Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

I changed my festivids sign up last minute. Here's my letter! It thins out toward the end, so I might write more later: frayadjacent.dreamwidth.org/119141.html

been waiting over a year for another Shaun video essay, and it's...four hours and called The War on Science, a topic that does not give me any strong emotions at all 🙃

(Hopefully) our last post of nomination clarifications! On dreamwidth: festivids.dreamwidth.org/158960.html On tumblr: www.tumblr.com/festivids/79... On discord: discord.gg/AddKr9U9dt in the mod-questions channel

TOP TEN CAT BREEDS 1. Super Bingus 2. Tender Loaf 3. Crime Bean 4. Le Squishe 5. Load-bearing Tater 6. Royal Softling 7. Electric Spiceweasel 8. Pantaloosian 9. Tammy 10. Dinky Porch Pebble

Most people understand that recorded music developed out of pasta. Like eg tape was first influenced by pappardelle (reel-to-reel) and later fettuccine (cassette) or records took the idea of a round shape with grooves from rigatoni and instead of sauces, you put music on them, which is like a sauce.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

We’re back! Tonight! 9pm! Channel 4! And around the world on YouTube!

Happy Unicode 17.0 Day! Includes seven new emoji that are rolling out on your phones and computers in the coming year: treasure chest, trombone, avalanche, big foot, bulging face, fight cloud, orca @jenniferdaniel.bsky.social has the lowdown: jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/tomorrows-...

Yesterday I learned that Xena and Beyoncé have the same birthday

Nominations are open! archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/24966 And we have a new discord! discord.gg/AddKr9U9dt Thanks so much to a team of volunteers for getting the discord going so quickly this year, including Januarium, distant_fox, marahsarie, thingswithwings, and hartknyx.

my cousin posted a photo of her teenage daughter on social media and said daughter has skinny eyebrows, so I guess the 2000s really are back

Friends who have watched Succession: we are about halfway through season 3 and it is a bummer. So many scenes of people aggressively talking business at each other, so little…anything else. Until Ken’s birthday party, which was its own different sort of bummer. Does it change/get better in S4?

I'm listening to an Elton John playlist. I've listened to his early '70s stuff plenty but I'm amused by the number of "mom's car" songs I'm hearing -- pop and soft rock from the 1980s and early '90s that I associate with riding in the car but couldn't tell you what they're called or who they're by

Once upon a time a bunch of farmers in the Middle East came to an agreement allowing some slinky local creatures to do pest control for their crop storage. Cut to 9,000 years later: Happy International Cat Day! icatcare.org/internationa...

I finally watched Rocketman and confirmed that it is possible for me to enjoy a musician biopic. It was great!

rewatched Everything Everywhere All at Once and just wanted to mention that this movie fucking rules. I think it's actually my favourite movie. There is no other movie in the world like it, much as I wish there were 100 more that could do all the things this one does

I’m about to get on a ferry to one of my very favourite places on earth 🎉⛴️🌊🐋🌲⛰️🎉

Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres xkcd.com/3122/

I love an ensemble show where the answer to the question "who's your favourite character" is just "the one who is talking in this scene right now"

I have just been the victim of an overwhelming himbo attack.

Have now finished Series 3 of BBC Ghosts except for the Christmas episode. At some point I realised that I hadn't seen the plague ghosts much if at all that series, and I missed them. But I had a feeling I knew why, and yep, series 2 was filmed very early in 2020 and series 3 was filmed in 2021.

I love everyone in this haunted house

I finally started watching BBC Ghosts and it is as excellent as I hoped. David was like "sure I'll give it a try" and he was fully hooked after one episode

oh my god. This movie looks more brutal than I'd usually go for but it's about the motherfucking enclosures, my Roman Empire, the historical event that lives rent-free in my head youtu.be/EbCcz0OzhtQ?...

In a shop today I heard a bland-ass, presumably-newish, vaguely macho country song that interpolated part of Your Song by Elton John (a song I love). So I assume I have now heard Morgan Wallen 😑

now I too love Cynthia Erivo (this video is great) youtu.be/AjVhBbbCMzE?...

Series 18 of taskmaster is one of my favourite if not maybe my very favourite yet? So many good tasks, great Greg/Alex moments, a delightful group

Stevie Martin is so cute help

Today is Connie’s fourth birthday! Her favourite things are climbing ladders, shelves, buildings, and trees; chasing her tail; and sleeping near her favourite humans without being touched, spoken to, or looked at.

I have to use microsoft for my business but I was just notified that they were increasing the annual fee from £60 to £85, and I was like fuck that, I'm not paying your AI electricity bill for you MS. So I went to cancel and lo and behold there was an option to keep my current rate without AI

I know it’s been established that many people’s adult musical tastes are formed by what they hear in early adolescence, but does anyone else find that the reverse is true for late adolescence? I dislike almost everything I listened to in my mid-late teens (‘96-‘99), esp. if it was made in that time

Weather Balloons xkcd.com/3107/

I support Palestine Action because unlike the UK government, they directly and materially oppose genocide. In a week’s time just saying those words could be a terrorist offence. Please donate to their defence fund to stop their proscription www.crowdjustice.com/case/palesti...

I can only take Beyoncé fandom in small doses but I do love we’ve all agreed to call her the Horse Lady

I’m on a train somewhere between Wakefield and Doncaster, and I’ve just seen some bridge graffiti that says “Hemsworth Boys”

I never thought I’d be shouting at a British panel show, “that is not TROTTING that is CANTERING does no one on this show know what trotting is??!” but here we are

It depends on how easily my kidnappers are swayed by singing You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

I can’t believe I’ve paid money to see someone sing the goddamn star spangled banner

I love that I’ve seen a solid half-dozen Challengers vids and I still have no idea what the plot is

I woke up this morning and thought I was going to see Beyoncé but no, that's next weekend. TBH I was relieved, I needed a rest.

if i were a grocer in a crime-ridden fictional town i simply would not display my fruit on a stand next to an alley

this week's was my favourite taskmaster episode in a while!

There is a big difference between a half-hour episode that drops once a week and ends on a cliffhanger and a one-hour episode that drops once a week and ends on a cliffhanger

Meanwhile, my VidUKon GPOY premiere is the kind of vid that brings me glee: Batman and family having a grand old time in "Batsdance" yt: youtu.be/dfbzBzgHQi0 ao3: archiveofourown.org/works/64471993

I have some brainpower so I'm going to say something about this vid! I made it for the VidUKon themed premeires show; the theme was Gratuitious Picture of Yourself (GPOY). I'll start with the song -- it is one of my favourites of this decade and I have wanted to vid it since it was released in 2022.

I made a Nirvana in Fire vid about the angry emperor for VidUKon! "No Love in Jinling" archiveofourown.org/works/66090223

Can't Help Falling In Love (a Soul Sisters fanvid that premiered at VidUKon 2025) archiveofourown.org/works/64233619 youtu.be/4uRzXL-qChQ

"I'd marry you with paper rings." A multifandom femslash vid. Premiered at VidUKon 2025. AO3 link: archiveofourown.org/works/64165435