one last post before the new year
Dec. 29th, 2025 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareilaNot much to report from the last 2+ weeks, just the usual December madness. The Messiah was sung. Everyone had a nice holiday. I did far too much crochet and knitting. My dad continues to ignore me. Whatever.
I got bogged down on Day 10 of Advent of Code and never completed it or looked at the problems for the final two days, but maybe I'll find time this week.
I don't think that I'm going to finish the most recent Dungeon Crawler Carl book before the end of the year, but I'm down to only 6 library books checked out, and half of them are non-fiction. Next year I want to focus more on my TBR, which is up to 850. If I could get it down to 800 (while presumably continuing to add to it) that would be a big success.
Denver and New England both won their NFL divisions - yay!
On New Year's Eve we're planning a Freaky Friday D&D session where we randomly switch up characters. Should be hilarious.
My resolutions for 2025 were to get the old house sold, see Connor graduate from high school, and stay healthy. I guess two out of three ain't bad. Robby is finally getting to the end of his fix-it list, and I have pretty much forbidden him to add anything else to it until we get a licensed inspector to check things over and see what he points out.
I got bogged down on Day 10 of Advent of Code and never completed it or looked at the problems for the final two days, but maybe I'll find time this week.
I don't think that I'm going to finish the most recent Dungeon Crawler Carl book before the end of the year, but I'm down to only 6 library books checked out, and half of them are non-fiction. Next year I want to focus more on my TBR, which is up to 850. If I could get it down to 800 (while presumably continuing to add to it) that would be a big success.
Denver and New England both won their NFL divisions - yay!
On New Year's Eve we're planning a Freaky Friday D&D session where we randomly switch up characters. Should be hilarious.
My resolutions for 2025 were to get the old house sold, see Connor graduate from high school, and stay healthy. I guess two out of three ain't bad. Robby is finally getting to the end of his fix-it list, and I have pretty much forbidden him to add anything else to it until we get a licensed inspector to check things over and see what he points out.
Rejected video about 2025 in space
Dec. 29th, 2025 12:42 pmneonvincentThis is a poor stand-in for the NASA video I wanted to include in 2025 in space from ESA, KING 5, Business Casual, and the Marsh Family.
Why We Sometimes Avoid the Truth — and Other Times Can’t Stop Seeking It
Dec. 29th, 2025 11:25 am![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
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Why We Sometimes Avoid the Truth — and Other Times Can’t Stop Seeking It (from discovermagazine.com)
Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation
Dec. 29th, 2025 11:20 am
In Which I Discover a New Fandom and, Wow! Fandom's Changed
Dec. 29th, 2025 08:57 amloup_noirI've always been a fan of cartoons, pardon me, animations, anime, graphic novels. The freedom that that artwork gives a story, especially a good one, ignores all fleshly restrictions. What's making me happy right now? Hazbin Hotel on Prime is.
The Princess of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar's daughter Charlie (Why Charlie? That's a question I'd like to ask the creator of the show.) believes in redemption, and she wants to help the damned achieve that state. With songs! Angst! And surprisingly good Catholic dogma, says the very lapsed Catholic here. It was fun as it was, but when the Seraphim showed up with all the eyes, I was in for the ride.
I had no expectation that it would survive for a second season, but it did and the storyline continued to be good. In many ways, it has A Knight's Tale feeling. There's a silly, shiny layer, but there's also a lot of history holding it together. All that reading for my Durmstrang series on the levels of heaven and hell, who inhabits where, etc. made Hazbin a lot more fun.
What was completely new to me was the fandom. Amazon has Hazbin Hotel Live on Broadway. All the voice actors, a lot of the songs, and wonderful, lingering shots of the fans, who know all the words and motions to the songs and many wearing fantastic costumes. The Alastors were especially good.
youtu.be/G1C1MFv7CKU Hope that works. It's a link to the show-stopper for S2. If you haven't seen the series, Lute (again, why that name?) is the angel, the dark male figure is Adam (as in Adam and Eve), and the angel at the door is Abel.
The Princess of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar's daughter Charlie (Why Charlie? That's a question I'd like to ask the creator of the show.) believes in redemption, and she wants to help the damned achieve that state. With songs! Angst! And surprisingly good Catholic dogma, says the very lapsed Catholic here. It was fun as it was, but when the Seraphim showed up with all the eyes, I was in for the ride.
I had no expectation that it would survive for a second season, but it did and the storyline continued to be good. In many ways, it has A Knight's Tale feeling. There's a silly, shiny layer, but there's also a lot of history holding it together. All that reading for my Durmstrang series on the levels of heaven and hell, who inhabits where, etc. made Hazbin a lot more fun.
What was completely new to me was the fandom. Amazon has Hazbin Hotel Live on Broadway. All the voice actors, a lot of the songs, and wonderful, lingering shots of the fans, who know all the words and motions to the songs and many wearing fantastic costumes. The Alastors were especially good.
youtu.be/G1C1MFv7CKU Hope that works. It's a link to the show-stopper for S2. If you haven't seen the series, Lute (again, why that name?) is the angel, the dark male figure is Adam (as in Adam and Eve), and the angel at the door is Abel.
Snowflake Challenge
Dec. 29th, 2025 11:13 amysabetwordsmith posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
newcomersHappy Snowflake Season to all! As we prepare to kick off the 2026 snowflake_challenge, please feel free to promote this event within your own circles. You are welcome to use any of these new banners for that. The community page also has icons.
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snowflake_challenge, please feel free to promote this event within your own circles. You are welcome to use any of these new banners for that. The community page also has icons. ( Read more... )
Snowflake Challenge
Dec. 29th, 2025 05:14 amysabetwordsmithHappy Snowflake Season to all! As we prepare to kick off the 2026 snowflake_challenge, please feel free to promote this event within your own circles. You are welcome to use any of these new banners for that. The community page also has icons.
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snowflake_challenge, please feel free to promote this event within your own circles. You are welcome to use any of these new banners for that. The community page also has icons. ( Read more... )
The Eliopoulos Elves 2025 3 – DORK TOWER26.12.25
Dec. 26th, 2025 06:00 amdorktower_feed
HEY! Want to help keep DORK TOWER going? Then consider joining the DORK TOWER Patreon and ENLIST IN THE ARMY OF DORKNESS TODAY! (We have COOKIES!) (And SWAG!) (And GRATITUDE!)
Network of deportation
Dec. 29th, 2025 04:33 pmflowing_data_rss_feed
The current administration is bent on deporting people from the United States. For the New York Times, Raj Saha, Zach Levitt, and Albert Sun mapped where thousands of people are being moved within and out of the country.
Tags: deportation, government, New York Times
Vietnamese Pork Chops
Dec. 29th, 2025 03:12 pmthewoksoflife_feed
This recipe for Vietnamese Pork Chops has the signature sweet, salty umami depth of flavor you find on a Vietnamese restaurant’s pork chop plate. Top it with scallion oil and plenty of nuoc cham, and serve it with a few slices of cucumber, tomato, and steamed rice. This is definitely one of the tastiest ways […]The Fantastic Journey Triple Drabble: Moving On
Dec. 29th, 2025 04:58 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Moving On
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Jonathan, Varian, Travellers.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 482: On The Road Again at
drabble_zone.Setting: Turnabout.
Summary: Leaving Coriel behind, Varian is deep in his own thoughts.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.
( Moving On... )
Review: Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz, at Locus
Dec. 29th, 2025 05:57 pmwrongquestions_feedOne of the unexpected curiosities of growing older is watching the train of "rediscovered" books come back around for a second try. In my teens, I read a book called I Who Have Never Known Men, by a Belgian-Jewish author named Jacqueline Harpman. A gender-based dystopia about a young girl who grows up in an underground bunker with a group of women, it was a dark, elliptical novel (one that many
C Line sitch is dire, due to a broken wire
Dec. 29th, 2025 03:13 pmuniversal_hub_feedAt 10:45 a.m., the MBTA reported delays of up to 30 minutes on the C Line due to "an issue with the overhead wire" at Cleveland Circle and urged riders between the circle and Dean Road to hoof it over to the D Line to get anywhere.
The issue might have stemmed from the "disabled train" the T had reported ten minutes earlier at Cleveland Circle - one of the pantographs on an inbound train broke.
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