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1. Holiday Cards
Generic non-religious cards are fine, but cards with cats, space, dinosaurs, godzilla, cryptids, or anything from the following list would be amazing, bought or homemade, thank you <3
Yule
Jólakötturinn the Yule Cat
Winter Solstice
Summer Solstice (I’m in the Southern Hemisphere)
Catmas
Trekmas
Sithmas
Krampus
Moomas

2. Big Finish Gift Card(s)
https://www.bigfinish.com/pages/v/gift-cards?currency=nzd
Please make sure you set the purchase currency to NZD, otherwise I won’t be able to use it. Thank you.
My account email is louise.mcculloch@gmail.com

3. DriveThruRPG Gift Card(s)
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/432/onebookshelf-inc?productType=2810
Any amount, I buy a lot from DriveThruRPG.
My account email is louise.mcculloch@gmail.com

4. Etsy Gift Card(s)
https://www.etsy.com/nz/giftcards?currency=AUD
I’ve preset it to AUD because that’s the closest to NZD for me to be able to shop with.
My Etsy email is carson.beckett@gmail.com

5. Wild Beyond the Witchlight DnD Miniature - Dirlagraun
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335646036441

6. Wild Beyond the Witchlight DnD Miniature - Star
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335914686188

7. Spelljammer DnD Miniature - Living Ship
https://www.ebay.com/itm/364051422236

8. Spelljammer DnD Miniature - Helm
https://www.ebay.com/itm/285029174372

9. Magical Kitties Save the Day
https://www.atlas-games.com/product_tables/AG3110
Surprise me! Anything at all, especially any of the Hometown adventure books, the only thing I don’t need is the Character Sheets, I got those last year.

10. Star Trek Picard Season 3 Uniform Shirt - 3XL / Blue
https://www.ebay.com/itm/385478370153?var=653329108945
I was promoted to Captain a few years ago and I would really like to look the part.

If you have any questions, need additional information or my snail mail address, you can contact me at either of these emails or message me here.
DW/LJ/Fandom Email: carson.beckett@gmail.com
Primary Email: louise.mcculloch@gmail.com

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oracne

1. Work load at dayjob has been low this week; we got out at noon yesterday, and today I can log off at 12:30 pm. We are then off through January 2 for winter break (yay, academia). I had a couple of small things I was able to resolve this morning, go me!

2. I did not send out Xmas cards this year, but I appreciate every one I received. I hope to be back to it next year.

3. I am thawing out a chuck roast to cook later this week, probably Friday. My tamarind-sauce-flavored vegetable soup from Sunday, which includes silken tofu, grape tomatoes, carrot, potato, and green beans, is very delicious, especially with a couple tablespoons of congee dumped in. Last night, I finished off my bag of post-surgery chicken nuggets and baked sliced golden potatoes at 425 degrees F with olive oil and salt.

4. I have been listening to a ton of Xmas music, so at least I am somewhat in the holiday spirit. I did not have energy to pull out my ornament tree and dress it up, but we have a smaller one downstairs so I moved it from the corner onto the dining room table--the ornaments were still on it from last year! We have some cards propped around the base, and I have more on the little desk in the guest room. I didn't use my usual space in the back room because it would block my DVD screen, which I need for the Blake's 7 watchalong and possibly even some Shakespeare.

5. I have tentative plans for Xmas afternoon with local friends. I want to get started on my fancy wooden turtle puzzle (which I have had for several years), and also to do some mending of clothing. I especially want to try needle-felting a hole in a very old black cashmere cardigan (commercially knitted); I was wearing it when I broke my elbow years ago, so couldn't wash it for weeks, and it got a moth hole under one arm before I was healed up. I am not sure if the hole is too big for felting. We shall see. I have washed it after its long storage!

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calimac

45-minute CBS documentary on Rob Reiner. Really thoughtful and insightful views of the man, mostly from actors he directed in his films. A couple of them (both men, by the way) even break down in tears while talking about him. Also plenty of clips from interviews with Reiner, the movies, and All in the Family. Very much worth watching if you're at all interested in Reiner or his movies. It's amazing that the makers were able to put together such a polished and substantial piece of work in such a short time.

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Title: On The Outside
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Garibaldi, Zack Allen
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers/Setting: Moments of Transition.
Summary: These days, Garibaldi can only rely on himself.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 501: Amnesty 83, using Challenge 30: Solitary.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Triple drabble.

( On The Outside... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

sparowe

A SAFE PLACE

And she [Mary] gave birth to her firstborn Son and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. (Luke 2:7)

Now that I’ve gone through labor and childbirth, I can’t imagine doing that in the kind of discomfort Mary probably bore. “There was no room for them in the kataluma,” says Luke—and whether the word “kataluma” should be translated “inn” or “guest room,” it really doesn’t matter. There was no room in that comfortable place for a woman in labor, or her frantic husband, or her tiny newborn baby—no room for God Himself.

Why put Jesus to sleep in a manger? Well, labor and delivery make you sleepy afterward. And my first urge when I got sleepy was to put my baby somewhere safe and warm—where no one could drop him, step on him, or harm him in any other way. If the place Mary gave birth was a stable, no doubt there were rats. Mary must have been worried. And so she and Joseph put Him in the safest place they could find—a feeding trough.

Jesus is no longer a baby, of course. But He feels the same protective urge toward you and me, because through His suffering, death, and resurrection, He has given life to us. And now that we are God’s own beloved children, He wants us in the safest place possible. So He has taken us into Himself—as He prays to the Father, “that they also may be in Us … I in them and You in Me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them even as You loved Me” (John 17:21b, 23).

WE PRAY: Thank You, dear Lord, for loving and protecting me. Amen.

Reflection Questions:

Have you ever cared for a baby?
If so, how did you keep the baby safe?
What does Jesus protect you from? How does He do it?

Advent Devotions were written by Dr. Kari Vo.

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tielan

Bought carton egg whites to make the pav with. Didn't realise they'd overbeat so easily.

Ugh.

So I've made two pavs and neither one got to stiff peaks. Second time I actually looked up what went wrong and went "ARGH".

Do I try making a third?

Honestly, the last few years, my pav attempts have been somewhat substandard. They collapse and fall - I don't think I can get the gas oven cool enough for long enough to keep them from collapsing. It only goes down to about 120C before the dial cuts out and if possible you're supposed to leave it at around 80C for an hour.

Not an option in my oven.

I have a guest coming, too - invited a woman off a FB group "host a sister" who was bouncing around Christmas Day.

ETA: I ended up whipping up a third batch, and it's now in the oven. We'll try to bake the shell hard (high temp), then fluff the inside (long low temp).

Please please please please let this one work!

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This was an element of older websites and blogs, where fans could leave feedback and comments, and operated as a message board. Although it wasn’t fannish in origin, people used it to interact with fandom and to promote their own fanworks and sites, as guestbooks predated online journals with comment sections.

They could be hard to navigate, and even harder to edit. As there was only one per website, it meant that messages could be hard to decipher if they weren’t specific.

Guestbooks were susceptible to spam, and the editing and censoring the owners of guestbooks practiced appears to be minimal, but for fans newly online, they offered the ability to read instantaneous feedback, try to message a celebrity, or was a place to make friends. Some guestbooks were also created as a memorial to a deceased fan.

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musesfool

I just cleaned off the kitchen counter and put the last bowl/spatulas in the sink to soak (the dishwasher is already running, and all the cupcakes are cooked and 4 out of 5 frostings are made (I just finished the strawberry Swiss meringue buttercream) - tomorrow I will make the ganache and possibly also a whipped ganache (I've never done it with butter in it - does that make it more buttercream-ish?) just to change things up a bit.

Today, I baked the strawberry (doubled to make 80), apple cider (60), and funfetti (doubled to make 80) cupcakes - there could have been more funfetti, but not enough to fill a whole pan, so I didn't bother. I added cinnamon bits from King Arthur to the apple cider ones and dipped them in maple cinnamon sugar, which is a change, one that hopefully people will like.

I also discovered that the cupcake carriers I've had sitting in a box under a chair in my living room for a few months are the wrong size (they are for standard-sized cupcakes) so I only have 10 mini ones and I need 13, so I will use the some foil lasagna pans for my brother and sister and one of the kids - they'll get a few more cupcakes out of it, since the carriers hold 2 dozen but the 9 x 13" tray fits about 30. *hands* I'm just glad I still have a pack of them left to use; otherwise, I'd have been up a creek.

Tomorrow is Pipe-a-palooza 7: The Pipening! (yeah, it's kind of shocking to me I've been doing cupcakes for 7 years now - I started in 2019 - but I like it more than the chocolates [and it's also less time-consuming than the chocolates were] and I can't do ice creams anymore due to logistics, though they remain my all-time favorite of the homemade Christmas gifts I've done over the years.) Wish me luck! It's always the hardest part for me. Hopefully I will remember to take pictures to share afterwards.

Whoops, I started this entry an hour ago and got distracted by stuff like packing my overnight bag and refilling my water bottle etc. so I'm just gonna hit post now and work up the energy to go wash my hair.

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Current Music: Ranges vs Caps on tv

senmut

Going early with this because of the holiday. 2018, how many (few) did I see?

SEVEN?! Okay, 3 of these were son's fault.

~ Love, Simon - I wound up unironically loving the way this played out. May have teared up a bit.
~ Solo: A Star Wars Story - Had been on the fence, fell for both Val and L3-37, GO ME FOR PICKING THE DOOMED ONES.
~ Venom - I had not kept up with comics, but I swear this version is almost like if every time The Maxx had been talking to himself, he'd been two people. I really did enjoy the film.

~ Bumblebee - LOL, I only just watched this in the past year. Twice. I really wish I had not waited but GO CHARLIE!
~ Aquaman - So I saw the reunion scene between Tom and Atlanna, and it hit my RexSoka buttons, so I watched it. Liked it a lot more than I had Wonder Woman!
~ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - OMG, so freaking awesome! I LOVE THIS FILM.

and my fave:
~ Black Panther - So this is where I fell back in love with some of the MCU again. There's not a Wakandan I don't love, even the antagonists. This made me give a damn about the BP property in ways I had not thought possible, and proves that you have to have the right creative effort leaders!

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Contrary to speculation, The Writer character here is not me, any more than the corpse of The Writer on Page 3 is me. Consider this character a multiversal variant of that skeletal remnant of the Suicide Squad Writer. (I read one or two complaints that this farrago was just so typical of ‘Grant Morrison’ - too meta - he always has to put himself in every story! For the record, I’ve only ever written myself into Animal Man and in a more abstract way Seven Soldiers. That’s at best twice in 40 years!) -- Grant Morrison

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Kastagir's Hotel Américain (3102 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Highlander: The Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Amanda Darieux/Rebecca Horne
Characters: Amanda Darieux, Rebecca Horne, Rachel Ellenstein, Sunda Kastagir
Additional Tags: Fun, Adventure, Thievery, Humor
Summary:

Rebecca visits Kastagir at his fancy new hotel. Then Amanda shows up. Antics ensue.

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shirebound

Happy Holidays to one and all, and may my precious friends enjoy a peaceful and health-ful end of year. May you be warm, safe, and loved. Here is a hobbity Yule ficlet from a while back. I hope you enjoy it. :)

The hobbits (and Gandalf) gently introduce Yule to Tol Eressëa
Characters: Gandalf, Frodo, Bilbo, unnamed elves
Word Count: 440

Getting to Know You

The elves living near the hobbits' dwelling were quite puzzled at first, for even with their sharp ears they had heard no movement outside their homes. Yet in the morning they found that small bags had been hung on their posts or door latches, filled with unusual but wonderful-smelling confections. The baked goods had been fashioned in various sizes and shapes of people or trees, and decorated in bright colors. Because the anonymous gifts arrived only a few moon cycles after the arrival of the Ring-bearers, the elves hurried to the Istar, Gandalf, to consult with him.

“Ah, these are rare treats, my friends!” Gandalf informed them, peering into the bags and parcels and inhaling appreciatively. “They are gingerbread-hobbits and sugar-elves, and the trees are those most beloved by the hobbits. Frodo and Bilbo are wishing you a joyous Yule, a festival that falls about this time in Middle-earth, when their folk give thanks for the year’s bounty, and share sweets and small gifts with their neighbors.”

“What are we to give in return?” the elves queried anxiously.

“The hobbits expect nothing, I assure you,” Gandalf told them. “It is their joy to give of what they have, and I am certain it gives them comfort to continue a tradition that reminds them of their home. Merely convey your thanks and wish them a blessed Yule when you see them...” He paused, then smiled knowingly. “Wait, there is one thing more that they might like.”

That evening, Frodo and Bilbo sat together on the small bench outside their dwelling, as they did each night after supper. They sipped warm drinks and talked quietly, enjoying the bright stars as they appeared and the perfume of night-blooming flowers. After awhile, Bilbo laid his head on Frodo’s shoulder, and Frodo stroked his white curls very gently.

As the night grew darker, they saw with surprise and great joy that their neighbors had set candles in every window of their homes, and were lighting them one by one. The multitude of soft, flickering lights shone with warmth and a peaceful glow. And the hobbits' attention was caught by strings of colored jewels that had been hung amidst the branches of a noble fir tree, interlaced into the shape of a star. As the brilliance from Elbereth's stars hit each faceted surface, the gems sparkled brightly.

“It's lovely here, isn’t it?” Bilbo asked happily. “I did so hope it would be.”

“It is lovely,” Frodo agreed softly, and he smiled. “Good neighbors make for a good home, as Aunt Dora would say. Happy Yule, Bilbo."

“Happy Yule, dear boy,” Bilbo said with a sigh of contentment.

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