"You look Time Lord."

Two days ago, Twice and Blackpink both had comebacks on the same day: Twice's "This is for" and Blackpink's "뛰어(JUMP)" (links go to the videos, so as not to spam your feed with two embedded videos).

Blackpink's song is a 1-song single, per YG's strategy of keeping Blinks starved for new music from Blackpink, while Twice's song is part of a 14-song album, keeping with JYP's strategy of giving Once as much music as they could possibly want from Twice. I prefer the JYP strategy — at first I was a bigger fan of Blackpink than of Twice, but eventually I got tired of waiting for new songs from Blackpink.

Two interesting things I noticed:

• Twice Jeongyeon has had difficulty meeting the ridiculous weight standards imposed on K-pop idols (i.e. still not fat by any measure), so in recent comebacks Twice's stylists have started dressing everyone but Jeongyeon in midriff-baring tops. I don't know if this was done at the company's request or at Jeongyeon's, but they did it again this time.
• Blackpink's song actually includes the English lyric "Are you not entertained?"

For the Fannish 50, since I haven't really been around lately (probably closer to 5+ years which is horrible to think about since I spend so much of my time working and for the last few years didn't even really have my computer technically set up til last December - so I spent the last few years off and on Tumblr but that's so draining sometimes because you just reblog everything and barely interact with anyone so needless to say I'm trying to step back from that site. I miss the LJ days.)

Anyway, I figured I'd go over some of my newer 50 favorite characters that are from newer fandoms of at least 10 years old. So while they are numbered, they are in no way a ranking - just simply thought of them first. Also I still love all my other favorites but just focusing on new ones right now.

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I've got an idea about the plotting one of my fics, but I'm not sure if the idea I've got right now is the right thing. So. . . if any of you have read my fic "Turning of the Year" — or if you feel like reading it right now — and you'd like to give your input on the future course of the story (at the risk of possibly getting spoiled), send me a message.

Meme provided by journalmemes. So that community required people to comment with the questions they want answered, but I just want to answer them.

( 40 questions for shippers.... )

Title: Claudia de lioncourt
Creator: haflacky
Prompt: colored art
Fanwork Type: fanart
Fandom: Interview with the Vampire (TV)
Character: Claudia de Lioncourt
Rating: G
Warnings: none

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Finished reading Gay Berlin yesterday yay!

I'm just gonna say, one does not need to time travel there. Or travel to Berlin point. What happened there in the late 19th century-early 1930s is the same that's happening everywhere today. History is a circle, for better or for worse (mostly worse).

And speaking of circles, I never fully read Conrad Veidt's Wikipedia article because some sources seemed iffy. But good to know that, thanks to unpublished correspondence, some of Connie's belongings (cigarette case and lighter) are at the Margaret Herrick Library, plus the notebooks a fan gave to Lili. Hopefully they won't be burned.

atlantablack had this on their journal.... and I haven't filled one of these out in ages so I figured why not, also figured I could join in on the goals_on_dw's Fannish 50 (or at least try to)


( 20 fanfic reading questions.... )

Fun with idolatry and "I'm doing Avoda Zara" jokes! The perek ended yesterday but RL is being busy.

The absolute requisite note on Avoda Zara is one that gets stressed constantly, which is that this is referring specifically to the religious groups amongst whom the tanaim and amoraim were living, and only them. Among the reasons the commentators have said this for a long time is 1) actual real differences between the avoda zarah described in the mishna/gemara and the goysche practices they lived amongst, combined with 2) because if they kept to all of this, there would be many practical problems, because they were a lot more interconnected by that time and working in specific professions, and 3) the outside world thinks it gets a say in Jewish religious texts and would be violently offended if this refers to them.

But definitely there were times when dealing with Artscroll commentary when I had to snap and actually look up when the Meiri lived, and it's like, ah, 13th century France, I understand completely.


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So I hated the first part of episode 10, and liked the last ~8 minutes, those were great, truly great. But I really didn't need what came before that; I liked how Murderbot slipped away at the end of the first novella. Oh well.

In general, overall, I really enjoyed Murderbot The Television Show, although there were parts of it I had to skip or not watch. They did a really good job at translating a novella into a tv show; the changes were understandable and made sense for the medium, even when they were ones I disliked. The show fleshed out the characters very well, and they had just so so so so much fun with the in-universe tv shows.

If this show has one thesis, it is Murderbot = Gurathin, and with my complaints about the first part of episode 10, I did like how it went so, are you not convinced that Murderbot = Gurathin yet? Here, let me show it to you again.

Anyway, I assume five seconds after the end of ep10, ART says hello. (okay that's probably not ART. But it would make sense to begin s2 immediately after s1 ends)

Title: Give Chase
Rating: General
Fandom: The Blue Parrot (1953)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Bob
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: not really

Note: For fic_promptly. Prompt was "Any police fandom, any, getting a flat tyre while chasing a suspect". Also for sweetandshort's This and That challenge, the theme is Rare Fandoms.

On AO3
On Squidge

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I see I thought yesterday was Thursday and posted a "Throwback Thursday" post. So for today have a post from my "list of things to be posted"





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