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Congratulations and prizes go to the group of middle school students who successfully located and burned down this year's Solstice Beast, which had been hidden in a culvert beyond Arrow Point Lookout. This year, the highly flammable straw statue installation was made in the shape of a very fine pronghorn, complete with horns that shot fireworks when ignited, thanks to local sculptors, chemists, and farmers. This is the quickest discovery since 2009, though not the quickest burning, after the 2022 raccoon Solstice Beast was incinerated by a bolt of lightning before discovery.

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Monday, December 08, to midnight on Tuesday, December 09. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33934 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 6

How are you doing?

I am OK.
4 (66.7%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
2 (33.3%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
4 (66.7%)

One other person.
1 (16.7%)

More than one other person.
1 (16.7%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

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Posted by Medievalists.net

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/12/illuminated-for-a-king-rediscovering-the-roman-de-la-rose/

https://www.medievalists.net/?p=107002

A royal manuscript of the Roman de la Rose offers a fresh look at Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun’s contrasting visions of medieval love and reason.

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/12/illuminated-for-a-king-rediscovering-the-roman-de-la-rose/

https://www.medievalists.net/?p=107002

flemmings

Fingers crossed, my freezer seems to have stopped leaking into the fridge area.

Only now I've lost my new Ontario ID card. It was supposed to be on the kitchen table and it isn't. No, actually, it was supposed to have been in my wallet, which will learn me to put things back where they belong the minute I finish gazing at my strange unnatural beauty. Am not up to doing the Lost please replace routine, and certainly not in December. Of course I cut up my old one and threw it out. Let's hope there are no elections in the near future.

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https://thebloggess.com/2025/12/08/the-16th-annual-james-garfield-christmas-miracle/

https://thebloggess.com/?p=43930

Hello and welcome to the SIXTEENTH ANNUAL James Garfield Miracle! (HOW??) “What is the James Garfield Miracle?” you may be asking. You must be new here. HELLO AND WELCOME. 16 years ago I walked into an estate sale and fell in love with an ancient taxidermied boars head that seemed so damn happy to see me. I didContinue reading

https://thebloggess.com/2025/12/08/the-16th-annual-james-garfield-christmas-miracle/

https://thebloggess.com/?p=43930

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smallfandomfest

Title: Bubble Mine Exploration
Author: bluerosekatie
Fandom: Rockman | Mega Man Classic (video games)
Pairing/Characters: Bubble Man
Rating/Category: Gen
Prompt: Rockman | Mega Man Classic, Bubble Man, Exploring a flooded mine
Spoilers: N/A
Summary: Bubble Man goes on an adventure to use his skills, now that he's no longer working for Dr. Wily.
Notes/Warnings: Fic is archive-locked to avoid AI scraping.

Read it on Ao3 here!

javert

Hello there!!!! If anybody is left to see my posts... (joking)

I'm a bit sad I broke my streak of posting every month of the year on here, but ah well. (Wait actually hold up I just checked and I've already missed March... Well.) I think taking a break from blogging (even casual blogging) was for the best. I actually took several weeks off all social media in mid-October and that made me feel SO MUCH better. Officially it was to avoid Z-A spoilers (I received the game later than expected) but then I was like man, it's nice to not have to worry about being active on Tumblr for a while or whatever. It made me feel less bad about my lack of creative endeavors, too.

Well, the latter is not a problem for me right now because I'm running on pure, undistilled Z-A brainrot right now. I've already written and posted three fics (which have been crossposted on

teamflare btw just saying just saying) I'm back to drawing every single day, and I have a 6-pages comic all sketched. I feel a little bit crazy but in a good way. The main downside is that I'm having a real hard time focusing on other things </3 but that's alright. I'm managing. I think.

I want to talk about Z-A SO BAD there's actually a full review I've been meaning to post for like. A month and a half at this point but I still haven't finished it. I'd like to do that before my birthday though. Instead I'm endlessly replying to Tumblr asks people have been sending me, which is also cool. Lots of FRESH!! AND NEW!!! blorbo material to discuss. Honestly I'm mentioning the review here in the hope that talking about it can get my brain to finally let me write more of it so I can post it here, which was my plan all along. Prayer circle etc.

What's new other than that... Hmm... The German classes I mentioned in my last post have been going great! I feel like I'm actually learning stuff, although it's still a bit slow-going. I can tell when people are talking about numbers, which feels huge as somebody who prior to this could barely count to 3 in German lol. We've barely just dipped our toes into stuff like dative and accusative at this point but I'm secretly hoping my years of Latin in middle school will come in clutch...

I posted the announcement for the next

perfworldweek round and I'm very much looking forward to what people will make >:) I need to work on more of the graphics for it, but right now it's crazy holiday seasons so I'm focusing on other stuff. (Such as the gifts I still need to finish. Aough.) Being motivated to draw again has been a huge help ngl.

I'm also doing the holiday love meme again this year!!! I really really really want to push myself to leave comments for other people because I tend to procrastinate on it and then I'm like it's too late and I don't have anything to say aaaaaa. Once again, saying this here to hold myself accountable, I guess. o9

✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here

It's also

fandomtrees season and my Z-A addled brain convinced me to sign up requesting exclusively my new ship under Pokémon, which is a first lol. I expect the few exchanges I'll allow myself to do next year will be heavy on them as well to be honest. (I even signed up to

consent_issues_exchange with only one fandom and one ship, which I'd never done before...)

Anyway... I'm convinced there was more I meant to write but I can't remember now lol. You should tell me what you think of Z-A in the comments or link me to posts you've written about it etc. I'm really curious!!! I will leave you with these Corbeau icons I made on a whim because I saw someone was using some of my Yoshi icons and I got excited. Enjoy!! 💜

( 15 Corbeau icons, mostly from screenshots )

By the way, and speaking of, the Pokémon icons community is still happening! I'm hoping to have it up sometime next week.

Current Mood: enthralled
Current Music: State of the Art - Gotye

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Star Wars: Ahsoka, Star Wars: The Mandalorian, The Last Of Us, Enola Holmes 2
Moon Knight, Kin, The Punisher, The Boys

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⌈ Secret Post #6912 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

[Wuthering Heights]

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 35 secrets from Secret Submission Post #987.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

falena

I'm pretty sure I don't have to tell anyone what this show is about, not least because the name is pretty much self-explanatory, lol.

If you haven't watched it at all, it's probably because medical dramas are not your thing or because you're very young and think that old television is not worth wasting your time over (your loss).

I grew up with ER, John Carter has been my first tv crush, I learnt English to be able to keep up with the show as it aired in the US...so I can't just be objective about it. Season 1 through 3 hold a very special place in my heart.

I honestly wish I had been in fandom back then, but I wasn't, so I'm sure I missed out on a lot of fic. Most of the fic I eventually read was in archives that are no longer online... Fannish life before the Ao3 came along was hard.

Through the Door by C.Midori. I can't believe I'm linking to FF.net! This story is 23 years old, guys. I remember loving it back then, I had it saved as a Word file on my computer, lolol. It's Abby/Carter, a ship I honestly don't remember much about and FF.net makes my eyes bleed so I haven't re-read it before reccing it, sorry. It does seem well-written. It was very angsty, this much I remember. Set around season 8, I think.

Two For The Show by jumpfall. 2.3K words. Gen. Set in the first season, I suppose. This is Carter!whump and H/C at its finest. I love found family stories. And true ensemble pieces like this, with excellent use of the medical setting.

three dates by cicak. 13.6K words.Cater/Benton. Set in season 2 or 3. Carter’s not sure exactly when he first learned about the patented Peter Benton Dating Algorithm, but it must have been early on, because he internalised it like it was any other scrap of information he’d gleaned and hoarded like a crazy person, like his GPA (3.8), his birthday (September 9th) or his blood type (B positive). Now, I personally don't see the Carter/Benton relationship as romantic. At. All. cicak writes so well and still keeps Carter and Benton completely in character that they just made me buy it.

The Pitt

Like Brothers We Meet by Siria. 17.5k words. Gen. After a chance encounter, Robby finds out that he's got a half-brother he never knew about—an emergency physician from Chicago called John Carter. A fair number of stories that try to tie in/blend ER and The Pitt while explaining the uncanny similarity between Carter and Robby have naturally popped up. This is the best of them all. Totally believable, blends the two canon seamlessly. Robby is our viewpoint character here. Fascinating read, highly recommended.

luzula

Alibi sentence, sigh. How about you?

Tally:
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Day 7:

badly_knitted,

goddess47,

garonne,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

chanter1944,

chestnut_pod,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

sanguinity,

china_shop

Day 8:

china_shop

Bonus farm news: We hosted a seed swap, which was fun! We've been learning about harvesting our own seed from vegetables during the year, and had some of our own to offer. And it was a good way to meet some new people in the area, too.

summersgate

Warm Heart.

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awesomeers

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!

stonepicnicking_okapi

from Duke Ellington's Jazz Nutcracker

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1word1day

saturnine [sat-er-nahyn]

adjective

1. sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
2. having a sardonic aspect
3. suffering from lead poisoning, as a person.
4. due to absorption of lead, as bodily disorders.
5. born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn

examples
1. But even in that calm gloom, my eyes slowly acclimated to the 14 grandly saturnine paintings, made by Mark Rothko in the late 1960s. New York Times. 21 Feb 2022. "At Mark Rothko's chapel, a composer is haunted by a hero."

2. For two years, she kept them dancing attendance on her--the fair-haired, athletic, good-looking Thord; the saturnine, intelligent, lion-hearted Olaf. "Pattern of Revenge" by John Bude.

origin
It comes ultimately from Sāturnus, name of the Roman god of agriculture, who was often depicted as a bent old man with a stern, sluggish, and sullen nature.