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hurtcomfortex released today! I happened to be driving a backcountry highway with no cell service at the time (coming home from Mom Things), but it was lovely to find my gifts waiting for me when I got back.

Hold a Candle To (MASH, 3400 wds, gen) delivered some lovely Charles drug withdrawal h/c with teamy affection, and A Way Out (Biggles, 4400 wds, gen) let me roll around in excellent Biggles & von Stalhein enemies-era reluctant cooperation and sympathy. Truly a lovely haul!

sholio

This show is such a freakin' delight.

( Spoilers )

sweetsorcery

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sholio

Technically this was yesterday, but I climbed a hill and had an eagle fly past me. (The hill is the Bodenburg Butte in Palmer, AK.)

Photo from a high vantage point, looking down on farms and fields stretching to blue mountains with their tops covered in clouds. Small figure of an eagle is visible against the clouds.

I realize the eagle is more like a dot, but if you've tried to take a quick photo of a bird, this is without zoom (I was just trying to snap a fast shot without completely losing the experience of having an eagle flying in front of me) so it is actually very close! After it flew past, I turned around and two teenage guys were standing above me, having just descended from the top and watched it too. "Sick," one of them said in obvious delight, and we nodded at each other.

I'm down in Southcentral doing Mom Things. Mom has been moved out of the rental where she was living since last August, and she was supposed to go home via helicopter today, but the weather was a problem. But that's why I reserved two extra days at the Airbnb beforehand, just in case. Tomorrow we try again! She was very respectful of my space today - I think she recognized that I was planning on having the evening to myself tonight and it didn't happen - and I wrote both fanfic and original fiction, and took a long walk to sort some plot things out in my head. Thursday I go home, and perhaps drive the Denali Highway on my way, if the wildfire smoke isn't too bad.

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Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

philomytha

Murderbot TV series eps 1-8
I've been intending to watch this for a while, and with RL being rather stressful lately I decided to spend some of the past few days decompressing by inhaling the whole thing. I enjoyed the books a lot, and I also loved this. It gives the sense of having been made with a lot of fun, a lot of love, and also a strong eye for putting in every possible ridiculously tropey situation they can plausibly squeeze in. It sticks to the book in broad outline, but in many ways it feels like a great fanfic version of the book: more subplots have been added, more Situations have been created for our favourite characters to experience and suffer, everything's turned up and embellished a whole lot. I strongly approve of this approach to screen adaptation.

( slightly rambling spoilery thoughts )

sholio

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sweetsorcery

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rosanicus

What I've Just Finished Reading

Wolf Brother and Spirit Walker by Michelle Paver, the first two books of the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. I never read these when I was the target demographic but it was chosen for our 'reading spine' in Year 5 and oh my god, these books are so good. I've read and enjoyed both Dark Matter and Thin Ice in the past, but it was still a shock how visceral and scary parts of these books got while still being appropriate for my Year 5s. I've actually been reading it to them chapter by chapter for the past few weeks but on Monday I got so excited about a cliffhanger I had to bring it home and finish it that night. And then I found an ebook of the second book and stayed up until 11 reading that as well...

My wife, tangentially, is very excited about this because they are some of her all-time favourite books.

What I'm Reading Now

I've been working through Home by Francis Pryor, which is an interesting look at how family structures may or may not have changed since the early Stone Age period in Britain as evidenced by the archaeological record. I really like the writing style of this but it's quite dense and with current work stress (astronomical for the past few weeks, only just starting to subside again) I've lost momentum quite badly. I'm also technically reading Biggles and the Black Mask but it is similarly slow-going. However, in exciting news I met my class for this September and the first thing one of them asked me is if I have any Biggles in the class library - the answer being, obviously, yes.

What I'm Going To Read Next

I mean, obviously the next four Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. I am obsessed.

sholio

While we're waiting for h/c-ex to reveal in July, this just showed up on EAD ...

ANNOUNCING TERRIBLE TEMPERATURE TROUBLES FLASH FEST: a multifandom flash fest for all your terrible temperature troubles!

Nomination & Sign-ups: Now-June 30.
Assignments Out: July 2.
Works Due: July 10.
Work Reveals: July 11.
Creator Reveals: July 17.
All times at 11:59 PM Eastern.

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/temptroubles2025/profile
https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/23809

Hypothermia ... heatstroke ... etc ...

(And it's one of those 1-fandom minimum request/offer exchanges, I'M JUST POINTING THIS OUT, IN CASE IT IS RELEVANT TO ANYONE.)

I realize this would be a terrible time for me to sign up for anything because I'm leaving tomorrow and I'll be gone until July 4 (Mom stuff again), but there's still almost a week of writing time after that.

sholio

Okay, the previous post has the non-spoilery intro to the series, so this is the one with all the spoilers. I finished book 3 this evening (of seven books so far), and I'm still having a terrific time.

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sholio

Thank you so much to everyone who left comments on my solstice/anniversary post. ♥ ♥ ♥ I don't know whether I'll manage to reply to you all individually, but I have been loving reading them!

sweetsorcery

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