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This is part two of my book club notes on The Black Fantastic. (Part one is here.)

"Sanford and Sun" by Dawolu Jabari Anderson (2015)

( Sun Ra makes a guest appearance on the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son. )

"A Song for You" by Jennifer Marie Brissett (2015)

( A girl finds the disembodied head of a singing android who lived out the legend of Orpheus during wartime. )

"Tender" by Sofia Samatar (2015)

( A woman who wrecked her life as a human undergoes a cyborg transformation so she can monitor a radioactive waste disposal site. )

"The Malady of Need" by Kiini Ibura Salaam (2016)

( This is the second time I've read this story and I still don't know what happens in it. )

gremdark

Milestone! I've finally recovered enough from my big abdominal incision five months ago that the cat can knead my stomach again.

I'm home sick today with a cold (negative flu and covid tests) and it's reminding me what good chronic pain flare company he used to be. I'd wake up from pain naps to find him curled into my side to share the warmth of my heating pad. All of which is to say that someone's earned himself a go with his treat puzzle. Or will, once he gets bored of purring in my lap.

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Heated Rivalry is one of the most talked about recent shows of the past year. Are there lessons to be learned in how a story can draw in different demographics who wouldn’t normally have been interested in certain genres? Or as the article notes: “It turns policy into something you can explain to a child, not because you’re trying to teach them politics, but because you are invested in sharing the joy of the characters.”

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According to a short in-character promotional video from a while ago, Robert and Chris once got stranded in the Amazon rainforest for several days, and I do love it when characters are stranded together!

Title: Finding the Way
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: slight Robert/Chris
Wordcount: 3,000
Summary: Chris and Robert are stranded in the Amazon rainforest together. It's not a great experience.

( Finding the Way )

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The George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine Cookbook
Paperback – January 1, 2000
by george-foreman-connie-merydith (Author)

Today we finished reading our second cookbook of the year. The front matter includes Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction, and Smart Eating for Healthier Living. The recipe chapters are Bring Out the Best of Grilling -- Marinades, Sauces, and Rubs; A Cut Above -- Beef and Lamb; Smoky Sensations -- Pork Chops, Ribs, and Ham; Tender Choices from the Sea -- Fish and Shellfish; Savory Grilled Poultry -- Chicken and Turkey; Quick and Easy Favorites -- Burgers, Sandwiches, and Snacks; Tempting Companion Dishes -- Vegetables, Fruit, Salads, and Desserts. Then in the back are a basic cooking guide, glossary, and index. The index lists both recipe titles and ingredients.

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I'm bracing myself to start the legal process of changing my name next month, which means I need to finally decide what I want it to be. The first and middle names are sorted, and in fact I've used them socially and professionally for my entire adult life. The last name(s) are the issue.

I've written under my mother's maiden name for a while. That side of the family is very tight-knit, with a well documented history that means the world to me. I am generally closer with them. Firstname Maidenname would make sense.

I do not often speak to my father, and his last name is common enough in the United States that it, paired with my similarly-common legal first name, has given me major issues over the years. (Imagine trying to get anything done when your name is John Smith and there are 4300 other John Smiths in every database, some of whom share your exact birthday down to the year. It's a nightmare.) That being said, my father's name is also his father's name, and my grandfather and I are very close.

When my grandfather was a small child, he was forcibly taken into foster care, and records indicate his mother was institutionalized at that time. We do not know his original surname, or indeed if he had a surname prior to being placed in the 1940s foster care system. We know that ours was government-assigned, a common practice at the time where indigenous foster kids were concerned. He has never been able to locate sufficient records to find members of his birth family.

So my last name has always been complicated for me.

On one hand, I think having a less-common surname would make many of my lifelong database issues disappear. On the other hand, I have decidedly mixed feelings about severing a tie to what my grandfather refers to as his "family stump." On the other other hand, I have no other strong emotional connections to the name, and I'd love to gain my mother's maiden name.''

I'm tempted to just have two last names, with or without a hyphen. But the internet says that sometimes creates logistical database issues of the very kind I hope to escape. So here I sit, weighing my options for the millionth time. It's certainly a quagmire.

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What's up party people?

If you've made it this far you've probably gathered that my name is Brandyn, and yeah I'm testing the waters here. I'm used to social media but never did anything live journal related and definitely don't entirely fit in with capital F Fandom spaces (Though all respect to the queer men, gals, and non-binary pals that spend their time in the trenches and help elevate certain fandoms, I like Star Trek and Gundam, I respect my history).

Mostly want to use this space to post a bit...vulnerably? Not necessarily in terms of my personal life or a place to vent necessarily (Though that's not off the table), but a space removed from the more performative persona I've put on for some other sites (Namely LeagueOfComicGeeks, cause big comic fan. Can find me under fatboyftw there). Not that I'm bitching, I love being known as a snarky but insightful asshole but it can take work to maintain. Alongside the inherent cynicism that having a space only dedicated to one niche hobby inherently brings since once you reach a certain threshold of something and learn how the sausage gets made you tend to get more bitter and critical. I love shouting into the ether about stuff but traditional social media has a way of getting me a bit heated sometimes, lmao.

So I'm going to use this space to be chill and just mainly talk about things I enjoy, comics and otherwise. A place I can go when I wanna post something that on another site I might have to defend or explain a bit more than I have the mental energy to do. As for what I would be posting about well, as we've established comics. Comics of all kinds, love the entire medium, not just superhero stuff. But also the occasional manga/anime, Kaiju Films, video games, and chats about fiction writing since it's not something I do nearly enough but something I love to do.

If any of that seems interesting then feel free to follow...subscribe...whatever it's called here.

(Yes if you check my profile this is just my first post copy and pasted, I realized I didn't have another introduction in me, I'm sowwy)

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Forewords and Afterwords by W.H. Auden

A collection of essays, including reviews, all written on occasion, for a particular book.

It produces a great variety of subjects.

Some are of period interest, of various kinds. The appropriate treatment for migraines being psychoanalysis? On the other hand, this is where I read his observation about how going over to Rome was a shocking scandal in the upper classes -- like the birth of an illegitimate baby -- but something that did happen, whereas becoming a Baptist was inconceivable.

Much about poets and other writers, some interesting observations on heroes, and more.

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An image with text that reads 2/28/26 11am - 5pm Indie Book & Comic Expo. Text below this shows a wizard in a blue hat and ropes with long white hair, a pipe between their lips, reading a yellow book. They sit among simply ruins and a bird perches beside them.

The last day of February, Saturday the 28th, come find us and 50+ other upstate New York authors, comic makers, indie publishers, and more at The Shirt Factory in Glens Falls! This awesome event is organized by Black Walnut Books and Beldame Books. You can shop the local small businesses in the building, and find all of us at our tables throughout the hallways. It’s gonna be a great time.

(and I promise I’m not gonna get sick this time if I can possibly help it. )

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I received notice that my offer for this year's Fandom Trumps Hate auction has been accepted and posted. I'm so glad!

A few years ago, I had an offer that I could not actually complete - it was for beta services and the person who won it never got back to me. Since then, they seem to have dropped out of fandom. I haven't participated in FTH since. So, I was kind of worried it wouldn't get accepted, since I technically still have an outstanding assignment.

Mind you, if that person ever shows up again, then sure, I'd be happy to fulfill that assignment! ;V In the meantime, I'm just glad I can participate this year.

There are still a few days before everything officially opens; they have so many to post that it needs to go in batches. I'll make a separate post when that happens.

kaffy_r

Job One: Remember that Computers Are Stupid

Job Two: bake Bob's favorite cookies to thank him for setting up my new laptop, and putting up with the occasional stupidity that's part of dealing with ones and zeroes.

We both knew it would take a couple of days, or even more than that, and I'm trying to be patient as he preps the new one (an Asus Vivo) so that we can download all my files from my slowly dying Lenovo, files that have been downloaded onto a delightful little red portable 2T hard drive.

That drive may will come in handy after the transfer, since I might need to keep it connected to my new laptop for a few weeks, or maybe months. My Lenovo has 1.82 T of storage, whilst my Asus only has 1T. We'll eventually see about getting a new, larger, drive in the Asus, but I don't foresee me using up the 1T of storage the Asus has.

I've named the little hard drive Ada, and my new laptop is officially Alice-Alyx. It's the first time I've named a laptop, but it seemed the right thing to do with this one. I'm laughing a bit at myself, but hell, why not name some things that will help keep me happy for a good long time?

Now one of the remaining questions is whether Alice-Alyx will recognize my Samsung Galaxy ear buds. We tried to get them paired up yesterday, and the Asus laughed at us. Once again, I'm reminded that computers are stupid; they only do what we tell their ones and zeroes to do.

In the non-computer part of the weekend, I was able to get in touch with a skiffy fannish acquaintance whose holiday card came back to me a bit ago. It turns out that he and his partner had indeed moved from the address I had for him, so I can send him something soon, and most definitely this coming holiday season.

I also cleaned the bathroom, and sorted a small mountain of paperwork that had grown so high it was in danger of toppling over. I'm terrible at organizing and sorting, but I managed to do it today. I'm inordinately proud of myself. (I probably shouldn't be quite so loudly proud, because the universe will undoubtedly send something my way to punish me for such hubris. Heh.)

So that's my excitement for the weekend, and I am very happy that that's the most excitement I've had to deal with. Compared to this time last week, it's easy-peasy.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Cyber Jazz/Blues Ambient Radio

merricatb

Challenge #4

Today's challenge is all about favorite ships! Most of these are Sense8 of course, and I could probably include the cluster itself as one big happy found family but I broke it up and did some specifics.

1) Rajan/Kala/Wolfgang from Sense8. This is my OT3 and I cannot get enough of them. Love triangle? No thanks, give us a triangle in love instead. It's messy but somehow just WORKS, and honestly, it cemented all three of them as fave characters once they got together more than they ever were separately.

2) Wolfgang & Felix from Sense8. My idiot German babiesssssss. They love each other so much. Best Friends FOREVER. I love a loyal bestie, and basically include Felix with all my OT3 fics since he is absolutely part of Wolfgang's life and Wolfgang's relationships. And this gives me a good excuse to use this amazing gif

maevedarcy made for me of my German/Indian quartet clasping hands.

Rajan, Kala, Wolfgang and Felix from sense8 holding hands

3) Sun/Mun from Sense8. They're named Sun and Moon for heaven's sake, how cute is that? And he loves being kicked in the head by her. What a man.

4) Lito & Wolfgang from Sense8. Before Lito shows up, Wolfgang has had very little interaction with other members of the cluster (apart from Kala obviously, and the orgy). He's about to get himself shot in the face because his pride won't let him lie to save his own stupid life, and Lito shows up and basically gets his permission to intervene and lkjasdfkljadslkjfadsflk;. Then Wolfgang shows up to help Lito win a fight he was very much losing, and later slides in like an angry German fair godmother to protect him again. Lito sees himself as nothing more than a liar, and Wolfgang sees himself as nothing more than a fighter, and that's exactly what they need from each other. GAH it makes me crazy.

5) Lito/Hernando/Dani from Sense8. I love that this relationship went from the beard that wouldn't leave to a family unit that supported each other through everything. A beautiful example of what family can actually mean.

6) Will/Hannibal from Hannibal (NBC). The original Murder Husbands and my first truly toxic ship. It's so good y'all.

7) Eve/Villanelle from Killing Eve. The yuri version of Hannigram with a soundtrack that doesn't sound like dropping a silverware drawer down a flight of stairs.

8) Claudia/Madeleine from Interview with the Vampire. There are so many ships in this series but they're all so bad for each other it was hard to decide, so I went with the one where they're actually great for each other and don't cause nonstop destruction to everyone and everything around them by being in love. Changing the dynamic from mother & daughter in the book to not yet romantic lovers in the series was yet another stroke of genius on the part of the showrunners.

9) The crew of the Revenge from Our Flag Means Death. This show was so much fun. Every couple/throuple/fwb/whatever they had is worth shipping.

10) I'm going to embarrass myself thoroughly with this last one, but I think it says a lot about me that this was the first het ship ship so that's why I'm including it. Full disclaimer, I have not seen this movie since I was a literal child and do not remember much about it, but I'm going off the vibes that appealed to me and still do. April O'Neil/Casey Jones from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the original 1990 movie. I know. I know. I'm stunned to even be typing that. But here's the thing: Intelligent independent woman/sarcastic badass guy who is actually a wimp IS MY JAM. It's why I loved Buffy/Pike in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. It's why I love Lenny/Mace in Strange Days. Make her tough, make him pathetic. I will eat that shit up.

This was so much fun to do post Snowflake Challenge and somehow February is already OVER??? Thank you to

dreamersdare for putting on this event and giving me something to squee about each week.

solenne

Seems like free time is not good for my activity as I am active only once I need to study lol.

I am spending my free time at home, so I've been eating, sleeping, watching movies and seeing friends and family. I haven't really read my books much (though I've read a lot fanfiction now that I think about it).

Anyway, let's quickly go through what I watched.

All Knives Out movies
I've watched the first one before, but now I had to watch all three with family (my father puts on a movie and you get no choice If you want to watch or not). We went in reverse order for some reason. So Wake up Dead Man was first. I think this one might be my favourite, but all in all these movies are fun, but not spectacular. Maybe I'm just too used to my Poirot and Midsomer Murders. Anyway, Josh O'Connor carries the movie for me and once again reminds me that I need to watch La Chimera. On the other hand, these are the type of movies that are more fun once you watch them with others, so it was fun. (what an eloquent review, like I've never expressed an opinion before)

Avatar: The Way of Water
What can I say, I am partially watching this for horny reasons, but I enjoyed the movie as a whole as well. Tbh, I was mostly enjoying the part when they move and need to adapt to new environment as a family. The teen shenanigans, fitting in, learning a different way of life. My bread and jam. Whatever is happening on the grand scale is interesting to me in the way it impacts individuals. There were some questionable hairstyles though.

I did also once again watch the Grand Budapest Hotel. I was telling my mother about it, and since I've been through hell (the exam period) she offered to watch it since I like it so much. She liked it very much, while my father, who joined us halfway, proceeded to sit silently and sigh loudly from time to time.

I also watched a modern classic of my country's cinematography, but I am not the most comfortable disclosing where I live so early lol sorry.

Once again nothing special or deep from me lol.

Solenne

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Review: "The George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine Cookbook"

Review: "The George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine Cookbook"

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Vending February 28: The Indie Book and Comic Expo at The Shirt Factory in Glens Falls!

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