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Title: Knowing you did a good job is the best reward
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: Fraser doesn't expect rewards

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9. More scenes from a Babylon 5 fixit AU.

I ended up doing a number of additional prompt fills from the same universe as this fill (#4 in the previous post, major series spoilers).

1000 words or so of fixit snippets from the same post-canon AU )

10. And while I'm keeping the spoiler stuff confined to its own post, another B5 spoiler fixit AU (same characters) based off "War Without End."

Under this cut here )

Choices (18)

Jan. 22nd, 2026 08:37 am
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 It surpassed everything

Beth Ollifaunt went over to the window, to peer out upon the very pretty sight of Highgate – sure, Chloe had writ in her letters that 'twas entire a village upon the northern heights above Town – a deal of woods about, and 'twas no distance at all to the famed Hampstead Heath – and yet no trouble at all to get into Town, there were omnibuses

O, this was an adventure! Mama had come to Beth upon her return from school remarking that the house was going to be a-bustle with election matters, very tiresome – the boys were not coming home yet from Meg’s – dear Agnes Lucas had offered that she might send the little ones to the rectory, quite the kindest thing – and here was Chloe suggesting that would it not be a prime thing for Beth to come stay with the Lowndes, that extended the warmest invitation, that she enclosed?

Well! One saw that poor Papa would be entire preoccupied over the business, and Mama sighed and said, election or not, the theatres still had to be managed, and likewise the manufactory –

A tap on the door and came in Chloe.

La, little sister, not properly unpacked yet?

Beth jumped. O, just, what is the phrase? orienting myself.

Chloe grinned and came over to point out various sights of interest. Then began to assist in the task of putting away things in the various presses, that smelt agreeably of lavender and cedarwood, whilst gossiping of family matters.

 This done, Chloe plumped down to sit upon the bed and pulled Beth down beside her. You know, of course, why Mama thinks it entirely best to have you away from Ollifaunt Hall?

Beth shook her head.

La, said her sister with a grin, 'tis because there will be a deal of tiresome old chaps about the place –

I know that!

– and you are just at that age when tiresome old chaps will go be about pinching cheeks and chucking under chins and maybe proceed to bestowing an uncle-some kiss or so, the wretched creatures, and during an election 'tis obligatory to be tactful to 'em and not stamp on their foot or thrust an elbow into their ribs –

Horrid beasts!

Chloe sighed. 'Tis not the like of a cricketing-party, when they may be asked to leave. No, in the interests of the nation, Mama and Papa must be civil. So go about to remove temptation. Well, my pet, now that I have conveyed you that enlightenment –

That certainly made Beth to consider over the behaviour of certain country neighbours!

– let us to the more agreeable task of going make civil to the Lowndes.

Sure 'twas some time since she had been in company with the Lowndes offspring – la, before the Ollifaunts had made their family voyage to the antipodes! – so was somewhat of a matter of becoming reacquainted.

And what she observed – mayhap had been too young to apprehend before? – was that, did the young Ollifaunts make a deal of theatre and plays, the young Lowndes were engaged in making family newspapers and magazines, and even had a small printing-press! Vaisey – Gervase – was editor-in-chief – now that Ferry goes to the college in Gower Street and also starts to learn the business – and his sisters Ella and Bessie and Alexi were the reporters – and Ella quite immediate began to quiz Beth so that she might write her up –

And Bessie offered that they might like to partake of their astronomical observations, for they had a very fine telescope mounted in an attic – for of course Mama is very noted for her pieces on what to look for in the skies –

And o, but they must have seen the Southern Cross!

There was lemonade brought – much nicer at this time o’year than tea – and cakes – and then, o, it was the most exceeding thing! a caller was announced and it was Uncle Josh!

That was quite the favourite of their uncles, even when he did not come bearing the offering of a visit to the Zoological Gardens. Even Chloe became most thrilled at this prospect, for being a Fellow of the Zoological Society, Uncle Josh had the entrée to places that the common public never saw.

Oh, there were a deal of excursions! There was going over to Highbury, where her brothers were staying with Auntie Meg, and seeing how they were and exchanging news, as well as reacquainting herself with the Knowles cousins. And there were Rosina and Elvira that took an opportunity to interrogate her a little in private over the Miss Barnards’ school – for they had a governess, and an array of visiting music teachers, and 'twas all very well, but here is Mama goes talk very fondly of her schooldays, and we wonder should we go petition to be sent there –

I daresay, sighed Elvira, we might keep up at least some of our music –

We have no complaints of Miss Hartingale, said Rosina, not precisely, but she seems entire delighted now that Frank is of an age for the schoolroom –

So Beth went boast a little upon the school, that was by no means about ladylike accomplishments but sound mental training, and was there girls wished to proceed to studying the classics or the higher mathematics, why, that could be arranged, just like drawing-lessons &C. They made envious groans.

There was also going to visit Uncle Quintus and Auntie Sukey that lived right in the centre of Town, just north of the bustle of Oxford Street – 'tis the coming-up area for the medical profession – and see how her rooftop garden came on.

It was a little of a disappointment that because Uncle Harry was obliged to go to Firlbrough about election matters they could not take a jaunt out to Blackheath.

But there were visits to the sights – to the theatre – and quite ecstasy! to call upon Miss Addington in her dressing-room – to the shops – O! so much that one might buy did one have the money!

One afternoon they were having a quiet day, and Beth was about inditing a letter to her parents when a caller was announced. They all looked up a little put about, for all had settled to various pursuits – writing up the family newspaper &C that had been a little neglected in the whirl of dissipation – but the mood entire changed when came in to the parlour Lady Bexbury.

She went over to kiss Beth and to apologize for not coming to welcome her to Town before – had to go into the country about various tiresome matters – but to make up for this neglect, why do you not come pass a few nights with me?

O, it surpassed everything! To be a guest in Auntie – great-aunt, she supposed – Clorinda’s pretty Mayfair house – so close to the Park – the fascinating bustle of the mews –

She looked at Chloe and Chloe nodded.

O, quite more than she could have hoped! And just mayhap, she could ask Auntie Clorinda about certain matters that she was anxious to do, but was not at all sure how to encompass.

That very nice woman,  the mother of her brothers’ friend Walter Frinton, had not only give her very good advice on how to arrange her collection of playbills, but had subsequently sent Beth the most elegant set of portfolios in which to keep 'em – 'tis a line this stationery company in which I have an interest is bringing out. And Beth wanted to know was there some way she might show her gratitude.

Auntie Clorinda thought this entirely proper – now, what you might give her, that is most out of the common, would be a couple of pots of Euphemia’s very exclusive preserves, that are not manufactured by Roberts and Wilson because the ingredients are rare – that only a favoured few are given – pineapple and ginger, and mulberry –

Then Leda Hacker said, how might it be that she took Beth a visit to the Johnson Agency? – after she had near expired with delight, Beth acceded to this charming plan.

Was introduced to Mr Johnson himself! that made most exceeding civil – and then was took to the filing-room, where Miss Frinton ruled, and they found her busy with Dickie Smith explaining the system –

Beth was in the greatest envy of Dickie Smith, that could not be that much older than she was, and employed in the agency. Miss Hacker beckoned him out, and Beth made a bob to Miss Frinton and said, was most exceeding grateful for those fine portfolios – the very thing for her playbill collection – and hoped Miss Frinton might like these exclusive jams –

Miss Frinton, colouring a little, declared that that was quite the kindest thing – she and Walter and her mother would greatly relish 'em – and mayhap Miss Elizabeth would care to see somewhat of her records?

Oh, bliss! Very educational instructive, and 'twas a delight to talk to one that had such very fine notions about keeping records, and about stationery, and oh, she did hope that once this tedious business of the election was done, Mama and Papa would invite the Frintons to Ollifaunt Hall again. Miss Frinton asked most proper about the family and their doings – heard somewhat from Walter of course –

Came in Leda Hacker with tea and biscuits.

O, cried Beth, la, I have stayed far too long – kept you from business –

They assured her 'twas a pleasure to have her company and to take tea afore departing.

The thing she had hardly dared to hope for – that she might go visit the famed actor Hywel Jenkins – Lady Bexbury took quite easily. La, I visit the poor fellow – you know he is now an invalid? – every month or so, convey him treats –

Here they were, a little out of Town – he was sitting by the window, and even now though he must be quite old, one might see why Mama remarked that he was quite the handsomest man she had ever set eyes upon –

And Beth recounted the family tale of being the Roman mob while he declaimed Friends, Romans and countrymen from the Raxdell House staircase.

So he turned a little, and smiled, saying, today was one of his better days, and gave the speech.

It was glorious.

O, Hywel! cried Auntie Clorinda with a little sob in her voice, then blowing her nose.


New BNHA fic: Grounding (Dabi/Hawks)

Jan. 22nd, 2026 07:02 am
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Wrote most of this during the blergh days last week. I started this Hugging series while touch-starved during the covid lockdowns, but there's something grounding about focusing on the senses like these fics usually do. It helps.

Obviously a sense of grounding also adds to the angst considering Hawks can fly and what Dabi does to his wings later in canon, but! The baked-in angst is part of their charm and appeal ;)


Grounding | Boku no Hero Academia | Dabi/Hawks | 500 words | rated T
Part of the Hugging series

Summary: The clock on their time together may be rushing towards its last few ticks, but that doesn't mean they don't get to make every moment count.

Read it on Dreamwidth on AO3.

The ABC Challenge (But Make It Queer)

Jan. 21st, 2026 10:15 pm
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Here is my first attempt to making a graphic of a Storygraph Challenge. I completed 3 challenges this year (A-Z Challenge, Read Queer All Year and the Trans Rights Readathon), but making this one exhausted me, so until I find a better way, this will be it for graphics. Maybe one day Storygraph will make some shiny graphics for their challenges, I mean, it's right there in their title, yes? 


 

Community Thursdays

Jan. 22nd, 2026 12:15 am
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This year I'm doing Community Thursdays. Some of my activity will involve maintaining communities I run, and my favorites. Some will involve checking my list of subscriptions and posting in lower-traffic ones. Today I have interacted with the following communities...


* Posted "How to Restart When You've Fallen Off Your Goals" in [community profile] goals_on_dw.

* Continued checking and responding to Wishlist posts in [community profile] snowflake_challenge.  See my Granting Wishes post.

* Made my 3 nominations for the Rose and Bay Awards: Other Project in [community profile] crowdfunding. Nominations are still open through January, so if you haven't made yours yet, we could sure use more! Boost your favorite crowdfunded projects and patrons from 2025.

Missing missing reasons!

Jan. 22nd, 2026 01:07 am
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Dear Annie: I'm just heartbroken. My son moved out last year, and he never talked to me about anything before he moved. We were so close, and we always talked. But all of a sudden, he packed up and moved out with no explanation. He had met someone a year prior to that. I met her for a second, and that was it. I do know where he is living but he doesn't know that I know. He has a new baby boy; I don't even know his name, yet he is my grandson. I know that he has two stepdaughters, but I don't know their names either.

I kept trying to call him but get no response. Now his phone is disconnected. I'm so lost and confused as well as upset. I miss him dearly.

He is my only child. He did a great job in school and had his own business after he graduated from high school. I am trying so hard to go on with my life, but it's so hard not knowing how he is, or whether he is safe, healthy and happy. He was a very good kid, and now he's a man. I just hope and pray that he will come around some day. -- Mom Is Lost


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Occasional Poem by Jacqueline Woodson

Jan. 27th, 2026 01:03 am
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Ms. Marcus says that an occasional poem is a poem
written about something
important
or special
that's gonna happen
or already did.
Think of a specific occasion, she says—and write about it.

Like what?! Lamont asks.
He's all slouched down in his seat.
I don't feel like writing about no occasion.

How about your birthday?
Ms. Marcus says.
What about it? Just a birthday. Comes in June and it ain't
June, Lamont says. As a matter of fact,

he says, it's January and it's snowing.
Then his voice gets real low and he says
And when it's January and all cold like this
feels like June's a long, long ways away.


The whole class looks at Ms. Marcus.
Some of the kids are nodding.
Outside the sky looks like it's made out of metal
and the cold, cold air is rattling the windowpanes
and coming underneath them too.

I seen Lamont's coat.
It's gray and the sleeves are too short.
It's down but it looks like a lot of the feathers fell out
a long time ago.
Ms. Marcus got a nice coat.
It's down too but real puffy so
maybe when she's inside it
she can't even tell January from June.

Then write about January, Ms. Marcus says, that's
an occasion.

But she looks a little bit sad when she says it
Like she's sorry she ever brought the whole
occasional poem thing up.

I was gonna write about Mama's funeral
but Lamont and Ms. Marcus going back and forth
zapped all the ideas from my head.

I guess them arguing
on a Tuesday in January's an occasion
So I guess this is an occasional poem.

*************


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No real symptoms, but I'm a little stuffy and super sleepy.

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Community Thursday

Jan. 22nd, 2026 05:57 am
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Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.


Over the last week...

Posted and commented on [community profile] bnha_fans.

Commented on [community profile] common_nature.

Commented with a prompt on [community profile] threesentenceficathon (one guess as to which fandom ;D)

Promoted [community profile] malagraphic, [community profile] followfriday.

Signal boosts:

  • A new round of [community profile] threesentenceficathon started, open till February 15th :D Prompt and fill, and have fun!!

(no subject)

Jan. 22nd, 2026 12:11 am
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DEAR ABBY: Our 24-year-old daughter is getting married in 10 months. My wife is invited to the wedding, but I am not, and I am furious. The groom's family is paying for the trip, but they say I am not invited "for financial reasons."

I don't have a great relationship with my daughter. But that isn't the point. I told my wife that if the roles were reversed and she was excluded, I would not go. This may be a deal-breaker for me. It's apparent that our marriage doesn't mean as much to my wife as it does to me. What are your thoughts? -- ELIMINATED IN TEXAS


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Superpowers

Jan. 21st, 2026 10:49 pm
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In this case, gizmology and super-intellect.  I went to high school with guys like this.

Poem: "A Scarf of Stars"

Jan. 21st, 2026 10:29 pm
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This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It fills "The Milky Way" square in my 1-1-25 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest. It has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred.


"A Scarf of Stars"


In winter,
on a moonless night,

the Milky Way shimmers
like a scarf of stars

wound around
night's black neck.
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January 21 - 'Dream place to live?' for [personal profile] corvidology:

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(there are still slots open for the January Talking Meme here)

Art

Jan. 21st, 2026 09:53 pm
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[personal profile] pattrose made fanart for Love Is For Children as part of the [community profile] snowflake_challenge.  :D

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Dresden Files: Twelve Months

Jan. 21st, 2026 06:34 pm
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New Dresden book, which I inhaled over the last two days!

All the spoilers )

Just books

Jan. 21st, 2026 09:58 pm
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because no one, not even me, cares that the heat is almost out again at work. Dad's like you've been saying this for a decade. Because it's true every winter. Let's never fix a thing at my school.

Though yesterday was strange. I was walking in the hall of my building when a young lady says 'I love your hair.' I thank her, pleased. 3 seconds later....was she on the phone with someone else? she's not one of MY students. Why did she say that? My hair is awful. Literally my entire life I was bullied for what my hair was like. I find it hard to accept praise for it.


Also I'm on a fanfic reading hiatus until I clear off the half dozen library holds.

What I Just Finished Reading:

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Vampire Hunting - hated this

Queen in Comics! By Emmanuel Marie - not a bad prose/graphic novel mix little bio. How, I don't know, but I had no idea Freddie was raised in the Zoasterian faith

Werewolf at Dusk and other Stories - David Small - three short stories, illustrated by Small.

What I am Currently Reading:

A Curious Kind of Magic - so far an interesting not-quite-cozy mystery

Sugar and Vice - oh look another baker cozy mystery, this one set in Florida. Even with the eye rollingly stereotypical amateur sleuth this is sort of fun.


What I Plan to Read Next: La Grand Familia and Zombie Day Care and the library books including one on Sally Ride and one Alison Bechdel who did Fun House. I hope this is better than that thing. (I needed a book about a character who does pilates. This graphic novel has that)

How is this even a question?

Jan. 21st, 2026 09:55 pm
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Dear Eric: My fiancé and I are facing an impasse regarding the guest list for our upcoming wedding. I want to exclude his brother's (the best man) wife from the invitation list.

She consistently refuses to engage with me socially, going no further than a brief "hi." There has been no conflict; she simply does not converse with me. Although, if I ask her about herself or what's going on in her life she will answer, but there's no back and forth. I doubt she even knows my name.

For context, my fiancé is Hungarian, and his family is small. Although she speaks English fluently, she is the only family member who never attempts to talk to me or ask me any questions. While they invited me to their wedding a few months ago, I believe it was purely out of obligation.

My fiancé says that excluding her will create drama. He has acknowledged her behavior is "mean-spirited" in the past, yet he excuses it as shyness. Saying she took years to warm up to him. I find this a poor excuse for a complete lack of basic manners, and I am unwilling to have a guest at my wedding who will not speak to me.

I have told my fiancé that he needs to discuss this with his brother, but he has not done so, and invitations are about to be sent out. I am intent on sending a clear message by not including her. And from now and until our wedding there won't be any more chances to interact as we don't live in the same country.

Am I overreacting or is it reasonable to save my money while also slighting her.

– Guest List


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Snow

Jan. 21st, 2026 08:11 pm
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[personal profile] moonhare posted a lovely picture of snow, and a very amusing still life of "Snow Predicted."  It got me thinking that occasions would make a great theme for still life in general.
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Deep Space 9 and Voyager

Jan. 21st, 2026 06:11 pm
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Over the last few months I've given thought to watch Deep Space 9 and Voyager. I've grown up with original Trek due to my father so I've been pretty saturated with trek stuff all my life but I haven't really ever watched it on my own, largely due to disinterest. After my father's scripts were stolen for The Next Generation, we didn't have any further iterations of trek airing in the house as much. So while I knew some things here and there I didn't know anything in extensive detail beyond OG trek. But I've thought about giving some things a watch that would be easy to watch while I was drawing so I looked into those.

I've been mildly curious about Deep Space Nine, not so much about Voyager, so I started off with that one first.

First, some thoughts that extend to both series. Watching both these shows has reminded me, once again, why I tend to be very disinterested in live action shows, especially when I was growing up. I get annoyed enough with poorly portrayed relationships in cartoons, but they at least in kids cartoons they aren't so horribly contrived and drama-saturated as prime time programming. Every issue I have with society's perception of sex and gender is amplified 10 fold in typical prime time programming that's at least dulled in kids cartoons. I already had a poor expectation to begin with so the blow of the obnoxious portrayal of these aren't as bad, especially knowing how media has improved, but this really would have pissed me off so much more as a teen and even young adult.

But man

Some of this is BAD

Okay, onto Deep Space Nine

Deep Space Nine )


Voyager is... frustrating.

Voyager )

So yeah, I def enjoyed Deep Space Nine more than Voyager, but Voyager was at least less bad than I expected.

[ SECRET POST #6956 ]

Jan. 21st, 2026 07:46 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6956 ⌋

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


01.
[Zenless Zone Zero / Uma Musume]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 14 secrets from Secret Submission Post #993.
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.

Lake Lewisia #1359

Jan. 21st, 2026 04:33 pm
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The ability to call lightning bolts out of the clear blue sky might have empowered some to acts of heroism or villainy or naked self-enrichment. On the other hand, it could be a power granted to a glassmaker and sculptor who was more interested in the organic shape of lightning-melted sand left behind as a side effect of their origin story. Ze learned to control hir new power by zapping increasingly tiny mounds of increasingly exotic materials until they could make sculptures pour themselves like water out of a spark at hir command.

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LL#1359

Opera Outfits Over 40

Jan. 21st, 2026 06:16 pm
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A friend asked about shopping for clothes over 40, with an eye toward age-appropriate and fashionable wear, given an opera subscription. That's different from my typical needs, but I'm familiar enough with wrangling clothes to have plenty of ideas ...

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Speaking of AI, I just gave google translate an image description to spellcheck, and it added a definition of "guqin" to the English translation of my Chinese alt/title text.

Original Chinese: 一个非乐高积木的瀑布,旁边有魏无羡迷你任务和蓝忘机站在一起。魏无羡有他的笛子,蓝忘机有他个古琴。

Google Translate's English: A waterfall made of non-Lego bricks, with mini-figures of Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji standing next to it. Wei Wuxian has his flute, and Lan Wangji has his guqin (a Chinese zither).

I deleted "guqin" to see what would happen and no lie, google translate added "(the sentence ends abruptly)".

(Will it be years or months, I wonder, before this post will sound hilariously dated?)

(...Or weeks?)
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Event: Seasons of Drabbles is an exchange for the creation of drabbles and drabble variants. The minimum is 100 words.

Event link: Dreamwidth | AO3 Collection

Due date: Saturday, January 31 @ 11:59pm Eastern Standard time (Countdown).

Pinch hit link: Please view the details and claim it at this post.

PH 4 - 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 镇魂 | Guardian - priest

PH 6 - 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), Wind Breaker (Anime), Outlast (Video Games), Given (Anime), Wind Breaker - にいさとる | Nii Satoru (Manga)

PH 9 - 仮面ライダーガッチャード | Kamen Rider Gotchard (TV), Ultraman Arc (TV), あぶない刑事 | Abunai Deka (TV), Kamen Rider OOO, Kamen Rider V3, Choujin Sentai Jetman, わが青春のアルカディア | Waga Seishun no Arcadia | Arcadia of My Youth (1982), 快傑ズバット | Kaiketsu Zubat (TV), Kamen Rider Ryuki

PH 10 - Fireworks (1947)/Succession (TV 2018), O Fantasma (2000), O Fantasma (2000)/Succession (TV 2018), The Sergeant (1968), Succession (TV 2018)

[food] parsnip risotto, redux

Jan. 21st, 2026 11:11 pm
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Back in November I made a ridiculously overengineered parsnip risotto, as a way of dipping a toe into my next cookbook project. I said at the time that it was very tasty, and also I was unlikely to ever make it again.

Temporary dietary restrictions. )

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Our work computers periodically become outdated and are replaced, which is greatly appreciated and less disruptive with every iteration, as cloud backups and connectivity proliferate. In the spring of 2020, I went home with two six-year-old laptops.

(In defense of my department, they had been encouraging me to upgrade for at least a year, and I resisted because the technology worked fine. I didn't see a need for new if old was doing the job.)

By fall one computer was no longer compatible with company security, and IT sent me a new one that combined everything I needed from both old computers. But we were in the process of moving from one campus to another (a process hugely extended by the pandemic) so the old computers went nowhere.

My point is that when IT upgraded my computer again this week, and they invited me (now a remote worker) to campus to pick up the new one, I brought them three old ones in trade and a whole lot of memories.

Even after my previous department became remote in 2020, we were required to attend a variety of in-person events from client meetings to company all-staffs. In the depths of my three laptop bags I found parking receipts, boarding passes, Chinese readers and snacks, along with masks - so many masks - hand sanitizer, and a note from a deceased coworker about the name of one of my laptops.

It's hard to believe it's been six years. It's also strange to me personally that the time between going home and starting my current job - four entire years - has largely disappeared from daily recall. I remember working with my previous department, on-site, for 18 years. And I remember working with my current department, remotely, for the last two.

Everything in between: the years between 2020 to 2024, from going remote to moving house to saying goodbye to Mimi, all still exists in my memory, but it's largely unmoored from the rest of the timeline. It's neither "now" nor "then," but some secret third option that my brain initially skips over when looking back, somehow assigning those years to a parallel life track rather than a sequential one.

I wonder if it will settle into place as life goes on, if life goes on (thanks body, I appreciate you), or if it will remain disconnected, like the semester I spent teaching at a residential school during the fall of 2001.

Memory is so interesting. I try to let experiences change me in the moment as much as possible and desirable, so I get more out of them than thinking of (or forgetting) them later.

And being kind, of course. The most important connection to any experience.

“I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”

~Etienne de Grellet,
Quaker missionary

Brr! "14F, feels like 7"

Jan. 25th, 2026 08:16 pm
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That is not a sentence I want to read at any time in the morning.

(In celsius terms, it's -10 and feels like death.)

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Food

Jan. 21st, 2026 02:55 pm
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The hidden microbes that decide how sourdough tastes

The microbes living in sourdough starters don’t just appear by chance—they’re shaped by what bakers feed them. New research shows that while the same hardy yeast tends to dominate sourdough starters regardless of flour type, the bacteria tell a more complex story. Different flours—like whole wheat or bread flour—encourage different bacterial communities, which can subtly influence flavor, texture, and fermentation.

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In this essay I will

Jan. 21st, 2026 05:25 pm
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Gandalf was a chickenshit with no self-control who could have prevented the massive death toll at Pelennor Fields. Take the ring, kill the baddie, jump into Mount Doom before it has a chance to corrupt you. But nooooo, it's way more fun to have a grey-Maia/fire-Maia punch-up in a bottomless pit in order to emerge in a gleam of backlighting and inspirational music riding a glowing horsey like a tween girl's puberty dreams, than it is to take the ring, zap in, punch the eyeball Maia in his dumb eyeball, and then jump into the lava.

The Music Studio 2.0

Jan. 21st, 2026 10:05 pm
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Posted by John Scalzi

Some of you will remember that as a pandemic project I went and made a music studio in my basement. It was a lot of fun, and very cool — but too cool, as our basement is endemically cold, even in the summer, and spending more than a half hour in there is liable to set one’s teeth a-chatter. It ended up limiting the amount I used my studio area; for the last in year in particular I was more likely to record something at my kitchen’s center island than I was in my studio space in my basement.

Fast forward to today, and now I have a new set-up, in the room that was previously Athena’s bedroom. She doesn’t need the room anymore — she has a whole house now — and the room is nicely heated (and in the summer, cooled) and also literally ten feet from my current home office. I’ve done an initial setup, which you can see above. There’s more to be done, including bringing up some more musical equipment from the basement, most notably the drumset, but the setup here is good enough to start recording.

That is, once I get the current novel done. First things first. I consider this a bit of motivation.

— JS

sigh

Jan. 21st, 2026 04:56 pm
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Well, there's flu in my mother's residence and she's recovering from a cold (though says she tested negative for flu and COVID), so the weekend visit with friends is canceled because they can't risk me bringing anything into their space, and the weekdays visit with other friends was already severely cut down because of recent stresses in their lives but now is further reduced to just meeting up for a short walk because they can't risk it either. I do not like this timeline.

(To be clear, I absolutely understand all my friends' reasons and I'm glad they made the calls that are right for them! And we've all planned to see each other when I hope to come down again in April. I'm just sad not to see them 1. at all 2. much now. also I was hoping 1 would want to watch HR with me)

On the other hand, this means I'll be going home before a big storm hits this weekend, which if I'd kept my original schedule might otherwise have ended up delaying me for an extra day, which would then make things tight at home because we're planning to go to Montreal right after I get back. Everything happens for the tolerable in this not yet the shittiest of all possible worlds.

Write Every day 2026: January, Day 21

Jan. 21st, 2026 10:49 pm
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61% of respondents find shorter fic easier to write than longer! And the majority of respondents mostly write stories between 1 and 10k words. Interestingly, the 10-50k range seems to be the rarest!

For me, I find longer fic easier because I can much more easily come up with ideas for longer stories than shorter. Self-contained small things? I wish I could write them more often! But most story ideas I have want to be longer, alas.

I used to write more shorter fic, but I've mostly lost the knack, possibly because my current fandoms lend themselves to that less? Or it may be me that's changed. *g*

Today's writing

So far I'm failing at gaining any kind of writing momentum this month, but I'm still working on things. A little progress.

Tally

Days 1-15 )

Day 16: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] chanter1944, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] shadaras, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 17: [personal profile] alightbuthappypen, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] chanter1944, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] shadaras, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 18: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] chanter1944, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] shadaras, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 19: [personal profile] alightbuthappypen, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] shadaras, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 20: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] shadaras, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 21: [personal profile] alightbuthappypen, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

Let me know if I missed anyone! And remember you can drop in or out at any time. :)

in the midst: another passage

Jan. 21st, 2026 03:23 pm
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 After some trouble getting ahold of me, my sister has let me know that our mother died this morning.

(So maybe don't assume I remember anything I'm supposed to remember this week?)
My sister and her husband continue to be awesome in these matters. As does Juan.

OK. Gonna go have food and meds now.

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