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Me: Oooh this new Mountain Goats song Cold At Night is so good!

Me, on repeated listens: hang on, who is that person doing backing vocals?

Me: That sounds like Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Me: That cannot be correct.

Anyway. Yes, it is Lin-Manuel Miranda.

God, what is it about the Mountain Goats and making me ache to write poetry. They really took up that space vacated by Leonard Cohen.

gimmighoulcoins

Starting off my Fannish 50 with a niche media recommendation! Let me tell you about a visual novel called Pine Point; Insomniac... I'll start with the game's official premise blurb:

You’re Nil.

Fishing at Lost Lake, trashing the popular kids’ cars, and playing in your shitty garage band are all things you’d rather be doing than working a dead-end job that will probably keep you trapped in Pine Point for the rest of your life.

Fortunately, you get to work alongside your best friend, Dimitri. Unfortunately, Dimitri is leaving town at the end of the summer… and you’re not.

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scintilla10

Yuletide reveals! I wrote a Galaxy Quest fic! I'm kind of blown away at the lovely reception my fic got this year - more than I ever expected in terms of comments and kudos, and several very kind recs. I love writing for tiny fandoms-of-one-or-two, but writing for a widely beloved movie for this year was surprisingly fun.

Galaxy Quest: The Journey Continues: Season 1 Gag Reel (AO3 | DW)
Galaxy Quest | Gwen, Jason, Alexander (+ the rest of the ensemble) | 1867 words | rated T | no archive warnings apply
Tags: Post-Canon, Humor, Filming, Canon-typical shenanigans

"Sorry!" Guy said, flustered. "Shit, sorry, guys. As Crewman Number 6, I barely had any lines!"

Snowflake Challenge: A mug of coffee or hot chocolate with a snowflake shaped gingerbread cookie perched on the rim sits nestled amidst a softly bunched blanket. A few dried orange slices sit next to it.

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it. [Here.]

Today's the first day of the

snowflake_challenge! I rarely manage to keep up with all of the days, so I'll keep any intentions to participate very low-key for myself, including not having expectations to share my posts on the comm itself (which sometimes makes me feel overwhelmed or self-conscious). Anyway, I've done some light clean up on my profile, access list, and sticky post, so I'll call that complete.

genarti

This year for Yuletide, I wrote one fic:

The Doorway to Home (3677 words) by genarti
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Changeling - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Martha Abbott/Ivy Carson
Characters: Josie Carson (The Changeling)

I'd never actually read The Changeling before, so it wasn't what my recipient and I matched on. But when I saw it on

deifire's requests, I suddenly remembered seeing Author of The Changeling! on the cover of Zilpha Keatley Snyder's The Egypt Game as a kid. I loved and reread The Egypt Game multiple times, EVEN THOUGH it had betrayed me on the first read by not actually being about ancient Egypt, so that's a mark of its quality, and I thought, "Well, these prompts sound interesting and I do like Zilpha Keatley Snyder, so maybe I should take this as impetus to read it!" And I did, and I loved it to bits, and here we are.

This fall ended up being very busy, between assorted travels and illnesses and upheavals, and so what I actually did was read the book and then let it marinate in the back of my head for a while, and then do a reread as I put together a timeline of what happened when throughout the book, and then write the entire thing in a frantic rush right before the deadline. But I had a wonderful time nonetheless! It was one of those experiences where you start writing and it just flows.

skygiants as usual was a last-minute rock star about betaing, DESPITE AS I HAVE JUST LEARNED WRITING AN INCREDIBLE GIFT FIC FOR ME IN A SNEAKY NINJA WAY--

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cupcake_goth

We hung out with friends for a low key NYE, which is exactly what we wanted. There was takeout Indian food; over the past few years, both the Stroppy One and I have developed a sensitivity to something in Indian food, but this was from a pace we hadn’t tried before. It was delicious, and for the rest of the evening I felt fine!

The awfulness apparently decided to wait until I was trying to fall asleep. Even tho’ I took Benadryl, Pepcid, and some Tylenol, I ended up with ferocious acid reflux; not only did it keep me awake until almost 5am, but it was bad enough that I now have a phlegm-filled cough, and it brought back all the horrible symptoms I endured from the Covid vaccine. This isn’t how I wanted to start my new year

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Speaking of the new year, I decided to state some resolutions!

Do more witchcraft. Even if on some days it’s only lighting some candles with focused intent. That still counts. I nd to wrap myself in my own power and comfort.
This is the big one: I’m going to try to not buy new clothes during 2025. I’ll buy fabric for dresses if it’s truly amazing, and things like bras, knickers, tights, and socks are exempt from the no-buy. I’m curious if I can stick to this, as I’m a magpie who likes hitting the shiny “add to cart” and getting packages in the mail. Buuuuuuuuutttt I will confess that I have an overwhelming amount of clothes. Thanks to the Madwoman in the Attic, I have enough dresses that I could wear a different one every day for more than a month. So! No clothes buying! Okay, except for this dress, which I plan on buying with the money I save by not buying anything else.

petra

Challenge #1

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

Hi, I'm Petra. I'm a writer and avid reader, primarily focused on fanfiction and poetry, who will write damn near anything for a drabble or a limerick at a time in one of my many fandoms, and I currently have a writing offer open here if anyone has any relevant requests they'd like me to entertain.

I am still very stuck on Star Wars, but I have never been monofannish, so if something else on my list pings your brain, by all means, prompt me!

I don't write about my personal life much, so here's the tl;dr -- 40's, they/them pronouns, happily married, happily employed.

I like Snowflake Challenge because early January is dark and miserable in my area, and it helps to have something to look forward to.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Asparagus and watercress and fiddle-ferns and lettuce

ysabetwordsmith

Permacomputing (noun)

Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture.

There are huge environmental and societal issues in today's computing, and permacomputing specifically wants to challenge them in the same way as permaculture has challenged industrial agriculture. With that said, permacomputing is an anti-capitalist political project. It is driven by several strands of anarchism, decoloniality, intersectional feminism, post-marxism, degrowth, ecologism.

Permacomputing is also a utopian ideal that needs a lot of rethinking, rebuilding and technical design work to put in practice. This is why a lot of material on this wiki is highly technical.

Current Mood: busy

cephy

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melagan

Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

I skipped that last couple of years so maybe it's time to do this again. I've wanted to post more and so, why not?.

Icebreaker Challenge l l

I'm Melagan everywhere. This is my hangout place. You might see me pop up on Tumblr or Discord, or Livejournal, but blink and you'll miss it.

I'm doing Snowflake this year for a couple of reasons. I'd like to post more and & want to throw my support behind Snowflake and DW in general.

Most of the fandoms I read in are older fandoms. I like HA! Love certain slash pairings. McShep tops the list. Dresden Files is probably my most up to date fandom because the books are still being written. Yes, I am a Dresden/Marone girl.

Girl. That's hilarious. I turn 71 in April. How the hell did that happen?

Seems to me, the best way to "break the ice" is to answer questions, so ask away.

gingicat

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mistressofmuses

[I like to end my tracker at the end of the year, and begin again at the start, which means that most years there are partial weeks to end and start on.]

This week, a sticker by my friends the Atomic Pixies. I like the blue fairy, and it felt appropriately wintery and peaceful for the close of the year.

The time between Christmas and New Year's always feels a little weird. This span of four days was easy - two and a quarter of them I had off. I did manage to get a lot of what I'd hoped to completed - reviews, end of year stuff, etc.

Goals for the week:

I did finish reading The Fragile Threads of Power
I started reading Manhunt
I worked on my reviews for December books
I posted those reviews
I did write up my 2025 reflections
I declared a goal of 75000 words for 2026 at both getyourwordsout and inkingitout
I mostly finished my reading page
I didn't send thank you cards... there was apparently some drama that means I should no longer send anything to one part of the family
New Year's Eve happened!
I did my final getyourwordsout check-in for the year: 15034 words written in December; 116015 for the year
We went and got crickets and more fruit flies

Tracked habits:

Work - 1.75/4 - Monday/Tuesday are my days off, and we closed a couple hours early on Wednesday
Household Maintenance - 3/4
Physical Activity - 1/4
Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 2/4 - both days over 1000 words
Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/4
Meta Work - 4/4
Personal Writing - 4/4
Other Creative Things - 3/4
Reading - 4/4 - I finished The Fragile Threads of Power and my ebook side-read; I started reading Manhunt
Attention to Media - 4/4 - Sunday we watched some snow storm chase; Monday watched paranormal stuff and reviews; Tuesday had storm chasing and reviews in the background; Tuesday we watched a livestream counting down NYE stuff.
Video Games - 0/4
Social Interaction - 3/4

Total words written: 8592 on reviews and reflecting

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: my apartment

rmc28

I had Kodiaks practice on the evening of 30 December, which meant getting home very late as usual. I did get up and out for the last hot yoga class of my festive pass in the morning of 31 December. From there I did a run into town to pay in a cheque (a cheque!) to N's savings account on the last possible day before it expired. After I got home, I looked at how many tickets remained for the public skate I was booked on, did some subtraction and decided the rink would be too full and I was too tired, so I cancelled the Last Skate Of The Year, and had a nap instead. It was marvellous.

In the evening we had a little family movie night with drinks and snacks:

Chicken Run (which everyone but Nico had seen before)
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (which only Nico had seen before) - fun, but omg there were bad parenting choices, and excessive ~suspense~ due to even more bad choices in the final action sequence
Wake Up Dead Man (which Nico was uninterested in, but the other three of us enjoyed)

We managed to finish the last film with about fifteen minutes to go before midnight, so I put on BBC One on iPlayer and we watched some Ronan Keating and then the fireworks from London, and then I left Ronan Keating providing background music while sending and replying to HNY messages on my phone until I decided sleep was a better plan.

This morning I got up and used a free gym pass to get to a weights class, and confirm my opinion that I want to return to a regular gym routine. I met friends M, J & K for pub drinks this afternoon, and spent a bunch of time afterwards sorting out logistics for ice hockey games on Saturday (Kodiaks 1 are away in Chelmsford, Kodiaks 2 are "home" in Peterborough).

Tomorrow I will take Nico to a pantomime in the morning, work a half day in the afternoon, and go to Warbirds practice in the evening.

ysabetwordsmith

I've signed up for Community Thursdays at

goals_on_dw.

This will be my Thursday recurring post this year. Last year's Hobbies theme was fun but a lot of work.

Current Mood: busy

beatrice_otter

LiveJournal has been owned by Russians for some years now, and they just announced some changes on the Russian side of the service that are not announced on the English-language side: https://ru-news.livejournal.com/80899.html

Basically, they're going to be cutting off contact between Russian language users in Russia and Russian language users who are outside of Russia, and between English-language users and Russian-language users. Plus some other miscellaneous stuff.

denise has a thread on Bluesky where she analyzes why she thinks they're doing this. There's a good chance they're planning on either shutting down or selling the English-language version of the site.

If there is anything on LJ that you like that is not backed up somewhere else, now might be a good time to fix that. If it's your content, there are several ways to download it (linked in the thread above), including exporting it to Dreamwidth. If it's not your content, you can still ask the Internet Archive to save a copy of the page.

javert

I wanted to post again earlier, but the end of the year turned out even crazier than I expected </3 so here I am now in 2026! I hope things were less hectic for you who's currently reading this!

Usually, I make a big end of the year post where I go over everything I made in the year, fic and exchange-wise... but to be honest, I don't feel like doing it this year, lol. Writing was so hard for most of 2025, I think looking back will just make me sad... and I've already come to the conclusion that I should take a soft exchange break, so I don't need to look over my exchange stuff for that.

At the very least, here's my art summary!

You can open it in a new tab to see it larger!
Kind of same old same old, but I'm excited for new opportunities to draw my blorbo... >:)

I will say, I'm still really proud of all the webdev stuff I did this year, and I'm hoping 2026 will be a web-intensive year for me again! I want to start new projects... I want to actually finish my personal site... I want to keep updating Lysandre Labs...

I'd also like to maybe make a post reflecting on 2025 more generally and figuring out what I'd like to get out of 2026. I think that'd be more encouraging than looking back on everything I didn't manage to write or draw o7 Speaking of, I haven't drawn anything yet in 2026... Looking forward to finding out what my first art of the year will be... (Probably Corbeau and Lysandre lbr...)

Anyway, just a quick post so I can stay in the habit! I'd love to know what you hope 2026 has in store for you! <3

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Current Music: メランコリーキッチン - 米津玄師

petra

Madalena's Ballad of Great Success provides the sheet music. And now, this link is where you can listen to the song! Come get it stuck in your head with me!

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