gentle progress.

20 Jan 2026 03:28 pm
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Procrastinating. But, I wanted to mention, because it matters to me.

When I got really depressed last year, like extra depressed, I pretty much stopped taking pictures. Not entirely, but way way less than I used to.

Partly because I suddenly intensely disliked my own face.

Also because I guess, I'm 50 now, it seems like most things I've either seen already, or, I guess, I know I rarely go back over photos of these little things, or, I know it's just not the same. How many times last year did I put the phone up to something, see it through the screen, and not even bother, because it looked nothing like what I was actually seeing.

But still, it's a nice way to remember.

There have been beautiful things I've witnessed in the last few weeks, that I wish I'd bothered to stop and try to capture, even if it's not as good as the real thing. Of course it's not, but it can still trigger the memory of the goodness of the thing.

The silhouette of the two dear cresting a hill with the sunset behind them - I did not have time to grab a camera for that moment, but, SO breathtaking. I don't even remember where I saw them, maybe in Stevenson? I think Stevenson, on the way home from the Dog Mountain hike. Felt like a dream. I could have at least tried.

The little dried winter plant skeletons caught in all this winter sunshine. The pretty starry delicate shapes they make. So fragile and fleeting.

The outfits I put together for dancing. We didn't get any selfies Sunday night, with me in the tiny sparkle shorts and Josh's favorite shirt.

Anyway. Just a reminder to myself to keep trying to capture beautiful little memories when I get the chance.

...

I have to remember the ways that Amanda also hurt me. I did not withdraw for no reason. There are multilayered reasons why that friendship is strained, it's not just me being petty or judgmental. It's me being protective of my energy and my safety and my own sense of self-worth. I miss her anyway. I still want to reconnect anyway. But, with caution. With love. With the right kind of intention. Not sure if it's possible.

...

Okay back to folders and spreadsheets. I will do a pretty petal doodle as a reward for at least getting started on it.

Need to be home by 5 to get ready for dancing tonight. My foot hurts, I am exhausted, gotta take it easy. But I want to support Cynthia.

I had SO MUCH FUN on silks today. Maybe I can share a video. I am not back to 100% after surgery but I'm shocked at what I am already able to do. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

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20 Jan 2026 03:09 pm
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Not dead. Just a lot of stuff.

Mom has been moved to the new place (which is also memory care -- she hates being locked in) and when I visited her last week it was not great at all. The place looks nice but mom was insistent that she needed to go back to OldPlace and I could take her. (I declined. Six times.). I need to decide how often I'm visiting her, because I can't do every week.

Wrote a story for Yuletide (pinch hit) and I love the source and I have no energy to write up all the stuff I want to say

Have FOP flareup under my jaw. I can still chew but mouth opening is restricted -- about the size of a slice of bread's thickness -- and chewing is effortful. Have to take smaller bites so there's more chewing needed too. Have started prednisone (ee) so hopefully that will help. No clue if this is permanent or will resolve. At night it feels like I have something heavy resting on my neck; it doesn't interfere with breathing but it's kinda uncomfortable and getting to sleep is harder.

I've been playing a (free with gacha elements) casual life sim game called Heartopia. So cute. I've just adopted a cat (golden spotted, looks like a bengal) and have unlocked the option to adopt a dog but can't decide which one (golden retriever I name Phoebe? Black lab named Yahtzee? Shiba Inu? Corgi? Husky?). Also you can interact with wildlife. So much cuteness! I love.
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After years of international negotiation and diplomacy, as of January 2026, the High Seas Treaty has come into effect. It has been ratified by 61 states around the world and is intended to protect international waters and marine life.

January Manga TBR 2

20 Jan 2026 05:09 pm
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Used my manga TBR boardgame.

I finished 5/5 on my last board and had a good time.

Avatar:

Conan 
Skill:
 Beat trap tile once


Roll #1:

An 11, prompt: gender bender. Oh, more Basara then!

Roll #2:

A 12. Man, first I get an excellent skill now I get 2 excellent rolls. Why can't these happen on the boards I want them to?? orz Prompt: cafe/bakery/restaurant. Hmm let's see what I've got. Okay, Amai Jouken it is.

Roll #3:

An 8, prompt: game element. Let's how much I remember in My S-Class Hunters. Honestly about time;;

Roll #4:

Another 8, prompt: started in the month you were born. That took a while, there's no way to filter by 'only stuff on my list'. Anyway, I picked 3-manen no Kareshi.

Roll #5:

A 6 and 'generate from TBR pile'! Exciting and scary. #564 which is...huh. I was just thinking I didn't want to read another Nitta Youka yet but here we are at Haru o Daiteita. Since it's so long I might read it like am with Junjou Romantica, post by post.

Roll #6:

Alriight, a 10 and the end. The physical BL this time is NightS by Yoneda Kou.

Most looking forward to: Basara and My S-Class Hunters
Least looking forward to: Everything else lmao

~Manga TBR List~


[Shoujo/Fantasy] Basara
[BL/Romance] Amai Jouken
[Fantasy/Action] My S-Class Hunters
[BL/Romance] 3-manen no Kareshi
[BL/Drama] Haru o Daiteita
[BL] NightS

x1 shoujo, x1 shounen, x4 BL
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In an all-time record for my minimal presence in fandom, I am now participating in my third year of [community profile] threesentenceficathon. I have written four fills to date and taken the rare step of transferring all of them to AO3. Once again all selections are obviously me.
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What I did during my lunch break: assemble Ikea shelves \o/
What I didn't do during my lunch break: write /o\

(And then the entire afternoon was non-stop meetings until smoke came out of my ears.)

Today's writing

A little more than an alibi sentence, but not much more.

WED Question of the Day

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shorter fic easier to write than longer fic
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longer fic easier to write than shorter fic
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something else (see comments)
2 (25.0%)

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drabbles and ficlets (<1k)
2 (25.0%)

short fic (1-3k)
3 (37.5%)

medium length fic (3-6k)
1 (12.5%)

longer fic (6-10k)
2 (25.0%)

long fic (10-20k)
0 (0.0%)

very long fic (20-50k)
0 (0.0%)

epic fic (>50k)
0 (0.0%)

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drabbles and ficlets (<1k)
5 (62.5%)

short fic (1-3k)
8 (100.0%)

medium length fic (3-6k)
6 (75.0%)

longer fic (6-10k)
5 (62.5%)

long fic (10-20k)
1 (12.5%)

very long fic (20-50k)
0 (0.0%)

epic fic (>50k)
0 (0.0%)



Tally

Days 1-15 )

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

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

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

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

Day 20: [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] trobadora

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

January Manga Wrap-Up

20 Jan 2026 03:54 pm
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[personal profile] bluapapilio
 

 Read the BL oneshot Peeping Tom and rated it 4.5! 

 I read the BL Staining the White Pine with Crimson Frosted Snow and rated it 7.5/10. 

 Read vol. 24 of Dr. Stone!! 

 (Re)read v21ch 184-185 of Mairimashita! Iruma-kun, excited to get going reading new content now! 

 (Re)read the BL Lover's→Flat, the rating went from 9->7 and I'm reading to pass it along. 

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20 Jan 2026 01:49 pm
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* More straight hockey content creators liking Heated Rivalry and not being weird about it. This time it's Eck. Two guys write for the channel. One really preferred the Skip content, but interestingly the other was more into Hollanov. It's only ten minutes, but it doesn't say anything revolutionary. it's interesting that it's happened again.

* The Sens' Heated Rivalry jerseys sold out in about an hour. The sales benefit Ottawa Pride Hockey.

Importantly, this is the logo for the Ottawa Pride Jerseys:


Perfection.

* I haven't watched the whole thing, this goes on the pile with some other interviews to watch when I have time, but Linus Ullmark has addressed the batshit rumors about his brief leave of absence in this interview. I've only seen a clip, but he talks about why so many players seen closed off in interviews, don't talk about their lives, and seem to not have personalities. There has been a lot of talk about how it's a real thing in hockey culture that players are closed off, never give real answers and seem to be robots all running on the same software.

That this is a real thing/problem is hockey has been something hockey fans have been trying to explain to parts of HR fandom. There is a certain Kraken who still gets dunked on by Canadian sports media for a single comment taken out of context back in 2014, he later wound up being trained by Sid himself in No-Speak, the art of saying literally nothing ever in front of media.

Anyway, I am still new to hockey but it must be frustrating to see a lot of new people come in with very strong assumptions about what is and isn't accurate in the GCU books. Hockey isn't a monolith, there are exceptions. Joey, for example, is very open about parts of his life and does chat with fans. But also, hockey players being media trained into being politeness bots who say nothing is also a big part of the scene.

Google Maps exists

20 Jan 2026 01:19 pm
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so why. why why why. Do I so often come across fic where the author clearly a) doesn't have any idea how far apart two places are, or how to get from one to the other, and b) never thought to check google maps?

Just read a fic where one character is thinking that "it's only an 8-hour plane ride!"

and. I have driven basically between those two places.

It's a 6-hour drive unless traffic is really bad. if you hit the most congested bits exactly at rush hour, it might take you 8 hours. to drive.

Flying? Well, if you were starting at a small regional airport and needed to make a connection, it might take you four hours.

I actually mind this shit more than the big stuff. The big stuff is hard to research. Google Maps is really really quick and easy.

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Today, as Greenland once again becomes a strategic prize, history seems poised to repeat itself. Staying with the Polar Inuit means refusing to speak of territory while erasing those who inhabit it.
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In early January, a giant sinkhole formed at an intersection in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of North Philadelphia after a water main break. Just two weeks earlier, the city reopened a section of the Schuylkill River Trail in Center City that had been shut down for two months due to a sinkhole. Last summer, some residents of Point Breeze in South Philly also waited two months for a sinkhole on their block to be repaired.
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The ocean is continuously ventilated when surface waters sink and transport, for example, oxygen and carbon to greater depths. The efficiency of this process can be estimated using the so-called water age, which describes the time elapsed since a water mass last was in contact with the atmosphere.
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A new analysis of air quality data from the past 70 years shows that Canada's record wildfire smoke in 2023 is part of a broader, continent-wide trend toward smokier skies across North America.
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A team of scientists announced Tuesday they have developed new deep-sea landers specifically to test their contentious discovery that metallic rocks at the bottom of the ocean are producing "dark oxygen".

Writing update

20 Jan 2026 03:47 pm
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Finally put up a new chapter of WWMBD? (Ao3’s going down for a few hours tomorrow, for a code update or something, so read it tonight or wait): WWMBD (15246 words) by moon_custafer
Chapters: 10/?
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Musicians, Academia, Romantic Comedy, Rock and Roll, Age Difference, 1990s, Smoking, Bodyswap, Trans Character

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

Challenge #10: Big Mood (Board)

CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.


I wasn't quite comfortable doing a mood board, because I didn't know where to get images from for it! Look, I care about artists/photographers/graphic designers; I am not about to do a random web search and steal their art for a frivolous purpose. I did look at Pixabay briefly for free clipart but didn't see anything that was right for the first term I searched on, which was "crying", lol.

Anyway, I ended up making a word cloud of terms and feelings from Final Fantasy XIV. And yes, "sobbing" was one of the first words I put in. There is a certain zone in this game that I sobbed my way through. No really, it took me THREE HOURS to traverse the zone and I cried for every minute of it. That's how powerful the emotions are in this game.

I cannot say enough good things about FFXIV. The story is absolutely amazing and you WILL be affected by it. The gameplay is pretty darn fun, too! I love the game to pieces and thus there was no competition here; I +was+ going to create something related to it.

If you're interested in giving FFXIV a try, let me know! I'd be glad to give pointers to any sprouts (FFXIV term for "new player").

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