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I read a lot. Two to three books a week, plus fanfic. (I'm currently working on my SGA Santa assignments so I'm not reading quite as much fanfic right now.)

If you like sci-fi and action, I can recommend The Fold by Peter Clines and The Razor by J. Barton Mitchell.

Both are action-packed (should you be trying to write action scenes you might find it helpful) and have engaging, well-defined characters. The hero survives, which is important to me, at least.

It's damn hard to find good sci-fi. It's one of the reasons I'm thrilled (and nervous) about Stargate making a comeback after 14 frigging years.

I'm speculating that they'll do a New Teams First Experience through the gate scenario. In part because Hewlett suggested it many years ago as a screenplay, in part because Star Trek is doing Star Trek Academy, and in part because it lets all of the previous canon remain intact.

Or maybe they'll toss the spaghetti and see what sticks to the wall.

I remember my feelings with Sam Carter was sent to Atlantis. I was so nervous the writers were going to fuck it up. They didn't.

I have similar feelings about this new chapter of Stargate. *fingers crossed*

verushka70

Per The Verge, The original Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III games are now available under the MIT CC license.

I have such fond memories of the interactive fiction game Zork - or rather its predecessor, Adventure. And now you can see exactly how you got "eaten by a grue!" or stuck in "a maze of twisty little passages, all alike..." if you took a wrong turn somewhere in the game, heh!
( Playing Zork's predecessor, Adventure, with my sister on my brother's mainframe terminal decades ago )
We LOVED that game! I didn't know what Interactive Fiction or Text-based Adventure games were, at the time - I was just a kid. I just knew Adventure was super fun to play, even though it was also difficult for us. I remember us eventually drawing maps as we explored the underground cave system that you got to by going through the locked grate in the streambed, using the keys you got from the small brick building in the forest, where you begin the game.
( what I learned from Adventure/Zork, and the downside of vivid visual imagination )

Anyway - I'm so glad other people can legally see it now. (Zork I/II/III and many of their predecessors and imitators been available for years, though unofficially and in that gray area of "it's not really legal but no one is pursuing anyone who ports it to whatever OS"; more than 25 years ago, I installed an emulator on my Linux computer just so I could play Zork/Adventure again.) Now people can study the code... or just download the game and play it.

(I am not a programmer but I just might study the code myself - I took some basic programming classes as a high schooler - good lord, the punch cards! - and as a kid, taught myself BASIC so I could write stupid little programs on my Commodore 128 computer that my brother bought me and my little sister for Christmas one year. Why, Yes: I am geeky - and kinda proud of it, lol!)

ETA: You can also play Adventure/Colossal Cave Adventure online in a browser here! Yay!

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Ever since Marjorie Taylor Greene "informed" us that California wildfires were being caused by "Jewish Space Lasers" I have been obsessed with making a mockery of her. (Hey, I'm Jewish, and if I had control of some space lasers I would NOT be using them to set California on fire.)

Now I see that she is resigning from Congress after The Orange One called her "wacky"...which is the first time I've ever agreed with something he said.

At this juncture I would like to show what I have created with my Refrigerator Magnet "What Will Marjorie Taylor Green Say Next" Conspiracy Kit.

Marjorie Taylor Greene refrigerator magnet

Bonus Image:

Current Mood: mocking
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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This link goes to Facebook: What Would the Founding Fathers Say about Trump

Current Mood: facepalm
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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Watch on YouTube

And they better not screw this up.

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Voted first place by the FWF participants for best use of prompt.

My FWF First Place Winner - Category: "Best Use of Prompt" - Shocktober Edition

Title: Things Counter, Original, Spare, Strange
Fandoms: due South, Wristcutters
Rating: Mature
Category: Gen, M/M
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Characters: Robert "Bob" Fraser, Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski, mention of Uncle Tiberius Fraser, mention of Diefenbaker (the half-wolf, not the former Canadian Prime Minister), mention of Nanuk (from Wristcutters), mention of Raife Kneller (from Wristcutters)
Word count: 400 (quadruple drabble)

Summary: Sergeant Robert Fraser -- dead Robert Fraser -- knows first-hand that All Hallow’s Eve is when The Veil between the living and the dead is at its most thin...but he doesn't know anything about Halloween-themed sex toys until Ray Kowalski has something to say about it.

Author's Notes: Written for the recurring Firewhiskey Fic Challenge, a 48-hour period during which fanworks creators drink "adult beverages" or "do the 420" and create their fanworks "under the influence" with no editing allowed. Participants then view all the fanworks and vote on them in the categories of Most Coherent Entry, Least Coherent Entry, Funniest Entry, Favorite Entry, Best Use of Prompt, and Best Smut.

Fic on AO3.

Current Mood: awarded
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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verushka70

Regina Keim created and posted a new due South word search over in the private Fraser/Kowalski Facebook group.

You can access it here, if you can't see the group's posts because you're not a member.

verushka70

FYI, over the past few days I have had someone else requesting to change my AO3 password 3 times.

I don't know if this is happening to anyone else, but... I just thought I'd warn people.

I think it is a person rather than a bot, because it seems a bot would be more likely to just keep sending and sending requests (meaning, more than 3 in 5 days).

But you never know. If it is a bot, it could just be going down a long list of hundreds or thousands of usernames and coming back around to mine after going through the list.

Be careful out there!

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I made Bobby Nash (9-1-1) icons for the

seasons_of_fandom 'the graveyard' challenge.

( icons )

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The main plotline of the video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) alone -- with no sidequests, exploration, minigames, or collections -- takes ~50 hours. So, roughly, 2 old-fashioned US TV seasons of 22-26 episodes or 3-4 epic Peter Jackson movies. Here's that plot, summarized:

( Massive spoilers )

verushka70

According to this CBC article from October 30, this past summer, Canada tourism hit an all time high!

Well of course it did! Who would want to come to the US right now?? The US is a flaming dumpster fire right now and - as far as I can tell - will continue to be until the current clown and all his flying monkeys get kicked out in 2028. I wish I could live in Canada for the next 3 years, myself.

ETA: Oh, CBC also reports that US tourism is projected to be DOWN $5.7 billion by end of 2025. Are we great again yet? No. No we are not.

verushka70

There is a great interview with Hugh Dillon of Headstones at the V13 site. He talks a lot about how he got started in music by going to London UK to escape some trouble he was in, in Kingston, ONT - squatting in hotels, the early punk scene that inspired him, honing his singing and songwriting by busking.

I have the new album Burn All The Ships and it is great.

You can read or listen to the interview at the V13 article.

Headstones Burn All The Ships album cover

Headstones Burn All The Ships album cover

verushka70

November 9 was Ramona Milano's birthday!

She teaches at her own acting studio, and she's directed, too. See her IMDb.com page.

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