disappointedRec Category: Self Rec
Characters: Samantha Carter, Original Character, Hathor, Teal'c, Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill
Pairings: Samantha Carter & Original Character friendship,
Categories: Gen, Angst, Whump, Episode-related, Episode: s03e01 Into the Fire (Stargate SG-1), Alternat Universe: Canon Divergence
Warnings: None
Author's Journal:
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nuh_sAuthor's Website: My Ao3
Link: Hathor's New Jaffa
Why This Must Be Read: Written for Whumpex 2025, this one was really fun to play around with the concept, what if Carter was turned into a Jaffa by Hathor? I got to explore a few of my Jaffa cultural headcanons and, of course, whump Carter.
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Rec Category: Samantha Carter
Characters: Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, There But For The Grace Of God!Samantha Carter, George Hammond, Catherine Langford
Pairings: Samantha Carter & Daniel Jackson friendship, Samantha Carter & Samantha Carter friendship
Categories: Gen, Episode Related, There But For The Grace Of God, Alternate Universe: Canon Divergence
Warnings: None
Author's Journal:
cmdonovannAuthor's Website: cmdonovann's Ao3
Link: Mirror Image
Why This Must Be Read: This is such a fun fic written for the Kill Your Double Exchange featuring Carter and TBFTGOG!Carter. What if Carter had followed Daniel through the quantum mirror? The treatment of Carter as a familiar face vs Daniel as an unfamiliar face in canon is interesting.
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happyWhilst I was perusing the produce section at Kroger last week, I came across a watermelon. Not just any watermelon, though. Private Selection’s “Black Diamond” watermelons. I figured since y’all seemed to enjoy my orange review, you might want the skinny on this here watermelon, as well:
Unlike the Sugar Gem oranges, this watermelon was sweeter than a regular ol’ watermelon. Not only that, but the label boasts a rich, red flesh. I thought it may have been all talk, but lo and behold it was indeed very red! I bought this one for six dollars, which is pretty much the exact same cost as a regular watermelon, and it’s roughly the same size, so I’d say you should go ahead and buy this one over the regular ones if you are someone who prefers a juicier, sweeter watermelon.
I served this watermelon to my parents, both of whom do not particularly care for watermelon, and they made a point of telling me how good this particular watermelon was and ended up eating a good bit of it when normally they probably wouldn’t have opted for any watermelon at all.
With the 4th approaching this weekend, I assume many of y’all will want to pick up a watermelon, and I think if your Kroger has these ones lying around you should give it a try! I’ve been meaning to buy another one because it’s the perfect refreshing snack during this recent heat wave.
It’s nice to try something new and actually have a good experience with it. Those Sugar Gem oranges may have been a bust, but this Black Diamond Watermelon is definitely a winner in my book.
Do you like watermelon? If you don’t, would you be willing to give this one a try based on my parents’ reaction to it? Do you have fun plans for the 4th? Let me know in the comments, and have a great day!
-AMS
Rec Category: Samantha Carter
Characters: Samantha Carter, Janet Fraiser, Daniel Jackson, George Hammond, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c, Jacob Carter
Pairings: Samantha Carter and Janet Fraiser friendship, SG-1 Team
Categories: Gen, angst, hurt/comfort, friendship, dramaeral and SG-1/SGA specific; drama; episode related; five things; friendship, both generic and specific; gen; het; humor; hurt/comfort; kidfic; slash; and team]
Warnings: Temporary Character Death
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: phantisma's Ao3
Link: More Than A Monster
Why This Must Be Read: Imagine, if you will, vampires in SG-1 science fiction style. This fic perfectly keeps with SG-1's tone and characterization for a vampire story. Carter dies. And wakes up. But she's different and has to deal with that. Carter, Janet, and Daniel especially shine in this story. There are also some Jack moments that are just perfect even though he has a smaller role.
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by Roxana Arama, Lead Editor
For nearly 30 years, The SFWA Blog has been an essential resource for speculative fiction creators. Our editorial team is excited to begin a new chapter on July 1, 2025, reintroducing our publication with a new name that better reflects who we are and where we’re headed.
Planetside: The Online Magazine of SFWA
Three Decades of Insight
The first post on what is now called The SFWA Blog was published in January 1996. It took a few years for The Blog to find its stride and consistently deliver the content our readers have come to expect, but by the mid-2000s, SFF writers were using this space to provide up-to-date insight into their craft and the publishing industry at large.
While the word blog brings to mind the beginnings of our online magazine as a forward-looking platform embracing the new technologies of its day, it now sounds a bit dated. The blog format implies a more casual tone compared to the well-researched and polished articles we publish. The word magazine better describes our content and also honors the dedicated authors who contribute to our publication.
Over the years, our magazine has featured thousands of articles, covering everything from worldbuilding best practices and industry news to emerging trends and craft discussions. Experienced authors generously provided guidance and perspective to aspiring writers through our pages. Many new voices who rose through The SFWA Blog went on to become household names in the literary world. Under its new name, our magazine will empower writers to connect with the larger creative community—just as it always has—by sharing diverse knowledge, exchanging ideas, and encouraging collaboration.
Why Planetside?
According to the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, the word planetside entered the English lexicon in the 1950s through the works of Andre Norton and Damon Knight, two speculative fiction authors who hold a special place in the SFWA community for their lasting influence. We even have two Nebula awards named in their honor: the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction, and the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. Their legacy is one reason why planetside resonates deeply with us, because it reflects both our roots and our ongoing mission to elevate speculative storytelling.
Though planetside might initially sound like a science fiction term, we invite you to see it as an anchor we provide to our community of creators. While you venture out there, into your worlds of fantasy, game writing, horror, YA, romantasy, poetry, sci-fi, comics, middle-grade, and other genre-bending story forms, we’ll be down here, writing our planetside dispatches that provide you with everything you need to make your adventure as amazing as possible. Think of us as your Planetside Crew (more on that below), which equips you with the essential information and insight you need while you’re exploring the boundless worlds of your creation.
We’d also like to better communicate the sense of wonder and discovery we encounter every time we bring a new article to our readership. As such, with its new logo, Planetside: The Online Magazine of SFWA strives to represent SFWA’s mission to inform, inspire, support, and advocate for creators of speculative fiction worldwide.
Our Contribution to SFWA Publications
Planetside is part of SFWA Publications, which offers a number of publishing services. These include the New Release Newsletter, which helps SFWA members promote their upcoming titles; Singularity, which offers monthly industry news to members; and the NetGalley Partnership Program, which helps authors connect with reviewers and offers priority placement for members. (And we have more to be announced soon!)
But Planetside is special among the SFWA Publications projects because the magazine is for everyone working in SFF: SFWA members or otherwise, professional and professionalizing writers alike. We’re here for the full journey of industry creators. We also strive to bring a wide range of voices, opinions, and perspectives from across the planet to our readers. And that commitment carries through our editorial approach.
Our Editorial Process
The Planetside Crew is the volunteer team that reviews pitches and then edits the submissions for our online magazine. I joined this wonderful group of editors three years ago and have since had the privilege of collaborating with many talented authors on their articles. I’ve also become familiar with the toolkit SFWA Publications uses to maintain its ever-growing platform. As Lead Editor of Planetside, I now manage the magazine’s publishing pipeline and our monthly editorial meetings.
We work as a team on submissions, which expands our ability to reflect the full spectrum of industry know-how. Once a month, we carefully review pitches, evaluating their strengths and considering their role within the broader scope of SFWA Publications. We also follow a set of internal standards that guide us in selecting ideas that are particularly valuable to our readers. We then partner with each author over a few editorial rounds to elevate their article’s argument and focus on clarity, always keeping our audience in mind.
Building Planetside Together
In that spirit, we encourage you to explore SFWA’s many volunteer opportunities—including the Planetside Crew—and consider lending your talents to support our writing and creative community. You can also learn more about writing for our magazine from “What Should I Pitch to Planetside?” and our Submissions Guidelines, complete with open calls to get you started. And if you enjoy our articles, please help us spread the word to your community or on your social media.
As the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association celebrates 60 years of championing speculative fiction and its creators, we at SFWA Publications are thinking about what another 60 years might depend on. We hope that the new name of our online magazine will inspire you to be part of this next chapter, as we continue to provide industry perspectives to SFF writers at every stage of their careers.
I’d like to close with a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has helped us get this far. To every writer who trusted us, every reader who joined us on this journey, our generous volunteers, and all those who contributed to shaping what we’ve become: thank you. Your support, creativity, and dedication have carried us forward, and we couldn’t have done it without you.
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- Mood:Hot and wet, not in a good way
cassiope25, goddess47, mific, and nuh_s for all their June recs! We had 13 recs this past month.Our reccers for July are:
cassiope25: Rodney McKaygoddess47: Jack O'Neillmific: AUnuh_s: Samantha Cartersmilebackwards: John SheppardReccers, you all have access and can start posting at any time. Remember that you have committed yourself to reccing at least two fics over the course of the month, although of course we will be happy with more. Feel free to use the copy-and-paste template from the reccer's FAQ for your convenience.
If you wanted to volunteer for this month and didn't have a chance to sign up, drop a comment here and I'll happily add you to the list.
by Brian U. Garrison
A poem doesn’t need an award to have impact. But the process of celebrating builds community, excitement, and audience. With the Hugo and Nebula Awards preparing space in their victory gardens for poetry, new gateways are opening for poems to be declared “The Best.”
Not that there’s one ideal path in poems or awards. Without diversity, every poet would just keep writing the same line. Readers, like the eagle stuck eating Prometheus’s liver again and again, would receive no variety. In the words of Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) Grand Master David C. Kopaska-Merkel, “Vive la diversité.” In poems. In readers. In awards. Let there be multitudes.
Find art that is filling.
The beautiful.
The meaningful.
The impactful.
Poetry fills the world fuller every day. Let’s celebrate!
The Expanding Universe
Momentum has been building for short writing: flash, drabbles, poetry, and more. Awards provide gravity, and like spacecraft slingshotting Jupiter, gravity provides acceleration. I feel the excitement orbiting speculative poetry as I talk to poets and see poetry-curious writers sharpen their quills. The poetry world is spinning faster than Rumpelstiltskin turns straw to gold. May it be unstoppable. More excitement means more poems! More readers!
Each poem written is a skein of yarn. Each reader is woven into the universe’s deep magic. Interconnection among writers, readers, or any group of people builds cohesion. We won’t agree. And yes, declaring one “best” poem is inherently exclusive. But if we enter the journey accepting fuzzy boundaries, picking a winner is one way to see the fabric that binds us.
Watching threads become networks—watching poetry spread—readers are reminded that some poets are even alive. Poems have been written this decade. This year. Today! Annual awards are a reminder that your syllabus, to-be-read pile, and conversations can include more than just a bunch of dead white guys.
F. J. Bergmann, SFPA’s newest Grand Master, mentioned an article she once read asking speculative novelists how poetry influenced their writing. As writers gushed about their love of poetry, Bergmann was not impressed. “Every one of them cited the out-of-date warhorses they’d been assigned to read in high school or college intro to lit classes,” she said. Sure, there are a lot of excellent poems from long ago, but the proliferation of speculative poetry awards can help you find shiny new poems that are more precious than mithril. (Or to avoid the dead-white-guy reference: soul-guarding poems more potent than kenet, the dragon-fire-protective ointment imagined by Robin McKinley).
Miguel O. Mitchell, Dwarf Stars Editor (2023, 2025), similarly advocates for readers to explore a wide range of poetry: short and long poems, poems by writers known and unknown. Mitchell hopes readers will “discover gems from the less famous [writers].” In poetry lists, you may recognize names from past Nebula or Hugo ballots such as Amal El-Mohtar, Beth Cato, Theodora Goss, and Jane Yolen. You should definitely read their poetry, and as you admire words by familiar writers, take a peek at nearby poems too. Many journals publish online and are free to read. Open as browser tabs impulsively! Read for awards, and sometimes just for the love of words.
Awards in Abundance
How do we celebrate excellent speculative poetry? “The work of SFPA has always been to model some of the many possible ways…but we’re by no means the only arbiters of taste,” says Bryan Thao Worra, SFPA President from 2016 to 2022 and first Lao American member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA). Awards typically focus on one poem, a book/chapbook, or a writer. SFPA has been presenting the Rhysling Award since 1978 and has been adding to its bouquet of awards.
SFPA’s Rhysling Award goes to an individual poem in two categories: short and long. Since adding the Grand Master Award in 1999, the group has named twelve worthy poets. The Dwarf Stars Award has been praising very short poems since 2006. Books and chapbooks have been earning the Elgin Award since 2013. Most recently, the Lifetime Service Award was established in 2023. SFPA has been cultivating excitement and awards for decades.
Others have picked up on the excitement. The HWA was an early adopter, adding Best Poetry Collection to their Bram Stoker selections in 2000. They have also published an annual Poetry Showcase since 2014, providing a celebration without an associated award.
From the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) at Seattle Worldcon 2025, one Best Poem will win a Hugo Award. Seattle chose to add the special category, but the category will go away unless the bylaws are amended (fortunately, there is an initiative to add that amendment). Worldcon 2025 also named WSFS’s first Poet Laureate, Brandon O’Brien. I hope other conventions follow the lead!
Starting in 2026, SFWA will bestow a Nebula Award to one Best Poem each year. I look forward to seeing the suggested reading list and first year of finalists.
When I asked multi-award-winning New Zealand writer Lee Murray for her thoughts, she emphasized, “Different awards address different aspects of poetry.” The awards discussed here are still rather US-centric. Murray pointed out that regional awards, small communities, and connecting with non-spec writing communities all expand the influence of speculative poetry.
Group Decisions
Will the voting groups agree? Hugo and Nebula voters pick the same novel a little under half the time. There’s less convergence as word count shrinks. Novellas, novelettes, and short stories are each less likely to win both awards.
Count of Shared Hugo and Nebula Wins by Decade and Category
With poetry’s abundant candidates, I suspect nominations and votes will root far and wide. Thao Worra agrees that one poem is unlikely to win everything, “and that’s good for the field,” he says.
If the Hugos do not adopt poetry long term, then the awards from SFPA and SFWA will be the top tastemakers for individual speculative poems written in English. It will be interesting to see how the distinct-yet-overlapping communities agree and disagree on “The Best.”
Looking Forward
What else can I say other than “I hope you participate”?
Poetry is brevity, gravity, and line breaks. It is the good kind of dangerous. It can shatter your world and open new universes—parallel, perpendicular, and oblique.
Read.
Celebrate.
Vote!
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Brian U. Garrison (he/him) writes poetry for children, adults, and grand adults. He has been a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) since 2012 and was elected President in 2025. He joined SFWA in 2023. His work on the Rhysling Awards includes co-editing the anthology (2022, 2024), leading the effort to add a jury process, and shepherding volunteers. He is a program volunteer with Seattle Worldcon 2025 but is not part of the awards team. Brian’s chapbooks include New Yesterdays New Tomorrows (self-published) and Micropoetry for Microplanets (Space Cowboy Books). He lives under a tall, leafy tree in Portland, Oregon. More at www.bugthewriter.com.
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Hop on board for author Matthew Kressel’s newest ride through the galaxy, Space Trucker Jess. In this Big Idea as he takes you through not only his writing process for this particular story, but on a journey through a high-concept sci-fi world viewed through the eyes of a teenage girl.
MATTHEW KRESSEL:
I was a feral kid. Both my parents worked full-time jobs, and I’d come home to an empty house. I had no supervision. I went off with friends and we, ahem, did things. Stupid things. Really fucking stupid things. And when I look back on those days I’m like, How the hell did I make it out alive?
But that freedom was glorious. You could do whatever you wanted. Go anywhere. You had the feeling that anything could happen. And it often did. The good and the bad.
That’s the kind of feeling I hope to evoke in Space Trucker Jess. The joy and spontaneity of discovery. In my childhood, we got into trouble all around the neighborhood. In my novel, Jess gets into hijinx across the galaxy.
Like Jess herself, I began the book with a simple premise: Screw the “rules.”
In my past stories and novels, I labored over every paragraph, sentence, word, and punctuation mark until I’d wound myself into a Gordian knot a million words long. In Jess, I felt the need to loosen the bridles, to let my idea run wild, like that feral kid who got into trouble around the neighborhood. What emerged was Jess, a take-no-shit foul-mouthed kick-ass teenaged girl who’s smart as hell, caring and empathetic, who solves problems not with violence but with brains and determination. Though too often for her own good, Jess’s curiosity gets her into trouble. Big trouble.
Think Natasha Lyonne narrating 2001: A Space Odyssey.
There’s lots of high-concept SF, and, yeah, Space Trucker Jess has all the tropes: starships and FTL travel, alien gods, missing planets, galactic secrets. But I wanted to tell the story a different way. Not from an omniscient or a dry and distant third person, but from deep in the point of view of a sensitive and expressive girl who’s journeyed across the Milk and back a thousand times and who knows more about starships than most people know their own nose.
And so you get high philosophy and fart jokes. Orthodox religion and irreverent sacrilege. Weird inscrutable aliens and deadbeat dads. All told from a foul-mouthed over-confident, wicked-smart and sometimes willfully naive girl who just wants, at the end of the day, to be left the hell alone.
Space Trucker Jess is also about identity. I wrote a good chunk of the book during the first Covid lockdowns. Cut off from friends and family, from work and all the many inter-personal relationships I took for granted, I felt my sense of self drifting. Without those external interactions reflecting my identity back to me, I didn’t know who I was anymore. It was very disconcerting.
A lot of that experience makes its way into the book. Jess’s worldview expands enormously throughout the novel, sometimes suddenly and violently, and she is forced to reckon with a new sense of self and a greater awareness.
Also, Space Trucker Jess is about family. Jess loves her deadbeat dad, and she and him have been grifting their way across the galaxy for years. But she knows he’s an asshole, he knows he’s an asshole, but she just can’t let him go. The relationship is, from the start, highly dysfunctional. Jess just wants stability, away from him. But getting away is harder than it sounds. Without getting too personal, I had a lot of turbulence in my childhood home, and I wanted to explore the contrasts between the family we’re born with and the family we choose, and how those dynamics can alter the course of our entire lives, for better or worse.
So if you want to go on a fun adventure alongside a bad-ass genius girl head-firsting her way through the galaxy who’s just looking for some peace in an uncaring universe, while encountering alien gods, missing planets, galactic secrets, and more, well then, Space Trucker Jess might just be your ride.
Space Trucker Jess: Amazon|Barnes & Noble|Bookshop|Powell’s
Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, OC, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, John Sheppard
Pairings: Rodney/John
Categories: slash, pov outsider, hurt/comfort, future fic
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Words: 4,231
Author's Journal:
lavvyanAuthor's Website: lavvyan on AO3
Link fic: The Matchmaker
Link: podfic
Author’s summary: Nelan goes to see the Matchmaker.
Why This Must Be Read: I love stories with a sensitive, loving outsider POV on Rodney, and this one by the amazing lavvyan is one of the best. It’s beautifully written and an absolute joy to read. It starts like a fairy tale—neatly woven, with lovely, heartwarming world-building—and quickly adds the shadow of something horrible that has happened. You’ll get to see how Rodney has adapted, still being his unique, unmistakable self.
This story will get under your skin, break your heart a little, and make you feel deeply for Rodney, seen through the eyes of a wonderful, sweet OC. It’s an outstanding piece, and there's also an equally outstanding podfic by cookiemom6067 that adds beautifully to the experience.
I can promise you a heart-wrenching, deeply moving, yet joyful happy ending.
And one thing: make sure to have some tissues nearby. Trust me — you'll need them!
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Have you ever had one of those places you want to go to, but never get around to checking out, and suddenly a year has passed and you’ve still never been? That’s how it was for me and Grist, a restaurant in downtown Dayton that I had heard about from so many people and had been meaning to get out to for literal months. Well, I finally made it happen, and I’m so glad I did.
Bryant and I were going out to dinner, and I asked him what kind of food he wanted. He picked Italian, which, in my opinion, is the hardest cuisine to get around this area. At least, good Italian, that is. There’s always Fazoli’s, and TripAdvisor has the audacity to label Marion’s Pizza as the number one Italian spot in the area, so pickings are slim for Italian ’round these parts. But I wanted something nicer than Spaghetti Warehouse.
Eventually my searching led me to Grist, which was labeled as Italian, and looked pretty dang amazing from the photos provided. Plus, I’d heard from numerous Daytonians in the past that they liked Grist, and I trust my sources. So, I made us a reservation for that evening, excited to try somewhere new.
Located on Fifth Street, it’s just down the street from the Oregon District, and close to the Dayton Convention Center. There’s a parking garage right across the street from it, and some street parking, too.
Upon walking in, the first thing I noticed was how bright and open it is. The large wall of windows let in so much natural light, and you immediately get to see all the baked goods in their glass display case.
I immediately loved the decor and vibe in Grist. It was like sort of rustic but nice at the same time. Like fancy Italian farmhouse vibes? It was really cute.
And there was even a selection of wine for purchase:
I didn’t get a shot of their other indoor dining area or their little patio, but it does have a super cute patio.
Grist has casual service, so you can either place your order at the counter or order at your table using your phone, and they bring the food out to your table. I chose to use my phone because there was a pretty steady flow of people ordering to-go stuff from the register.
Here’s what they were offering on their dinner menu:
It’s basically a law that you have to try a restaurant’s bread. The bread a restaurant offers is a window into all the rest of their food, and also into their soul. So we split the half loaf of rosemary and parmesan focaccia:
Bryant and I both loved the focaccia, and there was more than enough for both of us. The outside was just a little bit crispy and the bread inside was soft and chewy. It wasn’t overwhelmingly herbaceous, and was definitely worth the six dollars in my opinion. The only acceptable reason to not try this bread if you visit is if you’re gluten intolerant.
We also shared the house-made meatballs:
I can’t say I’m like, a huge meatball fan. I don’t really eat them that often and they’re not something I crave regularly or think about all that much. However, these meatballs were really yummy! I was impressed that there were five of them, and they were quite sizeable. I think the portion size is honestly pretty good. They definitely tasted like they were made fresh in-house, and had just the right amount of sauce on them. I would be more than happy to have a meatball marinara sub made with these meatballs.
And our final appetizer was the mushroom pate:
First off, I love how toasty the ciabatta was, it’s like the perfect shade for toast. The mushroom pate was packed to the brim with mushroomy, umami flavor. Total flavor bomb, and a little goes a long way. The pickled shallots added a wild contrast, and there was a lot of interesting textures. It was seriously delish.
To accompany the starters, I decided to try their sweet wine flight, which came with three wines for fourteen dollars:
I can’t remember what the red one was, but the two whites are a Riesling and a sparkling Moscato. I did not care for the red at all, in my opinion it wasn’t even remotely sweet, but I generally prefer white anyway so maybe it just wasn’t my cup of tea (or wine, I suppose). Normally I like Rieslings but this one was kind of a miss for me, too. The Moscato was the bomb dot com though. I loved the bubbles and the sweetness level was perfect. It was so smooth and delish, I ended up polishing that one off but didn’t really drink the other two.
Choosing an entree was pretty dang tough, but Bryant ended up picking the Cacio e Pepe Orecchiette:
I absolutely loved the presentation of this dish, and I’m a huge risotto fan, but I honestly didn’t care for this dish. It just really didn’t taste like much to me, but then again I only had one bite and Bryant said he really liked it, so maybe it was a me issue. I’m glad he enjoyed it!
I opted for the Sweet Corn Agnolotti:
I actually wasn’t sure what type of pasta agnolotti was, but it’s basically just a stuffed pasta, kind of like a ravioli. These little dudes were stuffed with a delicious, creamy filling that I totally burned the frick frack out of my tongue on. They had a great corn flavor, you could definitely tell it was sweet corn. I noticed on the menu it also said it had black truffle in it but I actually didn’t notice any truffle flavor at all, so that’s kind of odd. I really enjoyed my entree, and I think next time I’d like to try the squid ink pasta since I still have yet to try squid ink.
Of course, we had to save room for dessert, and you can’t eat an Italian dinner without ending it with tiramisu:
Funny enough, Bryant’s favorite dessert is tiramisu, so he definitely wasn’t gonna pass this up. He was kind enough to let me try a bite, and I feel confident saying it’s a pretty good tiramisu! It was creamy and rich, and honestly didn’t have any sort of alcohol-y boozy type flavor. No complaints, solid tiramisu.
I went with the apricot and passionfruit tart with pepita crust:
Oh my DAYS! This bloody thing was loaded with flavor. Holy cannoli this thing literally punched my tastebuds into next week! The passionfruit flavor is absolutely bonkers on this sucker. Don’t get me wrong, it was delicious. It was sweet and tart and the crust was awesome and the meringue on top was fantastic and wow. Seriously wow. It took me three separate tries to eat this after I took it home, because I would take one bite and be like, okay that’s plenty for now. But don’t misunderstand me, it is very good!
Before leaving, I simply had to get one of their incredible looking cookies to take home, and I picked the white chocolate pineapple one:
This cookie was dense, chewy, perfectly sweet with pieces of pineapple throughout, and the flaky sea salt on top really was the cherry on top, or I guess it was the flaky sea salt on top (I know, it’s not a funny joke). Definitely pick up a cookie on your way out, you won’t regret it!
Grist is open Tuesday-Saturday for lunch and dinner, with a break in between the two. You can make reservations for dinner but not for lunch, and you can order online for lunch but not for dinner. While I was there I learned that Grist also hosts cooking classes on Sundays, so that’s neat! I’d love to check one out sometime.
All in all, Grist was a great experience. Though we didn’t have waiters and whatnot, the service we got from the people at the counter and from the chefs that brought our plates out was extremely friendly, and also the food came out really quickly. We both really loved the food and the vibes, and I also like the prices. I definitely want to come back and try pretty much everything I didn’t get to this first time around.
Have you tried Grist before? Which dish looks the best to you? Do you have any recommendations for nice Italian places in Dayton? Let me know in the comments, and have a great day! And be sure to follow Grist on Instagram.
-AMS
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
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Top 3 Songs (via last.fm)
- 1&Only - XLOV
- RIGHT THERE! - Lil Nas X
- Abracadabra - Lady Gaga
Books Read: Even Though I Knew The End by CL Polk
Shows Watched: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 10, Taskmaster Season 19
Concerts Seen: Honey Revenge
Life is Lifing
( suggies and social stuff )
Watching
Are y'all watching Taskmaster series 19?? I'm genuinely gonna be so sad when it's over. Taskmaster is sometimes hit or miss for me, but this might be my favorite cast they've ever had. Agent Pimento (I know his real name is Jason but he is Pimento to me) is truly the greatest representation America has ever had, and Fatiha has had me wheeze laughing at least once per episode.
Music Zone
( Honey Revenge )
( XLOV SUPREMACY WE STAN FOREVER )
Rec Category: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Categories: M/M
Words: 1719
Warnings: no AO3-type warnings apply
Authors on DW:
lavvyan, temarisAuthors' Website: lavvyan on AO3, temaris on AO3, terialk on the Audiofic Archive
Link: Routines on LJ (backup)
Missing scene on LJ (backup)
podfic by terialk of both parts here
Why This Must Be Read: Routines is a charming fic featuring Atlantis's AI subroutines and their relationship to Rodney, with John and Rodney's relationship implied. That fic is from the POV of the city's self-defence AI while Rodney's battling a catastrophic fault in an overloading naquadah generator. In the Missing Scene (co-authored with
temaris) we're in John's POV - his feelings and helplessness from outside the room, where Rodney's locked him out. The sentient AIs are interesting, and it all works out very satisfactorily.( snippet of fic )
July 4 is most of a week away, so I was not anticipating that outside my hotel window last night would be a full-fledged professional fireworks display. But it turns out the hotel I was at, was next door to a Masonic Temple compound, and I guess they had some premature patriotic fervor. Inasmuch as I got a free fireworks show I didn’t even need to leave my hotel room for (and it ended early enough that I didn’t lose any sleep over it), I suppose I can’t complain.
Back at home now. Not anticipating a fireworks display tonight. We’ll see if that prediction holds.
— JS
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