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I'm kinda tempted to make a Wikipedia account so I can update Mary Lambert's discography - her page is missing the singles Tempest from last year and Minneapolis from last week.

imho they're both really good songs.

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What I Just Finished Reading
The Book Forger by Joseph Hone. This was about a man who created rare editions of books that never existed and then sold them for a lot of money. And also about the men who discovered the forgeries and worked out whodunnit. It was hard going through all the background (not to mention the small writing), but did get better towards the end when they're trying to get the forget to admit to it.

Keep Laughing by Chris McCausland. This was on Kobo for £1.99 - more expensive than reserving it at the library, but that extra 69p meant I didn't have to wait on a list and then go up there (probably in the rain) to get it. And take it back. It was really interesting. He mentioned being into some (now-obscure) sitcoms as a child and they were the same ones I was into.

Midnight Wings by Ariele Sieling. I happened to look at the Kobo free books section and found this and the next one in the first in the series section. It's a retelling of Cinderella. I kept finding it a bit far-fetched, but then those were the Cinderella bits! I don't know if I'll read more - the whole series is just short stories so they're expensive relatively speaking. I have questions about the setting, but I'm not feeling confident that they'll be answered in the other books (which are all retellings of other fairy tales).

Better Off Wed by Laura Durham. This was also pretty short. It was a murder mystery and the main character is a wedding planner. But I still can't decide if I liked it or not. It said it was a cosy mystery, which is was, and that it was laugh out loud, which it definitely wasn't, but explained why the characters all felt a bit cartoony sometimes.

Sundered Sky by Ariele Sieling. Since I liked a book by this author I went looking for other series and this novella was also free. I don't know why I finished it because it was dull and I really didn't care about any of the characters at all.

What I'm Currently Reading
Irresponsible Adult by Lucy Dillon. I got this one mostly based on the title - but I did read the summary and thought it was interesting. One chapter in and I'm not sure how many more I'll make it through if it doesn't improve.

What I'm Reading Next
I don't know. The trouble with not liking my current book (so far) and not liking the previous one is that I'm not feeling like reading any others because I won't like them either. Maybe I need to re-read something to restore my faith in books.

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hannah

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: nothing now

I'm wanted for three full days a week at the day gig for the next three weeks, minimum. I'd be foolish to turn it down. I'd also be foolish to leave other people in the lurch and hanging, even if all that's happened is a couple of emails. That it's a project with a defined end - eventually, they're going to run out of books - helps a little bit in assessing the coming days.

To my pride, last week I'd suggested they move the children's books they wanted to save to the closet in one of the kid's rooms. They decided to pack them up to move them, so last week I packed them up - too much per box to be practical, but finally contained. Today they said they wanted them in one of the kid's rooms, so I unpacked, sorted, and put them all away, and they were deeply pleased with the end results.

There's a lot to get through, and there's rooms of books in this place. They're coming out of closets, they turn up in boxes, they're hiding behind each other, and I haven't even touched the other side of the apartment. Rarely do I look forward to having to be at work in the morning, but then, rarely do I have this much fun at the job.

muccamukk

I honestly never did finish the last season of 9-1-1 Lone Star because I didn't like it as much after the cast change, and the new stories weren't grabbing me. Then I changed streaming services, and couldn't be bothered to find it another way.

But I was looking at what was on Crave, since I have that right now, and saw that there was a new show called 9-1-1 Nashville, and thought I'd give it a whirl.

Boy, whatever new direction notes they got, were not my thing. It's all about some rich guy and his sons fighting with each other, and a scheming baby mamma, and we basically don't meet any of the other characters in the pilot. How on earth did they talk Chris O'Donnell into this nonsense? He can't be that hard up!

Plus the rescues were just very silly. And this is by standards of the 9-1-1 franchise, which is already extremely silly. This girl gets carried into the air by a kite! Not like a special kite, just a... regular one. A tornado is bearing down on a country music festival and they save it with the power of heart!

I vaguely considered watching the second half of the pilot before deciding there's got to be other trash shows I'd enjoy more. When is the new Stargate show happening?

I think if you're interested in foe-yay half brothers who want to fuck, you might be in business?

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January 27 - 'What are your vidding ambitions for 2026?' for

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I want to try making this Melt the ICE hat, which of course knits in the round. I haven't done that, so I looked up a couple tutorials on how to knit with double pointed needles. They both said, "these will come in sets of five." The pattern says, "divide evenly on 4 DPNs" (which I assume implies the existence of a fifth needle to work with).

Every single one of the many sets of DPNs I got from Mom comes in a set of four.

Why?

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I wrote a promo introduction for "High Potential" for

snowflake_challenge and I'm copying it here so more folks can see it. This show has a good set of awesome female characters. \o/

High Potential

Overview

"High Potential" is a crime dramedy based around Morgan Gillory. She is highly gifted with an IQ of 160, and like many gifted people, most folks refuse to put up with her -- hence "high potential" being a mockery. Average adults don't like smart adults any better than average children like smart children, with predictably bad results. Thus she has wound up working as a cleaning lady at a police station. This leads her to pointing out an error in an investigation, which eventually brings her to work for the police as a civilian consultant.

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settiai

Current Mood: accomplished

It took forever for me to find the time to properly start catching up since I didn't watch the last episode of 2025 live (save for the cold open which I watched for Yuletide-related purposes), mostly because I knew it was going to be pretty much entirely combat which tends to be something I'm not very big on. I really needed to watch it so that I can then catch up on the two most recent episodes, though, so here we are.

As with previous posts about the current campaign of Critical Role, this will be a combination of quotes, random thoughts, and some speculation. And it's obviously full of spoilers (albeit vague ones in places).

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Current Mood: amused

Ah. It's officially one month until my birthday, and I've gotten the first "here's a birthday coupon so spend money with us!" from a company whose emails I'm subscribed to. Let the inundation begin.

This one is at least useful, I'll give them that much. It's for Adagio, and I drink enough tea that I can definitely put a coupon to use.

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Movies: A Home at The End of The World, My Policeman, Wake Up Dead Man:A Knives Out Mystery, All of Us Strangers, Sense and Sensibility, The Avengers, Iron Man, Iron Man 3, Star Trek: Into Darkness
TV:Schitts Creek, Kath and Kim, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Andor, Supernatural, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Anime/Disney: Tuexdo Mask (Sailor Moon), The Little Mermaid, Alice In Wonderland, Turning Red
Music:Tori Amos
Sports: Josh Allen (Buffalo Bills)

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hannah

Current Mood: thankful
Current Music: American Pie - Don McLean

Challenge #12

Make an appreciation post to those who enhance your fandom life. Appreciate them in bullet points, prose, poetry, a moodboard, a song... whatever moves you!

The first person I lost in fandom - really lost, not moving blogging platforms and falling out of touch, not drifting apart, not a falling-out so extreme there's no talking anymore - wasn't someone I knew well. I knew people who knew her well and we'd spoken in person at BASCon a couple times, and because we had nametags, we could greet each other easily. But between one year and another, something went wrong - complications with surgery, as I recall - and she wasn't there anymore.

I've since lost a lot more people. Some I'd spoken with frequently, some who were friends of friends. Some I knew by wallet name, some where I couldn't tell you any more than what fandoms we shared. Sometimes it was a surprise and sometimes it wasn't unexpected. A few times people told me, a few times I wondered about them and went to check and learned that way, a couple times it so happened I'd see something they'd made or stumble over their account and then learn they'd passed on years ago.

Late last month, someone I knew pretty well - we'd chat a few times a week, pass links onto each other - disappeared off Tumblr. Deactivating their blog, deleting their Archive of Our Own account. They'd been undergoing some fairly drastic health issues and had occasionally stepped away from the internet for weeks at a time, and after a few days of worry, it was seeing the deleted AO3 account that actually made me feel a bit better. Tumblr's a place where deactivation can happen willy-nilly, but AO3 requires deliberate effort. It let me tell myself they made the choice to step away as far as they could, rather than them leaving without providing a forwarding address. Tonight I found someone else I knew pretty well - we shared dinner in London once - who'd stopped posting over two years ago had their Tumblr account deactivated, also. Maybe they stepped far away. So I tell myself.

I knew I'd lose people someday. It's part and parcel of knowing people - knowing that they'll leave. When I got into fandom, I mostly made friends with people older than me; I've lately looked around and realized I'm mostly making friends with people my own age or younger. I don't know how long any of them are going to stay in my life. I know it's not going to last forever, or even as long as I'd wish it would. But I know they're here right now. And I know they've made my fandom life better, no matter how much time we had together.

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settiai

Current Mood: accomplished

First of all, relax! I'm far from being picky, and I can pretty much guarantee that I'll love whatever you decide to create for me. These are nothing but guidelines, for you to take to heart or ignore to your heart's content. Also, hey! You're writing me fic or drawing me art! That's automatically a good reason for me to love you, no matter what. So, please, keep that in mind. Trust me, you can pretty much do no wrong. ♥

Treats are always welcome but never expected.

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Manual de ghosting para principiantes by Clara Duarte (Cada seis meses) was hilarious! Delia has a one-night stand with Angie, but when the latter falls down her stairs and dies, she starts haunting Delia's flat.

I love Clara Duarte's books. They're very different from one another, except that they're all sapphic. This one is a long romcom, with cute illustrations from the author.

There's major f/f and minor m/m.

hannah

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Fifteen Minutes - Voxtrot

Some Grow Old (3427 words) by Hannah
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Top Gun (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
Characters: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky Lives, Established Relationship, Gay Pride, Pride Parades, Queer Themes, Queer Culture
Summary: Every Pride is someone's first.

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One of two Top Gun fics I've been working on that I've finally wrapped up and posted. Also, check out the new fandom icon.

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Current Mood: annoyed

There's little I can say about the political landscape. The news is horrifying pretty much everywhere. US friends in particular right now, especially in ICE-besieged spots, you're in my heart.

Reading: I haven't picked up a new novel since I finished Inside Threat. I'm still slowly reading Braiding Sweetgrass. And for my first non-work manga read of the year, since I'd really like to get back to actually reading manga, I reread vol. 1 of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, chosen largely because a newish Bluesky friend loves it and it's been so long since I read any of the series. Before the huge lull in it being published in English*, it and Yotsuba&! were the only manga I was actively keeping up with in terms of actually reading, as opposed to a few things that I've still been buying. (Looking at you, once-a-year release of Kaze Hikaru, which I will someday actually read.) But I've basically forgotten everything, so back to the start I go.

*Publication finally--technically--resumed with omnibus editions, and am I still mildly annoyed that to get vol. 15, I had to buy the fifth omnibus, thus rebuying vol. 13-14? Yes. Has any more come out since then? Nope.

Watching:

scruloose and I finished season 1 of Pluribus, which got even weirder than we expected, and in ways we wouldn't have guessed. Really, really good. (Also Yona watched the season finale with us, very intently tracking everything that happened onscreen. No idea why she was suddenly so fascinated.)

Playing: I put in a bit more time with I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, and it's not really clicking for me; I think this style of game (RPG? A story that unfolds differently depending on your choices, Choose Your Own Adventure-style?) may just not be my thing?

In huge-for-me game news, Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven has dropped. It's the first really major expansion (priced as a full game, which makes sense given the scope) after several smaller expansions, and I'm overwhelmed by the number of new things I suddenly need to do to keep my little cult happy and thriving, but am having fun.

Weathering/Householding: It's currently very cold by local standards, esp. with the windchill, and tonight we have a lot of snow rolling in that's expected to keep falling all through tomorrow and possibly into Tuesday. Yesterday NSP (the power corporation) (*hisses*) announced that the grid is under an unusually heavy load (presumably due to people heating their homes?) and asked everyone to try to minimize power usage. It is very cold, yes, but not freakishly so, and public sentiment about NSP is...uh...very fucking negative, what with their profits and their constantly skyrocketing fees and their data breach and, oh, the rickety fucking grid that we are all paying through the nose for while fully expecting to lose power every time a breeze picks up. So we're putting off laundry, at least (one of the usual Sunday chores), and I'd had notions of actually baking something (!), but that may not happen; if it does, it'll probably involve something like mixing up cookie dough and only baking a handful in the toaster oven, or seeing about doing the actual baking with supper also in the oven (less likely; we'll probably just avoid the oven entirely).

("Please use less power" is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but the combination of garbage infrastructure and the level of energy poverty in this province makes it insult to injury.)

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muccamukk - I'd like my trash TV paramedics to be a little less trashy!
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hannah - Title: Some Grow Old
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