Do You Remember

Sep. 24th, 2025 05:18 am
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Title: Do You Remember on AO3
Artist: [personal profile] mific
Rating: Gen
Fandom: Musicians
Characters/Pairings: Members of Earth Wind and Fire
Summary: The 21st night of September.
Content Notes: Created in Procreate. It's a bit after the 21st now, but I started it then. Some of Earth Wind and Fire, singing "September".


Castiel!

Sep. 18th, 2025 08:29 pm
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 It's seventeen years today since Castiiel made his first (and very memorable entrance) into Supernatural, and into our lives:

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Here at Chez Disney we decided to mark the occasion in our own modest way, with mini Castiel, a fine autumn day and a glass of New Zealand's finest.
We're sure Castiel would approve!

Happy birthday Castiel!


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September flowers: fairy crassula

Sep. 17th, 2025 10:33 pm
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Title: September flowers: fairy crassula
Artist: [personal profile] mific
Rating: Gen
Fandom: original art
Content Notes: Made in Procreate. It's been a cold winter so there's not much flowering yet in September, in Auckland. This succulent in one of my hanging baskets has been lovely, though.



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 Not everyone is in the celebratory mood for Supernatural's big anniversary..

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Happy post: twenty years!

Sep. 13th, 2025 03:59 pm
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I couldn't let this auspicious occasion pass without paying tribute to our 'little show that could', the little show that enhanced my life in so many wonderful ways, and brought all of you into my world!

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I can't believe it's been twenty years since Supernatural first aired, and it's a testament to the show, everyone involved with it, and the fandom that grew up around it, that it's still delighting people and gaining fans every day.

And I'm sure it's got absolutely nothing to do with these three gorgeous nutters!

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Sep. 13th, 2025 04:05 pm
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Hole digging has commenced! I have a picture of some bare soil over on my pillowfort.

Husband helped me measure out the area and strimmed the long grass for me first (to the best of his ability. Conditions weren't very good for it), but I did all the digging myself. I have made a small start at digging it over the first time just to see how difficult that was going to be compared to lifting the turf, and the answer is A Lot Easier! Thank Cat for that! I'm glad I chose the bed for 5 square meters and not 10! As you can tell, the lawn has been wild on purpose for years, which didn't make it any easier.

I ordered the plants in a hurry yesterday, because I saw the bed I actually wanted had sold out, so I've wound up with my second choice. This one is mixed plants for biodiversity rather than native for pollinators, but to be honest, I can't think that there can be that big a difference. Doesn't really make that big a difference for me anyway.

Husband has rewarded me with a cup of tea (I'm weirdly thirsty this afternoon for some reason!) and I'm rewarding myself with a bit of Stardew Valley, which feels appropriate.
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No spoilers in this post

I think I can safely say Sparkling Cyanide (1944) was the third Agatha Christie I ever read, because I remember being very attracted by the cover. It’s the one you can see in this post, and I found it both pretty and intriguing. Of all the Christie books my parents had, this was very likely the one I chose, just because of that.

The book begins with a number of characters remembering the beautiful and wealthy Rosemary Barton. At this point she has been dead for almost a year from what appears to have been a suicide, though no one can find a very convincing reason, or explain why she choose to do it by cyanide at a restaurant. Among them are her younger sister Iris, who reflects she never really knew her sister, and her husband, George Barton. There are also Anthony Browne and Stephen Farraday, both in love with Rosemary, Stephen's wife Sandra, and Ruth Lessing, George’s secretary. All of them people who may have had a reason to kill Rosemary. Then George arranges a new dinner party, with the same people, and the same restaurant as when Rosemary died. And someone else dies, and this time it’s clear it’s murder…

This novel has neither Poirot nor Miss Marple as detectives, but the semi-recurring Colonel Race, who in this book is an old friend of Geroge Barton. I’m always surprised Poirot isn’t in it, which is probably because he is the detective in the short story “Yellow Iris”, which has pretty much the same plot and characters, but another murderer. And Sparkling Cyanide feels like a Poirot novel than anything else, and there is not a very good reason for not having him, apart from Christie just not wanting to.

Generally Sparkling Cyanide seems to be considered a mid-rung Christie. It’s written during her Golden Age, and I think it would have been ranked higher if Poirot had been in it. Race just isn’t a very exciting detective. Personally, though, it has always been one of my favourites. I always enjoyed the first chapters where the various characters remember Rosemary, and the murder plot, even if it’s very complicated, is entertaining. And I’m still coveting a dressing gown in spotted silk, like the one Rosemary has. Also, Aunt Lucilla is quite funny.

There are several adaptations, but the only one I have seen is from 1983 with Anthony Andrews as Anthony Browne. The only thing I remember about that one was that I was disappointed it wasn’t set in the 1940s. There is, however, an excellent adaptation of “Yellow Iris” with David Suchet from 1993.

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