#ten-year-hiatus

[arcanemoody]

Sunday Six

The realization arrives in stages, each one uniquely disquieting:

The ukulele Martín plays is purple; a uniquely dark violet with an inlay that shimmers green as the stage lights bend around him with each movement.

He's altered the lyrics just so -- not in a way that anyone would immediately pick up on. The pronouns remain the same but the vocalist's prison sentence has been lengthened from 'three long years' to six.

Finally, Jim notes that there are actually three cameras recording his performance: the commercial hire mounted on a tripod (for the Wayne Foundation), the handheld operated by Olga (ever the devoted granny), and a third one. Held by a dark-suited man positioned next to aisle three...

That blinking red light is pointed directly at him and Barbara Lee.

( @augustjustice I'm very interested in hearing what you think of this bit ;) )

[becomethesun]

she is up to No Good

[kyouka-supremacy]

I think we should just bring back Wungo Wednesday and start a fandom collective anime rewatch

[rking200]

It's Sunday, and Chapter 14 of The Red Room has been posted! A lot has lead up to this moment, so follow Hank's perspective of the evening and enjoy <3

Featuring a beautifully intimate render by @connor-sent-by-cyberlife! This chapter also officially pushes this fic past 100k words!

The Red Room (111850 words) by rking200 Chapters: 14/? Fandom: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hank Anderson/Connor Characters: Hank Anderson, Connor (Detroit: Become Human), Original Chloe | RT600, Markus (Detroit: Become Human), Elijah Kamski Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Human, Stalking, Vomiting, Suicidal Thoughts, Top Hank Anderson, Bottom Connor (Detroit: Become Human), Connor is a Mess (Detroit: Become Human), Hank Anderson is Bad at Feelings, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Missing Persons, Abduction, Manipulation, Death Threats, Mental Health Issues, Zlatko didn't do it, POV Alternating, Slow Burn, Sex at some point Summary: Connor Stern is a law school dropout who dreams of making it big in the music industry. He manages to get into a special apprenticeship program with the musical genius Elijah Kamski and, despite working two jobs and struggling to stay afloat, feels like his dream is finally within his grasp. When Hank Anderson stumbles into the lounge Connor performs at, The Red Room, he becomes entranced with him. As Hank falls in love with Connor's voice, he ends up entangled with conflicting emotions and delicate situations. Slowly, his nights are filled with Connor's songs and his closeness, even if he feels he doesn't deserve it. They reach several roadblocks along the way of getting closer, some more dangerous than others. A collaboration written alongside Connor-sent-by-Cyberlife for the Reverse Big Bang 2024, told with a POV alternating between Hank and Connor. Chapters added weekly.

[omegalomania]

throwing down my tablet pen and stamping my feet in impotent rage and tearful acknowledgment of how that first shot of patrick rejoining the other 3 in save rock and roll and their immediate joy upon seeing him is just the most potent and earnest thing because they are all dead so like theyre all just functionally seeing each others complete SOULS in heaven in that moment and the instant they lay eyes on him andy joe and pete are overjoyed to see him again and their forgiveness of him is both immediate and unconditional. soulmated band. soulbound band. would you still love me if i was a worm. would you still love me if i was torn apart physically and psychologically and in all possible ways there are to be desecrated. would you still love me even if i was the one who killed you. would you still love me if i was the thing that unmade us. would you still love me in spite of the pain and trauma that's been poured into our relationship. and the answer is yes, yes, yes, an unrepentant and unflinching and unhesitating yes, a thousand times, yes.

[yutaz]

being a boy group stan in 2024 moodboard

[sprung-from-the-grave]

DID YALL SEE THE TRANSFORMERS ONE TRAILER⁉️⁉️

[veloursdor]

day 75 of the hiatus and i miss him

ft alicent during their famous dinners

[concordewillfly]

i saw my bff yesterday and we listened to one direction in the car and it was cathartic but also sooo sad. what do u mean this thing that was ours wont ever be the same again

[yapperdan]

Now that they are bringing dan vs phil back, it made me realize that they started it almost ten years ago??? They printed out those graphics and stuck them to that board ten years ago and still have it??

Time isn’t real

[surfinthehighway]

Some rambling, but I actually only got back into fiction as an adult recently. Last year I followed along with a Frankenstein Weekly mailing list (the first fiction book I’ve read since high school), then took a break from fiction for half a year before impulsively borrowing the audiobook for Our Hideous Progeny, a spin on Frankenstein with women and dinosaurs. I ended up loving that and I’ve been engaging (not exclusively) with a lot of Frankenstein-adjacent media since.

WHAT’S FUNNY is that as much as Johannes Cabal resembles my beloved Victor Frankenstein, I actually found JCtN on an old Reddit thread for books with similar vibes to the Addams Family sitcom. The resemblance to Frankenstein (obsession, preoccupation with death, introversion yet devotion to loved ones, restoring life, basically medical fantasy, et cetera) was a happy surprise 

[elialys]

opening my half-finished chapter of "On The Wings of the Ten"

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Panini have published a new anthology collecting all the Fourth Doctor comic strips from DWM, no doubt because the The Star Beast has been adapted.

Even though this is an obvious 60th cash in, I do hope we get more anthologies like this as many of the previous collections are now out of print. Not sure how they'll do the Fifth Doctor though since there aren't really enough stories to fill an anthology. Might be best to bundle them with the Sixth Doctor stories and release one bumper volume.

[hup123hup123slapslap]

this catwin fic is gonna be like 25k by the end fuck me how did I get here

[whentherewerebicycles]

ugh I do not feel well today—tired tired tired and feeling pretty drained from the last couple weeks. I’m excited to see all my grad school friends but phew I will be glad to hibernate for a bit on the other side of this long weekend. also when will my sense of taste return from war… there are some random things I can still sort of taste (raspberries, corn) and some that taste/smell like nothing to me (yogurt, cinnamon, nectarines, greens) and then some that taste intensely and unpleasantly metallic (this falafel I ate the other day). it’s very unsettling!!!! I never tested positive for COVID but I had a whole day of exposure to my sister two days before she tested positive… apart from losing my sense of smell/taste the only other weird symptoms I can remember having in that window of possible infection are fatigue, GI issues, and persistent muscle/joint aches, but without really a feeling of “feeling sick” (I actually have felt much more “am I sick? I kinda feel sick”) this week. anyway whatever. I apparently can’t get a PCR test covered by insurance anymore unless I go to an urgent care for it and I’m not paying $125 out of pocket. I wonder if I should mask at the wedding or if I’m in the clear since I’m testing negative. mm whatever I’ll figure it out. onward…

I ended up having a pretty productive meeting with [redacted] yesterday, which was good! I am trying to avoid doing the thing where I form such a negative mental image of a person or situation that I lose the ability to see any of the positive interactions. making it really clear that I needed her to read/comment on the project plans before we met REALLY helped. I think I will just try to make that an expectation moving forward—like if she doesn’t have time to read something I’ll ask that we not discuss that project until the next time. I’m not asking her to read like 10 page docs it’s usually just a 1-2 page writeup so I think that’s a reasonable ask. she gave me useful feedback on which projects to prioritize and on how to identify & cultivate strategic partnerships that advance the work instead of spreading ourselves too thin making lots of small promises to lots of people. so all good. also she is soooooooo excited about this program we are going to pilot and I think that is earning me a lot of goodwill. I guess the higher-up chancellor is also really interested and has floated the idea of giving us $$ from discretionary funds to try out some of the more ambitious elements. I feel like I now have a clear sense of direction and have been given explicit permission to carve out time each week to work on program/curriculum development (my beloved). so that’s v positive!!

mmkay. I worked a bunch this weekend so I could take today mostly off to pack and run errands before the wedding. I have a long to-do list so I’ll do that in a separate post.

[omegalomania]

btw the lyrics to the chorus of kintsugi kid (ten years) that we get in the snippet are:

I spent Ten years in a bit of a chemical haze And I miss the way that I felt Nothing