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real life: extended stay hotel

Hotel Life: Power Update

Okay, so apparently the sister hotel and the 7-Eleven next door are having the same issue where about half the lights/plugs in the building are working and the other half aren't. So it looks like it might actually be an issue with the power company rather than some of the wires specifically in this hotel getting fried like we were initially suspecting might be the case.

My AC still won't cool, but I have managed to get it to at least have a weak fan blowing which is better than nothing. And the AC in the hallway just outside my room is working, which is helping a little with keeping the temperature from going up too quickly in here.

Both the power company and the fire department are wandering around trying to figure out what the fuck is going on, especially since two extended stay hotels full of people without working AC (in some rooms, not all - the AC is working fine for some people, although most of the rooms with working AC don't have working lights) in 90+ degree weather is... not great.

The temperature in my room is slowly edging upwards, but it's not too bad yet at least. When the power went out at 11am, it was about 68°F in my room as I turn the AC down low at night to sleep so it hadn't had a chance to start warming back up yet at that point. A little over three hours later, with no AC that entire time, it's gone up to 74°F, so it's averaging about 2° an hour. Which, you know, could be worse.

Now, if they don't get it fixed within the next few hours, it's going to start being a problem. My fingers are desperately crossed that they'll figure it out before then, though.

Current Mood: frustrated

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real life: extended stay hotel

Hotel Life: Happy Sunday?

The power in the hotel went out a little while ago and, while it came back on after about twenty minutes, the plugs for my fridge and microwave are dead and my AC won't blow cold air. And it's definitely not the circuit breaker, because I already checked it and tried flipping everything on/off to be certain. 🙃

While the plugs for the microwave and fridge aren't working, there are three more in the kitchen that are working fine (two on the wall over the counter and one for the oven). I was able to move the fridge to another nearby plug that was working, and I'm pretty sure that there's one close enough that I can do the same for the microwave if I need to use it. Or I can move the microwave to on top of the stove top long enough to use it if the cord won't reach.

It's not a great option, but it's at least an alternative until they can figure out what the fuck went wrong.

The temperature in the room is quickly ticking upwards a little at a time without a working AC, though, which is definitely not a plug issue since it's turning on but is just not cooling anything off. I turned the AC completely off, flipped the breaker off/on, and am letting it sit for half an hour to see if that helps. I know sometimes that can be enough to reset it, so my fingers are crossed it will work this time. Luckily, I had the room cool enough that it will take a while before it gets too hot in here, but still. It's supposed to hit 90°F today, so a working AC is kinda vital.

The lovely part is that the person at the front desk has no idea what to do, because a ton of people are having similar issues where some things came back on but not others. Half the lights in the hallway are still dead and a lot of us are having issues with some things working but not others (although it seems to vary from person to person per the person at the front desk who I spoke with), so it's gotta be some type of wiring issue where plugs that are piggybacked off the same failed wiring are the ones not coming back on for anyone. The maintenance guy doesn't even work on weekends, though, so.... yeah.

ETA: And now the fire alarm is going off, presumably due to the same wiring issue as there's definitely no fire. Today's great, y'all.

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death note,
website

I Set The Death Note Down, Start Walking Away, Then Turn Back.

I promised myself I wouldn't make any more websites. I always make the structure too elaborate! They're so time-consuming!

And yet they're also so much fun.

Welcome to Kira's Tokyo, my brand new Death Note website! Mainly consisting of my rambling about Light Yagami, because, wow, I have a lot to say about Light Yagami.

As with my websites for Final Fantasy VIII and Silent Hill 2, much of the text originally comes from my posts on this blog, so parts of the site will probably sound familiar if you've read my previous Death Note rambling! I hope it's fun to see my thoughts presented in this new format, though.

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rl: internet

New Comm

fan_writers comm - for meta about writing

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No True Pair: Crossover mini-event

Wary Arrival (400 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragonlance, The Legend of Drizzt Series - R. A. Salvatore
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Raistlin Majere, Dalamar [Dragonlance], Drizzt Do'Urden
Additional Tags: Crossover
Summary:

Drizzt gets shoved off-plane and meets a Dark Elf... by some standards.

Wary Arrival

Drizzt Do'Urden was not a man to allow anything to leave him flat-footed for long. The tail had whipped around too fast, flung him back through the gate when it stole his breath with the thud against his chest, but he rolled with the blow, and came up, swords already back in their ready position… to find the gate had no visible sign on this side, and his eyes were streaming tears from the change of tree-dappled shade and sun to the glare of multiple light sources in a confined space.

Sound told him two bodies, both in loose rustling clothes, and the air pressure spoke of several obstacles in a small space.

"Deal with him; he's some sort of elf," a voice said, and Drizzt realized the sound of it was being translated through the arm-band he'd been gifted with, an artifact for translation.

Thankfully, it worked on his words too.

"Peace, unless you are in league with the dark ranger and druid I was fighting," Drizzt said.

"Magic," a second voice said, and now Drizzt knew where both were more clearly.

"How interesting," came a sardonic reply to that, and Drizzt could all but feel the jaded sense in the speaker.

"If you are both familiar with magic," he hazarded, "I can try and trade knowledge," he offered, smelling books and ink, "for a return to my rightful place before any of the archmages I work with come seeking me."

"Deal," the second voice answered, with only the slightest sigh from the first. As a show of peace, Drizzt flipped his swords into their scabbards, and ignored his injuries in favor of forcing his eyes to work. One elf, one… that was not quite a human, if he were to guess, for all the man likely had begun as such.

"Drizzt Do'Urden."

"Dalamar Nightson," the elf with bronze skin said. "And he is Raistlin Majere," he added when the once-human did not respond to the question of names implicit in the introduction. "Let us get our impressions of the portal that spit you out, and then we will decide further how to proceed."

Drizzt nodded once, and started working on his injuries, relieved that Mielikki's magic could aid him still — and aware that the one called Raistlin was studying him more than where he'd fallen from. There was a sense of foreboding, and Drizzt would stay on guard.

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No True Pair: Crossover mini-event

Blue (300 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragonlance, Sword-Dancer Saga - Jennifer Roberson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Kitiara uth Matar [Dragonlance], Skie [Dragonlance], Delilah [Sword-Dancer Saga]
Additional Tags: Crossover, Triple Drabble
Summary:

Del, exiled to a new world, meets another woman

Blue

These lands that Del explores are nothing like the homeland she is exiled from. There are strange beings, stranger creatures, and this one… huge, reptilian, graceful fills her view and she is unafraid. Only as an afterthought does she take in the human woman upon the creature whose hide is so blue as to rival sapphires in their brilliance.

"She's not afraid of us, Skye," the human says aloud, voice meant to carry, and Del can understand, because of the exile ritual that cast her here.

"I fear nothing on sight, and few on action," Del declares, and the woman laughs.

"Skie, should we keep this strange woman, so pale and pretty who carries her sword on her back like a gladiator?"

The blue creature turns its head to appraise Del with one baleful eye. "Such lack of fear is commendable," a basso voice comes from it, and Del stands her ground when the large head pokes toward her. "I would consent to allowing you to bring her back."

"I suggest you climb up here swiftly, as the army is not far behind me… and most of them will only see your curves, not that steel," the hard-muscled woman says with a quirk of her mouth that says much on her opinions of such.

Del doesn't hesitate. This woman has power, and the — Skie — Skie radiates it as well. If she is to be exiled, she wishes power of her own, to find her way home some day.

"Call me Del." She climbs swiftly, aided by one long line tossed down.

"Kitiara. And Skie, as mentioned."

No more words follow, as Skie flings himself back into the blue heavens above, and Del learns the thrill of wind rushing around her, tucked in behind Kitiara.

This is a good start here.

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Sinners (2025)

Okay, because I don't always play right with horror flicks, I'd let myself get as spoilered as I could for this movie. I have been LOVING the gifs and the art and the meta and the analysis.

Tonight, I finally got to watch Sinners for the first time, beginning to end. What is below the cut is my live-reaction. I don't have cohesive thoughts. I am still at BEST VAMPIRE MOVIE BEST BLUES MOVIE BEST MAKE ME THINK MOVIE. Oh right, warning for my potty mouth. I do tend to curse as emphasis.

No, really, I was posting in a Discord thread as I watched, so if you HAVE NOT seen it, do not click this line

So far, loving the shit out of it
So rural Mississippi
Shoots a pair of would be thieves, and pays to have them patched up? My kinda guys
Love the Asian couple
DelRoy Lindo is solid
Love the music.
The characters feel solid fast

Feeling all the pain of what we did to the black man
So uncouth, lol
That was in reference to all the sex talk
Aww fuck the flowers were for his dead baby girl
I love that Annie follows older traditions

Smoke is named Elijah
Yoruba language (ETA: The actress has been studying it since 2020, and it is her heritage)
Aww yeah the Choctaw scene
Oh man I haven't heard that language in years
Messy vampires

Mary passing gives her trouble with the black folk
Gods I need a trilogy of these people before this
Stack trying to protect Mary
Michael B Jordan must have had a vocal coach

ETA: actually, I rather liked that the accents came off as they did in ALL of them, despite a bunch of non-Southern actors. It was a conscious way of shifting vowels, swallowing some of the words, a particular pattern to the speaking that never jarred me out of the setting. Then again, I have been accused of talking like a Yankee my whole life because I grew up at a military base and didn't fall full on into the accent of my blood kin.

Sammie is stealing my heart
Trippy effect
The mix of past and future is phenomenal
Have goosebumps from this scene
Shit is about to break out

Remmick, Joan and Bert...
Something uncanny in how the trio moved
Oh hellfire. Mary trying to find a way to make the money. That's how this starts the horror fest

Oh man. The power pole making a cross behind the trio
Remmick is ... Very Toreador, presence and auspex
Even celerity
And Mary is in. As a vampire
Stack is Elias
Cornbread is next victim

The drooling is weird
And we started
Stack!
Smoke is so broken and Annie is trying and it hurts

Haint. Love it
Aww fuck yeah horror time
Stack, honey. You're not yourself any more
Annie switched up to vampire instead of haint. Used pickled garlic
I love the lore

Smoke holds Stack better than himself so this hurts so much
Jack O'Connell does Irish song well

Grace and Bo, it hurts
This is so fucking good
Poor Grace
Family, freedom, ties and chains... All solid themes
Grace broke and I can't blame her
Hell yeah

Fucking hell, Stack got Annie
Slim!!!!!
The brothers fighting
Everyone trying to save Sammie
Protean as well (ETA: back to World of Darkness Disciplines I was seeing in play; Protean is very NOT Toreador)
Smoke with the save
Gods this is fucking so good

And Smoke about to finish the mortal evil
Klan about to die
Oh oh oh I cry
Fuck this movie is perfect

Stack and Mary, coming to see Sammie
Smoke made him promise and he kept it
Love them
Favorite vampire movie

Okay maybe cohesive, lifted from reading that. Themes: Family. Ties that bind. Ties that choke. Freedom. Chains. Racism, of course. Setting your own rules in an unjust world, keeping to your set of morals. Choosing not to be evil doesn't mean choosing to be pure. LOVE.

If you like vampire movies, watch this. If you like movies that showcase the struggle of black lives trying to rise up, watch this movie. If you like complicated leads, watch this movie. One jumpscare that I noticed, and the gore has that 'real enough for the movie vibe, not real enough to gross me out' and it is mostly fake blood.

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d&d: pyra cantha

Pyra Cantha D&D: Summary for 7/18 Game

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: excited

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d&d: pyra cantha

Disaster Squadron

Look at these amazing emotes that the DM commissioned for the group to use on Discord!

The artist is WillowPotato on Bluesky.

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. . .

Today was certainly a day. Well, technically yesterday at this point since it's a few minutes after midnight, but still. I haven't gone to bed yet, so we'll just call it "today" and be done with it.

( More under the cut. )

And once I get out of the shower, I have something like five or six more things that I have to get done online before I go to bed despite it already being after midnight. I'm going to have so much fun in a few hours when I need to get up early to take care of some things before work. 🙃

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!request

Commission me?

Hey all,

Phone started repeatedly throwing bad errors, overheating, etc. I have a replacement on the way (god I hope I did not get ripped off cheap as it was) but if anyone wants to ask for a story in exchange for donations, my ko-fi is here and you can DM or leave a screened comment.

Normal rate is 100 words per dollar. I do typically make a limit of 5K words, but that's negotiable for the right idea.

(This on top of being shorted pay that is STILL not sorted out has made for depression icing on the depressed cake.)

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At Some Point I Should Analyse What Makes Me Decide To Go Lowercase.

Late last year, I posted an entry examining the titles of my fics that year, and explaining why I'd chosen those titles. It was an interesting exercise, so I thought I'd repeat it whenever I accumulate a good handful of fics!

In reverse chronological order, my fic titles for this year so far:

( Rambling about why I chose fic titles. )

I'm not sure whether this post-titling analysis is actually making me any better at choosing titles, but I'm enjoying it nonetheless!

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Fanfiction: a little too late (Danganronpa)

doreyg reminded me of a detail in the first Danganronpa that means, if you do certain Free Time events, Naegi's probably going to end up blaming himself for the events of the second chapter. This fic grew out of that thought!

I really struggled with which names to use for this fic! Naegi has always been Naegi in my head, but there are other characters heavily involved who I think of by their given names, rather than their family names. I ended up going with the conventions of the official English release, referring to everyone by given name, but I can't tell you how many times I accidentally wrote 'Naegi' instead of 'Makoto'.

Title: a little too late
Fandom: Danganronpa
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 2,200
Summary: It's the second case. Makoto pieces some things together.

( a little too late )

Current Mood: accomplished

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d&d: titansfall

Titansfall D&D: Summary for 7/13 Game

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

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Saturday Morning Exchange: My Gift

New Home (571 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Aristocats (1970)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Duchess/Thomas O'Malley, Berlioz & Marie & Toulouse (Disney: Aristocats)
Characters: Thomas O'Malley, Duchess (Disney: Aristocats), Berlioz (Disney), Marie (Disney: Aristocats), Toulouse (Disney)
Additional Tags: Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Character Study, of sorts
Summary:

Thomas O'Malley reflects on his new home.

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Regarding research transports

Have I finally reached a critical mass of fannish enthusiasm such that I actually have the motivation to post? Let's find out!

Today a new Murderbot short story came out: Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy, which is free to read at Reactor. It's 7.5k, set after Artificial Condition, and Murderbot appears only by implication, because the point of view character is one of ART's human crew members.

( Everything else I have to say is spoilers, for both the short story and System Collapse. )

Current Mood: tired

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d&d: pyra cantha

Pyra Cantha D&D: Summary for 7/11 Game

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: hopeful

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Weekend Plans

I'm trying to get a bunch of things done before D&D tonight, including cleaning up the hotel suite. I still need to wash clothes this weekend, but I'm holding off on that until Sunday so that I can fit as many as possible into a single load since it's $8 to wash/dry each one.

My hope, however, is to get everything but that done today so that I can properly settle in and play video games all day long tomorrow. I keep saying that's the plan for the weekend, and then something comes up to prevent it, so I'm really going to try my best this time because I know it will help on the mental health front to lose myself in another world for an entire day.

I'm leaning towards Baldur's Gate 3, but I might go with Dragon Age: The Veilguard instead. Or even Mass Effect. I definitely think it's going to be something I've already played before, though, because something new-to-me requires a different headspace that I don't think I'm in at the moment.

We'll see how it goes, I suppose? 🤞🏻