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YEEP

Oct. 3rd, 2025 06:25 pm
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Well it's been a little while since I started making more long entries (and also since I made more mutuals yippee!). I'm still get used to writing those and also trying to stop any negative thoughts from getting into my head, but both those things should work out over time. In the meantime I want to start working on my reading list for the rest of this quarter year, so I guess I'll be doing that soon.

constellation

Oct. 3rd, 2025 08:47 am

Ownership of the Soul + Miami Vice

Oct. 3rd, 2025 01:52 am
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So, I've gone all-in with Miami Vice, and am about to start a re-watch of the episodes. It's been providing a much-needed distraction from the horrible things that are going on in this reality we're living in. It's something I'm enjoying and looking forward to when I get home from work. I really need that to counteract the anxiety and depression I've been dealing with. I think the fact that it's an old show from a better time helps too, because I do have a current fandom that I've been much more involved with, but it hasn't provided me with this kind of diversion. I'm vibing on the nostalgia. The 1980s was a good time for me.

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It’s time!

Oct. 2nd, 2025 09:28 pm
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It’s time!

Spooky month is here! Rejoice! (Along with dozens of -tober month things, why is October the month for those?)

This spooky season I’ll be posting what I do spooky season.

Day 1: Welcome To Night Vale - Date Night, Fall Guys done Fall-o-ween Frights, ESO

First there was the new Welcome To Night Vale which, despite the name was spooky via the presence of the citizen eating town founder crashing the date night. As usually it was a fun ep (I giggled at the ai comments) and it was funny that though they did puzzle the founder so much was happening they didn’t know what it was. Also the restaurant was a mix of cute (awww bee petting!) and horrific.

Fall Guys had two Halloween events start and I completely the first one, which had rewards including a costume that looked like a robot jack o lantern. Elder Scrolls Online was more obviously spooky, with a quest to pet daedric princes causing trouble. (I’m also way behind on ESO cause this was an Apocrypha quest and there’s since been two story areas since then).

I did consider watching a treehouse of horror ep, but Disney+ didn’t have the Halloween section up and I didn’t have focus.

At the end of the last post I mentioned there not being Frankenstein dates, well today I checked the cinema site and there is some! Strangely Netflix said it would be one day only, on the 17th. However my cinema has at least a week of showings! So from the 24th-30th(at least!) and what’s more there’s not one but three showings per day! I was so worried I’d miss it on the 17th so that’s much better. My thought is to see it on the Wednesday, cause that’s when the Halloween art event at the art gallery is.

Speaking of cinema today was a cinema day. I had hoped to go see two things (my plan was to see The Roses) but my stomach had felt funny last night and so I didn’t feel like seeing it. Thankfully my stomach was ok today so I did go.

Before I did I had a delivery of t-shirts from qwertee, a silksong and an alien earth one. (And yesterday my tubbo cargo pants came!) And mum did some messing today in her room and found loads of things I’d been missing, including the Ranboo tee I won, the Hellfire Club tee I got and the Sorry Boys Book Club tee which I never wore before it was squirrelled away.

In town I picked up the new fantastic 4 comic, then some Halloween bunting and hello kitty Halloween tattoo things then went to the cinema. The Black Phone 2 display was set up and looked cool, plus I had a compliment from the guy that scanned my ticket for my Silksong tee which was nice.

The trailers were a strange mix. There was Corpse Bride and Paranorman, which are both getting seasonal re-releases. Then there was one for Battleship Potemkin (cause they’re getting silent film re-releases, this one with a musical score) and lastly was I Swear. This was the strangest choice to me. Cause the film was rated 12A the trailer was cut to hell to remove the swearing which just made it play out so oddly.

Curse Of Frankenstein was in one of the back screens, it might even have been the same one as Jaws, so it was one of the smaller screening rooms. There was a quite a few people there though which was nice.

I had been wanting to watch more Hammer Horror films since seeing a documentary on sky arts about it awhile back so I’m glad that the cinema had this one since it was so well done. It did surprise me a bit that most of it was focussed on Victor’s experiments, including reviving a dog (where did it go?) and then getting body parts. (Which, again, surprised me that it was 12A) And the creature only appearing in the last third (ish) of the film.

(It also makes me wonder if this is the film that put in the public imagination that the creature is a mindless lumbering monster. Hopefully the new film dispels that a bit)

I was surprised that Frankenstein’s mentor survived honestly. A few times it felt like Frankenstein would kill him but he didn’t. It did feel a little strange that Frankenstein went from reviving the dog to… make a man, like it felt he was making a leap there between the two instead of just taking the win. But like I said it was all well done and the vibes were pretty great. It probably wasn’t a faithful adaption but what it was still done well. (Apparently it had a limited budget which meant it was filmed largely in one location and they did use it so well despite that)

(It does feel a bit that words have failed me alas)

Next cinema trip is Monday which is gonna be Him and the mystery film. I’m 70% sure it’s Black Phone 2, 30% sure it’s Good Boy. Either is a good option, as it would be an earlier showing than the other Good Boy ones and I am wanting to see Black Phone 2.

Now though I’m gonna snuggle with Midna and watch the Pokémon stream jn a bit.
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Title: From All The Spaces Between Times
Chapter: Chapter 57 — The Angel Who Delivers Me From All Danger
Author: [personal profile] elrhiarhodan / [tumblr.com profile] elrhiarhodan / [archiveofourown.org profile] elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars — Obi Wan Kenobi (TV), Star Wars — Jedi Apprentice Books
Characters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, The Force as a Sentient Character, Watto, Quinlan Vos, Padmé Amidala, Sabé, Darth Maul, Yoda, Mace Windu, Adi Gallia, Quinlan Vos, Professor Huyang, The Force, Plo Koon, Vokara Che, Siri Tachi, Aayla Secura, Bant Eerin, Bruck Chun, Xanatos du Crion, Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Hego Damask II | Darth Plagueis, Komari Vosa, Bail Prestor Organa, Bail Antilles Prestor, Rael Averross, Nim Piana, Ahsoka Tano, Sifo-Dyas, Reva Sevander, Lene Kostana (mentioned), Savage Opress, Original Characters, Other Characters To Be Added
Pairings: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Shmi Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Qui-Gon Jinn, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon Jinn (yes, we’re arrived)
Word Count: ~ 5300 this chapter
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Canon typical violence, non-canon death of a minor canon (TCW) character.

Summary: Obi-Wan Kenobi has never known it, but he has always been the Force’s Champion, destined to suffer infinite sadness in defense of the Light. On his last turn on the wheel, responsibility for The Chosen One, the false child of prophecy, had been thrust upon him with no warning, and Darkness held the upper hand.

But this time, the Force has marshaled its power and will protect its Champion until the time is right, no matter how long Obi-Wan has to wait and how much he has to suffer.

Or,

Obi-Wan is reborn as a twelve-year old.

He wakes up on a slavers’ ship, with all of his prior life’s memories intact, and he’s bound for Tatooine with a Force-inhibitor collar around his neck, a bomb implanted in his spine, and no way of knowing what state of the Galaxy is in.

Just another day in the life of the Force’s Champion.

Chapter Summary: PIRATES!



From All The Spaces Between Times — The Angel Who Delivers Me From All Danger (On AO3)


Meta — The Angel Who Delivers Me From All Danger )

Spaceposting 2.10.

Oct. 2nd, 2025 10:58 pm
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I am back from my general holiday revelry and one of the last things I did with Saikku was watch Monkey Wrench. It has now joined the list of "indie animation I watch on Youtube where I genuinely cannot wait for the next episode", and furthermore I feel extremely called out by the fact that not a week later, after my first rewatch, I made a joke on Discord about how Shrike and Beebs are like if "fandom Bulkjack was interesting"

God. I do not know when to shut my fucking mouth do I.

the Pride and Prejudice pilgrimage

Oct. 2nd, 2025 07:37 pm
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So, the tour I went on in the UK was a Pride-and-Prejudice pilgrimage, where we were going to study the text, in-depth. It was operated by the people who do the podcast 'Harry Potter and the Sacred Text', a company called 'Common Ground' which does pilgrimages based around literary texts (and may have been influenced or created by the podcast creators), and was hosted by Sarah Stewart-Holland of the Pantsuit Politics podcast, who was my initial point of interest in the pilgrimage.

In the course of the pilgrimage, we would wander the fields of Derbyshire, visit Chatsworth House (which substituted as Pemberley in the 2005 Pride And Prejudice movie), walk past a number of influences in the English literature of the era, and explore the characters while ruminating on the text.

Over the week, we climbed hills and hiked fields, climbed over stiles, and skirted rivers.

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It was...pretty good.

In essence, it's doing what fandom often does - picking apart the characters and their motivations, their thoughts, and internalities, and reading into the canon. Sometimes more than the canon allows for.

We were headquartered at the Rutland Arms in Bakewell, a small town in Derbyshire, about 50 minutes from the town of Chesterfield. Ever heard of 'Bakewell tarts'? Welp, this is apparently the town.

The Rutland Arms is an old hotel, which is divided into two parts with a road running between. I suspect one was the stables and the other was the main house/hostel - and they've done both up with rooms in which to stay. I was in the 'old stables' part, sharing a room with another woman, and we got along pretty well.

They've done a great job of keeping it in a certain style, and it's warm. So warm. I can sit around in my sleeping stuff in the evening, instead of having to rug up. That's something I'm going to sincerely resent next winter.

--

Day 1 was meeting and greeting, a brief explanation of how the next few days was going to work, and then a brief class before we had a little free time and dinner.

Day 2: Chatsworth House & Darcy

Day 2 was a 4 mile walk up hill and over dale to Chatsworth House (the externals were used for Pemberley in the 2005 movie version of P&P). The participants were warned about fitness and about walking capability, and given advice on what to pack, and pretty much everyone was ready and able for it. One person struggled a little bit - she was older, and I don't think she'd really considered how much strain the walks would put on her body, but she got through the entire week.

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Chatsworth House is pretty impressive, no matter what you think of the 2005 P&P movie. That said, thinking about the degree of wealth that allowed people to build (rebuild, renovate, decorate, develop) places like this boggles the brain.

Everything gleams with artistry and skill, whether the portraits, art, or sculpture through the house, or the design of the rooms or gardens.

Notable things: a portrait of Elizabeth Spencer, portrayed as Diana emerging from the clouds. Leaves from an Australian tree to furnish an artwork by a Sydney artist. The Cascade and Fountain, both of which are gravity fed from a natural reservoir in the hills above the estate.

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And then there was THE ROCKERY. I don't have words for how amazing this was, so have a couple of pictures:

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Our study topic the first day was Darcy. Who he was and who he became. The weight of what had happened the summer previous to the story, and the underlying reasons (but not excuses) for his behaviour and sense of pride. Going to the location used as Pemberley for the 2005 movie gave us insight into the kind of family the Darcys might have been, and into how Elizabeth might have felt marrying into such a family.


Day 3: the Long Walk

I started the day with a full breakfast. The hotel offered a hot breakfast as part of our package and rather to my susrprise, given how much I'd eaten the previous day, I was hungry enough to eat it all.

Since it was still before we were due to leave for the day's walk, I headed up to see the church on the hill: All Saints Bakewell. The next day, I discovered there were old Celtic cross stones discovered in the foundations, suggesting its been a place of worship since before the middle ages.

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Some of the headstones, though... Multiple children dying before they reached 5, and even those that did teach adolescence of adulthood could be cut off in the prime of life so easily. There was also a set of what looked like coffins, with Human-shaped carvings out of them and a hole in the bottom. Somewhat macabrely, I realised they were probably morgue boxes, made to keep corpses cold, with the hole in the bottom to drain the fluids...

--

Our class contemplation today was on Lizzie Bennett, on the kind of heroine she was, on the choice she made to refuse Mr Collins, and how it came before they learned that Bingley had quit Netherfield (for until that point, it was half-expected that Jane would have married him). With a pilgrimage theme of "status" and a consideration of the precarity of a woman's situation in past eras, there were a lot of thoughts being aired, and we continued to discuss them as we hiked across the countryside with a fantastic local guide, Chris.

There were some lovely oddities along the way: a rubber chicken and a toy t-rex eyeballing us along a laneway, a call to deliver a household of excess appleage, and pears growing over a garden wall. A heifer cow grazed on a hill rather as a goat does, before we walked in silent contemplation by the river swelling past us, while the ducks use it like a roller coaster!

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The hike was long and they warned up - 5-6 miles over the course of the day - and up hill and down dale! But also in the realm of so much beauty and wilderness (and also sheep shit and cow shit), an ancient Roman settlement, and several weirs and cascades.

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It ended up being closer to 8 miles! WHEW.


And after dinner, there was the P&P 2005 rewatch, which I skipped and regretted skipping as per an earlier post.

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Day 4 and 5 of Derbyshire

Our character studies were Mrs Bennett, and Charlotte Lucas, with a little bit of time spent on the sisters. It was an interesting conversation, not least for the variety of opinions given about their motives, their extrapolated history, and the choices they had vs the choices they made.

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Stannage Edge is a ridge of rock in the Peak District, and is best visually known from the 2005 P&P movie with Keira Knightly standing atop it while the wind swirls her dress around her. I'm sure people have dome the hike in delicate regency-style dresses, but all I had was my emerald green raincoat and Daniel.

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Oh, and clinging to the rock at the top of a hike is a small family joke, c/o B1 who did something like this when she ascended a massive hill in Wales.

There was an old church where Little John was claimed to be buried, which was still locally used. It had a full setup for kids down one side of the church, including toys and books to keep them entertained during the service. So I went to look at the music on the organ to work out what kind of stuff they sang. It was a hymn that I knew, and I checked the tune by humming it.

Several people (mostly from my tour group) gave me slightly shocked looks. And I pointed out (in a normal volume voice) that this is an actively used church because of the 'nursery' space which would be very noisy during the course of a standard church service in which there were families.

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It was kind of funny, but also a bit sad. They might have just dismissed it as 'that irreverent Aussie', which is also fair. But my faith isn't in a distant, serious God, but a God who made cats and octopus to slide through ridiculously small spaces, stuck gold and steel and carborundum in rocks, and electricity in frogs' legs (okay, that's where they started to realise it could be harnessed), and created the wide and starry universe, but incarnated to the limitations of a human being.

That's not the norm of religious upbringing, I know. But damn, it's a fun one.

Finally, as we left the church area, I noticed some gentlemen maintaining a local cricket pitch... I suspect this passed the Americans by entirely.

The final dinner was quite good. For once, they set the tables up with nametags, picking people to go into groups rather than letting everyone choose for themselves. There were topical questions, and I think they'd done a careful job of making sure there were introverts and extroverts mixed together so there was no one person stuck trying to manage all the conversation at a table.


Overall, the pilgrimage was enjoyable.

And there's another one organised by the same group (and featuring Sarah Stewart Holland) happening on Emma next year. Which I can't afford, because it's in May which is only 9 months away, and I don't even know if I'll be working then. I surely can't afford as long a holiday as I did this time either. Which is a bummer, because I like Emma rather more than I do Pride and Prejudice and I suspect the profile of the people who go is going to be distinctly different from the P&P group...

But the UK! In May! Again! GRARGH.
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Doctor Who Ficlet: Buying Time

Oct. 2nd, 2025 06:55 pm
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[personal profile] badly_knitted
 


Title: Buying Time
Fandom: Doctor Who
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 518
Spoilers: Parting of the Ways.
Summary: Jack is determined to buy the Doctor enough time to defeat the Daleks.
Written For: 
[personal profile] hipsquare’s prompt ‘any, any, buying you time,’ at [community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 



Ficlet: The Winner

Oct. 2nd, 2025 06:39 pm
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[personal profile] badly_knitted
 


Title: The Winner
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, OCs.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 641
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Thanks to Jack, the aliens are not having much success in the invasion business.
Written For: 
[personal profile] raisedbymoogles’ prompt ‘any, any, I get knocked down! But I get up again! You're not ever gonna keep me down!’, at [community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
 


 

Zee Empire Bingo 2025 Fill 4

Oct. 2nd, 2025 01:36 pm
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Creator: innitmarvelous_og
Title:
If he be worthy
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Characters/Pairings: Thor, Vision
Prompt: Thor's Hammer
Card #: 4
Word Count/Medium: 2 icons
Summary: Two icons of Thor's Hammer fron the MCU
Rating: None
Warning: None
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