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There's an exchange called Spectre Requisitions, which is for rarer 'ships in the Mass Effect fandom. It's a lot of fun, and I've participated in it the last two years.

Anyway, I seriously lucked out on my gifts this year, so I need to flail about them a little. I know that I have some Mass Effect fans over here on DW, so maybe some of you will of interest.

First, for a treat, I received a lovely piece of artwork. ♥ I absolutely adore F!Shepard/Garrus/Tali (to the point that 15% of the works on the AO3 about that relationship are fics by me), so I was absolutely thrilled to get the notification for that.

But my actual gift really wins everything. Because someone wrote me 22k words of Ashley/F!Shepard/Kaidan, based on a prompt that I've included in various exchanges for something like three or four years now. It's amazing, and you should totally go read it if you're even remotely intrigued by the idea of that relationship.

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Like most adults, I don't get to raid often during the work week, and less and less as oncoming autumn contracts the days (raids start sunrise to sunset only, it seems). But I am making more of an effort to spend my free daily raid passes to keep my Mewtwo options open since that mechanic was announced. Even if only on a Level 1 or 2 raid by myself before work, at lunchtime, or a really quick afternoon break, whenever I'm lucky enough to have (and notice) a raid pop nearby, I check my schedule.

On one of the 3 raids I managed to complete this work week, I dared a Level 3 alone. And I did it! I met my longstanding game goal of taking down a Level 3 raid boss by myself! It was close. And it was just an Arcanine with pure fire moves (no bite, crunch, or wild charge). But still! I solo'd a Level 3 raid boss! It took 4 pokemon: my 3 leveled-up Golemns with 2 rock-type moves each, and my biggest, best Vaporean. (Obviously, wild charge would've destroyed my Vaporean.) Shiny Gyarados with hydro-pump was my anchor, in the sixth slot, but we didn't get to her.

Previously, I'd tried soloing Arcanine and Flareon bosses with ground types (which are common around here). I've concluded that the ground-type moves will never be fast enough to solo them, not at any level.

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Just to note: my requests include Critical Role, Doctor Who, Dragon Age, Hunger Games, Mass Effect, and Crossovers.

First of all, relax! I'm far from being picky, and I can pretty much guarantee that I'll love whatever you decide to draw or write for me. These are nothing but guidelines, for you to take to heart or ignore to your heart's content. Also, hey! You're drawing and/or writing me femslash! What's not to love? ♥

That said, I thought that I'd elaborate a bit on my requests in case, like me, you're the type of person who likes to have something to work with. Feel free to use and/or ignore as much of this as you want. I've tried to include a mix of vague prompts as well as more detailed ones, to hopefully make things as helpful as possible whether you're drawing art or writing fic.

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Happy Wednesday!

Instead of writing about the actual Nazi-themed comics Marvel is currently putting out, I’m going to summarize/review the imaginary Captain America and/or Avengers-centric titles I wish existed.

So, this week is the second issue of The Falcon and Captain America, which debuted back in July and which so far seems to be about Sam and Redwing going on a cross-country roadtrip with their sidekick Bucky!Cap, supposedly so Sam can re-introduce Bucky to modern/twenty-first century America. The first issue ended with them driving off into the sunrise/sunset together to start their roadtrip. This one opens with them in costume together in a diner somewhere along the NJ Turnpike debating their route (Sam has a bunch of old-school road atlases, Bucky accuses him of having spent too much time with Steve) while a douchey-looking guy with a pro-Trump hat makes some comment to his buddies about how nice it is to see “the real” Captain America back. Bucky makes a comment to him on the way out about how “the real” Captain America would probably have stopped to teach him a lesson and he’s lucky Bucky’s only the understudy and he and Sam get into their little red hybrid and drive away. Then they fight Overdrive, who’s created a giant traffic jam by altering everyone’s cars into goofy-looking nonfunctional models to protest overconsumption of fossil fuel (power-creep alert – he apparently has “turbo-nanites” now that allow him to affect multiple vehicles at once now). Sam and Bucky eventually talk him down* and convince him that there are better ways to fight global warming than through traffic accidents and maaaybe this was a poor way to go about trying to turn himself into a good guy. It ends with them getting back in the Falcon-mobile and continue on their way. There was a brief flashback during the diner scene to Steve angsting at Bucky before they left (about having been brainwashed into thinking he was HYDRA, so now he knows how terrible Bucky must feel about having been The Winter Soldier), but hopefully that’s not going to be a major theme and we’ll mostly stick with Epic Roadtrip Adventures from here on out.

*This is when you find out that Sam’s car is a hybrid.

Next Week:
X-Women #3 (I still think this is a stupidly gimmicky title given that there have been multiple all-female X-men line-ups before and all of those runs had normal X-book titles, and that they should just make it X-Men: Red or something to go with the new Gold and Blue X-books, but it has Jubilee and X-23 in it, so I'm continuing to give it a chance)

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I got this from a fandomsecrets post, because yes, I sometimes go there despite the trolls. (I even met some of you there.) Although I go far less than I used to and don't comment much.

Anyway, one of the secrets was about stupid/awkward questions at interviews and panels. I was going to write an entry on this anyway, so many as well roll with it.
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There's an Articuno raid at the park nearest me right now. What's happening? Is Articuno back, or is this a glitch...?

I'd planned to post briefly this morning to share that I was so very lucky as to catch a 100% IV Zapdos yesterday! Yay! And then I was going to say that I actually hope summer legendary season will end tonight; I'm game-exhausted by these limited-time-only availabilities of the legendary birds. And then I was going to comment on the rampant Ho-Oh speculation. But...

Apparently, Mewtwo has been a raid boss at Pikachu Outbreak! People have caught Mewtwo! And clearly there's this Articuno right now, here, when we all thought that Articuno wouldn't be seen again in the game for many months, if not a year, if not ever.

Why does Niantic do these things on Mondays (work days) instead of weekends?

If all the legendaries are back in the game at high availabilities, I may perhaps feel a little ill-used or tricked for having invested time and effort in catching them while we were told they were limited-time-only. Hmmmm.

Addendum 10:56 PM: Niantic has spoken: Mewtwo and "other powerful pokémon" are coming soon to "Exclusive Raids," and all 4 legendary birds are back through the end of August. Read all about it.

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For the month of July, in my corners of social journaling, here are the Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

wip_amnesty, an event to encourage progress on works-in-progress, holds its first round 8/10-8/24.
ficpositivity is encouraging a positive feedback meme (no deadlines).
underheard is a new recommendations community for underappreciated fiction.
Recommendation communities recap: fanart_recs, het_reccers, gensplosion, recshelf, underheard, and fancake. (Know more FK-friendly rec communities? Tell me about them!)

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 7 of the 782 FK stories on the AO3 show posting dates in July.

Untitled Canada Day ficlet by abby82 (~750 words) (PG-13, m/f)
"Sesquicentennial" by greerwatson (~750 words) (G, gen)
"Reshaped in His Image" by rhodrymavelyne (~250 words) (Unrated, m/m)
"Ein Mädchen von edlem Geblüt" by LucySummerlove (~141K words) (R, m/f) (German)
"Die Konkubine - 1. Teil" by LucySummerlove (WIP, ~16K words) (R, m/f) (German)
"Schmetterling und Nachtfalter" by LucySummerlove (WIP, ~42K words) (R, m/f) (German)
"Forever Natalie" by LucySummerlove (WIP, ~17K words) (R, m/f) (German)
"Vaterfreuden" by LucySummerlove (WIP, ~10K words) (G, m/f) (German)

News & conversation:

Upcoming new movie

7/16: nicholas_lucien analyzed how these characters look when vamped.
7/08: nicholas_lucien shared the announcement of an original character, a werewolf named Jason, and observed that this Nick smokes.

Cast & crew

7/23: skieswideopen shared that Geraint Wyn Davies narrates the audio version of the "Regions of Canada" chapter of the Canadian citizenship test study-guide.
7/10: nicholas_lucien recognized the 8^th annual Lindsay Thomas Memorial Hockey Game, and that Geraint Wyn Davies is coaching again this year.
7/03: nicholas_lucien wished Deborah Duchene a happy birthday.
7/01: pj1228 linked to reviews for this year's Stratford productions, in which Geraint Wyn Davies, Nigel Bennett, Lucy Peacock, and Joseph Ziegler are performing.

Miscellaneous

7/10: abby82 celebrated the recovery of her lost FK DVDs. (Her brother had them.)
7/06: hearts_blood offered "DVD commentary" on any of her short stories (or chapters from long stories).

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In the little bit over a year since I last did this the news got of course even worse, and yet I still seem unable to just limit myself to looking at fluffy animal pictures.

Still with ticky boxes for everybody who can't decide what to be most anxious about:

Poll #18679 why ratcreature should only look at pictures of fluffy baby animals, 2017 ed.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22

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Which inescapable disaster/crisis/calamity do you think is most likely to lead to your demise?

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nuclear armageddon! started intentionally by horrible politicians
6 (27.3%)

nuclear armageddon! but brought on by pure stupidity, like someone misinterpreting some screen and/or pushing the wrong button
5 (22.7%)

the next high mortality rate pandemic will come for sure, possibly via climate change mosquitoes
3 (13.6%)

no pandemics needed, I'll die of some treatable condition, not able to afford medicine, thanks to the health system crisis/collapse
6 (27.3%)

I'll die in a riot/civil unrest brought on by an ongoing global economic crisis/collapse in general
4 (18.2%)

I'll die in a riot/civil unrest brought on by the economic crisis/collapse following Brexit in particular
1 (4.5%)

I'll die in a riot/civil unrest brought on by some rampaging "alt-right" mob that felt slighted on the internet
4 (18.2%)

the climate change catastrophe will kill me through a grand disaster
4 (18.2%)

climate change will kill me slowly through failing crops and the like
8 (36.4%)

climate change will kill me fast but in a boring way through some horrible heat wave or such
6 (27.3%)

I'll die because thanks to the global water crisis I won't be able to afford clean drinking water
3 (13.6%)

I'll die in some armed conflict brought on by the above (or other) ecological disasters
3 (13.6%)

I won't die from any of the above disasters directly, but while fleeing from it
2 (9.1%)

terrorism! I'll be blown up by some shadowy terrorist organization
1 (4.5%)

terrorism! some deranged mob will lynch me as "terrorist"
0 (0.0%)

terrorism! but it's my government who will dispose of me as "terrorist"
0 (0.0%)

my government's malicious policies will kill me without them bothering to label me as "terrorist"
7 (31.8%)

crime! I'll end up as a victim in a crime statistic
0 (0.0%)

crime! but as a victim of the "tough on crime" policies, like tazered to death or shot by police and the like
0 (0.0%)

a meteorite will kill me in a huge extinction level event, but at least I have the consolation that everyone else will be dead along with me
1 (4.5%)

killer robots will get me
1 (4.5%)

killer robots will get me, but it will be an accident (less Terminator, more self-driving cars gone wrong)
4 (18.2%)

I'll get killed by the zombie apocalypse
0 (0.0%)

I'll get killed by the zombie army I raised to protect myself, falling victim to dramatic irony
1 (4.5%)

and so on and so forth... (civilian nuclear disaster! genetically modified crops! (lack of) bees!...)
8 (36.4%)

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Hey, it's worth a shot. Out of curiosity, do I know anyone who lives in Philadelphia who would have a sofa or clean(ish) corner on the floor available for someone to crash November 16th or 17th through the 19th?

I'm seriously considering going to PAX Unplugged that weekend since tickets are cheap and there are buses between DC and Philly for something like $20. The problem is that I've taken a look at my finances, and I really don't think that I can cover the cost of a hotel room. I've been looking at some potential Airbnb options (which are filling up fast, probably because of the con), but since that can definitely be hit or miss I thought that I'd check on the fandom front first.

Anyone?

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con: pax unplugged

Well, the first scene of one, anyway. There are about 35,000 more words where this came from, but no title.* Our working title of "Captain America & Iron Man vs. the Nazi Mummies" had to be discarded, because there are no mummies nor indeed anything remotely resembling mummies anywhere in the fic.( Click for Iron Man rescuing people during the Blitz and gratuitous WWII aircraft fangirling )

*Title needed. Beta probably also needed.

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I'd been planning on sleeping in a bit on Monday morning, since we didn't have to be out of the hotel room until noon. My body had other plans, though, so I ended up awake around 8am. ( More under the cut. )

That said, I did have several lovely surprises waiting for me when I got home. First of all, I had some shiny new dice from a Kickstarter that I supported a while back waiting for me in my mailbox. Then I got an alert that a gorgeous Critical Role art print that I'd ordered ages ago had shipped. Then I got an e-mail that my custom miniature of my halfling paladin, for my in-person Sunday D&D game is on its way.

And then, on top of all that, I got an notification from the AO3 that someone wrote me 22k words of amazing Ashley/F!Shepard/Kaidan fic for the Spectre Requisitions exchange.

Overall? It's been a pretty good day, even if I'm exhausted.

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I didn't wake up on Sunday morning until 8am or so, after almost a full eight hours of sleep, which my body solely needed by that point in the con. ( More under the cut. )

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The universe is waiting for me to get cocky

Spectre Requisitions

Solo'd a Level 3 raid

...and its a moot point, because I just ruined it

I am cooking agvolemono soup for the 1st time...

Schadenfreude on weck

Dear Femslash Creator,

I only wish I needed to cut for spoilers

Interviews and Stupid/Awkward Questions

Cold turkey on the uppers

Surprise Mewtwo and Articuno overshadow perfect Zapdos

FK Recently: What You Guys Have Been Up To (7/01/17-7/31/17)

no limits to your catastrophizing choice these days...

Barrayarans, Blackadder, and the time Aral Vorkosigan met Alexander Hamilton

The West Wing reboot for our times

dear fandom growth exchange creator

Waiting

Do I know anyone in Philadelphia?

Look! It’s an untitled Steve/Tony WWII AU

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