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Shows: SGA
Rec Category: AU - no Stargate (well, no Stargate yet, in their experience)
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, John's parents
Categories: M/M
Words: 1327
Content Notes: They're both in their later teens, but the same age. The author doesn't warn for underage.
Author on DW:

epiphanyx7
Author's Website: Epiphanyx7 on AO3
Link: Do Not Mock the Children of the Night on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: John and Rodney meet at a therapist's office, and hit it off immediately despite John's parents' disapproval. John's acting out by going through a Goth fake vampire phase, hence the title, and he and Rodney of course get up to mischief. Funny and sweet - also, Rodney's therapist is great!

( snippet of fic )

tielan

I made it to Georgia.

Left HK in the middle of a Typhoon 8 (IDK what it was, but they started cancelling Monday flights, so it sounded pretty serious). Reached Istanbul on time as per schedule.

Istanbul was redoing their airport last time I came through here in 2022. It is the headquarters of Turkish Airlines which services a large chunk of Eastern Europe and Western Asia (and Africa, and all the major world centres).

It's freaking HUGE. And shiny. And new. But there are not enough seats, signposts, or information about what to do and where to go and what needs to be done. And nobody could tell me if I was too late to make my flight, so I didn't really have time to look at everything, although I really wanted to...

Sometimes I have to remind myself that almost everything I can get in a major airport, I can find back home in Sydney, home-made and better quality.

Made the flight to Georgia, got off, met the driver who took me to the place where the tour group was today.

( after 36 hours in Georgia )

mific posting in

stargateficrec

Shows: SGA
Rec Category: AU - no stargate
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, David Parrish/John Sheppard, Elizabeth Weir, Radek Zelenka
Categories: M/M
Words: 9181
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW:

enthusiastic_whatever
Author's Website: enthusuastic_whatever on AO3
Link: Mate in Three (Chess Club AU) on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: This isn't quite enemies-to-lovers but Rodney's definitely initially annoyed with John, the new guy at the Mensa chess club, and it takes him quite some time to traverse a) being emotionally deaf to John's interest, b) becoming friends with John, c) slowly realising he's attracted to John, d) having a sexual identity crisis, and, e) researching gay sex so as to be prepared. Meanwhile, a disappointed John has found a new boyfriend! This sounds way angstier than it is - Rodney's charmingly clueless and concrete but he's also bluntly determined once he figures himself and the situation out - and of course it all comes right in the end. An enjoyable read!

( snippet of fic )

goddess47 posting in

stargateficrec

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Characters:Pairings: Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson
Categories: slash, pining, oblivious
Warnings: Daniel (supposedly dies - again)
Word Count: 2409
Author on DW:

hollyandvice
Author's Website: AO3 Profile
Link: Only Nearly Dead

Author's Summary:

Jack gets the phone call when he's in Daniel's office waiting for him. The archaeologist had been sent off with one of the other teams while Jack and Teal'c healed up from their last mission gone wrong. Jack knows perfectly well that there's no cause for worry, that the teams the SGC puts together are more than capable of keeping Daniel safe.

That doesn't mean he doesn't worry.

wherein jack loses daniel and fights to get him back.

Why This Must Be Read:

Written for a fest that seemed to prompt using *all* the tropes (at least as many as possible), hollyandvice does use all the tropes and uses them well.

Daniel (supposedly) dies while off-world with another SG team. But -- important -- there's no body! So Jack never gives up hope, follows the thinnest of threads and brings Daniel back.

But!

Then they have to talk! Luckily, Daniel is fluent in silent-O'Neill and there's hope for our boys.

( snippet of fic )

tielan

I feel like I was better at this when I was younger.

Got a big dent in my self-assurance right now, and struggling: tired and a little anxious after this setback.

*sigh*

Next flight up in 18 hours...

tielan

Something with a bit more humour, because this always makes me laugh:

Watch on YouTube

I first saw this on social media, but most recently I saw

conuly post it.

The funniest part is the very deliberate way the announcer says "Chicken Jockey" almost like she can't quite believe what she's reading. (Or, it might just be the Minnesota inflection. I can't tell!)

--

Amusing point: We are five days into September and I have already written over half of what I wrote in August. August was absolutely a MISERABLE month for writing.

tielan

I spent most of the day in the room, listning to an irregular rumble that never quite seemed to stop...

..around 5:30pm, I realised that it was the elevators.

I called down to the front desk and they promptly moved me...to a room at the back corner which smelled like it had previously housed a smoker. You're not allowed to smoke in the rooms, sure. But someone who smokes like a chimney had inhabited that room not too long ago, and I could smell it.

I called down to the front desk, they sent up housekeeping, who sprayed perfume through the room. Not helping! And then they moved me yet again - about four rooms along and there's no smell and no elevator rumble...

What a drama. And I'd slept pretty well last night. It was just during the day that I was listening to that rumble and thought at first it must be construction work, only to realise after hours that, no, it's probably the elevators.

Bad design, as my dad the architect would say.

At any rate, I'm moved again.

NOW can the drama be over? Please? Pretty please?

I'm feeling better still - more energy, but the slightly congested nose and throat again. I stopped taking the phenylephrine after last night. And looking through the drugs the doc gave me, there's an anti-histamine, and an anti-inflammatory, and when I tried taking the metformin (another anti-inflammatory) last night...let's just say it got unpretty.

Tonight and tomorrow is to make sure I'm back to (near-)fighting fit. I should have been in Georgia, by now, meeting the rest of the tour...

*sigh* Okay, no dwelling. Just resting.

beatrice_otter

... the more often I notice little details that are wrong in movies and books.

Like, most recently, I watched a few minutes of Saving Private Ryan, which included the delivery of the telegram about most of her sons dying to Mrs. Ryan. She is doing dishes in the kitchen when she looks out the window and sees a car driving up. She is wearing an apron. She goes to the door to greet the Official Men who are coming.

Me: ... why isn't she taking off the apron, or replacing it with a clean one, or flipping it around?

I have heard stories from multiple women about their mothers working really hard to always have a perfectly pristine apron whenever unexpected company showed up, the 1930s version of "we can't let anybody know we live here!" So, for example, women who would wear their aprons inside out, so that they could flip it around whenever the doorbell rang, and know the pretty side would be perfectly clean. Or women who would take their aprons off and stuff them in a drawer when they saw a car drive up, and pretend they hadn't been working in the kitchen or scrubbing the floor or whatever. Or run to the kitchen and swap out their everyday apron for the fancy one with the ruffles and embroidery or whatnot. In every case, the idea was for the apron to look like a fashion statement, and not an actual functional garment.

But the thing is, no piece of fiction is ever going to be 100% perfect in its presentation of the past, no matter how much they try for accuracy; if for no other reason than that lots of the past simply gets forgotten about. Nobody can possibly know every detail about what life was like in an era before they were born, even if they've studied it extensively. (And the further back in time you go, the less stuff it is possible to know.) And even if you could be accurate, the accuracy might not fit with the story you're trying to tell; it might distract from an emotional moment, or it might signal something completely different to modern eyes, or it might just not register to modern people unless you took the time to stop and explain what's going on. All of which interfere with telling the story you're trying to tell.

So for me, it's a lot of "they're not wrong to do it that way, that I find it annoying is totally a ME issue and not an objective problem with the story.

tielan

I've found somewhere to stay for the next three days and moved there.

( there was a bit of drama )

Hopefully this marks the end of the change-in-programming part of my trip.

I mean, I've done this before. I've worn it and managed it. But it puts me off. And with my health in the mix, I'm anxious. And tired.

I need to have something to eat. Take my medication, and go to bed. Friday and Saturday await, and at least I'm somewhere I don't feel guilty about being in someone else's space (where I was before, although she was very nice about me being sick).

tielan

Still feeling not-great, but ( medication is a wonder of the modern world and nobody can persuade me otherwise )

tielan

It's COVID.

Took a RAT, saw a doc and got a medical certificate written and some medication to treat the symptoms - they don't have free antivirals as of six months ago, dammit.

I'm vaxxed up to JN.1 (whatever the most recent version is) and that's good, because it hopefully means it'll be mild. But it still sucks.

Still trying to work out what I need to collect on the travel insurance for medical situation causing disruption to travel plans.

Probably a PCR and that's going to be the tricky part around here.

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Had taste and smell (well, relatively, other than blocked nose) up to this afternoon. Mostly I'm feeling fluey - and tired.

--

Things I did not need: the eastern european friend who has a tendency to be upbeatedly-depressing telling me she hopes I don't get Long COVID like she did 8 weeks after she got COVID... I mean, I hope I don't, too, but I didn't need something else to think about...

tielan

Ugh. Alas, for I have caught a bug. Virus. Thingy. Whatever.

Runny nose, blocked ears, exhaustion, sore throat.

Luckily, I had some antibiotics to take for it, so that's made things a little easier, but I suspect it's one of those longer-running, harder-hitting viruses.

Going to ask the halfbro for thoughts on a medical centre that I could maybe get seen by a doc and possibly get some stronger antibiotics? Also take a test, in case what I have is one of the worrying ones.

Probably doesn't help that I'm in Hong Kong (and was in Singapore) where it's very hot and humid, and so I start sweating like crayz when I'm not standing in a breeze. I mean, that was likely anyway, but the feeling of my eyes and nose and ears and sinuses all being stuffed up is not fun.

I'm also vaguely worried about the next leg of the trip which is two booked tours where they'll exclude me if I'm not healthy.

So, mostly rest while here in HK. That's the plan. It's just hard because it's so hot and blech and no respite. But the air con wasn't great in Singapore - it just felt cold and hard and sharp in my throat. So what with one thing and another, it's all a bit much.

I've been sick while traveling before - ironically, I was also on a tour that time. But it was pre-covid and people didn't worry quite so much about pandemics.

I've been vaxxed - covid 6 months ago, and flu more recently - but it's just the stuffiness that's not feeling great right now.

fignewton posting in

stargateficrec

Many thanks to

cassiope25,

goddess47,

mific, and

nuh_s for all their August recs! We had 9 recs this past month.

Our same wonderful reccers are back again for September:

cassiope25: Rodney McKay

goddess47: Jack O'Neill

mific: AU

nuh_s: Crossover

Reccers, you all have access and can start posting at any time. Remember that you have committed yourself to reccing at least two fics over the course of the month, although of course we will be happy with more. Feel free to use the copy-and-paste template from the reccer's FAQ for your convenience.

If you wanted to volunteer for this month and didn't have a chance to sign up, drop a comment here and I'll happily add you to the list.

mark posting in

dw_maintenance

Per the dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

denise posting in

dw_news

A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.

The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.

In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.

The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.

Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.

tielan

Sometimes I feel like I am the only person in the world who fills up on water, however temporarily.

Right now, I'm sitting at a table with an entire bottle of sparkling water, and I'm not going to manage to drink it all in one sitting.

Singapore has been beautiful, but also tiring and hot. I have mostly stayed in the hotel, where my room has an absolutely ridiculous view. With the exception of today, when I went out to meet a friend and we walked through 30C heat-and-humidity, fit to broil me in sweat. I was sincerely slick across the skin by the time we reached the place we were going to lunch.

I'm happy to report that Singapore isn't entirely given over to the modern, flash, and fancy. In a little street of restaurants and bars, we found a place that doesnt look like it's changed its decor since the eighties. And I don't mean bright and tawdry neon; I mean lino floors, melamine tables, and the old 'Chinese' paintings and ideographs on the walls, framed beneath glass.

Chin-Chin runs a brisk and cheap business with an extremely simple menu - the height of the 'if you're good at it, ride that train all the way down'. That said, most westerners wouldn't dare eat there for fear of food poisoning - it's got that look about it. Although honestly those places generally have the best food. We had a meal for two, it was filling, and it cost about the same as one meal would have cost elsewhere. Which, on this street where the buildings look like they were built during Singapore's early years of colonisation by the British - complete with wooden shutters - probably means they own the shop and space outright. Because the rent on that street would be absolutely RUINOUS.

Granted, to get there, we had to emerge from the modern, flash, and fancy shopping centres that...sincerely? Look like something straight ouf the Australian 00s (possibly the American 90s) - bling and lights and colours and EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE.

UGH.

Anyway, it's been an excellent couple of days. Even if I've been battling this damned virus. That, or the air-conditioners are drying out my throat something ferocious.

Tomorrow, I wake early and fly to Hong Kong where I will be seeing my half-brother and the niecelets.

And dealing with Dad, who I suspect has an "offer" of a business proposition.

And I am busily reminding myself it is not up to children to fulfil their parents' dreams.

anr

Swallows in the Air (823 words) by anr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ready or Not (2019)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Daniel Le Domas/Grace Le Domas
Characters: Daniel Le Domas, Grace Le Domas
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Daniel Le Domas Lives
Summary: She takes a slow drag of the cigarette. And then another. And then says, "you found me." Alone in a clearing of dead leaves and destroyed hope.

He meets her stare evenly. "You found me," he counters.

Passing Mood accomplished
Music of the Moment Stereo Jane - Love Me Tender

anr

Depression Works the Graveyard Shift (1008 words) by anr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: T'Pol/Charles "Trip" Tucker III
Characters: Charles "Trip" Tucker III, T'Pol (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Episode s03e10: Similitude, Missing Scenes
Summary: "I wish you were not gone," she says, and he says, but I'm not, T'Pol, I'm not, I'm right here, I am, look at me, see me, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here.

Passing Mood busy
Music of the Moment Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero

anr

Suddenly the Summer (877 words) by anr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Hunger Games (Movies), Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Haymitch Abernathy/Effie Trinket
Characters: Haymitch Abernathy, Effie Trinket
Additional Tags: Post-Movie, Sex, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Haymitch and Effie, after the war.

Passing Mood calm
Music of the Moment Taylor Swift - Peace

tielan

I wonder if I'm going to run short of sleep for the entirety of the holiday.

IDK. Maybe I could have a rest on Tuesday? Theoretically speaking.

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mific in stargateficrec - Do Not Mock the Children of the Night (by Epiphanyx7) (Mature)
tielan - Georgia
mific in stargateficrec - Mate in Three (Chess Club AU) (by enthusuastic_whatever) (E)
goddess47 in stargateficrec - Only Nearly Dead, by hollyandvice (PG)
tielan - biting off more than I can chew
tielan - Chicken Jockey from Minnesota!
tielan - not quite
beatrice_otter - The more time I spend talking to elderly people and reading history ...
tielan - shelter in place
tielan - updates
tielan - yeah, nup
tielan - sick while travelling
fignewton in stargateficrec - September reccers
mark in dw_maintenance - Code deploy happening shortly
denise in dw_news - Mississippi site block, plus a small restriction on Tennessee new accounts
tielan - sweat and water and Singapore and food
anr - FIC: Swallows in the Air (Ready or Not)
anr - FIC: Depression Works the Graveyard Shift (Star Trek: Enterprise)
anr - FIC: Suddenly the Summer (The Hunger Games)
tielan - short sleep

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A Few Words From The Wise

Speak to him, for there is none born wise.
-The Maxims of Ptahotep

In mourning or rejoicing, be not far from me.
- an Ancient Egyptian Love Song

But your embraces
alone give life to my heart
may Amun give me what I have found
for all eternity.
-Love Songs of the New Kingdom, Song #2

To Know the Dark

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings.
-Wendell Berry

Up in the morning's no for me,
Up in the morning early;
When a' the hills are covered wi' snaw,
I'm sure it's winter fairly.
-Robert Burns

Visit to the Hermit Ts'ui

Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies,
Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows.
I envy you, drunk with flowers,
Butterflies swirling in your dreams.
-Ch'ien Ch'i

Mistress of high achievement, O lady Truth,
do not let my understanding stumble
across some jagged falsehood.
-Pindar

Every Gaudy colour
Is a bit of truth.
-Nathalia Crane

I counted two-and-twenty stenches,
All well defined, and several stinks.
-Samuel Coleridge