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Sep. 6th, 2025 12:18 am
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[personal profile] genarti and I have been working our very slow but delighted way through We Are Lady Parts, the British sitcom about an all-Muslim punk rock band composed of opinionated women with beautiful and compelling faces. I'd been seeing a lot of gifsets of these faces before we watched the show and I am pleased to report that they are even more beautiful and compelling at full length. For those of you who have missed the gifsets, please enjoy Lady Parts performing "Villain Era":



The two most protagonist-y protagonists are Saira, the band's lead singer/guitarist, who is at all times extremely punk rock, and Amina, a stressed-out trad-Muslim scientist with terrible stage fright, who really has to work to access her inner punk rock. The cast is rounded out with Ayesha, the angry lesbian drummer; Bisma, who plays the role of maternal peacemaker until she starts to chafe at it; and Momtaz, the band's go-getter manager. The first season focuses mostly on the question of whether Amina can conquer her own inhibitions enough to contribute her excellent guitar skills and huge Disney eyes to the band after Saira press-gangs her into joining them. The second season brings the whole band up against the music industry more generally, and the various ways that the public pressure of moderate fame starts to push each of them into re-examining their self-image and relationships to their music and identity. It's a good show! I liked it very much!

Also, like everyone else in the world, we have recently watched KPop Demon Hunters. Also a very good time featuring banger music tracks -- I'd seen it described as 'a series of really good music videos' and broadly I agree with this assessment -- plus twenty pounds of fun kdrama tropes stuffed into a five-pound bag. Probably would not have felt compelled to write anything about it except for the fact that by an accident of timing, we ended up watching the season finale of Lady Parts the day after we watched KPop Demon Hunters which made for a very funny accidental wine pairing. Both funny and telling to go from high-level spoilers for both KPop Demon Hunters and Lady Parts )
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Title: You're On My Mind
Author: [personal profile] sweetsorcery
Fandom: Thunderbirds (TV 1965)
Relationship: John Tracy/Scott Tracy, John Tracy & Scott Tracy
Rating: Teen
Warnings/Notes: Sibling Incest - barely, Missing Scenes from Episode: Atlantic Inferno

Bingo Prompt: Happy Song
Song: You're On My Mind
Artist: Club des Belugas & Iain Mackenzie

Fannish Friday

Sep. 5th, 2025 08:57 pm
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Nothing exciting happened today (other than apple butter lattes, me trying to get admin pissed at me and panic attacks) so have something you've been asking for. My candy recs


So the Hershey Haul....I haven't eaten it all yet because there's only so much candy a diabetic should eat (none) but here are my thoughts

Chocolate Lava Peanut Butter cups - so it's supposed to have ooey gooey chocolate lava. Bag #1 (since PB cups are my favorites) Dad got one and I got one that oozed into the packaging. The rest were just normal cups with super soft centers making it hard to get it out of its paper panties. Bag two had a thin layer of what might be chocolate lava, barely noticeable.

Verdict - get normal ones. they're cheaper than this rip off


Hazelnut kisses - I'm still not a fan of nuts in chocolate even if I like the nuts

Brownie Bites Kisses - tasted like brownies. Pretty good

Pumpkin Spice Latte treasure nugget - tastes like its name. wee bit artificial but not bad

Caramel Machiatto latte treasure nugget - um...no caramel, no coffee, just tastes like milk chocolate which is nice enough but this is one of the Hershey store only special chocolates so I wanted more flavor, more specialness

Cafe Espresso treasure nugget - strong coffee taste, yummy (another special)

special bars, salty caramel and strawberry creme. I should have looked closer. They're both white chocolate. I'm not a fan of white chocolate. That said. Salty caramel tasted more like coconut (looked like toasted coconut) good but not quite caramel. Strawberry creme tastes like strawberry quick.

Caramel special nuggets, large (expensive as fuck compared to the rest), bigger about two inch cubes, very good caramel, gooey.

I still have more to try.



Actually wrote something


Title: Pushing Up the Ante


Fandom: Hazbin Hotel

Summary: All Husker wanted was a friendly game of Texas hold ‘em to entertain his fellow overlords. One of them doesn’t get the message and in his attempts to take out Husker, the ante gets bigger until they’re all in.

Rating: teen

Author Note - This was inspired by ‪[profile] lurkingsky‬ on Bluesky who was running a DTYIS for this fantastic picture of Husk right here. I’m no artist but this picture told me a story so I wrote it (and seriously, go check out that great picture of Husk!)
This is set some time before Husk lost it all so probably a handful of years before Charlie’s plans for the hotel. And there will be a few alterations to how Texas hold ‘em is played (you’ll see what I mean)
Also written for spikesgirl58’s six word challenge and the six words were Wake, Statement, Generate, Franchise, Strap, & Candidate and for the allbingo prompt of no quarter

Also written the lyrical titles bingo 2025 . This one is for the prompt a fast song Ace of Spades by Motorhead


story at the link above or under here )


Fannish 50 fan recs
Manoeuvres Under Fire. The Jacobite Trilogy | The Flight of the Heron Series

Heading to Bed Stargate Atlantis

Training Torchwood

Disobedience. Stargate SG-1

strange friends in familiar places
魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)Marvel Cinematic Universe

Strangers Instead of Friends Stargate Atlantis/Stargate SG-1

Searching Torchwood

Breakfast Plans FAKE

Dr. and Mrs. The Owl House

Is it Soup Yet? Stargate Atlantis/Stargate SG-1

Upcycling Stargate Atlantis

Cherish Bloom The Murderbot Diaries

Storytime Stargate Atlantis

Kid Hazbin Hotel

Ianto Jones Regrets Torchwood/Doctor Who

The Full Experience FAKE

A Tale for All Hallow's Eve Grimm/Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Silent Nights Barry

Most People The Murderbot Diaries

Not Soft Hazbin Hotel

Learning the Lay of the Land Teen Wolf

Pumpkin Carving Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Watching "Kpopped" on Apple TV.

Sep. 5th, 2025 02:49 pm
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Yesterday I started watching Kpopped, the new song competition show that blends K-pop and Western artists. I watched the first two episodes last night, and I'm really enjoying it. I think the format is really great — everyone has fun because the stakes are so low. Each episode follows the same format:

  1. A K-pop group is split in half.
  2. Each half of the group works with a Western artist to create and perform a "K-popified" version of one of that artist's songs.
  3. The in-studio audience votes on the winning group.
  4. Immediately after the winning group is announced, the two halves of the K-pop group are reunited to perform one of the group's songs along with the Western artists.

There are no penalties for losing, no prizes for winning. Just performance and comradery between musicians.

The two episodes I've watched so far are:

  1. Half of Billlie performs "Savage" with Megan Thee Stallion, the other half performs "Lady Marmalade" with Patti LaBelle.
  2. Both halves of Itzy perform with Emma Bunton and Mel B from the Spice Girls. One group performs "Wannabe" and the other performs "Be As One."

A recurring theme is the Western artists having trouble learning the K-pop choreography. (Except for Patti LaBelle — out of respect for her age, they had her stay still and everyone danced around her.)

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