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1. Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Try Something New

I had several of my photographs framed and sent to me, with magnets on the back.

2. Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Personal Win

And I helped a co-worker work on a short-story for a contest she'd entered.

3. International Customs Day

Have I ever been stopped at Customs when travelling?

Very long time ago, and don't have much memory of it. It was in the 1980s. And I think they were checking everyone? It's a vague memory. I'm not the sort of person who gets stopped, unless they are just randomly checking folks. I did recently get stopped on the way to the subway by the NYPD, but again they were randomly checking everyone.

My brother on the other hand - did get stopped quite a bit.


4. Friday Five, or rather Saturday Five...

*. Do you cook regularly or does someone else cook for you?

I live alone, and I have a lot of dietary restrictions. So? I cook for myself. I don't even go out to lunch at work. (If someone were to come along and offer to do all the cooking? I'd let them. I envy my brother - who kind of got that with sisinlaw. Basically I need a personal chef, who doesn't cost me anything.)

*. Which are you better at making: sweet or savory foods?

Savory - I can throw together main meals from whatever I find in the fridge/pantry, but I rarely bake from scratch. Baking requires precise measurements (and well, I can't eat grains - so even more precise than usual and a lot harder). It's easier to do savory with massive dietary restrictions.

*. If you had to work as a chef in a restaurant of your choice, which restaurant would best complement your current culinary skills?

God knows. Probably some gluten-free organic establishment?

*. What is a cooking tip that you know, but other people generally aren’t aware of?

You can bake anything in aluminum foil. It's cheap, it's easy, and cuts down on clean-up. Also you don't have to buy a dutch oven or clay pot. My mother taught it to me - and I discovered it on the Naked Chef. I bake chicken, salmon, other types of fish...and works like a charm.

*. Do you have a recipe you would like to share?
( rainbow trout, quiche )

5. Television shows...

Watched two more episodes of The Crown

Got past Diana's death, finally. The Crown really reams the media and the British public (if there's a villain in this series - it's the British public and the media). It shows how toxic the relationship between the Crown, the British Public and the Media truly is, and how it is really to blame for Diana and Dodi's deaths. ( Read more... )

Part of the controversy over the final season of the Crown, is a lot of folks wanted the Royal Family to be the bad guys. Or Prince Charles. Mainly because Diana fans don't want to be held accountable for her death. And this series - holds them accountable. It really blasts the media and her fandom. Charles is actually painted in a sympathetic light. (However, I do agree that Dominic West may be too charismatic and attractive for Charles. He doesn't look anything like him. Pryce also is odd casting for Phillip.
Everyone else works. Debricki looks like Diana and is perfect in the role.
West does a good job of playing Charles, but I don't think he fits the role well - because he's too charming and attractive? But I do believe he broke down when she died. I mean to say he didn't? How do you know? The British tabloids? Please.

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My Adventures with Superman on MAX, WB animation. This is fun, and the animation is classic Warner Brothers, and rather decent. I like it better than the animation for Invincible (Prime - which reminds me a bit too much of King of the Hill, and Bojack Horsemen for its own good), or The X-men 1997 (Disney +) which ahem, is worse and too cartoonish.

Some nice twists on the Superman story. Also, having his adoptive father still alive works for me. (I like the Superman trope - but not for the reasons you may think? I like it because it's about an alien who is struggling to be a hero in a world that would dissect him and kill him, if it ever discovered he was an alien. It's the ultimate outsider trying to help and save others story trope.)

Lois is a bit annoying here, as is Jimmy. But they always are a bit annoying, so there's that.

At least both are POC, as is the Editor of the Daily Planet. So Clark stands out more.

What If? S2: Episode 1

Excellent Animation. If they could just use this for everything regarding superheroes on Disney + that isn't live action, life would be good.

Also Karen Gillian does a great job with the vocals.

This first episode focuses on Nebula, and it's "what if Nebula joined Nova Corps"? Unlike S1, this episode ends on a bright note.

I enjoyed it.