Guardian Slo-Mo Rewatch: Round Four sign-ups!
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Hello, Guardian Rewatchers! Thanks so much to everyone who's been part of the discussion, or has been reading along. ♥
Come join us for round 4 of the Guardian Slo-Mo Rewatch. We're watching half an episode a week (about twenty minutes) so we can talk and squee about our beloved 镇魂 | Guardian drama. With the fourth batch of episodes, we have nosebleeds and aggressive nose-wiping, Zhao family backstory, and Chu Shuzhi in a singlet! We also get trapped in an Absolute Zero laboratory, and the SID celebrates the Reunion Festival!
For those who remember our last rewatch, this time we're aiming for a lighter touch. Posts are on the minimalist side - a brief summary, one quote, one screencap, maybe one noteworthy detail and some discussion-starter questions. Minimalist comments are more than welcome, too!
We're looking forward to some fun discussions as we revisit Haixing, Dixing, and the SID – and of course you can always drop in on any of the previous discussions at any time.
Fans of the novel, the drama, or both are very welcome! You don't have to keep up with the rewatch – it's absolutely fine to dip in and out. We want to hear what you think! Those of us who participated in the Readalong or are otherwise familiar with the novel are likely to compare and contrast the two canons, but it's 100% okay to focus purely on the drama.
Please consider hosting a post or two! Comment with a date from the schedule below! Posts should ideally be made sometime on the Friday or Saturday, in any time zone.
Schedule for round 3
Weekend of 15 May - no new post; catch-up time!
Weekend of 22 May - no new post; explore the 520 Day collection time!
Weekend of 29 May - episode 16 up to 23:53
Weekend of 5 June - episode 16 from 23:53
Weekend of 12 June - episode 17 up to 22:31
Weekend of 19 June - episode 17 from 22:31
Weekend of 26 June - episode 18 up to 23:38
Weekend of 3 July - episode 18 from 23:38
Weekend of 10 July - episode 19 up to 20:18
Weekend of 17 July - episode 19 from 20:18
Weekend of 24 July - episode 20 up to 22:26
Weekend of 31 July - episode 20 from 22:26
polyamships' 3 weeks 4 dreamwidth fanart rec post
May. 7th, 2026 10:25 pmmaevedarcy posting in recthethingpolyamships is participating in 3weeks4dreamwidth and today's post is all about reccing art (you can see that post here)This is my own post answering that call for recs.
Fandoms included in my post:
Teen Wolf
Arcane
The bastard son and the devil himself
All for the game
Sense8
Book 40, 2026
May. 7th, 2026 08:38 pmchez_jae
The Buzz Kill by Katherine HaytonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
View all my reviews
Finished an ebook last night. The Buzz Kill by Katherine Hayton. It’s the first in the author’s “Honeybee” series of cozy mysteries, featuring apiarist Alice Townsend.
Being neurodivergent, Alice prefers the company of bees to people. When she moves several hives to the red zone in Christchurch, however, local media want to interview her. Alice makes it through the interview, but the following day a man is found dead in the red zone, covered in bee stings. Desperate to exonerate her beloved bees, Alice screws up her courage and does some investigating. Suspects range from the man’s wife to his girlfriend, to a neighbor with a property dispute. It’s up to Alice to find who had the means and the motive.
An interesting story. I believe the author handled Alice’s Asperger’s well, even mentioning some of the small stims Alice engaged in to ground herself. She came across at times as rather abrupt, but that was normal for her. It was encouraging to see Alice push out of her comfort zone to protect her bees.
Favorite lines: Let tomorrow wait until tomorrow.
Lovely story, four stars
Further Le Guin thoughts
May. 7th, 2026 06:02 pmoursinA further trail of thought more or less kicked off by this comment by flemmings on yesterday's post about Ursula as an anthropologist's daughter and the way that inflected her fiction -
- and then I went, hey, wasn't he part of that whole Franz Boas group that I read that book about at the beginning of 2020 (Charles King, The Reinvention of Humanity) and would she not have been aware of Significant Lady Anthropologists and their work (not just her own ma) -
Like, Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict?
(Maybe the forthcoming biography will shine some light there???)
Or was that going on in some entirely different compartment to the requirements of fictional narrative? (thinking of my 1920s gals and the gulf between what they were up to with their affairs and abortions and propagating birth control and what the protags in their novels were permitted to get up to.)
Or was there a whole generational thing going on there, which I sort of touched on in commenting about Mitchison on this post, though I think I could make a larger case about that generation that had had to fight for a lot of rights that were already accepted as given by UKleG's day even if there were still major constraints.
(Seem to recollect that I did not think Julie Phillips in that book on writers and motherhood quite brought out the extent to which she was writing of a very specific generation/time-period. With some exceptions.)
Trailer: Star City
May. 7th, 2026 12:28 pmjo posting in tv_talkApple TV+'s For All Mankind spin-off, Star City, premieres on May 29.
From the blurb: Star City is a propulsive paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humankind forward.
From the blurb: Star City is a propulsive paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humankind forward.
Community Recs Post!
May. 7th, 2026 11:37 amglitteryv posting in recthethingEvery Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.
This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)
(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)
So what cool fancrafts/fics/fanvids/fanart/other kinds of fanworks/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.
BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.
This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)
(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)
So what cool fancrafts/fics/fanvids/fanart/other kinds of fanworks/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.
BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.
MerMay The Seventh
May. 7th, 2026 09:44 pmleecetheartist posting in drawesomeTitle: Speedy
Artist: leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: n/a
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Notes:
MerMay the 7th.
I've had a day not conducive to drawing but fired this off this evening.
It's drawn with a Lamy Demonstrator gleefully full of Van Diemen's ink of Azure Kingfisher,
one of my favourite with its sparkle and sheen.
Artist: leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: n/a
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Notes:
MerMay the 7th.
I've had a day not conducive to drawing but fired this off this evening.
It's drawn with a Lamy Demonstrator gleefully full of Van Diemen's ink of Azure Kingfisher,
one of my favourite with its sparkle and sheen.
Revisiting My 2014 Reading List
May. 7th, 2026 08:38 amosprey_archerThe last of my already-finished reading lists. A bit less exciting to post these when I’m not asking for advice about what to read for some of the authors, but I'm still glad to have the complete record on here.
Susan Fletcher - Journey of the Pale Bear
Adam Gopnik - A Thousand Small Sanities. Didn’t review this one. No longer remember it very well. I keep reading Gopnik because I love Paris to the Moon SO much but none of his other books are the same.
Rosemary Sutcliff - Rudyard Kipling. Not a biography of Kipling so much as an overview of his children’s books. A useful source if you’re interested in Kipling’s influence on Sutcliff.
Francesca Forrest - “Semper Vivens.” A short intense story about a terraforming accident that has created a patch of land where all life is constantly transforming into other life, which recently became the focus for a cult which decided to land there even though it meant death-by-transforming-life; a story of an awe-ful place in the old sense of the word. Hard to get a hold of, which is why I didn’t review it, but so memorable.
Rumer Godden - Premlata and the Festival of Lights
William Dean Howells - Literary Friends and Acquaintances
Barbara Cooney - The American Speller: An Adaptation of Noah Webster's Blue-Backed Speller. A picture book loosely based on Noah Webster’s iconic speller. Like many picture books, I didn’t have enough for a whole post about it, and so it fell through the cracks.
Sarah Orne Jewett - A White Heron
Dorothy Sayers - Lord Peter
Hilary McKay - The Time of Green Magic
Jane Langton - Paper Chains
Rachel Bertsche - The Kids Are in Bed: Finding Time for Yourself in the Chaos of Parenting
Angela Brazil - A Popular Schoolgirl
Annie Fellows Johnston - Cicely, and Other Stories
Zilpha Keatley Snyder - The Treasures of Weatherby
C. S. Lewis - The Great Divorce. Apparently I never reviewed this one? This shocks me. Surely I meant to review it and it just fell by the wayside. Clearly I’ll have to reread and review properly at some point.
Ben Macintyre - Operation Mincemeat
Elizabeth von Arnim - Elizabeth and Her German Garden
Susan Fletcher - Journey of the Pale Bear
Adam Gopnik - A Thousand Small Sanities. Didn’t review this one. No longer remember it very well. I keep reading Gopnik because I love Paris to the Moon SO much but none of his other books are the same.
Rosemary Sutcliff - Rudyard Kipling. Not a biography of Kipling so much as an overview of his children’s books. A useful source if you’re interested in Kipling’s influence on Sutcliff.
Francesca Forrest - “Semper Vivens.” A short intense story about a terraforming accident that has created a patch of land where all life is constantly transforming into other life, which recently became the focus for a cult which decided to land there even though it meant death-by-transforming-life; a story of an awe-ful place in the old sense of the word. Hard to get a hold of, which is why I didn’t review it, but so memorable.
Rumer Godden - Premlata and the Festival of Lights
William Dean Howells - Literary Friends and Acquaintances
Barbara Cooney - The American Speller: An Adaptation of Noah Webster's Blue-Backed Speller. A picture book loosely based on Noah Webster’s iconic speller. Like many picture books, I didn’t have enough for a whole post about it, and so it fell through the cracks.
Sarah Orne Jewett - A White Heron
Dorothy Sayers - Lord Peter
Hilary McKay - The Time of Green Magic
Jane Langton - Paper Chains
Rachel Bertsche - The Kids Are in Bed: Finding Time for Yourself in the Chaos of Parenting
Angela Brazil - A Popular Schoolgirl
Annie Fellows Johnston - Cicely, and Other Stories
Zilpha Keatley Snyder - The Treasures of Weatherby
C. S. Lewis - The Great Divorce. Apparently I never reviewed this one? This shocks me. Surely I meant to review it and it just fell by the wayside. Clearly I’ll have to reread and review properly at some point.
Ben Macintyre - Operation Mincemeat
Elizabeth von Arnim - Elizabeth and Her German Garden
magician’s rage by calebauer (SFW)
May. 7th, 2026 05:56 amkingstoken posting in fanart_recsFandom: Merlin
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Merlin
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Digital
Artist Website/Gallery: tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Stunning piece of Merlin done in reds and oranges, that express the feeling and a history of Merlin.
Link: magician’s rage
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Merlin
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Digital
Artist Website/Gallery: tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Stunning piece of Merlin done in reds and oranges, that express the feeling and a history of Merlin.
Link: magician’s rage
[Video] 5 Indie Games You ACTUALLY Haven't Played (and probably should)
May. 6th, 2026 09:56 pmi_like_the_stars posting in indie_gamesJust wanted to share a quick video I thought y'all would appreciate.
REALLY interested in Sinker Sound. Big, big fan of fishing games and rhythm games. I can't believe I never thought to have them in the same game! The other two that interested me were RUBATO and Mr. Sleepy Man. Did any games catch your interest?
This is the first video I've seen by sl1ppey, but they're incredibly fun to watch while giving honest and legitimate reviews of the games they're showcasing.
REALLY interested in Sinker Sound. Big, big fan of fishing games and rhythm games. I can't believe I never thought to have them in the same game! The other two that interested me were RUBATO and Mr. Sleepy Man. Did any games catch your interest?
This is the first video I've seen by sl1ppey, but they're incredibly fun to watch while giving honest and legitimate reviews of the games they're showcasing.
Всех с Егорьем!
May. 6th, 2026 09:01 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
maiorova_feedЭто сегодня с утра звонят в церкви, а Лексеич спрашивает: чего это, сегодня праздник какой?
Так Георгия! Джурджевдан, лето наступило. Год в представлении сербов делится на две половинки: георгиевскую, то есть летнюю, и димитриевскую, то есть зимнюю. В лето красное нужно вступать довольными, цветущими и здоровыми, поэтому вокруг Джурджевдана масса суеверий. Вот, например, кукурек.
Столь оптимистичное сербское название носит всем известный морозник, который у многих растёт в саду, а в сербских лесах встречается и в диком виде. Это национальное лекарство от всего. Не пользуйтесь им никогда ни внутрь, ни наружу, страшный яд. Первое, ещё древнегреческое химическое оружие. До Джурджевдана морозник даже в дом внести боятся - якобы к несчастью, а в Джурджевдан - пожалуйста. На том месте, где его сорвали, правда, надо непременно оставить корку хлеба. Большую вкусную корку. Непременно.
Перед Джурджевданом можно заметить во дворах в частном секторе большие миски с водой, в которой плавают зелёные ветки и цветы. Оказывается, это красивый старинный обычай. Берут воду, в которой варились пасхальные яйца - да, её сохранили с самой Страстной недели, у хорошей хозяйки ничего не пропадает. добавляют в неё девятисил (тоже, кстати, забавно называется по-сербски: омен), любисток и этот самый морозник, люди, не делайте так никогда, он реально ядовитый, гадость неописуемая. И до утра эта вода стоит во дворе. А с первыми лучами рассвета нужно её на себя вылить. И вот тогда вас никакая хворь не возьмёт целый год, и можно свободно весь день водить хороводы и петь джурджевские песни. Вот, например, Светлана Стенич-Вукосавлевич, солистка белградского радио, по образованию химик-технолог, такую песнь поёт:
В мужском варианте поёт квинтет "Пастири времена":
Чије је оно девојче;
Ђурђеле, ђурђел момо,
Ђурђе!
Хеј, водо, војводо!
Што носи перо на'еро;
Ђурђеле, ђурђел момо,
Ђурђе!
Хеј, водо, војводо!
Што носи дукат на чело;
Ђурђеле, ђурђел момо,
Ђурђе!
Хеј, водо, војводо!
Што спушта поле на доле;
Ђурђеле, ђурђел момо,
Ђурђе!
Хеј, водо, војводо!
Да му се ноге не беле;
Ђурђеле, ђурђел момо,
Ђурђе!
Хеј, водо, војводо!
Оно је моје девојче;
Ђурђеле, ђурђел момо,
Ђурђе!
Хеј, водо, војводо!
Чья это девица?
Юрьева, Юрья-парня,
Юрья!
Эй, вода-воевода.
Что носит перо на шапочке,
Что носит золото на лбу,
Что подол платья носит до земли,
чтобы белых её ножек было не видать?
Моя, моя девица!
Юрьева, Юрья-парня,
Юрья!
Эй, вода-воевода.
Так Георгия! Джурджевдан, лето наступило. Год в представлении сербов делится на две половинки: георгиевскую, то есть летнюю, и димитриевскую, то есть зимнюю. В лето красное нужно вступать довольными, цветущими и здоровыми, поэтому вокруг Джурджевдана масса суеверий. Вот, например, кукурек.
Столь оптимистичное сербское название носит всем известный морозник, который у многих растёт в саду, а в сербских лесах встречается и в диком виде. Это национальное лекарство от всего. Не пользуйтесь им никогда ни внутрь, ни наружу, страшный яд. Первое, ещё древнегреческое химическое оружие. До Джурджевдана морозник даже в дом внести боятся - якобы к несчастью, а в Джурджевдан - пожалуйста. На том месте, где его сорвали, правда, надо непременно оставить корку хлеба. Большую вкусную корку. Непременно.
Перед Джурджевданом можно заметить во дворах в частном секторе большие миски с водой, в которой плавают зелёные ветки и цветы. Оказывается, это красивый старинный обычай. Берут воду, в которой варились пасхальные яйца - да, её сохранили с самой Страстной недели, у хорошей хозяйки ничего не пропадает. добавляют в неё девятисил (тоже, кстати, забавно называется по-сербски: омен), любисток и этот самый морозник, люди, не делайте так никогда, он реально ядовитый, гадость неописуемая. И до утра эта вода стоит во дворе. А с первыми лучами рассвета нужно её на себя вылить. И вот тогда вас никакая хворь не возьмёт целый год, и можно свободно весь день водить хороводы и петь джурджевские песни. Вот, например, Светлана Стенич-Вукосавлевич, солистка белградского радио, по образованию химик-технолог, такую песнь поёт:
В мужском варианте поёт квинтет "Пастири времена":
Чије је оно девојче;
Ђурђеле, ђурђел момо,
Ђурђе!
Хеј, водо, војводо!
Што носи перо на'еро;
Ђурђеле, ђурђел момо,
Ђурђе!
Хеј, водо, војводо!
Што носи дукат на чело;
Ђурђеле, ђурђел момо,
Ђурђе!
Хеј, водо, војводо!
Што спушта поле на доле;
Ђурђеле, ђурђел момо,
Ђурђе!
Хеј, водо, војводо!
Да му се ноге не беле;
Ђурђеле, ђурђел момо,
Ђурђе!
Хеј, водо, војводо!
Оно је моје девојче;
Ђурђеле, ђурђел момо,
Ђурђе!
Хеј, водо, војводо!
Чья это девица?
Юрьева, Юрья-парня,
Юрья!
Эй, вода-воевода.
Что носит перо на шапочке,
Что носит золото на лбу,
Что подол платья носит до земли,
чтобы белых её ножек было не видать?
Моя, моя девица!
Юрьева, Юрья-парня,
Юрья!
Эй, вода-воевода.
520 Day Reverse Exchange - One Week to Deadline!
May. 6th, 2026 11:50 pmtrobadora posting in sid_guardianJust a reminder that the 520 Day Reverse Exchange deadline is now one week away. Please post your completed assignment to the AO3 collection by 11:59PM UTC Wednesday 13 May! (What time is that for me?)
(Actually, the first entry has already been posted! Congrats! \o/)
Your work must be complete to fill your assignment. It's fine to keep editing until reveals, but the first and each edited version must be a work that stands on its own. If you're unsure how to post, see the instructions here.
If you have any questions or, for any reason, you can't make the deadline, please let us know NOW by replying to your assignment email (don't change the subject line) or commenting here. Comments here are screened.
General info, schedule and minimum requirements
*cheers everyone on*
(Actually, the first entry has already been posted! Congrats! \o/)
Your work must be complete to fill your assignment. It's fine to keep editing until reveals, but the first and each edited version must be a work that stands on its own. If you're unsure how to post, see the instructions here.
If you have any questions or, for any reason, you can't make the deadline, please let us know NOW by replying to your assignment email (don't change the subject line) or commenting here. Comments here are screened.
General info, schedule and minimum requirements
*cheers everyone on*
Wednesday had a lot of trouble logging into Official Persona Email
May. 6th, 2026 07:29 pmoursinWhat I read
Finished Tales From Earthsea, The Other Wind and the pendant short pieces in The Book of Earthsea 'The Rule of Names', 'The Word of Unbinding', 'The Daughter of Odren', and 'Earthsea Revisioned'. I don't know quite what it is, I can see how good her work is, but the feeling is more of distant admiration than what I feel for my beloved favourites? Might even cop to preferring her criticism and essays to her fiction? (not the only author to whom this pertains.)
Started a Dick Francis, Bolt (Kit Fielding, #2) (1986)
- and then, feeling all a-wamble and fretted because of the insomnia thing, fell back into Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution, old favourite.
- and then returned to the horsies and the posh owners and the psycho villains.
On the go
Martha Wells, Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries #8) which arrived yesterday.
Up next
No idea, apart from the recently arrived latest Literary Review