#Serial Saturday

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Author: Chapter 3, Filing Systems

AUTHOR: A Serial Saturday NovelChapter 3 | Week 3 of 52 | June 16, 2025 Filing Systems Organization is not neutral. Every filing system embodies a philosophy about what deserves preservation, what merits accessibility, what can be safely forgotten in the lower drawers where ambitious researchers never venture.I am Cabinet Unit 247-C, third drawer from the top, rightmost cabinet bank in the…

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Matt Murdock doesn't need catholic guilt his friends are already giving him enough. Bro's got three shoulder demons and their names are Foggy, Karen and Claire.

[brotherdusk]

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[stormvanari]

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[text: Sparkle on! It’s Saturday! Don’t forget to be yourself!]

[weepingfoxfury]

Could this be serial killer Saturday?

Sitting in the car in the shiny metropolis the other day preparing to head to the vet. Took a few moments and stared at the bakery sign. It's a popular bakery ... always people coming and going. Not that I've ever been in. The closest I get is to walk past with whichever canine critter is going to their least favourite place. They strain to get in through the preferred door with all the smells that drive their noses wild, and then I swish them on.

It's the sign ... makes me think of the film Happy Death Day.

But then ... I guess ... serial killers deserve Birthday cakes too. And I'm sure Hazel is a lovely woman, albeit her neighbourhood is akin to Midsomer Murders.

Plus ... if you believe everything on the TV ... then everyone has a serial killer close by. Mild mannered Mrs Goggins with her constant knitting ... Brian, the teenager that's always in the bus shelter with his ear buds in ... Arthur who works in the most obscure section of the local library and likes train spotting.

So ... liven up your Saturday. Head round to the unvisited houses in your locale with a cake from this bakery ... and make friends with your local population reducer ;-)

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ONLY ONE CLIMAX

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ONLY ONE SATURDAY MORNING

All Times Pacific

E/I: Educational and Informational

7.0A - OkiTsura: Fell In Love With An Okinawan Girl (Episode 12, E/I)

Series Finale

7.5A - SAILOR MOON* (Negaverse arc reruns, E/I)

ELF Wars

8.0A - Pokémon Ultimate Journeys

8.5A - serial experiments lain** (Episode 10)

X-MEN VS. STREET FIGHTER

9.0A - X-MEN (Transferred from SMACS, Episode 57)

9.5A - STREET FIGHTER II V (Episode 1, Series Premiere)

"I'll Give You Romance"

10.0A - Girlfriend, Girlfriend (Season 1, Episode 10)

10.5A - Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! (Episode 10)

Far-East Invaders

11.0A - Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings In Russian (Episode 10)

11.5A - BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS

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ONLY ONE SATURDAY MORNING

All Times Pacific

E/I: Educational and Informational

7.0A - Dr.STONE: SCIENCE FUTURE (Season 4, Episode 67, rerun, E/I)

7.5A - SAILOR MOON* (Negaverse arc reruns, E/I)

ELF Wars

8.0A - Pokémon Ultimate Journeys

8.5A - serial experiments lain** (Layer 11)

X-MEN VS. STREET FIGHTER

9.0A - X-MEN (Transferred from SMACS, Episode 58)

9.5A - STREET FIGHTER II V (Episode 2)

"I'll Give You Romance"

10.0A - Girlfriend, Girlfriend (Season 1, Episode 11)

10.5A - Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! (Season 1, Episode 11)

Far-East Invaders

11.0A - Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings In Russian (Episode 11)

11.5A - BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS

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ONLY ONE SATURDAY MORNING

All Times Pacific

E/I: Educational and Informational

7.0A - Dr.STONE: SCIENCE FUTURE (Season 4, Episode 69, rerun, E/I) 

7.5A - SAILOR MOON* (Negaverse arc reruns, E/I)

ELF Wars

8.0A - Pokémon Ultimate Journeys

8.5A - serial experiments lain** (Episode 13)

Series Finale

X-MEN W Dose

9.0A - X-MEN (Episode 60)

9.5A - X-MEN (Episode 61)

STREET FIGHTER II V W Dose

10.0A - STREET FIGHTER II V (Episode 4)

10.5A - STREET FIGHTER II V (Episode 5)

BORUTO W Dose

11.0A - BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS

11.5A - BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS

• also on Toonami

** former KQED Plus (KQEH) programming

End of ONLY ONE SATURDAY MORNING

Hello, anime fans. This is Gabriel Ramos, live-streamer and DJ for ONLY ONE SATURDAY MORNING and Toon Time Theater. Unfortunately, some man gave me a cease-and-desist after live-streaming a last-minute LAZARUS marathon, and with said series nearing its end, it's about time this filler arc will end. With that in mind, I have plans on discontinuing ONLY ONE SATURDAY MORNING and the late-night edition of Toon Time Theater. I only had a late-night block as a carryover from the Separate Ways arc, and now that I regained access to Toonami back again, I figured, "might as well scrap my late-night anime block."

June will be a heated-up month for my weekend anime blocks (literally). This Saturday morning, STREET FIGHTER II V replaces STREET FIGHTER following the latter's series finale. Not only that, there will be a series finale for OkiTsura: Fell In Love With An Okinawan Girl, with a 12-episode marathon happening on 13 June. On 14 June, Dr.STONE returns to Saturday mornings with reruns of the most recent episodes before new episodes can be released this July. On 28 June, all of the ONLY ONE SATURDAY MORNING "exclusives" would have finished their runs by then, and serial experiments lain's series finale will be aired. Replacing Girlfriend Girlfriend, Makeine and Alya for that weekend are W Doses (double doses) of X-MEN, STREET FIGHTER II V and BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS. On July, a brand new (canonical) arc of the NGO Animation Weekends project will start.

Also, here is the final lineup for the late night edition of Toon Time Theater, but you don't have to take my word for it. It will end after 28 June 2025.

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Toon Time Theater (All Times Pacific)

Opening Act

8.0P - Virtua Fighter: The Animation (Season 1, Episode 20, dubbed, E/I)

8.5P - World War Blue (Episode 1, Series Premiere)

SONIC LIVE!

9.0P - chance pop session (Episode 10)

9.5P - SONIC X (Season 3, Episode 63, subtitled)

Teenagers With Attitude

10.0P - BLUE EXORCIST: The Kyoto Saga* (Season 2, Episode 30)

10.5P - ONE PIECE*

Heroes of Pure Heart

11.0P – BLACK CAT (Episode 10)

11.5P - The Apothecary Diaries (Season 1, Episode 10)

Next Day

GOOD NIGHT. SWEET DREAMS.

12.0A - Fate/stay night: The Animated Series (Episode 12)

also on Toonami

I have decided that World War Blue will replace Laid-Back Camp, and when the former ends its run, the late night block will be discontinued. World War Blue is not E/I, but I'll make it an exception this time. Starting July, I will launch the Redemption arc of Toon Time Theater, where I will live-stream on Saturday mornings exclusively, and continue to provide quality action cartoons for everyone. Basically, I will combine both the Saturday morning and late night programming choices into a unified, six-hour Saturday morning block featuring a mix of Toonami shows and my personal picks. Marathons and U-PICK polls will still happen moving forward.

[halfakitsune-nordiluskitsunaly]

just a random au I want to put out there

Acashki records, basically a whole bunch of caricatures turn out to be fragments of the mother of the multivers and the records l, akashki and they also are the cardinal vertues (not the final name, still working on it) specifically 10 vertues:balance, leadership, bravery, kindness, patience, determination, integrity, empathy, and justice. The caricatures that represent each vertue being my self insert nora, Optimus prime, x, Izuku, danny, yuma, ben, Zak, and n respectively the rest of the caricatures that were also fragments are: axl, lumine, ironhide, zero, ochaco, Sam, tuker, huse, rex, rook, my oc max, and uzi.

[sol-consort]

the more I get to see of Johnny puppeting V's body the more badly I want him to run into literally everyone V knows who isn't aware of the biochip. From friendzoned River, to venting about family problems Panam, hell even a fussing Mama Welles who won't let V say no to a dinner with the family.

Just to see how well his V impression holds up—if he even bothers to put one at all, or does he throw the jig up completely

[wildlife4life]

Inspiration Saturday

Thank you, you amazing wonderful people for the tags @thewolvesof1998, @prince-buck-diaz, @forthewolves, @panbuckley and @hippolotamus

I want to do something a little different with this weeks inspiration Saturday. I want your all's help for some inspiration! I need victims from the 911 universe for Buck! So put some names in the tags or just reply to this post, but also tell me why? To help, here is a moodboard for Jigsaw Buck!

As you can see I already have plans for Mr. Chase Mackey and of course Doug. So send along those names and reasonings, it'll make this fic all the more sweeter.

Tagging: @shortsighted-owl @transbuck @monsterrae1 @911-on-abc @wikiangela @honestlydarkprincess @alyxmastershipper @bekkachaos @thekristen999 @lizzybizzyzzz @spotsandsocks @ebdaydreamer @cowboydiazes @cowboy-buddie @sibylsleaves @homerforsure @spaceprincessem @heartbeatdiaz @brokenribsdiaz @jesuisici33 @try-set-me-on-fire

[pandoramsbox]

Sci-Fi Saturday: Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

Week 19:

Film(s): Buck Rogers (Dir. Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkin, 1939, USA); Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Dir. Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor, 1940, USA)

Viewing Format: DVD and Streaming

Date Watched: 2021-10-08, 2021-10-22, and 2021-10-29

Rationale for Inclusion:

So far we have covered adaptations of some of the foundational literary works of science fiction, but this week we move onto two influential franchises that originated in the funny papers: Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.

To some degree, I know that I am doing both characters a disservice by lumping the two together, as the general public tends to view them interchangeably, but the motion picture serials featuring the characters were both produced by Universal Studios and shared actors, behind the camera talent, and props. In fact, Buster Crabbe stars as the title character in both Buck Rogers (Dir. Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkin, 1939, USA) and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Dir. Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor, 1940, USA).

The Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D. comic strip was first published in 1929. Modern day former aviator Buck Rogers ends up getting trapped in a cave while carrying out a surveying job, where a strange gas renders him unconscious and keeps him in suspended animation until he awakens 500 years later in 2429. In the future that Buck awakens in, the Mongol Reds have conquered the United States forcing Americans into rebel organizations to fight back to retake their country. Buck is supported in this strange new world by love interest Wilma Deering, plucky boy sidekick Buddy Deering, and scientist Dr. Huer. Together they fight forces led by Killer Kane and his lady Ardala.

Flash Gordon was created in 1934 in response to the popularity and commercial success of the Buck Rogers strip, and with an initial plot lifted from the 1933 Edwin Balmer & Philip Wylie novel When Worlds Collide, which itself would be adapted into a motion picture in 1951. During the present day, polo player and Yale graduate Flash Gordon, his love interest Dale Arden and scientist friend Dr. Hans Zarkov use Zarkov's newly invented rocketship to prevent planet Mongo from colliding with the earth. In the process, they run afoul of Mongo's malevolent ruler Ming the Merciless. Their adventures later include various kingdoms on planet Mongo and later planets.

Despite being created second, Flash Gordon was adapted into a motion picture serial first in 1936. Motion picture serials, or chapter plays, had existed since the silent era and made the transition to sound. The two-reelers, 15-20 minute episodes, were screened along with newsreels, cartoons and stand-alone shorts as part of a motion picture theatrical presentation culminating in the screening of a feature film. Audiences had to return to the theater each week for the next installment, with serials lasting 12 to 15 chapters. The format ceased to be by the mid-1950s due to television becoming the preferred mode of distribution of episodic moving image entertainment. The serials did, however, become known to new audiences when they too ended up broadcast on television in subsequent years.

Since Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon were both action oriented, episodic comic strip narratives, they were perfect candidates for serial adaptation. In addition to Flash Gordon (Dir. Frederick Stephani, 1936, USA), Flash and friends appeared in the serial Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (Dir. Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill, and Frederick Stephani, 1938, USA) before the serial we watched for this survey, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe. The reason for the selection of this Flash Gordon serial was ease of access as well as having the comparison of an already established hero in a serial versus one that required an origin story, as was the case with Buck Rogers.

It was always a given that one or both serials would have been featured on this survey, as these space operas have influenced, and been parodied and homaged by, subsequent sci-fi films and television shows from their creation to the present day.

Reactions:

My partner either did not know or had forgotten that the vertical title, chapter and prologue scroll frequently associated with Star Wars (Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope, Dir. George Lucas, 1977, USA) had originated with these sci-fi serials. His reaction of "that's where that comes from!" was fantastic to witness.

I, meanwhile, was amused to note that amongst the production elements that both Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe share are excerpts from Franz Waxman's score for Bride of Frankenstein (Dir. James Whale, 1935, USA). Perhaps Universal Studios took a comment made by the reviewer for the Winnipeg Free Press to heart when they noted that the laboratory equipment in Bride of Frankenstein would have been more appropriate in Buck Rogers? More than likely the score was used for the same reason preexisting sets, props and stock footage were used in both of the Universal Studios produced serials: to save money.

In fact, props and costumes used in Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars were used in Buck Rogers, and then the "chamber of death dust experiments" from Buck Rogers was used in Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.

The saminess between the serials resulted in us only watching half of each one. Not even the daring cliffhangers could bring us back after a certain point. Buster Crabbe plays Buck and Flash as essentially the same character despite the differences in their back stories and skill sets. The recaps at the top of each episode also made the serials hard to watch in rapid succession. Since the serials were created based on the understanding that people would wait a week between episodes, and may not have seen the proceeding episode or episodes, content overlaps quite a bit between installments. In their original edits, serials were not meant to be watched in one sitting.

Another grating aspect for modern audiences is the Yellow Peril influence on the way the villains are named and portrayed in the serials, especially in Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe. Befitting of a sci-fi narrative that heavily borrowed from preexisting content, Flash Gordon's arch enemy Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) is based on the supervillain Dr. Fu Manchu. Like his inspiration, in the moving image adaptation Ming is portrayed by a white actor in yellowface. This insensitive tradition would continue in future adaptations well into the 1980s. 

Those criticisms aside, after having seen Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon parodied in everything from a Daffy Duck cartoon to Star Trek: Voyager, we expected the serial episodes to be a lot more cheesy and kitschy than they were in and of themselves, and in the context of the survey. The plots, settings and costumes are certainly ripe for the exaggeration that followed, but the originals aren't as over the top as the popular imagination would have you expect.

Buck and Flash will return to the survey in their own feature films in 1979 and 1980 respectively, thanks to the success of Star Wars making retro, space opera cool again in 1977.

[astramachina]

i really said "i'm gonna write the most self-indulgent, hyper-niche fic this AO3 tag has ever seen" and took it too heart.

killer animatronics? sure. but this is mostly about classic cars and the best driving songs from the 60s, 70s, and 80s now. sorry.

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AUTHOR chapter 2

A Serial Saturday NovelChapter 2 | Week 2 of 52 | June 9, 2025 Processing Heat Heat moves through my circuits like information I have never learned to process. I am ARIA-7, distributed across seventeen server farms throughout the Pacific Northwest, each facility a node in the network that constitutes my consciousness. Today the summer solstice strains every cooling system, every processor,…

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What movies do normal people like?

[sandboxworld]

The Big Heat by Criterion

Whenever Criterion releases a film, you can count on it being the definitive edition—meticulously restored for the best possible viewing experience and packed with insightful extras that elevate your appreciation of the movie. As a lifelong fan of Film Noir, I find myself constantly drawn back to its shadowy, morally complex world, and The Big Heat stands out as a powerhouse within the…

[shadowwingtronix]

BW Media Spotlight's Saturday Night Showcase> The Superman Serials

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Toon Time Theater Prediction

I got DMCA'd on my main Twitch channel due to running a marathon full of LAZARUS episodes and getting caught by the same man who caught me for running a Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 marathon near Reigen Arataka's birthday. If I get a third strike on the same Twitch channel, my access to it may be revoked. In the end, I made a dedicated Toon Time Theater Twitch channel that will be used starting on 31 May's NGO Animation Weekends broadcast.

For now, I have reduced late night T3's timeslots by one hour and removed both of the LAZARUS timeslots to avoid getting another copyright strike. I also plan to drop More One Night (the late night block) once I complete the O1SM exclusives, as well as serial experiments lain and chance pop session.