A universal angle

[clevermanka]

Guardian/adjacent:
A second Lost Tomb trailer for the show that starts (surprise!) July 15 instead of July 16.
Detective L gif thread.
Zhu Yilong studying lines. Zhu Yilong just existing.
Fanart: soft line art. The bruises on the full NSFW version. Another entry in the Guardian memes. Enough work for now, baby.

Tumblr is still failing to display my likes in any usable manner, so I'm making every Tuesday a Guardian Day on my Tumblr. Here's this week's, with collections going up at 10am and 2pm US CST.

Universal Angle of ~heterosexual~ longing.

My new laptop arrived. McKitterick is helping me finish setting it up today. He's so helpful with stuff like this, doing what he can to keep Microsoft spyware, etc., off and avoiding (some if not all of) the tricksy shit they try to pull like forcing you to sign up for cloud storage. If all goes well, this'll be the last Dreamwidth post I type on this laptop. I got it sometime during the summer of 2015 and I only remember that because this photo of Gwendoline Christie was my wallpaper for years and that came from this Harpers Bazaar article that fall (Harper's photographers have my number I swear).

I tend to develop emotional attachments to electronics that last a while in my presence so even though this computer has developed many odd tics (so, so many) and probably slows down my productivity a considerable amount (unreliable keyboard cooperation, randomly skittering cursor, an overly sensitive touchpad that sometimes goes completely dead), I'm loathe to pack it up.

I've got at least one irreplaceable sticker on it. One of those limited run so they don't fall afoul of copyright things. It's an "ad" for "Toothless Fishing Co.: No Eels!" I really shoulda bought more than one of them, but oh well. I need to see if I have any more of the oh my god they were roommates stickers and if not, I'll buy more. I already bought replacement Guardian Stickers from AvenueX. I am... uncertain whether to attach another AO3 Hugo Award Winner sticker at the moment. Maybe once we see how the elections shake out.

Speaking of which, I've been thinking of putting up a post for people to talk about the AO3 board candidates. I've been reading the Bios and the currently available Q&As, and... I dunno, they all seem so standard and... benign? I'm side-eying the fact that there's only one candidate who has not either served on the board already or been a member of the Policies and Abuse team which I thought? did not? have the best record? Anyway, my main concern with making a post about that would be if/how I should filter it. I'd like people to be able to discuss by name any candidates they've not had great experience with. That seems important. But it also seems like a call for trouble. Perhaps I'll just put up an access-only post and hope for the best. Would people be interested in discussing the candidates with me? Because I'd like to be more aware of who I'm voting for, but I'm getting less than nothing from the very-political-sounding candidate answers.

ETA: The artist who created the cover for The Deconstruction of Hei Pao Shi posted it to AO3! Feast your eyes upon my fic's wonderful cover (and please leave well-deserved kudos)!