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Despite the name,
fanmix_monthly is not only for fanmixes and the monthly prompts are optional. You're invited to share any mixtapes you've made any time! This month's theme is relationships.
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teaotter posting in fan_flashworksTitle: begin again
Fandom: The Story of Yanxi Palace
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Challenge: Second Chances
Length: 100 words
Summary: Yinglou contemplates her rise to Empress.
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Fandom: The Story of Yanxi Palace
Content notes: none
Challenge: Second Chances
Length: 100 words
Summary: Yinglou contemplates her rise to Empress.
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iffylogicI think it's worse when depression passes. Because all the things that will never get better, all the things you hate about yourself, all the things you have no hope for, the future you'll never have, and all the blame you put on yourself for it, none of that stops being real. You're just able to push them to the back of your mind again.
And nothing changes.
And nothing changes.
silveradeptLet's begin with What Massachusetts schoolchildren came up with as names for their snowplows, which have some very delightful puns in them. (I also wonder if some of them were submitting "Abolish ICE" as something, and it might have been rejected for being too political.)
If you are looking for a single spot to find good organizations to support the resistance against the occupation of the State of Minnesota, Stand with Minnesota will help you find places that can use your spare resources. Their testimonies tell you about what life in Minnesota is currently like during this occupation, and they have news outlets and spaces to keep yourself informed of the real situation happening, rather than parroted lies and talking points dreamed up by an administration that desperately needs control of a narrative if they want to convince us that Minnesota has once again gone rogue in some way.
They're linked in Naomi Kritzer's guide about how to help Minnesota and prepare your own communities for your turn at the invasion. Additionally, the guide for helping from inside the cities.
Understand that abolition is not "better training," it is not "reduced funding," it is not "the system is working, but these actors have decided not to follow the system." Abolition is the need to completely get rid of a thing, because it is toxic to the population, and the situation we are currently in is because we have not yet managed abolition of state structures, or state-supported structures, the encourage violence against not-white people.
( A lot about Minnesota, in its ways and nuances, but also about other things in the United States and abroad )
Last out, A community legend in FromSoft's Elden Ring: A player with a request to solo a difficult boss, asking to be summoned in, who wears nothing but a pot on their head and wielding two katanas.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have decided the Oscars, including all of the pre-show coverage, will be exclusively streamed on YouTube starting in 2029.
A single rubber dick from a box of discount sex toys 1, the extremely fragile masculinity that resulted in violence and attacks on those who distributed the single rubber dick in their direction, 0.
And, at the very end, a letter signed by more than 400 millionaires and billionaires asking the governments of the world to tax them appropriately so they can provide revenue for the rest of the world to have a good standard of living.
(Materials viaadrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
If you are looking for a single spot to find good organizations to support the resistance against the occupation of the State of Minnesota, Stand with Minnesota will help you find places that can use your spare resources. Their testimonies tell you about what life in Minnesota is currently like during this occupation, and they have news outlets and spaces to keep yourself informed of the real situation happening, rather than parroted lies and talking points dreamed up by an administration that desperately needs control of a narrative if they want to convince us that Minnesota has once again gone rogue in some way.
They're linked in Naomi Kritzer's guide about how to help Minnesota and prepare your own communities for your turn at the invasion. Additionally, the guide for helping from inside the cities.
Understand that abolition is not "better training," it is not "reduced funding," it is not "the system is working, but these actors have decided not to follow the system." Abolition is the need to completely get rid of a thing, because it is toxic to the population, and the situation we are currently in is because we have not yet managed abolition of state structures, or state-supported structures, the encourage violence against not-white people.
( A lot about Minnesota, in its ways and nuances, but also about other things in the United States and abroad )
Last out, A community legend in FromSoft's Elden Ring: A player with a request to solo a difficult boss, asking to be summoned in, who wears nothing but a pot on their head and wielding two katanas.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have decided the Oscars, including all of the pre-show coverage, will be exclusively streamed on YouTube starting in 2029.
A single rubber dick from a box of discount sex toys 1, the extremely fragile masculinity that resulted in violence and attacks on those who distributed the single rubber dick in their direction, 0.
And, at the very end, a letter signed by more than 400 millionaires and billionaires asking the governments of the world to tax them appropriately so they can provide revenue for the rest of the world to have a good standard of living.
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adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)littlefics posting in seasonsofdrabblesThe deadline for assignments has now passed! We've temporarily closed the collection to take stock, and then will open it again for posting. UPDATE: The collection has now re-opened.
If your work has not been approved yet, please check the email associated with your AO3 account. We have reached out to several people with queries.
We will share the post-deadline pinch hits approximately a day from now.
If your work has not been approved yet, please check the email associated with your AO3 account. We have reached out to several people with queries.
We will share the post-deadline pinch hits approximately a day from now.
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setsuntamewI got Mayoi in both events that started today!!!!!!! :D
......even if it meant pulling an all-nighter for the JP event. I had planned that one, but the accidental one I pulled the night before made it hellish. Do not stay up two days in a row...my skin hurts ;w;
Worth it though ♥
I took a nap in the afternoon but I'm still feeling beat, so I don't have a whole lot to say. So I'll leave y'all with the nui brigade that kept me company while grinding JP for 8 hours straight.
Liz brought a button maker home from work and I used it for evil (making Mayoi buttons)
......even if it meant pulling an all-nighter for the JP event. I had planned that one, but the accidental one I pulled the night before made it hellish. Do not stay up two days in a row...my skin hurts ;w;
Worth it though ♥
I took a nap in the afternoon but I'm still feeling beat, so I don't have a whole lot to say. So I'll leave y'all with the nui brigade that kept me company while grinding JP for 8 hours straight.
Liz brought a button maker home from work and I used it for evil (making Mayoi buttons)
lucymonster posting in recthethingI've shared a bunch of recs from this year's threesentenceficathon here at my journal! Fandoms include Dr Seuss, Emily Wilde, Leverage, Narnia, Original Work and Star Wars.
threesentenceficathon here at my journal! Fandoms include Dr Seuss, Emily Wilde, Leverage, Narnia, Original Work and Star Wars.
musesfoolI should have done the boiling milk in the new pot thing last night, but I didn't so my bread-baking was a little delayed until I did that, waited for the pot to cool, and cleaned it, so the dough could do its second rise in it. The dough does rise, so that was not an issue at all. I might have overcooked it a titch - the bottom was a darker brown than I'd prefer - but it's a beautiful boule (pic). It only tasted okay, though, I guess we'll see how it tastes tomorrow and the day after, and with butter instead of cream cheese. *hands*
Then this afternoon I watched the Miracle on Ice documentary on Netflix, which was really good - that team is the reason I became a hockey fan, and specifically a Rangers fan, so they have a lot to answer for! Kidding! I'm kidding. It was lovely to see so many of them in the present, watching them watch their younger selves.
And then after dinner, I watched the s3 premiere of Shrinking, which made me laugh a lot and also tear up. They are all so ridiculous and I love them. And I read it already got renewed for a season 4! So that's good.
I also did the January recs update:
unfitforsociety has been updated for January 2026 with 17 story recs and 1 vid rec in 3 fandoms:
* 16 Heated Rivalry
* 1 The Good Place story and 1 Avatar the Last Airbender/Legend of Korra vid
If you are reading HR fic, there is probably nothing new there for you, since most of those recs came from you all, but maybe there's something new for you to enjoy? I still have so much Batfamily fic open in tabs that I want to get back to reading, and still more HR fic and some Pitt fic open as well. I've just been mostly unable to settle in with any of it, and have instead been slowly continuing my DCC reread, with occasional notes. *hands*
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Then this afternoon I watched the Miracle on Ice documentary on Netflix, which was really good - that team is the reason I became a hockey fan, and specifically a Rangers fan, so they have a lot to answer for! Kidding! I'm kidding. It was lovely to see so many of them in the present, watching them watch their younger selves.
And then after dinner, I watched the s3 premiere of Shrinking, which made me laugh a lot and also tear up. They are all so ridiculous and I love them. And I read it already got renewed for a season 4! So that's good.
I also did the January recs update:
unfitforsociety has been updated for January 2026 with 17 story recs and 1 vid rec in 3 fandoms:* 16 Heated Rivalry
* 1 The Good Place story and 1 Avatar the Last Airbender/Legend of Korra vid
If you are reading HR fic, there is probably nothing new there for you, since most of those recs came from you all, but maybe there's something new for you to enjoy? I still have so much Batfamily fic open in tabs that I want to get back to reading, and still more HR fic and some Pitt fic open as well. I've just been mostly unable to settle in with any of it, and have instead been slowly continuing my DCC reread, with occasional notes. *hands*
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conulywhen all you say is "Listen, it's not true that you can't know how to pronounce an unfamiliar word by looking at it, there are rules that will work with a high degree of accuracy".
And every time, sooner or later somebody or other will condescend to tell me that if I'd only phrased it better, they would've listened to what I was saying. It's not the message, it's the way I said that that caused these people to think I was calling them stupid.
None of those people will ever give me the magically better words they think will remedy this problem, though I do ask every single time people suggest it to me, and honestly, I don't think there are any. I think the problem is that people don't want to hear the message at all. If you say "You ought to have been taught these rules in childhood" then they feel ashamed for not knowing something basic and obvious, and even if you don't say it but just mention that rules exist they feel stupid, and then either way they blame you for making them feel bad.
And since that's the case, I don't really see the need to trouble myself too much over my phrasing. Actually, bizarre as it is, I've found that trying harder to be bland and conciliatory is likely to make the situation worse.
But I may as well open it up to other people. Do you have the magic words?
(Note: I don't have any spelling or reading curriculum that are designed for self-study by adult learners who can already read and write pretty well but who struggle with spelling or sounding out unfamiliar words and claim to believe there is no method other than to guess or else memorize each word as an arbitrary collection of letters, which is most of the people I encounter in this situation because, of course, we're all posting online. However, if you're working with somebody to remediate spelling on a budget, I can recommend starting, if they have no signs of ADHD or dyslexia, with Spalding - making the modifications here - and/or Apples and Pears if they do, and then, if they still need help, moving on to Megawords. Those are highly scripted and, importantly - easy to buy on the cheap. I really don't love Spalding, I found it way too front-loaded for ADHD, plus Wanda Spalding had a lot of little personal peeves she built in if you don't use the modifications I suggested, but it's hands-down the cheapest Orton-Gillingham program you'll find for teaching reading and spelling together. Apples and Pears has an associated reading curriculum that probably also is good, but E only needed help in spelling, so I don't know.)
And every time, sooner or later somebody or other will condescend to tell me that if I'd only phrased it better, they would've listened to what I was saying. It's not the message, it's the way I said that that caused these people to think I was calling them stupid.
None of those people will ever give me the magically better words they think will remedy this problem, though I do ask every single time people suggest it to me, and honestly, I don't think there are any. I think the problem is that people don't want to hear the message at all. If you say "You ought to have been taught these rules in childhood" then they feel ashamed for not knowing something basic and obvious, and even if you don't say it but just mention that rules exist they feel stupid, and then either way they blame you for making them feel bad.
And since that's the case, I don't really see the need to trouble myself too much over my phrasing. Actually, bizarre as it is, I've found that trying harder to be bland and conciliatory is likely to make the situation worse.
But I may as well open it up to other people. Do you have the magic words?
(Note: I don't have any spelling or reading curriculum that are designed for self-study by adult learners who can already read and write pretty well but who struggle with spelling or sounding out unfamiliar words and claim to believe there is no method other than to guess or else memorize each word as an arbitrary collection of letters, which is most of the people I encounter in this situation because, of course, we're all posting online. However, if you're working with somebody to remediate spelling on a budget, I can recommend starting, if they have no signs of ADHD or dyslexia, with Spalding - making the modifications here - and/or Apples and Pears if they do, and then, if they still need help, moving on to Megawords. Those are highly scripted and, importantly - easy to buy on the cheap. I really don't love Spalding, I found it way too front-loaded for ADHD, plus Wanda Spalding had a lot of little personal peeves she built in if you don't use the modifications I suggested, but it's hands-down the cheapest Orton-Gillingham program you'll find for teaching reading and spelling together. Apples and Pears has an associated reading curriculum that probably also is good, but E only needed help in spelling, so I don't know.)
lightreadsThe Last Soul Among Wolves
3/5. Sequel to The Last Hour Between Worlds, which I quite enjoyed. Secondary world adventure fantasy with F/F rivals to friends to enemies to lovers.
If you go by this blog, you’d think I read nothing in January. Which is not true, I did. I was also doing nanowrimo just because (I finished, obviously) and had few words left at the end of the day, so now we catch up.
Anyway, this was not as fun and stylish as the first, but was a pleasant enough romp. I will say, as enticement or warning, that it has become clear to me that Caruso writes her heroines as demi or ase. She is two for two by my count. More power to her, but I will say that either the book was slow to spell it out or I was slow to pick up the clues, because I had already started to wonder why this relationship felt so . . . nonsexual, non-electric, etc., a few hundred pages before I realized that yes, that is by design. She is doing a lot here to create emotional tension, which I liked, but if I’m being honest, the lack of sizzle took some of the air out of the emotional side for me. So, take that as you will.
3/5. Sequel to The Last Hour Between Worlds, which I quite enjoyed. Secondary world adventure fantasy with F/F rivals to friends to enemies to lovers.
If you go by this blog, you’d think I read nothing in January. Which is not true, I did. I was also doing nanowrimo just because (I finished, obviously) and had few words left at the end of the day, so now we catch up.
Anyway, this was not as fun and stylish as the first, but was a pleasant enough romp. I will say, as enticement or warning, that it has become clear to me that Caruso writes her heroines as demi or ase. She is two for two by my count. More power to her, but I will say that either the book was slow to spell it out or I was slow to pick up the clues, because I had already started to wonder why this relationship felt so . . . nonsexual, non-electric, etc., a few hundred pages before I realized that yes, that is by design. She is doing a lot here to create emotional tension, which I liked, but if I’m being honest, the lack of sizzle took some of the air out of the emotional side for me. So, take that as you will.
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hannahBecause I needed a new winter coat after the zippers on my old one broke, a not-insignificant amount of money was spent today on a new coat. It's got me thinking about two things: where this old coat came from, and the last time I got entirely new clothes. I can't remember where I got it, just at some point in the last ten years or so, which means I probably salvaged it from somewhere - likely my building's laundry room. Given the state of the elastic tags to tighten or loosen the hood as well as everything else about it, it must've been tossed aside after a few years of use. I've commented on the quality of cast-offs of New York City in general and the Upper West Side in particular, and this really speaks to that, because aside from the elastics and the zipper, everything works to keep me warm.
As for the last time I got entirely new clothes, excluding undergarments and shoes, I definitely can't remember. Most of the clothes I've bought the last few years came secondhand, eBay and Mercari and Poshmark, so while they're new to me and might be functionally new based on how often they'd been worn before I got them, they're not new to the world. I think the last new purchase was a dress for one of my brothers' weddings, so it would've been 2022 or 2023. Not that long ago, but certainly a while.
The amount spent on the new coat's certainly more than it'd cost to replace the zippers, but I'm buying more than zippers in getting a new, high-quality coat. I'm thinking of buying new zippers just the same, replacing them and then donating it somewhere to give someone else a few more years' use of it.
As for the last time I got entirely new clothes, excluding undergarments and shoes, I definitely can't remember. Most of the clothes I've bought the last few years came secondhand, eBay and Mercari and Poshmark, so while they're new to me and might be functionally new based on how often they'd been worn before I got them, they're not new to the world. I think the last new purchase was a dress for one of my brothers' weddings, so it would've been 2022 or 2023. Not that long ago, but certainly a while.
The amount spent on the new coat's certainly more than it'd cost to replace the zippers, but I'm buying more than zippers in getting a new, high-quality coat. I'm thinking of buying new zippers just the same, replacing them and then donating it somewhere to give someone else a few more years' use of it.
silverflight8Ratings out of 5
Too Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer - 0.5 stars
Divine Rivals - Rebecca Ross - 1.5 stars
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr Crippen - Hallie Rubenhold - DNF ugh
On Basilisk Station - David Weber - 2.25 stars
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith - 4 stars (phew)
My Inconvenient Duke - Loretta Chase - 2.25 stars
Tooth and Claw - Jo Walton - 3.25 stars (recovering)
Too Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer - 0.5 stars
Divine Rivals - Rebecca Ross - 1.5 stars
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr Crippen - Hallie Rubenhold - DNF ugh
On Basilisk Station - David Weber - 2.25 stars
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith - 4 stars (phew)
My Inconvenient Duke - Loretta Chase - 2.25 stars
Tooth and Claw - Jo Walton - 3.25 stars (recovering)
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dhampyresaOver course of the first episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms the main character's name goes from "Dunk" to "Ser Duncan the Tall".
At this rate, the last episode will just be him introducing himself.
At this rate, the last episode will just be him introducing himself.
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muscle_wizardSpent this whole week getting over a cold due to Sunday's snow, thankfully the worst of it is over and I just have some stuffy nose problems left. Thank goodness, my head felt like it was swimming half the time o/; When I could keep my attention tho, I was able to fill my time with reading, games, and music.
Properly listened to Rico Nasty's latest album Lethal, and I am a big fan now. Went back thru her discography and I love all the genre blending she does <3_<3
Got hooked on the soundtrack for Heated Rivalry as well and Bad Things by Cailin Russo is my absolute favorite. It will have the honor of being the next song lyrics I use to title a fic (Jack/Will PotC).
I went back into LJ and website archives to read Jack/Will fanfic from 2004 and so on - I'm so grateful I'm still able to access these epics. Shout out to the Wayback machine so I could experience The Pirate Way. Also! Manips! It's been so long since I've been in a live action fandom, I forgot how prevalent they were. It's been really lovely.
I finished!! My first 300+ page book this year. The Traitor and The Wretch was everything I wanted it to be. I got to the ending and audibly whined out loud to my wife, who was sitting next to me, "I don't want it to be over!" In the best of ways, I have so many questions about the world Jasmine Walls has set up - I would gobble up a sequel whole heartedly. Does it need one? Not necessarily, I was satisfied with the ending. It felt very much earned after everything Percy and Knell have been through. But I would love to see them in that next phase of their life. Their chemistry as a developing couple over time hooked me harddddd.
Since my headspace didn't line up with the rest of Snowflake this year, I'll just let it rest. I did see a new challenge being promoted: Stuff I love: Top Ten Edition that is all about squee and sharing your excitement every week in February [eyes emoji]
Otherwise, it's so, so, so cold over here. Having tofu and zucchini curry with rice for dinner tonight, and staying in.
Properly listened to Rico Nasty's latest album Lethal, and I am a big fan now. Went back thru her discography and I love all the genre blending she does <3_<3
Got hooked on the soundtrack for Heated Rivalry as well and Bad Things by Cailin Russo is my absolute favorite. It will have the honor of being the next song lyrics I use to title a fic (Jack/Will PotC).
I went back into LJ and website archives to read Jack/Will fanfic from 2004 and so on - I'm so grateful I'm still able to access these epics. Shout out to the Wayback machine so I could experience The Pirate Way. Also! Manips! It's been so long since I've been in a live action fandom, I forgot how prevalent they were. It's been really lovely.
I finished!! My first 300+ page book this year. The Traitor and The Wretch was everything I wanted it to be. I got to the ending and audibly whined out loud to my wife, who was sitting next to me, "I don't want it to be over!" In the best of ways, I have so many questions about the world Jasmine Walls has set up - I would gobble up a sequel whole heartedly. Does it need one? Not necessarily, I was satisfied with the ending. It felt very much earned after everything Percy and Knell have been through. But I would love to see them in that next phase of their life. Their chemistry as a developing couple over time hooked me harddddd.
Since my headspace didn't line up with the rest of Snowflake this year, I'll just let it rest. I did see a new challenge being promoted: Stuff I love: Top Ten Edition that is all about squee and sharing your excitement every week in February [eyes emoji]
Otherwise, it's so, so, so cold over here. Having tofu and zucchini curry with rice for dinner tonight, and staying in.
siriaPeachy
The Pitt | Gen | ~1100 words | Missing scene for 2.04. Thanks tosheafrotherdon for betaing.
(Also on AO3)
( And there Joy had been thinking that the worst part of her day would be the constant stream of updates in the group chat about all the fun that everyone else was having without her. )
The Pitt | Gen | ~1100 words | Missing scene for 2.04. Thanks to
sheafrotherdon for betaing.(Also on AO3)
( And there Joy had been thinking that the worst part of her day would be the constant stream of updates in the group chat about all the fun that everyone else was having without her. )