fringetv_at_dw

Late, again, but who's counting? This is mainly for my newer friends.

1. What do you consider your current main fandom? (This can include hobbies and collecting. Anything you feel fannish about!)
Nothing right now, though I love LEGOs and have quite a few of them!

2. What was your first fandom?
Prison Break and Supernatural happened pretty much simultaneously. Though before actively participating in fandom, my first might have been Star Trek TOS. I even bought paperbacks people wrote in that universe.

3. Do you have any favorite headcanons or fan theories?
Apart from the brothercest vibes in both of the above fandoms? Ummm... since I'm more visually driven, in my headcanon the original Rhodey from Iron Man was never recast after the first movie.

4. Have you ever created fanworks?
Have I ever! Probably more than 50-60 stories for Prison Break, more than 100 stories/drabbles for Supernatural, and then there's Iron Man, Die Hard 4, Justified, Chuck, Burn Notice, and White Collar. Plus some 1-3 fic fandoms, mostly due to participating in past Yuletide challenges.

5. Are you still active in any old fandoms?
Not at the moment, though a future Yuletide could change that at any time? I still subscribe to the Yuletide pinch-hit list, as a way of paying forward the gifts I got from my first year of participation. I have a couple of unfinished Battle Creek slash stories I'd hope to finish someday, but I never even look at them anymore. :(

I do miss the excitement of fandom (though not the wank), but my writing has been channeled into LJ Idol for many years now. \o?

tellshannon815

1. What do you consider your current main fandom? (This can include hobbies and collecting. Anything you feel fannish about!)

My three favourites of all time are Lost, Dark and From, so I'd say these are my main fandoms right now. Also School Spirits, Fringe, Yellowjackets, The Way Home, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Hunger Games

2. What was your first fandom?

While I first became aware of the concept of fandom through my now-ex boyfriend from university having some friends who were active in Harry Potter, the first one I was truly active in was Lost.

3. Do you have any favorite headcanons or fan theories?

I have a lot of headcanons for Dark around the Nielsen family:

Right before Mads went missing, he and Ulrich had one of their typical spats which ended in Ulrich telling him to "get lost". It was something that would normally have blown over, but because Mads did disappear so soon after, Ulrich never entirely forgave himself. Since Regina knew about the incident, she also blamed Ulrich at first; while they never really became friends, they did come to an understanding over the matter.

The night before Katharina and Ulrich's wedding, Hannah decided to try and put a stop to the wedding and see if she could persuade Ulrich to leave Katharina for her. She got as far as turning up to his stag night, but got there just as Ulrich had left for fresh air, upset as it had just suddenly hit him that Mads wouldn't see him get married. Realising it wasn't the right time for that conversation, she didn't say anything in the moment and just let him talk. Ulrich ended the conversation by repeating a rumour that Michael intended to propose to Hannah, and Hannah realised he seemed happy about the possibility, that he felt nothing for her at that time.

What really prompted Michael to turn his back on his old life as Mikkel was not anything Ines ever did, but reading an article in the local paper about the death of "the lunatic on the ward". Realising his old life was now lost to him, he threw himself into the new. The only time he ever let the mask slip was in response to a remark in school assembly that the Berlin Wall was unlikely to come down in the principal's lifetime, to which he had shouted "Bet you're wrong". Michael had a cover story that usually explained it away if the subject ever came up again.

And one for From:

Colony House was one of many just like it at one time, but the others were all destroyed. During the American Civil War, the incarnation of Jade that existed at the time was part of an attempt by his regiment to escape by burning the town to the ground (the idea being that they couldn't be trapped there if there was no town to be trapped in). However, some of the more sober members of the regiment stepped in, saving Colony House. Town as it is now stands on the site of the old houses.

One for Lost:

Jacob also met the deceased characters off island. At this time of night I can't be bothered to type it all out, but here's the story of that: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16228004

4. Have you ever created fanworks?

Dude, have you ever met me?

5. Are you still active in any old fandoms?

I'm still active in Lost and Fringe but will dabble in others. How are we defining an old fandom here - as in one I was active in ages ago? One that's been around for ages and canon finished for a while but was new-ish to me?

meridian_rose

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azurelunatic

norabombay is visiting! We hung out yesterday afternoon and had dinner. Additional dinner plans for tonight.

halfshellvenus

They've been tearing up the streets in our neighborhood to install a new metered water system for about three years now? There's the jackhammering to break the concrete for the installation, then they patch, and then after months and months they come back and scrape off the street surface (loud) and repave. In theory. The main street in front of our house still only has the patches, and it badly needs repaving.

The side street has been completed through the repaving, but today we're in our second post-completion jackhammering episode. The first time was a couple of weeks ago, where they opened the pavement around pipe accesses (who knows why?), and then repaved. Now they're back again. WHAT are they doing over there, and why aren't they ever done?

I got very little accomplished this weekend apart from my ongoing project to cull pictures from our 7-8 photo albums. This is because we HAVE so many albums, and also because I haven't been adding things to them since I started taking pictures with my phone instead of a digital camera (about 10 years now). I need room so I can print out some of those cloud photos and add them. I finished albums 2-4, removing probably 160-200 photos from before we had kids. So, that's progress. The next project will be to buy full-sized photo albums for the kids, and move the pictures over from their mini-albums. I made a series of small albums for both when they were little, so they could have their OWN photo books and stop messing with the family ones. We have about 10 of them, and they're taking up a lot of shelf space. Better for the kids to have their own grown-up versions.

TV-wise, I rewatched Barbie recently (still love it!) and finally saw the first Avengers movie. So much Loki! Then we watched Avengers 2, which we also hadn't seen. NO Loki. :( And HalfshellHusband and I went to see The Devil Wears Prada 2, which was a surprisingly worthy sequel. The fashion was more weird than swanky this time around, though. The tassel jacket! The long, heavy tweed dresses! The runway ridiculousness! But Meryl Streep still looks fabulous. I honestly think that bright silver hair is more attractive than her usual blond color, certainly at this age. It's really striking.

Back to the salt mines now. Not getting enough done this week, just nebulous investigation and idea-rejection. :(

meridian_rose

I missed it last year but have signed up this year.

intoabar is back for 2026.
To join in, visit the community and sign up
How to play:
1. Pick a character, any character.
2. Pick one to six fandoms that you feel comfortable writing in. They cannot be the fandom that your character is from, or a fandom related to it. They can be related to one another if you choose, however.

You will receive a random character from one of the other fandoms to create a crossover fanwork. The fanwork must be one of the following:
- a story of at least 500 words
- a complete piece of art of a reasonable size (manips and graphics yes, banners and icon sets no)
- a vid of at least forty-five seconds
- a podfic, the text/script of which must be written specifically for this challenge, five minutes long OR five hundred words
- a comic that is at least one page and/or six panels

Further rules and examples at the community. Have fun :)

halfshellvenus

The Friday Five
1. Do you like to spend time outdoors?
Oh, yes. Providing I have sunscreen!

2. What is your favorite flower?
I really like roses, but I think it's a toss-up between the blue iris and the stargazer lily.

3. Any favorite warm weather activities?
Biking and hiking, ideally only in warm-ISH weather (it gets horribly hot here).

4. Have you ever kept a garden? If so, what did you grow?
Yes, many times. Tomatoes grow well in this climate, and we have cherry, orange, and mandarin trees. I've grown canteloupe in the past, as well as zucchini (eh). But ever since we moved to this house some 26 years ago, nothing but the zucchini has grown well (and it goes from thumb-sized to baseball bat seemingly overnight). The soil in our garden area appears to be really crappy. :O

5. Do you know how to swim?
Yes. Not in an impressive way (I hate to put my face in the water), so I usually dog paddle or do the breaststroke with my head up. OTOH, I can backstroke for days...

flareonfury

mcu100:

xmen100:

I went with kinda a Mother theme (if it wasn't obvious) for the characters/"pairings" challenges.

tellshannon815

seekingferret

I know I said I wasn't going to blog Menachos but holy shit Chonyo/Onias IV!!

Who was the son of High Priest Shimon HaTzadik and got into a succession fight with his brother that led to him fleeing to Alexandria and establishing a rival Beis Hamikdash there roughly halfway through the Second Temple period. The Rabbis of the Mishnah on Menachos Daf 109, some 300 years later, seem flummoxed by this, they can't seem to figure out if this was avodah zarah or not.

But what really flummoxed me is apparently "Beis Chonyo" stood, per Wikipedia, until ~73 CE when the Romans destroyed it, just a couple years after destroying the Beis Hamikdash. And I am so fascinated by the counterfactual of Yochanan Ben Zakkai instead of establishing Rabbinic Judaism in Yavneh, attempting to shift the focus of the avodah to the Bama of Beis Chonyo. Apparently Vespasian was worried enough about this possibility to preemptively raze Beis Chonyo, why don't we talk about this?

halfshellvenus

I managed to avoid running over a snake today, which is a plus. It was around 83F, and they tend to come out in the heat... and then lie on the pavement in the shade. Most of the time, I wind up running over them because I think they're a stick and it's too late to avoid them anyway. :(

This one was not a rattlesnake, thank goodness. And it was a chonk! Wow.

I also saw some turklets. It's that time of year! These were young enough to be cute (which doesn't last long). And I spotted the aftermath of a fish hoping to chomp a black butterfly that was hovering over the river.

Being early May, the wild grape buds are out. They have a sweet, peppery smell that is nothing like actual grapes. The cottonwood trees are also releasing fluff into the air, and that can come and go for a month depending on how often we transition back into winter weather. Soon, squirrel mating season will be running full tilt, and I'll have something else to dodge while biking out there. But in the meantime, I hope the sweetness of spring lingers a little bit longer. :)

ldybastet

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halfshellvenus

I saw a turtle at the edge of the bike path on my ride today. I'm not sure what it was doing there, though turtles have been spotted in that area before. But it's a crawl of maybe half a block to the river, where the water supply is. This was a decent-sized specimen, about 7" in diameter, though they can get bigger.

I dodged a fair number of fuzzy black caterpillars out there, but it was nothing like 20-30 years ago, when they were everywhere! We also don't get clouds of orange ladybugs anymore. I spotted one in flight last week, and I've picked up hitchhikers before, but there are so few of them now. The enormous increase in turkeys, egrets, and Canadian geese in the intervening years seems a likely cause.

I occasionally get actual red ladybugs at the house, probably because we have so many roses (50-60 plants). People buy them for aphid control and release them in their yards, and they migrate to our house. ;) The ones that occur naturally in our yard are more of a yellow-brown color, and sometimes they pinch. Rude. :D

Speaking of plants, I got ZERO daffodils this year. The shoots came up, the same as always, but no flowers. I have a clump near the front door (where we can see them from inside), and another across the walkway. That second group has never flowered. I planted them maybe 8-10 years ago, and I even dug them up once and replanted them at a more shallow depth, but Nada. I'd like more daffodils, not less. Maybe it's too shady where I have them? Or maybe it was that endless fog earlier this winter?

I hope to get out this coming weekend and do something about the weeds and all the roses that need dead-heading. I would have liked to do that last weekend, but it rained again. I didn't get much of anything done, TBH. A lot of my TODOs involve dealing with the extra framed family pictures that we don't have places for now. It's as much an emotional task as a physical one, which is why I can't seem to do it. Give me strength!

seekingferret

Previously, I've had the theory that if I blogged every day of Daf Yomi I would put more pressure on myself to be consistent, and the exercise would be good for my retention. The latter is probably true, but recently the blogging hasn't seemed to help with consistency, so I didn't try to do any blogging as I studied Masechtos Zevachim and Menachos, the latter of which I am on pace to complete on Thursday. This not blogging approach seems to be working, I've been consistent with my learning since October.

Coming up next, oddly enough, is Chullin, which is placed ironically in Seder Kodashim because it covers the laws of shechittah that more or less apply equally to Kodashim and Chullin.

I learned Chullin last cycle and kept up with my blogging all the way through! So if anyone wants to refer back to all my old nonsense, they can do so. I'm fairly proud of this writing, I think it is funny and curious and smart and approaches the text with appropriate humility.

https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/tag/bt:+chullin

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