Musical Interlude: Old Favorites from Altan and Tracy Chapman
15 April 2026 13:56![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anneapocalypse"Green Grow the Rushes" (not to be confused with "Green Grow the Rushes O," a different Irish song!) is a song I heard at my cousin's house as a kid and remembered only pieces of and spent many years trying to find! I had figured out that it was Altan but it took a while to find which album the song was on.
Tracy Chapman is a classic of course. "For My Lover" is one of the first songs of hers I remember listening to (though it may not actually have been the first), on a friend's Walkman on the bus on a school trip.
Let's build a team of adventurers!
15 April 2026 07:20senmutLeague of Extraordinary Gentlemen, movie version, played with larger than life literary persons of the 19th century dealing with a threat just at the turn of the century to the 20th.
What persons, literary or real that have been mythologized, would have been a good 20th century team to deal with a more nefarious Y2K plot?
Discord has offered Egg Shen (Big Trouble in Little China), Sarah Connor (Terminator franchise), and Hiro Protagonist (Snow Crash).
I offered the mythologized Jimmy Hoffa as either recruiter or villain, not both as M was in the movie.
Looking forward to your ideas. Let's build a team of adventurers!
ETA: as I have been hit by rules lawyers elsewhere: person must feasibly be able to exist/be established to exist on Earth of the late 20th century within their canon.
the more things change
13 April 2026 06:05taicharataichara: I retain my ability to chew text like a lunatic after all, I guess.
Fannish Update
12 April 2026 19:14senmutFTH 2026 is proceeding apace:
~ 3,371/5k - 1st auction (Doctor Who)
~ 2,350/5k - 2nd auction (Multi-fic fulfillment [thank you so much, recipient!] that has a completed Highlander fic. Toying with my options for the next part.)
~ 2,030/5k - 3rd auction (Also Multi-fic fulfillment, but all will be DCU comics)
~ 3,006/5k - 4th auction (Star Wars, pre-Prequels era)
10,757/20k - OVER HALFWAY!
I only have one work in progress, a sequel to a previous fic, that is going to be at least twice the length of the original. Just having too much fun playing with different dynamics for the Do'Urdens.
I think, given how much my new Queensryche playlist is soothing me, I am going to be making more dedicated artist playlists. As many of my FAVORITES still have albums I can't stand, or songs I skip every time. Corey Hart will likely be the next one I make in this fashion.
Trying to decide what book to read again. No, nothing new. I am... not coping with new books. I need a tried and true. Clan of the Cave Bear was very happy-making to revisit, but not sure I want to read any of the others. Maybe a McCaffrey or a Heinlein... or back to Barsoom again.
Sense8 rocked my socks. Some difficult moments to get through, but then Black Sails was the same. No fic vibes in my soul for either fandom. Hey, wait, maybe I can start watching Ted Lasso and see what happens, since I already drabble in it.
Space Swap Rec
12 April 2026 14:02senmutChapters: 1/1
Fandom: Alien (Original Movies 1979-1997), Alien Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jones the Cat & Xenomorph Characters (Alien Series)
Characters: Jones the Cat (Alien Series), Xenomorph Characters (Alien Series), Ellen Ripley
Additional Tags: POV Jones the Cat (Alien Series), Cats, Retelling
Summary:
Jones comes from a long line of hunters.
And there is a new prey on the ship.
This? Is fantastic.
The case of the missing notifications
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dw_maintenanceI keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.
Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)
We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.
Recent Reads, and thoughts on POV.
11 April 2026 10:32anneapocalypseIn recent months, various life circumstances have pretty much forced me to slow down on a lot of things. This has its ups and downs, but one upside to all that is I’ve been doing a lot of reading. I’d been kind of struggling with my reading pace for a while, and just in general struggling to figure out where to fit reading into my daily routine, because if I don’t find a way to make things routine they tend to slip through the cracks even if they are important to me. What finally helped me break through that last year was just to try and finish a book at whatever pace worked for my routine, and not worry about setting a numeric goal, as that just felt like disincentive to start anything long.
So here’s what I’ve read so far this year.
( Read more... )
Safe And Sound (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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spring_renewalTitle: Safe And Sound
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Willow/Tara.
Content Notes: N/A
Prompt Being Filled: BtVS, Any, canon character death didn’t happen.
