MY SHOW! MY SHOW IS BACK!!! Ahem.
The Pitt: 7 am - 8 am
( spoilers, mostly just incoherent squeeing )
My show is back! I AM EXCITE!!!
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The Pitt: 7 am - 8 am
( spoilers, mostly just incoherent squeeing )
My show is back! I AM EXCITE!!!
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Hello, everyone!
So, I'm writing a fic where a plane disappears in the US. As in, it drops from all radars for a few minutes and it's presumed down for a few hours. I need to know any plausible flight routes within the US from Boston where this could happen. Any stretches of land where a pilot could make an emergency landing and the plane still be presumed down for like an hour or three is good for me.
So, I'm writing a fic where a plane disappears in the US. As in, it drops from all radars for a few minutes and it's presumed down for a few hours. I need to know any plausible flight routes within the US from Boston where this could happen. Any stretches of land where a pilot could make an emergency landing and the plane still be presumed down for like an hour or three is good for me.
A new comic from Ignite Press by Stephanie Williams, Letizia Cadonici (main artist) and Juliet Nneka (alternate covers.) At the turn of the century, Etta, a young Black woman, studies both science and a book of old remedies she inherited from her mother, along with some dire warnings she doesn't heed.
This is a really interesting historical fantasy with elements of cosmic horror and dark academia. Each issue has alternate covers in very different styles. I like both of them.
I'll be following this one.
Content notes: So far racism is part of the world and why the characters make some choices, rather than violent or constantly present on-page. The rabbits are used in experiments that are not cruel - Etta tests a healing ointment on one that has an injury - but they seem likely to eventually turn into zombies or get possessed by cosmic horrors or merge with eldritch plants.
This is a really interesting historical fantasy with elements of cosmic horror and dark academia. Each issue has alternate covers in very different styles. I like both of them.
I'll be following this one.
Content notes: So far racism is part of the world and why the characters make some choices, rather than violent or constantly present on-page. The rabbits are used in experiments that are not cruel - Etta tests a healing ointment on one that has an injury - but they seem likely to eventually turn into zombies or get possessed by cosmic horrors or merge with eldritch plants.
Where to Look for Evidence of Alien Visitors to Our Solar System
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Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond edited by Stanley Schmidt
Jan. 8th, 2026 08:49 amjames_davis_nicoll
Another foray into the lost worlds of Unknown.
Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond edited by Stanley Schmidt
This all-new Painted Wastelands Bundle tours The Painted Wastelands, a prismatic pastel realm from Agamemnon Press for use with Old-School Essentials and other tabletop fantasy roleplaying games.
Bundle of Holding: The Painted Wastelands
It's a zombie apocalypse, only instead of zombies, there's cats.
In a future in which 90% of the population owned a cat, a strange virus spreads. If you cuddle a cat, or a cat nuzzles you, you turn into a cat! It's a catastrophe! A catlamity! A nyandemic!
Not only are cats everywhere, but the cats are either instinctively trying to turn humans into cats, or they just want to be petted. Cue every zombie movie scene ever, but with cats. Cats scratch at the doors! Cats peer through the windows! Groups of cats ambush you in tunnels!
The characters are all very upset by this, because they love cats! And now there's cats everywhere, just begging to be skritched! And they can't skritch them! "We can't even squish their little toe beans!" The horror!
Needless to say, they would never ever harm a cat. In fact they feel bad when they're forced to spray cats with water to shoo them away.
I'm not sure how this can possibly be sustained for seven volumes, but on the other hand I could happily read seven volumes of it. The cat art is really fun and adorable. I would definitely do better in a zombie apocalypse than a cat apocalypse, because I would never be able to resist those cats.
Content notes: None, the cats are fine.
My other group is moving to CoC 3rd edition. That's the one the GM owns. It turns out between the group we own a vast assortment of CoC editions, generally speaking one edition per player, including an original from 1981.
My character, Daniel Soren, has some good stats (Strength, Constitution, Intelligence) and some terrible stats (Dex, Power, and Edu). Unfortunately, in 3E you get Intx5 and Edux15 skill points, so being smart doesn't make up for being a grade school dropout. He does have some decent skills, but very narrowly focused: he's a competent cabbie and a moderately successful pulp writer with ambitions to appear in Weird Tales.
Power governs sanity in CoC so I don't know how long he will last.
My character, Daniel Soren, has some good stats (Strength, Constitution, Intelligence) and some terrible stats (Dex, Power, and Edu). Unfortunately, in 3E you get Intx5 and Edux15 skill points, so being smart doesn't make up for being a grade school dropout. He does have some decent skills, but very narrowly focused: he's a competent cabbie and a moderately successful pulp writer with ambitions to appear in Weird Tales.
Power governs sanity in CoC so I don't know how long he will last.
astrafoxen on blusky created some visual aids showing Saturnian moon orbits.
They're all great but a detail in this one is worth mentioning.
The odd green squiggle to the right is a visual of Neptune's outer irregular moons, whose orbits around Neptune are large enough to be visible across the solar system. https://www.dreamwidth.org/comments/recent
They're all great but a detail in this one is worth mentioning.
The odd green squiggle to the right is a visual of Neptune's outer irregular moons, whose orbits around Neptune are large enough to be visible across the solar system. https://www.dreamwidth.org/comments/recent
A powerful but timid sorcerer is sent to guard a prince as he attends school.
Secrets Of The Silent Witch, volume 1 by Matsuri Isora (Translated by Alice Prowse)
I'm getting back-logged again - time for a rapid-fire catch-up!
Slow Horses season 5 It's Slow Horses. That means it's good. If you haven't believed me by now and given it a go, you probably won't, I guess 🤪 The combination of spy action drama and dry comedy remains as solid as ever, and the revolving supporting cast around the core characters mean that interactions and relationships don't get stale. As always, they filmed two seasons back to back, meaning six is already in the can and coming later this year.
Person of Interest season 5 As I had predicted, I didn't find this quite as enjoyable as some of the others. I was glad to see I was wrong about Elias and he did resurface, but an ensemble cast like this thrives on the ensemble, and having Shaw separated from the rest for so long hurts it. Like the 'Fiona in jail' arc in season six of Burn Notice, you can't just rip one person out and give them their own plotline without it breaking up the vibe and making everything feel disjointed.
The ending made sense for the series and the characters - like Burn Notice, this isn't a setup where these people can keep doing this stuff forever and getting away with it, and some characters were more likely to be paying that price than others. It felt right.
Shogun I finally got around to watching this, a year late. It had been on the watch list all along, I just kept picking other things from the list instead. The critics liked it, but it didn't set the world on fire, and I'll go with that. It has a great cast, fabulous production values and beautiful cinematography and direction. It should have grabbed me more than it did. Five way politicking, manipulation and back-stabbing is exactly my bag, yet somehow it just didn't take off. I don't regret watching it, but I don't think I'd have missed out on much if I'd skipped it either.
The Witcher season 4 The one with the new Witcher. Cavill was prettier than Hemsworth, Hemsworth emotes more. Whether the latter is a good thing or not depends on your take on how Geralt should be, I guess. I never read the books or played the games, so I don't have too much of an opinion on that. But also the character plot of the season was how Geralt's becoming more open, as remarked upon by the people surrounding him, so it was obviously a deliberate choice. Geralt's and Yennefer's plots for the season were fine.
Ciri's arc for the season with the rats annoyed the shit out of me. Girl, what the fuck are you doing with these people? They're stupid and they're awful! They're lying to and manipulating you from the start, one of them tries to blackmail you into sex on day one, and then another one comes along to 'rescue' you and says, 'How about fucking me instead?' And you do! It just looks like more manipulation, a deliberate good cop-bad cop set up, and whether it actually was or not doesn't matter when you're hanging out with a rapist and a bunch of people who are all chill with hanging out with a rapist. And they're all chill with kidnapping children too. Not only are they awful people, they're actively bad at being awful and keep doing stupid shit that Ciri has to bail them out of. She should have ditched their arses and moved on, but somehow every time she discovers something else they've been keeping from her and lying to her about, she keeps on forgiving them. Ugh.
(Also, do not get me started on Ciri's attempt to disguise herself. You cut your hair from waist length to shoulder length? What is that supposed to do? You look exactly the same! Did the actor just refuse to get a buzz cut or something? Or did management decide they couldn't make the pretty girl couldn't less pretty? A buzz cut might have been effective, but apparently that was too much to ask.)
Pluribus Hell, yes! What happens when almost everyone in the world turns into an Invasion of the Body Snatchers pod person, and you're one of a handful of people scattered across the planet who remain human? Very different from Vince Gilligan's previous awesome series, but the same mix of high drama and wry humour.
This series lives or dies by Rhea Seehorn, and of course it lives - anyone who saw her as Kim in Better Call Saul knows exactly that she can do. There are a couple of episodes in there when she's acting almost entirely alone for the full fifty minutes, nobody to play off, and she nails it. (She's also in some scenes obviously having the time of her life as an actor, running the whole gamut of everything. And good for her, getting the chance to do that.)
It was fun to see the card game spit make an appearance - I hadn't thought of that in years! I loved the history lesson about nobody knows where it came from, but it went viral in the UK in the 80s - why, yes it did! They tried to ban it in my school because we were all spending all our breaks bruising one another's hands 🤪
Season two is all set up by this ending, and it's confirmed it's happening, and I'm going to be so here for it.
Slow Horses season 5 It's Slow Horses. That means it's good. If you haven't believed me by now and given it a go, you probably won't, I guess 🤪 The combination of spy action drama and dry comedy remains as solid as ever, and the revolving supporting cast around the core characters mean that interactions and relationships don't get stale. As always, they filmed two seasons back to back, meaning six is already in the can and coming later this year.
Person of Interest season 5 As I had predicted, I didn't find this quite as enjoyable as some of the others. I was glad to see I was wrong about Elias and he did resurface, but an ensemble cast like this thrives on the ensemble, and having Shaw separated from the rest for so long hurts it. Like the 'Fiona in jail' arc in season six of Burn Notice, you can't just rip one person out and give them their own plotline without it breaking up the vibe and making everything feel disjointed.
The ending made sense for the series and the characters - like Burn Notice, this isn't a setup where these people can keep doing this stuff forever and getting away with it, and some characters were more likely to be paying that price than others. It felt right.
Shogun I finally got around to watching this, a year late. It had been on the watch list all along, I just kept picking other things from the list instead. The critics liked it, but it didn't set the world on fire, and I'll go with that. It has a great cast, fabulous production values and beautiful cinematography and direction. It should have grabbed me more than it did. Five way politicking, manipulation and back-stabbing is exactly my bag, yet somehow it just didn't take off. I don't regret watching it, but I don't think I'd have missed out on much if I'd skipped it either.
The Witcher season 4 The one with the new Witcher. Cavill was prettier than Hemsworth, Hemsworth emotes more. Whether the latter is a good thing or not depends on your take on how Geralt should be, I guess. I never read the books or played the games, so I don't have too much of an opinion on that. But also the character plot of the season was how Geralt's becoming more open, as remarked upon by the people surrounding him, so it was obviously a deliberate choice. Geralt's and Yennefer's plots for the season were fine.
Ciri's arc for the season with the rats annoyed the shit out of me. Girl, what the fuck are you doing with these people? They're stupid and they're awful! They're lying to and manipulating you from the start, one of them tries to blackmail you into sex on day one, and then another one comes along to 'rescue' you and says, 'How about fucking me instead?' And you do! It just looks like more manipulation, a deliberate good cop-bad cop set up, and whether it actually was or not doesn't matter when you're hanging out with a rapist and a bunch of people who are all chill with hanging out with a rapist. And they're all chill with kidnapping children too. Not only are they awful people, they're actively bad at being awful and keep doing stupid shit that Ciri has to bail them out of. She should have ditched their arses and moved on, but somehow every time she discovers something else they've been keeping from her and lying to her about, she keeps on forgiving them. Ugh.
(Also, do not get me started on Ciri's attempt to disguise herself. You cut your hair from waist length to shoulder length? What is that supposed to do? You look exactly the same! Did the actor just refuse to get a buzz cut or something? Or did management decide they couldn't make the pretty girl couldn't less pretty? A buzz cut might have been effective, but apparently that was too much to ask.)
Pluribus Hell, yes! What happens when almost everyone in the world turns into an Invasion of the Body Snatchers pod person, and you're one of a handful of people scattered across the planet who remain human? Very different from Vince Gilligan's previous awesome series, but the same mix of high drama and wry humour.
This series lives or dies by Rhea Seehorn, and of course it lives - anyone who saw her as Kim in Better Call Saul knows exactly that she can do. There are a couple of episodes in there when she's acting almost entirely alone for the full fifty minutes, nobody to play off, and she nails it. (She's also in some scenes obviously having the time of her life as an actor, running the whole gamut of everything. And good for her, getting the chance to do that.)
It was fun to see the card game spit make an appearance - I hadn't thought of that in years! I loved the history lesson about nobody knows where it came from, but it went viral in the UK in the 80s - why, yes it did! They tried to ban it in my school because we were all spending all our breaks bruising one another's hands 🤪
Season two is all set up by this ending, and it's confirmed it's happening, and I'm going to be so here for it.
First book of 2026! This was The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente with illustrations by Michael Kaluta. I have no recollection of how this ended up on my TBR and I was a little skeptical checking it out in the library, but I'm glad I stuck with it because it ended up being a lot of fun and I will definitely check out the second volume.
You might be a little confused in the beginning, as In the Night Garden is a series of nested stories within stories and the style takes a minute to get used to, but it's worth it. Valente unfolds a veritable matryoshka of tales into neat blooms whose petals all fit together. Retroactive reveals and recontextualiations are delightful here.
Valente's vivid prose brings together her fantastical tales with such clarity; she attends frequently to all five senses, so that the reader knows what the characters are not only seeing, but hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling as well. There's obviously a lot of fairy tale inspiration here, but Valente definitely brings her own flavor. Women are almost always the hero of Valente's tales (though they play the villains too!) and there are such a great variety of them. Monsters abound too, but they get their chance to tell a tale too. (There's also some gentle ribbing at the Arthurian legends, with one witch lamenting about "all that questing" princes get up to.)
I was so engrossed in the work I didn't realize until quite late in the book how little romance factors into it. In a fairy tale inspired book like this, I would have expected a great many characters motivated by romance, but I can only think of two here who are primarily motivated by a love interest, and this delights me too. I'm arospec myself and while I enjoy a good tale of romance, I also weary of how frequently and totally it is centered in stories, so I was really enthused by how little that's the case here.
Friendship and family relationships do make frequent appearances though, and the friendship between the orphan teller of tales and the young boy hanging onto her words is the framing story. Love between mother and daughter, between brother and sister, even between strangers is a common thread.
She also avoids a pitfall I see in various modern fantasy stories which are so keen to explain the magic of their world they strip it of all mystery. Valente's world remains largely unexplained and asks the reader to simply take it as it is, which I found fun and appropriately mysterious.
The style of the book allows Valente to pull in a great many diverse characters and voices, which she does it well. Most impressive though is her ability to pull a cohesive tapestry out of all the various threads she's juggling.
A really fun and unusual story which I enjoyed a lot--a great start to a new year of reading!
You might be a little confused in the beginning, as In the Night Garden is a series of nested stories within stories and the style takes a minute to get used to, but it's worth it. Valente unfolds a veritable matryoshka of tales into neat blooms whose petals all fit together. Retroactive reveals and recontextualiations are delightful here.
Valente's vivid prose brings together her fantastical tales with such clarity; she attends frequently to all five senses, so that the reader knows what the characters are not only seeing, but hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling as well. There's obviously a lot of fairy tale inspiration here, but Valente definitely brings her own flavor. Women are almost always the hero of Valente's tales (though they play the villains too!) and there are such a great variety of them. Monsters abound too, but they get their chance to tell a tale too. (There's also some gentle ribbing at the Arthurian legends, with one witch lamenting about "all that questing" princes get up to.)
I was so engrossed in the work I didn't realize until quite late in the book how little romance factors into it. In a fairy tale inspired book like this, I would have expected a great many characters motivated by romance, but I can only think of two here who are primarily motivated by a love interest, and this delights me too. I'm arospec myself and while I enjoy a good tale of romance, I also weary of how frequently and totally it is centered in stories, so I was really enthused by how little that's the case here.
Friendship and family relationships do make frequent appearances though, and the friendship between the orphan teller of tales and the young boy hanging onto her words is the framing story. Love between mother and daughter, between brother and sister, even between strangers is a common thread.
She also avoids a pitfall I see in various modern fantasy stories which are so keen to explain the magic of their world they strip it of all mystery. Valente's world remains largely unexplained and asks the reader to simply take it as it is, which I found fun and appropriately mysterious.
The style of the book allows Valente to pull in a great many diverse characters and voices, which she does it well. Most impressive though is her ability to pull a cohesive tapestry out of all the various threads she's juggling.
A really fun and unusual story which I enjoyed a lot--a great start to a new year of reading!
Back at work, but thankfully 1. I don't have to commute, and 2. we are having no-meeting week, so I can just cross one major task off my list every day without adding new things like meeting notes or whatever.
I think the thing I've enjoyed most about the ancillary explosion of joy around Heated Rivalry is the two hockey podcasts that engaged fully and open-heartedly with it (well, and the proliferation of "Ilya gets added to the WAG chat" fic). Normally hockey podcast bros are not a species I have time for (aside from not being good at podcasts or audiobooks in general), but the Empty Netters dudes were super adorable in their reviews, and they also interviewed Ksenia Daniela with great excitement and are scheduled to have Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie on soon.
I also enjoyed What Chaos's less in-depth but still positive look at the show, and they have a couple of interviews with Jacob Tierney available that I haven't watched yet. I was also very pleased when, during a discussion about Shane's ginger ale habit, one of the dudes started talking about a restaurant(?) that lets you choose ginger ale or 7Up for your Shirley Temples, and I was like, "gotta go with ginger ale on that" and then the guy was like, "and the ones with ginger ale are great!" Because that is the legit truth, my friends. I'm not saying I won't drink a Shirley Temple with 7UP, but I am saying that the ones with ginger ale are 1. how we made them when I was a kid, and 2. better. I was reminded of how we ordered one every night at the free cocktail hour on that cruise we went on back in 2015, which definitely made an impression on the staff. *g* (Princess Donut also approves.)
So I feel like those were a great extender of joy, if you are in need. It's really lovely to see some cishet hockey dudes becoming fans of m/m romance.
In other fannish news, I just read that Sebastian Stan may be in Matt Reeve's The Batman, Part 2 and I don't want to get my hopes up or get fixated on a specific part for him to play, but like, wouldn't he be a fantastic Harvey Dent/Two-Face??? GIVE IT TO ME.
Scarlett Johansson has also been rumored to be involved somehow, and she'd have to be like, Poison Ivy, right? Though maybe they're going with more of a Mask of the Phantasm type thing and she'll be Andrea Beaumont? But I am not sure I buy Battinson as having a girlfriend before Selina, and also, why would you try to compete with Mask of the Phantasm? It's so good, you're just setting yourself up for not measuring up. (I guess she could be Talia, but I hope not.)
I guess we'll see what materializes! I'm kind of sad that they are not in continuity with James Gunn's Superman, because that would be fun to see.
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I think the thing I've enjoyed most about the ancillary explosion of joy around Heated Rivalry is the two hockey podcasts that engaged fully and open-heartedly with it (well, and the proliferation of "Ilya gets added to the WAG chat" fic). Normally hockey podcast bros are not a species I have time for (aside from not being good at podcasts or audiobooks in general), but the Empty Netters dudes were super adorable in their reviews, and they also interviewed Ksenia Daniela with great excitement and are scheduled to have Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie on soon.
I also enjoyed What Chaos's less in-depth but still positive look at the show, and they have a couple of interviews with Jacob Tierney available that I haven't watched yet. I was also very pleased when, during a discussion about Shane's ginger ale habit, one of the dudes started talking about a restaurant(?) that lets you choose ginger ale or 7Up for your Shirley Temples, and I was like, "gotta go with ginger ale on that" and then the guy was like, "and the ones with ginger ale are great!" Because that is the legit truth, my friends. I'm not saying I won't drink a Shirley Temple with 7UP, but I am saying that the ones with ginger ale are 1. how we made them when I was a kid, and 2. better. I was reminded of how we ordered one every night at the free cocktail hour on that cruise we went on back in 2015, which definitely made an impression on the staff. *g* (Princess Donut also approves.)
So I feel like those were a great extender of joy, if you are in need. It's really lovely to see some cishet hockey dudes becoming fans of m/m romance.
In other fannish news, I just read that Sebastian Stan may be in Matt Reeve's The Batman, Part 2 and I don't want to get my hopes up or get fixated on a specific part for him to play, but like, wouldn't he be a fantastic Harvey Dent/Two-Face??? GIVE IT TO ME.
Scarlett Johansson has also been rumored to be involved somehow, and she'd have to be like, Poison Ivy, right? Though maybe they're going with more of a Mask of the Phantasm type thing and she'll be Andrea Beaumont? But I am not sure I buy Battinson as having a girlfriend before Selina, and also, why would you try to compete with Mask of the Phantasm? It's so good, you're just setting yourself up for not measuring up. (I guess she could be Talia, but I hope not.)
I guess we'll see what materializes! I'm kind of sad that they are not in continuity with James Gunn's Superman, because that would be fun to see.
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Once upon a time, the moon Panga was industrial and capitalist and miserable. Then robots suddenly and inexplicably gained self-awareness. They chose to stop working, leave human habitation, and go into the wilderness. The humans not only didn't try to stop them, but this event somehow precipitated a huge political change. Half of Panga was left to the wilderness, and humans developed a kinder, ecologically friendly, sustainable way of life. But the robots were never seen again.
That's all backstory. When the book opens, Sibling Dex, a nonbinary monk, is dissatisfied with their life for reasons unclear to themself. They leave the monastery to become a traveling tea monk, which is a sort of counselor: you tell the monk your troubles, and the monk listens and fixes you a cup of tea. Dex's first day on the job is hilariously disastrous, but they get better and better, until they're very good at it... but still inexplicably dissatisfied. So they venture out into the wilderness, where they meet a robot, Mosscap - the first human-robot meeting in hundreds of years.
I had previously failed to get very far into The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, so I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this novella. It's cozy in a good way, with plenty of atmosphere, a world that isn't quite perfect but is definitely one I'd like to live in, and some interesting philosophical exploration. My favorite part was actually Dex's life as a tea monk before they meet Mosscap - it's very relatable if you've ever been a counselor or therapist, from the horrible first day to the pleasure of familiar clients later on. I would absolutely go to a tea monk.
I would have liked Mosscap to be a bit more flawed - it's very lovable and has a lot of interesting things to say, but is pretty much always right. Mosscap is surprised and delighted by humanity, but I'm not sure Dex ever shakes up its worldview in a way it finds true but uncomfortable, which Mosscap repeatedly does to Dex. Maybe in the second novella, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy.
And while I'm on things which are implausibly neat/perfect, this is a puzzling backstory:
1) Robots gain self-awareness and leave.
2) ????
3)
Maybe we'll learn more about the ???? later.
But overall, I did quite like the novella. The parts where Dex is a tea monk, with the interactions with their clients and their life in their caravan, are very successfully cozy - an instant comfort read. And I liked the robot society and the religious orders, as well as a lot of the Mosscap/Dex relationship. I'll definitely read the sequel.
What was the purpose behind raising an unconventional child like Thorn?
Cuckoo’s Egg by C J Cherryh
As usual, ordered by first visit and asterisks indicate multiple separate visits.
2025 got my travel ramping back up (finally), even though I only went to two conventions and one of them (Worldcon) was literally in my city (between my apartment and my usual airport, though technically there's also an airport with international service between my apartment and downtown -- LKE). Two overnights from delayed flights; both would have stuck me at DTW (Romulus, MI) except that for the second one I was able to rebook on the next morning's IAD-SEA nonstop instead.
The big trip was Kraków and environs, with a bonus pair of overnights in Calgary because business class YYC-KRK was literally half the price of SEA-KRK or YVR-KRK. Having NEXUS made a Canada stopover easy; though I kinda miss the old iris scan kiosks, the new facial recognition ones are a lot faster.
Cambridge, MA*
Seattle, WA*
Romulus, MI
Arlington, VA*
Calgary, AB, CA*
KL678 YYC-AMS
Kraków, PL*
Jaworze, PL
Balice, PL
Sneads Ferry, NC
Minneapolis, MN
Harrisonburg, VA
Sterling, VA
Port Townsend, WA
SeaTac, WA
Tysons, VA
Airports (connection-only*, new to me@): BOS, SEA, DTW (should have only been a connection, sigh), DCA, MSP, YYC@, AMS*, KRK@, ATL*, ILM@, IAD.
2025 got my travel ramping back up (finally), even though I only went to two conventions and one of them (Worldcon) was literally in my city (between my apartment and my usual airport, though technically there's also an airport with international service between my apartment and downtown -- LKE). Two overnights from delayed flights; both would have stuck me at DTW (Romulus, MI) except that for the second one I was able to rebook on the next morning's IAD-SEA nonstop instead.
The big trip was Kraków and environs, with a bonus pair of overnights in Calgary because business class YYC-KRK was literally half the price of SEA-KRK or YVR-KRK. Having NEXUS made a Canada stopover easy; though I kinda miss the old iris scan kiosks, the new facial recognition ones are a lot faster.
Cambridge, MA*
Seattle, WA*
Romulus, MI
Arlington, VA*
Calgary, AB, CA*
KL678 YYC-AMS
Kraków, PL*
Jaworze, PL
Balice, PL
Sneads Ferry, NC
Minneapolis, MN
Harrisonburg, VA
Sterling, VA
Port Townsend, WA
SeaTac, WA
Tysons, VA
Airports (connection-only*, new to me@): BOS, SEA, DTW (should have only been a connection, sigh), DCA, MSP, YYC@, AMS*, KRK@, ATL*, ILM@, IAD.
I watched Desperado again last night, since I'm writing for the fandom again, and I had forgotten what utter crack it is. Batshit insanity right from Steve Buscemi's opening eight minute near-monologue (who starts a film that way? But it works!), mental fight choreography - I just couldn't stop giggling all through, and I had to keep rewinding the most batshit bits to watch again.
And then there's Antonio Banderas being one of the hottest men to ever walk the planet, that part doesn't hurt either :-)
And then there's Antonio Banderas being one of the hottest men to ever walk the planet, that part doesn't hurt either :-)
