2024-06-19

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2024-06-19 07:23 pm

Stargate Anniversary Fest 2024

From Stargate Anniversary Fest 2024 on AO3:

For the 20th anniversary of Stargate Atlantis (July 16, 2004), as well as the 30th (!) anniversary of the original Stargate movie (October 28, 1994) we offer you Stargate Anniversary Fest Bingo.

We're celebrating all flavors of Stargate with this fest. That means:
--anything from the movies, SG-1, SGA and SGU
--any and all characters, any pairings, no pairings, and cross-overs
--all the tropes, happy endings, sad endings, AUs

If you can tag it 'stargate' then your work is welcome


Spy vs Spy Black Market Quarantine /Alone Again What's Cooking? Who's in my body now?
Thigh Holsters It's Alive! End of the Line Life in Miniature Plants Gone Wild
Crystals are a Girl's Best Friend Snuggles & Cuddles FREE SPACE Shh it's a Secret Ask Radek!
Don't Touch That! Set the Mood Beer on the Pier Brave Little Toaster Haunted
Crossover/ Fusion Explosive/Big Bang Altered States Creature Comforts Sealed with a Kiss
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2024-06-19 08:54 pm

tea review [Harney & Sons Tropical Mango Pride Punch Iced Tea]

I am extremely embarrassed how long it has taken me to review this. Originally, there had been a tea before it in the queue, but things happened. I had not intentionally saved this for Pride month, but here we are.

Name: Tropical Mango Pride Punch Fresh Brew Iced Tea
Brand: Harney & Sons
Type: black tea & fruit
Tea bag

Notes:
It smells absolutely amazing. They are oversized bags that are supposed to make 8 cups of tea each. I brewed the first bag as per the instructions on the back, but I fear it might have diluted it too much, though still delicious. It's a very smooth tea with a light fruity after taste. The fruit included in the tea are mango flavor, mango pieces, orange peel, coconut pieces, coconut flavor, pineapple flavor, and orange flavor (listed in the ingredients in that order). All of them come through in the smell, though surprisingly the pineapple is the strongest. The taste is more of a vague "dried tropical fruit with shaved coconut." Overall, it has a desserty feel, but would also just be good on a hot day. It would be good with cookies.

The box it came in is also quite fun. The front and back are rainbow where the colors blend into the next. (It is a traditional rainbow, not a 5 stripe Pride flag rainbow, just for clarification.) On the sides, it has repeating chevrons in brown, black, white, pink, and blue. So, we've got the progress flag represented without it being BOOM flag. Also, a portion of the proceeds of this blend were donated to the Ali Forney Center, whose mission is "to protect homeless LGBTQ+ youths from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to be independent."

This tea was gifted to me by [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi

Rate
Appearance: 8
Aroma: 15/10
Flavor: 9

Overall Rating: 5 stars
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2024-06-19 10:53 pm

Silly Batman Things 2

Part 1 can be found here.

Once again, this is more accurately, Batman adjacent things. Most of this might actually be Jason Todd. These are all little things that were originally going to be there own posts, but I have collected them together into one big post, which turned into two posts, so, that they would actually get posted. Enjoy!

~ I am not entirely sure why, but I've been wanting more Stephanie & Jason content (not Stephanie/Jason), fan or canon. It just seems like they should hang out more? I think it's because we got that little tease of them being friends in canon last year maybe. I don't know. It's just hard to find.

~ It's not happen so much right now, but earlier in the year, Batman/Pokemon Fusions were everywhere all of a sudden. It's not like Pokemon fusion works are unusual in any fandom, but there were so many and it brought up so many questions for me. Most of it was fan art featuring the Robins as Pokemon trainers with their Pokemon. There was a memorable piece that had Batman as the Pokemon trainer and the Robins as his Pokemon; little Pokemon hybrids, wearing versions of their costumes, which is kind of interesting to think about how that would work in a fusion universe. Which brought to mind a Supernatural Pokemon fusion, that included were-pokemon; wild Pokemon by day, people by night. I wonder what kind of Pokemon the Batman characters would be, if they were were-pokemon? And back to if they were Pokemon trainers, would Damian be liberating them or hoarding them? Would there be an intervention? There was more to this train of thought, but it has flown out of my brain.

~ It's kind of old news now, but Lego came out with a set that is the Gotham City skyline from Batman: The Animated Series to celebrate Batman's 85th anniversary. Is it cool? Yes. Do I want one? Of course. Am I getting one? No. It's $300 and absolutely enormous once assembled. There is also a Lego Batman Mech suit coming out this summer. That is at least in my price range ($15, I think) and I might have a place to put it, maybe.

~ I have been poking at my Batman/Avatar Urban Fantasy crossover series. I have two rough drafts I like and want to work on, but I keep talking myself out of posting them (I have no idea why). One is kind of a Girl with Dogs parody. (Girl with the Dogs is a delightful pet grooming YouTube channel.) Basically, Jason is spending more time in his transformed form (he is a werewolf in this, among other issues), and he ended up going to the groomers to deal with his shedding problem. It's meant to be light-hearted and funny. The other is more of a day in the life thing. It's established in canon of my fic's universe that Damian has started spending more time with Jason, slightly pre-series, but Jason is unclear if Damian sees him as a sibling or one of his many pets. This fic plays off of that. Also, mostly humor.

While we are on the topic of this series, there were some unposted parts of it I had additional backups of and I cannot find them, which is frustrating me. They're the one where Bruce and Clark stop Damian and Jon from playing alien autopsy in Bruce's lab, the one where Dick narrowly stops Damian and Jason from sacrificing Tim to a demon, and the scene where Zuko goes to dig up Jason for his necromancy assignment to find that Jason isn't dead anymore already.

~ While we are speaking of fics, I thought I had narrowed down the content for the main characters, Bruce, Clark, and Diana, for my YouTuber AU, but now I am not so sure. Clark will do "wholesome" reaction content. Diana's is the hardest for me to explain, but clearest in my head. She's been on YouTube for a long time and like a lot of older channels that are still active, its a mixture of older style content and newer trends, but the main focus is travel vlogs, museum vlogs, and random video essays. Bruce is that content creator that has far too many channels that make you wonder if they ever sleep. The difference being that his channels are not known to be by the same creator. His main ones are a "Brucie Wayne" charity livestreaming channel and under a different persona he has a ASMR & horror stories channel (is there a furry vtuber or sprite attached to it, I dunno). He also has a collaboration channel with Clark, that often features Diana. He doesn't have a true crime podcast because I think he would struggle with the ethics of a true crime podcast, he is obsessed with them though. The real question is does he also have an everyday carry channel? Like, are we going that far down the rabbit hole? Anyway, all this could change. That's just where I'm at now.

~ My brain cannot let this question go: If faced with needing to wear booty shorts for a mission, would Jason totally lean into it, complain loudly and relentlessly about having to wear Dick's "green scaly panties" the whole time he was Robin so why are you making him relive that, or both?

~ The Niblet and I were discussing this: If Batman were some sort of creature with animal ears (think a cat boy or a my little pony or something), but also still Batman with the cowl, would the cowl have both the bat ears and space for his animal ears poking up, smoosh down his animal ears so it looks like they are not there and have the bat ears, or incorporate space for his animal ears into the cowl's bat ears? While there is a ton of cat boy (and similar) Batman fan art out there, some of which include the batsuit, I have yet to see one with the cowl on. Red Hood fan art of that nature tends to include ears in the helmet, but most versions of Jason's helmet do not canonically already have little ears so, it's not a great comparison. What brought this on was some Two Face My Little Pony art. Another fun observation though, there is a ton of Neko/cat boy Batman fan art out there (and yes, they are almost always big, burly Batman), but I have never seen any where he is also paired with Catwoman. This just feels like a missed opportunity.

That's all the silly Batman things for now. Thank you for indulging me.