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Today was a better day. I did 2 shifts. I accepted a new lady for next Tuesday evening and if it's a good fit, she could become a regular. School has been cancelled for the boys tomorrow, too. I wonder when they will go back.

Have Frog and Toad going camping.

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tuesday is views & news day

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I have blacked out my card. I think I missed sharing one row but my card has all the link outs to all stories. Here are the last two bingoes I know I haven't shared.

First Bingo
Title: Forget Our Memories, Forget Our Possibilities
Author:

cornerofmadness
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairings: Angel Dust
Rating: teen
Warnings: references to sexual and physical abuse, drug use, angst

Artist: Linkin Park
Prompt: Lyric with "remember" or "forget"
Song: Come Don’t Say

Title: I Need to Go Home (And Salvage What's Left of My Soul)
Author:

cornerofmadness
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairings: Angel Dusk/Husk
Rating: teen
Warnings: drugs and alcoholism
Artist: Seether
Prompt: A chart topper
Song: Lost All Control

Title: Remnant of Hope
Author:

cornerofmadness
Fandom: The Amazing Digital Circus
Characters/Pairings: all the circus members
Rating: teen
Warnings: whump

Artist: Nox Arcana
Prompt: an instrumental song
Song: Remnant of Hope

Title: Love For Sale
Author:

cornerofmadness
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairings: Valentino/Angel Dust
Rating: teen
Warnings: injuries, blood, hurt/comfort

Artist: Cole Porter & Ella Fitzgerald
Prompt: Song from a soundtrack
Song: Love for Sale

Title: Can't Ever Keep From Falling Apart at the Seams
Author:

cornerofmadness
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairings: Angel Dust/Husk
Rating: teen
Warnings: abuse (physical and mentally), wounds, hurt/comfort

Artist: Duran Duran
Prompt: 90s song
Song: Come Undone

Row Bingo

Title: There'll Be a Hot Time in Old Town Tonight
Author:

cornerofmadness
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairings: Angel Dust/Husk, Cherri Bomb/Sir Pentious
Rating: teen
Warnings: unwanted touching, someone gets punched for it

Artist: Bessie Smith
Prompt: Pre-1900 song
Song: There'll Be a Hot Time in Old Town Tonight

Title: Wake Up Your Dream
Author:

cornerofmadness
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairings: Angel Dust/Husk
Rating: teen
Warnings: anxiety, mental hurt/comfort

Artist: Julie & the Phantoms
Prompt: Lyric with "sleep" or "wake".
Song: Wake Up

Title: Something to Make My Heart Beat the Faster
Author:

cornerofmadness
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairings: Husk/Angel Dust
Rating: teen
Warnings: injuries, blood, hurt/comfort

Artist: Ella Fitzgerald.
Prompt: a pre-1950s song
Song: All the Things You Are, originally written for a 1939 musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein and covered by many.

Title: You Had Some of the Best Times You'll Never Remember With Me, Alcohol
Author:

cornerofmadness
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairings: Husk/Angel Dust, Cherri Bomb
Rating: teen
Warnings: injuries, blood, hurt/comfort, drunkeness

Artist: Brad Paisley
Prompt: a 00 song
Song: Alcohol

Title: No Matter How Strong, I'm Gonna Take You Down
Author:

cornerofmadness
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairings: Angel Dust, Henroin
Rating: teen
Warnings: injuries, blood, murder of a parent

Artist: Rufus Wainright
Prompt: an angry song
Song: Dinner at Eight

Find my card here.

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life among the northmen

Yep, I Tested Positive

I thought I was coming down with the same bad cold that Bob was slowly recovering from. I don't get colds all that often, and I'd thought this one would pass me by, but nope, it appeared eager to settle in my head. Well, dang ... I headed for bed, hoping it wouldn't be too bad in the morning.

Around 3 a.m. Saturday I woke up with aches that signaled a potential temperature. And indeed I had one; 100.7, significantly higher than the 97.9 I usually run. I knew that colds don't feature fevers so I tested myself for COVID.

I didn't even have to wait the requisite 15 minutes, both lines were there in bright red within 30 seconds.

Welp.

I've felt like I've been hit by a truck ever since. I keep telling myself it's a smaller truck than it might have been, thanks to the booster shot I got last year (of course, I can't recall exactly when I got it, but I think it was in mid-summer.) but it's still a truck. I ran a lower temp on Sunday, and Monday and Tuesday, today, I haven't had a temperature since then and today I retook a test. At first, the only reaction was the control line. Huzzah! I was certain I'd gotten the first of the two negative tests I'd need to declare myself COVID free. As I said, Huzzah--

--except at the end of the 15 minute wait time, there it was, a faint but definite second line.

Welp. Again.

And it's still like being hit by a small truck.

Ah well, I'm getting some work done on my NTBP* novel, escaping a corner I'd painted myself into. And I'm also making some bread. That always comforts me.

And here, have something I wrote about cold decades ago. Since we're still in single digit temperatures with subzero windchills, it feels the same to me, although this was written after a relatively rare ice storm during a cold snap.

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Glass City

The city is glass and I am cold.

When cold aches out of bone

into fingertips,

and back again;

into the back of my throat and under the sleeves of my coat

and back again;

why then I can't see the glass.

My own breath blocks my sight. Painfully.

Cold holds my body for ransom.

It slaps my face and makes my toes snap,

it steps on my feet and punches the small of my back.

Traitor body, to let it in.

Did it really start in the bone?

I am so tired of my bones doing that.

All about me, the glass trees rustle.

Splinters of blue light and silver at the top,

in the middle a puzzle and madness of glitter in the bright, faded sky.

Winter sun does that.

It's almost worth

the cold.

March, 1995

* not to be published

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: the kitchen
Current Music: Jackson Wang "Blow"

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!promotion day

Snowflake Challenge #14
In your own space, create a promo and/or rec list for someone new to a fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it and include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Trying to convince our friends and loved ones to join our fandom is a frequent activity for many of us. It's great to have someone to talk to and obsess with! This is your chance to try to entice people into your fandom or to gently introduce new fans to your favorite parts of it.

Maybe you'd like to write a manifesto on your favorite ship. Maybe you'd like to write a breakdown of the many characters that appear in a long running franchise. Maybe you'd like to rec the fics you think everyone in your fandom should read. The possibilities are endless!

( MyRecs )

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2026 snowflake challenge

27. Up-Helly-Aa is a vibrant fire festival celebrated in the UK Shetland Islands tonight. Thousands gather to witness the breathtaking sight of a longship ablaze, illuminating the night sky. Do you have any similar local winter or summer celebrations?

You know, after reading this, I don't have anything to compare to it. But right now, we are having peaceful protests in hopes that Trump won't have more american's murdered. I'll have to look into festivals. We do have Tucson Winterhaven Festival of Lights | December

Each year, during the holiday season, the Winterhaven neighborhood puts on spectacular displays for their Festival of Lights. The neighborhood residents decorate for the season with themes ranging from traditional Christmas lights to celebrations of Hanukkah, and everything in between. The event is free to attend, but donations for the Community Food Bank are encouraged. Visitors can walk through the neighborhood or take a tour from one of the trolley and hayride vendors. It's a big thing here.

ZooLights: Holiday Magic | December

Thousands of enchanting lights welcome you to the Reid Park Zoo during their ZooLights event showcasing festive displays and light shows. Stop by and say hello to Santa who will meet kids of all ages each evening through December 23. Make your way to the Arctic Zone for falling snow, sing along to festive music, and savor a hot cup of cocoa from the Zoo Café as you take in the winter wonderland in this Tucson holiday tradition.

The Tucson Folk Festival – and so Much More
Concerts, Community Events, & Workshops All Year Long

One of the country’s largest free music festivals, the Tucson Folk Festival celebrates folk, roots, and acoustic music every spring in Downtown Tucson. But that’s just one part of what we do. All year long, the Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association (TKMA) hosts concerts, workshops, fundraisers, and community events — celebrating diverse musical traditions, supporting artists, and building a welcoming, music-driven community.

There are quite a few different ones, but I think this is enough.

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not quite 365 day meme january

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How is the writing going today?

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daily: check in

The sequel to The Darkness Outside of Us. I enjoyed it! It's both interestingly different from the first book and is satisfying on the level of "I want more of this," which is exactly what one wants from a sequel.

Literally everything about this book is massively spoilery for the first one, including its premise. I'll do two sets of spoiler cuts, one for the premise and one for the whole book.

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Stop reading here if you don't want to be spoiled for the entire book.

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2026,
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Introduction Post * Meet the Mods Post * Challenge #1 * Challenge #2 * Challenge #3 * Challenge #4 * Challenge #5 * Challenge #6 * Challenge #7 * Challenge #8 * Challenge #9 * Challenge #10 * Challenge #11 * Challenge #12

Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

( Fandom Snowflake Challenge #14 )

And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on. You might just find your newest obsession!

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

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challenge 14

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Current Mood: cold
Current Location: House in the woods at the edge of town
Current Music: Gremloe Twitch stream

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Having successfully fled her home city with the proceeds of a spectacular heist, Aiah must now build a new life on that foundation.

City on Fire (Metropolitan, volume 2) by Walter Jon Williams

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Yesterday, after spending the weekend trying to determine the difference between the various most popular and recommended microphones for Twitch streamers, I ultimately instead went for the one recommended for beginners. Which is a much cheaper one, too, but buying it still felt much like committing. I think I can otherwise start with what I've got already, unless I need something to connect the old computer monitor's up as my second one. I actually still need to look up exactly how one does that.
The website currently claims it'll arrive this weekend, but I suspect it's going to end up taking a little longer than that. This is the second weekday in a row everything in the area is closed. Our road hasn't been cleared yet, though at least one car's made its way through since the storm. We were able to get a young man to come shovel our walk, which is a very good thing, because mom and I have now both lost whatever ability to might have once had to manage that ourselves. He wasn't able to get the bottom layer all up, though, and I fear how slippery that might prove over the rest of this week.

The thing about the changes made in the new miniseries of The Seven Dials Mystery is that they seem motivated by a couple of motives that strike me as unwise and illegitimate:

to make a rollicking comedy-adventure-farce way more serious and solemn and sad

to make sure the main heroine is not motivated by spunk, excitement, or sheer desire to solve crimes, but by revenge for the man she loooooooooved

to make the heroine just the MOST speshul, not because of what she achieves or her choices and actions, but because of who she innately is

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26. It’s Australia Day! What do you think of when you think of Australia?

1. kangaroos
2. The ocean
3. 120° weather
4. Shrimp on the barbie.
5. G’day mate

That’s all I can think of.

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Authors are revealed, and here's what I wrote!

An Appointment to Keep (1400 wds, Biggles + Erich + An OC [Original Cat])
My recipient liked fluff and animals, so that is exactly what's in this! Set late in canon.

Draped in Glory (1300 wds, Algy/Ginger)
And this was a treat for pinch hitter

black_bentley, who it seemed only fair should have a gift too! This is basically an Algy/Ginger take on the Biggles/EvS "putting on jewelry" fic I wrote a couple of years ago; it always seemed to me that it should work for them equally well.

Under Glass (1900 wds, Biggles/EvS)
Not exactly a Sleeping Beauty AU ... but also kind of a Sleeping Beauty AU! Set in canon, but Biggles is under a curse; only true love's kiss can wake him. This was a last-minute treat when the idea hit me out of the blue.

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Assorted Nuts

News & Views

Reification

Two More Bingos for a Blackout

Sure. Okay. Why not this now?

Dept. of Cold and COVID

Tuesday, January 27 - Promotion Day

2026 Snowflake Challenge #14

Not quite 365 days questions for day 27.

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

This is only the second time I've seen this referenced.

check in day 27

The Brightness Between Us, by Eliot Schrefer

2026 Three Sentence Ficathon - Post #3

Fandom Snowflake Challenge #14

A video I should show my students

City on Fire (Metropolitan, volume 2) by Walter Jon Williams

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The thing about the adaptational changes made to The Seven Dials Mystery

Not Quite 365 days questions meme. 26

Biggles Holiday Airdrop

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