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Laurel Krahn
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Polymath, web pioneer, former 📺 critic, ⚾️ fan, SF fan, fanfic & fanvid fan, disabled, grey-ace, Minnesotan. Masked & vaxxed. Tired. (She/her)
Widow as of 11/12/24 💔
Contact, links, donate: https://linktr.ee/LaurelKrahn
Sports talk: wintwins.bsky.social
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I've had an account on AO3 since January 2010 (user 5088) and it is absolutely wild to me that I've now posted things other than comments so I've received Kudos myself. WTF. I have stats? WTF. So weird (but kind of fun). (I try not to pay attention too much & yet.)
my not very impressive statistics on AO3 but I'm kind of blown away by them because I feel what I put out there is crap: User Subscriptions: 6 Kudos: 115 Comment Threads: 45 Bookmarks: 41 Subscriptions: 24 Word Count: 312,933 Hits: 1,746
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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As expected. 😂 Thanks, aurora (I'm fine with it, half expected it after my day of FitzPosting)
screenshot of my handle on here with the labels she/her, Night Owl, UTD -06:00, Posts a lot: more than 100 times yesterday, Joined Jun '23, Bluesky Elder
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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In case you ever wondered what kind of info on post on the Discord while vids play in my vid shows. I may go go overboard (me? shocking, I know). #FanvidRec
Screenshot from my Watch Party Discord with emojis & info & warnings: finn poe & rey emojis Under Pressure by Tafadhali (April 2025) (Space Swap) - Summary: "Love dares you to change our way of caring about ourselves" - Source: Star Wars sequel trilogy - Song/Artist: "Under Pressure (with link to lyrics)" by Queen & David Bowie - Length: 3:57 - Links: (with links) Warning: Canon-typical violence (blaster fire, destruction of planets and ships, fights, torture, explosions). Fire, blood, systems of oppression, self-sacrifice. These are the days, it never rains, but it pours
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Anyway. Shout out go Gigi's Cafe. I've never been there, but for some reason after Kevin died I started ordering their breakfast burrito from time to time (using gift cards for DoorDash some kind people sent me) & it is a fave. (I get it with chorizo.)

www.gigisuptown.com
screenshot from Gigi's menu showing: Breakfast Burrito (V) $11 Scrambled eggs, cheddar, red potatoes, spinach ADD bacon, chorizo, veggie sausage, or chicken sausage $4 Add Peterson tri-tip $6 ADD avocado $3 made with organic eggs
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Following up . . .
hey there's someone up there with the light two people up there with the light in Split Rock ope, they're starting to shut it down, note no light showing below anymore welp, they turned it off
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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It's getting dark/bright.
yeah, picture is less good in the dark. Split Rock Lighthouse is lit AF as it gets truly dark
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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stalking a lighthouse
it's even more lit! (or it is getting darker)
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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that was a little while ago. now.
now more of a glow to the lighthouse including below
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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update
there's a glow to the lighthouse now
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Lots of people up at the lighthouse, obviously. Has been a pretty day up there by Split Rock lighthouse.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Enm...
Screenshot from the Duluth Harbor Cam stream of Split Rock Lighthouse
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Belated appreciation for Oceans Are Now Battlefields World Series posting.
Screenshot of three skeets from 12 days ago: Andrew Coleman Francis‬ ‪@andrewcfrancis.bsky.social‬ · 12d Top of the 16th Ohtani is now master of the League. Only the Toronto fleet stands before him Oceans are now battlefields. ‪philtacular‬ ‪@philtacular.bsky.social‬ · 12d Its the 47th inning Napoleon is the master of Europe Only the British fleet stands before him OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS ‪Dread Pirate Zed‬ ‪@dreadpiratezed.bsky.social‬ The 17th inning. Oceans are now battlefields.
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Up late quoting Until the End of the World (1991) at you people in a totally normal way.
I DIDN'T KNOW THE CURE FOR the diseases of images in the ZOHRAN for New York city format
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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💜 (crossing the streams)
PRINCE LIBRARY CARDS for residents of Hennepin County (in the style of a ZOHRAN for New York City sign/ad)
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Last one (maybe).
OH For Pete's sake (in the style of the ZOHRAN for New York City signs/graphics)
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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It's almost the anniversary of the big wreck.
WRECK of the Edmund Fitzgerald in the style of the ZOHRAN for New York City sign GALES of November came early (in the style of the Zohran for New York City sign)
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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I live in hope . . .
MAYBE IT WILL happen today in the style of the ZOHRAN for New York City graphic (generated here https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html )
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Saving this one for appropriate occasions (there will be many).
"LAUREL is rambling on Bluesky again" sign in the style of ZOHRAN for New York City signs (generated here: https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html )
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Saying "no thank you" to weather dot com as if I can reject the weather and return it for something different. Maybe I won't leave the house until Spring.
screenshot showing a very blue map of the U.S. with the text "Record-Breaking Cold Blast Morning lows will plunge into the 20s as far south as the Deep South, and even some 30s in northern and parts of central Florida by early next week." and "Bitter Cold Blast Will Bring Lowest Temperatures Of the Season"
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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It's November and I've started a reread of Four Minute Window, which used to be an annual fall/winter thing but I missed it last year because—well. #FanficRec
archiveofourown.org/series/197993

This time I may listen to the podfic of some of it:
archiveofourown.org/series/248563
It's a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade water/snow globe that has a light blue base with fluffy white clouds and the parade name in a red star. The globe itself shows a bit of NYC and parade balloons including Spongebob—that abomination!— and others. (I own this snowglobe by the way and it's because of this fic series.)
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Anyway. I should sleep. I love it when there are fun reviews of a movie I like. (You can find them all and more coolness here: letterboxd.com/film/the-tal... )
Letterboxd screenshot: Watched by The Streaming Skull 23 Jan 2025 "Where could he go, without his beard?" Yep, better keep that beard on screen - by which I mean Jean Arthur - because the sparks are flying in all directions in this love triangle. I never thought beets could be romantic, but Cary Grant chiding Ronald Coleman for never trying borscht is almost as charged as Clark Gable chiding Claudette Colbert for improperly dunking a donut. And Ronald Coleman surprising Cary Grant with borscht for dinner is the cutest thing I've seen in some time, excepting of course Coleman referring to their trio as a "happy little family." Like any good romantic comedy, this is threaded with ruminations on the criminal justice system and bookended with arson and a lynch mob. Someone should have told the screenwriter you don't have to work so hard when you've got three charming actors all falling in love with each other. The only problem is that eventually Jean Arthur has to choose one of the leading men. Clearly the three of them should have just lived together in that cottage forever. (I swear I've seen that cottage, or at least that living room set, in another movie. This is going to bug me.) Letterboxd screenshot: ★★★★½ Watched by David B Jacobs 30 Aug 2023 "I've never been fonder of a man in my life." The tagline on Letterboxd begins, "SCREEN COMEDY SO GAY..." which I believed to mean the film would be light and happy. While it is those things, I was incorrect: rather it alludes to the way Ronald Colman gazes into Cary Grant's eyes, the way he cringes when a woman asks him to kiss her, the way Jean Arthur's wink causes him to shift his attention back to Grant, the way Colman's own assistant sobs as he shaves his sexy beard, the way way Grant travels across the country just to catch a fifteen second glimpse of Colman in a gown, the way both men refuse to leave each other's side out of some deep and unexpected love... for a woman, of course! And nothing you can say will convince me that this film does not end in a thruple. Letterboxd screenshot: Watched by Marie 17 May 2020 1 Cary Grant Reacting to Things is my favorite genre. I also enjoy any movie that lays out an argument against the Man and the System and then pulls a halfhearted Hays-mandated takebacksies in favor of law and order. We know what you MEANT. Letterboxd screenshot: ★★★★½ Rewatched by liza 25 Jan 2023 jean arthur, cary grant and ronnie colman in a gang of babygirls who are in love with each other is so personal to me, actually
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Facts.
Screenshot of a Letterboxd review of The Talk of the Town: ★★★★½ Watched by aobh 17 Jun 2020 2 Evidence that Ronald Colman's character was in love with Cary Grant: Exhibit A: He loaned him his only pair of slippers when he was still a total rando to him Exhibit B: He bought him borscht and remembered that he liked it with an egg Exhibit C: He shaved off the beard he had had for 15 years so he could go undercover for him - not for Jean Arthur Exhibit D: He tracked down the man who could exonerate Dilg Instances that prove Cary Grant's character knew that Ronald had the hots for him: Exhibit A: He said that Lightcap was in love (with him, of course) Exhibit B: He tried to give up Jean Arthur because he thought Lightcap wanted to marry her (lying to himself about his love for Dilg, of course), but couldn't stay away because he wanted to see Lightcap's big day Exhibit C: They eye-fucked in the Supreme Court Defense rests.
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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👀
Screenshots: This movie invented socialism and friendship Liked111 likes Bre Watched by Bre 20 Mar 2020 8 I cannot believe they let test audiences decide whether Jean Arthur would end up with Cary Grant or Ronald Colman at the end... but that also means they must have filmed an alternate ending that must be out there somewhere...
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Convincing people to watch The Talk of the Town (1942) by sharing quality Letterboxd content. (Also this is why Letterboxd is sometimes my favorite social media.)
Another screenshot from Letterboxd of reviews of the Talk of the Town: “Screen comedy so gay”... it’s right there in the movies official tag line like. If this was made in 2019 by a competent director (me) Cary Grant and Ronald Colman would’ve KISSED!!!!!!! Anyways why is ronald colman as a stuffy old British man so attractive to me I hate it i hate him . Liked150 likes Lara Pop ★★★★ Watched by Lara Pop 05 Jan 2021 15 So tonight I was like 'I'm gonna watch a depressing-ass drama filled with existential dread and characters staring into the distance with glazed eyes or something', but then I accidentally found out that in the first 30 minutes of The Talk of the Town Jean Arthur goes around cavorting and gesticulating wildly and ordering people about and telling the police indignantly 'No warrant? OUT!' while wearing Ronald Colman's oversized pajamas, so, I mean, OBVIOUSLY, I was compelled to watch this instead. Liked131 likes ncgraham ★★★★½ Rewatched by ncgraham 01 Nov 2019 imagine watching this movie and not thinking that all three of them are in love with each other.....can't relate Liked135 likes Madison 🎭 ★★★½ Watched by Madison 🎭 01 Mar 2020 not to be a one trick pony but lightcap was clearly in love with leopold AND nora... cary grant movies really do be radiating bisexual energy doe
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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May be finding more people to follow on Letterboxd, don't mind me. 🫡🧡
Screenshot of popular reviews on Letterboxd for The Talk of the Town: Review by KYK ★★★½ i want: men’s pajamas, borscht with an egg, a plate of roast chicken, and cary grant hiding out in my home Like review224 likes ella Review by ella 1 this movie has EVERYTHING! off the charts levels of repressed bisexual energy, possibly socialist cary grant, and jean arthur beating up cops with a wrench. Liked222 likes meg Review by meg ★★★½ 1 Cary Grant cooking with his sleeves rolled up and wearing an apron is the female gaze.
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Me, reading along. "Yup, yup, yes, very true." 🧡🧡🧡🧡
Another Letterboxd screenshot: ★★★★½ Watched by Shaun Strohmer 04 Oct 2024 Justice for Jean Arthur! Give the woman the socialist throuple she deserves. Liked3 likes FaveAmanda ★★★½ Watched by FaveAmanda 22 Feb 2023 Advertised as a screwball comedy which it absolutely is not. It is, however, very gay. Gotta be honest though, I hate the name Dilg. Liked3 likes alex ★★★★ Watched by alex 19 Feb 2021 throuple goals. cary grant looked really good and tall and handsome 😘🤌 Liked3 likes JetpackMonkey ★★★★ Watched by JetpackMonkey 14 Dec 2024 Classic Hollywood “how can it be a throuple if everyone is straight?” Skill issue.
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM