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This year involved a lot of travel and a lot of heartache

We visited Conwy in Wales for the first time, famous for its massive medieval castle:

We also visited Strasbourg in France which was noew to me although not to other half. It has a magnificent cathedral and this madonnna, part south American and part deco influenced fascinated me:

And now the heartache. As some of you know, I am a trans woman and our goverment here in the UK has decided that making our lives as difficult as possible would be a fine idea and I am likely to be losing basic human rights in the coming year.

So just for the record, this is what a trans woman (and indeed her husband) looks like. I'm 5'6" and no, it isn't a 'bad wig' but my own hair (admittedly coloured these days as I've gone grey). And those obsessed with bits would be most disappointed if I was standing there naked!

The userpic's me in my later twenties. I set out on the journey at 15 and had GC surgery at 21. I met my husband when I was 38.

This was taken for us by a kind Canadian lady in Conwy castle.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Location: 'ereabouts

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i might have made a post like this before but I just moved again and so I am once again libraryposting. an interesting secret of the world is that sometimes university libraries have programs to let people who are ostensibly Just Some Guy borrow stuff from the library as long as you can prove you live around there. dont have to go to school there or anything. in my experience your mileage may vary with the online materials needing a student or staff account and stuff, but the physical books? theyre just giving those out to anybody sometimes. to just some guy off the street

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vriddy

1. Looking for new friends?

friending_memes is hosting a "new year, new friend" friending meme!

Click the banner to join us and make some new friends!

2. Of course,

snowflake_challenge started as well :D Never too late to jump in if you'd like to, it's a chill challenge like that! I knew I wasn't going to do it this year either, but thought "maybe next year"..... however it's January 3rd and I'm already fighting to keep up with my reading page because I met SO MANY OF YOU COOL PEOPLE through the challenge, and you're participating again haha :D It's really a great way to get to know people a little bit before the friending meme that usually happens at the end of it. I can't recommend it enough if you'd like your reading page to be more lively.

Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

3. I'm going to link again to this AO3 PSA from a while back. It's titled "Protect Your Contact Information From Scammers" but it's interesting in that it describes the format that spam comments take nowadays: first a paragraph that seems genuinely related to your story (thanks and fuck you, genAI), then an invitation to reach out to them because they want to make a comic from it, or help you give more impact to your story, or whatever cue to take you off-site.

The post also offers a step-by-step template for reporting registered accounts that do it, and I gotta say it's effective as the account I reported yesterday was removed in less than 24 hours. (Also, those comments are annoying always, but they sting extra on fics that you know from the start won't have much/any audience. Curses on your potatoes, spammers!!)

(Having said that I don't think the spambots have figured out the "Uncategorized Fandoms" section yet as I haven't gotten any of these on K-9 fic -- if you hate spam comments you should totally join us there XD)

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full_metal_ox posting in

common_nature

Taken on 2 January 2026 at 19:44 U.S. Eastern Standard Time.

The lunar halo of mackerel clouds, darkly dappled by the spaces between, keeps the moon from being reduced to just another circle of warm white light in the electric constellation of the apartment complex—which has usually been the effect when I’ve tried to take a picture. (That startling peacock-blue color was a happy artifact of my cheap-ass flip-phone camera!)

You can see how the moon continues an arc formed by the walkway lights—somewhat resembling the head of Scorpius, with the stairway light standing in for Antares.

dialecticdreamer posting in

journalsandplanners

Does anyone else in this group create their own planner? Not a BuJo, in that it's got a framework and elements of a commercially sold planner.

pauraque

In 2025 I posted reviews of 44 games, of which 10 were replays, 1 was a revision of an old review, and 33 were games I hadn't played before.

( and here they are )

(I made sure to number them because when I went back to number my book post I realized I had shorted myself four books! It was actually 51!)

My ongoing gaming side-quest is to play games from different countries. This year my new countries were Brazil, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Peru, the Philippines, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, and Taiwan, bringing my total to 28. (At least the way I'm counting. I realize that "what is a country?" is a fraught question, but it's also a question that's way above my pay grade so I'm trying not to sweat it for such a low-stakes project.) My list of potential games to play includes 31 more countries. There are still lots and lots that I haven't yet identified a game for, including some seemingly low-hanging fruit, but since I'm keeping it to titles that would be of interest to me outside this project, the search for options can take longer.

My game list is a bit silly right now because I decided to add every game I could remember playing... ever. I love revisiting childhood games, and I enjoy searching for obscure titles and figuring out how to get them to run, so I'm okay with the list just being long. I actually do think it is possible, in principle, for me to review every game I played as a child, while attempting to do the same for books would be totally absurd. I've read a lot more books than I've played games, I started reading at a younger age, and I think I'm much less likely to forget a game than a book simply because I have a strong visual memory. Anyway, for future reference (I know I'll want to know next year) I currently have 280 games on my list.

Of the games I played for the first time in 2025, my favorites include: Until Then, Disco Elysium, Engare, I Did Not Buy This Ticket, The Last Door, and The Drifter.

ravena_kade

Dad had his MRI today at noon. Found out no one was going to read it until Monday so they decided to let him out. WE got home at 8 PM.

I'm tired.

This weekend I am going food shopping and that is all.

Dad has appointments next week in the building. It looks like he is going to try the LVad. He wants to hold out until February. If things go okay it could give him 5 years. If not he will pass of multiple organ failure.

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vinceaddams:

vinceaddams:
vinceaddams:
hey who scanned this issue of Magasin des Modes. I have some questions.
Now that’s more like it! Thank goodness someone competent also scanned the same thing!
(Unfortunately it seems to be one of those websites where leaving links to specific pages is impossible??)
Oh I forgot to say the reason I was looking for this is because I wanted to find the source of this fashion plate, which was the inspiration for the fur trimmed waistcoat I finished recently.

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threeforthememories

There's a superstition in Japan that certain ages are unlucky. The year you turn 36 is unlucky for women. (There are only two options.) I turned 36 in 2025 and it was a bad year for me!

… which is why I'm starting with this selfie:

( 2025 in three photos )

I participated in this community in 2023 and 2024, too.

Current Mood: reflective

sixbeforelunch posting in

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I don't know how interesting this will be to people other than me. I'm not the most artistic or creative person, not by a long shot, but I've decided to share my current primary planner anyway. This set up served me really well last year. This year I've made a few minor improvements, and it's possible that some of these ideas will be useful to other people.

The journal I'm using is the Panobook from Studio Neat. I love the wide landscape layout and the dot grid, and I can vouch for the quality of the paper. I use cheap ballpoint pens (I might experiment with fountain pens at some point, but I haven't yet), and also cheap markers. Neither bleed through these pages. The cover is sturdy, and the spiral binding is resilient. It's 50 sheets, 100 total pages long, which is enough for the entire year and then some. I stay on one side of the page, and then when I get to the end, I flip it over and start writing on the reverse side, so the spiral is always on the left side as I use the notebook. You could obviously just use both sides of the page as you go, but I found this works better for me. (If you're a lefty, in theory you could do the opposite and keep the spiral on the right as you go. The pages have no set orientation.)

( Image heavy below the cut. CN: brief mention of weight tracking. )

yourlibrarian posting in

threeforthememories

threeforthememories is now open! You can join and share your photos at any time between now and January 24th. Please refer to the 3 rules in the profile page, and feel free to ask anything here.

Let's all share 2025 memories!

kareina

This morning I started my day with an hour of yoga, followed by breakfast and snow shovelling. The snow is fluffy and easy to move. However, it is not at all suited to filling in the low spots where tire tracks in the mud froze because I didn’t have the energy to go change into boots and trample the tracks flat on the last warm day before it froze again. I regret this decision.

After lunch Keldor and I walked over to the gas station (also the local post office) to get a package that was delivered there. The first person I saw when I entered was Anna, an SCA friend from Luleå. It turns out that she had been on her way home, and got as far as where the road is closed due to a serious bus accident, just north of here, and they decided to turn back and use the loo at the gas station while they waited for the road to reopen.

So, of course, we invited them over for ficka. As luck would have it, we still had some of the Gluten-free vegan smjulpaj from when Hjalmar visited, so Anna could eat it. I love spur of the moment guests, and it is even better when we have appropriate snacks on hand.

After they left I resumed work on Silk bliaut short tunic until it was time for my zoom meeting with

katerit, who gave me helpful feedback on the story I have written for

hrj ’s Call for Submissions: 2026 Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Fiction Series. It was really good to see her, it has been far, far too long, and the feedback was very useful. I may not have accomplished everything she suggested, but the story was much improved by the time I was happy with it, and sent it in. Heather may or may not like my contribution, but I know that she will be pleased that she is getting still more submissions already the first week, so that is a little thing I did to try to brighten the world today.

susandennis

Christian is such a fun friend and such a wonderful interior engineer. We had a great lunch. I learned that Jathon, the building manager at the condo who drove me crazy, has left the job. Christian says he thinks it was mutual. They redid his list of responsibilities and he said NFW. And now he's gone. I would sure be doing the happy dance if I still lived there.

Then we came up here to talk closet. Christian is very good at big picture and equally good and close ups. He asks all the right questions and listens to me. We talked about a biscillion options and different ways to do different things. We agreed that the next step is to clear out everything in there except clothes and shoes.

This meshes perfectly with the first items on my brother's ToDo list!

We also looked at the storage area. The shelves I ordered are ones he has used and he says they are perfect for my use except I ordered the wrong size. NP. I ordered the right size. They will be here on Monday. I'll take the others back this weekend.

I was just getting ready to ask my one last question 'What about using one of the closet design companies?' when he said 'What about using one of the closet design companies?' So we agreed that 1st I'd get it all cleaned out except clothes and shoes and then have Closets By Design* come in.

I'm quite relieved and excited to get this all done and to get Christians ideas. He said his new clients are just getting started with their new apartment so he'll be in and out over the next month or so. The apartment they are moving into is huge. The previous resident was the original one who moved in 17 years ago! She's now 104 and has moved into the nursing wing. He has his work cut out for him.

*We have basically Closets by Design and California Closets. Ruth, one of Christian's other clients out here, recently vetted both and found that they came within $2 of each other but chose Closets by Design because they don't hang as much stuff from the walls. She's got a lot of experience with building and knows her shit. I'm going with her choice. Plus California Closets pissed me off in 2005, I can hold a grudge!

Also, turns out, Closets by Design wants me!! I just went to their website and filled out their form and requested January 15 at 10 am as my first choice for a consultation and within minutes I got an email and a voice mail saying the designer would be here then.

The only problem I have with Christian is his billing. He never bills me enough for his time. And he takes forever to send an invoice. I used to wait and stew about it. Today, I dug out a old invoice, gave him a raise and wrote him a check for his consultation today and even went downstairs to get it into the mail. (He also uses a bookkeeping system from the 80's - checks. ha!) Worth every single penny.

ranunculus

Yesterday involved a hike up over Power Pole Hill and then up Fairview Hill. The goal was to make lots of water bars on the trails in advance of today's storm. The trails and roads all looked pretty good considering the downpours that have happened this year. Possibly because of work done last year and the year before. Between hiking up, up, up steep hills and shoveling it was a great, extended cardio workout.
Today the promised storm is moving in. It is windy, starting to rain a bit, and not very pleasant outside so we are sitting by the fireplace in the living room.
I did get lots of canning and storage jars moved up to the attic. Lots of home canned stuff is getting eaten up, which is good!

merrileemakes posting in

betaplease

Fandom: A tiny space fandom that I won't name for reasons. There is virtually no canon in the story and can be read canon free.
Characters/Pairings: None
Rating & Warnings: G, no warnings
Estimated Fic Length: 1000-2000 words
Notes: This is a short canon-free story set in a very nebulous fandom. I'd love for a beta to read for sense, structure and general readability.

disneydream06

Good luck to you guys...

I bought a daily Pun Intended calendar.

Jan. 2nd:

I owe a lot to the sidewalks.

They've been keeping me off the streets for years.

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common_nature

We were surprised to see the heron out on the ice last week, since we had thought it migrated each year. But apparently it's not unusual for them to stay put. It was not having the easiest time on the ice though, as up top it had nearly fallen over while trying to walk.

( Read more... )

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cosmolinguist

A year and a bit ago, we acquired a weight bench (and the associated barbells, dumbbells and weights) from a transgym acquaintance. His partner was delighted to get it out of their loft and I was delighted to have it during the dark winter months when my ankle still wasn't up to walking to and from -- not if I wanted to actually do anything at the gym once I got there!

It served me well but isn't making good use of the space in my computer room now that it's easier for me to go to the gym. So today I passed it on to another acquaintance from transgym. He's so excited to have it and I'm so excited to have it out of my room! The circle of life.

I'm excited generally to be dealing with things that have been cluttering up the place. angelofthenorth said she'll take the stand mixer that we've never made enough use of.

(I know this sounds horribly middle-class of me, to be so burdened by possessions...and I am, but in my defense both of these were things I got from others, for no money.)

D and I walked Teddy this afternoon. Wintery mix overnight got us our first ice and/or snow this winter, a little of which has now re-frozen into black ice. With hiking shoes and a little of what my dad calls "duck walk" (apparently here it's called "penguin walk"!), D and I were fine. But Sylvia was so grateful that we showed up to walk the dog at all today. Which gave me the rare opportunity to be like "Don't worry ma'am, I'm from Minnesota."

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Full Wolf Supermoon, 2 January 2026.

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2025 game roundup

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hey who scanned this issue of Magasin des Modes. I have some questions.

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