Ahahaha unexpected last-minute con?

So.... I am apparently going to muskratjamboree?

This is actualfax spuffyduds's fault as she emailed me to tell me that one registration had just become available!

FLIST, TELL ME WHICH OF YOU ARE ATTENDING! SO I CAN SQUEE IN ANTICIPATION! \o/

To the rest of you who are not attending, BOO. BUT! If you're in/around Boston during the first weekend of April, let me know as I will likely be free to hang on Sunday, April 2nd! I haven't been to Boston since Anime Boston in 2004 which was a mixture of one of THE MOST ANNOYING ROOMMATES I'VE EVER HAD, EVEREVEREVER and THE MOST AWESOME PLACE IN THE WORLD as it's where I met the Nerd Avengers (aka, some of my best friends IRL, even though I haven't seen you guys in ages).

it won't come unstuck for a long moment

There have been SO many amazingly good fics lately just in general. I know I've said before how amazingly prolific and high-quality this fandom is. Well. This story by persephone_il just took my breath away. It's everything I love in existential published fiction, which I don't read very often because I don't really know where to look, or what authors to look for, and which I almost never come across in fanfic. That kind of dark, surreal, sort-of-horrific imagery that is so visceral and cutting. The sort of thing that matches so fucking perfectly with the plot and character-introspection that it all just mirrors itself but is so slick and smooth that it just slides right over you. Ugh, I have so many ~feelings~ about it that I can't articulate but I want to say more than the usual incoherent squee.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ THIS. And if you feel even half of what I feel about it, leave her feedback.

However, please take heed of the warnings in case this is Not Your Thing.

Sustenance by the_ragnarok

Summary: AU. "Nobody in their business comes by their skills for free. There is always someone to train you, to remake you in the image of your chosen profession. Their world is a place of ownerships. The best you could hope for was a long, comfortable leash."
Contains: Body horror, oblique references to violence against children, sort-of-but-not-really cannibalism.

And if anyone reads this and has ANY recommendations for fic/books/movies/etc. that have a similar feel to this, PLEASE LET ME KNOW IMMEDIATELY. The thing that came to mind for me was eXistenZ, but I don't know if the movie actually really compares as I read the book based on the movie and it was less than stellar.