New #LeifAndThorn comic! The AU That’s Got Religion #10 https://leifandthorn.com/comic/the-au-thats-got-religion-10/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

#LeifAndThorn #Paletteuary2026, day 18: Holly with tea

#Marathon51 over. #Mickey17 was trying to be at least 5 different movies at once, and I liked at least 3 of them, so it worked out. Now I'm home and the cats are fed, which for them is the big hit news of the weekend <3

#Marathon51 Eyes resting for the back half of Frankenhooker...but from what I heard, I enjoyed the ending. #Mickey17 was scheduled to start at 12:40. Trailers running now...

#Marathon51 The internet argues over whether Dune 2 is a Bechdel pass (all conversations come back to Paul, not slowly). Repo is an easy pass, though! Possibly just our third one of the night.

#Marathon51 Skipped out on #Dune 2 (saw the first one, wasn't dying to see what happened next). Surprise 3 is #RepoTheGeneticOpera, which I remember fandom being really into for a hot minute? ...almost 20 years ago, wow. Didn't feel the need to see it then, hasn't changed since.

#Marathon51 #Krull was the expected fun fantasy epic. Villains in spiky black armor, comic-relief shapeshifter, bandits with hearts of gold, shiny magic weapon of destiny. I like how the evil castle was built like a body: the architecture is giant bones and blood vessels, the kidnapped--

#Marathon51 As tends to happen with these, I ended up losing #ALGOL's plot, just closing my eyes and enjoying the live music. (The player called it something like "one of the craziest films I've done this for...") Weird fable about an alien giving one guy a perpetual motion machine, so he--

#Marathon51 But seriously, we're watching this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algol_(... With an "Out of the Inkwell" short to open. The coding PP was to give our live score player time to set up his gear: silentfilmlivemusic.blogspot.com/?m=1

#Marathon51 Surprise 2 was #TheCatFromOuterSpace ! Extremely red old print. Looks like they were dedicated to using An Actual Cat for all the cat scenes. I dozed off toward the end, but it looks like the good guys won.

#Marathon51 Oh, wow, that mystery Star Wars cartoon was a clip from the Holiday Special? With no relation to the rest of the special? Huh. thefilmexperience.net/blog/2015/4/...

#Marathon51 Saturday Morning Cartoon Break, aka "playing a bunch of cartoon opening themes, try to gage the age of the audience by how many people song along." ...Although it was way shorter than last year's. Tactic to make up time? Surprise 2 was set for 11:30.

#Marathon51 Woke up just in time for the start of #RobinsonCrusoeOnMars, the Tomb-Buster-era intermediate step between Robinson Crusoe and The Martian. It was fine. I liked the monkey. (I hope the monkey was treated well on-set.)

#Marathon51 gonna sleep through #MadMax too, just wanted y'all to know our pre-movie cartoon is Gumby Racers

#Marathon51 #Dinosaurs was a lot of fun. Surprisingly modern/natural-feeling dialogue, lots of comedy bits that aged well, the hateable villain got a Disney death, the plucky kid got to ride a brontosaurus. Not everyone part of it aged well (Bechdel fail, too) but overall, a good time.

#Marathon51 #Parasite (1982) was also in 3D, with a behind-the-scenes look at the restoration efforts! ...And it was enough of a Gross Bug Movie that I took the opportunity to rest my eyes. (Too early to fall asleep, but I gave them a break, at least.)

#Marathon51 Sweet little bonus feature, a documentary clip about the guy who made it his mission to restore these old 3D films, including both the pieces played here. Good for him.

#Marathon51 Surprise 1 is the reason they were handing out 3D glasses on the way in! #RobotMonster (1953), B&W, deeply terrible. They have a slapdash plot, a max of 3 sets, even the 3D effects seem glitchy. A surprising Bechdel pass. (Mom and kid daughter talk about one of the girl's friends.)

#Marathon51 Fire alarm! Somebody took their eye off a popcorn machine. The alarm went off at exactly the moment the movie went "Intermission", leading to mass confusion about "Wait, is this part of it, or...?" So now we're all huddling out in the cold. Yay.

Still a good movie. Funny and fast-paced enough that it's enjoyable even when you know where it's going, and it really benefits from the energy of an audience to cheer at the good bits. And hey, I know a bunch of those places! I saw them film one of those scenes! #Marathon51 #Superman

#Marathon51 here we go! First few trailers are all straightforwardly "movies on the schedule later." Cartoon was a lackluster Super Mouse, but then we got a Special Message From James Gunn. "I regret that I can't be with you all in Cleveland tonight..." :3

#Marathon51 was supposed to start #Superman at 8pm, and opening safety announcements didn't start until 8:05. Is this the fastest we've ever fallen behind schedule? Might be!

You're paying for this. Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs. Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.

Gearing up to liveblog #Marathon51! (Would be really nice if my country could avoid doing anything apocalyptically stupid and/or murderous in the next 48 hours...) films.cwru.edu/sfmarathon51/

New #LeifAndThorn comic! Sketchbook: Thank the stars you noticed–! https://leifandthorn.com/comic/sketchbook-thank-the-stars-you-noticed/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

#LeifAndThorn #Paletteuary2026, day 17: Hyacinth with ube roll

#LeifAndThorn #Paletteuary2026, day 16: Pascentia with sandwich cookies

New #LeifAndThorn Off-Shoots bonus! Off-Shoots Sketchbook: Concept art for The Traveler https://leifandthorn.com/offshoots/off-shoots-sketchbook-concept-art-for-the-traveler/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

Webcartoonists formerly hosted on Hiveworks have spoken out in a statement alleging financial misconduct by management

New #LeifAndThorn comic! The AU That’s Got Religion #9 https://leifandthorn.com/comic/the-au-thats-got-religion-9/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

#LeifAndThorn #Paletteuary2026, day 15: Hermosa with donut (with sprinkles)

#LeifAndThorn #Paletteuary2026, day 14: Juniper with cake

#SecretCommonwealth follow-up note: all right, I finally had a chance to reread my original reaction post: archiveofourown.org/works/216679... There are some details I missed or misremembered that time around. Example, I had forgotten that Malcolm actually took the initiative to kill the--

#SecretCommonwealth chapter 33: Lyra's guide tells some stories about the creatures in this region, including a camel-like species that parallel the panserbjørne: they have language and culture, but their daemons are internal. Sold her a salve for her injuries, which seems to help. Stray mention--

#SecretCommonwealth chapter 32, the rest of it: Priest points Lyra to the hotel where the daemon-sellers find customers. She gets a room. People start visiting, with business cards, sales pitches, product photos. One of them cites Gottfried as a happy customer! Lyra hasn't met the guy, so she's--

#SecretCommonwealth chapter 32: Lyra arrives in Seleukeia, which in our world is in Iraq. Can't find a hotel or any English-speakers, ends up sleeping on the street. Found and taken in by...the daemonless caste? Sure wish she had a vocab book. They can't share their separation backstories--

#SecretCommonwealth catch-up notes: Chapter 28 had this passage, which I wanted to bring up when I could include a screencap of the full thing. It's the first (and only?) time all book when Lyra considers an idea I wanted to see much earlier: If she's having an existential crisis about "what if--

New #LeifAndThorn comic! Sketchbook: Those Fools At The Academy https://leifandthorn.com/comic/sketchbook-those-fools-at-the-academy/# LeifAndThorn # webcomics# lgbtq

#LeifAndThorn #Paletteuary2026, day 7: Cedar with parfait

#SecretCommonwealth chapter 31: Oh, joy, it's the SA chapter. Lyra ends up on a train with a group of soldiers, presumably on their way to join Delamare's Rose Inquisition...and a bunch of them attack. All the easy escapes, lucky coincidences, and conveniently helpful strangers she's gotten--

#SecretCommonwealth chapter 30: Alice! She gets to be in the book at least one more time! Oh good. CCD comes to Jordan to interrogate her about Lyra's trip. Alice is delightful, hostile and unimpressed, bringing back the full sarcasm and acid-tongued mockery she got so good at as a teenager.

#SecretCommonwealth chapter 29: The department that oversees Oakley Street moves to shut it down. Staff quietly follow a pre-arranged plan to get all their stuff independently secured. The Magisterium is driving this, and the rhetoric is that OS is "counter-modern." I'm trying to think of any--

#SecretCommonwealth chapter 28: Lyra sneaking to the train station. Her whirling thoughts include "Pan, why did you go to the Blue Hotel?" She still doesn't know he *is* going there. It's just "the only idea she had." Has she forgotten it was a wild guess? (Has *Pullman* forgotten...?)

#SecretCommonwealth chapter 27: Lyra gets a hotel room in town, goes people-watching. Reference to a daemon smoking (sharing with its human), two others sharing a bag of nuts. Cut to Pan, somewhere rural, finding a daemonless girl. She was a refugee on the boat we saw earlier (mentions a--

#SecretCommonwealth chapter 26: Malcolm meets with a contact, gets taken to a conference of rose-growers, right on the day when armed Magisterium agents show up and bolt the doors. Remember Delamare's whole "convince the people to not even care what truth is" plan? It's not part of this--

#SecretCommonwealth chapter 25: Lyra in Greece, seeking the woman from the address book that Kubiček flagged as "a helpful daemonless person." Called a Princess, grandmotherly age, big expensive estate, lives alonwme except servant(s). Lyra acts like a witch to get admitted, but once inside--

#SecretCommonwealth chapter 24: Back with Mal, at his next travel stop. Officials go through his papers and call his contacts to make sure he's a real scholar. Glad to see that kind of security prep coming into the plot a bit. Olivier tries to tail Malcolm, Mal turns the tables and tails *him*,--

#SecretCommonwealth chapter 23, the rest of it: Lyra has charge of an older child now, maybe 5? Wraps her in a blanket, gets her food, rocks her and sings her nursery rhymes. The child's daemon cuddles up to Lyra for warmth. Another parallel I really like, echoing baby Pan kneading on Mal's--

All right, back to the #SecretCommonwealth. 6 hours of audiobook time left. I could knock this out by end-of-work tomorrow. Or I could pause it a bunch and barely get through any! Let's find out. (I'm 4th in line with my Rose Field hold, on 10 copies. Shouldn't be long now.) Chapter 23, thread 1:

#SecretCommonwealth roundup post 2 on DW, including cute daemon photos: erinptah.dreamwidth.org/2026/01/04/s... It also has some catch-up notes, which I'll copy here for the sake of being a completist...