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dhampyresa ([personal profile] dhampyresa) wrote2025-06-04 12:19 am
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DocWho

8 episodes is way too short for Doctor Who. The core of the show is the Doctor + Companion(s) relationship(s) and there isn't any time for that in these Disney seasons.
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nilla ([personal profile] meningioma) wrote2025-06-03 05:06 am

ART ART ART

HI MY LOVELY FRIENDS
HAVE SOME ART
its all sorted in here. sorry got lazy )
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Linky ([personal profile] linky) wrote2025-06-02 08:23 pm
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podklb ([personal profile] klb) wrote in [community profile] pod_together2025-06-02 07:50 pm

2025 Sign-Ups

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proustbot ([personal profile] proustbot) wrote2025-06-02 05:34 pm
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nada mais inútil, mas nada mais profundo

[a difficult and stressful deadline looms on the horizon]

ME: "Maybe now is the moment to radically reorganize my life, schedule, and/or household! Surely nothing self-destructive is driving this impulse."
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podklb ([personal profile] klb) wrote in [community profile] pod_together2025-06-02 04:12 pm
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Pod-Together 2025 Rules

Welcome to [community profile] pod_together, a challenge where writers and podficcers create together—the writer creating text specifically intended for audio, and the podficcer creating the audio.

While we encourage participants to read the FAQ, here are the basic rules you need to know going in:

Basic Rules )

Timeline

Monday June 2nd Sign-ups open.
Saturday June 14th Sign-ups close.
Sunday June 15th Assignments go out to everybody from Match Maker Sign-ups.
Monday June 16th through Friday June 20th Icebreaker week.
Sunday July 6th Check-in #1.
Sunday July 20th Check-in #2.
Wednesday July 23rd Early writing submission date.
Sunday July 27th All writing due.
Sunday August 10th Check-in #3; text must be posted to AO3 collection.
Wednesday August 20th Early podfic submission date.
Sunday August 24th All podfic due.
Thursday August 28th Reveals start.
Saturday September 6th Reveals end, Party Favors due.
Sunday September 7th Party Favors revealed.
Saturday September 13th through Sunday September 14th Weekend Jamfest listening and commenting event.

Notable changes from previous years of this challenge )
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pegkerr ([personal profile] pegkerr) wrote2025-06-02 10:21 am

Well, this is mortifying

As I posted last Saturday, I have been working to assemble an anthology to submit to a contest with the Minnesota Authors Project (among others). I hadn't assembled as many authors as I had hoped, but we put together a nice little ebook, and I was proud of it and excited to enter the contest. We finished pulling it all together by 6 pm the day before the final deadline, and I went to the contest portal to submit it.

And at the last minute, after I had spent a good 40 minutes working my way through the portal and was just about to push the 'Submit' button, a Terms and Agreement page popped up that turned all my hopes to ashes.

The book had to be already published.

Now, I had inquired about that. The person I'd gotten the flyer from wasn't sure, and the website didn't mention anything about that requirement.

I had arranged with a letter of agreement with my authors specifically stating my understanding that this WASN'T a promise of publication, but that if we won the contest, we could make decisions about publishing at that time.

So, extremely mortified, I had to go back to the authors and explain. I'd done my due diligence, I had wondered about that very question, checked the website and the flyer, and I'd still gotten it wrong.

Some of the contributors wondered whether we could quickly self-publish, throwing it up on Amazon, of course the very reasonable expectation requested was that I would then promote and distribute it. I had very little time to make the decision, and I never heard back from one of my contributors, and I was badly rattled by making such a mistake. Maybe it was a lack of courage, but I just couldn't make the promise. I don't have my own website or any kind of mailing list. I didn't think I could (after letting my contributors down so badly) volunteer to do something that would let them down even further.

So we missed the contest deadline.

I am going to try to find more contributors and figure out a way to publish it. And hope that we can enter it in the contest next year.

I feel so very mortified and foolish. At least two of the contributors wrote new material for this project, and I feel keenly that I let them down. Professional embarrassment is the WORST.

But! This is the year of adventure, and that means trying new things. And sometimes, when you try new things, you fail. And that (I am telling myself firmly) is okay.

Here is the beautiful cover that Bruce Bethke designed for the book we had planned, and I hope eventually it will come to fruition.

Shelves of Wonder cover
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Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2025-06-02 12:58 pm

Neener Neener Neener Neener, You're An Evil Murderer.

More of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy! I have now completed the route full of bees.


Notes on The Hundred Line. )


Nineteen endings down; eighty-one to go! We have been playing this game for ninety hours.
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firecat (attention machine in need of calibration) ([personal profile] firecat) wrote2025-06-02 01:52 am
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(Keanu-as-) Constantine 2!

"Peter Stormare Gives Update on ‘Constantine 2’; Keanu Reeves Reportedly Unhappy with Script" by Meagan Navarro (very similar articles seen on a number of other entertainment news sites).

"'But to do a sequel, the studios want to have, you know, cars flying in the air. They want to have people doing flip-flops and fighting action scenes,' Stormare said."

I think I agree with Keanu. We already have the John Wick franchise. IT IS AWESOME. But we don't need the Keanu-as-Constantine franchise to turn into another John Wick franchise.

I hope they resolve this soon because I am DROOLING at the chance to see Stormare play Lucifer again.
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rhi ([personal profile] rhi) wrote2025-06-01 03:32 pm

GF chocolate buckwheat waffles

Adapted and experimented with from Bon Appetit:

I list the topping as part of the recipe but to be honest, I've never bothered. I top these with fruit from fridge or freezer, or a little butter and maple syrup, or if I have whipped cream on hand, that's my preference.

Topping )

Waffle ingredients )

Assemble and cook )
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seekingferret ([personal profile] seekingferret) wrote2025-06-01 01:22 pm
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(no subject)

My VidUKon premiere for the GPOY show. I've had this idea for years and given the prompt I couldn't help myself.

Its premise is Magneto explaining Jewish trauma to Kitty Pryde in the context of the muddle that is the X movies' Mutant Metaphor. Also Jews dance in this vid in spite of the fact that they don't dance in the X Movies. Nothing in the world could stop me from including Jews dancing in this vid.


The Sweet and the Bitter (8 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men (Movieverse)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr & Kitty Pryde
Characters: Erik Lehnsherr, Kitty Pryde
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Holocaust
Summary:

They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat: An intersectional tale from Erik to Kitty.




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dhampyresa ([personal profile] dhampyresa) wrote2025-05-31 11:45 pm

Activate external deadline!

R. F. Kuang has a book called "Katabasis" that comes out on August 26, 2025. /insert here "good for her" gif

I have a duology of MCU fics I've been calling "katabasis" that I've been working on since I saw Endgame. It's about Natasha and Gamora making their ways out of the afterlife -- except, despite interacting, they're going through different afterlives: Natasha's is Dante's Hell, Gamora's Irkalla, the Mesopotamian underworld. Yes, I'm lots of fun at parties.

Anyway, point is, I want to finish and post those fics before Kuang's book comes out? Deadlines tend to help me do things. Technically the Natasha fic is finished but not the Gamora one and besides I need to make sure their dialogues make sense in both contexts.

Have a handful of lines I'm proud of, idk, I need validation.

1. It took a village to raise a child soldier.

2. Sirens, sirens everywhere and not a song to sing.

3. "I recognise the afterlife has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."

5. Dis was a necropolis in the purest sense; a city of the dead, skyscrapers of graves and tombstones reaching upwards like the drowned's grasping hands.

6. There on the rock sat Tony Stark. Not Iron Man, not the man who'd escape from a cave to dive into a wormhole with a nuke, but Anthony Edward Stark, self-made billionaire, Forbes' golden child, arms dealer, merchant-king of war and woe, Mammon of the Modern Age.

7. "I know I told you to die in a ditch, but I didn't mean it," continued Rocket's voice.

8. "It seems a terrible thing, to believe in sin," Gamora said.

9. But a poppy pod is a thing of death. It weeps sleep and bleeds a painless end.
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mekare ([personal profile] mekare) wrote in [community profile] spacefungusparty2025-05-31 09:41 pm
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4x09 Rubicon

In which we get a reunion with a cool character and everything is about finding compromises.Read more... )
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proustbot ([personal profile] proustbot) wrote2025-05-31 12:43 pm
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the same sexual politics as a 17th-century religious fanatic but in a woke way

Flew home. I have been on Too Many Flights in the past two months, and as a result, the "movie" section of the in-flight entertainment screen no longer has any unexamined pleasures for me. Thus I went into the "TV" section, and thus I watched the first five episodes of Watson, a current CBS procedural that dares to ask, "What if Sherlock Holmes John Watson was a modern-day doctor who solved medical mysteries?" It is fairly terrible; the most interesting thing about the show is that a member of Watson's team of doctor-henchmen is ~~evil~~ and forever solving problems with amoral and pragmatic panache. She's fun! The series should be about her! (The other interesting thing is that the show has Randall Park playing "Moriarty," which is a delightful casting choice.) But unfortunately, everything else about the show seems brain-dead. It's a shame!

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) -- I was underwhelmed by DEAD RECKONING and I continue to be underwhelmed by the second part for the same reasons: too solemn, too self-serious, too sodden with "lore." These movies were better when each entry was a different director doing his own little thing and there was limited concern with "continuity." I will die on the hill that GHOST PROTOCOL was the zenith of the series.

With that said: the submarine sequence in the movie's back half was incredible and just about worth the ticket price.

(I also could have done without Hayley Atwell's sexy CPR scene in the film. It was weird when the earlier M:I films banished Ethan Hunt's brunette wife and then hooked him up with a different brunette; it is even weirder that they have removed that brunette and replaced her with a third brunette. What are we doing, script writers??)

Nobody (2021) -- The gag is "Bob Odenkirk is John Wick," but it's a good gag!

A Man Called Ove (2015) -- I'm always down for a crusty grump gradually revealing his gooey center, though I could have done with 50% fewer flashbacks to younger, hotter, nobler Ove.

Stray (2022) -- Beat it! Six hours total. In conclusion: really striking visuals (the run-down neon robot cities! the giant eyeballs in the sewer!!), but every time an interesting idea is raised, it gets anxiously watered down so that the player is never "confused." Not only does this cat understand language, but these robots have recreated entirely human-like societies! And wear clothing! And have children! Everything is very familiar in the far, far future, little player, don't you worry!

Also, there is too much cat death in this game. (To the degree that turning off animations of the dying cat is an option in the game's menu.) In particular, the "chase" sequences are frustrating and difficult, and they represent a distinct tonal shift from the rest of the game, which is all about slowly solving untimed puzzles and doing simple fetch-quests for robots.
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morbane ([personal profile] morbane) wrote in [community profile] once_upon_fic2025-05-31 08:09 pm

2025 Round Conclusion & Feedback

We revealed author names at the Once Upon 2025 Collection last week. Feel free to promote what you wrote in any space you like! We hope you enjoyed contributing to and also reading this year's stories. We did!

We wanted to bring up an issue for feedback while we're all still thinking about the exchange.

Once Upon a Fic is a "fairy-tale" focused exchange. We welcome a lot of texts - myths, lore, etc - that overlap with fairy tales in some way: they deal with archetypal figures, life lessons, fantastical creatures and/or the supernatural, they are often more closely associated with a culture and era than a specific author, and of course, as a goal of this event specifically, these texts are in the public domain.

Every year we get nominations that seek to expand that pool of text types in ways we hadn't thought of. Because more things enter the public domain every year, we've seen more and more longer texts, from closer in time, than the fairy tales the exchange started out with. These nominations are in good faith and we've enjoyed the stories that come from them, but we worry about scope creep and we aren't always sure where to draw the line. In order to keep the exchange focus narrower than "any kind of fantastical text in the public domain", we wanted to revisit what kinds of texts are in scope, with the hope that our rules are clearer before next round.

Some possible options:
  • We give examples of the types of texts that we consider core to the exchange. All other texts are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. This is the status quo - but we haven't always decided consistently, from year to year. For example, sometimes we've included stories made freely available by their creators for more modern tales. But that makes it difficult for us to define a modern fairy tale vs any fantastical story.
  • We give examples of the types of texts that we consider core to the exchange. We encourage you to make a case for anything that doesn't match the examples. The case could be based on factors such as similarity to types of canons we've previously approved; length; whether it was marketed as a fairy tale, etc.
  • We set specific requirements for anything published after a specific date eg 1900 or 1925 (which may include a max length requirement).
  • We set a strict date cut-off for certain types of nominations.
  • Something else?


We welcome suggestions and would be interested to know what feels in scope to you, for a fairy tale exchange, and what doesn't. Approving a nomination into this exchange isn't a value judgment on that piece of media.

Thanks for your thoughts! Feedback on other parts of the exchange is welcome!