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This week's prompt is resolve.

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schneefink

I didn't participate in Yuletide this year, but I did write a gift for a friend:

Ghost of Christmas Fork-In-The-Road for

springbeetle, Hermitcraft/Life Series
2.6k, gen, Grian&Grian, Hermitcraft s11 / Nice Life crossover
Summary: What if there were two Grians, one an admin who organizes death games and the other a prankster and builder on a mostly-vanilla server, and one of them put the other in a cage.
Notes: I had a lot of fun with this. I wish I had had space for an appearance by trivia bot (maybe could have figured something out if I had more time) but that just has to be an AU for if Hermitcraft Grian arrived a little earlier.

Life series seasons I have now written fic for:( Read more... )

oursin

Firstly:

So, farewell then, PSC, whose advice to the sexually-bothered (rather than the lovelorn) has so oft provided fodder to oursinial musings. Guardian G2 today includes 23 of the best Sexual Healing columns

Not sure if they are The Greatest Hits rather than molto tipico of the kind of thing she addressed: in particular we note (as she stresses in the interview about the lessons learnt over 10 years of agony-aunting):

The female orgasm is still a mystery to some people
I’m still getting questions that show me people continue to think that the only “correct” type of female orgasm is one that’s purely vaginal and doesn’t involve the clitoris. For people to still think that, or to have that as the ideal, is extraordinary, but there it is. They just haven’t had the education to understand otherwise.

There is a waterspout off Portland Bill (where Marie Stopes' ashes were scattered). Volumes of the Kinsey Report on the Human Female are spontaneously falling off library shelves. The shade of Shere Hite is gibbering and wailing.

We also note the recurrent MenZ B Terribly Poor Stuff theme, what with the one who appears to regard his wife's bisexuality as a USP meaning *3SOMES* and two or three where one feels she did not interrogate sufficiently whether the male querent was actually gratifying his female partner before offering reassurance/solution e.g. 'My stunning wife makes no effort with our sex life' where we should like to know precisely what effort he is putting in, ahem.

However, there are also some of the wilder shores there.

***

Secondly, and could we have a big AWWWW for this: David Attenborough seeks out London’s hidden wildlife:

Filming the wildlife of London requires an intrepid, agile presenter, willing to lie on damp grass after dark to encounter hedgehogs, scale heights to hold a peregrine falcon chick, and stake out a Tottenham allotment to get within touching distance of wary wild foxes.
Step forward Sir David Attenborough, who spent his 100th summer seeking out the hidden nature of his home city for an unusually personal and intimate BBC documentary.

cakewrecks_feed

Posted by Jen

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/the-far-side-of-cake-vol-9-2025

They say Santa just wasn't the same after that visit.

*****

Everyone did their best to stay nonchalant, but like moths to a flame, they were inexorably drawn to Eeyore's new lower back tattoo:

*****

The silence stretched out painfully, and now everyone was looking at him. Curse that mechanic and his "ultra performance diesel shake"!

*****

It really was a great place for cookouts and casual get-togethers... provided you never made eye contact with the ducks:

Thanks to Susan L., Laura K., Beth J., & Warren G. for the fowl play.

*****

P.S. Forget the cakes, this month has left my house wrecked. I'm so ready for a big purge and organizing blitz - and eyeballing nifty little turntables like this:

7-Layer Rotating Makeup Organizer

Ohhh, look at this beauty. Don't you just want to take her for a spin?
*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/the-far-side-of-cake-vol-9-2025

firecat

Turns out that listening to an audiobook of The Witcher in the vicinity of an iThing can cause a mildly irritating problem

lucy_roman

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merrileemakes

My partner and I don't really do Christmas because of our combined childhood and family trauma. But I suspected she'd gotten me a little gift and I was struggling to think of something to gift her in return. Then a pre-Christmas chat at

everykindofcraft prompted the idea to make her something.

Partner had mentioned that she wanted to do some cross stitching over the holidays, and I've always wanted to make a cross stitch project bag. So that's what I did!
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Current Music: Scott Buckley - Phase Shift

stonepicnicking_okapi posting in

100words

Title: The wrong holiday
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Notes: Mrs. Hudson is not amused.

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oursin

Out for my walk today, went through the pocket park behind the house, and there was a lady with a small terrier (I think), that was going absolutely spare under some trees -

- and looking up I finally saw, right up at the very top where it had attained to, a squirrel, which was presumably the reason for the agitation.

Had some passing converse with the dog's owner anent this, who claims that he will never actually catch a squirrel, even though they are tame enough that if you go and sit on one of the park benches they will come and look you over.

Mostly the dogs that one sees being walked in the park are less vociferous, perhaps they have grown wise to the ways of squirrels.

So anyway, I passed on to the other somewhat larger park, and see no advance yet in what is supposed to be a development involving a pergola (???) and further eco-stuff but at least there is no longer unsightly work being done at that spot.

Have only very lately discovered that two objects which I vaguely thought, had I thought at all, were maybe bird-houses, are actually insect-houses. Much to my chagrin, I can find nothing about this on the park website which boasts of various eco and environment good stuff that goes on there (I am still trying to work out what the sparrow-meadow is, have not seen plume nor feather of a sparrow on my ambles).

However, I can at least point dr rdrz at this site where I perceive that insect houses are quite A Thing: designed to provide safe nesting, hibernation, and breeding spaces for beneficial pollinators such as solitary bees, butterflies, ladybirds, and lacewings'.

I assume solitary bees are a specific species, and have not actually been expelled from their hive for some vile transgression, to roam the earth etc etc etc like an apian ancient mariner.

conuly

Morbid question, but let's be serious here: If you were trapped in a house with nothing to eat but your recently deceased pet, wouldn't you at least think about it?

People talk about this like it's so shocking, or like it means your pet obviously doesn't really love you, but c'mon. I love my cat, but I'd eat her in a heartbeat if she was already dead and there was nothing else left. She's my cat, she's not my baby. It's not like I've gone full on Donner Party - and let's be clear, if that was all that was left on the table, and they were already dead, I'd do that too. At least, I'd think about doing it. I suppose I might not be able to bring myself to go that far, but I wouldn't find it shocking if another person did!

cakewrecks_feed

Posted by Jen

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/a-tail-of-whoa-2025

CW reader Eric ordered a "pin the tail on the donkey" cake for his twin girls' fourth birthday party.

They got this:

So many jokes, so little time.
Let's just stick with: OUCH.

Thanks to Eric T. for the hee-haws.

*****

P.S. Is your life boring? Does your soul yearn for adventure? Are you waiting for the universe to send you a sign?

Then here:

The Yodeling Pickle

Also the universe says "hi."

(Listen, if you can't think of anything to do with an 8-inch plastic yodeling pickle, then I can't help you.)

*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/a-tail-of-whoa-2025

conuly

ask a detailed question about phonology, such as "Do you really pronounce 'tr' as 'chr'?" (Yes, yes we do. We all do. It's almost impossible not to due to the physiology of those phonemes.)

And this will generate a burst of absolutely, frustratingly useless nonsense, because people just do not know how they talk. They don't know how they talk, they can't analyze their phonetics on the fly, and they are staggeringly unaware of these facts.

I keep telling these people to go to /r/linguistics instead, but thus far, nobody has taken my advice. Which is a pity, because I do give excellent advice, especially in this case.

But seriously - nobody knows how they talk. It's like trying to explain the biomechanics of walking. Sure, you've been doing it since you were a toddler (probably?), but that doesn't mean you have any understanding at all of what the hell you're doing as you propel yourself from place to place. I bet you can't even explain how you adjust for your varying center of balance!

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shadaras

1.
The darkest part of the year is always the hardest to remember to, like, be a person and not just curl up being grumbly about the long cold dark.

But, well, I do feel more like a person the more I act like a person and interact with people, as much as I might wish to be a lump and zone out while watching streams/tv that ask nothing of me.

2.
Yuletide revealed works!

There was perhaps 30min of AHHHH about 20min after reveals due to an Ao3 bug that revealed creators alongside works. Considering that this happened to Battleship this summer and the mods heard crickets from Support at the time, perhaps now that Yuletide hit the same bug (and solved the immediate problem with advice from the Battleship mods) Ao3 support will have more data and motivation to figure out wtf happened there and make sure it can't happen again.

Anyway, I received two Yuletide gifts:

The Promise (1222 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Oathsworn (Actual Play Podcast)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Dorado the Adamant & Nabain Palisade
Characters: Dorado the Adamant, Nabain Palisade
Additional Tags: and the absence of Serikali, Post canon, Missing Scene, Dialogue Heavy, Major Spoilers
Summary:
“Did you ever speak to Serikali?” Dorado asked.
“Not as often as I would have liked.” The broken promise settled over his shoulders like a yoke. But even under that weight, he still could carry curiosity. Dorado was direct: if she changed topic, there had to be a reason.

This is for a fandom that, as the author's note says, I wrote a promo post last year (and then mentioned again during Battleship season when people were asking about good actual play podcasts), and am thus inevitably the reason this person got into the show. <3 Delightful to get a gift for it! I was not expecting one, but also when I saw a gift show up for me and no fandoms I'd requested in the collection list I was like "omg... perhaps..." and it was!

This is a lovely little coda adding into the Oathsworn epilogue, about what people are willing to do for the sake of their community and what secrets they're willing to keep and why. Absolutely delightful.

The other gift is WORLDBUILDING VIA TEXTBOOK EXCERPTS

The Dresediel Lex Project And Its Consequences (2385 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Maestre Gerhardt
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Epistolary
Summary:
Excerpts from documents found in Tara Abernathy's bag before her graduation from the Hidden Schools, sketching out the historical project to understand undeath and some pertinent later findings.

aka, someone taking me up on my Worldbuilding and Atypical Narrative Stuff things. <3 Absolutely delightful. A+ look into how weird it is to do SCIENCE to the magic of Becoming A Lich and Living Forever As An Undead Being. The change in thought about said magic from the first excerpt to the last is very fun, and it's a good look at a bit of magic that the series itself takes rather for granted.

I have also received absolutely lovely comments on both of the fics I wrote for Yuletide! Further commentary about those after author reveals; I had a great time writing both of them for very different reasons. xD <3

3.
Been thinking about projects for the new year and things I want to do and how, as much as I'm like "ughhhhh I am TIRED all the time" it is annoyingly true that often if I do things anyway I will end up having more energy overall.

So.

Fundamentally I believe in my ability to Write Stuff so long as I, y'know, actually focus and put time into it. xD The part where I need to get myself to actually write instead of zoning out on the internet is the hard part, usually! But I would like to actually write about the blorbos I've been rotating in my head since this summer.

There's this part of me like "that would be easier if you had a TITLE for it" and I'm like "OKAY SO GIVE ME ONE" about it. (

tavina most of the time I do not feel your pain about this BUT IN THIS CASE it feels weirdly true, considering that my brain can give me the primary arc of the story and the vibes I want but the idea of WRITING it is somehow ???. if a title helps I will sigh loudly but also be like "yeah okay sure".)

but I would like to be able to actually explain about my blorbos and their not-romance (it is an ADVENTURE STORY and they are absolutely Together but also get mad if one's like "so your BOYFRIEND" about it) (they are a half-triton/half-elf and a half-orc/half-dragon because why be Normal about your multiracial fantasy characters) (the half-dragon gets kidnapped to build an airship and that's what kicks the whole thing off) which means I need to WRITE IT

so really if I have any goal for next year it is probably simply "please actually write full draft of that <3", which, to be clear, is Very Doable based on how many words I am capable of writing xD just gotta make them words about this.

4.
It snowed the day after Christmas (or, well, the evening of Boxing Day into the early morning of the 27th), fluffy dry snow that's perfectly aesthetic and wasn't too much of a pain to clean off. Tonight it's supposed to be FREEZING RAIN, however, which is so much more UGH and is going to make going to work tomorrow Special. (I wish I got more time off for the holidays, but, whatever, it's not like I would do anything in particular except rest and read and write.)

5.
The dojo did get a new heater in. It's the same as the old heater, I'm pretty sure, except newer and thus works properly. xD

6.
A friend made me watch the first four episodes of I Am Nobody, a cdrama that they were like "I think you'll like it!" about because of the traits: Has Women (aka: is not actually a BL) and Is Modern Cultivation (because I'd made a comment about the Legend of Xiao Hei that they should've told me it was modern cultivation and not just "it has a cute cat! look at the cute cat!"). The thing is, it has women by virtue of being Probably Het (I think fandom is mostly like BUT BOYS about it) and the modern cultivation is "secret sects keep magic secret" and not the far more interesting "magical cultivation sects are integrated into everyday modern life" that Xiao Hei included.

So like... it's a show that I'd have fun watching with them, because it's honestly really well done for what it is, but unlike either friend I was watching with (either the one showing this to us or the other one new to it) I am not compelled to watch the rest on my own? It leans too much into comedy and not enough into the sort of worldbuilding or character dynamics that actually get their claws into me. Not a bad thing about it, really! I see why people like it! Just. Not as much my jam as that friend had hoped for.

7.
I watched del Toro's Frankenstein on Christmas Day, and spent the entire time talking with my friend about the use of color in that movie. It definitely understood what Frankenstein (the novel) was about! It portrayed The Themes (consequences of one's actions; accepting responsibility; the relationship between creator and creation) very well. It also did not shy away from gore and blood and the surgical nature of it all! (Also there were wolves that Did Not Act Like Wolves At All but also they're A Metaphor in the end so... whatever..) Very enjoyable, glad to have seen it!

muccamukk

Fandom:

snowflake_challenge: Running a multi-fandom prompt every other day for all of January. (Yours truly isn't modding this year around, but will hopefully still participate.)

cultivativity: This community is organized as a series of modules designed to help build a practice to nurture our creative selves.

beagoldfish: This is an event for small and non-traditional fanworks. We want to remind you to appreciate the little things, be kind, be curious, enjoy generously, and above all, 'be a goldfish.' Runs over January and Feburary 2026.

Archive of Our Own: Update on Our 2020 Commitment from the OTW Board, Chairs & Leads.
I haven't been active in fandom for a couple years now, but I appreciate that they still seem to be working on this.

Writer Beware: Army of Bots: Deeper Into the Vortex of Nigerian Marketing Scams.
LLMs are so fun. I'm glad everyone has access to them. It's def making the Internet better. /s

Science
The Tyee: Charting a Course Through Bears’ Eyes.
Stewards from the Heiltsuk First Nation are using computational models and Indigenous knowledge to protect bears’ access to salmon.

Popular Science: First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition.

Politics
CBC: Pro-Palestinian protester suspended from Vancouver Island University loses court challenge.
My level of cynicism about higher education continues apace. It would cost VIU nothing to let the woman have her transcripts. They've made their point.

Sojourners: Politically Polarized Family Attempts White Elephant Gift Exchange.
Satire, gave me a laugh.

inchoatewords

Movies: I watched about half of The Sound of Music while visiting the in-laws. Also watched The Family Man, the early-00s movie with Nicolas Cage. I know that it's supposed to be a send-up of movies like It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol, but this movie annoyed me so much.

If you've never seen it, Cage's character plays a workaholic named Jack, who years prior to the movie, chose career over his girlfriend (Tea Leoni). An intervention on Christmas Eve at a convenience store holdup leads the gunman (an angel, presumably, played by Don Cheadle) to show Jack a "glimpse" of life for the man who has everything he wants (this is what he says to the angel when Jack is asked this).

Jack goes to sleep in his New York apartment and wakes up the next morning as a suburban dad, living in New Jersey with wife and two kids. The wife is Leoni's character; in this "glimpse," Cage never left her and instead of a high-powered executive, he's a car tire salesman for his father-in-law's business. Of course, he has trouble navigating this new life, but then he learns to love it in time.

And once he does, he goes to sleep again and wakes up in his old life.

So, I hate this movie because this "glimpse" is really torture . . . both ways. A "glimpse" of the life that wasn't would be a one night thing, like Scrooge sees when he is visited by the ghosts. In this movie, the vision of what might have been takes WEEKS of real life time. He can't get anyone to understand what's going on with me, which, admittedly, would be unbelievable.

But then he does come to love his wife and kids, and by happenstance, he meets the CEO of the company he worked for in his old life, and due to his prior knowledge, he's able to talk himself into a job. Things are looking up for him, and then, he sees the angel again and BOOM, he's back in his old life - no wife, no kids, just loneliness and a bachelor apartment.

This is incredibly cruel! The movie does end on a hopeful note, but I still did not like this at all. I don't understand why people like this movie. Or why you would want to watch it more than once!

Television/Streaming:
We finished season 2 of Farscape and Buffy before we left for the holiday. Aeryn's dead, Crichton has completely lost his mind, and after the chip gets excised, he can't speak - and a cliffhanger here, too. Buffy's mom finding out that she's a vampire slayer, having to team up with Spike, and then Buffy's mom telling her not to come back. Oof. I don't like Joyce very much right now at all. You can't say something like that to kids and not have them take it literally.

Books:
I chose Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson for the last book to read for DEI book club this year, as it's the holidays and I thought a book of poetry would be an easier choice. Everyone agreed. Which is not to say these poems are light; they're about gender and politics and fraught familial relationships, but I found some ideas in them quite relatable. It's a shame I was not familiar with Gibson until this year, after they died from cancer earlier this year.

I also finished The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, which I have now read three times. My online book club chose to read it as an optional read over the holidays, as that is when the events in the book take place. This is a fantasy series, but it can be read as a standalone. On my third read this time, I think I enjoyed the family and celebrations bits more than the fantasy bits, but still quite good overall.

cmk418 posting in

sweetandshort

Title: Rehearsals on the Road
Fandom: OZ (HBO)
Characters: Martin Querns, Tim McManus, Sean Murphy
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 300
Prompt: Mistletoe
Summary: When Querns' car is in the shop, he has to ride with some of his staff. It may be a decision he comes to regret.

( Rehearsals on the Road )

stonepicnicking_okapi posting in

sweetandshort

Title: That cup
Fandom: Poirot
Rating: Gen
Length: 300
Prompt: singing Christmas carols
Summary: Poirot is aggrieved by Hastings' cup.

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oursin

Last week's bread held out adequately.

On Wednesday I made Angel Biscuit dough (this year I had active dried yeast) which was enough to provide for Christmas, Boxing Day and Saturday morning breakfast. Turned out rather well.

For Christmas dinner we had: starter of steamed asparagus with halved hardboiled quails' eggs and salmon caviar; followed by pheasant pot-roasted with bacon, brandy, and madeira and served with Ruby Gem potatoes roasted in goosefat, garlic-roasted tenderstem broccoli (as noted with previous recent tenderstem broccoli, wish to invoke Trades Description Act re actual tenderness of stem), and red cabbage (bought-in, as not only is it an Almighty Faff, making it from scratch would involve ending up with A Hell of A Lot of Red Cabbage). Then bought-in Christmas puds with brandy butter and clotted cream.

Boxing Day lunch: blinis with smoked salmon, smoked Loch trout, and the remaining salmon caviar, and creme fraiche with horseradish cream, and a salad of lamb's lettuce and grilled piccarello pepper strips, in a walnut oil and damson vinegar dressing. Followed by mince pies.

Yesterday lunch was the leftover blinis and smoked fish. For yesterday evening meal I made the remains of the pheasant into a pilaff, served with a green salad.

Today's lunch: chestnut mushrooms quartered in olive oil, white-braised green beans and cut up piccarello peppers, the Phul-Gobi (braised cauliflower) from Dharamjit Singh's Indian Cookery, and blinis made up from the last of the batter, a bit past its best.

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sweettartheart in 100words - Prompt: #475 - Resolve
schneefink - Fic I wrote: Ghost of Christmas Fork-In-The-Road (Hermitcraft/Life series)
oursin - This icon is doubly appropriate
cakewrecks_feed - The Far Side Of Cake, Vol. 9
firecat - Consequences
lucy_roman - Snowflake Challenge
merrileemakes - Christmas - in the bag
stonepicnicking_okapi in 100words - 474: Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Gen
oursin - Not really the call of the wiiiild, I guess
conuly - Would my dog or cat really eat me if I died alone?
linky in tokurecs - Fic and Fanart Recs: KR Fourze, Kingohger, KR 1971, KR OOO, Blazar KR Zeztz
cakewrecks_feed - A Tail Of WHOA
conuly - Soooooooooooooooo, people at /r/EnglishLearning will at least once a week
ysabetwordsmith in dw_community_promo - Birdfeeding
shadaras - (no subject)
muccamukk - Links: Fandom, Science, Some Politics
inchoatewords - Media Post
cmk418 in sweetandshort - 10 out of 20 - OZ (HBO) - Martin Querns, Tim McManus, Sean Murphy - Rehearsals on the Road
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