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Chapter Thirteen , Chapter Fourteen and Chapter Fifteen of Magister 3 by

gilescandy.

EW offers advice on "how to celebrate its 20th anniversary : EW is exclusively revealing details about the show’s San Diego Comic-Con fan event".

rahirah

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Posted by Lusana Taylor

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https://www.thefword.org.uk/?p=20102

This week's collection of interesting links from around the web chosen by the F-Word team

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https://www.thefword.org.uk/?p=20102

petzipellepingo

Lessons , Giles/Buffy by kiss_me_cassie.

Chapter Four of New Beginnings by

forsaken2003.

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Current Mood: worried

beer_good_foamy

...may be the single weirdest hour of television ever produced. Seriously. If the first seven episodes were David Lynch not giving a fuck about what people expect and doing whatever he wanted, then this is him just letting go and not even thinking about what he wants but just disintegrating his ideas into pure patterns of light and sound. It makes Eraserhead look like Bicycle Thieves. It's beautiful, it's horrifying, and it's... rrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeally fucking weird, and somehow still advances the plot more than maybe any other episode in the entire series, and I love it, I love it, I love it.

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/1855/

I was banned from the airliners.net photography forum by concerned moderators after the end of my lens started brushing against planes as they flew by.

https://xkcd.com/1855/

spikewriter

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Current Mood: :: tosses confetti ::

rydra_wong

sashayed: It’s Not That Bad to F— Up While Calling Your Senator About Something Important

To prove this point, she presents actual transcripts of messages she left on her senators' voicemail, with her reaction gifs.

Sample:

Hi, uh, Sen. [Name]. And staff. [Nervous laughter.] My name is [Rave Sashayed] and I’m a constituent from [place where I vote]. I just wanted to call to thank you for standing up against the AHCA in the Senate. I–it’s an incredibly cruel and stupid and – and vicious bill. You know? And I’m not, like – a person who used to call her Senators all the time! know? I’m, like, a normal person! [Nervous laughter] But this – it’s crazy to me that this bill could become legislation. It directly affects me, it directly affects the people I love. I mean, it kicks millions of people off of Medicare for a tax break for – I mean. You know this. You’re. Uh. A Senator. So. You’ve read the bill. Um.

I would like to remind people that I phoned my MP's office and actually stated (completely incorrectly and randomly) that I lived in a place which said MP does not represent, had this pointed out to me and had to correct myself. AND YET (like Sashayed) I LIVE.

Right now, it looks like the Senate is wavering. Republican Senators are saying they "just don't know" if they've got the votes to pass the AHCA.

If you can't do phoning, you can't do phoning (I am sometimes a person who can't do phoning). But if you can, now's the time. IT IS OKAY TO PHONE AND FUCK IT UP. As long as you can communicate that you are opposed to the AHCA, that's enough.

Also, have some MOTHERFUCKING ICONS (photos of the ADAPT protestors being arrested during their protest at Mitch McConnell's office).

thefword_feed

Posted by Lauren Hossack

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Lauren Hossack finds Sympathy an insightful and compelling exploration of our increasingly digital lives

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petzipellepingo

Court , OC by

dragonyphoenix.

Chapter Two of Sign of the Times by

the_huffster.

shapinglight reviews Season Eleven, Issue No. Eight .

jerusha

Happy birthday to

liliaeth and

thenewbuzzwuzz! I hope you both have a wonderful day and wish you an even better year to come!

Crossposts: http://enigmaticblues.livejournal.com/1682323.html

snickfic

That time when a young-ish woman's thoughts turn to superheroes and X-Men comics and Latin rock. (This is not a joke, my interests really are seasonal like this, and those really are my regular summer obsessions.) Right now the nostalgia for last summer's MCU femslash spiral is hitting me HARD. And lo and behold, I have a new GotG movie's worth of femslash to look for!

If you've got fic recs for either of those, btw, I'm all years. (Haven't seen AoU, Civil War, Agents of Shield, or the Netflix shows, though.)

Crossposts: http://snickfic.livejournal.com/656448.html

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dcmultiversity

Description: Have you ever read a story and wondered: What an amazing story! But what if…? Well here's your chance to take a crack at that what if. This is an anonymous remix challenge for Arrow, Constantine, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, and Vixen.

Key dates:

present-July 15: DC Multiversity Remix is open for sign ups

July 16: sign ups close

July 22: fanworks are assigned to everyone who signed up for the challenge

August 5: first check-in

August 26: second check-in

September 9: remixes due (complete and posted to the DC Multiversity Remix collection on AO3)

September 24: DC Multiversity Remix collection goes live

October 1: authors revealed

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drawesome: A Drawing Community for Fan-Artists

shapinglight

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Fandom: Supergirl
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Supergirl
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: drawing/painting (not sure whether digital)
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery:

heyyouhai

Why this piece is awesome: This picture is pure, uncomplicated joy. <3

Link: The sky ain’t even the limit

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ruuger

Quick question: Was the final episode of Doctor Who season 10 airing this weekend or next? I don't want to know *anything* about it or the previous few episodes (which I haven't been able to watch yet), and I just want to know if it's safe for me to check out Facebook today? :)

(because if the finale was this weekend, then it will not be safe for me to check out FB until I've caught up since half of my friends watch the show and will quite likely be talking about it)

eta: Answered! It's a two-parter with the second part next week, so it's best for me to avoid FB today just in case :)

petzipellepingo

Get Happy , Giles/Anya by usedtobeljs.

next_to_normal

I haven't done a meme in aaaaages! Snagged from

slaymesoftly.

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Current Mood: lazy

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It's time for our regular reccer recruiting post, and to look ahead to the next month. So far we have two volunteer reccers who signed up for July with these fandoms:

* Hannibal (

dreamkist)
* The Raven Cycle (

delacourtings)

So while we already have a few recs to look forward to in July, it would of course be awesome if we had some more recs. There is still plenty of opportunity for you to jump in and volunteer to rec next month (or to convince your friends to do some reccing). And many cheers for all of our members who volunteer to rec, especially if you rec regularly. Your valiant repeat efforts keep the comm alive.

Looking even further ahead so far only NO reccer has volunteered for August, so that month definitely still needs some love (and recs! *g*) too. So please consider reccing in a fandom of your choice, whether small or huge, and comment on the sign-up post and volunteer for July, August or even further ahead if you are so well organized, that you know your fannish interests and time commitments in advance. It's only four recs as a minimum, and you can rec any genre or rating. Or promote us to your friends or in your favorite communities so others do the work.

Open Rec Posting

The monthly open reccing period for all members starts now and lasts until the end of June. Since the general prompts don't seem to work as inspiration, I've decided to stop adding them, but to keep the open reccing period in case anyone wants to slip a rec in, without having to come up with three others for a fandom. However the recs do still have to conform to the usual rec format and follow the rules for what is allowed to be recced here.

(Comments here are disabled, because I want to bundle volunteering in the sign-up post so that nothing gets lost, and you can see the list of claimed slots there too.)

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Fandom: Teenwolf
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinkski
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital
Artist on DW/LJ:n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: DA
Why this piece is awesome: Roncheg has two amazing styles, loose yet detailed animated style and stuff like this, heavy and intense yet minimalist. The line work is wonderful and the piece is sexy without being explicit
Link: Ssx

stultiloquentia

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Fandom: Teenwolf
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Lydia Martin
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: traditional
Artist on DW/LJ:n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: normally I don't do the same artist twice in a month but I couldn't resist reccing this piece it's so gorgeous. How the artist makes these colors work I'll never know but it's a vibrantly alive portrait of Lydia that smacked me in the face enough to get me off my Sterek kick for a moment.
Link: lydia martin

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Fandom: Narnia
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: The White Witch / Jadis & wolves & dwarf
Content Notes/Warnings: n/a
Medium: acrylic & digital
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery:

goldendaniel

Why this piece is awesome: This is such a fantastic portrait of Jadis. Very different from almost every depiction I've seen before, but very fitting both to her incarnation as the White Witch and as the Empress of Charn. Here she's both beautiful and scary and also looks very, very powerful.

Link: Jadis

Current Mood: achey

jerusha

All right, I'm doing that Leverage meta I warned you all about because I spent the day unfucking my fic and don't feel like writing anything else, plus it's fresh in my mind. If you haven't watched Leverage, you should. It's pretty much the one TV show that I will shove on anybody as something they should at least try. Great characters, great writing, lots of fun, great acting... Plus, it's basically competence porn all the way through. Also, in the current climate, it's so great because it's people breaking the law for all the right reasons, namely justice for all! WAAAAATCH IIIIIITTTTTT.

Also, I realized when watching the finale that Stirling is the Javert to Nate's Valjean. SERIOUSLY.

( Spoilers )

Leverage is at least a little bit ridiculous, but it's so emotionally satisfying. It's satisfying in the same way I found Numb3rs and NCIS: LA satisfying, because in the end, you have these characters who want to leave the world a little better than they found it, who care for each other and sacrifice for each other, and who are happier together than they are apart. I could watch all three shows again tomorrow from the beginning and be happy.

I also watched the pilot of The Sentinel today, and I forgot how absolutely ridiculous that show is. I lost count of the number of times I said, "Oh, for god's sake, are you kidding me?!" I mean, I love it, and the goofiness is part of why I love it, but... Seriously, Ellison, where are your fucking handcuffs?! is one of the things I actually said out loud.

At least Richard Burgi looks very nice with his shirt off.

Current Mood: amused
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The cleaners at LSE recently went on strike for better pay and conditions. This is a feminist issue, writes Vanessa Griffin

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petzipellepingo

Not His to Claim , Spike/Drusilla by

katleept.

Life Takes You Strange Places Sometimes, Olivia/Jhiera by

the_wiggins.

Buffyverse and AtSverse icons by

sweet_lyri.

Hypable podcast talks All the Way & Billy .

Redemptioncast podcast talks Supersymmetry & Spin the Bottle .

petzipellepingo

Giles/Cordelia fan art and Prologue & Welcome to Westbury 1-3 of Ripper , Giles by wakeupinacoma.

Community pimpage : ComicsRoundTable : a brand-new fannish community for comics discussion, reviews, and general chat. Thanks to

snickfic for the link.

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xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/1854/

The hardest refresh requires both a Mac keyboard and a Windows keyboard as a security measure, like how missile launch systems require two keys to be turned at once.

https://xkcd.com/1854/

nanila

I’ll never understand the pride people take in saying, “I was born and bred here” or the use of the same phrase to defend one’s perceived superiority or deservingness of housing, health care or other basic human rights.

I mean, what did you, yourself, actually do to influence where you were born or bred? Unless you were a particularly ambitious embryo, the answer is “nothing”. Sure, your parents might have made some kind of effort to select your place of birth. Maybe they strove to move to better housing in a neighbourhood with better services and schools. Maybe they’re even immigrants, like my dad, and they struggled long and hard to learn their fourth language in order to integrate into their adopted country. But you? You didn’t do anything. Why are you so proud of that? Think of the things you've accomplished in your life. Isn't it far more fitting and fulfilling to be proud of those?

And why the obsession with asserting the superiority of a single identity over the others? “I’m English first and then British.” Pro-tip: Most of the rest of the world considers both of those to be synonymous with “ex-colonialist imperialist arsehole” so it doesn’t really matter which one you choose. ^.^

Here is a list of the geographically-linked identities that I consider myself able to lay claim to. I’m proud of some and not others.

American
British
European
Hawai’ian
Filipino
Olympian
Seattleite
Angeleno
San Diegan
Londoner
Brummie (this is a new one; still feels a little odd)

Today, I think I’m proudest of being European. I earned that identity and that passport, and I’m still very pissed off that some people want to take it away.

Today is also, weirdly, simultaneously:

the anniversary of Brexit, aka the Colossal Waste of Time and Money Foisted Upon Us by a Generation That Tore Down Decades of Painstakingly Won Goodwill with Our Neighbours and Won’t Live to Experience the Disastrous Consequences, Thanks a Lot, Dickheads.

And
International Women in Engineering Day

So, to close this post, here is a peaceful photo of a woman doing some engineering.

Current Music: silence
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nanila

I have been outrageously busy at work this week and I don't have the brain to string these together into a proper narrative. My apologies. So: Have a series of happy photos from the past week or so.

[Keiki with freshly dug potatoes in his fist, ready to deposit them in one of the two white bowls in front of him.]

We ate our first potato harvest tonight. Yum!

( +6 )

Current Mood: frazzled
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snickfic

comicsroundtable is a new comics discussion comm! I haven't poked around much yet, but if you're at all interested in talking comics (emphasis on new ones at the moment, though I'm hoping they'll expand), check it out!

Crossposts: http://snickfic.livejournal.com/655992.html

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Grenfell Tower has become a symbol of systemic, institutional and structural inequality argues Joanna Whitehead

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rydra_wong

The Guardian: Millions of mysterious 'sea pickles' swamp US west coast

“One of the things we are figuring out is have these guys been off the coast and we haven’t seen them? Are they moving inshore for a different reason?” said Sorensen.

YES AND I THINK WE KNOW WHAT THAT IS. Let me know when they reach Washington.

They're known as the "unicorn of the sea", apparently, so should clearly be claimed as a symbolic animal by you (glowing) asexual people out there.

~~yes I know it's not the same kind of asexual okay~~

ETA: Wikipedia just provided me with this beautiful quote:

"I have just watched the moon set in all her glory, and looked at those lesser moons, the beautiful Pyrosoma, shining like white-hot cylinders in the water" (T.H. Huxley, 1849).

petzipellepingo

SlayAlive talks to Corinna Bechko about AtS Season Eleven, Issue No. Five .

PopCultureRollCall podcast talks Becoming, Part Two .

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Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Sera
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Drawing
Artist on DW/LJ: NA
Artist Website/Gallery: Tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: I think this captures Sera's energy, and it's a pretty interesting style.
Link: Sera’s way of the tempest

rydra_wong

The Guardian: Grenfell Tower families to be rehoused in flats at luxury complex

This doesn't cover all the displaced families. And the flats are part of the "affordable" quota developers are frequently required to build along with the luxury flats, with the usual segregation (not being allowed access to the swimming pool etc. -- in quite a few instances, developers have created buildings where the people in the "affordable" flats have a separate entrance to the building ...), so it's a lot less "luxury" than the headline implies.

And they're being bought by the Corporation of London (as opposed to paid for out of RBKC's £274 million reserves?).

Still, it's a start.

Where sheep chew cud. Or something.

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