Eliyes

It looks like claymation. Even some of the energy effects. (This is not a complaint.)

And an excerpt from a logfile of chatting with kiffie yesterday:

kiffie: Also, Namor - Asshole = never meeting Betty or Jim.
eliyes: Betty would have carried on, her life a bit less rich and weird, but Jim
eliyes: Jim needs Namor
eliyes: as a rival and compatriot and friend
kiffie: Yes.
eliyes: as someone else who doesn't entirely understand the people around him in a way that merely being from another country doesn't cover
kiffie: Yep.
eliyes: and as someone to demonstrate things like the passion Namor has
kiffie: And, for his part, Namor functions pretty well without Jim, but he's happy when he's around that doofy firebot.
kiffie: Steve has lots of passion, but it's fairly one-direction and typically not to the visible extremes that Namor gets to. :V
kiffie: Namor will crush a steel door in his bare hands just because he's excited about bagels. :V

Then we got distracted by Namorita and cupcakes, but -- my point is, sometimes it's like life is an ongoing dialogue with the universe about the relationships between comic book characters.

After kiffie sent me this link: http://hatofunthinking.tumblr.com/image/105368336830

eliyes: is that a werecrow Hawkeye on the right?
eliyes: Kate: ...Hawkeye.
crow!Hawkeye: *caws* Hawkeye
Clint: *caws*
kiffie: Crow!Hawkeye is a good guy, if I'm remembering right.
eliyes: Crow!Hawkeye: *caw!*
Clint: *caw caw!*
Kate: *bitchface*
kiffie: XDDDD
kiffie: Kate: Okay, this is pissing me off -- why the futz aren't you a hawk?
eliyes: Crow!Hawkeye: Because then it wouldn't be significant that I have eyes like a hawk?
kiffie: Clint: *Rennergiggle*
eliyes: Crow!Hawkeye: "Hawk", they'd call me.
eliyes: Kate: ...fair point.

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(we're watching Legend of Sanctuary)

(It's FUCKING AWESOME)

eta: *dances for joy*

taichara: aww lookit the arsehole not honestly engaging but instead going no u because of shaky connections and "the realms doesn't have a unique feel" aren't they precious *pinches cheeks, rips face off*

The Fox by Steeleye Span, for reasons. >_>



( I'll introduce electric fence to every horse and hound )

So, I mentioned I bought some things to cook to celebrate the first day of Autumn. And cook them I did! :Dd

I tried two recipes from Budget Bytes, making Spice Rubbed Roasted Squash (using a buttercup squash) and Oven Roasted Autumn Medley (using everything else).

Everything turned out well, though I made some substitutions. The most obvious being that instead of turkey sausage I used pork roast, and I used a different kind of onion because I'm not really a red onion fan. That and some minor stuff with spices -- I had no basil so I subbed in a half-measure of Italian seasoning, I had no paprika so I put in some ancho -- and I discovered my bakeware was not up to the sizes I was using so I kitbashed some containers made of aluminum foil on pizza pans. (I had forgotten I threw some things out that were older than my eligibility to vote, and also rusty.) Also, my oven wasn't big enough to hold everything at once so I cooked the squash first, then the medley.

Soooo many leftovers. I cooked the whole squash, even though I knew there was no way I was eating more than a quarter of it that day, because if you're gonna put a tonne of squash back in the fridge it might as well be cooked so you can just eat it whenever. If I had put back, say, half the squash raw, I would have just had to throw it out eventually. This way, I have noms! Yesterday I just ate like a quarter of it cold with a spoon (it has about the same texture as a hard-boiled egg yoke... but is a mellower yellow), and today I pureed some to add to a cream of potato soup, which was DELICIOUS with buttered toast and a glass of cold apple cider. I think next time I will halve the spice mixture and cook part of the squash with just some olive oil drizzled on. I love the spicy sweetness, but it will be easier to add leftovers to more things if it's a bit more neutral. (Can you freeze cooked squash? eta: YEP.)

Speaking of apples, I'm going to have to do some research on different apples to use for next time, because the mackintoshes I did use basically melted. That was awesome fresh from the oven -- like a very tart applesauce! -- but didn't do so great in leftovers. I want something firmer.

Was Stiles' frontotemporal dementia something that the nogitsune somehow faked (I can think of 4 or 5 reasons why it would), something it for real caused in him, or something he actually had regardless, AND, does the replica of his body Stiles now inhabits have it or the possibility of it?

A little while ago -- a week, maybe? -- I discovered the tumblr of a fanfic writer I like. Now, I like every fic they wrote that I have ever read, and I went to the tumblr because they have an ongoing story I'm really into and they said they'd be giving updates on how it's coming along there. (Because apparently just getting a notification when the newest chapter is up wasn't enough for me, I dunno.)

This writer, they produce works with excellent structure, great thoughtfulness and depth of characterization, interesting plots, and enjoyable use of language. Really, I like their stuff a lot!

So I was initially excited when I discovered that they post fic recs! Surely, if their writing was to my taste, what they like must be stuff I'll find worth looking at, right?

Turns out no. The stuff they like is either stuff I find too boring or poorly done to really get into, or stuff I actually hate. They made one rec saying, "I don't know why this isn't on every rec list for this fandom" and I actually said out loud, "because it's really bad" (having previously tried to read the story in question).

It's weird, isn't it? You would think someone whose writing we like would like the same sort of stuff we like to read, but it isn't always the case. There have been times when I've read an interview with a published author or a scriptwriter or a poet whose work I enjoy and they've said someone or something was a big inspiration to them, and I've thought, "Wow, I really hated that book/show/etc."

I guess it just proves that even if you're inspired by someone else, even if you think artistic works are inevitably at least somewhat derivative of the the artist's influences, the artist themself -- and what they put into it -- really makes a difference to the audience.

Okay, so, Nicholas Lea played Alex Krycek in The X-Files.
I just found out another Canadian (Nick's from BC) was considered for the role.
Callum Keith Rennie.
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Excuse me, I would like an NCIS/H50 crossover where Tony is related to Rachel on his mother's side. I would like an NCIS fic where the reason Ducky's mother is convinced he's a gigolo is that she's mistaking him for his father. I would like "undercover as a couple" stories about friends who think the whole thing is hilarious and don't end up hooking up. I would like a couple who are in law enforcement of some kind getting mistaken for undercover by the bad guys they weren't expecting to be there. I would like a metric fuckton of McKay/Weir fic, please, and triple that in stories about their friendship. I would like Ezra-centric stories that take into account that he never once canonically called Josiah "Mr. Sanchez". I would like in-character TOS Jim Kirk instead of fanon, pop culture Jim Kirk. I would like clever, interesting casefic with emotional investment, and slice-of-life friendship/family fic, and comedy that isn't based on lying, and plots that don't necessarily revolve around violence, and relationships with equality instead of power imbalance, and banter, and imagination, and hope.

Okay, so the Rawlemon solar collector is an awesome idea and more efficient than photovoltaic panels and will work on parts of the globe where PV panels are just not getting enough sunlight for them to be worth their expense. And they collect solar energy from the moon. That's very cool, and the ickle beta.ey gizmos that can charge a phone look pretty neat.

But I see no reason why we can't have those and Solar Roadways.

Check out this awesome shit:



C'mon, you know you want the giant crystal balls plus the light-up roads, okay. I sure do.