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Isn't this a great cover? It'll be out on the 23rd. My story is a sapphic one, set in the Hocking Hills of Ohio (yes again) and we do love our cryptids in Ohio. If you're interested you can preorder it
here.

All I did today was be stuck atop an icy hill and help Mom take down Christmas. This is a multi day process. I have decided next Christmas I DO need to come home asap because I never get to any of the things I want to do after the holiday. I had at least a half dozen holiday things I wanted to do and I'll be lucky to do one. sigh.

I did finish another

fandomtrees today and posted it. WHEE! There are still plenty of empty or low trees if you want to check out the list and see if there's anything you might like to write.

I was supposed to join my brother and SiL for dinner. Couldn't get off the hill.

Have the first Fannish 50 for the year, the friday fic round up

The Other The Murderbot Diaries

The Magic of the Nemeton Teen Wolf

Odd Woman Out Torchwood

Only Love FAKE

Echo of a Memory Stargate Atlantis

Heart-Seed, Heart-Flower Thermos "Flower Series" Commercials

Dragon of Flowers, Dragon of the City.
镇魂 | Guardian/Thermos "Flower Series" Commercials

Scene from a Chinese Restaurant Eerie Indiana

The Worst Part of Waking Up Hornblower

Velvette's Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Hazbin Hotel

End Of The Party Torchwood

The Scrooge from UNCLE. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV)

strange things are happening to me Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss

a drop of rain within an endless sea 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Starting the New Year Right Hazbin Hotel

Growing Pains Infinity Train (Cartoon)

Flight to Freedom due South

Reflections due South

What Love Is due South

Charitable Deduction Murder She Wrote/Hudson & Rex

Eyes On Me, Pretty Boy Hazbin Hotel

The Coldest Night Torchwood

Form'd for Idleness and Ease The Jacobite Trilogy | The Flight of the Heron Series - D. K. Broster

Rehearsals on the Road Oz

The Healing Properties of Stout Tea Stargate Atlantis

When Business Gets Serious (The Relationship Isn’t…) Hazbin Hotel

shades of grief 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Going to the Stilinski Home Teen Wolf

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ysabetwordsmith

Here are the notes for "A Different Language, a Different Vision of Life."

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ysabetwordsmith

This poem is spillover from the April 1, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

see_also_friend. It also fills the "Lagenlook / Layered Look" square in my 4-1-25 card for the Aesthetics Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred. It belongs to the Rutledge thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to see the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes a refugees, crying baby, religious unrest, language acquisition issues, emotional upheaval, crying man, reference to past tragedies, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.

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asphaltcowgrrl

Thanks to

cmk418 I was alerted to a new bingo at allbingo. I created my own card and stuck with the books, plays, and poetry prompts.
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ysabetwordsmith

This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It fills the "all that glitters is not gold" square in my 5-1-25 card for the Colors Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred. It belongs to A Poesy of Obscure Sorrows series.

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ysabetwordsmith

friending_memes has posted a new friendzy. Visit the main event on that community. I've also copied my entry below.

Click the banner to join us and make some new friends!

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Missing for 200 Years, the Galapagos Rail Reappears Following Floreana Island Restoration

Centuries after they were made famous by Charles Darwin, and a century after they had become plagued by invasive rats and cats, the Galapagos Islands are well on their way to recovery.

Few events could better capture that recovery than the recent reappearance of the beautiful blue Galapagos rail, a bird which hadn’t been seen on Floreana island for 200 years.

After almost a decade of preparatory work, invasive rats, avian vampire flies, and domesticated cats were eradicated from the island thanks to the close coordination of several conservation groups from around the world working alongside the Galapagos National Park Directorate.

Restoration projects often foster the revival of rare species, or those believed to be extirpated or extinct. It's not often this dramatic, so this is exciting news.

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blueraccoon

I make really good cinnamon rolls. Recipe very, very lightly adapted from both King Arthur's Cinna-Buns and Tastes of Lizzy T's cinnabon copycat.

( cinnamon goodness below )

ysabetwordsmith

Today is partly cloudy and chilly.

I fed the birds. I've seen a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 1/2/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 1/2/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

I've seen at least 4 male cardinals chasing each other around the trees, along with 2 squirrels.

EDIT 1/2/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

I am done for the night.

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thisbluespirit

yuletide is now over for another year! I did, in fact, have the misfortune to turn up at the exact wrong moment to catch the reveals bug on the 24th, so I saw the identity of my gift-writer, although as they were someone that I only had the vaguest idea of having seen the name around AO3 somewhere before, it didn't really spoil anything, thankfully.

I had hoped to do some little treats, as I got on and got my fic done as soon as I could, but I moved instead. However, as I cut out one section from my assignment and posted it separately in Madness, I did technically still post a treat as well!

I wrote The Winslow Boy for

edwardianspinsteraunt, so I was not super anonymous really, for anyone who actually looked that far, but I had a lovely time spending a month or so rewatching the film and coming up with different scenarios from their prompts and my head for a 5 + 1 Times fic. By the end, I decided, though, that the "+1" just increasingly didn't sit right with the rest, so I split it off, hence the Madness treat.

Passing Acquaintances (8985 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Winslow Boy (1999)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Robert Morton/Catherine Winslow
Characters: Robert Morton (Winslow Boy), Catherine Winslow, Arthur Winslow, Grace Winslow, Desmond Curry
Additional Tags: 5 Times, Post-Canon, 1910s, World War I, Trains, London, Smoking, Politics, Cars, Suffragettes, Yuletide, Edwardian Period
Summary: Five ways Catherine and Sir Robert might have met again, after the trial.

( Some writerly blathering )

I wanted to include the Winslows lose the case AU if I could, as I knew

edwardianspinsteraunt was keen on that idea - and as I thought would it might rather put paid to any Catherine/Robert, at least for quite some time, it fitted well into the format as the "one time they didn't" (meet again) (although never at any point was that categorical). It did work out well and was maybe the most Rattigan section in the end, I thought, so I had to post it even after I cut it. (Although had I realised sooner I was going to set it loose alone, I'd have found a way to make the start a little less in media res, although tbf, it's an unlikely one to appeal to anyone who doesn't know canon).

Anyway, here it is:

and watch the things you gave your life to broken (2799 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Winslow Boy (1999)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Robert Morton/Catherine Winslow
Characters: Catherine Winslow, Desmond Curry, Arthur Winslow, Violet (Winslow Boy), Dickie Winslow, Robert Morton (Winslow Boy)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst, 1910s, Edwardian Period, The Winslows lose the case, Yuletide Treat
Summary: The Winslows lose the case.

With the usual thanks to

persiflage for the beta!! <3<3<3

renfys

So, I started writing something and it's more worldbuilding than it is a story, but enjoy.
1630 words
Rated G
Fantasy setting.

Link to A03 or read below:

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renfys

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

I'm Ren, I'm in my 40s and a parent, I'm non-binary, married to an American, we live in Wales. I was born in Coventry but have lived in Wales for most of my life (and my grandfather was Welsh).

I have two kids, age 9 and 5, both idetinfyings as girls atm. Flower is all about lego and Tabby is all about cats (and well, Tabby).

I'm not really into a fandom atm, not in the way I used to be when I was younger. I tend to write and bootle about in whatever show I'm binging at the time, though Stargate remains my fave. I do write orignal stuff as well. I want to write more this year, more of everything, I haven't been writing as much as I used to.

I loved doing the challenge before and wanted to do it again, plus I thought it would be a good way to connect and try to un-isolate myself. I tend to be pretty insular nowadays, both on and offline. Between the anxiety and the kids and my physical health (firbomyalgia), I haven't done much outside of go to work. I started archery last year and started writing again though.

I have a longer about me for my friends list here.

Happy to have more friends on here!

ysabetwordsmith

Today's theme is Most Useful Communities. These are communities with popular topics and plenty of activity, that often come up in searches, and thus make it easy to find fun things to do or new friends to meet. There are other highly useful communities that may not have come up in my searches, so if you'd like to suggest more, leave a comment. For more ideas see

followfriday and the Follow Friday Master Post of thematic community lists.

Note that this post is sorted by topics, so a few communities appear more than once.

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ysabetwordsmith

Below are the questions from

thefridayfive for this week.

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ysabetwordsmith

This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It fills the "silver-tongued" square in my 5-1-25 card for the Colors Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred. It belongs to A Poesy of Obscure Sorrows series.

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cornerofmadness

I'll be honest. I hold out very little hope for this year being better than last year. I did the Meriam Webster's thing on bluesky, you screenshot their gif and whatever word you get sets the tone for your year. I got moribund. Are you fucking kidding me? Why is that even a choice? Is it literally just spitting out every word in the dictionary.

But moribund feels right for the 2020s which if I'm continuing to be honest sucked donkey dong. 2020 - covid 2021- nearly lost my leg and took a year to learn to walk again 2022-23 weren't as horrid 24 - lost my uncle 25 - lost my last uncle. So while I'm hoping moribund is NOT my word of the year, it feels right.

Right about now is when I do my good things jar (okay usually it's next week when I get back to Ohio but I know what's in it) it has three things, presented my sabbatical research (at work and at my conference), got a story into an anthology (i'll give you that info tomorrow) and I went to an all inclusive resort for the first time in Mexico. Pretty slim pickings for good things. Mostly 2025 was me trying to not lose my sanity.

So resolutions? Eh, I don't really make them. I've given my writing goals. In addition to that I'd like to see if I can come up with lunches that don't spike my blood sugar, I'd like to get more active but what I need more than anything, a cleaning schedule for my home because this cannot go on as is.

I'm still thinking about doing

snowflake_challenge. I got really sideways with this challenge a couple years ago and lost my taste for it. But a lot of my list is doing it...sigh

But here, let me share some cool things about me and my writing

one of the first of probably several archive things I'll end up doing. Got this one from

lucy_roman
from AO3

Total works on archive - 894

Works written in 2025 - 74

Longest fic written in 2025 The Porn Star Murders Hazbin Hotel

Fic with most bookmarks (also most hits and kudos)Hope is The Thing With Feathers The Owl House

Shortest fic - Needs Unmet Helluva Boss

And here are my writing stats. I have no complaints here: Original fic count 38,727
Fanfic count 359, 707 for a writing total of 398, 434. My only complaint is I wanted 50K of original fic. sigh.

Thanks to a few of the things on

sholio's post today I have some community recs

candyheartsex a multifandom gift exchange with a low minimum and a focus on relationships, both platonic and romantic/sexual

traumaticexperiences a (psychological) trauma themed multifandom exchange that will be run on Ao3. Matching will be done on fandom, relationship/solo character, and freeform. You must be 18+ to participate and maintain anonymity until creator reveals.

And one I'm actually in is

allbingo and I'm hosting, the public domain fest bingo. come join us.

And for anyone still on LJ and haven't backed up your old blog somewhere else the news is looking bleak. I haven't fully read up on it. I do crosspost there for the few friends who haven't joined me here on DW but it looks like Russia isn't playing games with it any more. You can check out more here on bluesky. and a bit more here on DW about the importing.

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ysabetwordsmith

Love Death + Robots "The Other Large Thing" S4 E05 2025 Full Episode

This anthology show is hit-or-miss. Some episodes are meh, some cringeworthy, but the hits are among the best science fiction ever created. This is one of the best. It's a cautionary tale, and if you know cats ... disturbingly plausible. Also hilarious. Do not watch with mouth full.

I adore the pairing, too, such a memorable set: Dingleberry Jones and his minion Thumb Bringer.

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ysabetwordsmith

Permacomputing (noun)

Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture.

There are huge environmental and societal issues in today's computing, and permacomputing specifically wants to challenge them in the same way as permaculture has challenged industrial agriculture. With that said, permacomputing is an anti-capitalist political project. It is driven by several strands of anarchism, decoloniality, intersectional feminism, post-marxism, degrowth, ecologism.

Permacomputing is also a utopian ideal that needs a lot of rethinking, rebuilding and technical design work to put in practice. This is why a lot of material on this wiki is highly technical.

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suzume

First, a couple things technically from last year?

This was a birthday drawing for my friend Rin for her birthday.

And I almost can't believe I never posted these here, but neither a search of my "suikoden" tag or my "fanart" tag turned them up, so here you are:

Yun drawn twice kind of nicely and Chris Lightfellow drawn once pretty nicely but the second time a little subpar

the character with the bright-colored hair is Rin's character in Animal Crossing Pocket Camp. She likes to wear flashy wigs. (and, yes, I am swooning over how great I feel Rin is)

And now something from today!

Continuing in my theme of collage-d art, I put these screencaps of my cat characters in the (adorable) Cats&Soup game on my phone on a page from Natural Life.

Also, I did get your comment, corpsebrigadier!

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armaina

Okay so like, informative stuff aside, hello

it is new year

That means my birthday is like a month away. (February 7th, to be exact, turning 41, wheee)

Goals is post more here, draw more, and work on the pile of things I've had since last year:

Finish archiving my descriptions from DeviantArt to my website
Work on a lot of other website projects
Finish my '30 Years of Talon' Zine
START THE FIRST CHAPTER OF MY COMIC AT MINIMUM, DANGIT

Over the year or so I've had a few people follow me here and poke their heads in from time to time so

People new here! (generally new as of the past yearish) sound off and let me know about you in the comments!

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Current Music: She Wants Revenge - She Will Always Be A Broken Girl

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