Weirdness: Round three

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2025/10/18/should-you-flush-a-japanese-toilet-with-your-foot-or-your-hand/ — Good to know.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14511360/1/Firestorm by sakurademonalchemist. HP/LastAirbender cross, seven chapters so far.

You have heard of 'akashic recorders', right? Well, Harry Potter's wasn't rewound before he was reincarnated as Zuko.

[Té Rowan]

Moving this to where it ought to have been…

In case anyone remembers me mentioning in the "Idea Inklings" thread that the naming of a Senshi is a delicate matter, the idea came from "RFC 2100: The Naming of Hosts", where it says that "The Naming of Hosts is a difficult matter".

Incidentally, if you do look through the rfc-editor site, RFCs dated "1 April" are usually a lot less serious than the rest.

Note f.ex. "RFC1149: IP Over Avian Carriers" or "RFC 2324: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol".

[Té Rowan]

https://summertime75.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/coke-ad-from-the-1890s.jpg
https://summertime75.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1906-coca-cola-fashion-advert.jpg
https://summertime75.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1907-stage-star-medical-coca-cola.jpg
https://summertime75.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/vintage-1934.jpg
Coke Is It… and has been It for a long time.

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/call-the-police-1947-06-10-2-the-case-of-the-kidnapped-killer
There are actually five episodes of an old radio cop show behind that link.

[Té Rowan]

Grody-verse-Dept:

Miss Fifi, a croonette from Nice,
Just won't leave the bandsmen in pice.
She keeps saying "Geef me a kice!"
And, having begun, they can't cice.
— Radio Pictorial #255, 1938-12-02

[Té Rowan]

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%AE%E8%A8%98%E5%BF%B5%E6%97%A5%E4%B8%80%E8%A6%A7

I got a list of themed days when I ran this through my browser's translation function, including a "Cold Weather Day" and a "No Accidents Day".

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2025/11/12/maker-of-japans-first-crane-machine-is-looking-for-a-working-model-offering-100000-yen-reward/

Taito is liiking for a working example of their Crown 602 crane game. All they have is a few pictures.

[Té Rowan]

Oldish-fic-time:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13864776/1/Sands-of-Time by sakurademonalchemist. Primarily HP/YuGiOh. Stalled at thirteen chapters.

Fem!HP Lotus Potter gets sent to ancient Egypt. Don't worry, Unbitch and Mouldyfart will get theirs… with cleats on.

[Té Rowan]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42472437 — "Nice to meet you, welcome home." by dropsofmoonlightzine. Straight SM one-shot/doujin.

Chibi-Usa is finally born.

[Té Rowan]

Loony-fic-time:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14342346/1/Friendly-Neighborhood-Wizard by sakurademonalchemist. Stalled at fifteen chapters.

Peter Parker is Spiderman. He is also a wizard, a dishwasher, a paramedic, a SAR guy, and a teenager.

Have fun finding the movie references.

[Té Rowan]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/74000616 — "Enlightened Dumbass Genma Saotome" by aWholeLottie. Ranma one-shot.

Things go… differently… when the Saotomes drop in on the Tendos.

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/17160551 — "your happily ever after" by haatomune. SM one-shot.

It's Mamoru and Usagi's Big Day. Usagi is hoping that Minako did not make a big bowl of molest out of the preparations.

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2025/11/20/theres-something-off-about-this-red-light-district-building-in-japan/

You would never have seen this place in any ukiyo-e (floating-world pictures).

[Té Rowan]

New-story-time:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/74098851 — "1/2 Minded" by JamieStage. Ranma ½ story, currently at nine chapters.

Episode 1 material, except that Ranma has her memories knocked out of her, and Genma is tranq'ed and shipped to a panda sanctuary.

[Té Rowan]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73651381 — "The World Just Ended...Do I Feel Fine?" by princesscolumbia. Multi-cross one-shot.

A nice little slice-of-life involving KPop Demon Hunters, My Little Pony and Ranma ½.

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/73497541 — "The Wildfire Tour: Live From Seoul" by AnneOminous

This might be somehow involved in the slice-of-life above.