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These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Extreme Animals
Birdfeeding
Grand Prairie Friends
Communities
Photos: Lake Charleston
Photos: Coles County Community Garden
Photos: Charleston Food Forest
Activism
Safety
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Community
Today's Smoothie
Poem: "A Clear Path of Freedom"
Climate Change
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 11-7-25: Kingdom Hearts
Climate Change
Birdfeeding
Food
Birdfeeding
Poem: "To the Rational Mind"
Early Humans
Hard Things

Trauma has 36 comments. Affordable Housing has 60 comments. Robotics has 97 comments.

Last week's Poetry Fishbowl went well. I still have at least one more poem to write.

"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv and needs $191 to be complete. Maiara and Arthur discuss taking notes.

The weather was pleasantly cool, then today the temperature suddenly plummeted and it snowed a little. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a goldfinch. A great horned owl has been hoo-hooing outside along with a shrieking owlet. :D 3q3q3q!!! Currently blooming: dandelions, marigolds, red salvia, sweet alyssum, blue lobelia, firecracker plant. Fields are almost all harvested.

Current Mood: busy

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Pinch hits are participants who are without creators; pinch hitting is the practice of volunteering to make a gift for a pinch hit. These pinch hits are all due on November 14th at 10:00 PM EST.

Fic In A Box has a very unusual set of assignment requirements: everyone is owed (and is asking for) 10k of fanfiction, which by default can be given as one 10k+ fic or several 1k+ fics. Participants have also had the option to opt-in to other minimum lengths or to other formats of fanwork. The other fanwork mediums are given word count equivalents, which you can view on the medium ruleset post.

Additionally:

Fic In A Box creators may default after partially filling their assignment—say, if they discover that they can only write 9k of fic—and PHs can be picked up in 1k increments!
You may always swap all or part of your assignment for a PH, just let us know that's what you're doing when you post to claim the PH.
In the future we'll include details in the post, but for this post we're linking to the app for that to keep the post size down!

In order to pick up a pinch hit you need to either email us or comment on this post (comments are screened) with:

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( PH 3 - 5k - Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice, Crossover Fandom, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV), Война и мир - Лев Толстой | War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy, Fire & Blood - George R. R. Martin, House of the Dragon (TV) )

( PH 5 - 8k - Christian Astrology - William Lilly, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), 龍の国ルーンファクトリー | Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma (Video Game), Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses )

( PH 6 - 3k - Crossover Fandom, QSMP | Quackity SMP, Crossover Fandom, SMPEarth, Dream SMP )

( PH 11 - 1k - The Expanse Series - James S. A. Corey, The Expanse (TV), Gattaca (1997), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman, On a Sunbeam (Graphic Novel), Sunshine - Robin McKinley )

( PH 12 - 10k - 鹿鼎記 - 金庸 | The Deer and the Cauldron - Louis Cha, 鹿鼎記 | The Duke of Mount Deer (Hong Kong 1984), 老洞 | The Old Miao Myth (TV), 神鵰俠侶 | The Return of the Condor Heroes (TV 1983) )

( PH 13 - 5k - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) )

( PH 17 - 3k - 地縛少年花子くん | Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun | Toilet-bound Hanako-kun (Anime), Persona 3, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Fire Emblem: Kakusei | Fire Emblem: Awakening, Undertale (Video Game), Promare (2019) )

( PH 22 - 4k - The Good Wife (TV), Fresh Meat (TV), Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater, Guardians of Time - Marianne Curley, Crossover Fandom, Crossover Fandom )

( PH 29 - 7k - 단금지교 | Dangeum and Jigyo (Webcomic), Star Control (Video Games), Chang Feng Juan | I Promise to Return (Webcomic), 고진감래 | Go Jin and Gam-rae (Webcomic) )

( PH 31 - 5k - Oasis (Band), Kyle Murchison Booth Stories - Sarah Monette, Thor (Movies), Red Sonja (2025) )

( PH 36 - 5k - Dwarf Fortress, Assassin's Creed - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games) )

( PH 62 - 2k - Blue Lock (Manga), Blue Lock (Manga), Blue Lock (Manga), Haikyuu!!, Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan, Vanitas no Carte (Manga), Vanitas no Carte (Manga) )

( PH 65 - 9k - Hallo itt Mátyás király! - Bogáti Péter, Crossover Fandom, Night Prince - Jeaniene Frost, Felvidek (Video Game), 15th Century CE RPF )

( PH 68 - 5k - Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Great North (Cartoon), Bob's Burgers (Cartoon), Crossover Fandom, Iron Man (Movies), Murdoch Mysteries, Hawkeye (TV 2021) )

( PH 73 - 1k - Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things (TV 2016) )

( PH 101 - 4k - 少年歌行 | The Blood of Youth (Live Action TV), 少年白马醉春风 | Dashing Youth (Live Action TV), Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball )

( PH 109 - 6k - Buffyverse (TV), Crossover Fandom, The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, Original Work, Thor (Movies) )

( PH 115 - 4k - Roswell New Mexico (TV 2019), DC Extended Universe, DC's Arrowverse, Superman (Movie 2025), Crossover Fandom, Descendants (Disney Movies) )

( PH 125 - 2k - Gundam 00, Universal Century Gundam, Tennis no Oujisama | Prince of Tennis, 魔法使いの約束 | Mahoutsukai no Yakusoku | Promise of Wizard (Video Game), Ensemble Stars! (Video Game), Universal Century Gundam )

( PH 129 - 8k - 괴담에 떨어져도 출근을 해야 하는구나 - 백덕수 | Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story I Still Have to Go to Work - Baek Deoksoo, 내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo, 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong (Novel), Omniscient Reader - singNsong & UMI & Sleepy-C (Webtoon), 내가 키운 S급들 | The S-Classes That I Raised (Webcomic) )

( PH 132 - 7k - Solitude - Ursula K. Le Guin, Hacks (TV 2021), House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski, ONE - Cheesy Hfj (Web Series), Brand New Cherry Flavor (TV), Translation State - Ann Leckie, Short Term 12 (2013) )

( PH 134 - 6k - InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale, Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey, Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) )

( PH 136 - 1k - QSMP | Quackity SMP, Crossover Fandom, Critical Role (Web Series) )

( PH 138 - 8k - Given (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), Given (Manga), Wind Breaker (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga) )

( PH 146 - 2k - Étoile (TV), Olympo (TV), The Pitt (TV), Conclave (2024), Downton Abbey, Downton Abbey )

( PH 150 - 4k - One Piece (Anime & Manga), One Piece (Anime & Manga), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Original Work, Original Work, One Piece (Anime & Manga), Tortall - Tamora Pierce )

( PH 154 - 8k - 괴담에 떨어져도 출근을 해야 하는구나 - 백덕수 | Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story I Still Have to Go to Work - Baek Deoksoo, 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong (Novel), 내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo )

( PH 157 - 1k - The Godfather (1972 1974 1990), Phantasm (Movies), Breaking Bad, Tommy (1975), Smokey and the Bandit (1977) )

( PH 159 - 2k - Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Temeraire - Naomi Novik, Crossover Fandom, Death in the Spires - K. J. Charles, Band Sinister - K. J. Charles )

( PH 162 - 8k - DCU (Comics), Doctor Who (2005), Miraculous Ladybug, Free!, Haikyuu!! )

( PH 172 - 4k - 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 二哈和他的白猫师尊 - 肉包不吃肉 | The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat, 将进酒 - 唐酒卿 | Qiāng Jìn Jiǔ - Táng Jiǔ Qīng )

settiai

In tonight's game,

( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: accomplished

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torachan

1. We walked up to Layla's for bagels this morning. We tried to go last week, but made the mistake of going at lunchtime and the line was out the door and down the block, so we got lunch elsewhere lol. But today we got there before eight and it was busy, but no long line.

2. I was about to make hummus this afternoon when I found that the last of the tahini had mold on it, so I walked over to the tiny Indian store a block or so away, but they didn't have any! However, I had once gotten tahini at another market within close walking distance, so I went over there and they still had it. I didn't love that brand that they had, but I also didn't want to get in the car and go somewhere else, so I'll settle this time. (Then I got home and realized I wasn't totally sure I had any cans of chick peas left, but there was one! So I was able to make my hummus.)

3. I guess this post is going to be all about food, because I made some really delicious curry for dinner. And I used the last of the croquettes that had been in the freezer for ages. We've been doing a decent job of eating stuff up out of the freezer and not buying a whole bunch more stuff to fill it up. I really want to fully clean it out and stock it with stuff we're actually going to use regularly, but that's a long-haul project.

4. Oh, one non-food related point. I got out in the shed today and did some organizing. Got the box of ornaments out and put in the garage with the tree, and also found several things we decided we no longer need and could put out on the curb, including a giant suitcase which was taking up a huge amount of space. We really only use smaller suitcases or bags, so this one hadn't been used in years and years. It also had a bunch of other unused purses and backpacks that we decided could go.

5. Sleepy Gemma!

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Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (books)
Pairings/Characters: Holmes/Watson
Rating: T
Length: 47,061 words
Creator Links: Flawedamythyst
Theme: Mystery & Suspense, casefic

Summary: Moriarty kidnaps Watson.

Reccer's Notes: Watson is kidnapped by Moriarty. The story cycles between two POVs, Watson's and Holmes'. We follow Holmes as he does everything he can to find Watson, and Watson as he tries his best to survive as a prisoner. I will say Moriarty was actually menacing in this story, not watered down like some portrayals, and there is a lot suspense about if Holmes will be able to rescue Watson in time before something terrible occurs.

Fanwork Links: AO3

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Sunday, November 9, to midnight on Monday, November 10 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33820 Daily check-in poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 18

How are you doing?

I am OK
9 (52.9%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
8 (47.1%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
7 (38.9%)

One other person
8 (44.4%)

More than one other person
3 (16.7%)

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.

sovay

I was mistaken for an academic this afternoon at the bookstore which made me want to go home and shoot myself in the head, but when I actually got home a package of white chocolate and lemon Milanos was waiting for me from

selkie and I managed to get a picture before the rain started of the previously mentioned neighborhood decoration.

Every single review I have encountered so far of Death by Lightning (2025) has proceeded from the assumption that the reader and by extension the viewer has never heard of Charles Guiteau and only vaguely, perhaps dutifully of President James Garfield and I just don't think Sondheim fans are that thin on the ground. At least it should popularize this particularly indelible fact.

Current Music: The Last Dinner Party, "The Scythe"

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Ever wondered how I churn out so much rhyming poetry?

Meet my beloved RhymeZone.com, extensive rhyming dictionary.

Also endorsed by Florence Welch and Seth Meyers, quite recently, in a charming interview.

Current Mood: the rain in spain
Current Music: I sort of hate to ask it, but what's a rhyme for basket?

musesfool

My sister texted me yesterday to let me know she's sick so I shouldn't go over there today, so I did not. So today, instead of making pie, I made Chinese pork buns (pic). I made the pork yesterday and used the leftovers today - I used boneless country ribs because they are fairly cheap and I don't like dealing with bones. I can't seem to get a good boneless pork shoulder these days - last time I ordered a bone-in one, it was supposedly 3 lbs, but it was 2 lbs of bone and 1 of meat, which is not the best ratio for the money - so I go with the boneless country ribs instead (the ones from Costco are especially good).

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I shouldn't have been so enthusiastic the other day about how much better I've been sleeping, because of course, on Friday night, I had a terrible night's sleep, tossing and turning and just unable to stay asleep after several hours of trying to fall asleep. Last night was much better. *hands* Sometimes, it just be like that.

While I was lying awake, I was thinking about Dungeon Crawler Carl, as I have been wont to do lately, and trying to figure out his relationship with Bea, because I find it kind of baffling.

( spoilers through book 7 )

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Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Rams vs Niners on tv

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Current Mood: content

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Title: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a detail of curious traditionary facts and other evidence by the editor
Author: James Hogg
Published: 1824
Rating: 4.5 of 5
Page Count: 390
Total Page Count: 550,215
Text Number: 2049
Read Because: this recommendation list, Project Gutenberg has this one
Review: Predestined for salvation, the second and unrecognized son of a laird can commit no sin—he can't be guilty even when his mysterious companion urges him to murder his brother. This isn't the easiest historical novel to get into; I found the Scots a consistent barrier to entry, and the frame narration is incredibly effective but also makes for a divided tone and pacing. But! Who cares! The frame introduces the external facts; the titular memoir, the subjective reality of unreliable narration. In combination, this is a why-/how-dun-it satirical psychological gothic novel, simultaneously comically unsubtle—

I had a desire to slay him, it is true, and such a desire too as a thirsty man has to drink; but, at the same time, this longing desire was mingled with a certain terror, as if I had dreaded that the drink for which I longed was mixed with deadly poison. My mind was so much weakened, or rather softened about this time, that my faith began a little to give way, and I doubted most presumptuously of the least tangible of all Christian tenets, namely, of the infallibility of the elect.

—and beautifully indeterminate, namely in the uncanny friend's seduction, liberation, and harrowing of the sinner himself. I immediately pinged Dumas's A History of Fear as inspired by this (it is), but I'd go further and call it a retelling, structurally but also thematically, right down to the queerness. But Justified Sinner is better: a seductive subtext (fascinating counterpoint to the devil in MacLane's I Await the Devil's Coming or Warner's Lolly Willowes), much denser narrative, and frankly hilarious. This is one for the reread pile, particularly trusting that the difficult parts will be easier with familiarity.

( Another quote. )

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Rating: G
Length: 1800
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: Sholio on AO3, Sholio's old SGA website
Themes: Mystery and suspense, Genfic, Ghosts

Summary: It gets bloody creepy here at night.

Reccer's Notes: This is an interesting story about Atlantis remembering her dead, and indeed those still living, in a somewhat troubling way. At first it's unclear how it's happening, but gradually John figures out it's just the city, haunted, and haunting them. Nicely creepy.

Fanwork Links: In Heaven and Earth

ysabetwordsmith

There are currently three poems available from this week's fishbowl, and I'm working on the next. If you're still shopping, now's the time to make your choices.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Life found in a place scientists thought impossible

Life defies limits in the deep sea—microbes flourish where Earth’s chemistry seems too extreme for survival.

Deep beneath the ocean, scientists uncovered thriving microbial life in one of Earth’s harshest environments—an area with a pH of 12, where survival seems nearly impossible. Using lipid biomarkers instead of DNA, researchers revealed how these microbes persist by metabolizing methane and sulfate. The discovery not only sheds light on deep-sea carbon cycling but also suggests that life may have originated in similar extreme conditions, offering a glimpse into both Earth’s past and the limits of life itself.

Extremophiles are fascinating.

Also, I really want to play with that blue serpentine mud to see if it would stand up to pinching, coiling, slabbing, or throwing and what would happen to it in a kiln. It looks like clay. I am betting it would fire either to a soft blue-gray (nice) or a sky blue (so much wow).

Current Mood: busy

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⌈ Secret Post #6883 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 30 secrets from Secret Submission Post #983.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

muccamukk

from Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
(translated from the Russian by Stanley Kunitz & Max Hayward)

Not under foreign skies
Nor under foreign wings protected -
I shared all this with my own people
There, where misfortune had abandoned us.

Instead of a Preface
In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me. Standing behind me was a woman, with lips blue from the cold, who had, of course, never heard me called by name before. Now she started out of the torpor common to us all and asked me in a whisper (everyone whispered there):
"Can you describe this?"
And I said: "I can."
Then something like a smile passed fleetingly over what had once been her face.

settiai

I started this past Thursday night's episode of Critical Role before crashing at the break because I desperately needed sleep after the week from hell at work. So let's pick up again now that it's properly the weekend. (Yes, the plan was that I'd finish the episode either Friday or yesterday. No, that didn't happen. Shush.)

As with previous posts about the current campaign of Critical Role, this will be a combination of quotes, random thoughts, and some speculation. And it's obviously full of spoilers (albeit vague ones in places).

( Spoilers under the cut. )

One more episode down, many more to go in the future. Although I do need to try to watch the Fjord/Jester wedding special that dropped recently, because I haven't done that yet.

Current Mood: busy

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Monday Update 11-10-25

Post-Deadline Pinch Hits: 170-172 (New fandoms: 12,31,134,154 - Returning: 3,11,17,73 - Reposts)

Titansfall D&D: Summary for 11/9 Game

Music It's Monday Most Places

Daily Happiness

Six Sentence Sunday

Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Stolen Doctor by Flawedamythyst

Daily Check-In

I know, I've seen the scythe in its sheath

All Aspiring Poets: Learn This One Neat Trick

doing the humpty-hump all the way to the end zone

Having emotions at the picture house (isn't that why we go?)

Book Review: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

SGA: In Heaven and Earth by Sholio

Poetry Fishbowl Update

Extreme Animals

New Community for Video Games Fans

[ SECRET POST #6883 ]

Poetry of Our Time, also

Critical Role: Campaign 4, Episode 5

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