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The post-October Whumptober catchup continues, with more of the ones I wrote last month, but wasn't sure about.

No. 27: “Would you even want me, looking like a zombie?”
Surgical Scars | X-Ray | Bedside Vigil

Murderbot TV, Gurathin & Bharadwaj gen, 800 wds

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torachan

1. The lingering cough seems to be gone finally. Yesterday I was still sucking on throat drops constantly and having coughing fits, but today I didn't take any cough medicine in the morning but still didn't need any throat drops, and only had a few coughs here and there.

2. I had an all day web meeting today, but was able to take it at home, and it was just listening on my part, so I was able to do other things while they were talking.

3. Ollie's just contemplating the meaning of life.

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NBC (USA) and Peacock streaming will have a full-movie-cast program called Wicked: One Wonderful Night tonight from 8:00pm - 10:00pm ET. It will also be available for streaming beginning tomorrow at 8:00pm on Peacock.

If you don't get NBC where you are and haven't invested in Peacock, you can get a 7-day free trial of Peacock and shut it off as soon as you've seen the special.

Current Mood: excited

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Title: Moving On
Fandom: Horizon: Zero Dawn
Characters: Aloy
Rating: G
Length: 44 words
Summary: 3 sentence fic. Aloy says goodbye to the home she shared with Rost.

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cimorene

Sipuli can now touch a target and also touch it by sort of standing up on her hind legs. That did take extra training and I am giving another verbal cue, but it's really the same trick and I'm not sure what to do next. She sits most of the time by default, which would make that hard. Maybe lie down, or turn in a circle?

I started training Tristana yesterday too (the sessions are about 5 minutes, so it's not really a burden), and she is getting better about touching the target but doesn't fully understand yet.

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Fandom: Boy's Love Online Are Doomed To Fail - 风华如故
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Rating: T
Length: 100 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: The title is from SUBTITLES MISSING by Chris Tse and God by Song Xiaoxian, translated by Simon Patton. It was also inspired by Thingummyjigs by Jin Haishu, translated by Simon Patton.
Summary: While they are parted, Ran Feng thinks about Xingchen every day.

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musesfool

Alas, despite me getting up early this morning, the cleaning ladies did not come! They did say last time that my regular appointment might need to be moved going forward, but then I got the confirmation email for today and figured maybe that wasn't happening. But they did not show up so I emailed the company and they were very apologetic, and now they are coming on Saturday at 9 am.

on Sunday, I'm going to my sister's to make the apple pies for Thanksgiving, since my brother-in-law, who does all the holiday cooking wants to simplify* what needs doing on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, which has traditionally been the day we make pie.

*"Simplify" should be in quotes, because for Christmas, at least, we keep telling him we're good with an apps and dessert style menu (personally, I keep advocating for pajama!Christmas) to no avail. He gets about 90% of the way there and then is like, but what if someone wants ziti? or ham? so idk. He also won't cut back on the antipasto, which is what everyone ends up filling up on, so then no one wants the big meal that follows.

On Thanksgiving, I personally would prefer a roast chicken to turkey, but truly, as long as my brother brings the stuffing and there's pie, I don't really care about anything else. The fancy cranberry relish is nice, and I won't say no to a dollop of mashed potatoes, but overall, I really do only want the stuffing.

Anyway! I took Monday off since we are off Tuesday for Veterans Day, so my plan is to make char siu again on Saturday and then finally try to make pork buns on Monday. We'll see how that goes.

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Current Mood: full
Current Music: Bastards of Young - the Replacements

wychwood

( Paladin's Legacy - Elizabeth Moon ) Not Moon's best work, but I very much enjoyed these; more than I did the first time around.

( 100. The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense - Suzette Haden Elgin ) I have read enough agony columns to know that people like this do exist, so maybe I'm just lucky enough to have avoided them...

( 102. The Reign of George III - J Steven Watson ) Still enjoying getting more of this big-picture view of history; it's not my usual preference, but it does make me think differently.

( 104. Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge - Ovidia Yu ) I continue to enjoy this series; Aunty Lee is a great detective.

( 105. The Mountain in the Sea - Ray Nayler ) This seems to have been a polarising book, and the rest of my book group weren't keen, but I thought it was doing some worthwhile things.

( 108. Deeds of Honor - Elizabeth Moon ) Enjoyable for completists.

( 109. Connexions - LA Hall ) Just such a charming series, full of genuinely decent people.

( 110. The Death I Gave Him - Em X Liu ) Cool concept, hated it.

( 111. Winter's Gifts - Ben Aaronovitch ) Surprisingly charming, considering all the horrific elements.

( 112. The March North - Graydon Saunders ) I do love this series.

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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fics/fancrafts/fanart/fanvids/podfics/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

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Miss the action movies of the recent past? Now you and your fellow gamers can recreate them.

Outgunned by Riccardo “Rico” Sirignano & Simone Formicola (Translated by Caterina Arzani)

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Title: Job First
Author:

lucy_roman
Rating: Mature
Summary: George Gently has his mind firmly on the job but John has other ideas
Pairing: George Gently/John Bacchus
Word Count:336

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yhlee

Loom assembly to continue...after...catten removes herself from possibly having screws DROPPED on her... /o\

Special thanks to Jill of Saori Santa Cruz,

merrileemakes, and my husband for helping me figure out which part of assembly I borked yesterday!

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settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: accomplished

torachan

1. Prop 50 passed! Apparently it was so overwhelming they basically announced it as soon as the polls closed lol. I kept seeing other various wins in other states throughout the day, too. It's been so nice to have a day that's just good political news rather than crushing despair, you know?

2. I have now been tasked with helping our transition to a new warehouse management software as well as our inventory management software, though I am just an advisor for the former, rather than project manager, so I won't have a whole lot of work to do with it, but they've just started initial meetings, so my involvement now is high. Today was an all-day meeting at the warehouse itself, so that was fun. Tomorrow is all day, too, but I'm joining from home, so at least I won't need to leave the house by 8am like I did today. I'm getting up a lot earlier these days (I think I woke up at 6:15 today), so it's still plenty of time to do my morning routine (chores, breakfast, take a walk, use the exercise machine), but definitely feels a bit more rushed than I'd prefer.

3. They posted the holiday foodie guides for Disneyland & DCA and Festival of Holidays. I'm kind of disappointed with the Festival of Holidays offerings this year as it's mostly repeats, though there's definitely stuff we're looking forward to. Lots of good stuff in the main menus, though.

4. My Jasper guy!

cofax7

Just finished: Emily of New Moon, on audiobook from Librivox. Dean Priest is sketchy as shit from Day One. Teddy is white-bread. Ilse and Perry at least have personalities. And Jimmy is darling.

Currently reading: Number 5 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl (slowly), and I'm partway through the audiobook of Jamaica Inn by Daphne duMaurier, which is hella gothic and really well-written. I'm mildly entertained by DCC but I cannot keep all the fancy spells in my brain and the body count is pretty excessive (especially once you know that all the NPCs are real people!)

Up Next: The Nameless Land by Kate Elliott, sequel to The Witch Roads. Happily it's available on Bookshop.org DRM-free, so I could download it and sideload it onto my Kindle.

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In other news, work is insane and and and. But at least Prop 50 passed, and at least some of the Dems are figuring out that we need them to FIGHT BACK. But this shutdown sucks. I can't be more specific than that.

Bah.

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Release the minature crazed teleporting vampire whales!

Whumptober Day 27: Surgical Scars [Murderbot]

if you hear any noise, it ain't the boys

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Wicked: One Wonderful Night (TV Celebration)

Horizon: Zero Dawn: Fanfiction: Moving On

Kitty training

MCYT: MCYTBLR Holiday Exchange

Boy's Love Online Are Doomed To Fail: Fanfic: a dream we dream (someone is missing me)

unwillingness to claim us

booklog: second half of September

Star Trek: The T'hy'la

Community Recs Post!

brief political interlude

Outgunned by Riccardo “Rico” Sirignano & Simone Formicola (Translated by Caterina Arzani)

Inspector George Gently: Fanfic: Job First

Saori WX60 floor loom assembly WIP

she is functionally a carrot

Aurendor D&D: Summary for 11/5 Game

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