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⌈ Secret Post #3833 ⌋

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Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

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2. ONE POST PER USER under this thread.
3. What IS allowed: roleplay advertisements, fandom comms, fandom events, things like that.
4. What is NOT allowed: anything for profit, any kind of fic/art commissions, seeking 1-on-1 RP, that kind of thing.

Review/Analysis of DS9's "The Ascent"

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Quark and Odo are forced by necessity to climb a mountain. Think of it as a team-building exercise taken to an extreme.


http://tv-366.blogspot.com/2017/07/day-105-ds9-ascent.html

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Official clickables thread.

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General comments:

(If the thread contains spoilery/triggery content please warn/post as 2nd comment so it collapses!
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Is this the real life...?

[(Anonymous)]

Is this just fantasy...?

What delicious foods...

[(Anonymous)]

Are hard to eat?

How do you rate the summer movie season so far?

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen as many movies as I have wanted to this year, but of the ones I've seen (Guardians of the Galaxy and Baby Driver), I've really enjoyed them and am super glad I got to see them in the theatres.

What has every body seen, and what are your general thoughts on the summer movies this year compared to last year's or other years?

I personally am glad to see Transformers: The Last Knight bring in less than $100mil in the US. I think Paramount will continue with more films since this franchise is popular overseas, but I don't know what direction they will take the franchise.

Worst thing you've seen online?

[(Anonymous)]

worst being open to interpretation

Helpful sites and apps!

[(Anonymous)]

What are your favorites?

USS's Founding Fathers

[(Anonymous)]

To prepare for the upcoming US holiday, what do you think USA's Founding Fathers will say about the state of our nation if they were able to see it as it is now?

And for fun, who is your favorite Founding Father?

Who are your favorite supporting characters?

[(Anonymous)]

In whatever media.

Do you use subtitles when you watch movie/tv shows in your own language?

[(Anonymous)]

FF vs. Ao3 Stats

[(Anonymous)]

I'm curious if anyone else likes to compare stats on crossposting fics.

Gen fic, 12k words
Ao3 - Hits: 647 Kudos: 48 Comment Threads: 11
FF.net - Reviews: 25 Views: 2,503

Because... wow. I would not have thought FF.net was still so active. I also like that ff.net's statistic pages make it easy to see and track hits. It's kind of comforting when I click on old stuff that hasn't gotten a new comment/fave in forever, but I can see that it's still getting a few daily hits.

What's the biggest issue facing the world today?

[(Anonymous)]

:0

Inspired by #1

[(Anonymous)]

What's your favorite multi-book series?
What multi-book series have you tried to get into, but failed?

[(Anonymous)]

What one body part is the most important for you to be physically attracted to someone?

Like how Cosmo Kramer is the ass man.

Did major Tom kill himself?

[thewakokid]

??

Because I'm a creep

[(Anonymous)]

This is my first time back in a thin-walled apartment building and I totally listened with my ear pressed to the wall while my neighbors had sex the other night.

Because I don't actually know anyone I want to have sex with or feel like finding such a person, but sometimes a lonely girl just needs to get off.

Repo: The Genetic Opera Shilo/Graverobber Fic Request

[quirkytizzy]

Does anyone have any recommended fics of Graverobber/Shilo (Repo: The Genetic Opera) shipping? Looking for something romantic and sweet as well as hot. I keep digging but I'm getting mostly sex scenes, which is nice, but I'd like something a little more rounded, too.

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Games thread!

Book club - Joust discussion

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Hey all! I'm out on errands and will be home in about 20 minutes. My thoughts are already written up on my laptop so they'll be up soon :)

Feel free to share any thoughts you may have!

Re: Book club - Joust discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Starting with my first impression.

Pros -
I liked that Fantasy Egypt still described the characters as looking Egyptian (Looking at you, Dreamwork's White British Samurai)

I liked the worldbuilding a lot, like answering how you can keep a large number of huge predators that need to eat a lot of meat, depictions of the casual religion.

I liked the variety of character personalities. I liked the animal care details, it's always pretty obvious that ML both likes animals and has experience caring for them.

It's a fun read, it's one I've read before and goes on my 'comfort' shelf for rereading roughly once a year or so?

Cons -
I had forgotten there was not a single named human female character in the entire book. (unless you count Vetch's family who are only mentioned when he's thinking of the past)

The repeated no-homo got a little annoying. Maybe ML's trying to distance herself from her earlier work? But yes, thanks, I get it, Ari fucks women. Lots of women. He has no interest in guys. He certainly has no interest in Vetch. Vetch would be horrified if he did. Their bond is entirely platonic no-homo. Makes me halfway tempted to write something where Vetch has a childhood crush on him and then in (spoilers) later books when he's grown and they're on more equal footing they fall in love.

The book's pretty obviously the first in a series and does a lot of setup, worldbuilding, and character development, but the plot's fairly weak.

my thoughts

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Joust

My overall impression of the book was moderately good.

Things I really liked:

-the aesthetic (ancient Egypt-style setting, yes please)
-the story
-the relationship between Vetch and Ari and between Vetch and Avatre

Things I didn't so much like:

-the prose - honestly the writing itself was mediocre to me, which is the main thing putting me off from seeking out the sequels right away, even though I want to see more of Vetch/Kiron's and Avatre's story
-while the characters were mostly enjoyable overall, the character development was weird and choppy at points

Incidentally, I read Throne of Jade (sequel to His Majesty's Dragon, a previous BC book and also a dragon novel centered on the relationship between dragons and their human companions) right after I read this, so it was hard not to make a comparison in my head. The Temeraire series is so, so good imo and I kept thinking "ooh, I definitely want to talk about this" before remembering that it wasn't the book we were reading for BC.

That said, I want to make it clear that I still enjoyed reading Joust. It wasn't at any point a chore, it just had some room for improvement. I wonder if the writing style improves as the series goes on?

Some highlights I particularly enjoyed:

-the scene where Khefti got his just desserts from the magistrate. I enjoyed that whole scene.
-Avatre bonding with Vetch. too cute tbh.
-Vetch bonding with Ari. I like relationships like that (in stories) that are on the surface standard master/servant relationships but behind closed doors are a lot more casual and more of a mentor relationship. And if anything, Vetch helped Ari as much as the other way around; it's like Ari really wanted to be a father and also didn't really have very many actual friends.

I find myself hoping for the future that the two of them are able to work together to make peace for their nations, and improve the lot of domestic dragons/dragons in general (honestly the dragons who aren't raised like Kashet or Avatre just have a really shitty deal :/ )

One thing that seemed really weird and inconsistent to me...while I generally enjoyed the worldbuilding, the rules on serfdom seemed pretty inconsistent. They talked about Vetch not being "freeborn" but like...he was. He was born into a free farming family and made into a serf when he was a child. Serfdom is spoken of as some kind of immutable, constant trait, but it's not? If one can be made into a serf, why not unmade? Why was Haraket given the power to free a slave, but not a serf? Or did he just not want to? :|a

What were your thoughts on the story overall? Any characters you particularly liked, or didn't? What were your thoughts on these dragons compared to dragons of other series we've read (if you're a dragon fan)? If you didn't like the story, why not? If you did like it, what stood out to you? Share your thoughts!

Re: Book club - Joust discussion

[ketita]

Boo, I have so much work so I'm still only at the beginning of the book :(

I can agree with you that the prose is not great, and I found the beginning especially to be quite repetitive. It's like yeah, it sucks to be him, it sucks so much, it's so awful, we get it. I'm interested enough to keep reading - I do like dragons, and I am curious to see where it all goes. But my initial impression was more along the lines of benefit of the doubt than anything else.

Misplaced Fic Request (Apologies to Mods!)

[quirkytizzy]

It's been so long I've forgotten how to do this properly - apologies to mods!

Does anyone have any recommended fics of Graverobber/Shilo (Repo: The Genetic Opera) shipping? Looking for something romantic and sweet as well as hot. I keep digging but I'm getting mostly sex scenes, which is nice, but I'd like something a little more rounded, too.

Re: Misplaced Fic Request (Apologies to Mods!)

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Try reposting here so people see it:

http://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/1639840.html?thread=964757664#cmt964757664