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Jan. 1st, 2021 04:54 pm
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Welcome weary traveller,

You seem to have stumbled upon my journal and you are welcome to stay and have a look around. Here are some things that you may be wondering about:

Kat: Female, fabulously in my forties, Finnish but living in the UK, academic, university lecturer, writer, poet, fandom slut, geeky, polyamorous, pansexual, kinky, romantic, fluffy-headed, soft-hearted, open-minded, strong-willed, observant, introspective, over-analytical, assertive, prone to working way too much, sarcastic, silly, tactile. Also into cats (not like that) and woolly socks (maybe a little bit like that).

Fandoms: All of them, all the time? I don't really leave fandoms so much as collect them and then become less active in them. But I always return to them eventually. I consume fanworks and media far more widely than I produce fanworks, and I've produced fanworks in... *goes to count* over 70 fandoms so... You can check my (always woefully out of date) list of interests or AO3 profile [archiveofourown.org profile] MistressKat to get an idea. Or ask what my current obsession is and I'll happily elaborate.

Other social media presence: Uhhh... Not really. DW remains my main presence on the web, largely because I don't have mental energy to maintain a lot of social media (I'm one of those people who never got a Facebook even!). I have a locked poetry journal on DW as well for my own work: [personal profile] boneverse

Fanworks: Apart for some co-authored verses and older graphics/icons that need to be migrated, everything should be on my AO3. I also still post things on DW (nostalgia) and here you can find things under relevant tags such as my fanfiction or my graphics.

Transformative works policy? YES, DO IT! I welcome all transformative works based on my fanworks. Please feel free to remix, make fanart, podfic, fanmixes etc. However, I ask that you a) acknowledge my work and link to it, and b) please, please drop me a line somewhere (comment here, pm, AO3...) about it because I want to squee and admire!

Questions/comments: Are very welcome!

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"I like Scandinavians, skiing, swimming and socialists who realize it is our business to promote social progress by peaceful methods. I dislike football, economists, eugenicists, Fascists, Stalinists, and Scottish conservatives. I think that sex is necessary and bankers are not."
- Lancelot Hogben

From Kunitz, S.J. and Haycraft, H. (1950) Twentieth century authors: A biographical dictionary of modern literature (3rd edn), New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, pp 658-9, as referenced on the Wiki page. 

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Title: like what you (don't) see
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: K.A.R.D.
Pairing: Matthew Kim | BM/Kim Taehyung | J.Seph, Kim Taehyung | J.Seph/Original Male Character(s)
Tags: Ficlet, Canon Compliant, Jealousy, Denial of Feelings
Rating: G 
Word count: 720

Summary: “He’s looking at you,” Matthew murmurs under the guise of bending down to hand over a bottle of water.

Author notes: 
I was looking for a prompt to write something for the first challenge of [community profile] sunshine_revival and then K.A.R.D. dropped Touch. And listen, they know what their target audience (the thirsty bis and pans) want and keep them well fed. I've been low key wanting more fic for this pairing and the MV gave me this brief frame at 2.09 where the (very hot) dancer looks like he's checking Taehyung out and... Well. Longer fic has been written on a flimsier premise. Unbetaed so if you spot a typo you absolutely should tell me about it.

like what you (don't) see on AO3

like what you (don't) see )

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kat_lair: (GEN - bloom where you're planted)
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Title:  First Spark
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
Pairing: Kim Namjoon | RM/Min Yoongi | Suga
Tags: Drabble, Songwriting
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: They exchange notebooks in silence.

Author notes:
 Prompt = the title. Aaaaand we're done with drabbles. For now. Muahahaha!

First Spark on AO3


First Spark )

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Title:  Midnight Tea
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Character: Teyla Emmagen
Tags: Drabble, Implied Relationships, Introspection, Caretaking
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: She brews the tea when she can see the stars.

Author notes:
 Prompt = the title. 

Midnight Tea on AO3


Midnight Tea )

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Title: Mismatched Magic
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Bandom, Panic! At The Disco
Pairing: Ryan/Spencer
Tags: Drabble, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Witches, Familiars, Best Friends, Fluff
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: For a witch with a cat familiar, Ryan does a lot of water magic.

Author notes:
 Prompt = the title. This is a little snippet in the Magic In The Making series.

Mismatched Magic on AO3


Mismatched Magic )

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kat_lair: (SKZ - Chan Freeze)
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Title: Summoned
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Stray Kids
Pairing: Bang Chan/Seo Changbin
Tags: Drabble, Pining, Power Dynamics
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: There’s nothing even close to an order in Chan's tone.

Author notes: 
Forgot to post yesterday because Hamilton but fear not, you'll get two drabbles on Sunday to compensate. Prompt = summon.

Summoned on AO3

Summoned )

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kat_lair: (SVT - jihoon)
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Title: Thorns
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Seventeen
Pairing: Kwon Soonyoung | Hoshi/Lee Jihoon | Woozi
Tags: Drabble, Pre-Slash, Pining
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: Jihoon is like a rose.

Author notes: 
Prompt = the title. 

Thorns on AO3

Thorns )

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Title: Veil
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Supernatural
Character: Bobby
Tags: Drabble, Resurrection
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: Bobby never planned on coming back.

Author notes: 
Prompt = title

Veil on AO3

Veil )

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kat_lair: (MARVEL - tony)
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Title: Shatter
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: MCU/Avengers
Pairing: Bruce/Tony, Bruce & Tony
Tags: Drabble, Canon-Compliant, Gen or Pre-Slash, Survival
Rating: T
Word count: 100

Summary: Tony is falling.

Author notes: 
Prompt = the title. 

Shatter on AO3

Shatter )

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Title: Whispers
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Ateez
Pairing: Kim Hongjoong/Park Seonghwa, Park Seonghwa/Original Male Character(s)
Tags: Drabble, Regret, Jealousy
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: It starts as a whisper.

Author notes: 
Prompt = the title. 

Whispers on AO3

Whispers )

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kat_lair: (POI - ghost in the machine)
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Title: Ruin
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Person of Interest
Pairing: Finch/Reese, Finch & Reese
Tags: Drabble, Gen or Pre-Slash, Post-Canon Fix-It
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: How many times can you come back from the dead and still expect to live?

Author notes: 
Prompt = the title. 

Ruin on AO3

Ruin )

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Can't wait to see how many AO3 subscribers I'll lose after this one. I've already lost three since starting to post these drabbles 😂😂

Title: A Kiss
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Harry Potter
Character: Bellatrix
Tags: Drabble, Dark, Sadism, Torture
Rating: M
Word count: 100

Summary: She likes them screaming, but she loves them silent.

Author notes: 
Prompt = the title. 

A Kiss on AO3

A Kiss )

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Title: Trial
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: American Idol
Pairing: Adam/Kris
Tags: Drabble, Gen or Pre-Slash, Alternate Universe - Monsters and Creatures
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: Kris is not supposed to see him.

Author notes: 
Prompt = the final. Set in the same verse as Herald.

Trial on AO3

Trial )

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kat_lair: (GEN - cuervo)
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Title: electric dreams
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Bandom, Cobra Starship
Pairing: Ryland/Alex
Tags: Drabble, Pining, Drunkenness
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: Ryland can count the times he’s seen Alex drunk with one hand.

Author notes: 
Prompt = title

electric dreams
on AO3

electric dreams )

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kat_lair: (BH - mitchell red)
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Title: Home
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Being Human (UK)
Pairing: Annie/George/Mitchell implied
Tags: Drabble, Dark, Codependency, Alternate Universe - Dystopia
Rating: T
Word count: 100

Summary: The house smells of old roses and dried blood.

Author notes: 
Prompt = "You don’t get to leave. Not again."

Home on AO3

Home )

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kat_lair: (LoM - sam)
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Title: Boiling Point
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Life of Mars (UK)
Character: Sam Tyler
Tags: Drabble, Summer, Hot Weather
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: Something will boil over soon.

Author notes: 
Brace yourselves, 14 drabbles in 14 different fandoms coming your way over the next 14 days. But you knew I was a snake multifandom bitch when you took me in subscribed so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   Prompt = title

Boiling Point on AO3

Boiling Point )

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Anyone feel like doing a spag check on 9k of m/m fic in a fandom i cannot name for ~reasons~?  It is E rated but has nothing in it that would require a specific kink tag. 

Volunteer rewarded with gratitude and a ficlet of their choice in any fandom I know enough to write in or original.


Goal achieved, thank you [personal profile] smallhobbit!

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tilt

Jun. 1st, 2025 08:53 pm
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Happy Pride month y'all


🤌🤌🤌

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A reminder that my AO3 bookmarks all count as recs and I read widely so feel free to mine them for your own entertainment.


Kat Reads Books

Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas - This is the second part of a duology that started with The Sunbearer Trials reviewed here https://kat-lair.dreamwidth.org/908178.html. The sun is going out and Theo, his crush Aurelio and bff Niya are on a quest to save the world. And maybe also their friend turned traitor turned friend again Xio. This was cute and fun. I likes the friendships and the message of getting hold of your own fate and stopping the gods from meddling was good if not particularly subtle even before the final showdown. The romance was sweet. My main criticisms are that the female bff was written a little one-dimensional, and the redemption arch had the realisation/decision of 'oops maybe I am on the wrong side' moment off page and I was so frustrated by that like, no, this was a peak character moment why would you not show it? I was fully expecting the story to go end in a cliffhanger but no, it's a duology, not a trilogy and honestly, right choice.

Oikeusjuttu (Der Prozeß/Trial) by Franz Kafka - So, a colleague is making an installation for a conference on theme of AI & (In)Justice and for that wanted several different translations of this book. I sourced the Finnish translation for him, and since I had it, I thought I should read it. And I did. So, let me preface this by saying that I've never read Kafka before, I had no knowledge of the novel beyond the general theme I could guess from the title and colleague's installation topic. It was. Hmm. So, firstly, I see what he did there and why he did and I respect the way he did it as well. Secondly, I very much see why this is a relevant book for colleague's installation. For those of you who don't know, the story evolves around a man who is told he is on trial, accused of something which is never explained, and whose attempts to defend himself are hampered by impenetrable bureaucracy, incomprehensible justice system and officials who talk a lot and say little. In fairness, that also a running theme of the book which is full or extremely long meandering sentences, paragraphs that go on for pages, all of which may just be a reflection of being written a century go or a deliberate stylistic choice to further underline the confusion and frustration of the protagonist. Saying that, there are several lines that would not be out of place as an opening on a contemporary report or article on (in)access to justice, inequity in law, issues around power and influence, trial by public etc.  As a satire it was painfully accurate, depressingly so a century after publication, but there was only one line that made me laugh (said by one of the female characters). I can't say I liked the book, nor the protagonist really, but also I'm quite sure I wasn't meant to.

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill - I gather the book's gotten a good amount of hype and I'd probably sign that. In 1955 tens of thousands of American women from all walks of life suddenly transform into dragons, devour some men and then vanish. Discussion and research on what happened, why and how, and the fact that it isn't a historically isolated phenomenon is systematically suppressed. The story is told via eyes of Alex who is a school girl at the time but loses her aunt, gains a sister, and struggles with finding her own path to science and family. Her personal narrative is interspersed with extracts from scientific papers, letters etc. Two thirds of this book made me incandescent with rage. Which is absolutely the purpose of it. The final third had the utopian 'god it could be this good, it could be' catharsis to it which was a good balance but avoided being fully rose-tinted. There are some nods to intersectionality of women (e.g. the differing experiences of Black women are noted, as is the fact that some of the women who dragon are women through the desire of their heart not their physiology) but they aren't super developed beyond the wlw aspect which is a central part of Alex's own story.


Kat Consumes Media

Dumbo live action remake - This was better than I expected to be honest. The story was updated appropriately with Dumbo and his mama being released in the end. And I really liked how they did the pink elephants sequence as well, that was rather clever. Lots of familiar faces in various roles, and I even detected even some mild self-awareness what with the big commercial amusement park with its Dumbo plushies going up in flames...

Artifice Girl - A man creates a programme to trap online child abusers, gets recruited by a law enforcement organisation to do the same with more resources. What he neglects to mention that his programme, Cherry, is exceeding its/her programming fast... This is told through three indoor scenes with a small cast and relies entirely on the dialogue and interactions and mines the ethics and limits of consciousness and autonomy. For some reason ratings for this were lukewarm but I found it absolutely fascinating to watch. The performances were great throughout and it didn't result in any easy solutions.

Hercules - Alright, yeah, I put it on the background while I did other stuff. Hercules and his merry men (and one token Amazon) get involved in a civil war, train some farmers, blah blah sorcery and monsters and political betrayal (extremely predictable one).  I assume this was a slow period for The Rock and he needed the money. It was... Watchable. Bonus points for the fact that there was no romantic plot that blossomed during the movie. But there was a fridged wife and family so those points were lost there.

Wild Robot - Ahhhh this was wonderful. A service robot gets shipwrecked on an island full of nothing but wild animals, recalibrates itself to understand them and adopts a little gosling and a lonely fox. Families are made, emotions are learned etc. The animation was stunning and the story itself was sweet. My only niggles are the tone of motherhood = purpose, and the fact that foxes don't fucking hibernate wtf was that. But generally absolutely recommended.

Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse - Rewatch, still absolutely great with a solid story and outstanding animation.

Various YT reactors and their Patreon content - I rather assume no one is interested in these but if I'm mistaken and you wanted to know whose Kpop content I'm enjoying, hit me up.


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Title: Antigen
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Pairing: James T. Kirk & Leonard "Bones" McCoy, James T. Kirk/Leonard "Bones" McCoy
Tags: Anti-sex pollen, Gen or Pre-Slash, Touch Aversion, Touch-Starved
Rating: T
Word count: 2,111

Summary: Jim was familiar with all the evolutionary, physiological, psychological, cultural reasons why humans needed touch. Group and individual variation obviously existed, but as a species the requirement for connection went DNA-deep and the impacts of being deprived of it were well-documented and happening right in front of his eyes, right in his own body too.

Author notes:
Picked some spring themed prompts to get me out of a writing slump. This was for the prompt 'pollen'. Unbetaed so if you spot a typo or mistake you should tell me.

Antigen on AO3


Antigen )

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