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I don't usually post about politics but I was reading an I fucking Love Australia (blog name) Substack article, and watching the YT video it discusses - a recent TV debate on the UK's Piers Morgan show featuring: "Three economists. Steve Keen, Australian, blunt as a brick to the back of the skull. Stephen Moore, Trump’s old bagman, professional spruiker for whatever the orange wrecking ball is shoving down America’s throat this week. And Professor Jiang Xueqin, the game theorist from Beijing, who showed up to deliver a eulogy for the American century with the polite, almost sympathetic tone of a doctor telling the family it’s time to switch off the machine."

The article's funny (written by Aussies) and chilling, and worth reading if you can stand to peek into The Horrors now and then. It describes and elaborates on the highlights of the televised debate so you don't necessarily need to watch that as well, but both links are below. I'm pretty sure the Substack article is accessible to anyone, whether or not they're subscribed to the blog, but in case it's hard to access here's a copy. Note that there's a glossary of Aussie slang used in the article at the end, for anyone unfamiliar with the terms.

The Piers Morgan show YT vid
The Substack aticle Nobody Wants To Come To America, Mate

lannamichaels

Enjoyable! Often relevant! So far so good :D

My notes behind cut.

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cinaed

( In which the party spends four months separated on their own quests and most rejoin to attempt to speak with the princess they were warned was in potential danger )

mific

1. Ilya's eyes being described as blue or (worse) "sparkling blue". In the books they're definitely hazel and by the kind of spooky luck that accompanied Connor and Hudson's casting, Connor's eyes are also hazel, or sometimes gray-green. They're not fucking blue. And he's not blond, either! Evidence below. (why is he so gorgeous jfc dies)

portrait shot of Connor Storrie with a faint smile, in a cream designer suit and bilateral earrings.

portrait shot of Connor Storrie with a faint smile, in a cream designer suit and bilateral earrings.

2. Why do some authors of fics name Jackie and Hayden Pike's second twin Emma, rather than Jade as she is in the books? It's not just one author, either. Fannish contamination as they haven't read canon? Is Jade named in the show - maybe she isn't?

3. Having done some minimal research of my own, this one's more a question for anyone who's learned Russian. "I love you" in Russian is in several fics (and also, I just learned, in the books!) as Ya lyublyu tebya - unlike in the show (which had a Russian language expert advisor), or in google translate, where it's always Ya tebya lyublyu (literally: I you love). I assume that the second version is correct in terms of Russian grammar, and that fanwriters are copying RR, not realising that she got it wrong?

sholio

I have read book 8 (the new one) and loved it, but I haven't posted about it for reasons of general mental overwhelm as mentioned in the last post. (There was a lot in that book!) I decided to reread the first few chapters of book 1 for the early character intros, and uhhhhh I've now reread my way through to fairly late in book 3.

Random thoughts about these early books below, including potential spoilers for the whole series here and in comments.

( In no particular order )

sholio

The first half of this month was A Lot - mostly family stuff, mostly not bad stuff, just A Lot - and I kept thinking I was going to summarize things, but in the end, I was too tired, and there was too much. (Basically a number of relatives were in town, some staying with me, and I was so peopled out past a certain point that I just sort of collapsed when everyone left.)

Things are much better now! I do have in-laws to deal with this upcoming week, but I'm looking forward to having more time to be online and more mental bandwidth.

So naturally I tripped and signed up for an exchange.

Outside POV Flash. This is a flash exchange - 300 wd minimum, 1 week writing period, 1 fandom request/offer minimum. Signups close tomorrow.

Yes, this is a shameless attempt to lure in more fandom-compatible people. It's only a week! It's only 300 wds! Maybe someone might want a warm-up for IPQ, you never know ...

Other things currently ongoing -

summerofhorrorexchange is in signups! This exchange has slightly unique rules so see post here. (I don't think I can do this one this summer, because I also have assignments in both Whumpex and IPQ, but I've really enjoyed it all the times I've done it!)

It's finally spring here, and I'm so ready. Except for the sudden but inevitable pollen.

cinaed

( In which the party finishes the fight with the prior’s manifestations of guilt and learn information about a princess and daughter of their greatest enemy )

mrkinch

Rather than get up at 4:15 to get to Inspiration Trail by dawn I stayed in bed with the cat, going up a little later to take Loop Road. It was a beautiful morning and nearly all the summer regulars put in an appearance. While I was leaning on the forked tree a little up Laurel Canyon (a convenient place to leave unneeded layers) I had very nice views of a male Allen's Hummingbird working the wild honeysuckle. I hadn't seen one well in several weeks. There was a Western Tanager heard from the usual area, multiple Western Warbling Vireos, and both larger flycatchers were very vocal. When I stopped at the top of the Little Farm on return I was able to get diagnostic views of several Violet-green Swallows, both their shiny green backs and their white faces, in part because they occasionally perch on fences rather than staying airborne at all times. But the biggest surprise was finding a Chipping Sparrow on the grass with the Dark-eyed Juncos. I didn't get a all around view of it so we'll see what the mods say, but there have been several in the area lately. ( The list: )

Before returning to the car I went down into Blue Gum picnic area and watched Chestnut-backed Chickadees, Bushtits, and Lesser Goldfinches in a large patch of hemlocks. So many tiny birds!

mrkinch

It was warm and windy today, so relatively pleasant but terrifying in the long run. I had two, possibly three Downy Woodpeckers apparently chasing either other at the top of Lower Packrat. That was a treat. There were two or three nearly full-grown Mallard ducklings on Jewel Lake! By now they are too big for either the bullfrogs (which were cleared out last year but have unfortunately returned) or a passing Great Blue Heron. Other fun thing was a Western Wood-pewee at Jewel Lake. I don't expect them down in the Canyon. ( The list: )

The Swainson's Thrushes sang a few times this morning, first of the year for U and Chris. What thrilling song, the way it spirals upward, as though it's not going to end but just keep going higher and higher.

sholio

The ~~threatened~~ promised Crusade vid!

No Babylon 5 spoilers; this is just clips from Crusade. It's my usual style of teamy found-family-on-a-spaceship vid. I'm sure everyone is shocked.

Watch on Vimeo

Song: Bye Bye Pride
Artist: Del Amitri
Download: Download 260 Mb zip file (MP4)
Crosspost: Also posted on AO3.

clavally

I wanted to separate this entry from the book reviews because I want my book reviews to always be their own entries, but this entry also concerns Dungeon Crawler Carl.

You see, as I read the series, I started wishing there was a tabletop RPG of it that I could play. And, lo and behold, a friend pointed me to a crowdfunding site where they were raising money for an officially licensed TTRPG and also a deck-based game. When I found it, there was only 48 hours left of the campaign, and I swear I read, and reread, and reread all the pledge levels and obsessed over everything you could get, and, well, I have no self-control, so I dipped into my savings and pledged a level that got me the official rule book and compendium, both book form, and digital, a whole mess of accessories like dice, dice bags, dice trays, artwork, stickers, etc. It also came with the deck game and an expansion pack. I also got the Roll20 add-on, so I can play it online. I spent way too much, but I'm so happy I bought it. If nothing else, I've been thinking about writing a Sentinel/Dungeon Crawler Carl fusion fic, and the game books will help me with writing that.

The only trouble is, it's not even in production yet. I have to wait until at least October before I get any of it!

Anyways, I hope you're all doing well. I'll try not to be such a stranger.

clavally

Hello all, long time, no see. The whole time I've been gone, I've been reading book after book after book, and I didn't want to stop to write a review before continuing on. And, now that I've finished all the books that are currently released in the series, I figured now was as good a time as any to write some reviews.

Title: The Gate of the Feral Gods
Author: Matt Dinniman
Series: Dungeon Crawler Carl, book #4
Genre: Science Fiction

REVIEW: 4.5 Stars. Another interesting setting and quest to be able to get to the next level of the dungeon. Loved the way it was solved. Fast read, exciting, what more could you want.

Title: The Butcher's Masquerade
Author: Matt Dinniman
Series: Dungeon Crawler Carl, book #5
Genre: Science Fiction

REVIEW: 4.5 Stars. We're starting to get more lore in this book. Loved the concept, again. This is the 6th floor, known as The Hunting Grounds, in which tourists can come and hunt the crawlers for their gear and just for kicks at killing famous crawlers? And of course the crawlers are hunting them right back.

Title: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Author: Matt Dinniman
Series: Dungeon Crawler Carl, book #6
Genre: Science Fiction

REVIEW: 4.5 Stars. This plot was ridiculous in all the best ways. The theme for this level is best described as Pokeman decks. Also, we got a lot of lore dump, and the game AI is slowly going insane, and quickly going rogue. A really fun read.

Title: This Inevitable Ruin
Author: Matt Dinniman
Series: Dungeon Crawler Carl, book #7
Genre: Science Fiction

REVIEW: 5 Stars. This was non-stop action from beginning to end. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. It's another floor of crawlers vs. tourists, but with armies and a capture-the-castle storyline. Loved it!

Title: A Parade of Horribles
Author: Matt Dinniman
Series: Dungeon Crawler Carl, book #8
Genre: Science Fiction

REVIEW: 5 Stars. There aren't words for how much I loved the concept of this floor of the dungeon. Three words for you: The Cannonball Run. Yes, really, only there were 7 different races and each race had a different setting and obstacles. HUGE lore dump at the end that I can't stop thinking about. To be honest, when I finished the 7th book, it was a few days before the 8th book released, so I immediately starting listening to the audiobook of book 1 (I read it on Kindle the first time through), and after I finished book 8, I was really glad I restarted the series because there are a few things I want to take notes on throughout all the books.

Guys, really, read this series. Although, I suppose if you're not a fan of RPG video games or table top games like dungeons & dragons, you might not like it. But take a chance, anyway!

mrkinch

Today was gorgeous! Clear all morning, no wind. I got up there quite early and heard an amazing dawn chorus. Very nearly all the locals were singing, although I didn't find Bushtits or the smaller Woodpeckers. (Interestingly, the European Starlings seem not to have stayed around. Yay?) I heard two Ash-throated Flycatchers and again there was a Bullock's Oriole singing. At the north end I walked down a ways for no particular reason, though not as far as the singing MacGillivray's Warbler as it's quite steep. Most fun was a little Warbler wave in the pines of the dip, at least one Hermit Warbler as well as a Townsend's. I know there were Northern Yellow Warblers around, but today I simply could not hear them. ( The list: )

There's been a marked lack of raptors recently. I'm fairly sure a Cooper's Hawk flew across the trail this morning, they are the only one I've seen or heard in weeks, but not sure enough.

mific

I like it when friends post "a day in the life" with pics, so here's my version. It's only a little bit "day in the life" though - it's mostly "autumn in my neighbourhood", but that's fun, too.

I was up late (reading HR fanfic ofc) so slept in to about 10 am (6-7 hours sleep), then pottered about getting ready for the Junk2Go blokes to arrive. Two days before I'd hired a guy called Birol off a tradie hook-up site we have here where you post about a job you want done and people looking for work give you a quote. I'd finally seen sense and realised I was never going to tidy and reorganise my garage myself, let alone assemble the flatpack shelving unit that'd been languishing under dusty crap for the past three years. (The garage is potting shed, storage, and laundry.) So Birol (who reminded me a bit of Bogdan from The Thursday Murder Club) had arrived, and with me supervising, had assembled the shelves and sorted out the garage. Then today the Junk2Go guys took away the heap of junk and flattened cardboard boxes. Vast improvement! I still have bench tidying to do, but it's manageable now.

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The rest of my day was given over, as ever, to reading fanfic, finishing my Heated Rivalry rewatch, and doing podfic archiving on the Audiofic Archive. A good day. Hugs to you all! ❤️

lannamichaels

Title: Drabble: Ned Stark's Firstborn.
Author:

lannamichaels
Fandom: A Song Of Ice & Fire/Game Of Thrones
Rating: G
A/N: As threatened, the one where Jon Snow is Ned Stark's bastard.
Archives: Archive Of Our Own, SquidgeWorld

Summary: Her name was Jeyne Ley.

( Drabble! )

sholio

There are three of these books, the latter two are basically out of print, but I did get my hands on a copy of the first one from back in the 2000s. Some things I found interesting are below, but the book stops before (I gather) the TNT meddling really got underway.

( A few bits and pieces from the book below )

mrkinch

When I arrived the weather looked good, but when the sun came up, the fog came in. It's supposed to go the other way! Anyway, it was sufficiently unpleasant that I turned back at the corner rather than continue through the bit of trail that gets the worst wind. Between the weather and the shortened route the list is some ten species shorter than the last one. No one specially interesting showed up. I briefly heard one MacGillivray's Warbler and again quite a few Lazuli Buntings. Lots of Purple Finches singing, an Olive-sided Flycatcher was calling, and the Northern Flicker was again drumming on the tower. ( The list: )

No raptors out on a morning like this one. Friday looks better so I'll try again then.

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Trigger warning: politics

[Daf Yomi] Maseches Chullin perek 1, HaKol Shochatin

Astvanor Session 185 (5/22)

Three HR fanon things that annoy or baffle me

Dungeon Crawler Carl reread

Too much, but maybe some exchanges will help

Astvanor Session 184 (5/1)

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5/18/2026 Lower Packrat Trail

Vid: Crusade - Pride

And now for something the same, but different

Book Review: Books 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series

5/15/2026 Inspiration Trail

Day in the autumn life

"Drabble: Ned Stark's Firstborn." (ASOIAF) G

I got my hands on JMS's first "Making of Crusade" book

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