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Okay. So.

Admin: the LRP has a variety of in-game resources. One of the more valuable ones is mithril, which gets used for all sorts of things, like armour and weaponry and building works, particularly military ones.

This event we are seeing the launch of The Cow Stock Market. This inevitably was a topic of discussion over this evening's pizza: discussion of the designs of the I Promise To Pay The Bearer On Demand One (1) Cow slips! speculation over Cow Futures! debate over the impact on the ~~gold~~ mithril standard!

It'll be fiiiiiiiiiine, says A. It'll all be TOTALLY fine. You can absolutely build fortifications out of cows!

-- and at this point, for those of you who are abruptly cackling, I need to point out that A has not read Nona the Ninth.

I also need to point out that I am in a specific groupchat, specifically set up following the event where someone managed to get their hands on some copies of Nona a few days before official release and there was consequently significant in-field bartering for who got to be next in the queue to inhale them, that is named after. well. the cows. did you know that cows have best friends.

But A had no idea why I was abruptly losing it, and I decided that rather than attempt to explain I was in fact first of all going to Depart Our Table, find my Nona dealers, and relate unto them the story of The Thing A, All Unawares, Just Said.

The reaction was extremely gratifying.

[Spoilers up to episode 3 of Leverage: Redemption, but we haven't watched further yet so please try not to give spoilers in comments!]

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I discovered, the other day, that Adam didn't actually know why we yelled FIRST MATE at Jonny every time he tried to introduce himself as Captain -- only that we did, and so he quite reasonably joined in.

I hadn't realised this was particularly obscure Mechanisms lore, but, well, if A didn't know the chances are pretty high that quite a lot of other people also don't.

In case you didn't know about the fiction: here's the fiction. Obviously we don't know that Jonny killed Dr Carmilla, the original captain, but also: Jonny, having grown tired of the paucity of opportunities for career advancement when you're a member of a crew of immortal space pirates, was absolutely responsible for the death of Dr Carmilla and was definitely and unambiguously attempting to usurp her, or mount a coup, or however else you wish to indelicately talk about it --

-- which, you see, is why I cried when, in the live stream of definitely absolutely the last (quantum superposition) Mechs gig, Jonny introduced himself as -- pause -- First Mate, and we all collectively both near and far utterly failed to manage to scrape together the brain to shout back CAPTAIN.

And is also, of course, why I indulge myself to the tune of whisper-shouting FIRST MATE every time Jon Sims introduces himself as Head Archivist, because somewhen in the multiverse is a quantum entanglement that leaves him (even more) entirely out of sorts every time I do.

It occurs to me -- sat in the audience for the ~~final~~ ~~penultimate~~ final[1] Mechanisms gig -- that particularly in light of the Sudden And Inexplicable uptick in kudos left on my Mechs fic various, I'm pretty sure there's at least one of you who'll think it's absolutely hilarious that the thing that made me catch religion again? Was Ulysses Dies At Dawn.

[1] I sit corrected - Jonny informs us that due to what our science officer refers to as a "quantum superposition", only one concert is being played - it's simply being experienced multiple times (across the multiverse).

My Mechanisms fic is getting a lot of comments and attention all of a sudden, for some reason, by which I mean "I hear The Magnus Archives is tumblr's new fave and also on hiatus so fandom is Thirsty for More Jonny Sims Content".

Over in

access_fandom,

jesse_the_k quotes from an article on prosthetics in Fury Road:

Again, the Punch & Judy department of Warner Brothers throws a faked disability, a faux handicap, at us, in their Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) movie, and again, we consider it, just as we considered the attempts in Kingsman, or, Home of the Brave (2006), or, maybe in the ill-fated attempt for cinema titled “Hancock”.

[...snip...]

So, here they go again; what do they do there? Is it good? And, before glorifying it just because (they even write “watch Furiosa punch Max in the face, with her nubbins” which she really doesn’t; she punches him with her hand while sticking the nubbins out in the air) – why not actually *use* our eyes, to look, to ogle, to view, and (in a more strict sense) “watch” it? It is so much a visual and so not much a verbal movie so we really have to switch on our eyesies. What is there to be actually seen, what do they really show? Is this empowering or what does it really say?

... and I went and read the article and then I had OPINIONS, mostly "I am interested in the mechanical details but I am absolutely seethingly furious about how he interprets the final sequence and the story arc", and then I expanded on that a bit more in comments, which I am reproducing here for my own archives.

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If you are a UK resident or citizen, please sign this petition calling on the gov't to let me self-define my gender rather than having to pay to have a Gender Recognition Panel (comprised, one assumes, entirely of cis people) decide whether I really mean it. (Ireland's just introduced decent legislation on this; several other countries around the world were there already.)
Have a BBC article on "ghost trains", trains that run so infrequently as to be pretty much useless, and usually entirely empty.
Jealous of what? Solving polyamory's jealousy problem. Still thinking about this one. Nice in principle (and roughly where I am in principle, in terms of connected networks rather than solo poly), but.
Last First Snow stuff: meta at Tor, and some access-locked meta by forests_of_fire (link for my own reference etc etc). (20% of the way through this one, want to keep track of everything for when I'm done!)
One of my mates' friends had, uh. uh. well. you know the hipster cop meme? ... have an life-imitating-art story about the origins of the hipster cop meme.
Beautiful wood-based modern sculpture, vaguely steampunk aesthetic.
cosmolinguist on space science and the funding thereof, linking on to an hour-long panic about having lost the photo of Pluto, yes, that photo of Pluto, feat:
Parker feels pride, but knows that the image was a collective effort that began many years before the spacecraft’s 2006 launch, and one that will stretch beyond the solar system. “If you’re going to credit who made this image, you have to credit a thousand people,” Parker says. “I can’t say that it’s my image. None of us can. No one person can. We put the bow on it.”

1. Walking down the hill in the sunshine to buy sourdough and orange juice for breakfast, to go with strawberries left over from strawberry-mint-lemonade I made last night.

2. Cinnamon-sourdough toast, strawberries, and orange juice for breakfast.

3. ... followed by sourdough toast topped with kimchi for lunch.

4. For reasons that do not need exploring at this juncture, I am putting together a costume (that is going to involve anti-gravity space-wheelchair). All components except make-up and one last bit of jewelry are now sorted and I am very excited about this. Proof of concept works and I am pleased (and currently working out the optimal way to trace a design for a temporary tattoo what do you mean a full-bicep temporary tattoo is overkill NO IT ISN'T).

5. I am rereading Max Gladstone's Craft books and finding them really very soothing.

6. I have had a string of slightly difficult conversations this week, and all involved have been kind and supportive and fantastic, for which I am v grateful. (Relatedly, having had a pretty rocky time of it on Wednesday night, I coped astonishingly well with Thursday despite several flashpoints that could plausibly have seriously set me off and... didn't.)

7. OUR LITTLE FEETY POTATOES are currently ravening maws poking out over the top of the nest making little cheeping noises. (We have a blackbird's nest right above our front door in the ivy; it is FAB and this is the second clutch this spring/summer.)

8. Tonight I am going to curl up in a pile with my housemate and catch up on Orphan Black and talk and eat ratatouille and it'll be great.

9. More M-fic this morning...

10. ... and a second e-mail from the AO3, informing me that someone who read one of my bits of A:tLA fic and liked Katara's homesick insomnia and commented to tell me so actually liked it enough that they're working through the rest of my stuff, which always makes me smile when it happens.

There is a whole lot of Sad going on, not least because The Glorious 25th Of May; it's very tedious; so for this particular round of 2am Misery just have some flail about Orphan Black 3x06.

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Minor Captain America: The Winter Soldier spoiler under the cut.

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... as distinct from your blue-eyed boys feelings, which is my actual main fandom; by which I mean I am as I have mentioned in a few places getting around to watching the canon that forms the basis for the thing and, well, I'm really sad at the moment, and apparently this means I am watching the first boxset twice (or at least am watching TFA and Avengers twice). ERGO. AVENGERS FEELINGS.

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So like I am super fond of Strong Female Protagonist, a webcomic about a retired 20ish superhero and her ADVENTURES in LIFE. Today's strip has the alt text Go back even farther, teach trilobites how to dance!

...

which

is just the most perfect thing ever

BECAUSE

1. I have MORE FEELINGS about Jupiter Ascending, and Jupiter's agency, and biology-as-theology, and learning to trust yourself. Would any of you have any interest in me typing them up here?

2. Poaching stonefruit in spiced white wine syrup continues pretty much my favourite thing. (The deal is: you dump misc spices - I tend towards some mixture of cardamom, allspice, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, occasionally bay - and sugar, preferably vanilla, and white wine, and halved stone-fruit, and their pits, in an ovenproof dish; and then you bake 'em covered at 180ish for as long as you can be bothered with, and they are delicious.)

3. ... facesfriend keeps insisting on buying me pretty much any foodstuff I look at briefly in a shop and then move on from because it's not a thing I feel comfortable getting into the habit of buying, from an augh-my-finances point of view, and. I just feel ridiculously spoiled. (I mean, it means that yesterday for dinner he got kale chips + peas-and-carrot-curry-ish + lemon rice + poached peaches, and today he got kale chips + wine-braised-fennel quiche + boiled potatoes + steamed broccoli + poached plums, so he asserts he's doing pretty well out of the deal, but hey. Spoiled. Yes.)

4. I have caved and am borrowing the first six MCU films from facesfriend, the better to understand your blue-eyed boys & related works. (This led to me having a very earnest discussion over breakfast about all of the bits of MCU trivia I have acquired via tumblr-catalysed osmotic processes).

5. ... in related "domestic bliss" news, I spent some of this afternoon very happily singing along to the Indelicates while turning dried rosemary branches into a more useful-for-storage form factor.

6. Sunshine. I am so enjoying the evenings getting longer.

7. Hot beverages in general; hot chocolate in specific. (My current favourite, as I believe I have mentioned: hazelnut milk, dark chocolate/cocoa of some description, allspice, cinnamon.) Relatedly: milk pans. (I wants one, precious.)

8. I am doing a very, very relaxing comfort-reread of some pulpy urban fantasy that is full of chosen family kicking arse and looking out for each other. Yes Good basically.

9. I finished the Möbius scarf! Photographs to follow when I get my act together. It's a simple reversible lace that I more-or-less made up as I went along; it is big and snuggly and very adjustable for whether I'm on the tube or in an ICY BLAST and hurrah.

10. I have spent the weekend mostly actually having a breathing space from work, and it has been utterly lovely.

There is, floating around, the excellent summary along the lines of Jupiter Ascending is my favourite action movie about estate law (with a bureaucracy montage), and it's completely true; and it's also true that there is scathing critique of capitalism and of treating people as though they are things; but also it is fundamentally A Great Big Fuck You To Biological Essentialism; it is the idea that Your Biology Is Not Your Goddamn Destiny and Genetics Isn't Fucking Truth, and I adore it.

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... THIS FILM. MY HEART. (Never mind my heart having moments all over all of the glorious worldbuilding meta about how of COURSE it couldn't all be fixed magically instantly because THAT'S NOT HOW BROKEN SYSTEMS WORK.)

... that you want to do something with Orphan Black to Stars The Stranger?

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1. The machine is working??? Approximately??? Barry worked magic and my first set of standards came off looking decent and I have a halfways-to-plausible plan for the next few days.

2. I am not freaking out about psychiatrist tomorrow morning. This is a little bit unsettling looked at straight-on, if only because it says a lot about how much I've decided to trust my GP.

3. I've been given the go-ahead to submit my abstract! Nearly a week before deadline! I'm going to hold onto it until I get first data-numbers off the machine tomorrow, though.

4. I have the firm intention of finishing the actual knitting part of the guiltknitting tomorrow or, at the outside, Übermorgen.

5. I tamed my hair! (context: it is waist-length; when I went proper crazy in 2011/2012 I stopped being able to brush it every day and haven't been able to reestablish the habit reliably; lulz ensue)

6. I tidied my room a little (it was starting to look like I'd spent most of the past fortnight passing through on my way to and from lab and hadn't had time to clean, and it was starting to stress me out).

7.

recessional made there be another your blue-eyed boys-'verse ficlet. About a useless kitten.

8. Facesfriend's response to me saying that I strongly suspect that my primary partner is the world's most expensive etch-a-sketch was to make a desultory effort to turn up examples of more expensive etch-a-sketches. I was extremely smug when they failed to turn anything up (though to be fair this is largely because at that price point it's all "if you have to ask you can't afford it"...)

9. Access to sensory wossnames in a range of calming and soothing formats. I am very lucky.

10. ... I am just having a lot of feelings about Stars and about Vienna Teng, okay. They are very comforting at the moment. They both manage the kind of mood I am after having on tap. It is great. Technology is magic.

I've been thinking a lot lately about intentionality and choice-theft and the giving (and gift) of space in which to make choices. I've also been thinking a lot about the ethics of the ways in which I handle and encourage and shape social interactions, and about the extent to which I explicitly voice what it is I am doing so people can decide whether they're comfortable with me doing it.

... and I've only just noticed that of course this all comes up in the ways it is coming up because I'm reading

recessional's MCU fic, and particularly Natasha has been Making Appearances, and... whoops. Fandom as therapy. Again.

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who only by moving can balance

only by balancing move

delight of the evening

Leverage: reflections

[Craft Sequence] in which I attempt to pull together details regarding Elayne Kevarian

SCREAMING ABOUT THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES

[fandom] brief TMA S5 observation

Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist^W^WFIRST MATE of the Magnus Institute

yr correspondent in nambucca

moment of amusement

Mad Max: Fury Road

[linkspam]

ten good things//I am a constant satellite of your blazing sun

saaaaad

Because apparently none of the goyische friends I've mentioned this to so far had noticed

okay I am officially having MCU feelings

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Bits and pieces

okay but like I'm having more feelings about Jupiter Ascending though

Can I persuade one of you vidding types

ten good things//when every no turns into maybe

facepalm

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