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I got through the night without having to get up periodically to douse the coughing with cups of tea or wear it out by watching vids.

The night before last I caught a couple of hours sleep by shifting onto a different plane and taking deep breaths, each one visualised as a little square green window, lit up from within. When I'm ill this shifting of consciousness seems easy, when I'm well it don't.

Steve Judd, my favourite astrologer points to a big conjunction of heavenly bodies (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Pluto) starting today and carrying on over the next few days with an even groovier and rarer arrangement on the 20th. This, he says, marks the beginning of a great movement of resistance against the lies of the powerful- which I'm guessing, though he doesn't specify, means Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.....

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fancake

Fandom: Hench, Ask A Manager Blog
Pairings/Characters:
Rating: teen
Length: 2k
Creator Links:
Theme: crack taken seriously, superpowers, small fandoms, secret identities, crossovers

Summary: It's hench week at Ask a Manager!

Reccer's Notes: Ask a Manager is an advice column for workplace issues, and Hench is a comic about henchmen. This hilarious story is a series of good advice for both evil henchmen and people who manage evil henchmen, dealing with all sorts of workplace hazards ranging from the aftermath of sex pollen to how to manage someone who is using their evil to annoy their own team and beyond. It's amazing and funny whether you know either canon or not.

Fanwork Links: my wife doesn't know I hench, the evil sex ray made my employees do it, and more

Mods, I need some fandom tags.

pattrose

17. The US celebrates Hot Buttered Rum Day today! Have you ever tried it?

I’m an alcoholic, so yes been there and sure don’t want the t-shirt. It’s a very tasty drink but I’ve been sober for 40 years. Which is great news.

I made Baileys Irish Cream chocolate chip cookies and mudslide double chocolate chip cookies for Christmas. I tried one of each and they didn’t taste like the liqueur. Someone said when you bake alcohol it bakes out. I couldn’t tell.

What is your favorite drink? Mine was Sloe Gin Fizz for years until I discovered Peach Bellini. To this day I order a virgin peach Bellini. It’s so good. Who needs the stinking booze. 😁

vriddy

I'm really happy with how this one turned out. I like writing about grief, it often feels cathartic. Sprinkle insomnia on top as a bonus.

Also, while I did expect Akira/No.9 to be a new tag, I'm surprised Akira/Isao didn't exist either. Their story reads as Endeavor/quirkless!Hawks to me!

what dreams are made of | Kaijuu No. 8 | Akira/No. 9, Akira/Isao | 1.2k words | rated T

Summary: Isao sits alive at his desk, and this is how Akira understands that this must be a dream.

Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.

luthien

Challenge #8

Talk about your creative process.

In which I ramble on about how I write...

( My creative process )

Snowflake Challenge: A flatlay of a snowflake shaped shortbread cake, a mug with coffee, and a string of holiday lights on top of a rustic napkin.

tropicsbear

‘How do you reduce a national dish to a powder?’: the weird, secretive world of crisp flavours

Reuben and Peggy’s jobs are not top secret in the way top secret jobs usually are. [...] But this is where things get odd: search the name of the company they work for – a name I have agreed not to print – and you’ll find little information about the work Reuben and Peggy do. You could click through every page on their company’s website and leave with no idea that it creates the most beloved crisp flavours in the world.

(I was so sure I'd already shared this, but I can't find the entry.)

I'll always be a fan of longform, deep-dive articles into the most obscure and/or everyday thing. Like, I eat chips fairly often and I'm aware that some countries have flavors that others don't, but I never considered how geopolitics could affect flavor availability.

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bigglesevents

We are past the deadline, and every gift is either turned in, or the creator has an extension. We are looking good for reveals on Jan. 21 (Wednesday).

In the meantime, you can polish your gift, work on treats, or simply relax and look forward to the reading ahead of us!

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Title: Camping
Ratings & Warnings: G
Fandom: Kemutai Hanashi
Relationship(s): Takeda/Arita

On AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/77809831

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settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: accomplished

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Current Music: Solange: "Stay Flo"

cornerofmadness

So going by the older calendar this week was actually New Years for Wales and we had a party. I was...disappointed not in the event but over the fact that I was literally the ONLY faculty member to show up. At least I was well received. For that matter neither did any of our students. The only rep my school had was the Welsh liasion, two of our success coaches, the choir director, me and two faculty from Buckeye Hills (does the more certificate type jobs). Got to mess about the with mari lywd and then got roped into the twmpath dances. It's a lot like square dancing. My knee was going What the Actual Fuck Dana? We're only a month from the 5 year anniversary of being broken. You wanna revisit that? Stop jumping around one m.

Nope, knee, suck it up. Dance baby dance. Are we good? fuck no. Was it fun? Yes. I also got to make a little puppet mari lwyd. Why? because NO ONE brought their kids. If there wasn't the 20 Welsh students here on tour (your parents let you come to America?!?) there would be just like 6 of us. I wish it had been better attended but it was fun.

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Now I FINALLY got my lab fixed. Registrar is like you never sent the paperwork. Oh really? Found it, the email it was in etc etc. Yeah I did. Eye roll

I have a story for today. It'll be chapter one of a long fix-it (or maybe more correctly S3 speculation). I'm only posting it here because it's not quite ready to go to AO3 mostly because I have one WIP right now and I don't want two right now. It's pretty much where I want it to be though.

Title: I Need to Go Home (And Salvage What's Left of My Soul)

Summary: Angel has thrown himself to the wolves and refuses to go back to the hell, sinking deeper into addiction and hell with Valentino. Husk and the others will not let him be destroyed there. They will get him home and they have from an unexpected source.

Rating: teen

Notes:Written for Spikesgirl58’s 6 words and the six words were Skillful, Answer, Decide, Extra- small, Plucky, & Husheda and for the allbingo prompt of Madam Satan and the lyrical titles bingo prompt of Chart Topper. I chose Lost All Control by Seether.
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And here are my fannish 50 fandom recs

State Visit Stargate Atlantis

Proper Appreciation Torchwood

Passion And Desire FAKE

Tonight The Professionals

Satisfaction. Hazbin Hotel

The Hazards of Exploring Atlantis Stargate Atlantis

Adjacent Hazbin Hotel

Rest In Peace Torchwood

Meeting Old Teachers Stargate Atlantis

Leave the Lord of Starving Faithful Hazbin Hotel

i taught him that Helluva Boss

all my blood, for the sweetness of his laughter
Arcane: League of Legends

M is for Murder Murder She Wrote/Mistletoe Murders

Vastra/Jenny Week 2026 Doctor Who

I Lived Here, I Loved Here, I Thought It Was True. Hazbin Hotel

Medical Emergency Torchwood

Blue Stargate Atlantis

Too Late, Too Late Hornblower

an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (a love for a love) Merlin

Current Mood: sore
Current Music: beat bobby flay

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seasonsofdrabbles

You have about 48 hours, as of this post, before both signups and nominations close on Sunday, January 18 @ 11:59pm Eastern Standard time (Countdown).

As you finalize or submit your signup, remember to check out Uncategorized Fandoms for crossovers and other fandoms you might have missed! Here's the requests app that may be easier to browse than AO3.

As usual, there will be a 12-hour grace period after signups close during which you can ask us to add tags to your requests/offers.

toastykitten

Canceled my Hilton Honors account. (If you want to mess around some more, here's a suggestion from Sunrise Movement. I'm not doing it because I will NOT remember to cancel. They definitely asked for a reason, and it took me 3 phone calls and being transferred to 3 different people before I could confirm that it was gone.
ADC set up a legislative tracker that is very useful for tracking anti-speech and legislation related to Palestine and Israel. It is disappointing to see so many anti-boycott laws on the books.
Beyond Israelism's latest podcast episode is with B’Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak. Currently the video is behind a paywall, but on the audio podcast you can listen to the whole episode. (They'll probably put the whole interview on YouTube in a few weeks.) It is a very good discussion of how apartheid and genocide is a system, and her own journey from reckoning with how she grew up and the cost of her telling the truth in a society that she thinks has become "completely genocidal".

Some more relaxing, comforting things:

The latest episode of Good Hang with Amy Poehler where she talks to Ryan Coogler:

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Been greatly entertained recently by Kaz Rowe and watching her backlog of recounting the lives of "chaotic bisexuals" like Lord Byron:

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A true comfort watch, Inga Lam's videos are really fun and actually has me considering a bread subscription? But it's pretty expensive.

Watch on YouTube

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These are the three pictures I selected as most memorable (not the most aesthetically beautiful or technically ept) from 2025 for

threeforthememories.

South Lot and Savanna
May 13

The pink peony is open under the fly-through feeder. I might call this flower style semi-double. When fully open, a large mass of bright yellow stamens dance in the breeze. The fully-double white ones don't really show the center. It was the first time I got a pink peony to bloom. \o/

The pink peony is open under the fly-through feeder. I might call this flower style semi-double. When fully open, a large mass of bright yellow stamens dance in the breeze. The fully-double white ones don't really show the center.

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scans_daily

Giffen plot and breakdowns, Bill Loebs script, Bart Sears pencils.

The JLE, at this point, was 50% isolated dads. Captain Atom was reconnecting with his kids after missing two decades of their lives in his own title; Animal Man (Buddy) had just seen his wife and children killed in his; Rocket Red (Dmitri) was in Paris missing his kids in the USSR; and Metamorpho (Rex) had just learned about his child’s existence in JLE #5. This issue focuses on those four, mostly on the last three, MOSTLY mostly on the last ONE, as Rex decides to start asserting his visitation rights.

( And maybe committing some visitation WRONGS. )

bluapapilio

Using my movies boardgame.

I completed 4/5 movies from my last challenge, I liked 3 of them and decided to remove 1 from my PTW.

Avatar:

Animation
Skill: Reroll dice once

Roll #1

A 9, prompt: fantasy creatures. I feel like I saw this as a kid but can't be sure: The Princess and the Goblin.

Roll #2

A 4 and 'generate from PTW list' tile. A 96, so...oh boy, it's The Strangers: Prey at Night. Hard not to remember how the first one ended. We'll see how I do.

Roll #3

A 10, prompt: highest rated on PTW. I removed Psycho which was at the top, just don't think I'd enjoy it. 🤷 The next on the list at 4.2 is One Battle After Another.

Roll #4

A 6 and I'm trying for a higher number with my skill. A 9! Prompt: mystery element. Departing Seniors,

Roll #5

A 3, prompt: thriller. Down.

Roll #6

A 5 and the end. No reward this time because that's the mood.

Movie PTW List:

[Animation/Fantasy] The Princess and the Goblin
[Horror/Thriller] The Strangers: Prey at Night
[Action/Thriller] One Battle After Another
[Mystery/Horror] Departing Seniors
[Mystery/Thriller/Horror] Down

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sweetandshort

Title: The Dangers of Being Alone
Fandom: OZ (HBO)
Character: Tobias Beecher
Rating: Teen
Prompt: Alone
Word Count: 136
Summary: It wasn't safe to be alone in Oz

( The Dangers of Being Alone )

pattrose

What rating do you write most fics under? AO3 Teen and up

What are your top 3 fandoms? The Sentinel (TV), Almost Human (TV), and Will Trent.

What is the top character you write about? Jim Ellison from the Sentinel. Blair would be second.

What are the 3 top pairings? Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg (the Sentinel), Dorian/John Kennex (Almost Human), and Will Trent/Angie Polaski.

What are the top 3 additional tags? user subscriptions, word count, hits.

Did any of this surprise you? e.g., what turned out to be your top tag. I was surprised by the word count, because it was so low. I had hoped to write more than this for January.

fukaimetsu

Okay, I finally wrote my impressions of the Casual route after getting burned out from writing (I had an endoscopy this week and also accompanied my mom to the doctor). As usual, spoilers ahead.

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torachan

1. I had a very nice relaxing WFH day. (The only annoying part was the very loud construction on one end of the street and the tar smell which was coming from either that site or the construction at the other end of the street lol.)

2. We walked down to the Italian deli this morning to get sandwiches for lunch. Also a nice part of working from home! We knew it would be pretty hot today, so rather than walk there at lunch time, we went right after Carla woke up, when it wasn't too hot and there was still some shade for most of the walk.

3. I changed the bandage on my tattoo this morning and cleaned it up. It's looking really good! After changing it, there is still some fluid coming out, but doesn't seem to be any blood. They said to use the clear "second skin" bandage for up to a week, so I actually ordered some more off Amazon (she gave me enough for one change) in case I need to change it sooner. With the amount of fluid under it right now, I might.

4. Upon closer inspection it looks like Tuxie is missing some fur on his forehead, so I think he might have been in a fight while he was gone, but he seems fine otherwise. Better than that time he got a chunk of his ear ripped out.

sideways

Iiiiit's 3 Sentence Ficathon season! Looking forward to the usual collection of prompts that make me pause and reflect that even within niche hobbies there are many people who walk through the world at a different angle to me.

I'm actually battling with a certain degree of curmudgeonly feeling towards fandom habits in general... something about not wanting to fall into the trap of arguing that shipping and self-inserts are lower forms of engaging with a story, but nonetheless feeling weary of how immediately the text can get pushed aside in the collective eagerness to focus on one's own vision for it. I've always felt a big part of the enjoyment lies in marinating in the actual canon for a while before getting all transformative about it! O for a grace period of analysis and speculation before the tag is swamped with reader insert ship headcanons.

Relatedly, Ersatz is a fun little indie project about an amnesiac waking in the trenches of an undying war. Strong aesthetics, evocative animation style, lots of juicy worldbuilding implications. Reminds me a bit of Wildbow's Twig serial, in a good way.

scrubjayspeaks

It took the adults a long time to notice the correlation: the little boy would drop his blocks or markers or lunch, head popping up to scan the horizon, at the same moment a cloud of birds would rise up shrieking from the trees just outside the preschool fence. Compared to strange little boys and flocks of starlings, the adults weren’t very observant, and their ideas of what counted as a red alert danger mostly concerned parking lot etiquette and the misplacing of bake sale proceeds. By the time they were whispering about distractability and assessments, he knew seventeen separate distress calls and had been practicing his wheeling and diving patterns for the day he joined the murmuration.

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bluapapilio

Beyond Loch Ness ('08): It was better than I thought, there was definitely a level of ridiculousness still and a little spotty acting but I think I'll watch it again to catch what I didn't (there were no subs and I didn't feel like putting my headphones in). Also, the girl and her shitty boyfriend were the cliches cliche to ever cliche in these type of movies. I was surprised to see Beckett and Hammond's actors from Stargate and Leo's actor from Charmed in here!

Flight of the Living Dead ('07): Another that was better than expected, I felt like it had distinct characters even if some of them were terrible. Would rewatch.

The Little Mermaid ('24): Man falls in love with woman, almost destroys the world. Kinda lost interest a ways in and skimmed.

Dust Bunny ('25): The plot takes a while to start going anywhere but I got invested around 30 minutes in. I enjoyed the twist and turns it took. I was glad for the post-credits scene though I wonder how she's going to explain everything. 😅 4/5 stars

I took a look at Trunk - Locked in and decided not to watch it.

Current Mood: thirsty

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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 Friday to midnight on Saturday (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34088 Daily poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 14

How are you doing?

I am okay
11 (78.6%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
3 (21.4%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
7 (50.0%)

One other person
5 (35.7%)

More than one other person
2 (14.3%)

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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This week's prompt is a line from "Headfirst" by Ocean Vuong: "the body is a blade that sharpens/by cutting."

You have until midnight your time on Friday, January 23, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.

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bluapapilio

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@ Spotify

Insane inside
the danger gets me high
can’t help myself
got secrets I can’t tell

I love the smell of gasoline
I light the match to taste the heat🎤
Sam Tinnesz - Play With Fire feat. Yacht Money

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siderea

This was it. This was the week that America admitted America is going fascist – which is to say has gone fascist, i.e. has had its government seized by fascists with broad fascist support for imposing fascism which it is now doing with zeal, i.e. has an acute case of fulminant fascism.

I've been watching this bear down on us for a half a century, so it's slightly dizzying to finally have everybody else come into alignment. One of the basic exigencies of my life has been moving through the world being reasonably certain of a bunch of things that I knew the vast majority of my fellows thought were insane to believe. Over the last ten years, more and more people have been noticing, "what are we doing in this handbasket and where is it going?" but – as evidenced by the behavior of the DNC over the last year – it's taken the secret police gunning Americans down in the streets (since I started writing this: and throwing flashbang grenades at or into (reports vary) passing cars carrying little kids) for the greater liberal mass to come around.

Obviously, it would have been nicer for the realization It Could Happen Here to have not required It Happening Here to be the conclusive rebuttal of their pathological skepticism. But one of my favorite sayings is, "There's three kinds. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves," (Will Rogers) and this is why. Clearly America needed to piss on the electric fence for itself. I try to be philosophical about it.

I just felt, if only for myself and posterity, I should note this long-in-coming nation-wide realization has finally been attained.

I'm not getting too carried away, though. It's hard to be too jubilant when the problem that brought us here is still very much with us, by which I don't mean the fascism itself, I mean the terrible mentality on "my" "side" that causes that pathological skepticism and other catastrophic thinking faults that brought us to this pass and lead to the fascists getting away, quite literally, with murder.

tellshannon815

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.

The fact that I can usually manage to see the humour in situations and don't get moody and sulky about minor stuff.

The fact that I'll try creating for any character once and give them all some attention rather than sticking to the same old favourites.

The fact that you always know where you are with me, I can't be doing with fake bullshit/not saying what I mean/expecting people to be psychic/not using my words type crap.

torachan

Recently Finished

Peril at the Exposition
Second in the Captain Jim and Lady Diana mystery series. I was disappointed to see that this one doesn't take place in India, so I hadn't jumped right on it after finishing the first, but my backlog of audiobooks was going down, so I decided to give it a go. It was fine. I'll probably read more in the series at the same pace, but it's also not really what I'm wanting in a mystery (and that was the same with the first one).

Deeds and Words
Another second book in a mystery series, though it seems like this is also the final book. It was also just all right.

Riot Baby
Set in a slightly more dystopic alternate reality, this tells the story of a girl with psychic powers and her brother, who was born after the LA riots, thus being nicknamed Riot Baby, in alternating POVs. I liked this, but it felt like the two POVs weren't really well integrated.

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
In the late 1800s England, a man gets a mysterious watch that saves him from a bomb exploding, and then is tasked with finding out if the watchmaker, a Japanese man who can remember the future, is the one who set the bomb. I didn't much like this at all. The first half or more was extremely boring, and then once the action seemed to finally get going, the characters got worse and worse, especially the lone female character, who seems to exist only as a plot device to make everything horrible for the men.

Little Monsters vol. 1-2
Two volume comic series about child vampires living in an empty city after an apocalypse. I liked it all right. The ending was good.

Sakura, Saku vol. 8

siderea

This is blackly hilarious and absolutely worth a read.

Leftist journalist Laura Jedeed showed up at an ICE recruiting events to do scope it out and write about what she found. What happened next is... eye widening.

2026 Jan 13: Slate: "You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof." [Paywall defeater] by Laura Jedeed:

At first glance, my résumé has enough to tantalize a recruiter for America’s Gestapo-in-waiting: I enlisted in the Army straight out of high school and deployed to Afghanistan twice with the 82nd Airborne Division. After I got out, I spent a few years doing civilian analyst work. With a carefully arranged, skills-based résumé—one which omitted my current occupation—I figured I could maybe get through an initial interview.

The catch, however, is that there’s only one “Laura Jedeed” with an internet presence, and it takes about five seconds of Googling to figure out how I feel about ICE, the Trump administration, and the country’s general right-wing project. My social media pops up immediately, usually with a preview of my latest posts condemning Trump’s unconstitutional, authoritarian power grab. Scroll down and you’ll find articles with titles like “What I Saw in LA Wasn’t an Insurrection; It Was a Police Riot” and “Inside Mike Johnson’s Ties to a Far-Right Movement to Gut the Constitution.” Keep going for long enough and you might even find my dossier on AntifaWatch, a right-wing website that lists alleged members of the supposed domestic terror organization. I am, to put it mildly, a less-than-ideal recruit.

In short, I figured—at least back then—that my military background would be enough to get me in the door for a good look around ICE’s application process, and then even the most cursory background check would get me shown that same door with great haste.

[...]

I completely missed the email when it came. I’d kept an eye on my inbox for the next few days, but I’d grown lax when nothing came through. But then, on Sept. 3, it popped up.

“Please note that this is a TENTATIVE offer only, therefore do not end your current employment,” the email instructed me. It then listed a series of steps I’d need to quickly take. I had 48 hours to log onto USAJobs and fill out my Declaration for Federal Employment, then five additional days to return the forms attached to the email. Among these forms: driver’s license information, an affidavit that I’ve never received a domestic violence conviction, and consent for a background check. And it said: “If you are declining the position, it is not necessary to complete the action items listed below.”

As I mentioned, I’d missed the email, so I did exactly none of these things.

And that might have been where this all ended—an unread message sinking to the bottom of my inbox—if not for an email LabCorp sent three weeks later. “Thank you for confirming that you wish to continue with the hiring process,” it read. (To be clear, I had confirmed no such thing.) “Please complete your required pre-employment drug test.”

The timing was unfortunate. Cannabis is legal in the state of New York, and I had partaken six days before my scheduled test. Then again, I hadn’t smoked much; perhaps with hydration I could get to the next stage. Worst-case scenario, I’d waste a small piece of ICE’s gargantuan budget. I traveled to my local LabCorp, peed in a cup, and waited for a call telling me I’d failed.

Nine days later, impatience got the best of me. For the first time, I logged into USAJobs and checked my application to see if my drug test had come through. What I actually saw was so implausible, so impossible, that at first I did not understand what I was looking at.

Somehow, despite never submitting any of the paperwork they sent me—not the background check or identification info, not the domestic violence affidavit, none of it—ICE had apparently offered me a job.

According to the application portal, my pre-employment activities remained pending. And yet, it also showed that I had accepted a final job offer and that my onboarding status was “EOD”—Entered On Duty, the start of an enlistment period. I moused over the exclamation mark next to “Onboarding” and a helpful pop-up appeared. “Your EOD has occurred. Welcome to ICE!”

I clicked through to my application tracking page. They’d sent my final offer on Sept. 30, it said, and I had allegedly accepted. “Welcome to Ice. … Your duty location is New York, New York. Your EOD was on Tuesday, September 30th, 2025.”

By all appearances, I was a deportation officer. Without a single signature on agency paperwork, ICE had officially hired me.

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部首
心 part 18
惨, miserable; 惩, to punish; 惯, used to ( pinyin )
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词汇
成人, adult; 构成, to constitute; 养成, to cultivate; 赞成, to agree ( pinyin )
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Guardian:
幸好我伤惯了, fortunately I'm used to being hurt
你们也都知道咱们特调处本来就是一个成人之美的地方, you all know our SID exists for the purpose of helping others

Me:
这样停车的话你要被惩罚了。
你已经成人了，不要太傻玩。

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Posted by Jordan Liles

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Online users shared several images allegedly confirming photographers captured the tech billionaire and actor spending time together.

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Posted by Laerke Christensen

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Tarrio, the Department of Homeland Security and a watchdog database that identifies ICE members all said Tarrio did not work for the agency.

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hrj

Back in September, on my podcast, I aired an interview with Karli Wurzelnbacher who had curated a museum exhibition on sculptor Emma Stebbins at the Heckscher Museum on Long Island. So one of the conjunction of excuses to make this trip out to the East Coast was a chance to actually see the exhibit. Yesterday I took one of those typically complex assortments of transit peculiar to NYC to get there and had a wonderful time viewing everything.

The Heckscher is quite a small space--just five rooms and all of them in use for the show. In addition to quite an assortment of Stebbins' sculpture, there were displays of her drawings, biographical information, and a large number of photographs of works that are no longer extant (or no longer locatable), especially those documented in a scrapbook that her sister had compiled for her.

There was also a good amount of space devoted to her partnership with actress Charlotte Cushman (the exhibit used the word "wife" to my delight), as well as the rest of the expatriate artist community in Rome that they were part of. There were sculptor's tools on display and a video showing the process of mocking up a clay model, creating a cast, then using that to transfer the shape to marble.

In addition to enjoying the show, I was able to meet Karli face-to-face (although I didn't think to get a selfie with her). All in all, a lovely little adventure.

trobadora

Running late again. Normal services should resume tomorrow!

Today's writing

More

fandomtrees work.

Tally

( Days 1-10 )

Day 11:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

daegaer,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 12:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 13:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 14:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora

Day 15:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

luzula,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora

Day 16:

china_shop,

trobadora

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

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schneefink

I'm behind on household chores and fandom things (my end-of-year post, snowflake challenge etc.) and the next few weeks are going to be stressful because I have weekend classes again and other plans; and yet the past few days I've spent most of my spare time (and some time when I should have been asleep) reading the first 4.5 books of Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. I'd heard enough good things about it that I put a hold on the first two books immediately when my library got them, and when I was finished with them I immediately wanted to continue reading.
Unfortunately the ebook versions of books 3-7 are only available on amazon from what I've seen and I try to avoid giving them money when I can, so I joined the author's Patreon instead and am now reading the unedited versions of the other books. It's very hard to stop reading! There's always just one more thing I want to see how it goes, and then the next.

I enjoy the LitRPG and power-up fantasy aspects, but I think my favorite angle is the reality TV death game. Reminds me of the Hunger Games in that aspect, with bonus corporate politics in the background. I also like the characters, the main cast and the supporting cast, and I enjoy the crazy plans. Can't wait to see where it goes! ...except I have to because of chores and classes etc. etc. and I should also try to get enough sleep. Boo.

cosmolinguist

I did not expect that being lucky enough to have stable housing in my 40s would mean that I would spend it helping other fortysomething neurospicy queers get out of marriages gone bad.

We have me the failed foster (successful adoption! angelofthenorth always insisted on correcting me when I call myself this, heh), then P, now her.

It's ridiculously heartwarming seeing them both flourish and become more comfortable and themselves. (I imagine I must have too, but I can't see that and I have the complication of transition too old photos of me now look weird for the same reason old photos of my dad do: no beard!).)

glinda

This week I've been working on making a good start to one of my resolutions, to start a new recipe notebook. (When I first started learning to cook in an organised fashion, while I was going my post-grad, I took a nice notebook I had and wrote down all my succesful recipes in it. It's a multi-coloured decade's worth of recipes that I refer to regularly even now that I'm a vegetarian and many of the recipes aren't one's I'd ever cook now.) I've been meaning to start a new one for a few years now, but never got round to it, because, well I had my tablet and most recipes I was cooking that weren't in actual cookbooks were on the internet and it was just easier to look them up, but it's really come home to me in the last year when I've gone to look something up and it's just gone. (Not even random people's food blogs, but places I'd expect things to be like the guardian or the good food magazine page.) So I've started in on recipes from my 'cook new recipes' challenges from the past few years, and a significant percentage of them are lost to link rot and paywalls.

But the other thing I've noticed - and part of what makes me want to keep the project up - is that my handwriting is really rusty. I've had to make fairly heavy usage of my tippex mouse because I keep missing letters out of words, not even in the analogue version of typos just I'm so out of practice of writing by hand that I'm half-forgetting how to form the letters properly. I used to have a problem with missing out letters when I wrote essays because I was writing so fast to keep up with my brain - the main reason I switched to typing, as it's much easier to keep up with the speed of thought/ideas that way - but I'm just copying out recipes here. Though on the plus-side, forcing myself to slow down, to form the letters properly is making it a more meditive experience than I expected it to be.

I've always prided myself on having nice handwriting. Ever since we did a unit on the Victorians and spent that whole term perfecting copperplate script I've written a minorly adapted version of that. (I adjusted some letters to be more easily read by modern eyes, so I wouldn't get marked down for mis-spelling words because my teachers that didn't recognise my old-fashioned letters.) All through secondary and university my preferred method of studying was to make notes and the rewrite my notes and I still have piles of notebooks about the place in neat multi-coloured copperplate. So it's both weird and minorly upsetting when my handwriting isn't neat despite my best efforts. No doubt with regular practice it'll improve but at the moment I'm falling a low way short of my own high standards for my handwriting.

It's a ridiculous thing to be having feelings about, I am aware, but nonetheless, I am having them. My handwriting isn't as nice as it used to be - less smooth, more effort for less pleasing results - and it annoys me. I'm feeling a little rusty here, it's a thing.

Current Music: Radio 3 - Unclassified

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We spent the end of October and whole of November rolling out improvements across the site—from multiple fixes to the Download and Chapter Index menus on small screens to refreshing our footer and error pages to link to the status page. We also made an important security change: password resets can now only be requested using an email address when logged out. For some exciting news, we also finished our work making AO3 emails translatable! We're now going to target other areas of AO3 for internationalization.

Special thanks and welcome to first-time contributors Danaël / Rever, Daniel Haven, Edgar San Martin, Jr, Jennifer He, Kiyazz, Lisa Huang, mgettytehan, ProtonDev, quen, ryeleap, Snehal Mane, and TangkoNoAi!

Credits

Coders: alien, anna, Bilka, Brian Austin, Ceithir, Cubostar, Danaël / Rever, Daniel Haven, EchoEkhi, Edgar San Martin, Jr, Jennifer He, Kiyazz, Lisa Huang, marcus8448, mgettytehan, ProtonDev, quen, ryeleap, sarken, Scott, slavalamp, Snehal Mane, TangkoNoAi, weeklies, Yanpei Wang
Code reviewers: anna, Bilka, bingeling, Brian Austin, ceithir, Hamham6, lydia-theda, marcus8448, ömer faruk, sarken, weeklies
Testers: Aster, Bilka, Brian Austin, calamario, choux, Deniz, hvalrann, Irina, Lute, lydia-theda, marcus8448, ömer faruk, pk2317, Sam Johnsson, sarken, Teyris, therealmorticia, wichard

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0.9.440

On October 28, we made some small changes to a variety of areas of the site, including updating our footer and error pages to link to the status page.

[AO3-7129] - Bluesky blocks AO3's attempts to check whether a URL on the site is active, so we're now skipping the check when you try to create an external bookmark of a Bluesky URL or try to mark a work as inspired by something hosted on Bluesky.
[AO3-7149] - We removed some unused code for formatting text.
[AO3-7175] - We updated cache-apt-pkgs-action from 1.5.3 to 1.6.0.
[AO3-7178] - We updated the gems for Sentry, our error tracking and performance monitoring service.
[AO3-6167] - When logged in as admin, restricted series are now included on a user's series page and counted in their dashboard sidebar.
[AO3-7027] - We've been posting status updates on our status page and Bluesky account for a while now, so we've updated a number of pages to reflect that.
[AO3-7040] - We restricted the ability to search through invitations to admins with certain roles, instead of allowing all admins access to the search.
[AO3-7104] - We updated the page used for claiming your works if they were imported by Open Doors.
[AO3-7167] - When someone reports a comment to our Policy & Abuse committee (PAC), the report now automatically includes the user ID of the person who left the comment.
[AO3-6484] - We made a small change to the code that generates the HTML class names we use for hiding work blurbs by muted users. We were hoping this tweak would improve performance, but unfortunately it made it worse. So we reverted it later.

0.9.441

On November 5, we made some improvements to the admin side of AO3 and deployed the first of what would be several changes to fix issues with the Chapter Index and Download menus on small screens.

[AO3-6484] - We reverted the change to the blurb code that worsened performance (it's later).
[AO3-4519] - If two of your pseuds are set as owners of a collection, the collection will no longer be counted twice in your dashboard sidebar.
[AO3-7142] - Under certain circumstances, the number of collections in a user's sidebar was different than the number of collections on the user's collections page. The number on the collections page was right, so we updated the one in the sidebar to match.
[AO3-7166] - We upgraded the will_paginate gem to version 4.0.1 to fix a deprecation warning.
[AO3-7183] - We upgraded the version of actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 5.
[AO3-4629] - On small screens, the Download and Chapter Index menus could overlap the buttons, making them impossible to close. We made them narrower and adjusted their position to make sure you can always close them.
[AO3-6542] - We gave specific admins the ability to access user Preference pages.
[AO3-6833] - When you submit a ticket to PAC or Support, the submission to their ticket trackers will now automatically include information about which form you submitted.
[AO3-6931] - We split the "Assignments sent" and the "Challenge default by USER" into two separate emails and updated the text while we were at it.
[AO3-7071] - We made the emails you get when you reply to a comment translatable.
[AO3-7171] - We will now include the user ID of a profile page when it is reported to PAC.

0.9.442

On November 8, we deployed a single-issue release to fix menus having problems on multi-chapter works.

[AO3-7195] - Following our last release to update Download and Chapter Index menus, we fixed a bug from that update which was causing Chapter and Download menus to be cut off on small screens.

0.9.443

On November 17, we deployed a grab bag release targeting bugs and improvements in a variety of areas. We also made a change to improve account security by only allowing password resets using an email address (as compared to a username) if you're logged out. We announced this change on social media as well to get the word out.

[AO3-3976] - Series links in subscription emails will now show up in red and be stylized like all other email links.
[AO3-6054] - Works marked as inspired by or a translation of an existing work would show on your Related Works page even if you hadn't approved the relationship—now they won't do that!
[AO3-7134] - The tips for new users linked in the new user help banner will once again open in a pop-up instead of as an ugly, unstyled page.
[AO3-7159] - You'll no longer get an empty message if you press Accept or Reject on the Co-Creator Requests page with nothing selected.
[AO3-7180] - The pseud name field is now marked as required on the page for creating a new pseud.
[AO3-7202] - We fixed a issue that was causing the Chapter Index menu to be cut off in the Low Vision Default skin.
[AO3-7061] - To reduce unsolicited password reset emails, logged out users who want to reset their password must now enter the email address associated with their account, not their username.
[AO3-7204] - We upgraded appleboy/ssh-action from one version to another.
[AO3-7037] - If you request a password reset and it fails, it will now redirect you to the Reset Password page instead of the homepage.
[AO3-7039] - We've restricted which admin accounts have the ability to grant invitations to people waiting in the queue.
[AO3-7070] - We prepared the emails you get when you leave a comment on a work, admin post, or tag (if you're a tag wrangler) for translation.
[AO3-7115] - We updated the error messages you may get when you request a password reset while logged-in and something goes wrong.

0.9.445

Our November 25 release was a big milestone: all existing AO3 emails have been internationalized and are ready to be translated!

(Our deploy script accidentally bumped us ahead, so this ended up being released as 0.9.445 instead of 0.9.444.)

[AO3-5542] - If a gift exchange didn't use tags, its Sign-up Summary page used to have a permanent and misleading message saying the summary was being generated. We've updated it to display the correct message: "Tags were not used in this Challenge, so there is no summary to display here."
[AO3-5668] - When determining whether to display the "Fandom" sort button, the challenge request summary sometimes ended up loading all prompts in the collection—now it won't!
[AO3-7187] - If you try to create a skin with a title that's more than 255 characters long, we'll now tell you the title is too long instead of giving you a 500 error.
[AO3-7190] - Trying to create skins that included a ^ used to result in error messages missing part of the text. We've fixed that, which should make the error message far more helpful.
[AO3-7201] - We made one more change to the Chapter Index menu, which was still too narrow in some browsers on Android devices.
[AO3-7205] - You can add private bookmarks to collections even though they won't be listed on the collections' Bookmarked Items page. We've now added a warning to the success banner to let you know to expect this.
[AO3-6941] - We've added more information to the browser titles of many of our comment-related pages.
[AO3-7056] - The emails you get when someone replies to or edits a reply to a comment you've left are now ready to be translated.
[AO3-7116] - We updated the wording of the reset password link on the login form.
[AO3-7168] - When a series is reported to PAC, the report now automatically includes the IDs of the series creators.

0.9.446

Our November 30 release focused on changes submitted by first-time contributors to our project!

[AO3-7121] - We fixed a bug that was causing bookmarks of unrevealed works to link to the work's Bookmark page even if you weren't the work creator.
[AO3-7133] - The "Flat View" button on your Statistics page wasn't styled correctly when selected—but now it is!
[AO3-7181] - For tracking purposes, admins have to enter a valid ticket ID in order to edit a user's pseud or profile. We've made sure the field for the ticket ID is clearly marked as required.
[AO3-7185] - We've removed the comment form on draft works and replaced it with a message saying you can't comment on draft works.
[AO3-7138] - We standardized the way the code displays participants in Collections so that site skins with CSS distinguishing them will correctly see participants displayed on both People and Membership pages.
[AO3-7212] - We updated the version of actions/checkout from version 5 to version 6.
[AO3-7198] - When logged in with some admin roles, admins can now more easily search for all invitations sent to specific email addresses.
[AO3-7199] - Some admins have access to a page that provides an overview of a user's works and comments, but the link was only available on User Administration pages. To make things more convenient, we've also added the link to user dashboard and profile pages.

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tinny

This set took me much longer than it should have, considering this is my fave pairing right now. But once I sat down to finish it, I had fun again! It's for round 04 at ships20in20.

Enjoy!

Teasers:

( 20+3 icons of Ashile Sun and Li Changge from The Long Ballad )

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cupcake_goth

I’m still am suffering bronchitis. I did some digging in MyChart, because I’ve suffered this bronchitis thing at least once a year for the past few years, and mine and Mr. Loomy’s suspicions were correct: the clinic doctor I saw over the weekend, who was abrupt and didn’t listen to either of us, prescribed me less than half of the dosage of prednisone that I’ve had previously. No wonder I’m not getting better. I went back to the clinic last night, and while the (different!) doctor didn’t say anything bad about what his coworker did, his facial expression made his opinion clear. I’m now on a massive dosage of prednisone that slowly tapers and antibiotics. I tapped out from work again; look, me trying to be better about self care!

If I’m going to be a sickly invalid, I want laudanum. And a trip to the seaside where someone will push me around in a fancy wheelchair. Then more laudanum.

—

Yesterday I turned off the Ask Anonymously option on my Tumblr. I’ve been inundated with spam, porn bots, and unkind-to-hateful messages, and I don’t have the spoons to deal with any of it.

marina

I've officially completed all my birthday activities for this year, so I can like, breathe again.

There was recreational axe throwing, joint TV marathons, dinners, gifts and hugs. I chose not to have any kind of party or gathering this year, so just saw friends individually or in small groups, and it worked out OK. I also celebrated

roga's birthday (and will continue to tomorrow), so it all kind of worked out with multiple events.

How have you been doing, friends?

I'm feeling a bit better than I hoped to, at this time of the year.

ETA: I have cautiously started looking at social media again, in very very limited quantities, and as twitter seems like... not the place, I now have a bluesky. IDK IDK. But if you're on there I may also be on there sometimes too I guess.

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