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All I did today was fail at the things I wanted to do so let's just do the fannish 50 recs. I did finish a story and I will bbl to share it because it's on my flash in another room and I will get up later to get it.

Oh one other thing, I want to use my 3 day weekend to catch up on like months of comments I owe. I have not been a great friend.

A Collared Dog The Owl House

I May Be A Loser, But He Likes Me That Way Hazbin Hotel

Wet And Cold Torchwood

Feeling Down FAKE

Happy St Valentine's Day, Bodie
The Professionals

Undefined Fire Emblem Musou: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

Not Letting Go Torchwood

beyond the borders. Fire Emblem Musou: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

Blood Ties Hazbin Hotel

The Star of the Show. Starsky & Hutch

Intruder Alert Stargate SG-1

Wouldn't, Couldn't, Hadn't (Dulce) Hazbin Hotel

14 Days of Valentine's Day Hazbin Hotel

A New Life The Owl House

Zewu-jun’s secret vacation
陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Modao Zushi - Moxiang Tongxiu & Related Fandoms

Toxic Bliss Hazbin Hotel

we're going up (we'll never be denied) Fire Emblem Musou: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

To Be Known Merlin

Feeling Their Age Torchwood

perhaps not so incurable Fire Emblem Musou: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

Eternity (Paz) Hazbin Hotel

untitled Hazbin Hotel

Through The Decades (Hola)

untitled Hazbin Hotel

Current Mood: disappointed
Current Music: Death in Paradise

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Posted by John Scalzi

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Saja is turning into a handsome devil. Smudge is unimpressed nevertheless.

— JS

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tsuki_no_bara

first important thing: the us mixed doubles won silver against sweden, which isn't as good as a gold but is the first us medal in that branch of curling so i'm not complaining too much. it was a good game too, very tense. (i may or may not have missed an admim meeting because i was watching it online at work. ahem.) and my curling club got a shoutout. :D

2 fast 2 curlious. hee.

(last night i watched some of the women us vs sweden and cory thiesse who was on the mixed doubles team is on the women's team and she must be so tired.)

second important thing: i got snowed on tuesday on the way home. :DDD it was very exciting.

other sports i've seen include some ski jump (looks both fun and absolutely terrifying), some speed skating (holy shit thighs), and some ice dancing (my favorite was the spanish couple who skated to the music from dune). i was briefly distracted by more norwegian drama, namely the biathlete who used his bronze-medal interview to admit he cheated on his girlfriend (she broke up with him) and then also admitted he hoped his public declaration of love would win her back. it did not. there's also drama in the figure skating but it sounds less like "guy did a stupid thing" drama and more like "everyone's covering for the rapist" drama and that is just way more serious.

i also randomly caught the gold medal run for women's snowboard cross which was won by an australian with a huge cheering section all wearing pink hats. so cute. the snowboarders all hugged each other after the run and that was also extremely adorable. now i'm watching the men's halfpipe and one of the japanese snowboarders is wearing pearly nail polish and how can you not love that? shaun white is there and his reactions to the tricks and the falls are fantastic.

now you're gonna get curling links because it's me and i only get to do this once every four years.

snoop dogg hangs with the curlers. korey dropkin's mom taught him about curling. (mom's name is shelly and while i don't know her i think she was president of the club at one point and was basically kind of a big deal. everything i've ever heard about her is positive.)

the oldest athlete at the games is a fifty-four-year-old lawyer on the us men's curling team. :D one of the other guys on the team, this lawyer curled with his dad. it's gotta be weird to be old enough to have fathered the other folks on your team but it sounds like they're all very cool about it.

i don't know what to call this. there are wrestlers. it's weird. also cute.

how about a curling stone cake?

and finally an article about my club, because god knows i've mentioned it enough. (that should be a non-paywalled link.)

couple more general olympics links:

meet one of only two greenlanders at the olympics. she's a biathlete there with her brother (also a biathlete) and if you saw people waving the greenlandic flag along the course? danish fans showing their support.

the olympic village ran out of condoms in THREE DAYS. someone seriously underestimated the amount of sex these attractive, athletic folks were going to be having.

speaking of curling i was way off my game on sunday altho the ice was quite weird but we had to call the game when someone on the other team slipped, fell, landed on her wrist, and had to get off the ice. her hubs took her to the er. they were ahead so we just gave them the win and ended it. i'm sure she's out for the rest of the season but i hope she's ok. i consequently did not see any of the super bowl or the halftime show which was kind of a bummer because i wanted to watch that.

and saturday for dinner i was really feeling it for hawaiian food and fortunately! there's a place not super far from me that can provide. i get there and the guy behind the counter asked me "you want some free food?" and i went "uh..." because on the one hand yes, who's going to turn down free dinner? but on the other, why were they giving it away?? because they were about to close. so i went home with my spam musubi and my mix plate and a random container of poke (yum), a random container of mac salad (yum), and a random container of pickled cucumbers (yum). a++, will order late from them again.

wednesday was the anniversary of the day the good voters of nevada passed a constitutional amendment prohibiting people who'd participated in a duel from voting or holding office. they voted on this in 1889. it may or may not still be on the books.

in honor of tomorrow being ~~cheap chocolate eve~~ valentine's day i need to share that angry orchard hard cider will take your ex's stuff and exchange it for cash. and then you exchange the cash for cider. everyone wins. :D

you can preorder squishable toilet paper. you know, if your life needs a toilet roll plushie in it.

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: ok now it's men's figure skating

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https://xkcd.com/3207/

'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.

https://xkcd.com/3207/

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Title: Looking for Smoke
Author: K.A. Cobell
Narrators: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Katie Anvil Rich, Jordan Waunch, Julie Lumsden
Genre: Crime thriller, murder mystery, fiction

Earlier this week I finished another commute audiobook, Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell. This is a crime thriller/murder mystery that takes place on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. When a teenage girl is found strangled at the Indian Days summer powwow, four of her classmates become the prime suspects in her murder.

I would say this is a solid entry in the murder mystery genre. The book alternates perspectives between the four classmates, which allows the author to do some fun things keeping the reader on the hook. One character will make a big discovery only for the POV to pop over to another who doesn't have that information, so Cobell can keep information from the reader without it feeling too forced. The audiobook has a separate narrator for each POV, which was also fun (although I didn't care for Eli's reader) and if you're prone to picking up and putting down your audiobook in the middle of a chapter, this helps you keep track of whose POV you're in.

Cobell uses the format of the crime thriller, like Marcie Rendon in Where They Last Saw Her, to draw attention to the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), but the book still feels like a novel its own right; it never feels like just a tool for explaining the MMIW issue. And it's an important issue that deserves a lot more attention. The statistics on violence against Native American women are shocking--even if you think they're bad, they're probably worse than you're imagining--and specific stats get highlighted in the text and in the author's note at the end. In this way, I think the book has enormous social value. Cobell uses her characters to personalize the problem and show the comorbid impacts of poverty and drug use on the reservation.

Outside of its interest in the MMIW crisis, I don't think the book does much that's particularly groundbreaking. The teens band together to try to solve the mystery and absolve themselves, as you'd expect. At various times they suspect each other, family members, law enforcement. Cobell keeps you on the hook while offering reasonable suspicion for a number of characters. She avoids my least favorite move in the murder mystery genre, which is pinning it on some rando at the last minute.

The ending is pretty explosive and I enjoy some of the things she does with perspective here as well. We the readers know what the killer thinks of their crimes because the text tells us. But the other characters never hear that explanation except third hand, and many of them simply don't believe it. And that feels real--they end the story with their own version of the truth and there's simply no space for that to be corrected (and why would they believe the word of a killer anyway?) The killer feels a little one-dimensional, but the motives make sense, if they're unsurprising. The motivations behind most violent crimes are pretty repetitive.

The prose is fine. We're reading from the perspective of teenagers, so expect a lot of melodramatic metaphors and jumping to conclusions based on minimal evidence.

Overall, this book tells an important story. It was entertaining as a narrative and sheds light on a community that deserves a lot more attention.

koshka_the_cat

I went to my second of the biweekly protests Indivisible is hosting today.

A teacher friend texted me that one of her neighbors yelled at her landscaper. She didn't hear, but thinks it was about him not belonging here. He was in tears. How can people be so awful?

summersgate

So Sorry Skye. She's still with us but I think tomorrow will be the day. This is so hard. Dave is signed up to go to a fishing tournament tomorrow. I said that's okay, go ahead. Jules will go with me. Skye was Jules' cat before she was ours.

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We had lunch with Chloe today at Heaven's Baked Goods. It's always good to see her. I gave her the blue bunny I had made for her and she liked it.

The sparkles in the snow this afternoon from the kitchen window.

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shadowkat

I should do my taxes but I am procrastinating. But I need to do it, so that Turbo Tax will stop nudging me to do it. I miss the days in which everyone trying to sell me something didn't have my email address.

Knee has been bugging me off and on today - I did laundry and alas, had to stand to do it. For a long while. My knees don't like it when I stand for longer than ten minutes. I stood for thirty. Suffice to say? They weren't happy campers.

Television Bits and Pieces:

David Boreanze cast as the lead in the Rockford Files Reboot by NBC

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Can we just not? I told mother, who loved the Rockford Files when it first aired.. in the mid-70s, actually, I enjoyed them in reruns and whenever I saw it at night. And my father loved it - it was among his favorite shows. For those who don't know what it is? It was a private detective series, featuring a down-on-his-luck PI. Reminded me a little of the Trevor McGee mysteries.

Me: So they are rebooting the Rockford Files, you'll never guess who they cast in the lead..
Mother: probably not.
Me: David Boreanze - the guy who played Angel.
Mother: Ugh. You've got to be kidding me? Well, that's one show I will definitely not be watching. Boreanze is all wrong for the part - he doesn't have the sense of humor that Garner had.

True. James Marsters has that same dead pan sense of humor, as does Nathan Fillion and Jensen Anckles, not David Boreanze.

Oh well, at least this means that it is highly unlikely that he'll appear in the Buffy Sequel.

But I really wish they wouldn't reboot "good" old television series. There's a list of classic television series that should NEVER be rebooted: Rockford Files, Gunsmoke, the Original Star Trek, The Prisoner, MASH, Fraiser, Hill Street Blues, Homicide Life on the Street, ER, LA Law, St. Elsewhere, Gilmore Girls, Friends, I Love Lucy, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, Rhoda, The Mary Tyler Moor Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Supernatural... leave the classics alone folks. Come up with something original?

I don't necessarily mind sequels? Although I'm not watching Scrubs (I barely watched the original.).

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Almost done with the Buffy S7 rewatch, yet woefully behind on the Angel S4 one. Mainly because Angel S4 kind of goes off the rails post Orpheus, and I find it hard to watch? (All the character plot holes give me a headache.) ( Read more... )

Buffy S7's problem is too many characters, while Angel's is comic book/soap plotting that kind of gets garbled in translation. I can see why the network was flirting with cancelling Angel in S4.
( Buffy S7 Empty Places to part of End of Days )

Off to make something for dinner. I don't know what, but I'll come up with something. Maybe salmon with broccoli.

james_davis_nicoll

BROWNSVILLE, TX – Tech visionary Elon Musk astounded observers when he set aside more than a decade of unfulfilled vows to colonize the Red Planet in favour of the seemingly more modest goal of failing to colonize the Moon.

tellshannon815

What was I saying about bots? This one actually made me laugh out loud this morning:
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Current Mood: amused

sabotabby

Listen, the world is a fuck and sometimes we just need to talk about silly space shows to distract from *gestures vaguely at the dumpster fire outside*. So if you nerds want a place to talk Starfleet Academy or any related Star Trek stuff you can do so here. Spoiler zone obviously. I'll be up to episode 5 by tonight.

ETA: Just realized I have been calling it Star Trek Academy this whole time, whoops.

cosmolinguist

I'm going to Huddersfield for work on Monday, Wrexham on Wednesday, and at the very end of today I had a call where I ended up agreeing to go to "somewhere near Walsall" on Friday next week (I'm still awaiting the promised email with more specific details than that!).

(For non-locals, these are all 2ish hours away, or less, but one of these in a week would usually be a big deal and leave me really tired the next day and etc.)

They're all trips I really want to make, all for unrelated things that just happen to have turned up at the same time. I'll be fine. But oof!

Tomorrow I'm helping a fellow Queer Club member move heavy furniture to his new place, while V has an unpleasant hospital appointment testing for something potentially serious. Sunday D and I will once again be doing tip runs for V's relative who's clearing out his mum's house...

Everything is... a bit intense at the moment.

I do have almost all of the next week off work (except for a trip to Chester lol, which I actually really want to do). Really looking forward to that.

hamsterwoman

2. Elis James and John Robins, The Holy Vible – so this is the book Elis & John wrote together in ~2017 and toured in 2018. I actually bought it and started reading it really early in my Elis & John journey – May 2024 – because I thought it would be a “concentrated” way to get a feel for them as a duo. And it kind of works in that regard, but only to a point – some stuff is more reliant on already knowing the inside jokes, and most of it is enhanced by being able to hear certain key phrases in their voices (they recorded the audio book version, which I do think would be fun, especially for certain chapters, but I don’t think this is something I need to experience twice). Anyway, I started reading it back in May 2024, while I was still trying to figure out/decide how to catch up on the back catalogue, and fairly quickly decided this was not the best way. But I’ve now listened back to before this book was published, and that seemed like a very good time to go back to the rest of it, especially when I wanted something undemanding and light. ( More, with… spoilers of sorts, I suppose? )

This was definitely a better time at which to read this book, and I’m glad I can say I have done so now :) Probably audiobook would’ve been the better way to go from the start, but on the other hand, I already have hundreds of hours of audio content, and being able to change it up with the written word was probably good :)

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Speaking of addenda to other media I’m consuming, after I watched The Goes Wrong Show, YouTube helpfully popped up the BBC broadcast version of the play Peter Pan Goes Wrong, and I watched it too. It was interesting to see this bunch / this humour at much longer form – the TV episodes are <30 min and the play was over an hour, so it was a slightly different vibe. ( More, with SPOILERS )

I then also watched A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, which was shorter and felt closer to the show, but I still like the show more. ( More, with spoilers )

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Week 2 of Stuff I Love: Top 10 Edition (hosted by

dreamersdare here) is Series. For week 1’s “Standalones”, I’d chosen to focus on SFF stories because I tend to favor SFF series. So I’m thinking of doing basically the opposite, for the same reason, for this week – usually if I read/watch a series, it’s almost certainly going to be a SFF series because it’s a chance to spend time in a constructed world, get to know magic rules or alien races, maybe even learn a bit of an invented language. So it’s much rarer for me to have a series I love that isn’t SFF – and that’s what I decided to go with here (partly because, y’all already know what my favorite SFF series are, it’s basically all my tags :)

Again, not trying to rank these:

( Top 10 NON-SFF series I love )

greghousesgf

Not much going on here right now, unless something unusual happens I'm going to the deYoung tomorrow.

Current Music: Jethro Tull

sistawendy

I took the bus to West Seattle for a munch and, more importantly, to see Blue Moon Lady. Ahem. Victory: it only too me two buses and seventy minutes, instead of the previous three buses and ninety minutes.

It's been ages since I went that far on California Ave., if I ever did. It's got an impressive number of small businesses. i get the impression that West Seattle wouldn't suck as a place to live, except that it's notoriously hard to get anywhere else from there.

Had pleasant chats with kinky folk. Collected kinky stickers. Colored weird drawings. Drank tasty beer at Good Society, which is a microbrewery. Happiness.

I mentioned to BML that I hadn't seen her at the Blue Moon lately. She said I should reminder her via... means I have at my disposal. Go me!

But then it came time to go home. I gave up and called a Lyft because I just didn't feel up to a ninety-minute trip starting at 2100. Le sigh.

Current Mood: content
Current Location: the living room of the Devil Girl House
Current Music: Aphex Twin, "Pulsewidth"

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andrewducker

It's amazing that my mood depends so much on what my children remember to bring home from school.

(Yesterday, down two bus passes and a backpack, misery.
Today, all of their belongings, relief!)

fred_mouse

I'm reading an Ellery Queen detective novel from, hmm, the late 1920s, I think? And I was highly amused to read the following line:

“It was Friday morning and the Inspector and Ellery, garbed romantically in colorful dressing-gowns, were in high spirits.”

Methinks that 'romantically' has shifted in meaning. I can kind of work it out, but also, only at a kind of intellectual understanding rather than really getting it.

(for those not familiar, this is a parent/adult child dyad)

james_davis_nicoll

Lila Macapagal's quest to keep her aunt's ailing restaurant afloat is greatly complicated when a pesky foodblogger dies mid-meal... with Lila as the most likely murder suspect.

Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery) by Mia P. Manansala