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Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

I felt a little creatively bankrupt regarding this specific challenge, but after I read a couple of other people's responses, I was inspired. So thanks, guys! :D

The first pet that immediately came to mind was Puppycat from Bee and Puppycat, which was an animated web series (then tv series) by Natasha Allegri of Adventure Time. Puppycat has a very strong (mostly pushy/grumpy) personality and probably doesn't even consider himself to be a pet. He communicates via vocaloid beeping sounds.

The show is very irreverent and has a pastel-kawaii aesthetic that I really dig. After writing all this, I feel inspired to finish the show because I think I only watched through the first season. See my icon for an image of Puppycat.

Current Mood: chipper

silver_chipmunk

I got up this morning, my milk had gone sour so I had some cheese and crackers, and my coffee, then showered and dressed.

I went to my Al-snon meeting, and got there early for a change. The meeting was very good. I went to the diner afterward, driven by S as usual.

The Kid called me while we were there and told we we had invaded Venezuela and kidnapped their president and his wife. I am shocked and horrified. It's terrifying. We didn't talk about it much at the diner. I'm calling the Kid later to discuss it.

I had a bowl of cream of turkey soup and a cup of tea. Very tasty. After we were done, I took the bus home as usual.

Got home, my Amazon package had come. That's the two presents for RK, and the external cd/dvd player for my computer.

I went to the Starsky and Hutch episode watch and chat. and was in time to see about half the episode The Trap. Not one of the best, but fun. Then we chatted afterward until 6:00. We did not talk about Venezuela.

After that I read the instructions for the player, and downloaded VLC Media Player so I could use it. Then before I could experment it was time to Team the FWiB.

We talked for a very long time, over two hours. It was a lot of fun. We didn't talk much about Venezuela but we did talk some.

We got off and I had dinner, then reread the instructions for the dvd/cd player, got out the dvd I have of Knives Out, and hooked up the player and tried it out. It worked fine. By then it was after 10 though so I took out the dvd, and put the player away and fed the pets.

Then I started here, and that's all there is to say. I will call the Kid after I go to bed, and I will call

mashfanficchick too.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. My meetings and the people there.

3. The Kid.

4. The Starsky and Hutch fandom.

5. The new cd/dvd player seems to work well.

6. Got the presents for RK.

Current Mood: indescribable

ainsley

Today started off really well! Woke up and decided, hey, that fic recced on bsky looks good, I should read that! Then I watched a vid! All before I even got up to feed the cat!

Then I saw the news, and that's enough said about that.

I had some good fic-writing thoughts while I was on my walk, and hoped to have a chance to something up, but alas. I did check off all the major items on my to-do list today (and one of them was re-starting a huge project that I've been procrastinating for decades while the project scope snowballed) and found a book online I thought I'd have to travel to see (a family tree/history put together by a distant cousin).

The fic I was thinking about is a hockey story I've wanted to write as a second chances romance for more than a decade, but thought it was too big for my skill level. My skill level won't grow if I don't write it, and I'm mostly just writing it for me, anyway. These days my brain doesn't want it to be second chances, and therefore it's no longer a romance, but I'm kind of interested in poking to see what it does want to be.

Definitely did too much, but the choices continue to be not overdoing and never making progress or staying within my known limits, which hasn't been working out well.

cornerofmadness

I'm getting to do absolutely nothing. Was going out tonight with my brother and SiL. Now they're sick. Monday is going to be a good day travel wise but everything is closed. Sigh.

I really got nothing done today beyond packing away Christmas and working up one set of notes.

Today was weird. My sugar was in the 80s all morning and even after a pasta dinner it's only 116. Who knows with me

So just have some depressed offerings (which seems apropos of how horrible this year is starting politically)
so have science saturday

January 'Wolf Supermoon': How to see the full moon rise with Jupiter this weekend

Centuries-old 'trophy head' from Peru reveals individual survived to adulthood despite disabling birth defect.

Ash Pendant: The only known depiction of a pregnant Viking woman

How Did Ancient Wolves Get Onto This Remote Island 5,000 Years Ago?

Mysterious Voynich manuscript may be a cipher, a new study suggests

Meet The Honduran White Bat: It's Tiny, It's Fluffy, And It Builds Tents

James Webb telescope spies a monstrous molecular cloud shrouded in mystery — Space photo of the week

The Man Who Drank Radioactive Juice Until His Bones Crumbled And His Jaw Came Off (I talk about him in class every year)

A Distinct New Type of Diabetes Is Officially Recognized.

Current Mood: depressed
Current Music: Earth vs Flying Saucers

kitewithfish

Year End Reading Meme for 2025

How many books did you read this year? Any trends in genre/length/themes/etc?
102!
Themes - eh, mostly sci fi, fantasy, and history.

What are your Top 3 books that you read this year?
The world is too big and full of books for just three!
Fiction:
Return of the King – yeah, yeah, we know, Tolkien is great, but like, I didn’t realize that this book was going to be so full of the heartfelt need to rest and respite after war and suffering and babe, I loved that. Excellent conclusion of the trilogy.
Lent by Jo Walton – The first half of this novel is a history of Girolamo Savonarola up to his death, and the second half of the book is about what happens after he dies. It’s phenomenal and weird and I loved it.
The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed – I’m fresh off this one and I found it a fascinating look at memory from a cyberpunk future that almost and didn’t happen.

Nonfiction:
The Power Broker – yeah, this book was 50 years old last year and I read it and it explained New York and also gives a reasonable look back at how American politics developed. It's also just masterfully written and makes other books look lazy and slow about their level of research.
The Other Olympians – Michael Walters - My god, transphobia is literally just recycled Nazi bullshit. Literally, just, it’s Nazi rhetoric about gender roles! This book makes me so happy for trans people in the past and also women’s athletics and also I hate Nazis with new and enduring facets after I read this book. Why could you not just let people be happy, you fucking fascists.
The Revolutionary Temper – Robert Darnton – Slow history! Watch society slowly build up from thinking of their king as the ultimate source of justice to the ultimate impediment to justice. Love it.

What's a book you enjoyed more than you expected?
Conclave – a very simple thrillers style novel but really pleasant to read and added a lovely depth to the film.

Which books most disappointed you this year?
Into the Drowning Deep – because I had hopes. But the worst book I read and finished this year was Mercenary Librarians.

Did you reread any old faves? If so, which one was your favorite?
Misethere – I seem to be re-reading this one annually! I also re-read The Goblin Emperor and the Murderbot Diaries

What's the oldest book you read?
Persuasion by Jane Austen

What's the newest book you read?
Of Monsters and Mainframes

Did you DNF (= did not finish) any books?
The Familiar – Stupid love interest

What was your predominant format this year?
Audio, at 42% - which makes sense, my eyes are getting tired

What's the longest book you read this year?
The Power Broker – So long that almost all of it was read in 2024

What books from your TBR did you not get to this year, but are excited to read in 2026?
Hm, Pass – Maybe I will return to this question.

Did you reach your reading goal for this year (if you had one)?
Yup, and exceeded.

(Adding this question myself) What author did you read the most?
Dorothy Sayers! I read 8 books by her this year!

china_shop

Swirly multicoloured doodle in colour pencil. Looks a bit like a person with a topknot.

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muccamukk

I needed a novel to round out my holiday reading, so I picked up "Mr. Rowl" by D.K. Broster (who wrote part of the Gay Jacobite Extended Universe). I'd read a couple reviews, but they were long enough ago that I remembered the following:

1. There are no gay Jacobites.
2. Because it's set during the Napoleonic War.
3. One of the characters (Raoul des Sablière) is a French officer who is a prisoner of war in England.
4. Everyone is very worried about their honour.
5. Readers of my acquaintance ship the French prisoner with an English dude.
6. The ladies are cool.

So I go into the book and immediately meet Raoul, and start looking for whoever I'm supposed to ship him with.

I meet Sir Francis, who is a handsome English Lord who Does Not Like Raoul. This seems like it's probably who I'm supposed to ship.

Except! Sir Francis is immediately a controlling dick to his fiancée. I have pretty generous shipping goggles, when need be, but I don't think anyone could read Sir Francis as being a controlling dick because he wants to be with Raoul. He's just a dick. He is very worried about his honour, though, so it did seem somewhat likely that he might still be the one.

No, one character being a dick has not slowed fandom down before. But isn't usually 100% my thing. So then I was feeling a little sad that I wasn't going to be into the pairing my friends like.

However, as I got farther into the book, and Sir Francis became even more of a dick, I was like, "This is going to be one hell of a redemption arc!" But also doubt.jpg. Also, also, wow, it's funny to have mostly aligned ships with someone, then have them be ride or die for something that's rapidly turning into a NOTP for me.

Finally, I broke and looked at AO3, and figured out I'm supposed to ship Raoul with some guy who has not yet showed up, as of 20% of the novel.

Which is a relief. Because I quite like Raoul, even if he has the Broster characteristic of being slightly silly about his honour, and he deserves better than Sir Francis, who is a dick.

kitewithfish

Not quite the Wrap Up for 2025 – I got busy the last few Wednesdays so I am making an effort to post about the books I finished before the end of the year!

What I’ve Read
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – Xing Book Club – This was blast from the past, and one that held up amazingly. The beginning was every so slightly slow but also set up the world very well. I felt like Katniss is weirdly charming – she has so little concept of the world as a trustworthy place or people as kind, and that calculation serves to save her life in the Hunger Games. The ending of this book, with her beginning to understand what her approach has cost Peeta, is wonderfully sensitive and ambiguous.

A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) – A very pleasant medieval murder mystery that is solved by a clever protagonist in favor of a humanist and quite funny resolution. Brother Cadfael is a well traveled Welsh brother in an English Benedictine abbey in 1138, when one of leaders of the order takes it into his head that they need the bones of a saint to make their abbey a really hopping spot. This book was published in 1977, and features a fairly liberal mindset towards the medieval caste system and a deeply humorous Welsh disrespect for the English. I picked this up as a break on the recommendation of

oldshrewsburyian (over at tumblr, but I see there’s a DW name and I think it’s the same person!)

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan – Oh, I really felt excited about the book that this wasn’t! I really thought there would be natural history in it! To be fair, the author’s interviews make it clear that she’s going for an Indiana Jones-inspired plot, and she’s very much accomplished that!

However, it’s not as funny or charming as Indiana Jones, and I would not pick up an Indiana Jones novel. The structure of the book impeded my enjoyment – the narrator is an elderly version of the main character writing her memoirs, but the main plot is a rollicking adventure where the younger character is doing field research in a rural foreign country and uncovering black market dragon schemes. This results in the author functionally interrupting the interesting plot and deflating the narrative tension to offer Her Humble Opinion on her younger self’s actions. If I needed distance from an unlikeable younger version of the character, this would be a good break. However, the older version of the character is snide, bigoted, defensive, and Not Like Other Girls. The effect is charmless and kludgey, and makes me lament that the young promising character we meet in the past grows up into this unpleasant arrogant person.

Anyone who reads my book ramblings on the regular will have picked up that I am vastly irritated when authors deflate their carefully constructed tension or have unsatisfying pacing. So, please feel free to try this book and see if it works for you.

Misethere by Astolat – I had to do a lot of rather stressful family socializing the last few weeks, so re-reading a past favorite! A wonderful story about someone too clever by half and the Witcher that loves him.

musesfool

I keep thinking I will have more brain to post about stuff but it keeps not happening, even with 2 weeks of vacation (back to work on Monday *sob*), so here are some brief thoughts about a variety of things:

- Miami Mika!!! Hopefully he is also Milano-Cortina Mika because after the bullshit snub of Jason Robertson by Team USA (in favor of JT Miller??? REALLY??? I've watched him play - badly (he's injured) - all season so idk what Bill Guerin is thinking there [I can see a role for Trocheck, who seems like a slightly less egregious choice to me than Miller, but still pretty bad, and I like Trocheck), I am in the bag for Sweden (or Finland) and hope Team USA doesn't even make the medal round.

- Speaking of hockey, I finally watched Heated Rivalry and I enjoyed it. I laughed, I cried a little, I predicted many lines of dialogue because I have written similar fic, and I'm probably one of the few people who wished for more hockey in the gay hockey show. I don't feel feral about it like most of fandom, but I kind of didn't expect to. It was lovely, though, and I'm glad it exists. Also, Connor Storrie needs to play Alexander the Great in something, or, since I texted

devildoll immediately with that thought and she replied, "Achilles," he should definitely play Achilles in something. I am just saying. I would like to see ( minor spoiler )

- The Stranger Things finale. Without spoilers, I liked it. I have quibbles but overall I found it emotionally satisfying. Also, while I appreciate Joe Keery and love Steve Harrington's arc, I have never found him particularly hot, per se, but ( spoilers )

- I'm enjoying season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I love Percy as a character and narrator, and I just enjoy spending time with him and his friends. ( spoilers )

- The Muppet Show returns!!! This is not a drill!!! I AM EXCITE!!!

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ysabetwordsmith

This poem is spillover from the June 6, 2023 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

mama_kestrel. It also fills the "Main character has to use odds and ends to fix a problem" square in my 6-1-23 card for the Kinky and Unusual Situations Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred. It belongs to the Aquariana, Cuoio & Chiara, and Marionettes threads of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes reference to past injuries, reference to traumatic loss of teammates, volcanic activity, traumatic stress, human trafficking, surprise baby, moving to a new home, dramatic scars, attachment, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.

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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

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

Looks like I get to talk about my dog a little. He's a Jack Russel Terrier, very hyperactive and does not know when to stop sometimes.They're hunting dogs so it makes sense that he'd be like this, but it can be a pain sometimes when you live in an apartment and have to take him out whenever he feels like it. It's also not helping that now when it's winter, it gets all snowy and rainy, so he has to shower every time he comes back home. He's not too fond of them at times and will bite if you do something he doesn't like (which can be anything, even something he previously didn't react to).

He's a good dog sometimes and very cute when asleep. He can nap a lot if walked well, but that would require 2-3 hour long walks if you want him to just drop down and sleep. As of recently he's been very cuddly, and likes being petted for long periods of time. He also has a fun habit of putting his paw against the arm of the person petting him, I assume to show affection towards the person that's petting him.

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Fandom: Star Wars
Pairings/Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Rating: Mature
Length: 11,604
Creator Links:

nevertheless_turtle
Theme: crack treated seriously

Summary: In Which Obi-Wan Kenobi is Shown Holofootage of His 12-Year Old Padawan in a Seedy Nightclub With The Chancellor of the Republic And Has A Proportionate Response.

Reccer's Notes: What I love about this fic is the way that Obi-Wan does put in a certain amount of forethought into his actions, but it just happens to be the wrong forethought. You can see where he's coming from and why it seems like the right idea at the time, and yet it still goes completely off the rails. :D Truly delightful.

Content note for discussion of child sexual assault but no actual sexual assault.

Fanwork Links: Just Go Kill Palpatine

used_songs

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

Here is a VERY small sampling of photos of my Ella.

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used_songs

Challenge #1

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

I haven't actively participated in a fandom in a while (except for a drabble every now and then). Maybe I'm looking for ideas for new fandoms. Maybe I just want to see what other people are excited about.

Maybe I just want to do my part to keep communities strong here on DW.

My New Year's Resolution is to do a cheese quest this year. I have already tried three new-to-me cheeses so far. The best one was the white cheddar with dill. I will be journaling about all of the cheeses in a notebook and, perhaps, in my DW journal.

I post almost everything under lock as I'm a teacher in a hostile state, but I will probably add you.

monksandbones

As I've discussed, in 2025 I discovered knitting podcasts on youtube. I've been knitting fairly consistently since 2015 (I just passed my 10-year anniversary on Ravelry), but seeing how other people are doing it, and what they're knitting, has fanned my enthusiasm to new heights. I don't have infinite time to knit, and as I've said to various people this fall, it's a good thing I have a day job to prevent me from giving myself carpal tunnel from too much knitting! Technically, I think it would more likely be De Quervain's tendonitis, because I'm a continental knitter, but you know! But in any case, I don't have so much time to knit that my greater enthusiasm has resulted in significantly increased output. I've vastly enjoyed what I have knit, though, and probably I did knit at least a bit more than I would have. I've also learned a lot, and gained a better appreciation of how much I already know!

In honour of all the knitting, I hunted down a knitting meme I made up (possibly converted into a knitting meme from some other craft, or from a writing meme or something), much longer ago than I thought. I used it to review my 2018 knitting, and posted it to the now-dormant

knitting community! It's time to bring it back for 2025 and the cusp of my 2026 projects, which I hope will be numerous!

Please feel free to adopt this meme if you have also been crafting this past year, and please let me know if you do!

( 2025 Knitting Meme )

In conclusion, have my biggest little niece goofing around and modelling some of my 2025 projects:

A child wearing a hat with three pompoms, and a turquoise shawl under a purple pencil-shaped scarf

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ysabetwordsmith

Fossilized bones are revealing secrets from a lost world

Tiny chemical clues trapped inside ancient bones are revealing what animals ate, the diseases they carried, and the environments they lived in.

Researchers have uncovered thousands of preserved metabolic molecules inside fossilized bones millions of years old, offering a surprising new window into prehistoric life. The findings reveal animals’ diets, diseases, and even their surrounding climate, including evidence of warmer, wetter environments. One fossil even showed signs of a parasite still known today. This approach could transform how scientists reconstruct ancient ecosystems.

That which is small can still hold volumes. :D

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thatjustwontbreak - snowflake_challenge 2026: Day 2
silver_chipmunk - War with Venezuela
ainsley - [things keep on changing for better or worse]
cornerofmadness - Christmas is mostly tucked away
kitewithfish - 2025 Reading Reflection
china_shop - Another doodle, hi
princessofgeeks - Random TV canon musings: Heated Rivalry
maevedarcy in gamechangerhr - This. Is. Not. Enough | a Hollanov gifset
muccamukk - "Mr. Rowl" so far
kitewithfish - Not Wednesday but still a Reading Meme!
musesfool - his mobility is untrammelled
ysabetwordsmith - Poem: "Help Others to Grow Up"
linky - Snowflake Challenge 2026 #2 (+ Fannish Fifty #2)
overmore - Snowflake Challenge #2
marginaliana in fancake - Star Wars: Just Go Kill Palpatine by nevertheless_turtle
used_songs - Snowflake Challenge #2
used_songs - Snowflake Challenge #1
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snowflake_challenge 2026: Day 2

War with Venezuela

[things keep on changing for better or worse]

Christmas is mostly tucked away

2025 Reading Reflection

Another doodle, hi

Random TV canon musings: Heated Rivalry

This. Is. Not. Enough | a Hollanov gifset

"Mr. Rowl" so far

Not Wednesday but still a Reading Meme!

his mobility is untrammelled

Poem: "Help Others to Grow Up"

Snowflake Challenge 2026 #2 (+ Fannish Fifty #2)

Snowflake Challenge #2

Star Wars: Just Go Kill Palpatine by nevertheless_turtle

Snowflake Challenge #2

Snowflake Challenge #1

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