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I was taught to sew as a kid in the 90s by my mom (an artist who can do every kind of art and craft practically, and also fix plumbing and electricity and do carpentry). My first clear sewing memory is making myself a gown (of leftover printed cotton curtain fabric) for an ice sorceress costume that I designed and made myself and wore to NASFiC/Dragoncon as a con costume when I was twelve I think - so 1995, maybe? I made myself shorts and a vest that I used to wear to school in the seventh grade (from a pattern), hemmed my cadette girl scout uniform skirt from knee to mid-thigh (and then did the same for two other members of the troop) at age 14, and at 16 made my sister, then 7, a copy of the allover-studded suede jacket worn by Christina Aguilera in the "What a Girl Wants" music video (also from a pattern, and not from real suede, but I did have to buy a literal Bedazzler). LOL that I did that, in retrospect.

Anyway, I learned to sew on my mom's old Singer, but since moving to Finland I have had the good fortune to enjoy the nearly-permanent loan of my MIL's sewing machine (ours since her death; but she didn't feel like sewing anymore before that), a Bernina 1004 made in Switzerland in 1989, fully mechanical, and basically free from problems (apart from those caused by user error). Until a few months ago.

I tried cleaning lint from around the bobbin case, and not only did that not help, but after it the machine stopped advancing unless you manually turn the wheel with great force. So of course I immediately panicked that I had broken it and became afraid to investigate further because I was afraid I'd find out it was all my fault.

But when I finally got around to watching a couple of videos (because I really wanted some new pajama pants and I can't buy any that meet my standards), I realized there's absolutely no way I caused this! But also it definitely is something with the main bit of the motor, and you have to take the thing completely apart to fix that. So it has to go to a repair shop that specializes in Berninas.

There's only one in Turku, and they closed for the month of July the day before I googled them. 😭 Also you have to book the service in advance and can't just drop machines off. The next nearest specialist is... nowhere near.

But I'm very motivated now, because it's been warm, and every day

waxjism wears her percale gingham hobbit (cropped) summer pj pants and looks adorable while I'm suffering with one old pair that are falling apart and are a synthetic blend. And neither of us has pockets!!!

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https://xkcd.com/3120/

Geologists claim it's because the earlier Cenozoic used to be called the Tertiary, but that's just a ruse to hide the secret third geologic period, between the Neogene and the Quaternary, that they won't tell us about.

https://xkcd.com/3120/

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Title: Maybe He’s No Romeo

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Summary: Knowing he only has a short window of time before Valentino’s respawned, Angel desperately wants to go to a certain overlord’s mansion filled with all the best booze and sex toys. Boosting his brother’s car, Angel heads to Husker’s for a day of fun.

Rating: explicit

pairing Angel Dust/Husk

Warnings explicit sex

Artist: Deniece Williams
Album: Footloose Soundtrack
Song: Let's Hear It for the Boy

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Pavane Op 50 - Fauvre

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sunshine_revival's final challenge is:

The Ferris Wheel
Journaling: Life in fandom goes through ups and downs. Reminisce about the "wild ride" of your time in fandom or in other online communities.
Creative: Create an image or a photo with the theme "let's go for a ride".

Hoo boy, that is a spicy journaling prompt! I'm sure I've talked about my fandom experiences many times, but newer friends may not have heard it, so we can go again.

My first fandom experience, for a loose definition of fandom, was when I used to gather with friends every week to watch and discuss the new episode of X-Files. We were 12, so our insights probably weren't that deep, but it was a start. It was through one of those friends that I found out about online fandom, which at the time was mostly conducted on mailing lists and Usenet (which, if you're not familiar, functioned much like Reddit, in that it was divided into user-created forums each centered on a topic, with atmospheres ranging from "pleasant discussion group" to "dumpster inferno").

Through most of my teen years I lurked in fandom spaces, primarily X-Files and Star Trek. I was about 18 when I actually started participating in discussions and posting fic. I made some great friends in X-Files fandom, but within a couple of years the show ended and many people started to move on, and the place a lot of them moved to was Harry Potter fandom, primarily on LiveJournal.

The early to mid 2000s on LJ were definitely the "wild ride" segment of my fandom life. The fandom community was extremely active and emotionally intense, and in trying to match that energy I ended up doing way too much, taking on more projects and moderation duties than I should have, and getting more invested in them than was rational or healthy. I know a lot of people have nostalgia for that era, but for me it was a time when my mental health was bad and fandom wasn't helping. I did make friends, but I was having a hard time telling the difference between real friends and people who were exploiting me or treating me like a fanworks vending machine. (People complain now about those who see fellow fans as "content creators," but I can assure you some fans developed that attitude well in advance of us having that label for it.) Unsurprisingly, I burned out and ended up dropping all my obligations and quitting fandom cold turkey for about three years.

Eventually I came back and learned to take a more thoughtful approach. Since then I've been able to come and go from different fandoms, participating only if I have the desire and the energy, and taking a break if it's not fun. That's summarizing in a sentence what was (and is) a years-long learning process that's not limited to fandom. Fandom is just one of the areas where I was doing and investing too much, but it's been a good place for me to practice not overcommitting because the temptation is always there.

I really appreciate DW as a place where fannish and non-fannish discussions can mingle, and people can talk about their interests and projects without pressure for everybody to focus on one thing or meet expectations of productivity. I see people having fun in fandom here, and that's great, and I see people just talking about their lives, and that's also great. I don't want a wild ride; a nice stroll in the park with friends is just fine with me.

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Okay so this is going to be chock full of spoilers. I am jotting down things I want to interrogate in the film, explore in fannish ways, etc. Skip if you have not seen the movie but if you have? Feel free to ask more questions, raise more points.

Sinners All The Time On The Brain

Okay post-canon bits to explore:

1. Lisa's fate? (did we see a grandmother/father in the background?)
2. How do Pearline and Mary's husbands handle their disappearance?
3. Cornbread's wife (Terise, check spelling) and unborn child?
4. Does Sammie's dad preach rapture to explain why so many people vanished?
5. Or does he go with hell opened up and swallowed them for their sins?
6. The white folk reactions to all their dead and just one black man dead?
7. What about the mill itself in town lore? (thinking of tying this to Cornbread's kid, actually)

Names have meanings:

1. Refresh memory on the details of 'Elijah' and 'Elias'.
2. Annie, something keeps ticking in the back of my brain about that name and being wise.
3. MARY. Taking in AME concepts, compare and contrast this Mary with the two notable Marys of the Gospels.
4. Sammie. I am hesitant to tackle this one. On the one hand 'Samuel'. On the other hand, I grew up with the idea that any derivation of 'SAM' in a black man relates back to a pejorative tale.

Other things from around the 'net and meta ideas:

1. That bit about the Twins playing the Chicago people by one on each side.
2. "Put down that cig" and how Annie might've had a secondary meaning behind not getting any 'smoke' on their daughter.
3. Smoke unable to find peace even with his wife and child because he's forever cut off from the other part of himself.

And make some damn icons, self.

lightbird

Challenge #7

The Ferris Wheel
Journaling: Life in fandom goes through ups and downs. Reminisce about the "wild ride" of your time in fandom or in other online communities.
Creative: Create an image or a photo with the theme "let's go for a ride".

I never really had a "wild ride" during my time in fandom, not personally anyway, lol. There was and still is lots of drama in some of my fandoms, like AtLA, but I generally stayed on the perimeter.

But, to keep things interesting, please enjoy this still of Alicia (Ingrid Bergman) and Devlin (Cary Grant) going for a ride in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious.

( wanna go for a ride? )

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Let's try for an actual, proper fandom-related post for once, huh?

Critical Role had a panel at SDCC yesterday, and they announced all sorts of new details about The Legend of Vox Machina and the upcoming animated series The Mighty Nein (which is based on Campaign 2 of Critical Role like TLoVM is based on Campaign 1). I'm feeling properly fannish for the first time in ages, so let's see if I can keep up the momentum.

With TLoVM, they confirmed that Season 4 will be airing next year in 2026. It's also been renewed for Season 5 as its final season, which should give them plenty of time to properly cover the Vecna arc from the first campaign. They also shared a sneak peek of the upcoming season, which gave us our first look at the one and only Taryon Darrington and Doty. ( Video embed under the cut. )

On the M9 front, Season 1 will start airing this year on November 19th. In addition, the episodes will be a full hour instead of a half hour like TLoVM, although they didn't mention whether or not the total number of episodes in the season will drop because of that fact. They also shared a sneak peek of what will presumably be the first episode. ( Video embed under the cut. )

In addition, they shared some names of actors who will be guest starts on the first season of M9. There's definitely a couple that have me excited, and I can't wait to find out just who on earth they're going to be playing.

Spoilers under the cut in the form of actors' names but no details about who they're playing save for one who's already been in TLoVM. Some speculation on my part, but nothing official.

Robbie Daymond isn't much of a surprise, considering he was practically a full cast member for a huge chunk of Campaign 3 of Critical Role (with an implication he'll be back for Campaign 4). Plus, you know, he also was in TLoVM. I wonder if they'll have him playing the Gentleman? It would make sense since that's one of the few characters who's introduced early in CR2 and then pops up repeatedly going forward, and they'd probably want someone they could guarantee would definitely be around to voice the character in later seasons.

Mark Strong isn't unexpected either, since we already saw him playing Trent Ikithon in TLoVM during the flashback scene with Ripley. I think it's safe to say that's who he'll continue to be playing in M9.

I was very excited to see both Alan Cumming and Jonathan Frakes on the list, although I'm not certain just who they'll be playing. If Robbie Daymond isn't the Gentleman, Frakes would be my next best guess, but on the other hand I feel like that's leaning too far into Xanatos territory and they probably wouldn't want to re-tread that. Maybe Alan Cumming will be Ludinus? That could be very interesting to see.

Tim McGraw definitely wasn't a name I was expecting to see on the list, and I'm curious who he'll be playing. My best guess would be Lorenzo based on his accent, who I presume will pop up at the end of the season, but if they have flashbacks then he could possibly be Vandran from Fjord's backstory.

I'm amused that they have Ming-Na Wen, Anika Noni Rose, and Auli'i Cravalho are all playing roles. I suspect that Sam Riegel's ties to Disney very much played a role in that, but still. I wasn't expecting to see Mulan, Tiana, and Moana all appear. Personally, I suspect that Ming-Na Wen will be playing Dairon, but I'm not sure about the other two. Maybe Anika Noni Rose is playing Marion? It's not unlikely there will be some flashbacks and such featuring her. I have no idea on Auli'i Cravalho, though.

Rahul Kohli was the only one of the announced guest cast who I'm not that familiar with. I mean, I know who he is, but I don't think I've ever properly watched anything with him in it. The only thing I personally know him from is Stray Gods.

I also wonder if any of the guest stars from the actual campaign (hello, Khary Payton, I'm mainly looking at you) will be making an appearance, and they didn't have them on the list just to make people speculate. Shakäste is such an interesting character, and it would be a shame if they cut him even though it would probably make sense plot-wise.

Overall, I'm very much looking forward to both shows, and I hope it helps bring me properly back into fannishness. With Critical Role on hiatus for months and months now while they do other things leading up to Campaign 4, it's been a little too easy to slip out of being properly fannish about, well, anything. It would be nice to have something airing weekly to draw me back in.

Current Mood: thoughtful

elisi

So this summer we are renting a narrow boat and sailing along some canals. Which will be lovely and very relaxing. But this made me think of these videos from the Faroes, of the ferry Smyril in stormy weather (not the same storm, the videos are years apart):

From a distance:

Watch on YouTube

From inside:

Watch on YouTube

~

In completely other news, Josh Johnson is currently hosting the Daily Show!!

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And finally a fascinating article from The New Yorker:

The First World War, in Sharp Focus
An English chronicler of the trenches, and his wartime romance, captured in long-lost photographs.

nanila

Welcome to a post in which I give unnecessarily elliptical answers to perfectly straightforward questions.

one place you volunteer (or would like to)? Why?

I don’t volunteer consistently at a single venue / charity, but I do public outreach talks for societies and schools. I do it because people seem to like hearing about space, and I’m enthusiastic about it.
one book you'd like to see made into a movie? Why?

I’d still like to see “Neuromancer” visualised. I understand it’s being made into a TV series
one creature (living, extinct, or mythical) you'd like for a pet? Why?

I’m quite happy with my cats, thank you. We are exquisitely compatible.
one place on Earth you'd like to visit? Why?

I’ve travelled a lot in my life. A LOT. I haven’t been to the largest variety of places - mostly North America and Europe with a couple of visits to Kenya - and to be honest, I am not as enamoured with it as I used to be. There are two places I’d still like to see: my father’s birthplace, and the Great Barrier Reef. But if I don’t get the opportunity, I won’t feel like I haven’t seen enough of the world.
one talent or skill you'd like to develop? Why?

I’m pretty good at not spending much time reflecting on the actions of people who have hurt me or made it obvious that they dislike me. What I’d really love to do is have the ability to make that no time at all. Life’s too short.

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cimorene - sewing machine repair
xkcd_feed - Geologic Periods
cornerofmadness in lyricaltitles - Album Challenge 2025 Hazbin Hotel / Maybe He's No Romeo
pauraque - Sunshine Revival Challenge #7
senmut - Sinners thoughts and ideas
lightbird - sunshine_revival Challenge #7
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