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In December I am hosting Write Every Day. Welcome, everyone! ( More about this if you're new to WED )

Do you have any goals for the month? Mine is to finally finish my current longfic. On Day 1, I posted the next-to-last chapter of it. All done except for the epilogue! \o/ Did you do any writing today?

Bonus farming news: if ducks eat acorns, the yolks of their eggs will be greenish! I can't taste any difference, though.

ride_4ever

Thank you kindly to

small_hobbit for the postal mail!

small_hobbit is the first one to send me a card for my "milestone" birthday!

Current Mood: posty
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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grey853

Title: Niggle
Author: Grey/Grey853
Fandom: Due South
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Tags: male slash, explicit language, explicit sexual content, casefic, alternate universe-canon divergent
Word Count: 14,773
Summary: Fraser has a tendency to niggle and live in his own world. Ray gets frustrated. Can they find a way to work together without driving one another crazy?

Link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/75027586

Snippet:

″I think it’s time we talked about what happened earlier today.″

Ray sighed, wishing like hell they could just forget about it. ″Do we have to? We were having such a good time, eating and just talking about last night’s game. You haven’t niggled once since you got here.″

″Niggled?″

″You know, niggle, that thing you do where you question everything I say. It’s where you argue about the stupidest stuff.″

″I have no idea what you’re talking about. We discuss things and often disagree, but that’s not niggling. That’s just having a conversation. I rather enjoy our discussions.″

″I’m not saying I don’t like how we’re able to give and take, but sometimes you go too far. This thing with the littering is a perfect example.″

″How so?″

Ray took a long swallow of his beer and then poured the rest down the sink. He had a feeling if he finished it, he’d be too loose and he didn’t want that. He had to keep control of his temper and his words. He wanted to say what he needed without revealing too much.

″Let’s have a seat and I’ll try to explain.″

″Very well.″

Fraser walked over and sat down all stiff and prissy.

Well hell. Ray knew what that meant. ″I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.″

″You didn’t.″

″Did, too.″

″Well, how do you expect me to feel, Ray? You say that my conversational style is niggling, which by it’s very nature has a negative connotation. I’m at a loss. I had no idea you felt that way.″

″Look, I really don’t want to make you feel bad, but you’ve got to understand what I’m sayin’. You’ve got to rein in this zeal you’ve got to arrest any and everybody for the smallest infraction. That might work in a small town, but here it’ll just fill up the jails and get you blacklisted and me along with you.″

Fraser didn’t answer right away, but eventually said, ″It doesn’t work in small towns, either.″

″Say what?″

″My zeal, as you call it, has gotten me shunned more than once during my earlier assignments. It’s one of the reasons I’ve been reassigned so frequently.″

Current Mood: good
Current Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Current Music: "Go Easy on Me" by Adele

ride_4ever

My first post of combining hockey fandom and dog fandom was so well received that I've decided to do another one:

Watch on YouTube

Current Mood: sporty
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

grey853

Title: Bugs
Author: Grey/Grey853
Fandom: SG1
Pairing: Daniel Jackson/Jack O'Neill
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: Jack has a lot of explaining to do to get back into Daniel's good graces.
Tags: male slash, explicit language, romance
Word Count: 1,567
Link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74960746

Snippet:

″Why are you here, Jack?″

″I thought you might be hungry, that’s all.″

″Don’t give me that. Why are you here?″

Jack had the decency to blush slightly and glance away. He cleared his throat before he finally met Daniel’s eyes. ″I miss you.″

″You see me every day.″

″I see you, but I don’t ‘see’ you.″

″And who’s fault is that?″

Jack held his gaze, but shook his head. ″I don’t want to argue.″

″Neither do I.″ And Daniel realized that was the truth. As angry and upset as he’d been when Jack first called it off, he’d worked through that phase. At the present, he was just sad that his friend and lover had so casually thrown away such a good thing between them.

Current Mood: cold
Current Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Current Music: SG1 theme music

princessofgeeks

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Current Mood: tired
Current Music: FOTR soundtrack

china_shop

Previous poll review
In the Making friends with chatbots poll, 66.1% of respondents hadn't used AI in the last seven days, as far as they were aware, and 8.9% had used it for work. A quarter of respondents had used it against their will. Once again, I'm left wondering how representative Dreamwidth denizens are. My people!

In ticky-boxes, alpine octopuses practising their yodelling came a distant second to hugs, 41.1% to 67.9%. Thank you for your votes!!

Reading
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Kdramas
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Other TV
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Audio entertainment
Tons of Tech Won't Save Us, which is really good. Argh, everything. /o\ Most of the available episodes of new Aotearoa NZ political podcast Cross Party Lines (in the vein of and inspired by The Rest is Politics), which is really good -- intelligent and informed, of course, and I appreciate that the right-wing representative has zero time for our current government. Writing Excuses. Letters from an American. One episode of Fansplaining. A couple of episodes of The Life Indigenous, and the start of an episode of The Tongue Unbroken: Language Revitalization & Decolonization.

Online life
Constantly running to keep up, partly because I haven't been around as much. | I need to not compare my Yuletide productivity with last year's -- finishing my assignment is enough! Anything else is jam. | The

sid_guardian Slo-Mo Guardian Rewatch continues to be wonderful!

Writing/making things
A few bits and pieces inspired by the Slo-Mo Rewatch, a few flashfics. It's time to roll up my sleeves and dig into my Yuletide fic: so far I have 360 words and a scene list. I'm in a reasonably good writing headspace, so I expect it to be fun ~~if I can keep from second-guessing my prose~~. *knock on wood*

Life/health/mental state things
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Link dump
Ryan Coogler gives a speech at Chadwick Boseman's posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony (via

minoanmiss) |

dyk-tv-theme-song | wordhippo.com is my current thesaurus of choice | The Old College Try (Feel Good (TV) fanvid) by

periru3 | Japanese heavy metal (who linked to this? the video is amazing) | From Now on I’m Taking All of My Storytelling Lessons From This Wild Epic About Love, Loyalty, and Necromancy by Kali Wallace (via

starandrea) | !!!!! Did you know you can search across all sign-ups for events on AO3? !!!! :D

Good things
Meerkats and kangas and lemurs, oh my! Sunshine. TV. Dumplings. Biking. Yuletide and Guardian. Dreamwidth. Haircuts (I had 8 months' worth cut off, and when I stood up, there was a MOUNTAIN of clippings on the floor). Coloured pencils. Podcasts. Libraries.

Poll #33888 Subscriptions

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 44

View Respondents

Have you cancelled any subscriptions for political reasons, lately?

View Answers

yes
12 (27.3%)

no, but I'm going to
0 (0.0%)

no, but I'm thinking about it
3 (6.8%)

no (too hard, don't have any, or other no)
22 (50.0%)

other
2 (4.5%)

grar at everything
15 (34.1%)

ticky-box full of hard copy media
18 (40.9%)

ticky-box full of instant gratification takes too long (Carrie Fisher)
15 (34.1%)

ticky-box full of lemurs locked together like lego pieces
13 (29.5%)

ticky-box full of the dishes are done!
13 (29.5%)

ticky-box full of fairies "helpfully" filling all your cups and mugs with snowdew and honeyflakes
14 (31.8%)

ticky-box full of hugs
29 (65.9%)

china_shop

Slo-Mo Rewatch post ✅
Yuletide assignment draft
media update post (or, as I generally refer to it in my notebook: MUp) ✅
attack email inbox/tabs
First Aid flashfic (started) ✅
draw something *struggles with the urge to disclaim this to the horizon and back* ✅

Already achieved: dishes;

fandomtrees signup submitted, tweaked, and re-tweaked (I'm not going to touch it again!) (NINE fandoms, whaaaat?).

Also, I took almost no zoo photos the other day (and none of the meerkats), but I did snap these.

A conspiracy of ring-tailed lemurs, tightly huddled.

A conspiracy of ring-tailed lemurs, tightly huddled.

A conspiracy of lemurs, tightly huddled but some have perked their heads up.

china_shop

Wow, I haven't linked my fanworks here in over a month - and I have been writing.

Guardian

Additions to the episode 4 interrogation of Shen Wei
- The Mouse and the Dragon, 1,559 words, G-rated, ep 4 missing scene, Guo Changcheng interrogates Shen Wei
- Going Fishing - 1,180 words, G-rated, ep 4 missing scene, Da Qing interrogates Shen Wei
- Analysis and Verification - 838 words, G-rated, ep 4 missing scene, Lin Jing and Wang Zheng stealth-interrogate Shen Wei

Other things
- Bed of Purrs - Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan & Da Qing, 2,565 words, T-rated, set in YOHE (Da Qing-centric)
- Reasons - 100 words, G-rated, ep 5 missing scene, Shen Wei POV on moving house
- not close enough - 300 words, G-rated, episode 6, Shen Wei timeloop feels
- Da Qing Works - fanart of Da Qing, riffing off the DreamWorks logo, G-rated
- Retreat - 734 words, G-rated, Da Qing, Wang Zheng, Sang Zan, random fluff with tiny crossover

Bon Appétit, Your Majesty

Inventions, Invective, and Potential - 2,527 words, G-rated gen, Jang Chun-Saeng (medieval Korean inventor dude), spackle for the ending

china_shop

✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here

sage

✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here

ride_4ever

My local AHL team -- the Chicago Wolves -- has again this year as previously provided and served a Thanksgiving meal of turkey and other treats to the shelter dogs of Border Tails Rescue in Northbrook, Illinois, a no-kill shelter with a spay-and-neuter program that specializes in rescuing and rehoming stray dogs from Mexico (they also take in owner surrenders from Chicagoland).

Harleigh Garcia, founder of Border Tails Rescue, said “We are so excited to have the Wolves again this year to help us celebrate the holidays and bring something special to the dogs. It’s not ideal for these dogs to be spending their holidays in the shelter. We’d love for them to all find homes, but that’s just not possible right now, so it’s nice to bring them a little something special, and we love partnering with the Wolves.”

To learn more about Border Tails Rescue, click here. They have many volunteer opportunities and especially are looking for tourists returning from Mexico who are willing to be "flight volunteers" at no cost to themselves for escorting Mexican stray dogs to the U.S.

The picture below is Chicago Wolves Hockey players Nikita Pavlychev, Braden Doyle, Blake Biondi, Skyler Brind’Amour, Bryce Montgomery and Yanick Turcotte with some of the dogs they treated to this special Thanksgiving meal.

Chicago Wolves Hockey Team serves Thanksgiving Dinner to the dogs at Border Tails Rescue

Chicago Wolves Hockey Team serves Thanksgiving Dinner to the dogs at Border Tails Rescue

Current Mood: festive
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

sage

books
still reading: A Companion to Women in the Ancient World by Sharon L. James (Editor), Sheila Dillon (Editor). I did not expect this book to be so fucking triggery, so it's slow going.

Yuletide
I've reviewed canon a million times, inflicted canon on my beta (bless them), and now I'm rereading fic I wrote back in the day...trying to lure the muses back, I guess? IDK. I am blocked. I am stymied. I am in awe of my past self as a writer. I used to be so good! Now all that energy is going into crochet, or so it seems. I'm so frustrated. I mean, I should be able to do two things well, right? Creativity isn't a zero sum game. And yet. I'm really considering defaulting, even though I don't want to. I just can't seem to get my brain working. (I've never defaulted. I think this is my 20th? Yuletide & I don't want to break my streak, and yet. And YET.) :(((

yarning
Rockstar Lestat in the gold pants looks so GOOD! I'm so pleased. I've made him a little microphone out of wire and painted glitter onto his face. Not sure how much glitter to put on his chest, yet; the screencaps are inconsistent there. Could be the gold necklace is enough.

Yesterday I added wire rings to his index fingers, such as he has fingers, but this pic is from before that. Point is, I'm really happy with him so far. Maybe I'll keep him and make others to sell. Also, I went to yarn group Sunday and had a good time. Another new person came, and I worked on a gold and yellow kickbunny to replace the one that sold. A lot have sold in the last few weeks, which is great, as I need the $. And I just got a commission to make an orange fish cat kicker, so that'll be fun to work on over Thanksgiving.

etsy sale!
My Black Friday sale is here! Most things are 25% off, which is a deeper cut than is entirely reasonable, since I try to keep my prices as low as possible, but I really want some things to find their forever homes. Go to Sage's Handmade to have a look around. Also, commissions are open!

healthcrap
I've got to have yet another doc appt to fill out medical transportation forms, drat it all. ION my scale said that I'd lost 4 pounds last week alone, but! It turned out the ten year old scale was BROKEN. New scale came Sunday & proved the ridiculous weight drop was false, whew!

#resist
#50501 We (the People) Dissent Protests: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f-30Rsg6N_ONQAulO-yVXTKpZxXchRRB2kD3Zhkpe_A/preview
#50501: Thanksgiving/Black Friday Boycott of Amazon, Target, and Home Depot

I hope all of y'all are doing wonderfully! Have a safe and happy holiday if you're in the US & a lovely week if you're elsewhere. <333

china_shop

kangaroos (tolerated brief stroking)
a tight huddle of six ring-tailed lemurs
red panda trying to sleep in a windblown tree
sleeping snow leopard
tiger actually up and doing things
sunbear ditto (the only bear in Aotearoa, apparently)
meerkats! climbing on us! (we had a paid "close encounter")
misc. others

And the rain mostly held off until we were at lunch afterwards. \o/

mergatrude

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luzula

Poll #33879 Proper lifting technique

This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41

Did you, or did you not, learn the proper technique for how to lift heavy objects with minimal injury/strain in school?

View Answers

Yes
9 (22.5%)

No
31 (77.5%)

When in life did you learn this?

View Answers

0-20 years old
19 (46.3%)

20-40 years old
12 (29.3%)

40-60 years old
0 (0.0%)

60-80 years old
0 (0.0%)

80-100 years old
0 (0.0%)

I still don't know it
4 (9.8%)

I might know it, but I'm not sure if I'm doing it right?
9 (22.0%)

I did not learn it in school. When I check the current PE curriculum, it sure looks like it's included. So either 1) it was not in the curriculum when I was in school, or 2) it was in the curriculum but my teacher did not cover it, or 3) they covered it but I did not learn it. I've known for a long time that you should not lift by bending your back and done my best to avoid this, but I only learned now that this is not all there is to it! You should not lift with your knees. You should lift by keeping your back and stomach braced and your spine straight (but hinged forward) and lift mainly with your butt (your knees can also bend if they need to, but the main bending should be at your hips). I am practicing it now, but it takes time to ingrain something like that.

I also did not learn, and am only beginning to learn now at the age of 47, the proper position/technique for doing common workout things like pushups, squats, etc. *facepalm* How can you go so long without learning such things, and without realizing that there is indeed a hole in your knowledge??

princessofgeeks

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ride_4ever

Ever since Marjorie Taylor Greene "informed" us that California wildfires were being caused by "Jewish Space Lasers" I have been obsessed with making a mockery of her. (Hey, I'm Jewish, and if I had control of some space lasers I would NOT be using them to set California on fire.)

Now I see that she is resigning from Congress after The Orange One called her "wacky"...which is the first time I've ever agreed with something he said.

At this juncture I would like to show what I have created with my Refrigerator Magnet "What Will Marjorie Taylor Green Say Next" Conspiracy Kit.

Marjorie Taylor Greene refrigerator magnet

Bonus Image:

Current Mood: mocking
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 40: Hockey Fandom and Dog Fandom

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