This poem came out of the January 2, 2024 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "When You're Smiling" square in my 1-1-24 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. It belongs to the Foster Fiasco thread in the Polychrome Heroics series.
With thanks to someone kind over at holiday_wishes! I've needed an icon of these two for ages, and now I finally have one. :) Now I need to finish all the percolating stories I have going involving them...
Dreamwidth offers a place to post pretty much whatever people want to share. However, a lot of creators put their stories, webcomics, etc. on some other platform and only share links on Dreamwidth. The same holds true for the recommendation communities for fiction and other topics: most rely on links that lead offsite. The problem with this is that more and more platforms are closing to nonmembers, becoming unavailable in some parts of the world, incompatible with some software or hardware, suffering service outages -- or shutting down entirely like Cohost did. That makes offsite links less useful than in the past, because there's no telling who can see the content or not. When creators post the full content on Dreamwidth in an open blog, however, anyone already using Dreamwidth can access that content. (Creators still have the option of using access lists and filters if they want to serve a more specific audience.) Furthermore, copying the material to multiple platforms increases the chance of more people seeing it and of it surviving if one platform collapses. We've lost enough fanwork archives already.
This post provides a place to list communities and individual blogs where people post full content. It will help readers find new sources to enjoy, and creators find new audience members. It supports goals related to blogging, reading, writing, networking, Dreamwidth, and so on. It's a bit like Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, except not limited in time and you can echo your work on other platforms in addition to this one. MOAR GOODEEZ for everyone! \o/
You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2026 and reply with a comment. Below the list of sample full-content journals is a short form for listing what you have chosen. You can make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Full Content on Dreamwidth challenge in goals_on_dw" or similar. Then make a tag for it like "Full Content" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Writing, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fanfic, Webcomics, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.
COOKING WITH LOVE  ||  A RODY LAMOREE/VINCENT CHARBONNEAU PLAYLIST  || ► LISTEN
" i've been told I don't cook with love – which is a sentimental and meaningless review in the culinary world. i'm a professional chef, not a parent making a meal for their kid. but i think i understood what they meant when you walked in. "
PSYCH I wrote a new chapter. The first new chapter of Living With Autobots in uuuuuh. Six years or something. >>
This one is not quite as light-hearted as previous Interludes, given where it falls in the story. I tried though. And yes, 'The Creature' is a direct reference to Frankenstein. Question is, will Grimlock fare better than Frankenstein's Creature?
It’s the liminal days. I’m catching up on holiday correspondence and visits, restarting non-holiday things that got dropped (e.g. going to the gym), and eating a lot of delicious leftovers and improvised meals.
Sang and I watched Carol, and keep meaning to rewatch The Lion in Winter but also keep diverting or downgrading, twice to sample the gay Hallmark Christmas movies (The HolidaySitter and Friends and Family Christmas so far), which are better than anticipated.
I’m working on a fic and a risograph print (they are not related to each other). There are many other things– piano, getting more flexible, drawing– that I’d like to practice steadily, but haven’t yet found where to work them in. I also browse rescue dogs on the internet.
I’m reading Philip Pullman’s The Rose Field and deeply happy that it’s 650 pages long so I get to read it for a long time. Conversely, all my favorite books of 2025 are picture books.
2025 has been a lot. My father died in February and was buried in a military cemetery; we also held a public memorial service for him in June. I retired from the university in September. Sang and I traveled to Japan for several weeks after that. My youngest aunt, energetic and vivacious as always in June, was taken down by pancreatic cancer and died on Thanksgiving. A less eventful 2026 would be just fine. I could find a lot of joys in homebody life with outdoor walks.
Fandom: snowflake_challenge: Running a multi-fandom prompt every other day for all of January. (Yours truly isn't modding this year around, but will hopefully still participate.)
cultivativity: This community is organized as a series of modules designed to help build a practice to nurture our creative selves.
beagoldfish: This is an event for small and non-traditional fanworks. We want to remind you to appreciate the little things, be kind, be curious, enjoy generously, and above all, 'be a goldfish.' Runs over January and Feburary 2026.
Science The Tyee: Charting a Course Through Bears’ Eyes. Stewards from the Heiltsuk First Nation are using computational models and Indigenous knowledge to protect bears’ access to salmon.
I realized I never got around to promoting my own fandomtrees, so here it is. I'm asking for anything other than icons (fic, art, podfic, etc), and the fandoms I'm asking for are: The Great Mouse Detective, Sherlock Holmes (both Granada and the Rathbone films), Our Flag Means Death, Dead Boy Detectives, Doctor Who, and podfic for any fandom I've written for.
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Sunday, December 28, to midnight on Monday, December 29 (8pm Eastern Time).
I have to be honest: in a way I will be relieved once my 365 project ends in a month or so. It has been interesting, but I don't feel I want to keep on trying to find a photo to post every single day. I'm certainly not going to stop posting them altogether, though! Anyway, here is some debris washed up against Bewdley Bridge. Most of the older bridges along the Severn get this, at least until someone can be bothered to go and clear it! And then the cycle starts again... :P
This is how the Freeport Visibility Brigade in Maine spent their Christmas
Hi, all, and happy Sunday!
I hope you’ve been enjoying a holiday break of some kind. I’m on a plane with Mj, headed for New York to see family—this after a lovely week in Los Angeles with my in-laws. I’m getting some real R&R, in other words, and hope you are, too.
While the main newsletter will remain “dark” for one more week, I promised the good news would keep coming, so here it is! This list is a wee bit shorter than normal because so many publications are off for the holidays, but there’s still a huge amount of good stuff below. Read it, savor it, and share it—it’s only happened because of people like you!
Thank you for all you did in 2025 to make a difference. I look forward to a better 2026, with more wins than ever because of your hard work.
The Supreme Court ruled against Trump and said he did not have legal authority to deploy the National Guard in Chicago to protect federal immigration agents.
An Ohio town has placed a moratorium on data center construction over concerns about impacts on residents’ air and water quality — the second Ohio community to do so this year.
Trump’s own pollster released a new poll that showed Republicans are heading towards a blowout in the 2026 midterms.
A coalition of Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent Trump’s administration from defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying the administration’s actions violate the constitution’s principle of separation of powers.
Maryland is advancing its mid-decade redistricting push, with its new redistricting commission now soliciting new congressional map proposals from the public.
A young North Carolina woman named Fatima Velazquez-Antonio, who was kidnapped at a workplace raid and detained by Border Patrol for more than a month, was finally released and returned home to North Carolina right before Christmas. Local activists worked so hard to make sure this happened. Hats off to them!
Mercedes-Benz USA and its parent company will pay $149.6 million to settle allegations that the company modified its cars to pass state emissions tests even though the vehicles far exceeded legal limits for nitrogen oxides.
The 9th Circuit Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling from a conservative judge that would have allowed teachers to forcibly out trans students to their parents.
The multi-faith group Interfaith Alliance released a POWERFUL 30-second video ad that contrasts ICE’s violent raids against “the holy season’s religious calling to ‘love thy neighbor.’” So good.
We collectively organized three of the five largest protests in American history in 2025. You can check it on Wikipedia.
A global hunger monitor said Gaza is no longer in a famine after access for humanitarian and commercial food deliveries improved following the fragile October 10 ceasefire agreement.
Three Los Angeles institutions have teamed up to launch a response to federal immigration raids in the nation’s second-largest city, projecting illuminated images of everyday LA residents on the facades of important buildings in support of the thousands of community members who have been detained this year.
A federal judge canceled the trial of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was wrongly deported, and scheduled a hearing on whether the prosecution is being vindictive in pursuing a human smuggling case against him.
U.S. battery storage deployment has skyrocketed over the past five years, and that progress isn’t stopping anytime soon. Over the next five years, the country will build nearly 67 gigawatts’ worth of new utility-scale batteries.
A nativity scene outside Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas depicted Mary, Joseph, and Jesus as modern-day immigrants behind a barbed wire fence.
In other CA legislative news, the state’s minimum wage will increase by 40 cents an hour to $16.90 starting Jan. 1. Another law will require employers to pay full credit card tips by the next payday. A ban on cat declawing and a proper ban on plastic bags at the checkout will also go into effect. Another bill will cap out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35 for a month’s supply for large insurers. There are quite a few other great laws going into effect next week—read about them here.
Watch This! 👀
Rachel Maddow with some heartening words as we near 2026.
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This poem is spillover from the July 1, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from fuzzyred, see_also_friend, and wyld_dandelyon. It also fills the "Put me down!" square in my 7-1-25 card for the Western Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. It belongs to the Fortressa thread in the Polychrome Heroics series.
3 for the Memories' 2025 session will be open for posts on January 3, 2026 and will run for 3 weeks until January 24. Event participation is as follows:
1) Three photos only per person during each annual session. Members are encouraged to discuss the reason for their choices.
2) Photos can be hosted at Dreamwidth or elsewhere, and should not be larger than 800 px width or height.
3) All three photos should be in the same post. Cut tags should be placed after the first photo.
3 for the Memories is not a competition, and entries are not being judged. Rather, participants are encouraged to share photos they took in 2025 that they find meaningful in some way or which represent how they experienced the year.
Hidden in the ocean’s twilight zone, mid-sized fish are quietly powering the food web from below.
Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with mid-sized fish such as the bigscale pomfret, which live deep during the day and rise at night to feed, linking deep and surface food webs. Using satellite tags, researchers tracked these hard-to-study fish for the first time. Their movements shift with water clarity, potentially altering entire ocean food chains.
For every thing like this that scientists discover, many more critical connections remain unknown to modern science -- and that's why changing "one little thing" in an ecosystem often has bigger, unexpected impacts elsewhere.
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