Lukewarm II: Glaciation (JLA #110-111, ’TIS THE SEASON TO BE FREEZIN’)
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scans_dailyPart 94b of 105. Warning for NSFW content that looks wilder than it is.
Last time out, we saw the mid-Nineties WLW affair that wasn’t, in the final, waning days of the title once known as Justice League International. Short version:
🔥 🧊 = ⚢?
🔥 🧊 = 💜⚢💜??!!
🔥 🧊 = ⚢ 👅🌮💦?!?!?!
… ❌!!!
🤪 🤪 🤪 🤪 🤪
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Last time out, we saw the mid-Nineties WLW affair that wasn’t, in the final, waning days of the title once known as Justice League International. Short version:
🔥 🧊 = ⚢?
🔥 🧊 = 💜⚢💜??!!
🔥 🧊 = ⚢ 👅🌮💦?!?!?!
… ❌!!!
🤪 🤪 🤪 🤪 🤪
( Readers: 😡 )
Two fics, two days - both set in the early 1990s
May. 13th, 2026 02:12 pmconulyFic one: Protagonist very recently, like, last week, left home to live with a friend. Protagonist wonders how his newly estranged family found him, then reflects that "the internet still exists". Technically a true statement in 1994, however, it's perhaps a bit more likely that they just used the phone book.
Fic two: Protagonist is touristing in NYC, casually stops in a bodega, buys a flip phone so he can text people. Not in 1992 he didn't - texting via phones was only just invented that year and phones were bricks!
You gotta laugh. Kindly and gently, but still - you gotta laugh!
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Fic two: Protagonist is touristing in NYC, casually stops in a bodega, buys a flip phone so he can text people. Not in 1992 he didn't - texting via phones was only just invented that year and phones were bricks!
You gotta laugh. Kindly and gently, but still - you gotta laugh!
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May. 12th, 2026 10:26 pmconulyI was introduced to this piece - specifically Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity - via Wolf 359, the Christmas episode, aka the one where things go from "comedically dark" to "shit just got real".
My weekend
May. 10th, 2026 10:09 pmjames_davis_nicollJust as I was closing my house manager shift last night, an important door lost an integral part. So, I was late getting home.
Today, get in, door not fixed. I get to make sure it is used judiciously.
During the early part of the evening shift, someone on campus, concerned that there was someone on campus pretending to be a cop, decided that the best course of action was to dress entirely in black, including mask, then approach random people to warn them there was a fake cop on campus. This did not instill calm but the campus cops dealt with it.
As I was waiting to go home, I thought I could smell skunk. Asked my HM about it. It seems someone managed to anger the local skunk enough to get sprayed. Not me!
Today, get in, door not fixed. I get to make sure it is used judiciously.
During the early part of the evening shift, someone on campus, concerned that there was someone on campus pretending to be a cop, decided that the best course of action was to dress entirely in black, including mask, then approach random people to warn them there was a fake cop on campus. This did not instill calm but the campus cops dealt with it.
As I was waiting to go home, I thought I could smell skunk. Asked my HM about it. It seems someone managed to anger the local skunk enough to get sprayed. Not me!
If Destruction Be Our Lot... #1
May. 10th, 2026 07:45 pmshakalooloo posting in scans_dailyOnly 4 pages, so no room for the Talkie Toaster analogue, but here are the adventures of a robot Abraham Lincoln in a post-human world. Fear of a Bot Planet walked so that this comic could run.
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Black Cherries by W. S. Merwin
May. 11th, 2026 02:17 pmconulyLate in May as the light lengthens
toward summer the young goldfinches
flutter down through the day for the first time
to find themselves among fallen petals
cradling their day's colors in the day's shadows
of the garden beside the old house
after a cold spring with no rain
not a sound comes from the empty village
as I stand eating the black cherries
from the loaded branches above me
saying to myself Remember this
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Link
toward summer the young goldfinches
flutter down through the day for the first time
to find themselves among fallen petals
cradling their day's colors in the day's shadows
of the garden beside the old house
after a cold spring with no rain
not a sound comes from the empty village
as I stand eating the black cherries
from the loaded branches above me
saying to myself Remember this
Link
Have a happy day today!
May. 10th, 2026 08:53 amconulyAnd, you know, feel however you feel about your mother!
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vignettes
May. 10th, 2026 10:59 ammarycatelliThis week's prompt is:
magnificent 🦚
Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
magnificent 🦚
Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
The Death of Grass by John Christopher
May. 10th, 2026 08:56 amjames_davis_nicoll
A crop blight offers the British a chance to apply to the UK the same pragmatic measures they used during famines in Ireland and Bengal.
The Death of Grass by John Christopher
My old body that you buried with the mud and the timber
May. 10th, 2026 02:57 amsovayAnd today my physical health went through the floor and my mood with it, but I hadn't known that boglands were permeating pop culture to the point of salt marsh gastronomy, biofictional art, and peat-distressed fashion. What a great time it would be for a proper home release of Michael Almereyda's The Eternal (1998). Have some further Rabbitology.
Hot + Cold = Lukewarm: JLA #99-104
May. 10th, 2026 01:48 amtcampbell1000 posting in scans_daily
Part 94a of 105. Warning for cringe, awful relationships, and NSFW content that looks wilder than it is.
With these next two posts, we reach the end of the Justice League’s “international era,” the meteoric, controversial period that began with the loss of the “Detroit League” and ended with Grant Morrison and Howard Porter’s JLA #1. That era struggled along for four years and change after Giffen and DeMatteis left, never coming close to its glory days. ( Or even its General Glory days. )
Canada: Census 2026
May. 9th, 2026 10:04 pmdewlineI filled out the questionnaire for this year's Canadian census.
I am somewhat disappointed that my household did not get the long-form edition this time.
I am somewhat disappointed that my household did not get the long-form edition this time.
Bon Cop, Bad Cop in the Gaspé Peninsula/Mi'kma'ki
May. 9th, 2026 03:48 pmdewlineWell, missing out on the news that a TV-formatted follow-up to two of my favourite movies has been produced is annoying...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Cop,_Bad_Cop_(TV_series)
Apparently the first two episodes went "live" on Crave on May 7th?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Cop,_Bad_Cop_(TV_series)
Apparently the first two episodes went "live" on Crave on May 7th?
Tigers by Eliza Griswold
May. 9th, 2026 02:00 pmconulyWhat are we now but voices
who promise each other
a life neither one can deliver
not for lack of wanting
but wanting can’t make it so.
We hang from a vine
at the cliff’s edge.
There are tigers above
and below. Let us love
one another and let go.
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Seen on the SIR
This poem references the well-known zen koan.
who promise each other
a life neither one can deliver
not for lack of wanting
but wanting can’t make it so.
We hang from a vine
at the cliff’s edge.
There are tigers above
and below. Let us love
one another and let go.
Seen on the SIR
This poem references the well-known zen koan.
Sigh
May. 7th, 2026 11:31 amconulyMy shampoo is no longer being produced and I need more shampoo.
It needs to be perfume light, and ideally I should be able to get shampoo, conditioner, and body wash that don't clash with each other. I generally find that products marketed as natural are more likely to have scents that aren't overwhelming and don't make my eyes itch, give me a sore throat, or trigger a headache - but there's no guarantee there.
And, of course, it needs to get my hair clean, ideally without drying it out.
Help?
It needs to be perfume light, and ideally I should be able to get shampoo, conditioner, and body wash that don't clash with each other. I generally find that products marketed as natural are more likely to have scents that aren't overwhelming and don't make my eyes itch, give me a sore throat, or trigger a headache - but there's no guarantee there.
And, of course, it needs to get my hair clean, ideally without drying it out.
Help?
Books Received, May 2 — May 8
May. 9th, 2026 09:13 amjames_davis_nicoll
Six works new to me. Three are SF, two fantasy and Fiyah is a mix. At least two of the novels are series. Interesting that SF is such a large fraction. Is SF making a comeback?
Books Received, May 2 — May 8
Poll #34579 Books Received, May 2 — May 8
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40
Which of these look interesting?
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If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Cho-yeop (April 2026)
23 (57.5%)
The Republic of Memory by Mahmud el Sayed (May 2026)
21 (52.5%)
Mortal Things by Marie Lu (October 2026)
4 (10.0%)
Maker of Gods by Maria Z. Medina (October 2026)
1 (2.5%)
Forged in FIYAH: Celebrating Ten Years of Black Speculative Fiction edited by Davaun Sanders (September 2026)
16 (40.0%)
This Crimson Ruin by Rebecca Thorne (December 2026)
5 (12.5%)
Some other option (see comments)
2 (5.0%)
Cats!
32 (80.0%)