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I have received an invitation to a Zoom Meeting which includes the words "strong feelings" and "complex issues"- and I think "O, bugger!"

Strong feelings and complex issues usually proceed from ego. Ego is a game we get to play while we're slumming it on planet Earth. It consists of putting on a mask and making like the mask is who we really are. The game consists of people exchanging sallies like, "My mask is prettier than yours" and "how come your mask has gold leaf on it and mine hasn't?" and "How dare you laugh at my mask!" After a while (many incarnations perhaps) it gets to be tiresome.

I've been thinking about Oscar Wilde recently. He's worth listening to on the subject of masks....

oursin

Happy birthday,

claudine and

littlered2!

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writethisfanfic

Hello, all! I hope your day has been full of writing or resting or at least something fun!

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What *kind* of day, Denny?

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Writing!
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Reading!
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Resting!
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Recovering!
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Staring contest with the Abyss and losing....
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Staring contest with the Abyss and WINNING!
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An infinitely more accurate answer than the above foolishness
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Discussion: Oh boy. Here we are at another week, huh. How'd that even happen? But enough mourning the inexorable passage of time!

This week sees--for those of us in the States--a major holiday which often correlates to major stress; it's not the most conducive to writing! But there's still a bit of time on either side of the holiday for the possibility of writing. (And for y'all not in an American Thanksgiving world, it will just be Thursday.)

So, what are your writing plans for the coming week?

sholio

The n-OH-vember Flash Exchange revealed, and I am delighted with my gift!

A Momentary Thing (Biggles/EvS, 3100 wds)
Absolutely delightful and satisfying enemies-era forced drugging/rescue. Bittersweet and delicious.

In other news, evidently Paletteful Packs (makers of curated art supply boxes) are going out of business and having a sale. However, the two things I attempted to buy both came up as "out of stock" when I clicked to add them to the cart (though this was not otherwise indicated) and after that I gave up. So either my choices were uniquely unlucky, or a bunch of items appear to be available for purchase on the website but actually aren't.

queenlua

"Verso," Sciel says, smiling brightly, "I'm starting to think you don't want our little expedition to succeed."

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Verso’s working toward another end. Sciel won’t let it happen.

Set during Act 3.

Sciel &/ Verso, ~7k words.

Read here on AO3.

( author's notes (very full of spoilers for the fic!) )

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twistedchick

Does anyone here know enough about Greek patronymics and ancient Greek names to help to give a reasonable pseudonym to a character from about 300 BCE? I keep looking up lists of names and I am not sure how to get the result I want. And this after a year of college-level Ancient Greek -- we didn't do much that I remember on the nature of ancient Greek names. Also, the textbook was by Liddell and Scott, and while I don't recall who Scott was, Liddell was the real Alice in Wonderland's father.

Help me find the right name for this character, please?

mrissa

I've mentioned here before that one of my big projects this year is my involvement with The Vertigo Project, which now has a webpage so the rest of you can see what we've been doing. Earlier today I facilitated the first creative therapy-style writing workshop through that group, and it was really lovely--and is just the tip of the iceberg on what this group is doing.

Specifically, you can now read all the new work they've commissioned from me! Friends, it's a lot. It's journaling prompts for people who would like to use writing to process some of their own vertigo experiences. But also it's the following stories and poems:

Advice for Wormhole Travelers (story), safe conduct through strange new worlds

Club Planet Vertigo (poem), this is not the dance I wanted to do

Greetings from Innerspace (poem), my orbits are eccentric

The Nature of Nemesis (poem), me and Clark Kent know what's what

On the Way Down (poem), falling hard

Preparation (poem), sometimes we're just literal, okay

She Wavers But She Does Not Weaken (story), when the waves hit you even on dry land, it's good to have someone who's willing to swim against the current for you

The Torn Map (story), rewriting the pieces of the former world into something new

The main page also has links to some of the other aspects of the project, which includes a nonfiction book, dance, puppetry, a podcast with a physical therapist, and more. Please feel welcome to explore it all.

senmut

I am currently working on my

ladiesbingo card for my December posting goals.

Sinners (Annie & Mary)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy & Dawn about Willow)
DC Comics (Dinah Lance & Selina Kyle)
Partners in Crime (Carole & Sydney)

Now, I have been the first to put fandom tags up on AO3 a lot in the distant past. But I never thought I'd be doing it again in 2025. The last time I did was 2021, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that The Jeffersons now has more than my one work. So I double checked that last fandom up there, got briefly excited because "Partners in Crime" was a tag in the TV Show fandoms.

However, it is actually for Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime, from the year before my one season detective American show. So yep, gotta disambiguate the name when I create it.

(I am trying to mentally fortify myself for the first TG dinner I am partly responsible for in ... a very long time, so no misc.exhausted.me this week)

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krait

Aaaahhh, where does the time go?? I always mean to post 'soon,' and that always proves to be a more distant date than it ought to be; but this might take the cake. I'm sorry!

Nothing much is new with me; I recently re-watched Princess Jellyfish and am currently re-reading The Goblin Emperor. Bought a couple of new books very cheap, but haven't started them yet.

Somehow I've stalled on Mob Psycho 100, with one season left; haven't watched in about three weeks, but hopefully I'll be able to pick it back up this weekend. Last weekend was eaten by yardwork, because the weather was unexpectedly cooperative; all the frost-killed mess is gone from the front bed now, and 25 daffodils have been planted. If we get one more stretch of nice weather, I can cut back the asters in the side bed and plant the alliums I forgot about last weekend, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the rain to clear out and the sun to return.

I've stocked up on tea so that I can make a decent quantity of my personal blends and have them ready in time for my Holiday Cards & Tea post!

thawrecka

I should write more about my Japan trip than just plane troubles, because I want to get all these thoughts and feelings down before they slip through my fingers.

I'll organise my thoughts mostly by area, as it's easier that way:

Ginza: This is where I stayed, and it was a perfect base for exploring Tokyo. Last time (which was 17 years ago! A long time!) I stayed in Nihonbashi, and it felt less convenient. My hotel was literally right above an entrance to Higashi-Ginza station.

Of course, Ginza is perfectly nice on its own. Touristy, but not overwhelmingly so, and clean and nice with lots of good signage, and very walkable. I spent a bunch of money at Loft and Itoya, which are dangerous as a stationery fan (I did not realise until I got home how many stickers I bought). Cursing that I didn't buy one of the sun and rain umbrellas at Loft, tbh, because it would be super useful in Melbourne. I also spent a lot of time wandering through Mitsukoshi department store just browsing and not buying anything. If I'd been more flush with cash I might have been in danger of buying a bunch of fancy makeup here, but given I already have too much eyeshadow I'm not sad I didn't.

This reminds me how convenient the trains are. They come so often! When I visited Tokyo in 2008 I'm pretty sure only Roppongi had the subway fare table in English, which was inconvenient when I was trying to get to Roppongi and my nearest station in Nihonbashi only had signage in Japanese. Now pretty much every subway station has English signage, and the ticket machines allow you to display the information in multiple languages and type in the station you're going to to get fare advice anyway. It's so convenient.

In general, Tokyo is so much more convenient for foreign tourists now. (Which turned out to be great for me because my Japanese is so much worse than I thought it was, lmao.) In some of the more tourist heavy areas the overhead announcements are in Japanese, then English, then two varieties of Chinese, then Korean. At Tokyo Station I think there were also announcements in Thai. Amazing, tbh. I don't feel any city has an obligation to be convenient for foreign tourists, but it is very nice.

I did a lot of shopping at the Tokyo Station shops in 2008; I did a lot in 2025, too 🤣 I bought a kimono Miffy, and a fancy mug from the fancy Ghibli store, and I very nearly bought a tacky plastic keyring about my fave anime character before reminding myself I have too much plastic crap already...

Tokyo Tower! I went to Roppongi thinking I'd go to the Mori Art Museum, but once I got there I only wanted to walk to Tokyo Tower instead (even though there's a closer station to it, yes). And it was so worth it. The bright red and white tower against the bright blue sky! In front of Tokyo Tower there was a mini Tokyo Tower surrounded by Christmas trees, and it was so cute. This is the only thing I remembered to photograph.

Ikebukuro: I really enjoyed this neighbourhood and went there two days in a row. It's well known as a place full of anime merch frequented by women, and certainly I went to the massive Animate and looked in several of the second hand stores and considered buying things... but in the end, I stumbled into the Sunshine City shopping mall and bought a bunch of feminine accessories and looked at a bunch of cute clothes. I planned to buy other things, but then I spent ¥16,500 on a cute handbag & bag charm at Samantha Vega, and I can't remember how much on a hairclip at Mary Quant, and honestly if I'd had more cash I could have spent so much more... I also liked the other shopping malls in the area and the general vibe. Just a really nice area, tbh. I have to go back!!

Akihabara on the other hand, meh. I didn't like it in 2008 because it felt crowded and sleazy, and I don't like it for the same reasons now. Most of Tokyo smells mysteriously nice, but Akihabara doesn't. OTOH, the Animate there had a different selection of merch, and was where all the Natsume Yuujincho stuff was?? I bought a Nyanko-sensei pen.

I also could have spent entire days in Shimokitazawa. If you like neighbourhoods full of vintage shopping and independent designers that make you feel like you're not cool enough to be there, as I do, then this is top notch. There were so many cute things in the stores! I nearly bought a purple handbag at Wego (where everything was delightfully tacky), before reminding myself I'd already bought a handbag the day before elsewhere and how many handbags do I need... Well, I'm still thinking about that handbag, so I guess this is a reminder you miss 100% of the shots you don't take, and 100% of the accessories you don't buy.

I bought so many stickers at B Side Label. I could have spent hours in there, buying every sticker I saw. They're so cute! This is their website, and I bought more anime stuff here than anywhere else, lmao. You can get B Side Label stickers all over the place - Loft, the Jump shop, the various TV station shops in Tokyo station, etc. - but I'm glad I waited to buy any until I got to one of their own stores and could browse a bigger portion of the collection.

Some other thoughts:
- I'm 5'4 or 5'5 depending on who measures me, and it's really nice to visit a country where almost everything is made for people around my height.
- Rice is healthy for most people, but I can't actually digest it very well, so after eating it several days in a row, having to deal with plane turbulence didn't only do in my back, I also felt queasy the whole plane flight. Live and learn.
- Google maps was good at telling me the public transport to get somewhere, but almost every time I needed walking directions it tried to lead me in a circle. What is with that?
- I talked with a friend about it after I got home, who said that he felt disappointed that Japan no longer gives him the feeling it used to the first time he went there, whereas it still gave me that feeling: excited to be there, and just different enough from home to be interesting but not so difficult that anything was particularly hard to navigate (even with language issues). Honestly, still feels like a very nice place for a solo female traveller to go, and I can't wait to go again.

I've probably forgotten so much of what I wanted to say about it already.

lannamichaels

Title: The Deere Files Podcast Presents: The Heirs Of Samuel Westing.
Author:

lannamichaels
Fandom: The Westing Game
Rating: G
Archives: Archive Of Our Own, SquidgeWorld

Summary: What do a Supreme Court Justice, the chairwoman of the board of the largest employer in Wisconsin, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, the inventor of Hoo's Little Foot-Eze innersoles, and a dead union organizer who didn't exist have in common?

( There was no such person as Barney Northrup )

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petra

I'm postulating the necro/cav AUs again, so I still might throw that AU fest, Locked Tomb fans. There's no release date on Alecto as of this writing, so that's not a useful target. But if instead I aimed for a y'all-come-create fest to release on May Day, as the opposite cross-quarter day from Halloween, that might work.

Postulate with me! Anyone who has a clever idea for a fest name is welcome, or a pair they want to see do this dance, or anything.

*

You know it's a good day when you get to use the phrase, "L'Engle-accurate cherubim."

Angels, shmangels -- I want Progo with ~~blue hair and~~ pronouns.

Current Mood: deepening

senmut

Decided I wanted to be able to see everything in one list.
Leading 'A' and 'The' have been stripped from titles.
Ignore the numbering on Star Wars; it's my chrono order for them.
Marvel nor DC are organized by franchise or series, just by title.

Not quite 500 movies and TV series

10 Things I Hate About You
13th Warrior
3:10 to Yuma

Abyss Special Edition
Addams Family (90s)
Adventures in Babysitting
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
After Earth
Air Force One
Alice in Wonderland (50s)
All About Eve
American Outlaws
Anastasia
Annie (10s)
Annie (80s)
Annihilation/Arrival
Appaloosa
Aristocats
As Good As It Gets
Assault on Precinct 13
Atlantis: the Lost Empire
Australia
AvP: Alien Anthology
AvP: AvP
AvP: Predator
AvP: Predator 2
Avatar 1: the Last Airbender
Avatar 2: Legend of Korra

Baby Boom
Babylon 5 (telemovies)
Babylon A.D.
Bad Boys
Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever
Balto
Bambi
Beauty and the Beast (80s TV)
Beauty and the Beast (90s Movie)
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Big
Big Trouble in Little China
Black Sails
Bobby Z
Boiler Room
Bourne Trilogy (Damon)
Brave
Bringing Down the House
Brotherhood of Justice
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Swanson)
Buffy: the Vampire Slayer (Season 1)

Cannonball Run
Carol Burnett Show: This Time Together & Show Stoppers
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Charlie's Angels (2019)
Christmas Carol (Scott)
Chronicles of Narnia 1: Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Chronicles of Narnia 2: Prince Caspian
Chronicles of Narnia 3: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Clan of the Cave Bear
Clash of the Titans (80s)
Clue
Coco
Con Air
Connie and Carla
Cradle 2 the Grave
Crow
Cutthroat Island

DC: Aquaman
DC: Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero
DC: Batman (Keaton)
DC: Batman (Pattinson)
DC: Batman Begins (Bale)
DC: Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
DC: Batman Returns (Keaton)
DC: Batman: Complete Third Season
DC: Batman: Gotham Knight
DC: Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
DC: Batman: the Movie (West)
DC: Birds of Prey (00s)
DC: Birds of Prey and the Fabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn
DC: Constantine (Reeves)
DC: Justice League & Justice League Unlimited
DC: Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
DC: Justice League: the New Frontier
DC: Lois & Clark: the New Adventures of Superman (Seasons 1-2)
DC: Sandman (Season 1)
DC: Superman II: the Richard Donner Cut
DC: Superman: the Movie Expanded Edition
DC: Teen Titans
DC: Wonder Woman
DC: Wonder Woman (70s, Season 1)
Dante's Peak
Dark Crystal
Dark Shadows (90s)
Dave
Dead Poets Society
Dear God
Deep Blue Sea
Deep Impact
Descendants
Dirty Dancing
Doctor Who: Doctors Revisited (60s)
Doctor Who: Five Doctors 25th anniversary edition
Doctor Who: Dalek Collection (00s)
Doctor Who: Series 1-2 (00s)
Double Jeopardy (90s)
Down With Love
Dr Suess's How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dragonball Z (Seasons 1-4)
Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dumbo
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Ella Enchanted
Emperor's New Groove
Entrapment
Executive Decision
Express

Fast Color
Father of the Bride: 15th Anniversary Special Edition (90s)
Father of the Bride: Part II (90s)
Ferngully: the Last Rainforest
Fifth Element
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Firefly & Serenity
First Monday in October
Flightplan
Foul Play
Forever Knight (Season 1-2)
Forever Knight: Nick Knight: Original telemovie
Fox and the Hound
Fox and the Hound II
Fraggle Rock: Down in Fraggle Rock
Frank Herbert's Dune (Sci-Fi Mini)
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (Sci-Fi Mini)
Fried Green Tomatoes
Fugitive (90s)

G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero (80s)
GB: Ghostbusters 1&2 (80s)
GB: Real Ghostbusters Volume 1
Gentleman's Agreement
Gettysburg/Gods and Generals
Glory
Golden Girls
Good Guys Wear Black
Grease: Rockin' Rydell Edition
Great Mouse Detective
Greatest Classic Films Collection: Casablanca/Gigi/An American in Paris/Mrs. Miniver
Green Knight
Gremlins
Grumpy Old Men
Grumpier Old Men
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Gundam Wing: Operation 1-6

HL: Highlander: Immortal Edition
HL: Highlander: the Series
Hackers
Harry Potter Film Collection
Heavenly Kid
Heavy Metal
Hellboy
Her Majesty Mrs. Brown
Heroes (Season 1)
Hidden Figures
Hook
Houseboat
How to Marry a Millionaire
How to Train Your Dragon
Howl's Moving Castle

IJ 1: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
IJ 3: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Ice Age
Ice Age: the Meltdown
Identity
Importance of Being Earnest (00s)
In & Out
In the Line of Fire
Iron Giant

JB: Bond Collection: Sean Connery (volumes 1-2)
JB: Bond: Quantum of Solace
Jackie
Jane Got a Gun
Jeremiah (Season 1)
John Carter
Julia & Julia
Jumanji
Jumper
Jungle Book (60s)
Jurassic Park 1-3
Jurassic World

Karate Kid (80s)
Kate & Leopold
Kindergarten Cop
Kiss the Girls
Knight's Tale
Knockaround Guys

Labyrinth
Lady and the Tramp
Ladyhawke
Land Before Time
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Law & Order
League of Our Own (movie)
Legend
Leon: the Professional
Leverage
Life as a House
Lilo & Stitch
Lion King
Long Riders/Stagecoach
Lord of the Rings Extended Editions (1-3)
Lost Boys
Louis L'Amour Western Collection: Sacketts/Conagher/Catlow
Louis L'Amour's Quick and the Dead (Elliott)
Love Actually
Love Potion #9
Love, Simon

M*A*S*H: Martini & Medicine Collection
Mad Max: Fury Road
Maleficent
Maleficent
Mannequin
Mannequin 2: On the Move
Marvel: Avengers (10s)
Marvel: Black Panther
Marvel: Blade
Marvel: Blade II
Marvel: Captain America: First Avenger
Marvel: Captain America: the Winter Soldier
Marvel: Captain Marvel
Marvel: Daredevil (00s)
Marvel: Fantastic Four (00s)
Marvel: Ghost Rider (00s)
Marvel: Incredible Hulk (pilot movie, Bixby/Ferrigno)
Marvel: Incredible Hulk Returns (Bixby/Ferrigno)
Marvel: Trial of the Incredible Hulk (Bixby/Ferrigno)
Marvel: Wrath of the Incredible Hulk (Bixby/Ferrigno)
Marvel: Iron Man
Marvel: Iron Man 2
Marvel: Iron Man 3
Marvel: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Marvel: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Marvel: Thor
Marvel: Thor: the Dark World
Marvel: Thor: Ragnarok
Marvel: Thor: Love and Thunder
Marvel: Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers
Marvel: Thor: Tales of Asgard
Marvel: Ultimate Avengers: the Movie
Marvel: X-Men
Marvel: X-Men 1.5
Marvel: X-Men 2
Mary Poppins
Maverick
McClintock/Sagebrush Trail
Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell
Men in Black
Men in Black II
Men of Honor
Mickey's Christmas Carol
MirrorMask
Moana
Monkey Man
Monsters, Inc
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Moonlight
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Mulan (90s)
Mummy Collector's Edition
Mummy Returns Collector's Edition
Mummy: Scorpion King
Muppet Movie
Muppets (10s)
Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
Murder, She Wrote (Season 1-2)
My Fellow Americans
My Little Pony (80s) & My Little Pony: the Movie

Nanny McPhee
Nero Wolfe (A&E Complete Series)
Newsies
Night Shift
Night at the Museum
Ninja Scroll 10th Anniversary Edition
Notorious

Ocean's 8
Ocean's Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen
Odd Couple
Oliver & Company
Oliver and Company
Operation Petticoat
Outsiders

Pacific Rim
Pacifier
Patriot
Patriot Games Special Collector's Edition
Peanuts: Charlie Brown Christmas
Peanuts: Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Peanuts: It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
Peter Pan (00s)
Philadelphia
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Point Break
PotA 1: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
PotA 2: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
PotA 3: War for the Planet of the Apes
Pretender
Pride and Prejudice (BBC)
Princess Bride
Princess Diaries Special Edition
Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Prophecy Complete Collection
Pump Up the Volume
Pure Country

Queen +: Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert
Queen: Live at Wembley Stadium
Queen: Wembley Unseen
Quigley Down Under

Record of Lodoss War
Red Shoe Diaries
Remington Steele (Season 1)
Rescuers/ Rescuers Down Under
Resident Evil Trilogy
Return to Me
Riddick Trilogy
Rise of the Guardians
Road House
Road to El Dorado
Robin Hood (70s)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Romeo Must Die
Rumble in the Bronx
Rundown
Rurouni Kenshin: Betrayal

Saint (90s)
Santa Clause
Santa Clause 2
Save the Last Dance
Scrooged
Secret of NIMH
Secretariat
Seems Like Old Times
Shadow
Shadow Riders
Shaft (Jackson)
Shape of Water
She-Ra: Princess of Power (80s, Season 1 Volume 1)
Sherlock Holmes (Downey)
Sherlock Holmes (Ronald Howard)
Short Circuit
Simple Twist of Fate
Sinners
Sister Act
Skulls
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sleeping Beauty (50s)
Sleepless in Seattle
Snow White and the Huntsman
Soldier/Tequila Sunrise
Some Like It Hot
Something to Talk About
Something's Gotta Give
Sons of Anarchy (Seasons 1-3)
Speed
Speed Race: the Movie
Square Pegs
Star Trek 01: Motion Picture
Star Trek 02: Wrath of Khan
Star Trek 03: Search for Spock
Star Trek 04: Voyage Home
Star Trek 05: Final Frontier
Star Trek 06: Undiscovered Country
Star Trek 07: Generations
Star Trek 08: First Contact
Star Trek 09: Insurrection
Star Trek 10: Nemesis
Star Trek 11: Star Trek
Star Trek 13: Beyond
Star Trek: TOS
Star Wars 01: Phantom Menace
Star Wars 02: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars 03: Clone Wars
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Seasons 1-5) (Lost Missions)
Star Wars 04: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: Rebels (Season 2)
Star Wars 05: Solo: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars 06: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars 07: A New Hope
Star Wars 08: Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars 09: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars 10: Force Awakens
Star Wars 11: Last Jedi
Stargate SG-1 (Seasons 1-3)
Stargate Ultimate Edition
Stranger Things (Seasons 1-2)
Street Fighter II: the Animated Movie
Sword in the Stone

TF: Transformers (00s)
TF: Transformers Cybertron: Robots in Disguise: A New Beginning
TF: Transformers Energon: the Return of Megatron
TF: Transformers: Beginnings
TF: Transformers: Bumblebee
TF: Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye (80s, Seasons 1-2)
TF: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
TFatF 1 Fast and the Furious
TFatF 2 2 Fast 2 Furious
TFatF 3 Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
TFatF 4 Fast and Furious
TFatF 5 Fast Five
TFatF 6: Fast and Furious 6
TFatF 7: Furious 7
TRON
TRON: Legacy
Table Top (Seasons 1-2)
Take the Lead
Takers
Ted Lasso: Richmond Way
Teen Witch
Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator: Dark Fate
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
Three Men and a Baby
Three Men and a Little Lady
Three to Tango
Titan A.E.
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Tombstone
Top Gun
True Lies
Twister

Uncle Buck
Underworld
Unlawful Entry
Up

V for Vendetta
Venom
Veronica Mars (Seasons 1-3, Reunion movie)
Victor Victoria
Volcano

Walking Tall
Wanted
Way West
West Wing
What to Do in Case of Fire
Where the Wild Things Are
Wicked! (Murney/Kassebaum)
Widows
Wild Robot
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (70s)
Wishmaster 1/Wishmaster: Evil Never Dies
Wishmaster: Prophecy Fulfilled
Wishmaster: Beyond the Gates of Hell
Witchblade
Wizard Of Oz: Collector's Edition
Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Edition
Wonder Woman (00s)
Wrinkle in Time

XXX
XXX: the Return of Xander Cage

Young Guns
Yours Mine & Ours (60s)
Yu-Gi-Oh (Volumes 2, 5-7, 10-13, 16)
Yu-Yu-Hakasho: the Saga of the Three Kings

umadoshi

Reading: I finished August Clarke's Metal from Heaven (really good, with gorgeous writing) and read Into the Broken Lands, which was my first Tanya Huff book in...probably a couple of decades, honestly. Also really good. (I have a bonus soft spot for her because she was GoH at the local SFF con one year when I went in high school.)

Currently reading: Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater.

And

scruloose and I are close enough to the end of Network Effect that we could probably finish it tonight if we really tried; annoyingly, it's due back at something like 6 PM today, and we can't get it finished by then, so we're gonna have to renew it. >.<

Cooking/Baking: I mentioned having apples we needed to bake with early in the month, and what we wound up going with was the Easiest Ever MOIST Apple Cake from RecipeTin eats, chosen in large part based on our available springform pans. It's tasty (we took the last pieces out to thaw for this evening), but I can't say "moist" is one of the first words it brings to mind. (It's not dry or anything, just...a perfectly pleasantly-textured cake.)

Tonight's dinner plan is Smitten Kitchen's Roast Chicken with Schmaltzy Cabbage. (It calls for a green cabbage and we have a Savoy, but hopefully that'll be okay.) Last weekend when we were out erranding we bought said cabbage, some carrots, and some broccoli (all still in the fridge), and some spring mix (fortunately not still in the fridge), but then we had a HelloFresh box to get through.

Buying vegetables is presumably the first step to actually cooking them, and I made sure to at least mostly choose some that would last a while. >.> The Bee Wilson book I mentioned recently has a section specifically on learning/practicing different cooking techniques with carrots, so I'm hoping to actually make use of the bag of carrots with my own hands. We'll see how that goes.

Householding: The upright freezer in the garage has been making unhappy noises and needing to be poked at periodically to keep it running. Time to get a new one, I guess. >.< Everyone loves appliance shopping!

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Let's talk about crossovers and crossover AUs . For example, "Sam and Dean from Supernatural hang out with Buffy and Dawn from Buffy the Vampire Slayer"* and "Buffy and Dawn are Hunters, like Sam and Dean." Two different things, but similar concepts.

ETA: I used "fusion", but I don't think that's quite the right term.

With crossover AUs, how do you make it its own story, as opposed to just Buffy and Dawn speaking Sam and Dean's lines? Do you include other character parallels?

What do you count as a crossover, versus a cameo? Do you consider it crossover if Sam and Dean show up briefly, or would that be more of a cameo?

When it comes to tagging, you tag the fandoms, or just the characters? For that matter, how closely do you prefer crossover AUs follow the original canon?

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This week's bread: the Collister/Blake My Favourite Loaf, strong white/wholemeal/wholemeal spelt, splosh of pumpkin seed oil, nice.

Friday night supper: ven pongal (South Indian khichchari). cashew perhaps a bit burnt, still pretty good.

Saturday breakfast rolls: basic buttermilk, 3:1 strong white/mix of coarse and fine cornmeal, turned out v well.

Today's lunch: salmon fillets baked in foil with slices of lime, butter, dill and salt and pepper, served with La Ratte potatoes roasted in goose fat, Boston beans roasted in walnut oil with fennel seeds and splashed with gooseberry vinegar, and steamed asparagus with melted butter.

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