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Book ask: Diaspora by Greg Egan
never heard of | never read | want to read | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite
I have a vague understanding of Greg Egan as someone I should get around to reading at some point, but nothing beyond that, or anything about the book in particular.
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This Week in Gundam Wing 14 January - 10 February 2024
Here’s the roundup for January 14th, 2024 - February 10th, 2024!
Remember to give your content creators some love! Be sure to join in on the events at the bottom! And remember to send in any new works you see or make this next week!
~Mod Hel
Fanfiction/Ideas/Snippets:
@cuteciboulette
Fic Idea https://cuteciboulette.tumblr.com/post/740430848728465408/this-is-not-a-fic
Heero, Death!Duo, tw suicide discussion
flayrie
Stellar Drift https://archiveofourown.org/works/51561307
F/M, Treize Khushrenada/Lady Une
Explicit, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop references, side material references, Romance, Drama, Morally Grey Characters, Vague love confessions, Mutual Pining, Generational Trauma, War Trauma, PTSD, past gun violence injury, Mention of blood, Smut, Porn with Feelings, Porn With Plot, Enthusiastic Consent, kabedon, Stocking Fetish, Cunnilingus, Oral Sex, Fingering, Implied Premature Ejaculation, Post-Coital Cuddling, reformed rake x political harlot dynamic, Treize lives in this one so obviously I had a beta, target audience: me
Canon divergence. Through Lady Une's machinations, Treize Khushrenada survives the war. Despite saving him, Une appears intent on pushing him away, evading him at every opportunity. Desperate for answers, Treize confronts her, igniting old feelings long buried for the sake of duty.
Arts/Crafts/Photo Manips:
@artnijna
https://artnijna.tumblr.com/post/740261816198905856/rewatching-gundam-wing-as-im-sure-you-have-all
WuFei Chang, fanart
@ellohcee
https://ellohcee.tumblr.com/post/741182839812390912/some-mr-duo-gundam-wing-maxwell-i-doodled
Duo Maxwell, fanart
@mikkurin
https://mikkurin.tumblr.com/post/741592090614562817
Relena Darlian-Peacecraft, fanart
@nullphysics
https://www.tumblr.com/nullphysics/741266409682878464
Heero Yuy, fanart
@pineappleglazedham
https://pineappleglazedham.tumblr.com/post/733849029704826880
Treize/Une, nsfw ish, fanart
@seitou
https://seitou.tumblr.com/post/741833885435969536/the-designs-are-done-not-to-build-the-wesbite
5 boyos, fanart, stickers
@sweet-rabbit
https://sweet-rabbit.tumblr.com/post/741084970389487616/its-still-131-where-im-at-time-for-duo-to-kiss
Duo and Hilde, (about Duo ship month), comic
@vasyenka
https://vasyenka.tumblr.com/post/741470346590470144/as-a-kid-i-was-obsessed-with-gundam-wing-where
Duo/Quatre, fanart
@zazagundam
https://zazagundam.tumblr.com/post/739523219144458240/im-having-way-too-much-fun
Gunpla wall
Cosplay:
@yourfavoritescoundrel
https://yourfavoritescoundrel.tumblr.com/post/741270397597728768/duo-maxwell-i-may-run-and-hide-but-i-never-tell-a-lie
Duo Maxwell in the streets
Photosets/Gifsets/Screenshots/Manga Pages:
@astragifs
https://astragifs.tumblr.com/post/741441445914869760
Relena Darlian-Peacecraft, gif
@janaverse
https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/741097739145904128/meant-to-be-happy-21
Duo/Heero, Sims 4, screenshot
Head Canons/Meta:
@lifeattomsdiner
https://lifeattomsdiner.tumblr.com/post/740370874724663296
GW would be different if Relena had a Gundam.
MoodBoard/Aesthetics:
@wildandrecklesswings
https://wildandrecklesswings.tumblr.com/post/740078832854482944/oh-my-god-its-here-im-screaming-im-so
GW Jacket (clothes count as an aesthetic right?)
Fandom Discourse:
gwpromptmeme
GW Prompt Meme event
Rules: https://gwpromptmeme.dreamwidth.org/408.html
Main Page: https://gwpromptmeme.dreamwidth.org/
Quotes:
@incorrectgundamwingquotes
https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/739532688989519872/heero-duo-told-me-to-tell-you-that-i-want
Heero, Duo, & WuFei
https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/739804495958147072/wufei-you-better-not-be-experimenting-with
WuFei & Duo
https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/739895036564635648/relena-it-must-be-a-liberating-thing-for-you-all
Relena
https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/740076470373957632/relena-why-are-you-always-trying-to-get-yourself
Relena & Heero
https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/740438788619321344/undercover-at-a-boarding-school-relena-do-you
Relena, Heero, & Duo
https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/741344587168235520/duo-do-you-live-under-a-rock-trowa-with
Duo & Trowa
Calendar Events:
@gwcocktailfriday
Cocktail Fridays!
Post responses on Friday, during Happy Hour between 3 & 5 pm in your own timezone.
Here’s the prompts for Friday, February 16th! https://gwcocktailfriday.tumblr.com/post/742011330318499840/cocktail-friday-post-responses-on-friday-february
In need of prompts!
@gwlemonyshenanigans
Sign-ups Open: https://gwlemonyshenanigans.tumblr.com/post/740503319997448192/lemony-shenanigans-2024-sign-ups-now-open
Looking to fill all the days! https://gwlemonyshenanigans.tumblr.com/post/741815882530045952/31-days-in-may
@thisweekingundamevents
Events Calendar https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/730188053636841472/updated-events-calendar
If you are hosting an event currently, or are planning on one, hit us up with links and dates! We’ll add them to the Calendar and reblog your notices to get the word out!
GW Valentine’s Event 2024 https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/739857252321738752/gw-valentines-event-2024
Hope you’ve been creating!
@/???
GW Gift Exchange
There is another exchange being done now... I *think* it’s on dreamwidth, but I can’t find the convo with the person running it to save my life, but it’s on the events calendar with all the info I had...
Jan 15th - 21st is Nominations
Jan 16th - 28th is Sign-ups
Posting and whatnot will be in April.
Not sure if something will be posted anywhere on tumblr or not, but hoping I can get y’all the info for where and how when it goes.
#Gundam Wing#This Week in Gundam Wing#Weekly Roundup#(I feel like I shouldn't put that one anymore. lol)#14 Jan - 10 Feb 2024
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15 Questions, 15 People
Tagged by @inqorporeal
1. Are you named after anyone? Kinda! I have a great-grandfather with my first and middle name, but my Mom only picked it because she liked the sound and didn't have any particular feelings about the guy. I was nearly named after my father, as in a 'junior', but he convinced her that was a bad idea.
2. When was the last time you cried? I teared up at my wedding Happy tears, of course.
3. Do you have kids? Unless Frisbee, my 9 year old orange tabby, counts, then no.
4. What sports do you play/have played? I played soccer and t-ball as a child, football for a hot minute and wrestling for three years in high school. I've also tried out like six different martial arts before dropping them but that sounds way more impressive than it is considering I learned basically nothing. About the only physical activity I get anymore is walking places and/or climbing the stairs at my house.
5. Do you use sarcasm? Who, me? Never.
6. What's the first thing you notice about people? General size, I'd say. I'm slightly on the tall side and very fat, so if someone is taller or bigger than me, or like ridiculously tiny, I notice.
7. What’s your eye color? Dark brown.
8. Scary movies or happy endings? Enh. I love well-done horror, but a lot of it is schlock. Similarly, I love a good catharsis, but a lot of 'happy endings' are also schlock. Still, catharsis is more important than a 'happy' ending imo, and so I guess I pick scary movies on principle.
9. Any talents? I have a knack for most of the arts in that I pick up basic proficiency faster than many, but I still gotta work my ass off to improve beyond that. Similarly decent with words but my writing is an ongoing effort to improve.
10. Where were you born? California, about 40 miles inland from Los Angeles.
11. What are your hobbies? TTRPGs (running generally, playing when I get the opportunity), Warhammer (building, converting, painting, playing), video games, writing
12. Do you have any pets? The aforementioned 9 year old orange tabby, Frisbee.
13. How tall are you? 6'0"
14. Favorite subject in school? English, History
15. Dream job? Would love to make a living at writing or one of my other hobbies, but honestly anything that let me faff about in a creative flow with music going would qualify as a dream job. If I must interact with other humans for money, then I'm best in a teaching position where I can indoctrinate the youth in leftist thought teach literary/media analysis, critical thinking, history with all its beauty and ugliness on display, and basic fucking compassion.
tagging @motheatenscarf, @petepaintswarhammer, @caphayzardous, @lifeattomsdiner, @rabidchilde, @adhdgrapher, @copperforge, @lesabear, @emzawheezy, @fuukonomiko, @imperatorsapphiosa, @notcuddles, @oolathurman, @wtf-skittens, @wolffyluna as always, only if you feel like it
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Tagged by @lifeattomsdiner
Tag some friends you’d like to get to know better!
Last Song: Beyond These Walls by Miracle of Sound
Currently Watching: Critical Role, and I’m almost caught up.
Currently Reading: The Victorians by A. N. Wilson
Current Obsession: As you may be able to tell by my choice in reading, late-19th-century England. I tell myself that I’m doing it as research for a queer retelling of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but let’s be honest: I don’t know if or when that book is ever happening.
@zoestorm @beedok @storywonker @taylor-swift-is-my-robot-dog @velexiraptor
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How to warn someone away from a mad scientist:
“What kind of guy wants to get a girl all alone in his laboratory?”
@lifeattomsdiner @bonsaisheep @neurotic-biotic
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Give that Vecna's hand and eye famously are grafted onto their bearer in place of the bearer's own body parts, I'm intrigued as to what the "Curse of Vecna" could be in the context of Stranger Things
You’re killing me dude! I hadn’t even thought of that.
My bad for owning the 1st edition DMG and not reading it closely enough.
Hmm... maybe Robert Englund / Creel was the wrong call. Maybe Matthew Modine / Brenner? He did appear to take a hard beat down in ST1 that might require... replacements...
#stranger things#season 4#season 4 speculation#vecna#robert englund#Matthew modine#martin brenner#lifeattomsdiner
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36) World Gone Mad by Bastille
So tell me what's the news
And what is it you want me to see
We're lying to ourselves
And dancing by the light of the screen
To the shock of no one, this one’s about how it feels when the world is ending.
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soft asks: 2, 10, 24, 29
2. what’s your feel-good movie?
pride and prejudice (2005)
10. what’s something you’re excited for?
this quarantine thing to be OVER with
24. what’s something you do to de-stress?
drawing! i’m not very good but it calms me down lol
29. morning, afternoon or night?
morning, i’m actually an early bird.... like 5:30AM early👀
Soft Asks
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Gonna go out on a limb here and say that you're obsessed with Stranger Things in general and Mileven in particular.
Possibly the hardest confirm of my life. May my obsession with ST and Mileven never die.
Tell me something you assume about me and I’ll confirm or deny it!
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💌
This is more strictly 'something I love' than a general compliment, but you generally are annoyed/vent about the same things as I do and this is an absolutely vital service to have access to tyvm.
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!!!
(I hadn't even realized this was officially annoucned, so ty to @lifeattomsdiner for the notice)
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Hey, so you've said before that you think of each edition of D&D as a completely different game that happens to share a franchise name with the others--how would you describe each edition to somebody who's potentially interested in trying them?
Sure thing. Obviously you don’t have to play each edition exactly as it wants to be played, but each one definitely has some baked-in assumptions about how the game ought to be played (as all games necessarily do). It’s probably easiest to frame it in terms of what each edition thinks a dungeon is (in the extended sense of “the place where the adventure happens”), so:
OD&D thinks a dungeon is a logistical puzzle. Basically, you’re running a heist; a team of weirdos with specialised skill-sets break into a secure location to obtain a valuable prize and escape with it as quickly and efficiently as possible. Most of your XP comes from recovering treasures, not from killing monsters, and combat is a high-risk, low-reward proposition - if you ever end up in a square fight, that probably means you screwed up! This is where all those rules about timekeeping and overland travel speeds and encumbrance limits that pop up in a lot of games as legacy features actually matter; the tension between gearing up to maximise your odds of survival and leaving enough carrying capacity to take the treasure with you forces some hard decisions.
1E thinks a dungeon is an obstacle course. Though the rules are notably more complex than OD&D’s, 1E downplays its predecessor’s focus on the logistical “big picture” in favour of treating an adventure as a sequence of largely standalone challenges. Many of the game’s famously baroque magical items find their origin in this edition as part of set-piece puzzles. 1E‘s design sensibilities are strongly influenced by the tournament scene, where adventures would be played competitively at gaming conventions. Though some tournament adventures were played for points or completion time, far and away the most popular format was the survival module, where the winning team would be the party whose corpses hit the ground furthest from the dungeon entrance; consequently, many published 1E adventures aren’t actually intended to be survivable, helping to cement old-school D&D’s reputation as a brutal meat-grinder of a game.
2E is a transitional edition that doesn’t really know what to do with itself. It starts out in 1E’’s “a dungeon is an obstacle course” mode early on, drifts toward 3E’s “a dungeon is a simulated environment” mode late in is tenure, and has a weird detour through “a dungeon is a choose-your-own-adventure story path” in the middle - though that element of choice wasn’t always handled well, leading to many published 2E adventures being criticised for being essentially non-interactive. Still, it’s far and away the most prolifically published iteration of the game, and even if you have no intention of playing it it’s a fantastic resource to mine for weird monsters and magic items; much of the game’s most strikingly imaginative material comes out of the 2E era.
3E thinks a dungeon is a simulated environment. Where previous iterations of the game tended to have different sub-games for different activities, 3E rolls everything together into one big, elaborately interlocking framework that’s intended to provide an unambiguous “by the book” answer for how to apply the rules to any reasonable scenario (and a fair number of unreasonable ones, too). It’s the sort of game where the dungeon walls have elemental resistances and hit points, and if you use a magic spell to make a chicken ten feet tall there’s a chart you can use to look up what its stats should be. It’s been jokingly - albeit not inaccurately - described as D&D for people who enjoy Minecraft (though it predates the latter by a number of years).
4E thinks a dungeon is a series of tactical set-pieces. It has a more constrained scale of action than most other editions (character levels 1-30 in 4E cover about the same territory as characters levels 3-9 in 3E, for example), and the rules zoom in on supporting elaborately staged set-piece battles with no more than half-a-dozen combatants on either side and very rigorous PvE balance. Its narrow focus makes it a love-it-or-hate-it edition - even now, years after it’s ceased publication, it sports a contingent of highly vocal detractors who are very keen on making sure you know that 4E “plays like a video game”, which is apparently a bad thing! That assessment isn’t actually totally off the mark, though the game’s critcs usually pick the wrong video games to compare it to; 4E isn’t hot at doing tabletop World of Warcraft, though it’d be a great choice if you wanted to do tabletop Final Fantasy Tactics, or maybe fantasy Overwatch.
5E (the current iteration) is another transitional edition, though in this case its wobbliness is largely self-inflicted. 5E’s design brief was essentially “let’s make a game that combines the best elements of all of the previous editions so everyone will be happy with it!”, which promptly butted up against the reality that most previous editions have mutually exclusive design goals. It’s not a bad game by any means - indeed, it has some great ideas tucked away here and there - but overall it’s kinda confused and directionless, to the extent that different chapters of the core rulebook seem to be operating on different basic assumptions about what kind of game they’re describing. At this point I’m basically waiting for the inevitable mid-edition cleanup revision - every version of D&D has had one - to see what 5E decides it wants to be.
#gaming#tabletop roleplaying#tabletop rpgs#dungeons & dragons#d&d#game design#violence mention#death mention#lifeattomsdiner
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Tag 9 People and Get to Know Them Better
tagged by @lifeattomsdiner
3 ships: gonna define 'ship' as 'technically not explicit in canon but come on now' for the purposes of this specific question. Ripley/Hicks (Aliens), Mako/Raleigh (Pacific Rim), and Y'shtola/Runar (FFXIV)
First ever ship: First one where I was like "Those two should be together" instead of it just being a story where two people get or are already together is probably Ripley/Hicks actually. First ship I was ever like, invested in to the point of "you can't break them up without ruining both characters" was Clark/Lois
Last song: "Revengeance Machine," Beast in Black
Last movie: like in theatres? Midsommar was playing at the little art theatre and my (then fiancee, now wife) went and saw it back in like June. I'd seen it already, she had not.
Currently reading: 40k 10th edition rules
Currently watching: Murdoch Mysteries
Currently consuming: White pineapple Monster energy drink and funyuns. Yeah, you could say I'm a health nut. :V
Currently craving: roughly my weight in lo mein
tagging: anyone who feels like it
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Speaking of CJ Cherryh, which of her works would you recommend as a good starting point to somebody who hadn't read her stuff but was interested?
Oh, wow. This is a difficult question to answer.
IME Cherryh is an author who can take some getting used to. And various folks will prefer different works of hers. But!
I’ll suggest trying Downbelow Station, which has the virtue of being a standalone (though there are lots of other novels in that same universe). You might also want to try Cyteen.
If you want to read the book(s) that had the most obviously direct influence on my books, try Foreigner. Stick through the first two sections, which are essentially backstory (I skip them on re-reads) until you get to Bren Cameron. He’s the actual main character, and that’s where the actual story begins. If you don’t like being in Bren’s head, you won’t enjoy the rest of the series and can avoid them with my blessing.
There are some things in her work that make me go “hrm really?” but there are also lots of things in her work that strongly appeal to me. Cyteen is a work that creeps some folks out, for various reasons that are probably obvious if you’ve read it. Downbelow Station has some wtf moments. And there is a reason I do not advise you to start your Cherryh reading with Tripoint. (Seriously, don’t.) But I love her interest in language and culture, and I particularly love the Foreigner series.
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About the Blogger
tagged by @lifeattomsdiner. Thanks!
Name: Alan
Pronouns: Surprise me!
Sexuality: Queer
Hogwarts House: So... I want to be a Utopian. But I have this feeling that in order to call myself a Utopian I need to first do better at being a Utopian? I know they wouldn’t reject me and there’s no way Utopia doesn’t accept that people have disabilities and limits, but honestly it’s part of the Ongoing Identity Crisis, so until I make up my mind I’m most comfortable as a Greylaw. ....Whoops, that was Terra Ignota.
Favourite animal(s): Today’s vibe is the honeyguide, a species of wild bird has a mutualistic relationship with humans—it’s not domesticated, but it communicates with human hunters and leads them to beehives.
Current time: 7:50 PM (Pacific)
Dream job: I mentioned the Ongoing Identity Crisis? Whatever I do, I want to be really good at it but not so good that I get bored.
When did I make this blog: Spring 2014, just about 7 years ago (wow)
URL explanation: from wikipedia
Q: What is the gostak?
A: The gostak is what distims the doshes.
Q: What's distimming?
A: Distimming is what the gostak does to the doshes.
Q: Okay, but what are doshes?
A: The doshes are what the gostak distims.
Basically it’s a nonsense word that illustrates how you can do grammar to a word even if you have no idea what it means. When I’m being fake deep I say that it’s a reminder that you have no idea whether I know what the words I’m writing mean. Really, I like the way it sounds and it makes me very happy when people ask how my doshes are doing :D
Let’s tag, oh, @miseriathome, @siriusmistake, @dainesanddaffodils, @sonictruth, my favorite enemy @ducktoothcollection, and anyone who owns a rubber duck
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