tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923metonymymetonymymetonymy2024-03-11T01:42:51Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:606789naomi has theater opinions2024-03-11T01:12:01Z2024-03-11T01:42:51Zpublic0what's this, an entry? YES, I saw Theater and I have THOUGHTS<br /><br />First a bit of backstory: about a week and a half ago I sprained my knee. I had bought tickets to see Sleep No More and Merrily We Roll Along for the 8th and 9th, and I really did not want to cancel my plans and miss the shows. I was wearing a knee brace and using a cane. <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/606789.html#cutid1">Sleep No More</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />AND THEN. The next day! I went to see Merrily We Roll Along!<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/606789.html#cutid2">How did you get to be here?</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />Not-theater related but important: I had a great solo dinner and then brought dessert back to my hotel and watched Barbie, which was fine. And I can recommend Bagel Pub by Penn Station for a good big-style bagel.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=606789" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:605954dear yuletide writer 20232023-10-21T00:57:08Z2023-10-23T01:20:20Zpublic0<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/605954.html#cutid1">DNWs and likes</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/605954.html#cutid2">Blue Castle - L. M. Montgomery</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___3" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/605954.html#cutid3">Kushiel's Legacy - Jacqueline Carey</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___3" aria-live="assertive"></div> <br /> <br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___4" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/605954.html#cutid4">Gucci Fragrance Guilty 2023 Commercials</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___4" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___5" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/605954.html#cutid5">Worlds Beyond Number (Podcast)</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___5" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___6" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/605954.html#cutid6">Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___6" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=605954" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:605743media 20232023-01-03T00:24:27Z2023-12-24T14:14:40Zpublic0<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/605743.html#cutid1">films, shows, etc.</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=605743" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:605249yuletide letter 20222022-10-18T00:14:24Z2022-10-20T11:48:07Zpublic0Hello Yuletide Writer! <br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/605249.html#cutid1">DNWs and likes</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div> <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/605249.html#cutid2">Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897)</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___3" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/605249.html#cutid3">Exandria Unlimited: Calamity</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___3" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___4" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/605249.html#cutid4">The Gilded Age</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___4" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___5" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/605249.html#cutid5">Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___5" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=605249" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:605089metonymy @ 2022-01-05T22:22:002022-01-06T03:23:05Z2022-12-28T03:32:17Zpublic0<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/605089.html#cutid1">media 2022</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=605089" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:604642yuletide 2021: dear author2021-10-21T01:07:25Z2021-10-31T14:53:44Zpublic0HELLO YULETIDE AUTHOR. First of all, thank you for your patience! This letter is complete as of 10/31/21. <br /><br />What a year it's been, huh? Above all I hope you enjoy yourself writing this story. I'm not in it for anything super dark or tragic this year given the state of the world, but I hope I've given you enough room to write something you have fun with. If you have any questions feel free to contact the mods to pass questions along for me. <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/604642.html#cutid1">info below the cut</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=604642" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:603542yuletide recs!2019-12-31T15:17:12Z2020-01-05T00:25:29Zpublic0First off, I got a lovely story: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2019/works/21839935">'Tis A Gift To Be Simple,</a> for the musical adaptation of Legally Blonde, in which the author fills in a plot point I have always been annoyed by and Emmett invites Elle to Thanksgiving dinner with him and his mom. It's very sweet and exactly what I wanted. <br /><br />I also got a treat in Yuletide Madness for Little Women, <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletidemadness2019/works/21891289">Romeo et Juliet,</a> which is a brief but delightful "queer Jo March" story.<br /><br />AND I really wanted to get this up before reveals, so there might be some additions to this later, but here are my recs as of 10:16 AM on 12/31. <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/603542.html#cutid1">the rest of the recs under here</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=603542" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:603134DEAR YULETIDE WRITER 2K192019-11-02T23:02:03Z2019-11-07T02:06:06Zpublic0First of all, thank you for writing for me! I am very excited, and I love Yuletide in general - I've met some great people through it and I always enjoy the challenge of writing for someone, and getting a fic written just for me is delightful. Second, thank you for your patience, as of 11/6/19 this letter is now complete. <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/603134.html#cutid1">requests and more behind the cut!</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=603134" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:602749metonymy @ 2019-09-14T09:46:002019-09-14T13:50:59Z2019-09-14T13:50:59Zpublic0Here is a thing that is making me happy and that was too long for Twitter.<br /><br />My sister became friends with J, a girl in her class, when they were in kindergarten. They were nearly inseparable for all of their childhood and adolescence, our parents became friends, they were constantly at sleepovers at each other's houses. When they were in high school, J's dad (working for a branch of the federal government) got a promotion and the family moved to Virginia, but the girls stayed in touch. All the way through college, all the way through to now, through terrible boyfriends and family tragedies and cross-country moves. <br /><br />J's older sister, who's a little older than me, happens to live in Denver, where Isa lives now. And this week J is visiting her sister and her new nephew, and J and Isa have been hanging out. The pictures Isa has sent me are definitely different from the ones of the two of them in kindergarten - they're grown women, sitting in the front seat of her car, makeup on point, casually but comfortably dressed. My sister doesn't have huge glasses anymore, they're not both wearing pigtail braids. But their smiles are the same.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=602749" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:602426metonymy @ 2019-09-02T14:59:002019-09-02T19:12:15Z2019-09-02T19:12:15Zpublic2so, on the various stresses:<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/602426.html#cutid1">again in numbers</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=602426" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:602277time for a brain dump2019-08-09T19:10:16Z2019-08-09T20:12:34Zpublic4REASONS I AM STRESSED OUT<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/602277.html#cutid1">in convenient list form</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=602277" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:602031metonymy @ 2019-06-08T21:46:002019-06-09T02:03:39Z2019-06-09T02:03:39Zpublic1So the Good Omens miniseries premiered last week. For various reasons it took me a week to get around to it.<br /><br />And listen: Good Omens has been one of my favorite books since I was in high school. I loved my first copy so much it appears to have disintegrated into the ether. I bought a second copy when I was studying abroad in England because Terry Pratchett was doing a signing at the bookstore in our city (for a Discworld novel) and I waited in line and had him sign it and he was lovely and kind for the thirty seconds I talked to him. And then a friend was attending a Neil Gaiman signing and she had him sign the same copy, and I have the title page and cover in a frame (because the book itself was a misprinted paperback with a duplicated section and a chunk missing) and it's one of my treasures. I was on at least one mailing list for the book, and I remember reading a lot of very good fic about how Crowley and Aziraphale loved each other, and some about Adam and the Them that was also good, and reading people talk about some of the references that I didn't get yet. We reread it for our book club last month and I was surprised how much of the book I still have straight-up memorized. It holds up pretty well, for being written by two white straight dudes in England in the 1980s. I'm not as big a Neil Gaiman fan as I used to be, and I love the Pratchett I've read but I haven't seen any of the Discworld adaptations, and I was trying hard not to get my hopes up.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/602031.html#cutid1">I guess a cut for spoilers?</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=602031" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:601513three weeks late and a dollar short2019-01-21T17:59:12Z2019-01-21T17:59:35Zpublic0HELLO PALS. I had grand plans for a timely Yuletide reclist but we're most of the way through January and I am accepting defeat. Here are fics I liked! <br /><br />First up: I received <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/17075909">Common Ground,</a> a Tam Lin fic that covers Janet and Tina facing their term without Molly. I really enjoyed this! (Out of the three Tam Lin stories in this year's archive I received one and wrote a second. The third is also amazing.)<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/601513.html#cutid1">AND NOW, THE REST.</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=601513" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:600845YULETIDE 2018???2018-10-20T19:20:44Z2018-10-21T17:22:12Zpublic0HELLO YULETIDE WRITER. I love this exchange, I love the tradition, and I am excited for another year! I'm mostly active on <a href="http://anachronistique.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> these days, and a little bit active on AO3 <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/users/metonymy">here</a>. <br /><br />General likes: humor, friendship, family relationships and found families, adventures, happy endings, character studies, great dialogue, explorations of the world around the characters. Ratings from G to NC-17 are fine, though please keep the canon atmosphere in mind. <br /><br />General DNWs: graphic violence, rape, major character death, general grimdarkness, infidelity, bearding, A/B/O, watersports, scat, eye and dental trauma.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/600845.html#cutid1">Cinderella (Bourne)</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/600845.html#cutid2">Stardust (2007)</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___3" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/600845.html#cutid3">The Belles - Dhonielle Clayton</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___3" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___4" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/600845.html#cutid4">Tam Lin - Pamela Dean</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___4" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___5" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/600845.html#cutid5">Ghost Quartet - Malloy</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___5" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=600845" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:600718media in 20182018-01-23T15:03:57Z2019-05-03T01:47:12Zpublic0<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/600718.html#cutid1">everythingggg</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=600718" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:600573yooltied2018-01-01T00:47:11Z2018-01-01T00:47:11Zpublic0COMING IN UNDER THE WIRE! I wanted to get this in before reveals AND I DID. (I read a LOT of fic this week.)<br /><br />First of all, I received THREE gifts this year, I am positively spoiled:<br /><br /><a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/13053672">Have Yourself A Merry Little GLOWmas,</a> for the Netflix series GLOW; a Christmas party that goes predictably and is a beautiful little illumination of Debbie and Ruth's faltering journey back towards maybe-friendship.<br /><br /><a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/13136238">Stars and Crossbones</a>, for the Six of Crows series by Leigh Bardugo, Inej/Nina. Space pirates AU, updates the canon to the new setting flawlessly, characterization utterly perfect, and my girls being perfect.<br /><br /><a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/13113864">Waffles</a>, also for Six of Crows, a Madness ficlet with Nina and Inej FINALLY getting their waffles, and super adorable to boot.<br /><br />And now for… <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/600573.html#cutid1">the rest of the recs</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=600573" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:599245metonymy @ 2017-05-06T21:02:002017-05-07T01:19:04Z2017-05-07T01:19:04Zpublic1<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/599245.html#cutid1">A Good Day</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=599245" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:598997metonymy @ 2017-01-22T16:47:002017-01-22T22:14:59Z2017-01-22T22:14:59Zpublic3<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/598997.html#cutid1">rambling, marching, et al</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=598997" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:598085dear yuletide author2016-10-06T12:57:11Z2016-10-13T04:01:12Zpublic2HELLO YULETIDE WRITER. Thank you for your patience while I finished this letter - I was caught off guard by how early noms and signups were, and I definitely did not expect assignments to go out this fast. I've been doing Yuletide for a fair few years now, and I really do love it as an exchange. <br /><br />General likes: humor, friendship, family relationships and found families, adventures, happy endings, character studies, great dialogue, explorations of the world around the characters. Ratings from G to NC-17 are fine, though please keep the canon atmosphere in mind. <br /><br />General DNWs: graphic violence, rape, major character death, general grimdarkness, infidelity, incest, bearding, A/B/O, mpreg, watersports, scat.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/598085.html#cutid1">Fandoms: Hail Caesar!, Lunar Chronicles, Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Hadestown, Critical Role</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=598085" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:597797cheers. ta. cheers. ta.2016-07-02T02:44:31Z2016-07-05T02:03:29Zpublic0This is mostly for my own reference! I took a two-week trip to the UK and got back Wednesday night and it was EXHAUSTING and GREAT and I had an amazing time!<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/597797.html#cutid1">blah blah blah travelcakes</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />And then I came home and took another few days of vacation to recover from jetlag, AND THEN. AAAAAAAAND THEN.<br /><br />My sister moved to Colorado in March. She is loving it out there. But a couple months ago she messaged me and asked if I could help her out, because she was thinking of flying home to surprise my mom for her birthday (which is July 2d). And she wanted to keep it a secret from Mom AND Dad. <br /><br />I said of course I would help, because I'm not a monster. She bought a ticket to fly into Boston on Saturday at like 2 AM. I talked my parents into coming out for Mom's birthday - it would be nice to get a change of scene, they could come see me but I wasn't coming out to see them after my big trip, wouldn't it be great for Mom to have her birthday with one of her kids. Sister and I proceeded to lie like rugs so that neither of them knew this was coming. She arrived as promised in spite of delays and my parents managed to make it out in spite of Mom's ever-changing health issues. AND IT WORKED. Mom cursed very loudly and dad made an amazing expression of surprise. And then there was cake and dinner and sister went home with them for the rest of the weekend. It was delightful. YAY US.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=597797" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:596326dear yuletide writer 20152015-10-19T14:48:56Z2015-10-31T04:26:26Zpublic0HELLO, DEAREST WRITER. I've done Yuletide a few times now and every year I just get so pumped. It's a great exchange and I love both giving and receiving fic. If you'd like more information on what I like and what I'm a giant nerd about, you can check out my <a href="http://anachronistique.tumblr.com/">tumblr</a> or my <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/metonymy">AO3</a>. (It's kind of all Hamilton all the time on the tumblr right now, I apologize.)<br /><br />General likes: humor, friendship, family relationships, adventures, happy endings, character studies, great dialogue, explorations of the world around the characters. Ratings from G to NC-17 are fine, though please keep the canon atmosphere in mind. I tend to focus on the women in my fandoms, and I'm primarily a canon shipper, though there's one big exception on this list that I'll get to. <br /> <br />General DNWs: graphic violence, rape, major character death, general grimdarkness, incest, A/B/O, watersports, scat. I'm also not super into body horror. (By which I mean I am a GIANT WIMP.)<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/596326.html#cutid1">A Year and a Day in Old Theradane</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/596326.html#cutid2">Hamilton</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___3" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/596326.html#cutid3">Raven Cycle</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___3" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___4" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/596326.html#cutid4">Stardust</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___4" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___5" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/596326.html#cutid5">Uprooted</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___5" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=596326" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:595940bees are genetically engineered to recognize royalty2015-02-20T23:42:23Z2015-02-20T23:42:23Zpublic0Hi, journal friends.<br /><br />It's been a long time. A REALLY long time. <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/595940.html#cutid1">SOOOO LOOOONG</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=595940" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:595247Dear Yuletide Writer2014-10-24T22:59:55Z2014-10-26T19:12:30Zpublic0Hello, and thank you for signing up for Yuletide! I always find it to be a huge amount of fun and I hope you enjoy writing this year. Please don't take the relative lengths of requests as indicating whether I'm more excited about any fandom over another; it's more that a couple of them have given me very specific wants and others are more "keysmashing joy and flailing, anything would be wonderful, go wild."<br /><br />General DNWs: major character death, graphic violence, rape, darkfic in general. Some canons do include more violence than others, and canon-appropriate violence is fine, but no lingering descriptions of torture and gore, please. No incest, please. No a/b/o. I would prefer not to have mundane or modern-day AUs. <br /><br />General likes: humor, friendship, family relationships, adventures, happy endings, character studies, great dialogue, worldbuilding. Ratings from G to NC-17 are fine, though please keep the canon atmosphere in mind (i.e. nothing but PWP for Ms. Marvel would be a little weird, but Phryne getting her rocks off is totally in character). <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/595247.html#cutid1">Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/595247.html#cutid2">Hercules (2014)</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___3" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/595247.html#cutid3">Spiritwalker Trilogy - Kate Elliott</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___3" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___4" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/595247.html#cutid4">Ms. Marvel (Comics)</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___4" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___5" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://metonymy.dreamwidth.org/595247.html#cutid5">Bomb Girls</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___5" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=595247" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:594742metonymy @ 2014-09-13T17:51:002014-09-13T21:59:34Z2014-09-14T00:57:12Zpublic0I NEVER MADE THE TOO MANY BOOKS BOOK CLUB POST. I never posted about how my new job is going!<br /><br />In short: I think I made the wrong choice in taking this job. It's really, really not what I want to be doing long-term, even as I adjust to being at a new school and dealing with new people and new systems. So that sucks. But it does pay better, and I am going to learn a whole heck of a lot of new things, and I'm gonna suck it up and get through six months (self-determined deadline) and then start looking for internal opportunities. Or possibly external ones, even though the thought of changing everything over again is HORRIBLE. However, everyone in my office seems really nice and very helpful, and some of the ridiculousness I've been dealing with is just the time of year and the particular stuff we've been doing and having a ton of new students who also don't know what they're doing. (Also it's way less organized than my old department, which is unsurprising but not helpful in the least.) And I already survived "boot camp" so it could be worse.<br /><br />Also somewhere in there I turned 30! Many of my friends turned out to celebrate, and Lisa made me an OCTOPUS CAKE, and I had a rad time and I'm generally excited about my 30s. I'm also starting in the community chorus and we're singing the Faure Requiem which I did back in college, and I'm reading a bunch (of ebooks), and I have a cross-stitch piece in the "In the Name of the Moon" art show at Hub Comics (<a href="http://anachronistique.tumblr.com/post/96232150568/pictures-from-the-in-the-name-of-the-moon-show">pictures on my tumblr</a>) and today I went to Flour with Kait and Lindsay and had part of an amazing from-scratch pop tart, and next week I'm going to an event with Sarah Waters (!!!!!) and overall life is exciting and exhausting and pretty fantastic. <br /><br />(And I've bought some books, but we'll start fresh in October.)<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=594742" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:215923:594333"too many books" book club: july2014-07-05T14:38:10Z2014-07-05T14:38:10Zpublic0HI GUYS I DIDN'T POST EARLIER THIS WEEK BECAUSE IT WAS TOO DARN HOT.<br /><br />I didn't read much this month! I did read Girls at the Kingfisher Club, which I HIGHLY recommend, but mostly I did a lot of work and a lot of watching movies and TV. I did not take my books to sell because I am a procrastinator. Maybe next week! (I could go today but we threw a Happy Birthday Captain America party yesterday and I kind of just want to stay home and tidy up and not see people.)<br /><br />July plans: not die in the heat. Maybe read some books. WHO KNOWS.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=metonymy&ditemid=594333" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments