Home all day, still busy, but definitely an improvement! I only got an alibi sentence, though. I'm at a scene transition and not quite sure what comes next.
Bonus farm news: We have excess pumpkin. Things made so far: soup, grilled in the oven, fried patties, sweet pie, savory pie, grilled in the oven with different spices, gnocchi, and wine.
Reccer's Notes: A rec in celebration of the 4 December 2025 Full Supermoon. Stephin Merit’s wryly anguished anthem of gay pining gains not only an unironic tenderness but the hope of a happy resolution when juxtaposed with CQL’s literal rabbits (and their pervasive symbolism as tokens, symbols, and allegory of Wangxian’s relationship, as well as representatives of a Rabbit God who’d bless a gay union.)
Nor does soupytwist’s pitch-perfect syncing of visuals to lyrics hurt one bit.
I don't actually ship Rex/Echo, but that doesn't stop me from wanting a Lord King Bad Vid to For Good for the very simple reason that Rex is going to be with Echo like a handprint on his heart.
I feel like this needs a good bunch of Bad Batch, which I have not seen, in much the same way that I have only seen Wicked on stage once, and haven't seen the movies.
I also can't listen to the song without tearing up because I've sung it at too many funerals.
Clearly I am highly qualified to care about this vid. I must've gotten someone else's inspiration particle.
Current Mood:ludicrous
Current Music:Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes the sun
Title: You're the Boss Fandom: Spooks (MI5) Rating: G Length: 400 words Summary: Harry Pearce tells Adam and Lucas their Christmas plans will have to change
87. If the thought of something makes me giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am to assume that I am not allowed to do it.
This came to mind because I thought of a great tag that will baffle the good wranglers at the AO3, but which I will apply to the story forthwith, despite its having made me giggle for longer than 15 seconds.
Currently trying to support a friend in a Very Bad Situation and it's desperately anxiety-inducing and my brain is trying to eat itself, which also makes me less useful as support, which is bad.
So if anyone would like to ask or discuss anything about Prophet or Dark Souls or IWTV or climbing or, you know, any of the somewhat cheering topics I sometimes ramble about, PLEASE DO. "More of a comment than a question" questions also very welcome.
I cannot guarantee replies in a timely or consistent manner (because of the Situation and also the bad state of my brain) but it would be deeply appreciated nonetheless.
Except that THANK FUCK my friend is now out of the Very Bad Situation (and please let him remain so, please please please).
My brain is just trying to eat itself because it's prone to doing that and it's been a very very hard year (and I'm having yet another IC flare-up, joy).
Hi I haven't been here as much as I'd like. We had some damage to the house that caused a major disruption, and even though it's been fixed for a while I'm having trouble getting back to my usual routines and projects.
But that's not what I want to talk about! It's December, and every year for the last several years I've been doing a project called DecRecs in December where I rec on thing everyday for the month and encourage other people to rec stuff too. Recs get posted on Mastodon and this year for the first time BlueSky then every once in a while I round them up and post several days worth here.
So here are the 1st five days of recs!
Day 1 It's the first day of December and that means its time for #decRecs !
This year I want to focus on reccing things I discovered this year, not things I've recced a ton of times before, though I'm sure I'll include some old favorites.
I'm starting out with "This is it" a mulifandom Go /Baduk / Weiqi vid. This so much fun! I've been rewatching this everytime I scroll past it in my ao3 bookmarks and its a delight every time!
I love the variety of source material and the perfect timing!
Day 2 Today for #DecRecs I want to talk about barley tea! I used to get this all the time at my favorite Korean restaurant but I recently realized that I can make it at home! It's so good, cozy, a bit of nutty flavor, very warming in the cold!
The Haunting of Hill House Oleander Square by galaxyofroses Theo/Eleanor, 2k. Theo returns haunted from Hill House, maybe literally. I love this unconventional form of haunting. This has just great atmosphere, with lovely prose and such elegant imagery.
Original Work Little Rat by ChocoChipBiscuit Noblewoman/The Woman Her Husband Is Having an Affair With, 5k. A noblewoman goes to a her London townhouse, only to discover her estranged husband's newest bed-mate. I enjoyed the hell out of this. I love their dynamic, their mutual respect for each others' worldliness and practicality combined with their attraction for each other. Also: the smut is scorching hot. Just delightful all around.
True Detective: Night Country All Summer in a Day by Luna Danvers/Navarro, 3k. Or: six months later, a reunion. This is the hot, gorgeous, atmospheric, character-driven, immediately post-canon shipfic at that random lake cabin that we all deserved! The writing here is so lovely, and the dynamic between them is complicated and full of sparks. I especially love the Danvers voice here. Wonderful stuff.
Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ In the first of a new weekly series in which we ask a public figure to take us on a walk of significance, the leader of the Greens strolls through London’s Stoke Newington. He talks to us about resilience, leaving Nato and why former Labour politicians are welcome to join his party
"We Must Not Leave Ukraine and Volodymyr Alone with These Guys" DER SPIEGEL has obtained notes from a conference call involving EU leaders - including Germany's Friedrich Merz and France's Emmanuel Macron - showing just how little trust Europe has in Washington.
This week's prompt is my sneaky way of getting a two-for-one deal when it comes to Friday open threads plus December talking meme, and was suggested by morbane: talk about a book that changed the way you read books.
1. Red Robin trade paperbacks! These have been out of print for awhile and I constantly scour the graphic novels section of used book shops to no avail. I'm looking for Red Robin vol 2: Collision and Red Robin vol 4: 7 Days of Death. They look like this.
2. Ideas for family blind gift swap. Something with mass appeal for approximately $20.
3. Fun, delicious cocktail recipes that use rum or vodka.
4. I'm in a classic literature reading phase. Recommend me your favorite classic book.
5. Music recommendations. Preferably artist or album level. I'm dropping streaming and reverting to old school CDs and hoopla. I mostly like alternative/pop/rock but I'll try whatever!
7. Plant advice. I'd like to plant some cheerful but very low maintenance flowers and/or get a few indoor plants next year. Like the easiest possible things you can think of. I have an extremely black thumb.
8. Comments on my fics! I am having a struggle of a writing year and would love the encouragement of comments.
Got the plague stab yesterday, which went smoothly despite my irrational loathing of all needles -- which is good because everything else about yesterday could go hang, including that psycho fuck upstairs from me that I had to call the cops on (again) literally as I was trying to get out the door for said stab.
Especially that psycho fucker. He could get run over in the road outside my window and I'd fucking cheer at this point.
Discovering I need to fill out extra customs bullshit and install a special app because I need to do it twice and pay ~duty and taxes~ on every fucking thing sent out of the country to the US now -- which ate up almost a half-hour of extra errand nonsense already extended by the Canada Post outlet having downgradedsized and having to stump to a different one to even get a parcel in the mail at all (and these fuckers wonder why Canada Post ~isn't making money boohoo~ never mind a fucking federal service is a fucking service and shouldn't be after profit to begin with) did nothing to improve yesterday either.
Booster stab side-effects seem to mostly be headache this time around, which admittedly is probably~ also being aggravated by other things (annoying universe, weather temp plummeting like a stone, bleeding like a stuck pig, etc). Hopefully it'll wander off soon; I've had a pretty decent track record there so far.
Goat has not yet burned.
Netflix has bought Warner Bros and as if I wasn't making enough frustrated Legion noises this week ... but at least it wasn't Paramount, I can say that much.
I thiiiiiink I've reached the end of Things That Have Deadlines And Needed Done and lord fuck I hope so. I just want to grumble about late-running holiday events in peace for the next few weeks.
Carved In Stone finally is a thing though (three years after expected date), so I have something to read at work this weekend that isn't the usual sources of nerdy stress ...
For the last four days, the 2025 Whatever Gift Guide has been about helping you find the perfect gifts for friends and loved ones. But today I’d like to remind folks that the season is also about helping those in need. So this final day is for charities. If you’re looking for a place to make a donation — or know of a charitable organization that would gladly accept a donation — this is the place for it.
How to contribute to this thread:
1. Anyone can contribute. If you are associated with or work for a charity, tell us about the charity. If there’s a charity you regularly contribute to or like for philosophical reasons, share with the crowd. This is open to everyone.
2. Focus on non-political charities, please. Which is to say, charities whose primary mission is not political — so, for example, an advocacy group whose primary thrust is education but who also lobbies lawmakers would be fine, but a candidate or political party or political action committee is not. The idea here is charities that exist to help people and/or make the world a better place for all of us.
3. It’s okay to note personal fundraising (Indiegogo and GoFundMe campaigns, etc) for people in need. Also, other informal charities and fundraisers are fine, but please do your part to make sure you’re pointing people to a legitimate fundraiser and not a scam. I would suggest only suggesting campaigns that you can vouch for personally.
3. One post per person. In that post, you can list whatever charities you like, and more than one charity. Note also that the majority of Whatever’s readership is in the US/Canada, so I suggest focusing on charities available in North America.
4. Keep your description of the charity brief (there will be a lot of posts, I’m guessing) and entertaining. Imagine the person is in front of you as you tell them about the charity and is interested but easily distracted.
5. You may include a link to a charity site if you like via URL. Be warned that if you include too many links (typically three or more) your post may get sent to the moderating queue. If this happens, don’t panic: I’ll be going in through the day to release moderated posts. Note that posts will occasionally go into the moderation queue semi-randomly; Don’t panic about that either.
6. Comment posts that are not about people promoting charities they like will be deleted, in order to keep the comment thread useful for people looking to find charities to contribute to.
All right, then: It’s the season of giving. Tell us where to give to make this a better place.
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