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([personal profile] bluapapilio Dec. 3rd, 2025 09:55 pm)
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Kuro = Chrome

SenGen
TBA

StanXeno
Menseu (Korean)

Multiple Pairings
🌻 (Chinese) [SenGen, RyuUkyo & gen]

gonzu [RyuKuro, SaiKuro, KuroUkyo, KuroSen, XenoKuro, Tsuka->Kuro<-Ryu, TsukaKuro, GenKuro, KuroRuri]

Sunoko [SenGen, RyuUkyo, gen]
Character: Missy
Fandom: Doctor Who
Theme set: Beta
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mentions of death

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([personal profile] bluapapilio Dec. 3rd, 2025 09:20 pm)

Episode 6: Taiju diving into the pile of Medusas. 🤣

I love when Gen gets that sneaky expression on his face.

I also love when Chrome comes out with something that solves a problem, makes me proud. :') Because of Senkuu, Chrome gets to learn more of what he loves.

The non-science users have created diamonds! <3

Episode 7: Kohaku got another badass speech!

It's down to the wire and they're still trying to figure out how to make the diamonds work with the Medusa, but they got a new lead.

Episode 8: It just hit me that Charlotte looked exactly like a sex doll or cartoon balloon when she was poisoned by the spider...she was all butt and boobs. 🙄

Xeno, even if Stanley wasn't a military man he would rescue you even if it wasn't by murdering teenagers...

Usui getting excited is so cute.

Even knowing Tsukasa and Hyouga will be okay it's hard to see them gunned down like that. 😭 And Tsukasa's last thoughts being proud of them and of Senkuu.

"What I once sought to destroy has become a glimmer of hope."

Episode 9: Chelsea crying, Gen losing it at Taiju dying, then Ryuusui, daamn.

I can't remember if we get to see Joel and Kaseki meet but I need to see it!

Joel climbing out from under the corpses, hand getting shut in the vault but pressing the watch on time...the tension!! I'm glad I get to experience it twice through the manga and now the anime, because I definitely forgot some things.

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Posted by Sarah Brown

Small cats have a talent for being adorable without even trying. One blink from those giant eyes or one tiny squeaky meow, and suddenly you're ready to hand over your entire life savings. Their paws are about the size of a bean, their bodies are barely bigger than a sandwich, and yet they walk around like they run the universe. And honestly, we all let them.

Half the time, they act like miniature superheroes in training. A kitten will wobble three steps, trip over nothing, and then pretend it meant to do that. They sit dramatically on the edge of the couch like they're contemplating the meaning of life, when they're probably just wondering when snacks are coming. Their attempts at being intimidating are especially priceless. A baby fluffball puffing up to look tough is basically the cutest threat known to humanity.

And then there are the naps. Small cats fall asleep anywhere, anytime, in positions that defy both gravity and logic. One minute they're playing, the next they're knocked out like they just worked an overtime shift. Their tiny snores and curled-up poses make even the grumpiest day instantly better.

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([personal profile] sonia Dec. 3rd, 2025 06:12 pm)
[personal profile] runpunkrun asked if I've read any good books lately, and I've been lucky enough to find several. Ongoing booklog at Curious, Healing.

The one I want to highlight today is Kitchens of Hope by by Linda S. Svitak and Christin Jaye Eaton with Lee Svitak Dean
Subtitle: How transforming ourselves can change the world

This book out of Minnesota is a celebration of immigrant success stories and food from around the world. I haven’t tried any of the recipes yet, but I loved the photos and stories of how people connected with each other and found new places to thrive.

Highly recommended – I’m giving copies for the holidays this year.

Photography of the cooks and their dishes by Tom Wallace
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([personal profile] geraineon posting in [community profile] cnovels Dec. 4th, 2025 10:03 am)
This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

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What I’ve Read

The Invention of Love – Tom Stoppard – I read this along with a bookleg recording of the 2000s Broadway production, which is amazing. It’s a deeply compassionate and reserved play that I deeply enjoyed. A friend of mine said this was a foundational work for them, and I absolutely see how. It’s the story of AE Hausman, particularly thru his relationship to the Classics, and the story weaves past and future together thru the Young Housman having conversations with his Old Housman self. I really enjoyed the unexpected appearance of Oscar Wilde, whose trial happened during Hausman’s post-university years.

What I’m Reading

The Fortunate Fall – Cameron Reed – The 1996 cyberpunk book is just deliciously weird. Like, so much weirder than I expected. Also, gay! The book was recently re-issued under the author’s new name.

Into the Drowning Deep – Mira Grant – Ten years ago spooky deep sea mermaids killed everyone on a research mission sponsored by Not The Discovery Channel. Our main character’s sister died, and now she’s going to be able to use her research to figure out what happened for herself. I am slowly working thru all the tentpoles from Be the Serpent, a finished podcast that I deeply enjoyed, and this is one of them! I find Mira Grant to be rather like Michael Crichton in her commitment to Doing the Research on how various elements of her characters’ scientific work remains. I feel like this should be scarier but that might be just the beginning of the book. Grant, like Crichton, has a very visual and cinematic style, and sometimes that works for me and sometimes it does not.

Guillermo del Toro: Cabinet of Curiosities – on hold.

What I’ll Read Next
Natural History of Dragons
The Hunger Games
The Grief of Stones


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([personal profile] colls posting in [community profile] womansplace Dec. 3rd, 2025 08:30 pm)
Fandom: Solo: A Star Wars Story
Fanwork type: vid
Pairings/Characters: Qi'ra
Rating and/or Content Warnings: none
Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1vAUqnuwGw by LouellaWilla
Summary: Fan video tribute to Solo’s Qi’ra

Reccer's Notes: This vid showcases Qi'ra incredibly well. It's so soulful and full of angst.

Posted by Sarah Brown

A quiet morning suddenly turned exciting when Boone, the outdoor king of the condo, was about to head out after breakfast. A claim about a rat outside stopped everything. Except the tiny sounds on the other side of the door didn't sound like any rat or Boone. When the door opened again, everyone realized the "rat" was actually a tiny grey kitten having a very serious staring contest with Boone.

The little visitor clearly needed a meal, so a bowl of kibble was set down. He pounced on that food like he had been dreaming about it all week. And before anyone could blink, he zoomed straight into the condo and began exploring every corner like he owned the place.

Boone was taken out for a comforting walk, but when they returned, the kitten had completely vanished into the house. Hours later, the kitten reappeared, curled up sweetly on a pillow, accepting pets and purring like he had already decided this was home.

The family will check for an owner and visit the vet, but their Cyber Monday surprise already has a name. Simon. And he seems very ready to stay.

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([personal profile] petra Dec. 3rd, 2025 07:50 pm)
I do not keep up with DC Comics canon anymore. I haven't for a long-ass time. But people on my Tumblr dash do, and they share just enough to confuse me.

I remember when Bruce Wayne adopted Tim Drake because I immediately wrote a story about it in which a) they have sex and b) they have issues. I mean -- so many issues.

The punchline of that story has always been, for me, that Bruce has no goddamn business adopting the 16-year-old son of people he knew.

20 and a bit years on, Tim is 16 again despite the theoretical passage of time in comics, various other characters aging, and assorted other nonsense, and DC Editorial has him Cut for spoilers )

There was also a page that went by on my Tumblr dash recently that drew Tim with Shoulders and Muscles, from who knows when, which was also #notmytimdrake, but in a way that made my brain convinced that Bernard was cheating on Tim with Kon.
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([personal profile] scrubjayspeaks Dec. 3rd, 2025 04:54 pm)
Onlookers would state that the branch had let out a crack like thunder when it broke but still fell too fast for anyone to react, let alone get out of the way. She would state that the falling branch, still thick with autumn leaves, did not so much bash her over the head as whisk her up into a tiny arboreal village in crisis after the fall. The discrepancy between the adventurous weeks she experienced and the frantic minutes onlookers spent freeing her unconscious body from the tangle were not something she could explain, but by then, she was more concerned with getting back to her newfound leafy home than with the petty reality from which she came.

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Posted by Briana Viser

People really go out of their way to save animals, and that's the kind of energy we could all use in our lives. In the story below, the protagonist is a man who hears some meowing outside. He sees several kittens running around across the street from his house. He easily takes in three of them, then goes back to the fourth. His bathroom is full of hungry, purring, pawdorable kitties who are just beginning their furrever home journey. He sees a pregnant mom cat outside and goes to get her as well. His path is stopped by a car driving by, spooking the mom cat so that she jumps out of his arms. He rushes to emergency care to take care of the bite and scratches, but his heart remains in a good place. 

This man went from catless to having four kittens to take care of in one day. It's always magical and special to read what people are willing to do to save innocent and pawdorable animals from the streets. Read the full story below for all the juicy details. 

For lo these many years (i.e. basically since I got a smartphone) I've been using Swype as an onscreen keyboard. Some time ago it was announced that it had reached end-of-life-and-support, but it wasn't until I went looking earlier today that I realised that happened in 2018, that being when I posted asking for suggestions for replacements.

And then I didn't think about it again for, apparently, approximately eight years, through several new phones and quite a lot of new major versions of Android... and then a few-ish weeks ago Fairphone rolled out Android 15 to the Fairphone 4 and alas That Was The End Of That.

Recommendations back in 2018 were for Gboard and Swiftkey; a question posted to reddit in 2022 garnered similar responses.

Since the Abrupt Keyboard Failure I've swapped to Gboard more or less by default. I don't hate the bit where language switching is now automatic (for the purposes of language learning apps, at any rate), but good grief I am missing the ability to e.g. type < or | without needing to go like three clicks deep in menus. Yes, when I have "Touch and hold keys for symbols" enabled -- as far as I can tell that only gives me one symbol per key, not "now select from a variety of them" as with the much-lamented Swype. I'm also missing the gestures I know for "yes, that word, but change the capitalisation", and still grumpily adjusting to the shift key mode cycle being in a different order to what I'm used to.

I've experimented briefly with AnySoftKey but rapidly got annoyed by the total lack of any Irish language pack (and how difficult it is to navigate the app listings to establish this fact). I'm trying to persuade myself that it's worth giving SwiftKey a try even though it (1) is now Microsoft, (2) has gone all-in on Bundling With Copilot, and (3) apparently "contains ads".

Eheu, alas, etc; all is woe; ... unless anyone knows of any other Android keyboards that provide ready access to All the punctuation...?

Honestly, if you ban somebody it ought to warn you before you comment on their posts so that if you forget or don't realize you don't end up in an awkward situation.
([personal profile] cosmolinguist Dec. 3rd, 2025 10:14 pm)

You know you had a bad day when the next day [personal profile] angelofthenorth brings you coffee as soon as she gets home, saying "well your blog post from yesterday made me think you'd need it!"

I actually had a much better day at work today: no meetings to speak of and I even started messing around with the slides for the presentation I have to give on Tuesday. Plus, Tuesday turns out to be the London staff's Christmas lunch and I can go to Wahaca (yes, that's how they spell it) with them, they're all excited about Taco Tuesday.

I was able to slip away from work early enough to walk Teddy before D and I went to see Pillion, which was well-acted and horny (even in the audio description!) and had some genuine funny moments but is a little too Fifty Shades of Gay in that its basic message that being a dom makes you a dickhead who is incapable of healthy relationships. But I had fun and I'm glad we had time for a pint in the twinkly outdoors before coming home to delicious homemade stew and dumplings.

And before I'd finished eating, [personal profile] angelofthenorth offered wanted cinnamon tea and when I made interested noises brought me some in the clear glass mug with the flower petals between its two walls which V bought in the Hebridean Tea Store, and then D asked if anyone wants a mince pie, so I had my first mince pie of the season with the perfect tea pairing for it.

Before bed I emptied the food waste bin, locked the doors, turned off the little plant lights, and changed my bedding. How nice to be in such a functional house, doing my little bit to reset, maintain, upkeep.

All this made me think of Kurt Vonnegut saying:

My uncle Alex Vonnegut, a Harvard-educated life insurance salesman taught me something very important.

He said that when things were really going well, we should be sure to NOTICE it. He was talking about simple occasions, not great victories: maybe drinking lemonade on a hot afternoon in the shade, or smelling the aroma of a nearby bakery; or fishing, and not caring if we catch anything or not, or hearing somebody all alone playing a piano really well in the house next door.

Uncle Alex urged me to say this out loud during such epiphanies: "If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is."

So I do the same now, and so do my kids and grandkids. And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is."

([syndicated profile] bloggess_feed Dec. 3rd, 2025 09:17 pm)

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So. Last night I went to Windcrest (it’s part of San Antonio) because they have this decades-old tradition where people put up incredible holiday decorations and people can drive through the neighborhoods for free. I was chosen to be one of the judges of the Christmas Light-Up because the theme this year is “storybooks” andContinue reading "Criminally underdressed."

Posted by Briana Viser

Welcome to today's bowl of cat memes. It's not a rice bowl, not a acai bowl, not a bowl of anything else – here we just have cat memes. Everyone likes a sweet treat, but what about a feline treat? Being able to munch on delicious and delectable cat memes is one of the great achievements of the 21st century. No matter rain or shine, sick or well, or anything else in life, the ubiquitous joy of scrolling cat memes will never go away. 

These 30 fluffy feline treats aren't just cute; they're unhinged-in-the-best-way cute. From the classics of "if I fits I sits," to CatGPT jokes, these cat memes will have you rolling on the floor and begging for more. If you're a cat owner, a cat lover, or a cat yourself, then these memes will speak to you in ways you didn't know existed. Memes are really a language – a language based on trust, understanding, and most importantly, humor. Each treat in this wholesome bowl will satisfy a different craving. Want something sweet? We've got fluffy cats giving tiny boops to their human's face. Craving something savory? Enjoy a confident chonker strutting across the room like he pays rent. Need a little spice? There's always a spicy tuna—also known as the cat who decides your ankle is a threat level red. And for dessert? A slow blink from a cat who finally, begrudgingly, admits you're the chosen one.

Posted by Laurent Shinar

It is no big secret that the Cat Distribution System is an other worldly wonder that simply cannot be explained in any kind of plain English. It has no one way of working and no one way of deciding who gets what cat.

But the one thing that is clear about it is that it gets cats to the homes that they need to be in. and much like the many stories we have shared about it in the past, this story too tells the tale of a cat getting to the home they needed to be in, the exciting part being that the home is in Atlanta when the cat is in Fort Lauderdale and the cat would be coming home to its pawrent from nine years before. A truly unreal result to a story that makes little to no sense. The only thing we can say with any kind of certainty is that the CDS works in mysterious and mind-boggling ways.

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([personal profile] luzula Dec. 3rd, 2025 10:49 pm)
Ugh, very busy today, but managed 100 words of longfic. How about you?

Tally:
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Day 2: [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] garonne, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] alightbuthappypen, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] chestnut_pod, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 3: [personal profile] china_shop

Bonus farm news: Tasted our Brussels sprouts for the first time. Delicious!
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([personal profile] thistleingrey Dec. 3rd, 2025 01:46 pm)
Still knitting: while I address a request, Sundial has gone on hold, a few colorways from its probable end. I have enough scraps after all to vary the latter's sequence of hues out to reasonable scarf-length.

For trying to restart weaving: spent some time with old notes and recent reading/viewing. (No new notes. For example, Long Thread, a magazine publisher, lets influencers rent ad space in their newsletters, but they're never useful (delete, delete) when they repackage info from older practitioners and researchers who're still active. If one knows about the latter, it's better to visit the source.) Besides Susan Foulkes, whose blog I've read almost since its start, off the top of my head there's Laverne Waddington, Liz Gipson, Annie MacHale, and Linda Hendrickson, for expert weavers and reliably clear teachers who've shared info generously.

I will never want or need to do this, but check out Hendrickson tablet-weaving with wire.

I've checked my yarn stash for something warp-suitable---similar yarn weight to the scraps for Sundial, but with a different tension requirement. Years ago, tiny skeins of cotton yarn were sold in sets of a few colorways, the fingering-weight equivalent of worsted-weight dishcloth yarn. They were marketed ten years ago (when big-box craft stores still walked the earth in my region) for fingerweaving or basic knotting as "friendship bracelets"; narrow bands are exactly what they're intended to become. Lion, the manufacturer, makes some sets from acrylic yarn nowadays, but a couple of all-cotton sets are still sold. The two packets in the kitchen craft drawer are plenty for playing with before I try hemp or wool.

One reason to restart weaving: another way to use up yarn scraps from knit and crochet. :)

(TIL that Lion bought Quince the yarn company in 2023. Not surprising that something would've; could be worse.)
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Title: Flesh Cartel
Author: Rachel Haimowitz, Heidi Belleau
Published: 2012-2014
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Page Count: 1340 (75+75+76+75+75+93+68+68+68+94+70+101+74+68+75+58+58+56+56)
Total Page Count: 552,000
Text Number: 2051-2069
Read Because: searched for erotic horror at the library and, you know, yeah, this counts!, borrowed from Multnomah County Library
Review: Two brothers, one strong guy and one pretty boy, are kidnapped by the titular flesh cartel to be sold into sexual slavery. I unironically love that people are just publishing and my library is just licensing stuff that back-in-my-day would have been serial publications on LiveJournal. Short version: if you think you'd like this, it's pretty good; more psychologically astute, especially in the middle sections, than I was expecting, with uneven but incredibly consumable pacing that flags in the long resolution.

Long version, cut for content more than spoilers: Read more... )
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([personal profile] full_metal_ox posting in [community profile] little_details Dec. 3rd, 2025 03:36 pm)
https://domestic-medicine.com/

This website is an unromanticized purview of historical health care, with an emphasis on household and community practices shared and recorded by women and the overlaps of medicine and cookery.

Author Stephany Hoffelt’s credentials: Continue. )

(Content note: Hoffelt, with her lived experience, research into historical context, and insistence upon practical results, has a whole catacomb apiece to pick with both the patriarchal medical establishment and the proponents of a Magical Pagan Witch Sisterhood who got burned by the millions for providing safe and reliable herbal abortifacients.)

What I read

Finished O Shepherd, Speak! - as ever, Lanny manages to find himself at major historical events. A particularly fascinating thing considering that news story about Hitler's DNA - he is admitted to the bunker and takes a slice of bloodstained sofa-cover.... In the aftermath of WW2, he has been left money to work for World Peace and he and friends are working for this. One thing I do find a bit curious about Lanny's generally progressive line is that the civil rights question (was it being called that in the 30s/40s?) doesn't seem to feature: maybe because he was brought up in Europe and mostly lived there? His focus on the World Stage???

Val McDermid, The Skeleton Road (Inspector Karen Pirie #3) (2014): not sure this was really doing it for me - there was a point where it just seemed to be going on and on.

Have plunged into a re-read of Barbara Hambly's Silver Screen mysteries (getting myself back up to speed on the series with a new volume forthcoming): so far Scandal in Babylon (2021) and One Extra Corpse (2023). Possibly one reads for the evocation of Hollywood at that era rather than the actual mystery plots, but good, anyway.

On the go

Saving Susy Sweetchild (Silver Screen #3) (2024)

Still dipping into Some Men in London, 1960-1967.

Up next

I am feeling the siren call of The Return of Lanny Budd.

I also realise that I have managed to sign myself up for 3 bookgroups meeting in January, 2 online (Pilgrimage, first meeting, Dance to the Music of Time, concluding volume) and 1 in person (fairly) locally - have managed to fight off suggestion that we read the Mybuggery wot won the Booker, but am now committed to the extremely LOOOOONG new Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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Further to yesterday's mysterious email from Academic Publisher, have received a further and more official-looking email today:

You may recently have received a message from us with the subject line "Welcome to [redacted] GCOP".
This email was caused by a system error. You can therefore ignore it and do not need to take any action.
Apologies for any confusion the message may have caused.

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✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
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