Twelfth Post!

[hoisinsauce]

POST NAMER TBC-- work harder, meme!

Welcome back, anyway! Chat fandom, media, creative things, weirdness from around the net, funny stuff, anything! Meme awaits!

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Books

[(Anonymous)]

Things you read!

Re: Books - Whatcha reading?

[(Anonymous)]

Guilt this anon into reading more, plz.

How's Life?

[(Anonymous)]

Chat thread.

Re: How's Life? - Dan (in Japan)

[(Anonymous)]

Post: 🙂
Post, Japan: 🤩🤩🤩

Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

Ask anon questions, get anon responses!

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

A question about spiders: I have noticed that spiders in my vicinity consistently prefer to make their webs in dead plants to living ones. Why? The internet has no answers. One would think they would prefer living plants, because that is where they would expect to find prey, but they consistently pick my dead plants to spin webs from. I am wondering if it might be because dead plants are drier/less oily, so spiders find them less slippery. Or maybe they remind them of the autumn? Usually that's when I see them, so now I'm wondering if they appear then because they like dead plants, or if they like dead plants because they want those autumnal pumpkin spice latte vibes. They also seem to like paper (dead tree). Maybe they like the crinkling sound? Thoughts?

TV

[(Anonymous)]

Things on TV, streaming services, that kind of stuff.

Re: TV - A Dream Within a Dream (书卷一梦)

[(Anonymous)]

Time to find out if getting cdrama recommendations from FFA is any better than getting cdrama recommendations from Reddit.

Games

[(Anonymous)]

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.

Re: Games - Puzzle & Dragons

[(Anonymous)]

Building myself a new team in Puzzle & Dragons and I'm salty for the pettiest of reasons. The two units that make up my ship have leader skills that perfectly complement each other, but it's literally impossible to build a team with both of them. They're both designed so that you need multiple copies on a team to loop their active skills, but you don't have enough team slots to loop both and also cover the activation condition for their leader skill.

Of course, the rival (canon) ship doesn't have this problem :( I'm being forced - forced! - by the cruel hand of meta slavery to betray my preferences and accept the superiority of canon.

Films

[(Anonymous)]

What's on?

Re: Films - Superman (2025)

[(Anonymous)]

World's most famous pair of underpants.

Music

[(Anonymous)]

All things musical!

Re: Music

[(Anonymous)]

Got that bizarre DDR 'Jazz' track stuck in my head. For those who haven't heard it, most of it isn't jazz; it's a vaguely sugarhill-gang-style rap with a guy going 'JAZZ' over it for most of the track. He raps about how he's going to elbow people out of his way on the dancefloor, where the music is pumping, though in this alternate universe, the music in question is apparently jazz. The listener is asked repeatedly if they can handle more jazz. Right toward the end, a little saxophone comes in and makes things more jazzy.

Manga and Anime

[(Anonymous)]

Sparkly eyes, ITT.

Re: Manga and Anime - Spy x Family

[(Anonymous)]

Thread!

Funny Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

Stuff that makes you LOL, stuff that makes you almost LOL, stuff that got nowhere near but it's been that kind of day-- all that and more, in here!

Re: Funny Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.tumblr.com/mywholeadventure/785087991112777728

Interesting Things

[(Anonymous)]

Anything you find interesting, share here!

Re: Interesting Things

[(Anonymous)]

SP-287-- NASA on why the Apollo missions were a success; I'm about 1/4 through the paper.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19720005243

Fooooooooooooooooooood

[(Anonymous)]

Omnomnom.

Re: Fooooooooooooooooooood

[(Anonymous)]

So I'm pretty sure all my personal info got stolen when M&S got hacked, but otoh, their poke-bowls are well nice. Have probably recced them before, but I don't care; have another poke-rec. :)

Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Also for general tech discussion, and meta about the tech world.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ai-company-files-for-bankruptcy-after-being-exposed-as-700-human-engineers-3208136/

Internet Weirdness

[(Anonymous)]

Weird stuff from around the net.

Re: Internet Weirdness

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/28/a-marker-of-luxury-and-arrogance-why-gravity-defying-boobs-are-back-and-what-they-say-about-the-state-of-the-world

Some truly hard-hitting journalism from The Guardian.

Stuff You're Pleased About

[(Anonymous)]

Share the good news!

Re: Stuff You're Pleased About

[(Anonymous)]

Just won 400 quid! :D

Fandom Things

[(Anonymous)]

Heyayayaya, what's going on?

Re: Fandom Things

[(Anonymous)]

Every day, around 1am, I get a hit on my fic. I always imagine it's a bot, scraping away... Though you'd think that would do one hit per fic. But, instead, it's always just one hit, total. Mystérieux.

Languages

[(Anonymous)]

Learning a language? Forgotten a language? Tell meme about it! Maybe even find a penfriend!

Re: Languages

[(Anonymous)]

Back to reading HP in French. I feel like duolingo has helped me follow the grammatical stuff better; I'm more likely to recognise when it's just a familiar verb in a less common conjugation. I think, when I started reading, I was so out-of-practice I had to only use context to distinguish past from future or singular from plural. I'm not that bad, now, but still have to focus when reading or I use context for too much of it and I don't learn any language. I'm making myself search whenever I don't know a word, even if I definitely know the overall gist of the sentence, so that maybe 1/1000 will go in.

Gardening

[(Anonymous)]

Plants! Indoors, outdoors, seen around; this is the thread to talk about 'em!

Re: Gardening - What are you planting?

[(Anonymous)]

How's it growing?

Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

Catchall thread for stuff that doesn't go anywhere else. Forum threads, journalism, etc.

Re: Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5345847-new-neighbour-is-too-much-what-to-do 😱

Puzzles

[(Anonymous)]

Crosswords, CTFs, Puzzlehunts and more! Share and discuss with meme!

Re: Puzzles - Real Escape Game (リアル脱出ゲーム)

[(Anonymous)]

Tried a (Japanese) escape room, where you (and several hundred other attendees) visit a theme park after dark, run around all the attractions, and solve puzzles to get out. Event's still running, so I'll be a little vague on the mechanics to avoid spoilers.

https://realdgame.jp/ (japanese website)
https://realescapegame.jp/ (english-friendly, but only includes more traditional escape rooms)

This particular escape room had us playing the role of rookie spies sent to infiltrate a party hosted by villainous arms dealer Mr. Peace, who's using it as a cover to sell Moonshine, a chemical weapon that turns you into the Hulk, to a rival country. We're not supposed to get involved - but in the fully-acted introduction, the spy organization's first attempt goes horribly wrong (seriously, Crash, what made you think holding a gun to Mr. Peace's head was a good idea?) and now the rookies are on the case!

As it turns out, doing a Japanese escape room when your working knowledge of Japanese is limited to 'omizu kudasai' and 'yabai, yabai' isn't the best idea. My teammates did most of the hard work, while I navigated us around the park and offered the occasional helpful insight like 'Why did we get this piece of paper if we aren't going to use it?' and 'Wait, does anyone on this team know how to count?'

That being said, most of the puzzles were not all that hard if you did know Japanese. Mostly paper-based, but with some fun little physical puzzle tricks like folding origami to reveal the answer or sliding cut-outs to match each other. On the other hand, I hated the final two puzzles - you needed to use the story thus far to fill out 'actions' you wanted to take (i.e. you had a word bank and 'A [participle] B [participle] C' blanks, so you could write things like 'we will ride the merry-go-around' or 'Mr. Peace will throw the moonshine'), but the actions were so open-ended and the correct answers so ultimately stupid that it didn't really feel satisfying to solve them.

If you got to the penultimate puzzle, you received the Moonshine (a yellow glowstick), and if you solved the final puzzle, you received the Moonshine antidote (a blue glowstick). Was fun having everyone meet up again for the closing ceremony and seeing how many people got to the end - I think they said they had about a 33% finish rate. Very much geared towards casuals, but still a really fun event to do with other people.

Writing

[(Anonymous)]

Writers enable each other with our most self-destructive hobby in here.

Re: Writing - HP Fanfic

[(Anonymous)]

Need to clean this up. Finished first draft, but the ending is limp.

Poetry

[(Anonymous)]

Share and discuss poems with meme!

Re: Poetry

[(Anonymous)]

Bought this Wendy Cope poetry collection on a whim:

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571389513-the-orange-and-other-poems/

It's very short for the price, and it's a mixed bag, but the good poems are very good, so NO RAGRETS. :) I especially liked her darker ones. May link some in a bit.

Seals in Hats

[hoisinsauce]

Meme style discussion, meta, etc.

Re: Seals in Hats - Post Title

[(Anonymous)]

Do we need a post title still? I'm pretty sure there's a couple unused ones from old posts, but not sure if they were rejected or if our condiment overlord just lost them in the shuffle.

Clothes

[(Anonymous)]

Also general fashion discussion, if you want.

Re: Clothes - Trouser recs

[(Anonymous)]

I want some light trousers that are not see-through. Preferably pretty, WITH POCKETS.

Grand Designs

[(Anonymous)]

The good, the bad and the ugly, off Rightmove, Zoopla and all the rest.

Re: Grand Designs

[(Anonymous)]

Art Deco House: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/162375134#/?channel=RES_BUY

I feel like it's a good example of modern art deco design, but it just makes me reflect on how much I wouldn't want to live in an art deco house; I'd feel like I was at the hairdresser's the whole time. I think the exterior is pretty, though.

Stationery

[(Anonymous)]

Ink, pens, paper, notebooks; share the good stuff!

Re: Stationery

[(Anonymous)]

Or warn about the terrible stuff; that is also fine.