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cimoreneIt's pretty hot, like, there was a high yesterday (outside) of 31° C (I think that's 87? I looked it up. So like, not actually that hot for an outside IF you have air conditioning everywhere, but Finland doesn't and we don't).
It's better inside though, because our house was very well designed (by the official government people in Finland in the 1940s) to create natural air circulation and warmth and coolth and all that and also has well-placed windows for the purpose. It reached about 27 by the thermometer in our livingroom yesterday, which is where we and the bunnies hung out. (The cats seek out whichever room is most like a sauna much of the time.) But it was cooler because this side (the northwest side) of the house is also well-shaded - these windows don't have any direct sun all day at this time of year, and we installed our window screens all around and have a fan circulating the air.
Wax has also watched the new series of Stranger Things, which is a show I mostly don't watch but wander in every now and then and ask the odd question, so I recognize people and have impressions, but I couldn't pass a quiz about the plot. However, I followed a random link from Tumblr the other day to someone's fanfic about Eddie, the long-haired metalhead dungeon master character from the new season, which is - okay, in the show, Eddie wears a black bandana in his back pocket, but like, the people mentioning the bandana code were joking, obviously. I think. Because it's a CODE, the bandana code only works when there are other gay kinksters to cruise with. If you were wearing it as part of your everyday outfit in rural Indiana, like... at best it's just to entertain yourself. If you're actually desperately trying to find other gay kinksters like that it's just pathetic. If you just want to identify other gay people in passing in Wal-Mart of the next town over that's what enamel pins and buttons are for. BUT ANYWAY, a bunch of people started this by laughing about it - again, as I said, I'm assuming charitably that they were joking - but then a bunch more people followed this up by taking it seriously(ish) and there's like at least three or four pieces of fic based on this premise. These are just a tiny blip in the stream of fic for this pairing though. I haven't seen enough of this season over Wax's shoulder to really grasp why, but apparently people are feeling it.
And I had just finished a book that I really liked (Lolly Willowes) and been disappointed by the next two books I tried... so I followed a random link from someone's Tumblr post to a fic (Eddie/Steve) that touched on the bandana concept and then clicked the tag and I was like there's THAT much of this? So I've been idly reading through this largely unknown and bemusing pairing the past few days. My vibe with this pairing is like the pairing is a canal, and I'm lounging in a rowboat with a parasol, munching on fresh fruit and trailing the fingers of my hand in the water. I'm trailing my fingers through this pairing with lazy interest. There are falling leaves and flowers, the occasional lost beach ball or empty coke bottle, nice glimpses of fish, friendly little breezes. Every now and then I think I see an alligator and pull my hand back (this is a canal in the Everglades, the only kind of canal I have ever boated on). I expected more errors about the 80s to come up than I've seen so far, actually. I've seen hairspray, cars, and electric lighting in Victorian Sherlock Holmes fic, but in several days of browsing I haven't seen a single cell phone. I don't think knowledge of VHS, as surprising as it is, indicates they're in my age cohort though, because overall it just doesn't feel quite convincing - especially the pot-dealing metalhead who lives in a trailer park. To be fair to them, canon did this too, but just... he's too clean. And he doesn't seem to have enough Depression? (I won't blame that part on canon.) I knew... several of this guy and I was friends with them in middle school and the bullying and depression got worse and worse. One of them tried to kill himself. Another one eventually became an EMT, but yeah, I don't think there's enough bitterness in the fic, possibly because this type of social outcast isn't as outcast now or... something.
It's better inside though, because our house was very well designed (by the official government people in Finland in the 1940s) to create natural air circulation and warmth and coolth and all that and also has well-placed windows for the purpose. It reached about 27 by the thermometer in our livingroom yesterday, which is where we and the bunnies hung out. (The cats seek out whichever room is most like a sauna much of the time.) But it was cooler because this side (the northwest side) of the house is also well-shaded - these windows don't have any direct sun all day at this time of year, and we installed our window screens all around and have a fan circulating the air.
Wax has also watched the new series of Stranger Things, which is a show I mostly don't watch but wander in every now and then and ask the odd question, so I recognize people and have impressions, but I couldn't pass a quiz about the plot. However, I followed a random link from Tumblr the other day to someone's fanfic about Eddie, the long-haired metalhead dungeon master character from the new season, which is - okay, in the show, Eddie wears a black bandana in his back pocket, but like, the people mentioning the bandana code were joking, obviously. I think. Because it's a CODE, the bandana code only works when there are other gay kinksters to cruise with. If you were wearing it as part of your everyday outfit in rural Indiana, like... at best it's just to entertain yourself. If you're actually desperately trying to find other gay kinksters like that it's just pathetic. If you just want to identify other gay people in passing in Wal-Mart of the next town over that's what enamel pins and buttons are for. BUT ANYWAY, a bunch of people started this by laughing about it - again, as I said, I'm assuming charitably that they were joking - but then a bunch more people followed this up by taking it seriously(ish) and there's like at least three or four pieces of fic based on this premise. These are just a tiny blip in the stream of fic for this pairing though. I haven't seen enough of this season over Wax's shoulder to really grasp why, but apparently people are feeling it.
And I had just finished a book that I really liked (Lolly Willowes) and been disappointed by the next two books I tried... so I followed a random link from someone's Tumblr post to a fic (Eddie/Steve) that touched on the bandana concept and then clicked the tag and I was like there's THAT much of this? So I've been idly reading through this largely unknown and bemusing pairing the past few days. My vibe with this pairing is like the pairing is a canal, and I'm lounging in a rowboat with a parasol, munching on fresh fruit and trailing the fingers of my hand in the water. I'm trailing my fingers through this pairing with lazy interest. There are falling leaves and flowers, the occasional lost beach ball or empty coke bottle, nice glimpses of fish, friendly little breezes. Every now and then I think I see an alligator and pull my hand back (this is a canal in the Everglades, the only kind of canal I have ever boated on). I expected more errors about the 80s to come up than I've seen so far, actually. I've seen hairspray, cars, and electric lighting in Victorian Sherlock Holmes fic, but in several days of browsing I haven't seen a single cell phone. I don't think knowledge of VHS, as surprising as it is, indicates they're in my age cohort though, because overall it just doesn't feel quite convincing - especially the pot-dealing metalhead who lives in a trailer park. To be fair to them, canon did this too, but just... he's too clean. And he doesn't seem to have enough Depression? (I won't blame that part on canon.) I knew... several of this guy and I was friends with them in middle school and the bullying and depression got worse and worse. One of them tried to kill himself. Another one eventually became an EMT, but yeah, I don't think there's enough bitterness in the fic, possibly because this type of social outcast isn't as outcast now or... something.
