Lean On Me
Feb. 26th, 2026 02:00 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
cakewrecks_feedEverybody clap your hands and sway a little, k?
Some guys and their wives
See only shame
See only sorrrrrow
But if they are wise
they know that wrecks
Are so much more, oh!
Lean on me
When you're stacked wrong!
And I'll be your end
I'll mock you WITH this song
For
It won't be lo-oo-ong
Until gravity
Makes sure that you're cleeean gone!
Please, don't tell the bride
If it's a wreck, it needs no intro
For
no one can tell; maybe she'll need
something sweet to throw!
Lean on me!
When you're stacked wrong
And I'll be your end
I'll mock you WITH this song
For
It won't be long
Until gravity
Makes sure that you're clean gone!
You just call on your mother
When you need a hand
These cakes need somebody to leeeean on!
I just might have a Pisa
That we never planned
These cakes need somebody to leeean on!
Just faaaalll free!
(If you need to end)
Faaaaallll free
Oh, wreck it, now!
Faa-AAA-aalll
free-ee-eeeeee!!
Thanks to Steve, Deanne M., James N., Rachel O., Jessica R., Carol Anne, Kat B., Richard B., Anony M., & Rebecca Z. for the wedding crash course.
[Get it? Instead of 'main course?' Eh? OH C'MON THAT WAS AWESOME.]
*****
P.S. Anyone want to bring vintage style pins back? Because this entire set of 7 lovelies is only $12:
OooOOOooh. I think the owl is my favorite. And the peacock. And the dragonfly.
*****
And from my other blog, Epbot:
Wonder Man
Feb. 25th, 2026 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sholioI watched this over the last couple of days. (8 30-minute episodes on D+.) It's really unusual - not like anything else in Marvel's backlist. Somehow it felt like it belonged to a different era, like the type of superhero show that might've been made in the 70s or 80s. It's a comedy-drama-satire about two out of work actors trying to get a role on the superhero movie Wonder Man, which (in universe) is a remake of a cult hit show from a few decades ago. And that's about 90% of the plot. There is SOME other stuff going on which provides a superhero-related throughline for the movie, namely
But mostly it's just an indie-ish show about being an actor. It's unglamorous, it's full of slow-paced scenes of people doing ordinary things, trying out for parts, dealing with petty professional jealousy and eccentric directors, having long conversations in cars. The staging and lighting and the very ordinary-looking supporting characters are all more art-film than Marvel movie. It's about people who love movies both personally and professionally, and know them inside and out. It's at least partly framed around Midnight Cowboy, at a showing of which the two protagonists meet, and it's also framed around beats from the script for the Wonder Man movie that the two are memorizing and acting out scenes from. At least some of the actors on the show are simply doing cameos as themselves, in the form of people that the protagonists might have plausibly run into in their careers.
I wasn't on board with every creative choice the show made, and in fact I sort of went back and forth between episodes on whether I actually liked it all that much (though I was sold by the end), but it's fascinating and thoughtful and interesting and a bit unpolished-feeling in a way that Marvel productions never feel anymore. In fact, the naturalistic dialogue and slightly clumsy/awkward way the characters relate to each other felt real enough that I would sometimes stumble a bit when it would hit a more typical Marvel beat, as it sometimes does, because it felt a little out of place.
I'm legitimately unsure who the target audience for this show is, and maybe so were Marvel's TPTB. I'm honestly surprised it got made at all.
( Some actual spoilers )
It made me remember how, in the early days of the MCU, it felt like the movies were all doing something different and being something different, and then they just all kinda came to feel like the same thing. This one is doing something different and being something different - in this case: 1970s arthouse film - and even if I wasn't on board with everything, I liked what it was doing and being.
spoilers for things revealed in the first couple of episodes
one of the actors (the protagonist) actually does have superpowers and is hiding it because in the MCU, super-powered individuals have to carry insane amounts of liability insurance to work in Hollywood and no production would hire him; and the other is spying for the government. So obviously both of these things provide the show's main sources of will they? won't they? who'll find out? tension.But mostly it's just an indie-ish show about being an actor. It's unglamorous, it's full of slow-paced scenes of people doing ordinary things, trying out for parts, dealing with petty professional jealousy and eccentric directors, having long conversations in cars. The staging and lighting and the very ordinary-looking supporting characters are all more art-film than Marvel movie. It's about people who love movies both personally and professionally, and know them inside and out. It's at least partly framed around Midnight Cowboy, at a showing of which the two protagonists meet, and it's also framed around beats from the script for the Wonder Man movie that the two are memorizing and acting out scenes from. At least some of the actors on the show are simply doing cameos as themselves, in the form of people that the protagonists might have plausibly run into in their careers.
I wasn't on board with every creative choice the show made, and in fact I sort of went back and forth between episodes on whether I actually liked it all that much (though I was sold by the end), but it's fascinating and thoughtful and interesting and a bit unpolished-feeling in a way that Marvel productions never feel anymore. In fact, the naturalistic dialogue and slightly clumsy/awkward way the characters relate to each other felt real enough that I would sometimes stumble a bit when it would hit a more typical Marvel beat, as it sometimes does, because it felt a little out of place.
I'm legitimately unsure who the target audience for this show is, and maybe so were Marvel's TPTB. I'm honestly surprised it got made at all.
( Some actual spoilers )
It made me remember how, in the early days of the MCU, it felt like the movies were all doing something different and being something different, and then they just all kinda came to feel like the same thing. This one is doing something different and being something different - in this case: 1970s arthouse film - and even if I wasn't on board with everything, I liked what it was doing and being.
Daily Check-In
Feb. 25th, 2026 06:04 pmstarwatcher posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fandom_checkinThis is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, February 25, to midnight on Thursday, February 26. (8pm Eastern Time).
Poll #34292 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 22
How are you doing?
I am OK.
15 (68.2%)
I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
7 (31.8%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans live with you?
I am living single.
8 (36.4%)
One other person.
8 (36.4%)
More than one other person.
6 (27.3%)
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
What I'm Doing Wednesday
Feb. 25th, 2026 05:28 pmsagebooks
The Tyrant Philosophers #1: City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky. 2022. Incredibly hard to tell the characters apart. Hard to get into. Not sure if I'm going to give book 2 a try.
The Vampire Lestat
The new trailer is out! So much to look forward to!
yarning
Missed yarn group again. Made a new Rockstar Lestat, so slowly. Sold 2 bunnies, a catnip kiss, and a catnip heart where I had to order the yarn to make it in a hurry yesterday. And sold a made to order bunny that I'm working on now. Still haven't started the Easter carrots order. No progress on the bunny for the new kitten academy momcat, who gave birth last night. New commissions on 2 more kickbunnies for down the line.
healthcrap
Still feeling super crummy. Tongue hurts. No energy. Migraine yesterday. Vertigo is slightly better.
Mercury Retrograde
Mercury stations retrograde today (in Pisces) and stations direct March 20. Plus there's an eclipse in Mercury-ruled Virgo in a few days. That's a lot of communications trouble coming our way.
#resist
+ March 28: #50501 No Kings Protest #3
I hope you're all doing well! <333
The Tyrant Philosophers #1: City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky. 2022. Incredibly hard to tell the characters apart. Hard to get into. Not sure if I'm going to give book 2 a try.
The Vampire Lestat
The new trailer is out! So much to look forward to!
yarning
Missed yarn group again. Made a new Rockstar Lestat, so slowly. Sold 2 bunnies, a catnip kiss, and a catnip heart where I had to order the yarn to make it in a hurry yesterday. And sold a made to order bunny that I'm working on now. Still haven't started the Easter carrots order. No progress on the bunny for the new kitten academy momcat, who gave birth last night. New commissions on 2 more kickbunnies for down the line.
healthcrap
Still feeling super crummy. Tongue hurts. No energy. Migraine yesterday. Vertigo is slightly better.
Mercury Retrograde
Mercury stations retrograde today (in Pisces) and stations direct March 20. Plus there's an eclipse in Mercury-ruled Virgo in a few days. That's a lot of communications trouble coming our way.
#resist
+ March 28: #50501 No Kings Protest #3
I hope you're all doing well! <333
Week 20
Feb. 25th, 2026 11:47 pmrogaNature continues to progress! New developments from the past two-ish weeks include ( shortly )
OTHERWISE:
-Winter Olympics were amazing, why do we only get them once every few years, how are snow and ice sports so beautiful and fascinating and aesthetically pleasing.
-I would like to read fic but honestly I have just fallen down the rabbit hole of m/m sports romance novels, starting with everything Rachel Reid has to offer, then KD Casey, now Ari Baran, and who knows what's next, with a slight detour into warm and cozy Kind by Hannah Leigh. I feel like at SOME POINT I should stop. If you ask me to tell apart all the different couples I've read about in the past 2 weeks I would be hard pressed to explain all the different characters and plots. And yet.
-Enjoying the new season of The Pitt and a few other show's I'm following, but nothing makes me as happy (and heartbroken, but mostly happy) entertainment-wise as watching a new episode of Shrinking every week. Just, how is that show so good.
-Nature! It's one of the warmest winters I can recall, less rain and warmer weather and a shorter green period, but there are still winter flowers, and I do my best to hike and picnic on the weekends as much as I can. This past weekend I went up to the Golan with a friend, just 2 days of walking around the peace and quiet of the green green north, which was incredibly lovely. The weather makes it constantly feel like Passover is just around the corner, which is disorienting and kind of nice and kind of not.
On Saturday I went to an incredible production of Cabaret. It's one of my favorite musicals to see in live theater, and this production really was incredibly, 360-stage Kit Kat Club and all, and I might have written more if I weren't falling asleep but I very much am, alas.
OTHERWISE:
-Winter Olympics were amazing, why do we only get them once every few years, how are snow and ice sports so beautiful and fascinating and aesthetically pleasing.
-I would like to read fic but honestly I have just fallen down the rabbit hole of m/m sports romance novels, starting with everything Rachel Reid has to offer, then KD Casey, now Ari Baran, and who knows what's next, with a slight detour into warm and cozy Kind by Hannah Leigh. I feel like at SOME POINT I should stop. If you ask me to tell apart all the different couples I've read about in the past 2 weeks I would be hard pressed to explain all the different characters and plots. And yet.
-Enjoying the new season of The Pitt and a few other show's I'm following, but nothing makes me as happy (and heartbroken, but mostly happy) entertainment-wise as watching a new episode of Shrinking every week. Just, how is that show so good.
-Nature! It's one of the warmest winters I can recall, less rain and warmer weather and a shorter green period, but there are still winter flowers, and I do my best to hike and picnic on the weekends as much as I can. This past weekend I went up to the Golan with a friend, just 2 days of walking around the peace and quiet of the green green north, which was incredibly lovely. The weather makes it constantly feel like Passover is just around the corner, which is disorienting and kind of nice and kind of not.
On Saturday I went to an incredible production of Cabaret. It's one of my favorite musicals to see in live theater, and this production really was incredibly, 360-stage Kit Kat Club and all, and I might have written more if I weren't falling asleep but I very much am, alas.
Wednesday Reading Meme
Feb. 25th, 2026 03:02 pmsinealaWhat I Just Finished Reading
Nothing, unless you count rereading Avengers: Endless Wartime for the 616 server book club. Am I counting that? I guess so. Fuck it. It's really bad.
What I'm Reading Now
Comics Wednesday!
( Iron Man #2, Sorcerer Supreme #3, Ultimates #21, Wiccan Witches Road #3 )
What I'm Reading Next
I am hoping at some point to have enough brain energy to make it through a real book. I am also hoping to have enough brain energy to write some kind of update about my brain. Neither of these things have happened yet, but I now have enough energy to occasionally reblog things on Tumblr.
Nothing, unless you count rereading Avengers: Endless Wartime for the 616 server book club. Am I counting that? I guess so. Fuck it. It's really bad.
What I'm Reading Now
Comics Wednesday!
( Iron Man #2, Sorcerer Supreme #3, Ultimates #21, Wiccan Witches Road #3 )
What I'm Reading Next
I am hoping at some point to have enough brain energy to make it through a real book. I am also hoping to have enough brain energy to write some kind of update about my brain. Neither of these things have happened yet, but I now have enough energy to occasionally reblog things on Tumblr.
catching up a bit
Feb. 25th, 2026 08:05 pmtrobadora- Exchanges:fffx is having a delay, and meanwhile highadrenalineexchange is in sign-ups. As things currently stand, FFFX should reveal right at the HA deadline, which isn't optimal, and if there's another delay, it will be even less optimal. Two 10k exchanges, overlapping - oops?
And yet somehow I'm still signing up for HA! Because I want to be writing, and I know it will reliably make me write. So far this year hasn't gone great writing-wise, and I need it to get better because I always feel better when I'm writing ...
Of course it may turn out that no one else signs up who wants anything I can write, and the whole thing will be moot anyway. *g* Fingers crossed! - Comments:
Over at the Guardian Slo-Mo Rewatch, things have gone a little more quiet in the comments than I'd like, but I can't exactly complain because I've been so busy I've fallen behind myself a few times. Including right now. And I'm also a bit behind on AO3 comments - on older stuff, that is; I'm caught up on my most recent fic, including the spam comment I got today. (It's so frustrating when there's so few comments to begin with, and then one of them is spam! *grumbles*) I'm going to see if I can catch up at least on some of it tonight.
How's everyone else doing? Anyone else doing HA?
Links List: Art, A.I., Misogyny (as separate categories)
Feb. 25th, 2026 08:55 ammuccamukkETA: Code Tour: 2024-12-01 to 2026-02-25. Some longed for fixes in there. Hopefully we get a code push soon.
Fun Art & Stuff!
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PBSVoices: How Navajo Weavers Keep an Ancient Art Alive (Video: 10 minutes).
Very cool! I don't know anything about Navajo weaving, and would love to watch a longer project about it.
spankulert: Icon post #122.
Including The X-Files, Star Treks: Starfleet Academy, Voyager + Discovery, Fallout and more.
Really nice to see the ST:SA icons!
NationalTheatre: Take Your Seats | Announcement | National Theatre at Home (Video: 30 seconds).
FINALLY! I believe it will go up on the NT's subscription streaming site after that.
The Tyee: They Lit the Path for Women Photographers.
A couple of exhibit reviews for shows I can't see. LOLSOB.
Nanaimo News Now: Nanaimo’s Maffeo Sutton Park shines during ‘Lighting a Path’ public art exhibit.
Really cool way to do an art show!
Dead Language Society: How far back in time can you understand English?
I made it to like the fourteen hundreds. I'm sure most of you can get further back.
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ecc-poetry/Elisa Chavez: What You Need to Be Warned (Or: Inventory and Appraisement of Neil Gaiman, Hereafter "Decedent").
I'm going to nominate this for a poetry Hugo. I'm haunted by the line:
Technology Bullshit:
The Conversation: This TikTok star sharing Australian animal stories doesn't exist – it's AI Blakface.
Fantastic. Just what Indigenous communities need: computer-generated Pretendians.
Electronic Frontier Foundation: So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
Advice for how to proceed with age verifications, since that's going to be part of our fucking lives now.
The Tyee: AI Is the Elephant in the Newsroom. How Are Journalists Reacting?
404 Media: This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby.
You might have to get a free account to see this? Anyway, nice that people are trying to code around other people's appalling privacy violations? Even if you don't get the app (which I haven't), good info about the stupid smart glasses.
Gender Bullshit (mostly men, tbh):
Comics Beat: Multiple women accuse Spider-Gwen co-creator Jason Latour of misconduct.
This is actually a few years old, but I'd missed it at the time (or forgotten it entirely). FFS.
Maureen Ryan on BlueSky:
Thread about how real journalism is supposed to work. In this section due to the inciting incident.
The Politics of Dancing: Abuse is still rife in dance music: Here's how we break the cycle.
Great essay about structural problems.
The Tyee: SOGI Is Under Attack. Educators Say It’s Never Been More Needed.
It's a municipal and school board election year in B.C., and I think we're in for a fucking fight. PROTECT OUR KIDS!
Fun Art & Stuff!
This short film follows two Navajo weavers whose work preserves memory, identity, and ancestral knowledge.
Very cool! I don't know anything about Navajo weaving, and would love to watch a longer project about it.
spankulert: Icon post #122.Including The X-Files, Star Treks: Starfleet Academy, Voyager + Discovery, Fallout and more.
Really nice to see the ST:SA icons!
On Thursday 12 March (7pm GMT), lose yourself in the hit production of The Importance of Being Earnest at our free YouTube premiere. Can’t make it? The stream will remain accessible on demand, for free, for one week only.
FINALLY! I believe it will go up on the NT's subscription streaming site after that.
The Tyee: They Lit the Path for Women Photographers.
A couple of exhibit reviews for shows I can't see. LOLSOB.
Nanaimo News Now: Nanaimo’s Maffeo Sutton Park shines during ‘Lighting a Path’ public art exhibit.
Really cool way to do an art show!
Dead Language Society: How far back in time can you understand English?
I made it to like the fourteen hundreds. I'm sure most of you can get further back.
I'm going to nominate this for a poetry Hugo. I'm haunted by the line:
Even at your worst, you are replaceable.
Technology Bullshit:
The Conversation: This TikTok star sharing Australian animal stories doesn't exist – it's AI Blakface.
Fantastic. Just what Indigenous communities need: computer-generated Pretendians.
Electronic Frontier Foundation: So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
Advice for how to proceed with age verifications, since that's going to be part of our fucking lives now.
The Tyee: AI Is the Elephant in the Newsroom. How Are Journalists Reacting?
Ask yourself, why are you using the tool to do this? Do I have nine other things to do, and this will make my life faster? Or am I trying not to pay a journalist?
404 Media: This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby.
You might have to get a free account to see this? Anyway, nice that people are trying to code around other people's appalling privacy violations? Even if you don't get the app (which I haven't), good info about the stupid smart glasses.
Gender Bullshit (mostly men, tbh):
Comics Beat: Multiple women accuse Spider-Gwen co-creator Jason Latour of misconduct.
This is actually a few years old, but I'd missed it at the time (or forgotten it entirely). FFS.
Maureen Ryan on BlueSky:
'll just add, as someone who's been doing investigative reporting for decades, all publications doing real journalism (i.e., not a sockpuppet or Some Guy on the Internet)--they have MANY layers of editorial & legal review.
Thread about how real journalism is supposed to work. In this section due to the inciting incident.
The Politics of Dancing: Abuse is still rife in dance music: Here's how we break the cycle.
Great essay about structural problems.
The Tyee: SOGI Is Under Attack. Educators Say It’s Never Been More Needed.
It's a municipal and school board election year in B.C., and I think we're in for a fucking fight. PROTECT OUR KIDS!
Let's shriek about AI for a moment.
Feb. 25th, 2026 04:45 pmgoodbyebird+ Now there's daylight again and I've riffled through it plenty, here's my favorite cards from the Curious Travels Tarot.
You can't at all see the pearlescent shimmer the cardstock is infused with, but it is beautiful. Also this is a Claudia deck to me (I am not responsible for the connections my blender brain makes when I have a hyper fixation).
Spent last night going through my decks and if I see the opportunity to do so locally, there's a bunch of oracles and one tarot that just didn't work for me and I'd love to rehome. Very grumpy the one alternative shop that opened in town barely lasted a few months. Flip side my wish list has grown massive, and with some very much not mass market wants. Especially the Motherwitch Oracle, and both Wisdom of the Divine Feminine/Wisdom of the Shadow + workbook, and the Reclaim Oracle seems to align strongly with the kind of work I'd like to do.
For tarot decks there's less than a handful of strong wants, but it's not like my current decks can't cover that need. I'm really just being greedy there. (gotta keep reminding myself of that: girl your needs are MET). But also, so many fandom decks are happening. The Dune one already ambushed me.
Anyways, linkspam of Ew Gross/Boo Hiss? Yes?
+ AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations. (this is paywalled)
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases.
+ AI data centre growth could put UK net zero targets under fresh pressure.
...how 140 data centres are currently seeking grid connections with a combined peak demand of 50GW. That figure is striking because it is higher than Britain’s recent peak electricity demand of 45GW.
I know there's a very big queue of centres wanting to get built here as well. As if electricity isn't extravagantly expensive as is.
+ Oh hey, a somewhat cheerful one! 'Breweries using AI could put artists out of work'.
Following conversations with the Free Trade Inn, in Ouseburn, the two venues came together to announce on social media they would no longer be accepting AI art, including on bottles and pump clips, in order to try to protect local artists from losing out on work.
I really do need 2026 to be the year the bubble goes POP.
You can't at all see the pearlescent shimmer the cardstock is infused with, but it is beautiful. Also this is a Claudia deck to me (I am not responsible for the connections my blender brain makes when I have a hyper fixation).
Spent last night going through my decks and if I see the opportunity to do so locally, there's a bunch of oracles and one tarot that just didn't work for me and I'd love to rehome. Very grumpy the one alternative shop that opened in town barely lasted a few months. Flip side my wish list has grown massive, and with some very much not mass market wants. Especially the Motherwitch Oracle, and both Wisdom of the Divine Feminine/Wisdom of the Shadow + workbook, and the Reclaim Oracle seems to align strongly with the kind of work I'd like to do.
For tarot decks there's less than a handful of strong wants, but it's not like my current decks can't cover that need. I'm really just being greedy there. (gotta keep reminding myself of that: girl your needs are MET). But also, so many fandom decks are happening. The Dune one already ambushed me.
Anyways, linkspam of Ew Gross/Boo Hiss? Yes?
+ AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations. (this is paywalled)
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases.
+ AI data centre growth could put UK net zero targets under fresh pressure.
...how 140 data centres are currently seeking grid connections with a combined peak demand of 50GW. That figure is striking because it is higher than Britain’s recent peak electricity demand of 45GW.
I know there's a very big queue of centres wanting to get built here as well. As if electricity isn't extravagantly expensive as is.
+ Oh hey, a somewhat cheerful one! 'Breweries using AI could put artists out of work'.
Following conversations with the Free Trade Inn, in Ouseburn, the two venues came together to announce on social media they would no longer be accepting AI art, including on bottles and pump clips, in order to try to protect local artists from losing out on work.
I really do need 2026 to be the year the bubble goes POP.
The Labor of Love
Feb. 25th, 2026 02:00 pmcakewrecks_feedSure, you could go with rubber duckies and baby blocks, but that's sooo last decade. Today's shower cakes are all about the biology of baby-making: tasty and educational!
And while you're at it, why not congratulate dad, too?
Of course, mom also did her part:
Whoah, whoah, whoah! TMI, Dad, TMI!
You could even illustrate the whole process with the aid of disturbing plant analogies:
Raise your hand if you're going to have nightmares about daisies sprouting Alien-style from your midsection tonight. Anyone? Anyone? Just me? Alrighty, then.
Granted, the process doesn't always start exactly the same way:
Thank goodness that cup is labeled. Otherwise, we'd have some concerned coffee drinkers on our hands right about now.
And what does all this love math equal?
(No, your eyes do not deceive you: that IS a Fetal Bite cookie in that there uterus cake. Excellent.)
And that brings us to the Big, Life-Changing Moment!
AAAAAAUUUGGGHHHH!!
Yep, I'm changed for life.
Casey D., Heidi D., Hillary M., Kristin J., Jess, Shari W., & Tiffany D., when you're ready to have "the talk" with your kids, feel free to come back here for visual aids.
*****
This book has over 2,000 5-star reviews and looks absolutely hysterical, definitely bookmark it for the new parents in your life:
*****
And from my other blog, Epbot:
