HELLO 2018
Jan. 14th, 2018 08:08 pmI've answered all my comments and I've read my flist and I've done some housework and cooking, so I'm feeling a bit more grounded than I have recently. So now I feel okay to make a post.
Real Life Things
( This got long: sunburn, beautician, eye exam, sick cat but he gets better, cooking )
Fannish Things
For Yuletide, I wrote Murderbot Diaries, for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
muccamukk, which was enormous fun both because Mucca is great, and because Murderbot is awesome. (If you haven't read it, but you like stories about cranky AI-types, I highly recommend it: The Murderbot Diaries)
I'll post the fic here soonish but this is it:
Handshake Protocol (8651 words) by st_aurafina
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams, The Middleman (TV), Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), C-3PO (Star Wars), R2-D2 (Star Wars), Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ida (The Middleman), Marvin (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Data (Star Trek), Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen | Breq
Additional Tags: Crossover, Travel, Time Travel, 5 Things, Grumpy AIs, Elevator Music, This is not a hero's journey okay
Summary:
-sholio is running a Dark Matter exchange, while the love is still strong after cancellation. There's a comm, ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
we_are_the_raza, and a planning post, here. This isn't a fandom of mine, but sholio's exchanges are good (ssrconfidential, for Agent Carter, was heaps of fun) so I'm signal boosting for any Dark Matter fans on my flist. (And I really need to watch this; I've seen the first few eps, but it kind of fell off my radar.)
-lilacsigil watched her first episode of Brooklyn 99 today! She has chronic vertigo, and the single camera style of the show is impossible for her to watch. She bravely told me to watch and enjoy it without her. ("Go on without me!" she said. "I'll only hold you back!") I desperately wanted her to know the wonder that is Captain Raymond Holt, so today we tried watching it on the small screen of my tablet, and she managed it relatively easily. This bodes well for the first season of the Exorcist, which is wobbly but not quite as bad as Brooklyn 99. The second season is a little steadier, so far (we're at 2.03 now) but I don't trust it not to get wobbly as soon as Tomas and Marcus get to the place where this season's case will be. (Their scenes are definitely the wobbliest.)
- Speaking of vertigo, I have been playing Slime Rancher, and whooah, I can't handle first person shooter-style gaming. I have to play it in ten minute bursts or I get travel sick. And it's killing me, because the game is so cute! The slimes are ridiculous! Ugh, brains and perception. So messed up.
Linkspams
Media
Is Wendy From 'Mindhunter' A Real Person? Criminal Profiling Isn't Just For Men
This is an older link, and I'm not sure where I picked it up, but it's really interesting.
History
21-Year Old WWII Soldier’s Sketchbooks Reveal a Visual Diary of His Experiences
Just really beautiful and sparse, and sad. (CN: there's a sketch of a dead body in here, with some blood. It's not realistic, but it is intense, or I found it so.)
Health:
Black Triangle Scheme
Apparently these black triangles are going to be showing up on Australian medications, as part of a scheme to increase recording of adverse reactions. It's a bit ominous, though, right? I mean, that's going to increase anxiety straight up.
Updating medicine ingredient names - list of affected ingredients
Also from the TGA, and annoying as all hell, we're going to be standardising medication names to US terminology. Which is all fine and intuitive if we're talking about frusemide becoming furosemide or cyclosporin to ciclosporin, but amethocaine to tetracaine? That's going to be confusing. And bee venom to honey bee venom is just wrong. We don't call them honey bees over here. People are going to get wires crossed. At least adrenaline is staying, and (presumably) paracetamol.
Craft (Okay, it's mostly crochet)
Crochet Microwave Finger Gloves
lilacsigil, looking over my shoulder: Is that a kink thing?
Me: I'm... not sure.
Avocado collar
This is a paid crochet pattern, but it's AMAZING.
Fibre Burn Chart
For all my pyromaniac friends, not justlilacsigil: it helps you identify an unknown fibre by setting it on fire and observing its behaviour. Odour of celery? Nylon. Open lace-like ash? Weighted silk. (The author of the chart says I keep one in the sewing room and one in my purse with collapsable scissors and a lighter in an old candy tin -- portable burn test kit!)
nb: A portable burn test kit does not make a for good legal defense.
And hello to new people from the Post-Reveals Yuletide Friending Meme!
Real Life Things
( This got long: sunburn, beautician, eye exam, sick cat but he gets better, cooking )
Fannish Things
For Yuletide, I wrote Murderbot Diaries, for
muccamukk, which was enormous fun both because Mucca is great, and because Murderbot is awesome. (If you haven't read it, but you like stories about cranky AI-types, I highly recommend it: The Murderbot Diaries)I'll post the fic here soonish but this is it:
Handshake Protocol (8651 words) by st_aurafina
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams, The Middleman (TV), Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), C-3PO (Star Wars), R2-D2 (Star Wars), Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ida (The Middleman), Marvin (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Data (Star Trek), Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen | Breq
Additional Tags: Crossover, Travel, Time Travel, 5 Things, Grumpy AIs, Elevator Music, This is not a hero's journey okay
Summary:
Murderbot doesn't want to be a hero or take part in someone's incredible journey. Why does it keep bumping into people who think it will?
-
sholio is running a Dark Matter exchange, while the love is still strong after cancellation. There's a comm, we_are_the_raza, and a planning post, here. This isn't a fandom of mine, but sholio's exchanges are good (ssrconfidential, for Agent Carter, was heaps of fun) so I'm signal boosting for any Dark Matter fans on my flist. (And I really need to watch this; I've seen the first few eps, but it kind of fell off my radar.) -
lilacsigil watched her first episode of Brooklyn 99 today! She has chronic vertigo, and the single camera style of the show is impossible for her to watch. She bravely told me to watch and enjoy it without her. ("Go on without me!" she said. "I'll only hold you back!") I desperately wanted her to know the wonder that is Captain Raymond Holt, so today we tried watching it on the small screen of my tablet, and she managed it relatively easily. This bodes well for the first season of the Exorcist, which is wobbly but not quite as bad as Brooklyn 99. The second season is a little steadier, so far (we're at 2.03 now) but I don't trust it not to get wobbly as soon as Tomas and Marcus get to the place where this season's case will be. (Their scenes are definitely the wobbliest.) - Speaking of vertigo, I have been playing Slime Rancher, and whooah, I can't handle first person shooter-style gaming. I have to play it in ten minute bursts or I get travel sick. And it's killing me, because the game is so cute! The slimes are ridiculous! Ugh, brains and perception. So messed up.
Linkspams
Media
Is Wendy From 'Mindhunter' A Real Person? Criminal Profiling Isn't Just For Men
This is an older link, and I'm not sure where I picked it up, but it's really interesting.
History
21-Year Old WWII Soldier’s Sketchbooks Reveal a Visual Diary of His Experiences
Just really beautiful and sparse, and sad. (CN: there's a sketch of a dead body in here, with some blood. It's not realistic, but it is intense, or I found it so.)
Health:
Black Triangle Scheme
Apparently these black triangles are going to be showing up on Australian medications, as part of a scheme to increase recording of adverse reactions. It's a bit ominous, though, right? I mean, that's going to increase anxiety straight up.
Updating medicine ingredient names - list of affected ingredients
Also from the TGA, and annoying as all hell, we're going to be standardising medication names to US terminology. Which is all fine and intuitive if we're talking about frusemide becoming furosemide or cyclosporin to ciclosporin, but amethocaine to tetracaine? That's going to be confusing. And bee venom to honey bee venom is just wrong. We don't call them honey bees over here. People are going to get wires crossed. At least adrenaline is staying, and (presumably) paracetamol.
Craft (Okay, it's mostly crochet)
Crochet Microwave Finger Gloves
lilacsigil, looking over my shoulder: Is that a kink thing? Me: I'm... not sure.
Avocado collar
This is a paid crochet pattern, but it's AMAZING.
Fibre Burn Chart
For all my pyromaniac friends, not just
lilacsigil: it helps you identify an unknown fibre by setting it on fire and observing its behaviour. Odour of celery? Nylon. Open lace-like ash? Weighted silk. (The author of the chart says I keep one in the sewing room and one in my purse with collapsable scissors and a lighter in an old candy tin -- portable burn test kit!)nb: A portable burn test kit does not make a for good legal defense.
And hello to new people from the Post-Reveals Yuletide Friending Meme!