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Jul. 2nd, 2025 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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⌈ Secret Post #6753 ⌋
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The Way Up is Death, by Dan Hanks
Jul. 2nd, 2025 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

In a prologue that's very Terry Pratchett-esque without actually being funny, an enormous floating tower appears in England, becomes a 12-hour wonder, and is then forgotten as people have short attention spans. Then thirteen random people suddenly vanish from their lives and appear at the base of the tower, facing the command ASCEND.
I normally love stories about people dealing with inexplicable alien architecture. This was the most boring and unimaginative version of that idea I've ever read. Each level is a death trap based on something in one of their minds - a video game, The Poseidon Adventure, an old home - but less interesting than that sounds. The action was repetitive, the characters were paper-thin, and one, an already-dated influencer, was actively painful to read:
Time to give her the Alpha Male rizzzzzzz, baby!
The ending was, unsurprisingly, also a cliche.
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Adventures of Superman #453
Jul. 2nd, 2025 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Words and art: Jerry Ordway
Superman: Exile.
Oxygen deprivation is making Superman hallucinate ghosts of his past.
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Starman #9
Jul. 2nd, 2025 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Roger Stern
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Bob Smith
Batman guest-stars as Starman takes on the new Blockbuster.
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Spoiler Origins: Part 2
Jul. 2nd, 2025 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Chuck Dixon
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Scott Hanna
Detective Comics #648.
When Tim met Stephanie.
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Rom: Spaceknight #19
Jul. 2nd, 2025 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Bill Mantlo
Pencils and inks: Sal Buscema
Trapped in Limbo, Rom is reunited with a dear friend.
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(no subject)
Jul. 1st, 2025 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
When
belladonna shares a tweet that got screencapped and put up on Insta:
and I was like "Yeah! There was this whole thing about NYC's tap water possibly being not kosher because of copepods in the water supply a few years back. Which might've meant that NYC bagels, whose lauded taste and texture were credited to the tap water used to boil them, were potentially treyf. But then other rabbis weighed in and said as long as the proportion of these microscopic crustaceans was less than 1/60th of the total volume, it was okay by the principle of בטל בשישים (bitul b'shishim/beteil beshishim), thank you Shabot6000."

... and then I realized "a few years back" was 21 years ago.
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@ madisontayt_: imagining a vegan who won't drink nyc's tap water because of the microscopic shrimp
@ TheWappleHouse: The what now
and I was like "Yeah! There was this whole thing about NYC's tap water possibly being not kosher because of copepods in the water supply a few years back. Which might've meant that NYC bagels, whose lauded taste and texture were credited to the tap water used to boil them, were potentially treyf. But then other rabbis weighed in and said as long as the proportion of these microscopic crustaceans was less than 1/60th of the total volume, it was okay by the principle of בטל בשישים (bitul b'shishim/beteil beshishim), thank you Shabot6000."

... and then I realized "a few years back" was 21 years ago.
a loaded god complex, cock it and pull it
Jul. 1st, 2025 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Last night I watched a cute movie on Netflix called Nonnas about that restaurant on Staten Island that hires grandmas as chefs. Lorraine Bracco, Brenda Vaccaro, Talia Shire, and Susan Sarandon play the nonnas, and Vince Vaughn plays the guy opening the restaurant. It's kind of a nice mellow detox from The Bear in terms of a bunch of Italian-Americans yelling at each other in a restaurant kitchen. *g* Plus a really horrifying rendition of capuzelle, which is a roasted (or baked?) sheep's head, which is one of those dishes I try to forget knowing about. Anyway, the restaurant still exists, and now it has grandmas from all different backgrounds who cook there (a review of the real restaurant).
Today was my Monday, and tomorrow is my Friday at work. I could get used to a 2 day work week!
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Today was my Monday, and tomorrow is my Friday at work. I could get used to a 2 day work week!
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[ SECRET POST #6752 ]
Jul. 1st, 2025 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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⌈ Secret Post #6752 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
01.

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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 20 secrets from Secret Submission Post #965.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Robin (1991) #4
Jul. 1st, 2025 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Chuck Dixon
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Bob Smith
Lady Shiva trains Robin for the final battle against King Snake.
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