Lockdown Update Day 206

[elisi]

It's FRIDAY. So let's have GOOD THINGS.

First of all - Friday:

Friday by girlpire

Summary:

Today is the longest day of Angel's life, and the only person who understands is the last person he wants to be around.

Today is the shortest day of Spike's life. He just doesn't know it.

If you only had one day to live the rest of your eternity, how would you spend it? Who would you spend it with?

girlpire is one of my favouritest writers (and a good friend), and I was thrilled when she recently got an AO3 and began uploading her old works. And Friday is... one of THOSE stories. Something that stays with you - something that you can't describe adequately, but that is effortlessly better than 99% of anything else you ever come across.

Just the concept is brilliant: It's a Groundhog Day story, but from the perspective of one of the people caught in the loop. And it's so well done. (I'm gushing, but it really is that good, and that clever.) Please note the tags (just in case there is anything triggering) - it's a dark story in many ways. Mostly though: Mmmmmmm, Spangel.

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Other good things:

Is there any good news today?
(Tumblr post with lots of things from The Happy broadcast)

War Horse creators' refugee puppet set for epic walk
A giant puppet of a child, made by the War Horse creators, is to embark on a 5,000-mile walk from Syria to the UK to "rewrite the narrative about refugees".

A Message from Members of the UK and Irish Publishing Community
We stand in support of trans and non-binary people and their rights.
(** This list of 1,521 was updated from the original list posted on September 30, 2020 and which had over 200 names.)

And here is the corresponding list for the US and Canada.

A B.C. research project gave homeless people $7,500 each — the results were 'beautifully surprising'
Participants found housing faster, boosted food security and reduced spending on substances, study found

For anyone needing Arwen/Aragorn joy in their life

ETA: The friends who drove a bus behind the Iron Curtain
In the summer of 1968, a group of friends adapted a double-decker bus and took it on a journey to Eastern Europe. Sponsored by two Scotch whisky-makers, they encountered Soviet tanks, a Romanian beer shortage and a perilous Yugoslavian mountain pass.

And finally, today's art. For once not by a woman artist, but by Joseph Cornell who is one of my alltime favourite artists:


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Comments

[juniperphoenix]

Those Arwen/Aragorn pics are a delight.

[yourlibrarian]

I'll be interested to hear how the puppet walk goes, it's a good idea. When I was on the page I also saw a link to the following: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54468498 That's a nice story and one wishes there were something similar in the U.S. With all the crap that's happening here it would be nice to honor people going above and beyond in helping others.

Also was really glad to see the results of the homeless study -- more evidence that a UBI would be more cost effective.

[trepkos]

Oh - I remember "Friday" - vaguely. I must re-read it! Thank you!

[double_dutchess]

Friday deserves ALL the gushing.

Also, I just realised that you posted about Friday on a Friday. Good!

[girlpire.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the rec! I hope this will be an opportunity for new readers to discover this old story