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Syr Hayati Beker's What A Fish Looks Like is perhaps the weirdest/coolest/most interesting thing I've read so far this year -- an apocalyptic collage novel(la), told in letters, posters, angry breakup notes, and a series of strange fairy tale riffs about breakups and loss and change and transformation on both the personal and the planetary level.

In the frame story for What A Fish Looks Like, a queer radical collective in a city living through massive climate collapse has gotten its hands on 100 tickets for the last big trip off-planet. It's T minus ten days: who's going? Who's staying? Who heard the gossip about Jay and Seb making out on the dance floor, even though they had a really messy breakup and Jay has a ticket out and Seb has no interest in leaving, and who wants to use the Saga of Jay and Seb to distract themselves from the fact that the oceans are rising and the skies are red and this year's bad fire season never ended?

In the interstitials, a community outlined in personal letters and party invites and notes on the bathroom door of a favorite bar counts down to the point of decision. In the stories themselves, a person has a bad break-up and and takes on some polar bear DNA about it; a closeted teacher loses a student to a big wave in the new and frightening ocean, and meets a mermaid about it; a stage manager forges ahead with a production of Antigone in a burning city and turns into a spider about it. The people who appear in the stories also appear in the interstitials, part of the community; the book is slippery about to what degree the stories are meant to be read literally as an accounting of events and to what degree they're metaphors, wishes, retellings. The interstitials make it clear that there is certainly a theater and a fire. Probably nobody actually turned into a spider about it, but who could say. The world is getting weirder, and who knows what's possible or plausible anymore?

I'm including a screenshot of one of my favorite pages of the book -- most of the stories are text but a lot of the interstitials are in images like this one -- which I think gives a good sense of the kind of community portraiture that makes What A Fish Look Like stand out so much to me.

Highly recommend checking this one out: you might be confused, you might be depressed, you might be inspired, you absolutely won't be bored.

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https://phys.org/news/2026-02-florida-green-sea-turtles-stranded.html

Cold air and frigid waters have caused more than 600 young green sea turtles to wash ashore on Florida's beaches this month—and more are turning up every day.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-florida-green-sea-turtles-stranded.html

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- I'm still dithering about the striped blouse and skirt from Blackwood Castle. The dithering continues because 1) do I really need more clothes? and 2) ...

- I spent a not-inconsiderable sum on a one-of-a-kind pendant from Bloodmilk. I missed it when it was originally for sale, but the woman who bought it is in France and realized that because of other things, she couldn't afford the tariffs and other shipping nonsense. She's reached out to Bloodmilk and they will ship it directly to me.

- Having bought that has also helped me deal with the extreme annoyance of learning that Chanel brought back Rouge Noir lipstick as a limited edition and it's already sold out and is going for double the original price over on Poshmark. Both the Stroppy One and minim-calibre reminded me that there was no way of seeing the color IRL (of course it was an online/boutique only release), so I had no way of telling if the color was accurate or if it skewed warm like so many dark blackened red lipsticks do these days.

- AMC has released another teaser trailer for The Vampire Lestat! Plus finally released the first single, "Long Face", for sale on various music platforms, and UPDATED THE MERCH STORE WITH A TOUR SHIRT. Sooooo those are things I tripped and hit the Buy Now button for.

- The Ghost concert is Sunday, wheeee! Faux -Satanic metal + bombast is exactly what I need right now. Shallow Fashion Details for my planned outfit:

Black and pink striped unnerving governess dress
Black lace and ribbon jabot that has the "Memento Vivre / Memento Mori" ribbon from Kalma as the focal point
Wide black elastic belt with skeleton hand buckle
Hair pulled up under a vintage black silk top hat (it's a short crown hat, so it won't block anyone's view) festooned with veils
Black and pink Dr. Martens
Black face mask

Now to hope I can manage to dye at least the front half of my hair so it's not a faded mess that shows beneath the hat.

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Apparently, after I stopped watching 'Primeval' because they'd killed off or lost all the original players, they brought it back for two more seasons, in the process finding two characters lost in the Cretacious Era. So now I'm watching entirely new-to-me episodes, and thinking how much more AU my AU series of stories is now with all this additional context.

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Before getting myself onto the mat: all is woe, everything is too much and takes too long, I Cannot Face Cooking, we shall be forced to Resort to Sad Pasta

Ten minutes after getting myself onto the mat and starting moving: ... actually, you know what, stir-frying the purple sprouting broccoli with Stuff sounds both achievable and Vastly More Appealing, scratch the Sad Supermarket plan

It was just warm-up! I hadn't even got the endorphins going yet!

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February is Renegade Bindery's "encourage everyone to make a lot of books and learn new things" month and while I'm not going as all-out as some people, and haven't managed to watch any of the presentations yet, I am doing a bit more bookbinding work than I have in the past few months!

The main project I'm working on is for Fandom Trumps Hate from last year, and I will admit I procrastinated on it because I was honestly intimidated with how much my recipient donated. But I'm now at a point where I think I can safely say I'll finish in the next day or two!

I also finished up my own copy of How Dare You?! being prompted by the drama's release (I bound it for last year's Cnovel bookbinding exchange, and my own copy has been sitting half finished since the summer). I've typeset two small books since the start of the month--first, the script for the War of the Worlds audiodrama, and second, a short Guardian fic that I read and immediately went "this needs to be a tiny book!" I have been neglecting working on my dad's late Christmas present, which honestly also doesn't need a lot more work, but what it does need is maps and I'm putting that off (it's a binding of my great great grandfather's civil war diary). Another project I'll probably finish up soon is Mo Du, which someone else typeset for last year's exchange, so I've printed and sewn their typeset but haven't made the covers yet. There are a lot of good typesets from past cnovel exchanges, some other I want to bind are Guardian, Lord Seventh, Kaleidoscope of Death, and Purely By Accident.

(...yes. Bookbinding is very much an "eyes bigger than stomach" hobby. I have a few fanfics typeset and ready to print/bind, too).

Recently read and would recommend: I, Your Emperor, Have Been Wronged! and I will put the same promo I wrote up on tumblr under the cut

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Title: Happy Valentine’s Day
Ratings & Warnings: Teen, No warnings
Fandom: The Sentinel (tv)
Relationship(s): Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg
Character(s): Blair Sandburg, Jim Ellison
Details: Moodboard
Prompt: Valentine’s, Galentine’s, & Palentine’s
Summary: A Moodboard of Jim and Blair for Valentine’s Day.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79453116

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A throwback to the good old days... remember web rings? Kagi Small Web. (Use the Next Post button at upper left to advance to another blog.) For more information, Kagi explains in their blog post – Kagi Small Web. Wasting time in Small Web is sort of the opposite of doomscrolling.

Freakpages is “a community-curated directory of esoteric articles across the internet, primarily from Wikipedia.” Random, interesting stuff - a new selection every month.

The Good, Neutral and Evil of monitor setups. My setup is Neutral Good. (Thanks to Information is Beautiful.. Also: Most Beautiful News of the Year)

Wes Cook and the McDonald’s Mural – a Cabel Sasser story. (Disclaimer: I’m a fan of Portland’s Panic Inc., of which Cabel Sasser is a co-founder.)

CEO Said a Thing Journalism by Karl Bode. (via kottke.org) I have so many mental filters when I read the news that I hardly am aware of automatic shields I put up – filtering nonsense, lies, propaganda, stupidity, etc.

An oldie: The 10 most important life lessons to master in your 30s.

As a retired individual who is 70, I found this article reassuring: I asked 50 retired people what surprised them most about their 70s—the same 6 answers came up and not one of them was about health or money

After last year’s remodel of my home library, I read There Comes a Time in Every Reader’s Life When You Have to Move the Books, which reminded me of packing 50+ boxes of books in my library. I was happy to see so many old friends (books) during that packing and unpacking.

The Cadbury Chocolate Ad (YouTube) I love dark chocolate!

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I'm going to Huddersfield for work on Monday, Wrexham on Wednesday, and at the very end of today I had a call where I ended up agreeing to go to "somewhere near Walsall" on Friday next week (I'm still awaiting the promised email with more specific details than that!).

(For non-locals, these are all 2ish hours away, or less, but one of these in a week would usually be a big deal and leave me really tired the next day and etc.)

They're all trips I really want to make, all for unrelated things that just happen to have turned up at the same time. I'll be fine. But oof!

Tomorrow I'm helping a fellow Queer Club member move heavy furniture to his new place, while V has an unpleasant hospital appointment testing for something potentially serious. Sunday D and I will once again be doing tip runs for V's relative who's clearing out his mum's house...

Everything is... a bit intense at the moment.

I do have almost all of the next week off work (except for a trip to Chester lol, which I actually really want to do). Really looking forward to that.

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This is the first collection of stories - partly inspired by Sherlock Holmes and in fact written by Arthur Conan Doyle's brother-in-law - about master criminal Raffles and his reliable sidekick narrator. It was sold to me by a friend who said 'If you took the scene where Raffles the master criminal is getting reliable sidekick narrator to agree to do crime and replaced 'crime' with 'gay sex', it would make as much sense if not more.' This is true! E.W. Hornung also knew Oscar Wilde and named his son Oscar, and when Raffles never just has an 'arm' but always a 'splendid arm,' well, generations have wondered and indeed have not always felt they had to wonder very hard.

In terms of cunning crime highjinks, I could predict all the plots of these stories except one (though that one got me good.) I think I'm downstream of too much subsequent caper plotting. What I couldn't predict is when Raffles would fail - because though I call him a master criminal, he isn't at all in the near-supernatural mode of always getting away with it: he's a passionately motivated burglar who's good enough not to have been caught yet, but he routinely messes up. Partly I suspect this is about not being allowed to let your burglar get off scott free, but I like the effect of it. These stories are efficient, feel psychologically accurate - even the contrivance of having Raffles hate explaining his plots so as to hold back a surprise for the reader fits in with the way Raffles is generally annoying - and I like the network of explicit metaphors (cricket, crime) with the implicit one (being gay.)

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Current Mood: hot

Used my manga TBR boardgame.

I finished 4/5 on my last board and it went by really fast. I think partly I was motivated by not enjoying some of what I was reading so it made me focus more on reading it to get it done lol. I also dropped one.

This time I hope I get things I enjoy more. For BL I should trying picking ones that have really good ratings/reviews for now, though you can't trust those either especially older reviews.

Avatar:

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Skill: If you land on a tile you don't like: roll a dice, if even go forward one tile, if odd go back

Roll #1:

A 4, prompt: royalty/nobility. I'll read more Men of the Harem.

Roll #2:

A 7, prompt: ~~and they were~~ roommates. Ouji-sama Nante Iranai.

Roll #3:

A 7, again, prompt: _verse ooh. Beta Off Not Dating. Lol clever title change there.

Roll #4:

An 8, prompt: very long (20+ vols) Dr. Stone at 27 vols!

Roll #5:

A 4, prompt: entertainment industry. Off-Stage Love Side.

Roll #6:

A 9 and right to the finish line. The physical BL manga this time is Shards of Affection. I bought this recently.

~Manga TBR List~

[Reverse Harem/Drama] Men of the Harem
[GL/Drama] Ouji-sama Nante Iranai
[BL/Romance] Beta Off Not Dating
[Sci-Fi/Adventure] Dr. Stone
[BL/Romance] Off-Stage Love Side
[BL/Fantasy] Shards of Affection

x1 josei, x1 shounen, x1 GL, x3 BL

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2. Elis James and John Robins, The Holy Vible – so this is the book Elis & John wrote together in ~2017 and toured in 2018. I actually bought it and started reading it really early in my Elis & John journey – May 2024 – because I thought it would be a “concentrated” way to get a feel for them as a duo. And it kind of works in that regard, but only to a point – some stuff is more reliant on already knowing the inside jokes, and most of it is enhanced by being able to hear certain key phrases in their voices (they recorded the audio book version, which I do think would be fun, especially for certain chapters, but I don’t think this is something I need to experience twice). Anyway, I started reading it back in May 2024, while I was still trying to figure out/decide how to catch up on the back catalogue, and fairly quickly decided this was not the best way. But I’ve now listened back to before this book was published, and that seemed like a very good time to go back to the rest of it, especially when I wanted something undemanding and light. ( More, with… spoilers of sorts, I suppose? )

This was definitely a better time at which to read this book, and I’m glad I can say I have done so now :) Probably audiobook would’ve been the better way to go from the start, but on the other hand, I already have hundreds of hours of audio content, and being able to change it up with the written word was probably good :)

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Speaking of addenda to other media I’m consuming, after I watched The Goes Wrong Show, YouTube helpfully popped up the BBC broadcast version of the play Peter Pan Goes Wrong, and I watched it too. It was interesting to see this bunch / this humour at much longer form – the TV episodes are <30 min and the play was over an hour, so it was a slightly different vibe. ( More, with SPOILERS )

I then also watched A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, which was shorter and felt closer to the show, but I still like the show more. ( More, with spoilers )

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Week 2 of Stuff I Love: Top 10 Edition (hosted by

dreamersdare here) is Series. For week 1’s “Standalones”, I’d chosen to focus on SFF stories because I tend to favor SFF series. So I’m thinking of doing basically the opposite, for the same reason, for this week – usually if I read/watch a series, it’s almost certainly going to be a SFF series because it’s a chance to spend time in a constructed world, get to know magic rules or alien races, maybe even learn a bit of an invented language. So it’s much rarer for me to have a series I love that isn’t SFF – and that’s what I decided to go with here (partly because, y’all already know what my favorite SFF series are, it’s basically all my tags :)

Again, not trying to rank these:

( Top 10 NON-SFF series I love )

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https://phys.org/news/2026-02-syntax-warbling-duets-wild-parrots.html

With a few minutes of searching, anyone can find videos online of chatty birds: macaws talk to their keepers, cockatoos sing to the camera, corvids mimic the jarring sounds of construction sites. Research has shown that some birds can understand and use words in context—so, when Polly speaks up from inside her cage, she may really want a cracker—but scientists know far less about how birds use their vocal abilities in the wild. Christine Dahlin, professor of biology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, is working to change that.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-syntax-warbling-duets-wild-parrots.html

bluapapilio

Current Mood: weird

For my manga TBR list:

Read the BL Doruota no Boku desu ga Shinken ni Aidoru Mezashimasu!? and rated it 6.5/10.

Read volume 21 of Wind Breaker! 😍

Read part 1 of Pandastic Maze for From Eroica with Love.

Read the BL Same Cell Organism, rating went from 9->7.

Decided not to read Dark Heaven, I saw it had the tragedy tag and made sure it had a HE, but I didn't look closely at the other tags and I'm just not in the mood for that kind of thing. Too bad because it had a versatile couple.

bluapapilio

Current Mood: busy

Chapter 164: So Sugishita's parents divorced and abandoned him?? Damn.

Umemiya literally appeared at Sugishita's worst destructive feelings and saved him. Sugishita took to him instantly, I can understand now that Umemiya really is his anchor, like Hiiragi is for Kaji really, though Kaji also has Kusumi and Enomoto.

Chapter 165: Hm? So the reason Sugishita kept his hair long was because he didn't like getting it cut? It sounds more like he was more uncomfortable with the process than liking it long.

Sugishita basically kidnapping Nirei and scaring the shit out of him. 😅

Chapter 166: Seeing all the art projects makes me so happy!

Aw, I'm glad Nirei was able to help Sugishita understand that he was jealous.

Chapter 167: "You don't get jealous over someone you don't care about"

Sugishita hurting himself because he can't handle his feelings. 😫

Chapter 168: So what Sugishita decided is that he wants to change by trying to do the things he always avoided, mainly socializing honestly, and thinking for himself.

Chapter 169: Beach ~~episode~~ chapter! As expected, Sakura always spent them alone at home waiting for the hours to go by. 😫 His face when he saw the beach is so lovely my heaaart!

Nirei getting closer to Sugishita makes me happy. And Sakura's face seeing them so close is too funny.

Tsugeura and Kiryuu showing off their snow cone colored tongues! Sakura getting brain freeze!

Suou's reaction to Nirei and Sugishita - he says he was taken aback at first but it's a good thing and wants to chat with Sugi a lot too. XP

Why did the volume end on such a silly cliffhanger haha.

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https://phys.org/news/2026-02-fossil-evidence-reveals-gray-wolves.html

Gray wolves adapt their diets as a result of climate change, eating harder foods such as bones to extract nutrition during warmer climates, new research has found. The study, led by the University of Bristol in collaboration with the Natural History Museum, and published in Ecology Letters, has implications for wolf conservation across Europe and beyond.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-fossil-evidence-reveals-gray-wolves.html

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Current Mood: amused

The Platonic Ideal, a Dragon Age exchange focused on platonic relationships, went live earlier today. I got not one, not two, but three lovely gifts this year!

The Only Crown He Ever Wore (the Sibling Induced Tension Headache), focusing on the relationship between Bhelen Aeducan, Female Aeducan, and Trian Aeducan from childhood until everything went wrong with them in the game itself.

Between Stone and Sky, focusing on the relationship between Fenris and Merrill.

Let Sleeping Elves Lie , focusing on the relationship between Dorian and a Female Inquisitor (with a side of Solas).

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Unusually, I will not be doing my collage this week about what has been foremost in my mind, some important and satisfying work that I've been doing, but that's because I can't talk about it. It's related to the resistance, and I want to protect the people I'm working with. So: something else.

Last week's collage was about my new car. Now that I have that shiny new car in my garage, it was time to get rid of the old one. Poor old Lafayette, my 2000 Camry, got its rear end crunched last November. It was definitely time.

Yet, when it came right down to it, saying goodbye to my old car was unexpectedly difficult. That's because it was Rob's car. His last car. The last one that had his name on the title. We drove to all of his appointments at Mayo Clinic in that car. Eventually, he grew too ill to drive, and when we got rid of my car, I took over driving the Camry. And it served us well--it was a trustworthy, reliable car, and we were grateful to have it.

I took it into the body shop to get the estimate, and they told me that it could be just left there, and my insurance company would pick it up. I had already cleaned it out, but I was still taken by surprise by a wave of grief as I saw the shop worker drive it away. It was another link with Rob that was disappearing. How can I keep being taken by surprise this way?

I wish I had given the hood one last caress, that I had told Lafayette, "Well done, good and faithful servant. Thank you."

I wish I had time to say goodbye.

Isn't it strange that we can get so emotionally attached to inanimate objects?

Image description: Background: shadowy fog. Foreground: a Toyota Camry with a crunched back end. The license plate reads "Rob Car." A semi-transparent man's head [Rob's head] hovers above the car.

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Current Mood: hungry

"Dousaibou Seibutsu. /
Same Cell Organism"

Yumeka Sumomo, 2001

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Summary: Collection of oneshots:

Same Cell Organism/I Love You/Lullaby in My Hand: Nakagawa and Yokota are two boys very much in love with each other. Yokota is more open with his feelings, but Nakagawa is easily embarrassed of public displays of affection. Though they may be outwardly different, their feelings for each other are the same...their connection is such that they liken themselves to same-cell oganisms.

The Letter in the Attic (Yaneura Yuubin Monogatari): Two lonely boys visit a favorite spot.
To Make an Angel (Tenshi wo Tsukuru): An angel follows a young boy throughout his life.
We Selfish Two: Sora is in love with Kindergarten Teacher Midori.

My comments:

Same Cell Organism/I Love You./Lullaby in My Hand: Two classmates fall in love and learn to deal with their jealousy, inexperience and insecurity. One externalizes and the other internalizes their feelings but they both feel the exact same way. Nakagawa's shyness was so cute whenever he externalized his feelings. 4.5/5

The Letter in the Attic (Yaneura Yuubin Monogatari): Two introverts share the same old attic space and fall in love. The terminal illness part scared me for a second! Not much to this story really. 2/5

To Make an Angel (Tenshi wo Tsukuru): A boy who wants to be a princess meets an angel who reappears when he's grown up to be his prince. I love wings! The second part shows of Yuki's brothers, Amane, watching them and angsting because he thought Yuki was his. It didn't go anywhere though. 3/5

We Selfish Two: Childhood friends with an age gap in mutual unrequited love. 👍 3.5/5

Random thought but it's too bad Yumeka never did a GL.

I'm glad I enjoyed this more than I thought. I'll keep it for now I think?

BookCrossing info from 2010: I first read this a long time ago and I don't think the oneshots were with it. I really enjoyed getting to reread it. I like Sumomo Yumeka's style (story and character designs) even though the former can seem incomplete. The oneshots were lovely - they managed to convey a lot despite their shortness. I'll be keeping this manga for at least a while longer for another reread. :)

10 -> 9 stars

Content warnings:
Same Cell Organism: Yotaka gets jealous when he sees Nakagawa talking to a girl and breaks a school window. Stolen kiss (thought he was sleeping, he was awake).
Letter in the Attic: Stolen first kiss (thought he was sleeping). Terminal illness mention.
We Selfish Two: Adult/minor (21/16)

My rating: 7/10

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(I've basically peaced out on answering comments, apologies. I'll try to catch up on at least the fandom ones. I appreciate you all!)

denise posted the thread about LJ going Russia-locked (ETA: see comments for corrections) and/or selling off six weeks ago now, which feels like twenty years in Internet time, but is probably not that long in business time. Has anyone heard updates on what's happening with LJ since then? Is this like the x-number of times ff.net was definitely going offline?

Relatedly, is anyone in touch with the mods of

camp_toccoa,

skyearth85 and/or

skew_whiff? Sky used to be active on Discord, but I haven't seen her in ages. Has there been any talk of moving that comm to Dreamwidth?

I remember it was a bit of a voyage through broken links and broken dreams last time I looked at it, but there's still a bunch of fic that never moved to either AO3 or DW.

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The seeds lying in their wombs of earth are turning now
preparing to kick out taproots through their coats
I rewatch the video of bluebird chicks cracking their own eggshells
Wondering at babies battering through barriers to birth themselves
Choosing again and again to leave every womb that once held them
Protected and confined

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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A stone wall with evenly spaced alcoves, apparently set into a hillside.

Chesters Roman Fort

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rarefemslashexchange is a multi fandom exchange focused on f/f ships with two or more female characters (canon or genderbent) and/or genderqueer characters that you feel would fit in a f/f exchange, with less than 250 works on AO3- completed, in English, using the otp:true filter.

There is currently one PDPH with anime/manga request that can be claimed at the community post or you can reach out via email at rarefemslashexchangemod@gmail.com. The minimum requirements are either a 500 word fic or a nice sketch.

It is due on February 18th, 10PM PST/UTC-8.

Pinch Hit #19 (fic, art): アキバ冥途戦争 | Akiba Maid War (Anime), かげきしょうじょ!! | Kageki Shoujo!! | Opera Girl! (Anime), ちはやふる | Chihayafuru (Anime & Manga), ユリ熊嵐 | Yuri Kuma Arashi

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I've woken up just before 4:30 am (and once well before that time) for the last several days, so I decided I might as well set my alarm for 4:30 am and get to bed slightly earlier. I feel like I'm just getting a jump on changing to daylight saving in a few weeks. (Far too soon in my opinion.)

The girls are home from school today, so because it's also a holiday on Monday they're having a four-day weekend. This morning Violet came up with a scheme for cleaning my room in exchange for screen time - various levels of cleaning from "normal" to "extra special" so "personalised", with payment ranging from 1 minute to 15 minutes of screen time. Then she gave me a free demonstration of her basic services, basically just vacuuming the carpet and sweeping the rest of the floor. I'm not sure how much extra she could do for the extra special level of cleaning.

The weather has finally turned to slightly above freezing temperatures - it should be in the 30s and even into the 40s this coming week. (About 1 to 6C.)

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6/52 for the group 2026 Weekly Alphabet Challenge

This week's theme was: F is for Frozen

The weather is very wet here and too warm to find any natural ice. As there's nothing in our own freezer that would be at all photogenic, I have resorted to the frozen food cabinets in our local Co-op supermarket.

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It's amazing that my mood depends so much on what my children remember to bring home from school.

(Yesterday, down two bus passes and a backpack, misery.
Today, all of their belongings, relief!)

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Had a dream I was in a drugstore and Bad Bunny was sitting up in the balcony and he threw a bottle of aspirin at me and I ran across the store and scaled the wall to get up in his face about it.

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Sweetie is home from the vet, with medicine to rub on her ear (for absorption) and pills (good luck to us on that) and a shot from the vet to help things move through her better. They took blood tests also but we'll find out about them Monday.

She is sniffing at food, and walking around outside of her hiding place, so I think she's feeling a little better. Steve said she purred for them, which is very good.

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https://phys.org/news/2026-02-stressed-couples-benefit-joint-savoring.html

Couples who spend more time savoring the pleasurable moments they share are happier together, argue less, and are more confident their relationship will last, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers say in a new study. "Savoring involves slowing down to become aware of and focus on positive experiences," said first author Noah Larsen, a graduate student at Illinois. "Savoring can occur when we reminisce on a past experience, focus on the present moment, or look ahead to a future experience."

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-stressed-couples-benefit-joint-savoring.html

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https://phys.org/news/2026-02-smart.html

Do you know what it means to be smart? It's a more complicated question than it may seem. There are several ways to think about intelligence—as the well-known "book-vs.-street smart" binary illustrates. By most people's definition, a truly smart person would be someone who not only thinks well but is also able to translate thought into concrete steps toward positive and practical goals. Balancing and combining different kinds of intelligence may be even more important than how much you know, or how you think.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-smart.html

dolorosa_12

It's cold, it's rainy, and a flock of wood pigeons has descended on the back garden. Let's do this week's open thread.

Today's open thread concept came to me when I was thinking about how frequently I reread books (there are certain books within my line of sight right now that I'm pretty sure I have probably reread several hundred times), and how rarely in comparison I rewatch films or TV shows. I definitely rewatched stuff a lot more when I was a teenager — this was the 1990s, when video rental shops were still a thing, and my friends and I used to have sleepovers almost every weekend, where we'd borrow three or four movies and fall asleep in someone's living room while watching them. We had a rotating series of favourites that we'd watch again and again — the first Matrix film and The Fifth Element were firm favourites, as were a bunch of the classic 1990s slasher films, plus the usual suspects among 1990s teen romantic comedies, The Craft, etc. My sister and I also used to rent and watch the same films over and over again.

But other than a couple of Buffy and Angel rewatches at various points in the past twenty years, and Matthias and I occasionally rewatching previously viewed films as part of our New Year's Eve themed movie nights (e.g. all three LotR films), rewatching is definitely less common for me than rereading. I assume this is because it's much more of a timesuck — in general I read much more quickly than I can watch a film or a TV show, and I have more control over how much I read in a single sitting, whereas viewing is dictated by the lenghth of the film or the TV episode.

What about you? Do you return to longform audiovisual media for repeat viewings? Has this changed over time? Is this different to your approach to rereading books?

naye

My second Festivid was the same kind of immensely fun experience as the first one! Not only did I really enjoy my assignment, but I watched (and loved!) some new movies, and ended up creating a whole four treats for fellow Festividders. That kind of creativity is pure dopamine!

My vids this year span the spectrum of F/F love and grief, action ladies, Zhu Yilong in blue hair (+ aliens??), intergenerational bonding over BL manga and fanworks, and one of my favorite shows of the past couple of years: the utterly engrossing Korean cooking competition Culinary Class Wars.

The shortest vid I made is 1:30, and the longest is 4:27 (my longest vid ever!). I used sources from China, Japan and South Korea, and music by artists from Denmark, Iceland, Japan and South Korea. (And in the process I learned how to upload two sets of subtitles to YouTube - the lyrics both translated into English, and in the original language.)

A quick list of the fandoms & ratings:

유령 | Phantom (2023) - 2x F/F
负负得正 | Land of Broken Hearts (2024) - M/F
メタモルフォーゼの縁側 | BL Metamorphosis (2021) - Gen
흑백요리사: 요리 계급 전쟁 | Culinary Class Wars (TV) - Gen

All vids are available on YouTube, Proton Drive, and MEGA!

( Details for all five vids on AO3 )

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