novels: next in my pile is West Hollywood Monster Squad by Sina Grace.

Libby graphic novels: SHWD episode 2 by Sono.N, tho I didn't like episode 1 and I'm finding I'm so unenthusiastic about episode 2 that I honestly might just not. Kase-san and Cherry Blossoms by Hiromi Takashima and Planeta by Ana Oncina are also due in under a week.

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Drabblethon: The Midnight Bell in Summer - Jenny Maple

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newbie questions

“Sideblogs” on Dreamwidth?

So, I’m thinking about making another blog for selfship/self insert stuff. Is there a way to make a sideblog on here, similar to how Tumblr sideblogs operate? Or do I need to make a completely separate account for that?