Taskmaster, Hugo nominees, etc.
Apr. 11th, 2025 07:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hamsterwomanI have some more poems and still need to catch up on a whole bunch of RL stuff, but I figured it was about time for a public post, so all that's going to wait a bit.
Everyone has surely seen it by now, but: Murderbot trailer has dropped. Murderbot looks nothing like my mental image, in or out of the suit, but the voiceover is fun, and I like the Preservation team -- they (collectively) do match my mental image pretty well. So, this seems like it could be fun. Oh, and I love how terrible the acting on Sanctuary Moon is.
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Taskmaster series 19 has an air date: May 1.
Taskmaster Oz s4e03 -- I like Emma's little hair buns in this ep! ( Spoilers from here )
The other Taskmaster thing is, there's a new "Transformative Taskmaster" podcast (by fans, about fandom/fanworks). I'm not caught up, but I listened to a couple. Well, on April 1 they announced that their next guest would be Alex, and there was speculation whether it was an April Fool's thing or not. It was not a joke XD Highlights of the 45-min interview with Alex include: a) the fan interviewer explaining the AO3 tagging system to Alex, from which his take-away is, so I can use the "Alex Horne Don't Read This" tag to search for fic? b) Alex being asked for prompts, and he mentions Pancake Day, and so many fics about Pancake Day got written instantaneously, and someone made this, and now there's a collection, c) Alex played a game where he had to guess whether an occupation was something he did in a fic or not -- he was not very good at this, and guessed yes for "painter" when that was false, but somebody went ahead and wrote a fic where he is. I have never before encountered a fandom with so permeable a fourth wall XD
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Hugo nominees have been announced (and also I totally missed that the Nebulas had been as well): ( thoughts on nominees )
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Fannish goals check-in: ( under here )
Everyone has surely seen it by now, but: Murderbot trailer has dropped. Murderbot looks nothing like my mental image, in or out of the suit, but the voiceover is fun, and I like the Preservation team -- they (collectively) do match my mental image pretty well. So, this seems like it could be fun. Oh, and I love how terrible the acting on Sanctuary Moon is.
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Taskmaster series 19 has an air date: May 1.
Taskmaster Oz s4e03 -- I like Emma's little hair buns in this ep! ( Spoilers from here )
The other Taskmaster thing is, there's a new "Transformative Taskmaster" podcast (by fans, about fandom/fanworks). I'm not caught up, but I listened to a couple. Well, on April 1 they announced that their next guest would be Alex, and there was speculation whether it was an April Fool's thing or not. It was not a joke XD Highlights of the 45-min interview with Alex include: a) the fan interviewer explaining the AO3 tagging system to Alex, from which his take-away is, so I can use the "Alex Horne Don't Read This" tag to search for fic? b) Alex being asked for prompts, and he mentions Pancake Day, and so many fics about Pancake Day got written instantaneously, and someone made this, and now there's a collection, c) Alex played a game where he had to guess whether an occupation was something he did in a fic or not -- he was not very good at this, and guessed yes for "painter" when that was false, but somebody went ahead and wrote a fic where he is. I have never before encountered a fandom with so permeable a fourth wall XD
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Hugo nominees have been announced (and also I totally missed that the Nebulas had been as well): ( thoughts on nominees )
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Fannish goals check-in: ( under here )
