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Day 3 - Share a favorite piece of original canon!

I wasn't sure what if anything I should include here, and then today I finally finally finally started listening to the third part of Alice Isn't Dead and it reminded me why I love it so so much.  

Alice Isn't Dead is a podcast by the creators of Welcome to Nightvale.  It's mystical and brutal.  Full of hope and despair.  It's about taking road trips in the U.S.  It's about that United States of America.  It's got gorgeous gorgeous landscapes.  (It's a podcast.)  It's a romance, and a queer POC romance at that. It's lead voice actor is a queer women of color who is kind of amazing at sewing.  It's full of wonder and magic and, man. I hope it ends well!  (No spoilers, I'm nearly there!) 

Highly highly recommended.  

(Delayed to post on January 14, 2019.)

Talk about your Happy Place - the things that give you joy, calm you or keep you sane

The first thing that comes to mind for me are my sweet bunnies. You have to be patient with a pet rabbit and learn to speak their language if you want to get all of the cuddles that a bunny can give, and it's a good reminder about how to approach all kinds of connection building.  Not that I'm always successful, but it's a good practice to be practicing! 

Sorry for no pictures. I'm on my phone and have to remember how to upload one to a shared link. Do I still have a Flickr account? IDK. 

Well, Tumblr is imploding or something tomorrow, and it's prompted me to revisit this site.  I never really got the hang of posting on the tumble-page, but also, WOW, check out my last entry!  I was days from starting a new job that has been a total energy suck for the past 5 years. In some ways, I've loved that job, and it's a real privilege to have it.  But also wow.  

Been doing a lot of fun soul searching the past year, but I've really missed engaging more proactively in fannish life - not just consuming, but being more explicitly part of a community.  I'm not sure what the future holds.  For fandom communities generally and on dreamwidth, but it's nice to hold the reminder of being engaged and how delightful that is.  

To the unknowable future!  

• Planning and executing a ridiculously delicious vegan feast!  (Pictures not to be had, because we were too embarrassed at how we were stuffing our faces!)
• Watching the Penguins win a  game with schneefink  across continents! 
• Delighting in HOW MOTHERFUCKING BADASS Katniss in in Catching Fire! (Spoilery thoughts below.)
• Decorating a Christmas tree with dear friends!
• SO MANY cuddles with my bunny.  
• Realizing that I root for the Penguins EVEN IN FIC.  Oh man.

Hope everyone else with the American Thanksgiving holiday has had a good break, and everyone else a delightful weekend!  If you haven't seen it, this Sesame Street Hunger Games parody is pretty great.


( Catching Fire )

Over on SGA Saturday, it's SGA Appreciation week, where we're all reccing various fanarts that are related to the theme of "team."

I was going to go exploring and read some new fic, but then I realized that's what everyone else's recs are for! So, instead, I went to my pinboard and saw what I managed, in my haphazard tagging, to tag with "team."

Two Bells by Punk
It's McKay/Sheppard, but SO LOVELY AND TEAM. I just. SIGH. I love Punk, and could probably rec most of my favorite stories of her under the "Team" theme, but man, this one is a good one. John sits (volunatarily!) blindfolded in the dark, and his team stops by. <3333333!!

Firepower by penknife.
Gen, and though the author's summary is "How Rodney stopped worrying and learned to love his P90," it's that + all kinds of learning to work together as a team. I do super love the team out on missions, getting shot at and being bemused by alien customs.

A Beginner's Guide to Interplanetary Economic Policy by thingswithwings
Speaking of alien customs. This is a short one, with a McShep-y flare, but, ah, who better to share off-world customs with than your team?

I, Rodney by Alex
I had completely forgotten about this one, and it's LOOONG. Rodney's a robot! Teyla is awesome! Given that I'm in part 1 of my re-read, who knows what else could happen. Gen.