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Jun. 10th, 2025 03:45 pm
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Just had a lovely walk with Freya around the park. Met a dog called Elmo, a dog called Fenrir, and a dog called Gus, which cover all three of the platonic ideals of dog naming, 1) this is a muppet, 2) this is a wolf, and 3) this is an elderly human.

Freya and I also took a little trip last weekend up to Inverness to hang out with [personal profile] tamoline and her wife who were on holiday up there, which was a lot of fun, not least because Freya accidentally tobogganed down their stairs, got herself trapped in their kitchen, and then decided that she wanted to live with them. If you are ever meeting online friends for the first time and are worried that it might be a little awkward I can highly recommend taking a stupid wolf with you as a conversation starter.

I happened to mention to my mum later that I'd gone up north to spend the day with some online friends who were up from England, and after a long pause she said '...I thought your internet friends lived in Germany?' To which I indignantly pointed out that I'm personable, people like me, I have more than one friend; this was met by a more sceptical look than you want from your mother.

We watched the series finale of Doctor Who, to which my reaction was, and still remains, holy, hail Mary pass, Batman! I am generally of the school of thought that spreadsheet dorks are a curse on most forms of entertainment, but I also kind of want to go to the pub with a Disney accountant just so that after, like, three drinks I can go 'So, Doctor Who, how's that math mathing?'

I also have gripes about how heteronormative the finale was, but that's increasingly the new normal, isn't it? I love living through a time of enormous backlash to any and all social progress orchestrated by history's greatest fuckwits.

In gayer news, here are some books that I have been reading:

The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Linz McLeod - Publishing a series of lesbian romances about Jane Austen characters is God's work, so I don't want to criticise it too harshly, not least because as a f/f regency romance it is perfectly delightful, but as a piece of Austen fanfiction it was, eh, Charlotte Lucas felt really true to character, but Mary Bennet could have been anybody, she felt half author's OC, half thinly veiled Lizzie.

That said, I will be picking up next year's The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley as soon as it comes out because God's work.

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh - I was so excited for this because Tesh's previous facist punching novel Some Desperate Glory had easily been my favourite of that year, so I was kind of bummed that I didn't like this one as much. Maybe it was the genre change, instead of sci-fi it was magical realism set at a contemporary magic school; maybe it was my class chippiness, I'm not entirely sure that private school pupils don't deserve to be eaten by demons; maybe it was that it was heavily talked up as having a central f/f relationship, which honestly felt kind of tacked on, while much more time was spent on the het relationship with a dude that the reader realises is the villain, like, a hundred pages before the protagonist.

Like, it's fine, it's good even, my expectations were just a bit out of control. Also, go read Some Desperate Glory.

The Vengeance by Emma Newman - Pirates, and werewolves, and vampires, and lesbians, oh my! Our protagonist has spent her life at sea during the golden age of piracy when she discovers her "mother" is no such thing, and embarks on a fish out of water road trip through pre-revolution France, running from werewolves, kissing girls, and fighting vampires.

Is it a lot? Yes. Is it totally awesome? Also, yes!

The Demon #6

Jun. 10th, 2025 05:49 pm
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Words and pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer


It’s a werewolf story, let’s goooo!


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Blue Beetle #9

Jun. 10th, 2025 02:31 pm
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Writer: Len Wein

Pencils: Paris Cullins

Inks: Dell Barras


Why has Angie Revere been stealing from Ted Kord? All will be revealed!


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Black Panther #4

Jun. 10th, 2025 12:30 pm
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Words and pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer


Who are the Collectors?


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Batman #488

Jun. 10th, 2025 10:31 am
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Writer: Doug Moench

Pencils and inks: Jim Aparo


Knightfall prelude.

Robin tries to teach Jean-Paul Valley how to be an effective crime-fighter.


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Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

Jun. 10th, 2025 08:41 am
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Honestly, not the best week for trying to see the lighter side of things, and I know there's still a Pride post to make, but I know I can rely on you to provide some engaing discussion, so go for it!
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As to why we did what we did to Hal, I think Hal can take it is the short version. If Hal can't take it, then he's not the character I thought he was. But I'm sure if you're a fan of Hal, yeah, you know he can take it, you know he can take some lumps. He's a big enough character to take the knocks. -- Al Ewing

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Jun. 9th, 2025 10:31 pm
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The day's major accomplishment was getting some hand-holding for my hard drive problem and getting the man on the other end to laugh a bit when I said I knew enough to get myself into trouble but not how to get out of it. Hopefully I can get my act together enough to send it out for repairs in a day or two.

The secondary accomplishments were taking the stairs to the gym, and making an attempt to reach out when I felt myself going down a spiral.
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I made this black cocoa loaf cake yesterday, and followed it exactly as written despite some skepticism, which turned out to be warranted, because the middle of the loaf collapsed as it cooled. Even as I was measuring out 1 TBSP of baking powder(!!!), I was like, this seems excessive, but maybe it's because the cocoa is so alkalinized??? So I might cut that back slightly to 1.5 or 2 tsps if I make it again, which I might, because the flavor is good, despite all that baking powder. I didn't bother with the ganache since I don't have room in the fridge for the cake. But it would also disguise that kind of collapse, so if I were serving it to other people I probably would make it.

It's been gray and cool since last night, but it hasn't rained yet, so I've been able to keep the windows open. I did have to use the AC a couple times last week, especially to sleep, and I'll put it on again when necessary, but it was nice just using the fan last night.

Anyway, work remains busy, the world is on fire, but the Mets stay winning! Gotta take the little joys while you can...

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Amazing Spider-Man #98

Jun. 9th, 2025 02:30 pm
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Writer: Stan Lee

Pencils: Gil Kane

Inks: Frank Giacoia


Harry is in need of medical attention after his overdose, so the last thing Peter needs is for the Green Goblin to come crashing in through the window.


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Uncanny X-Men #217

Jun. 9th, 2025 12:30 pm
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Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Butch Guice

Inks: Steve Leialoha


A night out partying takes a turn for Dazzler when she bumps into the Juggernaut.


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X-Factor #68

Jun. 9th, 2025 08:25 am
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Script: Chris Claremont

Plot: Jim Lee & Whilce Portacio

Pencils: Whilce Portacio

Inks: Art Thibert


It is the final battle against Apocalypse and not everybody will be making it home.


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All go together.

Jun. 8th, 2025 10:12 pm
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Today's luxurious disappointments are in the fields of scheduling issues and data preservation.

The latter is because a hard drive stopped working. I got a couple error messages about moving and deleting files - "Error 0x8007045D: the request could not be performed because of an I/O device error" - which was soon followed by Error code 43, then "Cannot open drive for direct access". At this point, I'm pretty secure in saying it's not going to get fixed by trying the hard drive on another computer, or that I can fix it myself. As such, I'm going to leave it alone in the hopes it doesn't get worse and look into local data recovery centers to see which one can best help me.

In the former's case, it's because Escapade is scheduled opposite a few movie screenings at the MOMI I'd very much like to see. I can probably juggle them around, pick which movies versus which panels, and it's more than a little annoying to have to choose between two fun things to look forward to. As I said, luxurious disappointments.

Wonder Woman #179

Jun. 8th, 2025 07:24 pm
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Writer: Dennis O’Neil

Pencils: Mike Sekowsky

Inks: Dick Giordano


I never realised this period in Wonder Woman ‘s history was so unpopular. I thought it was just about fun spy shenanigans. Oh, well. At least I am enjoying it and that’s all that matters really.


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The body's Bledin Towers, a Gotham City apartment building - the gangster's the Ventriloquist's Scarface.

Batman'd entered the Towers in issue #4 to resolve a hostage situation - he found Scarface the hand behind it.

Many of the Towers' inhabitants were Scarface's minions - surrounded by them, the Bat fled, Scarface echoing.

" You've invaded me like a cancer cell. "

" The kind the gody deals with every day. " )

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