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Memento Mori

While I was walking outside at 4 am, like I sometimes do, I got to see the skinny crescent moon with a bright Venus as an orange arc of light beneath it. Wasn't expecting it but I was glad to get it. (Usually when there are night sky events, my area has clouds or rain, not the clarity we had last night, with more stars visible than usual.)

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This sounds and looks interesting but ticket prices, especially for iMAX, are too rich for my blood so no.

Watch on YouTube

In cinemas & IMAX® with limited screenings beginning October 28.
Get tickets at https://www.DepecheModeM.com.

DEPECHE MODE: M is a cinematic journey into the heart of Mexican culture's relationship with death, framed by the iconic performances of Depeche Mode during their 2023 Memento Mori tour. Conceived and directed by award-winning Mexican filmmaker Fernando Frías, the film captures the band's three sold-out shows in Mexico City, attended by over 200,000 fans, blending concert footage with interpretive interstitials and archival material. DEPECHE MODE: M celebrates the band's global influence while delving into the profound connection between music, mortality, and Mexican tradition — a sacred meeting point where pain, memory, joy, and dance dissolve into one another, blurring into something profoundly and beautifully human.

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round 154 posts

Round 154, Hour 6

I have acquired soup and also words! Has anyone else acquired anything?

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Round 154, Hour 5

Why am I up at this hour? Who knows? (Okay, I had a weird nightmare about my new bicycle, but other than that.) Will I stay awake? Who knows? Is anyone else awake? Who knows?

Current Music: Gordon Bok, "The Seals"

The dark sleek heads are risen from the water

Home from six days in hospital with a plan designed not to land me back there any time soon, I have been passed into the care of Dr. Hestia, who is already carrying out her duties with enthusiastic ministrations of purr. I have washed my hair for the first time in a week. I have eaten food prepared by my family. I napped like a stone in the late afternoon, which I will have needed since my regimen for the foreseeable involves a schedule of medications I cannot let slide even when some of them require me to be awake at hours I have preferred my entire life to spend unconscious. My calendar is inevitably full of further maintenance, but I am truly looking forward to an increase in conversations that have nothing to do with the monitoring of my vitals. Mostly I am marrow-tired and vague with new chemistry and glad to be home in my own clothes and drinking water I don't have to ring anyone to bring me in bed. I was not expecting and delight in the gift of a plush harpy eagle that arrived while I was away.

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Daily Happiness

1. It's the weekend! And I was able to come home early today, too, which was nice. A lot of the tasks I was working on this week are now in the hands of the IT team for the next step, so while I had a few little things I could do today, I just went home after my afternoon meeting around three or so.

2. We got two multipacks of the new Across the Spider-Verse Lego minifigs in the mail today. Carla's had some good luck with the last few sets of blind box minifigs and got hardly any dupes (I think one set was actually no dupes at all) but this time we did get a few.

If anyone wants these figures, I will ship them anywhere in the US for free. Just let me know.

3. Gemma loves being in Carla's desk chair when it's pushed under the desk. It's so secret.

Very Done with Gen AI this week

Watch on YouTube

Content notes for suicide, self harm and grooming, on this one. I'd seen reference to this story, but hadn't realised how bad it was.

Current Mood: nauseated
Current Music: Murder She Wrote

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Nothing but fandom

Because the day was boring and I'm still unwell so have fiction

Title: Something to Make My Heart Beat the Faster

Summary: Charlie has decided to make a more in depth infomercial for the hotel. Alastor’s input is to add a little melodrama to it as well to showcase the idea of self-sacrifice as a path to redemption, volunteering Husk for the short movie. Angel can’t wait and he has ideas of his own for how this should go. He’s the movie expert, after all.

Rating: mature

Notes: Written for spikegirl58’s six word challenge. The six words were Wet, Implied, Thirsty, Dress, Grumpy & Surprise. These words couldn’t have been more perfect for a story inspired by (and spoilers for) the S2 teaser if they had tried. Also written for the allbingo prompt of rum and the lyrical titles bingo challenge for the prompt a pre-1950s song. I chose All the Things You Are, originally written for a 1939 musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammestein and covered by many. This version if by Ella Fitzgerald.

This is definitely a spoiler for that little teaser trailer for S2 so read or not accordingly if you don’t want even a hint of spoiler.

( Story at the above link or under the cut )

Goodbye For Now 光渊 | Justice in the Dark

Dressed To Kill Torchwood

Chance Meeting Doctor Who

You Are Perfect Final Fantasy XV

Trouvaille The Owl House

Crazy For Trying Torchwood

In At The Deep End FAKE

You're Too Sweet For Me Hazbin Hotel

Freeze Frames Hazbin Hotel

Power to the People Stargate Atlantis

Making Something from Nothing Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis

A Weapon of His Making Hazbin Hotel

Score: i√2 to 𓅧 Elementary

DVD Commentary for Score: Q to 12 Elementary

The Aftershow The Amazing Digital Circus

Barely Holding On Torchwood

A Better Man Buffy the Vampire Slayer

C is for.... Conductor Stargate Atlantis

who cares (i'm fine) The Amazing Digital Circus

Current Mood: accomplished

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d&d: pyra cantha

Pyra Cantha D&D: Summary for 9/19 Game

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

And that's where we left off.

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2025,
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I know what I did this summer

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Round 154, Hour 4

the plot bunnies are getting restless, beware!

(no subject)

I am once again playing Wrath of the Righteous.
On Core, where the minimum requirement is to do everything you can do, every buff for you even for an easy fight.
I think I built the Knight Commander badly. I'm just shooting things with a crossbow because it turns out witch spells are mostly debuffs and I keep not throwing them. It is. Not good.
I know I could have built the others better.
It's kind of mostly working right now but.
if this grinds to a halt because I needed to make different choices many hours ago that is so frustrating.

Also I discovered that if you choose Demon even once in order to get an Achievement the neathers are completely screwed. They have no voice now. They're just killing stuff. And getting killed. So much.
Basically this Knight Commander is going to feel So Bad Forever. Lose temper once, watch intelligent beings apparently lose their minds. So so bad.

They chose Angel at Drezen but they have a lot to make up for.

Also I have played this game so often I am completely forgetting which bits I have done on this play through and which are still to do. Game journal is only thing keeping me in the right timeline. Time loop much?

I should sleep. Sleep is of the good.

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Round 154, Hour 3

Greetings friends! What'd I miss?

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Light Black #24 [The Fulcrum]

Name: Nyufeisyälye Ciria
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Light Black #24: Steal
Styles and Supplies: Gift Wrap, Panorama, Pastels (September 19: Scavenge, from this list), Novelty Bead (this image, given here)
Word Count: 3200
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mention of child murder
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali
Summary: The double full moon arrives.

( Nyufeisyalye Ciria )

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Fandom Fifty: #30

2004, juggling three small human beings and a depressed baby!daddy. I actually think this year was okay, for me. I was still sublimating everything into trying to be a good parent.

How many movies will I recall?

( Only 9? Well, 9 I care to write up )

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Prompt: Qiufen/Autumn Equinox

This week's prompt is: Qiufen, or the Autumnal Equinox. When it does not directly coincide with the Mid-Autumn Festival (as it doesn't this year), Qiufen is a quieter holiday while people across China prepare for the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is second only to the Lunar New Year in importance. Even so, Qiufen is observed as a time of harvest and harmony with nature and with one's community. Needless to say, this day is popular with farmers, or would-be farmers, and could thus give rise to a wealth of possibilities in an agrarian-based setting like MDZS/CQL.

This is one of our recurring annual prompts, which means that drabble sequences and drabble series are allowed, since these prompts have multiple or more complex concepts associated with them that warrant exploration in these longer formats. These formats are explained in this post, while the standard drabble formats are explained in the community rules.

You have until midnight your time on Friday, September 26, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.

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Assumptions (Transformers [Bay Movies], Mikaela Banes & Thundercracker)

Title: Assumptions
Fandom: Transformers [Bay Movies]
Pairing/Characters: Mikaela Banes & Thundercracker
Content Notes: TC is a little blunt in asking about sexual activity
Prompt: September Nineteen - 4 & 6 the wrong conclusion

( Thundercracker looked the woman over )

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Two days until assignments are due!

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reading_25,
rl_25

(no subject)

When I went to the laundromat the other day, I couldn't find the hot water detergent. I assumed I'd just put it in a safe place the time before instead of its usual place, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I had a vague memory of putting it on the table on the front porch before going off to do something else, meaning someone swiped it. Which is odd because porch pirates are rare on this street. Maybe I just forgot it at the laundromat, which also seems unlikely, though less unlikely than a porch pirate. Luckily I still had a box of Sunlight powder that I'd half considered throwing out because liquid works better. But anyway, I now have more scentless eco-friendly hot water detergent.

Cooler today but still muggy, so I sweat considerably when sweeping up seedlings this evening. But half the front path is done at least, and tomorrow is supposed to be actually cool, so I may get this finished before Monday's rain reduces it to muck. We need rain, I know, but Monday is also a dentist day and I wish it would rain some other time.

Finished The Lotus Palace and sent it off to the 'one person is waiting' so she can have it on the weekend. But if I'd realized it was a Harlequin I wouldn't have started it in the first place. I mean, perfectly respectable for what it was doing, but the ratio of mystery to romance was heavily in favour of the latter, and I wanted a lot more of the former.

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round 154 posts

Round 154, Hour 2

I have reports of food and edits! Also words on my document! *waves glowstick pompoms* Keep it going!