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I have watched the first two episodes of Heated Rivalry, and omg it is so much fun (and I find it better than the book tbh; the book sometimes felt awkwardly written and the show just smooths out and amplifies so many great moments). I haven't watched the third episode yet and am desperate to, but I also kind of want to reread Game Changer first, just slam through it this morning, so I can better recognize the ways it's been adapted. (And of course I want to reread the book of Heated Rivalry as well, just to see if my memory is betraying me!) And I just learned twenty minutes ago that a sequel series to Spartacus just dropped and I'm dying to check it out. And how did I miss that there was a third series of Leverage: Redemption? (And on top of all those things that are sitting on my hard drive absolutely alluring me, I'm watching The Pitt with a friend -- her first time through it; my second -- and watching the current series of Shetland both with Geoff and with another friend, and already counting the days until the Call the Midwife Christmas special drops -- and omg it's specials, plural, we get one on the 25th and a second one on the 26th and then the new series presumably sometime in the spring.)

I have to prep to help lead service at church tomorrow morning, and all I want to do today is read Rachel Reid and watch TV. Can't I just stay home and worship at the Church of Bubble Butts?

flamebyrd

I ate'nt dead and all that...

We upgraded Ubuntu on our webserver, which upgraded PHP, which broke the CMS I was using for random.fangirling.net. The CMS (PicoCMS) is no longer supported or under active development, as is the way of such things, and it makes sense to me because the niche it filled - flat file CMSes - was quickly squeezed out by static site generators.

So I figured I should rebuild it using a static site generator (SSG), and spent some time playing around with Astro and Eleventy before I got too frustrated by how hard it was to build a site with the file structure I wanted. And then I thought, why did I spend all that time writing a static site generator if I wasn't going to use it?

And thus, here we are. random.fangirling.net is now mostly functional again. Please let me know if anything seems amiss!

The biggest thing that's missing is the breadcrumb navigation, which was the only kind of navigation I had on the site but which is difficult to generate with my script. So that's on the TODO list.

I thought I might make the code I use to generate the site public too, as a demo for how to use my makesite.py fork. Something to ponder!

kalloway

I've done another bit of security-pruning and circle adjustment. Occasionally I just unfollow/un-access accounts that haven't posted for a rather long time. And I saw a few folks that are active again, so re-followed. ^_^ This is also a reminder that you can unfollow/etc. me for any reason and I won't take it personally.

I posted up a

holiday_wishes post over here. The most important bits are to tell me what to work on with my website and also send me Gundams, lol. I'm still granting all the wishes I can. This is such a fun time of year.

If you're in the USA (sorry, int'l shipping sucks), you can have some of my stuff over here. I really should make these posts more often as I spelunk.

I need to go through my communities and make add some sort of No AI guideline to each. I just pulled a drabble from a community I'd always meant to do more with because they're allowing AI slop to be posted. It's now crossposted to my spaces and deleted from theirs.

honigfrosch

New love meme nominations have slowed down to a trickle, so now's the perfect time to check out the list of names and see if there's someone you want to leave a nice comment for. I'd greatly appreciate it; every year I am looking forward to this.

Have a nice and relaxed weekend ♥

sholio

We finally got around to watching the first Stranger Things new episode drop! Somehow I had remained completely and utterly unspoiled for it, to the extent of having even forgotten that there was a new season until suddenly a post with "stranger things spoilers" arrived on my Tumblr dash and I immediately blocked the tag. So I knew literally nothing.

( Random spoilers in no particular order )

brokenframe posting in

vidding

Title: Sirens
Characters/Pairing: Philip Swift/Syrena
Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Music: Sirens by Fleurie
Length: 3:08
Streaming/download at: DW | Tumblr

cornerofmadness

Because dear sweet baby Jesus my students are challenging me. I had two lab finals today. For both I said DO NOT ASSUME YOU KNOW WHAT I'M ASKING. READ THE QUESTIONS. I pointed out like three times pre-exam that I could ask 1. What is this muscle 2. What is this origin/insertion 3. What is the muscle's action.

Not only are they putting muscle names in for actions (because they didn't read) and then because there is cardio on my nursing version of this those words are on the wordbank too and my upper level A&P students see those words and the question is what is the action of XYZ and they tell me mitral valve. How do you a) not know that's not an action (and this was MORE than 1 person) how do you know realize I have never once mention the fucking word mitral valve?!?

The second lab final today runs from 1-2:50. At 140 I get an email alert and it's one of my students who is MIA (I assumed she finally realized she can't possibly pass and didn't come, like one of the others did). I didn't hear my alarm and I overslept (it's nearly 2 pm....) I'm coming next week to make up the practical. No, you have an hour left on the exam. Be here or get a zero. She comes and from what she handed me was likely a zero anyhow. But She did have 2 hours because so many students (who didn't tell me they were coming friday at 1. THREE told me this and I had to get the secretary to get me more answer sheets. THIS is why I tell you to communicate with me.) my lab couldn't hold them all so they needed more time. I said they could have til 320. (that's an extra half hour). At 330 a dozen were still there. No, move on now. At 340 I demanded the tests back. If you don't know it after 3 hours then you don't know it.

Here me screaming as I yank out all my hair. Btw I feel justified in giving out a 23% to my upper levels because 4 out of 8 got 100%. It was far from impossible.

Bah, have the fannish 50 recs. I have been writing but it's all for

fandomtrees and I can't share it. I am really intrigued by the Hazbin prompts there. I will say that.

A Royal Idea Teen Wolf

Just A Man Torchwood

Self-Discovery FAKE

Melty. The Murderbot Diaries

Friends Old And New Torchwood

Dancing In The Dark Hazbin Hotel

just the beginning Hudson & Rex

What Everyone Wants Torchwood

A Heavy Burden The Fantastic Journey

No Such Thing As Too Late Supernatural

oh no, he’s hot. 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

hot chocolate icons

The List due South

Offer of Protection Teen Wolf

Current Music: Tournament of Champions

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3177/

Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.

https://xkcd.com/3177/

watersword

On this Bandcamp Friday, I have purchased the entirety of Dessa's discography; made a loaf of bread for potluck Shabbat services tonight; gone to the makerspace to continue sanding the drawer divider pieces I made with the laser cutter earlier this week; picked up my CSA box; nearly froze to death waiting for the bus home.

schneefink

I'm feeling better, but I went to the doctor's office and to the pharmacy and to the store this morning and afterwards I was absolutely wiped.

Too tired to catch up on chores just yet, but I can start catching up on reviews, at least.

Three weeks ago, friends and I went to see Maria Theresia the musical at Ronacher. I rarely go see musicals in Vienna; the last one was the Falco musical in the same place around 1-2 years ago, both of them premiered there. I enjoyed "Rock Me Amadeus" more than expected, so I was very curious about a new one about empress Maria Theresia. A key figure of Austrian history; I only remembered bits and pieces of what I learned about her at school and during museum visits etc, but I briefly looked at her Wikipedia page beforehand just in case.

I had a good time! The beginning was the weakest part imo, but then it picked up the pace and focus. Of course they took plenty of liberties with historical facts but that was inevitable. I liked the music (not especially memorable but I am also not great at remembering music in general tbf) and staging, and especially some of the things they did with the lights. I found Falco too loud in places, but not this one, possibly because we sat further back.

( Spoilers )

Afterwards I was in the mood to read a book about the Habsburgs, and the only one currently available as an ebook from the library was one about "scandalous love affairs of the Habsburgs," by Hanne Egghardt. Fortunately a quick stop to any romanticizing of the Habsburgs through sheer, hm, mundanity. It features several scandalous affairs throughout the centuries, from the wife of the emperor falling in love with and almost certainly having an affair with her sister-in-law, to Napoleon's widow having kids with a general sent to look after her, to several archdukes falling in love with "commoners" - with varying degrees of happy endings that all showcase why such relationships were viewed with much skepticism.
It was often mentioned that these nobles had allowances of specific sums of money that all sounded like a lot, but I have no context how much so-and-so thousand guilders were worth back then so I couldn't say whether they were extremely rich or just moderately wealthy for their station.

marina

So, I've been stuck at home for 3 weeks now with a broken ankle. I've watched so much TV. SO. MUCH. TV. Some of it utterly delightful ("The Summer I Turned Pretty", "Queen of the South"), some of it utterly forgettable. Then "Heated Rivalry" came out, and due to the tragic circumstances of being stuck at home, I've watched the first 2 episodes. Let us acknowledge this up front: I should have only watched this show after it finished airing. Like, week-to-week is a very bad format for me with this show.

However, episodes have been consumed, this show is already doing numbers in fannish circles for obvious reasons, my guess is that that trend will continue, and so I need to get stuff off my chest I guess. Think of this not as a public statement but more as a private space where I process stuff, just for the sake of framing the below.

( thoughts in no particular order )

petra

I don't actually ship Rex/Echo, but that doesn't stop me from wanting a Lord King Bad Vid to For Good for the very simple reason that Rex is going to be with Echo like a handprint on his heart.

I feel like this needs a good bunch of Bad Batch, which I have not seen, in much the same way that I have only seen Wicked on stage once, and haven't seen the movies.

I also can't listen to the song without tearing up because I've sung it at too many funerals.

Clearly I am highly qualified to care about this vid. I must've gotten someone else's inspiration particle.

Current Mood: ludicrous
Current Music: Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes the sun

petra

Back in the day, the 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the U.S. Army made the rounds of the internet.

The one that stuck with me hardest:

87. If the thought of something makes me giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am to assume that I am not allowed to do it.

This came to mind because I thought of a great tag that will baffle the good wranglers at the AO3, but which I will apply to the story forthwith, despite its having made me giggle for longer than 15 seconds.

Then I started wondering.

These are the fanworks on AO3 tagged with Skippy's List. Happily, various people have written Clone Wars versions so I don't have to.

Current Mood: giggly
Current Music: The next day he saluted a Good Humor man, an usher, and a nun

rydra_wong

Largely the same as before:

Currently trying to support a friend in a Very Bad Situation and it's desperately anxiety-inducing and my brain is trying to eat itself, which also makes me less useful as support, which is bad.

So if anyone would like to ask or discuss anything about Prophet or Dark Souls or IWTV or climbing or, you know, any of the somewhat cheering topics I sometimes ramble about, PLEASE DO. "More of a comment than a question" questions also very welcome.

I cannot guarantee replies in a timely or consistent manner (because of the Situation and also the bad state of my brain) but it would be deeply appreciated nonetheless.

Except that THANK FUCK my friend is now out of the Very Bad Situation (and please let him remain so, please please please).

My brain is just trying to eat itself because it's prone to doing that and it's been a very very hard year (and I'm having yet another IC flare-up, joy).

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cosmolinguist

I ended up stepping in to read out the questions and answers for a Christmas quiz at work today, a colleague made it but then lost her voice so needed someone else to do the talking. She got two someone elses, R and me. We traded off asking the questions, and one of R's was the name of the Wallace & Gromit movie that came out on Christmas Day in 2024.

At which point I quietly muttered "two years ago already, gosh" and R said "Erik, that was last year."

Oh! Yeah! It was! It's only 2025 now!

"It has been a long year," he said kindly, and as he's basically acted as project manager for the reports I've written he knows as well as anyone how long my year has been at work!

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Discussion: what are you working on this weekend?

umadoshi

An important task, given that I'm switching away from Spotify to Qobuz at this time of year: sifting through someone else's curated Trans-Siberian Orchestra playlist and pulling only about a third of the tracks from that to my own new holiday playlist. (There is a way to import Spotify playlists, but I haven't actually investigated it yet.)

My playlist is awfully random, really. I'm picky about Christmas music, but not in a way that follows much rhyme or reason. I like some boys' choir stuff. I mostly prefer older Christmas songs to more modern ones. But in practice, a lot of what I listen to is single-artist holiday albums, often by artists I don't really listen to otherwise. (The examples in my playlist so far are Annie Lennox and Sting and Idina Menzel, and maybe Mary Fahl counts, since I haven't heard any of her other solo work, just the old October Project albums where she was the lead vocalist.) If you have recs along those lines, feel free to throw them my way!

(Am I still entertained by the fact that Tori Amos put out a seasonal holiday album, uh...[*checks notes*] seventeen years ago? [WHY did I just date-check that?] Yep. Am I listening to it right now because it turned out that I enjoy most of it? Also yep. Still funny.)

(Would-be-funny-if-not-completely-horrifying: Every once in a while I remember Tom McRae saying that in the earliest days, his label thought his song "You Cut Her Hair" could be released as a Christmas track. "You Cut Her Hair" deals with the Holocaust. Very seasonal. Yes. o_o)

I guess it must've been back on the weekend that we made Smitten Kitchen's Mom’s Apple Cake, which was the first apple cake I was looking at a few weeks ago, but at the time we didn't have a tube pan on hand. (You can use a bundt, which we did have, but...I didn't opt for that.) It's very good. It's also LARGE. (Some went into the freezer.)

We cracked out the Burlap & Barrel Royal Cinnamon for it, and the cake is very cinnamony, but that presumably is at least equally due to the part where the cake calls for a tablespoon.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Tori Amos - What Child, Nowell

cornerofmadness

allbingo does an amnesty round in December using any open old card so what I like to do is look over my old bingos and cherry pick fun prompts I didn't get to and remix them into a new card.

Sarcasm	Listen to the Nerd if You Want to Live	"Puttin' on the Ritz"	Healing	three sheets to the wind
If you are running for your life and are being chased by a monster/psychopath/axe murderer and you happen to be female take the high-heeled shoes OFF!	As a general rule don't solve puzzles that open portals to Hell.	black and blue	Manipulating People	gray hair
Bisexual / biromantic	Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need	FREE SPACE	Vampires Love Eclipses	It is not strength that overcomes darkness but light.
Book	Pansexual / panromantic	Fear Stalks the Village	white as a sheet	All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
Love letters	"(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue"	You have three choices. You can give up - give in or give it your all	Consent is sexy	Serpents in Eden

love letters - story for sarajay
consent is sexy - can't fight this feeling
serpents in eden - amoldfield's story

cimorene

Medium Man is a large size. It has more fabric in it than Small Woman (the size of me). It doesn't have more fabric than a sweater for

waxjism, but she is too warm-blooded to wear sweaters really, so the last time I knitted one for her was over 10 years ago.

It's a lot of knitting. It's going. There are setbacks.

There are gauge issues. And challenges of imagination.

( Knitting Talk )

The color of infinity inside an empty glass

The random insanity of your not-entirely-typical geek

can't sleep, prestige TV will eat me

Site update! (Sort of.)

Greetings

(no subject)

Stranger Things 5x01-04

New Vid: Philip Swift/Syrena Fan Video - Sirens

I hope my sanity can last another decade

Chessboard Alignment

(no subject)

Mar-i-a The-re-sia, M.T.

10 things about the gay hockey show

Vids that will never be: A Clone Wars ship I don't ship but I would watch this vid

It's not Rule 34 if it's not porn - Skippy's List, Clone Wars edition

Please give me excuses to talk about my hyperfixations (again)

Friday, December 5 - Parental Figure

What's my age again

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Christmas music | Not-Christmas cake

December's Bingo

Knitting a (Medium) Man Sweater

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