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round 180: amnesty round (round 072: mermaidia)

For this one, I chose to go with characters associated with the sea!

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What to do when ICE raids your workplace

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Fic meme!

Seen on

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( here be fic )

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kajiki in ep13

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Massachusetts is turning retired cranberry bogs into natural wetlands. They’re on track to rewild 1,000 acres

In November 2024, the DER funneled $6 million in grants to the restoration plan. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, more than 500 acres of retired cranberry bogs have already been converted into wetlands — with hopes of restoring 1,000 acres in the next decade.

“These projects will transform degraded former cranberry bogs into thriving wetlands that will provide habitat to important species, flood control in time of storms, and access for all to beautiful natural areas,” Governor Maura Healey said in a statement.

This is a brilliant plan that will provide tremendous benefits for wildlife, as wetlands are among the most biodiverse communities. It will be especially helpful to migrating waterfowl of the Atlantic Flyway.

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Birdfeeding

Today is sunny and mild, a beautiful fall day.

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

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I planted 4 clusters of Egyptian walking onions.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I filled a trolley with dead weeds and dumped it in the firepit.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I filled another trolley with dead weeds and dumped it in the firepit.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

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Wednesday has now had the porcelain inlay done

What I read

Well, most of the time it was One Clear Call, which had (as had preceding volumes) a certain amount of resonance with contemporary events.

Read The Scribbler Annual no 1, which was a change of pace.

On the go

Dipped a bit more into Some Men in London, 1960-1967.

Started the final book in my review pile, which is pretty good though also raises, I think, some interesting points for discussion. (And as a rather tangential thought, during the heyday of lesbian murder mysteries from feminist presses, were there any set in wymmynz communes?)

Have also started a re-read of The Golden Notebook - given how long it is since I last read it, so much seems very familiar.

Up next

Still haven't got to the latest Literary Review. Otherwise, dunno.

political communication

The question before the committee was about when local* public schools should close: only on federal holidays, or also on Yom Kippur, Lunar New Year, Eid, and Good Friday. I think the specific person who said this is less important than the political context that inspired it.

Observing only federal holidays “would eliminate the hypothetical arguments over who is or who is not observing holidays, as well as opportunities for favoritism, virtue-signaling and misperceptions and accusations over diversity, equity and inclusion,”

I should not** get tangled up in logic but I am provoked beyond bearing.
If everyone gets the day off for YK, that AVOIDS the hypothetical arguments about who is or who is not observing the holiday. If some students are trying to be excused from classes on the day of Yom Kippur, with their parents writing notes, and trying to convince their teachers that it's important and no they can't attend class online either, and the school has to decide on a case-by-case basis whether to allow it or whether to enforce the Very Important Rules against truancy? This is how you avoid any hint of favoritism. This is how you avoid arguments about synagogues scheduling short little children's services for kids under 7 and whether it's worth missing school for something that lasts less than an hour. Or to remove the Jewish context, some Christians take Good Friday off and others (perhaps their teachers) say "It's only Good Friday, what's the big deal?"

The core problem is very sad and not logical.
The arguments are only hypothetical, yet already chilling.
The school should be careful to avoid equity or inclusion, lest they get in trouble.
Maybe I should say it's scary, more than sad.

*Nearby Boston suburb. To a casual glance, it's much whiter than most of the Boston area, but >25% of the population is Jewish.

**I have been known to garble my own logic when speaking to a hostile audience under time pressure. Or even when speaking to people who love me, are are willing to wait patiently while I backtrack a couple of times.

multifandom icons.

Fandoms: 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Cobra Kai, DOC - Nelle Tue Mani, Maxton Hall, Romil & Jugal, Suits, Supergirl, The Wheel of Time, Weak Hero, Yellowstone

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Library Update #21: Rebuilding

I have really, really missed working with my full, dual-monitor computer setup. It is such a joy to have six Workspaces distributed across two 5K monitors.

A new joy is the uncovering of the tall window to the right of my fireplace. That window had always been blocked because the light coming in was harsh. Now that it’s open (after, like, 20 years), I’ve discovered that the covered deck that we added in 2020 blocks some direct sunlight – and also the neighbor’s trees have grown, and they also filter the light. My view outside is now a pleasant, green scene with my patio table and chairs in the foreground.

Belldandy is fully connected now. Yesterday I activated the twin Time Machine drives (Makina II and Michiru II) and manually launched an initial backup, building off the older archives on the drives. (Belldandy/Madoka has never had a Time Machine backup. The previous Time Machine backups were Belldandy IV (Frieren)/Amane back in May 2025.)

Today I moved the printer from the bedroom to the library. I’ve connected the subwoofer and desktop speakers to Belldandy and tested sound. I borrowed a Cat6 Ethernet cable from my stash of cables so that I could connect Belldandy directly to the Netgear box, bypassing wifi. I have to say, I wasn’t able to avoid a massive snarl of cables and cords behind my desk. I don’t know if there’s a solution to that.

I am slowly re-adding items to my desk. I’m trying not to bring back the full clutter, and I’m bringing back only things that are essential to operations. The lesser-used items I hope to store offline (that is, in the office cabinet). It’s a process. A slow, deliberate one. This will take weeks, I think.

The printer cabinet and the oak file cabinet are temporarily set about 10" behind my desk. They look pretty crude compared to all the new furniture in the library. I’ve asked my interior designer to look for a single furniture piece to replace them both.

I have to say, though, the view from my chair at my desk is totally wonderful. I’ve very much spoiled myself.

The View From My Desk, November 2025
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Fandom Necklaces

Although a number of necklaces I make have themes, some are inspired by types of fandoms or specific ones.

Although I have made other steampunk pieces with more direct allusions to machinery, I wanted to go more elegant with this one. The Steampunk heart above was a wide pendant though, so I used wide beads in red for a chunky look. Then I added in various types of metal beads -- some small alternating color heart ones in the extension, and wide silver and brass ones to echo the pendant metals.

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fandom: quatermass

why I love Quatermass and the Pit

I’ve been rewatching Quatermass and the Pit for the last week, which is apparently something I do every few years and then never write anything about. It’s a black and white BBC serial from 1958, to our eyes science fiction horror though a massive leap beyond genre in its own time, and I love it very much. I honestly think it’s perfect. There isn’t anything I’d change except put more women in it and even so at least it does have one brave 1950s lady scientist academic trying her best. Could be worse if not by much.

So the Quatermass in the title is a person – named by writer Nigel Kneale with what he called the weirdest name in the phonebook; he’s Professor Bernard Quatermass, a restrained, charming British academic in charge of something called the British Experimental Rocket Group. By the time we meet him in the Pit, there aren’t so many rockets; Quatermass the pacifist is in the middle of being told the military are taking over his research; that his planned moonbase is going to be used as a place to build up armament. No one mentions Sputnik or the USSR, but no one has to. This was absolutely on-the-minute current when it was made. Quatermass is furiously angry and kind of heartbroken; then he discovers an old friend of his has a very similar problem, and decides to be a dick to his new employer while he solves it.

There really aren’t a lot of rockets in this story! Matthew Roney, Quatermass’s old friend, is a paleontologist, who has discovered an ancient site of prehistoric hominids in… Knightsbridge. (There’s been construction, ok.) But deep down in the pit there’s also an unexploded bomb (!) left over from 1944, so the military have taken over. Quatermass plays silly buggers with the army folk until they leave Roney alone, and then hangs around to see what happens next. That’s the set-up. And I love it, largely because Quatermass is incredibly charismatic (he was played by five different actors, but this one is my favourite) and also just… you can see here how the series was an influence on every SF, horror or fantasy thing to ever be on television. It’s so fucking interesting and intelligent.

But then. Everything that happens next is creepy in the best way. ( creep creep creep - rather than cut tag the most horrifying bit of the serial, I have simply not included it so this is cut for length not horrors )

I wanted to finish off this extremely long post about a seventy-year-old piece of television by posting a snippet of it, but I actually couldn’t find anything. Perhaps even better: this was the noise the Martians made inside people’s heads, courtesy of the Radiophonic Workshop. And Hob’s Lane, where the Pit was dug, is in my icon.

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round 180: amnesty round (round 45: dixing)

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Driver's license, upstate NY, and hockey connections

I got my driver's license today on the third test! I was fighting for my life to wake up and fully eat my breakfast and everything, actually walked to the bus stop an hour early by mistake due to setting two of my alarms wrong last night and then had to walk back, had an upset stomach after breakfast and then like three scary random situations and two big mistakes in a row in my driving lesson on the way to the test, so my teacher asked if I wanted to pull over in a parking lot and calm down. Which I did. First time that's happened in a lesson! But then the test itself was actually uneventful. No big mistakes on my part and no scary traffic situations or close calls, and I handled myself well and recovered from the minor mistakes correctly, I was just... DROWNING in stress and white-knuckling it to remain as calm as possible. The examiner told me that my main thing is just that I'm too stressed while driving and have to calm down (YUP, KNEW THAT!!!!). Apparently I was gripping the steering wheel way too hard, which I wasn't aware of but that doesn't surprise me at all.

Aaaaaanyway, on the final drive back from the test to the driving school my driving teacher told me he lived in the US for four years, and I said, oh, where? When he was 20 he moved to the New Jersey area and played on a minor team (now defunct) that feeds into the NHL Jersey Devils, actually, he said, in Albany. And I was like hey!!! I lived in (a suburb of) Albany for three years as a kid [before the disastrous life-ruining move to Alabama at age 6, I did not say, but just try going from Montessori school in upstate NY to shitty authoritarian public school in Alabama some time and see how you like it].

So. Anyway. I told

waxjism this story like "Hahah, and then we met here in Finland! Isn't it funny?" but she immediately was like, "There's a Wikipedia list of all the teams that feed the NHL!" and started combing around through the internet until a few minutes later she called, "Is this him?" and showed me his headshot. Apparently he was also the captain of our local Liiga hockey team in 2015, around the time we were going to quite a few matches, and one of his kids is currently on that team. Welp.

As I mentioned recently, I was planning to buy a milk frother so I could make lattes once passing, originally. But if I can't source decaf matcha and chai tea domestically, I wouldn't be able to make my favorite two lattes (those are the two I've been dying to make myself). I have not gone looking for those yet. I should order some old-fashioned stove black (polish) for our woodstove though, although that will not be nearly as exciting. My caffeine-free trial is still in effect until early December.

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Round 61: Ice Ice Baby-Challenge Post!

THEME
Let's welcome Winter! For this round, your icons should feature snow and ice!

1. Sign ups will be open to the end of this round, which will be the 12th December, 2025.
2. You don't have to sign up, but some people enjoy the challenge of sticking to their theme.
3. Post your 10 icons either in your graphics comm or as a post in this community. If you post at your graphics comm, make a post here also and link to your comm with 3 icons as preview.
4.Since this is a fandom community, please icon fandoms only. You can incorporate stock into the icons but it must be primarily a fandom centered icon.If you have any questions,please ask below. :)
5. Please use the template when posting in the comm. It would make it easier for me to post voting. (you only need to paste your links in and remove the one space here -> )

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1.picnicnic
2.narnialover7
3.breyzyyin(completed)
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Round 41-Themes & Sign-ups.

Hello, everyone! Welcome to Round 41.

o Sign up with your username.
o When you're done, post 3 preview icons and either post directly in the community or link to the post in your journal/community.
o Tag with your username and round number. Subject: Round number-username.
o All themes are open for interpretation. There are icons to inspire you under the cut.
o As usual, you don't have to claim anything and can icon from stock,tv shows,movies,book covers,your own images etc.
o If you have any questions,don't hesitate to ask below.

Themes:
1. 11* 2. Brave 3. Clean 4. Food 5.Gold
6.Outline 7.Red & Green 8.Smile+Close Crop 9.Sweater Weather 10. NaNoWriMo*

*11-Use the number in your icon or any way you like. I used an example of the character.
**NaNoWriMo-Make your icon have as much text as possible. :)

Deadline:30th November, 2025.

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Participants:
1. picnicnic
2. sarajayechan
3. debris4spike
4. tinny
5. narnialover7
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Webnovel Check-in: "Survive! Gwanggong!" ch. 16-25

"Survive! Gwanggong! /
Survive! Obsessive Gong!"

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[Chapter 11-15 Post]

Chapter 16: I hate the system so much, literally having your free will stripped away like that and going against your own morals...like daaamn.

Gwak Seon-woo wasn’t particularly passionate about food, but as a Korean, he still believed that a solid meal was the foundation of everything. This was a country where people greeted each other with “Have you eaten?” instead of a simple hello, and parted ways with “Let’s grab a meal sometime.” And yet, here he was, treating someone offering him food like absolute trash. No, it was worse than just poor treatment—this was outright rejecting kindness in the most insulting way possible.

Lmao Seung-hyeon is learning how to deal with Seon-woo!!

I hope Seon-woo's half-asleep apology doesn't get him into trouble with the System. Ahh I wanted to see Seung-hyeon's reaction.

Chapter 17: Whew, his points are okay. Was Eun-jae maybe messaging Seung-hyeon?

Chapter 18: The first option sounded too intimate, I would've chosen “Maybe you just feel unfamiliar to me. But that doesn’t mean… it’s necessarily a bad thing.”

Eun-jae is showing a different side today, it's kind of interesting. 🤔

Chapter 19: Interesting exchange between Seung-hyeon and Eun-jae. It didn't feel like Seung-hyeon was being possessive over Eun-jae, and Eun-jae was irritated. Then Seung-hyeon said Seon-woo should just come with them.

Chapter 20: A moment ago, Eun-jae had been locked in a silent battle with Seung-hyeon. Now, it seemed the two had reached an agreement.

Hahah Seon-woo is being double-teamed now, I like it. Now it's almost like they're in a tug of war lmao.

Aw, the workers loosened up around Seon-woo.

Ooo what does Seung-hyeon wants to say to Seon-woo??

Chapter 21: Seung-hyeon's clearly not going to give up on finding out what's wrong, why can't the System just let him lie and say it's the embezzlement case he's working on?

Chapter 22: Eun-jae and Seung-hyeon looking at Seon-woo while singing that Nagging song. =P

Chapter 23: If the system had a physical form, he would’ve already socked it in the face at least once.

Seriously, WTF!!

I want to see stuff happen with the embezzlement case soon.

Chapter 24: Hmm so Su-won is slimy despite what he seems?

Chapter 25: I love Seung-hyeon cutting Seon-woo off on a line he didn't want to say anyway lol. The OG Gwanggong was straight up brutal, no wonder Seung-hyeon noticed a different geeze. I'm surprised the system didn't detract a bunch of points throughout this convo. So what is Seung-hyeon's hypothesis on what's wrong with Seon-woo? Does he think he's sick, or that something personal happened to change him? And what does the passcode meaaan?

fic: Not time’s fool, Narnia, Caspian/Lucy, 7/?

Not time’s fool (11224 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 7/?
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Ramandu's Daughter | Liliandil, Edmund Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Polly Plummer, Digory Kirke, Eustace Scrubb, Lord Rhoop (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Romance, Sailing, Prophecy
Series: Part 3 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

“You see,” Edmund began, and all leaned in, visibly listening, “it wasn’t just romance that kept Lucy in Narnia. She is with Caspian, now, but she also had a – a vision isn’t quite right. She was shown a prophetic image in a magical book, and Aslan vouched, later, personally, for its truth. She acted as she did to attempt to divert what she saw, and I think we’d better do likewise, on our end. Here’s what you all need to know.”

Now You See Me 3

Now You See Me 3 was delightful! A great team-up movie.

It feels weird to watch Rosamund Pike play a villain after 3 seasons of The Wheel of Time. XD