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Title: Accepting Risks
Fandom: Paddington - the Musical
Rating: G
Length: 256 words
Summary: Henry Brown is reflecting on life with Paddington
Spoilers for 'Paddington - the Musical'

( Paddington Bear had made a difference )

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It's challenge time!

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Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

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Fandom: Game Changers series
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Rating: Explicit
Length: 4639
Content Notes: Discussion of unplanned pregnancy and of abortion as a treatment option. Brief mention of a tapeworm analogy.
Creator Links: SirMxALotts on AO3
Themes: Crack treated seriously, AU, Canon LGBTQ+ characters, Mpreg, Established relationship

Summary: Most people in Shane’s position would call a doctor after two positive tests, but Shane isn't most people, so instead of doing that, he takes 17 tests over the course of two days.

Final result: 16 positive, one negative.

Reccer's Notes: A classic crack trope this time: Mpreg. The reason why a man could become pregnant in this AU isn't given, nor why Shane did nothing to prevent it (or didn't expect it), but it has happened so he faces a choice. This is where the "taken seriously" part comes in, as it's the same difficult choice any woman faces with an unplanned pregnancy. Rather than an unrealistic tropey outcome, Shane (after ignoring the whole problem for a while) finally talks to Ilya about it and makes his decision. I enjoyed the realism and the way Ilya was supportive without trying to persuade Shane one way or the other. We don't see the final outcome, but the story covers enough so that we know Shane's decision.

Fanwork Links: nothing but some heartburn, baby

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Wrangled my meme from 23 January 2024 into a slightly more Tumblr-friendly shape; reproduce and distribute freely, as long as you credit me and don’t feed it to generative AI.

Once again: happy birthday (23 January as of 19:26 US Eastern Standard Time) to Lan Wangji from Mo Dao Zu Shi and Hei Xiazi from Daomu Biji!

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部首
手 part 2
扔, to throw; 托, to ask; 扛, to carry ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=64

词汇
尺, 尺子, ruler (as in measurement); 尺寸, size/measurement/dimensions ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/

Guardian:
拜托，不要再杀人了, please stop killing people
这次您还得寸进尺, you're given an inch and taking a mile again

Me:
请把你的垃圾扔掉。
为了卖给他一件衬衫，我需要他的尺寸。

trobadora

Good news: not as tired today!

Bad news: extra stress at work and otherwise!

Today's writing

I did manage to write a few paragraphs, but it feels like I'm just treading water right now. I really need to make some progress over the weekend; the next deadline is fast approaching ...

Tally

( Days 1-20 )

Day 21:

alightbuthappypen,

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 22:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora

Day 23:

china_shop,

trobadora

Let me know if I missed anyone! And remember you can drop in or out at any time. :)

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lannamichaels

Couldn't they possibly have, perhaps and please, cast actors who don't look so goddamn alike for Steve & Bucky, I'm sorry, I mean Scott & Kip?

If they shave or the other one of them gets slightly more facial hair, I've not even the slightest hope here. In the sex scenes, it's like whatever, if you wanted me to know who is who, you'd light it better.

Put a shirt on. Why do you have identical torsos, one of you is a professional athlete and the other one works two jobs.

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手 part 1
手, hand; 才, talent/just; 打, to hit ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=64

语法
2.19 (part 2) Adjective result complements: 对, 错, 干净, 坏
https://www.digmandarin.com/hsk-2-grammar

词汇
迟到, late; 推迟, delay ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/

Guardian:
你的手在抖, your hands are shaking
那古班他到底做错了什么, so what the hell did Gu Ban do wrong?
林静这么多年都兢兢业业的，除了九十九次迟到，四十四次早退，十八次旷工，二十七次打盹，就没有别的劣迹了, Lin Jing has been so professional all these years, apart from being late 99 times, leaving early 44 times, skipping work 18 times, and napping on the job 27 times, there haven't been any other issues

Me:
她认识你以后她的才华才绽放了。
我要的爱会把我宠坏🎵

trobadora

I'm incredibly tired again today for no discernible reason. *sighs*

Today's writing

Still slowly working on things. Still not gaining any momentum, but haven't thrown in the towel either, so there's that?

Tally

( Days 1-20 )

Day 21:

alightbuthappypen,

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 22:

china_shop,

trobadora

Let me know if I missed anyone! And remember you can drop in or out at any time. :)

ride_4ever

I'm putting together a program at the public library where I work as an Acquisitions and Collection Management Librarian. It's a program about books that have been challenged or banned in the recent onslaught against the freedom to read in the U.S. Some of the reasons...I can't even! I don't know whether to engage in bitter laughter or to just plain cry...or both...yeah, both.

Just a few moments ago I encountered this one about a book I read recently: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been banned in some parts of the U.S. because Dunbar-Ortiz puts Indigenous Native Americans at the center of her telling of U.S. history "causing the book to gain detractors who prefer that history be told from the colonizer perspective". To paraphrase Shakespeare in Hamlet: "If all history books were to be judged on preferred perspective 'who should scape whipping'."

Current Mood: I can't even.
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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