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Also today: I got super in the zone on Fallout Triptych and got so much done. The oven cleaning ended. But a lot of today was cross stitch, assisted by my adblocker working again and Youtube letting it through, so I could listen to stuff all day.

But tomorrow I have other stuff to take care of.

Back is feeling better, hand is improving, maybe by the weekend I can get back to the gym? I hope so.

Total for today: 3229

Total for November: 21,766

Total for 2026: 1,123,159

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In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

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Books
Since last update...

Read Victoria Goddard's novella The River That Ran Away to Paradise.

Read Freya Marske's Swordcrossed, audiobook edition, narrated by Omari Douglas. This is my favourite of her books so far.

Read KJ Charles' How To Fake It In Society. I was thinking, at around the 66% mark, "and the next beat is going to happen now, because KJ Charles is not formulaic as such, but she is deeply committed to delivering genre conventions as expected. If she sells you a table, it won't be a shoddy table, it won't break or fall down, it won't be ugly or tacky or rickety, it will be a good example of a table, but it will unarguably be a table. Not a sofa or a TV console." The next beat came then, as expected, but then she pulled something right before the end of the book that made me genuinely wonder for about a chapter if KJ Charles was about to do what KJ Charles Would Not Do.

Read W.E.B. DuBois' short story 'Jesus Christ in Texas' as an audiobook, narrated by Margaret Killjoy, and decided I'm going to read his Darkwater on the strength of it and 'The Comet'. Margaret Killjoy did what she intended.

Read v2 of Dungeon Meshi. Poor Anne.

Fandom
AO4 (An Outage Of Our Own) continues.
On Discord, I've participated in the Lays server's Insksnipvember a few times.

Music
Re-listening to Fun Home a lot.

Crafts
Some lino-cutting (no new prints yet.)

Printed some stickers that (months ago) I drew on paper, photographed, then edited and coloured in GIMP. I cut them out and stuck them to my journal.

Tech
Made my first ever attempt at soldering. Nothing at all complicated: I just joined the arms of an LED to two pieces of flex cable. It worked, and also gave me the information that before I do more soldering I would like a helping hand device and maybe also a temperature-controlled soldering station.

Attempted to upgrade my server to the latest LTE distro of Ubuntu. It went very badly. After four days of trying to fix it, I rolled it back to the pre-upgrade snapshot, but now I have to work out how to upgrade it without breaking it like that.

Garden
It's late spring, so... yeah. Long grass and weeds. I did see some nasturtium leaves, though, in the spot where I sowed nasturtium seeds after clearing the weeds.

Cats
Still slaying the Birdie.

torachan

1. Last night I looked up the bike shop hours and it seems that someone else has taken over from the elderly man who was running it, so they have more regular hours now and are open until six. I didn't have a late meeting this afternoon, so was able to get home in time to take my bike over. It's been having some noise with the front breaks, too, so I asked him to give it a tune up in addition to fixing the tire. If I can get home early enough tomorrow, I can pick it up then, otherwise it will be Friday, but I'm glad I was able to at least take it in.

2. Carla rode her bike to the Italian deli to get a sandwich for dinner and they didn't have the one we wanted, but we got a different one and it was also very good! (You can custom order at the counter, but she was there near lunchtime and it was super busy, so was just looking at the stuff they already had made and in the case.)

3. Jasper and Gemma chilling together on the bathroom counter.

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I made this tonight.

"Pumpkin Stew with Pork"

Ingredients:
1 thumb of ginger, minced
1 clove of garlic, minced
half a sweet onion, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
2 pork cutlets
water
1 teaspoon Bragg's coconut aminos
1/4 teaspoon garam masala
about 1 1/2 cups pumpkin puree
2 teaspoons garam masala

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I've started reading Simon Stålenhag's books that aren't quite graphic novels, but aren't close to anything else, either. I put in two holds this morning, then cancelled one on the grounds that instead of tearing through all five the library has, I'll let myself draw it out a bit longer. He's masterful at creating a massive world and narrowing down the focus to the point the reader knows there's way more out there, but because the characters aren't seeing or thinking about any of that, it's never shown.

There's some people I've known who'd have loved it. What I feel isn't anger that I can't show it to them, but sorrow that I'll never be able to share it with them. In some ways, it's less painful to think of friends who've passed on than those who've drifted away or left in a mess - we were still friends up until they were gone. So when I see a book they'd have liked, even though I'll never know exactly what they'd have thought of it, I know we'd have had a good time talking about it. His use of color, his aptitude at capturing the way kids make up new rules for the world. They would've loved it, and I'll hold that close as I try to savor each page.

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Octopus suckers hold a surprising clue to how evolution builds new body parts

Cuttlefish and octopus arms use the leg-building genes of insects, but their suckers run on a gene from the embryo's first days.

Oh, it goes back farther than that. Look at what the gene does:

Ets1 normally works during gastrulation, the stage in which a hollow ball of embryonic cells folds inward to form the body’s layers.

That is the first step of simple multicellular life moving toward complexity. The first shapes are very basic things like strings, pancakes, blobs, or spheres; then tubes and hollow balls. Complexity requires getting the cells to do different jobs, which requires sculpting cell masses into different shapes -- the structures of a more differentiated body plan. So basically, the suckers form using a tool from the root kit for complex life. :D

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Mississippi!!! 🎉🎉🎉

I was off today, so I made 2 batches of thumbprint cookies (30 each) and listened to Rachel Maddow on Pablo Torre Finds Out, which is pretty much the only way I can listen to a podcast, and I'm sure I missed a lot but what I heard, I enjoyed.

I guess it's reading Wednesday, and earlier this week I recommended Megan Whalen Turner's The Queen's Thief series to

angelgazing, and that made me want to reread it, so I'm in the middle of The Thief right now. I mentioned that The Thief is very YA, but not to let that put her off. I did not, however, give her any spoilers, and ( spoilers ) And if you haven't read it yet, you absolutely should.

I also have been pecking away at To Shape a Dragon's Breath, but mostly on my phone, so I've only been reading it in waiting rooms and such. I'm liking it, but I am so braced for bad things to happen to Anequs and I don't want that, that I kind of don't pick it up otherwise. I need to push past that and lock in, but probably not until after I finish this Queen's Thief reread. *wry*

I feel like there was something else I wanted to mention but I don't...oh wait, I know! If you want to save all your open AO3 tabs, there's a way in Firefox (and I believe other browsers) to bookmark them all at once in their own folder, and then copy all the links in that folder and paste them into a word doc (or a gdoc, or a DW entry, or, in my case, a Libre office doc). On a Mac, you hit command+shift+D and it'll ask you to name the folder (AO3 tabs), and then you have a folder of all the links, which you can right click on and hit "copy" and then "paste" in your document of choice. More detailed instructions are here. I've got them all in their own window right now, but this is a nice backup in case of a crash or forced restart or something.

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Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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fic
So, I mentioned last week that I'm now backing my fic up to

sageness at Squidge. And rereading it has been really good for me -- I used to be a good writer! I'm desperately long out of practice, but reading/skimming these stories is helping to quell some of my anxieties over cranking out the thing I want to do for Yuletide.

yarning
Missed yarn group due to sleeping way late. I got the blue and red bunny made, and also went on a quest to dollar tree and walmart for nylons and zipper-thread for kickbunny-making. I'm about decided not to advertise (or even run) a Black Friday sale, most especially on made-to-order things, bc I honestly would prefer to spend that time writing my Yuletide fic. Or researching in order to write. This has been a shit year for etsy sales anyway, and I doubt Black Friday is going to fix that?

healthcrap
I'm still getting rebound head/jaw/face pain, and night before last the terrible, mattress-clinging vertigo returned and has not yet abated. Maybe I have an incipient ear infection? IDK. Also, the weird nose swelling situation has not changed at all in the last several weeks, so I made a doc appt for next week.

astrology
First! I've finally installed my astrology software on my laptop AND I located a ton of old charts in an XHD subfolder I hadn't seen before. Hooray! Second, this Friday the Thirteenth, both Mercury and Venus station direct . This *never* happens on the same day, so I'm expecting something big to happen. Expect transportation and communication snafus to straighten out over the following week, and hopefully the relationship/aesthetic deep dive of the past several weeks has been fruitful. Also this weekend, Mars, Jupiter, and the South Node are all coming together in Leo. Mars is energy, Jupiter is justice and luck, and the South node is loss/the past/letting go. (Can we just hope that this is the end of the orange menace, whose Ascendant is in late Leo, right at this point.) Anyway, expect important news regarding something big. Epstein files, maybe? IDK.

elections
One final thing. We won, yes!! And a huge part of that was the vast number of discontented Republicans (like my parents) who stayed home instead of voting. Hooray for that? (Dad said, "I vote None of the Above!") I mean, we are going to fix their damned mess, thanks to them getting out of the way FINALLY. That's important. Also important, the truly vast number of people who moved here in the last several years from more liberal states and voted Dem. Which is to say, it's a tad more complicated than just saying, "Texas flipped BLUUUUUE!" It's great, absolutely, but there were a lot of factors in play.

I hope you're all doing well! <333

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As of 2026 November, Ellipsus has yet to create a function to create your own customised templates for new documents. I've written a tutorial for a workaround to create a "template document" and explained some features unfamiliar to new Ellipsus users. The tutorial's available on my blog.

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Last fall, I forgot a large clay pot outdoors, and it broke over the winter. A large piece of the rim broke off. I still grew things in it over summer.

Now it's fall. I turned it into a toad abode. I left the packed potting soil inside. I stuffed the top with fallen leaves. Then I set it upside-down beside the log garden in the house yard. I put the arch of the broken-off rim beside the gap to shelter the entrance. Then I raked enough leaves to cover the pot entrance and all. This will make a nice shelter for toads and other tiny wildlife over the winter. \o/

There are various ways to make a toad abode, hibernaculum, or other winter shelter for wildlife. Depending on where you live, these may attract toads, frogs, salamanders, snakes, lizards, chipmunks, hedgehogs, dormice, and other critters that need protection from harsh weather. Here are some more ideas ...

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I went on a trip! It was a month ago and I'm only just now writing it up but still!

Things we did:

--Saw an adaptation of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid, ( which was fantastic... )

--Also saw Steve Miller do a show as part of Jazz at Lincoln Center. ( I was really wrong in what I expected from this... )

--As a friend of

rionaleonhart, I couldn't NOT see The Play That Goes Wrong while I was in a place to see it. It was, unsurprisingly, ( a fuckin' delight )

--Took a walking tour of Chelsea Market, which was lovely and charming and had some fascinating tidbits about the Nabisco company.

--Went on our own self-guided tour of the area and stopped at the memorial for the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, which is a magnificently designed art piece to really drive home how absolutely horrible and senseless it was.

--Went to the Whitney, ( which had... )

--In other art situations, while Cyborg Wife was out one morning buying coffee and I was sleeping, she happened upon an art gallery that was putting on an exhibit of Peter Max, who was an amazing artist who died just a few months ago. My mother is a huge fan so I've seen his art my whole life and it was amazing to see so much of it in one place. The curator of the exhibit knew the artist personally and has written a book about his art - we talked to him for a bit as well. Really cool.

--We also went and had tea at Alice's Tea Cup, where we always go when we're in NYC to have tasty, tasty scones and tea sandwiches in a formal three-tiered fancy-ass setting. Mmmmm. I wish there was a place to go in Boston to have afternoon tea that wasn't, like, a hotel. Anyone know somewhere?

After all of this the wife came home and I went on to Baltimore, which I will put in a separate post because this has already taken me 50 bajillion years to write. But it was a really great trip! Not that anyone is surprised, but NYC is full of great stuff to see and do.

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Martian Volcanic Discovery Could Be ‘Smoking Gun’ in Search for Life

The discovery centers around hydrogen chloride gas seeping out through volcanic rifts—something of a “smoking gun” that suggests Mars is not geologically dead, but merely sleeping.

These gases hint at magma, which, when coming into contact with groundwater can produce warm habitable niches for organisms beneath the Red Planet’s surface.

Plausible! :D

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colton_hill

Mister Beep is molting. It's not as severe as Bloödcheëp, but he looks very rumpled right now as he sheds feathers for fall plumage, which look identical to his rest-of-year plumage.

(Link goes to a comic about molting cardinals. Northern cardinals have a very extreme molt, among birds.)

His owner is moving the cage closer to the window to take advantage of what sunlight there is at this time of year.

donutsweeper

Okay, wow, so much has happened in the month since I have posted last.

AO3, as most of you know, has been down for maintenance for a bit now. Fandom collectively lost their minds a little as a result. First there were gdrives of DLed fic being shared anywhere (most have been taken down). Then there have been numerous scrape sites that popped up trying to get a quick buck (ao3.life, fanficparty, etc) most have already crashed and burned and been taken down. There's plenty of other ways to get fanfic to read, even discounting ff.net and wattpad. There's always the wayback machine if you have a link (and it honors author take down requests and also doesn't get locked-to-ao3 works). There's a few archives that are AO3 forks/site that use AO3's code (with permission, OTW has always been behind there being many archives rather than just AO3). The "big" (big being a relative term) ones are squidgeworld (general), Sunset (femslash-centric), Ad Astra (Star Trek fandoms) and Comic Fanfiction Authors Archive (comics centric, obviously) and possibly others? All have been hammered as a result of AO3's shut down and there's been some harassment and chaos as a result. (Sunset was taken offline briefly as a result but it is currently back up).

I signed up for squidgeworld when it opened but never uploaded anything so I do have some invites if anyone needs one. As an fyi, there's been some recent controversy over its AI policy (originally no AI fanfic was allowed but art AI was but now that might be up for review) which has blown up on social media but I guess that's not surprising. It also deals with tagging/warnings a little differently which also has created issues. (and, I will be honest, the FAQ and blog show it being very much a one man show behind it and I can see why some people have issues with how he runs things but... it is his archive, as were all the others he ran since the early 90s, he can do it how he wants and those who don't like it can just choose not to use it?)

Thankfully yuletide had released the requests and gotten them uploaded to both the yuletide specific app and the fandom.tools one right before AO3 went down so other than not being able to officially assign pinch hits and people having to default via email vs the ao3 button it wasn't affect much. Several other exchanges were not so lucky - for the first time ever trickortreat was not able to have reveals on Halloween and some others like ficinabox are a bit chaotic.

Oh, despite AO3 being down, they are still working on clearing their email queue so there are the occasional kudos (or other) email getting sent out. So if you get one, it's neither a scam nor a sign the archive is necessarily back. (otw's status post with that info)

Recently we lost both Walter Koeng and Patrick Stewart, both were amazing and will be missed. May their memories be a blessing.

The US had election day which led to quite a lot of good news. The fact there was a 'blue wave' was not really unexpected, historically there's nearly always a swing against the sitting president's party, but the size of it was. So many races in so many places went to the democrats and led to a whole ton of firsts (i.e. first non-white, male, christian, het, etc person elected in various positions) so quite the wonderful win for diversity. Very glad to see it. And hopefully it'll lead to some sort of change or at least some kind of accountability. And the fact this has come on the heels of other countries' elections resulting in similar things is a hopeful shift in the world. With luck it will continue.

Last but not least, as always, several weeks of

recthething tumblr recs (Babylon 5, Batman, Daredevil, MDZS/Untamed, Sherlock Holmes, ST:TOS and ST:TNG):

Babylon 5
- Ψ (Wonderful sketch of Walter Koeng as Bester)

Batman
- [I really miss you guys...] (gorgeous wistful Nightwing)
- hidden (Batman and Robin, so cute!)

Daredevil
- Happy Birthday Murdock twins ♡ (so cute)

MDZS/The Untamed
- MXTXtober day 8 - Friend (Wen Ning, the Juniors and Fairy, adorable)
- Day 10: Weapon (very eerie WWX in the Burial Mounds)
- relief / when love was always leaving (oh my heart)
- The Kiss - wangxian ver. (WWX has the best smile in this)
- Happy Halloween everyone! And happy birthday to the one and only Yiling Patriach, Wei Wuxian! (very neat carved pumpkin)
- Happy birthday to Jiang Cheng (gorgeous Jiang Chaeng and Jin Ling papercraft)
- Happy Jiang Cheng day! (always love poorly-drawn-mdzs' stuff)

Sherlock Holmes
- give me 20 minutes and I'm going to draw these two kissing on the mouth (absolutely gorgeous RDJ!Holmes and Law!Watson)
- playing with color blocking. do I like it? thats the question. (another gorgeous Law!Watson)

Star Trek: TOS
- Rest in peace, Walter Koenig
- Met again and forever RIP Walter Koenig (all the TOS crew we've lost *sniffles*)

Star Trek: TNG
- Repose en paix, mon capitaine. (lovely picard)

I recently discovered a puzzle word game uncrossy that is a lot of fun to try to figure out (and unlike that 45x45 one, this one is pretty quick to do!)

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3323/

Don't worry--even though small and potentially deadly meteors hit the ground all the time, statistically you're actually much more likely to die from a rare large one that destroys your whole area!

https://xkcd.com/3323/

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