The eating holiday!

Nov. 27th, 2025 10:51 pm
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Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! Happy Thursday to everyone else! ♥ We made a small ham, Will made fruit bread, and I made three recipes from the Elder Scrolls cookbook; saltrice porridge, stewed apple and cheese, and double-baked potatoes! it was very tasty and all came together pretty easily!


We had a baking plate just the right size for our little ham~ ♥ Honestly such a tasty little spread. We also had apple cider simmering in the crockpot all day so the house smelled so good and warm and cozy.

Also! A coworker needed to rehome her bearded dragon and I simply could not say no. So meet Dale (that's the name he came with, I'll be changing it but I don't know to what yet)! I got him and his enclosure for free but everyone knows there's no such thing as a free pet; I've already spent over $200 on getting him all set up. And today I was able to hold him for the first time. It was lovely.



He's a little guy and I'm already very fond of him.

Anyways! I'm rolling myself off to bed. I'm grateful for all of you and for our little home on the internet here. ♥ ♥ ♥

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Nov. 28th, 2025 07:31 am
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Holiday Love Meme 2025 is officially open for comments, go spread some cheer. ♥ | directory | my thread
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Project Title: A Bond Stronger Than a String
Fandom: Scum Villain
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/74876726
Summary: Shen Jiu wakes up able to see a red string on his finger and memories of many lives which ended horribly. Now he needs to decide how he will live this life.
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Shen Jiu | Original Shen QingqiuTianlang-junOriginal Luo BingheYue Qingyuan
Pairings: Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu/Tianlang-jun
When I Started: Mid 2024.
How I Lost My Shit: Lots I wanted in the story and kept thinking rather than writing.
How I Finished My Shit: Deadline helped me.

Late spring - lush garden

Nov. 28th, 2025 06:03 pm
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I was up early yesterday and it was lovely, so I decided to take some pics. It's all very lush as we've had a fair bit of rain, mixed with sunny days as hot as midsummer. I think it's going to be a hot one, this year. I tried to include slightly more panoramic shots this time to give you some idea of my small garden which is almost all in pots and wheelibeds, as my rented unit has largely concrete and asphalt around it. Click on each pic for full size.

pics under here )

Fic: Final chapter of Reverie

Nov. 27th, 2025 07:33 pm
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I made it! I don't know how I did considering the amazing disaster that my life has been this year (I keep tempting fate by thinking things can't get worse and then they do!), especially the past couple months. (Perfect example was yesterday, where I was sweating like a pig from putting up some decorations and wiped out from fatigue and also couldn't get my new replacement laptop to work and so I was sitting there sweating and crying from frustration. My life, man. Sweating and crying. What.)

Anyways, I finally finished the WIP I started five freaking years ago, posting as a WIP because in the past, that kept me on track and I was worried about finishing so I wouldn't let things slide. And then I did anyways! But it is now done, and just in time for my annual birthday fic posting. I don't imagine anyone reading this at this point, but in case one person does, well, here you go.

Reverie (58115 words) by gwyneth rhys
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Black Panther (2018), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Shuri
Characters: Steve Rogers, Shuri (Marvel), James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson, Natasha Romanov, T'Challa (Marvel), Ramonda (Marvel), Ayo (Marvel), Nakia (Black Panther), Okoye (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Virtual Reality, Dreamscapes, Dreamsharing, of sorts if you squint hard, Wakandan Technology, Wakanda (Marvel), Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Post-Captain America: Civil War (Movie), Post-Black Panther (2018), Friendship, Family, Bucky Barnes Recovering, Protective Steve Rogers, Action/Adventure
Summary:

“Exitus!” Steve shouted, slamming his hand against the door where the mandala should have been, and suddenly he was on the chair in his room, gasping. In this world.

Steve lowered the glass to his lap and looked up at Shuri. His heart was beating way too hard and fast. “You were right,” he said, sitting up. “He’s glitching. I don’t know if I can get him out.”

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Nov. 27th, 2025 10:16 pm
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It snowflurried through most of the day which didn't stick but did leave the sidewalks a damp leafy mess. Thus I stayed indoors and did very little. A wash of underwear and tops, black and colours mixed which you can do when you wash in cold. Read on in Nancy Mitford's biography of Madame de Pompadour, which I inherited from the parents' library. Am finding it not as enthralling as her one about Louis XIV, mostly because Mitford thinks Pompadour was a nice woman and Louis XV a devoted lover and neither had the nasty fascination of the Sun King and his various mistresses and offspring.

The details of the life and mores at Versailles are interesting enough when talking about things like never addressing anyone as tu when the king was present even if you were talking to a close relative. Very Byzantine. But mostly it's the frivolous amusements of frivolous people who were also jockeying for marks of distinction from the king, like being admitted to dinners in his inner chambers, and heartburning when they weren't forthcoming. The courtiers thought they were living at the centre of civilization,  but it sounds insupportably boring to me. Mitford assures us that the conversation was scintillating, but conversation is a transient thing that doesn't get passed down to later generations unless you have a Boswell handy. 
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Buffy : You know what? I should have my own thanksgiving. I can cook the meal, just like my mom does, have all you guys over. It'll be great.
Willow : Buffy, earlier you agreed with me about Thanksgiving. It's a sham. It's all about death.
Buffy : It is a sham, but it's a sham with yams. It's a yam sham.

~~Pangs~~




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Nov. 27th, 2025 09:38 pm
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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 Thursday, November 27, to midnight on Friday, November 28 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33886 Daily check-in poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 14

How are you doing?

I am OK
9 (64.3%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
5 (35.7%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
5 (35.7%)

One other person
6 (42.9%)

More than one other person
3 (21.4%)



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.

Gaming Update

Nov. 28th, 2025 03:35 pm
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I ploughed onward through FFVII Remake and ultimately platinumed it, woo hoo, although it’s definitely thanks to Optinoob’s combat guides. His strategy for the final Sephiroth boss fight (which comes after a series of other fights, so you have to manage your characters very carefully to have enough MP etc left) boiled to down to block, counter stance, block, with Cloud, switch briefly to another character once they show up for heals and barrier etc, then back to Cloud (as Sephiroth will instantly target the character you’re playing) and keep blocking/countering until you can get him with a limit break before he unkindly drops Meteor on you - Optinoob when describing this started imitating Sephiroth going “Cloud, why won’t you attack me?” :D

After that I played chunks of FFVII Intergrade (the Yuffie DLC) on hard mode and I haven’t finished it but I jumped back into FFVII Rebirth. I’m still on chapter 12 of this in hard mode, which is exactly where I was storywise in March, but I have now gone back and done all the side quests I’d missed earlier that you have to repeat on hard mode to unlock more character progression, as well as some of the mini games (aargh the mini games. There are too many and I don’t know if I’m ever going to get through some of them, like the pirate’s gallery shooting one and the gambit & gears hard mode games and, omg, the PIANO). Where I am now, though, I really need to unlock Götterdammerung to be able to make it through the next fights, and it’s locked behind a series of excessively tricky boss fights - the six Brutal Challenges. I have done four, again heavily relying on Optinooob, and they were painful slogs.

As a change of pace from repeated party wipes, I picked up Blue Prince, which is a puzzle-solving rogue-like centred around a mysterious mansion, and not only is it great but I have not yet died even once. You are the presumptive heir to the mansion, but to prove you deserve it, you have to find room 46 - the house is a 9 by 5 grid, every day you start in the entrance hall on the middle of the bottom row, and when you open a door you get a choice of possible floor plans to fill the next space - some of the rooms are dead ends, some have items or hints you need, some require specific resources to select them, some interact with other rooms, and some actively punish you by removing resources or limiting your subsequent choices. When I first got a PC, the game I totally fell for was Myst, a puzzle-solving world-building lore-heavy game with (for the time) amazing graphics, and I spent hours on it, not least because this was largely before the WWW and I had no easy way of finding out puzzle solutions. The creators of Blue Prince credit Cyan (who made Myst), and it brings back that same feeling - there’s a massive amount going on here, with intriguing hints of story as well as fantastic puzzles, and it’s very satisfying when something finally works. Last night I entered room 46 (on day 28 of game time) but there’s a surprising amount left to do! It is a terrible game for the “just one more day” because a day can be over in 20 minutes if you have bad luck drafting rooms or can take nearly two hours if you find a lot of stuff, and I also now have all these notes about hints and clues and possible solutions to pore over. Recommended.
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Complementary Work Title: Illustrations for "With the Rest I Dispense" by spurious (on AO3)
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: Mature
Warnings: none apply
Characters: Rodney McKay, Samantha Carter, John Sheppard
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Summary: When he’s seven years old, Rodney reads a short story in a pulp sci-fi magazine about a man who uploads his consciousness to a computer. When he’s thirty-eight, he very nearly lives it.
Notes: Art for spurious's amazing story for the WIP Big Bang. The artworks are embedded in the five chapters, and this is a link to the round-up post. It's been a blast!

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Nov. 27th, 2025 06:17 pm
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holiday love meme 2025
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'tis once again the time of year for the holiday love meme! <3

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Nov. 27th, 2025 05:10 pm
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Posted by ziggywiggy

Happy Thanksgiving!

I bring you a bunch of surroundings before we get to the main meal of Alice’s Restaurant. I have a little bit of everything to satisfy everyone’s holiday specials cravings.

First we have the funniest Thanksgiving TV special ever, it’s WKRP In Cincinnati with Turkey’s Away. Full version available for free on the Internet Archive. This is the first TV special that comes to mind when it comes to turkey TV. A promotional stunt goes very wrong when the station owner, Mr. Carlson, drops live turkeys from a helicopter.

“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!”

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Friends has had a couple of memorable Thanksgiving specials, including the hilarious wearing of the turkey by Monica, with a little hat, glasses and a cute dance. I always wondered how bad it must have smelled inside that turkey but Courteney Cox’s dedication to the bit may have gotten a few turkeys stuck on people’s heads when the family clown tried it themselves. (Any of our medical peeps out there want to jump in on weird holiday emergency room encounters?) This video has clips of all the best Thanksgiving moments, the turkey hat starts at 4:21.

The forerunner to Friends was the fantastically funny Living Single; here is a selection of clips from their Thanksgiving episodes, Things To Be Thankful For. I found the entire series on the Internet Archive, I may have discovered my holiday marathon to watch instead of Godzilla flicks!

Next up is Cheers with Thanksgiving Orphans where the gang come together for a meal and end up throwing it at each other in a spectacular food fight. Full episode on Paramount+ with subscription.

So much fun stuff, it was hard deciding what not to include. But Paul Simon in a turkey costume, that had to be in.

Saturday Night Live always has some twisted fun with the holiday; my favorite is how Adele’s song Hello saves the day when dealing with bigoted relatives at a Thanksgiving dinner. It’s A Thanksgiving Miracle.

I have to include this even if it is not specifically Thanksgiving. It is The Golden Girls with Bea Arthur as Turkey Lurkey in the laugh till you cry Henny Penny.

I must honor my new home town of Cleveland with The Drew Carey Show and Mimi’s Day Parade.

What would Thanksgiving be without popcorn, jellybeans and toast? It is A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving from 1973.

I wanted to include clips from The Simpsons and Bob’s Burgers but couldn’t find them. I do have Simon’s Cat with The Heist (Thanksgiving Special.)

The main dish is Alice’s Restaurant, based on the album of the same name by Arlo Guthrie.

Alice’s Restaurant is available for free on YouTube. Also available for free on this YouTube channel.

Alice’s Restaurant stars Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, Geoff Outlaw, Alice Brock, Pete Seeger, Shelley Plimpton, Kathleen Dabney, and M. Emmet Walsh. Directed by Arthur Penn.

To make requests and see the movie lists and schedules go to WonkMovie.

Saturday night we finish November with Back To The Future, which is available for free on the Internet Archive. With subscription on Netflix. $3.99 in the usual places.

Time for another sequel perhaps!

Buy Wonkette some sweet potato pie?

BU/Watcher Drabble: Awkward

Nov. 27th, 2025 09:34 pm
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Title: Awkward
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Buzzeed Unsolved/Watcher Entertainment
Pairing: Shane/Ryan
Tags: Drabble, Demon Shane Madej
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: “Well, this is awkward.”

Author notes:
#4 [community profile] fandomgiftbasket drabble for [personal profile] pushkin666 

Awkward on AO3


Awkward )

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Thanksgiving

Nov. 27th, 2025 12:36 pm
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Wishing those who celebrate a warm day with plenty of good things to eat in company you cherish.

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