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mdehners

So, I'm sitting listening to Creepypasta when I see movement out of the corner of my eye(great Cardio BTW;>). The weather has been great and I've been leaving windows and even the door cracked to catch the Autumn breezes. I don't have a screen door and before I'd never allowed the latter but now?
I see Lilbit(the female of the Mouseketeers) walk carefully into the Sunroom and check it out...then walk back out. Looks like I may have a future "Not My Cat" in the making;>
FridhR,
Pat

Current Mood: happy
Current Location: Lenoir City(Nevermore;>!)
Current Music: Weird Al Radio

theladyscribe

[Coming soon!]

ysobel

Watching Old Who, my brain keeps wanting to treat it as a ttrpg. "No don't split the party!" and "oop I guessed he rolled a 1 there" and "tha what you get for not doing a perception check" and such.

Also seeing the early Daleks makes me think of Daleks telling scary campfire stories. "AND THEN" (waves flashlight under "face") "SUD-DEN-LY THE DOC-TOR." (Other Daleks shriek and flail in terror) ...or Daleks telling baby Daleks "BE-HAVE OR THE DOC-TOR WILL COME". Are there even baby Daleks? Hmmm.

Also ... is it ever explained why everyone speaks English?

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Not with the Nyctari, those who took Darkseid's passing as their opportunity to take Apokolips and New Genesis - but between themselves.

There's a prophesied child rooted in the same history as the Nyctari, whom some figure an intended vessel for Darkseid as he is now.

Desaad of Apokolips, with Metron's human pawn Maxwell Lord, has taken the child - Orion and Scott Free following.

( The setup's even. )

Current Music: ארכון / archon - Manila Ice

juushika

Title: Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
Author: Owen Beattie and John Geiger
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
Published: Tantor Media, 2019 (1987)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 290
Total Page Count: 544,865
Text Number: 2025
Read Because: Franklin's boys too got very cold, audiobook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Beattie lead modern excavations and research into the lost Franklin expedition, and pioneered lead poisoning as an explanation particularly for the poor decision-making that occurred when the ships were abandoned; I understand that theory has since been devalued, but his underlying argument holds: the expedition's loss, like all historical polar exploration tragedies, had an inherently complex cause, in which food, its quality and deficiencies as much as its availability, was an important factor with a cascading effect on decision-making and health.

...Which doesn't mean I'm particularly enamored of this book. The mix of historical context and third-person memoir (what a baffling choice! was it more common at the time of publication?) leads to uneven pacing, skimming the approximate details of the expedition and preceding attempts on the Northwest Passage and then grinding to a halt to land in the specificities of Beattie's research, concluding with a finality that's no longer satisfying. I wouldn't make this my only book on the subject; but I'm not, so!

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juushika

A trio of graphic novels! All actually pretty great; isn't that refreshing. I'm back and forth on my unusually intimate relationship ruling for The Smell of Starving Boys which means, hey, might as well add it.

Title: All Princesses Die Before Dawn (Toutes les princesses meurent après minuit)
Author: Quentin Zuttion
Published: Europe Comics, 2022
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 150
Total Page Count: 541,190
Text Number: 2002
Read Because: title and cover obvs., hardback borrowed from the Timberland Regional Library
Review: A French family's domestic life pivots on the day of Princess Diana's death. The rough-edged colors and the flimsy brightness of summer, childhood imagination set against world events, and the small and crucial scale of life changes and social awakening: this has a measured scale and atmosphere, and keeps within its constraints to great effect. A very readable, tender work.

Title: Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting
Author: Kindra Neely
Published: Little, Brown Ink, 2022
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Page Count: 305
Total Page Count: 541,495
Text Number: 2003
Read Because: spotted this at my local comics shop and then borrowed from the Timberland Regional Library
Review: A graphic memoir of a survivor of the 2015 Umpqua Community College shooting and her post-traumatic stress in the years following. As a memoir, this roots itself in the sincere, limited, and often petty aspects of the author's experience. I appreciate that honesty; it also fails to center or even characterize other victims, including the dead, or to offer a conclusion beyond that private scale. But what could she say?

Near the end of the book, the author mentions the 2018 Thousand Oaks shooting in passing: "But shootings just kept happening. Thousand Oaks was every survivor's worst nightmare, because a survivor from the Las Vegas shooting was killed in another." Survivors of gun violence are also victims, and retraumatizing events continue to be ubiquitous; so ubiquitous that this coincidence can occur but also so that they become relevant only in passing, divorced from detail, statistics and sound bites even here. The author can't solve that crisis, least of all in a debut graphic novel. I wish this could do more, regret its raw edges (panels feel pretty samey), but find it easy to extend grace to memoirs and feel that the blend of a readable format, small scale, and devastating content works to make the topic accessible.

Title: The Smell of Starving Boys (L'Odeur des garçons affamés)
Author: Loo Hui Phang
Illustrator: Frederik Peeters
Translator: Edward Gauvin
Published: SelfMadeHero, 2017 (2016)
Rating: 4.5 of 5
Page Count: 110
Total Page Count: 544,455
Text Number: 2023
Read Because: title grabbed me when browsing the graphic novels, hardback borrowed from the Timberland Regional Library
Review: A disgraced photographer and unusual farm boy meet on an American West survey expedition. This is racially and politically aware with mixed success, making Statements while still landing face-first in magical Native American tropes; so, caveats on the statement: I freaking loved it. This is my catnip, atmosphere-rich, surreal, evocative, and character-/relationship-focused in a way that echoes fanfic, the speculative taking second seat to an amorphously queer, horny little story about social control and defiant desire. The font choice is super distracting; the art, phenomenal. This is going right onto my reread list.

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"When we set out to write this book, our goal was to conjure up the deep fright that you have as a kid, the kind that takes your breath away, makes your spine tingle... A primal fear. We thought of classic fairytales—the ones where you're lost in the woods, and something is out there that wants—no, needs—to devour you. And we thought... how could this be scarier? Well, what if it was rooted in reality? You'd be surprised by how many people over the years have scoured the country looking for children to consume... how many real Big Bad Wolves exist." -- Scott Snyder

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rachelmanija

Yuletide signups are open!

Here's the tagset showing what's eligible to request and offer.

What intrigues you in the tag set? And who plans to participate this year?

rachelmanija

Thank you for writing for me! If you have any questions, please check with the mods. I am a very easy recipient and will be delighted with whatever you write for me. I have no special requirements beyond what's specifically stated in my DNWs. I'm fine with all POVs (i.e., first, second, third), tenses, ratings, story lengths, etc.

My AO3 name is Edonohana. I am open to treats. Very open. I love them.

This year I have gone for a slate of obscure-even-for-Yuletide canons plus a few less obscure canons with obscure-even-for-Yuletide characters. Some of my prompts are longer than others, but I want everything equally.

I like hurt-comfort, action/adventure, horror, domestic life, worldbuilding, evocative descriptions, camaraderie, loyalty, trauma recovery, difficult choices, survival situations, mysterious places and weird alien technology, food, plants, animals, landscape, X-Men type powers, learning to love again or trust again or enjoy life again, miniature things or beings, magic, strange rituals, unknowable things, epistolary fiction, found footage/art/creepy movies/etc, canon divergence AUs anf alternate versions of characters. I particularly love deadly/horrifying yet weirdly beautiful settings, especially if there's elements of space/time/reality warping as well. And many other things, too, of course! That list is just in case something sparks an idea.

( General DNWs )

( Crossroad - Barbara Hambly )

( Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin )

( Fire Dancer Series - Ann Maxwell )

( Ki and Vandien Quartet - Megan Lindholm )

( The Last Hot Time - John M. Ford )

( Lyra - Patricia Wrede )

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As Tom DeFalco wrapped up his Fantastic Four run, he laid a few threads to rest, some with more...fanfare than others. Kristoff, for instance, realized he sucked and had no purpose (#410).

( 'You see, sometimes people [like Doctor Doom] tell you that you're going to take over for them. And then you don't! You just straight up don't!...And now you know what being a legacy [character] is all about!' )

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An ap-POLE-ing horror story from EC. Warning for gore.

( This tale'll fire your imagination )

ffutures

Another revival, the July 2022 Eclipse Phase 2E Bundle, featuring the 2019 Second Edition of thetranshuman survival SFRPG:

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Eclipse2025

The last time around my comments mostly quoted my comments on a previous and somewhat different bundle:

'"I'll be honest - these look like good deals, they're just not where I want to be right now with role playing. As usual with these bundles you get a shedload of stuff for your money, and they do look like pretty good deals. I'll probably download a couple of the supplements because they address areas that interest me - most notably Panopticon - but I'm not going to try to get my head around another new (to me) RPG at this stage in my increasing decrepitude. But I think I can recommend them, subject of course to all the usual YMMV disclaimers."

This time the offer is a bit different, with fewer supplements, but it's a good starting point if you're interested, and all of the supplements from the earlier offers are still compatible.'

Unfortunately Panopticon didn't make it into the bundle, but the rest is a pretty good horror / SF setting - unfortunately still not something I want to run at present, but you get a lot for my money and if you are in the mood for a primarily SF horror setting it's worth a look.

As expected, these bundles will mostly be horror of some sort from now to the end of the month - I have no idea what else is coming as yet.