October 6th, 2025
October 5th, 2025
posted by [syndicated profile] ao3_vids_feed at 12:00am on 05/10/2025

Posted by berlynn_wohl

Fandoms: Blues Brothers (Movies)  

Jake and Elwood can dance if they want to. They can go where they want to. And everything’s out of control!



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the_siobhan: (shock and awe)
Weekend was less productive than hoped, or at least less productive at the specific things I wanted to finish. Daughter ended up only being able to come on Thursday and I got stuck in a meeting until late. There's always stuff for her to pick away at, but the This-Needs-More-Than-Two-Hands jobs only got a couple of hours of dedicated time.

That was enough time to take off the old light fixtures and find out that the new ones I bought fit perfectly into the short narrow spaces available. Unfortunately the base of the new lights is a couple of centimetres smaller than that of the old ones - and the original installation was done by cutting holes in the walls that were of a size just barely able to be covered by the old fixtures. So once again I am fixing holes in plaster because apparently this is my life now.

This is mostly annoying because I have to turn the power off to the room because I'm working around dangling wires. So I'm plastering & painting with one hand and holding my phone up for light with the other. Somewhere around here I know I have some flashlights that are small enough I can hold it in my mouth so I can use both hands - but you think I can find them?

Then I looked at the bathroom and decided it looked really patchy so I slapped another layer of paint on it. Looks much better. The only thing left to paint is the doors.

To Do List: Tomorrow I will follow up with the engineer (AGAIN), and hit the hardware store. (Maybe I'll see if they have one of those headlamp deals.)

I should also call an electrician to install the two exterior lights, one was missed completely and the second was set up with an interior box instead of an outdoor one. I might also call the guy who installed the storm door for the kitchen and see if he can get one on the basement door because I am tired of flies and mosquitos coming in every time I open the door. It's a weird size, but he might be able to special order something.

And then I have a cancer screen that's way overdue, and my doctor sent me the name of a therapist she recommends that I should follow up on, and I started cleaning out my closet this weekend so I can start going through the stacks of boxes out of the top floor and finding homes for things. (So far I found two big bags of Darrell's old clothing and a whole-ass guitar I didn't know about.)

Mood:: sisyphus
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posted by [personal profile] thistleingrey at 08:29pm on 05/10/2025 under
The Luminos and Architexture projects are still in the freezer, and Luminos will remain on hold until I figure out how to edit for shoulder bones. Working on the Cedarvale wrap hurts my hands a bit, so I haven't been. Lille Kolding, brought out only when I'd like to knit something requiring no attention, is in its final segment.

I've reached the last increase on the current cardigan WIP's first cuff-up sleeve, about my handwidth below where I'd want the lower edge of an armhole to be. That's a good place to pause it and knit something else for a few weeks. When the second sleeve catches up to it, they'll wait, capless, while I start the body section. If I end up going up a pattern size near the shoulder, best to edit the relevant pieces in parallel, not months apart.

(New: sometimes my hands report tendon pain directly! Great signal to take breaks! I've missed it! In other words, 3.5 distinct sources of hand pain began invisibly during 2020! I had tendon-overuse issues before then, but much less often, and flares were accompanied by the pain-reporting that one would expect.)

In effect, everything is on hold while I start Sundial with better icord edges and different scrappy colors from what the pattern photos show. small nattering )

(Some stashbust-compatible patterns that my 2019 hands could've made:
Persian Dreams,
Pixie Square,
Color Waves,
Persian Tiles,
Murano,
Ipsa,
Geo Groove,
Lizard Ridge)
thanekos: Seiga Kaku from Touhou 13, shadowed. (Default)
It's four teens, the already unsettling game they're playing, and further unsettling.

One of them opens issue #1 describing herself already shook: " Nothing scares me anymore.

" My worst nightmare has already happened. "

She's talking real-world. )
Music:: top of the stack - Oblique Occasions
superfangirl1: made by bluefall  (Made by bluefall)
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posted by [personal profile] torachan at 04:25pm on 05/10/2025 under
Currently Reading
The Manor of Dreams
9%. A former actress dies, unexpectedly leaving her mansion to the family of her old housekeeper, much to her daughters' shock. Suspicious their mother might have been murdered, the daughters stay in the house under the pretense of sorting out her things, determined to get to the bottom of it and keep the house for themselves. But maybe the house is also haunted?

The Caretakers
17%. The MC is a true crime filmmaker who helped get a man out of prison, only for him to kill someone after his release. Meanwhile, her mother dies suddenly and she and her sister are left a derelict old mansion, where she takes refuge to get away from the press. The true crime aspect reminds me a lot of Benjamin Stevenson's Trust Me When I Lie. The old mansion part hasn't really gotten started yet at the point where I am but the cover copy promises mysterious happenings.

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentelwoman
78%.

The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America
No progress.

The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
34%.

Recently Finished
Death at the Fireside Inn
This was fine, but I won't be continuing the series. There just wasn't really anything that hooked me about it.

The Summer I Wasn't Me
YA novel about a girl who gets sent to a de-gayifying camp and falls for a fellow camper. I really liked this a lot.

Exquisite Corpses vol. 1
Another new Tynion series. This one's about thirteen wealthy families who secretly control the US, and in order to determine which family is in charge, every five years they select champions and have them battle to the death in a random small town. This year, the small town chosen is, of course, the one our MCs live in. It's okay so far, but I'm not as into it as many of his other series. We'll see how it goes.

Escape From St. Hell: My Trans Teen Life Levels Up
Sequel to the autobiographic graphic novel Welcome to St. Hell. I enjoyed this just as much as the first.

Navigating with You
Cute f/f YA graphic novel about two teens, both new girls at school, who bond over a manga series they read years ago but never finished. I really liked this.

Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri vol. 19
The final volume! I felt like this series went downhill with the whole Alice plotline, so I've not been that invested. The ending was fine, though.
tozka: the Fourth Doctor pointing accusingly at someone off-screen (doctor who fourth hey)

Life Updates

Another week gone by, and now it’s a new month! The end of the year is racing towards me and it’s very annoying(/stressful) to think about, so I’m trying not to.

Another overall mellow week where I mostly stayed home and read/wrote, but I did go to a clothing sale this weekend and got two pairs of shoes for $8: one pair suede booties, one pair corduroy sneakers.

I’m not entirely sure they actually go with my current wardrobe, which is very summer-focused. These shoes are definitely more fall/winter.

I think I can make it work if I get one new pair of dark-colored medium-weight pants (or skirt), so I’m going to keep my eyes open at the thrift stores. On the plus side, if they don’t work out, I spent so little on them I won’t feel bad for donating them if I have to.

🐈‍⬛ I still haven’t done the cat info post for this sit (apologies) BUT rest assured these cats are adorable and friendly and want to me near me without being annoying about it. Their food must have some kind of anti-hairball thing in it because I haven’t found one yet, despite one cat being long-haired.

Media Consumption

📺 Got a Peacock promo subscription for a month (for free) and while I haven’t started watching these YET, I do have them on my watchlist and am looking forward to watching them at some point:

  • Poker Face (TV)
  • The Paper (TV)
  • The Phoenician Scheme (movie)
  • Drive Away Dolls (movie)
  • Honey, Don’t (movie)

📖 Still deep into the Star Wars fanfics and ignoring everything else. ;D

Beloved recent fanfics: Why Not’s and How To’s by Trixree; And Back We Go by miyaji_08; The Force of My Love by Quarra; Second ‘Verse by LauraBWrites; Your Smile In Stone by ecarian

🎮 Started playing Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds on my 3DS, which I’ve played at least once before AND completed! It’s one of the easier Zelda games, I think, but the mechanic is really fun (you flatten out onto walls and go through cracks into another reality) so I’m enjoying it. It IS a little strange to go back to the simpler style Zelda games compared to, like, Breath of the Wild, but it’s still got a good story/gameplay.

Food & Dining

Tried a new-to-me brand of soy milk and it’s horrible, curdles weirdly in my coffee and has a sweetness to it that makes my mashed potatoes taste weird. Bleh.

Web Updates

Gave up on completing the change-over in a timely fashion and put the Docuwiki version of my site back up for now. I think the bots are still attacking, but I have it set up on Cloudflare and I blocked Brazil (where most of the bots were coming from apparently) so that should help.

Looking Forward

I’m currently working on a) setting up various emails tied to various personal domains and b) swapping over everything I want swapped from my Gmail to those new emails.

Some things are harder to change emails for than others AND one of my domains refuses to update its DNS records for some reason, so it’s annoying on both ends. However, I’m hoping to mostly have everything forwarding into my Fastmail account by the end of the week. And perhaps I can even close some of my lesser-used Gmail accounts!

Crossposted from Pixietails Club Blog.

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posted by [personal profile] kaberett at 08:41pm on 05/10/2025 under

Reading. So many things. Or at least it feels that way. Unsure if actually So Many.

Melzack & Wall, McRobbie, McGuire, Duncan, Stock )

Cookbooks )

And I am now TWO months behind on Dreamwidth. TWO. Ahahahaha.

Playing. Several more rounds of Fluxx.

Tukoni: Prologue, "a point-and-click puzzle adventure" featuring beautiful botanical art. Very very much enjoyed this tiny snippet (a mushroom! that makes it rain! when you pat it!) and am mildly dismayed at the five-year gap between the release of this prologue and the subsequent demo of what will theoretically be a full game...

Cooking. ALSO SO MANY THINGS.

  • another recipe from East: chilli tofu
  • green beans in tomato sauce with fennel seeds, feta, and toast, loosely inspired by a thing out of the latest Ottolenghi cookbook (in the sense that I went looking for confirmation of my sense that the thing I was thinking of doing would work, found it, and promptly carried on with my intentions rather than the recipe I was distinctly less into)
  • smitten kitchen's vegetarian cassoulet, with the addition of Dubious Protein Chunks
  • a quince cake, which I made a lot of modifications to, and of which I am dubious, probably because of those modifications (but A seems to like it, so that's a win)
  • hazelnut and treacle Welsh cakes, leaving us with two remaining recipes of any interest in the tourist-tat Welsh cakes cookbook (cranberry + white chocolate is a no, as are the two recipes containing bacon; double choc chip is a maybe, and I'm willing to consider that Caerphilly + leek might have merits but A is distinctly more dubious)
  • soda bread! notable because (i) not sourdough, (ii) using the buttermilk culture I have successfully kept alive this time around (and have now refreshed), and (iii) I ignored all of the instructions about Handling It As Little As Possible and as a result it achieved Structural Integrity, which I usually do... not manage

Eating. I have successfully worked out how to make Wagamama's current menu provide me with food I will actually look forward to, which is A Great Victory. Located the last of last year's seasonal Dark Chocolate With Raspberry and have been gently nibbling it. QUINCE. And another variety of apple from an abandoned neighbouring plot at the allotment; this one is Very Crunchy and Very Red but not particularly flavours.

(The tree that got planted so as to encroach on my plot is some kind of cooker, unsure which, because my usual approach to cooking apples is James Grieve from my mother's garden...)

Making & mending. I think that, inspired by some helpful answers on reddit, I have got my clicky fountain pen clicking reliably again? It was doing a thing where it wouldn't lock, and it was pointed out to me that probably the issue was going to be located in the knock not at the trap door, so I... wrote the pen dry, rinsed out the ACCUMULATED DUST OF THE YEARS (THANKS DADFORD ROAD), and since then it's been behaving beautifully. Long may it continue.

Growing. There are still tomatoes? Also kohlrabi. I only managed a single flying visit to the plot this week; at some point soonish I'm going to need to get A to take me over with the car so I can retrieve from the greenhouse the various peppers I'm hoping to overwinter. I do not appear to have been issued with a Non-Cultivation Order in this round of inspections, which is a very welcome surprise!

Observing. A has seen the bat! I have not seen the bat because I have been Preoccupied with Other Things (misc). But the bat has not yet put itself to bed for the winter. <3

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posted by [personal profile] rmc28 at 08:08pm on 05/10/2025 under , , ,

Term is starting, and I'm aiming to play for one of the university ice hockey teams this season (yes alongside Kodiaks 2), and there was a taster session aimed at postgraduate students on Friday evening, with a 90 minute break between it and my usual late-Friday-night Warbirds training. So Friday evening I worked a little late while waiting for the worst of the rain to pass over Cambridge, then cycled home to get my gear and over to the rink to help out with the taster session. All the roads and cycle paths had a lot of litter of leaves and small twigs from the blustery day.

ice hockey, vaccinations, more ice hockey )

Today has been my first "nothing actually scheduled" day in weeks, months even. I have been enjoying doing very little apart from reading and spending too long scrolling Instagram. While I did enjoy the many many videos about Kpop Demon Hunters / ice hockey / women's football & rugby that I watched today, I finally decided to turn on the iPad's screen time restriction for the Instagram app to cut down on the time wasted that way in future. The machines are better at distracting me than I am at having willpower, so the machines can cut me off too.

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posted by [personal profile] case at 02:26pm on 05/10/2025

⌈ Secret Post #6848 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.


More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #978.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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posted by [personal profile] oursin at 07:08pm on 05/10/2025 under ,

Last week's bread had a mould episode, chiz, so I made a loaf of Dove's Farm Organic Seedhouse Bread Flour, crust sprung a bit while baking, I think due to age of yeast, but otherwise okay.

Friday night supper, penne with sauce of roasted red peppers in brine whizzed in blender + chopped Calabrian salami.

Saturday breakfast rolls: brown grated apple, strong brown flour, maple syrup (also new batch of yeast): v nice.

Today's lunch: tempeh stirfried with sugar snap peas and a sauce of soy sauce, maple syrup, rice wine vinegar, sesame oil, cornflour mixed in water, crushed garlic and minced ginger: am not sure the tempeh was supposed to crumble like that during cooking?? served with sticky rice with lime leaves and chicory quartered, healthygrilled in pumpkinseed oil and splashed with lemon and lime balsamic vinegar.

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posted by [personal profile] tafadhali at 12:36pm on 05/10/2025 under
The penultimate update on [personal profile] periru3  and my vid album Jagged Little Slayer, a mashup of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Alanis Morissette. Here are our most recent two:


Title:
 Not the Doctor
Character/Pairing: Anya/Xander
Summary: I don't wanna be the glue that holds your pieces together

AO3 | DW | Tumblr


Title:
 Wake Up
Character/Pairing: Jonathan, Andrew, Warren
Summary: What goes around never comes around to you

AO3 | DW | Tumblr
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posted by [personal profile] puddleshark at 03:54pm on 05/10/2025 under ,
Along Ackling Dyke 1

After yesterday's storm, a beautiful October day today. Blue sky and stately white clouds. The wind still blowing strong and cold up on the downs, but it was perfect weather for walking in the shelter of the woods. Lost again, but not very )
dolorosa_12: (garden autumn)
Matthias has been away in Germany since Friday to celebrate his 25-year high school reunion, and the combination of being on my own with no plans other than some scheduled classes and swims in the gym, and the storm on Saturday gave me all the encouragement I needed to have a very cosy weekend. To be fair, I don't need much encouragement on that score — it worries me a bit how good I am at being on my own! Putting that aside, everything worked out perfectly. I felt particularly smug that on Saturday I was able to finish up at the gym at 11.45, dash home, dash out to the market and do all my grocery shopping, plus stand in an endless queue for Tibetan food from the food truck, pick up said food, and make it back through the door of my house at 1pm, at exactly the point that it started raining and howling with wind.

I didn't leave the house for the rest of the day, but simply lay around in the living room, with the string lights on, candles burning, drinking tea and rereading A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett), a massive childhood favourite of mine that I don't think I've revisited for at least fifteen years. The blunt racism and classism was as I remembered, but the story itself: of book-devouring, wise, and compassionate young Sara Crewe's riches-to-rags-to-riches-again fall and rise, against the backdrop of a cloistered Edwardian girls' boarding school run by the grasping, vulgar Dickensian villain Miss Minchin remained as compelling as ever. Sara's ability to escape her circumstances through the powerful world of her imagination was what spoke to me the most as a bookish child who lived very much in my own mind, and I enjoyed it immensely on this reread. Although it feels more like a winter book to me, I'd deliberately picked it up for this storm-tossed weekend, because in my memory, it's a book that plays heavily on the senses: warm fires and richly-described meals set against inadequately insulated attic bedrooms, and the dismal fog and biting cold of the streets of Edwardian London — and this indeed proved to be the case. I'm not sure if it's a book to pick up for the first time in adulthood, but if it was a childhood favourite, it's worth revisiting.

Other than reading sentimental childhood favourite books, I've spent a lot of time this weekend on a marathon catching up to all the episodes of the Rebecca Fraimow/Emily Tesh Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones podcast. (I'm only just at the start of season 2 — I was very much behind — and had hoped to make it to the 3-hour-long Fire and Hemlock episode, but that's not likely at this point since it's 3.30pm on Sunday afternoon.) I'm enjoying it immensely — the discussion hits the sweet spot of enthusiastic affection and depth of analysis in a way that I feel is rare in popular literary criticism at the moment, and it manages to make every episode engaging, even if you haven't read the source material (as I hadn't for most of the 1970s books — although now I want to). The two hosts are clearly having a great time, and the Hugo award for the podcast is very well deserved.

The podcast was the perfect accompaniment to the truly ridiculous amount of cooking I've been doing this weekend. This morning I went out into the garden and agressively pruned the tomato plants, including removing large numbers of green tomatoes (since I don't think there's much chance anything will ripen at this point). These I have put into preserving jars as three batches of fermented tomatoes — one type uses ripe red tomatoes, and the other ferments them while they're still green (for this I had so many tomatoes that I had to spread them across two massive 1L jars). I'm also slow-cooking a stew (my whole house smells of garlic and red wine), I made pickled cucumbers with chilli, and am going to infuse a bottle of bourbon with fresh peach (thanks for the tip, [personal profile] lyr). I'll update the post with a photoset once all the ferments are sorted out in their jars; the whole process has been incredibly satisfying. I may have had zero luck with growing anything other than tomatoes this year — but oh, what tomatoes they have been!

Update: gardening/preserving photoset here!
pauraque: paper cutouts of Palpatine smiling as Luke and Vader cross light sabers (star wars palpatine)
So, I don't know if Attack of the Clones is necessarily "better" than The Phantom Menace, but I had a more enjoyable experience watching it. I was feeling pretty cheerful through most of the runtime, while I think poor [personal profile] sdk was suffering much more than I was. I definitely had watched the last half of this movie on TV at some point in the mid-2000s. Nothing from the first half was familiar to me at all.

cut for length, and still negativity though a little less than the last one )

Anyway, here's a song about Anakin and sand.

Embedded video: Fan edit autotunes scenes from the prequels and OT to craft a musical narrative centering on Anakin's enduring hatred of sand.


One more. We can do it! I believe in us!
liv: In English: My fandom is text obsessed / In Hebrew: These are the words (words)
posted by [personal profile] liv at 11:50am on 05/10/2025 under
Content note: mentions antisemitic murders and police violence. I personally am completely safe, I'm only talking about dealing with news.

It's around midday Yom Kippur. I'm leading the morning service with a tiny community in the southwest corner of England. There's a slight hiatus as this congregation only have two Torah scrolls, so we have to roll through from the first reading in Exodus to the second reading in Leviticus, saving the second scroll for the afternoon reading from Deuteronomy. (In this community, like most of the Progressive world, our second reading is Leviticus 19, not the verses that are sometimes used as clobber texts to support homophobia.) While there's milling about, the volunteers running the tech for Zoom approach me at the bimah and let me know that there has been an attack in a synagogue in Manchester.

reactions ) Also, I am deeply grateful for the kind people who checked in with me personally when they heard the news, and for all the leaders, Muslim, Christian and civic, who sent messages of support to the Jewish community and continue to be in solidarity with us.
Mood:: 'scared' scared
Music:: Avinu Malkenu

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