The Steam winter sale has been on and I bought a few games. I've been playing a lot of Hidden Folks which is like an animated Where's Waldo/Wally, but black and white and with sound and a long list of things to find. It's fun! I can only play it for about 30 minutes at a time because otherwise it's overwhelming but if you like little bits and pieces of that, this is fun and hella cheap.

A buzzfeed roundup of positive things from 2018 to make you feel a little better going into 2019: 

The Best Dear Prudence letters of 2018 list includes a lot of entitled in-laws and parents who need to chill the fuck out, paired with stories where I just yell DUMP HIS ASS at the screen. Please, in 2019: dump his ass.  

If someone at my work was this annoying to me and tried to take my headphones out of my ears after I had repeatedly asked him to stop, I'd probably smack him involuntarily.

If you haven't listened to/read Danny Ortberg's Dear Prudence before, the last episode of 2018 covers highlights of the year including the last letter which made me want to claw my face off on behalf of the letter writer.

throw the whole husband away

I laughed at this for like five minutes straight 

Last year a friend introduced me to Games Done Quick, which hosts two annual fundraisers each year. This week they're running the winter one, which funds the Cancer Prevention Society. All day every day for a week they have pro gamers doing speed runs and special runs. It's totally entrancing and you can watch some old favourites! The first day included a Majora's Mask speed run and Mario Kart DS time trials. In the summer they'll do another one for MSF/Doctors Without Borders. Check it out!

Fic Recs:

The Christmas Curse - Buzzfeed Shane/Ryan
After kissing under the mistletoe, everyone in the office assumes they've slept together. They didn't, but now Shane can't stop thinking about Ryan. 

And well, if his life was going to become a sad, pathetic holiday Lifetime movie about falling in love with your best friend, he’d play along.

#Blessed - Buzzfeed Shane/Ryan
Of course Shane would rather not work; he’d like it to be like the good old days, and who wouldn’t? But a demon’s gotta eat, and he can’t even get a discount on his rent because it turns out it’s a lot harder to influence faceless companies with ominous dreams. Ergo: gainful employment at Buzzfeed.

Leaf Bandit - Teenwolf, Derek/Stiles
Derek moves from NYC to Beacon Hills based on a farmer's market and moves in next door to some asshole who keeps blowing leafs into his yard.



I'm reading a bunch of BBC Merlin stuff this week in-between watching GDQ and returning to work after an extended break. Help. My sleep schedule is fuuuuuuuuuucked.

All I do lately is work super hard and then come home, play video games for an hour, and crash. I haven't even looked at tumblr in days.

Dad: Why is it so dark in here?
MK: [turns lights on] Playing video games in the dark.
Dad: You need to get a life, em.
MK: What's wrong with this one?!

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( Fic Recs: Inception, Merlin, The Eagle, Star Trek Reboot, Hawaii Five-0, Naruto, BBC Sherlock, Dresden Files )

MK: I am not a runner

Pru: um, who is
i tell everybody this
but seriously
the only time i run is from the cops

MK: we're not running creatures
maybe if we were wereleopards but we're not
so: no running

Pru: oh my god
i'll kill you

MK: <3

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You know how I can tell how crazy it's been/continues to be? There is a gap on my delicious page between March 17 (day before I got the keys) to March 24 (yesterday, day 2 of being sick at home instead of at work). That's a long time for my delicious. I've tagged so many things to read. Luckily, it's been since Feburary 11th since I've posted recs here properly, so enjoy a tonne of reading material:

( Fic Recs: NCIS, Inception, Merlin, Hawaii Five-0, BBC Sherlock, Harry Potter, Primeval, Castle )

I've still got to unpack my kitchen, once my dad takes away the extra oven but the new place is coming along nicely. Once I've gotten rid of the oven and the boxes I'll post some pictures for you guys, but long story short: new place is awesome. I keep getting official mail from my new insurance company and stuff and that terrifies me, but yeah, it's pretty nice. I think I'll refer to it as The Bat Cave from now on.

I am still puke free since Wednesday! Mostly through sheer willpower.

Pru: NOT HELPING. Nobody is going to Imperial fucking march into my lady parts, okay?

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Co-worker: I just saw the web design people! They looked like contemporaries of yours. Young, you know, like 20-somethings, very hip in bright colours with sharp, jagged short hair cuts. Like you! They looked like you! That seems good. I guess they know what they’re doing.

This is everything my co-workers think about me, condensed into a single moment. So magical.


( Fic Recs: Inception, Hawaii Five-0, Merlin, BBC Sherlock, Castle, Die Hard4, NCIS )

Who even knows if a travel post will happen. Maybe? It is a very busy time right now! I have to get a bunch of stuff done, but we’ll see what happens after that.

Andrea (wiping her hands down): Ow!
MK: Did you hit the cut on your hand?
Andrea: No, my wedding ring cut my finger! Stupid giant diamond!
MK: Oooh, first world problems!
Andrea: The only way this would be more first world problems is if I did that opening champagne.
MK: In designer clothes, to celebrate finishing your graduate degree!
Andrea: Totally. First world problems.

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MK: omg I just found the worst icon
twentysomething: ?
MK: [link] don’t ruin a perfectly good playstation controller! get a vibrator!
twentysomething: thanks em just threw up in my mouth a bit
MK: you’d have hated to not know what the worst icon ever was
twentysomething: ugh, not particularly
MK: that’s just hindsight talking


( Fic Recs: Hawaii Five-0, xxxHOLiC, BBC Sherlock, Inception, Merlin )

NEED MOAR H50.

Hawaii Five-0 is my most favourite thing right now. Guys, if you watched the first episode and thought “Eh”, go back to it. Go back right now. I LOVE IT SO MUCH.

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Pru:  ahaha oh emily, you cannot help yourself, can you? you are like so weak to this hunky arthur pendragon action
MK:  Pretty much. plus he didn’t even take credit; he grabs the shark, saves the lady, gets her on the boat, gets help and a helicopter, and the media are like WHAT IS YOUR NAME, HOW ARE YOU AWESOME and he was like “No comment; I just want her to be OK” and then leaves! Like a mystery super hero! Tell me that is not amazing. Just try.
Pru:  That is totally amazing. you know why he doesn’t want to give out his name? b/c he doesn’t want to be DROWNING IN PUSSY
MK:  hahaha OR he’s a time traveller and saving this girl’s life saves someone else later on or like, prevents the apocalypse. maybe they marry in 20 years
Pru:  how did we already get into this? maybe he’s her SON from the futire
MK:  ooooh, she’ll spend her whole life looking for him and never make the connection
Pru:  TERRIBLE.
MK:  no, it’s SO BEAUTIFUL





( Fic recs: Hawaii Five-0, BBC Sherlock, Inception )

Wow, that is a looooot of fic recs! And links! I got delayed a bit posting this so it’s almost more like a double post.

I said if they found a work excuse I’d go right away, but alas.

( Fic Recs: Inception, Hawaii Five-0 )


Haven’t had as much time for reading fic the last two weeks, sorry guys! I’ve tagged lots of stuff to read, so sometime soonish hopefully you will get a massssssssive recs post and blame me for eating up all your time.







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I need some Hawaii Five-0 icons but haven’t seen anything that really jumped out at me yet. Augh.

michelle: yeah, when you got out of the hospital and emailed us, mom replied to me separately
mk: by accident?
michelle: no. it said ‘i dont think emily realizes how hard the drugs are hitting her’ and below was your email.

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awesome: coming home to find andrea washed all my dishes because its super hard and i let them pile up
not awesome: i feel super guilty that people have to wash my dishes and stuff, even though / because i am basically useless right now.

mk: sorry for basically becoming your child.
andrea: you mean my second child
mk: right. second after your husband.


a week later i felt awesome and washed most of my own dishes. two hours after that i went to grab a knife. the top five in the drawer were still covered in peanut butter and i had to put them right back in the sink. FAIL.


( Fic Recs: Sherlock, Merlin, Inception )

i started with the kinesiologist today guys, and one of the first things she said to me was

kines: i see your chest is quite large. we’ll work on posture while we’re at this. [10 minutes of talking about posture and my shoulder blades and my boobs]
me: uh... okay

long story short, i can now type sometimes with two hands! it is very, very exhausting though and i get tired (and then cranky) pretty fast. i don’t have to wear the sling 95% of the time though, so that’s also exciting. i wonder if i can convince the physio to massage my shoulders as well as my arm because it’s important for my exercises or something.

from: mk
to: pru, twentysomething, merelyn, leupagus, zoetrope
re: Yep you’re going to get a bunch of emails from the fracture clinic today.
Check out my hand, it’s swollen up to a giant puffy sphere almost!  Also my ghetto fix job on my temporary sling and tensor after last nights many adjustments for swelling broke the little clips.  Pretty sure that’s not medically sanctioned. [photo]

pru: OH JESUS CHRIST.  EMILY YOU -- have you gotten your cast yet?
mk: No.  My appointment was scheduled for 9 but I’m still just waiting with all the other cripples.  Good news:  all those years of opening door knobs with my toes because my hands were full have paid off.

Eugh, guys, this hurts a lot and there’s no water cooler here.  I kind of hate everything.  Except!  An old man sat next to me and he smells strongly of werthers originals.  Hilarious.
mk: Okay wait, question.  Those orange jumpsuits with blue ked style shoes you see on prisoners on tv-- are those real?  Because someone is wearing that around the corner, hands behind back, away from other patients and with someone I can’t see.

Wait.  This is how that Hitchcock movie starts, isn’t it?
pru: ...Yeah that’s real, dude. DO NOT DROP ANY SOAP. FASHION A WEAPON.
merelyn: To be fair, depending on the color system of your local jail, orange could just mean awaiting trial and like, not even convicted of being a murderer or whatever.
leupagus: ...

I AM SO WORRIED RIGHT NOW.
mk: My only weapon is my semi hardened pseudo cast on my busted arm! I am so fucked!
twentysomething: Just- an ocean of D: face, all over. I can’t believe they’ve made you wait for an hour! While they treat CONVICTS first!
mk: There is a chance I might puke on someone if they don’t see me soon so I can get some water and take this thing off.
merelyn: Maybe it was just a colorful janitor, who knows.
mk: No, I think they just finished seeing him. Bi saw him walk away and he was fully in chains and handcuffs, legs chained yogether, hands behind his back.  No idea where the fuck they took him now.  Whhhyyyyyyy.  This entire day sucks large!
twentysomething: Fuck them in their faces! Puke on ALL THE THINGS, EM.




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can you tell what i typed on an ipad vs my laptop post-accident? its pretty obvious. here, have some emails:


from: mk
to: rageprufrock, zoetrope, twentysomething, merelyn, leupagus
re: While I am still moderately lucid
I feel like I am on a boat or in a hammock,  and I think its because of my fan

merelyn: OMG EMILY START CUTTING THOSE PILLS IN HALF BEFORE YOU TAKE THEM.
mk: Yeah that seems like maybe a good idea.  Allllll my pain is gone.  Too lazybto move cookies off the couch
merelyn: ......I hope you pass out really soon.
pru: ...Me too.
mk: I think I will. But first,mtactilebhallucinatims
leupagus: ...
mk: Okay, so before it got super bad I email Andy and Andrea to ask if they had a pill cutter, and they came upstairs and found me in a weird position, crying.  Not because I was upset! Just because my eyes felt like crying!  They cut a bunch of the pills and then left me to pass out and I had a bunch of tactile and auditory hallucinations, some crazy intense and angry dreams, slept for three or four hours, then woke up and puked up everything since breakfast.

So definitely half a pill next time.  I always forget how easily drugs affect me.  I’m all nauseated and dizzy. Mom is going to be so mad whenever she gets here with food.

Andrea also hid my motrin in case I confused the bottles saying “we don’t want you to pull a Heath ledger”.  Too soon!  Interrim boss at work says to just not come in this week.  God I hope I am not retarded when I have to go to the cocktail thing.  My impression from dad was “suck it up”, but he didn’t ever get freezing at the dentist until fairly recently.

Paul said he would like to see me give birth. I am just going to sit here and stare at things for awhile.
leupagus: That’s a good idea babe. Just rest.
pru: ...Holy shitballs, Emily.  That is the highest anybody has ever been sans the medicated grip of HEROIN.
mk: Experiment phase two.  Last night I ate a big bowl of chicken soup as a base, then took half a pill and crawled into bed.  I was sensitive to light and movement and felt nauseated but passed out within maybe half an hour, and only woke once in the night from pain.  Went back to sleep, woke up at normal time without alarm.  I definitely still feel woozy and kind of pukey, and don’t want to move my head or look at lights.  But I slept!  

Now the question is how do I make it through the day’s pain without just sleeping it away.  Maybe I need more food.
[...]
I don’t u derstand?  I’m still on these pills.  I haven’t taken one yet this morning because I don’t feel up to one handed eggo slathering yet, and I think if indent have some serious food in me it is y worse. Andy was just like “are you going in to work today?” and then acted surprised when I said no.  My family is retarded.  Now you know where “I’m fine, it’d just a concussion and I can’t use my arm” comes from.

Animal instinct says hide in a dark cave until it’s better.










( Fic Recs: Inception, Sherlock )


leupagus: Honeyyy I am so sorry! Do you want us to airmail you a care package or something?
mk: No, I’m okay!  I just took the first pill 30! Minutes ago and feel really lightheaded.  This might get weird
mk: I am already feeling pretty retarded.  I inky tick one.
merelyn: Uh oh, inky tick one.

Have you ever been to Katz’s diner in New York? I was on a trip to NY recently visiting merelyn, leupagus and twentysomething and generally being douchy, and as it happened, five of my friends from TO were also in town. So the three of us that eat meat went to Katz’s diner for massive and amazing sandwiches and part way through I bemoaned that I knew I could only finish half but I worried I wouldn’t even be able to finish that much.

Dave: You know what you should do? Go to the bathroom and pee. It’ll make room for the last bit of the half.
MK: I thought about that, but-- and this might be TMI and I feel like I should warn you ahead of time -- I honestly might just fart at some point while we’re sitting here, and I think that would do it.
Paul: [very seriously looking into my eyes; singing] Have I ever tooooold youuuu you’re my heeeeeeeeeeroooooo? [etc]

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So if you had trouble getting in touch with me it’s because I took a four day weekend in New York, crashing at the lovely merelyn’s apartment, stalking her roommate’s cats, eating cupcakes, and eventually watching some Sherlock with her, leupagus and twentysomething. It was pretty freaking awesome. New York: still exciting! (Surprise.) Mer showed me the city and we shopped, ate amazing things, etc. She makes the best pies eeeeeever. Seriously. They are super fantastic.

Yeah, I know you’re jealous. And now I have to catch up on one million e-mails and read this backlog of Sherlock fic I’ve stored up. The world is a mix of terrible and amazing things.

Edit: Can you tell this post was written sporadically over a few days? I think I said some things twice. Ish. TL; DR: Merelyn, Leupagus, and twentysomething are awesome; I am sleepy.


( Fic recs: Merlin, Sherlock )