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Warm as life | Kaijuu No. 8 | Kafka/Reno/Narumi, Reno/Iharu, Kafka/Hoshina | 7.3k words (WIP, 4/7) | rated M

Summary: The new threat posed by No. 9 weighs heavily on everyone. Under these circumstances, emotions run high and what starts as a way of relieving stress can easily bloom into unexpected feelings. Some people find that easier to admit than others.

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snowflake_challenge has posted prompt #3, asking us to talk about the things we love about the communities that we are part of, or about the properties we form our communities around.

Challenge #3:

Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

( It's often the people. )

The best thing I like about fandom is that it grows and evolves and produces new stories and new interpretations of stories, and new tropes and new ways of telling stories and smashing them together. The next best thing about fandom is how many people there are in it who are there to have a good time and to make community with others. Yes, there are always going to be people who feel like they have to defend their territory against all comers, or who loudly proclaim that their way is the only way and all others must yield, but most fans that I've encountered seem to be less concerned with purity, fortresses, or defense and are instead more concerned with community, mutual aid, sharing, and trying to encourage people who are in the fandom to stay in it or to getr even deeper into it. Maybe I just have good people around me and I've avoided the people who want to drag me into wars, but even if that's the case, the last thing I love about fandom (for this entry, anyway) is that it tends toward self-correction, and with time and maturity, most fen who stay, grow in ways that make their works better and their communities better.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Infinite Rivals - The 13th Struggle (Xigbar)

rimrunner

So U.S. forces snatched Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro early Saturday morning, giving the people who make their living explaining this stuff to the rest of us plenty of time to unpack events by Monday. It’s weird to me that the weekend still sort of exists in the news cycle, social media notwithstanding, but the sources I tend to check for coverage of big stories, legacy and new media alike, had their deep dives queued up and ready to go today.

The overall theme is general agreement that Maduro isn’t a good guy, alongside questions as to whether Trump was legally allowed to order the extraction (such a nicer word than kidnapping) and whether that makes any difference. Certainly nothing that happened over the weekend was without precedent (I’m old enough to remember Noriega, though was young enough at the time to not really understand what it was all about), and that’s where a lot of what justification has emerged from the White House rests: we’ve done this before.

What next is a guessing game, but some things seem likely: the existing regime, minus Maduro, will probably remain in charge, possibly with U.S. military intervention; American oil companies will likely move in, at the president’s invitation; this will become another incident in high school history textbooks that the students reading them will lack context to understand until it happens again. (It’ll probably involve some of the same people…yet again, if history is any guide.)

A thing I’ve thought about a lot in the last ten years is what kind of country we want the United States to be, anyway. It’s troubled me during events like the No Kings marches, where a whole lot of people showed up to, in essence, express disapproval—but I saw and heard very little about anyone’s vision for what America, and American leadership, should look like instead. Perhaps we don’t really know.

At some point, though, our own authoritarian-style leader will be gone, too. It’s very unlikely that it’ll be due to the forces of another country literally helicoptering in and flying him off. It might even be through free and fair elections, and a peaceful transfer of power, though there again history gives us cause for concern. We won’t know, until after it happens.

It feels like wasting time to wait until then to start building the kind of country we want to be—especially if what we want it to be is something other than what those in power have been building toward for literal decades.

Current Mood: thoughtful

ysabetwordsmith

These poems were written outside the regular prompt calls. They have been sponsored by a pool with

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ysabetwordsmith

A NASA satellite caught a giant tsunami doing something scientists didn’t expect

When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were far more complex and scattered than scientists expected, overturning the idea that large tsunamis travel as a single, stable wave. Ocean sensors confirmed the quake’s rupture was longer than earlier models suggested. Together, the findings could reshape how tsunamis are modeled and predicted.

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ysabetwordsmith

These are the notes for "Who We Don't Ever Want to Be."

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ckd

As usual, ordered by first visit and asterisks indicate multiple separate visits.

2025 got my travel ramping back up (finally), even though I only went to two conventions and one of them (Worldcon) was literally in my city (between my apartment and my usual airport, though technically there's also an airport with international service between my apartment and downtown -- LKE). Two overnights from delayed flights; both would have stuck me at DTW (Romulus, MI) except that for the second one I was able to rebook on the next morning's IAD-SEA nonstop instead.

The big trip was Kraków and environs, with a bonus pair of overnights in Calgary because business class YYC-KRK was literally half the price of SEA-KRK or YVR-KRK. Having NEXUS made a Canada stopover easy; though I kinda miss the old iris scan kiosks, the new facial recognition ones are a lot faster.

Cambridge, MA*
Seattle, WA*
Romulus, MI
Arlington, VA*
Calgary, AB, CA*
KL678 YYC-AMS
Kraków, PL*
Jaworze, PL
Balice, PL
Sneads Ferry, NC
Minneapolis, MN
Harrisonburg, VA
Sterling, VA
Port Townsend, WA
SeaTac, WA
Tysons, VA

Airports (connection-only*, new to me@): BOS, SEA, DTW (should have only been a connection, sigh), DCA, MSP, YYC@, AMS*, KRK@, ATL*, ILM@, IAD.

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My new group created Outgunned characters. The cast is

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ysabetwordsmith

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

fuzzyred. It also fills the "nostalgia" square in my 2-1-25 card for the Valentines Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred. It belongs to the Trichromatic Attractions thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes sobriety issues, angst, failed coping skills, self-loathing, difficulty planning, frustration with new skills, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.

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torachan

1. It was so nice having no rain today. Things are starting to dry up! And I was able to get the car washed this morning before work. There have been a few times when the car had a lot of berries on it and the person working the car wash said I could go through a second time, but there was usually either a long line or I had to be somewhere at a certain time, so I didn't bother (even once through the Costco car wash does a very good job, since it's a lot longer than most drive-through car washes so there's just more time for stuff to be washed off), but there was no line today and I didn't have to be at work at a specific time, so I went through again just to get any last lingering bits off. It looks so much better!

2. Work was pretty decent today. A good balance of having enough to do not to feel bored, but not being super stressed out about anything. And someone brought in Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

3. Look at this cutie Jasper!

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https://xkcd.com/3190/

Some people argue that the tension and compression in the human skeleton is technically tensegrity, but it's missing the defining characteristic: making people say 'wtf, how is that thing floating?' when they see it.

https://xkcd.com/3190/

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Event: Just the Tip! Flash Exchange

Event link: Just the Tip Collection

Pinch hit links:
IPH #1 - Stranger Things (TV 2016), Push (2009), Original Work

IPH #2 - สิงสาลาตาย | Goddess Bless You From Death (TV), KinnPorsche: The Series (TV), Stranger Things (TV 2016), 천둥구름 비바람 | Thundercloud Rainstorm (TV), Thai Actor RPF, We Are คือเรารักกัน | We Are (Thailand TV 2024)

IPH #3 - Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, Gravitation, Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, Xiaolin Showdown (Cartoon), Aladdin (Cartoon 1994), 幽☆遊☆白書 | YuYu Hakusho: Ghost Files (Anime & Manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Dude That's My Ghost!

Due date: January 12 at 10 PM EST

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Your main fandom last year?
Sherlock Holmes, various adaptations but Holmes in general

Your favorite movie watched last year?
I didn't watch many, but I would say K-Pop Demon Hunters, it's very fun.
However, I also watched all the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films this year and my favourites were The Spider Woman and The Woman in Green.

Your favorite book read last year?
If I can chose a children's book, I'm going to say Basil of Baker Street. I was delighted by it, so many Holmes references, and a good little mystery and adventure story.

Your favorite TV show of the year?
I watched the good chunk of the Granada Sherlock Holmes series year, and I loved it! It's very book accurate, and where they did makes some changes it works out well.
Also, Interview with a Vampire season 2 was fantastic!
But also, I'm currently working my way through Heated Rivalry and I'm enjoying it so far.

Your favorite video game of the year?
I didn't really play any games this year unfortunately. I started The Beekeeper's Picnic, but unfortunately never finished it, but hopefully some day.

Your favorite song, album, or artist to listen to this year?
Song: Golden from K-Pop Demon Hunters (it is such a great sing-along, belt it out type of song)
Album: K-Pop Demon Hunters Soundtrack (so many great bangers on that, although my choices were also slim because I didn't listen to many full albums this year)
Artist: The only one that comes to mind is Chappel Roan, although I think she was more 2024 than 2025, but I was still listening her quite a bit at the beginning of the year

Favorite podcast of the year?
Sherlock & Co (although, I've fallen behind on it). I also enjoy If Books Could Kill.

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
I guess falling into Sherlock Holmes fandom this year was unexpected, and something I really needed this year to distract me from stuff going on in my life. One of my fave Good Omens authors starting posting Granada Holmes related stuff and it got me to check out the series and I've been in thick of it ever since. I loved the Sherlock Holmes stories as a teen, and there has been some comfort in returning to what I previously loved only in a different way.

Your biggest fandom disappointment?
No real major disappointments I can think of, but that's mostly because I've been sticking with older completed series recently so no newer series that are cancelled after only one season like previous years.

Your TV boyfriend of the year?
John Watson

Your TV girlfriend of the year?
Svetlana from Heated Rivalry, maybe?

Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Can I tell you how times I rewatched The Empty House and the scene where Watson finds out Holmes is alive? Way too many times!

Fandom resolutions for 2026?
I have a lot of IRL stuff happening this year, so I'm putting no pressure on myself when it comes to fandom.

Your biggest fannish anticipations for the new year?
I have no idea, I didn't expect to fall into the fandoms I did this year, so I'm sure I'll be surprised again this year.

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

Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

I had so many ideas, I could talk about my sister's ridiculous dog. I could talk about the important pets in the books I've recently read. But then I saw this on FB and thought it would be a fun game to play with y'all. 😍😍