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Here's a cool video I only recently found out about that discusses Sues' history, classification, and why we always think of them as girls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2-GIY9RTqU

Right. Well. That's... the entirety of my website utterly destroyed for anyone who isn't me.

Good. Right. Fine. Does anyone know of an alternative?

hS

Photobucket made some changes. They are now charging $400/year for the ability to post your photos to other websites.

This is, perhaps, the worst business decision I have seen in a while.

-Phobos

Felicitations!

I need to see it, it looks really good!

Anyways, if you're interested, here's the link to the first entry of the series concerning the character who will be facing this clown. The site is going through an overhaul so there are no tags, but searching 'Silver Linings' through the 'S' Stories will let you find the other ones easily.

It's good to have you back, hS.

Link to the Justice League of Beleriand images. (Other pictures in the post were: Spidey, the pic from the blog post, and President Macron. Nothing exciting.)

hS

My family's off to see it later today and we're all very excited.

Photobucket's broken for me, unfortunately, so I can't see the Justice League project.

In other fandom news, the long-awaited addition of Doomfist to the Overwatch roster has finally happened, and he's now available to play on the PTR! And can you say fun? I say fun. He's fun.

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
MAY ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE
HOPE NOBODY MAKES YOU BLUE
AND YOUR CAKE DOESN'T EXPLODE IN GOO!

*blows noisemakers*

Would have been a hilarious ending if it did, though..

And... hm. I think the closest the Stu came to respecting canon was acknowledging that Tracer has a nice butt? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

you are very old, Matt. You are ancient. Your knees are weak. The years have etched themselves in the wrinkles of your face. A greying-haired blind and deaf old bat of 17 years old.

Happy birthday!

My gift upon you is a really big scythe, to make the Grim Reaper jealous and give you a few extra years (at the dusty old age of 17, you don't have long, friend) to survive while he tries finding a newer, bigger one so he doesn't look silly and weak!

Yes, yes, Apparently on this very day 17 years ago, I may or may not have been born! Happy birthday to me then. Yay.

GL, Martian Manhunter, and especially Superman turned out to be very difficult to fit into Beleriand/Middle-earth. The wood connection (Alan Scott's GL ring didn't work on wood) makes me like the idea of a Beorian sneaking around, slipping absolutely silently between the trees and striking from afar with unearthly accuracy. The alternative, I guess, is to drop the 'green' and go with 'ring' - get Celebrimbor to make an early prototype magic ring. He could definitely have one for invisibility, and I don't think mild telekinesis is out of the question. Something like that.

J'onn led me down the rather strange path of invoking a Bombadil/Goldberry-esque spirit of the landscape. While not quite a Maia, they may well be able to change their forms, which is the Manhunter's defining characteristic. By making him from a distant region of Arda - maybe even Almaren, the lost island of the Valar - it's possible to also draw on the last-of-his-kind stuff.

But Superman? I haven't a single idea. All his key characteristics are too 'magical' - flight, heat vision, super strength. I could find someone who has a single one - for instance Hurin with his troll-slaying axework, though again the timeline doesn't work - but not a significant combination. And Beleriand doesn't really provide many candidates for the 'essential goodness' side of Kal-El, either.

So yeah, this is part of why I abandoned it. ^_^

I am really looking forward to Thor: Ragnarok. I didn't much like the other Thor films (they were waaaaay too dark visually, it was impossible to see what was going on), but this one looks like a heap of fun. "I know him! He's a friend from work!"

hS

Joan Lee, Wife of Marvel Comics Legend Stan Lee, Dies at 93. Maysherestinpeace

Friend of the Green sounds more like Swamp Thing for me :P

And I kinda want to see Homecoming when it comes out in Poland, but I more want to see Thor: Ragnarok, because of Doctor Strange's cameo...

"Well, I have not brought the Sun."

"She is walking in the blue fields of the South and a little wreath of snow on this Redhorn hillock troubles her not at all." ~Legolas Thranduillion of Mirkwood

I'm back.

Please remember that, when it comes to the state of the world, not everyone will agree with you. You're free to state, discuss, and defend your viewpoint (provided it does not violate the Constitution), but please don't use that fact to attack others.

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Spider-Man:Homecoming is out - and I've even seen it! I needed to start work late yesterday, so Kaitlyn and I snuck off to the cinema. ^^

It's a good film - funny and charming, but serious when it needs to be. It's very much a high-school movie, except that one of the students is also a costumed superhero. ^^

Tom Holland remains very fun to watch, and his interactions with Tony Stark - while fairly new to the Spidey mythos - work very well. The new characters are both well-cast and diverse (all four of the significant students-who-aren't-Spidey are non-white, and two are female), and - oh yeah - Jennifer 'Sarah from Labyrinth' Connelly has a voice role. :D It's the little things, folks...

"Patience."

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Lewis and Quark: Letting Neural Networks Be Weird is my new favourite thing (Kaitlyn keeps saying I'm going to leave her for the blog - not the writer, just the blog!). Over a series of gloriously surreal posts, Janelle Shane trains her neural networks on all manner of databases - from knock-knock jokes to guniea pig names. In proper neural network fashion, the network then outputs new items it thinks fit with the list... from paint colours named "sudden pine", to the story title "Swords and Batman: Summer Party?".

And now... she trained it on the Harry Potter section of AO3. And had it produce titles and summaries for its own creative works:

The Garden by perverseidyll for lexigilite
Ron and Hermione move after a man party. What did her best things go and has to deal with people she loves? How many imperfect love really belonges them and needs to be a person? Or will they learn and more than the war?

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And the neural network occasionally uses content warnings, although it seems to have a rather fuzzy idea about what to warn its readers about:

Better With The Broom Complicate by MargynBlack
Tonks gets more than the best girl of creation. (Rated Maturisle, mark, a violence, contract) (slash] part of themes) ferret.

Art for the Sun a Scary by disillusionist9
A collection of warnings: characters and situations of silence.

Kaitlyn may yet be proven right. ^^

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A terrorist plot to assassinate French President Macron has been thwarted - after the terrorist posted to a video game forum asking where he could buy a gun. So the forum users tipped off the police. ^^ Well done them!

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A project I started and probably won't finish: what if the Justice League was from Beleriand? Other ideas include Armour, the steel-clad dwarf of Khazad-Dum (who might be Durin himself), the Rider who can turn any horse into a speed demon (probably Maglor), and the Friend of the Green, a Mortal whose closeness to the natural world gives him some very eerie abilities (who would be Beren except that the timelines don't match up).

(Cyborg, Flash, and Green Lantern, respectively.)

Plort will be incoming... next week, probably.

hS

I remember when you mentionned that mess of a fic back on Discord... Was there anything canon even remotely respected? I liked the interactions between Ave and Zeb, and the throwback mention to the time Ave was... taking extended vacations in the Whoniverse (before the Time War). The type of mini chosen is also just perfect.

Oh, and Ellie... Can you say 'Za', 'Wa', 'Ru', 'Do', please?

The thing with the jet at the museum reminds me of a story of Whateley Academy. The 'villain' was robbing a museum for a scepter, and her cunning plan to escape was to use one old vehicle displayed there. She thought about it a bit more though... she had brought gas jerrycans.

It of course ended the only possible way: after an initial fakeout, the vehicle exploded, propelling her far, far away. Presence of a forcefield protected her from all harm, except the one done to her dignity, who was savagely slaughtered all along the story. Man, was that fun.

But wouldn't it be more grammatically correct to use they/them/their as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun? Not trying to be rude or anything, it's just that I'm not a native of an English-speaking country.

I tried looking them up here a couple weeks back, before I posted on their Talk page. There were no hits then, and the only ones now are the mentions of them in this thread.

~Neshomeh