Ballad for Sue and Megan
Apr. 28th, 2026 12:30 am![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
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Obviously, sapphics like us get invested in our celebrated power couples â mostly because they are so rare. Sure, we have a good number of queer female celebrities in relationships with other women now. (Well, definitely more than 20 years ago, amirite kittens?) But very rarely are both partners equally famous. And, truly, no one was as well-matched accomplishment-wise as Sue and Megan. Both Olympic champions. Both world champions. I mean, it was the ultimate jock-4-jock situation. *Deep endless sigh*
I know, relationships are hard. I know. I hope they both find happiness again, apart. And that their separation has been as painless as possible. Even hearts are healthy as theirs break.
p.s. Donât even think about it Sarah and Holland. Do. Not.
Music For Your Monday: Tame Impalaâs âDraculaâ
Apr. 28th, 2026 12:47 amscalziwhatever_feed
I heard an absolute banger of an earworm this past week, and have been listening to it nonstop ever since. I want to bestow upon y’all Tame Impala’s new song, “Dracula.”
If you had asked me a week ago if I liked Tame Impala, I would’ve said I was completely indifferent about him and couldn’t even name a song from him. That is still true except for “Dracula.” This song is an absolute home-run of a bop, and there’s even a remix version with JENNIE which is also very good. Here’s both versions for your listening pleasure!
And the JENNIE version:
I have been debating which version I like better, and honestly it’s so hard to decide. I listen to both an equal amount, and both are great. Can’t go wrong with the original, but I love JENNIE’s ethereal voice and the harmonizing with Tame Impala.
My favorite part of the song is how they make “Dracula” rhyme with “spectacular.” Stellar stuff, really.
I hope you enjoy this bop, and that it helps you get movin’ and groovin’ through your next week!
-AMS
This Weekâs Weird Sideswipe by Current Events
Apr. 27th, 2026 08:22 pmscalziwhatever_feed
Apparently it’s true: The fellow who came to the Correspondent’s Dinner the other night with a bunch of weapons (and who, it should be noted, came nowhere near the president or anyone else in the ballroom), liked four Bluesky posts of mine in the last month. Which ones? I have no idea, although a cursory view of my last month of Bluesky posts shows nothing particularly spicy in a political sense. This does not surprise me, as I usually send all my really spicy political takes to Threads. Most of the last month of Bluesky posts for me were about JoCo Cruise, whacking on “AI,” photos of cats and Krissy, and talking about writing. Maybe this dude liked cat pictures? He’s arrested now and his Bluesky account is down in any event. We may never know.
My feeling about this is pretty much the same feeling I have about being in the Epstein Files: What the fuck, it’s not great, and also, it doesn’t actually have much to do with me, I’m mostly being sideswiped by this weird damn moment we’re in. I certainly don’t condone attempting to kill the president. Any president, and also, this one in particular. Among other things that would take away the fun of watching him one day rotting in prison along with the rest of his corrupt and horrible family and administration. Keep him alive! For justice!
I’m joking here about being on a federal watch list now, but I should be clear I’m pretty sure I already have an FBI file, and also that this FBI file is really super boring, so anything relating to this will almost certainly be funneled into that. I recently did an FOIA request for my file, so I suppose I will find out soon enough. In the meantime I’ll just have to imagine.
I’ve been informed that some of the folks associated with the Sad Puppies are trying to make hay of my tangential association to this fellow, which, I guess, they would, loud bad logic has always been their MO. My first thought is that when you’re related to an actual successful presidential assassin, a failed one liking your social media posts is weak sauce. My second thought was, huh, the right-wing chudguzzlers are whining about me again, whenever they do that something nice happens with my career, wonder what it will be this time. And indeed, today I got a foreign language offer on one of my books, which I happily accepted. It’s correlation, not causation, to be sure. But it sure does correlate a lot. So keep it up, right-wing chudguzzlers! We’re having our back deck rebuilt, I could use a few more foreign sales. Thanks in advance for your help.
— JS
Fiction
Apr. 27th, 2026 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkatT. Kingfisher, Illuminations: ( fun for younger readers )
Dessa, Tits on the Moon: ( poetry )
Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped: ( romance on set )
Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author: ( racialized posthumanism )
Kai Butler, Shadow Throne King: ( assassin's need )
T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater: ( western approaches )
Laura Elliott, Awakened: ( grumpy review of apocalypse premise )
Tasha Suri, The Isle in the Silver Sea: ( excellent fantasy about stories )
Jim Butcher, Twelve Months: ( the saga continues )
Ilona Andrews, This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me: ( isekai done just right for me )
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Set
Apr. 27th, 2026 11:20 amsmbc_comics_feed
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Why start with a confusing idea like zero, when you can refer to the notion of a something with nothing in it?
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Music Monday: Closer to Monday
Apr. 27th, 2026 12:30 amdorothysnarker_feedHonestly, if I had the opportunity to sing âCloser to Fineâ with Brandi Carlile I too would absolutely take it. I would also, of course, since it with Amy Poehler. And, not to be undone, naturally Amy and Emily have an open invite to collab as well. I might even tell them in which key. (Donât worry, I totally would, especially now for Emily.) Big lesbian singalong in 3-2-1âĶ Happy Monday, kittens.
3 Weeks for Dreamwidth - Writing offer & meme
Apr. 26th, 2026 01:22 pmpetra
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3weeks4dreamwidth -- prompt me for a drabble or a poem (probably a limerick) in a fandom or crossover of fandoms that I know, any time in the next three weeks, and ye shall receive!For those of you who have oft perused my fandom's list, the new entry is: T. Kingfisher's Paladins series, #1-3. I have not dug into the whole universe yet and I have #4 on hold from the library, but I got distracted when it took a while to come in.
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In honor of
3weeks4dreamwidth, a meme that sanguinity gakked from regshoe, who had it from goodbyebird:Reply to this post saying 'icon', and I will tell you my favourite icon of yours. Then post this to your own journal using your own favourite icon if you're one of those inhuman things that are actually capable of choosing between
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Regarding my favorite icon, which is the one I use Everywhere, I have finally gotten around to putting the source page's relevant bit on Dreamwidth:
I don't remember why I saturated it slightly more than the original art. I guess I needed the red to pop.
Tim is just So Heterosexual. Absolutely. Why would anyone ever think otherwise? Seriously, DC Editorial, took ya long enough.
Also, I cannot read that page without wanting Dick/Babs/Tim, and I cannot think of that threesome without thinking of
minoanmiss, so I guess now my default icon comes with heartache. That definitely doesn't mean I'm going to change it -- I know the grief will become more nost and less algia in time -- but right now, damn.Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quantum
Apr. 26th, 2026 11:20 amsmbc_comics_feed
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Later they go out for a superposition of chocolate and vanilla ice cream.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - End
Apr. 25th, 2026 11:20 amsmbc_comics_feed
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During the book tour of A City on Mars, I did a talk with Randall Munroe in NYC, and he made, impromptu, a better joke than any of us have committed to paper. During a discussion of whether you could eliminate all life on Earth for a reasonable price, a person asked if there might be a way you could specifically annihilate Queens. To which he replied, 'regicide?'
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Fic: The Feast of St. Olaf [SGA, Team, G, 3800 words]
Apr. 24th, 2026 11:42 amrunpunkrun
Author: Punk
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Team Sheppard
Rating: G
Content notes: No standard notes apply.
Size: 3,800 words
Summary: The hunting knife is twice the size of the fruit in his hand, but Ronon handles it with ease.
Read it on the AO3 or here »
( The Feast of St. Olaf )
An Anecdotal Observation About Career Longevity
Apr. 24th, 2026 05:27 pmscalziwhatever_feedAs most of you know I spent much of this last week in Los Angeles, taking meetings with film/TV folks and pitching things to them, both from books I’ve written and ideas I have currently not connected to something I published. The meetings generally went very well — which isn’t necessarily the same as I’m walking away with a movie deal, there’s a lot of moving parts involved with that — and I came away with a lot of interest in the things I pitched and movement as my manager sent along materials. I gave some thought on why these meeting generated as much interest as they did.
There are a number of factors for this, but the one I want to bring to the fore at the moment is this one: When I sit down with these film/TV people and run an idea or concept past them, they one hundred percent know that the idea I’m running past them is my own, not generated by or written out with, some version of “AI.” From a practical point of view this means they know there is no issue with things like copyright (“AI” generated work is not copyrightable, and rights issues are a big deal for film/TV). From a creative point of view this means they know I have actually thought about the concept I’m bringing to them — that I know it inside and out and can build it out, dig deeper into it, and can improvise with the concept rather than just go with whatever an LLM spits out from a prompt.
In other words, they know I can do actual creative work, from ideation to production, and they know when they work with me they’re not only getting an idea but they’re also getting the actual working brain behind it. That brain can efficiently work the problem, whatever the problem might be. In 2026, this is a real and actual differentiator: A functional brain, and a reliable creative partner. I rather strongly suspect the further along we go in this new era of “cognitive offloading,” the more of a differentiator this will be.
This isn’t an anti-“AI” post. It is a “the more other people claiming to be writers use ‘AI’ the more secure my gig gets” post. If you want to use “AI” to generate ideas or create your prose or whatever, by all means, be my guest. The next twenty years of my career thanks you in advance for your choices.
— JS
Yuletide request #1 for 2026
Apr. 24th, 2026 01:31 pmpetra
The original inspiration was "The Pushcart War set in Gotham City." I would take just about any year setting. The OG era. The social media version, complete with vigilantes with pea pin shooters.
jadelennox suggests that Alfred and General Anna are old besties, and I concur.But, in the grand tradition of my Yuletide requests, typing this up makes me realize how much I want this story in any fictionalized 'verse of which I am sufficiently knowledgeable.
The Rivers of London take sides! You know Lady Ty is for the truckers.
Mountie under suspicion! Benton Fraser seen with pea-tack shooter! Claims it is reusable straw. Is Big Red Green?
MÃĐlusine + trucks. Not necessarily including our protags from canon; the city is sufficiently a character to count for my purposes.
The Slow Horses investigate the pea-tack problem with their usual bumbling flair.
The Pushcart War was part of what spurred the Earth of the Expanse to implement UBI. Eh? Ehhhhh?
Manchester in 1973 is not maybe the best place, but London in 1981? Give me the Alex Drake peapin saga.
Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler III vs. trucks? :D If Palpatine can find time to reproduce, so can Throat.
