Birdfeeding

Dec. 27th, 2025 02:17 pm
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Today is cloudy and mild.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 12/27/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 12/27/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 12/27/25 -- I raked more in the parking lot.  I had to make another line.  It's exhausting and inefficient and not even making the stumps all that much easier to see.

EDIT 12/27/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

I've seen a fox squirrel at the hopper feeder.

I am done for the night.
 

CHECK IN: DAY 27

Dec. 27th, 2025 08:11 pm
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I actually wrote today, for the first time since before Christmas :-)
It's interesting working with a different version of the same canon -- and trying to make sure I write the appropriate versions of the characters and don't slip back into the characterisations with which I'm more familiar..!

Is any one else involved in fandoms with multiple iterations (book/film/TV/stage), and do you try to keep them all separate or just do a mash-up of your favourite aspects of each?

7 Recs

Dec. 27th, 2025 01:04 pm
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I bring a quick 7 recs in 6 fandoms at my journal for

  • The Bedlam Stacks (backstory! Keita! Merrick!)
  • The Way of the Househusband (domesticity! But also porn!)
  • Antique Bakery (Ono and Tachibana in the mountains!)
  • Wimbledon (Peter is an idiot! But sort of okay at tennis!)
  • Cthulhu Mythos (Dream Cycle Randolph brings horrors to the yard!)
  • Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defence/Rivers of London (no more need said!)

Yuletide Recs!

Dec. 27th, 2025 11:52 am
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Recs in Chalion/World of the Five Gods - Lois McMaster Bujold, Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey, Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin, FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns, The Long Walk - Stephen King, "The Lottery" - Shirley Jackson; New Yorker RPF, Lyra series/Caught in Crystal - Patricia Wrede, Mushishi, Some Like It Hot, Watership Down - Richard Adams.

At my DW, with commentary.
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Posted by Ayala Sorotsky

Welcome back to Caturday Medley - the "post-holiday exhale" edition. The wrapping paper has finally settled, the leftovers are stacked in the fridge like culinary Tetris, and the festive chaos has gently padded away on soft little paws. Now it's time for what truly matters: collapsing on the couch with your cat and remembering how to breathe again.

Our feline overlords, of course, handled the holidays in their own signature style - helping "unwrap" gifts, supervising the cooking (aka staring with intent), and performing deep scientific studies on the structural integrity of Christmas trees. But now that the sparkles and jingles are over, our cats are slipping into maximum cozy mode: loafing, purring, slow-blinking, and doubling as fluffy emotional support heaters.

This weekend is about rest. About peace. About letting a purring floofie nap on your chest while you scroll through the internet's finest cat nonsense. And that's why we're here with your weekly Caturday Medley - a wholesome, hilarious collection of the very best cat memes to soothe your holiday-tired soul. It's packed with fluffy feline joy, gentle cat chaos, and pure serotonin in whiskered form - the perfect way to unwind after the holidays.

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Posted by Blake Seidel

This kitten is tougher than we'll ever be, and he's got the bike to prove it!

Imagine being less than a month old and trying to figure out the world on your own. We're approaching 35 and still have no idea what we're doing. But not only that, you're dumped in a place you don't know, surrounded by fast-moving machines you don't understand, and giant hairless monkeys that you don't know if they're good or bad. It sounds terrifying. Luckily, this kitten, now named "Lug Nut" (AKA Pongo), was found by one of the good ones. 

While taking his new motorcycle out for a ride, this burly biker found the kitten hiding under a car. He coaxed the cute kitty out, spent some time looking for any siblings or a mom, but when none of them showed up, he decided to take matters into his own hands. He stuffed the kitty in his pocket and drove them back home to safety. Lug Nut had quite a lot to say about being stuffed into a pocket, but he forgave his hooman after he got home and was fed. 

The kitten is staying with a coworker of his, but he plans on bringing Lug Nut back and turning him into a biker kitty, which sounds pretty cool if you ask us. Scroll through more about Lug Nut and his rescue below!

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Dec. 27th, 2025 11:28 am
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Didn't get a lot of sleep last night due to leg pain, neighbors' TV being too loud late at night and other neighbors' screaming baby. Still going to go out tonight to meet my friends for drinks at the bar across the street.

Today in Stories I Wish I Could Read

Dec. 27th, 2025 01:17 pm
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The reason I got a tumblr in 2013 was hockey RPF.

I have been watching my entire dashboard lose its collective mind over Heated Rivalry.

I tried to read this fic, which has in-universe fandom, one of my favorite tropes, and has a retrospective slant on what the development of hockey RPF in-universe would be like. Petra-nip.

I got as far as an in-universe primer for one of the characters, and was swamped with the combined nostalgia/trauma.

They're fictional! They can't possibly be sekrit racists or abetting rapists or not-so-sekritly shaking hands with Putin! They're not real!

And I can't do it.

I hope you are all having a wonderful time with your sinless imaginary hockey bros. I just keep thinking, "But if they were Real, they'd have Secrets that would make me Hate them."

I guess I will continue not engaging, because if I can't read an imaginary primer about an imaginary hockey player, I would be completely pants at watching the show. Primers are how I learned about real hockey players! It's a great starting place!

But not for me.
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Posted by Blake Seidel

The "Felis Flooficus Peculiaris" is often found causing mischief and chaos when not sawing logs in honk-shoo land.

If you didn't read that first part in David Attenborough's voice, go back and do it again, but with his voice. On today's episode of "cats being cats", we present to you some raw, unfiltered pictures we captured of a creature living in your house right now. This beautiful, yet derpy creature, "Felis Flooficus Peculiaris", sleeps for most of the day, but when it's not sleeping, it's up to something. Did you know that while you're at work or asleep, your kitty explores uncharted territories (climbs literally everything), marks its territory (knocks everything over), and leaves no curiosity left unchecked?

It's hard to document "Felis Flooficus Peculiaris" because it is active most in the early mornings or evenings. You can never tell when it will awake from its slumber and choose to leave a wake of chaos in its wake, but that's what we're here for. We followed them around for days, nay, weeks, nay, years, to get this purrfectly unique footage for you, so you can see their true nature.

What is their true nature, you ask? Well, they're pawsitively adorable, purrfectly silly, and 100% recommended as cute companions. Just feed them on time and prepare to follow their every whim and desire for many years to come. If you can follow those two simple rules, you and "Felis Flooficus Peculiaris" will get along just fine.

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Posted by Mariel Ruvinsky

Christmas miracles happen every year in the cat world. And they really are miracles. They deserve that title. How else do you explain a 13-year-old cat reuniting with its owner after 9 years apart just in time for Christmas or someone finding a frozen kitten and reuniting it with its family literally on Christmas Eve? And how about a story like today - just in time for Christmas, a cat that was for over 400 days got reunited with its family. We think these are miracles. We're sure that the families who experience these things definitely believe they are miraculous moments. 

Of course, you can say that these things could have happened any day. Any other day of the year, this cat could have been found, brought to the shelter, and scanned for a microchip. And maybe that is true, but it did not happen on just any day. It happened during the holidays, when it's cold outside, when the kitty most likely needed more help than ever, and just in time for it to come back home to colorful lights and shiny toys and the glint of a new year and a new hope in front of its eyes. 

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Yuletide Recs 1

Dec. 27th, 2025 04:09 pm
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For some Darth Real Life reasons, I had less time than usual during the holidays to delve into the Yuletide archive, but I did have some chances, and here are some early results. ;)



Akhenaten - Glass

The lone and level sands stretch far away: or, Egptian historical fiction. Based on the opera, but can be read without having heard it yet knowing who Akhenaten was. Poetic and intense.


Greek Myths:

Mothers of the Brazen Spear: Andromache and three of her sisters-in-law after the Trojan war. Based on Euripides.

Homophrosyne: Penelope through twenty years.


Born with Teeth:

To Bite the World: in which Will and Kit talk and role play Richard III and Anne Neville. Matches the play really well.



Bride of the Rat God - Hambly :

A closer kinship: the crucial moment from the novel's backstory when Christine shows up in England to whisk Norah away. This is one of my favourite Barbara Hambly novels, and the characterisation of both women is perfect.


Copenhagen - Frayn:

Quantum Game Theory: Four alternate timelines where the Copenhagen meeting never happened, and one where it did. Clever, moving and profound.


Farscape:

Look after the Princess: in which Katralla from s2's Princess trilogy wakes up post- Peacekeeper Wars (there are plot reasons) to find herself in a mad adventure with Aeryn Sun. And Aeryn's baby. And the usual Farscape insanity. Really feels like an episode in the best way, and fleshes out Katralla to boot.


Also, there are still free spots if you want me to ramble on something on the January meme.

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Dec. 27th, 2025 04:08 pm
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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

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