New Year's Resolutions Check In

Jan. 9th, 2026 03:09 pm
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We made it through the first week of January. This is enough to get an early glimpse of progress with New Year's resolutions. It's also malleable enough to make changes. Watch for the parallel check in post over on [community profile] goals_on_dw. Its busy season is December-January, with weekly check-in posts for January, then monthly after that.

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Birdfeeding

Jan. 9th, 2026 02:26 pm
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Today is cloudy and cool.  Last night it rained with high winds.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

What I thought was a branch blown down in the house yard is actually the contorta willow sapling that died.  I may see if I can make something from it.

EDIT 1/9/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 1/9/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 1/9/26 -- I took a few pictures around the yard.

I raked another quadrant around the firepit.

EDIT 1/9/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

How to Post Frequently on Dreamwidth

Jan. 9th, 2026 01:22 pm
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A friend asked for suggestions of ways to maintain posting momentum after [community profile] snowflake_challenge ends. There are plenty of ways to build momentum and keep up your posting frequency. Here are some ideas.

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Snowflake Challenge 5: Wishlist

Jan. 9th, 2026 12:01 pm
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Snowflake Challenge 5: Wishlist

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it and include a link to your wishlist if you feel comfortable doing so.

If you have wishes for transformative works of your own works or another's work, remember to include links to those sources in order to make it easier for people to create.

Be sure to check out other people's wishlists. Maybe someone will grant your wish! Maybe you will be inspired to grant a wish! If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

This is one of my favorite challenges. It can be difficult for a lot of people to ask for things, so remember not to put too much pressure on yourself for coming up with the perfect wishlist! Your wishes could be something you're recently interested in or something you've wanted for a long time but were afraid to ask for or anything in between. There are no limits!



Snowflake Challenge: A flatlay of a snowflake shaped shortbread cake, a mug with coffee, and a string of holiday lights on top of a rustic napkin.

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Snowflake Challenge '26, 5

Jan. 9th, 2026 12:37 pm
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Hello snowflake challenge participants and readers! Snowflake is quickly becoming one of my favorite parts of Dreamwidth. This challenge...

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it and include a link to your wishlist if you feel comfortable doing so.

1) I loveeeeee user icons omg. I love them, collect em, and would love some of any of my fav things, which for reference are (some links to screencap sites included, ones I could find them for anyway)
  • The Orville (Charly, Alara, Solana, Kaylon Primary/Secondary/Tertiary/all 3, post-transition Topa, Claire, Kelly, Teleya; Kelly/&Teleya, Kelly&/Topa, Alara/&Solana),
  • Doom Patrol (if you can make me Negative Spirit icons, I would love ya forever, I've tried and I suck at it; also Valentina, Jane/underground alters (any), Isabel Feathers, sisterhood of dada girlies),
  • Palia (Elouisa, Caleri, Tish, Subira),
  • Star Trek Online (Zarva, T'Vrell, Elisa, Tovan, Rinna, Veril, Satra), Pluribus (Zosia, Carol/Zosia),
  • Extraordinary (Jen),
  • Babylon 5 (Morden, Anna, Talia, Lyta, Neeoma, Kosh, Dureena; Kosh/Lyta, Dureena/Sarah)
  • Charmed 2018 (Macy, Maggie, Fiona, Charity)
  • Charmed 1998 (Prue, Prue/Cole)
  • Star Trek: LWD (Tendi, D'Erika, Beckett, Badgey; D'ERika&/D'Vana, Beckett/&Carol, Beckett & Tendi)
2) I'd love some more friends who are into the Orville stuff I mentioned, or any Orville femslash, female characters, or any Orville "dead dove"/darkfic enjoyers! I have very few people to talk about this with.

3) Comments on my fanfic--I write largely for the aforementioned things, and some other stuff too. I'm very rarepair centric, female character centric, femslash centric, minor character centric, and therefore I don't get a lot of comments :p

4) More personal sites to check out! Do you have a website or read the personal website of anyone cool? Drop it here below! And I have one too, let me know if you'd like to exchange buttons.

Thanks for readinggg!! :)

Things I Forget

Jan. 9th, 2026 10:41 am
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Things I Forget.
A Christmas tree. Holiday lights. Summers outdoors.
Dinners out or cooking when not alone. Picking up groceries. The casual intimacy of doing those things.
Being held, being free to share and enjoying being shared with, sleeping beside someone and waking beside someone.
All the things that let me feel confident in not being alone; being not abandoned.
Being there for someone and knowing they're there for me; banter play; making music with someone else.
Deep discussions; talking about movies or books that are common experiences for all involved.
Being loved, that love that's so much more than friendship; knowing my back is safe.
I can forget these things, often out of a need for survival as a person alone; unwanted; unneeded; an extraneous appendage to the world.
And one day, one blessed day, I might be able to forget you too; all you did; the wake where you left me to deal with your mess you made of my home and my heart; your tornadic path.
And then, so wondrous then, a time I dream of but with no hope of ever reaching, I can be at peace.
(note: I may turn this into a song -- some ideas for it are already percolating in my brain)

Jan 9th only - ebook sale

Jan. 9th, 2026 09:15 am
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https://earlybirdbooks.com/deals/1000-ebook-sale

Last week, [personal profile] thewayne pointed out that Early Bird Books has these big sales every Friday. I hadn't noticed; days of the week barely register for me anymore. So, it's worth subscribing to their newsletter for early notification, especially if my post comes late in the day for you.

 

Head Like a Hole

Jan. 9th, 2026 09:13 am
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I finished playing Grime recently, and really enjoyed it. Grime's "catch" is that you are a being with a sort of black hole for a head, and your parry mechanic can sometimes become "absorb." That is, you siphon health away from enemies to yourself, and can heal while destroying them. I thought the game was beautifully designed, though the controls felt a little clunky and slow. But I have that gripe every time something isn't as snappy as Hollow Knight, and coming off playing Silksong, where Hornet's movement is extremely fast and responsive, Grime felt like it dragged horribly. I got used to it, however, and once I got the timing of the parry and absorb down, things improved significantly.

Grime has some intense platforming. Most of the really difficult stuff is optional - that is, you can complete the story and the game without certain bosses or platforming segments, but if you do, the game rewards your efforts with good upgrades and expanded abilities. One of the best weapons for a strength focused build is at the end of it's very own Path of Pain, whose pain is only relieved by the fact that there are several respawn points within the area, and dying doesn't knock you all the way back to the beginning.

My main complaint is that some abilities seem inconsistent. Sometimes I had a double air dash, sometimes I didn't. Double jump doesn't work *after* an air dash, but you can break it up into jump-dash-jump. Sometimes double jump seemed to work after pulling yourself towards an object, but at others it didn't. This may all be on me, rather than an actual game issue, but I have never claimed to be an elite gamer. I'm just very persistent.

There is a NG+ that I'm not exploring right now, but may in the future. I wanted to play Hades 2 and found that some of the controls are inverted between the two games, so I'd best play just one or the other. Grime's dash ability is on the same button as Hades' "cast," for example. I played a few hours of Hades last night and finally started remapping my brain to the new controls. Hades 2 is a delight if you liked the first game - I loved it. I finally got to the point of "okay, one more run before I shut down and go to bed," and of course I had my best run yet, clearing the first world and getting about halfway into the second one. It also has another pettable dog, as well as a frog you can talk to. The frog doesn't say anything back except "ribbit," but he's a cute little guy. Maybe he's a toad, I don't know. I like toads, too.

Hades 2 won a Steam award for "best on Steam Deck," so I'll probably load it onto mine. Grime ran decently on the Deck, but it really taxed the battery and got the unit hot. I found it was best to play while the Deck was plugged in if I didn't want to absolutely exhaust my battery.

Oh yeah, and Melinoe addresses the voiceover guy, calling him "Homer," so now we know.

Friday Five - Join Hands

Jan. 9th, 2026 09:02 am
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1. Do you have a favourite cause that you support?
I support several different things in different ways, but I go out of my way with two - Keep Clay Beautiful and Rails To Trails.

2. If so, how do you support it?
Keep Clay Beautiful is pretty simple. I pick up trash. So much trash. Every month, Fox and I get out to the highway and pick up garbage all along a one-mile stretch, sometimes going so far as to haul off things like tires, doors, and truck grills. We can count on people driving by beeping and giving a thumbs up. Rails To Trails is a national org, so I usually "just" do a yearly donation, but recently I was part of an email/letter writing campaign to secure funding for a mixed use trail near me. They haven't started it yet, but the money got earmarked and the trail will run from Gold Head all the way into Jacksonville.

3. Have you been an active member of an organization (attending meetings, volunteering, etc)?
I'm not really a "go to meetings" type. If you're going to go out and do something, you can count on me to help, but I dislike meetings. I guess you could say I'm active in the above two things, and I'm also an active member of CoCoRaHas, which is a group that collects rain gauge data. I've been reporting my daily rainfall almost every day since 2015. Citizen science!
Also, if I never see or hear of Roberts Rules of Order again it will be too soon.

4. Have you ever led any group?
Nope.

5. If so, how was your experience with it?
OR: 5. If not, why, is it a conscious choice, of lack of opportunity?

I have never wanted to lead a group. I don't like being in leadership positions, I don't want to manage people. I prefer being allowed to go do my own thing - you can trust me to self-manage and I'm happier working by myself. Having to deal with other people usually just annoys me and stresses me out.

Animal Communication

Jan. 9th, 2026 02:28 am
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Dogs Build Their Vocabularies Like Toddlers

Basket the Border collie seems to have a way with words. The 7-year-old dog, who resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, knows the names of at least 150 toys — “froggy,” “crayon box” and “Pop-Tart,” among them — and can retrieve them on command.

The number is average. Most dogs can learn 100-200 words, typically 150-160. However, a majority of those are verbs like "sit" and "fetch." Nouns are less common, but most dogs learn a bunch of things like "food" and "leash." Having a vocabulary that is mostly nouns is uncommon.

Why a collie? Because people used to teach them the names of the sheep. "All in" is useful, but "Cut Molly" (out of the herd) is even more so.

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Follow Friday 1-9-26: Led Zeppelin

Jan. 9th, 2026 12:05 am
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Today's theme is Led Zeppelin.


[community profile] fanmix_monthly  -- Mixtapes & Fanmixes
A fanmix is a compilation of songs inspired by a fannish source.
[Active with multiple posts in January.]

[community profile] landoftheiceandsnow  -- We Come From The Land of Ice and Snow
Led Zeppelin fanfiction archive.
[Active with one post in December.]

[community profile] tfc_musicianships  -- We Jammin'. We Are The Underground
Musicians, engineers, and others of the scene.
[Active with one post in January.]

[community profile] thefreaksclub  -- TFC // The Anti-Thesis Social Network
Everything related to darker alternative subcutlures. Discussion on books, the occult, music, & more.
[Active with multiple posts in January.]

Poem: "The Two Cottages"

Jan. 8th, 2026 10:04 pm
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This poem came out of the October 7, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from [personal profile] siliconshaman and [personal profile] chanter1944. It also fills the "Black / Orange" square in my 10-1-25 card for the Fall Festival Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred. It belongs to the series Practical Magics.

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Daily Check-In

Jan. 8th, 2026 10:40 pm
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Thursday, January 8, to midnight on Friday, January 9 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34060 Daily check-in poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 21

How are you doing?

I am OK
12 (60.0%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
7 (35.0%)

I could use some help
1 (5.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
10 (47.6%)

One other person
7 (33.3%)

More than one other person
4 (19.0%)



Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Shades of the Twilight Zone...

Jan. 8th, 2026 08:07 pm
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Twenty years ago, I wrote a short challenge story -- The Honor of Friendship. I named one of the OCs "Lilianna" -- the daughter of one of Jim Ellison's men who died in Peru.

Today I'm writing a note for Aly's profile on AO3; we so seldom get word of "what happened to" the people behind our fave stories, and I thought other fans might like to know. Aly was a big promoter of Moonridge Zoo, which Garett donated to, and, to a lesser extent, the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, which Richard donated to. But I had forgotten the name of the charity Richard was connected to, so I went searching. Found it, obviously, but while I was searching, I discovered that Richard's wife is (or was; I didn't check dates) named "Liliana."

*high-pitched spooky voice* Doo-doo, doo-doo; doo-doo, doo-doo...

 
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Another Plan, Another Opportunity
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1115
[Monday, May 11, 2020, about seven-thirty a.m.]]


:: Aidan and Ed have a very grim conversation. Vic wakes early, and the trio begin planning in earnest. Part of the Edison’s Mirror universe. ::




A soft, breathy squeak drew both Aidan and Ed’s attention to Vic, sleeping on the pallet in front of the yellow sofa. Ed scrambled off the green sofa and hurried to press his hands to Vic’s shoulder and forearm. Vic swallowed, licking his lips, then repeated both motions. “Did somebody force feed me tea made from dirty socks?” he grumbled weakly.

“I can make you some better tea,” Aidan answered, chuckling, “but no. That’s not a side effect of my work, either. Perhaps you should examine your recent diet?”
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Hi there!

Jan. 8th, 2026 07:12 pm
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I'm not sure what to call my recurring post, now that it's no longer weekly, but this is my first update post of the year. My January is going well so far and I'm pleased with my goal list for the year, both in content and in format. My holidays were also really good, with lots of family time and a bit of time for relaxing.

Being back to work after the holidays has gone okay so far, with no disasters yet. This Saturday, we have our work "Christmas" party, all it is after the holiday this year. It's usually a fun time and I have a new dress that I'm excited to wear. I'm also doing lunch with my good friend tomorrow, the first time this year and this first time since the holidays, so that will be very nice.

This week, I've been reading my book and working on my first puzzle of the year. Over the holiday, I finished my surprise Christmas book and I built a booknook kit I was given. I'd like to get out for a walk and possibly some skating this weekend, but we'll see how that goes.

I hope everyone had a good holiday and is staying safe! This post has been a bit short, but I'll try to make the next one longer. Take care, everyone!
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Thanks to a donation from [personal profile] fuzzyred, there are 10 new verses in "An Inkling of Things to Come."  What if it rained diamonds for a week?  

Community Thursdays

Jan. 8th, 2026 01:08 pm
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This year I'm doing Community Thursdays. Some of my activity will involve maintaining communities I run, and my favorites. Some will involve checking my list of subscriptions and posting in lower-traffic ones. Today I have interacted with the following communities...


Posted 10 Products to Help You Keep Your 2026 New Year’s Resolutions at [community profile] goals_on_dw.

Posted "Reading Challenges" on [community profile] 25book_pwd.

Posted "Reading Challenges" on [community profile] 50books_poc.

Commented under 01/07/26 on [community profile] abc_onceupon.

Commented under Hi There by [personal profile] dr_zook on [community profile] friending_memes.
-- and under the comment thread by [personal profile] tamena.
-- and under the comment thread by [personal profile] forestofdreams.
-- and under the comment thread for [personal profile] autumninpluto.
-- and under the comment thread for [personal profile] adoptedwriter.

Commented under "Love Note to Quadrants" on [community profile] 100quadrantedships.

Commented under "Love Note To The Sedoretu" in [community profile] 40sedoretu.

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