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Posted by Gisselle Hernandez

https://www.themarysue.com/wedding-guest-dress-controversy/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908666

woman shares online dress order (l) dress package arrives (r)

Some are calling it a fashion faux pas, while others name it a full bridal coup. A Floridian mom videos her daughter unboxing a dress they ordered online to attend a wedding. Except, when the tiny box explodes into a floor-length, beaded, feathered mermaid gown, the internet collectively squints. The question now is: is she attending the wedding… or auditioning to replace the bride? TikTok viewers have taken it upon themselves to open the floor for a debate in the comments section.

Is it White?

Nothing gets a crowd of viewers like a good wedding attire debate. Paula’s (@paula_robert_fl) clip is direct proof. Her two-minute TikTok has attracted 840,000 views and more than 2,000 comments. She begins the clip by showing her daughter with a small box.

https://www.themarysue.com/wedding-guest-dress-controversy/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908666

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Posted by Jonathan Wright

https://www.themarysue.com/stranger-things-fans-saturday-night-live/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908783

SNL skit featuring Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, and Gaten Matarazzo

Look, we get it. You spent an entire decade investing in the Stranger Things universe and its characters. Some of you, like me, even grew up with it.

And so, Finn Wolfhard’s Saturday Night Live hosting debut with some of its sketches poking fun at the show may ruffle some feathers, but to people who found some of the jokes offensive: respectfully, have you ever watched Saturday Night Live before?

https://www.themarysue.com/stranger-things-fans-saturday-night-live/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908783

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Posted by Myra Drake

https://www.themarysue.com/brooklyn-beckham-victoria-david-beckham-controversy-explained/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908788

a group of people all standing in a line

David and Victoria Beckham have been pop culture staples for decades, both from their work in their respective fields, and the buzzy goings-on of their family. Now, their oldest son Brooklyn Beckham is starting to shatter people’s perceptions of that.

In a series of Instagram Stories posted on Monday night, Brooklyn confirmed rumors that he has been feuding with his parents, after years of them mistreating his wife, actress and model Nicola Peltz Beckham. He cites their 2022 wedding, and David and Victoria’s behavior surrounding it, as a turning point in the whole ordeal.

https://www.themarysue.com/brooklyn-beckham-victoria-david-beckham-controversy-explained/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908788

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Posted by Rachel Leishman

https://www.themarysue.com/the-joy-that-radiates-off-the-hamnet-cast-is-beautiful/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908732

Part of what makes Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet so special is the joy that consumes you through the grief of it. Watching the movie, I could tell that it was clearly a special movie to make. And with each new “win” for the film, we get to see just how much the cast loves each other.

From Jessie Buckley’s acceptance speech at the Critics Choice awards when she praised Paul Mescal to Zhao’s smile and infectious energy while talking about Hamnet, so much of this movie and the love I have for it comes from those who made it.

https://www.themarysue.com/the-joy-that-radiates-off-the-hamnet-cast-is-beautiful/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908732

bluapapilio

Used my manga TBR boardgame.

I finished 5/5 on my last board and had a good time.

Avatar:

Conan
Skill: Beat trap tile once

Roll #1:

An 11, prompt: gender bender. Oh, more Basara then!

Roll #2:

A 12. Man, first I get an excellent skill now I get 2 excellent rolls. Why can't these happen on the boards I want them to?? orz Prompt: cafe/bakery/restaurant. Hmm let's see what I've got. Okay, Amai Jouken it is.

Roll #3:

An 8, prompt: game element. Let's how much I remember in My S-Class Hunters. Honestly about time;;

Roll #4:

Another 8, prompt: started in the month you were born. That took a while, there's no way to filter by 'only stuff on my list'. Anyway, I picked 3-manen no Kareshi.

Roll #5:

A 6 and 'generate from TBR pile'! Exciting and scary. #564 which is...huh. I was just thinking I didn't want to read another Nitta Youka yet but here we are at Haru o Daiteita. Since it's so long I might read it like am with Junjou Romantica, post by post.

Roll #6:

Alriight, a 10 and the end. The physical BL this time is NightS by Yoneda Kou.

Most looking forward to: Basara and My S-Class Hunters
Least looking forward to: Everything else lmao

~Manga TBR List~

[Many] Basara
[BL/Romance] Amai Jouken
[Fantasy/Action] My S-Class Hunters
[BL/Romance] 3-manen no Kareshi
[BL/Drama] Haru o Daiteita
[BL] NightS

x1 shoujo, x1 shounen, x4 BL

Current Mood: hot

flemmings

Made it to the dentist. Did not die, though I thought I might while waiting on College St for my cab. Wind tunnels at -10C will get you wind chills of -22, whatever that may be F, because 'forking freezing' is not a scientific measurement. Driver kept yawning since extreme cold also leads to somnolence. Am yawning now at quarter to six. Which may be fallout from the dentist or may be tiredness from getting up this morning when I first woke up. Seems I need the extra hours I get from sleeping in.

Cabs always come early so I had an hour to kill. Intended to get something from Tim's and then found I'd forgotten the toothbrush and paste I'd carefully put in a bag for this eventuality. Well, fine, shall mail that parcel I've had ready for weeks since there's a post office in the same building. Had the photo of my QR code for overseas customs declaration. But as ever the PO scanner couldn't read it and a 1 o'clock line was forming behind me. So I went to the side and filled out the form again on my phone-- and let me say, people who live on their phones must have different keyboards or smaller fingers than I, because writing anything on my android is a fiddly heartbreaking exercise. This goes double for Japanese addresses, but in the end my phone was completely readable. So this is what I'll do in future. Asked the clerk what people do who don't have smartphones and she said They just don't send parcels. I begin to lose sympathy for Canada Post. We won't mention sending anything to the US, with customs to be paid in advance via one app only. The customs thing is their current administration (quae delenda est) but I think the mandatory app is pure Canuck bureaucracy.

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dreamshark

Two shopping bags full of food just appeared on our doorstep with no note or explanation. One is a very large shopping bag filled with carefully labeled Glad storage containers, each containing what looks like a homemade meal for 2 or 3 people. The other, smaller bag looks like it was prepared by someone different. It contains large ziplock bags full of homemade party snacks.

I assume that this generous gift was intended for someone else... but who? What should we do with it? Does anyone know a family in hiding from ICE that could use it?

gentlyepigrams

The Resistance Libs Were Right. Michelle Goldberg upsetting the centrists at the NY Times.
Women are feral for Heated Rivalry. What does that say about men?
Possible Black Death mass grave discovered near Erfurt, Germany. Science and history being friends always makes me happy.
The Academy Is…: 2005. Had to send this to my bandom friends from, er. 2005.
Michelin and Guy Fieri Recommended Spot on Lower Greenville Closing. Apothecary is eating Rye. Since the Michelin rec is for the cocktails, which is what Apothecary does, this makes sense, but I really liked Rye and prefer it to Flamant, the other restaurant they opened (up in Frisco).

Current Music: Silence is golden.

trobadora

What I did during my lunch break: assemble Ikea shelves \o/
What I didn't do during my lunch break: write /o\

(And then the entire afternoon was non-stop meetings until smoke came out of my ears.)

Today's writing

A little more than an alibi sentence, but not much more.

WED Question of the Day

Poll #34101

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shorter fic easier to write than longer fic
4 (66.7%)

longer fic easier to write than shorter fic
1 (16.7%)

something else (see comments)
1 (16.7%)

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drabbles and ficlets (<1k)
2 (33.3%)

short fic (1-3k)
2 (33.3%)

medium length fic (3-6k)
1 (16.7%)

longer fic (6-10k)
1 (16.7%)

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0 (0.0%)

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0 (0.0%)

epic fic (>50k)
0 (0.0%)

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drabbles and ficlets (<1k)
4 (66.7%)

short fic (1-3k)
6 (100.0%)

medium length fic (3-6k)
4 (66.7%)

longer fic (6-10k)
3 (50.0%)

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Tally

( Days 1-15 )

Day 16:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 17:

alightbuthappypen,

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 18:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

chanter1944,

cornerofmadness,

luzula,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora

Day 19:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora

Day 20:

china_shop,

trobadora

Let me know if I missed anyone! And remember you can drop in or out at any time. :)

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pineisland

CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT.

Title: Winter Bones
Fandom: TSUBASA: RESERvoir CHRoNiCLE
Characters: Fay D Fluorite (my love)
Prompt:

snowflake_challenge Challenge #10
Notes: Fay is and always will be my one true anime love

Link: 🔗

( why do I need anyone else when I can break the sky myself? ♫ )

Current Mood: fangirly

bluapapilio

For my manga TBR list:

Read the BL oneshot Peeping Tom and rated it 4.5!

I read the BL Staining the White Pine with Crimson Frosted Snow and rated it 7.5/10.

Read vol. 24 of Dr. Stone!!

(Re)read v21ch 184-185 of Mairimashita! Iruma-kun, excited to get going reading new content now!

(Re)read the BL Lover's→Flat, the rating went from 9->7 and I'm reading to pass it along.

Current Mood: busy

bluapapilio

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Current Mood: drained

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Posted by Kopal

https://www.themarysue.com/aww-trump-invites-macron-to-join-his-board-of-peace-then-claims-nobody-wants-him-when-he-rejected-the-invitation/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908760

Macron rejects Trump's invitation to join Board of Peace, Trump says nobody wants him

Everyone knows Donald Trump does not handle rejection well. But he handles it worse when it comes from foreign leaders. This time, it came from French President Emmanuel Macron, who rejected Trump’s invitation to join his so-called Board of Peace.

On Jan. 20, reporters informed Trump that Emmanuel Macron had declined the invitation to join his newly announced “Board of Peace.” Macron’s refusal was polite, deliberate, and unsurprising. French officials had already signaled that Paris viewed the board as unserious, opaque, and diplomatically incoherent. But Trump’s response while speaking to reporters in Florida before boarding Air Force One was… less diplomatic.

https://www.themarysue.com/aww-trump-invites-macron-to-join-his-board-of-peace-then-claims-nobody-wants-him-when-he-rejected-the-invitation/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908760

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Posted by Aaron Perine

https://www.themarysue.com/zootopia-2-box-office-record-explained/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908772

Disney’s latest box office triumph is so much more important than you think. This weekend, Zootopia 2 notched its status as the “highest-grossing animated MPA film of all-time globally.”

Now, that’s a mouthful. But, essentially, it just means that Zootopia 2 is the king of the animated box office when it comes to making money. The MPA (Motion Picture Association) bestowed that honor upon Disney’s film this weekend after the animated sequel passed $1.7 billion in theaters. All of that is impressive, but it also cements a hidden fact: it’s the Zoomers’ world now.

https://www.themarysue.com/zootopia-2-box-office-record-explained/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908772

beatrice_otter

so why. why why why. Do I so often come across fic where the author clearly a) doesn't have any idea how far apart two places are, or how to get from one to the other, and b) never thought to check google maps?

Just read a fic where one character is thinking that "it's only an 8-hour plane ride!"

and. I have driven basically between those two places.

It's a 6-hour drive unless traffic is really bad. if you hit the most congested bits exactly at rush hour, it might take you 8 hours. to drive.

Flying? Well, if you were starting at a small regional airport and needed to make a connection, it might take you four hours.

I actually mind this shit more than the big stuff. The big stuff is hard to research. Google Maps is really really quick and easy.

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sweetandshort

Title: An Unexpected Discovery
Author:

goddess47
Character(s): John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagen
Pairing(s): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: PG
Length: 442 words
Warnings: none

Notes:

For

mcsheplets prompt #138 - missing

For

sweetandshort January 2026 prompt - queen

Summary:

"Grab your shit and go!" John ordered in a hiss.

An Unexpected Discovery on AO3

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Posted by Rachel Thomas

https://www.themarysue.com/goodwill-dooney-bourke-bag/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908558

woman shares goodwill encounter (l) goodwill storefront (r)

A woman went inside a Goodwill and noticed a cute Dooney & Bourke bag hanging in-store. However, by the time she saw the item’s price tag, she thought the company was price gouging.

Goodwill was selling the item, which had obvious wear and tear, for $19.99. The reality astounded Julia (@juliasgems), who felt that the Goodwill had significantly high prices, especially considering they got the item for free as a donation. It was even more egregious when considering online prices for newer-looking, larger Dooney & Bourke bags that were only $10 more expensive than the one sitting in front of her.

https://www.themarysue.com/goodwill-dooney-bourke-bag/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908558

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Posted by Sarah Fimm

https://www.themarysue.com/the-10-best-redemption-arcs-in-anime/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908715

Thorfinn holding a knife in Vinland Saga

Can people really change? According to anime, they can! While those who go bad tend to stay bad, there are a handful of anime villains that have managed to overcome the circumstances of their tragic backstories and become unexpected heroes. Kidnapping, murder, threats of world domination, all of the above are forgivable provided a character is willing to atone! And these characters? They’re the dictionary definition of “penitent.” Prepare to have your hard and wounded heart softened, because these are the 10 best redemption arcs in anime.

Vegeta – Dragon Ball Z

Vegeta and Bulma from Dragon Ball Z canoodling — (Toei)

Vegeta started Dragon Ball Z as one of Planet Earth’s Most Wanted. He and his less-than-redeemable buddy Nappa traveled to the planet to steal the Dragon Balls, killing a whole slew of the world’s defenders in the process. He even kills Nappa after his partner loses to Goku! No loyalty! After his defeat by Goku, Vegeta is left totally humiliated. It’s this super saiyan-sized humbling that starts him down the road to redemption (though he does terrorize a few more innocent people first). Eventually, he’s forced to team up with Goku and the gang when fighting Frieza, and after the battle, he marries a woman from Earth: Bulma. It’s Bulma that truly pulls him back from the brink, as he sacrifices himself in a later battle with Majin Buu to save the woman he loves, and her planet with her. After this fight, he finally gets his act together and takes a final step towards romance, well, bromance—he and Goku become best of friends.

https://www.themarysue.com/the-10-best-redemption-arcs-in-anime/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908715

lauradi7dw

I tested yesterday using a Binax. Negative. I tested today using Flowflex. Negative. So was the positive for Covid outcome on one of the two Walgreen's brand Covid + Flu A + Flu B test my fault? I wouldn't guess it was a badly made test because they were both in the same box, presumably made at the same time in the same factory, but who knows?
Question: Why does every different test brand require a different number of drops of the reagent or whatever it is? Porosity of the test stick?
At the advice of an even-more-cautious than me friend, I am still going to isolate another couple of days. That is an inconvenience for a variety of ways, including a somewhat odd one. The Stop Massport from letting ICE use their airports folks want letters written to the governor and the Massport board. I couldn't get the links to work to do it online. They suggest that it works better if one puts a paper letter in an envelope with a stamp. I am willing to do that, but I don't have a printer at home - I use the library to print things. My handwriting is not good enough to write the long, complicated letters they suggest, although I could shorten things.
https://lexingtonalarm.org/stop-massport-ice-flights-campaign/

I have sent email messages in a fury to my elected folks (Rep Clark, Senators Markey & Warren, useless loudmouths Schumer and Booker) saying we don't want "accountability" (Clark's term) or better body cams (Booker and Shumer), we want ICE gone entirely. The Senate spending bill for DHS is coming up soon.

althea_valara

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

Challenge #10: Big Mood (Board)

CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.

I wasn't quite comfortable doing a mood board, because I didn't know where to get images from for it! Look, I care about artists/photographers/graphic designers; I am not about to do a random web search and steal their art for a frivolous purpose. I did look at Pixabay briefly for free clipart but didn't see anything that was right for the first term I searched on, which was "crying", lol.

Anyway, I ended up making a word cloud of terms and feelings from Final Fantasy XIV. And yes, "sobbing" was one of the first words I put in. There is a certain zone in this game that I sobbed my way through. No really, it took me THREE HOURS to traverse the zone and I cried for every minute of it. That's how powerful the emotions are in this game.

I cannot say enough good things about FFXIV. The story is absolutely amazing and you WILL be affected by it. The gameplay is pretty darn fun, too! I love the game to pieces and thus there was no competition here; I +was+ going to create something related to it.

If you're interested in giving FFXIV a try, let me know! I'd be glad to give pointers to any sprouts (FFXIV term for "new player").

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Posted by Jenna Anderson

https://www.themarysue.com/lore-olympus-tv-show-prime-video-webtoon/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908748

Ancient mythology has been having a moment these past few years. The Odyssey is easily a lot of people’s most-anticipated movie of 2026. Hadestown continues to shatter audience’s hearts on Broadway. Men are, probably, still thinking about the Roman Empire a lot.

In and amongst all of that has been Lore Olympus, Rachel Smythe’s wildly successful Webtoon series retelling the relationship between Persephone and Hades in a modern context. After winning a slew of awards and being viewed millions of times during its tenure from 2017 through 2024, the series is finally getting adapted into a new medium.

https://www.themarysue.com/lore-olympus-tv-show-prime-video-webtoon/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908748

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Posted by Sanchari Ghosh

https://www.themarysue.com/ted-cruz-doesnt-want-to-anger-trump-so-he-is-just-sucking-up-to-him-by-agreeing-with-his-greenland-plans/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908630

Republican Senator Ted Cruz is proving once again that he is willing to go to any length to stroke the ego of Donald Trump, if that means that he can gain favours from him. Appearing on Fox News recently, Cruz revealed that he supported Trump’s plans of taking control of Greenland, saying that it was part of the “America First” policy as it would help the United States against adversaries like Russia and China.

A video that is currently doing the rounds on social media platforms, including X (formerly Twitter), sees Ted Cruz shamelessly sucking up to Trump by appreciating his upcoming potential annexation efforts in Greenland. Does anyone remember that he used to fight with Trump once? He has come a long way since then, well. The journey has been primarily downhill but substantial nevertheless. Anyways, this is what he exactly said in the context:

https://www.themarysue.com/ted-cruz-doesnt-want-to-anger-trump-so-he-is-just-sucking-up-to-him-by-agreeing-with-his-greenland-plans/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908630

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Posted by Jenna Anderson

https://www.themarysue.com/dc-next-level-zatanna-firestorm-bizarro-year-none/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908735

DC is shining the spotlight on three surprising fan-favorites. Last week, the publisher announced two new ongoing books: The Fury of Firestorm, which will be written by Jeff Lemiere (Sweet Tooth, Absoute Flash) with art by Rafael De Latorre (The Penguin); and Zatanna, which will be written and illustrated by Jamal Campbell.

The first issue of The Fury of Firestorm will be released on April 1st, while the debut issue of Zatanna will arrive on April 29th. Zatanna and The Fury of Firestorm will be part of DC’s Next Level initiative, which is pairing fan-favorite characters with all-star creative teams. Other titles that have already been announced for the initiative include Batwoman by Greg Rucka and DaNi, Deathstroke: The Terminator by Tony Fleecs and Carmine di Giandomenico, and Lobo by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona.

https://www.themarysue.com/dc-next-level-zatanna-firestorm-bizarro-year-none/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908735

loganberrybunny

Public

History will really not be kind to the people who could have stopped this, some of them years ago, people who were not True Believers but who refused to act when they could.

Cowards.

Current Mood: discontent

chickenfeet

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/01/20/transoceanic/

ysabetwordsmith

Cow are the latest animals observed using tools, reopening the debate about animal intelligence

Researchers report the first documented case of tool use in cattle, based on a Swiss Brown cow named Veronika who doesn’t just grab an object and rub it against herself.

She chooses the “right” part of a tool for the job, changes her technique depending on where she’s scratching, and repeats those choices in a way that looks consistent and intentional.

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Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Today is sunny and cold.

I fed the birds. I've seen a flock of sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 1/20/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 1/20/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I've seen at least one starling.

EDIT 1/20/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

We brought in more firewood to stack beside the stove.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

james_davis_nicoll

Further developments here.

rebeccmeister

This is just a blog post to whinge about having to complete paperwork, which takes time and brain capacity that I'd rather be using for other things, like SCIENCE.

I'll get over it eventually. A certain amount is necessary, anyway.

oursin

At which I was able to make a couple of minor contributions.

Reason why serving soldiers a very small statistical minority in divorce statistics pre-1914 (post then increased massively....): there were huge restrictions on how many could marry 'on the strength' so there were fairly few actually married in the first place. Mi knowinz on this partly from Victorian fiction (I think it features in one of Charlotte Yonge's) but mostly from Being A Historian who had to do with the Contagious Diseases Acts.

Also able to make some comments apropos of preserving archives of relevant organisations and the problems of digital records.

A lot of oh dear less change than one would like to imagine took place over time in matters of divorce, family disruption, domestic abuse, gendered assumptions, etc etc: but also, a sense that, in fact Back in The Past when women may not have had much agency, they were nevertheless using what they could get, e.g. separation law, protection orders, and various legal intricacies.

Also wondered how far they were able to manipulate (or the law was actually based on) certain patriarchal assumptions, which is what I found when reviewing book by one of the major contributors - i.e. that deserting husbands were falling down on doing patriarchy like they should, bad boy, no more right of coverture if your wife goes through a fairly cheap and simple legal procedure, post-1857.

Also there was a lot of archive love going on!

soemand

I've been profiling my home and work environments for ambient noise to better understand my listening experience. At home, it's a serene 25 dBA, while my workplace averages a much more active 50 dBA.

To maintain focus, I use headphones that provide 40 dB of isolation, and I typically listen to music at levels between 70-75 dB. Because most commercial music is mastered with a dynamic range of around 60 dB, the audio easily swamps any stray external sounds that might try to sneak through. All told, this setup creates a total sonic bubble—don't hear the background at all, regardless of what's happening around me.

Current Music: Wild World, Cat Stevens

ysabetwordsmith

Here's an interesting observation:

Hey ding-dongs, let’s have a chit-chat about Ablaut reduplication.

If you have three words, the order usually goes 'I-A-O.'
-tic-tac-toe

If there are only two words, ‘I’ is the first and the second is either ‘A’ or ‘O.’
-click-clack
-King-Kong

I can think of a few exceptions, like "bone-dry," and more rhymes like "helter-skelter." Some like "merry-go-round" seem to follow a similar high to low pattern.

Current Mood: busy

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Posted by Rebekah Harding

https://www.themarysue.com/pittsburgh-airport-baggage-socks/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908614

man waits for his luggage (l) suitcases coming out of carousel (r)

A woman and her brother wait painstakingly for his luggage to arrive at the Pittsburgh Airport baggage claim carousel. They can’t believe the state his personal belongings arrive in.

In a video with over 6.2 million views, TikToker Loons (@laysuperstar) and her brother stand at a mostly empty baggage claim. Her brother chases a small item on the conveyor belt.

https://www.themarysue.com/pittsburgh-airport-baggage-socks/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908614

kingstoken

Challenge #10: Big Mood (Board)

CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

So yesterday while doing some editing on Fanlore I found out what a colorbar was and I thought they were kind of neat. So for today's Snowflake Challenge I'm twenty years too late for a trend and made a colorbar for Holmes/Watson:

And yes I do realize one pic is of Basil/Dawson, but they are the mouse equivalent for Holmes/Watson, and I love them.

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thisbluespirit

Hello, I am still recovering, etc. Quite nicely as these things go, but still not up to doing all my usual little things.

Anyway, thought of something fannish and fun I could do if anyone wanted it - I made a personalised bingo card for

theseatheseatheopensea once, which was fun, and I do always love doing that kind of thing. So...

... if anyone else would find a custom-made bingo card (for writing/creating prompts) fun/useful/inspiring, comment here and I will have a go at making you one!

(I'll use the Bingo Generator, so it's very easy, and if I fail and include some rubbish prompts, a new card without such prompts can magically be re-generated with no trouble. Will do any size from 2x2 to 5x5.)

So just comment here if you'd like one & say what size card you'd prefer. You can also point me to/away from any fandoms/prompt types etc if you'd like, but no need. (If I'm really stuck for some reason, I'll just ask you for some pointers!)

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https://www.themarysue.com/those-mad-at-starfleet-academy-arent-actually-star-trek-fans/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908687

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Time and time again we’re confronted with “fans” of something who continue to miss the lessons within the media they’re consuming. We’ve seen it with Star Wars, our superhero stories, and it has become an increasing problem with Star Trek “fans.”

More recently, men like The Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic, known for hating anything that seems to be left leaning, have been dogging on the Paramount+ slate of Trek shows. The issue with these Right Wing figure heads talking about Trek is that they miss one important detail about Star Trek: It was never for them.

https://www.themarysue.com/those-mad-at-starfleet-academy-arent-actually-star-trek-fans/

https://www.themarysue.com/?p=908687

rionaleonhart

After seeing Christmas Carol Goes Wrong on stage, I bought the official script; I thought it would be a nice way to remind myself of my evening at the theatre. And it is! But it's also interesting to see how many things had been changed or added by the time I saw it in performance.

Flicking through, here are some of the more interesting differences I've noticed between the script version and the actual performance I saw on the fourteenth of January!

( Some differences between the script and the actual staged version of Christmas Carol Goes Wrong. )

Finally, a delightful little exchange from the script that I don't remember being in the show itself:

Sandra: Listen, we all know the Cornley Gazette's official policy has been not to review our shows since our immersive production of Dracula.
Robert: The small print on the ticket clearly said I would enter his house and bite him.

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