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snickficIn late 2019, I:
- Watched Todd in the Shadows's video on Be Here Now
- Fell in love with "D'You Know What I Mean," opening track of Be Here Now, and listened to it about fifty times via the Youtube music video (you know the one, with the actualfax helicopters)
- Found Cerberusia's Yuletide prompt for Oasis omegaverse
- Listened to their first two albums. I liked the second album a little better, and on the second or third loop of it playing on Youtube in the background (because I hadn't even subscribed to Tidal yet), I went hey, this song's neat, I wonder what it's called? Friends, it was Wonderwall.
- Watched Supersonic, their two-hour documentary/extremely high-end marketing film.
- Watched a bunch of archive interviews on Youtube, read a bunch more. Fell alllllll the way down the rabbit hole. Collected all the links in a giant word doc that I maintain to this day and which formed the basis of the primer I posted a few months later.
- Wrote 5k of Oasis omegaverse porn. (Got an approving comment on it from one of the OG omegaverse writers!!)
Six years!! I can't believe all that's happened since. 2019 was the absolute nadir of their relationship, and now they hug on stage every night while grinning at each other like soppy adoring idiots. (You see what I mean.) I've written almost 120k of fic and stuck around more or less continuously for longer than I've been in any other fandom. I've seen Liam solo three times, Noel once, and Oasis twice. These gigs have taken me to London, Manchester, and Dublin (twice), after only having been to Europe once before, and have led me to meeting up with a bunch of friends while overseas, some for the first time IRL.
Meanwhile the world in general and I personally have gone through a lot of shit that continues unabated. It's been a very long six years.
The weather here has turned wet and cold, just as it was when I first listened to What's the Story Morning Glory on repeat in 2019. I put the album on in car this weekend, and the big wailing guitars and Liam's voice, helped along by the same grim autumn weather in which I first heard these songs, took me straight back to that original thrill of discovery.
We take our joy where we find it. I have found a lot of mine the past few years in this band and especially these two guys.
- Watched Todd in the Shadows's video on Be Here Now
- Fell in love with "D'You Know What I Mean," opening track of Be Here Now, and listened to it about fifty times via the Youtube music video (you know the one, with the actualfax helicopters)
- Found Cerberusia's Yuletide prompt for Oasis omegaverse
- Listened to their first two albums. I liked the second album a little better, and on the second or third loop of it playing on Youtube in the background (because I hadn't even subscribed to Tidal yet), I went hey, this song's neat, I wonder what it's called? Friends, it was Wonderwall.
- Watched Supersonic, their two-hour documentary/extremely high-end marketing film.
- Watched a bunch of archive interviews on Youtube, read a bunch more. Fell alllllll the way down the rabbit hole. Collected all the links in a giant word doc that I maintain to this day and which formed the basis of the primer I posted a few months later.
- Wrote 5k of Oasis omegaverse porn. (Got an approving comment on it from one of the OG omegaverse writers!!)
Six years!! I can't believe all that's happened since. 2019 was the absolute nadir of their relationship, and now they hug on stage every night while grinning at each other like soppy adoring idiots. (You see what I mean.) I've written almost 120k of fic and stuck around more or less continuously for longer than I've been in any other fandom. I've seen Liam solo three times, Noel once, and Oasis twice. These gigs have taken me to London, Manchester, and Dublin (twice), after only having been to Europe once before, and have led me to meeting up with a bunch of friends while overseas, some for the first time IRL.
Meanwhile the world in general and I personally have gone through a lot of shit that continues unabated. It's been a very long six years.
The weather here has turned wet and cold, just as it was when I first listened to What's the Story Morning Glory on repeat in 2019. I put the album on in car this weekend, and the big wailing guitars and Liam's voice, helped along by the same grim autumn weather in which I first heard these songs, took me straight back to that original thrill of discovery.
We take our joy where we find it. I have found a lot of mine the past few years in this band and especially these two guys.
Wow! That's a lot of words!
Oct. 26th, 2025 10:04 pmbrithistorianI stumbled on a list of word counts of famous novels and discovered that my longest piece of fanfic is approximately 16,000 words longer than Moby Dick!
Savannah Film Festival
Oct. 26th, 2025 10:19 pmfabrisseThe Savannah Film Festival started yesterday. So far, I've seen two films.
The first was Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke and directed by Richard Linklater. I knew enough about the lyrist Lorenz Hart to want to see it. It would be a better movie if it were between 10 and 20 minutes shorter. At the risk of sounding somewhat bitchy, I don't get Margaret Qualley's appeal. The supporting cast is excellent, including Patrick Kennedy as E.B. White. Hart comes across, possibly correctly, as someone completely charming and completely frustrating at the same time.
The second was Nuremberg. I keep going back and forth in my head about whether Rami Malek was really good or just OK as Douglas Kelley, the first psychiatrist to work with the first 22 men on trial at Nuremberg for war crimes. Michael Shannon as Justice Jackson was a standout as was Richard E. Grant as Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, the British prosecutor.
The outstanding performance is Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring. The man is charming. He is also a drug addicted egomaniac who is aware of how his manipulations come across. It's thoroughly creepy and yet a very warm, disarming performance.
I would have liked more about Hess or Speer -- two of the seven not sentenced to death -- as a contrast to why some were and others weren't. I know Speer admitted wrong doing and even shame -- whether he actually felt it is anyone's guess.
I highly recommend Nuremberg even as I recognize that I'll probably never watch it again. It shows documentary footage of the concentration camps, so be prepared for it.
As a side note to Hess, by 1987 he was the last prisoner in Spandau. I didn't realize until today that he committed suicide, though I'd known he died, at the age of 93 on May 12, 1987.
From 1983-1987, my parents spent four months of the year in West Berlin while Dad taught at the local American military base. In 1987, Dad was due to start teaching in Boston in August, but he had to complete his last courses in Berlin. My 26th birthday was May 29 that year, and I discovered that Modern Jazz Quartet would be playing in Berlin on my birthday. Dad invited me to join him to celebrate my birthday.
On the two previous years when Sis and I joined our folks for Christmas in West Berlin, we had, at least once each trip, had a reason to go by Spandau. This time when Dad drove us by Spandau, around a quarter of the building was gone. As soon as Hess's death had been confirmed, the Soviet Union began taking the prison apart brick by brick. The prison no longer existed by the end of August that year. It was a disturbing site.
The first was Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke and directed by Richard Linklater. I knew enough about the lyrist Lorenz Hart to want to see it. It would be a better movie if it were between 10 and 20 minutes shorter. At the risk of sounding somewhat bitchy, I don't get Margaret Qualley's appeal. The supporting cast is excellent, including Patrick Kennedy as E.B. White. Hart comes across, possibly correctly, as someone completely charming and completely frustrating at the same time.
The second was Nuremberg. I keep going back and forth in my head about whether Rami Malek was really good or just OK as Douglas Kelley, the first psychiatrist to work with the first 22 men on trial at Nuremberg for war crimes. Michael Shannon as Justice Jackson was a standout as was Richard E. Grant as Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, the British prosecutor.
The outstanding performance is Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring. The man is charming. He is also a drug addicted egomaniac who is aware of how his manipulations come across. It's thoroughly creepy and yet a very warm, disarming performance.
I would have liked more about Hess or Speer -- two of the seven not sentenced to death -- as a contrast to why some were and others weren't. I know Speer admitted wrong doing and even shame -- whether he actually felt it is anyone's guess.
I highly recommend Nuremberg even as I recognize that I'll probably never watch it again. It shows documentary footage of the concentration camps, so be prepared for it.
As a side note to Hess, by 1987 he was the last prisoner in Spandau. I didn't realize until today that he committed suicide, though I'd known he died, at the age of 93 on May 12, 1987.
From 1983-1987, my parents spent four months of the year in West Berlin while Dad taught at the local American military base. In 1987, Dad was due to start teaching in Boston in August, but he had to complete his last courses in Berlin. My 26th birthday was May 29 that year, and I discovered that Modern Jazz Quartet would be playing in Berlin on my birthday. Dad invited me to join him to celebrate my birthday.
On the two previous years when Sis and I joined our folks for Christmas in West Berlin, we had, at least once each trip, had a reason to go by Spandau. This time when Dad drove us by Spandau, around a quarter of the building was gone. As soon as Hess's death had been confirmed, the Soviet Union began taking the prison apart brick by brick. The prison no longer existed by the end of August that year. It was a disturbing site.
Inflicting my problems on fictional characters
Oct. 26th, 2025 06:10 pmsholioWhile I slog my way back from a 9-hour time difference of jet lag, I decided to make characters suffer too.
Organic (Murderbot books, MB & Mensah, 2600 wds)
Murderbot isn't sure what's up with its unreliable systems this time, so it asks Mensah. (Set somewhere after System Collapse.)
This one's pretty definitely bookverse, or at least bookverse-compatible; there's nothing specific to the TV universe.
Organic (Murderbot books, MB & Mensah, 2600 wds)
Murderbot isn't sure what's up with its unreliable systems this time, so it asks Mensah. (Set somewhere after System Collapse.)
This one's pretty definitely bookverse, or at least bookverse-compatible; there's nothing specific to the TV universe.
Doctor Who nitpick
Oct. 26th, 2025 05:30 pmysobelI'm up to s2 e3 in my rewatch.
...and ok. In e1, the TARDIS, with those inside, accidentally shrinks. The Doctor and companions are the size of an inch. They go outside, where they realize that instead of a planet with anaconda-sized earthworms, they're on normal Earth as tiny creatures. Shenanigans ensue.
At the end of the serial, they -- of course -- get back to the TARDIS and get everything back to normal. And as part of this, the (mini) Doctor grabs a (full size) seed of wheat, which he brings inside as a way of measuring progress: as the TARDIS returns to normal, the grain of wheat shrinks from apparently huge to, well, the appropriate size for a grain of wheat.
Except that /doesn't fucking make sense/.
When the TARDIS first shrank, so did everything inside. People, their clothes, everything. Presumably embiggening works the same. So why is the seed excepted? By the logic of the miniaturization, the seed should have remained the same relative size, becoming a huge-ass seed.
*blinks in confusion*
...and ok. In e1, the TARDIS, with those inside, accidentally shrinks. The Doctor and companions are the size of an inch. They go outside, where they realize that instead of a planet with anaconda-sized earthworms, they're on normal Earth as tiny creatures. Shenanigans ensue.
At the end of the serial, they -- of course -- get back to the TARDIS and get everything back to normal. And as part of this, the (mini) Doctor grabs a (full size) seed of wheat, which he brings inside as a way of measuring progress: as the TARDIS returns to normal, the grain of wheat shrinks from apparently huge to, well, the appropriate size for a grain of wheat.
Except that /doesn't fucking make sense/.
When the TARDIS first shrank, so did everything inside. People, their clothes, everything. Presumably embiggening works the same. So why is the seed excepted? By the logic of the miniaturization, the seed should have remained the same relative size, becoming a huge-ass seed.
*blinks in confusion*
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Oct. 26th, 2025 06:11 pmakamarykateThis week was about a month long, but it had some good things in it to go with all the busy-ness and the *waves hands at the world in general and my country in particular* absolute crap. So, 3 things:
1) Despite my not having found/made time to do any actual decorating, Halloween seems to be arriving this week anyway. Rude of it to not wait for me. This year I've been invited to a party in a new-to-me neighborhood of Oshkosh, where the party throwers have promised adult beverages and full-sized candy bars in their driveway. This means I can probably just go ahead and eat some of the candy I bought to give out, since I won't be here and who knows what will happen to the bowl I leave out by my own door, right?
2) My youngest niece, Magpie, is now 10 and she's a brain-on-fire sheer delight. She creates graphic novels, composes and choreograhs snuggler (stuffed animal)-performed musicals, develops small business ideas with her friends, takes 3 different dance classes, is up for any art or craft activity we offer her, and is in a community youth chorus and a community youth theater production of Newsies, Jr.. The way the middle schools and the particular academic program she's in work, next year she would have a choice of either staying in the choral music class, which is led by the absolute worst (and shadiest, but he somehow has the entire district admin conned) music teacher I have ever encountered, and boy HOWDY could I fill an entire month's worth of entries with this guy's shenanigans--
--where was I?-- okay, so Magpie either stays in chorus with Mr. Sussy, as she and JuneBug like to call him, or starts orchestra. To qualify for orchestra, she's decided to start cello lessons this year. Her kid-sized cello is as tall as she is. And she is head-over-heels in love with it. She practices without being prompted, unlike piano, where she had to be bribed to even sit at the keyboard. This week they were given their bows to hold and learn about for the first time and she jumped up in class and cheered. This child is a force and I don't know if the world is ready for her, but it desperately needs her. Though she be but little, she is fierce.
3) I pulled myself together enough to sign up for Yuletide. For my assignment, I matched on what is, as I said on Bluesky (I'm there! Hit me up if we haven't connected there already), the most unhinged offer I've ever made. But I went looking at letters this week, saw this prompt, and thought, huh, I could maybe do that. Now that it's my actual assignment and I've taken a close look at the recipient's sign up, letter, and some of their other posts? I just keep finding more things that spark ideas and align with my own interests, and I have madly giggled at least 3 times today thinking of ideas. *rubs hands* In a year when everything outside my little fandom bubble seems to be falling apart even harder than usual, I'm glad to have something so silly and fun to escape to.
And that's it for this time. As JuneBug used to say when he was 2ish, hope you all have a "Happy Day Ween!"
1) Despite my not having found/made time to do any actual decorating, Halloween seems to be arriving this week anyway. Rude of it to not wait for me. This year I've been invited to a party in a new-to-me neighborhood of Oshkosh, where the party throwers have promised adult beverages and full-sized candy bars in their driveway. This means I can probably just go ahead and eat some of the candy I bought to give out, since I won't be here and who knows what will happen to the bowl I leave out by my own door, right?
2) My youngest niece, Magpie, is now 10 and she's a brain-on-fire sheer delight. She creates graphic novels, composes and choreograhs snuggler (stuffed animal)-performed musicals, develops small business ideas with her friends, takes 3 different dance classes, is up for any art or craft activity we offer her, and is in a community youth chorus and a community youth theater production of Newsies, Jr.. The way the middle schools and the particular academic program she's in work, next year she would have a choice of either staying in the choral music class, which is led by the absolute worst (and shadiest, but he somehow has the entire district admin conned) music teacher I have ever encountered, and boy HOWDY could I fill an entire month's worth of entries with this guy's shenanigans--
--where was I?-- okay, so Magpie either stays in chorus with Mr. Sussy, as she and JuneBug like to call him, or starts orchestra. To qualify for orchestra, she's decided to start cello lessons this year. Her kid-sized cello is as tall as she is. And she is head-over-heels in love with it. She practices without being prompted, unlike piano, where she had to be bribed to even sit at the keyboard. This week they were given their bows to hold and learn about for the first time and she jumped up in class and cheered. This child is a force and I don't know if the world is ready for her, but it desperately needs her. Though she be but little, she is fierce.
3) I pulled myself together enough to sign up for Yuletide. For my assignment, I matched on what is, as I said on Bluesky (I'm there! Hit me up if we haven't connected there already), the most unhinged offer I've ever made. But I went looking at letters this week, saw this prompt, and thought, huh, I could maybe do that. Now that it's my actual assignment and I've taken a close look at the recipient's sign up, letter, and some of their other posts? I just keep finding more things that spark ideas and align with my own interests, and I have madly giggled at least 3 times today thinking of ideas. *rubs hands* In a year when everything outside my little fandom bubble seems to be falling apart even harder than usual, I'm glad to have something so silly and fun to escape to.
And that's it for this time. As JuneBug used to say when he was 2ish, hope you all have a "Happy Day Ween!"
Final Week of October *ding ding ding*
Oct. 26th, 2025 10:24 pmnonesensedBeen yet another rough work week, but I finally have the energy to get hyped up about my November writing project! I'm aiming to work on (and maybe even finish!) the first draft of The Crawling Dark of Your Lover and hopefully finish it this time around. Might even commission more art for the project once I see how it's going - either to reward or comfort myself 😆
In fandom news, campaign 4 of Critical Role keeps being a blast! I don't have the energy to get into all the things I loved about episode 4 right now, but let's just say that Bolaire, Occtis & Julien remain my favorites thus far and that I long to see where this is going (both re: character development and the plot). Especially how Bolaire's and Hal's friendships evolves/changes after The Revelation 🖤💖
In fandom news, campaign 4 of Critical Role keeps being a blast! I don't have the energy to get into all the things I loved about episode 4 right now, but let's just say that Bolaire, Occtis & Julien remain my favorites thus far and that I long to see where this is going (both re: character development and the plot). Especially how Bolaire's and Hal's friendships evolves/changes after The Revelation 🖤💖
Seven Deadly Sins of Reading
Oct. 26th, 2025 08:36 pmnarahtVia foxmoth, this is a brilliant meme but also a challenging one! With a certain degree of "oh well, I guess that one does fit..."
Lust, books I want to read for their cover:
- Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere (OK I have read it but I would have picked it up just for the cover, UK edn)
- Andrew Porter, The Imagined Life
- Benjamin Wood, Seascraper
Pride, challenging books I've finished:
- Uwe Johnson, Anniversaries
- Laszlo Krasnahorkai, War and War
- JRR Tolkien, Hobbitinn (The Hobbit in Icelandic)
Gluttony, books I've read more than once:
- Alaistair Reynolds, Redemption Ark
- Sergei and Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra
- Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air (I like reading this on airplanes, God help me)
Sloth, books on my to-read list the longest:
- David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite
- Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars
- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Greed, books I own multiple editions of:
- Mary Renault, Return to Night
- (...plus various books in multiple languages but I think that's the only one with multiple editions in English)
Wrath, books I despised:
- RF Huang, Babel
- Don DeLillo, Underworld (I want so much to like this but I don't)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Envy, books I want to live in:
- My own
foxmoth, this is a brilliant meme but also a challenging one! With a certain degree of "oh well, I guess that one does fit..."Lust, books I want to read for their cover:
- Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere (OK I have read it but I would have picked it up just for the cover, UK edn)
- Andrew Porter, The Imagined Life
- Benjamin Wood, Seascraper
Pride, challenging books I've finished:
- Uwe Johnson, Anniversaries
- Laszlo Krasnahorkai, War and War
- JRR Tolkien, Hobbitinn (The Hobbit in Icelandic)
Gluttony, books I've read more than once:
- Alaistair Reynolds, Redemption Ark
- Sergei and Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra
- Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air (I like reading this on airplanes, God help me)
Sloth, books on my to-read list the longest:
- David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite
- Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars
- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Greed, books I own multiple editions of:
- Mary Renault, Return to Night
- (...plus various books in multiple languages but I think that's the only one with multiple editions in English)
Wrath, books I despised:
- RF Huang, Babel
- Don DeLillo, Underworld (I want so much to like this but I don't)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Envy, books I want to live in:
- My own
Meme!
Oct. 26th, 2025 07:11 pmshewhostaplesNot that I have finished any fic for ages, but never mind that...
Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.
A — All these weddings, all these years (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Matthew & Charles)
B — Between the Towers (Marieke - Jacques Brel, Narrator/Marieke)
C — Choosing a Tomorrow (Izetta: The Last Witch, Finé/Izetta)
D — dear employment (Romeo and Juliet, Romeo/Balthasar)
E — Educational Visit (Doctor Who, Thirteenth Doctor and fam)
F — False Scent (Doctor Who, Liz Shaw/Israel Watkins)
G — Grounded (Doctor Who, Liz Shaw & Third Doctor)
H — Home of Strife (I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Romeo/Giulietta)
I — Immortal Gifts (The Count of Monte Cristo/Romeo and Juliet, Eugénie & Lady Capulet)
J — Janus (The Lego Movie, Good Cop-Bad Cop)
K — Kissing the Scorpion (James Bond - Craig movies, James Bond/person whose identity is revealed during the course of the story, which is the kind of thing you can do in Little Black Dress)
L — Ladies of Esteem (Romeo and Juliet, Lady Montague/Lady Capulet)
M — measuring his affections by my own (Romeo and Juliet, unrequited Benvolio/Tybalt)
N — News from Verona (Romeo and Juliet, Benvolio & Romeo)
O — One of these days (The Comfortable Courtesan, Em/Lalage)
P — Partnership (Yuri!!! on Ice, Lilia & Yakov)
Q — The Queen's Quandary (Zenda, implied Flavia/Rudolf R, but really about Flavia)
R — Rather late for me (White Boots, Harriet/Lalla)
S — Skirmish and Retreat (Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice/Benedick)
T — Thinking of the Days That Are No More (the Summer Tempests remix) (Swallows and Amazons, Peggy/Susan)
U — Under Her Skin (Yuri!!! on Ice, Mila/Sara)
V — Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied (Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence)
W — What an Exchange! (Trenuleţul - Zdob şi Zdub & Fraţii Advahov (Music Video))
X —
Y — Yet A Hand To Play (Zenda, Rudolf R/Rupert)
Z —
Only missing X and Z. Clearly I need to return to Zenda. And probably Doctor Who or something.
It's been a horrible cold day, mostly because of the wind. But I am inside and have a cat on my lap.
Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.
A — All these weddings, all these years (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Matthew & Charles)
B — Between the Towers (Marieke - Jacques Brel, Narrator/Marieke)
C — Choosing a Tomorrow (Izetta: The Last Witch, Finé/Izetta)
D — dear employment (Romeo and Juliet, Romeo/Balthasar)
E — Educational Visit (Doctor Who, Thirteenth Doctor and fam)
F — False Scent (Doctor Who, Liz Shaw/Israel Watkins)
G — Grounded (Doctor Who, Liz Shaw & Third Doctor)
H — Home of Strife (I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Romeo/Giulietta)
I — Immortal Gifts (The Count of Monte Cristo/Romeo and Juliet, Eugénie & Lady Capulet)
J — Janus (The Lego Movie, Good Cop-Bad Cop)
K — Kissing the Scorpion (James Bond - Craig movies, James Bond/person whose identity is revealed during the course of the story, which is the kind of thing you can do in Little Black Dress)
L — Ladies of Esteem (Romeo and Juliet, Lady Montague/Lady Capulet)
M — measuring his affections by my own (Romeo and Juliet, unrequited Benvolio/Tybalt)
N — News from Verona (Romeo and Juliet, Benvolio & Romeo)
O — One of these days (The Comfortable Courtesan, Em/Lalage)
P — Partnership (Yuri!!! on Ice, Lilia & Yakov)
Q — The Queen's Quandary (Zenda, implied Flavia/Rudolf R, but really about Flavia)
R — Rather late for me (White Boots, Harriet/Lalla)
S — Skirmish and Retreat (Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice/Benedick)
T — Thinking of the Days That Are No More (the Summer Tempests remix) (Swallows and Amazons, Peggy/Susan)
U — Under Her Skin (Yuri!!! on Ice, Mila/Sara)
V — Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied (Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence)
W — What an Exchange! (Trenuleţul - Zdob şi Zdub & Fraţii Advahov (Music Video))
X —
Y — Yet A Hand To Play (Zenda, Rudolf R/Rupert)
Z —
Only missing X and Z. Clearly I need to return to Zenda. And probably Doctor Who or something.
It's been a horrible cold day, mostly because of the wind. But I am inside and have a cat on my lap.
wrote some things for Spook Me
Oct. 26th, 2025 03:22 pmmerryghoulSweetbreads (200 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Cooking Lessons, Organs, Ficlet
Series: Part 13 of Spook Me Ficathon
Summary: An excerpt from a cooking show on how to prepare sweetbreads.
We Could Die Like This (4743 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: World Wrestling Entertainment
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Charlotte/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox/Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Sasha Banks/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Finn Balor | Prince Devitt/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox & Lyra Valkyria, Bayley | Davina Rose/Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Sasha Banks & Bayley | Davina Rose
Characters: Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Finn Balor | Prince Devitt, Lyra Valkyria, Bayley | Davina Rose, Sasha Banks, Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Inspired by Final Destination (Movies), Inspired by Irish Mythology, Little Black Dress, Surreal, Tokyo (City), Car Accidents, Homophobic Language, Japanese Mythology & Folklore, WWE Clash in Paris, Accidental Death, Hotels, Reality TV, Electrocution, WWE SummerSlam 2018, Podcast, WWE Wrestlepalooza, Airports
Series: Part 14 of Spook Me Ficathon
Summary: Becky Lynch is living her best life when a raven suddenly appears.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Cooking Lessons, Organs, Ficlet
Series: Part 13 of Spook Me Ficathon
Summary: An excerpt from a cooking show on how to prepare sweetbreads.
We Could Die Like This (4743 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: World Wrestling Entertainment
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Charlotte/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox/Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Sasha Banks/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Finn Balor | Prince Devitt/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox & Lyra Valkyria, Bayley | Davina Rose/Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Sasha Banks & Bayley | Davina Rose
Characters: Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Finn Balor | Prince Devitt, Lyra Valkyria, Bayley | Davina Rose, Sasha Banks, Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Inspired by Final Destination (Movies), Inspired by Irish Mythology, Little Black Dress, Surreal, Tokyo (City), Car Accidents, Homophobic Language, Japanese Mythology & Folklore, WWE Clash in Paris, Accidental Death, Hotels, Reality TV, Electrocution, WWE SummerSlam 2018, Podcast, WWE Wrestlepalooza, Airports
Series: Part 14 of Spook Me Ficathon
Summary: Becky Lynch is living her best life when a raven suddenly appears.
Today in unfortunate naming coincidences
Oct. 26th, 2025 02:35 pmpetraArchive.org has The Wretched of the Earth/Damnés de la terre (1961) available here. It is a work on colonialism, revolution, and racialization.
It was also written by a man with a name that is, for me, intensely unfortunate.
The foreword is titled "Framing Fanon."
Ashannah points out, "It's pronounced 'Fa-NOH.'"
I'm so sorry, Frantz Fanon. You were there first, having a perfectly cromulent name, and then those fans came and made your name a word to be feared for reasons having nothing to do with colonialism.
I'm going to see how far I get with it, and if I have issues, there is an audiobook of an analysis of it available via NYPL that I will take out and dig into.
-- possibly after Yuletide, because racialized colonialism is gonna be fucked whether or not I get my assignment in on time.
It was also written by a man with a name that is, for me, intensely unfortunate.
The foreword is titled "Framing Fanon."
As
hannah points out, "It's pronounced 'Fa-NOH.'"I'm so sorry, Frantz Fanon. You were there first, having a perfectly cromulent name, and then those fans came and made your name a word to be feared for reasons having nothing to do with colonialism.
I'm going to see how far I get with it, and if I have issues, there is an audiobook of an analysis of it available via NYPL that I will take out and dig into.
-- possibly after Yuletide, because racialized colonialism is gonna be fucked whether or not I get my assignment in on time.