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selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote2025-08-18 09:35 am

More theatre and a tv episode

Theatre

I can spend a few days in London right now, and that already meant two plays.

Harold Pinter Theatre: A Man for All Seasons

By Robert Bolt, who at least in terms of this particular play is to Hilary Mantell what C.S. Lewis is to Philipp Pullmann, i.e. Wolf Hall and sequels are the His Dark Materials to A Man for All Seasons’ Narnia, and as in the Pullmann-Lewis case, Mantell ended up doing exactly the same thing they begrudged in the end, just from the opposite direction.


A Thomas by any other name… )

Foundation 3.06: In which the moon isn’t the only thing eclipsed.

Spoilers have provided data )
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Cher (TW) ([personal profile] thawrecka) wrote2025-08-18 06:28 pm

Bleach fic

Let's Eat! (705 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bleach (Anime & Manga)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Abarai Renji/Kuchiki Rukia
Characters: Kuchiki Rukia
Additional Tags: Fluff, Missing Scene, Established Relationship
Summary:

Three moments in time when Rukia thinks about the people she shares food with.

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i did it all for the robins ([personal profile] musesfool) wrote2025-08-17 05:58 pm
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some people call me maurice

I finally saw the new Superman this afternoon and I enjoyed it a lot! The casting was exceptionally good - Nicholas Hoult was the best Lex Luthor since Rosenbaum, and I thought Fillion was just the right amount of bumptious asshole as Guy Gardner. (Do I wish we could get John Stewart in a live action movie? Yes. But I'm still so glad they didn't go with boring Hal Jordan.)

The writing for Clark was great and he and Lois had fantastic chemistry. Mr. Terrific was indeed terrific! Plus KRYPTO!!! spoilers )

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flo_nelja ([personal profile] flo_nelja) wrote2025-08-17 11:11 pm

Fic - horrible-bingo - Slayers - Garv/Valgarv

Titre : Sentiments sombres
Auteur : [personal profile] flo_nelja
Fandom : Slayers
Personnages/Couples : Garv/Valgarv
Genre : Angst, fluff, un peu de smut
Résumé : Valgarv peut sentir qu'il est un démon maintenant, dans les battements de son sang.
Rating : M
Disclaimer : Tout appartient à Hajima Kanzaka et quelques autres.
Nombre de mots : ~3300
Avertissements : Angst et smut, mention de génocide, violence.
Notes : Remplit le thème "Haine de soi" d'horrible-bingo, et un très vieux prompt obscur-echange.

( Lien vers AO3 )
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wychwood ([personal profile] wychwood) wrote2025-08-17 07:52 pm

so many good books so little time

I have had a nice restful weekend, in which I caught up with perhaps 1/3 of the chores that I intended to. Oh well. I added a new book to my bedside pile, and then read it; between that and the realisation that my next book group meeting is approaching, I was then inspired to read at least a chapter of each book in the pile, which was nice. I set myself a to-do list target a few months ago of reading at least one chapter of each per week, which would keep me actually moving through even if I didn't then end up picking anything up and reading more of it.

Unfortunately mostly what happens is that the overdue item sits there and stares at me on the list. It's annoying, because I do in fact! want to read all of these books! and also most of the ones on the to-read shelves in the spare room. I just somehow don't. However, I've not been in much of a computer game mood in the last few days, and that's freed up some time for reading that isn't fanfic (not that there's anything wrong with that!).

Basically there is too much stuff in my life that distracts me from reading, and if only I didn't need to e.g. earn money I could finish more books. But then I wouldn't be able to go on book-buying sprees, and that would be sad.

In other news, I ordered my new mattress, just as my old one started causing me actual back issues, so good timing me. It's not due until the end of the month, and I'm very impatient.
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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2025-08-17 02:48 pm

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Cher (TW) ([personal profile] thawrecka) wrote2025-08-17 02:18 pm

Fandom 5k fic

Finally revealed! The fic I wrote for Fandom5k:

The Ordinary Ever After Part (5552 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bleach (Anime & Manga)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ayasegawa Yumichika/Madarame Ikkaku
Characters: Madarame Ikkaku, Ayasegawa Yumichika
Additional Tags: Fluff, Slice of Life, Established Relationship, Humor, Smut, Post-Thousand Year Blood War Arc (Bleach)
Summary:

A series of moments in Ikkaku and Yumichika's life together.



Getting this assignment is also directly responsible for me getting back into Bleach, rofl. When thinking about signing up I saw someone requesting this pairing and thought, sure, I could write that pairing, I'm willing to sign up for that. And as soon as I got my assignment I went on an unhinged full manga canon review and got back into the anime and etc. etc. Well, I'm having a great time.
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selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote2025-08-16 05:13 pm

Play-Watching in London I

I can spend a few days in London right now, and that already meant two plays.

Globe Theatre: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Rarely performed these days, and actually one I never read, which is one of the reasons why I used the chance to watch it in an afternoon performance, that and the way watching plays at the Globe, in a perfectly reconstructed Elizabethan theatre, has yet to cease being special to me.

Shakespearean Spoilers have mixed feelings )

The Garrick: Mrs Warren’s Profession

One of George Bernard Shaw’s early “problem plays” and scandals. (He wrote it in the early 1890s, and except for a club performance in 1902, it would take two decades to make it to the London stage. By contrast, it was already performed in Germany in the 1890s as well. Legendary producer Max Reinhardt was a big Shaw fan and so were a lot of Wilhelmians.) This production is starring Imelda Staunton as the titular Mrs. Warren, and her real life daughter Bessie Carter (known to the general audience probably best as Prudence Featherington in Bridgerton) as Vivie Warren; the director is Dominic Cooke.

Shavian Spoilers argue about the ways of making money )

Having thus watched Shakespeare and Shaw, I have on my schedule next: Robert Bolt, and then a new play, which from the sound of it is Shakespeare/Marlowe slash, starring Ncuti Gatwa as Kit M. Stay tuned!
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Lynn | Settiai ([personal profile] settiai) wrote2025-08-16 12:22 am
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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-08-19 07:42 pm

This past week I listened to Verity Weaver

Which I guess I can sum up as "trenchant criticism of capitalism, maybe a little preachy, not subtle at all". This might not sound like a big endorsement, but then again, I'm pretty sure most of you are Star Trek and even Babylon 5 fans, so actually it is!

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