Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 2

Jul. 14th, 2025 06:39 pm
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 2 by Kanehito Yamada

Spoilers ahead for the first volume.

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Music Monday: Killin it Girl by jhope

Jul. 14th, 2025 03:32 pm
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Yesterday jhope of BTS performed at Lollapalooza in Berlin. Here's a fan cam (not great quality) of the song Killin' it Girl. I'm thinking this will be the last solo performance of his for a while. He did his world tour (which I caught in Brooklyn in April) and he is in his 'get naked/fuck boy' phase. :)

Ninth Doctor Icons

Jul. 14th, 2025 07:34 pm
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The Tardis with the ninth doctor leaning against it in the botton corner. The Ninth Doctor, side view, greyish background. The Ninth's Doctor's face with a dalek behind him. THe Ninth Doctor grinning The Ninth Doctor.


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Superman 2025 thoughts, no spoilers

Jul. 14th, 2025 01:16 pm
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If the new Superman movie had included Súperman es Ilegal (lyrics in English and Spanish in video), even just a little bit, I might've felt all the whiners were justified in saying how woke it is. It's a charming movie with compelling performances, but "woke" is a serious overstatement by people who can't handle characters who aren't white dudes doing things.

This Ma and Pa Kent were my favorite iterations of themselves outside of comics, and I fully believed that this Clark would say, "Dang."

If you like your superheroes a little too clean-cut and a lot too earnest, you, too, may enjoy this flick.
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Dr rdrz may have noticed that (in spite of the FAIL at getting to the Birmingham workshop in early May) I have gradually been Getting Out Into the World beyond health-related appointments and walks in the local parks.

Am still being possibly unwontedly cautious.

But, anyway, on Saturday went to a BBQ in [personal profile] coughingbear and [personal profile] hano's garden - slightly earlier this year than the usual Mahv'll'ss Pahti of the summer - and it was lovely to see them and other friends after so long being A Hermit.

Still (as found at conference the other week) having issues adjusting to the hearing aids - when there are several conversations happening - I think this possibly depends a bit on where I am positioned in relation to them - a distinct sense of (very dating reference) trying to tune in radio and getting two or more overlapping stations.

But on the whole was, I think, Coping.

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Jul. 14th, 2025 09:46 am
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Happy birthday, [personal profile] swingandswirl!

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Jul. 13th, 2025 11:57 pm
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Challenge #4

Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.
Creative: Write from the perspective of a house or other location.

There is one house I can think of that must have seen a lot over the years, would have stories to tell if it could, and that is Colony House in the TV show From.

Title: No One Here Is Free
Fandom: From
Characters: Colony House, Jasmine, Smiley, Old Lady Creature, Donna, Victor, Ellis, Fatima, Jade, Boyd, Nicki, Acosta, Kevin, Clara
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Spoilers all through S3, mentions of character deaths
Summary: Colony House was originally a family home.

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Sunshine Revival #3: Snack Shack

Jul. 13th, 2025 05:28 pm
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Challenge #3

Journaling prompt: What are your favorite summer-associated foods?
Creative prompt: Draw art of or make graphics of summer foods, or post your favorite summer recipes. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Mostly fruit and cold things and fair or picnic food.

1. Popsicles
2. Watermelon
3. Strawberries
4. Blackberries
5. Deviled eggs
6. Cherries
7. Funnel cakes
8. Ice cream
9. Lemonade
10. Snow cones

I had 2 cherry stickers, so I did this small collage.

Sunshine Revival #4

Jul. 13th, 2025 03:27 pm
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Challenge #4

Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.

1. Ellita
2. Feeling hopeful about work (but also nervous)
3. Watching Ted Lasso with E (y’all were SO right! Thank you for encouraging me to stick with it)
4. My plants/garden
5. Sitting in the hammock with Ellita and talking with E
6. Having the time and energy to read
7. HEB Peach Guava sparkling water
8. Postcrossing
9. Changing up my work wardrobe
10. Having my ear piercings reopened so that I can wear earrings again

It's Alive!

Jul. 13th, 2025 09:48 pm
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Gonna run the Ukraine auction again.

If anyone wants to run a similar event (watermelon_auction?), I'm happy to share whatever I can (my backend post-automating code is already available here, though I haven't used it since).

Culinary

Jul. 13th, 2025 08:04 pm
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This week's bread: a Standen loaf, 4:1 Strong Brown/buckwheat flour, with maple syrup (last drain from bottle) instead of honey and Rayner's Malt Extract. V nice.

During the course of the week I made Famous Aubergine Dip to take to a BBQ.

Saturday breakfast rolls: adaptable soft rolls recipe: approx 70/30% wholemeal/white spelt flour, Rayner's Malt Extract, dried cranberries, not bad.

Also made foccacia to take to BBQ.

Today's lunch: sweet potato gratin with black olive tapenade (as there were sweet potatoes left over from last week), served with warm green bean and fennel salad (I did use tarragon vinegar but I think this had rather lost its oomph) and baby green pak choi stirfried with garlic.

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I was planning to post about The Hound of the Baskervilles in sections for the Sundays in the summer (i.e., before the boys return to school). I was intending to start last Sunday but my anxiety about the job was so high I could barely function so let's see if I can catch up a little but keep with the plan.

The Hound of the Baskervilles was published in The Strand from August 1901 - April 1902.

I actually managed to view a first edition (or at least an early edition) of it in an antique shop in one of the malls in Las Vegas when I visited there 2 years ago for the BTS concert.



It is the Sherlock Holmes work which has been most adapted, I think, into other media (film, TV, radio plays, etc.). I did a little research on the many adaptations but if you have a favorite, please drop it in the comments.

I only have the bandwidth to do the first chapter today.

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 we get a deduction (which is my favorite part of any story). A prospective client has left behind his walking stick (called a Penang lawyer) and Watson and Holmes deduce characteristics of its owner. In The Annotated Holmes one scholar remarks:

It is curious how frequenly Holmes' clients took insufficient care of their property. The result was always highly satisfactory for Holmes invariably made a reconstruction of the missing client from the missing article.

[We see this in "The Blue Carbuncle" with the hat.]

Here's Holmes looking at the stick.

chapter 1

We will meet the owner of the stick in Chapter 2 and learn what business he has with Holmes.
chapter 1 page 2

Chapter 1 page 2 of the manuscript

Sunshine Revival Challenge #4

Jul. 13th, 2025 12:51 pm
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Challenge #4

Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.
Creative: Write from the perspective of a house or other location.

I thought I would do top ten Fanlore Featured Articles.  So, if you don't know, the Fanlore editors are constantly nominating and voting on the Featured Article, if it gets enough "yes" votes then it is featured on the Main Page of Fanlore (similar to Wikipedia).  This has been going on since 2017, so there been quite a lot of them.  This is very much biased and based on vibes and the ones I like best, but all featured articles are interesting to some degree.

1. Sherlock Holmes
2. Last Outpost Of All That Is
3. goodbye, my brothers...
4. Endverse
5. Tarsus IV
6. Sex Pollen
7. Star Trek: Tik Tok
8. Iolaus
9. Podfic Cover Art
10. Folgers "Home for the Holidays" Commercial

It was harder to choose than I thought!  There are so many good articles that have been featured over the years!

I won't be able to do the creative prompt today, my brain just won't let me write lately.  My poor Fandom Trumps Hate recipient is still waiting on their fic, although I have told them they probably won't get it till autumn now.  I'm like "Brain, please write!" and my brain is like "No! No write, only stress about buying a house and moving!"  Sigh.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 1

Jul. 13th, 2025 01:26 pm
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 1 by Kanehito Yamada

Prologue: the hero and his companions -- one the elf Frieren -- are honored for the defeat and death of the Demon King. They watch a meteor shower and Frieren speaks of seeing it in a better place to view, in 50 years.

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Sunshine Revival #2: Tunnel of Love

Jul. 13th, 2025 01:04 pm
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Adjusting to the job, I am behind on...everything. I am still figuring out when to do things and how to engineer motivation to do things and how to prioritize and what things will have to be cut from to the to-do list permanently because there simply isn't as much free time as there was. So please bear with me (I am speaking to myself more than you because I have discovered over and over again that my friends are MUCH kinder to me than I ever am to myself).

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Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.
Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like


In 2023 and 2024, I did Fannish 50 so I have a nice list of things I like. Mysteries & detective stories, ghost stories, poetry, audiobooks, puzzles, collage, BTS, miniatures, art, libraries, coffee, chocolate, Christmas & Halloween, okapis & sea turtles, the ocean, the moon, tea, bees & honey, tarot, fireworks, autumn, Snoopy.

I watched the latest Venom movie last night. Parts of it were very good. I am glad they left The Girl out of it this time. I was glad Mrs. Chen got a beautiful cameo. I can't say it 'got my heart pumping' but I enjoyed it.

I finished the jigsaw puzzle below yesterday [Around the World in 50 Plants, 1000 pieces, art by Lucille Clerc, a decent puzzle, well-fitting pieces], and there is ALWAYS a satisfaction at putting the last piece in. Is it better than sex? My ace-spectrum self says YES. I also like poetry and this is poem #26 from Jo Bell's book 52: write a poem a week. Start now. Keep going. The prompt was erotica. I write PLENTY of explicit fic and have written explicit poetry, too, but I combined it with the journal prompt of the Sunshine Revival.

jigsaw by okapi

they spill into the lid. like shelling peas
like wheat from chaff. or sheep from goat.
soft noise, soft rhythm, fingers flick with ease
and satisfaction. bedlam’s antidote.

define fine boundaries and orient
the scene. an orgy. orifice and limb
are rife. there’s wanting and there’s turgescent
as error and trial make order of whim

But there. And there. And there. No. Yes. the frame
takes shape. union by union. head to tail
and tail to head. with time, the eye can name
the subtleties of hue and pattern scale

reward is the breath held ‘til the last piece
has found its way home, then sigh of release

Multifandom icons!

Jul. 13th, 2025 12:35 pm
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