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Just for me, I want to be able to find it again. I've just had it sitting in a tab, and I am trying to tidy up.

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Owls and I posted Chapter 7 of 'Meet the Neighbours', our Doctor Who/Good Omens crossover fic! 🤗🤗🤗

Overall summary, for anyone who might be curious:

Missy and the Doctor move to the South Downs. Aziraphale and Crowley are their neighbours.

That's it, that's the set-up.

(Show canon, what show canon?)

78 years of the ongoing Nakba.

Not sure what to write, so have a couple of links:

For people in the UK: Write to your MP
We need your support for a new Early Day Motion (EDM) marking 78 years since the start of the Nakba, which has been tabled by Iqbal Mohamed MP with cross-party sponsorship.

And if you ever wanted to buy a kufiya, this is the place to get one:

Hirbawi Shop

So, tomorrow is Good Omens Day. I don't know how to feel. To be honest, I kept forgetting it was happening.

I'm sad that this lovely show now has such a dark shadow cast over it. I'm sad that we only get 90 minutes instead of 6 episodes, all thanks to NG being a monster. I hope that the victims somehow manage to get closure and some kind of recompense. And it feels ridiculous to care about a TV show in the light of what he did.

So I debated a lot over whether to watch.

In the end, I think what swayed me was the fact that it was Terry Pratchett's family who intervened and managed to salvage a 90 minute special out of the axed 6 episode season. And - like with Buffy (or any of Joss' shows) - the people involved (actors, director, crew etc) were not responsible for the actions of the creator. ETA: Of course, NG isn't involved in S3 in any way, but also - he isn't involved, and he was the keeper of the vision. OTOH there has been some truly excellent fic over the years, and with Rachel Talalay as director the end result should be good.

But, it's a difficult calculation, and I understand anyone who has added it all up and come to a different decision. I don't know if I will write about it, guess it depends what the story does.

My hope is that it manages to do what Serenity did for Firefly - tell a complete story and wrap everything up, rather than be something clearly cut down and rushed. (I loved S2 of OFMD, but you could tell how they were speed-running certain parts.)

Honestly, all I want is a happy ending. That's it. 🏡 For everything else, there is fic.

From reddit: Jameela Jamil challenges the idea that women are naturally submissive and obedient

Did you know that Private Eye has a podcast?

Main page and on YouTube. A lot of good commentary.

ETA: ‘In the days of old, the world was safe’: West Bank family’s enduring unity.

What I didn't have on my bingo card for 2026 was AI LEGO videos from Iran... (Probably the only use of AI slop that I would defend.) I hope they have educated many people on issues they might otherwise not know. (Yes they're propaganda, but when speaking about the rot in America they are not wrong.)

Now there are many, many videos, but this one's my favourite:


Same sun rising, but we're living in hell,
while the leaders are ringing the funeral bell.
Love for the people, but the system must cease,
from Tehran to DC, we're screaming for peace...

~

I don't feel like writing any essays on the situation, but I still vividly remember the Green Movement in 2009. (Just follow the tag to see my posts from back then.) It's where this icon is from. Remember watching the news with hope and terror, seeing the sea of people protesting and thinking that surely they would win?

And then they didn't.

I have re-uploaded a video from back then (8.81MB):

My Elementary Schoolmate.flv

My Elementary Schoolmate.mov

My Elementary Schoolmate.wmv

Content/trigger warning: The footage is exclusively from the 2009 protests. Very raw and powerful, and a lot of violence and injury.

The song is from 1979, and apparently they were singing again during the Green Revolution. (Lyrics here.)

So yeah. The Iranians know a lot about living under a repressive regime... A regime that America/the West is responsible for.


ETA: The sophistication of the LEGO videos is what gets me. America (and Israel, let's not forget) is trying to bomb a people into submission or rebellion. (Bombing a school is... not the way to achieve this.)

Whereas Iranian creators are doing something much cleverer: They are not only exposing the elites and the crimes, but highlighting all the flaws in the system, the bloodstained history of the colonisers: You are a victim too. ('We share the same pain...')

More videos, but I am putting them under the cut:

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Happy Birthday Sir David Attenborough! Congratulations on the century. 👑

A couple of things from the BBC:

King and Queen lead tributes for David Attenborough's 100th birthday

Attenborough: The risk-taker who changed how we see Earth