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A vid about the Marines. Clips from seasons one and two; spoilers.

(CW: guns, violence, smoking - the usual show stuff. No fast/stuttery cuts.)

Watch on YouTube

Music: Janelle Monae
Length: 2:48
Crossposted: On AO3

Download: 212 Mb MP4 (zipped)

morgynleri

Title: War, Vengeance, and Death
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
AU: Ofinn Börn
Word Count: 251
Category: Gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chose Not to Warn
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hulk POV, Possession, Don't Like Don't Read

Free of the ice, Hulk talks to Vali and Nari.

Posted: Squidge, AO3 (next week)

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lb_lee

This is a messy post about death and love.

( content warning: abuse. )

Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/22277.html

duckprintspress

This Sunday, A Big Gay Market is back in 2026 and back in Troy at the Mount Ida Preservation Hall from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. I’ll be among more than 30 vendors there with our awesome wares (vendor list here!). I hope you’ll come say hi if you’re in the area.

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archangelbeth

https://archangelbeth.dreamwidth.org/267795.html – 2005-10-19.
Cats are actually 8 weeks old, not 6 as I thought, and need to go back in on friday (well, 4 of them) so I can pick up their health certificates and have them have their first distemper shots.

<>[...] Friskie, Smoke, Black and White, Black, Black two, and Gray Boy [...].

Hey, little Black and White. Hey. August, 2025, yeah? 20 and a half years.
( grief grief grief )

weofodthignen

Mama Violet was extremely miffed when after putting down her breakfast, I went down the steps to get the newspaper instead of withdrawing into the house. It was hours before I saw her around again. No sighting of her kids, not even sitting on the fence or insouciantly devouring something under the car while I did some pruning, as Monty did yesterday ... until after my dinner, when I took out the recycling and they both materialised out of the dusk and sat side by side watching me. So they got provided with a plate of food.

cellio

I've known minoanmiss online for decades, and got to meet her in person twice. She turned fifty in January, and two weeks ago she had a fatal seizure. Complicated family stuff meant delaying saying anything in public.

MM had an infectious smile and took joy in sharing art, music, and food. She always had stickers to give to children she encountered when out and about, she cooked meals for her local food bank, and she spread drawings and poetry online and in tangible form. I have many postcards, holiday cards, and magnets with her work, and I've enjoyed many of her fruitcakes and confections. In a last act of giving, her organs gave life to three other people.

Due to an abusive past she struggled to see her own value sometimes. But she also saw the many friends who gathered around her and the unknown people she helped in the world, and I hope that that helped her get through rough times. There was a non-religious service on Friday (which I attended on Zoom) and an in-person memorial gathering today in Boston, and it stands out how many people from different circles were together in those places. There's going to be a virtual memorial on April 12; details will be shared later on the announcement list (signup link).

She was doing what she loved -- cooking -- when it happened, way too early. I miss her.

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little_details

Hi!

I have a character in a sci-fi universe who ends up "shipwrecked" alone on a completely uninhabited planet for two years. The planet, and the specific environment he lands in, are perfectly habitable by humans (we are in soft scifi territory here, very Star Trek inspired) and he's able to survive with some effort. (The details of how are not really important to the story - I know at least that he's the kind of guy who'd be able to salvage some tech and emergency supplies from his wrecked ship, and I'm comfortable with brushing past the details of what exactly he brought with him - but if anyone's really interested in coming at it from that logistical angle, I won't stop you!)

What is more relevant to the story is how this experience would continue to affect him by the time he's back home safely. I think there are a bunch of possible avenues here and I'd love to see people's takes on how they would approach this or approach researching it. For example, here are some of my cursory thoughts:

PTSD is certainly a likely long-term complication
It's implied that his shipwrecking was not an accident/was engineered maliciously - I imagine this is something he has dwelt on heavily throughout the two years and will affect his ability to trust people (and to visit other uninhabited planets in the future!). Seems like it would be easy to get caught in delusional spirals in a situation like that.
I know that prolonged isolation can cause hallucination/psychosis in some cases, especially in solitary confinement, sensory deprivation contexts, etc. Is that as much of a risk in this case? And if so, do you think he'd still be experiencing psychotic symptoms after the fact?
One of his personality traits is that he's fairly attention-seeking - I think it's likely this incident will exacerbate that and make him more desperate for connection
It'll probably alter how he approaches social situations in the future in general; that's something I'll definitely be thinking about
Perhaps he got into the habit of talking to himself on the planet, and this never went away

sorcyress

We're bad at everything. Let's write down the things we've done today:

Brushed hair

Braided hair

Ate Breakfast, also caught up on comics and even read a bit of Dreamwidth finally (I miss y'all, it's another symptom of the same Problem that is my brain right now.)

Unloaded dishwasher, reloaded dishwasher

Brought the load of laundry that's been in the dryer for three days upstairs finally (thanks Rey for basketing it, sorry to have left it)

Brought a bunch of laundry downstairs, started it (load two is just in the washer now, and load one in the dryer)

Switched my stuffies from their hamper into a steralite bin, eventually this will turn into like...one of those ottomans that opens up and you can store blankets (or stuffed animals) in but then it has a surface instead of being an amorphous blob sticking out of the top of a hamper, bonus, was able to use the hamper for my spare quilts/heavy blankets, double bonus, went through the stuffies a little and have some I can maybe give away.

Folded most of the laundry from that old load, while putting it away, successfully went through underwear drawer and pulled out the "good enough to keep but I'm not going to wear it regularly" stuff to put in the "save for Pinewoods" box

(At Pinewoods I would like to have approximately three pairs of underwear a day. If I do something absolutely batshit crazy this year, that will change, but I want to have the option to be able to wear clean underwear always.)

Also socks, pulled out a handful of pairs I don't like so I stop wearing them by accident and being all :/ about it, also pulled out all the pairs that I know have big holes (they're currently due for the trash, but I may put some into my scraps bag instead)

Got stuck in a serious yak shaving rabbit hole but I think I have finally managed to put the additional music I wanted onto my phone, and also I have taken off last year's photos, which is important because now my phone should run smoother? Anyways, that took forever but now I can listen to music while I do additional chores? Seems fake. I'm into it!

I also reset the "accessories" boxen, which technically go with socks --long stockings, tights, kilt hose and accessories, suspenders and belts, scarves/pashminas. It's been a while, so that was good.

I'm now sitting down to eat lunch. Laundry load two is on my bed upstairs to put away, load three is in the dryer, four in the washer. (I'm aiming for like...six? It wouldn't be so high, but a) I have been slipping on the "own more than one set of sheets so that you don't get trapped with an unmade bed by having all your sheets dirty at once" and so I need to catch up there *and* there's been some sort of funky smell in my t-shirts boxen for a couple months and I'm not sure what's up with that, but I think step one is probably just wash _all_ my t-shirts.

On the plus side, that latter problem doesn't seem to be anywhere in my dresser except my shirts, so that's a good sign? I guess? I mean, mostly it just means there's probably not, like, a dead mouse behind my dresser or something (a thing I would not be able to rationally deal with)).

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I wrote all of the above earlier. I've since finished all the laundry --it appears that the shirts no longer smell, so success-- and gone to demo team and hung out with Maia some, so all of that is quite good.

I couldn't maintain GOGOGO the entire day, but also like, I shouldn't have to? I shouldn't in general? It is important to do mindless fuckoff stuff as well as Srs Useful Stuff? Yeah.

I hope you are well. <3

~Sor
MOOP!

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Submitted by

paxislandsystem! Thank you,

paxislandsystem!

"You haven’t clicked on this song, you haven’t brought me along.
You just thought that you could clone yourself till nobody was wrong."

Blurb: Eclectic album written by various members of a plural system about relationship troubles, headmates fighting, and isolation.

Why is it worth your time?:
A number of songs get quite explicit about the nature of plurality and feeling incomplete, trapped, trying to stay in control, and longing for connection, as well as references to plural love in some form or another.

Plural Tags: abuse low-focus, plural creator, creator speaks from experience, fusion/integration or identityblending, fictioneers (many many many of them, but namely Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus and Glad0s from Portal come to mind, as well as presumably the other TADC and homestuck characters seen on the album cover), enmity, friendship

Content Warnings: headmate conflict, isolation, identity troubles

Accessibility Notes: Available (with screenreadable lyrics) on bandcamp in English for five dollars and a limited amount of free streaming, as well as in the form of a lyric video on YouTube published by the artist.

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Submitted by

ghost_ship! Thank you,

ghost_ship!

i've been here 'fore you knew me
a name without a body
we both know what we've been through
my darling, my companion
don't think, just let me shine through
more than your comprehension
i hope you know i love you

Blurb: Constant Companions is an energetic and unabashedly sincere album exploring connection and love. Along with Jamie Paige's own vocals. it features the vocal synths ANRI, Kasane Teto, Megpoid Gumi, Solaria, and Adachi Rei. And there's leitmotifs. And trans themes. And yuri.

Why it it worth your time?: Jamie Paige uses a mix of her own vocals along with vocal synths to represent relationships between her parts in a cool way! The songs most explicitly about her plurality are really sweet and heartfelt. The sense of constancy and connectedness is a major theme in the album, and the inspiration for it's name.

Plural/1+ Tags: abuse low-focus (only in "Object of Affection," where the monarchs use magic to suppress the will of their "prince"), creator speaks from experience, relationships intimate, romantic, and teamwork, type median and medical, voices

Content Warnings: ROT FOR CLOUT involves the blurring line between self and commodity and the deep emotional strain stemming from that. Cadmium Colors and Clouddrop are about suicidal ideation (Though they do end on hopeful notes!). Object of Affection is an allegorical tale of parents suppressing their trans child's identity.

Accessibility Notes: The album (with full screenreadable lyrics) is on Bandcamp! Unfortunately the CD and vinyl editions are sold out. Also can be listened to for free on various streaming platforms.

Misc. Notes: Jamie Paige has talked publically about her experience with OSDD in her behind-the-scenes posts about Breeze Blows and My Darling, My Companion.

There's 17 tracks (70 minutes total): 1. Dyad 2. Not Quite There (with telebasher) 3. ROT FOR CLOUT 4. I Wish That I Could Fall 5. Cadmium Colors 6. Breeze Blows (with Marcy Nabors & Marlow Jacobs) 7. Aggrandicize 8. Liaison 9. Object of Affection 10. Clouddrop 11. My Darling, My Companion 12. Machine Love 13. BIRDBRAIN (with OK Glass) 14. Shiny Chariot 15. Strawberry 16. Manifesto 17. Dance Delightful

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Submitted by

erinptah! Thank you,

erinptah!

"Steven and Jake are part of your Hive. In whatever form, whatever body. Just like that, we understand."

Blurb: Marc Spector is used to voices in his head. He’s used to waking up disoriented, unsure what his alters, Jake and Steven, might have been up to. He’s used to having an Egyptian god command him as Moon Knight, his avatar of justice and revenge. What he’s not used to: staring into the face of a literal, out-of-body doppelganger.
Another Marc, crash-landed from an alternate reality, begging for help? Yeah, that is a new one, even for him.
But before he can really process anything beyond Khonshu’s incessant alarm bells, it becomes clear this other Marc didn’t travel solo...

Why is it worth your time?: Moon Knight has always been Marvel Comics' most-successful attempt to write a superhero with DID, and this spinoff novel (set in a universe similar to the main comics) is a worthy addition to the effort. Not only does the writer remember that Steven and Jake exist, he gives them roughly equal page time with Marc, and is clearly coming from a perspective of "all these characters are equally valid/important/interesting."
They're also dealing with Venom (a bodyjacking alien symbiote made of black goo, itself part of a Hive Mind), and Khonshu (the shouty Egyptian god who spends a lot of time in their head). The world-saving superhero plot is set up in a way that gives each of their personal strengths a chance to shine, and their shared experiences help the team-ups work, in spite of their varying levels of messiness and dysfunction. It's a fun time.

Plural/1+ Tags: abuse low-focus, bodyhopping, cofronting, otherworld, relationships: family, relationships: teamwork, type: medical, type: spiritual, type: possession, type: switching. Does "Marvel-typical multiverse stuff" count as realitymashing? If yes, that too.

Content Warnings: Genre-typical fighting and violence. Non-consensual body possession (canon-typical for Venom). Reference to abusive treatment at a psychiatric hospital. Character death (canon-typical for Moon Knight). Further warnings have SPOILERS! See comments.

Accessibility Notes: Recent and mainstream book, I got the hardcover from my library. Ebook and audiobook versions are available.

Misc. Notes (if any): To keep the cast list manageable, the writer knocks out one of each headmate for most of the book, so Local Marc and Visiting Steven+Jake are the ones left to handle the plot. (Chapter POVs alternate between those three, and Venom.) It's a little hacky, but it works, and each trio gets a nice reunion before the end.
I wrote a much more detailed review/reaction of the book here.

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"Raj... I... have never fucked as Shivalree before. Like... I do it alone... jerk off with it turned on... but I have never done it with someone else."

Blurb: (from the ebook listing) A pair of rookie “Creative” Fighters–artists with the ability to physically manifest their varied creativity as superpowers–square off in a Creative Fighting Championship underbracket 2v2, wherein they develop a taste for one anothers’ abilities. In the locker room afterwards they explore other applications for what they can do.

Why is it worth your time?: This is a case where we are using "median" because upon multiple rereads, it is fascinating seeing the unspoken interplay between Randall and Shivalree; panel by panel, you can see which is speaking or emoting, and it's subtle and fascinating to watch, Randall's "eeee, I'm getting laid!" excitement contrasted against Shivalree's swagger. In a non-porn but related comic, Every Hole #1: Randall, you see Randall's friend Alix unable to unlock Squidlock (who not only has different body language, expressions, and possibly gender, but also a completely different monster body) and in deep depression due to it. It's unclear just how separate the fighting personas are from the performer, but clearly being able to access them is a big part of being happy and okay. Also, the way this comic uses color is gorgeous.

Plural/1+ Tags: abuse not mentioned, cofronting, identityblending, realitymashing, median

Content Warnings: It's porn!

Accessibility Notes: Available in ebook and paper versions (at least for now; it's trans queer porno so who knows how long that'll last). Not screenreadable.

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apiphile

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republicans-now-transvestigating-erika-kirk-172702434.html?guccounter=1 I realise that groups of people have been insane for most of human history and the madness of crowds is like, an eternal thing. But at the same time: can we just like not.

"That both Sweeney and Kirk are now targets speaks to how mainstream and almost apolitical transphobia has become on the internet."

Girl I hate to tell you this but bigotry is by definition political, it's just that you think "political" and "partisan" are the same word.

“Transvestigation is premised on stereotypes of trans women as freakish, deceptive and untrustworthy,” he told HuffPost.

Yeah maybe we could address this fucking assumption first.

The viral tweet questioning Sweeney’s gender happened not long after she gained 30 pounds and underwent intense physical training for “Christy,” a biographical sports drama about the 1990s boxer Christy Martin. Some Sweeney fanboys were put off by her transformation, which may have inspired some of the “she’s a man” insults.

"I don't want to fuck her" = "she's trans". Ugh. Just reinforcing the idea that all women, cis and trans, exist to be sexual objects.

As Lux said, “The far right explicitly wants women to pursue submissive lifestyles. It doesn’t matter how ‘pro-far-right’ a woman is; if she is in a position of power or success, she is not fulfilling the role they’ve prescribed her.”

(Samantha Lux is a "trans activist" according to HuffPo).

https://archive.is/20260315103248/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-food-scene/the-real-cost-of-a-meal-at-noma (if the archive link has expired by the time you get to this, just select the sub URL [the bit that starts https: which is part of the main URL but not at the beginning] and take it to archive.ph to paste in there.)

tl;dr René Redzepi is a massive cunt even by head chef standards.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91507096/jessica-foster-popular-maga-influencer-ai-model the UK, meanwhile, has an AI white "rapper" who is, of course, a massive racist mouthpiece created by an agency.

plans for the week ahead:

Monday: I need to get my new passport photo taken at the post office so I can fling another hundred quid into a black hole by applying for a new passport before the old one expires; submit a clutch of stories; do the rewrites of the ending of my story for the anthology and send the file back to the editor.
Tuesday: Going to see Alex & Alex's teenager
Wednesday: The Pig's Head Procession by the Worshipful Company of Butchers, at Butchers Hall, and a free poetry reading at the Betsey Trotwood in the evening. Whether I manage to make either of these is debatable.
Thursday: just successfully twisted psych ward friend's arm and we're going to try to get pizza from the pizza pub place again now that we actually know when it opens.
Friday-Sunday: Calendar empty, although I have a recurring reminder to go take my notes to the British Library in an attempt to brute-force myself to work on the book plot.

https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/03/15/bentu-just-built-furniture-from-cities-that-no-longer-exist/ that is a really pretentious way of saying "rubble"

https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/03/14/the-zipper-is-the-button-finally/ cute i guess

https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/03/14/a-student-made-the-most-honest-chair-of-the-year/ "honest" what the fuck are you talking about

https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/03/13/this-99-water-jet-remotely-cleans-your-cars-backup-camera-without-you-leaving-your-seat/ accessibility thing i guess but sometimes i'm just exhausted by car culture

https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/03/13/this-brutalist-lounge-chair-is-3d-printed-from-recycled-water-bottles/ more chair nonsense. month in, month out, yanko is obsessed with chairs.

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mdlbear

Note: I haven't had more than a short nap in over 36 hours. So this is going to be a really short and possibly incoherent post.

The main thing this week was my (short) trip to the US -- first solo transatlantic flight. Far easier than I'd been afraid it would be. The bank errands didn;t get run, but I got to the Wednesday grief group gathering in Third Place Commans, got my driver's license renewed (and had a nice long chat with MG from the Tuesday group, while she drove me down to the DOL in Tukwilla), and had lunch with my kids on my (79th) birthday. The sushi place was closed, but we went next door and had ramen and pork buns.

I took Lilac, and got everything done that needed to be done, but it was a struggle. Some scattered commentary below. There are links below but you'll have to dig them out yourself -- I'm going to bed. With my cats.

( Notes & links, as usual )

Current Mood: don't know. mostly underslept
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag
Current Music: earworms from watching Fantasia on the plane

hamsterwoman

So, L and I went to see Hoppers at the movies on Thursday. The premise sounded very stupid to me when I first heard about it, but L had showed me the “lizard lizard lizard lizard” teaser some months ago, and the lizard looked cute, and L wanted to see it by RH was not interested in seeing it with her, so I said I would. I watched Dan Murrell’s review of it with some trepidation, but he said it was a good, though “lesser” Pixar, with a good message but not too preachy, which seemed relatively reassuring. And both L and I ended up enjoying it more than we expected and laughing A LOT, which was nice.

We saw it in 4DX, which was my first experience of that at feature length – ( more on this part )

In fact, the only time the chair-jolting part became really unpleasant was during ( the previews )

The movie itself was fun! ( More, with marked spoilers )

It’s not a movie that will stay with me in some, you know, profound way, like an Encanto or an Inside Out or a Spider-Verse, but it was cute and a time well spent! I even don’t terribly resent it for costing us $33/person XD (though, seriously, that is insane).

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I also watched a couple of comedy specials:

Pierre Novellie Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things special – about his autism diagnosis via heckler. I liked Novellie when he appeared on How Do You Cope, talking about his autism, and enjoyed him as a guest on Elis & John, in more free-form conversation, and then

scytale recommended this special, so I watched it (because I couldn’t get into Netflix for some reason, and B, whose email it’s linked to, was asleep in Normandy, so I couldn’t watch the James Acaster specials I was planning to watch with my solo dinner at home). ( I liked it (some joke spoilers) )

And then I was watching his other special on YouTube, Quiet Ones, and there is a bit he reads from a paper (because he finds it too boring to remember) about Moore’s Law XD I mean, what are the odds XD XD This show was from 2021, so a lot of it is about the lockdown, and I generally thought it was less strong (which makes sense, you would expect an artist to get better at his art as he practices it more), but I did appreciate the “quiet ones” bit, among the differences between men and women, after which the show is (justly) named.

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Some more Taskmaster-adjacent content:

- CoC 4 portrait fanart -- what a gloriously mad bunch! :D (cartoon!Andy is my favorite)

- Another Taskmaster Podcast popped up for the second live event in NYC (the last night of the tour). There was some repetition of stuff I heard Greg say on other stops or other interviews, but still some fun gleanings. ( Assorted tidbits )

Long Alex & Greg interview during the US tour (YouTube): Fun and thoughtful, with some unusual questions and good rapport. ( Assorted tidbits )

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I think it's also time for an Elis & John catch-up. It’s been a bit over a month since my last post, but really, because it took me about a month to get through the previous catch-ups, over 3 separate posts, I’ve actually got over two months worth of listening I’m catching up on – i.e. 2 months of new shows and about 7 months of Radio X backlog.

First, a visual bit: John and a giant teddy (from ~10 years ago?)

Second, John was on Chris and Rosie Ramsey’s “Shagged, Married, Annoyed” podcast earlier this year, where the schtick with the guest is he reads a listener-submitted story, which of course I don’t have much interest in, but he also talked about some personal stuff in more detail than I’ve heard elsewhere. (The recording was from about 6 months earlier than the podcast, so, mid-2025-ish, because How Do You Cope was actively putting out episodes and John said he’d been sober for 2.5 years, when he passed three years in November 2025.) ( Personal tidbits: giving up meat, spooky bum procedure )

Catching up on the current shows, ( Jan - Mar 2026 )

(I do also have ~8 months of Radio X shows to post about, but that's going to be a separate post -- hopefully it all fits in one, LOL.)

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And oh hey, it's mid-March somehow, so this is probably a good time to check in on my ( fannish goals )