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We made it! All three prequels!

Holy shit this movie is so much better than the other two. It's not perfect, but you can understand what's going on! The characters say sentences and they make sense with the other sentences! Scenes exist for some kind of sensible purpose and don't go on way longer than they should! Concepts and characters are introduced before they're needed so the audience can follow along and not constantly be like "where are we? who's that guy?? what's happening???" I declare it a cinematic triumph. Really though, I had a good time watching this.

cut for length )

Anyway, here's a video where Palpatine is played by Kermit the Frog.

Embedded video: Fan edit reimagines scenes from the movie with Palpatine replaced by a Kermit the Frog puppet.


We are doing the sequels next. [personal profile] sdk has seen them before, but I have not.

Sanders' High School Reader

Oct. 12th, 2025 11:49 pm
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Sanders' High School Reader by Charles Walton Sanders

The final reading program with more elocution exercises. The standards by which the choices were made are laid out in the preface.

So again the interesting thing to the modern reader is probably the choices. Scientific, religious, political, historical -- poems, speeches, essays --

The religious is sometimes generically theistic, sometimes Christian, sometimes specifically Protestant (in a passage where it is explicitly stated that the contemplative vocation is non-existent).

Recent Reading: The Originalism Trap

Oct. 12th, 2025 05:19 pm
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This one is not likely to be of much interest to non-Americans. This weekend I blew through The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People can Take it Back by Madiba K. Dennie. This book delves into the originalism theory of constitutional interpretation, why it's far more ahistorical than its adherents want you to believe, and some tracks we could take to counter it.

If you aren't familiar, "originalism" is a theory of constitutional interpretation that says in order to understand the Constitution, we must interpret it as closely as we can to how the original writers would have interpreted it. It posits itself as the most true-to-history and unbiased way to interpret the Constitution. It was also a fringe theory for decades, until relatively recent political winds brought it to the forefront.

Originalism traps us in the mindset of 18th century wealthy white men and refuses to let us progress any further. Originalism says if we didn't have the right then, we can't have it now. Originalism cherry-picks its history to conveniently arrive at a conservative goalpost no matter what the real story is. I wrote an essay in grad school on why originalism is horseshit, so this book was of particular interest to me.

Dennie does a great job making this book accessible to everyone. I would strongly recommend this as a read for any one in the legal or legal-adjacent professions, but I think anyone can read and pick up what Dennie is laying down here. She summarizes the history of originalism as well as deep-diving into its most recent developments (this book was published in 2024, so it's quite recent).

Originalism has a way of making itself seem inevitable, but Dennie reveals with researched ease how untrue that is; she shows the hypocrisy and insincerity of the theory over and over. 

Dennie doesn't stop at "here's what's wrong" either--she has proposal and suggestions for how to counter the outsized influence of this once-disfavored theory and what we as citizens can do to push back against it. On the whole, while there is obviously anger and frustration in this book--feelings I share!--there is also a lot of hope and optimism. Dennie calls herself an optimist at heart, and it shows. This is not a doom-and-gloom book foreseeing an indefinite miserable political future for liberals and anyone who wants to expand rather than contract the depth and breadth of our rights. It is a justified call-out to political opportunists seeking to dress their partisanship up as rationalism, but it is also an essay on how it doesn't have to be this way.

At a brief 218 pages (plus bibliography), The Originalism Trap is easy to recommend to any fellow Americans, both as a way to understand where we're at, and a way forward, hopefully out of this extremist quagmire. Dennie can occasionally be irreverent in a way I feel detracts rather than adds to her argument, but she is also dealing with incredibly dry material that the average reader will probably struggle to stay engaged with, so I can forgive it. Very glad I picked this one up and I left feeling hopeful that there is an achievable alternative to where we are now.

State of the Angel

Oct. 12th, 2025 04:37 pm
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I rarely do these quizzes (remember way back when these were a popular thing?) but this morning I took a random detour and at Bored Panda learned How Old Is Your Soul? The result:

I am an Ancient Soul

Given my stage in life, this probably isn’t a surprise. I couldn’t have asked for a better result. (But, hey, it’s just a silly quiz.)

Life is Messy, Below This Cut )
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I received an incredibly lovely anonymous message on Tumblr today, which I'll reproduce here with my response, in case anyone finds this rambling about my writing process useful or interesting!

I'm always so impressed at how fast (and how well!) you can write for different fandoms, it's something I truly aspire to be on the level of. I wanted to know if you have any kind of writing routine or tips, especially for perfectionists who worry about canon details and "getting it right"?

I was so honoured to get this ask! Thank you so, so much! I don't know what specific areas you're struggling with, other than perfectionism, but I'll talk a little about my personal writing approach in the hope that it will be helpful and/or coherent.

As a caveat, I mainly write short one-shots; 90% of the fics on my AO3 account are between 1,000 and 5,000 words. I don't know what sort of thing you personally write, but I doubt my 'dive in, zero planning, work it out as you go' approach would be much good for anything long.

Anyway! Here's how writing works for me.

Step one: get a fic idea! This part, unfortunately, is up to the whims of fate. There are ways I can try to inspire a fic idea, e.g. by revisiting the canon or looking through other people's prompts, but mostly it just happens when it happens.

As a one-shot writer, I find it helpful to have a single core concept that I can structure a story around, something straightforward enough to be expressed in a sentence or two. For example, the fic concepts I've noted down include 'Ace Attorney/Death Note: Phoenix Wright defends Light Yagami' (which became Always Believe) and 'Death Note: L abducts and imprisons Light to see if the killings stop' (which I never actually wrote, but someone should).

Step two: quick, write the idea down before it escapes! A lot of my ideas never get past this stage, but at least I have them written down, so I can pull inspiration from them in the future if necessary.

Step three: start writing the fic. This one's tough; I can't just sit in front of a blank page and decide to get started. I'll mentally toy with my fic concept as I go about my day, and hopefully a potential passage from the fic itself will eventually form in my head: an exchange of dialogue, for example. As soon as I have something, I'll write it down. Once I have a starting point, it's a lot easier to build on it.

I have friends who write in order, but I can't do it myself! I'll just write whatever scenes come to me in the order they come. The first thing I write will usually be partway through the fic, and I usually end up writing the end before the beginning. Speaking of which...

Step four: find the fic's direction. This is crucial; this is the thing that will actually enable me to finish a fic.

While I write, I'm always asking myself where this fic is going. What goal am I working towards; what would be a satisfying conclusion to the story I'm telling? Is there a theme developing as I write it, and, if so, what sort of ending would fit that theme?

Basically, from the moment I start writing a fic, I'm trying to work out how it ends. Once I've established an ending, everything else is easy.

Step five: use the ending as a guidepost to finish the fic. Everything moves a lot faster once I've found the ending. If I know what goal I'm working towards, the question 'what needs to happen after this scene?' will usually have a clear answer. I'm no longer writing whatever scenes pop into my head; I'm looking at what I've written and going 'okay, what do I need to add or change in order to reach the ending I want and make sure this story feels thematically consistent?'

Step six: great, you've written all the required story bits! But you've forgotten to write a beginning, and, because you've written things out of order, you now have to write the boring bits linking all of your disconnected scenes together. sigh, fiiiiiiiine.

Step seven: read through the finished fic in full to make sure everything holds together, make final tweaks.

Step eight: post!

(Step nine: refresh AO3 obsessively for three days straight to see whether anyone liked it, don't look at me.)

Perfectionism can be a tricky issue! I mainly write in videogame fandoms, which helps when I'm obsessing over getting canon details right; it's usually easy to find a Let's Play online and track down exactly the moment I need. It's always a nasty shock when I need to check a detail in a canon where those details aren't as readily available!

If I'm having trouble confirming a canon detail, to be honest, my usual strategy is to rework things so that the detail is no longer required in the fic. For example, if I'm unable to establish the layout of the room a scene is set in, I'll either make my descriptions vague enough to bypass the issue or set the scene in a different location. It's not always doable - sometimes you just have to grit your teeth and do the research - but you can save yourself a lot of time by being willing to go, 'Wait, if I just cut this line about the Doonsword of Gongolblath, I won't have to look up how it was forged.'
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Idol Wheel of Chaos | Week 12 | 1930 words
Happy Detritus

x-x-x-x-x

Jerry's Repairs sat in the middle of Second street, between an antique store and the Orbit Cafe. It was the oldest business on the block, although no one was sure when it had first appeared.

Jerry was a spry old man in his eighties, undaunted by time, technology, or the sheer quantity of stuff on display in the shop's front room. The back room was the workshop, where all his projects lay. There were toys, gadgets, appliances, and robots. Each waited for replacement parts or dedicated repair time, or even just inspiration to guide the way.

At heart, Jerry was a tinkerer. He didn't always know why his solutions worked. Sometimes they just felt "right" to him, with everything falling into place as if by magic. But some projects were more difficult than others. He'd been stuck for months waiting on discontinued arm pieces for a couple of his robots, and several of his projects required firmware upgrades that might never be forthcoming.

That sort of thing was an anathema to Jerry. He hated "planned obsolescence" with a passion–things should be built to last. It was at the heart of what he did. Why throw away something that could be fixed? Jerry's whole business was based on giving second chances to the stuff other people threw away. Where others saw junk, he saw possibility. Everything he put up for sale in the front half of the shop spoke to the truth of Jerry's mission.

The shop was open Tuesday through Saturday. Today was Wednesday, not quite the beginning of the week, and Jerry was in the back room, taking stock of what needed to be done. He had already moved a bunch of things outside, to let their solar batteries charge. Now he was staring at two one-armed robots, a temperamental vacuum cleaner, and a broken toaster. He had been in this situation before.

Why was it so often the right arm that got broken? Did humans program robot behavior in their own image? In any case, he'd waited eight weeks already and he still didn't have any leads on new arms. Jerry figured he was about two weeks away from 3-D printing some replacements on his own. In the meantime, he cut and bent some scrap metal into the right shape for a forearm, and then used rubber bands to attach the metal to the newer robot's wrist and elbow. Not too bad–the cobbled-together arm worked almost as well as the original. As for the software upgrade, Jerry was familiar enough with the model to know that there was no benefit to updating the robot's current version, unless speculative financial modeling was a "must have" feature.

The vacuum cleaner was trickier. It offered almost no suction on bare floors, but went into overdrive on carpets, in a seemingly suicidal attempt to burn out the motor. Jerry ignored it, and picked up the toaster instead. He plugged it in to confirm that the problem was with the heating element. Then he used a soldering iron to reattach it more firmly. Did everything work now? He was just in time to test it out by making some toast for lunch.

At the end of the day, Jerry closed the till, pulled down the shades, and locked the store up for the night. He headed down Second street to Warner, and walked six more blocks to his house.

Inside the shop, the back room slowly came to life.

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463: Inception: Okay/ Oy vay

Oct. 12th, 2025 12:43 pm
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Title: Okay/Oy vay
Fandom: Inception
Rating: Gen
Notes: Arthur/Eames, also for Kinktober Day 7: blindfolds

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A sort of list post:

# Work continues to...exist? I guess? The current situation, especially in my department, is a whole load of Not Great. Which I'm not going to go into detail about on an unlocked post, and I'm unlikely to ever make a locked post about it, since I don't really do those. But it's not a fun time, and I am so glad I have had another week off, even though it is only two weeks after the last one.

(I was a bit miffed it turned out that way to start with, but then sitting here now, I'm kind of glad it did, because I really freaking needed this week off).

# Me and a friend from work took some stuff to the tip the other day, as it was pure coincidence we both had the same week off (almost like we planned it, but we didn't). I am so glad to have that stuff gone - most of it has been waiting for literal months, but I've been at work so much lately that I haven't had the time or the energy (or an available person with transport).

But I'm glad that's out of the way. I'm sure there'll be another load to go, but that isn't for some time yet, and maybe that will be the last of it.

# My nephew, who will be THIRTEEN on his next birthday, is getting a PC for part of his presents. When I went to visit on my brother's birthday, I was told this, and my nephew said he didn't even know what he'd play on it (he has been mostly a Switch gamer up to this point).

So, me being me, I said: "Final Fantasy XIV!"

Which then led into my nephew saying he'd never played an FF game. I think I said I wasn't sure if he'd like them (he hasn't played any RPGs, to my knowledge), but I said I would have to show him FFXII at some point (because I'm me).

# And then talking of Final Fantasy! Specifically music!

I have started, over the last few days catching myself up on FF music I have missed out on - so that means FFXI, FFXIV, and some of the Tactics stuff and some other stuff besides. I also am listening to more stuff by Hitoshi Sakimoto, because I think he is my favourite composer, and not just because he scored my favourite video game of all time. I just, I dunno, I like his general vibe!

ANYWAY THE POINT IS THAT I AM HAVING AN ABSOLUTE BLAST.

Like, I am finding so much stuff that I didn't know or think I would like, and then there's also arranged versions of tracks I already know, and then orchestrated versions of stuff! I wish I could adequately explain how listening to music makes me feel, but I don't think I can get it across in text apart from maybe !!! but that's a happy !!!

And I'm in a pretty positive mood a lot lately*, and that's only making the !!! more intense. Which is fucking delightful, let me tell you!

I have done a lot of (positive) muttering to myself while listening to stuff, as it is only me and the cat, and she doesn't care how I feel about music (unless I try to play her a sea shanty). I have also tried to convince myself that no-one needs to hear my thoughts about the things I'm listening to. Because y'all do not, I promise you.

# And finally, also on an FF note: I saw someone describe Stranger of Paradise as "the most underrated Final Fantasy game ever". And like, absolutely not, my dude.

I'm sure there is one, but it isn't that. (My opinions do not count here, because ninety percent of my FF opinions run counter to the fandom at large).

~

*It feels weird saying this, considering how shit things are at work, and how bad it's recently made me feel, but it is true. I feel pretty okay, and find myself smiling for no reason, and just feeling chill. Which is nice!
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For each of my major fandoms, I do a short writeup talking about how it fits into my fandom history. A fandom qualifies as 'major' if I've written five fics for it, or ten thousand words across at least three fics.

The latest addition to the stable is a little weird!


Fanganronpas

The Danganronpa games have a very distinct formula: a group of people, each with a specialised talent, find themselves trapped in an unfamiliar location together. They're told that the only way to escape is to kill one of their fellow captives and get away with it; if they succeed, the murderer will go free, but everyone else will be executed. Every chapter is its own little murder mystery: someone turns up dead, and the survivors have to escape execution by working out which of their friends is responsible.

It's a great formula! The murder mysteries are fun, and the fact that you get to know all the potential victims and killers in advance really heightens the emotional impact of the cases. If a beloved character is killed or, worse, turns out to be the murderer, it's genuinely devastating, both to the characters solving the mystery and to you as the player.

Because the Danganronpa formula is so distinctive, some ambitious people have taken it upon themselves to create Danganronpa-style stories of their own: fan Danganronpas, or Fanganronpas. And then I got into these fan projects, and then I started writing fanfiction for these fan projects, and here we are now!

I didn't originally plan to check out any Fanganronpa projects; I love the original games, but I wasn't sure fan replicas would scratch the same itch. But I became vaguely aware of one Fanganronpa in particular, the YouTube series Danganronpa: Despair Time, because I follow someone on Tumblr who's very passionate about Ace, a character from it. I was a little surprised to learn via his blog that this fanmade character had won a Danganronpa character poll on Tumblr, beating multiple well-liked canonical Danganronpa characters; was this fan project really that popular?

When AO3 created a new canonical tag for Danganronpa: Despair Time, meaning Despair Time fics were no longer folded into the general Danganronpa tag, I messaged the aforementioned Ace enthusiast to let him know. I was very surprised to learn, in the process, that Despair Time had over 1,400 works on AO3. Apparently people really liked this thing! Given my love of Danganronpa, and the fact that at the time I thought we'd probably never see another official Danganronpa release, maybe I should at least give it a try.

I watched Danganronpa: Despair Time at the age of thirty-seven and went insane about it. It had its rough edges here and there, but it absolutely nailed Danganronpa's tone and emotion, it had a lot of fun plot developments and twists, and I really enjoyed the characters. One character in particular is up there with my absolute favourites from the official Danganronpa games.

The other Fanganronpas I've investigated since then are Project: Eden's Garden and Danganronpa Another, the latter of which I'm still working through. I really enjoyed Eden's Garden; I don't think it gets the tone as well as Despair Time, but it's a stunningly polished achievement - it honestly looks better than the official Danganronpa games do - and I'm looking forward to seeing where it's going. I'm struggling more with Danganronpa Another, largely because of translation issues, but I'm finding it interesting as a historical curiosity - it's an early Fanganronpa project that had a big impact on the overall Fanganronpa scene - and it does have a terrible boy I'm really enjoying.

As a side note, the large Despair Time AO3 work numbers that originally provoked my curiosity are actually a little misleading! It turns out there are four specific incredibly prolific authors who have, between them, written approximately 750 works for Danganronpa: Despair Time; the most prolific of the four has personally written 285 Despair Time fics. I have to admire the dedication that leads people to write literally hundreds of fics for a niche fan project, especially when there's not much of a readership to be found; half of the 1,600 fics in the Despair Time AO3 tag have under ten kudos.

Favourite character: David Chiem of Danganronpa: Despair Time, by a long way; I was not expecting to lose my mind this hard over a character in a fan project, but it turns out he's absolute catnip for me. My favourite character in Eden's Garden is Wolfgang; my favourite character in Danganronpa Another is Kinjo. Come to think of it, all three of them share the quality 'this seems like a pleasant young man - oh, no, something is very wrong with this boy', meaning they appeal to the same part of me that adores Light Yagami.
Favourite pairing: I really like David/Arei from Danganronpa: Despair Time; they have some very cute moments, and I was surprised by how invested I became in their dynamic. I'm also absolutely here for horrible David/David selfcest.
Number of words written: 9,645 across five fics: four for Danganronpa: Despair Time, and one for Project: Eden's Garden.


Absolutely historic development: if my Fanganronpa fics are counted, my latest fic means the overall amount of fanfiction I've written for Danganronpa (92,000 words) beats the amount I've written for Top Gear (90,000 words), making Danganronpa my most-written-for fandom by wordcount.

...apart from Assassin's Creed (128,000 words). Assassin's Creed is kind of a special case because I wrote about 120,000 words for a single project, which is very unusual for me; I almost exclusively write short one-shots. Let's discount that project for a moment, because 'another fandom has finally dethroned Top Gear after eighteen years' sounds a lot more impressive than 'another fandom has finally de-second-placed Top Gear after Top Gear got knocked into second place nine years ago'.

TWICE is Not My Enemy

Oct. 11th, 2025 07:53 pm
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TWICE Enemy CD/DVD set with bonuses
TWICE Enemy CD/DVD set with bonuses
iPhone 13 mini photo

Back on August 26, TWICE released their sixth Japanese album, entitled Enemy. TWICE’s Japanese albums are a little hard to get ahold of here in the U.S., and I did what I usually do – I pre-ordered a copy from CDJapan.

I thought the release would beat the cancelation of the de minimis exemption for tariffs – but at the time of shipment, Japan Post had already suspended shipments to the U.S. My order was placed on hold "until the suspension is lifted." Of course, in the weeks that followed, the restriction remained in place, and eventually the order was determined to be canceled unless I specified an express service for delivery. And the extra cost of the service would include tariff charges.

I upgraded to FedEx FICP (FedEx International Connect Plus). At selection, the option seemed to indicate that tariff charges were included in the delivery fee. That would be more convenient for me. I can’t quite decipher the final order itemized breakdown, as what I paid for the initial order doesn’t seem to be included in the second version of the order. Overall, it seems that shipping and "customs clearance fees" were somewhat more than the cost of the album itself. I had actually expected worse.

I have another CD I’d like to get from CDJapan, but I guess that won’t happen. I do have one anime figurine on pre-order, and I shudder to think what is going to happen with that order next year. It’s clear who the enemy is.

Warner Japan did their typically lousy packaging (compared to Korean sets) – with no book, no photocard sets, no special extras except for one measly photocard. I did get the CDJapan First Press bonus - a photo coaster – which is more of a thin photocard than a usable coaster. Well, whatever. I had poor luck, pulling Chaeyoung for both items. She’s my 8th favorite member of 9.

My optical drives are boxed up right now, and I don’t want to dig them out. I can’t rip the CD into Belldandy, and I can’t watch the Region 2 DVD until I restore my full computer setup next month.

Still, I’m happy to have this disc set in my library. I haven’t been particularly keen on TWICE’s recent Korean albums – but their recent Japanese albums have been outstanding. I really like them. At least I can listen to the Enemy album on a music streaming service, as it’s available on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube music (which is the one I have).

Also, the TWICE Enemy Music Video is on YouTube.

misc reading

Oct. 11th, 2025 12:39 pm
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I still haven't exhausted all of Nero Wolfe yet, but the approved fanfic by Robert Gainsborough was easier to get. Murder at the Ballpark was not really about baseball at all (boo!) but you could tell Gainsborough had done his homework; though it's kind of funny how the original books weren't intended to be period pieces but ended up becoming them through the passage of time. Ironically, Stout called continuing his stories after his death "vampirism or cannibalism" and it only happened after his wife died, because of money.

Also working on Her Forbidden Knight, which I think was Stout's first novel from 1913, although it's been difficult to find information about it. It's very much a first novel, and I think the only reason it's still around is because Stout got famous for other things, but there's one political joke that managed to be topical today, which is quite the feat.

I also read the graphic novel version of Yukito Ayatsuji's Another, which managed to pull off the classic Ayatsuji twist with visuals, which was very impressive. This was a chonky book at over 700 pages, but it was an omnibus with 4 volumes in one. Not my favorite of his works, but still pretty good.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel was fascinating because she's writing about a post-pandemic world which touches on the lawlessness and violence without dwelling on them overmuch - she's much more focused on the connections between people. Having the different plots and characters interweave across time and space was well done, even if it depended way too much on repeated coincidence for my taste. This was published in 2014, but got a boost during Covid and with a TV adaptation.

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Souji Shimada is supposed to be a classic of the genre, but I found it insufferable and DNF. I'll probably try my luck with Murder in the Crooked House since weird architecture is my jam, but it doesn't bode well.

The Rose Field, book #3 in Philip Pullman's Book of Dust continuing/expanding on His Dark Materials, is coming out later this month and while it will probably be a while before I can read it, I already know it's going to make me incandescently angry. On the scale of "authors of your favorite fantasy series disappointing you", this barely registers because the bar is so low, but I'm bracing myself for impact nonetheless.

I think I know what's going on with the Magia Exedra frame narrative now - it's not really what I hoped it would be, but I've made my peace with it and at least it's stopped nagging me now that I have a plausible answer, even if it will probably be 2-5 years before anything is actually revealed.

Oh my.

Oct. 11th, 2025 06:16 pm
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+ Interview With The Vampire had me nervous about the shift in setting and tone, but the season 3 trailer has me extremely hyped! I only watched it once as I want to avoid soaking up too many details up front, but toe-curling excitement!!

+ Finished Alien Earth and enjoyed it for the most part. They did the alien dirty though. And that ending sure cheated me out of a bit of satisfaction; Somebody owes me a horrid death scene.

Got screengrabs from the pilot up on [community profile] capshare this morning.

+ They announced a new Rey and Leia book at NYCC, by Madeleine Roux. Please please please be good 🙏

+ I'm hopefully getting my Covid booster sometime next week, and I also talked my mom into getting it. Now to get to work on my friend group 💪 Maybe shoot them this article. Light and easy read, but very clear on the benefits of keeping the boosters going.
The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says. Instead the data show that, while the shot is most effective for older individuals and those with comorbidities, “it was also protective in those without risk factors,” she says.

Additionally, Viswanathan says that the study design made the evidence “more compelling” because the authors included enough women and younger individuals, which made the results more balanced and provided a fuller picture of vaccine effectiveness for all cohorts.


+ Some good news on that front: Scientists finally reveal bio-markers of long COVID brain fog.
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The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 5 by Grrr

Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes.

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David/Teruko did not occur to me at all the first time I watched Danganronpa: Despair Time, but then I saw assorted fun fanart and went 'actually, you know, I could get behind this.'

In this fic, I get behind it in the form of writing a bunch of hatesex. (Also including a touch of... consensual voyeurism for practical reasons?)


Title: Mutually Regrettable
Fandom: Danganronpa: Despair Time
Rating: 16
Pairing: David/Teruko
Wordcount: 2,200
Summary: David wakes with a blade to his throat.


Mutually Regrettable )
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Title: Uncle Spester
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: [personal profile] veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some coarse language
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set post-series, in an alternate reality where Buffy and Spike are an established couple.
Summary: Buffy and Spike are decorating their house for Halloween as a treat for their niece Joyce (Dawn’s daughter).
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Prompt: #463 - End in -ay

Crossposted: [community profile] fan_flashworks, [community profile] anythingdrabble, [community profile] sweetandshort, My journal, Sunnydale After Dark


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