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I don't like to go so long without posting! Just offline stuff piling on (nothing personally dire, though). The offline stuff is doing a number on my ability to write, but I still manage to squeeze out microfictions, though not quite daily. Here's one from a few days ago:

I dreamed of a pharaoh, awaking after death and arranging to his liking the various precious items buried with him.

"You've got quite an ego," I snapped at him (dream-me is apparently rude to people's faces), "having this massive pyramid built just so people would remember you."

"That's not why I had it built. It's for all the stories that collect around it. Adventures, time travel, curses, beings from the stars--I hear them all, and they entertain me," he replied.

And here's a sweet video my tutor sent me of Martin, a pygmy marmoset monkey, whining at Gordo-the-dog, who's relaxing.

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68 icons from 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 + misc actors

  

Check our the rest here. <3

The weekly chat posts are intended for just that, chatting among each other. What are you currently watching? Reading? What actor/idol are you currently following? What are you looking forward to? Are you busy writing, creating art? Or did you have no time at all for anything, and are bemoaning that fact?

Whatever it is, talk to us about it here. Tell us what you liked or didn't like, and if you want to talk about spoilery things, please hide them under either of these codes:
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icontalking current round

I'll be busy today rounding up the icon quest and starting the new round at retro_icontest, so I'll keep the Rainbow Mystery Box challenge here open for another week. Not everyone who got a box has submitted icons yet. So you now still have another week to submit what you have. A single icon is enough to participate.
New deadline: January 23.

icontalking next round

Our next round here at icontalking will be the yearly review round. It will be exactly like in previous years, so if you want to look back on how your iconmaking year 2025 went, you can start thinking about that and start writing your progression post if you like. I will start that next round sometime this week.

bestof_icons

In the meantime, the deadline for icon nominations at bestof_icons has been extended until January 18! If you haven't nominated icons for everyone yet, you can still do so HERE! I'll definitely try and fit this in tomorrow.

Guess who didn't anticipate that life would suddenly get so busy! It's me!

Challenge #6: Top 10 Challenge

The category(ies) you choose are up to you. You can give top 10 Fics you read last year, the top 10 songs to create to, the to 10 guest stars on your favorite show, top 10 characters in your favorite book series, top 10... well, you get the idea.

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Day 1 * Day 2 * Day 3 * Day 4 * Day 5

I hit Price Chopper, the Pharmacy, and the Bakery while I was downtown. (McD’s was warmer than yesterday, but still not ~very warm.)

I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, emptied the dishwasher, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter. I made shake ‘n bake chicken thighs for supper and egg salad for weekend lunches.

I watched the current ep of 9-1-1 and both eps of The Pitt, as well as a couple eps of House Hunters International. (How I hate the people who claim they want to live in the city center so they can walk to bars, cafes, restaurants, and then complain that it might be noisy. No fucking kidding, it’s City Center!) Zoo Tampa was my background tv.

I bought several more containers of yogurt in a variety of flavors for my snacks. I have been eating a lot of them, probably because it’s been a while, so they’re tasting especially good. Also, I’m sometimes lazy and they’re easy. I have to switch it up so I don’t get bored with them!

I had no plans to go downtown tomorrow (now today, Saturday), but I’ve had to schedule a doctor’s appointment. I think I have a yeast infection. I haven’t had a yeast infection in years. Decades. I’m not saying the ultrasound is to blame, but I’m also not not saying that.

Temps started out at 13.1(F) and freaking windy! The roads weren’t great on the drive downtown and at one point I saw a cloud of snow swirling in the air before I drove through it. That was different. Temps reached 28.9. The forecast called for a high of 20, so this was a surprise. There was also a bit of sun and I got a peak of blue sky!


Mom Update:

Mom sounded good when I talked to her on the phone. ( more back here )

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Fandom: Hench, Ask A Manager Blog
Pairings/Characters:
Rating: teen
Length: 2k
Creator Links:
Theme: crack taken seriously, superpowers, small fandoms, secret identities, crossovers

Summary: It's hench week at Ask a Manager!

Reccer's Notes: Ask a Manager is an advice column for workplace issues, and Hench is a comic about henchmen. This hilarious story is a series of good advice for both evil henchmen and people who manage evil henchmen, dealing with all sorts of workplace hazards ranging from the aftermath of sex pollen to how to manage someone who is using their evil to annoy their own team and beyond. It's amazing and funny whether you know either canon or not.

Fanwork Links: my wife doesn't know I hench, the evil sex ray made my employees do it, and more

Mods, I need some fandom tags.

17. The US celebrates Hot Buttered Rum Day today! Have you ever tried it?

I’m an alcoholic, so yes been there and sure don’t want the t-shirt. It’s a very tasty drink but I’ve been sober for 40 years. Which is great news.

I made Baileys Irish Cream chocolate chip cookies and mudslide double chocolate chip cookies for Christmas. I tried one of each and they didn’t taste like the liqueur. Someone said when you bake alcohol it bakes out. I couldn’t tell.

What is your favorite drink? Mine was Sloe Gin Fizz for years until I discovered Peach Bellini. To this day I order a virgin peach Bellini. It’s so good. Who needs the stinking booze. 😁

He fits he sits (400 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derpy the Tiger & Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters)
Characters: Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters), Derpy the Tiger (KPop Demon Hunters), Bobby (KPop Demon Hunters)
Additional Tags: Drabble Sequence, A cat being a cat
Summary:

Rumi asks Bobby for help. He comes through. Everyone in Rumi's household is pleased.

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I added donations to Stand With Minnesota.com's suggested donation sites to the list of donations that I will write thank-yous for. Details and a place to request stories or poems here.

‘How do you reduce a national dish to a powder?’: the weird, secretive world of crisp flavours

Reuben and Peggy’s jobs are not top secret in the way top secret jobs usually are. [...] But this is where things get odd: search the name of the company they work for – a name I have agreed not to print – and you’ll find little information about the work Reuben and Peggy do. You could click through every page on their company’s website and leave with no idea that it creates the most beloved crisp flavours in the world.

(I was so sure I'd already shared this, but I can't find the entry.)

I'll always be a fan of longform, deep-dive articles into the most obscure and/or everyday thing. Like, I eat chips fairly often and I'm aware that some countries have flavors that others don't, but I never considered how geopolitics could affect flavor availability.

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Instead of putting it on Netflix, Hannah Gadsby's new show Woof is available as free audio everywhere. It's their usual style; sharp, cutting, merciless, and it made me laugh aloud too many times to count.

Getting up this morning got confusing. But I got breakfast from the buffet, ran into Larry there.

Then went back to bed for awhile but didn't sleep so I got up and showered and dressed, and was one of the first to get my badge printed up and everything. mashfanficchick wasn't feeling well and was still in bed after having gotten up even earlier than me to have breakfast. So I set about to kill time til the convention really started.

I ended up spending an hour or so with Larry in the lobby. Then I went back to the room, and was starting to use the computer when the Kid texted that she and her boyfriend were having drinks in the restaurant and I should come and say hello. So I did that, and we had a nice time. I had the first panel I wanted to go to at 3:00 so I only stayed about a half hour or 45 minutes.

Then I went to that panel, and that went until 4:00. I went back to the restaurant but they had left so I went up to the room again. mashfanficchick was getting up. so I waited for zer, and then we went down and ze got zer badge and went to the dealers room and I went to another panel.

I made an appointment for the blood drive tomorrow, at 11:15.

We met up for Songs of the Supernatural, which was fun, and then went to the Dealers Room together.

Then we had dinner, called in Indian food, and ate down in the lobby.

Then when we were done we went to a book release party, and I bought a book. Larry was there, he also has an 11:15 appointment for the blood drive.

We stayed at the party tl 12:00 then came back to the room where I started here.

Sadly no talking to the FWiB today but we enailed.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The kid.

3. mashfanficchick feels better.

4. Donating blood.

5. Arisia!

6. Bed soon!

Here are my icons for the mystery bag quest. I was hoping to more challenges, but I ended up getting sick. So I wasn't able to make as many icons or posts for this round. T.T

Kim Yu-na x5

Rogue x1, Wizard x2, Hero x2

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So going by the older calendar this week was actually New Years for Wales and we had a party. I was...disappointed not in the event but over the fact that I was literally the ONLY faculty member to show up. At least I was well received. For that matter neither did any of our students. The only rep my school had was the Welsh liasion, two of our success coaches, the choir director, me and two faculty from Buckeye Hills (does the more certificate type jobs). Got to mess about the with mari lywd and then got roped into the twmpath dances. It's a lot like square dancing. My knee was going What the Actual Fuck Dana? We're only a month from the 5 year anniversary of being broken. You wanna revisit that? Stop jumping around one m.

Nope, knee, suck it up. Dance baby dance. Are we good? fuck no. Was it fun? Yes. I also got to make a little puppet mari lwyd. Why? because NO ONE brought their kids. If there wasn't the 20 Welsh students here on tour (your parents let you come to America?!?) there would be just like 6 of us. I wish it had been better attended but it was fun.




Now I FINALLY got my lab fixed. Registrar is like you never sent the paperwork. Oh really? Found it, the email it was in etc etc. Yeah I did. Eye roll

I have a story for today. It'll be chapter one of a long fix-it (or maybe more correctly S3 speculation). I'm only posting it here because it's not quite ready to go to AO3 mostly because I have one WIP right now and I don't want two right now. It's pretty much where I want it to be though.

Title: I Need to Go Home (And Salvage What's Left of My Soul)

Summary: Angel has thrown himself to the wolves and refuses to go back to the hell, sinking deeper into addiction and hell with Valentino. Husk and the others will not let him be destroyed there. They will get him home and they have from an unexpected source.

Rating: teen

Notes:Written for Spikesgirl58’s 6 words and the six words were Skillful, Answer, Decide, Extra- small, Plucky, & Husheda and for the allbingo prompt of Madam Satan and the lyrical titles bingo prompt of Chart Topper. I chose Lost All Control by Seether.
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And here are my fannish 50 fandom recs


State Visit Stargate Atlantis

Proper Appreciation Torchwood

Passion And Desire FAKE

Tonight The Professionals

Satisfaction. Hazbin Hotel

The Hazards of Exploring Atlantis Stargate Atlantis

Adjacent Hazbin Hotel

Rest In Peace Torchwood

Meeting Old Teachers Stargate Atlantis

Leave the Lord of Starving Faithful Hazbin Hotel

i taught him that Helluva Boss

all my blood, for the sweetness of his laughter
Arcane: League of Legends

M is for Murder Murder She Wrote/Mistletoe Murders

Vastra/Jenny Week 2026 Doctor Who

I Lived Here, I Loved Here, I Thought It Was True. Hazbin Hotel

Medical Emergency Torchwood

Blue Stargate Atlantis

Too Late, Too Late Hornblower

an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (a love for a love) Merlin