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My Javik Reading List

This is not really a rec list! It is everything I've read that I liked enough to note. If the fic hits the id the right way, I am highly tolerant of SPAG errors and sometimes outright OOCness, but will note what I like and what I disliked so you're forewarned. I'll put a * next to fic that I really really enjoyed.

Authors Beware! I think unsolicited concrit is rude but frankly talking about fic in your own space is fine, so I may have negative things to say, though if a fic had no redeeming features I just didn't include it. If you come across this by some accident and dislike my critique please take some solace in knowing that all my fic is trash lol.

Almost all fic is cis/cis. The biggest exceptions are when Viktor has a robo dick or there is nothing explicit in the fic.

The fic is divided by categories I have pulled out of my ass. It's a perpetual WiP and I'll add as I read.

LOL Verse

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Largely In-Universe

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Canon Divergence

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Post Show

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AUs

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I picked up these two CDs at the CD exchange a while back (when I got that Dream Theater album) but now I'm gonna review them. Tl;dr my music sniffing nose did it's job this time. I've picked up a few duds by just buying used CDs completely blind but I guess judging music by it's cover works well enough.

First CD is Prorok Ilja by Patriarch. It turns out this is kind of a group I have already heard. Many years ago for a fandom gift box someone recommended to me the band Batushka, which I enjoyed a lot, and this group is some sort of splinter group that happened after a rights fight. The tone is the same. Orthodox church vibes slathered in black metal and noise. This has been my play on repeat car CD since I got it.

The other CD I got I lost, and I don't remember the name of the band, so I guess I'll have to come back to that when it surfaces.

I've been reading a lot of Arcane fic, though the frantic pace at which I'm doing this has started to slow down a little, so I'm working on something of a "rec" list. It's more of a review list because some of the fic I've enjoyed I've enjoyed despite some rather significant issues, sometimes even with basic SPAG, but imo while it's certainly rude to give an unsolicited critique to an author, the personal journal is fair game.

And I have picked up another batch of snacks from the Eastern European shop. And, good news, the wall of snacks actually has a back side, so there are double the snacks that I originally thought! The bad news is I forgot entirely which ones I had gotten, or which ones I liked or didn't like. I stuck to the newly discovered back wall to prevent dupes.

Today I tried Gulliver from AVK. I didn't notice when I grabbed it, but it's a vegan chocolate bar, which on AVK's website says was developed well before veganism was popular. So it's a hipster vegan bar. It was also twice as big as all the other snacks, and is part of the "wafer covered in chocolate" family. Inside the wafer there is more chocolate, like a mouse, so this was a very rich candy and the 6" bar was more than enough for me. To likely no one's surprise, the quality of the chocolate is significantly better than our counter options here in the US.

I also tried a chocolate flavor frozen cheese curd snack. I think I liked it more than the orange even though the orange was good. It was chocolatey but not too rich or sweet. I'm becoming a real convert to these things, but I don't think they're easy to find without a specialty grocery like this nearby.

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of gingerbread Christmas trees, a silver ball, a tea light candle and a white confectionary snowflake on a beige falling-snowflakes background. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

This is actually a timely challenge, because I've been thinking I wanted to make a post that's just, "Everyone talk about Arcane with me, please, I beg you." The post I've been envisioning started out a little more whiny, because I just don't know where to nerd out about things with other people anymore. But I'm going to bite my tongue with my complaints about social media platforms these days and instead invite anyone who's interested to give me their Arcane takes/feels.

Got recs for fic or artists? Got a character you want to talk more about? Want to link some meta you or someone else has written? Want to list out some headcanons? Just have a topic you want to chatter about? Want to talk about what did and didn't work for you S2? Please go nuts!

Here are some prompts, but no one has to stick to these. Anything goes if it's Arcane or LoL lore related here.

What sort of "missing scenes" do you wish we had gotten?
What did you come away shipping, if anything, and what attracted you to the ship?
If you are a Jayvik fan, were you a day one truther? Did you come in from the old LoL pairing? Was it S2 that convinced you? How much of the old Vikjayce characterization do you like to see in fanworks if at all?
What are your thoughts on Maddie and Caitlyn? I kind of love them as a pairing? I think Maddie alone is an extremely interesting character. She was a double agent the whole time but her loyalty to Noxus is sexy, and I'm intrigued by the scene in which she's encouraging Caitlyn to end the lockdown of the undercity, or at least reminding her that the option is there. I wonder what her angle was there. And Cait could not have more clearly been using Maddie as a rebound, but if Vi had somehow been permanently off the table, say in the AU where she was dead, would she have maybe taken the relationship more seriously?

I keep saying to myself I need to make some Arcane icons so I should get to that...

Things have been so exceedingly busy at home that I still haven't made a nice little year in review post. I think the dust is starting to settle so maybe I'll get a chance to do that. I'm also constantly behind on the Snowflake Challenge.

( Snowflake Challenge 5-8 )

I haven't been commenting much on mutuals' posts even though I have been reading and enjoying all of them. So sorry, mutuals! I'm in one of those states where feeling overwhelmed with a lot of responsibilities leads to paralysis in random and weird places, and interacting with other people tends to take a major hit when I'm in that state.

Yesterday was a crazy day fandom wise.

First, Arcane.

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In the evening I went to see a live performance of Les Mis. ( Read more... )

Current Mood: high

RL stuff has been going on. I'm feeling better which is great, but also received critical psychic damage from the election which is not great. Been doing a lot of escapism lately as a result, so below is some stuff I've been reading, watching, and playing.

Red, White, and Royal Blue

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Arcane, Season 2

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Detroit: Become Human

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Rec a fanwork (fic, art, vid, playlist, anything!) you did not create

I'm going to go through and rec all of the great artists that I follow. Some draw fanworks, but some just draw cool stuff so I'm interpreting "fanwork" extremely broadly here.!

Overwatch

Nez__________ - I hope that's all the underscores lol. They draw a lot of Reyes, and also Reaper76 but I don't hold that against them (this is a joke I don't mind Reaper76)

RedlandArt - Nice sketch work of game stuff, mostly Genji, Hanzo, and Cassidy.

buttcheekwizard - Lots of NSFW with a juvenile sense of humor that is very much aligned with my own. I followed him for Overwatch but now he draws a lot of Star Wars clone stuff.

gemsheldrake - Beautiful and fascinating horror artist. They used to do a lot of Overwatch but they've branched out to more original work now.

Arcane

primaveraart19 - They draw a lot of Viktor!

O04447809O - Jayvik art! Often humorous cartoons but sometimes more serious and complex stuff like this.

Disco Elysium

shutkal - They have a cool intentionally messy style with lots of Harry/Kim content. Often NSFW. And it seems they got a Man from Heimdall tattoo! =o

BaklanDead - They draw a lot of video game stuff. I followed them for Disco. They do fun comics too.

Original

IMZeroafterdark - Extremely NSFW straight guro stuff. (uh, not M/F straight, but unequivocally. It's all M/M)

zireaelwow - Horny and very NSFW M/M SFM content.

TFiddlerArt - They do very detailed and realistic pencil work. Kinda furry material? And sometimes NSFW. But look at this (SFW!) fruitbat were!

WillowCreative_ - An amazing cosplayer and fabricator. She does full suits and they blow me away.

Pixel Art

illufinch - lots of cute stuff! Critters and little fantasy scenes. And they contributed to a little Frog Gachapon Game where you can just spam pulls for cute little frog cards.

waneella_ - Pixel landscapes that draw heavily from Japanese city life. Great for vibing.

16pxl - A big fan of brilliant color. They do skyscapes and other cute stuff.

Ok, I've worn myself out so I guess I stop there.

tl;dr: Rhythm Doctor is a fun game, and Arcane is a fun show.

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Early on this year I thought I was going to get through all of the VNs in the BLM bundle by the end of December, but that kind of got derailed in the second half of the year and is probably not going to happen. The amount of reading I've done has also been abysmal. It's a combination of having not much attention span anymore, and making the mistake of trying to read non-fiction books that are too fucking dry and analytical. I've gotten stalled out on a semantics book, and then I doubled down and stalled out on a book on stats and decision making. I need to read something entertaining to get the brain fired up again. I'm trying to read a book now that I'm obligated to review, and I'm not feeling it, but this one must be finished.

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With the new live action Cowboy Bebop I finally watched the original series from beginning to end instead of seeing parts of random episodes. Even after all these years it holds up really well. The tone is so good. Humor, Hubris, Pathos, Tragedy, the absurdity of life and the dignity of it too. Everyone being maladjusted fucks who are in someways architects of their own awful fate but at the exact same time victims of an uncaring and unfair universe. And it doesn't overstay its welcome. It blows through and then is gone. I had enjoyed the random episodes I've seen in the past, but it was definitely nice to get it all beginning to end, and get the full experience so to speak.

I'm avoiding the live action because I don't like live action, but even moreso dislike live action adaptations, when animation imo can pull off things so much better for the sorts of wild stories that I enjoy.

Speaking of which, I also watched Arcane, and boy is that a pretty as hell show. I mean it really is one of the prettiest animated series produced in the west that I can recall. The melding of 3D and hand modified work was seamless and transcended the limitations of both, and the result was a feast for the eyes. It doesn't hurt that everyone in the show is eye candy too. And there were so many good characters.

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