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The m/m discord server/book club I am in is doing a side-read of... House of Leaves? Time to finally do something with my fancy full color edition that's been sitting around as shelf decoration

I did find a cheap physical copy of The Russian Five. Not a used one, sadly. So, I'm picking that back up.

The current read for my m/m book club is Gentleman's Gentleman, which I've read already so I can mostly skip it. I'll leaf through a copy at a bookstore as a reminder.

The next book for that bookclub will be A Spell for Heartsickness, which just barely beat out Like Real People Do by E L Massey. I really wanted Like Real People Do to win because I wanted a reason to give it a chance even though it's teenagers and a hockey/ice skater pairing. Because I needed a palate cleanser after Goaltender Interference, I picked up Like Real People Do anyway and am most of the way through. I am actually enjoying it, despite some of the YAness of it.

For my local bookshop's bookclub I've got Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, which I've really wanted to read. I am probably skipping The Dead Take The A Train for horror book club. I think I'd really like the book, but not in the headspace for it right now.

For Trans Right's Read-a-thon I want to read is Notes From a Regicide. Dead Collections by the same author is one of my favorite books. I just have no idea how the heck to squeeze it in.

You can see my 2026 Goals post for an infodump on why this is so late! I'll get into it.

February Stats

• Read 2 books
• Watched 3 TV shows
• I did 3 hours and 10 minutes of crochet
• I did 7 hours and 15 minutes of writings 6,864 words (~15.7 wpm)
• I made 7 baked goods

February Wins

• I watched She-Ra and the Princess of Power for the first time and it was FANTASTIC
• Read a fantastic book called "Blood Over Bright Haven"-- I really recommend it
• Completed a 2025 goal!

February Goal Updates

• Made progress on my Valentine's Day oneshot progress
• Made progress on my 2025 temperature blanket
• Made a dupe for the Panera tomato basil bread leavened with sourdough! (Seriously goofed up the recipe with too much tomato paste so it was NOT GOOD but hey! it's something!)

You can see my 2026 Goals post for an infodump on why this is so late! I'll get into it.

January Stats

• Read 1 book
• Watched 1 TV show
• I did 1 hour and 20 minutes of crochet
• I did 1 hour and 42 minutes of writing 1,394 words (~13.6 wpm)
• I made 5 baked goods (including some create pumpkin scones!)

January Wins

• Finished watching Orphan Black, a really wonderful show
• Progress on three goals!

January Goal Updates

• Made progress on my 2025 temperature blanket, catching up on October
• Started writing a Valentine's Day oneshot I've been thinking of for a while
• Made progress on a Danger Days art piece / quote canvas

Why am I just now posting my 2026 goals for the year in March? Well, it's been a rough one. A rough few ones, really. But I'm getting back on my feet now, so here we are. Better late than never, yeah?

In a way I'm kind of glad. I got to weather out the beginning of the year back-from-holidays motivation crash without actually having any goals set for myself yet. And I got to practice not meeting my standards for myself (like the expectation to have my goals set at the beginning of January) and picking myself up again to try anyways.

In my 2025 goals wrap-up post, I talked a bit about struggling with not having capacity to work towards my goals because of my ongoing health struggles. At the end of last year I started anxiety medication that did help my anxiety issues, but also revealed some issues with executive dysfunction that have kneecapped my motivation and productivity. Apparently my anxiety was creating a sense of urgency that was helping me overcome issues with task initiation. Things are a little bit better now, but still very much a work in progress.

Because of these hindrances, I've been stuck in a really bad shame loop. Setting expectations for myself, failing to meet them for one reason or another, beating myself up about it, searching for ways to fix the things that prevented me from being productive, and starting the cycle over again. It's a really demotivating place to be in, and not very sustainable, as the stress this causes can exacerbate my other issues.

So when I went to draft my goals for 2026, I went into it with the idea of creating a "any win is a win" mindset. Instead of trying to complete x number of set goals (a number I had reduced from 2024 to 2025 in an effort to make my goals more attainable), the goal is to complete any number of goals.

The way I've gone about this is maybe a bit counter-intuitive. I'm calling it "25 Goals for the Year I Turn 25." Yeah, 25 goals is kind of a lot. But the idea was to create a lot of broad-category goals and go into it with the mindset that I'm not going to achieve all 25. I'm going to achieve at least 1: my free-space goal, which is to turn 25.

I'm actually super proud of the way I set this up in my hobby journal. I'm not going to post pictures of it (it's handwritten, and I don't really want my handwriting out there), but I'll try to describe it. There's 5 page spreads of goals at the front of my journal, with 5 goals each. The left-hand page has each goal written in a bubble, with lots of space around. The right-hand page has any further description of the goal or ideas of ways I can complete it (eg, 'write a oneshot' has a list of oneshot ideas I'm wanting to work on under it). When I start a goal-- make any degree of progress on it-- I can outline the bubble. When I finish a goal, I can color it in. If I complete the goal more than once (eg, write more than one oneshot), I can add a little bubble to the side of the bubble to count it as extra. I'm hopeful that all of this will make it a little bit easier for me to at-a-glance see how much I've accomplished.

I've kind of just finished setting out my journal and catching up on the year so far (January/February roundup coming soon), so I haven't gotten to put it into practice that much yet. But I've got a fair bit of hope for how the rest of this year could go for me.

Without further ado, here's my 25 goals for the year I turn 25:
 

1. Turn 25!
2. Finish reading Donna Tartt's "The Little Friend"
3. Do a Geocache
4. Start making homemade vanilla extract
5. Make a homemade cocoa mix
6. Make something leavened with my sourdough starter (eg, bagels, bread, etc-- discard bakes don't count!)
7. Do a fun/technical bake (eg, cheesecake, Swiss meringue buttercream, meringues, macaraons, etc)
8. Pay off student loans
9. Build a 3 month emergency fund
10. Buy one of my buy goal items (eg, replacing too-small clothes, getting a printer, etc)
11. Go through my 'new music to listen to' list
12. Do a room cleanup project (eg, donate clothes pile, clean off desk clutter, organize laundry room shelves, etc)
13. Organize a digital space (eg, phone apps, watch faces, tab wallpapers, phone photo gallery, etc)
14. Move recipes to cloud (I've got a bunch of random photos of recipes in my gallery that need to get moved to my recipes folder)
15. Back up devices
16. Finish my 50 chapter keith/lance/hunk vld college au
17. Finish outline for a specific original story
18. Write a oneshot (eg, valentine's day klance fic, klance space oddity fic, etc)
19. Write a poem
20. Make tatted lace ornaments for my dad's Christmas gift
21. Make a quote canvas (these are my home art pieces with song lyric quotes done up aesthetically with scrapbook paper and modge podge)
22. Start a paint by number project my dad got me
23. Finish my 2025 temperature blanket
24. Finish a miscellaneous crochet project (eg, scarf I started at Christmas, crop top I've got a pattern for, etc)
25. Get back into bookbinding

* Last night went I went to go stretch my legs after watching hockey, a cop decided to do the whole 'slow down, stare at me, block the cross walk' shit on me. He didn't just do a slow roll, he actually stopped for about 10 seconds and blocked my path. JFC, I don't need that shit.

* Sports Bra finally posted the info for the bus to the Torrent Pride game. I was about to give up and book a bus trip/hotel. Now I need to figure out food since I don't think I can eat anything at CPA and don't know if I can get away with bringing in a protein bar.

 I did not mean to let a month go by without posting.

I've been busy lately with getting my book Surviving Peace ready to publish next week--and the subsequent crash after I got everything loaded to retailers, and my brains was like - Done! I'm sorry in advance that I'm going to be posting about it a bunch next week.

In other fun news, I finally finished watching season 1 of The Pitt last week and I'm through episode 4 of season 2. I absolutely love the show and am obsessed. We're shipping Robby and Abbot, right? Because yes please.

On the game front I am working through Hades II, which has been a lot fun. I like that they've put two pathways in. It's really helped with each run to have another option. They've done a really great job with the game and story. I <3 Nemesis and Dora on the companion side of things. 

For other tv, Husband and I are watching The Apothecary Diaries. We were coming off of season 1 of Frieren (so much love), so at first we were a little meh, but now we're all in. The hard part is the complicated court politics reveals that happen very quickly so we sometimes have to pause and figure it out. Mao Mao is wonderful though, such a gremlin and I'm here for it. 

Currently, I'm reading the third book in a romance series, Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez. It's good. The whole series has been good. She lets there be obstacles that come from real pain and baggage, which make the third act much more bearable. I think one of my issues with traditional romance beats is that I myself take people at their word in relationships, and I find it so frustrating when a character in their head goes "he says he loves me. but of course he loves his ex not me." And I get that this is a real thing, but it is so foreign to my own thought processes that it drives me nuts. Jimenez's writing makes me much more empathetic to her characters when they do that, because that is very much part of their journey in a genuine way, rather than it feeling forced. Anyway. They're good. I'm having fun. 

Here are the rest of the pictures from our trip to the Aquarium a couple weeks ago. :)


I do love a dramatic lionfish.

18 more pictures below the cut:

Piranha!


Adorable tiny frogs!


Forbidden toaster strudel filling.


So blue!


Snake-necked turtles are so funny looking.


Clownfish, very at home.


Extra love the black clownfish.


Though of course, any tank with a clownfish has to also have a blue tang.


This crab was extremely active, haha.


Fancy triggerfish.


Shark!


Sea turtles, my beloved.


I love these guys and their extremely dramatic faces.


Nicely posed shark.


It's not a great picture, I do just love their faces.


So colorful!


Jellies!


Moon jellies!

These were always one of my grandmother's favorites, when she volunteered at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

The tiniest little baby moon jelly.

Every time my mother steams something she boils the pot dry--

--look I know this sounds like the beginning of a recipe blog but it's important context. anyway--

--boils the pot dry, using Farberware aluminum-clad pots on an electric coil stove, with ill effects ranging from "it's fine" to "the vegetables are mushy and the pot's a little scorched but it's nothing you can't recover from."

So you can see why I thought this would not go the way it did. ( Read more... )

It's my birthday!

Normal workday for me, so pretty low-key in terms of celebrating. We went to the zoo on Monday which was lovely.

Alex gave me a very cute tardigrade plush, plus a couple of pins. He also made me salmon for dinner. <3

After work, stopped by mom and Taylor's for gifts and pie. Mom made me a peach pie, which is always my birthday request. <3

I got a very generous gift (brought on by some luck, lol.) At the weekend getaway that I wasn't able to get off of work for, the one up at the Stanley hotel, one of the activities they did was a gift 'exchange' sort of thing. It was run like a white elephant, where you could pick a gift or steal one from someone else, but all the gifts were provided by the company. (And it was all good stuff; gift cards, tickets for things, etc.) Well, my mom was one of the last to go and wound up with one of the best prizes... a PS5. She... did not especially want a PS5, but also didn't want to "steal" any of the other gifts from anyone, and no one stole it from her, lol.
My mom told me this a few days ago, prefacing the story with, "So... this was a funny story..." about how the 70 year old lady wound up with the shiny gaming system. It was leading in to "...so, like... do you have one of those? ...Do you want one?"
Taylor does all their gaming on PC, so they aren't super interested, and while they offered to set the PS5 up for my mom if she wanted, my mom hasn't really wanted to play a video game since the Intellivision, ha. (One of her favorite games forever will be Dungeons and Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin, which is indeed a wonderful vintage gaming experience, but stylistically it's a maze where you can avoid/plan your encounters, and the encounters are turn-based. She doesn't like games where things chase you or you have to react in real time.)

So... wound up with the thing that I have failed to save money toward for years, because there's always an emergency/something more time-sensitive that comes up and eats my fun-thing-savings! I'm so excited. It's way spendier than any of our gift-giving tends to be, so it's not something I would have asked for, so I'm extremely grateful for her generosity in giving it to me, and the luck that led to her winding up with it. (And their company's generosity in giving it as a gift!)

I don't have any games for it yet, but I am *delighted* that I will be able to actually play a few of the things I've looked longingly at over the last several years. (My most recent system is a PS3. Which I will still have to keep as a dedicated Fallout: New Vegas machine, lol.)

Probably not taking a look at that until my weekend, but excited. Maybe I'll hit up a second-hand game store. Hopefully I can add video games back into my routine without utterly hosing my reading and writing, ha.

A very nice birthday, not just for gift-reasons! Salmon for dinner, peach pie for desert, getting to see my favorite people.

My mom is currently doing a no-smartphone-challenge with her students, and I decided to do the light version and set myself a goal of 1.5 hours of smartphone time per day (normal phone calls don't count.) I did well the first few days but then failed the last three, and right now I'm realizing the limit means I can't use my phone to listen to streams while doing the dishes. Boo.

Other effects: I read books on my e-book-reader on my commute instead of fics on my phone. And I really wish my radio wasn't broken but it hasn't reached the necessary annoyance level yet to get it fixed.

I'm not behind on my study plan for my next exam yet! (The upcoming exam is mostly VAT so both important and relevant and hard.) We'll see how long it lasts, but I'm in week 3 and that's pretty good especially for my standards. And that's despite me being sick one weekend and having a bad cold the next.

I told myself I'd combine it with finally starting the Hades 2 1.0 playthrough I've been planning for months, and for the first two weeks I actually managed to stick to my "one run per study session" rule but, uh, not anymore. Ahem. Good news, still having a lot of fun playing Hades 2. And thanks to playing over 130 hours in Early Access I'm so much better than when I started my first playthrough.
(I started now because the plan was DD would start the week after and then we can talk about it, but she had a schedule change and still hasn't started so that didn't work out either ^^)

But since I started playing Hades 2 I mostly stopped playing Vampire Survivors - not completely, I have done a few more runs to get some of the very last unlocks/secrets, but mostly. So have the remaining notes for now, directly continuing from last time.

( More Vampire Survivors: more bats, still no vampires. )


I should stop procrastinating and do the dishes.

It's time to celebrate the annual due South fandom holiday!

Sticker by "Mythic Management" from their "Transcend" campaign. We did not end up dragging ourselves out of bed to go look at the lunar eclipse, but the celestial theme felt appropriate.

This was a decent week. Various celebrations for Alex's birthday were low-key, but enjoyable. (Aquarium! Indian food! Always good.) Work was fine, and felt fairly... steady. I didn't have to play catch-up at the end of the week to hit my numbers. Finally got my book reviews from February finished. Still slower on reading more than I'd like, but at least still doing it. I feel like I have a lot to catch up on. As a whole, the week was mixed on the responsible stuff that I needed to do, so I will need to knock out more of it next week.

Goals for the week:

• Alex's birthday happened <3
• I did not clean the frog and toad ponds
• I did get crickets
• I read quite a bit of Point of Dreams, but did not finish it
• I did post my February book reviews
• I did post my March writing goals
• I did work on my reading page
• I did not call my insurance company
• I did my March tracking grids
• I did not clean my table and drawer
• I did not do my plant care
• I did see my mom on Saturday night
• We did get rent paid
• I did pay some of my hospital bill
• I did my getyourwordsout check in: 12739 words in February, bringing ytd to 25281
• We did successfully navigate the "spring forward" time change (yes, technically early hours of the following Sunday, but tried to be ready before going to bed)

Tracked habits:

• Work - 5/7
• Household Maintenance - 4/7
• Physical Activity - 3/7
• Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 0/7
• Non-fiction Writing - 3/7 - one over 1000 words, two over 500
• Meta Work - 4/7
• Personal Writing - 5/7
• Other Creative Things - 1/7
• Reading - 7/7 - I mostly read Point of Dreams; Alex and I read some The Luminous Dead
• Attention to Media - 7/7 - Sunday we watched news coverage (starting new wars...), video game, and book reviews; Monday, more news; Tuesday and Wednesday, news coverage and game reviews; Thursday, news and paranormal videos; Friday was news, storm chasing, and game reviews; Saturday was news and game reviews.
• Video Games - 0/7
• Social Interaction - 6/7

Total words written: 2763 on book reviews

* Upper Canada Films announced The Hockey Player, a feature documentary following Luke Prokop, the first openly gay hockey player under contract in the National Hockey League. Link to announcement on Prokop's insta

* The newly acquired squid's immigration process is taking longer than expected. He might be out a few games. This really sucks because we suddenly have an opening on the line he's expected to be on. One of our players took a boot to the face. Hopefully he's doing okay, but he's going to be out for a bit. Teams are very secretive about injuries so no idea how bad it is.

When I was a kid, my mom explained to me why she didn’t really enjoy Mother’s Day: she felt as if celebrating mothers one day a year gave everyone free reign to take them for granted during the other 364. I kind of got it after a while, but I couldn’t relate — until the corporate world started making such a big fucking deal out of International Women’s Day.

A few years ago, one of my previous employers released a promotional IWD video in which various female employees explained how the company made them feel included and supported. The next year, that same company fired its majority-female office support staff and hired them back as contractors so it wouldn’t have to pay them benefits.

Another year, a different company I was working for at the time decided to commemorate IWD by giving all the women in the office (or everyone perceived as a woman, anyway) a potted plant and a personalized card featuring quotes from famous women throughout history. As a dyke with a case of the Genders who had no interest in going to paint nite, I was firmly on the margins of the “Women of [COMPANY]” social group; the card perfectly encapsulated that whole state of affairs. It featured a quote from Margaret Thatcher.

You know, noted LGBT ally Margaret Thatcher.

The plant was also a bit on-the-nose. “Here is a thing you are now responsible for keeping alive whether you like it or not. Happy International Women’s Day.”

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-K

This month marks the 10-year anniversary of the I Will Fight You podcast. In celebration, my co-hosts and I decided to revisit the first movie we ever covered: The Swan Princess.

I keep track of all the movies I own and watch via a website called Trakt, and when I looked up The Swan Princess, I noticed something unusual about the banner image attached to its Trakt listing:

I’ve seen a lot of official promo images for The Swan Princess over the years, and this didn’t look like any of them. That, plus the signature down in the corner, made me suspect this wasn’t an official image at all.

It’s sure being treated like an official image, though. It shows up in the photos section of the movie’s Rotten Tomatoes listing, its Common Sense Media listing, its TMDB listing, this listicle on Looper, and appears to be somewhere in the movie’s image library on Sky TV:

I posted this picture in the Crooked Russian Cam Discord, and eventually one of our members managed to track down the source (thanks, Zagil!). It’s a piece of fanart, drawn by an artist who goes by madam-marla on DeviantArt.

It seems that, sometime in the early 2010s, a blogger went looking for art to accompany a post about The Swan Princess and found madam-marla’s piece through Google image search. Then another blog picked up the image, and another, until inadvertent SEO pushed it near the top of the image search listings for the movie. From there, tired interns and/or automated image scrapers picked it up as an official promotional image, and now it’s everywhere.

I think madam-marla might be owed some money.

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-K

princessofgeeks posted about Rachel Reid having said that Shane has "the Hero's Journey", in the Heated Rivalry books.
And raven commented, agreeing and saying that Shane grows and changes more, internally.

I've been thinking about this, and I started to write a comment but it got so long I decided to post here about it.

I re-read the start of Heated Rivalry—it's a flash-forward prologue to the hookups era and focuses on an after-game hookup, with the overall theme being Shane's dilemma where he's desperate for the hookups (with hints at his feelings for Ilya that he's massively suppressing), his denial about being gay (seeing it as an aberration he's too "weak" not to give into), and his rationalizations about just not having found the right woman yet. He's conflicted and miserable despite the scene being hot.

Then by the end of the book, Shane and Ilya are opening the Irina Foundation, and Shane has fully accepted being gay and loving Ilya. So the external barriers (the NHL's and hockey culture's homophobia, being closeted, not living together) are still there for them both, but Shane has made the internal Hero's Journey of battling against being gay (his internalized homophobia) then overcoming that and accepting it, and accepting his love for Ilya. Ilya battles against acknowledging that he's falling in love (a lost cause from early on), but he's clear about his sexuality from the start, and he's accepted his feelings for Shane by the tuna melts scene, whereas Shane's not there yet.

The Long Game might be seen as a bit more Ilya's Hero's Journey as he starts with many problems—loneliness as he's just moved to Ottawa, having to be on a poorly-playing losing team, still not seeing enough of Shane—and he gets depressed, which he has to battle against. Like (eventually), therapy, medication, being honest with Shane about how much he's struggling, finding friends in the Centaurs and a family in the Hollanders. But the terrible "wait until we retire to come out" plan is still hanging over him (over both of them), largely due to Shane's fear of exposure and change, and as Ilya is still afraid to be honest with Shane about how much the terrible plan makes him suffer.

So then there are two external deus ex machina events that force the "wait until we retire" plan to collapse—the Tampa plane near-tragedy, and the fanmail outing. Both of them energize Ilya to fight back (the near crash makes him rally his team and win games, and to move things along with Shane as he'd finally been honest about his pain in the cathartic row beforehand), and then the fanmail outing is actually what Ilya needs to move their relationship into the light. All this doesn't solve Ilya's tendency to depression, but he gets a lot better at handling it. He learns to manage the dragon, rather than killing it.

There's still a Hero's Journey for Shane in The Long Game though, which I missed initially as the book seems so Ilya-focused. This time it's Shane's fear of coming out of the closet and being exposed, which he's way more afraid of than Ilya is—again, Ilya has real issues to battle with (even his depression can be seen as an external antagonist as it's partly biologically driven and recurs despite psychotherapy and meds), but Shane's big challenge is once more internal. He's terrified of being outed and of losing hockey and being shamed and reviled by the world. It's his intense need for privacy and his internalized homophobia that he has to combat—and in initially not doing so he hurts Ilya (but Ilya conceals that hurt from him until their big fight). The fight and the Tampa plane near-crash wake Shane up and move him along a bit, but he's still delaying their coming out as he's so afraid of it.

Then the fanmail outing is the final blow that means he can't hide anymore (to Shane's horror, but to Ilya's secret relief). So that's his big hero's test in this book (where realizing he was gay and choosing Ilya over 'performing straightness' was his big battle in HR). And the scene where Shane stands up to Roger Crowell is his "battling the dragon" moment, where he fights for Ilya and for himself, defies Crowell who represents homophobia and the potential loss of hockey, and finally, finally, Shane fully chooses Ilya rather than prioritizing hockey and maintaining his straight public persona.

He's afraid that being exposed will mean his reputation will be destroyed, that he won't be seen as "good"—and that happens to some degree, but he finds it's survivable. It's shown in the way he doesn't arrange any extra chairs at his wedding to Ilya at the end of TLG after they've been outed. He doesn't think many guests will come now that he's not "good" anymore in a black & white, all or nothing public image sense. But his friends do come, and Shane finds there's a place he can exist in between being perfect and being reviled. It's a more adult, integrated sense of self.

I suspect Shane will once again have a Hero's Journey in the pending 3rd book in the HR trilogy (Unrivaled). What will that be? I wonder if it might be Shane's retirement from playing hockey in the NHL and what comes after? He was terrified of coming out because he thought it would mean losing NHL-level hockey, but he survived that in TLG after battling Crowell, emerging still playing NHL hockey with Ilya on the Centaurs. Inevitably, he and Ilya will age out of playing NHL hockey and it will definitely be more of a challenge for Shane than for Ilya. Ilya already prioritized Shane over hockey when he moved to the Centaurs—I wouldn't be surprised if he retired first, in Unrivaled, with both of them having to deal with that as a precursor. There's an excellent fanfic about that (can't recall the title!) which I imagine Rachel hasn't read, as most authors don't read fanfic of their books especially with an a ongoing series, to avoid accusations of copying.

But for Shane, hockey is still a huge part of his sense of self. He's going to have to figure out who he is when he's not an NHL player anymore. I suspect Rachel might bring in external factors again to move him along in his battle against retiring (as otherwise I suspect he'd put it off for way too long)—like a major injury or an accumulation of smaller injuries. There might also need to be another big goal for him to switch focus to as well, something to give his life meaning after retirement, to answer the question: "who am I if I'm not playing pro hockey?" A dad? A coach? It'll be interesting to see.

I guess I cannot do the necessary suspension of disbelief/price of admission be in Workplace Fandoms anymore because what I've osmosised of The Pitt Season 2 is a lot of "should characters X, Y, and Z forgive Character A who was abusive and also stole patient medications and -- this part I'm unclear on but it sounds likely -- also practiced medicine in an ER while under the influence? It's very important question on if his apologies were good enough or if people should forgive him or be his friend again" and I'm like "that person should be fired from the hospital, this is not a buddy sitcom where they're all over at each other's apartments and dating each other and their warm opinions of each other matter, this is an emergency room, they are coworkers in a high-pressure high-stakes environment, not friends, he should be fired and they should never see him again and get to decide if they want to invite him to their bookclubs or poker nights or whatever, but the question of 'should they forgive him, has he done enough' is irrelevant because he should lose his medical license."

I'm so impressed by friends who post long rec lists - I can barely keep up with reading a few WIPs and some random other recs here and there!

Partly as I'm trying to finish editing a podfic for the Podfic Big Bang (not HR, sorry, I'm still daunted by Ilya's accent but I'll get there eventually), and am also writing a HR AU and outlining another largely epistolary HR fic. And doing some art. Agh!

Anyway, before I forget - this one is great! Partly a social media fic and with a great premise, clever and funny - some explicit texts between Ilya and "Jane" go viral as the internet can't believe how bad at sexting Jane is. I'll Be Jane by gurlsrool.

Also this HR vid is great! Fine Not Fine