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1) I enjoyed watching Emma Thompson's arrival on Colbert's show, and also her rant about how AI keeps trying to change her writing. "“And so I end up just going, ‘I don’t need you to f**king rewrite what I’ve just written! Will you f*** off? Just f*** off" "Colbert then jokingly suggested that Thompson show her computer the Academy Award she won for her screenwriting on the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility, which made her the only person to ever win an Oscar for both acting and writing."

2) Watched a Donna Summers' documentary, which was pretty uninformative. I knew little about her career so some of the info was new, but hardly anything was explored. ( Read more... )

3) Also saw the new 2025 documentary about LiveAid. I already knew a fair amount about it but given there were new interviews there were still some new bits. ( Read more... )

4) Had an afternoon with everything higgledy piggeldy. Got a call mid-afternoon from the leasing office that the utility company needed to make repairs to a transformer by our building. It would mean a 2-hour electricity cut off. So I got off the computer and decided to run the TV and finish exercises while I was waiting. But despite being told the power would be off in about 15 minutes, we still had power an hour later. My partner wasn't sure whether to stay late at work or come home. And if he did, we'd have to either eat snacks or wait for power to come back since we wouldn't want to open the fridge or freezer. ( Read more... )

5) A bit of hope that major money can be gotten out of politics, via a legal case. "Corporations exist with the express permission of the state in which they are incorporated. They are legal inventions, statutorily-created entities. They only have as much power as the states grant them.

That means the answer to Citizens United may be staring everyone straight in the face. After all, the states—and this Supreme Court majority is for “states’ rights” after all—by definition have the final say over what corporations may do in their states. As noted by the Center for American Progress, which backs campaign finance law reforms, “Corporations are pure creatures of state law. And for more than two centuries, the Supreme Court has affirmed that states have virtually unlimited authority to modify and withdraw the powers they grant to their corporations.”

Why couldn’t that authority include never granting corporations the power to spend money on political contributions in the first place?"

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Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

A — And The World Has Changed So Much Since You've Been Gone (Yellowjackets, Jeff. I really want to see this in canon)
B — Be Devil May Care, Fulfil Your Dream (The Way Home. My newest show)
C — Caught Somewhere In Time (Dark. This is the one I've been agonising over for ages because it's taking me towards an ending I started this trying to avoid. Moral of the story is to never mess with a timeline as complicated as Dark's.)
D — Dominic Cummings's Leaving Present (Real cat fiction, Larry the Cat. These got me through lockdowns)
E — Everything That's Broke, Leave It to The Breeze (Sweet Valley High, Bruce/Amy. Because this loose end needed tying up)
F — Five People Sawyer Visited Off-Island In The 1970s (Lost. Because obviously he would have.)
G — Got A Secret, Can You Keep It (Control Z)
H — Heavenly Hosts Sing Alleluia (Doctor Who. A sequel to Voyage of the Damned)
I — In Violet's Place (Light as a Feather. I'm actually revisiting this for spook_me)
J — Just To Get It All Out What's In My Head (Yellowjackets, Taissa/Van)
K — Knock, Knock, Knocking On Heaven's Door (The Haunting of Hill House)
L — Loophole (Lost/From crossover. Because what better punishment for Smokey McSmokeFace than trapping him in the From town with those things?)
M — Maybe, You're Gonna Be The One That Saves Me (Being Human UK/Lost crossover. Because Mitchell and Charlie had their common ground and they needed to meet.)
N — No One Here Is Free (From, the history of Colony House, written for sunshine_revival prompt to write a house's POV)
O — Our Lives Will Change When Tomorrow Comes, Tonight Our Hearts Drown the Distant Drums (Lost, Desmond/Sayid, my ultimate OTP)
P — Please Don't Bother Trying To Find Her, She's Not There (School Spirits, Simon, a S2 prediction before it aired).
Q — Q is for Quiet (Pretty Little Liars, Bethany. Part of a series.)
R — Reverse Flashpoint (The Flash. This is the hill I will die on. Eobard should have manipulated Nora into giving Barry the cure, and Cicada could have been skipped altogether.)
S — Sing With Me The Songs We Knew (Hunger Games-verse, Haymitch)
T — The Thunder Cracks, And The Sea Is Rolling (The Wilds. Because the Twilight of Adam group deserve some love.)
U — Uncomfortably Numb (Lost, Locke)
V — V is for Vengeance (Pretty Little Liars, Charlotte).
W — Will The World Remember You When You Fall, Could It Be Your Death Means Nothing At All? (Hunger Games, Chaff and Haymitch the night before the Quarter Quell. A personal favourite)
X — X is for X-ray (Pretty Little Liars, Wren. From what I remember, it did take me a while to come up with an X at the time.)
Y — You're Brand New, The Power of Death Couldn't Hold You (School Spirits, Maddie)
Z — Zelena Street (Once Upon a Time, Zelena. Inspired by a real trip to Bratislava)

So, I managed it. Having said that, back in 2014 I did set out to write an alphabet series (titles in the same format as Sue Grafton's alphabet series, which I've read most of and planning to finish over the next few weeks). She didn't end up making it to Z, I did. So I did end up using that series for three letters (I was a bit surprised that one of them ended up being V because I didn't think that was obscure. I think I need to go back to cross posting my old Lost fics to AO3 where they'll be easier to find, I still have a lot that haven't been done.)

Quite a few of these are from the Ultimate Top Five (Lost, Dark, From, Yellowjackets and School Spirits) but some from others as well.

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