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Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

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Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

mecurtin

Purrcy likes all the people who visited for T-day, and no-one extra was staying overnight here, but it was just ... a lot of feet, and voices, and hands. Today has had to be very clingy and relaxing, to wind down.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is flopped on his side on a blue patterned bedspread, eyes half closed, partly stretched out, looking too tired to even curl up neatly.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is flopped on his side on a blue patterned bedspread, eyes half closed, partly stretched out, looking too tired to even curl up neatly.

I was able to let go completely and have E&P do almost everything for T-day because of a combo of pain & exhaustion from pain. We ate at 5, so early in the day there was dining room table clearing, and giving bills to me in my study to look at and pay. And I remember asking Dirk to bring me the shoulder-shaped ice pack, and later him coming in to ask me a question and all I could was just ... stare at him, because even as the pain went down the exhaustion from it surged forward and there was nothing left.

So Purrcy & I had to lie in bed a lot of the time. I couldn't really fall asleep, but I continued binge-reading.

This week's binge-read was Sarah Monette's Doctrine of Labyrinths 4-book series, now re-issued under her Katherine Addison pen name, the better to pull in fans of The Goblin Emperor and the other books in The Chronicles of Osreth. I found them a quick read and enjoyable enough, though partly because I could see how many elements there are in these early works that she re-worked for the Osreth books, and which elements she decided meh, don't have to do that again.

Reused elements: stories within the story; labyrinths; lower-class people having important POVs; palaces being full of servants who know stuff & who you'd better get to know; theatrical costumes are a great way for a woman to get upper-class clothing even if she's not upper class; aristocrats are mostly assholes.

Element she realized she didn't need to reuse: POV character who's an asshole. OMG Felix is *such* a yaoi character, I now see why when Melusine came out & I was hearing about it 2nd hand your opinions were *so* divergent. Because on the one hand, he's just the Maximum Poor Little Mew Mew ... on the other hand, when "sane" he's a total jerk and bully toward Mildmay & anyone else in range of his tongue.

So the series as a whole feels like her working out, can I develop Felix's backstory enough to show how he was shaped into a charismatic abuser, and then can I believably show him becoming a better person? And I dunno if I'll read the series again, because it just is too many chapters from Felix's POV. I 1000x prefer Maia and Thara, both of whom absolutely abhor picking fights, *shudder*.

torachan

1. I had a pretty restful day today, which was nice after two busy (if fun) days. It was pretty chilly, which I wish had been the case yesterday or Thursday, but I'll take now anyway. Tomorrow's supposed to be low 60s, too.

2. I finished another puzzle today. This was a 750 piece one but went pretty quickly as it had a lot of pattern and color differentiation.

3. Carla bought some gingerbread oatmilk recently and I had some tonight in a mug of cocoa and it goes so well together!

4. Found a hidden Molly in the curtain.

conuly

I guess winter's finally here.

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Finally committed to buying myself some solid gold flatback earrings that I can keep in, and got the Maison Miru pavé lightning bar pair, which are almost identical to the Mateo bypass studs, except not diamonds, and about 20% of the price. (Christ, when I bookmarked those earrings, they were almost a hundred dollars cheaper.) I have managed to get them into my ears all by myself (look, I didn't get my ears pierced until I was 30, and push pin flat backs are even harder), and I am pleased to report that they are delicate and sparkly and I look forward to wearing them for the foreseeable future.

It's a shame that Saturday is my long cardio session at the gym, because damn does my hair look great on Sundays, when it is clean but the curl has fallen out juuuuust enough that the ringlets don't look fake. (My natural curl texture in the front is, genuinely, Shirley Temple curls. It is absurd.)

I have made cranberry-apricot cake and poppyseed cake and am restraining myself from making a miso-maple cake. The cod with artichokes and saffron broth did defeat the bag of artichokes that had been in the freezer since the dawn of time, but I actually think the broth isn't great — oddly bitter? — and won't be making it again. (I have leftovers and will eat them, but I won't be happy about it. Thank goodness I didn't waste the second cod fillet on this.) The pesto + white beans, on the other hand, were delicious and will become a new staple.

Sir Tom Stoppard's death is extremely upsetting and I am watching "Shakespeare in Love," "Enigma," and "Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead" and reading Arcadia, The Invention of Love, and The Coast of Utopia about it. And re-reading the cricket bat speech from The Real Thing.

torachan

Recently Finished
Tilly and the Bookwanderers
Tilly and the Lost Fairytales
Tilly and the Map of Stories
The Book Smugglers
First four books in a middle grade series about a world where people can travel into books when they read them. I have been enjoying these a lot as audiobooks. There are two more in the series and I've already started the second to last one.

Wayward Girls
Two women get a call that the boarding school they attended is being knocked down and they go to visit it one last time to get closure for the horrible events that happened there. Only a few chapters are set in the present with most of the book revealing what happened back when they were in school. I enjoyed it.

The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn vol. 1
Graphic novel about a supernatural investigator who has some supernatural things going on himself, the first being that he seems to be a floating skull on top of an invisible man type set of clothes. He takes care of hauntings while more about his own backstory is revealed. I enjoyed this and will keep an eye out for further volumes.

The Day the Klan Came to Town
Short graphic novel based on a true story of a Pennsylvania town that fought back when the Klan tried to invade them. This is a fictionalized version of events using original characters, but based on what actually happened. I liked the story but the art was awful. :-/

My Home Hero vol. 16

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Well, she tried, anyway.

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torachan

1. I had a nice morning at Disneyland today, but I am definitely glad I have two more days off to rest up! Tomorrow I am not going anywhere further than the farmers market.

2. Chloe!

torachan

Despite having spent all day yesterday at Universal Studios, I was up bright and early this morning to go to Disneyland.

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I'm about to have dinner (at 2am, as one does).

How's everyone else doing?

conuly

I put my chicken in the oven and fried up the chicken skins and - listen, I gotta say, of all the food items I've tried because I read about them, fried chicken skins are fucking amazing. I don't mind saying that they are, hands down, the most brilliant thing Jews have contributed to the world, and I do hope my various Jewish friends take that in the spirit it's intended, because omg. I don't care if I find out later that you guys invented the wheel, this is better. I am very thankful.

Anyway, we've got chicken, creamed spinach, possibly creamed corn, maybe beets of some sort, maybe couscous, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (with marshmallows, contributed by a guest), stuffing, cornbread, cranberry sauce, and pies. I'm debating making some soup as well, buuuuuuut I think we may have enough food and not enough bowls. Oh, and there's green beans. Oh, and brussels sprouts and a salad.

(Maybe I should've made baked beans? I wonder if I have time to make baked beans. Oh, but the chicken is in the oven. Hm. Can you make not-baked baked beans? Is that a thing?)

laurajv

The View from T'Khut (5776 words) by Laura JV
Chapters: 1/8
Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Spock/Nyota Uhura, James T. Kirk/Spock, Sarek & Spock (Star Trek), Spock & Spock Prime
Characters: Spock (Star Trek), Spock Prime, James T. Kirk, Nyota Uhura, T'Pau (Star Trek), Sarek (Star Trek), Vulcan Characters (Star Trek), Crew of the Starship Enterprise
Additional Tags: Vulcan Culture (Star Trek), Vulcan Mind Melds (Star Trek), Vulcan Language (Star Trek), jj abrams should be ashamed of himself, Vulcan history, Vulcan mythology, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, symbiotic red algae
Series: Part 1 of The View from T'Khut
Summary:

Part I: The Absent World. The planet vanishes, but her people go on.

Part II: An Archaeology of Loss. The world-death left a scar in spacetime, and a void in the heart of the Federation.

Part III: Time and Darkness. In which Ambassador Spock fires unexpected shots.

This story was a very long time coming. I have had the title for it for over a decade, and this summer I realized what story went with that title. It is complete but being posted in parts over the next few weeks and runs about 50K words all told.

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Every month in OTW Signal, we take a look at stories that connect to the OTW’s mission and projects, including issues related to legal matters, technology, academia, fannish history and preservation issues of fandom, fan culture, and transformative works.

In the News

A recent POP! feature highlights the growth of the “fan-art economy,” where fans are increasingly turning creative passion into sustainable work. The article delves into the music scene in the Philippines and the various ways in which fans are turning their love for music into art-fueled creative businesses that can sustain them. Fan communities are thus building their own systems of support—where illustrators, designers, and craft-makers create in dialogue with the fandoms they belong to. As the article notes, fan enthusiasm therefore grows to become the foundation for collaborative artistic communities.

These gatherings blur the boundary between commerce and community. Fans get to meet the artists behind the work, while creators get a firsthand witness to the excitement and appreciation their designs evoke. It’s a continuous loop of inspiration where music fuels fandom, fandom fuels art, and art fuels livelihood.

This shift also underscores how fandom frequently becomes an entry point into professional creative work. Concert photographer Cassilyn Anderson, profiled in SLUG Magazine, traces her artistic perspective back to her early experiences as a One Direction fan. Anderson stresses that her “eye” as a fan helps her center the emotional exchanges between bands and their fans as cultural snapshots worth preserving. The article highlights this saying:

In her work, Cassilyn says that she puts a deep emphasis on the experience of the fan. Capturing those moments of connection is what truly drives her to shoot the way she does.

Her story resonates strongly with ongoing conversations about the value of fan labor and the ways transformative creativity migrates between fandom and broader cultural spaces.

Another facet of the fan-art economy that is witnessing renewed interest is the zine—handmade, self-published magazines with long roots in counterculture and fan communities. A recent Times report notes that younger creators are embracing zines not just as a nostalgic medium but as a way to produce personal, expressive works outside traditional digital platforms. These small publications mix art, commentary, and identity in ways that are distinctly tied to one’s autonomy.

Their resurgence also speaks to a larger tenet central to the OTW’s work: the preservation of fan-made media in all its forms. While online archives play an essential role in safeguarding digital creations, zines remind us that physical artifacts remain a vital part of fannish memory. They carry the choices and contexts of the communities that produce them, becoming lasting records of how fans document their worlds.

OTW Tips

Are you interested in exploring fanzines? Look no further! The AO3 Fanzine Scan Hosting Project (FSHP) is dedicated to the digital preservation of select fanzine works and other fannish artifacts, with permission from the creators and/or publishers.

If you are interested in helping Open Doors and Zinedom transcribe works from fanzines or if you have any other FSHP-related queries, please contact the Open Doors committee.

We’d also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of any fanzines in which they may have been published on Fanlore. If you’re new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

Thank you for your interest in preserving fannish history for future generations of readers!

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Spotlight on Tag Wrangling

AO3 Tag Wranglers continue to test processes for wrangling canonical additional tags (tags that appear in the auto-complete) which don't belong to any particular fandom (also known as "No Fandom" tags). This post overviews some of these upcoming changes.

In this round of updates, we continued to streamline creating new canonical tags, prioritizing more straightforward updates which would have less discussion compared to renaming current canonical tags or creating new canonical tags which touch on more complex topics. This method also reviews new tags on a regular basis, so check back on AO3 News for periodic "No Fandom" tag announcements.

None of these updates change the tags users have added to works. If a user-created tag is considered to have the same meaning as a new canonical, it will be made a synonym of one of these newly created canonical tags, and works with that user-created tag will appear when the canonical tag is selected.

In short, these changes only affect which tags appear in AO3's auto-complete and filters. You can and should continue to tag your works however you prefer.

New Canonicals

The following concepts have been made new canonical tags:

Alternate Universe - Cakeverse | Cake and Fork
Best Friends to Lovers
Friends to Strangers to Lovers
Lovers to Strangers
Broken Ribs
Canon-Typical Incest
Consensual Incest
CFNF | Clothed Female Naked Female
CMNM | Clothed Male Naked Male
Characters with Two Penises
Hemipenes
Choking Kink
Fleshlights
Group Chats
Honeypot Missions
Identity Crisis
Impalement
Implied/Referenced Breeding Kink
Impostor Syndrome
Just the Tip
Lavender Marriages
Mating Cycles/In Rut
Meet-Ugly
No Character Bashing
NTR | Netorare
Older Bottom Characters
Younger Top Characters
Younger Top Characters/Older Bottom Characters
Pacifiers
Parentification
Screen Reader Friendly
Talking About Feelings
Tragic Backstory

In Conclusion

While some of these tags may be tags and concepts you're intimately familiar with, others may be concepts you've never heard of before. Fortunately, our fellow OTW volunteers at Fanlore may be able to help! As you may have seen in the comments sections of previous posts, Fanlore is a fantastic resource for learning more about these common fandom concepts, and about the history and lore of fandom in general. For the curious, here's a quick look at a few articles about concepts related to this month's new canonical tags:

While we won't be announcing every change we make to No Fandom canonical tags, you can expect similar updates in the future about tags we believe will most affect users. If you're interested in the changes we'll be making, you can continue to check AO3 News or follow us on Bluesky @wranglers.archiveofourown.org or Tumblr @ao3org for future announcements.

You can also read previous updates on "No Fandom" tags as well as other wrangling updates, linked below:

For more information about AO3's tag system, check out our Tags FAQ.

In addition to providing technical help, AO3 Support also handles requests related to how tags are sorted and connected. If you have questions about specific tags, which were first used over a month ago and are unrelated to any of the new canonical tags listed above, please contact Support instead of leaving a comment on this post.

Please keep in mind that discussions about what tags to canonize and what format they should take are ongoing. As a result, not all related concepts will be canonized at the same time. This does not mean that related or similar concepts will not be canonized in the future or that we have chosen to canonize one specific concept in lieu of another, simply that we likely either haven’t gotten to that related concept yet or that it needs further discussion and will take a bit longer for us to canonize it as a result. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

Lastly, we're still working on implementing changes and connecting relevant user-created tags to these new canonicals, so it’ll be some time before these updates are complete. If you have questions about specific tags which should be connected to these new canonicals, please refrain from contacting Support about them until at least two months from now to give us adequate time to do so.

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PhoenixSong.net, a Harry Potter fanfiction and fanart archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

In this post:

Background explanation

PhoenixSong.net is being archived at AO3 to help ensure that the works will remain available. AO3 will also give its users the ability to review and respond to reviews, which hasn’t been the case at PhoenixSong.net for a while now.

The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s Online Archive Rescue Project is to assist moderators of archives to incorporate the fanworks from those archives into the Archive of Our Own. Open Doors works with moderators to import their archives when the moderators lack the funds, time, or other resources to continue to maintain their archives independently. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with moderators who want to import their archives and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with Sherylyn to import PhoenixSong.net into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own. As part of preserving the archive in its entirety, all images currently in PhoenixSong.net will be hosted on the OTW's servers, and embedded in their own AO3 work pages.

We will begin importing works from Phoenixsong.net to the AO3 after November. However, the import may not take place for several months or even years, depending on the size and complexity of the archive. Creators are always welcome to import their own works and add them to the collection in the meantime.

What does this mean for creators who have work(s) on PhoenixSong.net?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will add it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors. We will then permanently close down the site.

Please contact Open Doors with your PhoenixSong.net pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.
You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3, or would NOT like your works added to the archive collection.
You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your PhoenixSong.net account, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with the PhoenixSong.net mod to confirm your claims.)

Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on:

importing your works to the AO3
adding your works to the new collection PhoenixSong.net

If you still have questions...

If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

We'd also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of PhoenixSong.net on Fanlore. If you're new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

We're excited to be able to help preserve PhoenixSong.net!

- The Open Doors team and Sherylyn

Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.

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AO3 16

AO3 is turning 16! It's been another year of growth for AO3. Since this time last year, we passed both eight million and nine million registered users! We also passed 14 million, 15 million, and 16 million fanworks on the site, including one million works in Mandarin Chinese—the first non-English language to reach this milestone!

AO3's committees have also done a lot of important work this year! Accessibility, Design, & Technology published multiple important code releases, including security improvements like sending you an email when you or someone logged in to your account changes your username, password, or email as well as new features like allowing you to use CSS custom properties in site skins or add tags to your collections!

AO3's Tag Wranglers published four updates on "No Fandom" tags, which are tags that are not associated with any particular fandom. Many of the new tags they've made canonical (marked common) include commonly requested ones like Breeding Kink, Mind Break, and Rivals to Lovers. Check out the full list of new and modified No Fandom tags!

OTW Open Doors announced the import of five fanwork and two zine archives to AO3, including fanworks related to fandoms such as Harry Potter, Inuyasha, and Star Trek: The Original Series. You can look through all old import announcements by browsing AO3 news for the Open Doors tag.

Policy & Abuse published a series of important Terms of Service (TOS) Spotlight news posts that answered common questions about violations of AO3's TOS. Check them out here:

We're so excited about all the wonderful things that have happened this year and we can't wait to see what future years bring!

Prompt!

To celebrate AO3's 16th birthday, we want to prompt you to post a fanwork featuring 16 in some way! This could be a work about Season/Series 16 of a show, or a character with 16 in their name like Android 16 (Dragon Ball), or even a character celebrating their 16th Birthday. We encourage you to get creative! When you post your works on AO3 or social media, tag them #AO3Celebrates16!

Comment!

If you don't feel like creating a work, that's okay! Instead, celebrate this anniversary with us by commenting on 16 fanworks and recommending your favorite in the comments!

Thank you for celebrating 16 years of AO3 with us!

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torachan

1. Carla is getting snow in Wisconsin and meanwhile we had a sunny eighty-degree day here. I prefer somewhere between the two! Thankfully the weather is supposed to be cooler tomorrow and then dropping down a lot for the weekend. Hope this is the last heat spell for the fall/winter but I kind of doubt it. At least at this time of year the heat is short lived since the sun goes down early. It was nice and cool when I went for my walk this evening.

2. I decided to stop at Handel's for ice cream on my walk and they have a peppermint bark flavor for the holidays! I love peppermint ice cream so this was a must have. It was very tasty. Carla likes peppermint, too, so we'll have to get it again once she's back in town.

3. We are planning to go to Universal Studios around Christmas (well, we decided to go on Christmas actually) because that's when we're blocked out from Disneyland. Neither of us have ever been before, but we want to go to Universal Japan next year on our trip, so I'd really like to be able to compare. Plus we're not renewing our Knott's Berry Farm annual pass for next year and instead considering getting a Universal Studios one, but want to check it out first to see if we would really use it that much (the price is much cheaper than Disneyland, but not as dirt cheap as Knott's). Anyway, while I was poking around on the website to read up for our Christmas trip, I started getting more and more excited about it and decided to do a solo trip myself tomorrow! They have two day passes that get you a deal over buying the dates separately, and you can use the second ticket within 90 days of the first, so I got one to use tomorrow and then will use the other half when we go on Christmas.

4. I finished up one of the big things I was working on at work! It feels so good to have that finally done! And a lot of progress has been made on the other, to the point where we can say we have enough data to move forward by our deadline at the end of next month. There are some things on the IT side that still need to be hammered out, but I think we might not have to delay the project? Fingers crossed!

5. I didn't use a filter for this photo but the lighting made it look like a filter. Gemma loves to hide away on Carla's desk chair when it's pushed under her desk, which of course it is all the time right now since she's not home.

mecurtin

Purrcy looks very *intent* but not necessarily *intelligent* because ... there was a MOTH! Flying much too high for him to even try grabbing, but a riveting prey item nonetheless. This was from a few weeks ago.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby stares upward very intently, not toward the camera or human but away as if toward the ceiling. His eyes are wide and green.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby stares upward very intently, not toward the camera or human but away as if toward the ceiling. His eyes are wide and green.

Turkey day is upon us!

E&P drove down from Boston yesterday during the day yesterday, though the last part had to be in the dark because the traffic got so heavy from Danbury on, and it was raining.

I'm feeling really good about having surrendered the spatula, because the fact is I'm going through a period where I'm in pain a lot. I guess I haven't mentioned this before, but in the past month or so I've developed tendonitis in my left shoulder, the one that works the cane, and also the one that controls the mouse--because I've got such long-standing pain and weakness in the *right* hand.

The pain often (usually?) wakes me up after not-quite-enough sleep, and it really drags me down.

elayna just mentioned Essentrics, which I can stream on NJ-PBS, and I'm going to try doing that 3 times a week and see if it helps. Otherwise I feel as though I'm gradually accumulating chronic pain vampires that are gradually sapping my ability to function. And I've got to find a way to beat them back other than "lie in bed for hours a day, under a heating blanket & cat, reading".

Menu this year, as last:

- roast spatchcocked chicken, plus turkey legs & thighs
- roasted garlic gravy
- Our Stuffing Recipe™
- roast veg, asst.
- "Indian Pudding"
- Our Cranberry Sauce™
- salad
- pumpkin pie, apple pie, whipped cream

Alas, my brother has a bad cold and won't be joining us. It's not COVID & not the flu, so there's that, but he's too snotty to travel. Since he won't be around I think I won't make turkey gumbo tomorrow, I'll just make stock, do the gumbo on Saturday.

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denise in dw_news - Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!
mecurtin - Purrcy; Turkey Day; Sarah Monette/Katherine Addison
torachan - Daily Happiness
conuly - Today was bright and cold
watersword - (no subject)
torachan - Weekly Reading
princessofgeeks - quick update
conuly - The cats were so inspired by Thanksgiving that one of them made her own contribution to the feast!
torachan - Daily Happiness
torachan - 2025 Disneyland Trip #74 (11/28/25)
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conuly - Thanksgiving dinner is cooking
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Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!

Purrcy; Turkey Day; Sarah Monette/Katherine Addison

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The cats were so inspired by Thanksgiving that one of them made her own contribution to the feast!

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