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What if Wen Ruohan isn't bad, he's mostly bored and lonely and the cultivation equivalent of a billionaire. (Ok, you don't get to be a billionaire without doing a lot of bad shit [or benefitting from a spouse or ancestor's bad shit], but you can choose to be better.)

What if Lan Quiren and his B+ parenting makes Wen Ruohan choose to be better?

I love this fic: it's funny, it's romantic, it's excellent kid fic, and the larger cultivation world plot (we do get there, eventually) works, too. Fuck QHJ.

( The Other Mountain by nirejseki - 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù  )

Oh! I didn't read anything today. I downloaded some stuff for New Comics Day without actually reading anything. But!

A fanfiction thing I have been reading to deal with 2016 and everything horrible is The Sweetest Thing series by uena. This is exactly what it says on the tin, a super sweet slice of life series. It's 50 stories/232k words so far.

It's a Three Musketeers (BBC 2014) modern AU, Porthos/Aramis, Athos/Porthos/Aramis story, and it's just about the three of them loving each other very much. That's it! That's the story! They love each other. Sometimes they're sad and then they comfort each other! Sometimes, a third party says something mean and then one of the other two tells the mean person off while the third one gives cuddles! Their parents are lovely. Porthos is a social worker at an orphanage. Aramis makes clothes with Constance. Athos is an artist; he also makes heavenly coffee. D'Artagnan is a bike messenger who is in love with Constance. They adopt some cats. (Later, Porthos will adopt a pregnant lady that he hired to build a playground for his cats, because he is that kind to animals and people and loves children so much.)

Anyway, it is sweetness and light and comfort, which some of us may need badly at this difficult time.

You do not need to know The Three Musketeers to read this fic.

I just found getinterrupted / Girls Interrupting website / Girls Interrupting RSS feed. Once a month they talk for about an hour; more frequently they talk about a few issues of a single title for 5-20 minutes. It's great! It's a comics podcast with four women talking about comics. They care about feminism and have strong opinions. Between the four of them, they read Marvel, DC, and independent stuff. It's like fannish friends having a conversation around you, but you don't have to participate or do anything, and if they say something you don't understand, you can rewind.

I also like Big Planet Comics podcast. Three comic book store employees from a local DC chain talk about comic books, mostly #1 issues. Also, they discuss upcoming comics-related news and answer listener questions. (I recently sent them 13, they're doling them out slowly.) This is the best of what an LCS can do for you. (Aside from adding stuff to your pullbox that you would definitely like.)

Criminal is a very calm podcast about crime. Sometimes it talks about a case from the POV of the criminal, sometimes the investigator, sometimes the victim, sometimes the falsely accused. Sometimes it's not about a specific incident, but about criminal (investigation) procedure. But it is very much interested in letting someone tell their story. It can be funny. As much as a story about crime can be, it can be sweet. Sometimes the crimes are brutal, sometimes they're property crimes, sometimes it's a story about skirting the law. It's a very human sort of podcast.

No Such Thing As A Fish is an extremely informative laugh riot. Researchers for the British quiz show QI each share their favorite fact, and some facts related to that fact, and they try to crack everyone up while doing it. Often, they succeed.

Some bonus stuff I don't feel like writing up, but definitely do recommend: Pop Culture Happy Hour, Planet Money, 99% Invisible (about design, broadly speaking), The Vergecast (tech nerds talking way too long), The comiXologist.

So, one of the people I follow on twitter is bibliotech and she's awesome in that she's always posting links to new social media/app websites, but, like, 70% of the time I look at the website and think, but why?

And I thought "but why?" when I first saw Rebel Mouse, but then I started my own, and it's actually amazing.

It grabs the links from my social media feeds (it could do more feeds if I were more interesting, but at this point it's grabbing from dreawmidth, twitter, and google plus for me. You can also do Facebook, instagram, flicker, tumblr, pinterest, and any random rss link.) And it makes you a front page, sort of like the Huffington Post front page. It includes an image or video automatically, if the link has that.

I love it, it's amazing. Not that anyone is following me, but it actually serves as a really clear picture of the things I'm interested in. I go look at it every day or two and I think, "Yes, that's me in a web nutshell."