Ever Vexed With Storms, by Emmet A. O'Brien
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mrissaReview copy provided by the author, who is a dear friend.
Zamyatin is a Recusant world. Its people have considered the advantages of membership in humanity's great interplanetary Hegemony and decided that oh gosh, no thank you, they're washing their collective hair that day. But there are dangers in the universe that do not play by the Hegemony's rules, so sometimes careful diplomacy with the Recusing worlds is required. Enter our heroine.
Corin Oshima is still outrunning the timewave resultant from altering the timeline around the horrible events of Rossem (before this series begins), but she is also dealing with the fallout from more recent events on Eisenhower (in Both Your Houses). Gangster Charlie Salamanca has gotten away, and in a world with extensive body modifications available, he could be anywhere--or anyone. But Corin can't focus on that right now. She's busy trying to make sure that neither Zamyatin nor its already-shaky relationship with the Hegemony is destroyed.
This series continues to be really excellent at its balance of thought and action. If you want space opera that considers the nature of the universe both morally and physically--now! with cool aliens!--this is the series for you. This is volume two, and I happen to know there's more to come. Yay.
Movies seen in May
Jun. 1st, 2026 08:21 amshallownessWell, a movie, singular. I went to see The Devil Wears Prada 2 about a week and a half after it came out. I snorted with derision at one of the ads claiming that there’s such a thing as ‘The Devil Wears Prada lore’. It’s fine, quite entertaining ( Read more... )
I hope to go see Tuner this week.
I hope to go see Tuner this week.
Somehow, June has returned
Jun. 1st, 2026 02:14 pmscaramoucheI've been feeling a little meh lately, I think a combo of the strain of travel, weather and long-distance driving activities. This isn't really helped that as soon as it gets really really hot in the daytime (as it's been this week or so) I just don't want to do anything that takes effort, physical or mental. Consuming stuff is okay, doing occasional chores is okay, but priority is for the critical things and everything else more complicated is stuck in a backlog.
In an attempt to make a post! I've been watching/listening to![[youtube.com profile]](https://youtube.com/favicon.ico)
micthesnare's Deep Discog Dives, which look at the entire catalogue and associated creative history of huge artists like Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, Queen, Daft Punk, etc. and although these are well-known artists it's not like I've listened to everything they've ever done, so it's been fun listening to his chatter about their work and discovering previously-unknown-to-me music that I can add to my playlist. Like, for example, some of Madonna's later comparatively-lesser-known stuff is surprisingly my jam.
In an attempt to make a post! I've been watching/listening to
rereading reviews...
May. 31st, 2026 09:42 pmdaryl_wor It definitely was worth my while for the marriage novel, having re read and completed that again and yes, the ones and zeros of so much approval has it's fun but more importantly, the readers enjoying it is higher and Understanding it; their happiness alongside the characters happiness, that blessing is rather the high of highs. If only I could complete more as previously planned... BUT! I made a completed copy over here. Not for the faint of heart or the squeamish, of course. ;)
might as well add an image....
might as well add an image....
The Legend of Vox Machina
Jun. 1st, 2026 12:38 amsettiaiHow is June already? Seriously, how?
(Yes, it's only a little past midnight for me. It still counts.)
On a related note, Season 4 of The Legend of Vox Machina starts airing this week, so I did a marathon of the first three seasons while I was working on various things around the apartment this weekend. I made it through the first two seasons on Saturday, and then I picked up with the third season late this afternoon and just finished up a bit before midnight.
It's been ages since I watched the entire series back-to-back like that, and it really made it stand out just how much the characters have grown and evolved over the course of those three seasons. As much as I love Campaign 1 of Critical Role, the animated series really does a better job at telling the story of Vox Machina in a lot of ways. Which makes sense, as the D&D series was essentially the rough draft of the story while the show is the version that's been cleaned up and edited.
Now I just have to wait for Season 4 to get here.
(Yes, it's only a little past midnight for me. It still counts.)
On a related note, Season 4 of The Legend of Vox Machina starts airing this week, so I did a marathon of the first three seasons while I was working on various things around the apartment this weekend. I made it through the first two seasons on Saturday, and then I picked up with the third season late this afternoon and just finished up a bit before midnight.
It's been ages since I watched the entire series back-to-back like that, and it really made it stand out just how much the characters have grown and evolved over the course of those three seasons. As much as I love Campaign 1 of Critical Role, the animated series really does a better job at telling the story of Vox Machina in a lot of ways. Which makes sense, as the D&D series was essentially the rough draft of the story while the show is the version that's been cleaned up and edited.
Now I just have to wait for Season 4 to get here.
I have zero focus (biking and looking at art)
Jun. 1st, 2026 04:31 pmchina_shopHaaaai! I am just kind of floating through my day doing random stuff. To-do list? What's that? La la la.
I just spent an hour or more on Duolingo, which was a wrist-centric mistake after two hours' biking yesterday, so I've ordered a stylus in the hopes that'll make all the character-tracing easier. (Also, maybe faster for the timed sprint challenges?)
On Saturday we went to the NZ Art Show, which was uh, mostly crowded. It's hard to appreciate individual pieces in a very busy environment, with everything all crammed in together. The bright/garish pieces stand out, but anything quieter disappears. As always, my favourites were very children's-book-illustration-esque. We went round the whole place at a fair clip and were out in an hour.
And yesterday (Sunday), we biked Te Ara Tupua, the new separated cycleway/pedestrian-way to Pito-one (formerly, there was just the shoulder of the motorway). We continued along the foreshore and up the side of the river into Lower Hutt, had lunch at the Dowse Art Museum and a look around there, and came home again. The whole ride was about 43km. I bought some storage cubes (flat packed) which fit fine in our panniers and some cube packs. Still not really sure how to organise my stuff, but I have options.
Te Ara Tupua, which only opened a couple of weeks ago, was teeming with pedestrians and cyclists -- adults, kids, groups, etc. It felt like the city had been set free. I don't think I've seen so many smiles in my ten years of biking as an adult! It felt like a mix of seasoned cyclists, families with kids, and people who'd decided to take their bikes out of the garage, dust them off and give it a go. Really great. It took half an hour from Wellington railway station to Pito-one, and slightly longer back just because of the busyness of the path. :-)
I just spent an hour or more on Duolingo, which was a wrist-centric mistake after two hours' biking yesterday, so I've ordered a stylus in the hopes that'll make all the character-tracing easier. (Also, maybe faster for the timed sprint challenges?)
On Saturday we went to the NZ Art Show, which was uh, mostly crowded. It's hard to appreciate individual pieces in a very busy environment, with everything all crammed in together. The bright/garish pieces stand out, but anything quieter disappears. As always, my favourites were very children's-book-illustration-esque. We went round the whole place at a fair clip and were out in an hour.
And yesterday (Sunday), we biked Te Ara Tupua, the new separated cycleway/pedestrian-way to Pito-one (formerly, there was just the shoulder of the motorway). We continued along the foreshore and up the side of the river into Lower Hutt, had lunch at the Dowse Art Museum and a look around there, and came home again. The whole ride was about 43km. I bought some storage cubes (flat packed) which fit fine in our panniers and some cube packs. Still not really sure how to organise my stuff, but I have options.
Te Ara Tupua, which only opened a couple of weeks ago, was teeming with pedestrians and cyclists -- adults, kids, groups, etc. It felt like the city had been set free. I don't think I've seen so many smiles in my ten years of biking as an adult! It felt like a mix of seasoned cyclists, families with kids, and people who'd decided to take their bikes out of the garage, dust them off and give it a go. Really great. It took half an hour from Wellington railway station to Pito-one, and slightly longer back just because of the busyness of the path. :-)
Girl Genius for Monday, June 01, 2026
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girlgenius_main_feedThe Girl Genius comic for Monday, June 01, 2026 has been posted.
Keeping time on the kingfisher's climb
May. 31st, 2026 11:47 pmsovayI have one social medium and I am glad it did not in fact dissolve itself into cheese holes. On the other side of this afternoon's adventures in DW, please accept some slightly disparate links.
1.rushthatspeaks is legally divorcing and in order to cover the lawyer's fees, since he is both disabled and out of work, has set up a GoFundMe. His further details are frank and lucid. If you can donate, please do. Funds are closing in on the three-quarter mark. That sixpence of Leo Marks' never goes out of style.
2. Not only was the energy yield of yesterday's meteor, at an equivalent of 300 tons of TNT, larger than the Halifax Explosion, as a three-foot meteor it was more efficient than actual TNT. No wonder mass drivers have been outlawed by every civilized planet.
3. I do not regret the rest of The Singing Word: 168 Years of Poetry from The Atlantic (2025), but I took it home from the Used Book Superstore for Jane Hirshfield's "For the Lichens" (2011).
4. While searching for other footage of seaplanes, I found the Supermarine S.6B winning the Schneider Trophy in 1931. I almost certainly learned about the development of racing seaplanes between the wars thanks to Leslie Howard's The First of the Few (1942).
5. Just last night I heard about the West End transfer of the Old Vic's Arcadia and I screamed through my keyboard because unless it does a National Theatre-style stream, I will never hear Oliver Chris shout that he has been fucked by a dahlia.
I haven't read a hardboiled yarn with its own Yiddish glossary since Leo Rosten's Silky! A Detective Story (1979) and since neither it nor its sequel King Silky! (1981) features sheydim, Andrew Hiller's Hornytown Chutzpah (2026) has the slight advantage along with the tikkun olam. I would cheerfully follow the further adventures of its wise guy and his demons through the suburb between Hell and D.C. I read the novella this evening in a medically recommended bath.
1.
rushthatspeaks is legally divorcing and in order to cover the lawyer's fees, since he is both disabled and out of work, has set up a GoFundMe. His further details are frank and lucid. If you can donate, please do. Funds are closing in on the three-quarter mark. That sixpence of Leo Marks' never goes out of style. 2. Not only was the energy yield of yesterday's meteor, at an equivalent of 300 tons of TNT, larger than the Halifax Explosion, as a three-foot meteor it was more efficient than actual TNT. No wonder mass drivers have been outlawed by every civilized planet.
3. I do not regret the rest of The Singing Word: 168 Years of Poetry from The Atlantic (2025), but I took it home from the Used Book Superstore for Jane Hirshfield's "For the Lichens" (2011).
4. While searching for other footage of seaplanes, I found the Supermarine S.6B winning the Schneider Trophy in 1931. I almost certainly learned about the development of racing seaplanes between the wars thanks to Leslie Howard's The First of the Few (1942).
5. Just last night I heard about the West End transfer of the Old Vic's Arcadia and I screamed through my keyboard because unless it does a National Theatre-style stream, I will never hear Oliver Chris shout that he has been fucked by a dahlia.
I haven't read a hardboiled yarn with its own Yiddish glossary since Leo Rosten's Silky! A Detective Story (1979) and since neither it nor its sequel King Silky! (1981) features sheydim, Andrew Hiller's Hornytown Chutzpah (2026) has the slight advantage along with the tikkun olam. I would cheerfully follow the further adventures of its wise guy and his demons through the suburb between Hell and D.C. I read the novella this evening in a medically recommended bath.
recent(ish) reading
May. 31st, 2026 11:02 pmredbirdBooks finished:
Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance. the book covers a lot, with a focus on Machiavelli and on Florence--The idea of a Renaissance, as a goal, was invented in Florence, and tourism has been important to the economy of Florence for centuries. Recommended.
T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith. A reread of a romance set in the Temple of the White Rat universe.
Celia Lake, Claiming the Tower. Another romance set in her Albion fantasy history, this takes place during the Crimean War, and the relationship arc is a slowly-developing friendship and then romance between two wonen.
Jenn Lyons, The Sky on Fire. A fantasy novel, set in a world with dragons. The main viewpoint character wanted to be a dragon rider, and instead found herself living on the barely-habitable surface, after what was intended to be been a fatal fall. Politics on multiple levels, as well as relationships. I enjoyed this and am not sure what to say about it. Lyons does a good job of world-building, with a lot of what Jo Walton calls including to avoid the "as you know, Bob" problem of telling the reader things that the characters take for granted. This seems to be a stand-alone book, and I have another of Lyons's books on hold at the library.
Susan Kaye Quinn, editor, Bright Green Futures. An anthology of solarpunk stories. These are mostly near-future stories about living in a climate-changed future, and adapting to aspects of that.
I liked most of the stories. Serena Ulibarri’s “What Kind of Bat Is This?” is about people working on studying and restoring a bit of desert. Danielle Arostegui’s “A Merger in Corn Country” is about farming and finding community as the climate changes and people have to decide whether to relocate. Brightflame’s "Ancestors, Descendants,” is weird and interesting, depicting a few people finding a way to live within a fungally-linked network of plant life at the northeastern edge of the continent (I think North America). “Centipede Station” by T K Rex is set much further in the future, somewhere a long way from Earth. It's anti two people whose starship has crash-landed on some kind of space station. Recommended, though I apparently tried and gave up on one of the author's novels a few years ago.
Celia Lake, Distilling Sunlight. Another Albion book, a romance between a widower with two children, and a woman who has never married, because she never met anyone she wanted to marry, and because she thinks her distractability and tendency to lose track of time would interfere with any serious relationship.
Holly Day, Squirrel Circus. A romance between two "shifters," one a wolf shifter (with a lot more control over the transformation than the typical werewolf, and a squirrel shifter. The two men can smell that they are each other's destined mates, and both think it would be a very bad idea, because wolves tend to kill and eat squirrels. I enjoyed this, but have no immediate impulse to seek out more of Day's work. We never see the titular squirrel circus, but it's a minor plot point. (This book, the Celia Lake romances, and the Courtney Milan book discussed below all contain explicit sex, but this one has an "adults only" warning at the beginning.)
Lois McMaster Bujold, Knot of Shadows. Another Penric and Desdemona novella.
Courtney Milan, A Compendium of Ever-Increasing Mayhem. Romance, and I'm not sure I entirely believe the characters getting together after the man ruined the woman socially years earlier, largely to amuse himself and his friends. (He has changed, but she has trouble believing that.)
Current reading:
I am reading what seems to be the new Penric and Desdemona story, Darklight Dare, on the kindle.
Our current read-aloud book is Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, translated by someone who liked the book enough that he learned French in order to translate it. (We compared this to another translation, and agreed that we preferred this one.)
Mermay round up
Jun. 1st, 2026 02:57 pmmificI had fun with Mermay this year - mostly HR pics, and one original pic drawn by leecetgeartist. All done in Procreate.
In Any Universe - Heated Rivalry, Shane/Ilya, lineart & colour, both mer
Coils - Heated Rivalry, Shane/Ilya, b&w drawing, both mer
Mating Spiral - Heated Rivalry, mer!Shane/Tentacle monster!Ilya, lineart & colour
Eel Guy has a snack - Original work, lineart byleecetheartist who made us a colouring page over at Drawesome and did a mer drawing for every day of May! I coloured this one.
leecetgeartist. All done in Procreate. In Any Universe - Heated Rivalry, Shane/Ilya, lineart & colour, both mer
Coils - Heated Rivalry, Shane/Ilya, b&w drawing, both mer
Mating Spiral - Heated Rivalry, mer!Shane/Tentacle monster!Ilya, lineart & colour
Eel Guy has a snack - Original work, lineart by
leecetheartist who made us a colouring page over at Drawesome and did a mer drawing for every day of May! I coloured this one. Daily Happiness
May. 31st, 2026 07:56 pmtorachan1. We went to the Hyundai dealership this morning and test drove an Ioniq 5 and we both really liked it. There were a couple things I liked better about the EV 6, but overall preferred the Ioniq, so that's probably what we're going to go with. Still trying to decide if we'll get it used or new. The guy we spoke with at the dealership this morning said the incentives change monthly, so tomorrow I'm going to check their website and see what they're offering and how that would line up with the used ones we're seeing. I think we'd get a little more for a trade-in at the dealership vs Carmax, so that's something to consider, too. We really want to make this happen this month!
2. After that we went over to check out the new Ikea in Culver City. As I anticipated, it is a pretty small store (though even smaller than I thought). They have a decent sized showroom, but there's not much in stock that you can actually buy in terms of furniture (of course they have tons of small items for sale there). That said, we often do just go to Ikea to browse and then order online later when it comes to larger stuff (even stuff that would fit in the car), so it's still nice to have somewhere close to do that. We decided on the Kallax for a record shelf (they actually had one on display with fake records, so it's definitely the right size), so I ordered that and should have it on Tuesday.
3. Since we were already in Culver City, we decided to go check out the new Super King international market across town from the Ikea. It seems to be mainly middle eastern, but also has a bunch of other international stuff as well. It's a pretty big store, though not as big as the Super Irvine we went to a few months ago. We got a few small things, but it's nice to know it's there.
4. Chloe was enjoying her window when Gemma came up and nearly sat on her. There was a little hissing, but then Chloe decided it was okay, and Gemma scooted over a bit, too, which probably helped.
2. After that we went over to check out the new Ikea in Culver City. As I anticipated, it is a pretty small store (though even smaller than I thought). They have a decent sized showroom, but there's not much in stock that you can actually buy in terms of furniture (of course they have tons of small items for sale there). That said, we often do just go to Ikea to browse and then order online later when it comes to larger stuff (even stuff that would fit in the car), so it's still nice to have somewhere close to do that. We decided on the Kallax for a record shelf (they actually had one on display with fake records, so it's definitely the right size), so I ordered that and should have it on Tuesday.
3. Since we were already in Culver City, we decided to go check out the new Super King international market across town from the Ikea. It seems to be mainly middle eastern, but also has a bunch of other international stuff as well. It's a pretty big store, though not as big as the Super Irvine we went to a few months ago. We got a few small things, but it's nice to know it's there.
4. Chloe was enjoying her window when Gemma came up and nearly sat on her. There was a little hissing, but then Chloe decided it was okay, and Gemma scooted over a bit, too, which probably helped.
2626 / Hap and Leonard, S1; Josh Johnson: Symphony
May. 31st, 2026 10:50 pmsiriaOver at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
robbyabbot, I went old school and posted a ship manifesto for Jack/Robby, aka the pairing that is currently eating my brain.
( Hap and Leonard, Season 1 )
( Josh Johnson: Symphony )
robbyabbot, I went old school and posted a ship manifesto for Jack/Robby, aka the pairing that is currently eating my brain. ( Hap and Leonard, Season 1 )
( Josh Johnson: Symphony )
Hugo novelettes
May. 31st, 2026 07:26 pmcahnHey, I am reading Hugos stuff! I am behind on posting, though. Have the novelettes!
I must confess I was not particularly taken by any of these, but it may also be that I read them mostly while traveling and probably at least slightly grumpy :)
- “Kaiju Agonistes” by Scott Lynch (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 62) - this was the one that took me longest to read. I think... this could have been a lot fewer words. Basically, this is satire-esque AU Cold War with kaijus. It was fun, when I finally got through it, if a bit in-your-face.
- “Never Eaten Vegetables”( by tH.H. Pak (Clarkesworld, Issue 220) - Story about a ship carrying embryos that abruptly finds it has to parent a number of them. I think somehow I was the wrong audience for this story and I don't quite feel like I can articulate why? I felt like it was very "corporations are bad! They are the bad guys! Have we mentioned this??" and also was trying to get me to feel things via parenting, but I never really did because the parenting didn't feel real to me, and I was not very surprised to find the author is not themself a parent. idk. I think for some reason, that may not really have been the writer's fault, I never quite gelled with the characters enough, even though sentient ships and things like that are usually my jam.
- “Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy” by Martha Wells (Reactor, July 10, 2025) - Martha Wells, like several other authors on this list, is very hit or miss for me, and this one was a miss. I was vaguely aware that this takes place as sort of a Murderbot-adjacent story, but it turns out that Murderbot itself is the draw for me; I couldn't really make myself care that much about the people or the ship, for some reason -- perhaps because I didn't remember enough about Murderbot, I didn't really get why I should care.
- “The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For”( by Cameron Reed (Reactor, April 2, 2025) - This story just kind of confused me. It started out life as a Cyteen-esque story about genetics and environment and its intersection with a corporate sort of mentality (which was fine, although I think I'd rather just go read Cyteen again) and then veered somewhat sharply into. I felt like the sharp change made the story a bit incoherent to me? I guess it's trying to say something about different bodies, but I never quite caught up to the plot shift to get to the point where I was engaging thematically, I guess?
- "The Millay Illusion” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 67) -- so I feel like Pinsker can be very "is this story meant for you or not" but this story about two girls in a traveling show together, one of whom is a mentalist and the other of whom is an illusionist, was very much meant for me. It's not a story that has well-defined answers, but that's kind of the point (and perhaps now I know to expect that from a Pinsker story so I don't get blindsided by it any more), and I really enjoyed the relationship between the two girls and all the unspoken depths of it (which although complex is not written as explicitly romantic, which I highly approve of and I want more stories with complex friendship that isn't explicitly romantic yes please thanks!).
- “When He Calls Your Name” by Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 65) - I always sort of brace myself when I see Valente's name, but for this piece about a vampire/succubus in rural America (which apparently is a Dolly Parton songfic?), she actually toned down her trademark over-the-top-ness enough that I actually liked it?? I did feel like it didn't quite draw the characters vividly enough that the end scene really felt earned -- and what's wrong with people who make the best of their circumstances anyway?? The way the story kind of denigrated that didn't sit well with me, as someone who tends to want to complain about my circumstances rather than make the best of them (and who very much admires people who do the latter).
Gosh, I don't know how I'd vote on this?? Probably something like this:
Millay > Kaiju > When He Calls > My Mother Is Leaving > Vegetables > Rapport > No Award, I guess?
I must confess I was not particularly taken by any of these, but it may also be that I read them mostly while traveling and probably at least slightly grumpy :)
- “Kaiju Agonistes” by Scott Lynch (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 62) - this was the one that took me longest to read. I think... this could have been a lot fewer words. Basically, this is satire-esque AU Cold War with kaijus. It was fun, when I finally got through it, if a bit in-your-face.
- “Never Eaten Vegetables”( by tH.H. Pak (Clarkesworld, Issue 220) - Story about a ship carrying embryos that abruptly finds it has to parent a number of them. I think somehow I was the wrong audience for this story and I don't quite feel like I can articulate why? I felt like it was very "corporations are bad! They are the bad guys! Have we mentioned this??" and also was trying to get me to feel things via parenting, but I never really did because the parenting didn't feel real to me, and I was not very surprised to find the author is not themself a parent. idk. I think for some reason, that may not really have been the writer's fault, I never quite gelled with the characters enough, even though sentient ships and things like that are usually my jam.
- “Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy” by Martha Wells (Reactor, July 10, 2025) - Martha Wells, like several other authors on this list, is very hit or miss for me, and this one was a miss. I was vaguely aware that this takes place as sort of a Murderbot-adjacent story, but it turns out that Murderbot itself is the draw for me; I couldn't really make myself care that much about the people or the ship, for some reason -- perhaps because I didn't remember enough about Murderbot, I didn't really get why I should care.
- “The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For”( by Cameron Reed (Reactor, April 2, 2025) - This story just kind of confused me. It started out life as a Cyteen-esque story about genetics and environment and its intersection with a corporate sort of mentality (which was fine, although I think I'd rather just go read Cyteen again) and then veered somewhat sharply into
I guess this is a spoiler
a desperate flight narrative where they have to run for their lives from a rival corporation who has demolished the one they were working for- "The Millay Illusion” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 67) -- so I feel like Pinsker can be very "is this story meant for you or not" but this story about two girls in a traveling show together, one of whom is a mentalist and the other of whom is an illusionist, was very much meant for me. It's not a story that has well-defined answers, but that's kind of the point (and perhaps now I know to expect that from a Pinsker story so I don't get blindsided by it any more), and I really enjoyed the relationship between the two girls and all the unspoken depths of it (which although complex is not written as explicitly romantic, which I highly approve of and I want more stories with complex friendship that isn't explicitly romantic yes please thanks!).
- “When He Calls Your Name” by Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 65) - I always sort of brace myself when I see Valente's name, but for this piece about a vampire/succubus in rural America (which apparently is a Dolly Parton songfic?), she actually toned down her trademark over-the-top-ness enough that I actually liked it?? I did feel like it didn't quite draw the characters vividly enough that the end scene really felt earned -- and what's wrong with people who make the best of their circumstances anyway?? The way the story kind of denigrated that didn't sit well with me, as someone who tends to want to complain about my circumstances rather than make the best of them (and who very much admires people who do the latter).
Gosh, I don't know how I'd vote on this?? Probably something like this:
Millay > Kaiju > When He Calls > My Mother Is Leaving > Vegetables > Rapport > No Award, I guess?
full_metal_ox posting in fancake(The full title is too verbose for DW’s header limit.)
Fandom: “Subways Of Your Mind”, AKA “The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet” (FEX song); Lostwave
Pairings/Characters: Gen; invitation to the audience.
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 3:16
Content Notes: No AO3 Warnings Apply; the song was identified and claimed in 2024; role-playing unreality galore in the comments.
Creator Links: (YouTube):hailey-ks7mg
Theme: Journey & Travel, Fanvid, Folklore & Fairytales, Gen, Non-AO3 Works, Research, Social Media
Summary: if you don’t know the song in this video it’s known as “the most mysterious song on the internet”. It’s a new wave/post punk song that was originally played on a german radio station between 1982-1984. no one knows it’s name or who created it, leading to a several year search for it’s origins that inspired me to make this edit.
i recommend watching whang’s videos on the subject if you want to learn more :)
• The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet - Tales From the Internet
• The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet UPDATE
driving ambiance + footage is of the autobahn motorway in germany and is from the channel rarbi.art
https://www.youtube.com/user/rarbiart/
note: this video was made for creative purposes only. all music and images belongs to the original creators. no copyright infringement intended.
Reccer's Notes: Commenterdj-ov2it’s summary:
People think of this as a meme but keep in mind. One singular day in early 80s northern germany, a couple thousand people were listening to this song and of those, a whole lot might have been driving a car. This exact video - albeit in an abstract sense - has HAPPENED before and those people are mostly still very much alive. Hell, my close relatives might be some of them.
Fanwork Links: the most mysterious song on the internet but it's playing on your car radio in 1980s germany, by hailey.
Fandom: “Subways Of Your Mind”, AKA “The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet” (FEX song); Lostwave
Pairings/Characters: Gen; invitation to the audience.
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 3:16
Content Notes: No AO3 Warnings Apply; the song was identified and claimed in 2024; role-playing unreality galore in the comments.
Creator Links: (YouTube):
Theme: Journey & Travel, Fanvid, Folklore & Fairytales, Gen, Non-AO3 Works, Research, Social Media
Summary: if you don’t know the song in this video it’s known as “the most mysterious song on the internet”. It’s a new wave/post punk song that was originally played on a german radio station between 1982-1984. no one knows it’s name or who created it, leading to a several year search for it’s origins that inspired me to make this edit.
i recommend watching whang’s videos on the subject if you want to learn more :)
• The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet - Tales From the Internet
• The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet UPDATE
driving ambiance + footage is of the autobahn motorway in germany and is from the channel rarbi.art
https://www.youtube.com/user/rarbiart/
note: this video was made for creative purposes only. all music and images belongs to the original creators. no copyright infringement intended.
Reccer's Notes: Commenter
People think of this as a meme but keep in mind. One singular day in early 80s northern germany, a couple thousand people were listening to this song and of those, a whole lot might have been driving a car. This exact video - albeit in an abstract sense - has HAPPENED before and those people are mostly still very much alive. Hell, my close relatives might be some of them.
Fanwork Links: the most mysterious song on the internet but it's playing on your car radio in 1980s germany, by hailey.
honey, don't you fool around
May. 31st, 2026 09:36 pmmusesfoolI meant to post earlier but then I kind of dozed off, whoops! Yesterday, I took my 90 mini cheesecakes and Baby Miss L's books and headed out to my sister's for Alyssa's birthday barbecue that was postponed from last weekend due to all the rain. Well, unfortunately, the weather yesterday was not really conducive to an outside party, so we ended up staying in the house. And my youngest niece, whose birthday was also yesterday, already had plans, so she (and my brother's family) couldn't make it. But it was nice.
When I got home today, I ended up having a long call with Friend L, who let me know that she's moving back to Atlanta (after being in New York for 30 years) to help out her sister with their mom, whose health has been declining. I kind of had a feeling this was going to happen, with how often she was going down there and how long she was staying each time, but she was in denial about it for a while. Hopefully I'll get to see her before she goes, and we can always facetime.
I also did the May recs update, and though there was some wonkiness with DW earlier, I think it's fixed now.
unfitforsociety has been updated for May 2026 with 8 recs in 2 fandoms:
* 7 Heated Rivalry
* 1 The Pitt
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When I got home today, I ended up having a long call with Friend L, who let me know that she's moving back to Atlanta (after being in New York for 30 years) to help out her sister with their mom, whose health has been declining. I kind of had a feeling this was going to happen, with how often she was going down there and how long she was staying each time, but she was in denial about it for a while. Hopefully I'll get to see her before she goes, and we can always facetime.
I also did the May recs update, and though there was some wonkiness with DW earlier, I think it's fixed now.
unfitforsociety has been updated for May 2026 with 8 recs in 2 fandoms:* 7 Heated Rivalry
* 1 The Pitt
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