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Dec. 28th, 2025 04:30 pmjoyfullyjay_blog_feedHi all! I hope you had a great week and a happy holidays to all who are celebrating! I am looking forward to New Years Eve this week. We are celebrating with our close group of family friends in our annual tradition. This will be our 25th year all celebrating together! It started when I […]
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Festivids vids
Dec. 28th, 2025 11:40 amcolls posting in womansplaceFandom: festivids
Fanwork type: vids
Pairings/Characters: multiple
Rating and/or Content Warnings: n/a
Links: see below
Summary: vids! <333
Reccer's Notes: Some of my favorite festivids from recent years featuring women, in no particular order.
Star Trek: Lower Decks, Beckett Mariner
Golden by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
inkjunket
A Wrinkle in Time, Meg
Supernova byeruthros
Babylon 5, Lyta Alexander
Runs in the Family bysandalwoodbox
For All Mankind, Molly Cobb
Northwest Passage byExtraPenguin
Contact, Ellie Arroway
The Golden Echo bynicasio_silang
Scavenger's Reign, Ursla
The World Observed byRhea
Lost in Space, Maureen/John
The Bones bydirty_diana
festividsFanwork type: vids
Pairings/Characters: multiple
Rating and/or Content Warnings: n/a
Links: see below
Summary: vids! <333
Reccer's Notes: Some of my favorite festivids from recent years featuring women, in no particular order.
Star Trek: Lower Decks, Beckett Mariner
Golden by
A Wrinkle in Time, Meg
Supernova by
Babylon 5, Lyta Alexander
Runs in the Family by
For All Mankind, Molly Cobb
Northwest Passage by
Contact, Ellie Arroway
The Golden Echo by
Scavenger's Reign, Ursla
The World Observed by
Lost in Space, Maureen/John
The Bones by
A rare TV update appears
Dec. 28th, 2025 11:39 amtroisoiseaux2025 has been a fabulous year for Batshit British Mystery Thrillers: shows that can be best described as why must TV be good? Is it not enough to watch a hot-in-a-haggard-way grumpy British guy have a really bad week/month/etc.?, with 6-8 episodes, really good actors, and wildly implausible plots.
Dept Q stars Matthew Goode as Carl Morck, a sharp-tongued, Scotland-based police detective reassigned to investigate cold cases with a misfit team while recovering from physical and emotional trauma. The plot is completely bonkers and impossible to talk about without major spoilers, because the first episode ends with the reveal of what happened to ambitious prosecutor Merritt Lingard, whose disappearance Morck and co. are investigating— ( ... )— but I texted a friend halfway through the first episode that something about the way it's filmed(?) or edited(?) reminded me of the first Twilight movie, and there's a definite vibe of maybe the real mystery was the friends we made along the way. So, yeah, 10/10, had a great time watching this.
Lazarus stars Sam Claflin as Dr. Joel "Laz" Lazarus, a forensic psychologist who is either having a mental breakdown in the wake of his father's apparent suicide and unresolved grief over his twin sister's unsolved murder twenty years earlier, or is being haunted by the ghosts of cold-case victims from his home town, leading him to investigate their deaths and whether they were related to his father's and sister's. ( Spoilers! ) This show is, objectively, not very good - it ends with multiple twists so stupid I did laugh out loud - but I enjoyed it a lot; I actually really liked the timey-wimey-ness of it, between the concept of flashback-based hauntings - the ghosts, when they appear to Laz, appear to think they are a. alive and b. having therapy sessions with Laz's father - and the way the show cuts between the characters as adults in the present day and the teenagers they'd been when Laz's sister was murdered. The big names in the cast are, of course, Claflin, and Bill Nighy as the late Lazarus Sr., but I was delighted to see Edward Hogg as the twitchy town loner who's lived under suspicion of Laz's sister's murder for decades, and David Fynn - who I've mostly seen as the goofier characters in Shakespearean comedies - in a more serious role as Laz's childhood friend, now a local police detective; I was unfamiliar with Alexandra Roach, who stole the show as Laz's wounded, woo-woo surviving sister.
Black Doves is technically stretching the definition a bit, as it's from 2024 and more of a spy thriller, co-starring Kiera Knightley as a spy ten years' deep into her cover as the wife of a rising politician and Ben Whishaw as an assassin with a broken heart; I'd procrastinated on watching this for a full year, which actually meant I watched it at the best possible time (i.e., last week, over Christmas) because it is specifically set at Christmas. Absolutely spaghetti-at-the-wall plot - it's conspiracies all the way down, ( vague spoilers ) - and everyone in it is, like, so bad at the first rule of Being A Spy (don't freaking tell people you're a spy!!!) but both Knightley and Whishaw act the hell out of their roles and the writing is fun and there were a bunch of other great characters, including the incomparable Kathryn Hunter as a London crime boss and a delightful pair of snarky zillennial hitwomen.
Dept Q stars Matthew Goode as Carl Morck, a sharp-tongued, Scotland-based police detective reassigned to investigate cold cases with a misfit team while recovering from physical and emotional trauma. The plot is completely bonkers and impossible to talk about without major spoilers, because the first episode ends with the reveal of what happened to ambitious prosecutor Merritt Lingard, whose disappearance Morck and co. are investigating— ( ... )— but I texted a friend halfway through the first episode that something about the way it's filmed(?) or edited(?) reminded me of the first Twilight movie, and there's a definite vibe of maybe the real mystery was the friends we made along the way. So, yeah, 10/10, had a great time watching this.
Lazarus stars Sam Claflin as Dr. Joel "Laz" Lazarus, a forensic psychologist who is either having a mental breakdown in the wake of his father's apparent suicide and unresolved grief over his twin sister's unsolved murder twenty years earlier, or is being haunted by the ghosts of cold-case victims from his home town, leading him to investigate their deaths and whether they were related to his father's and sister's. ( Spoilers! ) This show is, objectively, not very good - it ends with multiple twists so stupid I did laugh out loud - but I enjoyed it a lot; I actually really liked the timey-wimey-ness of it, between the concept of flashback-based hauntings - the ghosts, when they appear to Laz, appear to think they are a. alive and b. having therapy sessions with Laz's father - and the way the show cuts between the characters as adults in the present day and the teenagers they'd been when Laz's sister was murdered. The big names in the cast are, of course, Claflin, and Bill Nighy as the late Lazarus Sr., but I was delighted to see Edward Hogg as the twitchy town loner who's lived under suspicion of Laz's sister's murder for decades, and David Fynn - who I've mostly seen as the goofier characters in Shakespearean comedies - in a more serious role as Laz's childhood friend, now a local police detective; I was unfamiliar with Alexandra Roach, who stole the show as Laz's wounded, woo-woo surviving sister.
Black Doves is technically stretching the definition a bit, as it's from 2024 and more of a spy thriller, co-starring Kiera Knightley as a spy ten years' deep into her cover as the wife of a rising politician and Ben Whishaw as an assassin with a broken heart; I'd procrastinated on watching this for a full year, which actually meant I watched it at the best possible time (i.e., last week, over Christmas) because it is specifically set at Christmas. Absolutely spaghetti-at-the-wall plot - it's conspiracies all the way down, ( vague spoilers ) - and everyone in it is, like, so bad at the first rule of Being A Spy (don't freaking tell people you're a spy!!!) but both Knightley and Whishaw act the hell out of their roles and the writing is fun and there were a bunch of other great characters, including the incomparable Kathryn Hunter as a London crime boss and a delightful pair of snarky zillennial hitwomen.
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Dec. 28th, 2025 08:12 amlycomingstFriday Five by anais_pf
1. You have the summer and plenty of money to travel abroad. Where all would you go?
Well, it wouldn't be in summer, too hot everywhere. Spring or Autumn. Italy, London, Paris, Argentina. I'm not what you'd call an adventurous traveler.
2. What foods would you be sure you got to eat?
All the pasta in the world. Paris bread and pastries.
3. What landmarks would you be sure you got to see?
I want to see the Giotto murals, real badly. Just walking around London, theatre, museums.
4. What airline would you use?
Probably not an American one. Since this is a dream trip, I'm also flying in the first class.
5. Would your knowledge of other languages influence where you went? (i.e., would you be more likely to go to France if you spoke French?)
I know a little French, and I'd quick study some Italian if I'm going.
1. You have the summer and plenty of money to travel abroad. Where all would you go?
Well, it wouldn't be in summer, too hot everywhere. Spring or Autumn. Italy, London, Paris, Argentina. I'm not what you'd call an adventurous traveler.
2. What foods would you be sure you got to eat?
All the pasta in the world. Paris bread and pastries.
3. What landmarks would you be sure you got to see?
I want to see the Giotto murals, real badly. Just walking around London, theatre, museums.
4. What airline would you use?
Probably not an American one. Since this is a dream trip, I'm also flying in the first class.
5. Would your knowledge of other languages influence where you went? (i.e., would you be more likely to go to France if you spoke French?)
I know a little French, and I'd quick study some Italian if I'm going.
fic rec
Dec. 28th, 2025 11:06 amsixbeforelunchThis one has a great premise, excellent characterization, and is a lot of fun.
Q Switcheroo (10660 words) by V_NUS
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: William Riker & Ro Laren
Characters: William Riker, Ro Laren, Geordi La Forge, Data (Star Trek), Q (Star Trek), Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi, Miles O'Brien, Jean-Luc Picard, Worf (Star Trek:TNG/DS9), Guinan (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Mission Fic, Canon Compliant, Takes place between Disaster (5x05) and Conundrum (5x14), POV Multiple, Bodyswap, Enemies to Friends, Bajoran Culture (Star Trek), Q Being Q (Star Trek), Minor William Riker/Deanna Troi
Summary:
Q Switcheroo (10660 words) by V_NUS
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: William Riker & Ro Laren
Characters: William Riker, Ro Laren, Geordi La Forge, Data (Star Trek), Q (Star Trek), Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi, Miles O'Brien, Jean-Luc Picard, Worf (Star Trek:TNG/DS9), Guinan (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Mission Fic, Canon Compliant, Takes place between Disaster (5x05) and Conundrum (5x14), POV Multiple, Bodyswap, Enemies to Friends, Bajoran Culture (Star Trek), Q Being Q (Star Trek), Minor William Riker/Deanna Troi
Summary:
Q is sick of listening to Commander Riker and Ensign Ro arguing. To fix this, he forces them to swap bodies-- and if anyone finds out what's happened, they'll be stuck as each other forever...
Something ghostly in the air of Christmas
Dec. 28th, 2025 04:51 pmslippery_fishI'm so out of the whole exchange scene, I forgot Yuletide fics are online. Not sure how I feel about that.
Storygraph challenge
Dec. 28th, 2025 11:14 pmfred_mouseA fortnight or so ago, james_davis_nicoll posted 200 Significant Science Fiction Books by Women, 1984–2001, by David G. Hartwell. I had an interesting time skimming it, and then decided that I own a lot of those books and either haven't read them, or read them long enough ago that I don't remember enough of them.
So! I decided to try and read as many of them as possible. And because I like to make life easier for Future Me, I turned it into a StoryGraph Challenge. This challenge has no time limits, and welcomes all comers. I'd dearly like to have other people join the challenge, and read a stack of fascinating books, some by authors who should be better remembered than they are (Bujold, for one, is actually well remembered. Tess Williams, on the other hand, isn't).
It's A Sweet Day For A Winter Wedding
Dec. 28th, 2025 02:00 pmcakewrecks_feedHey, if you can't beat the cold, celebrate it!
(Says the girl in Florida. :D)
Besides, sparkly ice and swirling snowflakes are PERFECT for a fairy tale wedding:
(By The Caketress)
See?
The frosted branches and glittery "snow" on each tier is so pretty and delicate!
This one has the tiniest touches of gold to warm up the gray:
And that shadowbox effect with the trees? GENIUS.
Here's another woodsy design:
I like all the white-on-white texture, and the thistle-like greenery is perfect with the mountainscapes.
But if you prefer something with a lot more glitz to it:
(By Delicut Cakes)
Sha-pow! GLITZ.
The flowers were inspired by British bluebells, and I'm so impressed by the filigree trim and tightly packed ruffles!
Now for something completely different:
(By Torta Couture)
Chocolate!! Such a dramatic backdrop for those metallic snowflakes. And I think gold, copper, and chocolate is one of my new favorite color combos.
More impressive snowflakes, this time cascading down the side of the cake:
(By Taarten Deco)
And this icy beauty has the hint of an onion-domed castle on top:
(By Nadia & Co.)
Plus check out the hand painted vignette! Mmmm. So dreamy.
More hand painting on one of today's most beautifully minimalistic designs:
(By Sweet Little Treat)
I am all about that blue-gray wood grain. Gah, so gorgeous!
You wouldn't usually think of gold and bronze for a winter cake, but wow:
(By Sugar Cane)
I like!
And finally, a glittering ice tower fit for Queen Elsa herself:
(By Design Cakes)
OooooOOOooooo. Perfection.
Hope you guys enjoyed! Happy Sunday, and stay warm out there!
*****
And from my other blog, Epbot:
Caaaaats
Dec. 29th, 2025 01:40 amtygerSo, Scout got out today. And by 'out' I mean 'onto the top of the shed, then into the neighbour's tree'. It was. Extremely stressful!
She did eventually come back, though, after enough time spent waving around her favourite toy and calling her and etc. So at least there was that! Clearly I was getting too complacent, though, this time I really only looked away for long enough to answer a text from Mama! As opposed to the not-few times I've zoned out a bit and freaked out when I couldn't see her immediately. I just. Caaaaats.
Anyway, not much other than that! Have to wake up early tomorrow, bleh, but it should be fine. Probably.
Weekly (ish) check in
Dec. 28th, 2025 10:23 pmfred_mouse posting in unclutterHow goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?
Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.
Congratulations to everyone who has found and/or disposed on any clutter in the last week! I haven't had the oomph to come and post replies to celebrate you, but I cheer each comment notification when I read it.
ps: would anyone like a lowkey challenge for January? I have some ideas...
on a journey
Dec. 28th, 2025 08:57 ammarcicatI placed an order online on December 22 -- I wasn't really expecting it to even ship until next week, so I was surprised to see an estimated delivery of December 27. (Spoiler: it did not arrive on the 27th.)
According to yesterday's tracking, the package started in New Jersey, then went to Tennessee. According to TODAY's tracking, the package started in Tennessee, then went to New Jersey. Which is true? WHO KNOWS!
My favorite part is that after being in New Jersey and Tennessee, the package traveled all the way to Arizona. (That's where it was scanned yesterday, the original estimated delivery date. Humorously, that's also the farthest it's been from its intended destination state of New Hampshire.)
Today it was scanned in Massachusetts, which certainly is much closer than Arizona!
I'm just glad my new lunchbox is having such an exciting journey.
According to yesterday's tracking, the package started in New Jersey, then went to Tennessee. According to TODAY's tracking, the package started in Tennessee, then went to New Jersey. Which is true? WHO KNOWS!
My favorite part is that after being in New Jersey and Tennessee, the package traveled all the way to Arizona. (That's where it was scanned yesterday, the original estimated delivery date. Humorously, that's also the farthest it's been from its intended destination state of New Hampshire.)
Today it was scanned in Massachusetts, which certainly is much closer than Arizona!
I'm just glad my new lunchbox is having such an exciting journey.
One Wonderous Sunset, One Final Blaze of Glory
Dec. 28th, 2025 01:04 pmglindaIt's the end of the year, and I’ve got time for one last album for this challenge.
In a year when it felt like everyone in my age bracket was obsessed with Oasis going back on tour, the equivalent band for me, Pulp, released a new album and went out on tour. (I was 11 going on 12 when I first heard Disco 2000, it was on a funny shaped sample CD that my dad got as a freebie somewhere, he brought it home, handed it to me and said ‘you’re going to love that one’ and I was hugely annoyed he was right. Different Class was the album that defined my teen years - it rewired something in my brain.) I’m mostly glad I didn’t try and get tickets after all, the surprisingly large number of clips of their Glasgow gig, were up in the gods of the Hydro which is realistically where I’d have ended up and overall if I couldn’t have been down on the floor, I was just as well just watching their ‘surprise’ Glastonbury gig. (It was the 30th anniversary of their classic Glasto performance when they were at the height of their fame.) I really loved both the singles they released from it - I was doing a lot of driving for work, and despite how much 6Music over played them both, I never got sick of either track - and the new bits I heard on the Glasto set so I fully intended to pick up a copy of the album - More. I just never got round to it, until the end of November when I was looking for a pick me up in HMV and spotted a ‘colour’ vinyl edition in the twofer deal - I got Air’s Moon Safari an album I’ve loved for years, but only ever had it ripped from an friend’s copy - and knew that was exactly what I needed.
(And because Pulp absolutely know their audience, particularly for the vinyl edition, there's an insert with both production details and all the lyrics - seriously bands underestimate how much added value having the lyrics provides. Also I got the 'green' vinyl addition and it's just a gorgeous shade of bottle green which makes a gorgeous contrast with the orange on the central label. Just nice simple design. When Jarvis and Candida from the band were interviewed by Jo Whiley after the Glastonbury gig, Candida noted that when they’d all got together to rehearse they’d felt excited to make music together again for the first time in ages and I think you can tell, it really feels like an album made by a band enjoying making music together. I mean they’ve been a band together for longer than my entire life, when they released their breakout album His and Hers in 1994 they’d been going for like 16 years! It’s nice to think they just get back together every so often because it’s still fun to make music together.)
It was a great choice. Got to Have Love and Spike Island are still clearly the stand out tracks - classic Pulp tracks - but listening to it on vinyl, just letting it play while I was doing other things was a great way to let the rest of the album soak into my brain. Tracks I’d probably have skipped over in digital format, or even just on CD for being a bit blah, have settled into my brain and become favourites. It’s such a middle-aged album and I love it, just listening to Jarvis’ wry dead-pan commentary on life and love, that mixture of cynicism and hopefulness that is their trademark, is soothing to me. The stripped back beauty of some tracks versus the lush production of tracks like The Hymn of the North an album that reminds me why I still love this band so much. I was going to pick out my favourite tracks to talk about - Grown ups and Background Noise - but the more I listen to the album the more I fall in love with it all the tracks. It’s not often that one of your favourite bands from your teens gets back together and makes one of their best albums - I’ve been lucky Skunk Anansie came back with a banger in the form of Black Traffic but that was 2013, I think, it doesn’t happen a lot - and I’m so glad they did.
In a year when it felt like everyone in my age bracket was obsessed with Oasis going back on tour, the equivalent band for me, Pulp, released a new album and went out on tour. (I was 11 going on 12 when I first heard Disco 2000, it was on a funny shaped sample CD that my dad got as a freebie somewhere, he brought it home, handed it to me and said ‘you’re going to love that one’ and I was hugely annoyed he was right. Different Class was the album that defined my teen years - it rewired something in my brain.) I’m mostly glad I didn’t try and get tickets after all, the surprisingly large number of clips of their Glasgow gig, were up in the gods of the Hydro which is realistically where I’d have ended up and overall if I couldn’t have been down on the floor, I was just as well just watching their ‘surprise’ Glastonbury gig. (It was the 30th anniversary of their classic Glasto performance when they were at the height of their fame.) I really loved both the singles they released from it - I was doing a lot of driving for work, and despite how much 6Music over played them both, I never got sick of either track - and the new bits I heard on the Glasto set so I fully intended to pick up a copy of the album - More. I just never got round to it, until the end of November when I was looking for a pick me up in HMV and spotted a ‘colour’ vinyl edition in the twofer deal - I got Air’s Moon Safari an album I’ve loved for years, but only ever had it ripped from an friend’s copy - and knew that was exactly what I needed.
(And because Pulp absolutely know their audience, particularly for the vinyl edition, there's an insert with both production details and all the lyrics - seriously bands underestimate how much added value having the lyrics provides. Also I got the 'green' vinyl addition and it's just a gorgeous shade of bottle green which makes a gorgeous contrast with the orange on the central label. Just nice simple design. When Jarvis and Candida from the band were interviewed by Jo Whiley after the Glastonbury gig, Candida noted that when they’d all got together to rehearse they’d felt excited to make music together again for the first time in ages and I think you can tell, it really feels like an album made by a band enjoying making music together. I mean they’ve been a band together for longer than my entire life, when they released their breakout album His and Hers in 1994 they’d been going for like 16 years! It’s nice to think they just get back together every so often because it’s still fun to make music together.)
It was a great choice. Got to Have Love and Spike Island are still clearly the stand out tracks - classic Pulp tracks - but listening to it on vinyl, just letting it play while I was doing other things was a great way to let the rest of the album soak into my brain. Tracks I’d probably have skipped over in digital format, or even just on CD for being a bit blah, have settled into my brain and become favourites. It’s such a middle-aged album and I love it, just listening to Jarvis’ wry dead-pan commentary on life and love, that mixture of cynicism and hopefulness that is their trademark, is soothing to me. The stripped back beauty of some tracks versus the lush production of tracks like The Hymn of the North an album that reminds me why I still love this band so much. I was going to pick out my favourite tracks to talk about - Grown ups and Background Noise - but the more I listen to the album the more I fall in love with it all the tracks. It’s not often that one of your favourite bands from your teens gets back together and makes one of their best albums - I’ve been lucky Skunk Anansie came back with a banger in the form of Black Traffic but that was 2013, I think, it doesn’t happen a lot - and I’m so glad they did.
Just one thing: 28 December 2025
Dec. 28th, 2025 07:48 amjazzyjj posting in awesomeersIt's challenge time!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!
Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!
Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Sign Challenge: Babylon 5: Separate Pages
Dec. 28th, 2025 10:50 ambadly_knitted posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Separate Pages
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: G’Kar, Londo.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 250
Spoilers/Setting: No Surrender, No Retreat.
Summary: G’kar considers Londo’s proposal.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 501: Amnesty 83, using Challenge 472: Sign.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.
Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkadelt [music]
Dec. 28th, 2025 05:45 amsiderea2025 Nov 14: Jonasquin on YT: "Bridge over Troubled Water but it's a Renaissance Madrigal | Feat. Tabea Bös":
There's more where that came from:
• Let It Be (a Renaissance Madrigal) | Feat. Anna Petrtylová
• 'Enjoy The Silence' by Depeche Mode in the style of a madrigal by Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (1566 - 1613).
• Bach Chorale "Last Christmas" "From the Last Christmas Oratorio, BWV (Bach Wham Verzeichnis) 1984"
• If Stayin' Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century "From the BG Manuscript, ca. 1570"
• One Night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson "If Clément Janequin (ca. 1485 - 1558) was the songwriter for Murray Head..."
• If 'A Whole New World' (Aladdin) had been composed in 16th century "From The First Booke of Songs or Airs by Ala(ddi)n Menken"
There's more where that came from:
• Let It Be (a Renaissance Madrigal) | Feat. Anna Petrtylová
• 'Enjoy The Silence' by Depeche Mode in the style of a madrigal by Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (1566 - 1613).
• Bach Chorale "Last Christmas" "From the Last Christmas Oratorio, BWV (Bach Wham Verzeichnis) 1984"
• If Stayin' Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century "From the BG Manuscript, ca. 1570"
• One Night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson "If Clément Janequin (ca. 1485 - 1558) was the songwriter for Murray Head..."
• If 'A Whole New World' (Aladdin) had been composed in 16th century "From The First Booke of Songs or Airs by Ala(ddi)n Menken"
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Dec. 28th, 2025 09:19 pmthawreckaI feel like I've watched a lot and read a lot this week and achieved nothing. Which is great.
Like everyone else on the planet, apparently, I watched Heated Rivalry, which has great shot composition and editing and sound design and in general is just so well directed I'm in awe of it, but also it's a nice romance. Kind of want to rewatch just because I'm in awe of how well crafted it is! The romance is nice, too.
Watched two episodes of Dare You to Death, a cheesy Thai BL about a cop duo with belligerent sexual tension trying to solve a series of murders targeting a group of university students (one of whom one of the cops is related to). Which is not like especially good, but there's some interesting moments and fun styling.
And the leads of that are also in The Heart Killers, which I watched three episodes of. Which is, I kid you not, a modern Thai BL take on Taming of the Shrew but make it assassins that work in a burger joint. It's... uh... very stylish? I don't know if it's good or not? I'm not sure if I'm compelled when I watch it, and I'm mostly bewildered when I think about it, but also I know it has a lot of fans.
I watched 10Dance (2025), a gay Japanese dancesport romance film on Netflix, which has structural problems and utterly pedestrian direction. It's fine, I guess? There are interesting elements that are only vaguely touched on, and I'm given to understand those are covered more deeply in depth in the manga on which it is based, but I'm not interested enough to read it. Takeuchi Ryoma is very good in this, though.
One and a half episodes of Realm's Night Rain Dreamlike, a homoerotic wuxia mini drama that is clearly ripping off (among other things) Word of Honor, and I'm not mad at it. And as it's a mini drama, it's certainly not bloodless... Filtered to high heaven, though, to the point it almost seems kind of blurry, which is a shame.
...other things I'm not mentioning because I wrote Yuletide fic about them...
I cannot begin to tell you how much YouTube I have watched. I've literally paused a YouTube video to post this right now 🤣 A lot of which is watching and rewatching makeup videos, like 뷰티숨BEAUTYSOOM's videos going around the world and getting makeup done in different places (so many different styles!) as well as getting her makeup done in different styles in South Korea. It's always so fascinating watching the different styles and how they emphasise different parts of the face.
Like everyone else on the planet, apparently, I watched Heated Rivalry, which has great shot composition and editing and sound design and in general is just so well directed I'm in awe of it, but also it's a nice romance. Kind of want to rewatch just because I'm in awe of how well crafted it is! The romance is nice, too.
Watched two episodes of Dare You to Death, a cheesy Thai BL about a cop duo with belligerent sexual tension trying to solve a series of murders targeting a group of university students (one of whom one of the cops is related to). Which is not like especially good, but there's some interesting moments and fun styling.
And the leads of that are also in The Heart Killers, which I watched three episodes of. Which is, I kid you not, a modern Thai BL take on Taming of the Shrew but make it assassins that work in a burger joint. It's... uh... very stylish? I don't know if it's good or not? I'm not sure if I'm compelled when I watch it, and I'm mostly bewildered when I think about it, but also I know it has a lot of fans.
I watched 10Dance (2025), a gay Japanese dancesport romance film on Netflix, which has structural problems and utterly pedestrian direction. It's fine, I guess? There are interesting elements that are only vaguely touched on, and I'm given to understand those are covered more deeply in depth in the manga on which it is based, but I'm not interested enough to read it. Takeuchi Ryoma is very good in this, though.
One and a half episodes of Realm's Night Rain Dreamlike, a homoerotic wuxia mini drama that is clearly ripping off (among other things) Word of Honor, and I'm not mad at it. And as it's a mini drama, it's certainly not bloodless... Filtered to high heaven, though, to the point it almost seems kind of blurry, which is a shame.
...other things I'm not mentioning because I wrote Yuletide fic about them...
I cannot begin to tell you how much YouTube I have watched. I've literally paused a YouTube video to post this right now 🤣 A lot of which is watching and rewatching makeup videos, like 뷰티숨BEAUTYSOOM's videos going around the world and getting makeup done in different places (so many different styles!) as well as getting her makeup done in different styles in South Korea. It's always so fascinating watching the different styles and how they emphasise different parts of the face.
Shoresy (seasons 1-4)
Dec. 28th, 2025 09:26 amrmc28Shoresy is a Canadian comedy show about an ice hockey team, currently available to stream on ITVX. It is very crude (swearing, sex & toilet humour) and very funny, and it loves hockey. The episodes are short, around 20 minutes, and the seasons only have six of them, so it's relatively fast watching.
(ITVX insists on checking in with me at the start of each episode that I really want to watch "very strong language and adult humour". This made it great for watching in bed because if I fell asleep, it wouldn't keep playing past the end of the current episode.)
Anyway, despite the aforementioned crudity, it is often weirdly wholesome. There's a lot of little repeated catchphrases, I think maybe the show's own meta-commentary on how much of hockey discussion is cliché-ridden, but like Terry Pratchett wrote, sometimes things become clichés because they are true. Hockey brings people together. Hockey players give back. By the community, for the community. Go till you can't go no more. Episode 3.6 in particular manages to capture how a high-stakes hockey game feels, and is probably my favourite of the entire four seasons.
So anyway, this weird crude funny show got past my usual reluctance to watch TV on my own, and even to rewatch some of my favourite parts. I gather season 5 started showing in Canada on 25 December, but no idea if it too will come to ITVX.
(Trivia point: the executive producer of Heated Rivalry is Jacob Tierney, who also produced Shoresy. I didn't realise this until I'd started watching, but ok, this guy loves ice hockey, just like Rachel Reid does, no wonder he chose to adapt her books.)
December Days 02025 #27: Sysadmin
Dec. 27th, 2025 11:20 pmsilveradeptIt's December Days time again. This year, I have decided that I'm going to talk about skills and applications thereof, if for no other reason than because I am prone to both the fixed mindset and the downplaying of any skills that I might have obtained as not "real" skills because they do not fit some form of ideal.
( 27: Sysadmin )
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Sunday 28/12/2025
Dec. 28th, 2025 10:17 amlhune posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) Great coffee to properly wake up
2) Visit to my parents to exchange the DVD players and enjoy their woodburner ^__^
3) Telephone call with my cousin (and my godchild)
2) Visit to my parents to exchange the DVD players and enjoy their woodburner ^__^
3) Telephone call with my cousin (and my godchild)
It's a Trap!: Stargate Atlantis: Fanfiction:Echo of a Memory
Dec. 28th, 2025 08:34 amlucy_roman posting in fan_flashworksTitle:Echo of a Memory
Author:lucy_roman
Fandom:Stargate Atlantis
Rating:Teen and up
Pairing:John/Carson;John/Rodney
Summary and warning:John is exploring a Wraith ship when he hears Carson calling to him. Mention of canonical character death.
Word Count:509
( Read here )
Author:
lucy_romanFandom:Stargate Atlantis
Rating:Teen and up
Pairing:John/Carson;John/Rodney
Summary and warning:John is exploring a Wraith ship when he hears Carson calling to him. Mention of canonical character death.
Word Count:509
( Read here )
SBTB Bestsellers: 2025
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- Book People by Jackie Ashenden Amazon | B&N | Kobo
- A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher Amazon | B&N | Kobo
- Swordheart by T. Kingfisher Amazon | B&N | Kobo
- The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson Amazon | B&N | Kobo
- The Geographer’s Map to Romance by India Holton Amazon | B&N | Kobo
- Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood Amazon | B&N | Kobo
- Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett Amazon | B&N | Kobo
- Fan Service by Rosie Danan Amazon | B&N | Kobo
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Dec. 27th, 2025 09:15 pmyuuagoSo, I ordered a set of watercolours from Beam Paints back in November, and it just arrived today. Two shades of green, two yellow, one red, and one dark blue. It's actually bundled with a Kaweco Sport fountain pen, and comes in the pen tin along with a travel paintbrush. It's quite a nice little set and I can hardly wait to try it out.
The Kaweco pen (plastic, medium nib) is very different from the Pilot Metropolitan (metal, extra fine nib) that my pen-enthusiast acquaintance loaned me. It's quite small; narrower than the Pilot pen, and when capped it's roughly 10 cm; with the cap off and stuck on the back, it's roughly 13cm. VS the Pilot, which is 13.5 capped and roughly 15 uncapped. The Kaweco pen is much, much lighter, which I appreciate because honestly, my hands are rather weak and I've always had issues with heavy pens. I would never write anything extensive (such as fic) with the Pilot pen, but I could potentially see myself doing so with the Kaweco pen. Mind you, I'm not about to give up the cheapass Bic rollerballs that I use as my main fic-writing medium.
The Kaweco pen came with one cartridge tucked backward inside of it; apparently this is standard for this pen. Probably due to shifting in transit, there was a godawful mess; ink everywhere. I had to clean things out a bit before using. Since there was spillage, I'm not quite sure how long that cartridge will last, but I'm going to eventually buy a converter regardless, so it doesn't matter so much.
The travel brush is quite nice; good weight, feels like good quality. It's a really versatile size and I can see myself using it a lot.
...Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to actually use any of the paints, which were the entire reason I bought this set. But hopefully I will get to it within the next few days. I'm super looking forward to trying it out. :V
The Kaweco pen (plastic, medium nib) is very different from the Pilot Metropolitan (metal, extra fine nib) that my pen-enthusiast acquaintance loaned me. It's quite small; narrower than the Pilot pen, and when capped it's roughly 10 cm; with the cap off and stuck on the back, it's roughly 13cm. VS the Pilot, which is 13.5 capped and roughly 15 uncapped. The Kaweco pen is much, much lighter, which I appreciate because honestly, my hands are rather weak and I've always had issues with heavy pens. I would never write anything extensive (such as fic) with the Pilot pen, but I could potentially see myself doing so with the Kaweco pen. Mind you, I'm not about to give up the cheapass Bic rollerballs that I use as my main fic-writing medium.
The Kaweco pen came with one cartridge tucked backward inside of it; apparently this is standard for this pen. Probably due to shifting in transit, there was a godawful mess; ink everywhere. I had to clean things out a bit before using. Since there was spillage, I'm not quite sure how long that cartridge will last, but I'm going to eventually buy a converter regardless, so it doesn't matter so much.
The travel brush is quite nice; good weight, feels like good quality. It's a really versatile size and I can see myself using it a lot.
...Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to actually use any of the paints, which were the entire reason I bought this set. But hopefully I will get to it within the next few days. I'm super looking forward to trying it out. :V
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Yuletide recs (part 1)
Dec. 27th, 2025 09:26 pmsnickfic posting in yuletideSeven recs at my journal for:
True Detective: Night Country
Kyle Murchison Booth Stories
Companion
Kraken
My Sister and the Prince
Dragonriders of Pern (2x)
True Detective: Night Country
Kyle Murchison Booth Stories
Companion
Kraken
My Sister and the Prince
Dragonriders of Pern (2x)
Yuletide!!!
Dec. 27th, 2025 09:25 pmsnickficYou guys, I love Yuletide. So many things I can read, I got great gifts, people are reading what I wrote... incredible. Here, have some recs.
First, my gifts:
Endless Night, True Detective: Night Country, Danvers/Navarro, 4.6k. My author took my prompt "what if the sun didn't come back" and ran with it. Great apostalyptic vibe here, and my shiiiiip. <3
The Inheritance of Imogen Dearborn, Kyle Murchison Booth Stories, Booth/Ratcliffe, 13!!!!!k. Booth needs Ratcliffe's help with an acquisition at a decaying house in the country, and things get weird, as they so often do around Booth. I freaking love this fandom's dedication to casefic*, and this is a wonderful example of a case that's great on its own merits and all the better because the relationship growing around the edges. <3 <3 <3
(*I'm developing the theory that the KMB stories are basically the perfect canon for producing casefic: the canon is already a series of casefics, already in prose, and they're nearly all pretty short. Put that all together, and writers have the perfect model to work from.)
And now for the other fics I've loved so far:
boot error, Companion (2025), Iris gen, 2.6k. Iris confronts life without an operating system. It was great to see Iris here, trying to figure out exactly what it means to be a person when one's whole personality is made of code.
Written in squid ink, Kraken - China Mieville, Billy/Dane, 3k. Not everyone in the Church of the Kraken was blessed with a tattoo in squid ink, but Dane was one of the lucky few, and at a young age too. I loved seeing an interpretation of soulmate marks specifically for this canon, and I loved all of Dane's weird fantasies and fetishes and imagined acts of religious devotion, and how they all got tangled up together.
Touching the Moon, My Sister and the Prince, Marie gen, 4k. This is how it happened; and what happened, after. The canon is a short film that is incredibly compelling considering it's two actors on one set for a single scene. You should watch it and then read this structurally creative and heartwrenching answer to the question of what came next.
Hunger, Dragonriders of Pern, Kylara/Lessa, 2.7k. Both Lessa and Kylara are Searched for Nemorth's final clutch. This Kylara feels exactly right to me: scheming, focused on her own desires and ambitions, fully aware of her own strengths and at least some of the weaknesses of others, and above all with an eye for opportunity. And the actual events, brief though they, promise a very interesting future for this version of canon. :D
The day the riders came, Dragonriders of Pern, OC gen, 1.8k. What if the dragons of Pern and the Impression bond were anything *but* benevolent? Or, alternately: what if the dragons were Lovecraftian horrors? This gets so dark in the best way, and the last line is a knockout punch.
First, my gifts:
Endless Night, True Detective: Night Country, Danvers/Navarro, 4.6k. My author took my prompt "what if the sun didn't come back" and ran with it. Great apostalyptic vibe here, and my shiiiiip. <3
The Inheritance of Imogen Dearborn, Kyle Murchison Booth Stories, Booth/Ratcliffe, 13!!!!!k. Booth needs Ratcliffe's help with an acquisition at a decaying house in the country, and things get weird, as they so often do around Booth. I freaking love this fandom's dedication to casefic*, and this is a wonderful example of a case that's great on its own merits and all the better because the relationship growing around the edges. <3 <3 <3
(*I'm developing the theory that the KMB stories are basically the perfect canon for producing casefic: the canon is already a series of casefics, already in prose, and they're nearly all pretty short. Put that all together, and writers have the perfect model to work from.)
And now for the other fics I've loved so far:
boot error, Companion (2025), Iris gen, 2.6k. Iris confronts life without an operating system. It was great to see Iris here, trying to figure out exactly what it means to be a person when one's whole personality is made of code.
Written in squid ink, Kraken - China Mieville, Billy/Dane, 3k. Not everyone in the Church of the Kraken was blessed with a tattoo in squid ink, but Dane was one of the lucky few, and at a young age too. I loved seeing an interpretation of soulmate marks specifically for this canon, and I loved all of Dane's weird fantasies and fetishes and imagined acts of religious devotion, and how they all got tangled up together.
Touching the Moon, My Sister and the Prince, Marie gen, 4k. This is how it happened; and what happened, after. The canon is a short film that is incredibly compelling considering it's two actors on one set for a single scene. You should watch it and then read this structurally creative and heartwrenching answer to the question of what came next.
Hunger, Dragonriders of Pern, Kylara/Lessa, 2.7k. Both Lessa and Kylara are Searched for Nemorth's final clutch. This Kylara feels exactly right to me: scheming, focused on her own desires and ambitions, fully aware of her own strengths and at least some of the weaknesses of others, and above all with an eye for opportunity. And the actual events, brief though they, promise a very interesting future for this version of canon. :D
The day the riders came, Dragonriders of Pern, OC gen, 1.8k. What if the dragons of Pern and the Impression bond were anything *but* benevolent? Or, alternately: what if the dragons were Lovecraftian horrors? This gets so dark in the best way, and the last line is a knockout punch.
Nominations Closed
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I hope this augers well
Dec. 27th, 2025 11:26 pmcornerofmadnessI woke up feeling lightheaded, slightly headachy and hella tired (this is not the good augering part) This is when Mom tells me that the couple I don't like are coming up tonight. UGH. As I told evil_little_dog that I planned to 'go out with friends' when they came up but now I'm sick (and really I am) so mom says just stay upstairs then and don't bother with them.
But they blew my parents off. WOO HOO. Twice now this holiday. My parents might go to my aunt's house (where they're staying as she's actually prejudice woman's real aunt) in the morning. I'm a late riser so I get out of going (in theory) but even if I don't it'll be a short trip because the Steeler game is tomorrow and they want all visitors out (which should tell everyone what they need to know. You rate under football) And they leave monday so I am hoping this is a sign for the coming year where things that upset me are removed from my presence.
I got my official Hazbin merch today, the holiday poster and key chains (all sold out now) and the season 1 DVDs. I am happy to have that (luckily I'm too tired for my why you don't own downloads rant)
It's time for science saturday
One Protein Is a Better Predictor of Heart Disease Than Cholesterol
Powerful Anti-Cancer Drug Discovered Inside Japanese Tree Frog.
Garlic Mouthwash Could Be The New Gold Standard. Here's Why. I need to send this to my research student who is working with mouthwash
New Drug Stalls Alzheimer's Development in Breakthrough Trial
Cats meow more at men to get their attention, study suggests
A huge surprise': 1,500-year-old church found next to Zoroastrianism place of worship in Iraq
Tiny implant 'speaks' to the brain with LED light
See the 100,000th photo of Mars taken by NASA's groundbreaking Red Planet orbiter
( Christmas pictures of the house )
You can click the eggs if you want.
evil_little_dog that I planned to 'go out with friends' when they came up but now I'm sick (and really I am) so mom says just stay upstairs then and don't bother with them.But they blew my parents off. WOO HOO. Twice now this holiday. My parents might go to my aunt's house (where they're staying as she's actually prejudice woman's real aunt) in the morning. I'm a late riser so I get out of going (in theory) but even if I don't it'll be a short trip because the Steeler game is tomorrow and they want all visitors out (which should tell everyone what they need to know. You rate under football) And they leave monday so I am hoping this is a sign for the coming year where things that upset me are removed from my presence.
I got my official Hazbin merch today, the holiday poster and key chains (all sold out now) and the season 1 DVDs. I am happy to have that (luckily I'm too tired for my why you don't own downloads rant)
It's time for science saturday
One Protein Is a Better Predictor of Heart Disease Than Cholesterol
Powerful Anti-Cancer Drug Discovered Inside Japanese Tree Frog.
Garlic Mouthwash Could Be The New Gold Standard. Here's Why. I need to send this to my research student who is working with mouthwash
New Drug Stalls Alzheimer's Development in Breakthrough Trial
Cats meow more at men to get their attention, study suggests
A huge surprise': 1,500-year-old church found next to Zoroastrianism place of worship in Iraq
Tiny implant 'speaks' to the brain with LED light
See the 100,000th photo of Mars taken by NASA's groundbreaking Red Planet orbiter
( Christmas pictures of the house )
You can click the eggs if you want.
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Dec. 28th, 2025 01:41 pmthawreckaI haven't fully finished reading through the collection, but all I have left is longfic so I'm flagging and will probably crash out tonight. I won't say I've read every fic 5k or under in the main and madness collections, but I've read a lot of them. That said, fic recs:
( Anime canons: The Summer Hikaru Died, Karaoke Iko!, The Apothecary Diaries )
( Movie canons: Hustlers, Edge of Tomorrow, Sinners, The Nightmare Before Christmas )
( All other canons: Carmilla, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, When Destiny Brings the Demon, Soulmate Goose AU, Womens Literary RPF, Manchild (Sabrina Carpenter video)/Orpheus and Eurydice, Hamlet, French fetish terms )
( Anime canons: The Summer Hikaru Died, Karaoke Iko!, The Apothecary Diaries )
( Movie canons: Hustlers, Edge of Tomorrow, Sinners, The Nightmare Before Christmas )
( All other canons: Carmilla, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, When Destiny Brings the Demon, Soulmate Goose AU, Womens Literary RPF, Manchild (Sabrina Carpenter video)/Orpheus and Eurydice, Hamlet, French fetish terms )