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2026 Wishlist in Progress

Keeping track of stuff I like or want is easier if I make a place for it through the year, rather than trying to do it at the last minute. This worked great in the past, so I'm continuing the practice. See my wishlists from 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.

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Current Music: Daft Punk - Human After All

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december days: impostor syndrome

December Days 02025 #31: A Whole New Ballgame

Last call for December Days for this year! Thanks for reading along with me as I talk about skills and applications thereof, if for no other reason than because I am prone to both the fixed mindset and the downplaying of any skills that I might have obtained as not "real" skills because they do not fit some form of ideal.

( 31: A Whole New Ballgame )

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tv:stranger things

Stranger Things finale

I enjoyed it! Haters to the left!

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Goals for 2026

Each year, I think about what I have accomplished and what I want to do next. (See my goals for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.) These are some of my goals for 2026...

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2025 Goals in Review

I have reviewed my goals for 2025. Out of 74 goals and one blank, I met 68 plus 6 extra fill in the blanks -- one of them the extensive terrarium exploration -- only missing 6 goals. I did quite well, better than last year. \o/

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Snowflake Challenge

It's Snowflake time! :D Come one, come all, and join the fun. Do you know anyone new to Dreamwidth? Reach out and encourage them to participate in this event.

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New Year's Fireworks

🎇 🎆 𝒫𝓇𝑒𝓋𝒾𝑒𝓌 🎆 🎇

40 New Year's Fireworks Here!

Current Music: The Mountain Goats, "Through This Fire"

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The ocean is faithful and the Devil's a liar

That was the year that was no good. I kept up with my website and my presence on AO3 and slept rarely and spent six days in hospital.

I published one new piece of fiction, although a meaningful one to me:

"Hyperboloids of Wondrous Light" in Not One of Us #81, January 2025.

Very little new poetry:

"The Ghost Summer" in Weird Fiction Quarterly Winter 2025: Ghosts, April 2025.
"The Burnt Layer" in Not One of Us #84, September 2025.
"Below Surface" in Not One of Us #83, June 2025.

One reprint:

"Twice Every Day Returning" in Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Stories 2024 (ed. Sheree Renée Thomas), Psychopomp, December 2025.

Nearly as much fanfiction as all of the above, counting the fills I transferred to AO3 and the one I left in place:

"Fall from the Sky" (Repeat Performance), January 2025.
"Floriography" (M*A*S*H), January 2025.
"A Good Accountant, All Right" (I Walk Alone), January 2025.

Very much less than I had wanted for Patreon:

Cover Up (1949), January 2025.
Decoy (1946), January 2025.
Grand Jury Secrets (1939), February 2025.
Lost Boundaries (1949), February 2025.
A Bomb Was Stolen (S-a furat o bombă, 1962), February 2025.
Black Kitten Micro-Thon 2025 [Final Offer (2018), "Come Back Mrs Noah" (1977), "Contact" (1981), Other Other (2024), Once in a New Moon (1934)], February 2025.
"Poison" (Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 1958), March 2025.
No Publicity (1927), April 2025.
A Bell for Adano (1945), May 2025.
City of Fear (1959), June 2025.
Ladies (2024), June 2025.
The Sea Wolf (1941), July 2025.
None Shall Escape (1944), July 2025.
I Won't Play (1944), August 2025.
The Gaunt Stranger (1939), August 2025.
The Perfect Murder (1988), August 2025.
The Hot Rock (1972), September 2025.
The Innocents (1961), September 2025.
Heat and Dust (1983), September 2025.
The Immortal Story (1968), October 2025.
Marooned (1994), October 2025.
Girl Stroke Boy (1971), October 2025.
Fear in the Night (1972), November 2025.
Enys Men (2022), November 2025.
Blind Spot (1947), November 2025.
Defence of the Realm (1985), December 2025.
A View from a Hill (2005), December 2025.

My major achievement of the last twelve months looks like not dying. More than one member of my family could say the same. Happy New Year. A healthy year, a more than endured one. Mir zaynen af tselokhes.

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Huxleyenne's Theme Hits

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Pluto sketch

Been feeling under the weather during this very last day of the year, seems my flu-like symptoms will kick in as they do yearly, despite me taking precautions. Anyway, have a Pluto sketch from the Manga/Anime series inspired by a story arc from Osamu Tezuka. I am about to finish with the Anime itself, and its pretty intense. You should check it too. Naoki Urasawa also worked on Monster as well.

Hope you all have a Happy New Year!

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2025 last-minutebus: Dead Hand Rule; Aurora; There Is No Antimemetics Division

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117. kaya scodelario ( resident evil: welcome to raccoon city )

30 icons

cw: none!

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20-Icon Batch

Fandoms: Winter Solstice stock, Dune, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Smallville (from Lexmas and 5.17 Void), and Babygirl.

20 icons over here

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And the Year End Stats Post

Totals for the year

225,306 words posted
248,083 words written
(Both of these are down from last year)

172 separate works posted
(down from last year)

Average word per work count = 1,310 (up from last year)
Average works per month = 14 (down from last year)

Lifetime words on the archives = 7,599,799

Steps taken in 2025 = 3,356,217 (down from last year)

Headaches in 2025 = 102 (up from last year)

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weekly recs

"Weekly" Recs - December 31st, 2025

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rl: health

December Check In

Words	Goal Per Day: 500	Full Count: 20,261	Average Count: 654
Steps	Goal Per Day: 6,000	Full Count: 287,518	Average Count: 9,275
Headaches	At least they	don't hurt as much	Total: 10 days

Writing 0 days count: ONE!
Steps days under average count: ALSO ONE!

(I specifically lowered my step goal due to daylight and cold, but managed to make the old one!)

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Writing

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away -- even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaningless of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

Excellent advice. It gets the story moving and helps readers relate to the main character.

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i haven't met a locked door yet that i couldn't beat

December 2025 recs update:

unfitforsociety has been updated for December 2025 with 12 story recs and 1 vid rec in 7 fandoms:

* 5 Batfamily
* 2 Dungeon Crawler Carl
* 2 The Pitt
* 2 Star Wars
* 1 Slow Horses/Rivers of London crossover and 1 Ted Lasso vid

I haven't read much of anything from

yuletide, but the two I did rec I will update with author names tomorrow.

I didn't do much fannishly this year - the recs continue, and I still reblog a metric fuckton of stuff on tumblr, but my brain hasn't sparked to write again, though I think it might be inching closer, thanks to, of all things, Dungeon Crawler Carl. I also loved loved loved The Pitt and am so excited season 2 is coming so soon!

Now, I've got a new episode of Percy Jackson and the series finale of Stranger Things to watch, and then I have to wash my hair.

I hope everyone is celebrating New Year's Eve in their chosen fashion. <333

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Current Music: Liu Yuning - My Way Is My Path

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meme

End of the Year Fandom Meme

It is that time again, just in time before the new year rings in.

( Fandom in the year 2025 )

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December Round Up (28,937 words, 8 works)

Shared Projects, by cowriter, by fandom
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Single fics, by fandom, by posting date (related fandoms may be organized by chronology)
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