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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, November 7th

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Friday, November 7th, 2025 10:39 pm

Posted by double_dutchess

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XANDER: Am I right, Giles?
GILES: I'm almost certain you're not, but to be fair, I wasn't listening.

~~Shadow~~

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, November 5 - Thursday November 6

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Friday, November 7th, 2025 05:08 am

Posted by fancyflautist

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Anya: You know, fine, take her side instead of mine even though I'm the one who sleeps with you and feeds you, bathes you...
Willow: She bathes you?
Xander: Only in an erotic, Penthouse-y way! Not in a sponge-bath-y geriatric sort of...
Giles: Please! Stop, I beg of you.

~~Into the Woods~~



[Drabbles & Short Fiction]


[Chaptered Fiction]

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    • Hardships Make the Heart Fonder, Chapter 1 (Crossover with Diagnosis Murder, G) by calikocat
    • Cazadoras, Chapter 2 (Crossover with Popular, Spanish language, T) by arya100
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    • In The Dark, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, AO) by NotYourGrave
    • Holy Mother of Nightmares!, Chapter 10 (Buffy/Spike, PG) by Orange Wombat
    • Two Faced, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, R) by LeoTheLion
    • Fracture, Chapter 13 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Holly
    • closest to heaven, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, PG) by flootzavut
    • A Case of You, Chapter 12 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by cheshire
    • Essence, Chapter 7 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Soulburnt
    • The Reaping Stone, Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, AO) by Sorilkad
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    • The Circle of Scooby, Chapter 19 (Crossover with Lazarus Long Books, R) by redjacobson
  • Sunnydale After Dark Logo
    • Dark Gift, Chapter 8 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Davidf89
    • Whispers in the Dark, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by CheekyKitten
  • WWW Logo
    • New Song, Same Tune, Chapter 9 (Crossover with Diagnosis Murder, M) by calikocat
    • Immeasurable Emissary, Chapter 3 (Multiple crossings, T) by calikocat
    • Alexander Spencer, Chapter 8 (Multiple crossings, E) by calikocat

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Bread, Babble and Recs

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Thursday, November 6th, 2025 07:50 pm
Let's see, what's happened since my last post. Yuletide assignments went out and I'm on take two of mine, hopefully this one will work. My current craft project is a crochet blanket that should use up all of the rest of the yarn I bought via an excellent deal during 2023's Black Friday sale (I'm currently just about half way through so I should finish just in time to buy new yarn assuming there's decent sales for this year's as well, 2024's was meh but I still do have a chunk of yarn from that.)

Had some "excitement" two weeks ago when we had the annual maintenance on our boiler and they discovered an issue and we had to turn it off immediately and then replace it. That was a fun week and $24k unexpected expense.

Last year (nearly exactly, Nov 18th apparently) a small crack developed on the old igloo playmate cooler I bought for lunches when lifeguarding sometime between 1987-1990. Son kept using it but last week he dropped it and the whole handle cracked so he's finally retiring it. I can't quite recall what I paid for it (I want to say $20) but whatever it was, it was money well spent.

I made hobo bread the other day. I love this recipe (which I posted here years ago, so incredible simple, such delicious bread:


Here's two weeks of [community profile] recthething recs (tumblr art for DMBJ, FMA, IwaV (TV), MCU (DD+Spidey), MDZS and SPN and [community profile] trickortreatex collection art recs for Addams Family, Guardian and Original Work)
DMBJ/Lost Tomb:
- Pierce (perfect rendition of Xiazi spearing the fish in the Mystery of the Abyss opener)
- Ragged (Xiazi/Xiao Hua covered in slime but lost in each other's eyes. Perfect)

Fullmetal Alchemist
- the house on the hill (love so many things showing Ed and his childhood home here)

Interview with a Vampire (TV)
- Armand drawing (amazing)

Marvel (Daredevil and Spiderman multiverses):
- Do you think other Spideys and DDs in other universes are also good friends? (amazing 30 second animation)

MDZS/The Untamed
- Ah yes me and my rival crush zhiji Wei Ying (wonderful sketch of them immediately post-Xuanwu of Slaughter)
- Mn. Mn! (adorable qin lesson between LWJ and a-yuan)

Supernatural:
- Castiel (Love the bloodied, sleeves rolled up with wings out look here)

[community profile] trickortreatex collection recs, creators anon until Nov 7th:

The Addams Family:
- It Takes Two... Summary: "Oh, Tish....that's French." (gorgeous art of Gomez and Morticia)

Guardian:
- The Ghost and the Snake Summary: They are tiny and cute and (not very) spooky. (really cute art of Wang Zheng and Zhu Hong)

Original Work:
- Dog in a fog (wonderfully ominous art of British folklore's Black Dog)
- Prima Donna Summary: A little orangutan’s dreams come true (adorable art)
- [Art] If You Dare Summary: Go ahead, knock. (delightfully creepy comic)
- Witch and Company Summary: Witch cat and their mouse familiar (really cool papercraftish art)
- Long Night Detective? Summary: "I do so hate to drop in after hours but there's just one last thing-" (absolutely amazing Fairy Prince/Noir Detective art)
- Joyride (hilarious art with a mouse familiar who really isn't enjoying the ride on their cat witch's broom)

(I know I've said this a few times already this year but sadly I do suspect I'll be breaking my 4+ year steak of weekly reccing soon, it'd been getting harder and harder to find things to rec.)
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Dept. of Memes

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Thursday, November 6th, 2025 08:02 pm
Music Meme, Day 5

A song that proves that you have good taste: 

Well, good taste is so subjective, isn't it?

I'm a jazz lover, and I'm a lover of Chicago jazz, and one of my favorite artists is Patricia Barber, a pianist, singer, and writer. Her own melodies are filled with percussive and angular turns, while her lyrics are crystalline observations about the world, humanity, and herself. She also interprets other peoples' music in a way that speaks to me. In the 90s, I read reviews by music critics disparaging her for being technically proficient and cold. She is more than technically proficient and she sure as hell isn't cold. She's heat, hidden under a facade of modern cool - which, not coincidentally, is the title of the first of the two songs I want to share with you. It's hers, and I adore sheer brilliance that I see in her words. The second song is her interpretation of John Lennon's "Norwegian Wood." Both of these pieces feature various iterations of the killer quartet that works with her. 

So ... whether either of these prove that I have good taste or not, I hope you enjoy them. 

And to be completist, here are links to previous answers:

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4 







  • Current Mood: cold
  • Current Location: the home office
  • Current Music: Patricia Barber, "Norwegian Wood"
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Ollie's Queens joins Dreamwidth

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Thursday, November 6th, 2025 08:58 pm


[community profile] olliesqueens is a dreamwidth community dedicated to het & gen relationships of Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow, thus "Ollie's Queens". The community was imported from LiveJournal, it originally focused on the Smallville version of Oliver Queen het & gen relationships. Since lack of works posted to LJ for awhile and since Smallville had ended back 2011 (Smallville Season 11 ended in 2014) & Arrow ended in 2020, Ollie's Queens has since opened up to any universe Oliver Queen exists in, including comics, animation, films, and shows of course.

Doesn't matter if it's Canon ships or Unconventional pairings, or how rare the pairings are! If you write or want to rec something you love! PLEASE SHARE.
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werewolvesden >> for werewolves lovers

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Thursday, November 6th, 2025 08:49 pm

[community profile] werewolvesden is a dreamwidth community dedicated to any fandom or media that related to werewolves or other wereanimals or shapeshifters (from folklores to latest show or film). Feel free to post your fanworks, recs, start discussions or feel free to pimp your fandom if you feel like you need to make more people aware of it.


This community was inspired by the lovely [community profile] vampiremedia ♥ I love vampires but I also love werewolves just as much and there's sooo many fandoms out there that just doesn't get the justice they deserve so I figured why not!
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Thursday, 6th November, 2025

NSFW
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Thursday, November 6th, 2025 10:13 pm
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Thursday 6th November 2025

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Thursday, November 6th, 2025 06:13 pm
Do you have a Doctor Who community or a journal that we are not currently linking to? Leave a note in the comments and we'll add you to the watchlist ([personal profile] doctor_watch).

Editor's Note: If your item was not linked, it's because the header lacked the information that we like to give our readers. Please at least give the title, rating, and pairing or characters, and please include the header in the storypost itself, not just in the linking post. Spoiler warnings are also greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Off-Dreamwidth News
Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox #1 is out now
Blogtor Who's video of the day for yesterday was a clip from 1975's "Pyramids of Mars"
Blogtor Who's video of the day for today is 3 Questions, 2 Biscuits + 1 Cup of Tea with Jenna Coleman, from 2013

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Fanfiction
Complete
To Be Ordinary by [personal profile] badly_knitted (Jack, Ninth Doctor, Rose, Tenth Doctor | PG)

Icons, Fanart & Creative Endeavours
[personal profile] purplecat with five Eleventh Doctor icons

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YAMATO ENDO > WIND BREAKER

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Thursday, November 6th, 2025 10:27 am
CANON: Wind Breaker
CHARACTERS: Yamato Endo
ADDITIONAL INFO: 116 icons from season 2, episodes 11-12
CREDIT TO: [community profile] malagraphic



here @ [community profile] malagraphic
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Youtube

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[personal profile] trobadora
Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 05:47 pm
Has Youtube been driving everyone else batty too with the auto-dubbed videos? At least you can manually switch the audio track to the original - but now it's auto-translating the video descriptions too, and I haven't yet found out how to get back to the original there.

It makes me want to scream. Who thinks that's a good idea?! Not anyone who speaks smore than one language, that's for sure - and even then! AAARGH.

I searched in hopes of finding some way to disable this nonsense, and found no way on Youtube itself, but there's a browser extension that gets you back to original audio and description!

Firefox version | Chrome version

It says it doesn't work on mobile, but I don't watch videos on mobile, so that doesn't matter to me much. And either way, better than nothing. *grumbles some more*
  • Current Mood: aggravated

A puzzle

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Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 07:59 am
As I've been talking about on and off here, the major project that I've been working on since I got laid off last year is to reclaim this house. My husband and I are horrible pack rats as well as phenomenally lazy, so over the last twenty-six years, this house has become a real mess. I've made some great progress, such as packing away three decades of video game systems and their games, clearing out most of one room and making it a gaming room, clearing out another huge chunk of another room, and making tons of trips to Goodwill and the dump), but there's still a long way to go.

Another thing that I've been doing is optimizing things and adopting lifehacks. For example, our dishwasher hasn't worked for years, so we've been doing dishes and leaving them in a dishrack on the counter. This is especially terrible in our tiny galley kitchen because half of the counter space is always occupied. (One counter has the microwave and toaster oven, so only two of the counters are normally available.) We do not plan to replace the dishwasher until mid-next year (because we're trying to space out our major expenditures and this year, we had the trip we just took), so in the meantime, I bought an over-the-sink dishrack and installed it in one of the two half-sinks. Yes, it blocks using that sink, but we don't really have a need for it. Now we have all our counter space back and quality-of-life has gone up.

My current mini-project is to correct some big mistakes we made when moving in here. We were pretty young and dumb when we bought the house, and when we moved in, we just stuffed things in the cabinets and closets without much thought. The more inaccessible parts of the kitchen are particularly bad. There are two cabinets on either side of the stove, one of which is against the wall and right next to the door to the garage, so to really get into it, you're shoving yourself against the doorknob.

Moreover, the shelves are adjustable but we've never moved them, and they're still in the stupid arrangement left by the previous owner (or possibly the people who built the house; the house was built in 1994 and the previous owner was the original owner). In particular, the top shelf is as high up as it can go, making it impossible to see into even if I'm on a stepladder and leaving a tiny space for things. When we moved in, I put some party supplies (paper plates and napkins with an appallingly 90s design) up there, and there they stayed. I decided that I needed to clean out that cabinet and rearrange the shelves so that the bottom two are small and the top is large, so that I could store large things that I rarely use, rather than small things that will get lost. (It has become the booze shelf.)

So, yesterday, I started clearing out the things in the cabinet and found tons of long-expired stuff in there, so that's a bonus, too. Then I got the stepladder, pulled down the party supplies, and began taking out that shelf. When I lifted it, I felt and heard something move on it. I had no idea what it was, but I could tell it was small and light from the movement and sound, so I tilted the shelf and let it fall. After I put the shelf down, I picked it up.

It was a small blue case made of cheap plastic, round and about 4 cm across. I opened it... and it was a partially-used month's supply of birth control pills.

That got a good laugh in this house.

No, they weren't mine -- precancer made that not a concern since long before I got married. But the real question isn't whose it was. The real question is why? Why did someone store their pills in the most inconvenient spot in the house, making it harder to take them regularly, which is a necessity if you want them to work? Why are they in the kitchen and not in the bathroom or bedroom?

The original and previous owner of the house was rather well-off (a pharmaceutical rep) and single at the time he sold it to us, though that's about all we know about him; he might have been divorced. Maybe he had two girlfriends he was trying to keep secret and so he hid one woman's pills so the other wouldn't find them? But you'd think that both women would want to keep control of the pills and keep them either in their purse or at their own homes. Maybe he was married and found his mistress' pills and hid them from his wife? But you'd think he'd get them out of the house as quickly as possible, rather than hide them.

Mmm, he was a pharmaceutical rep. Maybe it was a sample and he hid it because he didn't want his girlfriend thinking he had a bit on the side? That doesn't make sense, though, as I really doubt that reps give out samples of birth-control pills. Also, a few of the pills were missing.

Anyway, your guess is as good as mine. We will never know.
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144 ICONS ( HIGURASHI: MION & SHION SONOZAKI )

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Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 09:04 am
CANON: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu & Mei
CHARACTERS: Mion & Shion Sonozaki
ADDITIONAL INFO: This show finished airing years ago but spoilers. These are mostly the last few arcs of Sotsu & Mei cards.
CREDIT TO: [personal profile] mintesque or [community profile] leifthrasir



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Hey, good news!

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Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 07:23 am

And Cuomo was a gracious loser, congratulating Mamdani and telling people off who were booing! I had forgotten what that looked like.

And then youtube suggested this, and it's wonderful:

Josh Johnson Gives Impromptu Speech About AI and Algorithms during set in Rochester, NY


ETA: Oh and Josh Johnson also has a whole bit about this election:



:)
  • Current Mood: thoughtful
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, November 4

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Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 02:51 am

Posted by rahirah

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WESLEY: I'm sorry about what happened, Fred.
FRED: Are you kidding me? I feel bad because all I had to do was hide, and I couldn't even do that right.
WESLEY: I should've done a better job protecting you.
FRED: What?
WESLEY: That didn't come out...
FRED: Do you realize how patronizing that sounds? Protecting me?
WESLEY: I just meant you shouldn't have been there in the first place.
FRED: That's not for you to decide.
WESLEY: Yes, it is, actually. I made the call. I screwed up.
FRED: Listen to you. You're blaming yourself because poor Fred got hurt. Stop trying to be all valiant. You're coming off like a self-pitying child.

~~Angel Season V Episode #95: "Lineage"~~


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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday, November 3rd

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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025 11:25 pm

Posted by sd_herald

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BUFFY: And what are we if not women up to a challenge?
WILLOW: Exactly! I mean, did we not put the 'grr' in girl?

~~Living Conditions~~



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80 ICONS ( HIGURASHI: EUA)

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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025 05:02 pm
CANON: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu
CHARACTERS: Eua
ADDITIONAL INFO: This show finished airing years ago but spoilers for the ending (probably).
CREDIT TO: [personal profile] mintesque or [community profile] leifthrasir



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Tuesday, 4th November 2025

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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025 02:36 pm
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Discussion & Miscellany
[personal profile] nwhyte on Doctor Who: The Well, by Gareth L. Powell

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Gone Viral by [personal profile] badly_knitted (PG | Fifteenth Doctor, Ruby Sunday, Lindy Pepper-Bean)

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Kozue Kaoru | Revolutionary Girl Utena

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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025 09:22 am
CANON: Kozue Kaoru
CHARACTERS: Revolutionary Girl Utena
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47 icons @ [personal profile] parhelicon
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Millerna Sara Aston | Vision of Escaflowne

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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025 09:19 am
CANON: Vision of Escaflowne
CHARACTERS: Millerna Sara Aston
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116 icons @ [personal profile] parhelicon
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Meilin Lee | Turning Red

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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025 09:12 am
CANON: Turning Red
CHARACTERS: Meilin Lee
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90 icons @ [personal profile] parhelicon
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