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kitarella_imagines ([personal profile] kitarella_imagines) wrote2025-05-29 10:35 am

My favourite scenes from The Professionals

As a) I haven't been well the last few days and not up to doing much and b) we're watching season 1 of The Professionals again so my husband can catch up with me, I decided to post a list of my favourite scenes from that show. I tried to avoid the clichéd ones that everyone loves, but I'm sure I didn't succeed 100%! lol.

In production order:


Old Dog with New Tricks:
• When Doyle is bossing the group of police officers around, the inspector is initially annoyed but as the scene goes on, he ends up smiling in a fond, fatherly way at Doyle. Maybe thinking he could be my son.

Heroes:
• Bodie is criticising Cowley over the radio and it’s so funny, Doyle is so naughty not to switch the radio off! He knows what he is doing alright, and I think they are genuinely laughing.
• Cowley tests his agents, rolling around on the ground with all the martial arts manoeuvres. A LOL moment.
• The have-a-go heroes mucking in to stop the villains! Well done Joe Public! And the scene where Doyle and Bodie save the elderly witness from being shot on his front lawn is brilliant.

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aliensamba ([personal profile] aliensamba) wrote2025-05-29 03:22 pm

056 - gifs; 25.02 - the rise of skywalker

Medium: film
(Additional): team challenge (alpha)
Fandom: The Rise of Skywalker
Characters/Pairings: Kylo Ren, Rey
Prompt: return
Notes: 2 gifs for week 3 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-05-28 09:25 pm
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What even is time?

I can't believe it's already 1 week since I went to Pittsburgh. Wow.

Today I washed towels and the doodad that keeps the hose in the drain tub broke. Didn't know it broke until I went back downstairs to see the thing had drained all over the floor, filling two rooms. Whee!

That's the only interesting thing I did other than answer a lot of work emails that no one wants to know about but I DID get my 100$ honorium today so yay for that.


What I Just Finished Reading:

Of Manners and Murder
Last Dance Before Dawn by Katharine Schellman

both historical mysteries (victorian and 1920s) Of Manners is book 1 Last Dance is the final book. both worth looking up

What I am Currently Reading:
Under This Red Rock - Mindy McGinnis - if this ends how I think it will I will be pissed

The Smoke in His Voice - back to this. God I want to edit this SO badly

The Witch's Orchard by Archer Sullivan one of my netgalley arcs which are stacking up.

What I Plan to Read Next: Something for the popsugar challenge probably or one of the books I won from Goodreads
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dorey ([personal profile] doreyg) wrote2025-05-28 11:01 am

What I'm Watching Weekly 28/05/25

In this watching entry...! I mainly babble about a game I watched my husband play. I mean, I did also watch things! But mainly, GAMING.

After sort of limping back to some kind of schedule, I will not be posting for the next week as I will be on* the beach! I’m looking forward to it, I deserve the beach after the horrors. ^^

(*Possibly just near, as it might be raining on the beach. :()

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Kalloway ([personal profile] kalloway) wrote2025-05-27 09:00 pm

The Perfect Tote Bag

Okay, I'm actually more used to either hand-carried or cross-body bags, but I can deal with a shoulder bag for this. Look at this absolute joy of a bag:

a black tote bag with white text and images reading VF-0S Phoenix Roy Focker Use with the UN Spacy logo and an image of the Phoenix overlaying it all so Roy's last name looks questionable at best

I don't think last night was the absolute worst post-Memorial Day startup in the history of post-Memorial Day startups, but it was definitely in the top five. IIRC I took last year off and it was pretty quiet, so maybe I'll take next year's off so everyone else has a better night?

For reasons unknown they're sexy, I've ended up kinda obsessed with Orange Cat Industry's Super Robot Heroes model kits, the the Estailevs in particular. (Estailev Neamhain Warcrow for reference) There are four kits so far in the line: the Warcrow, Cassowary, and two versions of the first unit in both blue and a "Roll Out" white-n-grey option that is HHHNNGGGHH. I've managed to snag both Warcrow and Cassowary, and have hopefully managed the Roll Out, fingers-crossed on that order. Still looking for the blue, but it's early-days. There are also a bunch of kinda SD kits that I haven't looked at too closely but there's a black and purple one I may track down at some point. (But seriously, I think half my phone searches are variations on 'Estailev'...)
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mistressofmuses ([personal profile] mistressofmuses) wrote2025-05-27 07:19 pm
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Habit Tracking: Week 20 (May 18 - May 24)


Had a hard time thinking of something to use for this week. Since I was reading Overgrowth, decided to go with plants... but ended up picking nice, well-coordinated ones more than anything evoking alien invasion, ha.

This week was... meh. Fine. The near-all-nighter when Bella was sick was rough and led to a couple rough days after that. I spent several days also feeling like I was on the verge of getting sick, but seemed to fight it off successfully. Did get a lot of cleaning done, even if it was under the minor duress of an impending inspection. Writing was not zero this week, which was a nice change. Okay amount of reading. I really did make it through most of what I wanted for the week, despite getting sick and too little sleep. Looking back, I described work as "hectic" on at least three different days.

Goals for the week:

  • I did read more of Overgrowth
  • I updated my reading page, at least partially
  • I did try to sort out my upcoming calendar (busy couple of months coming up)
  • I bought tickets for two shows coming up in the next ten days or so
  • I did not work on the current WIP
  • But I did do part 2 (and started part 3) of the snowflake outline for the Worldhopping Fairytale Monstrosity AU
  • I did get some outside time!
  • I cleaned up my bedside table (and the drawer)
  • Apartment inspection was Wednesday

Tracked habits:

  • Work - 5/7
  • Household Maintenance - 6/7
  • Physical Activity - 2/7
  • Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 1/7 - one day over 500 words, plus two days of less than 500 words
  • Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/7
  • Meta Work - 4/7
  • Personal Writing - 3/7
  • Other Creative Things - 2/7
  • Reading - 7/7 - I mostly read Overgrowth, Alex and I read a bit of Duma Key, and I tried to read a bit of my ebook side read but only got through about a page before I got called away, ha.
  • Attention to Media - 7/7 - Sunday had some youtube on in the background at work, we watched some storm chasing (mostly in Kansas, but there were a few tornadoes in eastern CO), and I listened to Re: Dracula and then some music; Monday, storm chasing in the background; Tuesday, storm-chasing in the background, then later abandoned places videos; Wednesday, more abandoned place videos (including, surprisingly, one that Alex was familiar with from when he lived in Maryland, which was a sort of bittersweet shock when it came up); Thursday and Friday, storm chasing in the background; Saturday, more background storm chasing, and an episode of Re: Dracula.
  • Video Games - 0/7
  • Social Interaction - 4/7

Total words written: 1040 all on planning a fic

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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-05-27 08:30 pm
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Yeah so it's bronchitis

Like I figured it would be but it's not pneumonia yet. I have antibiotics now. Yay. Zpack but boo to them telling me there has been a rise in resistance to it especially since I'm allergic to a lot of antibiotics. Here's hoping this helps. Dad went to see the cousin with sepsis today and said she looks and sounds better than me. Thanks. (to be fair I look like I have the plague)

So not technically for fannish 50 but can we NOT do stuff like this. Watching the second episode of the new Librarians (which isn't bad) and we have one character who is supposed to be a bad ass. She kicked the ass of everyone in E1 but in E2, she's easily restrained by a couple tiny ballerinas. How am I expected to believe she can toss men three times her size but a 100 pound girl in a tutu can stop her cold?


And now for the real fannish 50 I decided on Tuesdays I'll talk about the women of anime/animation (to start with) because fanfic especially is still heavily male oriented (and yes I'm 100% guilty of that) so I plan to start with my newest fandoms and work back.




To that end, here's Millie from Helluva Boss. I admit it. I'm not a fan of most of the female characters in this. I doubt we're meant to like Stella. Loona could be a compelling character if she was moved off the stock angry teen trope, ditto Octavia. Those two have potential but it hasn't been explored enough. Verosaka also is just a side character barely explored.

That leaves me Millie who definitely has potential. She is beautifully, protectively in love with her husband, Moxxie. She is a staunch friend for Blitz even when he might not deserve it. She cares deeply for her people and she will violently protect them to the point of wondering should she keep her baby (which is what the fandom is assuming is why she's wondering, thinking she can't do her job while pregnant and I really hope they come up with something more inventive than that). She's also a good sister to Sallie May, who is a transwoman (hoping we see more of her in the future)
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stonepicnicking_okapi ([personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-27 09:16 pm

News & Views

1. The boys' father returned from Kenya without any immigration issues. One less thing to worry about. I did laundry today, four loads with his post-trip stuff added to the boys' mountain.

2. I drove about 3 hours on Sunday back and forth across the state taking Minisculus to a soccer tournament and Minor to his track meet. Minor got another PR for the 3000 meter.

3. It's raining. Should be raining all day tomorrow.

4. Trying to organize a plot for my casefic exchange fic.

5. I need to show off some of my new collage supplies. Also, I got some new jigsaw puzzles. All courtesy of birthday gifts/gift cards.
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dhampyresa ([personal profile] dhampyresa) wrote2025-05-28 12:31 am

Thunderthoughts

A friend and I were supposed to go watch Sinners this evening. Unfortunately, the screening was full so we went to see Thunderbolts instead. It was better than I expected.

Needed more Ghost. I always want to see more Hannah John-Kamen.

The only MCU movie I’d seen since Endgame was The Marvels but I was still able to follow the plot.

I could have done without Red Guardian.

I liked that the Sentry project was described as "the power of 1000 suns" and later that was called back (ish) by The Void’s nuclear shadows.

The Void looked cool as fuck

I do not think I should have watched this movie. There was a moment when The Void had taken over NYC where I thought "that looks so peaceful, so nice" and overall The Void’s speeches had this undertone of... i guess rightness is the word I'm looking for. It turns out watching movies about depression and/or that give depression a voice is like maybe not the greatest idea when you have major depressive disorder, lol

I liked the greyscale painting homages during the end credits.

Does anyone know what Anya's book was?
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melagan ([personal profile] melagan) wrote2025-05-27 10:41 am

Distraction

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group of prairie dogs

I might have ideas aplenty, but when it comes to sitting down and putting the work into it....

This post is an excellent example. I could have pulled up my current WiP but oh-no instead I hunted down a picture of distracted prairie dogs for this post.

*headdesk*

It's a very fine line between distraction and procrastination.
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aliensamba ([personal profile] aliensamba) wrote2025-05-27 02:13 pm

055 - gifs; 25.02 - the batman

Medium: film
Fandom: The Batman (2022)
Character: Bruce Wayne
Prompt: Night Owl
Notes: 2 gifs for week 3 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.


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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-05-26 10:24 pm
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Back with the parents

Still hacking out a lung. I ended up not going to the amazing coffee shop Nicholas Coffee because I wasn't up for a rushed walk before check out to get some (wish it had been opened yesterday). I have never seen Pittsburgh that empty. I flew home.

And really did nothing all day other than learn my favorite cousin my parents' age is in the hospital with pneumonia and sepsis and am wondering why the hell the care home didn't catch this.

Since nothing of interest happened other than that let me dive back into Music Monday. I'm doing the alphabet again with music from the 2020s only (but you can rec whatever you'd like) I'm up to H and if not for David Kushner I'd have one Dua Lipa song and that's it. On the other hand his debut album has 3 H songs that I like equally (looking for the perfect story for them)

H is for Helluva Good music )
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estirose ([personal profile] estirose) wrote2025-05-26 06:36 pm

A Fantasy Life i set of notes with a brief spoiler-free review

I've spent quite a bit of time in Fantasy Life i (I haven't managed to finish Chapter 7, due to my frustration with the game, but that may be more a me thing than a game thing). Here are my thoughts on it, mostly under cut because I tried to avoid spoilers but they're there.

Spoiler-free review version: More combat-heavy RPG than cozy, though the cozy certainly is there. Unlike the 3DS game, this game emphasizes both developing a set of Lives/classes and a set of villagers in a town that you will establish. The crafting minigames require a fair amount of reflexes. 3DS players will enjoy the nostalgia but be aware that you will not be able to do a 1-life challenge - in fact, you will be using at least 11 of the 14 available classes by the end of the game. The omnipresent quest marker can cause players to rush the plot where they really need to slow down.

(Also, I will mention that while this is not the game I fell in love with, I've poured in a lot of hours and don't feel the purchase was a waste.)

ETA: I think I'm getting the hang of the game! Still irritating that you have to at least intro quest the majority of Lives but quite doable. My one tiny item I want is the ability to unselect the main quest - my brain tends to want to hurry because you can unselect side quests but not the main quest, which my brain translates into a priority to-do.

A lot of comparison between Fantasy Life i and Fantasy Life 3DS )
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stonepicnicking_okapi ([personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-05-26 08:33 pm
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Music Monday: Cadfael theme

Let's go back to the 12th century withe everyone's favorite Benedictine herbalist.

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Kalloway ([personal profile] kalloway) wrote2025-05-26 07:51 pm
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Weekendedededed

Ah, the weekend is over. It was mostly quiet and very nice, overall.

Saturday, we did the multi-cemetery run/ancestor worship. I only took a couple of photos and of those, the best one is unfortunately a little too distinctive to post publicly online. My one Suruga-ya package (not model kits or Lucifers) basically teleported but still arrived after we got back, thankfully. (I will have to share a picture later... it is a Roy Focker bag and it is amaaaaaaazing. No, it's better than that, lol. I have ended up on a weird low-grade Roy bender and this is satisfying me for now. Though I probably also need an icon, hmm...)

Sunday and Monday were much the same. Worked on Gunpla (Alto done, Flauros started, desk cleaned up a bit, SD Strike Freedom almost done), worked on archiving, did more house-cleaning than anticipated, watched a chunk of SEED Destiny and just... discovered things I'd memory-holed or something. I do need to get back to Battle Destiny, too. It feels like Neverending Tomorrow, control-wise, so it'll take some time to learn combat. I also really want to replay Gundam Musou 3 and maybe 2 (but definitely 3)...

Back to the grind! (At least it's a short week?)
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apachefirecat ([personal profile] apachefirecat) wrote2025-05-26 04:35 pm
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thisbluespirit ([personal profile] thisbluespirit) wrote2025-05-26 10:35 am

Belated watching post

I found this sitting in my posts in progress from March, about what I'd been watching at the time, or some of it. I obtained the two small pieces of info it was lacking and have otherwise posted as-is, so it's probably fairly babbly, but I feel it is better to post than not to post. (At least with random mostly-complete media posts, that is.)

The Ghost Camera (1933) This was recced to me ages ago by [personal profile] sovay and I managed to snag it in passing on TalkingPictures TV, but then failed to watch it. (I have issues with watching all sorts of things still for reasons that are too stupid and annoying to go into, but they are all basically the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome being a pain.) But then, [personal profile] liadt sent me it on DVD as well! So having been recced it twice by two people who know what's what when it comes to elderly film and suchlike, I had to eventually consider putting it in the dvd player and watching it.

Anyway, as I mentioned before, I really enjoyed it! It was sweet and fun. The internet tells me it was an unexpectedly good 'Quota Quickie' and it is. A nerdy scientist accidentally acquires a camera with a dangerous set of photos inside it, develops them and sets out, while being dogged by the criminals who want it, to find out whose camera it is - starting with finding the woman in one of the photos. It's engaging, the hero is charmingly atypical and shy, and it really does do some cool things with experimental camera angles and techniques, some of which almost even come across like handheld camera in places.

It's very early UK film, so it doesn't have the polish that a lot of the US ones had acquired by even this point, but if you like old films, this is a fun and interesting one.


Dope Girls (BBC) s1 I've only watched half of this because it was too much for me, but I neverthless watched that much, because it looked fascinating and different and the sort of thing I would be all over if it wasn't so much about crime. I'm hopeless when people in fictonal things are routinely committing crimes, and this is very violent, lots of 'rave' type shooting of scenes, none of which I can cope with. Saying I watched it, given how much I used the skip 10s button is probably an exaggeration BUT it's really beautifully made and it's about women immediately post WWI, based on a true story of a woman who set up a Soho nightclub (given value of 'true' no doubt varies in the show). The series also follows her illegitimate mixed race daughter Billie, a dancer, her legitimate teenage daughter who's getting into spiritualism following her father's death, and Violet, one of the very first women in the police, who's sent undercover into the nightclub.

Warnings for pretty much everything ever: dodgy accents, murder, suicide, meat & butchery, drugs, sex, 'rave' type scenes, beatings etc. It seems to be trying to be the new Peaky Blinders but since PB happened while I was ill and also contains characters who routinely commit crimes, I can't comment on accuracy of media's "the new x" pronouncements.

In short, it looks great if only I weren't me. I might still finish it, unwisely, anyway. It's about women immediately post WWI! /o\


They Came To A City (1944) This is one I happened to catch on TalkingPictures TV just as [personal profile] sovay was talking about John Clements, and I realised I had accidentally snagged this, featuring him. It's adapted from a play by J. B. Priestley, who actually turns up in a little prologue with a wee Ralph Michael & Brenda Bruce to tell the story of the film as a fable to prove a point to them. The story within a story is of nine ordinary British people from different walks of life who find themselves transported to a mysterious city run by an apparently perfect sort of socialist ideal. Some of them hate it, some of them stay, and some of them return to their regular lives to try and make their own cities more like the City. It's very static and talky and we don't see the city, but they pretty much lifted the original play's cast into the film and the performances are great all round and always raise it when it gets too close to being too much just talking about the ideas. It's slow but I found it utterly fascinating and loved it. I had to leave it on the DVR, so I couldn't even delete it as watched!

Also it gave me all the feels about the Beveridge Report and I've never said that about a piece of fiction before.


The Ghost Train (1941) wiki tells me there are actually about nine different versions of this, originally a play by Arnold Ridley who I know as Godfrey in Dad's Army. This is the most comic version, I gather, but also the one that has villainous Nazis instead of unlikely Cornish communists. It was another one I snagged recently from TPTV and, encouraged by current watching ability, I gave it a try and enjoyed it very much indeed! It does occasionally veer towards becoming a vehicle for Arthur Askey but it recovers itself in time, although I would definitely be interested in seeing some of the other versions. But his role as comedian was written in very well (he's a seaside vaudeville performer, his antics cause the stranding & solve it, and everyone gets annoyed with him) and I liked everyone else very much. Another mixed group of strangers get stranded in a remote Cornish railway station - with a story about a ghost train that runs through the station.

Anyway, I had a lot of fun, and I'd definitely be curious to see a version played more straight, but like I said, this is the one that sends a bunch of Nazis off a railway bridge, so I don't feel that it was the worst place to start!


[May comment: still didn't go back to Dope Girls; the state of my brain when employing the iPlayer can be easily illustrated by explaining that what I did was to watch a series and a half of Malory Towers instead. XD]