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Snow Crash meets The Arabian Nights in the modern day Middle East. An intriguing fantasy story with a very exasperating protagonist.

Content warnings: sexism, major character death, xenophobia, patriarchy, oligarchy, torture, mob violence

Wednesday Reading Meme

Nov. 12th, 2025 04:45 pm
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What I Just Finished Reading

Diane Duane, Dark Mirror: Reviewed here.

Avengers Disassembled: Reread this for 616 Book Club; giving myself credit because otherwise I will not make my Goodreads goal.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

1776 #1, Fantastic Four #5, Iron and Frost #2, New Avengers #6, Ultimate Black Panther #22, Ultimate Wolverine #11 )

What I'm Reading Next

Not sure yet.
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 Apropos of recent attic archaeological finds (no, I mean from my actual attic*), there was a time when Mike and I were talking about funnymen and who-knows-what, and I conflated two names. This yielded "Victor Borges" instead of Victor Borge, and THAT yielded a good several minutes of improvisatory Fordeana covering labyrinthine comedy and surrealist punctuation.

Anyone else remembering points of departure to Mike-spiels is invited, nay, implored, to post them here.

Sincerely,
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who is still recuperating from COVID by RESTING LIKE A POTATO


* Yes, the attic of which Lois McMaster Bujold said, at first sight, "It really IS the attics of Vorkosigan House."

FUGA: Melodies of Steel - Stalemate

Nov. 12th, 2025 07:45 pm
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[personal profile] tehexile posting in [community profile] 100words
Title: Stalemate
Fandom: FUGA: Melodies of Steel
Characters/Ships: Baum/Stollen
Rating: PG-13/slash
Note: potential spoilers


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In the film Apocalpyse Now, war is hell and hella confusing. There’s one clear objective centered on one person, but otherwise, most of the violence is almost random: the protagonists never get enough information to form a meaningful strategy. The second part of this arc, “Apokalips…Wow!!” is pretty much same.

Before that, though, we get an even more unlikely film reference, Ty Templeton tagging in on the finished art, and Manga Khan at his most ambitious and formidable.

''So I like SPEECHIFYING, do I? Well, I’ll GIVE MYSELF something to speechify about!'' )
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I hit Walmart and Agway while I was downtown. At home I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, emptied the dishwasher and ran another load, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, baked chicken for the dogs’ meals, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered.

I pulled spaghetti sauce out of the freezer for supper and also browned ground beef to make the base of ~something for the coming cold days (I'm thinking our family version of goulash, which is nothing like actual goulash, which I found out when I ordered it out once and was like, wtf is this?!! o_O).

I finished the Hallmark Christmas movie I started last night and watched another. I think the light snow was making me feel seasonal-ish.

Temps started out at 26.6(F) (forecasted to be 23) and reached 34.5 (forecasted to be 30). Both the low and high temps were slightly higher than forecasted. Today is supposed to be the coldest day of the week, and I hope that holds. There was a coating of snow on the ground when I left the house this morning, but the main roads were pretty good. It snowed all day, but so light you could barely see it, and it melted as soon as it hit the ground, thankfully. It was very windy for most of the afternoon and I had to dress very warmly (aka, so many layers) on our walks.

Tumblr-speak has made it into my everyday language. When I let Ti out this afternoon I asked him if he was sure he wanted to go outside because it was awfully ‘wimdy’ out.


Mom Update:

Mom sounded good today when I called her. more back here )

Reading Wednesday

Nov. 12th, 2025 07:03 am
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Just finished: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang. Yeah, she lands the ending. This was just too good—scathingly funny, unexpectedly sweet, and a worthy take on Dante's Inferno. It's one of those ones where I rush to Goodreads to see what stupid people thought about it and I think the complete opposite of that. I just love Alice so much, basically.

Currently reading: Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest by Nick Mamatas. Complete coincidence that I'm reading two genre takes on classic works of literature with similar titles one right after each other. Anyway, this is the cyberpunk take on The Tempest that you didn't know you needed. Caliban/Kalivas is the last free-range human, i.e., lacking in post-human augments and able to die in a post-apocalyptic world of godlike enhanced assholes. It leans very heavily into the play's anticolonialist themes and also into our current state of being ruled by lunatic billionaires who want to live forever. It's very good, obviously.
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Author: Audrelite Title: Endless Fascination, Endless Love Fandom: Teen Titans Animated Series Prompt: #468 — Endless Rating: G Characters: Leonid Kovar, Koriand'r Word Count: 100 Summary: She gives his mother tongue a much softer place to land.

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You can see them here. They look really great, and you can pre-order them by 9AM PST on 12 November 2025, for delivery in October 2026. Unfortunately, you can only order them as a set of three for $150, which seems a bit excessive to me. I'm sure they'll set a bunch of them, but not to me.

I even double-checked to be sure this wasn't just another example of "prices going up while I wasn't looking," and it wasn't — $50 per doll is 4-5 times the price of a regular Barbie doll, which just strikes me as excessive. I could see twice the price of a regular Barbie, and at that price I'd think about it. But that at this price. At this price I look at the page and immediately nope right out.

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[personal profile] argentum_ls asked for some Julie and the Phantoms thoughts during fic or treat, and that got me thinking about a hypothetical season two. Such a bummer that the show got cancelled, and on such a cliffhanger too!

Quick recap: Caleb Covington is the baddie who wants to force the Phantoms to sing/perform for his club. He cursed them, but they were able to break the curse. So he possesses Nick (Julie's love interest) in the last episode, presumably to get face time with Julie.

I want Nick to be alive inside his body and seeing everything that Caleb is doing! I want him to be screaming at Julie, trying to get out, trying to stop Caleb from influencing her. Meanwhile, Caleb is asking more and more questions about the Phantoms. He already knows Julie is the key, and that they'd all be devastated if she broke up the band (and then people wouldn't even get to see them anymore?). Caleb would somehow convince Julie that she needed to strike out on her own because the guys are sick of her, "Nick" becomes her new manager, but then Caleb makes a mistake and calls her something weird, or says something to the Phantoms when no one else can see them, and Julie realizes he hasn't been Nick all along.

Cue Caleb jumping into another body, maybe Julie's Dad. But now that they're onto him, it's way easier to find him. The Phantoms come up with a way to keep him from possessing everyone. Meanwhile, Nick feels like shit and we get to see a bunch of angst with him apologizing and helping the Phantoms figure out their unfinished business. My theory is that each of them have their own unfinished business, and they aren't going to be able to solve it together as a band. Then they all get to sing their big finale song!!

We can't have a JatP post without the music! I love the ending song Stand Tall (and I still listen to it) but I think my favorite from the show is Edge of Great:



What's your favorite?

Today is my grandmother's birthday

Nov. 11th, 2025 04:30 pm
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She was inordinately pleased to have been born on the anniversary of the Armistice, not that it kept her country from being invaded again when she was a young woman.

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