Christmas crushes
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make my wish come true?
Dec. 24th, 2025 02:32 pmliltuna posting in bakerstreetALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS...  With the holidays just around the corner, it's never too early to get your Christmas list in order! Now with that fun, added twist of compelled honesty, characters feel the urge to blurt out what is they want more than anything. With any luck, a special secret Santa might come along to help their wish come true... but let's not jump the gun. Wishes can be for whatever's in your character's heart, from the innocuous to the extreme. Characters might ask for anything from a new bicycle to a Daddy dom. No desires too small, no wishes too grand. Our Santas are up to the task! HOW TO PLAY:
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Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 8
Dec. 24th, 2025 01:31 pmmarycatelli posting in booksVillains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 8 by SUOL
The story is approaching the conclusion. Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes
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The story is approaching the conclusion. Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes
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Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 8
Dec. 24th, 2025 01:32 pmmarycatelli posting in book_loveVillains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 8 by SUOL
The story is approaching the conclusion. Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes
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The story is approaching the conclusion. Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes
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Dec. 24th, 2025 12:47 pmcybernyahappy christmas eve
i am still sick! i thought it was better but after work on Monday it took a dive and i went back to the walk-in today. got myself a steroid pack at least to help clear this out. apparently it’s “just viral” _(:3 」∠)_
thinking about christmas with dean & bucky today while I get the house ready for tonight - also still obsessed with my holiday date I wrote for pre-thunderbolts bucky. I had no idea this nostalgia ride was a thing until a few weeks back! and I’m often in the city for Christmas. anyway that’s here on my ao3.
i am still sick! i thought it was better but after work on Monday it took a dive and i went back to the walk-in today. got myself a steroid pack at least to help clear this out. apparently it’s “just viral” _(:3 」∠)_
thinking about christmas with dean & bucky today while I get the house ready for tonight - also still obsessed with my holiday date I wrote for pre-thunderbolts bucky. I had no idea this nostalgia ride was a thing until a few weeks back! and I’m often in the city for Christmas. anyway that’s here on my ao3.
hope everyone enjoys the holidays <3
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spirit
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Soul responding
Dec. 24th, 2025 10:16 amasoftermeme posting in bakerstreet
soulmate meme ;
▸ post your character ◂
▸ you're now in a universe where destined soul mates exist! ◂
▸ rng for the type of au and for the ~situation~ ◂
▸ tag around ♥ ◂
type of au;
1. tats, your character has a tattoo of the first words the love of their life will say to them
2. familiars, your character has an animal tattoo representing their soul mate on them
3. glow, the first time your character sees their soul mate, their chests glow!
4. world in color, life is literally black and white, until you see your soul mate for the first time
5. choose your own, i'm definitely missing a milly because i'm lazy, pick your own
situation;
1. first meeting, you've never met this person before.
2. childhood mates, you've always known this person -- but on one particular birthday, everything changes.
3. together, you've been in a relationship for awhile now! happily wed or not, you decide.
4. not together, you've known you're soul mates for a long time, and yet have avoided a relationship.
5. choose your own, self explanatory c:
Wednesday has just put Angel Biscuit dough into the fridge
Dec. 24th, 2025 03:51 pmoursinWhat I read
Well, the Katherine Addison Cemeteries of Amalo re-read continued: I managed to access Lora Selezh and on to The Witness for the Dead, The Grief of Stones and The Tomb of Dragons (the latter was the one where I first began experiencing weird lagging effects on the ereader).
On the go
Seem to have several things currently on the go.
Still dipping in to Diary at the Centre of the Earth, which is becoming compelling, especially as so much of it is set not quite in my neighbourhood but very close and has allusions to things like busroutes familiar to me.
Started Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (1971), which have been meaning to do since discovering the movie is online available and wishing to refresh my memory. Do have a copy but it is a) somewhere inaccessible and b) 1970s paperback probably in disintegrating condition so shelled out for (v reasonable) ebook. Not very far in yet - wow it's a bit generic c. 1970 nearish future dystopia! - do we need so much futtock-shroudery from Haber about his dream-machine? (feel that this may have been editor thinking this was Necessary Exposition?).
Also have started Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs (Pilgrimage #1) (1915), for online reading group, which after various struggles have given in and am reading via Kindle app on tablet because stutter mode is NOT what one wants with Richardson's prose. Do have 1970sish Virago edition somewhere in the book maelstrom but disinclined to the turmoil of trying to locate.
Up next
That seems like enough to be going on with but I am in expectation of Christmas books.
Christmas Crafts: The Sweatering
Dec. 24th, 2025 07:30 amalthea_valaraYesterday I made a red mini-sweater ornament using worsted weight yarn. I succeeded! It's cute! And much less fiddly than the fingering weight patterns I had tried. I found a small Christmas tree applique done in crochet, and did the tree in fingering and the star in some embroidery floss, so now I have a sweater with a Christmas tree on it. Very cute!
It is now 7:27am. I have one sweater done. Six more to go. I have one in partial progress - just needs the sleeves. This one's green and I am going to put a candy cane applique on it. The girls (3 of them) will get the red sweaters and the boys (4 of them) will get green.
I do have until late Friday to get these done, but I'm hoping to get a lot done today so that I can enjoy the next few days.
Will be editing this post with status updates!
07:31:00 AM - 07:55:00 AM (24 min) - first sleeve of first green sweater done
08:26:00 AM - 08:53:00 AM (27 min) - candy cane applique done and sewn on
08:54:00 AM - 09:15:00 AM (21 min) - second sleeve done. First green sweater finished!
10:27:00 AM - 10:55:00 AM (28 min) - Yoke of second green sweater, up to splitting for sleeves
12:14:00 PM - 01:14:00 PM (1 hour) - Body, sleeves, and finishing of second green sweater
EDIT 3:01pm: WE INTERRUPT THE SWEATERING FOR AN EMERGENCY STOCKING. See, mom had me go to the Irish import store yesterday to pick up dinner, but also said to buy myself a Crunchie bar "but don't eat it, it's for your stocking". which reminded me I haven't put out my stocking yet. Folks, I cannot find it. It's not in the usual places, or in the one unusual place I thought it might be. So me being me, I grabbed a Q hook and super bulky yarn and started making a new one. I allowed myself an hour to work on it, and I have finished the heel turn. Now: back to the sweatering.
EDIT 5:49pm: Emergency Stocking is DONE and submitted to a Nerdopolis challenge. Only took an hour and 45 minutes. Meanwhile, I've got a red sweater yoke complete. Might have time to finish it before dinner, so off I go!
It is now 7:27am. I have one sweater done. Six more to go. I have one in partial progress - just needs the sleeves. This one's green and I am going to put a candy cane applique on it. The girls (3 of them) will get the red sweaters and the boys (4 of them) will get green.
I do have until late Friday to get these done, but I'm hoping to get a lot done today so that I can enjoy the next few days.
Will be editing this post with status updates!
07:31:00 AM - 07:55:00 AM (24 min) - first sleeve of first green sweater done
08:26:00 AM - 08:53:00 AM (27 min) - candy cane applique done and sewn on
08:54:00 AM - 09:15:00 AM (21 min) - second sleeve done. First green sweater finished!
10:27:00 AM - 10:55:00 AM (28 min) - Yoke of second green sweater, up to splitting for sleeves
12:14:00 PM - 01:14:00 PM (1 hour) - Body, sleeves, and finishing of second green sweater
EDIT 3:01pm: WE INTERRUPT THE SWEATERING FOR AN EMERGENCY STOCKING. See, mom had me go to the Irish import store yesterday to pick up dinner, but also said to buy myself a Crunchie bar "but don't eat it, it's for your stocking". which reminded me I haven't put out my stocking yet. Folks, I cannot find it. It's not in the usual places, or in the one unusual place I thought it might be. So me being me, I grabbed a Q hook and super bulky yarn and started making a new one. I allowed myself an hour to work on it, and I have finished the heel turn. Now: back to the sweatering.
EDIT 5:49pm: Emergency Stocking is DONE and submitted to a Nerdopolis challenge. Only took an hour and 45 minutes. Meanwhile, I've got a red sweater yoke complete. Might have time to finish it before dinner, so off I go!
covid revisionism
Dec. 24th, 2025 09:48 pmmindstalkSo today I've learned of some books of "covid revisionism", attacking the 'lockdowns' and other restrictions of 2020, saying they did more harm than good. Especially In Covid's Wake, by two political scientists who avoided talking to subject matter experts like epidemiologists. I've also read 3 good responses to the movement; I'll leave you to decide whether the book authors are merely incompetent or actively dishonest.
This Atlantic article is the best; read that if you read just one.
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Smoochmas Eve!
Dec. 24th, 2025 04:02 ammemester posting in bakerstreet