1. Great, now I have the Guardian Exchange and the Guardian Challenge running at the same time on my reading list. This is the problem with globalization!

2. Newly discovered AO3 search tip: if you want some new good fic in your old fandoms but everything on Search By Kudos is the same old stuff, go a couple years back in your AO3 history and look for stuff you remember nothing about. It's good enough that you read it once! But you remember nothing, so it's like it's new! And because (apparently) the AO3 history actually only shows the most recent view of any work, the ones you keep re- until they're worn out won't show up in the old history.

3. I listed to a TAL segment on Stede Bonnet and Edward Teach (right after I was wading through a POTC-heavy part of my AO3 history) and now I want M/M epic based on that story. The effete rich boy playing at pirates but in way over his head who is taken in, mentored, and nursed back to health by the big burly pirate! Who then BETRAYS him, and he finally finds his inner pirate captain in seeking REVENGE for the betrayal! Somebody provide me this as a novel-length romance with a happy ending please.

4. Advice for slashers, that I have been meaning to post for years, but is apparently still needed based on stuff I'm reading: I understand that writing about safe sex is important for many people, for ethical or realism reasons. I support it, too! Safe sex is sexy. And there's lots of reasons characters might want to use condoms. But. Look. If your characters were literally bleeding in each other's arms last week - if A was using a hand they had sliced open on a sword to put pressure on B's massive gut wound - they are already as fluid-bonded as they're going to get. They really really don't need to wait to go get STD tested before they have unprotected sex. (Yes, there are a few STDs that aren't transmitted by blood contact. But most of those are not well prevented by condoms, and are transmissible by most of the oh-no-we-don't-have-condoms techniques. And honestly, it's more that if they were bleeding out onto each other last week, the testing should already have happened: my problem here isn't so much that they're being too careful about sex as that the medical aftercare they got for the bleeding out must have been sub-par, if they're still worried about fluid contact.)

5. I saw Captain Marvel! It's really good! It's much more a space movie than a superhero movie! I don't really have anything else to say except I liked all the things it did! And you should definitely stay for the last post-credits scene because it answered the only remaining question I had about the plot.

(this is my current AO3 filter.)