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"It's set in a time when things were hard for black people in America" - a line which so flabbergasted me that I don't think I ever figured out what to say.

But this one may have topped it!

"The story is about a black girl, somewhere between 8 and 16 years old, from a black family."

...I'm dying to ask why they think they need to specify that this girl is the same race as everybody else in her family, when that's usually how this works. There's no indication in the rest of the post that we might have reason to think she's not.

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nilchance

this is mostly blorbo-related posting, but I've had this stuck in my head for the last few days because of the cold despite the fact that it's not nearly winter yet:

Watch on YouTube

(yes, I'm also thinking of Kristoff and Dalton's five-year separation before the campaign starts. Dalton is resigned to prison for life; he thinks it's safer for everyone if he's there. per the DM, Kristoff refused to give up on him even if he struggled to find a solution. the campaign starts with Dalton getting out. I'm looking forward to them finally seeing each other again, to say the least.)

umadoshi

Reading: Recently finished: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (Schwab, V.E.), Confidence (Frumkin, Rafael), and Hemlock & Silver (Kingfisher, T.).

Currently reading: Still working through Almost Everything: Notes on Hope (Lamott, Anne) and most of the way through Metal from Heaven (Clarke, August).

scruloose and I have passed the halfway mark on listening to Network Effect, and haven't watched anything since that's occupying our "watch/listen to something together" time.

Weathering: Well, the weather sure has noticed it's November! This is not the first gray wet day we've had, and while yesterday kindly didn't rain on us when we went out erranding, it was down near the freezing mark (and had gone below overnight).

Eating:

scruloose and I have a delicious go-to Indian place, but both it and our fallback spot too universally have onions in everything for them to be good choices for Ginny, so periodically when she and Kas are over we gamble on an Indian spot that none of us have tried. ( butter chicken sadness )

spikedluv

Here’s my tree, for those that are interested in checking it out!

I’m going through the other trees, but please link me to yours if you’d like so I can be sure not to miss it!!

spikedluv

I hit Price Chopper and the bakery while I was downtown. I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, made egg salad, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, baked chicken for the dogs’ meals, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter.

For funsies, I watched Matlock, Mistletoe Mysteries, and some HGTV programs. Dr. Pol was once again my background tv later in the evening.

Temps started out at 32.5 when we got up, but had reached 24.8(F) before I left the house. (Temps dropped over 7 degrees in an hour and a half!) Just watching the temp drop made me cold. It eventually reached 44.8 that I saw before going down to visit mom, but Pip said it hit 50. Rain came in late afternoon, it got really heavy (Pip said there was an inch in the rain gauge, but given how hard it was coming down I thought there’d be more) and there was thunder and lightning, which we didn’t expect.

There was one blast of thunder that must’ve been right above us because it was so loud it sent Midnight, who’d been sleeping in his bed under a blanket, shooting out of there like a bullet. He stood on the bed (his bed is on our bed during the day) looking all confused and wary, like, wtf was that?!! It was followed by the brightest bolt of lightning, which lit up the bedroom through the drawn shades. Thankfully it moved away after that.

Mom Update:

Mom looked good today, which was nice. ( more back here )

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I’m not going to bury the lede. I got baked and decided to make a Monopoly-inspired game board to help me tackle my TBR pile. (Also a great lead up to my upcoming gift guide on boardgames!) I have so many books and a very large Goodreads list, which often leaves me paralyzed by choice.

I first came across this idea on Instagram through PrintedPaperTraveler, who designed a board that’s a mix of Monopoly and Snakes & Ladders. She calls it TBR Knockout.

Here’s her video on how to get started:

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I wouldn’t describe myself as a super crafty person, but I do have a Canva account. I also think I prefer the digital nature of my board, as it allows me to easily change squares if I find that things aren’t working as well as I thought.

I went completely bonkers with pastel pink clip art and honestly, it brings me so much joy.

(You can right click on it for a larger version.)

The idea is that you roll two six-sided die and move that number of spaces. Peruse your TBR pile for whatever matches the prompt you landed on.

I have a couple dynamic categories on the board: Color, Read the Alphabet, Least Favorite/Favorite Tropes, and Release Month. These are designed to change as I land on them. Example: Once I land on Read the Alphabet for A, I pick a book with a title, author name, or character name that starts with A. Once I finish, I’ll edit the square to B.

Other explanations:

Friend Read: Goodreads has a “compare shelves” feature. I’ll compare my shelves with a GR friend and pick a book on my TBR pile that they’ve already read.
Nightstand Read: Every month, I put about 5-7 books on my nightstand as some sort of aspirational reading list. Land on this square, and I have to choose one of those.
Chance: I bought some TBR cards! They’re little cards with prompts on how to choose what to read. You can easily design some yourself. Here are the ones I’ve purchased: Romance TBR Card Deck from BookmarkedWithLoveCo, TBR Cards: Romance Edition from FleursOnSunday, TBR Cards: Fantasy Edition from FleursOnSunday.
Community Chest: I’m starting with a jar with 5 slips of paper with randomly selected titles from my TBR pile. As I pass GO, I get to add more to the jar.

The idea is to read books I already own whether in physical copies or digitally. I also want to make more use of my library. There is one square that allows me to buy a new book, but I have to read it immediately.

Here’s a blank version of the above board if you’d like to make your own. Customize it with whatever categories you want! I kept mine pretty general, but may create some harder, more specific categories in the future once I take this for a test drive.

My first roll was for a total of 4 spaces. I landed on New Series. For this square, I think I’ll finally start Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage ( A | BN | K | AB ), which is book one in the Rebel Blue Ranch series.

What do you think about gamifying your TBR pile? Have you done something similar?

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soricel

Teaching: Another up and down week. I'm kinda getting used to this rhythm: Mondays and Tuesdays are so bad I often find myself looking for, or at least fantasizing about, other jobs. Then Wednesdays are a little better, and Thursdays and Fridays I kinda coast into the weekend feeling generally okay. This Thursday we had a staff get-together thing after school ended...food, drink, chatting, sing-alongs led by a beloved and recently-retired theater teacher. Going into it, I wasn't feeling it at all (in part because I failed badly in my two attempts to bake something to bring), but once I got there I started feeling better, and left feeling something like affection for the little crew of colleagues who were there. Most people I talked to are feeling similarly ground down and dispirited (though I can't think of a time when any of my colleagues felt differently), and if nothing else it was kinda refreshing to know I'm not alone in what I'm feeling.

Yesterday I also did the fourth session in my creative writing workshop series, and it went well!

Learning: Our regular Chinese teacher had to travel back to China for some reason, so this week we met the substitute who will be our teacher for the next three-four weeks: Simon, a kinda dorky guy in his mid-twenties with a *very* different vibe than out normal teacher. The class starts at 19:00, and as soon as the clock struck that time, he announced to the mostly silent room "Time's up!" and jumped into the PPT (he also ended the class at 20:30 on the dot, which I appreciated, given that the regular teacher often goes ten or fifteen minutes over time). So far, our regular teacher has been reassuring us that at our level, we don't really need to bother with reading characters--learning pinyin is enough. But Simon scoffed at this idea, and his PPT was full of characters he expected/insisted that we know how to read. So far, no one has really spoken up or asked a question during any of our lessons, but this time one girl interrupted Simon at one point to say she was absent last week and felt like she'd missed a month of lessons--she had no idea what he was talking about. Things loosened up a little after that, and Simon eventually really started feeling himself, making jokes and sort of vibing with this one student sitting at the front of the room. For whatever reason he mostly avoided interacting with my side of the classroom, though. Anyway, all this is say that it's been a while since I've been a "student," and it's really interesting to observe a teacher from this perspective, and also to observe my own reactions to the teacher's energy, style, quirks, and the dynamics in the room.

The somatic movement workshop this week was pretty good, and I also booked a one-on-one session with the facilitator to talk about some strategies I can use when I feel really overwhelmed or overstimulated in the classroom (and on the walk home, when I've got all sorts of nasty thoughts and feelings roiling inside me). It was a kinda intense and emotional session.

Listening: Finished season one of It Makes a Sound. Loved it, and loved sharing it with T. and seeing her get into it. Some other stuff too, but nothing much stood out.

Reading: Still working on The Dream Hotel. Smart and bleak.

Watching: We've finally gotten to the last season of Big Bang Theory. I'm ready for it to be done. Everyone is just so mean to each other all the time. Also watched this movie Weapons, which was pretty entertaining. Tried watching the new Frankenstein but was not feeling it at alll. The first scene looked and felt like a video game, and we didn't have the patience for all the visual bloat in the fifteen minutes or so that followed before we turned it off.

Writing: Kind of a quiet week on the RP front, which allowed me to write a couple short things for that unconventional formats challenge. I would've liked to write more, and to try some of the unconventional media prompts, but I feel satisfied with what I did. Also wrote a little triple drabble thing for the weekly drabble challenge community I joined a few weeks ago. Should probably start working on my Yuletide fic (I have the rough outline in my head, more or less, but now I need to start doing something with it). Also looking forward to participating in Fandomtrees for the first time. 2025 will go down as the year I really got into writing fanfiction, I guess, and these little events feel like nice ways to cap off the year.

Also tinkered a bit on some poems in preparation for the big spoken word festival next week.

In the news/on my mind: Whatever the fuck is going on with/about to happen to Venezuela just feels so dizzyingly stupid and wrong, and again it feels like there's just nothing to do be done about it...

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Age: 36

I mostly post about: nothing in particular right now, i'm trying to get back into using this site, i think i'm really over social media in general and i miss LJ stuff haha BUT mostly rp doodles probably, and some artwork now that most sites are making it near unbearable to post drawings that are lgbt romance. Anything n everything

My hobbies are: drawing, writing, rp, world building, music archiving (usually old obscure osts for various anime n rpgs) gaming, watching anime, reading Manga (I need to read more books... 😭) d&d/tabletop, cooking, sewing, crafting idk do a lot of things but I'm not necessarily good at many hahai

My fandoms are: i don't really consider myself "in fandoms" I just sort of like what I like and make merch for it sometimes, I rarely interact in fan content so I'm not rly a big fic reader, I'm much more in the oc crowd than making fan content. BUT here's some stuff I love: record of lodoss war, weathering continent, RG Veda, Saint seiya, magi labyrinth of magic, land of the lustrous, dungeon meshi, Slayers, lunar: sss&eb, mana series, final fantasy, Lufia, -- really lots of old fantasy anime n games from the 60s to late 90s with the rare occasional newer thing

I'm looking to meet people who: are chill and around my age, anyone who's interested in original characters n anything listed above

My posting schedule tends to be: unsure yet but I'd like it to be every day if I can manage it

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: I guess just general hateful content, which I don't see happening often. Other than that I am NOT a fan of anti/proshipper wank I am frankly too old for it. Both sides get on my nerves and I will typically unfollow ppl who start engaging in that arguing.

Before adding me, you should know: as related to above; I am a believer of fiction being fiction and separate from reality. I don't really care what people choose to write or create. (we can point out real life patterns in themes chosen, but that doesn't make any of it real or inherently harmful) However, I like to be critical of media n can sound harsh about it sometimes, but I'm never going to tell anyone not to like something just bc I don't care for it.

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impala_chick

Title: Botanical Abomination
Pairing: Max/Liz/Kyle
Rated: Teen
Word Count: 2,295

Summary: A killer alien plant shows up in Max's yard right when Liz is trying to work out how she feels about Kyle.

A/N: I started this for

spook_me (and I didn't finish on time) but I posted it for the RIP Roswell event on Tumblr.

Fic on AO3

( Fic under here )

conuly

Listen…
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.

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Link

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azurelunatic

The washer saga ended a little while ago, with a brand repair tech who corrected something simple. Thursday night (the start of Friday wash day) the dryer gave up.

Since the dryer had been leaving unsightly rust streaks on all the lights, I have not been subtle in my campaign for a new one.

Delivery is scheduled for today, of a dryer with a steam cycle but without wifi.

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skygiants

I am extremely belated in actually posting about Taiwan Travelogue -- I know that I read it before June, because in June was when I was talking about it with

recognito and he said 'oh I think it's an Utena riff' and I was like ?? ?!?! !!!! aj;dlkfjs;l of course it's an Utena riff. (

recognito's post about it here.)

Which is of course a very unfair way to begin this post because it's many other things besides an Utena riff- primarily of course a story about colonization and power relations, as told through gender and appetite. Taiwan Travelogue is a book that presents itself as a translation from the Japanese into Taiwanese -- which I of course then read translated into English, another layering into the text -- of a Japanese writer's journal of her time in Taiwan, 1938-9. She's there to promote her book, not to promote the project of Japanese Imperial Expansion, of which she certainly does not really approve! and which she is not going to propagandize, except in the ways that she can't help but propagandize it! and she wants to experience the real Taiwan, most notably Real Taiwanese Food. Aoyama's major passion in life is eating, she is a tall young woman with a huge appetite, and the tour guide experiences that have been prepared for her are not sufficient to her desires.

Enter Ong: Aoyama's new entry point into Taiwan, a quiet young woman from a mysterious background who, unlike her other assigned translator, is willing to not only take Aoyama off the beaten path to Unapproved Culinary Experiences but also to provide additional culinary experiences at home in her lodgings. Whatever Aoyama hears about, she wants to eat. One way or another, Ong makes it happen. Ong, it turns out, is the only person Aoyama's ever met who can eat as much as Aoyama can; Aoyama feels a deep connection to her, is desperate for some sense of genuine reciprocal emotion, but no matter what she tries, moving from their employer/employee dynamic into something genuine seems impossible. From Aoyama's point of view, she's always reaching out, and Ong is always slipping away, putting up a barrier. As Ong sees it -- well, whatever she's trying to tell Aoyama, Aoyama does not understand.

The metaphor of colonialism as played out through the inherent power imbalances of a failed romance is not a new theme and plays out more or less as expected here, though it's relevant that this is a book about A Lesbian: one of the things that the text wants to explore I think is how being, in your own mind, in the position of an underdog and an outsider makes it harder for you to see the ways and situations in which you are neither of those things. But really what I found most striking about the book is not the central relationship at all, but the food. The book has a lot of dishes in it, and every dish has a context and a history: the ingredients come from somewhere, the way it's made has a certain history to it, the way it's made in one location differs from the way it's made in a different location, and Ong always takes care to explain why. The portrait of the impact that colonization by Japan has had on Taiwan is largely drawn through detailed descriptions of changing recipes. The book made me very aware of how hungry I am for material culture in my fiction! ... and also it just made me normal hungry.

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I have always found nice people through this community, so I thought I would give it another try ;)

Name: Tina
Age: ~~old~~ 37 as of May 10th
I mostly post about: My daily life, thoughts that go through my head, the occasional meme/survey, and I often post pictures. However, I will always put the latter under a cut if there's more than three, so I don't clog up your flists too much.
My hobbies are: Reading, taking walks, hanging out with friends, listening to music/podcasts, doing jigsaw puzzles, taking pictures, cuddling my cat, travelling (when time and money allow), going to concerts (see previous brackets xD), doing logic puzzles & word searches, learning new things. I used to love adult colouring books and would like to get back into them at some point.

My fandoms are: I don't have fandoms as such - I mean, I like things but I don't participate in "fannish activities" like watching/reading fanfiction or the like. I have nothing against the former or anything and even enjoy reading the occasional fic my friends post if I am at all familiar with the fandom, it's just never been something I was particularly interested in doing myself.

I will list some favourites here though, if anyone is interested to see what we have in common.

Musical artists: A Day to Remember, Bring me the Horizon, Florence & the Machine, Taylor Swift, The Warning, The Last Dinner Party, Death by Romy, Tegan & Sara, Ice Nine Kills, Freya Ridings, Wanda, Emilie Autumn, Amy Shark, Great Big Sea, Alan Doyle, Shanneyganock, Derina Harvey Band, Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodrigo, Kellie Loder, Bodh'aktan &many more. I probably even forgot some! I love music and can be found listening to anything from Pop or Rock to Metal, Goth or Metalcore to Rap, depending on my mood. The only genres I don't like much are Jazz & Classical Music but even there I can enjoy the occasional song.

Books: Lolita (V. Nabokov), Middlesex (J. Eugenides), The Wrong Boy (W. Russell), The Future of Another Timeline (A. Newitz), The Shock Of The Fall (N. Filer), Mio my Son (A. Lindgren), The Little Prince (A. de St. Exupéry), The Kronoberg trilogy (E.A. Sund), The Dept. Q series (J. Adler-Olsen), The Deathless series (N. Forna), The Peculiar Children series (R. Riggs), The Cider House Rules (J. Irving), Mrs. Dalloway (V. Woolf), Orlando (V. Woolf), We'll Prescribe You A Cat (S. Ishida), The Kangaroo Chronicles (M.-U. Kling), Animal Farm (G. Orwell), Migrations (C. McConaghy), Once There Were Wolves (C. McConaghy), The Hunger Games series (S. Collins), To The Bright Edge Of The World (E. Ivey), American Gods (N. Gaiman), A Song Of Ice & Fire series (G.R.R. Martin)...and I am probably forgetting half of them here, as well!

I used to be a huge Potterhead but ever since it came out what kind of person JKR is, I cannot read or watch the series with a good conscience anymore, or spend any money on HP-related things. I don't judge anyone who still likes the series though, it is just not for me anymore.

Movies: Anything with Meryl Streep ♥ , Godzilla movies, trashy horror movies in general (think creature feature/animal horror ^^), Despicable Me & Minions series*, The Secret Life Of Pets, Creep 1 & 2, Kinsey, Forrest Gump, If These Walls Could Talk II, Imagine Me & You, Smile, Life Of Brian, Guardians Of The Galaxy 1 & 2, Inside Out 1 & 2, A Simple Favor, Get Out, Escape Room, The Silence Of The Lambs... I confess that I am not a huge movie watcher, although I have been getting more into them over the past two years or so.

*apparently that makes me a cringy boomer. Oh well.

TV shows: Law & Order:SVU, Stranger Things, Wednesday, Son Of A Critch (though I have yet to see the latest season). I will also watch the occasional episode of Is It Cake? when the mood strikes. In the past I've enjoyed Pushing Daisies, Boston Public, Call the Midwife, Zoo (anyone remember that one?), Starling and Republic Of Doyle. As you see, I am not a huge TV watcher either *blush*.

I always welcome recommendations of any kind! :)

I'm looking to meet people who: are kind, empathetic, funny, open-minded and understanding. While it's cool if we have stuff in common, it's not a necessity to me - a lot of the best friends I've made on here have completely different interests. In fact, I love getting to know what kinds of things other people like and maybe even give that song/band/movie/book/whatever a try myself :) we can inspire each other!

My posting schedule tends to be: I try to post at least twice a week - I do a "What Are You Reading Wednesday" post (guess on which day? LOL) every week, and usually catch up on daily life every Sunday. Random posts may happen too ;)

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Discrimination/intentional bigotry of any kind. I say "intentional" because we all have subconscious prejudices and mess up once in a while and as long as we're open to learn from it, that's okay. Extreme black and white-thinking on any issue - I value critical thinking.

Before adding me, you should know: I have a few mental health issues, so my journal might not be puppies and sunshine all the time. So if you are a person who can't take "too much negativity" on their flist, I might not be the right friend for you. That's not meant to sound rude, it's rather that I want to feel free to let out my feelings in my journal without worrying where the line crosses into "too much" if that makes sense?

The former can also mean that I sometimes don't comment or read as much as I want to, same applies to when life gets busy. I always try to be there as much as I can though, and I always come back and catch up eventually!

Lastly, I am neurodivergent, most likely on the autism spectrum somewhere (just still undiagnosed because it is very difficult to even get an appointment for an assessment where I live :(). I say that because it means I sometimes take things too literally or may misunderstand something, or don't see all the nuances of what you wrote. So if I ever say something that comes across as rude, or put my foot in my mouth, please do give me the benefit of the doubt that it wasn't my intention to be offensive and give me a chance to explain myself. I swear I never mean harm &hearts; and I will do my best to make up for any I do cause.

I am looking forward to meeting new people from all walks of life ♥ please do comment here or on my Friends Only Post before adding me though, thank you.

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mx_morden

About Me:

Hello! I'm Chris/Morden (she/her + they/them), I'm in my 30s (not being more specific because I keep forgetting to update my age from year to year lol), and I'm from Italy! I'm aimlessly wandering through life. I never really know what the fuck is going on. I can usually be found listening to music, reading, obsessing over Formula 1, watching weird movies/tv shows, or hanging out with my friends :)

Access Policy:

Public: Non-too-deep personal stuff, most fanfic and fannish stuff, memes and stuff like that
Access only: some fanfic, possibly some personal stuff I'm not comfortable sharing with everybody but still nothing too personal; [I give access to this level to anybody who subscribes \o]
Custom access: I'm planning to have a third access tier where I can be completely unhinged because I will only add my closest friends to it lol

Mostly Post:

I wish I could say fannish stuff, but lately I've just been rambling about this and that. Hopefully a miracle happens and I start writing fic again :°

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Dealbreakers:

if you're a TERF, fatphobic, queerphobic, racist, xenophobic, sexist or generally bigoted, we're not going to get along, so there's no point in subscribing lol I'm also a really chill person, so if you're really into creating/propagating wanks and drama pls leave me out of it, I don't have the mental energy to deal with that ^^;
I'm not gonna constantly post nsfw stuff, but this is still a 18+ space!

Warnings (lol):

I curse a lot and talk a lot about smutty stuff? There's basically no trigger warning that can stop me, but I AM gonna try to warn if I'm discussing something that could upset people. I may forget to warn for specific kinks, though ^^;
I also sometimes cave in to Bad Brain and PCOS and disappear for a while, but I promise I'm going to try not to do that :°)

Other Social Media:

AO3
Tumblr: Main and fanfic sideblog
Mastodon (I'm literally never here lol)
Pillowfort (OR here)
Bluesky (I AM here, though! lol)

Current Mood: sleepy

The color of infinity inside an empty glass

The random insanity of your not-entirely-typical geek

I think I may have seen something in /r/whatsthatbook more baffling than

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Weekly(ish) proof of life: reading (no notes), weather, and butter chicken sadness

Fandom Trees 2025

The Day in Spikedluv (Saturday, Nov 15)

Gamify Your TBR!

Week notes: November 10-16, 2025

Hewwo

SBTB Bestsellers: November 1 – November 14

Sunday Sale Digest!

Fic: Botanical Abomination (Roswell NM)

November Night by Adelaide Crapsey

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