redrikki

Signal boost for

worldbuildingex exchange. Nominations are now open. Got burning world building questions you'd like explored? Now's the time to act.

In other fannish news,

kass put me on to the

purimgifts exchange for fanworks featuring Jews, women and/or people persecuted by en evil vizier. Sadly, one of the requirements is that you produce at least 3 works of art and I don't think anyone wants my stick figures. Still, if fic and art featuring any of those three groups is your jam, sign-ups are now open.

Speaking of fic exchanges, I finally know what I'm writing for

past_imperfect! Of course, now I actually have to go write it, but this is a vast improvement from the utter blank I was drawing earlier.

I had a very good weekend. On Saturday, I hosted a game night/dinner party. I've never been that into board games, but I've fallen in with a crowd that is and they really know how to pick them. This is our second game night of the summer and my first time hosting. We played Prolix, a word game, and Betrayal at Hill House, a choose-your-own-adventure mystery game. The box says it only takes an hour, but that's straight bullshit because we were playing for well over 2. I highly recommend it though as it was a lot of fun and is so incredibly customizable that there are at least 50 different potential outcomes.

One of the couples at the party is vegan and I was struck by the fact that I was the first host to actually make a meal they could eat. During our May game night, the hosting couple made fajitas with chicken and vegan couple had to bring their own entree. It's really not that hard to cook animal products free food. I just made crock pot chili and it was quite possibly the easiest thing I've ever made as it just involved opening cans and letting the slow cooker do all the work. Whatever. If anyone has any other good vegan crock pot offerings you can think of, I'm all ears for the next time.

I made the conscious decision not to participate in the AU exchange. That's right, it was deliberate. After looking at the other requests, I couldn't find anything I was particularly interested in writing. On the plus side, I have an idea I'm currently kicking around about amnesiac Bruce Wayne from the Superheavy arc and how he seemed blissfully unaware he had kids.

In case you missed it, I'm going to put another plug in for

ao3tagoftheday 's charity fic auction in support of detained migrants. Here are the instructions for how to request fic/art/etc. I am one of the participating authors. I'm signed up for Agent Carter, Umbrella Academy, Batman comics, and Avatar, but if you talk to me in the comments below, I might throw in She-Ra, Black Lightning, or Star Wars just for you.

Also, today and tomorrow are Amazon Prime Day, but workers are striking across the country. Please support your fellow workers and don't cross the digital picket line by ordering stuff.