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My second day in Georgia was 4WDing in the Vashlovani Nature Reserve, out towards Azerbaijan. We didn't cross over into Azerbaijan, and there was no intent to, but one of the warnings was that if we got cut off by fire in the Reserve then we might have to exit out via Azerbaijan, so take your passport with you!

(Curious question: on most of the groups for women travelling solo, there's all manner of warnings about travelling with your passport and how it's unwise to do so, but where do you keep it then... It seems to be a peculiarly American thing for women in the 50+ age range, especially those who aren't accustomed to travelling internationally, though, so I'm particularly curious if this is common among people I know.)

Vashlovani )

As I've said before, the women on this tour were the 'we're different and we're good with that' sort of women. Which made for excellent travelling companions.
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The RPGs Playable on Nintendo Switch 2 – New RPGs, Switch 2 Editions, Upgrades, and More

The Nintendo Switch 2 is set to be home to some fantastic RPGs across ports and new games hitting the platform. Our guide covers the best Switch 2 RPGs so far.

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Choking during sex has moved from the margins to the mainstream for many young adults, but the risks have not changed. New research shows how common the practice has become, and how confused many people are about what makes it dangerous.

Philosophical Questions: Morals

Nov. 22nd, 2025 01:25 am
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People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

What are the biggest moral dilemmas your country is facing now?


Privacy, body autonomy, democracy, and climate change.


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Steins;Gate Re:Boot gameplay teaser trailer released

Spike Chunsoft has released the first Steins;Gate Re:Boot gameplay teaser trailer. The upcoming release features brand-new scenarios and optimized systems for both newcomers and longtime fans.

Game Check-in: Duet Night Abyss

Nov. 22nd, 2025 12:25 am
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Spoilers, of course.

The Empire took someone else before and tried to use them but they resisted, so they were killed?

WTF, the story about Miss Hilin and Hamel was so tragic! And what exactly turned him into a monster? Oh shit I just realized that's why it was going for stones so single-mindedly ahhhh.

Yep, so when Charons 'deteroriate' after Awakening they turn into super strong Filthoids. I'm still confused about the connection between Forsakens and Deterioration. How was Hal a Forsaken?

For the Elsa and Annie case, why didn't we have the option to give Elsa the letter from Annie???

'CRAP' WAS CENSORED WTF even IF this was a children's game that would not be?!

Also I find it really sad that they want to take Psyche away to die with them, like at least they didn't kidnap her, they gave her a choice to meet them and yeah Henrik hasn't given them the best impression but her own parents left her with him and it's clear he's trying to help these people, did they ever consider she might want to stay with her guardian in her last moments?

I cannot believe they just assume Henrik was some evil villain killing and controlling Deteriorators based on that tiny shred of info Vita learned. This is so stupid. *smh* Hope they don't do something irreversible.

Me in the middle of feeling bad for Psyche as walks through her visions of the past: "...Wait, why do her parents look like the most generic NPCs ever, did they adopt her??"

I hate the Empire SO MUCH. They think they're the good guys but they're actually the lowest scum. :|

Is the crystal as a cure a loose end? I don't know how I feel about Psyche's ending, I thought she'd die, then I thought she'd live but then she died by killing herself right when she came back to herself. With practice or done sooner, could Vita's Resonance hold Deterioration back or take it away completely?

Outsider mentioned someone else who could use 'this kind of power' who brought blood and chaos and was hanged, was that the person Sybille mentioned earlier?

Am I ever going to understand how catching Geniemons works?? Edit: I missed how to switch to a higher food, I kept using the same one. 😅

After a little while of playing the game, it suddenly doesn't want to let me turn fast, it's almost like slow moon, same when I use my mouse and move it around the screen. Sometimes I have to restart the game because it's hard to fight when you can't turn fast.

I feel really bad for all the stags, every time I'm out exploring with a team they go off and kill them all. 😭

current fandom comms/events

Nov. 21st, 2025 10:18 pm
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[tumblr.com profile] hurtcember is a prompt a day event in December based on "hurt" themes.

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[tumblr.com profile] daddecember is a 30 day daily prompt fest taking place in December based on father & child platonic relationships.

[community profile] animatedfanfiction is a community for posting any fanfiction based on animation, including any type of cartoons, animated films/shows, or anime.

[community profile] austenexchange is running a Jane Austen fest to celebrate her 250th birthday. Prompting for all her works is welcome until 8AM UTC on December 16th, when works will be revealed, but you can still posts fills after that.

[community profile] fandomtrees, a multi fandom gifting fest, is open for sign-ups until December 5th, 11:59PM UTC.

[community profile] smallfandombang, a big bang for small fandoms, has opened artist sign-ups until January 31st, 2026.

[community profile] womansplace is going to host Rec-Cember, an event where you can post meta and recs of fic, vids, art, podfic, meta, graphics, etc - any fannish endeavor you enjoy that are focused on women throughout the month of December.




[community profile] holly_poly signups are now open.

They will remain so until 11:00am UTC on 26 November.

Check the signup post here and the tagset here.

🔗 Links of interest

Nov. 21st, 2025 11:51 pm
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KK-chan is a Girl! - I found her recently and now she's my favorite mangatuber, seeing all the goodies and manga etcis a delight. She reads across the board, maybe mostly BL and shoujo.

Rec-Cember - Post recs in December and tag them! More info in sticky there. You can post to your own journal or the community.

Do you know "Pomegaverse"!?🐶

State of Thai GL - November 2025

The Gay Couple Shonen Jump Suppressed - SKET Dance is one of those manga I saw start publishing and just never got around to reading. I don't know if having this knowledge now is better or worse but I still plan on reading it.

Atelier B/W - Free illustrations in various categories. Menu at top left: Food, Drink, Misc, Animals, Plants, Other. Rules: no commercial use, redistribution, hot linking, otherwise you're good (changing color/size, use on social media/site etc)

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Nov. 21st, 2025 10:39 pm
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Ever since Marjorie Taylor Greene "informed" us that California wildfires were being caused by "Jewish Space Lasers" I have been obsessed with making a mockery of her. (Hey, I'm Jewish, and if I had control of some space lasers I would NOT be using them to set California on fire.)

Now I see that she is resigning from Congress after The Orange One called her "wacky"...which is the first time I've ever agreed with something he said.

At this juncture I would like to show what I have created with my Refrigerator Magnet "What Will Marjorie Taylor Green Say Next" Conspiracy Kit.

Marjorie Taylor Greene refrigerator magnet

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Marjorie Taylor Greene refrigerator magnet

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Remember last month when I said I bought a lego tree for the dollhouse? I had so much fun building it, now I'm planning a lego dollhouse for my tree. I've devoted maybe two whole nights of research to this plan and I've already had to increase the planned surface area significantly.

From time to time I remember the lego jianghu in my mind still only consists of one tree. Then I laugh and go, "Yeah, but it's me." Remember when I used to be into legos? Neither do I because it's never happened, except that one time I spent two months collecting X-Men minifigures.

I did a journal search for "legos" to see if I could find a picture, since who knows where those minifigures are now (probably in a box under my desk with Jungle Fury DVDs, paper pocket dictionaries, and old check registers). And that journal search was basically a con tour from Vancouver to San Diego to Orlando, which I did not see coming at all, but according to me I also own lego dolphins.

I remembered the velociraptors when I saw them, but why did I have dolphins? Do I still have dolphins? I may have to look under my desk after all.
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These icons were made for the first [community profile] vampiremedia 20in20 challenge. The theme is women. So below are 20 icons for the challenge plus all the extras I made.

[01] Aleera, Marishka & Verona (Van Helsing)
[02] Mavis Dracula (Hotel Transylvania)
[02] Barbara Gordon (DC vs Vampires)
[05] Diana (DC vs Vampires)
[01] Raven (DC vs Vampires)
[01] Rose (Vampire Academy books)
[06] Jubilee Lee (X-Men)
[03] Selene (Underworld)
[06] Lily Munster (The Munsters 2022)
[02] Caroline Forbes (The Vampire Diaries)
[03] Elena Gilbert (The Vampire Diaries)
[01] Katerina Petrova (The Vampire Diaries)
[01] Rebekah Mikaelson (The Vampire Diaries) 
[07] Hope Mikaelson (The Legacies)
[09] Lizzie Saltzman (The Legacies)

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Today's Smoothie

Nov. 21st, 2025 10:46 pm
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Today we made a smoothie with:

1 cup Pom pomegranate-blueberry juice
1 cup Brown Cow vanilla yogurt
1 banana
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup ice

The result is bright red-violet and on the thin side.  It has a deeper fruit flavor from the pomegranate -- a nice fall smoothie. 

FFS Friday

Nov. 21st, 2025 09:51 pm
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Between my coworkers seeming to NOT understand that this 'new shining insurance' will cost in the long run three times the shit show we have and the unqualified twit Trump has running the Dept of Education deciding nursing is not a professional degree (which would make it harder to get student loans for it among other horrible things) I have had enough of this fucking day. And my apple set off my gastric paresis so not vomiting was a real chore in lab

I'm glad we didn't have the writers meeting. I'm not fit for man or beast (nor have I answered or read posts since...omg nearly the 7th, go me) so have fannish 50 recs

I wrote a thing!!


Title: Only Shades of Gray

Summary: Angel is ready to help his new lover, one of hell’s up and coming overlords grab more territory. But who walks into Valentino’s would-be new territory but someone Angel had been waiting for for decades. So, his brother had finally died.

Rating: teen

Notes:This is set in the late 1970s which is currently, from the old notes up on fandom wiki, the time period in which both Valentino and Arackniss died. So I gave hell that same 70s vibe and this would be when Valentino is just building his empire and what Angel’s role is in it. And his first meeting with his brother after Arackniss died. I am sticking with Giovanni for Arackniss’ living years name as the old notes have him as a Jonathan.

Content warning – Angel’s family is homophobic so there are references to that along with time period appropriate history for Angel’s living years in the 1930s and 40s.

Written Spikesgirl58’s six word challenge. The words were Cave, Situation, Extent, Shy, Sip, & Ambitious

And written for the lyrical titles bingo challenge for the prompt, Song with a color in the title. I chose Shades of Gray by The Monkees. And for the allbingo prompt of Duty is heavier than a mountain. Death light as a feather. This quote is used in the story and it is from Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time.

Story under here or at the above link )

Recs!!

No More Torchwood

In Denial FAKE

A Time for Healing Starsky & Hutch

Hope Against the Shadows Hazbin Hotel

Divergent Roads Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Fool's Rosegold The Owl House

Heartache Stargate Atlantis

To Trust His Daughter Hazbin Hotel

Goodbye, little duckling. Hazbin Hotel

Dill With It Hazbin Hotel

Childhood Ambitions Torchwood

Never Giving Up he Fantastic Journey

Perfect shot Call of Duty

The Write Stuff Stargate Atlantis

This Moon, That Moon 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Uncomplicatedly Complicated Wolverine/The X-Men

wooing the lady 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

something you could sin for Naruto

Living Their Own Lives Teen Wolf

We've Done This Before Addams Family

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Nov. 21st, 2025 11:23 pm
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Dear Annie: I've always had a complicated relationship with my older sister, "Beth." She's the golden child -- successful, pretty, everyone's favorite. I'm more of the quiet one. I've never resented her accomplishments, but I've spent years feeling like I'm living in her shadow.

Recently, something strange happened. I got offered a promotion at work that would put me in a leadership role over a project Beth's company is contracted on. It's a huge opportunity. When I told my parents, they were polite but not enthusiastic. My mom actually said, "Well, let's hope that doesn't make things awkward for Beth."

Beth hasn't said much, just a text that said "Congrats," with a period. Not even an exclamation point.

Part of me wants to let it go and focus on the win. But another part of me feels really, really sad, like I'm still chasing approval I'll never get. I don't want this old family dynamic to steal the joy from something I worked hard for.

How do I celebrate myself without needing my family to do it with me? And is it worth trying to fix something that maybe they don't even think is broken? -- Out of the Shadow


Read more... )

Are there bears in the forest?

Nov. 21st, 2025 10:00 pm
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I have more than the minimum word count of my Yuletide story and a vague ambition for how it will go from here. It is not done, but it is well and truly begun.

Paper Towns - John Green

Nov. 21st, 2025 09:59 pm
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Read Paper Towns by John Green, because my year of revisiting 2000s YA lit wouldn't be complete without a single John Green novel and this is the one that was immediately available on Libby. Towards the end of their senior year, perceived manic pixie dream girl Margo and literal boy next door Quentin share one night of shenanigans - pulling an all-nighter to enact teen-movie revenge on Margo's cheating boyfriend and a handful of frenemies - only for Margo to disappear the next day, leaving behind a trail of clues for Quentin to decode and follow. It is a non-zero amount of cringe - mostly in a way that loops around to oddly endearing; sometimes in a way that is definitely still cringe - but overall, I enjoyed this more than I had expected to. There's a weight to it that I hadn't remembered, in that ... )

I don't think this book was how I discovered the Mountain Goats as a teenager, but its epigraph quotes from "Game Shows Touch Our Lives" ("People say friends don't destroy one another / What do they know about friends?") and, later, there's a passing reference to Q and his friends singing along to the Mountain Goats that I found disproportionately touching, both because of now knowing about Green's love of the band from The Anthropocene Reviewed (five stars; higher than, say, the wonder and majesty of Halley's Comet, which only rates four and a half) and my own nostalgia.

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