"I missed your face but ignored your calls / I heard nothing of you at all"

[larryhammer]

Despite feeling Overwhelmed By It All, I will supposedly be able to crawl out from under my deadlines in early November, so I once am again participating in Yuletide -- this being an annual fanfic exchange for "rare" fandoms. As usual, I'm requesting and offering fics for works (almost) entirely in the public domain. If anyone is interested in my details, my Dear Yulemouse letter, offering further information to whomever gets randomly assigned to me, is here. Needless to say, I'm still kicking myself for not thinking of I Ching Anthropomorphic in time to nominate it.

(If you're interested in playing, signups are here; requires an account on AO3 and being willing to offer to write fics for at least four of these fandoms, in return for which you get to request fics from any three or four from the same list.)

A live-action recreation of the title sequence of The Simpsons. (via)

Stacked images from ISS flyovers make for a very trippy video of lightstreaks. (via)

A short new piece about some university engineers attempting to build a human-powered helicopter. (via)

ETA: Jonathan Coulton rerecords "Code Monkey" for the 15th anniversary of /. and makes it rather beautiful. (via all over)

---L.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Loved that Simpsons opening. Some of the secondary characters look just right (the orchestra director, frex).

[larryhammer]

And the twins in band, as well.

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes! I nearly mentioned them, too!

[alpha-strike.livejournal.com]

The helicopter is just too cool for words. The crash, not so much, but eight feet is amazing.

[larryhammer]

Innit though? The crash and the drifting, yeah, not so much. But still. A freakin' human-powered helicopter.

---L.