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I can actually use them on mobile!!! It's so much more pleasant.

(I have somehow become one of those people whose primary computing device is their smartphone. I don't know how this happened. It sure makes fandom.wikia.com nearly unusable, but on the other hand Baba Is You is indeed available for Android (and I think iPhone?) so all is not lost.)

Anyway Mucca has an entry over here talking about the new features and how to give Dreamwidth your feedback if you have some. They're beta testing options right now but will be the default for everyone soon.

Current Music: I can see Kamchatka from my house!

Do people say that anymore?

Anyway, note to self: have made at least a reasonable stab at making myself a dark mode version of my last layout here.

I continue to be very bad at posting, but am following along with Mucca's blog (which is currently approximately 80% Kidnapped squee by volume, which is pretty great).

Icon by

thrillingdetectivetales.

Current Mood: pleased

So, sparked by an entertaining viewing of Guy Ritchie's King Arthur movie last month, Mucca has been reading various Arthurian tales and blogging her reactions.

In support of my blorbos-in-law and in the spirit of cross-temporal joy, I have made icons. Various attempts to preserve the Early Modern English spelling have been made. I may be giggling a lot.

Free to use wherever; credit as

nenya_kanadka.

endless jousting sprinkled with #relatable

I charge thee yeet thee fast oute of my syghte

he was soo wrothe that he leyd hym doune on his bedde to slepe

soo wrothe that he leyd hym doune on his bedde to slepe

the werste lay that ever harper sange with harp or with any other instrumentys

the werste lay that ever harper sange with harp or with any other instruments

the worst lay that ever harper sange with harp or with any other instruments

Notes:
Bayeux Tapestry figure is from the Historic Tale Construction Kit.
Angrynapping 🤬+😴 emoji courtesy of Emoji Kitchen/the Gboard keyboard.
Microphone stock art from freepik.com.
"Worst" means "biggest burn," technically, but I still laughed.

Current Mood: amused

So there's about a day and a half left to bid on items at

sunflower_auction! Bidding is open till 21:59 UTC on May 30 (countdown) and the auction is in support of Ukraine.

There are some really nifty things on offer, searchable through the tags--mostly online fanworks but a few physical items.

Which is where I come in! I am offering a couple of crocheted items, namely some hats and some very cute stuffed toy sharks. My listing is here with more details and how to bid.

Some pictures (more at the listing):
blue

The example hats are just that, examples: I can make a hat to your specifications. I'm offering up to 10 hats (if that many people donate) and 3 sharks. I can ship worldwide.

My listing is here.

Just watched the new Space Jam with

muccamukk and it was delightful. Thus the new icon. :D :D :D

Onward into 2022.

Current Mood: amused

In my lifetime, I've now seen:

* gay marriage legalized nationally across the entire United States of America (and also Canada, before that)
* a Black US president
* a female US vice president (a Black and Indian-American woman, at that)

When I was a kid, they told us the last two of those would happen someday, and I believed it in the vague way that I thought we might someday have humans on Mars, but it seemed pretty distant and vague. When I first started paying attention to LGBTQ+ rights, the first one seemed impossible.

And yet.

I'm thinking too about how every US presidential election since 2008, aside from Obama's reelection in 2012 where I don't even remember who Romney's running mate was (but I know it was a guy), has had at least one woman on the ticket for one of the major parties. Palin, Clinton, now Harris. And this year's Democratic primary had several women in it. It seems like we're at a tipping point where, just like when all of a sudden there was a point where state after state was passing marriage equality, we might start having women nominated all the time now. Then they'll start winning. Then it will be normal to have either a man or a woman leading the US, the way it's not shocking anymore to have a female senator or congressperson.

(Canada, it's time to catch up on female party leaders please!)

And Oklahoma (!!) has elected the first nonbinary state legislator in the US in Mauree Turner, and former Biden staffer Sarah McBride has just been elected to the state senate in Delaware, bringing the number of trans people at state legislature level to five. State senate is what Obama was doing before he got elected to the senate at national level. We're going to hear more from these folks, I think.

And in four years NASA plans to send the first woman to the moon.

2020's been A Year. But even now good things are happening.

Current Mood: thoughtful

I'm just. I'm really relieved. Like all of you, I think. <3

Two comments on the 2020 election:

A president whose response to the deaths of so many of his fellow-citizens is the urge to offer COMFORT is making me choke up a little bit. Basic human decency! Yeah, there's too much religion in American politics, but one of the good uses of religion is comfort in sorrow. And that raw genuine expression of my-sorrow-to-yours, I grieve with thee--can we have more of that, please? While we get to work.

On a lighter note, I glanced through my few remaining memes from the 2008 election to see if I had any that were still relevant, and I found this one and cracked up. (Note to self: attempt to find out who created it.) So for all my old RahmBamaRama peeps, in fondness and in celebration, I give you--

(cut to spare your eyeballs from lolarious shirtless photoshop, lmao)

( JOEY'S GONNA CELEBRATE )

Current Mood: thankful

Today I Learned that "What What In The Butt" is an actual song? I'm not sure how I missed that it wasn't just a random meme.

(There are so many memes and cultural moments whose sources are lost in the mists of time--from the perspective of someone who grew up under a rock on Mars--that sometimes I just shrug my shoulders and roll with it, hey.)

But

muccamukk dug it up and showed it to me over waffles just now and I am charmed as fuck. This is genuinely the most wholesome, adorable, hilarious song about buttsex ever. He just wants to clarify what's being proposed! He would like it very much but he just wants to be clear on *what* is going in the butt. Also he's a total cutie. There are roses! And flirty eyebrows! He's a delicate flower! (Who knows what he wants!)

Watch on YouTube

I love humanity. Boom de yada.

Current Music: What What (In The Butt) - Samwell

Realized I was mostly using my layout here to do style=mine when people had layouts that didn't work for me (including ones that are perfectly cromulent on my laptop, but not on my phone). The previous dark purple one is super pretty, and easy on my eyes on migrainey days, but was starting to feel a bit closed-in for reading longer pieces. So time for a change.

New layout is Free Your Mind 2019 by

tofuhouse. Which admittedly everyone and their cat are using, but that's because it's a good one. 😊

Of course once I'd fucked about with the colours I realized I'd given myself something vaguely reminiscent of one or more Tumblr dash colour schemes. Oh well. I can always tweak that. Considering adding some accent colours somewhere to break up all the blue. And maybe figuring out how to make the white more of a cream? Idk.

ETA: Note to self, icons in entries still weird on phone? Content fine, icon placement weird.

Like I said I'm mostly using this to make DW look how I need it when I need to override something (I'm not that prolific a poster these days, lol, despite lurking a bit) but if it's murdering your eyes to look at, do let me know!

❤❤❤

Current Mood: creative
Current Location: exploring ancient civilizations with the Indigo Cloud court

Courtesy of my beloved mother, from what original source I know not:

• An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television getting drunk and smoking cigars.
• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
• A typo walks into a bra.
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.

(And today I learned what chiasmus means!)

This meme has come around again! (I've changed it slightly because I'm not really in Highlander fandom.) It's always fun to see the stories behind people's icons. :D

1. Comment to this entry saying "Live long and prosper" or "Peace and long life" and I will pick 3 of your icons.

2. Make an entry in your own journal (or just reply if you prefer) and talk about the icons I picked.

muccamukk gave me:

This icon of a French traffic warning sign is from our trip to France in 2019. Noirmoutier, an island off the coast of Brittany, is accessible from the mainland by a causeway (Le Passage du Gois) that's underwater at high tide. At low tide it's a perfectly cromulent road, but when the tide comes in the road completely disappears under water, leaving you with this striking view of warning signs marching off into the sea. It struck me as the most hilarious thing. The sign is literally an exclamation mark inside a triangle. And, really, what else is there to say? You drive up, there's a string of !!! signs, and six feet of water where you expected your road to be, and I figure that tells you everything you need to know. You will not drive this road today.

(It turns out that this is a pretty common hazard sign in France, but this was the first time I'd noticed them, which made it even funnier to me. And, yes, there is also a bridge back to the mainland, which doesn't depend on the tides but which no one bothered to mention to me until after they showed us this. :D)

I use the icon for an "OMG!" or "WTFBBQ?" or "OH NOES" reaction. Anything where a big red triangle with a solid exclamation mark in the middle is a mood.

"Stop censoring our ~~fucking~~ art" -- what it says on the tin. :D I think I uploaded it around the time of the AO3 Hugo Awards kerfuffle (for which I also made icons), but mostly because of the "you must be this pure to post" anti brigade who were going around saying that AO3 was terrible because it let people post dark fic. On an aesthetic level I enjoy how simple and clean the text is, and how the red line crossing out the swearword illustrates the point of the icon.

Radagast! From the Peter Jackson movies of The Hobbit. I found them to be a mix of delightful charm and extraneous filler with too much influence from PJ's horror roots for my taste, and I don't think I ever saw the third one. But casting Sylvester McCoy as Radagast was one of the things they got right, and I really enjoyed his few minutes on screen. I like the close zoom of his face in this icon, his bright eyes and cheerfully unkempt beard. I expect him to lean out of the icon and strike up a mildly befuddling conversation with me--or more likely, my cat or the nearest bird. It pleases me.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: timewarping c. 2004 via 100x100 pixel squares

That feel when you realize that being obsessed for several years with the idea of Minbari having three sexes might possibly have been related to feelings you also have about your own gender.

Me: I don't really self-insert much.
Also me: *takes canonical earnest nerd, makes them nonbinary, ships them like hell with my female fave, writes a billion fic*

Heh.

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: self-isolating with wife, cat, sewing machine, sock doll w/ a tattoo, & crochet

L'shanah tovah! Love to everyone celebrating. 💙💙💙

Current Mood: sleepy

My small contribution to the current kerfuffle, based on a comment by

sara over at

synecdochic's:

We built this city on porn and law! And then we won a motherfucking Hugo. And somewhere along the way oh that's right we did kind of engage in a vigorous creative reorganization of speculative fiction.

I couldn't decide if it scanned better as "porn and law" or "law and porn" so I made both, plus some with just "we built this city."

Icons obviously shareable, credit

sara for the excellent quote!

❤

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: help I'm being earwormed

The colours on the previous layout were gorgeous, but it was horrendous on mobile. Since I've been using my phone a lot lately, I finally remembered I wanted to change that!

I may tweak this one slightly (for background image/icon size/colours possibly more blue-purple than pink-purple), but I love it already. Let me know if it's illegible or headachy or etc for you as a reader though.

(Layout is Midnight Bloom by

plainstyles.)

ETA note to self: updated the background, haven't figured out how to change round icons as the CSS is different from what I'm familiar with...hmm!

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Location: being sat upon by a cat I must feed

Holy shit. A03 won the Hugo for Best Related Work!

It feels kind of like the big fancy official people, the public face of the genre of my heart, have just acknowledged that the way I have done fandom for 20 years exists. And is important.

That feels pretty good. ❤

(And, of course, reminds me that all along many of the Famous People have also been my kind of fan, too.)

I'm proud to share this award with the other hundreds of thousands of you who make up the transformative works fandom that I call home. Fic-writing, slash-writing, often queer, largely female-centric, and full of so much creativity (and wank, and silliness).

I love everyone in this bar.

Current Mood: jubilant
Current Location: observing Mucca play boardgames with park wardens

I'm really behind on both comments and my reading page/friends' list at the moment; also private messages--if I haven't replied to you, it's not that I don't want to talk, I'm just temporarily maxed out.

❤❤❤

(New icon! I did like the first episode of the new Disco season a lot. :D)

(Also got awesome presents in

fandom_stocking and will do a post at some point! Squee.)

Current Mood: quixotic
Current Music: various earworms

Yay, new fic! I wrote this for the small but lovely Cornwell Fanworks Challenge December 2018 organized by

pixiedane over the holidays.

Title: The Feather At The Pivot Point for

lodessa
Fandom/Pairing: Star Trek: Discovery, Katrina Cornwell & L'Rell
Rating/Word Count: Teen (for mentions of violence), about 3300 words
Summary: From this prompt:
As the new head of the Klingon Empire, L'Rell only agrees to initiate diplomatic relations with the Federation on the condition that she is allowed to name the ambassador assigned to Qo'noS: Katrina Cornwell.

Notes:
This turned out to be less about what it's like being an ambassador to the Klingons and more Kat's inner journey from "Ohhh fuck no" at the suggestion to deciding that it could be what she's meant to do next. It was satisfying to me to try to hold in tension the fact that Kat's experienced quite a lot of trauma at the hands of the Klingons (both directly and indirectly) and that she does have that personal connection with L'Rell--a connection that seems to bypass all the differences between them but that was forged in the middle of all that trauma in the first place. Plus I think Kat's someone who would always be trying to understand and who really does want peace. This isn't shippy exactly but I feel like it's step 1 in perhaps a long series of events that eventually ends in Kat/L'Rell.

After fic reveals for the Cornwell Fanworks Challenge we were all guessing who'd written what, and apparently I am super easy to guess? Kat having angsty internal monologues about another woman was apparently pretty obvious even if the woman in question was L'Rell instead of Georgiou. :D

Ooh! AND: I got fic! Two amazing stories, both variations on Kat/Georgiou (it's like people know me):

Loyalty by

R_S_B: Mirror Cornwell/Mirror Georgiou, 1200 words, Teen
Inquisitor Katrina Cornwell is brought before her Emperor, suspected of collaboration with the treacherous Gabriel Lorca.
Reads like a prequel to my Non-Regulation Uses. :D Loyalty, betrayal, and the teeniest bit of bloodplay.

Darling, Dearest by

Oparu: Katrina Cornwell/Mirror Georgiou, 1500 words, Teen
Katrina Cornwell undertakes a dangerous diplomatic mission and is assigned a top Section 31 operative to keep her safe. Posing as a married couple is one of the oldest covers in the spy playblook, but Kat is not at all prepared when her 'wife' is former Emperor Philippa Georgiou.
I need like 75,000 more words of this concept, three seasons, and a movie. :D Kat and Georgiou are wonderful here, with Kat simultaneously freaked out by and drawn to Georgiou, and lots of spiky back-and-forth about what they think of each other and of their other-universe counterparts. Gorgeous and just slightly unsettling--like you would expect from "undercover as married" with Emperor Georgiou!

There were some other really great fics in the fest (two standouts were

lizbee's Rainfall with Kat and Amanda on the eve of the season 1 finale, and

mselliejane's Live Bait in which Kat eats gagh while imprisoned) and I'm really enjoying these tiny fests for my corner of the fandom (cf the Disco Hiatus Exchange 2017 that Lizbee ran last year) and hope we do another one in 2019. <3

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Wait For The Lord - Elaine Eads

from

muccamukk

Fic posted in 2018:( minus one or two questions )

( Year-end fandom meme )

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: my comfy chocolate brown couch

Yay, my Fandom Stocking went up!

Nenya's stocking for 2018
Comments will be screened until the grand reveal. Please leave (or link) drabbles/make icons/good wishes and such in comments at the link above.

At signups I felt like I'd put in a ridiculous number of fandoms, but I don't think seven is that many? (If you count Star Trek as one fandom.) I did leave a bloody lot of prompts/ideas, but hopefully that's helpful rather than tl;dr.

( Fandoms I'm requesting )

Since stockings are going up as late as they are, mods are extending the reveals date to January 19.

For those unfamiliar with

fandom_stocking, how it works is ( like so ) It's a really low-investment fest but pretty fun in my experience.

(Very glad there's a couple extra weeks this year--means I might have time to write some things!)

Current Mood: sleepy

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Nenya Kanadka

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New inbox and entry page

gratuitous icon post

Arthuriana icons (Mucca's fault)

@sunflower-auction: sharks and hats for Ukraine!

Happy New Year (belated)!

more politics thoughts

thank fucking fuck.

Let's do it in the butt, okay!

new layout!

English walks into a bar

icon meme from muccamukk

#egg_irl

Happy new year!

icons -- we built this city of AO3

New layout!

And the award goes to...

behind on comments!

Fic: The Feather At The Pivot Point, ST: Disco, Kat & L'Rell, Teen

2018 Year-End Fandom Meme

fandom stocking! yay!