[News]

Navi Pictures by leda_speaks at numb3rswom3n

[Graphics]

=Picspam, 4/8 (Colby, Hydra) by mustangcandi at savecolby

[Challenges]

=Amnesty Period begins at numb3rsflashfic

The Bet challenge is now closed.

The holiday season is upon us, and for many of us RL tends to get in the way of fandom fun. For that reason there will be no new challenge issued this week. Instead, we’re going to take the opportunity to hold an Amnesty Period and encourage everyone to check out all our previous prompts (with the additional reminder that all of the past challenges always remain open for writing, even after the challenge has been officially ‘closed’).

The Amnesty Period will run for four weeks, so we'll post a new challenge on Saturday, January 16.

You can find the complete list of all 104 past challenges here. Remember to post your fic here at the comm, but since it’s for a past challenge, it doesn’t have to be exclusive to this comm for the ‘challenge period’.

Have fun!

Feel free to suggest future challenges in the comments to this post.

Eeek! The spindle came!

And it brought a friend!



Thank you, thatpotteryguy! Did you make the mug? I am assuming. It's lovely!

Now to find some fiber.....

16 degrees this morning, 6 with windchill. We're waiting for the snowpocalypse.

tea today: peppermint
teacup today: the little orange and white Chinese teacup I got at a Chinese grocery in Ann Arbor.

Up too late last night and awoke too early this morning for somebody who's supposed to be sleeping off a sore throat, but I kind of forgot to eat dinner yesterday (yeah, swallowing when your throat hurts sucks) so I got woken up by being hungry. Leftover oatmeal is becoming blueberry oatcakes as we speak, though, never fear, and I am unlikely to waste away.

Tonight, we expect a great big snowdump (It's currently beating up my friends in Maryland and Virginia) and I plan to spend today on more reading. Didn't get as much done yesterday on that front as I wanted--got distracted with side projects, Shadow Unit-related work, and talking to friends about Major Life Issues. Like you do sometimes.

Also made the last December Non-Denominational Gift-Giving Day presents, which I need to package up today and mail out on Monday. Or maybe next Monday, because the nice thing about DNDGGD is that it's not any particular day at all, so as long as you get it done in December, you're all good!

I did read a wonderful very short story yesterday, though. Sherman Alexie's "Distances," which is science fiction and four pages long and one the best after-the-bomb stories I have ever read. Simply amazing. I wish I'd known of its existence when I was writing my comments on my story in JJA's Wastelands anthology, because it would have affected what I said.

But now you know, so you have no excuses. (I've read Alexie's YA fiction, but this is my first time through The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, and it's just as good as everybody says it is. Not that he needs my hard sell)

I read it, told everybody on twitter how much I loved it, and promptly went back and read it again. It reminds me of, oh. "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas." Except different and wonderful. But it hits me in the same place, and it's as tiny and perfect and beautifully made.

Got thirty farm fresh eggs at the agricultural co-op on the corner when I went in to see if they carry Ace's dog food (they don't) so I suspect lunch is going to be an omelette. *g*

And now breakfast is ready, so it's time to microwave my beloved barley neck pillow and start that reading.  Who would have thought I'd choose a career that was nothing but homework?

If I don't post much in the next few days, it's because I'm working on my yuletide story and posting old stories to spectral_eye.

Bronchitis no longer knows how to read a calendar. It's only supposed to return every 2 months, not every month. At least it's still sticking to around the 15th. :P Yeah, I have it again. Currently lying here having trouble breathing. Not "OMG let's head for the hospital!" trouble, but enough to be annoying and noticeable. Also fighting off a sinus headache. Ohhhh weeeeell. :)

While packing more shit, I threw out some old magazine clippings. My original intention was to collect the articles on bands I don't care about and sell them, but I've been planning to do that since at least 1990 and I haven't found time to get it all organized yet, so I figure it's never going to happen. So I tossed most of it. I still have a whole box of magazines I haven't torn up yet anyway. Anywho, it was kind of fun looking at some of the pictures of bands I once collected on but now don't care much about, at least in terms of keeping pics. Robin Crosby of Ratt and Tom Keifer of Cinderella make the same Zoolander face in most of their pics. XD I remembered how my sister and I once had a really big fight over a magazine pic because Poison was on one side and Stryper on the other, so who would get it? Now I'm throwing away 99.999999% of those Poison pics. It's funny.

[Fic]

Gen

= In The In Between - Remix (Colby, OC - K+) by jelsemium Note: Original author emmademarais 

Slash

= A Question For The Dark (Don/OC - PG) by irena_adler 
= The Eighth Night (Charlie/Billy, Alan, OCs - PG-13) by emmademarais