The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, October 28

Oct. 29th, 2025 02:50 am
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ANGELUS: That’s right, brothers and sisters. The rumors are true. Angel has left the building and I am back. But hey, I’m no different than the next guy. I put my victim’s skin on one leg at a time. ROSARIA: Angelus! Remember me? ANGELUS: Not really. ROSARIA: Oh, come on! A little town outside Tuscany— 1845, give or take? Rosaria!

~~Angel Season IV Episode #79: "Salvage"~~


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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, October 28

Oct. 28th, 2025 07:49 pm
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ANGELUS: That’s right, brothers and sisters. The rumors are true. Angel has left the building and I am back. But hey, I’m no different than the next guy. I put my victim’s skin on one leg at a time. ROSARIA: Angelus! Remember me? ANGELUS: Not really. ROSARIA: Oh, come on! A little town outside Tuscany— 1845, give or take? Rosaria!

~~Angel Season IV Episode #79: "Salvage"~~


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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday, October 27th

Oct. 28th, 2025 08:59 am
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GILES: South wall.
Willow stares at the window in fascination. Angel casts no reflection in it.
GILES: (to Willow) What are you doing?
WILLOW: Oh! Sorry. (turns to Angel) The reflection thing that you don't have. Angel, how do you shave? (the men exchange a look)

~~Reptile Boy~~



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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday, October 27th

Oct. 28th, 2025 03:19 am
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GILES: South wall.
Willow stares at the window in fascination. Angel casts no reflection in it.
GILES: (to Willow) What are you doing?
WILLOW: Oh! Sorry. (turns to Angel) The reflection thing that you don't have. Angel, how do you shave? (the men exchange a look)

~~Reptile Boy~~



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Oct. 27th, 2025 08:39 pm
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Battle Royale (2000). A high school class is selected to murder each other in a game of survival until the last one wins. I can definitely see the comparisons to The Hunger Games, not just in the general concept but some of the specific mechanics, like having the island being broken up into zones that occasionally become "dangerous" and the updates over speakers throughout the island.

Overall, this was fine? The friend I went with said it was much funnier in Japanese. I thought our main two characters were pretty but dull, and I was much more interested in the take-no-prisoners girl with the makeup and the guy with the bandana, who it turns out is a survivor of a previous game. I wanted more of them.

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Crooked House (2017). An adaptation of a Christie novel about a PI asked by an old flame to investigate the death of a family patriarch, who might have been killed by any number of his live-in children and attached family members, who all hate him and each other.

The cast here is stacked: Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson, Julian Sands, Christina Hendricks. The family is moderately terrible, although not as extravagantly as one would hope, and not nearly enough time is spent on them. Instead we spend way too much time with the PI and his relationship with the old flame, and I truly cannot tell you how little I cared about him or them together! Stop this dumb romantic tension and take me back to the family full of character actors!

Even aside from that problem, the movie dragged in places and felt poorly paced. It was even worse because this is one of the very few Christie novels whose endings I still remember, so I didn't even get any suspense.

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Frankenstein (2025). A doctor is determined to defeat death and goes to monstrous lengths to do so.

The picture you have in your head of what Del Toro doing Frankenstein looks like is pretty much what this movie is. It's beautiful, gothic, indulgent, and there's a sympathetic monster. There aren't any surprises, IMO. This feels like Del Toro playing it very safe, and I would rank it as mid-tier Del Toro. It also feels like it borrows heavily from Crimson Peak, especially visually, although weirdly enough I find that one much more horrific on several axes than I do this one.

I do think it shows a Robert Eggers influence; I don't think we get precisely this film without almost a decade of Eggers preceding it.

I was not as into Jacob Elordi as I wanted to be. The creature's design/makeup/prosthetics never stopped feeling fake to me, and I'm a lot less interested in childlike innocence than Del Toro is. OTOH Oscar Isaac was great, and to my surprise I actually preferred the early half of the movie focused on him the best, especially since it also featured most of the really dramatic visuals.

Overall: meh.
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, October 26

Oct. 27th, 2025 05:18 am
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JONATHAN: We're risking everything so that Charles Atlas can get a date? He's going to end up getting us thrown into jail. Or worse. (urgently) Maybe you and I should think about-

ANDREW: Warren's the boss. He's Picard, you're Deanna Troi. Get used to the feeling, Betazoid.

~~S6E19, Seeing Red~~



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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, October 26th

Oct. 26th, 2025 09:49 pm
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JONATHAN: We're risking everything so that Charles Atlas can get a date? He's going to end up getting us thrown into jail. Or worse. (urgently) Maybe you and I should think about-

ANDREW: Warren's the boss. He's Picard, you're Deanna Troi. Get used to the feeling, Betazoid.

~~S6E19, Seeing Red~~



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an Oasis anniversary post

Oct. 26th, 2025 08:33 pm
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In late 2019, I:
- Watched Todd in the Shadows's video on Be Here Now
- Fell in love with "D'You Know What I Mean," opening track of Be Here Now, and listened to it about fifty times via the Youtube music video (you know the one, with the actualfax helicopters)
- Found Cerberusia's Yuletide prompt for Oasis omegaverse
- Listened to their first two albums. I liked the second album a little better, and on the second or third loop of it playing on Youtube in the background (because I hadn't even subscribed to Tidal yet), I went hey, this song's neat, I wonder what it's called? Friends, it was Wonderwall.
- Watched Supersonic, their two-hour documentary/extremely high-end marketing film.
- Watched a bunch of archive interviews on Youtube, read a bunch more. Fell alllllll the way down the rabbit hole. Collected all the links in a giant word doc that I maintain to this day and which formed the basis of the primer I posted a few months later.
- Wrote 5k of Oasis omegaverse porn. (Got an approving comment on it from one of the OG omegaverse writers!!)

Six years!! I can't believe all that's happened since. 2019 was the absolute nadir of their relationship, and now they hug on stage every night while grinning at each other like soppy adoring idiots. (You see what I mean.) I've written almost 120k of fic and stuck around more or less continuously for longer than I've been in any other fandom. I've seen Liam solo three times, Noel once, and Oasis twice. These gigs have taken me to London, Manchester, and Dublin (twice), after only having been to Europe once before, and have led me to meeting up with a bunch of friends while overseas, some for the first time IRL. After first seeing Liam in 2022, I also started going to see other live music, and some special favorites have been Garbage, Lord Huron, and Saint Motel.

Meanwhile the world in general and I personally have gone through a lot of shit that continues unabated. It's been a very long six years.

The weather here has turned wet and cold, just as it was when I first listened to What's the Story Morning Glory on repeat in 2019. I put the album on in car this weekend, and the big wailing guitars and Liam's voice, helped along by the same grim autumn weather in which I first heard these songs, took me straight back to that original thrill of discovery.

We take our joy where we find it. I have found a lot of mine the past few years in this band and especially these two guys.
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, October 25th

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HARMONY: We're gonna kill the slayer.
SPIKE: Singing my song now, are you? You should pay me royalties for that one, or at least get your own tune.
HARMONY: I'm not gonna make the same mistakes you did. I've been doing my homework, reading books and stuff.
SPIKE: What, Evil for Dummies?

~~The Real Me~~

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, October 25th

Oct. 26th, 2025 01:01 am
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HARMONY: We're gonna kill the slayer.
SPIKE: Singing my song now, are you? You should pay me royalties for that one, or at least get your own tune.
HARMONY: I'm not gonna make the same mistakes you did. I've been doing my homework, reading books and stuff.
SPIKE: What, Evil for Dummies?

~~The Real Me~~

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fannish stuff

Oct. 25th, 2025 09:16 am
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+ Random icon generator knows what it's about!!

+ For Yuletide I got brave and offered a canon I've been wanting to write for a while, as well as a variety of other goodies. A lot of things I haven't offered before. Shaking things up! However, some of the noms I was especially excited about in the tagset didn't get requested, whomp whomp.

+ I knew not many people saw Red Sonja, but I didn't realize it was a "0 Yuletide offers and the only request is mine" number of people. :(

+ I got an extension on the bulk of my FIAB assignment and swapped part of the remaining for a pinch hit, and they're both due next weekend. I'm over halfway to the minimum on the longer fic (but probably not halfway through the story lolsob) and have a start on the shorter fic. Point being: this weekend I have got to make some words. Overall I have about 5500 words towards my 10k goal, which feels... not terrible, all things considered.

+ Today I'm driving up to the city to see Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein! Exciting!! Del Toro should always be seen on the big screen, and also I'm very into Jacob Elordi and cannot wait to see what del Toro does with him as the sympathetic monster. I wish Netflix was giving it a wider release. There are only two theaters in my entire region showing it. >:(

+ After a month's break, Oasis are in the middle of their very short leg in Asia. They continue to be having a grand old time, it seems. Some evidence:
- Walk-on in Tokyo. So much to say that they're still saying it while literally walking on stage with their hands joined!
- Has anyone ever been as obsessed with their sibling's ass as Liam is with Noel's?
- And he thinks we all should be obsessed with it too! Especially notable because, like, it's barely there. A nearly non-existent ass. Noel Gallagher must sit on SOMETHING but...
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Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, October 24th

Oct. 24th, 2025 11:16 pm
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SPIKE: I've hired myself out as an attraction.
GILES: Sideshow freak?
SPIKE: Well, at least it's showbiz.

~~Restless~~

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, October 24th

Oct. 25th, 2025 01:13 am
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SPIKE: I've hired myself out as an attraction.
GILES: Sideshow freak?
SPIKE: Well, at least it's showbiz.

~~Restless~~

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, October 23rd

Oct. 24th, 2025 01:02 am
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Angel: You could help fill in the blanks. He's gonna have questions. Like, what do you do with a woman's Schlug-Tee again?
Cordy gasps: You and your vampire hearing! Next time you eavesdrop I'm gonna...
Takes a hold of his ear and whispers into it as the others watch.
Angel: Easy there, sailor! You use that kind of language at home?

~~Tomorrow~~


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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, October 23rd

Oct. 23rd, 2025 08:53 pm
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Angel: You could help fill in the blanks. He's gonna have questions. Like, what do you do with a woman's Schlug-Tee again?
Cordy gasps: You and your vampire hearing! Next time you eavesdrop I'm gonna...
Takes a hold of his ear and whispers into it as the others watch.
Angel: Easy there, sailor! You use that kind of language at home?

~~Tomorrow~~


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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, October 22

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Willow: Yeah. I hope they throw the book at her.
Giles: I'm not sure there is a, a book for this.
Willow: They could throw other things.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, October 22

Oct. 22nd, 2025 09:55 pm
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Willow: Yeah. I hope they throw the book at her.
Giles: I'm not sure there is a, a book for this.
Willow: They could throw other things.

~~Who Are You~~



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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, October 21

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Angel: "All of it. Little bit more than five percent. Wolfram and Hart find out that you have that money..." Anne: "I can find a way to hide it. What's this?" Angel: "Blood." Anne: "It'll wash."

~~Angel Season II Episode #34: Blood Money~~


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