The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, April 22

Apr. 22nd, 2025 07:51 pm
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MANNY: Gary's gone.
BUFFY: Gary. Oh, the guy that helped me out at the counter yesterday?
MANNY: He didn't show up this morning.
BUFFY: Well, shift's just starting.
MANNY: He was supposed to unlock early this morning. Didn't show. Pull his card.
BUFFY: Well, I'm, I'm sure, you know, he's just late. He didn't seem like he was leaving.
MANNY: I'm moving Timothy to counter. You're on grill.
BUFFY: Me?
MANNY: I've been watching you.
BUFFY: B-but I-I don't know how to grill.
MANNY: Just think. This is the last day you'll ever be able to say that.

~~Buffy Season 6 Episode #112: "DoubleMeat Palace"~~


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Recent Reading: The Starless Sea

Apr. 22nd, 2025 06:39 pm
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The most recent commute audiobook was The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, of The Night Circus fame (although admittedly I have not read that one yet). This is a fantasy novel about Zachary, a young man swept into the drama of a secret underground society and the mysterious figures who surround it.
 
I finished this book on Sunday morning, catching the last 7 minutes of a whopping 19-hour runtime over breakfast, and since then I've settled into a relative disappointment. On paper, this book has so many things that should make it an ace in the hole for me: Book lovers! Cats! Secret magical societies! Queer characters! Women who are something Other taking control of their destinies! And yet, overall, this book just did not land for me.
 
As is a risk, I think, with all stories that are about the power of stories, The Starless Sea comes off a little pretentious and self-important. It is a book lauding the unmatched importance of books. I felt aware at various points throughout the book of how hard it was trying to appeal to people like me, who would enjoy the idea of a dark-paneled underground room with endless books and an on-demand kitchen, and this sense of pandering did take away from it at times.
 
However, it also does some interesting things with regards to what it is like to be the person in a story (such as the fate of Eleanor and Simon, once their part in the story is done) as well as the risks of valuing preservation over change and growth. Without giving too much away, there is a secret society in decline, and a woman so determined to prevent its downfall that she ends up causing significant harm to the organization she's trying to save because she is unwilling to accept that an end comes for all things. I enjoyed this theme and I felt like it was echoed well throughout the story, and in many ways it's easy to sympathize with her ultimate goals, if not her methods.
 
 
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More signs of spring

Apr. 22nd, 2025 12:15 pm
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I saw my first garter snake and two snapping turtles near my local pond.
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday, April 21st

Apr. 21st, 2025 05:03 pm
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TARA: Every time I- even when I'm at my worst ... you always make me feel special. How do you do that?
WILLOW: Magic.

~~Family~~


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Bunny caught in passing on the lawn.

Apr. 20th, 2025 03:31 pm
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Taken on 16 July 2023 at 19:27 US Eastern Daylight Savings Time.




Bunnies are of course going to favor weedy green lawns over elegant stone yards punctuated with waxy sculptural ornamentals. This one looks like an Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus); Marsh Rabbits (S. palustris) (1), tend to have shorter ears, and my neighborhood strikes me as a bit too far from the water to attract them during the dry season.

It’s on alert, reacting sensibly to the arrival of a member of the deadliest of the Thousand, and so this was the only shot I was able to get before it went PATWINNNG! under the seagrape bed (the round-leaved shrub at center right, bordered by white river rocks.)

(1) Today I Learned the scientific name of the Lower Keys Marsh Rabbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvilagus_palustris_hefneri

Yes; that Hugh Hefner funded endangered rabbit research, and was commemorated accordingly.
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, April 20th

Apr. 20th, 2025 09:12 pm
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WESLEY: We'll look downstairs, but remember, if you find the vampire, it is a vicious animal. Just try to draw it in toward us. Don't worry. We'll win this day, I assure you.
FRED: I'm ready. I'm OK. Be cooler if we could score some weed, though.

~~Spin the Bottle~~



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Flowers

Apr. 19th, 2025 10:32 pm
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Meadowfoam and mimulus out on the Ranch in Northern California.


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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, April 19

Apr. 19th, 2025 10:58 pm
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ANGEL: A lot of pain?
SPIKE: More than I'd like. But not as much as you would. Just what I deserve.
ANGEL: I didn't say that.
SPIKE: No. I did. The lass thought I killed her family. And I'm supposed to what, complain 'cause hers wasn't one of the hundreds of families I did kill? I'm not sayin' you're right... 'cause, uh... I'm physically incapable of saying that. But, uh... for a demon... I never did think that much about the nature of evil. No. Just threw myself in. Thought it was a party. I liked the rush. I liked the crunch. Never did look back at the victims.
ANGEL: I couldn't take my eyes off them. I was only in it for the evil. It was everything to me. It was art. The destruction of a human being. I would've considered Dana a masterpiece.
SPIKE: What happens to her?
ANGEL: I don't know. Um, Andrew and the slayers took her. Didn't trust us to help her.
SPIKE: Andrew double-crossed us? That's a good move. Hope for the little ponce yet. Though the tingling in my forearms tells me she's too far gone to help. She's...one of us now. She's a monster.
ANGEL: She's an innocent victim.
SPIKE: So were we... once upon a time.
ANGEL: Once upon a time.

~~AtS 5x11 “Damage”~~



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Just Create - Lithograph Edition

Apr. 19th, 2025 12:56 pm
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What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?

Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?

What do you just want to talk about?

What have you been watching or reading?

Chores and other not-fun things count!

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The black swans are already in Tashkent

Apr. 19th, 2025 08:58 pm
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They have recently appeared in our city on the pond near the Japanese Garden.

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For more information (in Russian), see here.

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Chancy

Apr. 18th, 2025 11:42 pm
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Chancy by Louis L'Amour

Adventure in the Wild West.

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Recent Reading: Untold Night and Day

Apr. 18th, 2025 05:28 pm
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Book #7 from the "Women in Translation" rec list: Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah, translated from Korean by Deborah Smith.
 
Trying to accurately describe the plot of this book is an exercise in futility, so I'm not going to bother. All I can say is it centers around Ayami, a woman who is an actress, or maybe a poet, or possibly both, and is on her last day of work at an audio theater for the blind in Seoul.
 
This is a book I feel like I'd have to read at least one more time all the way through to be able to really discuss the themes and motifs at play. It's an incredibly cerebral novel that never gives up a clear answer about what's happening. What's real or not real changes from scene to scene. Is Ayami an orphan? Did she have a wealthy aunt? Is she the poet from Buha's youth? Is the director the bus driver? Who really got hit by the bus, and who was the murdered woman in the attic? Is Ayami Yeoni? The book leaves you to your own conclusions.
 
 
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, April 18th

Apr. 19th, 2025 12:55 am
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Cordelia: And if you're not too swamped with catching up you should come by the Bronze tonight.
Buffy: The who?
Cordelia: The Bronze. It's the only club worth going to around here. They let anybody in, but it's still the scene. It's in the bad part of town.
Buffy: Where's that?
Cordelia: About a half a block from the good part of town. (laughing) We don't have a whole lot of town here. But, um, you should show!

~~Welcome to the Hellmouth~~

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In the April woods

Apr. 18th, 2025 02:00 pm
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April Woods 8

Set off to follow the path through the oak woods in the rain. Only a gentle rain at first, not cold. Not much light this morning, but still the oaks and the birches bright with new leaves, and the woods full of the song of robins, blackbirds and thrushes.

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Remember where you were and what you were doing on 8 April 2024?

Apr. 18th, 2025 01:16 am
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I sure do!

I’m something of an astronomy nerd; you have to understand that the great solar eclipse of 8 April 2024 was something I’d been counting down to my whole life. In my native Dayton, Ohio, I’d gotten to witness the strange begrimed 40-watt sunlight (1) and dappled crescent shadows of the partial solar eclipses of 10 May 1994 and 21 August 2017, after having gotten a fleeting confirmatory glance through SolarShields under welder’s goggles: the exercise was a bit like hunting basilisks or Medusa.

Another point is that I’m acutely homesick for the seasonal markers of the place where I spent 90+% of my life: the violets and wild chives and flowering crabapples, and the two equinoctial yellows of Moraine honeylocusts: neon chartreuse foliage in the spring, and in the fall flaming saffron—turning to orange piles of cornflake crunch beneath the feet. Even the lawn weeds here are unfamiliar.

Until a couple years in advance—by which time it was too late—I had not anticipated that, by the time the total solar eclipse at long last came to Dayton, I would be gone; behold the southern Gulf Coast of Florida’s experience of the Grand Portentuous Celestial Event.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, April 17

Apr. 17th, 2025 09:40 pm
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Buffy: Sorry, Faith. I didn't realize that was you.
Faith: It's all right, B. Luckily, you still punch like you used to.

~~Dirty Girls~~



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Apr. 17th, 2025 08:32 pm
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Back for another round of Thursday Recs!

This week is a semi self-rec for [community profile] newcomers; I'm working with [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith to build up some resources there for people who are fleeing Tumblr—or at least giving the site some serious side-eye with the recent layoffs. If you're new to Dreamwidth or know someone who is considering it as a potential landing spot if Tumblr implodes, it's a good place to learn how this site works!


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Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, April 16

Apr. 16th, 2025 09:58 pm
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GILES: Buffy... Might I have a word?
BUFFY: Have a sentence, even.
GILES: (gets the joke) Oh. Good. Well, uh...

~~Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered~~



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Apr. 17th, 2025 12:42 am
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Subscription/Access Policy: all my posts are public right now, and anyone can subscribe/comment if they like!
About me/Other info: I've always been a fandom person, especially bands and fantasy TV. I'm an artist in many flavours and have long-term struggles with mental health so that's bound to come up too. I like reading, walking and overthinking, especially thanks to my interests in psychology, sociology and philosophy. 

I mostly post about: Currently, I only have personal posts on my blog. I intend to write about my personal life, including my mental health struggles and experience of grief, so please be aware of this if you want to subscribe! Otherwise, I intend to post about bands I like, TV, film, theatre, arts, poetry, literature, 
My hobbies are: acting, playing guitar and piano, singing, writing, reading, walking
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Bandom (Pre-plit Panic At The Disco, Fall Out Boy, FBR bands) with a main focus on Ryan Ross and THROAM, The Beatles, Classic Rock, BBC Merlin, Doctor Who, BBC Robin Hood, Stranger Things 
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 Merthur, Mclennon, THROAM!Ryden (I know, ridiculous thing to say, but true), 9/10/13th Doctor/Rose, Steddie, Ronance, 

I'm looking to meet people who: Share the same fandoms as me, especially Bandom/The Beatles folks right now. Also anyone interested in the arts or sharing random thoughts about life. 

My posting schedule tends to be: I just started, but whenever I have something to say, I guess!

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: hate speech, spam, discourse, pro-censorship, puritanism. 

Before adding me, you should know:
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  3. My blog will contain NSFW/uncensored material. 
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, April 15

Apr. 15th, 2025 08:55 pm
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Buffy : Riley! What are you doing here?
Riley : Well, I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to you after the party. You left so fast. You know, with your friend... Who's a boy.
Buffy : Uh, xander? He's not anyone that I... Want to talk about, right now. Um... You know, I don't want you taking this the wrong way... It's just, um... I need a little alone time now... Alone.
Riley : Why?
Buffy : I need space.
Riley : We're outdoors.
Buffy : Emotionally. (She pauses looking for something better to say and gives up.)I mean, emotionally...
Riley : You know, there's plenty of space back in your room why don't I take you? You wouldn't believe the weirdos out at this hour.
Buffy : Whoa! Ok... It's a free campus. Who died and made you John Wayne?
Riley : I'm just trying to help.
Buffy : You think I need help? Believe me, I don't. You know, if you were a real gentleman, then you would just leave. You would go far, far away, now! Shoo!

~~Buffy Episode #63: "The Initiative"~~


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