rodo's journal

( Captivating the King, House of the Owl, Knight Flower, My Man Is Cupid, A Shop for Killers )



Also, in hedgehog news: Zumi finally woke up and is currently adjusting to the great outdoors in a larger pen underneath the apple tree.

Because RL kind of got in the way a lot this week, here’s two for one!

( Challenge #9: Rec Us Your Newest Thing. - My Man Is Cupid )



( Challenge #10 – five actors/actresses I’ll watch a lot of dramas I wouldn’t usually watch for )

So, fandomgiftbasket finally revealed and I got two great gifts that I loved:

Love's Obscure and Lonely Offices (816 words) by Devilc
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Banshee (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lucas Hood & Job (Banshee)
Characters: Lucas Hood, Job (Banshee)
Summary:

"Your fool ass just keeps coming back to me," Job growls as soon as he opens the door.

He tries to smile, but can feel his split lip start to tear open again ...

Regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow (1115 words) by psychomachia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Banshee (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Lucas Hood/Siobhan Kelly
Characters: Lucas Hood, Siobhan Kelly, Chayton Littlestone
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fights, Blood and Injury, Broken Bones, Canon-Typical Violence, Lucas Hood Has Another Great Day
Summary:

Lucas gets to Chayton first.

Read them, if you like the series!

So, in between weird health problems that the doctors can’t figure out, I’ve recently become completely obsessed with a new (older) TV show, because of course my brain picks this moment in time for it. Anyway, the series is ten years old by now, and there’s barely any fic, but I absolutely loved Banshee.

Banshee focusses on a character only known as Lucas Hood, an ex-con who assumes the identity of a dead sheriff when he enters the small town of Banshee, looking for his ex-girlfriend and the diamonds he went to prison for fifteen years ago, only to discover that she’s married with two children. While he tries to keep undercover in his new identity, he has to content with a suspicious deputy, an ex-Amish gangster and his niece, as well as an assortment of criminals and, most importantly, his ex-girlfriend’s mobster father, who has a score to settle with both of them…

So, I absolutely love this series because of the main character, since Lucas Hood is almost exactly my kind of woobie (the only complaint I have is that they could have gone a little lighter on the PTSD) – an asshole woobie who gets beaten up constantly (not an exaggeration), who has a very tragic and shady past and who can be kind of unhinged and self-destructive. I also love a lot of the other characters, though. I initially picked up the series because I was interested in Job, the fabulous cross-dressing hacker who is one of Hood’s best friends/accomplices, and he’s wonderful too. Other things I loved are: Hood’s and Ana/Carrie’s complicated relationship and deep love for each other even when they’re with other people, Hood/Carrie/Job/Sugar working together on jobs. Hood being kind of a terrible sheriff even though it’s obvious he loves the job, and the deputies we meet throughout the series (the last one to appear – an ex-nazi played by the guy who played Ward in Iron Fist – being the fan favourite).

You should watch this series if you like: woobies getting whumped (there’s a lot of that to go around), Antony Starr (Homelander from The Boys), characters who try their best but don’t necessarily do the right thing, extremely shady morals, us-against-the-world relationships

You should not watch this series if you don’t like: violence (including torture, sexual violence, racialized violence, protagonists being violent, police violence, very graphic violence), lots of on-screen sex, cheating/promiscuity

If you haven't heard about it, CopyrightX is an online course about American copyright that is offered by the Harvard Law School. It's free, open to absolutely anyone over the age of 13, who can pass the English test in the sign-up and who has an internet connection that can deal with a Zoom conference. It lasts for several weeks from late January to May, and it's 1 Youtube lecture, 1-3 readings and one 90 minute Zoom meeting (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, depending on what timeslots you're available for) per week, and it's more or less like a university course. At the end, you can even take a voluntary exam and earn a certificate. More information on the sign-up page here:

https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eEVOvlyIiWwTueh

I did it this year, and I thought it was super fun! Don't worry if you're not a lawyer and not from the US. I am neither, and I got accepted, as did several others from my course, and I didn't feel as if not being a lawyer put me at a disadvantage at all. I didn't even write a particularly good "Why I want to do this" mini-essay. If you're interested in US copyright and would like to take a deeper look at it, or just if you think it might be fun, you could give it a try.

Sign-ups are open until November 30th, so you don't have to decide right now.

So, I’ve been doing a lot of exchange stuff recently. First of all, I’m signed up to fandomgiftbasket right now, so if you’re interested, you can check out my box over here. I also got this lovely gift with the perfect tone for the canon and a lot of smut for fandom5k:

Run Fast, Stumble (5261 words) by Brent
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela (2013)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ram Rajadi/Leela Sanera
Characters: Ram Rajadi, Leela Sanera
Additional Tags: Canon Divergence, Wedding Night, Smut, Mild Fix-It, Angst and Humor
Summary:

Leela was determined to have her wedding night no matter what. Ram chose her over his brothers. But how long can they keep running?

And last but not least, I made two treats for multifandomdoodle!

( Stardew Valley: Krobus at the Beach for tuesday )

( Minecraft: Meet-Cute for Kryptontease )

The response for those two was truly overwhelming. <3 everyone!

So, fandom-wise, most of 2021 was a bit of a miss for me, with fandomgiftbox folding, me being really busy all of a sudden in RL and, you know, everything. But the past month really turned the year around for me!

♣ I participated in getyourwordsout last year and actually managed to meet my (low, but I’ve never been terribly prolific) word count target in November, thanks to NaNo (which I won again)!

♣ Through holiday_wishes, I got DW paid time (thank you so much, anonymous people!) and a couple of post cards that I really enjoyed. I hope the ones I sent made it to their destinations safely as well. For some reason, sending and receiving holiday mail always makes me happy. Also, again, thank you so much, people who offered to beta some of the fics I'd thought were doomed to linger in the drafts folder forever.

♣ In an effort to be more active in fandom again, I’ll try to participate in the snowflake_challenge this January. I already did the first challenge and updated my info.

♣ For Yuletide, I didn’t get just one good fic, I got two! For a fandom I’ve been requesting for ages:

One Day (My Family Behind Me) (2552 words) by silveronthetree
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 내 뒤에 테리우스 | My Secret Terrius (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Go Ae Rin | Alice/Kim Bon | Terrius
Characters: Go Ae Rin | Alice, Kim Bon | Terrius, Kim Sang-ryeol
Additional Tags: Future Fic, balancing family and work, Fake Marriage
Summary:

A moment from Ae-rin and Bon's first official mission together in New York

Hold Her Closer (5173 words) by ardentaislinn
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 내 뒤에 테리우스 | My Secret Terrius (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Go Ae Rin | Alice/Kim Bon | Terrius
Characters: Go Ae Rin | Alice, Kim Bon | Terrius
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Getting Together, Mission Fic, Undercover as Married, Fake-Out Make-Out, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Ae Rin hadn't been sure what to expect from her first mission. Pretending to be married to Bon was not it.

I actually guessed both of my authors correctly too. If you’ve watched My Secret Terrius, read the fics! If you haven’t, watch it (it may be on Netflix where you live) and then come back to read the fics.

AKA what I've been doing lately instead of being productive like I wanted to:

( One Spring Night, Save Me, Tale of the Nine Tailed, W - Two Worlds Apart, When the Camellia Blooms )