#'seasonal roundup'

[blysse-and-blunder]

midweek commonplace book: the rough drafts

5pm, wednesday, june 28, 2023

it's been over a month since i drafted the following ilcb post, and here i am again, in the same coffee shop i was in back then, again avoiding working on a cover letter for a course instructorship position. in the intervening time, i a) got that job b) taught that whole class, c) took a weekend trip to see a friend get married, and d) am now applying for the next one! figured it was time to open the vault (my chaotic drafts folder) and let these musings see the light of day. maybe it's the key to my success.

edits and new text below in [brackets] to preserve the original draft's ~authenticity~. XD

in lieu of a commonplace book: may day

3pm sunday, april 30 -- 6pm sunday, may 7, 2023

it's rainy and there are so many flowers starting to emerge in the neighborhood, and i've been cozily reading escapist fantasy instead of writing my syllabus or facing the future head on.

reading since i last made one of these posts, i've finished reading the following: the golden enclaves by naomi novik (audio), the jasmine throne by tasha suri, the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid (audio), dial a for aunties by jesse sutanto (audio), and the tyrant baru cormorant by seth dickinson. this not being exclusively a book review series, unfortunately, we're just going to talk about the [left out the title but did include the picture so we know it was at the feet of the sun by victoria goddard!].

[i think i failed to actually write out my thought about this one because a number of people who follow me (@spoonierbard, @hematiterings) were either reading it or were about to start reading it, and i didn't want to color their experiences. i was also not entirely sure how i felt about it? i think i went in with expectations this time, which is a recipe for disappointment-- and i also had actual literary 'critique' thoughts primed and ready, as opposed to the pure vibes and pleasure with which i approached hote. overall-- and i say this as someone who reads and loves fan fiction-- it felt like reading fan fiction, ambitious, self-indulgent, big focus on relationships and feelings, and with a definite Point to Make. a behemoth of a book, and full of things to love--but less transcendent, for me, than its precursor. happy to expand on these feelings in a pm!]

listening

[i didn't write anything here, but i did include the two videos below. both were new to me this spring-- i never had a fallout boy phase in high school, please don't laugh, so it was very exciting to fall in love with first so much for stardust and then, at the recommendation of my housemate g, this track from folie a deux. 'disloyal order of water buffaloes']

[i think both of these songs are saying something about the mood i was in this spring-- yearning? defiant? a little pissed off? "hundred days" was a sptify recommendation, and fuck if they didn't get me in one. i have since investigated the duo behind the album a little and realized i have... possible thoughts, about their oeuvre, about making art out of their relationship, but this particular song unfortunately goes extremely hard for folk so i am compelled to love it! there's just something about the main melodic hook, the plaintive/desperate tone of some of the lyrics (especially 'i want / a hundred days / of bright light' each! time!), and the way there's so much going on in the arrangement at 2:34 ish-- i wish the rest of the album was as good as this one track. i want a hundred good days! of bright light! I do regularly think about things i'm trying or striving for and think "I want ! a hundred days !" of whatever it is. At least 100 days. there's something almost reminiscent of tiffany aching to this, for me-- using your selfishness/unvarnished wants to motivate you.]

watching taking a break from prestige tv!... with more prestige tv. started severance while my fellow succession and ted lasso-viewing housemate is out of the country. i love the stylization, the aesthetic, the eeriness! this is what i was hoping don't worry darling (2022) would be, in terms of combining a mid-century aesthetic with our main characters working for some enigmatic brain-washing Company or Project. Lumon better not be a simulation-- as i discovered back in january, i like it when there's some *there* there, when the conspiracy is actually as trippy as it seems, i understand that sometimes people want to write misdirection but man i am sad anytime something was all an illusion after all. also watched a bit of the first season of the gilded age and the first truly wild episode of mrs. davis with another housemate; there is no witty comparison or fun snappy one-liner i can come up with about these two.

[the above remains true-- i just watched a bit more severance yesterday! there was a massive cliffhanger just where i stopped, but the tone of the show is so Much that i actually was glad for the break. don't get me wrong-- i love how stylized it all is, still, i love the aesthetic and all the visual and verbal details that build up to mad-men-esque 60s office culture-horror, it's fantastic. getting that little extra moment with dichen lachman's character and hearing her talk about her experience was...gutting... but my favorite character continues to be devon.]

[playing]

[triumphant return to both dnd campaigns in the past week or so! it hasn't been entirely my fault that neither group met for most of the past six weeks, but i didn't help. campaign B had our one-year anniversary on sunday! one of the players went really overboard and commissioned a bunch of beautiful cards and badges and coins for us and our characters' little secret organization!! we broke the dm's screen door briefly and saw how big her baby has gotten!! we cried over @dimir-charmer's wedding dress! we successfully escaped the wild west!]

[making]

[didn't even draft this section. i thing i had just fixed...something, but who remembers what. pro cooking tip, leftover tortilla soup can become poor grad student shakshuka so easily. two eggs + in a pan + simmer = profit]

[working on]

[aforementioned cover letter for a course instructorship for next fall is due tomorrow. technically there are two i could be going for, both of which have definite pros and cons, but i'm pouring all this time and angst into one and just kinda forgot about the other? also i'm grading for two different classes, figuring out how to have sooo many tabs open at the same time and how to juggle spreadsheets+answer key+word+ pdf reader all at the same time. oh for the days of paper submissions, you know? last but not least, i am desultorily staring at the manuscript + outline for my conference paper for next month (less than a month now! fuck!) for like an hour a day, and making very little practical progress on it. so.

#in lieu of a commonplace book #ilcb #weekly roundup #though at this point it should be 'quarterly roundup' really #'seasonal roundup'

[lilydalexf]

👽 X-Files Season 7 Fic, Part 11

There are so many great stories set in season 7 of The X-Files! Here are even more, following seven prior sets of season 7 fic recs. There are a lot of good season 7 stories. Enjoy! Parts 1 ** 2 ** 3 ** 4 ** 5 ** 6 ** 7 ** 8 ** 9 ** 10 Aquinnah by Anjou Axiom by allimarie Birthday Series by @syntax6 Hallowed by OnlyTheInevitable (@gaycrouton) Harmonice Mundi by @aloysiavirgata Into the Light by @msrafterdark keeping count by scullyism Learning Curve by JLB Mezzo Luna by msk Secret Spots by @baronessblixen Strangers and the Strange Dead by Kipler throat, eye and knucklebone by audries (@audriesfic) Untitled by @aloysiavirgata Untitled by @aloysiavirgata Untitled "Millennium" fic by @aloysiavirgata Untitled "Orison" crossover fic by @aloysiavirgata Wishes by @baronessblixen

#fic rec #roundup #xfiles fanfic #xf fanfic #season 7 #new post

[super-turtlephant]

Alright people, I’m going to start compiling a list of Tech-lives tbb fixits! Please send any you see my way by either reblogging this post, replying in the chat function, or sending me an ask! I’m especially looking for post season 3 fics, but feel free to send me any tech-lives fics. I’ll include a pre-season 3 section in the list!

BRING ON THE FIX-ITS!

Tech lives on in our hearts and in the amazing fics that members of our fandom so generously share. Let’s gather them up!

#star wars #tbb s3 #tbb s3 spoilers #the bad batch #tbb spoilers #tbb #tbb season 3 #tbb tech #fanfic #fanfic roundup #star wars the bad batch #tech lives #the bad batch spoilers

[dean-isms]

season one round up

end of season tallies:

total number of references: 41

writer with most references: Richard Hatem (11)

episode with most references: 1x10 “Asylum” has eight references, most of which are in a single five minute time span. 1x04 “Phantom Traveler” takes second place with four!

episode with least references: 1x13 “Route-666”, 1x18 “Something Wicked”, 1x21 “Salvation”, and 1x22 “Devil’s Trap” all with zero! I personally would also count 1x12 “Faith” as zero, because the only reference he made there was fabric softener.

highest reference type: Movies (15)

lowest reference type: Books (1)

most frequent decade of reference: 1980’s

repeat mentions: The Shining (3), Ghostbusters (2), Star Wars (2), and The X-Files (2)

#season roundups #not sure quite yet what sort of data i’ll be putting in these roundups so open to suggestion! #season one

[thesoftboiledegg]

Today, I spotted somebody wearing a Rick and Morty hoodie in the mall food court. Maybe that was a good omen because Rue 21 had a new set of boxers:

Nothing new at the nerdy store--just the usual Rick and Morty Funko Pops scattered around the sales floor. Apparently, Shrimp Morty is a big deal!

Pickle Rick was crammed at the bottom of the Spencer's pillow cage. Fortunately, he's not letting it get him down.

Spencer's had taken down the season seven display and placed the T-shirts on the shelves, so I could finally get decent pictures of the designs.

As seen on TV!

"Every Rick Needs a Morty." Prime didn't think so, but we saw where he ended up.

I thought it was funny that the battle shirt reused the season three line "Welcome to the darkest year of our adventures." Season three (and parts of season four) really was the darkest year because Rick beat us over the head with how appallingly cruel he could be.

Rick is no saint now, but even a pitch-black episode like "Unmorticken" is tame now that he's attending therapy and reflecting on himself instead of punishing his family just for existing.

Also, I'm betting the Fear Hole is coming up in "Fear No Mort." This episode has been absent from promotion, implying something big is coming, but we've got a season finale spoiler right here on the merchandise.

You heard it here, folks! 👆 thesoftboiledegg: your source on all things revealed on $20 Spencer's T-shirts!

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #morty smith #spencer's #rue 21 #fear no mort #season seven #roundup

[lycanthian]

Sorry if this is a dumb question but...

What's blaseball

BLASEBALL IS A BASEBALL SIMULATOR, IN MECHANISM.

it is also a horror game, a social experiment (in my eyes, at least), the spawning point of a beautiful amount of art, and most of all to me, a community.

the basic premise was 16-20 teams (it changed at one point! lol) sorted into four "divisions" (different depending on the Era) and playing against each other much akin to a fantasy baseball game. and then it got weird

#honestly i could infodump about this forever but i think its prime blaseball experience to learn about it yourself #the blaseball wiki (no affiliation with fandom wiki) is AMAZING and so is the blaseball roundup / blaseball news network's season summaries #blaseball #gamey rambles #asks

[mlpoutofcontext]

#The Last Roundup #submission #(technically it's not a submission #someone just DMed this to me) #Pinkie Pie #mlp #my little pony #mlp fim #my little pony friendship is magic #season 2

[jadelotusflower]

Stargate rewatch: Season 1

1x01: Children of the Gods

1x02: The Enemy Within

1x03: Emancipation

1x04: The Broca Divide

1x05: The First Commandment

1x06: Cold Lazarus

1x07: The Nox

1x08: Brief Candle

1x09: Thor's Hammer

1x10: The Torment of Tantalus

1x11: Bloodlines

1x12: Fire and Water

1x13: Hathor

1x14: Singularity

1x15: Cor-Ai

1x16: Enigma

1 x17: Solitudes

1x18: Tin Man

1x19: There but for the Grace of God

1x20: Politics

1x 21: Within the Serpent's Grasp

#stargate sg1 #stargate rewatch #stargate season one #jlf rewatch #jlf posts #2023 roundup

[paperbunny]

YT Creators Covering S2

This is crossposted to FB

I am the kind of viewer who, when I really like (or sometimes hate) something I love watching and listening to commentary and analysis. Unfortunately a lot of creators default to pretty minimal comments and/or overdramatic reactions. Not my cupperty, in this particular instance.

Long story short I have consumed TREMENDOUS amounts of react/review content for this season now and I wanted to share my favorite and some others I've liked. #1 is #1, the rest are in no particular order. Please let me know if there's anyone I should check out! This isn't by any means an exhaustive list of the creator's I've watched, just the ones that popped out either from content or enjoyability.

Doctorcannonvo - This creator is far and away the best I've listened to for GO so far. They make the effort to insert text comments and to actually discuss the material analytically. They do miss some of the finer connections that fans notice but that's far outweighed by the thoughtful commentary and knowledge of narrative structure. I'm very sad that there's not more overlap in shows I like and their content but I may end up watching more anyway because I really enjoy the channel.

Sesskasays - While not heavy on commentary, this creator is really engaged while watching and follows the show enough to make good connections to the story as it progresses.

Jerzey Boyz - These two are so pleasant to watch because they don't always understand what is going on (they got really confused about the s1 baby swap) but always seem to be having a great time. They engage with the story and react delightfully. Good questions get asked, thoughts are shared, things are predicted.

Phil and Hannah - This is a father and daughter from the UK and it seems to be a brand new channel. I really liked the level of engagement in the story they had. They seem to have a lot of British pop culture knowledge that allows them to make connections to in-show references that I never would have caught at all.

Just Some Bodi's Opinion - Very cute reactions, emotionally engaged and fun to watch. Mainly reactive but still enjoyable.

Larissa Zeeuwe - The creator and a friend react to the show. Very engaged in story and emotional arcs. Super cathartic since they are really into it, not much analysis but they do discuss the narrative.

#good omens spoilers #good omens 2 #aziraphale #good omens #crowley #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #good omens season 2 #aziracrow #ineffable dumbasses #commentary #youtube #roundup #good ineffable omens #ineffable dads #ineffable bureaucracy #ineffable divorce #ineffable fandom #ineffable wives #ineffable boyfriends #ineffable lovers #ineffable muffins #ineffable partners #ineffable spouses

[xcziel]

oh i forgot to give the tuesday new release roundup huh

new john sandford thriller 'judgement prey'

yet another "danielle steel" book - 4th this year i think?

jordan peele's black authored horror-writing anthology is out: 'out there screaming'

sir patrick stewart memoir! 'making it so'

and awesome new music photo book! 'll cool j presents the streets win: 50 years of hiphop greatness' - this looks like an incredible gift book but i didn't get a chance to crack one open yet

book five of lore olympus graphic novel series in paperback

new kerri maniscalco adult novel set in her teen kingdom of the wicked verse - like tracy wolff she's branching out of ya: 'throne of the fallen'

hmmm what else ... new big hardcover d&d book 'lore & legends': quote "an illustrated history of the beloved fifth edition through artwork, interviews, and visual ephemera"

michael lewis has another business book out (he wrote the big short and liar's poker) 'going infinite'

oh also taylor lorenz's 'extremely online' finally hit the shelf

did i mention that 'chalice of the gods', the new rick riordan percy jackson book, came out last week?

#tuesday new releases #we don't talk about releases from the bigoted transphobe's media property sorry #excited about the hiphop book bc of the hyperfixation: imagining hiphop heads going through it makes me happy #so many things are gonna be out every week from now til xmas and idk what people prioritize #if anybody reads these updates let me know if you have an area you care more about lol #still tempted to do a 'new in horror' roundup post just for the season bc of awad's 'rouge' and canas' vampires of el norte' #also moreno-garcia's 'silver nitrate' #even if you don't buy hardcovers you can ask for them at the library!

[djservo]

survivor s7

#briefly watched an interview with jon from last year bc I Had to know what he was like now & apparently saddam hussein was captured the week #after he told the dead grandma lie/when it aired + the nypost's front page headline was 'the most hated man in america' w a pic of JON #hussein was page 2 LMAO #survivor #survivor pearl islands #will tag from now on if you wanna filter tho I think I'll only do season roundups rather than liveblog #then again I'm about to start the first all-stars season & I'm already peeing my pants in excitement so who knows

[somerabidraccoon]

ArtFight ends in like half an hour so time to post my stuff!

Attack on Antlerstreak by @willowfernn !

Attack on Palu by @plugnuts !

Attack on Rin by @grimaussieart !

Attack on @quonit and their chickens Goose and Amy!

Attack on Fig by @plasmagiiica !

I had a lotta fun with all of these! Very cool characters all around 👉👉

Well thankgod that's over, now i can finally get back to drawing the same two characters over and over again for the next 11 months /s ... or maybe /hj :')

#this one's even more meager than last year's roundup lol. Uhhh went a bit insane this month sorry #also spilled water on my laptop :')) #I'm very bummed out I didn't get to attack some other cool people. I had some really cool ideas‚ too :// #I'm thinking if just drawing some off-season ''attacks''/gifts for a couple ppl when i get my mind back but i sadly can't promise anything #artfight2023 #artfight 2023 #af23 #af2023 #generic 'my art' tag

[fieriframes]

[Flavor's dynamite. Lot of texture, lot of seasoning, totally unique. Beauty is in the eye of the gazer. In one plate, you're getting all different types of flavors and textures.]

#s30e01 'round the world roundup #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #one plate #different types #flavor #dynamite #lot #texture #seasoning #beauty #eye #gazer

[dean-isms]

season five roundup

end of season tallies:

total number of references: 57

writer with most references: Jeremy Carver (15)

episode with most references: 5x03 “Free to Be You and Me” and 5x05 “Fallen Idols” are tied with 7!

episode with least references: 5x09 “The Real Ghostbusters”, 5x17 “99 Problems”, and 5x18 “Point of No Return” all had zero :(

highest reference type: Movies (29)

lowest reference type: Music (2)

most frequent decade: 1980’s (16)

repeat mentions: Batman (2), Back to the Future (2), Led Zeppelin (3), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2)

current leader for the dean’s favorite award:

Led Zeppelin (1968-1980) and Star Wars Episodes I-VI Dir. George Lucas. (1977-1983, 1999-2005) are tied with eight mentions across five seasons. Coming in at second place is The X-Files (1993-2002) with seven!

#season five #season roundups #from the dean isms spreadsheet #this is the first one where books was not the least referenced! season five is for literary dean truthers 🥰

[sysig]

Requestober is closed for the season! Thanks to everyone who participated ♥

#Requestober #Eyyyy we got almost every slot this year! Very cool! :D #There's still today's and tomorrow's on the horizon - working on today's rn instead of sleeping/being offline lol #Thank you again for such a nice turnout :D It was so fun to work on so many reqs of my own characters ahh <3 #Big appreciate y'alls energy and love this season thank you thank you :) #Also since I'm not sure where else to mention it lol: The sketch roundups may be a little bit #I'd love to have them out on Nov 1st but we'll see! Don't be surprised if they're out the 2nd or 3rd #And then I'll probably be taking a short break til around my birthday :) I'mma try to have something celebratory tho lol #And then I'll be picking back up with the usual doodles I think! I've certainly got a backlog just a matter of polishing 'em off lol #Busy busy busy how did I do this last year lol ♪ #Thanks again for such a fun season :)

[bogdanovics]

the sense of peace seeing them all back together is giving me

#it’ll only last for about a week into the season so i need to hold on to it while i can #field day partners roundup: trae/bogdan jj/wes bruno/onyeka saddiq/trent dre/dj kobe/aj clint/mo #i see miles also #video