私信 まるです。 ([syndicated profile] maru_feed) wrote2025-08-17 11:00 pm

跳べます。Maru can jump.

Posted by mugumogu

新しいソファ、まるさんにはちょっと高さがありすぎるかなー、なんて思っていたら。 I thought this new sofa might be a little too tall for Maru. まる:「とうっ!」 […]
MetaFilter ([syndicated profile] metafilter_feed) wrote2025-08-17 07:22 pm

The Hugo Awards for 2025

Posted by Wobbuffet

2025's Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Award winners have been announced. Video of the awards ceremony is on Youtube. Administrator's report and voting stats PDFs. Seattle Worldcon 2025 previously. In 2026, Worldcon will be held in Anaheim, and in 2027, Worldcon will be held in Montréal.

Results for selected categories ... Best Novel Best Novella Best Novelette Best Short Story Best Series Best Graphic Story or Comic
  • WINNER: Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way written by Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio (Goodreads; Storygraph)
  • The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag (Goodreads; Storygraph)
  • The Hunger and the Dusk: Vol. 1 written by G. Willow Wilson, art by Chris Wildgoose (Goodreads; Storygraph)
  • Monstress, Vol. 9: The Possessed written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Goodreads; Storygraph)
  • My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2 by Emil Ferris (Goodreads; Storygraph)
  • We Called Them Giants written by Kieron Gillen, art by Stephanie Hans, lettering by Clayton Cowles (Goodreads; Storygraph)
Best Related Work Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
  • WINNER: Star Trek: Lower Decks: "The New Next Generation" (Fanfare)
  • Fallout: "The Beginning" (Fanfare)
  • Agatha All Along: "Death's Hand in Mine" (Fanfare)
  • Doctor Who: "Dot and Bubble" (Fanfare)
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks: "Fissure Quest" (Fanfare)
  • Doctor Who: "73 Yards" (Fanfare)
Best Game or Interactive Work Best Semiprozine Best Fanzine Best Fancast Best Poem Lodestar Award for Best YA Book
MetaFilter ([syndicated profile] metafilter_feed) wrote2025-08-17 06:29 pm

"There's nothing to watch"

Posted by chavenet

Discover movies through an interactive visualization. Explore tens of thousands of films in a unique force-directed voronoi diagram interface.
MetaFilter ([syndicated profile] metafilter_feed) wrote2025-08-17 06:08 pm

Greg Holden

Posted by jeffburdges

We Didn't Learn a Thing, Off With Their Heads, What Am I Supposed To Say, Fuck It, Humans

I linked only new-ish songs above, since he appeared here previously, but I do recommend his older songs too, so see his his youtube.
fadedwings: Leverage OT3 together, hiding behind something (Leverage: OT3 in action)
fadedwings ([personal profile] fadedwings) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-08-17 11:58 am

Leverage: Fanfiction: too much twinkle

Title: too much twinkle
Fandom: Leverage
Characters: Eliot Spencer, Alec Hardison, Parker
Length: 200 words
Rating: Teen
Warnings: none
Summary: Parker’s tree might have a little too much twinkle.


too much twinkle )
runpunkrun: combat boot, pizza, camo pants = punk  (punk rock girl)
Punk ([personal profile] runpunkrun) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-08-17 08:25 am
Entry tags:

Round 178 Theme Poll

Poll #33498 round 178 theme poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 101

Pick the next theme of fancake:

Food & Cooking
43 (42.6%)

Manners & Etiquette
26 (25.7%)

Whump
32 (31.7%)

MetaFilter ([syndicated profile] metafilter_feed) wrote2025-08-17 01:30 pm

Slavery, 21st-Century Style

Posted by rory

In a decade of many horrors, this has to be among the worst. Hundreds of thousands of people from developing countries have been lured to Thailand with the promise of well-paid IT jobs and then enslaved in scam call centres in the no man's land across the Myanmar border.

The problem grows worse, despite the freeing of several thousand earlier in the year. The victims are tortured if they refuse to work or work too slowly, and are bought and sold by the Chinese criminal gangs running the centres, abetted by the corrupt Myanmar warlords who control the region.
umadoshi: (fancrone - china_shop)
Ysabet ([personal profile] umadoshi) wrote2025-08-17 10:56 am

Weekly proof of life: mostly media

Reading: [personal profile] scruloose and I finished listening to Artificial Condition and have started Rogue Protocol (but only barely--we've listened to however much of chapter 1 we could get in over supper on Friday before [personal profile] scruloose had to be doing something else).

We'll Prescribe You a Cat (Syou Ishida) was a very quick read and hard for me to pin down. It's a story in the vein of "~mysterious~ place provides X [often wishes granted or strange/deadly creatures, as in xxxHOLiC or Pet Shop of Horrors], but the actual cats being prescribed mostly appear to be just ("just") cats. I think this is the first in a series. Alas, I find the prose of the translation awfully flat, and can only hope I would've found the book more engaging in different hands.

I also read The City in Glass, which was my first time reading Nghi Vo. Gorgeous prose, a neat concept, and a great read overall.

Watching: We're six episodes into The Summer Hikaru Died (which is, I suppose unsurprisingly given the premise, touching on a significant existential question from Newsflesh [and from plenty of other places]). It continues to be very good. ^_^

I think we also saw an ep. of Silo sometime last week.

And on Friday I started watching Glass Heart on my own. As so often turns out to be the way, choosing it from my horrifying to-watch list was mostly random. Sometimes the choice is made simply because something is short (ten episodes, in this case) and I've seen several friends talking about it very recently. I'm six episodes in now.

I knew going in that Machida Keita is in it (who I knew only from Cherry Magic). I did not know in advance that Satoh Takeru is one of the leads, and then couldn't place him until I caved and looked up the cast. (He played Kenshin in the live-action Rurouni Kenshin movies [of which I've still only seen the first], and was impossibly good in the role. I keep meaning to rewatch the first and watch the others, despite my feelings about the franchise overall being irrevocably poisoned now by the horrible revelations about the creator. I still need to offload my set of the manga. >.<)

Weathering: The drought continues. Parts of the province are on fire, although the uncomfortably-close-to-me wildfire is under control, last I heard.

Planning: We don't have tickets yet, because there aren't yet showtimes for it, but the plan is to see Dongji Rescue late in the week. *fidgets*
MetaFilter ([syndicated profile] metafilter_feed) wrote2025-08-17 07:10 am

Primed to embrace spirituality in a non-corny way

Posted by chavenet

Now knowledge is shifting again. Ballooning. As AI eats the world, knowledge feels faster, flatter, streamlined. It's valued differently. The way we obtain it is determined by corporate technocracy. It doesn't belong to us. How does literature respond to the fact that we have created and stored more data—knowledge compressed—since the year 2000 than over the rest of human history? Frankly, how does it compete? Enter igno-fiction: stories that lean into all that humans do not know. from Igno-fiction [Dirt]

This is Part II of Where will the next literary movement come from?
APOD ([syndicated profile] apod_feed) wrote2025-08-17 05:16 am
m_findlow: (Jack sad)
m_findlow ([personal profile] m_findlow) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-08-17 01:17 pm

Torchwood: Fanfic: When the lights go out

Title: When the lights go out
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,161 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 488 - Twinkle
Summary: Jack sees the stars in a completely different light.

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