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Tucker McKinnon ([personal profile] jazzfish) wrote2025-09-15 08:58 am
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sheet-pan crepe thing

Thursday I stopped at the farmers market to get eggs, which they were out of. I did get a thing of Concord grapes, though. Also a thing of raspberries, because they were slightly cheaper if you were already buying something else. I have been marketed to.

Not that I knew what I was going to do with them. So on Friday I got a thing of whipping cream, so I could have crepes and berries and whipped cream.

Crepes take forever to make, though, and awhile back Erin sent me a recipe for what's basically a crepe made in the oven in a 9x13 pan. The texture isn't right (too cake-y) but the taste is.

Anyway, after having done that for breakfast for three days running I am a) out of whipped cream and raspberries and b) pretty confident in being able to make it. The general idea is "make sheet-pan crepe, spread whipped cream and raspberries, roll up, slice and eat". (The original called for strawberries, cream, nutella, and dust with cocoa powder, but I don't so much like strawberries and am meh on chocolate things.) I cut the recipe in half since otherwise it's too thick for me to roll well, and learned to let it cool substantially before adding the whipped cream.

Very yum, kinda fancy, and pretty easy.

recipe )
Organization for Transformative Works ([syndicated profile] otw_news_feed) wrote2025-09-15 03:45 pm

Updates to “No Fandom” Additional Tags, September 2025

Posted by Lute

AO3 Tag Wranglers continue to test processes for wrangling canonical additional tags (tags that appear in the auto-complete) which don’t belong to any particular fandom (also known as “No Fandom” tags). This post will provide an overview of some of these upcoming changes.

In this round of updates, we continued a method which streamlines creation of new canonical tags, prioritizing more straightforward updates which would have less discussion compared to renaming current canonical tags or creating new canonical tags which touch on more complex topics. This method also reviews new tags on a regular basis, so check back on AO3 News for periodic “No Fandom” tag announcements.

None of these updates change the tags users have added to works. If a user-created tag is considered to have the same meaning as a new canonical, it will be made a synonym of one of these newly created canonical tags, and works with that user-created tag will appear when the canonical tag is selected.

In short, these changes only affect which tags appear in AO3’s auto-complete and filters. You can and should continue to tag your works however you prefer.

New Canonicals

The following concepts have been made new canonical tags:

In Conclusion

While all these new tags have already been made canonical, we are still working on implementing changes and connecting relevant tags, so it’ll be some time before these updates are complete. We thank you in advance for your patience!

While we won’t be announcing every change we make to No Fandom canonical tags, you can expect similar updates in the future on the tags we believe will most affect users. If you’re interested in the changes we’ll be making, you can continue to check AO3 News or follow us on Bluesky @wranglers.archiveofourown.org or Tumblr @ao3org for future announcements.

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applenym ([personal profile] applenym) wrote2025-09-15 09:49 am
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so many jars

In mid-August I returned from a long road trip (Minnesota to Seattle) and was seized by the urge to declutter my basement.

Every so often I feel the need to weed out my stuff, and in this fortunate moment the desire and my energy levels aligned. I attribute this particular recurring bee in my bonnet to two (obviously linked) factors: 1) my anxious brain needing to catalog exactly what stuff I have and where it all is, and 2) a childhood split between parents who lived in different states (plus my dad moved a lot).

When this mood hits, it helps that I love to organize and I'm not very sentimental about stuff. But I do have a terrible weakness, and it is this: arts & crafts supplies. Not just the obvious tools for creating art, like paintbrushes and origami paper. Oh no — I save all kinds of detritus, anything that could conceivably be used to create an art project: empty toilet paper rolls, bits of ribbon and string, old T-shirts and socks with holes in them, cardboard boxes, seashells, buttons, pretty scraps of paper and packaging, old calendars, glass jars, lids from used toothpaste tubes, the inside workings of dried-out ballpoint pens (those springs are cool), flattened cereal boxes, promotional magnets, old keys, rubber bands, et cetera ad infinitum.

The problem is that there's no good place for this kind of stuff to live in my small house. It gets pushed into nooks and crannies all over, and the psychic weight gets heavier over time. Plus I haven't actually done many craft projects in the past decade or two. Maybe I’ll get back to it someday, but who knows when?

So I did the KonMari thing and pulled all of it out of hiding and piled it into one place. I'd made passes at doing something like this before, but this time something unlocked inside of me and I was able to get rid of SO MUCH STUFF. It was GLORIOUS.

Of course some stuff is starting to creep back into the house again, but that’s mostly because I have such a weakness for glass containers. They are so good! Non-toxic, clear so you can see what’s inside them, different sizes and shapes to hold all kinds of things! Who doesn’t want a good glass jar (or several dozen)?

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lydamorehouse ([personal profile] lydamorehouse) wrote2025-09-15 09:31 am

My Weekend

Look at me posting on a Monday! Will wonders never cease?

On Saturday, I ran my usual D&D campaign. Because a lot of people find this stuff boring, I shall put my brief discussion about it under the cut.

As part of our usual Saturday alliterative errands, Shawn and I stop for coffee. (Our alliteration is: coffee, cardboard, cardamon buns... and then sometimes other that things we struggle to turn into 'c's, like Mendards which we sometimes just call 'cart,' because it's shopping.) This Saturday is was only the traditional three stops. Our cardboard recycling center has closed in Saint Paul, so now we have to drive all the way out to Roseville, which is... annoying? Though it may mean that we will return "car" to our alliterative errands as the car wash place is out in the same direction.

Anyway, my point in bringing this up is that my barista often ask me if I have fun plans for the weekend and so I mentioned D&D. One of the guys there also runs a campaign and GUESS WHAT THEY'RE PLAYING??? Yep, the same thing we are: The Curse of Strahd. Like me, he's having to do some heavy homebrewing to make it fit into the play style of his group. We both joked that we might be using some of the same source materials but there's no way we're playing the same game.

Which is what I love about GMing and RPGs in general.

So called boring stuff... )

Other things I did this weekend was start watching Altered Carbon. And, before you ask, no, I'm not watching it for the podcast. It came up when I was looking for something new and I thought: why not? I hear that the second season isn't as good, but I'm enjoying the story so far. To be clear, however, thanks to all the shounen anime that I consume I have a LARGE tolerance for what is essentially splatterpunk. I would not recommend this show to anyone squeamish about blood, gore, or realistic violence. It also treats women (particularly sex workers) as disposable and so has gotten the reputation as misogynistic, but I'm really enjoying two of the women characters in it SO FAR. We'll see how it all plays out as I go along. I'm only up to episode four, I think.

Netflix also reminded me that I need to continue with The Summer Hikaru Died, but I am waiting for a few more episodes to drop before I return to that one. At some point, too, the anime is going to go past what I've read of the manga, and I'll have to decide if I should go to the library and check out any new volumes or if I'm cool with letting the anime carry me. I'll probably be cool with just going with the anime? Sometimes you just have to because the English language release is that much further behind?

Anyway, my alarm went off for my writing accountablity Zoom so I should head off and try to do some writing!

Cake Wrecks ([syndicated profile] cakewrecks_feed) wrote2025-09-15 01:00 pm

9 Accidental Nicknames

Posted by Jen

Names are tough - there are just so many weird ones out there - so I tend to cut bakers a lot of slack when it comes to misspelling them.

But I'm pretty sure these birthday kids weren't so understanding:

"...and that's how Bobby got his nickname! Now, you two kids get going, and have a nice prom!"

 

I'm guessing something about this cake is going to rub little Chase the wrong way:

Ooh. BURN.

 

Clap your hands if you believe Tink's gonna be ticked.

This remains one of my all-time favorite name wrecks:

"Look, Stetson! It's almost like you're part of the family!"


Of all the times to mix up your "u"s and "a"s...

And this is what we call a Freudian piping slip:

It was a bittersweet parting.

 

Of course, not every name goof results in an insult. Some people even come out ahead:

Way, WAY ahead.

 

It's doubly unfortunate that these polka dots look a lot more "Turdi" than "Trudi":

What a way to go.

 

Let's hope Violet doesn't live up to her new nick name.

 

This "cookie bouquet" was for a baby shower. I'll let you spot the problem:

"Well, I SHOULD HOPE SO."

 

Thanks to Brian C.,  Elizabeth B., Beth, Natalie B., Melissa R., Lacey C., Jennifer S., Kirsten H., Addy L., & Jennie C. for not naming any names.

*****

P.S. If you're bad with names, why not plaster their faces all over a pair of socks?

Custom Face Socks

Though I have to admit it's way cuter with pets.

*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-09-15 10:17 am
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Clarke Award Finalists 2014

2014: Creationism is banned in British schools, the first same sex marriages in the UK are conducted, and Canadian Mark Carney helps the UK navigate challenging times. What ever happened to Carney, anyway?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 75


Which 2014 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

View Answers

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
72 (96.0%)

God's War by Kameron Hurley
25 (33.3%)

Nexus by Ramez Naam
10 (13.3%)

The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
5 (6.7%)

The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann
1 (1.3%)

The Machine by James Smythe
3 (4.0%)



Bold for have read, italic for intend to read, underline for never heard of it.

Which 2014 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
God's War by Kameron Hurley

Nexus by Ramez Naam
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann
The Machine by James Smythe
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antisoppist ([personal profile] antisoppist) wrote2025-09-15 01:42 pm

As You Like It

In Bath for my birthday, which was a whole two weeks ago now, [personal profile] nineveh_uk  and I went to see As You Like It with Harriet Walter in it. Harriet Walter was playing Jacques. I was pleased to find there was more of Jacques than I remembered. I just remembered him coming on lugubriously every now and then and eventually glumly producing the Seven Ages of Man speech. This is very probably because the only other time I have seen a performance of As You Like It, Jacques was played by Alan Rickman. In 1986. 

I did As You Like It for A-level (and Hamlet) and I loved it. It's fun. They all go off to the forest and find out stuff and it all ends happily and people disguise themselves as a boy like in Twelfth Night except they aren't all ganging up on Malvolio. At 18 I mostly read it as the story of the devoted loyalty (definitely loyalty yup) of Celia for Rosalind, going into exile with her and everything. In later life I realised that a lot of this came from having seen it with Celia played by Fiona Shaw.

Here are some photographs
from the 1985 Adrian Noble production. I feel third along top row does nothing to dispel my teenage view whatsoever. It was just a pity that when they got into the Forest of Arden, Juliet Stevenson as Rosalind had to wear white trousers and braces and at times a bowler hat that made her look like a mime artist. I had also totally not realised until now that Phebe was played by Lesley Manville as an 80's punk shepherdess.

Anyway, back to 2025. Here is a Guardian review with pictures.

This Forest of Arden was conveyed by projections of actual trees on curtains. I liked the trees being real and not metaphorical. It also picked up on the "sweet lovers love the spring" bit at the end and everyone being cold when they arrive by making it clear that at the start of the play it is winter and the Duke's exiled court all had chunky outdoor-wear jackets, scarves and hats and carried rucksacks, which they sat on and handily carried off with them again. 

Gloria Obianyo and Amber James had great chemistry as Rosalind and Celia but less so with Orlando and Oliver respectively. This is partly the play's fault, especially for Celia and Oliver who only have about 5 seconds to fall in love after Oliver's had a personality change after encountering a lion, but there could have been more sizzlingness between Rosalind-as-Ganymede and Orlando in the wooing-practice-while-dressed-as-a-boy bits. They had it at court but there was a missing layer of "shit I really really fancy this boy what the fuck is going on" from Orlando in the forest and Rosalind revealing herself as being Rosalind at the end just by wearing different trousers didn't help the suspension of disbelief that no-one had recognised her before.

The Guardian reviewer thinks Dylan Moran as Touchstone was a weak link but honestly so much of Touchstone is just not funny that I think having Touchstone played like he's still Bernard Black in Black Books was a plus. He made it funny. Well done Dylan Moran.

Everyone was good, especially Harriet Walter, obviously, who managed to do All the World's A Stage while eating an apple, but I want to mention Imogen Elliott as a perky, modern Phebe in her first role I think, because she was great and if she turns into Lesley Manville, I want to remember I saw her here first. 

I nearly forgot the music. I liked it all being turned into folk songs and Rosalind getting to play a guitar.  
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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2025-09-15 09:44 am

in which the march of time tramples us all

On her last visit, my aunt brought my mother a CD player and a stack of discs in the full knowledge that operating the thing would probably be impossible for her—she can't tell what she's looking at half the time when she's seen it a hundred times before, so finding tiny black-on-black buttons on an unfamiliar machine, forget about it. But no worries, the place where she lives is full of staff who are always happy to (and whose job includes) assist with that sort of thing.

Yesterday I picked her up for dinner and she said she'd asked someone to help with the CD player one morning this week when they came in to help her get dressed, and they'd said oh, sorry, they didn't actually know anything about how to do that—

—and suddenly in that moment I realized oh my god, it's—what it is, is—the Kids Today, all their music is digital, they just stream it on their phones, asking them to put any type of album in any type of player and press any type of button is completely unknown to them. This would have been the equivalent of someone asking me in the late 1990s to help their elderly mother with her 8-track player. I might as well have used the word phonograph, or victrola. Another staffer came in with a delivery as we were leaving the apartment, and I confirmed that she does know how to work a CD player so she's going to help my mom with it when she can. She's in her 40s and agrees that the young people can't do it for online digital reasons. "Hey, you printed the 'save' icon," I said. "They can't read analog clocks, either," she said. And on the drive to my house my mom and I were talking about how there didn't used to be any such thing as an analog clock or an acoustic guitar or a landline phone, because those were just called clocks and guitars and telephones, but now here we are—a biker is a person who rides a motorcycle, so a person who rides a bicycle has to be called a cyclist.

I remember when I was in high school my parents were pretty bothered that the fall of Saigon was being taught in history class, but now there are people who are grown adults with college degrees and almost old enough to run for federal office who were born after September 11, 2001. Which can't be right because that just happened. Himself pointed out that his date of birth was closer to the Armistice (1919) than to today. It's all very upsetting.

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squidgiepdx ([personal profile] squidgiepdx) wrote in [community profile] whenisitdue2025-09-15 06:36 am
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Missed Item: Signups for Spook Me!

I missed adding this somehow.  If you're looking for a Halloween-themed fest, then sign up for Spook Me!  The fest is multifandom, and signups end TODAY, September 15th.  

All the details you need are here: https://spook-me.dreamwidth.org/22878.html 
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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-15 02:31 pm

Richard Dragon: Kung Fu Fighter #17

Writer: Dennis O’Neil

Pencils and inks: Ric Estrada


Now I realise why Doom-Seer looked so familiar. He looks like a rubbish Waluigi. Waluigi would never be seen dead wearing that hat though.


Read more... )

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smallhobbit ([personal profile] smallhobbit) wrote in [community profile] no_true_pair2025-09-15 01:50 pm

Strange Behaviour: (Spooks/Sherlock Holmes, Lucas North, Mrs Hudson)

Title: Strange Behaviour
Fandom: Spooks/Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Pairing/Characters: Lucas North & Mrs Hudson
Content Notes: No warning needed
Prompt: September 15th - Lucas catches Mrs Hudson doing something unexpected

Strange Behaviour on AO3
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lirazel ([personal profile] lirazel) wrote2025-09-15 08:25 am

omg this post is so all over the place

Well, it happened. I stumbled headlong into a new fandom, as I am wont to do. I don't know how long it will last, but for right now, my new hyperfixation is The Pitt.

I am not into medical dramas as a rule, but I was very intrigued by the fact that this one is shot virtually in real time--each episode is an hour in a shift in an emergency room at a hospital in Pittsburgh. I am an absolute sucker for real-time media, and I had heard nothing but good things about the show, so I decided to watch it. I watched the first half a couple weeks back and it was ridiculously good, but it's also incredibly realistic both about how much the healthcare "system" in teh US sucks but also just about how bad things are in the US in general, so I had to take a break from it because I was overwhelmed by life.

But then after shul on Friday night, I watched all the rest, and then I was like, "I wonder if any of my favorite authors have written fic for this," and then I got sucked in and spent the whole weekend reading fic, except for yesterday afternoon and evening, when I spent the whole time writing fic, and now I have 10k words of fic and so many feels.

It kind of blows my mind, how good this show is. Occasionally it goes a little heavy-handed with things, and it's trying to address, like every aspect of American culture right now (gun violence, drug abuse, incels, political polarization around things like masks, the WebMD-ification of life, etc.), but strangely it mostly pulls it off? Probably because an ER is the perfect place to do this, actually, because it's one of the few places in the country where a genuine cross-section of the population converges and people end up spending time with people from different demographics while being very vulnerable. The sheer Muchness of everything that's going on in the show is really realistic, and I hear that the medical stuff is too.

The cast is fanfreakingtastic and the writing is so good and the direction is so good and wow! It's so good!

Anyway, if any of y'all have watched it and made posts about it, link me! I want to know your thoughts!

And now, even though nobody asked, my top ten favorite characters!

1. Mel - nothingcompares2u.mp3. My baby my darling my sweetheart my best girl. I would die on a battlefield for her and I want her to have every good thing in the whole entire world.
2. Mohan - The most beautiful, kind, and empathetic woman in the world is also a workaholic with no life and no friends. Incredible. No notes. I would watch an entire show about her crying in the bathroom. Or marry her. Y'know, whichever.
3. Dana - We all know a woman like that, right? Way too competent, way too underpaid. Everyone adores her but she’s still somehow underappreciated. I am so glad she’s coming back next season but also NO ONE HAS EVER DESERVED TO RETIRE MORE THAN SHE DOES. The world does not deserve her.
4. Cassie - Imagine her life. And she just keeps going. She’s a superhero. No wonder her ex is still obsessed with her even though he's The Worst.
5. Perlah and Princess - The Statler and Waldorf of this show. What would we do without their snark and gossip and facial reactions to everything? 10/10.
6. Garcia - Every time she comes into the room I want to burst with happiness. I love what a bitch she is. I am so glad I don’t know her in real life because she would both terrify me and piss me off. Lesbian ice queen, I’m calling it.
7. Whitaker - I bet you were wondering when a dude would show up on this list. Well there’s only one, but no surprise that it is the poor bedraggled puppy dog who got left outside in the rain. I am rooting for him. You're a good man, Dennis Whitaker.
8. Collins - The second most beautiful woman in the world. She breaks my heart. LET HER HAVE WHAT SHE WANTS DAMMIT.
9. Santos, actually - I still don’t actually like her, but what a fanfreakingtastic character. Top tier writing.
10. Javadi - She’s at the bottom of the list because she triggers my second-hand embarrassment too much. But you’re doing great, bb girl.

I actually love everyone, but but the LADIES!!! THE LADIES!!!!

And now a word about shipping:

So I watched the show without any particular shippy feelings. I of course had favorite dynamics because I am me, but I was just letting the whole thing wash over me and loving all the individual characters.

But then after I finished the show, I made the mistake of thinking, "I wonder if any of my favorite fanfic writers have written for this?" and it turned out that several had, including one who has written, like, hundreds of thousands of words of fic, and it all just happens to be Mel/Langdon, and fastforward to now and I...um...might have a new ship? Not in the sense that I want them to be together in canon--I don't think that's necessary and in fact I loooove their platonic dynamic on the show--but in the, "yes, I absolutely will read every halfway decent fic about these two that I can find."

Mostly I think the appeal is that I love Mel so damn much and I want someone to love and adore her as much as she deserves it, and thankfully said fanfic writer decided to write Langdon as being really unhinged with how much he loves and wants Mel, and I am a sucker for that. I am mostly a person who wants all the foundations of a relationship laid out in canon--y'know, your Mulder/Scully, Spock/Kirk, Buffy/Spike, Wangxian kinds of dynamics where they're clearly so ridiculously important to each other and we've seen it in front of our own two eyes. But very occasionally, a really great fandom can fill in the blanks for me, and wow, I guess that's what happened with this.

I so so so so so do not want to get into ship wars about this, which I have heard of from afar. Apparently they've got the biggest No Romo contingent since MSR, but I want to stay far far away from it. I 1000% respect anyone who doesn't ship it but I don't want to hear about it elseweb. I trust my friends here to be like, "Yeah, not for me," but live and let ship, but in other places on the internet? No way.

And also...I wrote a whole entire fic about them yesterday and am now already planning on a second. ¯\_(ツ)_/



Now I've gotta find time to make some icons....
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in my tired crone era ([personal profile] fadedwings) wrote2025-09-15 08:22 am
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What I Watched September 8 - 14

New (to me) TV:

Only Murders in the Building 1x01 - 1x03

Re-watched TV:
a few episodes of each of the following:

Leverage
Leverage: Redemption
Community

*no movies again this week*
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facethestrange ([personal profile] facethestrange) wrote in [community profile] sid_guardian2025-09-15 01:49 pm
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Guardian drawings for Sunflower Auction

(I can't believe I've never shared this here! I still have one spot left, and I only just realized that tumblr is not the only place where I can promote it. :D)

There are about exactly 12 hours left to bid in [personal profile] sunflower_auction for Ukraine (countdown), where I'm offering 3 Guardian drawings!

Drama, novel, RPF - any of them, not one drawing for each fandom. :) Weilan derivatives tentatively included (Luo Fei/Luo Fusheng included very enthusiastically). :D In addition to just drawing some regular fanart, I'd be super interested in illustrating your fic (or other people's fics, as long as they gave permission).

You can bid here! ♡

(I'm the only Guardian creator this year.)

Examples: drama | novel | RPF
To only view art without any fics, select "Fanart" under "Additional Tags" in the sidebar. I'm not pre-filtering because the general themes of my fics are also relevant to what I draw, so you may get a better feel this way.
(My icon is an example too. :D)
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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-15 12:32 pm

The Power of Shazam! (1995) #2

Writer: Jerry Ordway

Pencils: Peter Krause

Inks: Mike Manley


Captain Marvel fights a super-powered arsonist.


Read more... )

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Nevanna ([personal profile] nevanna) wrote2025-09-15 06:47 am

Ficlet Post: "Workplace Atmosphere" (The Magnus Archives)

Title: Workplace Atmosphere
Fandom: The Magnus Archives
Characters: Martin Blackwood, Gerry Keay
Words: 300
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: Martin stops by the Archives on an errand for the library, and falls into danger.
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Missing Scene, The Vast Fear Entity (The Magnus Archives), Leitner Books (The Magnus Archives), Hallucinations
Notes: I wrote this ficlet for justlukahere in the [community profile] seasonsofdrabbles exchange.
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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2025-09-15 01:34 pm
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The enormous yawning pit in front of the door is here!!

On the plus side, plumbers are here digging up the yard to fix the drain to the sewer.

On the minus side, the plumber asked me if Wax was my mom. 😂😭But on the plus (?) side that was probably more embarrassing for him than for us? (I have gray in my hair! But apparently not visibly, at a glance.) (Wax also looks young for her age, but I guess her hair looks much grayer now.)

The tenant side drains will be cut off from tomorrow, so we have to clean the bathrooms tonight so they can use our bathrooms. And the giant pit that's being dug has eliminated the direct route from their door to ours, so they'll have to go the long way around the house to reach us. And we'll have to climb over the railings and jump down the side of the stairs to our door for a little while.

But obviously it's all worth it! Because ultimately it means working drains instead of open septic tanks with a pump in them.
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selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote2025-09-15 11:59 am

To start the week with

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finished its third season, and you may have deduced from the fact I didn't review the remaining episodes that for me, it did not take a turn for the better. The Ortegas episode was probably the most, in lack of a better term, Trekian, not to mention the long awaited one with a focus on Ortegas beyond "I fly the ship", but it shares with far too many ST: SNW episodes the way it is just incredibly derivative, of both other franchises and earlier ST. And the series finale chose to pick my least favourite DS9 plotline and scenario, sigh. To complete my turn to an old grouch, the feeling of this season as Star Trek: The Rom Com didn't help, either. Anyway. I'll always have Discovery and Prodigy in terms of new ST that manages to unite both affection for the past AND originality and the courage to try out new paths and characters.
*****

Given the daily horror show that is the news, it's all the more important to find joy in fannish things, so I was delighted to discover this new Sense 8 vid. Now there was a show celebrating joy and diversity:

Sense 8

Voice in my Throat

***

And on another joyful note: Yuletide nominations have started!
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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-15 10:30 am

Nightwing (1996) #6

Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Scott McDaniel

Inks: Karl Story


Robin drops by for a visit.


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