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This week I discovered that you can just add !markdown to the start of a DW entry to type in pure markdown. So much of my life has now changed.
I'm going to try to read The Priory of the Orange Tree. This thing is massive.
Anyone have Yuletide recs? My brain's fizzed out a touch and my reading ground to a halt, but what recs I did scrape together I put out in the yuletide comm itself

/radar into the void

I have not opened DW in so long in spite of flailing through Yuletide and fandom work; what a bunch of months. Hi.

Only a few hours left to sign up for Yuletide! Do it! :D

Dear Yuletide writer,

Thank you for writing for me! I'm a generally omnivorous reader and excited to read anything that you come up with – everything in this letter is optional. Have fun!

AO3: karanguni
tl;dr: I happily opt into gen, porn, unusual media types, and crossovers with fandoms I have read/written/requested before; ignore or take as many parts of this wall of text as you want! My AO3 account has gifts enabled for treats.

( Heike Monogatari, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Culture, Edo Era Intellectuals RPF )

Nominations are open! I'll be nominating the Kamusari Series by Miura Shion - I bluffed

rachelmanija into reading it this year, so maybe more people will be bluffed still... Here's my promo post on it.

p.s. hi I'm vaguely alive. How is everyone?

Dear Fic In A Box creator, thank you for creating for me! Everything in this letter is optional; just please have fun!

( Prince of Tennis, Lilywhite Boys, Original Work, Blood Like Lemonade - Morcheeba (Song), Beautiful Losers II (Painting) )

/looks at Yuletide fic that I wrote last year

/looks at 2022

/looks at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/07/japans-killing-stone-splits-in-two-releasing-superstitions-and-toxic-gases

I've made it.

1. USPS, please don't have lost my mail
2. Tax season, bah
3. I've actually really started enjoying using Notion for notekeeping now that it's more mature; somehow this makes me think of you,

sarasa_cat
4. FFFX is done; Triple Crown complete-o
5. App has had a sudden slew of updates, because sometimes my brain suddenly turns on on a Sunday
6. I am already ): at my future self for Yuletide coding, ha...
7. 2022, eh. 2022. Jesus.

I have made out like a bandit this Yuletide. I'm so happy.

Been a while since I've done one of these! Pick it up yourself so I can drop some comments, everyone :3

✨ holiday love meme 2021 ✨
my thread here

~~Hello US based flisters who put themselves down for a postcard! Did any of you *get* yours, or should I be concerned that my airport's post box consumed everyone's stuff?~~ [edit] All good; looks like they're headed to their destinations just fine!

Physical mail is going out to everyone who commented in the physical mail post; there's still plenty of time (basically forever) if you want to throw an address in there to get a random postcard. :) Writing these out has made me appreciate how long I've fandom-known many of you! Goodness. It's a great feeling.

Dear Heart Attack creator, thank you for going into cardiac arrest for me! Everything here is optional; please have fun!

( Prince of Tennis, Original Work, Junjou Romantica )

It's that time of the year again! Want some physical mail? Drop me an address in the screened comments below, or DM/communicate it to me via the ether somehow.

About twenty hours until sign-ups close, so get yours in if you haven't already!

If you need a fandom to pick up, may I propose watching an episode of The Art Detectives/Britain's Lost Masterpieces for the competence porn of Simon Gillespie? See here: Simon at work and Simon examines a possible Titian. I'm also waiting/hoping someone requests the Tale of Tamamizu...

Thank you for writing for me! I hope you have fun this Yuletide – everything in this letter is optional, and I am an omnivorous reader, so I'm looking forward to whatever you come up with! 2021 has been a wild extension of 2020, so please just have fun!

( Barakamon, Britain's Lost Masterpieces RPF, Edo Era Japanese Go Players RPF, Edo Era Intellectuals RPF, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, The Culture )

Fall is here; the colours are turning, and for once there hasn't been a dump of snow ruining things. Yuletide season is upon us, and it excites me because it makes me sit down and actually engage with something. As an Energy Vampire, it's always a joy to have something to feed on.

All right, that could have been phrased better, but what can you do.

Went to an in-studio yoga class for the first time since February 2020. It felt strangely good. Things I'm going to hope to do over the next few months: DM a Waterdeep: Dragon Heist campaign without being a total idiot; read Silence by Endo Shuusaku, and hopefully write a bit more. How are you all?

Oh you know it's Yuletide when you go to work on 3 hours of sleep but fuck yeah this year's technology advancements

Hello circle! If you've used the automagic AO3 and found it useful, I'm soliciting volunteers to help test a pretty major future development on it that I need to get done to stop paying the cloud providers more money than I have to.

If you're interested in chipping in just a little bit of time to help test a beta version of the app before I make major changes and then after said changes, please let me know!

tl;dr tech stuff: old Firebase db used since dawn of time getting old and creaky. Exchange participants v enthusiastic about exchanges throw much many data at app; data duplicated in two places - old Firebase and new $$ postgres sql. Code monkey no desire pay for both postgres and no-longer-free Firebase because now so many exchanges exist and amount of data in Firebase enormous big. Alas, Firebase powers all major pages of app besides Everything pages. Code monkey sad and regret not write tests but also screw writing tests for a fun project. Regression test always done by clicky click humans anyway...

I miss being in fandom because you end up doing random things like collaborating with someone on a Discord server who draws amazing cats to put an easter egg on https://autoao3app.firebaseapp.com/#/Fic_In_A_Box_2021 that MAKES CATS APPEAR RANDOMLY every 20% of the time that you click your mouse.

FANDOM!

Streets are filled with --

Picking up what others have left behind

year's end

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Yuletide PSA

Dear Yuletide Writer 2022

Yuletide!

Fic In A Box 2022

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Holiday Meme 2021

Mail... Missing?

Physical Mail: Going Out!

Dear Heart Attack Creator 2021

Physical Mail: Want Some?

Yuletide!

Dear Yuletide Writer 2021

the warm up into the cool down

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Looking for volunteers: app testing

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