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The first secret from this batch will be posted on May 2nd.
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A few days ago I did something in the middle of the night that agitated my foot and its been more painful ever since. I've been spending even more time sitting and reading as result. At least the cats are happy. Anyways have some thoughts on my recent reading:
The Prettiest Star written by Jadzia Axelrod, art by Jess Taylor—I picked this up because it's about an alien princess who is disguised as a human teen boy. I was hoping it would hit some crossdressing girl media troupes. However the disguise stuff was pretty much just a straightforward metaphor for trans-ness. It was a cute story but it wasn't the thing that I hoped it would be. I did appreciate that the town it took place in was called Ozma Gap though
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girlvol 8-12 by Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Derek Charm et al— These are still very fun! I love Doreen and Nancy’s friendship a lot.
I appreciate that this references the myth of Redemptive violence and all but I don't really think it's making a coherent moral point or like succeeding in refuting the myth here. (I’m not sure that you can do that and be a superhero story – its a genre that’s built on punching people being cool)
Mostly my read through of Squirrel Girl has been technically a re-read though it was all long enough ago that I didn’t remember much, but these last couple of volumes I hadn’t gotten to. It’s nice to have finished it all now.
The Mystery of the Meanest Teacher: A Johnny Constantine Graphic Novel by Ryan North and Derek Charm—One of the things I checked out when I was wondering what Ryan North was up to recently. John Constantine is a bitter British magician who shows up in fics occasionally to help with inadvisable magic, but I don't really know much about him. This is a graphic novel about him as a kid. I can’t really speak to how this related to his other comic appearances but it's very cute and fun as its own thing.
Batman: Bruce Wayne, Murderer/Fugitive by Greg Rucka et al —The next big bat family crossover after No Man’s Land. Bruce Wayne is accused of murder, which of course creates a lot of problems. I really liked some parts of this (people teaming up to solve a mystery!) and really didn’t like other bits (The prison sequences made me want to yell at someone about prisoners deserving human rights, and what even was going on with Azrael?)
The Prettiest Star written by Jadzia Axelrod, art by Jess Taylor—I picked this up because it's about an alien princess who is disguised as a human teen boy. I was hoping it would hit some crossdressing girl media troupes. However the disguise stuff was pretty much just a straightforward metaphor for trans-ness. It was a cute story but it wasn't the thing that I hoped it would be. I did appreciate that the town it took place in was called Ozma Gap though
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girlvol 8-12 by Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Derek Charm et al— These are still very fun! I love Doreen and Nancy’s friendship a lot.
I appreciate that this references the myth of Redemptive violence and all but I don't really think it's making a coherent moral point or like succeeding in refuting the myth here. (I’m not sure that you can do that and be a superhero story – its a genre that’s built on punching people being cool)
Mostly my read through of Squirrel Girl has been technically a re-read though it was all long enough ago that I didn’t remember much, but these last couple of volumes I hadn’t gotten to. It’s nice to have finished it all now.
The Mystery of the Meanest Teacher: A Johnny Constantine Graphic Novel by Ryan North and Derek Charm—One of the things I checked out when I was wondering what Ryan North was up to recently. John Constantine is a bitter British magician who shows up in fics occasionally to help with inadvisable magic, but I don't really know much about him. This is a graphic novel about him as a kid. I can’t really speak to how this related to his other comic appearances but it's very cute and fun as its own thing.
Batman: Bruce Wayne, Murderer/Fugitive by Greg Rucka et al —The next big bat family crossover after No Man’s Land. Bruce Wayne is accused of murder, which of course creates a lot of problems. I really liked some parts of this (people teaming up to solve a mystery!) and really didn’t like other bits (The prison sequences made me want to yell at someone about prisoners deserving human rights, and what even was going on with Azrael?)
This year's Hugo nominees were announced early this week. In an unexpected development, I've read four of the Best Novel candidates (having finished the fourth the night before the announcement) and three (!) of the Best Novella candidates, which is more unusual, given how few novellas I read. I'm delighted that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
renay got nominated for Intergalactic Mixtape for Best Fanzine (all the more impressive for how new it still is!), as well as for The Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom for Best Related Work. ^_^
But the thing that hit me hardest is that A Girl and Her Fed is up for Best Graphic Story or Comic, having wrapped up its third (and for now, final) act last year. (On Bluesky, K.B. Spangler notes "The work *as a whole* is eligible as it concluded in 2025, but since that is 2000+ strips, we are including the 50+ strips from 2025 in the packet, with a cover page with links to Parts 1 and 2 for reader convenience." She and Ale Presser (who took over the actual art from Spangler a while back) will be attaching this cover to their Hugos submissions packet.
I love AGAHF (and especially the connected Rachel Peng novels, as I've said many times) so much, so this is a real joy.
Reading: I finished Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shroud (the aforementioned Hugo nominee that I finished the night before the announcement), and while I enjoyed the back half of it more than the beginning, it still never really got emotional hooks into me, which is required for me to particularly bond with any story. Fascinating worldbuilding, though, and a grimly plausible look at a future society where humanity lives to serve capitalism.
I've also finished reading the Hikaru no Go manga! According to Goodreads, I'd read as far as vol. 19 before (a loooooong time ago). (It's now been long enough sincescruloose and I watched the c-drama that I mostly only remember my feelings about it, so I have no real sense of how faithful its plot wound up being by the end.)
Currently reading The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan.
Watching: As I mentioned last weekend, I askedscruloose if they'd be up for giving Justice in the Dark a shot, if only to give me the excuse to rewatch the first eight episodes before finally moving on to the ones that eventually got released in Japan after not being cleared to air in China. They agreed, and we're now four or five episodes in!
I haven't read any of the new release of Mo Du/Silent Reading yet (partly because I don't read nearly as much as I'd like, but also because I'm getting this series in hard copy, which makes it take even longer for me to get around to reading something >.<), so my memory of the novel from reading the fan translation several years ago is fairly fuzzy, but (as expected) I really, really like the main actors.
The tacked-on sci-fi framing is both bizarre and aggressively pushed, and since Mo Du, unlike Guardian, is a modern setting with no fantasy elements that needed to be given a sci-fit polish to make it passable, I can only assume its main purpose is to put extra distance between the genuinely horrific crimes and reality. (At the very least, I don't remember reading about any other explanation/theory, but it's been ages since I saw much talk about the drama that wasn't largely focused on the relationships/character dynamics--which is not a complaint, since that's totally what I'm here for.)
Working: This weekend I'm starting my adaptation of the penultimate volume of Yona of the Dawn. I read the translation a couple days ago and am having a lot (A LOT) of feelings. Send strength.
renay got nominated for Intergalactic Mixtape for Best Fanzine (all the more impressive for how new it still is!), as well as for The Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom for Best Related Work. ^_^But the thing that hit me hardest is that A Girl and Her Fed is up for Best Graphic Story or Comic, having wrapped up its third (and for now, final) act last year. (On Bluesky, K.B. Spangler notes "The work *as a whole* is eligible as it concluded in 2025, but since that is 2000+ strips, we are including the 50+ strips from 2025 in the packet, with a cover page with links to Parts 1 and 2 for reader convenience." She and Ale Presser (who took over the actual art from Spangler a while back) will be attaching this cover to their Hugos submissions packet.
I love AGAHF (and especially the connected Rachel Peng novels, as I've said many times) so much, so this is a real joy.
Reading: I finished Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shroud (the aforementioned Hugo nominee that I finished the night before the announcement), and while I enjoyed the back half of it more than the beginning, it still never really got emotional hooks into me, which is required for me to particularly bond with any story. Fascinating worldbuilding, though, and a grimly plausible look at a future society where humanity lives to serve capitalism.
I've also finished reading the Hikaru no Go manga! According to Goodreads, I'd read as far as vol. 19 before (a loooooong time ago). (It's now been long enough since
scruloose and I watched the c-drama that I mostly only remember my feelings about it, so I have no real sense of how faithful its plot wound up being by the end.)Currently reading The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan.
Watching: As I mentioned last weekend, I asked
scruloose if they'd be up for giving Justice in the Dark a shot, if only to give me the excuse to rewatch the first eight episodes before finally moving on to the ones that eventually got released in Japan after not being cleared to air in China. They agreed, and we're now four or five episodes in!I haven't read any of the new release of Mo Du/Silent Reading yet (partly because I don't read nearly as much as I'd like, but also because I'm getting this series in hard copy, which makes it take even longer for me to get around to reading something >.<), so my memory of the novel from reading the fan translation several years ago is fairly fuzzy, but (as expected) I really, really like the main actors.
The tacked-on sci-fi framing is both bizarre and aggressively pushed, and since Mo Du, unlike Guardian, is a modern setting with no fantasy elements that needed to be given a sci-fit polish to make it passable, I can only assume its main purpose is to put extra distance between the genuinely horrific crimes and reality. (At the very least, I don't remember reading about any other explanation/theory, but it's been ages since I saw much talk about the drama that wasn't largely focused on the relationships/character dynamics--which is not a complaint, since that's totally what I'm here for.)
Working: This weekend I'm starting my adaptation of the penultimate volume of Yona of the Dawn. I read the translation a couple days ago and am having a lot (A LOT) of feelings. Send strength.
One other show I'm watching this anime season: Nippon Sangoku: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun. It's set in a future Japan which, for various reasons that should not be thought too hard about, has regressed to a feudal-ish society but with early 20th century technology. The first episode leaned hard into feudal-level corruption and cruelty, so despite the excellent production values I did not plan to watch any more of it, but another viewer at my favorite anime Discord server assured me that episode 2 was a lot less like that.
There are probably a lot of references to Japanese history and/or The Romance of the Three Kingdoms that are going over my head, but that's okay for now.
There are probably a lot of references to Japanese history and/or The Romance of the Three Kingdoms that are going over my head, but that's okay for now.
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Gen horror not your thing? There are other prompt fests ongoing! If you're running one as well, drop the link in the Questions/Etc thread and I'll add it here.
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3weeks4dreamwidth time and I am celebrating the same way I always do by bringing a mini version of my old beloved sharp_teeth to Dreamwidth! The fest is open to everyone and runs here for the full three weeks (until it's no longer May 15th in any timezone).banner by
luckyzukkyRules
☠ This is a comment meme for creating works focussed on horror for any fictional canon, including original works and crossovers.
summerofhorrorexchange has a list of horror subgenres for your inspiration, and you can also re-post prompts from the 2024 round.☠ RPF is not allowed. Fictionalised versions of real people (e.g. prompts for Gentleman Jack) are allowed, provided they are not in extremely bad taste (war criminals, serial killers, etc). I determine what extremely bad taste is. This rule does not apply to fictional canons.
☠ This is a comment meme for gen (in the relationship sense, i.e. not focussed on romance or sex) fanworks. Background pairings are allowed, but should not be the focus of the work.
☠ This is a comment meme for Dreamwidth. Works should be Dreamwidth-exclusive for the duration of the event, to the extent possible (e.g. artists and podficcers obviously need to host somewhere, but fic should not be posted to AO3 or other sites until after the 15th). You can crosspost anywhere on Dreamwidth (your own journal or fic comm, other thematically relevant comms) at any point during the event, and anywhere else after May 15th.
☠ To participate in the meme, all you have to do is leave a prompt or reply to a prompt with a fill.
☠ Post your prompt as a comment to this post, one prompt per comment. Prompt comment subject lines should follow the format Fandom, Character(s), short description of prompt, for example Zone Blanche, Camille, came back wrong.
☠ 'Any fandom' and 'Specific fandom, any character' prompts are allowed.
☠ If you want to use an image or video as a prompt that's fine, but please link to it with a description rather than putting it directly in the comment.
☠ Post your fills as replies to the prompt comment. Fill comment subject lines should follow the format FILL: title, rating.
☠ If filling an 'Any' prompt, fandom and/or ship names in the fill titles are appreciated but not mandatory
☠ Warnings at the start of fills are appreciated but not mandatory. In fact, the entire comments section is a choose not to warn-friendly space.
☠ Link your fills in the fills thread below. I'll collect them in a masterpost after the event ends. (I mean it this year.)
☠ Multiple fills and self-fills are allowed.
☠ You can use fills you create for this event to fill prompts in other events, as long as those events are also hosted on Dreamwidth and their mods are fine with cross-fills.
☠ Be 18+ and don't be a fuckwit. Complaining that you don't like a prompt, character-bashing, and other wankery will get you banned from my journal. If you're one of the tiny handful of people banned from my journal, you're also banned from this particular event.
Dreamwidth With Friends
Gen horror not your thing? There are other prompt fests ongoing! If you're running one as well, drop the link in the Questions/Etc thread and I'll add it here.
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toothpastepancake is running Rarest of Rarepairs: Microedition, for ships with less than 35 works on AO3☠
likealighthouse is running April Iconathon, for icon fills☠
precuretokuprompt is running Chemy Card Spring Silly, for works featuring Chemy Cards from Kamen Rider Gotchard
luckyzukkyHello, friends!
3weeks4dreamwidth is officially happening from to-day until 15th May, and, as promised, I thought it would be nice to run a little event mostly for my own amusement in order to celebrate that. As previously established, my entire life revolves around inventing excuses to make things, so I've been sitting on my hands all this week getting excited for this and now here we are and I don't really know to word this post so, ah, let's get straight to the point, shall we?AKC Courtneyyyyyy Culture Festival
For the next three weeks, pick the members of our weekly Wednesday column! Make sure your oshimen gets the attention she deserves! Pick a member from AKB48, Nogizaka46 or any of their sister groups, or, if you will, any core Hello! Project group, and if I haven't written about your oshi before, I will ensure they get their time to shine! If I have written about them before, I will merrily redirect you. It would be really nice if I made some kind of master list post for this, wouldn't it?
Who's that Pokémon?
Pick your favourite little guy from the pokédex of Red/Blue or Gold/Silver and leave a prompt pertaining to them and I will write a little fic between 100, ~500 words! No promises that I won't keep my favourite trainers out of said fic, be warned!
Kamen Rider (Showa)
Kamen Rider fights Shocker for humanity's freedom! Pick one of the 10 Kamen Riders and/or Black/RX and leave a prompt and I will write something for them! Yes, Mikazuki Nayuta is Hongo Takeshi's adopted daughter. Yes, the first Kamen Riders in antiquity came to us from the Dreamlands. Yes, Kudo Fuga will have met many of these men during his pre-show Ikari Gendo arc.
Kamen Rider (Reiwa)
This exists here purely as an excuse for me to talk about Harima Shiori.
Their choice of matter and their scream of chatter
A young lady and a prompt from a series of your choice, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Strawberry Panic, Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club, Gakuen Idolm@ster, or Mayu/Yuki from Wonderful Precure! Short fics about school life, freindships in bloom, rose gardens and falling snow. Only the most elegant of prompters need apply.
Fushigi Comedy
Have you, dear friends, ever wanted to get into Toei's Fushigi Comedy Series but don't know where to start? Ask me! I'll probably just recommend Shushutorian as I definitely haven't watched all of these shows, but Shushutorian is really good! You should probably watch Shushutorian.
How do we know this event will stay exclusive to dreamwidth, Courtney? you may ask. Aha! Have faith in me friends and my absolute inability to hardly ever crosspost. Trying to update the Shiori post alone is a nightmare of jumbled comment thread links, and yet, at the same time, I secretly love making it this frustrating for anyone who might make the mistake of attempting to engage with the nonsense I make. At this point in life, I am almost certain that I will not change.
Other events to visit:
👻 - gen horror prompt fest, hosted by the lovely
fiachairecht.⚡🐁 - Chemy Card Spring Silly!! over at
precuretokuprompt.🤼 -Tokusatsu Drabblethon, hosted on
toku100challenge by the equally lovely linky.
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Introduction
Apr. 25th, 2026 03:04 amysabetwordsmith posting in goals_on_dwThree Weeks for Dreamwidth is a celebration of the platform's anniversary, running April 25-May 15. During this time, people post content only visible on Dreamwidth (although it can be reposted elsewhere after the event ends). There's usually a flurry of activity as bloggers share anchor posts, new fiction, icons, banners, questionnaires, friending fests, memes, and other goodies. Community hosts often hold special activities in their communities too. Watch your reading page for more festivities.
Are you doing a post a day for Three Weeks in your blog or other community, or some other activity? Post a comment about your goal to attract more readers. Follow the Threeweeks feed. The 2025 set featured goal-setting frameworks. See my 2024 Questionnaire and a list of other thematic questionnaires. See the Introduction / Friending Meme for this community's questionnaire about new bloggers, and the Introduction tag.
Are you doing a post a day for Three Weeks in your blog or other community, or some other activity? Post a comment about your goal to attract more readers. Follow the Threeweeks feed. The 2025 set featured goal-setting frameworks. See my 2024 Questionnaire and a list of other thematic questionnaires. See the Introduction / Friending Meme for this community's questionnaire about new bloggers, and the Introduction tag.
A drabble I wrote for sarajayechan during Snowflake Challenge 2025.
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A family home is not unlike a battlefield. Alliances are forged and broken, battle lines drawn and moved, loyalties tested and betrayed. Petty squabbles become of the utmost importance within the bars of a daughter’s birdcage.
The outside looks in, but can never gain the full picture. Theories will be discussed, rumors will be spread. Winner, loser, and scapegoat, all roles aptly assigned according to untruths instead of facts, all complexities sanded down for the better and easier understanding of the simple-minded.
Harbinger, warbringer. But Merricat wasn’t the dreaded omen, and she didn’t bring the war.
She only finished it.
sarajayechan during Snowflake Challenge 2025.Title: of narratives.
Fandom: We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Character/Pairing: Merricat Blackwood.
Rating/Warnings: M, none.
Summary: For the prompt: "Shirley Jackson's "We Have Always Lived in the Castle", Merricat, Harbinger."
Word count: 100.
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A family home is not unlike a battlefield. Alliances are forged and broken, battle lines drawn and moved, loyalties tested and betrayed. Petty squabbles become of the utmost importance within the bars of a daughter’s birdcage.
The outside looks in, but can never gain the full picture. Theories will be discussed, rumors will be spread. Winner, loser, and scapegoat, all roles aptly assigned according to untruths instead of facts, all complexities sanded down for the better and easier understanding of the simple-minded.
Harbinger, warbringer. But Merricat wasn’t the dreaded omen, and she didn’t bring the war.
She only finished it.
3weeks4dreamwidth is celebrating Dreamwidth's anniversary!Come join in for fun, memes, activities, and more ♥
The three weeks event celebrating Dreamwidth is starting today!! \o/ There's already a fresh friending meme posted over the comm thanks to
matsushima!Over at
bnha_fans, we're running a Rec Fest again, and I posted the announcement on the first day for the first time in what feels like 70 years ;v; XD Sadly, it seems like the bug in which, if a journal or comm is set to default to nsfw/18+, it won't show up on the Latest Page feed for the event even if the post itself is marked "No Ages Restriction". Sad that the comm contributions won't show up there, but since this post will be, hey! Boku no Hero Academia/My Hero Academia fans out there, we're running a Rec Fest if you're looking for new fanworks or have some you'd like to rec! :DLooking forward to see the various ways people participate this year! :D If this is your first time (or not, for that matter), you might enjoy the blogging questionnaire
ysabetwordsmith shared a few years ago. That was a good time, replying to a question a day and reading people's answers!Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Share Your Cards
Apr. 25th, 2026 01:17 amysabetwordsmith posting in allbingoThree Weeks for Dreamwidth offers lots of exciting activities. See the Introduction page on allbingo.
What have been some of your favorite bingo cards? Do you like to make cards outside of fests? Share your favorites in a comment, or link to some in your own blog.
allbingo.What have been some of your favorite bingo cards? Do you like to make cards outside of fests? Share your favorites in a comment, or link to some in your own blog.
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth is a celebration of the platform's anniversary, running April 25-May 15. During this time, people post content only visible on Dreamwidth (although it can be reposted elsewhere after the event ends). There's usually a flurry of activity as bloggers share anchor posts, new fiction, icons, banners, questionnaires, friending fests, memes, and other goodies. Community hosts often hold special activities in their communities too. Watch your reading page for more festivities.
Are you posting about creative bingo or related activities (e.g. prompt lists, tables)? You can crosspost those entries here. Share your bingo cards too. Are you doing anything for Three Weeks in your blog or other community? Post a comment about that to attract more readers. Follow the Threeweeks feed. See my 2024 Questionnaire and a list of other thematic questionnaires.
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Are you posting about creative bingo or related activities (e.g. prompt lists, tables)? You can crosspost those entries here. Share your bingo cards too. Are you doing anything for Three Weeks in your blog or other community? Post a comment about that to attract more readers. Follow the Threeweeks feed. See my 2024 Questionnaire and a list of other thematic questionnaires.
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I js saw this place n it seems really cool!!!
i like small web n old internet stuffs icl
i like small web n old internet stuffs icl
Watching and reading roundup: Hadestown, Taskmaster, Cinder House, Hugos
Apr. 24th, 2026 09:39 pmhamsterwomanI ended up going to see Hadestown with L while it was touring SF. I heard from her last year that she wanted to see it, so as soon as dates in SF popped up – I apparently get all these live performances ads now on Insta, after getting Ed Gamble tickets – I texted her, and she got two tickets, intending it to be for RH and herself. But I told her that if it did not work out for him to go (because at the time he lived in Napa, and it would’ve been a long drive on a weeknight), I was happy to be her plan B, and that’s what happened. ( The show and the experience, with marked spoilers )
So, I’m glad I ended up going to see it with L. I would not have bestirred myself on my own, but listening to / watching my favorite songs from the show on YouTube, I can tell I got stuff out of the live experience that I would not have gotten otherwise, and also, I’m glad I got to see this particular Hades. And L is the perfect musical theater buddy – she likes discussing stuff and knows more than me, and in this case there was also the shared interest in Greek myth (which is what we had with the Harry Potter play, too). B would’ve absolutely hated every aspect of it, from the crowd to the jazz to the singing, which all three of us agreed on, heh.
Oh, right, and when we came home, since we were talking about how much I like bass voices, I showed L some Tim Foust videos (whichaletheiafelinea introduced me to back in the day), like Champagne Taste (On a Beer Budget) and Long Black Train , and the Home Free sea shanties.
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Taskmaster s21e03 – I like Kumail’s shirt, with the white o white design. And Amy’s polka dot pinafore thing is very cute, too. ( Spoilers )
Joanna is the podcast guest, and she talks at the same density and speed as on the show, with Ed just sort of occasionally putting in a sentence or two XD ( Slight spoilers? ) Anyway, that was a ton of fun, and that was one I made a point of watching on YouTube rather than listening to, because I wanted to watch Joanna light up with laughter, and Ed’s expression as she just kept talking over him. What an absolute delight she is XD
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Hugo nominations are out! ( Category by category thoughts )
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And I should take this opportunity to finally write down my Cinder House thoughts. I read it, what, during my trip to Arizona, I think, and that’s been 6 weeks.
4. Freya Marske, Cinder House – I liked it a lot! I was not super swayed when I heard the premise – I have no particular devotion to Cinderella retellings, and ghost stories aren’t really my genre, and I wasn’t sure how this premise would play to what I’ve heretofore seen of Freya’s strengths as a writer in both pro and fanfic, but it’s just a really good book. ( More, with spoilers )
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At some point I should also catch up on another 6 months of Elis & John Radio X shows, and a ~2 months worth of current E&J and adjacent things like How Do You Cope (newly returned) and John making appearances on other podcasts to promote Thirst, but that'll need to wait. (I have preordered a signed copy of Thirst, but how I'm going to get to read it before I seecafemassolit whose house it's being shipped to is still unclear...
So, I’m glad I ended up going to see it with L. I would not have bestirred myself on my own, but listening to / watching my favorite songs from the show on YouTube, I can tell I got stuff out of the live experience that I would not have gotten otherwise, and also, I’m glad I got to see this particular Hades. And L is the perfect musical theater buddy – she likes discussing stuff and knows more than me, and in this case there was also the shared interest in Greek myth (which is what we had with the Harry Potter play, too). B would’ve absolutely hated every aspect of it, from the crowd to the jazz to the singing, which all three of us agreed on, heh.
Oh, right, and when we came home, since we were talking about how much I like bass voices, I showed L some Tim Foust videos (which
aletheiafelinea introduced me to back in the day), like Champagne Taste (On a Beer Budget) and Long Black Train , and the Home Free sea shanties. *
Taskmaster s21e03 – I like Kumail’s shirt, with the white o white design. And Amy’s polka dot pinafore thing is very cute, too. ( Spoilers )
Joanna is the podcast guest, and she talks at the same density and speed as on the show, with Ed just sort of occasionally putting in a sentence or two XD ( Slight spoilers? ) Anyway, that was a ton of fun, and that was one I made a point of watching on YouTube rather than listening to, because I wanted to watch Joanna light up with laughter, and Ed’s expression as she just kept talking over him. What an absolute delight she is XD
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Hugo nominations are out! ( Category by category thoughts )
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And I should take this opportunity to finally write down my Cinder House thoughts. I read it, what, during my trip to Arizona, I think, and that’s been 6 weeks.
4. Freya Marske, Cinder House – I liked it a lot! I was not super swayed when I heard the premise – I have no particular devotion to Cinderella retellings, and ghost stories aren’t really my genre, and I wasn’t sure how this premise would play to what I’ve heretofore seen of Freya’s strengths as a writer in both pro and fanfic, but it’s just a really good book. ( More, with spoilers )
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At some point I should also catch up on another 6 months of Elis & John Radio X shows, and a ~2 months worth of current E&J and adjacent things like How Do You Cope (newly returned) and John making appearances on other podcasts to promote Thirst, but that'll need to wait. (I have preordered a signed copy of Thirst, but how I'm going to get to read it before I see
cafemassolit whose house it's being shipped to is still unclear...
Free for All Saturday, Week 17 [DW Edition]
Apr. 25th, 2026 12:22 am↑↑↑ Available dates:
April 28 & 30
May 5 & 7
May 12 & 14
Hello! It's Saturday, which means it's time for a Free for All. :3 There are no themes to follow for prompts or fills. Btw, if you perhaps missed a prompt theme that you liked, or you've had any ideas that didn't really work with Tuesday's or Thursday's posts, then today's your chance to prompt 'em. Be free, and have fun! ✎
Just a few rules:
1. No more than five prompts in a row.
2. No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
3. Use the character's full name and the fandom's full name for ease in adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
4. No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
5. If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
6. If your story has possible triggers, please warn for them in the subject line!
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Are today's prompts not catching your eye? No worries, because we have plenty of older prompts that just might do the trick! You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^
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