Yuletide/Madness/Tagmod Nonsense 2025 Reveals
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primeidealSo I've been working on a long project which continues to be...in progress, and in part due to that, my main collection output was not particularly prolific, but, events conspired in such a way that I produced plenty of tiny ficlets!
My original assignment was for "The Frugal Wizard's Handbook to Surviving Medieval England." When I first read it, my reaction was: "There's also a tantalizing offscreen subplot hinted at involving the "Waelish" who preceded the Anglo-Saxon arrivals, but despite my guesses and extrapolations about what was going on there, it didn't really turn out to be as prominent as I'd expected." The Waelish leader is a King Arthur expy! Which is interesting! But then he just...doesn't play into the overall plot.
Anyway, as a tagmod, I get to be privy to discussions in tagmod chat as nominations come in. One of my fellow tagmods took a screenshot of this book, nominated with the only character "The Black Bear," and commented "this is also making me laugh. Probably it's clear! It's just funny. The only character." So immediately I responded:
Anyway, someone requested him and was interested in his POV on the conflict/other Arthurian allusions, so I was very excited about offering that, and then that was what I matched on! Like I mentioned before, canon review was relatively quick (the Bear is only mentioned in a couple offscreen places), it was just a matter of procrastinating until I finally wrote it. In a world where the monotheists are Zoroastrians instead of Christians, presumably they'd go on a quest for the sacred fire rather than the Holy Grail!
Very loose correspondences to the Arthurian knights, somewhat based on notes I took on Le Morte d'Arthur years ago:
Also, 2023 me noted: "There are a lot of illustrations/marginalia (especially for the in-universe portions), done by Steve Argyle, which I think I'll be able to better appreciate when I get a hard copy." Well, this was my first time reading the hard copy cover to cover, and sure enough, in the inside back cover, there are pictures of the characters in the post-canon era. Runian and Sefawynn getting their happily-ever-after while Logna looks on from a distance, etc. And there's also one of Yazad...with a bunch of windmills, implying he succeeded in teaching that technology to the locals <3
The True Tale of the Black Bear (1681 words)
Fandom: The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England - Brandon Sanderson
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Black Bear (The Frugal Wizard's Handbook)
Additional Tags: arthuriana
Summary: Come, all you Keltmen, and hear of your hero, most feared in the forest! Accept no slanderous skop's substitutes, none of Logna's lies.
Then for Steerswoman, some in-universe mythology based on one of the stories Rowan hears at Rendezvous (and later tells Steffie).
Outcast (1156 words)
Fandom: Steerswoman Series - Rosemary Kirstein
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: In-Universe Mythology, Outskirters, Ghosts
Summary: "Rowan heard of...a haunting, where the spirit of an uncast man killed his tribe's goats, one by one, until his body was found and given proper rites." -The Outskirter's Secret
Madness:
I saw a request for crossovers with the Snake Fight Thesis Defense, and the requester linked to a list of 100 influential books. Scrolling through that I was like...this person has great tastes, all of these academic types should fight the snake. So I turned it into a drabble sequence. (Crossover fandoms are: Gödel, Escher, Bach; Kairos (Murry-O'Keefe) books; Oxford Time Travel Universe; Vorkosigan Saga; Steerswoman)
Not An Exact Science (526 words)
Fandom: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Drabble Sequence, 5 Things, Crossover
Summary: Five worlds where the snake fight thesis became a tradition.
I have been super into Slay the Spire for the last few months, so I figured I'd write something for the Merchant. It turned out to be a one-sided conversation between the Merchant and the Watcher.
Masked Man (674 words)
Fandom: Slay the Spire (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Merchant (Slay the Spire), Watcher (Slay the Spire)
Summary: Only two things are certain here, death and my completely arbitrary sale prices! But mostly death.
My first stab at the Steerswoman fic was on the shorter side, so it was like, "maybe I'll write several pieces of in-universe mythology and collect them into an anthology-type thing." Then when I wrote "Outcast" it was like, okay, this is already 1000 words, fine. So I posted this separately in Madness. It's a...very different kind of in-universe mythology story.
The Cloven Men (424 words)
Fandom: Steerswoman Series - Rosemary Kirstein
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: In-Universe Mythology, Canon-Typical Sexism
Summary: Steerswoman have gathered all sorts of stories, from Inner Landers and Outskirters and even Christers.
Anyway, we have the devil. He makes deals for people's souls. He goes to Boston. The subway cops get mad. If you are like me, and familiar with goofy songs via Yuletide osmosis, the conclusion is obvious.
Counterproposal (100 words)
Fandom: The Devil Came Up to Boston - The Adam Ezra Group (Song)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: The Devil (Devil Went Down to Georgia), Sully (Devil Came Up to Boston)
Additional Tags: Drabble, yumadrin, Crossover, Canon-typical language
Summary: And you thought the subway cops were mad before.
Anyway, then Yuletide came around and the fics revealed and we all got our gifts and lived happily ever after OH WAIT there was a weird glitch and the authors revealed. The mods and tagmods who were around did yeopeople's effort in getting things fixed and re-anonymized, I get zero credit for this because I was going to Christmas Eve worship. But then they were like "what causes the glitch, can we test it, let's do science." And then they set up a mini-Madness type thing for tagmods to treat each other, basically just treating it as "any fandom I've requested before" via the autoapp.
Now the thing about Yuletide mods and tagmods is that they have exquisite tastes in fandoms. So it was very "senpai noticed me!" when I got recruited. And there would be a zero percent chance of me creating for all the possible recips I could, even if I had all of the Yuletide creation period. But! Because it was so short-term and low stakes, I was able to relax enough to just do some short ficlets (which I put on my 3SF/art sock) and not worrying about making it epic masterpieces. (This was Christmas Eve night for me--less busy for my family than previous years but that's another story.) I was able to focus enough to treat the mod-mods, and the newest members of the tagmod team.
What if Baze and Chirrut (from Rogue One) were nohecharei (from The Goblin Emperor)? That's it that's the fic.
Firsts in War (235 words)
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chirrut Îmwe/Baze Malbus
Characters: Baze Malbus, Leia Organa
Additional Tags: Fusion
Summary: The first nohecharis has a favor to beg of Her Serenity.
Prompt was for Shara and Olvos from Divine Cities, but it's from Tatyana's POV. (I may have been too coy about who Olvos is. Hazard that comes with writing for old prompts.)
Eternal Flame (360 words)
Fandom: The Divine Cities Series - Robert Jackson Bennett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tatyana Komayd, Ashara "Shara" Komayd
Summary: Parents worrying about their kids is a universal.
Another prompt was for A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV), horror. Hmm, do they have Christmas in ASOUE-world? I think I remember reading somewhere that that setting seems to be more culturally Jewish. Maybe they have Hanukkah. Maybe from a certain point of view, Hanukkah lends itself to horror tropes.
Wick(ed) (477 words)
Fandom: A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Violet Baudelaire, Klaus Baudelaire, Sunny Baudelaire
Additional Tags: Hanukkah, Horror, Lemony Snicket Narrative Style
Summary: One person's miracle is another person's horror story.
And then for a fellow roguelike appreciator, FTL! Anything silly that would work in the FTL setting? What if the Biblical Epiphany story was an FTL encounter, that seems like the kind of absurdity they would go for.
Star of the East (310 words)
Fandom: FTL: Faster Than Light (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Christmas, Biblical Epiphany Narrative
Summary: Wise beings have traveled a long way for this. Like, a really long way.
I already knew that mod pendrecarc enjoyed Divine Cities and Steerswoman, so clearly more exquisite tastes, but also I had just written for those so I was kind of in the mood for something different. And then I saw this extremely galaxy-brained prompt: what if Rowan's world was the long-lost Alpha Colony, and Cordelia Naismith (from the Vorkosigan Saga) had discovered it in the Shards of Honor era? Yes please. This is totally a premise that deserves a 10k epic, but a 400 word ficlet is what we're getting, so there. Also there was still time to nom it for Candy Hearts so...yes, I will be plagiarizing some prompts there.
Shards of a Guidestar (436 words)
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold, Steerswoman Series - Rosemary Kirstein
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan, Rowan (Steerswoman)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Canon-typical levels of dysentery, Dubauer can't catch a break on any planet, Religion
Summary: Cordelia gets stuck on a technologically primitive planet. You know how this goes.
Of course when I went to post this on my sock I was kind of tired and I just kind of...forgot about...the "post to collection" button. So I just hit "post" and did it the normal way. Which meant it was not anon and pendrecarc, who came up with the idea in the first place and was the original collection maintainer, got an email notification. From an unfamiliar username, not the one I normally use in the tagmod channel. So while we were trying to troubleshoot the anonymity glitch, it was like, "what's going on now." "Nothing interesting, just user error, sorry." "Oh okay!"
And so then we lived happily ever after.
My original assignment was for "The Frugal Wizard's Handbook to Surviving Medieval England." When I first read it, my reaction was: "There's also a tantalizing offscreen subplot hinted at involving the "Waelish" who preceded the Anglo-Saxon arrivals, but despite my guesses and extrapolations about what was going on there, it didn't really turn out to be as prominent as I'd expected." The Waelish leader is a King Arthur expy! Which is interesting! But then he just...doesn't play into the overall plot.
Anyway, as a tagmod, I get to be privy to discussions in tagmod chat as nominations come in. One of my fellow tagmods took a screenshot of this book, nominated with the only character "The Black Bear," and commented "this is also making me laugh. Probably it's clear! It's just funny. The only character." So immediately I responded:
i have that book and can fact-check (i don't remember that character)
ohhhh is it the [spoiler tag]king arthur expy[/spoiler] who never appears on screen 😠
(i wanted that character to be more of a thing than he was 🙁
yeah, he's an offscreen bad guy. [spoiler]the Waelish king[/spoiler]Anyway, someone requested him and was interested in his POV on the conflict/other Arthurian allusions, so I was very excited about offering that, and then that was what I matched on! Like I mentioned before, canon review was relatively quick (the Bear is only mentioned in a couple offscreen places), it was just a matter of procrastinating until I finally wrote it. In a world where the monotheists are Zoroastrians instead of Christians, presumably they'd go on a quest for the sacred fire rather than the Holy Grail!
Very loose correspondences to the Arthurian knights, somewhat based on notes I took on Le Morte d'Arthur years ago:
- The Boar ~ Sir Bors
- The White Shoat ~ Helin the White (Bors' son)
- The Peacock ~ Sir Persaunte, the Indigo Knight
- The Lark ~ Dinadan
- The Turtle ~ Tristram
- The Otter ~ Lancelot
- The Cub ~ Galahad
- The Bull ~ Palomides (Zoroastrianism celebrates a "primordial bovine"!)
Also, 2023 me noted: "There are a lot of illustrations/marginalia (especially for the in-universe portions), done by Steve Argyle, which I think I'll be able to better appreciate when I get a hard copy." Well, this was my first time reading the hard copy cover to cover, and sure enough, in the inside back cover, there are pictures of the characters in the post-canon era. Runian and Sefawynn getting their happily-ever-after while Logna looks on from a distance, etc. And there's also one of Yazad...with a bunch of windmills, implying he succeeded in teaching that technology to the locals <3
The True Tale of the Black Bear (1681 words)
Fandom: The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England - Brandon Sanderson
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Black Bear (The Frugal Wizard's Handbook)
Additional Tags: arthuriana
Summary: Come, all you Keltmen, and hear of your hero, most feared in the forest! Accept no slanderous skop's substitutes, none of Logna's lies.
Then for Steerswoman, some in-universe mythology based on one of the stories Rowan hears at Rendezvous (and later tells Steffie).
Outcast (1156 words)
Fandom: Steerswoman Series - Rosemary Kirstein
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: In-Universe Mythology, Outskirters, Ghosts
Summary: "Rowan heard of...a haunting, where the spirit of an uncast man killed his tribe's goats, one by one, until his body was found and given proper rites." -The Outskirter's Secret
Madness:
I saw a request for crossovers with the Snake Fight Thesis Defense, and the requester linked to a list of 100 influential books. Scrolling through that I was like...this person has great tastes, all of these academic types should fight the snake. So I turned it into a drabble sequence. (Crossover fandoms are: Gödel, Escher, Bach; Kairos (Murry-O'Keefe) books; Oxford Time Travel Universe; Vorkosigan Saga; Steerswoman)
Not An Exact Science (526 words)
Fandom: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Drabble Sequence, 5 Things, Crossover
Summary: Five worlds where the snake fight thesis became a tradition.
I have been super into Slay the Spire for the last few months, so I figured I'd write something for the Merchant. It turned out to be a one-sided conversation between the Merchant and the Watcher.
Masked Man (674 words)
Fandom: Slay the Spire (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Merchant (Slay the Spire), Watcher (Slay the Spire)
Summary: Only two things are certain here, death and my completely arbitrary sale prices! But mostly death.
My first stab at the Steerswoman fic was on the shorter side, so it was like, "maybe I'll write several pieces of in-universe mythology and collect them into an anthology-type thing." Then when I wrote "Outcast" it was like, okay, this is already 1000 words, fine. So I posted this separately in Madness. It's a...very different kind of in-universe mythology story.
The Cloven Men (424 words)
Fandom: Steerswoman Series - Rosemary Kirstein
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: In-Universe Mythology, Canon-Typical Sexism
Summary: Steerswoman have gathered all sorts of stories, from Inner Landers and Outskirters and even Christers.
But there are other, ancient, stories, in this world, that no Steerswoman has yet heard nor seen.
The three-minute song/music video "The Devil Went Up To Boston" (a rewrite of "The Devil Came Down To Georgia") was linked on the promo post on September 16. I got around to watching/listening to it on December 22. Typical Yuletide procrastination. (In the video, Sully wears a Red Sox hat and the Devil wears a Yankees hat. Which is great, but also, Damn Yankees crossover potential?)Anyway, we have the devil. He makes deals for people's souls. He goes to Boston. The subway cops get mad. If you are like me, and familiar with goofy songs via Yuletide osmosis, the conclusion is obvious.
Counterproposal (100 words)
Fandom: The Devil Came Up to Boston - The Adam Ezra Group (Song)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: The Devil (Devil Went Down to Georgia), Sully (Devil Came Up to Boston)
Additional Tags: Drabble, yumadrin, Crossover, Canon-typical language
Summary: And you thought the subway cops were mad before.
Anyway, then Yuletide came around and the fics revealed and we all got our gifts and lived happily ever after OH WAIT there was a weird glitch and the authors revealed. The mods and tagmods who were around did yeopeople's effort in getting things fixed and re-anonymized, I get zero credit for this because I was going to Christmas Eve worship. But then they were like "what causes the glitch, can we test it, let's do science." And then they set up a mini-Madness type thing for tagmods to treat each other, basically just treating it as "any fandom I've requested before" via the autoapp.
Now the thing about Yuletide mods and tagmods is that they have exquisite tastes in fandoms. So it was very "senpai noticed me!" when I got recruited. And there would be a zero percent chance of me creating for all the possible recips I could, even if I had all of the Yuletide creation period. But! Because it was so short-term and low stakes, I was able to relax enough to just do some short ficlets (which I put on my 3SF/art sock) and not worrying about making it epic masterpieces. (This was Christmas Eve night for me--less busy for my family than previous years but that's another story.) I was able to focus enough to treat the mod-mods, and the newest members of the tagmod team.
What if Baze and Chirrut (from Rogue One) were nohecharei (from The Goblin Emperor)? That's it that's the fic.
Firsts in War (235 words)
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chirrut Îmwe/Baze Malbus
Characters: Baze Malbus, Leia Organa
Additional Tags: Fusion
Summary: The first nohecharis has a favor to beg of Her Serenity.
Prompt was for Shara and Olvos from Divine Cities, but it's from Tatyana's POV. (I may have been too coy about who Olvos is. Hazard that comes with writing for old prompts.)
Eternal Flame (360 words)
Fandom: The Divine Cities Series - Robert Jackson Bennett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tatyana Komayd, Ashara "Shara" Komayd
Summary: Parents worrying about their kids is a universal.
Another prompt was for A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV), horror. Hmm, do they have Christmas in ASOUE-world? I think I remember reading somewhere that that setting seems to be more culturally Jewish. Maybe they have Hanukkah. Maybe from a certain point of view, Hanukkah lends itself to horror tropes.
Wick(ed) (477 words)
Fandom: A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Violet Baudelaire, Klaus Baudelaire, Sunny Baudelaire
Additional Tags: Hanukkah, Horror, Lemony Snicket Narrative Style
Summary: One person's miracle is another person's horror story.
And then for a fellow roguelike appreciator, FTL! Anything silly that would work in the FTL setting? What if the Biblical Epiphany story was an FTL encounter, that seems like the kind of absurdity they would go for.
Star of the East (310 words)
Fandom: FTL: Faster Than Light (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Christmas, Biblical Epiphany Narrative
Summary: Wise beings have traveled a long way for this. Like, a really long way.
I already knew that mod pendrecarc enjoyed Divine Cities and Steerswoman, so clearly more exquisite tastes, but also I had just written for those so I was kind of in the mood for something different. And then I saw this extremely galaxy-brained prompt: what if Rowan's world was the long-lost Alpha Colony, and Cordelia Naismith (from the Vorkosigan Saga) had discovered it in the Shards of Honor era? Yes please. This is totally a premise that deserves a 10k epic, but a 400 word ficlet is what we're getting, so there. Also there was still time to nom it for Candy Hearts so...yes, I will be plagiarizing some prompts there.
Shards of a Guidestar (436 words)
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold, Steerswoman Series - Rosemary Kirstein
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan, Rowan (Steerswoman)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Canon-typical levels of dysentery, Dubauer can't catch a break on any planet, Religion
Summary: Cordelia gets stuck on a technologically primitive planet. You know how this goes.
Of course when I went to post this on my sock I was kind of tired and I just kind of...forgot about...the "post to collection" button. So I just hit "post" and did it the normal way. Which meant it was not anon and pendrecarc, who came up with the idea in the first place and was the original collection maintainer, got an email notification. From an unfamiliar username, not the one I normally use in the tagmod channel. So while we were trying to troubleshoot the anonymity glitch, it was like, "what's going on now." "Nothing interesting, just user error, sorry." "Oh okay!"
And so then we lived happily ever after.
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Jan. 1st, 2026 06:45 pmshadarasIn non writing thoughts, by which I mean I wanted to talk about aikido and then realised that maybe I should mention watching a movie first, since I finally watched the new Benoit Blanc movie. xD
I watched Wake Up Dead Man today withhafnia, who had seen it once before and was like "I am BITING MY TONGUE not to point out the REALLY GOOD FORESHADOWING", paused the movie at two points to tell me about (a) her opinions that the reading list in-universe could've been better (with her suggestions) and (b) A Science Complaint (while going "this is the only thing that annoys me about this movie"), and was delighted to agree with me about how well they used LIGHT. The cinematography was gorgeous, the plot was very fun, and I adored Father Jud and Martha and enjoyed going "ughhhh" about how awful many other characters were. The film quotes/references I caught were also great!
also my twin messaged me right as I was finishing the movie to tell me about a post he'd seen saying that the opening scene of the movie was filmed at the same location as Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video, including a tweet (bsky version) (bweet, my brain wants to say, but I think it's skeet. or just, y'know. tweet.) from Rian Johnson going "yes, it was, and I was the only person on set excited about this fact", which I thought was very funny in its own right and also incredible timing.
anyway, AIKIDO
Last night we had a new year's eve practice, and there weren't many people there, but—
There is so much joy in doing aikido on a mat where the practice is meant as meditation, and there are few enough people that you don't need to worry about throwing anyone into anyone else (or off the mat), and the people who are there are all advanced and so you don't need to worry too much about taking care of them (because their ukemi will take care of them).
( let me save your reading pages from how much I'm talking about aikido )
Sensei also was like "you could take nidan tomorrow and be fine" when I said that it was sort of frustrating knowing that in this, the lead-up to when I'll be taking nidan (at the end of May), I'll probably not be practicing more than once a week on average. She's right! I know she's right! I could take it tomorrow if I were asked to!
But it'll be better with more practice and active reminders of the stuff we don't do very often. Reversals (uke becomes nage). Weapon take-aways. Some nage-holds-the-jo, maybe? I'm solid on everything else, I think, though it's always nice to review koshinage. Working with friends on shodan prep last year means that most of it's in my body via taking ukemi, anyway, which is good.
I watched Wake Up Dead Man today with
hafnia, who had seen it once before and was like "I am BITING MY TONGUE not to point out the REALLY GOOD FORESHADOWING", paused the movie at two points to tell me about (a) her opinions that the reading list in-universe could've been better (with her suggestions) and (b) A Science Complaint (while going "this is the only thing that annoys me about this movie"), and was delighted to agree with me about how well they used LIGHT. The cinematography was gorgeous, the plot was very fun, and I adored Father Jud and Martha and enjoyed going "ughhhh" about how awful many other characters were. The film quotes/references I caught were also great!also my twin messaged me right as I was finishing the movie to tell me about a post he'd seen saying that the opening scene of the movie was filmed at the same location as Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video, including a tweet (bsky version) (bweet, my brain wants to say, but I think it's skeet. or just, y'know. tweet.) from Rian Johnson going "yes, it was, and I was the only person on set excited about this fact", which I thought was very funny in its own right and also incredible timing.
anyway, AIKIDO
Last night we had a new year's eve practice, and there weren't many people there, but—
There is so much joy in doing aikido on a mat where the practice is meant as meditation, and there are few enough people that you don't need to worry about throwing anyone into anyone else (or off the mat), and the people who are there are all advanced and so you don't need to worry too much about taking care of them (because their ukemi will take care of them).
( let me save your reading pages from how much I'm talking about aikido )
Sensei also was like "you could take nidan tomorrow and be fine" when I said that it was sort of frustrating knowing that in this, the lead-up to when I'll be taking nidan (at the end of May), I'll probably not be practicing more than once a week on average. She's right! I know she's right! I could take it tomorrow if I were asked to!
But it'll be better with more practice and active reminders of the stuff we don't do very often. Reversals (uke becomes nage). Weapon take-aways. Some nage-holds-the-jo, maybe? I'm solid on everything else, I think, though it's always nice to review koshinage. Working with friends on shodan prep last year means that most of it's in my body via taking ukemi, anyway, which is good.
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Jan. 1st, 2026 06:14 pmshadarasStart of a new year, fun! I hope it's a good year; certainly I'll try and work to make it good for me. <3
hafnia got me to sign up for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
getyourwordsout with her this year, which should be fun. I'm doing it as a habit pledge, because that's usually not very hard for me and tracking wordcount seemed exhausting. (Which also means that Write Every Day folk will start seeing me around again in those posts. xD I have missed that since my writing brain plunged into a hole over the summer! I think I've crawled out of it now!)
anyway, VERY IMPORTANTLY, Yuletide creators have been revealed, so I can talk about what I wrote for it! :D
My assignment was forchina_shop, and we matched on The Spear Cuts Through Water, a book I adore and which I offered because I was like "okay if someone requests this fantastic book surely they will have ideas for what to write" and also the idea of having an excuse to read the book while thinking about the voice and feel of the prose was exciting.
I wrote a brief epilogue fic, barely over 1k: After the Moon Rose Anew (T, 1,048 words, Jun/Keema, post-canon)
Judging by all the lovely comments, I succeeded in my goal of matching the novel's prose! Most people commented on the voice! Considering how beautiful and lyrical the prose is, it's truly a joy and a relief to know I could match it for even a thousand words.
Also, it was just fun to reference as much as I could of what I found really cool about the prose: the layered POVs, the omniscient style that drifted between POV easily, the occasional brief asides to background POVs... Honestly, the poetics are easier for me to be confident in! I know I can do poetic prose; it's the smooth movement between heads that seems natural and is easy to follow that I wanted to learn from.
Andchina_shop liked it, of course, which is the most important part of a gift—especially one for a friend!
Which: The odds of matching to a friend in Yuletide are... not that low if you both know you're in the same tiny fandom and that you're both going to request it, but I hadn't realised thatchina_shop was going to request The Spear Cuts Through Water until after I'd already offered it, and she could of course not know I would offer it! Certainly we'd talked about the book before, but it's still very special to have this kind of match happen by chance. <3
The other fic I wrote for Yuletide was a pinch hit.wolffyluna went up for PH, and one of the fandoms requested was Oathsworn, an actual play podcast I love. I knew that if WolffyLuna had listened to it, it was because of my promo posting about it. So, y'know. The pinch hit went up one evening, and I told myself that if it was still up when I got home from work the next day I could claim it.
It was still up. So. I claimed it, and proceeded to spend the weekend mainlining episode transcripts and internally screaming about what even I was going to write, oh god, this would've been a lot easier if I'd gotten it as an assignment (which I could have! I'd also offered Oathsworn!) due to the time crunch.
I'm very pleased with what I came up with, especially considering the time pressure. And WolffyLuna liked it, especially the scenes I added post-deadline because I was like "WAIT I NEED THIS TOO", which made me very happy that I'd taken the time to write and add them. <3
I dream of what I'll become next life (3.5k, T, CNTW, Waloot-centric) is a character study of my favorite character, and also includes a dive into the chosen of the gods, a specific religion within the world, and also Waloot's whole deal of being an ordinary person who died, came back, and was one of the most magically powerful people in the area by the time the story concluded. She has a lot of angst. I gave her a bit of time with some weird horses (as WolffyLuna requested!) as part of helping her deal with that.
This, and the gift WolffyLuna wrote for me (my suspicion that we'd be trading Oathsworn fics also factored into taking the PH), are the first works for the fandom on ao3! Yay for Yuletide! It's very exciting! I hope more people take a chance on this COMPLETE actual play podcast! An ongoing apocalypse, a last stand against the oncoming hordes, and a lot of people desperately doing their best to survive and be in community with each other despite not always liking each other very much!
hafnia got me to sign up for getyourwordsout with her this year, which should be fun. I'm doing it as a habit pledge, because that's usually not very hard for me and tracking wordcount seemed exhausting. (Which also means that Write Every Day folk will start seeing me around again in those posts. xD I have missed that since my writing brain plunged into a hole over the summer! I think I've crawled out of it now!)anyway, VERY IMPORTANTLY, Yuletide creators have been revealed, so I can talk about what I wrote for it! :D
My assignment was for
china_shop, and we matched on The Spear Cuts Through Water, a book I adore and which I offered because I was like "okay if someone requests this fantastic book surely they will have ideas for what to write" and also the idea of having an excuse to read the book while thinking about the voice and feel of the prose was exciting.I wrote a brief epilogue fic, barely over 1k: After the Moon Rose Anew (T, 1,048 words, Jun/Keema, post-canon)
Judging by all the lovely comments, I succeeded in my goal of matching the novel's prose! Most people commented on the voice! Considering how beautiful and lyrical the prose is, it's truly a joy and a relief to know I could match it for even a thousand words.
Also, it was just fun to reference as much as I could of what I found really cool about the prose: the layered POVs, the omniscient style that drifted between POV easily, the occasional brief asides to background POVs... Honestly, the poetics are easier for me to be confident in! I know I can do poetic prose; it's the smooth movement between heads that seems natural and is easy to follow that I wanted to learn from.
And
china_shop liked it, of course, which is the most important part of a gift—especially one for a friend!Which: The odds of matching to a friend in Yuletide are... not that low if you both know you're in the same tiny fandom and that you're both going to request it, but I hadn't realised that
china_shop was going to request The Spear Cuts Through Water until after I'd already offered it, and she could of course not know I would offer it! Certainly we'd talked about the book before, but it's still very special to have this kind of match happen by chance. <3The other fic I wrote for Yuletide was a pinch hit.
wolffyluna went up for PH, and one of the fandoms requested was Oathsworn, an actual play podcast I love. I knew that if WolffyLuna had listened to it, it was because of my promo posting about it. So, y'know. The pinch hit went up one evening, and I told myself that if it was still up when I got home from work the next day I could claim it.It was still up. So. I claimed it, and proceeded to spend the weekend mainlining episode transcripts and internally screaming about what even I was going to write, oh god, this would've been a lot easier if I'd gotten it as an assignment (which I could have! I'd also offered Oathsworn!) due to the time crunch.
I'm very pleased with what I came up with, especially considering the time pressure. And WolffyLuna liked it, especially the scenes I added post-deadline because I was like "WAIT I NEED THIS TOO", which made me very happy that I'd taken the time to write and add them. <3
I dream of what I'll become next life (3.5k, T, CNTW, Waloot-centric) is a character study of my favorite character, and also includes a dive into the chosen of the gods, a specific religion within the world, and also Waloot's whole deal of being an ordinary person who died, came back, and was one of the most magically powerful people in the area by the time the story concluded. She has a lot of angst. I gave her a bit of time with some weird horses (as WolffyLuna requested!) as part of helping her deal with that.
This, and the gift WolffyLuna wrote for me (my suspicion that we'd be trading Oathsworn fics also factored into taking the PH), are the first works for the fandom on ao3! Yay for Yuletide! It's very exciting! I hope more people take a chance on this COMPLETE actual play podcast! An ongoing apocalypse, a last stand against the oncoming hordes, and a lot of people desperately doing their best to survive and be in community with each other despite not always liking each other very much!
LiveJournal making changes--back up your stuff
Jan. 1st, 2026 03:13 pmbeatrice_otterLiveJournal has been owned by Russians for some years now, and they just announced some changes on the Russian side of the service that are not announced on the English-language side: https://ru-news.livejournal.com/80899.html
Basically, they're going to be cutting off contact between Russian language users in Russia and Russian language users who are outside of Russia, and between English-language users and Russian-language users. Plus some other miscellaneous stuff.![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
denise has a thread on Bluesky where she analyzes why she thinks they're doing this. There's a good chance they're planning on either shutting down or selling the English-language version of the site.
If there is anything on LJ that you like that is not backed up somewhere else, now might be a good time to fix that. If it's your content, there are several ways to download it (linked in the thread above), including exporting it to Dreamwidth. If it's not your content, you can still ask the Internet Archive to save a copy of the page.
Basically, they're going to be cutting off contact between Russian language users in Russia and Russian language users who are outside of Russia, and between English-language users and Russian-language users. Plus some other miscellaneous stuff.
denise has a thread on Bluesky where she analyzes why she thinks they're doing this. There's a good chance they're planning on either shutting down or selling the English-language version of the site.If there is anything on LJ that you like that is not backed up somewhere else, now might be a good time to fix that. If it's your content, there are several ways to download it (linked in the thread above), including exporting it to Dreamwidth. If it's not your content, you can still ask the Internet Archive to save a copy of the page.
2025 Book List
Jan. 1st, 2026 05:17 pmslashmarksI did fairly minimal reading after January by my standards, at least of books, and wrote a grand total of two reviews. This is mostly because I became obsessed with the Silmarillion back in February and so fanfic took over most of my reading time this year; having plowed through A Lot of what I was interested in, now, I hope I will read more books in 2026!
Here is the list, rereads in italics and books recorded the first time I finished them.
January
1. The March North – Graydon Saunders
2. Briardark – S.A. Harian
3. The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
4. A Succession of Bad Days – Graydon Saunders
5. Safely You Deliver – Graydon Saunders
6. The Amazons: Lives & Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World – Adrienne Mayor [nonfiction]
7. Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History From Antiquity to the Present – Michael Bailey [nonfiction]
8. Alchemy of Fire – Gillian Bradshaw
9. Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire – Patricia Blessing [nonfiction]
10. Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire – David Cannadine [nonfiction]
11. Under One Banner – Graydon Saunders
12. A Mist of Grit and Splinters – Graydon Saunders
13. Satan the Heretic: The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West – Alain Boureau, trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan [nonfiction]
14. God's Unruly Friends: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Later Middle Period, 1200-1500 – Ahmet T. Karamustafa [nonfiction]
15. The Bearkeeper's Daughter – Gillian Bradshaw
16. The First Capital of the Ottoman Empire: The Religious, Architectural, and Social History of Bursa - Suna Çağaptay [nonfiction]
17. A Desolation Called Peace – Arkady Martine
18. The Blue Castle – L.M. Montgomery
19. Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone) – Sam Wineburg [nonfiction]
February
20. On Violence – Hannah Arendt [nonfiction]
21. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed – Eric Cline [nonfiction]
22. Waywarden – S.A. Harian
23. Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 – Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham [nonfiction]
March
24. Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifestyle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture – Caroline Dodds Pennock [nonfiction]
25. Irreverant Persia: Invective, Satirical and Burlesque Poetry From the Origins to the Timurid Period (10th to 15th Centuries) – Riccardo Zipoli [nonfiction]
26. The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
April
27. The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
28. The Development of Modern Agriculture: British Farming since 1931 – John Martin [nonfiction]
June
29. Ottoman Plovdiv: Space, Architecture, and Population (14th-17th Centuries) – Grigor Boykov [nonfiction]
30. The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien
July
31. Heir to the Empire – Timothy Zahn
32. Diavola – Jennifer Thorne
33. You Dreamed of Empires - Álvaro Enrigue
34. Sword at Sunset – Rosemary Sutcliff
35. Dark Force Rising – Timothy Zahn
36. Rose/House – Arkady Martine [novella]
37. Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq – Thomas Carlson [nonfiction]
38. The Last Command – Timothy Zahn
August
39. Stone Yard Devotional – Charlotte Wood
40. The Emergence of the English – Susan Oosthuizen [nonfiction]
September
41. The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien
42. Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety: Sufis and the Dissemination of Islam in Medieval Palestine – Daphna Ephrat [nonfiction]
November
43. A Palace Near the Wind – Ai Jiang
44. Render unto the Sultan: Power, Authority, and the Greek Orthodox Church in the early Ottoman centuries – Tom Papademetriou [nonfiction]
44. The September House – Carissa Orlando
45. Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction – Timothy Gowers [nonfiction]
46. Sources and Studies on the Ottoman Black Sea, vol. I, The Customs Register of Caffa, 1487-1490 – Halil Inalcik [nonfiction]
47. A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450-1700 – Dina Le Gall [nonfiction]
48. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard [nonfiction]
49. Roman Girlhood and the Fashioning of Femininity – Lauren Caldwell [nonfiction]
50. The Great Seljuk Empire – A.C.S. Peacock [nonfiction]
December
51. Nomad Military Power in Iran and Adjacent Areas in the Islamic Period – eds. Kurt Franz & Wolfgang Holzwarth [nonfiction anthology]
52. The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will be Nature’s Salvation – Fred Pearce [nonfiction]
53. Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
Here is the list, rereads in italics and books recorded the first time I finished them.
January
1. The March North – Graydon Saunders
2. Briardark – S.A. Harian
3. The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
4. A Succession of Bad Days – Graydon Saunders
5. Safely You Deliver – Graydon Saunders
6. The Amazons: Lives & Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World – Adrienne Mayor [nonfiction]
7. Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History From Antiquity to the Present – Michael Bailey [nonfiction]
8. Alchemy of Fire – Gillian Bradshaw
9. Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire – Patricia Blessing [nonfiction]
10. Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire – David Cannadine [nonfiction]
11. Under One Banner – Graydon Saunders
12. A Mist of Grit and Splinters – Graydon Saunders
13. Satan the Heretic: The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West – Alain Boureau, trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan [nonfiction]
14. God's Unruly Friends: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Later Middle Period, 1200-1500 – Ahmet T. Karamustafa [nonfiction]
15. The Bearkeeper's Daughter – Gillian Bradshaw
16. The First Capital of the Ottoman Empire: The Religious, Architectural, and Social History of Bursa - Suna Çağaptay [nonfiction]
17. A Desolation Called Peace – Arkady Martine
18. The Blue Castle – L.M. Montgomery
19. Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone) – Sam Wineburg [nonfiction]
February
20. On Violence – Hannah Arendt [nonfiction]
21. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed – Eric Cline [nonfiction]
22. Waywarden – S.A. Harian
23. Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 – Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham [nonfiction]
March
24. Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifestyle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture – Caroline Dodds Pennock [nonfiction]
25. Irreverant Persia: Invective, Satirical and Burlesque Poetry From the Origins to the Timurid Period (10th to 15th Centuries) – Riccardo Zipoli [nonfiction]
26. The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
April
27. The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
28. The Development of Modern Agriculture: British Farming since 1931 – John Martin [nonfiction]
June
29. Ottoman Plovdiv: Space, Architecture, and Population (14th-17th Centuries) – Grigor Boykov [nonfiction]
30. The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien
July
31. Heir to the Empire – Timothy Zahn
32. Diavola – Jennifer Thorne
33. You Dreamed of Empires - Álvaro Enrigue
34. Sword at Sunset – Rosemary Sutcliff
35. Dark Force Rising – Timothy Zahn
36. Rose/House – Arkady Martine [novella]
37. Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq – Thomas Carlson [nonfiction]
38. The Last Command – Timothy Zahn
August
39. Stone Yard Devotional – Charlotte Wood
40. The Emergence of the English – Susan Oosthuizen [nonfiction]
September
41. The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien
42. Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety: Sufis and the Dissemination of Islam in Medieval Palestine – Daphna Ephrat [nonfiction]
November
43. A Palace Near the Wind – Ai Jiang
44. Render unto the Sultan: Power, Authority, and the Greek Orthodox Church in the early Ottoman centuries – Tom Papademetriou [nonfiction]
44. The September House – Carissa Orlando
45. Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction – Timothy Gowers [nonfiction]
46. Sources and Studies on the Ottoman Black Sea, vol. I, The Customs Register of Caffa, 1487-1490 – Halil Inalcik [nonfiction]
47. A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450-1700 – Dina Le Gall [nonfiction]
48. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard [nonfiction]
49. Roman Girlhood and the Fashioning of Femininity – Lauren Caldwell [nonfiction]
50. The Great Seljuk Empire – A.C.S. Peacock [nonfiction]
December
51. Nomad Military Power in Iran and Adjacent Areas in the Islamic Period – eds. Kurt Franz & Wolfgang Holzwarth [nonfiction anthology]
52. The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will be Nature’s Salvation – Fred Pearce [nonfiction]
53. Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
(SFF Bingo): The Outside, by Ada Hoffmann
Jan. 1st, 2026 04:50 pmprimeideal Ada Hoffmann first came to my attention via The Neurodiversiverse anthology. This is the first installment in a trilogy. In a future where superintelligent AI are worshiped as gods, an autistic scientist accidentally causes a disaster on a space station. As a result, she's basically kidnapped by angels working for the god Nemesis, who need her help in tracking down her former doctorate advisor. Both the forces of Nemesis and the heretic Dr. Talirr have the potential to cause terror, so Yasira does a lot of bouncing between a rock and a hard place. "The Outside" refers to forces beyond our universe's space and time, which occasionally breach containment and cause "madness" in onlookers, but of course, "madness" is subjective. (In the acknowledgements, Hoffmann places this book within the stream of "Lovecraftian subversion.")
The worldbuilding of AI-as-gods requiring mortal trust to perpetuate themselves, and eventually absorbing human souls after they die, is fascinating. Ditto some humans' desire to build their own space stations without relying on godly technology. The glimpses we get of other alien species are great:
Your Boater dictionary had two words in it before you started drawing on my work. And both the words were variations on 'destroy the soul-eating abominations.'
...
However, any culture studied in sufficient detail will yield up a word, and often a fairly sophisticated system of safeguards and protections, for the things in this universe which are inherently incomprehensible to sentient minds. The semantics of the word chosen can be culturally informative. My favorite, of course, is the Spider term: Ȋsȋrinin-neri-ȋnik, or 'that which eats reality.'
Yasira comes from a culture that's comparatively accessible for disabled and neurodiverse people, and that filters through early. This description felt true-to-life:
Yasira's neurotype was supposed to be all about joy, about being so in love with science and knowledge and patterns that they eclipsed everything else. She'd been like that as a child, throwing herself into dusty physics texts the way other kids played games or ate candy. So excited when she tackled a new problem that she'd abruptly throw the book down and run around the house laughing. At some point, maybe in grad school, that had faded somehow. Who knew why? She was still good at the things people liked her to do, so there wasn't much wrong. Maybe it was just part of growing up.
I would have liked to see even more contrasts of how someone like Yasira might relate to angels or nonhuman entities differently than other humans would. This struck me as strange:
Akavi peered over Yasira's shoulder at the chart of the galaxy. This was unnecessary, since he had downloaded the chart into his head and could mentally examine it from whatever angle he pleased. But the physical signs of shared attention helped put mortals at ease.
The Outside, by definition, is outside ordinary understanding and language, so any depiction of it is inherently vague. It wasn't too much gross-out horror for me, but I'm not super into "we can't describe it, it was just some bizarre wrongness."
I would have liked more worldbuilding about what happens to humans after they die and how that relates to the gods. Yasira, quite understandably, is reluctant to do things that will get people killed; life, even life with some "madness," is better than death! But in a world where the existence of afterlives is common knowledge rather than a matter of faith, I imagine people's ethical calculations would be different in some circumstances. I didn't get enough of "how divine are the 'gods,' really" to feel like I necessarily understood Yasira's reactions.
I would have liked more worldbuilding about what happens to humans after they die and how that relates to the gods. Yasira, quite understandably, is reluctant to do things that will get people killed; life, even life with some "madness," is better than death! But in a world where the existence of afterlives is common knowledge rather than a matter of faith, I imagine people's ethical calculations would be different in some circumstances. I didn't get enough of "how divine are the 'gods,' really" to feel like I necessarily understood Yasira's reactions.
( Vague spoilers )
Yasira's girlfriend, Tiv, comes from a culture with great names and nicknames: "Tiv" is short for Productivity, "Citizenship" goes by "Ship," etc. Yasira struggles to have faith in the gods or experience religious transcendence; she looks to Tiv as an example of how a "good girl" would behave. Unfortunately, most of the time she's offscreen, and it's mostly like "if you ever want to see Tiv again, you better do as we say." We don't get a good sense of what Tiv sees in Yasira; to me, these sorts of relationships can come off as "anxious autistic person and their emotional support neurotypical." I understand that some people will value seeing f/f romance depicted in these settings! In my entirely personal opinion, I would have liked to see other kinds of relationships in Yasira's life.
(There is also a very funny subplot involving an angel who's crushing on his clueless boss, featuring a great Ironic Echo resolution.)
Bingo: Gods and Pantheons, LGBTQIA protagonist, Impossible Places, Epistolary (almost every chapter starts with an in-universe epigraph)
snowflake day 1: ice breaker
Jan. 1st, 2026 01:24 pmsixbeforelunch
Challenge #1 - The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.
Hello. I'm
sixbeforelunch (six is fine). I am a fandom old. I occasionally yell at clouds, but only the really annoying ones. My intro post has the details if you're interested.I've been doing snowflake since 2014(!) and I like it for the community building and the flurry of activity it generates on DW. This year the community building aspect is especially important to me because one of my aims for 2026 is to cultivate the communities that I'm in, so I'm trying to be more social and active, which is not something that comes easily to me. Having a structured start to the year will hopefully help jump start me on that goal.
Snowflake Challenge #1
Jan. 1st, 2026 08:24 amtjs_whatnot in snowflake_challengeIntroduction Post*
Meet the Mods Post *
Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.
( Fandom Snowflake Challenge #1 ) And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.
And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.
Meet the Mods Post *
Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.
( Fandom Snowflake Challenge #1 ) And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.
And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.
Привет! LiveJournal imports may be slow
Dec. 31st, 2025 08:24 pmdenise in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_maintenanceПривет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)
Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.
I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!
С Новым Годом, and welcome home!
EDIT: Большое спасибо всем за помощь друг другу в комментариях! Я ценю каждого, кто предоставляет нашим новым соседям информацию, понятную им без необходимости искать её в Google. :) И спасибо вам за терпение к моему русскому переводу с помощью Google Translate! Прошло уже много-много лет со школьных времен!
Thank you also to everyone who's been giving our new neighbors a warm welcome. I love you all ❤️
more icons - murder she wrote, dcu, star trek
Dec. 31st, 2025 07:55 pmsixbeforelunchMurder She Wrote - 9
Superman: TAS - 4
Birds of Prey (2020) - 1
Star Trek: Lower Decks - 8
Star Trek: TNG - 8
Star Trek: Insurrection - 5
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Superman: TAS - 4
Birds of Prey (2020) - 1
Star Trek: Lower Decks - 8
Star Trek: TNG - 8
Star Trek: Insurrection - 5
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