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While the church for my choir's New Year's Eve performance was not absolutely jammed, it was pretty full, including the balconies, and judging from comments from friends as I exited through the sanctuary, it was an excellent and meaningful performance. Jean, who used to sing with us, said she had cried through the entire part three. Whoa. It was also special because for one of our regular soprano soloists, Jess, it was her fiftieth performance as a soloist.

Rebecca and Jess are founders of Variant 6, my favorite local small vocal ensemble. Rebecca is on the left, Jess on the right, in gold:

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"Laudamus Te" from last year's NYE Bach B Minor Mass.

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After the performance, I was too wiped out for dinner; luckily, a bus came pretty quickly. I got home, ate dinner, removed my eye makeup, and crawled into bed. Surprisingly, after my afternoon coffee, I managed to get to sleep fairly soon. I don't recall hearing many fireworks (apparently, someone saved their illegal firecrackers for the night of New Year's Day...a lot of them).

New Year's Day, I had decided our menu was nachos and another small trifle. The nachos had cheese, pre-cooked chicken seasoned with adobo and mild salsa, and spinach. The trifle was in a glass loaf pan: more cinnamon graham crackers for a base, a layer of spiced peaches (from a jar), a thick layer of whipped cream, pumpkin snaps, blueberries, and a drizzle of the sugar syrup from the peaches. It all turned out great!

January 2, I hung out with

drinkingcocoa and family.

Today is laundry and more Flight Rising. I have to go back to the dayjob on Monday, so I might do some cooking today or tomorrow as well.

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A long pier sticking into the sea at sunset.

This is from our summer holiday. That's Husband sitting out there. We had a summer house for a week somewhere else in Denmark and we were by the coast. (Denmark, if you didn't know, has a lot of coastline. You are never more than a couple hours drive away from one here.) We went down to look at the sunset one evening. I'm quite pleased with how this picture turned out.

( Two more under here )

smallhobbit posting in

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These are not necessarily the best photos, but each one sums up a particular memory for me:

This is the cross stitch I created, following a year long StitchALong:

( 2025 memories )

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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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markov_stoats_feed

Day 4499. There are 336 red stoats, 189 blue stoats, and 475 green stoats.

viggorlijah

ETA2: also useful is to add a teeny bookmark to your browser (this code) which when you are on an ao3 page will download the epub in one-click to yr downloads folder locally. i mean, update to mobi or whatever format u prefer.

i am mashing together a terrible tiny gmail script to every ten minutes check by ao3 fic folder in gmail to download the epub and upload it to the dropbox linked to my kobo so i can read there.

and yay it works! you basically need to:

ETA: okay so it turns out the dropbox token is like 4 hours, so i had to set it up for oauth too and also the script kept trying to track every time it ran which was pointless because i'm already tracking by read/star status in gmail which files went over, so i had a ton of script properties i didn't need. okay! so. edited below

1. have a dropbox and gmail account and something else to sync (I'm using multcloud because it's free for this volume)
2. filter your fic notifications to a folder in gmail (i filtered the from and "posted" in the subject line and filtered kudos and comments to other folders)
3. create a folder called like ao3kobo or something in dropbox and share it with yr gmail account
4. so you set up a project in https://script.google.com/ with two script properties:
a. AO3_SESSION_COOKIE (you can get this via inspect)
b. DROPBOX_CLIENT_ID (you gotta create a one-user only test app in www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/create which is to a folder/full - make sure you turn on permissions for writing files)
c. DROPBOX_CLIENT_SECRET - okay, so these two are the app key and the app secret respectively from the settings page in the dropbox app.
5. oh yeah you gotta go over to google cloud platform and turn on the oauth for the default or a specific project for this if you have others already. make sure you keep it in testing mode and add yr gmail address as the tester.
6. Also you gotta add the oauth library. there is DEFINITELY a better way to do it with like node.js calls or something but this works. in the scripts.google, the library bit, add a library and search for the scriptid (u can find it here on github: https://github.com/googleworkspace/apps-script-oauth2?tab=readme-ov-file - this is the official google library so won't fuck up yr stuff.
7. Then you add the script and run it and debug it which i totally did with chatgpt because again, mashed. the script basically:
a. sets a bunch of parameters like your gmail folder where you get these fic notifications
b. looks at your gmail to the specific folder to see the most recent 50 emails and checks if they are unread, then ok time to parse for the ao3 work id in it
c. goes to ao3 and politely logs-in and then downloads the epub (ao3 uses a very standard link thank you!)
d. goes to dropbox and uploads it to the specific folder
e. sets the email as read so it's skipped (or back to unread/starred if there was an error)
8. ok very first time you run it, you have to REMOVE the // comments on the setupDropboxAuth() and authorizeDropbox()functions. Then run setupDropboxAuth first and from the log, you'll get the redirect uri. copy this and then go back to your dropbox app settings and save it into the Redirect URI.
9. then second time, choose authorizeDropbox() and you'll get a longish link in the log. Open this in a window and it should say yay dropbox oauth is ok. NOW you can comment out those unnecessary functions again.
10. Run it to check it works - just reset ao3 emails to unread each time - and you'll need to authorise the first time with Google as it's in 'testing'
11. then over in dropbox, because i can't upload to the apps/Rakuten Kobo folder that the kobo app uses to sync dropbox (no token!), i made an account with multcloud but zapier n stuff can too if you have them, set up to real-time or periodically sync/copy over the files from your dropbox folder to the actual one your Kobo can read.
12. open your kobo, check the dropbox and download your smutty smutty fic in beautiful epubs immediately

i present below the terrible mashed together script (nothing secure in it), if you wish to haphazardly mash yours together too. i did not bother refactoring it for the debugger function because i like to see all the little logs and also i am lazy.

eta: it does not work well on notifications with multiple stories - it'll only grab the first one. could i fix this by looping? yes. will i fix it? no.

also to note: this is an infrequent 10-30 requests to ao3 per day which like i already do manually so i'm not hitting up their servers - it's probably a lower hit than me actually clicking open the links manually and then going to download etc. if u r gonna hit them up, add plenty of wait time and spread it out, dude.

here it is:
https://gist.github.com/dorothyisunderwood/888e930f4f7504f32e343f72c0504b2d

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wychwood

I have a bunch of game codes going spare for anyone who wants them! We don't have to be mutuals or anything, and feel free to pass them along to other friends etc. Please take them! Some of these games are great, but I can't play two copies.
( list of games )

cmcmck posting in

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This year involved a lot of travel and a lot of heartache

We visited Conwy in Wales for the first time, famous for its massive medieval castle:

We also visited Strasbourg in France which was new to me although not to other half. It has a magnificent cathedral and this madonnna, part south American and part deco influenced fascinated me:

And now the heartache. As some of you know, I am a trans woman and our goverment here in the UK has decided that making our lives as difficult as possible would be a fine idea and I am likely to be losing basic human rights in the coming year.

So just for the record, this is what a trans woman (and indeed her husband) looks like. I'm 5'6" and no, it isn't a 'bad wig' but my own hair (admittedly coloured these days as I've gone grey). And those obsessed with bits would be most disappointed if I was standing there naked!

The userpic's me in my later twenties. I set out on the journey at 15 and had GC surgery at 21. I met my husband when I was 38.

This was taken for us by a kind Canadian lady in Conwy castle.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Location: 'ereabouts

selenak

Eleven / Kathryn Janeway: Why? ~~She's his type.~~ Unlike many another version of the Doctor, he's good at endearing himself to competent authoritative women. Depending on when in their respective timelines this meeting occurs, he might also impress her by bringing his very own nurse (Rory) along, which given that Voyager is desperate enough for nurses to let their own Doctor draft Tom Paris will definitely be a plus.

Five / Benjamin Sisko: Why? Mutual bonding over argumentative companions and cricket vs baseball. Five would be charmed by the Ben and Jake father/son relationship (and depending on whether this is before or after Adric dies also melancholic), and wouldn't ruffle Sisko's feathers the way some other Doctors might.

Nine / Jean-Luc Picard: Why? Picard would respect Nine's chip on the shoulder and not wanting to talk about any personal issues (and vice versa). (Though Deanna Troi, sensing Nine's emotional state, wilil try to corner him, but that's another issue.) Depending on the situation they're in when they meet, there might be some prickliness at first, but I think generally they'd find it easy to ally against the menace of the day and maybe share clipped yet meaningful conversation over some tea and/or bond over Dickens once that's done before Nine takes off again.

Fifteen/ Michael Burnham : Why? Much of her personal arc is going from repressing it all stoicism to openly emotional behavior, accepting your past grief and guilt and continuing to do better (and helping others) in the present - that's what he's practically the embodiment of for the Doctor! They would work well as allies, and there would definitely be dancing at some point. Also, she'd make him promise to visit Zora now and then as he travels through time.

Three / Saru (who was a Starfleet Captain, too): Why? Three can come across as incredibly high handed on first impressions, but Saru is a masterful diplomat, would spot Three is actually knowledgable and competent beneath the bluster and would lintrigue him as a Kelpian so any initial problems would be quickly moved aside in favour of teaming up. 'They would also bond over Buddhism.

Thirteen/ James T. Kirk: Why? No, not because he'd hit on her. (TOS Kirk, not AOS Kirk, i.e. he's not his pop cultural stereotype.) She'd consider him fun to have an adventure with, he'd be curious and charmed and very amused once she inadvertendly outs Scotty's inflated time estimations, whereas with male versions of the Doctor he might feel initially one-upped.

Twelve/ Christopher Pike: Why? Even if it's early Twelve at his prickliest, Pike's general relaxedness and experienced diplomacy would help smoothing things over. Conversely, Twelve could empathize with the whole "knowing your eventual awful fate" part without insisting on talking about it the way some other Doctors might. I predict at least one meal cooked by Pike while Twelve plays guitar before the Doctor leaves again.

Unfortunately, I can't think of any version of the Doctor who'd get along really well with Captain Archer because Archer would, depending on the point of his timeline, suspect the Doctor of being a tool of the Vulcan High Command, the Admiralty or the Xindi, while the Doctor, any of them, might like Porthos but would find Archer incredibly annoying, and that's before they find out about certain episodes involving slavery or torture.

Therefore, you get a bonus pairing:

Seven/ Gabriel Lorca (no, not the one we never met, I do mean the season 1 of Discovery guy) : Why? Mutual mindgames! Who manipulates whom best? Who sets a trap for whom while pretending to be their harmless facade? Who figures out the truth about the the other guy first? Might there be conversations with increasingly disturbing subtext about mentoring young women with a chip on their shoulder and tremendous guilt and anger issues? One thing is sure: it would be incredibly entertaining.

The other days

Current Mood: silly
Current Location: Munich

fred_mouse posting in

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olivermoss

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silveradept

Let's begin with a very important warning: if there's still content you want to archive on LiveJournal, yours or others, do it now. There are changes being implemented that move continually in the direction of severing parts of LJ from each other, and quite possibly nuking or jettisoning the English-language side of it entirely. The importer may not work quite as swiftly as it usually does due to an influx of import requests, but get yourself into the queue, or use some other archiving tool, post-haste, if there's still anything there that you want to capture and preserve.

A significant amount of material has entered the public domain in the United States on 1 January 02026, put it to good use! And for the more detailed deep dive, your friends at Duke University have you covered for the more detailed examination of what we're getting into the public domain.

Here's a fact for you: that the most consistent and largest donor of money for toys to a children's hospital in Oregon have been strippers, and this year, they broke their own record.

We managed to close the hole in the ozone layer, thanks to dedicated and international cooperation. It may not stay closed for long, because this world is what it is, but we at least managed to get it done.

Let go of the idea that gender is a single point, a destination, an immutable truth, and support those who question and who are on the journey to finding what they want from gender in that moment. Acknowledging that gender is mutable, and that for some, it is constantly in mutation, can help those who are questioning or on a discovery journey not feel like they have to be absolutely sure and correct and that once they set upon the journey, they are not allowed to deviate from it.

A promising prevention method against HIV would require a twice-yearly shot and widespread availability to be effective. The fact that we have, in two generations, gotten much closer to giving the finger to HIV than we thought possible is a grand testament to science. (And a condemnation of those chucklefucks who continue to try and impede distribution of such and aid to places where HIV prevention would be most effective.) And, beyond that, we keep finding people who have managed to clear the HIV virus entirely, so it's possible that not only will we be able to prevent new infections, we may be getting very close to giving the finger to HIV infections already present. Scouring the world of that virus will be a great triumph.

For those of us in the mindset of the new year, consider this: the things you have said, unintentionally, may be the things that others are carrying with them for years. As has been said, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. If you have people that trust you, even if you don't want to ask what it is you said that they've been carrying and that you didn't mean, the reassurance and the understanding that such things are mist and should be treated as such, and that you are sorry for the hurt you caused, will be good for them. If we shadows have offended, we are sorry, please let it be mended.

The Archive of Our Own posted an administrative post about the progress they feel they've made about making the Archive less welcoming to racism. I don't know how to parse this update, since it doesn't seem like a lot of concrete things were done on their end?

Rob Reiner, actor and director, died at 78 years of age, with his wife, in what is being investigated as a homicide. (And also, the administrator made a social media post disparaging the man in his death and fluffing his own ego while he did it, but that's only mentioned because if you look for things about the death, you'll probably find the post.)

( Old coins, new targets, animals, nudity, techbros who can't help themselves, and more inside )

Last for tonight, it turns out that humans are generally nicer, warmer, and more friendly than our media accounts would have us believe.

A story of a man who did not get to say thanks to an idol, but who did manage to convince a group of carolers to sing his most holiday-appropriate song at him, and then get blown away when they found out that he could, in fact, sing.

And, perhaps most importantly in these times where we think about the turning of the wheel of the year, sometimes the best good news that you can give to others is "yet here you stand." (And no, the rate of people choosing to complete suicide isn't higher in the winter months, so there are more people out there who are also choosing "yet here you stand" along with you.

(Materials via

adrian_turtle,

azurelunatic,

boxofdelights,

cmcmck,

conuly,

cosmolinguist,

elf,

finch,

firecat,

jadelennox,

jenett,

jjhunter,

kaberett,

lilysea,

oursin,

rydra_wong,

snowynight,

sonia,

the_future_modernes,

thewayne,

umadoshi,

vass, the

meta_warehouse community,

little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)

Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: scroobius pip vs. dan le sac - Get Better

selenak

Attention, anyone who has watched the most recent French two part filmed version of The Three Musketeers (part 1: "D'Artagnan", part 2, "Milady") - do you regard it as worth watching? As it's now available via German public broadcast (in their streaming archive, that is), I started to watch D'Artagnan, and while because it's a French version we finally get the correct pronounciation of everyone's names, the first half an hour or so which I watched before breaking it off exposed me to a whole new set of WTFs in addition to some old ones. Basically, my reactions were these:

( Spoilery for this movie reactions ensue )

Also, Stranger Things ended. Now I enjoyed the show while never being a passionate fan. If you want my ST opinions: the third season was bad but otoh introduced Robin, hooray; generally speaking in terms of the horror factor the first season was best when the Upside Down was just unknowable and, well, strange, while the actual villains such as they were were humans exploiting other humans, but I liked the character development most of our heroes got through the ensueing years, plus a lot of the homages to 80s tropes were just fun, so I certainly don't regret the show continued beyond that first season. (Though the fact that shooting this show took a decade while the Watsonian time passing between seasons was much shorter made it inevitably visible both the original child actors and the adult actors playing teens in the first season looked increasingly older than their characters were supposed to be.) In terms of the overall series finale, I liked how the characters ended up and am impressed that ( a spoilery decision was made. ) I also was amused by Mike in the montage being shown wearing dark horn rimmed glasses while writing, because the only reason for that I can see is to make him at least vaguely resemble a young Stephen King in one last homage. Overall, for me, the series ended on a high note.

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Location: Munich

mab_browne

A belt and braces posting for my TS Secret Santa fic, written for DuoIntheRain. I was hideously embarrassed and stressed by how long it took me to write this tiny bit of fic, although probably not as stressed as Ainm. But we got there and I didn't leave my lovely recipient hanging. I also had fic written for me by KateF, with a mix of Xmas celebration, Jim rising to the occasion and cases getting solved, which are all excellent things. :-)

1223 words, pure as the driven snow really, fluff and angst, first kiss, post-canon. Blair is a little stupid mixing alcohol and driving but nothing comes of it.

Solstice wreaths and epiphanies

( Bears the Crown )

thewayne

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We saw Postmodern Jukebox in El Paso on December 2, and they are freaking AMAZING! Highly recommend them. Gunhild was one of three vocalist performing, and she is absolutely a hoot. I'm in the process of ripping six CDs that I ordered a week ago. For whatever reason, I pulled up some PMJ on YouTube and found her name and came across this particular vid and had to post it.

Among the pieces that she did in El Paso, she simultaneously played a trumpet AND an upright bass! She balanced the trumpet on her lips - I can't even bend my back/head back to do that - while picking the bass!

Very cool and impressive.

Anyways, if you like big band jazz, and modern(ish) songs set to big band jazz-type music, you really ought to go see Postmodern Jukebox if they swing by your neighborhood. From what I understand, they have two bands sweeping through the USA and one through Europe and the rest of the world!

elisem

(Whoever hellseries on AO3 is, this is for them, because it was their comment on https://archiveofourown.org/works/75916086 that made it happen.)

Edna St. Vincent Black Lightning Millay

Says the reader to the poet, “Your verse fine and wild

My attention has caught, and my senses beguiled”

Says the poet to the reader, “Are you going my way?

I am Edna St. Vincent Black Lightning Millay

You’ll not find me in found verse; the sonnet for me

Is the path of a poet determined to be free”

And she’ll pull you on behind

And down among the Muses you will ride

Some say that her love life is skid marks and swerves

But she’ll tell you in earnest it is Beauty she serves

She is changeable weather with a quicksilver soul

Edna St. Vincent’s not the kind you can control

But she writes like an angel with a devil’s sense of style

With heavenly precision and a wicked knowing smile

She says “They all will know some day

The name of Edna St. Vincent Black Lightning… Millay”

“Come down, come down, dear reader,” said the poetry patrol

“For they’ve taken young St. Vincent for the stealing of souls

She was speed racing Sappho, the Brownings, and Poe

Oh, come down, dear reader, to her final folio”

Now her body is broken and her breath is enjambed

She’s off to be the laureate of lays for the damned

But she smiles to hear you say

“I love you, Edna St. Vincent Black Lightning… Millay”

Vincent, by all opinions, could pour power into a poem

And take your breath and your heart before she took you home

Now too many poets — I won’t name names — they just came to play

They didn’t have a soul like St. Vincent Millay

She left us all longing, in spite of our pleas

But she reached out her hand and she left us with these

She gave us her visions, she gave us her poems

And the Muses swooped down to carry her home

And the name we still reverence today

Is Edna St. Vincent Black Lightning… Millay

lovelyangel

New Office Credenza

With a full slate of holiday tasks and events, work in the library has slowed to a crawl. I also have a very full January and February lined up, so the library won’t receive much attention until perhaps March. I might not have everything in place until summer. There remains a lot to figure out.

( New Replaces Old, Below This Cut )

Current Mood: pleased

ainsley

Just finished watching Heated Rivalry and am having a lot of feelings, as one does. Not entirely sure what some of the feelings are, just yet, but I think I'll spend some time this weekend poking at them to see if they're amenable to identifying themselves. It's so wonderful that this beautiful brilliant show exists and is creating so much joy at a time when it's so needed.

Right before this, we watched The Pitt, which felt like it was starting to rearrange me as a person in a really good way, and this might be a little, as well.

It's been so long since I've had a fannish conversation, so long since I've had a fandom, that I almost don't even know what to say about anything (not sure I ever did! mostly i just showed up and stuck around). Hopefully there will be plenty of conversations about both of them so I can join in sometimes :)

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oracne - Happy New Year!
angrboda in threeforthememories - (no subject)
smallhobbit in threeforthememories - Three Memories - 2025
dancing_serpent in c_ent - Weekly Chat
markov_stoats_feed - Saturday, 3 January 2026 : the Stoat Distribution of the Day.
andrewducker - Interesting Links for 03-01-2026
viggorlijah - (no subject)
daily_otter_feed - I've Never Seen Such a Funny-Looking Otter. And What IS That Contraption?
wychwood - spare game codes
cmcmck in threeforthememories - Threeforthememories
selenak - January Meme: Which incarnations of the Doctor would get on best with which Starfleet Captains of St
fred_mouse in meta_warehouse - Tumblr grab bag
olivermoss - I watch hockey for the plot
silveradept - The last of one year, and a little into the next - Late December 02025
selenak - Musketeer Question and brief Stranger Things reflection
mab_browne - Fic - Bears the Crown
thewayne - Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox - Gunhild Carling: Jazz Bagpipe!
elisem - filk: Edna St. Vincent Black Lightning Millay
lovelyangel - Library Update #24: Last Pieces
ainsley - [friday i'm in love]

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