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Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Marc Silvestri

Inks: Dan Green

It’s another Brood story, so you know that means tentacles and body horror.

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angrboda

I have a project I want to do in the garden. I've been wanting to do it for a month now, but Husband told me to wait until now because that would give me a better chance of success.

I want to make a new bed with native plants for pollinators. A plant nursery that I have ordered from before offers just such a thing. A collection of plants and a plan for how to avoid putting the tallest one in front and the smallest one behind them (which I would 100% otherwise have done!). I call it the kit bed. :)

So first thing to do is basically just dig a big hole in the lawn. Husband said it was now late enough in the year and we've had some rain that I can think about starting.

Therefore it is of course going to rain solidly all afternoon and we're under a blue (lowest level, but still) weather warning for heavy rain and thunder.

*sigh*

settiai

I've fallen behind on watching Critical Role's various specials and miniseries since they went on their CR3-to-CR4 hiatus, mostly because they've been releasing them on Beacon and then eventually showing them on their Thursday stream. That's made it hard for me to convince my brain to keep up with things, because I need a set schedule to follow every week that I'm watching alongside other people, so... yeah.

This is part of why I have trouble watching a lot of streaming shows (it was a problem with Rings of Power especially but there have been lots of others that I just never got around to watching at all), because for my brain there's a difference between "watching live with everyone else" like with more traditional shows and "watching it when I have the time because once it drops everyone's watching it at different times so it's pointless to watch it immediately."

Anyway, I really want to force myself to get caught up in the lead-up to CR4 starting - if only to get myself used to watching their long episodes again - so I'm going to list out the various specials that I still need to properly watch. And then I'm going to try to set aside the time to watch them over the next few weeks. If I can manage it, I may also try to make a few posts about them as I watch them, but watching them in the first place is my priority.

If I have time, I'll also try to watch Age of Umbra, which I started but had to drop because of stuff going on with work and IRL at the time. It's lower on the list, though, so we'll see if I manage it. And, hey, if a miracle happens then maybe I'll even find the time to watch some other miniseries they've had going further back that I never found the time to watch.

But, yeah. We'll see how it goes? Live Shows are the "must watch" part of the list. Everything else is just gravy.

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Current Mood: hopeful

psocoptera

KPop Demon Hunters, 2025 movie. I loved everything about this - fantastic soundtrack, distinctive cool-looking animation, appealing characters, central relationships between women, fun plot, fast and flowing pacing.

After having little to no interest in the 2025 Hugo Dramatic Longs, it's funny to think I'm already enthusiastic about three plausible nominees for 2026 (those being Sinners, Superman, and this, with Superman a distinct-enough third I might not nominate it myself for nomination-gaming reasons.).

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Words and pencils: Dan Jurgens

Inks: George Perez

Prysm finds herself in the lost world of Skartaris.

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Plot: George Perez

Script: Roger Stern

Pencils: Dan Jurgens

Inks: Ty Templeton

Matrix's psychic link with Superman accidentally causes them to terrorise Smallville. Meanwhile, Intergang are still out to get Lois Lane.

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There are about a half dozen, deeply concerning, US political points I could make on healthcare and vaccines alone (to pick a subject at random), but I suspect you don't me to raise them.

British bargain-bin-Trump-wannabe Farage, appeared in front of a committee in the US Congress, it did not go well for him, though it has to be noted that the UK media did not cover the excoriation bit much, which is a shame.

Those missing Star Trek Prodigy may (or may not) be consoled at knowing there is a new animated Trek in town, albeit one with a rather different target audience, "Star Trek Scouts" . I can't wait for TrekCultures "Ups and Downs" on THIS one! :)

And this weekend JemCon seemed like a good time to release the new synthwave re-recording of "Glitter and Gold"

A new LEGO Batman video game from Traveller's Tales is coming!!

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Writer: Roger Stern

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Bob Smith

Starman fights a super-powered hitman named Deadline.

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psocoptera

Hemlock & Silver, T Kingfisher, 2025 fantasy novel. My hold queue really did me a solid giving me this book this weekend, exactly in time to have enough of it left to keep me company through three hours of waiting my turn for voir dire this morning. Perfect to have an effortless-to-read, entertaining page-turner (in contrast to my other current book, which might turn out to be good but is not effortless). Like I often say, I like Vernon's stuff and this was one (particularly the "breaking a fairytale down for parts and rebuilding it into something new" kind of thing, although also structurally a lot like what she does in her contemporary horror). It was cinematic and inventive and I liked the protagonist and definitely recommend it if you like Vernon.

Also I am now on a jury for the next two weeks.