grayestofghosts

This month's post will be serving double duty as a community promo. I also run the

threeforthememories event, whose 2025 session will be open for posts on January 3, 2026 and will run for 3 weeks until January 24. Participant posts consist of 3 photos (only) you've taken of anything from 2025 that you find meaningful in some way or which represent how you experienced the year. These could be your crafting activities, or anything else you find relevant.

Questions? Visit the announcement post at

threeforthememories

This month's question involves the holidays. Do you normally do crafting over this period? Is it related to any holidays? Do you do craft gifting? And if so, what do you plan to gift this year?

minoanmiss

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Current Mood: disappointed

minoanmiss

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yourlibrarian posting in

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Last week while taking out the trash, I noticed that the clouds were low in the sky and really thick and ropey, like a plush carpet. Hurried home to grab the camera as sunset was coming soon and I wanted to be sure I caught the look.

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Hello everyone!

Tis' the season to stay home and journal away our thoughts and feelings to complete strangers that turn into friends.🎄🎁☃️

ALSO!!!! I am searching for a mod that can help me with this community. 🫶🏽 If you are interested, please comment "Interested" in the comments below. 👇

Lets make some new friends, to keep our online journaling aesthetic alive!

Just copy and paste this code below as a comment, and let the friendships begin!
Feel free to reference this Friending Meme to others too!
(you can take out some of the questions to your liking as well.)

rmc28

I am the stage of being ill with a cold where it feels like I will never be well again, I barely even remember what it is to not cough, and all is doom. Woe, woe is me. [From experience, this stage is usually about two days before I actually get fully well, but try telling my feelings that.]

(brought to you by having to miss yet another hockey practice tonight, the penultimate one of the year, and being sad about it)

Cheering myself up with the news that Heated Rivalry comes to the UK on 10 January. I am going to be very normal about it. Meanwhile I await a delivery of Rick Riordan books from ~~my dealer~~ the buddy who got me into them, and Instagram is doing its usual creepily-accurate targeting, supplying me with Yorkshire Percy Jackson and advertising a PJ musical in Peterborough next spring.

minoanmiss

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Current Mood: tired

tozka

I decided to tweak how I engage with online life for 2026, and have been busy the last couple weeks trying to get it ready so I can test it before the new year actually starts.

So:
1. Switch back to posting on DW as my main journal (external blog will close)
2. Move website from pixietails.club to tozka.fyi (partly to save money on the domain renewal cost lol)
2b. Website will be more for evergreen content and not so much tracking content. So pages like a list of what I read this year will be deleted from public and kept private instead, but all my tutorials and fanlistings will still be there.
3. Self-host RSS feed reader (done), link collector (done)
4. Set up Obsidian as my personal hub (done). This'll be where I keep my tracking stuff, personal data, whatever.

So basically be a little more private with my info, be more proactive with keeping my own data, and settle back in to the communities I want to engage with.

I liked having my own little blog domain but it felt very exposed, which made me not want to post. Dreamwidth is more cozy! Even if I post in public here, I don't feel like the eyes of the entire internet are on me. Also tbh when I posted from my blog first it didn't give me an incentive to come over here and actually read my friends page, so I've gotten very behind on my correspondence.

Further changes: I want to get away from AI intrusions a bit more, so I've installed Linux on my main computer (Manjaro) and deleted Windows entirely.

And while I've stopped using most social media besides Mastodon, I still visit Facebook a lot for the groups. I'm going to make it a priority to join and engage in forums instead.

Current Mood: energetic
Current Music: Blanche - The World I Used to Be Afraid Of

fred_mouse

The damn things continue to overlap

surgeon appointment: nothing new, but the margins on what was removed aren't big enough, back in surgery - that's my Friday.
the next step in the candidacy paperwork was in fact not my responsibility, and I now have an email to say I've passed that hurdle (here it is called 'Milestone 1').
Last Monday rehearsal of the year was this week; I tried bowing for one line of very long/slow notes and ow, nope, not yet. Was, however, good support for the other viola player, including singing some of the bits where the viola has the melody. We had a new violin player! I hope they come back, they seemed to be having fun.
Today was my last day on campus for the year. I will be working some over the shutdown, because I'm supposed to have my ethics drafted by mid January, and I still don't know what I don't know. Treated myself to curry and a fizzy drink for lunch.
Finished Building a second brain (Tiago Forte), which I've gained some useful ideas from. Recommended if you are needing a way to organise the information that is coming in to your life; not elsewise.
Youngest went bouldering with co-workers on Monday, and is learning yet again about not relying on hyperextended elbows to do the work (their grip strength isn't, and their forearms hurt "weirdly")
have woken up twice this week having done Something Stupid in my sleep. Monday it was the right hip not quite in the right place (went back in during rehearsal, I staggered in looking awful, I gather) and today it is something with the muscles of the right shoulder and halfway down the back -- I could barely move the shoulder this morning, and it has settled down to 'about half the time one or more muscles are spasming'.

ysabetwordsmith posting in

journalsandplanners

This year I've been running an experiment to see which type of pen lasts the longest for labeling plants outdoors. I have compiled links to the previous posts and added pictures from each month where I hadn't already posted them. Results: Sharpie Oil Pen lasted longest, Craft Smart Oil Pen was still legible at the end of the year, and Sharpie Permanent Marker faded very fast. If you're labeling plants outdoors, buy an oil paint pen, preferably Sharpie. If you want to test how colorfast or fugitive your journal inks are, you can run the same kind of test indoors on paper that is in a window with sunlight.

These are the other posts regarding the labels.
1/3/25 Photos: Testing Pens on Plant Labels
2/3/25 Photos: House Yard and South Lot
3/3/25 Photos: House Yard and South Lot
4/4/25 Photos: South Lot
5/6/25 Photos: South Lot
6/2/25 Photos: House Yard
11/3/25 Photos: Lantern Terrarium Assembly Part 2 Testing the Fit (labels at bottom)
Photos: House Yard 12-16-25

( Let's do science to it... )

Current Mood: accomplished

catherineldf

I have a huge number of updates and end of year things to post, but I'm scrambling to get things done and wrap up some deadlines. Here's a brief recap:

Queen of Swords Press has released the new Astreiant omnibus! The Complete Astreiant by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett includes all 6 novels and is available in the various ebook platforms. However. Amazon is absolutely fleecing us on this, taking 65% of cover, so please, please, buy it direct from us or Smashwords/D2D or Kobo or even B&N or GooglePlay instead. I need to see if Weightless is interested too. At any rate, the Astreiant Series is eligible for the Best Series Hugo this year! Please keep it in mind.
I'm trying to wrap up the first third of my Data Analytics certification, with a final this week.
I'm doing Queen of Swords Press's 34th event for 2025 this Saturday - stop by AudreyRose Vintage in Minneapolis on 12/20 12-4PM for fun shopping with multiple vendors of various things!
I'm working on edits for Joyce Chng's fab collection, Sailing the Golden Chersonese, which we're releasing early next year.
I need to complete a new grant proposal in the next two weeks.
I have written several thousand works of new fiction, including working on the next werewolf novel in the last few week, thanks to writing sprints.
I have come to recognize that I will not be landing in an IT gig any time soon, if ever, due to needing remote work, my age and the state of the job market, so I'm enrolling in the State of MN CLIMB Program and have gotten myself a small biz mentor through Hennepin County Elevate and I'm doubling down on publishing.
New editing biz is open! Got a manuscript that wants some love or need some publishing coaching or know someone who does? Send them my way!

Okay, stopping there for the moment. End of year wrap up posts coming soon!

soc_puppet

Just got the news via email: My application to graduate has been formally accepted! My degree will be mailed out to me in three to six weeks 💖🎉🎊

Current Mood: triumphant

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I don't know what happened - I distinctly remember posting this, but now it's... not there. Maybe I posted it with the wrong date or to the wrong comm? Idk. I'm now reposting it - I hope it's okay even though the amnesty is over.

Here are five more icons I made for Round 118

Tan Jianci | Wu Lei x2

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lizvogel posting in

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For Reasons, I need three colors of apples in my story. I'm looking for a bright, deep red; a strong yellow/gold; and an intense, bold green. (All when ripe, preferably.) Right now I've got good ol' Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, and Granny Smith, but I'd like somethng more exciting (and more strongly colored) for at least two of them.

The setting is technically modern-day Illinois, but it's a post-apocalyptic scenario with a lot of supernatural stuff going on, so exotic varieties from other climes would be entirely feasible. I have a character who can be an apple expert if it's a variety so unusual that most USians wouldn't recognize it. Grafting, planting, import/export, and pretty much any other limitations can all be readily hand-waved by the aforementioned supernatural stuff.

TIA, Malus enthusiasts!

Current Mood: peckish

minoanmiss

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meridian_rose

GetYourWordsOut: Year Eighteen!
Pledges & Requirements | getyourwordsout.net

I've signed up with the same pledge, a habit pledge for 180 days. It's always worth signing up for me because of access to the shiny spreadsheet trackers :)

fred_mouse

These are all from the same auto-transcription closed captioning.

rosary phone (rotary phone)
content scripture (content description)
gaming council (gaming console)

This was from a presentation by an Irish group who teach cyber safety in schools. I don't remember how pronounced the presenter's accent was, but ah, those sure are some interesting errors.