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+1! This week, Emily and V look at everyone's favorite fic format, the 5+1 fic. This humble story structure seems like it's always been a part of fandom, or just a part of human storytelling, but no! It all started with a little Clark/Lex story in Smallville fandom back in 2002, and boy, are we grateful. Come along with us as we talk about which fandoms grow these babies like lemons on trees, which stories have devastated us the most, and more Times than you can count.

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Hey so I am going to be a debbie downer for a moment but Baumgartner's approach towards painting conservation (at least as shown in his videos) is wildly misleading, and is likely doing some not inconsiderable damage to the painting surfaces.

Thanks for the heads-up! I had a google around and while some of the criticisms I’ve seen have been dealt with by him in videos and some I’m not qualified to know who’s correct on, his hostility towards other conservators certainly doesn’t reflect well on him or his technique. I’ve been watching him less lately because man he puts a lot of ads in, and also he does a lot less cleaning footage which is the part I always liked watching anyway, so stepping back entirely shouldn’t be difficult. 

basinke

Magic erasers really are amazing.

Tell you what they work a lot better when you get them wet. :D 

I thought they were a scam for years because my mother would send them to me in care packages WITHOUT THE PACKAGING just in a ziplock bag, so I didn’t know you were supposed to get them wet. You don’t get normal erasers wet before using them, so....

kholden83

the cat-ball index suggests it's getting cold there

Really looking forward to what Thor Ragnarok and then Black Panther bring out of you. ��

Man, I am looking forward to two straight movies that don’t have Steve or Bucky in them so my canon will HOLD STILL. I keep forgetting that Thor Ragnarok even exists. :D

Ugh, blocked for me :(

Grr, which Twitch is too D: Sorry. I suspect most sites like it will be, unfortunately. Is it blocked regionally or blocked at work? 

white-throated-packrat replied to your post “LUDDITES.”

every single non-profit database was broken?!

In one way or another. One of my magazine logins didn’t work because of the way the subscription just got restructured; two databases didn’t work because one company bought the other and my browser was confused about which one I was logging onto (I now have to log in via an incognito window for both of them, meaning I have at minimum three Chrome browser windows and one Firefox open at any given time). Guidestar for some reason thinks I’m hacking it unless I access it via Firefox and locks me out. One site just straight up wouldn’t load (it was down for everyone). One of the staff put a file in the wrong place on our cloud server which led to me having to rebuild our daily news mailing twice. And on, and on. 

ladyknighttime replied to your photoset “Sam: If I were feeling trolly I would post a fancast of good omens...”

Were you trolling the complaints about Michael, Famine, Uriel, and Beelzebub’s casting?

No, this was long before the news that Prime was going to make Good Omens -- I think there was some minor fancasting kerfuffle going on, but I never paid any attention to the casting news for Prime Good Omens so it definitely wasn’t that. 

ihopeyoucontinue4ever replied to your post “Hi! I saw a TIL on Reddit about this '60s trend of drinking heated up...”

Of all the weird concoctions you eat/drink, Dr Pepper is your trigger?

It’s not a flavor thing, which is the strange part. The flavor of Dr. Pepper is fine, not something I especially like but nothing I’m against. It’s just after I drink it I get nauseated. The few times in my life I’ve had it I’ve almost invariably puked shortly after. 

basinke replied to your post “Hi! I saw a TIL on Reddit about this '60s trend of drinking heated up...”

It has some kind of milk component in it. It’s not vegan and there’s a seriously off taste to me as well.

I have faith in you!

First step when you feel like you need something but you’re not sure what is almost always to drink a glass of water and consider life.

Well, I actually have a water bottle beside me, so I should probably refill it...