always been crazy

I was reading a SGA/H50 crossover and while I liked it, I kept getting tripped up every time Danny was mentioned. An AU about a sci fi show requires a lot of suspension of belief, but there is no conceivable universe in which Danny Williams willingly leaves Grace. (There was no mention of Grace at all, so maybe this was a reality in which she didn't exist, but then Danny would never have gone to Hawaii.)

I've finished a couple of books, including a YA book called Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan that I really enjoyed. I'm currently reading Tower of Swallows from the Witcher series and Stumbling Into Grace by Lisa Harper, and listening to The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich.

I read the last chapters of Prince Caspian to my children today. I may have mentioned this before, but if not, since the pandemic, I've been doing daily videos for my kids (the church's children) on our private fb group in addition to Sunday school lessons. It's a lot of books, lol. While most of them are obviously short children's books, I've also done a couple chapters at a time from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian. Trying to decide now if I want to go on to Voyage of the Dawn Treader, or switch to another favorite like The Hobbit or the first Harry Potter book, or pick something more kid-like, maybe the Ralph books or the Bunnicula series.

Links:

First vaccine to fully immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven RNA tech

The Desperate Plea of the Hellbender (Don't build cairns when you're out hiking!)

an interesting article about the series finale of Lost

Levar Burton talking about the Dr Seuss thing

what a way to make a living by attheborder
Good Omens || Aziraphale/Crowley || 5557
Without any more assignments coming from Downstairs, Crowley is struck with a bad case of the doldrums. It takes a bit of trial and error, but eventually a solution is found. (Or: the one where Crowley becomes an Uber driver.)
Not only was this a fun read, but I really appreciated the writing style!

I owe some replies to the awesome and sweet comments on my last post, but I've feeling shitty over that whole situation (and the added issue with Ralph), plus I've been busy with birthday parties (Ava and Neville) and sleeping more than is healthy. I'm not really sure what's been going on the past few days other than that.

Fic rec:

never leave alone from a corner table by earlofcardigans
Avengers (2012 ARBB) || Clint/Coulson || 6660 words
Clint and Phil have most of their meaningful conversations over fries and milkshakes.

Does anyone else make it a point to read the comments on things they beta? Like, I'm emotionally invested in this fic getting a good reaction b/c I love it and I got to read it before everyone else? Lol.

Hockey RPF by asimplechord
Gettin' into somethin'
girl!Jeff Skinner/P. K. Subban, Carey Price/girl!Jeff Skinner/P. K. Subban

YALL, THERE IS TENTACLE PORN ON MY FLIST AND HEY MONDAY CONCERT CALLS ON MY VOICEMAIL AND TWO DAYS WITHOUT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT INAPPROPRIATE THOUGHTS AND WEREWOLF!FIC IN MY HEAD! (it's also my bedtime, but I'm totally going to bed happy!)

FIC REC:

Title: Tim Armstrong Grows Tentacles and Fucks Bert McCracken
Author: valerie_z
Pairing: Tim (Rancid)/Bert (The Used)
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: This is pretend.
Warnings: See title. Tentacles, anal sex, handjobs, boykissing, learning life lessons through buttsex, Bert McCracken, etc.

GO READ IT!

Ugh, I'm SO TIRED! I blame it on the fact that I was outside in the sun ALL DAY. But I'm only physically tired; I think I'll be okay as long as I don't have to move from where I'm laying on the floor underneath the fan. Which is good b/c I have two bbb fics open that I'd really like to read, lol. (I have other ones marked that I'm interested in reading, but these are megyal and sinsense, so I really can't pass them up. Now if I could figure out which one to read first...)(ETA: I had playfullips in this list too, but decided to read hers first, so I took it off. BUT I DID READ HER LOVELY BRENDON/SPENCER FIRST!)

Yesterday was Free Friday downtown, so Kristina and I took the kids to Center in the Square. The science museum hasn't changed in thirty years, seriously. The Chesapeake Bay exhibit is still my favorite -- I love the horseshoe crabs. :) The history museum has added something about moonshine/moonshiners and it takes up like half the floor. It's kinda awesomely amusing, even though I had to censor myself when I was talking to Davey and Haley about it, b/c I kept wanting to add things about our family's personal history in moonshining, and considering I still know a few people in the moonshine business, I don't know if that'd been a good thing to share publically.

Both boys had soccer games last night and Davey had one this morning, and now we are DONE for the season, except for banquets. Football season is around the corner, though, so Ronnie's gonna play. I think practices start in August, so I get a little break. Davey wants to play rec basketball, which starts in like November. Davey also wants to take a gymnastics class, so I need to remember to check into that on Monday.

There's a coach for the team that Davey was playing last night & this morning (the South Salem Jedis -- Davey's team is the North Salem Hokies) and who also has a son that was on the team that Ronnie played last night (my boys are on separate teams b/c of their ages). Obviously, with only four teams in each age group, I've seen him around. I call him the Cute Soccer Coach; Mom calls him The One Who Looks Too Young. :P Anyway, I have run into him a total of five times in the last two days in places other than the soccer field. It's kinda funny, though I'd be more amused if I didn't feel like I was stalking him even though I'm totally not.

Went to two birthday parties for Holdon today. I love him to pieces; he is so cute! He's a whopping FIVE YEARS OLD today, lol. The second party was at Pam and Jay's house, and there was the kiddie pool and the slip-n-slide and water guns. We had such a blast. The boys are still over there now; Holdon wanted them to stay the night, and James promised to get up and make them chocolate chip pancakes and bacon for breakfast. (Joseph said he'd make me biscuits and gravy if I came over for breakfast; I'm considering it *g*) And Uncle Jay is off work tomorrow, so they're gonna take a field trip next door to see the baby Alpacas and muddy up a different part of the yard with the slip-n-slide. Good times, although I'm still kinda upset that we didn't get to go camping.

Anyway. I'm going to go read fic. <3