We started out to do our first walk today: taking a bus to just outside the town and walking a long (loooong) loop back to our hotel. The company estimates it at five hours of walking, and says to allow seven when you add rest stops and lunch breaks and so on.
First the bus let us off at the wrong place. Then -- epic fail #1 -- we thought it had let us off too soon rather than too late, and walked way too far along the road looking for where we wanted to be, before realizing and backtracking alllll the way again. Having now walked two hours already, we decided to just do an out and back partway along the loop, to a conveniently placed visitors' centre and back, and then catch the reverse bus back home, but -- epic fail #2 -- forgot to check the return bus schedule. (I thought I had it downloaded, so I didn't think to check the bus stop sign; but I did not have it downloaded.)
Then we had to cast about a bit at the start of the walk, because the directions were a bit confusing; we'll be sending a note to the company about a few infelicities. Starting with, they said there was a red phone box at the bus stop we wanted to get off at, and since we'd been watching and hadn't seen one, that's why we thought we'd been let off too soon; but the phone box is not (is no longer?) red, so we'd missed it. (We still should have realized where we were from other clues, but that threw us off at the start. For the rest of it, I blame catastrophic jetlag.)
Anyway, we finally got ourselves oriented and hiked crosscountry to the visitors' centre. It was a lovely walk! Gorgeous scenery of hills and farms, sunny and windy and cool. It amazes and delights me that we can just blithely walk into and across farmers' fields, past (and sometimes carefully through) their cattle and sheep herds.
Thankfully the visitors' centre was open and had (a bathroom and) free wifi -- cellphone signal was bad to nonexistent all day, and never strong enough for a data connection. So we were able to get online and check the return bus schedule, which turned out to be: one passing in an hour, and we could not have backtracked fast enough to catch it, and one passing in four hours, which would mean idling by the side of the road for two and a half hours. And that was it for the day. If we'd remembered to check the schedule before heading out, we could have made sure to turn around and head back in time to catch the first one. Epic fail.
Plus, by the time we got to the centre, Geoff's feet were very tired and he didn't think he was up to backtracking across country the way we had come. Going back along roads would have been easier walking, but significantly longer, plus the roads are quite narrow and have virtually no verge, so walking along them, as we had done in the morning, meant constantly jumping up onto the few steep inches of grass and bramble between the roadway and the hedge whenever a car came by.
So we punked out and phoned the taxi guy who had picked us up at the rail station the day before and taken us to our hotel (as I've remarked to a couple people, yesterday we took a car to a train to a bus to a plane to a train to a train to a train to a taxi to our hotel), and he was willing to come pick us up and take us back to our hotel. (For a lot of money, but our only alternative was to hitchhike, which is our absolute last resort.) He's a friendly guy, very loquacious with details and anecdotes about the area, but his accent is so unfamiliar to us that I think we miss a quarter to a third of what he says! When Geoff phoned him, he wasn't familiar with the visitors' centre we were at and asked for our what3words location, and I was worried that the words would get mistranscribed because his accent and Geoff's are so different. But Geoff spelled each word out, and he did manage to find us, though it took him forty-five minutes to get there: "that's the middle of nowhere!" he'd exclaimed to Geoff when he'd pulled up our location. We had a pleasant wait sitting outside at one of the centre's picnic tables, and after a while struck up a conversation with a local man who was bicycling around the area. He confirmed that it's very isolated; once the volunteer staff of the visitors' centre go home, there's very few people around.
Anyway, now we're back at the hotel, rather earlier than we'd expected to end the day! In the end, though, it wasn't a bad day. Now Geoff is napping and I'm blogging, after which there will be a lot of showering before dinner. And we have learned many mistakes not to make on tomorrow's hike!
An irony here is that I was a little worried that I wasn't in good enough shape for this week, and would be holding Geoff back, and instead it was Geoff who flagged today! In fairness, his pack is heavier than mine; he carries more things. (Even when he was already starting to flag, he offered to take my half-full water bottle in trade for an empty one, to lighten my load at his expense; I declined the offer.)
Tomorrow's hike is listed as "not a long day, but a hard one": four and a half hours of walking, they say to allow six hours in all, and a cumulative ascent of 750 meters. Here's hoping we can make it!
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Pre-orders have opened for: the second (and presumably final) volume of I Wish I Knew How to Quit You* (总有老师要请家长, pinyin: zong you laoshi yao qing jiazhang) by Jing Wu (璟梧), a contemporary romance between a teacher and the mother of one of her students, which develops following a one-night stand; the contemporary romance As She Wished (如她所愿, pinyin: ru ta suo yuan) by Qin Si (秦寺); and the contemporary romance If I Could Mail You a Book (如果给你寄一本书, pinyin: ruguo gei ni ji yi ben shu) by Yi Zhan Ye Deng (一盏夜灯). All three are mainland editions, so will be in simplified Chinese and censored.
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*A note on the title translation: I Wish I Knew How to Quit You is the 'official' English title given in the uncensored print edition of the novel by Hong Kong publisher Wutong. My own preferred title translation is Last Night at the PTA Conference. The manhua fan translation has elected to go with the painfully literal There Are Always Teachers Who Want to Ask out Parents.
I started a post a week ago, got partway through, and then... stopped. I'd gotten what I'd wanted out of writing it, I suppose, and didn't need to either finish or share it.
So! Assorted things!
1. Flying down from Portland to the SF Bay reminded me of the amount I like bahn mi (because the airport had a Vietnamese place and I was immediately struck by yes I want this), a thing that is technically possible to get in this area but takes more thought/driving than I prefer. Hanging out on the phone with hafnia yesterday as she made buns for bahn mi reminded me of this. xD (She was also formatting the almost-25k AU-of-our-OW-stuff fic she wrote for me while we were talking, which is why I ended up providing the title and most of the tags. Love some good angst with a happy ending! Grief/mourning! Trans feels!) (If you're like "wait if this is a gift fic why is it a co-author thing instead of a gifted work" the answer is "because this is what makes more sense as to the process according to us" and also I drew an art that's in there too.)
2. Went back to work. Was told that yup, I'm still working with the same guy. Asked him what we were doing and was told we were still working on the same things as when I'd left. Two weeks passed and nothing changed. Is this soothing? idk. It's certainly easy.
One of the guys who does management in the company I work for stopped by the worksite, and one of his reasons was that he wanted to talk to me.
"I'm looking ahead to future jobs," he began, rather awkwardly. "Not sure how to ask this in a way that's..."
"Respectful?" I suggest, already knowing where this is going.
"Yeah, something like that." He pauses. "When I do the paperwork for some jobs, I need to record how many workers are female. Should I count you as female?"
"I am legally female," I tell him, which is true. (I have no reason to update paperwork? The ways in which I care make it more convenient to let everything continue saying F, in fact.)
Immediately, and with great relief at hopefully ending a conversation he does not have the vocabulary for, he says, "Great! No need to say more, that's all I need to know."
Because I am not bothered by this conversation, and in fact have been wondering how long it'd take for someone to actually have it with me, I continue anyway. "I'm a minority gender anyway," I point out. "And I know that women are the only minority gender they track, so you should put me in that category regardless."
He nods, and then I let him actually change the subject to that he's been told that I'm the best apprentice on the job site, and multiple journeypeople (including the one I work with) have praised me to him. A nice thing to hear. I knew this, but, y'know, it's good that it's being passed up to the people who make hiring decisions.
He also said he expected me to do very well, since I clearly am here to learn and put effort in. Asked me about school, and I told him that I'm looking forward to this year beginning and doing CAD, since that's something I really wanted to learn and get into. (Gotta say it while I've got his attention, y'know?)
At which point he's all "I don't want to make you feel like this is a bad goal but" and tells me that he thinks AI is going to be taking over that particular bit of the field. Which is silly, because even if you have an neural network generate a first draft of where it thinks ductwork should go in a building etc, you still need a human to check it over, and I do not think that significantly reduces a human's role in doing the work.
(also I talked to my best friend, whose job involves entirely too much going "AI is not what you think it is nor as good as you think it is" at professors etc at the university they work at, and they were like "yeah, AI is going to crash soon anyway just because it costs too much", so like. whatever.)
anyway work continues apace and is mostly not too exasperating even when I'm like "idk that this is the most efficient use of manpower, but whatever I'm not being paid to manage this" (can we just. stay on a floor until we finish it. instead of bouncing between three almost-finished floors.)
3. I went out to the Albany area on Monday to visit a dear friend. Got reminded that (a) it's a really pretty drive, (b) it's not as long a drive as I think it is, and (c) we really really love each other a lot.
Was all "I visited you here once before, for new years before the pandemic" and she apparently has no memory of this? I have MANY specific memories of that visit. It's fine, just a bit "huh, okay", says something about the state she was in at that time even if she seemed fine to me then.
Talked a lot, mostly. About being trans, and dysphoria and what we're doing about it, about neurodivergence and our childhoods and families, and about the summer camps we met at when we were teens. (So many of the people we were like "hey do you remember—" about one of us was like "yeah, different name and pronouns now!" about. not many we keep in touch with, really, but even so.)
This was aided by her partner also being there going "wait can you explain context for me", because yeah we've known each other and loved each other for like... half our lives? That's a long time. We drift in and out of each other's lives but whenever we're in the same place again we fit right back together. It's gotten easier each time, too, as we become more ourselves.
She's going to be leaving again soon, as she does. She's built her own tiny mobile home that she can hook up to her truck and drive around. It's mostly done; she thinks it'll be pretty much complete for off-grid living in the next two years. Always more things she could add, of course, but it's so close, and she's been working on it for... I forget exactly, but I think it was a pre-pandemic project too. Wants to end up in the Vancouver area, she said, but she's stopping by I think Chicago region first to work on restoring a wooden sailboat a mentor left to her, because she wants to take that mentor sailing one last time before her mentor is too old for it.
We also spent (after her partner had to leave to drive back to CT) like an hour and a half just touching, and probably could've spent more time like that were it not for the pesky fact that I had to, y'know, be a person and work the next day, and thus had to drive home.
A good time. Hopefully I'll see her again before she leaves the area again.
4. I reread Carol Berg's Transformation while travelling, and was struck by how much of it is foundational iddiness for me. xD I need to pick up the rest of the trilogy (borrowed that one from a friend who only owns the first, since they don't care about the other two) to see how much else is like "oh god yeah that sure was influential".
I'd remembered Seyonne's magic and winged form, obviously, but I'd forgotten Aleksander being cursed to transform into a giant cat, and some of the fate/soulbond-vibes stuff, and—
look I really love Carol Berg as an author but haven't reread her works in years and truly the only thing I could wish for about the ones I imprinted on is that I could have more women in them. xD Which is about par for the course for things with intense male-male bonds at their core.
5. I went down to a river yesterday, because the afternoon was beautiful and warm despite the morning being gray. Beautiful little spot, kind of in the middle of nowhere in particular, rather hidden; the sort of place you need to intentionally look for.
Somehow didn't expect it to be warm enough in the water that my immediate response wasn't so much "yeah I wanna wade along this" as "no I gotta immerse myself in this"? Too used to California snowmelt still, even after so long in MA.
spent like an hour in there. didn't see anyone else until when I was like "okay I guess I am getting too chilly to want to hang out longer, should probably put clothes back on and leave". (The person I saw at that point was also like "yes this is a place for being IN WATER" so, y'know, same vibe. sort of nodded at each other and then continued on our ways.)
6. Is it really an entry if I don't talk about aikido at least a little?
One of my friends is gonna take shodan at the beginning of November, so I've been going over to practice with them as I can. Got to do koshinage with them this past week at the end of class, because that dojo's sensei likes doing high-level practice as a demo for everyone else to watch. (His dojo is mostly newer students, so it's a joy for them to have visitors who can help showcase high-level practice, especially when it's stuff like me and that friend really going at it because we know each other well.)
The result of that particular session was us both going "gotta practice koshinage more". xD We both know three of them solidly, which is to be clear more than is necessary for the test, but there are two others they sort of remember and I should also know, so we're like "gotta show up to test prep and do some practice just on this". It'll happen when it can.
On Wednesday, one of the kids came to adult class; her schedule changed with the beginning of the school year, so that she can't make it to kids class, and she's got the height and skill for adult class even if she's a little younger than would ordinarily go to it, so... it worked out, she did great, everyone is taking very good care of her.
Gonna be a dojo party this afternoon, too, even with a storm likely to hit right over when it's happening. Always fun to see those folk outside the dojo in a more social situation. (They go out for drinks after class on Wednesdays a lot of the time and it's just like. I would love to join them, because alcohol is not actually the point, but my schedule is several hours earlier than anyone else's and so instead I'm like "alas I need to go home and eat food and shower and sleep". So. This is nice. It's at a time I can be a person!)
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Key Takeaways
YouGov’s weekly tracker shows a growing divergence between positive and negative feelings throughout the year.
Frustration among Americans has climbed 15 percentage points (p.p.) since January 2025, while optimism has dropped 5 points.
Economic anxiety is now the top issue for Americans, correlating with rising negative sentiment.
Each week, YouGov’s ongoing sentiment tracker asks Americans how they’ve felt over the past seven days. Respondents can select multiple emotions, and the results provide a real-time snapshot of collective mood. Emotions are split between positive (e.g. happy, optimistic, inspired) and negative (e.g. sad, frustrated, stressed) categories.
While emotional data can be highly subjective, long-term patterns are valuable in identifying shifts in public sentiment—and 2025 is seeing a decisive move toward the negative.
Week
Happy
Optimistic
Inspired
Sad
Frustrated
Stressed
02/01/2025
63%
35%
23%
23%
25%
35%
09/01/2025
57%
33%
23%
20%
26%
35%
16/01/2025
56%
33%
21%
24%
27%
35%
23/01/2025
57%
32%
26%
21%
28%
35%
30/01/2025
52%
33%
23%
28%
34%
42%
06/02/2025
51%
32%
23%
24%
32%
39%
13/02/2025
53%
33%
22%
23%
34%
41%
20/02/2025
52%
31%
22%
20%
31%
37%
27/02/2025
53%
33%
20%
24%
32%
39%
06/03/2025
52%
31%
22%
26%
35%
43%
13/03/2025
51%
29%
21%
25%
37%
41%
20/03/2025
50%
31%
19%
25%
35%
41%
27/03/2025
50%
29%
19%
23%
34%
42%
03/04/2025
53%
26%
19%
23%
31%
38%
10/04/2025
51%
29%
22%
23%
35%
43%
17/04/2025
51%
28%
19%
21%
31%
40%
24/04/2025
51%
31%
20%
24%
34%
41%
01/05/2025
51%
28%
18%
22%
35%
42%
08/05/2025
56%
33%
22%
24%
34%
42%
15/05/2025
54%
31%
21%
22%
31%
38%
22/05/2025
55%
29%
18%
25%
35%
42%
29/05/2025
55%
31%
20%
24%
38%
42%
05/06/2025
56%
29%
19%
24%
34%
41%
12/06/2025
54%
31%
22%
24%
34%
39%
19/06/2025
56%
27%
19%
25%
35%
39%
26/06/2025
52%
27%
19%
27%
38%
48%
03/07/2025
51%
29%
19%
25%
41%
46%
10/07/2025
54%
29%
17%
31%
40%
46%
17/07/2025
52%
26%
17%
27%
39%
45%
24/07/2025
56%
29%
22%
27%
39%
45%
31/07/2025
55%
32%
20%
26%
38%
44%
07/08/2025
54%
30%
18%
28%
36%
45%
14/08/2025
55%
29%
16%
24%
35%
42%
21/08/2025
55%
30%
19%
27%
40%
46%
The most obvious takeaway? Frustration has jumped from 25% to 40% of respondents, while optimism fell from 35% to 30%, showing a clear 10-point divergence over eight months.
What’s Fueling America’s Bad Vibes?
While emotions are complex, the economy likely plays a starring role in this shift. In a recent CBS News poll, 70% of Americans said they view the economy as “bad,” and personal financial outlooks have dimmed even further compared to earlier in the year.
In fact, Statista data from July 2025 shows that “inflation and the high cost of living” now top the list of personal challenges, ahead of healthcare, housing, and crime.
At the same time, YouGov’s own consumer confidence index dropped for the second consecutive month in July, reflecting anxiety about both household budgets and the broader economy.
Emotions Moving in Opposite Directions
The biggest emotional driver on the positive side, feeling “happy”, has declined 6 percentage points since January. Meanwhile, the negative feeling of “stressed” is now affecting more than one-third of the population each week, surpassing levels seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This diverging emotional trajectory reveals a public mood increasingly dominated by worry and weariness—one that may continue unless economic pressures ease or confidence rebounds.
This was one of a sequence of books in a soft reboot of the Eighth Doctor range, in which the Doctor has lost his memory and must live through the 20th century - in this case the Cold War. Terrance Dicks increasingly recycled his old ideas, or perhaps obsessions into his book. This one features a shadowy set of beings called The Players about which I recall little, beyond that they had already been inserted into various books of his. Anyway, at least I remember something about this one.
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Key Takeaways
Five countries account for the vast majority of cumulative plastic waste that escapes and washes up on other countries’ beaches.
Seven of the top 10 countries on the list are in Asia.
In the past decade, plastic pollution has become one of the most visible environmental issues worldwide. Every year, millions of tonnes of plastic enter the ocean, affecting marine life, coastal communities, and ecosystems.
This visualization ranks the countries responsible for the highest cumulative leakage of mismanaged plastic waste that escaped and washed up on other countries’ beaches from 2010 to 2019. The data for this visualization comes from the Global Plastic Hub.
Asia Leads in Ocean Plastic Leakage
China is the largest contributor, responsible for over 2.6 million tonnes of plastic waste that ended up on foreign beaches. It’s followed by the Philippines (1.7 million tonnes), and India (966,000 tonnes). Rapid economic growth, urbanization, and inadequate waste management systems contribute to these high figures.
Seven of the top 10 countries on the list are in Asia, underlining the region’s central role in the global ocean plastic crisis.
Rank
Country
Tonnes (2010-2019)
1
China
2,683,631
2
Philippines
1,695,260
3
India
966,447
4
Brazil
639,665
5
Indonesia
599,020
6
Nigeria
496,841
7
Viet Nam
484,457
8
Turkey
354,441
9
Thailand
338,685
10
Malaysia
332,756
11
Bangladesh
315,755
12
Venezuela
231,132
13
Bird Island
231,132
14
Myanmar
209,495
15
Egypt
208,321
16
Algeria
157,952
17
Tanzania
114,737
18
Ghana
107,907
19
Taiwan, Province of China
97,418
20
Uruguay
94,544
21
Tunisia
89,176
22
Haiti
84,238
23
Dominican Republic
83,121
24
Libya
73,477
25
Mozambique
72,578
26
Cameroon
67,709
27
Côte d'Ivoire
57,394
28
Pakistan
53,641
29
Angola
52,877
30
Colombia
47,506
31
Morocco
44,087
32
Sri Lanka
41,648
33
Peru
39,863
34
Papua New Guinea
36,165
35
Yemen
35,625
36
Trinidad and Tobago
35,244
37
Benin
32,298
38
Togo
31,773
39
Mexico
31,004
40
South Africa
30,352
41
Ecuador
29,678
42
Solomon Islands
27,939
43
Honduras
26,859
44
Greece
25,983
45
Ukraine
25,859
46
Guinea
25,167
47
Comoros
24,691
48
Sierra Leone
23,826
49
Hong Kong, China
23,471
50
Russian Federation
20,770
51
Senegal
19,569
52
Lebanon
19,420
53
Guatemala
19,015
54
Albania
18,501
55
U.S.
16,910
56
Panama
16,346
57
Jamaica
16,260
58
Belize
15,383
59
Guyana
15,235
60
Nicaragua
15,199
61
Liberia
14,220
62
Kuwait
12,740
63
Gambia
12,178
64
Suriname
11,589
65
Sudan
11,308
66
Guinea-Bissau
10,819
67
Iran
10,750
68
Congo
9,476
69
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
8,873
70
Kenya
7,941
71
El Salvador
7,504
72
Netherlands
6,488
73
UK
6,242
74
Timor-Leste
6,238
75
Italy
5,930
76
Spain
5,708
77
Canary Islands (Sp.)
5,708
78
Eritrea
5,677
79
Equatorial Guinea
5,328
80
Argentina
4,847
81
Costa Rica
4,384
82
Saudi Arabia
4,099
83
Croatia
3,964
84
Djibouti
3,401
85
Japan
3,208
86
Syrian Arab Republic
3,019
87
Australia
2,920
88
Ashmore & Cartier Is.
2,920
89
Republic of Korea
2,865
90
Mauritania
2,845
91
United Arab Emirates
2,659
92
Somalia
2,371
93
Israel
2,368
94
Fiji
2,340
95
Cambodia
2,212
96
Gabon
2,199
97
Madagascar
2,132
98
Germany
1,899
99
Romania
1,825
100
Montenegro
1,804
101
Saint Lucia
1,591
102
Chile
1,447
103
Sao Tome and Principe
1,255
104
France
1,105
105
Vanuatu
997
106
Cape Verde
975
107
Qatar
868
108
Samoa
809
109
Brunei Darussalam
797
110
Portugal
702
111
Azores Islands (Port.)
702
112
Madeira Islands (Port.)
702
113
Grenada
553
114
Sweden
514
115
Ireland
508
116
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
466
117
Poland
439
118
Georgia
424
119
Canada
421
120
Dominica
408
121
Finland
397
122
Namibia
387
123
Barbados
302
124
Puerto Rico (USA)
287
125
Oman
258
126
Tonga
246
127
Latvia
211
128
Bahrain
204
129
Bahamas
179
130
Antigua and Barbuda
172
131
Micronesia
167
132
DRC
149
133
Norway
130
Plastic Waste Doesn’t Stay Local
Plastic debris often travel thousands of kilometers across oceans, carried solely by currents, wind, tides, and time. For example, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—a massive swirling zone between California and Hawaii—accumulates plastic from as far as Asia, North America, and South America. The patch spans around 1.6 million km², comparable to twice the size of Texas.
The annual economic costs due to marine plastic pollution are estimated to be between $6-19 billion. According to the OECD, preventing land-based plastic leakage into the ocean across 38 member countries and 10 major plastic waste emitters in Asia and Africa could cost more than $86 billion.
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Reading/writing/thinking a lot about Andor at the moment. I liked S1 but it didn't spark any hugely fannish impulses for me in terms of transformative fandom; S2 I had some bigger issues with and also some bigger likes with, and now I've written a few fics already and have 43,000 words and counting of a genfic that will not let me out of its grip.
Many Star Wars feelings now, though.
My ongoing Star Wars sorrow is that I have loved it so much for so long and YET always felt like there’s a voice - canon, fan discourse, creators - saying “just fyi this is a Boy Thing :) You can visit, that’s cool, but if you want a story FOR you you’ll have to sketch it in round the edges.” and I know this and yet like clockwork every few years there’ll be a new Star Wars thing where I fall back enough in love with it to let myself forget. “Oh no, this has a compelling female lead with an interesting story! Surely it’ll all be fine now, the canon won't let me down and I'll be able to read things about it without grumbling like Muttley!” Star Wars as the eternal "baby I've chaaaaaaaanged" ex.
Anyway Andor s2 was the first Star Wars thing for ages that hit the exact right code to trigger my personal Star Wars I Am In Love With brain setting, but it has also switched on the So Many Unresolved Feelings About Star Wars brain setting. alas.
Blank Slate (魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)) written by Alwritey87, performed by pass_the_salt Summary: "I can't blame him." Wei Wuxian finished lamely. "If he wasn't the most perfect husband in the world, no way would he have known who it was." "I recognized you." Jiang Cheng nudged him. "First, by the way." "You thought every demonic cultivator was me for like what, thirteen years?" But he couldn't deny it. Somehow, the make-up, the act, the new body, hadn't been enough to hide behind. Jiang Cheng had known. Or how, after a year, Wei Wuxian finally has time to think about what it really means to be in a stranger's body.
Happy Ever After (The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Hawkeye (Marvel Comics)) written by 42donotpanic, performed by 429_CarCrash Summary: Clint Barton liked his Soulmark. It meant that he didn't have to worry about dating--and relationships failing, because he always had the excuse that they weren't meant to last. But... Maybe he had been wrong about that all along, because that new regular really was cute... --- Bucky Barnes didn't care about his Soulmark. He was going to find his Soulmate sooner or later, but that didn't mean he had to waste the time in between waiting around. Right now, he had moved back to his home town, down one arm and his bike, and he sure wasn't going to let his life get ruined any more than that. --- OR: A Story about how Clint found his Happy Ever After long before he found his soulmate.
A Bit on the Mild Side (Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types) written by nemorps, performed by Elle_dubs Summary: When Peter first hooked up with Deadpool, he had a feeling he was in for a wild ride, and he'd been right. Deadpool was absurd, and there really didn't seem to be any kink that was off the table. They'd done everything from food porn to bondage to bladder extension. Deadpool wanted to try it all, and Peter was game. So it was with a hefty bout of confidence that Peter approached his partner one evening and said low into Wade's ear from behind, "I want to try something new." OR Peter wants to try sex with his powers, then decides maybe he doesn't want to do that. Wade helps him figure out why.
GUMSHOE (전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong) written by timegoesby, performed by mistynrisky Summary: A hard-boiled detective, a distraught dame with an odd problem, and a mastermind behind the scenes — together, they'll work to assemble a little mystery where nothing is quite as it seems.
[Sub Scenario - Embedded Narrative has started.]
Thank You For The Music [text, audio] (Warehouse 13) written by Lavendelhummel, performed by blackglass, Flowerparrish, klb, Lavendelhummel, and lilolilyrae Summary: Helena likes singing ABBA lovesongs to Myka. Post-series, post-marriage, post-working through everything, she does so at breakfast. Certain witnesses to that occurrence call for a Mamma Mia movie night. But they are still associated to the warehouse… and the warehouse tries its hand at ABBA-meddling (pun intended). I don’t think you need to know the movie to understand, but it might be more fun ;)
The Disappearance of Robin Buckley (Stranger Things (TV 2016), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)) written by flipflop_diva, performed by reena_jenkins Summary: They were supposed to sign a simple NDA and put the whole Russian bunker incident behind them. But that is not at all what happened to Nancy Wheeler and Robin Buckley.
Audiophile (Beetlejuice - Perfect/Brown & King) written by SweetPollyOliver and redtailedhawk90, performed by SweetPollyOliver and redtailedhawk90 Summary: Lydia never expected to meet her favourite audio erotica creator by accidentally clocking him at work. But then, nothing about Lawrence was expected.
La Meowpera: A Tragedy In Three Acts (No Fandom, Original Work) written by PresidentHades, performed by mybelleclochette, farkenshnoffingottom, SerenaEW, septemberbells, horchata, minnabird, AppleSapling, and Gavilan Summary: An emotional, heart-wrenching, meowsical experience that will have you weeping into your bowl of Fancy Feast! Come listen to the tragic tail of Madame Pawletta, a former opera star who finds herself facing her greatest rival yet…her own kitten, Catterina! What will Pawletta do when her own daughter receives more admeowration than she ever did? What on earth is that orange tom doing caterwauling beneath Catterina’s balcony? Will the mysterious butler Clawdio ever speak more than just one “meow” at a time? (AKA a parody of grand opera, with a complete musical cast and written lyrics so you can read along while listening.)
secret symphonies [text, audio] (แค่เพื่อนครับเพื่อน | Bad Buddy: the Series (TV)) written by becomingabeing, performed by ineedtodomylaundry Summary: Pa was fifteen when her bond manifested. It was late and she was huddled under the covers, sneakily reading manga on her phone when it happened. The first notes of music were almost inaudible, a melody whispered into the night and carried by the breeze. The realisation was immediate. This was no ordinary music—it came not from the outside, but from within Pa. It was soulbond music.
Will Jiang Cheng find a date for the lantern lighting festival at the end of Gusu Summer Camp, or will he break Nie Huaisang's and Wei Wuxian's legs first? Play this fully voiced MDZS visual novel to find out! Average playtime: 1-1.5 hours
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