Late late fandoming

Jul. 12th, 2025 07:58 pm
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I finished Midst a good while ago, and wow, what a finale that was! Weepe was, in fact, not exactly aiming to do any good and did just explode things further, and omgg, that final battle was so, so cool!! All the narrators' descriptions of the different tearrors and Weepe dying and the creature he became, it's all just kinda awesomely terrifying, super well done. And the moment when Phineas was dying and Lark saved him!! Love it so much, what a super cool story and experience!

The creators did a short roleplay series with some of the Critical Role cast called Moonward, and that is also a very very cool experience! The production is super cool, and Xen is a phenomenal guide, and the live music production was super neat as well! I loved the scene with Mother Trauma turning on Walden with his eyes glowing all red and going you are mine, so so cool omg. I'm a big fan of the Third Person narrators and what they do, and I know they've got a new series going on called Unend, I'm excited to check it out sometime!

I started watching some playthroughs of The Coffin of Andy and Leyley a good bit ago after hearing about it and seeing some art from it, and ohhh man is it right up my alley, haha. I love how super messed up both Andrew and Ashley are, in general and about each other, it's a very fun mess. It's also incredibly messed up how the creator was harassed because of the messed up horror content in a messed up horror game, and I'm glad they went hard on the incest in the first bit of chapter three we've gotten. All the routes in the third chapter are so wild! I'm excited to see where they go from there.

I've been keeping up with Helluva Boss! I enjoyed Mastermind and Sinsmas, the visuals and animation in both are cool, and I love all the music in Sinsmas. I also really enjoy where Blitzo and Stolas have ended up, with their power dynamic turned on its head even further and how genuine and earnest Blitzo is in caring for Stolas, and just everything with Stolas and Octavia, aw. The dance scene in the finale with them is super bittersweet, and I'm curious to see where things go from there.

I also read Watership Down by Richard Adams earlier this year and really enjoyed it! It's been a while since I've read any books that aren't manga, so that was really nice. <3

Daily Check In.

Jul. 12th, 2025 06:22 pm
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Saturday to midnight on Sunday (8pm Eastern Time).


Poll #33351 Daily poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 18

How are you doing?

I am okay
12 (66.7%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
6 (33.3%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
6 (33.3%)

One other person
9 (50.0%)

More than one other person
3 (16.7%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

第四年第一百八十四天

Jul. 12th, 2025 06:51 pm
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部首
⺁ part 2
厌, to dislike; 厕, bathroom; 厘, 1/100; 厚, thick pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=27

词汇
握手, handshake; 把握, grasp pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
陪我去上个厕所, come to the bathroom with me
我也没有十足的把握, I didn't grasp it fully either

Me:
在夏天我很讨厌穿太厚的衣服。
你为什么拒绝了跟他握手?

Birdfeeding

Jul. 12th, 2025 03:27 pm
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Today is cloudy, mild, and wet.  It rained earlier.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a male cardinal.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 7/12/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

It started drizzling again.

EDIT 7/12/25 -- I potted up 2 apricot seeds.

I picked the first ripe cucumber.  :D






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I'm too tired to word an actual post but I don't have to because Ateez dropped this so...




Discuss. (vampireteez!)

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The New School Reader: Fourth Book

Jul. 12th, 2025 04:10 pm
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The New School Reader: Fourth Book by Charles Walton Sanders

A 1856 book on elocution. Opens with discussions of how to say things, and then offers many samples of eloquent prose and poetry to praise on -- and to have your character formed by, since, as he writes, they were chosen toward that important end.

Murderbot Interview

Jul. 12th, 2025 03:05 pm
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Here's a gift link for the New York Times interview with Paul and Chris Weitz, who wrote, directed, and produced Murderbot:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/arts/television/murderbot-season-finale-chris-paul-weitz.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V08.exvw.M_qE37ROOT58&smid=url-share

The Everlasting, by Alix E. Harrow

Jul. 12th, 2025 02:51 pm
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Review copy provided by the publisher.

This is a bit like if The Book of Ash had a massively repeating time loop and was explicitly anti-fascist, and clocked in at almost exactly 300 pages.

So...not a lot like The Book of Ash actually. Ah well. It does have a scholar/historian, it does have examination of the legends of the past and how they serve the goals of the present. It does have complicated human relationships, and it does have about as much blood as something this full of swords should by rights have.

There's a love story at the heart of this, possibly more than one depending on how you read it, but structurally it is definitely not a romance. It might be the older kind of romance, with knights fighting for their honor, with strange and wondrous events. Time loops certainly qualify, I should think. But the characters have a real tinge to them--they are explicitly not the stained glass icons some of them see from time to time in the text. If I had one complaint it could be my common one with time loops: that it's hard to get the balance right so that repetition and change are harmonized in just the right way. But I'd still recommend the way Harrow is determined to examine how the stories we tell serve ends that may not be our own--and what we can do about that.

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MAID: Oh, his lies sound pretty when the stars are out. - But he forgets every promise he’s made when the sun comes up again.
DARLA: That wouldn’t really be a problem for me actually.

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I had the opportunity to go to a concert of his recently and enjoyed his part of the show exceedingly. The opening act, Puddles Pity Party, was very much not my thing, alas, but Mr. Yankovic is exuberantly himself, the costume changes are lolarious, and the music is inimitably Weird. If you like his work, you'll almost certainly like his concert. Extra points awarded for the songs (not all of them, alas) that had text videos, effectively functioning as closed captioning with a sense of humor.

Also, the audience was full of people wearing extremely cheerful shirts, and made great viewing.

I have not seen the most recent Murderbot yet, but I did spot David Dastmalchian as John Deacon in a clip of Weird-the-biopic which was played at the concert, so that's almost the same thing, right? I was very proud of my facial recognition software for picking up on that. I would like to belatedly award points to the casting department for finding a way to get another MENA-descended person into Queen, which is a great joke I didn't get at the time.

I loved the new Murderbot short story, which I read aloud to my SO.
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Jul. 12th, 2025 02:31 pm
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