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Title: 'Cursed Silence'
Author:

but_can_i_be_trusted
Fandom: Original Fiction
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Notes: Using Challenge #22: Steampunk AU, Challenge #29: Decade-Specific AU, and Challenge #47: Coffee Shop & All Variants AU. Crossposted to

genprompt_bingo.
Summary: "So. They finally took an assistant for me, did they," I heard a voice mutter.

( Cursed Silence )

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( The Pitt 2.12 )

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bluapapilio

Summary: Follows the life of a hero who manages to win all battles with only one punch. This ability seems to frustrate him as he no longer feels the thrill and adrenaline of fighting a tough battle, which leads to him questioning his past desire to be strong.

Maan I should've known I was going to have to start over from the beginning. I feel between the manga, webcomic and anime I should remember more than I do...

Chapter 1-2: Saitama's origin story. He got turned down for a job and decided nothing matters anymore, but he runs into a monster after a boy and ends up helping without thinking. He remembers his childhood dream of becoming a hero.

After winning the fight, he trains so hard he loses his hair but gains invincible power. He soon realizes that his heart now feels empty.

Chapter 3: Took down siblings, one made the other a giant killing machine.

Chapter 4: Had a dream there were monsters strong enough to challenge him. Honestly if Saitama wants to keep capturing that rush he should learn lucid dreaming.

Chapter 5: Worrying about how he's becoming emotionally numb. "I feel no fear, no joy, no excitement nor anger."

On the back of that there's a hilarious moment where Saitama can't squash a mosquito because it keeps escaping. 😂 Saitama lives in Z City where a demon level mosquito lady attacks.

Genos's first appearance!

Chapter 6: I love how Saitama reacted to Genos telling him about the mosquitos. "That's bad, isn't it? Let's run for i-..." Even for an invincible man mosquitos are still a Nope.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Genos's body is way too fragile...

I love Saitama took out the mosquito lady with a slap like he was trying to do with the mosquito from earlier.

Chapter 7: Genos shares his entire life story in two paragraphs... 4 years ago a cyborg attacked his village. His brain had been damaged during the transplant. Genos was the only survivor out of his family but he had to be put in a cyborg body.

He says 'Dr. Stench' passed by his town on accident to stop the cyborg, but what if he's the one who made the cyborg and he felt guilty and that's why he helped Genos?

We may have found out more later I just don't remember;;

'House of Evolution', where the mosquito lady came from, wants to study Saitama.

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chazzbanner

I finally went to the Apple Store in Southdale and bought a new iPad.

And I'm exhausted.

Yes, I think the two things are connected. I've been fretting about the Apple Store visit for a couple of months - kept putting it off, often with rather bogus weather-related excuses.

It's just like... the tension going away... wiped me out. I'm trying to stay awake until my usual bedtime.

It isn't perfect: the email isn't working on the iPad. According to the web, I need to delete the email connection, rebook the iPad, and enter the information again.

I'll that, but not right way. I need to just breathe a bit.

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Lilah: I'm starting to like you, Wes. Don't go making more of this than it is. I'm not one of the doe-y eyed girls of Angel Investigations. - Don't be thinking about me when I'm gone.
Wesley: I wasn't thinking about you when you were here.

~~Tomorrow~~

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I felt bad for casting aspersions on Wonder Man without watching it properly so I went back and watched the first two episodes. It's not as bad as I originally thought though it does fail the test, "Would I Watch This If It Weren't the MCU?"

( Extremely mild spoilers for the first two episodes of Wonder Man behind the cut )

Hollywood loves to make movies about itself but they're only occasionally successful at the box office. Here's my top ten list:

10. Tropic Thunder
9. The Other Side of the Wind
8. All About Eve
7. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
6. In a Lonely Place
5. Inland Empire
4. Sullivan's Travels
3. Sunset Boulevard
2. Singin' In the Rain
1. Mulholland Drive

Wonder Man is available on Disney+.

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Current Location: Hollywood
Current Music: "Little Geneva" - Muddy Waters

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Show: SGA

Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex
Pairings: Rodney/John
Categories: slash, emotional hurt/comfort
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Words: 9,562
Author's Journal:

sgatazmy
Author's Website: Tazmy on AO3
Link Fic: A Good Enough Timeline
Link Podfic: mp3

Author's summary: Years after Elizabeth stepped through the gate to her demise, Atlantis is a thriving city in a hopeful future. Rodney, however, still struggles with Elizabeth’s loss and his role in her death. He’s determined to go back and save her.
But at what point does he stop trying to change the timeline and accept the one he’s in? Can John convince him before it's too late?

Why This Must Be Read: The emotional aftermath of losing Elizabeth, and Rodney's stubborn, even desperate attempt to set things right—risking everything, struggling with John over desire and reality, their relationship on the line—almost broke my heart.
It’s written with so much love for Rodney and John, with such thoughtfulness and insight—it offers you a new perspective and makes you really reflect on the deeper nature of life and fate, of right and wrong.
This isn't about a lighthearted fix-it or an easy way out, but a beautiful ode to conviction and dedication, hopes and boundaries, denial and acceptance, friendship and love.
Don't miss out on it!

There's also a wonderful podfic of this fic, beautifully read by Tazmy herself. I add the link here too.

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Lost my uncle-in-law. He was over 100, yes; it was expected. And yet.

isabrella

We have to talk about how this album is going to be so good... Renee songwriting & vocals credit... I love them your honour.

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isabrella

I've decided to try getting out a cookbook and trying a few different recipes from a specific cuisine. I get a box of random vegetables delivered every week so it's somewhat dictated by seasonality and also access to specific ingredients, but so far it's been fun. Last week, I had Zaitoun: Recipes and Stories from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan (this recipe: p. 112).
I actually was surprised at how much I liked this! I got a little bit over pumpkin soup a while ago (by a while I think it was actually pre-covid so. QUITE a while ago) and have only made Thai pumpkin soup once or twice since then. And one of those times I put way too much chili for my tastes 😭 Anyway, the maftool in this was a really interesting addition and made it a bit different to other soups.

(Serves 4-6)
Ingredients

1 kg pumpkin peeled and cut into 2 cm chunks
4 Tbsp olive oil
50 g maftool (large couscous)
30 g salted butter
1 onion, finely chopped
2 crushed garlic cloves
1/2 tsp ground ginger
8 sage leaves, 4 finely chopped and 4 whole
750 mL vegetable/chicken stock
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 200C/180C fan bake.
Place the pumpkin on a large baking tray and drizzle with 2 Tbsp of olive oil and bake for 25 min or until soft.
Cook the maftool in a pot of boiling water according to packet instructions (toast in a bit of oil and then use the amount of water designated on the packet). Drain and set aside.
Heat the remaining olive oil and the butter in a saucepan and fry the onion for 10 minutes.
Add the garlic, ginger, chopped sage, and cook for a further 2 minutes.
Then add the cooked pumpkin, stock, salt, pepper, and cook for 5 minutes to bring the flavours together.
Take the soup off the heat and roughly blend it with a handheld blender, leaving some chunky bits in for texture.
Make the topping by crispy frying the sage leaves. Stir these through the maftool and season with 1/2 tsp salt.
Serve soup topped with maftool and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil if desired.

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I made three entire collages this week, and rejected the first two of them. I guess they were aesthetically fine, but they were about subjects I'd touched on before, and I was dissatisfied that I was saying anything new and didn't feel like rehashing everything.

My problem was partly that I didn't feel I had much to work with this week, because I fell ill partway through the week, and everything dissolved into that. At first, I was afraid I had contracted Covid, as some of the symptoms matched. Everything became a blur, and I was barely able to care for myself (Eric, bless him, did do an emergency grocery run for me). I did order Covid tests from the drugstore and had them delivered, but I kept testing negative.

After three days of blurred and surreal misery, I recovered. Eventually, I decided it was just a particularly virulent general bug with a heaping side of extremely gross gastrointestinal effects.

Okay, not very interesting to do yet another collage about being sick, either. But what particularly struck me about falling ill this time was how very helpless and isolated I felt. And that, more than the illness itself, is what I tried to capture in the images I used.

I experimented with technical effects to do this, extracting the figure on the bed and mixing it with an image of bare tree branches, and then overlaying the result back over the same position on the bed (keeping the bed itself in clear focus). I then used the same tree branches as a scrim overlay in the background. I was trying to capture the sense of dissolving, the fear that I might actually fade into nothingness and not be able to come back.

I did come back. This time.

I always have a lurking fear that I won't manage to do so the next time.

Image description: Foreground: a woman lies on a bed, either asleep or ill. The bed is focused but the woman is indistinct, as if run through by cracks. Background above the bed: the blurred image of a woman with closed eyes, overlaid by a scrim of semitransparent leafless branches.

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conuly

( Minor season 5 spoiler )

I actually have a similar thought about the most recent episode I watched of Young Sherlock, ( Read more... )

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michifugu

wow a lot of government are so persistent to add “Age Verification” I am sure it's because they wanted to protect children safety not because they wanted to implement digital surveillances or being lobbied by big tech company to sell our data for ads!

bluapapilio

[Fanfic] [Supergirl | Supercorp main] You & Me & Holiday Wine - Holiday and beyond AU and everything you could ask for with these two character in novel form. Recommended even if you haven't seen Supergirl and want some great F/F. (100k/9hr).

Youtuber: Magic By Mikaila - Wonderful skits!! Various fandoms but Percy Jackson and Twilight are two off the top of my head.

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tyger

Soooo this evening my neighbour came over to let me know that we have a water leak in the front yard. (Again.) I actually saw it was super boggy yesterday, I just thought it was the rain! I mean, it's boggy out back, too, so...

Anyway, it's not the tap itself this time, but it's something around there. So I had to turn the water off at the mains, which is... less than convenient. And I'll need to call the plumber in the morning. Boooooo. (Luckily we have water in the tank again, so at least the toilets still flush!)

So, that meant I didn't get any stripping work done this evening - I do NOT want to mess with paint stripper without a ready source of water on hand in case of spills etc. But I DID do a bunch of sanding with the electric sander this afternoon, and I got a LOT done there. (I just had to stop due to noodle arms needing a break, and then it was too dark, alas.)

As it turns out the sandpaper I had on was almost at the end of its life; once it became obviously dead and I switched it out stuff went a LOT faster. So hopefully tomorrow I can get all the rest of the stuff the electric sander can reach done! And then strip the rest if possible, because even with the electric sander it takes A While to get enough paint off, so with the hand sander my arms are gonna be SO sore...

My cocoa and other baking supplies finally came today, too! Ended up taking like a week from when I ordered it, but that's okay, it's here now! So I made some more zucchini bread! I'll take a loaf over to the neighbours tomorrow in thanks, I think. :3 From the piece I had I don't think the chocolate buttons are as good as the choc chips, so next time I might smash them into bits before adding them, that might help. Experiments!!!

I really should try and flip my sleep schedule, btw. It's cold again, why am I staying awake through the coldest hours and sleeping through the warmer ones, this is stupid...

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Current Location: Birthplace

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The sunset last weekend looked very simple, but I liked its casual glow stretched on the clouds. Less than 10 minutes later my partner called me to come look at the sky and the red in it was astonishing.

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conuly

In a random reddit thread this time.

Truly, people will never, ever stop complaining about the man.

Also on reddit: "This is an old book" but also "snapchat was mentioned". Uh....

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bluapapilio

"Ai ga Aru Nara Ii Janai /
It's All Good as Long as There's Love"

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Summary: A manga picking up Yoshinaga and Takao's story a few years later. Takao, now a college graduate, starts up a small business with ex-classmates. However, the life of an adult is not what be expected it to be ultimately leaving him with his newly found inner turmoil.

My comments: Another time skip. Takao works with Ozawa and Miyata selling imported goods, the two look different now and are lovey-dovey.

Yoshinaga has been busy studying for work and Takao starts to feel restless and insecure, so he brings it up but Yoshinaga dismisses him, prompting Takao to leave.

I don't think it fully addressed everything it needed to but I still liked the message that you don't get to decide for your partner if you're worth it, and you don't have to be some ideal of perfect to be with your partner especially if you're trying to be better.

I think the art is starting to change a bit now since the publish date is going up. I wasn't big on how Ozawa and Miyata look now.

My rating: 7.5/10

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Theme Prompt: #294 – Pining
Title: So Far From Home
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Scott misses his home and family, longs to get back to them, but perhaps he’s not the only one pining for everything they’re missing.

( So Far From Home... )

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Current Location: my desk

muccamukk

RAYE's This Album May Contain Hope has dropped. I have a three-hour plus bus trip to visit my parents. I'm going to put it on repeat.

serafaery

henna on my head.

been very productive and active today and got through EVERYthing, including cooking healthy meals for myself AND Josh this morning - it made me late departing to work but I still somehow was able to get ready on time, luckily! - all my orders shipped, been reading the Flourishing book all day and downloaded their app - omg I need HELP lol, I have a LOT of work to do on all of the pillars of well being (Awareness, Connection, Insight, Purpose) but the only one I got a good score on was connection. I thought I was a relatively aware and insightful person with at least some sense of purpose but apparently not! Maybe this is partly because I took the quiz in the middle of my lunch break at work lol.

Anyway, took a much needed nap when I got home from work, rinsed off the chicken eggs from up the street so Josh won't fear them (he's a little squeamish about unrinsed eggies), played with Avalanche, made myself a beautiful healthy dinner, I did eat crackers today but not too crazy much, and everything else was super healthy. (collard greens with beets and mushrooms, drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with hemp seeds and unfortified nutritional yeast, this was part of both lunch and dinner, along with my usual greek yogurt with fruit bowl in the morning with walnuts and cinnamon and goji berries, snacks were one of the farm eggs with rosemary, a banana, two tiny apples, sweet potatoes with organic pasture butter with my dinner.)

I've been skipping afternoon coffee/lattes for the most part, maybe down to once a week at this point, and always before noon, having traded it for collagen coffee in the late morning after my first ritual cup that starts my day well before breakfast.

My morning ritual consists of brewing coffee while tidying up the kitchen and making sure everything is ready for Josh to make his breakfast, feeding Avalanche, and then sitting outside and doing a bit of appreciation and I'm adding a five minute loving kindness meditation in there, while listening to the birds, brushing Avalanche on my lap, and sipping my coffee. I put treats out for the shifty crows and they scold us until we leave, too skittish to come while we are there.

Meanwhile the crows at the Overlook House practically land on my head, asking for cashews, lol.

Granted: they've known me a lot longer.

Skipped work on taxes but I feel like Shadowplay is more important, tonight. I genuinely believe I can finish them tomorrow after work, or Saturday with Josh's help at the very latest. He decided not to go back to Smith Rock to climb this weekend so he'll be around.

I think we should celebrate once I file with a visit to the Ole Bolle troll on Sunday :) Have some mindfulness matcha tea and I can do my awareness practice. :)

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Name:

ragdoll
Age group:Legally 60s, mentally 20s, physically 100s
Country: US
Subscription/Access Policy: It's been awhile since I've been on here so I'm probably pretty good about mutual access and subscriptions as long as people are the same. I have filters on here that are probably utterly null and void, so will probably be an open book for at least most of it.

Main Fandoms:

Star Trek: pretty much all of them except maybe VOY since it's never been my thing. TOS, DS9 and LD are my top contenders. I cosplay Commander Pelia, girl!Booklet, and my ancient TOS OC, plus I'm attempting to dress as an Andorian this year.

Doctor Who: I've been a DW fan since 1978 when I came across it by accident on BBC 1 in a hotel room in Stratford. My Doctors are: 4, 5, 8, 9, 11 and 12. I've met every one from Jon Pertwee through Jodie Whittaker, including Richard E Grant. I'm sure (I will meet Ncuti Gatwa some day.) I've met nearly every companion going back to Carole Anne Ford and William Russell, and through Millie Gibson. My unicorn is Karen Gillian. I thought I'd finally been able to cross her off my list at NYCC last year, but wound up having to cancel all my plans due to health stuff. 😭 I co-writer THE book on DW fandom in the US, am Masquerade director at Gallifrey One and LI Who. I also cosplay as 13, an Osgood, several versions of Donna Noble, and Joy Almondo plus I have a variant 13 who is mash up of 13 and Sylvi from Loki.

MCU especially Thor, Jane Foster, Loki, Ant-Man, Shang Chi, Natasha Romanov, Alexei, Trevor Slattery, the Vision-Maximoff family, Agatha Harkness, Lilia Calderu, Kamala Khan & family, Fantastic Four, OG Guardians of the Galaxy, Peggy Carter, and Black Panther. I was a Marvel comics fan for years, and the MCU just makes me very happy overall.

Star Wars: I've been a fan since I saw the first one in the theater (6 times) as a 14 year old in 1977. The OT is still near and dear to me. I don't hate any of the films although Rise of Skywalker is dreadful. Andor was brilliant. !ñ?I am, however, obsessed with The Mandalorian and Din Grogu. I'm counting the days until I get to see my little green jelly bean again.

The Beatles: I've been a Beatles fan since I was a kid. I love them dearly. I have been obsessed with George Harrison for the past 50 years. He's my Grumpy Pisces Fish. I'm currently working on a book of essays about women influenced by them.

Critical Role: A good friend introduced me to The Legend of Vox Machina animated show some time after the second season aired on Prime. I enjoyed it, but promptly forgot the plot. Did a rewatch when S3 was released, then S3 and promptly forgot again. I never watched the live play show because why would I want to watch other people play D&D? How boring! I want to play myself. I knew the cast was coming to NYCC last year, but I wasn't that interested in meeting them. I knew they were doing a live show at Radio City Music Hall which was a wedding of two characters, one of which I was aware of thanks to some people doing a C2/Doctor Who cosplay mash up at Gallifrey years ago. I knew her name was Jester, she was a blue Tiefling, and people liked to cosplay her. Why would I want to go to get wedding? (Not that anyone asked me to go with) Then all of last year happened, and I had to cancel all my NYCC plans since I could barely walk due to multiple spinal surgeries over the summer.

(I'm getting to the point, I promise!) In November, The Mighty Nein started airing on Prime and the same CR obsessed friend promoted me to watch it. I grudgingly agreed to it. And within about 10 minutes of episode 1, I fell in love. It was like the D&D version of Guardians of the Galaxy for me. I got those characters. I fell in love with Jester and Fjord and Nott The Brave (no comma). I was blown away by episode 5. Once MN was over, I rewatched VM again...and hadn't remembered anything about it except for the characters and how pervy Scanlan was. I then started reading up on all the campaigns, watched the live wedding and cried, watched a few other one offs. My friend then pushed me to catch up on Campaign 4 during their holiday break, so I powered through 9 or 10 4-hour shows, and somewhere right after the overture, I fell in love with the entire Soldiers table. Then the Seekers table. And now the Schemers table. My friend and I now do watches "together" long distance every Thursday at 10 pm EST. Then talk a lot about theories etc. I've also developed crushes on basically the whole cast. Bi panic powers activate!

Other Fandoms: David Bowie, Muppets, Quantum Leap, Leverage/Leverage Redemption, Monty Python/the Rutles/Fawlty Towers, Twin Peaks, ASoIaF/House of the Dragon/A Knight of Seven Kingdoms, Barbie, Cozy mysteries, historical mysteries, Rolling Stones, 1960s music, 1980s (new wave, punk) music, HandMade Films, Steven Moffat shows, Death in Paradise, Big Bang Theory-verse, TTRPGs, RuPaul's Drag Race (US, Canada, UK, Down Undah etc), costume dramas (Upstairs Downstairs, I Claudius, Downton Abbey, Gilded Age, Murdoch Mysteries, Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries,Bookish, All Creatures etc)

Fannish Interests: Conventions, being on discussion panels, cosplay, some podcasts (I miss being on one regularly), former fan fic writer, former runner of online Fannish communities, former runner of fan fic/fan art exchanges, and other prompt challenge communities, discussion on social media, pro writer of reviews in essay form, travel to filming locations, making new friends, buying dolls or toys, reading tie-in novels/short stories etc

OTPs and Ships: Jester/Fjord, Tony/Pepper, Thor/Jane, Steve/Peggy, Carole/Val, Daemon/Rhaenyra, Wanda/Vision, Agatha/Rio, Amy/Rory, Doctor (esp 8, 11, 12 and 13)/River, Sophie/Harry Wilson, Parker/Hardison, probably others but I'm not that invested in shipping these days. Oh and George/my OC.

Favourite Movies: Singin' in the Rain, A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine, Labyrinth, Muppet Treasure Island, American in Paris, The Producers, Hairspray (not the musical!), Les Girls, Time Bandits, Withnail & I, Star Wars OT, Thor/Dark World/Ragnarok, Ant-Man, Black Panther, First Avenger, Winter Soldier, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, Knives Out, Back to the Future 1 & 2, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Forbidden Planet, Kind Hearts & Coronets, RHPS, Shang Chi & the Legend of the 10 Rings, Fantastic Four: First Steps, Casablanca, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Court Jester, Life of Brian, Head, Deadpool & Wolverine, Valley Girl, What We Do In The Shadows, Down With Love

TV Shows: Aside from the already mentioned: WandaVision, Agatha All Along, Elsbeth, Psych, Monk, Poker Face, The West Wing, The Newsroom, Firefly, X-Men 97, Xena, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Wednesday, Bridgerton, anything by Sally Wainwright, Renegade Nell, Wonder Man, Creature Commandos, Young Sheldon, Rutland Weekend Television, Murphy Brown, Frasier, Coupling, Midsomer Mysteries, Marlow Murder Club, Sherlock, Miss Scarlet, Beyond Paradise, Ted Lasso, Shrinking,The Boys,The Venture Brothers, White Collar, Brokewood Mysteries, Shakespeare & Hathaway, Inspector Morse, Endeavour, Interview with the Vampire/Vampire Lestat, Sandman, Dead Boy Detectives, Good Omens

Books: Roman Sub Rosa series, A Free Man of Colour series, Harry Dresden, Hitchhikers Guide etc by Douglas Adams, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Foundation Trilogy, Tusk Love, anything by Dickens except Great Expectations

Music Beatles, Stones, Bowie, The Who, Pete Townsend solo, Blondie, the Cure, Depeche Mode, Pretenders, the Monkees, Fleetwood Mac, Kate Bush, thenewno2, Karen Elson, movie scores, big band, klezmer, Tschaikowsy, Mozart, Beethoven, Leonard Bernstein, Broadway original cast albums: The Producers, Spamalot, Hairspray, Rocky Horror Show, Something Rotten, Man from La Mancha

Games: I don't really play games other than ttrpgs

Comics/Anime/Misc: Sandman, Marvel in general esp 1980s X-Men, The Mighty Thor (Jane Foster), Watchmen, Unthinkables and related titles, Hearteater, some other indy titles, Blue Eye Samurai

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osprey_archer

I showed up at

asakiyume’s place just a couple of days before St. Patrick’s Day, so we decided it would be the perfect time to catch up on the latest movies released by the Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, still perhaps most famous for its first movie The Secret of Kells.

We perhaps should have saved Wolfwalkers for St. Patrick’s Day itself, as it’s actually set in Ireland. Young Robyn Goodfellowe has just arrived in Ireland with her father, a professional hunter who has been hired by Oliver Cromwell to eliminate the wolves in the nearby woods. Once the wolves have been driven out, the wild woods can be cut down and converted to farmland, thus by proxy also taming the wild Irish people.

Young Robyn is supposed to stay home and do chores, but in classic heroine mode, she would much rather dash about the woods hunting with her father. Unable to accompany him on his hunt, she instead goes into the woods on her own, and accidentally falls into one of her own father’s snares!

Robyn is released by mischievous young wolfwalker Mebh, and they spend a happy day frolicking through the forest together. But in the process of releasing Robyn from the trap, Mebh nipped her. And that night when she falls asleep, Robyn’s spirit rises from her body in the form of a wolf…

Absolutely gorgeous animation. I particularly loved all the sequences featuring the wolfwalkers in wolf form, particularly the eerily beautiful image of Robyn’s wolf-spirit frantically trying to return to her body when the whole town is attempting to hunt down this wolf that inexplicably got into the town walls.

I was also impressed ( spoilers )

The animation in My Father’s Dragon wasn’t quite as lovely, or rather didn’t have quite as many opportunities for numinous loveliness. But I also enjoyed it, which surprised me because I didn’t particularly like the book it’s based on and likely wouldn’t have tried it if it weren’t Cartoon Saloon.

The book (also called My Father’s Dragon) is a straightforward tale about a boy going to an island where he defeats and/or escapes various ferocious animals (crocodiles, tigers etc) in order to rescue a baby dragon. The end. A brisk recitation of a series of events without much character development or worldbuilding of the island or anything else.

The moviemakers clearly realized that in order to stretch the story to feature-length, character development and worldbuilding and so forth was just exactly what they’d need. The result is a much richer story, where the various ferocious animals are no longer basically an obstacle course but characters with their own motivations. Also, the human protagonist meets the baby dragon much earlier, which changes his journey from a solo quest into a sort of heartwrenching buddy comedy.

The filmmakers were trying very hard, and unfortunately sometimes you could see the gears grinding as they strained to get the emotional effect they wanted, which of course serves to undermine that effect. But still, an ambitious “shot for the moon and landed among the stars,” which is still a pretty decent place to land.

dolorosa_12

It's been a challengingly busy week (if I owe you comments, I will get to them at some point this weekend, sorry), and my brain is a bit rubbish at coming up with a prompt this time around, so I'm going with the following:

What is the most memorable icebreaker question you've been asked, in any context?

james_davis_nicoll

Two teens are forced to consider each other's point of view.

Flip by Ngozi Ukazu

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Wednesday was just another snowy spring day when this guy showed up!

OMG! A Northern shrike!!!

I was upstairs in my office when I heard the budgies flapping and didn't see the problem at first.

Then I saw this beautiful, but deadly bird!

He flew at the window and scared the budgies again, so I moved the cage away. He sat there for a good long time and flew away. He was not bothered at all by me standing right at the window looking at him.

Shrikes impale small birds and animals "for later", so I'm going to keep an eye on my bird feeder because I don't want my rose bush to become a graveyard. I haven't seen it again so far today, so perhaps the snow derailed his travel plans like everyone else lately.

Black and grey bird sitting on a bird feeder hook

pauraque

Back in 2008 the creators of Homestar Runner released a short escape-the-room Flash game starring Strong Bad's nebulously-defined private eye/crooked cop alter ego, Dangeresque. I played it, it was fun. Then in 2023 they revamped the original game and re-released it with two brand new episodes, so of course I bought that, and it sat in my Steam library for a year. Then they threw in a free DLC that added another episode, and it sat in my Steam library for two more years.

But this year I'm going to get my Steam backlog under control. This time for really real.

standing behind an office desk, dangeresque makes a sarcastic remark about really needing an unsolved stamp

standing behind an office desk, dangeresque makes a sarcastic remark about really needing an unsolved stamp

The first episode has Dangeresque trapped in his office until he can "solve" a cold case (i.e. fabricate evidence out of whatever's lying around). I think it's pretty close to the original Flash game, though I haven't played that in 18 years, so who knows. In the second episode, Dangeresque flees the scene but runs into car trouble (i.e. a bomb under the hood that he has to defuse). The trilogy wraps up with Dangeresque forced into an alliance with his gangster nemesis Perducci, whose other enemies are plotting to bump him off. Once you've beaten the three main episodes, you unlock the fourth, this time starring Homestar's alter ego Dangeresque Too as villanous goons have him trapped in an elevator. All told, it's about three hours of gameplay.

If you like Homestar Runner and you like point-and-click adventure games, you will like this. I do, and I did. The writing is funny, the puzzles are absurdist but fair, and if you blow yourself up the game just puts you right back where you were before you did the dumb thing you did. I would play ten more of these if they made them, though I can't guarantee I would play them within a punctual timeframe.

Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate is on Steam for $7.99 USD, and includes the free DLC.

marcicat

I feel ancient and slightly like I'm in some bizarre alternate reality any time someone in a work meeting earnestly explains that something is trending on tiktok and therefore we should care about it. But also social media trend fics are very funny to me when I'm very tired, what can I say?

Questions to ask your Husband when he is busy and/or tired, by CalmStorm

Shane - 7:41am
Can we get back to the issue here. I have no idea what I was supposed to do tonight.

Hayden - 7:42am
Idk just make it up

Shane - 7:42am
But won’t he know?

Hayden - 7:43am
If he doesn’t know what he needs to wear I’m sure he’ll survive a surprise.

sabotabby

There was a lot of great content this week but one particularly moved me, and that's Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff's "If Not Us Than Who: The Russian Partisans at War Against Putin." (Part 1, Part 2).

My biggest disagreement with people who I'm otherwise in political lockstep with is Ukraine. Most (North American) leftists are wrong about this. I know this because I have actually been to Ukraine (and Russia), not just in touristy areas, and they for the most part haven't and don't know what they're talking about and are generally basing their opinions on either Cold War nostalgia, residual anti-imperialist trauma, or the appalling behaviour of some diaspora Ukrainian communities. My shitlib position is that you shouldn't invade other people's countries and kill them because you want their land or resources. Even if—and this is critical when we're talking about Palestine or Iran too—you don't like them and some of them are bad people. If that makes me a NATO stooge or CIA asset so be it.

Margaret and guest Charles McBryde share my opinion and also argue with other leftists about this, so you already know I'm going to agree with them. (Though not totally—we are all leftists here after all.) And you know who else does? A fuck of a lot of Russians. These two episodes focus on the frankly heroic actions of the Russian activists who resist Putin's authoritarianism, including Ruslan Siddiqui, who is genuinely cool not just for his political convictions but with the truly brass balls panache with which he acted. Margaret refers to him as the most cyberpunk guy she's ever heard of and this is true. I should write to him.

Anyway, it's a really wild ride about how to resist authoritarianism when regular political channels are cut off, which is of relevance in Russia and only in Russia, given that it's the only country that disappears people off the streets, murders its dissidents, and cracks down on freedom of expression.

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Pyrotechnics and screaming.

regshoe

...on the back he saw a neat little résumé in Miss Pembroke’s handwriting, intended for such as him. “Allegory. Man = modern civilization (in bad sense). Girl = getting into touch with Nature.”

—The Longest Journey, chapter 12

~~Pan Pipes~~ The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories (1911) is a collection of various of E. M. Forster's short stories originally published in magazines over the previous decade or so; it is dedicated to The Independent Review, one of those magazines and evidently an Apostles/Bloomsbury project, which had ceased publication some time previously. The stories are a delight and I enjoyed them very much, but I fear an attempt to explain why risks falling into the triteness quoted above, or else perhaps the other, at least more entertaining, way of getting things right-but-wrong (or wrong-but-right) of Charles Sayle's view on 'The Story of a Panic', described by Forster in the essay 'My Books and I':

Then he showed Maynard what the story was about. B—— by a waiter at the hotel, Eustace commits bestiality with a goat on that valley where I had sat. In the subsequent chapters, he tells the waiter how nice it has been and they try to b—— each other again. [...] I was horrified and did not want to meet Charles Sayle. In after years I realised that in a stupid and unprofitable way he was right and that this was the cause of my indignation.

What shall I say about them, then? The stories, which may or may not be variously about Nature and b——y, are all more or less fantastical. The title story is meant very literally; it's about an omnibus that goes to Heaven (from Surbiton), and the bus is driven and Heaven peopled by famous authors and literary characters from through the ages. 'The Story of a Panic', 'The Road from Colonus' and 'The Curate's Friend' all feature classical themes; the first two are set in Italy and Greece respectively, while the Faun of the latter, haunting the hills of (of course) Wiltshire and usually 'only speaking to children' who forget him when they grow up, reminded me for a moment of Kipling's Puck, though Forster does more adult things with him. 'The Other Side of the Hedge' is also about Modern Civilisation and what it loses sight of, and is really more of an allegory than 'Other Kingdom', despite Agnes Pembroke's comment on the latter—for, what delighted me most of all in this collection, that story is (with a few minor alterations of detail) Rickie's story about the Dryad described in chapters 7 and 12 of The Longest Journey. Apparently Forster had written but not yet published it when he put it in the novel. Important and highly recommended reading for any Forster fan and anyone else who thinks this sort of thing sounds worthwhile.

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Fandom: MCU
Pairings/Characters: Loki, Thor
Rating: Gen
Length: 13k
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Theme: siblings, AU, fork in the road, character development, gen, politics, family,

Summary: "Because you are my brother," Thor told him.

(Politics and family on Asgard. A brotherly love story.)

Reccer's Notes: This goes AU just after the first Thor movie. It's a fascinating exploration of what might have been, and of Thor and Loki and Odin and what it means to be King of Asgard.

Fanwork Links: That Sheds His Blood With Me

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Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Pairings/Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Rating: teen
Length: 3k
Creator Links:

AJHall
Theme: siblings, family, gen, friendship, asexual characters, fandom classic

Summary: "Anyway. Enough of my embarrassing sibling brothel stories. Tell me yours."

A Sherlock conversation, over breakfast.

Reccer's Notes: I am shocked to find that this fic has not been recced before! This is a such a lovely picture of John and Sherlock's relationship, contrasted with Sherlock and Mycroft's relationship. (Not all sibling relationships are good or healthy.)

Fanwork Links: Breakfast at 221B

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https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/torchwood
Big Finish audio adventures: Torchwood is on sale if you want some adventures. Ianto adventures tend to be excellent. The range is going to end soon with adventure 100 and the cover for it is proper frightening, so I look forwards to it and want to hide behind the sofa about it in equal measure, as it should be.

Mostly I have just been going very slowly at listening to Torchwood, since once I have listened them all there shall be no more to listen. Which is sad, but, how many shows get over a hundred extra episodes after they're off the TV, even as audios? Pretty awesome.

https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/torchwood-salvage-2997 is not Ianto but is by Gareth David Lloyd, and he does the voice for the AI of the SUV.

It is not my favourite of his works. ( Read more... )
So it is a story with some theme and strengths.

But I'm having a bunch of feelings about it and
mostly want to go back and relisten to more familiar audios
which is part of what the feelings is about.

I don't know how any of you would react to it.

Or what an honest review type rating would look like.

It's a story about Torchwood as we knew it being on the scrap heap and the feelings it brings up aren't the fun sort, but it tells what it sets out to and makes you have a bunch of feelings, so fair enough.

I am feeling like I'd rather go play a story where a scary monster gets put back in its box, but the ones about grief and the passage of time and facing up to difficult truths definitely have a place as well.

crantz

My movie list is now at 210 entries - I'd be adding The Barbarian Brothers tonight but I got exhausted at minute 39 and rainchecked the bff for tomorrow night. Finally some oiled hunk content though. A man has needs.

We were going to watch Shin Godzilla tonight (the Movie Pals, which consist of me, Ann, and Vali) but I discovered a Lovecraft movie by Roger Corman was leaving Prime in a few days so we switched to The Dunwich Horror starring Dean Stockwell and Sandra Dee. Sandra Dee's hair kept increasing in size as a dominance thing and Dean Stockwell had an amazing style of line reading. Also he has very pretty eyes. I was pleased/surprised they thanked me for the movie choice after. That was nice! I liked that.

The slump is sort of being overcome, since last post.

I bought 48 cadbury creme eggs because it turns out you can just buy the box they take the singles out of before they open it. Follow me for more life hacks.

I've been roleplaying a lot in City of Heroes lately, something I never did outside of close friends before and it has been a lot of fun. I think my main attractiveness as a roleplayer is I do not think I need to win any encounter, social or fighting.

Today's episode involved my character trying to kidnap another and it going so poorly the hostage gave the kidnapper a pep talk.

tielan

I crossed a mighty ocean
from the bloody tides of war,
I am a storm-tossed seeker
Of a welcome peace-filled shore.
My children will not learn the speech
Their ancestors did tongue
But in this land of hope they will
become Australian

I sought an education
respected through the world,
I yearn for opportunity
to see my thoughts unfurl
This land accepts my knowledge
My work beneath the sun
And here in mind and body I'll
become Australian.

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The Girl Genius comic for Friday, March 27, 2026 has been posted.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20260327

tielan

Short story: I climbed up on an unsecured stool in the garden, fell off and whacked the back of my head on the edge of a bathtub garden. Right parietal. Still the skull, so protected, but there was definite OW involved.

tl;dr I got it checked out, and scans, and no concussion or symptoms, but I'm taking it easy

I had a sore head with a lump, no blackouts or dizziness, definite swelling. Got the neighbour to take me to the doctor, then to the station so I could go get it scanned - ultrasound and CT. Haematoma (ie. blood swelling) but no significant injury that they could spot.

Still no dizziness or blackouts, no memory loss (that I can tell) and everything seems fine so far. I'm still typing.

That said, today, my right side is all achey - I've been having issues along the outside hip, involving stiffness of the muscle - it gets better after movement, but for the duration of the stiffness, it's not fun. Now, my right hand and right foot are feeling tingly. I have a bunch of very marginal neural issues on the right side of my body, so this has probably just exacerbated it. Either way, it's not fun.

Luckily the Edible Garden Trail is done so far as hosting is concerned. I'm planning to go out on the trail with a friend tomorrow - I have a plan, but it's fairly extensive so we'll see how we manage going along. Could be good, could be a problem. I'm going along with the woman I invited over for Christmas Day lunch - she seemed pretty happy to come along and visit gardens, so that'll be nice.

The main issue of going on the Trail is probably going to be petrol and driving. Through Sydney city and inner west, it's going to be just a wee smidge rough.

Although, interestingly, today I went to the doc for the follow-up on the scans. (Everthing's fine.) And although it was lunchtime on Friday there was almost nobody at the cafes next to the station. That's unheard of. I suspect a lot of people aren't eating out as often - which wasn't the case during COVID. The city businesses suffered then, but I suspect that with everyone pulling back from excessive spending, we're going to see a lot of local business going out as well...

*sigh*

Finally got paid via the new payroll company, as well as the 'catchup' pay that I missed out on at the start of the month. Phew.

--

And in other money news...

stories about my father

...well, not quite. Dad is coming to Sydney in April. Probably. If a Sydney client will pay him. He's been waiting for four months for this client to pay him, though... It's eternal optimism with him. And, honestly, I understand the hope, but also...I'm kind of like, "Could you not have just made nice quiet money the way your wife was doing back when you met her? Basic real estate stuff? Did you have to get glamourous and intiative-driven and foward-thinking?" Oh Dad.

I just want to shake my head at my dad. I love him but...

--

Anyway, it is Friday, I have just finished work. It is the weekend, and I suppose I should try to do some writing, but on the writing front I have been absolutely awful. I have to rewrite the Final Confrontation of Book 1 again - finally found the plot notes for it...

So close! SO CLOSE!

--

Did I mention the new chickens we got? We got two, one died, we got another two, and the three are hanging out together pretty happily. Except that we just had a cold snap (went from 25-30C days down to 15-20C days like that) and while they're doing okay-ish outside, we're bringing them in at night.

...Actually, I wonder if we could stick them all in the one cage. We were keeping them separate so we could tell whose shit was whose (for a while we thought they might be experiencing the same issue that the other chick died of) but it's just coccidiosis, which we're treating with special water. And they're not so large that it's impossible to fit them all in one cage overnight right now. Hm. It's a thought.

Right. Time to rest up.