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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

rydra_wong

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/01/online-platform-independent-bookshops-ebooks-uk

Bookshop.org is now selling ebooks in the UK as well, with profits (as with paper books sold through them) going to indie bookshops; you can either pick a specific shop you love to benefit (in my case, Juno Books), or have the money go into a collective pool.

torachan

1. I thought I was going to have to devote two full days next week to online training for our new warehouse management system, but I was told today that it's optional for me, so I am opting out!

2. We ordered curry from Coco Ichibanya for dinner tonight. Have previously only eaten there in person so I was not sure how crispy the karaage chicken or tonkatsu would be when they arrived, but they put the curry separate from everything else, and even with the inevitable steaming from the delivery time, everything was still suuuuuuper crispy and it was so good. Definitely will have to add that to the delivery rotation.

3. I love her little face so much!

torachan

Recently Finished
The Roanoke Girls
I grabbed this on an Audible two for one sale because it sounded like it could be interesting but alas, it was not for me. As a teen, the MC went to live with her grandparents and cousin after her mother's suicide, having never had any contact with them before. She stays with them for a summer and then leaves suddenly. Then ten years later she gets a call from her grandfather saying her cousin is missing and she should come home. The story is told in alternating timelines, slowly revealing the events of that summer as she tries to solve her cousin's disappearance in the present. I thought it would be a mystery/thriller, but honestly it was more like a VC Andrews/Jackie Collins shlockfest. I would have loved this when I twelve, like I loved Flowers in the Attic, but it's not really my thing now.

( Various complaints with lots of spoilers )

Thornfruit
Fantasy novel with an f/f romance and a lot of palace intrigue type stuff. The first half was pretty slow and I was kind of feeling like I might not bother with further books, but it got a lot better in the second half and I think I will read the next one.

The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America
In the end I felt like this just wasn't critical enough for me. I also would have liked more focus on homeschooling as well as vouchers and charter schools, since that's another way the right is trying to kill public schools, but it was barely touched on (just one mention of a supposed charter school that was actually homeschoolers). The structure of the book is also sort of focused around various court cases, and has no wrap up at the end, just the most recent court case as of the time of writing and then that's it. I was expecting some discussion about what could be done to try to repair things, but it was sort of like, welp, they've won, the end.

The Kill Clause
Short story about a woman who works as an assassin but realizes her employer has decided she's outlived her usefulness. This was free with Amazon's First Reads program, which is where I've been picking up some random short stories lately. It was all right. I wouldn't have bothered with it if I'd had to pay, though.

My Home Hero vol. 7-9

merridia

TGIF. My plans tonight include getting high as fuck, watching wrestling, mani/pedi, worrying about nix, maybe a bath, either noodles or perogies (possibly both?) finishing Dracula, and let's try for a movie? Or maybe I'll just play video games until I pass out. Everything at work is a mess, and I'm looking forward to abandoning it all for the weekend.

16. What’s Your Favorite Candy?

Whatever is in my mouth at the given moment. There's been a lot of it this week.

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ashkitty

Today is my parents' 54th wedding anniversary. Given how the last month went, I'm glad and relieved they're both here for it. My dad and I arranged to have flowers delivered to my mom in hospital, and we went up to see her. She's looking better! (And was out of bed and dressed, which isn't a small thing at this point.) One of the nurses had braided her hair. They're both so cute.

Horrendous traffic on the way back - Apple Maps suggested the ferry might be faster, and it probably would have been had we been able to get to it before departure. We thought we might need a treat afterward so went for drinks at a local place they used to visit a lot, pre-pandemic, for a snack and a drink. I'm glad my dad is up to going and doing stuff, because he was shutting down pretty hard for a bit.

I'm headed back to Wales next week, and really hoping it's safe to leave them alone to get better for a while.

aurumcalendula

When the Hacker is Forced to Marry by Shan You He Ye (translated by Riptide):

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In terms of other books, I'm about a quarter of the way though my Reading the Remnants reread.

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olliesqueens is a dreamwidth community dedicated to het & gen relationships of Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow, thus "Ollie's Queens". The community was imported from LiveJournal, it originally focused on the Smallville version of Oliver Queen het & gen relationships. Since lack of works posted to LJ for awhile and since Smallville had ended back 2011 (Smallville Season 11 ended in 2014) & Arrow ended in 2020, Ollie's Queens has since opened up to any universe Oliver Queen exists in, including comics, animation, films, and shows of course.

Doesn't matter if it's Canon ships or Unconventional pairings, or how rare the pairings are! If you write or want to rec something you love! PLEASE SHARE.

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werewolvesden is a dreamwidth community dedicated to any fandom or media that related to werewolves or other wereanimals or shapeshifters (from folklores to latest show or film). Feel free to post your fanworks, recs, start discussions or feel free to pimp your fandom if you feel like you need to make more people aware of it.

This community was inspired by the lovely

vampiremedia ♥ I love vampires but I also love werewolves just as much and there's sooo many fandoms out there that just doesn't get the justice they deserve so I figured why not!

torachan

1. The lingering cough seems to be gone finally. Yesterday I was still sucking on throat drops constantly and having coughing fits, but today I didn't take any cough medicine in the morning but still didn't need any throat drops, and only had a few coughs here and there.

2. I had an all day web meeting today, but was able to take it at home, and it was just listening on my part, so I was able to do other things while they were talking.

3. Ollie's just contemplating the meaning of life.

merridia

Just a quickie update today, since Marvel Move has folded and I refuse to let any part of my emotional support fitness app become lost media so all my free time at work for the next couple of weeks (or until I finish) has to go to painstakingly pulling mp3s from the source code of the website.

Inception on the big screen again was so fucking sick. Truly a movie that emphasizes the ultimate power of the rule of cool over all else.

I have last night's Dynamite ready to go on Plex when I get home, hype! Another belt, though, Tony??? Really???? THIS IS JUST THE INTERNATIONAL TITLE ALL OVER AGAIN, WHY NOT UN-UNIFY THAT ONE INSTEAD????? Whatever, at least the casino gauntlet match for it should rule.

( Album #497/1001: Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die )

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torachan

1. Prop 50 passed! Apparently it was so overwhelming they basically announced it as soon as the polls closed lol. I kept seeing other various wins in other states throughout the day, too. It's been so nice to have a day that's just good political news rather than crushing despair, you know?

2. I have now been tasked with helping our transition to a new warehouse management software as well as our inventory management software, though I am just an advisor for the former, rather than project manager, so I won't have a whole lot of work to do with it, but they've just started initial meetings, so my involvement now is high. Today was an all-day meeting at the warehouse itself, so that was fun. Tomorrow is all day, too, but I'm joining from home, so at least I won't need to leave the house by 8am like I did today. I'm getting up a lot earlier these days (I think I woke up at 6:15 today), so it's still plenty of time to do my morning routine (chores, breakfast, take a walk, use the exercise machine), but definitely feels a bit more rushed than I'd prefer.

3. They posted the holiday foodie guides for Disneyland & DCA and Festival of Holidays. I'm kind of disappointed with the Festival of Holidays offerings this year as it's mostly repeats, though there's definitely stuff we're looking forward to. Lots of good stuff in the main menus, though.

4. My Jasper guy!

merridia

Finished Poker Face last night. Good shit. Also did some yoga in a long-overdue attempt to stop being as goddamn sedentary as I have been since taking this new position. Also ate some pizza. It was tasty. Currently craving a tuna melt, though. And shopping online. And doing some actual work on the side, I guess. Heading to the movies after work, unless mom bails, since it's at 6pm and I would be unable to take the bus in time to go by myself. Unless I leave work early. Maybe I'll leave work early in that case. The concept of being salaried is still very strange to me.

( Album #496/1001: Kelela - Take Me Apart )

NYC went ahead and elected the certified sicko mayor, which is pretty rad. Have a random wrestling video to celebrate, because it is SO IMPORTANT to me that after years of scrubs on the internet saying that Kris had to drop the alien gimmick to make it to the next level, she dropped the alien gimmick, won the world fucking title (right in front of me and my salad), and then IMMEDIATELY went back to being an alien, tripling down on the gimmick instead, with her insane Australian girlfriend recording a '70s sci-fi intro for her very first title defense followed by an entrance with sexy Dune boys???? God, this was everything to me (starts about 15 seconds in, though obviously Toni's entrance rules, too).

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It looks like our usual seats at the theatre have been purchased! Inception is presumably a go! Okay, that means it's back to work time, and refilling the popcorn tanks will be my reward~

ETA: Actually, fuck work, I'm still thinking about that WrestleDream match again, because for all that it's still frustrating to see the 'two steps forward, one step back' steady progress of the AEW women's division, that progress should still be celebrated and it's just so fucking cool that two women were allowed to work such a subtle, deliberately-paced match as that one was without being given like, eight minutes to get it over with? All three (!) women's matches on the card were a solid 15/16 minutes long and all had wildly different feels to them, and that's just great. It's great! And that bit at 2:50 where Kris counters the Storm Zero by bracing herself with her arms at the last second is some amazing, blink-and-you-miss it wrestling, OKAY BACK TO WORK FOR REAL NOW.

rachelmanija

This book is very hard to describe without spoilers, so I'll just cover the setup. Aspiring actress/current waitress Jess is having a bad night that gets much worse when she finds a scared little boy who's run away from his father. Things get extremely strange from there. This book is a wild ride.

I read it in a single sitting, so it's very propulsive. It's also very dark/bleak, despite some absurdist humor arising from the premise. I enjoyed it a lot while I read it, but it's now months later and it hasn't quite stuck with me the way some other books have. Nestlings is still my favorite of his.

Content notes: Child abuse/harm is central to the story. So is an accidental needle-stick with a possibly contaminated needle.

Spoilers! Also contains some light spoilers for Stephen King's Firestarter.

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torachan

1. The election results tonight are so exciting! Mamdani! And so much good news out of Virginia! Polls here don't close for another half hour, but I am cautiously optimistic about Prop 50. Of course Republicans are already saying everything's rigged, but that's what being a Republican means these days.

2. We had a nice lunch today at Disneyland. We didn't go on the weekend since I still was feeling under the weather, but I didn't have anything scheduled this morning, just a meeting in the afternoon, so I was able to make good use of that flexibility.

3. Carla took her Switch and some games to Book Off today while we were down in Gardena and got $250 for the lot. Her Switch was an Animal Crossing one (doesn't come with the game or anything, but the design is super cute) and she still had the original box, so I was pretty sure they'd give a decent price for it. I think that was about $150 and another $100 for the games. She'd call the night before to make sure that location was buying systems as some of them don't, and they said yes, and that they had a promotion right now for Switch games where you get an extra 20% over their usual buying price, so we went through our games and found some we don't think we'll play again.

4. Chloe's celebrating election victories!

aurumcalendula

The Beauty's Blade by Feng Ren Zuo Shu, translated by Yu:

(The print version's out next week, but the ebook was released today.)

( some mostly unspoilerly thoughts )

I also saw that someone put together a carrd of human translated baihe novels!

torachan

We had originally planned to go to Disneyland for dinner (with Carla coming down to work with me and doing shopping etc. while I had meetings for a few hours), but as I was thinking about it, I realized we could go to Disneyland first for lunch and then go to work for my meetings and just come home and relax in the evening, so that's what we did!

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