Crafts - December 2025

29 Dec 2025 11:57 am
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As shown in my Christmas post, I continued with cross stitch cards - this is the last one:

Monday Word: Maquette

29 Dec 2025 06:57 am
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maquette [ma-ket, muh-]

noun
a small model or study in three dimensions for either a sculptural or an architectural project.

examples
1. we make midnight a maquette of the year: "on new year's eve" by Evie Shockley
2. This hand-painted cold-cast porcelain maquette of Owlman is based on art from the highly anticipated Warner Home Video made-for-DVD animated original movie, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths! DC Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

origin
1900–05; < French < Italian macchietta, diminutive of macchia a sketch, complex of lines < Latin macula mesh, spot

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's maquette for the fountain he donated to Valenciennes
maquette

Lingering Challenge

29 Dec 2025 06:46 am
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Well, this is far later than intended because someone unfortunately gifted me with a miserable headcold for Christmas and I've mostly been laying around watching youtube...

But all is not lost - it is only Monday and we are still firmly in the weird week of the year.

What's lingering?

We all have that book. The one we'll get to later. The one that doesn't get chosen. The one that's well-intentioned. (It's been sitting there for a long time.)

While it doesn't have to be the absolute oldest thing on your TBR shelf, if you even know what is, this is the week to read* something that's been waiting for awhile.

I'll try for a follow-up around the 5th. Nudge me if I've been buried under bookpiles.


*read/listen/watch/play. Whatever media you choose is fine.
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40 Our Flag Means Death icons from 2x05 Curse of the Seafaring Life

  

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40 Our Flag Means Death icons from 2x05 Curse of the Seafaring Life

  

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"This Is A Safe-Space-Ship"

29 Dec 2025 07:37 pm
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Stede Re-captains the Revenge, whilst Ed becomes the ship's cap.. er, cat - to address trauma, right workplace culture, and for many a fan fic fodder... *ting-a-ling* Meanwhile, Lucius engages in an art therapy of sorts, he and Pete become betrothed, Roach and Frenchie go a little nuts, Olu, Jim & Archie vie with vexation, Fang fishes, and Izzy's leg is taken by a shark... That night, Ed and Stede get a little do-over vis-à-vis 'you wear fine things well' where there's some kissin', and hand holding, thumbs wars, boundaries, and a dead fish between them - how romantic! 

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2025/198: Snake-Eater — T Kingfisher
Walter would . . . Her thoughts stopped there, because Walter would already have dropped dead of shock weeks ago. She was in a world where Walter no longer applied. [loc. 3355]

Selena is down on her luck when she heads, with her beloved dog Copper, to the remote desert town of Quartz Creek. She has $27 to her name, and has left behind a job in a deli and a gaslighting ex who's destroyed Selena's self-confidence. Read more... )

Best Of is back!

29 Dec 2025 10:52 am
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The Remake activity is up! \o/
(banner is from 2024, but post is new)

ICON REMAKE - JOIN IN!

Online Housekeeping

29 Dec 2025 02:14 am
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This checklist of online housekeeping originally came from [community profile] sunshine_challenge (which is now [community profile] sunshine_revival). (See the 2023 version.)  I am updating it for the [community profile] snowflake_challenge in January 2026.

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ask a detailed question about phonology, such as "Do you really pronounce 'tr' as 'chr'?" (Yes, yes we do. We all do. It's almost impossible not to due to the physiology of those phonemes.)

And this will generate a burst of absolutely, frustratingly useless nonsense, because people just do not know how they talk. They don't know how they talk, they can't analyze their phonetics on the fly, and they are staggeringly unaware of these facts.

I keep telling these people to go to /r/linguistics instead, but thus far, nobody has taken my advice. Which is a pity, because I do give excellent advice, especially in this case.

But seriously - nobody knows how they talk. It's like trying to explain the biomechanics of walking. Sure, you've been doing it since you were a toddler (probably?), but that doesn't mean you have any understanding at all of what the hell you're doing as you propel yourself from place to place. I bet you can't even explain how you adjust for your varying center of balance!

multifandom icons.

29 Dec 2025 10:39 am
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Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star, Black Lightning, Dynasty, Heated Rivalry, Mako Mermaids, Mr. Robot, Namib, Nancy Drew, Narcos, New Girl, Romil & Jugal, Skymed, Stranger Things, Supergirl

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rest HERE[community profile] mundodefieras 
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I've had a very restful break (last day at work was 18 Dec). Up to today I've lolled around, watched tons of TV, visited with [personal profile] ravurian on Christmas day and done some gentle cleaning and decluttering.

HOME: more or less maintained tidy kitchen, bathroom, hall, landing, stairs which is a win.

HEALTH: pretty good!

LIFE ADMIN: not done much on this the last 2 weeks.

DIGITAL DECLUTTER: email is back up to 11,500, phone images desperately need sorting BUT I did archived a lot of stuff off my tablet on Xmas Day so that's a win!

GARDENING/ALLOTMENTING: still haven't done the living room windows boxes or been down to the allotment.

COOKING/EATING: I have eaten all the things and have a fridge mostly full of healthy food.

READING/LISTENING: nope.

WATCHING:i think there's something a bit "Emperor's new clothes" about Pluribus so many people have raved about it but I find it boring. Still liking the newest iteration of Robin Hood. Have continued watching random detective shows on Acorn but think the time is approaching too cancel my subscription for a while. I'm a season or two behind on Stranger Things and haven't started Heated Rivalry.

CREATING/LEARNING: still going to crochet club. Have almost finished another blanket, plan to finish off my original granny square and Halloween blankets in January and then will be starting on the utterly mad Boho blanket.

CATS: all good.

VOLUNTEERING: we've had an Xmas break.

SOCIALISING: on 15 December met up with I (who had a spare ticket) and saw an interesting production of Twelfth Night at the National - Sam West as Malvolio. Christmas Day was spent with [personal profile] ravurian eating good food, having a long catch up and, in my case, napping through Strictly!

WORK: none since 19 December and I really, really needed the break!

This coming week will be busy as I do ALL the things I haven't yet done including any epic pile of laundry!

and the madness continues

29 Dec 2025 07:31 pm
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Agh, I just found the hollanov discord server.

And wrote my first 1800 words of HR fanfic.

Um... anyone up to alpha read it to give me feedback about whether it's worth continuing?

Monday Update 12-29-25

29 Dec 2025 12:18 am
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These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Friending Policy 12-28-25
Transformative Works Statement 12-28-25
Poem: "Incompressible"
Poem: "A Stronger Woman"
Wildlife
BirdfeedingPoem: "Tenacity, Creativity, and Bravery"
Communities
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Government
Photos: Lights on the Prairie Part 2
Photos: Lights on the Prairie Part 1
Today's Adventures
Birdfeeding
Poem: "Genuinely Sufficient Resources"
Follow Friday 12-26-25: Learning
Poem: "The Heart to Change the World"
Poem: "Technique, Timing, and Leverage"
Read "The Fëanorian Zine"
Climate Change
Friending Meme
Birdfeeding
Vocabulary: Bokeh
Poem: "A Human Scale, Full-Featured Settlement"
Food
Birdfeeding
Cuddle Party

Food has 47 comments. Trauma has 46 comments. Affordable Housing has 78 comments. Robotics has 119 comments.


The 2025 Holiday Poetry Sale has closed, with a massive amount of material to post. It will take me a long time to get it all online, so please keep an eye on the sale page.


Watch for [community profile] snowflake_challenge to open on January 1. This panfandom activity is one of Dreamwidth's biggest events and a great time to make new friends.

Watch for [community profile] threeforthememories to open on January 3. It features your top three photographs from the past year.


"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv. It needs $72 to be complete. Shiv and his classmates discuss magical weather, magical geography, natural resources, plants and animals, history, and other aspects of worldbuilding.


The weather was mild for most of the week, but today it stormed. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a flock of mourning doves in the ritual meadow, and two fox squirrels running through the trees.

Assignments are out!

28 Dec 2025 10:29 pm
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Assignments have been sent!

If you have any issues with yours, please reach out as soon as possible via email at rarefemslashexchangemod@gmail.com. Any questions that will not break anonymity can also be left on this post (anon is on, screening isn't).

There are nine pinch hits that will be posted within the next 24-48 hours.

Happy creating! :)

Friending Policy 12-28-25

28 Dec 2025 11:45 pm
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Due to requests for a friending policy, and different ways that people use friending tools online, I have done my best to describe my parameters.  (See the 2020 version.)

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People keep clamoring for this sort of thing. Ideally, everyone should have a "blanket statement." While I don't have a stance on many of the points, it seems useful to post the ones where I do have a stance. (See the 2020 version.)

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Poem: "Incompressible"

28 Dec 2025 10:13 pm
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This poem came out of the January 2, 2024 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "When You're Smiling" square in my 1-1-24 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred. It belongs to the Foster Fiasco thread in the Polychrome Heroics series.

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Dreamwidth offers a place to post pretty much whatever people want to share. However, a lot of creators put their stories, webcomics, etc. on some other platform and only share links on Dreamwidth. The same holds true for the recommendation communities for fiction and other topics: most rely on links that lead offsite. The problem with this is that more and more platforms are closing to nonmembers, becoming unavailable in some parts of the world, incompatible with some software or hardware -- or shutting down entirely like Cohost did. That makes offsite links less useful than in the past, because there's no telling who can see the content or not. When creators post the full content on Dreamwidth in an open blog, however, anyone already using Dreamwidth can access that content. (Creators still have the option of using access lists and filters if they want to serve a more specific audience.) Furthermore, copying the material to multiple platforms increases the chance of more people seeing it and of it surviving if one platform collapses.  We've lost enough fanwork archives already.

This post provides a place to list communities and individual blogs where people post full content. It will help readers find new sources to enjoy, and creators find new audience members. It supports goals related to blogging, reading, writing, networking, Dreamwidth, and so on. It's a bit like Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, except not limited in time and you can echo your work on other platforms in addition to this one. MOAR GOODEEZ for everyone! \o/

You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2026 and reply with a comment. Below the list of sample full-content journals is a short form for listing what you have chosen. You can make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Full Content on Dreamwidth challenge in [community profile] goals_on_dw" or similar. Then make a tag for it like "Full Content" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Writing, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fanfic, Webcomics, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.

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Just a SNowflake Reminder.

28 Dec 2025 07:48 pm
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Snowflake Challenge: A close up shot of an owl ornament hanging amidst pine boughs..


Coming Soon. January 1st. Woot!!!

Anyone else excited? Do you have a favorite question?

Random Thoughts

28 Dec 2025 09:12 pm
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A few random things:

1) My sleep cycle has gotten really screwed up. What I need to do is just go back to bed when I wake up at 2 or 3 in the morning, instead of doing puzzles or reading.

2) I saw Song Sung Blue this morning, with my friend, Cindy. I ran into a couple of people from my chavurah, who were sitting in the row in front of us. We got lunch afterwords at the Chinese restaurant in the same shopping center. As did they.

3) I managed to call into tonight’s zoom meeting for Community Storytellers. I told my story about things I learned from my father.

4) If you are writing a book and want to irritate me, have an otherwise intelligent male character tell someone that he had an identical twin sister.

5) Ridiculous thought of the day: I want a tutti-frutti hat, a la Carmen Miranda.

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