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Same thing I said last year time slipped away from me. I meant to do this a while back. It's time for the holiday card exchange. I miss the paper mail days and I enjoy sending and receiving cards (if you want a non religious one, let me know. I have plenty of both, mostly because charities keeps sending me tons of religious freebies).

I am willing to send overseas (you'll want to request fast on them given I'm late) If we've exchanged before, don't assume I have any idea where I put your address because my apartment is absolutely chaotic at this point. I'll have these comments screened but you can feel free to DM me too.

Animi Motus hopeful

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I have nothing to talk about writing wise today. My brain dribbled out my ears hours ago. I'm also annoyed that CVS is out of my insulin again. Eye rolls

But there are joys, like the acceptance from all of yinz even if I can't keep up on comments right now AND I had a second online concert. This one was for Valentine Wolf's new album. It was good.

Oh I suppose I could put this in for writerly ways based off a rant by Mortius on YT (he rants over the Amazon ads as he's reviewing Hazbin) Remember that if it is a digital copy you DO NOT own it, even if you 'bought it.' So if you have a book you love to reread, let me suggest buying a paper copy. I've already had Amazon gut my TBR pile when they decided to no longer carry those books. I know one of the animation companies have done this and people lost every anime they had bought. This is also why I wish Disney would put The Owl House on dvd (since it's a very queer teen show and I can see them being forced to delete or them just deciding eh it's been X number of years, time to go). I did end up buying the Hazbin DVDs for S1 for just this reason.

Notes from the Editor’s Desk: November 2025.

Fusion Fragment: Now Accepting Submissions

Tales of Sley House December 2025 Window Cozy, folk horror

Your Body Is A Fever Dream Weird Cosmic Body Horror/SFF by Trans, NB, agender, intersex, GNC, and generally any gender identity other than binary cisgender authors

Baffling Magazine December 2025 Window Science fiction, fantasy, and horror with a queer bent that deal with “Timefuckery”

A Year of Horse Fantasy Fantasy stories where the horse plays a major role in the story

Otherside January 2026 Window Speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by self-identified members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community

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Amazon Algorithm Secrets That Separate Bestsellers from the Slush Pile

The Overwritten Novel: How to Identify & Fix Purple Prose in Your Novel.

The Top 45 Publishers for New Authors

From Betty

Tweaking Your World’s Geology

Six Ways to Make Fantasy Travel More Interesting

How Even Feminists Can Build Sexist Worlds

How to Use Perception to Create Subtext in Deep POV

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The Easiest and Most Powerful Writing Tip

Does Your Novel Sag?

Happy Thanksgiving! – December “first page” Office Hours – Information vs. storytelling

The Complete Guide to Self-Editing for Writers Part 1: How to Strengthen Your Manuscript One Step at a Time

Animi Motus sick
Cantus The Running Man

denise posting in

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Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

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I haven't been a great friend this month. I've not responded to about 80% of the comments I've gotten since Nov 7th. I've commented on a few posts and that's it. I've read no fanfic and barely any books. I've cleaned nothing. I didn't even realize I was out of insulin until today when I realized after I got back from Jackson. I thought one bag was my short acting humalog but nope it's all long acting toujeo. Now I have to spend time I don't have going back to Jackson tomorrow.

So yeah that's how out of things I am. The only constructive things I did was go to the coffee shop to write (finished another chapter in an upcoming Hazbin wip), hit kroger and cvs for some clove oil (as it occurs to me it can numb my gum and it's antimicrobial). And I managed to change my summer clothes for the winter. I need to ditch about 20 of these old t-shirts.

But there was some joy. Abney Park did something weird and fun a 'choose your own adventure' concert. The fans in the chat told them what game board square to go to as we thread a maze to the space ship and then they'd green screen a background and we had to guess what the song was and then they'd play it. Some of us fans were so damn fast we had the songs before they even gave a clue. It was different and fun.

And it is Science Saturday

Did a NASA telescope really 'see' dark matter? Strange gamma-rays spark bold claims, but scientists urge caution

We May Now Know Why Alzheimer's Erases Memories of Our Loved Ones

Neanderthals cannibalized 'outsider' women and children 45,000 years ago at cave in Belgium

New Diabetes Pill Works as Well as Ozempic For Weight Loss, Trial Finds Probably works similar to Rybelsus which made me so ill

A fossilized foot found 15 years ago belonged to enigmatic human relative that lived alongside Lucy, scientists say

Study Reveals The Anal Sex Techniques Women Love (And You've Never Even Heard Of) No, really and it was a study of thousands

Animi Motus apathetic
Cantus Devil Doll

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Didn't really shop unless you count the liquor store (I do). My friend MKF wanted to meet up at Tim Horton's in Athens. We tried to recapture the old Nano energy this year. No one showed up us two but that's okay. We're enough. We're planning to try again in Feb (though that might have to be Saturday afternoons or online). We actually spend more time talking than writing but ah well.

My throat and tooth still hurt. Fun times but I picked up a Skeletonwitch pizza in Athens and taunted my mother with it (I need to buy her one on my way home)

But here's the weird thing. As I left today my landlord's truck was out there with a trailer holding a washing machine...wait? You are putting machines IN our apartment. I DO NOT have one. Now I need to make another phone call. I REALLY need to get my shit together tomorrow and Sunday and clean up this place so I can get him in here.

Also Hazbin Hotel is now officially my most spendy fandom since the Buffyverse (which still wears the trading money for magic beans crown) It needs to have less cool merch.

And now on to the Fannish 50 friday recs. Look, I wrote a thing.

Title: Never Gonna Give You Up

Summary: Angel is gone. Husk disappears into a bottle and stays there until he swims to rock bottom. Determined not to leave Angel with his abusers, Husk sobers enough and proposes his plan to the rest of the hotel. They’ll help him. They may already have plans he was too drunk to notice. All Husk knows he’s never going to give Angel up and desert him.

Rating: teen

Notes: This is open ended (because I’m writing it for a weekly challenge) and certainly won’t be my last speculation on how the hotel crew get Angel back from the Vees.

Content warning – alcoholism and addiction references.

Written for Spikesgirl58’s six word challenge. The words were Faded, Odd, Coherent, Consign, Rise, & Dwell. Also written for the allbingo prompt of Love is putting someone else's needs before your own (a quote by Olaf in Frozen).
Also written for the lyrical titles bingo challenge for the prompt, a meme song. I chose the GOAT of meme songs Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. Ha, that’s right, I just Rickrolled my whole readership (wearing an Alastor grin right now, or at the very least, Rosie’s).

( Story at above link and under here. Spoilers for the ending of Season 2 )

Dancing In The Dark Hazbin Hotel

Careless Torchwood

Quietly Comforting FAKE

Unexpected Audience Torchwood

There And Gone Torchwood

🪨💥 The Murderbot Diaries

Let the Sorrow Go, Its Half the Battle Hazbin Hotel

Jin Ling's many uncles 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

First Steps Toward Freedom Teen Wolf

Drunken Confession Torchwood

Animi Motus lazy
Cantus Diners Drive Ins and Dives

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For those celebrating, I hope you had a good holiday. Me, I went to this...I don't want to call it a soup kitchen per se, free community meal? Mostly it's there and free for the students who can't go home and for townspeople who can't afford it etc. Helped out. Had lunch of well stuffing and cake and a bit of turkey. the rest is...not to my taste but that's okay. Can't complain about free.

Came home, didn't clean. Wrote some. Did book reviews I forgot to do. Made pumpkin soup, stuffin muffins and threw the rotisserie turkey breast in the oven. Not a bad meal at all.

I have Free HBO, Starz etc this weekend. Have recorded the new Superman movie and 5 episodes of It Welcome to Derry so there's that.

Hope you all had a nice day. I'm thankful for my friends in RL and online.

Animi Motus lazy

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Just everywhere but the laundromat. Did I mention the assholes broke both washing machines here and I had to go to my old one in Jackson. Well...I won't bitch about the time i had to go to the one in Gallipolis last month. Holy shit, 10$ to do two loads of wash and one full dryer (I hang a lot of my good clothes).

This put me in mind of something

evil_little_dog posted the other day about how expensive it is to be poor. Which is 100% accurate. Like now that I'm not sure I can buy a new car (or newer I should say) but mine has 111K on it. If I don't, something is going to blow and it'll be expensive to fix. I CAN afford a laundry suit for home (but the hook up is fucked up) but imagine doing a WHOLE family's laundry at those prices because you can't afford a washer/dryer. Jesus. (it's much cheaper here at the apt)

The coffee shop was packed. I did get a spot, talked to former students, thought about exploding the heads of the adult son/mom combo who was letting their 3 year old daughter/granddaughter run everywhere for the full hour I was there (and they were there before me) She was nearly hit by the door multiple times and nearly took out the waitresses more than that. eye rolls.

Kroger was predictably packed. I have to make cookies for a giveaway but found out my baking powder smelled like ass so I had to go get more. Like the Hunger Games in there. How many people wait to the last second to buy things (asks the idiot who also forget eggs and milk for her baked goods. I had...the lemon. Whee)

They were also beginning to pull down one of the historic buildings today. I got pictures (It was beyond saving which is sad)

I managed to finish a second

fandomtrees don't get too excited. This was a rec one. Easy peasy.

I'm not looking forward to tomorrow. The temperature fell like a rock today but could be worse. I see what's coming to places I used to live (Lake Erie beach side, Wisconsin). But my issue is a tickle in my chest that says let's get sick. Shut up lungs. Go be weak on your own time, not mine. And my lower left wisdom must be lonely missing its upper wisdom buddy because the entire gum is swollen and painful. Exactly what you want the day before a big meal.

What I Just Finished Reading:

The Tea Dragon Society - very sweet

Revenge Serve Royal - historical mystery, it was pretty good. Found out I read book one and this is book three. Guess who didn't read book 2

What I am Currently Reading:

A Twist of Murder - Charles Dickens is the detective, yes another real person fanfic mystery. So far I am unimpressed.

Death at the Door

Wyches - a graphic novel horror I got from the library today

What I Plan to Read Next: Haunted Cemeteries of Ohio

Animi Motus annoyed
Cantus Tournament of Champions

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It was an easy open study lab today and they were playing music when one of them pipes up, do you like music Doctor Evans?

Yes, I love music. Feel free to play it.

Girl from the back. Did you listen to Jacob Sartorius? (her table had suggested it last week when they were using him to remember the sartorius thigh muscle)

Yes, I liked it.

What did you listen to?

Ladies it's been a week, I don't remember.

Guy from the front - Do you like rap?

Me - it's not my favorite genre but I listen to some of it.

WHO?!?

Me - Oh, they're all old now. Run DMC, Will Smith when he was the Fresh Prince, Sir Mix-a-lot, Tone Loc

Guy from the front - do you like Nas?

Me - I've not really heard his stuff but I like Little Nas X

Them- holding up phone, what's this one? (obviously thinking Doc Dana is trying to be the cool prof who knows music)

two notes

me - Old Town Road, Little Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus

they start giggling. loudly.

The phone goes up. More music.

Me -three seconds in, Get Jiggy with it, Will Smith

More giggling.

Them - Dance

Me - Just play your music.

They weren't sure if it was a dare or not so the phone went away.

We had some of the other testing too. It's week 15 of 16 after all. Can't I have extra extra credit. No.

I NEED to pass this class to graduate. Can't I have a D? I'm desperate. 1. that's not passing 2. You have a 38%. No. I mean you'd have to sacrifice to the elder gods to pass at this point.

Let's hit the fannish fun for fannish 50 For one, sharing this again because Blake and this song hit the Billboard top 100 (at 98 but my god it's less than 3 minutes) Also move over Jessica Rabbit, another animated lounge singer is after your crown

Watch on YouTube

( Finally getting my thoughts out on the last two Hazbin episodes. Spoilers abound and outside of the above song all the clips and songs are NSFW )

Animi Motus amused
Cantus beat bobby flay

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So out of 70+ faculty the same 21 people who do everything are the only ones who voted and four more voted to take the insurance that means we lose our doctors, our HSA, to save 100$/month but has a 9K deductible vs the 3K we had and oh the insurance is under major investigation by the federal government for fraud. Thanks for voting to make sure we're one health crisis away from homelessness there. But also the rest of the faculty, why are you not helping? Do you all have spouses with better insurance? Are you on medicare? Any good reason you weren't there for us?

But I was trying to find a little joy in the day and I did get paid for my short story today. That's great. I've been waiting for MONTHS on this, literally at least 6 months and I've been wondering when we were going to market it. Turns out next month and it'll be out in January.

In the opposite of joy my gastric paresis is acting up so bad. Ate and apple, puked in my office trash can and then my blood sugar dropped out because lunch was in the trash. F.U. life.

But in better news, the blood from my dexcom wasn't from infection. The skin had broken down under the glue so it's getting a rest.

Music Monday, prompt - a song that tells a story. Oh there are OH so many.

this Abney Park one isn't a happy one per se. Robert hasn't talked much about it but some of his stories and songs suggest he grew up in an abusive situation

Watch on YouTube

And Reba had a lot of them. This one had me writing some romance story about a guy named Chance Deveroux back when I was in college but I never finished because I was told guys can't be part of the main focus of a romance. It had to be all the woman's pov (I know better now of course but it was most likely a horrible story anyhow)

Watch on YouTube

Animi Motus depressed
Cantus Holiday Baking Championship

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Today was hard, tomorrow will be worse. Fully expecting to be yelled at but I don't regret posting the the union all the DOJ investigations into the shit insurance we're voting on. So enough of that. Let me get into the writerly ways.

One of the reactors for Hazbin Hotel was ranting about 'forced conflict' and I'm like that is a great term for it and I do hate that writing...shortcut? Trope? I'm not sure what I want to call it. Basically, characters X &Y act (often out of character) in a way that most people would not do and it ends up creating drama and conflict that we otherwise wouldn't have and don't necessary need.

I'm sure this has been happening forever. But the first time I remember ranting about it was way back in the heyday of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Xander purposely doesn't tell Buffy that Angel's soul could be/was being returned. At least that example has a reason. Xander is a jealous douche.

Later in the same verse we have much less of an excusable example is in Angel S4 with Connor. When the whole team knows that something is wrong with Cordelia and they set out to prove it, Angel excludes Connor rather than keeping him close so he could see for himself that Cordelia is being influenced. Because Connor isn't there in the beginning he believes the team is attacking Cordy for no reason. There was no reason to force this conflict and it made the team look like a team of morons.

Oh I know why it was done. Joss was punishing Charisma for getting pregnant and wrote the world's stupidest story line to make her look bad (she is now freely talking about how much of a piece of shit he was to her) but at the time we didn't know this and it felt like bad writing.

Where this came up in Hazbin was Charlie, the pollyanna of the group, sees her father's big secret exposed to all of hell and rather than comfort him for the torment he just endured she tears him a new one for destroying her dreams on purpose (he didn't know Vox had found his secret out and had gone to stop him for his daughter's sake) and when Vaggi mentions she had asked Lucifer to help, this out of character ire is turned on her for the better part of two episodes. The fans did not react well and as far as I'm concerned, we shouldn't. There was still an opportunity for Charlie to be mad b ut maybe mad for the right reasons. Sigh.

So have you written this? I try hard not to. Have you come across it and been disappointed by that turn of events? Or did you like it?

Open calls

The Faerie Cat Volume 3
Fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror, especially those steeped in Celtic mythology or featuring the Fair Folk

Adventitious Issue 1 Stories that offer a surprise and sense of wonder through their language, characters, plots, or all of the above

The Phantom Pulse 2026 First Window speculative fiction of the grey corners of humanity, dread that permeates the skin, and the bizarre

We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025 Queer short fiction reprints from 2025

Shift: Now Seeking Submissions

30 Magazines Accepting Genre Fiction

From Around the Web

Charting Your Course #2: Self-Publishing in 2025

How to Maximize Book Pre-Orders (Even With a Small Audience)

Creating Low Points for Your Protagonists

these next four are from

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Character backstory tips for better writing

A Writer’s Comprehensive Guide to Backstory.

8 Dos & Don’ts of How to Write Sex Scenes That Work

Five Principles For Writing Kick Ass Action Scenes

From Betty

Mining Off-Stage Movement

Five Popular Tropes Writers Struggle With

Pacing Your Dialogue

Five Problems With Focusing on Internal Conflicts

Six Tricks for Memorable Character Moments

Should Your Romance Be Single or Dual POV?

How to Edit Emotion in Romance & Women’s Fiction

The Plunge

Make the Most of Your Manuscript’s Resting Time

Coping Mechanism Thesaurus: Spending Time in Nature

You're Writing a Book. So Stop Writing a Movie.

How To Be An Author: What's Your Next Book About?

Find and delete these phrases from your novel

Redshirts

Creating Low Points for Your Protagonists

Insights into the Shape of a Scene

Microtension – A MUST in Your Fiction

Charting Your Course #2: Self-Publishing in 2025

The Art of Intimacy in Writing

Living, Breathing Characters

Is Your Writing “Good Enough” to Publish?

8 Qualities that Will Help Your Protagonist on Their Journey

Be careful setting children’s books in the recent past

How to Get Your Blog Posts Found in AI Search (Not Just Google)

Write With Imagination: How to Stay True to Your Voice and Avoid Predictable Stories

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Cantus NCIS

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it's not easy but I have no other path forward because man, the urge to just give up entirely is strong. So today, I went to the holiday market in Gallipolis. So muddy but luckily most of it was inside. I got some more hand lotion I don't really need, cinnamon honey no one needs, kettle corn that will probably break my tooth and tea because I needed more (eye roll) and two very neatly done blind books. She provided the genre/subgenres, goodreads ratings and a decorative front to hide the book. I thought they were cool and if I hadn't already had a lot of gifts for friends I would have bought more.

I went for boba tea only to find the place closed. Not sure why.

Went to Remo's Italian hotdogs for a footlong covered in chili and pickles and since it was packed and I was waiting, there was time for drama. The guy who helps out behind the counter was leaving and he runs back in as two police cars rocket by. 'There's a guy lying in the street I think a car hit him.' Remo is over there saying 'is it someone we know.' Me and another customer, a nurse with Holzer, bust out of the joint, ready got run down the street to help but he had misread the situation. The cops had two men laid out in handcuffs. Things were fine (for us, not so much for those two teens)

Aldi's had all kinds of advent calendars and on an unrelated note I have a chocolate advent calendar now.

Pittsburgh is having so much for the holidays I don't know how I'll get to it all. I plan to try and stave off the insanity that way.

Two more Hazbin Hotel prompts showed up at

fandomtrees and they were smarter than me. They waited for the season to end to work into their prompts. They're exciting. I need to get started on them. So much I want to write so little time to do it.

Hell it's nearly midnight and I'm just setting down to do anything. So I still don't have my Hazbin break down. Sigh. Haven't read much of anything in weeks.

But have Science Saturday while it's still legal for it to exist (after this week I'm not holding my breath)

Human trash is 'kick-starting' the domestication of city-dwelling raccoons, study suggests

Sunken city discovered in Kyrgyzstan lake was a medieval hotspot on the Silk Road — until an earthquake wiped it out

'Impossible' black hole collision pushed relativity to its breaking point — and scientists finally understand how

Viking Age woman found buried with scallop shells on her mouth, and archaeologists are mystified

Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore (From Betty)

14,400-Year-Old Paw Prints Are World's Oldest Evidence Of Humans Living Alongside Domesticated Dogs

Incredible Footage May Be First Evidence Wild Wolves Have Figured Out How To Use Tools

First-Ever Look At Neanderthal Nasal Cavity Shatters Expectations.

Animi Motus sad
Cantus Svengoolie

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Between my coworkers seeming to NOT understand that this 'new shining insurance' will cost in the long run three times the shit show we have and the unqualified twit Trump has running the Dept of Education deciding nursing is not a professional degree (which would make it harder to get student loans for it among other horrible things) I have had enough of this fucking day. And my apple set off my gastric paresis so not vomiting was a real chore in lab

I'm glad we didn't have the writers meeting. I'm not fit for man or beast (nor have I answered or read posts since...omg nearly the 7th, go me) so have fannish 50 recs

I wrote a thing!!

Title: Only Shades of Gray

Summary: Angel is ready to help his new lover, one of hell’s up and coming overlords grab more territory. But who walks into Valentino’s would-be new territory but someone Angel had been waiting for for decades. So, his brother had finally died.

Rating: teen

Notes:This is set in the late 1970s which is currently, from the old notes up on fandom wiki, the time period in which both Valentino and Arackniss died. So I gave hell that same 70s vibe and this would be when Valentino is just building his empire and what Angel’s role is in it. And his first meeting with his brother after Arackniss died. I am sticking with Giovanni for Arackniss’ living years name as the old notes have him as a Jonathan.

Content warning – Angel’s family is homophobic so there are references to that along with time period appropriate history for Angel’s living years in the 1930s and 40s.

Written Spikesgirl58’s six word challenge. The words were Cave, Situation, Extent, Shy, Sip, & Ambitious

And written for the lyrical titles bingo challenge for the prompt, Song with a color in the title. I chose Shades of Gray by The Monkees. And for the allbingo prompt of Duty is heavier than a mountain. Death light as a feather. This quote is used in the story and it is from Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time.

( Story under here or at the above link )

Recs!!

No More Torchwood

In Denial FAKE

A Time for Healing Starsky & Hutch

Hope Against the Shadows Hazbin Hotel

Divergent Roads Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Fool's Rosegold The Owl House

Heartache Stargate Atlantis

To Trust His Daughter Hazbin Hotel

Goodbye, little duckling. Hazbin Hotel

Dill With It Hazbin Hotel

Childhood Ambitions Torchwood

Never Giving Up he Fantastic Journey

Perfect shot Call of Duty

The Write Stuff Stargate Atlantis

This Moon, That Moon 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Uncomplicatedly Complicated Wolverine/The X-Men

wooing the lady 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

something you could sin for Naruto

Living Their Own Lives Teen Wolf

We've Done This Before Addams Family

Animi Motus distressed
Cantus Midsomer Murder

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This house is never going to get cleaned. Not even doing one little bit at a time is helping me to get going. Sigh. Maybe someone should cut my internet and board me up in here...(take my tv too)

I barely had the gumption to go get my meds and to the coffee shop because I needed out of my head. I got a lot of writing done but that was just really a reason to come home and continue when I should have been working.

I went to put up the missing slides from my powerpoint which I put in red in front of my students so we all knew which ones that were missing. Guess what didn't save.

I was looking at

fandomtress and wondering what in the world is going to make this happen on time. Ha. There are SO. MANY. different fandoms and very few overlap so far. I found 4 I could work on. And hey here is my tree if you'd like to gimme a gift.

Speaking of fandom, I have to share this. I shared this video with

evil_little_dog of even more of Husk's new powers because they are so cool and I'm excited by them. check my boy out (and I think I've already shared this Husk glow up) and ELD responds with this reminds me of Gambit (probably remembering he IS my favorite X-Man) and omg she's right Gambit's power

I SO have a type. Apparently if you can set shit on fire (Roy, Zuko, Todoroki) or charge shit up and whip it at people (Gambit, Husk) you are my boy. Also I did NOT know this had been done to Gambit so there you go, another way to deal with an overpowered character. You Nerf them.

And hey check this out Alan Tudyk Launching New Podcast with Nathan Fillion called ‘Once, We Were Spacemen’ This could be so cool.

Animi Motus apathetic
Cantus American Monster

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I don't want to put too much in writing for safety's sake but leave it at our health care choices at work are either the crap insurance we have at 40% more cost OR some bullshit United Health Care thing where the coverage is based on how THEY think the doctor is performing and if their medical care 'is a good health care choice.' with a NINE THOUSAND dollar deductible. Why? Because we used our insurance 'too much' and 12 of the 14 insurers we contacted refused to speak to us.

This is why our health care is shit. This is why doctors are quitting left right and center. Because it's just as batshit crazy to deal with it from the doctor's side. I kinda feel like throwing up.

I was happy at least that the hip calmed down enough for me to attend our last yoga class of the semester.

And I did see the last two Hazbin's without being spoiled. This felt SO MUCH like Prodigal Son season 2, parts I loved, parts I outrightly loathed. (and once again oh look we can't have the superpowered character mucking things up so let's make him act like an idiot to get him out of the way.

I'm starting in on the Mighty Nein. It's...not what I remember but it's been a year or more since I listened to this and who's to even say it's starting in the same place as the actual campaign. I think it's giving a lot of backstory instead. The animation style is good though. I hate Beau though. I don't even like the character to start with but I swear to god she looks just like Sokka from Avatar the Last Airbender to the point I did a double take.

What I Just Finished Reading:

Anne of Green Gables

Elfquest volume 1

Blacksad - a anthropomorphic noir graphic novel

What I am Currently Reading:

The Tea Dragon Society

A Twist of Murder - Charles Dickens is the detective, yes another real person fanfic mystery. So far I am unimpressed.

Haunted Cemeteries of Ohio - you know why

Revenge Serve Royal - historical mystery

What I Plan to Read Next: Death at the Door one of the many arcs I'm SO behind on.

Animi Motus depressed
Cantus The Mighty Nein

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My writers' zoom meeting went on too long for me to do a fannish 50 today AND I know the only way to not get spoiled for the finale of Hazbin Hotel is to watch it tonight when it drops at midnight (provided the storm leaves me power) so I won't be back to do it then so I'm getting on with it.

So my day, the thing I wanted to say was I saved a sky puppy. We were cleaning up the dissections today and I hear a student scream Dr. Dana there's a BAT in the sink.

Me thinking sure there is I was just at the sink like 90 seconds ago. I go over and sure enough there is a Big Brown Bat (legit name) in the sink. She's cold and shivering and wet AF because it's pouring outside for like the last 12 hours (can't wait for the ice slick tomorrow) So this is the A&P lab and I don't have leather gloves to safely catch her without getting bitten.

I go looking for the wildlife profs (leaving the students in charge of Batty, just keep an eye on her and where she goes if she leaves the sink) No one is around. The wildlife prep room has no damn gloves that I can see. I go into my micro to get the thermal gloves we use for the autoclave. My coworker has moved them god knows where.

I pop into the environmental science lab and she's there. No gloves but we do have a catch container. We go get Batty (who very obviously had to come down through my fume hood) and we put her under the skybridge to the other building where she can hang out and get dry. Poor thing.

ETA - the Midnight drop for Hazbin is west coast time. ARGH. That's 3 am here. whines piteously

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the bone-joint-muscle test was awful (class average 55% excluding the two who got 100% and the fact several people didn't show up) This test for whatever reason (I suspect because it's their first real hard core physiology) is always a blood bath. I always make them work for extra credit for the test (by doing short essays on the most missed questions) Took me all night to grade it.

And all day. Had to learn new software for it but that was easy peasy.

My hip is still in horrendous pain. Fun times

And here's the real reason for the post. Music Monday today was best song from High School Years

Here have this

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I swear my whole dorm (the next year since this came out in my senior year) would stop and race to our tvs when this video came on MTV

And bonus music because Angel is Italian and Husk is fluent, have Losing Streak in Italian

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