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One day, I would like to wake up without fresh horrors waiting. This week has not been the day.

I also, via means unknown, fucked up something in my ankle on Monday and have been hobbling around ever since. Like, I literally have no clue what I did. Nothing looks discolored and it's only a tiny bit swollen, so ??? But of course, that calf is now achy from walking funny.

Weekend plans are, unfortunately, to basically sit/lay around and heal up.

kalloway

Once upon a time, I started making a spreadsheet of plotbunnies. This was a terrible idea because it turns out that I really need plotbunny lists to be tangible. I need to be able to hold my plotbunnies and run my fingers over them and flip pages. This is not a dig at anybody who likes spreadsheets. My brain just likes things analog. So in 2023, I transferred the spreadsheet back into a notebook, awkwardly.

Since I have transcribed the proper 2020 plotbunny notebook into the new 2026 plotbunny notebook, I need to figure out what to do with the 2023 book. It is not complete but definitely has both duplicates and stuff not listed elsewhere. Hunting duplicates is possibly too time-consuming, but we'll see. I may just ignore it for the most part, or just pick a page at a time and go slowly?

Digging through my journal to find a bit more info on the spreadsheet mostly got me entries about getting rid of the spreadsheet, and those entries also were full of general malaise about posting to AO3. So I suppose it was no actual surprise that when, a few months later, the deep malice, bigotry, and incompetence of the OTW exploded, it was easy to just walk away.

No archiving today. Too tired from post-break work + getting back on schedule. Might not get back around to things until Thurs/Fri but that's fine.

(My 'favorite' attempt at organizing some plotbunnies/prompts was back in... 2016 or so? Definitely when I was in school and very busy. Anyway, I was lovingly notes and whatnot into a composition book, and decorating them, and then suddenly realized that no, I'd not written a lick of any of them. But I'd certainly scrapbooked them nicely.

No regrets, looking back! That was the creativity I had at the moment.)

kalloway

Archiving! Fandoms added: Kingdom Hearts 2, Count of Monte Cristo, Dragalia Lost, Wild Rock... ten fics total. Still debating slimming down

lemonadecafe's index and just using tags, idk. The index is going to get ridiculous sooner than later at this point so I guess we'll see?

The Count of Monte Cristo (2002 Movie) fic is one of the last exchange fics I wrote and apparently from a time before I'd turned off a lot of formatting in LibreOffice. I thought I could copy the raw html from AO3 but that turned out Very Badly. I've fixed what I could but AO3 is literally cleaning things too well and it's almost impossible to pick out what's gone wrong without multiple programs and argh... I suppose this is a chance to 'fix' the version on AO3? (I do actually fix code/typos/etc. over there when I see them. I try to say I don't post to AO3 because I am technically still using the site, unfortunately.)

Working on getting 2020's ow plotbunny book transcribed to a new notebook. There's a 202x appendix somewhere, and a lot of notecards, but there was literally a point where I just stopped logging things? Which is Not Great and kinda shows how my mental health went arse for a bit. (Also 2022, I'm guessing.) Well, fixing that now! This should all be Very Interesting!

kalloway

Overall
- five things archived to the Lemonade Cafe /

lemonadecafe (1x KH, 4x Code Geass)
- chatter post on

smallweb + comments
- tiny goal of email inbox at or under 250, right on the line
- got the silhouette/body built for my 30MF Priest and already am having terrible ideas
- ugh, dayshift

Other
- New Year's Friending Meme

kalloway

The Updating of Things-
- Lemonade Cafe - front page updated
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lemonadecafe - sticky post updated
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spring_renewal - noAI on profile, added schedule to my organizer for April, will update instructions/guidelines then
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octobercest - noAI on profile, and just opened up the community to be a fest all year, because sure why not
- printed out a new copy of canon-level pages for quick refresher reasons
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no_true_pair - note in organizer to post schedule later in month, added noAI to profile
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small_fandoms - already updated, dates for Drabblethon in organizer

Archiving-
- four new pages on the Lemonade Cafe and ten fics posted! (Also on

lemonadecafe.)

General-
- unsubscribed from a handful of communities (just freeing up some mental bandwidth)
- cleaned a bit in the bathroom and the linen closet (+ a tote bag filled with towels to donate to the animal shelter)

denise posting in

dw_maintenance

Привет 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!)

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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 ❤️

kalloway

Well, I went ahead and fixed the factually incorrect stuff on my fanlore page. I've actually had a fanlore account since, like, 2018, apparently, but never used it. My page is still hilariously something but... shrugemoji, I guess. I did drop a bunch of pages onto a watchlist which should at least help me catch things faster than noticing them like six months later. (I still get emails from the Gundam wiki which I made an account for and made exactly one edit to, fixing the color of Gai Murakumo's eyes.)

Since it the Season of Updating Things, I thought to finally put up a new transformative works policy instead of my very angry 'no, don't' from June. I am still technically upset about the whole thing; I suppose that's part of what a revised policy will help mitigate. I have, however, learned that some people have very thorough, comprehensive policies! Not just a concise paragraph, which I thought was expected/the norm. I've received some very good advice and suspect I'll spend a few days letting it all roll around in the back of my mind. (I suspect I just wrapped my head around the idea all wrong?)

I finished up Calibarn, aside from one clip that absolutely shattered before I'd even put any pressure on it, let alone the sort of pressure that would normally damage plastic. I cemented it back together and will give it most of a day to cure before trying again. Worst case, I glue a fixed position. It's on its weapon, which may get ditched for display anyway since there's a plan for Calibarn...

The quest for flat surfaces continues. I still feel like the dining room should be easy to conquer so that's where I've mostly started.

kalloway

Is there anyone around who does Fanlore stuff that would mind editing a factually incorrect statement on my page and fixing a link? I'd do it myself but that's probably a guideline/etiquette breach.

karanguni

In a rather cursed year, Yuletide has been a nice end of season bright spot. I received a delightful Bedlam Stacks fic – The Question of the Chicken and the Egg - that dives into Merrick and Keita's relationship over time. It's perhaps my favourite thing about Bedlam/Watchmaker, and the fic covers some very beautiful moments between these two amoral Company boys.

Some other recs from my limited readthrough:

The Way of the Househusband is striking it out of the park this year, with both delightful loyalty porn ("as you are") alongside :fire: burning hot three-way porn ("I Want to Be With You Night and Day "), with Tatsu watching from the side included :eyes:

Antique Bakery is back in Yuletide, my friends, and this fic serves up Ono and Tachibana off on a trip to Hokkaido ("Obscura")

Wimbledon: Peter is too idiotic to realise his best friend is into him, because of course ("The Best Part of 1996"

Cthulhu Mythos/Dream Cycle: Randolph Carter is going to bring all the horrors to the yard ("Onwards the rite "), and damn right, he's a better dreamer than yours

Then, a now-perennial Yuletide classic, Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defence crossed over with Rivers of London. You know where this one is going, and you know you're going to click on this fic.

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