#52: Nghi Vo, A Mouthful of Dust (Singing Hills Cycle #6)
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kareila_booksNot as creepy as The Brides of High Hill, but still extremely grim, with themes of famine and cannibalism.
Pledge my patience.
Dec. 2nd, 2025 09:31 pmhannahFor some years now, I've been saying The National is my favorite band that's presently producing work. Not my favorite of all time; favorite out of all the bands working right now.
That may change. It might change quite soon. Because Voxtrot just announced their second album.
Yes, really.
A while ago they'd said that they were working on something, and today they told us when we could finally expect the album. They'd already released three songs and today they sent out a fourth, plus the knowledge there'd be seven more new songs on the album. I knew there'd be an album coming and I've only listened to one of those four, hoping it wouldn't be long before I heard the rest of them. As joyful as it was to know there was new music by the band out there for me, even sharper was knowing if I waited a bit longer, there'd be a complete work instead of individual pieces waiting for me in return. Almost three and a half years ago, they put out a compilation with two unreleased songs and it felt like a bounty of riches. Now there's ten more on their way. It's almost more than I can dream of.
The National's going to have some stiff competition.
That may change. It might change quite soon. Because Voxtrot just announced their second album.
Yes, really.
A while ago they'd said that they were working on something, and today they told us when we could finally expect the album. They'd already released three songs and today they sent out a fourth, plus the knowledge there'd be seven more new songs on the album. I knew there'd be an album coming and I've only listened to one of those four, hoping it wouldn't be long before I heard the rest of them. As joyful as it was to know there was new music by the band out there for me, even sharper was knowing if I waited a bit longer, there'd be a complete work instead of individual pieces waiting for me in return. Almost three and a half years ago, they put out a compilation with two unreleased songs and it felt like a bounty of riches. Now there's ten more on their way. It's almost more than I can dream of.
The National's going to have some stiff competition.
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Gen Prompt Bingo Round 29
Dec. 2nd, 2025 08:38 pmpurplecat posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
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genprompt_bingo is a low commitment multi-fandom, multi-media bingo challenge.Its aim is to provide bingo cards of gen-style prompts to be used as inspiration in creating fic, images, meta, fanmixes, vids or any other kind of fannish activities. Although the prompts themselves are "Gen" (i.e., no prompts are specifically about romance or sex) fills may be of any genre, style or rating.
Prompt lists are renewed at the start of December and April. New cards can be claimed then even if a previous card has not been completed.
Round 29 is open
Impending weather | Impending purple | No-longer-impending Advent chocolate
Dec. 2nd, 2025 04:30 pmumadoshiThe season's first storm is heading our way, although our bit of the province is expecting way more rain than snow. (Now it rains. But I think it mostly hasn't been too cold yet, so hopefully the rain will help the water table etc. recover some more after the summer/fall drought.) Maybe scruloose can get the hoses indoors (or drained, if that's the plan) when they get home from work, before the weather arrives.
I've finally gotten weary enough of my natural hair color to buy permanent OTC dye, as opposed to the semi-permanent attempts I've made since it became obvious that covid has settled in for the long haul. ( TL;DR: purple permanent dye has been purchased but not yet applied )
C&Ping and expanding on a bit from Bluesky last night: ( an Advent calendar + supplementary chocolate )
scruloose can get the hoses indoors (or drained, if that's the plan) when they get home from work, before the weather arrives.I've finally gotten weary enough of my natural hair color to buy permanent OTC dye, as opposed to the semi-permanent attempts I've made since it became obvious that covid has settled in for the long haul. ( TL;DR: purple permanent dye has been purchased but not yet applied )
C&Ping and expanding on a bit from Bluesky last night: ( an Advent calendar + supplementary chocolate )
Prompt: #471
Dec. 2nd, 2025 01:02 pmsweettartheart posting in 100wordsThis week's prompt is push.
Your response should be exactly 100 words long. You do not have to include the prompt in your response -- it is meant as inspiration only.
Please use the tag "prompt: #471 - push" with your response.
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It's giving giving tuesday
Dec. 2nd, 2025 11:18 amjadelennoxFor this week, for everyone who makes a donation to the BIJAN Beyond Bond & Legal Defense Fund, I will write a drabble about some character or show I know enough about to write. Since I've only written one fic since 2014 it's going to be rough, but BIJAN desperately needs the money and I'm going to try.
The Beyond Bond & Legal Defense Fund (the Bond Fund) raises money for immigration bonds to free people in ICE prisons in Massachusetts and Rhode Island or those detained elsewhere who are from or returning to MA.
Tell me you made a donation and give me a prompt! If I don't know the source material we can negotiate.
(If you can't give money to a US org, make a donation to an org in your country that helps refugees and undocumented migrants stay.)
hit me, take a deep breath.
Dec. 2nd, 2025 01:47 pmgoodbyebird+ Lit my Christmas incense and drank some red soda today. It's pouring down outside but it still did the trick! Hopefully there's a dry morning soon so I can get some decorations out of the shed.
+ Many thanks for the lovely comments on the Holiday Love Meme, I was coming out of a bout of stomach flu combined with my period, and the tiny bumps of kindness throughout the days was highly appreciated ♥
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Rec-cember Day 2
Star Wars
Song for a fifth child by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
Deputychairman (5978 words). A glimpse into Leia's life before and after the events of Force Awakens. Hands down my favorite Leia fic I've read so far.
Her daily life doesn’t change when Han dies.
He’d been gone for years, and she was used to that. He was there on a Comm link once a week, sometimes, and other times she wouldn’t hear from him for months, but she knew he was out there.
She feels the difference anyway. Like losing a tooth, or a bone in the ear - something from deep inside. It didn’t show, but you knew it was gone.
+ Many thanks for the lovely comments on the Holiday Love Meme, I was coming out of a bout of stomach flu combined with my period, and the tiny bumps of kindness throughout the days was highly appreciated ♥
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Rec-cember Day 2
Star Wars
Song for a fifth child by
Her daily life doesn’t change when Han dies.
He’d been gone for years, and she was used to that. He was there on a Comm link once a week, sometimes, and other times she wouldn’t hear from him for months, but she knew he was out there.
She feels the difference anyway. Like losing a tooth, or a bone in the ear - something from deep inside. It didn’t show, but you knew it was gone.
Femslash week in review: 2025-11-18 - 2025-11-24
Dec. 2nd, 2025 09:51 amletzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-11-18 - 2025-11-24
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9992 (-256 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5516 (-155 from last week) (2351 new, 3165 continued)
- 0.57% of all 961364 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Wicked is back in the top five on the strength of the new movie. Since we still have strong showings from KPop Demon Hunters, League of Legends, Hazbin Hotel, and Wednesday, the result is that Harry Potter falls from the top five for the first time in four years.
- Alien Stage returns after a week away, and Game of Thrones returns after a few mnths away. They replace Once Upon a Time and Boku no Hero Academia.
- Wednesday celebrates 160 consecutive weeks on the chart, and Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! reaches 180 consecutive weeks.
- Elasticella's dreamwidth-based sapphic stocking stuffers exchange is ramping up for its seventh year. Sign-ups are open until December 6, and fills are open through the end of December.
( Full top-20 table and description of methodology after the jump )
Don't forget about the DW points bonus sale
Dec. 2nd, 2025 04:44 amconulyWhich I nearly forgot about, but here we are!
You can buy points here, and then spend them on a paid account.
And then you can post a poll!
You can buy points here, and then spend them on a paid account.
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Poll #33906 Gratuitous poll
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On a scale of one to ten, crickets or walnuts?
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Mean: 6.59 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.57
Mean: 6.59 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.57
| 1 | 1 (4.5%) | |
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| 2 | 1 (4.5%) | |
| 3 | 2 (9.1%) | |
| 4 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 5 | 2 (9.1%) | |
| 6 | 3 (13.6%) | |
| 7 | 6 (27.3%) | |
| 8 | 1 (4.5%) | |
| 9 | 2 (9.1%) | |
| 10 | 4 (18.2%) |
The Early Years by Mark Waldron
Dec. 1st, 2025 04:41 amconuly I don’t want to say
things were indescribably
bad exactly
but things were
indescribably bad exactly
I don’t want to say the tide
went out and left him
gasping—a landed fish precisely
but the tide did indeed go out
and left him gaping—a dropped ghost
to make matters worse
god gathered up all of god’s things
and paddled out on that tide
so he swore he would die
and to make matters worser still
he rocked back and forth
in a bubble rather boggy and sad
ate nothing but thistles therein
I don’t want to pretend
things were very much worse
than they were
but they very much were
*********
Link
things were indescribably
bad exactly
but things were
indescribably bad exactly
I don’t want to say the tide
went out and left him
gasping—a landed fish precisely
but the tide did indeed go out
and left him gaping—a dropped ghost
to make matters worse
god gathered up all of god’s things
and paddled out on that tide
so he swore he would die
and to make matters worser still
he rocked back and forth
in a bubble rather boggy and sad
ate nothing but thistles therein
I don’t want to pretend
things were very much worse
than they were
but they very much were
Link
So, wait, wait, wait wait wait....
Nov. 30th, 2025 01:02 amconulyare you seriously telling me that chronic nosebleeds are potentially (yet another) symptom of (the same underlying connective tissue problems that ultimately cause) hypermobility?
Well, fuck.
(Oh, and myopia's on that list too, but I somehow find myself less flabbergasted by this one.)
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Well, fuck.
(Oh, and myopia's on that list too, but I somehow find myself less flabbergasted by this one.)
( Read more... )
December the First.
Dec. 1st, 2025 08:42 pmhannahWaiting for mail after a federal holiday is a study in impatience and adjusting expectations. There's a lot of frustration on waiting for luxuries in ways there wouldn't be if I was waiting for necessities, most of it fairly minor and petty. On the flip side, it's fairly easy to distract myself and move on for a little while, at which point there's other things needing my attention.
In other sources of anticipation, it's apparently going to snow sometime tonight and through the morning, and it'll be the first snowfall of the year. With that, the waiting is still from human hands, but much less directly than the networks and supply chains that make up the post office - though it's still got me restless over something I'm very much looking forward to.
In other sources of anticipation, it's apparently going to snow sometime tonight and through the morning, and it'll be the first snowfall of the year. With that, the waiting is still from human hands, but much less directly than the networks and supply chains that make up the post office - though it's still got me restless over something I'm very much looking forward to.
[AMNESTY: Multiple Challenges] Original Fiction: 'Fair Flower'
Dec. 1st, 2025 06:12 pmbut_can_i_be_trusted posting in 100wordsTitle: 'Fair Flower'
Fandom: Original Fiction
Rating: PG-13 (Warnings for brief vampiric violence, home invasion, and hypnosis)
Notes: Crossposted toemotion100 and drabble_zone. Using the following challenges: 356: Double/Triple Drabbles; 458: Blood; 451: Work of Art; 437: Flower; 425: Divenire; 411: Obsession; 409: Fallen; 394: Savior; 384: Permission; 388: Nobility; 165: Content; 135: Greed; 149: Electric; 137: Escape; 116: Flame; 136: Erase; 118: Scar; 311: Guest; 296: Return; 69: Delicious; 67: Empty; 47: Shadow; 43: Touch; 328: Invite; 79: Promise; 144: Ache. And I'm afraid I wasn't able to pare it down without potentially butchering the storyline. So, uh...you got a double double drabble? [Also, contrary to the tags, I did not use 46: Fever, but I'm not able to remove it without Dreamwidth giving me an error message.]
( Fair Flower )
Fandom: Original Fiction
Rating: PG-13 (Warnings for brief vampiric violence, home invasion, and hypnosis)
Notes: Crossposted to
emotion100 and drabble_zone. Using the following challenges: 356: Double/Triple Drabbles; 458: Blood; 451: Work of Art; 437: Flower; 425: Divenire; 411: Obsession; 409: Fallen; 394: Savior; 384: Permission; 388: Nobility; 165: Content; 135: Greed; 149: Electric; 137: Escape; 116: Flame; 136: Erase; 118: Scar; 311: Guest; 296: Return; 69: Delicious; 67: Empty; 47: Shadow; 43: Touch; 328: Invite; 79: Promise; 144: Ache. And I'm afraid I wasn't able to pare it down without potentially butchering the storyline. So, uh...you got a double double drabble? [Also, contrary to the tags, I did not use 46: Fever, but I'm not able to remove it without Dreamwidth giving me an error message.]( Fair Flower )
