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also today on our way home from the game my bf mentioned his data was out so he couldn't use spotify and also his airpods were dead and I sat there smugly with my iPod packed with music and wired earbuds in my purse and gave him The Look and he was just like. don't. don't start with me.

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This is not a martini. This is chilled vodka served up with a twist. You can enjoy chilled vodka served up with a twist! That’s fine! You should drink whatever you want! But a martini is a cocktail. 

Now, you can argue perhaps that martini has become a way of drinking, as seen in something like an ‘espresso martini’ which contains no vermouth but is served in a martini glass. Language does change. But that example is still a cocktail, not just chilled espresso served up. There are ingredients.* Call it whatever you want in your own house (and playing around with barware on your own time is so fun, please do it.) However...

When things like this become popular I wait for them to trickle down and someone to order one from me. Usually I don’t care - I loved when sbagliatos had their day for example, that’s a glorious drink (and a nice upcharge 😎). But if you come to me in my dive bar arcade, fail to read the room, and order a ‘naked vodka martini’ as I am seeing this called you are going to be in for a shock, because I don’t have martini glasses. I don’t even have glass glasses! You are getting a chilled (and therefore diluted) double shot of Titos in a Pizza Hut cup, my friend, and you are paying 16 dollars for it. Enjoy.

*(The lemon doesn’t count, and she swipes the pith not the peel, terrible form.)

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I really enjoyed Our Flag Means Death, and have been recommending people watch it. But other than scrolling past the fanart and saying aw that's cute, I don't find myself compelled to seek out fandom content? And I think it's because I liked it for what it is and am willing to wait for a second season to see where it goes.

It's not the first time I've watched, liked, and said ‘OK that's that’ about something - everyone and their brother got into The Untamed and I gave it a shot and enjoyed it (ok I kinda skimmed thru the middle) but it satisfied and there wasn't any drive to look it up afterward. (Other than adding sex scenes where there were none in the show, I found myself a bit confused as to what people were even doing with the story.) 

It has me wondering - not for the first time, and I may have mentioned it before - if I really only look up content for things that were in some way flawed, or perhaps just things that are more mutable, where I wonder what changes to the canon would produce. I mean, my first forays into transformative* fandom were in BtVS and there are a lot of annoyances there in the canon, and multitudinous ships. With writing I really cut my teeth in Drarry and I don't have to tell you how much bullshit is in HP that requires fixing. (Much of it done out of outright spite.) There are then things like LoTR, TES, and ASOIAF** where I will read fandom stuff but most of my engagement has been looking into canon lore through maps encyclopedias etc.

I guess when it comes to consuming/creating fandom content, I like a vast universe with many characters and a lot of nuts and bolts world building that can easily be fucked with, and need some kind of dissatisfaction with the canon. Also let's not forget it's fun to queer otherwise not-overtly queer canons. If it's already well-written and queer, what's there to do with it?*** A rhetorical question, as y'all are obviously finding things to create! Godspeed to you all!

So there's an actual question for my mutuals: do you find yourself compelled to read/write/otherwise engage in transformative fandom content for things you enjoyed and wouldn't really change in canon? Why?

*I say transformative because I’m not really counting just posting a screencap or GIF of the actual canon

**the reaction - or non-reaction, as it were - in the wake of the GoT ending has always amused me. You’d expect massive fix-its to flourish, and maybe they did in corners I didn’t see, but the top pairings on AO3 that year didn’t reflect that, IIRC. I haven’t much checked back since, because navigating ASOIAF fic is a nightmare due to overtagging.

***Not sure how this explains my deep descent into Devilman, as I love the 1972 manga: the ending is tragic, but that's the point, and it works, and the canon is already queer. Trying to move it toward a happy ending is fun, and I am currently trying my hand at it, but it's not because I think the ending is 'bad.' Later installments like Lady are their own can of worms, but it doesn't look like other fans really mess with that, either; I've never seen a novel length DML fix-it, for example. Ugh, don't fucking tempt me.

[lower-east-side]

someone just texted me to ask if we could move a thing we have planned “tomorrow” up to 2 pm, and I was panicking because what? it’s 7 am and I’m on my way to bed now? i’ll only get like 5 hours of sleep?

and then I realized ‘tomorrow’ for them is sunday, because today is in fact saturday, regardless of the fact I refuse to acknowledge the day has changed until I sleep and so for me it’s very much still friday

man forget time zones, nocturnal vs diurnal people is the real confusion

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Sharing a bedroom with a roommate and therefore being relegated to the living room much of the day while she has zoom meetings has MOSTLY worked out for me, until I’m trying to edit a sex scene and my other roomie wants to exercise, and there is a LOT I can block out but a dude huffing an puffing with weights 10 feet away from me while I figure out the comma splices in this blowjob is NOT one of them

lol I told him that too, and now share-room roomie is yelling out from her (hopefully muted) work meeting "you get to copy edit a blowjob?! no fair!" because she's also editing right now but for beauty product labels

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I must vent somewhere about this: I’m catsitting for my bosses and they said I could drink whatever is here, which awesome, y’all OWN a bar, you must have good stuff right? No! Just cheap triple sec, a bottle of Atlantis which is our freaking well rum, and unrefrigerated vermouth. And a 1/3 bottle of Four Roses which like, thank fuck. 

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Today I gave a skateboard I had lying around in the hallway to my upstairs neighbor, and she's like, oh I thought this was your boyfriends! I just realized she meant my roommate Jordan  (aka drunk chatty roommate #1)  NO NO NO  

I need to get a shirt that says I DON’T DATE STRAIGHT MEN on it in all caps geez ew

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There’s a girl in the bar who has been trying to get her boyfriend to leave for an hour and a half but he made a new friend who runs a cyberpunk tabletop game and is explaining it in great detail while this dude listens enraptured and she gets more and more pissed and I am very sorry for her but I cannot stop laughing