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Both of these things made me laugh aloud at various intervals.

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[Podfic] Whither Kelvin Trillion, Wither the Republic (62 words) by 1lostone, farkenshnoffingottom, InklingDancer
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Bail Organa/Breha Organa, Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Hondo Ohnaka, Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Dexter Jettster/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Guy Fieri/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yan Dooku/Obi-Wan Kenobi, General Grievous/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jar Jar Binks/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Shaak Ti
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Satine Kryze, Bail Organa, Breha Organa, Padmé Amidala, Mace Windu, Anakin Skywalker, Yoda (Star Wars), Hondo Ohnaka, Cody, Dexter Jettster, Guy Fieri, Yan Dooku, General Grievous, Jar Jar Binks, Shaak Ti
Additional Tags: Limericks, Documentation, Buzzfeed, Podfic, Audio Format: Streaming, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Series: Part 4 of Star Wars Podfics
Summary:

Who is the holonet's mystery limerick writer, and does he really get it on as much in real life as he does in his filthy poetry?

A podfic of "Whither Kelvin Trillion, Whither the Republic"

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Written for me for Yuletide New Year's Resolutions: Madalena (Galavant) meets Shawn & Gus (Psych). Set in s2 of Galavant and who-even-knows of Psych.

Faire Play (1997 words) by HematiteBadger
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Galavant (TV), Psych (TV 2006)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Madalena (Galavant), Burton "Gus" Guster, Shawn Spencer
Additional Tags: Crossover, unabashedly silly
Summary:

Madalena has a chance encounter with a pair of very strange folk on her journey to seek the DDEL.

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I have a new Psych/Galavant ship. It is not Lassiter/Richard.

Current Mood: giggly
Current Music: 'Cause holy guacamole, that one reeks to holy hell

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Title: Cold Shiver
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some coarse language
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Setting/Spoilers: Set in S6, during ep. 6x16 “Hell’s Bells.”
Summary: Buffy’s inner realization about Spike.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #422 - Important

Crossposted:

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adore

One of the things I want to work on this year is unmasking. In general, but especially with my family. This tumblr post has some ways to start.

I thought I was starting today, actually, but while I expressed my emotions honestly, my family are not emotionally safe for me to be that vulnerable around, which is why I have been masking around them in the first place... today was hard because I'm grappling with the fact that these people who claim to love me and have affection for me, want me to stay quiet when someone in the family hurts me. They'll make excuses for the person who hurt me because they think it's okay for me to be hurt. When I love someone, I don't want them hurt. So I don't believe this is love, I don't understand this so-called familial love. Seems cultish to me.

It's in moments of realisation like these, when I brush against my family and leave with a bleeding gash, that I feel lonely despite having met friends very recently.

Unmasking has to go hand in hand with protecting myself and setting strong boundaries. Being 'radically visible' when it's not safe for you to be really seen by these people? Needs more thought.

This is giving me more ideas for why I am so parasocially fascinated by Yunho, the idol who does not want to be seen to feel safe. Maybe he reminds me of what I do on a daily basis to feel safe around my family. He's very performative and I don't have the energy for that, so I'm very avoidant.

I wonder if Yunho is lonely. Whether he ever wants to be honest and vulnerable. Maybe safety comes first for him.

Current Mood: aggravated

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Posted by Nur Ibrahim

https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/01/11/obama-dropped-bombs-congress/

Trump supporters spread the claim again after he ordered a "large-scale strike" on Venezuela in January 2026.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/01/11/obama-dropped-bombs-congress/

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Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

5soulmates is a com challenge we wanna do aswell!

fictionkin.org is a site about metaphysical / spiritual fictionkin.

is a site housing alterhuman zines!

is an AO3 fork specifically for femslash content!

is a place where you can make your own website! (neocities is also an option)

purplecat

A tiny wee dinosaur skeleton held in the palms of two hands.

Mussaurus - the above, stolen shamelessly from Darren Naish's The Great Dinosaur Discoveries, is of a hatchling.

pauraque

A distant planet is home to two interdependent human colonies: the hierarchical City, founded by convicts exiled from Earth, and the egalitarian Town, founded by a group of pacifists. They have little in common besides having been removed from Earth because authorities there found them inconvenient, and they have very different visions for their shared planet's future. The City sees itself as the legitimate planetary government (they were there first and they perceive the Town as weak and worthy only of exploitation) while the Town sees itself as the City's equal and expects to resolve issues through nonviolent dialogue. Our protagonist is Luz, the daughter of a powerful City leader. As she learns more about the Town and her father's plans for it, Luz sees a deadly conflict brewing and finds herself caught in the middle.

Le Guin was quoted as saying that this book "might be" part of the Hainish Cycle. I'm not sure the timeline quite fits (not that she ever sweated the timeline) but the themes certainly do. My impression on re-reading is that this one does a lot of things that The Word for World Is Forest tried to do, but better—and it does some of the things that The Dispossessed already did, with less detail but with some insightful additional angles.

( cut for length )

I really like this book, and I definitely got more out of it as an adult, especially in the context of Le Guin's earlier work. I don't hear it mentioned very often when people talk about her, but I think there's more here to chew on than I first realized.

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prettygoodword

tattoo (ta-TOO) - n., a permanent mark or design on the skin made by pricking and ingraining an indelible pigment; the process of making such a mark. v., to make a tattoo.

Also a signal on a drum, bugle, or trumpet at night, for soldiers or sailors to go to their quarters, but that's from Dutch and can be ignored for this theme. This was originally spelled was tattow, reflecting that in some Polynesian languages, such as Tahitian and Samoan, the word is tatau, but the word was later reimported from another Polynesian language, such as Marquesan, where the final vowel had shifted to tatu. The root meaning in Proto-Oceanic was the wingbone of a flying fox, which was apparently a common tool for tattooing -- a meaning that survived in a couple languages. [Sidebar: TIL Samoan is the most widely spoken Polynesian language, with around 430,000 native speakers, around half of which live in the Samoan Islands.]

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Posted by Jen

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/9-realistic-new-years-resolutions-2026

Chances are you've all completely failed at all your New Year's resolutions by now.

Well, good! Who needs 'em? Round IS a shape! You know plenty of stuff already!
And really, if God didn't want you in debt, he wouldn't have given you so many credit cards!

So I say, let's try some realistic resolutions. Stuff that tells the world, "Hey, I'm BEING the change I want to see... in my spare time and when there's nothing better to do."

- Celebrate the little things.

Preferably with cake.

- Stop Saying "That's What She Said,"

0.o

... at least so often.

(The order was: "Happy Birthday Oliver, below that 24.")

- Drink more water.

There's water in beer, right?

- Be more enthuseas... inthusiast... positive.

Also work on spelling.

- Change all my passwords to something besides "password."

Sure. That works.

- Pluck

- Learn the names of my coworkers.

Nicknames count.

- Win more staring contests.

...

And finally, for a little fun:

- Find a new hobby!

Thanks to RJ, Megan H., Diane C., Tonya, Alisa G., Julie B., Shelley M., John Paul, & Betty Ann, who thinks you look fabulous in that new blouse.

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P.S. In the spirit of continued learning and broadening our horizons, I found you some take-home reading:

What If? Serious Scientific Answers To Absurd Hypothetical Questions

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And from my other blog, Epbot:

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/9-realistic-new-years-resolutions-2026

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

First things first: this is a review of the film. There's not much about the whole raucous "midnight screening" culture that appeals to me, and I don't think shadow casts and so on are really much of a thing here in Britain in any case. On another note, this first-run UK quad poster was designed by none other than John Pasche, the guy who made the Rolling Stones' tongue and lips logo!

Anyway, with my bisexual hat on,¹ Frank-N-Furter is not my queer icon. I don't see any real need to preserve historical representation in aspic, and plenty of things that were seen as ground-breaking in the 1970s can now be seen for the more uncomfortable ones they are. Frank is a well written character, and certainly charismatic, but a guy to be uncritically celebrated he ain't. We have a more advanced idea of consent than was often the case in the Seventies, for a start. The story is pretty silly, but rock musicals will do that, and several of the songs (not just "Time Warp") are decent or better.
¹ As Fred Astaire didn't quite sing: "I'm puttin' on my bi hat, 'cause I like 'em all, cat: women and the males."

The staging generally works, being an area where the campiness and deliberately cheap look works well, though it can look a bit... stagey, unsurprising given this grew out of a stage show. Tim Curry plays Frank superbly, and Richard O'Brien (who many of us in the UK will remember presenting The Crystal Maze in the early 1990s) is excellent as well. The rest are okay to good, so no real complaints other than the odd song lyric that's hard to hear. Not a film I'm going to rush back to, and as I say not one I'm at all interested in seeing in... that environment, but it's good to have ticked it off the list. ★★★