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[anacrinecomplex]

New page! Get it while it’s hot!

A comic about promises, powers, and pigeons.

[tenochconamor]

Lee Jung-jae and Jung Woo-sung’s Artist Company has announced “Salrongdeu Holmes” or "Salon de Holmes" (살롱 드 홈즈) as its first production of 2025.

On the 16th, Artist Company stated, “Salon de Holmes" is new weekend drama co-produced by Artist Company, iWill Media, and Studio ENM, will premiere on ENA starting June 16.”

“Salon de Holmes” is a slice-of-life comic investigation drama set in the villain-infested Gwangseon Jugong Apartment complex. It tells the story of housewives, who have long endured their circumstances, joining forces to righteously punish the everyday wrongdoers around them.

The drama features four female main characters, a top-tier brain with sharp detective instincts (played by Lee Si-young), a former detective dubbed the “female Ma Dong-seok” (Jung Young-joo), a legendary insurance queen with keen perception (Nam Gi-ae), and the “queen of part-time jobs” (Kim Da-som). Together, they form a team that solves unusual incidents happening within their apartment community.

The series is directed by Min Jin-ki and Jung Hyun-nam, known for the Shinbyeong series. The script is written by Kim Yeon-shin, who previously penned My Man’s Secret and Heaven’s Promise. In addition, Ahn Yong-jin, a writer for SNL and Comedy Big League, has joined as a co-writer, raising expectations for a well-crafted story that balances strong plotlines with delightful humor.

Salon de Holmes is Artist Company’s first drama release of 2025. Having built its production capabilities through co-productions like the film Hunt, this project marks Artist Company’s official entry into full-scale drama production, making it a significant milestone.

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[edwin-paynes-bowtie]

I'm sorry but nothing will ever compare to Stephen and Lucien's awkward"first-I-love-you" shoulder bump on the side of the street because kissing would be illegal and they were suuuuuper In Public

[doodlesonly]

A new page of my webcomic went up at noon!

Also, happy Deltarune everyone!

A comic about promises, powers, and pigeons.

[mollymauk-teafleak]

Continuing me just randomly dropping my headcanons for my Charm of Magpies modern au with no rhyme or reason...

I feel like after Lucien proposes, after all of the congratulations and a hell of a lot of celebration sex, Stephen is half asleep on Lucien's chest and murmurs that he has an engagement present for him. Lucien says he's pretty sure that isn't how it works but Stephen says he just got a pretty fucking amazing gift off you so you can shut up and listen.

He says he's decided, as his gift, Lucien can decide what Stephen wears on their wedding day.

And suddenly Stephen feels himself tipped to one side as Lucien fucking Leaps up, buck ass naked, and goes to get a piece of paper and a pen, slamming them down in front of Stephen like 'in writing. now. I an NOT having you back out of this.' And Stephen's just grinning because he knows he's just given Lucien the best gift of his life.

And of course Lucien chooses something that makes Stephen look fucking incredible

[almondmisery]

The Court of Miracles is a book that exists.

It really does exist, and I really did read it. Here are some thoughts. Beware of spoilers, etc etc, but do you really want to read it?

(This is very long. The TL;DR is that the book was kinda bad and the things it did with the characters were very confusing.)

The Court of Miracles is set in an alternate universe 1828 France, where the people are basically split into three groups as far as I can tell: the nobles, regular citizens (Those Who Walk By Day, I think??), and a collection of criminal guilds, the Court of Miracles. It’s supposed to be an Éponine-centric Les Mis retelling. To call it that would be...generous, at best, I think.

The book begins with the story of how Éponine got into the Court of Miracles, specifically the Guild of Thieves. She steals a crown jewel from the dauphin of France at the tender age of 9 years old, and that’s that. (I’m pretty sure she’s 9--later in the book it says that by age 12 she had already been involved in the Guild for three years, so that’s what I’m sticking to.)

By the way, shout out to the dauphin--met a girl once when she was stealing something from him in the middle of the night and kissed him randomly, and has been simping for her ever since. Commitment. Speaking of which, the romance of this book...well. I found an answer on Goodreads that I think describes it well:

...Yeah. Everyone’s in love with Éponine, which like, fair, but also...ehhhhhh.

Her initial motivation in the book is saving Azelma--Azelma is her older sister in this book, and is sold (?) to the Tiger, Lord of the Guild of Flesh. This motivation changes after several chapters with no real explanation. We have a timeskip after Azelma is taken and Éponine joins the Guild of Thieves. (a kind of messy timeskip--I thought it was a flashback for several pages, which might be my bad reading comprehension, but from other reviews I’ve read, others also think the timeline is a little messy so! validation.) In this timeskip, we find that Éponine has been working with her father to sell Cosette (Ettie) to the Tiger, possibly in exchange for Azelma? My memory is a little hazy already and my loan is expired, so I can’t check :P

However, as this process is starting, Éponine finds a new purpose in life--protecting Cosette. I still am not sure why this happens, she just decides very suddenly that Cosette is her new little sister and everything is now about protecting Cosette. It’s not a bad motivation, it just feels very jarring when everything leading up to it was about protecting Azelma, and without much explanation that changes.

I’m realizing that explaining everything in this book would make this wayyyy too long, so let’s pick up the pace!

There are cannibals, but that doesn’t matter very much. Éponine breaks a dude out of a prison that no one else has been able to get into, without much trouble. During this time she frees another guy--his name is Valjean, and he now owes her big time. Everyone owes Éponine. The nobles are poisoning the water that everyone else drinks, which is unfortunate. There is a famine. Bad things are happening.

Enjolras St. Juste is a person who exists in this book. I don’t like him. He also has associates, or as they are referred to at least once, cronies. The named ones are Grantaire, Feuilly, and Joly, which would be an interesting combination if anything was done with them. Grantaire is still Grantaire, but Feuilly is now just...basically Combeferre. It’s like the author did the “if you could only have five amis who would you choose” thing but it’s only four and there seems to be no reasoning behind the decision. And they chose Combeferre, but then mixed up the names in the drafts, so it’s Feuilly.

There are musical references. Only a couple, but...yikes. One has already been mentioned I think, but here’s another—

haha, how clever.

This has nothing to do with anything, but they swear to Rennart and Ysengrim, mythical figures from Northwest European literature. This wouldn’t be anything but interesting trivia, except that I am long time Gunnerkrigg Court stan, and Reynard (this book uses Rennart, but it’s the same fox dude) and Ysengrin are characters in it. So every time I saw those names used, I was just like...

You mean these bitches?

Anyway. Read Gunnerkrigg Court.

Uhhh anything else...? I think that everything just felt very rushed in this book. Stuff happened, things were supposed to be challenging, but then...weren’t...Valjean and Cosette hated each other (D:). Oh yeah, one of the real conflicts (Cosette getting kidnapped) just turned out to be Éponine’s doing all along! She cashed in on Valjean’s debt to her and made him take care of Cosette. Okay.

Marius doesn’t exist in this book! I don’t know how I didn’t notice while reading (I guess it was just so removed from the source material in my head that I accepted it without question?), but yeah he is very notably Not There, which was apparently a very purposeful decision, as I guess Kester Grant hates Marius. :(

I posted about this while reading, and others have commented on it, but in this book, Javert is a woman and has a Past (TM) with Valjean. As the book puts it, “Le Maire broke her heart. And so she hunts him.”

Like, okay.

Here’s two quotes that I hated!

These are both Enjolras St. Juste. Enjonine agenda strong here.

Éponine commissioned the death of Lamarque. It’s not that important.

Bishop Myriel is the patron saint of thieves. It’s not that important.

Lots of things happen, but most of them don’t feel that important.

In conclusion: I can’t believe this got published, and I can’t wait to see what bullshit Grant pulls in the next book :-)

[xeyesofstardust]

In a non spoiler way could someone tell me if Nesta and Elain appear ACOMAF?

[eretzyisrael]

Spanish state hires BDS group accused of anti-Semitism to ‘teach against hate’, By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ

BDS Pais Valencia, which caused a storm in 2015 over nixing performance by Jewish singer Matisyahu, to run seminar for teachers on 'Judeophobia, Islamophobia, and Palestine-Israel'

JTA — A regional government in Spain hired an organization that is widely regarded as anti-Semitic to train teachers on how to combat racism.

The group, BDS Pais Valencia, is scheduled to begin the 20-day training seminar on June 8, ACOM, a pro-Israeli organization in Spain, wrote in a statement Wednesday.

The online seminar was listed on the Spanish Education Ministry on April 27 under the title “Solidarity and human rights. Learning to teach against hatred and racism (Judeophobia, Islamophobia, and Palestine-Israel).”

In 2015, BDS Pais Valencia initiated what resulted in the exclusion of the American singer Matisyahu from a music festival.

Matisyahu, who is Jewish but not Israeli, was the only performer to be asked his views of Palestinian statehood by organizers of the Rototom Sunsplash festival in Benicassim, Spain. Amid an international storm of condemnations over what critics said was naked anti-Semitism, the organizers reinvited Matisyahu and apologized for their previous action, which they said was the result of pressure from BDS Pais Valencia.

Matisyahu, American reggae rapper and alternative rock musician performing at the Sultan’s Pool in Jerusalem on October 10, 2015. (Flash90)

That group defended its actions by saying that Matisyahu was singled out not because he’s Jewish but because he’s “a Zionist.”

ACOM on Twitter compared the seminar to having “a Nazi lecturing against racism, or a member of the Ku Klux Klan speaking on racial persecution.”

Multiple courts in Spain, including in Valencia, have declared the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, against Israel as a racist or discriminatory endeavor.

Last year, the lower house of the German parliament, the Bundestag, declared BDS anti-Semitic in a resolution.