Journal of Mistress Kat

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Not the Friday Five questions, just... things to be cheerful about

1. I got podficced again!

Unintended (Stray Kids, Han Jisung/Lee Minho) - A gorgeously emotional recording by pieces0fstars who has a real knack for bringing out every choked up gut punching feeling in a story.

Ensnared (Wheel of Time, Moghedien/Lanfear) - A tiny masterpiece with sound effects by pezzax_podfics ! And the kind of underlying threat one would expect from a narration from Moghedien's pov.

2. Also fanart! vampireshmu did a perfectly creepy jagged sketch based on my Waycest ficlet Sharpest Lives, check it out here: Sharp

3. Writing has been happening, though I am still very behind on the getyourwordsout goal and probably will continue to be tbh. But still. I have finished a fic (Stray Kids, Chan/Felix) and it's out for beta, one is veeeery close to being finished (Stray Kids, Seungmin/Jeongin), I have also tossed a shared fic (Stray Kids, Chan/Minho) back to dreamersdare, while she is currectly working hard at finishing off another shared fic (Stray Kids, Chan/Changbin).

4. In RL news, my Bucharest conference trip in September is all booked! Now I, apparently, need to write the paper. Rude.

5. This weekend I have no plans beyond coffee and writing. Wish me luck!

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Have I been awake about 39hours now? Yes. Did I get some motherfucking work done? Motherfucking yes. To celebrate, here is another video on theme Wicked Women Rule You If You Beg Nicely Enough For It.



Also sleep, going to celebrate by doing some sleeping now.

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Waves at you from under the duvet. Yes, it's not yet 9pm, yes I am in bed, yes this a nominal post. Done some teaching and meetings and many MANY emails. A colleague asked if it was student queries I was dealing with and I was like, sadly no, just greasing the wheels administration and management stuff. The teaching today was actually the most enjoyable part of my job so.

I really want to write a fic about the emotional breakdown Namjoon is having over Yoongi's long hair but don't have the energy right now. I should be writing a book summary for the next Wheel of Time book club post but don't have the energy for that either. 

There's a greater than zero chance that I've got covid again (was in the same room on Fri with people who later came down with it). Currently choosing to believe that my throat is sore just because of all the teaching today. If the test tomorrow is positive I'm genuinely going to cry, this is the absolute worst time to be sick. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Okay, I feel like you should get some kind of reward for putting up with these non posts. So here, have this awesome frostpunk song from one of my fave geekcore artists. I believe it's based on a game but absolutely stands on its own. The lyrics git hard especially right now as we're entering the climate change dystopia. For angrier rawer version, check the original. This remaster is smoother.


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it be friday of the first week of my holiday (i've had a week of holiday that has include a shit ton of socialising and also life maintenance like today i sorted my fucking savings bonds and ISA and phone contract like some kind of functional adult) so therefore an important poll




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It's my birthday and I am resisting the fuck out of dealing with work emails. I kind of thought about taking myself to the cinema to help with that but turns out there is nothing showing that I want to see. So instead, I'm spending it doing a random combination of things I enjoy

• Going out for coffee and brunch
• (was going to get a new piercing but the studio is closed on Mondays so maybe I will leave this until Easter now)
• Watching The Untamed (please I want to screech about this with someoneeeeeeeee)
• Rolling around in kpop vids and clips thanks to my ever-enabling flist
• Listening to Magic Triumphs, the last of the Kate Daniels series audiobook (well except for the side character books which I also have)
• Catching up with flist journals
• Cooking myself a steak for dinner
• Posting about two things I have Enjoyed Muchly lately; firstly a movie rec and a bit later I  have some reaction vids for youuuuu!

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Firstly:

Thanks to bymokona for reccing this movie. If you've been around for more than like five mins you know that bdsm is my jam both in fandom and irl. Problem is that outside of transformative work, vast majority of mainstream d/s oriented media is AWFUL, majority of it is extremely het and majority of that aggressively female sub/male dom. Which... If that's your thing then rock on. Play safe, have fun irl, and good luck in finding some media that works for you. However, personally I cannot deal with that at all. Like even if fanfic if hetship even hints at that I am pressing a back button SO FAST. Just can't stomach it. It's a squick. You get it.

Anyway, back to the movie. What we have here is het. BUT
a) FEMDOM
b) newbie domme/more (though not by much) experienced sub
c) RESEARCH, SHE DOES RESEARCH, GOOD GOD YES THIS
d) EXPLICIT CONSENT, like contract
e) NON-SEXUAL D/S (to start with)
f) AFTERCARE
g) then, FEELINGS
h) It is cute as fuck
i) The secondary couple is also cute and the main characters femsub friend is extremely kick-ass and there's a scene (you'll know which one) where I just went FUCK YES YOU TELL HIM!
j) Adorable, adorable, but also has some hot scenes because have you seen these two?
k) Sometimes things go wrong and then they are solved
l) Fun. This is FUN. They're having FUN! They're laughing! Oh yes please this.

It's not a perfect movie because these things never are but it is miles and miles ahead a lot of mainstream d/s media I've seen and it is bdsm cottoncandy please if you are having a bad day and enjoy this premise even a little, give it a try. Here's the trailer:




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It's Christmas Eve, which is the main Christmas event in Finland. Tomorrow is just... more food and books. I've had a lovely week so far and today's plans are essentially sauna, Christmas meal, presents, coffee, chilling. I have many chapters of Wheel of Time book to read... And my friend T is coming over to spend Christmas with us. I'm desperately trying to get all the ficlets written this year also posted so expect more spammage of that kind before NY.

It's been cold here and I snapped this picture from our garden a couple of days ago when it was -16C and everything was beautiful with frost.

Have a lovely Christmas or chilled Friday if you don't celebrate <3




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Challenge #2 of



was to interact with someone new. Which I have achieved by dropping comments on not just some snowflake_challenge participants but also on the getyourwordsout intro post.

Other exciting activities today have included a vidcall with my god parents, finishing a fic, doing some other writing, reading a book chapter, washing dishes, vidcall with H, some exercise and stretching, absolutely dreading going back to work tomorrow (don't wanna!). Current plan is to just keep entirely emotionally dissociated from work so as not to let it stress me. What could go wrong?

Things in the vague plan/goals/good intentions on the road to perdition list

• Writing
• Signed up to cookbook_challenge  because my recipes are staring at me accusingly. Only at the 1-2 recipes per month though which should be achievable. Going to pick one this week.
• Fanworks round-up meme
• Many photo dump posts (Aug-Dec, you've been warned)
• Jogging, achievable atm because no pain and also new shiny purple trainers. Sadly I did manage to wash my headphones so need to get me new ones
• Survive work
• Reading books

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Well hello, it's me again. I promised daily posting, I didn't promise exciting daily posting...

Today I have...

• Kept on top of work emails
• Downloaded lots of articles relating to one of my research projects
• Read some of them
• Forgotten to call dad (he was in the hospital again)
• Been to an osteopath
• Took my external hard drive to the computer shop so they can put in what they managed to save. The laptop apparently is okay but a) it is old, b) needs a new battery, and c) DEAD TO ME after this stunt so... I'm going to tell them to scrub it and give me whatever it's worth and buy a new laptop in August.
• Did also look at all the stuff that was on my old laptops (that was backed up on the external hard drive) and there is a lot of music and vids and photos and stuff waiting to be re-discovered. Including folders for the thematic vid recs I did aeons ago. I mean... I don't even know if I have people on my flist anymore who even remember those :D Maybe a couple of people (you know who you are...)
• Finished watching Atomic Blonde. I... liked it, although I was hoping for a different ending. Enough so that it may end up as a ficlet for my 100 Fandoms... Also surprise f/f content and no sexualised violence toward women so that was something. I actually remember watching the news of Berlin Wall coming down, so the setting was great. Oh, you know what else I liked? There was a lot of German, Russian (and a smattering of other) dialogue that wasn't subtitled. Fuck yes! Figure it out! :D

Plan for the rest of the evening:

• Write 500 words of fic (currently working on a Good Omens thing for H who has had a rough week)
• Reply to comments
• Catch up with one flister and leave some comments (currently trying to do this one person at a time because otherwise too confusing)

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Yeah. Computer shop called. They only managed to save a 'handful of photos'. All my documents including any WIPs of fic or poetry from the last ~4 years (older ones I have copies of) are gone. As are most of my photos, including all the fannish ones, any WIP graphics, all my textures and resources, memes and notes of stuff I've watched that I wanted to post, fanvids...

Rending garments, smearing self with ashes, bawling into my drink.

Sigh. This certainly is one way to clear off the decks, if not my favourite one.

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In other news, pushkin666 and I baked muffins. Well she did. I did the shopping and dishes part. And then I made tuna lasagne for dinner.

Anyway.

Chorizo and red pepper muffins




Peanutbutter and chocolate chip muffins




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This is not the proper update you are looking for... But a very brief Sunday ramble.

House&Life: new washing machine is a dream, I have mastered the drill and put up (with some assistance) curtain railingins LIKE A BOSS, we are fast approaching the 'will take pictures to post' state of housing. Cats have been going out a lot and coming back every time. Unnecessary amount of spiders though, bleugh.

Fandom, part 1: Have fallen into a hole called Guardian which is Chinese supernatural drama that provides the kind emotionally satisfying m/m romance at the centre of it that I've only previous found in fanfic. I blame mekare and rheasilvia whose intro post got me intrigued enough. If you like sould bonds and meaningful glances and ridiculous plots and tucking each other to sleep and identity porn this is for you. All on Youtube with (occasionally also hilarious but in a good way) English subtitles.

Fandom part 2: I got so many lovely things on my fandom_stocking post, including two delightful bandom fics, a glorious Mal/Jayne Firefly fic that hit all my buttons, icons, recipes, links, pretties... So verklempt and grateful.

Fandom part 3: Been to see Mary Poppins Returns, and adored it. I have many feelings about Lin-Manuel Miranda, his eyes and my deep, deep need to see him as a romantic lead more. Also went to see Spiderverse which was amazing (apiphile, you didn't oversell it even a little) and deserves all the awards for the animation.

Fandom part 4: Umbrella Academy trailer!!! May be enough for me to break my Netflix resistance and take advantage of that 'you can borrow my logins' offer I've got. Looks so goooooooooooooood.



Fandom part 5: Trying to resist 100fandoms because no, nooooooooooooo.

Fandom part 6, the Meme: Saw this on catdetective's journal and seemed like fun.

Send me a Trope and I’ll rate it!
No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know - plus, knowing me, I'll probably also ramble about it a bit :D


That's all for now. Going to take Christmas decorations down now...

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