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It was a good day. I actually slept 6 straight hours without waking up. People were in lab and engaged. I bounced early and thought well it's still sunny, let me do the laundry today (I do it on the weekend) and then go to Jackson for gas/food things I don't have, don't need, but want.

I have big heavy clothes so I need all three washers including the hated front loader. I plug in my quarters and go to turn it on cool water instead of blazing hot and...someone has broken off the temperature control knob. Well that's fun.

Put quarters in the big heavy sheets one and realize...it says out of order in small letters on the screen. Won't give me back my quarters and I REALLY want the sheets clean if the power goes out this weekend. Now I'm yanking stuff from the middle washer before it gets wet and shove the sheets in.

Go to the car to run to Jackson while this washes. My battery dies. I'm praying it's the battery (AGAIN) and not my alternator. Call AAA. It'll be at least an hour (well at least now I can finish laundry before leaving. Call Dad to wish him a happy birthday and tell him I'm stranded in the RV park's back alley (AGAIN. My battery has died back here before). He arrives an hour later and he has the big wrecker that could haul three cars. I feel bad as he has to back it out.

I race my dead-battery to Auto Zone and the guy looks at me we can't replace them in a honda CR-V. What? You have before. What year is it 2015. Oh, yeah we CAN do that. Over 2018 we can't because if you make one mistake which is too easy to do and the computer dies. I have never heard of this and resolve to ask Dad who obsesses over cars and he has a CR-V too (he had never heard of it and is now on a mission to find out) Frick and Frack might just be incompetent because he couldn't even get the housing off my battery and needs to get his coworker. He manages it. The terminal cover snaps off. he drops the battery in sideways, barely gets it back out. I drive off 230$ poorer just happy they didn't destroy my car (try Advanced Auto next time. Also they couldn't find me in the system. I've been there so many times....)

Kroger's of course is a nightmare. And the assholes in Jackson jumped the gas price over 30 cents since the day before (should have got that at work where they haven't) I get all kinds of things I can eat cold if the power goes out. That'll be tomorrow morning's excitement. I go to the library to get the book that was on hold.

I get home and my computer is off. Did I already once?!? Nothing else is blinking but firefox and edge both say thanks for updating so I think an update was forced.

I bought myself Archway Ginger snaps as a treat. They one of the few processed cookies I actually like. I now have a tons of salami, PB&J, and hard boiled eggs plus apples. I will have food.

Saying a little prayer for everyone's power.

But there was one good thing today beside Dad liking the gift I gave him. It's also my book birthday. Check it o ut!!

here on Amazon Paper back, hard back and ebook

Fannish 50 recs. Plenty of them. You can read if you're snowed in.

A Reason For Living Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem

How to Train Your Alpha Teen Wolf

An Unacceptable Loss Stargate Atlantis

Defining Love Torchwood

Workaholic FAKE

Honoring Satedan CelebrationsStargate Atlantis

Adaptability Torchwood

Not Restful The Fantastic Journey

JACKASS.OCT.11.19XX87_1.TRANSCRIPT The Murderbot Diaries

Adjacent

An Unexpected Discovery Stargate Atlantis

Awkward Conversations Chainsaw Man

listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Helluva Boss

Alive Again Torchwood

What Cowley Knows. The Professionals

Too Hot for Comfort Stargate Atlantis

I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me). The Professionals

Pillow Talk 9-1-1

Reflection At Bedside A Study in Emerald

Winter Wonderland The Sentinel

But What If There Was a Demon vs Dinosaur Cage Match? Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Being Prepared Due South

The Fear of Not Knowing Due South

Premonition Doctor Who

One More Tattoo Teen Wolf

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Current Music: Death in Paradise

walgesang

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silveradept

snowflake_challenge would like us to take a moment, for challenge #12, and appreciate the people who make life better for you in your fandoms.

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!

( I am not a rock, but neither am I someone who is in a great amount of community. )

Finally, I say this almost every time I talk about it, not because I believe that she'll ever come across it, but if that moonshot ever does happen, I want her to know it with certainty: Caroline, if you're still out there, we love 9th Elsewhere. And while we hope that maybe you'll pick it back up and bring it to a close, what we really want you to know is that the journey that Eiji and Carmen have taken holds a special place in all of us, so thank you for what you've done. I hope that knowing you have people who are fans and who have found this particular journey meaningful helps you with your own life, wherever you may be, and whatever you might be doing right now. I would love the opportunity to discuss umbrella-related poses with you again at some point.

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Yoko Shimomura - The 13th Dilemma (Luxord)

lightbird

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

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!

Thank you to all of fandom. The creators, the cheerleaders, all the mods of all the communities. You're all amazing.

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pattrose

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!

( Thank You )

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alexcat

#01 – Adamant	#02 – Snow	#03 – Lion	#04 – Spark	#05 – Amber
#06 – Lust	#07 – Bronze	#08 – Mint	#09 – Arctic	#10 – Black
#11 – Moonlight	#12 – Sunlight	#13 – Blue	#14 – Navy	#15 – Tea
#16 – Neon	#17 – Twilight	#18 – Blush	#19 – Wine	#20 – Nude
#21 – Rhythm	#22 – Brown	#23 – Linen	#24 – Ember	#25 – Thistle
#26 – Cherry	#27 – Orange	#28 – Vanilla	#29 – Bone	#30 – Harlequin
#31 – Cadet	#32 – Chocolate	#33 – Peach	#34 – Lead	#35 – Cream
#36 – Sand	#37 – White	#38 – Crimson	#39 – Pink	#40 – Ocean
#41 – Dove	#42 – Platinum	#43 – Yellow	#44 – Earth	#45 – Midnight
#46 – Pearl	#47 – Frostbite	#48 – Pumpkin	#49 – Electric	#50 – Purple
#51 – Coral	#52 – Salt	#53 – Crow	#54 – Rainbow	#55 – Cloud
#56 – Flame	#57 – Red	#58 – Ash	#59 – Rose	#60 – Slate
#61 – Green	#62 – Ruby	#63 – Olive	#64 – Lipstick	#65 – Spice
#66 – Grey	#67 – Denim	#68 – Rust	#69 – Flirt	#70 – Sunset
#71 – Sable	#72 – Desert	#73 – Jade	#74 – Sage	#75 – Buff
#76 – Jet	#77 – Plum	#78 – Leather	#79 – Liberty	#80 – Metal
#81 – Sepia	#82 – Lavender	#83 – Scarlet	#84 – Crystal	#85 – Chestnut
#86 – Shadow	#87 – Lemon	#88 – Mystic	#89 – Silver	#90 – Coffee
#91 – Seafoam	#92 – Lime	#93 – Punch	#94 – Pickle	#95 – Champagne
#96 – Copper	#97 – Bittersweet	#98 – Honey	#99 – Candy	#100 – Gold

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kingstoken's 2026 Book Bingo: First Person POV

The Red Chesterfield by Wayne Arthurson is a 2019 crime novella (with a touch of magical realism) about a bylaw enforcement officer, M, who finds a body while investigating an abandoned chesterfield. The incident leaves M shaken and drawn into more than one mystery as the chesterfield keeps appearing and a regular on M's route disappears. But the book is less interested in answering "whodunnit" than it is with looking at characters' decisions about getting involved in crime and drama and how priorities around family, romantic relationships, career, community, truth and justice can shift the usual narrative shape of the genre.

This is one of those books that I want to take apart with a little eyeglass screwdriver to see how it works. It's an absolute marvel of efficiency. It's only 99 pages (that exact number being by design, I suspect) with large text and several half-page chapters, but it's packed with story. It covers a lot of ground without feeling like it's moving as fast as it is. We get to know so much about who M is as a person but from a deep enough position that we skip a lot of high-level markers or exposition. This story is built on implication and inference, and the reader's principally assigned to solving the protagonist rather than the plot.

I really enjoyed this one, and I'm looking forward to checking out the author's other work.

( An Excerpt )

kingstoken

Snowflake Challenge: A pair of ice skates hanging on a wood paneled wall. Pine boughs with a few ornaments are stuffed into the skates.

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!

I'm terrible with posts like this, but here goes. Thank you to everyone who follows me and leaves comments on my posts. Thank you to everyone who does the Book Bingo with me. Aand last but not least, thank you to all my fellow Fanlore editors, there aren't a lot of us, but we toil away trying our best to archive fandom history.

Anyways, please enjoy this multifandom dance vid I found on the net:

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sixbeforelunch

Challenge #12: Make an appreciation post to those who enhance your fandom life.

I'm going to call one person out by name, and hope that I'm not putting her on the spot.

beatrice_otter has been my primary beta and person I bounce ideas off of for almost 10 years now and she is endlessly supportive and willing to listen to me flail around, as well as helpful in catching plot holes and telling me when I've lost the plot entirely, and catching my myriad typos and homophone confusions. I'm not sure Pi'maat would exist without her help and occasional gentle head pats telling me it's going to be okay, and I am very glad to have her in my fandom life.

I'm also hugely fond of the people in both the Ad Astra and vuhlkansu Discords for having the sort of deep-dive worldbuilding conversations where, to take an actual recent example, you start out with someone trying to make a better representation of a canon map of an alien planet and end up trying to work out how plate tectonics could produce those mountain ranges and figure out what that sort of water-to-land ratio would really do to the climate.

And of course, Dreamwidth is fantastic. It really feels like a town, small enough to have a genuine community vibe, but not so small that you can't find new stuff from time to time. I genuinely appreciate all of you for being here, for listening to me talk about my various obsessions, and for posting about your own interests and creative pursuits. 💛

A lot of the credit for that has to go to

denise and Mark for sticking with this project for 17 years, and sticking to their principles, not taking VC money, not monetizing the community, and generally being pro-social and decent humans, which is sadly not as common as it should be in people who run social platforms.

sarajayechan

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spikedluv

Best Medicine: Does anyone else ‘sing’ this title to the tune of Bon Jovi’s Bad Medicine, or is that just me? *g* This ep was okay. ( spoilers )

Wild Cards: This ep was just okay. ( spoilers )

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shewhostaples

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CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

I've never done a digital moodboard (have done physical collages, back in the day) and this sounded fun, if a little challenging to manage with limited laptop time. As I've been burbling about The Prisoner of Zenda quite a bit recently, I thought I'd stick with that. All the images came from Wikimedia Commons.

I can never make DW images play nicely, so I'm just sticking this under a cut and hoping for the best. I hope it doesn't come out too huge!

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abyssal_sylph

SO in case you don't know: leprechaun romance is a joke-detail about the leprechauns/the felt from Homestuck. Basically what we know about it is that;

Leprechauns have 9 (sub)types of romance.

They're expected to get into troves, which is when a relationship has 3 romance (sub)types.

It's seemingly build around love, pranks & jappery.

Leprechauns reproduce homosexually.

Which first of all: how is reproducing homosecually diffrent from reproducing bisexually??? Honestly the bisexual reproduction makes sense if trolls were moss or fungus like, but they're not, so I have no clue what this realistically could mean (besides gender but that makes even less sense let's be honest here).

Call me Aranea, but I'm obsessed actually! I wish Homestuck had an actual explanation for leprechaun romance. Because part of the fun of the Homestuck media is the quadrants romance system. It's the way it explores how diffrent characters would find eachother important. Honestly we were robbed more fun by the fact this seems to be a joke on the quadrant shippers! Jokes on you hussie I ADORE making aliens/non-humans more wacky!

abyssal_sylph

This is the journal of Abyss or Abyss in Cahoots! system (mixed-origin). But currently it's run by the headmate Rietta (she/they).

21 yo / aroace bi-lesbian + xenic demigal / Seer of Light + Derse + Limeblood / turtle shipper / amateur lover of various crafts.
Things that inspire me in some way; wacky character designs, poetry, music, slice of life (+ that flavour of worldbuilding), my fictionkins, the world, all kinds of ships + wacky romance systems (quadrants, leprechaun romance, sedoretu, gimme more pls).

Note: YKINMKATO + SALS + DLDR, please ignore or block us if you get heavly squicked out &/or triggered by this journal or us.

Current Fixation: Homestuck
Currently Consuming: Silksong
Fandoms Posted Most About: OMORI + DanganRonpa

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cyberpunk_pygmalion = Pygmalion's personal journal

[updated as of 23rd january, 2026]

Current Mood: rejuvenated
Current Music: "My Darling, My Companion" by Jamie Paige

spikedluv

I hit Walmart while I was downtown, but only because they were running out of dog treats at the garage. (Pip’s father has taken on the task of providing treats for the dogs at the garage ever since we had our first dog, Shiloh, and Pip started taking him up as a puppy. But his dad was sick with bronchitis and missed a whole week and didn’t bring in anything this week when he came back, hence the need for me to pick something up.)

I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, emptied the dishwasher and ran another load, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter. We had spaghetti for supper. I also mixed up a meatloaf for tomorrow’s supper.

I got some more writing done! ~800 words today. I’m currently at ~8,000 on this fic and will easily make the 10,000 requirement for SFBB. I watched Best Medicine and some House Hunters International.

Temps started out at 34.3(F), which was a huge surprise! (The TWC app said it was going to be 18 for the overnight low and 33 for the high, which we’ve already exceeded.) It dropped a bit to 33.1 before I left. and reached 38.7.

The forecast for the snow storm has changed, but not for the better. Now they’re calling for 5-8" during the day Sunday, 5-8" overnight, and 1-3" on Monday. Really DNW! *cries*

I’ve heard that this storm is supposed to be massive and hit the south pretty hard, as well. I hope everyone in the path of this thing stays safe and warm.

Mom Update:

Mom was doing okay; tired, as usual. The slightest effort tuckers her out, which is really sad to see. We ate our lunch together. A friend of hers showed up while I was there and even stayed after I left. (She had to move her car so I could get out of the driveway, and sometimes she would take that as an excuse to leave, but she didn’t today.)

Sister S called while I was there and told mom she was bringing down supper for her. Meatloaf, which mom loves. She was looking forward to it, but afraid she wouldn’t be able to eat it.

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awesomeers

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

queenslayerbee

Snowflake Challenge: A close up shot of an owl ornament hanging amidst pine boughs..

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!

A lot of My Fandom People are disseminated in other sites, most prominently tumblr and discord. Though I do try to get them into dreamwidth, trust me xD. The environment here is one I prefer, frankly: it's slower, and feels calmer, less prone to the kind of drama that plagues those others. In some cases we follow and talk to each other across all platforms, taking advantage of the benefits of each (curse discord as I might in many areas, in terms of direct messages, it's definitely the best one, for example).

I don't think of myself as a gregarious person; I get exhausted quickly by large crowds, especially. In fandom it's much of the same: I feel more comfortable in small fandoms, and whenever I join a larger one, I set to find a small corner of it where I'm in my element.

My preferences often make this easier, because they're rarely in alignment with fandom majorities. Thanks to that I've found My People in numerous corners, from the chill group I gathered while The 100 (a large, wank-prone fandom) was airing, to the buddies I've made in the DC fandom (Even Worse xD), to the ones I met in the tiny environment of writeblr, when I was still around those parts, or that I'm meeting now with Pluribus, for example. My oldest fandom friends, I met in the Shadowhunters fandom, my first active one. A trainwreck, but again, I met a lot of people there that I'm still friends with today :D

In many cases we've followed each other through several fandoms, sometimes meeting, sometimes diverging for a while. Sometimes following each other beyond fandom, taking interests in each other's professional pursuits, in each other's personal lives. Some of the people I've met here know things about me that I wouldn't tell those I personally know off-line, and with their mere presence, support, and engagement, have helped me through Some Shit.

I'll always be glad that I took the leap from lurker to active fandom participant (and creator). I genuinely don't know how I would've stayed sane through my early twenties without the people I met around here. Some of them, I no longer talk with; some just follow me on tumblr and we only sporadically like each other's posts. But others have become lasting friendships that sustain me to this day, And I'm extremely grateful for that!

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Anouk - Nobody's Wife

cypresssunn

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!

Stop me if I'm doing this wrong... but hey. lets just make this like a reverse call out post.

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Dear

queenslayerbee
To you I dedicate this song: {X}

I'm so glad we're friends and that you don't think my incessant discord messages are annoying XD

You've become my accidental writing accountability buddy. And also someone who inadvertently reminds me to keep using this journal. The few strides I've made in writing this year have been things I look forward to telling you about. You're so very kind with your encouragement and empathy. And I'm always amazed at your writing and your passion for your chosen fandoms. You have put me onto so many writing opportunities. Like, I can't believe I never knew the joys of commentfic and bitesized exchanges. You keep me engaged, is what I am trying to say. And you have such brilliant (and correct!) opinions all of the time and one of my great joys is that sometimes we get to be huuuuge haters together.

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Dear

shiegra
To you I dedicate this song: {X}

We can so easily pick up where we left off. Just, always and without fail. And that's a rarity for me, because, well, you know how I get when I leave things too long. You are maybe The Big reason why I never sink into that hole of loneliness. You're the light of my life and I'm proud of you always. You enhance my everyday life, not just my time spent with fandom. Love you babes.

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Dear

scorpiod
To you I dedicate this song: {X}

This is maybe out of the blue because we haven't spoken in years. But I recently remembered Batman with a Personality Transplant and i lost my ever loving shit. I'm not kidding, I fell out of my chair remembering how dense I was when that happened XD Its the sort of joke that sneaks up on me, and also the sort that you can't really explain without ruining the humor. Its a you-had-to-be-there thing. And though the ancient days of tumblr and google chat are long behind us, all those specific ridiculous memories are wonderful and I think of them often and fondly.

Hope you're well, always. (And Heather, too.)

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Dear Readers
To you I dedicate this song {X}

Had to double back for this one. My return to writing has been bitter sweet because its hard to reconcile all the time I wasn't creative or productive. But the number of people who have sent messages and left comments telling me that they are glad to see and hear from me again has been unexpected. And just. Amazing. I live to share my work and all my dreamed up nonsense. Knowing that there is such positive and enthusiastic reception makes the difference. So thank you. You make all of this feel all the more worthwhile.

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Music: the arcs - stay in my corner

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