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Dragon boats!

November 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM

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I went to the zoo this morning.

A pair of ostriches trotting over a grassy enclosure

A lemur is perched aloft in a treehouse-type structure, a heat lamp is visible just above the lemur.

April 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM

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Working on my Rogue stripe.

Black hair pulled back from a pale forehead, a stripe of some gray hairs just left of center.

December 22, 2024 at 9:07 PM

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Today I am wearing boots that are older than some of my coworkers.

Pair of well-worn brown leather Dr. Martens lace-up boots.

December 13, 2024 at 6:24 PM

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16. The Last of Us. The TV adaptation was the first time I felt that everyone involved actually cared about what they were doing with a story that came from a video game. Also, the cold opening from the first episode is excellent.

Three men are sitting in brown leather swivel chairs around a small round white table in what appears to be a 1960s style TV studio.

December 8, 2024 at 5:41 AM

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15. Chicago Fire. And now for something completely different. I watched this whole show with family over the course of several weeks when I was on FMLA a couple years a ago. Sometimes I do love an entertaining procedural.

In the foreground is a woman firefighter, dark hair in a tight braid crown, left hand on a radio. Behind her on the left are two firefighter men, one bald and one wearing a backwards baseball cap. There is red firefighter vehicle in the background.

December 4, 2024 at 6:32 AM

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14. Vision of Escaflowne. Speaking of Yoko Kanno, this show has yet another amazing soundtrack that she partially composed. The anime itself hit so many fantasy tropes PLUS it had giant robots. It was just so satisfying all around. (Haven't seen the movie so I'm only referring to the TV show.)

Promo image from the anime Vision of Escaflowne. In the foreground on the right is short haired girl wearing a high school uniform with a beige jacket with a sailor collar over brown skirt. She's looking over her right shoulder at a flying giant robot dragon with a dark haired boy perched on its neck. In the background is a tiered stone tower.

December 3, 2024 at 7:29 AM

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13. Cowboy Bebop. I owned and loved the soundtrack (Yoko Kanno is outstanding) before I ever finished watching the show many years later. I also love the show.

Anime characters are standing up against a white police lineup wall. Left to right and tallest to shortest: 1) man with brown beard, bald head wearing a gray jumpsuit, left arm is artificial 2) man with wild brown hair wearing a skinny blue suit, yellow collared shirt, skinny dark tie, cigarette in his mouth 3) woman with a chin length bob, hair purple/black wearing yellow hot pants, matching yellow crop top and a red jacket tied to show her navel 4) orange haired child with a cropped white T-shirt and black bike shorts 5) brown corgi

December 2, 2024 at 1:39 AM

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12. White Collar. This was my favorite of the "Blue Sky USA shows" from the 2000s to 2010s. I do miss that era of TV.

Left to right in a white room, a woman in a knee-length blue dress is kissing man in a gray suit who is cuffed to another man wearing a black suit and trilby.

November 30, 2024 at 6:43 PM

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11. Ashes to Ashes. I was more drawn to this show over its predecessor, Life on Mars. Part of it wa having actual memories of life in the 80s, so that was more relatable. Also Keeley Hawes is amazing.

On the right is a woman with shoulder length brown curly h
air wearing a white leather jacket over a red blouse. On the left is a man with brown hair, receding hairline wearing a dark suit, tie is loose, and white shirt collar button is undone. They are sitting on the hood/bonnet of a red sports car.

November 30, 2024 at 1:02 AM

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10. The X-Files. This is one TV show I saw from day one. Some of you may already know that I was treasurer of the X-Files club in high school.

Promo photo from The X-Files featuring the two main cast members: a man with brown hair and a shorter woman with chin-length red hair.

November 28, 2024 at 3:39 AM

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9. Ted Lasso. Mainlined this one last year when I got a free trial subscription to Apple TV+. Sometimes it's nice to watch a show with relatively low stakes and high emotional rewards.

"BELIEVE" handwritten with block print in blue on a rectangular piece of stiff yellow paper. The writing is off-center. The paper is taped at the corners with black tape on a blue wall above a gray door frame.

November 26, 2024 at 3:35 AM

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8. The Tomorrow People (1992-1995). I've seen bits of the original 70s version and the 2013 remake, but this version is the one of my heart. Featuring teenagers with psychic powers, clunky writing, and even clunkier acting, I still adored it. Pluses: Christopher Lee and a young Naomie Harris!

"The Tomorrow People" in a light blue stylized block font in the center of a blue circle rimmed with glowing darker blue various geometric shapes.

November 26, 2024 at 2:40 AM

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7. Star Wars: The Bad Batch. I did not expect this show to become one of my favorite entries in Star Wars universe, but its themes of found family and redemption drew me in.

Helmetless members of Clone Force 99, aka the Bad Batch, wearing dark gray armor with red accents are standing in a brightly lit hallway, all staring at a young girl with short blonde hair. Her back is to the viewer.

November 25, 2024 at 4:51 AM

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6. Square One Television. It was an educational kids show about math on PBS in the 1980s. My favorite segments were Mathman (a take on Pac-Man) and Mathnet (a math take on Dragnet). I really did like math as a kid.

Two side by side panels. On the left is the cast of Square One Television holding up a sign for the show that says "Square One" in a hot pink block script in the center of a stylized CRT TV screen and "Television" in a white cursive script; the cast are wearing brightly colored outfits from the 1980s. On the right are a man and and woman wearing blue suit jackets and black ties, and they are at the door of a police car holding up badges; they are characters from the scripted segment of Square One Television called Mathnet.

November 25, 2024 at 2:42 AM

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Quote this with who you'd be in Star Trek.

Realistically...

From Star Trek: The Next Generation, Nurse Ogawa in a blue uniform sitting in a purple high backed chair at a black table.

November 25, 2024 at 2:31 AM

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5. Farscape. Yet another show I sorta saw at the start but didn't get into. I finally mainlined the whole show right before the Peacekeeper Wars miniseries in 2004. It was the fandom for this show that got me started on vidding in 2006.

Promo photo of the cast of Farscape on the bridge of Moya.

November 25, 2024 at 1:45 AM

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4. (Forgot to number.) Robotech. It's an 85 epsode American adaptation of 3 separate anime from the early 80s, put together to meet the 65 ep minimum for syndication. Sorta watched it with my sibs as it aired but didn't get into it until it re-aired on Sci-Fi in the 90s. Read all the books too.

"Robotech" in a large white font with "The Complete Series" in a smaller white standard font below on a green background. Above this title are three anime characters. Left to right, 1) a young woman with short puffy blonde hair and wearing red and white armor, 2) a young man with spiky brown hair wearing a white and red flight suit with blue accent, a helmet in his left arm held his waist, 3) a young man with slicked back blue hair wearing light green armor, also with a helmet in his left arm at his waist.

November 24, 2024 at 9:49 PM

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Fringe. Didn't get into this one right away (sensing a theme here). Saw an ep at Wondercon 2010 with @kuwdora.bsky.social. While it was enjoyable, I still didn't really get into it. I mainlined it in 2011 because I bought PaleyFest tix while living in LA, and I FINALLY got into it then.

Promo photo of the cast of Fringe gathered around a table in a warmly lit restaurant where it is night time outside the window behind them. Outside are doubles of two of the characters, a younger woman and an older man. In the same window, there is a shadowy reflection of a man in a fedora.

November 24, 2024 at 4:08 AM

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Highlander: The Series. I started watching this show from Season 3 onward as it aired. This was one of my first online fandoms, though I mostly lurked on forums and mailing lists. Some of the first fanfic I read was for this show. (HLFIC-L!)

Scene from Highlander: The Series episode Season 4, Episode 16 "Methuselah's Gift." Left to right are characters Methos, Amanda, and Duncan MacLeod clutching at each other on a bridge with a burning vehicle in the background.

November 24, 2024 at 3:14 AM

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Star Trek: The Next Generation. I started watching this show during Season 4 as it first aired. A show of firsts for me: one of my first fandoms, first fannish convention was for TNG, & at that con was the first time I saw a fanvid (Q character vid set to "It Had to be You" by Harry Connick, Jr").