Daily Check-In
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fandom_checkinThis 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).
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.
Poll #34015 Daily check-in poll
This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 26
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 26
How are you doing?
I am OK
17 (65.4%)
I am not OK, but don't need help right now
9 (34.6%)
I could use some help
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans live with you?
I am living single
9 (34.6%)
One other person
12 (46.2%)
More than one other person
5 (19.2%)
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.
Three for the Memories Coming Back Next Month!
Dec. 28th, 2025 05:30 pmyourlibrarian posting in common_nature
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.
Questions? Visit the announcement post at
threeforthememories
Picspam/Quiz: Hands
Dec. 28th, 2025 10:50 pmtrobadora posting in sid_guardianTwo years ago, I did a picspam/quiz about shoes and ever since then I've been meaning to do one for hands as well. There are so many striking close-ups, so many iconic moments - but also many not so easily recognised. And some great visual parallels/motifs. So let's have some fun with this!
The challenge: identify who's being depicted, and which scene it is!
Hard mode: without looking at the comments first. :p
Sometimes it's easy to tell who it is, but not necessarily when; sometimes if you know who, you know what scene it has to be. Please post your guesses in the comments!
Without further ado (as usual, click for full size): ( 44 pics to identify! )
I'll post the solution next weekend. Good luck, everyone! Looking forward to some guesses! Or if you're not playing, enjoy the picspam! :)
The challenge: identify who's being depicted, and which scene it is!
Hard mode: without looking at the comments first. :p
Sometimes it's easy to tell who it is, but not necessarily when; sometimes if you know who, you know what scene it has to be. Please post your guesses in the comments!
Without further ado (as usual, click for full size): ( 44 pics to identify! )
I'll post the solution next weekend. Good luck, everyone! Looking forward to some guesses! Or if you're not playing, enjoy the picspam! :)
[ SECRET POST #6932 ]
Dec. 28th, 2025 03:51 pmcase posting in fandomsecrets⌈ Secret Post #6932 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #990.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Weird feeling
Dec. 28th, 2025 08:28 pmcosmolinguistI've had a week and a day off and I have slept so much!!
Despite last night itself not being great for sleep, I am starting to wonder if I have actually caught up on sleep.
Because a strange feeling has overcome me this evening and I think it's...boredom? I am used to keeping myself busy after dinner doing chores, reading, or just trying not to go to sleep until bedtime.
But now I've done enough stuff for the day -- went to the gym with angelofthenorth, had a shower, fetched the now-empty recycling bin and put it back where it belongs, walked Teddy, put groceries away when they arrived -- and I'm not that tired.
Is...is this when people do hobbies??
10 out of 20 - OZ (HBO) - Martin Querns, Tim McManus, Sean Murphy - Rehearsals on the Road
Dec. 28th, 2025 02:22 pmcmk418 posting in sweetandshortTitle: Rehearsals on the Road
Fandom: OZ (HBO)
Characters: Martin Querns, Tim McManus, Sean Murphy
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 300
Prompt: Mistletoe
Summary: When Querns' car is in the shop, he has to ride with some of his staff. It may be a decision he comes to regret.
( Rehearsals on the Road )
Fandom: OZ (HBO)
Characters: Martin Querns, Tim McManus, Sean Murphy
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 300
Prompt: Mistletoe
Summary: When Querns' car is in the shop, he has to ride with some of his staff. It may be a decision he comes to regret.
( Rehearsals on the Road )
New K-9 fic: Making choices (Ren/Oboro/Fujimaru/Kagari)
Dec. 28th, 2025 07:59 pmvriddyNo birb here.
Making choices | K-9 | Fujimaru Jin/Hizuki Ren/Kagari Yukito/Oboro Yuushirou | 1.6k words | rated T
Summary: Had Kagari drawn his sword, it wouldn't have been so bad. But Fujimaru was taken down too early to say the word, and so Kagari didn't.
Read it on Dreamwidth on AO3.
Making choices | K-9 | Fujimaru Jin/Hizuki Ren/Kagari Yukito/Oboro Yuushirou | 1.6k words | rated T
Summary: Had Kagari drawn his sword, it wouldn't have been so bad. But Fujimaru was taken down too early to say the word, and so Kagari didn't.
Read it on Dreamwidth on AO3.
{10 out of 20]: Poirot: Gen
Dec. 28th, 2025 02:48 pmstonepicnicking_okapi posting in sweetandshortTitle: That cup
Fandom: Poirot
Rating: Gen
Length: 300
Prompt: singing Christmas carols
Summary: Poirot is aggrieved by Hastings' cup.
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Fandom: Poirot
Rating: Gen
Length: 300
Prompt: singing Christmas carols
Summary: Poirot is aggrieved by Hastings' cup.
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Culinary
Dec. 28th, 2025 06:47 pmoursinLast week's bread held out adequately.
On Wednesday I made Angel Biscuit dough (this year I had active dried yeast) which was enough to provide for Christmas, Boxing Day and Saturday morning breakfast. Turned out rather well.
For Christmas dinner we had: starter of steamed asparagus with halved hardboiled quails' eggs and salmon caviar; followed by pheasant pot-roasted with bacon, brandy, and madeira and served with Ruby Gem potatoes roasted in goosefat, garlic-roasted tenderstem broccoli (as noted with previous recent tenderstem broccoli, wish to invoke Trades Description Act re actual tenderness of stem), and red cabbage (bought-in, as not only is it an Almighty Faff, making it from scratch would involve ending up with A Hell of A Lot of Red Cabbage). Then bought-in Christmas puds with brandy butter and clotted cream.
Boxing Day lunch: blinis with smoked salmon, smoked Loch trout, and the remaining salmon caviar, and creme fraiche with horseradish cream, and a salad of lamb's lettuce and grilled piccarello pepper strips, in a walnut oil and damson vinegar dressing. Followed by mince pies.
Yesterday lunch was the leftover blinis and smoked fish. For yesterday evening meal I made the remains of the pheasant into a pilaff, served with a green salad.
Today's lunch: chestnut mushrooms quartered in olive oil, white-braised green beans and cut up piccarello peppers, the Phul-Gobi (braised cauliflower) from Dharamjit Singh's Indian Cookery, and blinis made up from the last of the batter, a bit past its best.
[10 out of 20] BTS: gen
Dec. 28th, 2025 01:43 pmstonepicnicking_okapi posting in sweetandshortTitle: Ugh
Fandom: BTS
Characters: RM & Jin
Prompt: snowstorm
Rating: Gen
Also for:adventdrabbles day 28 prompt: wizarding nutcracker
Summary: Namjoon is miserable. Hyung helps.
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Fandom: BTS
Characters: RM & Jin
Prompt: snowstorm
Rating: Gen
Also for:
adventdrabbles day 28 prompt: wizarding nutcrackerSummary: Namjoon is miserable. Hyung helps.
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fic roundup: December 2025
Dec. 28th, 2025 12:08 pmgreetingsfrommaarsSo, participating in Yuletide this year has really confused my usual fic rec posting interval. (I have some recs I've been holding in reserve because it feels like de-anoning to rec them, which is probably me taking anonymity too seriously, but whatever.) Anyway, a Yuletide rec post will go up after author reveals! This month while I was maximally sleep-deprived and procrastinating on my Yuletide assignment, I somehow ended up getting sucked into reading a bunch of DC comics batfam fic fandom-blind, which amuses me as a person who wrote an entire post about not getting fandom-blind reading less than a year ago. But hey - *slaps the comics multiverse on the back* - you can fit so much angst in these guys!
That which we are by Sky_King
Canon divergence: the Espada find a family in each other behind Aizen's back. Pretty chill for taking place right before and during the Winter War. Found family with casual violence and background power struggles.
( and more for literally just the batfam )
[ Bleach ]
That which we are by Sky_King
Canon divergence: the Espada find a family in each other behind Aizen's back. Pretty chill for taking place right before and during the Winter War. Found family with casual violence and background power struggles.
( and more for literally just the batfam )
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Dec. 28th, 2025 08:12 amlycomingstFriday Five by anais_pf
1. You have the summer and plenty of money to travel abroad. Where all would you go?
Well, it wouldn't be in summer, too hot everywhere. Spring or Autumn. Italy, London, Paris, Argentina. I'm not what you'd call an adventurous traveler.
2. What foods would you be sure you got to eat?
All the pasta in the world. Paris bread and pastries.
3. What landmarks would you be sure you got to see?
I want to see the Giotto murals, real badly. Just walking around London, theatre, museums.
4. What airline would you use?
Probably not an American one. Since this is a dream trip, I'm also flying in the first class.
5. Would your knowledge of other languages influence where you went? (i.e., would you be more likely to go to France if you spoke French?)
I know a little French, and I'd quick study some Italian if I'm going.
1. You have the summer and plenty of money to travel abroad. Where all would you go?
Well, it wouldn't be in summer, too hot everywhere. Spring or Autumn. Italy, London, Paris, Argentina. I'm not what you'd call an adventurous traveler.
2. What foods would you be sure you got to eat?
All the pasta in the world. Paris bread and pastries.
3. What landmarks would you be sure you got to see?
I want to see the Giotto murals, real badly. Just walking around London, theatre, museums.
4. What airline would you use?
Probably not an American one. Since this is a dream trip, I'm also flying in the first class.
5. Would your knowledge of other languages influence where you went? (i.e., would you be more likely to go to France if you spoke French?)
I know a little French, and I'd quick study some Italian if I'm going.
[10 out of 20] BTS: gen
Dec. 28th, 2025 10:12 amstonepicnicking_okapi posting in sweetandshortTitle: Kisses
Rating: Gen
Fandom: BTS
Pairing: RM/Jin
Length: 300
Notes: Coffee shop AU, meet-cute
Prompt: Grinch
Summary: A handsome stranger comes back to the cafe.
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Rating: Gen
Fandom: BTS
Pairing: RM/Jin
Length: 300
Notes: Coffee shop AU, meet-cute
Prompt: Grinch
Summary: A handsome stranger comes back to the cafe.
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Just one thing: 28 December 2025
Dec. 28th, 2025 07:48 amjazzyjj posting in awesomeersIt'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!
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!
Yuletide!
Dec. 28th, 2025 01:27 pmdaegaerI got THREE lovely fics in Yuletide, two Hut 33 and one Saiyuki Gaiden.
Keeping up with the Fanshawe-Marshalls (8160 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Hut 33
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Archie (Hut 33), Charles Gardiner, Gordon (Hut 33), Joshua Fanshawe-Marshall, Minka (Hut 33), Mrs Best (Hut 33)
Additional Tags: friendship if you squint, Canon Typical Shenanigans
Time flies like a knife (811 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hut 33, Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Minka (Hut 33), Archie (Hut 33), Charles Gardiner, Joshua Fanshawe-Marshall, Tenth Doctor (Doctor Who), Gordon (Hut 33)
Prince of Flowers (790 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Saiyuki Gaiden
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Konzen Douji, Original Characters, Tenpou Gensui, Son Goku (Saiyuki), Kenren Taishou
Additional Tags: gatherings and events, Gods, Attempted Kidnapping, Food, Temptation
Summary: At an event thrown by the Goddess of Mercy, Konzen and his charge encounter a very flowery deity.
All are well worth your immediate attention!
I wrote four fics - I'd say "See if you can guess which", but given the Great Revealing it wouldn't be much of a challenge (wouldn't be anyway - as always, I'm visible from space).
Keeping up with the Fanshawe-Marshalls (8160 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Hut 33
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Archie (Hut 33), Charles Gardiner, Gordon (Hut 33), Joshua Fanshawe-Marshall, Minka (Hut 33), Mrs Best (Hut 33)
Additional Tags: friendship if you squint, Canon Typical Shenanigans
Time flies like a knife (811 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hut 33, Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Minka (Hut 33), Archie (Hut 33), Charles Gardiner, Joshua Fanshawe-Marshall, Tenth Doctor (Doctor Who), Gordon (Hut 33)
Prince of Flowers (790 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Saiyuki Gaiden
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Konzen Douji, Original Characters, Tenpou Gensui, Son Goku (Saiyuki), Kenren Taishou
Additional Tags: gatherings and events, Gods, Attempted Kidnapping, Food, Temptation
Summary: At an event thrown by the Goddess of Mercy, Konzen and his charge encounter a very flowery deity.
All are well worth your immediate attention!
I wrote four fics - I'd say "See if you can guess which", but given the Great Revealing it wouldn't be much of a challenge (wouldn't be anyway - as always, I'm visible from space).
sooo many sims updates to share!!!
Dec. 28th, 2025 02:04 amgreatesthitsi’ve been finding the time here and there to play the sims and have so, so much to share about my save file now! from how i’ve started actually posting on tumblr to how i’m keeping track of my sims and more milestones reached for laurel 🥳
( there are many photos in here, beware… )
( there are many photos in here, beware… )
Shoresy (seasons 1-4)
Dec. 28th, 2025 09:26 amrmc28Shoresy is a Canadian comedy show about an ice hockey team, currently available to stream on ITVX. It is very crude (swearing, sex & toilet humour) and very funny, and it loves hockey. The episodes are short, around 20 minutes, and the seasons only have six of them, so it's relatively fast watching.
(ITVX insists on checking in with me at the start of each episode that I really want to watch "very strong language and adult humour". This made it great for watching in bed because if I fell asleep, it wouldn't keep playing past the end of the current episode.)
Anyway, despite the aforementioned crudity, it is often weirdly wholesome. There's a lot of little repeated catchphrases, I think maybe the show's own meta-commentary on how much of hockey discussion is cliché-ridden, but like Terry Pratchett wrote, sometimes things become clichés because they are true. Hockey brings people together. Hockey players give back. By the community, for the community. Go till you can't go no more. Episode 3.6 in particular manages to capture how a high-stakes hockey game feels, and is probably my favourite of the entire four seasons.
So anyway, this weird crude funny show got past my usual reluctance to watch TV on my own, and even to rewatch some of my favourite parts. I gather season 5 started showing in Canada on 25 December, but no idea if it too will come to ITVX.
(Trivia point: the executive producer of Heated Rivalry is Jacob Tierney, who also produced Shoresy. I didn't realise this until I'd started watching, but ok, this guy loves ice hockey, just like Rachel Reid does, no wonder he chose to adapt her books.)