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I carved out some time to watch Alice in Borderland's season 3, which I've described to various people as an OVA to the first two seasons, i.e. a shorter (6 episodes, in this case) side story that isn't as necessary to the main story, which is already complete. I didn't enjoy it as much for a couple of reasons, the main one being is that the emotional throughline just isn't strong.

Season 3 uses some of the unused games of the original manga, doesn't use anything from Border Road, but I THINK does use some elements of the short Borderland sequel, which I haven't read but I have osmosed does include Arisu reentering the games while Usagi is pregnant. I might be wrong, but my impression is in the manga sequel, Usagi doesn't reenter the games, and if so, the show's season 3 had to invent their own reasoning to get Usagi into the games, because it's just better that way, plus it changes Arisu's motivation from "survive the games so he can return to Usagi" to IMO the more compelling "find Usagi and get her out".

( Spoilers and so on. )

Current Mood: awake

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Challenge 276:
MOONLIT KISSES

A meeting with a secret lover? A romantic date night? Or maybe it’s just been a long day, or a long week, and all our heroes have the energy for is a single exhausted kiss in the dark.

Kissing under the moonlight can be the perfect end to a lovely date: a nice dinner or a boat ride or a walk through the garden, ending under a beautiful full moon. But the moon can also be an unwanted spotlight on a rendezvous the people involved would rather keep in the dark – a forbidden relationship, a politically dangerous romance, or just a relationship everyone involved wants to keep private.

Write a story about moonlit kisses.

BONUS GOAL: “Did you hear something?”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!

Challenge ends Monday, October 6 at 9:00PM EST.

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• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 276 – moonlit kisses
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Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #275 – One More Try!

( This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 2916

Congratulations, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!

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You may now post your Challenge 275 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there!

tielan

I am really enjoying Porto, except for the feeling of having to DO ALL THE THINGS.

But I think I shall go and catch the train across the river this evening to the gardens on the hill and maybe watch the sunset from there (if I don't get crushed by the madding crowds).

I am thinking about an all-day tour tomorrow, to a national park with some waterfalls and suchlike. I was out on an all-day tour of the Douro vallue yesterday, though. And did a walking tour this morning...

eta: tour is booked out, so it will be a quieter day tomorrow. The alternative that I tried to book fell through (he said he had an accident and won't be doing tours until next week, but I suspect that it's as simple as "there's only one person who's booked for this tour and so it's not worth it").

Probably just as well.

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Theme Prompt: 275 - One More Try
Title: running out of time
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self Saving System
Rating/Warnings: T - violence mention
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 916
Summary: Yue Qi keeps trying to escape the mountain to rescue his Xiao Jiu.

( caught )

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Theme Prompt: #275 - One more try
Title: Cold turkey
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: The team have been without their regular barista for days and now things are getting desperate.

( Read more... )

tielan

I arrived in London on Friday evening, a little after the time the host and I had agreed upon thanks to a late flight departure. It was still earlier than it would have been if I'd caught the multi-stage flight that was on my itinerary.

( london )

Thanks so much,

rmc28 for coming out and meeting me on not just one, but two days! It was so great to catch up, talk, see a bit more of the UK, go steam-training, and watch women's football!

And then I went to see Twelfth Night at the Globe Theatre - the old-fashioned style theatre that Shakespeare's plays would have been shown in (ever seen 'Shakespeare In Love'? That kind of theatre). Six or seven years ago, there was a Popup Globe that came to Australia, and I saw shows in Sydney and in Melbourne, dragging various friends along, and it was just the best fun. Highly recommended.

On the way home, went and picked up some wagamama munchies - not for dinner, but for lunch the next day while I was on the train. An EastAsian-fusion restaurant, wagamama went out of business in Australia a decade ago and more, but apparently is still doing pretty well here. Not entirely surprising, I guess. We have so much food from Asia - East, South-East, South, not to mention all the other types of food from non-white countries we have in abundance - that something that's 'Asian lite' is not going to get much traffic here.

I got back to the room, and chatted a bit with the host. A nice longer chat, we touched on a bunch of topics, and I was a little disappointed that I hadn't had the opportunity to talk to him earlier.

But the place was excellently positioned, near an underground station with three lines passing through it. My only complaint was that it was a little close to a couple of pubs that were very noisy on a Friday night, although they quietened significantly after 11pm.

And the next day, I caught a train up to Chesterfield to meet the tour group for the Pride and Prejudice pilgrimage...

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Theme Prompt: #275 – One More Try
Title: Lost And Alone
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Having crashed on a strange island, Varian finds himself lost and alone, completely out of his depth, a pacifist at the mercy of people who have yet to give up their violent ways.

( Lost And Alone... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

scaramouche

Buzz Aldrin's No Dream is Too High: Life Lessons from a Man Who Walked on the Moon (co-written with Ken Abraham) was a spontaneous get from a clearance section, and when I picked it up I assumed that this was his memoir? It does have elements of a memoir, in that Aldrin tells little stories of his life experiences, but his actual memoir is titled Magnificent Desolation, which I will have to get another time. This book is more a presentation of neat little soundbites for the purpose of inspiring people, and especially younger people, who look up to him and want to pursue their dreams.

Aldrin clearly has a lot of feelings about doing as much as possible while he's still alive and able, and this book is part of the activism of trying to keep interest in science, space and space-faring activities alive. He wants to inspire excellence! Unfortunately that's not really what I'm interested in, speaking as someone whose dreams are much smaller, so reading this book was a case of "that's nice, but not really relatable" which is frustrating because not everything has to be relatable, but the book's prose is trying so hard to make ALL of it relatable, and urging the reader to Innovate! And Think Out of the Box! And Not Be Afraid of Rejection! Aldrin is so upbeat and positive, there's outright whiplash when he drops tidbits out of the blue, eg. how his mother died, before right on back to going, Surround Yourself With People Who Will Bring Out the Best in You! Don't Be Afraid To Think Out of the Box! Be Open-minded! Stand Up For Yourself!

I don't mean this to denigrate, and I totally get Aldrin's frustration that NASA stopped going to the moon, and efforts to get to Mars are taking so long, that he needs to pour that frustration into this book (along with other projects) to remind people of the best of humankind's accomplishments and capabilities and to be unafraid to pursue excellence even when times are hard... and have unfortunately become harder since the time this book was published almost ten years ago. For example, this book gets dated for his namechecking Musk and Bezos as innovators who make the world a better place.

For Aldrin's purpose, the book is what it is, a collection of anecdotes to inspire and encourage optimism, so there's a sense of flattening and simplification for that. There's only allusions to Aldrin's difficulties in and after NASA, his depression and alcoholism, or even his time in the Korean War -- which, as he writes it, he remembers that war fondly, and not much more than that.

Current Mood: restless

tielan

That feeling when there was something on, you know you could have/should have gone, but you didn't, and now you have regret.

It was a social night for the tour I'm on, but I was super-tired from the walk today (well, everyone was) so I stayed in. But I think nearly everyone else went, so I missed out on 2 hours of socialising. Then again, I'm (once again) oddball out on this tour.

Which, I know the "once again" should mean I'm used to this, but also, it's slightly harder on this one.

Walked about 7 miles yesterday, up hill and down dale, through cowpasture and sheep pasture. Definitely walking off the meals I've been eating the last couple of days.

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Challenge 275
ONE MORE TRY

You’ve tried before, and it didn’t go well. Maybe something catastrophic went wrong, or maybe you just couldn’t quite pull it off. But whatever it is, it still needs to be done, and it’s your job to do it – so you need to give it one more try.

What are your characters trying to do? Why did they fail last time? Will they succeed this time, and what will it take?

Write a story about one more try.

BONUS GOAL: “Third time’s the charm.”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!

Challenge ends Monday, September 29 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 275 – one more try
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #274 – Near-Death Experience!

( This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 4181

Congratulations to all this week's participants, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!

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You may now post your Challenge 274 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there!

tielan

( Italy and the cities there )

Right now, my roomie is using a fan, and I suspect plans to use it all night. On the plus side, at least I don't have to deal with the full-bore air-conditioning. They don't have that here in the UK in most places.

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Theme Prompt: #274 – Near-Death Experience
Title: The Rotting
Fandom: Mexican Gothic
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 / Vomiting, fungal body horror, violent illness
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 692
Summary: Noemí struggles to recover from the assimilation with the gloom.

( Read more! )

scaramouche

I was going to start watching Bloody Game season 3, but while browsing Netflix on my phone, I got a promo for Crime Scene Zero.

HUH, said I. Does this have anything to do with Crime Scene, the murder mystery variety show that I love? A quick click on the show's info (the show itself hasn't dropped yet) seemed to imply that it's a continuation of the same show????

I went to the show's wiki page to double-check, and sure enough Crime Scene Zero is mentioned there as a fifth season of the show.... but just before that, the article says that there was a fourth season LAST year, called Crime Scene Returns.

WHAT! Despite my acceptance that the show is labour intensive and difficult to set up and run, they've made another two seasons? I checked the usual places on reddit, and have now watched episode 1 and 2 of Crime Scene Returns, as it seems that this season has changed the format some by splitting each case into two episodes each.

Sure, the comments on reddit are more levelheaded, with criticism of the new episodes' pacing and the roleplaying skills of the cast, but meanwhile I'm over here watching episodes 1 and 2 while being gleeful, joyous, excited, grateful, delighted, ecstatic, and laughing until my asthma kicks in. (When ep 1 first started I went aww Park Ji-yoon didn't come back? But then she came walking in as the detective and I went YAY!!!!) I am so happy, I have to stop myself from bingeing the whole season, though I probably will.

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Franz Ferdinand - What You Waiting for?

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Theme Prompt: #274 - Near-Death Experience
Title: Silenced
Fandom: Control
Rating/Warnings: PG-13, spoilers
Bonus: No
Word Count: 945
Summary: It's been a week since the expedition, and Trench still isn't talking.

( Silenced )

scaramouche

I got Karen Armstrong's memoir The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness from a book fair ages ago, but kind of avoided reading it because although I knew that Armstrong used to be a nun and that informs her perspective of religion, I was nervous that knowing Armstrong better might make me enjoy her other books less. As it turns out, knowing a bit more about life experience has indeed changed the way I view her books that I've already read, but in ways I wasn't expecting, and most of the guesses I'd made from her style of writing turned out to be pretty close.

( Cut for length. )

Anyway, great read, enjoyed myself even through the difficult parts, I have a better understanding (I think) of the ways that Armstrong thinks that differ from my own, but still illuminate routes that are useful to think about.

Current Mood: mellow
Current Music: Earth, Wind & Fire - September

scaramouche

It took me so long to finish Bloody Game season 2! (Looks like I started somewhere in July.) There was a stretch of a few weeks where I was three episodes from the finale and just couldn't get through, the pace and editing was SO BAD in the second half of the season. Made worse because at the same time I was watching Taran's The Genius season 1 commentary, which further made me appreciate how crisp the editing is in that show, even during its slower first season.

(Tangent: Taran paused his The Genius commentary to commentate over Survivor: Australia - Australia vs. the World, which I ended up watching because I figured that his commentary would be interesting enough to cancel out my general disinterest in Survivor -- speaking as someone who followed season 2 and 3 really closely back in the day. Taran had way less to say because he doesn't have as much game strategy to analyse, but it was fun to get a glimpse of Survivor fandom lingo and meta discussion about "player edits" and "social currency".)

I finally forced myself to finish Bloody Game's season 2, in the hopes of getting to the reportedly better season 3. It's been literal months since I first started season 2, and at one point I accidentally deleted my post on the earlier episodes when it was in a dreamwidth draft, so I'll try to recall what my thoughts were.

Why couldn't I have fastforwarded through season 2 the way I did season 1? Because Hong Jin-ho was a player. Dammit, Jin-ho! Though a lot of the time I let the show play in the background while I did other things. It is fun seeing Jin-ho, who "rescued" The Genius's debut season, appear almost ten years later in Bloody Game as a veteran (and thus letting go, fashion effort wise) in a mostly younger-than-him cast.

( More thoughts about Bloody Game's season 2. )

Current Mood: bored

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