(yes, I am working on an English paper, I swear)

...and noticing that not only did my smut scenes tend to be a bit abrupt (which had been mentioned, and is something I've worked to improve), but that I can be a bit continuity intensive.

Just because I have read every comic this character is in, or read three books and a number of academic papers on this topic, does not mean all of those details have to be in the resulting fic.

The iceberg theory of research really is something I could stand to take on board.

So I've got "Paint the Town Red" by Doja Cat stuck in my head. What about y'all?

Democracy Now: Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile.

I'm grateful for all the work she did, and all the people she inspired. I'm sorry she never got to go home. I don't know what she believed about death, but I hope she's home now.

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I've been engaging in fandom very little, but here's a couple things I really loved:

The Tailor by SoHeresDaThing
Fandom: The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Ben Grimm/Female Reader)
Word Count: WIP (34k and counting).
Rating: Mature
Summary: You were just a tailor. A nobody. An old friend of Sue's from college she happened to remember before her wedding. You'd helped her then, gotten them all fitted before the big day. That was... before everything. Now they were different. Now the world saw them different. And still, after it all, Sue's calling you again to come help her friend.
Notes: This is a WIP, but the author is updating regularly, so I think she's good for it. It's also readerfic, and if that's not your thing... maybe give it a try? There's no Y/N stuff, and the reader is more of a fully realised OFC than the ephemeral readers you get for say tumblr prompt fills, so this is basically a romance novel in second person. There's a plot and everything. The relationship is really sweet, and there's both lovely angst and a cool look at the team's life before the film.

As It Was by GlendyLucast
Fandom: The Pacific (Andy/Eddie)
Word Count: ART!
Rating: NSFW
Summary: A mini comic inspired by Hozier "As It Was" featuring my favorite pair from The Pacific.
Notes: I don't know the song, but this art is really really beautiful, and really really sad. Bang on for this pairing. Love it! (Apparently this got their tumblr banned, so it'd be extra nice to send them some love on AO3.)

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Is anyone else really enjoying the Deluxe* edition of Miley Cyrus' Something Beautiful? It's so 1980s and off kilter, like someone spun a Madonna album into slightly abstract electronica with a bunch of spoken word, but also kept some of the pop hits. Pitchfork complained that it's a "concept album without a concept" which is fair, but might also be why I like it so much.

The pop queens being into the 1980s is working for me, generally. We're getting it from Miley, Sabrina and Doja Cat this year, that I can think of off the top of my head.

RAYE's ramping up for a second album, and I don't know what to think. I love everything she does, of course, but there's no way she can/should try for the intensity of My 21st-Century Blues, and the singles so far seem like it's going to be more jazzy.


* I'm so tired of deluxe editions. This is why no one buys music anymore! You just roll out an album, and then days/weeks/months later there's the same album again but with more songs on it. What's the point? If you have more songs, and can't wait for the next album cycle, put out a fucking EP! It's not quite as obnoxious as the Album Part 1/Full Album Later thing, but it's still very annoying to me. I'm not blaming the artists, though, as I assume it's B.S. from the label.

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Me: I'm trying to manifest more time to read non-school stuff by getting novels from the library.
Brother: Is that working?
Me: No. Now I just have a pile of library books.

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I was really excited for the new season of Peacemaker, then haven't been watching it. Or anything else.