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Wednesday Reading Meme

Dec. 24th, 2025 02:00 pm
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What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing. Working on it.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( 1776 #2, Marvel Winter Break Special 2025 #1, Will of Doom #1, X-Vengers #3 )

What I'm Reading Next

I woke up this morning to find that [personal profile] lysimache had gifted me an ebook entitled Here Comes the Pizzer: The Found Poetry of Baseball Broadcasts, by Eric Poulin, so I guess that's what we'll be doing dramatic readings of aloud for Christmas Eve. While eating pizza.

The title is a reference to this extremely classic Red Sox broadcast moment. Here comes the pizza.

(We usually read the Christmas story in Greek, Latin, or Old English for Christmas Eve but we can probably make some time for this.)
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Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 8

Dec. 24th, 2025 01:31 pm
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Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 8 by SUOL

The story is approaching the conclusion. Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes

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Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 8

Dec. 24th, 2025 01:32 pm
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Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 8 by SUOL

The story is approaching the conclusion. Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes

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Reading, Listening, Watching

Dec. 24th, 2025 05:51 pm
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Reading: Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader - I love the idea of this book - a collection of academic writing about Doctor Who that can stand as a starting point for scholars, but I knew when I bought it that I would find it quite hard going because I'm not a humanities scholar and I find their idiom somewhat hard-going.

Listening: The Radio Free Skaro and, this year, the Starship Alexandria Advent calendars. I am, as I always am, somewhat behind. But at least this year I'm up to day 18...

Watching: We watched The War Between the Land and the Sea and it was... fine? I don't quite feel it justified its existence. The ending was unsatisfactory - our heroes got to be in love, but everything else looks like a complete garbarge fire. It was very good in places, fine in others, kind of dull sometimes and events often felt like they were happening in order to get to the next plot beat rather than because they made internal sense. If it hadn't been Doctor Who adjacent, we wouldn't have watched.
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he knows if you've been bad or good

Dec. 24th, 2025 05:57 pm
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My labours of yesterday—cooked a spiced apple cake, and a lemon possett flan, made several sandwiches and decorated—and today—made GF plain scones, Cherry scones, and Cheese and Chorizo scones, put cream cheese+horseradish and smoked salmon onto GF crackers—were well rewarded by a mostly-empty table and smiling (and slightly groany) people. We had Afternoon Tea for lunch, and it was very nice.

And now, my crocheted llama has mysteriously acquired a Santa hat.

Seasonal Greetings For 2025 🎄

Dec. 25th, 2025 01:12 am
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1. Holiday Cards
Generic non-religious cards are fine, but cards with cats, space, dinosaurs, godzilla, cryptids, or anything from the following list would be amazing, bought or homemade, thank you <3
Yule
Jólakötturinn the Yule Cat
Winter Solstice
Summer Solstice (I’m in the Southern Hemisphere)
Catmas
Trekmas
Sithmas
Krampus
Moomas

2. Big Finish Gift Card(s)
https://www.bigfinish.com/pages/v/gift-cards?currency=nzd
Please make sure you set the purchase currency to NZD, otherwise I won’t be able to use it. Thank you.
My account email is louise.mcculloch@gmail.com

3. DriveThruRPG Gift Card(s)
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/432/onebookshelf-inc?productType=2810
Any amount, I buy a lot from DriveThruRPG.
My account email is louise.mcculloch@gmail.com

4. Etsy Gift Card(s)
https://www.etsy.com/nz/giftcards?currency=AUD
I’ve preset it to AUD because that’s the closest to NZD for me to be able to shop with.
My Etsy email is carson.beckett@gmail.com

5. Wild Beyond the Witchlight DnD Miniature - Dirlagraun
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335646036441

6. Wild Beyond the Witchlight DnD Miniature - Star
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335914686188

7. Spelljammer DnD Miniature - Living Ship
https://www.ebay.com/itm/364051422236

8. Spelljammer DnD Miniature - Helm
https://www.ebay.com/itm/285029174372

9. Magical Kitties Save the Day
https://www.atlas-games.com/product_tables/AG3110
Surprise me! Anything at all, especially any of the Hometown adventure books, the only thing I don’t need is the Character Sheets, I got those last year.

10. Star Trek Picard Season 3 Uniform Shirt - 3XL / Blue
https://www.ebay.com/itm/385478370153?var=653329108945
I was promoted to Captain a few years ago and I would really like to look the part.

If you have any questions, need additional information or my snail mail address, you can contact me at either of these emails or message me here.
DW/LJ/Fandom Email: carson.beckett@gmail.com
Primary Email: louise.mcculloch@gmail.com
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What I'm Doing Wednesday

Dec. 24th, 2025 11:42 am
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books
The Fortune of War (Aubreyad #6) by Patrick O'Brian. Very satisfying, if occasionally super gross. I'm rationing these, because I'll be sad when they're over.

Ancient Iran and Its Neighbours: Local Developments and Long-range Interactions in the 4th Millennium BC by Cameron A. Petrie (Editor). 2013. I started this an age ago & put it down in the middle of the driest of dry articles. It's a lot of archaeology, and little of it is engaging, but I love the general subject matter so I finished it.

still reading: The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club #5) by Richard Osman. This one is failing to hook me.

yarning
I went to yarn group Sunday and had a good time, though I messed up the bunny I worked on there, doh. Adding a Made To Order option in my etsy shop for kickbunnies was a good idea. I've had several sales already, and also the burgundy and rose pink ones keep selling out. Etsy's color of the year for 2026 is "Patina Blue," or blue copper, which is basically teal, so I'm focusing on burgundy and teal now, while hoping the brown and yellow bunnies in the shop will eventually sell. A fun aside: my Santa from the Kitten Academy holiday card exchange drew a great, colorful scene in the card he sent -- a Christmas tree filled with cats and two kickbunnies looking up at them from in front of a fire in the fireplace. A very happy-making surprise!

yuletide
I've been volunteering as a SPAG beta on the Yuletide discord & have gotten to preview some really cute/sweet/charming fics! Fic reveals are THIS AFTERNOON!! and I cannot wait! \o/

( healthcrap ) However, the flu is, and my brother has it, so Christmas is delayed until he gets better and has a few days off again, whenever that will be. At least I'll have Yuletide to keep me company.

Solstice
was Sunday at 9:03am CST. Happy YULE!! Welcome to the return of the light, northern hemisphere peeps! Happy Summer Solstice, antipodeans! \o/

#resist
Tuesday, January 20: #50501 General Walk-out, 2pm local time. https://www.FreeAmeri.ca

Wishing everyone safe travels and a very happy holiday season, whatever you celebrate! <333
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Lost and found

Dec. 24th, 2025 08:30 am
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Sometime around last May, I got an email from a potter I knew slightly, up in Portland. He'd looked for me at Ceramic Showcase, wanted to buy some plates, didn't see me. I explained that I haven't done that show since 2019, but would be happy to make some plates for him. We agreed on four patterns, and they went on the list.

Got them done in my June firing, asked if he wanted me to ship them. Oh no, he and wife drove down to California all the time, he could pick them up in Eugene.

Then commenced a series of mishaps and miscues. Phoned about a pickup on our landline when I was away at a show in Roseburg. Email received when I was away in Anacortes. Finally arranged a rendezvous in October, only to have him no-show.

Coming down to mid-December, I finally tracked down his phone number in the Oregon Potters Association directory. I really need to get these plates out of my studio, I said, Can I just ship them to you? So I got his address, sent them off UPS the next morning, called him to get a card number for payment. Case closed.

A week-and-a-half later, I get an email from him, asking if UPS had any indication of when they'd arrive? Only they'd been having a problem with porch bandits in his neighborhood, and he wanted to make sure he got the box.

Oh dear.

Went online to UPS with the tracking number to find they'd been delivered a week previously, complete with photo documentation. Which I copied and sent him. So now what? I shipped them, they were delivered, so even if I had paid extra for insurance--it doesn't come automatically with my discount shipping service--they wouldn't have paid out. I'm pretty sure I told him to look for them in two-three days, but it was on the phone, not email, so I couldn't check. Should I offer to make another set?

Two days ago, I get another email. Found them. One of the girls brought the box in and put it in a closet.

Whew!

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Five Things on Xmas Eve

Dec. 24th, 2025 10:25 am
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1. Work load at dayjob has been low this week; we got out at noon yesterday, and today I can log off at 12:30 pm. We are then off through January 2 for winter break (yay, academia). I had a couple of small things I was able to resolve this morning, go me!

2. I did not send out Xmas cards this year, but I appreciate every one I received. I hope to be back to it next year.

3. I am thawing out a chuck roast to cook later this week, probably Friday. My tamarind-sauce-flavored vegetable soup from Sunday, which includes silken tofu, grape tomatoes, carrot, potato, and green beans, is very delicious, especially with a couple tablespoons of congee dumped in. Last night, I finished off my bag of post-surgery chicken nuggets and baked sliced golden potatoes at 425 degrees F with olive oil and salt.

4. I have been listening to a ton of Xmas music, so at least I am somewhat in the holiday spirit. I did not have energy to pull out my ornament tree and dress it up, but we have a smaller one downstairs so I moved it from the corner onto the dining room table--the ornaments were still on it from last year! We have some cards propped around the base, and I have more on the little desk in the guest room. I didn't use my usual space in the back room because it would block my DVD screen, which I need for the Blake's 7 watchalong and possibly even some Shakespeare.

5. I have tentative plans for Xmas afternoon with local friends. I want to get started on my fancy wooden turtle puzzle (which I have had for several years), and also to do some mending of clothing. I especially want to try needle-felting a hole in a very old black cashmere cardigan (commercially knitted); I was wearing it when I broke my elbow years ago, so couldn't wash it for weeks, and it got a moth hole under one arm before I was healed up. I am not sure if the hole is too big for felting. We shall see. I have washed it after its long storage!
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Wednesday Reading Meme

Dec. 24th, 2025 10:29 am
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What I Just Finished Reading: Since last Wednesday I have read/finished reading: Die Trying (A Jack Reacher Novel) by Lee Child.


What I am Currently Reading: Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall.


What I Plan to Read Next: I have two library books on my shelf, so probably one of those.



Book 112 of 2025: Die Trying (A Jack Reacher Novel) (Lee Child)

I enjoyed this book. ( spoilers )

I liked this book well enough to keep reading the series; I'm giving it four hearts.

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