The School Reader, Fifth Book

Jul. 29th, 2025 07:32 pm
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The School Reader, Fifth Book: Designed As A Sequel To Sanders' Fourth Reader by Charles Walton Sanders

An 1859 book presenting texts for elocution classes. Probably mostly of interest for the selections, chosen for the edification of the young as well as the elocution -- and to keep them interested. Often has several selections on the same topic. For instance, at one point, the condor. Eulogies on Thomas Jefferson and John Adams -- both, considering their common death date -- and on John Quincy Adams. Among many other topics.
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Title: Super Moisture Milk
Fandom/Pairing: Sasaki to Miyano - Sasaki/Miyano
Summary: When Miyano gets a sunburn, it's Sasaki's time to shine.
Rating: PG
Content: Fluff, teenage boy romance, hurt/comfort
Disclaimer: I did not create these characters, they belong to Harusono Shô. I'm just borrowing them to act out my fantasies, while not earning any money whatsoever from it.
Notes: 550+ words. Written for the prompt sunburn. I've had great help from [personal profile] zabimitsuki with beta and suggestions. :)

Read it here: DW | AO3
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2025/116: The Friend — Dorothy Koomson
Yvonne began to laugh. ‘You’re all so funny!’ she screeched. ‘You all act like you’re best mates, but really? You’re all so fucking pathetic with your stupid secrets and lies. I bet none of you know what I know about all of you.’ [loc. 5920]

Read for book club. Cece Solarin has just given up her job and moved to Brighton with her huband Sol and their three children: Sol's been promoted, and is seldom around. On her boys' first day at school Cece discovers that a popular parent, Yvonne, is in a coma after being attacked one night in the school playground. The brittle, fearful, suspicious atmosphere makes it even harder than she expected to make friends and connections, but she becomes friendly with three other young mothers -- Maxie, Hazel and Anaya, each of whom was friends with Yvonne, and each of whom has a Big Secret in her past.

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Alone At Last [Haru/Ren; PG-13]

Jul. 28th, 2025 12:22 pm
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Title: Alone At Last
Fandom/Pairing: Super Lovers - Haru/Ren
Summary: There are worse things than being stuck together during a typhoon...
Rating: PG-13
Content: Adopted sibling incest, age gap, caught in the act, making out
Disclaimer: スーパーラヴァーズ is the property of Abe Miyuki, I'm just borrowing the characters to play with them. No people, either real or fictional, were hurt or abused in the writing of this story.
Notes: 650+ words. Written for the prompt bad weather. Many thanks to [personal profile] zabimitsuki for beta-reading this for me! :)

Read it here: DW | AO3
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2025/115: A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II — Elizabeth Wein
“Nobody knows the exact day when they started calling us night witches,” said pilot Serafima Amosova. “We were fighting in the Caucasus near the city of Mozdok... We were bombing the German positions almost every night, and none of us was ever shot down, so the Germans began saying these are night witches, because it seemed impossible to kill us or shoot us down.” [loc. 2889]

I love Wein's novels, which are mostly about young women during WW2, so thought I'd try her non-fiction. A Thousand Sisters is an account of female Soviet pilots in the Second World War -- the infamous 'Night Witches' -- who flew fighter planes and were united by the desire to 'liberate their land'. Many of them were teenagers: some were mothers. A third of female pilots did not survive.

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As a Princess Tutu fan, I've found that a lot of potentially useful information and announcements (such as new merch or events) are not only in Japanese with no English version, lately they're only on twitter. I have no plans to make a twitter account in this day and age, so i have to use alternate front ends like nitter.poast just to read a single thread and look at the concept art posted in it.

If I try to view the account's main page through the actual twitter (or "x") front end, it's several months behind the actual most recent posts. I only learned about a few events like pop-up shops long after they'd ended due to this. And twitter is a very badly formatted site for archival deep-dives into the account's earlier tweets... there's one tweet that talks about how Rue/Kraehe was originally going to be a comedic villianess with rat sidekicks in a sort of Time Bokan inspired setup with Rue as the Doronjo figure, but I can't figure out how to pull it up easily.

I'm wondering if any other fandoms have developed means to properly document and translate information from social media - especially as conventional socmed grows increasingly hostile to people who don't have accounts. Most wikis seem to fall horribly behind with documentation, and the kind of fansites that would document obscure trivia just don't seem to exist in the way they used to. If twitter still allowed the formation of RSS feeds, I would happily inject one into my feed for some of my more obscure shows, but as it currently stands... I can't even read Japanese, I use machine translation or pass individual tweets to friends who can. But even without translation, sometimes there's official and production art I can't find anywhere else.

I know the kind of fandom that dominates dreamwidth has always tended more "transformative" than "curative", but curation is and has always been very important to me as a fangirl - I constantly cross-reference whatever official materials I can get when I'm making art or writing fic, even if I'm intentionally going against the work's original intent or themes. I feel really lonely in this struggle, so I'm wondering if anyone has any advice.

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 10 by Kanehito Yamada

Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes

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[324] THUNDERBOLTS*

Jul. 26th, 2025 08:37 pm
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---[324] THUNDERBOLTS* spoilers under cut
[x]324 yelena belova


(We used to throw thunderbolts;)

Watched Castlevania Nocturne

Jul. 26th, 2025 02:27 pm
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So I finished watching Castlevania Nocturne and while not as good as the first series it had its moments and characters were good for the most part. I'm fine giving it its own universe apart from the games canon since the story works well in all honesty. I have my nitpickings about it but they're very small to even announce on my post.

Overall I had a good time watching and I hope there will be another new series sometime

I will end this post with Richter giving the clothesline from hell meanwhile.

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Title: 'Tis But A Flesh Wound
Fandom/Pairing: Bleach - implied Renji/Byakuya
Summary: Even when he's injured, Renji wants to be by Byakuya's side...
Rating: G
Content: Unrequited crush, hurt/comfort
Disclaimer: The world and characters of Bleach are not mine, they all belong to Kubo Tite. I just play with them, using them as paper dolls.
Notes: 300+ words. Written for the prompt denial. Just a little something I wrote to try to break through a spot of writer's block. It somehow turned out to be a sequel to "Hero Complex". Many thanks to [personal profile] zabimitsuki for beta-reading this for me! :)

Read it here: DW | AO3

Dracula

Jul. 26th, 2025 11:16 am
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Dracula by Bram Stoker

The original. An epistolary novel starting with a young man going on a lawyer's behalf to Transylvania and discovering much trouble there, followed by increasing horrors.
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Malleable (1,930 words) by tropicsbear
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sk8 the Infinity (Anime)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nanjo Kojirou | Joe/Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom, Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom & Shindo Ainosuke | Adam, Background Kikuchi Tadashi/Shindo Ainosuke | Adam
Additional Tags: Pectorals, Groping, Humor, Read Author's Notes
Summary: Kaoru’s figured out a very efficient way to manage his stress. Kojirou will just have to deal with it.

Why can’t he knead Kojirou’s pecs until all the stress is gone from his system? They’re right there!"

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 9

Jul. 25th, 2025 05:53 pm
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 9 by Kanehito Yamada

Adventures continue. Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes

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Monthly culture, June 2025

Jul. 25th, 2025 09:48 am
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07JUN25: Siena: the Rise of Painting 1300-1350 -- National Gallery
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12JUN25: In Her Place (Alberdi, 2024) -- Netflix
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14JUN25: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare / Hytner) -- Bridge Theatre
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19JUN25: Sparks -- Eventim Apollo
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20JUN25: Fiddler on the Roof (Bock / Harnick) -- Barbican Theatre
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Also a round of appointments with spine consultant, culminating in aspiration of an L5 synovial cyst and a bracing dose of steroid nerve block.
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2025/114: The Scandalous Letters of V and J — Felicia Davin
...on the way over Aunt S said, “The people we’re about to meet may tell you shocking things about me.”
“Shocking things like how you’ve aided your niece-nephew in perverting the social order and defying nature itself?” I asked.
“Oh, is that what you’re doing?” Aunt S said. “The social order seems intact to me. And if it’s your goal to defy nature, you might have to put in a bit more work.” [p. 172]

A young person -- 'I'd rather be Victor than Victorine' -- is evicted from the family home, and moves to Paris with their Aunt Sophie. In a run-down boarding house they encounter art student Julien, who is also Julie and who doesn't want to be trapped into being 'one or the other when I've always been both'. 

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 8

Jul. 24th, 2025 08:01 pm
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 8 by Kanehito Yamada

Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes

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Hero Complex [Renji+Byakuya; PG]

Jul. 24th, 2025 04:15 pm
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Title: Hero Complex
Fandom/Pairing: Bleach - Renji + Byakuya
Summary: Sometimes Renji rushes into things a little carelessly...
Rating: PG
Content: Injury
Disclaimer: The world and characters of Bleach are not mine, they all belong to Kubo Tite. I just play with them, using them as paper dolls. No people, either real or fictional were hurt in the writing of this story.
Notes: 350+ words. Written for the prompt protection. Many thanks to [personal profile] zabimitsuki for beta-reading this for me! :)

Read it here: DW | AO3

Pet Toy [Kau/Akira; R]

Jul. 24th, 2025 03:39 pm
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Title: Pet Toy
Fandom/Pairing: Togainu no Chi - Kau/Akira
Summary: Arbitro enjoys drugging his guests, and Akira is no exception...
Rating: R
Content: Canon-compliant awfulness, loss of consciousness, non-con, hurt/comfort...
Disclaimer: Togainu no Chi and all the characters in it are owned by Nitro+CHiRAL. I'm only borrowing them. No disrespect intended and I'm not earning any money from writing this. No people, either real or fictional, were hurt in the writing of this story.
Notes: 300+ words. Written for the prompt unconsciousness. It's a little something I wrote during a drabbling session on my birthday together with my friend. Many thanks to [personal profile] zabimitsuki for beta-reading this for me! :)

Read it here: DW | AO3

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 7

Jul. 23rd, 2025 09:34 pm
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 7 by Kanehito Yamada

Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes

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Thick As Pleasure [Saga/Jack; PG-13]

Jul. 23rd, 2025 03:37 pm
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Title: Thick As Pleasure
Fandom/Pairing: Visual Prison - Saga/Jack
Summary: The ritual of blood drinking between vampires is one of Jack's favourites...
Rating: PG
Content: Vampires, blood drinking, blood play, age difference
Disclaimer: The characters and world of Visual Prison belongs to A-1 Pictures studio. I'm just borrowing them for some transformative fiction for my own pleasure. No people, either real or fictional, were hurt in the writing of this story.
Notes: 200+ words. Written for the prompt blood loss. It's a little something I wrote during a drabbling session on my birthday. Many thanks to [personal profile] zabimitsuki for hanging out with me and beta-reading this for me! :)

Read it here: DW | AO3

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