I was going to try to catch up on Snowflake this weekend, and also RL posts, but this is neither of those things XD This is my Secret Santa squee post and also Hugo drama, because I didn't want to delay either too much:

I got an AMAZING package from rinkafushi, my Santa in cafemassolit's annual Gift Exchange, after a somewhat nervous fortnight it spent in US customs ( Read more... )

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Crossposting still broken, reposting manually


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And even MORE fun mail! :D

Most recently, I got my Secret Santa package (part of
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So, I was going to make a regular RL post at some point (short version: Big Meeting went well, work has calmed down a bit, Covid still sucks) but then a thing happened which preempted it, which is that I got my -- unexpectedly early! -- Secret Santa package via ikel89/
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18. Jim Butcher, Peace Talks -- Well, that was certainly... not really a book. :/ I mean, I went in knowing, from Butcher's Comic Con @ Home panel, that it was the first half of a complete story and that it ended on a cliffhanger, and from
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It looks like I'm the first in ikel89's Secret Santa exchange to actually get to open my package, which has never happened before -- neat! :D

My gift from wintergreen126 arrived way sooner than I had expected -- in fact, before I'd even sent mine -- and it was full of cute and tasty things!


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I hope all you guys on the East Coast are staying warm ( Read more... )

Day 12: In your own space, create a fanwork. Make a podfic, an icon, a sketch, a meta, or a rec list. Arts and crafts. Cross stitch. Draft an essay about a particular medium. Put together a picspam or a fanmix. Write a review of book you love, a ship manifesto, a you-should-be-listening-to-this-band essay. Create something.I'm going to have to take ( Read more... )

I have a rather long post mostly written up, with the weekend and an eventful couple of days, but that's going to have to wait (probably until Thursday, because I'm in Oregon tomorrow), but one thing I could not delay was a squee post:

First, the other day we came home to a box of ender839's amazing cookies -- a true holiday tradition! (The chocolate ( Read more... )