Mister Miracle (1989) #1

Aug. 7th, 2025 12:49 pm
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Writer: J.M. DeMatteis

Pencils and inks: Ian Gibson


Scott and Barda just want to live a normal life in suburbia, but the forces of Apokolips think otherwise.


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I was almost scammed yesterday. Got a phone call ostensibly from my bank and he (UK accent, slightly unusual but not impossible) launched right away into reassurance that he wasn't going to ask for my PIN or account details. Said he was from my bank's fraud dept and my credit card had been used for a transaction for over $1800.00 in Singapore, so as they knew I lived in Auckland, he was checking I wasn't on vacation there. I said no I wasn't.

He assured me they would block the payment, but said that unfortunately as someone had my card details, the bank would have to cancel my card and mail me a replacement. I moaned a bit about the hassle. Then he said he needed me to check my texts as there should be one related to the scam transaction. There was. Then he said could I read out the 6 digit authorisation number so he could cancel it. But the authorisation number had only 4 digits, so I got suspicious, told him I'd call my bank, and disconnected. Would I have fallen for it if he'd got the number of digits right? I hope not, but am unsure.

Sure enough it was a scam, and my bank's fraud dept hadn't contacted me. There was a small sum the scammer had tried to charge to my card, and my bank said if I'd given him the authorisation number he'd in fact have charged a huge amount to my card. The bad news is that the bank still have to cancel my card, and the REALLY ANNOYING news is that they're based in both Aussie and NZ and their new procedure is to mail my new card from fucking Australia, not locally. I know from past experience that mail from Aussie can take bloody weeks, so that's a huge bummer. (They say max. 2 weeks but I don't believe it). I have several payments automatically set up on my card and they're going to start bouncing.

Anyway, I'll just be over here gnashing my teeth, but be aware of this scam - they're very slick and believable. Don't ever give anyone purporting to be from your bank a texted (etc.) transaction authorisation number, no matter how small the amount is. In fact, don't do anything at all if "your bank" calls you. Hang up and call your bank to check.

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But I should probably at least do a little bit of my tax return research.

I tried to throw a party this evening. Only a couple of days notice. I suspect that most people didn't see the invitation (fb sucks at timeliness), and the other half weren't able to come at such short notice.

Mind you, even with notice, a lot of people don't bestir themselves to come along.

--

It was a pretty good birthday. Nothing dire or terrible, at least. A day of work, and bible study at the end, and one of the bible study leaders made cupcakes, so I got a candle stuck in mine and everyone sang happy birthday.

I made a cake. Red velvet with ermine buttercream. I haven't really had a chance to eat it yet. I'm gearing up the courage to invite people around on Saturday night for post-dinner cake.

Anyway, I'm kind of tired, like I said. I've just calculated my mobile phone costs, because I use the phone for some work stuff, and other than that, I think it's health, any expenses (purchases of technology), and donations.

And then my accountant can tear her hair because I haven't put in the things she really wants and it will involve chasing me to get back to her...

--

Day off tomorrow - cousin's wedding. On a Friday. With family. And we're staying in the area (other side of Sydney) for the night, both the twins and I.

Have to speak to the neighbours about feeding the cats and checking the chooks.

--

Hm. Getting a bit of a headache. I wonder if it was the el cheapo dumplings we had for dinner...
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I had a chiropractic appointment this morning and got in a walk around the park. Later it was off to the fair! I was conflicted about going, but I had a good time. (Pictures to come, hopefully.) Thankfully it was overcast all day because even without the sun shining right on us it was hot.

I brought home BBQ from the fair so didn’t have to make supper. I was so tired when I got home I barely had the energy to hand-wash dishes, scoop kitty litter, and shower.

I got a free hot tea at McD’s! I also read a little more in Amelia Peabody and had time before the fair to type in another 1,600 words on my fic! (That’s over 5,000 typed in now, so about half done.)

Temps started out at 62.2(F) and reached 80. I’m sure it was hotter than that, but maybe it’s because I wasn’t sitting on a shaded porch enjoying a breeze, lol!


Mom Update:

I did not see mom today, but we messaged (I sent her pics of the events) and I called her in the evening to check in.more back here )

Martian Manhunter #0

Aug. 7th, 2025 10:30 am
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Writer: John Ostrander

Pencils and inks: Tom Mandrake


Poor J'onn. He has been around almost as long as everybody else, but he could never seem to hold down a solo series.

Any way, this issue is a new retelling of J’onn’s origin story.


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Posted by Laurent Shinar

There are many things that one might consider to be 'classically cat'. You have hissing, staring into blank space as if there is something there, sitting with their jaw slack and letting their tongue slide out.

But one quality certainly jumps out amongst the rest, and that is the quality we have based this list on today. It is of course their penchant for climbing curtains and sitting atop their rod to survey the kingdom over which they rule. Which means that without meaning to us hoomans have provided them with the purrfect red carpet equivalent leading tot their royal perch. Just one more of the many ways in which just by living a hooman life we are providing play opportunities for our cat children. May their silly antics and wild tendencies give us the hilarious moments they create for many more millennia. And if you are still hankering for more feline tomfoolery, then check out this list of culinary cattos.
 

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Posted by Briana Viser

Cats are silly animals. They're so cute and fluffy, adorable and innocent, yet cunning and protective of themselves. Dogs are like an open book: they wag their tails at anyone, they want to be pet by anyone. Meanwhile you'd be lucky if you got a cat to let you pet them anywhere. When people come over to my place, they always comment on how "dog-like" my cat is, how he lets me pet his belly all over, kiss his stomach, and play with him like I would a dog. Most cats would rip your eyes out for trying to touch their stomach. I guess my cat is just special, but that doesn't mean he's not introverted in his own way. 

Dogs are an open book, extroverts by nature. Cats? Cats could be all alone forever and probably never notice that they're even alone. They love their solitude. Even in their attachments to their owner and silly play time with their string toy, they're totally introverts. Even my little kitty likes to sleep alone! I feel blessed when I get a night with him, because usually he goes to the couch at bedtime. Enjoy these cute cat memes.

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Posted by Elna McHilderson

Not everyone gets a second chance, especially senior animals in shelters. Older animals just don't get the same amount of adoptions as younger pets, like puppies and kittens. There are many different reasons, but when it comes down to it, don't they deserve love and a furever family too? One cat loving lady is showing the world that you shouldn't over look the senior cats with her 16-year-old crust ball, Nuji. 

 

When she got this little guy, he had been in the shelter a very long time and was constantly overlooked because he had a lot of visible "old man" issues. He didn't move too well and his floof had less of a bounce. Well, that's because in cat years he is an 80-year-old man! That's a long life lived for anyone, especially a cat! The sweet feline was immediately grateful for the second chance at life and constantly shows it with nudges of love to his rescuer. Nuji was thought to have maybe three months left in him, and now they have recently celebrated his 10 month adoptiversary! 

WIPRB Big Bang 2025 - Claims Round 4

Aug. 6th, 2025 11:57 pm
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This is Round Four of the Fic Claims for the 2025 round of WIPBB. You may claim as many art projects as you want this round. Please put your top three choices in order of preference in case your first choice is taken. If you want more than one art project to make fic for, fill out the form multiple times with a unique check-in IDs for each claims submission.

The form is located at https://forms.gle/EwrowacQhzWFWDhK8.


If you are signing up to do art for WIPBB or fic for WIPRB, you and your project partner will be picking a posting date that works best for both of you when posting date claims open August 23rd. The posting dates for claimed posting are between September 8th and November 30th, with the month of December open for emergency posting. You no longer have to have your project finished by September 7th!

Round Four of the fic claims will go on until August 14th. An art project is crossed out when it is claimed and can no longer be asked for.

Angel the Series )
Doodle World (Roblox) )
DreamSMP )
Invisible Inc. )
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind )
Naruto, Naruto Shippuden )
One Piece  )
Promare )
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power )
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine )
The Locked Tomb )
Transformers )
White Collar )
人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù )
魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī / 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System / 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú )

WIPBB Big Bang 2025 - Claims Round 4

Aug. 6th, 2025 11:36 pm
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This is Round Four of the Artist Claims for the 2025 round of WIPBB. You may claim as many fics as you want this round. Please put your top three choices in order of preference in case your first choice is taken. If you want more than one fic to make art for, fill out the form multiple times with a unique check-in IDs for each claims submission.

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If you are signing up to do art for WIPBB or fic for WIPRB, you and your project partner will be picking a posting date that works best for both of you when posting date claims open August 23rd. The posting dates for claimed posting are between September 8th and November 30th, with the month of December open for emergency posting. You no longer have to have your project finished by September 7th!

Round Four of the art claims will go on until August 14th. A fic is crossed out when it is claimed and can no longer be asked for.

30歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれるらしい | Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! (Manga)  )
All For the Game )
Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)  )
BBC Sherlock/Marvel Cinematic Universe (Agents Of SHIELD) )
Bad Buddy  )
Borderlands Series )
Bright )
Captive Prince )
Conclave (2024) )
DC Comics )
Danny Phantom/Transformers )
Death Note )
Doctor Sleep (Book & Film) )
Druck (SKAM) )
Empires SMP )
Final Fantasy Series )
Formula 1 RPF )
Formula 1 RPF/Motercycle RPF/Motorsports RPF )
Genshin Impact )
Haikyuu!! )
Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling )
Hazbin Hotel )
Hetalia: Axis Powers )
Invisible (2022) )
Invisible Inc. )
Lego Monkie Kid )
Love Between Fairy and Devil )
Lucifer (TV) )
Marvel Cinematic Universe )
Marvel Cinematic Universe/Captain America (Movies)/The Alienist (TV)/The Alienist Series | Dr. Lazlo Kreizler Series - Caleb Carr )
My Hero Academia | Boku No Hero Academia )
Naruto )
Professional Wrestling )
Project Wingman / Ace Combat )
Saiyuki )
Star Trek )

TJ Reads (and writes) July 2025

Aug. 6th, 2025 11:44 pm
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Okay, before I drop some reviews, I thought I'd share that I actually wrote something-- or am in the process of writing somebody. I figured since I talked some of you into reading Green Creek with me, that maybe I can get you to read some Green Creek that I wrote/ am writing. ❤️🐺❤️🧙‍♀️❤️

Part One: Choose Me (4970 words) by tjs_whatnot
Chapters: 3/4
Fandom: Green Creek Series - T.J. Klune
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mark Bennett/Gordo Livingstone
Characters: Mark Bennett, Gordo Livingstone
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Blow Jobs
Series: Part 1 of In the End, It All Comes Down to Choice
Summary:

It's about the choices you make, not the ones forced upon you.
--Ravensong



July 2025 )

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from the Narf 'Verse for week #505-509: "wait" and/or "survive"

Title: A Suspicious Lump
Pairing: John/Rodney
Genre: series, established relationship
Words: 1,658
Rating: PG
Summary: Rodney is worried; John is Schrödinger's worried.
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It's Steve Rogers just after he came out of the ice.

It's also someone else before that - a new character's origin, grounded like Steve's in real history.

The first page hits the reader with that, a reminder of the passage of time - appropriate when the story involves fresh-from-the-ice Steve.

The new character's young - and shocked. )

Daily Happiness

Aug. 6th, 2025 09:25 pm
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1. I did not drive anywhere today (except for a very short drive to the library, which I had wanted to be a walk, but the library hours for weekdays did not work with today's heat), and while my leg doesn't feel really any better right now, I am hoping that giving it a rest from driving today and tomorrow will have the desired effect. At least it hasn't gotten worse anyway.

2. Carla went to the Mexican market today to get dried hibiscus to make jamaica tea, and also got carnitas and tortillas and cheese while she was there, so we had carnitas tacos for dinner. And there's a bunch more leftover, too!

3. I spotted these two together in the window the other day and was so glad I was able to run and grab my phone without one or both deciding to leave in the meantime.

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In tonight's game, the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

How has it been a week

Aug. 6th, 2025 10:34 pm
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Since I've been to Fort Steuben (and still no pictures?) How is it am I leaving tomorrow? I got my rental today. I was hoping for a good SUV because I'm in the market.

I got a Ford Bronco. Sigh. If I wanted an off-roader this would be perfect. I mean it's got four settings for GOAT Mode. The gear shift is it a DIAL that you have to hold down a button and rotate it. OMG why? I would not buy this but it has 3000 miles and I'm ready to go.

I have two museums in Gettysburg I've not seen (which I should have time for when I get there and friday morning), I have both Superman and Fantastic Four at the movie theater that's in the hotel complex. I was going to do the ghost tour but I'll be tired. I'll try it sunday night after the con. I have too much planned for my day and a half in Hershey but I have my plans and NO spreadsheet (evil Little dog will be shocked) because all the museums in both towns are open 7 days a week

And watching Carnival Eats today gave me a bunny for the carnival horror open call. now to get on it

What I Just Finished Reading:

Monster Burger - urban fantasy not quite as fun as the first but still good. It's a fun book. There is a ton of fat issues in this like the other mystery I bitched about but in this case it felt...different. yes his guardian angel and kevin the roach pick on him for being fat but they're both mean. Lloyd knows his weight is an issue in monster hunting BUT his female partner does not mention it at all. I think that might be the difference


What I am Currently Reading:

The Wood - an urban fantasy so far so good

Dark and Dangerous Journey - WWII mystery arc



What I Plan to Read Next:

Pantomine - an LGBT (intersexed main character) fantasy, I like it but i'm shelving it for a bit


I have pictures for you finally )
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I have started some book recommendations lists at Bookshop.org. I currently have lists for:

* Genre fiction I love for character and relationship depth.
* Genre fiction I love for being thought provoking.
* Ecological genre fiction recommendations.

So far, these lists include my old standby titles, but I'm hoping to expand them (as I'm hoping to actually get back into reading again!).
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Just the other day I was wondering when Mariel Buckley will come out with something new. Looks like she has an album, titled Strange Trip Ahead, that'll be released in October!

Two tracks are up on Bandcamp already, and if this is the vibe for the whole album, then I'm really looking forward to it. It's consistent with her usual style, but new material.

Her sound is unpolished rough-at-the-edges country; it reminds me of the stuff from the '90s and earlier that I grew up with, except also with a vaguely gay vibe. Very nostalgic without actually being from the period.

Blood over Bright Haven (Wang)

Aug. 6th, 2025 05:39 pm
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3+/5. As this book starts, Sciona Freynan, an extremely talented and driven mage who cares about magic and really nothing else, is going to take the exams to become a Highmage, one of the few elite magicians who is responsible for powering the magic city of Tiran. She's the only girl of her generation to even be asked to take the tests, because she lives in a deeply sexist society, which she knows and hates. Fortunately, she also knows she can ace the exams. However, the sexism of the other mages means that, even as a Highmage, she gets a janitor as a lab assistant, Thomil, who is from an immigrant group called the Kwen that are refugees from a magical Blight that has killed their lands and people; the Kwen are widely regarded to be subhuman. (That is to say, this society is deeply racist as well as deeply sexist!)

I was first recced this book during a conversation I had with someone in RL who said that she felt that Some Desperate Glory was kind of your run-of-the-mill YA dystopia and recommended this one instead. I also read [personal profile] rachelmanija's take on it, which was a helpful counterpoint to my RL convo. I ended up feeling about it maybe in the middle of the two reactions? I did end up liking it, but I also... thought it was much, much more of your run-of-the-mill YA dystopia than SDG.

Now... I have read a fair amount of YA dystopia for various reasons, and some of it can get incredibly and eye-rollingly anvilicious, where the heroine (it's always a heroine) talks like tumblr posts and the villains kick puppies for fun. This was actually in some sense not that way on the surface, in the sense that Sciona is herself reasonably realistically racist, and there is at least one of the Highmages who is presented as a reasonably nice and not-as-sexist person. However, by the end there is a sufficient divide between the Kwen (who are basically perfect) and Sciona (who is flawed) and pretty much everyone else (super racist) that I was feeling somewhat anvil-icized, even though at the same time I do think that it was much better on this front than the average YA dystopia.

There is a plot twist in the middle which I did not guess (although I did feel rather like I should have, and perhaps would have if I'd really sat down and thought about it) and which I greatly enjoyed. I suspect that one's enjoyment of this book may be predicated on whether one guesses it or not. That part was pretty great, but then I felt that much of the second half of the book was sort of a slog as Sciona then figures out what to do about the plot twist, but it got better once she had her plan in hand. I also did not guess her plan / the ending. I did not think that the book would go there, but it did and I admired it for having the courage of its convictions, and I admired the depiction of Sciona for being extremely consistent all through. I respect that Wang didn't try to make out like Sciona was better or more perfect than she actually was. Though the book, in my opinion, does suffer when compared to SDG, which doesn't just go for character consistency but for really hard change which takes an entire book to work through.

Spoilery thoughts
So yeah, I didn't guess that Sciona was going to burn the entire Magistry and government down! Literally! While she was herself poisoned!

But... it also seemed like maximum chaos for both Tiran and the Kwen, and a bunch of people, both Tiranish and Kwen, have already died and a lot more are probably gonna die, and it really isn't super clear that what is going to come out of all the chaos will be anything better than what was there before, except possibly it might be forced to be less dystopian because all the people running the dystopian technology have been destroyed. On the other hand, I did rather admire how Sciona's flaws of (a) not really caring about other humans and (b) not having any idea how other humans would react to things, because, well, see (a), were really consistent here.

And I loved how she does embrace all her flaws at the end: She had always belonged here with insatiable men, her brothers in greed and ego. Sciona's only distinction among these mages was that she was a more honest monster than any of them. Yeah, that's... pretty accurate! And like I said before, I respect that.

I must say I prefer books where the resolution at least makes stabs towards breaking the cycle of more and more violence, instead of accelerating the cycle (well, Thomil did make one effort towards that, which was nice; Sciona sure did not), but I do enjoy reading one of the latter every once in a while.

A couple of other spoilery issues I had:

- I totally did not buy that Sciona would have a different reaction to the plot twist (that all of their magic was causing the Blight) than every other Tiranish we see in the entire city (except maybe poor dumb Mordra, and it's not even entirely clear what his reaction is). I mean, to be fair, her negative reaction wasn't instant either (and that was well done), but she's grown up in Tiran her whole life, she's not devout but she's reasonably religious, she's been told her whole life that Kwen are inferior (and even says things to that effect), she just doesn't care about other people in general; it's not at all clear to me why she should be the one person to think differently than the others. The book explanation that no one else cares, I think, is that everyone else is horrible and racist, except I guess one offscreen guy who was so overcome that he committed suicide when he found out the truth before the book even started. Idk, I think there should have been more Tiranish who shared her reaction, or at least some who spanned more of a space of reactions. But I guess that would have been more complicated.

- What do people in Tiran eat? Aren't there, like, farms and things outside the city? Wouldn't the Blight affect those? Do they not trade with anyone? Use wood? It really seems to me that the ecological issues of the Blight would have a definite impact on Tiran by now.


I also thought the magic system was hilariously awesome. The mages use a typewriter -- they call it a spellograph -- to type up spells with very precise coordinates and variables (there's a great bit where Sciona is explaining to Thomil what a variable is, without using that exact term of course). So there are parts like this: She assigned the name POWER. Next, she wrote an action sub-spell called FIRE, inside which she assigned the carbon ball the name DEVICE. (I'm not even gonna get into the if and only if CONDITIONS of this spell, because it's quoted in [personal profile] rachelmanija's review.) I mean, yes, cool! I'm totally on board with algorithmic magic! Then I showed it to D and he was immediately like, "Wow, they use COBOL to do magic in this world!" (He does feel opposed to this on principle... mostly because it's COBOL.)
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Posted by Sarah Brown

It's Wednesday. The purrgatory of the week and we're all just trying to claw our way to the weekend. Monday was a mess, Tuesday zoomed by like a cat on midnight zoomies, and now we're here, stuck in the middle like a loaf on the couch, questioning every life choice that led to this inbox full of chaos. Your coffee's cold, your brain's buffering, and honestly, that third snack of the day? Absolutely counts as self-care. We're not meowchines, okay?

But hang in there, furiends. The weekend is on the horizon, and you've made it this far without knocking a single thing off the desk in protest (or maybe you have, no judgment). The days ahead are full of pawsibilities, naps, and hopefully sushi you don't have to share with your cat. So stretch out, channel your inner loaf, and power through. You've got this. Just a few more days 'til you're living your best weekend life! Napping in the sun, snacks within paw's reach, and not a Zoom meeting in sight.

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