st_aurafina: Eleventh Doctor, with an Ood mask and an weeping angel (DW: Eleven and company)
st_aurafina ([personal profile] st_aurafina) wrote2020-04-24 03:26 pm

Spam, spam, spam, linkspam, and spam

BREAKING LINKSPAM NEWS
Leverage Revival Ordered, Noah Wyle to Star
Aaaaaah, I am so excited! More OT3!


It Came from the Twitter
From [community profile] fail_fandomanon - museum curators post endless creepy dolls and Fiji mermaids, and a witch in a bottle.
#CreepiestObject
CN: there's also a lot of taxidermy here, and some 'this thing is full of worms!' type objects. And eyeballs and things that got eaten by other things.

Via [personal profile] walgesang for Bi in Sci day, a whole hashtag of beautiful queer science heroes:
#BiInSci Day

Via [personal profile] china_shop:
since I’m single in the quarantine I’ve decided to reenact moments from my favorite musicals so it feels like I’m in love — first is LES MISÉRABLES


Diverting Fictions
Via [personal profile] jenett - a lovely little urban fantasy story:
Little Free Library by Naomi Kritzer

Via [community profile] podcastjoy
18 Fiction Podcast Debuts: March 2020

Via [personal profile] cofax7 who said that if you like murderbots and cat cafes, you'll probably like this. I can confirm that this is accurate:
A Guide for Working Breeds, by Vina Jie-Min Prasad

At Go Fug Yourself, just a bunch of people in the same boat talking about podcasts that are keeping them sane:
Your Afternoon Chat: The Most Diverting Podcasts for These Times

Via the BBC, a new Thirteenth Doctor short story by Paul Cornell:
The Shadow Passes

(There's actually heaps of extras at the BBC page for Doctor Who: BBC 1 - Doctor Who)

Via David Tennant's facebook, this is an fundraising initiative launched by Jennifer Garner and Amy Adams, the upside of which is lots of picture books read by celebrities on Instagram:
Save With Stories


Fictional People Co-Existing With Us in these Difficult Times
From... [personal profile] china_shop maybe? A playlist from the crew at Wellington Paranormal. ('2 Metres Please' is very earwormy!):
Important COVID-19 messages from Wellington Paranormal

You will laugh, you will cry, you will wonder if Amy really is just in the other room:
VIDEO: Arthur Darvill Returns as Rory Williams in ‘Rory’s Story’ – Doctor Who: Lockdown


Rando But Goodo
Vanilla Slice Jaffle:
The Vanilla Slice Jaffle Is Here To Up Your Isolation Snacking
This reminds me of cooking toasted cheese sandwiches on a steam iron wedged between two telephone books during the gas shortages after the Longford plant exploded in 1998. (Omg did I just tell an old person story? Did I just go "Back in the day, I think it was '98, and..." Shit, I'm that old person now.)

Via [personal profile] misbegotten - out-takes from Next Gen edited back into the original source, which made me laugh and laugh:
Star Trek INtakes

Via... not sure, sorry! You can buy girl scout cookies online, since they're not going to be out in public selling them:
Girl Scouts Cookie Care

Via [personal profile] lilacsigil (maybe via [profile] laylainalaska ?) handy hints on font choices (ostensibly for book covers, but I'm going to be using them for icons):
300+ Fool-Proof Fonts to use for your Book Cover Design (an epic list of best fonts per genre)

Via facebook, you can still get your Eurovision on this year:
Eurovision 2020 has been cancelled, but here's what you need to do to plan your own watch party

*lines up paper on lectern* I will now answer all your questions on jaffles, and why they are not the same as toasted sandwiches. There must be a complete seal, people! Or your baked beans will run out!
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[personal profile] silverr 2020-04-24 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
The Go Fug link comes up 404, but it's due to an extraneous "in" at the end of the URL.