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feotakahariCWRU Sci-Fi Marathon liveblog 2026
Jan. 20th, 2026 03:07 amerinptahSpent the weekend at the 51st CWRU Sci-Fi Movie Marathon.
Like last year, I used the OpenVibe app to auto-crosspost my liveblogging to both Mastodon and Bluesky. The app has threading now! So these are in slightly-longer chunks of text than last year, because I could split a longer reaction across multiple threads and post them all at once.
…But the overall text is shorter, in part because I swear the breaks between movies were seriously cut down this year. There was a lot of “I had a longer thought here, but the next thing is already starting, so I have to finish typing as fast as possible (with my coat draped over my phone so the light isn’t bothering everyone else) and hit send.”
I'm playing Black Souls 2
Jan. 19th, 2026 01:26 pmfeotakahariThere's a different spell that briefly keeps you alive if your HP hits 0.
There's a boss that ignores both effects. I'm at level 999 with massive investment in HP ups, and he still hits for three times my max HP if I don't block. When I did block, using a different spell that makes blocking more effective, I discovered this attack is multihit.
I suppose it figures a rape porn game would actively hate the player.
Edit: A guide says Break works to stop this attack. I guess it just failed for some reason when I did it?
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Jan. 19th, 2026 10:04 amfeotakahariFandom was pissed the fuck off. Honestly, I would be too. What’s the point of one romance if it costs you six friendships?
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Jan. 16th, 2026 08:47 pmfeotakahariI specify “fantasy” because no impossible magical crime will ever be as disturbing as Lolita.
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Jan. 16th, 2026 05:31 pmfeotakahariA: [Something about how “TME” is a bad term]
B: You’re transphobic and don’t understand what it’s like to be a trans woman.
A: I’m a trans woman.
B: You’re a transphobic trans woman and that’s why trans women hate you.
There’s a lot more going on there, like B accusing A of being a Gamergater, but I think that’s the thrust of it.
What frustrates me is that it doesn’t seem like there’s a point where you could get B to evaluate A’s statement as an opinion rather than as a weapon of the enemy. You could find other trans women who agree with A, and you could find trans women who agree more with B but think A is just wrong rather than bigoted. But no matter how many you find, B could just keep saying all of them are transphobic and declare victory.
Fandom-dropping process, January report
Jan. 16th, 2026 01:45 amerinptahIt’s no longer the 15th of the month as I’m finishing this post…but I ran all the numbers on the 15th, so I’m counting it as a regular scheduled update.
I’ve finished one A-to-Z pass of “handing off and/or punting specific webcomics.” In total, that knocked a couple hundred fandoms off my list. Guess I’ll do another, go harder, and knock out a couple hundred more.
There was a point when I thought about starting a habit of “sweep the Unassigned Fandoms list for tiny underloved Christmas movies,” because sweeping for underloved webcomics was working well. Didn’t end up doing it regularly, though — I just got 12 movie fandoms with 1 fic each, and stopped there. So I dropped all of those in an afternoon. (In the years I was babysitting them, the most active of these fandoms came out with…a whole 2nd fic.)
I also dropped some Random Things that I picked up through the irregular process of “checked out a new canon, enjoyed it, went to see if there was any fic on AO3, found an unwrangled fandom with 1 work.” Stuff like Phoebe in Wonderland (2008), Gary and His Demons (Cartoon), or Her Voice is a Backwards Record – Ozy Brennan. They almost certainly won’t suffer if they stay unwrangled for a while.
(There’s still only one fic for Shadow Man – Melissa Scott…and it’s the one I wrote. Guess it’s depressingly safe to leave “the queer intersex revolution/romance where everyone’s on space drugs” unwrangled, huh.)
With bigger Random Things, when they’re active enough I don’t want to leave them unwrangled, I’ve been making the occasional post about “looking to hand off this fandom, will anybody take it?” Breaks up the monotony of the batches of webtoons, I think. And it’s had maybe a 50-50 success rate — not bad. I’ll keep at it.
…I did actually add 2 new fandoms since the last update. A couple fans wrote about the Toon Makers US Sailor Moon pilot for Yuletide 2025, so that has a fandom tag now, and I picked it up to go with the rest of the Sailor Moon fandom tree.
Then it came up in the “wranglers wanted” channel that Pet Shop of Horrors was unassigned. And how was I supposed to resist picking up PSOH? I love PSOH. That manga reread I just recently started will pair perfectly with a review of the existing PSOH tags.
So my current total number of fandoms is 1183. (The number of “fandoms that actually have any new tags to deal with right now” is 28.)
344 down, 733 more to go…