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minoanmiss

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy, cool, foggy, and wet. It rained last night and water is still dripping from the trees today. Also the thermometer-hygrometer peripheral for our home weather station has died, so we need to see if that's available as a replacement part. :/

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 12/25/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 12/25/25 -- I hauled the last large branches to the ritual meadow. Then I started the long process of raking the parking lot.

EDIT 12/25/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 12/25/25 -- I did more raking in the parking lot.

I've seen two squirrels in the trees. I've seen several cardinals flying around.

EDIT 12/25/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

It's drizzling again.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

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ysabetwordsmith

Christmas Lockbox

If there is anything you need to get off your chest, to let go so that you can get on, you can safely do it here. This post will be open for anyone, all day--but then tomorrow, it goes away. No judgement, no recrimination. Just a free space for anyone who needs to vent. And if no one does, nothing is lost!

Basically, this is someone's "Hard Things" post for holiday stress. Brilliant.

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ysabetwordsmith

This Conversation...

Bokeh is that creamy blur of color and light at the forefront and background of an image. It's that Out of Focus area, which draws your eye to the crisp subject... a car or face.

Now there's an obscure but super useful word for something we see quite often. :D

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badly_knitted posting in

get_knitted

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.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!

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!

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kalira posting in

smallfandomfest

Title: Heart's Call
Author:

kalira
Fandom: Maleficent
Ship/Characters: Maleficent/Diaval
Rating/Category: T/Het
Prompt: Maleficent (2014), Maleficent & or / Diaval, joy of flying
Spoilers: Post-movie, ignores sequel ~~(which I haven't seen anyway)~~
Summary: Even long after her triumphant, joyous return to the skies, Maleficent sometimes feels an urgent call to take wing, and perhaps she always will; Diaval feels the call to keep his Mistress' side, no matter where she roams, and will follow it always - for so long as she allows.
Notes/Warnings: N/A
Wordcount: 1,000

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minoanmiss

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scifirenegade

Title: Pretense
Rating: General
Fandom: The Last Performance
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Julie Fergeron, Erik the Great
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: n/a

Note: For

fic_prompt, prompt was "any, any, "pretend I'm someone you like"".

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Title: my heart still brims with hope
Rating: General
Fandom: Anders als die Andern (1919)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Kurt Sivers/Paul Körner
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: n/a

Note: For

comment_fic, prompt was "Any, any, an AU where everything is happy and nice".
The title comes from The Tales of Ise.
AU where everyone lives and is happy yay!

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Title: A Minor Mistake
Rating: General
Fandom: Anders als die Andern (1919)/Orlacs Hände (1924)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Paul Orlac, original characters, mentioned Paul Körner and Yvonne Orlac
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: n/a

Note: For

comment_fic, prompt was "author's choice, any two characters with the same name, there's been a (minor? major?) mix-up".
Silly crack crossover.

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glitteryv posting in

recthething

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fics/fanvids/podfics/fancrafts/fanart/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

Wishing everyone Merry Christmas (if you celebrate) and a Happy Thursday (if you don't.) 😉

prisca posting in

fic_promptly

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selenak

Christmas Greetings to all with my annual nativity scenes pic spam!

( Franconian Bethlehem awaits )

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Current Location: Bamberg

ysabetwordsmith

These are the location notes for "A Human Scale, Full-Featured Settlement."

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selenak

What a great thing to wake up to in my part of the world - the Yuletide archive is open! (Usually here in Germany it's noon before that happens.) Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, and peaceful holidays for everyone. I will do my annual pic spam later, but for now, here are the two lovely Foundation stories I got, both Demerzel-centric, the former from her pov, the second from Cleon XXIV's - last season's Day, in other words - , and both superb in their characterisations.

Remembrance (3416 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Foundation (TV 2021)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death
Characters: Demerzel (Foundation TV 2021), Hari Seldon, Cleon XXIV
Additional Tags: Angst, Canon-Typical Violence, mix of book and tv series canon
Summary:

Demerzel wanted to scream back at him, to explain how this was all his fault, Cleon the First damning them all to this nightmare fate that none of them could escape.

But she said nothing, and walked away. Like she always did.

standard deviation (4805 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Foundation (TV 2021)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cleon XXIV & Demerzel (Foundation TV 2021)
Characters: Cleon XXIV (Foundation TV 2021), Demerzel (Foundation TV 2021)
Additional Tags: Character Study, Artificial Intelligence, Complicated Relationships, Mother-Son Relationship, Loyalty, Yuletide 2025, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

He can’t get a rise out of her, and can never push hard enough that she pushes back. Human mothers eventually raise their voices, yell back, get upset. You can fling hurtful words at a human mother. But as far as he can tell, it never lands with Demerzel; there’s no heart there to twist the knife into.

(Relationship study for what slowly went wrong between Cleon XXIV and Demerzel. Spoilers for all of season 3.)

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Current Location: Bamberg

ysabetwordsmith

Here are the character notes for "A Human Scale, Full-Featured Settlement" Part 4 Last 13.

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starandrea

Wishing you and yours a peaceful season and a lovely holiday ♥

"put a little holiday in your heart
it'll put a little shuffle in your step
give you a song that you can sing
with a melody you can't forget

and if you want to join in a little harmony
to keep the world from tearing apart
you know where to look
you gotta put a little holiday in your heart"

--leann rimes