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Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: linettesmth on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Aaaand, it's the inevitable Klimt kiss portrait of Ilya and Shane, and very nicely done, too! I like the echoes of their team uniform colours in their robes.
Link: Ilya and Shane

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/charlton-route-20-cow-tunnel

This cow tunnel was built around 1926 during the modernization of Route 20. The new road split a local farm in half, preventing the cows from crossing safely. To solve the problem, the highway department constructed a tunnel beneath the roadway.

For decades, cows passed safely under the busy highway. Over time, however, the tunnel fell into disrepair as Charlton transitioned from rural “cow country” into a more developed area.

In recent decades, the tunnel was restored and repurposed as a public footpath. Today, it forms part of the Midstate Trail, a 92-mile hiking route that runs between Rhode Island and New Hampshire. In 2025, a local conservation group acquired land on both sides of the tunnel to help preserve this historic bovine passageway.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/charlton-route-20-cow-tunnel

sineala

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

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.)

Current Mood: okay

purplecat

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.

sage

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

elisi

ETA: Meant to add this bit from A Christmas Carol. It's from the Ghost of Christmas Present, and one of the parts that's never really included in any adaptation, but I love it.

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lb_lee

Mori: I done got my periodic need for books about queer ladies, so I have been wallowing in lady books. Here’s what I read!

( queers and ladies from 1980s-1990s )

And now I feel a craving to make a lady zine. I BELIEVE IN ME!

Current Mood: geeky

cosmolinguist

I wrote and sent (luckily could retrieve in time!!) an email to them from my erik@ address, rather than the Gmail address I've had since 2004 and use for bank stuff and parent stuff and... that's about it now.

I have never even started to do such a thing before, I don't know what happened here! I'm feeling fine today, so for my brain to be so addled is very weird!

Luckily (??), emails sent from the erik@ account from my phone often bring up an error message that means I have to fiddle around a bit to get them sent, and when that happened this time my blood ran cold and I quickly deleted the email altogether. It never got from "outbox" to "sent" so that should be okay!

But sheesh what a near miss!

It was an email about my birthday present too so very obviously from me, I couldn't say it was just spam or something.

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-mourning-museum-at-borrowed-time-oddities

The Mourning Museum

Walk through the red curtain, just past the coffin-shaped door, and you enter an entirely different atmosphere: The Mourning Museum at Borrowed Time Oddities.

Borrowed Time Oddities is home to many strange, unusual, and esoteric objects, but the Mourning Museum is its true centerpiece. Inside, you’ll find antique funerary items dating back to the 1800s, alongside deformed animal specimens and examples of human osteology, including skulls, skeletons, and other bones.

Standout pieces include a 1920s glass coffin salesman’s sample, a Victorian hair wreath, and Bartholomew, a Victorian-era fetal skeleton.

After exploring the museum, step back through the coffin door to browse the rest of Borrowed Time Oddities, filled with taxidermy, wet and dry specimens, and witchy provisions of all kinds. This is the stop for lovers of the macabre in the Michigan area.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-mourning-museum-at-borrowed-time-oddities

oracne

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!

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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Posted by The CW Team

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Stockings around the Christmas tree

Look so bad that your jaw drops.

Once he got a good look at them

Santa Claus went into shock.

Who comes up with these Christmas cakes?

Have the bakers lost their minds?

Did they drink too much spiced eggnog?

Or are they legally blind?

You will see a glut of flotsam pieces as you neeear

Cakes that just won't make you jolly

Hey, d'you think that might be holly?

Shocking amounts of frosting, these

Might send you right 'round the bend

Will you hold out for better cakes

Or just buy these in the end?

BONUS CAROL OF THE SILVER BELLS:

[sing it with me, now!]

Diiiing doooong,

Diiing...

Dong.

A choir of thanks to Maryann M., Janet G., Kadmi, Megan K., Katherine D., Jackson L., Ann M., Jenna C., Ashley S., & Grainne, who all want to go Christmas caroling with Sharyn. Me, too, guys. ME, TOO.

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/jingle-bell-shocks-2025

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Current Mood: busy

spikedluv

Thank you so much for the Christmas cards

adafrog,

cornerofmadness,

lunabee34,

mistressofmuses,

reeby10 and

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 )

darkoshi

I made a fire-roasted tomato stew for Christmas eve tomorrow. There will be vegan Spaetzle (German pasta) and a few other things to go with it.

I also made an upside-down pumpkin pie cake. When I pressed the oven's Start button to start the preheat cycle, the oven proclaimed Beep-beep-beep! It kept beep-beep-beeping rather than turning on, no matter what I tried. The oven can't be turned on except by that Start button.

Well, I could bake the cake at my mom's house tomorrow. But Mistral - Le Chat suggested unplugging the oven for 10 minutes. So I did that and for good (or bad) measure, blew some hot air at the control panel with a hair dryer, and pushed the buttons some more. After plugging it back in, the Start button worked right again. Yay. So cake got baked.

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silveradept

It's December Days time again. This year, I have decided that I'm going to talk about skills and applications thereof, if for no other reason than because I am prone to both the fixed mindset and the downplaying of any skills that I might have obtained as not "real" skills because they do not fit some form of ideal.

( 23: Chaos )

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Disparition - The Ballad of Magnus and Axel

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mific in fanart_recs - Ilya and Shane by linettesmth (SFW)
dorktower_feed - The Eliopoulos Elves 2025 , 2 – DORK TOWER 24.12.25
atlas_obscura_places_feed - Charlton Route 20 Cow Tunnel in Charlton, Massachusetts
sineala - Wednesday Reading Meme
purplecat - Reading, Listening, Watching
sage - What I'm Doing Wednesday
elisi - Merry Christmas
celli - Dec 24
lb_lee - DROWN ME IN LADY BOOKS, pt. 1
cosmolinguist - Today in "hilarious ways to come out to my parents"...
atlas_obscura_places_feed - The Mourning Museum at Borrowed Time Oddities in Niles, Michigan
oracne - Five Things on Xmas Eve
spikedluv - Wednesday Reading Meme
cakewrecks_feed - Jingle Bell Shocks
princessofgeeks - signal boost
spikedluv - The Day in Spikedluv (Tuesday, Dec 23)
darkoshi - a cook a bake a beep
dine - westward leading, still proceeding
leecetheartist - Inkvent 2025 December 24th - Christmas Eve
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