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awesomeers2025-11-20 08:02 amJust One Thing (20 November 2025)
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
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ao3_st_lowerdecksrss_feed) wrote2025-11-20 07:26 amConstructs
by DreamerDrop
EMH Julian Bashir experiences a small identity crisis while his husband would really like to just fall asleep.
Words: 379, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
- Fandoms: Star Trek: Lower Decks (Cartoon)
- Rating: General Audiences
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Categories: M/M
- Characters: Hologram Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Lower Decks), Alternate Universe Elim Garak (Star Trek: Lower Decks)
- Relationships: Hologram Julian Bashir/Alternate Universe Elim Garak (Star Trek: Lower Decks)
- Additional Tags: Dialogue-Only, Ficlet, Fluff
apod_feed) wrote2025-11-20 06:14 am(no subject)
Sometimes the dark dust of interstellar space has an angular elegance.
fic_in_a_box_mod) wrote in ficinabox2025-11-20 12:57 amPost-Deadline Pinch Hits: Returning: 61,106,145,166,171 - And Reposts
Navigation: Rules/General Info | AO3 Collection | Posting Guidelines | Medium Rulesets | Google Forms (Defaulting, Extensions, Assignment Summary Requests) | Mod Contact: ficinaboxmod@gmail.com OR Screened Mod Contact Post
Pinch hits are participants who are without creators; pinch hitting is the practice of volunteering to make a gift for a pinch hit. These pinch hits are all due on November 28th at 10:00 PM EST.
Fic In A Box has a very unusual set of assignment requirements: everyone is owed (and is asking for) 10k of fanfiction, which by default can be given as one 10k+ fic or several 1k+ fics. Participants have also had the option to opt-in to other minimum lengths or to other formats of fanwork. The other fanwork mediums are given word count equivalents, which you can view on the medium ruleset post.
Additionally:
- Fic In A Box creators may default after partially filling their assignment—say, if they discover that they can only write 9k of fic—and PHs can be picked up in 1k increments!
- You may always swap all or part of your assignment for a PH, just let us know that's what you're doing when you post to claim the PH.
In order to pick up a pinch hit you need to either email us or comment on this post (comments are screened) with:
- The amount of wordcount you would like to claim (even if you're going to do fanart or some other non-fic opt-in medium! If you aren't sure what the equivalent would be, we'd be happy to help you convert it!)
- The exact username of the AO3 account you will be posting your fill(s) from (if you post from a different account from the one you give us, we won't be able to count the PH as filled unless you update us!)
- An email where we can reach you (you might not be getting the AO3 assignment when you pick up a PH, so we need to know where to send the assignment!)
( PH 13 - CLAIMED - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) )
vriddy) wrote2025-11-20 06:46 am
Community Thursday
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ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-19 10:59 pm
Self-Care
Meaningful self-care goes beyond a simple bubble bath or at-home facial (though, those are really nice, too), and we all need support and resources to maintain self-care routines that truly benefit us.
If you’re looking to be that support for someone else, self-care gifts can make a major impact.
Stock up for Self-Care Wednesday! Or pack these as host/ess gifts for your relatives at Thanksgiving, with a card explaining that followup holiday.
canyonwalker) wrote2025-11-19 08:54 pmHawk at 5 Weeks of Recovery
- She's still seeing a "substitute" doctor, not the one who did the surgery. The doctor was even careful to point out when she was advising Hawk today, "Well, you're not my patient, but...." The reason for the substitution is Hawk's preferred doctor, the orthopedic specialist she's seen many times over the past 20-ish years and trusts thoroughly, is out with an arm injury right now. That said, she trusts this new doctor pretty well. It's just off-putting (to me) that the doctor who's currently caring for her puts distance between herself and Hawk with that "You're not my patient, but..." refrain when Hawk asks her for guidance.
- The quibble about "You're not my patient, but..." aside, this doctor is way better than the previous substitute Hawk saw, who was dismissive— to the point of mocking— of her complaints of post-surgical pain and arguably removed her stitches a week too soon, which arguably resulted in an infection at the surgical site, which slowed her healing by at least a week and potentially could have been much worse.
Hawk made a complaint about that bad doctor to the clinic's admin and also posted a negative review on Yelp. By the next morning the clinic's social media team had responded to her, apologizing for the problem. The admin took a week to respond... and even then only with a brief, form-letter acknowledgement of receiving a complaint. That's a sad illustration of the state of affairs in American medicine.- The skin healing over the surgical incision is closed up now, and signs of infection are mostly gone. Hawk's pain levels have decreased— though pain is far from gone.
- The doctor recommended a lighter wrapping of bandages around the surgical area and showed Hawk the technique after undoing the previous, thicker wrapping and cleaning underneath. The lighter wrapping is easier to maintain and right away lowered Hawk's pain level slightly. We figure it might have been that the thicker bandaging was creating pressure on sensitive nerves.
- Hawk continues to wear a plastic "boot" around her foot. She's now had it for almost 3 weeks. Her mobility continues to improve every week. I remember the first day she wore the boot she got tired out walking less than 100 yards. Now she can walk a mile or more in a day... though it tires her out to the point of napping for a few hours afterward.
Hawk's next check-up is in 2 weeks. At that point the doctor might recommend replacing the boot, which has a rigid plastic frame that goes almost up to the knee, with a surgical shoe.
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Note: I genuinely do not understand why my posts are not being posted even though I got the confirmation that the community has been updated with a new post, and this keeps happening. Is this happening to anyone else?
neatorama_feed) wrote2025-11-19 05:58 pmFriendsgiving, the Modern Way to Do Thanksgiving
Friendsgiving is the custom of having a Thanksgiving feast among friends instead of family. It has become pretty popular in the 21st century because of a few trends in modern society. Young adults live far away from family because of their jobs, and often can't get enough time off to travel home (or can't afford to). They are postponing starting their own families. And sometimes they just can't go home because their family is toxic. But they still want to indulge in the traditional harvest feast, so a circle of friends make it happen. It sure beats watching TV and eating ramen all alone on Thanksgiving.
In fact, Friendsgiving is so popular that even people who celebrate with their family often have a separate feast for friends on another day. The idea isn't new, but it has exploded in recent years due to social media. Vox has the story of how Friendsgiving became what it is today. -via Laughing Squid
bluapapilio) wrote2025-11-19 09:19 pm
November Game/Drama CD/etc To-Do
I did 5/6! The one was because I realized how complicated it was going to be and decided to do the anime first (Idolm@ster SideM). I look forward to more of all of them! This will be my first time using Backloggd/VNDB with this challenge.
Avatar:
A3!/Entertainment Industry
Skill: Move 2 extra tiles once (trap tile if Even roll)
Roll #1:
A 5, prompt: romance element. It's more erotic but there are romance elements in NU: Carnival. I'll probably open my game and read what I've unlocked from there.
Roll #2:
A 3, prompt: supernatural element: Tokyo Debunker.
Roll #3:
An 11, prompt: Superhero. Hmm I'll do Ride Kamens. ACK I just learned it announced EoS, but it seems they're at least doing an offline version for the stories...
Roll #4:
An 8, prompt: mood. I'll do more Food Fantasy.
Roll #5:
A 3, prompt: favorite genre. I kinda did that with the last roll but whatever, more Mahoyaku it is.
Roll #6:
An 11 and the end. Let's do Paradox Live as the reward.
Links:
Mahoyaku
ParaLive
Food Fantasy
[BL Mobile Game/Fantasy] NU: Carnival
[Mobile Game/Superhero] Ride Kamens
[Mobile Game/Fantasy] Mahoutsukai no Yakusoku ✔️
[Mobile Game/Supernatural] Tokyo Debunker
[Voice/Music Drama] Paradox Live
[Mobile Game/Fantasy] Food Fantasy
x5 mobile games, x1 voice/music drama
kenjari) wrote2025-11-19 09:36 pm
Book Review
by Rachel Hartman
This is the sequel to Tess of the Road and follows it pretty directly. Tess brazens her way onto the explorer Countess Marga's ship, intending to help her friend Pathka get to the Polar Serpent that lives among the southern islands. She is joined by her brother-in-law Jacomo and Pathka's daughter Kikiu. Their voyage is filled with adventure and the negotiations of a complicated web of relationships.
This was a very exciting yet reflective story. It was mostly an adventure story, but took on some deeper issues of colonization, finding one's way to a good path, and how to make restitution for wrongs committed. Both Marga and Tess come face to face with the grim realities of colonization, and face a lot of choices about when, where, and how to engage in opposition and help the oppressed. I liked how they both made some real mistakes but learned from them. I love how much of this book is about doing the work of understanding yourself and others, making restitution for your mistakes, and finding the path to truly helping to make things better.
leecetheartist) wrote in drawesome2025-11-20 10:30 am
As promised
leecetheartistContent Notes: I drew these in pencil first and then watercolour pencil, and fountain pen over them.
So these are some very small works I've done to help raise fun for our local community Shed open day on Saturday (it's like a Men's Shed, but for everybody. We have carpentry, pottery, art group, welding, turning etc etc) They're going to be pasted on some greeting cards and put in a cellophane envelope. I've been given 6 envelopes, and as you see there are eight designs so two won't make the cut. They're going to go for $5AUD each, and we were told not to spend too much time on them, so they're a bit less detailed than my usual.
cassie_faith) wrote in holiday_wishes2025-11-19 09:24 pmMy 2025 Wishlist
This year I’m hoping for something simple but meaningful: help toward purchasing a friend’s 2-bedroom trailer so I can move my three furbabies and myself into a safer, more stable home. My current apartment has had ongoing issues, and I’m trying to secure a place where we can finally have peace and privacy.
My one wish is support toward the down payment for this home. I’m not expecting the full amount—anything truly helps.
If you’re interested in gifting, please DM me for my CashApp/PayPal/Venmo/Chime.
Wishing everyone a warm and blessed holiday season!
textsfromsuperheroes_feed) wrote2025-11-19 09:01 pm