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sholio) wrote2025-11-11 11:41 pm
brithistorian) wrote2025-11-11 11:38 pmYou can see them here. They look really great, and you can pre-order them by 9AM PST on 12 November 2025, for delivery in October 2026. Unfortunately, you can only order them as a set of three for $150, which seems a bit excessive to me. I'm sure they'll set a bunch of them, but not to me.
I even double-checked to be sure this wasn't just another example of "prices going up while I wasn't looking," and it wasn't — $50 per doll is 4-5 times the price of a regular Barbie doll, which just strikes me as excessive. I could see twice the price of a regular Barbie, and at that price I'd think about it. But that at this price. At this price I look at the page and immediately nope right out.
brithistorian) wrote2025-11-11 01:24 pmI've been intrigued by the idea of Cincinnati chili since I first learned about it, but I never wanted to go through the trouble of cooking it from scratch so that I could experience it. The other night, when it made a repeat appearance in one of my fics, it occurred to me that they probably make canned Cincinnati chili. A quick web search revealed that not only do they, but that Skyline Chili, which is the particular Cincinnati chili restaurant that I've heard the most about, makes canned Cincinnati chili. I was prepared to order a can, only to discover that I could only order it in multipacks (4, 6, 8, or 12), which was not something I was willing to commit to with a food that I didn't know if I liked it.
Which is where you come in: If any of you live near enough to Cincinnati that you can buy canned Skyline chili at your local grocery store and you would be willing to buy a can and mail it to me, please send me a private message so I can send you my address and also arrange some way for me to pay you back, either by sending you money or by me sending you something they have in Minnesota that isn't available where you live or by some other option that would be acceptable to both of us.
*fingers crossed*
brithistorian) wrote2025-11-11 01:10 pmLast night I dreamed that I was hanging out with Blackpink Jennie — I'm not sure if we were dating or just friends, but we knew each other very well and either option could have been a possibility. Anyway, we were at a convention that was like a combination craft fair/science fair for geology and/or conspiracy theories.[^1] While we were there, we ran into our dentist[^2] and our dentist's new business partner. Jennie and I both agreed that the new business partner was kind of strange — he was obsessed with the idea of some sort of link between diagonally opposing teeth[^4] — but we couldn't say anything about it because we didn't want to offend our dentist. Jennie and I were still trying to come up with a socially acceptable way to ditch our dentist and his partner when I woke up.
[^1] To give a better idea of what it was like, it was kind of like a dealers' room at a con: A huge room filled with tables, each table with a person behind it. Some of the people wanted to sell you something, some just wanted to tell you about their findings/theories. Some seemed to be related to geology, some to conspiracy theories, and some to both.
[^2] Not my IRL dentist, and probably not Jennie's IRL dentist either.[^3]
[^3] I don't know who Jennie's dentist is, but I'd be very, very surprised if her dentist isn't Korean, and this dentist was an elderly white man.
[^4] For example, that a problem with the left upper first molar would also cause problems in the right lower first molar.
snickfic) wrote2025-11-11 11:13 amflareonfury) wrote2025-11-09 11:04 am![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
moviefanfiction and somehow ended up in the batfic community. As I was glancing at them, I noticed several entries (or a hell of a lot) do not have any tags (which I will admit is a pet peeve of mine), so I was OK, I need to fix that - so I tried adding tags... And I could add tags that were only already there, which fine OK.... Am I alone in doing? Going to random communities and adding tags? I know I tend to look at tags first in communities, most of the time to look up either fandoms I'm craving or character/pairings I like, so I kinda hate when no tags are available or I notice no one using them.mcu100 and xmen100 I have over 400/500 tags between any potential characters/pairings/universes used. Same goes with tvfanfiction which has 400 tags and uc_xmen has over 300. Not sure exactly how many are used at them, but at least the options are available.marvelrarepairs or marvel_fanworks to name two that I know of which is kinda great - at least people tend to tag their stuff... but it also kinda causes choas? Because someone forgets how the format goes or doesn't pay attention and then suddenly you have multiple tags of the same character or fandom or whatever.flareonfury) wrote2025-11-09 10:11 amtvfanfiction community and if it accepted cartoon fanfiction, which it didn't so since there is already a moviefanfiction & bookfanfiction communities, I figured I'll create an animation fanfiction only community. Thus I give youanimatedfanfictionrmc28) wrote2025-11-08 12:57 pmI haven't updated properly in ages. Basically, my life is: work, ice hockey, occasionally seeing my spouse and children, indoor cricket, more ice hockey, weight training. I am thoroughly in my jock era.
I now have on-ice training three times a week: Mondays with Huskies (mixed uni), Tue/Wed on alternating weeks with Kodiaks (women), Fridays with Warbirds (mixed rec). Plus games at the weekends, and the aforementioned weights and cricket for a little variety. Oh, and one of my hockey buddies pointed me at free Modern Irish lessons for staff and students of the university (funded by the Irish government). Tá sé iontach ag stáidear arís.
An anecdote from last week. I had a game with Warbirds on Saturday afternoon, but discovered as I was changing that I had failed to pack my skates! Disaster! I called Tony and ordered him an Uber, and got changed with the team while watching the cab's progress across Cambridge on the app. It arrived just as the warmup started, and I went out to meet it fully kitted up apart from my socked feet. The cab arrived, I got my skates from wonderful spouse, and jogged back in and around the rink to the bench just as warmup was finishing. I was third line so I just about had enough time to lace up my skates and get my gloves back on ready for my line change. I went over the boards with my line - and promptly discovered I had one skate guard still on, when I went sprawling on the ice. I sat up, pulled the guard off, threw it onto the bench (narrowly missing a teammate), got up and hared across the ice and managed to do something vaguely useful with the rest of my shift.
(We lost the game quite badly but apart from that dramatic start I didn't do anything too terrible, and I'm always happy to be playing.)
sholio) wrote2025-11-07 09:47 pmtrickortreatex revealed authors this morning, which means I can 'fess up to my (not at all predictable) ToT offering.brithistorian) wrote2025-11-07 09:25 pm“In Polynesia, they used kites to fish, flying baited lines over the water to catch fish — a method that's also still around." (Lindsey Johnson, “A Brief History of Kites,” in Make:, #93, p. 53)
After reading this quote, I had to look into kite fishing more. Not only is it still around, I found someone in Dauphin Island, Alabama (near where I grew up) who's kite fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. It's possible (though I make no guarantees) that if I had been introduced to kite fishing, I would have found fishing more interesting than I did and wouldn't have given up on it.
sholio) wrote2025-11-07 12:10 amsholio) wrote2025-11-06 10:17 pmbrithistorian) wrote2025-11-06 09:34 pmWe took Ricky off at the hospital this morning. He went into surgery at about 1:00 and got out several hours later. He had at least three stents plus one medicated balloon, so his cardiac function should be improved quite a bit. After A. and I did some things we had to do around the house, we went to Ricky's to take care of his dogs and also did some cleaning up so that his place will be at least a little safer for him to come home to tomorrow.
We've got to pick him up at the hospital between 8:30 and 10:00 a.m. (depending on when the doctor does rounds, I suppose).
Thanks for all the good wishes that you've sent to Ricky!
flareonfury) wrote2025-11-06 09:03 pm
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.
flareonfury) wrote2025-11-06 08:54 pm
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.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!sholio) wrote2025-11-04 10:28 pmrmc28) wrote2025-11-04 10:17 pmBooks on pre-order:
Books acquired in October:
Books acquired previously and read in October:
Borrowed books read in October:
Much of the month's reading has been alternating between hockey romance and Mumbai private detective stories, along with a complete failure to read my long-awaited pre-order of the latest Martha Wells. (but I did read different new-to-me Martha Wells, so yay?)
[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding
[5] Goodbye read
[6] Cambridgeshire Reads/Listens
[7] FaRoFeb / FaRoCation / Bookmas / HRBC
[8] Prime Reading / Kindle Unlimited
sholio) wrote2025-11-03 09:15 pmbrithistorian) wrote2025-11-03 11:54 am
