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apod_feed) wrote2025-08-01 05:31 am
apod_feed) wrote2025-08-01 05:31 am
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A long time ago in a galaxy 50 million light-years away,
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andrewducker) wrote2025-07-31 10:31 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-31 10:31 pmEntry tags:
Birthday giving
It's Rowling's birthday so I've just donated £25 to Mermaids to support trans kids.
yhlee (yhlee) wrote2025-07-31 10:48 am
yhlee) wrote2025-07-31 10:48 amLouisiana Zine Fest tomorrow!
I realize most people reading this are not in the Baton Rouge area, but:
Louisiana Zine Fest tomorrow!
Date:
Friday, August 1, 2025
Time:
12pm – 8pm
Place:
Main Library at Goodwood
7711 Goodwood Blvd
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
map
Some prototypes as teasers :)
I'll be there with a sketchbook. We'll see if I can avoid having to carry too many zines back home! :)
Louisiana Zine Fest tomorrow!
Date:
Friday, August 1, 2025
Time:
12pm – 8pm
Place:
Main Library at Goodwood
7711 Goodwood Blvd
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
map
Some prototypes as teasers :)
I'll be there with a sketchbook. We'll see if I can avoid having to carry too many zines back home! :)
james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-31 10:17 am
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-31 10:17 amEntry tags:
james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-31 09:04 am
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-31 09:04 amHeavy Gear, 2nd edition by Dream Pod 9
Four thousand years in the future, nations contend for dominance of a desolate world.
Heavy Gear, 2nd edition by Philippe R. Boulle, Jean Carrières, Élie Charest, Jean Marcil, Guy-Francis Vella & Marc A. Vézina et al
james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-31 08:57 am
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-31 08:57 amEntry tags:
July 2025 in Review
23 works reviewed. 12 by women (52%), 10 by men (43%),1 by non-binary authors (4%), 0 by authors whose gender is unknown (0%), and 11 by POC (48%).
July 2025 in Review
purplecat (purplecat) wrote2025-07-31 01:52 pm
purplecat) wrote2025-07-31 01:52 pmEntry tags:
Lego Flowers
B. bought me a Lego flower set - out of which three different models could be made.
( Pictures below the cut )
( Pictures below the cut )
rolanni (rolanni) wrote2025-07-30 05:07 pm
rolanni) wrote2025-07-30 05:07 pmEntry tags:
Office Closed July 31
Proofed 80 pages. Fed Trooper. Fed myself. Did one's duty to the cats. Refilled my red pen.
Otherwise, it has been a . . . slightly fraught day, and I will be closed for business tomorrow.
Everybody stay safe.
james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-30 04:00 pm
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-30 04:00 pmHypothetically speaking
If someone asked for a list of issues with the Reactor site, what would be your top five? Not counting search. Assume search will be mentioned.
james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-30 03:16 pm
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-30 03:16 pmEntry tags:
Bundle of Holding: BattleTech Shrapnel 2
11 digital issues of The Official BattleTech Magazine from Catalyst Game Labs, Shrapnel.
Bundle of Holding: BattleTech Shrapnel 2
ffutures (ffutures) wrote2025-07-30 08:01 pm
ffutures) wrote2025-07-30 08:01 pmEntry tags:
Another SF RPG bundle - BattleTech Shrapnel 2
This is an offer of issues 11-20 of Shrapnel, the official BattleTech magazine from Catalyst Game Labs, plus an anthology of issues 1-4.
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Shrapnel2
This isn't something I particularly want since I don't actually play the game, but it's cheap compared to individual issues and contains a lot of material you won't find elsewhere, including fiction. If you play BattleTech it's definitely worth taking a look.
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Shrapnel2
This isn't something I particularly want since I don't actually play the game, but it's cheap compared to individual issues and contains a lot of material you won't find elsewhere, including fiction. If you play BattleTech it's definitely worth taking a look.
purplecat (purplecat) wrote2025-07-30 05:22 pm
purplecat) wrote2025-07-30 05:22 pmThe Story and the Engine
The Story and the Engine exploits the introduction of the Pantheon to tell us a magic realist story. It is more restrained than the likes of The Giggle, The Devil's Chord and Lux and, I would say, the better for it. It exploits the magic to focus in on the people, their interactions and their history. It's an oddball episode that plays it straight.
I did have to watch it twice to figure out what was going on, and I'm not sure even now I quite understand why the Doctor was so angry with Omo, but it then it repays rewatching. It is also, of course, something contextually very different from anything Doctor Who has done before.
I'm very pleased that the casting of Ncuti Gatwa gave Doctor Who the push?/impetus?/excuse? to do a story like this, something that takes us to an Earth-based time and place beyond the somewhat UK/European focus of most of the series history. I'm also very pleased that so much effort went into treating the material respectfully - not least getting a well-respected Nigerian-born playwright to produce the script - though I somewhat suspect that getting a well-known playwright on board (at, I believe, Ncuti's suggestion) came first and the rest followed from that.
I think I need to watch it again at least once to decide what I really think about it, but I think that in a good way and I am looking forward to my next rewatch.
I did have to watch it twice to figure out what was going on, and I'm not sure even now I quite understand why the Doctor was so angry with Omo, but it then it repays rewatching. It is also, of course, something contextually very different from anything Doctor Who has done before.
I'm very pleased that the casting of Ncuti Gatwa gave Doctor Who the push?/impetus?/excuse? to do a story like this, something that takes us to an Earth-based time and place beyond the somewhat UK/European focus of most of the series history. I'm also very pleased that so much effort went into treating the material respectfully - not least getting a well-respected Nigerian-born playwright to produce the script - though I somewhat suspect that getting a well-known playwright on board (at, I believe, Ncuti's suggestion) came first and the rest followed from that.
I think I need to watch it again at least once to decide what I really think about it, but I think that in a good way and I am looking forward to my next rewatch.
james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-30 08:59 am
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-30 08:59 amEntry tags:
Mr. Villain’s Day Off, volume 1 by Yuu Morikawa
One day the General will be victorious. Earth will be his! Humanity will be exterminated!
However, today is the General’s day off.
Mr. Villain’s Day Off, volume 1 by Yuu Morikawa
rolanni (rolanni) wrote2025-07-30 08:47 am
rolanni) wrote2025-07-30 08:47 amOne of these mornings, you're gonna rise up singing...
What went before ONE: Aaaand home.
Spent hours in Michael's. Which counts as a treat. Did not need to go to Target, because I found it in Staples. Toured Best Buy briefly to research tablets, because I think I'm going to buy a new tablet, though God She knows I have enough technology in this house to choke a camel.
First though! Now that Trooper, who met me at the door demanding to know WHERE HIS FOOD WAS, has been satisfied and is cleaning up, I've gotta find something to eat.
It is hot, and the air is thick, so I am glad to be back on Station Air.
What went before TWO: I am suddenly and for no reason bitterly tired.
So! Needlework was fun; we had a full house tonight, several new people, and some folks we hadn't seen for a while. I had been going to take my shirt to embroider, but, with one thing and page proofs, I didn't have time to make the transfer, so I grabbed my fox sampler and my traveling kit (the fox sampler may be five years old. I would bring it with me to cons, and work it on when we were on the train. At this remove, I'm not sure what I had in mind for the fox himself, who is maybe half-finished, so I just worked on some leaves this evening.
The cats have had Happy Hour, and I have poured myself a glass of wine. Tomorrow, there will be reading of page proofs.
Everybody stay safe; I'll see you tomorrow.
Wednesday. Sunny and? Going to be warm. What a surprise. We are on Station Air.
Breakfast was a bialy and cream cheese, with a side a grapes. Lunch will be a veggie burger with cheese.
I slept a whopping 7 hours and 55 minutes, and I actually do not feel like something the cat drug in (as we said in the Land of My Birth, where "drug" was the past participle of "drag". "Flang," however was not the past participle of "flung." You had to go further south for that.).
The rosebush not only continues to survive, but there it's blooming its silly head off.
Today, there will be Reading, of (1) a contract and (2) page proofs. If anyone wants me, I'll be back in Steve's office.
What's on your schedule today?
Today's blog post title from "Summertime," from Porgy and Bess. The original from the opera is, IMHO, insupportable, but then I don't tend to much like opera. Here we have Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, which is Much More The Thing.
Rosebush, doing its thing:
Dork Tower (dorktower_feed) wrote2025-07-28 05:00 am
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andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-30 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-30 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 30-07-2025
- 1. Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
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- 2. The case for memes as a new form of comics
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- 3. 29 years ago today, 4 Liverpool women were acquitted after damaging fighter jet to stop genocide
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andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-30 11:51 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-30 11:51 amLife with two kids: death
Two days ago Sophia told us her thoughts about death. She had clearly thought about it a lot, worked through various things, and come to some interesting conclusions.
Unfortunately she told us all of this in front of Gideon, who has now spent two days bursting into tears intermittently and telling us he doesn't want to die.
I'm sure he'll also work through it, but in the meantime it's hard not to feel sorry for him. I suspect that starting school in two weeks and being away from home for a week aren't helping, as he's also intermittently telling us he wants to be back home.
Unfortunately she told us all of this in front of Gideon, who has now spent two days bursting into tears intermittently and telling us he doesn't want to die.
I'm sure he'll also work through it, but in the meantime it's hard not to feel sorry for him. I suspect that starting school in two weeks and being away from home for a week aren't helping, as he's also intermittently telling us he wants to be back home.
