today in movement

May. 21st, 2026 11:24 pm
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Pilates on the terrace: delightful, except that every time I stopped weighing the mat down with my personal body (due to, for example, lifting up a limb to wave it around) the wind started folding it back up under me.

Pilates more generally: realised today that in addition to normally doing clam and hip stretches at the end of Pilates, and the current Hip Trouble having started after a couple of weeks of not managing that part of the routine because I was only getting as far as doing my bare minimum get-on-the-mat-and-breathe... a whole bunch of the movements incorporate, essentially, sciatic nerve glides. There's another entry to the list of But What Has Pilates Ever Done For Us...

Meanwhile I am out of routine and therefore also eating less protein than I've been managing upcountry, and o have just for the first time since the initial DOMS wound up with post-gym soreness. I have a horrid feeling that my medium term future might contain protein powder; in the short term, dinner was heavy on eggs and tofu.

And, regarding DOMS, last night's "... huh" was about the (extent of) overlap of symptoms and progression with those of post-exertional malaise. This is not yet a fully-formed thought, but it's definitely trying to be a thought. (As part of the theme of "a whole bunch of the experiences of disabled people around embodiment actually do form a continuum with those of the temporarily able bodied, and so do management strategies".)

An old favorite

May. 21st, 2026 05:59 pm
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Seems like a good time to share (again) this bit of fic -- Firefly crossed over with the Book of Ruth. Though I can't quite get my head around the fact that it's 15 years old, it's still a pretty good story. :D


רות בגחלילית / Ruth on a Firefly (3783 words) by Kass
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Firefly, Hebrew Bible
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Malcolm Reynolds / Ruth
Characters: Ruth, Naomi, Malcolm Reynolds, Simon Tam, River Tam, Kaylee Frye, Jayne Cobb, Inara Serra
Additional Tags: Community: in_the_beginning, Shavuot
Series: Part 6 of Author's Favorites, Part 4 of Firefly fanworks
Summary:

"I see you found us a couple of wounded birds," the man says to Kaylee. The words are dismissive but his tone is kind.

"They're headed for Judah," Kaylee says. "And they're broke."

and he goes down swinging

May. 21st, 2026 05:58 pm
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Still with the don't wannas, but for once our All Staff call was mostly interesting (though it never fails to baffle me that people put their requests for different soda in the vending machine in the anonymous complaint form instead of just asking the office manager dude about it - as I said to my boss, no questions about COLAs but always questions about colas, which evoked a real out loud laugh from her so you know, score) and I got the 2 main things I had to do this week done, so tomorrow can just be waiting around for other people to send me their meeting materials (I loathe how they have no consideration for me and my summer Friday sign-off at 2:30 pm, but the C-suite level folks are always like that).

In other news, now I am not seeing Baby Miss L this weekend, because the weather is supposed to be rainy and chilly, so the party was postponed till next weekend. It's fine. I have gotten some lovely videos and pictures of her dancing at a wedding she attended last weekend, and that will suffice for now.

So Tuesday night, I turned off the Knicks game while they were down by double-digits in the 4th quarter and went to bed. Imagine my surprise to learn that they had tied it up and then won in OT! Let's hope they can win in regulation tonight.

And finally, I knew Mike Keenan was a piece of shit, but there's some stuff in this article about the 1994 Rangers (gift link) that I did not know. Interesting read. They won then and haven't since, so I guess it might really have to last a lifetime.

Now I have to figure out what to have for dinner. I guess it could be quesadillas again. Idk.

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The Girl in Red, by Christina Henry

May. 21st, 2026 02:52 pm
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A very loose take on "Little Red Riding Hood," set in modern times post-apocalypse!

Cordelia, nicknamed Red because she hates her given name and always wears a red hoodie, is the sole survivor of her family. She's traveling the post-pandemic wilderness to get to her grandmother's house in the woods, armed only with an axe. She's used a prosthetic leg since losing one in a car crash when she was a child, so people underestimate her. They shouldn't.

The story alternates between her post-pandemic journey and the events leading up to it, when Red lived with her mom (a Black college professor), her dad (white, I forget his job) and her older brother Adam. Red is about 20, Adam is about 22; they're both college students. Red is extremely into horror movies and preparing for danger, so she sees the urgency of the pandemic well before most people. Unfortunately, that's not enough to save her parents and brother.

I was absolutely glued to this book, staying up past midnight to finish it, despite its many flaws. If you, like me, enjoy a small scale apocalypse story with a focus on the logistics of survival, this is a must-read. The logistics of survival bits are GREAT.

It's repetitive (HOW many times do we need to be told that Red can't run fast because she has a prosthetic leg?), everything is over-explained, Red is somehow able to use a small axe to kill multiple men armed with guns (all at once in addition to sequentially!) despite having no training, and the ending is incredibly abrupt and has more loose ends than a half-finished sweater. I cannot believe the author's chutzpah in setting up all sorts of fascinating mysteries only to have Red conclude that she's not the main character (what?) and so no longer cares that she'll never know the answer to any of them. Okay, but I care!

And yet, I enjoyed the hell out of it, right up to the non-ending. I am just a sucker for people searching for beef jerky in looted supermarkets and rescuing kids.

Spoilery details.

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Halfway through this book, I was looking up all of Henry's other books, which are horror or thrillers, many dark fairytale retellings, so I could read them all. When I got the end, I looked up their reviews. Many mention "abrupt" endings and none of the rest are post-apocalyptic, which was by far the best part of the book, so I will probably leave my reading of her books right here.

The Evil Ganon™

May. 21st, 2026 04:29 pm
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In my current playthrough of Tears of the Kingdom, I finally got to that one sidequest (the one at Snowfield Stable) where Link has to go fetch Zelda's golden horse after it ran away. It turns out that the poor horse was spooked by Ganon while he was doing his princess cosplay.

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Title: Wein of Highlands Gave Battle in Vain
Fandom: Dragon Force
pairings: Goldark/Wein
Rating: slash/PG-13
warning: age difference, dubious consent, surrender kink


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Title: Cowley's Late
Fandom: The Professionals
Rating: Teen and up
Length: 350
Content notes: None
Author notes: None
Summary: Bodie and Doyle are waiting for Cowley but Cowley is late

Read here )
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Legend of Mana

Gilbert's new song: Oh, baby I'm gettin' hard! So hard for you, baby!
gilbert: love is blind (legend of mana)

Finished the Legend of Mana remaster last weekend! It was unexpectedly gay. The straight love triangle was bland, the straight + serial-monogamist centaur ended up single (I really liked how it was friends-to-lovers-to-friends from the siren's PoV), the clinically (and relatably) depressed boy and his tirelessly optimistic partner were extremely moving... and finally... the lesbians. The lesbians were a knight/priestess you-and-me-against-our-entire-clan storyline with a touch of yandere-ness and genderfluidity. They were the game's most important arc too and they have you going through so much Plot and tragedy before revealing that actually this is a love story.

Anyway, more thoughts here and more photos of my physical journal pages here.


The Legend of Tian-ding


In today's episode of impulse buying (the perils of browsing the discounted section of the Nintendo eshop...), I've picked up The Legend of Tianding, a 2D platformer set in Dadaocheng, Taipei under the Japanese occupation. You play the (real-life) Taiwanese folk hero Liao Tian-ding, a hot-blooded young rebel who steals from the rich, shares with the poor, and, well, gives Japanese soldiers who get in his way a thorough thrashing. Incidentally I'm also playing the murder mystery game Murders on the Yangtze River, which occurs in roughly the same time period (early 1900s), so I feel like I'm getting a more comprehensive historical education. XD

The spoken language in The Legend of Tianding is Taiwanese Hokkien. I can only understand around 10 words, but it's nice to hear in a videogame. I'm playing on story mode (which the game calls "Gentleman Thief" mode) but it's still a struggle for me. 😂 The design and interface are very nice to look at and the cutscenes have a dynamic comicbook-like style. I've uploaded some screencaps and GIFs here.
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The last of my 2019's fics! This is a smutty BatCat one-shot I wrote for a fic exchange.

This story was inspired by —but not compliant with— Batman #392 ("A Night on the Town"), but it's not necessary to know it to read the fic. However, I'll say it's a fun stand-alone piece any shipper should check out. The basic premise is that Bruce and Selina, in costume, try to have a nice date night in Gotham, but they keep having to interrupt it to stop various crimes.

The title comes from an awful, awful joke on said comic: Bruce jokingly asked Selina to scratch his back, and she replied "What? No itches in the front?". It cracked me up ofc, so there you have it: awful sex pun for a title. It's only fitting.

Title: itches in the front.
Fandom: DC comics (Batman).
Character/Pairing: Bruce Wayne/Selina Kyle.
Rating/Warnings: E, sexual content.
Summary: Trying to have a date night in Gotham as a masked man went about as well as Bruce should've predicted. But maybe there's a way things can still be salvaged.
Word count: 1.2k.

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Bruce ignored the weight at the bottom of his stomach, telling him he'd missed his window of opportunity. As the night came closer to the sunrise by the second, his mind replayed each and every time he’d started enjoying himself that night –only for the next perp to appear. It was such an unsubtle condensation of the entirety of his life it didn’t deserve the word metaphor. He knew he was just dragging out his return to the Manor, walking side by side with Selina.

She seemed to have a different idea. With a determined set of her mouth, she grabbed his gloved hand again, and asked him to follow her –“yes, always, please”, seemed to be his default response to that— directing him to the nearby park. Selina stopped them under a lush tree, hiding them from the outside world; though still nighttime, the faint first sun-rays of the day had begun filtering through the leaves.

When Selina looked up to him, her purple cowl framed a barely visible twitch in the corner of her smile that made Bruce’s breath get caught in his throat. She set her palm against his face, gentle, and stood on her tiptoes to kiss him.

It was the kiss he’d anticipated the entire night. The kiss he’d followed her across the city to get, wet and welcome, open-mouthed and languid. There were no teeth behind it, and he didn’t know why that detail stumped him. She set the pace, and she kissed him as if they had all the time in the world.

She stepped away with a final lick into his mouth, leaving them both short of breath. Bruce’s focus had been thoroughly shot down, but he felt her hands move against his body and looked down. In her hands, she held her cat-o-nine whip, with its solitaire remaining tail after all the action they’d seen that night. Her eyes held a silent question, and Bruce’s reply was to push his back further against the three, his arms held behind its trunk, afraid that putting his eagerness into words would break the atmosphere.

After tying him up, instead of kissing him again, Selina maneuvered her suit to lower herself on the ground, on her knees. She looked up to him, a playful look in her eyes, and swiftly removed his belt, his plate and the lower part of his uniform. It might not be a good sign of his mental health, that it was the removal of his utility belt that left him feeling the most exposed.

For a few good seconds, the only thing he could feel was her warm breath against his already rock-hard cock; she seemed to be pondering a plan of attack, instead of a mere blow job. Her hand came next, holding the base almost delicately, rubbing his ballsack. Finally, her tongue touched him. Fickle, maddening licks that only worked him up more, without providing any relief.

Time seemed to fragment, as she licked up and down his shaft while he tried to remain still. She kissed the tip of his cock, letting it enter her mouth and sit over her tongue. The suction that followed made him groan. He could feel the drops of precum leaking out of him, and had to close his eyes and take a deep breath.

Selina had begun to slowly, frustratingly so, suck him into her mouth, moving her head back and forth. The heat that enveloped him was everything that mattered then, and before he realized he had pushed ahead once, twice, against the back of her throat, making her choke and pull back.

“Well. That wasn’t very nice.”

Her tone had been deadpan, and it sounded like he was being chastised my a high school teacher. Which wasn’t, he huffed with laughter as his cock seemed to twitch and demand attention, exactly off-putting.

“Sorry.”

Selina hummed. Their words, as he’d suspected, seemed to change the ambiance around them, but it hadn’t broken the spell.

She went back to the task, kissing the tip and returning to the quick licks, as a clear punishment. He could feel his control slip away from him and warned her out loud.

“Sel- Catwoman.” A disproportionate sense of shamed overwhelmed him when he realized how close he’d been to say her name in public, and he brutally pushed it down.

She seemed to understand this wasn’t how he wanted things to finish, for she stood up, her knees marked with leaves and dirt. Looking him up and down she nodded to herself, decided, and began untying him, pressing her full body against him, making the shaft of his cock rub against the inside of her leg.

She pushed him down to the ground, sitting still against the tree, and quickly re-tied his arms behind his back, even tighter than before.

“There’s– in the belt, left pouch from the center–”

She pulled out a condom –and there was again the familiar guilt, for not remembering to mention it earlier, even knowing he was up to date with his checkups—, her eyebrows raised in amused disbelief. “That’s awfully optimistic of you.”

“I hand them out sometimes.”

Her laugh was loud and musical and breathtaking. “That, I believe.”

Selina proceeded to sit up in his lap, careful not to touch his hard-on beyond the latex. Her lips returned to his mouth, in one of those unhurried kisses, the potent taste of his precum overwhelming in her tongue, and he let his head rest against the tree, pliant. Carefully, inch by inch, she descended upon his leaking cock, engulfing it.

If he’d thought her previous rhythm was maddening, it was nothing compared to this. She moved up and down his shaft as if she wanted to feel every millimeter against her walls. Her muscles pressed against it and Bruce felt so, so close. Their kiss was no longer a kiss, but two mouths breathing and panting almost pressed together, and finally, he could feel her tense up above him, shudder, as she pressed her face further against his to drown her moans when she came.

Bruce was barely capable of believing he’d held off long enough. Selina stood back and he felt something akin to nostalgia when the cold breeze touched his erection. Her hand replaced her heat, and it took only a few strokes, with just a hint of her sharp nails, to finally bring him off.

He had to let out a groan when he saw her teasingly lick his cum off her fingers. For a moment they sat there, together, with Bruce’s arms still tied together behind his back, putting by then a lightly painful strain on his shoulders. Selina bit her lip, and after a millisecond of hesitation, she brought one finger up to the edge of his cowl, and pulled at it ineffectually, playful, a tease.

His heartbeat went up, but despite that, he didn’t move or struggled against his restraints. A show of trust.

It was rewarded with a blinding grin. He wondered what she was thinking, as she kept staring at him with bright eyes. Bruce was under no delusions of how he looked with the cowl up and the lenses down –unsettling, not entirely human. But in her expression, he read nothing but fondness.

She then untied him and helped him up, so that he at least could pull up his own pants. The sunrise now colored the scene, though the tree’s branches afforded them some privacy.

Selina gave him one final, chaste kiss on the cheek. “Until I see you next, spooky.”





A/N: (Selina calls him spooky in that issue and I love it. Fave Bruce nickname ever, tbh).

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Two of these are classic horror movies. One is ??? probably horror but no one's saying it with their chests. One is a biographical crime drama that's not actually horror at all, but it's about a female serial killer, so for the purposes of this post it squeaks in.

The Lighthouse (2019): Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson are 19th century lighthouse keepers who go nuts while keeping their lighthouse. This is a critically acclaimed, multiple award-winning movie, and I am sorry to say that I heartily disliked it; imo it was one of those works of art that is so busy being clever and referential, it forgets to actually say a single word for itself. The production was gorgeous, though. It was shot in black and white with an unusual squarish ratio and the soundtrack was absolutely exquisite: grinding, ominious music; long silences; the endless beating of the sea and the violent, maddening blare of the lighthouse's foghorn. Enjoyable aesthetic experience. Plot-wise, fuck no.

Monster (2003): This is a biopic about Aileen Wuornos, an American serial killer who was executed in 2002 for the murders of seven men who picked her up for sex along highways in Florida. Possibly one of the most harrowing, heartstring-tugging things I have ever watched? Charlize Theron plays Wuornos with a desperately traumatised intensity as she pins all her hopes for love and salvation on her girlfriend Selby, who expects her to support them both through sex work while turning a blind eye both to the terrifying sexual violence Wuornos faces out on the streets and to the brutality of the solution she has found for her own safety. (Selby has her own issues: she's a young lesbian from an extremely strict, repressive middle-class Christian family. She is hopelessly naive and sheltered, completely unequipped to support herself alone but forced to leave her whole support network behind due to their homophobia.)

It doesn't feel right to have ~opinions on something that is true crime based, with families of victims still living. So all I'll say is that I can't actually imagine a version of the Aileen Wuornos story that wouldn't leave me feeling a high degree of heartache for her, whether she killed all those men because they tried to rape her (as she claimed) or out of pure hatred and greed. I daresay I'd be consumed by hate too if I'd led Wuornos' life.

The Fog (1980): On a small US coastal town's one hundredth anniversary, a mysterious supernatural fog rolls in to wreak vengeance for the sins of the founders. This is a fun, silly ghost story with a likeable main cast and some immaculate spooky vibes. I don't have much to say. The villains are SPOILER ) and I switched my brain off and enjoyed.

The Exorcist (1973): Twelve-year-old Regan gets possessed by a demon; her desperate mother, tired of endless rounds of agonising medical tests and psychiatric appointments that lead nowhere, finally enlists a Catholic priest to exorcise her. Father Karras has been suffering a crisis of faith, but helping Regan reignites the spark of his vocation. This is a wonderful, psychologically rich and nuanced film with a cast who are all impressively well developed; a lot is going on in their lives, and the plot is a little slow to start because of the time we spend getting to know them first, but I definitely don't think it was time wasted. Father Karras had an electric screen presence; every second he was on screen, my eyes were glued to him. (He was also a sad man with floppy dark hair who could throw a punch, so consider this parenthesis to be my legally mandated disclosure of bias. I am probably not eligible to serve on this jury.) I also loved Regan's mother Chris, and everything about the portrayal of Chris and Regan's mother-daughter relationship: Chris is a single mum with a busy career as a successful actress who relies on a great deal of hired help for childcare and home maintenance, but she is also shown to be a devoted mother. She and Regan deeply love, trust and moreover clearly like each other, and the movie manifested exactly none of the Oh No Working Mothers handwringing I was braced for when she was first introduced.

I did not, regrettably, find The Exorcist very scary, and am metaphorically pouring one out for it and all the other trailblazing movies that get so unfairly eclipsed by later, lesser movies rolling their flashy cars down that nice pre-blazed trail. I've seen all these scares before, and I haven't even been watching horror for that long. It has been too influential and as a sad result I'm too desensitised to fully enter into its intended atmosphere of supernatural terror. But even with all the shock value stripped away, it's still a genuinely excellent film that I'm glad to have watched and can see myself watching again. (And okay, fine, the crucifix masturbation scene did give me one decent-sized scare.)
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Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Shane Hollander (Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov)
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: bento-milk on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Two very accomplished portraits of Shane in different situations - public and private. Also a little puzzle with two hookup hotel room numbers hidden here and there in the pic. See the comments for a clue.
Link: the two Shane Hollanders, backup link here

Aurendor D&D: Summary for 5/19 Game

May. 21st, 2026 12:09 am
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In tonight's game, the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

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