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Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Fanfare for the Common Bajoran (the DS9 theme, which is not called that)

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Tag of the day

Mirror Kukalaka (Star Trek) is a searchable tag on AO3.

As of this writing, Mirror Spot (Star Trek) is not.

I am so glad that people are examining the question, "But what if the teddy bear was evil?"

Spot, too, deserves a rampage, being the best kitty.

Current Mood: poetic
Current Music: The apples fermented inside the lamented

There once were subscribers so patient

I used part of my stuck-in-bed-with-owies day to catch up on my story index of 2025, at the end of which I discovered I never finished updating the one from 2024. 2024 will have to wait, because at the moment I am just floored by how many fucking limericks I have written this year.

If you subscribe to me on AO3 and you don't like my poetry, I am so, so sorry (insincere). This will continue unabated, as I just came to the (un)fortunate realization that I can do limericks for Kinktober.

For anyone whose ears perked up at the mention of Kinktober, here's a possible kink list for you.

Current Mood: a little bit genghis khan
Current Music: I don't want you to get it on with nobody else but me

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Small joy and a rec

Less exciting by a long shot than yesterday's Huntington treatment news, but I was feeling extremely icky today and then Genghis Khan by Miike Snow came on in the café where I stopped for lunch, and it made me chair dance.

I didn't link the official video. I linked a shot-for-shot remake from Phineas and Ferb, a tv show about which I know approximately nothing not found in the vid. And I ship it anyway.

Things

-Adventures of buying a serger: I have gone from "the bottom looper always comes out" to "the upper looper always comes out" with the occassional "the right needle always comes out" and yet somehow I did manage to sew a couple seams before this inability-to-keep-the-machine-threaded problem started, I have watched videos, I have called the company, I have not yet wept tears over it but I am so frustrated, so hopefully telling people will make the machine stop unthreading and then I figure out the tension issues and then I can serge.

-Where is a good place to buy desk lamps? The one I had broke and then I spent a while trying to find one including going to a hardware store, and then I found out that home depot has two listings with what appears to be the exact same lamp, but a different company for each and slightly different cost, and this decision has now left me lampless for a month as I figure out which to buy and decide on neither. Lamp is used to be on a timer so it goes on at the time my alarm clock sounds, this is helpful for the time of year when the sun is not up yet at that time, which -- not to worry anyone -- is approaching. So I need a new lamp. Looking for 12-14 inches, not LED, no random bits at the bottom for pens and stuff that'll just collect dust. Not a sun lamp; I tried that and it gave me a headache immediately.

What is keeping me from buying a new sewing machine is falling in love with one that's out of stock and then scrolling down today on my usual check of it's in stock to see multiple complains, 2 and 3 years old, that it's out of stock. Perhaps I should settle on my second choice, rather than falling in love with an out of stock sewing machine with features I do not need. (but! the one I have now is not great and I've wanted to replace it rather than keep fighting it, and all it really does is straight and zigzag, so I do not, in fact, need to replace it with a machine with 240 built-in stitches and two fonts, I just need a machine that has a speed I can set rather than try to be perfect on my foot pressure. But if I'm going to upgrade, I wanna upgrade.)

I have no intention of writing a Tishrei fic. No ideas, nada. Happy to take a prompt if someone has one but this may just be the year where it stops happening, and I'm okay with that.

Current Mood: oh humans yay
Current Music: You gotta have heart and music

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science

Science: Treatment developed for Huntington's Disease

BBC article.

Bring tissues if you, like me, are susceptible to Really Good News.

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: You'd better watch out

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yuletide

Yuletide nominations

I have made my nominations:
Slow Horses (TV)
The Expanse Series - James S. A. Corey
Galavant (TV)
Doctrine of Labyrinths - Sarah Monette
InCryptid - Seanan McGuire

The nomination coordination spreadsheet is here if you want to see what other people who know the spreadsheet exists have nominated.

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"Teach Us Something, Please." (Harry Potter) G

Title: Teach Us Something, Please.
Author:

lannamichaels
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: G
Archives: Archive Of Our Own, SquidgeWorld

Summary: Merope Riddle is a disquieting little girl.

( In which Tom Riddle is a girl )

Current Mood: busy

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box set release: Character Study!

Out today – the Character Study box set (two novels: In Frame + In Focus), the Leo/Sam bi-awakening spin-off story from Character Bleed! An actor and a photographer and a press tour! Falling in love! Helpful friends! Probably too many jokes about seahorses! And it’s on new release sale from JMS Books right now!

JMS Books link here!

Amazon link here! (for some reason the Amazon release date is Sunday, though it’s out from JMS now!)

Current Mood: cheerful

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Fic posting: Quiet Breaks, Numb3rs

Quiet Breaks (1864 words) by Gryphonrhi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Numb3rs (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ian Edgerton, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Inkvent
Series: Part 1 of drowning in your doubts
Summary: Ian hasn't talked to either Eppes brother since they hunted down a black box together. He's been a little busy with this.

communal_creators is running!

spook_me
prompts are here. Fall is coming! More fic to write. In the meantime, I hope y'all enjoy this one.

Current Mood: sorry wrong icon
Current Music: It's the bloody Surprise!

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holidays

Give you joy of the day

I can't celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day without remembering the time Talk Like Stephen Maturin Day was proposed as an alternative on Making Light, which was probably the best thing to ever happen to that website.