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Okay, there's still ten minutes of Thursday left in my time zone; I didn't completely miss it...

Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!

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Hi, hello! My name is Azure, and I'm a queer and disabled young adult, and certifiable fandom geek. I'm look forward to fulfilling some wishes (I have a few bookmarked and fulfilled a few already!). In the meantime, here is my list!

˚˖𓍢ִ໋ ୧ ✉️ ‧₊˚ .⛸️ ❄︎ ⋅

1. Help me move! I'm currently saving up to move out of my parents' home! They forbid me from going on HRT, so I'm trying to move ASAP. Plus, I live in a red state with lots of anti-trans legislation.

My Paypal.me is here, and my Ko-fi is here!

2. Comments on my fics! I am AzureMist on AO3, and some fandoms I've written for include Dungeon Meshi, MILGRAM, Splatoon, and Pokémon, among other things! If you're familiar with any of the fandoms I've written for, from 2021 onward, I'd really, really appreciate it if you could spare some kind words!

3. Rec me your favorite indie games! I loooove indie games!!! Especially queer indie games. If you know any hidden gems fitting that description, please, tell me about them! Break out your niche itch.io faves!!! Some of my favorite games along these lines include In Stars and Time, Bad End Theater, Celeste, Fields of Mistria, Great God Grove, Smile For Me, Our Life: Beginnings & Always, and Dead Plate! (No games with incest, please.)

4. Digital giftcards! Specifically Nintendo eShop, Steam, Pokémon Center and DoorDash gift cards! I have a long gaming-related wishlist, so if you could help make even a dent in that, it would be very appreciated. The Pokémon Center is the official Pokémon merch store, and Pokémon is my one true fandom, so it makes sense why I would love some items from there (especially Pokémon plushies, as I collect them)! And lastly, DoorDash cards will be used for yummy holiday treats like cookies~!

5. Pledge to support the Starbucks strike! I know, I know, believe me, I know! This is the best time of year for Starbucks! But Starbucks workers are currently undergoing a national ULP strike to end the company's union busting, and demand better wages, amongst other things. I worked for Starbucks for a brief time this year, so it'd mean a lot if you could pledge to not cross the picket line.

6. Paid time on Tumblr! I'm azuremist! Tumblr is my main online platform of choice, so I'd get a ton of usage out of it.

7. Art of my OCs! I'm basically always looking for art of my fursona and persona! Since they're both fat like I am, it can be hard to find artists willing to draw them, so it'd be super appreciated. Linked is a page with each character's information and gallery!

8. Steam games! Steam gift cards too much of a hassle? I understand. (What kinda digital store doesn't let you send an e-gift card by email? In 2025??) Then maybe consider gifting me a game more directly with Humble Bundle! Specific games on my wishlist include Great God Grove, Volcano Princess, and Ikenfell! (Maybe even get me a surprise game, based off of my likes listed in #3? Yes, this is me inviting you to try to indoctrinate me into your video game fandoms!)

9. Support for my art accounts! A share, a kind comment, or maybe even a follow for any of my art accounts would warm my heart!! It's brutal out here for us artists online in this day and age... I am primarily active on Tumblr and Bluesky!

10. Spare my beloved's site some kind words! This one's a secret, okay? Don't mention that I sent you! But my long-suffering husband has a simple website! It contains things like some of his art, and a work-in-progress guide to shiny hunting. Pup often gets discouraged with pups site, and hasn't updated it in a while because of it. So, please consider looking around, then signing the guestbook at the bottom of the homepage with some kind words!

˚˖𓍢ִ໋ ୧ ✉️ ‧₊˚ .⛸️ ❄︎ ⋅

Thank you and happy holidays to you all! My email is azures.mist@protonmail.com, and my Steam account is azuremists!

Current Mood: thankful

yarnandglue

Pantone announced the 2026 color of the year. :/

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Hi, I'm Nicky/Eirian/

shanaqui, participating here for the umpteenth year.

I wasn't sure if I'd make a post this year, but this morning our eldest and much beloved rabbit died, and you know what... I could use any excuse for a pick-me-up and to think about something else. 2025 has been filled with personal loss, and I need some cosiness and love.

PHYSICAL STUFF:

1. A book from my Amazon wishlist. The most recent additions are the things I want most; I've also indicated priority on some stuff. Books are my biggest comfort, so it's a biggie for me. Books can be sent direct to me via the wishlist.

2. If you prefer getting books from non-Amazon places, that is very valid. Book vouchers for Kobo UK, Bookshop.org UK, Waterstones UK or National Book Tokens work well as an alternative way to treat me to a book. My email address is thebrightspark [at] gmail [dot] com.

FANDOM STUFF:

3. Recs or new fics for the Liushen pairing from The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System. I love Liu Qingge and Shen Yuan together, but I don't like it when it splits up an established relationship between Luo Binghe and Shen Yuan (I love them too, Binghe deserves happiness), so we're mostly talking AUs/canon divergences. Right now I'm most interested in happy stuff. Explicit is OK. Bingliushen is also okay.

4. Liushen art/art recs. Pretty much the same here as above!

5. Recs or new fics for the Huaqing pairing from Heaven Official's Blessing/TGCF. I have really come to adore Hua Cheng and Mu Qing as a couple, picturing allll that devotion soaking into Mu Qing's insecurities, and the two of them being total assholes to everyone together. Again, I don't like it to split up Hualian (I love Hualian!), so it'd be AU/canon divergence. Xianle quartet all together is also fine if that gels better.

6. Huaqing art/art recs. Same again. I haven't actually seen any Huaqing art and I'd love to. Donghua or manhua appearances are both fine.

7. Recs for MDZS Wangxian fic. I've only just read the books, let's get me reading. I'm probably looking most for slice of life stuff over really plotty stuff. I'm done having my heart lacerated, I just want them to be happy! AU/canon divergence is fine.

OTHER STUFF:

8. Recs for non-fiction books. I read a wide array of subjects, most recently including: nineteenth century fashion, the Bayeux Tapestry, the history of children's literature, tuberculosis, pyramids, the Cheapside jewelry hoard, the Soviet space program, folk music, medieval manuscripts, healthcare in the UK in WW2, valkyries, ancient Mesopotamia... Having read about something before doesn't preclude me from reading something else on the topic, and conversely not having read something probably doesn't mean I'm not interested.

9. Recs for danmei/baihe you love. I've read MXTX's work and The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish (and have a few others lined up like The Husky and His White Cat Shizun and Guardian). I would prefer to read editions published in English rather than fan translations, but I can always keep an eye out for something you love getting a translation...

10. Recs for manga/manhwa/graphic novels/etc. I've recently enjoyed A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation, A Boy Named Rose, The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter, A Side Character's Love Story, Home Sick Pilots, Solo Leveling, Tied to You, Love Everlasting... yeah, a bit of a weird mix. So I'd love to hear about the ones others enjoy that might tickle my interest.

Thanks, and a warm and safe December to all. ♥

Current Mood: sad
Current Music: Lorien Testard / Alice Duport-Percier - Until Next Life (Solo Voice)

ursamajor

Okay, after rehearsal last night, I think the ship is feeling a bit more on an even keel. Even if we are only 10 days out from the annual holiday concert, and we just finished getting all of our music last night.

I'm most nervous about the Magnificat, of course, never having done it; how many trills can you possibly fit into 45 measures? ALL OF THEM, says Bach. But the Hallelujah Chorus is old hat. The new arrangement of Break Bread isn't too difficult, aside from some truly weird close harmony chords in the third round; I do need to record that with a keyboard before this weekend so I can send it out to the sopranos.

And then the Whitney Houston stuff is easy, at least to me, at least partially because these are childhood car radio songs for me, especially the finale medley of So Emotional, Where Do Broken Hearts Go, and I Wanna Dance With Somebody. I mean, I even sang the last of those three for the third grade talent show, and can still get just about every nuanced ad-lib at karaoke today; restraining myself to the choral part is gonna be the hard part here, hahaha. (The tenors and basses get to do the DANCE! spoken word at the outro, though,

hyounpark is gonna be so stoked.)

Speaking of, right now, he's in Boston (well, okay, he's about to get on his plane back from BOS), and I'm a little jealous, even if it is for the most last-minute work thing possible and it's not like he got to see anybody but work people, though he did squeeze in dinner at Abe and Louie's. And turns out Boston hasn't quite yet gotten the snow, though Western Mass did, so at least I don't have to be jealous that he got the first snow and I didn't. (Him: "You can have all the first snow you want, I've had enough for a lifetime!")

And he got his Flour sticky bun, so all is well there. :) He tried to pick up their Bakers Gonna Bake sweatshirt for me, but they didn't have any in stock at Clarendon which was his closest option, though they don't have that much room for merch (Central Square is much bigger).

He did manage to stop by Burdick's and pick us up some drinking chocolate and chocolate penguins or mice, so that'll be good for the truly frigid nights we've been having lately (I know, I know, by Bay Area standards). I do need a slightly more windproof solution for night biking; when I was biking home from choir last night, I had a fleece on over a puffy vest over a wool sweater over a long sleeve top, but my arms were still chilly. It wasn't quite cold enough to require pulling out the puffer (which, admittedly, is showing its age because it dates from Eastern Mountain Sports still being an intact company); I think I really just need a windbreaker shell. We'll see.

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Note to self for Thanksgiving next year: PEANUT SAUCE FONDUE. I mean, it might not wait until next year, peanut satay is a regular guest at the table chez us, but the reminder that we could make a vat of it and do it all fancy banquet style is a good one. :)

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: DANCE!

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yarnandglue

I finished a crochet blanket that had been in time out for the last few months! I don't think I've posted about it before. I got tired of working on it and stuffed it in a tote bag to languish for a while. It's a Neat Ripple blanket in some 1980s tan/brown/gray fluffy acrylic yarn I found at a thrift store. As usual, Sven immediately stole it. :)

I had Wednesday off and treated myself to a trip to a big antique mall to hunt for Barbies and nail polish. I saw lots of Barbies but didn't feel compelled to bring any of them home with me. But I hit pay dirt on the nail polish front!!

The one on the left is Cutex Spilpruf in "Fire Dance," which was part of the 1961 Aztec Treasures collection. The one on the right is by Coty in the shade "Magnet Red," which seems to have been available from 1957 to 1962. Both had thickened to the consistency of corn syrup. The Cutex bottle opened easily but I had to soak Coty bottle's cap in acetone to open it. They needed was some toluene-based thinner and a LOT of stirring and shaking and then they were as good as new! Pre-1970s nail polish usually have a healthy amount of titanium dioxide so you are left with a dark liquid on top and white gunk on the bottom. It takes a good amount of effort to reunite the two. That's also why, as you'll see, the orange is a VERY different shade after restoration:

The titanium dioxide in the Cutex polish stayed integrated even ~12 hours after shaking/stirring. The Coty has already started separating again. -_-

I don't think I'll actually wear these as a manicure out of an abundance of caution. I just painted some swatch sticks and I'll keep the bottles as decor. :)

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spikedluv

TV Talk:

9-1-1: On hiatus until Jan 8.

Matlock: No new ep this week; new eps return Dec 4.

Tracker: Good ep. ( spoilers )

TV News:

Scarpetta: I just read that they’re making a tv series out of the Kay Scarpetta books! I didn’t keep up with the series, but I enjoyed I (for the most part). I’m looking forward to seeing this and hoping it’s worth watching! Nicole Kidman Suits Up as ‘Scarpetta’ in First Look at Amazon’s Crime Thriller Series (variety.com)

spikedluv

I had a chiropractic appointment this morning. I hit Walmart while I was downtown and made a quick stop at Dollar General on the way home. This was not my usual Walmart trip; I needed to pick up a new vacuum cleaner and some cute outfits to send to Alaska!niece for Hazel. (I already bought Hazel a Green Bay Packer’s t-shirt, because that’s her mom’s favorite team. *g*)

I immediately put the vacuum cleaner together and used it in the living room. My old vacuum has not been able to do that rug in ages. Even raising it as high as it goes, it feels like it’s sucking the rug in and I need two hands to move it. This vacuum moved over that rug like a dream! I may actually start to enjoy vacuuming now! (Haha, no, not really!)

I visited mom, then stopped at Sunnycrest (to pick up the wreath I’d ordered) and Stewart’s (for milk) on the way to pick up the dogs at the garage.

I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered. I used the leftover chicken and broth to make chicken and gravy over rice for supper.

I napped and watched an HGTV program. I also ‘started’ my Christmas cards! (Since I got to it late in the day, and Pip came home early, I managed to get two written out, but it’s a start!!)

Temps started out at 22.1(F) (when I got up, but dropped to 15.8 before I left the house) and reached 36.7.

Mom Update:

Mom was not feeling well when I visited her. ( more back here )

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Name: Mistee

Age: 45

I mostly post about: I don't use it to post anything right now, I forgot I had this journal to be honest lol. I am going to turn it into a fandom/graphics blog though, with some other stuff sprinkled in probably. I don't usually post personal stuff online but have no problem discussing it with people in PM/DM if they're interested learning about me, etc..

My hobbies are: Fandom roleplaying (I only play fandom characters, but will rp with fandom or oc characters), gaming (mostly MMO's), reading manga or fanfics, watching anime or anything that catches my interest, getting back into icon/graphic making cuz I miss it, listening to music, watching movies.

My fandoms are: Teen Wolf (MTV show), Trigun Manga/Anime, and various others I'm trying to keep up with lol but those two are my biggest fixations right now.

I'm looking to meet people who: Have the same interests, being near or the same age is not necessary. I have friends from all different age ranges/walks of life.

My posting schedule tends to be: Whenever I have the energy. I work from home due to medical problems, so my hours are roughly 8am-630pm Central Standard time, Mon-Fri. Though I am mostly around a lot of the time.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Discrimination, ableism, racism, animal cruelty, transphobia, gay-phobia, bigotry, speaking negatively about LGBTQ+, honestly any of the bad shit lol.

Before adding me, you should know: I am chronically online due to medical issues/being disabled so I am around a LOT. Going to be around even more so due to our work's reduction of hours they're putting into place soon so I'm going to have a LOT of free time coming up to work with lol. I also mostly connect through either Discord or Plurk.

A fun fact about me is that I have a Guinness World Record and a star named after me. :)

conuly

so now I'm spending some part of my evening with another coworker instead of by myself, which means I can't just summarily turn off the TV. Other people are weird when they want the TV on even if they aren't watching it, but since they think I'm weird for preferring blissful silence I guess sometimes I have to compromise.

Which means that the other day my entertainment choices were either a long and frankly tedious piece on the JFK conspiracy theories, or HP1. Welp, JFK won't get any deader, and practically speaking, JKR won't get any richer. The choice wasn't really very agonizing, is what I'm saying. I feel like maybe it ought to have been, but no. (That place does not have enough channels. If I'm going to be stuck watching TV for even part of the night I really need to figure out how to get my phone on the screen.)

All this led me to realize something that I somehow don't think I ever thought about before, which is that the plot of book 2 doesn't make any fucking sense, like, right from the start. How exactly did Lucius set it up so that he'd happen to bump into the Weasley family? What if they hadn't gone shopping that day? There clearly was a lot of planning that went into this, so what was his backup? Really, none of those plots hold together if you look at them too hard. And that's not too unusual for fiction, but I'm not particularly inclined to be charitable about it.

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But never fear, he no longer has a bear living in his crawlspace. He now has two bears.

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Hi, I'm

kalloway. This is my fourth year participating. (Posting, at least. I've been elf-ing around for far longer.) I'm mostly after the stuff in your closets and will give you stuff from mine. If you need a physical or virtual address for me, please comment or send a PM. I'm in the US, which unfortunately makes shipping even more dire this year than usual.

1. Gundams! If you have any old Gundam stuff, I'll happily take it off your hands, especially model kits. Any condition is fine. Built or unbuilt for model kits, seriously any condition. They'll be used for learning/experiments.
Here's an example of a full project from the summer.

2. Any other model kits of any type that you're never going to build. Building models this past year has been really good for my mental health and keeping my hands busy has kept away the doomscrolling. (I do mean anything from robots to cars to tanks to airplanes to dioramas of buildings, etc.)

3. Any modeling/model kit supplies you're not going to use.

4. Support my model kit habit with giftcards from this crabby small business: Gunpla Hermit's Shop. If you need my email, lmk or just PM me the code.

5. Fanart of Dantarg from Romancing SaGa 2/RomSaGa Re;univerSe wearing a sweater/warm gear for winter. Here is a reference post.

6. I started building a new personal writing archive in 2023 and stalled out on it earlier this year. I keep getting overwhelmed with how much there is to do and can't decide out where to start. So if there's a smaller section/fandom that's unclickable or seems sparse, give me a nudge to work on it. (Fanfic/Original, everything is Choose Not to Warn atm as I sort out how to list content notes. There is explicit written content. If you want any other info please leave a comment.)

7. I'm giving away some manga/anime/dvds/etc. that have been to too many nerd sales and just need new homes. (US-only, sorry. Shipping sucks.) Please take a look.

8. Amazon Wishlist. It's mostly books and fun stuff and used is fine. If you'd rather shop from your bookshelf/your local store/bookshop.org/etc., just let me know so I can take things off the list.

9. .hack//G.U. vol. 3 (Tatsuya Hamazaki) - the light novel adaptation for the series. It's the only volume I've just never been able to find. Any readable condition is fine.

10. Gankutsuou vol. 2 (Mahiro Maeda) - the manga adaptation. Again, any readable condition is fine.

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3176/

Some tires are marketed as 'all-shape tires,' but if driven in a climate with both inverted catenary falls and triangle falls, they wear out really fast.

https://xkcd.com/3176/

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kaberett

For lo these many years (i.e. basically since I got a smartphone) I've been using Swype as an onscreen keyboard. Some time ago it was announced that it had reached end-of-life-and-support, but it wasn't until I went looking earlier today that I realised that happened in 2018, that being when I posted asking for suggestions for replacements.

And then I didn't think about it again for, apparently, approximately eight years, through several new phones and quite a lot of new major versions of Android... and then a few-ish weeks ago Fairphone rolled out Android 15 to the Fairphone 4 and alas That Was The End Of That.

Recommendations back in 2018 were for Gboard and Swiftkey; a question posted to reddit in 2022 garnered similar responses.

Since the Abrupt Keyboard Failure I've swapped to Gboard more or less by default. I don't hate the bit where language switching is now automatic (for the purposes of language learning apps, at any rate), but good grief I am missing the ability to e.g. type < or | without needing to go like three clicks deep in menus. Yes, when I have "Touch and hold keys for symbols" enabled -- as far as I can tell that only gives me one symbol per key, not "now select from a variety of them" as with the much-lamented Swype. I'm also missing the gestures I know for "yes, that word, but change the capitalisation", and still grumpily adjusting to the shift key mode cycle being in a different order to what I'm used to.

I've experimented briefly with AnySoftKey but rapidly got annoyed by the total lack of any Irish language pack (and how difficult it is to navigate the app listings to establish this fact). I'm trying to persuade myself that it's worth giving SwiftKey a try even though it (1) is now Microsoft, (2) has gone all-in on Bundling With Copilot, and (3) apparently "contains ads".

Eheu, alas, etc; all is woe; ... unless anyone knows of any other Android keyboards that provide ready access to All the punctuation...?

conuly

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