Sharing my planner
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journalsandplannersHi! I'm new here! A little late but sharing pics of my planner, it's a custom pre-printed from So Typical Me (as I said in a comment here, I'm a creative person trapped in a body that can't draw for s*** so I like preprinted, though I'm sad at the same layout EVERY week. Oh well)
( Planner )
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( Planner )
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"it's just an ordinary day, and it's all your state of mind" (great big sea)
Mar. 21st, 2026 10:59 pmstarandrea♥ Garden update:
Holding steady with 8* out of 22 dahlias sprouted at the two-week mark. (They're gonna need more space and more light.) 2 of 3 canna boxes are still sleeping; I will probably give in and pot some of the more reckless from the top box tomorrow. (They don't need as much light as dahlias, and I do have extra soil, if not space.)
ETA: 12 hours later there's 9 and I genuinely don't know which one is the new one.
Cleaned up some leaves and old pumpkins from the side and dogwood gardens today, pruned the crabapple and montauk daisies yesterday. Still watching the maybe crocus/scilla sprouts in the rock garden, no further evidence at this time. (Now I am even side-eyeing the chiondoxa: maybe it's daffodils this year! Who knows! Apparently not me.)
( pictures )
♥ Miscellaneous notes:
What America Could Learn From Asia's Robot Revolution, article adapted from Candi K. Cann's book augmented. I found the "conclusion" particularly memorable:
"To me, this is the crux of why Americans have such a hard time accepting robots and other new technologies into our everyday lives, and why our science fiction is filled with stories of humans versus robots. In the United States, robots are viewed as soulless, unlike in Asia, where they are viewed as soul-possible or soul-different. For those who cling to the notion of human exceptionalism, if robots could be viewed as sentient, then perhaps humans are not that special after all. Until we take seriously the ways in which our cultural and religious heritages inspire and impede our attitudes toward technologies, the development of these technologies will remain the realm of only a select few."
Finally, Duolingo has added "B2" levels to its Chinese course as A/B. For once I am on the exciting side of A/B testing, so I got to bump my level from 100 to 130 yesterday. According to last year's Duocon, there are no current plans to add further content after B2, but Duolingo has defined levels up to C2/160.
...What does this mean? idk, but probably owls all the way down.
Holding steady with 8* out of 22 dahlias sprouted at the two-week mark. (They're gonna need more space and more light.) 2 of 3 canna boxes are still sleeping; I will probably give in and pot some of the more reckless from the top box tomorrow. (They don't need as much light as dahlias, and I do have extra soil, if not space.)
ETA: 12 hours later there's 9 and I genuinely don't know which one is the new one.
Cleaned up some leaves and old pumpkins from the side and dogwood gardens today, pruned the crabapple and montauk daisies yesterday. Still watching the maybe crocus/scilla sprouts in the rock garden, no further evidence at this time. (Now I am even side-eyeing the chiondoxa: maybe it's daffodils this year! Who knows! Apparently not me.)
( pictures )
♥ Miscellaneous notes:
What America Could Learn From Asia's Robot Revolution, article adapted from Candi K. Cann's book augmented. I found the "conclusion" particularly memorable:
"To me, this is the crux of why Americans have such a hard time accepting robots and other new technologies into our everyday lives, and why our science fiction is filled with stories of humans versus robots. In the United States, robots are viewed as soulless, unlike in Asia, where they are viewed as soul-possible or soul-different. For those who cling to the notion of human exceptionalism, if robots could be viewed as sentient, then perhaps humans are not that special after all. Until we take seriously the ways in which our cultural and religious heritages inspire and impede our attitudes toward technologies, the development of these technologies will remain the realm of only a select few."
Finally, Duolingo has added "B2" levels to its Chinese course as A/B. For once I am on the exciting side of A/B testing, so I got to bump my level from 100 to 130 yesterday. According to last year's Duocon, there are no current plans to add further content after B2, but Duolingo has defined levels up to C2/160.
...What does this mean? idk, but probably owls all the way down.
Daily Happiness
Mar. 21st, 2026 08:01 pmtorachan1. It's still supposed to be unseasonably warm next week, but today seems to be a little break in the weather. When I went out for my walk this morning, it was a bit foggy (though it had burned off by the time I got home), and then while it was sunny for a while midday, around 2pm it got overcast again and has stayed that way. It was really foggy again when we took our walk tonight, too.
2. I made a rhubarb pie earlier and we're going to have some of that for dessert. We still have a bunch of baggies of chopped rhubarb in the freezer from when we were buying it from the farmers market last year lol.
3. Ollie loves to snuggle on my clothes. :)
2. I made a rhubarb pie earlier and we're going to have some of that for dessert. We still have a bunch of baggies of chopped rhubarb in the freezer from when we were buying it from the farmers market last year lol.
3. Ollie loves to snuggle on my clothes. :)
Spring Schedule Announced!
Mar. 21st, 2026 10:48 pmlittlefics posting in seasonsofdrabblesThe next round of Seasons of Drabbles is right around the corner! See the spring schedule below:
Schedule:
Nominations open: Sunday, March 29 (will remain open through signups)
Signups open: Sunday, April 5
Signups close: Sunday, April 12 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Assignments out by: Wednesday, April 15
Assignments due: Saturday, April 25 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Collection opens: Saturday, May 2 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Authors revealed: Tuesday, May 5 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time
Schedule:
Nominations open: Sunday, March 29 (will remain open through signups)
Signups open: Sunday, April 5
Signups close: Sunday, April 12 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Assignments out by: Wednesday, April 15
Assignments due: Saturday, April 25 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Collection opens: Saturday, May 2 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Authors revealed: Tuesday, May 5 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time
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Mar. 21st, 2026 08:46 pmblotthisOk, about three weeks later than I wanted to get to this, heeeeere's Middlemarch! For queenlua and recognito , per this post, if you reasonably don't know what I'm talking about. (In my defense, I was proofing a book, and every time I had spare language-brain, I felt like I had to go make sure no words had been misspelled.)
First, a confession. I did not read all of Middlemarch last month. I didn't even read all of it this year. I started it in 2023, took about got 60% of the way through, and then put it away. Until this past month. I read the chapter summaries of the book I was on (Book 5 of 8) on Sparknotes, reviewed my chat comments from 2023, and decided that would suffice.
So, I can't really talk about the book as a book-shaped thing. Not really. What can I say...
Did any of you ever run into a book--the name of which escapes me--that was a set of joke summaries of famous books? The Ulysses one was the shortest: "June 16 came, and went, in Dublin." It's not that funny, but I kept thinking that one summary of Middlemarch, as true as anything else, might be, "Some years came, and went, in Middlemarch."
It's a bad summary, of course, but it at least hints at the scope of the novel... Well. Arguably. There aren't that many working class or poor people in Middlemarch. "Some years came, and went, in Middlemarch, where several upper class families with different fortunes-------------"
Drags hands down my face. I just checked my trusty notes where normally I have some sort of review to use as crib notes, and what did past blotthis write? "good book." Thanks, buddy. Okay. In the interest of writing this up at all, have some messages copied from DMs I sent people while reading. Unless indicated, it's just me babbling:( I'm losing my mind george is so excellently filleting the poor the rich the religious the technocrat and the technophobe in TWO PARAGRAPHS ABOUT ATTITUDES ABOUT TRAINS. )
queenlua and recognito , per this post, if you reasonably don't know what I'm talking about. (In my defense, I was proofing a book, and every time I had spare language-brain, I felt like I had to go make sure no words had been misspelled.)First, a confession. I did not read all of Middlemarch last month. I didn't even read all of it this year. I started it in 2023, took about got 60% of the way through, and then put it away. Until this past month. I read the chapter summaries of the book I was on (Book 5 of 8) on Sparknotes, reviewed my chat comments from 2023, and decided that would suffice.
So, I can't really talk about the book as a book-shaped thing. Not really. What can I say...
Did any of you ever run into a book--the name of which escapes me--that was a set of joke summaries of famous books? The Ulysses one was the shortest: "June 16 came, and went, in Dublin." It's not that funny, but I kept thinking that one summary of Middlemarch, as true as anything else, might be, "Some years came, and went, in Middlemarch."
It's a bad summary, of course, but it at least hints at the scope of the novel... Well. Arguably. There aren't that many working class or poor people in Middlemarch. "Some years came, and went, in Middlemarch, where several upper class families with different fortunes-------------"
Drags hands down my face. I just checked my trusty notes where normally I have some sort of review to use as crib notes, and what did past blotthis write? "good book." Thanks, buddy. Okay. In the interest of writing this up at all, have some messages copied from DMs I sent people while reading. Unless indicated, it's just me babbling:( I'm losing my mind george is so excellently filleting the poor the rich the religious the technocrat and the technophobe in TWO PARAGRAPHS ABOUT ATTITUDES ABOUT TRAINS. )
Sighs. I really, really liked it. As you can see, I particularly lost my mind over the Lydgates, a toxic marriage so bad it made me want to strip my skin off instead of chanting sexy divorce! like a little goblin and over the homosocially-charged scene between Rosamund and Dorothea. Every day I am praying to the Yuletide gods that someone will write the version where they make sexy gay mistakes. For me. I also loved Fred and Mary, Mr. Featherstone, and, god, I loved reading about Bulstrode from Eliot's pen.
I am honestly still agog at both Eliot's powers of observation and at her power to transmit that observation. I saw (but didn't read) some article about how it's simply not possible to write in this style of aphoristic-all-seeing-judgement-cum-fairness anymore, and I don't know if I believe it, but I do think Eliot is on some dope shit. I certainly don't know anyone else who writes like this. (It did make me feel like I needed to go read some Tolstoy?? Is this two cakes????)
I enjoy Austen best when she's making her narrator a coy little bitch to her characters, and Eliot somehow is a coy little bitch to all her characters by never doing that. Or almost never. I don't know. I'd have to reread it, or at least write out all my highlights by hand to get a handle on it. Either'd be a worthwhile project, for sure, but neither are in my near future... Anyway. She's got a phenomenal control of tone and POV, I can tell you that.
I'm also still stunned at how fucking gripped I was by the ending arcs of the novel. I knew some stuff from summaries, but knowing where the Lydgates end up and what Dorothea chooses to do simply does not do justice to the intensity of those last 100 something pages. I still don't know how she did it. I mean, several dark nights of the soul in a row, but to have those Dark Nights feel like, Yes. This is where this was all heading. 600 pages ago. For like six different characters. Insane shit.
The very ending is funny, because Eliot tries to suggest that Dorothea is the book's main character? Or something? Which. Well. Okay. The comparison I made above to TNY is in the way The New Yorker Story gives you a character, lets you watch them make decisions, and then invites you to judge them. There's some of that, in Eliot. I mean, Eliot also invites you to consider how you judge them, as well as tells you about why you might judge them, etc., etc., so it's not like they're that similar in form, but there certainly is an overlapping interest in the Foibles of the Upper-Middle Class and How They Have or Don't Have Dark Nights of the Soul. Anyway. The end of Middlemarch is NOT the ending of a New Yorker Story. She will be telling you some more things you should think about. It's not nearly as strong--to my mind--as the rest of the ending, but I can forgive it, given how good the rest of the book is.
It's worth noting, if you are inspired to read it, that Eliot's occasionally Upper Middle Class English weird about Jewish people. Not the worst, but Becca let me know that Daniel Deronda is about how hard it is to be hot Jew, and that tracks. And is kind of embarrassing. George... C'mon. C'mon.
Anyway. Great fucking book. One of my favorites of the year so far, for sure.
Promo: Merlin battle
Mar. 21st, 2026 09:27 pmabyss_valkyrie posting in icontalking
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New Charlotte Stant HR fic out - run, don't walk!
Mar. 22nd, 2026 01:40 pmmificOMG Charlotte Stant's fic is SO FUCKING GOOD! Heaven is a Bedroom - Shane's a mormon missionary door-knocking with his fellow-elder Hayden and Ilya and Marley are roommates living in a house on their route. It's funny, incredibly hot, poignant and the most incredible complete AU, just wonderful writing. I want to have this fic's babies.
Weekly Reading
Mar. 21st, 2026 05:06 pmtorachanRecently Finished
Lucky Stiff
Third book in the Lillian Byrd murder mystery series.
The Cartographers
When the MC's father dies, she finds an old road map in his things, the source of a massive fight years ago that resulted in him cutting ties with her and blackballing her from the cartography world. In trying to figure out why her father would have kept the map, she learns about not only the secrets of the map itself, but about her parents. I enjoyed this but it was very slow for the first half or so.
The Hanging Tree
A woman goes on a writing retreat at a remote manor and learns of a local legend about a young woman who was hanged as a witch on the property and decides that's what she wants her next book to be about. The book is told in dual timelines with the present being about her research and the past being the actual events. I liked this, but there was way too much romance focus in both the past and present.
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Graphic novel about the author's relationship with her parents, especially focused on caring for them in their final years. I really liked this a lot.
Huda F Cares? and Huda F Wants to Know?
Second and third books in the Huda F series of YA graphic novels about a very religious Muslim teen loosely based on the author's life. I continue to enjoy this series.
Hatsukoi no Tsugi vol. 3
Final volume in this companion series to Koi-iji. I liked this a lot.
Lucky Stiff
Third book in the Lillian Byrd murder mystery series.
The Cartographers
When the MC's father dies, she finds an old road map in his things, the source of a massive fight years ago that resulted in him cutting ties with her and blackballing her from the cartography world. In trying to figure out why her father would have kept the map, she learns about not only the secrets of the map itself, but about her parents. I enjoyed this but it was very slow for the first half or so.
The Hanging Tree
A woman goes on a writing retreat at a remote manor and learns of a local legend about a young woman who was hanged as a witch on the property and decides that's what she wants her next book to be about. The book is told in dual timelines with the present being about her research and the past being the actual events. I liked this, but there was way too much romance focus in both the past and present.
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Graphic novel about the author's relationship with her parents, especially focused on caring for them in their final years. I really liked this a lot.
Huda F Cares? and Huda F Wants to Know?
Second and third books in the Huda F series of YA graphic novels about a very religious Muslim teen loosely based on the author's life. I continue to enjoy this series.
Hatsukoi no Tsugi vol. 3
Final volume in this companion series to Koi-iji. I liked this a lot.
10trueloves: loss
Mar. 21st, 2026 06:32 pmsenmutAO3 Link | Distraction from Grief (200 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Birds of Prey
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sandra Wu-San, Dinah Lance
Additional Tags: Double Drabble, +Modern Age (1986-Present), Post-Crisis, [Birds of Prey Vol. 1 - 1999-2009]
Summary:
Move. Evaluate. Decide. Commit.
Shiva was making her work through her grief for Sensei in the way that mattered, now that they had foiled Cheshire's plan. Both of them excelled in the Arts, but the difference was being felt in every muscle, joint, and tendon as Dinah worked through the spar.
Shiva was a master, effortless in blending her many forms to always meet any rally that Dinah made, preventing Dinah from winning. Yet, Dinah also recognized that Shiva was having to rely on that blending to keep the upper hand.
In a formal, single style spar, Dinah and Shiva would likely be evenly matched.
Like this?
Dinah had to smile, a genuine one, to be pushed so far, so hard, so long.
Was that what Shiva had been waiting for? As the next move saw Dinah on the mats and Shiva pinning her, full length, hand in knife-strike pose at her throat.
"You choose life, not dwelling on death," Shiva purred, and damned if that didn't make Dinah remember other aspects of living that were worthwhile.
"Care to live a little with me, grab a hot soak, some good food?"
"Sensualist."
And yet, they moved together in that plan.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Birds of Prey
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sandra Wu-San, Dinah Lance
Additional Tags: Double Drabble, +Modern Age (1986-Present), Post-Crisis, [Birds of Prey Vol. 1 - 1999-2009]
Summary:
Shiva pushes, so Dinah can put it behind.
Distraction from Grief
Move. Evaluate. Decide. Commit.
Shiva was making her work through her grief for Sensei in the way that mattered, now that they had foiled Cheshire's plan. Both of them excelled in the Arts, but the difference was being felt in every muscle, joint, and tendon as Dinah worked through the spar.
Shiva was a master, effortless in blending her many forms to always meet any rally that Dinah made, preventing Dinah from winning. Yet, Dinah also recognized that Shiva was having to rely on that blending to keep the upper hand.
In a formal, single style spar, Dinah and Shiva would likely be evenly matched.
Like this?
Dinah had to smile, a genuine one, to be pushed so far, so hard, so long.
Was that what Shiva had been waiting for? As the next move saw Dinah on the mats and Shiva pinning her, full length, hand in knife-strike pose at her throat.
"You choose life, not dwelling on death," Shiva purred, and damned if that didn't make Dinah remember other aspects of living that were worthwhile.
"Care to live a little with me, grab a hot soak, some good food?"
"Sensualist."
And yet, they moved together in that plan.
Daily Check In.
Mar. 21st, 2026 06:13 pmadafrog posting in fandom_checkinThis is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Saturday to midnight on Sunday (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 #34404 Daily 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 okay
15 (60.0%)
I am not okay, but don't need help right now
10 (40.0%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans are you living with?
I am living single
7 (26.9%)
One other person
13 (50.0%)
More than one other person
6 (23.1%)
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.
Recommendation - Quartetto, due South story by sixthlight
Mar. 21st, 2026 06:04 pmpetraQuartetto (146039 words) by Sixthlight
Chapters: 11/11
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski/Stella Kowalski/Ray Vecchio, Stella Kowalski/Ray Vecchio, Benton Fraser/Ray Vecchio, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Ray Kowalski/Stella Kowalski, Benton Fraser & Stella Kowalski, Ray Kowalski & Ray Vecchio
Characters: Stella Kowalski (due South), Ray Vecchio, Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski
Additional Tags: Polyamory, Slow Burn, Trauma Recovery, Queer Themes, Feminist Themes, Bisexuality, Female Protagonist, Second Chances, Post-Canon, Roman fleuve, Foursome - F/M/M/M
Summary:
This story digs deep into the situation implied in the phrase, "I swing both Rays," in that Stella always has, and so does Fraser. Eventually, after some lovely family tension and gloriously due South coincidences, they find their way to a dynamic sort of domestic peace, in defiance of all the canon's fear of limerence.
This was very, very good for my heart, with its rampant bisexuality and careful, thoughtful exploration of how these characters -- some of whom have solid reasons at the outset not to like each other very much -- find attraction, and joy, and above all banter. The banter is fucking golden. I love Fraser's voice, and this reflects it; I love RayK when he's flustered, and there is plenty to fluster him here; I love Vecchio when he is sharp and sweet and sardonic, and oh my heart.
And. Possibly most importantly, Stella. I have never spent much time thinking about her, but how I adore her in this piece: incisive, driven, sure of herself even when things are going completely bananas all around her, because women are the real straight men in due South, except when they're Frannie. (Who is also great here, don't get me wrong.) Stella's family works very well in their role in the narrative, both as foils of what her parents will tolerate (Francis!) and as what they thought Stella should be (ah, Jean, heartbreaking to get everything right). Stella with her view of reality that isn't quite the parareality of due South -- she may talk to Dief, but she doesn't entirely believe he understands her, nor that he talks back, despite the convictions of the people around her. She lives on a different wavelength than Fraser, and even RayV, as the quintessential Woman Who Got Away, but it is deeply satisfying that here, she doesn't get away, and instead, she gets everything she ever wanted.
Every single bowling reference made me make the :D face. Thank you, sixthlight, for saving Stella and Vecchio from the bad, bad canon, and instead delivering them to this much better situation.
Chapters: 11/11
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski/Stella Kowalski/Ray Vecchio, Stella Kowalski/Ray Vecchio, Benton Fraser/Ray Vecchio, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Ray Kowalski/Stella Kowalski, Benton Fraser & Stella Kowalski, Ray Kowalski & Ray Vecchio
Characters: Stella Kowalski (due South), Ray Vecchio, Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski
Additional Tags: Polyamory, Slow Burn, Trauma Recovery, Queer Themes, Feminist Themes, Bisexuality, Female Protagonist, Second Chances, Post-Canon, Roman fleuve, Foursome - F/M/M/M
Summary:
So, men. Maybe Stella was over that.
*This story digs deep into the situation implied in the phrase, "I swing both Rays," in that Stella always has, and so does Fraser. Eventually, after some lovely family tension and gloriously due South coincidences, they find their way to a dynamic sort of domestic peace, in defiance of all the canon's fear of limerence.
This was very, very good for my heart, with its rampant bisexuality and careful, thoughtful exploration of how these characters -- some of whom have solid reasons at the outset not to like each other very much -- find attraction, and joy, and above all banter. The banter is fucking golden. I love Fraser's voice, and this reflects it; I love RayK when he's flustered, and there is plenty to fluster him here; I love Vecchio when he is sharp and sweet and sardonic, and oh my heart.
And. Possibly most importantly, Stella. I have never spent much time thinking about her, but how I adore her in this piece: incisive, driven, sure of herself even when things are going completely bananas all around her, because women are the real straight men in due South, except when they're Frannie. (Who is also great here, don't get me wrong.) Stella's family works very well in their role in the narrative, both as foils of what her parents will tolerate (Francis!) and as what they thought Stella should be (ah, Jean, heartbreaking to get everything right). Stella with her view of reality that isn't quite the parareality of due South -- she may talk to Dief, but she doesn't entirely believe he understands her, nor that he talks back, despite the convictions of the people around her. She lives on a different wavelength than Fraser, and even RayV, as the quintessential Woman Who Got Away, but it is deeply satisfying that here, she doesn't get away, and instead, she gets everything she ever wanted.
Every single bowling reference made me make the :D face. Thank you, sixthlight, for saving Stella and Vecchio from the bad, bad canon, and instead delivering them to this much better situation.
Hey there, lovely people of dreamwidth!
Mar. 21st, 2026 08:18 pmdancingontheblades posting in addme_fandomName: you can call me Cat
Age group: early millennial
Country: Germany
Subscription/Access Policy: All my posts will be public. I subscribe back if our interests overlap sufficiently and your posts suggest that we are on the same wavelength. I prefer to interact with people in my age group (30 and older), but being 20+ is a must. I do not tolerate conservative/right-wing views, harassment, hate against people because of their sexuality, gender, skin colour or religion, anti-science views, use of generative AI. I do not subscribe to accounts who post a lot of politics, I'm here to have fun.
Fannish Interests
Main Fandoms: Yuri!!! On Ice, figure skating
Fannish Interests: writing fanfiction, writing essays (meta), discussing canon, reading fanfiction (I only read in my secondary fandoms), fanart
OTP: Katsuki Yuuri/Viktor Nikiforov
Ships: I ship only characters that have romantic chemistry/subtext and get together in canon. I believe that everyone is free to ship characters as they wish, but I ignore most non-canon ships if they're not my cup of tea.
I will post about: thoughts on my writing (ideas, progress, updates), thoughts on canon, canon analysis
About Me/Other Info:
I'm a queer fanfiction writer and a cat mom. My pronouns are she, they. I've been writing since 1998 and I've been writing consistently and mostly fanfic since 2009. Except for the occasional canon divergent gedankenexperiment, I strictly write canon-compliant—preferably sequels, but I've also written quite a number of prequels and fanfics that close the gaps in the source material. Being autistic makes me extremely monotropic in my interests and I keep them for a long time. Therefore, YOI is only the second fandom I'm writing fanfic for.
I'm migrating from tumblr because I don't vibe with the overall atmosphere there.
I read queer books and SFF. My taste in music comprises hard rock, metal, generally '80s, and classic music. And I watch a lot of anime.
Age group: early millennial
Country: Germany
Subscription/Access Policy: All my posts will be public. I subscribe back if our interests overlap sufficiently and your posts suggest that we are on the same wavelength. I prefer to interact with people in my age group (30 and older), but being 20+ is a must. I do not tolerate conservative/right-wing views, harassment, hate against people because of their sexuality, gender, skin colour or religion, anti-science views, use of generative AI. I do not subscribe to accounts who post a lot of politics, I'm here to have fun.
Fannish Interests
Main Fandoms: Yuri!!! On Ice, figure skating
Fannish Interests: writing fanfiction, writing essays (meta), discussing canon, reading fanfiction (I only read in my secondary fandoms), fanart
OTP: Katsuki Yuuri/Viktor Nikiforov
Ships: I ship only characters that have romantic chemistry/subtext and get together in canon. I believe that everyone is free to ship characters as they wish, but I ignore most non-canon ships if they're not my cup of tea.
I will post about: thoughts on my writing (ideas, progress, updates), thoughts on canon, canon analysis
About Me/Other Info:
I'm a queer fanfiction writer and a cat mom. My pronouns are she, they. I've been writing since 1998 and I've been writing consistently and mostly fanfic since 2009. Except for the occasional canon divergent gedankenexperiment, I strictly write canon-compliant—preferably sequels, but I've also written quite a number of prequels and fanfics that close the gaps in the source material. Being autistic makes me extremely monotropic in my interests and I keep them for a long time. Therefore, YOI is only the second fandom I'm writing fanfic for.
I'm migrating from tumblr because I don't vibe with the overall atmosphere there.
I read queer books and SFF. My taste in music comprises hard rock, metal, generally '80s, and classic music. And I watch a lot of anime.
A quiet Saturday
Mar. 21st, 2026 11:59 amsholioI posted some more Babylon 5 fic in the last couple of days: a new Londo/G'Kar fake dating fic plus a new chapter of the B5 catacomb WIP.
It's been a year this month since I started watching the show - my first post under the B5 tag was posted March 3, 2025 after watching the first couple of episodes. Still completely gone on it! I regret nothing!
In other news, NYT gift link to an article about Paul Brainerd, creator of Aldus PageMaker and inventor of the term "desktop publishing." This was a fascinating nostalgia read for me because, while I had no idea of the actual history, this guy (and Adobe and Apple) created the professional world of my young adulthood. My first job out of college in (I think) 1998 was working in the layout department of a newspaper that had just recently (last few years) gone from paste-up to an all-Mac layout room using a program similar to PageMaker from a third-party software maker that no longer exists. PageMaker - which I also learned to use in the college computer lab, and later at work - was the direct predecessor of InDesign, widely used even today. It's interesting to think back on those old newspaper days and how thoroughly they shaped me and continue to shape me. The computer/layout/marketing experience I got as a layout artist in the late 90s and 2000s has been immensely useful for my current self-publishing career.
It continues to be horrendously cold. We've been sitting under a high-pressure ridge and have had gorgeous sunny days that are absolutely freezing. It was -20F when I got up this morning and it's 0F out there right now. My husband's (uni-age) students are over here today because they wanted to help him dig out an ancient non-working snowblower that someone gave us ages ago from a snowbank and try to get it working again. (We do actually have TWO other snowblowers. This is just for fun.)
I took this picture on a walk up our driveway to the highway to get the mail a couple of days ago:
At least at this time of year, the sun warms it up SOMEWHAT during the day - in January it can sit at -40 24/7 for weeks; at this time of year we're still experiencing 20-40 degree increases during the day .... which is still barely enough to push us above 0F. The 10-day forecast shows that it will be glacially (haha) warming up, but still may not have crawled into above-freezing temps by the end of the month. UGH, I'M READY FOR SPRING.
It's been a year this month since I started watching the show - my first post under the B5 tag was posted March 3, 2025 after watching the first couple of episodes. Still completely gone on it! I regret nothing!
In other news, NYT gift link to an article about Paul Brainerd, creator of Aldus PageMaker and inventor of the term "desktop publishing." This was a fascinating nostalgia read for me because, while I had no idea of the actual history, this guy (and Adobe and Apple) created the professional world of my young adulthood. My first job out of college in (I think) 1998 was working in the layout department of a newspaper that had just recently (last few years) gone from paste-up to an all-Mac layout room using a program similar to PageMaker from a third-party software maker that no longer exists. PageMaker - which I also learned to use in the college computer lab, and later at work - was the direct predecessor of InDesign, widely used even today. It's interesting to think back on those old newspaper days and how thoroughly they shaped me and continue to shape me. The computer/layout/marketing experience I got as a layout artist in the late 90s and 2000s has been immensely useful for my current self-publishing career.
It continues to be horrendously cold. We've been sitting under a high-pressure ridge and have had gorgeous sunny days that are absolutely freezing. It was -20F when I got up this morning and it's 0F out there right now. My husband's (uni-age) students are over here today because they wanted to help him dig out an ancient non-working snowblower that someone gave us ages ago from a snowbank and try to get it working again. (We do actually have TWO other snowblowers. This is just for fun.)
I took this picture on a walk up our driveway to the highway to get the mail a couple of days ago:
At least at this time of year, the sun warms it up SOMEWHAT during the day - in January it can sit at -40 24/7 for weeks; at this time of year we're still experiencing 20-40 degree increases during the day .... which is still barely enough to push us above 0F. The 10-day forecast shows that it will be glacially (haha) warming up, but still may not have crawled into above-freezing temps by the end of the month. UGH, I'M READY FOR SPRING.
You are just the fingertips of something
Mar. 21st, 2026 02:58 pmsovayThe afternoon's mail brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #86, containing my poem "Northern Comfort." I wrote it out of my discoveries of the ghost-ground that has been directly underfoot all my life and longer, from King Philip's War to Pomp's Wall, and this administration and its murderous terror of history. It shares a page and an issue of emptiness with a precisely targeted incantation by Gwynne Garfinkle as well the equally hollowing fiction and poetry of Kris Schokrowsky, Penny Durham, Carsten Cheung, Jennifer Crow, and more. I almost referred to the covert art by John and Flo Stanton, obscured by shattered webs of negative space or the rust-light of abandoned industries. Subscribe! Contribute! Make the right kind of strangeness in this world. I am off to South Station to collect one north-traveling seal.