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Apr. 8th, 2026 03:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethWhen we went to the duck pond this week there were tiny baby ducks :-D
and the person walking with me had not been to the pond before and made happy awww noises whenever they did a duck like thing :-)
and then I did not write about it at the time because I got home and realised it is the season when I need to wash every bit of me I do not cover well, and then wash it again, and still there will be Itchy Colors. :/
Flowers are VeryGood to look at and LessFun to share air with.
But I am fine really so that's okays.
and the person walking with me had not been to the pond before and made happy awww noises whenever they did a duck like thing :-)
and then I did not write about it at the time because I got home and realised it is the season when I need to wash every bit of me I do not cover well, and then wash it again, and still there will be Itchy Colors. :/
Flowers are VeryGood to look at and LessFun to share air with.
But I am fine really so that's okays.
Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
Apr. 7th, 2026 10:03 amicon_uk posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
scans_dailyIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
The Artemis II mission continues to be a moving and powerful testament to human capability, with some amazing visuals, and some reassuring human touches like naming one of the newly discovered features on the dark side of the moon after the Commander's late wife, and also how to deal with MS Outlook running two instances when you only want one.
Back on Earth, the President of the USA celebrated Easter by using expletives on a social media post, whilst at the same time threatening what are legally war crimes against the civilian infrastructure of Iran, AND mocking Islam. Not a trifecta I had hoped to ever see.
And whilst my personal interest in football (soccer for American readers) remains negligible, I can respect fannish obsession, and this definitely qualifies!
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
The Artemis II mission continues to be a moving and powerful testament to human capability, with some amazing visuals, and some reassuring human touches like naming one of the newly discovered features on the dark side of the moon after the Commander's late wife, and also how to deal with MS Outlook running two instances when you only want one.
Back on Earth, the President of the USA celebrated Easter by using expletives on a social media post, whilst at the same time threatening what are legally war crimes against the civilian infrastructure of Iran, AND mocking Islam. Not a trifecta I had hoped to ever see.
And whilst my personal interest in football (soccer for American readers) remains negligible, I can respect fannish obsession, and this definitely qualifies!
DC Implosion: JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #52 (JLI 79)
Apr. 6th, 2026 10:24 amtcampbell1000 posting in scans_daily
Content warning for fat-shaming and, oh, just a boatload of failure to move past childhood trauma.
With the upcoming “Breakdowns” storyline and their upcoming exit, Giffen and DeMatteis (and Jones) got interested in destructive themes. But “Breakdowns” will be about throwing external issues at the Leaguers. JLA #52, “The Battle of the
( Some say the world will end in Fire, some say in Ice…some say, with a screaming fit in a boxing ring. )
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Apr. 6th, 2026 01:19 pmbeccaelizabethI finished rereading Ancillary Mercy this morning and when I went to check my catalog I gave some of the three books about half a star higher than I had before, except the one I rated 5 already. And I think I like them better this time because I read Translation State. Translaters aren't just quirky weird now, they're, well, really difficult to translate, and having the same problem reading everyone in the story. Knowing the new stuff it is just a Very Different experience, reading them again.
So that is cool.
Also today I tried to put my hands on a piece of paper I was sure I'd put right under the TV but I couldn't find it so I went through All The Paper. All.
Then I gave up and sat down
and found it immediately
right where I would see it from the chair.
Well done earlier me, I was not to know I would not belazy sitting this once.
April is annoying the way all the numbers change, I have several number change things to do this week, but at least I have rediscovered the paperwork for it.
So that is cool.
Also today I tried to put my hands on a piece of paper I was sure I'd put right under the TV but I couldn't find it so I went through All The Paper. All.
Then I gave up and sat down
and found it immediately
right where I would see it from the chair.
Well done earlier me, I was not to know I would not be
April is annoying the way all the numbers change, I have several number change things to do this week, but at least I have rediscovered the paperwork for it.
Objection! Facts not in evidence
Apr. 5th, 2026 08:03 pmzylly posting in scans_dailyDaredevil's back with a new volume and the first issue was very good. But there was one panel that made me laugh out loud...
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Easy Pickings
Apr. 4th, 2026 05:40 pmcyberghostface posting in scans_daily
This was a bit of a mini-saga online last year. An artist did a comic that was somewhat controversial and it resulted in other artists doing their own takes on it.
( Comics under the cut... )
Yada Yada Yada: JUSTICE LEAGUE QUARTERLY #10-11 (JLI 78)
Apr. 4th, 2026 11:33 amtcampbell1000 posting in scans_daily
Bu-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dooWAAAA-WAAA, bu-doo DADADADADADUM, DA-DUM! Okay, we'll get to the Seinfeldian part a bit later. ( In a parallel universe, teleporter Kramer can enter any space abruptly, bad dancer Elaine can shatter mountains with her movements, liar George can manipulate the perception of truth until an enemy’s mind collapses, and observational comedian Jerry…sums it all up in a pithy way that leaves you feeling smarter than everyone else. )
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Apr. 4th, 2026 10:22 ambeccaelizabethIn the process of stirring the books so the ones I can see and reach are in fact the ones I want to reread
I made enough space there is an empty shelf
but below the edge of the bed, where I am unlikely to check.
So I Pondered, and now down there I have put
all remaining Anita Blake books
and a collection of books where I bought the first one by that author but am unlikely to buy their others.
there's nothing wrong with those books, I'd have sold them if I didn't want them, but I didn't feel inspired to go find what else they wrote.
Or in the case of that book about necromancers and cavaliers I did get them, but as ebooks, and I am not in the fandon even if I can see they're doing something fun.
So. I am probably going to forget what is down there. But what is down there is: assorted things where I didn't get book two on paper. A trilogy I don't really remember. And a series where I have only kept the first nine.
I also got the torch out to find out what the bottom shelf is on the other two cases, and one is the rest of the Neil Gaiman and David Gemmell books.
I may well not need to keep all the Gaiman, considering.
Also, I really need to dust.
I am rereading Ann Leckie Ancillary books now. Just finished the first one and was pondering if I shall start the second before Wait For Shopping Hour. Reckon I shall.
I made enough space there is an empty shelf
but below the edge of the bed, where I am unlikely to check.
So I Pondered, and now down there I have put
all remaining Anita Blake books
and a collection of books where I bought the first one by that author but am unlikely to buy their others.
there's nothing wrong with those books, I'd have sold them if I didn't want them, but I didn't feel inspired to go find what else they wrote.
Or in the case of that book about necromancers and cavaliers I did get them, but as ebooks, and I am not in the fandon even if I can see they're doing something fun.
So. I am probably going to forget what is down there. But what is down there is: assorted things where I didn't get book two on paper. A trilogy I don't really remember. And a series where I have only kept the first nine.
I also got the torch out to find out what the bottom shelf is on the other two cases, and one is the rest of the Neil Gaiman and David Gemmell books.
I may well not need to keep all the Gaiman, considering.
Also, I really need to dust.
I am rereading Ann Leckie Ancillary books now. Just finished the first one and was pondering if I shall start the second before Wait For Shopping Hour. Reckon I shall.
I(nvidious) Q(uarantine): JUSTICE LEAGUE QUARTERLY #9 (JLI 77)
Apr. 2nd, 2026 11:06 amtcampbell1000 posting in scans_daily
Warning for animal abuse, homelessness, trans issues (sometimes handled with offensive cluelessness), and implied child sexual abuse. Not all in the same story, though, this ain’t Crossed.
“Frenzy” by Mark Waid and Rod Wigham is a tense sci-fi thriller with a dynamite elevator pitch: Which of these six trapped heroes will kill the other five?
( You might think the answer is ‘‘obviously Guy Gardner,’’ but maybe that’s just what they want you to think. )
Translation State, by Ann Leckie
Apr. 2nd, 2026 04:21 pmbeccaelizabethI said I should do something other than read a book, then I went and read a book.
Translation State, by Ann Leckie
Very good, and deeply weird. Kind of disturbing but partly because it makes the uncomfortable bits seem really ordinary for one of the more alien points of view. And just when you start thinking that yeah they're basically human things go full weird and they're really really really distinctive.
Good story.
Read it all in a row and now have to notice I have a tiny headache and possibly should have ate a food or something in there.
Shall go chug a ribena now...
Translation State, by Ann Leckie
Very good, and deeply weird. Kind of disturbing but partly because it makes the uncomfortable bits seem really ordinary for one of the more alien points of view. And just when you start thinking that yeah they're basically human things go full weird and they're really really really distinctive.
Good story.
Read it all in a row and now have to notice I have a tiny headache and possibly should have ate a food or something in there.
Shall go chug a ribena now...
Butterfly Effects by Seanan McGuire
Apr. 2nd, 2026 06:09 ambeccaelizabethI started and finished Butterfly Effects by Seanan McGuire with only one necessary sleep in the middle.
Mum bought it for me for christmas (pre order, but had to reorder when the pre got cancelled) so she brought it over when it arrived at her house.
I liked the book well. I gave it 4.5 stars on librarything and the half star is because I felt a bit ambivalent about Fixing Things.
Having written and deleted this paragraph a few times I'm now sure the story did a fair working through of its consequences and paid proper attention to the emotions and practicalities in this 'verse and then opened out a new set of stories, so really it's just me having feelings.
It's tricky doing consequences in a fantasy 'verse, if everything is possible sometimes it can feel arbitrary or like only your favourites or the ones with plot armour get their chances. But this story went to visit a whole world built around being able to do what one special character can do in the usual setting, and poked the consequences with a judicious stick, so that's properly built now.
I am as usual inclined to go back to the beginning of at least one of Seanan's series and reread the lot.
They are good reading and the point of view characters are varied and distinctive and would acknowledge my existence as an actual person with thoughts on the inside, which I am appreciating more having tried rereading some other stuff lately.
I think I need to do some things that are not reading soon and for a while.
But this read has been fun.
Mum bought it for me for christmas (pre order, but had to reorder when the pre got cancelled) so she brought it over when it arrived at her house.
I liked the book well. I gave it 4.5 stars on librarything and the half star is because I felt a bit ambivalent about Fixing Things.
Having written and deleted this paragraph a few times I'm now sure the story did a fair working through of its consequences and paid proper attention to the emotions and practicalities in this 'verse and then opened out a new set of stories, so really it's just me having feelings.
It's tricky doing consequences in a fantasy 'verse, if everything is possible sometimes it can feel arbitrary or like only your favourites or the ones with plot armour get their chances. But this story went to visit a whole world built around being able to do what one special character can do in the usual setting, and poked the consequences with a judicious stick, so that's properly built now.
I am as usual inclined to go back to the beginning of at least one of Seanan's series and reread the lot.
They are good reading and the point of view characters are varied and distinctive and would acknowledge my existence as an actual person with thoughts on the inside, which I am appreciating more having tried rereading some other stuff lately.
I think I need to do some things that are not reading soon and for a while.
But this read has been fun.
Batman #7
Apr. 1st, 2026 12:50 pmcyberghostface posting in scans_daily
"There's something I believe Grant Morrison came up with in Arkham Asylum with Dave McKean: that the Joker has super-sanity; he has to reinvent himself every day to try and keep up with all the stimuli the world throws at him that he can't regulate. And I have a friend who's a neurobiologist, and we were talking about stuff, and I read things about people with profound, untreatable depression issues.
"And this guy built a cap that regulates electricity. He had a patient whose entire life was depressive episodes, suicide attempts, institutionalisations, in an endless cycle, and at some point, on an MRI or a CT scan or something, he saw that some part of her brain wasn't lighting up as it should be. And he went to RadioShack and just made it; it literally just pings the dark parts of her mind. And at the time of the article, her life had changed. She had held a job for more than one year, and she was engaged to be married, like everything was different for this woman. It's just kind of playing with all this stuff like, what if that super sanity is generating like all this electrical activity beyond what people are supposed to have in your brain, and that's why he's so thin all the time, he's like just burning like a marathon's worth of calories every day, just being alive… And what happens if you stop that? That's where we meet our boy is in a tube, and because now his metabolism has stopped, he's not wraith-like and thin anymore." -- Matt Fraction
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