#regonym

[queenklu]

dude thank you for that throwaway "everyone needs to watch old fashioned cupcake" tag on a post a while back, because I was curious and googled it, and have just now watched the first ep, and this show is CUTE AS SHIT <3

IT'S SO CUTE AS HELL!!

After falling in a bit of a BL hyperfocus I've been so starved for like. Actual Adults Falling In Love instead of high schoolers or college kids and these two are so lovely... A Good Show about how growing older doesn't mean you have to act a certain way or deny yourself the things that make you happy.

It's just a lovely little show and everyone should watch it <3 <3 <3 AND I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE ENJOYING IT SO FAR!!

[hp-fanfic-archive]

Four and a Half Minutes by Resonant Pairing: Harry/Ron Rating: G Word Count: 856 Podfic available here Read by: regonym Length: 0-10 minutes After a Potions accident, Harry needs something.

find the full podfic library here

[lauren-no-why]

22 and 14?

14. Favorite book you read this year?

I didn't read nearly as many books this year as I had wanted but the one that stuck with me the best was The Fisherman by John Langan. It's not my favorite book ever and I'm not sure I'd recommend it unless you're into a particular flavor of cosmic non-Lovecraftian horror (but if you are, do read it). I think there are a lot of things it could have done better to make its point but the overall story of people searching for a way to cope with losses overlapping with a much older story of a company town being ruined by the inevitable changes that came to pre-WWI America is utterly fascinating. And since you specifically are asking, and I know you like horror, and I know you like Vide Noir, well - I read this while searching for things to fill that gap until we get more lore and there's some really excellent material in here of the exact nature I was after.

Every now and then I see reviews from people who say the historical story within the story bogged them down but they're morons, that was the best part to me, a nerd who has come to love the inherent horrors of US history as it was for the people who lived in it and not the people who ruled it.

22. Favorite place you visited this year?

Easily O'ahu. Which I'd been to before but only to Honolulu on my way to other places and I didn't realize just how rich in endemic wildlife and plants that island still is. Incredible hiking, some lovely beaches once you get away from the tourist areas, and a very memorable time when @regonym and I stumbled into drug dealers while just trying to eat breakfast lmfaooo. Good times.

[lady-sci]

Oooh tagged in a thing! @dreamofbecoming thank you, always glad to be included :D (genuinely though! You’re a delight on my dash even if we don’t talk much)

Fav color: green, but specifically blue-y teals or dark rich forest greens

Currently reading: uhhhh.... I think the last time I actually picked up a book was when I last went through Elliot Bay Bookstore back in September and read An Amount of First Responder on my way home. Haven’t touched it since. I have too many fic tabs open to even begin to tell you what I’m currently reading there. I don’t think I could honestly give you a fandom.

Last song: Green Day’s American Idiot, I had a spotify pop-punk playlist going while I was cleaning earlier today.

Last series: I managed to watch one entire show! It was Nation of Broth on Netflix and was two actors and comic artist going around Korea and having soup. It was lovely and they made everything sound so good even if it was something I knew I’d actually dislike.

Last movie: ?????? I don’t know what the last movie I was able to finish was. I’m pretty sure I’ve finished something since 2020? But the last one I have any conscious memory of seeing was Knives Out when we went to see my MIL in Dec 2019 so.... I’ve definitely started tons since then, and I think I got halfway through MiB? Which felt like an accomplishment.

Currently working on: everything is currently marinating. I’ve got at least 5 Star Wars fics that I do want to finish at some point and if I shook my bookmarks and spreadsheets I’d probably find something I want to podfic. But as of right now, nothing is actively being worked on.

Ooh tags! uhhhh, who all’s active........... @marnz @theleanansidhe @pride-of-storm, @regonym, @sdwolfpup and anyone who wants to, obvs!

[rederiswrites]

@regonym I had to share your reply because this is the greatest, cutest way of describing winter feeding:

the honey would not be peppermint-y, because bees do not form new honey in the hive in winter, it is too cold ^^ they are basically huddled under blankets on the couch and you are tossing them a power bar hahaha

To add, winter feeding is usually plain sugar, often combined with shortening to make a patty. You don't want to introduce liquid into the hive in winter, where it can drip, freeze, mold, etc. The shortening is also an anti-mite treatment, just like the peppermint. Plain sugar, while bad for humans, is actually pretty adequate for bees, at least for periods of time.

To point out the obvious in case you're not used to thinking like this, bees also don't make honey in winter because there aren't flowers to make it from.

I've kept bees in the past, but not for the last few years, and the last decade has seen a TON of innovation, new products, and research, all in an attempt to combat the many new and worsened problems facing honey bees.

The cutest thing I've learned recently, though, came from a friend this weekend--you can give bees candy canes. The sugar is a good clean winter food source--that's pretty normal--and the peppermint oil doesn't bother the bees but sucks for the parasitic mites that live in bee hives.

Candy canes. I want bees right now just so I can give them some nice holiday candy.

[galwednesday]

out of curiosity (and a desire for more reading material >.>) what was the 400k series you just mainlined, if it's one you would rec?

Absolutely! The main fic is I Wish You Were My Husband by Feynite (110k), which then has 260k of canon extras and 77k of spin-off AUs, all of which I devoured in less than a week. It's a hybrid of two canons that I was completely unfamiliar with before starting, which didn't hinder my enjoyment in the least. If anything I got to be in the same boat as the protagonist and share in his surprised pikachu moments of revelation at various plot twists. Immersion!

The protagonist of SVSSS, the main canon the fic is based on, dies in modern China, transmigrates to a poorly written xianxia web novel he was a devoted anti-fan of, and tries to steer the plot to a resolution that doesn't end in the messy death of the main antagonist whose body he's now inhabiting. In this AU he's only read the first book in the series, so his approach to guiding the story varies between extremely genre savvy and wildly misinformed. If you like unintentional unreliable narrators, metafiction, and slow-burn pining, then A++ would recommend using this series to take a break from reality for a while.

[cactusspatz]

yasssssss join me in my feels for these good good boat boys and gals and nonbinary pals :D :D :D

*pats them all gently* They’re good boat people.

[lazulisong]

WATANUKI FLAILING IN TRANSCENDENT RAGE OVER SOMETHING

Doumeki's bored, and also hungry, which is historically a great combination for him and a terrible one for Watanuki. He doesn't want to be like, literally sitting in Watanuki's kitchen staring at him expectantly with a pair of chopsticks in his hand, but also: if you don't let people know what you want, they can't give it to you. Also, Watanuki's been looking tired lately. Not tired, exactly, when he thinks about it. Just. Worn out. It makes Doumeki's skin itch to look at him.

So Doumeki goes out and buys the ingredients for wonton soup and then breaks into Watanuki's house. Watanuki is allegedly all magically powerful and and stuff now, which means theoretically someone breaking into his house would end up in a small heap of ash.

Doumeki, naturally, kicks the door gently and it swings open for him, even closing after he walks through. "Thanks," he says to it. and then goes into the kitchen. He calculates he has about fifteen minutes before Watanuki shows up. Plenty of time to set up.

By the time Watanuki realizes something is wrong, Doumeki is peacefully making wontons that are not quite up to Watanuki's standards. (Watanuki's standards are ridiculously high. If he ever got tired of being an idiot running a wish shop, he definitely could give himself an ulcer running a five star restaurant somewhere.) Watanuki stomps in, gives one incredulous look around his kitchen, and drags a deep breath in.

"Oh, good," says Doumeki, straightfaced. "I was thinking I should just do them Hong Kong style, what do you think?"

"What TYPE OF IDIOT----" screams Watanuki, and by the time they get the wontons boiling in the soup, he looks much better.

The soup's pretty good too.

[lavvyan]

errikun hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet “I've been skirting the edges of a panic attack for days now, pulse...”

*hugs*

*clings*

sealie-seolh hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet

what will help? How can I help? Project idea(s)? Photos of my yarn collection. Chat? Random theories about how lovely Steve and Danno are standing next to each other -- height difference *smish*. Care package? Hugs?

Well, I mean, I do love getting stuff, but I’d be happy to hear more about those random theories of yours. And yes please re: your yarn collection! <3

Chatting isn’t for me, though. Not feeling particularly social right now. *hugs*

april-rainer hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet

Anxiety is absolutely awful and I hope your brain stops giving you a hard time SOON

My brain is being SUCH AN ASSHOLE right now. I don’t even know what it’s punishing me for. 

regonym hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet

:((( *offers hugs*

Thank you. *snuggles in*            

bringer-of-rainbows hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet 

<3

<3

msbeeinmybonnet hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet

Sweetness, my Lady of Kings, that's just... Everything sounds like platitudes in my head so please just imagine be giving you a long, proper octopus hug (or, if touch stresses you out rn, sitting close to you and intensely projecting comfort) and know that I get the ultimate shittiness of constant anxiety. Can I do anything to help?

Not really, but knowing you care is lovely. *hugs*

[attilarrific]

Have you ever read 'In Other Lands'? ^^ If so, please write me some Elliot POV shenanigans where he's freaking out about something!

So, I haven’t technically read In Other Lands, but I have read The Turn of the Story, which is what it was when it was just a serial story SRB was writing on her blog on the internet? I assume things changed from internet publication to real publication, but I have no idea what they are. And it was a while ago. But I feel like that’s basically enough knowledge for a ficlet, so here we go! Apologies if I screw anything up!

Set sometime after Luke and Elliot get together, I don’t know when or what they’re doing. Don’t question it.

#

“Serene!” Elliot yells, bursting into her tent. “The sex was really bad! I fucked up the fucking! Or, I mean, I didn’t, I think we can all agree that if the sex was bad and it was anyone’s fault, it definitely wasn’t mine, I am good at sex and you know it and…” He trails off as he takes in the scene, the men, and Serene’s horrified face. “And you have company. Male company. Elvish male company.” He smiles weakly. “Hi, Golden.”

Serene’s face, if it’s possible, gets even more horrified. The face of the Elvish gentleman Elliot does not know gets even more disapproving. Possibly indicating that he knows a delicate Elvish gentleman like Golden was not his best possible move. Possibly he has ruined Golden for life. Possibly Serene will never forgive him, and Luke will never have sex with him again, because the sex was so bad, and neither of them will ever speak to him again, because the sex was bad and he ruined Golden’s reputation, and the two of them will go off to be swordsisters together, and then they’ll die because they’ll get into some situation they could’ve diplomacied their way out of in no time, except they won’t, because Elliot won’t be there. Luke and Serene will both die, and it’ll be all because he was bad at having sex with Luke.

Elliot gulps.

“Hello, Elliot,” Golden says, calmly. “How nice of you to drop by. Would you like to have some tea?”

Serene and the Elvish gentleman who is almost certainly chaperoning their polite and moving courtship in which the word sex will absolutely never be brought up, to spare Golden’s delicate feelings, look united in horror. Which at least has the benefit of telling Elliot pretty clearly what his answer should be, if he’d been in any doubt at all.

“No, that’s, uh. Fine. Thank you.” He rallies. “I was just practicing lines! For a play! Which Serene, as a generous and noble lady, had graciously agreed to help with! I am not a loose man, Serene definitely doesn’t know any loose men, and I have absolutely never had any sexual relations with Serene, not once, there is no reason why she would know how good I am at sex.”

This doesn’t appear to help as much as he thinks it should.

“I was just going!” he says loudly. “I’ll just be off. You—three—have fun.”

“I’ll walk you out.” Serene jumps up and grabs his arm, practically dragging him away from her blushing groom, and Elliot lets her. “Elliot!” she hisses once they’re outside. “I know it’s easy to be overcome with your masculine emotions, chaotic as they are, but—”

“I know!” Elliot whisper-shrieks. “I’m sorry! I didn’t realize!”

Serene calms down and smiles at him benevolently. “Well. It’s all right. I understand that, as a man, it’s difficult to control yourself.”

“That’s right,” he agrees gratefully.

“You and Luke had sex?” she says, sounding interested, and apparently over him possibly ruining her chaste tea with Golden. Maybe she won’t die after all—unless Luke still never speaks to him again, and then takes Serene with him, because of their strong, swordsister bond. Would Serene abandon him if Luke asked? She wouldn’t, would she?

“We tried. It was so bad,” he moans anyway, wrapping his arms around her and burying his face in her shoulder. “Help.”

“Ah,” she says, patting his shoulder awkwardly. “Elliot, you know my brusque feminine ways make it impossible for me to be as comforting and nurturing as I’m sure you require.”

He refuses to let go. “Serene, help.”

She clears her throat. “Well, perhaps—I—hmm. This is perhaps insensitive, but you know I can’t help it. But I’ve never fully understood how sex between two men works? Of course sometimes two women have needs, as they must, and help each other, but two men? Who is the woman? Who tops? What do you do?”

Elliot groans in agony for the heteronormative world. Worlds. All of them.

“I’m sorry!” she yelps. “Of course it must be very fulfilling for you both! I’m sure you rarely feel the lack of a stronger feminine presence!”

Okay, so Serene might not’ve been the best person to talk to.

#

He goes to do research, because when in doubt, find the library and start reading. Research will always help him. Research is always on his side. Surely, surely there must be some dirty books here, and one of them will say: “Elliot, if only you’d done this, this, and this, the sex would not have been horribly awkward and uncomfortable and you would not have ruined Luke’s first time and made him hate you for life.”

If he were on the other side of the Wall, he could watch porn, except he’s pretty sure the porn industry is exploitative and unrealistic and he’s never seen a single person use lube in a porn video. Was that the problem? Had he not used enough lube? They hadn’t even been having penetrative sex, how much lube had they needed? The last time he’d had sex with a man, it had been fine, there had been no lube complaints, because he’s good at sex!

Maybe it wasn’t the lube. Clearly, this has to be Luke’s fault, because Elliot is definitely very good at having sex with woman and men, and he would never have used an inappropriate amount of lube. Except if he’s good at having sex with men, he would’ve been good at having sex with Luke, who is more important than most men—

Maybe it’s because Luke is also a harpy? Why has he never researched harpy sex? How could he have missed that? What if they have different erogenous zones? Why doesn’t this world have more interspecies porn?

That’s how Luke finds him, naturally, beating his head against a book that is talking in winking innuendo about flowers and pollination and is clearly also heteronormative and has no tips about actual sex anyway, unless Elliot wants to fuck a flower, which he doesn’t. Unless Luke is into that, in which case he could try, probably, but pollination sounds awkward and like it involves a lot of bees, and—

“Elliot?” Luke says.

“I hate you,” Elliot mumbles into the book.

“Oh. Um. Look, Elliot, I’m really, really sorry—”

Elliot sits straight up and stares at him. Luke blushes and looks down at his feet, and Elliot looks too, just in case there’s something important there. “Wait,” he says, once he’s sure there isn’t, “why are you sorry?”

Luke goes even redder and fidgets from side to side. “Um. I know I wasn’t very—um, you know.”

“I don’t,” Elliot says honestly.

“I wasn’t very good!” Luke yells, and then his eyes go wide, and he claps his hands over his mouth.

“Oh, thank god,” Elliot says, “it was your fault.”

Luke glares at him, which at least makes him stop looking like a stop sign or like he is about to explode from too much blushing. “Hey.”

“You said it,” Elliot points out, “not me.”

“Well, at least I’ve got an excuse,” Luke snaps, looking annoyed. “I’d never done that before. It’s not my fault I didn’t know what to do. What was wrong with you? Aren’t you supposed to be good at it?”

“I am good at it,” Elliot says, offended. “We just established that it was your fault, not mine. It can be because you didn’t have any experience. That’s okay. I—Huh.”

“What?”

“If it’s your fault for being a virgin up until an hour ago,” he says slowly, “then probably you’ll stop being bad at it once you’ve got some more experience. And then it won’t suck anymore.”

“It wasn’t my fault—wait.” Luke starts to slowly redden again, which is a pity, because he was nearly back to a normal color. “Does that mean—are you just saying we should have more sex?”

“Yes. Probably a lot more. We have to test the hypothesis.”

“Oh. Well. All right.”

Elliot’s a genius.

[queenklu]

oh man have you ALSO seen the Terror??? I just finished the last ep today and am feeling.... a NORMAL AMOUNT ABOUT IT

I've seen it TWICE and yup yup yuuuuup I think that is a Perfectly Reasonable Experience upon finishing The Terror! IT'S SUCH A GOOD SHOW.

If anyone reading this is like "but uhhh isn't it. horror" please understand I am a COMPLETE and UTTER WUSS and I loved it!/probably only had to cover my eyes maybe twice?? With the caveat of "I knew how the real expedition turned out because this framed picture* has been hanging on the wall of my childhood home for as long as I can remember"

*this is a single page of a magazine that my parents apparently bought and then framed??? because they thought it was neat**

**they are correct

[cesiousblue]

eyyyy are you on twitter/DW by any chance? trying to track down folks in advance of the tumblrpocalypse XD;

posting public so anyone who wants can add: 

I’m @AJabsolute on Twitter, just made AJabsolute on DW so i’ll be there if things break down XD

my dnd blog Crow N Key is @Crow_n_Key on Twitter and the same on DW 

[platoapproved]

regonym  opheliaintherushes   my roommate has gently...

….wat XD;

GOTTA LOVE THE FLASH

[dsudis]

(Anybody wanna bet Clint’s been left utterly alone in his house when the dust settles?) OH SHIT UR THE WORST *CRIES FOREVER*

If it’s any… comfort?… I put a whole list of characters through a random coin flip app before starting on an IW aftermath fic and I… think… I found a worse scenario? Uh. Sorry. In advance. 

[copperbadge]

More Answers About DIY

niennanir replied to your photoset “Surprised yell #4: when I went to change out the leaky showerhead the...”

You need to make sure the pipe is stable and not moving and NOT LEAKING into the wall. (omg, 0/10 would not do again) You'll want to ninja up to eye level and shimmy the flange out of the way, turn on the water, which will now be spraying directly on you, and make sure none of the water is running from the pipe joint into the wall. You'll also want to go around to the opposite wall, remove the service panel and check that everything is spiffy on that end. p1

p2: the pipe should be anchored to the nearest stud with a little half circle clamp for stability, otherwise it runs the risk of bending and ultimately failing. You can actually reclaim it yourself with a screw driver if everything is okay in the leaks department. I picked one at random off amazon but you'll need the right size for your plumbing pipe. http://a.co/bkBO03E

Oh man what I wouldn’t give for a service panel :D That’s not a thing in Chicago gut-rehabs like this one, unfortunately. 

The pipe itself seems ok -- it’s definitely not leaking now, and while it might take a while, the downstairs neighbors would probably notice relatively quickly if there was a significant leak. But there’s no way to get at the rest of the plumbing without knocking a hole in the wall. Which, at the point I retile might be an option because I’d prefer to install entirely new hardware, I don’t care much for what’s there now, but again -- expensive, so will have to wait. In the meantime, I’m brainstorming ways to secure the pipe so it’s not constantly knocking back and forth which, as you say, could eventually cause it to bend/break. @scifigrl47‘s dad, who Knows The Ways Of Plumbing, says I need a special kind of escutcheon, which is fancy and exciting. 

The previous shower head leaked so badly I’m actually judging the tenants a little for not at least trying to tighten the screw holding the head to the pipe. Though it did make it easier to remove. 

regonym replied to your post “Answers About DIY”

I re-did my (ROSE-PINK) laminate counters with a Giani faux-granite paint kit, and omg SUCH AN IMPROVEMENT <3

hedgerose replied to your post “Answers About DIY”

You can also use feather finish cement on top of existing countertops, if you're willing to spend literal hours sanding it down. I did it last year to my counters and I love them a LOT.

niennanir replied to your post “Answers About DIY”

Rustoleum countertop transformations is an epoxy that comes with a plastic flake you add to the surface to make it look like faux stone. It totally looks faux. It is also totally better than most laminate from the 80's and earlier. It is not heat resistant.

I am taking furious notes on all of this! I don’t think anything could get a ton worse than what’s there now, which is chipped dusty yellow formica. 

[impishtubist]

tardis-stowaway said: 

I'm not going next year due to my con friends dropping it, but I've been for the previous 6 or 7 years so I can answer questions.  Gally' great!

I’m sure I will have lots of questions as we get closer! I’ll be sure to ask you :) 

regonym said: 

I think Jey & Giles go every year! ^^

Yep, they do, and they’re the reason I’m going! I think Jey’s been asking me for, oh, five or six years now. And the stars finally aligned!