Removal of books

Aug. 23rd, 2025 09:56 pm
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I spent some time yesterday removing J K Rowling’s books from my shelves and replacing them with the pile of gaming books which have been piled on my floor for not just months but years.

The aim is to give the Rowling books to charity. I have no problem with other people reading them, but I won’t be reading them again and having them on the shelves was annoying me. Just about everything she says on X annoys me. She’s a twat.

I mean, I have no problem if a person who’s 6’4” with a beard you could hide a badger in wants to use female pronouns. It’s their choice and not acceding to their wishes is rude. Even if I think they’re nuts, I keep my thoughts to myself. If they want to use female toilets it doesn’t bother me. I’m asexual and other people’s genitalia are of no interest.

Rom: Spaceknight #26

Aug. 23rd, 2025 09:33 pm
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Writer: Bill Mantlo

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Inks: Joe Sinnott


Galactus hungers and he has set his sights on Galador.


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Murderbot Humble Bundle

Aug. 23rd, 2025 02:34 pm
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If anyone has not yet picked up the Murderbot books, this is a wonderful way to do so for $18 total and to pick up a few other Wells books as well!  It includes all the Murderbot books and all the short stories except for the very first "Compulsory" one that you can find still free online, IIRC.

From what I can tell, these are epubs without DRM.


Robin III: Cry of the Huntress #3

Aug. 23rd, 2025 05:03 pm
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Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Bob Smith


Robin and the Huntress team-up to take on the Russian Mob.


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[admin post] Admin Post: Mereth Aderthad Presentations Available

Aug. 23rd, 2025 11:51 am
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Mereth Aderthad Presentations Available

The majority of the presentations from Mereth Aderthad are now available as videos with accompanying transcripts or full papers. If you missed a presentation or want to give one a second (or more!) look, we invite you to check them out! Everything Mereth Aderthad-related can be found on the interactive program, which is continuously updated as new material comes in.

Here are the videos that have been posted, alphabetical by title:

Mereth Aderthad Presentations )

Rec: "Hymn" (short film)

Aug. 23rd, 2025 11:01 pm
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未來讚美詩 Hymn

未来赞美诗 (Hymn) was released digitally just a couple weeks ago and while it's not entirely unique, it's one of the more interesting pieces of Chinese media I've seen recently. It's a 20-minute film about emotional exploitation and predatory technology told through the story of a mother (played by Cecilia Yip) and her son (played by Steven Zhang / Zhang Xincheng—you may know him as Pei Su in Justice in the Dark). Best to go in without expectations! Do note that this isn't a happy story.

You can watch it (with English subs) in several places:
  • Weibo (shared by Zhang Xincheng)
  • Youtube
  • Daily Motion

    Some personal notes/thoughts about it (contains spoilers) )
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    Well, "god" is a tricky one because that's just who and what Thor is. What role the gods play and what they mean to mortals might be a bone of contention, but [it] feels like a pretty minor point in the day-to-day life and adventures of an Asgardian. I'd imagine the average Marvel citizen spends at least some time chewing over whether or not Thor is a "real god." I can guarantee Thor spends no time at all on it. -- Al Ewing

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    Aug. 23rd, 2025 09:40 am
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    [personal profile] genarti and I both recently read Leonora Carrington's 1974 surrealist novel The Hearing Trumpet, about a selectively deaf old lady whose unappreciative relatives put her into an old age home, where various increasingly weird things happen, cut in case you want to go in unspoiled )

    Beth found the pace and tone of plotting very Joan Aiken-ish and I have to admit I agree with her.

    BETH: But I understand that The Hearing Trumpet is like this because Carrington was a surrealist. Is it possible that Joan Aiken was also a surrealist this whole time and we've simply not been looking at her work through the right lens?
    ME: I don't think her life landed her in quite the right set of circumstances to be a surrealist properly ... I think she was a little too young when the movement was kicking off .... but I do think that perhaps she believed in their beliefs even if she didn't know it ....

    Anyway, The Hearing Trumpet is in some ways has elements of a classically seventies feminist text -- she wrote it while deeply involved in Mexico's 1970s women's liberation movement, and the whole occultist nun -> holy grail -> icepocalypse plot has a lot of Sacred Sexy Goddess Repressed By The Evil And Prudish Christian Church running through it -- but Marian Leatherby's robust and and opinionated ninety-year-old voice is so charmingly unflappable that the experience is never in the least bit predictable or cliche. My favorite character is Marian's best friend Carmella, who kicks off the book by giving mostly-deaf Marian the hearing trumpet that allows her to [selectively] understand the things that are going on around her. Carmella plays the role often seen in children's books of Friend Who Is Constantly Gloriously Catastrophizing About How Dramatic A Situation Will Be And How They Will Heroically Rescue You From It (and then I will smuggle you a secret letter and tunnel into the old-age home in order to avoid the dozens of police dogs! etc. etc.) which is even funnier when the things that are actually happening are even weirder and more dramatic than anything Carmella predicts, just in a slightly different genre, and then funnier again when Carmella shows up towards the end of the book perfectly suited to surviving the Even Newer, Weirder, and More Dramatic Situations that have Arisen.

    The end-note explains that Carrington based Carmella on her friend Remedios Varo, a detail I include as a treat for the Varo-heads but also as an illustration of how much the novel builds itself on the connections between weird women who survive a largely-incomprehensible world by being largely incomprehensible themselves. Carrington herself was in her late fifties when she wrote this book, but she too lived into her nineties; her Wikipedia article describes her in its header as "one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s." It's hard not to inscribe that back into the text in some way, which is of course an impossible reading, but one does like to imagine the ninety-year-old Carrington with just as much presence as the ninety-year-old Marian.

    Richard Dragon: Kung Fu Fighter #14

    Aug. 23rd, 2025 02:06 pm
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    Writer: Dennis O’Neil

    Pencils and inks: Ric Estrada


    O-Sensei has been captured by Dr. Moon and Richard Dragon must save him if Ben Turner is to live.


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    New Community for Vampire Fans

    Aug. 23rd, 2025 08:47 am
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    Caroline from The Vampire Diaries. On the bottom half it read "vampire media"

    Description: [community profile] vampiremedia  is a community for all things vampires! Recs, discussion, meta, transformative works. If it's got vampires, we want it. Membership is open and all members can post. Currently hosting a vampire fandom recs event.

    Weekly Chat

    Aug. 23rd, 2025 01:53 pm
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    The weekly chat posts are intended for just that, chatting among each other. What are you currently watching? Reading? What actor/idol are you currently following? What are you looking forward to? Are you busy writing, creating art? Or did you have no time at all for anything, and are bemoaning that fact?

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    The Power of Shazam! (1994): Part 1

    Aug. 23rd, 2025 10:58 am
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    Words and art: Jerry Ordway


    I have split the graphic novel into half as posting thirty-odd pages (one third of a ninety-something page book) at once was too much for me.


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    Foundation 3x01-02

    Aug. 22nd, 2025 08:35 pm
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    Watched the first couple of episodes of the new season!

    Spoilers )

    If you're watching it, no spoilers beyond episode 2, please!

    Summer mid-season anime impressions

    Aug. 22nd, 2025 08:54 pm
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    (Crossposted from my journal.)

    A bit late for first impressions, but I still feel the urge to get my thoughts out there.

    Dekin no Mogura: The Earthbound Mole has ugly character designs and a ton of talking, and yet is a joy and a treasure and I can hardly wait for the next episode from week to week. This is an adaptation of a manga by Eguchi Natsumi, the author of Hozuki's Coolheadedness, and starts off with a similar mix of comedy and folklore geekery. But then it adds a lot more layers. First there's the giant supernatural cat antics, and then it turns out that Eguchi has been storing up a lot of thoughts about how girls and women are socialized to behave in contemporary society, and then there's the matter of the ongoing flashbacks to World War II.

    Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show is great if you are well-versed in both the Cthulhu mythos and the anime death game genre, an overlap not likely to occur much outside Japan. The little problem with the subtitles in episode 1 has been ironed out and now my only complaint is that the new translator doesn't know how to spell Ticktockman. Because the show has borrowed him too, for some reason.

    Sword of the Demon Hunter is getting into the big events of the late 1860s while shifting its tone ever further away from grimdark. It may be trying a little too hard at this point, particularly with a recent episode where it is implied that someone eventually reforms but we miss the most interesting part of their story.

    Hanako-kun season 2 part 2 is still gorgeous to look at, but suffering badly from being watched the same day as Dekin no Mogura. It isn't dragging as badly as the previous cour, but it feels like it is ambling with unnecessary slowness toward an ending that can be seen a mile away.

    I was all set to hate Ruri Rocks for the same reason the geology displays at some science museums annoy me. I hate when the exhibit is basically just "look at the pretty rocks" with no context for them. But this show actually wants to provide the geological context, so great! Plus it has really excellent character animation! Instead, it annoyed me by spending way too much time pointing at the camera at the chest and bottom of the adult lead, so I'm still not planning to watch a second episode.

    Bullet/Bullet and Onmyo Kaiten Re: Birth Verse were okay for as far as I watched them (1 episode and 2 episodes respectively), I don't think I'd mind watching more, but I haven't gotten around to it, so clearly I didn't like them that much.

    And nobody picked up the latest Cute High for streaming, so I don't know what I think of it.

    Me-and-media update

    Aug. 23rd, 2025 10:15 am
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    Previous poll review
    In the Obsessions poll, 9.8% of respondents have one current active fandom, 31.4% have a couple, 25.5% have a handful, and 15.7% have none at the moment. The most common response was "it's complicated" with 37.3%. Seven point eight percent have blorbos but no fandom.

    In ticky-boxes, goth butterflies and punk moths came second to hugs, 56.9% to 76.5%. Dream parkour came third with 47.1%. Thank you for your votes! <3

    Reading
    Audio: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer, read by Candida Gubbins -- I'm a third of the way through this delightful thirty-hour tour of the Renaissance. No idea how much is lodging in my brain (versus in-one-ear-and-out-the-other-ing), but I'm getting bits here and there. Like, for example, the Renaissance framing of "grace" as heavenly political capital. And theology as it relates to Hamlet. The general tone is very fun. In progress.

    Audio: Stone and Sky (Rivers of London) by Ben Aaronovich, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Shvorne Marks. Having settled Peter into married life, Aaronovich is porting all the relationship stuff over to Abigail. I guess that makes sense. (The case isn't coming together for me, but that might be because I keep falling asleep while we're listening.) In progress.

    Library book: A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall. Just a few chapters. Historical romance, and I'm pretty sure all the characters are speaking/behaving anachronistically, but I'm looking forward to the reveal.
    Spoiler. The lady in the title is trans and was best friends with the duke before she went MIA at war and transitioned; he thinks she died, and he's now grieving his friend.
    In progress.

    Guardian by priest. We've finished the main story, just one short story extra to go. Wow, this has been a ride!

    Kdramas/Cdramas
    Still rewatching Nothing But Love (AKA Nothing But You), ahhh, I love them so much.

    I've also started My Girlfriend is the Man, a Kdrama about a woman with a genetic predisposition to sudden-onset sex swap, who does indeed wake up in a male body. I only just finished episode 1, so I don't know yet how well they're going to handle it, but I'm fairly sure the narrative pressure on the boyfriend is to accept that his girlfriend is still his girlfriend, whatever body she's currently wearing. No idea where they'll take it after that.

    Pru and I finished Sell Your Haunted House this week. We're planning to start Love Scout next (rewatch for me), unless I can think of something good (and Korean) with murders/ghosts/cases of the week. Hmm, maybe I should give Mystic Pop-Up Bar one more try... I bounced off it before, but I know several people who loved it.

    Other TV
    Cut for length. )

    Guardian/Fandom
    It's the last weekend of the Guardian novel scheduled readalong, and then we're heading into a slo-mo rewatch of the drama (half an episode per week). If you've been Guardian-curious or thinking of revisiting the show, now's your chance. *lures*

    [community profile] fan_writers is going so well. Love to see so much conversation and interaction over there! If you have thoughts on writing, please feel free to post to the comm, either directly or with a link!

    Audio entertainment
    Letters from an American (lots, including a great half-hour interview with Gavin Newsom). Half an episode of Sinica, Writing Excuses, a couple of episodes of You Can Learn Chinese, some Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, and a couple of episodes of A Life Indigenous.

    Plugged-in life
    The last few days, I've been experimenting with not spending every waking non-keyboard moment listening to audiobooks and podcasts. I was kind of hoping some silence and/or music would wake up my creative brain, and then ideas would come spilling out my fingertips. So far, it's just created an opening for brain weasels. Pbthpbthpbhtpbhpth!

    Writing/making things
    I spent Monday morning writing a political submission and then finished my meta post about story middles. I spent Tuesday's writers' hour writing most of this. I am working on a fic, but it's slow going. It's veered into one of my DNWs (D/s). I mean, you know how sometimes you can write your own DNWs, because you instinctively avoid the aspects that actively squick you? That part is working. It's just that neither the Shen Wei in my head nor I have any idea what we're doing, lol. Playin' it by ear. *rattles keyboard*

    I threw something verrrry last minute together for the [community profile] fan_flashworks Twinkle challenge. No idea if that worked.

    Life/health/mental state things
    I'm okay, just a bit disconnected. The weather's been so cold I want to stay home all the time. I really hate everything our government is doing (not on the same scale as the US, but terrible in its own libertarian way), so by day I'm a mild manner fangirl, but at night I wake up periodically to scrawl angry letters to politicians and/or newspaper editors in my notebook. I should send more of these; I'm always held back by feeling like I don't know enough and need to fact check.

    Food
    I made two small batches of vegetable dumplings -- Moosewood's sweet potato recipe, and mushroom & coriander adapted from the Omnivore's Cookbook's chicken recipe. I had to use my dumpling press because of my arms, but that worked okay.

    Recently made: enchiladas, crispy orange beef (consistency would have been better if I hadn't shoehorned a ton of vege in there too), plus experimenting with crispy tofu in various dishes. A lot of the sauces make the tofu go slimy, but it's so good when they don't.

    Goals
    My goal for this year is to make goals for next year.

    Good things
    Guardian stuff -- the readalong, Wishlist!!, the upcoming rewatch, yay! I'm hoping the latter two will combine to get me writing again. Playing with paint pens (drawing butterflies like a six year-old). Sunshine. Cat. Boy. Assimilating my little-worn 'tidy' clothes into my everyday wardrobe so I don't have to shop.

    Poll #33518 Plaguefic
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    Covid in fiction

    View Answers

    I'm okay reading fiction about Covid and related subjects
    20 (52.6%)

    I'm okay reading fiction that includes mentions of Covid
    20 (52.6%)

    There are aspects of the pandemic I avoid
    9 (23.7%)

    I like it when characters mask sometimes
    12 (31.6%)

    I prefer my reading matter to avoid the subject entirely
    9 (23.7%)

    It's better in profic / a novel
    3 (7.9%)

    It's better in fanfic
    2 (5.3%)

    other
    0 (0.0%)

    I don't read much atm
    5 (13.2%)

    ticky-box of gossimer and thistledown
    13 (34.2%)

    ticky-box of steel girders
    9 (23.7%)

    ticky-box of half a bottle of flat champagne
    6 (15.8%)

    ticky-box of battery acid and protest signs
    14 (36.8%)

    ticky-box of three wallabies at a 1970s disco
    16 (42.1%)

    ticky-box full of hugs
    26 (68.4%)

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