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In between the other books I've been rereading, there were also a couple of rereads of older books.

Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of Nimh - I reread this one a few days ago after randomly finding it while looking for something else on my bookshelves. I still feel as I did the first time I read it, or watched the movie - whichever came first for me, I genuinely don't remember now - that this book has an absolute genius premise in how it plays around with the tropes of classic children's animal literature.

Cut for anyone who doesn't actually want to know the big spoiler in the premise (which is revealed in full about halfway through the book).

( About that book )

Anyway, I really enjoyed it! A fun quick read, a classic for a reason.

A Wrinkle in Time - I had pulled out this one and several others in the series to reread around the time I did my Dark Is Rising reread a couple of years ago, and finally got around to it. I remember a lot of this book really well - I must have reread it a ton as a kid, because I remember the broad shape of the plot as well as, in vivid detail, a number of images from the book, like the kids all bouncing their balls in unison, the disembodied brain, or Meg starting to pass out and dipping her head to inhale from the oxygen flower. What I didn't remember is how it all connected together, how it ended (I can see why), or how absolutely batshit insane this book is.

( A little more about this one )

toothpastepancake

HEY dw. Trying to post on here more, especially since the state of my fandoms on other social medias are really stressful. I check dreamwidth multiple times a day but I don't.... Post... so I'm trying to change that.

Doing a lot better than my last post. Honestly I didn't realize how depressing and overshare-y it was until I reread it, and I think that says a lot about how much I dissociate lmao. Anyway, shit has been hard but I'm slowly putting myself back together, I guess. Life has been slightly more bearable. Valentine's day was wonderful. The weather is starting to warm up a bit, so I've been writing in my yard each day, and I've really missed having the ability to go outside.

I've been working a lot on my femslash february salad bar fics. I've gotten four done so far, 3 regular mode and 1 hard mode. I chose the exact word counts for hard mode as a self-challenge but I think it just ended up being more intimidating, whoops. I'm still enjoying the event immensely!! Yayyyy!!!!! I hope to work on some of my other stuff soon, like

10trueloves and my

100femslash table (which I'm so happy to see taking off!!!)

I did end up signing up for Space Swap and I plan to do High Adrenaline too because I love it so much.

I've been so obsessive/escapist over SFA that it led me to neglect both my original works and the work I was doing on my personal site. I've only just now started to get back into working on web development stuff. I have some fun Otwarchive stuff planned to work on when I get a development instance set up again...

I think that's all for now. Hope you're all doing well.

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Character: Luke Skywalker
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
Theme set: Gamma
Rating: G
Warnings: None

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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 Wednesday, February 18, to midnight on Thursday, February 19. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34241 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 12

How are you doing?

I am OK.
8 (66.7%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
4 (33.3%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
5 (41.7%)

One other person.
4 (33.3%)

More than one other person.
3 (25.0%)

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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HI ALL!

How was writing today? Was it easy or like pulling teeth?

out_there

Sometimes, you want a happy vid. Sometimes you want a vid to delicately shatter your heart into pieces. This is the latter, but it's still so lovely:

Buckle (16 words) by sisabet
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander, Svetlana Vetrova
Additional Tags: POV Ilya Rozanov, Angst, Depressed Ilya Rozanov, Fanvids
Summary:

I made a thousand people love me, now I'm all alone

kaberett

Specifically: I find myself in possession of both a superking duvet cover and a deep fitted double sheet that are mostly Genuinely Nice Cotton... and have both got holes worn through them in one specific place.

I have accepted about myself that I am not a person who will tolerate sleeping on patched bedsheets (because Textures). I am loathe to just hand them over to rag recycling. I am scared of trying to sew anything out of them, but might manage it with some encouragement.

I would greatly appreciate people Being Opinionated on this topic.

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Posted by John Scalzi

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/02/18/a-secret-project-is-afoot-at-the-scalzi-compound/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=59517

What is it? I can’t tell you! When will you be able to know? I can’t say! But when I can tell you, will I? We’ll see!

What I can tell you is that Athena is working on it with me, she’s been great to work with so far, and my decision to hire her at Scalzi Enterprises was pretty smart. Clearly I know what I’m doing all the time.

Anyway, my kid’s awesome and we’re doing cool stuff. I hope we get to share it with you. Eventually.

— JS

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/02/18/a-secret-project-is-afoot-at-the-scalzi-compound/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=59517

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This week's word is...
clothes

How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.

Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, please read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off and please stop back later!)

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Title: Far From Over
Fandom: Viola come il mare (category: tv)
Author:

veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Viola Vitale/Francesco Demir
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 955 (Ellipsus)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in early S2.
Summary: Viola has survived a whole year of living next door to Francesco Demir: a dangerously charming neighbor with a smile that should come with a warning label.
Breakfast on the terrace was supposed to be simple, but nothing is simple when the attraction is mutual, the teasing never stops, and neither of them is willing to be the first to give in.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #506 - Melt

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( ITALIAN VERSION: Tutt’altro che Finito/Ficlet )

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What I read

Finished Imperial Palace, v good, by 1930 Enoch Arnold had got into the groove of being able to maintain dramatic narrative drive without having to throw in millionaires and European royalty and sinister plots, but just the business of running a hotel and the interpersonal things going on.

Then took a break with Agatha Christie, Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17) (1937) - I slightly mark it down for having dreary old Hastings as narrator, but points for the murderer not being the Greek doctor.

Finished Grand Babylon Hotel, batshit to the last.

Discovered - since they are only on Kindle and although I occasionally get emails telling me about all the things that surely I will like to read available on Kindle, did they tell me about these, any more than the latest David Wishart? did they hell - that there are been two further DB Borton Cat Caliban mysteries and one more which published yesterday. So I can read these on the tablet and so far have read Ten Clues to Murder (2025) involving a suspect hit and run death of a member of a writers' group - the plot ahem ahem thickens.... Was a bit took aback by the gloves in the archives at the local history museum, but for all I know they still pursue this benighted practice.

Have also read, prep for next meeting of the reading group, Dorothy Richardson, Backwater (Pilgrimage, #2) (1916).

On the go

Recently posted on Project Gutenberg, three of Ann Bannon's classic works of lesbian pulp, so I downloaded these, and started I Am a Woman (1957) which is rather slow with a lot of brooding and yearning - our protag Laura has hardly met any women yet on moving to New York except her work colleagues and her room-mate so she is crushing on the latter, who is still bonking her ex-husband. But has now at least acquired a gay BF, even if he is mostly drunk.

Have just started DB Borton, Eleven Hours to Murder (2025).

Have also at least dipped into book for review and intro suggests person is not terribly well-acquainted with the field in general and the existing literature, because ahem ahem I actually have a chapter in big fat book which points out exactly those two contradictory strands - control vs individual liberation.

Up next

Well, I suspect the very recent Borton that arrived this week will be quite high priority!

asuraid

ACNL

yaaay store upgrade done!!! i also realized the meow coupon quests were in my inventory bottom page the entire time ... cause one of the campground van visitors has a bookshelf and bookstack and I NEED IT, cause i wanna make a study room for sylvie's house eventually. as much as i wanna buy furniture though, i need to finish the bridge i started to make travel easier ... i can't wait to get QR codes unlocked for once LOOL

in new horizons QR codes make me feel overwhelmed (and it's why i'm going to completely avoid it for the most part on my new island), but with there being no outside decorating in new leaf + i think more limited slots help. i saw this video about using trees to decorate in new horizons which i'll be using in new horizons ... and even in new leaf if i can. well, depending on the tree line where my cedars stop anyway LOL. i think there should be some way to 'stunt' tree growth in new leaf ...

Hollow Knight

new areas unlocked and got the dream nail/met the dreamers ... some part of me doesnt want to spoil the endings, but i kinda wanna know What I Need To Do to get the ... 'best'? ending? i like getting the good/true endings if i can, and it annoys me when its minor things you can so easily miss because you didn't pick up this item or do this quest kinda stuff. got king's rest unlocked + a new portion of the city of tears

Genshin Impact

oughhh hhhgh abyss floor ... the dichotomy of the annoying floor 12 room 3 where the first boss was a pain in the ass and i had to iframe through (I DONT HAVE LUNAR ELECTRO REACT TEAMS AUGHH) and then the fuckin geo shield boss literally melted to navia's team ... dogshit floor 12 this time around with only 5 stars but oh well. you win some you lose some. still no zibai even at 70~ pulls ... but i still need to do the war game event

Current Mood: calm

scalziwhatever_feed

Posted by John Scalzi

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/02/18/rip-scalzi-dsl-line-2004-2026/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=59512

As most of you know, I live on a rural road where Internet options are limited. More than 20 years ago, DSL became available where I live, which meant that I could ditch the satellite internet of the early 2000s, which topped out at something like 1.5mbps and rarely achieved that, and which went out entirely if it rained, for a line that had a, for me, blisteringly fast 6mbps speed.

That was the speed it stayed at for most of the next twenty years, until my provider, rather grudgingly, increased the speed to 40mbps — not fast, but certainly faster — and there it stayed. Over time the DSL service stopped being as reliable, rarely actually got up to 40mbps, and, actually started going out when it rained, like the satellite internet of old, but without the excuse of being, you know, in space and blocked by clouds.

A few months back I went ahead and ordered 5G internet service from Verizon, because it was faster and doesn’t have usage caps, which had been a stumbling block for 5G service previously. It’s not top of the line, relative to other services that are available elsewhere — usually 120+mbps, where the church’s service is at 300+mbps, and Athena’s in town Internet is fiber and clocks in at 2gbps — but it’s fast enough for what I use the internet for, and to steam high-definition movies and TV. I held on to the DSL since then to make sure I was happy with the new service, because that seemed a sensible thing to do.

No more. The 5G wireless works flawlessly and has for months, and the time has come. After 20+ years, I have officially cancelled my DSL line. A big day in the technology life of the Scalzi Compound. I thank the DSL for its service, but its watch has now ended. We all most move on, ceaselessly, into the future, where I can download stuff faster.

I’m still keeping my landline, however, to which the DSL was attached. Call me old-fashioned.

— JS

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/02/18/rip-scalzi-dsl-line-2004-2026/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=59512

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( 1-14 )
18. divine love
19. platonic love
20. infatuation
21. maternal love
22. obsession
23. agape
24. love of animals
25. unconditional love
26. forbidden love
27. ecstasy
28. the beloved

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This song "Anchored in Love Divine" was recommended by Adriene of Yoga with Adriene in one of her yoga videos. This is the Carter family, a Christian gospel group.

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