Explicit vs Suggestive

Jun. 16th, 2025 09:22 am
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There are many shades of suggestive.


Forbidden love

Explicit...well now, some work is a little more explicit than others.

NSFW )

My current WIP is turning out barely suggestive and I'd really really like to have at least one explicit scene.

I can't get the characters to cooperate. *sigh* Has that ever happened to you? Or maybe the reverse? You meant to write a gen story but the characters insisted on getting naked? (Yes, that has happened to me too) Damn characters just seem to take over.
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Posted by Athena Scalzi

Have you ever been watching a Shakespeare play and thought, wow, this would be a lot cooler if the actors on stage were drinking, there was improv involved in every scene, and tons of audience participation going on? Well have I got just the thing for you! Dayton Drunk Theater is an amateur troop here in Dayton, Ohio who decided historically famous plays needed more of two things: laughter and liquor.

The founder of the troop, Bobbie, created Dayton Drunk Theater last year, and so far they have done Macbeth, Hamlet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The fine print after the titles of these shows reads as “Kind Of,” as these aren’t exactly the truest adaptations of Shakespeare you’ve ever seen, but they are damn funny.

Saddling up at the Yellow Cab Tavern for all their performances so far, all their shows have managed to sell out! I saw A Midsummer Night’s Dream this past Friday, and my ticket was only twelve smackaroos. I had a friend in the performance so I wanted to go support him, even though improv isn’t usually my thing.

For twelve dollars you definitely get your money’s worth. A ticket gets you a chair and over two hours of entertainment, including the pre-show of improv games involving volunteers from the crowd.

Of course, there’s plenty of beverages to imbibe thanks to the Yellow Cab Tavern, and you can even buy the actors a drink for them to have during their performance. The way it works is that each actor has their drink of choice predetermined, and everyone has tally marks next to their name so no one ends up with ten drinks. You tell the bartender which actor you want to buy a drink for, and they have someone run their beverage out to them on stage (or behind the scenes if they aren’t on stage at that moment.)

If someone gets like three drinks bought for them at once, the bar makes sure to space out their beverages appropriately so everyone stays safe and upright! I think that’s a super rad system.

The performance itself was a riot, with improvised locations changing all the time, characters having to pretend like they’re in a Western or Noir film, people losing their place in the script, a chase scene involving a giant 3-foot dildo, it was wild all around.

If you’re looking for a perfectly performed, true to form Shakespearian play, this is not the show for you. However, if you want to have a beverage and watch a bunch of goobers do improv, be quick, witty, and slightly lewd, then this is the show for you, and I would recommend following them on Instagram or Facebook to see when their next show is going to be.

Plus, while the event is at a bar and it is called Dayton Drunk Theater, you don’t have to drink if you don’t want to! There was a great selection of mocktails and non-alcoholic beverages available. The person behind me I ended up talking with got a mocktail and it looked really yummy.

All in all, I really enjoyed my time at their show, and I hope to see the next one, which if I remember correctly is going to be Dracula. I think they’re doing auditions sometime soon, so if you’re in Dayton and are interested in performing, maybe check them out!

Does Dayton Drunk Theater sound like something you’d watch? What’s your favorite Shakespeare play? Let me know in the comments, and have a great day!

-AMS

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I did a load of laundry, the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, and scooped kitty litter. I finished one book and started another. I talked with mom on the telephone and visited her, as well as sent messages to her.

I forgot to mention that Pip’s buddy dropped off more BBQ chicken quarters yesterday, lol! At least I didn’t have to worry about what he was going to have for supper.

ETA: I forgot to mention the sad news that the four killdeer eggs are missing completely. No sign that they hatched. Pip caught sight of a red fox eating the sunflower seed he puts out, so we think that's what got them. I can't believe that just a day or two after I decide to tell you all about them, they're toast. *sniffle*

Temps started out at 57.9(F) and reached 69.2. (Pip said it had gotten higher, but that’s the high I saw when I got home.) It was mostly hazy all day.


Mom Update:

I called mom in the morning (now that she’s in SCU she has a phone). cutting for those who don’t want to read )

Picture Book Monday: Chooch Helped

Jun. 16th, 2025 07:59 am
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I wrapped up the Newbery Honor books of 2025 with Andrea L. Rogers’ Chooch Helped, which also won the Caldecott Medal this year for Rebecca Lee Kunz’s rich sunset-colored illustrations. It’s a picture book about a long-suffering older sister who watches as her two-year-old brother “helps” various family members complete their tasks, usually by accidentally making more tasks by spilling the flour, pulling up the newly planted garden vegetables, tearing out the stitches in a freshly sewn pucker-toe moccasin, etc.

The sister, standing in for older siblings everywhere, is exasperated. Although of course in the book she moves past that exasperation, once her parents point out that she’s one of her little brother’s most important teachers, I suspect that this book may not be a hit with older siblings. Why does no one ever validate their feeling that their younger siblings are so annoying!!!!

As a youngest sibling, however, I was enchanted, especially because this is exactly the stage my niece is in, although (knock on wood!) unlike Chooch, she’s usually not actively destructive when she “helps.” It just takes twice as long to get anything done when she’s “helping” water the plants or mix the pancake batter. But to an adult, it’s totally worth it to see her attempting to haul around a gallon or water or measure a teaspoon of baking soda.

(A side story: last week, as I was washing up the pancake dishes, she was trying to get a slice of orange onto her spoon. At last she announced, “I’m frustrated.” There is nothing cuter than a two-year-old using a ten-cent word, so of course I stopped to help her get that orange onto her spoon.)

The illustrations are just lovely, too. I love the sunset-hewed pallet, the way that the patterns on the characters’ clothes splash a little past their outlines, the Cherokee motifs that Kunz wove into the illustrations. There’s a particularly gorgeous illustration of Chooch gigging for crawdads with the friend of the family, both of them dark silhouettes against the orange water, and a pale gold moon with a glowing aureole of fireflies.
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Fandom: Hyouka (Kotenbu)
Rating: G
Length: 300 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: The title is from A FEW PROPOSITIONS WITH BIRDS AND TREES THAT
THE POET CONCLUDES WITH A REFERENCE TO THE HEART
by Ruy Belo, translated by Richard Zenith.
Summary: In which Oreki’s low-energy lifestyle is once again thwarted by Chitanda’s curiosity.

Read more... )

Icebreaker Week: Day 1

Jun. 16th, 2025 06:50 am
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Hello lovely participants,

The start of a partnership is always so exciting as you and your partner(s) figure out how you'd like to work together! Icebreaker week is designed to support that process, with a combination of fun and helpful getting-to-know-you questions. They've started some incredibly useful and productive conversations in the past, and we hope they'll do the same for you now!

These exercises are optional, but we hope they'll help both those groups that were assigned and the ones that formed on their own. We encourage group members to stay in contact with each other this week, answering as many questions as they are comfortable with.

Today's questions are geared towards helping group members learn a bit more about each other, personally and fannishly.

  1. Name as many books, movies, TV shows, animes, comics, celebrities, etc. that you can think of that you have felt or feel fannish about.

  2. List three to five things you enjoy in stories (e.g. a kind of trope, story line, etc.). List three to five things that you do not enjoy in stories.

  3. What communication methods and interaction level did you put in your sign-up, and why did you choose them? (If you did group sign-ups, you may want to look at those questions on our matchmaker sign-up form and then answer them for your partner). It could also help to describe the communication level you don't want——what sort of communication patterns would feel uncomfortably high/uncomfortably low for you, and why?

  4. What are three facts about yourself (fannish or otherwise) that you haven’t already mentioned?

New Music Monday - 16 June 2025

Jun. 16th, 2025 07:38 pm
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The regular weekly post for us to talk about any and all of our thoughts about the week's new releases.

Illit - Do the Dance
Kang Daniel - Episode
Dignity - Sweet2th
Plave (Japan)
Moonbyul - Icy (pre-release)
Jung Daehyun - Stay
Yugyeom - Shall We Dance/Interlunar
Stray Kids - Hollow (Japan)
NINE.i - 어쩌면
Be Boys - I'm so sorry but I love you
Yook Sungjae
OX:N - You

New MVs are also added to an ongoing youtube playlist.

Last week's MVs: 9 June

Feel free to add new comments in the replies for songs/MVs we missed.

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Jun. 16th, 2025 10:04 am
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Happy birthday, [personal profile] quoththeravyn and [personal profile] rahael!
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I wish to express my strenuous distaste for this week starting off with the curtain rod falling onto my head as I stepped into the shower with such force that [personal profile] spatch heard the noise of stainless steel onto skull from the bedroom. It hurt appallingly. It still doesn't feel so hot. I called after-hours care and was duly presented with a checklist of symptoms of concussion and brain bleed to watch out for, an activity not exactly compatible with attempting to plunge myself into unconsciousness for the few short hours before I need to be functional for already scheduled calls and appointments. I would like to know who I need to sacrifice to get a break. I always liked haruspicy. I know it's your own liver that counts.

The Angel Trap (Supernatural Fic)

Jun. 16th, 2025 01:29 am
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Title: The Angel Trap
Author: Glory_Jean
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing/Characters: Dean Winchester/Castiel
Rating: PG
Length: 1694
Summary: Not long after Cas returns from the empty, Dean and Cas get drawn into an undercover case by their favorite wayward young hunters. But they quickly realize it’s not what they expect. Meanwhile even though Dean knows he isn’t relationship material he’s having trouble keeping his feelings to himself. Cas and this case are not helping matters. Not to mention this pack of annoying kids. Claire and Alex have a plan. Patience and Kaia are along for the ride. Jack is just having a good time.

Notes: Season 13 if most of that *waves hands* Apocalypse World stuff didn’t happen. Don’t worry about it. It’s total crack.

Link: https://glory-jean.dreamwidth.org/226620.html

Daily Happiness

Jun. 15th, 2025 09:32 pm
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1. I walked up to the neighborhood grocery store this morning thinking to buy some roast beef for a sandwich for lunch but on my way there I remembered they have grills out in the parking lot on the weekend and sell sandwiches and meat there. I was worried it might be cash only and I didn't have cash, but they take your order and you just take the order sheet inside and pay at the register, then pick your food up outside, so I got a tri-tip sandwich and it was so good. It was also huge, so I had half for lunch and half for dinner. Planning to get it again next weekend when Carla's back so we can split it.

2. Speaking of which, Carla will be home tomorrow night. Her flight's getting in around 9pm, so I am going to head down to Disneyland after work and then down to the airport after that (she's flying into the airport in Irvine because it's much more chill than LAX).

3. The Little Tokyo store was able to open up today with no issue. I doubt there were a whole lot of customers, and the curfew is still in effect so we have to close at 6:30pm until that's lifted, but I'm very glad we were able to open and that there was no damage to the store (not even any graffiti, apparently). I'm going to stop by tomorrow and check things out, since I don't have any meetings or anything planned for earlier in the day.

4. All tucked in!

6/15/2025 Inspiration Trail

Jun. 15th, 2025 09:00 pm
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It was cold and foggy in Berkeley this morning but only cold up on the Trail. Had I known I might have tried to go up earlier, but it was an hour after dawn when I started my list. For most of the morning the migrant breeders were quiet and invisible; eventually I heard the expected warblers and a Blackheaded Grosbeak, but no vireos and no buntings. Highlights were, again, a few MacGillivray's songs but not right on the Trail, and one, possibly two Blue-gray gnatcatchers. I apparently traded in Western Wood-pewee for Western Flycatcher.:) Wish I could have heard both. The list: )

I'd treated my pants and socks with Permithrin and the weeds seemed to have been whacked in spots but kind of halfheartedly. I still had to flick a couple of ticks off my pant legs, so better but not great.

Movie roundup!

Jun. 15th, 2025 08:52 pm
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Sinners (2025). Twin brothers return from organized crime in Chicago to open an all-Black juke joint in their hometown in Mississipi with their cousin Sammie playing the blues as entertainment, and then vampires.

I held off reviewing this after I saw it the first time because I wanted to process and see it again, and honestly after seeing a second time I don't know what I can possibly add to what's already been said. This is an absolutely gorgeous movie, amazing music, all the acting is great, all the relationships are compelling. Director Ryan Coogler has packed so many interesting historical angles and so many themes that it's a challenge to unpack them all, but a fun challenge. I am especially compelled by all the depictions of religion, Christan and otherwise, and how that intersects with the spiritual power of music as depicted in the film.

Some bits I particularly liked:
- The Chinese immigrants running stores in the Mississippi delta
- The difficult and heart-breaking situation of Hailee Steinfeld's character, who is one-eight Black
- How much Ryan Coogler loves cunnilingus
- Stack's hand tremors, presumably from WWI nerve gas
- How incredibly shippy the MBJ twins are. "You're the best part of me" and "I'm nothing without you." !!!
- The fact that it's set in 1932 and the Depression isn't mentioned even once, presumably because these people's lives were already scraped to the bone. (This movie has got to be Coogler's response to O Brother Where Art Thou, right? Also set in Mississippi during the depression, also full of diagetic music, also featuring the Klan, there's even a scene here driving along the road passing a chain gang. The Black blues player in that movie could BE Sammie Moore from Sinners; even the timeline would line up okay.)

Anyway, this movie is incredible. You absolutely should see it.

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Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes (2021). German psychedelic horror(?) film. The official one-line blurb is something like "A couple visit the rundown castle they've inherited and become trapped in the reality that only exists within its walls," which sounds very cosmic horror, and I guess maybe it's not NOT that? But boy is it a lot of other things too. There might be reincarnating gods? At one point spoiler ) and then there's another hour of movie.

It's very low-budget and definitely not what I came for, but it's a trip. Comps might be Triangle if it gave up on trying to make sense or, from a different angle, A Bucket of Blood (1959). If this sounds like your jam, it's worth giving a try.

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Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025). A young woman visiting the grand opening of Not The Space Needle in the 60s has a premonition of disaster and saves the lives of everyone there; decades later, her granddaughter starts have recurring nightmares of that night and realizes that death is coming for her and all her family members who should never have been born.

This is my first FD movie, which I saw solely on the logic that it was free (or "free," because I have a Regal subscription) and I needed something fun and cheesy. And this was indeed that! All the characters were reasonably likeable, and some of the deaths were quite inventive. This movie makes a LOT of hay out of body piercings, and the entire sequence with the MRI machine was inspired. I also really enjoyed everything with the long opening sequence in the 60s and found the young woman very charming. That was probably my favorite part of the movie, actually.

I would not say this was a good movie. For one thing, I have become That Horror Fan, because I found a lot of the CGI pretty annoying and kept wishing for some practical effects for the deaths. I also was entirely unpersuaded by the poor man's version of Laurie Strode and family from Halloween 2018. The generational trauma was all tell, no show, and even the plot logistics with the grandma didn't make a lot of sense given other information we have.

Still, yeah, a cheesy fun time.

Carrying this scrap of paper.

Jun. 15th, 2025 10:42 pm
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The day's plans of meeting a friend of a friend and seeing a Broadway show were scuttled by the star of the show having to back out at the last minute due to a small injury. As the friend of a friend had come to the city to see Orville Peck more than he'd come to see Cabaret, we decided that he'd be better off refunding the tickets.

I knew the neighborhood a little bit, so I took us four blocks north and one block west to go from the city people visit to the city people live in, going from having a bite and some coffee at a tourist destination to doing the same at a local coffee and sandwich place. He ordered a gabagool sandwich and a pink iced chai latte, and I just had a pink latte. Afterwards, we went to a record store and he found a vinyl Ney Matogrosso album, which was a surprise because he's apparently hard to find in the US on pretty much any format, but especially vinyl.

Not long after, we went our separate ways, him to Brooklyn and the friends he was staying with and me to my apartment to finish folding laundry and cook some lunches for the coming week. I could fixate on the misfortune, or I could look at how we managed to made the best of things.

Titansfall D&D: Summary for 6/15 Game

Jun. 15th, 2025 11:08 pm
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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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Culinary

Jun. 15th, 2025 07:16 pm
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Last week's bread held out very well.

There was even enough left over to make frittata with chopped red bell pepper for Friday night supper.

Saturday breakfast rolls: brown toasted pinenut, with strong brown flour.

Today's lunch: partridge breasts lightly seasoned with salt and pepper, panfried in butter with a little olive oil, deglazed with a splash or so of white wine, served with kasha, baby sugar snap peas roasted in walnut oil and splashed with elderflower vinegar, and asparagus steamed and tossed in melted butter + lime juice.

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