Weirdness: Round three

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

I have given quite a few copies of Good omens to people who really needed to read it. Many end up hooked on Discworld, because there's so much more of it. What would happen if Susan Sto Helit were to wander into the bookshop while Aziriphale and Crowley were having tea?

[Té Rowan]

I expect she would accept a cuppa, and the other two would remember all the politeness they were taught.


https://soranews24.com/2022/12/29/creepy-shrine-video-has-japanese-internet-wondering-where-it-is-if-it-leads-to-alternate-world/
An isekai setting? Or a Touhou setting? Yeah, it might work.

https://soranews24.com/2022/12/28/you-dont-have-to-go-all-the-way-to-haneda-to-find-a-vending-machine-that-sells-airplane-meals/
In-flight meals from a vending machine? Attention, freight dogs of the world!

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2022/12/31/secret-staff-cafeteria-in-tokyo-is-a-hidden-gem-you-wont-find-in-travel-guides/
This has a bloke wondering if there are staff cafeterias open to the public outside of Japan.

https://soranews24.com/2022/12/30/pokemon-x-mister-donut-fukubukuro-lucky-bag-is-a-very-sweet-way-to-ring-in-the-new-year/
https://soranews24.com/2022/12/30/this-years-revlon-lucky-bag-is-not-only-totally-worth-buying-but-easy-to-get-too/
Oh, yeah... it's lucky bag season in that country.

[Té Rowan]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40120086/chapters/100480035 — "Show Me The Way To Go Home" by CrypticMirror.
The Eternally Lost Boy meets the only slightly-less-lost ship and her not-so-competent complement. (Ranma/The Navy Lark)

[Té Rowan]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32251-28/dogbertcarroll+With+Sprinkles.htm by dogbertcarroll.
In which Xander has to explain why he isn't a god, and River discovers something really scary.

[Té Rowan]

Looks like dogbertcarroll has received aother sacrifice.

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33292/dogbertcarroll+Sons+and+Daughters+of+Sineya.htm
In which a previous friend of Buffy's is dealt with, without sacrifices or deaths, strangely enough.

[Té Rowan]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20050285 — "Harry Potter And The Sorcer... Philosop... Demented Headmaster(?)" by ValentineMeikin.
A Potter-based multicrossover that has obviously been smoking something it shouldn't have. After a particularly stupid/lucky Imp digs the foundations from undermeath 4 Privet Drive, Harry Potter falls into a disused Overlord's Dungeon and wakes up with Hotaru Tomoe as his Reaper. As if things weren't weird and meandering enough already...

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

Thanks for the link - it looks like an enjoyable form of weirdness.

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2023/01/09/that-time-we-let-coca-cola-bottles-predict-our-fortunes-for-the-new-year/
Fortunes off of Coke bottles? Y335H!

https://soranews24.com/2023/01/09/kicking-off-the-new-year-with-a-gathering-of-the-most-famous-dekotora-in-japan/
Were it only true that yelling "DEKOTORA!!!" three times very loud would have one showing up...

[Té Rowan]

http://paul-kemble.tripod.com/sound4d.html — Paranormal audio.
1. Buy lots of pretty wire.
2. Make up some inflated technobabble claims about how it makes your hi-fi much more hi-fi than other folks' not-so-pretty wire.
3. Sell lots of pretty wire for grossly-inflated prices to audiophools.
4. PROFIT!
World's best get-rich-quick scheme?

[Té Rowan]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/6103228 — "Love Hina Drabbles" by KB9VCN. 108 chapters.
Keitaro is the butt of the jokes.

[Neko-]

Keitaro is the butt of the jokes.

Isn't he usually?

[Té Rowan]

Well, yeah, a Captain Obvious moment there.

[Té Rowan]

http://web.archive.org/web/20051214073331/http://naru.easynetonline.net/narudiary/
An old Love Hina fan site, largely intact. There are thumbnails and images missing from the gallery but the fanfiction and wallpaper sections look OK.

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2023/01/13/turning-your-cake-into-an-awesome-looking-2-d-cake-like-this-is-quick-and-simple%e3%80%90photos%e3%80%91/
The right way to flatten your slice of cake from 3D into 2D.