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I genuinely can't believe I finished this BUT I DID.

book cover with a magpie holding a Christmas ornament in its beak

The cover is .... there. It may need work.

Anyway - another Fated Mountain Lodge novella arrives for the holidays to answer the question everyone is asking: will the lodge's reservation system work any better this time than it has in the previous four books?

Download from Bookfunnel if you'd like a copy! It comes out on Dec. 7, so the link will stop working then.

https://dl.bookfunnel.com/lzcdk6pga8

Under the cut: a brief history of how this book came to be written.

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Title: Snow Ball Practice
Fandom: Charmed (reboot)
Pairings: Mel Vera/Abigael Jameson-Caine
Rating: G
Warnings/Spoilers: Post-Canon/Canon Divergence AU/Future Fic.
Summary: Mel and Abigael are out walking when a snow ball hits.
Notes: Written for

adventdrabbles prompt Day 2 - Witches Holding Hands,

100fandoms prompt practice, and

100ships prompt snow.
[...100fandoms Table...] [...100ships Table...]

Snow Ball Practice....

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Here are the entries for this week's challenge:

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clavally

It's the moooost wonderful time of the yeeeeeeeaaaaar!

Welcome to Advent 2025!

1. Up first is our gaming dice. First, before any day, they included a nice green cloth bag to keep all our dice in. Last year's was red. For the actual day we got a full set of mini-gaming dice. Clear with green numbers

2. Diamine Inkvent Calendar: A small bottle of ink called Celestial Skies. It is a very pretty blue shimmer ink. I thought about posting a photo of a sample of writing with it, but you can't really see the sparkles in the photo, so it seemed kind of pointless.

3. Cult Pens: Pentel Orenz 0.2 mechanical pencil. It's a pretty green color. Normal cost: $8.23

4. Nothing yet, BUT I do have one coming which should be here Thursday. At the very last second I bought a chocolate calendar from Cacao and Cardamom. I was debating about getting the calendar from them last year, so I'll be really interested to see how it is. In any case, I figure I'll double-up on days until I'm caught up once I get it.

New for this year: I decided I would post a picture each day of my haul, so enjoy today's photo!

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Title: Purple Eyes
Artist: bluerosekatie
Fandom: Minecraft: Story Mode
Pairing/Characters: Romeo/Xara
Rating/Category: Gen, Het
Prompt: Minecraft: Story Mode, Romeo/Xara, Haunted
Notes/Warnings: N/A

A digital painting of Xara from Minecraft: Story Mode staring at her reflection in a window at night. Purple and red light reflects off her and her surroundings. In the window reflection, she is in her Admin form and Romeo has one hand on her shoulder.

A digital painting of Xara from Minecraft: Story Mode staring at her reflection in a window at night. Purple and red light reflects off her and her surroundings. In the window reflection, she is in her Admin form and Romeo has one hand on her shoulder.

Link to it on my DeviantArt

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Theme Prompt: 281 - Mirage
Title: a man dreaming he was a mouse
Fandom: Chainsaw Man
Rating/Warnings: N/A
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 913
Summary: Aki has professional boundaries that have been eroded and he isn’t sure he’s missing them at all when he’s on patrol with the Angel Devil

( or a mouse dreaming he was a man )

Current Music: Years - Sierra Ferrel

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Hello all! I learned about this comm this year and it's such a sweet idea, I'm excited to take part! No worries if folks can't fill my wishes, of course, but thank you for looking at my list at all - and may everyone's holiday season be wonderful!

1. Dreamwidth Points - Dreamwidth's paid time features are so great, and I keep finding more and more icons I like, so points I could put towards paid time or additional icon slots would be very appreciated!

2. Fic Recommendations - For Hazbin Hotel or Pokemon Horizons. Both are new favorite media I got really into this past year, and finding fic for large fandoms like Pokemon and Hazbin Hotel can get a little overwhelming, so I'd love recommendations of your favorite fics! The main things I'd like to read for Hazbin are: Husk/Angel Dust fic, or fic with a focus on Abel, Sir Pentious, Lucifer, or Emily. For Horizons, I'd be interested in fic focused on Friede, the friendship(s) between Roy, Dot, and/or Liko, and the bond between Roy and his team, as well as general slice of life on the Brave Olivine before the timeskip. In either fandom, I'm not interested in crackfic, character/ship bashing, porn without plot for Hazbin/smut fic in general for Horizons, or fics containing character death. Also, if you're recommending a fic for Pokemon Horizons, please note that I'm watching the English dub, and want to avoid spoilers for anything after HZ089, "Where the Adventure Leads," thank you!

3. 100x100 Icons - I can always use more Pokemon icons, and especially would love icons of any of the new Mega Evolutions in Legends Z-A or the characters Naveen, Taunie, Lida, L, or Mable from the same game, or icons of Friede, Cap, Roy, Dot, Liko, or any of their Pokemon from Pokemon Horizons!

4. Digital Giftcards - to Barnes and Noble, Hot Topic, Amazon, or the Nintendo eShop; you can DM me for my email address!

5. YouTube Recommendations - I'm a big fan of YouTubers who create content focused on art and character design, such as GinjaNinjaOwO, Momopurin, Prickly Alpaca, and TheStarfishface. I'd love to add more to my subscription list!

Again, thank you for checking out my list, and whatever you're celebrating or observing this time of year - if anything - I wish you the very best time!

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Hi everyone! This is my first time doing this, and I'm a little shy about it, but here goes! I would love it if you...

1.) Rec'd me some stuff! Right now I'm mostly on the hunt for webcomics, anime, C-dramas, or audio dramas of the modern-day slice-of-life variety, ideally with little to no romance and at least a couple queer characters in the cast. Also happy to check out some fics that fit this bill, even if the original fandom doesn't.

2.) Ranted at me about stuff you love! It's always fun for me to hear about things people are into, and often people's enthusiasm rubs off on me and I check out things I might not otherwise. I'd love to hear about what/who you love and why.

3.) Commented on a fic or podfic of mine, especially this pe-canon Raven Cycle thing starring the 300 Fox Way crew. It's probably my favorite fic I've written, and sadly it remains uncommented upon. :(

4.) Are a nonbinary person in your 30s/40s/older and would like to be DW friends or even better email penpals and share experiences/tips/etc.

5.) Told me about something you did/tried to do this year that made you a little happier and that I might wanna try too.

I think that's it! I love that this is a thing! Thank you! <3

rachelmanija

Another mystery with light horror/urban legend elements and a heavy use of images by the mysterious and pseudonymous Uketsu. If you like creepypasta, you will like this.

An abandoned blog with sketches of a woman's future child may reveal a horrifying secret. A child's drawings of his apartment building worry his teacher. A mountaintop murder has a clue in a sketch by the murder victim. How do the images reveal the solutions? Are these three weird stories related?

I enjoyed this very much. It's exactly as fun and bonkers as the first Uketsu book I read, Strange Houses, but feels more confident and assured. It also reads more like a normal novel, with actual scenes rather than solely relying on interviews and exposition.

I'm excited to read his next two books (forthcoming in English) Strange Buildings (originally published in Japanese as Strange Houses 2, which the translator says is more dark/disturbing than the first two) and Strange Maps, which the translator says is more of a classic mystery.

Content notes: Child abuse, animal in danger, brief but graphic violence.

Spoilers!

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Neat month.

Hell's Bistro - chapter 4, gregclair

You make me perfect - gregclair

Unrevealed exchange fic - alvaluca

One day we'll meet again - xichdon

Love through food - bingqiu

I have some more stuff that's meant for december so that will come around soon. I had fun all things considered.

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I didn't get anything game dev related done this week. I think I'm still adjusting to the anxiety med. I have been doing a bit more work on my website these past few weeks. Next time I work on it, I'm planning on getting an automatic light or dark mode thing going. Even once I get it done, it'll probably still be a bit before it goes live because I have several things planned for a bigger update to the site (this includes customizing the fic archive a bit more).

I also want to start working on the studio website. There's quite a bit to do for that and it's going to be my test run of running a website not on Neocities. I have a bunch of stuff I want to self-host so I know I'm going to end up moving off of Neocities for my personal site anyway eventually.

I have gotten some stuff written down for my YGO post-canon/canon divergence verse so I've been doing some creative stuff. I really need to figure out a name for it. (It's been YGO!AU in my notes.) Honestly, eventually I want a whole site dedicated to it. It's currently in its own (pretty much) Obsidian vault, but I want somewhere else to store it. (I know that the vault's going to get slower at opening especially as I add images.)

Current Mood: lethargic
Current Music: Tsurugi - Descenders

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Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/12/01/rules-and-notes-for-a-christmas-playlist-revisited/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=72047

This post is an annual tradition here because, as a retail worker, it helps me to exorcise the hours of Christmas music now echoing in my brain.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/12/01/rules-and-notes-for-a-christmas-playlist-revisited/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=72047

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osprey_archer

At long last December has arrived, and with it the first day of my picture book advent calendar! Before work I had a cup of tea and a cranberry sauce-almond muffin and Tasha Tudor's Corgiville Christmas, which I realized that I've actually read before, probably around when it came out in 2002, because at the time I was quite disappointed by the sketchy style: the pictures look like rough drafts, not as polished and detailed as in Tudor's other books, like my beloved Corgiville Fair.

I do still find the sketchiness a trifle disappointing, to be honest, but I did enjoy the bucolic image of the Corgiville Christmas: skating parties on the frozen pond, making cornucopias to hang on the tree, painting a new Advent calendar for the year...

The corgis start Advent properly on December 6th, so I have been appropriately chastened for my break with tradition in starting on the first. (But will cheerfully enjoy books 2 through 5 regardless.)

As the Advent books came in at the library, I wrapped them in leftover brown paper so each day's book could be a surprise. Yesterday after I decorated the Christmas tree, it occurred to me that it would look so much more festive with the Advent books heaped underneath - if only the books were wrapped in something a bit more jolly than brown paper. For a brief mad moment I considered re-wrapping them all in proper wrapping paper, but sanity prevailed and I only wrapped my cloth Christmas napkins around the top ten or so, which are after all the ones that show.

The tree DOES look extremely merry with a heap of books wrapped under it, so I'm thinking I may need to make the picture book Advent calendar an annual tradition. Perhaps going forward I will include only a smattering of Christmas books? Mostly they could any book by picture book illustrators I like. A grand way to catch up on all the Barbara Cooney and Patricia Polacco books I've missed.

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The end of the year approaches!

The theme for December is Fix-Its. If there's something in canon you think needs fixing - whether that's a character dying, a pairing getting/not getting together, or just a really stupid plot point - now's your chance!

Posting guidelines are here, and if you have any recs or prompts you'd like to share, you can leave them in the comments using the templates below:

For recs:

For prompts:

This theme will last until 31st December.

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Title: Calling You, Calling You On
Author:

monkiainen
Fandom: Eureka
Pairing/Characters: Jack/Nathan
Rating/Category: PG/Slash
Prompt: Come back to me, lover
Summary: One message. One sentence. A new beginning, maybe.
Notes/Warnings: None

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On All My Motions

“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.” – C.S. Lewis

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Happy December! Have another free book!

Charmed (reboot) | "Her Grumpy Potion Princess"

Prompt Practice | Charmed (reboot) | Snow Ball Practice

[#281 | Mirage] Voting Post

Advent Day 1

Fanart, Minecraft: Story Mode (video games), Romeo/Xara, Haunted

[#281] a man dreaming he was a mouse (Chainsaw Man)

Season's Greetings!

Soricel's wishlist

Strange Pictures, by Uketsu

November fic summary

December Challenge 233 - Winter Calendar

11/23/25 - 11/29/25

Rules and notes for a Christmas playlist, revisited

Monday, December 1 - Art & Photography

Picture Book Advent Calendar LIFTOFF!

Multifandom: Trope of the Month - Fix-Its

December: Fix-Its

Multifandom: Love Yourself Selfcest Fest

Fanfic, Eureka, Jack/Nathan, Come back to me, lover