Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 08:12 am
In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

Happy Lantern Festival, as the first Full Moon of the Chinese New Year dawns... or dusks... you know what II mean?

Those of us hoping for at least one month of the current US Presidemcy which wasn't an entire new verse of "We Didn't Start the Fire" were disappointed again when the US and Israel decided to bomb Iran. And those wondering "Why" have the disturbing benefit of multiple choices answers, as Trump, Vance, Rubio and Netenyahu all appear to have different explanations.

The fact folks were instantly able to point to a series of tweets from 2012 when Trump speculated that Obama would, because of plummetting popularity declare war on Iran as a distraction has not gone un-noticed.

Sigh...

We bid a sad farewell to co-creator of Red Dwarf, Rob Grant, who passed away at the age of 70. "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!"

I've not watched the new Monarch: Legacy of Monsters episode yet, but I have high hopes.

I did watch the latest Starfleet Academy which is a strange mix between working through grief via "Our Town" (a 1938 meta-textual play which, as far as I am aware, has no real pop culture relevance outside the US) and a rather beautiful subplot (Which was a lot stronger than the actual plot IMHO) with Robert Picardo's Doctor and SAM.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 01:39 am


The feelings General Glory inspires in me are…mixed. I think he was useful as comic relief in the JLI’s last year-and-change, when the stories were otherwise leaning toward heaviness. I don’t miss him at all, but I think he’s fun in small doses.

A five-issue introductory arc is nobody’s idea of a small dose, and “Glory Bound” has some logical flaws on top of that. But Giffen and DeMatteis are interesting even when they go astray, Linda Medley knows her stuff, and the plot gets off to a promising start.

Like the priest at Mister Miracle’s funeral, this is a Kirby tribute that I suspect left Kirby more annoyed than gratified. )
Monday, March 2nd, 2026 08:28 pm
1. Even though the only caffeine I had yesterday was in the morning, I had so much trouble sleeping, so I'm feeling pretty tired tonight. I am hoping that I will be able to get to sleep easily because of that. Fingers crossed!

2. I'm going to be making some store visits over the next few weeks to talk to the store managers and accounting staff about the upcoming new system and to see what current accounting practices are at each store to see what they need to prepare for, since the new system will have some big changes for invoice processing. I went to two stores today and am also kind of feeling worn out from so much talking, not just the lack of sleep, but it was nice to do something other than WFH or in the office.

3. The weather is much nicer today than it has been the past few days.

4. Chloe also approves of the new lounger but it's not as good as the ratty cardboard box next to it.

Monday, March 2nd, 2026 08:15 pm
Please come back soon, AO3. I know it's not even been a full two days yet since the site started having issues, but I've missed you. Don't make me have to delve into the horrors that is FF.net in order to get my fanfiction fix.

(Honestly, I'm mostly amused that it's been working fine when I haven't been online but the moment that I had a free minute to try to pull up a fic, that's when it's gone down. There have been several times now where I've checked the status and it was just updated minutes earlier.)
Monday, March 2nd, 2026 06:16 pm
I really don't know why I bother uploading fic anymore.

I managed to get a 10k fic loaded between all of AO3's ups and downs. In the not quite 24 hours since, WITH MORE OUTAGES, I've had two comments which were BOTH ART SPAM.

Like. Fuck you spammers. Comments are the icing on the cake, but I swear to fuck getting one of you makes me want to never ever post fic again. Especially when that is the BULK OF THE COMMENTS I GET NOW.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 12:26 am
Glass ball with distorted image of upside-down shells seen through it.
"There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story.
You never quite know where they'll take you." (Beatrix Potter)


We're doing the occasional writing quote again this month. Today's quote was chosen by [personal profile] sylvanwitch on an image by [personal profile] ysilme.

Tally:
Welcome post

Day 1:: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] glinda, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

Let us know if we missed you or if you didn't check in for a while, so we can add you. Of course joining the fun is possible at any point.

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[personal profile] ysilme here: 566 works for the new drawer draft. I hadn't been able to properly focus on creative writing for several months due to circumstances outside my control, surviving on alibi sentences and random snippets. While it's been interesting to see where my writing mind went with the daily randomness it was and still is a bit of a struggle to get back into continous work at one project at a time. The first step had been alibi sentence but for the same WIP every day, followed by small snippets of the same. As a next step I've tackled revamping a larger drawer fic I wasn't happy with any longer and also wanted to convey into an English version, and am now completely rewriting it as a draft while getting rid of an embarrassing amount of bad plotting, characterisation and writing. *lol*

[personal profile] sylvanwitch here: 508 words on "Dixon and the Detective" for me today.
Monday, March 2nd, 2026 04:20 pm

⌈ Secret Post #6996 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 29 secrets from Secret Submission Post #999.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Monday, March 2nd, 2026 02:48 pm
I really enjoyed this season of Bridgerton despite being mostly indifferent to Benedict as a character. Yerin Ha as Sophie was everything - I really hope this launches her into a long, bright career. spoilers )

In other fannish news, I saw some folks on bsky discussing who the best lightsaber duelist is in Star Wars, and since I didn't really know the people being quoted, I took myself to tumblr to post about it. I also texted my eldest nephew, who is the biggest Anakin and Obi-Wan fan I know (which, given some of the fangirls I know, is saying something) and his knee-jerk response was Anakin*. Which is the wrong answer, so we argued back and forth a bit, and he came around to my way of thinking that it has to be Obi-Wan, even though we never see him go up against Palpatine or Mace Windu (who may have beaten Palpatine if not for Anakin).

I did see people saying Ahsoka, because she survives Maul, Vader, and very briefly, Palpatine, but as much as I love her, she survives and escapes. She doesn't win. The list of Obi-Wan's duels is extensive and no one ever even lays a blade on him that I recall (though he doesn't beat Dooku, which was an argument my nephew made, and Anakin eventually does) until he puts up his saber and lets Vader kill him. Like, is Obi-Wan destroyed emotionally and psychologically by dueling with Anakin? One hundred percent! But he still wins until not winning is the best way to win in the long-term.

*I think you can make a case for him when he's Vader, but even then, Obi-Wan beats him on Mustafar and he only wins on the Death Star because Obi-Wan lets him. In the OWK show, he maybe sets Obi-Wan on fire a little but Obi-Wan takes no real damage in any of their fights until the Death Star.

*
Monday, March 2nd, 2026 06:12 pm
tl;dr: I, uh, had a "bad cold" that turned out to be pneumonia that landed me briefly in hospital and took a while to properly recover from. I'm fine now though, honestly, back to factory settings.

Anyway, I wrote a Pluribus fic for an exchange that's proving quite popular amongst the sort of people who enjoy being punched in the face. Previous summaries I considered were Literally no one consented to this and Helen haunts the narrative, and also Carol.


Dilaudid (Pluribus; Carol/Zosia, Carol/Helen; 2k)

7. Zosia is a honey trap. Don’t fall for it.

[A Few Moments Later]

13. Zosia is a honey trap. Don’t fall for it AGAIN.

Or,

Carol Sturka and the difference between real and real enough.