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A sensitive, well-written novel about a young girl coming of age at the end of the world. 11-year-old Julia lives in California suburbs with her doctor dad and fragile mom when the Earth's rotation begins to slow, and gradually gets slower and slower and slower.

Days and nights stretch out. Birds fall from the sky. Some people become severely ill, apparently from disruption of circadian rhythms. Crops fail. But life goes on, and Julia experiences all the ordinary milestones - a first love, her parents' marriage breaking up, becoming more independent - against a backdrop of larger loss and change. It

This is an apocalypse novel almost entirely without violence, apart from some light persecution of a scapegoated neighbor. There's some death, but it's all from natural or accidental causes. It's science fiction but marketed as literary fiction, and feels a lot more like the latter. The book has that melancholy, nostalgic, sepia vibe of looking back on times when you knew something was wrong but were young enough to be focused mostly on yourself, and knowing you'll never be that innocent ot experience the same time or world again.

umadoshi

The season's first storm is heading our way, although our bit of the province is expecting way more rain than snow. (Now it rains. But I think it mostly hasn't been too cold yet, so hopefully the rain will help the water table etc. recover some more after the summer/fall drought.) Maybe

scruloose can get the hoses indoors (or drained, if that's the plan) when they get home from work, before the weather arrives.

I've finally gotten weary enough of my natural hair color to buy permanent OTC dye, as opposed to the semi-permanent attempts I've made since it became obvious that covid has settled in for the long haul. ( TL;DR: purple permanent dye has been purchased but not yet applied )

C&Ping and expanding on a bit from Bluesky last night: ( an Advent calendar + supplementary chocolate )

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12daysofchristmas is a multimedia multi fandom winter prompt based fest that runs from December 13-24th, with three options to choose from on each day.

mcu15 is a prompt table challenge focused on the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

elasticella is running sapphic stocking stuffers, a multifandom multimedia f/f gifting event where you post your own "stocking" and fill others requests. Sign-ups are open until December 6th and fills are open until Dec 31st.

rarefemslashexchange (:D :D :D), a fic/art exchange for rare f/f ships (less than 250 works, complete, in English, using the otp:true filter), is accepting nominations until December 10th, 10PM PST.

polyamships is running Pass That Blorbo: Holiday Edition, a prompt challenge where you try to figure out how to pass that blorbo in as many ways as possible. Sign-ups are open until December 19th, 8:00PM (GMT-4).

Blood Drive is an event encouraging people to donate blood, plasma, or other blood products, register as a donor for bone marrow, organs, research, or other donor programs, and/or facilitating a blood drive by volunteering, organizing, or other kinds of help. If you do those things in December or January, you can leave a prompt to be claimed. :)

Holiday Love Meme is back for another year! :)

✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here

genprompt_bingo, a multimedia multifandom bingo that has "gen" prompts, is open for Round 29 sign-ups.

comment_bingo (:D), a bingo challenge where you used the provided prompts to comment on existing fanworks rather than create your own, is opened for Round 8 Sign-Ups. Click on the banner below to find out more and request a card! :)

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fancake's theme of the month is: amnesty. Click on the banner below to learn more!

Photograph of the aurora borealis taken in Norway, text: Amnesty, at Fancake. The northern lights are a bright green scribble that stretches over the horizon, along a snowy mountain ridge, and up into the starry night sky.

trobadora

fandomtrees sign-ups are closing on the 5th! There's still time to come and join!

(This is purely selfish, you undestand. As far as I can see, so far there are a just two or three requests for things I could write for - I'm really hoping for a bit more in my fandoms. *g*)

extrapenguin

✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here

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lotesse

ngl it's been fun that the snow set in hard this year as soon as December was on the horizon

minoanmiss

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minoanmiss

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Current Mood: hopeful

petra

This Tumblr post has Salman Rushdie's account of meeting Umberto Eco and Mario Vargas Llosa after each of them had trashed the other two in the press, and discovering that they got along extremely well in person.

OT3!

Having read none of them save a little Vargas Llosa en español, I can't begin to write it, but I can Want it.

*puts it in the Maybe Someday Yuletide tag*

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Cuddle up with William S. Burroughs, leave on the light for bell hooks

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This year's Advent calendar was made by Semja for me, and it's AWESOME! Chess all the way! :D

( Just look at this lovely modelling! )

I always admire when people are good at working with clay and/or modelling paste - it's one of the techniques I've tried, more than once, to no avail. Lucky for me that Semja has this skill!

sholio

So this is for

rec_cember, a month-long reccing event that I mentioned a couple of days ago! I don't currently know if there will be roundups or some other way to see what other people are reccing. Weekly check-in posts have been mentioned, but that's all I know about! Anyway, I signed up for daily reccing, so I'll see how long I can keep it up. I will also occasionally round these up over at

recthething.

(BTW, as per the previous poll, there was enough interest in cutting Babylon 5 spoilers that I will do that, as well as anything else significantly spoilery in my recs for other fandoms.)

I'm starting off on easy mode and reccing a short Murderbot TV-verse fic I read the other day that I enjoyed!

Rubberducking by

writingmonsters (Murderbot TV w/some book elements, Gurathin + Murderbot, gen, 979 wds)
Rubber duck debugging (or rubberducking): a debugging technique used in software engineering, wherein a programmer explains their code, step by step, in natural language—either aloud or in writing—to reveal mistakes and misunderstandings.

A cute little slice-of-life genfic in which Gurathin talks through a programming problem by using Murderbot's drone as a sounding board.

st_arcadia

I decided to join in on the following December challenge, as seen on tumblr!

Day 1: The Thing That Started It All

I've construed this as "the fic that launched me into the very fun Gundam Wing fandom" on ao3, which I began contributing to during an October writing prompt challenge. Here's the piece that got me hooked into writing for this fandom.

Streaks of Light (Chapter 2 of Études)
Noin realizes that pumpkin-flavored protein shakes are no longer an option.

Fandom: Gundam Wing
Tags: early pregnancy, nausea, vomiting, meteor shower
Relationships: F/M, Lucrezia Noin/Zechs Merquise

Current Mood: accomplished

sholio

I genuinely can't believe I finished this BUT I DID.

book cover with a magpie holding a Christmas ornament in its beak

The cover is .... there. It may need work.

Anyway - another Fated Mountain Lodge novella arrives for the holidays to answer the question everyone is asking: will the lodge's reservation system work any better this time than it has in the previous four books?

Download from Bookfunnel if you'd like a copy! It comes out on Dec. 7, so the link will stop working then.

https://dl.bookfunnel.com/lzcdk6pga8

Under the cut: a brief history of how this book came to be written.

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settiai

I've done fairly well at remembering to make this post on December 1st the last few years, so let's keep it up. ❄️

( Rules under the cut. )

( Wishlist under the cut. )

I've posted my P.O. Box and general information here for anyone who needs it. As long as I give you access, you should be able to see it. If you don't have access, feel free to leave a comment, send me a private message, or email me at settiai [at] gmail [dot] com in order to get it.

Also, since I get asked this every year: yes, I'm aware of

holiday_wishes, and I may end up posting over there as well. My brain has a weird hang-up about posting a wishlist somewhere more public like a community vs. my own journal, though, so we'll see.

Current Mood: accomplished

aquila1nz

AO3 Link | Everybody Knows (891 words) by Aquila
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Riot Women
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationship: Chloe/Inez
Characters: Jess Burchill, Chloe Burchill, Miranda Burchill, Rocco, Junior, Bronte, Manuela, Inez,Jerry, Auntie Mary
Additional Tags: mostly gen, with a smattering of chloe/inez, just because, family stuff, giving space, post show

Summary:

Apparently everybody knew Jess was learning the drums. Except Chloe.

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Notes:
Apparently any attempt by me to write about Jess' family is going to sound like something out of a mid-last century English kid's books. Guess what I grew up reading.

Current Mood: pleased

minoanmiss

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Current Mood: crushed

umadoshi

I wonder how much of an entry I can write on my phone before it gets too annoying. Still a bit amazed that the best-for-me swipe keyboard I've found is literally still in alpha. (I almost always strongly prefer to use tech/programs that are solidly out of beta, and yet.)

Bucky the Christmas tree has been revived from cold storage! I do still miss some elements of having a real tree, between the traditions and the evergreen scent, but it sure is nice not to have the time constraints of "how long will it look alive?" when deciding to put it up/take it down. And I'm also finding that I like the feeling of This Is Our Tree. Hello, Bucky, old chum. Good to see you again. You look well!

Anyhow, as of yesterday* he's in his place, built-in lights all aglow. No ornaments yet. Plenty of time for that.

*Ginny is not what you'd call a Christmas fan, so I told myself firmly that there was no call to put Bucky up on Saturday right before she and Kas would be coming over.

Today's main excitement was a dental appointment. Everything looks good, apparently. Now to hope once again that this won't be the time I get covid out of it despite the precautions we manage to take.