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While we seem to have skipped actual plague, all of my households have acquired the going lurgi and my head feels like a balloon which has been filled with concrete and may at any second fall off. I have not been ill with a pharmacologically suppressed immune system before. I hadn't been sure it would be capable of running even a low-grade fever.

I have him so totally identified with the role of Neroon on Babylon 5 (1994–98), I keep forgetting that John Vickery in common with many actors who could handle the hours of makeup made several appearances on Star Trek, although the time I actually seem to have seen him in that universe involved no enhancements except near-catatonic terror as the sole survivor of a creepily derelict death-ship in TNG's "Night Terrors" (1991). Perhaps it was just lost to the sands of fanzines, but I was genuinely surprised that no one on AO3 ever filled in some kind of /comfort for a character who spends nearly his total screen time communicating telepathically in traumatized broken echoes and crying. Just when you think you have some kind of handle on the fannish id.

It is not reasonable that for two years the earth has been bereft of a rust-black little cat with cut-lime eyes, my miracle, my salty boy, my sassafras, while it suffers the weight of human people who are not worth one of his twenty-six claws, snagged in my bathrobe as he clambered to my shoulder for his terrycloth time after a shower. I miss turning back the covers in this weather to find his sincere blink up from the bedclothes, the absolute trust in the soft curl of his back that no one would shift him from his burrowed comfort. I miss the notes in his purr, from the musical edge of wanting to the subterranean roar of contentment, the whole architecture of his body vibrating like throat singing with the little whiffle that went in and out of his voice, his signature trill. I miss the unretractable click of his claws that announced his progress and the calluses of his desert-rose pads with which he gripped fiercely for human touch. From childhood I was taught that cats turn into flowers and Autolycus lies with his grave goods at the roots of the forsythia I have twice watched bloom since his death; the candle lit for him after sunset burns and his sister did not spring immediately off the bed when I stumbled into it, nauseated and head-aching. I am not without cat in my life. But I am without this cat and he was of inestimable worth to the world.

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Jan. 10th, 2026 12:33 pm
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Fandoms: 9-1-1, Cobra Kai, Crazy Handsome Rich, Dead Boy Detectives, Heated Rivalry, Legend of the Seeker, Maxton Hall, Ransom Canyon, Stay By My Side

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Sholio Vids

Jan. 9th, 2026 11:45 pm
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Since I'm getting back into vidding again, I decided to put my vids (that are on AO3) in a collection for easier browsing.

Introducing Sholio Vids!

I tried doing it as a series at first, as I've seen some other vidders do, but this really didn't work for me because it means the oldest ones stack at the top, unless I do them in reverse order, I guess. Also, since I'm wildly multifannish in my vidding habits, making it a collection makes it very easy to pick and choose by fandom, as most people would probably want to do.

I actually have a LOT of vids that aren't on here. I didn't start regularly putting them on AO3 until the late 2010s, so (for example) all my AC ones, my White Collar ones, and basically everything before 2017 isn't on here. (Except one Highlander vid for some reason.) And it looks like there were a few even during this time that I never put on AO3. Also, a lot of my old vids aren't online anymore: a lot of my old Youtube embeds simply Ceased To Work for reasons unknown, and I think the oldest downloads no longer work either.

I started posting vids in 2006 - I was already making them (that started in 2002 or so) but it was 2006, in SGA fandom, that I got confident enough to start putting them online. Which makes 2026 my 20th vidding anniversary (vidiversary?), and one thing I'd like to do is get most of those old vids back up online if possible. That's an ongoing project for 2026 - stay tuned for details!

(Also, I am FINALLY working on subtitles for my recent vids, the Murderbot vid at the very least! I eventually decided to just handwrite the SRT files, which really doesn't take too much time; it's just a bit nitpicky to get the timing synced. It's not up yet, but hopefully soon.)

Prague hockey camp

Jan. 10th, 2026 09:15 am
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I had such a good time at the hockey camp with the Women's Blues. 24 skaters and a goalie (plus two Czech goalies joined), and for most of the exercises we were divided by ability into four groups of six. The WBs captains had set the groups and they did a great job, certainly for my group - we were well-matched so the exercises all let us push ourselves without anyone being overwhelmed or left behind. And the coaching team was amazing, again.

We had five ice sessions: an "optional" skate Monday evening, and then two 75-minute training sessions on each of Tuesday and Wednesday. Plus some off-ice and stickhandling, video review, a bonus talk on "hockey IQ" and motivation from one of the coaches, and an optional visit to the nearby swimming pool. The camp posted a great reel from the first day that really captures the feel of it.

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Jan. 10th, 2026 01:05 am
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Jan. 10th, 2026 12:30 am
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The horrors persist, so I have a pot of jambalaya bubbling away on the stove. We actually had chicken and shrimp and sausages in the fridge all at the same time, even if the sausages were technically brats instead of andouille, and the Bay Area's under some kind of historic extreme cold weather warning; a nice big warm pot of comfort food seemed called for. (Realfeel when I left the house this morning for coffee ride was 31F; I actually needed my full-finger gloves for biking.)

Re our jambalaya: red bell peppers, not green, I know that's blasphemy against the holy trinity. Celery, yeah yeah, I hear you and your passionate defenses of said aromatic, [livejournal.com profile] kallmir2000 and [livejournal.com profile] heathers. ;) But we did have some to use up from our produce box. And instead of chicken broth this time, we took advantage of having a bunch of crab and shrimp shells in the freezer and made shrimp broth instead.

I have so many things I want to make this year, as evidenced by my last post (artichoke cupcakes, Dubai chocolate ensaymada my way, sourdough starter, ricotta?!). And YouTube steered us the way of the pavé potato again this week, which we haven't yet made, so that is currently in progress as well.

But we're also, as a bigger project, going to try to cook our way through Pasta Friday this year as well, albeit as a weekend thing. We riffed on last week's "crispy chickpeas with cencioni and sausage" based on what we had in the pantry after being away the previous weeks, and ended up with "not-crispy white beans with strozzapreti and sausage." [personal profile] hyounpark thinks it's because white beans have thinner skins than chickpeas that they didn't crisp up in the pan, but aside from that texture mismatch, the flavor profile of Italian sausage, a dry white wine (chardonnay my dad had brought over), butter, sage, and rosemary felt cozy for the endlessly rainy nights we've had lately. We also had to substitute parsley for arugula, but overall the results weren't bad considering what we had at hand, and we got a couple of actual vegetables in, go us.

Somehow, I have accumulated multiple pounds of strozzapreti (and cavatappi, probably my fave pasta shape), but have zero boxes of small shells on hand despite it being what we consider a baseline pasta for us to stock? (Our pasta pantry baseline: cappellini because it's fast, orecchiette or conchiglie because their shell shapes hold chunky sauces better than cappellini; anything beyond that is gravy. Other loved pasta shapes: bucatini ([personal profile] hyounpark: "Italians finally figured out an udon counterpart!"), pappardelle (me: "pasta ribbons!"), cannelloni/manicotti for stuffing.)

Looking forward to next week's "garlicky conchiglioni with spinach and cheese." Though there will, again, probably be some swaps (see our current lack of shell-shaped pastas of any size, but more than enough pasta in general to make acquiring additional pasta feel greedy). But I appreciate Allison Arevalo offering alternate pasta shape suggestions that would go well with the sauce (in this case, paccheri, fusilli giganti, or rigatoni), even if ... yeah, once again we don't have any of those on hand. 99% certain I'll be using the cavatappi here. And I also appreciate her wine suggestions for both red and white each week, even if we may not necessarily keep up with them. (I don't even know what a barbera wine is besides it being red and Italian, but we probably have a pinot grigio around, and thankfully my recipe database has plenty of suggestions calling for a cup of the likely leftover wine!)

Just so you don't get the idea it's all cooking successes around here, I tried to bake a hazelnut-frangipane galette des rois for choir this week, and it was a massive fail; my puff pastry never decided to behave, and then when I baked it up, the whole thing smelled like cheese - in a bad way - despite zero cheese in the ingredients. Alas! I will try again, hopefully before Mardi Gras, probably when it's the sopranos' turn to supply snacks at break.

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Jan. 10th, 2026 01:58 am
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My mom and her brother have been estranged for a year. Their attempts at reconciliation have failed. She calls me frequently to vent about this and to ask for my advice about getting him to apologize. My mother insists that my uncle is entirely at fault, but I suspect otherwise. She sends me transcripts of their conversations with sections conspicuously missing, and her behavior has blown up close relationships before. I try to stay out of it to avoid her anger, but I know this estrangement upsets her deeply. I doubt they will ever reconcile if she refuses to acknowledge any blame and insists that my uncle apologize. Is there a productive way to suggest that she examine her role in this conflict? The venting sessions are becoming hard to take.

ADULT CHILD


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If you wanna know if he loves you so (150 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Additional Tags: Drabble and a Half, Alternate Universe - Soulmates
Summary:

"May I?" says Master Qui-Gon's padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, reaching toward Anakin's shoulder and leaning down.


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This is not the first thing I have written recently that was all [personal profile] teland's fault, but it sure is the first Star Wars she's responsible for.

There are discussion questions in the first comment.

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Jan. 10th, 2026 01:05 am
rmc28: Rachel in hockey gear on the frozen fen at Upware, near Cambridge (Default)
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In "ice is slippy" news, I have managed to bruise both my hips in hard falls this week: the left one at hockey camp earlier this week, the right at Warbirds tonight.

For preference, I sleep curled up on one side.

Ow.

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Posted by Aaron Perine

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* Spoilers for Smackdown on the way, so if you don’t want to know stop reading right now*

WWE SmackDown gas folks talking after the volatile Three Stages of Hell match between Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre. Berlin played host to the massive event as WWE takes its show on the road for the next few weeks. But, the story here is Drew McIntyre claiming the WWE Undisputed Title against Cody Rhodes in a massive shake-up of the status quo. For weeks, Rhodes and the heel have been at each other’s throats. There was a home invasion where The American Nightmare attacked McIntyre at his house.

The 10 Best Video Game Plot Twists

Jan. 9th, 2026 11:56 pm
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Posted by Sarah Fimm

James in 'Silent Hill 2'

Secret agendas. Hidden identities. People who have been dead the whole time—is this the Sixth Sense? No, it’s a video game. Someone call M. Night Shyamalan, because these ten games are coming for his crown as King of Plot Twists. These titles feature some of the most shocking twists in gaming history—each a digital personification of the UNO Reverse card. You’ll spend your first play-through doing your best Leonardo DiCaprio pointing-meme impression, screaming “WAIT A MINUTE” at your screen while the other narrative shoe drops. Head-scratchers, hair-raisers, and heart-pounders, these are the 10 best video game plot twists.

In case it wasn’t clear: massive spoilers ahead.

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Posted by Charlotte Colombo

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There’s nothing more exciting than unboxing your Christmas gifts, but for TikToker Callie Miller (@angelcallie), there was an unwelcome surprise waiting for her when she opened her supposedly new KitchenAid from Target.

Describing her gift as the “first scam of 2026,” Callie showed the box she received, which had a white KitchenAid on the front.

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