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If you are a Good Omens fan and in need of some industrial strength comfort (and who isn't these days?) may I recommend:

Untitled Stardew Omens Fic

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Crowley has decided to give up on life in the city and move to the countryside. Aziraphale is intrigued by the new arrival in Pelican Town. Fluff ensues in such enormous quantities I am compelled by law to recommend a dental check-up after reading.

It's the pure fluff of the sappiest, most uncomplicated of GO fic on top of the comforting, predictable order of a cutesy farming sim where if you just clear all the rocks out of your field and give the person you love a present, all is good.

If, like me, you are a Good Omens fan who has not managed to buy a Switch to get to play Animal Crossing while the world falls apart, this is undoubtedly the next best thing.

(I am attempting to post more than once every six months. Ha! Taking bets on how long that lasts.)

I know nobody in the Good Omens fandom is at a loss for fic to read, but

elisi has just posted a story:

Thou Knowest Us Happy

Summary: ‘Not going to war because they're still in bed at two in the afternoon, with the sheets coiled about their knees, lying there, smoking a Gauloises inside a Gitanes, and sweating Nice Sancerre.’ x

Or: Heaven goes to check on their errant angel. They do not like what they find. Also contains the complexities of an evolving relationship, nice helpings of poetry and 14th century angst.

I do happen to think it perfect, and that's only partially because I've spent the last several weeks of my life attempting to punctuate it. It manages to encompass both Dylan Moran and Catholic mysticism, with all the tonal range that implies. The structure has a kind of eclectic, time-hopping, Moffat-y quality to it. Most importantly, however, is that it is a proper established relationship fic, set several years after the apocalypse, and therefore does things with the relationship dynamics that I've see very few other fics attempt. Aziraphale and Crowley are my favorite 'good and evil' ship by . . . just ridiculous amounts, and this fic explores why in a really beautiful way.

I dearly wish I could wipe it from my brain just so I could have the chance to read it again for the first time. Alas, I've no way to do that, so I need to live vicariously through others. Go and read.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Queen.

I had a feeling I was going to love this and it's all!??! So??!!? Great!?!?!?!

Give me all the stories about wrenching back self determination and autonomy in the face of both coercive and abusive religious power structures and male privilege and fill them with witches and powerful middle aged women and Michelle Gomez and a really fantastic soundtrack, please and thank you.

I don't even like things about teenagers, as a rule.

Also it's stinking gorgeous and when there was a scene of two guys talking 2 hours and fifteen minutes in it felt weird and out of place.

(I'm only a few episodes in, but. Everything is beautiful.)

For anyone who loves The Good Place (I think that was approximately my whole flist) and didn't realize they have a podcast (as I didn't): The Good Place team are making a podcast in which all the behind the scenes people talk about making the show, and god I love that kind of stuff. I'm only an episode and a half in and it's great.

Here or wherever fine podcasts are distributed. Suggest listening from the beginning.

So, comms have always been tricky on Dreamwidth. Maybe there are some truly active ones out there, but by and large there's never been that critical mass to make them lively. Up to this point it's been far, far easier to just lure your friends over to Dreamwidth or find a few new ones through your network and have your fannish life be in people's journals.

But right now? I think there's a chance of making a few of them take off.

miss_s_b on

gallifrey_times has compiled a list of active Doctor Who comms and a list of inactive Doctor Who comms on Dreamwidth. Note: the distinction between active and inactive comms on DW is . . . a somewhat academic one.

I'm seriously considering subscribing to the whole list and just seeing if any of them rise from the dead. The upside of DW is that there's no real downside to subscribing to as many comms as you want. Most will sit there and maybe spit an interesting tidbit to you a couple times a year. But maybe this time one or two will do more.

News for TV Majors does what it says on the tin: collections of links on tv-related topics, intended for people who actually get to study this stuff. Some of it is quite industry inside-baseball stuff: advertising trends, analysis of cord-cutting news, upfronts, etc. Other entries skew more towards fannish interests: picks of articles by tv critics, episode analysis, trends in current tv content. I've found a lot of great articles through this site, which I've been following for years.

The highlight, however, is Good TVeets, a (mostly) daily round-up of the funniest tweets about tv shows. Because we all need more of that in our lives.

If you already know who Alton Brown is, I assume you have been in mourning since the demise of Good Eats and will want to proceed immediately to the videos below. Please, enjoy.

If you do not know who Alton Brown is, 1) you poor thing, and 2) Alton Brown is the most fantastically geeky TV chef whose show, Good Eats, ran for something like ten seasons, during which he tried to answer the question of The Single Best Way to cook anything and everything, using science, sock puppets, strange MacGyvered kitchen contraptions, and some incredibly corny sketch comedy. His show ended several years ago, and the world is much the worse for it. But, since then, Alton has been doing a stage tour and, occasionally, posting some really great YouTube.

I give you, Champagne Saber Time:

Watch on YouTube

Oh yes.

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Both of these vids basically have the same story: I was browsing through Festivids, I watched this vid about something I hadn't seen before, I played it obsessively about twenty times, and then I dropped everything to watch the source material because it looked so great. And, indeed, it was great, as are these vids. The end.

Paper Planes by

shati is about Bandidas, the fabulously campy movie about Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek robbing banks in old-time-y Mexico that you never knew you needed. Also features a great cover of the title song.

Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny by

amathela is about The Middleman, an unfairly canceled genre show that deserves way more cult favorite attention than it gets, for reasons that The AV Club explains in much better detail than I can. Fair warning: I have recced this show and this vid before. Pesterings will continue until all are in compliance.

So, I was tired of sleeping on sucky pillows, and I did what a good internet dork does, went to The Sweethome*, and bought the thing they told me to. As per usual, they were right.

The Xtreme Comforts Hypoallergenic Bamboo Pillow - Shredded Memory Foam With Kool-Flow Micro-Vented Bamboo Cover - Hypoallergenic and Dust Mite Resistant (Standard) is like a little miracle in squashy form (the name might need a little more workshopping). You mold it into whatever height and curvature you want, and then it stays there, being soft yet supportive. We all already knew memory foam was awesome. Turns out it's even more awesome when you shred it into tiny, tiny bits and stuff a pillow with it. Are other shredded memory foam pillows this amazing? I have no idea, but this one is great. The Sweethome folks also recommend the slim version for stomach sleepers.

I liked this pillow so much, I gave my brother one for Christmas. Here was his unsolicited opinion:

i love this pillow. prior to this i had 4 relatively thin standard pillows and every night i would spend 10-15 minutes trying to macgyver them in to just the right overlapping position. now i just flop down a super pillow and go the fuck to sleep. thank you.

Thank you, Xtreme Comforts Hypoallergenic Bamboo Pillow - Shredded Memory Foam With Kool-Flow Micro-Vented Bamboo Cover - Hypoallergenic and Dust Mite Resistant (Standard). Thank you.

*For anyone who is unfamiliar with the beauty that is The Sweethome and its parent site, The Wirecutter, consider this your secondary rec for the day. If you, like me, believe down in your soul that there is a single best solution to everything, you will derive deep satisfaction from this site that applies that principle to the purchase of home items (and for The Wirecutter, technology). Or maybe you just don't like having to waste time trying to figure out what to buy and just want to be told what to get knowing that it will be very, very good. It works for that too.

Kimchi is tasty, spicy, and good for you. Nom, nom, nom!

. . . ok, so that's not actually my rec, though kimchi is pretty great, it's true. Try the radish kind.

Eat Your Kimchi is a YouTube chanel by Canadians Simon and Martina, who lived for seven years in Korea before recently moving to Tokyo, Japan (their channel is since renamed to Simon and Martina). Their enormous archive of videos covers food, sightseeing, weird Asian product finds, commentary about Korean and Japanese cultures, and random slice-of-life stuff. Simon and Martina are adorable dorks with an eccentric sense of fashion and an immense sense of fun and adventure. Also they give their recurring segments suggestive acronym titles:

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Guys, I have lost days binge-watching their videos. And they've really kicked their game up a notch since moving. Eat Your Sushi, their weekly segments documenting their first six months in Japan, would not be a bad place to start at all.

Ghostery is like a next-level adblocker. It's an extension for your browser that can block not just visible ads, but all of the trackers and plug-ins that litter modern websites. Why would you want to do this?

1) Privacy: Pretty much every website on the internet is spying on you, often in sophisticated networks that follow you around the web. Ghostry helps shield you from these tracker networks.

2) Security: Some website plugins carry malware that can do you active harm.

3) Speed: A major portion of the data load of a lot of websites is in trackers and plugins. It's amazing how fast some of these sites load when you cut that crap out.

4) Clutter: Ghostery removes a lot of the extra cruft from websites that can distract from the content. Not just ads, but things like those social media sharing buttons, media players, and buggy, slow-loading comment sections. Now, some of these things are useful, but Ghostery lets you turn them on and off at will. Maybe you want the Facebook share buttons but not the Twitter or Linked in ones--you can do that. Maybe most of the time you just want to read a site's articles but sometimes you want to comment--you can load them only when you want to.

5) And it blocks ads too.

( Some notes on using it: )

In the spirit of trying new things and posting again, I'm going to rec you something new every day for the month of January: things to watch, things to read, things to buy, things to make . . . whatever. I'm calling it 'Promethia recs stuff.' Because I like stuff, and I bet you do too.

First up, a podcast:

Spilled Milk is a show where, "we cook something delicious, eat it all, and you can't have any."

Actually, the tag line is a bit misleading: sometimes they don't cook at all. What hosts Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton do do is get together every week to discuss a particular variety of food, eat examples of it, and crack themselves up running hysterically off-topic. Subjects range from vinegars to squash to frozen burritos to Dim Sum and Icelandic convenience store food. It's refreshingly light and brief if, like me, your podcatcher is full of two-hour-long, information-dense talking head shows. And the hosts have a rhythm and improvisational patter that I could listen to all day.

I would recommend this podcast even if you don't like food. Though: what is wrong with you?

Sample episode: Pumpkin Spice. In which our intrepid hosts read the Pumpkin Spice issue of the Trader Joe's catalogue and face their prejudices about the PSL. I listen to this one every fall.

YEEESSSSSSS. Excellent meme day:

Day Twelve

In your own space, rec at least three fanworks that you think would make a good intro into XYZ fandom. Rec a fandom overview, a introductory picspam, stories that define and shape the fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

If at all possible, try to pick a smaller or rarer fandom, one that maybe doesn't have the following you feel it should.

Cheating because how could anyone pick one?

( THE MIDDELMAN! SANCTUARY! DOLLHOUSE! )

Mmmmmm, tv. You know you want a new show, come on *eyebrow waggle*

Crossposts: http://promethia-tenk.livejournal.com/33080.html

Let's have some Doctor Who, shall we? Good, I'm glad we're agreed ; )

Things with whose perfection I am entirely incapable of putting up right now (vid edition):

Moves Like Jagger (Eleven/everyone) by

lady_with_cats So, I have this song on my iPod at the moment, and I keep cracking up at inopportune times because . . . well, you'll see. Because the Doctor knows he is a smooth gq fucking rockstar, and he might even be right.

Safe to Shore (Amy, Eleven) by

niyalune This vid almost makes me feel like we are back in season five again, just enjoying the joys and sorrows and adventures of Amy and her Raggedy Doctor, all while connecting it to season six and its complexities, and oh I love it so. The essence of these two together.

I Would Hurt a Fly (Eleven, his relationships, and his journey) by

gnattery I won't mince words: this vid is the reason for this post. Because somebody made an epic, meat-y, meta-y vid about the relationship between the Doctor/the TARDIS/the Time Lords/the Master/the Universe/the Doctor's own darkness/Amy/Rory/River/and everything else. Oh, and it's beautiful. That's all.

(I know I owe comments on my last post--please forgive me. But I loved your insights and I will get back to it. Also: have watched Avatar: Legend of Korra and suspect it might be amazing, if flawed.)

Crossposts: http://promethia-tenk.livejournal.com/31036.html

This is one of those fics you finish and realize you've been waiting around for:

The Moon Rises Over and Over Again by

quidly (Doctor/River, Amy/Rory, the TARDIS, 11500 words, R)

A 'this is why I read fic" fic. A "this is why I watch this show" fic. An "oops, didn't realize I'd stopped breathing there for a moment but I don't really care" fic. It's about . . . people being bigger on the inside. And how those spaces relate.

Give yourself a good hour to read, but please, read!

Crossposts: http://promethia-tenk.livejournal.com/25662.html

1) Vid rec: Land's End by

cherryice (River Song, awake in the waiting sea.) OMG, guys, go watch this now. It's . . . a River vid. I mean about River, about her life (and all the rest of their lives, too--I think especially Amy). Anyone struggling with the AGMGTW reveal, I think this might . . . actually . . . help? In a cathartic sense, cause it's not really a pretty picture. At any rate, it's amazing. Go watch many, many times!

2) Question: I've been meaning to ask for awhile, but it seemed very a propos to the vid above ('let the walls cave in'): if I were to write something up comparing River to Echo from Dollhouse, would that be of any interest to anyone but me? It would basically be about both women and their boxes (Echo and the Dollhouse/ River and the TARDIS, the astronaut suit, Stormcage, the Library computer, etc. . . .) and the complicated, push-pull, quasi-symbiotic relationships they have to them. Or is bringing up Dollhouse enough to put everybody off from the get-go?

3) Observation: Watched "The Pandorica Opens" last night for the first time since AGMGTW, and ( it struck me that . . . )

Crossposts: http://promethia-tenk.livejournal.com/25571.html

I've made no secret around these parts of the fact that "A Good Man Goes to War" has left me in a right funk. And I know I'm not the only one! If you're anything like me, though, perhaps you are tired of your funk. Maybe you would like to have your show back and to just be excited about it again. Remember how this felt?:

No, me either, really. But I want to. So I've made a big ol' rec list of Doctor Who stuff what has made me happy of late, and I share it with you now in the hopes that one or more of us may again be squeeful in advance of the rest of the season!

( Some days are special . . . )

Crossposts: http://promethia-tenk.livejournal.com/25313.html

So, awhile back

cinderbella333 asked me for some vid recs . . .

And awhile back before that

elisi taught me all about RTD-Who and Torchwood, and good luck getting her to express anything without throwing in a vid or two or twenty ; )

And back even before that, I asked a fairly facetious question because I felt like making fun of the Tenth Doctor (like you do) and ended up getting a lot more than I'd bargained for (and if that's not an argument for always asking the facetious question, I don't know what is).

So here is this thing that I have put together. Of vids. Lot of vids of Torchwood and of NuWho that I have watched and with some words about why I like them. You might think of this as A Thing I Have Put Together for Cinderbella (and anyone else who might like to watch some vids, and also for myself since I quite wanted a list of my own for reference). Or you might think of this as Vids and What I Have Learned About Them, in the manner of some end-of-the-semester project for Fandom104: Introduction to Audiovisual Modes of Critique and Expression. Or you might think of this as Things I Think and Feel about the Whoniverse because, while this is a very long list, I make absolutely no claims to either comprehensiveness or objectivity. This is simply a list of vids that happened to grab me and that I watched a lot because they seemed important to me in my own little corner over here.

I have tried to be very organized with different sections and descriptions so that anyone looking for something specific might find it. And if you happen to know a real LJ or Dreamwidth link for anything I only have a YouTube link for, do please share. Obviously this has been a very long time in the making, both in collecting materials and in the choosing and typing up and organizing, so here's hoping somebody besides myself will find it of some use.

( And there's a My Little Pony vid at the bottom, if you make it that far . . . )

This is the best Doctor/River fic I have ever seen, and a day later I honestly have still not managed to come up with anything more suitable to say about it than that:

Timeless Dreams by

cinderbella333 rated K, no word count given (but long--20 + minutes of reading) Summary: "Every story is his story." A retelling of the Doctor and River Song's romance with magic and iPads. Written for an AU challenge.

Just . . . go. Go read.

doctoreleven is hosting a fic rec day this week, and I figured I'd gather my links together in preparation. Hey, somebody's gotta curate this stuff. And on that note,

owlsie is being awesome by compiling a delicious of, hopefully, all the River fic ever. Comment here if you know something that's been left out.

All recs are for relatively recent fic--about the last six months.

( Under the cut . . . )

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