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The month flew by, so here's something cute to round it out~


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TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME shall devour all, except...

these icons hosted by Photobucket under the username danverseleventy

Not entirely sure why, but this made me laugh. That things move on and change, but fucking Photobucket still has these icons under ruddy danverseleventy XD

I have a day off tomorrow so I should do some writing and finishing of things, but I also want to get back to watching the sixty delicious episodes of Immortal Samsara.

Chinese fantasy TV really is the shiznit. Recently watched Mysterious Lotus Casebook, with much fannish support from nel_ani and suzvoy, and it was the best thing I've seen in a very very long time. And it's been nice watching something, because I generally don't feel like putting my eyeballs on anything. Some sort of screen fatigue.

For anyone looking for uplifting material to put into their earballs, I recommend Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. He's as funny as he is tol. Very.

Look at that, that's another post. You're welcome, aliens in the future who will seek to make sense of this binfire of a world, yuuuur welcome.

Y'all, things are shitty and going to get worse. I'm so sorry for, well, everyone.

But I heard a story today that was just fucking amazing, and I cannot repeat it, but! ( Read more... )

And that's all I can say about that.

Anyway I watched the finale of Andor and the first two eps of Murderbot, and lo! they are enjoyable. I have my issues with how Gilroy handled one specific character, but in general, he landed the show really well.

Murderbot is fun and it's nice to see they are hinting at the backstory already. And the casting is excellent.

people who call any black & white cat a "tuxedo" cat.

according to wikipedia;

To be considered a true tuxedo cat, the feline's coloring should consist of a colored coat, with white fur limited to the paws, belly, chest, throat, and often the chin - sometimes the tail. Tuxedo cats can appear to have goatees due to the black coloration of their mandible, lower jaw, and chin. White muzzles or a white coloring on their faces are a common attribute of tuxedo cats.[6] Most tuxedo cats are also "black-mask cats" with a complete white blaze, a common name for felines who, due to their facial coloration, look as if they are wearing a black mask over their eyes, and often over their entire head. The ideal color distribution is symmetric, and the white areas are of modest size and limited to the desirable areas.

there are other bicolor patterns & the article has a couple of charts to understand the difference between them.

like most pet peeves it is a bit nitpick-y, but that's just the way some are.

Billy Idol with Joan Jett opening. Dickies Arena, May 7, 2025.

If you have to go to a big arena to see a show, Dickies isn't a bad one. It's fairly new and the seats are big and comfortable. Plus even at the back end of the house, where we usually sit, the view of both the stage and the screens is good.

Joan Jett opened, doing a good job, though the covers and hits were clearly what the early-arriving fans wanted. She's still engaged with the music, but the Blackhearts are a bar band, which limits what they can do for an arena show. The Dallas Observer review of her part of the show was a little unkind, but for all that she got the crowd warmed up and told some great stories, she was clearly the lesser of the two, which pains my feminist heart. I loved her songs back in the day, and she's still putting out good music, but it's very similar to the old stuff.

Billy is pushing 70, but he's still stomping and snarling and waving his chains and tearing off his shirt just like he did when he was in his 20s. His voice was a little rough in places but he really held the audience with both his stories and his songs. Steve Stevens, his guitarist, did a fantastic job with the guitar on Flesh for Fantasy, which happens to be my favorite Billy Idol song. I was delighted to hear some brand new music; I haven't followed him closely but I knew he was still releasing EPs and collaborating with other artists. His set was broad, with all the hits, and deep, with some new, some old, and some covers: he did a great Gimme Shelter with one of his singers, which is almost tailor-made for his snarl. By the end he had us really riled up for Rebel Yell, and then went into a four-song encore that included Hot in the City, Dancing With Myself, a new song, and White Wedding.

We danced out of the arena and went back to our hotel, still singing.

Books
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends, by Mary McAuliffe. If you know who most of these people are, which is to say if you went to a good (US) school and got through the history of the 20s and covered the highlights of the writers in your high school English class, this will be a great book for you; it shows you the ins and outs of the relationships between the figures of the period and puts them together in ways you may not have understood or known about. If not, be ready to look up a lot of people on the internet. Fun, quick, and not very deep.

Short Stories
Tell Me I’m Wonderful, by Kelly Robson. Paywalled. What happens when a medically undead hippie takes over LA?
Waiting to Happen, by Leah Cypess. Paywalled. About what happens to the person who can see the multiverse.
Wasn’t It the Truth I Told You?, by F. Brett Cox. Paywalled. A modern leprechaun story.
Liberation, by Tade Thompson. "A young woman is recruited to be part of Nigeria's first ever space mission, but things go awry when the mission is thrown into chaos." This went places I hadn't considered. It was really well-written.
Adventures on the Omega Train at Night, by A. T. Greenblatt. Paywalled. The train is magic, or transdimensional, or something, but not in a bad way.
There Be Monsters, by Suzan Palumbo. Intergenerational mermaid feels.

Movies & TV
Murderbot episodes 1 & 2. I haven't read the books (surprisingly; I'm a Martha Wells fan) so I'm going in cold. I enjoyed the two episodes I've watched so far and I'm going to be interested in seeing how Murderbot deals with whatever the company is covering up.

This month's Tasting Collective dinner was at Heritage Table in Frisco. It might have gone a little better if a storm front hadn't been coming the whole time (there had been bands all weekend). They're not exactly nose-to-tail, I don't think, but they are Blackland Prairie oriented, aka, their foods are almost all local biome.

The first course was a bisque with redfin that would have been great except they had some pickled vegetable in it that was too sharp for the mellowness of the bisque. The next course was the salad, which was billed as having duck prosciutto, but Michael's salad didn't have any. (He got some extra and I got one bite as a treat. It was very good.) Third course was pork with Texas Caviar and bacon jam. The jam was lumps and should have been a sauce, but the pork was really nice and moist, which was an unexpected pleasure. I always expect unsauced meat to be a little dry, unless it's steak. Fourth course was wagyu steak with creamed spinach and mashed potatoes with parmesan. The steak was medium rare and delicious; the spinach was fine (not a big creamed spinach fan here); and the mashed potatoes reminded me of the texture of elementary school glue. The desert was a pecan baklava with some kind of citrus sauce; the non-pecan layer and the sauce were yum but I left the pecan to Michael.

The only course that was in the regular menu as far as I could tell was the salad, but they are seasonal and have tasting menus that change regularly. The biggest downside was that most of us were seated on an enclosed porch in the 1917 house and the racket of all the yakking made it impossible to have a good conversation.

I'd go back but only if I had a reason to be in Frisco or someone else really wanted it; I might be more likely to if it weren't such a long drive. I'm still glad we did it though!

 
You could have your choice of men
But I could never love again
After you took me out at the knee.

I can easily understand
How you need a rope to scale my man
Ain't you tired of cock-climbing, Jolene? 🎶

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