just a stoic statue, fit for nobody

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[josilverdragon]

Josilverdragon’s Fanfic Rec List

Updated version of my fic rec list, now utilizing notion. I continually make updates to it so if it changes format, please don't be surprised.

This is a multifandom rec list and is separated into individual fandoms. There could be 100 fics recc'd or one as the case is in a couple of them.

Enjoy!

Josilverdragon’s Fanfic Rec List

[josilverdragon]

New term I learned today, Saturday July 18 2026. "Butthole Covid" courtesy of Michael Kosta on The Daily Show. Segment starts at the 28:07 mark of this video:

[josilverdragon]

I visited the nearest county library branch to pick up a copy of Yesteryear to read and ended up walking away with 5 other books lol. My reading habits have been shit for the last several years, probably near a decade at this point but I was inspired by two friends. I've read 19 this year as a result, which is pretty good for me. I think I reached 25 two or three years ago, but last year I didn't even hit 12.

Anyway, I picked up the following:

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin

Prequel by Rachel Maddow

Star-Spangled Jesus by April Ajoy

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. Mandel

We'll see if I read them all by the time I need to return them. Also, I think I may make it a habit to stop by the library on Thursday nights because it's quiet and cool and I can just hang out and read for a little bit. It'll give me a place away from home to go until I work up the motivation to try the other idea.

When my stepdad goes back to bowling in the fall, that will change as I'll need to come home and feed the horses but we'll see how the summer goes. Thursdays work best for me with the library because they are open until 8pm. Otherwise, the other days they're open they close too early. And due to budget issues as a result of various things, they aren't open every day.

[josilverdragon]

Entering into another I hate everything day.

[runawaymarbles]

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

[zz9pzza]

Op's tags

#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op

[runawaymarbles]

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

[kyraneko]

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

[jeffsatyr]

(ID in alt)

[elodieunderglass]

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

[pauvre-lola]

mooneyed 🌙🗡️

[prideandprejudice]

HOLLANOV + PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)

[nanzyn]

your world is dying. your husband presumably dies in space so now you're a widow and your world is still dying. then 50-ish years later your husband everyone assumed was dead pulls up in a random spaceship full of a highly volatile atmosphere with the solution to your impending apocalypse and none of the original crew from his mission and instead with a wet, blobby alien that he pack bonded with and almost died for and is now emotionally codependent on that now wont stop complaining about the temperature of the water in its enclosure. your name is adrian and you dont know how you got here

[nanzyn]

your world is dying. your husband presumably dies in space so now you're a widow and your world is still dying. then 50-ish years later your husband everyone assumed was dead pulls up in a random spaceship full of a highly volatile atmosphere with the solution to your impending apocalypse and none of the original crew from his mission and instead with a wet, blobby alien that he pack bonded with and almost died for and is now emotionally codependent on that now wont stop complaining about the temperature of the water in its enclosure. your name is adrian and you dont know how you got here

[laterdayze-deactivated20240910]

do you ever look back at your relationship with someone on the internet and just think oh my god i’m so fucking glad i clicked follow they make my life so much better

[cosmofrogg]

[ashlgcostumes]

I pull up my slide show. The first slide says “I do not want to financially support the Church of the Latter Day Saints in any way”. There are murmurs of agreement and approval from the room

Next slide. “Brandon Sanderson is a member of the LDS”. The muttering has changed tone

“It’s not a very big amount of money though.” Someone in the audience pipes up. “His cut is only a small fraction of the cost of the book, and then-“ my next slide shows an income breakdown, it is titled ‘a small fraction of $10,000,000 is still a big number’

I’m sweating. The following slides explain tithing rules. The vibe of the room has shifted. I start to doubt I’m getting out of here alive

[darthbob88]

> “It’s not a very big amount of money though.” Someone in the audience pipes up. “His cut is only a small fraction of the cost of the book, and then-“ my next slide shows an income breakdown, it is titled ‘a small fraction of $10,000,000 is still a big number’

Plus, personally, a fraction of a fraction of the $15 I pay for a book is still more than I really want to pay for the LDS's opposition to LGBTQ rights.

[josilverdragon]

There must be a valley between two hills.

~ German proverb

[josilverdragon]

Personal - random memory (TW Racism)

One of my formative memories from when I was a pre-teen or just barely a teen, is when I realized my grandfather, my mother's dad, was racist.

I was staying with him and his significant other who wasn't quite my grandma but close enough. She was a grandma in her own right but wasn't married to my grandpa. They'd gotten together a few years prior. Anyway, I digress. I wanted to watch Eddie Murphy's Coming to America and it just so happened to be on TV. As the movie started, my grandpa said "Every man should have 5 of them," while gesturing to the TV. I turned to look at him like "did I just hear that for reals". Then I just turned back and continued to watch the movie.

It hadn't ever occurred to me that my family was racist, or rather my grandfather. It was soon after that I started learning more and reading more about MLK Jr. and the time of civil rights protests and so on. I was like damn, I am not going to be like that.

There are moments when my own mom has been racist and I'm sure me, because there's the societal norms I was raised in, but I keep educating myself. I keep learning.

[hasdrubal-gisco]

Stealing this from twitter but I liked the concept: put in the tags where were your 8 great-grandparents from (given modern borders) ?

[biancodinera-deactivated2026011]

[wintersoldierfell]

[letmeinimafairy]

Back to the classic with icebound HMS Terror on labradorite, a long-awaited gift for a dear friend.