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james

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fanart_recs

Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: linettesmth on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Aaaand, it's the inevitable Klimt kiss portrait of Ilya and Shane, and very nicely done, too! I like the echoes of their team uniform colours in their robes.
Link: Ilya and Shane

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agonyaunt

Dear Carolyn: I’m a year out from chemo and still officially cancer-free. Also, my hair is back to normal — yay. To celebrate, I had it dyed a beautiful violet shade, my favorite color.

Now my dad is giving me so much grief about it. He keeps asking why I need everyone to notice me and ask about my cancer. I don’t care if anyone notices my hair; I did it for me. The color makes me smile every time I look in the mirror. And if anyone does mention the color, I tell them I did it because I like the color purple. I never mention cancer at all. Why would I want to talk about that? I feel good, I can run and hike again, and I want to focus on things like that.

My dad refuses to accept my explanation, because he believes everyone who does anything he considers to be out of the ordinary does it “to get attention” or to “freak people out.” I can’t seem to convince him how stupid that is, that people do things because they want to and it makes them happy.

Can you think of a way to get through to him? I’m really tired of having to listen to him criticize my hair every time he sees me.

— Celebrating

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agonyaunt

Dear Miss Manners: I have long been troubled by the carol “We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” specifically the intimation that if we don’t give the uninvited guests their figgy pudding, they “won’t go.”

How are we to address this request? I don’t want to be ungrateful for their wishes, but think that their insistence is a bit beyond what is considered polite and reasonable. Can you advise how to proceed?

What was that? Miss Manners couldn’t quite hear you over the ruckus made by the geese a-laying, the calling birds, the French hens and the turtledoves. The partridge, fortunately, appears to have passed out under the pear tree.

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seraphikiss

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Current Mood: nervous
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linky

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Current Music: Want You Back Again

shewhomust

It is Christmas Eve, and this morning I submitted my tax return. That's the big one.

The milkman left five pints this morning, which will have to last us until Monday morning. We have succeeded in fitting it into the fridge.

I (we, in fact) have stripped the bed, and there is washing in the machine. I have placed an order with Ocado for just before the New Year (there's plenty of time to edit the order, but the delivery slot is reserved).

durham_rambler went out this morning to collect his prescription and - above and beyond the call of duty - managed to snag a red cabbage (I'd been unsuccessful at both Sainsbury's and Aldi).

Yesterday we went to lunch with J: which was fun, but it's just the two of us now until D. and

valydiarosada arrive for the New Year.

So we are ready for whatever the next few days may bring.

Season's greetings, everyone!

sineala

What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing. Working on it.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( 1776 #2, Marvel Winter Break Special 2025 #1, Will of Doom #1, X-Vengers #3 )

What I'm Reading Next

I woke up this morning to find that

lysimache had gifted me an ebook entitled Here Comes the Pizzer: The Found Poetry of Baseball Broadcasts, by Eric Poulin, so I guess that's what we'll be doing dramatic readings of aloud for Christmas Eve. While eating pizza.

The title is a reference to this extremely classic Red Sox broadcast moment. Here comes the pizza.

(We usually read the Christmas story in Greek, Latin, or Old English for Christmas Eve but we can probably make some time for this.)

Current Mood: okay

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books

Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 8 by SUOL

The story is approaching the conclusion. Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes

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musesfool

Ganache: made!
Cupcakes: frosted!
Bags: packed!
Garbage: taken out!
Dishwasher: running!
Me: showered, dressed, and waiting for my ride!

Whew!

It is all done and packed and only the last anxiety-inducing part - waiting for the car and schlepping everything down to the car - is left.

There were ZERO frosting explosions this year, though I did need to re-whip the strawberry buttercream, so I left it for last. There are still a bunch of stuff in the sink to be washed on Friday, but all the containers that...contained frosting are in the dishwasher, so they won't be all gross upon my return.

I did miscount and make one extra package of cupcakes, so I just addressed it to Baby Miss L - I'm sure her parents will love that. 😉 Also, the last gift I ordered for her - very late - is allegedly going to be delivered today! It's the 30 second dance party button! Which looks so fun and since I know Baby Miss L loves a dance party, it seemed like fate that I should get it for her.

I have only been skimming ye olde flist, but once I'm back home on Friday, all obligations are met and the next week is mine to do with as I will, so I will try to be more present here.

Merry Christmas to those who are celebrating! Happy Yuletide to those of you participating! And happy hump day to everyone else! See you on the flip side!

( 6-day plan, day 6 )

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Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: the dishwasher on "heavy" mode

poliphilo

Picture Diary 113

1. Great-great-great-grandpapa

2. Dancers

3. Untitled

4. Sitting on the dock of the bay

5. The young king

6. Twilight

elisi

ETA: Meant to add this bit from A Christmas Carol. It's from the Ghost of Christmas Present, and one of the parts that's never really included in any adaptation, but I love it.

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celli

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lauradi7dw

NPR, WUMB, WERS, and others are putting out or preparing end of year best song lists (or maybe favorite songs?). I listen to the radio a lot, mostly those and sometimes 92.5 The River (what does that mean?) which seems to be a franchise of some sort, because there is a different version in western Mass that still calls itself The River. I have heard a lot of songs this year that I like, but I don't know most of the artists or titles because the DJs don't tell me often enough, and when they do I don't have pen and paper at the ready. I know my favorite Kpop songs of 2025, although almost all of them are in English. Should that count?
It was a big Kpop Demon Hunters year for a lot of the world. Golden was my head song for months, but I like a lot of the other songs as well.
A soundtrack list starts here
https://youtu.be/yebNIHKAC4A?si=8lCWbvXx-_b_jLsY
There was a short tiktok reposted on twitter of a cute little kid singing it but I can't figure out how to link it.
Does anybody need the movie screenplay? Here it is:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26438527-kpop-demon-hunters-read-the-screenplay-2/#document/p1

J-Hope and GloRilla Killin' it Girl (not my favorite of J-Hope's releases this year, but it stuck most in my head).

Watch on YouTube

Stray Kids Do it

Watch on YouTube

The Do It challenge dance performed by a Hamilton cast
https://youtube.com/shorts/ytBg-BJNQPo?si=efbis9e5_g6cQQ-5

WERS played Billie Eilish's "Birds of a Feather" a lot this year. Why is the group name just her name (Eilish is her middle name) when her brother Fineas is part of every project? Wouldn't Billie & Fineas made more sense?
I prefer the cover by Kim Seungmin

Watch on YouTube

Here's one that's not in English (except I only know the English title)
Hwasa Good Goodbye

Watch on YouTube

There isn't a standardized challenge dance for it, but people have posted little skits of themselves to the music, often including the sort of hand-wavy part at about 2:20.

But here's Hwasa singing in English, for Christmas
https://youtube.com/shorts/prgRbO-xJ8g?si=_gO574amExfd--Yb

This is K but not pop and it's not 2025, but almost (early December 2024). I have watched it a lot this fall. I think of it as the Santa's Helpers pungmul group

Watch on YouTube

cosmolinguist

I wrote and sent (luckily could retrieve in time!!) an email to them from my erik@ address, rather than the Gmail address I've had since 2004 and use for bank stuff and parent stuff and... that's about it now.

I have never even started to do such a thing before, I don't know what happened here! I'm feeling fine today, so for my brain to be so addled is very weird!

Luckily (??), emails sent from the erik@ account from my phone often bring up an error message that means I have to fiddle around a bit to get them sent, and when that happened this time my blood ran cold and I quickly deleted the email altogether. It never got from "outbox" to "sent" so that should be okay!

But sheesh what a near miss!

It was an email about my birthday present too so very obviously from me, I couldn't say it was just spam or something.

mrs_sweetpeach

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Current Location: My home office
Crossposts: https://mrs-sweetpeach.insanejournal.com/800998.html

oracne

1. Work load at dayjob has been low this week; we got out at noon yesterday, and today I can log off at 12:30 pm. We are then off through January 2 for winter break (yay, academia). I had a couple of small things I was able to resolve this morning, go me!

2. I did not send out Xmas cards this year, but I appreciate every one I received. I hope to be back to it next year.

3. I am thawing out a chuck roast to cook later this week, probably Friday. My tamarind-sauce-flavored vegetable soup from Sunday, which includes silken tofu, grape tomatoes, carrot, potato, and green beans, is very delicious, especially with a couple tablespoons of congee dumped in. Last night, I finished off my bag of post-surgery chicken nuggets and baked sliced golden potatoes at 425 degrees F with olive oil and salt.

4. I have been listening to a ton of Xmas music, so at least I am somewhat in the holiday spirit. I did not have energy to pull out my ornament tree and dress it up, but we have a smaller one downstairs so I moved it from the corner onto the dining room table--the ornaments were still on it from last year! We have some cards propped around the base, and I have more on the little desk in the guest room. I didn't use my usual space in the back room because it would block my DVD screen, which I need for the Blake's 7 watchalong and possibly even some Shakespeare.

5. I have tentative plans for Xmas afternoon with local friends. I want to get started on my fancy wooden turtle puzzle (which I have had for several years), and also to do some mending of clothing. I especially want to try needle-felting a hole in a very old black cashmere cardigan (commercially knitted); I was wearing it when I broke my elbow years ago, so couldn't wash it for weeks, and it got a moth hole under one arm before I was healed up. I am not sure if the hole is too big for felting. We shall see. I have washed it after its long storage!

poliphilo

The sunshine is deceptive. Step outside and there's a biting breeze and you step back inside pretty smartish. Does it feel a lot like Christmas? Not where I'm sitting it don't.

Sej was playing a game last night into which he co-opted me. We were in a rescue helicopter being chased by a ghost. He phoned whoever it was we were rescuing. "The ghost is coming, but don't worry; we are on our way." Mike broke it down for me. The helicopter comes from Peppa Pig, where it is piloted by the omnicompetent Miss Rabbit (Sej's favourite character) and the ghost from his recent experience of Halloween. Sej loves Peppa Pig; I watched some episodes with him at breakfast time and hated it- for the very reason he eats it up- because it's so mundane. Little kids adore the mundane because to them it's all new and exciting and they're on a mission to make sense of the world. When I was his age my favourite TV show was a thing called The Woodentops which featured a boring family of dolls doing bone-achingly boring things- and preferred it to shows like Andy Pandy and The Flowerpot Men- which had a touch of the fantastical. By the same token Sej would rather watch Peppa than In The Night Garden- which is weird and wonderful and representative of what adults think the child should want. Older children love magic, but it's an acquired taste. For the toddler it's sufficiently magical that s/he has teeth to brush and hair to comb....

Sej and his parents have gone now. The sun is setting. By this time tomorrow we should be winding up the Christmas carry-on at the Meeting House.

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