Reading Wednesday

Oct. 1st, 2025 07:03 am
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Kicked off spooky season with Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella, which is mostly a satire of "alpha bro" influencer mentality with the wolf metaphor made literal: Brian is a gay 20-something college drop-out with a budding drinking problem and, oh yeah, also a werewolf; at loose ends, he falls under the sway of Tyler, a trust fund wanna-be entrepreneur/life coach/cult leader with big ideas for a werewolf lifestyle start-up, The Pack (Tee Em). The parts that weren't satiric were a bit twee (maybe the real pack was the friends you had all along!), and I accidentally didn't pay much attention to the one subplot that turned out to set up the novel's punchline: ... ) But it was a fun read!

Have also just started The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, which I've been vaguely meaning to read for the past few-to-several years. Two chapters in and I already adore Eleanor Vance in general, and her dynamic with Theodora in particular. They'll be fine, right? :) Nothing is going to happen to them. :)

When you see this, post a poem

Oct. 1st, 2025 06:25 am
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When People Say “We Have Made It Through Worse Before”

all I hear is the wind slapping against all the gravestones
of those who did not make it, those who did not
survive to see the confetti fall from the sky, those who

did not live to watch the parade roll down the street.
I have grown accustomed to a lifetime of aphorisms
meant to assuage my fears, pithy sayings meant

to convey that all ends up fine in the end. But there is
no solace in rearranging language to make a different word
tell the same lie. Sometimes the moral arc of the universe

does not bend in a direction that comforts us.
Sometimes it bends in ways we don’t expect and there are
people who fall off in the process. Please, dear reader,

do not say that I am hopeless. I believe there is a better future
to fight for, I simply accept the possibility that I may not
live to see it. I have grown weary of telling myself lies

that I might one day begin to believe. We are not all left
standing after the war has ended. Some of us have
become ghosts by the time the dust has settled.

—- by Clint Smith



When we resist, we don’t always have the choice to pick battles we will survive, but sometimes we choose to resist anyway. I think it’s important to know what we are risking and walk into our decisions clear-eyed. I may not survive this administration, but I want to start doing more to fight the advancing tides that want to make ghosts of more people I love. I’m not sure how I should be making more of a difference, but I will start trying out new somethings until one works for me.

Good luck to all of us on the side of the moral arc of the universe getting bent toward Justice.

Monthly Round-Up

Oct. 1st, 2025 12:15 pm
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This is the monthly round-up for September 2025.


Fanfic for: The Yin-Yang Master: DoE and The Untamed

Wishlist Wednesday

Icons for: Jiang Cheng The Untamed/MDZS

Topic Tuesday: Memorable Supporting Characters

Fanfic for: Golden Terrace

Promo for [community profile] guardian_wishlist:
     --> sign-ups - final day!
     --> All wishlists are live!
     --> One week till reveals!

Happy Anniversary!

Quick Rec Wednesday

Fanart for: Cheng Yi and Zhang Rishan

Did You Make a Thing?

Graphics for: Word of Honor - Bookmark


And of course we had the monthly round-up for August 2025 and our weekly chats on the 6th, 13th, 20th, and the 27th


Did you discover an entry you missed? Come on over and take a look/comment!
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Thrown by Merry Farmer

Author: Merry Farmer
Released: August 16, 2024
Genre: , ,
Series: The Art of Love #1

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This was for a reader who primarily loves m/m and this one was packed with tropes they had listed on their survey like enemies to lovers and a road trip (with only one bed!).

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Even If the Sky is Falling

Even If the Sky is Falling by Taj McCoy

Author: Taj McCoy
Released: May 30, 2023 by Canary Street Press
Genre: , ,

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I picked this one for a somewhat tricky request of “it’s the end of the world and we’re going on a road trip.” This one doesn’t so much have a road trip, but it’s a lovely romance anthology that takes place right before a meteor shower is rumored to destroy the planet.

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Red Card

Red Card by Marein Moore

Author: Marein Moore
Released: August 12, 2025 by Forever
Genre: , ,
Series: Prescott University #1

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This reader wanted a new sports romance and is fond of contemporary romances with friends to lovers elements. I also suggested this because it deviated from the typical popular sports like football and hockey. 

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Drabble On Ficathon 2025 - Wrap-Up

Oct. 1st, 2025 12:48 am
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Our second year of Drabble On Ficathon has come to an end! Thank you to all participants who posted prompts or fills this year.
 
Prompting is now closed, but feel free to take your time with posting fills. You can cross-post on AO3 and add your fic(s) to the collection, which will remain open indefinitely. You can also look through last year's prompts to see if any of them strike your fancy.
 
Thank you again for participating! See you again next year!
 


"Rabbit rabbit rabbit!"

Oct. 1st, 2025 09:37 am
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Welcome to October, 2025!

It's the start of Fourth Quarter, so try to finish up Third Quarter's paperwork without too much agony.

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Oct. 1st, 2025 07:00 am
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Love Bites by Cynthia St. Aubin

Oct. 1st, 2025 06:00 am
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B+

Love Bites

by Cynthia St. Aubin
December 17, 2024 · Tor Books
ParanormalRomance

The following review is for two books which are being released somewhat together. Love Bites was originally released in 2020 but was picked up by Tor and is being re-released on September 9. The sequel, Love Sucks, is also available digitally and will be re-released by Tor on October 7. 

After many happy weeks in the land of a favourite author, I stuck my head above the parapet and looked for something new to read. Truthfully, I picked this book up because I thought there’d be vampires and I adore vampire books. What I got was something quite different.

Hanna is recently divorced and unemployed in a small town in Colorado. She has an unhelpful degree (in the eyes of neoliberal capitalists – an MA in Art History) and her finances are seriously depleted. She applies to be an assistant for Mark, a gallery owner in their town. Her resume is mostly fiction, but she gets the job anyway.

Mark’s office is a shambolic mess of papers and Hanna sees this as a challenge that she can manage. She starts to clean and organise and tidy and in so doing, tries to understand this incredibly attractive boss of hers.

There is a complication though: murders. Women that were connected to Mark are showing up dead.

Enter love interest number two: Detective Morrison. He’s sure that Mark is the culprit but can’t seem to prove it. Morrison is awfully keen on getting into Hanna’s pants and the feeling is mutual.

Chemistry with two people? Oh where could it lead? Sadly, not to a ‘why choose?’ situation.

There is a colourful cast of supporting characters in the form of resident artists based at Mark’s gallery. They’re endearing, interesting and funny in their way and definitely add to the story. There is some lovely suspense as we get to grips with whether Mark is a serial killer or not and the solution once revealed is so surprising and convoluted as to be ridiculous (more on that in the next review).

The real star of the show is Hanna. She’s funny and smart and very human. I really enjoyed getting to know her in this book. Her reactions to the emergence of paranormal entities in her life feels real. If I were suddenly to be faced with the existence of (REDACTED), I too would piss my britches and head for the hills. Plus Hanna is Funny, with a capital F.

“Hauling myself into a standing position, I fluffed the wavy tangle of my auburn hair and pulled my sweater a little lower, as much to reveal an extra half inch of cleavage as to cover the slacks I’d had to secure with a hair tie, a safety pin and the will of Jesus”.

There are passages and moments of description that were visceral in their impact on me. One of my favourites, in which Mark is describing her role in his life:

“You’re here to organize me, to cure me of my wicked ways.”

Something about the way he said “wicked” made me feel like I’d swallowed a lit road flare.

The writing was compelling enough that I immediately dove into Love Sucks, the second book in the series. If you’d like to escape reality for a few hours and spend some quality time with a snarky cat lady getting her mind blown, then I recommend this book.


NB: The following is a review for book two, and since much of it is a spoiler for book one, it’s behind spoiler tags. 

Love Sucks by Cynthia St. Aubin
Grade: B-

Love Sucks
A | BN | K | AB
  Before you commit to this series, know that Love Bites and the second in the series, Love Sucks are quite different books.

Love Bites is quite suspenseful with only a touch of the paranormal to it.

Love Sucks goes all the way to Station Bonkerstown and I was a happy passenger (mostly).

Love Sucks is, frankly, ridiculous. Yet I found myself being utterly charmed by it, powerless to resist its snarky, paranormal humour and great writing. There are certainly flaws that require one to look the other way, but they weren’t enough to stop me from enjoying the book.

As Love Bites ends on a cliffhanger (which is exactly what prompted me to read Love Sucks), you’ll be grateful that all the books in this series are currently available.

Read no further if you haven’t read Love Bites because there are one million spoilers from this point onwards.

I’m serious, all the spoilers for book one.

Okay, you’ve been warned.

Spoilers ahoy!

Mark has just revealed to Hanna that she is a werewolf heir. We’re slowly told what that means in this book, but from the jump we are immersed in werewolves in this story. They’re everywhere and it turns out someone is killing them. (More death, I know). They’re killing a very particular group of werewolves though: famous artists.

Welcome to Bonkerstown, Population: Me and some werewolves.

Vincent van Gogh and Toulouse Lautrec feature heavily in this story as werewolves who are being targeted for murder. Hanna has sussed out enough to know that Mark is some kind of alpha in this arrangement and so these artists in peril turn to him for help.

But Mark has loads of problems. Like the fact that Hanna is about to ovulate which means that every single male werewolf in the vicinity is trying to go to poundtown with her. Including Mark, but he’s being noble and resisting so he runs away. I can’t actually go further in my description of the plot without a) ruining the book and b) showing all the ridiculousness.

Detective Morrison is still around too.

With Hanna, we get more of the same snark and smarts. She’s great fun as a main character. In fact, that’s how I would sum up the entire book: great fun. This is not a good book. It’s a fun book. And I’m here for it.

Now for the parts I’m not here for. I would prefer that no real people be present in the book. Hanna fawns over Vincent and it made me cringe a bit. That might be a me thing.

Something that isn’t a me thing is the fatphobia. Stereotypes of a lazy-fat-dumb cop are deployed and while ACAB, I’m not a fan of this outdated and cruel trope. His weight is a shorthand for his laziness and stupidity. Hated that.

Also, Hanna uses Euros in London. That threw me right out of the story. That’s basic general knowledge.

If you can overlook these flaws, then you can have a good time with this book. I’ll certainly be reading the next book in the series, if only for Hanna and Mark’s PHENOMENAL chemistry and Hanna’s humour.

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I bought the recent STU48 single, Kizutsuku Koto ga Seishun da recently in Tower Records. I wanted to say I bought it on impulse, but I didn’t, it was absolutely pre-meditated as this song came out of nowhere for me but actually has so far been one of the best 48 group singles of 2025—which, in a year they got Sasshi, Acchan, NyanNyan, and Takamina back for an anniversary single is pretty fantastic going. At its heart, Kizutsuku is everything I love about a song, its theme for enduring the difficulty of growing up, growing older, trying to reach past heartbreak to become an adult, and right in the centre of all that is Takao Sayaka, second generation STU member as of the 2019 auditions.

Saayan!


I talk about this like it is a coup d'état, but in truth, Saayan has been at the centre of STU’s A sides since the fifth single, Omoidaseru Koi wo Shiyou in 2020. Imagine passing auditions and then becoming centre a year later and holding onto that position for the next seven singles; Saayan is the default, it just took this long for me to notice.

Placing fifth in the auditions for her generation, Saayan debuted alongside the other Sayaka, Harada Sayaka in an event held on the theatre ship whilst docked at Hiroshima during late December. In less than a few months, March 2020 to be exact, the announcement was made for the upcoming release of Omoidaseru Koi wo Shiyou and everyone knew that she was going to be the centre. In many ways, this sort of confirms for me the feeling that the second generation of STU were a soft reboot of the group. You could argue that each generation of every 48 group is a reboot of sorts, but it feels especially clear to me in regards to STU. Despite this, there is decidedly little for me to go off when it comes to talking to you about where STU are now and what Saayan’s presence as centre mean. I suppose that information must be out there somewhere, but it’s long established how patchwork my understanding of Japanese is so I’m not finding it. I am interested in this idea that Saayan looks up to Miyawaki Sakura—the machine translation of her 48pedia entry describes Sakura as a ‘senior I long for,’ and don’t we all?—because it is suggestive of an era shaped not so much by the Kami 7 but by Sakura’s incredible K-pop heel turn and the popularity she has achieved both as a former member of HKT and in her own right as a member of first IZ*ONE and then LE SSERAFIM. I think that, in a couple of years, we will really see the full effect of how Sakura’s popularity has impacted idols and the girls who apply for these gruelling auditions, and I also think that STU fans are going to feel this before the rest of us if only because their group is the youngest of the sister groups; they are our canary in the mine.

For now, though, Kizutsuku is exemplary of Akimoto’s storytelling, but really is Saayan’s delivery that brings the song home. Maybe that’s the reason she’s been centre for so long.
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0.

The Essequibo River is the queen of rivers all!
    Buddy-ta-na-na, we are somebody, oh!
The Essequibo River is the queen of rivers all!
    Buddy-ta-na-na, we are somebody, oh!

    Somebody, oh, Johnny! Somebody, oh!
    Buddy-ta-na-na, we are somebody, oh!

– Sea shanty, presumed Guyanese

Let us appreciate that the only reason – the only reason – I know about what I am about to share with you is because of that whole music history thing of mine. It's not even my history. My main beat is 16th century dance music (± half a century). But dance music is working music, and as such I consider all the forms of work music to be its counsin, and so I have, of an occasion, wandered into the New England Folk Festival's sea-shanty sing. Many people go through life understanding the world around them through the perspective of a philosophical stance, a religious conviction, a grand explanatory theory, fitting the things they encounter into these frameworks; I do not know if I should be embarrased or not, but for me, so often it's just song cues.

So when I saw the word "Essequibo" go by in the web-equivalent of page six of the international news, I was all like, "Oh! I know that word!" recognizing a song cue when I see one. "It's a river. I wonder where it is?"

And I clicked the link.

That was twenty-one months ago.

Ever since, I have been on a different and ever-increasingly diverging timeline from the one just about everyone else is on.

In December of 2023, Nicolas Maduro, president of Venezuela, tried to kick off World War Three.

He hasn't stopped trying. He's had to take breaks to steal elections and deal with some climate catastrophe and things like that. But mostly ever since – arguably since September of 2023 – Maduro has been escalating.

You wouldn't know it from recent media coverage of what the US is doing off the coast of Venezuela. At no point has any news coverage of the US military deployment to that part of the world mentioned anything about the explosive geopolitical context there. A geopolitical context, that when it has been reported on is referred to in term like "a pressure cooker" and "spiraling".

The US government itself has said nothing that alludes to it in any way. The US government has its story and it's sticking to it: this is about drugs.

As you may be aware, the US government is claiming to have sunk three Venezuelan boats using the US military. The first of these sinkings was on September 1st.

To hear the media tell it, the US just up and decided to start summarily executing people on boats in the Caribbean that it feels were drug-runners on Sep 1st.

No mention is made of what happened on Aug 31st.

On August 31, the day before the first US military attack on a Venezuelan vessel, at around 14:00 local time, somebody opened fire on election officials delivering ballot and ballot boxes in the country Venezuela is threatening to invade.

And they did it from the Venezuelan side of the river that is the border between the two countries.

That country is an American ally. And extremely close American ally. An ally that is of enormous importance to the US.

And which is a thirtieth the size of Venezuela by population, and which has an army less than one twentieth as large.

You would be forgiven for not knowing that Venezuela has been threatening to and apparently also materially preparing to invade another country, because while it's a fact that gets reported in the news, it is never reported in the same news as American actions involving or mentioning Venezuela.

Venezuela, which is a close ally of Russia.

You may have heard about how twenty-one months ago, in December of 2023, there was an election in Venezuela which Maduro claimed was a landslide win for him. There was a lot of coverage in English-speaking news about that election and how it was an obvious fraud, and the candidate who won the opposition party's primary wasn't on the ballot, and so on and so forth.

You probably didn't hear that in that very same election, there was a referendum. If you did hear it reported, you might have encountered it being dismissed in the media as a kind of political stunt of Maduro's, to get people to show up to the polls or to energize his base. It couldn't possibly be (the reasoning went) that he meant it. Surely it was just political theater.

The referendum questions put, on Dec 3, 2023, to the voters of Venezuela were about whether or not they supported establishing a new Venezuelan state.

Inside the borders of the country of Guyana.

2023 Dec 4: The Guardian: "Venezuela referendum result: voters back bid to claim sovereignty over large swath of Guyana".

Why?

Eleven billion gallons of light, sweet crude: the highest quality of oil that commands the highest price.

(I can hear all of Gen X breathe, "Oh of course.")

It is under the floor of the Caribbean in an area known as the Stabroek Block.

The Stabroek Block is off the coast of an area known as the Essequibo.

It takes its name from the Essequibo River, which borders it on one side, and it constitutes approximately two-thirds of the land area of the country of Guyana.

Whoever owns the Essequibo owns the Stabroek Block and whoever owns the Stabroek owns those 11B gallons of easily-accessed, high-value oil.


Image from BBC, originally in "Essequibo: Venezuela moves to claim Guyana-controlled region", 2023 Dec 6


As far as almost everyone outside of Venezuela has been concerned, for the last hundred years Guyana has owned the Essequibo.

Venezuela disagrees. Read more [5,760 words] )

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Let's begin with an academic paper exploring the way that online puppygirl culture embodies a rejection of those things used as markers of human success because of the way that the highly transfeminine nature of puppygirls are usually denied the full markers of humanity based on their transness. The author notes at the end the limitations around embracing inhumanity for persons who have been and continue to be treated as inhuman based on their skin colors and perceived origins, and that the relative homogeneity of participants in online puppygirl culture and media often gives them blinkers in places they could stand to be more inclusive. I enjoyed reading it, perhaps you will, too.

The still-apparently-novel concept that people who have systems tuned toward novelty and curiosity might be beneficial to current society (instead of only the hunter-gatherers) and that environments made for others are not helpful to them.

The Archive of Our Own reminds us that they are dealing with an influx of spam accounts that leave generic praise comments and then offer to discuss off-site things like making fanart for your story. Part of it is that such commercial solicitation is barred on the Archive, but the easiest way to spot it, other than the invitation offsite, is that the comment itself doesn't have anything specific about the story. It's usually posted to the most recent story that's available. And some of these spammers are creating AO3 accounts to spam with, so disabling guest comments won't necessarily protect you from receiving them.

Nostalgia for times where scarcity required planning and people got a certain thrill out of the act of chasing things and not knowing whether their selections would turn out to be good ones. I am more inclined not to be nostalgic for that, but to be annoyed at the way that the expertise of the record clerk, the librarian, and the bookstore buyer are being devalued in favor of machines that their promoters claim have intelligence and can do all of those things a human can do, and better.

Robert Redford, actor, director, and well-known environmental activist, has left the world at 89 years of age. He is also responsible for the body that produces the annual Sundance Film Festival.

Anonymous art creators have unveiled a statue of the current administrator and known child trafficker and pederast Jeffrey Epstein holding hands, celebrating their friendship, and using the text of the administrator's birthday note to Epstein as commentary. You know, that text that strongly suggests that the two of them share an interest in pederasty and molestation of women and young girls, buttressed by some of the public statements the administrator has made about his interest in such. (As well as having been found liable for sexual assault earlier on in his life.)

EA acquisitions, foolishness and buffoonery, and the usual issues that come with having the unqualified promoted well beyond their incompetence inside )

Last out, the ways in which our understanding of classical Greek depends on the surviving texts that we have to work with, and therefore while sometimes a word does mean dildo, other times, it does not.

Yacht Club Games on the development of modes for Shovel Knight that allow for different-bodied designs and pronoun usage, and a good decision made by them to decouple body designs and gendered pronouns.

And a story of corvids who help break the cages around their fellows. Be gay, do crow. And, perhaps, show solidarity by demonstrating how foolish it is to require girls to declare they're "biological females" before they can play in sort. (While the article quotes someone saying it's foolish not only require girls to do this and not boys, and that girls teams are suffering because they can't field enough affirmed players, the real meat is from the teachers saying it's not fair to require this, and the athletes who are also choosing not to participate because of fairness issues.)

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Write Every Day Day 1

Oct. 1st, 2025 12:15 am
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Hi everyone. Welcome back. Right off the bat, let me say I will be SLOW on day one/two as I have to go some 80 miles for a doctor's appointment...at 7 pm in the evening so I'll be gone all day. and here's what we're all about lifted right from [personal profile] zwei_hexen

What is the Write Every Day challenge?
Write Every Day is just what its name says: We challenge each other to write, every single day. Our goal is to encourage one another and provide the accountability and/or motivation that some of us find very useful in keeping the words flowing. However, there's no obligation and no pressure, and if writing didn't happen for you on any given day, there won't be any judgement, just support and sympathy!

Who can participate?
Everyone is welcome! We’re an open-minded, nonjudgmental group of people who enjoy writing.
What do I have to do?
I’ll post each day with a little bit about our writing and a running tally of participants. All you need to do is drop by the comments on the most recent tally entry to let us know how you’re doing. Please know that you are never obligated to check in. Also, if you'd like to comment on someone else's comment but aren't checking in for yourself, that's perfectly fine too. We're really easygoing 'round here, and conversation is absolutely encouraged.
Is there a word limit or quota?
Nope. Write as little as an “alibi” sentence (just what it sounds like—a sentence you write to say you’ve written, an alibi for the day, as it were) or as much as you’d like. All word counts are welcome!
Is there any restriction on the kind of writing I can do?
Absolutely not! Fanfiction, original fiction, screenplays, blog posts, meta, academic writing, morning pages, reviews, editing, letter-writing, nonsense poems, bucket list: if it feels like writing to you, it counts!
Do I have to participate all the time?
No way! You can come and go at your pleasure.
New to WED? Got any questions?
Please don’t hesitate to contact
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This is the official post for the sixth annual Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology! This year, the anthology contains 57 podfics, featuring 52 characters of color, read by 18 podficcers.

This year's optional theme was: persistence.


cover art by [archiveofourown.org profile] silverandblue



Listening options:

  • A zip file (236 mb) with all the anthology podfics in mp3 format

  • A spreadsheet with direct audio links or links to the AO3 pages where you can download individual anthology podfics and leave feedback



Links to the text of the fics, where you can go to leave kudos and comments for the wonderful authors, can be found in the "comments" section in the metadata of each mp3 file as well as in the spreadsheet. Thank you to [archiveofourown.org profile] Avanie, [archiveofourown.org profile] godoflaundrybaskets, [archiveofourown.org profile] wilfriede0815, [archiveofourown.org profile] wjgravity, and [archiveofourown.org profile] cosmicology for technical beta. We also thank the 5 cultural sensitivity betas who lent their time and knowledge to this anthology.

The bonus collection for podfics longer than the maximum for the CCPA and/or extra submissions can be found here.

You can find the full AO3 collection for this year here. Please feel free to leave feedback/comments on this post! You can also follow the podficcers to their individual AO3 accounts to find more of their work: [archiveofourown.org profile] 429_CarCrash, [archiveofourown.org profile] AirgiodSLV, [archiveofourown.org profile] bluedreaming,
[archiveofourown.org profile] blackglass, [archiveofourown.org profile] cosmicology, [archiveofourown.org profile] deepestbluesky, [archiveofourown.org profile] farkenshnoffingottom, [archiveofourown.org profile] flowerparrish, [archiveofourown.org profile] godoflaundrybaskets, [archiveofourown.org profile] kbirb, [archiveofourown.org profile] kitsuneheart, [archiveofourown.org profile] LittleRedRobinHood, [archiveofourown.org profile] mific, [archiveofourown.org profile] MistbornHero, [archiveofourown.org profile] pezzax, [archiveofourown.org profile] semperfiona, [archiveofourown.org profile] Tipsy_Kitty, and [archiveofourown.org profile] wilfriede0815.

Daily Happiness

Sep. 30th, 2025 08:33 pm
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1. Finished another puzzle!



This is from the same new series as the Stitch one, but this one has proper square corners. Carla is actually the one who finished it (and worked on it a lot throughout), though I did do about half of it.

2. I continue to feel very stuffed up but otherwise not sick? I guess I'll take that over being properly sick, but it's not a lot of fun. My lips were so chapped today from breathing through my mouth and I only got about an hour, maybe an hour and a half of sleep last night because I was tossing and turning. Though if I felt properly sick I'd also feel like I could take off work, but since I feel otherwise fine and there's a lot of work to do, I've still been going in (masked).

3. Friday afternoon I was feeling really stressed and anxious about work, which caused me to just keep obsessively running over things in my mind all that night and through Saturday, which is not great when I just want to enjoy the weekend and not think about work, but this week has felt better, like we are making real progress and can meet the deadline and that things will be okay. It just feels like there's a lot on my shoulders at a very late stage in the game, and I don't love that.

4. Chloe's got the right idea.

linky: Clotho sitting atop a building. (Gotchard: Clotho - Skyline)
[personal profile] linky posting in [community profile] problematicfemslash
Title: Be Wary of What’s Written in The Stars
Fandom: Kamen Rider Gotchard
Relationships: Gaelijah/Clotho
Medium: Fic
Warnings: Noncon, Non-Consensual Touching & Groping, Whump, Vaginal Fingering, Mid-Canon
A/N: Done for Sapphic Summer, prompt was Any: Any/Any - be wary of what’s written in the stars.

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