The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, May 19

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Doyle: "How are you going to explain this to Harry, huh?"
Richard: "Oh, Harry will understand. She loves and accepts our culture, just like loved and accepted yours."
Dad: "Nick, what's this?"
Nick: "You said, get a utensil."
Dad: "This is a shrimp fork. He's going to eat the guy's brains with a shrimp fork?"
Nick: "Well pardon me if our ancient ancestors didn't leave behind any former-husband-brain-eating forks."
Dad: "Get a soup spoon, you moron."

~~Angel Episode #7: "The Bachelor Party"~~


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May. 19th, 2026 06:19 pm
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Doyle: "How are you going to explain this to Harry, huh?"
Richard: "Oh, Harry will understand. She loves and accepts our culture, just like loved and accepted yours."
Dad: "Nick, what's this?"
Nick: "You said, get a utensil."
Dad: "This is a shrimp fork. He's going to eat the guy's brains with a shrimp fork?"
Nick: "Well pardon me if our ancient ancestors didn't leave behind any former-husband-brain-eating forks."
Dad: "Get a soup spoon, you moron."

~~Angel Episode #7: "The Bachelor Party"~~


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May. 19th, 2026 06:05 pm
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GILES: Buffy, I—I-I know you're tired.
BUFFY:(resolute) I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared. I'm standing on the mouth of hell, and it is gonna swallow me whole. And it'll choke on me.

~~S7E10: "Bring on the Night"~~


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May. 18th, 2026 03:16 pm
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GILES: Buffy, I—I-I know you're tired.
BUFFY:(resolute) I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared. I'm standing on the mouth of hell, and it is gonna swallow me whole. And it'll choke on me.

~~S7E10: "Bring on the Night"~~


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Catching up on the May Question a Day Meme

May. 17th, 2026 06:16 pm
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Question a Day Memeage

10. Are there some colours you would never wear or use in your home?

Never wear? Yellow. I look horrid in it. Also not a fan of lime neon green or neon colors. Hot pink - wouldn't use in my home.

11. When was the last time you took a photo?

Today. ( About an hour ago )

12. It’s the International Day of Plant Health! Healthy plants mean a healthy planet! Have you ever planted something and watched it grow? Do you look after your houseplants or your garden plants diligently?

I kill plants. So I don't own any. So that would be a firm no? My family members however seem to be good at this...

13. It’s Top Gun Day! Ever seen it (and/or the sequel)?

Saw Top Gun about three times in the movie theater in college in the 1980s when it first came out? We had a $1 movie theater. And we also jumped movies, which is basically once one ended, we jumped to the next theater and into the movie that had just begun. As a result of this - I saw a lot of movies for next to nothing in theaters - ah the good old days. Some days I miss the 1980s.

Yes, I saw the sequel. It's nowhere as good as the original. The music, the acting, the filming, etc - the script - were just better in the original. Movies were better in the 1970s and 80s, for some reason. Tech has not necessarily made all movies better.

14. Have you ever seen a ‘mockumentary’ film or TV show? The term was coined when the 1984 “This is Spinal Tap” film was released, and notable examples on TV include “The Office”.

Yes, I dislike them. (With the possible exception of Arrested Development, which is the only one I've made it through.)

They give me a headache. For some reason or other my brain dislikes watching people talk to me from a film or television screen.
I can listen to them. But I can not watch talking heads without getting a headache after a while.

I don't find them funny. Annoying? Yes. Headache inducing? Yes. Cringe-inducing? Sometimes. Entertaining? mildly. Funny? It's not my brand of humor too obvious. I have a dry dead pan wit. Mockumentaries are parodies or satire and usually far from subtle.

I know that I'm in the minority on this...unfortunately. If only more people liked and thought Buffy the Vampire Slayer was funny and entertaining or the Good Wife, and far less were entertained by The Office, my life would be a whole lot easier. But alas, no.

15. Bees are responsible for pollinating many of the plants we eat (a current estimate is that they are responsible for every three bites of food we eat). Have you seen any bees this year?

Yes. Recently. On my walk today.

16. Henry Fonda was born today in 1905 – have you seen any of his films?

More than I can count or remember the names of. He was very good at playing the every man type of role. And had excellent range. I saw him in Grapes of Wrath, Once Upon a Time in the West, My Name is Nobody (which is my favorite Western), On Golden Pond, and countless others...I grew up watching his films on television and in movies. I even studied some of them.

17. It’s World Telecommunications Day – have you ever learned something new online?

Yes. Although I have no idea what at the moment...I learned that race, gender, sexual orientation, age, size, shape, looks, fall away on social media - all you see are the words and the exchange of ideas. I forget or don't see any of the annoying identity politics or classifications that often masks who people truly are at their core. We aren't these societal definitions. And I kind of figured that out on social media discussion boards, when I had no idea what race, religion, sex, gender, age, class, ethnicity, nationality, etc - folks were. All I saw were folks who liked to discuss Buffy, and literature, and movies, and had families, and loved one another. And fought with one another over silly things.

It was freeing in a way.

books: Patricia McKillip and Livia Llewellyn

May. 17th, 2026 02:50 pm
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In the Forests of Serre (2003) by Patricia McKillip. A tyrannical king of a magical forest engages his recently widowed son to the princess of a neighboring kingdom, whether either of those parties want it. The grieving widower son gets cursed by a Baba Yaga-esque witch. The princess tries her best to protect her kingdom, which happens to include a wizard recovering from a debilitating fight to the death with an ancient monster, which he got involved with because of the thoughtlessness a younger wizard whose aid he came to and who he sends off to protect the princess in her travels. The wizard is being tended by a scribe borrowed from the nearby monastary, who finds himself somewhat unwillingly devoted to the wizard, in all his foibles.

Maybe one of the reasons McKillip's books are famously kind of hard to remember is because there's so much going on in them, character-wise, and yet often relatively little plotwise. That is a lot of characters to pack into 300 pages, especially when the pace of the book is fairly slow and meditative. The actual events of this book are thin on the ground and mostly involve characters traveling or having conversations. Every so often we return to the kingdom of Dacre, where our scribe makes sure the enfeebled wizard is sleeping properly and getting enough to eat.

I've described McKillip's ouvre as what I wanted fairy tales to be like when I was a kid: beautiful, gossamer fantasies, with characters that felt like people. This one really nails that for me. We have some elements lifted directly from folk tails, like the witch Brum and the various quests the prince finds himself going on for talking animals he meets. We have the spectre of the monster, who even in death is casting a pall over those it touched in life. We have characters concerned for each others' health and well-being. We even have a very late, very casual reveal that complicates one of our villains in a way I didn't expect at all, even though maybe I should've.

Overall, a delightful time. Glad I finally got to this one in my McKillip reading.

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Furnace (2016) by Livia Llewellyn. A collection of short stories, mostly horror or dark fantasy, some erotic, many with a surrealist bent.

I've been meaning to read more of Llewellyn's work after really liking her story "Omphalos" in a collection I read a few years ago, and since I've been on a roll reading short fiction lately, now is when I got around to it. In that review, I wrote, I'm not 100% sure what happens in it, but I don't care. The first half of that continued to be true through most of this collection, but unfortunately after a while I did start to care. I also found that her prose started to bother me after a while; I found a lot of it overheated and overwritten, using too much description to diminishing returns. Her occasional efforts in experimentation, such as the story entirely in lower case or the several stories in second person, also mostly did not work for me.

Llewellyn is definitely saying things around bodily agency, female sexuality, patriarchy, and also some things about toxic female familial relations, often mother-daughter ones. I can't say much of it resonated with me, unfortunately, but I do appreciate the centrality of the female perspective here.

I also really enjoy is that Llewellyn clearly has a relationship with the Pacific Northwest, and most of the stories with an identifiable real-world location are set there. I've never read a horror(?) story set in a Tacoma mall before or in the worker housing at the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam. The sense of regional specificity is really neat.

I did like a few stories okay out of the bunch:
"Cinereous." A woman with a menial job at an institute doing horrible human experiments is determined to show them she is worthy of greater involvement in the horrible experiments. A satisfyingly nasty little story with a suitably horrible ending.

"It Feels Better Biting Down." One of the most surrealist of the bunch, a story about codependent twin sisters who get everything they want, more or less. I just enjoyed the incestuousness vibes tbh. Also the body horror.

"Allocthon," the aforementioned story set in Bonneville construction housing, which is also a cosmic-flavored time loop story about a housewife whose prosaic dreams of a tropical vacation morph into an increasing desperation to see something on a mountainside that the time reset prevents her from seeing.

"The Last, Clean, Bright Summer." One of the most straightforward from a narrative perspective, a folk horror piece in the form of diary entries of a fourteen-year-old girl who finally gets to participate in the family reunion. I'm not sure what it says about me or Llewellyn that I often like her best when she's writing about underage rape, although unlike in "Omphalos," the rape here is very weird. I enjoyed the cosmic horror stuff, the weird biology, and the theme of alienation from one's parents (who in this case, it turns out, are literally not even her parents). Would pair really well with Attila Veres' story "The Black Maybe."
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Dune trailer

May. 17th, 2026 06:10 pm
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Just for me, I want to be able to find it again. I've just had it sitting in a tab, and I am trying to tidy up.

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Link round up

May. 17th, 2026 04:48 pm
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A win for trans ppl in Australia: Giggle v Tickle: Federal Court dismisses appeal in landmark 'What is a woman' case

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[personal profile] beccadg has started a fundraiser. Go help if you can. <3

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And via Kerk: Pope Leo surprises priests in southern Lebanon with video call (Facebook, sorry. But I could view it without being logged in, so I hope it works for others too.)
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Nonsenical Book Meme

May. 16th, 2026 07:19 pm
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Meme stolen from coffeeandink - who actually told us all to steal it, so it doesn't count.

Take five books off your bookshelf.

[with the exception of the first, they are all TBR, with the hopes I'll get around to reading them.]

Book #1 -- first sentence: "Rain drenched the city, cold and relentless."

Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty: "Unlike my horses, a Spider would never get cold or hot or tired."

[unexpected challenge do I pick the last sentence or the last complete one? I picked the last complete one.]

Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred: "People say that after this event, the rich man's family slipped into a decline, and in the end, went entirely to ruin."

(Unexpected challenge: do I pick the second sentence or the second complete sentence? - weirdly I had the same unexpected challenge as coffeeandink.)

Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty: "Within an hour, his strength had so depleted that he could no longer handle the weight in his pack, although he refused to let us remove anything, forcing us to fish out the heaviest items, such as his water bottles and his cameras, when he wasn't looking."


Book #5 -- final sentence of the book: The local sheriff met us in the street and eyed us suspiciously.
"Runaways?" he asked.
"We are," I said.
"Any of you named Nigger Jim?"
I pointed to each of us. "sadie, Lizzie, Morris, Buck."
"And who are you?"
"I am James."
"James what?"
"Just James."

(Yes, I am treating one paragraph of dialog as a single sentence for the purposes of the meme. Fight me!)

Make the five sentences into a paragraph:
Rain drenched the city, cold and relentless. Unlike my horses, a Spider would never get cold or hot or tired. People say that after this event, the rich man's family slipped into a decline, and in the end, went entirely to ruin. Within an hour, his strength had so depleted that he could no longer handle the weight in his pack, although he refused to let us remove anything, forcing us to fish out the heaviest items, such as his water bottles and his cameras, when he wasn't looking." The local sheriff met us in the street and eyed us suspiciously.
"Runaways?" he asked.
"We are," I said.
"Any of you named Nigger Jim?"
I pointed to each of us. "sadie, Lizzie, Morris, Buck."
"And who are you?"
"I am James."
"James what?"
"Just James."

I promise it wouldn't make any more sense if I chose another option for step 5.

Book #1: This Kingdom Will Not Me by Illona Andrews
Book #2: Antidote by Karen Russell
Book #3: Strange Tales from Japan - 99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural - collected and retold by Keisuke Nishimoto, Translated by William Scott Wilson.
Book #4: A Walk in the Park: the true story of a spectacular misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarku
Book #5:James by Percival Everett
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May. 16th, 2026 03:25 pm
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Today's ADVENTURE: It was Spring Cleanup Day in my town. I got rid of a dead tv and a printer that always hated me. This involved going to a place I'd never been so that was fraught with fraughtness. But now I know where the city dump is and where the garbage trucks go at night to sleep. Check that off the list.

They check your ID to ensure you're from this town and not some charlatan sneak from Sweet Home or Tangent trying to unload refuse on US.

In my dvd watching, I finished Community and decided to give the dvds to the library. Only have about half the series. I don't like Chevy Chase and I can't stand his character. I just made a face every time he came on screen and really, I only enjoyed one episode on the rewatch. I'm about to start Deadwood but the show is intense and I have to be able to handle it.
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, May 16

May. 16th, 2026 09:27 pm
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GILES: "Have you heard of a group called the gentlemen?"
SPIKE: "Group of what?"
GILES: "The gentlemen."
SPIKE: "Dunno."
GILES: "You certain?"
SPIKE: "No. We're out of Weetabix."
GILES: "We are out of Weetabix because you ate it all - again."

~~BtVS 4x10 “Hush”~~


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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, May 16

May. 16th, 2026 11:22 pm
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GILES: "Have you heard of a group called the gentlemen?"
SPIKE: "Group of what?"
GILES: "The gentlemen."
SPIKE: "Dunno."
GILES: "You certain?"
SPIKE: "No. We're out of Weetabix."
GILES: "We are out of Weetabix because you ate it all - again."

~~BtVS 4x10 “Hush”~~


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Happy Discoveries

May. 16th, 2026 11:12 am
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1) Curious to know, for anyone who has taken part in [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth activities, what did you enjoy doing?

2) Turns out my expected trip to Michigan later this year won't happen, but I am instead planning a trip that will spend some time in Cleveland and Buffalo. Any recommendations? (The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was a big draw).

3) I've begun playing in the tournaments on Board Game Arena, in part because my favorite game has been increasingly hard to find players for during certain hours. I started late during the last tournament round but still did ok, finishing in the top 100. I started early enough in this round that I was in the Top 10 for a little while, but started falling as more people joined in.

But then I started an incredible losing streak that dropped me over 150 spots. There was one common factor, ( Read more... )

4) I'd been hearing that Matlock is not a typical procedural, and I had tried out the first episode a while ago, soon after it launched. I could see why the ongoing series arc might make it a significant change. ( Read more... )

4) What I really enjoyed this past week was getting to see the play "Suffs" on Great Performances. (This is in contrast to my dislike of the PBS app, which is a pain to work with and apparently never added 4 or 5 other Great Performances episodes to my watchlist). It's so great to be able to see theater at home. ( Read more... )

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May. 16th, 2026 02:51 pm
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Owls and I posted Chapter 7 of 'Meet the Neighbours', our Doctor Who/Good Omens crossover fic! 🤗🤗🤗

Overall summary, for anyone who might be curious:

Missy and the Doctor move to the South Downs. Aziraphale and Crowley are their neighbours.

That's it, that's the set-up.

(Show canon, what show canon?)
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, May 15th

May. 15th, 2026 08:23 pm
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JOYCE: I wish that someone had bothered to tell me that there would be tennis being played!

~~Listening to Fear~~


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Fic recs: sports m/m

May. 15th, 2026 01:56 pm
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Heated Rivalry
i know where to draw the line by [archiveofourown.org profile] magneticwave
Shane/Ilya, 62k. After a rough few years with San Francisco, Ilya signs with Hollander's Metros as a restricted free agent. A fun canon divergence AU, very funny, many lines so funny I had to DM to the friend who recced them to me. A few thousand words in I was like I have to find out who this author is, and of course it's magneticwave, who wrote some great Sid/Geno fic way back when. An all-round delight of a fic.

Formula 1 RPF
For about a week last year I was reading F1 RPF, and friends, it was like I'd been directly transported to hockey fandom circa 2015. Crunchy character dynamics, lots of porn written by adults, cracked out porn premises treated totally seriously. Somehow F1 is like twice as big as hockey RPF on AO3 now, despite having only really existed for about four years? Anyway here are my two favorites.

crash landers by [archiveofourown.org profile] crescenteluce
Oscar Piastri/Carlos Sainz Jr, 58k. Carlos is so obviously an alpha that Oscar has never considered anything else until Carlos goes into heat. Classic omegaverse combined with classic pining of the kind where everywhere is just fundamentally unable to see past their own messy issues... until they finally do, and it's so satisfying. I cried a bunch of times reading this.

like milk from a baby by [archiveofourown.org profile] higgsbosonblues
Lando Norris/Oscar Piastri, 5k. Sometimes Lando needs to lay eggs, and this time he's asked Oscar for help. YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN about 2015 hockey fandom!! If you too reminisce about weird xenobio kinkfic, this is for you.
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, May 15th

May. 15th, 2026 10:15 pm
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JOYCE: I wish that someone had bothered to tell me that there would be tennis being played!

~~Listening to Fear~~


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May. 15th, 2026 07:12 pm
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A little link for my fellow UK peeps:

R U still there? - Reform Councillor Bingo
Keeping track of the reform UK exits

(As of posting this, the number is 13)
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Nakba Day

May. 15th, 2026 05:25 pm
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78 years of the ongoing Nakba.

Not sure what to write, so have a couple of links:

For people in the UK: Write to your MP
We need your support for a new Early Day Motion (EDM) marking 78 years since the start of the Nakba, which has been tabled by Iqbal Mohamed MP with cross-party sponsorship.

And if you ever wanted to buy a kufiya, this is the place to get one:

Hirbawi Shop
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