QC Rerun Time 2025 #3

Dec. 9th, 2025 09:21 pm
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A Bembo comic! Man I love these. IIRC, the whole idea for Bembo started off on twitter when I went on a bit of a "dumb barbarian but not in the way you'd expect" style of shitposting spree. Then later that year I needed some filler comics for the week between xmas and new year's so I decided to turn some of those posts into actual comics. And then it became a semi-regular thing! They're very fun and I hope to do more in the future. Bembo is obviously heavily indebted to Oglaf, a comic I adore. Go read Oglaf, unless you don't like cartoons with tits and wieners in them I guess.

Every time I see one of these old comics I think "man, remember when QC was about indie rock lol." Also remember when I used to make jokes about the size of Faye's ass but didn't really know how to draw thicker ladies yet so she pretty much looked like every other character, lol.

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Posted by Sarah Brown

Cats helping wrap gifts during the holiday season is its own special kind of challenge. The second the wrapping paper hits the floor, they appear out of nowhere like tiny supervisors. They plop themselves right in the middle of the sheet, refuse to budge, and treat the tape dispenser like their new favorite toy. Before long, bits of paper and tape are stuck to their paws as they trot proudly around the room.

Folding corners becomes a near-impossible mission when a cat decides the box you're wrapping is officially their new home. They climb inside, roll around, and pop their head out just when you think you've finally made progress. And ribbons? Absolutely irresistible. One swat and suddenly it's a full-blown play session, complete with leaps and pounces that send bows disappearing under furniture.

Still, their chaos somehow makes the whole thing sweeter. Every crooked edge or uneven fold feels like a little signature from the furry assistant who insisted on joining in. Wrapping gifts may take twice as long, but with a cat involved, it's twice as fun.

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Posted by Taija PerryCook

A rumor that Trump said he "didn’t really need" his private jet — known as Trump Force One — spread online.
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Posted by Jordan Liles

The alleged photo made the rounds online after the Oscar-winning writer and director criticized Paul Dano's acting in a December 2025 podcast episode.
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Posted by Megan Loe

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed that ICE arrested Wade on Sept. 18. His family said he served in the U.S. Army.
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Posted by Rae Deng

The allegation came after USCIS directed employees to suspend all immigration applications from 19 travel ban countries on Dec. 2, 2025.
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Each year well over an estimated million theatre goers visit The Globe Theatre on London's Southbank, situated along the River Thames. Unbeknownst to many of them, this is not the first location of this prestigious amphitheater. In fact, this is most likely the third iteration of the this esteemed premises.

Just a stone's throw away from this current iteration, is a small side-street, Park Street. It was here that the prolific playwright William Shakespeare, (1564 -1616) and his acting troupe, Lord Chamberlain's Men, hand built the original open-air theater in the round in 1599.

It was at this location that many of Shakespeare's most famous plays had their premiers. During the night of June 16th, 1613, while a production of Henry VIII was performing, the timber structure caught fire and burnt down. It was rebuilt only to be destroyed in the 1640's by entertainment hating Puritans. The current Globe Theater was painstakingly reconstructed and overseen by American actor and director Sam Wanamaker (1919 - 1993) and re-opened in 1997.

Today, the area between Park Street and Potter Terrace is a residential housing complex. On the ground of the resident's parking lot is a metal plate indicating the layout of the original Globe Theater. There are also three information placards that contain information pertaining to Shakespeare and his illustrious endeavors.

 

Featured Article: Gennie Summers

Dec. 9th, 2025 06:01 pm
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Image of an open folder on a desk, on the left is a polaroid containing an image of Gennie in a Kilngon outfit and holding a phaser. There is also plant shaped clips and a note that reads 'week 50, Dec 7 to Dec 13'. On the right is a paper that includes the text from Featured Article post, plus another plant shaped clip. The Fanlore logo is in the upper right corner.ALT

This week’s Featured Article is about Gennie Summers, (2 August 1924 - 25 May 2010), who was a prolific gen artist and occasional writer. Her main fandoms were Star Trek and Star Wars. She was very much a Klingon fan.

Summers was introduced to fandom in 1973 when she read a newspaper that supplied the names of several fans, one of them being Jacqueline Lichtenberg, the creator of the Kraith series of Star Trek The Original Series short stories and novellas. Summers wrote Lichtenberg and was sent the address of the Star Trek Welcommittee. Some of Summers’s art was used as covers for HolQeD, quarterly journal of the Klingon Language Institute.

Summers contributed her art to dozens of zines. In a 1990 fannish autobiography she wrote:

“I didn’t get in touch with fandom until 1973, though I knew there were other fans. I just didn’t know how to find them. When I did, a new world opened up.

I’d never made it as a professional artist; I’m self-taught. But through fandom, I can share with others what I create, and enjoy their creations in turn.”

Learn more about Gennie Summers’s contributions to fandom history on Fanlore!

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We value every contribution to our shared fandom history. If you’re new to editing Fanlore or wikis in general, visit our New Visitor Portal to get started or ask us questions here!

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Posted by Briana Viser

Cats are known for their naughtiness. Their zoomies that wake you up at 4 am, knocking the salt off the table when you leave the room, or meowing loudly at times where they perceivably have no reason to. Cats are inherently going to get on your nerves, and they like it that way. They get away with it too due to their cute demeanor, their innocent whiskers, and their huge eyes looking like they're in need of a cuddle. If you thought 2025 was chaotic, just wait until you meet the feline felons who turned this year into a full-time comedy show. These furry troublemakers did not just misbehave—they curated a whole story and narrative behind the evil cat doings. Consider this your official wrap-up of the most adorable anarchy ever recorded.

You might wonder to yourself, "it's just a cat, what's the worst that can happen?" But that kind of naivety will get you nowhere when you own one of these incredible rascals. When you're a cat pawrent for long enough, you start understanding how mischievous kitty cats can be. Despite all the chaos, messes, midnight zoomies, and property destruction, we love all these naughty cats for who they are. 

Bibliographies for fiction

Dec. 9th, 2025 11:59 pm
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A novel I recently finished reading 1 has a bibliography at the end. It's a couple pages long, divided into sections and the first book on it is Marx's Kapital, lol.

1 "Paresse pour tous" (Laziness for all) by Hadrien Klent

Have you ever read a novel with a bibliography? Do you read the bibliographies in general?
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Posted by Briana Viser

Loss is a part of life, but it doesn't make it any easier to go through grief or sadness when you lose someone close to you. There's a hole there that can't be filled with anything else, and coming to terms with the loss is the best way to move on from it. The story below isn't about loss, but it centers around the potential for loss. The protagonist is a cat mom who's had her cat for 16 years, which is the age of the cat. Now that the cat is 16-years-old, he's having health issues. He has surgery to remove his bladder stones. After the vet, he's not at his full health. It's to be expected, but it doesn't make it easier. 

The old cat won't eat, won't drink. He still is trained to go to the bathroom, but since there's nothing there, he just sits next to his litter box confused. It's heartbreaking for the cat owner to see, and she's tried everything in her power to make her cat son eat, but he won't. She seeks wholesome internet advice on what to do for her cat, as she's not ready to lose her favorite person in the world. 

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Posted by Laurent Shinar

Cats are truly a mysterious bunch, and we would not be surprised if many of this world's mysteries could be solved if a cat thought translator would be invented. If we could finally know what is going on in their tiny, albeit brilliant, minds, who knows what mysteries we could solve? But at the very least, the mystery of why the cat child featured in today's story decided to wriggle out of its harness and run away would be solved. For what is a loving feline pawrent meant to think when their cat child does their very best to squirm out of the only thing keeping them together while outdoors?

Lucky for the pawrent in this story, the cat came back, but if it had not, that could have been a pain and weight that they would have lived with for the rest of their life. So the moral of the story is we need the technologists that be to invent a cat thought translator.

Comic: Old Man Yaoi (2025)

Dec. 9th, 2025 05:02 pm
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Rogan: It was a tie between "Old Man Yaoi" and "Cult Comix" this poll, but December is dark enough without cultery, so I exercised my blogly fiat. Besides, "Old Man Yaoi" has contextual relevance, because it's about Coming In or Staying Out, which is now officially up for sale in the violet and bubblegum pink Riso edition! $20, 24 pages, printing so pretty you'll want to rub it across your face!

Image and textual transcription behind the cut!

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Posted by Anna Rascouët-Paz

Attorney General Pam Bondi's memo asked the DOJ to prosecute the "most serious, readily provable offenses."
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Posted by Ayala Sorotsky

Let's get the bottom line out of the way first - we're absolutely happy to know this cat is in her forever home. It might take her time to mend the broken trust she's experienced from her previous owners, but it'll come. This kind neighbor who took her in seems to have all the right intentions and means to make this beautiful feline girl right at home - from here on out, and forever. Soon, she won't be the "kind neighbor" who saved this cute cat, but her actual human mama.

Now that the bottom line is at the top, we can continue to what bothers us so much, bubbling under the surface, that we have a mighty need to ask - who in their right mind abandons their cat?! Seriously, who? A cat is not a toy, it's a feline family member. And when you adopt someone into your family - you treat them as such. Especially when we're talking about a cat - a creature who depends on you for all their needs, their safety, their well-being. People who move out and leave their cats behind should be abandoned by society altogether.

But, you know what? We're happy the Cat Distribution System re-distributed this cat to someone who cares for her, who wants her around, who shows her love and kindness. All cats deserve to be safe in a home, never to be abandoned as used furniture. That's just pure evil we can't fathom thinking about.

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Swan Lake Iris Gardens is a 150-acre park located in Sumter, SC. It is the only public park in the U.S. that is the home to all 8 swan species, and it also boasts of having one of the nation's most extensive plantings of Japanese Iris.

There is a lake within the Gardens, Swan Lake, that has a pedestrian walking trail around it, and visitors to the park can delight in views of the blooming Irises, along with searching for all 8 swan species. Please note that the Irises bloom mid-May through the start of June. Also, if you are going on a "scavenger hunt" for all 8 swan species, make sure to head left when entering the gardens, as the park has signs with names, identifying pictures, and descriptions of each of the swan species that will be of great help! There are seven types of white swans and only one type of black swan, so look closely when trying to identify the different species! It is much more difficult than you might think!

Also within the gardens are sculptures, including "Recovery" by Grainger McKoy that depicts the wing of a pintail duck in flight, so for nature lovers and photographers, photo ops abound! If you are not into photography, enjoy the peacefulness of environment, along with the creativity of the horticulturists, as there are 2 unique areas on the walking trail, a chocolate-themed garden and a butterfly Garden!  There is even a Braille Garden! The park is really unique and a must visit when near the city of Sumter, SC. 

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