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zarlaAck it's been a while I know! I keep thinking about longer posts to make and such and then I just end up putting it off or getting distracted. Silksong is so good! It's so big, I'm like 85 hours into it and I'm still not done, I'm still finding new stuff all the time. Right now I'm trying to find the entrance to a temple and I'm having trouble with it, but I could've just been tired at the time, haha. I'd go and pick it back up but I'm actually in Greece right now for a destination wedding! I didn't bring my controller with me but I did bring my laptop. |D I figured if I was going to be on my computer here at least I should be writing lol. I do want to do some work on the first draft of the next Vargas chapter, but I also want to do some work on the Kabu stalker fic I'm working on... and I had an idea for a fic where Kabu teaches Larry how to swim floating around in my head for a while.
And the Frozen/Ace Attorney AU! I finally finished The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles on the flight here, after taking way way too long lol. I enjoyed it a lot! It deals a lot with cultural mismatches and clashes between Britain and Japan and I really liked all the characters a lot, even if I'll never get used to Herlock Sholmes instead of Sherlock Holmes, haha. Speaking of, he's so much fun! He's so incredibly stupid sometimes and other times he's very crafty, which I guess does fit in with his canon origins, haha. So lame they couldn't just call him Sherlock in it.
I can definitely see why people were mad after the first one got released because it really is like half the story, you only get the full resolution in the second game, so I'm glad they released them together in English. It's a shame we probably won't get to see more of the cast's adventures! Thinking about the localization for it is interesting, since a lot of the flavor to it to me is the different British accents that show up in places. I remember Hato Moa talking about how the English localization was better than the original Japanese version because it was able to capture those nuances in English better than it could in Japanese, haha. There's huge differences in British accents that tell you a lot that are hard to convey in translation! And the localizers did a great job of it, I enjoyed all the Cockney rhyming slang and little quirks here and there, haha. Attention to detail! What was it, back in the day people used to get Britpickers to beta their Harry Potter fic for Americanisms and such, I wonder if people still do that? Woah tangent
Anyway it was really a fun localization, everyone had such a unique flavor to their text, I really wonder how it was conveyed in Japanese, if at all. The cultural intersection is SUCH a huge thing in the two games, and it's interesting to think that I'm coming to it from the English-speaking side, as opposed to the Japanese-speaking side who were the original intended audience. There are conversations at points about differences between Japanese and English - characters talking about how you'd translate "I love you" into Japanese, for example, which got into cultural differences where a Japanese person wouldn't state their feelings so clearly, and would say something a bit more subtle instead, like "the moon looks beautiful tonight, doesn't it?" It reminds me a bit of a part of the first Pokemon movie where Meowth and cloneMeowth are talking and he says talking about the moon at a time like that is tasteful, haha.
There was also a fun conversation about Kanji readings and names, like Shakespeare being shortened to Sao, and like Holmes wanting to know what his name would be in Japanese, and all stuff that's just like crack to me lol. I'M REALLY INTERESTED IN THIS KIND OF THING the language differences are so cool! All the small traits and such that reflect that language's culture! Loved having them talk about it and do cultural exchanges and talk about racism and prejudice and all that, it's just SO MUCH about the culture shock between the two, it's so much fun. It's crazy to think back to the first games and how they localized away as much of the Japanese flavor as they could, and now with this they just completely embrace it. So much time has passed, so much has changed...
Anyway the Great Ace Attorney is really good, I recommend it. Learned about a lot of weird taxes Britain had back in the day! Like a window tax and a paper tax. :O And a beard tax! While in Japan beards were outlawed, haha. Just fun things like that. Still wish they could've kept his name Sherlock though. Now I can finally look up Great Ace Attorney stuff without fear of spoilers! I actually managed to avoid almost all of them for TGAA even after all this time. :O
Man my eyes feel so bleary right now, I need to clean my glasses or something. I think it's just the exhaustion, haha. I should try to get some sleep...
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And the Frozen/Ace Attorney AU! I finally finished The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles on the flight here, after taking way way too long lol. I enjoyed it a lot! It deals a lot with cultural mismatches and clashes between Britain and Japan and I really liked all the characters a lot, even if I'll never get used to Herlock Sholmes instead of Sherlock Holmes, haha. Speaking of, he's so much fun! He's so incredibly stupid sometimes and other times he's very crafty, which I guess does fit in with his canon origins, haha. So lame they couldn't just call him Sherlock in it.
I can definitely see why people were mad after the first one got released because it really is like half the story, you only get the full resolution in the second game, so I'm glad they released them together in English. It's a shame we probably won't get to see more of the cast's adventures! Thinking about the localization for it is interesting, since a lot of the flavor to it to me is the different British accents that show up in places. I remember Hato Moa talking about how the English localization was better than the original Japanese version because it was able to capture those nuances in English better than it could in Japanese, haha. There's huge differences in British accents that tell you a lot that are hard to convey in translation! And the localizers did a great job of it, I enjoyed all the Cockney rhyming slang and little quirks here and there, haha. Attention to detail! What was it, back in the day people used to get Britpickers to beta their Harry Potter fic for Americanisms and such, I wonder if people still do that? Woah tangent
Anyway it was really a fun localization, everyone had such a unique flavor to their text, I really wonder how it was conveyed in Japanese, if at all. The cultural intersection is SUCH a huge thing in the two games, and it's interesting to think that I'm coming to it from the English-speaking side, as opposed to the Japanese-speaking side who were the original intended audience. There are conversations at points about differences between Japanese and English - characters talking about how you'd translate "I love you" into Japanese, for example, which got into cultural differences where a Japanese person wouldn't state their feelings so clearly, and would say something a bit more subtle instead, like "the moon looks beautiful tonight, doesn't it?" It reminds me a bit of a part of the first Pokemon movie where Meowth and cloneMeowth are talking and he says talking about the moon at a time like that is tasteful, haha.
There was also a fun conversation about Kanji readings and names, like Shakespeare being shortened to Sao, and like Holmes wanting to know what his name would be in Japanese, and all stuff that's just like crack to me lol. I'M REALLY INTERESTED IN THIS KIND OF THING the language differences are so cool! All the small traits and such that reflect that language's culture! Loved having them talk about it and do cultural exchanges and talk about racism and prejudice and all that, it's just SO MUCH about the culture shock between the two, it's so much fun. It's crazy to think back to the first games and how they localized away as much of the Japanese flavor as they could, and now with this they just completely embrace it. So much time has passed, so much has changed...
Anyway the Great Ace Attorney is really good, I recommend it. Learned about a lot of weird taxes Britain had back in the day! Like a window tax and a paper tax. :O And a beard tax! While in Japan beards were outlawed, haha. Just fun things like that. Still wish they could've kept his name Sherlock though. Now I can finally look up Great Ace Attorney stuff without fear of spoilers! I actually managed to avoid almost all of them for TGAA even after all this time. :O
Man my eyes feel so bleary right now, I need to clean my glasses or something. I think it's just the exhaustion, haha. I should try to get some sleep...
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Hawkeye: Slice of Life by aimmyarrowshigh
Sep. 27th, 2025 10:33 pmbeatrice_otter posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fancakeFandom: Hawkeye, MCU
Pairings/Characters: Clint Barton, Kate Bishop, Bucky Barnes
Rating: teen
Length: 5k
Creator Links:![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
aimmyarrowshigh
Theme: food, team,
Summary:
“I’m not saying you need to decide right now. Or any time soon. But someday, you might want to walk away. And you’re luckier than most of the… superheroes… that I’ve ever known because you know what normal looks like. You know how to be normal. You can go back to normal if it’s what you want. And I know it’s not what you want right now, and I respect that, but I’m glad that it’s an option.”
Or, Clint and Kate challenge each other to prove they're the better New Yorker because they know the best food spots. Truths about superhero life and life in general come out along the way as they eat through the five boroughs.
Reccer's Notes: I love the humor and the support, and the way Clint mentors Kate.
Fanwork Links: Slice of Life
Pairings/Characters: Clint Barton, Kate Bishop, Bucky Barnes
Rating: teen
Length: 5k
Creator Links:
Theme: food, team,
Summary:
“I’m not saying you need to decide right now. Or any time soon. But someday, you might want to walk away. And you’re luckier than most of the… superheroes… that I’ve ever known because you know what normal looks like. You know how to be normal. You can go back to normal if it’s what you want. And I know it’s not what you want right now, and I respect that, but I’m glad that it’s an option.”
Or, Clint and Kate challenge each other to prove they're the better New Yorker because they know the best food spots. Truths about superhero life and life in general come out along the way as they eat through the five boroughs.
Reccer's Notes: I love the humor and the support, and the way Clint mentors Kate.
Fanwork Links: Slice of Life
Batman: Scheherazade by Cerusee
Sep. 27th, 2025 10:26 pmbeatrice_otter posting in fancakeFandom: Batman
Pairings/Characters: Jason Todd, Alfred Pennyworth
Rating: Gen
Length: 12k
Creator Links:Cerusee
Theme: food, trauma, family, angst,
Summary:
Alfred angles himself so he can stir the diced pancetta, sizzling away in the pan, and watch Jason at the same time. “You’ve never shared the particulars of your…missing years.”
"Yeah.” The rhythmic thunk thunk of the knife against the wood falters. “The missing years."
"I wish you would.”
Or, the one where Alfred drags the tale of Jason’s death and resurrection out of him piece by horrifying piece.
Reccer's Notes: There are a lot of stories about Jason reconciling with his family and them learning all the things that happened to him from his death and resurrection onwards. This has a lovely focus on Alfred, and the trauma that Jason suffered, and their relationship
Fanwork Links: Scheherazade
Pairings/Characters: Jason Todd, Alfred Pennyworth
Rating: Gen
Length: 12k
Creator Links:
Theme: food, trauma, family, angst,
Summary:
Alfred angles himself so he can stir the diced pancetta, sizzling away in the pan, and watch Jason at the same time. “You’ve never shared the particulars of your…missing years.”
"Yeah.” The rhythmic thunk thunk of the knife against the wood falters. “The missing years."
"I wish you would.”
Or, the one where Alfred drags the tale of Jason’s death and resurrection out of him piece by horrifying piece.
Reccer's Notes: There are a lot of stories about Jason reconciling with his family and them learning all the things that happened to him from his death and resurrection onwards. This has a lovely focus on Alfred, and the trauma that Jason suffered, and their relationship
Fanwork Links: Scheherazade
DS9: Hunger Pangs, by AuroraNova
Sep. 27th, 2025 10:15 pmbeatrice_otter posting in fancakeFandom: Deep Space Nine
Pairings/Characters: Kira Nerys
Rating: Gen
Length: 871 words
Creator Links:AuroraNova
Theme: food and cooking, worldbuilding, trauma & recovery, old fandoms, gen, female characters, backstory
Summary: Starfleet personnel mistake minor inconveniences for real suffering. Kira knows the difference all too well.
Reccer's Notes: This is short, but it packs a punch and explores the differences in perspective between Kira and the rest of the command staff in a very visceral way.
Fanwork Links: Hunger Pangs
Pairings/Characters: Kira Nerys
Rating: Gen
Length: 871 words
Creator Links:
Theme: food and cooking, worldbuilding, trauma & recovery, old fandoms, gen, female characters, backstory
Summary: Starfleet personnel mistake minor inconveniences for real suffering. Kira knows the difference all too well.
Reccer's Notes: This is short, but it packs a punch and explores the differences in perspective between Kira and the rest of the command staff in a very visceral way.
Fanwork Links: Hunger Pangs
FilkConbobulated! June 26-28 Des Moines IA
Sep. 27th, 2025 10:19 pmericcoleman posting in filkOk, we are doing this thing in a slightly different way. Because kickstarter has limitations on how they fundraise, we are doing this thru GoFundMe. HOWEVER, much like a kickstarter, there will be tiers for donations to the convention that get you different things. Badge level, Supporting Membership level, and Glad to help level. Come see!
https://gofund.me/70d28e045
https://gofund.me/70d28e045
So, I thought I was getting a palmsized scrubbie brush with a soap dispenser
Sep. 26th, 2025 08:48 pmconulybut it was a set of two regular palmsized scrubbie brushes for dishes. Which was disappointing, but E made the amazing discovery that they are really fun to smash together, bristle to bristle, so that's all right.
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Why More and More of Us Are Using Captions/Subtitles to Understand Dialog
Sep. 27th, 2025 01:30 pmjesse_the_kJust found a great episode on 20,000 Hz, a favorite podcast of mine.
SUBTITLES ON: WHY IS MOVIE DIALOGUE SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?
Answer at access_fandom, a comm I co-mod where we talk about making sure the full fandom experience works for all of us, no matter how our bodyminds work. Like many DW comms, it hosts useful knowledge going back a while, and is always ready to be revived.
Sherlock: you are what you eat (and you know what that is) by coloredink
Sep. 27th, 2025 12:33 pmgarryowen posting in fancakeFandom: Sherlock BBC
Pairings/Characters: Sherlock/John
Rating: Mature
Length: 3044 words
Creator Links:coloredink
Theme: Food and cooking
Summary: He just wanted John right down to the amino acids that made up his body, and he wanted them in his own body.
Content notes: Cannibalism. Sort of.
Reccer's Notes: This fic exemplifies what I loved about Sherlock fandom: the potential to explore rather uncommon ideas and concepts of love. Like Sherlock wanting to actually consume a physical part of John because he loves John so much. Coloredink is a fantastic writer on the sentence level, and they perfectly capture the energy of the Sherlock/John dynamic while also being funny as hell.
Fanwork Links: you are what you eat (and you know what that is)
Pairings/Characters: Sherlock/John
Rating: Mature
Length: 3044 words
Creator Links:
Theme: Food and cooking
Summary: He just wanted John right down to the amino acids that made up his body, and he wanted them in his own body.
Content notes: Cannibalism. Sort of.
Reccer's Notes: This fic exemplifies what I loved about Sherlock fandom: the potential to explore rather uncommon ideas and concepts of love. Like Sherlock wanting to actually consume a physical part of John because he loves John so much. Coloredink is a fantastic writer on the sentence level, and they perfectly capture the energy of the Sherlock/John dynamic while also being funny as hell.
Fanwork Links: you are what you eat (and you know what that is)
FilkConbobulated! June 26-28 Des Moines IA
Sep. 26th, 2025 09:39 pmericcoleman posting in filkWe are looking for an experienced Con Suite person. It is the one part that neither of us have ever worked on.
Email me at ericcoleman at gmail
Email me at ericcoleman at gmail
Leverage: simple machines, by vexedquestion
Sep. 27th, 2025 12:15 ambirdylion posting in fancakeFandom: Leverage
Pairings/Characters: Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer
Rating: M
Length: 61264 word long series (first work with 20345 words, second with 40919)
Creator Links:vexedquestion
Theme: food & cooking, bisexual/pansexual characters, polyamory, series
Summary:
part 1: you do not have to be good.
Come hell or high water, Eliot is going to figure this out.
part 2: your place in the family of things
He's here, he's queer, he's sort of getting used to it, or, Eliot realizes that he still has some work to do on understanding himself. With bonus new!team members.
Reccer's Notes:
This story features an Eliot Spencer who might have, in the back of his mind, known that he wasn't fully straight, but didn't let it sink in until he got close to having a relationship with Parker and Hardison. Growing up with the background homophobia of his childhood, and then the Don't Ask, Don't Tell of the military, he didn't think about it, didn't apply labels such as "bisexual" to himself. So realizing that he indeed wants a relationship with Parker and with Hardison leads to some serious reconsidering and soul-searching as he works through that. It is very much a "coming out later in life" story. The first part focuses on coming out to himself and his partners, and the second part focuses on finding his place in the wider queer community.
These stories feature a copious amount of food metaphors in the likes of "bretzels", actually co-owning a brewpub, and Eliot working through his feelings in late-night visits to the kitchen, and showing Parker and Hardison he loves them by cooking them food. The second part of the series especially is set in the brewpub as kind of a home base and develops the location as a legit place of business. For example Eliot creates longdrinks for the pub that convey his feelings, and they each are described at the end of chapter, it's delightful.
I like how the story portrays it as a multidimensional three-way-relationship: Each of the duos have their own relationship, and also the three of them function together in a way that's different than their two-way-relationships. Much like in canon, actually. Eliot is the POV character, and he has important scenes with Parker along, with Hardison alone, and with them both.
The first part is about figuring out how they work as a relationship together, about Eliot figuring out his queerness in relation to Parker and Hardison. The second part is about how that interacts with the outside world, portrayed through some very nicely flashed out side characters from the brewpub as well as another group of (rather young, very queer) criminals they're recruiting. In the second part especially, the focus is on their polyamory in that outsiders learn about it, and especially Eliot learns to show his love for his people.
Fanwork Links:
simple machines series link, ao3-locked
you do not have to be good. part one, ao3-locked
your place in the family of thingspart two, ao3-locked
Pairings/Characters: Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer
Rating: M
Length: 61264 word long series (first work with 20345 words, second with 40919)
Creator Links:
Theme: food & cooking, bisexual/pansexual characters, polyamory, series
Summary:
part 1: you do not have to be good.
Come hell or high water, Eliot is going to figure this out.
part 2: your place in the family of things
He's here, he's queer, he's sort of getting used to it, or, Eliot realizes that he still has some work to do on understanding himself. With bonus new!team members.
Reccer's Notes:
Bisexual/pansexual Characters
This story features an Eliot Spencer who might have, in the back of his mind, known that he wasn't fully straight, but didn't let it sink in until he got close to having a relationship with Parker and Hardison. Growing up with the background homophobia of his childhood, and then the Don't Ask, Don't Tell of the military, he didn't think about it, didn't apply labels such as "bisexual" to himself. So realizing that he indeed wants a relationship with Parker and with Hardison leads to some serious reconsidering and soul-searching as he works through that. It is very much a "coming out later in life" story. The first part focuses on coming out to himself and his partners, and the second part focuses on finding his place in the wider queer community.
Food & Cooking
These stories feature a copious amount of food metaphors in the likes of "bretzels", actually co-owning a brewpub, and Eliot working through his feelings in late-night visits to the kitchen, and showing Parker and Hardison he loves them by cooking them food. The second part of the series especially is set in the brewpub as kind of a home base and develops the location as a legit place of business. For example Eliot creates longdrinks for the pub that convey his feelings, and they each are described at the end of chapter, it's delightful.
Polyamory
I like how the story portrays it as a multidimensional three-way-relationship: Each of the duos have their own relationship, and also the three of them function together in a way that's different than their two-way-relationships. Much like in canon, actually. Eliot is the POV character, and he has important scenes with Parker along, with Hardison alone, and with them both.
The first part is about figuring out how they work as a relationship together, about Eliot figuring out his queerness in relation to Parker and Hardison. The second part is about how that interacts with the outside world, portrayed through some very nicely flashed out side characters from the brewpub as well as another group of (rather young, very queer) criminals they're recruiting. In the second part especially, the focus is on their polyamory in that outsiders learn about it, and especially Eliot learns to show his love for his people.
Fanwork Links:
simple machines series link, ao3-locked
you do not have to be good. part one, ao3-locked
your place in the family of thingspart two, ao3-locked
Gayle Rubin on Categories
Sep. 25th, 2025 08:50 pmlb_lee“Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The fact that categories invariably leak and can never contain all the relevant ‘existing things’ does not render them useless, only limited. Categories like ‘woman,’ ‘butch,’ ‘lesbian,’ or ‘transsexual’ are all imperfect, historical, temporary, and arbitrary. We use them and they use us. We use them to construct meaningful lives, and they mold us into historically specific forms of personhood. Instead of fighting for immaculate classifications and impenetrable boundaries, let us strive to maintain a community that understands diversity as a gift, sees anomalies as precious, and treats all basic principles with a hefty dose of skepticism.” —Gayle Rubin, “Of catamites and kings: Reflections on butch, gender, and boundaries,” The Persistent Desire: a Femme-Butch Reader, Boston: Alyson Publications, 1992, pg. 477-478
Rubin was talking about lesbian political fights about trans people and the overlap and boundaries between butch and transsexuality (and there’s LOTS of expressions of what we’d nowadays call trans and gender dysphoria in A Persistent Desire), but I think the same ideas apply to multi/plural/many-selved stuff too. Goodness knows I spent enough time chewing on my arm because I couldn’t figure out how to express a concept without it turning into a hopeless argument over the terms in use. This whole essay has a lot of great quotes (“sexual preference, gender roles, and political stance cannot be equated, and do not directly determine or reflect one another”) and is worth reading.
Also it’s just really nice to see an essay over thirty years old saying “cool your jets about trans people, it’s fine. Your politics will survive.”
Mori wants this book like burning. Too bad used paperbacks start at $100.
Rubin was talking about lesbian political fights about trans people and the overlap and boundaries between butch and transsexuality (and there’s LOTS of expressions of what we’d nowadays call trans and gender dysphoria in A Persistent Desire), but I think the same ideas apply to multi/plural/many-selved stuff too. Goodness knows I spent enough time chewing on my arm because I couldn’t figure out how to express a concept without it turning into a hopeless argument over the terms in use. This whole essay has a lot of great quotes (“sexual preference, gender roles, and political stance cannot be equated, and do not directly determine or reflect one another”) and is worth reading.
Also it’s just really nice to see an essay over thirty years old saying “cool your jets about trans people, it’s fine. Your politics will survive.”
Mori wants this book like burning. Too bad used paperbacks start at $100.
Rogue Corn by Nikki Wallschlaeger
Sep. 25th, 2025 06:23 pmconulyMy fav event as harvest season approaches
is the rough seed that escaped the plots.
If there’s a cornfield adjacent to another bed
of vegetables, you can count on imperfection,
you can see stalks standing where they’re
not supposed to be, the winds have ideas,
seeds who choose wildness, here they are,
with red potatoes, alfalfa, peas, sunflowers,
they look pleased w/ themselves, outfoxing
clever farmers, making it to the unplanned
ground where nobody is around, recovering
where the amiable dirt will welcome them.
Seeds are so fun and determined,
there’s no concept of liberty, no need for it,
guaranteed if I were a seedling I’d abstain,
you know I would, I’d find a way to renounce
what’s expected of my common name,
gliding over the roads until a dream takes root
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Link
is the rough seed that escaped the plots.
If there’s a cornfield adjacent to another bed
of vegetables, you can count on imperfection,
you can see stalks standing where they’re
not supposed to be, the winds have ideas,
seeds who choose wildness, here they are,
with red potatoes, alfalfa, peas, sunflowers,
they look pleased w/ themselves, outfoxing
clever farmers, making it to the unplanned
ground where nobody is around, recovering
where the amiable dirt will welcome them.
Seeds are so fun and determined,
there’s no concept of liberty, no need for it,
guaranteed if I were a seedling I’d abstain,
you know I would, I’d find a way to renounce
what’s expected of my common name,
gliding over the roads until a dream takes root
Link
À Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans; Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: Black Feasts, by Idlewild Designs.
Sep. 25th, 2025 05:20 pmfull_metal_ox posting in fancakeFandom: À Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans; Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Duc Jean des Essientes, Gray Mouser
Rating: General Audiences (although most of the beverages might be deemed Mature, depending on your country.)
Length: 542
Creator Links: Idlewild Designs (archived); I’ve not succeeded in recovering a name for the site owner.
Theme: Food & Cooking, Book Fandoms, Meta, Pre-AO3 Works, Research, Old Fandoms, Small Fandoms
Summary: The two literary passages cited serve that purpose:
Dining off black-bordered plates, the company had enjoyed turtle soup, Russian rye bread, ripe olives from Turkey, caviare, mullet botargo, black puddings from Frankfurt, game served in sauces the color of liquorice and boot-polish, truffle jellies, chocolate creams, plum-puddings, nectarines, pears in grape-juice syrup, mulberries and black heart cherries. From dark-tinted glasses they had drunk the wines of Limagne and Roussillon, of Tenedos, Valdepeñas and Oporto. And after coffee and walnut cordial, they had rounded off the evening with kvass, porter and stout.
— a black feast held to mourn the loss of the Duc des Esseintes's virility in A Rebours, by Huysman
The collation on the little ebony table beyond the coffin consisted entirely of black foods. By sight and then by nibbling and sipping the Mouser discovered their nature: thin slices of a very dark rye bread crusted with poppy seeds and dripped with black butter; slivers of charcoal-seared steak; similarly broiled tiny thin slices of calf's liver sprinkled with dark spices and liberally pricked with capers; the darkest grape jellies; truffles cut paper thin and mushrooms fried black; pickled chestnuts; and of course, ripe olives and black fish eggs—caviar. The black drink, which foamed when he poured it, turned out to be stout laced with the bubbly wine of Ilthmar.
— Fritz Leiber, "Bazaar of the Bizarre"
Reccer's Notes: With Halloween impending, this seemed an apropos topic.
Idlewild Designs was a 2000’s Geocities purveyor of Gothic, fantasy, literary, occult, rustic, Art Nouveau, and otherwise Bohemian aesthetic living tips; here they expand and elaborate upon the two literary feasts described, with potential ingredients listed by category and outlinks to recipes. (The site was still very much under construction by the time Geocities shut down; I’m assuming the business, at least in that stage, is by now as dead as Bela Lugosi and that this post doesn’t violate the OTW’s advertising ban.)
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So what items might you add to the list? Some suggestions of my own:
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Fanwork Links: Black Feasts, by Idlewild Designs (archived.)
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Duc Jean des Essientes, Gray Mouser
Rating: General Audiences (although most of the beverages might be deemed Mature, depending on your country.)
Length: 542
Creator Links: Idlewild Designs (archived); I’ve not succeeded in recovering a name for the site owner.
Theme: Food & Cooking, Book Fandoms, Meta, Pre-AO3 Works, Research, Old Fandoms, Small Fandoms
Summary: The two literary passages cited serve that purpose:
Dining off black-bordered plates, the company had enjoyed turtle soup, Russian rye bread, ripe olives from Turkey, caviare, mullet botargo, black puddings from Frankfurt, game served in sauces the color of liquorice and boot-polish, truffle jellies, chocolate creams, plum-puddings, nectarines, pears in grape-juice syrup, mulberries and black heart cherries. From dark-tinted glasses they had drunk the wines of Limagne and Roussillon, of Tenedos, Valdepeñas and Oporto. And after coffee and walnut cordial, they had rounded off the evening with kvass, porter and stout.
— a black feast held to mourn the loss of the Duc des Esseintes's virility in A Rebours, by Huysman
The collation on the little ebony table beyond the coffin consisted entirely of black foods. By sight and then by nibbling and sipping the Mouser discovered their nature: thin slices of a very dark rye bread crusted with poppy seeds and dripped with black butter; slivers of charcoal-seared steak; similarly broiled tiny thin slices of calf's liver sprinkled with dark spices and liberally pricked with capers; the darkest grape jellies; truffles cut paper thin and mushrooms fried black; pickled chestnuts; and of course, ripe olives and black fish eggs—caviar. The black drink, which foamed when he poured it, turned out to be stout laced with the bubbly wine of Ilthmar.
— Fritz Leiber, "Bazaar of the Bizarre"
Reccer's Notes: With Halloween impending, this seemed an apropos topic.
Idlewild Designs was a 2000’s Geocities purveyor of Gothic, fantasy, literary, occult, rustic, Art Nouveau, and otherwise Bohemian aesthetic living tips; here they expand and elaborate upon the two literary feasts described, with potential ingredients listed by category and outlinks to recipes. (The site was still very much under construction by the time Geocities shut down; I’m assuming the business, at least in that stage, is by now as dead as Bela Lugosi and that this post doesn’t violate the OTW’s advertising ban.)
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So what items might you add to the list? Some suggestions of my own:
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Fanwork Links: Black Feasts, by Idlewild Designs (archived.)
Headaches
Sep. 24th, 2025 08:09 amlb_leeWe have gotten way behind in digital communications and want to apologize. Since last Tuesday, we’ve been getting rolling migraines that we keep staving off, only to have them come back the next day, and screens make it worse. So much of our work involves computers that we’ve really had to strangle our digital activity if it’s not the most important. This is unusual for us and we don’t know why it’s happening; hopefully it’ll pass soon. If not, we may have to make more lifestyle adjustments.
Our brain and eyes just really don’t like bright or LED lights, guys.
Our brain and eyes just really don’t like bright or LED lights, guys.
Loss of Consort
Sep. 23rd, 2025 06:13 pmlb_leeRogan: Okay, so, in the "Summary of Legal Survey Data from the False Memory Syndrome Foundation" paper we talked about, we came across this contorted sentence:
Mori asked what the fuck "loss of consort by non-accused husbands of wives who are developing images of parental child abuse" meant. I replied that it sounded like "women dealing with memories of being abused don't want to fuck their husbands and that's so hard FOR THE HUSBANDS," but that sounded so over-the-top evil that even I couldn't believe the FMSF would say it.
Readers, I checked, and that's EXACTLY what it means. But why is this bad?
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"The most dramatic toll on families queried by the Legal Survey is loss of contact with children and grandchildren, loss of consort by non-accused husbands of wives who are developing images of parental child abuse, loss of privacy, injury to reputation, increased health problems and marital stress." (4)
Mori asked what the fuck "loss of consort by non-accused husbands of wives who are developing images of parental child abuse" meant. I replied that it sounded like "women dealing with memories of being abused don't want to fuck their husbands and that's so hard FOR THE HUSBANDS," but that sounded so over-the-top evil that even I couldn't believe the FMSF would say it.
Readers, I checked, and that's EXACTLY what it means. But why is this bad?
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This week on FilkCast
Sep. 23rd, 2025 05:05 pmericcoleman posting in filkLynn Barker & DC Fontana, Tera Mitchell, Critical Mass, Don Neill, Emory Churness, Marc S. Glasser, Linda Short, Pat Sheller, W. Randy Hoffman & Kira Heston, Dr. Jane Robinson, Karen Wilson, David Kushner, PDX Broadsides, Dr Stephen M Baird, Harmony Heifers
Available on iTunes, Google Play and most other places you can get podcasts. We can be heard Wednesday at 6am and 9pm Central on scifi.radio.
filkcast.blogspot.com
Available on iTunes, Google Play and most other places you can get podcasts. We can be heard Wednesday at 6am and 9pm Central on scifi.radio.
filkcast.blogspot.com
Recommended Reading Order
Sep. 23rd, 2025 04:57 pmlb_leeRogan: Someone who bought the Ebook mmmMEGAPACK confessed being overwhelmed by the gazillion titles, where to start, and how to read it. Which... fair. There's dozens of works in there.
(Some of these works may not be in the Megapack yet. Don't worry if you can't find a title.)
STANDALONES (READ WHENEVER)
RECOMMENDED READING ORDER FOR THE STUFF WHERE THAT MATTERS
Hope that helps!
(Some of these works may not be in the Megapack yet. Don't worry if you can't find a title.)
STANDALONES (READ WHENEVER)
RECOMMENDED READING ORDER FOR THE STUFF WHERE THAT MATTERS
Hope that helps!
Star Trek: Amok Time Cake, by jb612 and violetnebula19
Sep. 23rd, 2025 08:04 amrunpunkrun posting in fancakeFandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
Characters/Pairings: James T. Kirk's nipples
Rating: Not rated, but G+ for fondant nipples
Creator Link:![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
jb612 & violetnebula19
Theme: Food & Cooking, (Not Really) Character Death
Summary: A birthday cake.
Reccer's Notes: Our founderjerakeen once lamented that we hadn't ever had a fancake recced on the comm. Now that we've had The Untamed cupcakes, it reminded me I've had this rec sitting in my drafts for literal years, so: Please enjoy this beautifully rendered cake of James T. Kirk's nipple window as seen on TV in the episode Amok Time, 1967.
Fanwork Link: Star Trek Amok Time Cake
Characters/Pairings: James T. Kirk's nipples
Rating: Not rated, but G+ for fondant nipples
Creator Link:
Theme: Food & Cooking, (Not Really) Character Death
Summary: A birthday cake.
Reccer's Notes: Our founder
jerakeen once lamented that we hadn't ever had a fancake recced on the comm. Now that we've had The Untamed cupcakes, it reminded me I've had this rec sitting in my drafts for literal years, so: Please enjoy this beautifully rendered cake of James T. Kirk's nipple window as seen on TV in the episode Amok Time, 1967.Fanwork Link: Star Trek Amok Time Cake