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Asteroid City - I watched this because it looked visually interesting and I couldn't tell what it was about. I can now add that after seeing the whole movie, I still don't know what it was about.

( A little more about that )

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - I've been meaning to see this anyway, and Halloween season felt right for it.

( More on that )

(I also watched the first like ... ten minutes or so of Transformers One and realized I was very much not in the mood for that, although I enjoyed the more classic designs for the characters.)

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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

sholio

... as one does ...

( Spoilers for 5x12-5x16 )

brumeier

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sholio

More B5 fic! This is one that I wrote some time ago, but haven't posted mostly because I was completely stuck for a title, until the right one fell into my lap. (I'm honestly delighted with how the titles for this little series have been working out; they're coming out so nicely multi-layered.)

Dedicated (1600 wds, gen, mostly G'Kar)

This is a follow-up to Devotional, the one I wrote a while back in which Londo reads G'Kar's book, post-canon. When I wrote that, I liked the idea that G'kar at some point gets a chance to read Londo's annotations in his book ... so that's what this is.

sholio

Yet another instance of the Whumptober prompts basically being used for creative inspiration, but not really whump as such.

I feel this works equally well for TV-verse (future) or bookverse (probably post-System Collapse, but it could be somewhere between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect).

No. 20: "That's New."
Symptomatic | Fancy Event | Resignation

( 450 wds under the cut )

sholio

I return to Whumptober! Obviously the days are completely off at this point, but I'm doing a bit of catch-up.

No. 13: “How dull is it to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished.”
Never Enough | Insignia | Forced Retirement

Biggles & EvS, late in canon (600 wds)
Also posted on Tumblr.

( 600 wds under the cut )

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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

brumeier

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esteefee

ooh belated happy birthday to

wpadmirer !!! 🎈🎂🥳🎈 hope you were feted as you deserve!

sorry I'm late, I was at No Kings and baby sitting and stuff.

brumeier

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brumeier

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sholio

I am traveling and sightseeing with

helen_keeble and having a LOVELY time. I've also watched about as many movies in the last three days as I normally do in six months. It's been great! I figure I'll just write them up quickly here. The end of spoilers for each movie are marked, so you can pick and choose which to read about.

Thunderbolts - watched on the plane, really enjoyed it!

( Thunderbolts details and spoilers )

Kpop Demon Hunters - what fun, I can see why it's so popular!

( Kpop Demon Hunters details and spoilers )

We also rewatched the first two X-Men movies from the early 2000s. I don't think I've seen them since they first came out!

X-Men (original 2000 movie) - This held up really well.

( X-Men details and spoilers )

X2 - Most of it was a great time, but then the end happened.

( X2 details and spoilers )

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Reading

More movies courtesy of 10 hours on a trans-Atlantic flight

Database maintenance

Still thinking about Babylon 5

Monster Fest: Alien Roll Call

Babylon 5 fic: Dedicated

Whumptober Day 20: Fancy Event (Murderbot)

Whumptober Day 13: Forced Retirement (Biggles)

AWS outage

Monster Fest: Ghosts, Ghouls & Wraith Roll Call

hbd wpadmirer!

Monster Fest: Angels & Demons Roll Call

Monster Fest: Human Monsters Roll Call

Movies!

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