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Does anyone know Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles? Probably not; it goes back to 1979. But I listen to the "Oldies" station on the car radio, or if I want music in the house, and I've heard it often enough that I recognize it.

The entrance to the chorus (?) is a female voice singing, "Oh, ah-oh!" (At about the 30-second mark on the video.)

So Monday evening, I was out cleaning pump filters for the pond and water tubs, and a bird was calling nearby. I swear, part of his call matched the "ah-oh" in cadence and note-interval. (My ear isn't good enough to know if it was the right notes, or just the right relationship between notes.) It was distinct enough, and recognizable enough, that it immediately reminded me of the song, and there I was, trying to sing it.

(Unfortunately -- or maybe fortunately? -- I know only four lines of the song, two of which are, "Video Killed the Radio Star." LOL!)

I wasn't able to get a visual sighting of the bird, but it wasn't one I recognize by call. We don't have that many varieties of birds around here, and I know most of the calls. (House finch, dove, mockingbird, grackle, meadowlark, quail are most common.) It could have been passing through, heading for more northern latitudes. I'll be alert for hearing it again, but it could well have been a one-time occurrence.

Nothing big, here. Just a possibly interesting snippet of outdoor life in rural New Mexico.

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EPH 1 - NoPixel (Web Series), 仙王的日常生活 | The Daily Life of the Immortal King (Cartoon), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, Undertale (Video Game)

EPH 1 - NoPixel (Web Series), NoPixel (Web Series), 仙王的日常生活 | The Daily Life of the Immortal King (Cartoon), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, Undertale (Video Game)

Request 1 by geelizzzie
NoPixel (Web Series)

Relationships and Characters:

Raymond Romanov & Yuno Sykk (NoPixel)
Raymond Romanov/Yuno Sykk (NoPixel)
Yeager Demonblood & Lando Stormborn (NoPixel)
Yeager Demonblood & Gea Stagdancer & Lando Stormborn (NoPixel)
Yeager Demonblood & Gea Stagdancer (NoPixel)
Chatterbox & Yuno Sykk (NoPixel)
Timothy Butler & Yeager Demonblood (NoPixel)
Solo: Yeager Demonblood (NoPixel)
Yeager Demonblood & Yuno Sykk (NoPixel)
Solo: Yuno Sykk (NoPixel)

Freeforms: Character A with abandonment trauma gets triggered thinking B will abandon them; B reassures them they love and care about them and will not, Character A finally admits to themselves they are traumatised by talking about it with character B; is comforted about it by B who listens patiently, PTSD means character A feels different and alienated from the world and people around them, Character A keeps B company during their trauma anniversary as comfort, Healing from being traumatised by the same person/circumstances/abuse together, Character A shows traumatised character B how to have fun again after they have learnt to cope by isolating and shutting down, A patiently discusses what consensual sex is (not) and should be with B who has a warped sense of sex and themselves after childhood sexual abuse, A flinches when B unknowingly reaches out to touch them due to trauma; B is understanding and helps them through the flashback that follows, A doesn't know about B's trauma; helps and comforts B anyway when they walk in on B having a flashback, Chronic illness flare-up causes ableist abuse flashback for char A; B lovingly takes care of them and their needs, A with medical trauma refuses to see a doctor; B pushes them for and accompanies them at trip to the hospital for important treatment, Disabled A has struggled with needing a mobility aid due to past ableist abuse; B coaxes and comforts them as they finally try using one anyway, A heavily drinks to deal with trauma; B helps them sober up and sits with them through the emotions they'd been running from, A finds out about sexual abuse when B shows up wounded at their place after it happens again; lovingly and patiently takes care of B in the aftermath, Character A is patient and caring towards traumatized B as they try to figure out how to be in a healthy and safe relationship after years of abuse, Character A takes care of traumatized character B after they show up on their doorstep bloodied post rape, Character A is patient and caring with traumatized B who has trust issues after abuse; B learns to trust them over time, The complicatedness of trying to have a good relationship with someone who is still close to the person who has abused you for years, Healing from Trauma Via Time With Horse(s), Horse keeping character company throughout trauma flashback

Optional Details:

DNW: omegaverse, scat, emeto, watersports, fisting, PWP, references to Harry Potter, graphic eye trauma, graphic fingernail trauma, strangulation (the physical act, struggling to breathe and feeling like it's happening okay!), hanging, (potential) animal harm/abuse and/or death (including by other animals and implied or (thwarted) attempts and worries about it happening/having happened), animal POV, horse racing, consensual (happy) incest (dubcon and trauma bonding is fine!), magic disability cures and erasure of canon disability, possessive behaviour towards third parties ("how dare you speak to x, you are MY partner"), romantic jealousy, cheating (in current relationships), Christmas, Thanksgiving, sitcom-style secondhand embarrassment, miscommunication as main plot device, proposal/wedding-centred stories, pregnancy, the phrases "you don't know what you're doing to me" (and those in similar vein, meant sexually) and "you're being so good for me", hopeless endings

I am also a big fan of the autism tags but I couldn't fit them all so feel free to include those! Also!! Character study focused on canon trauma!! is such a good tag I couldn't fit here either. Also trauma reveal tags,, from being abused or raped before they met. Or while out of it from sickness or injury. So good.
This request is bait. I'm also a fan of the idea of Chatterbox & Lando or Chatterbox & Yeager for the learning to have fun in life again tag. Also trauma of grieving someone who isn't dead with Yeager and Lang,, There's just so much trauma in NoPixel. There can be even more.

General likes: Trauma (aftermath/fallout, (un)healthy coping, recovery, learning to deal/live with it, abuse, characters finding comfort in each other as they face (their) trauma), aro and ace characters, queerplatonic relationships, angst, hurt/comfort, fluff, relationship (dynamics) explorations and figuring out how to even do relationships, complex relationships, mental health struggles, therapy, mental hospital setting, found family, neurodivergent characters/headcanons (especially autistic characters), infodumping, trans characters/headcanons (especially transmasc and nonbinary), character studies, humour and shenanigans, horses, characters who struggle with opening up (having to) be vulnerable, RuneScape AU, nature appreciation, heisting and casefic, problem goose (think Untitled Goose Game), established relationship, pre-slash, relationship negotiations, mobility aids like forearm crutches and wheelchairs

NSFW likes: Biting, copious amounts of slick, fingering, overstimulation, clumsy/inexperienced sex, free use, object insertion, gentle touching, loving sex, body appreciation, cunnilingus, gripping hips, leaving bruises, neck kissing/sucking, fingers in mouth, fingers tangled in hair, stimmy sex/sex as stimming, eyes rolling back, lower back touches

Treats are welcome and appreciated <3

Letter: https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/a2b554c3-4987-4add-9bb8-ad66c5bc54cc/draft/c340693e-4704-4b4f-9ff1-18aa23e47249

Request 2 by geelizzzie
NoPixel (Web Series)

Relationships and Characters:

Yeager Demonblood & Meowfurryon (NoPixel)
Yeager Demonblood & Meoqfurryon & Lando Stormborn (NoPixel)

Freeforms: The aftermath and grief of the trauma of having to kill a close loved one together, Characters Help Each Other After a Shared Traumatic Experience, Healing from being traumatised by the same person/circumstances/abuse together, Aftermath and comfort for canon trauma, Character experiences consequences of canonical trauma, Character who dies in canon survives with psychological trauma instead, Character study focused on canon trauma

Optional Details:

Moewfurryon died,, they killed him,,, together,,

Treats are welcome and appreciated <3

Letter: https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/a2b554c3-4987-4add-9bb8-ad66c5bc54cc/draft/c340693e-4704-4b4f-9ff1-18aa23e47249

Request 3 by geelizzzie
仙王的日常生活 | The Daily Life of the Immortal King (Cartoon)

Relationships and Characters:

Wang Ling & Sun Rong (DLotIK)
Froggy 2 & Wang Ling (DLotIK)

Freeforms: Character is the only one who remembers previous realities after world reset(s); causes traumatic loneliness, Character is the only one who remembers traumatic experiences after the world resets, The trauma of grief, Trauma Symptom - Depression, Healing from Trauma Via Time With Horse(s), Healing from being traumatised by the same person/circumstances/abuse together, Character study focused on canon trauma

Optional Details:

DNW: omegaverse, smut, references to Harry Potter, graphic eye trauma, graphic fingernail trauma, strangulation (the physical act, struggling to breathe and feeling like it's happening okay!), hanging, (potential) animal harm/abuse and/or death (including by other animals and implied or (thwarted) attempts and worries about it happening/having happened), animal POV, horse racing, consensual (happy) incest (dubcon and trauma bonding is fine!), magic disability cures and erasure of canon disability, possessive behaviour towards third parties ("how dare you speak to x, you are MY partner"), romantic jealousy, cheating (in current relationships), Christmas, Thanksgiving, sitcom-style secondhand embarrassment, miscommunication as main plot device, proposal/wedding-centred stories, pregnancy, the phrases "you don't know what you're doing to me" (and those in similar vein, meant sexually) and "you're being so good for me", hopeless endings

I am also a big fan of the autism tags so feel free to include those!
Wang Ling is so distraught when Sun Rong dies. He resets the world so many times. It's bound to have an effect on him that he went through all that and no one else even remembers this? I think his power in general is quite isolating, and that finally changes a little when he makes friends but. He went through so much when he was young. And then he lost the one person who reached out to him and connected with him despite everything? And he's supposed to just move on from this because it was fixed somehow in the end? Let him be traumatised. Let him have emotions even if he doesn't necessarily feel them as much. Maybe he will again. Maybe they'll break through and he has an unexpected panic attack. Who knows!

Treats are welcome and appreciated <3

Letter: https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/a2b554c3-4987-4add-9bb8-ad66c5bc54cc/draft/c340693e-4704-4b4f-9ff1-18aa23e47249

Request 4 by geelizzzie
文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs

Relationships and Characters:

Dazai Osamu & Edogawa Ranpo (Bungou Stray Dogs)
Dazai Osamu & Oda Sakunosuke (Bungou Stray Dogs)
Edogawa Ranpo & Nikolai Gogol (Bungou Stray Dogs)
Edogawa Ranpo & Edgar Allan Poe (Bungou Stray Dogs)

Freeforms: Disabled A has struggled with needing a mobility aid due to past ableist abuse; B coaxes and comforts them as they finally try using one anyway, Chronic illness flare-up causes ableist abuse flashback for char A; B lovingly takes care of them and their needs, Traumatized character realises that a past experience 'counts' as child sexual abuse, Character A keeps B company during their trauma anniversary as comfort, Character Experiences PTSD From Grief And Is Comforted By A Loved One, Character A finally admits to themselves they are traumatised by talking about it with character B; is comforted about it by B who listens patiently, A patiently discusses what consensual sex is (not) and should be with B who has a warped sense of sex and themselves after childhood sexual abuse, Character A takes care of traumatized character B after they show up on their doorstep bloodied post rape, A flinches when B unknowingly reaches out to touch them due to trauma; B is understanding and helps them through the flashback that follows, A finds out about sexual abuse when B shows up wounded at their place after it happens again; lovingly and patiently takes care of B in the aftermath, Character A with abandonment trauma gets triggered thinking B will abandon them; B reassures them they love and care about them and will not, Character A is patient and caring towards traumatized B as they try to figure out how to be in a healthy and safe relationship after years of abuse, Character A is patient and caring with traumatized B who has trust issues after abuse; B learns to trust them over time, Healing from Trauma Via Time With Horse(s), Horse keeping character company throughout trauma flashback, Character study focused on canon trauma, The trauma of grieving someone who isn't dead, A accidentally reveals history of sexual trauma to B while out of it from illness or injury, Character B Finds Out About Character A’s Trauma From Being Abused Before They Met

Optional Details:

I am also a big fan of the autism tags but couldn't fit them all so feel free to include those!
I love these characters so much. I love Oda being there for Dazai and comforting him (although good luck with making sure Dazai lets you lmao but Oda's casual yet earnest responses to things just works for Dazai somehow) and Ranpo and Dazai understanding each other without even necessarily wanting the other to (big fan of Ranpo knowing things Dazai doesn't think anyone will accept him for and Ranpo doing it anyway with a shrug of yes of course it's not a big deal to me and I don't buy into your negative self-image), Ranpo and Poe being soft and supportive of each other and just a great duo, and I don't know, I think Nikolai and Ranpo are neat. I don't have many thoughts on their dynamic other than I think they should meet. I wonder what Ranpo thinks of Nikolai and his clown persona. And how Nikolai deals with someone who easily pokes through his outer layers.
Also headcanon wise, big fan of autistic Ranpo, autistic Dazai, aro and/or ace Ranpo and Dazai, queerplatonic RanPoe

Treats are welcome and appreciated <3

Letter: https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/a2b554c3-4987-4add-9bb8-ad66c5bc54cc/draft/c340693e-4704-4b4f-9ff1-18aa23e47249

Request 5 by geelizzzie
Undertale (Video Game)

Relationships and Characters:

Papyrus & Sans (Undertale)
Asriel Dreemurr & Frisk (Undertale)
Solo: Sans (Undertale)
Frisk & Sans (Undertale)

Freeforms: Character is the only one who remembers previous realities after world reset(s); causes traumatic loneliness, Character is the only one who remembers traumatic experiences after the world resets, The trauma of grief, Character Experiences PTSD From Grief And Is Comforted By A Loved One, Character study focused on canon trauma

Optional Details:

I am also a big fan of the autism tags so feel free to include those!
Asriel has so much grief. And the way he mentioned he was projecting Chara onto Frisk because Frisk was what he wished Chara would have been,, devastating. I know Sans doesn't canonically remember timeline resets but maybe Frisk does and it's killing them (dying could be traumatic to go through alone, or watching others die). Asriel could (though I prefer him as Asriel over Flowey if you're writing him) and honestly I wouldn't be mad if you make Sans remember things. Or just have him have a feeling about other timelines and have trauma about not quite knowing but still knowing in that sense.

Treats are welcome and appreciated <3

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musesfool

We were all super anxious about today's board meeting, but despite all the agita, it went well. Whew. We will still need to do some tweaking in terms of the order stuff is presented in, but thankfully nobody got all up in arms about the changes.

My router keeps dropping my internet connection in short spurts every few hours, and I finally opened the chat with Spectrum about it. I was like, could it be that I need a new router? It's 6 years old. And the chatbot or whatever was like, it seems to be working right now! And I was like, yes, but it's been dropping the connection repeatedly for the last three days, several times a day, for 5-10 minutes at a time, both on wifi and with the computer that is plugged into the ethernet cable. And it was like, please hold. And then it came back and was like, ah yes, now I see there is some bad signal coming from your router! Perhaps we should replace it. It is 6 years old. And I was like, yes please! How do we do that? And it offered to ship it and a new modem, which is also 6 years old but has not (yet) been troublesome, so I said yes, let's do that. So now they are shipping me a new modem and a new router, which I will install and then return the old equipment to them. So we'll see how that goes.

I also signed and scanned back my tax returns to my accountant and I'm so glad they take payment by Zelle now so I don't have to mail a check. I'm getting money back from both Fed and State, which will have to go right to paying bills. At least I can't rack up more credit card charges atm because my niece has put a moratorium on any new clothes for Baby Miss L until they clear out out some space. It is very hard to restrain myself but I have done so womanfully. There are just so many cute toddler girl clothes out there though, and she enjoys playing with her clothes (she likes to do fashion shows by trying on various items, accessorizing with a hat and a purse, and then walking round the living room), so I enjoy giving them to her. Hopefully they'll get some old stuff that no longer fits put away and I will be given free rein again.

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Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Ooh Child - the Five Stairsteps

scrubjayspeaks

It was no one’s business, of course, what gods a person might dedicate themselves to, but humans are humans, and so they marveled openly that he would choose a trickster god. They pointed out his love of clear and consistent rules, his aversion to any change in routine, his fundamental discomfort with unpredictability. Gods seldom make promises, though, and if no one could promise him the stability he craved, he decided he would have to get divine lessons in learning to cope with the chaos of reality.

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LL#1374

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Siibii - "YOY" (Live)

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The train bears

selkie southward again: we have affirmed that the important part is not the leaving, but the coming back. This visit was somewhat more flying than usual and complicated by just about everyone on both sides having run out of running on fumes some time last year if not the previous decade, but we had celebration and I was finally able to give her the shells and stones I had collected for her five months ago on Cape Cod, reminders of northern Atlantic.

spatch and I have decided never again to pay attention to his phone when driving into Brookline. Making our way home from South Station, I was so pleased to see that the superstructure of the Northern Avenue Bridge has not yet been demolished and still stands as an installation of rust-flaked trusses, permanently perpendicular to its successor's flat concrete. What I would have called the new North Washington Street Bridge has been designated the Bill Russell Bridge since I first glimpsed it in miniature of the Zakim, a parabolic stickleback of white fish bones. We parked in the lot of Bill & Bob's for the first roast beef sandwiches of the season, so early the picnic tables had not been set up, and were introduced by WERS to the total delight of They Might Be Giants' "Wu-Tang" (2026) as we wound past the un-iced Mystic. Two days after a snow that stuck to all the branches, it is short-sleeved catkin spring, drive-with-the-windows-down weather. We watched the Charles and the Fort Point Channel scatter the same reflective blue as the sky.

Current Music: Talking Heads, "Creatures of Love"

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Fandom: BTS and BT21
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, Jungkook, Koya, RJ, Shooky, Mang, Chimmy, Tata, Cooky, and SUGA's real life kitty, Tang!
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: N/A
Artist Website/Gallery:

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Why this piece is awesome: It's a really soft fanart that connects to so many things: BTS doing a comeback, them and their BT21 creations, and the mention of spring (their new album dropping on the official first day of spring). Oh, and the gentle nod to "Spring Day", a v. significant song in their discography.

I liked that this art is set at a moment when the dawn is right around the corner too. It's got a lovely style as well.

Link: and life goes on 🌸

osprey_archer

This Wednesday Reading Meme covers the last two weeks, so it is perhaps a bit longer than usual, although not so long as it could be as I intend to write a whole post devoted to George Gissing’s New Grub Street. Will I manage this? Unclear. Not sure I ever truly did justice to The Odd Women either.

What I Read Over the Past Two Weeks

Patricia C. Wrede’s Caught in Crystal. I was excited about this book because I loved Wrede’s Enchanted Forest Chronicles, but I found Caught in Crystal a disappointment. The characters spend a lot of time moving from location to location without ever giving much sense what makes any particular location interesting and unique, and it takes about 75% of the book before we finally get started on the quest that we could all see coming from about chapter two.

Eleanor Hoffman’s A Cat of Paris, illustrated by Zhenya Gay. Another lavishly illustrated cat POV children’s book from the 1940s, which seems to have been a highwater mark for this sort of thing. Delightful as books in this genre almost invariably are, with the extra delight of taking place on the Left Bank of Paris! I was only sorry that our cat never got to pose for the patissiere who yearned to sculpt him in marzipan.

Scott Eyman’s Hank and Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart. During a long wait at the airport I sorted through my Kindle and found some books I’d forgotten about, including this one! I love Golden Age Hollywood and Jimmy Stewart especially, so I found this a lot of fun, even though Henry Fonda is the kind of guy who says things like “I’ve never liked myself very much” and you go mmm yeah I don’t think I like you very much either. Apparently if someone got too emotional in front of Fonda, or asked for help, his characteristic move was to silently walk away.

However, I did find Fonda’s needlepoint hobby endearing.

Ngaio Marsh’s Enter a Murderer, the second Inspector Alleyn novel, which I approached with trepidation because I’ve found the early Alleyn books hit or miss. (IMO Marsh hits her stride in Artists in Crime, when Alleyn falls head over heels for murder suspect Agatha Troy.) However, this one was a surprise pleasure. The story is set in a theater, and Marsh’s theater mysteries are almost always good, and although Alleyn doesn’t seem to have quite settled into his characterization yet, it is extremely funny to watch him flippantly flirting with starstruck reporter Nigel Bathgate.

”Here’s the warrant,” murmured Alleyn. He struggled into his overcoat and pulled on his felt hat at a jaunty angle.

“Am I tidy?” he asked. “It looks so bad not to be tidy for an arrest.”

Nigel thought dispassionately, that he looked remarkably handsome, and wondered if the chief inspector had “It.” “I must ask Angela,” thought Nigel.

Must you, Nigel? I think you can tell damn well that Chief Inspector Alleyn simply oozes sex appeal.

What I’m Reading Now

I’ve begun Takuya Asakura’s The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop, which I bought because it was a mere $5 with a drink at the Barnes and Noble cafe (deal lasts till the end of March!) and I was weak to the beautiful cherry blossom explosion of a cover. I feel that a bookshop that only appears when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom ought to feel a bit more numinously magical than the one in this book, but nonetheless I’m enjoying it enough to keep reading.

What I Plan to Read Next

Continuing my Provincial Lady journey with The Provincial Lady in America.

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Title: Willing
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: 9-1-1
Relationships: Evan Buckley/Tommy Kinard
Tags: Fantasy AU, Tommy is a God
Summary: Evan was more than willing.
Word Count: 4,084

( Willing )

rionaleonhart

Yet more Robert/Chris Goes Wrong fanfiction! And, yet again, I have managed to sneak Robert banging Chris's mother in here. It's my favourite thing.

Title: The Verge
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: 14
Pairing: Robert/Chris, with some Robert/Celia
Wordcount: 3,500
Summary: Chris steels himself. “Do you ever feel something might... happen between us?”

( The Verge )

sovay

My poem "ἀγκυλοθάλασσος" has been accepted by Strange Horizons. I am indebted to

radiantfracture for his Twine prompt generator designed to produce scientific-sounding compound adjectives and nouns, in this case the irresistible "ankylothalassic" from ἀγκύλος "crooked, bent" and θάλασσα "the sea." I rendered it back into classical Greek and José Esteban Muñoz and Twelfth Night got in there along the way. It was written on New Year's Eve.

While I was out of ambit of the internet for almost all of yesterday, Reckoning: It Was Paradise hit the digital shelves. It is the special issue of the journal of environmental justice on war and conflict and contains a poem of mine which will go live on the internet in a month, or you could pick it up now with the rest of the shatteringly topical e-book if you don't feel like preordering it in print. I wrote it last summer after the—first—U.S. strikes on Iran. I taught myself a small amount of Elamite cuneiform for it. It should not have come around to such relevance again.

The designer of the Paleontological Research Institute's long-running pre-saurian Paleozoic Pals has just branched out into Pleistocene mammals with a Kickstarter for Cenozoic Snuggles. I have put in for a Glyptodon.

I may have slept nine hours. I just heard Rabbitology's "The Bog Bodies" (2026).

Current Music: Charlotte Sands, "Satellite"

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Title: The River Running
Fandom: Torchwood
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1020
Summary: Jack has brought his husband to see something spectacular, but so far, Ianto isn’t impressed.
Spoilers: Nada. Set in my Ghost of a Chance ‘Verse.
Warnings: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 510: River.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood or any of the characters.

( The River Running... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

osprey_archer

(I actually wrote this review before my trip, then ran out of time to post it.)

Sometimes you just know, just from looking at a book’s cover, that this book is in some way For You. Such is the case with Sara Pennypacker’s Pax, with its Jon Klassen cover of a fox standing on a wooded hill gazing across a plain at a sunset. I’ve looked at this book for years and always meant to read it and somehow never quite picked it up.

But at last I’ve read it, and I was correct that it IS for me, full of solid fox action (which you would expect from the cover) and also surprisingly serious musings about war (which you would not guess from the cover, but it works).

War is coming to the country. Which country? The country, which is similar to America but perhaps not America. With whom? The enemy. What for? The water. Why? Because the humans are war-sick. This vagueness might not work for me in a different book, but here it works well to highlight the destructiveness of war, not only for people but for the land and the animals.

Peter’s father has joined the army. Since Peter’s mother is dead, he’s going to live with his grandfather, which means he needs to get rid of his pet fox Pax. So Peter’s father drives him to an isolated road, and Peter throws Pax’s favorite toy into the woods, and Pax chases after it.

But as soon as Peter arrives at his grandfather’s house, he realizes he’s made a horrible mistake. There’s nothing for it: he’s got to run away and trek cross-country to find Pax.

Meanwhile, Pax intends to sit by the side of the road and wait for his boy. But hunger and thirst force him to begin exploring the forest, where he meets other foxes… and they discover that the human armies are drawing closer.

Really enjoyed this. Great fox POV. There’s a sequel, so I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that Pax lives. Don’t want to give too many spoilers, but I found Peter’s journey unexpected and satisfying, and Pax’s journey pretty much what you might expect from that summary but also satisfying. Sometimes stories hit certain beats for a reason, you know?

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Title: Pulling the Strands Together
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes (ACD) - Retirement era
Ratings: PG
Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Stanley Hopkins
Prompts from the Broad Strokes section: Sketch Book, Papier-mâche, Carpentry, Spinning Wheel

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Arctic Light

Life in a Northern Town

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Aurendor D&D: Summary for 3/24 Game

Cozy Mystery sale through March 29

Birds singing oldies

Tokusatsu: March 2026 Monthly Self-Reccing Period

Emergency Pinch Hit

EPH 1 - NoPixel (Web Series), NoPixel (Web Series), 仙王的日常生活 | The Daily Life of the Immortal King (Cartoon), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, Undertale (Video Game)

someday when the world is much brighter

Lake Lewisia #1374

Music Wednesday

Am I one of those human beings?

DC Femslash Big Bang 2026

BTS: and life goes on 🌸 by pebble (SFW)

Wednesday Reading Meme

9-1-1: Fan Fiction: Willing

Fanfiction: The Verge (The Goes Wrong Show, Robert/Chris)

I'm yours in the day and the dead of night

for the other Bridgertonians out there

Works are Revealed!

Torchwood: Fanfic: The River Running

Book Review: Pax

Blackout Bingo - 2X2 National Crafting Month

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