Done This Week

[scrubjayspeaks]

A better, if somewhat confusing week. Work was very up and down. I have done something terrible to my back that doesn't seem to be going away. :/

The 80s synth-pop is, in fact, making me feel better, as is the small mountain of other music I have given myself. New music, it turns out, gives me way more happiness bang-for-my-buck than new books.

I am bingeing on Stranger Things season 4 fic. Have I seen the season? No, fool, I haven't even watched season 3 yet! Have I joined the movement that says that ending never happen, shut your pie hole? Yes, obviously, because everyone lives happily ever after, shut up, shut up, shut up! Am I trash for Eddie Munson? Friends, they gave me a theatrically weird, trailer trash nerd who is pretty visibly neurodivergent and unsubtly coded as queer--I was fucking doomed from the start.

And finally, I have been invited to play D&D with a couple of coworkers. Who are going above and beyond to make me feel welcome and not overwhelmed by the whole socializing thing, which is genuinely touching and baffling. Have I made friends? Holy shit??? *cue preemptive panic*

Lewisia: 3 new regular pieces written, 9 new ephemera pieces, and all of December queued up--finally caught up again

Day job: 42.75 hours, which swung wildly between abject boredom and frantic busyness

Crafting: got 3 out of 6 new patches sewn onto the battle jacket

Gardening: pandemic garden club post

Listening: Cruel Liars by Mightmare (freaking phenomenal, grungy and thumpy), Haunted House single by SNAKE POOL (delightful, fatally catchy), Skablam by Louie Zong (a favorite I finally got around to buying, instead of just listening on Youtube), The Age of Consent by Bronski Beat (hat tip to palmviolet's Stranger Things fic, sub-culture, for turning me onto this wonderful and very gay 80s synth-pop), Please by Pet Shop Boys (because I am just down an 80s rabbit hole now and might as well wallow happily)

Other: dental appointment #1 (more to follow)

Comments

[harpers_child]

I also am binging on Eddie fic and not watching ST. What have been your favorites so far? (Do I read too much Steve/Eddie? Yep.)

Congrats on the D&D. I hope you have fun.

[scrubjayspeaks]

!!! Okay, so, quick and dirty* list of things I've been reading, pulled from my AO3 history--

Charged through everything by nondz and stereobone (which hey, also got me one of the best damn Sam/Bucky fic I've read, Favorite Worst Nightmare).

Working my way through everything by wearing_tearing and ToEdenandBackAgain (i don't ask much (i just want you) also gave me littleststarfighter's art to look at, which is absolutely excellent).

Summer '86 and Steve Harrington's Guide to Touch by how_about_no were both great. I'm delighted by the quantity of "everybody is touch starved" and "let's just have a puppy pile" fic coming out of this fandom.

FagurFiskur's kids in the dark series is short but full of some delightful queer family feels. I experienced some real solid emotions about the crossdressing exploration in the last installment.

Zhuletta's Date me instead is so cute and the boys are so stupid. I am a sucker for fake dating, terrible ideas, eccentric date ideas, and very deliberate efforts to woo a person.

Desperately hoping golden age by kafkian will continue to update--I normally never get involved with in-progress fic unless I know the author well enough, but I couldn't resist. I am weak.

I don't remember the details of To Be Loved For No Reason At All by beetlesandstars, but I liked it so much I saved it to my ebook reader. And in glancing through it again, the dialog is like a blitz attack (affectionate), so there's that.

Next on the list is badpancake's The One in Which a Time Loop is Fucking Exhausting, which I suspect is going to put me through the wringer, so I've been procrastinating on starting it.

*liar, you went down a rabbit hole on this and started rereading fic, don't pretend