Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 37: Red Green Fandom; C6D Fandom
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ride_4everI've got a "milestone" birthday coming up and I bought myself a birthday gift of something I've wanted for a long time: the complete Red Green DVD collection -- yep, all 300 episodes! And amedia made a whole bunch of Red Green icons for me (one of which you see here).
A big TYK toamedia for the timely icons!
amedia made a whole bunch of Red Green icons for me (one of which you see here).A big TYK to
amedia for the timely icons!
Reading/Listening/Watching/Playing
Nov. 7th, 2025 10:52 ammergatrudeAt the library, a bunch of my requests came in around the same time and I had to re-reserve three or four. I prioritised Stone and Sky, the latest Rivers of London novel, as it had a shortened borrowing time. Still enjoying the heck out of this, particularly the rise of Abigail as a narrative voice. I'm hoping that we'll get the audiobook soon!
I've managed a few pages of Velocity Weapon and am intrigued, but it's due back today as it has another reserve. Everything else I've pushed back to the end of the month, when no doubt they'll all come in at once. Again.
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I finished listening to The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle a little unsatisfied ( spoilers ). Kimberley Mandindo improved as a reader over the course of the book. The next book in the series is The Legacy of Arniston House, but I've put it on hold to listen to Ancillary Justice, which is excellent! I'm listening during my commute for free at KT Audio Books, which is worth checking out, and has a 'get three free audiobooks' player if you find listening via the website frustrating (I do, but I'm persisting).
(I'm currently doing a Park 'n Ride commute, where I drive 10 minutes and get to park for free next to a bus stop that will take me into work, because the Senior Management Group here decided to up my parking fees by 250%.)
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Still watching Super Store, but I can only manage one episode at a time. Glenn (Mark McKinney) continues to be a joy! Everything else is comfort rewatches. :-/
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I have now finished Monument Valley 2 and it's as beautiful and fun as the first. I might have to buy MV3.
I cheated and got the dude to get me through the frantic-paced ending to the first chapter of Ori and the Blind Forest because my hand-eye coordination just isn't that good any more. I've started slogging away at the next challenge. The game is probably a bit hard for my skill level, but it's so beautiful.
I've managed a few pages of Velocity Weapon and am intrigued, but it's due back today as it has another reserve. Everything else I've pushed back to the end of the month, when no doubt they'll all come in at once. Again.
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I finished listening to The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle a little unsatisfied ( spoilers ). Kimberley Mandindo improved as a reader over the course of the book. The next book in the series is The Legacy of Arniston House, but I've put it on hold to listen to Ancillary Justice, which is excellent! I'm listening during my commute for free at KT Audio Books, which is worth checking out, and has a 'get three free audiobooks' player if you find listening via the website frustrating (I do, but I'm persisting).
(I'm currently doing a Park 'n Ride commute, where I drive 10 minutes and get to park for free next to a bus stop that will take me into work, because the Senior Management Group here decided to up my parking fees by 250%.)
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Still watching Super Store, but I can only manage one episode at a time. Glenn (Mark McKinney) continues to be a joy! Everything else is comfort rewatches. :-/
~~~~~~
I have now finished Monument Valley 2 and it's as beautiful and fun as the first. I might have to buy MV3.
I cheated and got the dude to get me through the frantic-paced ending to the first chapter of Ori and the Blind Forest because my hand-eye coordination just isn't that good any more. I've started slogging away at the next challenge. The game is probably a bit hard for my skill level, but it's so beautiful.
What I'm Doing Wednesday
Nov. 5th, 2025 07:30 pmsage( books: Osman, Vance, Osman )
yarning yay
I went to yarn group on Sunday and there was such good turnout, even though several people couldn't make it. It was really nice. I learned that one of my kickbunny customers has a puzzle game where her cat pushes a button to request certain toys, and she requests her kickbunny ALL the time! So heartwarming! She also sent a pic of the cat lying with her head on the bunny. Too sweet! I also gave five hats and a scarf to a yarn group member who volunteers at BoysTown/Boysville (a shelter for kids--with residential family situations, not dormitories). The yarning will go straight to the kids, not their thrift shop, so that's doubly wonderful. Also, I found a missing safety eye that I'd searched high and low for. Not high enough, apparently, as it was ON my workbench, not on the floor despite having clearly heard it bounce!
yarning boo
The reversible doll pattern I was using to make niece's xmas gift has a major flaw in the pattern & I'm really pissed off about it. I could wing it and make it work, or else I could just frog it and make something else for her entirely. Undecided.
( yarning Lestat )
healthcrap
still under the weather. More nausea. I quit coffee, because it was a direct nausea trigger, and it is so weird to be caffeine-free; it's torn up my whole morning routine. As far as the insomnia, I was going to sleep around midnight (boo!) and waking for hours in the madrugada (double boo!), only to sleep til ten once I finally drifted off. Then the clock change knocked me back onto schedule, I hope. The morning nausea continues, though. And today I felt so rotten I actually napped for ninety minutes. Weird.
( rl gah )
mercury retrograde
starts thisFriday Sunday in Sagittarius, then moves into Scorpio in about ten days, IIRC. At least this year it ends before the Yuletide deadline instead of being dead on it & crashing the AO3 servers. Fun times. Mars is also in Sagittarius, as of yesterday, so our tendency to behave like the arrow (not the archer, the *arrow*) zooming through spacetime is super heightened. Try to pace yourself & refrain from jumping to conclusions.
I hope all of y'all are doing well! <333
yarning yay
I went to yarn group on Sunday and there was such good turnout, even though several people couldn't make it. It was really nice. I learned that one of my kickbunny customers has a puzzle game where her cat pushes a button to request certain toys, and she requests her kickbunny ALL the time! So heartwarming! She also sent a pic of the cat lying with her head on the bunny. Too sweet! I also gave five hats and a scarf to a yarn group member who volunteers at BoysTown/Boysville (a shelter for kids--with residential family situations, not dormitories). The yarning will go straight to the kids, not their thrift shop, so that's doubly wonderful. Also, I found a missing safety eye that I'd searched high and low for. Not high enough, apparently, as it was ON my workbench, not on the floor despite having clearly heard it bounce!
yarning boo
The reversible doll pattern I was using to make niece's xmas gift has a major flaw in the pattern & I'm really pissed off about it. I could wing it and make it work, or else I could just frog it and make something else for her entirely. Undecided.
( yarning Lestat )
healthcrap
still under the weather. More nausea. I quit coffee, because it was a direct nausea trigger, and it is so weird to be caffeine-free; it's torn up my whole morning routine. As far as the insomnia, I was going to sleep around midnight (boo!) and waking for hours in the madrugada (double boo!), only to sleep til ten once I finally drifted off. Then the clock change knocked me back onto schedule, I hope. The morning nausea continues, though. And today I felt so rotten I actually napped for ninety minutes. Weird.
( rl gah )
mercury retrograde
starts this
I hope all of y'all are doing well! <333
Me-and-media update
Nov. 5th, 2025 12:22 pmchina_shopI haven't done a media update in weeks! Here's what I've been watching and reading.
Reading
( It didn't feel like a lot when I started, but cutting for length anyway. )
Kdramas
( This always felt like a lot. )
Other TV
( There's quite a lot here, too. )
Guardian/Fandom
Wishliiiiiiist! It went so well. Belated hooray for everyone and all the treats! :D
Perusing the Yuletide tagset was an object lesson in "other people's character preferences are not my character preferences, and that's okay." Still, I have a bunch of things to potentially treat if I can get into gear.
Films
Grace: a prayer for peace, a film about Aotearoa / New Zealand artist Robin White. Beautiful and arty, and I had trouble staying awake. (I'm not great at maintaining attention when there's no dialogue.)
Audio stuff
A handful of eps of Tech Won't Save Us, mostly AI-related. Some Guilty Feminist (UK), which is a bit hit-and-miss for me, but at least is tuned in to *gestures at the dumpster fire that is politics in a lot of places* Writing Excuses. Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson.
Writing/making things
I currently have a thing at beta, and I'm gearing myself up to work on my Yuletide assignment fic.
I broke my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fan_flashworks streak during Guardian Wishlist. That's okay; I actually find streaks a bit burdensome when they get too long. I'm not in a pushing-myself headspace. Instead of writing anything for the Amnesty round, I posted some of the art I've been trying out via Youtube instructional videos for kids. (I'm so happy with how the eyes came out on the kitten-dragon.) (Youtube art videos for kids are excellent, btw! I've drawn a fox, a llama, an owl, a lemur, another dragon, a unicorn mer-red-panda, and a few other things, and they always turn out pleasingly, despite my zero skill level. I'm thinking of investing in a set of coloured pencils for grown-ups, but for now I'm enjoying the tin of miniature ones cyphomandra sent me before my hysterectomy and a few others left over from when I was five. :-)
Life/health/mental state things
Over the last few months, I've noticed more and more long silver hairs in my house. Hmph.
Good things
The Guardian Slo-Mo Rewatch onsid_guardian. Guardian fandom generally. Yuletide. Podfic and audiobooks and Kdramas and libraries. The forecast for tomorrow is good. Kdramas. We went to an art exhibition opening yesterday evening, and it was great and made me want to make more things. Writers' Hour.
Reading
( It didn't feel like a lot when I started, but cutting for length anyway. )
Kdramas
( This always felt like a lot. )
Other TV
( There's quite a lot here, too. )
Guardian/Fandom
Wishliiiiiiist! It went so well. Belated hooray for everyone and all the treats! :D
Perusing the Yuletide tagset was an object lesson in "other people's character preferences are not my character preferences, and that's okay." Still, I have a bunch of things to potentially treat if I can get into gear.
Films
Grace: a prayer for peace, a film about Aotearoa / New Zealand artist Robin White. Beautiful and arty, and I had trouble staying awake. (I'm not great at maintaining attention when there's no dialogue.)
Audio stuff
A handful of eps of Tech Won't Save Us, mostly AI-related. Some Guilty Feminist (UK), which is a bit hit-and-miss for me, but at least is tuned in to *gestures at the dumpster fire that is politics in a lot of places*
/o\ /o\ /o\
(They have a new series of live shows called "The Road to Gilead", and are particularly loud about Farage's links to US right-wing anti-abortion group ADF.)Writing/making things
I currently have a thing at beta, and I'm gearing myself up to work on my Yuletide assignment fic.
I broke my
fan_flashworks streak during Guardian Wishlist. That's okay; I actually find streaks a bit burdensome when they get too long. I'm not in a pushing-myself headspace. Instead of writing anything for the Amnesty round, I posted some of the art I've been trying out via Youtube instructional videos for kids. (I'm so happy with how the eyes came out on the kitten-dragon.) (Youtube art videos for kids are excellent, btw! I've drawn a fox, a llama, an owl, a lemur, another dragon, a unicorn mer-red-panda, and a few other things, and they always turn out pleasingly, despite my zero skill level. I'm thinking of investing in a set of coloured pencils for grown-ups, but for now I'm enjoying the tin of miniature ones cyphomandra sent me before my hysterectomy and a few others left over from when I was five. :-)Life/health/mental state things
Over the last few months, I've noticed more and more long silver hairs in my house. Hmph.
Good things
The Guardian Slo-Mo Rewatch on
sid_guardian. Guardian fandom generally. Yuletide. Podfic and audiobooks and Kdramas and libraries. The forecast for tomorrow is good. Kdramas. We went to an art exhibition opening yesterday evening, and it was great and made me want to make more things. Writers' Hour. Poll #33799 Time is
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an arrow
7 (15.2%)
a fruit fly
10 (21.7%)
a banana
7 (15.2%)
melting
13 (28.3%)
relentless
22 (47.8%)
elusive
15 (32.6%)
other
6 (13.0%)
ticky-box full of hippity-hoppity frogs
15 (32.6%)
ticky-box full of blue-haired punk red pandas being, on average, purple
24 (52.2%)
ticky-box full of weird clock karma
17 (37.0%)
ticky-box full of colouring in
23 (50.0%)
ticky-box full of hugs
33 (71.7%)
Write Every Day: final talley
Nov. 3rd, 2025 05:12 pmchina_shopAs always, it was a pleasure to host. Thanks for being such delightful guests!
Here's the final tally for Write Every Day, 16-31 October 2025.
( Tally )
Please let me know if I’ve missed you, and feel free to check in belatedly. :-)
Here's the final tally for Write Every Day, 16-31 October 2025.
( Tally )
Please let me know if I’ve missed you, and feel free to check in belatedly. :-)
Postcards from the AI-pocalypse
Nov. 3rd, 2025 05:08 pmchina_shopI read this last week, and it's been haunting me ever since.
From this article in The Economic Times (India), which also covers an MIT study into AI business application ("95 percent of business attempts to integrate generative AI are failing"), the AI bubble, and AI psychosis.
A new kind of bias: AI choosing itself over humans
Adding another wrinkle, researchers publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) recently discovered a startling trend they call “AI–AI bias.” Large language models like GPT-4 and Meta’s Llama 3.1 consistently favored content created by other AIs over human-written material across product ads, academic abstracts, and even movie reviews.
Study coauthor Jan Kulveit warned that such bias could reshape economic opportunities, with humans at risk of being systematically sidelined. “Being human in an economy populated by AI agents would suck,” he said on X, advising people to run their work through AI tools before submitting it if they suspect another AI will be evaluating it.
This creates a troubling picture: not only are AI systems struggling to deliver promised productivity gains, but they may also be reinforcing their own dominance at the expense of human contributions.
From this article in The Economic Times (India), which also covers an MIT study into AI business application ("95 percent of business attempts to integrate generative AI are failing"), the AI bubble, and AI psychosis.
MEDIA POST: Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein
Nov. 2nd, 2025 10:41 amseascribbleAs I've said elsewhere, Mr Del Toro put his whole pussy into this movie. Also Grand Admiral Thrawn was there.
We had just recently rewatched The Shape of Water, which is one of my favourite movies. Perry's read Frankenstein but I never have. You'd think, though, between knowing the gist of the story and being familiar with GDT's game I would have been prepared, but I still was really rocked by the gore, especially early on with the pre-Creature science experiments. I had to watch a lot of it with my face covered. I loved it though.
Flawless cast (I don't know what a Jacob Elordi is, but he crushed it), the kind of rich, symbolic visuals you expect from GDT, and an excellent score. The scene where this bright, peppy waltz is playing over Oscar Isaac sawing off limbs is so well done.
I've seen people primarily criticizing two things, one that somebody actually said the line (more or less) "You're the monster, Victor," and that GDT woobyfied the Creature, which weakens the original book's meditation on what role our surroundings play in our choices and what evil looks like and whether you can truly say whether Frankenstein or the Creature is more monstrous than the other. I haven't read the book, so I can't really comment on that, but the Creature does some pretty extreme stuff to a lot of people! Almost entirely reactively, which I think does definitely change the message from the murders that I understand he does in the book, but I don't hate it because I kind of enjoy the musing on the fact that we can be in a situation where evil actions might be the much more likely outcome and still not do them. The short version is simply that GDT is a monsterfucker and he was never going to present a less than sympathetic version of the Creature. I'm fine with it.
I suppose the script wasn't the most subtle, but between the acting chops and the incredible costuming and scenery and details, I didn't have any complaints. Even the monster line was delivered in a really poignant way.
I'm really glad we went to see it in the theatre (even though it was 35$ for two tickets, jesus christ) and I'm excited for it to be...acquirable at home next week so we can watch it again. I think it's staying in theatres until it starts streaming on Netflix, so if it's available near you, highly recommend the cinematic experience.
We had just recently rewatched The Shape of Water, which is one of my favourite movies. Perry's read Frankenstein but I never have. You'd think, though, between knowing the gist of the story and being familiar with GDT's game I would have been prepared, but I still was really rocked by the gore, especially early on with the pre-Creature science experiments. I had to watch a lot of it with my face covered. I loved it though.
Flawless cast (I don't know what a Jacob Elordi is, but he crushed it), the kind of rich, symbolic visuals you expect from GDT, and an excellent score. The scene where this bright, peppy waltz is playing over Oscar Isaac sawing off limbs is so well done.
I've seen people primarily criticizing two things, one that somebody actually said the line (more or less) "You're the monster, Victor," and that GDT woobyfied the Creature, which weakens the original book's meditation on what role our surroundings play in our choices and what evil looks like and whether you can truly say whether Frankenstein or the Creature is more monstrous than the other. I haven't read the book, so I can't really comment on that, but the Creature does some pretty extreme stuff to a lot of people! Almost entirely reactively, which I think does definitely change the message from the murders that I understand he does in the book, but I don't hate it because I kind of enjoy the musing on the fact that we can be in a situation where evil actions might be the much more likely outcome and still not do them. The short version is simply that GDT is a monsterfucker and he was never going to present a less than sympathetic version of the Creature. I'm fine with it.
I suppose the script wasn't the most subtle, but between the acting chops and the incredible costuming and scenery and details, I didn't have any complaints. Even the monster line was delivered in a really poignant way.
I'm really glad we went to see it in the theatre (even though it was 35$ for two tickets, jesus christ) and I'm excited for it to be...acquirable at home next week so we can watch it again. I think it's staying in theatres until it starts streaming on Netflix, so if it's available near you, highly recommend the cinematic experience.
Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 36: annual November Mini WriMo now open for signups
Nov. 1st, 2025 10:17 pmride_4everMini WriMo on LJ -- minimum 100 words a day for 30 days -- is open for signups from now until November 10th.
Mini WriMo 2025 Welcome Post
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Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 35: Postal Mail from Fen
Nov. 1st, 2025 09:51 pmride_4everThank you kindly to james and to dine for Halloween cards, and to noxelementalist for the art postcard.
james and to dine for Halloween cards, and to noxelementalist for the art postcard.Random Guardian screencap
Nov. 2nd, 2025 08:47 amchina_shop(Okay, semi-random. I had it as part of the rewatch post, but I just swapped it out for a different one, and now I have to post this one somewhere, because asdkfhaskdfjhasd! /dork)
