HR vids and edits - recs
Jan. 17th, 2026 01:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mificOkay, a few vids and edits. Sound absolutely on with them all!
First, two funny edits by hoechloin (tumblr) with soundtracks and embellishments that make me laugh out loud - Shane freaking out and being his dorky self:
shane-hollander-freaking-out-for-1-minute
shane-hollander-freaking-out-for-90-seconds-part-2
Fanvids:
an angsty one to Casual by Chappell Roan by Leocities (play it with closed captions to get the most out of the great editing to the lyrics)
and a happier one to Long Time Running by The Tragically Hip by peakyboyos
First, two funny edits by hoechloin (tumblr) with soundtracks and embellishments that make me laugh out loud - Shane freaking out and being his dorky self:
shane-hollander-freaking-out-for-1-minute
shane-hollander-freaking-out-for-90-seconds-part-2
Fanvids:
an angsty one to Casual by Chappell Roan by Leocities (play it with closed captions to get the most out of the great editing to the lyrics)
and a happier one to Long Time Running by The Tragically Hip by peakyboyos
a memory assist in my lap
Jan. 16th, 2026 07:59 amlauradi7dwI woke up thinking about ICE and vigilantism. Then I wanted to hear the song "The Vigilante" from some time a long time ago. A quick search of youtube with just the title gave me a gazillion wrong hits. I dredged up a line of the lyrics, typed it into duckduckgo with the word lyrics, was given the whole song and the singer's name, went back to youtube, and here is is
It's from 1973. Someone in the last 20 years or so thought it was worth making the lyrics readable. Someone else thought youtube users would like to hear it. Was it actually Topic records, when they did the reissue? I knew some people who worked at Topic in London in the early 1980s. If I think very hard, will I remember Tony's last name or the street address? Or maybe if I think of other things it will just pop into my head.
Julian Barnes said some interesting stuff about memory in a Fresh Air interview yesterday. He's 80. I remember going to hear him read (something) decades ago at a bookstore in Boston (I don't remember which one, or what book he was promoting).
It's from 1973. Someone in the last 20 years or so thought it was worth making the lyrics readable. Someone else thought youtube users would like to hear it. Was it actually Topic records, when they did the reissue? I knew some people who worked at Topic in London in the early 1980s. If I think very hard, will I remember Tony's last name or the street address? Or maybe if I think of other things it will just pop into my head.
Julian Barnes said some interesting stuff about memory in a Fresh Air interview yesterday. He's 80. I remember going to hear him read (something) decades ago at a bookstore in Boston (I don't remember which one, or what book he was promoting).
US politics
Jan. 16th, 2026 06:51 amyhleeBy way of sovay: Stand with Minnesota, appears to be locally vetted. I've made a modest donation to one of the listed organizations.
(Still buried under health + family + work + school stuff as well, sorry - if I'm not responding or late to respond, that's why.)
sovay: Stand with Minnesota, appears to be locally vetted. I've made a modest donation to one of the listed organizations.(Still buried under health + family + work + school stuff as well, sorry - if I'm not responding or late to respond, that's why.)
Alison Brennan: Game Snapshots – 2026 (Part 4)
Jan. 16th, 2026 12:48 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
opinionatedgamers_feed New-to-me games played recently include … A WAYFARER’S TALE: THE JOURNEY BEGINS (2025): Rank 8244, Rating 8.0 If I were to invest in a big roll-and-write, I guess this would be the one. Continual engagement on every turn. A … Continue reading
fic rec Friday
Jan. 16th, 2026 07:30 ammarcicatlast one to leave the bleachers every time, by Anonymous
What does David have in common with Ilya Rozanov? Good vodka, ice hockey, and apparently, loving Shane Hollander.
What does David have in common with Ilya Rozanov? Good vodka, ice hockey, and apparently, loving Shane Hollander.
The Day in Spikedluv (Thursday, Jan 15)
Jan. 16th, 2026 07:28 amspikedluvI hit Walmart while I was downtown. After McD’s, which was freezing again. (If the thermostat is set and no one can touch it to change it, the temperature should be the same inside every single day. Clearly there’s something wrong with the heating system and they’re too cheap to fix it properly. Or replace it. I called the main number and reported it, so we’ll see how long it takes for someone to fix it.)
I visited mom and filled my gas tank on the way home, did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, ran a load in the dishwasher, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered. We had spaghetti for supper.
I watched a lot of tv today and did zero reading! I watched the first two eps of Best Medicine, last week’s ep of 9-1-1 to get caught up, and a couple eps of Zoo Tampa.
Temps started out at 37.0(F). It was still sprinkling in the morning and had probably been doing so all night. Almost at the exact moment I pulled into the driveway at ~9:30am, the rain started to turn to snow. It’s weird how you can see it thicken as it hits the windshield until it’s white. I don’t think the temp went up much while I was out, because it had to be going down for the rain to turn to snow. When I left the house a little after 11am it had dropped to 29.7 and kept dropping the rest of the day.
I made the mistake of looking at the forecast for the next two weeks and, day-um!, it is going to get cold again. High’s in the teens and 20s, lows in the single digits. DNW!
Mom Update:
Mom was not feeling well when I visited her. ( more back here )
I visited mom and filled my gas tank on the way home, did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, ran a load in the dishwasher, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered. We had spaghetti for supper.
I watched a lot of tv today and did zero reading! I watched the first two eps of Best Medicine, last week’s ep of 9-1-1 to get caught up, and a couple eps of Zoo Tampa.
Temps started out at 37.0(F). It was still sprinkling in the morning and had probably been doing so all night. Almost at the exact moment I pulled into the driveway at ~9:30am, the rain started to turn to snow. It’s weird how you can see it thicken as it hits the windshield until it’s white. I don’t think the temp went up much while I was out, because it had to be going down for the rain to turn to snow. When I left the house a little after 11am it had dropped to 29.7 and kept dropping the rest of the day.
I made the mistake of looking at the forecast for the next two weeks and, day-um!, it is going to get cold again. High’s in the teens and 20s, lows in the single digits. DNW!
Mom Update:
Mom was not feeling well when I visited her. ( more back here )
Fanfiction: The Sensible Thing (The Goes Wrong Show, Robert/Vanessa)
Jan. 16th, 2026 12:24 pmrionaleonhartYou know, I wasn't expecting to write a Robert/Vanessa fic. I just wanted to write something following up on Vanessa's accidental proposal to Dennis, a man notable for not being Robert. And then it somehow became this.
I'm not complaining; I'm delighted by any opportunity to write fanfiction heavily featuring Robert Grove! But I am a little surprised. I don't think anyone in the world ships this pairing, but I'm going to throw this fic out into the fandom and see what happens.
Title: The Sensible Thing
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Robert/Vanessa
Wordcount: 2,900
Summary: In the aftermath of Vanessa's accidental proposal to Dennis, Robert employs his remarkable talent for making things worse.
( The Sensible Thing )
I'm not complaining; I'm delighted by any opportunity to write fanfiction heavily featuring Robert Grove! But I am a little surprised. I don't think anyone in the world ships this pairing, but I'm going to throw this fic out into the fandom and see what happens.
Title: The Sensible Thing
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Robert/Vanessa
Wordcount: 2,900
Summary: In the aftermath of Vanessa's accidental proposal to Dennis, Robert employs his remarkable talent for making things worse.
( The Sensible Thing )
podcast friday
Jan. 16th, 2026 07:11 amsabotabby Today's episode is Wizards & Spaceships' "Editing Roundtable ft. Alexandra Pierce and Josh Wilson." If you read any SFFH, you'll know that the short story and critical essay markets are central in ways that they really aren't in other genre fiction or in literary fiction. If you hang out with SFFH people, you'll notice that "we should start a magazine" gets said almost as often as "we should start a podcast." Anyway, this episode looks at magazine publishing. Alexandra is the editor of Speculative Insight, which publishes critique and analysis about genre fiction, and Josh Wilson is the editor of The Fabulist, which specializes in extremely short SFFH. It's, among other things, a much more positive episode than I normally post here, so you should check it out.
Snowflake Challenge #7
Jan. 16th, 2026 06:59 amstonepicnicking_okapi
Challenge #7
LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.
1. Yesterday I fixed my client's electric blanket about 5 minutes before my shift ended. I didn't give up or cop-out and say I was on my way out so he was probably warm yesterday afternoon because of that.
2. I can do things like this:
[scan is bad because that's a teeny tiny pinecone attached to a string, trying to experiment with my formula '5 textures make a collage']
3. I have a job! After 10 years of being a stay-at-home mom, I got up the courage to go to the workforce center in my county and ended up getting a part time job. I also went to Brooklyn by myself on the train from Baltimore and attended a concert by myself and came home. So I am brave SOMETIMES! :)
Interesting Links for 16-01-2026
Jan. 16th, 2026 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Making it illegal to buy sex hurts sex workers the most
- (tags:sexwork decriminalization scotland OhForFucksSake law )
- 2. Open Infrastructure Map (cool to see how much stuff is being built off the coast of the UK right now)
- (tags:infrastructure map )
- 3. Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout
- (tags:windpower solarpower renewables photos china infrastructure )
- 4. UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction
- (tags:windpower economics )
- 5. Student arrested for eating AI art in protest
- (tags:art ai )
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SGA: Rodney's Bad Day by boochicken
Jan. 17th, 2026 12:12 ammific posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fancakeFandom: Stargate Atlantis'
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Elizabeth Weir, Carson Beckett, Radek Zelenka
Rating: Explicit eventually
Length: ~33,000
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings, mentions of blood
Creator Links: boochicken on LJ
Themes: Crack treated seriously, Friends to lovers, First time, Vampires, Action/adventure
Summary: none
Reccer's Notes: Rodney gets turned into a vampire by rogue technology on a mission. This is crack taken seriously as there's no fantasy element, and for the initial part Rodney himself is adamant that vampires don't exist. The story takes this premise and plays it out in a canon setting, with Rodney having to develop coping methods for the downsides - like bursting into flame in sunlight (his super sunblock helps a bit), and accessing a supply of blood. Apart from the blood drinking and risk of immolation (and not having a pulse) he's very much his usual self, and, as ever, even manages to save the day despite these problems. It's a delightful story with lots of plot and action, and a friends to lovers romance with John. Gripping, and very well written!
Fanwork Links: Rodney's Bad Day (4 parts)
Each part on Wayback: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Elizabeth Weir, Carson Beckett, Radek Zelenka
Rating: Explicit eventually
Length: ~33,000
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings, mentions of blood
Creator Links: boochicken on LJ
Themes: Crack treated seriously, Friends to lovers, First time, Vampires, Action/adventure
Summary: none
Reccer's Notes: Rodney gets turned into a vampire by rogue technology on a mission. This is crack taken seriously as there's no fantasy element, and for the initial part Rodney himself is adamant that vampires don't exist. The story takes this premise and plays it out in a canon setting, with Rodney having to develop coping methods for the downsides - like bursting into flame in sunlight (his super sunblock helps a bit), and accessing a supply of blood. Apart from the blood drinking and risk of immolation (and not having a pulse) he's very much his usual self, and, as ever, even manages to save the day despite these problems. It's a delightful story with lots of plot and action, and a friends to lovers romance with John. Gripping, and very well written!
Fanwork Links: Rodney's Bad Day (4 parts)
Each part on Wayback: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
Aso Ito (1876-1956)
Jan. 16th, 2026 08:38 pmnnozomi posting in senzenwomenAso Ito was born in 1876 in Onomichi, Hiroshima, where her family kept a tobacco shop or possibly an inn. After finishing elementary school she was fostered out to a family in Kobe. The details of her youth are not clear, but she probably spent much of it as a live-in maid and a factory clerk. She married while in Osaka and had a daughter [although some sources say she adopted a daughter later but never had children of her own], but left her husband because he was “truly boring.”
Around 1910 or so, she took her young daughter [if she had one] and moved to Innoshima, an offshore island near her birthplace, where she launched the Aso-gumi company as a subcontractor to the various shipbuilding companies now established there. Her specialty was brokerage and ship scrapping. Shipbuilding was then a thriving industry and the Aso-gumi flourished, with employees eventually numbering over a thousand.
Ito also opened the Aso Inn, since there was then nowhere to stay on the island, which became popular with politicians like Ozaki Yukio (and presumably his wife Yei) and writers such as Kawahigashi Hekigoto and Hayashi Fumiko. Fumiko, another Onomichi native, put Ito into a novel as O-Riku, with “hair short as a man and cigarettes in her sleeve.” She had her employees call her “uncle” or “gramps.” Hekigoto described her as a tiny woman dressed in men’s clothes, with a square face, a formidable gaze, and a heavy Kansai drawl, hair cut very short and a dueling scar on her forehead, sometimes hidden by her Panama hat. The knife scar came from a quarrel with an electrician over payment; Ito visited him while he was in prison for the attack and employed him when he came out, earning his eternal loyalty.
The money she earned went back to the community: she founded a kindergarten, a girls’ vocational school, and a scholarship fund in the region and built a sewage system and several parks, as well as a temple to Kannon. In her old age she left her business to another single mother she trusted and went to live in her park near the Kannon temple, where she prayed regularly. She died in 1956 at the age of eighty.
Sources
http://kamijimajiten.com/104 (Japanese) Adorable illustration of Ito by local (modern-day) elementary schoolers
Around 1910 or so, she took her young daughter [if she had one] and moved to Innoshima, an offshore island near her birthplace, where she launched the Aso-gumi company as a subcontractor to the various shipbuilding companies now established there. Her specialty was brokerage and ship scrapping. Shipbuilding was then a thriving industry and the Aso-gumi flourished, with employees eventually numbering over a thousand.
Ito also opened the Aso Inn, since there was then nowhere to stay on the island, which became popular with politicians like Ozaki Yukio (and presumably his wife Yei) and writers such as Kawahigashi Hekigoto and Hayashi Fumiko. Fumiko, another Onomichi native, put Ito into a novel as O-Riku, with “hair short as a man and cigarettes in her sleeve.” She had her employees call her “uncle” or “gramps.” Hekigoto described her as a tiny woman dressed in men’s clothes, with a square face, a formidable gaze, and a heavy Kansai drawl, hair cut very short and a dueling scar on her forehead, sometimes hidden by her Panama hat. The knife scar came from a quarrel with an electrician over payment; Ito visited him while he was in prison for the attack and employed him when he came out, earning his eternal loyalty.
The money she earned went back to the community: she founded a kindergarten, a girls’ vocational school, and a scholarship fund in the region and built a sewage system and several parks, as well as a temple to Kannon. In her old age she left her business to another single mother she trusted and went to live in her park near the Kannon temple, where she prayed regularly. She died in 1956 at the age of eighty.
Sources
http://kamijimajiten.com/104 (Japanese) Adorable illustration of Ito by local (modern-day) elementary schoolers