December+ TV Show PTW

Dec. 26th, 2025 05:43 pm
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Using my TV Show PTW boardgame.

I completed 6/6 from my last challenge, I enjoyed them all so much I totally neglected my Asian drama challenge......

Avatar: Thriller (Dark)
Skill: Cover 2 shows with 1 prompt


Roll #1

A 10, prompt: longest titled. Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir can't be beat in this category lol

Roll #2

A 5, comedy element. Danny Phantom.

Roll #3

A 6, generate from PTW list. #45. Took a while because I had to do some research and removed a few things;; Maniac is the result, it's about 2 people who do a trial of pills to try and solve their problems but it leads to dream-like worlds in their minds where they keep connecting with each other.

Roll #4

A 10, prompt: contemporary. Red Rose,

Roll #5

An 8 and the end. This was hard because there's a few things I'd be happy to continue, but I'm going with Camp Cretaceous as my reward. I totally forgot to use my skill ahhh.

TV Show PTW List:

[Animation/Superhero] Miraculous Ladybug
[Animation/Superhero] Danny Phantom
[Drama/Sci-Fan] Maniac
[Drama/Horror] Red Rose
[Animation/Adventure] Camp Cretaceous

Happy Yuletide!

Dec. 26th, 2025 11:51 pm
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The holidays have been calm and quiet for me so far, but I've spent them with my mum, so somehow almost all the time was filled up anyway. *g* Tonight I finally found the time to properly settle down with my Yuletide gifts! I got three of them, two in the main collection and one in Madness. ♥ ♥ ♥

Here they are:
  • Nicky and Gwarha from Ring of Swords, completely spot on, in an episode mentioned but not described in detail in canon:
    Veni, Vidi, Arrivederci (1516 words)
    Fandom: Ring of Swords - Eleanor Arnason
    Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
    Relationship: Ettin Gwarha/Sanders Nicholas
    Content Tag: Pre-Canon

    Summary: The purple jungle adventure, from Gwarha's point of view.

  • The Nantucket Trilogy, a few generations later - future history my beloved:
    Portraits of the Past (1371 words)
    Fandom: Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling
    Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
    Relationships: Kenneth Hollard/Raupasha, Kashtiliash/Kathryn Hollard
    Characters: Raupasha (Nantucket Series), Kashtiliash (Nantucket Series), Original Characters
    Content Tags: Post canon, Canon as Seen Through The Lens of History

    Summary: A new exhibit opens at the Athenaeum...

  • More Nantucket Trilogy - a Raupasha drabble about her arrival on Nantucket:
    Her New Future (100 words)
    Fandom: Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling
    Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
    Relationship: Kenneth Hollard/Raupasha
    Characters: Raupasha (Nantucket Series), Kenneth Hollard
    Content Tags: Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational, YUMADRIN 2025, Drabble, Post-Canon

    Summary: Raupasha reflects on the future.

I'm so pleased! So far I'm having a fantastic Yuletide. :D

Now I'm looking forward to diving into the rest of the collection! How's everyone else's Yuletide so far?

Write every day: Day 26

Dec. 26th, 2025 11:14 pm
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Day 24: No writing, also I didn't have time to reply to comments because my sister's family is here and it takes up all the time (in a very good way!)

Tally:
Read more... )
Day 25: [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] china_shop,

Day 26: [personal profile] china_shop

Bonus farm news: I love my sister. <3 Also, she gave me heirloom bean varieties for Christmas. She definitely knows me...

Bottom heavy, evidence light.

Dec. 27th, 2025 09:18 am
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Tl;dr, there’s no evidence “dyslexia fonts” work — being based on a myth about what dyslexia actually is — and in fact some evidence they make reading even harder.

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[ SECRET POST #6930 ]

Dec. 26th, 2025 05:09 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6930 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Title: Earthquake
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Fred, Scott, Travellers, Varian.
Rating: PG
Setting: An Act of Love.
Summary: The travellers are trapped in a cave beneath a mountain, and Varian is missing.
Word Count: 300
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 501: Amnesty 83, using Challenge 62: Trapped.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.



Ho ho ho

Dec. 26th, 2025 08:39 pm
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+ I was going to do my yearly 5 icon slots as a gift to myself, and it turns out 550 is a hard limit and I can't have any more. No fair. I got DW money some other way but boo.

+ Fallout is apparently back! I watched both episodes yesterday and enjoyed them. We're getting more zany vault culture and I'm here for it. Also a delightful actor appearance, big plus there.

+ Absolutely fell behind on [community profile] rec_cember. My brain has been Tired from being social every day. I do have a few more planned, fingers crossed they actually happen?

+ Christmas Eve was an absolute success. The food was lovely, everyone was healthy and in good spirits, and since there were no kids we took our time and opened one package at a time. I finally have a working vacuum again \o/ A foldable foot bath, and a ginger preserve I'm quite excited to try out. Some creams, u retweet, tea, and a gift card for RITUALS. All useful things.

+ Joined my brother in picking up my dad from the airport earlier. Now to figure out what will happen for my birthday, then my friend's birthday the day after, and THEN New Year's. I'd like a nap tbh.

debunking inklings

Dec. 26th, 2025 11:48 am
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People say...

- that you could prop up a tabletop rigid heddle loom between your legs and the table's edge. Sure, but perhaps not this one, which is palm-sized.

- that you need multiple shafts to weave certain motifs. It's like saying that you need a bed frame, boxspring, and foam mattress for sleeping, or chairs with rigid frames and a table of a certain height for eating a meal. You might like having them, you might consider them status markers, your cultural expectations may've blocked off other options, but one does not need them in an absolute sense.

Here's Kyoung Ae Cho preparing to weave houndstooth using a backstrap and several sets of string heddles. A meaningful percentage of the work is completed during the warping stage.

(If her setup goes too fast in that video, try her basic setup howto. It shows the interim uses of lease sticks and which things are tied provisionally, then undone. What she does is unfamiliar to me but looks much like the setup used by a Kazakh weaver whose reels Instagram keeps tossing my way---a Kazakh weaver who's a quarter ethnic Korean by heritage, part of the Koryo-saram community. Coincidence? I've no idea.)

- that you need multiple shafts, part two: here's someone with Atelier Fagelbo (Japan) weaving basic houndstooth with a rigid heddle on a tabletop/box loom. They don't show how to dress the loom because they'd like you to buy the loom and their many photo pages of directions (no thanks), but it is proof of concept.

- that you mustn't fuss with the warp (except to repair a broken warp thread) once a loom has been dressed and weaving has begun. I've undone the basic knotted warp from the large 8-dent heddle that shipped with my 10" Beka beginner frame, rethreaded the warp through a heddle with the right size of reed (12 dent), and added a few weft rows to what was provided by Beka staff. Much better. The original plan was to use someone else's warp and not only learn but save my hands. An 8-dent heddle with what looks like #4 or #8 cotton is pretty clunky. (#10 cotton, only slightly thinner, is "bedspread cotton" for mid-C20 crochet patterns.)

The Friday Five for 26 December 2025

Dec. 26th, 2025 02:37 pm
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1. You have the summer and plenty of money to travel abroad. Where all would you go?

2. What foods would you be sure you got to eat?

3. What landmarks would you be sure you got to see?

4. What airline would you use?

5. Would your knowledge of other languages influence where you went? (i.e., would you be more likely to go to France if you spoke French?)

Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!

Dec 26 only -- Free romance books

Dec. 26th, 2025 12:30 pm
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Links to all platforms / booksellers.

https://www.romancebookworms.com/

As always, feel free to share.

 
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And very heavy on the dudes. I'm not sure if women don't go into this sort of thing, or if they're just too classy when they do it, and thus don't get onto the playlist. Though I guess it would be strange for lesbians to sing an ode to Jingle Bell COCK. (Emphasis all theirs, and totally unnecessary. We know where the song was going.)


Anyway, in honor of this, I'm posting three belated Christmas videos. The last is Boynton and totally SFW.





This one won't let me embed it.
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ANYA: You know, you were a lot more fun when you didn't have a soul.
SPIKE: Oh, come on. Now, I've just explained to you—
ANYA: All I'm saying is soulless Spike would have had me upside down and halfway to happy land by now.

~~Sleeper~~



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Birdfeeding

Dec. 26th, 2025 01:22 pm
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Today is cloudy and mild.  It rained again last night.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few house finches and sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 12/26/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 12/26/25 -- I did more work around the patio.





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Happy Friday! Here's some links-- deliberately focused on positive things, to give some end-of-year cheer.

Media of Various Types

Food & Crafts & Art

Social Media

RSS Feeds

  • mixed color (RSS) a great blog about embroidery, sewing, dying, etc!
  • Winnie Lim RSS writes very enjoyable blog posts about life and the things that happen therein
  • sortition social is a community RSS feed reader! It selects a random feed from their (user-submitted?) database and added to the timeline for 7 days

<- previous linkspam | link library | all link posts ->

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Episode 6:
Cole's explanation for why some call boats etc 'she' was sweet, at least the non-joking one lol

The Pirates of the Caribbean and Tremors references. X'D

Nya used Airjitzu!

Waait Ronin is good again all because of the bottle message Jay sent? I still won't forgive him, he knew the boys were innocent from the start.

Episode 7: Aww, let Zane speak pirate too!

"If he's within earshot, he has to grant the wish" I feel like they could've done something with that sooner. Couldn't someone have wished that their friends were freed?

Was the sky-fall a reference to Spirited Away?

Episode 8: Zane's father built another Zane??

Lmao at the seagulls watching the chess game and the cleanup robot cheating.

Shouldn't Zane #2 have wishes too? Why didn't they use him to say the wish?

Okay so Nya really did like Jay, I guess she just buried it until now.

Eww Nadakhan didn't really kiss Nya right??
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Charles Dickens exhibition to shine light on powerful women in author’s life: 'Novels only ‘reinforced Victorian stereotypes’ of meek women to give readers what they wanted, says curator'.

Oh, come on.

Query, did readers (as opposed to various gate-keepers in publishing houses, Mudie's and other circulating libraries. etc) want meek women?

(Do I need to cite Victorian novelists who did quite well out of women who were not meek.)

I would also contend that any input from women in Mr D's life was going to filtered through a lot of his Own Stuff, and the article actually points out some of the things like His Mummy Issues.

There is no-one in the novels at all like Angela Burdett-Coutts, whom one suspects very unlike saintly Agnes Wickfield (and married a much younger man at an advanced age), in fact as I think I have complained heretofore, he was happy to work with this renowned philanthropist while the women philanthropists in his novels are mean and merciless caricatures.

One can make a case that he did worse than 'dilute' the women he knew when portraying them on his pages.

Also I am not sure what the 'debate' is over his relationship with Ellen Ternan!

Christmas Day and Boxing Day

Dec. 26th, 2025 05:11 pm
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We had our usual quiet Christmas Day: stockings, family zoom, salmon-elevenses, roast bird dinner with my brother Jonny, a silly film (Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon). I even managed to drag the children out to the park for an hour or so before dinner, including some table tennis and frisbee.

One of my personal Christmas traditions is watching the Nutcracker, usually in a cinema broadcast, and I just couldn't make that work this winter. So I was really charmed to find a broadcast of the Royal Ballet's production on iPlayer; the advantage of watching it at home is that I can have a quiet chat with my brother alongside without bothering anyone else.

This morning I woke up nice and early and headed out for another of my booked hot yoga sessions, followed by dropping in on my old friend Shaun for a long-overdue catchup. This afternoon has mostly been reading and TV, and the evening will probably continue the same way.

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