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Were there ANY robots in Babylon 5? My last rewatch stalled out in Season 5 (again), but none are coming to mind. The nearest thing might be Great Machine on Epsilon III, but that's entirely reliant on being in symbiosis with a person.

I literally started a rewatch of Green Valley last week, but it was the Edwardian and Victorian ones I was originally super into! I loved seeing how using the same format in these series really lets you see the changes over time.

I was entirely obsessed with all of these farming shows during the pandemic, I watched them all so quickly I had to start pacing myself so that they’d last.

I came to DC almost exactly twenty years ago. It’s a beautiful place filled with people who deserve so much better than what they receive from political leadership and the scorn of people who reside thousands of miles away and prefer to use the city and its residents as pawns.

If you’re in DC and seeing National Guard/Federal agent activity, reach out via Signal at marisakabas.04

They are FANTASTIC, I’ve gone there many times.

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Now, they aren’t known for traditional child birthday theming, but Teamania in Rockville has lovely Swiss roll style cakes year round. weteamania.com/

LET’S GOOOOOOOO

I was just thinking about how long you may have known because of how it might impact your ability to write your book, I forgot how how it might have been an influence on other writing you’d already shared!

Alas… email undeliverable.

EMAIL SENT.

A photo of the last page of a paperback book advertising “webscriptions”: Just type in the first word from page 224 of the volume now in your hands and email it to: ebooks@baen.com and you will receive immediate, no-strings access to a full month of publications from your favorite publisher. (Ahem, “favorite publisher”: that’s us, Baen Books ;)

Do you think this would still work??

VOCA: A Strange Loop | Atlas Performing Arts Center Meet Usher: a Black, Deaf queer writer writing a musical about a black, Deaf queer writer. This blisteringly funny masterwork ...

Here’s a show you should see this weekend in DC — not because its run was cut short by federal arts funding cuts, which it was, but just because. VOCA and Deaf Austin Theatre’s production of A Strange Loop closes on Sunday: www.atlasarts.org/events/voca-... (Disclaimer: my wife works for the venue.)

As much as I’ve been enjoying reading the Vorkosigan books as they tell Miles’ story, every time Cordelia reenters the scene, I can FEEL LMB speaking from the margins: “Yes! Here she is, the greatest woman in the UNIVERSE!” And I agree HEARTILY.

He also had packed with him two Hershey bars and a bag of Dove squares to eat. When his boredom reached epic levels that coincided with the opening of the dining car, he SPRANG up and bought two cokes. WHO. IS. THIS. MAN.

Sat next to a grown man for six hours of this train ride to South Carolina today who had CLEARLY never been the kind of kid who routinely packed himself an Amusement Bag™️ like SOME very well prepared children learned to do at a very young age!!!! If we KNOW we are traveling, we GOTS to plan.

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Was head of the signing line and didn’t have time to refine my thoughts about @oliviawrites.bsky.social’s work, but the heart of it is, hers are among the books that make me most feel like a person who could exist and be loved and liked within them, and it means the world to me.

Photo of two softcover books, one for VOID 1680AM and the other held on top of Viva La QUEER BAR.

Tonight’s haul

I have a longstanding moratorium on buying new books bc I already don’t have any more room on my shelves, but it’s not my fault if @labyrinthdc.bsky.social always has a great selection of TTRPGs, those are different books, they don’t count.

Photo of a promotional dusk jacket for Olivia Dade’s book Zomromcom. The cover illustration features a man and a woman, both armed with sharp implements, facing some shadowy creatures across a bonfire; the art absolutely rules.

Let’s GOOOO, how am I getting all the best promotional items this week? @oliviawrites.bsky.social is an absolute fave, I’m so excited she’s in town at @eastcitybooks.bsky.social tonight and that I am LIKEWISE here.

Some things transcend weather-based practicality. 🫡

A photo of the cover of a Star Trek novel titled Killing Time by Della Van Hise.

Oo goody, looks like a first edition in gorgeous shape.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Few things get under my skin more than the “smaller, purer” vision of the Catholic church. I get a vision of my own twelve year old self in Catholic school, learning that the word itself means “universal,” and that little kid already understands that that means we don’t kick people out.

That’s what I am HOPING, goddamn I loved DIE.

I HAVE ONLY JUST CLOCKED THIS AND OOPS NOW I AM MELTING IN EXCITEMENT.

Honestly, with hindsight, Radcliffe, Watson and Grint's public statements where they sided with trans people, expressed their support with no caveats, and willingly blew up any chances at future ties to the franchise has only gotten more and more noteworthy as more actors are revealed to be cowards

Closeup photo of a plastic cup showing a window with the words “I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER” written across it. Liquid inside the cup has turned the majority of the window panes dark red, while the top of the cup that’s empty has white panes.

So I went to see Fantastic Four, it was fine, nothing will ever top the Fraction/Allred FF series where these knuckleheads were all offscreen, but I DID get a plastic cup with a window that fills up with BLOOD thanks to color changing plastic, the movies are NOT dead.

It’s the Louisiana in me, but my favorite weather is, now and forever, shorts and a sweater.