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A Celebration?

Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the brainrot. The day I decided that maybe I should watch everything one of my favourite actors was in. Or everything of his that was accessible to a mere mortal. Both the best and one of the worst decisions I took.

And to celebrate...

The Last Performance gang as ponies? That can't be right. Never watched My Little Pony (Lissy-Strata's Dr Who ponies do live in my heart).

Slay, not-so-little old man, as the kids say.

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drawing challenge 72 - makes you happy

#72: Chicken Soup

Title: Chicken Soup
Artist:

mekare
Rating: G
Fandom: -
Content Notes: watercolour

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Draw what you love

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A Little R&R (Sherlock Holmes, Ferret/Mrs Hudson)

Title: A Little R&R
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Pairing/Characters: Ferret & Mrs Hudson
Content Notes: No warning needed
Prompt: September 10th - a little R & R

A Little R&R on AO3

Current Mood: amused

Today in Kilts

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H.R.5106 - Restore Trust in Congress Act

H.R.5106 - Restore Trust in Congress Act is bipartisan legislation that aims to ban Members of Congress and their families from engaging in insider trading. The supervising ethics office will impose penalties and issue any additional guidance, as well as publicly disclose fines that will be set to 10% of the stock’s asset value, plus disgorged profits.

The STOCK Act of 2012 has helped expose the extent of potential conflicts of interest and provided the public with transparency into lawmakers’ financial activities, but a lack of enforcement has stopped it from achieving the goal of curbing insider trading.

(In related anti-corruption legislation: Close the Revolving Door Act of 2025, legislation that would impose a lifetime ban on former Members of Congress from becoming lobbyists.)

Contact your representative.

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Prompt 335: Nightmare

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wip wednesday

WIP Wednesday

What are you working on? Stuck on a plot point and want to talk it out? Have a canon question or looking for a resource? Anything and everything about your WIPs is welcome. Any kind of WIP counts, including fic, fanart, graphics, meta, icons, etc.

Optional questions are below. If there's something else you want to say about your WIP, please add it and we can update the meme.

You can contribute to the post until we put up the next WIP Wednesday! We are embracing the slower pace of Dreamwidth.

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Wednesday Reading Meme

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

We are undergoing some upheaval at work, and as always in times of upheaval, I’ve turned to the soothing verities of mystery novels. In this case, I read Rex Stout’s The Doorbell Rang, my first Nero Wolfe novel, which features MANY delicious meals, Nero Wolfe taking on J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, and a certain amount of Wolfe’s assistant Archie ogling women, the last of which means that I shouldn’t read too many of these books in a row or else I’ll get too irritated to continue. But I do mean to circle back to Rex Stout from time to time!

I also finished Elizabeth Gaskell’s Gothic Tales, which wrapped up with “The Grey Lady,” in which a woman escapes from her evil husband (a secret highwayman!) with the aid of her lady’s maid Amante, who disguises herself as a man and passes herself off as our narrator’s husband.

What I’m Reading Now

Continuing my meander through Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac. Reading all those Newbery books from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s has really helped me appreciate this book more, because their repeated paeans to Progress (and cowardly, skulking wolves who need to be shot) makes it clear just how hard Leopold was swimming against the tide when he notes that Progress has drawbacks, such as the fact that if you shoot all the wolves, the unchecked deer population will eat the mountainside down to easily eroded dirt.

Also, a quote that struck me: “We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.”

What I Plan to Read Next

Genzaburo Yoshino’s How Do You Live? The label at Von’s said this book was one of Miyazaki’s favorites as a boy, and how was I to resist that?

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2025,
yarn spinning

Strawberry Cheesecake Yarn

Strawberry Cheesecake Yarn

That was a very drawn out project I spun mostly on my EEW Nano wheel over the course of a couple of months. The base is a merino colourway by Woolfiend, plyed with Cobuger Fuchsschaf (top right), black merino (bottom right), grey Corriedale (bottom left) and grey Gotland fibre - it turned out so nice, I am super pleased. Despite the variety of fibre, it came out all about the same weight

some more photos here on my website

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Wednesday Reading Meme

What I Just Finished Reading: Since last Wednesday I have read/finished reading: Copper Script by KJ Charles and True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer.

What I am Currently Reading: I’m not currently reading a published book; I’ve been reading fanfic. (I had started Hid From Our Eyes (Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries) by Julia Spencer-Fleming but it’s not speaking to me right now (possibly because it’s the last book in the series until a new one is released in November) and I need to return it to the library, so I’m putting it off for another time when I’m in a better head space for it.)

What I Plan to Read Next: Another library book I have out or a book I just purchased. Depends on if I want to start a book now or wait until the weekend, tbh. I might just keep reading fanfic for now.

Book 97 of 2025: Copper Script (KJ Charles)

I enjoyed this book a lot! ( spoilers )

This was a good book and I hope the author writes a sequel. I'm giving it five hearts.

♥♥♥♥♥

Book 98 of 2025: True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between (Gretchen Whitmer)

This book was really good! She talks about things from her childhood to present time. There are funny moments and very serious moments. Overall, the book feels very hopeful. It was a very easy read; sounded just like she was talking to you.

I enjoyed this book a lot and am giving it five hearts.

♥♥♥♥♥

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post type: weekly: read-in-progress

Read-in-Progress Wednesday

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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Highlight for spoilers!*Your spoilers goes here.*

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yuletide fandom promo

Yuletide Fandom Promo 2025!

Welcome to the Fandom Promo post, everyone!

Here's where you get those eyes on your fandoms for sign-ups!

Share what makes your Yuletide fandoms the shiniest and why you love them. A big part of Yuletide is how small our fandoms can be, and this is a good way to make sure other people know what gems there are out there!

SPREADSHEET: Check it out! Thank you to Ouie!

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Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?:

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So kiss me goodbye. Honey I'm gonna make it out alive

It's Wednesday, and my last day at work for the week! It's also one day to Jess' surgery! 1 day! It's so exciting!

We leave tonight to go down to the hotel near Sibley. As of right now, we're due to the hospital at 10am. Knowing me, and how anxious Jess is, we'll be there at 9:30am at the very least. There's still a chance that the time changes, but we'll see. I'd like it to be closer to 8am, but we'll deal.

The brother in law was over last night. He's so adorably excited about this trip. We're trying to get him to tell us if there's something he wants to see, but he seems content to just go with the flow, and be carried in our wake. But it's really cute how happy he is to be asked to go.

I think for Juneau, we're going to get a car service for like 2 or 3 hours, and go to the Mendenhall Glacier, then come back and go on whale watching. I'd like to be able to see the town, and the glacier, and maybe go to somewhere for lunch.

Skagway is pretty well planned. There's not a ton I want to see there so we'll probably just see the town, and do the Railroad, then go back to the ship.

I'm really excited about our glacier day. We're not doing Glacier bay, instead the Dawes glacier and Endicott Arm. I watched a video of it, and it seems super pretty on the way in and the glacier, with its blue tint is phenomenal.

Then Ketchican, where we're taking the free town shuttle out to the totem park and visitor's center, and then back to creek street. We may take the Ghosts and Good Time Girls walking tour, but we'll see.

I think I'm going to get magnets from each port. I might get a t-shirt as well, but I have decided on magnets, so every time I open the fridge door, I get a little happy.

Of course, I also need to start thinking about what to do in Vancouver and Seattle. We have from 10:30-6pm in Seattle, and a full day in Vancouver.

Part of my list is to see the Pacific Ocean, which I have never seen before. Maybe dip my toes in it. We'll see.

My packages are being a pain. The first was supposed to come yesterday, but USPS said that the location was unavailable. I have no idea wtf that means. It better come early today. I want to take it to DC. The Lands end is also coming today, but I have little faith in that. UPS has sent my poor package all over. The rest are coming on Thurs or Friday.

Okay, time to go forth and get my shit together. Everyone have an awesome Wednesday!

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evidence

Yuletide 2025 Evidence Post

Yuletide 2025 nominations begin on September 15 and end at 9 PM UTC on 26 September. See what can be nominated on the eligibility post. You can brainstorm, coordinate, and promote your fandoms at the participant community on DW.

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SVSSS: Life is (not) a Hallmark Movie by Mellicindi

Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Pairings/Characters: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan
Rating: T
Length: 143,334
Creator Links:

mellicindi
Theme: Food & Cooking, (Secret) Hobbies, Asexual & Demisexual Characters, Alternate Universe - Modern, Book Fandoms, Canon LGBTQ+ Characters, Characters of Color, Disability, Families of Choice, Favorite Fanworks, No Canon Required, Novel-Length Fic, Trauma & Recovery.

Summary: Shen Yuan isn't lonely. He's just overseas in a new city, trying to muddle his way through a business degree, and dealing with the side effects of his stupid intestines trying to kill him. So, maybe he sometimes watches ASMR to cope with his too-quiet apartment. Maybe he has a little bit of a parasocial-relationship-thing going on with one particular cooking ASMR channel. It's 2016, who doesn't? The point is, he's content with his quiet life.

And then Shang Qinghua strong-arms him into watching one Hallmark Christmas movie, and it all goes to hell.

Or: Shen Yuan is a Hallmark movie protagonist, Luo Binghe is a Lifetime movie protagonist, and somehow they make it work.

Reccer's Notes: I read this fic over three days right in the middle of Battleship and it instantly became one of my favourite fanfics of all time. I could seriously gush for hours about this fic and its themes: the recurring thread of food as a love language (especially given protagonist Shen Yuan's digestive disability he's too self-conscious to talk openly about), the differing nature of familial, romantic, and friendship bonds and the varying privileges and presumptions behind each, this Luo Binghe's long-term trauma that manifests in the best goddamn depiction of Borderline Personality Disorder I've seen outside Crazy Ex Girlfriend seemingly entirely on accident - and among all of that, it's just a goddamn well-written story, incredibly easy to read and funny and heartfelt and true to its characters while being 100% readable fandom-blind and just - if any of the above appeals to you, I really can't advise anything other than to read it ASAP. <333

Fanwork Links: Life is (not) a Hallmark Movie

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The Day in Spikedluv (Tuesday, Sept 9)

I took mom to her doctor appointments, so that took up much of the morning, and then I stayed with her for part of the afternoon. I did, however, still manage to get some stuff done.

I washed two loads of laundry (only one got dried and folded), hand-washed dishes, swept and mopped the dining room, went for a couple of walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered.

I read more fanfic.

Temps started out at 40.8(F) but dropped to 39.9. (Temps were forecasted to drop into the high 30s, and some places had frost warnings, so I guess we were lucky?). They reached 74.1. It was a lovely, sunny day.

Tonight’s visitors:

Mom Update:

Mom was exhausted after a busy morning of appointments. ( more back here )

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Happy birthday,

major_clanger!

Current Mood: busy

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Murmur - 9

Sorry for the long update, a lot has happened this month (both good and bad). Honestly, I didn’t know what to write at first because of the recent uprising in my country, and also because I’ve been fixated on a horsegirl game. But as usual in this murmur, I’ll just write down what’s been on my mind lately.

I usually don’t like talking about politics too much, but holy hell, the situation in my country has been getting worse this past week. There was a massive protest recently because people are fed up with our corrupt government, and things escalated when the cops ran over a deliveryman with a truck and killed him. I was really focused on that—it’s been mentally exhausting. You can read more about it on the wiki if you want. Honestly, I just hope our current president would fucking die.

On a lighter note, I watched the new KNY movie, and it was a really good film overall. Unfortunately, my experience was kind of ruined because someone brought their girlfriend, who had no prior knowledge of the series, and she kept TALKING through the entire movie, asking questions nonstop. Hhhhh.

Anyway, I feel like I’m in the mood to read a lot of yuri and BL lately. Especially Asada Nemui’s works, I’d like to revisit them and maybe write down my thoughts (I’ve been wanting to make a tier list of her works). I might also reread some yuri I’ve gone through before, since I remember people liked my review on Kamieshi. So I want to spread more good (and toxic) yuri too!

Also I've been adicted with Umamusu 4.5th anniv song lately (Menishuki)....it's really cute song...

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just one thing

Just One Thing (10 September 2025)

It's challenge time!

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!