I Keep Writing Twelve/Missy For This Exchange, And It Keeps Amusing Me
22 September 2025 10:23![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astrogirlTitle: Maybe This Time
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters/Relationships: Twelfth Doctor/Missy
Rating: Apparently I rated it Teen, but it might not even merit that much.
Summary: Doctor/Master divorces: one. Annulments: several. Marriages: it seems even they've lost count. But, hey, at least this marriage wasn't their fault! Well, OK. It was only indirectly their fault.
Tags: Accidental marriage(s), Annulment(s), previous Doctor/Master divorce, Banter, Missy's time in the Vault, Humor, A little bittersweet at the end
Length: ~2600 words
Author's Notes: Written for natequarter for the Just Married exchange, for the absolutely delightful prompt suggestion of "accidentally got married yet again and are trying to annul the latest marriage, but can't get it done because all their other marriages keep on getting in the way."
Maybe This Time
📖 reading log: a trip of one’s own
22 September 2025 08:41tozkaBook Info
A Trip of One’s Own: Hope, Heartbreak, and Why Traveling Solo Could Change Your Life by Kate Wills (2021)
Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir, Travel
LibraryThing: https://www.librarything.com/work/28155352/
Acquired from: Little Free Library, [undisclosed location], USA
Started reading: September 19, 2025
Finished reading: TBD
Bookmark: California bookstore (came with book)
Notes
Page 0: I already travel solo extensively (in fact, full-time for years) but this seems more like a travel memoir than a how-to so I think it’ll be good to read.
She’s following the travels of one of the early travel writers, Egeria, who went on a pilgrimage which means visiting Israel and other nearby sites. In fact this author starts right off in Israel, just fyi.
( Read the rest of this entry » )Crossposted from Pixietails Club Blog.
đź“– reading log: the forest unseen by david george haskell
17 August 2025 12:14tozkaBook Info
Genre: Nonfiction, Natural History, Ecology
LibraryThing: https://www.librarything.com/work/11720259/t/The-Forest-Unseen-A-Years-Watch-in-Nature
Acquired from: Little Free Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA [see log]
Started reading: August 17, 2025
Finished reading: September 2 (DNF)
May come back to this later (in ebook version) but it’s not holding my attention and I don’t want to carry it around waiting for it.
Reading Updates
Title Page: This copy is signed by the author!
Page xii:
Indeed, the truth of the forest may be more clearly and vividly revealed by the contemplation of a small area than it could be by donning ten-league boots, covering a continent but uncovering little.
Page 8: Somebody did a lot of underlining in pencil but stopped after the second chapter. Guessing they DNF’d this, but I’m enjoying it so far. It reminds me of Seasons of the Wild but more satisfyingly science-y.
( Read the rest of this entry » )Crossposted from Pixietails Club Blog.
đź“ť weeknotes (sept. 14-20, 2025)
21 September 2025 14:32tozkaLife Updates
Well, that was a longer gap than I meant to do! From my last update to now:
- have left my Ann Arbor catsit
- flown to California to visit parents and sat in a SoCal heatwave for a week
- bought new suitcase, repacked items, swapped out clothes, etc.
- flew to new catsit in undisclosed location (in the Western part of the US, anyway)
- settled into new catsit for about a week, then
- became vaguely ill for a week and
- only now picked up laptop and felt energetic using it
I’ll do a more precise (friends-only) catsit update to introduce y’all to the new kitties, but overall I’m really enjoying this new location– though I miss the garden from Ann Arbor! I do have a balcony with a view of the river with an enormous amount of ducks here, though.
( Read the rest of this entry » )Crossposted from Pixietails Club Blog.
Fandom Fifty: #30
19 September 2025 20:59senmutHow many movies will I recall?
( Only 9? Well, 9 I care to write up )
Ray Vecchio Day
20 September 2025 13:48mific posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
dsvirtualbarRay Vecchio Day is almost upon us - 21st September!
The AO3 collection's here.
Mods, could we have a final subcollection for 2025 onwards please?
the new game that's held my attention best all year ...
18 September 2025 13:54taicharaYes, it's essentially what it says on the tin. With a slew of bodies from across the franchise. And a kickoff that, for a for-funsies fangame, was honestly a clip in the mouth and I'm actually really, really enjoying this.
Alas I will probably not trigger more than one gaiden chapter.
Alas it's only fourteen maps sans gaiden chapters.
There's probably a greater (~deeper~) observation or lesson or something in this fact somewhere, but I don't have the energy to be arsed to find it right now.
Two Sad Elf Fics, Coming This Fall to an AO3 account near you.
17 September 2025 17:12anneapocalypseWith Harsh Light at 81,318 words, and Gentle Dark at 91,740, I have two complete drafts in front of me.
I've been working on these two FFXIV fics for... something like a year and a half, I guess? Because all of my fic for Ariane (my player character) lives in one scrivener project and I've had that going basically since I created her, I don't have a file creation date to go on. I was going through an old journal recently and thought I found the page where I first jotted down the concept for this fic project, but that was only a little over a year ago and the word count spreadsheet I keep doesn't check out with that. Digging up some tumblr posts tells me I was probably first digging into it seriously in April 2024, and for that I think the word count from my spreadsheets checks out. Old dreamwidth entries tells me I had the concept in mind least as far back as December 2023 and was probably already jotting down some snippets as they came to me. April 2024 was also when I finished Endwalker, so it tracks that that's when I'd start working seriously on longfic.
Safe to say, I have been working on this for a lot of the past two years.
There is revising and editing and beta reading and more editing still to do, but it's WRITTEN! It's written!
Sad though they may be, I've enjoyed writing these so much. I'm really excited to share them when they're ready.
[Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans] Pieces
16 September 2025 07:35taicharaFandom: Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Characters: Gaelio Bauduin, Rustal Elion, Ein Dalton
Warnings: CNTW
Summary: Sometimes the pound of flesh being sacrificed is literal, plural, and repeated.
Comments: This could have been aeons longer and also is exactly as long as it needs to be; more to the point it's a long time coming, I suppose?
( Agony. )
*throws rice*
15 September 2025 18:03astrogirlAnd on top of that, someone as their entry did a podfic of my Disco Elysium story from a previous round, "Do, Did, Will." Which I'd really been looking forward to hearing ever since they asked me for permission to do it some time ago. And they did a great job with it! I especially like the voice they do for Harry, which very much evokes the one I imagine for him in my own head. You know, it's happened several times now, but I don't think I will ever, ever stop getting a huge kick out of people podficcing my stuff. Partly because it's always such a flattering surprise that anybody wants to do it, but also because listening to the result always feels like encountering my own stuff from the outside for the first time. Like, it's this thing that's just out there in the world and I sort of have to actively remind myself that, hey, I did that, I made that story exist! Which is bizarre-feeling and fascinating and cool.
fuck you IntSys
12 September 2025 11:30taicharaGood job IntSys!
Die in a fucking fire IntSys and take the shit that is Fodlan with you!
when you have too many Hero-Kings
9 September 2025 08:37taicharaThat's where polls come in!
What Marth FE should I play?
Dark Dragon And The Sword Of Light (Famicom, ancient ~15 yr fan translation)
1 (50.0%)
Dark Dragon And The Sword Of Light (Famicom, 2017 fantranslation)
0 (0.0%)
Dark Dragon And The Sword Of Light (Switch port, official translation)
1 (50.0%)
Mystery Of The Emblem, War of Shadows (Super Famicom, old fantranslation)
0 (0.0%)
Mystery Of The Emblem, War of Heroes (Super Famicom, old fantranslation)
0 (0.0%)
Mystery Of The Emblem, War of Shadows (Super Famicom, Heroes Of Light fantranslation)
0 (0.0%)
Mystery Of The Emblem, War of Heroes (Super Famicom, Heroes Of Light fantranslation)
0 (0.0%)
New Mystery Of The Emblem, War Of Shadows (Nintendo DS, fantranslation)
0 (0.0%)
New Mystery Of The Emblem, War Of Heroes (Nintendo DS, fantranslation)
0 (0.0%)
mostly-faithful fan remake of Dark Dragon, GameBoy Advance
0 (0.0%)
Archanea Remake, complete fan overhaul of Dark Dragon's plot in Dark Dragon's maps, remake, GameBoy Advance
0 (0.0%)
holy shit that's a lot of Marfs
1 (50.0%)
where's the OAVs or manga at
0 (0.0%)
*insane dragon screeching at lack of Shadow Dragon because I'm a sadist*
0 (0.0%)
Fire Emblem Engage
1 (50.0%)