Recipe

Dec. 29th, 2025 01:03 am
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Sometimes I invent "recipes" just by tossing stuff together on a whim. Today's whim recipe: Chicken soup, potato, carrot, and spinach soup.

Ingredients:

One can of cream of chicken soup
One chicken breast, diced (or half of one, if you want)
Two small potatoes or one large potato, diced
Two carrots, diced
Water: at least as much as is in the can of soup, though you may want more because of the veggies
A few handfuls of frozen spinach
Butter or other cooking oil
Chicken boullion to taste (optional; I used it because the only cream of chicken soup I had was low sodium)
Black pepper to taste.

Optional extras if you have them: mushrooms, diced onions.

First fry the chicken in butter or your oil of choice, until golden brown (or at least done). While you do that, start the cream of chicken soup and water heating up. When boiling, add the veggies. Reheat back to a boil. When boiling, turn to low and simmer until veggies are done. If you use mushrooms, you may need to start cooking them first.

I will add my verdict of the broth when I've tried it.

Okay, I've tried it. I really like it. It could use more carrots. Mushrooms would be a great addition. Could probably be even better with garlic powder.

Online Housekeeping

Dec. 29th, 2025 02:14 am
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This checklist of online housekeeping originally came from [community profile] sunshine_challenge (which is now [community profile] sunshine_revival). (See the 2023 version.)  I am updating it for the [community profile] snowflake_challenge in January 2026.

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A SIGN THAT IS OPPOSED

And [Mary and Joseph] brought [Jesus] up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord …. Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon …. And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. … he [Simeon] took Him [Jesus] up in his arms and blessed God …. And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, “Behold, this Child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed ….” (Luke 2:22b, 25a, 26, 28a, 34)

I wonder what Mary thought when Simeon called her baby “a sign that is opposed.” Looking down at His innocent face, it must have been hard to imagine people hating Him—hurting Him—doing their best to destroy Him. And yet, Mary knew her Bible. She would have known that suffering would come to her Son the Messiah.

And of course it did—as a refugee in Egypt, during the years of His ministry, and finally when He laid down His life for us on the cross. As Isaiah says, “He was despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief” (Isaiah 53:3a).

But that wasn’t the end of the story. For Jesus was and is a sign, the greatest sign there could ever be of God’s love. Jesus’ death and resurrection for our sake make it clear that God’s intentions toward us sinners are nothing but love and mercy and redemption. In Jesus we see the height and depth and breadth of God’s love—for us.

WE PRAY: Dear Jesus, Your love reaches even to me! Thank You! Amen.

Reflection Questions:

  • When did Jesus first meet opposition?
  • Signs have meaning. What does Jesus mean to you?
  • How can you be a sign to people who need God’s love and mercy?
Advent Devotions were written by Dr. Kari Vo. 

D.O.P.-T.

Dec. 28th, 2025 11:54 pm
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The dog was constantly asking to be let out today, then basically lying on the grass in the sun. I think she thinks it's spring. I looked up and Monty was lying on the sloping roof of the neighbours' extension.

and the madness continues

Dec. 29th, 2025 07:31 pm
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Agh, I just found the hollanov discord server.

And wrote my first 1800 words of HR fanfic.

Um... anyone up to alpha read it to give me feedback about whether it's worth continuing?

My favorite pictures from 2025

Dec. 28th, 2025 10:37 pm
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For the last couple years, I've shared my favorite pictures taken for the year. Here are my top fifteen for 2025!

As usual, it's pretty clear what my favorite subject matter is, haha.

January 07, at home:


Cy and Bella cuddling.

It was a little rare for them to cuddle together for long, and getting a picture of them doing so seemed to be even harder. I miss him so much, still.


Thirteen more pictures, chronological through the year:

June 03, at the Denver Botanic Gardens:


Rainwater in the center of a poppy.

We'd set up a plan to go to the Botanic Gardens for my mom's birthday, and when the day came, it was chilly and rained. Initially we were a bit disappointed, but it turned out to be absolutely perfect. The clouds made for perfect photo lighting, and it had been such a soft rain, the raindrops clinging to everything were beautiful. (There were a couple pictures of roses covered in beads of rain that I almost picked instead, but I just really liked this one.)

July 06, at Roxborough State Park:


A bumblebee on a bee balm flower.

These bumblebees were ENORMOUS.

July 08, at Hudson Gardens:


A bullfrog.

This bullfrog was huge and so very chill about us taking his picture.

July 14, at Lair o' the Bear Open Space Park:


It's Bella!

This is one of my favorite pictures that I've taken of Bella. She just has such soft eyes, ha.


A pygmy nuthatch.

From that same hike, a surprisingly cooperative little bird!

July 21, at Castlewood Canyon State Park:


A hummingbird nest.

I was so beyond charmed to see this tiny nest! The lichens and seed fluff and spiderwebs making up the construction is just so perfect.

July 29, at Centennial Cone Open Space Park:


A view from pretty way up.

This park is pretty way up in the mountains. We hadn't been before (and of course ended up going on the day that the *one* tiny thunderstorm that spawned over the mountains picked this exact spot, haha.)


A lizard!

I loved this guy's very vibrant markings! On a sunnier day, I'm sure they actually help him blend in extremely well with darker plant shadows.

August 26, Greenbelt:


Bumblebee!

Much, much smaller than the giant bumblebee from before. I do love their little orange belt.

September 02, Castlewood Canyon State Park:


A fawn!

I was delighted that this fawn still had some spots!

September 08, Alexx & Michael's Pond:


Pelicans!

Alex and I went up to this random neighborhood park to catch sight of an avian oddity: a wood stork! (Perfectly common in some places, but not in Colorado!) We did spot the stork, which was very cool, but the pelicans were also stars of the day, haha. There were SO MANY!

October 14, Greenbelt:


Fall colors.

We were graced with an extremely beautiful fall, and the colors were gorgeous! The gold against the intensely blue sky was especially striking.

November 04, Red Rocks:


It's Bella!

Bella loves rock climbing, and I was very pleased with this picture of her so dramatically backlit!


November 11, the north plains:


The Northern Lights!

We had another chance to go see auroras this year (having seen them for the first time last year.) They were spectacular! It was amazing to see them, and while they were not as intense to the naked eye as it was on camera, the color was visible. It was so, so cool to get to go up and see them, and I'm so glad we did.

-

Obviously I take a lot of pictures of flowers and bees and birds and my dog, haha.

Monday Update 12-29-25

Dec. 29th, 2025 12:18 am
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These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Friending Policy 12-28-25
Transformative Works Statement 12-28-25
Poem: "Incompressible"
Poem: "A Stronger Woman"
Wildlife
BirdfeedingPoem: "Tenacity, Creativity, and Bravery"
Communities
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Government
Photos: Lights on the Prairie Part 2
Photos: Lights on the Prairie Part 1
Today's Adventures
Birdfeeding
Poem: "Genuinely Sufficient Resources"
Follow Friday 12-26-25: Learning
Poem: "The Heart to Change the World"
Poem: "Technique, Timing, and Leverage"
Read "The Fëanorian Zine"
Climate Change
Friending Meme
Birdfeeding
Vocabulary: Bokeh
Poem: "A Human Scale, Full-Featured Settlement"
Food
Birdfeeding
Cuddle Party

Food has 47 comments. Trauma has 46 comments. Affordable Housing has 78 comments. Robotics has 119 comments.


The 2025 Holiday Poetry Sale has closed, with a massive amount of material to post. It will take me a long time to get it all online, so please keep an eye on the sale page.


Watch for [community profile] snowflake_challenge to open on January 1. This panfandom activity is one of Dreamwidth's biggest events and a great time to make new friends.

Watch for [community profile] threeforthememories to open on January 3. It features your top three photographs from the past year.


"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv. It needs $72 to be complete. Shiv and his classmates discuss magical weather, magical geography, natural resources, plants and animals, history, and other aspects of worldbuilding.


The weather was mild for most of the week, but today it stormed. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a flock of mourning doves in the ritual meadow, and two fox squirrels running through the trees.

Friending Policy 12-28-25

Dec. 28th, 2025 11:45 pm
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Due to requests for a friending policy, and different ways that people use friending tools online, I have done my best to describe my parameters.  (See the 2020 version.)

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Magical locks

Dec. 28th, 2025 09:45 pm
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Now I'm pondering what the inside of a magical lock would look like. Because there's two particular kinds of magical locks I'm thinking about:

1. Magical locks where the key is just a rod or a flat piece of metal with runes or other enchantments on the key that magically interact with the lock to open. Useful if you need multiple people to be able to access something, while still restricting access. Would make copying keys difficult, I imagine a lot of artificers go into key and lock making.

2. Magical locks without even a keyhole because they're blood-locked to you so all you have to do is grab and pull to open and nobody else can do that (maybe with you pushing some intentional magic into it or using a password you think at the lock at the same time, for added security, so nobody can force you to open it).

Either way, there's no tumbler, there's no pins or other mechanism inside. It's all magic. The only thing you need is the shackle or a bolt or whatever.

Literally pick-proof, the mundane way. Possibly there might be magical ways of picking it, but with a simple blood-lock (using a drop of your blood to bind it to yourself only) that would be made a lot more difficult. And such locks are often Adamant. You'd either have to be very skilled at picking magical locks, or you'd have to use magic to completely destroy the lock.

Now of course there are also spells you can put on the lock or the locked box/vault itself that can hit the would-be picker with offensive spells or trap spells. Or, if it's sensitive enough, destroy the contents before the lock can be picked.

But truthfully, I'm more interested in the physical mechanism. How similar to a mundane lock does the inside of a magical lock have to be? How much mechanism needs to be there? On the simple end: Obviously, since magic can move single items around, the inside can be as simple as the shackle goes in, a magical bolt locks the shackle in place. Just the two moving parts. Or better yet, have the magic hold the shackle in place and move it all on its own; just the one moving part.

On the complicated end: as fucking complicated on the inside as you want it to be. Gears, levers, springs, clockworks galore. As many runic arrays as you can fit into the lock and/or the vault door, each of them a different trap. Multiple bolts. Hell, multiple shackles, even. But in the end, one important factor is "if someone sucked all the magic out of this thing, would it open or would it be stuck closed? And which do you prefer?"

Obviously the "shackle only" design would fall open immediately if its magic was drained (which isn't an easy task in itself). "Bolt and shackle," with no keyhole, you'd have to either find a way to shimmy the bolt open, or destroy the lock. Or use your own magic to move the bolt. Same with more complicated locks.

I am, of course, interested in whether a magical lock could be made to be pick-proof. I've seen lots of lock-picking videos on YouTube by two different channels, LockPickingLawyer and McNallyOfficial. Most locks made are pretty shitty. Masterlock locks basically almost unlock if you so much as sneeze at them. The men on both of those channels can basically pick most locks in like three seconds. LockPickingLawyer has picked locks with all kinds of random things, from pieces of aluminum cans, to twigs he found outside, and many other things. McNallyOfficial has a recurring schtick of "This is (X brand make and model) lock. It can be opened with (another of the same lock)" and then he hits one lock with the other and it opens. He also uses pieces of aluminum cans. One video I saw had a stack of Masterlock locks at least ten locks thick, all held in place with vices, and he picked one after the other in a total of like ten seconds. All he did was ram a rake pick into the keyholes so violently that he basically was showing "hey, these take no fucking skill at all to pick. A toddler could pick this."

I think the most worrying videos I ever saw were the many, many, MANY videos by LockPickingLawyer where he picked the locks of GUN SAFES so quickly and easily that yes, a toddler could literally pick one of these things open in seconds. At least one of his "pick the lock with a random twig" videos was him doing that to the lock of a gun safe. I have concluded from years of these videos that "gun safe" is an oxymoron.

So yeah. Hence my wondering if magical locks could be pick proof. Basically me wondering if a pick-proof lock is even possible.

Oh and that reminds me: a few days ago I saw a video saying that before reliable locks, if someone needed to secure something, the best way to go about it was put it in a puzzle box. That way, either you have to know the exact trick of how to open it and be able to do so, or you have to be smart enough to figure it out, or you break the thing open to get at the stuff inside. So another possibility is "magical puzzle box." Or maybe a lock where you have to use the right sequence of complicated, difficult spells to open it.

Or something similar to the meme where the burglar forces the man to give his password, a keyboard flips down, and the second password is some ridiculously complicated piano piece.

On the magical security side, there's also spells that refuse to unlock the lock at all, even for the one person they're keyed to, if anyone else is in the room with them.

Anyway, another reason I started thinking about all this is because there's a scene in the current chapter I'm working on where one of the characters has to pick an extremely complicated and dangerous magical lock, that's part of a massive vault door.

Done rambling now.
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People keep clamoring for this sort of thing. Ideally, everyone should have a "blanket statement." While I don't have a stance on many of the points, it seems useful to post the ones where I do have a stance. (See the 2020 version.)

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Poem: "Incompressible"

Dec. 28th, 2025 10:13 pm
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This poem came out of the January 2, 2024 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "When You're Smiling" square in my 1-1-24 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred. It belongs to the Foster Fiasco thread in the Polychrome Heroics series.

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(cooking, us, cats, health)

Dec. 28th, 2025 09:32 pm
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Happy cooking things:

Bread pudding in a pumpkin: will do again.

Seared baby bok choi with potatoes and pre-cooked tofu made a nice lunch. (I've learned that pressing and then air frying slabs of tofu really creates a nice chewy texture).

Used hatch chili skins that i'd shoved in the freezer, ground up two very old dried-out okra, and coriander stems and seeds to make a broth. That plus left-over black beans from the freezer and some left over tomato paste made a very satisfying soup. House smelled lovely.

Realized we still had frozen Wellington from Thanksgiving, so not making that today. Caramelized onions and made quasi-duxelles from the fresh mushrooms and shoved in freezer for some other time.

Shallots and beet greens, first cooking the stems and shallots down, then adding the greens. Served over toast that i used to wipe up the caramelized onion pan with slivers of a nice sharp cheese (Sartori Merlot BellaVitano). Bliss.

Happy that that is net-less stuff in freezer, plus got fresh green things eaten or fixed before they went too sad.

I need to eat down the freezer so that when Christine has surgery on Jan 13, we can have comfort food for her in the fridge.

I carefully watched for a low stress time to give Christine more stress: i shared with her some observations about the things listed for her surgery appointment that point to some recovery aspects i knew she would find.... hard. She's coping OK. I am pretty sure the surgeon's description of recovered state was interpreted by Christine to apply to immediately post surgery, so it was a surprise. What is stressing me is the need to go to Ohio and the uncertainty about the recovery needs. I have a hard time believing that we could be scheduling the week of MLK day.

Today both Marlowe and Bruno did inappropriate urination. That stressed Christine lots. I got a laundry line set up in the back porch, under the ceiling fan, so hopefully this will ease some of the appliance demands.

 body/weight trigger warning )

(no subject)

Dec. 28th, 2025 08:22 pm
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1.
The darkest part of the year is always the hardest to remember to, like, be a person and not just curl up being grumbly about the long cold dark.

But, well, I do feel more like a person the more I act like a person and interact with people, as much as I might wish to be a lump and zone out while watching streams/tv that ask nothing of me.


2.
Yuletide revealed works!

There was perhaps 30min of AHHHH about 20min after reveals due to an Ao3 bug that revealed creators alongside works. Considering that this happened to Battleship this summer and the mods heard crickets from Support at the time, perhaps now that Yuletide hit the same bug (and solved the immediate problem with advice from the Battleship mods) Ao3 support will have more data and motivation to figure out wtf happened there and make sure it can't happen again.

Anyway, I received two Yuletide gifts:
The Promise (1222 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Oathsworn (Actual Play Podcast)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Dorado the Adamant & Nabain Palisade
Characters: Dorado the Adamant, Nabain Palisade
Additional Tags: and the absence of Serikali, Post canon, Missing Scene, Dialogue Heavy, Major Spoilers
Summary:

“Did you ever speak to Serikali?” Dorado asked.

“Not as often as I would have liked.” The broken promise settled over his shoulders like a yoke. But even under that weight, he still could carry curiosity. Dorado was direct: if she changed topic, there had to be a reason.


This is for a fandom that, as the author's note says, I wrote a promo post last year (and then mentioned again during Battleship season when people were asking about good actual play podcasts), and am thus inevitably the reason this person got into the show. <3 Delightful to get a gift for it! I was not expecting one, but also when I saw a gift show up for me and no fandoms I'd requested in the collection list I was like "omg... perhaps..." and it was!

This is a lovely little coda adding into the Oathsworn epilogue, about what people are willing to do for the sake of their community and what secrets they're willing to keep and why. Absolutely delightful.


The other gift is WORLDBUILDING VIA TEXTBOOK EXCERPTS
The Dresediel Lex Project And Its Consequences (2385 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Maestre Gerhardt
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Epistolary
Summary:

Excerpts from documents found in Tara Abernathy's bag before her graduation from the Hidden Schools, sketching out the historical project to understand undeath and some pertinent later findings.


aka, someone taking me up on my Worldbuilding and Atypical Narrative Stuff things. <3 Absolutely delightful. A+ look into how weird it is to do SCIENCE to the magic of Becoming A Lich and Living Forever As An Undead Being. The change in thought about said magic from the first excerpt to the last is very fun, and it's a good look at a bit of magic that the series itself takes rather for granted.


I have also received absolutely lovely comments on both of the fics I wrote for Yuletide! Further commentary about those after author reveals; I had a great time writing both of them for very different reasons. xD <3


3.
Been thinking about projects for the new year and things I want to do and how, as much as I'm like "ughhhhh I am TIRED all the time" it is annoyingly true that often if I do things anyway I will end up having more energy overall.

So.

Fundamentally I believe in my ability to Write Stuff so long as I, y'know, actually focus and put time into it. xD The part where I need to get myself to actually write instead of zoning out on the internet is the hard part, usually! But I would like to actually write about the blorbos I've been rotating in my head since this summer.

There's this part of me like "that would be easier if you had a TITLE for it" and I'm like "OKAY SO GIVE ME ONE" about it. ([personal profile] tavina most of the time I do not feel your pain about this BUT IN THIS CASE it feels weirdly true, considering that my brain can give me the primary arc of the story and the vibes I want but the idea of WRITING it is somehow ???. if a title helps I will sigh loudly but also be like "yeah okay sure".)

but I would like to be able to actually explain about my blorbos and their not-romance (it is an ADVENTURE STORY and they are absolutely Together but also get mad if one's like "so your BOYFRIEND" about it) (they are a half-triton/half-elf and a half-orc/half-dragon because why be Normal about your multiracial fantasy characters) (the half-dragon gets kidnapped to build an airship and that's what kicks the whole thing off) which means I need to WRITE IT

so really if I have any goal for next year it is probably simply "please actually write full draft of that <3", which, to be clear, is Very Doable based on how many words I am capable of writing xD just gotta make them words about this.


4.
It snowed the day after Christmas (or, well, the evening of Boxing Day into the early morning of the 27th), fluffy dry snow that's perfectly aesthetic and wasn't too much of a pain to clean off. Tonight it's supposed to be FREEZING RAIN, however, which is so much more UGH and is going to make going to work tomorrow Special. (I wish I got more time off for the holidays, but, whatever, it's not like I would do anything in particular except rest and read and write.)


5.
The dojo did get a new heater in. It's the same as the old heater, I'm pretty sure, except newer and thus works properly. xD


6.
A friend made me watch the first four episodes of I Am Nobody, a cdrama that they were like "I think you'll like it!" about because of the traits: Has Women (aka: is not actually a BL) and Is Modern Cultivation (because I'd made a comment about the Legend of Xiao Hei that they should've told me it was modern cultivation and not just "it has a cute cat! look at the cute cat!"). The thing is, it has women by virtue of being Probably Het (I think fandom is mostly like BUT BOYS about it) and the modern cultivation is "secret sects keep magic secret" and not the far more interesting "magical cultivation sects are integrated into everyday modern life" that Xiao Hei included.

So like... it's a show that I'd have fun watching with them, because it's honestly really well done for what it is, but unlike either friend I was watching with (either the one showing this to us or the other one new to it) I am not compelled to watch the rest on my own? It leans too much into comedy and not enough into the sort of worldbuilding or character dynamics that actually get their claws into me. Not a bad thing about it, really! I see why people like it! Just. Not as much my jam as that friend had hoped for.


7.
I watched del Toro's Frankenstein on Christmas Day, and spent the entire time talking with my friend about the use of color in that movie. It definitely understood what Frankenstein (the novel) was about! It portrayed The Themes (consequences of one's actions; accepting responsibility; the relationship between creator and creation) very well. It also did not shy away from gore and blood and the surgical nature of it all! (Also there were wolves that Did Not Act Like Wolves At All but also they're A Metaphor in the end so... whatever..) Very enjoyable, glad to have seen it!

Ninth night of Yule

Dec. 28th, 2025 05:30 pm
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As the sunset faded, I again stood barefoot on the grass and blóted Bragi, Saga, Snotra, Mímir, Ár/Eir, and Holda/Perht with more red wine.

Fresh New Pelagiad Save - Ready to Go

Dec. 28th, 2025 05:12 pm
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Setting up a new copy of the town of New Pelagiad didn't take long at all. The layout of the town mostly remained the same with only a few changes. I decided to grab the schoolhouse from the Stoneridge Valley world. Like the other school I was using, the actual school rabbit-hole is hidden in the basement while what appears on the surface of the lot is a shell building. What I like about this new one is that it has a larger classroom, which gives me more space to work with when doing classroom pose scenes.

The new schoolhouse needed a larger lot than the old one, but that problem was easily solved since I was able to clear out the lots that held Anaril and Vallisara's individual homes. Having a different schoolhouse shouldn't seem too out of the blue since Aeronwen mentioned in her journal that the town council was raising funds to build a larger school once the "baby parade" was in effect.

As mentioned in the last entry, all families were saved in the household bin with their houses since those who had children had a room turned into a nursery. The homes all went into the same locations in the world that they have in the old save. After placing the households, I added Nalcarya of White Haven back into the world. So now there is another character in the "Sluts and Sleazes" cache. I wonder who Nalcarya will have an affair with first. Crassius? Or Tanor? Maybe Godonir. Whoever it is, we can be sure that Yanna, Morgana, and Merriweather Golden will be upset about it. Ah, the drama.

Because I wanted to get this new save all done and ready to go, I used the Pregnancy Controller mod to cause Vallisara and Aeronwen to have their children in my current game so I could save the households and be able to add them in the new copy of the world. Then I closed the game without saving.

So at this point I guess I can just continue my current game which should last until the last two expectant mothers give birth (so these events can be mentioned in Aeronwen's blog), then at any time just switch to the newly set up save. For the record my current game is still working fairly well due to regularly resetting the town and using the save cleaner. I just wanted to have the new game set up for when the current save cries "uncle" and starts taking far too long to load.

Edited to add: I forgot to mention, I added a household that contains Neldor and Thorinor's parents as well as Basnik and Brolmir's parents. This means I could fill in some previously missing portions of their family tree, so now Basnik and Brolmir show in the relationship panel as Neldor's and Thorinor's cousins.

Weather: Yikes, Again

Dec. 28th, 2025 06:55 pm
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Ottawa City Hall has declared a Significant Weather Event tonight.

Poem: "A Stronger Woman"

Dec. 28th, 2025 05:58 pm
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This poem is spillover from the July 1, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from [personal profile] fuzzyred, [personal profile] see_also_friend, and [personal profile] wyld_dandelyon. It also fills the "Put me down!" square in my 7-1-25 card for the Western Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred. It belongs to the Fortressa thread in the Polychrome Heroics series.

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