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++ It's December already. When did that happen? *sigh*

++ The recently premiered Canadian BL show, Heated Rivalry, has been making the rounds among fandom spaces. I haven't seen it yet myself, however I'm absolutely tickled by there finally being a hockey-based BL romance show, especially with it being quite mature with its content, aka the sex scenes. I know that the genre itself is quite popular, hockey RPF and hockey AUs fanfics abound in fandom, so it was about time it actually ended up getting made for television. Funnily, I follow a few people who constantly post about IRL hockey, so it can be a bit confusing at first glance on which are from the show and which are actual real life hockey players, lol.

++ I've been waiting until some episodes were already out before I started watching the fourth campaign of Critical Role, and I finally have.

( My thoughts on Critical Role, Campaign 4 Episode 1: The Fall of Thjazi Fang )

Overall, I'm really looking forward to catching up.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Red Velvet - Russian Roulette

✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

Taken from

thefridayfive:

01. What's your favourite TV network?
I'm not much of a watcher of traditional television these days so I'm uncertain which networks even exist anymore that aren't streaming services, individual or merged.

Back in the day, though, I did have some networks and channels that I really preferred to watch over others: MTV, Comedy Central, Syfy (then SciFi Channel before they completely rebranded), and the WB. Of course, they all had their fair share of issues, but I recall watching those a lot more than any other ones. Also, growing up, I watched a lot of The Disney Channel (80s and early-to-mid 90s) and PBS, that was my childhood.

02. If you could create your own channel, what would it be?
I would create one where it would air a lot of media that had been lost overtime, the shows and movies that you watched but are no longer available anywhere else except from a distant grainy VHS tape recording or even just from vague memory.

03. What TV show did you watch as a child, that you wish they would bring back?
I don't think "bring back" in terms of it being rebooted or anything, but just brought back into syndication and to be more known: Ocean Girl. This was a childhood favorite of mine, and Australian show that syndicated on The Disney Channel in the 90s that I adored. It features a lot of really good messages especially in relation to nature conservation, specifically that of marine life, and it's a really good scifi adventure.

04. What show have you always hated, and wonder why they ever made such a dumb show?
There have been shows that I haven't liked for various reasons, but not enough to hate and think it shouldn't have been made, and even if I did think that there will always be someone out there who will like and find enjoyment in it even if I didn't. The only ones that are valid to think they shouldn't exist is if they actually put the real people in the show itself into real danger, like competition reality shows where people are outright harmed. That a matter more focused on ethics of the networks and producers, though, for doing such things for ratings and less about focusing on the safety of the people involved.

05. What TV show's seasons would you buy on DVD?
Anything that I have enjoyed. I'm a proud collector of physical media.

++ A combination of Dick Cheney dying, Zohran Mamdani winning the NYC mayoral election and the Dem sweep, I'd say November 4th was quite a successful day politically. Obviously we're still fucked in the current grand scheme of things, but at least this didn't feel me with overwhelming dread and is a step in the right direction.

++ Jon Stewart announced that he's extending hosting The Daily Show into 2026, and Stephen Colbert teases the comeback of his Colbert Report character. Yes, it does feel like we're back with early 00s politics, but their commentary through jokes and satire were what made most of us back then sane.

++ In unsurprising news: Disney ends its partnership with Doctor Who, the show will still continue with the BBC. This isn't shocking, we all saw this coming a mile away, it just took too damn long for the announcement to happen when it shouldn't have. It was inevitable considering the many delays, so much so that the main actor himself, Ncuti Gatwa, asked to leave the show while a lot of things were still in limbo. With that being said, in the end this whole arrangement was quite a blunder and was just a waste of time, resources, and questionable creative decisions right from the jump.

Now that this has been confirmed, after the planned Christmas special for next year I do think the show needs a break. Not an exceedingly long one as suggested by others, but long enough of a pause to regroup and figure out where they want to go with the show itself.

++ Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are in talks for returning in a new The Mummy movie. The Mummy and The Mummy Returns were both such good movies, easily the most fun action/adventure kind of story with an excellent cast with good chemistry. On one hand I'm stoked to have both Fraser and Weisz returning, however I'm also apprehensive because, these days, the way current media is aside, revived franchises aren't always going to do well. It has to feature the elements which made the original work so well in order for it to flourish, and sometimes the magic just cannot be recaptured even with the best attempts (see: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the third movie of which we don't speak of, and The Scorpion King, a pretty decent movie imho but didn't really hold up to what made the original two stand-out). With that being said I'm willing to give it a try should this go forward, because I adore Brendan and Rachel's chemistry since they made Rick and Evie's whole relationship work so beautifully, and I'm happy that there's a Brendan Fraser renaissance in recent years and I think many fans of The Mummy movies will appreciate seeing him and Rachel back in the roles.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Nmixx - Roller Coaster

Happy belated Friday the 🎃 HALLOWEENTH 🎃 ! For those who celebrated, I hope you had a magnificent three-day Halloween weekend.

Since I'm a bit late, here is a little Halloween-centric meme taken from

author_by_night:

( All these ghosts, ALL these ghosts! And I still can't find a boo! )

Current Mood: accomplished

( Once upon a time, there was a place called the Wilderness.... )

My Comments: With the announcement that the fourth season is to be its last, I ended up watching some Yellowjackets fanvids that were made recently. This one in particular caught my eye because of its use of a very somber cover of "Like A Prayer" by Madonna which gives the eerie and devastating atmosphere of the show itself. It does feature scenes spanning across all three seasons, though not entirely spoilery unless you look very hard. I like the way the vidder chose to focus on the wilderness and the girls, and the horrors they went through and what they transformed into because of it. It's one of the many different parts of what makes this show, flaws and all, so captivating.

Current Mood: okay

The latest installment of the V/H/S horror anthology franchise was released this month. I really enjoyed the previous movie, V/H/S/Beyond, which was more or less scifi based, and I was pleasantly surprised that they had another one coming out soon after that one had been released, this time appropriately themed around Halloween. After having finally watched it, here are my thoughts.

( V/H/S/Halloween )

I wonder if the franchise can turn this into a trend of doing holiday themed installments. Obviously Halloween was very appropriate, but I would love for V/H/S to do something similar with other holidays, like Thanksgiving or Christmas, or even Hallmark holidays like Valentine's Day, Mother's/Father's Day, etc. There are so great opportunities for horror stories with those.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Creature Feature - A Gorey Demise

( An Alpha and an Omega pretending to be a Beta..... )

My Comments: Oh, these idiots. And I say that with utter affection. When I got into A/B/O Desire I knew I was in for quite a ride, this being an Omegaverse drama and all, but I didn't expect to get so attached to the most tragic pairing of the series. Both Gao Tu and Shen Wenlang are stubborn in their own ways, not properly communicating with one another, denial of feelings or possible reciprocation of, misunderstandings abound, and yet they're by far the most compelling pairing in my eyes because of it. These two fanvids I chose today mostly focusing on the tragic element of them not talking to one another, but also the yearning between both of them. It just makes you want to shake them both and yell, "just talk to each other!"

Note: Turn on closed captioning for the dialogue used in the fanvids.

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Angela Zhang - Yu Yan

Taken from

thefridayfive:

01. How long ago did you join LJ (or DW)?
I joined LiveJournal in 2003, back when they had invite codes. I joined DW in 2012 when many LJ users were starting to migrate, or at least backup their journals, due to a lot of issues concerning the LJ ownership and handling of things, and I wanted to keep in touch with those on my LJ flist. I didn't do anything with my DW account until 2022 when I finally transferred my journal entries to DW and deleted my old LJ account.

02. How did you find out about LJ (or DW)?
I can't really remember with LJ, my sister had an account before I did (she helped get the invite code for me to join back then) and I would search randomly and read random journal entries and things, so I'm sure it was from word-of-mouth that way. With DW it was through LJ, since it was created as an alternative solution in case LJ went down.

03. If someone introduced you to LJ (or DW), is s/he still on your friends list?
Yes.

04. Have you introduced anyone to LJ (or DW)?
Only people online that I know from other platforms, not in real life.

05. Is your LJ (or DW) public or friends only, and why?
Mostly public, I keep things regarding my personal life and some other things that discuss serious things behind locked entries, but otherwise it's relatively public. Although I have been reconsidering this due to the invasive rise of AI scrapping.

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Namie Amuro - The Speed Star

++ Yellowjackets to end after its fourth season. Honestly, I expected as much considering that it seems like the story is near towards the end anyway, so this news isn't surprising.

( Some spoilers for the end of the third season )

++ A/B/O Desire just concluded and I just have one thing to say: ( Spoilers, obviously. ) With that being said, this drama was absolutely unhinged in the best possible way. Having an actual canonically explicit Omegaverse story on my screen is just so surreal and I'm happy that it happened. Pit Babe was the start, but Desire really took it there and I'm forever grateful that they did that.

Current Mood: good
Current Music: Nada - Bulletproof