heidi | Pajama Club

Various:

--My mother tripped on her way to a concert (again) and fractured the bridge of her nose (again) and got up and went to the show anyway and enjoyed it while holding a plastic bag full of ice from the bar to her face (AGAIN). On the one hand I want to rage about her choice to just fucking carry on to the show, except on the other hand that's absolutely what I would do because I'm just as stubborn as she is, but back on the first hand she is seventy two years old and I am ~~in the prime of my youth~~ not. So I will just allow myself to be a little bit of a hypocrite about it, thanks.

--Melodifestivalen final is on Saturday. The lineup is mostly not terrible! I have no idea what the ultimate Eurovision pick will be, however, because I have given up on predicting the ~~mystery~~ that is the collective mind of Sweden (affectionate).

--I have been writing a deeply lemon-chicken fic for my new fandom but I'm fairly sure all the members of this fandom are too young to understand what it would mean if I tagged it lemon chicken. But I can glory in the tag in my mind. (Also I might not even finish it because there's no fun in writing an actual plot when I can just write my blorbo being hard done by.)

oursin

Happy birthday,

afuna and

katharine_b!

rmc28

The university hockey season is nearly over. Huskies have played our last league game (I say 'our' but I was actually playing with Warbirds in a different city at the time), Varsity is coming up Saturday week, and then there's Nationals in April before we move into summer ice training. We had our Varsity dinner on Tuesday in Clare College and I became sharply aware during that evening that all things come to an end and some people will graduate this summer and leave. This is a university, people are always arriving and leaving, but it's nearly thirty years since I first arrived in Cambridge and I'm still not used to friends leaving.

I love everyone in this photograph (and a couple more teammates who didn't make it to the dinner).

Varsity: Saturday 14 March, tickets go on general sale at noon today, I didn't make the Huskies ("mixed 2nds") Varsity squad but I'm playing in the alumni game and helping out with (at least) Huskies and Women's Blues.

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fffx is a multifandom gift exchange where the standard minimum of a gift is a fanfic of 10,000+ words or fanart in panelled comic style of 40+ panels.

We've passed the deadline and have 5 remaining pinch hits, mostly requiring a half-length gift of 5,000+ words (fic) or 20+ panels (comic art).

Please take a look if you think you might be able to post a gift of this kind by 11:59pm EDT, Thursday 19 March.

My participants and I are very grateful for your interest!

Pinch hit #32 - fic - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV), Murder She Wrote, Jem and the Holograms (Cartoon), G.I. Joe (Cartoon), Voltron: Lion Force (1984)

Pinch hit #39 - fic - Stargate Atlantis, Kolja | Kolya (1996), Cesta do pravěku | Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955), Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies)

Pinch hit #62 - art, fic - 少年歌行 | The Blood of Youth (Live Action TV), 莲花楼 | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (TV), 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV), 伪装者 | The Disguiser (TV), 少年白马醉春风 | Dashing Youth (Live Action TV), 杀破狼 | Sha Po Lang - priest )

Pinch hit #65 - fic - Columbo, Criminal Minds (US TV), Grey's Anatomy, Miss Marple - Agatha Christie, NCIS: Los Angeles, SEAL Team (TV), Sherlock (TV) The Professionals (TV 1977)

PH #67 - art, fic [varies by request] - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game), Original Work, Crossover Fandom [Brooklyn 99 & The Labyrinth], Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)

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pattrose

Peach cream cheese cobbler

Ingredients
2 cans (20 oz each) peaches chunks or tidbits, drained (reserve ½ cup juice)
8 oz cream cheese, softened
1 box yellow or white cake mix
¾ cup unsalted butter, melted
½ cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp ground cinnamon (optional)
Pinch of salt

Serves: 8–10

Prep time: 15 minutes

Cook time: 35–40 minutes

How to Make:
Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C) and grease a 9x13-inch baking dish. In a medium bowl, beat the softened cream cheese with sugar, vanilla, and the reserved peach juice until smooth. Spread the drained peach chunks evenly across the bottom of the prepared dish.

Dollop the cream cheese mixture over the peaches and spread it out as evenly as possible. Sprinkle the dry cake mix over the top, followed by a dusting of cinnamon if you are using it. Pour the melted butter evenly over the entire surface, ensuring there are no large dry patches of cake mix.

Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until the top is golden brown and the peach filling is bubbling. Remove from the oven and let it stand for at least 15 minutes to allow the cobbler to set. Serve warm, perhaps with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream.

🧊 Storage Tip:
Store any leftover cobbler in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 day. To reheat, place a portion in the oven at 300°F for 10 minutes to maintain the texture of the cake topping.

pattrose

Chicken Tacos

3 cups cooked, shredded chicken
1 packet taco seasoning (or 2 tbsp homemade)
1 can (10 oz) diced tomatoes with green chilies (like Rotel), drained
1 can (15 oz) black beans, drained and rinsed
1 cup frozen corn (thawed)
1 cup sour cream
2 cups shredded Mexican blend cheese (divided)
12 small corn or flour tortillas (cut into quarters)
1 small onion, diced
1 tbsp olive oil
Optional toppings: chopped cilantro, sliced olives, green onions, jalapeños
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C). Lightly grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
Sauté diced onion in olive oil over medium heat for 3–4 minutes until soft. Remove from heat.
In a large bowl, combine shredded chicken, taco seasoning, sautéed onion, tomatoes with green chilies, black beans, corn, sour cream, and 1 cup of cheese. Mix until well combined.
Layer tortillas across the bottom of the prepared baking dish.
Add half of the chicken mixture, spreading evenly. Repeat with another layer of tortillas and the remaining chicken mixture.
Top with remaining 1 cup of cheese and cover with foil.
Bake for 25–30 minutes, then uncover and bake an additional 10 minutes until bubbly and golden on top.
Let rest for 5–10 minutes before serving. Garnish with your favorite taco toppings.
Prep Time: 15 mins | Cook Time: 40 mins | Total Time: 55 mins
Servings: 6–8 | Calories: ~460 per serving

pattrose

Not quite 365 days questions March

5. How many local birds can you name?

I know little about birds, but these are the ones I see daily.

Road Runner
Cardinal male and female
Sparrows
Black birds
I think the bigger ones are Ravens
Chicken Hawks
Hummingbirds- about 5 different types.
Quail-my favorite along with Roadrunner
Some kind of blue birds
Eagle
Wrens
Robins I think
Pigeons (flying rats)

That's all I can think of right now.

pattrose

Topics for talk

Ways I Help Others.

I do all sorts of things to help others.

1. I make dinner once a month for my friends and once a month for family members.
2. Donate to my charities.
3. Babysit my great-granddaughter every Saturday. She's almost 2. She is so cute. Hubby and I spend the entire three hours outside. She loves to be outside.
4. Help take care of my 89-year-old friend twice a week. She lives with her daughter, who still works. I love spending time with her.
5. Spend time with my grandkids for no special reason. Give them my love so they can create wonderful memories. Thats something we can all do.

pattrose

90 questions for discussion.
1. If your body could speak to you, what would it say?

It would say, the exercise is great, but you need to lose some more weight. Twenty pounds was just the beginning. I keep making desserts. And we eat them.

I do chair aerobics, but need to do them more then 30 minutes at night. I'll lose more, it'll take time.

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marchmetamatterschallenge is running this month. :D Here is my introductory post. So what is meta? Well, it can be a lot of things ...

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My Everchanging Moods busy

sonia

Birbs and Borbs Birds with queer flags. I'm eyeing the bisexual oystercatcher sticker. Pride is resistance!

Resist and Unsubscribe. Unsubscribe from services that support fascism. Every little bit helps! I didn't subscribe to any of these things in the first place, so I guess I've been resisting all along.

Taking action against AI harms by Anil Dash. Speaking can help get businesses off X and schools off ChatGPT.

ride_4ever

Most of you -- or perhaps all of you -- will understand why I am currently fixated on the last three lines of the Sonya Taaffe poem "The House Snakes: For Nyani Martin":

...our earth will always shake,

our restless scales unfurling to enfold

your arms of wine-dark honey as you come home.

The full poem appears in issue 44 of "Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy".

My Everchanging Moods I Can't Even

redbird

The trip to New Orleans was very good for

cattitude, who had an easier tiee finding food he could eat and enjoy than Adrian and I, but the few days of warm weather did us good as well. (And then the trip home was physically difficult and painful for Adrian, unfortunately.)

I did more walking each day, including but not only the travel days, than I expected or planned, and found it less difficult than I would have predicted.

Saturday afternoon we met my brother at House of Blues, because they had outdoor music and a performer he liked. That was fun, and Adrian enjoyed dancing with an enthusiastic stranger. I think that was the day we took a streetcar downtown in search of lunch, only to find lines for the relatively small number of places with outdoor seating. But I'd wanted to ride a streetcar--streetcars are part of the New Orleans transit network, not just a tourist attraction, so we could get one a couple of blocks from our hotel.

Our hotel had a courtyard, which was part of why Cattitude chose it. The courtyard had an unexpected, charming cat. The drum circle I mentioned in the previous post was in the park across the street from our hotel, which is part of why Mark recommended it.

Also, the New Orleans airport terminal plays music, not very loudly, over the PA system, which is entirely fitting for an airport named after Louis Armstrong, and much better than what comes over the PA at most airports.

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

My Everchanging Moods accomplished

delphi

Fandom 50 #1

I'm trying another March to March round of Fandom 50 (the challenge where you try to make fifty themed posts in a year), and this time around I thought I'd focus on Canadian music. As a bit of extra fun for myself, I'm going to try to find one song I love per year from the past fifty years—and as it happens, 1977 gave us one of my all-time faves.

We're Here for a Good Time (Not a Long Time) by Trooper

Watch on YouTube

torachan

1. Did another store visit today. I hadn't been to this store for quite some time (I think not since the summer) so it was nice to have an opportunity to check it out again, and just in general to get out of the office and do something different. Tomorrow I plan to do a store visit, too, but just the store down the street from me, so at least there won't be a long drive involved.

2. Carla made miso marinated salmon for dinner tonight, which we haven't had in ages. I forgot how good it is!

3. Carla got some Brooks shoes a few months ago and has really been enjoying them and then it turns out that they occasionally release Disney collabs, and their most recent ones include Rapunzel themed ones. Rapunzel is one of her favorite Disney characters and pink and purple are some of her favorite colors. Plus they actually have them in larger sizes, which is so rare for cute shoes like these. They were released to buy in person at the runDisney event in Disney World this past weekend and just finally showed up on the website today and she was able to order some. And in this instance having larger feet actually worked in her favor, since a lot of the smaller sizes were sold out already.

4. The other day after I got the new shelf set up in the garage, Carla put a couple Star Wars legos on it, and then decided she wanted it to be a Star Wars themed shelf (I was already thinking we should organize some of the lego displays since right now they're just sort of wherever we had space at the time they were built, rather than displayed thematically, so that works out perfectly). It's still in progress, but I think it looks pretty nice. (And I really do love that shelf.)

5. Tuxie's been enjoying the long grass we have after all the rain last month.

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fandomweekly

Challenge 291:
SAFE HARBOR

It’s been a long, dangerous voyage, through storms and rough waters, past obstacles and opponents (sea monsters? Enemy ships? Dimensional portals?). But finally, a familiar sight comes into view, and you know that the worst of the journey is past. You’ve reached a safe harbor.

It doesn’t have to be a literal harbor, of course. It could be the final exit off the highway after a multi-week road trip from hell, or the first sign of familiar houses as you take a well-worn path home after too long away, or the sight of an old friend coming to greet you in a crowd of hostile strangers. The important part is that you know the worst is over; you’re safe now, or close enough.

Write a story about a safe harbor (literal or metaphorical).

BONUS GOAL: When The Gulls Call

If your submission features seagulls, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!

Challenge ends Monday, March 9 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 291 – safe harbor
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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fandomweekly

Our twenty-ninth Amnesty Week gathered 3 entries across five themes. Well done, everybody!

See under the cut for a list of fics for Amnesty #029.

( List of entries )

If you missed out on Amnesty this time, don’t worry! All of these prompts will be included for Amnesty Week #030 as well. (And thank you very much for your patience with the delay last week. Your mod had some unexpected schedule conflicts!)

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fandom_checkin

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, March 04, to midnight on Thursday, March 05. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34326 Daily Check-in

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 27

How are you doing?

I am OK.
15 (57.7%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
11 (42.3%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
11 (40.7%)

One other person.
13 (48.1%)

More than one other person.
3 (11.1%)

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.

writerlibrarian

Health stuff

Doing okay on average. The hip pain comes and goes along with the humidity.

Teacher stuff

I completed the content for next week’s class. I’m diving into writing the next one tomorrow. This week is spring break for my students and all the high schools and elementary schools. I had the grand daughters of my heart with me today. We watched movies, talked, they are both teenagers. I might have one or both of them sleep over on Friday.

Reading

Two non fiction this week.

Every day I read : 53 ways to get closer to books by Hwang Bo-reum. Shorts essays on reading. All the ways to read. Fun and deep at the same time.

L’œil de la Gorgone : 22 figures mythologiques sous un regard féministe by Noémie Fachan. Non fiction graphic novel revisiting the mythological women like Medea, Hera, Medusa, etc., with the point of view of women. It’s an important, intense and engaged point of view well worth the read. Not translated.

I’m also reading Zhu Yu (Chasing Jade) the translation of the Chinese novel that the up-coming drama of the same name is based on. It’s interesting. I’m up to chapter 30.

Watching

I finished Unveil : Jadewind and Flight to you this week. I’m looking forward to Pursuit of Jade starting Friday.

Crafting

On last Friday craft night I put some time into the baby blanket and at home I cross-stitched all the blue hues of my red fox. Half of the snow part is done I’m attacking the tail part of the fox.

cosmolinguist

I listened to the Twins game against Puerto Rico this evening, which was happening while I was making dinner and at the gym.

I figured my Twinkies would get hammered; PR has lots of good players. But two of the best, Francisco Lindor and Carlos Correa, couldn't make the team for insurance reasons. Made me laugh that the lead-off hitter is another Minnesota Twin, Willi Castro. (Apparently he's not as good any more but I still have such a soft spot for him! There were other former Twins on this team too, Eddie Rosario is another that got mentioned fondly by the Twins radio guys, Kris and Dan.

The Twins actually won! 6-3. Good start by Zebby (phew), good game by Alan Roden (who I keep forgetting about; one of the many players they got in the fire sale last trade-deadline).

kaberett

This evening I am having A Headache. It's an annoying headache; it's definitely a distracting headache; but it's "just" A Headache. No other symptoms that I'm noticing.

... except that it's Exactly The Right Time For A Migraine, and yesterday I had a bunch of migraine prodrome symptoms. (Being Too Warm. Wanting to close my eyes a lot. Nausea. Overwhelming despair.)

I find myself Wondering whether my regular menstrual migraines actually started on 1^st January 2021, or if that's just the point at which symptoms tipped over into very obviously photosensitive migraine. At that point I was on continuous acute pain relief, and it is slowly dawning on me that An Annoying Headache with no other symptoms distinguishable from background noise (anxiety, depression, thesis-related stress, ...) is the kind of thing I'd have just merrily ignored, and for that matter that I'd still be ignoring if I weren't now Keeping A Headache Diary...

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My Everchanging Moods headachey
Now That's What I Call... those gODDAMN WHITE NOISE MACHINES

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⌈ Secret Post #6998 ⌋

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

01.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 15 secrets from Secret Submission Post #999.
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.

goss

Now that the word's gone out round these parts about our dear friend MM, I have access-locked the entry per request of her significant other.

Please consider access-locking your entries for now, to honour her wishes.

Hugs to all of you. <333

(Comments are screened, if you wish to discuss anything, or feel free to private message.)

ETA: It's okay to make our MM posts public now.

sage

My heart is broken by the terrible loss of

minoanmiss. I met her in fandom in my early DCU days, something like 23 years ago, and once in person in 2009, and always treasured her friendship. Rest in peace and power, love. Hugs to all who grieve her passing.

books by Adrian Tchaikovsky
House of Open Wounds, Lives of Bitter Rain, Days of Shattered Faith, Pretenders to the Throne of God
I don't think I LIKED any of these, but the 'verse is interesting? I get the feeling that he cares far more about gaming out his worldbuilding than he does his actual characters, which is no way to write a novel/series.

yarning
Finished the orange and blue kickbunny. Missed yarn group yet again. Started the Easter carrots. Worked a little on the kickbunny for the kitten academy momcat. The long term commission for 2 kickbunnies turned into a priority commission, so I'm rapidly working on that instead of more carrots. Sold an under the door toy. And 2 more catnip-silvervine hearts that I have to make. Oof! I'm grateful for the sales, but wtf is going on with the deluge? I mean, SEVENTEEN things to make!! Most ASAP!

augh
dad had yet another bad fall Monday night, but, knock wood, I haven't yet been asked to go up and help out. These deadlines make that problematic.

healthcrap
General malaise. Epic brain fog. Continuing vertigo. The internet tells me that a repeatedly bitten tongue can develop white keratosis (like your fingernails) to protect it. I keep biting the wound, which is why I still have an ulcer just under my tongue, way back by my molars. /whine. Also, I didn't get my healthcare coverage renewed before it expired, so I'm having to wrangle that while feeling like crap. :(

#resist
+ voted in the TX primary yesterday. Learned I was gerrymandered into a new congressional district minutes before voting, so I had to choose a new rep.
+ Look out for local anti-war protests in your area.
+ March 5: Fighting and Winning Against Trump's Concentration Camps - Mass Call
+ March 28: #50501 No Kings Protest #3

I hope you're all doing as well as can be expected. <333

james_davis_nicoll

This new Ninja Crusade Bundle presents The Ninja Crusade, the tabletop fantasy roleplaying game from Third Eye Games of ninja, conspiracies, and martial arts.

Bundle of Holding: Ninja Crusade

oursin

What I read

Finished A Slowly Dying Cause and she does seem to be grinding these out rather. Also I didn't actually check the details but there were some descriptive passages of places that seemed very similar, or least deploying the same epithets - 'the demilune beach' I think was one - that seemed a bit cut and paste. Also maybe more Havers, but when she finally appeared did we want that plot development??? And something entirely new (or rather, old and heritage) for Lynley to angst about.

Then read the latest Slightly Foxed.

Then onto GB Stern, The Woman in the Hall (1939), which it is longer since I last read than I thought. Still v good but not sure that I will be reccing it for the book group.

Then this already discussed - further thought that it was rather like hearing somebody tell one about book they have read - at least this bore a fairly close resemblance to the original, was not like that scene in one of E Nesbit's Bastable novels in which they talk about Charlotte Yonge's The Daisy Chain and all appear to have been reading entirely different book.... But still left a lot out.

On the go

After that I actually started Nicola Barker, TonyInterrupter (2025), Kobo deal/sortes ereader, which I was quite enjoying, and then -

Arrival of Barbara Hambly, Death at the Palace (A Silver Screen Historical Mystery Book 4) so am currently immersed in that.

Next up

And after that, imagine it will be straight on to Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped, which also published yesterday. Then maybe back to TonyInterrupter.

sineala

What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing. Migraine medication side effects happened and I was in bed for four days and unfortunately too tired to read. Plus migraines.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( Avengers #36, Iceman Omega #1, Nova Centurion #5 )

What I'm Reading Next

Man, I don't know.

My Everchanging Moods exhausted

ffutures

Starting in an hour, Ninja Crusade Bundle featuring "the Third Eye Games RPG of ninja, conspiracies, and high-flying martial arts."

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/NinjaCrusade

The premise here looks rather a bit like last week's Mists of Akuna but without the steampunk elements, and as with that this really isn't a setting that interests me much, I'm just not knowledgeable enough about ninja and martial arts generally to be interested in running games where they're a major part of the background. Parts of it were in a 2016 bundle, and I wasn't really very interested then either. Having said that it's cheap and presentation looks OK., and they don't refer to multiple Ninja as Ninjas which is a friend's pet peeve about most games that use them...

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poetry

The well shall not
Dry up
The river shall not
Stop running
So long as we are clouds
And our hopes are drops of rain.

- Fouzi El-Asmar

cosmolinguist

I am not surprised at all that someone is gonna try to primary Klobuchar. I'm only mildly surprised it's someone I know online because he's on the same fedi instance as me. I just know him as the Cookie Mom and now he's doing a new thing!

He's campaigning on abolishing the Department of Homeland Security, bringing our neighbors home, and not taking the support of the DFL base for granted.

cimorene

They thought they had solved Dad's hallucinations but it was a false alarm.

The sequence of events so far is:

He starts hallucinating mildly, images of animals etc

The visual hallucinations escalate steadily and include audio - first talking to absent people, then thinking he is in a variety of different places, finally briefly not recognizing my mom, though he did a minute later

A new antibiotic is discontinued

They find a UTI, but all mental symptoms stop, so they think the cause was the discontinued antibiotics

He starts hallucinating again, more mildly, before the medical team has had a chance to agree to release him from the hospital

He briefly recovers almost completely, but then gets worse again

It seems his medical team is dealing with a mystery again. 😔

pauraque

Le Guin wrote a dozen or so picture books in her career, and several of them are out of print, including this one about a spider who spins artistic webs. I was able to determine that a library about an hour away from me has a copy, so I took a field trip. I couldn't check the book out because I'm not a resident, but since it's a picture book, I just read it, covertly took some photos, and then left.

fingers hold open a yellowed picture book with pen and ink drawings of an ancient palace

fingers hold open a yellowed picture book with pen and ink drawings of an ancient palace

The story is plainly an allegory for the life of an artist and her struggle to balance creative fulfillment, the desire for recognition, and the inconvenient reality that she also has to, like, eat. ( cut for spoilers, if spoilers for a picture book are a concern )

This book is certainly suggestive of Le Guin's early experiences as a writer and how she may have been feeling about where she was in her career at this time. I'm glad I went out of my way to track it down.

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Title: Six Hats and a Suitcase
Fandom: Culture Club
Pairing: Boy George/Jon Moss
Rating: G
Length: 955 words
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: This was so fun to write. I love these two so much.
Written for: Challenge 508 - Anticipation
Summary: George is packing like he's emigrating, Jon is pretending not to panic about how much he cares. Four days before their first holiday together, the flat is full of hats, silk shirts, and things neither of them are quite ready to say out loud. Domestic chaos, soft glances, one suitcase, and the quiet realization that this might be something real.

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writethisfanfic

Hello on Wednesday! How are things going in the world of fic?

Did you write?

- Yes!
- No!
- Not yet!

If yes, what kind of writerly activity did you engage in? How do you feel about it?
If no, what were the obstacles/situations that affected your writerly pursuits? What will you do differently tomorrow to get more writing done?
If not yet, because the day hasn't gotten going yet, what kind of writing activity are you planning (or hoping) to accomplish?

lomedet

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james_davis_nicoll

Two pair of linked speculative fiction stories.

I'm Waiting for You And Other Stories by Kim Bo-Young

beccaelizabeth

Today was Difficult because People In My Flat Fixing Things but the things are fixed and I have won.
People are out of my flat. Winning.

I am so tired.

I left my exercise watch counting today as if I was dancing because Difficult but now it thinks I danced for three hours and made a new record.
Clearly I should actually dance for hours in the near future and make a better record.
... the medium future, actually, the near future will involve staying very still and seeing if I can sleep through all the hallway noises this time (unlikely).

... tired tired...

I am going to eat my chocolate thing and feel blergh.

osprey_archer

A wild episode of Books I’ve Abandoned appears! I kept on slogging through Maeve Binchy’s A Few of the Girls on the grounds that it’s a short story collection and therefore might eventually cough up a story I like, but finally decided it was just too many downer stories about people in bad friendships and bad marriages and bad adulterous relationships.

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

Getting my St. Patrick’s Day on with Eve Bunting’s St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning, which I actually picked up on account of the illustrator, Jan Brett. This was one of Brett’s earliest books and the publishers clearly gave her a very limited palette to work with, just black and white and yellow and green (and a yellow saturated to the point of orange for the Irish flag). She does the best with what she has, but how fortunate for us all she has more colors to work with in her later books!

But her characteristic attention to detail is still visible here: the stone walls in the green fields, the multitude of toothsome sweets in the Mrs. Simms’ Half-Way-Up Sweetshop, the sleepy boy and his sleepy dog curled up in the rocking chair once they’ve walked all the way up Acorn Mountain and all the way back in their very own St. Patrick’s Day parade.

What I’m Reading Now

I’ve begun E. Nesbit’s The Wouldbegoods, and am happy to report I find the Bastables much less stressful than the children in The Phoenix and the Carpet, possibly because the Bastables don’t have a magic carpet that might just strand them in Outer Mongolia. Capable of getting up to plenty of mischief without magical aid however! They are about to fill a lock to float a barge, under the impression that this will be a good deed, but I strongly suspect that the barge is simply going to float away downstream.

What I Plan to Read Next

My coworker lent me John Green’s Everything is Tuberculosis.

oursin

Happy birthday,

sister_luck!

rmc28

This is possibly my favourite photo yet of me playing ice hockey:

In women's hockey I am big
We play non-checking, that doesn't mean non-contact. I am entirely legally shoving that attacking player away from the net.
See how far the goalie is from the net? My linemate and I cleared the puck on that occasion. The visiting team scored 20 goals on us (ouch), but not that one.

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A touch of the zimeyes.

http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=3227

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🌮 Cream Cheese "White" Chicken Enchiladas 🧀
If you’ve never had White Enchiladas, you are missing out! 😱 Instead of red tomato sauce, these are smothered in a rich, buttery Cream Cheese & Green Chile sauce.
They are so creamy they practically melt in your mouth. Guaranteed to be a new family favorite!
🛒 Ingredients:
8–10 Flour Tortillas (soft taco size)
3 cups Cooked Chicken, shredded (Rotisserie works great!)
1 block (8 oz) Cream Cheese, softened (Divide this: cut in half!)
2 cups Mexican Blend Cheese, shredded (Divided)
1 can (4 oz) Diced Green Chiles (mild)
2 cups Chicken Broth
3 tbsp Butter
3 tbsp Flour
Seasoning: 1 tbsp Lemon Juice, 1 tsp Cumin, ½ tsp Chili Powder, Salt & Pepper.
Garnish: Fresh Cilantro
👩‍🍳 Instructions:
The Filling: In a bowl, mix the shredded chicken, half of the cream cheese, 1 cup of shredded cheese, lemon juice, cumin, and chili powder. Stir until combined.
Roll: Spoon the mixture into the tortillas, roll them up tightly, and place them seam-side down in a greased 9x13 baking dish.
The "White Sauce":
Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in the flour and cook for 1 minute.
Slowly whisk in the chicken broth and the can of green chiles (juice and all). Simmer until it thickens slightly.
Add the remaining half of the cream cheese and whisk until it melts into a smooth, creamy sauce.
Smother & Bake: Pour that delicious white sauce all over the enchiladas. Top with the remaining 1 cup of shredded cheese.
Bake: Bake at 350°F for 23–25 minutes until the cheese is bubbly and golden.
Serve: Let them rest for 10 minutes (so the sauce sets) and top with fresh cilantro!

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90 questions for discussion

1. If you had $100,000 magically appear in your bank account, how would you spend it?

We'd pay off anything we owe, fix different things in the house and share some with family. The rest would go into savings.

What about you?

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Things I Believe In.

I believe in my husband, after all, I've been with him for 57 years. Same with our children. I believe in family and loving them, no matter what.

I believe in democracy, although I see none of it now. I can hardly sleep at night. I hate the country right now.

I believe in kindness, and think we need more of it. I believe in love, I believe in forgiveness, sometimes, I believe in justice, I believe in fairness, tenderness, and goodwill towards most people. There is one man I could never forgive and don't expect justice for. The rich are immune.

I'm finally done. What do you believe in?

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