106 ☆ nov - dec 2025 reading

2026-Jan-16, Friday 01:23
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New Year's resolution to update DW more: already failing!
New Year's resolution to start titling my posts: already achieved, A+

The final roundup for last year's reading! November and December book reviews. Lots of graphic novels and a highly anticipated sequel in this one. I don't know if I'm going to bother with a book 'year in review' or just do a general review meme, or maybe neither if I keep slacking off lol.



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Posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries

Cow survives 80km [49.7 miles] swim in floodwater before washing ashore on beach. A calf in central Queensland has miraculously survived being tossed 80 kilometres through floodwater, hurled over three weirs and being washed out to sea. Michael "Lizard" Seymour's property west of Mackay had more than 650 millimetres of rain after ex-Tropical Cyclone Koji moved through on Sunday. "I got a phone call Sunday afternoon from Mackay police. They said, 'Lizard, we got one of your cows on [the] town beach,'" Mr Seymour said.

The 11-month-old red brangus heifer, which had been washed 80km in a matter of hours before being pulled from the water, was miraculously still alive. "That cow has gone over three weirs — Mirani Weir, Marian Weir, and Dumbelton Weir — to the mouth of the river," Mr Seymour said. "Then it got washed out to sea, and then the returning tide brought it back onto the beach."
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Posted by tavella

Renfrew Christie, who sabotaged the South African nuclear program, has died at 76. He provided the knowledge that allowed the ANC to bomb and disrupt the South African nuclear program, and paid for it with years in prison. But he never regretted it: "I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them," he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg.
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Posted by cgc373

By the time I was born, the word "Sigmund" was unmentionable in our house. The convent we attended was 100 yards from his old home in Hampstead, north London, and my sister once came home from school saying: "The nuns mentioned someone called Sigmund Freud and said I should know who he is." Emma Freud writes 3300 words for The Observer on a quirk of her great-grandfather's horticultural legacy. [via aldaily.com]

Snow Day

2026-Jan-15, Thursday 23:16
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Honestly we didn't get a lot of snow but under it was ice. On the road between Jackson and Gallipolis (the two places I talk about all the time) had TWO five vehicle crashes and multiple small ones including the fire chief getting run over by someone who doesn't know what red lights mean (he was transported to the same trauma center I had been in) By 1 pm the most of it had melted but you know what I'm not arguing with a day off.

Mom, of course, thinks any spare second I have should be me cleaning. She's not wrong but still...that said I DID pick one major project and I did it, namely three bins of sockets and undies and a huge ass pile of clothes (still mostly socks) so I made 5 piles, summer socks, winter socks, fuzzy socks, socks I don't want period and lonely socks looking for mates.

So the piles are gone. The undies are gone because why in the name of god was I holding onto them. Many socks ready for donation and two uncomfortable realizations.

1. I have more fuzzy socks that any one human should. I know some are tight and need to be donated. Some have holes that I wear in bed in the fall/early spring while reading if my Raynaud's kicks in. Well pick two pair Dana and toss the rest.

2. That was NOT a bin of old undies. Under them was dozens of printed out stories, catalogues for book clubs that have been online only for YEARS and books. WTF? At least the books are now out on a shelf, the catalogues in the recycler and I'll sort the stories later to see what needs read and what can hit the recycler.

I did finish the last two stories I could possible write for [community profile] fandomtrees and maybe if we're lucky everything will release this weekend. Both of the recipients had 2 by the time I got these done but that's fine. Now they have 3.

I found a place in Pittsburgh I need to visit (and I thought about a little vacation right there in the city if it's not crazy expensive) the weeping glass


I have some community recs this thursday [community profile] fandomtrumpshate is gearing up so if you want to look it over to join in an raise money to do good now's the time.

And I got a few communities (new to me) from [personal profile] tozka that looked cool. Check them out

[community profile] vintageads I think I'll need to join this one. It'll be a good source for historical fic

[community profile] bookclub_dw This is a monthly book club where members of the community host book club discussions once a month. - I don't need a new one but maybe you do
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We're over the halfway line at [community profile] snowflake_challenge, and this challenge wants us to introspect about how we turn things out.

Challenge #8

Talk about your creative process.


Not exactly a process that has a lot of visible things )

At the hotel!

2026-Jan-15, Thursday 23:00
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Got up at 9:15 and showered and dressed. [personal profile] mashfanficchick had a very bad backache, so ultimately we decided to not take the subway to the Moynihan Train Hall, but take a Lyft instead. Which I think was a very good idea, because we were wrestling with three suitcases, two backpacks, my laptop case and purse, and zer cane.

So we got to the train hall with just enough time to buy breakfast before our train, but not enough time to eat it. So we boarded and found seats together, somehow, and ate there.

The ride was supposed to be four hours but was late getting in, so we arrived around 5:00. Called for a Lyft and got to the hotel and checked in.

The room is very nice. We went down to the con suite to see Larry, and then came back and settled in. I Teamed the FWiB, after much trouble with the computer and the hotel WiFi.

At 8:00 we watched 911, and then 911: Nashville. [personal profile] mashfanficchick started feeling unwell, but thinks it may just be lost sleep due to the back pain. We ordered food, Thai, and Japanese, and had it delivered.

The Kid is already here, but I don't know her room number. She's on the 10th floor.

The con starts tomorrow. Can't wait!

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Got here safely.

3. Good dinner.

4. Fun TV.

5. Nice room.

6. Arisia!

Edited to add: Forgot to say, called Middle Brother, he's fine. Nothing new.

Daily Happiness

2026-Jan-15, Thursday 19:44
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1. Tuxie was gone for three days but back this morning like nothing happened. He does this occasionally so I don't get worried, per se, but I am always glad to see him back and know he's safe. I wish he could tell us about his adventures when he's gone!

2. I have a tattoo!



I'll post another picture once it's healed. The yellow especially is very dark in the picture because it was the last color she did and it had a lot of blood welling up still. But it's exactly what I wanted and I'm very happy with it.

Overall the session took nearly three hours but the first was just discussing the design and prep, and the actual needling was about an hour and forty-five minutes. It's large, and since it's a wrap around, it's kind of fiddly, but since it's just color fill and not a lot of intricate line work or anything, it went pretty quickly overall.

It did hurt a fair bit, especially since there were some boney areas, but mostly I was just very tense from having to hold still. I felt like how I feel at the dentist, which always leaves me with a tension headache. I took some advil when I got home for the headache, but my leg itself didn't really hurt once she was done.

3. My usual Friday meetings were cancelled and the stuff I need to do tomorrow doesn't require accessing our system (which I hate doing from home because we're not able to use a VPN anymore and have to remote into a PC at the office, which is a pain), so I'm going to relax and work from home tomorrow.

4. I love getting pics of the cats looking up like this. It makes their cute faces even cuter!

current fandom events

2026-Jan-15, Thursday 19:34
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[community profile] cultivativity is a community for cultivating creativity.

[community profile] 5soulmates is a prompt table writing challenge that focused on the soulmate theme

[personal profile] kingstoken has posted their 2026 Book Bingo Challenge.

[personal profile] kitarella_imagines is running Funuary, a fun/funny themed prompt challenge, through the month of January.

[community profile] traumaticexperiences, a (psychological) trauma themed multifandom exchange, is open for sign-ups until January 16th, 8PM PST.

[community profile] threesentenceficathon has posted their 2026 schedule. Prompting will open on January 17th.

[community profile] seasonsofdrabbles, an exchange for the creation of drabbles and drabble variants which runs 4 times a year, is open for sign-ups until January 18th, 11:59PM EST. Nominations will also remain open until sign-ups close.

[community profile] seasonalremix is a quarterly, trope-based multifandom event where you sign-up and write a 1-5k work that is a remix of some sort. The Winter Round is currently open for sign-ups until January 24th, 11:59PM GMT and you can find out more info (including where to sign up) HERE.

[community profile] lul_soulmatesex, a soulmate themed exchange, is accepting nominations until January 25th, 11:59PM AM CST.

[community profile] smallfandombang, a big bang for small fandoms, is open for artist sign-ups until January 31st.

[community profile] ksspringfever, a Kirk/Spock community, is open for sign-ups and prompt collecting for Kirk/Spock Spring Fever until January 31st.

[community profile] wipbigbang is running International Fanworks Day Mini Bang for works that are too short for the regular big bang (has to be less than 7.5k). The writing period started on January 9th and the earliest posting is February 1st and will go till the 15th.

[community profile] crackthewip, a challenge to help you finish your WIPs, is running and accepting sign-ups during the first half of the year.
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Posted by Wobbuffet

"Grieviler, vostre ensient," "Je vous pri, Dame Maroie," and "Dites, Dame, li kielz s'aquitait muelz" are jeux-partis--dilemmas of love, debated playfully for an audience to judge--performed at Naomi Grace McMahon's lecture-recital, "'Should She Be Silent?': Fashioning Gender and Society in Trouvère Song," which links to the translations shown on screen. Elizabeth Eva Leach, expert on "sexy medieval songs," also studies jeux-partis and their connection to demandes d'amour (questions of love): Q&A games of wit, e.g. in Boccaccio, Les demandes damours avecques les responses, and the riddle text Les adevineaux amoureux, which asks if love expressed silently is more lasting and fierce than love that is spoken, or if you'd rather know all the thoughts of your beloved or have them know yours--but also math questions and what beast has its head between its legs (a cat licking its butt).

I left my mind behind in 2015

2026-Jan-15, Thursday 22:14
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Today was the yahrzeit of the molasses flood. I was last at Langone Park for the centenary, since which time the field has been renovated and a new marker erected in memory of the disaster and its dead. Seven years ago feels nearly a century itself.

Speaking of man-made needless awfulness, I have been made aware of the locally vetted aggregate of Stand with Minnesota, a directory of mutual aid, fundraisers, and on-the-ground support against the onslaught of ICE. All could use donations, since internet hugs are of limited efficacy against tear gas, batons, bullets to the face and legs. Twenty-three years ago feels like several worldlines back, but the Department of Homeland Security sounded absurdly, arrogantly dystopian then.

The fourth and last of this week's doctors' appointments concluded with an inhaler and instructions to sleep as much as possible. My ability to watch movies remains on some kind of mental fritz which upsets me, but I liked running across these poems.

Trump vs. Minnesota: A Realization

2026-Jan-15, Thursday 21:34
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All this horror and heroism in Minneapolis-St. Paul of late...in the cities that gave us Charles Schulz of all people.

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