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Updates
(last updated 2024-07-03)
2024-07-03
Scans:
2014-02-07 London Times - Dracula sets
Audio:
(Un)likeminded 2x02 How to Survive The Apocalypse
2024-05-24
Video:
2017 Katie McGrath interview [CW|KMcGsource]
2017 Supergirl Season 3 Sweet dreams (are made of this) Music Video
2017 CW SDCC Promo Supergirl and Arrow
2019-01-01 The CW Promo Open To All
2021-04-25 Supergirl Season 6 Katie McGrath Lena Luthor
2021-09-15 Supergirl Season 6 Katie McGrath Reflecting on Supergirl
2024-05-22
Audio:
Interview - 2009-07-17 Katie McGrath Mr Media interview
Interview - 2009-10-15 Geek Syndicate Merlin BTS special
Video:
BTS - 2008-10-08 Blue Peter Merlin BTS
Events - 2009 TV Choice Awards Digital Spy interview
Events - Getty Videos of 2009 TV Choice Awards, 2010 Merlin Series 3 launch, 2011 W.E. premiere, 2017 King Arthur Premiere
2024-05-17
Archived interviews
2008-12-07 Tribune Magazine - What Katie Did
2011-10-14 What's on TV - Merlin's Katie McGrath- 'Bad girls have more fun!'
2012-12-03 Fanhattan Blog - Colin Morgan, Katie McGrath and Bradley James on Season 5 and The Series Finale
2018-08-01 The TV Junkies - Supergirl SDCC 2018 Interviews- Lena’s Impractical Lab Outfits, the Return of Reporter Kara and a More Grounded Season 4
Audio
HHush samples
Interview - 2009-2011 Sci-fi Talk rewind merlin the series specials episode 1
A full playlist of Fairfax Stars footage from 2016 when Azzi was 13/14.
As part of the playlist, she played North Tartan in Atlanta for the AAU Super Showcase ATL Championship on 7/8/16. Remember that other post I did - Azzi played several years up and she wouldn't end up playing Paige until the following year.
I can find the semifinal game from 2019 but you are right, the actual stillwater game is gone :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Hyodtc6-M
And now for the cutest thing I found while looking for the state championship....North Tartan NIKE 10th EYBL (50) v Boo Williams EYBL 11th (57) in 2018 Summer Jam (This was the game they lost against Ashley Owusu's team)
It was the final game for Paige's team and at the timestamp of 1:56 you see Azzi's best friend Carly and part of Azzi's french braided head on the sidelines watching. Unfortunately where they are sitting means they are never really in the camera view. I saw clear shot of her face at 57:07 to the end of the video. Anyway, Azzi and Paige's team played the day before and Azzi's team had finished up their game before Paige's game started.
It's cute to see Azzi and her team supporting Paige but she didn't really care about the game😭. She spent it yapping and at one point even laid down with Carly on the floor (she's so funny).
I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT (May 4) in VANCOUVER, then onto Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!
For decades, scammy "book doctors" and vanity presses spun a tale about how Big Publishing was too conservative and risk-averse for really really adventurous books, and the only way to get your visionary work published was to pay them to fill your garage with badly printed books that you'd spend the rest of your life trying to get other people to read:
Like all successful grifts, this one worked because it wasn't entirely untrue. No, mainstream publishing isn't filled with corporate gatekeepers who relish the idea of keeping your brilliance from reaching its audience.
But.
But editors sometimes make bad calls. They reject books because of quirks of taste, or fleeting inattentiveness, or personal bias. In a healthy publishing industry – one with dozens of equal-sized presses, all commanding roughly comparable market-share, good books would never slip through the cracks. One publisher's misstep would be another's opportunity.
But after decades of mergers, the population of major publishers has dwindled to a mere Big Five (it was almost four, but the DOJ blocked Penguin Random House's acquisition of Simon & Schuster):
This means that some good books definitely can't find a home in Big Publishing. If you miss with five editors, you can exhaust all your chances with the Big Five.
There's a second tier of great publishers, from data-driven juggernauts like Sourcebooks to boutique presses like Verso and Beacon Press, who publish wonderful books and are very good to their authors (I've published with four of the Big Five and half a dozen of the smaller publishers).
But even with these we-try-harder boutique publishers in the mix, there's a lot of space for amazing books that just don't fit with a "trad" publisher's program. These books are often labors of love by their creators, and that love is reciprocated by their readers. You can have my unbelievably gigantic Little Nemo in Slumberland collection when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of it:
Then there's last year's surprise smash hit, Shift Happens, a two-volume, 750-page slipcased book recounting the history of the keyboard. I own one. It's fantastic:
Then there's the whole world of indie Kindle books pitched at incredibly voracious communities of readers, especially the very long tail of very niche sub-sub-genres radiating off the woefully imprecise category of "paranormal romance." These books are landing at precisely the right spot for their readers, despite some genuinely weird behind-the-scenes feuds between their writers:
But as Sturgeon's Law has it: "90% of everything is shit." Having read slush – the pile of unsolicited manuscripts sent to publishers – I can tell you that a vast number of books get rejected from trad publishers because they aren't good books. I say this without intending any disparagement towards their authors and the creative impulses that drive them. But a publisher's job isn't merely to be good to writers – it's to serve readers, by introducing them to works they are apt to enjoy.
The vast majority of books that publishers pass on are not books that you will want to read, so it follows that the vast majority of self-published work that is offered on self-serve platforms like Kindle or pitched by hopeful writers at street fairs and book festivals is just not very good.
But sometimes you find someone's independent book and it's brilliant, and you get the double thrill of falling in love with a book and of fishing a glittering needle out of an unimaginably gigantic haystack.
(If you want to read an author who beautifully expresses the wonder of finding an obscure, self-published book that's full of unsuspected brilliance, try Daniel Pinkwater, whose Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy From Mars is eleven kinds of brilliant, but is also a marvelous tale of the wonders of weird used book stores with titles like KLONG! You Are a Pickle!):
I also write books, and I am, in fact, presently in the midst of a long book-tour for my novel The Bezzle. Last month, I did an event in Cambridge, Mass with Randall "XKCD" Munroe that went great. We had a full house, and even after the venue caught fire (really!), everyone followed us across the street to another building, up five flights of stairs, and into another auditorium where we wrapped up the gig:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulnlSRbH80Y
Afterwards, our hosts from Harvard Berkman-Klein took us to a campus pizza joint/tiki bar for dinner and drinks, and we had a great chat about a great many things. Naturally, we talked about books we loved, and Randall said, "Hey, have you ever read Rosemary Kirstein's Steerswoman novels?"
(I hadn't.)
"They're incredible. All these different people kept recommending them to me, and they kept telling me that I would love them, but they wouldn't tell me what they were about because there's this huge riddle in them that's super fun to figure out for yourself:"
https://www.rosemarykirstein.com/the-books/
"The books were published in the eighties by Del Ray, and the cover of the first one had a huge spoiler on it. But the author got the rights back and she's self-published it" (WARNING: the following link has a HUGE SPOILER!):
Holy moly is this a good novel! And yeah, there's a super interesting puzzle in it that I won't even hint at, except to say that even the book's genre is a riddle that you'll have enormous great fun solving.
Randall wasn't kidding about the book's package. The type looks to be default Microsoft fonts, the spine is printed slightly off-register, the typesetting has lots of gonks, and it's just got that semi-disposable feel of a print-on-demand title.
Without Randall's recommendation, I never would have even read this book closely enough to notice the glowing cover endorsement from Jo Walton, nor the fact that it was included in Damien Broderick and Paul Di Filippo's "101 Best Science Fiction Novels 1985-2010."
But I finished reading the first volume just a few minutes ago and I instantly ordered the next three in the series (it's planned for seven volumes, and the author says she plans on finishing it – I can't wait).
This book is such an unexpected marvel, a stunner of a novel filled with brilliant world-building, deft characterizations, a hard-driving plot and a bunch of great surprises. The fact that such a remarkable tale comes in such an unremarkable package makes it even more of a treasure, like a geode: unremarkable on the outside, a glittering blaze within.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
- Hit by a truck, unconscious, bleeding from the head
02:
- Still unconscious and bleeding on the ground from last episode, cradled, transported via ambulance with his head and leg bandaged, comatose in bed
- Has the skin torn off his back in a fire
03:
- Still comatose in bed, transported via ambulance
- Skin still shredded from last episode, shuts down and passes out, rushed to hospital, has his mechanics fixed, unconscious on an operating table after being stitched up, rebooted
04:
- Still comatose, transported via ambulance again
- Dragged behind a moving car, scratches on his face, skin torn off his back
05:
- Still comatose, bathed by his mother
- Face still scraped and back still shredded from last episode, has the skin repaired
06:
- Still comatose, treated with a device designed to wake him up
07:
- Still comatose and receiving the treatment
- Runs out of battery, shuts down
- Has his batteries ripped out, shuts down
08:
- Still comatose and receiving treatment
09:
- Still comatose
10:
- Still comatose, has the treatment withdrawn, twitching
11:
- Showing signs of waking from the coma
- Smashes a glass, cuts his hand, bleeding
12:
- Flashback: Wakes from the coma
- Still bleeding from the hand after last episode, collapses and passes out, recovering in bed with an oxygen mask and his hand bandaged
- Has his batteries removed, shuts down
- Has his batteries removed again, believed dead, given CPR
13:
- Hand still bandaged, still weak, helped into bed
- Easily exhausted, breathless, has to lean on things for support, using a wheelchair
- Hit in the face with a wrench, skin shredded from his cheek
14:
- Flashback: Face cut and bruised after a fight
- Stands up too quickly, dizzy, refusing help, stumbling, needs support to walk
- Face still shredded after last episode, has the damaged skin cut out and replaced
- Shut down after having his battery removed
15:
- Flashback: Smashes a glass, bloody hand, bandages it himself
- Punched in the face
- Has his batteries ripped out, shuts down, put on manual mode so that his every move is controlled by others
- Forced to hurt someone, tries to jump from a building so he can’t do the same again
- Has his memory wiped, forced to hurt someone, overrides the manual mode to save them
16:
- Punched in the face, bloody lip
17:
- Overwhelmed, migraine, stumbling, unable to walk without support, stumbles again, recovering in bed on an IV, feverish, refusing care
- Kill switch activated, falls to his knees, passes out and shuts down, reactivated
18:
- Grieving, sobbing
- Held hostage, tied to a chair, gagged, beaten in a hostage video, bruised face, bleeding from the mouth, held at gunpoint, rescued, unable to walk without support
- Grieving but unable to show emotion, “I want to cry”
- Running out of time before his kill switch is reactivated, starting to lose power, unstable on his feet, stumbling
- Removes his own batteries, shot repeatedly in the chest, falls into a river, shuts down underwater, magically resurrected in Kdrama style
I feel like fic recs tend to be things that are complete, so I thought I'd rec some things that haven't been updated in a while (>a year) or abandoned, but I still like to go back and reread
with links and comments under the cut <3
Poured Over Ice in an Old-Fashioned Glass by prepandemicwriting (bealeciphers) [2016-02-04, 28k]
-classic bartender!barry fic. they're both kinda disasters all around? hilarious
Run Away With Me by asexual-fandom-queen (2016-05-23, 14k]
-the only time asking someone to run away with you has ever worked lmao.
Painting the Roses Red by Solarcat [2016-07-01, 20k]
-Family of Rogues but there's a third snart sibling that Len's got to protect. Lucy Snart that only exists in this fic and my brain ily <3
I bet these memories follow you around by MissSugarPlum [2017-06-07,5k]
-Lisa and Barry in high school at the same time, Barry being tiny and full of rage, Lisa being reluctantly charmed, mwah. chef's kiss.
Bolt from the Blue by town_without_heart [2017-06-16, 170k]
-pre-canon meeting is always delicious to me. eobard being aware of it is the cherry on top (what a creeper)
The Good in You (the Bad in Me) by blue_wonderer [2017-08-02, 26k]
-I have a soft spot for fics where Barry and Lisa are friends what can I say. set pre-canon, and barry is a goddamn delight
Get Me Through The Night by Mentalrebel [2017-08-07, 11k]
-super interesting formatting. it's a lifeline au? I have no idea what that it, but it's fun
Ties and Barricades by yersifanel [2017-09-01, 10k]
-pre-canon meet-ugly where len kidnaps his soulmate as part of his getaway.
Realignment (time & company) by writerdragonfly [2018-02-13, 12k]
-me? rec a time travel fic? of course. time traveller's wife au. gives some really interesting backstory to Len's mother/family
Unexpected Development by nirejseki [2018-04-05, 20k]
-it's so funny it's practically a crack fic. calling the reverse flash Mr. Banana is an inspired choice
since I can remember I've been runnin' from you by youmakemesoangry [2019-01-26, 14k]
-barry getting haunted by post oculus len yes oh yes
Sticky Fingers by MoriartyMastermind [2019-03-05, 18k]
-barry stealing wallets as the flash is like objectively funny okay
Resonance by Moriavis [2019-06-16, 40k]
-looove a soulmate fic and this one is so unique. Barry and Len meet when Barry's still a child, and it ends before they meet as adults, so really it's mainly a Leonard snart character study
Ice and Lightning by vomitingwords [2020-03-26, 2k]
-potentially the only figure skating au for this ship?
Zero to Sixty by scrubmarine [2020-06-26, 25k]
-barry meeting len out of costume because he's running away from Iris is a hilarious set up, and he kind of deserves it
Just Friends by Thundersnow [2021-08-11, 168k]
-a classic fake dating au, trying to figure out how a blueberry coffee could taste good has been a question that has followed me for years.
Shiva by crestfaller [2021-11-07, 17k]
-I always need more fics dealing with the loss of Henry tbh, and this is a really good exploration of grief.
What It Might Cost by Kateera [2022-05-17, 20k]
-a classic deaging fic, len is heartbreakingly cute
Stand Still by Taste_of_Bitterness [2022-09-15, 25k]
-len doesn't go on the waverider after running to stand still. Barry's kind of a mess here, tbh?
I Think I Love You by youmakemesoangry [2023-05-03, 67k]
-it's post Len and mick's legends trip, and they're helping out team flash. there's a truth spell involved. It's a classic trope. (also there's this bit where mick's reading Frankenstein and he calls creature victor's kid, and that's such a mood, my gothic fiction class spent like an hour talking about his daddy issues once)
After facing disappointment with love for years upon years, you have chosen to replace romance with dance in your life, dedicating your entire time to this dance academy you’re employed at. It’s not that you hate men now, you just don’t expect to fall for them anymore because all they do is break your heart. And then Choi Yeonjun enters your life as a new recruit at the academy – sweet, adorable, soft spoken, kind and younger than you. He is everything you have never found attractive in a guy before. But somehow, you're helplessly spiraling for him.
❧ choi yeonjun x f. reader | 16+ | smau ♡ comedy ♡ angst ♡ strangers to friends to lovers!au ♡ dance academy!au ♡ 98-liner!reader ♡ dancer!reader ♡ dancer!yeonjun ♡ slow burn.
❧ warnings! profanity, an ABUNDANCE of suggestive jokes, mentions of people's sex lives (or lack thereof), death & murder threats as jokes, some of the characters being assholes for no reason, reader being a commitment phobe, a lot of pining, a ton of miscommunication (hehe ofc <3), misunderstandings, unnecessary heartbreaks + more will be added as the series progresses!
❧ featuring! all of txt | jimin & jungkook (bts) | sakura & kazuha (le sserafim) | yeji & ryujin (itzy) | keeho (p1harmony) | somi (soloist, ex i.o.i).
❧ playlist! trampoline - zayn & shaed ║ easy - camila cabello ║ lavender haze - taylor swift ♪
notes! heyyy, guys! yes, rya smau era 2k23 hehe! i had this idea for a very angsty fic where an older reader has feelings for a younger yeonjun but can't accept it bec he's not her "type"... but when i tried to write it, it got soooo sad and heavy soooo fast that i had to give up 😭 SO! i reckoned why not attempt to do an smau w a lighter version of this concept??? let's hope this turns out okay (:
pls be kind! the last time i wrote an smau was in 2018 so my creativity's got rust in every crevice (': but constructive criticism + suggestions are more than welcome! 🫶
❧ main masterlist | inbox ⁘
profiles: [1] [2] [3]
00. intro ║ 01. more nepotism hires ║ 02. grandpa and grandma ║ 03. break a leg (but not yours) [written: 1k] ║ 04. do you like flowers ║ 05. ✨aRtTtT✨ ║ 06. let the boy feel a woman's touch ║ 07. support system ║ 08. liking people we can't have ║ 09. it IS weird ║ 10. ‼ trouble ‼ ║ 11. connecting some big ass dots ║ 12. it's a work in progress ║ 13. dance crush ║ 14. enemies to lovers ║ 15. ohhh my god i'm so stupid ║ 16. at least that’s how it began ║ 17. we're no sidehoe material ❌ ║ 18. jealousy wasn't on my bingo card ║ 19. pesky little feelings ║ 20. why do i know so much ║ 21. it should've been me ║ 22. an overthinker AND a dumbass ║ 23. everything is a mess [written: 500] ║ 24. sum chamgo love dive it is [written: 1k] || 25. feels like a funeral in here ║ 26. let's all act surprised || 27. must start breathing into a bag ║ 28. IDK DUDE IM NERVOUS ║ 29. i wasn't jumping I SLIPPED ║ 30. wdym denial ║ [tba]
–Lily hasn't had many relationships, but she is quite experienced with both girls and guys! She had many affairs, but little true love.
🧊–MINATOZAKI SANA¡! ✥
—Lily's first serious addiction, literally her first love, they started dating in 2013, when Lily was still in SM ENTERTAINMENT and God, she was only 14, and Sana was 17. Their relationship lasted three years, Lily grew up with Sana, she so grateful! they are very good and close friends now. They broke up because they both grew out of this relationship, but they are on excellent terms!
Familiar with:03/07/2013 (Were in a relationship from 06/16/2013-10/23/2016)
Relationship with Sana now: Very close friends, they are seen together at awards and any shows, they record TikTok videos together and broadcast!
🧊– CHOI SEUNGCHEOL¡! ✥
–They met on the set of an advertisement, then Seungcheol himself came up to meet Lily, they were very nice to each other! they talked for a very long time before starting a relationship, it was so comfortable and good. Seungcheol always supported Lily, when SKZ debuted, he tried to help with promotion. Lily is very grateful to him. We broke up due to misunderstandings and several major quarrels.
Familiar with:12/29/2016 (In a relationship from 07/27/2017-12/14/2018)
Relationship with Seungcheol now: Now they don’t communicate, but at awards or events they quietly glance at each other, which only they notice and know. Lily does not want to restore their communication, because she thinks that she does not need it.
🧊–KIM NAMJOON¡! ✥
–He took Lily when she was sick, it was a healing relationship for her, not that she loved deeply, but she definitely did! They were introduced by Tenshi back in 2015, but their relationship began only at the end of 2019. It was a very calm relationship, where Namjoon held the main position. They broke up due to difficulties in the perception of both sides.
Familiar with: spring 2015 (In a relationships from 12/30/2019-12/24/2020)
Relationship with Namjoon now: They communicate! perhaps not so often, but it’s very good that when Lily and Tenshi eat together, Jungkook and Namjoon will definitely join them. Quite easy and good communication. When Tenshi and Lily went to see off BTS to the army, Lily and Namjoon said goodbye very warmly.
Interesting thing here: I'm mostly focused on preserving art that's on Twitter but not in the manga itself. This art, despite being a preview for the colored pages of the Legendary Edition, does not appear to be in the English version. I have not been able to find out if the Japanese version or any other edition has more color pages.
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2018-11-02 and 2018-11-05:
Technically not new art, I just wanted to show you pictures of Akira Himekawa signing autographs under a huge poster of the inside cover.
There was also merch from the event - again technically not new art, but... familiar art in a new format?
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2019-12-16:
I'm starting to run out of space for images, and this one is ambiguous, but... this looks like Blue, doesn't it?
Republican Ralph Shortey, Donald Trump's Oklahoma campaign chair and former Oklahoma state senator, was indicted on four counts of human trafficking and child pornography. He plead guilty to child sex trafficking.
Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals after prosecutors alleged Hastert had molested at least four boys as young as 14 and attempted to compensate his victims and subsequently conceal the transactions. Hastert eventually admitted that he sexually abused the boys whom he had coached decades earlier, and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.
Republican Tim Nolan, chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Kentucky, pled guilty to child sex trafficking and on February 11, 2018 he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison.
Republican congressman Mark Foley, in charge of the congressional caucus dealing with exploited children and predominant anti-gay politician, caught sexually harassing 16 year old page boys working under him.
Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, a notable racist, had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond
Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.
Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).
Jeon Jung Kook a ascendido a miembro de pleno derecho de la Asociación de Derechos de Autor de la Música de Corea en 2024 (KOMCA) como compositor. .
KOMCA anunció hoy que Jeon Jung Kook ha sido ascendido a miembro de pleno derecho junto con algunos otros miembros.
Jungkook es el cuarto miembro de BTS después de Suga (2018), RM y j-hope (2020) en ser ascendido a miembro de pleno derecho de KOMCA.
La membresia plena de KOMCA se otorga a sus miembros que se han involucrado en una creación musical sustancial, medida por la cantidad acumulada de regalías de obras protegidas por derechos de autor.
Jungkook ahora está acreditado como compositor de 22 canciones y versiones en KOMCA (Asociación de Derechos de Autor de Música de Corea)
• Dreamers (22-11-20) • Dreamers (Live Version) (22-11-20) • My You (22-06-13) • Run BTS (22-06-10) • I NEED U (Demo Ver.) (22-06-10) • Still With You (Acapella) (22-06-10) • Film out (21-04-02) • Stay (20-11-20) • Telepathy (20-11-20) • SKIT (20-11-20) • In The Soop (20-08-19) • Your eyes tell (20-07-15) • OUTRO: The Journey (20-07-15) • Still With You (20-06-05) • My Time (20-02-21) • Magic Shop (18-05-18) • INTRODUCTION: YOUTH (16-11-09) • Love Is Not Over (16-05-02) • Run (15-11-30) • Autumn Leaves (Go Yeop) (15-11-30) • OUTRO: Love Is Not Over (15-04-29) • OUTRO: Circle Room Cypher (13-06-12)
Esto no incluye “No More Dream”, por el que apareció en los créditos musicales del álbum, pero no en KOMCA.