A quickie this time! I started a crazy new job and am an assistant mod for Battleship (!), so I have limited brain for egregiously long DW posts.

Media Consumed

Conclave + Sinners

Talked about these here! Short version: enjoyed Conclave but not fannishly; loved Sinners fannishly and non-fannishly, I'm an unrepentant multishipping slut who loves secretly powerful twinks/fucked up codependent relationships/cunnilingus.

The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

I wanted to read the books before I watched the new show, and then I fell in love. Murderbot is a hilarious narrator and a delightfully snarky protector of stupid humans, and it keeps getting into terrible gooey physical peril that hits my whump buttons. This might be the fandom that gives me a wireplay kink.

Étoile

A bilingual Palladino show about ballet companies in Paris and New York that trade dancers and choreographers for a publicity stunt, leading to bickering and sexual tension and quippy pop culture dialogue. I loved the messy situationship between the forty-something many-divorced directors of the New York and Paris ballets. I loved the eco-terrorist star ballerina who terrorizes everyone she works with and sexually torments her male dance partners (and has a love triangle with the forty-something ballet directors). I loved the neurotic, autistic-coded, perfectionist, extremely irritating choreographer and the loudmouth working class male dancer he takes on as a muse.

Bones and All - Camille DeAngelis

The film adaptation was one of my favorite movies I watched last year, and the book is VERY different, in both plot and in theme. While the movie is blatantly bisexual and treats eaterism as a metaphor for queerness, the book is specifically about straight female sexuality: Maren is both attracted to and repulsed by boys showing sexual interest in her, and she deals with that attraction/repulsion by eating them. There's also a theme of attraction/repulsion around eating meat, which I probably wouldn't have noticed if I didn't know about the author's heavy-handed vegan messaging ahead of time. My main issue with the book is that it's technically YA, so all the grotesque erotic cannibalism in the movie is entirely vague and offscreen in the book.

Fics Posted/Gifts Received

I wrote one fic, a pinch hit for Smut 4 Smut:

Georgia O'Keefe Shit - Challengers, Art/Tashi/Patrick, garden party fundraisers and semi-public cunnilingus

I received one gift in the Diegetic Exchange:

Sitting Down with Sammie Moore by plutonianshores

An interview with blues legend Sammie Moore as he begins to take a step back from touring to focus on developing his music venue, Pearline's.

Exchanges Etc.

I picked up one pinch hit, signed up for and defaulted on one exchange, and tried and failed to write two fics for two low-pressure events. I also tried and failed to write Sammie/Pearline/Remmick on my own time, because the way to combat irritating shipwars is with rimming smut.

In Progress/Upcoming

I signed up to be an assistant spreadsheet mod for Battleship, which just hit its signup cap a few hours ago. I've never modded a fandom event before, and it's very intense and stressful and exciting! I like to think of myself as level-headed and calm in a crisis, so I think I can handle some freaked out exchange newbies. Wish me luck.