i love my family but now i need to hibernate
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wychwoodChristmas was good but also SO MUCH. By the end of Boxing Day lunch I was trying to work out how much longer I had to stay in company, but I ended up in my mother's living room where she was silently playing a game on her new tablet and my sister's fiance was silently playing a game on his phone, and I just sat there silently reading on my phone for an hour and felt much better.
Family updates:
Both my parents stayed home from the Boxing Day walk this year, which meant that for the first time in years I was not solely responsible for the cooking, and was surprisingly stressful (Dad: "Oh yes we can cook all six of those things in the last half hour before lunch!" Me, silently: YOU CAN FIT A MAXIMUM OF TWO THINGS INTO THE OVEN, AND I DON'T BELIEVE YOU HAVE ACCESS TO TIME TRAVEL). However my mildly panicked promptings did cause enough things to happen early that it wasn't a disaster (three or four things were cooked while we were eating and brought up as additional items, but that's fine). They didn't want to cook things early and let them get cold waiting around, which is very reasonable, but also if you are trying to cook:
Mum was pretty down about food things because - well, ok, she has pretty much spent six months during her chemo eating the exact same meals every day at the exact same times, which has been working for her, but means she does not yet have any real idea how to calculate the appropriate medication for meals with different food in them, or how to arrange them around eating at different times, or how to schedule everything so that she can still eat her before-bed weetabix to prevent any overnight hypos. I'm fairly sure this is a one-time problem, because by next year she'll have varied her diet and activity sufficiently to be able to work it out better. But right now she's feeling very confronted by how not-"normal" her life is, and it's been no fun for her.
But everyone had enough to eat and there were left-overs, so it was a success. Then I came home and did nothing and talked to no one and hopefully tomorrow I will have energy to start on my to-do list backlog.
Family updates:
- my sister is engaged! this came as a surprise to me and the brother who doesn't live near her, although mostly because we thought they were already engaged (there have been casual discussions about weddings going back some years)
- my sister's endometriosis op in the autumn revealed that she does not in fact have endometriosis, but she did have a nasty tumour-y thing which was not cancer but apparently also not not cancer and now she is down one ovary and fallopian tube, which is particularly upsetting for her because all of this was part of the fertility investigations they've been working on
- my middle nephew is dating a boy! He is definitely the least surprising candidate for this out of my niblings. Apparently he is not presently interested in labels, only in dating the person he likes, which seems perfectly reasonable to me, particularly since he's fourteen
Both my parents stayed home from the Boxing Day walk this year, which meant that for the first time in years I was not solely responsible for the cooking, and was surprisingly stressful (Dad: "Oh yes we can cook all six of those things in the last half hour before lunch!" Me, silently: YOU CAN FIT A MAXIMUM OF TWO THINGS INTO THE OVEN, AND I DON'T BELIEVE YOU HAVE ACCESS TO TIME TRAVEL). However my mildly panicked promptings did cause enough things to happen early that it wasn't a disaster (three or four things were cooked while we were eating and brought up as additional items, but that's fine). They didn't want to cook things early and let them get cold waiting around, which is very reasonable, but also if you are trying to cook:
- three trays of sausage rolls (vegetarian spanakopita; sage and onion; cheese; chorizo; black pudding; "Chinese takeaway" (with five-spice, hoisin and soy sauces); homemade by my sister's fiance and apparently all very delicious - obviously I only had the spanakopita ones)
- two trays of cheese potatoes
- two sticks of garlic bread
- a tray of pigs in blankets
- three small trays of brie and cranberry parcels
- a pack of chicken goujons
- a small tray of beef and stuffing Yorkshire puddings(?!?)
- a Greek omelette / fritatta thing
Mum was pretty down about food things because - well, ok, she has pretty much spent six months during her chemo eating the exact same meals every day at the exact same times, which has been working for her, but means she does not yet have any real idea how to calculate the appropriate medication for meals with different food in them, or how to arrange them around eating at different times, or how to schedule everything so that she can still eat her before-bed weetabix to prevent any overnight hypos. I'm fairly sure this is a one-time problem, because by next year she'll have varied her diet and activity sufficiently to be able to work it out better. But right now she's feeling very confronted by how not-"normal" her life is, and it's been no fun for her.
But everyone had enough to eat and there were left-overs, so it was a success. Then I came home and did nothing and talked to no one and hopefully tomorrow I will have energy to start on my to-do list backlog.
The Lost Word of Jenny
Dec. 27th, 2025 06:14 pmyamamanama
So basically the story of Jenny the doll is that Mattel worked with Takara Tomy to release the Japanese version of Barbie, who Japanified her and then for whatever reason, Mattel teamed up with Bandai instead and Takara Barbie was renamed Jenny and lived on as sort of an Okinotorishima Stacy or whatever the Japanese equivalent of Malibu is.
8675309 is Jenny’s Number. it’s not only a prime, it’s a twin prime and the hypotenuse of a pythagorean triple. my favorite thing about Jenny is plug the following equation: (7^(e-1/e)-9)π^2. Not only do you get Jenny’s Number but you get the year the song came out.
( clickenheimer )
burning question: “Barbie has been a doctor, a fashion model, and a president, but did she ever kick the shit out of a skeleton cow? UsaSatsui don’t think so.
but now that's how i'm getting paid
Dec. 27th, 2025 05:55 pmmusesfoolChristmas was lovely! On Christmas Eve, it was just me, my sister, and my brother-in-law, so we ordered in and watched a godawful Hallmark Christmas movie with Teri Hatcher in it. Then they went to bed and I did a Die Hard rewatch - I hadn't seen it in some number of years and for all its flaws, it is still a good time.
Christmas morning, my niece and her husband came over so Baby Miss L could unwrap the first set of presents - she still gets bored with it and wants to play with whatever she's opened instead of opening the next gift, so it's a process - and she LOVED the 30 second dance party button, as I knew she would. I am SO HAPPY I saw it somewhere (Wirecutter, maybe?) and ordered it, and that it arrived in time for me to see her play with it. (The adults got a kick out of it too, but it was hilarious watching her run up and press it each time it ended.) She liked the dinosaur cape and the books (especially "The Little Book of Cheese," which is in the same series as "The Little Book of Pasta," which I got for her last year and which she LOVES - apparently she will just bust out with "FARFALLE!" at any given moment), but did not care about the wings at all. Also when Alyssa told her I would be there, she said, "books!" so she knows I am the books and clothes aunt. *g*
The while elephant swap was pretty hilarious too, and my niece Nicki ended up with the cat-shaped measuring cups and spoons that were my contribution. I got a waterproof bluetooth speaker I'm going to have to set up in the bathroom to have tunes in the shower.
The funfetti cupcakes were a big hit. (I made sure to put cream cheese frosting on the ones for my sister; she tried one with the American buttercream and made the same face I made when I tasted it - it's disgustingly sweet.) There's picture of this year's selection here.
As for gifts, I received a handful of gift cards, a KRYPTO squishmallow from Baby Miss L, a pair of earrings made from chips of vintage pyrex, a stand mixer tree ornament, a copy of Dorrie's Anytime Cakes, some candles, and a pair of super warm and fuzzy grippy socks. I also bought myself a new winter coat, a new 9 x 13" pyrex baking dish, a new vibrator, some new bras, and a new pair of black ankle boots, so I'm doing all right in the gift department. *g*
Yesterday, I got home early and vegged out for most of the day. And then it snowed, just like they said it would!
Today, I made a new batch of dough and tomorrow I'll finish baking off the fig cookies for this year. I also want to try those orange cranberry rolls now that I have room in the fridge to let them rise overnight. I still have so many eggs left over, though, so I see at least one frittata in my future, plus at least one batch of Nadiya's egg wraps, which are delicious and I recommend them highly!
Now I should look into having dinner and maybe watching the Rangers game.
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Christmas morning, my niece and her husband came over so Baby Miss L could unwrap the first set of presents - she still gets bored with it and wants to play with whatever she's opened instead of opening the next gift, so it's a process - and she LOVED the 30 second dance party button, as I knew she would. I am SO HAPPY I saw it somewhere (Wirecutter, maybe?) and ordered it, and that it arrived in time for me to see her play with it. (The adults got a kick out of it too, but it was hilarious watching her run up and press it each time it ended.) She liked the dinosaur cape and the books (especially "The Little Book of Cheese," which is in the same series as "The Little Book of Pasta," which I got for her last year and which she LOVES - apparently she will just bust out with "FARFALLE!" at any given moment), but did not care about the wings at all. Also when Alyssa told her I would be there, she said, "books!" so she knows I am the books and clothes aunt. *g*
The while elephant swap was pretty hilarious too, and my niece Nicki ended up with the cat-shaped measuring cups and spoons that were my contribution. I got a waterproof bluetooth speaker I'm going to have to set up in the bathroom to have tunes in the shower.
The funfetti cupcakes were a big hit. (I made sure to put cream cheese frosting on the ones for my sister; she tried one with the American buttercream and made the same face I made when I tasted it - it's disgustingly sweet.) There's picture of this year's selection here.
As for gifts, I received a handful of gift cards, a KRYPTO squishmallow from Baby Miss L, a pair of earrings made from chips of vintage pyrex, a stand mixer tree ornament, a copy of Dorrie's Anytime Cakes, some candles, and a pair of super warm and fuzzy grippy socks. I also bought myself a new winter coat, a new 9 x 13" pyrex baking dish, a new vibrator, some new bras, and a new pair of black ankle boots, so I'm doing all right in the gift department. *g*
Yesterday, I got home early and vegged out for most of the day. And then it snowed, just like they said it would!
Today, I made a new batch of dough and tomorrow I'll finish baking off the fig cookies for this year. I also want to try those orange cranberry rolls now that I have room in the fridge to let them rise overnight. I still have so many eggs left over, though, so I see at least one frittata in my future, plus at least one batch of Nadiya's egg wraps, which are delicious and I recommend them highly!
Now I should look into having dinner and maybe watching the Rangers game.
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Dec. 27th, 2025 04:41 pmsouthernmedicineTomorrow, we have to go to sleep at around 7-7:30pm, because we have to leave for Minneapolis at like 2:30-3:00am Monday morning to make sure we reach the airport, park, get through security and make it to our gate for a 6:30am boarding.
However, I keep getting winter storm warning alerts. Apparently beginning tomorrow evening and lasting until noon or so on Monday, there's supposed to be tons of snow, a blizzard, really, and white-out conditions on the highways.
Blair is at her grandma's house for Second Christmas (I couldn't go because I worked until 3pm today and the party began at noon) so when she gets back, I will ask what her opinion is. Strongly leaning toward the idea of setting out for Minneapolis tomorrow afternoon and staying in a hotel near the airport. I don't think she wants to, because we'd discussed that originally just for the convenience, weather aside. But I'm already concerned about making it with enough time to feel comfortable, and we'll have to drive even slower if the weather is as bad as it sounds like it's going to be.
Bleh.
However, I keep getting winter storm warning alerts. Apparently beginning tomorrow evening and lasting until noon or so on Monday, there's supposed to be tons of snow, a blizzard, really, and white-out conditions on the highways.
Blair is at her grandma's house for Second Christmas (I couldn't go because I worked until 3pm today and the party began at noon) so when she gets back, I will ask what her opinion is. Strongly leaning toward the idea of setting out for Minneapolis tomorrow afternoon and staying in a hotel near the airport. I don't think she wants to, because we'd discussed that originally just for the convenience, weather aside. But I'm already concerned about making it with enough time to feel comfortable, and we'll have to drive even slower if the weather is as bad as it sounds like it's going to be.
Bleh.
Write every day: Day 27
Dec. 27th, 2025 11:34 pmluzulaPlease check in here! It is late and I had a little alcohol, so I am too tired to write a proper post. Did not write. Will edit in the tally later. As for my farm news, we drank my homemade cherry wine, which came out great.
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the_siobhanThe Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, December 27
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BUFFY: Xander, one of these days, you're gonna get yourself hurt.
FAITH: Or killed.
BUFFY: Or both. A-and, you know, with the pain and the death, maybe you shouldn't be leaping into the fray like that. M-maybe you should be... fray-adjacent.
XANDER: Excuse me? Who, at a crucial moment, distracted the lead demon by allowing her to pummel him about the head?
FAITH: Yeah. That was real manly how you shrieked and all.
FAITH: Or killed.
BUFFY: Or both. A-and, you know, with the pain and the death, maybe you shouldn't be leaping into the fray like that. M-maybe you should be... fray-adjacent.
XANDER: Excuse me? Who, at a crucial moment, distracted the lead demon by allowing her to pummel him about the head?
FAITH: Yeah. That was real manly how you shrieked and all.
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Dec. 27th, 2025 03:40 pmpetraI am going through my traditional "How many fests and challenges can I imagine in a week?"
I don't think I'm doing Psychic Wolves this year.
On the other hand, Té suggested a fest of blorbos touching the Rockstar Lestat and now I want it.
hannah points out that, if we want to know what Tom Cruise's Rockstar Lestat would have looked like, we have but to consult this video of Cruise in a jukebox musical singing "Pour Some Sugar On Me."
...it's been a really long time since I was sexually attracted to Tom Cruise, but apparentlyhannah has the secret sauce.
Also, I now want vampires:
+ the New Burbage Festival (OMG DARREN NICHOLS) (Slings & Arrows)
+ on G-ERTI (they can only fly at night) (Cabin Pressure)
+ working for Oracle (Birds of Prey and a half)
+ visiting Chicago in the era of the Mountie (experimental hair for all who will) (due South)
+ what-ho'ing Bertram Wilberforce Wooster
+ in the world of the Five Gods (hello, is this The Bastard, I have your king shit devoté on hold) (Chalion)
+ dealing with the Light and the Dark, and falling somewhere between (Dark is Rising)
+ eating hockey players
+ being in the future and baffling Aral Vorkosigan with being a) not soldiers and b) hot AT THE SAME TIME (Vorkosigan Saga)
+ and Muppets (Lestat as lone "human"?)
+ in Narnia (Aslan would shit a lit. brick)
+ becoming Black Ribboners (time for a sing-song around the harmonium! NOT LIKE THAT, LESTAT) (Discworld)
+ in Night Vale (it's Tuesday)
+ mad, in a coma, AND back in time -- the Life on Mars trifecta -- let's see Lestat trying to eat Gene Hunt
+ calling Car Talk
+ hiring Neal Caffrey to do a spot of forgery (White Collar)
+ with war horses who correspond with Copenhagen and Marengo, gaily (Warhorses of Letters)
+ fit as a fiddle and ready for love (would they love or loathe Lockwood and Lamont?) (Singin' in the Rain)
+ come on Darth Vader gold glitter looks Great on you
+ choosing the lesser of two weevils (Aubreyad)
+ ...okay i just died a little over quentin coldwater fanboying the vampire lestat (The Magicians)
+ side-eyeing and being side-eyed by Magneto (X-Men)
+ and I had a good belly laugh at Lestat meeting Felix Harrowgate: battle of the asshole first-person narrators who think they are special
+ Zaphod! Beeblebrox! would so get it on with Lestat! (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
+ How do you reckon vampires get on with thalergy? Let's Find Out (The Locked Tomb)
+ How do you reckon vampires get on with constructs? Send Lestat to Preservation! (Murderbot)
+ okay hear me out Grantaire is weak for opinionated blonds but what if he met The Wrong One (Les Misérables)
+ it's already a doctor who episode innit but let's get some harkness up in this joint
+ Awful Sykes has a crush and so does Torquil (Archer's Goon)
+ RIVERS OF LONDON which body of water can we blame everyone on
+ Last Week Tonight: Our main story concerns The "Vampire" Lestat (of course John does quote fingers)
+ Jacky Faber met our hero at some point in her meanderings. I bet they shared a stage.
+ James Flint. BWAHAHAHA. WOULD HIT THAT. (Black Sails)
+ Falsettos: writes. itself. Louis IS the gay plague.
+ did you ever want to see Lestat fuck a muppet wearing leather? I DO I DO (Farscape)
+ truly Julian Bashir needs his not-boyfriend to run interference or he's gonna get eaten (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
+ and then I hit Battlestar Galactica (reboot) which seems like a Terrible place to be a vampire but they'd have fun eating Gaius
+ Pern! is in the future! it can have Vampires if it wants 'em! Weirdest Harper Ever.
+ What happens with MCU? I couldn't begin to tell you. But there must be a clever answer.
+ Community: the study group goes to a concert and they all crush, each in their own way. Annie gets... scary.
+ I very much want Ray Person singing The Vampire Lestat across Iraq, but given the givens it makes me want to cry right now. (Generation: Kill, RIP James Ransone)
+ Scott & Bailey -- the teenage girls and Aunt Rachel bond over their crushes
+ Pamela Dean's Tam Lin has immortals. I want to see them emoting at Rice's.
+ And our wailing wonder, Lestat de Lioncourt. // Why, thank you, Sandi. (QI, the other guests are Phill Jupitus and Sue Perkins, because it's a Musical Episode)
+ ST: TOS -- Chekov and Sulu both have posters.
+ Does Venom want one? And how!
I don't think I'm doing Psychic Wolves this year.
On the other hand, Té suggested a fest of blorbos touching the Rockstar Lestat and now I want it.
hannah points out that, if we want to know what Tom Cruise's Rockstar Lestat would have looked like, we have but to consult this video of Cruise in a jukebox musical singing "Pour Some Sugar On Me."...it's been a really long time since I was sexually attracted to Tom Cruise, but apparently
hannah has the secret sauce.Also, I now want vampires:
+ the New Burbage Festival (OMG DARREN NICHOLS) (Slings & Arrows)
+ on G-ERTI (they can only fly at night) (Cabin Pressure)
+ working for Oracle (Birds of Prey and a half)
+ visiting Chicago in the era of the Mountie (experimental hair for all who will) (due South)
+ what-ho'ing Bertram Wilberforce Wooster
+ in the world of the Five Gods (hello, is this The Bastard, I have your king shit devoté on hold) (Chalion)
+ dealing with the Light and the Dark, and falling somewhere between (Dark is Rising)
+ being in the future and baffling Aral Vorkosigan with being a) not soldiers and b) hot AT THE SAME TIME (Vorkosigan Saga)
+ and Muppets (Lestat as lone "human"?)
+ in Narnia (Aslan would shit a lit. brick)
+ becoming Black Ribboners (time for a sing-song around the harmonium! NOT LIKE THAT, LESTAT) (Discworld)
+ in Night Vale (it's Tuesday)
+ mad, in a coma, AND back in time -- the Life on Mars trifecta -- let's see Lestat trying to eat Gene Hunt
+ calling Car Talk
+ hiring Neal Caffrey to do a spot of forgery (White Collar)
+ with war horses who correspond with Copenhagen and Marengo, gaily (Warhorses of Letters)
+ fit as a fiddle and ready for love (would they love or loathe Lockwood and Lamont?) (Singin' in the Rain)
+ come on Darth Vader gold glitter looks Great on you
+ choosing the lesser of two weevils (Aubreyad)
+ ...okay i just died a little over quentin coldwater fanboying the vampire lestat (The Magicians)
+ side-eyeing and being side-eyed by Magneto (X-Men)
+ and I had a good belly laugh at Lestat meeting Felix Harrowgate: battle of the asshole first-person narrators who think they are special
+ Zaphod! Beeblebrox! would so get it on with Lestat! (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
+ How do you reckon vampires get on with thalergy? Let's Find Out (The Locked Tomb)
+ How do you reckon vampires get on with constructs? Send Lestat to Preservation! (Murderbot)
+ okay hear me out Grantaire is weak for opinionated blonds but what if he met The Wrong One (Les Misérables)
+ it's already a doctor who episode innit but let's get some harkness up in this joint
+ Awful Sykes has a crush and so does Torquil (Archer's Goon)
+ RIVERS OF LONDON which body of water can we blame everyone on
+ Last Week Tonight: Our main story concerns The "Vampire" Lestat (of course John does quote fingers)
+ Jacky Faber met our hero at some point in her meanderings. I bet they shared a stage.
+ James Flint. BWAHAHAHA. WOULD HIT THAT. (Black Sails)
+ Falsettos: writes. itself. Louis IS the gay plague.
+ did you ever want to see Lestat fuck a muppet wearing leather? I DO I DO (Farscape)
+ truly Julian Bashir needs his not-boyfriend to run interference or he's gonna get eaten (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
+ and then I hit Battlestar Galactica (reboot) which seems like a Terrible place to be a vampire but they'd have fun eating Gaius
+ Pern! is in the future! it can have Vampires if it wants 'em! Weirdest Harper Ever.
+ What happens with MCU? I couldn't begin to tell you. But there must be a clever answer.
+ Community: the study group goes to a concert and they all crush, each in their own way. Annie gets... scary.
+ I very much want Ray Person singing The Vampire Lestat across Iraq, but given the givens it makes me want to cry right now. (Generation: Kill, RIP James Ransone)
+ Scott & Bailey -- the teenage girls and Aunt Rachel bond over their crushes
+ Pamela Dean's Tam Lin has immortals. I want to see them emoting at Rice's.
+ And our wailing wonder, Lestat de Lioncourt. // Why, thank you, Sandi. (QI, the other guests are Phill Jupitus and Sue Perkins, because it's a Musical Episode)
+ ST: TOS -- Chekov and Sulu both have posters.
+ Does Venom want one? And how!
Finally saw Zootopia 2!
Dec. 27th, 2025 04:00 pmconulyBefore I say anything, A would like you to know how extremely annoying it is that they played those "Arabian Nights" riffs every time the snake (Barry) appeared, and it would be annoying even if the plot ( Read more... )
They wouldn't shut up about it, so there we go. They're not wrong.
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They wouldn't shut up about it, so there we go. They're not wrong.
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Book #09 The Village Teacher by Liu Cixin [Graphic Novel by Zhang Xiaoyu]
Dec. 27th, 2025 10:02 pmtinny
The Village Teacher by Liu Cixin [Graphic Novel by Zhang Xiaoyu]
Li Laoshi spends his whole life teaching and protecting the youth in a remote Chinese village. What for?
I read the German edition of the graphic novel version of Liu Cixin's novella. Same as last year, I needed to add a graphic novel to gain time for my challenge. It's cheating in a way, but just like last year, this graphic novel was a Christmas present that I would not otherwise have read, so it's predestined to be used for the Mount TBR challenge, and I don't feel very bad about it. (Not to mention that no amount of cheating will make me reach my goal of 12 books this year.)
some thoughts, spoilery
* The graphics style is very detailed and the aliens and starscapes especially are beautiful. The humans are a little ugly in comparison - but that's the point, I think.
* The whole point of the book is to show how much good teachers are worth. They'll save Earth from destruction.
* That the Earth is saved by a few youngsters spouting physical formulas (Kepler's laws) without understanding them is hilariously Chinese. (And maybe also the point.)
* The two things that stuck in my mind from this book:
** the idea that anyone could at any time be chosen by an alien race as a representative for Earth's population. This would not go well. (But hey, even choosing Chinese students from a backwater village seems to have been enough. Is there hope? :) )
** the fact that even with government support, the teacher wasn't able to pay for his cancer treatment
* It's, from what I've now seen, a pretty typical book for Liu Cixin. He puts his finger on systemic failures of Chinese society, and he invents fantastical alien races. Two for two.
* The moral of the story isn't even bad, knowledge is important, teachers are important. It's okay for a short story.
* I read the whole thing in under an hour, so I'm not surprised that the moral didn't leave a huge impression. It didn't have enough time to develop.
3 stars - very detailed artwork, the human faces a bit too (intentionally) ugly in places to really draw me in, but the novella plot was good
1 - 5 stars - Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky The Final Architecture #1 [DW link]
2 - 2 stars - Miss Merkel: Mord auf dem Friedhof by David Safier Miss Merkel #2 [DW link]
3 - 4 stars - Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire Toby Daye #10 [DW link]
4 - 1 star - Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin [DW link]
5 - 5 stars - Murderbot Diaries 1-4 by Martha Wells [DW link]
6 - 4 stars - Die Neuerfindung der Diktatur/We Have Been Harmonized by Kai Strittmatter [DW link]
7 - tbd
8 - 3 stars - Der Markisenmann by Jan Weiler [DW link]
9 - 3 stars - The Village Teacher by Liu Cixin [Graphic Novel by Zhang Xiaoyu] [DW link]
not being extremely into D&D, I still stand by this *firm nod*
Dec. 27th, 2025 09:33 pmgoodbyebirdNot to be pedantic, but I wouldn't say Will is a wizard or a sorcerer; surely this is warlock territory.
Also, sitting on a shiny new icon that a) I can't upload because it's for an icontest, and b) I'll have to delete another before uploading, well. *sullenly kicks rocks*
( spoilery for 5x06 )
I wasn't a big fan of the first four episodes, but these two have been very entertaining indeed. Cool visuals! Emotional payoffs! Two thumbs up.
Also, sitting on a shiny new icon that a) I can't upload because it's for an icontest, and b) I'll have to delete another before uploading, well. *sullenly kicks rocks*
( spoilery for 5x06 )
I wasn't a big fan of the first four episodes, but these two have been very entertaining indeed. Cool visuals! Emotional payoffs! Two thumbs up.
Birdfeeding
Dec. 27th, 2025 02:17 pmysabetwordsmithToday is cloudy and mild.
I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 12/27/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 12/27/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
EDIT 12/27/25 -- I raked more in the parking lot. I had to make another line. It's exhausting and inefficient and not even making the stumps all that much easier to see.
EDIT 12/27/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
I've seen a fox squirrel at the hopper feeder.
I am done for the night.
I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 12/27/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 12/27/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
EDIT 12/27/25 -- I raked more in the parking lot. I had to make another line. It's exhausting and inefficient and not even making the stumps all that much easier to see.
EDIT 12/27/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
I've seen a fox squirrel at the hopper feeder.
I am done for the night.
7 Recs
Dec. 27th, 2025 01:04 pmkaranguni posting in yuletideI bring a quick 7 recs in 6 fandoms at my journal for
- The Bedlam Stacks (backstory! Keita! Merrick!)
- The Way of the Househusband (domesticity! But also porn!)
- Antique Bakery (Ono and Tachibana in the mountains!)
- Wimbledon (Peter is an idiot! But sort of okay at tennis!)
- Cthulhu Mythos (Dream Cycle Randolph brings horrors to the yard!)
- Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defence/Rivers of London (no more need said!)
Check-In Post - Dec 27th 2025
Dec. 27th, 2025 08:05 pmbadly_knitted posting in get_knittedHello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.
Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?
There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.
This Week's Question: What are your crafting goals for 2026?
If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.
I now declare this Check-In OPEN!
