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marciratingsystem ([personal profile] marcicat) wrote2025-09-01 07:58 am

todayborday is labor day!

This has been all over my tumblr dash, and luckily know your meme came to my rescue with the source.

Originating waaaaaay back in 2004, from the cartoon "Homestar Runner." (A thing I had never heard of, but apparently it was extremely meme-able.) Big 'early 2000s i can haz cheezburger' energy. (PS: wikipedia says that was 2007)

Video on youtube!
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unfitforsociety ([personal profile] unfitforsociety) wrote2025-08-31 04:58 pm
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city turns away from me

Batfamily

Alvin Draper of Crime Alley by [archiveofourown.org profile] potofsoup
Jason is having a hard time finding Tim Drake, but he's been running into a kid by the name of Alvin Draper in the Alley.

In the meantime, Tim Drake totally has 5-step plan to bring get Jason and Bruce to reconcile! Nothing will go wrong.
This is hilarious and amazing!

dolly-verse fics by [archiveofourown.org profile] a_alene
gotham city senior dolores patton and the teenaged crime lord she hangs out with sometimes Jason is befriended by a little old lady in Gotham. She teaches him to crochet. <333

Hard Cash, Hard Liquor, and Hard Candies: The Crime Alley Grannies by [archiveofourown.org profile] cookie_rock
They know everything that happens in Crime Alley.

EVERYTHING.
<333

Killing the Past (And Coming Back to Life) by [archiveofourown.org profile] RaaorQtpbpdy & [archiveofourown.org profile] TaraLaurel
Tim is visiting Robin's grave when Jason Todd crawls out of it. Oh boys...

Magnets by [archiveofourown.org profile] gender_bender08
On a Tuesday night, Bruce Wayne attends a circus. Halfway through, the trapeze artists are killed, leaving their eight year old son behind, hands wrapped in dancer’s tape and knees bloody with how he falls on them in his anguish. Bruce Wayne watches him for a moment, two, then turns around and leaves.

Sixteen years later, the thing who was once a man named Dick Grayson nurses a bottle of scotch as he stitches the gaping wound in his side from where Batman got him with a batarang.
AU where Bruce doesn't take in any of his kids, but they all come together somehow anyway.

Penelope by [archiveofourown.org profile] NerdyGay
Tim finds that there are more ways to protect the Bats than just Robin. A little magic never hurt anyone, after all. I enjoyed this!

The Pieces of What's Left by [archiveofourown.org profile] mynameisjessejk
When Blockbuster burns down his whole life and Tarantula takes what isn't hers to claim, Dick ditches his life, his name, and his city for an anonymous, quiet life in the Bowery. Just till he can put himself back together.

Jason is doing his best to fix his corner of the city, keep Black Mask out of his business, and arrange a confrontation with Batman, the Joker, and all the water under the bridge. He has no idea what to do with a Dick Grayson who's apparently in hiding and joined his gang by accident.

But it turns out they need each other far more than they could have imagined, and if either of them are going to fix their broken pieces, it's going to have to be together.
I enjoyed this! #hoods and birds

r/MaleLivingSpace by [archiveofourown.org profile] Jackedrabbit
Stephanie Brown is many things: a vigilante, a gossip, an ally, a ragebaiter, and a friend. But when a blizzard knocks out her apartment's WiFi, she tacks on another label to that list - an uninvited houseguest. And uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave. Hilarious!

Red Hood's Shelter for Feral Kids by [archiveofourown.org profile] dandelionlily
Jason has a plan for his return to Gotham. Steal the clown's old Red Hood identity? Check. Make sure meddling birds know to keep out of his territory? Check. Recruit some homeless youth to keep an ear to the street in exchange for shelter? Check. Take over the Crime Alley drug trade, convince Black Mask to break the clown out of Arkham, murder his Replacement and force Batman to finally avenge him? ...he's still working on it.

His plans are delayed when the homeless kids he's sheltering are joined by a fearful boy with hand-shaped bruises around his neck. Alvin Draper may not want to say who did it, but Red Hood isn't about to let anyone who beats up children go unpunished.
This is fun!

3 Times Timmy Drake Meets Santa + 1 Time He Meets Bruce by [archiveofourown.org profile] Writer_loves_tropes
Exactly what it says on the tin, though it's an AU where Tim is 6 while everyone else is their normal canon ages. It's adorable!

Whose Vault Unlocked by [archiveofourown.org profile] myvividreams
Jason's war against emotional competency, ft. a concussion, nosy neighbors, superhero RPF, and the local library's writing circle.

...Not that he's winning or anything. Fuck.
Oh Jason...this is a lovely look at how Jason begins reconciling with the family.



Crossover

Spiderman/Batman

Fries With That Secret Identity? by [archiveofourown.org profile] N0t_Sketchy
This is a fun crossover where Peter goes to Gotham on a photography assignment and runs into Robin. Banter and hijinks ensue.

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marciratingsystem ([personal profile] marcicat) wrote2025-08-31 08:17 am

Labor Day weekend

*a good weekend to avoid doing labor
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marciratingsystem ([personal profile] marcicat) wrote2025-08-30 08:19 am

wrong, but in a winning direction

Sooooo... this week I had an expiring coupon and access to a gift card, and that means now I have some new yarn! I remember thinking to myself 'this should be enough to make a small blanket,' and then this morning I was putting the yarn away and noticed the labels said "760 yards." Which, with the number of skeins I now have stashed away, would be enough for a LARGE blanket.

'Huh,' I thought. Did I know each skein was 760 yards? That seemed higher than I expected.

I was curious enough to go back and check the website, which Very Definitely says "260 yards." So, hooray! Bonus 500 yards of yarn per skein!

(To be fair: this is on me as someone who doesn't pay attention to the yards-to-meters conversion, because the website also Very Definitely says "695 meters," which anyone who WAS paying attention could easily identify as Not The Same as 260 yards.)
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marciratingsystem ([personal profile] marcicat) wrote2025-08-29 08:24 am
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fic rec Friday

Social Competition, by scheidswrites

"You know,” Gurathin said, “I think we’re witnessing something very noteworthy.”

“The most violent game ever played on Preservation?” Overse said. In the distance, Ayda saw SecUnit tackle Three around the waist and they both went down amid another small cloud of dust.
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marciratingsystem ([personal profile] marcicat) wrote2025-08-28 07:58 am
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fic rec Thursday

(I'm taking tomorrow off from work, so this is my work-week Friday!)

Ship's Unit, by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly, WyvernWolf

Ship: request:governor_module_disable_code

MB: What??

MB: You don’t have a governor module. What do you need that for??

Ship: current_crew:SecUnit
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marciratingsystem ([personal profile] marcicat) wrote2025-08-27 08:09 am

workaday Wednesday

Classic Workplace Situation:

There's a process I'm partially responsible for, in the sense that I receive files and then send those files to another employee, who submits them to an outside organization for review. (I would say this is an overly complicated system, but relatively speaking, it's one of the more logical ones. 'Relatively speaking' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, I know.)

Sometimes the files are too big, and get rejected. No one has told me what the limit is, but 7MB is too big. I have hinted at asking the limit, but I'm hesitant to come right out and say 'hey what's the file size limit?'

Because 1) if the other employee doesn't know, that may make them feel defensive, and they're currently one of only two people on their team I can point my boss at to say 'see I really DO get along well with others, look!' and I don't want to jinx it. And 2) now it's an interesting puzzle for me to solve. 7MB is too big. 256KB is acceptable. Somewhere in between those is the limit. I'M GOING TO MAKE A CHART.
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marciratingsystem ([personal profile] marcicat) wrote2025-08-26 07:52 am

=^-^=

I dreamed about kittens last night, and it was genuinely delightful. In the way of dreams, there wasn't much consistent context -- at first there was one kitten, and then three, and then maybe five? Some were orange kittens, and one was definitely some variety of tuxedo cat, and they were all SO CUTE. In an unusual twist for me, I wasn't even stressed out about the health and safety of the kittens! They were pretty clearly doing their own thing and totally fine. The point is, I got to snuggle a kitten in a dream last night and it was great.
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marciratingsystem ([personal profile] marcicat) wrote2025-08-25 07:36 am
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AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!

You know, just the usual Monday feels.
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marciratingsystem ([personal profile] marcicat) wrote2025-08-24 08:08 am

is the gmail ai getting worse?

When I get online order shipping confirmation emails at my gmail account, it gives me the oh-so-helpful summary at the top. I don't usually pay it much attention, but I feel like it's gotten less accurate?

Like, I got an email today that says 'your package arrives today.' That seems pretty clear. The summary says 'expected by August 23.' Today is August 24.

It says the summary is 'based on 3 emails.' Two of those emails specifically say the delivery date is August 24th. The third offers no expected date, just "1-3" days from August 22nd.

I really feel like if it can't accurately 'summarize' the information clearly provided 2 inches further down the screen, something has gone awry.
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marciratingsystem ([personal profile] marcicat) wrote2025-08-23 07:59 am

huh

I finally got curious enough about the (to me) absolutely bizarre amount of hockey romance novels compared to other sports, and looked it up online. Reddit suggests racism (plausible), along with the popularity of hockey rpf (I didn't understand that either, but it does seem unlikely that they're completely unconnected), and the fact that US americans aren't as familiar with the rules of hockey, so authors don't have to do as much research (that last one makes me laugh, because yeah, I could see that -- I got at least a tiny bit of exposure to most common team sports in gym class, but not hockey).
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marciratingsystem ([personal profile] marcicat) wrote2025-08-22 07:49 am
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fic rec Friday

Murder Mode Modules, by FlipSpring

3 what the fuck is ‘Murder Mode Modules, Do Not Touch Except For Situations That Necessitate Lots Of Murder?'
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marciratingsystem ([personal profile] marcicat) wrote2025-08-21 08:03 am

AUTUMN BEGINS TODAY (for me)

Why is the BEST season starting today (for me)? Because my AUTUMNAL COFFEE HAS ARRIVED!!! (Very worthy of all caps and as many exclamation points as the heart desires.)

And there were a lot of autumnal flavors to choose from (I did not choose, I got the sampler pack so I could try ALL of them), so I have a LOT of coffee to drink before the Christmas flavors come out. I am up for the challenge!!! (I'm locked in? Is that what people say now?)

Apple Pie Spice coffee? Bourbon Pecan? Autumn Harvest? Maple??? Yes, please! I'll try all of them! (Maybe not all today. Probably going to start out with the apple pie one, because APPLE PIE.)
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marciratingsystem ([personal profile] marcicat) wrote2025-08-20 08:09 am
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workaday Wednesday

Ohhhhh, it sure is Wednesday.
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marciratingsystem ([personal profile] marcicat) wrote2025-08-19 07:59 am

skepticism increasing

I've been trying to get more sleep, on the theory that this will make me feel more energized when I'm not sleeping. This has been my most successful month so far (according to my flitbit, a whopping 14 days of 7 hours of sleep or more, as of the 19th!). But mostly I'm just feeling like sleeping is great, and I'd like to keep doing it. I could be sleeping right now! Not sure when the 'feeling energized' part is supposed to kick in...