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I think I'm starting to get it out of my system. Maybe. Not at all eyeing the manga volumes for a reread. This will be fine. I'm fine. We're cool.

Oversight | K-9 | Fujimaru Jin/Hizuki Ren/Kagari Yukito/Oboro Yuushirou | 1.4k words | rated T

Summary: Ren has never questioned where Oboro lives, until now.

Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.

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It'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!

weofodthignen

Despite impending Xmas, we did the fortnightly grocery run on the usual day. It wasn't too crowded.

The weather forecast has turned apocalyptic: 75 mph winds, thunder and lightning, and an appreciable risk of tornadoes. It's resumed raining. I'll take the rest with several pinches of salt.

silveradept

It'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.

( 23: Chaos )

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Disparition - The Ballad of Magnus and Axel

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251223.html

What's happening in the sky?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251223.html

princessofgeeks

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Current Mood: angry

cornerofmadness

Disappointing Birthdays not mine, Mom's. She needs to learn to say no to people (namely the couple I dislike who invited themselves to dinner and volunteered mom and her car to go pick up her BFF, the aunt to the woman of the couple) She was barely home and I had to go to dinner with them.

Where did we go? To Harrigan's a bar/restaurant with the subject line sign on the door. It does however have really good food and gives you a lot of it for low cost. At least there was that and I FINALLY got my blood thinners approved so I left dinner early to get them and my insulin.

Finally edited and posted my last Hazbin story to

fandomtrees so there's that.

I've been sulking most of the day so there's that too.

I have a holiday special for fannish 50

Betty sent me This delight : Watch ILM Recreate the Death Star Trench Run Out of Virtual Gingerbread

I'm sure I've mentioned Hazbin Hotel is a musical (I KNOW. I don't like them much so I have no explanation for this) Sam Haft (the composer) and Blake Roman (voice actor of Angel Dust and the egg bois) jokingly said if the sound track made the Billboard Top 100 Sam would come up with music and Blake would sing Christmas songs as Frank the egg boi. Well It hit the top 100 and Blake's Losing Streak went to #14. So have two songs

And the first one has Alex Brightman (who sings Beetlejuice on Broadway and voices Sir Pentious (who is first in the song) joining Blake.

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And here, have the song that enabled the above

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And Star Rect has another one out

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and the original

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Day 23's tea - Creme Brulee Black Tea: black teas, crème brulee flavoring, and marigold petals. It's not bad. I've bought this one previously. It's less caramelized sugar and cream and more amaretto

Current Mood: depressed
Current Music: American Monster

princessofgeeks

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Current Mood: impressed

dialecticdreamer

Networking and Net Growth
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 3
Word count (story only): 769

:: Cassie’s landlord gave her a rent increase which will make her homeless. Her medical needs and food allergy makes the standard dormitory living and communal meals in homeless shelters a nightmare rather than a temporary solution. Word spreads, and… Gentle fiction for the December 2025 prompt event, with great thanks to the reader who suggested it. ::

:: This is meant to be a happy ending story, but it’s running up against my body’s reaction to the winter weather, so it’s going to be three parts long. The first is, unfortunately shorter than usual, so I apologize for that. ::

Cassie Braxton refused to look up at her doctor, or the images on the computer screen. She stared instead at the immunization chart beneath a banner that read “SCHOOL starts on 9 Sept.” Beneath the chart, someone had taped several sheets of computer paper, one atop the other.

The top layer held a handwritten “6” in red permanent marker.
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Current Mood: tired

silver_chipmunk

Woke up at 7-ish which is good because

mashfanficchick called at 8-ish to say ze and RK were on their way over, no time for anything but throwing on clothing. So that's what I did.

They picked me up and we went to Dunkin' Donuts for coffee, and then to BJs. At BJs we got appetizers for bringing to Christmas. I should mention it was half raining, half snowing, so ew.

Anyway, after that we went to Shop Rite and got some more stuff that ze needed.

Then they dropped me off at home. I had breakfast at that point, and put in a Shipt order. I waited for that, and I waited for the mail because I knew from Informed Delivery that I had a Christmas card coming from Cousin Cliff.

I put the Shipt order away, and when the mail finally got here I hung the card with the others. I hope I get some more, there's tomorrow, and the days after Christmas before New Years where it's possible. But as it is I got eight.

Anyway, I took a nap, and then I took out two loads of cardboard recycling and walked around the block each time.

At 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB. Then at 8:00 I had my Al-anon meeting by Zoom.

After that I had dinner, and went to the bedroom to play solitaire until pet feeding time.

My email to the FWiB was working fine for the morning then stopped again like yesterday, showing as undeliverable. Very frustrating. Shifted to gmail again.

And tomorrow is Christmas Eve.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. RK.

3. Got the appetizers.

4. Cousin Cliff.

5. Most of the recycling is out.

6. Christmas Eve tomorrow.

Current Mood: chipper

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enchanted_jae

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Current Mood: busy
Current Music: "Winter Wonderland" ~ Meghan Trainor

weofodthignen

The dark drew in early today; it was windy, but not yet wet, when I walked out into the back garden and blóted Njǫrðr, Yngvi-Freyr, Freyja, Hnoss and Gersemi, Gerðr, Óðr, and the forgotten Vanir, with the rest of the red wine and the start of a bottle of rosé.

ranunculus

Here is a holiday recipe for you!
This fruitcake is incredibly rich and yummy. I got it from my Mom, who undoubtedly clipped it out of a newspaper or farm magazine. I note that it is up on Cooks.com these days.

California Fruitcake

3/4 Cup Flour We always used all purpose white flour.
1/4 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Soda
1 tsp Salt
3/4 Cup Brown Sugar Pack tightly into measuring cup.
1 1/2 Lbs Pitted Dates Mom used brown Medjool Dates common to Calif. I like to cut them in half.
1 1/2 to 2 Cup Dried Apricots Cut into halves or quarters. Pack tightly in measuring cup.
3 Cup Nut Meats (Walnut halves) in large pieces.
3 Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla

Mix all dry ingredients.
Add to fruit, coat fruit thoroughly with flour mix.
Beat eggs until foamy, add vanilla.
Pour Egg mix over dry ingredients & fruit. Gently stir in.
Line loaf pan (bread loaf pan) with wax paper or parchment paper.
Pack pan with mix.
Bake at 300 degrees 1 hour and 20 min.
Put small pan of water in oven with the fruitcakes while baking to help keep it moist.
When cool, wrap with tinfoil and store in a dark cool place for 4 to 6 weeks to blend flavors. Or eat immediately.
Storing give a much richer flavor. We tried it soaked in rum once, and never again. The flavors of this fruitcake are so rich that the alcohol dulled and muddied the taste.

princessofgeeks

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Current Mood: awake

thewayne

"Disgusting...Vulgar..."
-- musician Jack White on Trump's redecoration of Oval Office

"Jack White is a washed-up, has-been loser...It's apparent he's been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of 'The People's House.'"
-- WH spokesperson Steven Cheung

"'Masquerading as a real artist'? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here's my opinion: Trump is masquerading as a human being. He's masquerading as a Christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy."
-- White

I so love it when their default response is to insult people, and the people they insult are so much better at it.

EDIT: My bad. I originally posted the subject as Jack Black vs Trump, not Jack White. Bain drammage.

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Current Mood: okay
Current Music: "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" ~ Dokken

pensnest

Well. Almost there. I'm not cooking Christmas dinner this year—Bun and MRBun2B have invited us there—but tomorrow I am producing Afternoon Tea for them, plus BIL, Boy, and MrBun2B's parents. The most concise way I have found of referring to this couple is "Bun's in-laws", though they are not that at present. Beast feels there should be a word for this relationship, but I don't think there is. Am I wrong?

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Have spent an hour or so arranging holly (we have a tree with berries!), ivy, acuba japonica and white lilies (still in bud) to decorate the dining room. Very casual arrangements, but I like the effect. Also very economical, as all the greenery was culled from the garden and we only needed to buy two bunches of lilies. If any of you is worried about the cat, I can promise there will be *no* difficulty keeping her out of the dining room, when it is filled with People. She can have a nice, peaceful Christmas Day to recover.

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Final chorus engagement for the year was at the Hamlet Centre last Friday. Now that the chorus is so much younger, a large proportion of members are working during the day )we used to have more pensioners and housewives) so there were only five of us, but we duly turned up. This particular version of the Hamlet Centre is for young adults with various disabilities. In the past we've also sung at the children's version, which is usually delightful because at least one little girl always got up and danced as we sang. I wasn't expecting a dancer this time, but I was wrong! There were a couple of kids there, and the little girl danced!

With only five of us—three Leads and two Baritones—there wasn't a lot we could do in terms of Christmas repertoire, but there was a recording of various Christmas songs which we sang along with, and we did manage to throw in Silent Night, White Christmas and the Carol of the Bells acappella. I harmonised happily as the mood took me.

It's a fairly unique experience. It's always kinda bizarre and quite joyous. I didn't take part last year, for reasons of New Hip, and remembered all over again why it is a good thing to do. I think the three newcomers among us were all hooked!

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Just One Thing (24 December 2025)

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December Days 02025 #23: Chaos

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back to real life

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Up early

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Pretty Lights Are Everywhere

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Heated Rivalry Episode 2

Jack White vs Trump

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