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and every day when E leaves she bolts up to my room and burrows under my covers for a few hours until she feels prepared to cope with the day.

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yhlee

handspun silk yarn, fountain pen for scale

Silk handspun destined for

ilyena_sylph!

There's a lot of need for emotional support right now. :]

Back to book edits (CODE AND CODEX).

potentiality_26

Picking up another table, this one from

10trueloves:

( The Table )

I'm doing Silco from Arcane.

muccamukk

Latest entry in the currently flourishing protest song genre:

Watch on YouTube

What? Were you expecting Springsteen?

badly_knitted

Title: Just A Bruise
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Varian, Fred, Jonathan Willaway, Scott.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Varian gets on the wrong end of someone else’s fist. Again.
Written For: Challenge 495: Amnesty 82 at

fan_flashworks, using Challenge 55: Bruise.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.

( Just A Bruise... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Without Jack
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack, Team.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 764
Spoilers: Just after End of Days.
Summary: Jack has left them, and Ianto isn’t sure he can carry on without the support of the man who has held him together since Lisa’s death.
Written For:

ravenlilyrose’s prompt ‘any, any, I try to carry on, to be strong / How can I when you carried me all along?’ at

threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( Without Jack... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

beccaelizabeth

Torchwood is back on the radio and therefore on Sounds again.
Lost Souls and Asylum now, Golden Age and Dead Line in a bit.
And searching for them I found the scripts page

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lskw2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/writers/scripts/whoniverse/torchwood/radio-plays

The episodes that went out as Drama on 4 are harder to search up and do not appear to be scheduled again yet:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012fbw8
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012fcym
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012fqsz

I always recommend listening to House of the Dead in broadcast date order and without spoilers, but at the moment that do seem to mean buying it. Worth it though.

summerstorm

I can't remember if it was January 26 or 27, but either way, I'm three years sober? I can't believe I've been on bupropion for three years, is the weirder part. I've been playing ttrpgs for that long! Wild.

My Pathfinder 2e adventure path actually ended (ish) this week -- we beat the BBEG of Age of Ashes in a really tough fight that didn't draw out as much as I expected, but I definitely threw everything I had at it, hero points, focus points, high level spell slots, expensive potions (to fly over the acid pool), the one single-target nonspecified damage spell I learned ages ago for no particular reason and never used because Kauri is a druid and leans elemental (Disintegrate), just. Everything. And I got the killing blow with a Pulverizing Cascade, which was really cool because it's the one water spell Kauri has continued to use even once we hit the level where we get 6th rank spells and I stopped using Hydraulic Push and Crashing Wave so often. Even after that, I flavored all my cold spells as drawing moisture from the air, so it's been a whole thing and it's nicely thematic. We'll see what we need to wrap up beyond that this Friday, but we handled pretty much everything else beforehand, so I will be making a character (or two?) for Season of Ghosts soon. I'll miss my baby though.

Fantasy High (the campaign I'm in, not the D20 series) also wrapped up its freshman year quest this past weekend, in session 50 just to be extra satisfying. We went to hell! And then to Annwn. I'm excited to see what

yarnofariadne does for our next quest, and what she continues to do with the Celtic mythology theme I dropped on her, if anything.

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As far as my personal life, I'm... okay? Low on money, like my mom is gonna have to actually ask her sister or I'm gonna have to ask online for help with the electric bill low, but what else is new. I finally found the missing package from Springfield today; ( the ordeal )

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Anyway. I'm gonna go back to my DungeonFog tutorials. I was hoping to make a little battlemap for the last session of my Friday group's Christmas Adventure, not sure if I'll manage that, but at least I'm getting through the tutorials. Don't think I've ever approached a thing this way but hopefully it will help with the feeling of 'oh god what do I do with this interface,' even if I picked the map maker that felt closer to what I'm used to. It certainly feels like the Correct Thing to do, like reading the manual before you fuck with stuff. But I have always been too impatient.

Have also been doing jigsaw puzzles and I sorted my sister's Arkham Horror puzzle last night, so I can fall back on that if the spoons really are gone. I try not to get started on the jigsaw puzzles before 8 PM because I'm very bad at stopping. I finished my previous one at 12:30 AM on Sunday with Ciri rolling over it and not letting me see the empty slots I had left. It was a fun extra challenge. I really love that puzzle to pieces, though. I'm very frustrated that I can't figure who got me it, but it was on my wishlist Christmas 2024 and I spent all of 2025 stuck on that one lady with the horse (really stuck on puzzling at all, I enjoyed the puzzle once I got started).

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Puzzling has allowed me to watch The Pitt as it's airing so far (unsure on new doctor, love Mel to pieces, love the new nurse, love Mohan always and forever) and almost catch up on 9-1-1 -- I'm up to the second episode of S9. Honestly, puzzling while watching some of those S8 episodes made it more bearable, and then I locked in to enjoy Seismic Shifts because I do love me a good fictional disaster. I need to post some Buck/Eddie recs for

spikedluv at some point, I said I would for holiday_wishes and I've got a few but I want to list a couple more.

(As an aside... when did we embrace the portmanteaus, and why? It feels so wrong to use them. So fucking wrong. But they're so widespread that it also feels weird to use the normal slash form for pairings! What IS up with that, god.)

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Oh, I posted some photos of my planner decor~

journalsandplanners here if anyone is interested! Still figuring out the day-a-page format. This page is my favorite so far, and I've gone through like, all my pens and markers to figure out what works for headings like that and doesn't bleed like a motherfucker. (There are some markers that are the perfect color but holy shit you can see them through TWO whole pages. And they're decent paper!)

Anyway. Happy Thursday! Hope things are going well for all y'all. <3

oursin

But hey, after A WEEK I have a new passport! - their website says may take up to three weeks, so I am very impressed with this. Also have the old one back (sent separately). The photo of course strongly resembles a headshot from a C19th volume of an institution for the criminally insane at which the head doc had taken to photography and theories of physiognomy, but don't they always?

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In the world of spammyity-spam-spam:

Really, I am quite tempted to 'deliver an oral talk' (? as opposed to doing a presentation in the form of interpretative dance?) at the 13th International Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (ICGO-2026 Asia) as it's in Kyoto: 'adorned with early autumn foliage, offering a serene backdrop for academic exchanges, you’ll have the chance to experience traditional tea ceremonies, stroll through ancient bamboo groves, and engage with a city that values both heritage and scientific progress'.

But am not at all tempted (more DESTROY THIS WITH FIRE & EXTREME PREJUDICE) by this solicitation:

Imagine if, instead of being buried in PDFs, your work could answer questions directly, 24/7. Not just to students, but to anyone curious, anywhere in the world.
When corporate companies, grant providers, grad students, journalists ask AI about your field, they get up to date info and not outdated summaries.
Today, your Google Scholar profile just sits there. No one can ask it questions. No one can discover the depth of your work through AI search.
AI is becoming the new search engine for expertise. And academics are invisible.
We built something to fix this. Your own .cv domain. LLM optimized. SEO optimized. Analytics. Branded URLs. Digital Chat Twin.

AAAAARRRGGH.

Ask ME the questions, please. Because, and I quote, 'No one can discover the depth of your work through AI search'. Many a true word.

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And, in fact, this week has been quite the flurry of that Dr oursin being relevant - apart from query on scholarly listserv which was well in my wheelhouse but had me going 'would be helpful to indicate what reading - apart from google search - you had done before asking for suggestions' -

Request to referee a paper on topic on which I am somewhat reluctantly considered a Nexpert, for journal in an area in which I am not.

Query from researcher about sources for a possible project of theirs.

Invitation to go and talk about the History of 'Engines of Love' (as the condoms found in William Empson's college rooms were described) in connection with an exhibition in the summer.

Have also had agreeable email exchanges with Elderly Antiquarian Bookseller friend.

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On the downside, printer is acting up, doing both being fussy about toner cartridge AND thinking there's a paper jam in Tray 1. Sigh.

autumninpluto posting in

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my hero academia: team-up missions - various characters (UA students, pro heroes)

see more here @ joicon

luthien

One more fill for

threesentenceficathon

Language!
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Pairing: Shane/Ilya
Rating: T
Prompt: being in so much pain that you’re swearing in multiple languages

“Jesus fuck – putain – Говно – Christ, I need more languages to swear in if the team keeps doing this sort of thing every time I’m out with an injury; watching this is even more painful than my actual MCL sprain,” Shane complained, jabbing a finger at the TV screen.

“There is no need for cursing; he did not miss the goal by so very much – only feet, not yards,” Ilya said consolingly, and leaned in to stop Shane’s mouth with a kiss before he had the chance to direct more swear words – whether in Canadian English, Canadian French, or very bad Russian - at Ilya.

“See моя любовь,” Ilya continued when he lifted his head – not from Shane’s mouth – sometime later, “we only need one language, and it has no words.”

calimac

Daniel Craig schools Stephen Colbert on how to pronounce his name. (It's "Craig" not "Cregg". "Cregg" is C.J. from The West Wing.)

Now, if only some guest would teach Colbert how to pronounce "Gollum" ...

prettygoodword

brunoise (broo-NWAHZ) - v., to dice (vegetables) very finely, usually to the dimensions of 2 mm or less. n., vegetables cut this way.

The smallest of dice cuts, done by julienning and then cutting at a 90-degree angle to the julienne. Sometimes specifically a mixture of leeks, celery, carrots and sometimes turnips chopped this way. Can be part of making mirepoix but more commonly to create a garnish.

---L.

princessofgeeks

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recthething

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool other fanvids/kinds of fanworks/fics/fanart/podfics/fancrafts/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

disneydream06

Jan. 29th...

A Melty Ice Cream Cone Is

A Problem.

But I'm Sure I Can Lick It.

aurumcalendula

Escapade 36 = February 20 - 22 (vid deadline = Feb 14)
VidUKon = June 5 - 7
World Wide Slash (DC-Slash's new name) = July 17 - 19
Escapade 36.5 (online) = August 7 - 9
Confabulation = October 22 - 25

I think Wiscon (May 21- 25) might have a vidshow, but I haven't seen anything confirmed yet.

puddleshark

A walk along muddy paths, down to Shipstal Point, to sit for a while looking out over the choppy grey-brown waters of Poole Harbour. The wind very cold indeed, and the light terrible for photography. But it's a good place to see the birds passing: Oystercatchers, Avocets, and even a flock of Spoonbills.

( +1 )

shipperslist

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princessofgeeks

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Current Mood: sleepy

mific

OMG this HR vid by Nestra! I love it!

from the beginning

wickedgame posting in

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Fandoms: Bad Behaviour, Dynasty, Good Trouble, Heated Rivalry, Mako Mermaids, Neumatt, Namib, Nancy Drew, One Trillion Dollars, Skymed, Stranger Things, Supergirl, What It Feels Like For a Girl

rest HERE @

mundodefieras

nanila posting in

awesomeers

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

hamsterwoman

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

Challenge #14: In your own space, create a promo and/or rec list for someone new to a fandom

I have had such great fun (and good luck!) with fandom primers in past Snowflakes, in the sense that I both really enjoyed writing them up, find them very useful to refer to down the road if I need to explain what obscure/hard-to-understand-from-osmosis thing I’m talking about, AND I think I have had at least one flister either directly take the plunge because of the primer each time or have it be a helping-along nudge towards that, which is really the best possible outcome. (Past primers: Dragaera, Terra Ignota, my 50-year-old Russian book love Monday Begins on Saturday, and Taskmaster, and I finally created a tag for them).

Last year the thought of doing one for Elis & John did occur to me, but I had only consumed one third of the “content” by then, and didn’t feel like I was ready to write any sort of primer. This year, I’m still not done catching up: I have listened to almost 9 years of radio out of 12 years, but that does mean I have about 25% to go. But, I do feel like 9 years of content is a lot of content, and I have now listened to at least some of all of the phases of their “digital decade”, and got to experience a live show, and E&J fandom on four different platforms, which hadn’t been the case last year, so I was thinking it was time. And then a 30k Elis & John fic popped up on AO3 the very day this Snowflake prompt went up, roughly doubling the total amount of E&J content on AO3, and if ever there was a sign from the universe, right? :P

So here you go. This is what I’ve been obsessed with for the last 20 months, to the extent of flying to England to attend a show.

What is it? Elis James and John Robins is a British radio show/podcast that has been on air almost-continuously in some form since February 2014. It started out on XFM/Radio X (“digital indie music radio”, as the boys rattle it off) as a live weekly radio show, moved to the BBC in 2019, as a live weekly radio show on 5Live, and in February 2024 changed to a “podcast-first” format, the exact mechanics of which are too complicated to explain (the show has adopted a sarcastic “it couldn’t be simpler!” tagline when attempting to explain it), but essentially it moved to two podcasts a week, with new episodes currently dropping Tuesdays and Fridays, and then the highlights of those go out on the radio once a week. The key thing is that across these last 12 years, with the exception of a couple of months when they were moving stations or formats, there’s been a steady output of 1-2 hours of new content a week, with occasional bonus special episodes, and all of that is available in podcast form. As of this writing, the BBC version of the show is up to 509 episodes, and there are 264 episodes on Radio X, plus a bunch of bonus ones that are unnumbered across both versions.

Elis and John have also written a book together, The Holy Vible, have done a bunch of livestreams over the years (not available officially anywhere, but there are curated sources), and have done live gigs and tours, most recently in the fall of 2025 (also not available anywhere, but there are clips, photos, etc.). You know, in case the 1000+ hours of radio/podcast content was not enough ‘canon’.

The premise: ( the key players and the chemistry )
( the format )

OK, I think that gives a sense of the format sufficiently.

How to listen: The current BBC shows are on Spotify (and BBC Sounds, and Podbean, and all the other places). There is also bonus BBC Sounds-only content that is only officially available within the UK (but there are sources; inquire within). The Radio X/XFM shows are also available on Spotify, separately.

You can see visuals and video versions of short clips on the Instagram “carra” at bbc5live (probably easiest to search by the #elisandjohn tag.

And longer clips are on YouTube in this playlist.

Where to start: This is a great question! Opinions vary.

( Two options that I think might work )

Links to things:

( fannish spaces and resources )
( fanworks, and more )

luthien

We survived the high of 42C/107F yesterday - thank you, ducted air con - but I wound up with a particularly bad headache that snuck up on me over the course of the day. It was one of those days when I kept wondering why everything was so hard and I couldn't get anything done. Eventually, when the penny finally dropped and I took some painkillers, my first thought was: I can't think straight. I can't write! This is it. I'll never be able to write again.

I will just point out here that I have lived with chronic daily headache and migraine for literally decades - and yet logic still goes out the window every time I get hit with a bad one when it's been a week or two since the last one. The human mind - what can you do? I think I'll try to write something tonight, just to prove to myself that my mind while in the grip of a headache doesn't know what it's talking about.

Today has been much better. The headache has departed and the max temperature today was 'only' 35/95. You can really feel the difference in how less suffocating the air outside feels, even though the poor garden is still baking. It's going to get back up to 40/104 again tomorrow and the day after, though, so we'll see how I go. I'm having my weekly massage tomorrow, which should help stop my upper back from clenching up too much.

One other side effect of the hot weather is that we're only sleeping under a sheet atm, so no real surprise that I was awakened fairly early this morning by my feet being pounced on, not long after D had left for work. When I opened my eyes I was surprised to find that it was Abby, who is seven now, and not Olly, who is not quite ten months old. Then she growled, and I realised she thought my feet moving under the sheet were a moving kitten. Even after six months, she is still DEEPLY offended that Olly exists, and, worse, that he exists in her house.

So I rolled over and went back to sleep, and a while later I got woken up by another pounce. This time it was Olly. He didn't let up, so I had to fold the doona back over to protect my feet. Then, when I'd spoilt his fun, he jumped up to play with the blind cord. At that point I incarcerated him in his bedroom. (Yes, he has his own bedroom with his own special fluffy bed, blanket, litter tray, scratching station, water bowl and overnight snacks, partly because he's spoilt to death, and partly because every time we leave him free overnight, he wreaks havoc on the other pets and the house in general. I guess we're getting off reasonably lightly, though. As a friend pointed out to me, think how much worse he would be if he hadn't been desexed.)

Have some pics:
( Cat pics )

ysabetwordsmith

This year I'm doing Community Thursdays. Some of my activity will involve maintaining communities I run, and my favorites. Some will involve checking my list of subscriptions and posting in lower-traffic ones. Today I have interacted with the following communities...

* Posted "How to cope with broken resolutions and the mid-January slump" in

goals_on_dw.

* Posted "Finding Art in 2026" on

art.

* Commented on the January 28 post in

awesomeers.

Current Mood: accomplished

moonphase_feed

http://www.almanac.com/moon/calendar

Current Moon Phase for Thursday, January 29, 2026

From The Old Farmer's Almanac.

http://www.almanac.com/moon/calendar

ysabetwordsmith posting in

goals_on_dw

How to cope with broken resolutions and the mid-January slump

January is a difficult month for many people. We come in at the start full of excitement and hope, determined to accomplish our goals, only to find by the middle of the month, we have already failed to follow through on our resolutions. Add to that feeling of dejection days of minimal sunlight, and, for some, seasonal depression.

Yes, January can be tough. However, January can also be freeing and satisfying. As a person born in January, this month holds deep meaning for me, and I hope the ideas shared below serve you well in the coming weeks and beyond.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

gs_silva made a post pointing to the Patreon post in which he answers one of my questions about Maurice. It's just such a unique backstory for the character, and I love it. :D

Current Mood: amused

Reading page

Moonpie is not a fan of CUNY/SUNY having started up again

emotional support spinning

10 True Loves Table

Music Thursday

The Fantastic Journey Quadruple Drabble: Just A Bruise

Ficlet: Without Jack

Torchwood BBC radio plays back on

with spoons enough to ramble, I guess, at the very least

Not quite a medley of extemporanea

41 My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions icons

One more three sentence fic

say it right

brunoise

Heated Rivalry rec

queer romace/romantasy books with actual adult main characters? yes, please!

Community Recs Post!

Isn't It Punny.....

Upcoming Vidshows in 2026

Shipstal Point

Reading Wednesday 2026, #4

comfort read

Feelgood vid!

multifandom icons.

Just One Thing (29 January 2026)

Snowflake: fandom primer -- Elis & John

Weather, pets, life

Community Thursdays

Thursday, January 29, 2026 Moon Phase

How to cope with broken resolutions and the mid-January slump

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