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Stepping out of the house for a short walk around the neighborhood, I discovered that a friend had sent me a surprise gift in the mail and that between their post office and my doorstep it had been stolen. I received a gutted envelope slit down the side containing brown paper from which the gift had been shaken out. The stiff paper of the accompanying note had wedged hard enough into the envelope that after some stricken searching it was still in there; the handmade buttons and the picture were not. I assume the thief was looking for checks or more conventionally defined valuables, but it seems unspeakably cruel to let the envelope continue on its way and arrive to tell me what kindness I had been robbed of. I still have the note. The kindness itself did travel the distance. But I still want the thief to fall in front of a freight express.

Current Music: The Pack a.d., "Take"

likeadeuce

Watching as many adaptations of 'Wuthering Heights' as I can get my hands on, professional tennis, or updates on the baby monkey at the Japanese zoo that's having trouble making friends.

How are you?

sunshine304

Browsing starts on February 27th, so get ready! :D

This year, I'm not offering anything in the regular auction. I'm still posting my fic from last year and though that's almost finished, I want to concentrate on my backburner-WIPs again. Also, don't feel like offering beta or special expertise, since that one had winners vanish on me two times in a row, which is simply annoying.

So, this year it's only the Crafts Bazaar where I'm offering something:

one fanbinding of a The Untamed/MDZS fanfiction
hand-knitted loop scarves

I haven't yet tried offering fibre crafts, so we'll see how that one goes. It's from the scarves I offered last year to help cover vet costs. I got some more wool in cool colours for cheap and since the whole scarves thing at the very beginning was supposed to be for FTH (I just didn't get around to it last year), I figured I could try it this year. (I also still have scarves to sell in different colours if someone is interested. XD The money goes into the vet cost savings account.)

I've still got two pending fanbindings from last year (didn't get a finished fic to work with), so I didn't want to overdo it for FTH this year. Also, I'm really not motivated to do a random fandom again right now, so that's why I'm exclusively offering for The Untamed/MDZS. I'm sure there will be many fanbinders offering books this year again - it's super popular and basically prints money for the event XD - so there should be enough chances for people to get a book. I might be swayed to offer something to the second highest bidder as well, but that will highly depend on my mood. XD

Are any of you participating as well?

james_davis_nicoll

The Good Society Bundle featuring Good Society, the Jane Austen-inspired tabletop roleplaying game from Storybrewers Roleplaying.

Bundle of Holding: Good Society (from 2024)

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Exchanges:

fffx is having a delay, and meanwhile highadrenalineexchange is in sign-ups. As things currently stand, FFFX should reveal right at the HA deadline, which isn't optimal, and if there's another delay, it will be even less optimal. Two 10k exchanges, overlapping - oops?

And yet somehow I'm still signing up for HA! Because I want to be writing, and I know it will reliably make me write. So far this year hasn't gone great writing-wise, and I need it to get better because I always feel better when I'm writing ...

Of course it may turn out that no one else signs up who wants anything I can write, and the whole thing will be moot anyway. *g* Fingers crossed!

Comments:

Over at the Guardian Slo-Mo Rewatch, things have gone a little more quiet in the comments than I'd like, but I can't exactly complain because I've been so busy I've fallen behind myself a few times. Including right now. And I'm also a bit behind on AO3 comments - on older stuff, that is; I'm caught up on my most recent fic, including the spam comment I got today. (It's so frustrating when there's so few comments to begin with, and then one of them is spam! *grumbles*) I'm going to see if I can catch up at least on some of it tonight.

In conclusion, still in desperate need of a TARDIS. *g*

How's everyone else doing? Anyone else doing HA?

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What I read

Finished Eleven Hours to Murder and went on to Death by the Dozen, which combine the cozy antics of Cat Caliban and her posse with mysteries tending to be rooted in past historical events in and around Cincinnatti. And Cat is after all pursuing a career as a PI, rather than taking up some quirky midlife career and just stumbling over bodies. And her partner is a retired cop who used to work in Juvie, not homicide. So counter to a lot of the recurrent tropes....

Then I realised, oops, that next meeting of in-person book group appears to be next Sunday - though I have not received any further notification since exchange of emails after the last meeting - so I have been reading Anna Funder, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life (2023), which is blurbed as 'genre-bending', meaning it does things I am not that on board with, i.e. the writer's personal stuff/odyssey and b) fictionalising bits as narrative. Though I am marking it up somewhat for her realisation that her Great Hero G Orwell was A Horror. I daresay a lot of his trouble with being basically incapable in managing matters and practicalities was down to class and educational background but you'd have thought he might have cottoned on to some of that? rather than blithely eating up the whole of their butter ration? (fairly minor in the overall marital picture).

On the go

Read a bit more in I Am a Woman but still feeling a bit bogged down, even if Laura has finally had a night of sapphic passion.

Elizabeth George, A Slowly Dying Cause (Inspector Lynley Book 22) (2025). Fortunately this was a Kobo deal. Phoning it in. Also getting rather bogged down. 20% in and only just getting a sight of Lynley, let alone Havers. Includes great chunks of autobiographical reminiscence from the corpse.

Have also made some progress on volume for review.

Up next

Have apparently manifested, in place where I would never have thought to look for it, GB Stern, The Woman in the Hall (1939), which I had been fruitlessly looking for elsewhere, with a notion of maybe recommending for book group, as has recently been reissued for the first time since 1939 by British Library Women Writers.

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everykindofcraft

How have things been going crafts-wise? Anything to share?

Last month we discussed shows about crafts, but so many people have learned them from another person directly. Is that how you learned any of your crafts? And have you ever taught someone else how to do a craft?

petra

A friend was talking about dissociation in show tunes, so I got my Anthony Warlow on this morning -- Jekyll & Hyde - Confrontation, in which he sings a duet with himself as Jekyll vs. Hyde, and City of Angels - You're Nothing Without Me in which a hack writer sings a duet of loathing with his noir protagonist.

Next up, The Nausea Before The Game / Love Me For What I Am from In Trousers, the former of which does a bang-up job with "Oh, I am supposed to be having sex with the person. Um. Sure. I can. Do that! It sounds like. An. Idea. A GOOD idea, I mean. As opposed to... not my thing."

And if you need to know whether Imelda Staunton can sing, the answer is Fuck Yeah. National Theatre's Follies, "Losing My Mind," a song of obsessive love with a moment of complete executive dysfunction.

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I am not up-to-date on the great project of making musical theatre about anything. Do you have a favorite show tune about dissociation?

Current Music: Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor

muccamukk

ETA: Code Tour: 2024-12-01 to 2026-02-25. Some longed for fixes in there. Hopefully we get a code push soon.

Fun Art & Stuff!

PBSVoices: How Navajo Weavers Keep an Ancient Art Alive (Video: 10 minutes).
This short film follows two Navajo weavers whose work preserves memory, identity, and ancestral knowledge.
Very cool! I don't know anything about Navajo weaving, and would love to watch a longer project about it.

spankulert: Icon post #122.
Including The X-Files, Star Treks: Starfleet Academy, Voyager + Discovery, Fallout and more.
Really nice to see the ST:SA icons!

NationalTheatre: Take Your Seats | Announcement | National Theatre at Home (Video: 30 seconds).
On Thursday 12 March (7pm GMT), lose yourself in the hit production of The Importance of Being Earnest at our free YouTube premiere. Can’t make it? The stream will remain accessible on demand, for free, for one week only.
FINALLY! I believe it will go up on the NT's subscription streaming site after that.

The Tyee: They Lit the Path for Women Photographers.
A couple of exhibit reviews for shows I can't see. LOLSOB.

Nanaimo News Now: Nanaimo’s Maffeo Sutton Park shines during ‘Lighting a Path’ public art exhibit.
Really cool way to do an art show!

Dead Language Society: How far back in time can you understand English?
I made it to like the fourteen hundreds. I'm sure most of you can get further back.

ecc-poetry/Elisa Chavez: What You Need to Be Warned (Or: Inventory and Appraisement of Neil Gaiman, Hereafter "Decedent").
I'm going to nominate this for a poetry Hugo. I'm haunted by the line: Even at your worst, you are replaceable.

Technology Bullshit:
The Conversation: This TikTok star sharing Australian animal stories doesn't exist – it's AI Blakface.
Fantastic. Just what Indigenous communities need: computer-generated Pretendians.

Electronic Frontier Foundation: So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
Advice for how to proceed with age verifications, since that's going to be part of our fucking lives now.

The Tyee: AI Is the Elephant in the Newsroom. How Are Journalists Reacting?
Ask yourself, why are you using the tool to do this? Do I have nine other things to do, and this will make my life faster? Or am I trying not to pay a journalist?

404 Media: This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby.
You might have to get a free account to see this? Anyway, nice that people are trying to code around other people's appalling privacy violations? Even if you don't get the app (which I haven't), good info about the stupid smart glasses.

Gender Bullshit (mostly men, tbh):
Comics Beat: Multiple women accuse Spider-Gwen co-creator Jason Latour of misconduct.
This is actually a few years old, but I'd missed it at the time (or forgotten it entirely). FFS.

Maureen Ryan on BlueSky: 'll just add, as someone who's been doing investigative reporting for decades, all publications doing real journalism (i.e., not a sockpuppet or Some Guy on the Internet)--they have MANY layers of editorial & legal review.
Thread about how real journalism is supposed to work. In this section due to the inciting incident.

The Politics of Dancing: Abuse is still rife in dance music: Here's how we break the cycle.
Great essay about structural problems.

The Tyee: SOGI Is Under Attack. Educators Say It’s Never Been More Needed.
It's a municipal and school board election year in B.C., and I think we're in for a fucking fight. PROTECT OUR KIDS!

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fanart_recs

Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Ilya/Shane
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Pencil (I think)
Artist Website/Gallery: _deathofseasons_
Why this piece is awesome: Beautiful drawing of Ilya and Shane as Knights, and Ilya cradling Shane
Link: Instagram

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thelonelylake

come back and forgive me. critical role, keyleth/raishan. keyleth likes raishan best when she remembers things differently. 1k words, rated m.

( Prompts )

( The threads of new memories glisten in the early morning light as they tangle in Raishan's hair )

( the pressure of the years delivers me back into your grip | title music )

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Posted by Jordan Smith

https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2026/02/25/cool-angel-food-cake-upside-down

Two slices of angel food cake next to each other, one more sunken than the other

In the baking world, there’s no feat quite as impressive or mystifying as a lofty, cloud-like angel food cake. To successfully achieve a cake that stands tall and proud at home, every recipe will include this one strange trick: Cooling the cake upside down (usually on a wine bottle!) once it comes out of the oven.

The post Baking trials: Do I really have to cool angel food cake upside down?: I did the testing to find out! appeared first on the King Arthur Blog.

https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2026/02/25/cool-angel-food-cake-upside-down

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c_ent

(24 × ~20 minute episodes)

The Unseen takes place in the present day in a fictional Southeast Asian country and follows blogger Shen Man as she teams up with detective Jiang Li to investigate a murder that appears linked to Shen Man's sister's suicide.

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It's available on WeTV.

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c_ent

This month is almost over, so, let's hear it. *g* How did it go with your fannish creativity?

Did you manage to make a thing?

Created fanart or made vids? Wrote fic or meta? How about picspams, link collections, character mood boards, themed playlists, promo posts, or whatever else you create for fannish enjoyment?

Here's the place to share it with us! Leave a link in the comments, or elaborate on it as much as you want.

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fan_flashworks

Title: A Child's Rhyme
Fandom: Original
Rating: G
Length: 154 words
Summary: In celebration of all things black and white

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c_ent

(31 × ~19 minute episodes)

Duet of Shadows is set during the 1920s in Shanghai's French Concession and follows detective Lin Lan and forensic doctor Qin Xin (and their collegues) as they investigate five mysteries.

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It's available on iQIYI (albeit with AI subtitles, last I checked).

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dacryphilia - n., a paraphilia in which one is aroused by tears.

First reaction: um, ick. And indeed this does come up in BDSM circles, but it also ties into hurt/comfort scenarios. Coined around 2000 from Ancient Greek dákru, tear + -philia, abnormal liking (from Ancient Greek phílos, loving).

---L.