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Saturday, March 15th, 2025 09:26 pm
There's so much, where to begin? Well, it depends. Most of this is Narnia, though there are a few other things, too. To decide if you are interested in "Not My Children's Narnia" (I'm an adult writing mostly adult characters for mostly adult readers) try Under Cover, or the first three chapters of The Stone Gryphon, Part 1 (Oxfordshire 1942), and/or the first four chapters of By Royal Decree. If you don't like those, you probably won't like the rest of it.

Edit in March 2021 to add the following:
I'm not going to attempt to update this badly dated list.  The best reading lists are on my AO3 series pages.  The items below are useful, particularly for things that were never added to AO3 (and which I should probably get to at some point).

ExpandNever tell me the word count )On Fanfiction.net
On Archive of our Own

The Other Stuff
Liliandil and the Just King aka it's not all about you
Kwong Lee is a bad Buddhist
Lie Back and Think of Narnia -- Peridan, Flobber and meaning of the word "fark"
The Horse, his boy, the girl, her horse, the Rat and the Trickster stories are here and here
You need a wolf to run a mole to ground -- The Stone Gryphon AU
Morgan and Edmund On Two Hearts Day in the Lone Islands and Acceptance of the terms (after the departure of the Four)
Comment Fic, Give the Pevensies A Friend
More Comment Fic, including why Edmund and Leszi don't get along, why Morgan and Peter don't get along, and Jalur and the Cub.
And Then The World Blew Up (only here because really, how can you resist Sherlock Holmes, L.King's Mary Russell (no relation to Mary Anning Russell of TSG -- a coincidence), Ramses Emerson and Edmund Pevensie in Jerusalem in 1918?  The F List and I couldn't and comment fic madness resulted. The only thing missing was Miles Vorkosigan and maybe his mother.)
Lots and lots of Alternate Universe Stone Gryphon stories (where everyone lives and nobody dies and there are adventures) are scattered all over this LJ and spread to others. The easiest way to find out about the camels in the Sahara, spies in Moscow, alligators, and Che Guevara is to go to the TSG AU tag
Eustace, Jill and Quebec
The Great Mother's Day Debate in which the Just King argues for posting Chapter 8 of By Royal Decree so that he can have sex and accuses Rthstewart of disrupting expectations because she's worried her children will grow up to be like him.
Food for Thought, in which I channel the mind and writing of a 16 year old girl who blogs about going through her Great Grandmother Susan's wardrobe.

Because people sometimes ask, On the Narnia side, you have, in chronological order:

The Palace Guard (chronologically first but written after By Royal Decree)
By Royal Decree and at AO3
Chapter 1 of It’s The Thought That Counts
Black as Rat and Crow
Harold and Morgan: Not A Romance (in progress, maybe)
Two Hearts Day (part of H&M: Not A Romance)
Acceptance of the Terms (part of H&M: Not A Romance)

Deny the Child (sequel to Acceptance of the Terms by the awesome Anastigmat)

I love not the man less but nature more the Great Bonding of The Monarchs To Narnia
comes first chronologically but I do not recommend reading it until you've been through at least the Narnia stories and probably Part 1 of TSG. And maybe not even then. It's not for everyone, though its assumptions are sprinkled throughout the overall story arc.

 

On the Spare Oom side you have, in chronological order,

The Stone Gryphon, Part 1, Oxfordshire 1942 and at AO3
Chapter 2, It’s The Thought That Counts
The Stone Gryphon, Part 2, The Queen Susan in Tashbaan and at AO3
The Stone Gryphon, Part 3, Apostolic Way
(up to Chapter 15)
Rat and Sword Go To War

I personally think that before you start Part 2 of The Queen Susan in Tashbaan, it's a good idea to skim By Royal Decree and Harold and Morgan (even though unfinished) because there’s a lot that happens there, especially in terms of Edmund’s story, that is relevant. The Palace Guard is relevant to the Good Beasts and other personalities who crop up throughout The Stone Gryphon. I don't have many true surprises but one of them is spoiled in Chapter 2 of the It's The Thought that Counts so you might want to read Chapter 14 of The Stone Gryphon, Part 1, Oxfordshire 1942 first.

Stories outside this (intended to be) cohesive vision are:

Under Cover and at AO3
The Maenad of the Maquis and at AO3
Follow The Star and at AO3

Oh My Gawd, it's sooo long, so here's a short cut

A Timeline of events in The Queen Susan in Tashbaan
Partial cast of characters through most of The Queen Susan in Tashbaan, including character key to the allegorical code used in the story.
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Friday, January 10th, 2025 11:32 am
The [community profile] threesentenceficathon will be live today and run through Sunday, February 9!


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Wednesday, November 6th, 2024 12:50 pm
I knew in 2016 it was coming.  I knew it in my bones.  This time, I allowed myself to hope and am far more gutted and despondent than before.  My spawn, who was in high school in 2016, has been sending me memes and talking about what went wrong and how to fix it.  And I told them, I was proud of them but this revolution will have to do without me this time and that I'm sorry I couldn't give them a better world.  Then I started crying again.  Crying now.

In November 2016, I made this post about continuing access to contraceptives and received some excellent comments on it  At the time, I was more optimistic (when will I ever learn) about continued access.  I'm long past needing contraception but for those of you still in that situation, stock up.  Products will typically be good for at least 2 years -- look at expiration dates -- they are often good for longer but make a plan to protect yourself.  Get a long-term solution in place.  Being in a state that has voted for abortion access will not protect you if the pending cases before Trump appointed judges to yank the approval of mifepristone are successful or if we begin to see enforcement of the Comstock Act. 

I went through all of this before not being alarmist.  Not the case this time.  Protect yourself and your loved ones.  Get to safety if you can.  

Also, now is a great time to launch a fraudulent medical product in January 2025.  vitamins cure cancer!  Go for it.  I doubt anyone will stop you.


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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024 08:14 pm
So, I don't know about you, but I am super stressed about the American November 2024 election. Work this week has been absolutely impossible with my obsessive doomscrolling. I had been optimistic and now it is just horror and dread.

In the middle of all this, I had inquiry from a reader about where to find a story, since I referred to it but it wasn't on AO3. Oh. Turns out I had 3 stories on ff dot net that I hadn't cross-posted. I wondered what else I hadn't posted... and found 17,000 words of stuff, most of it from 2009-2013 and much of it in the form of Live Journal comment fic. (BTW 2013 was when a piece of federal legislation passed that changed my life and continues to dominate my work today). I was also very irritated by a reader who said my Susan Pevensie was a self insert as I posted earlier because, LOL friend, I know how to do a self insert. So I decided to add the Great Mother's Day Debate too.

As a sidenote, in that debate, I refer to the little "Twilight reading tart" who wants to "play" with my spawn and it's mentioned that I'm making macaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets for the kids playing in our fish pond. This WAS written 15 years ago after all and the Twilight reading tart has grown to a lovely woman. I was at her wedding shower this weekend and, as a gift, I gave her a collection of her favorite recipes I've made for her over the years, including, the mac and cheese.

Time flies.
Hodgepodge (17505 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Jill Pole, Eustace Scrubb, Polly Plummer
Additional Tags: Golden Age (Narnia), Spare Oom, Talking Animals, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
Summary:

A collection of Narnia-based short stories, trial balloons, and commentfic written over the last fifteen years (WHUT?) now reposted here.




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Saturday, September 28th, 2024 10:13 am
Well, at the expense of several client deadlines this week and a memo still to be edited in my inbox by Monday morning, and most of the NFE still unread and nothing responded to, I decided to make very poor use of time and... formally begin Book 6 of the Stone Gryphon, Heart and Crow Make the Peace.

Heart and Crow Make The Peace (50583 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 7/?
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Helen Pevensie, Mr. Pevensie (Narnia)
Additional Tags: World War II, Spies & Secret Agents
Series: Part 6 of The Stone Gryphon
Summary:

Book 6 in The Stone Gryphon story cycle. Lucy and Edmund find their way in Spare Oom.

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi

"The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds."
Dalai Lama

I don't know when I'll be able to update again.  Much of this is repurposed and reconfigured but it's now in once place.  There is also new content starting at chapter 5 and various pieces have been adjusted so that if all flows better. 

The WW2 material is not as spot on as typical.  I'm having some trouble with that for various reasons.  Edmund should really be in Cairo with Dudley Clarke or he and Walker-Smythe should both be in London. While Operation Mincemeat is well researched and reported on, it was part of Operation Barclay and there is virtually nothing on that other than a few paragraphs repeated over and over.  There is a real dearth of material on the things I've wanted Lucy to do and I even make fun of it a bit -- she's not going to be able to commandeer a ship, steal foodstuffs, and sail off to Greece.  And while the British Red Cross is a good place to start for her, it was the International Red Cross that was involved in the grain shipments from Canada and South America.  With my recent NFE story The Doctor Is In, the Red Cross now ties back to Narnia. 

I have tweaked the parts with John Pevensie.  He IS an ass and that hasn't changed.  But going way back to the beginning of Oxfordshire 1942 I never wanted to deal with anyone actually IN the service.  HA HA I know.  One way I did that was to make John opposed to Peter's service -- which is not true to the time or patriotic.  BUT if he had say, been a radio operator and heard men suffocating in submarines or dying at Dunkirk, yes, this begins to make sense.  And further, it adds to the choking irony that he'll be really pissed to find out about -- that he went to war to keep his children safe only for a stupid ass Lion to rip them out of this world and march them into war.

I've also changed the letter that Helen writes to Edmund after Morgan's visit. 

Anyway, thank you to those of you still out there.  Welcome to the new!

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Saturday, September 28th, 2024 09:47 am
Woops.

So, first off, the Narnia Fic Exchange went live with 29 incredibly high quality stories. I received two amazing stories and wrote two related ones that fill out some Golden Age missing bits that also feed into the update I just made to Heart and Crow Make The Peace.
For the NFE, I wrote:
The Doctor Is In ties closely with scenes from TQSiT and is pre-Royal Guard, where the Four deal with their first combat/command losses and Narnia farewells. It then switches to Archenland and unexpected backstory on Queen Helen of Narnia. Mischief and Murder is backstory of Willa and Sallowpad from the Long Winter and then fast forward to post Culinary Diplomacy to the assassination attempts, which in turn leads to the establishment of the Royal Guard in The Palace Guard. Got that? Both stories tie into to the newly begun Heart and Crow Make The Peace. LOL. Oh self.

I received 2 wonderful stories and recommend you go read them and tell the authors how wonderful they are!!
A wonderful Silver Chair AU by @syrena-of-the-lake with DINOSAURS
And a lovely exploration by a FIRST TIME AUTHOR of my crack ship Susan Pevensie/Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Expandand a personal rant about critics )


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Sunday, August 4th, 2024 08:01 am
I know. I know. Work continues to be off the rails and I won't be back until regular writing until retirement. I did sign up for the Narnia Fic Exchange, so watch this space. I spend a month in Yellowstone and between wishing I was still back there and my bout with Covid in March, whatever brain cells I had left are not firing in full.

Thorin, my beloved Corgi, has degenerative myelopathy; his last days are coming very, very soon.
In the meantime, we have a new addition, Kili -- which should be pronounced as something other than how I heard it in the Hobbit movies, but whatever. Kee-lee. She's a tiny Pembroke Welsh Corgi and adorable in the way that only puppies can be. Our 6th dog, second Corgi, and first puppy. LOL. Kili is a menace and, to my regret, appears to be smarter than all our previous dogs combined.


Tiny Kili in a pasta bowl weighing out on a kitchen scale at 9 lbs 8 ounces.


Kili sharing a dog bed with a very unenthusiastic Thorin Corgishield.


Kili lying on her back and being so adorable she would stop traffic.




I'm on Blue Sky, not threads or insta. Still lurking on Tumblr but really bad at it (still) and on Discord. I'm rthstewart everywhere including gmail.

So drop a line with your own proof of life, let me know how you're feeling about the 2024 US presidential election, Gaiman, antis, and your latest focus.
I am vaguely hoping that a Harris presidency may inspire me as the Obama presidency did. It launched my return to fandom and, in this case, Narnia fic. I was so full of hope and optimism then -- foolishly assuming we had transcended gender and racial differences. I know, I know. Don't laugh.
But I've not felt hope in a long time. I'll also leave you with this brilliant reminder of November 5, 2020.






rthstewart: 3SF Words (3 sentence ficathon)
Sunday, December 31st, 2023 11:40 pm
Info post is here -- first prompts post opens January 12 and the fest will run until Feb. 11.





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Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 09:42 pm
All the info is here.  Be sure to join the [community profile] threesentenceficathon  Comm.   I have it on good authority some people have been saving prompts all year.
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Monday, January 2nd, 2023 11:14 am
With Yuletide over, we'll be turning to the annual Three Sentence Ficathon! This year, to spare my poor, abused inbox, we'll be moving to the [community profile] threesentenceficathon community. I'll be sharing mod duties (such as they are) with [personal profile] vialethe and [personal profile] wingedflight  We'll probably start, as we did last year, in mid to late January and it will run for 30 days. So, go join the new community and get signed up for notifications.  Then start thinking about your new favorite fandoms (Andor, League of Our Own, House of Dragon, Rings of Power, etc. etc.) and old favorites (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Narnia, Untamed, Hamlet, Assassin's Creed, Greek Myth, Miraculous Ladybug, etc. etc.) and lots of Taylor Swift quotes.




(And yes, people are still filling prompts from last year's ficathon!)
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Sunday, January 1st, 2023 12:04 pm
Happy New Year! Let's hope 2023 doesn't suck

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake and I guessed each other's gifts by the summary. (btw, Syrena has written 6 awesome yuletide stories so do check them out).

I wrote one meager gift, though I had fun doing it and read 4 books and a Tor short story to do it.
Artemisia dracunculus (a sage small dragon) (5052 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Memoirs of Lady Trent - Marie Brennan, Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Isabella Camherst, Thomas Wilker, Jill Pole, Eustace Scrubb
Additional Tags: Dragons, Crack Crossover, Narnia has dragons too, Smaug - Freeform, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Magic and Science, Witchy Jill Pole
Summary:I do not say that the following occurred. However, I also cannot say, with any degree of certitude, that it did not occur.

Addendum to the Memoirs of Isabella, Lady Trent, F.P.C.
Casselthwaite, Lincolnshire
10 Floris 5663

I didn't know Lady Trent at all but Syrena had given me the first book in the series and it's been in my to read pile forever. I was very cautious with my sign up and pretty much combed other people's requests to find prompts I could do for generous readers. I received three lovely gifts and have read some lovely things by friends including [personal profile] edenfalling [personal profile] vialethe [personal profile] petra and [personal profile] snacky
 
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Monday, December 26th, 2022 09:15 am

I received three, THREE wonderful Yuletide gifts.

Two stories that feature, yes, you read this right, dinosaur point of view!


They Remember... (1408 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Clever Girl (Jurassic Park), Ellie Sattler, Robert Muldoon, Ray Arnold
Summary:Clever Girl (and her raptor sister, Clever Gal)'s POV leading up to their first coordinated hunt

It's delightful to get Clever Girl's I'm so over this perspective. Also the names of her siblings are hilarious. She'd kill for a good puzzle.

YT Madness
We shall not cease from exploration (1179 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jurassic World Trilogy (Movies), Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Non-Human Character(s)
Additional Tags: Crack Treated Seriously, Crack Crossover, Yuletide Treat
Summary:A traveler is displaced in time to a world where humanity and dinosaurs coexist. When confronted with an unknown environment and nebulous mission, she attempts to approach things as a good scientist should: with observation, analysis, and sharp teeth.

A raptor travels to Jurassic World and things very poorly of Own Grady, who she deems an inferior person.  And then she perceives A Sign.  A bit of a Narnia xover.  Wonderful. 


Star Wars!! XWING BOOKS! This one is amazing and hits a number of my favorite parts of Star Wars -- fraud, politics, humor.  My favorite characters.  It's awesome.
An Immodest Proposal (2321 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Leia Organa/Han Solo
Characters: Wedge Antilles, Wes Janson, Han Solo, Leia Organa
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
Summary:To Wedge Antilles, few things are worse than asking politicians for funding. Wes Janson's new scheme is one of those things.

ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS.

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022 09:42 pm
So I've been able to watch the finale twice.  Spoilers obviously.

[personal profile] cofax7 had a great roundup of links to discussion of the show.

I've decided that between the prequels, Andor, Rogue One and the original trilogy, I am satisfied with a complete SW arc. 

Expandspoilers )
Anyway, I'm very happy and satisfied. 




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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022 08:47 pm
So, I may be making some poor life choices in what time tomorrow I try to watch Andor.  I'm so nervous about what is going to happen.  Minor speculation and spoilers below the link below.

I'm on the elephant, https://mas.to/@rthstewart

I admit it's a little amusing to see ALL THE DRAMA on mastodon.  I don't mean to make light of it -- some of it is quite serious.  Some of it is just a bunch of people getting together who are all very smart and then suddenly WTF we have to mod too?  How do we mod?  We're used to someone ELSE doing this shit job.  And really not having the first clue about it.  I know there are issues with security, etc. on Mastodon but I'm not on it for anything except to try to keep up on a few things, and it's not terribly successful with that. I used Twitter as my aggregator for news, politics, federal government news, FDA, HHS, emergency alerts, traffic and weather, fandom, dogs, and fic.  I mean, I followed Tom & Lorenzo, Daily Dot, I Pet That Dog, a bunch of law blogs, a bunch of oncologists and epidemiologists, and a lot of you.  Nothing can yet replace all those things.  I'm on Discord, Tumblr, here, mastodon, instagram, and put a bunch of my news sources in feedly.  I's not the same at all but it's a start.  I hate it.

And Thursday is American Thanksgiving and I used to post on LJ a long time ago about me meal day prep, then I went to Twitter, and well, you know. 
So, I'm dry brining a bird with a half cup of kosher salt (about 70 grams) for two days and then will baste with butter and honey.  We're only have 6 guests total this year -- I think I had about 20 last year.  So I thought we had downsized but the group is evenly divided between hard crusty rolls and parker house rolls and between sausage stuffing and mashed potatoes, so... all four I suppose.  But it's a smaller bird and smaller sizes/portions of everything and i might not even break out the good china.  In recent years, as we've aged, we've drunk a lot less alcohol.  But this time, I have 3 people under age 25, so I think the cycle begins again. 

Dessert is unified around apple pie and I'm going to do a salted caramel chocolate tart.    Oh and some random veg.
How about you? 

Andor speculaion

ExpandAndor, who will live, who will die, what will blow up )
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022 10:04 pm
Thank you Nevada and the Culinary Workers Union for all the ballot curing! now do Georgia



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Wednesday, November 9th, 2022 03:53 pm
As someone who gets a lot of political news, reads a lot of political news, is married to someone who checks Real Clear Politics every day (spousal unit is far more conservative than I am and he's not having a good day), and who has sat in on dozens of meetings with highly paid political consultants going on and on and on (and on and on) about the red wave, I was happy with yesterday's results, even if I continue to be horrified that a full 49% of the American electorate are .... ahem... do not see the world as I do. Thank you Gen Z and I continue to be deeply embarrassed by white women generally and especially those in my age cohort. Old white lady Privilege. It's a helluva of a drug.

Why do people not yet realize 1) Rs are lying in their fake polls and 2) a significant cohort of the electorate will not answer phone calls even of people they know! Stupid polls.

I wish the Ds could have held onto the House but give the rampant gerrymandering that wasn't going to happen. I was very pleased to see Fetterman do so well and really wish that Senate wins could have been pulled out in WI and OH. Vance? Really? WTF? And I'm very sad for Texas and really wish that Stacey had been able to beat that snake Kemp.

Also, I'm shocked, really shocked that adult recreational use didn't pass in North and South Dakota or ARK.  I'd given several speeches predicting passage.  Oops.  I"m wondering if we're seeing the State Farm bureaus finally get organized.  Weed legalization ignores typical political boundaries.  It's hugely popular and SD had passed it in 2018 but then the bat shit cray Governor sued to stop it.  ND had a similar measure pass its lower legislative body.  So, I dunno.  But maybe it's a bit like what you see in Kentucky and Senator Mitch McConnell -- they don't give a damn about cannabis unless it's hemp -- they LOVE hemp and hemp derived cannabinoids.  However, due to poor cultivation practices, States like KY have a HUGE problem with "hot" hemp crop -- it's too high in delta-9 THC to be legal hemp (0.3% or less on a weight basis) but too low in THC to be marketable as marijuana.  it's basically just crap marijuana.  (I do a LOT of weed work).

In any event, I guess Elon Mush has been blathering in a Twitter thing all afternoon in a desperate attempt to keep advertisers. There's a whole thing where maybe you'll have to pay $8 a month for people to see your Tweets? Whut? I dont' even know. And now apparently they've decided to turn Twitter into... yes... a crypto Paypal or Venmo? But they promise returns! Fantastic returns! And debit cards!
I'm not a banking regulator -- but there's like -- A LOT.  Apart from the SEC, FTC Financial Services, Division and CFPB (you wanna bet Director Rohit Chopra has got staff on it already) and the assortment of federal and state banking authorities... I can't even imagine what this mess looks like.  Ponzi scheme comes to mind.  LOL.  it's pathetic.





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Wednesday, November 9th, 2022 11:23 am
One way out.

Why yes, instead of working on my overdue memo on why trying to manufacture sterile injectable antibiotics in garage is a bad idea, I watched Andor Ep.10.

Directed by Toby Haynes and written by Beau Willimon (who did the American House of Cards).

Minor spoilers

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Monday, November 7th, 2022 06:07 pm
With the meltdown on and with Twitter and noticing some of friends trying to post more regularly (recognizing that DW is not Twitter and




is for cranky people

Also, this brilliant tweet:


I thought I, too, should try to jump on the bandwagon, so hellloooo out there and let's try to keep the party rolling.  yes, I got a Mastodon account but it really is not very fun for me, yet.  We'll see.  I like words! 

The title is the most recent episode of Andor, the line delivered by Andy Serkis.
This show is just BRUTAL and I'm loving it. I don't have links but if you can find things written by POC and/or colonized persons, it really gives you a whole different viewpoint. 

I also really loved Enola Holmes 2. I really enjoy MM Brown, Helena Bonham Carter, and Henry Cavill. It just delights me.