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Black and white and so friendly and tiny, too. Definitely not a feral!

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Yesterday evening, I made a lovely pan-seared steak for dinner, and today I roasted a chicken. It was more expensive, but I bought one that came already spatchcocked, which meant it cooked in about 40 minutes. I used this recipe and the white meat was quite juicy and good. It's annoying to have to flip the whole chicken in the frying pan though, so I don't know if I will do it this way again, especially since I don't really care about crispy skin since I don't eat the skin. [obligatory quote: "any demons with high cholesterol?... You're gonna think about that later, mister, and you're gonna laugh."]

I also did the first part of this chocolate chip cookie recipe and now they're in the fridge chilling. Tomorrow I will bake 2 off and then do the same thing for the next 3 days too, since it only makes 8 extremely large cookies and they are supposedly best when freshly baked. I will report back on how they taste!

Tomorrow, I plan to make a nice herb and cheese frittata for dinner and lunch for a couple of days too, and of course, there will be leftover roast chicken to eat too.

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Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Scott McDaniel

Inks: Karl Story

Nightwing closes in on the true power behind Blüdhaven's criminal underworld.

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carenejeans

Quote of the Day:

"Maybe this book will be banned in Florida right out of the gate. But I guess if you’re not banned in Florida, then what are you really doing with your life."

— Sean Sherman, in "Reflections on Creating Turtle Island: A Cookbook Against Erasure," in his newsletter The Sioux Chef (9/7/2025)

Today's Writing:

About 250 words, about something I thought of that I didn't want to forget. 8-)

Tally

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Day 20:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

callmesandyk,

carenejeans,

cornerofmadness,

luzula,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora

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Dr.Doom loves his people and they love him.

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Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Mary Wilshire

Inks: Bill Sienkiewicz

Professor Xavier has ditched the New Mutants to go to space with his bird-wife. His last wish was for Magneto to take over, but can the kids trust him?

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pauraque

After some consideration of my options, I have made a Star Wars icon that pleases me. It's a screenshot of the music video for Jeremy Messersmith's "Tatooine" with animation by Eric Power.

Embedded video: Paper cutout animation retelling the plot of the Star Wars Original Trilogy.

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Writer: John Ostrander

Pencils and inks: Tom Mandrake

The Justice League answer a call for help to find what seems to be the Martian Manhunter conducting sadistic experiments.

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spikedluv

I hit Price Chopper and the Bakery while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park.

I did two loads of laundry (washed, dried AND folded), hand-washed dishes, went on several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and changed kitty litter (and then almost immediately had to SCOOP the kitty litter because Midnight takes a fresh pan of kitty litter as an invitation).

I read some fanfic and started Key Lime Sky.

Temps started out at 39.2(F) and reached 70.0. That was much colder than I wanted it to be in the morning, but it got really nice out.

Mom Update:

Mom had a pretty good day. ( more back here )

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Writers: Roy Thomas and Jenny Blake Isabella

Pencils: Herb Trimpe

Inks: Jack Abel

An attempt to banish the Hulk to another dimension accidentally summons the Juggernaut instead.

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(I'm still awake so it's still Saturday night, right?)

All of these are fics I read in the past week and added to my fanfic database, and which I flagged for either being a favorite fic, or one I thought was exceptionally well-written. (For all fics I added this week, leave a comment and I can make a special post for you, or you can browse the regular posts linked in my master recs post.)

This week I was concentrating on fics from the Australian YA book series beginning with Tomorrow, When the War Began, as well as fics for the 2010 film by the same name. If you've never heard of either, I highly recommend them.

( Icon guide )

( Explanation of ratings )

( Ships )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

Below are the recs:

( Tomorrow When the War Began (book & film) )

If any of the non-dead links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

china_shop

I posted my unexpected-kink fic for the Riddle round of

fan_flashworks, and today I archived it to AO3. It's part of my Breakage and Repair 'verse which is Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives (mostly), Canon Divergence, but all you really need to know is that it's early-relationship Chu Shuzhi/Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan.

Title: Experiments in Dynamic Translation (9003 words) [Explicit]
Relationships: Chu Shuzhi/Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Chu Shuzhi/Hei Pao Shi
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Relationships with complicated history, Being closeted in some spheres, Domestic, Unplanned/Impromptu Kink, Identity Porn (literal), Dom/sub, soft D/s, Dom!Shen Wei, Envoy!Shen Wei, Sub!Chu Shuzhi, (Zhao Yunlan enjoys the show), Fealty, Orgasm denial/delay, Dark-Energy Sex Toys, Low-key impromptu bondage, Dixing-Powers Powered Sex, Anal Sex, Voyeurism, Frottage, Long Hair
Summary:

It’s been just over ten weeks since his and Da Qing’s return to the land of the living, and in that time, Shen Wei has not yet had occasion to don his robes of office in front of Shuzhi—or indeed, to conduct any Envoy business at all in his presence. He’s visited the SID once or twice on official matters, but only in Haixing clothes, and he’s been sure to keep his manner light and casual in the public areas. Formal liaising is for the privacy of Zhao Yunlan’s office.

Now, faced with the prospect of a Dixing state dinner, Shen Wei discovers he’s slipped into—not so much keeping secrets, as compartmentalising. Again.

As I said in my end notes, it’s hilarious to me that my first E-rated fic in this ‘verse is something I usually DNW (D/s, especially when it leans into existing power dynamics). For some reason, it worked for me in this specific scenario.

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Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia; No Reservations
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Anthony Bourdain, “Global” Alan Weeks, Todd Liebler, Tracey Godwin, Reepicheep, Aslan, and a cast of colorful Narnian OCs.
Rating: Teen and up (mostly for Bourdain-characteristic profanity.)
Length: 6,228 words
Content Notes: a vast variety of food, some narratively presented as off-putting; drunkenness; smoking; weed (that he doesn’t get to use); Bourdain’s typical abrasive impertinence; Author Showed Her Work.
Creator Links: (AO3)

Edonohana; (Dreamwidth)

rachelmanija
Theme: Food and Cooking, previously recced for Crossovers/Fusions, previously recced for Small Fandoms, Cultural Differences, Fandom Classics, Older Characters, Research, Worldbuilding

Summary: I’m crammed into a burrow so small that my knees are up around my ears and the boom mike keeps slamming into my head, inhaling the potent scent of toffee-apple brandy and trying to drink a talking mouse under the table.

Author’s Notes: ( Cut_for_length. )

Reccer's Notes: Okay; what’s the September 2025 Food & Cooking theme even for if this classic doesn’t circle around for a threepeat? (Twelve years since the last mention should be a sufficient interval.)

This brilliant crossover, all the more poignant in hindsight, nails both Bourdain’s voice and the Narnian sense of place, painstakingly hitting all the beats: Food Porn; Food Gorn (with the acknowledgement that the difference between the two is in the palate of the beholder); departure from what Diana Wynne-Jones would term the Guided Tour into Parts Unknown, with the aid of knowledgeable locals; hospitality in austere circumstances; martial arts (with thought given to the size logistics!); scary local politics; above all, food as a vehicle of cross-cultural understanding.

“No Reservations: Narnia” has the additional distinction of being RPF that not only reached but impressed the subject:

“This is astonishingly well written with an attention to detail that’s frankly a bit frightening…I’m both flattered and disturbed. I think I need a drink.”—Anthony Bourdain.

Fanwork Links: No Reservations: Narnia, by

Edonohana for

innocentsmith; cover art by

moonblossom_graphics.

Current Music: ”Parts Unknown”.

conuly

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The camera angles work really hard to make the dogs look vicious and dangerous, but they can't fool me! Those are some happy, friendly puppers!

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If you are interested in checking out Dungeon Crawler Carl but don't want to buy the first book (or the wait list at your library is very long), there's a webtoon version you can check out for free to see if it's up your alley. It's making me want to start a reread of the series even though I just read it last month. *hands*

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Posted by John Scalzi

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/09/20/the-unspeakably-hedonistic-lifestyle-of-an-author-on-book-tour/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=57378

It’s just a little before 3pm on a Saturday in Boise, and I’ve fed myself on a Subway Bacon Chicken Ranch sub (with oatmeal raisin cookie), and now I’m going to lie around on a bed in a darkened hotel room, watching YouTube cooking video until my brain is ready for a nice afternoon nap.

These are my unhinged tour habits! The pure licentiousness is the stuff of legend!

Anyway, hello, Boise. I will see you tonight at that most hedonistic of night haunts, the public library.

Tomorrow! Denver! I’ll see you at the Tattered Cover Colfax! 3pm — that’s right, it’s an afternoon event, because it’s Sunday, and we get our iniquity done early on Sunday.

— JS

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Writer: John Ostrander

Pencils and inks: Graham Nolan

Shayera’s murder investigation leads her to the Downside district and a confrontation with her father.

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Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi; Chen Qing Ling
Pairings/Characters: M/M; Song Lan | Song Zichen/Xiao Zingchen; Song Lan | Song Zichen, Xiao Xingchen
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 3,632 words
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, determinedly Taiwanese cuisine, Food Porn because the author inexplicably omitted that tag, racist microaggression (a character recounts getting renamed by his exchange host family.)
Creator Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, First Meetings, Taiwan, Street food, chinese diaspora feelings and food as love language, SongXiao Feast
Creator Links: (AO3)

Irrelevancy; (Tumblr)

touchmycoat
Theme: Food & Cooking, Cultural Differences, Fluff, Going Home, Identity, Modern AU, Slice of Life

Summary: Flirting and cultural reclamation via Taiwanese street food. Songxiao modern meet-cute.

Author’s Notes:
For the #songxiaofeast on twitter, thanks for organizing the event~!!!! There's so much great art in the hashtag *~* love me some food love....

Chinese glossary at end lolol, and is this all a shameless marketing ploy for Taiwan night markets? yes.

…The menu (a twitter thread w pictures) (Unfortunately no longer accessible—FMO.)

大腸包小腸 (dà cháng bāo xiǎo cháng): "little sausage wrapped around a big sausage" lol
蚵仔煎 (ó-à-tsiān): oyster pancake. I'm using the Taiwanese romanization here because it better captures that Hokkien pronunciation. Ningxia Night Market seriously has the best ones.
臭豆腐 (chò dò fǔ): stinky tofu!! I think it smells delicious; don't be like SL eat it normally without that crazy amount of sauce nkfsjdfds
肉圓麵線 (bà wán miàn xiàn): meatball & rice noodles. Two separate things but they're typically sold together. Meatball is always pronounced in Hokkien and sometimes rice noodle is too (mǐ suǎ)
豆花 (dòu huā): tofu pudding. It's not too sweet and it's sooooo refreshing to have on a hot taiwan evening with ice!
雞蛋糕 (jī dàn gāo): egg cake! They're seriously very good but a hit-or-miss from street vendors lmfao.

Drop a comment~! Happy feastings!!!!!!!

Reccer’s Notes: Taiwanese bartender Song Zichen, taking both pity on and a fancy to diasporic American tourist Xiao Xingchen, proceeds to initiate him into the ways of local street food (as both a welcome into his heritage and a courtship overture.) This fic, stuffed with delicious Unresolved Sexual Tension, serves as a reminder that the Sinosphere is a very big and diverse place, and brought an outpouring of nostalgic yearning for the Taste Of Home from diasporic commenters.

(And Ningxia Night Market needs to hire Irrelevancy as a publicist, dammit; I was fervently wishing my neighborhood had something like that up the alley!)

Fanwork links: Comfort Food / 有可能的夜晚 (AO3-locked.)

carenejeans

Quote of the Day:

"We just sit down at the table with a bottle of wine and plot out sections together. Then we each go off and write our own sections. Then we meet, read them back and forth, and when we have something we're satisfied with, we plot out the next section. It's fun."

— Bill Pronzini, on collaborating with Marcia Muller, from "Partners in Crime," an interview with both of them in The Sonoma Independent (1996)

Today's Writing:

No word count as such, since I was turning bullet points into a shitty first draft. ;-)

Tally

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Day 19:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

luzula,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

yasaman,

ysilme

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thistleingrey

For me, Charli XCX's remix of Brat fits the same aural resting place as the basic version of Lofi Girl (pro tip: close the chat channel in the right-hand column). Ten years ago, Vienna Teng's Aims sat there, though primarily for heavy-duty XML tasks. Brat is okay even when I'm reading a textbook, unless it's for coding (one of my current classes)---probably because I can't catch more than two words in a row in most dance music, which is a longstanding me problem.

What do you listen to, if at all, when some sort of aural prop would aid your concentrating on something completely unrelated to the sounds?

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Writers: Karl and Barbara Kesel

Pencils: Greg Guler

Inks: Scott Hanna

Copperhead puts the squeeze on one of Hawk and Dove's supporting cast.

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Writer: Phil Jimenez

Pencils: Joyce Chin

Inks: John Stokes

Guy discovers a slavery racket trading in former Green Lanterns.

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Thanks for all your nominations so far! 2732 fandom choices have been submitted so far (note that if two people nominate the same fandom, that counts twice towards that total).

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Downton Abbey

Gravity Falls

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I didn't want to do another Avengers book, and I didn't want it to be an Ultimates book that was like the Ultimates from the turn of the millennium. It's a very different time and so the best way that I could honor that, I thought, was to change whatever I felt needed to be changed and try to make it of this moment, as you said. And Jon [Hickman] had done a lot of the groundwork for that, this sense of disappointment, the sense that something had been taken from from us, and put in the superhero vernacular -- the superpower vernacular. That was all really good and I wanted to, if anything, magnify that. -- Deniz Camp

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spikedluv

Today was a LOW-shopping day. *g* I hit the Pharmacy while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park. I filled my gas tank and dropped a book off at the library on the way to mom’s.

I did a load of laundry (washed, dried AND folded), hand-washed dishes, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, paid some bills online, and showered. *whispers* I picked up more bbq chicken quarters for supper. Sunnycrest was having a Harvest Fest, and bbq chicken and pulled pork was part of that. The dinners were disappointing, but a night of not having to cook supper is still a win for me!

I read more fanfic and watched some HGTV programs.

Temps started out at 60.6(F) and reached 72.1. I had no idea it was going to be so warm in the morning! We were actually warm sleeping overnight because we’d planned for another 45 degree night.

Mom Update:

Mom was doing well today, which was a surprise after yesterday’s exhausting afternoon. ( more back here )

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Writer: Steve Englehart

Pencils: Joe Staton

Inks: Mark Farmer

With the Crisis over, the Green Lantern Corps tie up some loose ends.

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It's a sad truth that a webcomic coming to a proper conclusion rather than being abandoned is a notable event. Happily, Deep Dive Daredevils concluded earlier this week.

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The story begins here

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Last night I finished Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, a sci-fi book about a motley crew of spacefarers who "drill" wormholes to enable rapid travel across space for the diverse galactic alliance known as the GC. At the start of the book, they are offered a bid on a particularly difficult, lucrative job, and can't resist taking the bait.

This should be (another) lesson to me in not going all-in on a creator because I've enjoyed one of their works. I loved Chambers' To Be Taught, if Fortunate, and I've heard plenty of internet praise for The Long Way, so when I saw it at the bookstore recently, I dropped $20 on it readily. If I hadn't, I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it.

First - if you picked up this book looking for the femslash, it's barely there, and it's a lot more friends-with-benefits than romance. The other two romances in the book get a lot more attention. If what you really want is F/F romance, it's not really here.

This is a character-driven book with barely a plot, which wouldn't be a problem if the characters were interesting. As it is, they are functionally interchangeable: a crew of people who are all optimistic, friendly, emotionally open, painstakingly polite, and obsessively well-intentioned (except for the one guy who's a Jerk, who exists to be a jerk whenever the scene calls for someone who needs to be less-than-fanatically-polite or there's a chance for Chambers to squeeze in another instance of his being a jerk, even when he's technically right). There is no character growth to speak of; none of these characters changes at all between the start of the book and the end. There's no complexity to anyone.

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Posted by Athena Scalzi

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/09/19/the-big-idea-william-alexander-2/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=57373

You don’t have to fully understand something to enjoy or get value out of it. New York Times bestselling author William Alexander expands this idea to life itself in the Big Idea for his newest novel, Sunward. Read on to see how the world, though sometimes scary and incomprehensible, can also be pretty amazing.

WILLIAM ALEXANDER:

Sunward is space opera about parenting—specifically about parenting robotic kids, and more broadly about parenting kids who are wildly, gloriously, transformatively different from ourselves.

It started as a short story that I wrote for Sunday Morning Transport, when pandemic parenting was much on my mind. My own kids were stuck at home, quarantined from the world but still trying to learn about it via disembodied classrooms. Their experience of grade school was simultaneously contracting and expanding in ways that I had no frame of reference for—except maybe in science fiction. Home was a spacecraft, isolated in the void. We lived in cramped quarters, bouncing off the walls and staring out the windows, but at least we could communicate instantaneously with every other ship and station.

This mix of coziness, claustrophobia, catastrophe, and possibility messed with my head. I tried to squeeze the whole mess into a short story. Then the story grew into a novel—albeit a short one—about parenting juvenile bots in a turbulent solar system.

Science fiction has lots of robotic kids. Some inhabit Pinocchio retellings, others Peter Pan retellings. Some are changelings, embodying old fears alongside newer uncanny valleys. Samuel Butler panicked about mechanical offspring in his 1863 essay “Darwin Among the Machines” (which also predicts eventual war between the machines and humanity). Osamu Tezuka’s beloved Astro Boy broke ground for so much of our science fictional landscape; his 1962 story “Robot Land” includes a robotic uprising set in an amusement park, published eleven years before the movie Westworld.

Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects (which you can find in his second collection Exhalation) critiques the impossible shortcuts that we almost always take in our stories about mechanical people. “Science fiction is filled with artificial beings who, like Athena out of the head of Zeus, spring forth fully formed,” he says in the story notes, “but I don’t believe consciousness actually works that way.” The digients of his novella are infants raised up by the constant attention of caring adults. Intelligent life needs to be nurtured. It takes time. There are no shortcuts.

As adults we become increasingly skilled at pretending—to ourselves, and to everyone else—that we stand on certainties. Kids know better. They are much more accustomed to moving through worlds that they don’t understand, and don’t yet expect to. They find ways to navigate incomprehension.

Science fiction can help us remember how to do the same—not necessarily in its literal predictions of the future, or in its warnings and cautionary tales, but in the way SF fosters an intuitive sense that all of this… <flails at the world like an unhappy muppet> …could be wildly, gloriously, transformatively different.

Sunward: Amazon|Barnes & Noble|Books-A-Million|Bookshop

Author socials: Website|Bluesky

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carenejeans

Quote of the Day:

"One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones."

— Stephen King

Quoted in The Truth About Writing (2018)

Today's Writing:

About 370 words, mostly random free-writing.

Tally

( Days 1-17 )

Day 18:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

yasaman

Day 19:

china_shop,

yasaman

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wychwood

I was reading an article about, more or less, how to tackle the discrepancies between what you want (short-term) and what you want (long-term) when I stumbled across the line "Everyone has once-worn clothes strewn on the furniture.". I've seen people talk about it as a "problem" sometimes before, but - is that really a common thing that people do?? I am now madly curious.

Poll #33636 floordrobes and other clothing distribution methods

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 29

View Respondents

Do you routinely have part-worn clothes around?

View Answers

Never. Clothes are on my body or in the laundry.
1 (3.6%)

Maybe one or two items
14 (50.0%)

Half a dozen outfits in various stages of wear at any given time
11 (39.3%)

My entire clothing stock is spread around my living space in a quantum superposition of dry laundry not put away and various stages of wear
2 (7.1%)

Do you think it's totally normal to have multiple part-worn items lying around the bedroom etc?

View Answers

Absolutely
11 (37.9%)

It's not ideal but mostly, yes
11 (37.9%)

I wouldn't say normal, but people do it
4 (13.8%)

Why... why would you do that
3 (10.3%)

What's worst

View Answers

Washing clothes every wear
12 (42.9%)

Wearing clothes for multiple days
1 (3.6%)

Not tweaking your outfit every day for the exact circumstances
1 (3.6%)

Clothes
14 (50.0%)

(I wear most of my clothes once before washing them; jumpers and trousers mostly go for a week before washing; at any given time I have both home and outside trousers in use and I might have a jumper around that I'm wearing intermittently, but that's the maximum "part-worn clothes lying around" I get).

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Posted by John Scalzi

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/09/19/view-from-a-hotel-window-9-19-25-san-diego/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=57366

Today’s view not only has a parking lot, but also a freeway onramp! This makes it a high-quality view from a hotel window!

(The room and hotel are pretty nice, just to be clear. Tor does not put me up in murder hotels.)

Tonight: I’m at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego, 7pm! Be there or be somewhere else, I guess.

Tomorrow: I go all the way to Boise, Idaho, for an event at the Boise Public library (Hillcrest Branch), co-sponsored by Rediscovered Books. Also at 7pm! The event is free but please register at the link so they know you’re coming.

— JS

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We have a new look at the Absolute Joker courtesy of an upcoming cover and… uh… I don’t think anyone was expecting this.

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Writer: Tom DeFalco

Co-plotter and pencils: Paul Ryan

Inks: Danny Bulanadi

The Watcher pops in to say hello, but something isn’t quite right.

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conuly

White shirt, pink text "The Cake Boys". It just ended up in their laundry, so it's hers now.

She was worried about what the motto might mean - I mean, it's *probably* a bakery, but what if it's some neonazi slogan she's unaware of? - but a little googling reveals that "The Cake Boys are a NYC based network highlighting local drag kings, trans and non-binary performers, and queer artists through live and digital media." Well, alrighty then!

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Writer: Dan Vado

Pencils: Mozart Couto

Inks: Ken Branch

The Justice League must stop a rampaging Ronnie Raymond.

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yhlee

Ah, the art yarn of it all. :3

handspun yarn

2-ply from these singles:

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Writer: Paul Kupperberg

Pencils: Erik Larsen

Inks: Gary Martin

It is up to the adult members of the Doom Patrol to take on Shrapnel.

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spikedluv

This was a no-shopping day!! But I did get in a walk around the park while I was downtown. I also visited my aunt, hand-washed dishes, went for a walk with Pip and the dogs, put a chuck roast in the crock pot, and took mom to a dr. appt.

I finished the Duncan Kincaid book, read some fanfic, and watched some HGTV programs.

Temps started out at 45.1(F) and reached 78.4. I was not brave enough to wear shorts first thing in the morning, but I did change into them mid-morning! It was still only 64 degrees at that time, but much better than 45! I was glad later on that I had.

Mom Update:

Mom was doing pretty well in the morning, but she was exhausted by the time we got home from her doctor appointment. ( more back here )

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Writer: J.M. DeMatteis

Pencils: Keith Giffen

Inks: Dave Hunt

The Lords of Order have surrendered to the coming of the Lords of Chaos, but Nabu refuses to give up. He abducts a young boy named Eric Strauss and makes him the new Doctor Fate.

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So what's your pick for saddest Justice League story?

(Warning for sads, and for intense examples.)

( CRY FOR JUSTICE did indeed make me cry, but not the way the creators were hoping it would. )

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