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Wednesday Reading Meme

Dec. 24th, 2025 10:29 am
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[personal profile] spikedluv
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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Payback

Dec. 24th, 2025 03:01 pm

Playtesting

Dec. 24th, 2025 02:18 pm
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Posted by MagpieCrown

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76330111

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We'll be staying for four additional standard hours, I tell Iris. Security assessment and strategizing.

The shuttle is already scheduled to pick us up at the projected time, ART-Drone pipes up in what's supposed to be a private channel. It's radiating nonchalance. Perihelion is aware.

Iris turns to look at it, and one of my indoors drones catches the way she arches an eyebrow.

ART-Drone radiates harder.

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[ART has a fear. Murderbot helps it face that fear in a controlled environment.]

Words: 4762, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76330111

Our Meeting Changed My Life

Dec. 23rd, 2025 01:41 pm
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Posted by AwkwardProfessor

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76261761

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A small poem
Interpret at your leisure :)

Words: 56, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76261761

Wednesday's Comic

Dec. 24th, 2025 09:43 am
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[personal profile] jbwoodford posting in [community profile] girlgenius_lair
Less talking, more swords.

Of course Bang is wearing a black bra with little skulls on it.

(Edited to correct date.)

Girl Genius for Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Dec. 24th, 2025 05:00 am

Word: Febrifuge

Dec. 24th, 2025 06:46 am
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[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
Wednesday's word is...

...febrifuge.

1. an agent that reduces fever, such as aspirin or quinine. It is also called antipyretic, antifebrile, or febricide.

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It's Christmas Eve! Wishing all my DW friends a good day!


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The Day in Spikedluv (Tuesday, Dec 23)

Dec. 24th, 2025 06:34 am
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Thank you so much for the Christmas cards [personal profile] adafrog, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] lunabee34, [personal profile] mistressofmuses, [personal profile] reeby10 and [personal profile] southernmedicine!! It's been really nice to receive them in the mail.

I did not go downtown today. I hadn’t slept well (waking up at 3am with all the things running through my head), so I went back to bed after Pip left for work.

I visited mom and helped clear the paperwork off the table so we had room to eat on Christmas. (Which mainly involved creating stacks of toss, file and shred, and then tossing and filing; shredding still has to be done, but at least it’s still off the table).

I did two loads of laundry, hand-washed dishes, emptied the dishwasher and ran another load, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, baked chicken for the dogs’ meals, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter. I hit the bank drive-thru for mom and made banana bread for Christmas. Supper was leftover chuck roast.

I marathoned three more eps of The Pitt. Secrets of the Zoo was once again my evening background tv.

Temps started out at 32.9(F) and reached 40.9 (once it did, it immediately turned around and started down again). The TWC app originally called for 1-3 inches, but today it said less than an inch over the course of the entire day. Guess which I was rooting for? Thankfully the updated forecast was the correct one. We had very light snow over the course of the day, but not enough to accumulate.


Mom Update:

Mom looked good when I saw her. ( more back here )
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Together, Not Just Side By Side

Dec. 24th, 2025 10:47 am

Dec 24: Duet

Dec. 24th, 2025 09:18 am

Lot 5: The complete preserved nervous system of a CombatUnit

Dec. 23rd, 2025 08:09 am
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Posted by teuthis

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76251431

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When ART finds an article about a CombatUnit's preserved nervous system going up for auction, it's possible the CombatUnit is still alive. Murderbot and Three set out to try to save it, if there's anything left to be saved.

Words: 2322, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76251431

Just One Thing (24 December 2025)

Dec. 24th, 2025 08:26 am
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[personal profile] nanila posting in [community profile] 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!
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not a pav year

Dec. 24th, 2025 04:31 pm
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Bought carton egg whites to make the pav with. Didn't realise they'd overbeat so easily.

Ugh.

So I've made two pavs and neither one got to stiff peaks. Second time I actually looked up what went wrong and went "ARGH".

Do I try making a third?

Honestly, the last few years, my pav attempts have been somewhat substandard. They collapse and fall - I don't think I can get the gas oven cool enough for long enough to keep them from collapsing. It only goes down to about 120C before the dial cuts out and if possible you're supposed to leave it at around 80C for an hour.

Not an option in my oven.

I have a guest coming, too - invited a woman off a FB group "host a sister" who was bouncing around Christmas Day.

ETA: I ended up whipping up a third batch, and it's now in the oven. We'll try to bake the shell hard (high temp), then fluff the inside (long low temp).

Please please please please let this one work!

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Dec. 24th, 2025 06:11 am

I Am T17

Dec. 24th, 2025 06:03 am
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Posted by TheUntoldSitcom

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76310006

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T17 is a SecUnit in charge of one heavily augmented human who enjoys listening to stories about knights in shining armor and dragons. When his human scrambles his Governor module, he must decide how to proceed.

Words: 1114, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76310006

gobmouthed

Dec. 24th, 2025 12:01 am

Distant as a dream of the cradle on this lonesome beach

Dec. 23rd, 2025 11:25 pm
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[personal profile] sovay
It is still sleeting more than snowing here, but it sticks in the occasional patch of shadow. Farther from the water, it's frosting up like winter. The Ursids were washed out by this year's weather, but somewhere beyond the clouds they are still streaking light.

I spent a remarkable portion of this day having conversations related to employment, but one of them was a thorough delight. I hadn't known about the practical, ritual links of the Jewish Association for Death Education.

We lit the candle for my grandfather's yahrzeit, our ghost story for Christmas Eve.
  • Current Music: The Mountain Goats, "Peru"

Up early

Dec. 23rd, 2025 10:23 pm
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Woke up at 7-ish which is good because [personal profile] mashfanficchick called at 8-ish to say ze and RK were on their way over, no time for anything but throwing on clothing. So that's what I did.

They picked me up and we went to Dunkin' Donuts for coffee, and then to BJs. At BJs we got appetizers for bringing to Christmas. I should mention it was half raining, half snowing, so ew.

Anyway, after that we went to Shop Rite and got some more stuff that ze needed.

Then they dropped me off at home. I had breakfast at that point, and put in a Shipt order. I waited for that, and I waited for the mail because I knew from Informed Delivery that I had a Christmas card coming from Cousin Cliff.

I put the Shipt order away, and when the mail finally got here I hung the card with the others. I hope I get some more, there's tomorrow, and the days after Christmas before New Years where it's possible. But as it is I got eight.

Anyway, I took a nap, and then I took out two loads of cardboard recycling and walked around the block each time.

At 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB. Then at 8:00 I had my Al-anon meeting by Zoom.

After that I had dinner, and went to the bedroom to play solitaire until pet feeding time.

My email to the FWiB was working fine for the morning then stopped again like yesterday, showing as undeliverable. Very frustrating. Shifted to gmail again.

And tomorrow is Christmas Eve.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. RK.

3. Got the appetizers.

4. Cousin Cliff.

5. Most of the recycling is out.

6. Christmas Eve tomorrow.
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find a way to get the next one

Dec. 23rd, 2025 09:21 pm
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I just cleaned off the kitchen counter and put the last bowl/spatulas in the sink to soak (the dishwasher is already running, and all the cupcakes are cooked and 4 out of 5 frostings are made (I just finished the strawberry Swiss meringue buttercream) - tomorrow I will make the ganache and possibly also a whipped ganache (I've never done it with butter in it - does that make it more buttercream-ish?) just to change things up a bit.

Today, I baked the strawberry (doubled to make 80), apple cider (60), and funfetti (doubled to make 80) cupcakes - there could have been more funfetti, but not enough to fill a whole pan, so I didn't bother. I added cinnamon bits from King Arthur to the apple cider ones and dipped them in maple cinnamon sugar, which is a change, one that hopefully people will like.

I also discovered that the cupcake carriers I've had sitting in a box under a chair in my living room for a few months are the wrong size (they are for standard-sized cupcakes) so I only have 10 mini ones and I need 13, so I will use the some foil lasagna pans for my brother and sister and one of the kids - they'll get a few more cupcakes out of it, since the carriers hold 2 dozen but the 9 x 13" tray fits about 30. *hands* I'm just glad I still have a pack of them left to use; otherwise, I'd have been up a creek.

Tomorrow is Pipe-a-palooza 7: The Pipening! (yeah, it's kind of shocking to me I've been doing cupcakes for 7 years now - I started in 2019 - but I like it more than the chocolates [and it's also less time-consuming than the chocolates were] and I can't do ice creams anymore due to logistics, though they remain my all-time favorite of the homemade Christmas gifts I've done over the years.) Wish me luck! It's always the hardest part for me. Hopefully I will remember to take pictures to share afterwards.

Whoops, I started this entry an hour ago and got distracted by stuff like packing my overnight bag and refilling my water bottle etc. so I'm just gonna hit post now and work up the energy to go wash my hair.

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( 6-day plan, day 5 )

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  • Current Mood: relieved
  • Current Music: Ranges vs Caps on tv
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Evasive Manoeuvres

Dec. 23rd, 2025 11:38 pm
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Posted by tinybowties

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76290286

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Grand larceny was not one of the crimes it warned Pin-Lee it was planning to commit. To be fair, though, the transport really wanted to be stolen.

Words: 300, Chapters: 3/3, Language: English

Series: Part 12 of Drabble December 2025, Part 9 of Unplanned Detour

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76290286

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