skywardprodigal

Lila Macapagal's quest to keep her aunt's ailing restaurant afloat is greatly complicated when a pesky foodblogger dies mid-meal... with Lila as the most likely murder suspect.

Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery) by Mia P. Manansala

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firecat

I guess Discord is going to start requiring users to prove they are over a certain age if they want to access certain content.

I mainly use Discord to keep connected to fanfic fandom, most of which has certain content. And I definitely am not going to upload my ID.

Does this affect you? If so, what are you going to do when it goes into effect?

oursin

Happy birthday,

cathrowan,

franzeska,

samskeyti and

ursula!

thistleingrey

A friend did this questionnaire under lock, and it ... seems ... memeable. Props also to

jesse_the_k's recent post on being a volunteer English language partner and to the thoughtful replies thereto, which have stirred some thoughts for me as well.

- Adults responsible for your care actively helped facilitate your early learning. (Reading at bedtime, playing educational games, going to child-friendly museums...)
( Read more... )

cornerofmadness

The eye barely hurts and the swelling is down enough that I can open my eye. It's blurry still but getting better.

I will NOT be doing

fandomtrumpshate this year. I missed that the sign up was basically 10 days, no other warning after the first and I was too busy with my pro stuff but you know what I am okay with that. I can bid on people to help out and that is one less fan thing to distract me from stuff I get paid to do. I feel more relief than disappointment.

In the good news department The Owl House lives again in graphic novel form. I'm super excited for this

Watch on YouTube

Here's the fandom meme I've been wanting to do. I got this from [Unknown site tag] who mentioned there are two versions of this meme: one where you post the FIRST line/s of the FIRST posted fic of each month and one where you post the FIRST line/s of ALL the fics you've posted in a year. While I am making this a fannish 50 celebrating ME and my contributions to fandom (which I think we all should do from time to time) But since I will be here til next week trying to do ALL my stories, I shall go with the first story. Enjoy. Read if you're so moved.

January - Why Do Fools Fall in Love Hazbin Hotel, Angel adored the flying pole Husker had installed on his stage.

February Where Fashion Sits Hazbin Hotel, There’s more to her than anyone thinks but, in most ways, being underestimated suits Velvette just fine. (ha this is one of my

halfamoon stories from last year

March Sisterhood Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The thing about being a Watcher was Dawn never knew what would come next.

April Ephemeral Hazbin Hotel, Angel heard them ‘whispering’.

May Never Hazbin Hotel, “Are you really sure you wanna know, sweets?” Angel drawled to Charlie, as he squirmed in his seat next to Husk on the couch.

June Somebody’s Eyes The Owl House Edalyn folded up the door into its briefcase.

July Tear Up This Town Hazbin Hotel, He should have known it would end like this.

August Hurt So Good Hazbin Hotel, Angel stretched his legs out in front of him on his bar stool. NSFW

September Pushing Up the Ante Hazbin Hotel, This was supposed to be a friendly game of poker, something he’d tossed out there without thinking it through at the last overlord meeting.

October The Porn Star Murders Hazbin Hotel, “Thank you for calling me.” Rosie’s flat tone sent a shiver up Angel’s spine.

November Someone in the Dark Hazbin Hotel, Husk leaned on the bar, pain lancing through his back.

December Forget Our Memories, Forget Our Possibilities Hazbin Hotel, Dear Husk,
I’m sorry for everything.

Now back to watching my mystery still wishing that John Bacchus would disappear. Today he brings misogyny, islamaphobia and racism. Whee. (the saving grace is Gently takes it out of him every time he does this and I've been told he gets better. Hope that is soon)
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Current Music: Inspector George Gently

squirmelia

I decided to try somewhere new again! Trinity Wharf Stairs outside Surrey Docks Farm.

When I reached the foreshore, there was someone digging to the right of the stairs. I walked that way a little bit and then decided to walk to the left. It was pebbly on the upper bit of the foreshore but lower down, there was a lot of mud. I took tentative steps and felt myself sinking in it so tried to be careful. Another mudlark appeared and was a lot more confident than me at walking over the mud nimbly!

This seemed much more like the kind of place I see the famous mudlarks finding things, prying items out of the mud. A lot of the foreshore I walk on isn't muddy at all, it's just pebbles.

I walked up to where there was a sign saying "Engineers Mills". The full sign apparently said:
Engineers
Mills & Knight
Nelson Dry Dock
Ship repairs

I found a pint glass with a handle, buried in the mud, and was glad I had my trowel, so I could dig it out. It has a pint symbol on it and looks like it says 1370 on it, which means it's from Chesterfield and was made between 1971 and 2006, so quite recent really. It has survived at least 20 years in the mud though! It's quite heavy.

I found a bottle, and it's still full of mud, and I'm trying to get the mud out of it. It's a UGB (United Glass Bottle Manufacturers) bottle, but on the side it says LWD - London Wholesale Dairies. Here's a photo of their building in Vauxhall in 1927: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/BL29277/001 They were the wholesale arm of United Dairies.

I found an Amazon Basics plate, which I left on the foreshore.

I found a small cowrie shell with holes in it. I also found a bit of coral, which may have been used on a ship as ballast. There's also a stone that looks like it has tiny bits of fossils in it.

I found a piece of glass that was probably once a Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society milk bottle. Written on it is "Royal Arsenal" and "RACS". RACS were in operation from 1872 to 1987 when they merged with the Co-Op. Their headquarters were in Woolwich. As well as shops selling food, they ran everything from hairdressers to bookshops to undertakers to hotels, and also built houses. Their motto was "Each for all and all for each". I also found a second piece of glass.

I found a piece of glass from a Walker’s Kilmarnock whiskey bottle. They later became Johnnie Walker, in 1909.

I found a red and white sherd, that might be from Hilti.

I found a piece of green glass from an R White's bottle that said "Camberwell" on it.

I found a bit of a pipe with the initials I I on it.

I have yet to figure out the piece of glass with "KS" written on it.

Surrey Docks Farm had signs around that explained the history of the area, of how the area was used for shipbuilding and how there was a smallpox receiving station there. There was also a mudlarked finds box but unfortunately there was a lot of condensation on it, so it was difficult to see. They had pottery from the smallpox receiving station and from London County Council (LCC). They also had a mosaic made from clay pipes and bits of pottery.

I had a quick look around the farm after mudlarking and they had a few more signs about the history, as well as pigs, goats, cows, sheep, and other animals.

After that, I walked past some more steps that were a bit green, but the gate was open, near the Ship & the Whale and wondered if the glass had come from that pub.

I then saw people running to get on a boat at Greenland Pier, so I decided to do the same, not knowing where the boat was going. I ended up getting off the boat in Woolwich.

(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)

oursin

"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker:

London is being used as the backdrop for inaccurate viral videos that reach enormous audiences around the world by playing into the worst stereotypes about the capital.

This was an investigation into one man who was doing this thing:

Last summer, the man says, he found himself sitting in his car, analysing trends on TikTok. His day job was conducting viewings for an estate agency but he was trying to come up with an idea for a viral video account that could be run as a money-making side-hustle.
“I was thinking of unique videos I can do for people,” he says on the tape.
That’s when he had a brainwave: “Hate brings views.”
At that time protests outside asylum hotels were spreading across the country. The man says he noticed “far-right people” were among the most engaged on TikTok. They were easy to rile up: “They hate such videos of illegal migrants. I was like, why not?”
....
The TikToker appears to have no concept of the potential real-world impact of his uploads, instead considering everything in terms of view counts and pieces of content.

So he made fake videos about immigrants being housed in prime properties, to which he had access through his job.

He had originally found he could make money through posting videos on TikTok but 'TikTok immediately deleted his account because he was just stealing other people’s videos and reposting them'.

There seems to be just a total disconnect going on in the guy's mind (or he's just ethically vacuous) and generally he does not appear the sharpest blade in the drawer:

Despite fostering online hatred, the man recorded.... insists he doesn’t personally share the views expressed on his TikTok account. Instead, he suggests his fake anti-migrant house tour videos were just a way to game the algorithm, build an audience, and hopefully make money.

He's also

baffled. He can’t understand how London Centric traced his anonymous hate-filled London TikTok account back to his employer by geolocating the wheelie bins in his videos.
“I thought no one’s gonna notice that,” he says. “Why would someone?”

As if people aren't doing this sort of thing all the time.

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5. Who do you want to kiss right now?

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princessofgeeks

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selenak

Because there was good word of mouth from various friends and trusty reviewers, I decided to give the latest Star Trek show a go, have now marathoned the six episodes released so far, and can report that word of mouth was correct: this latest installment, which is set in the 31rd century last seen in Star Trek: Discovery, shows none of the weaknesses of the third season of ST: SNW and is actually really good. Mind you, watching the first three episodes I thought, okay, they're good, not not groundbreaking, and some of the reactions made me expect more, but then came episodes 3 - 6 . building on the previous ones and fleshing out more characters, and I went "wow!" myself. And also "awwwww" at certain points. More beneath the spoiler cut.

The reason why I wasn't wowed by the first three in the way I was by the later three is that they included some clichés I never much cared for, such as a Marine, err, Starfleet instructor yelling "give me 100 pushups" . And the only school/school prank war I enjoyed fictionally was Das fliegende Klassenzimmer by Erich Kästner, plus I thought, really, do we need more mean Vulcans. These nitpicks aside (and the prank war did have its plusses as well), the first three episodes do a solid job in introducing the premise, the setting, and some of the main characters. They also showed versatality in format: the pilot episode has more action while the second episode is a classic ST ethical dilemma with lots of debate type of episode (and not the last one of the first six), and the third episode while having some serious character stuff mainly goes for broad comedy. Which is all fine, and confidence-building, but with episode 4, the show simply becomes more than that as we get our first hardcore (previously supporting) character episode which simultanously is an ethical dilemma episode and adds to the overall Star Trek lore because it tells us how the Klingons fared post Burn, something Disco did not. Now after a quiet spotlight on supporting character episode I expected the next to revert back to ensemble or main character format, but no! We got another " (different) supporting character in the spotlight" episode - which also doubled as an unabashed love declaration to one Benjamin Sisko in particular and DS9 in general. Which was great, because while other more recent ST shows did include some nods to DS9, it never got as much love as TOS and TNG did from the new kids on the block. Until now. And it was especially lovely to see because it did nostalgia right instead of going ST: Picard season 3, sigh, or follow ST:STNW's increasing tendency to become ST: TOS in its cast. Instead, it did a Star Trek: Prodigy. By which I mean: The love for the "old" characters as strong and great - but it was used in service of character fleshing out and growth of the new characters of the new show. Complimenting them, instead of replacing them. Homage, instead of a rerun. It was great. And then episode 6 went for a taut space thriller while also using what we learned so far about the characters and sharpening the profile of who seems to be the season's main villain. (And it took me until this episode to finally recall where I had heard the voice before. It was John Adams, I mean Paul Giametti!)

One more general observation: As a Discovery fan, I was delighted to see Admiral Vance again in most of the episodes, being his calm and responsible self, ditto for Jett Reno snarkng and being dead-pan as ever, and a bit surprised that Mary Wiseman has yet to make an appearance because I thought she was supposed to be a regular. Speaking of Discovery, its last two seasons feature a supporting guest star, Laira Rillak, who has both Bajoran and Cardassian heritage, and I thought that was great and that by the 31st Centuy, there ought to be a lot more "hybrids" of spacefaring nations with centuries of interaction . Starfleet Academy thought so, too, and we got indeed not just another hybrid in the regular cast but also several others popping up. And I really like the sheer number of middle-aged women we get in addition to the kids. Oh, and evidently the return to Discovery territory also meant the return to featured queer relationships. Excellent.

( Now onto more spoilery territory with comments on the individiual characters and their development so far. )

In conclusion: it's a really good first season so far! May it continue to be!

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Current Location: Munich

susieboo posting in

booknook

Title: Everything, Everything
Author: Nicola Yoon
Year: 2015
Age group: young adult
Genre: contemporary romance, coming-of-age
Content warnings: illness and medical trauma, abuse, mentions of child death, grieving / mental health struggles

“Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love stories, couples start out as lovers and end as strangers. Coming-of-age books become stories of losing your way. Your favorite characters come back to life.”

The cover of "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon. The tagline is, "The greatest risk is not taking one." The cover shows the book's title, the first "Everything" being written in plain blue with a paper airplane over the R, the second "Everything" in white surrounded by intricate drawings of flowers, an airplane, sea creatures, and butterflies.

This was my fourth read of Yoon's debut, following 18-year-old Madeline Whittier, who was diagnosed with SCID (severe combined immunodeficiency) as a baby, and cannot leave her house without risking severe illness or death. She reads, a lot - not much else for her to do. She goes to school online. She rarely sees anyone except her mother and her full-time nurse, Carla, and when she is allowed other visitors, they have to go through a full physical and a lengthy sterilization process. As Madeline says, "It's a pain to come see me." Madeline is aware of her limitations, of the milestones she's missed and adventures she'll never get to have, but she's as happy as she can be, given the circumstances. But then a new family moves in next door, and with them comes Olly, a boy her age who spots Madeline in the window and is determined to talk to her. The two develop a friendship while emailing and texting in secret, and start to fall in love, which Madeline realizes can't end well for either of them.

For me, this is one of those books where, nearly every criticism I hear of it, I'm like, "Yes, you're right." The portrayal disability and illness is questionable (more about that in the spoiler section), and the book can be melodramatic and silly. But I eat it up every time; each time I've read this book, I've read it in under 24 hours. The romance is very sweet, and both Olly and Madeline are very likable and compelling characters. The story is a love story first and foremost, and if you want an easy-to-read, enjoyable romance, this might be a good pick for you.

I revisited this book because I've been in a terrible reading slump for the past couple of weeks, and it worked like a charm. The book flies by as you read it, with prose that's both accessible and pretty, and the inclusion of things like medical reports, book reviews Madeline posts online, and receipts from purchases she's made is a nice touch. Madeline's voice is eloquent but believable for a teenager (especially one who's been solely in the company of adults her whole life), and it was a delight to revisit this book for the first time in several years.

( Here there be spoilers... )

princessofgeeks

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skygiants

I went into Lessons in Magic and Disaster somewhat trepidatiously due to the degree to which her YA novel Victories Greater Than Death did not work for me. The good news: I do think Lessons in Magic and Disaster is MUCH better than Victories Greater Than Death and actually does some things remarkably well. The bad news: other elements did continue to drive me up a wall ....

Lessons in Magic and Disaster centers on the relationship between Jamie, a trans PhD student struggling to finish her dissertation on 18th-century women writers at a [fictional] small Boston college, and her mother Serena, an abrasive lesbian lawyer who has been sunk deep in depression since her partner died a few years back and her career simultaneously blew up completely.

Jamie does small-scale lower-m magic -- little rituals to make things go a little better in her life, that usually seem to work, as long as she doesn't think about them too hard -- and the book starts when she takes the unprecedented-for-her step of telling her mother about the magic as a sort of mother-daughter bonding ritual to see if her mother can use it to help herself get less depressed! Unfortunately Serena is not looking for a little gentle self-help woo-woo; she would like to UNFUCK her life AND the world in SIGNIFICANT ways that go way beyond what Jamie has ever done with magic and also start blowing back on Jamie in ways that eventually threaten not only Jamie and Serena's relationship but also Jamie's marriage, Jamie's career, and Serena's life.

Serena is an extremely specific, well-observed character, and Serena and Jamie's relationship feels real and messy and complicated in ways that even the book's tendency towards therapy-speak couldn't actually ruin for me, because yeah, okay, I do think Jamie would sometimes talk like an annoying tumblr post, that's just part of the characterization and it doesn't actually fix everything and sometimes even hurts. But the book's strengths -- that it's grounded very much in a world and a community and a type of people that Charlie Jane Anders clearly knows really well and can paint extremely vividly -- are also its weaknesses, in that it's also constantly slipping into ... I guess I'd call it a kind of lazy-progressive writing? The book is full of these sharp, vivid, messy moments whenever it's focused on this particular relationship and Serena in specific, and without that flashpoint, the messiness vanishes. Jamie goes into her grad school classroom and thinks about how the white men are always so annoying but the queer and bipoc students Always pick up what she's putting down. Jamie's partner Ro sets down boundaries in their marriage after a magic incident goes wrong and they are Always right and Jamie is Always humble and respectful about it, because respecting boundaries is Always the Correct thing to do. (Ro is the sort of person who says things like "this is bringing back a lot of trauma for me" while Jamie's mother is actively, in that moment, on the verge of death. I'm all for honesty in relationships but maybe you could give it a minute?)

I don't know. I think there is quite a good book in here, but I also think that good book is kind of fighting its way a little bit to get out from under the conviction that We Progressive Right-Thinking People In The Year 2025 Know What Righteous Behavior Looks Like. You know. But sometimes it does indeed succeed!

I did really enjoy the book's hyper-local Cambridge setting. Yeah, I see you name-checking those favorite restaurants, and yes, I have been to them and they are pretty good. Also, as a b-plot, Jamie is uncovering some lesbian literary drama in her dissertation that gives Charlie Jane Anders a chance to play around with 18thc pastiche and write RPF about Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier, and Charlotte Clarke and sure, fine, I didn't know very much about any of those people and she has very successfully made me want to know more! There were a bunch of times she'd drop something int he book and I'd be like "that's SO unsubtle as pastiche" and then I'd look it up and it was just a real thing that had happened or been published, so point again to Charlie Jane Anders.

james_davis_nicoll

A sample issue of New Edge Sword & Sorcery, whose 2026 funding drive goes live today.

New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Volume I, Number 3, edited by Oliver Brackenbury

sakanawords

Day 12 check-in post!

Day 1:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

luzula,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

shadaras,

chanter1944,

Day 2:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

luzula,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

shadaras,

chanter1944,

Day 3:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

luzula,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

shadaras,

chanter1944,

Day 4:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

luzula,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

chanter1944,

Day 5:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

luzula,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

shadaras,

ashelterofpages,

miss_ingno,

chanter1944,

Day 6:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

shadaras,

ashelterofpages,

miss_ingno,

chanter1944,

Day 7:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

ashelterofpages,

miss_ingno,

chanter1944,

Day 8:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

luzula,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

shadaras,

ashelterofpages,

sakana17,

chanter1944,

Day 9:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

ashelterofpages,

chanter1944,

Day 10:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

luzula,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

brithistorian,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

ysilme,

goddess47,

ashelterofpages,

chanter1944,

Day 11:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

luzula,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

the_siobhan,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

goddess47,

ashelterofpages,

Day 12:

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

luzula,

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

sanguinity,

cornerofmadness,

carenejeans,

goddess47,

oursin

Happy birthday,

lenores_raven and

lindra!

naraht

Still haven't seen Heated Rivalry but I glanced at one of the books in a bookstore last night, and realised that I had the characters backwards! Based on pictures, I'd assumed that the dark-haired one was Ilya Rozanov and the ginger one was Shane Hollander. I'd figured that Rozanov was part Kazakh (or could well have been part Korean, like Viktor Tsoi) – but the guy who actually turns out to be playing Rozanov doesn't look Slavic to me at all. I can only see him as having a severe case of ~~American~~ Canadian Actor Face. This has been an interesting collision of racial assumptions.

sovay

My poem "The Principle of the Thing" has been accepted by Weird Fiction Quarterly. It is the ghost poem I wrote last spring for Werner Heisenberg: 2025 finally called it out. 2026 hasn't yet rendered it démodé.

Branching off The Perceptual Form of the City (1954–59), I am still tracking down the publications of György Kepes whose debt to Gestalt psychology my mother pegged instantly from his interdisciplinary interests in perception, but my local library system furnished me with Kevin Lynch's The Image of the City (1960) and What Time Is This Place? (1972) and even more than urban planning, they make me think of psychogeography. An entire chapter in the latter is entitled "Boston Time" and illustrates itself with layers of photographs of a walk down Washington Street in the present of the book's composition and its past, singling out not only buildings and former buildings but weathered milestones and ghost signs, commemorative plaques and graffiti, dates established, construction stamps, spray paint, initials in concrete. "The trees are seasonal clocks, very precise in spring and fall." "The street name refers to the edge of the ancient peninsula. (If you look closely at the ground, you can trace the outline of the former shore.)" "The railroad, which in its day was cut ruthlessly through the close-packed docks and sailing ships, is now buried in its turn." Five and a half decades behind me, the book itself is a slice of history, a snapshot in the middle of the urban renewal that Lynch evocatively and not inaccurately describes as "steamrolling." I recognize the image of the city formed by the eponymously accumulated interviews in the older book and it is a city of Theseus. Scollay Square disappeared between the two publications. Lynch's Charles River Dam isn't mine. Blankly industrial spaces on his map have gentrified in over my lifetime. Don't even ask about wayfinding by the landmarks of the skyline. I do think he would have liked the harborwalk, since it reinforces one of Boston's edges as sea. And whether I agree entirely or at all with his assertion:

If we examine the feelings that accompany daily life, we find that historic monuments occupy a small place. Our strongest emotions concern our own lives and the lives of our family or friends because we have known them personally. The crucial reminders of the past are therefore those connected with our own childhood, or with our parents' or perhaps our grandparents' lives. Remarkable things are directly associated with memorable events in those lives: births, deaths, marriages, partings, graduations. To live in the same surroundings that one recalls from earliest memories is a satisfaction denied to most Americans today. The continuity of kin lacks a corresponding continuity of place. We are interested in a street on which our father may have lived as a boy; it helps to explain him to us and strengthens our own sense of identity, But our grandfather or great-grandfather, whom we never knew, is already in the remote past; his house is "historical."

it is impossible for me not to read it and hear "Isn't the house you were born in the most interesting house in the world to you? Don't you want to know how your father lived, and his father? Well, there are more ways than one of getting close to your ancestors." None of mine came from this city I walk.

The rest of my day has been a landfill on fire.

Current Music: Clairo, "Bags"

a princess of now

WED Day 13

Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery) by Mia P. Manansala

Heated Rivalry rec and the meta it sparked in me

Discord age verification

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educational privilege, a meme

On the mend

Mudlarking 91 - A milk bottle, a pint glass and a farm

Does this qualify as banality of evil?

The Friday Five for 13 February 2026

New Heated Rivalry fic: "How to Jump Off a Burning Bridge"

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1.01. - 1.06

reread and review: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

sobbing

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Volume I, Number 3, edited by Oliver Brackenbury

WED Day 12

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Incorrect fandom osmosis

Can you see me? I'm waiting for the right time

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