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A powerful but timid sorcerer is sent to guard a prince as he attends school.

<a href='https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/unspeakable"> Secrets Of The Silent Witch, volume 1 by Matsuri Isora (Translated by Alice Prowse) </a>

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unclutter

How did you go with decluttering your rest space? Did you have thoughts about what you might do, did you deal with one tiny thing, or did you have a startlingly productive week?

For the second week, we are moving from rest space to hobby space. Can you find something to declutter? What this might look like:

acknowledging that you aren't going to come back to a craft project and rehoming the materials
clearing WIPs so that there is space to work on Just One -- especially if one of those is something that will leave the house when it is done! Gift yourself space while finishing that gift!
clearing a path to the sewing machine (this one is me. I really need to do that, because if I do that I can start work on repairing the clothing I want to keep and repurposing the ones I don't)
working through a shelf of books / DVDs / games and deciding which ones spark joy, and which ones can go.
going through the tool box and working out just how many pairs of scissors or screwdrivers or gumblesprockets* you really need

Alternatively: keep going with the resting space! Get something out of the house!

* no, i don't know what a gumblesprocket is either. It was one of the list of silly words for tools I learned in a poem as a kid

bruce_schneier_feed

Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/the-wegmans-supermarket-chain-is-probably-using-facial-recognition.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71412

The New York City Wegman’s is collecting biometric information about customers.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/the-wegmans-supermarket-chain-is-probably-using-facial-recognition.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71412

pallas_rose

Square Peg
Rating: Explicit
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/M, M/M, Multi
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov/Svetlana Vetrova
10k words

Summary:

A different woman—in a very different situation—helps Shane understand himself, and for Shane and Ilya to begin to understand each other.

Or, Hollander and Rozanov are young, dumb and yearning, so they have a threesome: a tuna melt AU.

Now for writing feelings.

Things have been a bit weird for me writing-wise this whole year. My deployment in the spring was a tad rough and I worked my ass off, then I couldn't get back into the groove; I tried to keep a journal through that time, but I was too upset about various things that happened to do so.

More recently, I managed to write for the SVSEX exchange but I remain dissatisfied with the story I wrote for that. I'm trying now to work up to finishing a few SVSSS WIPs I have left, including a surgery training AU which I will always have a ton of feelings about but I keep getting tripped up and anxious about the modern AU part of it.

More specifically,

Once you take SVSSS characters out of their ahistorical mishmash nonsense setting and put them in the real modern world, there are a lot of things to grapple with that I am not sure how to do delicately. There are a ton of Chinese-Americans in US surgery, and I am a white girl who pays attention: that's something, though not everything. But a major part of the premise of this ancient WIP is that Luo Binghe is multiply alienated. In the novel, he's born of a complicated inter-species relationship, abandoned, found by a human who dies, and then abused by other humans. He conquers all but doesn't find a home, per se, in either demon or human culture. This resonated for me with my partner's experience of being a child of two cultures which has not allowed him to feel at home in either. But how to map that onto real life? And how for me to do it, specifically?

My first idea--and this was the first WIP I started after I wrote the first bit of my first story in decades--was to have Luo Binghe be of Chinese ancestry but not raised by Chinese people. Now I am writing this it seems obvious that I could have him raised by white people and have that be the double disconnect, but I previously had him dislocated into a francophone setting, since that gave me a plot point for language issues.

However, now I think on it, when mapping things over into a surgery training setting, it's important that LBH be from a non-US medical school. Having him fight his way from a Pacific DOM-TOM to mainland France for medical school and then over to the US for training gave the right feel, but now I'm writing about multiple identities and cultures that I have limited access to. Language at least I have?

Argh. Maybe I need to invite someone into the old doc and tear it apart. The story has a shape in my head that I am struggling to see alternatives to, but am also uncomfortable with.

We are on vacation on a lovely beach this week, flying home Friday and back to work Monday. Meanwhile, like >50% of the fannish world, I'm consumed by heated rivalry (see above). I hope that having been able to write something for this new fandom means that I am getting my writing mojo back. So far today, though, I haven't been able to crack open any of my old docs.

And yet, and yet: vacation means not feeling like shit about not doing things. It means radical self-acceptance about not doing things. So I shall read fic as I like and listen to the ocean, and if I don't write anything else this trip... that is okay.

Current Location: beach

malurette

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luzula

Joke stolen from

the_siobhan, because it was too good not to.

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mific

Oh noes! Toomuchplor just posted a new HR fic but there's no fic! Must have taken it down after posting so as to fix something. *whimpers and waits impatiently*

The 3rd and final chapter of "Ember and Ice" dropped yesterday. Hilariously, fangirls on tumblr are getting stuck into the political situation in the story, which does leave a lot to be desired although the defeat of the Lunare by the Solari results in a slightly "captive fairy prince" situation which is always fun. I enjoyed this extra offering by the boys, but audio erotica as a medium does nothing for me, as opposed to the fanfic (and podfic) now being produced by the ton for Heated Rivalry, much of which is excellent and extremely hot. I find it more hilarious than hot to actually hear our heroes giving a blow job - all those wet sucking and smacking sounds - and I kept imagining the poor foley person having to slap their wet thigh, or something, when they were getting into serious fucking. Imagination works way better than surround-sound for me! Although, if "My Moon My Man" is the standout song of HR, "my moan my man" is definitely Hudson's theme song in Ember and Ice!

I've signed up for the Hudcon Big Bang as a writer, artist, and beta (not that I'm going overboard with this or anything). If you're interested, sign ups are here. Info and the schedule are here.

Great recs by lotstradamus, here. Almost all are explicit, with some great ideas and interesting writing.

If you're looking for another gay romance with a happy ending, try the movie "Bros". Where I live it can be rented from Apple+. It's more typical of gay culture than HR and the protagonists are a lot older (pushing forty), but it's very charming in its own way. Commitment-challenged bros to lovers in this case, not "enemies". I thoroughly enjoyed it.

ysabetwordsmith

And there goes Lilith. \o/

Current Mood: amused

minoanmiss

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ysabetwordsmith

Life is full of things which are hard or tedious or otherwise unpleasant that need doing anyhow. They help make the world go 'round, they improve skills, and they boost your sense of self-respect. But doing them still kinda sucks. It's all the more difficult to do those things when nobody appreciates it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our accomplishments and pat each other on the back.

What are some of the hard things you've done recently? What are some hard things you haven't gotten to yet, but need to do? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your hard things a little easier?

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Recreating an Ancient Pump (with no moving parts)

This historic pump uses a mixture of flowing water and air bubbles to lift water high above its original level. While not as efficient as some other methods, it has two tremendous advantages: 1) It requires no electricity, fuel, or animal power. 2) With no moving parts, it avoids the problems of wear and clogs that threaten more complex pumps. Given the increasing issue of climate change, there is great value in any useful technology that runs entirely on renewable energy and doesn't need repair or replacement at all often.

Current Mood: busy

thedarlingone

Book Meme from

teratornis
1: Grab the nearest book.
2: Turn to page 126.
3: The 6th full sentence is your life in 2026.

I only have a couple of physical books in my room right now and the closest one was the knitting pattern book that serves as my mousepad support, so the sentence in question is "Alternatively, work them in a row on a simple background as on design no. 155 (Blue and White Pots) on page 65."

Honestly, if my bad shoulder will un-jank enough that I can knit more in 2026, that's a pretty good omen.

minoanmiss

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adafrog

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ysabetwordsmith

This poem is from today's fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by

fuzzyred. It belongs to the Pain's Gray thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

"Done to Perfection"
-- a cinquain

Pain's Gray
bakes French pastries --
beignets and petits fours,
choux à la crème and tartes des Alpes --
exquis.

* * *

Notes:

Read about the cinquain form.

French pastries include beignets, choux à la crème, petits fours, and tartes des Alpes.

exquis
French: delightful, delicious

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http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5738

check out the hook while the DJ revolves it

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5738

ysabetwordsmith

This poem is from today's Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "Seas Beneath" square in my 1-6-26 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by

fuzzyred. It belongs to the Kraken and Mercedes threads of the Polychrome Heroics series.

"Beneath the Sea"
-- a hexaduad

Jules reads
job feeds.
Come work beneath the sea!
Stock Cans; room and board free.
He knows it's good work and good pay,
but should he go or should he stay?
Tides rise and fall,
feelings, sea call.
Beach, a liminal place;
teen, in similar space.
Jules scans the shore,
texts, Tell me more.

* * *

Notes:

Read about the hexaduad form.

Current Mood: busy

jenab

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olivermoss

Earlier today I decided to gently, carefully, with references, talk to some people in my local discord - as in, these are people I know IRL - that ConformityGate is not real. It's easy to debunk ConformityGate because some of their 'proof' are claims that certain things happened on the show, but those things did not happen. You can just screepcap or clip and 'no, that is not what happened, they literally made shit up, here is what actually happened.'

If you have remained blissfully unaware, it's Byler Truther bullshit. Unhinged Stranger Things fans who learned nothing from being humiliated in Scriptgate.

Don't ask me what Scriptgate is, because I will explain and you will take 1d4 psychic damage

Now, it's being covered by MoistCr1TiKaL, a very prominent youtuber. 17.6 million subscribers. Their collective meltdown is big enough to be covered by Charlie of all people. jfc....

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Page Summary

james_davis_nicoll - Secrets Of The Silent Witch, volume 1 by Matsuri Isora (Translated by Alice Prowse)
fred_mouse in unclutter - January Challenge (2 of 5)
bruce_schneier_feed - The Wegman’s Supermarket Chain Is Probably Using Facial Recognition
andrewducker - Interesting Links for 07-01-2026
pallas_rose - new fic, "square peg," heated rivalry, plus: writing feelings!
malurette - [meme] snowflake_challenge - day o3
luzula - Have some unsolicited duck pics!
mific - Back on my bullshit again
ysabetwordsmith - Humor
minoanmiss - You've seen this one before
ysabetwordsmith - Hard Things
ysabetwordsmith - History
thedarlingone - (no subject)
minoanmiss - "Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ban Incoming"
adafrog - Epiphany
ysabetwordsmith - Poem: "Done to Perfection"
questionable_content_feed - Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 2
ysabetwordsmith - Poem: "Beneath the Sea"
jenab - Movies 2026
olivermoss - (no subject)

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