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sage) wrote2025-12-03 02:31 pm
sage) wrote2025-12-03 02:31 pmEntry tags:
What I'm Doing Wednesday
Rockstar Lestat
I love him so much, y'all. I need to make another one to this scale in the red pants; then maybe I can bear to list one or both of them, once I know I can replicate him. I'm also tempted to make a version in the brown shirt, with a fern to go with, but I fear no one would buy it because it was too much a joke. Ah well. Maybe someone will commission it.
yarning
I've made so many cat toys this week! And a 12 1/2 inch cat kicker based on the National Parks Service official Walleye pattern (I added some rounds to make it bigger), only done in bright orange, like a goldfish. :g: I took only the fish to Thanksgiving to work on, which left me with days of nothing to make after I finished it. Doh!
etsy
yay selling things! I held a Black Friday sale to try to move some merchandise out of my house, and it succeeded fairly well. The discount was deeper than I'd quite prepared for, esp with free shipping, but worth it find some things their forever homes. I also figured out (I hope!) how to do Made To Order listings on etsy, so people can request a kickbunny in the colors of their choice without buying them in the wrong colors & sending me a note asking to switch the colors.
healthcrap
had to cancel the pain clinic procedure for lack of transportation, as expected. Tomorrow is a bone scan. I started drinking coffee again at my parents' place over Thanksgiving and have continued making a small amount every day. I hope it doesn't mess up my sleep?
yuletide
I have a draft! And I learned from the Yuletide Discord that there is such a thing as "unenforceable DNWs," which are things that are unreasonable to ask of your match in your signup/letter...which means that I could have written the story I wanted to write instead of the one that I did. Oh well. Good to know that I could have messsaged the mods with my concerns, even though I didn't. Hopefully the story I did write holds together well enough on its own merits? :crosses fingers:
I hope you're all doing well, wherever in the world you are! <333
I love him so much, y'all. I need to make another one to this scale in the red pants; then maybe I can bear to list one or both of them, once I know I can replicate him. I'm also tempted to make a version in the brown shirt, with a fern to go with, but I fear no one would buy it because it was too much a joke. Ah well. Maybe someone will commission it.
yarning
I've made so many cat toys this week! And a 12 1/2 inch cat kicker based on the National Parks Service official Walleye pattern (I added some rounds to make it bigger), only done in bright orange, like a goldfish. :g: I took only the fish to Thanksgiving to work on, which left me with days of nothing to make after I finished it. Doh!
etsy
yay selling things! I held a Black Friday sale to try to move some merchandise out of my house, and it succeeded fairly well. The discount was deeper than I'd quite prepared for, esp with free shipping, but worth it find some things their forever homes. I also figured out (I hope!) how to do Made To Order listings on etsy, so people can request a kickbunny in the colors of their choice without buying them in the wrong colors & sending me a note asking to switch the colors.
healthcrap
had to cancel the pain clinic procedure for lack of transportation, as expected. Tomorrow is a bone scan. I started drinking coffee again at my parents' place over Thanksgiving and have continued making a small amount every day. I hope it doesn't mess up my sleep?
yuletide
I have a draft! And I learned from the Yuletide Discord that there is such a thing as "unenforceable DNWs," which are things that are unreasonable to ask of your match in your signup/letter...which means that I could have written the story I wanted to write instead of the one that I did. Oh well. Good to know that I could have messsaged the mods with my concerns, even though I didn't. Hopefully the story I did write holds together well enough on its own merits? :crosses fingers:
I hope you're all doing well, wherever in the world you are! <333
Punk (runpunkrun) wrote2025-12-03 10:07 am
runpunkrun) wrote2025-12-03 10:07 amEntry tags:
The Ghosts of Ashbury High, by Jaclyn Moriarty
An Australian epistolary YA novel of extreme tweeness where the format may almost forgive some of the hysteria, as much of the book takes the form of final exams written for a gothic literature course, but I found it childish, not only ridiculous in the way of teenagers, which felt true enough, but even the adults were being juvenile, and the way the privileged teen drama was played for comedy and took precedence over the actual problems of at risk youth irritated me. It does include some surprisingly stylish teen poetry, though.
Contains: references to child harm and sexual abuse; homelessness; underage drinking; suicide attempt; dementia.
Contains: references to child harm and sexual abuse; homelessness; underage drinking; suicide attempt; dementia.
clavally (clavally) wrote2025-12-02 11:32 pm
clavally) wrote2025-12-02 11:32 pmEntry tags:
Advent Day 2
I legitimately opened these earlier and promptly forgot to make a post about it!
1. Gaming Dice: 4-sided die that is a mix of dark red and kinda green jade with red numbers
2. Diamine Inkvent: A purple sheening ink called Energy
3. Cult Pens: Sun Star Jittome clip It's basically a clip with a calico cat on it. Cute! Cost: $5.28. Total Cost so far: $13.51
1. Gaming Dice: 4-sided die that is a mix of dark red and kinda green jade with red numbers
2. Diamine Inkvent: A purple sheening ink called Energy
3. Cult Pens: Sun Star Jittome clip It's basically a clip with a calico cat on it. Cute! Cost: $5.28. Total Cost so far: $13.51
Sholio (sholio) wrote2025-12-02 06:49 pm
sholio) wrote2025-12-02 06:49 pmEntry tags:
Rec-Cember Day 2: Vid: Not Gonna Stop Me Getting Through (Babylon 5)
A G'Kar vid! This well edited vid does a marvelous job of hitting the grace notes of G'Kar's arc without exactly recapping it. (Does definitely contain spoilers.)
Vid by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
sandalwoodbox - I think it was Tumblr where I originally saw this, but it's posted on AO3 here.
Vid by
grey853 (grey853) wrote2025-12-02 12:41 pm
grey853) wrote2025-12-02 12:41 pm
Entry tags:
Snow in Kentucky
I woke up to 23 degrees, five inches of snow and no internet. I'm just glad I had power and the internet outage was short-lived. I'm in Kentucky and we're not used to this kind of weather so early in the season. We don't usually get snow until late December or January. I'm personally not a fan of the white stuff unless it's in a movie.
I'm hoping at some point that some industrious kid from the neighborhood will drop by and want to make some cash by digging me out. So far, no luck.
Here's a shot of the sight outside my back door.
I'm so not looking forward to this winter.
I'm hoping at some point that some industrious kid from the neighborhood will drop by and want to make some cash by digging me out. So far, no luck.
Here's a shot of the sight outside my back door.
I'm so not looking forward to this winter.
Sholio (sholio) wrote2025-12-01 10:10 pm
sholio) wrote2025-12-01 10:10 pmEntry tags:
Rec-Cember Day 1: Rubberducking (Murderbot)
So this is for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
rec_cember, a month-long reccing event that I mentioned a couple of days ago! I don't currently know if there will be roundups or some other way to see what other people are reccing. Weekly check-in posts have been mentioned, but that's all I know about! Anyway, I signed up for daily reccing, so I'll see how long I can keep it up. I will also occasionally round these up over at recthething.
(BTW, as per the previous poll, there was enough interest in cutting Babylon 5 spoilers that I will do that, as well as anything else significantly spoilery in my recs for other fandoms.)
I'm starting off on easy mode and reccing a short Murderbot TV-verse fic I read the other day that I enjoyed!
Rubberducking bywritingmonsters (Murderbot TV w/some book elements, Gurathin + Murderbot, gen, 979 wds)
Rubber duck debugging (or rubberducking): a debugging technique used in software engineering, wherein a programmer explains their code, step by step, in natural language—either aloud or in writing—to reveal mistakes and misunderstandings.
A cute little slice-of-life genfic in which Gurathin talks through a programming problem by using Murderbot's drone as a sounding board.
rec_cember, a month-long reccing event that I mentioned a couple of days ago! I don't currently know if there will be roundups or some other way to see what other people are reccing. Weekly check-in posts have been mentioned, but that's all I know about! Anyway, I signed up for daily reccing, so I'll see how long I can keep it up. I will also occasionally round these up over at recthething.(BTW, as per the previous poll, there was enough interest in cutting Babylon 5 spoilers that I will do that, as well as anything else significantly spoilery in my recs for other fandoms.)
I'm starting off on easy mode and reccing a short Murderbot TV-verse fic I read the other day that I enjoyed!
Rubberducking by
Rubber duck debugging (or rubberducking): a debugging technique used in software engineering, wherein a programmer explains their code, step by step, in natural language—either aloud or in writing—to reveal mistakes and misunderstandings.
A cute little slice-of-life genfic in which Gurathin talks through a programming problem by using Murderbot's drone as a sounding board.
Sholio (sholio) wrote2025-12-01 08:00 pm
sholio) wrote2025-12-01 08:00 pmEntry tags:
Happy December! Have another free book!
I genuinely can't believe I finished this BUT I DID.
The cover is .... there. It may need work.
Anyway - another Fated Mountain Lodge novella arrives for the holidays to answer the question everyone is asking: will the lodge's reservation system work any better this time than it has in the previous four books?
Download from Bookfunnel if you'd like a copy! It comes out on Dec. 7, so the link will stop working then.
https://dl.bookfunnel.com/lzcdk6pga8
Under the cut: a brief history of how this book came to be written.
( Click for details )
The cover is .... there. It may need work.
Anyway - another Fated Mountain Lodge novella arrives for the holidays to answer the question everyone is asking: will the lodge's reservation system work any better this time than it has in the previous four books?
Download from Bookfunnel if you'd like a copy! It comes out on Dec. 7, so the link will stop working then.
https://dl.bookfunnel.com/lzcdk6pga8
Under the cut: a brief history of how this book came to be written.
( Click for details )
clavally (clavally) wrote2025-12-01 09:52 pm
clavally) wrote2025-12-01 09:52 pmEntry tags:
Advent Day 1
It's the moooost wonderful time of the yeeeeeeeaaaaar!
Welcome to Advent 2025!
1. Up first is our gaming dice. First, before any day, they included a nice green cloth bag to keep all our dice in. Last year's was red. For the actual day we got a full set of mini-gaming dice. Clear with green numbers
2. Diamine Inkvent Calendar: A small bottle of ink called Celestial Skies. It is a very pretty blue shimmer ink. I thought about posting a photo of a sample of writing with it, but you can't really see the sparkles in the photo, so it seemed kind of pointless.
3. Cult Pens: Pentel Orenz 0.2 mechanical pencil. It's a pretty green color. Normal cost: $8.23
4. Nothing yet, BUT I do have one coming which should be here Thursday. At the very last second I bought a chocolate calendar from Cacao and Cardamom. I was debating about getting the calendar from them last year, so I'll be really interested to see how it is. In any case, I figure I'll double-up on days until I'm caught up once I get it.
New for this year: I decided I would post a picture each day of my haul, so enjoy today's photo!
Welcome to Advent 2025!
1. Up first is our gaming dice. First, before any day, they included a nice green cloth bag to keep all our dice in. Last year's was red. For the actual day we got a full set of mini-gaming dice. Clear with green numbers
2. Diamine Inkvent Calendar: A small bottle of ink called Celestial Skies. It is a very pretty blue shimmer ink. I thought about posting a photo of a sample of writing with it, but you can't really see the sparkles in the photo, so it seemed kind of pointless.
3. Cult Pens: Pentel Orenz 0.2 mechanical pencil. It's a pretty green color. Normal cost: $8.23
4. Nothing yet, BUT I do have one coming which should be here Thursday. At the very last second I bought a chocolate calendar from Cacao and Cardamom. I was debating about getting the calendar from them last year, so I'll be really interested to see how it is. In any case, I figure I'll double-up on days until I'm caught up once I get it.
New for this year: I decided I would post a picture each day of my haul, so enjoy today's photo!
clavally (clavally) wrote2025-11-30 06:32 pm
clavally) wrote2025-11-30 06:32 pmEntry tags:
Book Review: Weyward
Yes, I actually have a new book review. It was like I kept forgetting to read, but suddenly I don't have a lot to watch, so it occurred to me I have a few books I haven't finished yet.
Title: Weyward
Author: Emilia Hart
Genre: Fantasy
Review:
Character: 7
Atmosphere: 7
Writing Style: 8
Plot: 7
Intrigue: 8
Logic/Relationships: 7
Enjoyment: 8
Total= 51/7 = 7.3 or 4 stars
Overall thoughts: This book is a combination of three different stories of women across time. I do like books that do that, so this appealed to me for that reason. They're basically all witches or discover they are witches. Some of the themes in the book were a little heavy-handed, but if you can look past an underlying current of "Men are evil" then it's fine. It makes sense for the story, anyway. Not sure I can say anything else without being too spoilery. It was a lot about women coming into their own power, though. It was good. Not the best book I've read this year, but good.
Title: Weyward
Author: Emilia Hart
Genre: Fantasy
Review:
Character: 7
Atmosphere: 7
Writing Style: 8
Plot: 7
Intrigue: 8
Logic/Relationships: 7
Enjoyment: 8
Total= 51/7 = 7.3 or 4 stars
Overall thoughts: This book is a combination of three different stories of women across time. I do like books that do that, so this appealed to me for that reason. They're basically all witches or discover they are witches. Some of the themes in the book were a little heavy-handed, but if you can look past an underlying current of "Men are evil" then it's fine. It makes sense for the story, anyway. Not sure I can say anything else without being too spoilery. It was a lot about women coming into their own power, though. It was good. Not the best book I've read this year, but good.
grey853 (grey853) wrote2025-11-30 03:10 pm
grey853) wrote2025-11-30 03:10 pm
DS Story: Niggle
Title: Niggle
Author: Grey/Grey853
Fandom: Due South
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Tags: male slash, explicit language, explicit sexual content, casefic, alternate universe-canon divergent
Word Count: 14,773
Summary: Fraser has a tendency to niggle and live in his own world. Ray gets frustrated. Can they find a way to work together without driving one another crazy?
Link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/75027586
Snippet:
″I think it’s time we talked about what happened earlier today.″
Ray sighed, wishing like hell they could just forget about it. ″Do we have to? We were having such a good time, eating and just talking about last night’s game. You haven’t niggled once since you got here.″
″Niggled?″
″You know, niggle, that thing you do where you question everything I say. It’s where you argue about the stupidest stuff.″
″I have no idea what you’re talking about. We discuss things and often disagree, but that’s not niggling. That’s just having a conversation. I rather enjoy our discussions.″
″I’m not saying I don’t like how we’re able to give and take, but sometimes you go too far. This thing with the littering is a perfect example.″
″How so?″
Ray took a long swallow of his beer and then poured the rest down the sink. He had a feeling if he finished it, he’d be too loose and he didn’t want that. He had to keep control of his temper and his words. He wanted to say what he needed without revealing too much.
″Let’s have a seat and I’ll try to explain.″
″Very well.″
Fraser walked over and sat down all stiff and prissy.
Well hell. Ray knew what that meant. ″I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.″
″You didn’t.″
″Did, too.″
″Well, how do you expect me to feel, Ray? You say that my conversational style is niggling, which by it’s very nature has a negative connotation. I’m at a loss. I had no idea you felt that way.″
″Look, I really don’t want to make you feel bad, but you’ve got to understand what I’m sayin’. You’ve got to rein in this zeal you’ve got to arrest any and everybody for the smallest infraction. That might work in a small town, but here it’ll just fill up the jails and get you blacklisted and me along with you.″
Fraser didn’t answer right away, but eventually said, ″It doesn’t work in small towns, either.″
″Say what?″
″My zeal, as you call it, has gotten me shunned more than once during my earlier assignments. It’s one of the reasons I’ve been reassigned so frequently.″
Author: Grey/Grey853
Fandom: Due South
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Tags: male slash, explicit language, explicit sexual content, casefic, alternate universe-canon divergent
Word Count: 14,773
Summary: Fraser has a tendency to niggle and live in his own world. Ray gets frustrated. Can they find a way to work together without driving one another crazy?
Link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/75027586
Snippet:
″I think it’s time we talked about what happened earlier today.″
Ray sighed, wishing like hell they could just forget about it. ″Do we have to? We were having such a good time, eating and just talking about last night’s game. You haven’t niggled once since you got here.″
″Niggled?″
″You know, niggle, that thing you do where you question everything I say. It’s where you argue about the stupidest stuff.″
″I have no idea what you’re talking about. We discuss things and often disagree, but that’s not niggling. That’s just having a conversation. I rather enjoy our discussions.″
″I’m not saying I don’t like how we’re able to give and take, but sometimes you go too far. This thing with the littering is a perfect example.″
″How so?″
Ray took a long swallow of his beer and then poured the rest down the sink. He had a feeling if he finished it, he’d be too loose and he didn’t want that. He had to keep control of his temper and his words. He wanted to say what he needed without revealing too much.
″Let’s have a seat and I’ll try to explain.″
″Very well.″
Fraser walked over and sat down all stiff and prissy.
Well hell. Ray knew what that meant. ″I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.″
″You didn’t.″
″Did, too.″
″Well, how do you expect me to feel, Ray? You say that my conversational style is niggling, which by it’s very nature has a negative connotation. I’m at a loss. I had no idea you felt that way.″
″Look, I really don’t want to make you feel bad, but you’ve got to understand what I’m sayin’. You’ve got to rein in this zeal you’ve got to arrest any and everybody for the smallest infraction. That might work in a small town, but here it’ll just fill up the jails and get you blacklisted and me along with you.″
Fraser didn’t answer right away, but eventually said, ″It doesn’t work in small towns, either.″
″Say what?″
″My zeal, as you call it, has gotten me shunned more than once during my earlier assignments. It’s one of the reasons I’ve been reassigned so frequently.″
Punk (runpunkrun) wrote2025-11-30 09:07 am
runpunkrun) wrote2025-11-30 09:07 amdrop by and say something nice
✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread is here
or just comment on this post if that's more your style
mific (mific) wrote in fanart_recs2025-11-30 11:56 pm
mific) wrote in fanart_recs2025-11-30 11:56 pmEntry tags:
Elrond in the flower garden at Imladris by leucisticpuffin (SFW)
Fandom: Tolkien: Lord of the Rings
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Elrond
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: leucisticpuffin on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: This is a lovingly detailed depiction of the garden at Imladris (Rivendell), with a somewhat younger Elrond sitting, reading. The notes are interesting as well, giving additional detail. I like the warm tones, and of course the amazing gardens and scenery.
Link: Elrond in the flower garden at Imladris
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Elrond
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: leucisticpuffin on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: This is a lovingly detailed depiction of the garden at Imladris (Rivendell), with a somewhat younger Elrond sitting, reading. The notes are interesting as well, giving additional detail. I like the warm tones, and of course the amazing gardens and scenery.
Link: Elrond in the flower garden at Imladris
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Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!
Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means ![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.
The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.
( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )
Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.
On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.
karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.
( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )
Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.
On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.
Sholio (sholio) wrote2025-11-29 02:37 pm
sholio) wrote2025-11-29 02:37 pmEntry tags:
How is it almost December
I signed up for rec_cember, a new reccing challenge comm for posting recs in December. I am going to at least TRY posting bite-sized daily recs, but my track record at daily anything is pretty dismal, so it might turn into weekly posts. I'll make an effort to do roundup posts over at recthething as well.
This will probably be mostly Murderbot and Babylon 5 (also Biggles? is there any point to posting Biggles recs, in a fandom that small where everyone has probably read anything they're interested in already?). I've actually got a B5 question. I still hope to drag some of you into watching it with me if possible, but I don't want to spoil any potential watchers for major developments in the series, which is really best unspoiled (if you are inclined to enjoy things that way) and doing recs in this particular way is probably going to be spoilergeddon.
So I am curious if people care about this or not.
(Results are viewable only to me, so you're not committing yourself publicly to watching the show or anything. I would just like to know if there's any particular reason to be careful about spoiler-cuts or if it doesn't matter all that much at this point.)
rec_cember, a new reccing challenge comm for posting recs in December. I am going to at least TRY posting bite-sized daily recs, but my track record at daily anything is pretty dismal, so it might turn into weekly posts. I'll make an effort to do roundup posts over at recthething as well.This will probably be mostly Murderbot and Babylon 5 (also Biggles? is there any point to posting Biggles recs, in a fandom that small where everyone has probably read anything they're interested in already?). I've actually got a B5 question. I still hope to drag some of you into watching it with me if possible, but I don't want to spoil any potential watchers for major developments in the series, which is really best unspoiled (if you are inclined to enjoy things that way) and doing recs in this particular way is probably going to be spoilergeddon.
So I am curious if people care about this or not.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 28
Would you like me to put Babylon 5 spoilers under a cut?
Yes please, that would be appreciated.
6 (21.4%)
I would prefer that you don't, so I can read everything without clicking a cut.
2 (7.1%)
No preference/answer too complex for your binary boxes.
20 (71.4%)
(Results are viewable only to me, so you're not committing yourself publicly to watching the show or anything. I would just like to know if there's any particular reason to be careful about spoiler-cuts or if it doesn't matter all that much at this point.)