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It embiggens itself
Aug. 17th, 2025 04:37 ammetafilter_feedThe courtship display of Temminck's Tragopan is a sight to behold.
Torchwood: Fanfic: When the lights go out
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fan_flashworksTitle: 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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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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The human soul shines on in the most absurd way possible
Aug. 16th, 2025 10:34 pmmetafilter_feedAs the guttering flame of human endeavor on the internet flickers to a close, Every 5x5 Nonogram [previously] confronted us with an opportunity: an opportunity to collaboratively, as a community, perform a task that could be completed in mere minutes by a moderately powerful chromebook. And as a community we rose to that challenge. As of this writing, puzzlers from around the world have come together to solve over 24.3 million of the 24,976,511 possible solvable 5x5 nonograms. Sometime over the next forty-eight hours, it is likely that the monumental task will finally be completed. And in a world in which computation is rapidly replacing thought, and generated content is displacing the human soul itself, is this, in itself, not an act of resistance?
The answer is no. No, it is not. These are really easy puzzles, folks. Anyway, if you want to solve a few, get your last licks in while you can.
The answer is no. No, it is not. These are really easy puzzles, folks. Anyway, if you want to solve a few, get your last licks in while you can.
Tiny House, Big Fix, by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Aug. 16th, 2025 03:31 pmrachelmanija
Of the MANY bait-and-switch books I've been tricked into reading, this takes the prize for the biggest switch. The back cover says it's about a single mom carpenter who builds a tiny house for herself and her daughters to live in. The title is about tiny houses. There is a tiny house on the cover. I read the book because I thought it would be about building a tiny house.
The book is actually about the events leading up to her building the tiny house. She doesn't build the tiny house until the LAST CHAPTER. It takes up about four pages.
A side hustle suggestion
Aug. 16th, 2025 09:29 pmmetafilter_feedDo you enjoy returning your shopping cart, aka that taking of aim and pushing the cart from far away to see if you can get it in the pen? That's called shopping cart archery and it's a thing in Germany.
Movies: Superman, Kpop Demon Hunters
Aug. 16th, 2025 10:07 pmschneefinkI mostly went to the cinema to watch Superman today because I wanted to feel like I did anything, but I did have a good time.
I'm so out of ~practice watching superhero movies, I kept getting distracted by logic. But other than that I did enjoy the superhero parts, and the Superman parts. (The romance I was neutral on.)
This is another movie where the villain had a good point somewhere in there originally but left "reasonable" behind several thousand miles ago. Yes having extremely powerful metahumans/aliens that can interfere in any conflict they like apparently without any oversight is very concerning (no matter how "human" they feel) but, uh. Excellent job making this Luthor both very evil and very scary.
(I didn't like Krypto. As a "character" he was fun but I really dislike badly trained exuberant dogs and one with superpowers is so much worse.)
A few weeks ago I organized a movie night with friends to watch Kpop Demon Hunters because I'd heard so much about it and that was a great decision. Here I didn't get distracted by logic once ^^ It was just a fun time. And the songs are very catchy, too. I've already sung one at karaoke (This is what it sounds like) and tried two of them in Beat Saber (Golden was very difficult, Soda Pop on easy was indeed easy.)
I only took a brief look at fandom/fanfic but I'm not feeling that fannish about it. (I was surprised that the common assumption seems to be
I'm so out of ~practice watching superhero movies, I kept getting distracted by logic. But other than that I did enjoy the superhero parts, and the Superman parts. (The romance I was neutral on.)
This is another movie where the villain had a good point somewhere in there originally but left "reasonable" behind several thousand miles ago. Yes having extremely powerful metahumans/aliens that can interfere in any conflict they like apparently without any oversight is very concerning (no matter how "human" they feel) but, uh. Excellent job making this Luthor both very evil and very scary.
(I didn't like Krypto. As a "character" he was fun but I really dislike badly trained exuberant dogs and one with superpowers is so much worse.)
A few weeks ago I organized a movie night with friends to watch Kpop Demon Hunters because I'd heard so much about it and that was a great decision. Here I didn't get distracted by logic once ^^ It was just a fun time. And the songs are very catchy, too. I've already sung one at karaoke (This is what it sounds like) and tried two of them in Beat Saber (Golden was very difficult, Soda Pop on easy was indeed easy.)
I only took a brief look at fandom/fanfic but I'm not feeling that fannish about it. (I was surprised that the common assumption seems to be
spoilers
that Rumi's mother had a secret love affair with a demon - I think it might even be word of god canon - while my first thought was that she was probably raped. Fandom is also very hard on Celine, which on the one hand I understand but she was also in a super shitty position.)Tags:
- community promo,
- event type: community promo,
- event type: drabble comm,
- event type: prompt challenge,
- fandom: agents of shield,
- fandom: avengers,
- fandom: captain america,
- fandom: captain marvel,
- fandom: cloak & dagger,
- fandom: daredevil,
- fandom: defenders,
- fandom: doctor stranger,
- fandom: guardians of the galaxy,
- fandom: inhumans,
- fandom: ironman,
- fandom: jessica jones,
- fandom: marvel,
- fandom: mcu,
- fandom: ms. marvel,
- fandom: punisher,
- fandom: runaways,
- fandom: spider-man,
- fandom: thor,
- fandom: thunderbolts,
- fandom: x-men,
- fanwork type: fanfiction
There is a lot more trouble to come
Aug. 16th, 2025 07:47 pmmetafilter_feedFrom a systemic perspective, the GENIUS Act's main shortcoming is its failure to deal effectively with the inherent risk of stablecoin runs, because it prevents regulators from prescribing strong capital, liquidity, and other safeguards. And when any stablecoin issuer – domestic or foreign – gets into trouble, who will step in, and with what authority, to prevent the problems from spreading to the real economy, like in the 1930s? from The Crypto Crises Are Coming [Project Syndicate; ungated]
a first ball of yarn
Aug. 16th, 2025 01:00 pmyhlee
It's wildly inconsistent (wool/sari silk waste blend, about 30 g / 1.2 oz) and I struggled with the learning curve for plying (first on a Turkish spindle that was too small for plying, then on the wheel once I figured out how to adjust the takeup; mine uses scotch tension) but hey, it exists!
I remain desperately curious about the mordant because I soaked yarn in hot water for an hour and the water ran completely clear, and it's a red dye!
But as therapeutic activities (quite literally this doubles as physical therapy for my wrecked ankles, and I'm still sick), this is very satisfying.
Sherlock: Declarations of Mutual Devotion by waketosleep
Aug. 16th, 2025 06:28 amgarryowen posting in fancakeFandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Pairings/Characters: Sherlock/John
Rating: Teen
Length: 2007 words + companion stories
Creator Links:![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
waketosleep
Theme: Marriage of convenience
Summary:
"We should really get married."
John stared at the red mark on his wrist. "I'm sorry, what?"
Reccer's Notes: I almost never revisit this fandom, but when I recced waketosleep's Trek story for this theme, it came to my attention that w2s was a little obsessed with marriages of convenience and had a fantastic and charming gem of a fic where Sherlock co-opts John's life (again), and John (again) doesn't mind at all.
I don't know if I've ever seen hospital access as a reason for a marriage of convenience, but I am here for it! It's practical and a little grim, typical of Sherlock. The interactions between Sherlock and John are spot on and hilarious. In 2000 words, we also get Mrs Hudson, Lestrade, and Mycroft, all contributing to the comedy gold in their understated way.
This story belongs to two different series. The Intellectual Intercourse series is the easiest way to navigate everything if you want to read beyond this fic.
Fanwork Links: Declarations of Mutual Devotion
Pairings/Characters: Sherlock/John
Rating: Teen
Length: 2007 words + companion stories
Creator Links:
Theme: Marriage of convenience
Summary:
"We should really get married."
John stared at the red mark on his wrist. "I'm sorry, what?"
Reccer's Notes: I almost never revisit this fandom, but when I recced waketosleep's Trek story for this theme, it came to my attention that w2s was a little obsessed with marriages of convenience and had a fantastic and charming gem of a fic where Sherlock co-opts John's life (again), and John (again) doesn't mind at all.
I don't know if I've ever seen hospital access as a reason for a marriage of convenience, but I am here for it! It's practical and a little grim, typical of Sherlock. The interactions between Sherlock and John are spot on and hilarious. In 2000 words, we also get Mrs Hudson, Lestrade, and Mycroft, all contributing to the comedy gold in their understated way.
This story belongs to two different series. The Intellectual Intercourse series is the easiest way to navigate everything if you want to read beyond this fic.
Fanwork Links: Declarations of Mutual Devotion
Gage deserves a better legacy
Aug. 16th, 2025 08:02 ammetafilter_feedThe stories told about Gage and the theories of frontal lobe function that draw on his life speak powerfully to our beliefs about morality and free will. But they are not really scientific. Instead, they are drawn from spiritual beliefs and superstitions. They revive the 17th-century ideas of Thomas Hobbes about civilisation's role in suppressing the most barbarous aspects of human nature. They sustain imagery from pseudosciences like phrenology, in which personality and morality were 'read' in the shape of a person's skull. from Injury and inhibition [Aeon; ungated]
Murderbot fic: Natal Day Gifting
Aug. 15th, 2025 11:55 pmsholioBookverse-compliant except for Pin-Lee's TV pronouns, written for a Tumblr prompt.
Title: Natal Day Gifting
Word Count: 1400 words
Characters: Gen, Murderbot & Gurathin, PresAux in general
Summary: Murderbot gets dragged along on a birthday present shopping expedition. It enjoys this surprisingly somewhat more than expected.
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/69306156
( Notes and Prompt )
( Fic under the cut )
Title: Natal Day Gifting
Word Count: 1400 words
Characters: Gen, Murderbot & Gurathin, PresAux in general
Summary: Murderbot gets dragged along on a birthday present shopping expedition. It enjoys this surprisingly somewhat more than expected.
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/69306156
( Notes and Prompt )
( Fic under the cut )
I'll be glad when you're dead
Aug. 16th, 2025 05:02 ammetafilter_feedOver the last few decades a diss track has been typically found in the hip hop world with the latest being the big beef between Drake and Kendrick but this post isn't about that business. Diss tracks have been a round for a long time. Below the cut are a few that you may have missed and a brand new one.
These aren't really diss tracks because as far as I know, there's no beefing going on but there is zero doubt that there is a person that is being sung to or about with these next songs. Your Mind is on Vacation by the great Mose Allison. Well You Can Do it Without Me by the the very clever wordsmith Father John Misty. Tyler Childers has some thoughts on the subject that he put together on his Bitin' List. I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you done by many, this one is by Louis Armstrong. Bonus link, the same song by a very young Sammy Davis. Bonus bonus link, Louis Armstrong again but as performed on Betty Boop, video included. Bonus bonus bonus link, as sung by Louis Prima and the version of this song I first heard years ago.
These aren't really diss tracks because as far as I know, there's no beefing going on but there is zero doubt that there is a person that is being sung to or about with these next songs. Your Mind is on Vacation by the great Mose Allison. Well You Can Do it Without Me by the the very clever wordsmith Father John Misty. Tyler Childers has some thoughts on the subject that he put together on his Bitin' List. I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you done by many, this one is by Louis Armstrong. Bonus link, the same song by a very young Sammy Davis. Bonus bonus link, Louis Armstrong again but as performed on Betty Boop, video included. Bonus bonus bonus link, as sung by Louis Prima and the version of this song I first heard years ago.
