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Nyan Nyan Ji Temple, Kyoto
https://www.boredpanda.com/cat-temple-cafe-nekojizo-japan/
520 Yasekonoecho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 601-1253, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

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Cat Train Station

Neolithic site

Ninja museum

Ninja dojo

Incense ceremony
Tea ceremony

Antique stores

N.B. We are starting an hour early! (12:00 Eastern)

This Saturday's binge will feature Tatort Münster, Tatort Berlin, and Tatort München!

We'll be starting with Dornröschens Rache from Tatort Berlin, followed by Gott ist auch nur ein Mensch from Tatort Münster, finishing up with Wir sind die Guten from Tatort München.

Tatort means "Crime Scene" in German; it's an umbrella title for detective shows set in several different German cities. Tatort Münster is the most light-hearted and blatantly slashy, but other cities bring their own delights. These vids by Kerguelen will give you a taste:

Thiel/Boerne (Tatort Münster), "One Call Away"

Ritter/Stark (Tatort Berlin), "Love Will Keep Us Together"

So many Tatorts! So much slashiness!

The binge begins at ~~2 p.m.~~ 1 p.m. Eastern time (US) and usually runs until 5 or 6 pm. Here's the Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/91462849358?pwd=TzNLZnplUDFCcVVTUE96dzhmam9Odz09

I started this drama in November of last year and managed to finish it earlier this month. I watched it purely to see Liu Minting, a.k.a. Tim Minting, better known in Guardian fandom as the adorkable scientist Lin Jing, in a secondary role. I got to see more of him than I expected!

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The Escapade 35 Vid Show served up a delicious platter of fanvids!

I've made what observations and comments I can, but I would thoroughly appreciate any readers who are familiar with canons that I don't know, or don't know fully, jumping in to speak more accurately about works based on Wicked, Starsky & Hutch, Agatha All Along,The Professionals, The Terror, Dark Winds, Fangs of Fortune, Arcane, Heaven Official's Blessing or Our Flag Means Death.

In fact, I would also love to hear from *any* viewer with their own perspective on *any* of these vids!

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The slides I made this year are a mixture of shows I really love and want to introduce to potential new fans, (Guardian and Ancient Detective) and shows that were in the vid show for which we didn't already have slides (all the other ones below).

I'm already starting on slides for DC-Slash Con 2025! The next ones I make will be for Sungkyunkwan Scandal; I had made a set using my old computer and didn't back it up to the external hard drive (oops) ... and then the old computer crashed so hard that it lost files I hadn't even written yet, lol.

Ancient Detective (link to another entry; will open in new tab)

( Gollum )

( The Case Files of Jeweler Richard )

( The Marvel Cinematic Universe (focus on Captain America, Tony Stark, and Loki) )

( Stargate (focus on SG-1 and SGA) )

( White Collar )

( Guardian, revamped for legibility & availability )

Some of y'all may remember the Guardian Recruitment Slides I made a while back.

I'm at it again! Click to see Ancient Detective Recruitment Slides - to be shown at DC-Slash Con!

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I have made two songvids for the upcoming DC-Slash online convention!!! (You can click for more info about the con - the link will open in a new window.)

The convention is July 19-21 and the vid show deadline is July 12, so I actually got my vids in ON TIME!

There's both short, and one of them is to a Wizard Rock song. In other words, they're by me. ;-)

One is for the fandom Tatort Muenster, while the other one is about Gollum. They're premiering at the con, so I can't link to them now. But I am very excited!!!

As seen at DC Slash and REVELCon!!!

Ker and Aaron of DC Slash encouraged members to make these powerpoints to recruit their fellow convention goers to their fandoms! They also sent us helpful templates. :-)

The recruitment slides were shown at various times throughout the DC Slash convention, and were a delight! I thoroughly enjoyed learning about potential new fandoms.

I showed my Guardian slides again at a REVELCon panel to convince my fellow RCon attendees to send slides of *their* fave shows to DC Slash, too. That's not to say that I didn't put my whole heart into this "sample" presentation and possibly convert a few people! ;-)

I plan to tweak them before they're shown again, mostly by increasing the font size on the dialogue captions.

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Chandler was always my favorite character on Friends, with Phoebe running a close second.

I wasn't seriously into the fandom, but I wrote a couple of fics back in the day. In honor of Matthew Perry, I thought I would repost them here in case anyone would find them soothing. They're not connected; each one is a standalone.

This one's from 2010:
Not Kissing Joey
Characters/Pairing: Chandler/Joey
Word Count: 1448
Content Tags: Fluff, First Time, First Kiss
Summary: Chandler is not kissing Joey.

And this one is from 2015:
Lucky for Me
Characters/Pairing: Chandler, Joey, gen or pre-slash
Word Count: 758
Content Tags: Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Snow and Ice, Bickering, Coffee
Summary: Joey talks a lot; Chandler is in denial about his feelings. Okay, that's more like stating the premise of the show than describing a story. Let's try again.
Chandler insists that it's totally about the coffee.

The second one has an illo by an artist whose name keeps changing; when they drew and gifted me this it was Your Royal Madjesty and/or drawthelinestoallconstellations, and I'm incredibly grateful:
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Here's my report for the fantastic vid show at the virtual Escapade 33.5. I kept a window open and typed up notes while the show was running. A lot of it is still more notes than sentences, but I hope it all makes sense! An asterisk means that the vid premiered at this vid show.

You can watch the vid show online at: https://vimeo.com/showcase/10584452

Certain vids, including all premiering vids, were discussed the next day at the Vid Review Panel; the abbreviation VRP introduces comments that were made by various participants when the vid was discussed and shared here with permission. All other comments are my own. ( Read more... )

I had marked the VIDS VIDS VIDS panel as a must-see and I'm so glad I did!!! Airawyn coordinated recommendations from Escapade attendees ahead of time and put together a great selection of vids in terms of time (older and newer vids) and space (Western and Asian fandoms) and feels (deeply sad, laugh-out-loud, and many things in between). ( Read more... )

The DC-Slash Con 2022 vid show, held last night (July 30, 2022), was truly a well-assembled collection of high-quality vids: kudos for Aaron for the terrific selection! SO many great vids, including several that made me want to start watching the show they were based on right now.

I had some favorites I'd like to mention--I'll write up something more comprehensive later, but I want to get some first impressions down now.

N.B. AARGH, I am going through the list and in order to keep this post reasonably doable tonight, I am skipping SO MANY EXCELLENT vids!!! These are not necessarily the best--they're the ones that made a big impression on me.

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And there were many more wonderful vids that I hope to cover in a longer report someday soon!!!

Title: The Adventures of the Grumpster link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: G
Fandom: Guardian
Characters: SID ensemble, Guo Changcheng, Chu Shuzhi
Ship: Chu Shuzhi & Guo Changcheng, Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan(background)
Summary: Lao Chu gets hooked on a superhero fanfic series whose author is anonymous.
Word Count: 2755
Author's note: This fic was inspired by comments on china_shop's brilliantly hilarious fic Transformative Work. You can read this one without reading that one, but it will make a bit more sense if you read that one first. More notes (spoilery) at the end!

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Story title: Three on a Matchlink to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: A bit spicy
Fandom: Guardian
Characters: SID ensemble (briefly), Guo Changcheng, Chu Shuzhi, Ye Huo
Ship: Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng, Chu Shuzhi/Ye Huo, Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng/Ye Huo, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan(background)
Summary: Watching Chu Shuzhi and Ye Huo sparring after hours has an effect on Guo Changcheng.
Word Count: 1560
Author's note: A gift for Dorinda on AO3. I hadn't thought about shipping these three until Dorinda mentioned the idea and I read some wonderful fics by maggie33 and theleakypen! Hugs to all three for expanding my ideas of what's possible. ♥

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Story title: Missed Chance link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: Very Spicy (briefly)
Fandom: Rat Patrol
Characters: Jack Moffitt, Sam Troy, Original Male Colonel
Ship: Moffitt/Troy/Dietrich
Summary: Troy and Moffitt run into complications trying to arrange for Dietrich to get his birthday off.
Word Count: 937
Author's note: Part of this year's Spicy Advent Calendar collection (Day 23). This one wasn't written to a prompt--it just popped into my head when TODS suggested I should write a spicy Rat Patrol fic for the calendar.

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Story title: Missed Chance link to fic on AO3 (update before releasing)
Author: Amedia
Rating: Explicit (briefly)
Fandom: due South
Characters: Ray Vecchio, Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser
Ship: Fraser/RayK
Summary: Ray Vecchio reflects on the hints he deliberately passed by.
Word Count: 388
Author's note: Part of this year's Spicy Advent Calendar collection (Day 21), inspired by the prompt "On the outside looking in."

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Story title: One Tied, One Tying link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: R (fairly spicy)
Fandom: due South
Characters: Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser
Ship: Fraser/RayK
Summary: RayK, Fraser, and a lot of beautiful knots.
Word Count: 539
Author's note: Part of this year's Spicy Advent Calendar collection (Day 17). A serendipitous birthday gift for ride_4ever, inspired by ride's exquisite poem "Kinbaku-bi". [There's another note at the end, just so you know.]

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Story title: Hear the Noises You Make link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: R (spicy)
Fandom: Tatort Muenster
Characters: Frank Thiel, Karl-Friedrich Boerne
Ship: Boerne/Thiel
Summary: Thiel teases Boerne about his vocabulary.
Word Count: 98
Author's note: Part of this year's Spicy Advent Calendar collection (Day 3). Prompt: "Hear the noises you make"

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Story title: On the Outside Looking In link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: PG-13 (mildly spicy)
Fandom: Tatort Muenster
Characters: Nadeshda Krusenstern, Wilhelmine Klemm, Frank Thiel, Karl-Friedrich Boerne
Ship: Boerne/Thiel
Summary: Nadeshda & Klemm can easily see what Thiel and Boerne don't realize.
Word Count: 247
Author's note: Part of this year's Spicy Advent Calendar collection (Day 18), in response to the prompt: "On the outside looking in"

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Story title: At the Old One-Two link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: PG-13 (mildly spicy)
Fandom: Barney Miller
Characters: Harris, Dietrich, Luger
Ships: Harris/Dietrich
Summary: Harris and Dietrich settle an argument.
Word Count: 448
Author's note: Part of this year's Spicy Advent Calendar collection (Day 15).

"The Old One-Two" is Luger's nickname for the 12th precinct.

When I set out to write up this scene for the Spicy Advent Calendar, it took on a life of its own; the original outline didn't even include Luger here, but he strolled in, tucked the prompt "outside looking in" under his arm, and took over.

This ficlet is an excerpt from a longer fic in progress that begins with Harris and Dietrich fighting. Each of them takes the seldom-used back stairwell in order to avoid the other and they accidentally collide on the landing, each carrying a folder of paperwork.

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