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donutsweeper) wrote2024-02-10 12:17 pm
donutsweeper) wrote2024-02-10 12:17 pm
music and recs and whanot
I knew Tracy Chapman's Fast Car had been covered by a country music singer last year and won some awards but don't pay much attention to the music world but then I saw her Grammys performance and wow, all the memories came flooding back. I had (and probably still have... somewhere) her tapes and absolutely love her so much. I have to admit I love that Luke Combs a) didn't change the lyrics of the song at all, including the "check out girl" line and b) looks so absolutely in awe and unbelieving of his luck to be able to be on stage with her here:
(there's a better version that doesn't embed at the Grammys site here and on tumblr here.
She still looks so amazing and her voice is still so incredible.
In exchange news,![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
hurtcomfortex tagset has opened!! And now for the perpetual 'have I ever liked anything ever' brain fog as I try to think of what to nominate. Noms don't close until the 25th so I have time.
Humorously, I opened up HelloChinese for the first time in ages and apparently fell into a different dimension when I did so because this was what it asked me to translate
(interesting, now discord won't let the stuff post .png be trimmed, I wonder if that means the image will go poof soon)
This week'srecthething MDZS/Untamed recs:
(there's a better version that doesn't embed at the Grammys site here and on tumblr here.
She still looks so amazing and her voice is still so incredible.
In exchange news,
hurtcomfortex tagset has opened!! And now for the perpetual 'have I ever liked anything ever' brain fog as I try to think of what to nominate. Noms don't close until the 25th so I have time. Humorously, I opened up HelloChinese for the first time in ages and apparently fell into a different dimension when I did so because this was what it asked me to translate
(interesting, now discord won't let the stuff post .png be trimmed, I wonder if that means the image will go poof soon)
This week's
recthething MDZS/Untamed recs: For the Love of Quilting by Scrippio (5k)
Summary: In which Lan Zhan makes a friend at a quilt show. (cute modern AU)
Long Road Home by ValiantBarnes (Cimila) (58k)
Summary: Wèi Yīng points them east, when the dust has settled and it's just him and A-Yuàn left. East, towards the home he once had in Yúnmèng. He hasn't been further east than Yílíng city in a decade for a reason. There's nowhere else for him to turn, with the world collapsing around him and everyone else he knows already victim to the hungry dead. Wèi Yīng knows he'll find a safe haven at Lotus Pier; he's even got a nifty little talisman that will guarantee him access, no matter how unwelcome he is. No matter how safe the destination, the journey is a long trip by foot with a five year old.
After an isolated winter, they don't run into Sòng Lán; Sòng Lán runs into them. (I don't usually read zombie apocalypse fics or WWX pairings other than Wangxian, but this one intrigued me and those are interestingly combined with modern-with-cultivation with great world building and characterization and growth. As a note, despite the summary, the fic is about the trip to Lotus Pier but ends right before they get there. Also, while there's a lot of implied character death, no main character has theirs described.)
Summary: In which Lan Zhan makes a friend at a quilt show. (cute modern AU)
Long Road Home by ValiantBarnes (Cimila) (58k)
Summary: Wèi Yīng points them east, when the dust has settled and it's just him and A-Yuàn left. East, towards the home he once had in Yúnmèng. He hasn't been further east than Yílíng city in a decade for a reason. There's nowhere else for him to turn, with the world collapsing around him and everyone else he knows already victim to the hungry dead. Wèi Yīng knows he'll find a safe haven at Lotus Pier; he's even got a nifty little talisman that will guarantee him access, no matter how unwelcome he is. No matter how safe the destination, the journey is a long trip by foot with a five year old.
After an isolated winter, they don't run into Sòng Lán; Sòng Lán runs into them. (I don't usually read zombie apocalypse fics or WWX pairings other than Wangxian, but this one intrigued me and those are interestingly combined with modern-with-cultivation with great world building and characterization and growth. As a note, despite the summary, the fic is about the trip to Lotus Pier but ends right before they get there. Also, while there's a lot of implied character death, no main character has theirs described.)
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