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I wrote a post last month where I talked about my shifting genre preferences, both in reading and writing. This month I'd like to write something similar, except with regards to the length of stories I'm reading these days.

I started reading SFF short fiction in 2020, mostly because I was unemployed, no one was hiring, and I had very little better to do with my time. It didn't really ramp up until 2021, where I read almost a thousand short stories. That number has decreased since and has slowed down to maybe 100 per year for the past two years. I suppose that number is still a lot, but I typically read 3-4 of these stories at a time, and that takes maybe an hour per week, so it's not a particularly large time commitment.

Last year I decide to take the time and start reading actual books again, and I've been doing that almost every single day since May. This book-reading time happens before I go to bed, and it lasts until I start getting tired. That could be anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour.

Ever since I started reading books again, my desire to read short fiction has waned significantly. There are plenty of weekends where I'll straight-up skip reading any short stories – not because I don't have the time, but because I just don't want to.

I've been thinking about unsubscribing to some magazines that don't suit my current preferences in order to make things more manageable, but the problem remains that, for the most part, I just don't want to read short stories. I've barely read any books for the past ten years, and I really want to get caught up on that.

If you've been following my blogging for any amount of time, you'll have noticed the Recommendations posts I put out regularly. I used to do one every month, listing all the short stories I read that month and thought others should read. Now I do one every quarter, and that's entirely related to the lessened amount of short fiction I'm reading these days. Some months, I don't have anything to recommend.

So, if I switch to prioritizing books and only read a few short stories here and there, the Recommendations posts are going to look a little different. I don't know if I'll be doing them quarterly after this year. Maybe ever half a year? Maybe at the end of the year?

Yes, it's February and I'm already thinking about how to do things in future years. I know I'm probably getting ahead of myself.

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FF7, Aerith/Tifa, Superhero!AU

Ocarina of Time, Link & Zelda - nonbinary headcanon

Echoes of Wisdom, Zelda - ____ does not belong in a smoothie

FF7, Hojo - family estrangement

Original - armour of eternity, sword of instant

FF7, Aerith, Reno, OCs - give a character a sword

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overmore

I finally wrote a fic. Far from my best work and a lot shorter than I wanted it to be, but I'm glad I pushed it out of my system, both for the sake of the event and my own mind. I needed to write something man.

I've been playing botany manor on and off for the past few days when I've been feeling like it. A cute puzzle game, I've been enjoying it a lot. I don't think I've played something like this before, I love that it's about flowers and touches upon how women were treated in the past when it came to academia and research in the past. You have to dig a bit as everything is told through letters and notes so you might miss something. The game is currently free on Epic Games, I'd reccomend it! I'm halfway through it so far.

vriddy

To celebrate volume 4 coming out, the official K-9 account over at

k_9comic published a manga preview trailer (x.com) with Oboro and Ren's voices.

Ren's voice: Ise Mariya
Oboro's voice: Miyano Mamoru

You may picture me half-dead in a corner. Oboro sounds even creepier than I imagined him, in all the best ways. Ren is *swoons*

In addition, the extras for volume 4 involve a couple of 4-koma strips and therefore it is now officially confirmed that

do I even need a spoiler tag for this? It's not plot-relevant. Not yet. It's relevant to my blood pressure

Kagari and Fujimaru do live together, and Kagari does borrow Fujimaru's clothes as he pleases.

I'll share proper(ish) translations soon. Just. Need to go curl up in a corner for a while first.

Volume 4 is seriously awesome and packs in so many of my favourite OT4 scenes, including the one that sold me on them, and then so many interactions after that! And it ends on the chapter that introduces the two little guys I was talking about the other day, with that hand-over-mouth panel too. What a beautiful day. My heart can only take so much, though.

galadhir

Thank you to dreamersdare for creating and hosting this challenge :)

Series I love, from one to ten in no particular order:

Stargate Universe. The first episode I saw of this was episode #4 when they're desperately trying to find lime for the air scrubbers, and I loved that as a premise for an episode. It felt like much 'harder' (more realistic) sci-fi than any Stargate before it. The beating heart of the show, for me, was the Rush/Young relationship. OMG they had tension - what kind of tension is debatable, but they were locked in, wanting to murder each other and yet unable to run the ship without each other. I understood Rush very easily, but I didn't understand Young at all, and so--very like Rush--I soon became obsessed with trying to work him out. Hey presto, now he's one of my favourite characters ever. I actually liked the ending of this, with everyone in their stasis pods continuing to further possible adventures without us. If they were going to end it, I'm glad it got such a good and worthy final episode.
Star Wars. Three movies out of the original six movies obsessed me. Star Wars: A New Hope - I saw it when I was a teenager and it was newly out. I immediately went out and got my hair cut like Han Solo. This was before I discovered fandom, so my fic writing for this was limited to daydreams. Didn't like the next two as much. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, I became obsessed with Qui-Gon Jinn and wrote fanfic in which he was something of a Living Force saint - to the point that everyone else found him inexplicable and annoying. Didn't like the next two at all (no Qui-Gon.) Star Wars: The Force Awakens, I became obsessed with General Hux. He was a second generation villain, the child of a man who's speciality was brainwashing children, and he had essentially grown up in a cult. I found that interesting, back in the days when I still believed that Nazis were not a real world problem. Nowadays I would react differently. Didn't like the next two at all. (Make a freaking plan and tell a coherent story, guys! Sheesh.)
The Master and Commander books by Patrick O'Brian. This is what I went on to after Pirates of the Caribbean. OMG! Such ships! Such an amazing grasp on the history of the Age of Sail. And the social mores. The social observation of Jane Austen with a more accessible humour. Watching Patrick O'Brian play with language is just joyous! "Jack, you have debauched my sloth!" I chuckle through the whole thing, totally immersed and loving every person in it, because PoB has such compassion for all his characters and it's a wonderful thing.
The Discworld - need I say more? Everyone loves the Discworld books which have a similar combination of humour with sharply observed world building and deeper themes. I have a soft spot for The Light Fantastic, if only because everyone recommends to everyone else that new readers should skip it. I think that if you miss out on Rincewind, Twoflower and the Luggage, your life will be a little bit darker.
The Cadfael books by Ellis Peters. I like a good murder mystery and these are good murder mysteries set in the 12th Century, where the detective is a monk whose main job is to be the herbalist in the Abbey of Shrewsbury. Cadfael soon acquires a foil in the shape of the Sherrif, Hugh Berengar, a sly and cunning young man, and the two investigate all sorts of suspicious happenings with great compassion and humanity. The TV series is nowhere near as good, although okay to watch. Somehow they managed to strip all the charm out of it.
The Marcus Didius Falco books by Lindsey Davis. Another great series of murder mystery novels, this time set in 70ad, with a sleuth who starts as a bit of a hard boiled noir detective in Rome, but who meets the love of his life and softens out to become much more of a real person. Another series with fascinating history, good mysteries and surprisingly likeable people.
The Untamed. This is the rare TV series that I liked more than the book. My first (and still one of the only) Chinese fantasy series. I was blown away by the fact that the storytelling conventions we're used to in Western media are not the same for this, so it was deeply refreshing not to know how it was going to go. There was something I couldn't look away from about all these beautiful, beautifully dressed people yelling at each other in pavilions. Although it took me three watches to figure out who was who, I was entertained the whole time. By then I was hooked enough to become a Jin GuangYao apologist, and that spun me out into writing fanfic. I did try reading the book, but I didn't like the official translation, and my blorbo was barely in it for the first 3 volumes and I was not engaged enough with everything else to carry on reading.
Ted Lasso. OMG, I did not expect to get hooked on a series about football. I hate football, and sports in general. But the comedy and the great big heart of this one sucked me in instantly. I seem to have no defense against the combination of humour and compassion, and I honestly don't want to develop any.
The Expanse. Another rarity - the book series and the TV series are both excellent. Or rather, the TV series is excellent throughout - hard sci-fi, very believable world building, exciting things happening, imperfect characters you learn to love. The book series however becomes excellent starting at book two. Book One reads like the first book, where the author is still working things out, and Horden is a bit of a mary sue in it. He becomes a much more likable character later, when the author isn't trying so desperately to make you love him. It's well worth suffering (a little bit) through the first book to get to the later ones though.
Do I put Murderbot again (because the whole series is great?) Or do I put Babylon 5. Babylon 5, I think, because we cannot one of the best sci-fi series ever. I think I've put my finger on my own taste now, because it was also funny and loving, while still being exciting and full of drama. And Susan Ivanova remains one of the few female characters who hit the same exalted level for me as my male blorbos. She was allowed to be badass, and that meant a lot to me.

pedanther

. At board game club, we played Cockroach Salad, 27th Passenger, and Dixit.

27th Passenger is a deduction game in which the aim is to identify which of the other passengers on a train are the other players in disguise and eliminate them before they do the same to you. I did well; I achieved the first successful elimination, and arguably the second, although it would be difficult to say definitely who was second since that round was a bloodbath that saw three more players eliminated, leaving only me and one other player standing. The other player turned out to be a step ahead, and got me one round before I would have got him.

. After a bit of a break, I'm making reasonable progress on another jigsaw puzzle, though I'm not getting as big into it as with some others I've tried. This is the first puzzle I've attempted from this manufacturer, and I'm not impressed by the engineering quality of the pieces (they're a fair bit better than the one I had to give up on partway through, but that's a very low bar to clear). I'm also not finding myself engaged by the picture; it's one of the kind with lots of famous fictional characters hidden in it, but I don't recognise all of them and I'm not feeling very enthused about the ones that I do recognise.

. Continuing to make progress with Natural Six; this week I watched the episode "The Last Ride of Calypso Moonrise", which was a lot of fun and in no way like what I had expected from the title.

. I finished my run-through of XCOM 2 on the easier difficulty, and, as generally happens when a run goes well, immediately wanted to start another run.

There's a big sale on Steam for the XCOM games this weekend, because it's the tenth anniversary of the launch of XCOM 2, so I took another look at the "Shen's Last Gift" DLC, which I've wanted to try for ages but put off because it can only be bought as part of a pricey bundle with a bunch of other DLCs that don't interest me. The bundle was down to around ten dollars, which I decided was a reasonable price I'd be willing to pay for just "Shen's Last Gift", so I bought it.

What I hadn't anticipated was that Steam would immediately start downloading and installing all the DLC in the bundle without asking me first, which would have been mildly irritating without the fact that the bundle includes the big update that changes things throughout the game and adds several new fully-voiced characters and weighs nearly as much as the base game itself. It was still downloading when I went to bed.

pedanther

No progress on finding a colour match for the book chain, but I've got other reading done:

January: Title containing "Before" or "After"

Before Dorothy, Hazel Gaynor. A historical novel telling a version of the life of Dorothy Gale's Auntie Em.

It's a straight historical, with no fantasy elements; one of the things it takes from the 1939 movie is the idea that Dorothy's trip to Oz was a dream inspired by things and people encountered in the waking world. Consequently, the cast of characters includes real-world analogues for the Wicked Witch (very similar to the movie's version), the Wizard (signficantly different), Glinda, and so on. Another thing it takes from the movie is that Tornado Day happens in the 1930s, allowing the author to make use of the Dust Bowl and the Depression; I was mostly able to roll with it but did occasionally blink at the inclusion of things that my head considers definitely post-Oz. (There's just something weird about the idea of Dorothy Gale sitting in Kansas reading Anne of Green Gables.)

I'm not sure how it would read as a straight historical for someone who wasn't familiar with The Wizard of Oz and didn't notice the references; I was initially rather distracted going "that's from that bit in the movie" and "that's from the book", and more interested in collecting clues about how the author was planning to deal with Tornado Day than in the characters for their own sake, but I did start getting involved in it once I'd settled to my satisfaction what kind of story to expect. My initial reaction when I realised what the driving question of the climax was going to be was "oh, this again?", but in the event I was sincerely invested in how it would play out.

I do think it could have done with another editing pass specifically to assess which of the references were actually contributing something worth keeping in; not every mention of circus animals need to include "lions and tigers and bears" (four separate times, I counted), and it felt like every red thing was ruby and just about every green thing was "emerald" -- though, having said that, I was struck by a moment near the end when one of the things I would have expected to be emerald was merely "green", which effectively undercut the moment in a way that I would like to think was deliberate.

Miscellaneous

Fiasco by Jason Morningstar. The source-book for a narrative role-playing game/long-form improvisational exercise for creating stories of "powerful ambition and poor impulse control", inspired by films like Fargo and Blood Simple. This was a re-read; I've owned the book for years, since I saw a demonstration game, but have never had any success at rounding up some people to play it with (nor the requisite impressively-large number of dice required).

You Say Potato: The Story of English Accents by Ben & David Crystal. Ben is an actor, David is a linguist, both have a professional interest in accents and how they develop and what they signify. The book includes a section about their work in the Shakespeare in Original Pronunciation project, which is where I first encountered them. I'm about halfway through, and have not yet reached the section promised on the back cover which addresses the vital question: "Has anybody ever actually said 'po-TAH-to'?"

The style is very conversational, and I have a feeling the audio book version would be a lot of fun to listen to.

seaglassgarden

my fwb came over so i cleaned practically all day!! the dishes r done and the laundry is put away and the bathroom is all clean, and i even scrubbed the kitchen floor. i don't do it v often since there's this awful stain on the tile from when a few maintenance ppl came over to fix something and knocked over a can of...Something. they didn't know how to clean it up properly (i remember one of them used one of my cleaning wipes lmao) so now that part of the tile is rly gritty and unpleasant to scrub. i remember them being quite young, too. definitely younger than i was. they reminded me of watching teen boys milling around the courtyard in high school. they had that kind of unsure, goofy energy

but the winter gunk is off the floor now! of course i traipsed around in my boots while getting the trash ready to take outside. but it mostly looks very nice

im v glad i got to see my friend. we both had rough weeks and it was nice to shake all the thoughts out of my brain and just hug her for a while. we had plans to get sushi, which was the whole reason i was hosting instead of going to see her and her v silly cats. as we were looking up the place on doordash i noticed that a different sushi place—which had closed several months earlier—was seemingly open again?? so we did a little digging and apparently it’s Back, in the exact same place, with the same decor and menu and everything

now we both wanna know why it closed in the first place!! it’s one of the best restaurants in the area and we were so sad when it closed. it’s a tad expensive but my friend owed me from when she accidentally dropped a bunch of my leftovers on the floor. so i got a nice lil treat for freeee heheheheh

i was productive today but tmrw i rlly wanna find time to sit and read quietly… idc if it’s an article or part of a book or what! my head’s been so full of static this week i haven’t felt like writing at all. hopefully getting someone else’s words to rattle around will help

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: soul of a nameless bard - fief

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asuraid

sadly i had to scrape off some old stickers because they were tattoo stickers and felt melty to the touch, BUT it gave me a good excuse to pull out my sticker packs and re-decorate it!!! the only thing that remained was the noodle zhongli in the center

Current Mood: happy

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asuraid

animal crossing: thank you money rock for making me be able to pay off my 10k bell loan immediately… shame no fishing rod is for sale today, i’d preferred to have used fishing for some income and to begin knocking the museum out. trying not to get in a rabbit hole of looking into pathway QR codes cause 1. i dont have it unlocked 2. i dont remember if swapping out the stored QR code removes it from your town ... i dont THINK so but i dont remember

omg YIPPEE already have a villager moving in and her name is katt!! also made a dendro symbol for a flag ... even if it's off center LOOL

got a fishing rod from isabelle, so my tools are pretty complete for now ... cherries for the secondary fruit, and hopefully once i have streetpass functionality, hopefully ... new items!!!

tomodachi life: my parent miis wanna have another kid again ... another kid to send as a traveller LMFAOOO it's not the first time

… the irony in sylvie wanting to befriend one of my ocs they actually loathe in reality is funny but LIKE CMON JUST BEFRIEND ZHONGLI????

Current Mood: awake

sonofgodzilla

Title: Courtney Tokusatsu Fan Club!
Universe: Kamen Rider Black RX, Yuugen Jikkou Sisters Shushutorian, B-Robo Kabutack, Kamen Rider Gotchard, 5 Nen 3 Kumi Mahogumi, Kamen Rider Gavv
Character(s): Matoba Kyoko, Yamabuki Yukiko, Okubo Reika, Kudo Rinne, Kohara Asako, Tashiro Mitsuko, Liselle Želdac
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Courtney Tokusatsu Fan Club (コートニー特撮ファンクラブ, Kotoni Tokusatsu Fan Kurabu), often stylized as CTFC for short, is a premium subscription service launched by Courtney, allowing registered members to stream her massive library of brainrot.
Length: 802, 703, & 959 words
Author's Notes: I wrote this nonsense entirely for my own amusement. It is the utmost definition of fanfiction. also: external links 1, 2, 3

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( Showa Girls Remix in Hallowe’en Party )

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: somewhere
Current Music: Queensrÿche - Eyes of a Stranger

muscle_wizard

Toki's Top Ten Films (for one reason or another) for the Stuff I Love: Top Ten Edition Challenge 1 /o/

1. The Birdcage
My ultimate comfort movie. I have watched it so many times I can recite it word by word. I think of the drag number rehearsal scene with Robin Williams bursting into a celebration of dance daily. "Keep your goddamn pinky down." "Purple mountains majesty..." "FUCK the shrimp!" "It's ours." I love found family and elder queers and the pointed questions on what exactly it means to perform masculinity or femininity. It's been 20+ years and Val is still clearly the villain of the film it drives me insane (bro was also not a compelling actor lmaooo.)

2. The Mummy
Did I enjoy the 2nd film? Yes! But it's the first one I always think of and have watched repeatedly. I adore Evie. She and Rick develop so sweetly together. As a dyke I look at Brendan Fraiser in that movie specifically and think **GENDER** because his looks give soft butch to me and I've never gotten over it. The movie has action, adventure, comedy and to quote a friend, "Sometimes a 6/10 movie is your 10/10 movie." It's perfect to me!!!!!!!!

"YOU'RE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RIVEEER!"

3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
I rewatched the trilogy (movie 4&5 do not exist to me, I've never seen them and I never will) recently but the first movie really wraps up so nicely on its own I can just watch it on repeat. Jack/Will/Elizabeth are the disaster throuple of my heart. JackWill is my current obsession. Elizabeth/Anamaria and Elizabeth/Norrington are my 'Elizabeth goes on a gender and sexuality journey,' pairings. The soundtrack is bomb. The reveal of the undead curse on Barbossa's crew is SO SICK. I love attractive people being wet and windswept all the time. Jack Sparrow is a bisexual terrorist who will join or break up your marriage and I think that's beautiful.

4. Batman: The Dark Knight
One of my BATMAN MOVIES OF ALL TIME (tm). I watched this film in theaters when it came out and my mouth dropped open in shock and joy every scene. I left the theater fannish and electrified. I was in batjokes comms on LJ and this movie was like finding a strange, new buffet. Heath Ledger is my 2nd favorite Joker (Mark Hamill you will always be #1) and he fits so seamlessly into Nolanverse that I believed him for every second. His first two on screen appearances are written so tightly, I've never seen such a great example of "You do not know what this guy is going to do and it is TERRIFYING." The interrogation scene is one I rewind over and over endlessly.

5. Muppet Treasure Island
My favorite Muppet movie. "Professional Pirate," is my favorite musical number. Tim Curry is an amazing Long John Silver and I love that Miss Piggy canonically had a fling with him. I am weak to tiny outfits and there are soooo many cute ones for all the muppets. It's a fun film with a strong heart and across multiple adaptations, I often look for stories set in the future where Jim has found Silver again. I like their dynamic as a father/son or as a romantic couple \o/

6. Winnie the Pooh
One of The films of my childhood. There is something so gentle and slow moving about the original film - I love the animation of the trees and homes of all the animal friends. My wife's nickname for me is Blondie Bear and she frequently references "silly old bear," it never fails to make me smile.

7. But I'm A Cheerleader
There were many formative gay movies in my youth but this one stood above the rest. Natasha Lyonne and Clea Duvall??? Their chemistry was insaaaaaane. This movie toed the line between comedy and critically showing the harm in gay conversion camps. I loved the Ex-ex-gays and the building of community - and the ending cheerleader scene... Sapphic feels forever hhhhhh.

8. Tarzan
Upon rewatch as an adult, this shot high up on my list. Phil Collins' soundtrack still makes me emotional. I love the anatomy developed for Tarzan, and that he is a character who is so, so gentle. I believe his love story with Jane fully. I believe if Jane had been a man it would have ended up the same way.

9. Hook
Me realizing there are lots of flamboyant pirates on this list, lol. I guess I'm more into pirates than I thought. Hook was a surprise to me - Peter Pan isn't my favorite of Disney's films but this idea of a grown Peter returning really captivated me. The film was inherently magical because it captured Peter rediscovering his joy and a sense of play he gave up because he assumed he had to. The scene where he finally believes that the food is real is one of my favorites. And of course, Dante Basco as Rufio was such a scene stealer. I especially liked that regaining that belief is what allows him to connect and ultimately save his children from Hook.

10. James and the Giant Peach
Speaking of magic: one of my favorite stop-motion films (honestly, I debated which Tim Burton film would inevitably make this list and decided it had to be this one.) Of all the images, the warm glowing light from inside the peach has stuck with me all these years. The insect friends are all friends I know would have cured my fear of insects much earlier and I enjoyed at the end of the film they got to live out their dreams in New York. The live action segments aren't bad at all but the highlights for me were the stop-motion elements.

intothisshadow

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stepnix

I have discovered a new old Dracula, one even newer and older than my previous preferred new old Dracula: Mörkrets makter ("Powers of Darkness"), the likely-unauthorized Swedish version. It's nearly twice as long as the original, reframes Dracula as the head of a social darwinist conspiracy, and nobody realized it was different from the English version until a few years ago.

There's two secret draculas like this. at least two. maybe more undiscovered. whatever. The first is an Icelandic version, about one-third as long as the English version, but with a much longer exploring-Dracula's-haunted-castle section and a really rushed ending. Somehow it took over a hundred years for people to catch on that this was not the same thing as the original book, but it got an English translation in 2017. This is what I had already read; it's not as good as Stoker's version but I really like the additions to the haunted castle sequence.

The 2017 translation is what tipped off the folks in Sweden that they also had a variant instead of a straightforward translation. The Swedish version was serialized in a newspaper by an unknown translator just a couple years after Dracula Classic was published. Like the Icelandic version, it features an expanded haunted castle sequence... because this one was the source text that the Icelandic one was abridging. But instead of that rushed ending, it keeps going and going, accumulating more and more differences from the English version.

idk i just think it's neat. dracula forever

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erinptah

[Youtube] Sir_Superhero’s backstory breakdown of Wonder Man in the comics. I only ever saw scattershot appearances of the guy, never knew his whole deal, so this was cool and enlightening. (Haven’t actually watched the MCU show yet, I’ll be curious to see which parts they keep.)

AMA with Jed MacKay on League of Comic Geeks. Fun insights and tidbits about the Moon Knight comics, along with the other projects he’s working on.

[Youtube] A for Angel, a pilot for Cartoon Network that I guess was stuck in rights/development hell, and finally got released? By the creator of the webcomic Angel’s Advocate (also started but not continued, maybe because of the cartoon being in production), and you can see a lot of the character designs coming through, although the plot and worldbuilding seem pretty different. Charming and adorable.

Sporadic Phantoms, a fictional true-crime podcast…set in a 2020-AU version of the Animorphs universe. There’s something weird about The Sharing, these amateur journalists are starting to think it’s a cult, and they’re here to investigate! I’m only a few episodes in, but the continuity bonuses are [chef’s kiss].

Promo image of the MCs from Cosmic Princess Kaguya

For most of the time I was watching Cosmic Princess Kaguya, I was thinking “Well, this is cute. The animation is excellent, the designs are a lot of fun…the plot is pretty basic, and the video-game fight sequences do not need to go on for this long, but it’s still a good time.”

And then I got to The Reveal — maybe 20 minutes from the end — and thought “…wait, hold up, I might need to rewatch the whole thing now??”

Somewhere in the middle, I had actually noticed that [Character] was animated with an expression that’s very characteristic of [Other Character], and idly thought “huh, maybe they’re connected somehow.” How many more hints like that did I miss? How many can I catch now, if I watch with The Reveal in mind?

Not sure if there’s much else I can say without spoiling it! But yeah, quite good. If you like grumpy/sunshine canon f/f, with internet friendships, weird fantasy age gaps, the power of expressing yourself through virtual avatars, and the power of music, don’t miss this one.

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selenicseas - Changes in reading preferences
raisedbymoogles - 3SF 26 #19
squidgiepdx - Another Sunday drive-by
marinehaddock - Changelog February 8th
overmore - Actually doing stuff
vriddy - K-9 manga trailer + volume 4 initial thoughts
galadhir - Stuff I love challenge #2: Series
pedanther - Week in review: Week to 7 February
pedanther - Other reading in Week 6
seaglassgarden - you're telling me a shrimp dinnered this menu?
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asuraid - 3ds re-stickered!!!
catgiri - fresh femslash salad bar!
asuraid - game log #2 | feb 7 2026
sonofgodzilla - FIC: Kamen Rider Black RX & Kamen Rider Gotchard & 5 Nen 3 Kumi Mahogumi - CTFC!
muscle_wizard - Top Ten Standalone Media: Films Edition
intothisshadow - AKOTSK 1.04 Seven Screencaps are up! + Site Problem
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