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A pretty disgusting day today, with cold rain and sleet continuing all day and the overnight snow turning into a horrible, slushy mess. At least a few enterprising local children had got up early enough to make snowmen, as you can see here! I expect the slush will freeze tonight, which won't affect the bigger roads too much as they'll be gritted, but the pavements will be hell again tomorrow morning. :(

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goals_on_dw

We made it through the first week of January. This is enough to get an early glimpse of progress with New Year's resolutions. It's also malleable enough to make changes. Our busy season here at

goals_on_dw is December-January, with weekly check-in posts for January, then monthly after that.

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ysabetwordsmith

We made it through the first week of January. This is enough to get an early glimpse of progress with New Year's resolutions. It's also malleable enough to make changes. Watch for the parallel check in post over on

goals_on_dw. Its busy season is December-January, with weekly check-in posts for January, then monthly after that.

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kingstoken

Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

Challenge #5

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

This one is fun and easy. My wishes are:

1. Check out my fandomtree and if you'd like you can leave me a little something under my tree. I'm asking for Sherlock Holmes (Granada and Rathbone films), The Great Mouse Detective, Our Flag Means Death, Doctor Who, and Dead Boy Detectives. The deadline is Jan 17th.

2. Kudos and Comments on my fanworks! My AO3, I've created fanworks for Star Trek, Good Omens, Sherlock Holmes, Supernatural, OFMD, and many more!

3. Go to arab.org and "click to help", it's free and all money raised is donated to UN agencies.

bluapapilio

Episode 1: Yona has the same VA as Homura from Magical Shoujo Madoka Magika and Rika from Kuroko no Basuke.

So this is a Korean ambience setting. Yona is a spoiled princess whose mother died when she was younger. Her cousin Soo-won comforted her and she fell for him, but her father the King doesn't want him to be King, plus the Queen was murdered and he doesn't want Yona to go through what he did. Hak is the third in the childhood friends trio and he and Yona have a bickering relationship.

On the night of Yona's 16th birthday, Yona goes to try and convince her father to let her be with Soo-won only to walk in on Soo-won murdering him. Hak is able to step in when Yona is about to be killed as well.

Episode 2: How can you say that the King was weak but somehow managed to stab his own brother to death?? Even if the older brother did something bad he would do the right thing and sentence him first at least. Maybe the older brother was involved in the Queen's death? He seemed so kind though.... But as we can see with Soo-won, that's not always what's going on underneath. I bet Soo-won didn't even try to learn why the King supposedly did it before killing him.

Poor Min-su. T_T

Episode 3: Mun-deok and Hak's dynamic is hilarious.

So the King asked Hak three years prior to be Yona's bodyguard but he said no at first because he hates the politics.attitude surrounding nobility.

Yona was only 12 and that guy was perving all over her. 😭And Hak had already developed feelings for Yona. I think he's like 15 here? Looks like the King would've been happy if they were together like Hak lied and said to get the perv off her back.

I definitely think Soo-won was genuine before his father died, though I wonder when he found out that the King killed him? Because that's when her probably really started scheming.

I'm enjoying this pretty well so far, I'm glad they're taking the time to show Yona's grief and I look forward to seeing how she develops from here.

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case posting in

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⌈ Secret Post #6944 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #991.
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.

vriddy

I avoid posting fic in the evening usually, but sometimes silliness oblige...

It's Magical | K-9 | Ren, Oboro, Fujimaru, Kagari | 100 words | rated T
Spoilers for chapter 38

Summary: Kagari makes a comment that leads to a realisation.

Read it on Dreamwidth or on AO3.

ysabetwordsmith posting in

birdfeeding

Today is cloudy and cool. Last night it rained with high winds.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

What I thought was a branch blown down in the house yard is actually the contorta willow sapling that died. I may see if I can make something from it.

EDIT 1/9/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 1/9/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 1/9/26 -- I took a few pictures around the yard.

I raked another quadrant around the firepit.

EDIT 1/9/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

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rachelmanija

If you've never heard of Carroll, he wrote odd, quirky, dark, magical realist/surrealist novels and short stories. Probably his most famous book was Land of Laughs. I found his style compulsively readable, though he was absolutely unable to write a satisfying ending to his novels, ever; generally there would be a fantastic buildup followed by either an anticlimax or the book just suddenly stopping or a conclusion where I'd have no idea what actually happened. Still, I did very much like his style and often enjoyed the first half or two-thirds or 99% of his novels quite a bit. (His short stories were sometimes fully successful and did have actual endings.)

I came across After Silence at a used bookshop, and was surprised as I'd never heard of it. I now realize there's a reason I've never heard of it. As far as I know, it's his only non-fantasy work. At least I think it's not fantasy. It has a solid build-up, then completely falls apart in the final third leading to a truly bizarre ending. Definitely my least favorite book of his.

It begins in a somewhat Carroll-typical fashion, with the main character, a cartoonist named Max, having a meet-cute with a woman, Lily, and her young son Lincoln in a museum. It's Carroll-typical because Max's somewhat successful cartoon is deeply weird, Lily takes him to the restaurant where she works which is charmingly weird, and there's hints that something odd is up with her and Lincoln that deepen as the three of them have quirky adventures and form a family.

( Huge spoilers )

To be fair to Carroll, this really isn't typical of his writing. Even his best novels feel a bit dated in addition to always imploding at the end, but I do still like Bones of the Moon, Land of Laughs, and the first half of Outside the Dog Museum. His short stories are worth reading and hold up better. I especially like "Friend's Best Man" and "The Sadness of Detail."

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poetry

Send me a slow news day,
a quiet, subdued day,
in which nothing much happens of note,
save for the passing of time,
the consumption of wine,
and a re-run of Murder, She Wrote.

Grant me a no news day,
a spare-me-your-views day,
in which nothing much happens at all,
except a few hours together
some regional weather,
a day we can barely recall.

(source)

ysabetwordsmith

A friend asked for suggestions of ways to maintain posting momentum after

snowflake_challenge ends. There are plenty of ways to build momentum and keep up your posting frequency. Here are some ideas.

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calzephyr posting in

1word1day

Eucatastrophe - noun.

Coined by J.R.R. Tolkien in his essay "On Fairy-Stories" (1947), which is in-turn based on a lecture from 1939, is a word to describe a miraculous turn of events in a narrative. You could even say it's a word that avoids catastrophe ;-D The "eu" prefix is from the Greek word for "good".

Eucatastrophes are often swift and unexpected, such as the Prince waking Snow White or the One Ring falls into Mount Doom.

Watch on YouTube

bluapapilio

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silveradept

snowflake_challenge's fifth request is upon us, and it asks us to do things taht some of us are not very comfortable with:

Challenge #5

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

( A few things that will hopefully be manageable )

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy VIII - Find Your Way

vriddy

I'm not brave or savvy enough anymore to wade in other socmed platforms, but thankfully I have friends who are... and found K-9 COSPLAY!!! :D :D They look SO COOL!!!!!

This is Oboro (CN: blood) by

suigei_cos. It feels kind of crazy to see the blood actually red haha since the manga is all black and white. When we get an anime, which we totally will for sure yes, I'm so curious to see what kind of shade they go with when animating his power.

Then more Oboro (CN: still blood!) also by

suigei_cos. With fire and smoke effects!!! Looking SO COOL!!! 😍

Oboro on a date with Ren or so Oboro says XD Also by

suigei_cos.

And my beloved Ren solo by

323runaruna aaaah looking seriously incredible. SO COOL! COSPLAYERS ARE SO POWERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😍😍

I shall go and lie down for a while now.

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loganberrybunny - There's a kind of slush...
linky - Fannish Fifty #4: Tumblr Tag Ramble About Gotchard
ysabetwordsmith in goals_on_dw - New Year's Resolutions Check In
ysabetwordsmith - New Year's Resolutions Check In
kingstoken - Snowflake Challenge Day #5
bluapapilio - Anime Check-in: Akatsuki no Yona ep. 1-3
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET POST #6944 ]
vriddy - New K-9 fic: It's magical
ysabetwordsmith in birdfeeding - Birdfeeding
ysabetwordsmith - Birdfeeding
heartsways in scans_daily - Beavis and Butthead #12
rachelmanija - After Silence, by Jonathan Carroll
jadelennox in poetry - Prayer for Uninteresting Times
ysabetwordsmith - How to Post Frequently on Dreamwidth
calzephyr in 1word1day - Friday Word: Eucatastrophe
bluapapilio - 🌈BL Manga Check-in: "Staining the White Pine with Crimson Frosted Snow"
linky - Snowflake Challenge 2026 #5
silveradept - Snowflake Challenge 02026 #5: Wishlist
vriddy - K-9 Cosplay :D
dreamersdare - Snowflake Day #5

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