Extreme Justice #2
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scans_dailyWriter: Dan Vado
Pencils: Marc Campos
Inks: Ken Branch
Oh no, Captain Atom is dead. I am sure that will last.
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All-New Venom #8-10
Sep. 4th, 2025 01:04 amlaughing_tree posting in scans_daily
This is another issue of All-New Venom that got leaked ahead of time, because there's a big character beat in here for MJ which has been, ahem, long-awaited in some circles. Looking at the reaction, I'm halfway between utterly fascinated and totally bemused. I'm sure I'll talk more about this once the dust settles. Are the straights okay? I think we leave them in a healthy place? Well, maybe not Doctor Octopus. Are the readers okay? I honestly have NO IDEA. -- Al Ewing
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Community Thursday
Sep. 4th, 2025 08:41 amvriddyCommunity Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.
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Sep. 4th, 2025 01:27 amkatara posting in ebookreview
Flame in the Hollow by Delilah Synn
Genre:
Summerween, Headless Horseman retelling, retelling, Gothic, Myths and Legends, Dark, Dark Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Romance
Publication Date:
September 1, 2025
Page Numbers:
112
Read/Finished Date:
September 4th, 2025
Rating:
4.5/5
Premise:
A legend reborn.
Flame in the Hollow is a haunting paranormal romance where The Legend of Sleepy Hollow burns as brightly as a jack-o’-lantern on All Hallows’ Eve.
When the serious and stoic Odette Fournier arrives in Sleepy Hollow to take over the schoolhouse once run by Ichabod Crane, she has no interest in ghost stories. But the tale of the Headless Horseman proves impossible to ignore. Especially when she has an experience she can't explain away.
Drawn by reluctant curiosity, Odette ventures deep into the mist-shrouded woods in search of answers. What she discovers is far more than she ever bargained a man who became the piece of her heart she never knew was missing.
As the truth behind the Horseman’s identity and the echoes of the American Revolution unravel, Odette must confront her own hidden past and decide if she dares to claim a love that burns brighter than fear.
Perfect for fans of gothic romance, eerie legends, and slow-burn passion wrapped in autumn’s chill, Flame in the Hollow will sweep you into a world where every rustle in the trees might be fate calling your name.
Review:
After the events of the original Sleepy Hollow story, we find that the sleepy little town has a new headmistress, a young woman named Odette. At first, she doesn't believe in the whole Headless Horseman until one night she finds herself facing him from across the bridge. She decides to help him unravel the curse placed upon him, but she finds that there is more to this curse and to the headless horseman than she has come to realize.
I love Sleepy Hollow retellings, especially during this time of the year when autumn is just around the corner and Halloween is never too far away. Odette has come to Sleepy Hollow; she has heard the tale of Ichabod Crane, but she doesn't believe it. As far as she is aware, he just left town, but with some tales there is always that kernel of truth and that comes up one night when she finds herself face-to-face with the headless horseman. She's drawn to him, as he is to her. The two work together to find a way to break his curse.
This was a really nice (and short) story to enjoy as you prepare for the Halloween season. The spice isn't too bad and it will definitely keep you engaged until the end. I am quite looking forward to seeing what other stories we will see from this author in the future.
Doom Patrol (1987) #6
Sep. 4th, 2025 07:26 amiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Paul Kupperberg
Pencils: Erik Larsen
Inks: Gary Martin
The Doom Patrol find a mining town under siege by super-villains.
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current fandom events
Sep. 3rd, 2025 10:56 pmsvgurlsmallweb is running Small Web September, a month long event for anyone to make progress on a small web project. allbingo is running Piracy Fest Bingo. There are pre-made cards or you can use the available prompts to create your own.trickortreatex, a multifandom exchange inspired by Halloween (though you don't have to celebrate or are restricted to create around the holiday), is open for nominations until September 8th, 11:59PM UTC.makeupex, a Magic Girl Exchange (all fandoms welcome), is running a Flash Exchange. Both nominations and sign-ups are open until September 8th, 11:59PM EDT. fandommixtapeex, an 18+ multi-fandom exchange using songs as work prompts, is accepting nominations until September 9th, 11:59PM EDT. More info, including schedule/rules/links can be found HEREfandom_empire has opened sign-ups for their Bingo Challenge until September 10th.fffx, a multifandom gift exchange with minimums of 10,000+ words for fic and comicsof 40+ panels (min 9 pages) or 10+ pages (min 36 panels) for art, has opened sign-ups until September 11th, 11:59PM EDT. Also nominations will be reopened so you can add a max of 3 fandoms/3 requests per fandom.festivids, a rare fandom vidding exchange, is open for nominations until September 12th.communal_creators, a challenge to set goals to create/work on/finish projects and encourage others to do the same, is open for sign-ups until September 14th.fourormore, a community for ships with 4+ people, is running a Four or More Ficathon. Prompting is open until September 21st. fancake's theme of the month is: food and cooking. Click on the banner below to find out more!
current reading
Sep. 3rd, 2025 10:17 pmthistleingreyI've decided not to read The Future of the Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's 50 Years (2023), which is available plentifully at the big-city library system but would cost me nontrivial transit fees and time to consult. Were a copy available at one of the systems closer by, I'd skim it. Sort of hilariously, I have a mini-paper to write on Patagonia's company culture, which must be related to why the big-city system owns about a dozen copies of what really sounds like a self-pub puff piece, but I can write it without a pilgrimage.
Spolsky is on hold again (though not for three years, I hope) while I evict my small bias about the monograph's approach.
Meanwhile, I've begun Laura Spinney's Proto, as in Proto-Indo-European. Spinney is a journalist, not a specialist in a relevant domain, which is consistent with how the book reads. (If I could identify more than one minor error at a 20-year-plus remove from my small learning of relevance, I bet an active practitioner would find more.) I'm not worried about reading with a sure sense of bias here---it's this: Spinney has inherited the shameful blindness to Afro-Asiatic concerns that her chief sources had---because her take isn't potentially controversial.
Nearly traversed: Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which someone once recced to a roomful of people that included me. Still WIP, besides Spolsky: Everett's James, which I'm enjoying but needed to let rest a bit; Allingham's Case of the Late Pig.
Spolsky is on hold again (though not for three years, I hope) while I evict my small bias about the monograph's approach.
Meanwhile, I've begun Laura Spinney's Proto, as in Proto-Indo-European. Spinney is a journalist, not a specialist in a relevant domain, which is consistent with how the book reads. (If I could identify more than one minor error at a 20-year-plus remove from my small learning of relevance, I bet an active practitioner would find more.) I'm not worried about reading with a sure sense of bias here---it's this: Spinney has inherited the shameful blindness to Afro-Asiatic concerns that her chief sources had---because her take isn't potentially controversial.
Nearly traversed: Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which someone once recced to a roomful of people that included me. Still WIP, besides Spolsky: Everett's James, which I'm enjoying but needed to let rest a bit; Allingham's Case of the Late Pig.
Daily Happiness
Sep. 3rd, 2025 09:00 pmtorachan1. I took another early morning walk today. Unfortunately the weather was not quite as pleasant as yesterday and I was pretty sweaty and muggy when I got home, but I did have plenty of time to cool off before having to get dressed for work, so that was good.
2. I am still cced into all the store-side emails at work, despite my new position, so even though they are not priority, it makes for a lot of emails to go through when I've got a long weekend to catch up from. (I am cced by choice, as I want to still be in the loop.) But since they are not my responsibility anymore, it was faster to go through them and catch up, and I was able to do that at home while cooling off from my walk, so I was ready to actually focus on my main tasks once I got settled at work.
3. First day in the new office (well, it's the same office, but the second floor is a U shape and I'm in the opposite end of the U from where I was, and it's an enclosed (shared) room rather than the open space I was in before, so it feels very different). My desk is larger and I like it better than the kind of crappy one I had before, so that's nice. One thing I was bummed about is that it's further from the restroom that I was using, but actually it's very close to one of the first floor restrooms and close to the stairs, so it's faster or about the same amount of time to go to the bathroom, but I also get stairs in every time I go, which is nice.
4. Jasper likes to just chill on my desk sometimes. Thankfully as long as he's lying down, he's not actually in the way of anything.
2. I am still cced into all the store-side emails at work, despite my new position, so even though they are not priority, it makes for a lot of emails to go through when I've got a long weekend to catch up from. (I am cced by choice, as I want to still be in the loop.) But since they are not my responsibility anymore, it was faster to go through them and catch up, and I was able to do that at home while cooling off from my walk, so I was ready to actually focus on my main tasks once I got settled at work.
3. First day in the new office (well, it's the same office, but the second floor is a U shape and I'm in the opposite end of the U from where I was, and it's an enclosed (shared) room rather than the open space I was in before, so it feels very different). My desk is larger and I like it better than the kind of crappy one I had before, so that's nice. One thing I was bummed about is that it's further from the restroom that I was using, but actually it's very close to one of the first floor restrooms and close to the stairs, so it's faster or about the same amount of time to go to the bathroom, but I also get stairs in every time I go, which is nice.
4. Jasper likes to just chill on my desk sometimes. Thankfully as long as he's lying down, he's not actually in the way of anything.
SOTD: Ndlovu Youth Choir, "Bohemian Rhapsody (isiZulu version)
Sep. 3rd, 2025 10:08 pmbrithistorianWhen I read about the Ndlovu Youth Choir translating "Bohemian Rhapsody" into Zulu, of course I had to go check it out right away. I was absolutely blown away. Listening to the song is amazing, but then watching the video is just a whole other level. It's like a song that doesn't even belong in our universe somehow crossed over from its home to show us an alternate world we could have.
Direct link to Youtube (in case the embedding goes bad) is here
Admin Post: Drawing Challenge #72 (What Makes You Happy) - Round-Up Post
Sep. 4th, 2025 02:31 pmmific posting in drawesomeCongrats to those who took part in this challenge!
Entries submitted for Drawing Challenge #72 - What Makes You Happy:
As usual, this challenge as well as all of our previous challenges will remain open, so you can continue to submit entries to the community any time after the Round Up date. Be sure to tag your art post with the challenge name, so that it can be added to the list.
Thanks to all who participated in this challenge! :)
Entries submitted for Drawing Challenge #72 - What Makes You Happy:
- Joy of Podfic by mific - multifandom, G
- Dartmare by troyswann - original work, G
- Cute Owls by zenigotchas - original work, G
- Drawception works by gingicat - original work, G
- My Favourite Breakfast by mific - original work, G
As usual, this challenge as well as all of our previous challenges will remain open, so you can continue to submit entries to the community any time after the Round Up date. Be sure to tag your art post with the challenge name, so that it can be added to the list.
Thanks to all who participated in this challenge! :)
Admin Post: Drawing Challenge #73 - September
Sep. 4th, 2025 01:55 pmmific posting in drawesome
Challenge #73: September
The challenge this month is what you see on the tin! Anything inspired by the month of September, which might be fall or spring depending which hemisphere you're in - like early harvests, or daffodils and spring vegetables. Or it could be something entirely different from the seasons - this Wikipedia article might give you some ideas. Like September's birthstone which is sapphire, or its birth flowers the forget-me-not, morning glory and aster. Then there are the September zodiac signs, Virgo and Libra.
In fanart, you might draw your favourite character in an autumn or spring setting, or something from an episode that first aired in September. Then there's the expression "a May and September relationship", if that applies. Any inspiration from the prompt is fine!
A round-up post for submissions to this challenge will be done at the end of September, after which October is Drawtober time again (our version of Inktober).
Chili... but as an open-faced sandwich
Sep. 3rd, 2025 08:03 pmrugessnometonight's dinner was chili ~subs based on a recipe variant in How to Cook Everything Fast, which I served more like sloppy joes, but on whole wheat hot dog buns (since Kroger no longer carries(?) the fun slider or sub variants of their whole wheat buns that I can find).
I suppose the concept probably sounds a little eccentric without being attached to the main meat sauce sub recipe, which, while it originated from a "smack barm pey wet"-like impulse translated to the context of relative Italian American prosperity (meatball sauce, sans meatballs, but Bittman doesn't bother with meatballs) makes somewhat more traditional sense as a sub. All the same, I thought it was quite nice.
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I suppose the concept probably sounds a little eccentric without being attached to the main meat sauce sub recipe, which, while it originated from a "smack barm pey wet"-like impulse translated to the context of relative Italian American prosperity (meatball sauce, sans meatballs, but Bittman doesn't bother with meatballs) makes somewhat more traditional sense as a sub. All the same, I thought it was quite nice.
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What Am I Reading Wednesday - September 3
Sep. 3rd, 2025 08:16 pmlebateleurI am so, so behind on ::flaps hands:: everything...but that still hasn't stopped me from spending hours each day reading books, and then even more hours writing about them.
What I Finished Reading This Week
The Chosen Queen – Sam Davey
This novel is an Arthurian retelling from Igraine's perspective. ( Boy, did I have Thoughts. ) But the utterly maddening thing is, 80 percent of this book was good enough that, when the next volume in Davey's "Pendragon Prophecy" comes out in a couple of years, I will probably read it despite knowing better.
Kindling The Celtic Spirit – Mara Freeman
Kindling The Celtic Spirit was published during the heyday of the shopping mall new age/occult publishing boom. In those pre-Wikipedia, pre-Internet dark ages, it and its ilk served a valuable purpose, making accessible information from niche, out of print, and otherwise inaccessible primary and secondary sources on Celtic folklore and belief from the proto-, early, and early modern historical periods, albeit mixed in with liberal amounts of neopagan accretions.
There's much less need for such things in our current existence of commercial ebook and ejournal publishing, Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia, and museum and historic trust youtube documentaries, but there's something naively charming about the book's mix of academic fact and invented tradition and ritual. And while for some reason The Festival of Lughnasa has yet to be republished (unlike its brethren (Carmina Gadelica and The Silver Bough), there are plenty of references and and quotations from it here.
What I Am Currently Reading
Song Of The Huntress – Lucy Holland
I needed a palette cleanser after The Chosen Queen.
What I'm Reading Next
This week I acquired Sistersong by Lucy Holland and Buried Deep And Other Stories by Naomi Novik
これで以上です。
What I Finished Reading This Week
The Chosen Queen – Sam Davey
This novel is an Arthurian retelling from Igraine's perspective. ( Boy, did I have Thoughts. ) But the utterly maddening thing is, 80 percent of this book was good enough that, when the next volume in Davey's "Pendragon Prophecy" comes out in a couple of years, I will probably read it despite knowing better.
Kindling The Celtic Spirit – Mara Freeman
Kindling The Celtic Spirit was published during the heyday of the shopping mall new age/occult publishing boom. In those pre-Wikipedia, pre-Internet dark ages, it and its ilk served a valuable purpose, making accessible information from niche, out of print, and otherwise inaccessible primary and secondary sources on Celtic folklore and belief from the proto-, early, and early modern historical periods, albeit mixed in with liberal amounts of neopagan accretions.
There's much less need for such things in our current existence of commercial ebook and ejournal publishing, Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia, and museum and historic trust youtube documentaries, but there's something naively charming about the book's mix of academic fact and invented tradition and ritual. And while for some reason The Festival of Lughnasa has yet to be republished (unlike its brethren (Carmina Gadelica and The Silver Bough), there are plenty of references and and quotations from it here.
What I Am Currently Reading
Song Of The Huntress – Lucy Holland
I needed a palette cleanser after The Chosen Queen.
What I'm Reading Next
This week I acquired Sistersong by Lucy Holland and Buried Deep And Other Stories by Naomi Novik
これで以上です。
Wednesday books
Sep. 3rd, 2025 07:11 pmredbirdcattitude and adrian_turtle finished reading The Prisoner of Zenda--the original swash-buckling Ruritanian romance-- aloud to me and each other. We all had a lot of fun with it. We may (or may not) go back and read the sequel at some point, but not right away.I also read The Birding Dictionary, by Rosemary Mosco: a humor book about bird and bird-watching, in the format of a dictionary. Cattitude, who borrowed this from the library, seemed to find it funnier than I did.
Current reading:
The Winged Histories, by Sofia Samatar. This is eight loosely connected stories, each with a different narrator. I'm enjoying it, but having trouble settling in to read much at a time. The ebook is now overdue at the library, so I am carefully not synching my kindle until I finish reading it.
Two poems!
Sep. 3rd, 2025 04:07 pmswan_towerI have not one but two new poems out this week! Putting me up to double digits in the number of poems I've had published so far, whee.
The first is in Merganser Magazine: "Hallucination," about AI, linguistics, and the wish for a better world.
The second, "Cutting the Cord" in Small Wonders, is probably the closest to straight-up science fiction I've ever written? It's got aliens and a space elevator in it, anyway.
Both are free to read online, so enjoy!
The first is in Merganser Magazine: "Hallucination," about AI, linguistics, and the wish for a better world.
The second, "Cutting the Cord" in Small Wonders, is probably the closest to straight-up science fiction I've ever written? It's got aliens and a space elevator in it, anyway.
Both are free to read online, so enjoy!
[ SECRET POST #6816 ]
Sep. 3rd, 2025 06:38 pmcase posting in fandomsecrets⌈ Secret Post #6816 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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第四年第二百三十八天
Sep. 4th, 2025 07:25 amnnozomi posting in guardian_learning部首
口 part 23
哲, philosophy; 哼, to hum; 唇, lips ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=30
语法
Using 一点
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/mandarin-chinese-grammar-yi1-dianr3/
词汇
印象, impression; 复印, to copy ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/
Guardian:
你自己嘴唇都发青了, your lips are blue
请你冷静一点, please calm down a bit
四班的班长刘亚东为人敦厚热情是我唯一有印象的人, the only one I have an impression of is the Class 4 president, Liu Yadong, who's enthusiastic and takes care of others
Me:
如果你唱不了的话，就哼哼一点。
那个地方我没有什么印象。
口 part 23
哲, philosophy; 哼, to hum; 唇, lips ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=30
语法
Using 一点
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/mandarin-chinese-grammar-yi1-dianr3/
词汇
印象, impression; 复印, to copy ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/
Guardian:
你自己嘴唇都发青了, your lips are blue
请你冷静一点, please calm down a bit
四班的班长刘亚东为人敦厚热情是我唯一有印象的人, the only one I have an impression of is the Class 4 president, Liu Yadong, who's enthusiastic and takes care of others
Me:
如果你唱不了的话，就哼哼一点。
那个地方我没有什么印象。
Covid vaccine access in Massachusetts
Sep. 3rd, 2025 06:22 pmredbirdGovernor Healey has overridden the CDC restrictions, and authorized pharmacists to give the covid vaccine to everyone over the age of 5 (younger children will have to get it from their pediatricians).
I heard about this first from my state senator's office: I emailed over the weekend to ask him to work on fixing this, so his staff knew I was interested. There's an article in the Globe, but pay-walled: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/metro/healey-covid-booster-massachusetts-trump-kennedy-vaccine/
I heard about this first from my state senator's office: I emailed over the weekend to ask him to work on fixing this, so his staff knew I was interested. There's an article in the Globe, but pay-walled: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/metro/healey-covid-booster-massachusetts-trump-kennedy-vaccine/
unexpected excitement
Sep. 3rd, 2025 06:12 pmredbirdFirst: we're all fine.
I got a phone call this afternoon from someone at the company we rent a storage unit from. She was calling to tell me that a construction crew doing something on the lot next door had last control of one of their machines, which breached the wall of our storage unit.
She was calling to tell me that, and to ask my permission to cut the lock on the door, so they can go inside and move everything to an undamaged unit. She wanted that ASAP, so they can start work tomorrow at 7 a.m.
I was on the bus when my phone rang, so while I could give her my approval right away, when she asked for my drivers license/state ID number, I told het I'd call her back, the information was hard to read on a moving bus
So, our plans for tomorrow now involve getting up early(ish) and going to Medford to look things over, and so the company can give us keys for the new lock.
I'm glad the phone was in my pocket when she called: otherwise I might not have noticed and listened to the voicemail before their office closed for the day.
I got a phone call this afternoon from someone at the company we rent a storage unit from. She was calling to tell me that a construction crew doing something on the lot next door had last control of one of their machines, which breached the wall of our storage unit.
She was calling to tell me that, and to ask my permission to cut the lock on the door, so they can go inside and move everything to an undamaged unit. She wanted that ASAP, so they can start work tomorrow at 7 a.m.
I was on the bus when my phone rang, so while I could give her my approval right away, when she asked for my drivers license/state ID number, I told het I'd call her back, the information was hard to read on a moving bus
So, our plans for tomorrow now involve getting up early(ish) and going to Medford to look things over, and so the company can give us keys for the new lock.
I'm glad the phone was in my pocket when she called: otherwise I might not have noticed and listened to the voicemail before their office closed for the day.
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