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Even though it largely stayed close to its original analogue, there are so many little changes that it held my attention quite a bit. It was especially fun to get a greater glimpse of Knockturn Alley, even with the adult additions, since we never saw much of it in canon. I love all the stores you invented there! Oh, and nice job sneaking it that early reference to the Deathly Hallows in the one painting!

I have to say, seeing Arthur Weasley go absolutely feral on Lucius Malfoy was an unexpected treat! It feels so off for his character, but I can also understand how galling the deprivation of the Weasley family resources has been for Arthur, especially with all the kids he has to house and clothe and feed. (Though it's nice Ginny doesn't need to wear her brothers' hand-me-downs in this timeline!) But in a weird way, it was also rather satisfying to see Molly and Narcissa both scolding their husbands at the same time. I know Narcissa is no friend to Molly, but it was just . . . kind of nice to see them on the same wavelength, even if they weren't necessarily teaming up in any direct fashion? I guess I just subconsciously want everyone to be friends, and that moment had the right vibes for me.

—doctorlit, somehow cheering on both the dad fight and the double-mom-scold

I'll confess, the sudden writing energy influx isn't entirely welcome, since I planned on finishing a few books during this last week of the year... but on the other hand, I'm having the time of my life recapping bad action movies, so here's another one! Join me for another chapter of Bridge of Dragons, featuring a scene which is either the top or the bottom of direct-to-video schlock. Yes, not even a movie: a single scene which sits like an emperor on top of his throne over every single ridiculous, out there action movie I have seen.

Read the recap here, if you're so inclined. Warnings: references to fire, explosions, strong language, and discussions of women being mistreated (nothing very graphic or harrowing, and I'm not laughing at abuse, I'm laughing at the way the movie utterly fumbles its treatment of the topic).

...I ended up rewatching another Isaac Florentine masterpiece today, and the inspiration struck again.

Behold: Bridge of Dragons, Act 1. This is an even lesser-known and somehow even more out there movie than US SEALs 2, and is actually the 'Dolph Lundgren fighting for a princess' movie from my original post in this thread. Warnings: references to fire, explosions, animal cruelty and animals being preyed on, eyes being hurt, physical abuse and BL 1 (most of these only appear as brief jokes and/or discussing what the movie is giving me to work with, but they are there). As for the premise... this is the one with the Satanist helicopters. If you've been around on the Discord whenever I'm talking movies, chances are you know what that means, and if not, have fun finding out. It's even dumber than you'd imagine. :P

Harry gets lost in the Floo.

I really recommend it. It’s a hyper-polished Space-Invaders-like, but with some really neat mechanics to distinguish it from its obvious inspiration. Has a really great soundtrack too, and really good and well-optimised graphics. Not quite game-of-the-year tier stuff, but worth a buy if you’re a fan of 80’s arcade games. Here’s the link to the Steam page —>

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1863080/Beat_Invaders/

It’s only about $15 Australian, which is like $10 US, so it’s a pretty cheap buy for a decent enough indie game. Again, well worth the price, and a great little game.

Well, folks... this one took me a year and a half to accomplish, but my magnum opus, the recap of U.S. SEALs 2, is finally complete. Read the final part here if you so wish. Warning for mentions of fire and descriptions of very silly and over-the-top violence, as well as more strong language.

I hope you folks enjoyed this journey, because I sure did!

It was nice to have the agents not be so bothered by a badfic some of the time. But poor Ina just can't get a Vil mini.

--Ls

As long as your molasses is unsulphured and just dark, not blackstrap, you can still use it. You can also swap out the brown sugar in the recipe for white sugar, and that should even out the molasses flavor and sweetness.

Or you can just make cookies with an extra-strong molasses flavor. That might not be a bad thing!

~Neshomeh

Which I haven't done in a few years, due to time, money, and energy being chronically misaligned. But someday I will again. Trying to keep a family tradition alive here. {= )

Since this recipe does use eggs, uh... I guess it's possible to subdivide an egg if you're really determined? Good luck!

~Neshomeh

Unfortunately, I just remembered that I will have to get more molassas because I used alll of mine up on a different cookie recipe and now the only molassas I have left is the strong kind which is not so good for putting in cookies.

So for those who might not have already found out or deduced it from my general vibes, here's something you should know about me: I live and breathe dumb, terribly-written action movies. I don't mean dumb and terribly-written as in "Jason Statham stonefaces his way through a tossed-together script and a few bullet duels". I mean "Dolph Lundgren is fighting Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa for the hand of a feisty princess" or "Scott Adkins somehow becomes the last ninja ever, despite being literally the only white person in a Japanese dojo full of equally-qualified martial artists, to take down a secret society cult". Both of which are movies that exist and which I have seen, for the record. The latter is exactly as unfortunately written as it sounds, but the fight scenes are... kind of amazing, honestly.

There is one action movie I'm especially fond of, though: a little-known and yet infamous trashsplosion titled U.S. Seals 2: The Ultimate Force. This is a sequel that has nothing to do with the first movie, as far as I know, but is very entertaining high-octane patrotic shlock with uncomfortable implications, and also just enough amazing fight choreography and unbelievably dumb writing to keep you watching. Needless to say, it's one of my all-time favorites. And because I know this movie better than I know myself at this point, I decided to resurrect an old project: a snarky sporking-style recap of the Mad Libs plot of this cinematic gem. Since I've always meant to return to my review blog eventually, I'm making it the first and last project of the year written for The Lair of Oculus.

Here is part one and here is part two for your viewing pleasure. Warnings: mentions of fire, assault on women, BL 1 (the latter two are glossed over in the recap because they're also glossed over in the movie, but they're there, so I wanted to let readers know), as well as some rather strong language. But I tried my best to be funny, and since funny writing is what got the PPC community started, I figured I'd share my word salad here. My two recap posts end an hour into a 90-minute movie, but fear not: part three is in the works, and will hopefully be posted in this thread before Christmas.

Let me know if you enjoyed these, and if you would be up for reading more bad movie recaps! And if the descriptions of the plot catch your eye and you're also of the Z-movie-enjoying crowd, please give this one a chance. You won't regret it. Or maybe you will, but in a funny way. You get me.

It's funny that the title of this fic fits so well with the PPC, since we would say Boromir is possessed by a wraith here. It's probably actually referring to the One Ring's influence, as Architeuthis speculated.

Since we don't touch religious fics anymore, it was kind of Architeuthis to handle it offscreen for us! And Joe Bob and Zaneth give a pretty decent charge list-style run-down, too, so we didn\t even miss much! That scene definitely has some uncomfortable vibes, though, the way they talk about authors, and "there ought to be a LAW against writing" certain things . . . Yuck.

—doctorlit took a bite on the leg yesterday, but thanks to the healing wonders of sleep, his hobbling speed has nearly doubled since last night!

Though since I'll end up detonating the kitchen if I attempt baking, I suppose it's for the best.

After Inasuke's mission with Kaguya, all four mission together against a pair of bratty Sues.

Bonus: In case you missed it, here is my fill for Nova's December challenge, though set in Jan 2023.

I ought to like 1/8th that recipe…gotta use the molasses I ordered for eggless gingerbread that didn’t get there on time so I ended up substituting with kuromitsu…

Neshomeh's Molasses Cookies

1. Mix together thoroughly:
   1-1/2 C. butter
   1 C. sugar
   1 C. light brown sugar
   2 eggs
   1/2 C. mild molasses

2. Sift together and then beat in gradually:
   4-1/2 C. flour
   4 t. baking soda
   1 t. salt
   2 t. cinnamon
   1 t. cloves
   1 t. ginger

3. Chill dough at least one hour. Roll dough into balls and then roll in granulated sugar. Bake at 375°F for 8-10 minutes on ungreased double sheets. Do NOT overbake!

   Note: Cookies will puff while baking, then flatten out at about 8-9 minutes. Remove about one minute later for a soft cookie.

   A one-inch "baller" makes 110 cookies.

It's about the biggest recipe my stand mixer will accommodate, which is why I like it: more than enough for sharing. You can definitely cut it in half if you'd rather not go that big, though.

A tip: You may want to wear gloves while rolling the dough balls. They leave quite the sticky residue on your palms otherwise.

When I'm feeling particularly fancy, I lightly press a little candied ginger bit into the top of each dough ball before baking.

Enjoy!

~Neshomeh, who hasn't actually gotten around to making them herself yet, but maybe tomorrow!

I love ginger-molassas cookies. To be fair, I already went on a holiday cookie baking spree, but a few more cookies would not be amiss. And I could bring them to some sort of event so that I don't eat them all. Hmm. Next Sunday is Christmas, and that would be a very good time to bring cookies to church. Not that I need to do very much talking to reason myself into baking cookies.

snrf snrf snrf, snrf snrf. snrf snrf? snrf!

As the original inventor of the povs, their noise, and their general air of "oh my god i want one", I feel qualified to weigh in. It's very specifically a scene break shown by the words [Character] POV, which is one of my particular pet peeves. It isn't nearly as much of a problem when it's just the name of the new point-of-view character, at least in my view; adding POV on the end just makes you sound like you think your reader is incapable of figuring that out.

Povs, povs and POVs do have different coats. For instance, a P.O.V. will be POV-sized and have a brindled coat in a colour of your choosing. I've always imagined a POV to be about the size of a mid-sized yak. A Pov would be the baby elephant size Sergio mentioned, and a pov is like a sort of scuttly guinea pig thing.Typos and misspellings do make mini-povs, as Sergio rightly asserts. Since a POV is about the size of a yak, a mini-POV is very similar in size to a squirrel, while a mini-pov is Too Small Put It Back about the size of a Roborovski dwarf hamster. I'm being specific there because you should Google images of Roborovski dwarf hamsters. You will not be disappointed.

Hope that was useful! I'm going back to my bunker.

Well, looks like you’ll have to make some more...

It's mine! My own. My... precioussss...

(But I mean, they're basically chocolate chip cookies plus "infusions of canon-y goodness," so you can probably adapt your own recipe. >.> )

~Neshomeh actually plans to make ginger molasses cookies tomorrow.

WHERE ARE THE CANON COOKIES NESH?

Sorry, that came out hostile. I'm very passionate about cookies.

. . . but since this chapter of Suedom references a lot of pre-existing characters, Sean may have been included as an additional reference. Plus, it's not too unlikely that Sean and Lux would be tasked with retrieving Jay and Acacia, since both pairs knew each other.

—doctorlit, speculating