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The schedule for Andor (to the tune of three episodes every Tuesday late evening for the next four weeks) means that I am in fact not staying up to midnight watching it all. This week especially I'll manage to watch an episode an evening, so I'm 100% staying off Tumblr until Thursday evening at the earliest. Dreamwidth I'm assuming will be more or less spoiler-free, possibly Discord as well. The Star Wars Discord I'm a member of is very good about spoilers and all of us are: "But we're working adults? How do they expect us to watch this?"

stardust_rifle

I understand that the reason that V5 did what it did with the Giovanni---> Hecata thing was to rectify the whole "if you want to be a necromancer, the easiest way to do that is to be a member of the Evil Corpsefucking Incest Mafia Vampire Clan" thing, which as a person with a brain and knowledge of Game Design can get behind, at least hypothetically.

As a weirdo on the Internet, however...

stardust_rifle

the Character has been named *passes out in a crater*

stardust_rifle

kakyoin- he is Literally Me

avdol- 90% of the difficulty is cultural stuff that i have to do more research on

jotaro- technically easier than avdol but i’m not overly fond of him so there’s not that Blorbo Love that propels me over hills

joseph- fun but challenging

polnareff- UUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH

stardust_rifle

I know as a certified incest weirdo I should probably defend all the cousinfucking stuff in anime, but like, I just can’t. Cousinfucking is the LaCroix of incest. If you want freak solidarity then get a more interesting fetish, please and thank you.

stardust_rifle

My problem is that I love my VtM/JJBA fandom fusion AU, but it’s fundamentally unintelligible to anyone who doesn’t have both my precise amounts of VtM and JJBA brainrot, so. Real “I’m going to make a crossover so niche” hours.

independence1776

There’s a lot of crappy stuff going on in the world. But I want to highlight good things. So tell me something that made you happy last week (little or big, something you made or someone else did, nature-made like sunsets or spring plants rising from the snow, whatever) or something you did that you’re proud of. It doesn’t need to be world-shaking, just something that stood out to you.

muccamukk

Watch on YouTube

lb_lee

This was the comics winner for this month's poll! Before I share it, let me tell you how it got made.

Recently, my local senator had a Town Hall meeting, and I was determined to go. I ran the gauntlet of Trumper protesters ranting about trans athletes (I recognized them from the library bomb threat back in October and waved to them), suffered through two plus hours of technological difficulties and clustering around smartphones in an overflow room, and then had to deal with one of my fellow citizens ranting about how she didn't want trans people around her children, we were just going to kill ourselves anyway.

The feelings that meeting gave me, I could not express. So I went home and drew all the genderful people who came before and alongside me, and I wrote their words instead--their joy, their survival, their power. And I converted that rage into fierce joy and shoved the local free libraries with them, and sent them to Florida, and disappeared into the night.

Mani Bruce Mitchel, an intersex person with breasts and beard, stands topless with the words I AM NOT A MONSTER written across the chest. A halo radiates.

Mani Bruce Mitchel, an intersex person with breasts and beard, stands topless with the words I AM NOT A MONSTER written across the chest. A halo radiates.

( 'This is the issue that we need to deal with in this century: what are we going to do with difference on this planet?' )

lb_lee

Hey guys! We're going to be exhibiting in an art show, Love Is For All Of Us, and our work is being used for the name and the promo info! Neato!

Where: The Footlight Club, 7A Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

When: May 3-17, 2025 (Reception May 3, 7pm-8pm)

Hope to see y'all there at the reception!

Current Mood: drained

shadaras

One of the kids asked about why we learn aikido, a martial art, if the goal is to simply not be in situations where we need to fight. Said kid got, after class ended, a discussion of that where each of the three people responding had a slightly different (but cohesive!) take on the matter, which boils down to: Try not to get into a fight, but train yourself so that should it ever happen you know how to respond as safely as possible for everyone involved.

The other layer of aikido, the one that doesn't happen on the mat, is something I think the parents heard in our answers but the kids probably didn't. Which is: the philosophy of aikido can be applied to any situation, not just physical conflict. It's aikido when you defuse an argument before it happens. It's aikido to see a misunderstanding and clarify the matter. It's aikido any time someone comes at you with aggression and you respond with de-escalation.

The kids seemed fascinated by this, and accepted the explanation. The parents were quite delighted by it.

Also in work news:

Apparently, starting Monday, we're doing overtime for a number of weeks that could be just two, could be a month, and could just be... ongoing... They're gonna judge on a week-to-week basis. (This is not mandatory. They cannot make it mandatory. It's just set up so that you need to explicitly opt out on a day-to-day basis, so realistically we're probably all doing overtime most of the time.)

It'll be 10hr days M-Th, and then our normal 6hr day on Friday. Apparently if they get more pressure about us being ~behind schedule~ (which: hah, who's surprised, it's a big project and also one of the things we're working on is an add that someone else fucked up and we're being paid to fix) they might add Friday overtime and also Saturday overtime, neither of which I'm going to say yes to (I like having weekends, thanks, work eats enough time as it is). But it sure will be interesting if that becomes a Thing!

lb_lee

Mori: Last night, for Biff's birthday (it was not, he hates TV, he hates sci-fi, he's very "we got weirdshit at home,") we watched the mysterious DVD of unknown provenance from the sci-fi library that nobody knew what to do with.

( A fanmade Matrix/Star Trek/Firefly crossover thingy that never got completed and disappeared into the Internet ether? )

...does anyone want this? It is wasted on us.

Current Mood: curious

stardust_rifle

Love and light to everyone but I just can not vibe with any interpretation of Enrico Pucci as a Pure Innocent Seduced by Dio who Wouldn’t Be A Supervillain If Not For Genderqueer British Vampire Cock. He was obsessed with notions of fate and morality before even meeting Dio. He has a tragic backstory all his own that Dio barely had any hand in. He constructed his own Heaven philosophy from his OWN tragic backstory that influenced Dio! Bitch may have given him the gun but it was Pucci that pulled the trigger all on his own.

shadaras

The unions' regional apprentice competition happened over last weekend (read: mostly Friday, actually, but it started Thursday and ended Saturday), and was very fun and... tbh easier than I expected???

which, uh. is probably why I was in-the-moment surprised and after-some-thought unsuprised that I placed first in the category I was there for (second-year apprentices).

( more specifics/rambling about this )

also possibly the funniest conversation I had during the event happened on the last evening, when I was chatting with two other apprentices. we ended up talking about how we'd all grown up playing D&D 3.5e and now play 5e and have Opinions about which edition we like better (4e got mentioned as being a completely different type of game and therefore not worth talking about). mostly it was like "okay how do you weight realism (what do you mean by that?) vs mechanical simplicity vs ability to make a build you like (and what even is that build)".

lb_lee

Tandy, Tandy, Burning Bright
Series: Xanth fanfiction
Summary: When life sends you nightmares, you ride them. When life sends you Smash Ogre, you ride HIM. Tandy deals with her sense of species identity, harnesses her nightmares, faces her demons, loses and regains her soul, and gets a character arc.
Word Count: 21,000
Notes: We have so many feelings and thoughts about Xanth in general and Tandy in particular that we're just going to put them in the comments below. Content warnings for reference to magically-compelled love, an incest metaphor that's never acted on, a magically-compelled suicide attempt (quickly thwarted, everyone's fine), fantasy racism (MAJOR theme), consensual kink (soul play, magical impact play), and sex. Also Tandy becomes median for this fic!

A drawing in purple, black, and white of a very large furry monster man in gauntlets being wrestled down and passionately smooched by a feisty girl half his size with tattered clothes and hair. A busty centaur with a very prominent nose says in the background, I disapprove of all of this, just so you know.

A drawing in purple, black, and white of a very large furry monster man in gauntlets being wrestled down and passionately smooched by a feisty girl half his size with tattered clothes and hair. A busty centaur with a very prominent nose says in the background, I disapprove of all of this, just so you know.

( You’re the most constant creature imaginable, and I love you. )

muccamukk

Does anyone know what this character is?

It's not a full stop! It breaks html that needs a full stop.

Also, how did I end up using it? I must have accidentally copied it? From somewhere?

muccamukk

Haven't done one of these in a while and ended up having to trim out stuff that happened a month ago.

( U.S. Politics )

There is not a Canadian Politics section because I find our election too depressing. Here's a good interview on The Breach. Which came out before the NDP started to properly implode. Fuck.

Cool/Fun Stuff:
JSTOR Companion to the Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List.
JSTOR has created an open library to support readers seeking to engage with BIPOC+Q-authored reading lists like the one developed by the New York Public Library.

CBC: 46 Canadian nonfiction books to read in spring 2025.
I don't remember why I bookmarked this, because I'm not going to look at it again, lol.

Oglaf: Historical Adventure.
One NSFW panel, best summary of The Three Musketeers I've ever seen.

The Wiggles and Orville Peck: Friends of Dorothy 🦖💕.
No notes.

National Theatre's The Importance of Being Earnest: 'I'm particularly fond of muffins' & 'Mr. Ernest Worthing is engaged to me!'

CBC: These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males.

Blake Lively v. Justin Baldoni:
I'd be depressed about Depp v. Heard repeating itself, except Lively isn't stuck with bargain basement lawyers, so it's going rather better for her. (Okay, so, "whoever has the most expensive lawyers wins" is a terrible system, but it's at least mildly satisfying when the person you want to win has the most expensive lawyers and the better case.) I've been spending probably too much time following this because I want the win. Not that invested in the actors, but am invested in harassment-free workplaces. ( Read more... )

Various YouTube Videos:

CaelanConrad: J. K. Rowling: The Real Story.
From 'homeless single mother with unheated shoebox apartment' to 'self-made billionaire feminist', PR spin and reality diverge.
Mostly about how the Rags to Riches mythology got overblown, with various other digs along the way.

OlurinattiBITES: The Problem with Jonathan Majors’ Redemption Tour.
This is like one of those encores where the performers don't even bother to leave the stage.

JoshJohnsonComedy: Adolescence Is #1 on Netflix—and It’s Got the Manosphere Shook.
Title's a bit clickbaity, this summary is better: The show deals with topics like the manosphere, red pill, incels, and the coded language teenagers use to communicate ideas around the topics. This set reminded me of my own struggles as a young man and how things could have gone very differently for me. It's very funny, and very warm-hearted and sweet, given the topic.

brin_bellway

[arguably cw: poverty, illness, disordered eating]

( Read more... )

lb_lee

We're down to the final cataloging push: anime, random con VHS tapes, and audio stuff! According to the documents, this includes...

Audiobooks
Radio shows (the Shadow, that one in/famous War of the Worlds broadcast...)
Filk
"assorted cassettes we haven't dared to look at"
"A cassette tape to learn advanced Klingon."

Yes good. If we didn't have a Klingon language tape, can we even call ourselves a sci-fi library?

Let's see if I find any goodies!

EDIT: Goody(?) found! This is a mysterious 2005 DVD of episode two ("Destination Home") of a series only entitled Wayfarer 1. Looks to be a sort of amateur X-Files thing with a Matrix flair? Also possibly a ten minute trailer? I can find no information about this mysterious thing anywhere; the back only says "Feedback needed and welcomed LightHouseART2005@yahoo.com" It stars Katherine Ryan, Alx [sic] Cruz, TonyYah!Dude, and Richard Savage, and comes from "Kuro Reign Creations," "Moonchild" and "Yah!Dude, Inc." This looks like it might possibly be of interest to

numb3r_5ev3n or

storyheight? The library has asked me to take it away from them. Will watch to investigate.

EDIT AGAIN: Tony Yah!Dude has a long-abandoned Deviantart? That seems to be all I can find on this mysterious project.

Current Mood: silly

muccamukk

but trying to at least read Stephanie Jones' lawyers' Plaintiffs’ Memorandum of Law in Support of Their Motion to Dismiss Jennifer Abel’s Counterclaims and Certain Affirmative Defenses because of the whole Lively v. Baldoni saga, the PR firm fighting itself is by far the best part.

I cannot believe that Jennifer Abel, a genuine adult in her 30s (I think?), making low six figures in a cut-throat industry:

When hired by Jones transferred her personal number, that she'd had since high school, to her new work phone.

Had no other phone besides her work phone, and thus used her work phone for two-factor authentication for all her personal shit.

Decided to steal her company's clients and sensitive documents (I actually can believe this part, see above about cut-throat industry).

Used her work phone and work laptop to plot and carry out said theft.

Used her work phone to text her buddies about how well said theft was going.

Was a surprised Pikachu when her boss found out about all this and fired her.

Was a surprised Pikachu when her boss took her work phone and work laptop.

THEN SUED HER FORMER BOSS FOR UNFAIR TREATMENT.

The subsidiary of "Don't take notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy" should 100% be "ESPECIALLY ON A DEVICE YOU DON'T OWN!!!" holy shit.

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