Friending Memes in 2026

Jan. 1st, 2026 12:22 am
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Friending memes, or friendzies, offer a great way to connect with new people. It occurs to me that I can list them here, with links to my entries, and have a useful reference.

This is the best time of year to run such events, because lots of people dust off their blogs in January. Also, [community profile] snowflake_challenge runs this month with challenges on odd-numbered days, and it's among the biggest events on Dreamwidth. (See my 2023 post on Friending Memes.)

Here are some resources ...

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My Crowdfunding Activities in 2026

Jan. 1st, 2026 12:20 am
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It is much easier to keep an accurate tally if I do it during the year rather than trying to backtrack after the fact. See my crowdfunding activities from 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.

I serve as a maintainer of the Crowdfunding communities on LiveJournal and on Dreamwidth.

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Bingo Blackouts in 2025

Jan. 1st, 2026 12:19 am
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At the end of the year, I remove any leftover cards from two years ago, and count up my blackouts from the previous year -- I move them to the back of the stack when complete.

In 2019, I made 1 blackout.

In 2020, I made 6 blackouts.

In 2021, I made 3 blackouts.

In 2022, I made 5 blackouts: Valentines Bingo 2/1/22, National Crafting Month 3/1/22, Body Parts 7/1/22, Reel Time 8/1/22, Land of Oz 9/1/22.

In 2023, I made 3 blackouts: Public Domain Day 1/1/23, March is... Bingo 3/1/23, Pets and Animals 5/1/23.

In 2024, I made 1 blackout: National Crafting Month 3/1/24.

In 2025, I made 1 blackout: Western Bingo Card 7/1/25.

My Bingo Fests for 2026

Jan. 1st, 2026 12:17 am
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See my bingo fests from 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.


These are my bingo cards from 2025:

Public Domain Day Bingo Fest

Card 1-1-25


Valentines Bingo Fest

Card 2-1-25


Tolkien Bingo Fest

Card 3-1-25


Aesthetics Bingo Fest

Card 4-1-25


Color Fest Bingo

Card 5-1-25


Pride Fest Bingo

Card 6-2-25


Western Bingo Fest

Card 7-1-25


Crime Classics Bingo Fest

Card 8-1-25


Piracy Bingo Fest

Card 9-1-25


Fall Festival Bingo

Card 10-1-25


Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories Bingo

Card 11-1-25


December Amnesty Fest (no post or card)


These are my bingo cards from 2026:

Public Domain Day Bingo

Card 1-1-26





I also run the [community profile] allbingo community. Use this to share your accomplishments for a custom-made bingo card, for old cards from other communities, or to echo your current bingo activity.

Planting Ahead in 2026

Jan. 1st, 2026 12:14 am
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This post contains a list of things I would like to plant in the future, places I enjoy shopping, and tracking for plant orders.

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Inlaws and not inlaws

Jan. 1st, 2026 01:01 am
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1. Dear Eric: In 2020, my now-wife and I were engaged. My mother is a nurse and has asthma and was deeply hit with mental and emotional stress from the pandemic. She would not attend most wedding planning events and would always be concerned with germs, wearing an N95 mask and keeping her distance.

My wife had a completely opposite reaction to the pandemic. It was more of a nuisance to her. In her eyes, there was no threat. My wife began to develop a feeling of abandonment from someone who was supposed to be her mother-in-law. She opened up to me about how much she was hurt, and I told her it wasn't my mother's fault and that she was just petrified by the pandemic and it was the only thing she could do.

My wife told me I was taking my mother’s side. Hurtful messages were sent by my wife and my mother just shut down the relationship and blocked her.mMy wedding was in October 2021. My mother braved the crowd of 155 people and attended without a mask. I was so proud of her. But my wife was angry about her presence.

My wife and I are still fighting occasionally about this issue, and the spats are becoming increasingly more intense. She still says extremely hurtful things about my mother often. My mother’s mindset was extreme but considering her working at a nursing home and having asthma, it’s totally understandable. That isn’t believable, according to my wife.

I am writing for guidance to understand how to solve this mess. Was I in the wrong for how I initially reacted toward my wife? I just don’t want this to destroy my marriage.

– Hurting Husband and Son


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2. Dear Eric: Our son and his girlfriend of 24 years got married by a judge. It was a civil ceremony necessary to get him on her health insurance.

He approached my wife and me and said, "we're not into social media.” I did not glean from this that he meant we should post nothing at all. To share the good news with my friends, I did post one photo. Late the next night he texted us to take it down, saying "we asked you directly not to do this." I replied, I'm sorry, I didn't understand that I was not to post anything at all.

I feel bad because my son seems to feel he can forbid me from sharing this news with my friends. Many are longtime friends from church who have known my son for decades. It seems to me a little pushy for him to forbid me to share with my friends what I feel is good news. He seems to want to downplay it.

Should I not have made the post and leaned more toward caution? Should I have interpreted "we're not into social media" differently? I welcome your advice about how to perceive this situation and where to go from here.

– Deleted Post


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3. Dear Eric: My children are grown. Two live locally and one super local (our home!). One is married with young children, and we see them often, spending most holidays with them. (In-laws are unpleasant, to say the least.)

Our middle child is in a relatively new relationship that has become pretty serious. We planned a beach vacation with my in-laws (our kids’ cousins, aunt and uncles) for Thanksgiving, which everyone seemed excited about when we booked the house.

Now the middle child will come with his girlfriend for just a few days and then fly to her family for the actual holiday. He has been noncommittal about Christmas because they may again travel to her family. When we got married, we alternated holidays with our families or stayed home. We were careful not to favor one side over the other. I really like his girlfriend but am sad that he seems OK with spending all holidays with her family.

Any suggestions on how to broach this subject without sounding whiny or critical? If it matters, she only recently moved to our area.

– Sharing Holidays


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2026 Wishlist in Progress

Jan. 1st, 2026 12:10 am
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Keeping track of stuff I like or want is easier if I make a place for it through the year, rather than trying to do it at the last minute. This worked great in the past, so I'm continuing the practice. See my wishlists from 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.


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Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.


Over the last week...

Commented on [community profile] senzenwomen.

Commented on [community profile] anime_manga.

Promoted [community profile] fandom50challenge.

Cross-posted the K-9 primer to PLACES! :D That I want to promote a bit individually, so here we go:

  • Cross-posted to [community profile] fanifesto, which is a comm I always enjoy seeing posts on (and wish that happened a bit more often!🕯️). The rules are so good ("This thing is amazing. Here's why.") Incidentally, years ago I pledged to make a post there as part of the [community profile] snowflake_challenge, which I thought would be about Hawks and DabiHawks, and although I'm ahem 3 or 4 years late I'm glad I have done it now :D K-9, K-9, K-9!
  • Cross-posted to [community profile] anime_manga (and at least one person mentioned they read all of K-9 based on it >:D \o/)
  • Cross-posted to [community profile] fourormore with even more OT4 pics XD Spoilers warnings I guess.

Then I linked to a couple of my K-9 fics on [community profile] polyamships and sneaked in a link to the primer too. Teehee :D

Signal boosts:

  • Since I mentioning the [community profile] snowflake_challenge above, it's returning for 2026! I know I have a few newer-to-dreamwidth folks in my circles and want to say, this is a lovely and chill challenge that runs through January, and a great way to meet and make new friends on Dreamwidth. I found many friends there and warmly recommend it!

Goals for 2026

Jan. 1st, 2026 12:07 am
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Each year, I think about what I have accomplished and what I want to do next. (See my goals for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.) These are some of my goals for 2026...

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2025 Goals in Review

Jan. 1st, 2026 12:05 am
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I have reviewed my goals for 2025. Out of 74 goals and one blank, I met 68 plus 6 extra fill in the blanks -- one of them the extensive terrarium exploration -- only missing 6 goals. I did quite well, better than last year. \o/

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Snowflake Challenge

Jan. 1st, 2026 12:03 am
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It's Snowflake time! :D Come one, come all, and join the fun. Do you know anyone new to Dreamwidth? Reach out and encourage them to participate in this event.

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of horse drawn red coach in snowfall. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

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New Year's Fireworks

Dec. 31st, 2025 11:22 pm
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🎇 🎆 𝒫𝓇𝑒𝓋𝒾𝑒𝓌 🎆 🎇

40 New Year's Fireworks Here!

2026

Jan. 1st, 2026 12:09 am
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Here we go.

Good luck to us all.
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That was the year that was no good. I kept up with my website and my presence on AO3 and slept terribly and spent six days in hospital.

I published one new piece of fiction, although a meaningful one to me:

"Hyperboloids of Wondrous Light" in Not One of Us #81, January 2025.

Very little new poetry:

"The Ghost Summer" in Weird Fiction Quarterly Winter 2025: Ghosts, April 2025.
"The Burnt Layer" in Not One of Us #84, September 2025.
"Below Surface" in Not One of Us #83, June 2025.

One reprint:

"Twice Every Day Returning" in Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Stories 2024 (ed. Sheree Renée Thomas), Psychopomp, December 2025.

Nearly as much fanfiction as all of the above, counting the fills I transferred to AO3 and the one I left in place:

"Fall from the Sky" (Repeat Performance), January 2025.
"Floriography" (M*A*S*H), January 2025.
"A Good Accountant, All Right" (I Walk Alone), January 2025.

Very much less than I had wanted for Patreon:

Cover Up (1949), January 2025.
Decoy (1946), January 2025.
Grand Jury Secrets (1939), February 2025.
Lost Boundaries (1949), February 2025.
A Bomb Was Stolen (S-a furat o bombă, 1962), February 2025.
Black Kitten Micro-Thon 2025 [Final Offer (2018), "Come Back Mrs Noah" (1977), "Contact" (1981), Other Other (2024), Once in a New Moon (1934)], February 2025.
"Poison" (Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 1958), March 2025.
No Publicity (1927), April 2025.
A Bell for Adano (1945), May 2025.
City of Fear (1959), June 2025.
Ladies (2024), June 2025.
The Sea Wolf (1941), July 2025.
None Shall Escape (1944), July 2025.
I Won't Play (1944), August 2025.
The Gaunt Stranger (1939), August 2025.
The Perfect Murder (1988), August 2025.
The Hot Rock (1972), September 2025.
The Innocents (1961), September 2025.
Heat and Dust (1983), September 2025.
The Immortal Story (1968), October 2025.
Marooned (1994), October 2025.
Girl Stroke Boy (1971), October 2025.
Fear in the Night (1972), November 2025.
Enys Men (2022), November 2025.
Blind Spot (1947), November 2025.
Defence of the Realm (1985), December 2025.
A View from a Hill (2005), December 2025.

My major achievement of the last twelve months looks like not dying. More than one member of my family could say the same. Happy New Year. A healthy year, a more than endured one. Mir zaynen af tselokhes.

HoS fics

Dec. 31st, 2025 09:38 pm
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This. Is going to be tricky, perhaps.

Okay, so back in the day, there was an LJ community dedicated to a first-run anime FMA AU where Roy from another universe (possibly the movie universe?) made it to the canon universe. And lots of fun was had with that, but it mostly stayed a similar rating and level of romance to canon. Which, considering this is fandom, people wanted to play with. So then came an offshoot community, [livejournal.com profile] houseofsmex, which had a fivesome between Roy, AU!Roy (Masuta Ichiro), Hawkeye, Ed, and Al. I wrote some fics for that AU. I am now moving them here, because I never cross-posted them to my original LJ account, and thus they never migrated over to this account. I'll be replicating the community's original labels, most (if not all of) my original author's notes, and we'll see what else.

Arc: Main: Smut, probably, though I doubt the content gets above PG-13
Summary: Roy needs to work on his calligraphy
Title: Learning Aid )

Arc: Main, Smut again, though still with a low rating.
Summary: Masuta likes showers in the rain, and sex in the shower, so the next obvious step is...
Title: Useless )

Arc: Main, Mei
Summary: Perhaps, Mei thought, she could do something to help.
Title: Pins and Needles )

Arc: Main, no idea; possibly Smut (though again, low rating)
Summary: Hot Springs fic!
Title: Rest and Relaxation )

Arc: Doubles, Traveling Companions continuity
Summary: Cats are naturally curious...
Title: The Feline Condition )

Arc: Doubles, Traveling Companions continuity (direct sequel to The Feline Condition)
Summary: Edward!kitty does some research
Title: Trial and Error )

Arc: Main, Pets
Summary: It was inevitable that they get one
Title: Inevitable )

Categories: Main, Smut (though for all I know, it'll grow into its own arc -_-), Pampering
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Summary: Return of the hot springs fic! Sequel to Rest and Relaxation
For Ysabet :)
Note: Please excuse my gross incompetence in failing to include this in the first one.
Title: Proper Attire )

Originally inspired by Breasts by [livejournal.com profile] terrierlee
Arc: Twins
Summary: Edward is haunted by slightly more than memories. Possibly non-canon.
Fic: Echoes )

Phew! Okay, I think that's everything. And that should be all of the fics I left behind on LJ, minus maybe one that's in the comments of a friend's locked account. I'm pretty sure I could recreate that one in a hurry, though; it was pretty short, and I remember the punchline 😛

Daily Happiness

Dec. 31st, 2025 07:57 pm
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1. It's the start of another four day weekend! Very excited about that. I wish the forecast wasn't rainy for much of it, but hopefully it won't be too bad. It was supposed to rain from this morning, but didn't really end up raining until afternoon. Completely dry when I took my morning walk and drove to work, and only sprinkling slightly when I took my midday walk around eleven. It's been off and on the afternoon and evening, though it did stop long enough for us to take an evening walk (slightly sprinkly through the second half, though).

2. Our neighbor's cat has been missing for several days but she reported him back home today.

3. Look at that fluffy tum! He loves tummy rubs, no trap there!

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