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Three for the Memories Coming Back Next Month!
Dec. 22nd, 2025 05:17 pmyourlibrarian posting in gardening
3 for the Memories' 2025 session will be open for posts on January 3, 2026 and will run for 3 weeks until January 24. Event participation is as follows:
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threeforthememoriesOur feelings for you haven't changed, Carol.
Dec. 22nd, 2025 10:22 pmgoodbyebird+ Had an extended family dinner today and got to listen to my lovely aunt and cousin talk about how great ChatGPT is, how she's using it to plan a girl's trip to Italy, and how helpful it'll be for writing the speeches at my grandmother's funeral. Fucking shoot me into outer space strapped to a rocket.
+ Got to see the latest Avatar movie at the cinemas. My least favorite of the three, lacking the genuine awe and beauty of the world. What they did try just felt forced, and one character in particular should have been left to die in the second movie ugh.
+ Big plus for the cozy and hazily lit curtain fic promo trailer thingy they did before the movie. IYKYK. Kinda made me wish I had an ear to the ground in that fandom still.
+ I think I've successfully broken through my iconning block!! Shout out to dysfunctional vampires and dysfunctional lesbians.
+ BIG psa: Apple shifted Pluribus to air on the 24th, two days earlier than usual. I'll have to get up extra early to see it before 2 Nøtter Til Askepott, because if not I'll be thinking about it and wanting to all day lol. It's been such a good series for me to watch? There's this whole thing where there's two wolves inside of me, one appreciating the thought and care put into every decision, and how slow it's allowed to move, the second wanting to pick into every detail and tear through it. Both enjoyable in different ways!
I have watched every episode a minimum of twice. It may be my new comfort watch show?¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️
Rec-cember Day 22
Pluribus ( I'd say spoilery for last week's episode. )
+ Got to see the latest Avatar movie at the cinemas. My least favorite of the three, lacking the genuine awe and beauty of the world. What they did try just felt forced, and one character in particular should have been left to die in the second movie ugh.
+ Big plus for the cozy and hazily lit curtain fic promo trailer thingy they did before the movie. IYKYK. Kinda made me wish I had an ear to the ground in that fandom still.
+ I think I've successfully broken through my iconning block!! Shout out to dysfunctional vampires and dysfunctional lesbians.
+ BIG psa: Apple shifted Pluribus to air on the 24th, two days earlier than usual. I'll have to get up extra early to see it before 2 Nøtter Til Askepott, because if not I'll be thinking about it and wanting to all day lol. It's been such a good series for me to watch? There's this whole thing where there's two wolves inside of me, one appreciating the thought and care put into every decision, and how slow it's allowed to move, the second wanting to pick into every detail and tear through it. Both enjoyable in different ways!
I have watched every episode a minimum of twice. It may be my new comfort watch show?¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Rec-cember Day 22
Pluribus ( I'd say spoilery for last week's episode. )
Slightly belated Yule/solstice wishes + a very low-key update
Dec. 22nd, 2025 04:11 pmumadoshiBlessed Yule and solstice, friends. May this next turn of the year be better to all of us than the one that's just ended.
Impressively and unexpectedly, we didn't lose power on the weekend (so many people did!); not really coincidentally, Bucky remains undecorated. We also haven't put up any lights or the wreath outside (probably just as well, given the winds), and I didn't even think of that until maybe yesterday. Oh, well.
(I no longer have any real hope of finishing a draft of this rewrite before Christmas, since I'm getting such a late start on work today and we have plans for much of Christmas Eve oncescruloose's half-day of work ends. It's fine. I've been doing other things. *shrugs*)
A few nights ago I guess I ~slept wrong~, as I woke up Saturday with a very unhappy neck. Yesterday was better, and today is better again, and I'm lucky to not have this kind of thing happen more often (*knocks wood*), but it's so annoying as well as painful. Body, if you're taking damage while sleeping, why don't you move to a better position?! Does the conscious brain need to handle everything around here? (Thankfully no.)
Impressively and unexpectedly, we didn't lose power on the weekend (so many people did!); not really coincidentally, Bucky remains undecorated. We also haven't put up any lights or the wreath outside (probably just as well, given the winds), and I didn't even think of that until maybe yesterday. Oh, well.
(I no longer have any real hope of finishing a draft of this rewrite before Christmas, since I'm getting such a late start on work today and we have plans for much of Christmas Eve once
scruloose's half-day of work ends. It's fine. I've been doing other things. *shrugs*)A few nights ago I guess I ~slept wrong~, as I woke up Saturday with a very unhappy neck. Yesterday was better, and today is better again, and I'm lucky to not have this kind of thing happen more often (*knocks wood*), but it's so annoying as well as painful. Body, if you're taking damage while sleeping, why don't you move to a better position?! Does the conscious brain need to handle everything around here? (Thankfully no.)
New K-9 fic: Inevitable (Ren/Oboro/Fujimaru/Kagari)
Dec. 22nd, 2025 01:43 pmvriddyFor hmmm reasons that I might get into in another post, I'm reading a lot more in Japanese lately, which is great, except for the part where it means that I, of course, again, am getting into fandoms that don't exist on AO3 or anywhere in English-speaking land orz
Although I gotta say I don't get it! This manga -- "K-9: Public Security Bureau – Division 9 – Special Abilities Countermeasure" -- has a simulpub in English and leans so hard on the Rule Of Cool, and the art is so pretty, AND it leans way hard into maxi-wonderful would-die-for-you OT4 moments too if that's your cup of tea and BOY BOY b o y is it my bucket of tea XD Anyway I will probably do an attempt at a promo post at a later time.
In the meantime I had to create aaall the AO3 tags... no fandom, no ships, no character tags orz I'm a bit nervous about it but I decided I'd rather have this exist than be perfect 😤 Also I'm not too sure if it actually matters, but I'd like to nominate the fandom and ship forcandyheartsex, and I'm sort of assuming it helps if it's actually somewhere in the archive already, if only to make the mod's job easier...?
Meanwhile I'm working hard in the background to get people hooked onto the translation, so hopefully it won't stay a fandom of one for too long XD 😤😤😂
Inevitable | K-9: Public Security Bureau – Division 9 – Special Abilities Countermeasure | Fujimaru Jin/Hizuki Ren/Kagari Yukito/Oboro Yuushirou | 1.2k words | rated M
Summary: They were always going to end up like this. Though there's still a few surprises — two of them, to be precise.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
Although I gotta say I don't get it! This manga -- "K-9: Public Security Bureau – Division 9 – Special Abilities Countermeasure" -- has a simulpub in English and leans so hard on the Rule Of Cool, and the art is so pretty, AND it leans way hard into maxi-wonderful would-die-for-you OT4 moments too if that's your cup of tea and BOY BOY b o y is it my bucket of tea XD Anyway I will probably do an attempt at a promo post at a later time.
In the meantime I had to create aaall the AO3 tags... no fandom, no ships, no character tags orz I'm a bit nervous about it but I decided I'd rather have this exist than be perfect 😤 Also I'm not too sure if it actually matters, but I'd like to nominate the fandom and ship for
candyheartsex, and I'm sort of assuming it helps if it's actually somewhere in the archive already, if only to make the mod's job easier...?Meanwhile I'm working hard in the background to get people hooked onto the translation, so hopefully it won't stay a fandom of one for too long XD 😤😤😂
Inevitable | K-9: Public Security Bureau – Division 9 – Special Abilities Countermeasure | Fujimaru Jin/Hizuki Ren/Kagari Yukito/Oboro Yuushirou | 1.2k words | rated M
Summary: They were always going to end up like this. Though there's still a few surprises — two of them, to be precise.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
Who knew that aging also produces cramps in the arch of the foot?
Dec. 22nd, 2025 02:22 pmcimoreneI'm not a stranger to cramps in the arch of my feet! That's part of the reason that I stopped wearing high heels. I wore some knee-high leather boots that came to just below the knee as a young woman, shortly after the year 2000, usually in the fall and winter (purchased in the US, before moving to Finland was on my radar, so they were kind of for warmth but in a climate that wasn't cold enough to necessitate purchasing actual winter boots). They only had like a 2-3" heel, a chunky one, as was fashionable at the turn of the millennium, so they weren't a challenge to balance or particularly uncomfortable for ordinary walking around. But I soon noticed the pattern of cramps in the arch of my foot after days when I wore them, and that made me want to stop.
But I haven't had much of that problem since then. ( Read more... ) However, just in the last few years I've occasionally noticed a twinge or mini-cramp that goes away after a few seconds specifically in the arch of my left foot. It's never lasted beyond a moment or two until like... last week once when I was walking up the stairs and then yesterday in the grocery store, when it suddenly twinged so hard into a cramp that I spent a minute and a half limping and whispering "Ow, ow, ow!" until it subsided.
It doesn't have to be caused by age, of course, but I don't know what else could have caused it, unless it is protesting the fact that I have not been walking enough in the last year. I used to have a tennis-sized hard rubber ball to roll on the arch of my feet, when I was working on my feet a lot in retail. But I can't remember where I put it.
But I haven't had much of that problem since then. ( Read more... ) However, just in the last few years I've occasionally noticed a twinge or mini-cramp that goes away after a few seconds specifically in the arch of my left foot. It's never lasted beyond a moment or two until like... last week once when I was walking up the stairs and then yesterday in the grocery store, when it suddenly twinged so hard into a cramp that I spent a minute and a half limping and whispering "Ow, ow, ow!" until it subsided.
It doesn't have to be caused by age, of course, but I don't know what else could have caused it, unless it is protesting the fact that I have not been walking enough in the last year. I used to have a tennis-sized hard rubber ball to roll on the arch of my feet, when I was working on my feet a lot in retail. But I can't remember where I put it.
Do images also get redirected when using a rename token?
Dec. 22nd, 2025 10:10 amvriddy posting in getting_startedThe FAQ entry about renaming a journal is very helpful to understand what happens and the options when renaming, but I'm not sure what happens to the image links?
Do image links also get redirected automatically ? Or do you need to update your old posts referencing those images, since the username is in the URL too??
Do image links also get redirected automatically ? Or do you need to update your old posts referencing those images, since the username is in the URL too??
Milestone birthday goal, status update, week 3
Dec. 21st, 2025 09:48 pmdraconisSo far, so good. I've started taking Mondays as a rest day, and Friday I slipped up a little bit -- looked up and it was 11:00 and I hadn't done my pushup set for the day. I decided no, doing them that late would rev up the system enough that I wouldn't sleep as well, and that wouldn't be doing myself any favors.
I still certainly can't claim that they're EASY, or even just routine, but I can tell they're getting better. Thank goodness, because I've only got 10 more days before I have in increase the count again!
I still certainly can't claim that they're EASY, or even just routine, but I can tell they're getting better. Thank goodness, because I've only got 10 more days before I have in increase the count again!
Thinky thoughts at the dark of the year
Dec. 21st, 2025 09:40 pmdraconisSome deep thoughts at this darkest time of the year, as I try to find the path with the greatest amount of Light to deal with a situation, and to do my best to navigate in accordance with two philosophies which both make excellent sense.
A bit long-winded, I'm afraid.
One philosophy says to always remember that the spear which pierces the Other's heart is the spear which also pierces yours, for you are he.
A somewhat martial way of expressing one which charges us to do unto others as we would have done to us, or not to do to another that which we find hateful.
The other points out that there is a point where turning the other cheek becomes indistinguishable from condoning the violence the other is doing to you.
Having boundaries, maintaining and defending them, is a good thing. Those who don't want us to have them are almost always those who have something to gain by violating them, and who intend to do so.
Both of these philosophies are valid.
I think I must fall back on a conversation from many years ago with a man who had lived most of his life as a monk. He had just mentioned a core tenet of the monastery: the importance of respecting all living things.
When asked if that applied even to such creatures as mosquitos, he adopted what I think of as "Teacher Face." (You know the one, and many of you have seen me wearing it.)
Holding his open hand palm down at about chin level, he told this story.
Let's say a mosquito lands here on the back of my hand. I may let him take a little bit, then give him a puff of air hard enough to send him on his way. He's fed, and I am unharmed.
But let's say he comes back. I might let him take a little bit more, then use my other hand to thump him away.
If he comes back a third time? At that point, I might swat him.
Because you see, it is important for the mosquito to respect me, too.
A bit long-winded, I'm afraid.
One philosophy says to always remember that the spear which pierces the Other's heart is the spear which also pierces yours, for you are he.
A somewhat martial way of expressing one which charges us to do unto others as we would have done to us, or not to do to another that which we find hateful.
The other points out that there is a point where turning the other cheek becomes indistinguishable from condoning the violence the other is doing to you.
Having boundaries, maintaining and defending them, is a good thing. Those who don't want us to have them are almost always those who have something to gain by violating them, and who intend to do so.
Both of these philosophies are valid.
I think I must fall back on a conversation from many years ago with a man who had lived most of his life as a monk. He had just mentioned a core tenet of the monastery: the importance of respecting all living things.
When asked if that applied even to such creatures as mosquitos, he adopted what I think of as "Teacher Face." (You know the one, and many of you have seen me wearing it.)
Holding his open hand palm down at about chin level, he told this story.
Let's say a mosquito lands here on the back of my hand. I may let him take a little bit, then give him a puff of air hard enough to send him on his way. He's fed, and I am unharmed.
But let's say he comes back. I might let him take a little bit more, then use my other hand to thump him away.
If he comes back a third time? At that point, I might swat him.
Because you see, it is important for the mosquito to respect me, too.
(no subject)
Dec. 21st, 2025 10:03 amskygiantsSometimes I hit a romance in media and I'm like well. I don't know that I'd say that I ship this. I wouldn't be sad if these people broke up. But unfortunately I do actually believe that they are in love and find it compelling to watch what happens about it ....
anyway that's how I felt about the central relationship in The Legend of ShenLi, which is a xianxia cdrama about ✨ The Greatest General Of The Demon Realm ✨ and her epic romance with -- well. For the first five or six episodes ShenLi, the Greatest General of the Demon Realm, is trapped on Earth in the form of an angry CGI chicken, in the care of a sickly human scholar who has discovered that his angry CGI chicken is in fact some sort of supernatural entity and thinks the whole situation is very funny.
Here, for the record, is angry chicken ShenLi:
and here is ShenLi and her love interest when nobody is a chicken:
This whole introductory arc is really charming. Incredibly happy for that sickly scholar and his angry bird wife. But alas! all things must end, the lovers are parted, and ShenLi The Greatest General of the Demon Realm grimly returns home to confront her upcoming political marriage to a playboy from the Divine Realm, in the full assumption that she will never see her sickly scholar again because even aside from the political pressures one day in the Demon Realm equals a year in the human realm so the time difference is not workable.
However! then some monster nonsense starts happening in the Demon Realm, and so the Divine Realm sends its last surviving actual factual god to help out -- who bears a Mysterious Resemblance to ShenLi's sickly human boyfriend .... ( spoilers )
But enough about the leads! ( Here's a short list of my other favorite people in the drama, cut for some images as well )
anyway that's how I felt about the central relationship in The Legend of ShenLi, which is a xianxia cdrama about ✨ The Greatest General Of The Demon Realm ✨ and her epic romance with -- well. For the first five or six episodes ShenLi, the Greatest General of the Demon Realm, is trapped on Earth in the form of an angry CGI chicken, in the care of a sickly human scholar who has discovered that his angry CGI chicken is in fact some sort of supernatural entity and thinks the whole situation is very funny.
Here, for the record, is angry chicken ShenLi:
and here is ShenLi and her love interest when nobody is a chicken:
This whole introductory arc is really charming. Incredibly happy for that sickly scholar and his angry bird wife. But alas! all things must end, the lovers are parted, and ShenLi The Greatest General of the Demon Realm grimly returns home to confront her upcoming political marriage to a playboy from the Divine Realm, in the full assumption that she will never see her sickly scholar again because even aside from the political pressures one day in the Demon Realm equals a year in the human realm so the time difference is not workable.
However! then some monster nonsense starts happening in the Demon Realm, and so the Divine Realm sends its last surviving actual factual god to help out -- who bears a Mysterious Resemblance to ShenLi's sickly human boyfriend .... ( spoilers )
But enough about the leads! ( Here's a short list of my other favorite people in the drama, cut for some images as well )
Various Links 12/14 - 12/21
Dec. 21st, 2025 04:53 pmsenmutYesterday was eaten alive by yuletide pinch hits, so day late with these.
~ Samson and Delilah gifs - young Angela Lansbury the Hottie
~ Smokin' MoTown - Temptations, Miracles, Stevie, Smokey, Vandellas, and Supremes in one photo
~ Art of Dorian Pavus and the Iron Bull in a bath
~ Trans Art for Maevaris Tilani
~ Beowulf Essay titles? - anecdote from a professor
~ Xuanji Tu - A mathematical art of poetry
~ Samson and Delilah gifs - young Angela Lansbury the Hottie
~ Smokin' MoTown - Temptations, Miracles, Stevie, Smokey, Vandellas, and Supremes in one photo
~ Art of Dorian Pavus and the Iron Bull in a bath
~ Trans Art for Maevaris Tilani
~ Beowulf Essay titles? - anecdote from a professor
~ Xuanji Tu - A mathematical art of poetry
vital functions
Dec. 21st, 2025 10:49 pmkaberettReading. Nothing (quite) finished; various snippets. ( Scalzi, Bourke, Boddice, Cowart )
Watching. Wake Up Dead Man (the third instalment in the Benoit Blanc/Knives Out mysteries). ( Read more... )
Three episodes of Man vs. Bee, in company; this is... not for me.
Playing. Inkulinati! And, with the niblings: Match Madness, The Genius Square, Rummikub, Dixit.
Cooking. A new-to-me fruitcake recipe from one of my cookbooks; a dal from the cookbook I am not actually going to manage Making Everything From by the end of the calendar year (but I am pretty close).
Eating. I have now had A Mince Pie. Also a very long lunch at the Gardeners Arms. The brownies that all the reviews of the place we wound up staying in Ardlingy mentioned (which were indeed v good).
Exploring. Wakehurst Place, both at night for Glow Wild and during daylight (a little)!
Growing. Bought curry leaves. Proceeded to strip most of the stems (freezing the leaves) and Treat As Cuttings. There's at least one of them that doesn't look actually dead yet...
Observing. OWL OWL OWL. Very talkative tawny, as we were leaving Wakehurst on Friday night. Snowdrops, also at Wakehurst, to my mild horror. And, blessedly, NOT The Charity Tractor Parade...
Thank you for the inappropriate touching. It was actually pretty nice.
Dec. 21st, 2025 11:44 pmgoodbyebirdRec-cember Day 21
Killing Eve
baby, be gentle (it's my first time) by
So this is it. She’s going to kill Villanelle, and this is how it happens. To hell and fuck with everything that had happened. Their sort of half-truce in Scotland. Their agreement to not let things be boring. She is going to take that pretty, slender throat between her hands and squeeze her like a rubber chicken. “You are absolutely the stupidest, most selfish, most infuriating person I have ever met.”
“Oh, you flirt.” Villanelle smirks. She takes a few steps forward, hands on her hips.
“I’m going to—” Kill you, her brain completes. The words won’t come out of her mouth, stopgapped by rage, leaving Villanelle a wide opening to slip through.
“You’re going to what, Eve?” She sighs in a derisive voice, sticking out her bottom lip in a mockery of a pout. “Spank me? Have I really been that bad?”
The word spank grinds everything to a halt within Eve. It hits a switch in her, killing the rising steam in her stomach. Of course she can’t kill Villanelle. That would be silly and short-sighted. But spank her?
It could be just as effective and tremendously less permanent.
“Yes.” Eve says with bland finality. And oh, the way that word wipes the condescending smirk off Villanelle’s face and replaces it with surprise. To accentuate her point, Eve drops behind her onto the bed, sitting on the edge with her hands on her knees.
This makes for two fic recs featuring the holidays and two featuring spanking so far. Taking bets on which is gonna take the win *g*
[ SECRET POST #6925 ]
Dec. 21st, 2025 03:55 pmcase posting in fandomsecrets⌈ Secret Post #6925 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
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This is how an enabler thinks
Dec. 21st, 2025 06:22 pmvriddyMe in the previous post, sharing my current Scrivener setup with screenshots:
Enabling friend a couple of hours later, sliding into my DMs with a screenshot and 👀👀👀:
(Shared with permission ;))
I'm still laughing about it. These are the projects I hadn't really mentioned yet, or not in a while. I'm having such a fun and joyful fandom time lately. I feel so lucky. I know these things ebb and flow, and people drift apart, life gets in the way, and so on. But I've posted about the lows before, and it feels only fair to record the highs, too :D Wishing everyone many many creative and joyful times.
Enabling friend a couple of hours later, sliding into my DMs with a screenshot and 👀👀👀:
(Shared with permission ;))
I'm still laughing about it. These are the projects I hadn't really mentioned yet, or not in a while. I'm having such a fun and joyful fandom time lately. I feel so lucky. I know these things ebb and flow, and people drift apart, life gets in the way, and so on. But I've posted about the lows before, and it feels only fair to record the highs, too :D Wishing everyone many many creative and joyful times.
