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People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

Under our government are there any rights that you have but shouldn’t? How about rights you don’t have but should?

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aliensamba

Medium: anime
Fandoms: Dragon Ball Z; Cardcaptor Sakura; Jujutsu Kaisen
Characters: Son Gohan; Tsukishiro Yukito; Fushiguro Toji, Itadori Yuuji
Notes: 5 sig tags for "24.33 - tag it!" at Land of Art.

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-aliensamba of ren

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: hueco mundo
Current Music: aizo - king gnu

ysabetwordsmith

Today I made apple topping. A slight tactical error: all we have to pour it over is vanilla ice cream, and the weather is currently subzero. 0_o Perhaps tomorrow I'll make something else to go with it.

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primeideal

Further to this, I am happy to say that I am now at 100% of sections begun and mostly complete, ahead of the deadline I was aiming for. If it's not selected, there may be future opportunities to revise/resubmit. And there will probably be a little more padding/editing to go, but the total word count won't grow by more than about 10% of the current total.

I've archive-locked a couple old posts from years ago, since I'm borrowing/rephrasing some of that content to include there. So if you see any broken links, it's probably not you, it's me.

Google Drive automatically puts it at the top of my "suggested documents" to open. Usually it was just "you last opened it January 18," but the last couple days, in the evening, it's like "you usually open it around this time," they know my daily pattern-of-life...

ysabetwordsmith

We've passed the third week of January. This includes more of the dropoff days: January 17, January 19, and the third Friday.

It's good for people to make their own plans, with help if wanted or needed. Variations of "How is that working for you?" are used to gauge progress. Here's an example from Brief Action Planning with a flow chart. This concept applies to most problem-solving situations, and it's something that anyone can learn to use.

The above approach is a shorthand version of the engineer problem-solving method. It requires following several steps such as defining a problem, brainstorming solutions, testing a solution, evaluating results, and making changes if necessary.

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ysabetwordsmith

Cities Must Fix Inspections

Think permitting and inspections reform don't matter? Listen to this hellish account.

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delphi

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kingstoken's 2026 Book Bingo: First Person POV

The Red Chesterfield by Wayne Arthurson is a 2019 crime novella (with a touch of magical realism) about a bylaw enforcement officer, M, who finds a body while investigating an abandoned chesterfield. The incident leaves M shaken and drawn into more than one mystery as the chesterfield keeps appearing and a regular on M's route disappears. But the book is less interested in answering "whodunnit" than it is with looking at characters' decisions about getting involved in crime and drama and how priorities around family, romantic relationships, career, community, truth and justice can shift the usual narrative shape of the genre.

This is one of those books that I want to take apart with a little eyeglass screwdriver to see how it works. It's an absolute marvel of efficiency. It's only 99 pages (that exact number being by design, I suspect) with large text and several half-page chapters, but it's packed with story. It covers a lot of ground without feeling like it's moving as fast as it is. We get to know so much about who M is as a person but from a deep enough position that we skip a lot of high-level markers or exposition. This story is built on implication and inference, and the reader's principally assigned to solving the protagonist rather than the plot.

I really enjoyed this one, and I'm looking forward to checking out the author's other work.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is partly sunny and cold. Heavy snow and deep cold are predicted for the weekend. :/

I fed the birds. I've seen a small flock of sparrows and a male cardinal.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 1/23/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I've seen a large flock of sparrows and a female downy woodpecker.

EDIT 1/23/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 1/23/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

killaurey

Title: Rita Skeeter, Time Traveller
Chapter: 08 – Prisons
Author: Killaurey
Rating: T
Word Count: 5,338
Summary: Really, if Mr. Potter wasn't such a good cook, she'd feed him to a Dementor.

Or:

Harry's Master of Death, Rita's a time traveller, and there's a six-year-old Boy Who Lived to take care of.

(Rita would like her life back. Thanks.)
Notes: Part 6 of 22 of my Speak Now (Taylor's Version) Project, a series of unconnected stories each based around one of the songs off of Taylor Swift's album Speak Now (Taylor's Version). This story was written for the song Mean. Chapter 8 of ?
Disclaimer: I don't own HP. Obviously.

( Chapter 8 – Prisons )

Previous Chapter || Index || Next Chapter
or
Previous Story || Index || Next Story

ysabetwordsmith

Snowflake Challenge 12: Appreciation

Today's challenge is all about delivering appreciation where it's due. Who makes your fandom life better?

Make an appreciation post to those who enhance your fandom life. Appreciate them in bullet points, prose, poetry, a moodboard, a song... whatever moves you!

An old-fashioned ornament of two young girls bundled up in coats and walking side by side is nestled amidst pine boughs.

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ysabetwordsmith

bookclub_dw is running a poll about what to read in February.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today's theme is Libraries and Librarians.

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aliensamba

Medium: anime
Fandoms: Dragon Ball Z
Notes: Headers for "24.23 - on the hunt (part 2)" at Land of Art.

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-aliensamba of ren

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Location: hueco mundo
Current Music: sedated - hozier

ysabetwordsmith

Here are the location notes for "The Bones of Chihuly."

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ysabetwordsmith

Here are the character notes for "The Bones of Chihuly."

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ysabetwordsmith

This poem is spillover from the March 4, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

librarygeek. It has been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred. This poem belongs to the Big One and Shiv threads of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem contains intense topics that may distress some readers, especially glass artists and fans of glass art. Highlight to read the more detailed warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes upset friends, crying man, emotional first aid, Shiv's awkward but effective crisis response, Chihuly Garden and Glass destroyed by earthquake, salvage operations, insufficient organization causing emotional upset, reference to clumsiness, sorting broken glass that used to be art, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your taste and headspace before deciding if this is something you want to read.

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themightyflynn

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delphi

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy and chilly.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 1/22/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 1/22/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 1/22/26 -- I filled the trolley twice with large branches that I hauled to the ritual meadow. Now all that's left of the brushpile by the driveway is one big forked branch that I can't break down myself, and the leftover twigs that will need to be raked up. \o/

I've seen a large flock of sparrows, a male and a female cardinal separately, and a starling.

EDIT 1/22/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I've seen a pair of cardinals.

I am done for the night.