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Saturday, December 27th, 2025 02:20 pm
What were your favourite Thai drama in 2025? What do you plan on watching in 2026?
Sunday, December 28th, 2025 12:36 am
So season one is over, and we have to wait a year and a bit for season 2, because the script isn't written yet (whereas a year ago Jacob Tierney had the S1 script completed). I've already watched the existing eps at least twice, some three times, and have watched popular scenes many more times than that, in gifs.
Watching episode six was such a trip as by then I was fully immersed in the fandom. It dropped here at 7pm each time, and I made myself wait until after 9pm when it was dark before watching, as I like to be cocooned in a lighted bubble with the show. Then after the ep was finished I went to tumblr for the gifs, reactions, and meta, and today I rewatched it, picking up several small things others had noticed and blogged about. I'll rewatch the show again off and on - it's a comfort watch for me now - and while we wait for season 2 there'll be art, and fanfic.
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And in 2026 we'll get Connor in his first movie as a protagonist: April X. Dystopian sci-fi, already gathering kudos and in final production.
Watching episode six was such a trip as by then I was fully immersed in the fandom. It dropped here at 7pm each time, and I made myself wait until after 9pm when it was dark before watching, as I like to be cocooned in a lighted bubble with the show. Then after the ep was finished I went to tumblr for the gifs, reactions, and meta, and today I rewatched it, picking up several small things others had noticed and blogged about. I'll rewatch the show again off and on - it's a comfort watch for me now - and while we wait for season 2 there'll be art, and fanfic.
( Read more... )
And in 2026 we'll get Connor in his first movie as a protagonist: April X. Dystopian sci-fi, already gathering kudos and in final production.
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Saturday, December 27th, 2025 12:21 pm
It's challenge time!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
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Saturday, December 27th, 2025 06:51 am
It is 25° this morning. There is ice on everything because of yesterday's sleet/freezing rain. It's supposed to get up to 32° and be cloudy and dry today, which will be nice...nicer, anyway, than yesterday.
When I went out in the morning, it was dry, but the sky was...leaden, to borrow a novel term. (Nobody ever calls the sky "leaden" in real life.) After I got my purchases stashed away, I came back to my desk for a while. I had an email from Book Outlet that they were having a sale, and one of the books on sale was one that I had been planning to pick up for months at B&N (which we still haven't made it to, and probably, at this point, won't). Let's see, $8.00 online or $20.00 in the store...which is the better deal.... Yeah, so I spent forty-five minutes or so putting together a book order and bought as many books as I would have on a trip to B&N, but for half the price, so yay. And it means I'll have a package in the mail in a few days.
Then I hopped onto the Kohl's site because I had Kohl's Cash. I filled a cart with clearance items, including a birthday present for Dad (whose birthday is about a month off) and a clear plastic tube for storing wrapping paper. I added pumpkins that I had been eyeing at Halloween, and Christmas decorations, and candle holders, and chocolates (only to find that they don't ship the chocolates). And then I emptied the cart out because I only had $20 in Kohl's Cash and didn't really need all of that stuff. In the end, I bought the gift for Dad and the wrapping paper tube, which together came to $19.49, so all I had to pay for them was the shipping, and I still have 51 cents in Kohl's Cash. Which amuses me greatly.
And then...it was naptime. Were there cats involved? Yes.
I was contemplating going to the new bookstore, yesterday, but then the weather started, and when I saw the ice glazing the windows, I decided that my couch was a nice place to be. I spent the rest of the day (except when making meals and cleaning up after) under a blankie and one or more cats reading. I have made serious headway into the fourth Malloreon book (Sorceress of Darshiva). If I did nothing else for the rest of my vacation, I would finish the series. Unfortunately, I do need to do some things. My house is a pit, and it definitely needs some cleaning and organizing. Deciding where to start is going to be a problem, though. Maybe I'll start with the back room. That really just needs a bit of tidying and to have the boxes that I saved for possible shipping to Auntie and Nuncle collapsed and moved to the recycling bin. Though...not until the ice in the driveway melts.
I am very glad I went out yesterday for groceries so that I don't have to do it this morning.
I have email from Mom this morning saying that they found another gift for me under the tree and that they will either deliver it or I can come get it. Probably I should go get it, but they also go right past my street when they go to the shop, so....
Today, I am going to start with a list of everything I hope to accomplish during my vacation. Some of it is simple enough, like reorganizing my DVD storage binders to include the disks that I have bought since the last time I did that (which was probably last December, now that I think on it). I am debating separating movies out into categories, instead of organizing alphabetically by title, but I still think alphabetical is the way to go, even though it means massively reorganizing sometimes. I did separate out the superhero movies, though; they have their own binder now.
Some of my projects are a little larger, like clean out the separate room in the basement where all of the To Keep stuff got piled, and where the workbench is, because I still want to teach myself book binding and the workbench is a better option than the dining room table or my crafting desk upstairs in Spare Oom. Which is also a project, because Spare Oom and my papercrafting supplies is a separate disaster, and could possibly take me all week on its own to fix.
My office, too, needs work. It's terribly cluttered in here.
The library is another days-long project, because I still have boxes of Grama's paperwork piled in there, almost five years after her death, and that closet also needs major cleaning. (How is it five years?)
So, yeah. Now that I've had a day off, it's time to get busy. Unfortunately.
I would really prefer to just spend my vacation reading and writing and crafting.
When I went out in the morning, it was dry, but the sky was...leaden, to borrow a novel term. (Nobody ever calls the sky "leaden" in real life.) After I got my purchases stashed away, I came back to my desk for a while. I had an email from Book Outlet that they were having a sale, and one of the books on sale was one that I had been planning to pick up for months at B&N (which we still haven't made it to, and probably, at this point, won't). Let's see, $8.00 online or $20.00 in the store...which is the better deal.... Yeah, so I spent forty-five minutes or so putting together a book order and bought as many books as I would have on a trip to B&N, but for half the price, so yay. And it means I'll have a package in the mail in a few days.
Then I hopped onto the Kohl's site because I had Kohl's Cash. I filled a cart with clearance items, including a birthday present for Dad (whose birthday is about a month off) and a clear plastic tube for storing wrapping paper. I added pumpkins that I had been eyeing at Halloween, and Christmas decorations, and candle holders, and chocolates (only to find that they don't ship the chocolates). And then I emptied the cart out because I only had $20 in Kohl's Cash and didn't really need all of that stuff. In the end, I bought the gift for Dad and the wrapping paper tube, which together came to $19.49, so all I had to pay for them was the shipping, and I still have 51 cents in Kohl's Cash. Which amuses me greatly.
And then...it was naptime. Were there cats involved? Yes.
I was contemplating going to the new bookstore, yesterday, but then the weather started, and when I saw the ice glazing the windows, I decided that my couch was a nice place to be. I spent the rest of the day (except when making meals and cleaning up after) under a blankie and one or more cats reading. I have made serious headway into the fourth Malloreon book (Sorceress of Darshiva). If I did nothing else for the rest of my vacation, I would finish the series. Unfortunately, I do need to do some things. My house is a pit, and it definitely needs some cleaning and organizing. Deciding where to start is going to be a problem, though. Maybe I'll start with the back room. That really just needs a bit of tidying and to have the boxes that I saved for possible shipping to Auntie and Nuncle collapsed and moved to the recycling bin. Though...not until the ice in the driveway melts.
I am very glad I went out yesterday for groceries so that I don't have to do it this morning.
I have email from Mom this morning saying that they found another gift for me under the tree and that they will either deliver it or I can come get it. Probably I should go get it, but they also go right past my street when they go to the shop, so....
Today, I am going to start with a list of everything I hope to accomplish during my vacation. Some of it is simple enough, like reorganizing my DVD storage binders to include the disks that I have bought since the last time I did that (which was probably last December, now that I think on it). I am debating separating movies out into categories, instead of organizing alphabetically by title, but I still think alphabetical is the way to go, even though it means massively reorganizing sometimes. I did separate out the superhero movies, though; they have their own binder now.
Some of my projects are a little larger, like clean out the separate room in the basement where all of the To Keep stuff got piled, and where the workbench is, because I still want to teach myself book binding and the workbench is a better option than the dining room table or my crafting desk upstairs in Spare Oom. Which is also a project, because Spare Oom and my papercrafting supplies is a separate disaster, and could possibly take me all week on its own to fix.
My office, too, needs work. It's terribly cluttered in here.
The library is another days-long project, because I still have boxes of Grama's paperwork piled in there, almost five years after her death, and that closet also needs major cleaning. (How is it five years?)
So, yeah. Now that I've had a day off, it's time to get busy. Unfortunately.
I would really prefer to just spend my vacation reading and writing and crafting.
Saturday, December 27th, 2025 10:56 am
Title: Illegal Actions
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author:
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badly_knittedCharacters: Sheridan.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Spoilers/Setting: No Surrender, No Retreat.
Summary: Sheridan can’t stand idly by while Earth Alliance destroyers fire on unarmed ships full of refugees.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 501: Amnesty 83, using Challenge 83: Fight.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble.
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Saturday, December 27th, 2025 12:55 pm
Fandoms: 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star, 9-1-1: Nashville, Good Trouble, Ransom Canyon, Six Is Not A Crowd, Stay By My Side, XO, Kitty
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Saturday, December 27th, 2025 02:00 am
It's that special time of year again. That time between Christmas and New Years where we have no idea what to do with ourselves… So here are some cat memes!
We started our year with cat memes, we filled the entire year with cat memes, and we are going to end it the same way. With cat memes! As you can see, we love cat memes. This kind of content is the only thing keeping the Internet a bearable place to exist in. With all the Ai slop, angry trolls, and just general darkness, the Internet loses sight of its original allure. And that was wholesomeness. But guess what? It's not gone, it's just under all that other stuff. But we are here to provide you with it. It's almost a lost art finding and sharing the best cat memes on the internet, but somebody has to do it.
What are we supposed to do between now and New Years Eve anyway? We're all just sitting here, at our parent's house, in our childhood homes, getting work emails that just say they want to circle back in 2026, and nobody has any plans. I suppose this is the time of the year to recharge before getting absolutely black out on New Years Eve… But we don't wanna do that! We want to laugh and say "awwww" to cute cats. Are we crazy for that? Don't answer that because we don't care! Being crazy about cats is a green flag in our book.
Saturday, December 27th, 2025 01:00 am
Not every Christmas gift comes wrapped in festive paper and adorned with a bow. Sometimes the greatest gift of all comes in a package that's fur-covered and smol, like a cute little kitten with a button nose and small paws. How about five feline babies? What a sight! So young they had no concept of how to use their claws, and with a warm winter fire inside, these kittens became the purrfect holiday gift when a cat lover made the ultimate sacrifice to save the whole litter of babies.
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring… Except for five kitten newborns wriggling on the cold driveway.
Kitten meows are the cutest, most devastatingly heartbreaking sounds in the world. At kitties call out into the void, their little voices can be heard for miles by a well-trained cat lover, and for many of us who are constantly surveying the neighborhood for wayward felines, this call for help is a call to action. Meowing for help, these five kittens had just been born into a cold and freezing world. Left alone briefly when their mama scampered into the snow-covered bushes, a cat lover discovered a shivering collection of littermates, eyes barely open in the blizzard-like wind. Instead of prioritizing her holiday festivities, this cat lover canceled everything, putting the lives, safety, and warm whiskers of these kittens in her holiday schedule instead.
Mewing for mama, these kittens got a bipedal human surrogate for their first few hours of life, until the impawssible happened and their biomom came rushing back to cuddle in front of the Christmas fire as well. Drawn by the warmth and love of a human home, these kittens and their mother will never know the harshness of the outside world again.
For it's pawtentially a Christmas miracle that they survived their first night, but an even bigger gift to live the rest of their nine lives as pampered indoor kitties, loving every meowment of sunshine through the window, windless nights, and an assortment of warm beds to choose from every evening.
Saturday, December 27th, 2025 02:32 am
People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.
Do you think there will ever be a global government? If a world government did come to power, assuming it wasn’t particularly cruel or evil, would it be a good or bad thing?
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Do you think there will ever be a global government? If a world government did come to power, assuming it wasn’t particularly cruel or evil, would it be a good or bad thing?
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Friday, December 26th, 2025 11:15 pm
It's December Days time again. This year, I have decided that I'm going to talk about skills and applications thereof, if for no other reason than because I am prone to both the fixed mindset and the downplaying of any skills that I might have obtained as not "real" skills because they do not fit some form of ideal.
( 26: Rocks )
( 26: Rocks )
Saturday, December 27th, 2025 03:09 pm
A while back I mentioned a nice park in Chigasaki. I went back to that today. ( Read more... )
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Saturday, December 27th, 2025 08:06 pm
Fandom: Game Changers book series, Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairings: OFCs, Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Scott Hunter/Kip Grady, Hayden Pike, Troy Barrett, mentions of many HR characters
Rating: Teen
Length: 6937
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply. Some mentions of homophobia and slurs.
Creator Links: corsi on AO3
Themes: Outsider POV, Unconventional format & style, Epistolary, Worldbuilding, Fans and fandom
Summary:
yaratroycabaret
Reccer's Notes: This is courtesy of a rec incathexys' journal. It's another fic told through snippets from invented social media posts across about ten years, following the development, within the universe of Heated Rivalry, of hockey rpf fandom, mainly focusing on Hollanov (Ilya/Shane). It's extraordinarily well done, and although the story of Shane and Ilya's decade-long love affair is the core thread, the real tale is of the rpf fandom, specifically a few devoted fans. The poignancy and brilliance of this fic is the portraits it paints of fanwriters and young fans, immersed in the fandom while they grow and develop, moving through their own life stages and dramas while posting about the hockey players they love, especially Hollanov. And in the end, of course, the Hollanov truthers are resoundingly vindicated. The formatting makes it clear that we're seeing posts on tumblr, livejournal, AO3, Reddit, Twitter, etc., with different types of fandom on each platform. Hilarious and touching, this is a wonderful read, and the details are meticulous and very funny.
PS: It may help to know in advance (as these may be hockey rpf terms with which I was unfamiliar) that 2481 is code for Hollander/Rozanov (their jersey numbers), and 2435 is Hollander/Pike. Some details in the fic will probably only make sense if you've read the books.
PPS: Also, there's a fictional recs list by "ice knives" partway through, and I want to read ALL OF THEM!
Fanwork Links: Love Takes Miles (read it in creator's style if you can, for the formatting)
Characters/Pairings: OFCs, Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Scott Hunter/Kip Grady, Hayden Pike, Troy Barrett, mentions of many HR characters
Rating: Teen
Length: 6937
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply. Some mentions of homophobia and slurs.
Creator Links: corsi on AO3
Themes: Outsider POV, Unconventional format & style, Epistolary, Worldbuilding, Fans and fandom
Summary:
yara
troycabarettried to get oomf into hockey and now she's obsessed with FUCKING HOLLANOV? THEY'RE 50 YEARS OLD
Or: Ten years, as seen through fandom.
Reccer's Notes: This is courtesy of a rec in
cathexys' journal. It's another fic told through snippets from invented social media posts across about ten years, following the development, within the universe of Heated Rivalry, of hockey rpf fandom, mainly focusing on Hollanov (Ilya/Shane). It's extraordinarily well done, and although the story of Shane and Ilya's decade-long love affair is the core thread, the real tale is of the rpf fandom, specifically a few devoted fans. The poignancy and brilliance of this fic is the portraits it paints of fanwriters and young fans, immersed in the fandom while they grow and develop, moving through their own life stages and dramas while posting about the hockey players they love, especially Hollanov. And in the end, of course, the Hollanov truthers are resoundingly vindicated. The formatting makes it clear that we're seeing posts on tumblr, livejournal, AO3, Reddit, Twitter, etc., with different types of fandom on each platform. Hilarious and touching, this is a wonderful read, and the details are meticulous and very funny. PS: It may help to know in advance (as these may be hockey rpf terms with which I was unfamiliar) that 2481 is code for Hollander/Rozanov (their jersey numbers), and 2435 is Hollander/Pike. Some details in the fic will probably only make sense if you've read the books.
PPS: Also, there's a fictional recs list by "ice knives" partway through, and I want to read ALL OF THEM!
Fanwork Links: Love Takes Miles (read it in creator's style if you can, for the formatting)
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Friday, December 26th, 2025 11:31 pm
Saturday, December 27th, 2025 01:02 am
End-of-year-ish questions from the NYT found via flexagon
* When did you feel the most joyful and carefree?
* What gave you energy -- and what drained it?
* What seemed impossible -- but you did it anyway?
* What habit, if you did it more consistently, would have a positive effect on your life?
* What did you try to control that was actually outside your control?
* Is there anyone you need to forgive in 2026?
flexagon* When did you feel the most joyful and carefree?
* What gave you energy -- and what drained it?
* What seemed impossible -- but you did it anyway?
* What habit, if you did it more consistently, would have a positive effect on your life?
* What did you try to control that was actually outside your control?
* Is there anyone you need to forgive in 2026?
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Friday, December 26th, 2025 11:52 pm
These are the rest of the pictures from Lights on the Prairie. Begin with Part 1. Read Today's Adventures for a more detailed text description.
( Walk with me ... )
( Walk with me ... )
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Friday, December 26th, 2025 10:36 pm
Belatedly! And Happy Thursday for those who don't celebrate! It was a quiet, lovely day for cypher and me. We broke open the Heroes' Feast DnD cookbook. Will made Amphail Braised Beef and some delicious saffron bread called St. Lucia Buns (they got the recipe from a Scandinavian friend on tumblr). For sides I made Otik's Skillet-Fried Spiced Potatoes, Quith-Pa (an Elven recipe containing apricots and almonds; the original called for coconut but Will's allergic so I subbed in the almonds), and Wood Elf Forest Salad.
We exchanged gifts, which can be summed up as Warhammer + art supplies (for me) and Warhammer + video games (for Will). As always, I wish I could have done more, but they assured me I did enough. I just want to get them all the nice things. ;3;
I finished my assignment foreatdrinkmakemerry and for ![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
secretsanguinala and am now working on a gift and a pinch hit for the latter. I don't know what came over me — possibly having a steady job (good, security!) + the state of the world (extremely bad) is combining in a way that's making my brain look for fun productivity — but I'm having a ton of fun working on fandom stuff. :D It probably also helps that I'm working on mostly crack ships and AUs. Also, wrt Secret Sanguinala, it's my fandom's holiday exchange! I want it to be successful and full! Reveals were late Christmas Eve so this last gift is gonna be a little late, but that's okay.
(I drew ABO porn for the first time! what the heck!)
I both love and hate that Steam has a yearly replay similar to Spotify's Wrapped. I love it because, I mean, I'm very sentimental and I love looking back on the year! But I hate it because it's such a magnifying glass on how bad I am at staying on task in games, lmao. Oh well. I'm hoping 2026 is a kinder year in all ways and I'll be able to focus better on hobby things.
........I usually do a little look back on the year but frankly, 2025 SUCKED and I don't want to. It was just a shitty, disheartening, scary year and I understand that there is a lot of privilege to being able to be like, nope, not gonna focus on all that scary stuff, but damn it! I'm tired of focusing on the scary stuff! It's ALL bad! Even news about video games is bad (Larian employees making fun of the gender stuff in BG3, Larian using AI for the character design in Divinity, etc) and it's just. All bad. So I'm looking forward to the future and the things I can control.
Speaking of which, I bought a fancy hardback planner for this year!
The gold is shiny and I'm using different colored pens to help try and keep me on track. As someone notorious for NOT staying on track on goals....I hope I can stick with this, lmao.
cypher and me. We broke open the Heroes' Feast DnD cookbook. Will made Amphail Braised Beef and some delicious saffron bread called St. Lucia Buns (they got the recipe from a Scandinavian friend on tumblr). For sides I made Otik's Skillet-Fried Spiced Potatoes, Quith-Pa (an Elven recipe containing apricots and almonds; the original called for coconut but Will's allergic so I subbed in the almonds), and Wood Elf Forest Salad. We exchanged gifts, which can be summed up as Warhammer + art supplies (for me) and Warhammer + video games (for Will). As always, I wish I could have done more, but they assured me I did enough. I just want to get them all the nice things. ;3;
I finished my assignment for
eatdrinkmakemerry and for (I drew ABO porn for the first time! what the heck!)
I both love and hate that Steam has a yearly replay similar to Spotify's Wrapped. I love it because, I mean, I'm very sentimental and I love looking back on the year! But I hate it because it's such a magnifying glass on how bad I am at staying on task in games, lmao. Oh well. I'm hoping 2026 is a kinder year in all ways and I'll be able to focus better on hobby things.
........I usually do a little look back on the year but frankly, 2025 SUCKED and I don't want to. It was just a shitty, disheartening, scary year and I understand that there is a lot of privilege to being able to be like, nope, not gonna focus on all that scary stuff, but damn it! I'm tired of focusing on the scary stuff! It's ALL bad! Even news about video games is bad (Larian employees making fun of the gender stuff in BG3, Larian using AI for the character design in Divinity, etc) and it's just. All bad. So I'm looking forward to the future and the things I can control.
Speaking of which, I bought a fancy hardback planner for this year!
The gold is shiny and I'm using different colored pens to help try and keep me on track. As someone notorious for NOT staying on track on goals....I hope I can stick with this, lmao.
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Saturday, December 27th, 2025 12:49 am
Christmas went very well. I got up to find Middle Brother already awake and dressed. I gave him his stocking. Then we had breakfast and I had coffee.
I put Christmas music on and we listened to that until 3:00 when I took him out by bus to McDonalds for a small lunch. I had a fillet-o-fish, yes I actually like those.
Then we went back to my place and listened to more Christmas music til somewhat after 4:30 when the Kid texted and said we should be calling the Uber at 5:30. So at 5:15 I started getting ready, moving the huge bags of presents and the two big boxes, and the bag of food to the door, then out of the apartment, then to the front door, then down to the sidewalk. In stages.
We got to the Kid's apartment and her boyfriend helped us upstairs.mashfanficchick arrived shortly after, and we got started with the appetizers and then presents. It was a lot of fun, everyone liked what they got.
Then we had dinner. It was ham, potatoes, and spinach with mushrooms. All delicious. Then after that we had cookies and peppermint bark for dessert.
We listened to the Kid's Christmas music and talked til almost 12:00 which was starting to get Middle Brother upset, so finally we all left. We shared a Lyft withmashfanficchick.
Got home and got things set up for bed as fast as possible which is why I didn't post more than I did. Middle Brother went to bed, and I did as fast as I could too.
Woke up this morning at a bit before 10:00. Middle Brother was as usual up and dressed. I put on Christmas music and made us breakfast, and me coffee. Then I deflated and folded up the air mattress, and then showered and dressed.
I asked Middle Brother what he wanted to do and he wanted to go back to his group home, so I got us ready and we took the bus to Jamaica and the LIRR to Hicksville where the person from his group home picked him up. I turned around and managed to make a city-bound train almost immediately so that was good.
I found out that my meeting tonight was cancelled, and there's a good chance the meeting tomorrow will be too, because of the snow storm we have coming, so I arranged withmashfanficchick to stay overnight at zer place so we could watch Heated Rivalry. The last episode til the new season comes out next year.
So when I got home I collected my mail, two new Christmas cards! and packed for a night away. Fed the pets, and left. The snow was just starting. It's still coming down.
Watched Heated Rivalry, and had shrimp for dinner. The final episode is so lovely.
Then I Teamed the FWiB, but his coughing was so bad we had to cut it short.
We vacuum-packed the gluten free bagels that the Kid backed formashfanficchick's present, and now we're getting ready for bed.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. Middle Brother had a good time.
3. The Kid.
4. Riding out the snow with a friend.
5. Christmas cards.
6. Christmas with family.
I put Christmas music on and we listened to that until 3:00 when I took him out by bus to McDonalds for a small lunch. I had a fillet-o-fish, yes I actually like those.
Then we went back to my place and listened to more Christmas music til somewhat after 4:30 when the Kid texted and said we should be calling the Uber at 5:30. So at 5:15 I started getting ready, moving the huge bags of presents and the two big boxes, and the bag of food to the door, then out of the apartment, then to the front door, then down to the sidewalk. In stages.
We got to the Kid's apartment and her boyfriend helped us upstairs.
mashfanficchick arrived shortly after, and we got started with the appetizers and then presents. It was a lot of fun, everyone liked what they got.Then we had dinner. It was ham, potatoes, and spinach with mushrooms. All delicious. Then after that we had cookies and peppermint bark for dessert.
We listened to the Kid's Christmas music and talked til almost 12:00 which was starting to get Middle Brother upset, so finally we all left. We shared a Lyft with
mashfanficchick.Got home and got things set up for bed as fast as possible which is why I didn't post more than I did. Middle Brother went to bed, and I did as fast as I could too.
Woke up this morning at a bit before 10:00. Middle Brother was as usual up and dressed. I put on Christmas music and made us breakfast, and me coffee. Then I deflated and folded up the air mattress, and then showered and dressed.
I asked Middle Brother what he wanted to do and he wanted to go back to his group home, so I got us ready and we took the bus to Jamaica and the LIRR to Hicksville where the person from his group home picked him up. I turned around and managed to make a city-bound train almost immediately so that was good.
I found out that my meeting tonight was cancelled, and there's a good chance the meeting tomorrow will be too, because of the snow storm we have coming, so I arranged with
mashfanficchick to stay overnight at zer place so we could watch Heated Rivalry. The last episode til the new season comes out next year.So when I got home I collected my mail, two new Christmas cards! and packed for a night away. Fed the pets, and left. The snow was just starting. It's still coming down.
Watched Heated Rivalry, and had shrimp for dinner. The final episode is so lovely.
Then I Teamed the FWiB, but his coughing was so bad we had to cut it short.
We vacuum-packed the gluten free bagels that the Kid backed for
mashfanficchick's present, and now we're getting ready for bed.Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. Middle Brother had a good time.
3. The Kid.
4. Riding out the snow with a friend.
5. Christmas cards.
6. Christmas with family.
Friday, December 26th, 2025 11:04 pm
Today we went to see Lights on the Prairie. I took a lot of pictures, with variable results. Some look good, some are fuzzy. That's okay because I like off-focus light pictures, from fuzzy or squiggly to downright abstract. My partner Doug says that to get really good pictures of the place would take a tripod and a slower exposure. I tend to agree. I don't even know if my camera has a "night" setting, so I just swapped between flash and no flash. It was fun anyhow. Continue with Part 2.
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Saturday, December 27th, 2025 02:52 pm
Welp, guess I'm way behind on updates. Fortunately several days were boring. But not this one. Kind of.
Kamakura, as in "Kamakura Shogunate", was accessible, so I went. Outbound was on the Enoden train, no changes but still slower, scenic, single-track, kind of hugging the coast. ( Read more... )
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Saturday, December 27th, 2025 12:49 am
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Friday, December 26th, 2025 08:48 pm
Wrapping up this year's prompts! This isn't entirely the last of them, but I think after this one, I'm done with the ones that sparked story ideas, so I'll be declaring prompt amnesty and starting over fresh in the new year.
Gen, late in canon, Erich + team with perhaps slight EvS/Biggles undertones, 1800 wds
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The prompt, which is somewhat spoilery for the fic
[from an anon] Biggles prompt- on a case they run into/are made to work with someone who was nasty to Biggles in his school-days, who tries to renew such treatment, and EvS, also involved with whatever they're investigating, finds himself possessed of both an unexpected protective urge and in the rare position to offer his own "you're better than the people you're working for" speechGen, late in canon, Erich + team with perhaps slight EvS/Biggles undertones, 1800 wds
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Saturday, December 27th, 2025 05:36 am
Yes, but can your comet tail do this?
Saturday, December 27th, 2025 05:36 am
3I/ATLAS Flyby
Friday, December 26th, 2025 08:28 pm
I've been getting together with a friend to sing for a couple of years now. We met in the Balkan choir and both have aspirations to sing in a trio again someday. She generally sings low and I generally sing high, although it's fun to swap sometimes. We haven't been successful at finding a third person to sing middle with us, but we've enjoyed practicing choir songs and learning other songs together.
I tend to like song with strong rhythms and melodies, and she tends to like the slow wandering songs with lots of ornamentation, so it's been broadening both of our repertoires. Here are a couple of songs I've been working on at her suggestion.
Zora Zazorila "Dawn is breaking". Here is Eva Quartet sounding fantastic. I listen to them and despair, because I will never ever sound like that, but I can sing my own version, with my own slower and simpler ornaments. Zora Zazorila sheet music
Bozha Zvezda "Lord's star". Here is Kitka singing it on their Wintersongs album, Leslie Bonnett gorgeously singing melody with Janet Kutulas. Bozha Zvezda sheet music
They learned it from Daniel Spassov, and here's his recording. Bozha Zvezda
Those songs are both Bulgarian, but in case anyone is interested in learning more about Balkan singing, Dragi Spasovski is a kind and knowledgeable teacher of Macedonian songs, and he's teaching online for EEFC four Wednesdays in January, 5-6:15pm PT. I just signed up! More info and registration.
I tend to like song with strong rhythms and melodies, and she tends to like the slow wandering songs with lots of ornamentation, so it's been broadening both of our repertoires. Here are a couple of songs I've been working on at her suggestion.
Zora Zazorila "Dawn is breaking". Here is Eva Quartet sounding fantastic. I listen to them and despair, because I will never ever sound like that, but I can sing my own version, with my own slower and simpler ornaments. Zora Zazorila sheet music
Bozha Zvezda "Lord's star". Here is Kitka singing it on their Wintersongs album, Leslie Bonnett gorgeously singing melody with Janet Kutulas. Bozha Zvezda sheet music
They learned it from Daniel Spassov, and here's his recording. Bozha Zvezda
Those songs are both Bulgarian, but in case anyone is interested in learning more about Balkan singing, Dragi Spasovski is a kind and knowledgeable teacher of Macedonian songs, and he's teaching online for EEFC four Wednesdays in January, 5-6:15pm PT. I just signed up! More info and registration.
Friday, December 26th, 2025 09:26 pm
Today we went to the walk-through display Lights on the Prairie. It was awesome. :D See the picture posts Part 1, Part 2.
1/2 mile of Christmas lights walking through pine tree paths and a beautiful view across the pond.
Games, hot chocolate, and light snacks are available in the pavilion afterwards.
GPS address: Prairie Land Gymnastics and Tumbling
Friday and Saturday nights 5-8 PM, November 28-January 3
2151 CR 1300 E, Lovington, IL, United States, Illinois
(217) 508-3199
Free event, but donations are appreciated to support the project.
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1/2 mile of Christmas lights walking through pine tree paths and a beautiful view across the pond.
Games, hot chocolate, and light snacks are available in the pavilion afterwards.
GPS address: Prairie Land Gymnastics and Tumbling
Friday and Saturday nights 5-8 PM, November 28-January 3
2151 CR 1300 E, Lovington, IL, United States, Illinois
(217) 508-3199
Free event, but donations are appreciated to support the project.
( Read more... )
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