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scans_dailyIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Canada seems to have re-elected it's incumbent Prime Minister, perhaps helped by a bizarre post from POTUS 47, suggesting that everyone vote for him and make Canada the 51st State, which went about as well as you might imagine.
"The Well" was another cracking Doctor Who episode, amping up the creepy tension at every opportunity, a superb performance from Rose Ayling-Ellis and anything else would be a spoiler so I'll keep quiet.
Andor Season 2 launched with a three episode drop which seems... excessive perhaps, but appears to have been well received. I've still to finish season 1 (though I will) so I can't judge.
In my "Working my way down through the extensive piles of books I accumulate" I've finally hit the "Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Thief" collection and am LOVING it. I know I've read a few over the years, but not his first adventure, and how can you NOT immediately warm to a gentleman rogue who steals only from the wealthy, does no violence, and is introduced in the first three pages as the man who "one night, after breaking into Baron Schormann's, had gone away empty handed, leaving his visiting card, with these words added in pencil I shall return when your things are genuine." ?
And in the world of vaguely unsettling... all right, VERY unsettling adverts, may I present the new offerings from Scotland's soft drink Irn-Bru - for their limited run "Nessie Nectar" and "Unicorn Tears". If you choose to watch them, that's on you!
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Canada seems to have re-elected it's incumbent Prime Minister, perhaps helped by a bizarre post from POTUS 47, suggesting that everyone vote for him and make Canada the 51st State, which went about as well as you might imagine.
"The Well" was another cracking Doctor Who episode, amping up the creepy tension at every opportunity, a superb performance from Rose Ayling-Ellis and anything else would be a spoiler so I'll keep quiet.
Andor Season 2 launched with a three episode drop which seems... excessive perhaps, but appears to have been well received. I've still to finish season 1 (though I will) so I can't judge.
In my "Working my way down through the extensive piles of books I accumulate" I've finally hit the "Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Thief" collection and am LOVING it. I know I've read a few over the years, but not his first adventure, and how can you NOT immediately warm to a gentleman rogue who steals only from the wealthy, does no violence, and is introduced in the first three pages as the man who "one night, after breaking into Baron Schormann's, had gone away empty handed, leaving his visiting card, with these words added in pencil I shall return when your things are genuine." ?
And in the world of vaguely unsettling... all right, VERY unsettling adverts, may I present the new offerings from Scotland's soft drink Irn-Bru - for their limited run "Nessie Nectar" and "Unicorn Tears". If you choose to watch them, that's on you!
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Date: 2025-04-29 01:53 pm (UTC)Went to Minicon Easter weekend. Bus rides were misery, but the Radishtree has remodeled and is under better management that welcomes fans. Had signed up too late to apply for panels, so had plenty of free time--a couple of people expressed surprise/disappointment I wasn't on panels.
Had a surprisingly bad experience when I went out to Dairy Queen for lunch--apparently it was all new workers who were overwhelmed and it took them three tries to get me a fish sandwich. Not three tries to get me an acceptable fish sandwich, but one that was fish at all.
But it is so good to see people I know and like and will tolerate talking to me.
Watching reruns of the Third Doctor, slowly.
Over at my blog, I look at an anime about someone trying to write a fix-it fic from inside the story. https://www.skjam.com/2025/04/29/anime-review-zenshu/