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No, it's not Sunday, but I haven't done any of these in a while, and that's the title of my post series, so.

I've written two stories this year so far, which is a good start even though they're both short. I've got to get cracking on my prompt fill for
Small Fandom Fest, too. Yikes! And I've got my main series to work on, and a continuation of a fic that was originally only going to be a short one-shot, but popular demand inspired me to expand it...

This show, this show. I can't believe the stuff it has me doing! I'm almost ashamed to admit. Stuff I swore I would never do. Like sign up with TikTok. Forgive me. I still hate it. I only want to see Miami Vice related vids, and the short length of a lot of them is ridiculous. I found a new-to-me artist though, who posted one of his songs to an MV video. But serious, I really hate it. Very annoying site.

I post a lot of episode reactions on Tumblr now, instead of just lurking like I used to do. I've been taking notes and making screencaps as I watch the episodes. I'm considering making some gifs, now that I have the means to do it... Heck, if I had the patience I could make music videos. I made a Sonny/Rico playlist (well, several of them on my classic Media Player, but one online for sharing). I've started making memes, and oh yeah, I've also started using screenshots/photos to make Titles for my fanfic. Sheesh!

I was just lurking on r/Miami Vice on Reddit and thinking about how this show truly had something for everyone. Men, women, people of all genders and sexual orientations, slash fans, action fans, cishet men who loved the cars/boats/guns/bikini-clad women, there was POC diversity, social commentary that's still relevant today, gorgeous men... And we're all still here thirty years later, happy as pigs in shit. 😀😁🤣

Current Mood: blah

silver_chipmunk

I got up at 8:00, had breakfast, but not coffee, and went back to bed. I woke up with the alarm at 10, but kept snoozing til 11-something.

Finally got up for real and had coffee. My three calendars were delivered, that's the unicorns, the penguins, and the teddy bears. I hung them all, same spots as always, unicorns and penguins in the living room, teddy bears in the bedroom.

I put in a Shipt order, and did really nothing else until it was delivered when I put it away.

I spent the day puttering online. I finally did take a shower and get dressed cause I felt sweaty and icky. But that's about it.

At7:00 I attempted to Team the FWiB. There were extreme technical difficulties, and we didn't manage to connect til almost 7:30. Then I had to get off in time to have my Al-anon meeting by Zoom.

The meeting was super small but good.

Then I had dinner, and went to the bedroom and called the Kid. She didn't answer as usual, so I left a text message and called

mashfanficchick. We talked for awhile and made plans for Thursday.

Then it was pet feeding time so I fed the pets and here I am.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. My meetings and the people there.

3. Shipt.

4. My calendars came.

5. Chocolate.

6.

mashfanficchick

Current Mood: okay

adafrog

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fabrisse

Nora's rather gnarly scar is something to behold.

At one point this morning, I thought that I had locked her crate, but she managed to get out and pinniped herself ten feet across a room. She's a determined little thing. We're getting her a smaller soft crate that we can keep in one room, so that Sis and I don't have to carry the big one from one room to another. The pet stroller, even if we only use it in the house, has already been worth it from my point of view. Getting Nora from one end of the hallway into the family room is so much easier with wheels. Carrying the big crate on my own was what convinced Sis that we needed one for her room and one for the family room.

Nicky has taken up Nora's usual spot in the window at the front of the house, barking at anyone coming up the street. It's so unlike him. When he wasn't in the front window, he was outside her crate looking in at her.

I would also like to say two things:

a) thirty pounds, low to the ground and not cooperating, is heavier than I thought.
b) I didn't expect so much poop.

My goal for tomorrow is to be able to have a shower.

tablesaw

And my desire to condense it into an update prevents the update itself.

Since it's the last thing I wrote about here, inbox zero, combined with a switch from Google to Proton for mail services has increased my enjoyment of mail and made newsletters more readable. I'd been following some good writers, now I actually read them. And the reading is inspiring, moreso than microblogging.

Along the lines of microblogging, I am more rigorous about writing on my Letterboxd, even though I was delinquent for the beginning of the year. I'm trying to get together various retrospectives for 2025, including my top new releases.

I also recently participated in a music mix/swap where I took inspiration from my movie-going. There's a youtube playlist and explanation list.

I'm trying not to commit to too much in the new year where I am full of restless energy, but some other thoughts for 2026:

Accept the poor image
Dispel the illusion of explanatory depth
Barf forth apocalyptica

Current Music: "My Baby (Got Nothing at All)", Japanese Breakfast

tielan

I shall miss the stars.

Not that I shall stop looking
as they pattern their wild will each night
across an inchoate sky, but I must see them with a different awe.
If I trace their flames’ ascending and descending –
relationships and correspondences –
then I deny what they have just revealed.
The sum of their oppositions, juxtapositions, led me to the end of all sums:
a long journey, cold, dark and uncertain,
toward the ultimate equation.
How can I understand? If I turn back from this,
compelled to seek all answers in the stars,
then this – Who – they have led me to
is not the One they said: they will have lied.

No stars are liars!
My life on their truth!
If they had lied about this
I could never trust their power again.

But I believe they showed the truth,
truth breathing,
truth Whom I have touched with my own hands,
worshipped with my gifts.
If I have bowed, made
obeisance to this final arithmetic,
I cannot ask the future from the stars without betraying
the One whom they have led me to.

It will be hard not ask, just once again,
see by mathematical forecast where he will grow,
where go, what kingdom conquer, what crown wear.
But would it not be going beyond truth
(the obscene reduction ad absurdum)
to lose my faith in truth once, and once for all
revealed in the full dayspring of the sun?

I cannot go back to night.
O Truth, O small and unexpected thing,
You have taken so much from me.
How can I bear wisdom’s pain?
But I have been shown: and I have seen.

— Madeleine L’Engle

sholio

candyheartsex signups close tomorrow! I was going to try to do it this year, but ... I just don't think it's a good idea. I'm starting to really need a break from exchanges, so I'm going to take a couple months off (aside from the ones I already have, which will be over when Festivids wraps up at the end of January) and then show up again when H/C-ex signups open in March.

Amperslash is still looking for two pinch hits! You can find the details here at the Amperslash comm.

• PH 3 - 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 镇魂 | Guardian - priest

• PH 9 - Fire Emblem: Soen no Kiseki/Akatsuki no Megami | Fire Emblem Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn, Honor Harrington Series - David Weber, The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison

If any of those sound like you might want to write them, the exchange has already had several delays and fingers crossed it'll be able to get them filled and open on time! I know there used to be some Guardian people around here; I don't know if anyone's still actively writing in it, or might be able to advertise the PH in Guardian-centric fandom spaces?

hannah

Challenge #3: Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favorite character, anything at all.

Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Dear Fandom,

You've changed. That isn't a bad thing. I'd go so far as to call it a good thing.

I remember when we met - properly, that is. Not the shy glances, not the vague hellos, the genuine, meaningful introduction. When I announced myself. I'd better remember it; I did it several times. You had to, in those early days. Everywhere we met, even if I already knew someone there, I had to introduce myself all over again. There was some fun to be had in that.

I remember when it was just us, you and me. At least, it felt like that. When I didn't dare speak your name and hid behind euphemisms and vague half-truths. When the party was small enough you could fit it onto one dance floor. When I think back on it, the excitement of being private and secretive, of having something all to myself, was a powerful feeling.

You're not my secret anymore. You've come roaring out into the world, with everyone aware of you and many people taking you seriously. There's power in that, too. I know I've known you longer than most people out there. It's still not something I want to explain. I don't think I should have to, and even with so many people knowing about you, I'd rather keep things quiet. They know you their way. I know you mine. The way I know you isn't just the way I remember you; it's the way I'm constantly getting to know you. There's things I can say about how you used to be - the phrases, the trends, the arguments of the day, the sudden new shiny thing appearing out of nowhere - and most of those things are pointless, because there's always going to be arguments and trends, with some of those arriving new and some simply wearing new clothes and I love that I've gotten to know you well enough to recognize which is which. To parse where the impulse comes from. To perceive the motivations. What's happening now would've happened back then and it'll happen in the future.

That's part of what I love about you that I've only recently fallen in love with. I couldn't have loved it back when we met. I didn't know you well enough.

I miss the thrill that came from knowing you, just from knowing you. But people meeting you for the first time are feeling that same thrill themselves. I've learned enough to know that. I've learned enough to love that people are always falling in love.

Best,
Hannah

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Music: Innocent - Our Lady Peace

ysabetwordsmith

This poem is from today's fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by

fuzzyred. It belongs to the Pain's Gray thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

"Done to Perfection"
-- a cinquain

Pain's Gray
bakes French pastries --
beignets and petits fours,
choux à la crème and tartes des Alpes --
exquis.

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Notes:

Read about the cinquain form.

French pastries include beignets, choux à la crème, petits fours, and tartes des Alpes.

exquis
French: delightful, delicious

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

This poem is from today's Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "Seas Beneath" square in my 1-6-26 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by

fuzzyred. It belongs to the Kraken and Mercedes threads of the Polychrome Heroics series.

"Beneath the Sea"
-- a hexaduad

Jules reads
job feeds.
Come work beneath the sea!
Stock Cans; room and board free.
He knows it's good work and good pay,
but should he go or should he stay?
Tides rise and fall,
feelings, sea call.
Beach, a liminal place;
teen, in similar space.
Jules scans the shore,
texts, Tell me more.

* * *

Notes:

Read about the hexaduad form.

Current Mood: busy

alchemise

I wrote for True Detective: Night Country this year and kind of just sunk myself into this world for a couple of months. Did a bunch of research on polar night, only to have to acknowledge that the show just hand-waved whatever it wanted so I followed suit. I love these characters so much that I had an absolute blast writing this.

Endless Night (4657 words) by alchemise
Fandom: True Detective: Night Country (TV)
Relationships: Liz Danvers/Evangeline Navarro
Characters: Liz Danvers (True Detective: Night Country), Evangeline Navarro, Peter Prior, Rose Aguineau, Bee Malee
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Horror, Cosmic Horror, environmental horror
Summary: Liz hadn’t intended to watch the first sunrise of the year.

( fic )

ysabetwordsmith

Nearly all women in STEM secretly feel like impostors

A striking 97.5% of women pursuing graduate degrees in STEM report moderate or higher levels of impostorism.

Nearly all women in STEM graduate programs report feeling like impostors, despite strong evidence of success. This mindset leads many to dismiss their achievements as luck and fear being “found out.” Research links impostorism to worse mental health, higher burnout, and increased thoughts of dropping out. Supportive environments and shifting beliefs about intelligence may help break the cycle.

That's probably because 97.5% of their male coworkers are misogynistic assholes, and so are a lot of people even outside of STEM.

After decades of being told that girls are bad at math, go play with dolls, harassment as soon as their breasts start growing, male students being put in charge of groups, professors stealing their work, getting lower grades than they deserve, struggling to find a job, their name being left off papers or awards, promotions going to less-qualified males, fighting for funds ... of course women realize that they are aren't wanted, aren't welcome, and nobody likes them.

The last 2.5% of women in STEM? They don't give a shit if people like them, and they aren't there to stroke anyone's ego or penis. Shut up and work. Impostor syndrome? It can be beaten to death with facts.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Today is partly cloudy and cool.

I fed the birds. I've seen a large flock of sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 1/6/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 1/6/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 1/6/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

mxcatmoon

Written for the prompts, 170 Ineluctable, 175 specious at

vocab_drabbles
Title: Reminders of Miami
Fandom: Miami Vice (TV)
Author: Cat Moon
Rating: PG
Words: 668
Characters: Sonny/Rico
Summary: Sonny, Rico, and a cat. A study in Cute.
Notes: This fic in in the same ‘universe’ as my story, “Baby Ducks,” but works fine as a standalone, too.
Inspired by the scene in “Death and the Lady,” where the boys got a kitten for Gina, because I died of cute. Also, I have a special interest. I lost my own orange baby last year, after 14 years of companionship. When I got him, he’d been named Sonny. Yes, I had an orange cat named Sonny. Of course I didn’t change his name, but I did mostly call him Chewy since he was always chewing on things he shouldn’t (especially plastic bags).

( Memories of Miami )

Current Mood: touched

snickfic

Clearing out the last of my movies watched last year.

We Bury the Dead (2026). After an American experimental weapons accident kills every human and animal on Madascar, an American woman (Daisy Ridley) comes to help identify bodies and search for her husband who was on a work retreat there. Also sometimes the dead don't stay dead.

As someone who is pretty over zombie movies, I liked this one quite a bit. First of all, it's Australian, and boy can you feel it. This is not your Hollywood zombie blockbuster or even your Danny Boyle zombie blockbuster. For starters, we spend relatively little time running from or fighting zombies. In fact, these are the most ambiguously threatening zombies I can remember seeing in a long long time, and I liked how much that complicated the story. It's also beautifully shot with great atmosphere and a score that really adds to the mood of the whole thing. And I really appreciated how our understanding of the central couple's married relationship gets more complicated as the film goes on.

That said, ( spoilers )

This movie feels like it invites comparison to 28 Years Later, if only by accident, given the timing. I know 28 Years Later has a lot of fans, and I didn't hate it, but overall I liked this a lot better for the indie feel, the focus on a female character, and honestly because I liked the cinematography better.

Anyway, it's out in theaters now. If it sounds fun, I recommend it!

--

Red Rooms (2023). A French-Canadian film about two female true crime fans following the trial of a man accused of raping and murdering underage teen girls. This movie is beautifully made, and with really visible care and precision. The director knew what he wanted to make, and he went for it. The result is moody and fucked up without ever feeling exploitative (to me); this is very much about the groupies, not about the man on trial, and we never seen the horrifying footage at the center of the trial.

It's also shippy as hell. Our main gal Kelly-Anne is a wealthy model and computer hacker who professes herself to be "not bad with numbers," who's obsessed with the trial for reasons that are to some extent left to the viewer, while Clementine is a less well-heeled diehard apologist for the man at the center of the trial and is convinced he's innocent. Somehow out of these two, it's Clementine who feels like the more well-adjusted person; it's questionable whether Kelly-Anne has any friends at all, and yet maybe Clementine becomes one. As a friend of mine described it, "Clementine’s more open neediness draws out a reciprocal vulnerability from Kelly-Anne."

High rec from me. If any of this sounds appealing to you, definitely check it out.

ysabetwordsmith

This is today's freebie, inspired by a prompt from

jake67jake.

Maduro kidnapped --
he was quite unpopular,
but it was still wrong

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Notes:

Read a discussion of Venezuela politics.

Current Mood: busy

conuly

Watch on YouTube

ysabetwordsmith

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "short forms." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.

I'll be soliciting poetic forms of 60 lines or less, so basically below my epic range rather than only the short-short length of 10 lines or less. Free verse below the length limit is also fine. Here are 15 short forms with descriptions. Among my favorite short forms not listed there: hexaduad, indriso, sestina, villanelle. This list of 168 forms is alphabetical. Poets Garrett has my favorite list of forms, including a list of repeating-interlocking forms. Their main page has links to poetic forms of 3-10 lines. Plus a few of my own: A darrow poem is a short, haiku-like musing by dark elves. A khazal is a Whispering Sands desert poem in couplets. A moose track is a repeating-interlocking form. A tweet wire is a tiny 10-line poem designed for Twitter. Some short forms, like haiku and tanka, work well as verses in a longer poem. I have The New Book of Forms by Lewis Turco so most forms should be in there. You can also prompt with a link to any exotic form you find; I collect these things.

In addition to forms, I also need topical prompts. One-word or short-phrase framing will assist in keeping them small enough to fit within the theme. Here is a huge list of common themes. This page of idioms has alphabetical and topical listings. I love writing poems about an individual word; see The Phrontistery (WARNING! Black hole caliber time sink ahead!) for glossaries. Have an orientation that is not well represented in literature? Ask for a sexual, romantic, or other orientation! If it's not on any of my lists, just include a description or link to one. I also list gender identities and my characters with disabilities. Want to help me play with my bookshelf? :D I have The Conflict Thesaurus, The Conflict Thesaurus Volume 2, The Occupation Thesaurus, The Emotional Wound Thesaurus, The Urban Setting Thesaurus, The Rural Setting Thesaurus, The Emotion Thesaurus, The Positive Trait Thesaurus, The Negative Trait Thesaurus, and The Emotion Amplifier Thesaurus. Simply click "Read Sample" and view the table of contents for a list of cool ideas. You can prompt a sestina with six end words; I usually pick 5 short flexible words and one long exotic word, but I'll work with whatever I get. Favorite characters, threads, series, settings, etc. are also fair game but this is NOT the time for long plotty prompts. Consider combining a name or title with a short form, theme, or idiom. If you like to prompt with photos, this is a great opportunity for that. Just type in a topic (see above for possibilities) and click the Image link in your favorite search engine.

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Current Mood: creative

jjhunter

No one really believes Donald Trump is going to last. At the rate he's been declining, it would be a minor medical miracle if he survives to the end of his current term.

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tl;dr Who wants to live subject to immoral leaders and exploitive self-sabotaging systems? We are capable of better, and we do have collective powers to choose better and deny support to worse. Let's exercise those powers while we still can avert most of worst.

lauradi7dw

It's a new calendar year. It remains to be seen how much the dental insurance will cover, but there almost surely will be a (large) copayment.

Also, after the hours passed and I was allowed to eat again, it just doesn't feel right. Nothing painful, just not right. She (dentist) said things might not seem normal for a week, so I won't complain yet, but am noting it. The new crown came from the lab too big, so she had to work on it.

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First 2026 (not Sunday) Check In - Miami Vice edition

Did almost nothing today

Epiphany

Nora is home

As Always, There Is Much Happening

poetry: "One King’s Epiphany" by L'Engle

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Stand up on your own.

Poem: "Done to Perfection"

Poem: "Beneath the Sea"

fic post - Yuletide

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Birdfeeding

Miami Vice ficlet - Reminders of Miami

Movies: We Bury the Dead, Red Rooms

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Poetry Fishbowl Open!

The Emperor Has No Wits

#4's new crown is cemented in

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