TV Talk: The Last of Us

May. 27th, 2025 01:50 pm
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What do you mean, this is the season finale?!! Last season there were 9 eps, why only 7 this season? spoilers )
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Originally this was to be a conversation between Asako Yuzuki (author of "Butter") and Sayaka Murata, which I think would have been a fascinating conversation as they both have such interesting perspectives on being a woman and an outsider in Japanese society, and they are also friends. Unfortunately Sayaka had to pull out of the festival, and so this became a solo event, with Junko Hirabayashi as the MC.

The event was almost entirely in Japanese, with an automated translation supplied via a screen at the venue and also on our phones. Although good in theory, the translations were riddled with errors ("the translation said you DID breastfeed while drinking," one person told her in the Q&A section, as she laughed and said "no, no!") and very slow. Yuzuki spoke at what seemed like a fairly normal pace but it rapidly became evident the translations were way behind. After the event wrapped up, I kept my phone screen open and read the remaining translations for the next 20 minutes - that's how far behind it was by the end. So far from a perfect solution.

Despite the guesswork and delays involved in reading the translations, I thought it was a really interesting session. Please take these notes with a grain of salt, due to the aforementioned translation issues:

notes )

Princess Show & Sell

May. 27th, 2025 01:00 pm
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Posted by Jen

The princesses are back, eager to show you their new castle!

You know what they say: "One princess' doorbell is another man's ding-dong."

 

Hey! Snow White! HANDS OFF!

Thank you.

 

They also want to show off their finger painting:

 

And their... crown?

Let's go with crown.

 

And whatever this thing is:

(I'm guessing "royal spider smasher.")

 

Hey, ever seen a reeeeally long hairball?

Ew.
Thanks, Rapunzel.

 

Some of them even got new dresses!

I guess that's one way to be the ball of the Belle.

 

Of course, not all princesses are DISNEY princesses.

In fact, may I be frank?

Awesome.

 

So just remember, ladies: you're never too old...

...to be a priscess.

 

Thanks to Anony M., Wendy, Kimberly C., Stephanie H., Vanessa C., Carissa B., Marjorie R., Stephanie H., & Heather for that priceless priscess.

*****

P.S. This series looks awesome and I like Shannon Hale, any of you know it?

The Princess In Black (6 Book Set)
*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

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May. 27th, 2025 07:39 am
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I've had great luck in the past with the sort of kdrama in which an angry immortal supernatural woman has to hang out in contemporary Seoul with a nice mortal boy. We were hoping The Judge From Hell would be that sort of kdrama, and, technically, it is; I think in its heart it would love to be Hotel del Luna. Unfortunately, it has also decided that what it wants to be is a violent revenge fantasy with incoherent and punitive ethics. Interspersed with wacky shenanigans! and a healthy dose of Catholicism?

Okay, so the premise: our heroine is Justitia, the DEMON JUDGE of the UNDERWORLD, THIRD IN LINE to the THRONE OF HELL, whose job is to sentence unrepentant murderers to unending torments. However, when a nice young judge gets murdered and accidentally ends up in her domain instead of the lesser hell where she belongs, Justitia refuses to listen to her pleas of innocence, gets ready to sentence her anyway, and promptly gets her wrist slapped by her superiors: she's gotten complacent! Time to go to Earth, wearing the body of the dead judge, and learn! about JUSTICE!!!

Given that Justitia's initial mistake involved accidentally sentencing an innocent person, you might be forgiven for thinking that Justitia's job on Earth might involve perhaps getting justice for the wrongly accused, or learning to temper justice with mercy and a little bit of nuance, or even uncovering faults and corruption within the justice system as it exists. haha! no. Justitia's job is to hit a quota of Unrepentent, Unforgiven Murderers On Earth and sentence them to unending torment, just like in her day job. She does this by chasing them around a sequence of nightmare scenarios that mimic the things they have done to their victims and beating them up, then stamping them on the forehead with a little stamp that says GEHENNA while then the doors of hell open and an ominous voice roars GEHENNA!!!! and they get sucked into hell. We did not enjoy the excruciating sequences of murderers being chased around a sequence of nightmare scenarios that mimicked the things they had done to their victims, which the show obviously wants us to find cathartic and satisfying. We did enjoy the ominous voice that roared GEHENNA!!!! It made us laugh every time.

this got long but tbh not as long as it could have been. this show was so incoherent )
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I wrote most of this fic before the Fest opened for prompt claims, and just had to give it a final read-through. I'm excited to finally share it with you. I hope you enjoy it!

Title: The Mystery of the Purloined Coin
Author: Spikedluv
Fandom: Murder, She Wrote (tv)/The Unusuals(tv)
Rating: PG13/Gen
Pairing/Characters: Jessica Fletcher & Jason Walsh (appearance by Casey Shraeger)
Length: 3,785 words
Spoilers: Takes place post-season eight of Murder, She Wrote and no particular time in The Unusuals. Very possibly post-series.
Summary: Jessica Fletcher runs into trouble when she takes a day to do some sightseeing in NYC.
Author’s Notes: Written for Round 37 of [community profile] smallfandomfest for the prompt: Murder, She Wrote (tv)/Unusuals, The (tv), Jessica & Jason, Solving a mystery together.
Feedback: Would be greatly appreciated.
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Posted: May 27, 2025

Read Fic @ AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65941696

The Day in Spikedluv (Monday, May 26)

May. 27th, 2025 07:17 am
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Happy (belated) Memorial Day! My deepest thanks to all who served.

I hit Walmart while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park. Yes, you read that right! Just one lap, so a short one. I’m really out of walking shape after 8 weeks of zero walking and weeks before that of only doing a limited number of walks due to cold/snow and my foot hurting.

(Saturday I wore sneakers out of the house (instead of the walking shoe on one foot). I’m still wearing the walking shoes at home because I don’t normally leave the sneakers on, and the slippers I’d wear don’t offer much support. I expect I’ll stop doing that after Friday’s final follow-up appointment with the surgeon. Maybe.)

I hit Stewart’s (for milk) on the way home. I did three loads of laundry (including bed sheets, so also stripped and remade the bed). I did the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, as well as a load in the dishwasher, and scooped kitty litter. And I did mow the lawn! While I didn’t need the scarf and gloves, I did need the sweatshirt.

I watched some HGTV programs (I have a backlog of House Hunters International) and read some more. (Another group of shows I like to watch are the heavy duty tow shows on TWC (Highway Thru Hell, Heavy Rescue: 401, and the new Rocky Mountain Wreckers. I like to have them on as background noise when I’m playing games or writing, and I can glance up to watch as much of it as I want. I record them because they don’t air at convenient times.)

I grilled steak for Pip’s supper. (I had Cheerios. o_O)

Temps started out at 48.7(F) and reached 73.2. We had sun most of the day, but there was a chill breeze. We got surprise rain storms around 5pm that lasted several hours, then the sun came out again.
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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Jeannie Miller, Kaleb Miller, Madison Miller
Rating: Teen
Length: 5753
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: sardonicsmiley on AO3
Themes: Angst with a happy ending, Family, Established relationship

Summary: Sooner or later, Rodney just gets under your skin.

Reccer's Notes:
The angst in this one isn't romantic, as John and Rodney's relationship (shown indirectly) is solid. No, this is about the fraught relationship Rodney has with his sister, Jeannie, who often gives him a hard time in canon and teases or belittles him. In this story we see a series of visits back to Earth where John and Rodney stay at Jeannie's, with John increasingly fed up with how Jeannie treats Rodney and finally letting her know. There's some very nice steely-eyed John here, and Rodney is both a BAMF and absolutely there for his family. The ending is happy, with Jeannie finally fully supportive in return. A great read.

Fanwork Links: How the Millers Relaxed and Learned to Love Rodney (With A Little Help from John Sheppard)

Garden

May. 26th, 2025 08:09 pm
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Here are some pics of the garden.




The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

May. 26th, 2025 11:26 pm
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Another Hugo nominee, by

It was lovely to read something set in a medieval fantasy setting that was not a western European one. Instead it is tales of adventure on the high seas of the Gulf of Aden and the Western shores of the Indian ocean. A multicultural world with just a touch of magic, and a lot of humanity

I liked the story and the way that it was told, but for some reason it didn't grip me. This may be more to do with my life at the moment than the book itself. I liked it, a lot, but I didn't love it. I'd recommend it to anybody who finds the above intruiging, but I won't be immediately seeking out everything the author has written. I might keep an eye out for further books in this particular series, however...

orchid blooms

May. 27th, 2025 12:59 am
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I think we have like eight phalaenopsis orchids and a couple of others. Of those, one is a mini "wild variety" and has been blooming regularly and copiously since we bought it. But all the others have been dormant since they dropped their flowers (except one which died - at least I think just one).

But about a month ago Ella Fitzgerald (L) started making new buds, and shortly after that Georges Seurat (R) did too! These are the first non-wild orchid blooms we've seen in a year.



That said, I definitely would recommend the wild mini phal over the hybrids. The different colors are just irresistible sometimes, but the vigor and jollity of the wild phal with its profusion of little white blooms is also remarkable. And it makes so many more flowers! Our mini wild phal, Neve Campbell, isn't blooming at the moment; but it's got a bunch of buds that will be open soon. And like I said, it's been blooming regularly all along, unlike the others. (But pics of it can be seen in this post when we bought it and group shots comparing it to other orchids in this one, where it's next to Ella.)

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