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Fugitive Telemetry
by Martha Wells

This is the 6th Murderbot book and it's the equivalent of what in TV is termed a bottle-episode in that it is self-contained and takes place in a single location. Fugitive Telemetry is a murder mystery that takes place entirely on Preservation Station. When a dead body turns up on the station, the station authorities reluctantly bring Murderbot into the investigation.
I enjoyed this one a lot. The mystery is good - it went in a few unexpected places and involved a very interesting situation which I don't want to spoil. I liked how Murderbot's working relationship with station security developed.

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Writer: Dan Vado

Pencils: Mozart Couto

Inks: Ken Branch

The Justice League must stop a rampaging Ronnie Raymond.

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https://xkcd.com/3144/

People looking for the gaps in our understanding where the meaning of consciousness or free will might hide often turn to quantum uncertainty or infinite cosmologies, as if we don't have breathtakingly complex emergent phenomena right there in our freezers.

https://xkcd.com/3144/

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Challenge 197
The new theme is...
Flower Power 2
🌻 🌺 🌼 🥀 🌷

For this challenge we can create icons that show flowers or any floral designs and decorations.
The one is a do over of challenge 108 - which was the final challenge directed by the original admin before they let me adopt this community in 2019.
For easier entering and inspiration, I supplied some screen caps here, mostly from animated movies. A few of them may also be good to crop into backgrounds to use if you don't have any other floral icon textures.
( Inspo Icons. ... )

( Challenge Guidelines, Directions & Rules... )

( 20 Inspo Screen Caps.... )

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the_shoshanna

We booked the aisle and window seats and even though they announced it was a full flight, no one has shown up for the middle! We would have offered them the window so that Geoff could have the aisle, but now we have the whooooooole row, and I'm pretty sure they've now secured the cabin doors! WIN.

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Writer: Paul Kupperberg

Pencils: Erik Larsen

Inks: Gary Martin

It is up to the adult members of the Doom Patrol to take on Shrapnel.

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spikedluv

This was a no-shopping day!! But I did get in a walk around the park while I was downtown. I also visited my aunt, hand-washed dishes, went for a walk with Pip and the dogs, put a chuck roast in the crock pot, and took mom to a dr. appt.

I finished the Duncan Kincaid book, read some fanfic, and watched some HGTV programs.

Temps started out at 45.1(F) and reached 78.4. I was not brave enough to wear shorts first thing in the morning, but I did change into them mid-morning! It was still only 64 degrees at that time, but much better than 45! I was glad later on that I had.

Mom Update:

Mom was doing pretty well in the morning, but she was exhausted by the time we got home from her doctor appointment. ( more back here )

sabotabby

You should stop whatever you're doing and listen to Wizards & Spaceships' latest, "The Science Bros Answer Your Science Questions Part 2." There's a lot of explaining physics (and the problems with time travel, but also how mutable the immutable laws of the universe might be), and more slagging off the idea of Mars colonization. But most importantly there's a bit about dragon evolution that is rad as hell. It will make your day.

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Writer: J.M. DeMatteis

Pencils: Keith Giffen

Inks: Dave Hunt

The Lords of Order have surrendered to the coming of the Lords of Chaos, but Nabu refuses to give up. He abducts a young boy named Eric Strauss and makes him the new Doctor Fate.

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adore

Moontime began today. My cramps were affecting me even before my moontime began. I got skin patches that are supposed to be for sleep, because they have magnesium, L-theanine and valerian which also relieve cramps. I tried them and they work! The patches also have melatonin and chamomile and so on for sleep, but wearing one during the day didn't make me sleepy. Taking a walk for an hour helped ease the cramps, too.

My gut is absolutely wrecked though, and I don't know what to do about that. It's utterly exhausting me. Probably the prostaglandins going overboard.

I started watching Bon Appetit, Your Majesty in which a modern-day chef goes back in time to the Joseon era and captivates people's tastebuds, ending up in the royal kitchens. I was expecting it to be cozy but while the cooking and eating bits are cozy, the rest of it is hella stressful because the royals are all pieces of work and the male lead is a tyrant king. Our chef is in mortal danger every episode even though all she's trying to do is cook and get by peacefully until she can find her way back to 2025 😭 not the ideal moontime watch, so I'm looking for something else. I do have a bunch of cozy fantasy books amassed from a couple of sales. I'm currently reading an ARC of Lidiya Foxglove's Wanted: Brooding Man, Tragic Past which releases in a couple of days and which is delightful. Not cozy but not uncozy either, and that's a middle ground I enjoy.

( Figuring out an author newsletter )

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So what's your pick for saddest Justice League story?

(Warning for sads, and for intense examples.)

( CRY FOR JUSTICE did indeed make me cry, but not the way the creators were hoping it would. )

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settiai

I wanted to take a minute to type up my plans for the weekend while I'm thinking about it. I'll probably type up a proper to-do list sometime tomorrow (well, I suppose it's technically today at this point) so that I can mark things off as I do them, but I thought it would help to at least come up with a summary of sorts.

( More under the cut. )

In general? I'm really hoping that Monday will mark a new beginning of sorts. That's the plan, as long as the universe cooperates. 🤞🏻

Life has been exhausting even without all of the stuff going on in the US in general, and I'm just so fucking tired. I need a new beginning, even if "autumn is finally here" is a relatively arbitrary one.

Current Mood: sleepy

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torachan

1. We were supposed to get a lot of rain, but that seems to have blown over. We did get a little rain last night (I was awake in bed to hear it, which is always lovely) and it was raining again this morning when I went out for my walk, so instead of walking around the neighborhood and getting wet (I did take an umbrella but it would still be blowing in from the sides) I walked over to the parking structure across the street and just did laps in there for about the same distance I usually walk.

2. Just one more day before the weekend!

3. We've been getting some really delicious grapes lately. They're called autumn crisp, which is not a variety I'd heard of before, but they live up to their name. Suuuuuuper crisp, which is just how I like my grapes, and a nice sweet flavor (I don't like them too sour).

4. Oh, too sleep as easy as a kitty!

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TOTALLY CRUSHED

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Title: Experiments in Dynamic Translation
Fandom: Guardian (TV)
Rating: E-rated
Length: 9,017 words
Notes: Part of my Breakage and Repair 'verse. In which Shen Wei and I both discover kink from first principles. Much much thanks to

teaotter for beta!
(Riddles and conundrums are in the same ballpark, right?)
Tags: Chu Shuzhi/Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Established Relationship, Domesticity, Soft D/s, Unplanned/Impromptu Kink, Identity Porn (literal).
Summary: It’s been just over ten weeks since his and Da Qing’s return to the land of the living, and in that time, Shen Wei has not yet had occasion to don his robes of office in front of Shuzhi—or indeed, to conduct any Envoy business at all in his presence. He’s visited the SID once or twice on official matters, but only in Haixing clothes, and he’s been sure to keep his manner light and casual in the public areas. Formal liaising is for the privacy of Zhao Yunlan’s office.

Now, faced with the prospect of a Dixing state dinner, Shen Wei discovers he’s slipped into—not so much keeping secrets as compartmentalising. Again.

( Experiments in Dynamic Translation )

brithistorian

This popped up on my playlist today while I was doing some yardwork and I loved it. When I came in, I watched the video, and I loved it more: They were apparently copying Weeekly's aesthetic, which I fine with me: I can always use more of Weeekly's aesthetic, especially now that Weeekly has disbanded. Enjoy!

Watch on YouTube

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Thursday Recs, let's go!

Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!

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