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Today is cover reveal day for my second science fiction book: Surviving Peace, coming in March 2026. The talented Warren Design created it.

It's the sequel to The Dementia, continuing the story of Jacks, radio operator and martial artist, and Antony, chief engineer, on the generation ship Peace. Peace is in chaos after a violent uprising. While Jacks and Antony averted catastrophe, the work's not done to keep Peace flying and the people in its two cities alive. The problem? Everyone wants them dead.

Pre-orders go up at the end of November so stay tuned for that.

fic title alphabet meme

Nov. 5th, 2025 08:44 pm
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Jumping on this meme after seeing so many people do it. Out of the 80 works on AO3:

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

A — aftermath (rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles)
B — birthday prayers (squid game)
C — creatures of the sea (percy jackson x danny phantom)
D — the distant reach of her voice (inuyasha)
E — enemies and love (boruto)
F — footsteps to sunrise (ancient greek religion & lore)
G — ghosts at twilight (re:zero)
H — honorary titan? less likely than you think (teen titans x danny phantom)
I — ill-gotten (红魔女与苏女侠 | red devil and heroine su)
J — jewelled touch (handsome girl and sheltered girl)
K — 
L — look (batman beyond)
M — making friends (shelter: the animation)
N — naming conventions (shang-chi and the legend of the ten rings)
O — ollie the plushie (invincible)
P — promises (venom)
Q —
R — recollection (voltron: legendary defender)
S — siblinghood (vivy: fluorite eye's song)
T — tea garden dreams (fugou keiji: balance unlimited)
U — unaligned (danny phantom)
V —
W — what are words? (original work)
X — 
Y — your displacement (alice tv 2020)
Z —

Got 21/26! I tried to find fics that came from a different fandom each... May have cheated with Danny Phantom appearing three times, but I'm counting crossovers as their individual fandom for the sake of this meme. Interestingly I have a good number of fics starting with i (specifically starting with "in") as well as g, f, l, m, o and p.

I've got a few three-sentence fics living in [community profile] threesentenceficathon that I haven't archived on AO3 yet, as well as untitled drabbles drifting about in my gdrive. Wonder if I'd ever give them names starting with v, x or z.

I'm surprised that I could find so many fics for different fandoms though. I've consumed so much media over the years :0

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Just One Thing (05 November 2025)

Nov. 5th, 2025 10:59 am
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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!

Election Day happiness

Nov. 5th, 2025 01:46 am
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Got up at 10:00 and had breakfast and coffee. Showered and dressed, and headed out to vote.

The polling place was not packed but there was a steady flow of people. I got my I Voted sticker, filled out my ballot, and voted.

Then I packed up my computer and my Courage to Change book, andheaded off to [personal profile] mashfanficchick. It was a lovely day for a change, so I took the bus.

We met at Starbucks, where I ordered a pumpkin spice latte. Then we we went to Key Food and got ready made pasta, and went back to zer place and had lunch, which in my case was Dinty Moore beef stew over pasta.

Then we hung out and basically chatted and played on our phones, until 7:00 when I hooked up the computer and Teamed the FWiB. We talked til 8:00 when I had my Al-anon meeting by Zoom, which this week did not f-up like it did last week.

The meeting was very good, though M wasn't there. I hope she's OK.

Then we ordered dinner, burrito bowls. And at 9:00 we turned on NY1 for the local election returns.

And as you probably know already, Zohran Mamdani won! In an election that had the largest mayoral vote turnout in the city since 1969 I think they said, over 2,000,000 people. Mamdani won by slightly more than 50%. Yay!

We sat and watched the speeches, and I Facebooked Herschel to congratulate him on the VA governor win. And he answered me and we had a brief conversation which was nice.

The Kid called, and I put her on speaker and she put me on speaker so we had a four way conversation with Matt too.

And by the time that was over it was so late it looks like I'm just going to spend the night here even though I didn't bring clothes or meds.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Mamdani won!

3. My meetings and the people there.

4. The right to vote.

5. The Kid.

6. Herschel.

Bits and bobs.

Nov. 5th, 2025 10:07 am
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+ Very heartening to see all the blue victories rolling in for the US. About damn time.

+ WE'RE GETTING A NEW MUMMY MOVIE! WITH BRENDAN AND RACHEL! DIRECTED BY RADIO SILENCE! That? Is a five course meal. A buffet. An absolute feast. Give it now.

+ I'm in Bangkok atm, waiting for my two brothers to arrive who told me "early in the morning", it is 11 now and I haven't heard a word. The tut tut they'll be having. Just glued to the window watching taxis come in, riveting stuff.

+ Did spend last night in bed ordering room service (it was raining) and sorting/coding some of the recs for Rec-Cember. And some folks have already joined in on the sigh-up post. EXCITE.

+ Ey we should have some more good news: Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B.

+ I know there's a whole bunch of Murderbot fans around, so wanted to give a heads up that both Illumicrate and Broken Binding are doing a limited edition collected set. I'm leaning towards Illumicrate for the cohesive look and fun book boards, but BB has some very cool endpaper art I'm drooling over.

+ Reading Rainbow is back!

+ The Video Game History Foundation's digital library system is now available to the public. You could do worse for an ill-advised late night deep dive ;)

+ hah nothing like inputting a title to my post to remind me that oh yeah, I lopped off my hair! Went from waist length to sporting a lil bob. Feels mighty freeing. And now it's all my natural hair color, and it's going to stay that way ✨

fanworks alphabet meme

Nov. 4th, 2025 09:39 pm
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Okay so I know that I already posted about this meme, noting that I wanted to do it, but I spent so much work creating a spreadsheet of all my posted fic (+ fanart, fanpoetry and fanvids - basically anything where I picked the title, so no podfics) and figuring out formulas on LibreOffice that it feels like it deserves its own post!

And, even past that, I was already picking titles when I realized I was missing nine whole fics from my backup archive and had to go excavate them out of LiveJournal exchange communities...so I guess that's my reward for wanting to do this properly.

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fanwork title? One fanwork per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’ (or their equivalent in other languages). Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fanwork count.
Read more... )

All in all, this was fun but surprisingly a lot of work. Now I can catch up and read everyone else's!

Daily Check-in

Nov. 4th, 2025 06:03 pm
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Tuesday, November 04, to midnight on Wednesday, November 05. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33800 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 24

How are you doing?

I am OK.
14 (58.3%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
10 (41.7%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
11 (45.8%)

One other person.
9 (37.5%)

More than one other person.
4 (16.7%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
 

[ SECRET POST #6878 ]

Nov. 4th, 2025 07:34 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6878 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.



More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 18 secrets from Secret Submission Post #982.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

To-read pile, 2025, October

Nov. 4th, 2025 10:17 pm
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Books on pre-order:

  1. Platform Decay (Murderbot 8) by Martha Wells (5 May 2025)

Books acquired in October:

  • and read:
    1. The Mirror & The Maze (Wrath & the Dawn) by Renée Ahdieh
    2. The Crown & The Arrow (Wrath & the Dawn) by Renée Ahdieh
    3. The Moth & The Flame (Wrath & the Dawn) by Renée Ahdieh
    4. On The Fly (Portland Storm 2) by Catherine Gayle
    5. Taking A Shot (Portland Storm 3) by Catherine Gayle
    6. Light The Lamp (Portland Storm 4) by Catherine Gayle
    7. The O Zone by Kelly Jamieson [7]
    8. Hockey Halloween: A Charity Anthology
  • and unread:
    1. Queen Demon (Rising World 2) by Martha Wells [1]

Books acquired previously and read in October:

  1. The Element of Fire by Martha Wells [Sep]
  2. The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells [Sep]

Borrowed books read in October:

  1. The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown (Baby Ganesha 2) by Vaseem Khan [3]
  2. The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star (Baby Ganesha 3) by Vaseem Khan [3]

Much of the month's reading has been alternating between hockey romance and Mumbai private detective stories, along with a complete failure to read my long-awaited pre-order of the latest Martha Wells. (but I did read different new-to-me Martha Wells, so yay?)

[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding
[5] Goodbye read
[6] Cambridgeshire Reads/Listens
[7] FaRoFeb / FaRoCation / Bookmas / HRBC
[8] Prime Reading / Kindle Unlimited

Check-In Post - Nov 4th 2025

Nov. 4th, 2025 08:10 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question (courtesy of [personal profile] cora): What was your last project that got put into "time out" and why?


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



This is heartening

Nov. 4th, 2025 12:46 pm
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[personal profile] yarnandglue
I've had 2 calls on the desk so far asking if there are elections in our county today. There aren't, but it's good to hear people are amped up to vote.

Just one thing: 04 November 2025

Nov. 4th, 2025 11:07 am
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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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My air plants arrived today. :D So I gathered materials to start assembling the lantern terrarium. (Start with Photos: Fairy Garden Lantern Deconstruction. Continue with Photos: Lantern Terrarium Assembly Part 2 Testing the Fit.)

Walk with me ... )
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My air plants arrived today. :D So I gathered materials to start assembling the lantern terrarium. (Start with Photos: Fairy Garden Lantern Deconstruction. Continue with Photos: Lantern Terrarium Assembly Part 2 Testing the Fit.)

Walk with me ... )

Post office

Nov. 3rd, 2025 10:25 pm
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I got up at 10:00, and had breakfast and coffee. I must have slept wrong, I have a bad pain in my right hip when I walk. I was hoping it would go away during the day bus it hasn't so far.

But anyway, I filled out all the paperwork I had for Middle Brother's vaccinations (flu and covid) and got them ready to mail. Then I showered and dressed and went to the post office.

I took the 20 bus, it was super crowded but it's only two stops so no big deal. It was a little over $2 to mail the stuff. The postal worker was very nice and pointed up I had the wrong zip code and looked up the right one.

Then I took the 44 bus back. That's only one stop.

When I got here the mail had been delivered, and among it was the invitation to Middle Brother's holiday party, which Oldest Brother had gone to every year, but I never did. It's way out on Long Island, so while I was working it wasn't really an option. But now I'm retired I seriously thought about going, for Oldest Brother's memory, and to see Middle Brother.

I looked up the directions on Google maps, and discovered it wouldn't be to bad to get to, just take time. And I decided to ask [personal profile] mashfanficchick if ze wanted to come too.

So I set that aside and decided to watch mor of The Diplomat on Netflix. I think I watched three episodes, so if I've kept track well enough there should be one more episode this season.

I really like it. And the latest plot twist is very good.

Then at 5:30 I went and lay down in bed and played solitaire on my phone. Finally at 6:30 I came out and got on the computer, and at 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB.

Right after we got on the Kid texted, wanting to make sure I had or was going to vote (which I'm going to do tomorrow) and that I was voting for Mamdami, which of course I am.

The FWiB and I talked til 8:40, and then we got off and I had dinner.

Then I went and lay down again, and called [personal profile] mashfanficchick. I invited zer to the party, and ze agreed, and we discussed getting there. Then we discussed plans for tomorrow, we're going to watch the election returns, Fingers crossed.

Then I called the Kid and she didn't answer. Oh well.

Then it was pet feeding time so I fed the pets and here I am.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Got the forms posted.

3. Good programs.

4. The Kid.

5. Party plans.

6. Election plans for tomorrow.
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I posted recs from my [community profile] fandomgiftbasket and from [community profile] trickortreatex at my journal here.

Fandoms are: 9-1-1 Lone Star, The Addams Family, Arthurian Mythology, DC Extended Universe, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pop Music RPF, Roswell New Mexico, and Stardew Valley.

Spooky Season

Nov. 3rd, 2025 03:44 pm
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Happy belated Friday the 🎃 HALLOWEENTH 🎃 ! For those who celebrated, I hope you had a magnificent three-day Halloween weekend.

Since I'm a bit late, here is a little Halloween-centric meme taken from [personal profile] author_by_night:

All these ghosts, ALL these ghosts! And I still can't find a boo! )

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