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In which Buffy Summers already knew that the hardest thing in this world is how to live in it, Carol.

( Spoilers have to choose between the girl and the world )

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Current Location: Bamberg

nanila posting in

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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!

rydra_wong

I was too tired to have the focus for Dark Souls-ing in the last few days, so binge-played 1000xResist and now I feel like I'm been punched in the head.

Basically a walking simulator/visual novel, so don't go expecting complex gameplay, but HOLY FUCK.

For all of you looking for fiction with fucked-up complicated women who are somewhere on a spectrum from "morally grey" to "evil but sympathetic" (with the odd dip into "idealistic but destructive") having fucked-up dynamics with other fucked-up complicated women: 1000xResist has SO MANY of them. It has almost no characters who don't fit that archetype, in fact.

(I considered whether it passes the reverse-Bechdel test -- i.e. two male characters have a conversation that's not about a woman -- and I think it may juuust scrape past in a 5-second exchange in one of the flashbacks, but barely. There are very very few men in this story, for plot-related reasons.)

Watch on YouTube

I found out afterwards that the development team were a devised theatre group who decided to start making a game when everything was shut down during the pandemic, and somehow this fully checks out (complimentary).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/1000xRESIST/ (you can even pick it up in a bundle with Slay The Princess for bonus visual novel headfuck)

Do note the content notes from the devs: Photosensitivity Warning: Flashing Lights, Cursing and Crude Language, Generational Trauma, Acts of Violence and Terrorism, Disease Outbreak, Mention of Suicide, Mention of Animal Cruelty/Pet Death, Blood, Body Horror, Emotional Abuse, Bullying, Dead Bodies, Vomit, Drowning, Fire, Gore, Needles, Racism and General Mature Content.

(I would also add a specific note for torture, and for fucked-up mother-daughter and sister-sister relationships, that being one of the core elements of the game, along with the aforementioned generational trauma.)

leecetheartist

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The Odyssey (2026)
[ official trailer ]

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The Odyssey (2026)
[ official trailer ]

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Dear Miss Manners: Several years ago, a divorced woman exactly my age moved in next door. I liked her very much and tried to become friends with her. ( Read more... )

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alisx

. . . okay I have done it. I have become a Plex Bitch.

Leave a comment.⁺

mrkinch

Today there was a break in the rain so I went up to see the water. Wish there were more, but we expect another week of rain, so it may get better. I walked up the boardwalk and returned by the road, and found good birds in a couple of spots. Highlights were a singing Fox Sparrow, an adorable little Pacific Wren, and a Varied Thrush that I nearly stepped on as it zipped across the boardwalk. Near the Lake I found a mixed flock of Chestnut-backed Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and a Townsend's warbler. And there was a pair if Mallards on Jewel Lake. ( The list )

Then I went down to Berkeley Meadow to see if there was any water. There wasn't, and I didn't see much, but the one White-tailed Kite (there will likely be a nesting pair soon) looked absolutely spectacular sitting in the open against the green. ( Another short list )

Maybe next week.

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musesfool

I just cleaned off the kitchen counter and put the last bowl/spatulas in the sink to soak (the dishwasher is already running, and all the cupcakes are cooked and 4 out of 5 frostings are made (I just finished the strawberry Swiss meringue buttercream) - tomorrow I will make the ganache and possibly also a whipped ganache (I've never done it with butter in it - does that make it more buttercream-ish?) just to change things up a bit.

Today, I baked the strawberry (doubled to make 80), apple cider (60), and funfetti (doubled to make 80) cupcakes - there could have been more funfetti, but not enough to fill a whole pan, so I didn't bother. I added cinnamon bits from King Arthur to the apple cider ones and dipped them in maple cinnamon sugar, which is a change, one that hopefully people will like.

I also discovered that the cupcake carriers I've had sitting in a box under a chair in my living room for a few months are the wrong size (they are for standard-sized cupcakes) so I only have 10 mini ones and I need 13, so I will use the some foil lasagna pans for my brother and sister and one of the kids - they'll get a few more cupcakes out of it, since the carriers hold 2 dozen but the 9 x 13" tray fits about 30. *hands* I'm just glad I still have a pack of them left to use; otherwise, I'd have been up a creek.

Tomorrow is Pipe-a-palooza 7: The Pipening! (yeah, it's kind of shocking to me I've been doing cupcakes for 7 years now - I started in 2019 - but I like it more than the chocolates [and it's also less time-consuming than the chocolates were] and I can't do ice creams anymore due to logistics, though they remain my all-time favorite of the homemade Christmas gifts I've done over the years.) Wish me luck! It's always the hardest part for me. Hopefully I will remember to take pictures to share afterwards.

Whoops, I started this entry an hour ago and got distracted by stuff like packing my overnight bag and refilling my water bottle etc. so I'm just gonna hit post now and work up the energy to go wash my hair.

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( 6-day plan, day 5 )

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Current Music: Ranges vs Caps on tv

brumeier

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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, December 23, to midnight on Wednesday, December 24. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34002 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 16

How are you doing?

I am OK.
9 (56.2%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
7 (43.8%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
6 (37.5%)

One other person.
5 (31.2%)

More than one other person.
5 (31.2%)

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.

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Contrary to speculation, The Writer character here is not me, any more than the corpse of The Writer on Page 3 is me. Consider this character a multiversal variant of that skeletal remnant of the Suicide Squad Writer. (I read one or two complaints that this farrago was just so typical of ‘Grant Morrison’ - too meta - he always has to put himself in every story! For the record, I’ve only ever written myself into Animal Man and in a more abstract way Seven Soldiers. That’s at best twice in 40 years!) -- Grant Morrison

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⌈ Secret Post #6927 ⌋

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

01.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 25 secrets from Secret Submission Post #989.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - 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.

raine

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luzula

Day 22: 100 words of longfic, on a busy pre-Christmas day. How about you?

Tally:
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Day 21:

china_shop,

trobadora,

badly_knitted,

sylvanwitch,

chestnut_pod,

chanter1944,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness

Day 22:

badly_knitted,

trobadora,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

chestnut_pod

Bonus farm news: I had no idea about the existence of Cucurbita melo var. flexuosus, a k a the cucumber melon! I totally want to try that. Also check out this very cool long-storage cucumber. Must try that as well.

teland

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selenak - Pluribus 1.09 (Season Finale)
nanila in awesomeers - Just One Thing (24 December 2025)
rydra_wong - So, 1000xResist
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musesfool - find a way to get the next one
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