Violation of Venezuelan Sovereignty

Jan. 3rd, 2026 04:01 pm
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There are no words for how angry I am. I have already contacted my representative and both Senators offices. I also called the office of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to request that she lead the charge on the Bill of Impeachment.

To my Senators I wrote:

The President of the United States and his Secretary of Defense have committed the ultimate crime: Aggression against another country. This violates the U.N. Charter. It also violates U.S. Law as only Congress has the power to declare war -- FDR brought the request to congress after Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor, for instance -- and only Congress can commit the funds necessary.

This is an impeachable offense. It is a violation of our Constitution, a betrayal of the Declaration of Independence, and a bone deep offense to United States values. I hope that a motion to impeach the President will be brought forward in the House within the first week of the New Year. We cannot let our allies, both in NATO and other regions, believe that we support this unilateral violation of international law.
Should the Articles of Impeachment pass, I hope that you will help expedite the trial in the Senate for both the President and the Secretary of Defense. This is such a serious violation of all Articles of War, that justice must be served swiftly and decisively.

Thank you for your service to the country in the Senate.


To my representative, who has a tendency to follow the President over all cliffs, it was mostly the same:

The President of the United States and his Secretary of Defense have committed the ultimate crime: Aggression against another country. This violates the U.N. Charter. It also violates U.S. Law as only Congress has the power to declare war -- FDR brought the request to congress after Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor, for instance -- and only Congress can commit the funds necessary.

This is an impeachable offense. It is a violation of our Constitution, a betrayal of the Declaration of Independence, and a bone deep offense to United States values. I hope that a motion to impeach the President will be brought forward in the House within the first week of the New Year. We cannot let our allies, both in NATO and other regions, believe that we support this unilateral violation of international law.

I expect you to vote in favor of the Bills of Impeachment for both the President and the Secretary of Defense.

Lack of support would show that you lack both honor and the Christian virtues you espouse.


I think we'll need a Venezuela tag.

Purrcy; Wake Up Dead Man

Jan. 3rd, 2026 03:15 pm
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Sometimes Purrcy wants to FITE as he would with a sibling. Since he's an only cat & I bleed easily the best alternative I've found is for me to prod at him with the foot of my cane, making hissing/growling noises, until WHAP WHAP WHAP!!
Is there a better toy for this?

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is drawing himself up, lifting one paw ready to whap, as he stares at the rubber foot of a cane. His ears are somewhat flattened, the fur on his spine is a little raised. He's standing on a terra cotta and green tile floor in front of a baseboard.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is blurred as he WHAPS at the cane, his head thrown back to get power behind his thwapping paw




Our New Years Eve activity was watching Wake Up Dead Man with a few friends, while drinking champagne and having a few nibbles. We then watched the ball drop and toasted each other, and then the olds (most of us) went to bed while B stayed up until West Coast NYE to party with her fiance and friends there.

So. Wake Up Dead Man. That was sure a thing. I've been avoiding all your commentary for the past month & a half, thank you all for your careful use of cut tags. Please link me to your discussions now!
spoilers and Opinions about Wake Up Dead Man )
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Interesting:

2025 Dec 31: DwarkeshPatel YT fea. Sarah Paine: Human Rights Killed Communism - Sarah Paine:



BTW, that's Sarah C. M. Paine, until very recently the William S. Sims University Professor of History and Grand Strategy and the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History, both, at the US Naval War College. She's an incredibly interesting speaker. Recommended.

(Dwarkesh Patel is this random dude who mistakenly thinks he's a podcaster and keeps trying to have other guests, but in actuality was put on Earth to bring Paine to the masses. He's got something like 14 hours of her up on his channel.)

25 recs in 18 fandoms

Jan. 2nd, 2026 10:23 am
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Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Floris (TV), The Court Jester, Piranesi, Miss Marple, Dragonriders of Pern, Lord Peter Wimsey, Columbo, The Princess Bride, The Secret Garden, Chalet School, The Goblin Emperor, Irn Bru Snowman Ads, Dark Is Rising Sequence, Murdle, Tiny Bookshop & Untitled Goose Game, Flower Fairies, Baby Shoes Never Worn. Here, at my blog.

4 Yuletide Recs

Jan. 1st, 2026 03:14 pm
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 I posted recs for 4 Yuletide (and Madness) fics over on my blog for Ilona Andrews (Kate Daniels, Breach Wars) and the Singing Hills Cycle over on my blog. Breach Wars is not yet categorized on AO3 and not showing up in the fandoms list, so please go check out those fics if you're an Ilona Andrews fan!

Rec-cember masterpost!

Jan. 1st, 2026 06:58 pm
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To end 2025, I took part in [community profile] rec_cember and I wanted to crosspost the recs here in case people want to browse.

Rec-cember #1: works under 1000 words

Fandoms:
  • The Raven Cycle
  • Doctor Who
  • Carmilla
  • The Hunger Games
  • Teen Wolf
Rec-cember #2: Podfic

Fandoms:
  • 9-1-1
  • All for the Game
  • Goncharov/The Magnus Archives
  • Original Work
  • Sense8
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Teen Wolf
  • The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself
  • The Raven Cycle
  • Venom (movies)
Rec-cember #3: my top fics of 2025

Fandoms:
  • Sense8
  • Venom (movies)
  • All for the Game
  • League of Legends
  • Doctor Who
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe
  • Game Changers/Heated Rivalry
  • Teen Wolf
  • Cunk on Earth/Interview with the Vampire crossover
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Had [personal profile] greenygal and Euterpe over for conversation and brunch -- Liège waffles, slab-cut bacon, and springerle cookies -- this morning. I gave them their Christmas gifts, which I still had because I'd been sick for 2 weeks and couldn't really see anyone.

I've finally had a fic bunny that was interesting at I had time to write it down and outline it, so maybe I will actually post something this year.

Yuletide 2025 Wrap-Up

Jan. 2nd, 2026 10:14 am
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End of Event
We have revealed creator names at the main 2025 collection and the 2025 Madness collection. (Reveals seems to be working as intended - fingers crossed!) The New Year's Resolutions 2026 collection will shortly open for posting. The structured parts of this year's event are over - but you can keep posting recs at [community profile] yuletide and commenting on works to let their creators know you enjoyed them.

Please comment!

Please check that you have commented on any gifts you received - you can search on your username at the Yuletide 2025 collection, or the Yuletide Madness 2025 collection, or check your own personal AO3 gifts page. We understand not everyone can comment immediately due to late-December commitments or unforeseen events, but please comment when you can to acknowledge the gifts you requested. Comments and kudos on other Yuletide works are also very welcome.

Thank you from mods and team
Thank you to everyone who took part in Yuletide 2025: writers, requesters, betas, pinch hitters, community coordinators, chatters, hippos and the hippo pool.

Thank you from mods to the tagmod team: these are the assistants who research and process tags, proofread announcements, brainstorm author questions, contribute specific fandom knowledge, check stories, and discuss how to solve problems.

We look forward to running Yuletide again in 2026!

And now
There's a reveals post up at the participant community, if you want to chat about your writing process now that you can.

New stories can be posted to the New Year's Resolutions 2026 collection.

Feedback
As always, general feedback is welcome!

This year, we increased the nominations allowance from 4 fandoms to 5 fandoms. Since that worked okay, we anticipate continuing that next year.

We introduced a limited Do-Not-Match system. That was manageable so we're interested in repeating the same process next year - though it's possible it could grow beyond our capacity, so we don't want to guarantee it indefinitely.

We changed the deadline time and the reveals times. Those changes were based on mod availability, and it was really helpful to us to have multiple mods awake at the point of deadline and reveals. We'll need to base future deadline and reveals times on that priority, but since that isn't the only factor making deadlines and reveal times effective, we're interested to hear feedback too.

Next Yuletide, we may review franchise rules to make sure we're being consistent and fair. We may also specifically review rules for music videos.

As requested by a participant, we will also be adding a section to our rules on AO3 listing what you can expect from the mod team’s communications and conduct. We have had an internal Code of Conduct for several years but agree it would be helpful to share a public version.

Again, feedback on these or other topics is also welcome.

Thank you for helping to make Yuletide 2025 a wonderful event.


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Yuletide 2025 Reveals Posts

Jan. 2nd, 2026 10:11 am
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Thank you for all the work that went in to the Yuletide 2025 collection and event.

Now that author names have been revealed at the main Yuletide 2025 and Yuletide Madness 2025 collections, it's traditional for people to share thoughts on what they made this year. Maybe you want to write a post on your own social media (Dreamwidth or other) about your thoughts during canon consumption, your false starts, your research rabbit holes - please link it here! Or maybe you'd like to comment directly with much shorter thoughts. There's room for options in between, too.

See past posts at the reveals tag.
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Twisted


FREE ONLINE E-BOOK (html, epub, mobi, pdf, and xhtml)


The Motley Crew (The Thousand Nations). When a young man named Dolan flees from the north, he faces danger on all sides. The Northern Army wants him back. The Empire of Emor wants him dead. His native homeland of Koretia may not want him at all. And his only protection is a man with motives that are mysterious and possibly deadly.

New installment:

  • Side story | Twisted. No matter how you twist away, you cannot escape fate. But you can determine how you meet it.


BLOG FICTION

Anahita Most Strong (holiday gift story). "Anahita leapt from a hundred times the height of a man and ran powerfully. Strong and bright, tall and beautiful of form, she sent down by day and by night a flow of motherly waters." An ancient Persian tale retold by me from a translation of the Avesta by James Darmesteter.

Tempestuous Tours (Crossing Worlds: A Visitor's Guide to the Three Lands #2). A whirlwind tour of the sites in the Three Lands that are most steeped in history, culture, and the occasional pickpocket.

New installments:


Round-up of fiction released in 2025 )


NEWS & UPCOMING FICTION

In reference to my concussion in early November: My head is close to normal again, so I'm able to do late-stage editing once more.

As I already explained to my subscribers, I've decided to drop early access fiction in favor of releasing my stories to all my readers at the same time. Next up on my release schedule is Suspicion of the Guards (The Thousand Nations: The Motley Crew #3).

I've put together my release schedule for 2026, though these days I often have to be nimble on my feet and juggle my schedule to fit what's happening in my life. I can summarize my 2026 schedule by saying that this year I plan to release fiction from Chronicles of the Great Peninsula and Turn-of-the-Century Toughs. Those of you who are readers of the Toughs cycle have been extremely patient with my delay in posting more fic; I appreciate it. I hope to reward your patience.

Recs for my gifts

Jan. 1st, 2026 07:02 pm
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A few recs for my gifts here - Blackwell Series, Jeeves & Wooster, and Fantastic Four: First Steps:

https://www.tumblr.com/norwegianpornfaerie/804561142003499008/yuletide-recs?source=share

Community Recs Post!

Jan. 1st, 2026 11:25 am
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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 fanvids/fics/podfics/fancrafts/fanart/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

Also wishing y'all a happy and healthy 2026! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

A handful of recs

Jan. 1st, 2026 11:53 pm
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Recs for KJ Charles' England series, Utopia Avenue, Soulmate Goose AU, LEGO Botanical Garden and LEGO Natural History Museum, The Long Walk, Oxford Time Travel Universe, Dredge, and Miss Marple, here at my dreamwidth.

A few recs

Jan. 1st, 2026 08:50 am
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Seven Yuletide recs (plus one non-Yuletide rec) at my journal. Fandoms are Blackadder, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (TV), Flower Fairies - Cicely Mary Barker, LEGO Botanical Garden and LEGO Natural History Museum, Moby Dick - Herman Melville, Piranesi - Susanna Clarke and (unofficially) Raffles - E. W. Hornung.

Yuletide recs (part III)

Dec. 31st, 2025 08:58 pm
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One last batch in before reveals! Nine recs, all on my journal. Fandoms include:

The Long Walk (2025)
Carrie
The Odyssey
Philadelphia Flyers RPF
Crash (1996)
19th Century Poets RPF
True Detective
Jaws
The Blue Castle
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Привет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)

Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.

I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!

С Новым Годом, and welcome home!

EDIT: Большое спасибо всем за помощь друг другу в комментариях! Я ценю каждого, кто предоставляет нашим новым соседям информацию, понятную им без необходимости искать её в Google. :) И спасибо вам за терпение к моему русскому переводу с помощью Google Translate! Прошло уже много-много лет со школьных времен!

Thank you also to everyone who's been giving our new neighbors a warm welcome. I love you all ❤️

9 vid recs

Dec. 31st, 2025 02:47 pm
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I posted a set of vid recs to my DW: recs for the Avatar shows, Stranger Things, 80s slasher movies, X-Men movies, Torchwood, Babylon 5, Star Wars OT, and Schitt's Creek.

See the recs here!

Yuletide recs

Dec. 31st, 2025 03:09 pm
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10 Yuletide recs in 8 fandoms: Valdemar series, the Coldfire Trilogy, Cthulhu Mythos, Dimension 20: Escape from the Bloodkeep, The Goblin Emperor series, Rivers of London, Type Help, and Yami no Matsuei

https://harukami.dreamwidth.org/816011.html

Fanart recs from Doodle 4 Doodle

Dec. 31st, 2025 09:03 pm
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19 recs for art pieces drawn for [community profile] doodle4doodle at my journal

Fandoms include:
The Complete Tales of Peter Rabbit and Friends by Beatrix Potter
Critical Role: Exandria
Final Fantasy X
Hollow Knight / Silksong:
Legend of Zelda (Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom; Link's Awakening)
Original work
Sailor Moon
Sherlock Holmes
Soulcalibur
Spy x Family
Stargate Atlantis
W.I.T.C.H.

51 recs in 34 fandoms

Dec. 31st, 2025 12:02 pm
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Getting my recs in before the wire!

I received not one but three lovely fics, all of which really captured the spirit of their respective canons:

ExpandCreated For Me )


Other stories I enjoyed:
ExpandYulerecs )

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