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  <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:09:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Song rec</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgDsMnNX2xg&quot;&gt;Now You Know&lt;/a&gt; by Anais Mitchell, which I stumbled on today, is SUCH a middle age song. It sounds like someone in perimenopause. It&apos;s not hitting me personally head on (among other things I don&apos;t think about children that way) but I found it gripping and beautiful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=506275&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:17:22 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Book recommendation</title>
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  <description>My friend Annick Trent has a new historical m/m romance out: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.annicktrent.com/books_marshmoor&quot;&gt;By Marsh and by Moor&lt;/a&gt;. It&apos;s about a pressed English sailor running from the press gang during the Napoleonic wars, and his companion on the run, who is running from something else entirely. Obviously I am not impartial here, but I&apos;ve been enjoying beta reading this book even when I haven&apos;t been reading much other fiction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=490026&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:03:55 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Yuletide reveals</title>
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  <description>I received this lovely gift full of UST, which I think is the first ever with this pairing! I mean, unless Broster wrote some drawer fic or something. *g* I was pretty sure it was not written by anyone I knew, though I think I recognize the name from &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://sanguinity.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://sanguinity.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;sanguinity&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s Tumblr links? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/61428025&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the miraculous nectarine.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1088 words) by &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/looselipssinksubs&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mage-pie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fandom: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/tags/%22Mr%20Rowl%22%20-%20D*d*%20K*d*%20Broster&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Mr Rowl&amp;quot; - D. K. Broster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rating: General Audiences&lt;br /&gt;Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply&lt;br /&gt;Relationships: Raoul des Sablières/Hervey Barrington&lt;br /&gt;Characters: Raoul des Sablières, Hervey Barrington, John Jeremy (&quot;Mr Rowl&quot; - D. K. Broster)&lt;br /&gt;Additional Tags: Fluff, Unresolved Sexual Tension, John Jeremy is so so tired of these people, canon-typical gratuitous use of French&lt;br /&gt;Summary: In the back garden of Fairhaven, in the shade of the wall, Hervey Barrington found himself in a peculiar position: sitting on a bench with Raoul des Sablières’ head very nearly in his lap. It was, in fact, on the bench, but the top of his head was pressed against Hervey’s thigh. Hervey was not sure how he had ended up like this—when he had sat down, Raoul had been several inches away with his head on a cushion, and the cushion was now on the grass. (Or, Hervey and Raoul, sitting in a &lt;strike&gt;tree&lt;/strike&gt; garden, not doing anything because someone might see them. It’s all extremely proper and normal and English.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wrote this for &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://muccamukk.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://muccamukk.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;muccamukk&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, which is only my second Kidnapped fic. I&apos;d been wanting to write something from Alan&apos;s POV, and it took some work, though I&apos;m pretty pleased with the result! My recipient has a very helpful Yuletide letter, and I latched on to this bit: &lt;i&gt;I absolutely adore found documents/letters/anything that annotates/layers text. I especially love it if there are conflicting accounts from more than one source, or in more than one style, or the levels build on each other.&lt;/i&gt; I am grateful to &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://sanguinity.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://sanguinity.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;sanguinity&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;garonne&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for beta reading, and to &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://verecunda.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://verecunda.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;verecunda&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for checking the Scots for me! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/61387762&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Take the Bit and the Buffet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1273 words) by &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/Luzula&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Luzula&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fandom: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Kidnapped%20%7C%20David%20Balfour%20Series%20-%20Robert%20Louis%20Stevenson&quot;&gt;Kidnapped | David Balfour Series - Robert Louis Stevenson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rating: Teen And Up Audiences&lt;br /&gt;Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply&lt;br /&gt;Relationships: David Balfour/Alan Breck Stewart&lt;br /&gt;Characters: David Balfour, Alan Breck Stewart&lt;br /&gt;Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Epistolary&lt;br /&gt;Summary: Alan&apos;s beta reading comments on Davie&apos;s manuscript of &lt;i&gt;Kidnapped&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=484442&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:47:48 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Recent reading</title>
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  <description>&lt;i&gt;The Pastor&apos;s Fire-side Vol 3&lt;/i&gt; by Jane Porter (1817)&lt;br /&gt;I still find the style overwrought (and arrgh, sometimes I want to prune back her adjectives), but I can&apos;t deny that Jane Porter can spin a good yarn. I find it quite page-turney now! &lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://luzula.dreamwidth.org/467315.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;The latest plot developments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/457304&quot;&gt;The Blood of the Hentzaus&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/elstaplador&quot;&gt;El Staplador&lt;/a&gt; (2012)&lt;br /&gt;A novel-length Ruritanian f/f fic about the next generation of the &lt;i&gt;Prisoner of Zenda&lt;/i&gt; characters, complete with a villainous Hentzau, an unwise attachment, plotting for the next throne succession, and swashbuckling at the castle of Zenda. Quite enjoyable! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/41264181&quot;&gt;A reason to live (a reason it is not permissible to die)&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://chestnut-pod.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://chestnut-pod.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;chestnut_pod&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (2022)&lt;br /&gt;This is a Silmarillion fic about Elwing and her pregnancy in the refugee colony at the mouth of Sirion, seen from the POV of an elvish midwife/nurse. The author says it was written as an emotional response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US, but this was not apparent to me at all when I read the fic! Anyway, Elwing is so young and does not know what it will mean to be a half-human, half-elf, and does not know how pregnancy happens. Elwing also has a will of iron and pours herself into making the community of Sirion work. I really appreciated that the style of this is so different from Tolkien&apos;s, allowing us to see the world from another angle. (Usually I only review novel-length fics in my book posts, but this one is 27K, and hey, I don&apos;t have to follow my own rules.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=467315&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 16:45:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Fic recs</title>
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  <description>Er, except for the K J Charles fic, this entry might as well be titled &apos;I Rec My Friends&apos; Fics&apos;, but whatever. It&apos;s hardly a coincidence that my fannish friends are also people whose writing I enjoy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/6702556&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Red Notebook&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (10644 words) by &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/Garonne&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Garonne&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fandom: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Sherlock%20Holmes%20-%20Arthur%20Conan%20Doyle&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a whim I decided to read one of &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;garonne&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s old Sherlock Holmes fics, and wow, it was so good! This is a a Mycroft-POV fic which takes the unreliable narrator concept to such lengths that it throws out much of canon as being fiction. But the Holmes/Watson relationship remains, and I enjoyed seeing Mycroft gradually discover that through Watson&apos;s writing, which also brings them closer together. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/57013282&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Drunkards, Lovers, and Fools&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (15855 words) by &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/sanguinity&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sanguinity&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fandom: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/tags/The%20Jacobite%20Trilogy%20%7C%20The%20Flight%20of%20the%20Heron%20Series%20-%20D*d*%20K*d*%20Broster&quot;&gt;The Jacobite Trilogy | The Flight of the Heron Series - D. K. Broster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a Keith/Ewen woke-up-married fic which is just deliciously tropey and which makes the most of using the trope to bring out all of Keith&apos;s issues--and even better, we get to see it through Ewen&apos;s eyes as he tries to figure out what&apos;s happened and what&apos;s going on in his new husband&apos;s head. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/54960022&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And knowing what to keep&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (12134 words) by &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/regshoe&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;regshoe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fandom: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Kidnapped%20-%20Robert%20Louis%20Stevenson&quot;&gt;Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This fic is almost the opposite: though it&apos;s also very shippy, it is so in a restrained fashion which never shows the Alan/Davie couple on the page, but only through other people&apos;s eyes, who often don&apos;t realize the significance of what they&apos;re seeing. At the same time, all these other people show the rich tapestry of all the rest of Davie&apos;s life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/3132929&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Lions&apos; Den&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (9976 words) by &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/eleanor_lavish&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eleanor_lavish&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fandom: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Think%20of%20England%20-%20K*d*%20J*d*%20Charles&quot;&gt;Think of England - K. J. Charles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of my favorites of the Archie/Daniel fic I&apos;ve read--it&apos;s an obvious premise to write given canon (that actually Archie&apos;s uncle and his best friend are lifelong lovers and partners), but it&apos;s well executed and so enjoyable!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=466434&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:43:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Recent reading</title>
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  <description>&lt;i&gt;The Stone Book Quartet&lt;/i&gt; by Alan Garner (1978)&lt;br /&gt;My last bookshelf book before all my books were packed away in boxes! I admit I chose this one because I was tired, and it had very large print and was a children&apos;s book (of sorts). I liked it--it&apos;s a contemplative historical book, with vignettes of four children of different generations of the same family, separated in time. The focus, as far as I can tell, is craftsmanship, in stone and metal: discovering what one has a talent for, what one learns after long experience, what elders can teach (or not teach) to children. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hornblower and the Atropos&lt;/i&gt; by C S Forester (1953)&lt;br /&gt;And now begins the Summer of Ebooks! I want to read self-indulgent things for a while, as a reward for the work of moving. First out, my next Hornblower: it can be such a comfort to read the next book in a series where one already knows the characters and what one is likely to get. In this instance, exciting naval adventure--this one is pure Hornblower, in a way, with no slashiness, just the page-turney anticipation of finding out how he&apos;s going to solve the latest difficulty. I do wish the author had assured us that those Ceylonese divers were well paid, though. I fear they were not. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During packing I also reread my shelf copy of my own fic &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/25670953&quot;&gt;If Fate Should Reverse Our Positions&lt;/a&gt;. I can&apos;t say it&apos;s my best fic ever, since there are so many different aspects of writing, but it&apos;s certainly the best plotting I&apos;ve ever done. Very proud of that. And it&apos;s good to be able to enjoy my own fic so much on reread, too! I was however annoyed by small editing issues, such as &quot;hmm, I see I was still using that word which I later learned was inappropriate for the period&quot;, or &quot;arrgh, I wish I&apos;d used contractions a little more in dialogue&quot;. But I think constantly going back to edit would have ruined the reading experience, so I didn&apos;t. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me also recommend the Yuletide fic &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/52335067&quot;&gt;A Winter Wood Warming&lt;/a&gt; (9272 words) by &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/Terrantalen&quot;&gt;Terrantalen&lt;/a&gt;, which is fic for &lt;i&gt;Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norrell&lt;/i&gt;, with Emma Pole/Arabella Strange. Very well written epistolary/documentary style fic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=464797&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2024 17:54:37 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Update + gifts for me!</title>
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  <description>I now have a new computer, but none of my files are gone, because I back things up. I have lost all my Firefox tabs and bookmarks though, but perhaps a clean slate is not all bad. Let it gooo, let it gooo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m at the family summer place and graaaaading student essays and generally very busy. But this morning I went birdwatching with my dad and saw, among other species: &lt;br /&gt;- two vigilant whooper swans with seven adorable newly hatched cygnets, who hadn&apos;t even left the nest yet,&lt;br /&gt;- a red-backed shrike sitting still on a branch, &lt;br /&gt;- a couple of horned grebes with their strange red eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, I have received gifts! : D For &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://unsent-letters-exchange.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://unsent-letters-exchange.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;unsent_letters_exchange&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; I received &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/collections/UnsentLetters2024/works/55198411&quot;&gt;A Former Acquaintance&lt;/a&gt;, where Jill and Kitty meet again post-canon when Lady Trecastle spreads malicious rumours about them, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/collections/UnsentLetters2024/works/55480315&quot;&gt;Known Jacobite, Cameron of Ardroy&lt;/a&gt;, which is loosely inspired by events in GitN and where Keith has to deal with having Ewen as his prisoner, while his superior officers want information about Archie from him. I love epistolary fic, and both of these do a great job of showing what&apos;s going on even when important events happen off-page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=463721&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:12:20 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Recent reading</title>
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  <description>I would like to rec &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/28131183&quot;&gt;A Lineage of Amazons&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://nnozomi.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://nnozomi.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;nnozomi&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, which is a beautiful &lt;i&gt;Swallows and Amazons&lt;/i&gt; fic, with the author&apos;s usual lovely style and attention to the material details of daily life, and it also has a theme that comes together so well from sections that at first seem disparate. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry&lt;/i&gt; by Rosalie Fry (1959)&lt;br /&gt;Recced by &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://sovay.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://sovay.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;sovay&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Oh, this was lovely, and I enjoyed the illustrations as much as I did the text. The seals/selkies here are such a contrast with Mollie Hunter&apos;s &lt;i&gt;A Stranger Came Ashore&lt;/i&gt;--this book feels warm and welcoming, while still mysterious, while in Hunter&apos;s book, the selkie is a threat. But actually I would have enjoyed this even without the selkies: the family stuff and the descriptions of the sea and the islands are great. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Oak and the Ash&lt;/i&gt; by Annick Trent (2023)&lt;br /&gt;I have beta-read this before, but it&apos;s the first time I read it for pleasure, which is such a different experience. Aww, George is definitely my favorite character here; I like him a lot. &amp;lt;3 I also very much enjoy all the details of material culture--I know the author does a lot of research on things like that, and it adds so much to the reading experience. I think this book&apos;s plot hangs together better than in the author&apos;s previous book: the element that will lead to conflict is set up right from the start, and the resolution works really well for me, too. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century: Religion, Enlightenment and the Sexual Revolution&lt;/i&gt; by William Gibson and Joanne Begiato (2017)&lt;br /&gt;Recced by &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;garonne&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;; the Church here is the Anglican Church. Fic research, I guess? It&apos;s always interesting to learn more about attitudes towards sexuality, and in this case how they hang together with religious attitudes. The authors&apos; main thesis seems to be that contrary to what some other people have claimed, changes in views on sexuality in the 18th century did not arise as much from the Enlightenment and people growing less religious, as from movements within the Church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=458215&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:53:26 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Candy Hearts recs</title>
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  <description>I thought I&apos;d manage a few recs before the creators are revealed, and not be deterred by not having read all the stories yet, or the feeling that there ought to be more stories in a recs post...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/53155789&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Of Blue Devils and Red Squirrels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2835 words) is an excellent Aubrey/Maturin story--I can&apos;t imagine why it has so few comments/kudos. Perhaps because it&apos;s gen? It captures the whimsy and warmth of canon, with Jack and Stephen&apos;s friendship running through it, and Stephen has some great animal interactions. Very good sense of setting and style, too. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are also &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/collections/CandyHeartsExchange2024/tags/Watership%20Down%20-%20Richard%20Adams/works&quot;&gt;four snippets of Watership Down fic&lt;/a&gt;, all of which are worth reading!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=456633&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:44:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Candy Hearts Exchange gifts!</title>
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  <description>I got two lovely gifts for &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://candyheartsex.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://candyheartsex.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;candyheartsex&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;! : D &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/53514451&quot;&gt;The Most Delightful Thing Possible&lt;/a&gt; (1368 words) is a Jill/Kitty fic for E A Dillwyn&apos;s &lt;i&gt;Jill&lt;/i&gt;, in which Jill and Kitty reunite and go for adventures together. The style is just delightful! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/53565790&quot;&gt;All He Has to Offer&lt;/a&gt; (1291 words) is a Bush/Hornblower fic. I had suggested Bush having to do some soul-searching; this fic delivers, and is beautifully written besides. It&apos;s set during &lt;i&gt;Flying Colours&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am going to guess that &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://edwardianspinsteraunt.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://edwardianspinsteraunt.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;edwardianspinsteraunt&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; wrote the first one, and &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://sanguinity.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://sanguinity.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;sanguinity&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the second one. Let&apos;s see if I&apos;m right...and feel free to guess what I wrote. : D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=456402&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2022 15:38:10 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Yuletide gifts</title>
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  <description>I wrote three fics for Yuletide (feel free to guess them...) and lo, I also received three! \o/ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first is an absolutely lovely &lt;i&gt;Flight of the Heron&lt;/i&gt; fic, &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/43259445&quot;&gt;Hereafter&lt;/a&gt;. It has Ewen and Keith ascending Ben Nevis together (I have been in Glen Nevis, at least!), some really good nature descriptions, and very cool heron POV. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second is a delightful &lt;i&gt;Wounded Name&lt;/i&gt; fic, &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/43798767&quot;&gt;Seaweed and Apple Blossoms&lt;/a&gt;. It is a Laurent/Aymar/Avoye story which gleefully captures the over-the-top nature of canon and fills out the OT3 ending which canon gestures at. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The third is a &lt;i&gt;Flemington&lt;/i&gt; ficlet, &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/43814980&quot;&gt;Sentimental&lt;/a&gt;, which does a great job of filling in Callandar&apos;s POV of the canon epilogue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you, o unknown writers, you have totally made my Yuletide! &amp;lt;3 And you really are unknown--I have no idea who any of you are...but I am looking forward to finding out. : )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=422158&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2022 20:41:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Book rec: &quot;Sixpenny Octavo&quot; by Annick Trent</title>
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  <description>I am in no way objective when it comes to this book, because it is written by a fannish friend of mine and I have beta-read it: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.annicktrent.com/books_oldbridge.html#sixpennyoctavo&quot;&gt;Sixpenny Octavo&lt;/a&gt;, by Annick Trent. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that said, I really like this book, which is historical f/f set in 1790&apos;s England. Things I enjoy about it: &lt;br /&gt;- engaging writing that flows well and is not obtrusively modern (while not trying to be pastiche, either),&lt;br /&gt;- a focus on working-class women, &lt;br /&gt;- the romantic couple is embedded in a community of people,&lt;br /&gt;- a vivid setting which is rooted in details of material culture. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The author previously wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.annicktrent.com/books_oldbridge.html&quot;&gt;Beck and Call&lt;/a&gt;, which is historical m/m about two valets. The characters in &lt;i&gt;Sixpenny Octavo&lt;/i&gt; are not servants--or rather, one of them is to begin with, but she moves away from that into making a living which is more precarious but also more independent. The other works as a clockmender. Also, one of them learns to read during the course of the book and becomes a member of a reading club, and I really like this element--which also supplies the non-relationship tension in the story, because it&apos;s a time where it&apos;s easy to get in trouble for simply being in a reading club even without being involved with radical politics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=417373&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:25:37 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Recent reading</title>
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  <description>My environmental organization is doing some legal work, where I have learned that cases in the European Court of justice often get nicknames. For example &lt;i&gt; Białowieża&lt;/i&gt; is the case against the Polish government for logging in the Białowieża National Park. And there is, delightfully, a case with the name &lt;i&gt;Grand Hamster II&lt;/i&gt;. It makes me giggle every time--imagine being a lawyer and being able to write a sentence like: &apos;According to &lt;i&gt;Grand Hamster II&lt;/i&gt;, §4 in the Habitats Directive should be interpreted as etc etc...&apos; : D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;A Thief in the Night&lt;/i&gt; by E W Hornung (1905)&lt;br /&gt;This is the third collection of Raffles stories, and it is definitely my favorite so far! &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://regshoe.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://regshoe.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;regshoe&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, you were right in saying that Raffles’ feelings for Bunny come through much more clearly here. And the stories are just a lot of fun, compared to the claustrophobic feeling when Raffles is shut up in the previous book. Also, I thought Bunny’s love interest in this one was a lot more interestingly written than Raffles’ love interests in the previous book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://librivox.org/sense-and-sensibility-by-jane-austen-version-4/&quot;&gt;Sense and Sensibility&lt;/a&gt; by Jane Austen (1811)&lt;br /&gt;Another hiking weekend, another Austen audiobook. It&apos;s been ages since I read &lt;i&gt;Sense and Sensibility&lt;/i&gt;, and it was never one of my favorites. I still can&apos;t quite reconcile myself to Marianne/Brandon. For one thing, I feel like she gets such a personality transplant after her illness--having just read &lt;i&gt;Persuasion&lt;/i&gt;, I remember the same thing happening with Louisa Musgrove. Was this a trope in literature at the time? And the whole thing with Marianne reminding Brandon of his niece (and her mother)! I just... When I was 35, I was not attracted to immature 17-year-olds. I also think the contrast between Elinor’s sense and Marianne’s sensibility is somewhat undercut when Elinor thinks that Marianne hasn&apos;t really known Willoughby long, and see what happened. But how long had Elinor known Edward? And in fact it turns out that Edward has a secret engagement! I do like that Edward is allowed to be shy and awkward, though. But regardless of these thoughts, it is very pleasurable to hike along listening to Austen prose, especially with such a delightful reader.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fic-wise, I can recommend &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/35763124&quot;&gt;Les oiseaux que l’hiver exile&lt;/a&gt; (14896 words) by &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/ellen_fremedon&quot;&gt;Ellen Fremedon&lt;/a&gt;. It is set in France during the Bourbon Restoration, the same period as &lt;i&gt;The Wounded Name&lt;/i&gt;, but instead of being about overdramatic royalists engaged in slashy hurt/comfort, it is about struggling (but slashy!) republicans with moral shades of grey. I love the exchange where the main character is told that he should run for election in the Vendée. He protests that surely they would never vote for him, they are all royalists! And the other one retorts that the Vendée is also poor, so that their bribes will go further...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=409981&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:52:52 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Work has knocked me flat, I am very tired, and I should not be making another post when I haven&apos;t yet replied to the comments from the last one. But I just discovered &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/8360374&quot;&gt;this fic&lt;/a&gt;, which is 5K of lovely smutty Elizabeth Bennet/Fitzwilliam Darcy/Colonel Fitzwilliam. Nrrrrghh. I wish it was 50K. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy, if it happens to be to your taste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=398427&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 22:28:38 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Podcast recs</title>
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  <description>Woohoo, I&apos;m over the minimum wordcount on my Yuletide story! \o/ Though I do have some doubts about parts of what I&apos;ve written--it feels a bit on-the-nose. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I thought I&apos;d rec some podcasts I listen to. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://lingthusiasm.com/&quot;&gt;Lingthusiasm&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://jesse-the-k.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://jesse-the-k.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;jesse_the_k&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;; it is restful for me to listen to, since linguistics is something I find very interesting while still being unconnected to anything that worries me or requires action from me (unlike, say, if I listen to a podcast about environmental issues). The hosts are charmingly enthusiastic. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Possibly I got &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/podcasts/&quot;&gt;Skeptics with a K&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://melannen.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://melannen.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;melannen&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;? It&apos;s like listening to a chatty group of friends talk about various issues touching on science and skeptical thinking, and I find it charming and interesting. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can&apos;t remember how I stumbled on &lt;a href=&quot;https://alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-index-episodes&quot;&gt;The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast&lt;/a&gt;, by the author of the Alpennia books, but it&apos;s very useful and interesting if one is writing fic with f/f elements in historical settings, which I spent the past year doing. There&apos;s also a connected blog with lots of resources, and also lots of recs of f/f historical fiction. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/&quot;&gt;Working Class History&lt;/a&gt; podcast has lots of interesting stuff; I haven&apos;t listened all the way through it, but you can, for example, listen to an interview with two pacifists who successfully mutinied on a US Navy ship during the Vietnam War, or interviews with the people who were involved in the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners group (the subject of the lovely 2015 &lt;i&gt;Pride&lt;/i&gt; film), or with members of an Australian building union who blocked building projects that were bad for the environment or local communities. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-voice-coach-podcast/id1551530536&quot;&gt;The Voice Coach podcast&lt;/a&gt; has lots of great stuff on how to best use your voice, with both theory and exercises. The same host also has &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thevosocial.com/the-vo-social-podcast&quot;&gt;The Voiceover Social&lt;/a&gt;, which is only tangentially interesting to me as a podficcer since it&apos;s for professional voice people, but occasionally they&apos;ll have really interesting episodes on different accents, or recording sex scenes, or whatever. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I&apos;ve enjoyed the sex and relationship advice podcast &lt;a href=&quot;https://savage.love/&quot;&gt;Savage Love&lt;/a&gt; for years. I also listen to some Swedish podcasts which you are probably not interested in. Do you have recs for more podcasts you think I might enjoy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=382602&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2021 20:35:45 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>OMG, there&apos;s a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay5N239nKhc&amp;amp;list=OLAK5uy_m_ltkTFylDVh26m5II1XOySc6llxDQ3ao&quot;&gt;new Karine Polwart album&lt;/a&gt; out. It&apos;s lovely, with just voice and piano. Aaagh, her &lt;i&gt;voice&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=380640&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2021 18:06:29 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Improving access to old public domain slash</title>
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  <description>Signal-boost: &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;garonne&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; has completed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66166&quot;&gt;Gutenberg ebook&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;i&gt;The Wounded Name&lt;/i&gt; by D K Broster, from 1923. Download if you want epic slashy hurt-comfort set during the Napoleonic wars. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I, on my part, have completed my &lt;a href=&quot;https://librivox.org/white-cockades-an-incident-of-the-forty-five-by-edward-prime-stevenson/&quot;&gt;Librivox audiobook&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;i&gt;White Cockades&lt;/i&gt; by Edward Prime-Stephenson, from 1887. Download if you want melodramatic and historically dubious slash set in 18th century Scotland. We can be pretty sure it is meant as m/m, since the author recommended his own book as an example of homoerotic fiction under another pen name. : ) ETA: And thanks to &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;garonne&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for prooflistening for me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=377234&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2021 16:27:45 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.annicktrent.com/beckandcall.html&quot;&gt;Beck and Call&lt;/a&gt; by Annick Trent (2021)&lt;br /&gt;Full disclosure: this historical m/m romance was written by a fannish friend of mine, and I have beta-read it. But really, I would still be enthusiastic about it even if I had just randomly bought it! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s set in 1790&apos;s England and is a romance between two valets. William is isolated in the countryside a lot of the time and is lonely. He also goes to one of the local reading clubs and so gets tangentially involved in controversial politics. Edwin is a guarded and somewhat prickly man whose past makes him vulnerable to blackmail, and they meet and connect at a house party which their masters attend. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This book has lovely writing and a lot of heart, and I appreciate the historical setting in the servants&apos; world rather than among the aristocracy. There&apos;s a plot which is not just about their love affair, and supporting characters including William&apos;s family. I hope some other people will read and enjoy it, too! And now to prepare it for bookbinding so I can have it in my bookcase...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=370675&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2020 16:03:54 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Insta-rec</title>
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  <description>&lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://regshoe.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://regshoe.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;regshoe&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s Flight of the Heron fic &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/26305225&quot;&gt;No Man Can Shun It&lt;/a&gt; is brilliant and made me cry. Great idea, great execution, just--aaaaah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=352509&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:54:41 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;i&gt;A Stranger in Olondria&lt;/i&gt; by Sofia Samatar (2012)&lt;br /&gt;For my fannish book club. I&apos;ve been a bad book club participant the last few times, so I was determined to finish this, but it was a bit of a slog. There&apos;s a ton of lush descriptive writing, but I felt that it wasn&apos;t relevant enough to the plot and to the characters. The characters felt distant to me—at one point there was a dramatic moment where the main character chooses to save his friend over some important object, but all I could think was &quot;...they&apos;re friends? I hadn&apos;t noticed.&quot; I can imagine this book working much better for other people, though! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also I have been reading &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://www.archiveofourown.org/users/AMarguerite/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico&apos; alt=&apos;[archiveofourown.org profile] &apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://www.archiveofourown.org/users/AMarguerite/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;AMarguerite&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s epic Elizabeth Bennet/Colonel Fitzwilliam &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/series/1004649&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt; where Elizabeth is a dragon captain a la Temeraire, because the long sequel just got finished. Definitely enjoyable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve also been reading various interesting essays/blogs online. There&apos;s Ada Palmer&apos;s &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.exurbe.com/black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-telling-the-myth-of-a-renaissance-golden-age-and-bad-middle-ages/&quot;&gt;Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages&lt;/a&gt;. Then I discovered the amusing and interesting &lt;a href=&quot;https://going-medieval.com&quot;&gt;Going Medieval&lt;/a&gt; blog, by another historian. Recommended! Oh, and also there&apos;s &lt;a href=&quot;https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/Thy_righteousness_is_but_a_menstrual_clout_sanitary_practices_and_prejudice_in_early_modern_England/9331676&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; about how women handled their periods in early modern Britain (why yes, I am eventually going to write a female POV in a &lt;i&gt;Flight of the Heron&lt;/i&gt; fic...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=349453&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:39:41 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Podfic: &quot;A Thousand Dreams in One Drop of Ink&quot;, by Garonne (Flight of the Heron)</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/25589350&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Podfic] A Thousand Dreams in One Drop of Ink&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/Luzula_podfic&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Luzula&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fandom: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Flight%20of%20the%20Heron%20-%20D*d*%20K*d*%20Broster&quot;&gt;Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Length: 46 min&lt;br /&gt;Rating: General Audiences&lt;br /&gt;Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply&lt;br /&gt;Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham&lt;br /&gt;Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham&lt;br /&gt;Additional Tags: Podfic, Podfic Length: 45-60 Minutes, Epistolary, Character Death Fix, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence&lt;br /&gt;Summary: A decade-long courtship by letter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love epistolary fic, so obviously I was going to podfic this. It also contains a Gaelic poem, and I have done my best with this with the help of &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;garonne&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and the learngaelic.scot website, but any errors are obviously my own. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Probably the last podfic for a while...but eventually I will definitely record &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://regshoe.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://regshoe.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;regshoe&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s recently posted Flight of the Heron fic &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/25469581&quot;&gt;No Unfitting Harbour&lt;/a&gt;. Much recommended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=349300&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:54:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Fic recs + general state of me + hilarious dictation</title>
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  <description>I am getting health problems from coronavirus isolation, but not actual coronavirus: I have aches and pains in my hands from too much computer work, and also, all the running I did to avoid those aches has given me what Wikipedia tells me are called shin splints in English? I mean, they&apos;re not terribly bad, because I stopped running as soon as I felt them, but I have a hard time judging when I can go back to running, or not. Advice welcome. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m also trying dictation software, but it&apos;s hard, because apparently my thought process when writing is dependent on typing. /o\ I&apos;m also recording sound files sometimes instead of writing emails. I do want to share with you the hilarious result of using the dictation software, and then my mom calling me, and the software picking up the Swedish instead: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;NT dog manusha doing is 50 this country since if there is Mr. Boston I&apos;m so sorry I didn&apos;t see you madames meant cheesecake man yeah&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheesecake, man! Yeah. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, I have 16,000 words so far on my new fic, which is chock-full of UST and promises to be as long as the one I already posted. But! I am glad to say that other authors have also been busy writing &lt;i&gt;Flight of the Heron&lt;/i&gt; fic: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/23753143&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When the Fighting is Over&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (4750 words) by &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/Garonne&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Garonne&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a post-canon fix-it story which begins with Ewen in France and is full of beautifully written longing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/23823301&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At Ruthven Barracks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (3299 words) by &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/regshoe&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;regshoe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a missing scene early in the book where Ewen begins to realize the cost of war. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the beginning of December last year, there were 8 works posted in the fandom. Now there are 21. : D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=341987&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2020 16:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>New Flight of the Heron fic!</title>
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  <description>I am happy to say that &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://hyarrowen.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://hyarrowen.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;hyarrowen&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; has posted new fic: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/23251261&quot;&gt;Calltainneach&lt;/a&gt; is a lovely little pre-slash interlude set early in canon, featuring Keith half-undressed and looking after horses in the sun. Do go read it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=339598&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:57:34 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Since I&apos;m recommending Scottish things anyway, I really love the album &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m7tWXOp34ZSTEFO6blF97DbLwqwcAqo3A&quot;&gt;A Pocket of Wind Resistance&lt;/a&gt;, by Karine Polwart and Pippa Murphy. It&apos;s gorgeous folk music combined with spoken word poetry (apparently from a play or something?) I love this: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The outstretched wing-tips of each migrating goose&lt;br /&gt;create an up-wash, a pocket of wind resistance&lt;br /&gt;for the bird tucked in behind and below. &lt;br /&gt;These nooks of ease, these aero-dynamic sanctuaries&lt;br /&gt;cut the drag by up to sixty-five percent.&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s a wonder, and it&apos;s also a gale-bitten struggle to sustain cooperation.&lt;br /&gt;Every goose takes a turn: stepping up, falling back, labouring, and resting,&lt;br /&gt;stepping up, falling back, labouring, and resting. &lt;br /&gt;Like sky-borne socialists, no lone bird bears the brunt. &lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s a gorgeous symbiotic dance: stepping up, falling back, labouring, and resting. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also it&apos;s the first music I&apos;ve heard that includes Latin names of mosses! Although they seem to have missed that &lt;i&gt;Sphagnum magellanicum&lt;/i&gt; has been split into three species, of which only &lt;i&gt;S. divinum&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;S. medium&lt;/i&gt; occur in Europe, whereas &lt;i&gt;S. magellanicum&lt;/i&gt; is restricted to southern South America (as is only appropriate, considering the name). : )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=332812&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2019 17:13:16 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Look what I got! : )</title>
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  <description>Well, I don&apos;t know if anyone in my circle is interested in this pairing except for &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://mergatrude.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://mergatrude.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;mergatrude&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, but I just got an entirely lovely Bodhi Rook/Cassian Andor story for Trick or Treat. It genuinely made me gush and flail in comments. Also there&apos;s a pretty great version of Galen Erso subverting Bodhi. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/21148643&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Home Is Where&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2573 words) by Anonymous&lt;br /&gt;Chapters: 1/1&lt;br /&gt;Fandom: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Rogue%20One:%20A%20Star%20Wars%20Story%20(2016)&quot;&gt;Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rating: Teen And Up Audiences&lt;br /&gt;Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply&lt;br /&gt;Relationships: Cassian Andor/Bodhi Rook&lt;br /&gt;Characters: Bodhi Rook, Cassian Andor, Galen Erso&lt;br /&gt;Additional Tags: Family, Backstory, Developing Relationship, Implied/Referenced Character Death&lt;br /&gt;Summary: Bodhi can&apos;t go back, but he&apos;s determined to keep moving forward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=luzula&amp;ditemid=327397&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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