Sense8 Week 2025 Rec List

Jul. 27th, 2025 01:37 pm
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Last month I organized [tumblr.com profile] sense8week, a fandom event to celebrate the show's 10 years. Now that I've read/seen all sense8week works, here's a rec list with my faves.

Medium: fanfic
Fandom: Sense8
Relationships: Felix & Wolfgang, Hernando/Lito/Dani, Amanita/Nomi, Riley & Wolfgang, and Kala/Rajan/Wolfgang
Total: 5 works

See the full list at my journal.

All-Star Squadron #1

Jul. 27th, 2025 06:11 pm
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Writer: Roy Thomas

Pencils: Rich Buckler

Inks: Jerry Ordway


President Roosevelt tries to summon the Justice Society to strike back at the Axis Powers, but many are presumed missing. Who is left to join the All-Star Squadron?


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Thor #280

Jul. 27th, 2025 10:25 am
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Writer: Roy Thomas

Pencils: Wayne Boring

Inks: Tom Palmer


As if one Hyperion wasn’t worse enough, now there’s two of him!


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Storm #10

Jul. 27th, 2025 12:05 am
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If you're one of those fans who doesn't like Storm to be the most awesome at absolutely everything, this isn't your book.

But we're here for the real star of the book! The Sensational Character Find of 1997! That's right, it's time for my boy Maggott to shine!

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July Challenge - Day 26

Jul. 26th, 2025 11:47 pm
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From Special Bulletin

Peel peel
Peel off
The skin.
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It's prompt Number 7 for the [community profile] sunshine_revival, and the carnival/fair theme continues, this time with one of the rides that you can usually see from a distance. (And one of the ones that always makes me nervous when it stops and I'm not on the ground.)

When I see this prompt I can't help but think about how what was once old is new again with the rise of neocities websites and newsletters becoming more prominent in fandom. Like a blast from the past, I'm finding character shrines, fanfic archives, game blogs, and maybe it's inspired me to make my own site as well c:

Whether you started with secret mailing lists or only discovered online fandom this year, we all have a journey to call our own. It only feels appropriate our last prompt of the month is...

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".


That which is old is new again. Often because the new has been disappointing. )
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Titre : Pour un dessin
Auteur : Encre & Chimère (Participant.e 5)
Pour : Gangcheol (Partcipant.e 8)
Fandom : Les Serres sous le velours noir
Persos/Couple : Santi/Vettorio.
Rating : G
Disclaimer : L’univers ne m’appartient pas, il appartient à Charlène Ferlay
Prompt : Un moment où Santi (ou Vettorio) découvre les esquisses de Francesca à leur égard.
- Peut-être à l’un de leurs retours de campagne. Les ressentis de ce dernier (et éventuellement l’autre, s’il l’apprend aussi ?), ce que cela peut mettre en perspective sur la relation qu’entretiennent à l’heure actuelle les deux hommes (désir non assumé, déjà consommé mais compliqué ou même déjà en couple de manière officieuse ?).
Notes : Je ne sais pas si le côté émotionnelle te conviendra, mais j’espère que ta lecture pourra néanmoins te plaire malgré tout

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Teen Titans #3

Jul. 26th, 2025 06:37 pm
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Writer and pencils: Dan Jurgens

Inks: George Perez


Cor blimey, m'ducks. The Mad Mod is back!


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A birthday, and: Caligula

Jul. 26th, 2025 06:48 pm
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The awesome Helen Mirren turns 80 today. Long may she continue to rule and remain with us! I think the first thing I remember watching with her that made me sit up and pay attention was her as D.I. Jane Tennison, but since then she's never disappointed in any role I've seen her in, both before and after Tennison. I have a particular soft spot for her Elizabeth II and Alma Reville, I must confess. Most recently I took up someone's dare and watched "Caligula - The Ultimate Cut". Caligula, if you don't know: Became (in)famous as basically a late 1970s porn movie with famous actors (among others Peter O'Toole as Tiberius, John Guilgud as Nerva, Malcolm McDowell in the title role, Helen Mirren as Caesonia, Caligula's last wife) due to the fact that even for a 1970s movie, it had a crazy production history: first the scriptwriter - none other than Gore Vidal - and the director, Tito Brassi, fell out and Vidal withdrew his name from the script, then the director and the producer fell out, and since the producer was the then owner of Penthouse, he went back to the set with some Penthouse girls, shot some hardcore porn and inserted into the already shot footage. The example most quoted for how this worked was that where the scene had a non-explicit threesome between Caligula, his sister Drusilla and Caesonia, the released version added two other women spying on them and having very explicit hardcore f/f sex while doing so. This caused the director to withdraw his name as well and the actors making somewhat embarrassed quips for the next few decades (other than MacDowell, who was seriously pissed off about the then result, and Mirren, who was debonair about it and called it "an irresistable mixture of art and genitals"). Then in 2024, a dedicated film fan named Thomas Negovan released the result of some serious work - he'd gotten access to all the shot footage, and recut the entire movie, going back to Vidal's script and using exclusively takes not used for the late 1970s release (and none at all from the porn additions, not that the actual movie is without sex scenes, au contraire), with the result that a pleased McDowell praised him for rescueing "one of my best performances" from cinematic oblivion. Reviews I had read did concede that now there is an actual storyline and (some) character development. (A scene in question singled out and compared/contrasted: apparantly, the original cinematic release version had Caligula simply shouting crazily "crawl, crawl!" at the senators, who did it. The Ultimate Cut version, by contrast, has this scene near the end, with some overtones of Camus as Caligula has long gone from delight to disgust at how no matter what he does, people will obey and abase themselves, and the longer version of this scene has him asking for increasingly outrageous things, cultimating in the "crawl, crawl" and the declaration he hates them for being like that. (Mind you, earlier in the movie when one brave young man did stand up for himself, this resulted in Caligula interrupting the guy's wedding night to rape him and his bride both.)

In case you're wondering whether the result is worth watching: depends. Certainly as opposed to, say, I, Claudius' Caligula (and his avatar in Babylon 5, Cartagia), who are evil from the get go - in the case of Graves' Caligula literally from birth, he's already a creepy kid when his parents are stil alive - the Ultimate Cut's Caligula has some humanity in him and the introduction sequence makes a point of providing the audience with the backstory of his father Germanicus dying (in this version definitely courtesy of Tiberius), then Agrippina the Elder and Caligula's older brothers all at Tiberius' orders (unlike the death of Germanicus, this is not disputed), with Caligula and his sister Drusilla as the sole survivors (because in this movie, Caligula's other sisters don't exist, though I'm told the porn version actually identifies one of the women having the hardcore f/f as Agrippina, but as the on screen dialogue makes much of Drusilla and Caligula being the sole survivors, I assume in the porn version's Agrippina the Younger would not have been Caligula's and Drusilla's sister), and their incestuous relationship actually one of the very few human, non-abusive and tender relationships happening in the entire movie, with Caligula having the not unreasonable under the circumstances belief that he needs to be Emperor or he's toast as well, only for absolute power to bring out increasingly the absolute worst in him. Buuuuuuuut this existing personal development does not correspond with a general development, by which I mean that since the movie after the introduction with its tragic backstory for young Caligula and the introduction in which he and Drusilla are in a "we two against the world" mode as each other's sole sources of human affection goes on to present Tiberius' life in Capri as a non-stop orgy already, there's no sense that Rome itself pre Caligula is much different than Rome ruled by Caligula. (Incidentally, about the orgy there and the later orgies, which I assume were shot by the original director, since they're certainly rating M or 18, so to speak, but don't have the actors with dialogue do something more explicit than touch someone's nipples, they're the opposite of tiltillating in that no one gives the impression of actually enjoying themselves as opposed to acting on first Tiberius' and later Caligula's orders. The sole exceptions being the scenes involving Caligula, Drusilla and Caesonia.) The Capri sequence does have a moment that gets across human emotion, which is the Nerva scene they hired Guilgud for: this Nerva isn't the later Emperor; he's an old friend of Tiberius who tells his former pal he can't bear the degredation his once friend has sunk to anymore and commits suicide, and Tiberius' reaction to this is when O'Toole actually gets to do some non-hamming-it-up acting. But mostly it numbs you down in its viciousness and it pretty much sets the tone for the film.

Some of the violence is outré and camp, such as the machine decapitating people in the arena who are buried up to their necks in sand, and thus hard to take seriously; otoh the whole Caligula first menaces and then rapes the young couple sequence is violence of a very different type, and genuinely frightening. Drusilla and Caesonia are the two outstanding female roles (and the sole women with personalities); it's another interesting contrast to the I, Claudius versions, in that Drusilla there was a none-too-bright but not personally malicious ditz, whereas here she's depicted as not without her own ruthlessness (she talks Caligula into getting rid of Macro, for example), but also smart and (within this movieverse) sensible, and later the sole person with the courage to argue with Caligula; it's her death (by illness) that removes whatever restraint he has left. Caesonia, too, is depicted as a smart woman (described in dialogue as profligate, but we don't see her having sex with anyone other than Caligula, and in the one threesome scene with Drusilla); Mirren gets hardly any lines in the first half of the movie when Drusilla is still alive but conveys a lot with facial acting, and then in the second half (when she is the character he has most dialogues with) basically becomes the sole person a) aware why Caligula is actually doing all of this ("Do you have to show them your contempt so openly?" "I don't know how else to provoke them"), and b) who among the various sycophants around them still has it in them to be dangerous. As opposed to Drusilla, she doesn't argue with Caligula directly, but she is great at keeping the balance between presenting her critique in a playfull manner and challenging him but withdrawing the moment she senses it could go against her and distracting any ire to another target while returning to her subject in a different way. It's a good role for a young Helen Mirren; this Caesonia is neither a good person nor an evil overlady but a cunning survivor (right until she gets murdered directly after Caligula, that is).

Around these interesting character depictions, however, is, as mentioned above, non-stop viciousness (some sexual, some not) to a degree that it just numbs you down emotionally. In a word: Grimdark. I've said elsewhere that the reason why I, Claudius works in a way many of its imitations didn't is that I, Claudius doesn't just consist of its spectacular villains (be they Livia or Caligula, the two main antagonists, or Sejanus), but offers a sympathetic main character and some other non-evil supporting characters you actually care about, so that when bad things happen to them, you feel for them. None of the various victims and/or targets in Caligula gets enough personality to make it to memorable human being, with the arguable exceptions of Nerva (in the Tiberius sequence) and of the young couple whom Caligula rapes for no other reason that the bridegroom pissed him off by standing up for himself. Drusilla and Caesonia, as mentioned, are interesting and Caligula himself certainly is a charismatic performance by McDowell, who manages to get across Caligula's inner scared child who never grew up along with the increasingly destructive and self destructive nihilism as he figures out that "I can do whatever I want" is neither safe nor as satisfying as he'd assumed but essentially empty. It's now discernable why so many good actors actually signed on to this project (beyond the cash they got). But I wouldn't say their (good) performances are enough reason to put yourself through nearly three numbing hours of grimdark. (Sorry, Thomas Negovan.)

Sailor Mars redraw

Jul. 26th, 2025 06:20 pm
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Sailor Mars was my favourite Sailor Guardian, and I've wanted to redraw a frame of her wearing pink dungarees for a while (the original frame is here). I have a lot of free time lately, so I decided to finally draw it.

Maybe next time I'll even dig out my graphic tablet and try to actually use colours.

Rei Hino wearing dungarees )

Superman #32

Jul. 26th, 2025 03:48 pm
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Writer: Roger Stern

Pencils: Kerry Gammill

Inks: Dennis Janke


Superman: Exile.

Mongul decides to do what his champion could not and steps up to finish Superman.


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Speak Up Saturday

Jul. 26th, 2025 02:04 pm
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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

A walk to Dothill

Jul. 26th, 2025 12:35 pm
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Dothill is on the moorland side of town and is an interesting combo of marshland, wetland and lakes.

This path takes you in once you walk through Donnerville Spinney to get there:



More pics! )

Song Saturday - Set It Off

Jul. 26th, 2025 11:30 am
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I’m sure I had another video I had in mind for Song Saturday as well as this one, but can I remember it? Nope.

But anyway here is Set It Off - Rotten. (Morning for flashing lights)



So Set It Off finally do another video! After having teases for prior ones that never came I felt Rotten would be the same. But they really ramped up the teasers for this one and I was kinda hyped, especially cause of the one blood.

Unfortunately this came out during the bad heatwave that made me sick so I watched it that first time in a daze. I had been meant to do a rewatch and kinda lost track. So figured song Saturday was a good excuse.

First the song itself. I like it, it’s heavier than their other stuff and i do like that (other than the bad egg voiceover at the end which feels random). I think on of my fav of the lines is about bodies rotting in the basement.

Onto the vid itself. The aforementioned flashing is a bit overdone (and probably didn’t help with the first watch. It’s a mix of the band performing in a space (feels like a garage or basement) with the lights flashing and then other scenes with the guys in hotel rooms.

The first shot of Maxx of him watching a screen has the vibe of him being hypnotised by it but… it doesn’t t go further than that for him whcih gahh it’s so frustrating. Zach’s goes a little further but again it’s too short. Of course Cody, being the singer gets the lions share (which yeah is standard singer gets most attention) but does feel frustrating especially since most of his is singing in front of a mirror until he spits out blood. Which yeah it’s a cool visual but I just wish it went further you know?

(I just wished Maxx did more than just stare at the screen and drum)

****

Other things now.

I kinda spent yesterday zoned out which was annoying. Maybe cause of being out Thursday but it felt my brain switched off a bit which was annoying.

There was a hasbro thing at comic con with figure announcements and I was hoping there’d be one of the two ones I hoped for (Qimir and ND-5) and ahhh! They’re finally releasing a Qimir! And ahhh he’s coming out this year! I’m so hyped I’m gonna get him as soon as preorders go up!

While there’s not an ND-5 figure there is gonna be a book featuring him out next year which is hype. I really need to get back to reading my Star Wars books though.

I have been on Donkey Kong Bananza some more and I did the forest layer, though now I have to go back to the freezer layer. It’s really odd though, of all the animals they could have chosen for the layer which is, as the name suggests, snow themed what animal do they go for? Zebra. That’s such an odd choice.

Also yay my MCC cards are finally on there way, yipee!

I’m hoping to post the fic on ao3 at some point today, if my focus is up to it. At least ao3 isn’t blocked by that stupid online safety nonsense.

But for now I’m gonna watch a random Murder She Wrote on tv before the Seapeekay stream. Though I just heard the other day there gonna be a reboot and Jamie Lee Curtis is gonna be Jessica Fletcher which… I’m not sure about.

As always I’m sure I’m forgetting something which will no doubt come to me later.

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