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Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Current Mood: drained

That was the year that was no good. I kept up with my website and my presence on AO3 and slept rarely and spent six days in hospital.

I published one new piece of fiction, although a meaningful one to me:

"Hyperboloids of Wondrous Light" in Not One of Us #81, January 2025.

Very little new poetry:

"The Ghost Summer" in Weird Fiction Quarterly Winter 2025: Ghosts, April 2025.
"The Burnt Layer" in Not One of Us #84, September 2025.
"Below Surface" in Not One of Us #83, June 2025.

One reprint:

Twice Every Day Returning" in Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Stories 2024 (ed. Sheree Renée Thomas), Psychopomp, December 2025.

Nearly as much fanfiction as any of the above, counting the fills I transferred to AO3 and the one I left in place:

"Fall from the Sky" (Repeat Performance), January 2025.
"Floriography" (M*A*S*H), January 2025.
"A Good Accountant, All Right" (I Walk Alone), January 2025.

Very much less than I had wanted for Patreon:

Cover Up (1949), January 2025.
Decoy (1946), January 2025.
Grand Jury Secrets (1939), February 2025.
Lost Boundaries (1949), February 2025.
A Bomb Was Stolen (S-a furat o bombă, 1962), February 2025.
Black Kitten Micro-Thon 2025 [Final Offer (2018), "Come Back Mrs Noah" (1977), "Contact" (1981), Other Other (2024), Once in a New Moon (1934)], February 2025.
"Poison" (Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 1958), March 2025.
No Publicity (1927), April 2025.
A Bell for Adano (1945), May 2025.
City of Fear (1959), June 2025.
Ladies (2024), June 2025.
The Sea Wolf (1941), July 2025.
None Shall Escape (1944), July 2025.
I Won't Play (1944), August 2025.
The Gaunt Stranger (1939), August 2025.
The Perfect Murder (1988), August 2025.
The Hot Rock (1972), September 2025.
The Innocents (1961), September 2025.
Heat and Dust (1983), September 2025.
The Immortal Story (1968), October 2025.
Marooned (1994), October 2025.
Girl Stroke Boy (1971), October 2025.
Fear in the Night (1972), November 2025.
Enys Men (2022), November 2025.
Blind Spot (1947), November 2025.
Defence of the Realm (1985), December 2025.
A View from a Hill (2005), December 2025.

My major achievement of the last twelve months was not dying. An ongoing chore. Happy New Year. A healthy year, a more than endured one. Mir zaynen af tselokhes.

Current Music: The Mountain Goats, "Through This Fire"

My third and final recs post. Another great year full of great fic. Amazing work, everyone. <3

but first they must catch you, The Long Walk (2025), Stebbins & Garraty & McVries, 8k. The last three are rescued from the long walk and start trying to build a new life on a decrepit farm in Vermont. This is so lovely and aching and hopeful, full of small moments of Stebbins continuing to live that slowly grow into a life over the course of a fic, or at least the beginning of one.

Disspelled, Carrie - Stephen King, Sue Snell & Carrie White, 1.4k. Sue Snell is writing a history report on the Salem Witch Trials. A really intriguing little canon divergence fic about Sue cottoning on to some things about Carrie just a little bit earlier.

homophrosyne, The Odyssey, Penelope gen, drabble series. This is absolutely gorgeous, and every drabble here is a gem. Just spectacular.

cut it out and then restart, Hockey RPF, Carter/Richards, 4k. Finally, after hockey is over for both of them, they can begin. This ship is a real blast from the hockey past, and this is an achingly beautiful look at them, finally touching each other as they've wanted for twenty years.

vanishing point, Crash (1996), Catherine/James/Vaughan, 2.3k. All their interactions hinge around the moment of future collision. I am in awe of how well the author captures the feverish sensuality of the movie, lingering on all these physical details that somehow become erotic in combination and through the framing.

Hypnos on the Primrose Isle, 19th C Poets RPH, Keats/Shelley, 6k. John Keats seeks solitude on the Isle of Wight to work on Endymion... but neither his work, nor his sleep, will be as solitary as he expects. I enjoyed the overall poetic perspective here from both of them and how they are both so attuned to beauty and romantic framings of their experiences and surroundings. Poor peevish beleaguered Keats, who in the end so enjoys being courted and seduced. :')

burned in kind , True Detective, Marty/Rust, 13k. Post-canon, post-recovery, Marty comes to Rust for help with a case of group suicide, and it might not even just be because he wants to keep an eye on Rust. I always love a casefic that acts as character development for the characters as well, and some kind of creepy entity that lures people to suicide is both right in line with the series' ambiguously-supernatural darkness and laser-pointed at Rust's issues in particular. Great voices all around and a great character arc.

all men will be sailors then, Jaws, Martin/Matt, 4k. Martin survived. Now there was just the matter of learning how to live with it. I always love some good post-horror trauma, and this was a great look at Martin trying to find his way to some kind of normal, making the best out of some bad options. His hookup with Matt feels exactly right, and all their interactions are great.

of wild honey, The Blue Castle, Barney/Valancy, 8k. Five times Valancy Stirling surprises Barney Snaith. In which we get to relive some of the key moments of the book from Barney's point of view, beautifully told, with a lot of lovely lines and bits of insight.

Found this, that I had written 11 years ago: Dec 31, 2014. It stirs a few memories, but more good ones than bad. And a few reminders, such as what scars really mean to me...

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2014 is almost gone, and I can't say I'm sorry to see it go. Still, for all of the dark spots of this year, taken as a whole I will call it a good year. I've lost too damned many people this year, and I was almost one of them, but I'm too stubborn to "go gently into that good night."

Two months ago, I had a VERY nasty accident -- one that by most standards I should not have survived. Instead of pushing up daisies, I am less than a month away from being finished with my brace, and only one remaining issue still do deal with.

2014 was the year this world tried to kill me. I have a scar on the side of my head that I'll carry the rest of my days, and I'm strange enough to consider it a good-luck charm. I have come to realize what a scar means: that something did hurt me, but that I was stronger than whatever it was, and the scar is the proof of that.

I hope 2015 brings better things for all of us. And when it hits those dark spots, I hope that you'll do what I've found works well for me, which is to remember and follow the advice given in Stan Rogers' song, "The Mary Ellen Carter:"

And you. to whom Adversity has dealt the final blow,
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go,
Turn to! And put out ALL your strength, of Arm and Heart and Brain,
And like the Mary Ellen Carter...
RISE AGAIN!

Current Mood: optimistic

Posted by Marcie Jones

https://www.wonkette.com/p/2025-shitheels-of-the-year-trumps

Let’s have a sing-along, why not?

There’s JD Vance and Lee Zeldin, Kelly Loeffler and Linda McMahon,

Pammy Jo Bondi, John Ratcliffe, Tulsi Gabbard and Doug Bergum,

Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, Doug Collins, and Russell Vought,

Brooke Rollins, Howard Lutnick, Pete Hegseth, Chris Wright and Sean Duffy,

Who wants to go to the moon but is scared of the subway!

Where did Trump find people this dumb and ugly?

There’s Kristi Noem, Scott Bessent, and Mormon sidekick Jamieson Greer,

Also Scott Turner and some lady named Lori Chavez-DeRemer

Plus Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his brain worm!

And they all sit around a big table and go around taking turns!

Saying lines and praising Trump and wearing their dumb red hats

And once the cameras turn off they all take it to the mat

Screaming “Daddy, hey, daddy, watch my act!”

They’re ranting white-supremacist manics.

Then Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski fly to Chile and have some kisses!

And Scott Bessent swung for Elon then he missed-ed.

Susie Wiles, she’s their den mom, she’s got her shaved sidekick Jimmy,

She said NO MORE DRAMA, all you kids, drama is just for MOMMY!

I’ll call up Vanity Fair, spill the tea there, and I’m sure their treatment will be quite balmy!

Get your lip injections, they’ll airbrush all your imperfections,

Then it’s cry your heart out, Michele Obaaaammy!

Who says Conservatives can’t be glammy?

They’re hypocritical liars who hum the din to any fugue they’ve heard before,

A bottom-barrel back bench unqualified to watch a cat or manage a liquor store

They’ll out-Caligua Caligula and you never heard such dumb cacophonies

Since the croaking chorus of the frogs from Aristophanes!

They’ve got more tricks than a novice in a nunnery

They sold their souls and Botoxed their folds and make Nixon’s plumbers look like mere plumbery

How many ways can they all shift the blame?

Anywhere but to the commander and his decaying brain!

And now country and the world will never be the saaaaammmeee!!

Shave and a haircut, two bits!

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Miko, Shiori, and Hinako
This Monster Wants to Eat Me, Episode 13 (Season Finale)

It wasn’t really a great year for anime. I wasn’t much into the mainstream anime. (The shows were OK, but I didn’t have lots of enthusiasm for making time to watch them.) I don’t think there are any shows I need to have in my personal library. But if I were to rewatch a show, the following series would be at the top of the list.

1. This Monster Wants to Eat Me
Oh, hey! Something that isn’t an isekai, an adventurer quest, shonen action, or a high school rom-com! This fantasy drama had me guessing every episode – and I cared about the characters. I liked the art, direction, dialog – and story.

2. A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof
Perhaps I needed something lighthearted. Shaft is a great studio, and they did a great job directing and animating this fluffy comedy. And I have a soft spot for ninja girls. Plus, Shaft can do comedy. (Can you say, Pani Poni Dash?)

3. May I Ask For One Final Thing?
Scarlet, The Lady of Beatings, is just so much fun to watch. And the villains deserve every fistful they get. So satisfying.

4. Grisaia: Phantom Trigger
Well, I’m a big fan of The Fruit of Grisaia and character designs by Akio Watanabe – so a sequel is a no-brainer for me. Phantom Trigger isn’t as good as predecessor Fruit/Labyrinth/Eden, but the anime succeeds as a guilty pleasure. The characters are similar to their predecessors.

5. I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!
Just plain fun. Liam is wildly successful in spite of all odds and players against him. He and his poor fiefdom deserve all the wins they get. The first episode was heartbreaking, but things turned around after that.

Previously
My Five Favorite Male Anime Characters of 2025
My Five Favorite Female Anime Characters of 2025
My Five Favorite Anime Couples of 2025

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This. Is going to be tricky, perhaps.

Okay, so back in the day, there was an LJ community dedicated to a first-run anime FMA AU where Roy from another universe (possibly the movie universe?) made it to the canon universe. And lots of fun was had with that, but it mostly stayed a similar rating and level of romance to canon. Which, considering this is fandom, people wanted to play with. So then came an offshoot community,

houseofsmex, which had a fivesome between Roy, AU!Roy (Masuta Ichiro), Hawkeye, Ed, and Al. I wrote some fics for that AU. I am now moving them here, because I never cross-posted them to my original LJ account, and thus they never migrated over to this account. I'll be replicating the community's original labels, most (if not all of) my original author's notes, and we'll see what else.

Arc: Main: Smut, probably, though I doubt the content gets above PG-13
Summary: Roy needs to work on his calligraphy
Title: ( Learning Aid )

Arc: Main, Smut again, though still with a low rating.
Summary: Masuta likes showers in the rain, and sex in the shower, so the next obvious step is...
Title: ( Useless )

Arc: Main, Mei
Summary: Perhaps, Mei thought, she could do something to help.
Title: ( Pins and Needles )

Arc: Main, no idea; possibly Smut (though again, low rating)
Summary: Hot Springs fic!
Title: ( Rest and Relaxation )

Arc: Doubles, Traveling Companions continuity
Summary: Cats are naturally curious...
Title: ( The Feline Condition )

Arc: Doubles, Traveling Companions continuity (direct sequel to The Feline Condition)
Summary: Edward!kitty does some research
Title: ( Trial and Error )

Arc: Main, Pets
Summary: It was inevitable that they get one
Title: ( Inevitable )

Categories: Main, Smut (though for all I know, it'll grow into its own arc -_-), Pampering

ysabet
Summary: Return of the hot springs fic! Sequel to Rest and Relaxation
For Ysabet :)
Note: Please excuse my gross incompetence in failing to include this in the first one.
Title: ( Proper Attire )

Originally inspired by Breasts by

terrierlee
Arc: Twins
Summary: Edward is haunted by slightly more than memories. Possibly non-canon.
Fic: ( Echoes )

Phew! Okay, I think that's everything. And that should be all of the fics I left behind on LJ, minus maybe one that's in the comments of a friend's locked account. I'm pretty sure I could recreate that one in a hurry, though; it was pretty short, and I remember the punchline 😛

Current Mood: relieved

1. It's the start of another four day weekend! Very excited about that. I wish the forecast wasn't rainy for much of it, but hopefully it won't be too bad. It was supposed to rain from this morning, but didn't really end up raining until afternoon. Completely dry when I took my morning walk and drove to work, and only sprinkling slightly when I took my midday walk around eleven. It's been off and on the afternoon and evening, though it did stop long enough for us to take an evening walk (slightly sprinkly through the second half, though).

2. Our neighbor's cat has been missing for several days but she reported him back home today.

3. Look at that fluffy tum! He loves tummy rubs, no trap there!

Earlier this year, I split off some AO3 "Christmas Sweaters" tags that were synned to "Holiday Sweaters" tags, and made them canonical subtags instead. For kicks, I made a note of the usage stats at the time:

Holiday Sweaters (canonical) - 229 uses (219 works)
Christmas Sweaters (syn) - 205 uses (195 works)
Ugly Holiday Sweaters (canonical) - 1478 uses (1437 works)
Ugly Christmas Sweaters (syn) - 102 uses (94 works)

Now that we've basically had a full Christmas season with all those tags canonical, here are the stats tonight

Holiday Sweaters - 284 uses - Up by 24%
Christmas Sweaters - 249 uses - Up by 21%
Ugly Holiday Sweaters - 1540 uses - Up by 4%
Ugly Christmas Sweaters - 175 uses - Up by 72%

So the plain "X Sweaters" tags each grew at about the same rate...but it looks like there's a lot of taggers who were only picking "Ugly Holiday Sweaters" because that's what showed up in the dropdown, and once "Ugly Christmas Sweaters" showed up as an option, they jumped for it.

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Fandom-dropping progress: down to 1222 fandoms. I've shed more than 300 since starting, and more than 100 since I last posted about it.

(The vast majority of them have been small webcomic fandoms. Vaguely curious what the exact breakdown is...but there's no auto-running those numbers, I'd have to do a lot of counting by hand, and I'm not that curious.)

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(1) SUCH STINKERS! Cora Buhlert has announced who’s getting “The 2025 Darth Vader Parenthood Award for Outstandingly Horrible Fictional Parents”. It’s almost the end of the year, so we are proud to present to you, live from the Multiversal Nexus Ballroom, … Continue reading →

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I don't know much about what's going on, but I happened to be browsing the comments in the latest

dw_news post when this comment went live:

mithrillian: Well, in case you missed it, starting yesterday LJ made it near impossible for the people not resident in Russia to keep posting/commenting (payment and/or verification is now mandatory). Also, some Russian residents don't want to pay/verify just to be able to *comment*. That's why you had 1300+ new accounts yesterday in place of the usual 250 :)

I. Should probably find out if that one community ever got backed up to Dreamwidth. That, or I should go copy-paste my fics from said comm from a million years ago, so I don't lose them forever.

Edit: Fics officially moved! I wonder if the community moderator is still active and would be willing to import the comm over here... And especially the "parent" AU comm.

Current Mood: shocked

Prince Julius von Pallistan and Scarlet El Vandimion
May I Ask For One Final Thing? Episode 13 (Season Finale)

I’m a romantic, and I always am on the lookout for couples who find love and happiness in the midst of generally tempestuous circumstances. Here are my couples of the year.

1. Scarlet El Vandimion x Prince Julius von Pallistan, May I Ask For One Final Thing?
Prince Julius has carried a torch for Scarlet for years, while Scarlet is oblivious. Scarlet sees Julius’s playfulness as adversarial. Yet, Julius is the only person who accepts Scarlet for who she truly is – and laughs every time Scarlet shows her colors, while everyone else is dismayed. In actuality, these two make a great couple. Julius is a really good guy.

2. Philia Adenauer x Prince Osvalt Parnacorta, The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom
This is another one-sided romance, initially. Philia is too socially immature to recognize Osvalt’s honest affection. But she’ll come around. Osvalt is a really good guy.

3. Melphiera Marchalrayd x Duke Aristide Rogier do Galbraith, Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!
What I liked about this series is that the author didn’t waste any time getting this couple to become a couple. The Duke proposed in episode 2, and the couple were officially engaged in episode 4. And the Blood-Mad Duke and the Voracious Villainess are a fine couple. Aristide is a really good guy.

4. Princess Amelia Rosequartz x Akira Oda, My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds That of the Hero’s
Akira is too much of a loner to be in relationship – or so I thought. He surprised me in episode 7 by making a vow to Amelia and declaring his love. So they are officially a couple – and I am happy with that.

5. Marie x Kazuhiro Kitase, Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!
Marie and Kazuhiro are a wholesome couple, sharing adventures in two worlds – and enjoying themselves immensely. Happy couples are fun to watch.

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