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visualjyushi

Wow, it's been a long time.

I've been dealing with a lot of things this year. Particularly, mental health issues, figuring out college and career plans, navigating both working and studying (which has been quite difficult for me), and dealing with chronic pain flare ups. I've stepped away from the internet for a bit and have only really used discord these past few months. But, I logged in here again because I remember actually enjoying journaling? I can't say I'll be all that consistent, but I'd like to be back here more often. We'll see.

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Current Music: ✧ innumerable kisses - シン (cv:柿原徹也)

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Current Music: Agents of SHIELD Season 3, Episode 1

southernmedicine

I really don't know what happened, and why I go so long without posting. It's been a week! Over a week? IDK.

Thanksgiving came and went. Hopefully all of you had a nice one, or if you don't celebrate, hopefully you had a restful Thursday. I spent mine with Blair's family, and wow, there were like 40 people there and five different tables laden with food. The event had to be held in their garage, where there was enough space to lay out that many tables.

I made maple bacon pecan blondies and a big bowl of elote to contribute to the feast, and both were generally well-liked, which made me happy.

Blair and I went Black Friday shopping, and actually had a great time. It was bustling enough at the mall to feel like a festive event, but not so crazy that it was stressful. We finished our Christmas shopping, and I got a few clothing items that were on super sale. We had dinner at a nearby hole in the wall called The Hungry Peddler, and then rounded out the night by getting our Christmas tree and a bunch of ornaments and lights, then coming home and setting it all up.

Saturday, we got a winter storm. It snowed all day long, from early morning to late night, without stopping. Waking up on Sunday was almost a little surreal for me, seeing absolutely everything covered in pristine unbroken white. We didn't go anywhere on Sunday, preferring to stay in and be cozy, and avoid what was sure to be hazardous driving.

All in all, it was a pretty great Thanksgiving weekend. It's getting a lot colder though, and my Southern Californian body is finding it hard to withstand, even indoors (we haven't run the heat at all, because honestly, we haven't really needed to in this apartment building). I'm just glad I had the foresight to buy myself a proper winter coat last week before The Big Chill set in.

When I got home from work this evening, we curled up on the couch; Blair with her presentation preparation, me with a stack of holiday cards. I've got them all done and filled out! By December 1st. Fancy that. If you'd like a holiday card from me and you haven't spoken up yet, do please let me know. Either comment here and I'll message you, or you can feel free to message me.

Current Mood: peaceful

tantivewhump

“Through a dream landscape, … a girl flees in terror and alone amid crumbling castles, antique dungeons, and ghosts who are never really ghosts.

She nearly escapes her terrible persecutors, who seek her out of lust and greed, but is caught; escapes again and is caught; escapes once more and is caught … [and] finally breaks free altogether, and is married to the virtuous lover who has all along worked (and suffered equally with her) to save her.“

-Leslie A. Fledler, Love and Death in the American Novel

The gothic novel is a genre of literature that has grown increasingly compelling to me. Defined by its mixture of romanticism and horror— or “wonder and terror”, with a “loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting”— these stories are known for their forbidden castles, ghostly mysteries, and, most centrally, their heroines, fleeing terrified into the night in a flowing white gown…

Over the years the gothic has become a genre dominated by the feminine and by women writers. And even though the first example of gothic literature, Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, was written by a man, the story is largely focused on its heroines. The central plot thread sees a corrupt tyrant prince pursuing a much younger princess for the sake of marriage and her desperate attempts to escape him, as she flees through his castle, through twisted corridors, trap doors, and all manner of danger.

I began to think of the relation between the archetype of gothic heroine and Star Wars’s female lead, Princess Leia Organa. After all, she is typically clad all in white and on the run from a dastardly Imperial villain of some sort. And it would not be so difficult for the Death Star to serve as an old manor, filled with secrets and danger… trap doors (garbage chutes), gaping chasms, masked phantoms (Sith Lords) and terrible, power-hungry old men.

The gothic heroine is a young woman often characterized by her virtue, innocence and beauty. She may be born into a position of high social status, with a wealthy or aristocratic family, or even be full-fledged royalty. Some time early in the story, however, she loses her privilege and power… orphaned, imprisoned, or otherwise inconvenienced. In Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, for instance, our protagonist Emily St. Aubert lives an idyllic life with her well-to-do parents, only for both to die and her fortune to be lost in the first act, where she is then given into the power of her aunt and eventually her villainous uncle-by-marriage, Montoni. Leia, too, was a happy and beloved child as the Crown Princess of Alderaan, even with the shadow of the Empire looming overhead… but is captured on a fateful mission for the Rebellion and sees her planet destroyed for her troubles.

And while a gothic heroine may be physically frail she has the mental fortitude and agency to be the one who drives the plot forward. Leia, too, subverts being placed the box of “damsel in distress” with her strong will and her active fierce participation in the rebel cause.

The consistent pattern of “escaping and being caught” is another that Leia follows quite clearly throughout the original trilogy… when we first meet her, she is fleeing from her Imperial pursuers, only to be overpowered and captured. She’s taken aboard the Death Star, endures torture, and gets rescued… only for the next movie to involve yet another game of pursuit between her and Vader where she’s eventually caught yet again at Bespin. After another escape, she opens the subsequent film with an attempt to rescue her (not-so) “virtuous lover” from his prison… and she is made a slave. She escapes with her own ingenuity to rejoin the Rebellion, is nearly defeated in the perilous final battle at Endor, but with the help of her allies, wins the day and all is made right. A typical fairy tale ending.

And then there are her villainous persecutors, of which there are primarily three— Vader, Tarkin, and Jabba.

The gothic heroine is often menaced by a powerful man, usually bearing misogynistic or patronizing sentiments. He is dark and threatening, yet can also be alluring… and the heroine strives to escape his oppressive power. So too with Leia, as representative of the Rebellion, seeking to destroy the oppression of the Empire.

In short, Star Wars is a very melodramatic, archetypal tale, and Leia’s journey both illuminates and subverts that.

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Current Music: Hammer Horror by Kate Bush

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haunted_cherries

➤ Song on repeat: Wandering Flame (10 hour version with crashing waves) - Final Fantasy X OST

➤ Quote on repeat: "And suddenly it's December, and you're not 17 anymore, and you haven't been 17 in a long time." - Margaux Poetry

All that aside:
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Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: In a 5LB bag of Albanese gummy bears
Current Music: Wandering Flame - FFX OST

quillpunk

Okay! Holiday wishlist time! (Somehow, it is already that time of the year again, OTL.)

Fandom Tree gifts. Find my Fandom Tree here. I'm asking for fics, icons, art and podfic. The fandoms I've requested are f:9-1-1/9-1-1 lone star, f:abo desire, f:all for the game, f:black adam, f:collector movies, f:dc comics, f:devil wears prada, f:dune, f:even if i fall into a ghost story i st, f:eye candy, f:meet you at the blossom, f:outlast, f:strangers from hell, f:the attic. Honestly, any of my requested mediums would be so fun! :D

Comments on my fics. I write a lot of rare pairs/small fandoms, so the comments are usually pretty slim pickings. Any and all comments would be deeply appreciated! <3

Dreamwidth Points/Paid Account Time. My Paid Account expires at the end of January, and not gonna lie, I've been over budget pretty much every month this year. I love my icons (some of which are fabulous gifts that I adore) and don't want to lose access to them. So even the minimum amount of points/months would be absolutely amazing!

Bookbinding material. As you might be aware, I've been getting into bookbinding this year! (I'm actually writing this post while taking a break from working on my fanbinding of The Gold-gilt Path by khthonicEcho, which is my first fanbind that isn't a simple single-signature pamphlet.)

Problem, there is so much stuff to acquire.

I've gotten the bare basics (this is part of the reason I broke my budget so much, ngl), but things like cool endpapers, pretty paper for the exterior of the book, and of course, bookbinding cloth, are all on the wishlist. (Fair warning, as I'm very new to this, I can't attest to the quality of any of them, or that it is precisely what I need. Especially with the papers, I'm not certain the ideal thickness for the different uses. So I'm just kind of muddling ahead.)

I've been having so much fun with bookbinding. I have a whole spreadsheet of fics I wanna bind! So you can find my bookbinding material wishlist here on Throne. Material for bookbinding would be so delightful! (Throne is basically an amazon wishlist, but more private so it doesn't give away my address. I'm very Internet Stranger Danger paranoid, which is the big reason I'm not posting this to holiday_wishes.)

Books. Obviously, there's books on the wishlist. This list is also on Throne! I think if there weren't any books on it, I'd be dead. Or in a coma. I'm always going to want books 😅

There are a couple of different books on the list, but they're all gay. They're also all books that are on my 'to buy' list (which is going to take forever to make my way down, lmao), so I'm very interested in all of them. I've read all the authors before, so I'm reasonably certain I'll enjoy them :D

The other reason my budget took a nosedive this year is because, when Amazon messed with the ability to download ebooks, I made the decision to no longer buy anything on kindle. However, I read a lot of indie MM romances from authors that only publish on Amazon. (KU isn't available in my region.)

I get why they do this, but it does mean I'm forced to shell out potentially significantly more money for a paperback, as opposed to if I just got the ebook. I don't necessarily regret this, though I did also have to buy a new bookcase this year. ...That's probably not related.

Anyway! So books. I love books, I love gay books, and I have a deeply profound urge to Own All the Self-Indulgent Gay Romance Books(TM). That's probably not very realistic unless I suddenly become immortal, but one can always hope! So anything from my book wishlist would be so lovely. <333

And... I think that might be everything. Is that everything? DW Points, fandomtrees, books, bookbinding material, comments...

Oooooh, okay, I thought of one more! (It's low-key funny I almost forgot this, it's been slipping my mind so much, lmao.)

Buy/gift my book to somebody. You might be aware that I wrote and published a book this summer. It's only available as an ebook on Amazon/in KU, which is like the exact same thing I just complained about. In my defense... I didn't have the energy to publish it wide, so I just stuck it in KDP Select, and now that it's there I don't have the energy to mess with that. I'll try to put up a paperback at some point --- I've honestly just been forgetting it, lol. (Also in my defense, I've just been forgetting a lot of things this year.)

And that really is everything! I'm pretty sure, anyway. I'm gonna return to my bookbinding now. I'm trying to cut a cardboard for the cover, and oh boy, it is so hard with just a cutting knife. But I shall prevail!

Happy Holidays, everyone! <3

autobotscoutriella

It's very cold out and I have a bad habit of sitting like a shrimp at work, and between those two things my shoulder is on fire. I need to start doing my PT stretches again, I think.

But hey, my first day back at work after a week of vacation was actually pretty tolerable. Got everything I wanted to done, didn't freeze to death or fall in the poorly-cleared parking lot, and made my tea last until after 4 PM.

Tonight, a quick round of laundry and then video games and bed, I think. I should have enough eggs left for some quick egg noodles, and then I can bring the leftovers tomorrow for lunch.

Current Mood: pensive

overmore

Neat month.

Hell's Bistro - chapter 4, gregclair

You make me perfect - gregclair

Unrevealed exchange fic - alvaluca

One day we'll meet again - xichdon

Love through food - bingqiu

I have some more stuff that's meant for december so that will come around soon. I had fun all things considered.

topaz_eyes

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shadowhive

So this is the ‘everything else I wanna ramble about but didn’t fit cause the Stranger Things ramble was rambly’ post.

First off before I get into the things I wanna talk about: what the actual fuck? How is it December already? It’s honestly felt that November has just… gone.

My energy this past week has been non existent which is so annoying. It’s a mix of the stress of the hospital last week and then. Uni assessment which has been nothing but stressful. In part because, well assessments always are, but also because ugh. The laptop kept needing updates which made things slower (I lost two mornings due to that) and just.. ugh. But it’s been submitted now, I know I’ve not done one part but I just… can’t figure that out (and another requires hand drawing something and I just,,l can’t find anything to do that with)

Plus there has been another issue. About a month ago I had an email from HMV with some of the Stranger Things stuff coming, I mentioned to mum (just in passing) that there was a Stranger Things record player coming. For whatever reason that triggered something in her brain, and it became a fixation. She decided that’s the thing I had to have for Christmas, over the stuff that we’d talked about. I guess cause I got some vinyls this year she’s decided it’d be good to have something to play them on I guess?

Some of her money went in last week so it was ordered and it came Friday (late afternoon after us waiting all day). I set it to one side, assuming mum would want it took up at some point. On Saturday I came down and she’d cleared space, put the box up and then wanted me to take it down and open it. I thought she wanted the outer box opening, she wanted it set up and I just thought it baffling. It’s meant to be a Christmas thing why set it up almost a month early? (And then She started an argument and moved the box back to where it was so I just…) I dunno

(And having mentioned Stranger Things and vinyls, I’m so annoyed that places in America get exclusives that never make it over here. There’s a book in one, but there’s also a wsqk vinyl and just arghhh)

Anyway, better things. Or, well, other things.

Last week I finally watched Thanksgiving. I got the blu ray of it last year and intended to watch it then and just… didn’t. So it’s been sat there for a year. I didn’t watch it on Thanksgiving (although I finished it after midnight so I guess I technically did. It was pretty good and the killer’s fit is so unsettling it’s creepier than I expected. (And I laughed so hard when he said ‘this thanksgiving there will be no leftovers!’) and damn that oven scene was so…

Saturday was the fortnite event to end the simpsons season and it was so fun. I was Will from Stranger a things for it and the whole thing was so fun. There was the bride from Kill bill, a star destroyer, a giant Homer, hatsune miku riding atop Godzilla, the girls from k-pop demon hunters. It was wild. The new season does seem pretty fun, I already got two wins on the first day which was cool.

Yesterday I watched Sonic 3, after having the blu ray since release. I dunno why it took so long to watch cause it was so great to watch it again! Shadow is awesome and I love how he’s like… a dark mirror of sonic with his past. And I love that Stone got to do some cool stuff this time. Honestly best of the series I’m so excite for 4.

Damn Strictly was so sad, cause Alex went out (how is Belvinder surviving constantly) and I feel so bad for her. Even worse cause she was just on it takes two and said her focus was off due to an injury.

Yesterday night I watched Perfect, because I wanted to watch a thing on prime and it was between Darkest Miriam (Joshua Odjick is listed as ‘beautiful man’) and Perfect (which had Garrett Wareing). I went with Perfect cause Garrett’s the main character. But… yeah

I know it was gonna be a ‘what the fuck did I just watch movie’ from the trailer and it was very much like that. At the end I just had questions cause it was so… odd and had no answers. Some of the parts were good, especially the aesthetics and Garrett did the best he could (and was shirtless and moaned so there was that) but yeah. Oddness

This weeks plans are:
*It Welcome To Derry (tonight)
*lock in enough to finish fic
*library stint, reading stuff
*finish Pokemon Za’s main story
*Cinema trip (Zootropolis 2, Wake Up Dead Man) [and look to see what Stranger Things stuff is in town]
*Watch Five Nights At Freddie’s and It Chapter 2

I was gonna see FNAF 2 Friday but it’s being moved till next Wednesday. Not cause of FNAF itself but I wanna see Pillion and it’s got an afternoon showing then so👀

But yeah end of rambles, I’m gonna flop for a bit now.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Seapeekay stream

maevedarcy

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badly_knitted

Title: A Heavy Burden
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Varian, the travellers.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 478: Smoke at

drabble_zone.
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Some days the burdens of leadership weigh heavily on Varian.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.

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Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: What Everyone Wants
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Owen.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1122
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto and Owen go on a Rift retrieval together.
Written For: Weekend Challenge More Weird Gifts at

1_million_words.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( What Everyone Wants... )

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Current Location: my desk

malurette

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quillpunk

well, i defaulted on fffx. i've just been unsure about my assignment from the very beginning. like i got it and was like, oops. maybe i should have actually checked the requests in the fandom before i offered it. orz. i totally missed the whole swap thing too, my brain was just full of fog. and with the check-in, yeah. i defualted. i feel bad about it, but it is what it is. at least i did manage to turn in something for ficinabox.

also, i'm working on putting together my holiday wishlist. i still don't have the courage to post it on holiday_wishes, so i guess this is a tradition at this point. it'll be much the same as usual, but also! i'm planning to add some bookbinding stuff to my throne wishlist (it's basically just an amazon wishlist, but more private so it doesn't give away my address). i've been getting really into it: i just finished a notebook in my bookbinding workshop class (separate post coming about that at... some point. orz.) and i definitely want to keep going with this. i'm gonna bind so many fanfics, just watch me.

but alas, i've also spent like 400 bucks on bookbinding tools and such this year (tbf, like a third of that was the laser printer) and i don't think i can afford to keep throwing so much money at it. but the pretty cloth...... temptation, i tell you. so much temptation.

anyway, more proper posts about the aforementioned hopefully coming soon(ish) <3

makamu

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thisbluespirit

My wrangling got slightly derailed this morning, because I was scrolling down my bins and then suddenly a WILD TAG IN ENIGMA 2001!

And it wasn't me misreading, it wasn't some giant multi-fandom essay, or somehow ASOIAF, Harry Potter, Sherlock or Star Wars, it was real and pretty much perfect. Not particularly spoilery (the only thing this reveals is also evident pretty soon into the film):

de la lune (273 words) by misura
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Enigma (2001)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Claire Romilly, Wigram (Enigma 2001)
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon
Summary: "I've always wanted to be a Claire." (pre-canon)

I got too flaily to wrangle.

tielan

My problem is that there's nobody in a position to get me the things I want.

They're either so ginormously big (peace on earth, fairness for people experiencing systemic 'isms', health, wealth, happiness) or impossibly specific (a Captain Hill epic that is well written and which I don't have to do myself).

All the middling stuff? I can pretty much manage myself.

I even organised my own 7x7 birthday party (completely forgot that I was going to give a speech about why 7x7) had a great time, had dinner with friends last night, watched the Matildas (Aussie national women's soccer team) play against NZ to win 5-0 with a friend and her kids, her eldest son (12) swapped a few chips for popcorn chicken bits, and later on asked me a bunch of questions like I was a trustable adult...

I hope to snuggle with my nephew come Christmas (not entirely sure I'll get that, he might end up being a wriggly boy and want mama), and to get out on the water in a friends' boat, and to see the cousins for Christmas...

Anyway, I'm tired rn, so more about the party shortly. And I haven't forgotten Georgia, I've just been so busy with the party (and with The Month Of Writing Dangerously) that I haven't managed to gather my thoughts.

scifirenegade

Films Watched

The Ocean Waif (1916)

After Death (1915)

Dernier amour (1916)

Le Mystère des roches de Kador (1912)

Crimson Peak (2015)

Books being read (for leisure)

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

The Speed of Sound by Scott Eyman

Books on hold

Terrarium by João Barreiros and Luís Filipe Silva

Arts

7 finished pieces (Judex, Hardt, Rosing, JJ, Andersen, Filibus, Cesare)

No dumb doodles :(

Words Written

Barbara's Great Wine Search: 0 words, ugh

Pre-canon AadA fic: 0 words (total 599 words), ugh

Else & Paul bonding moment: 92 words (total 653 words)

Miscellaneous short fics: one fics (total 100 words)

Total: 192 words

Current Mood: t-i-r-e-d

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