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leftwinglibrarian replied to your post: One more Ragethirst reminder
How is this working? Might be able to come, would love details!
@leftwinglibrarian, we use Rabbit, which is a streaming platform. You’ll need an account but it’s free. About 20 minutes before we start, I’ll post the link to the room, you join, and you’ll see what’s on my screen and a chat window on the side.
We’d love to have you!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Eric Bittle/Jack Zimmermann Characters: Eric Bittle, Jack Zimmermann, Suzanne Bittle, Coach Bittle, MooMaw, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Future Fic, Canon Compliant, Magical Realism, Aphrodisiacs, good luck charms, Anal Sex, Blow Jobs, Making Out, Making Love, Rimming, Shower Sex, Butt Plugs, Enthusiastic Consent, Canada Day, Maple Syrup Kink, The Most Sensual Of All The Salted Cured Meats, Flashbacks, Food Porn, Fluff and Smut, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Humor, Madison - Freeform Series: Part 2 of You And No Other Summary:
Bitty's baking up a storm to surprise Jack with a party for Canada Day. But when a family good luck charm falls into the mix, all of Bitty's love, longing and lust for his fiancé get channeled into the food. It makes for an awkward evening for poor Jack, who is having food-induced sensual flashbacks with every bite! And he's not alone ...
aka "Bitty bakes while horny and it makes everyone else horny."
I just discovered this super charming fic by @leftwinglibrarian <3 Do yourself a favor and read this. If you love Zimbits, supportive Coach and Suzanne, magical realism and Like Water for Chocolate you’re going to love this little gem.
leftwinglibrarian replied to your post “If I ever run an omgcp meetup in Edmonton I swear to Glob we’re all...”
Oh man, I would fly home for that in a heartbeat.
What if it happened around the Christmas holidays so everyone in town to visit family could come
leftwinglibrarian replied to your post:I didn’t THINK today was going to be Wildehack’s...
ME ME ME!!!!
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT STEPHEN BLACK, FAIRY KING, AND WHO I THINK HE COULD REASONABLY GET IT ON WITH or not a fairy king--he’s still a mortal man, but when a mortal man becomes king of a faery realm the difference slowly goes away. ANYWAY, ON TO PEOPLE I THINK HE COULD GET IT ON WITH: 1) JOHN USKGLASS. Stephen and the Raven King occupy so much of the same mythological space. It’s only reasonable that the Raven King would come to check out his successor once he was finally crowned king of Lost-Hope. (Because, of course, he IS John Uskglass’s successor. John Uskglass was the nameless slave, raised in a foreign court, a King in Faery before he was a King in England, and he wrote about Stephen in his own Book. OBVIOUSLY the reason John Uskglass does this is because, three hundred years after abandoning England to take care of Other Matters, he’s finally settled on the matter of his succession. Stephen WILL be king of England--because he’ll be the King of the North.) Anyway, the Raven King shows up to teach the Nameless King about his duties and magical governance and eventually claiming the Northern throne, and the Nameless King is very hostile and indignant about all this at first, because he’s only JUST set Lost-Hope to rights, and he isn’t at all sure that England won’t be an even more disorderly mess (and anyway, he’s not sure about returning to England at all), and also John Uskglass is infuriating and infuriatingly handsome and they definitely make out on the other side of the rain. 2) JOHN CHILDERMASS. The cards have always told John Childermass that he’ll serve the cause of English Magic, that English magic will be his master and he will have no other, that one day he will meet his King. He is very surprized, therefore, to read on Vinculus’s left elbow that he has MET his king, and that he is destined to restore the throne in the North. Or: instead of attending to the Nameless King himself, the Raven King sends his vassal. Childermass shows up in Lost-Hope full of visions and prophecy and unseelie advice, and it’s killing him, because why should John Uskglass care if the conduit is used up, so long as it serves its purpose? He and Stephen bond over their years in service and the fact that they are both their own masters now--except for John Uskglass. A state of affairs neither of them is currently happy with. The heir and the vassal plan a coup. And they make out on the other side of the rain.
3) JOHN SEGUNDUS. (WHY IS EVERYONE CALLED JOHN.) John Segundus, a hapless Seer, ends up ensnared in a bargain with one of Stephen’s eldritch subjects that means he must spend seven years and a day in Faery before he may return to England. Stephen Black cannot stop his subjects from stealing Christian men and women, and he cannot revoke their bargains, but he CAN demand that his subjects turn them over to him, as tribute. John Segundus, therefore, is a guest in Lost-Hope for seven years and a day. He and Stephen obviously fall in love and make out on the other side of the rain. 4) ARABELLA STRANGE Arabella Strange, to the shock of her countrymen, turns out to have learnt exactly as much from Jonathan Strange as the servant Childermass learnt from Mr. Norrell, with the distinct advantage of having spent some time in a fairy court, learning their ways. Her decided goal, of course, is rescuing her husband. She does not succeed in so much as contacting the Dark Tower again--but she DOES manage to contact the King of Lost Hope. (Stephen is very shocked to find Arabella Strange’s image appear in a pool of spilled wine on the flagstones of Lost Hope. Arabella herself is determinedly staring into mirror after mirror, hoping for a glimpse of the Dark Tower.) After enquiring if Mr. Black himself would like to be rescued, and being reassured that being the King of Lost-Hope is quite different from being a prisoner in Lost-Hope, and much to be preferred to being a black servant in imperial England, Arabella asks whether Mr. Black might not contact her husband. As it turns out, that is perfectly within the power of the King of Lost-Hope. Arabella begins a correspondence with Jonathan through Stephen, but it quickly turns into a correspondence with Stephen himself, until the two of them are looking into the lees of wine cups and the reflections in mirrors simply to talk, simply to share with each other. Slow burn semi-epistolary romance, in other words, ending with the return of the Dark Tower, farewell kisses on the other side of the rain, and Mrs. Strange’s second more permanent disappearance into Faery. 5) EMMA POLE They’ve been each other’s only solace for years and years, and Lady Pole is NOT AT ALL PLEASED that everyone seems to have been rescued except for poor Stephen, who is still trapped in Faery. Her letters to the Prince Regent and the Cardinal and the Times are impassioned but ultimately futile, so Emma decides to do something about it herself. She is understandably leery of doing anything so rash as inviting more magic into herself, but as Sir Pratchett pointed out, offering up someone else’s liver never works. She drinks a potion brewed by the only magician she trusts--Segundus--and manages to visit Stephen in a dream. Stephen is unutterably glad to see her. It turns out that visiting Faery in dreams is only terrible when you are made to do terrible things. It is quite different when one is walking arm in arm with one’s favorite person in the world, discussing the running of a grand house, just as you imagined you would when you were going to be married, and he was your husband’s butler. Before either of them quite realize it, Emma is functionally the Queen of Lost Hope. 6) ARABELLA STRANGE AND EMMA POLE A combination of 5 and 6, with the additional context that Arabella and Emma are living together in Italy, not yet in sin (but Emma for one totally wishes they were.) Epistolary correspondence leads to a three-way, and two queens in Lost-Hope. 7) THE GENTLEMAN WITH THE THISTLEDOWN HAIR. (This one’s unrequited.) In the show, Stephen buries the Gentleman in a tree within his own ballroom. It’s unclear if the Gentleman is alive or dead--I’m calling him alive, but imprisoned, like Merlin, in the tree. Stephen often goes down to speak to him. The gentleman rants continually of Stephen’s betrayal, of Stephen’s wickedness, but is sometimes persuaded to sulkily give up the history of his kingdom, the secrets to ruling a Faery brugh. Couldn’t you have loved me, Stephen? the gentleman asks plaintively, from his hollow prison. Couldn’t you have loved me at all?
leftwinglibrarian replied to your post: oh hey there space fam! happy Friday! I’m on the...
I thought Oscar couldn’t get hotter than mussed-hair Poe, but lately he’s been pulling this silver fox/middle-aged dad thing where he looks ready to spend the weekend at my kids’ soccer games and the farmers market and it is slowly killing me. Also, we need more John. Haven’t seen him popping up as much lately and I miss him.
You’re so right! If I knew how to use Snapchat, I’d subscribe to John’s feed or whatever it is one does, but that’s above my technological pay grade. So I’m forced to resort to google images to search for photos of his eyes to get the color right. (I mean, ok, obviously they’re brown, but there are so many different kinds of brown! And uh look ok I just needed an excuse to stare at him for an hour. Time very well spent.)
To be honest, I don’t really go for the gray ‘n’ bearded look for Oscar Isaac---facial hair is an instant no for me on anyone---but I think I’m probably in the minority on this one. The look I love more than anything else is that Force Awakens premiere sharp Clark Kent look. But to each their own dreamboat! There are plenty of photos for all.
So happy Friday, and enjoy talking to Oscar at your kids’ next soccer game. :D
luminousfinn answered your question “Ok space fam, it’s poll time again. If, hypothetically speaking, there...”
I can speak only for myself, but that's too big an age gap for me. I have a very arbitrary limit that says 10 years tops, anything above is a no. Okay, MAYBE if a writer did a lot of work, but generally no (power and experience gap just makes it nah)
stardusteddameron:
honestly unless jess was under 30 it'd kind of squick me out (age gap is part of the reason i can't go for jedistormpilot)
leftwinglibrarian:
The age gap is part of why I don't like Rey/Poe. It's just a little TOO big. If they were 57 and 44, not such a big deal, but 19 to 32 is SUCH a huge gap, kwim? Does Jess have to be Poe's age? I've always assumed she was younger, like early 20s?
nekosmuse:
Creepy. You could make her poes younger adopted sister.
Thanks, guys! It’s unanimous: Emperor-level creepy. I’m glad you all agree, because honestly, I share the ten-year limit. Poe and Finn just barely squeak under, but even then I don’t like to linger on the age gap between them, and I feel like Finn’s life experience would have matured him beyond his actual age.
And yeah, I usually write Jess as Jessica Henwick’s age (24 now), but in this AU, Jess has to be Poe’s age for Reasons. Rey should be 19, also for Reasons. So I’m going to have to rewrite a tiny section involving the two of them, because I wrote it before actually doing the math...
But that’s ok! Because ace!Rey said hi this afternoon, a few minutes after I posted this. And I’m excited to write that scene, so I think (hope?) it’s all good. Thanks so much for your advice!
leftwinglibrarian replied to your post “animalasaysrauer: Who do I speak to about being addicted to writing?...”
Yeah, this is like asking your dealer if you should quit heroin. We are NOT compelled to get you to quit. But did you ever stop to think of us, your adoring fans, who are addicted to your writing and will suffer horrible withdrawals once you slow down? Think of the children, KJ! (And by children I mean you know, women in their 20s/30s/40s/whatevers who cannot survive a day without an update)
I quite agree. Whatever will I do without a new chapter to look forward to every day? @animalasaysrauer, the world is waiting for you! <3
buttons-beads-lace replied to your post:Back to my office job in my windowless isolation...
I’d say something coherent and sympathetic re: noise overriding thought, but my girlfriend is watching tv right now so…
ughhhh there is no television set in my house so I am mostly spared this. at the farm, there *is* a TV, but it is rarely on, and if it is, I can just go sit in the office or the kitchen or you know, out to the ger, or up to the guest room which is also a sewing room sometimes, and so on. So.
but I really didn’t expect it to happen at work. Ugh ugh ugh. It just-- you know, when I go out to restaurants, I sometimes have to hunt to try and find a seat from which I can’t see a TV-- and sometimes that’s a vain quest. Those are the places I don’t go back to. Even on mute, a TV will destroy my ability to focus on conversation.
I used to think it was because I was brought up on strictly limited screen time, but you know, a book will do the same thing. It’s just ADHD and I’ve never gotten a diagnosis.
leftwinglibrarian replied to your post “Back to my office job in my windowless isolation chamber. First thing...”
Paw Patrol is the most annoying children's show currently on the air! I'm so sorry you had to sit through that!
I have had to sit through a lot of children’s shows lately. I can usually sort of wander away. I actually got kind of absorbed in Octonauts recently. And my brother-in-law, all gangling six-feet-two of him, in an effort to make his daughter interact a little more instead of zoning out to the TV, dances along to Octonauts’ Creature Report whenever it comes on, and it’s so charming I can’t bring myself to hate the show, even if it is sort of stupid and weird. (WHY are the turnips also fish? I don’t understand! And their accents? Why? What is even going on? Most importantly where do they get the funding for so many gadgets?? I must know.)
Daniel Tiger is possibly the worst to sit through because of the near-constant repeats of catchy little ditties. I mean, they’ll literally sing a one-line ditty four hundred times in a twenty-minute episode, with key changes and all. BUT, i can’t bring myself to hate it because it is the only reason Farmbaby has reached several behavioral milestones, because she internalizes the ditties. “Grown-ups come back” got her to stop screaming whenever her mother left, and there’s a thing about taking a deep breath and counting to four that has actually defused a couple of tantrums, and they definitely teach a lot about Using Your Words that has come in really really handy. So I can’t resent it, but it’s also clearly for little-little-little kids.
The one I kind of hate is Nature Cat, because his weird Errol Flynn persona is so unexplained. Why the hell does he have “Tally-ho!” as a catchphrase? I just can’t even figure out what his schtick is supposed to be.
And bizarrely, I’m utterly charmed by Peg Plus Cat. I hate math but the weirdly polite pirates and the fact that she jams out on a ukelele so much and I’ve only seen like three episodes but there was one whole one that was just nonstop a musical pastiche of the Mozart opera The Magic Flute (it was called The Magic Uke) and it was so fucking great, for no reason, and the Queen of the Night’s aria was phenomenal and i don’t remember what they’d changed the lyrics to be about but the performance was great, the voice actress was genuinely a soprano who was genuinely just fucking going for it on that whole incredibly difficult part the aria’s famous for, and I thought, man, whoever this is-- I wished there was another adult in the room, because farmbaby was just watching slack-jawed, and nobody could possibly understand what was so great about this. -- whoever that voice actress is, I hope that’s the crowning central jewel of her portfolio, because it was fantastic.
Clearly I have spent a lot of time overhearing the PBS Kids’ app. And if I’m trying to, like, clean a toilet or fold laundry or cook supper, it’s one thing, especially because I can leave the room if it gets to be too much, but I was trying to sort through invoices and was trapped in my seat, and it was a goddamn nightmare.
