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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!

cosmolinguist

I woke up and looked at my alarm clock: 8.30. That's early!

Then I looked at my phone which said 7.30 - that's REALLY early!

"Gained an hour," but on the one Sunday in months when I have no plans at all so it doesn't do me any good.

I'm not normally bothered by the clocks changing -- I'm not normally bothered by eight-hour timezone changed -- but today once I got out of an excruciating conversation with my parents (they have their first laptop and they don't know what "browser" means and "the printer is in a file and I can't get it to come out!") all I could think was ah thank god it's bedtime and it was seven forty two pm.

8:42 I could accept as a typical time for me to go upstairs and get ready for bed. But this is silly.

And I was also very hungry and very overwhelmed by the time I ate dinner, because "the same time as usual" was in fact an hour late.

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http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20251027

The Girl Genius comic for Monday, October 27, 2025 has been posted.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20251027

sonia

I just learned that the city motto of Oakland is Oakland Love Life, as described on the city's website.

Love Life Acknowledgement (Abridged Version)

We acknowledge that in service to our beloved city of Oakland, and all its citizens, adhering to the city of Oakland's official motto, "Oakland Love Life" we enter into this space committed to embody love as our guiding principle.

We acknowledge Love Life as our motto as we denounce violence in all forms and the conditions that create it.

We acknowledge that when we demonstrate love, we also exhibit respect and kindness towards each other.

We commit to acts of love as an intentional force to generate tangible solutions, in regards to all of our actions.

We recognize as leaders, we must set an example and precedent for those in community who have entrusted us with these duties.

We welcome and appreciate all contributions to this space, and even when expressing disagreement, we request that we lead with love in your heart.

We seek to find common ground, and tangible solutions that demonstrate love for our city, its residents, and all constituents.

We acknowledge that when we lead with love we are able to uplift a thriving city rooted in equity, equality, justice, inclusion, and opportunity for all.

We commit to the action of "Love Life" as our motto and mantra.

Love Life Acknowledgement (long version) PDF.

I'm glad that Oakland is a Sanctuary City, and California is a Sanctuary State. I'm glad that Barbara Lee is Oakland's mayor, with her experience in national politics.

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rarepairexchange

Hello Pears,

Let's party! Works are revealed for Rare Pair Exchange's 2025 collection! 🥳 Enjoy the collection! Please consider leaving comments on the works you like.

Please remember that commenting on your gift(s) is mandatory in this exchange.

Please email me at rarepairexmod@gmail.com with your AO3 username as soon as possible if:

you have completed your assignment and haven't received a gift

your gift is incomplete (include a link to the gift)

your gift does not match your request (fandom, relationships, or medium) with a link to your gift (please provide details)

your gift incorporates any of your DNWs (include the link to your gift and details of the DNW violation so I can investigate further).

Treats

Treats are welcome! The collection will remain moderated until creator reveals, so you may find your work is visible but not officially in the collection as soon as you submit it. I will approve these as quickly as possible!

If you're looking for someone to treat, you can access participant requests via the AO3 app and treat a pinch hitter.

Treats do not have to meet the minimum word count (or equivalent) requirement, although they must feature a requested relationship and medium.

Creator reveals

Works will remain anonymous for one week, with creators revealed and our exchange round closing on Sunday 2 November at 11:59pm EDT. [ In your timezone + Countdown ]

Please note I have an appointment on this day, so creator reveals may be delayed by a few hours. Please plan your commenting/reading/listening accordingly. I'm fine with this section of the exchange being delayed as we are at the very, very end of our round and some extra time spent with anonymous works is fun! I hope that everyone enjoys browsing the collection while we're still in our anonymous phase.

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Thank you to our participants, pinch hitters, betas, and cheerleaders! 💛

See you in a week for the conclusion of Rare Pair Exchange 2025!

brithistorian

I stumbled on a list of word counts of famous novels and discovered that my longest piece of fanfic is approximately 16,000 words longer than Moby Dick!

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kaberett

Reading. Two things finished, various things picked up and put down again.

Ouch!, Kerr & McRobbie: the subtitle is Why pain hurts, and why it doesn't have to; it's indicative of my current preoccupations that I was actively surprised that it is not, in fact, about chronic pain, except in passing, in that it's mentioned in the introduction in the context of pains the authors have experienced, and then it just sort of... vanishes again. What it actually is is more-or-less a tour of the sociology of acute pain, from a variety of perspectives and contexts, and an invitation to reshape your relationship with pain, optionally via the medium of sports.

It's very much aimed at a general audience (by which I mean both "not people with any particular pre-existing knowledge about pain" and also "not chronic pain patients"), with the infuriating-to-me feature of having not an actual bibliography but instead a "selected references" section, i.e. any claims I wanted to actually check required digging and then guessing (and in one case working out that they were actively wrong about which year the thing was published in, at least for referencing purposes). I did nonetheless get some useful information and vocabulary out of it (I'm especially here for the pointer to the 3P approach to pain management), and it prompted another couple of articulations.

Overall: not a disrecommendation; plausibly a light read if you have, you know, a recreational interest in pain; verify any specifics you want to rely on.

The Old Guard: Opening Fire, Rucka et al. A's conclusion was Well It Was Better Than The Second Film; mine was ( mild spoilers? )

and would be very happy to see that show up in an extended cut of the first film. The library doesn't have the second volume and I think we're unlikely to seek it out.

DW catch-up: halfway through September!

Playing. Inkulinati, mostly watching A play and occasionally making Suggestions. Does not work as well as a Shared Activity as I'd hoped (annoyingly I think I'd need to play basically all of it hands-on myself in order to internalise mechanics and strategy, rather than being able to e.g. swap who's driving for every level) but I am enjoying it happening in my vicinity. Today we also read the PDF of the art book together, which I am not counting as Reading because it was mostly looking at the pictures in another context.

And after six months I GOT UNSTUCK ON I Love Hue! The Ascension/Air/1, extremely gratified that searching for it revealed someone who'd managed to complete everything but that, and bolstered by this knowledge I turned brightness all the way up and the phone upside down and FINALLY managed to sort out the yellows, on my nth attempt... in way fewer than the average number of moves. VICTORY.

Cooking. ( Read more... )

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shewhostaples

Not that I have finished any fic for ages, but never mind that...

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

A — All these weddings, all these years (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Matthew & Charles)
B — Between the Towers (Marieke - Jacques Brel, Narrator/Marieke)
C — Choosing a Tomorrow (Izetta: The Last Witch, Finé/Izetta)
D — dear employment (Romeo and Juliet, Romeo/Balthasar)
E — Educational Visit (Doctor Who, Thirteenth Doctor and fam)
F — False Scent (Doctor Who, Liz Shaw/Israel Watkins)
G — Grounded (Doctor Who, Liz Shaw & Third Doctor)
H — Home of Strife (I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Romeo/Giulietta)
I — Immortal Gifts (The Count of Monte Cristo/Romeo and Juliet, Eugénie & Lady Capulet)
J — Janus (The Lego Movie, Good Cop-Bad Cop)
K — Kissing the Scorpion (James Bond - Craig movies, James Bond/person whose identity is revealed during the course of the story, which is the kind of thing you can do in Little Black Dress)
L — Ladies of Esteem (Romeo and Juliet, Lady Montague/Lady Capulet)
M — measuring his affections by my own (Romeo and Juliet, unrequited Benvolio/Tybalt)
N — News from Verona (Romeo and Juliet, Benvolio & Romeo)
O — One of these days (The Comfortable Courtesan, Em/Lalage)
P — Partnership (Yuri!!! on Ice, Lilia & Yakov)
Q — The Queen's Quandary (Zenda, implied Flavia/Rudolf R, but really about Flavia)
R — Rather late for me (White Boots, Harriet/Lalla)
S — Skirmish and Retreat (Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice/Benedick)
T — Thinking of the Days That Are No More (the Summer Tempests remix) (Swallows and Amazons, Peggy/Susan)
U — Under Her Skin (Yuri!!! on Ice, Mila/Sara)
V — Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied (Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence)
W — What an Exchange! (Trenuleţul - Zdob şi Zdub & Fraţii Advahov (Music Video))
X —
Y — Yet A Hand To Play (Zenda, Rudolf R/Rupert)
Z —

Only missing X and Z. Clearly I need to return to Zenda. And probably Doctor Who or something.

It's been a horrible cold day, mostly because of the wind. But I am inside and have a cat on my lap.

oursin

I thought last week's bread was holding out pretty well until it suddenly sprouted mould - however there was still some cornbread left + rolls.

Having been out for lunch on Friday I was not feeling like anything much for supper but made partner a Spanish omelette with red bell pepper and had some fruit myself.

Saturday breakfast rolls: basic buttermilk, strong white flour, turned out v nice.

Today's lunch: Crispy Baked Sesame Tofu - not sure whether there should not have been some actual sesame seeds somewhere in the mix? also thought maybe I was a bit cautious with the amount of tamari in the sauce - and didn't think this turned out particularly crispy....; served with sticky rice with lime leaves, baked San Marzano tomatoes and mangetout peas stirfried with star anise.

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holly_poly

Nominations are open, and they'll stay open through 11:00am UTC on 8 November - you can see a countdown timer at this link. You're allowed to nominate up to 10 fandoms, with up to 10 relationships per fandom. This year we have imported a subset of the tagsets from Holly Poly 2023 and 2024 via our pre-nominations phase to try and reduce the workload for us mods - please make sure to check the tagset before you nominate a ship to see if it is already included in the tagset. We recommend expanding all tagset categories before searching the page for any ships since some fandoms may not be in the section you expect due to us using slightly different fandom tags in some cases.

The tag set is located here: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/25541

You can also view this year's tagset on AO3 Automagic app at the link below to more easily search for ships included in it already, but it needs a re-scrape requested periodically to ensure it's up to date: https://autoao3app.firebaseapp.com/#/holly_poly_2025/tagset

In order to nominate a relationship, simply click the Nominate button located in the top right-hand corner of the tag set. If you do not have an account on the AO3, please let us know, and we should be able to get you an invite. On a similar note, if you have any questions, or if you're nominating something that you think might be confusing, please either post a comment to this post or send an e-mail to holly.poly.exchange@gmail.com if you'd rather keep it private.

For relationships that do not already have canonical tags, please nominate them in alphabetical order by last name (and, if they don't have a last name or multiple characters share a last name, then by first name). For example: Anders/Fenris/Bethany Hawke/Carver Hawke/Isabela/Merrill/Varric Tethras/Aveline Vallen, or Astrid Beck/Eadwulf Grieve/Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast, or Sirius Black/Remus Lupin/Nymphadora Tonks.

Please don't panic if we add some type of disambiguation to relationships that you nominate. Especially for ones where the same characters fall under different fandoms (various comic fandoms, movie/TV show vs. book fandoms, etc.), as doing so helps keeps tags from wandering to fandoms where they don't belong.

This is an exchange for romantic and/or sexual relationships, not friendships, so make certain to nominate relationships that use a "/" rather than a "&". If you want to request that a relationship be asexual/queerplatonic/etc., then that's something to include in your optional details when signing up.

Please make sure to read through the extra information below as some fandom disambiguations have changed from previous years. In general, when nominating a fandom or ship consider whether there are multiple sources/versions of either the canon or any of the characters and how to nominate in a way that makes it clearest which version you want. Please also keep an eye on the community during both the nominations period and the nominations clean-up period in case we post any clarifying questions about your nominations.

( Information about how to nominate relationships for many of the larger or more complicated fandoms under the cut. )

Please note that while [Specific Character]/[Specific Group of Characters] is acceptable as a nomination, [Specific Character]/Everyone is too broad.

For example: Lex Luthor/Lionel Luthor's Board Members is acceptable because "Lionel Luthor's Board Members" involves a finite group of people. The same goes for Voldemort/Death Eaters, Shipwrecked Sailor/Mermaids, and Peter Pan/Lost Boys. While Carol Danvers/Anyone and Everyone or Jack Harkness/Everyone He's Ever Met are understandable, they're too broad because it could essentially involve an infinite number of people.

If you have any questions about a relationship you want to nominate that might potentially be too broad, leave a comment or send an e-mail.

RPF characters must be 18+ at the time of nomination. Significant others/children/etc. of public figures are not permitted unless they are public figures in their own right. For smaller RPF fandoms, providing information/links to help us verify the characters are eligible would be appreciated and will speed up RPF noms.

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thewayne

I was adding a recipe to my iCloud Notes, and the top recipe came up, which was this! I haven't made it yet, but I thought I'd share it. And also give you the story of how I got it!

There's a podcast that's a lot of fun called The Sporkful. It's a fun listen that features interesting guests. As their tag line goes, it's not for foodies, it's for eaters. Anyway, they had on, IIRC, a librarian/archivist who came across this recipe in the collection that he manages. And it's become his go-to popcorn salt. And here it is!

J.D. Salinger popcorn salt

Ingredients:
6 tsps sea salt
2 tsps paprika
1 tsp. dry mustard
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp celery powder
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp marjoram
1/2 tsp curry
1/2 tsp dill powder

This is definitely going to have a bit of a kick to it! For me, I'm going to leave out the dill powder: I just don't care much for the taste of dill. You might also want to process this in a spice grinder or mortar and pestle as the thyme and marjoram can be on the large/leafy side if you want things down to a more uniform consistency.

Have fun, and report back if you try it!

cosmolinguist

I got up early and went to the gym and then basically went right to the Springsteen movie, and now I feel physically and emotionally amazing but by 2pm on Saturday I'd done everything that I had planned for the weekend and it's a weird feeling!

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Assignments are out! You can find your assignment:

at your assignments page: https://archiveofourown.org/users/YOUR-USERNAME-HERE/assignments

at the sidebar of the collection

in your email.

You must write for one of your recipient's requests, including all of the characters they specified in that request (but see below). It doesn't have to be the fandom you offered.

Some recipients have selected several characters, but given permission for writers not to include them all using the Additional Tags checkboxes (the ones that start "My gift must…"). These tags are recent and we're still experimenting with their use, so please check through mods if you're not completely sure what your recipient means. You always have the option of including all the characters your recipient selected.

Your assignment is due at 9pm UTC on December 17. Note that this is an earlier deadline for 2025 as compared to the last few years and may be one calendar day earlier in your timezone.

Please click on that link right now! The date and time it shows may surprise you. Better to be surprised now than at the deadline!

Our reveals are earlier this year as well.

No Peeking (Or Squeaking) Until December 24th!
This is a secret exchange. Please don’t announce or hint what your assignment is. Don't say what you offered. Don’t reveal to your recipient who you are or what you plan to write for them. In fact, please don’t contact your recipient at all! You can send questions through the mods at yuletideadmin@gmail.com.

I have questions!!
Right! Send us an email at yuletideadmin@gmail.com, or, if your question won't give away what you offered or who you're writing for, you're welcome to comment here. We get tonnes of questions at this time, so please bear with us - it may take us a few days to reply.

Based on our survey about author questions and some internal discussion, this year we plan to include a questions for a few fandoms each time we contact a recipient, but we won’t necessarily include decoy questions for every single fandom. This may give the recipient a clue as to which fandoms they’re more likely to receive but should preserve some of the suspense!

Please don't ask us to poke your recipient to update a locked or placeholder letter until at least October 29.

When you send us a question about your assignment, please include your assignment link, which looks like: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2025/assignments/#######

Some of your questions may be answered by our next post when we reveal all requests. Please keep an eye on our admin community!

Pinch hits and all requests
The first batch of pinch hits will go out in the next day. In the next following days, after those pinch hits are claimed, we will make all requests visible and open the Yuletide Madness collection.

Check out the pinch hit community,

yuletide_pinch_hits, and sign up through Discord, a feed, or the Google groups mailing list to get immediate alerts for pinch hits. You don't have to be signed up to this year's round of Yuletide to claim a pinch hit.

The New Year's Resolutions 2025 collection is now closed.

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oursin

Happy birthday,

finisterre,

rivka and

taelle!

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trickortreatex

Thank you to all the pinch hitters hard at work! We have eight pinch hits left at this post, if you missed it!

And thank you to shadow for running our official treat sheet! Find your next treat recipient here.

The spreadsheet includes participants with one or zero current gifts, who completed their assignments, and did not opt out of extra gifts. The last-updated timestamp is at the top of the sheet.

Our tiers for Community Challenge success are:

33.33% success: 150 remaining
66.66% success: 75 remaining
100% success: 0 remaining

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Mind the Gaps, for they are often larger than they appear

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Just one thing: 27 October 2025

My body clock is never on time

Girl Genius for Monday, October 27, 2025

Oakland Love Life

A gift for you, a gift for you, a gift for you: Works revealed!

Treats

Creator reveals

Wow! That's a lot of words!

Promptober 2025 Day 25: Footsteps in the Dark

Krosia - Sonar

vital functions

Promptober 2025 Day 15: A Broken Lock

Meme!

Culinary

Nominations Open

J.D. Salinger's Popcorn Salt!

Weekend goals

for those of you following along at home....

2025 Assignments

Just one thing: 26 October 2025

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Community Challenge Treat Sheet!