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I went to the pictures. Ticket prices are through the roof so I rarely do it these days, but I wanted to go see the new He-Man movie with friend T, who is a massive fan. He-Man was never a thing for me as a kid because I'm too young for its heyday and I seldom played with ~boy toys~ so most of my familiarity with the IP is through the new She-Ra.

Well. More thruthfully, when I hear "He-Man" I rather think about... dan na naa naa, dan na naa naa, TAISTELU-JASKA!

Taistelu-Jaska (Jaska the Fighter) is a video series from when "funny" dubs of cartoon recuts were peak Finnish Youtube. I bet for a large chunk of a certain millennial demographic, Taistelu-Jaska is the definitive iteration of He-Man. I know I still often think of the truly iconic lines ("parempi nyrkki perseessä kuin asua Lohjalla" - 'better a fist up your ass than to live in Lohja'). It's just... so dumb especially trying to explain it in English, but it's also genius.

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Be as it may, we ended up having a really fun He-Man afternoon. We watched the 1987 Cannon Films version (I had seen it about a decade ago and had forgotten how much of it takes place on Earth) and an episode of the 1983 cartoon to prime ourselves. The first movie is... not terrible? And actually a really interesting project for Cannon to take on. It's just boring in a lot of places, especially the regular human drama bits.

The new movie might be a lot of things, and it is certainly not boring. I didn't know what to expect really and it was so much fun. :D

I avoided all possible spoilers so I didn't even know the cast. Teela is Veronica Riverdale! There's Idris Elba!? He was fantastic as always. And Adam is played by the prince from Red, White and Royal Blue. He was such a good choice for the type of character they went for. Very similar to David Corenswet's Superman. I think there's something to be said about the masculine softboy/babygirl male hero discourse, but I don't have a thinkpiece in me. Besides He-Man himself, the movie is very much similar to James Gunn's oeuvre in general, but I found it... more pleasant to my own sensibilities? I also really liked Bumblebee, so I think I just jive with Travis Knight's style.

The one strike against the casting is Jared Leto as Skeletor. He didn't do a bad job per se, but Skeletor was memorable mostly because of the writing -- the scriptwriters were having so much fun with him -- and the visuals. I feel like there are a dozen actors who would have delivered a really fun performance just as well. He didn't suck. It's just. Why would you hire Jared Leto. You don't need to do that, you know?

Still, that choice didn't detract from the whole. The visuals are so so pretty. The movie is looong (40 minutes longer than the Dolph one!) but it didn't feel like a slog at any point. The fights were well done. It was nice to see lots of melee fighting (with the POWER SWORD). It has a lot of jokes and a lot of them don't land, but it's very charming about it. The bad jokeyness won me over. Prince ~~Henry~~ Adam is buff, but in what I consider a realistic way. You know what I mean? There's like... a layer of fat tissue over his muscles and his veins aren't popping. He's like a regular, super buff but regular guy.

One of the absolute stars of the movie is the score. If you like power metal and Brian May shredding on the guitar, please listen to the score. For that alone I was glad we went to see it on the big screen. And then they even ( spoiler )

So yeah, it was fun! The plot is very standard hero's journey, but it's lovingly, thoughtfully made. I think for big He-Man fans there are a lot of fun details that I completely missed, but it works for the uninitiated perfectly well.

rionaleonhart

Yesterday, I was on the bus. It was almost empty; I was one of five passengers on the top floor, all of us travelling alone and scattered throughout the seating.

I was a little nervous when one of the other passengers - a man - left his seat at the front and walked back, past all the empty seats and the two men sitting between us, to sit next to me, the sole woman on the upper deck.

This story ends well.

( Being hassled, and then being rescued. )

Anyway! This whole thing really got me thinking about kindness and humanity and brief connections with strangers. I don't know the name of the man who helped me out, and it's very unlikely that I'll ever see him again. But I'm glad he was there, and I hope good things happen for him.

And, if you have your own tales of a stranger doing something kind for you, I'd love to hear them!

selenak

Naomi Novik: The Summer War: very charming novella, delivering on a variety of good-for-me-tropes. Dysfunctional siblings argueing, then working together and realising they care? Check! Neat twists on fairy tale motifs while still delivering a fairy tale? Check! Father who has his own story and is neither excused for his actions nor reduced to a one dimensional cliché? Check! It's not the easiest time for me right now for Darth Real Life reasons, and that's leaving aside the general mess the world is in, so I really enjoy delving into well written fiction where most of the characters aren't irresponsible toddler-like megalomaniacs and the plot makes sense.

Daredevil Born Again: Season 2 : Speaking of plots which work: s2 didn't have the problem of essentially being two shows grafted together, and so not only did they have a well executed overall seasonal arc, but the "new" characters were fleshed out, so didn't feel paper thin compared to the "old" ones. Back when I wrote about s1 I mentioned that all these "supervillain elected to high office despite electorate knowing about their past" plots - which comics came up with decades ago, both in DC with Lex Luthor and in Marvel with Kingpin - never felt as believable as now, it's more that "eventually, enough people see through these guys to rise against them" feels unduly optimistic. But within the show, I bought it. And really appreciated the episode where ( spoilery stuff happens )The thematic importance of this also came to bear in the season's last two episodes where ( spoilery stuff occurs ) Oh, and of course it was good to see (albeit only a few times in the last three eps or so - Jessica Jones again!

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2026/081: Gliff — Ali Smith

Every classic old horse story I’ve ever chanced upon in this brave new unlibraried world deals with the bloodiness of humanity to other creatures as well as each other and more often than not ends in dutiful sadness as if the story, not totally broken, is at least broken in. [loc. 992]

Rose and Bri come home from a visit to their mother (who's taken on her sister's job). Their mother's boyfriend, Leif, is driving the campervan, but he abandons them after they find a red line painted around the outside of their house -- and later, of their campervan. He leaves them with enough canned food to last them a while...

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randomling!

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While I wait for a household appliance cycle to finish (and mostly without links because my hands hurt)---

In its simplest, commonest form, raglan construction for knitted garments creates a welt from the left and right edges of the neck to the armpit, in a diagonal line. (It's by increases when knitting top down, decreases when knitting hem up. See it mapped out in color by putting "ringer raglan tee" into your favorite web-image search tool.) When designers try improving a raglan's 45-deg line for a better fit, a common adjustment is to raise the back part of the neckline or lower the front part.

Some "compound raglan" or "assymetric raglan" patterns are intended to aid round- and narrow-shouldered individuals, and some are intended to aid wide-shouldered individuals. The two groups of patterns do different things with the welted line yet share the same descriptive labels (sigh).

If you're ISO patterns with shaped raglans friendly to a wearer with a short armscye (armhole drop), try reading the respective patterns and blogs of Aimee Sher and Ailbíona McLochlainn, and the patterns of Jennifer Wood.

If I'd found a designer that handles the opposite case well, I wouldn't be plodding slowly through a dissection of Yorlin, though I think Rililie's work as written would aid wearers with proportions less extreme than mine, as would Åsa Tricosa's for knitters willing to try her (non-raglan) construction method. I've modified several patterns from both designers, which didn't result in a great fit but was close enough to wear to a casual workplace.

Lastly, Susanna Winter has a good general explainer.

fred_mouse

Yesterday morning, Youngest reported mould on the wall that their room shares with the bathroom -- mostly behind the door, where I'd entirely missed it, but also a bit along the skirting board (behind the wardrobe we moved).

My first response was approximately 'argh' followed by blue screening, because I could not work out what needed doing. Some time later, after the back of my head had had time to process, it was established that we are going to have to stop using that shower (yay for being a two bathroom household, even if one is the en suite to our bedroom), let the wall dry out, and then do something towards repairing. Probably taking all the tiles out, and resealing the wall, is my current thought. Although it might be that we can seal on top of the tiles, and I should investigate that (having said that, the tiles are original and damaged, and the grout is disgusting. Getting the tiles replaced is on the list of things I would like to have achieved).

But for the short term, we have swapped the study with Youngest's bedroom. Which necessitated partial disassembly of the desk, and near complete disassembly of Youngest's bunk beds. And then swapping the furniture, a lot of vacuuming, and reassembly. Very much appreciate ariaflame helping, especially as the furniture building finger damage was borne by them.

At this point, there are a lot of the storage boxes in the main room; they will go into the new study real soon now, but by the time the contents of the wardrobes were moved, and the wardrobe in Youngest's old room moved (it is the only one without built in robes; the wardrobe was against the problem wall, and now it is not) I had the oomph to move about 10 storage boxes. And emptied one onto a bookshelf, because it is the pile of books labelled 'needs repair' that I think I should go through and maybe decided to throw some of them out, because it has been a decade.

There is bleach in someone's future.

And I'm aware that having the study set up where the mould is is sub-optimal. But it is better than it being the space that is used for sleeping. And I'm thinking that we keep that door mostly closed, so that it isn't getting into the rest of the house, which will have the added advantage of exposing the wall behind the door. I think that the window will have to be cracked for most of the next few months, which is not good as we head into the wet and cold part of the year. Not sure how much rain comes in that window, but I bet it is some

starandrea

There are six succulents in the succulent planter. One of them showed no ill effects yesterday and continues to look fine today. Two others look better today than they did yesterday. The remaining three probably don't look worse (don't compare appearance in the dark to appearance when there's light, ig). My calendar says I haven't watered them since March 31. I think that's a lie. Whatever the truth is, it was too long, so I put a new reminder to check them in two weeks instead of the previous three. (It definitely wasn't three.)

Today we got ice cream, followed by so many pride decorations and more silk flowers, then pavers, a downspout diverter, and rainbow paint for our rain barrel. We also found a new trail by virtue of a car backing out of it onto the road in front of us. We couldn't find it on any official map later, but my watch traced our 15 minute out-and-back precisely enough that we could guess where it goes. Also it had a bridge, which was cool.

And I finally finished my pine tree! That would just leave the cherry tree, except that one (1) person reviewed the wisteria tree (with picture) and my poorly calibrated AI detector* determined it was a real builder with the actual item. So I originally got two trees, I've made two since, and I have three left. Tree math.

*Excellent at detecting AI writing, not great with anything else.

vvalkyri

Otherwise Tall Sonya?
I realized at the end of balticon that I hadn't seen her and would have expected to, and looked and she hadn't posted since May 9th. There were a couple other people around who had contact info. I left a comment. She still hasn't posted since May 9th.

Is anybody in touch?

torachan

1. I rode my bike to the store this morning and decided to stop at See's Candies while I was out. I have a gift card from Christmas, but couldn't remember if I'd used it at all or not, and it turns out I hadn't! So I not only got free chocolates today, but still have $8 and change left on the card for another time.

2. Carla made tuna salad for dinner and we had it on some delicious fresh ciabatta bread from the Italian deli that we picked up yesterday. Theirs is pretty much the only ciabatta I've ever liked.

3. I sent emails to a few electricians today to see about getting a charger installed, so hopefully will hear back soon and we can get that done. Meanwhile, I did download an app to see where charging stations are in the neighborhood. There don't seem to be as many random ones at grocery stores like there used to be, so the only larger ones nearby are Tesla ones. One of them does allow non-Teslas to also use the chargers, so I can use that if necessary. There's also one a couple blocks from work that I could use.

4. Tuxie!

days_unfolding

Woke up at 6:30 AM. I don’t know why. Ate breakfast and napped.

Apparently, shots were fired just a few blocks away from me. That’s scary.

Do I or do I not want to go to the Country Arbors nursery today? I could place a pickup order for next weekend. I decided to wait until I pay for the car to buy the roses and Japanese Spirea.

Fed us all. Let the dogs out because I’m staying home.

Napped. Now I’m trying to figure out what to do. Showered. It’s rumbling out. Bella came in but Gracie did not. Gracie finally came in.

I’m thinking of going to bed early and getting up early to run errands.

I have a taste for rice pudding. Do I have cinnamon?

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PDPH 1 (either fic or comics) - Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), How to Train Your Dragon - All Media Types, How to Train Your Dragon - All Media Types, Crossover Fandom

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PDPH 13 (fic only) - Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games), A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), Fargo (TV)

PDPH 14 (fic or comics) - 獅子の踊り子 | Shishi no Odoriko (Manga), Noctilucent: Before Dawn (Video Game), Tekken (Video Games), 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games)

PDPH 15 (fic only) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, Tortall - Tamora Pierce

PDPH 17 (fic only) - A League of Extraordinary Women - Evie Dunmore, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn

rejectomorph

Oh dear these days that are not yet summer and yet almost like. I could do without the early light, and even the late light is less to me than it once was. I can recall steamy dusks that felt like losses ending perfect joy, but now nightfall is full of anticipation for the coming coolness. I have I think no more joyful days outside memory, and the starless nights are assuaged by the air's exhalation of spent day. What will I do when the nights remain sultry? I don't know, but I'll soon find out.

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I made chicken pesto meatballs this afternoon and they're good, though they needed more than 10 minutes to reach 165°F (15 minutes worked out). I got 18 so I guess I made them smaller than directed? and they looked like they are swimming in oil when I took them out of the oven, because I guess the pesto (I used Buitoni since it was on sale) was full of oil, so I used a slotted spoon to lift them out and soaked it up with paper towels, so the cleanup wasn't that bad. I also didn't bother adding salt based on comments saying it was too salty - the pesto is what is seasoning the meat so I don't think I'm missing out.

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oursin

This week's bread: 2:1 wholemeal/strong white and a couple of tablespoons of wheatgerm + some pumpkinseed oil; a bit dense but quite tasty.

Saturday breakfast rolls: was intending brown toasted pinenut, but the pinenuts turned out to be well past their Best Before, so made brown with dried cranberries instead. Not bad.

Today's lunch: halibut fillets which I poached thus (perhaps a little overdone) with samphire sauce, served with mangetout peas and sliced yellow bell pepper roasted in lemon-infused olive oil, and boiled baby Jersey Royal potatoes.

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Happy birthday,

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