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The snow did indeed all melt on Tuesday, but this evening we're under Storm Goretti, and it's been coming down good and proper - huge wet flakes, a couple of centimetres in the last hour or so already. We don't seem to have much of the high winds or anything, though; it's been quite peaceful (well, except for Miss H's family, who were driving back from Worcester and are stuck on a road behind some lorries).

Currently in limbo as to whether I'll be in the office tomorrow or not; the forecast thinks it'll keep snowing for a couple of hours but then move towards sleet, and this stuff is so wet it won't take much to melt it. I'll have to see what it looks like in the morning. I've packed everything ready, regardless - although actually I didn't really need to, because the swimming pool has pre-emptively cancelled the morning swim, so I don't need most of it anyway...

The washing machine is behaving itself again. The repairman has broken his ankle and couldn't come and look at it, but suggested something to check; we tried it without any result but then did some laundry to see whether it would cooperate or not, and so far so good! I did four loads yesterday, so the pile is looking much more reasonable.

Life is incredibly quiet and mundane and some day I will finish the November booklog, but mostly things are just... restful, right now. A good way to start the year.

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I kinda missed Norm's storyline in this episode. But I really liked the reaction everyone had to the Legion. Their whole thing is so fucking stupid. But damn, Macaulay Culkin was great in his role and his character had some amazing lines.

And Thad! It was cool to catch up with him.

Also, war might be coming now. Congrats, Maximus.

( I have no need for the thoughts of a sword. )

Lucy on drugs and the Ghoul's reaction to that was so interesting. It reveals such a reckless and dark side about her, and the Ghoul seem both to enjoy it and be disappointed by it.

Thad, Maximus and Dane also really had such a cool storyline. They are all products of the Brotherhood and they all act so differently with Dane probably being the one who is the most in control and has an idea of the bigger picture.

( Just Ghouls, right? )

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Signup Post: Reading Challenges in 2026 on

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This post lists a bunch of reading challenges for 2026, from one-month to full-year options. It includes a listing for

50books_poc along with several other Dreamwidth communities.

bookclub_dw is fairly new; it works based on host suggestions and member votes, so that's another good way to promote POC books.

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Terminated my SFWA membership as of today (modulo administrative steps), which I wrote and requested. My contact was friendly and efficient.

I requested this for multiple reasons, of which the recent Nebula-and-AI rules change handling fiasco was only the latest. I'm done.

To sf/f writer-folk, good luck out there.

I'm running an infection and I have work to do; comments disabled.

forestofglory

Time to reflect a little on the media I read and watched in 2025. My reading goal for 2025 was “Reading Joyfully”. I think this worked out ok – I started out putting a lot of pressure on myself about it and stressing out, but then I backed off and used it as an excuse to think about how reading fits into my life these days.

I was somewhat hoping I could get back to really engaging with new to me SFF, and for the most part that didn’t happen. There were a couple of weeks in there where I was sleeping way better than I generally manage these days and I read several new to me books! It was great! So I think part of my problem is that I’m just not well rested enough to engage with new to me stuff very much. Which is sad, but pushing isn’t going to make me happy either.

Then after the thing with the flood damage, when the whole house was a mess, I was struggling to focus on much of anything. I ended up just reading a ton of fic, so much fic.* Which has been delightful. The comfort of the same thing again but different this time is really not appreciated enough by critics. This reading phase has been very joyful!

In 2025 I read even fewer books than I read the last several years (57) but unlike the last couple of years I don’t feel bad about it. Which was the real point of my reading joyfully goal. I’m more at peace with who I am as a reader these days and that’s really nice, even if I might never be the same kind of reader I was before the pandemic happened.

Another trend that defined my 2025 media was crossdressing girls. I love, love, love the trope of girls who disguise themselves and boys to go out into the world and do things that they wouldn’t be allowed to do. This is a trope that English language media hasn’t really been doing much with recently, but luckily for me it's popular in Asian dramas. It’s such a comfort trope for me, and I decided to really dive into this trope and watched many dramas featuring it. (And read a couple of books too)

I also continue to watch many silly Chinese reality shows, another thing that I find relaxing. Media has really was a source of comfort for me in 2025.

In terms of goals for 2026, I’m going to continue to not have a numerical goal for total books. I find those more stressful than fun. Having a theme for my media last year worked out really well though so for the first quarter of 2026 my media theme is going to be “comfort” . Then I can see I want to keep that theme or change at the end of the quarter. I also want to push myself a bit harder on reading Mandarin so I’m going to make it a goal to read six graded readers this year, which feels very doable.

*Me, very stressed out: I’ll just read this cute sounding fic in a fandom I’m not in. It will be relaxing. Me, several days, and I don’t know how many fics in that fandom latter: I guess I have a new fandom now, opps?

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Drabbles and limericks for people who requested them:
Chrestomanci
due South + Murderbot
due South + Venom
Interview with the Vampire (TV)
KPop Demon Hunters
Pride and Prejudice
Singin' in the Rain
Slough House
Star Wars

Prompt me if you would you like something in one or more of my fandoms. I may not get to you today, but we can have Even More Joy Day tomorrow!

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Not on Earth.

Where to Look for Evidence of Alien Visitors to Our Solar System

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Another foray into the lost worlds of Unknown.

Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond edited by Stanley Schmidt

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Challenge #1

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

I need to get posting back on here again. It's been a rough year, a lot more intense with work, a lot more emotional energy required to navigate the world than before, and fewer people interacting over here.

So I'm looking to expand my horizons this year. Maybe that involves new people, maybe that involves new fandoms, maybe that involves things I haven't yet conceptualised yet. We'll work it out as it comes.

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My profile on other social media reads "modern quilter, permaculture gardener, unrepentant foodie, cat servant, Jesus freak". I would add to that "hockey player (field, not fishbowl)".

Mostly, those are the labels I give out to non-fannish people.

Fannishly, I haven't really been fannish in a number of years. it's slowly been draining out of me as I stopped watching shows or franchises, and switched over to writing more original fiction instead of fanfiction.

However, fannishly, I tend to like the "second string" female character - the one that gets the "oh, and I like her, too" response by the kinds of fans who actually like female characters in male-dominated megafandoms. I write fanfic (but these days mostly exchanges), and a lot of it's romance or 'contains romantic themes'. I used to do meta, but I don't really have the energy or space for it anymore.

I think quite a bit about politics, which includes religion, race, sexuality, gender, history, culture, and all the other things that are human and therefore are political by virtue of how we think of them and regulate them.

Right now, I'm editing the first book of a series, and trying to write the second book. I was hoping to write the 2nd book last year, but hoo boy did my creativity drain away in 2025! It took me five years to get the first book done, hopefully it doesn't take another five to write the second! Although at that rate, I'll still probably be going faster than GRRM...

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Remember Sigma?

Was there ever a membership list made public?

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This article -- on how to detect fake citations created by AI in academic and other research -- should be really useful to some of you, so here it is!.

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2025 was the first year my reading started to feel less like a miracle and more like, "oh yeah, reading! I do that without struggling." I read 78 books, although a lot of them were rereads. I'm happy to reread The Murderbot Diaries and a bunch of my favorite romance novels a few times a year. The brain craves familiarity.

I have elevenish favorites this year (I combined books in series, because I make the rules). My top book, which is no big secret as I've been shouting about it for months, is the only one ranked; the rest are here in alphabetical order.

( Favorite Books )

( The numbers and musings )

That's a wrap on 2025! If you read any of my favorites and have readalikes, I'm always hyped for recs. If you wrote a favorites post for your SFF reading, I'd love to see it (and then link it in Intergalactic Mixtape, haha).

james_davis_nicoll

This all-new Painted Wastelands Bundle tours The Painted Wastelands, a prismatic pastel realm from Agamemnon Press for use with Old-School Essentials and other tabletop fantasy roleplaying games.

Bundle of Holding: The Painted Wastelands

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Title: The Doll in the Garden
Author: Mary Downing Hahn
Published: HarperCollins, 2007 (1989)
Rating: 2.5 of 5
Page Count: 130
Total Page Count: 557,180
Text Number: 2095
Read Because: spotted here, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: A girl finds an antique doll buried in her new landlady's backyard and ties it to a local haunting. This is indulgently gothic, located largely in its tableaux and concept; the writing is workmanlike, and probably the sort of thing that works best at a certain age, when childhood imagination can expand the bare bones into an atmosphere. But having just read Mahy's The Haunting, I'm particularly aware that MG can do that work itself; it doesn't need to be this bare bones. But they are good bones, particularly the sensitive and compelling depiction of grief.

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I've been wanting nothing but books since the calendar rollover. Maybe I could attribute that to the influx of year's-best roundups, not that it's compelled me to work on my own; maybe it's just the sense of ~potential~ although that's rarely something I attribute to New Year's. Been reading a lot, regardless. Including checking to see what's new to me in Silver Sprocket's catalog since I discovered them last year. There's a lot!

Title: Electric Cowboy
Author: Ansel Kite
Published: Silver Sprocket, 2025
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 50
Total Page Count: 556,625
Text Number: 2089
Read Because: reading the publisher, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library via Hoopla
Review: A short but ineffably dense comic about someone traversing their lover's memory. It demands multiple readings but remains somewhat opaque even then. Is that a flaw? Every page is doing something, often every word, but the sketchiness makes it an effort to close read; but that reading is rewarding, both puzzle-like and intuitively emotional; but, after that work, I don't want to still be grasping. A little cleanup or a few extra pages might not have gone amiss. I love it anyway, particularly the tone, moving fluidly between wonder and horror, love and betrayals. This is particularly impressive as a debut, and reaffirms my admiration of Silver Sprocket as a publisher.

Title: My Body Unspooling
Author: Leo Fox
Published: Silver Sprocket, 2024
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 30
Total Page Count: 556,655
Text Number: 2090
Read Because: reading the publisher/fan of the author, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library via Hoopla
Review: Leo Fox is absolutely Doing Something, and I like it. The length of this perforce constrains it; it's almost a poem, an extended metaphor, figured in Fox's distinctive drippy, trippy art. But I jive with its meditation on the body/mind relationship, the frustrations and needs of corporeality, even if I'd like a stronger reunion, more concrete and justified.

Title: Leftstar and the Strange Occurrence
Author: Jean Fhilippe
Published: Silver Sprocket, 2023
Rating: 2 of 5
Page Count: 90
Total Page Count: 556,745
Text Number: 2091
Read Because: reading the publisher, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library via Hoopla
Review: A creator of worlds finds his work faltering, so goes in search of aid. A debut graphic novel in clean, wobbly monochrome, functioning as a metaphor for creative work (engaging in, finishing, what do creators owe their creations) in unsurprising ways, structured as a fantastical travelogue. That's not a combo that works for me—it's cute, millennial, whimsical vibes, very feel-good, and I don't agree with the conclusions of the running metaphor. But the majority of that is an issue of personal taste; I can see this working well for others.

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What I’ve Just Finished Reading

I rounded out 2025 with Jacqueline Woodson’s Locomotion, the verse prequel to Peace, Locomotion. I thought Peace, Locomotion was ultimately a stronger book, but nonetheless I enjoyed spending more time with the characters.

Then I kicked off 2026 with the new Charles Lenox mystery, The Hidden City, in which Charles Lenox gently brushes against the life of the extremely poor! These books are always a good time, extremely readable, although I thought some of the backstory was unnecessarily convoluted, for reasons that I attempted to explain only for the explanation to quickly grow unwieldy. Too convoluted!

Finally - alert to my fellow Elizabeth Wein fans! She recently co-authored a book with Sherri L. Smith (of Flygirl fame), American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Skies, which does what it says on the tin, plus some excursions to Ethiopia during the Italian invasion of 1936, during which time Pioneering Black Chicago Aviator John C. Robinson attempted to train an Ethiopian air force despite Ethiopia’s pitiful collection of woefully outdated aircraft. It’s not the final Lion Hunters novel but I’ll take what I can get.

What I’m Reading Now

Like Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn starts out In the First Circle by introducing dozens of characters with about three names each, and in my confusion I was flagging a bit. But then! Then Solzhenitsyn stops dead for Stalin to recount his life story! And now Stalin is meeting with head of SMERSH Abakumov (SMERSH of course stands for “Death to Spies”) who begs Stalin to bring back the death penalty. It’s so hard to keep track of who you’ve executed when you’re not officially allowed to execute people! “You might be the first one we execute,” Stalin teases(what a wag!), and Abakumov murmurs anxiously that of course if it becomes necessary…

What I Plan to Read Next

Thanhha Lai has published a sequel to Inside Out and Back Again: When Clouds Touch Us. I couldn’t bring myself to check it out because I am generally suspicious of sequels, but I know that I won’t be able to resist for long.

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kass recently reminded me of this post I made fourteen years ago(!) titled “sex, and slash sex scenes,” in which I discussed how

slash was the only genre of literature I had ever found [at the time I found it, circa 1989] that followed the characters into bed and back out of it; that investigated and demonstrated how the people they were outside of bed were connected to the people they were in bed; that modeled how to be with someone in everyday life, go to bed with them, and then wake up next to them and continue everyday life with them. In slash, "everyday life" wasn't differentiated from "sex life." Who people were outside of bed and during the day critically, obviously, demonstrably influenced how they behaved in bed with each other, and vice versa; but the characters never lost themselves or turned into different (wimpy wispy sappy) people because they had fucked. (Okay, sometimes they did, but those were the bad stories, the ones we mocked.) The two parts of life weren't disjunct; indeed, they were crucially connected, mutually influential, even indivisible. In fact, that indivisibility was often the whole point.

Kass wondered how this might relate to Heated Rivalry, which I continue to be moderately obsessed with. I’m really grateful to her for pulling this up (hi,

kass! Thanks!),

because I think it relates a lot.

HR has gotten a lot of press for being horny, for being extremely sexually explicit. (And hot. Which there's nothing wrong with. Fiction is often created with a goal of making the reader happy, or sad, or angry, or tense, along the way as part of the experience; "hot" is also a legit way for fiction to try to make the reader feel. Not that I think the people reading this need to be convinced of that!) But the sex is not "gratuitous" (i.e., existing only to make the reader hot); it is absolutely integral to the story being told. The way Shane and Ilya relate to each other through sex is what their relationship is built on. The long, detailed, explicit sex scenes are the places where they (and we) discover how they relate to each other: where Shane learns that Ilya may be an asshole but he is also scrupulously concerned with Shane's sexual consent, where Ilya is charmed by Shane's dorkishly careful folding of his clothes (the moment when, according to Rachel Reid, Ilya fell in love), where they learn to trust each other, to work together; and also where they are most vulnerable to each other and have to deal with that. (Or fail to deal with it. Cf. tuna melts, oh my heart.)

The sex scenes' importance as character development is illustrated in the negative by episode 3, the Kip and Scott episode. We get very little, comparatively speaking, of Kip and Scott in bed, because we don't need it. Kip and Scott have their own issues and concerns, but they're not sexual ones. We see them in bed so that we can see Scott say how into Kip he is, and his own moment of asking for explicit consent; and so that we can see a moment of them laughing together in bed, having fun, which I don't think we see Ilya and Shane doing until episode 6 ("Sir, I'm just the bellboy!"). Other than that we don't need to see the actual sex; the important sexual aspects of their relationship are conveyed by things like Scott flinging himself onto Kip on the couch (can I just say, those eyeglasses give me "sexy Daniel Jackson" vibes!) and by the "Can I fuck you?" "Absolutely" exchanges. The sex scenes in HR overall aren't "gratuitous," as demonstrated by the fact that, when they're not serving plot and character development, they're not there.

And it's illustrated even more in episode 5, which has no sex scenes at all, although Shane and Ilya have sex twice in it. The friend I did the Boxing Day marathon with commented, "We don't need to see the sex, now that they've learned to use their words," and I was like, "Yes! Words like 'Shane' and 'Ilya.'" And of course the sex in episode 6 is warm and playful and emotionally intimate in ways that they've never had before, and it's important for us to see that.

(Check out this paired gifset paralleling the ep 1 and ep 6 blowjobs: almost exactly the same moves, but one in a dark secret hotel room and one in the sunshine they both deserve. My heart.)

Basically, HR is the absolute quintessential of what I said in that 2011 post I was so glad to find in slash.

There are a lot of other reasons I love HR. I want to have the brain to post about its sound design at some point! But it is a god damn master class in telling a story involving, and through, sex.

(I lost some time trolling icon communities -- remember those? -- looking for a good HR icon, but none of the ones I found really worked for me. So I went with this one, because when the credits rolled on ep 6 as I finished my watchthrough with

dorinda, I punched the air and exulted, "My tax dollars at work!")

rachelmanija

It's a zombie apocalypse, only instead of zombies, there's cats.

In a future in which 90% of the population owned a cat, a strange virus spreads. If you cuddle a cat, or a cat nuzzles you, you turn into a cat! It's a catastrophe! A catlamity! A nyandemic!

Not only are cats everywhere, but the cats are either instinctively trying to turn humans into cats, or they just want to be petted. Cue every zombie movie scene ever, but with cats. Cats scratch at the doors! Cats peer through the windows! Groups of cats ambush you in tunnels!

The characters are all very upset by this, because they love cats! And now there's cats everywhere, just begging to be skritched! And they can't skritch them! "We can't even squish their little toe beans!" The horror!

Needless to say, they would never ever harm a cat. In fact they feel bad when they're forced to spray cats with water to shoo them away.

I'm not sure how this can possibly be sustained for seven volumes, but on the other hand I could happily read seven volumes of it. The cat art is really fun and adorable. I would definitely do better in a zombie apocalypse than a cat apocalypse, because I would never be able to resist those cats.

Content notes: None, the cats are fine.

forestofglory

2025 wasn’t my best year for writing, I was sleep deprived and not very inspired. But I did manage to write a few longer things so I thought I’d do a quick round up.

I wrote three things for

ladybusiness :
Adventures with Crossdressing Sword Girls
Domestic Labor and Community Building Rec List
Chill Chinese Reality Shows Rec List

I posted one short translation from Classical Chinese:
Magu

And I wrote an annotated bibliography for a friend:
Liao Biblography

james_davis_nicoll

My other group is moving to CoC 3rd edition. That's the one the GM owns. It turns out between the group we own a vast assortment of CoC editions, generally speaking one edition per player, including an original from 1981.

My character, Daniel Soren, has some good stats (Strength, Constitution, Intelligence) and some terrible stats (Dex, Power, and Edu). Unfortunately, in 3E you get Intx5 and Edux15 skill points, so being smart doesn't make up for being a grade school dropout. He does have some decent skills, but very narrowly focused: he's a competent cabbie and a moderately successful pulp writer with ambitions to appear in Weird Tales.

Power governs sanity in CoC so I don't know how long he will last.

james_davis_nicoll

astrafoxen on blusky created some visual aids showing Saturnian moon orbits.

They're all great but a detail in this one is worth mentioning.

The odd green squiggle to the right is a visual of Neptune's outer irregular moons, whose orbits around Neptune are large enough to be visible across the solar system. https://www.dreamwidth.org/comments/recent

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A powerful but timid sorcerer is sent to guard a prince as he attends school.

Secrets Of The Silent Witch, volume 1 by Matsuri Isora (Translated by Alice Prowse)

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I drew Oliver's mugs. The ones I could see well enough, anyway.

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I shall miss the stars.

Not that I shall stop looking
as they pattern their wild will each night
across an inchoate sky, but I must see them with a different awe.
If I trace their flames’ ascending and descending –
relationships and correspondences –
then I deny what they have just revealed.
The sum of their oppositions, juxtapositions, led me to the end of all sums:
a long journey, cold, dark and uncertain,
toward the ultimate equation.
How can I understand? If I turn back from this,
compelled to seek all answers in the stars,
then this – Who – they have led me to
is not the One they said: they will have lied.

No stars are liars!
My life on their truth!
If they had lied about this
I could never trust their power again.

But I believe they showed the truth,
truth breathing,
truth Whom I have touched with my own hands,
worshipped with my gifts.
If I have bowed, made
obeisance to this final arithmetic,
I cannot ask the future from the stars without betraying
the One whom they have led me to.

It will be hard not ask, just once again,
see by mathematical forecast where he will grow,
where go, what kingdom conquer, what crown wear.
But would it not be going beyond truth
(the obscene reduction ad absurdum)
to lose my faith in truth once, and once for all
revealed in the full dayspring of the sun?

I cannot go back to night.
O Truth, O small and unexpected thing,
You have taken so much from me.
How can I bear wisdom’s pain?
But I have been shown: and I have seen.

— Madeleine L’Engle

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Back at work, but thankfully 1. I don't have to commute, and 2. we are having no-meeting week, so I can just cross one major task off my list every day without adding new things like meeting notes or whatever.

I think the thing I've enjoyed most about the ancillary explosion of joy around Heated Rivalry is the two hockey podcasts that engaged fully and open-heartedly with it (well, and the proliferation of "Ilya gets added to the WAG chat" fic). Normally hockey podcast bros are not a species I have time for (aside from not being good at podcasts or audiobooks in general), but the Empty Netters dudes were super adorable in their reviews, and they also interviewed Ksenia Daniela with great excitement and are scheduled to have Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie on soon.

I also enjoyed What Chaos's less in-depth but still positive look at the show, and they have a couple of interviews with Jacob Tierney available that I haven't watched yet. I was also very pleased when, during a discussion about Shane's ginger ale habit, one of the dudes started talking about a restaurant(?) that lets you choose ginger ale or 7Up for your Shirley Temples, and I was like, "gotta go with ginger ale on that" and then the guy was like, "and the ones with ginger ale are great!" Because that is the legit truth, my friends. I'm not saying I won't drink a Shirley Temple with 7UP, but I am saying that the ones with ginger ale are 1. how we made them when I was a kid, and 2. better. I was reminded of how we ordered one every night at the free cocktail hour on that cruise we went on back in 2015, which definitely made an impression on the staff. *g* (Princess Donut also approves.)

So I feel like those were a great extender of joy, if you are in need. It's really lovely to see some cishet hockey dudes becoming fans of m/m romance.

In other fannish news, I just read that Sebastian Stan may be in Matt Reeve's The Batman, Part 2 and I don't want to get my hopes up or get fixated on a specific part for him to play, but like, wouldn't he be a fantastic Harvey Dent/Two-Face??? GIVE IT TO ME.

Scarlett Johansson has also been rumored to be involved somehow, and she'd have to be like, Poison Ivy, right? Though maybe they're going with more of a Mask of the Phantasm type thing and she'll be Andrea Beaumont? But I am not sure I buy Battinson as having a girlfriend before Selina, and also, why would you try to compete with Mask of the Phantasm? It's so good, you're just setting yourself up for not measuring up. (I guess she could be Talia, but I hope not.)

I guess we'll see what materializes! I'm kind of sad that they are not in continuity with James Gunn's Superman, because that would be fun to see.

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The Original X-Men will be in Doomsday?

I'm so behind on MCU news that I didn't know that but a part of me just went Squeeee!

No idea if there is any chance that they'll actually pull of such a huge cast but I'm absolutetely willing to see this at the movies.

Still need to catch up with so many shows and movies, though.

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