My media this week (7-13 Apr 2024)
📚 STUFF I READ 📚
🥰 If This Is As Far As We Go (BeauRadley) - 124K, stucky no-powers AU - after a year of being phenomenal hookup buddies, bucky ends their arrangement & throws steve into a tailspin - slow burn, angsty, oblivious steve slowly realizing his true feelings, good supporting cast
😊 Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid (Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert) - cute graphic novel about art students forming a softball team to exploit a financial aid loophole
😍 Death in the Spires (KJ Charles, author; Tom Lawrence, narrator) - historical murder mystery set in 1905 Oxford - another KJC absolute banger: incredible sense of place, fantastic characters, perfectly done 'whodunnit' tension and a HIGHLY SATISFACTORY resolution. Loved every word
💖💖 +76K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖
The Man, the Myth, the Legend (sparklyslug) - Check Please!: gen, 2.9K - Holster's beatboxing skills brings all the a capella groups to the Haus - a short, fun, funny, outsider POV fic
Say it louder for the people in the back (redhook) - MCU: shrinkyclinks, 14K - reread, forever fave - sometimes you just get a yearning to reread the best glory hole fic ever written
In Focus (sparklyslug) - Check Please!: zimbits, 6K - Jack's photography eye knows what's up before his conscious brain does
Entering Orbit (museaway) - Star Trek AOS: spirk, 30K - good post-AOS canon-divergent fic where Jim goes home to Iowa to escape the press & Spock joins him
📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺
Hot Ones - Conan O'Brien
QI - series S, ep 13
Game Changer - s6, e5 {Bingoception}
Um, Actually - s9, e4
D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Dawn of Justice" (s21, e14)
D20: Adventuring Party - "We're Running on 200%" (s16, e14)
Death In Paradise - s11, e4-8; s12 e0-8, s13 e0-8
🎧 PODCASTS 🎧
Working - How to Be Both a Critic and a Creator
Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #10: Of the Reaching Green
Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep10 "Of the Reaching Green"
Short Wave - How Climate Change And Physics Affect Baseball
Consider This from NPR - Bad Omens Or The Cycle of Nature? How The Ancient World Viewed Eclipses
⭐ Armchair Expert - Anna Kendrick [Rerelease from 1/9/23]
Today, Explained - Is college still worth it?
The Sporkful - Jewish Food Is More Than Matzoh Balls
WikiHole - BEYONCÉ (with Zoë Chao, Nat Faxon and Poppy Liu)
⭐ All Songs Considered - Songs to make you laugh, with 'Weird Al' Yankovic
In Defense of Fandom - Season 2 Episode 2: Putting my theory to the test
Dinner’s on Me - Orville Peck
⭐ Switched on Pop - Chasing old sounds: Djo's "End of Beginning" with Joe Keery
⭐ 99% Invisible #577 - The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons
⭐ Vibe Check - A Special Conversation with Ada Limón
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Brown Mountain Lights
Short Wave - The Order Your Siblings Were Born in May Play a Role in Identity and Sexuality
⭐ Code Switch - How Frederick Douglass launched generations of Black and Irish solidarity
⭐ Decoder Ring - Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?
⭐ Imaginary Worlds - African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future Climate
Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #11: Promises Promises
Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep11 "Promises Promises"
What Next: TBD - Does Google Suck Now?
Short Wave - What To Know About The New EPA Rule Limiting 'Forever Chemicals' In Tap Water
Code Switch - Reflecting on the legacy of O.J. Simpson
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Atlas Obscura Live: Two Places And A Lie
Dear Prudence - I Lost a Lot of Weight and Now I Enjoy Being a Mean Girl. Help!
It's Been a Minute - The car culture wars; plus, the problem with child stars
Endless Thread - RIP Lil Miquela
Shedunnit - You Probably Imagined It!
Armchair Expert - John Cena
Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - [One Shot] A County Affair: Prologue
🎶 MUSIC 🎶
Presenting Bonnie Raitt
Lowrider Oldies
Huge House Anthems
Djo
Classic Soul BBQ
A LA SALA [Khruangbin] {2024}
Presenting Khruangbin
Happy Beats
'80s One-Hit Wonders
Feel-Good Classic Rock
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𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐁𝐎𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐍!
𝐖𝐇𝐎: steve harrington & jackie burkhart ( @itsburkhart )
𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓: steve harrington learns all of the midwest is the same, except wisconsin is way colder.
𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄: the hub, point place, wisconsin, 3:45 PM, october 1977
steve had been the king of his small indiana town before his dad’s car dealership filed for bankruptcy, and they had to move to an even smaller town in wisconsin. steve didn’t understand what about wisconsin would make the business flourish, but it wasn’t like he had much say in the matter. before he knew it they were packing up everything steve had ever known and headed for america’s dairyland. a new town meant new friends, a new school, and having to build up his social prestige all around. steve wondered if they even had a swim team in wisconsin. the harringtons arrived in point place on a tuesday afternoon and were unloaded and settled into their new home by dinner time thanks to the hoards of movers that his miraculously-still-wealthy parents hired.
but buddy and charity harrington’s only son was nowhere to be found while they unloaded. steve had taken it upon himself to get the lay of the land, get some kind of upper hand before his first day. he walked to the center of town, stopping in some place called the hub. he was pleasantly surprised that people his age seemed to scatter the tables, at least this place wasn’t full of geezers. he played it casual, combing a hand through his hair as he walked over to the one of the gaming machines. despite his best efforts, it was pretty obvious he was sizing up the place before he pulled up a chair and straddled it backwards at a table next to the pretty girl with even nicer hair. “hey uh....” despite his best efforts, steve forgot his opener. he laughed it off and tried to look gorgeous as he raked a hand through his hair again. steve composed himself the charmingly introduced, “i’m steve, just moved.” he threw his arms over the back of the hair and gestured vaguely to this space, “this the local hang out?”
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My media this week (31 Mar-6 Apr 2024)
lady constance is a seven foot tall badger and knows acab
📚 STUFF I READ 📚
pretty much nothing! It was a rough reading week! The first part of the week I was fairly consumed with the D20 I was watching & not reading much. Then I spent FIVE DAYS reading a little over half of a 258K fic before finally accepting that though it was pretty well written and not bad, I just wasn't into it and the thought of fighting thru another 120K was appalling, so I bailed.
and I did read about 20K of shorter stuff but nothing I want to shout out so.
📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺
This Is Going To Hurt - s1, e1
QI - series S, ep 10-12
Death In Paradise - s11, e2-3
D20: Mice & Murder - "The Stabber of the Evening" (s9, e4)
D20: Mice & Murder - "The Eye of the Storm" (s9, e5)
D20: Mice & Murder - "Busted" (s9, e6)
D20: Mice & Murder - " I've Been Here the Whole Time" (s9, e7)
D20: Mice & Murder - "Outfoxed" (s9, e8)
D20: Mice & Murder - "The Belly of the Beast" (s9, e9)
D20: Mice & Murder - "Unfinished Business" (s9, e10)
D20: Adventuring Party - s4, e4-10 [Mice & Murder]
D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Infernal Conflict" (s21, e13)
D20: Adventuring Party - "All Pulp, No Juice" (s16, e13)
🎧 PODCASTS 🎧
What Next: TBD - The Psychological Toll of Mars
Working - How a Magician Designs Original, Mind-Blowing Tricks
Hit Parade - The Bridge: Like a Revamped Stone
Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #7: Kahuna
WikiHole - Greek Easter (with Ellie Kemper, Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson!)
Welcome to Night Vale #245 - Fridge-worthy
Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep7 "Kahuna"
Today, Explained - Making taxes less taxing
I Said No Gifts! - Tig Notaro Disobeys Bridger
⭐ Switched on Pop - Cowboy Carter: This Ain't Country
Consider This from NPR - Measuring The Economic Impact Of Baltimore's Port Closure
Pop Culture Happy Hour - Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter
⭐ Vibe Check - This Ain't Texas, This Is Vibe Check
Better Offline - Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left ft. Molly White
Wiser Than Me - Julia Gets Wise with Bonnie Raitt
Short Wave - How To Make The Most Of Next Week's Solar Eclipse
Ologies with Alie Ward - Heliology (THE SUN/ECLIPSES) with India Jackson and Michael Kirk
99% Invisible #576 - Chambre de Bonne
Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #8: The Catch
Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Untranslatable Words
Pop Culture Happy Hour - Ripley
Song Exploder - Shania Twain - You're Still The One
Off Menu - Ep 238: Katy Wix
Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep8 "The Catch"
Choice Words - Live in Fear or Love? (with Karamo)
What Next: TBD - Truth Social’s Rocky Week
Short Wave - The "Barcodes" Powering These Tiny Songbirds' Memories May Also Help Human Memory
⭐ Pop Culture Happy Hour - Monkey Man And What's Making Us Happy
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Nevada Week: The Martin
Endless Thread - Nerd Fight
Strong Songs - "The Way" by Meshell Ndegeocello
Today, Explained - The Sephora kids
It's Been a Minute - Is DEI a slur now? Plus, control & basketball
Radiolab - The Moon Itself
Choice Words - Choices We Made: Stay Silent or Sue the Cops? (with Eric André)
Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - Chris Pine
Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #9: The King of Cups
Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep9 "The King of Cups"
Under the Influence - Cheeky Advertising
In Defense of Fandom - Season 2 Episode 1: What makes a TV ending?
Dinner’s on Me - Kristen Bell
Dinner’s on Me - Dax Shepard
🎶 MUSIC 🎶
Louis Jordan
Ozzy Osbourne
Meshell Ndegeocello
Cowboys + Queens
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soundtracks for threads @blindspct
These are just song songs that remind me of our pairings and threads right now :)
Arthur x Felicity
There is something about this song that just screams Arthur and Felicity to me. Especially the lines “don’t pretend that you don’t want me” , and “if I’m not the one for you, you gotta stop holding me the way you do”. I am loving writing them, and I can’t wait to get to the part where they realise their feelings and potential relationship is basically forbidden, but they get each other and enjoy each others company and are catching feelings the whole time while trying to push the other away. I love it.
Also the new Taylor Swift song Hits different - “oh my love is a lie, shit my friends say to get me by, it hits different, it’s hits different with you, catastrophic blues, moving on was always easy for me to do…it hits different…cause it’s you”
Both Felicity and Arthur have had their ‘catastrophic blues’ in the past, and again it’s this whole feeling of wow this is new and exciting but we can’t!!! And the way she sings about being so drunk and calling for the other one, reminds me of them. I can see Felicity showing up at Arthur’s after a few drinks and wanting to see him.
Alana x Sam
This one!!! Sam knows he screwed up and wants to get Alana back and is showing up at her office place, bringing her flowers and just wants to prove that he is going to be there for her.
“I would wait for ever and ever, broke your heart I’ll put it back together, I want you FOREVER AND EVER”
I could see Sam singing this to her in the kitchen, twirling her around and just smiling, hoping that things can go back to the way it was.
Bambi and Tommy
This song just reminds me of them walking up their hill, wishing they could spend more time together. Them going out on the town, spending time on Tommys farm, I can just see a montage of them with sunsets and laughing, him giving her a piggy back and running around the place, them dancing somewhere downtown.
The fact they definitely like each other but are scared to say it because they know it’s such a short time….ahhh “I scream for whatever it’s worth, I love you ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard HE LOOKS UP GRINNING LIKE A DEVIL, it’s new, the shape of your body it’s blue, it’s a feeling I got and it’s ooooooh it’s a cruel summer”
I love all of our pairings so much!!
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@hanging-on-the-phone
From the depths of Jonathan's room, Motley Crue's Too Fast For Love comes blasting into the hallway and the den of the Byer's home. This emergence of noise comes with a long haired young man, Eddie marching to the kitchen on the quest for a soda or anything else suitable to quench his thirst.
Glass jars and plastic containers clack and rustle as he rummages through the family's fridge. A telltale rattle of the front door knob behind him causes him to freeze, head and shoulders still hunched inside the appliance. With almost comical slowness, Eddie moves to straighten up, turning on his heel to find Joyce staring at him, keys still in hand. Dark eyes hold her gaze for a long moment before he blinks, seemingly coming back to himself.
"Oh...uh." The fridge door is promptly let go, let to swing shut with a soft whoosh and a muted thud of the seal. "Sorry. I guess I should introduce myself before I raid your fridge."
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