Nenya Kanadka

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.

Just watched the new Space Jam with muccamukk and it was delightful. Thus the new icon. :D :D :D

Onward into 2022.

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!

❤

sleepy wombatt


( five more colours )


silence to the death!


( five more colours + gone to Carlsbad )


hatpin tiem!


( five more colours + variant style )

I got the most lovely pile of presents in my stocking! (Jump to what I wrote.)

Fic: Hornblower (smutty) and Third Doctor (fluffy) and origfic lesbian SPACE pirates! <3 And the most adorable tiny Mrs. F- drabble for the_comfortable_courtesan! SQUEEE.

And art, and recs (Janeway, and Seven of Nine, and origfic f/f) and 2048 games! (More Janeway, more Seven! With the best picture choices evar.)

And icons!


Mockingbird (comics) by tarlanx


Firestorm (Jax) by falcon_horus and a matching Firestorm (Martin) one by me

If any of that looks fun, my stocking is over here and you're welcome to the icons or the fic recs or whatever. :D

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Fic what I wrote: I wrote two fics (and a recs list). muccamukk talked me into kittens. I said, "But I don't know what to write!" and she said (picture the world's most adorable grin), "KITTENS!"

So I wrote kittens.


Title: Artemis At Sea for aqwt101
Fandom/Characters: Hornblower (TV miniseries); Hornblower/Bush, Styles
Rating/Word Count: 2600 words, gen/pre-slash
Summary: The ship's cat has kittens. Bush has opinions; Hornblower exhausts himself; Styles is given a heady commission. Started out meaning to be Hornblower vs kittens but ended up as Bush vs kittens. (Bush 0, kittens 2, ftr.)

Title: Tubbs, In Repose for schneefink
Fandom/Characters: Steerswoman (Rosemary Kirstein)/Neko Atsume crossover (yes really); Rowan, Willam, hints of Rowan/Bel and Willam/Corvus
Rating/Word Count: 2600 words, gen
Summary: Rowan vs Willam's "wizard cats." Spoilers through the end of the currently-published series (The Language of Power). My recipient asked for Rowan and Willam mentoring each other. This may have ended up more tilted in the "Rowan discovers new weird shit" direction. :P


In theory, there were several other stockings I wanted to fill. Quite possibly someday I will write Cordelia Vorkosigan vs the Cetagandan Embassy's bioengineered gift kitten, or Breq vs...any kitten at all. (Mucca: "What the hell does Breq do with a kitten??" Me: "Exactly! :D :D")


I also put together a lesbian romance (origfic f/f) recs list, since I've been reading so many of those lately. (Sometimes I want romance, and specifically want lady-loving romance. Fandom usually fills my m/m needs, and while my het needs are specific I usually know where to go for those. But I've been on an f/f binge lately and have been delighted with many of the results.) I should probably copy & paste the whole recs list in here at some point--maybe after I've read the last couple on the list, and a few of the ones recced to me in my stocking. (Notably, there was exactly one book that appeared on both lists. Since I've been waiting for Romancing The Inventor to exist for a couple of years, I don't mind. :D)

Read a whole bunch of Power Girl before I left for town, and OMG I love her so much. :D I mean, I love Kryptonians in the first place, and I love her sense of humour, and I love her no-nonsense approach to everything from interdimensional identity angst to how people react to her big boobs. She's just so much FUN and so relatable. While punching evil in the face. SO GREAT.

(I've come to the conclusion after googling Power Girl cosplay the other night that if you're posing for cosplay pics as PG without a big grin on your face, or if you're playing her as a sex kitten because of the boob window, you're doin' it rong. I am pleased to note that most of the Power Girl cosplayers I found were doing it with enthusiasm and biceps and YAY. Excellent. :D)

Anyhow, there are icons!

Mixed set with 21 Power Girl icons by tsunderes
Power Girl (10 icons), Thor, misc by radarsparks
Two Power Girl in a bunch of DC icons by perletwo_ljcozy

capes_and_cowls seems to be a good source of DC icons generally. These all have a couple of Power Girl and stuff like Batgirl, Supergirl, and heroes I don't know:
Issue 21
Issue 23
Issue 24

My only problem now is that I want to use ALL of them, possibly on the same post. :D

(Link contains spoiler for events some episodes back, but also NAMES. And the world's most adorable love scene.)

Josiah ♥ Eliza ♥ Clorinda!






Any other colour available upon request. Other the_comfortable_courtesan-related icons may be found via tags. :-)

Because obviously the thing to do when one finally gets a chance with one's laptop while travelling is to spend a couple of hours making text icons. (What can I say? I find it soothing.)

From a recent episode (to [SPOILER] while plotting for the good of their friends, and incidentally having a cuddle: "O, you say I get into fusses but compared to Miss A-, I am Patience on a monument.")



And a common exclamation from the commentariat regarding Mr MacD-:


(Previous set is over here: "Epistolary mathematickal flirtation...and a wombatt!")

Somebody else has made some, right? Somewhere? Twenty minutes of googling last night didn't turn up anything. Thus a few of Jupiter in her swanky dress--chosen, admittedly, for the pretty pretty dress rather than for the scene itself--and please let me know in comments if you've seen more JA icons elsewhere!

1. Reply to this post with "UNICORNS", and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

I feel this is an excellent proposition (I had, no lie, been planning to create an icon meme of similar proportions myself), and will do it! Comment away, me lads & lasses.



"Haleth for President: Service, Honour, Liberty & Security"
This one is from bellatrys, who is both a great LOTR fan (which is where I met her) and the person who got me paying attention to politics for the first time (in about 2004). Haleth, of course, was a chief of the Edain (humans) in the First Age, who after the death of her father in battle with Morgoth, famously led her people cross-country through dangerous (possibly giant-spider-infested) territory to finally find a safe haven near Galadriel's brother and Luthien's parents homes. The quote I like is that she did this by the strength of her will--she was so charismatic and such a great leader that people believed in her enough to dare the dangers, and she brought them safely through to the other side. So it's a "Women can be great leaders, fuck yeah!" icon, as well as a "Woohoo Tolkien!" icon and a "Politics should be about doing good for real people" icon. And a "yay Bellatrys" icon, since I miss her (she hasn't posted in a couple of years now).


Cherry blossoms. I got this one during help_japan, because my mom used to always talk about the cherry blossoms on trees in Japan, and how they were part of a lot of spring festivals and stuff, especially the ones for young girls. (When I was wee, I lived far too far north for cherry or apple trees.) Cherry trees also remind me of kissing Mucca in Victoria, and shaking the trees to make flowers fall down on us. :D And also, of course, one of my favourite authors is C. J. Cherryh, whose actual last name is Cherry.


Bren Cameron and Jago, "man'chi"
This is the front cover to one of C. J. Cherryh's books in the Foreigner series. Bren, the short (relatively; atevi are 8-9 ft) blond human, is a diplomat, somewhere between an interpreter and an ambassador. He's the only human allowed to live amongst the atevi; Jago, the tall woman behind him, starts out being his guard and ends up meaning much, much more to him, and he to her, by later in the series. "Man'chi"--the atevi are very, very alien, even down to the emotions they feel and how they react in a crisis. Man'chi is the devotion atevi feel for a leader--the centre of their lives, the one who gives their life meaning. It's also the bonds between members of a clan (who all share man'chi to their leader ('aiji')), and the way one feels that all is right in the universe. Basically, atevi Have Strong Feelings About Loyalty.


X-23 is, let me see if I remember this right, the female clone of Wolverine. So this icon is all Mucca's fault. :D X-23's comics are angsty like whoa, but it's the kind of angsty backstory that I eat right up--raised by an evil government conspiracy to be an assassin, given scary powers, now trying to Find Self and learn to Be A Good Person, with Help From Friends, particularly big-brother figures. I can do without the suicide attempts, but I really love her and Gambit, and the bits where they are running around kicking things in the head and trying to solve mysteries are pretty cool too. I guess I have a thing for brunettes in black leather, too. :D I use it to add a touch of badass, or "yay comics".


Girl with Canadian flag on her cheek, probably one of those temporary tattoos one sticks on on Canada Day.
Pretty self-explanatory. :) This is my "Go Canada Go!" icon, and also just a generally cute, nonthreatening one. (As opposed to, say, X-23. :D) I vaguely feel that I swiped it from someone somewhere along the line, but unless it was Mucca I can't remember who!