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This is the freebie for today's crowdfunding Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from fuzzyred. It also fills the "body and soul" square in my 1-1-26 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest.

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1. The tattoo seems to be healing well. There was a lot of fluid buildup in the bandage even though I'd put on a new one yesterday, and around midday I noticed some floaty bits of either dead skin or adhesive residue from the previous bandage but either way didn't want to leave it on like that, but the tattoo place had only given me enough to change it once, and the stuff I ordered from Amazon isn't coming till tomorrow, so I checked to see if there was anywhere I could buy it in person and it seems like the answer is no. Google told me the Ulta near me sells it, so I went over there and they did not have any, so I decided to check CVS to see if they at least had larger tegaderm patches than what I have at home leftover from when I had surgery, and they did have ones that are at least big enough to cover the tattoo with three patches, so I got a pack of those.

After taking off the old bandage and washing my leg, I used some lotion and let it just air out for a while, but then put the tegaderm patches on before we went to Disneyland just to keep it protected. There seems to be a lot less fluid coming out now, but I'm still going to change it again tomorrow when the stuff from Amazon gets here and at least use it for another day or two.

2. I went to the farmers market this morning and got an ube cinnamon roll, among other things. This is my second time getting one and they're so good.

3. We had a really nice time at Disneyland tonight. Despite the warm weather, it's getting cool quickly in the evenings (only good thing about hot weather in the winter is that it never lasts into the night) so it was pleasantly warm rather than unpleasantly so, and the crowds were light. We walked back to the car from the park rather than taking the bus, and passed by a mochi donut shop we always see from the car and stopped in to get a few for tomorrow's breakfast. We got matcha, passionfruit, and guava donuts. The place we usually get from always has matcha, but I don't think we've had either passionfruit or guava, so I'm looking forward to trying those.

4. Working from home yesterday almost made this feel like a three day weekend. I still have another day before going back to work!

5. Jasper!

Based on an audience poll, these are the Poetry Fishbowl themes for early 2026:

February 3 -- Books and Literacy
March 3 -- World Cuisine
April 7 -- I am SO done with this!
May 5 -- Older Series and Forgotten Characters
June 2 -- Fun with Language

We decided to wait till later in the afternoon to go to Disneyland since it was hot again today and it had been so pleasant when we went on Wednesday evening. We left the house around 2:45 or so and got down there at four and the sun was already low enough that we didn't need sunglasses or anything and the temps had already gone down a lot so it was very pleasant.

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So that one B5 script book that supposedly came via FedEx a week ago still hasn't turned up, but today I got an extra copy of one I already have that I was not expecting with an Amazon order number that isn't in my orders anywhere.

I have never had that happen before, either.

When it looked like we weren't getting the snow they said I packed up and went to Point Pleasant to bum around. I will admit the coffee grinders coffee house isn't my favorite (and dudes DO NOT put the coffee of the day at some side table. Put that near the register. I totally wouldn't have bought that) got writing done. At this point Capitol One's bot texts me again about Best Buy trying to get payment for their protection membership pushed thru (this is 200$, I don't want it and this will become important)

I go to the Mason Jar antique store/country store/shit shop and I find the best thing ever. Star Trek salt and pepper shaker. I don't even haggle over the price. I ALMOST did for two other items (I am not good at this mind you) One was a pressed glass pitcher and two goblets of BLACK glass and the uranium glass juicer (both were 35$ each. Both remained in the store).



I spotted a blue glass horse bookend and thought evil_little_dog will marry me if I get her that for her birthday. I swoop over. It's 60$ for one book end. They don't have the other. I decided I didn't really wanna marry ELD anyhow.

I waltz down the street (with my ST shakers) to the Point Pleasant Trading Company which specializing in cryptid shit. (btw cryptids are absolutely saving PP from oblivion. there were tourists everywhere. In Jan. In the cold.) They had absolutely gorgeous Mothman/Flatbush Monster/Loveland Frogman/Big Foot t-shirts. I don't need a 35$ t-shirt(the number of the day is 35) They had an amazing cardigan with mothman and the silver bridge. No Dana you DO NOT need a 60$ cardigan. But it's in my size. NO. Bad Dana. And the upstairs was rocking. they've added sound to the Black Light Mothman Experience Indoor Mini Golf (Why will NO ONE play with me? WHY)

I bought nothing there and crossed the river back into Oh and headed to Remo's this absolutely terrifying local treasure of a hot dog stand inside a (collapsing) house. Got lunch. (because I forgot my freebie thing for the Mexican place) Went to the library to get more books for popsugar because I can absolutely read this many at once, right? (ha) I did not go to the Lego exhibit they have right now. It opened this week and had 20000000 kids in it (well it felt like it at any rate)

Went to the boba hut. My credit card is declined. Naturally. Because I'm going to Aldi's next. I know why. Remember that Best Buy thing? Yeah so Capitol One decides OMG red alert (in spite of me telling them it's fine two days ago when I THOUGHT I had canceled that membership). They texted me we'll close this card and send you a new one. I'm now steaming. At least I have another card.

I hit Aldi's. Get cheese I don't need. I don't even remember which ones. Got some frozen things I don't need (like I needed cheese) go home with my boba. I'm a mile from home when one bursting boba wings up that straw at mach 1 and straight into my vocal cords and pops. Mango liquid shoots down my bronchial tubes and like any good asthmatic tube, they immediately clench up and fill with mucus. By the time I park, I'm crackling and wheezing like I've pneumonia and in need of a trach. every time I cough I taste mango. How much fluid was in one tiny boba?

I get inside, deal with Best Buy and this time it went thru because I got the survey of sadness. Why did you leave us? I call up Capitol One and I'm coming in hot now. We'll close this card. No chucklefuck you won't. I explain 4 times what happened, told them every charge that should be on that card this week. Those aren't fraudulent? NO. In theory I can use this card again. If I can't heads will be on pikes.


And fandomtrees released. Let me share my cool gifts plus all the ones I wrote (I get the feeling the other Hazbin folk either aren't Huskerdust shipper or saw I had 3 fills and moved on because only one person took up on my HH prompts and did two (including my new icon)


My Gifts


Hazbin Hotel Icons So pretty

softer addictions Hazbin Hotel, NSFW

But What If There Was a Demon vs Dinosaur Cage Match? Angel the Series/Buffy the Vampire Slayer (by [Bad username or unknown identity: spikedluv)] La Famiglia I'd love if some people read this one as it's original fiction and I feel like maybe I should revisit it down the road.

Of Slayers, Sisters and Sleepovers Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Heirlooms Past and Future Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Fernweh The Raven Cycle

Biergarten Blues Grimm

Murder Most Midsomer Murder She Wrote/Midsomer Murder


Technical Difficulties, Please Stand By Hazbin Hotel

The Things to Which Fate Binds You Hazbin Hotel

A Very Vee Sinsmas Hazbin Hotel

A Wake For a Snake Hazbin Hotel

You Had Some of the Best Times You'll Never Remember With Me, Alcohol Hazbin Hotel



And have a couple pictures from the Welsh New Year Thing Last night

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What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?

The crowdfunding Creative Jam is now open with a theme of "Memories." Come give us prompts, or claim some for your own inspiration! This is our 150th session, so I hope to see lots of excitement.


What I Have Written:

"The Flavors of Our Days" is today's freebie.


From My Prompts:



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I'm already having a great time doing threesentenceficathon. Pimping my guys, mostly, I admit. 😉

I'm almost finished with my fic for smallfandomfest . All it needs is the sex scene, so naturally I'm procrastinating. But guess what, it's the longest fic I've written since 2019! Looks like I might be finally going to start writing some longer stuff again. Amazing what an extra dose of inspiration can do...

HELP! I just don't know... I've always posted my drabbles to AO3 as 'chapters' in a drabble collection... Some people think that's "cheating". I'm thinking of posting them separately now -- but honestly, to me that feels like 'padding' my story count. I'm so undecided.

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(I've got so many links right now I'm splitting it up. The depressing shit one to follow in the next few days.)

magnavox_23: The One With All The Icons From All The Fandoms...
These are gorgeous! All the fandoms being: Good Omens, Our Flag Means Death, Doctor Who, Xena: Warrior Princess, Reservation Dogs, Star Trek TOS, Heated Rivalry, Hazbin Hotel, Hellava Boss & What We Do In The Shadows...

With the Dawn by SweetSorcery
Fandom: Kidnapped! (Davie/Alan)
Word Count: 1,300
Rating: General
Summary: Alan's own safety is worth very little to him, if it means leaving David behind ill and defenseless.
Notes: I've missed so much fic in this fandom, and was really happy to read this one from last year. The sweetest lil h/c missing scene from the book. Great voices for both of them, and very tender.

The Worst Part of Waking Up by Sanguinity
Fandom: Hornblower (William/Horatio)
Word Count: 6,600
Rating: Teen
Summary: At the end of "Loyalty," Bush is too late to save Hornblower. With his dying breath, Hornblower requests a kiss from Bush… …only to wake up a week later and discover he's going to live after all. Damnit.
Notes: More very excellent h/c featuring Horatio Hornblower being Olympic levels of Bad at Feelings. Also extremely sweet, once he gets his shit together. I love the tag: "When He Made This Bed He Wasn't Expecting to Wake Up In It"!

ThatDisasterAuthor: Put the light out. | Turn the light on.
Gorgeous Lighthouse | Fire Tower art!

Tractor Beam: The Valley in Thaw by Elizabeth Porter Birdsall and Xiang Yata.
Beautiful graphic short story about a soil remediation robot and a band of humans who survived the apocalypse. More like this, please.

Humble Bundle: Fierce Women of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror.
Great selection, open for another couple weeks. You get epubs, not the weird kobo link thing.

CBC Books: The Canada Reads 2026 longlist is here.
I really wish they'd announce this earlier so you could take a proper shot at the long list before they drop the shortlist. I'm like half way through one of these. Lots of hockey books this year. Hmmmm.

University of Pennsylvania (for some reason?): "Introducing Myself", 1992 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Extremely funny and extremely gender.

Fantastic Mr. Fox on Bluesky: A Recipe for Disaster.
This meme is such a whole entire mood.

Today we went to the Otto Center in Arthur. Normally the third Saturday of each month is their craft show, and that's how it was marked earlier. It turned out to be a small farm and homestead show, with different vendors and a few folks we recognized. So that was interesting.

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Hello! I am Will, I am a 25 year old transmasc lesbian with DID who usually uses she/it pronouns. I love OCs and Will Wood (and the Tapeworms).

My current project is under the working title of "the wormverse", and an AU of the wormverse titled "the better end". I primarily host all of my stuff on Toyhou.se. 

My beloved OC (and the character in my icon) is named Isaac Drover - he is a 28 year old transfem lesbian with DID who has 5 alters. He was born out of my love for Will Wood and the Tapeworms' 2nd studio album SELF-iSH, and my subsequent dissociative analysis of it. Other OCs of note that I write are Jolene Dijon, Mint Iglesias, and Seth Augury, but I have a good handful of OCs in this universe. Please heed the trigger warnings on each page where relevant.

A lot of my work focuses on several different and difficult to tackle topics such as evangelical cults, substance abuse, death of a loved one, severe trauma, and child abuse. The primary focus of the wormverse is to follow Isaac as he escapes the Church of the Divine, an evangelical cult he was born into, and becomes his own person despite the hardships he faces. 

I do both writing and art for these OCs! My writing can be read on Toyhouse or on AO3 (please heed individual works' trigger warnings/tags).

I post my art on bsky sometimes, but mostly also just on Toyhouse. Here are some of my recent faves I have done:

Title: Amigoat Small Sketch Dump
Fandom: Puyo Puyo
Character(s): Amitie
Details: These are all very small sketches on 1 page.
Summary: My version of Amitie as a goat sphinx.

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Title:Mew Chub
Ratings & Warnings:Simply a big belly
Fandom: Pokémon
Character(s): Mew
Summary:A Mew with a huge belly.

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Challenge #9

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works.

In fic, I'll pretty much always give wingfic, superpowers, and mpreg a try. I rarely turn down outsider POV or post-canon explorations. Fics that peer around the corners of the canon to look at what's lurking there are usually worth checking out. There's not much else that I'll click on pretty much every time I come across it - what I want in Top Gun fic is very different from what I want in Scrubs or Deep Space Nine, and there's certain tropes that I'll deliberately seek out in some fandoms and work to avoid in others.

In terms of general media, some that I always get a kick out of are a bunch of people from very different backgrounds thrown together, which I generally see ensemble casts, but not always - it depends on the circumstances, with less of it in The Wire than MASH. Urban fantasy is something where my tastes are pretty narrow, so I'm willing to check it out fairly regularly in the hopes I've found something new in that narrow range. I enjoy extreme competence and awesome Jews are always welcome.

 haven't done a public diary entry like this in a while (at least by my standards), so let's get the recap started. hmmm. i just finished up all the gift cards i was gifted during christmas. got some nice shoes from vans with the purpose of walking/hiking, even if they're technically meant for skateboarding. got some treats for my cats and finally some toothpaste so i can brush their teeth regularly. every time we went to the vet they made a comment abt one of them having tartar, so i wanted to fix that. brother, on the other hand, doesn’t really “believe in” it, so i was waiting until i had enough money to do a bigger order on chewy. i also got some dashi inaba as their birthday gift… though i opened it and gave it to them two days early. oops. i couldn’t help it. istg they know when a package is for them because they all gathered around and pestered me while i opened it.