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hyounpark pinged me from BART this morning with the sad news that Fugakyu is closing, after 27 years.

It feels like I've been going there forever, even though honestly the last time I went there was probably when we still lived in Boston. But I'm like 80% certain I've gone on dates there with all of my major boyfriends (if I dated you for at least a year, that's the defining line in my headcanon). A bazillion times with

hyounpark during our Boston era. Plenty of times with

noghri, both while we were dating and then when we became friends. I thought I'd brought

kallmir2000 there, but I double-checked and it was Ginza I was thinking of. Which, admittedly, I'd also eaten sushi at with even more of the people I've dated, hahaha, including both Punsterboy and Choirboy! 😁 (Even though Ginza's been gone for well over a decade now.) And

theconvictor and I had our Valentines' Day 2000 dinner at Fugakyu when we spent the weekend in Boston on a romantic getaway from campus, feeling ever so grownup, removing our shoes to sit at one of the traditional low tables in the fancy embedded booths.

Fugakyu was even where I introduced multiple friends to sushi (

fes42,

jennifer,

david_grana, Adam); where my girlfriends took me after devastating breakups and meh second dates, because sushi would be followed up by ice cream at JP Licks, and then a visit to a certain little shop down the way (long gone, alas; I'm hoping this recent rise in romance-specific bookstores brings an appropriate replacement to the neighborhood) because that was definitely better than moping over guys!

And now it's closing, for "personal reasons."

Damn, am I gonna miss their pinetato (pineapple and sweet potato) maki. And the kinuta. And the hotate kayaki. And the giant boats of sushi that I would split with my friends. I know where to get sushi; honestly I may just pop down to our neighborhood sushi joint before the trick-or-treaters start arriving. But mostly, finding out that Fugakyu is closing next week is just making me miss everyone in Boston. Even knowing that many of the friends I mentioned don't live there anymore, like us.

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Music: you know it's not the same as it was

lannamichaels

Title: The Tadfield Satanic Nones.
Author:

lannamichaels
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: G
Archives: Archive Of Our Own, SquidgeWorld

Summary: Apart from the name, Warlock Dowling was an unlikely rock star.

( the best ever death metal band out of denton will in time both outpace and outlive you (hail satan!) )

lannamichaels

On Sunday, I heard Hotel California on the radio and suddenly knew it would be a great fanvid and could see it all unfold beautifully in my head. I was going to write it down but decided against it.

Today I'm like "okay I am not a vidder but maybe I could do that in drabble form" and CANNOT REMEMBER WHICH FANDOM IT WAS.

:(

guess I may go with "what's the funniest thing" (Jane Austen).

EDIT: I remember! I remember! Complaining works! ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

trobadora

From all around my flist, last seen at

facethestrange's:

How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'A' and 'T'.

I picked my favourite title for each letter, not necessarily my favourite fic:

A - Absent Heart (But My Body is Here)
B - A Bitter, Better Truth
C - A Cruelty of Harpies
D - Darkness Spilled Before Our Bed
E - Echoes Woven Into Light
F - Farshalah'kiah for the Modern Orion Woman
G - Glass on the Ground
H - Hindsight From the Dinner Table
I - In This Fading Hour
J - none
K - Kreisverkehr
L - Listen (it's late, it's late, but listen)
M - Make Answer to the Clock
N - Not To Be Repeated
O - Out of the Water
P - Pull/Recoil
Q - Quiet Bower
R - R'lyeh Is Not an Empty House
S - Summer's Turns
T - A Thread as Red as Blood
U - (un)forced, (un)happy
V - Volcano Day
W - Why Should You Linger
X - none
Y - none
Z - Zone F: Fandom Primer

You can tell I have a preference for a certain style of title, LOL!

The most represented fandom here is, unsurprisingly, Guardian (with 6 titles); second is Griimm with 3. My most-written fandom (Doctor Who) only has 2 on this list; either my title preferences have changed or Guardian inspires me for better titles. *g*

And the missing X and Y are probably not surprising, but I didn't expect J! I guess I'll have to do something about that at some point ... *g*

trobadora

I just realised I never posted this here - written for

gavilan in this year's

guardian_wishlist:

scale to feather, skin to skin (997 words)
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Ya Qing/Zhu Hong, Zhu Hong & Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Zhu Hong, Ya Qing
Content tags: Yashou transformation, non-human sex, Post-Canon, Post-Fix-It, Enemies to Lovers, background implied Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan

Summary: Ya Qing, half-transformed, had feathers down the side and back of her neck. They covered her shoulders and arms, curving along the sides of her bare breasts.

queen_ypolita

I had the morning for some aimless walking around and browsing in shops in Brighton. It was rather breezy but mostly sunny with a bit of cloud, no rain, so it felt good to be outside.

The concert was lovely and well-attended. It was a smaller venue (church) than on Friday, but with proportionally more listeners. I still have a cough and struggled with it badly before the start of the concert, to the extent my seat neighbours probably wished I'd see the sense and leave. But I did manage without coughing, although once again it took lots of water. The downside to having to focus on not coughing is losing some of the focus on the music, which was beautiful nonetheless.

There were some engineering works today on the train route I'd normally take, and the journey planners were suggesting all sorts of weird routes if I'd been using the not-via-London ticket. So I bought the more expensive any-route ticket, and resigned myself to having to do a cross-London transfer, which was OK, as it only involved Thameslink and Elizabeth line.

queen_ypolita

The cold is still going through its stages and today's coughing has been nasty at times. I didn't get up to much beyond doing my weekly shop this morning. In the afternoon my train journey via Gatwick was uneventful. It's a small thing, but beating the train journey planner by making a quicker change than it suggested also felt good. Nice, breezy, but no longer warm autumn sunshine at both ends of the journey.

The cough was pretty bad on the first part of the train journey and in the last hour before I was heading out to the concert. I was fully expecting to have to make a quick exit at some point because it got uncontrollable. It didn't come to that, thankfully. I managed not to cough during either half but the interval was pretty bad. It did take frequent sips of water.

There was also an unexpected, quick rain shower about 20 minutes before I needed to leave for the concert and another after about 10 minutes after I'd got back, so I clearly got lucky with the weather and stayed dry. It was very breezy regardless.

The concert was very good: a baroque group playing Purcell, Bach and others, interweaved with readings from (mostly) Oscar Wilde's letters and other writings. There was a clear dramatic arc from pleasure, suffering but with no regrets, to redemption and reconciliation and being at peace.

I'm going to another concert at lunchtime tomorrow, and will do some wandering around town before it.

coffeeandink

Chess is a show I know entirely through the cast recordings; if I recall correctly, it was such a thoroughly Cold War project that the liner notes referred to the two chess players as only "the American" and "the Russian". The new book by Danny Strong turns it into a (even more) melodramatic period piece, with the chess matches not simply a allegory for political tensions or a way of obtaining minor diplomatic concessions but tools for averting World War III. The Arbiter is dragooned as a narrator, who exposits both the global situation and the personal interactions with the characters, partly through a series of very bad and very obvious jokes.

Freddie Trumper, American grandmaster and obnoxious wunderkind, is challenged by Anatoly Sergievesky, mordant, depressed, and engaged in a clandestine flirtation with Freddie's chess second and lover, Florence Vassy. Freddie is notoriously a weak point in the original book, so prone to anti-Communist slurs, misogyny, and temper tantrums it is impossible to extend him much sympathy. The new version mitigates this by giving him bipolar disorder and medical noncompliance, and also by casting Aaron Tveit. Tveit is indeed so good and so charismatic that I was on Freddie's side way more than I expected, although not enough to take self-pity anthem "Pity the Child" seriously. (The rest of the audience seemed less skeptical.) Lea Michele as Florence is just as strong vocally, and almost as strong in terms of acting, though unfortunately without much romantic chemistry with either partner. (The closest any scene comes to a sexual charge is Freddie's sleazy half-assed attempt at persuading Anatoly to throw the game in Act II.) Nicholas Christopher as Anatoly is the weak point in Act I, where I had the same opinion as I had of his Sweeney Todd: he's got the potential to be great, but he isn't quite there yet. He really needs to work on his emoting, which is too flat even for the murderous Sweeney or the dour Anatoly. He is greatly handicapped in Chess by having to affect a Russian accent, which I really hope the production drops. But! He pulled out all stops in Act II, both for the songs and the acting, and won me over with his intensity and vocal power.

So basically: the book is still flawed and they need to cut the runtime, particularly in Act I. This was the second night of previews, so there's still time for changes before the show technically "opens". If we're lucky, they'll start by cutting the topical jokes.

But the point of Chess has never been the book; it is the score full of bangers and power ballads. The music is by ABBA's Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and the lyrics by Ulvaeus and Tim Rice. And the musical performances are GREAT. I am still guiltily fond of the kinda-no-really-very-racist "One Night in Bangkok" (which can plausibly be explained as Freddie's typical white guy take on the city) and which in this production is a camp masterpiece. I am seriously tempted to see the show again just for that.

lannamichaels

In my reading of Game Of Thrones fic, I developed an urge for fic where Elia Martell Targaryen (why some married women are only referred to by their maiden names and some are always only referred to by their married names, I do not know) and her kids don't die. It would be interesting to see what it would change!, I thought. Surely it doesn't need to change a huge amount necessarily, but it would great to see it!

And so I went looking and found a bunch and it turns out.

It turns out that when you want fic where legitimate claimants to a throne survive, you get a ton of fic about Targaryen restoration. You get so many fics that are love letters to the Targaryens.

I don't care about Targaryen restoration! I don't like the Targaryens and see no reason why I should! (Except for Aemon, the Targaryen maester who is still alive at the Wall, I allow that he's really intruiging.)

Also I will admit the first time I saw the pairing of Jon Snow/Rhaenys Targaryen, I had a full blown "why? why the fuck?"

But yeah I get it, if Jon Snow is her long lost half-brother, then it's true Targaryen heritage to ship them. I don't see it, I don't even like the ship, and it's interesting how I have no problem whatsoever with Jon Snow/Sansa Stark, who were raised as half-siblings, but my reaction to Jon/Rhaenys is "I'm completely uninterested in reading this". Also I'm not really into Jon/Daenerys.

Maybe it's the whole enforced-incest of the Targaryens? IDK.

But also.

Reading the fic.

Okay so I am never going to read the books, I have long since been warned off from all the grimdark rape, and I am never going to watch the show, ditto.

I did not realize how small the amount of time the Targaryens have actually been ruling in Westeros. They only showed up like 300 years ago???? In a setting where people are like "my family has been ruling in this one spot for 10,000 years" or whatever, the Targaryens are new kids on the block who showed up with dragons, conquered everyone, had several (!) really bad rulers, constantly married each other (in violation of the local religion, and no one else was allowed to copy their behavior because they're special), seemed to do very little marrying out to the locals because who needs to shore up support, dealt with civil war/rebellion, lost their dragons, had a really fucking awful last king, and then, surprise, they were overthrown.

And you want those folks back? You are nostalgic for the wonderful days of the people who showed up five minutes ago and were generally terrible?

Also blowing my mind was, okay, I had been told over and over again that Baratheons all look a certain way since time immemorial and so that's why obviously if you look into it, Cersei's kids can't be Robert's.

But the Baratheons were founded as a new house by a Targaryen bastard. The looks of the Baratheons are the opposite of the Targaryens. Also this is also only like 300 years ago, and Westeros seems to enjoy a society where there are several pathways to ensure that only one or two of your sons are allowed to have children (maesters, the wall, endless wars).

So all this is kind of amusing from a "reading fic without knowing canon" perspective, the slow unfolding of, oh my god, what is going on in this canon. But also the mismatch of people who have actually read/watch this canon and what they want to write (Targaryen restoration, Targaryen incest) vs. me who has not done that, and what I want to read.

But actually what I want to write is a fic where Jon Snow actually is Ned Stark's bastard. Ah, yes, I see here that "Ned Stark is very honorable". Uh-huh. Well, he had an affair with a woman who is a sex worker/laundress/woman who was interested before his marriage and then, because he is so honorable, he took the child in and raised him, rather than leaving Jon Snow to live in poverty.

This explains nothing about why Ned Stark wouldn't tell Jon Snow about this mother but I'm sure we can come up with something (the mother was already married? who cares).

But I'm not writing this, entirely because I have no idea of a plot to go along with this. Oh and also I'm not reading/watching this, but I wrote an MDZS drabble without reading the book/finishing the show.

queen_ypolita

All sorts of viruses have been doing the rounds in the office, but it still seemed I caught this cold out of nowhere until I struggled to sleep on Monday night. People with fireworks until at least 11pm didn't help, but constant sneezing was the major issue. The end result was getting up on Tuesday feeling I'd barely slept. At least I was already going to be working from home because of the dentist appointment. I wasn't sure how I'd get through it with the way my nose was constantly running, but the actual appointment went fine. It was just that I needed two boxes of tissues to get through the rest of the day. Yesterday went better. I had planned to be in the office on Wednesday but my head felt so dull in the morning and I wasn't sure if it was going to be another day constantly holding onto a tissue, I worked from home. Today, I felt better in the morning, so I felt ready for the office. That did mean trying to fight the cough with water and hot drinks at times, but it was OK.

I'm on leave tomorrow so I can set out for Brighton in the afternoon. I'm hoping the cough settles a bit more, otherwise going to the concerts might be a bit stressful.

queen_ypolita

Finished since the last reading post
When Will There Be Good News?, which I liked.

The Voyage Home by Pat Barker. I think I've enjoyed the previous two in the series more than I did this one, but it was still good.

Currently reading
Started reading Co-intelligence by Ethan Mollick. Also started reading The End of Innocence by Simon Garfield. I don't think I've made progress with anything else.

Reading next
I've got a library book waiting

jadelennox

and that's why we had to have pasta for dinner.

trobadora

The AWS outage is affecting DW notifications - some are delayed, some may be lost.

I only noticed I wasn't getting emails about my own comments after I'd already posted a bunch, so I hope they'll get delivered eventually! In the meantime it's probably useful to manually check back for new comments/replies.

(None of the websites and services I used today were noticeably affected otherwise, luckily. I hope everything has come back for everyone else.)

trobadora

Dear Yulewriter,

thank you so much for writing a story for me!

I've requested and received all of these fandoms before - some for many, many years - and I love them all. Two of them are related to my current main fandom (Guardian) through the main actors, so I might mention them more on DW, but please don't think that means I want my other requests any less! Regardless of what we matched on, rest assured that you really can't go wrong here. Just the existence of new fic for any of these fandoms and characters will make me incredibly happy.

My AO3 account is

Trobadora, and it's set to welcome treats.

Everything important is in the requests themselves, but if you'd like even more info, general likes etc., here you go:

General Preferences

( Likes & Dislikes/DNWs )

Fandoms and characters

Jump directly to:

( 绅探 | Detective L (TV): Luo Fei & Huo Wensi )

( L'Oréal 'Time Engraver' Commercials: The Time Engraver, Worldbuilding )

( Nantucket trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash & Raupasha )

( Ring of Swords - Eleanor Arnason: Ettin Gwarha & Sanders Nicholas )

( Starfire series - Various Authors: Zhaarnak'diaano | Zhaarnak'telmasa & Raymond Prescott )

( 长公主在上 | Eldest Princess On Top: Li Yunzhen & Gu Xuanqing )

( 1632 series - Various Authors: John Chandler Simpson )

Ahem. Lengthy as always. But I hope you'll find something inspiring in here, and most of all, that you'll have fun writing! :)

ruuger

So I've suddenly started getting quite a lot of comments to my old Doggett/Reyes fics lately - I'm guessing people are binging X-Files on Disney+ (and/or have rediscovered Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish thanks to Peacemaker and Flanaganverse) - but I just got the best/worst comment to a fic I posted in 2004:

this fic is older than me lmao but i really like it. you’ve captured doggett’s voice so well

I am ded.

vass

~~This is a placeholder. I'll finish the letter after I finish the signup and before assignments go out.~~ I DID IT! First time ever I managed to write this letter before the signup deadline. \o/

Dear Yuletide Author,
Thank you for offering a fandom we matched on. I hope you have a good fic exchange season.

General likes: Worldbuilding. Queer and trans people and polyamory. Gen and shipping are both fine. Bad puns (all puns are bad puns). Dinosaurs. Spaaaaace. AIs (not in the LLM sense!). Non-AI computers. Aliens that are alien. Science! (accurate or cartoony). People working together. Kissing. Co-sleeping. Infodumping is Good, Actually. Experimental formats and/or interactive fiction are welcome.

DNWs: animal harm, sad cats, dementia or terminal illness, rape/noncon, misgendering, ableism.

Fandom-specific

16th Century CE RPF
Characters: Michel de Montaigne
Character Exceptions: My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

( more )

Translation State - Ann Leckie
Characters: Qven, Reet Hluid
Character Exceptions: My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

( more )

Prophet - Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald
Characters: Any
Character Exceptions: My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

( more )

the well-meaning mortician and the undead ghoul man whom he cannot embalm (Tumblr post)
Characters: the well-meaning mortician, the undead ghoul man he cannot embalm
Character Exceptions: My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

( more )

Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
Characters: Aioru, Lazo Mdang, Princess Anastasiya, Quintus Mdang
Character Exceptions: My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

( more )

And that's all. Thank you again, and have a fun and non-stressful Yuletide!

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