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I’m almost ready to stream the first batch of classic 90’s/early 2000s Takarazuka rips from Kadorienne's Takarazuka VHS collection, and I’m trying to decide when to do it and what to show first ( Read more... )

A close friend of mine has some Takarazuka rarities on VHS, and as you may know, a couple months ago, the last manufacturer of VHS players stopped making them. So for her personal use, archival purposes, and streaming possibilities, she’d like me to convert them to digital files or dvd, well, somehow ( Read more... )

So I showed a bunch of Takarazuka (all-female Japanese musicals) @con-txt and I promised people I’d give them a rundown online so they can explore more. Here it is!

“Guys and Dolls” from the 2002 Moon Troupe aka Tsukigumi production starring Shibuki Jun
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vwqU4TARyPw
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As distinctive a visual figure as she is, Captain Phasma has not actually had many lines. Yet few as they are, they are consistent, painting a very distinctive verbal picture. There is such a thing as a specific Phasma voice. As a dialogue obsessive writer, I felt the need to collect and analyze it all, and since I put the work in, I felt that I  ( Read more... )

I have long loved Star Wars and Star Wars fic, since long before TFA was a gleam in Disney's eye. I have Han/Luke zines, okay? But anyway TFA happened and rattled around in my head, and I got struck by a fic idea that seems obvious to me but no one has done yet, and it's eating my brain. And weirdly, I think it will be good practice and training ( Read more... )

So apparently for all my thinking and dreaming of Yuletide, I got the day of signups wrong because I was in the middle of %$&%^$ midterm papers and missed it.

DAMMIT. I have never missed Yuletide before.

Well, I guess I'll just have to treat or pinch hit. And do
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Meet Frank and Sadie Doyle: Toast of the upper crust, headliners on the society pages, and, oh yes... They see ghosts! Think Nick and Nora Charles, but minus dog and baby, plus being experts in the supernatural. I love it so very, very much.

Beyond Belief is a podcast radio show that's part of the "Thrilling Adventure Hour" anthology podcast - for a ( Read more... )

Here's Luna, my foster cat! She literally showed up on my doorstep last week - my roommate opened our apartment door and in she ran. Within minutes, her previous owner turned up looking for her, informed us that he didn't want her, and left. Which is ridiculous, because she's adorable, healthy, well-behaved, friendly, and only about 6-9 months old ( Read more... )

Or, rather, it was two weeks ago. Ah well, better late than never.

This year I got a wonderful Yuletide fic in for the podcast radio show Beyond Belief on the anthology podcast "The Thrilling Adventure Hour", Gnoming Me, Gnoming You (1014 words) by janiejanineIt was a whole lot of fun and everything I could have hoped for, which was rather ( Read more... )