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but that's not the case

I made some chicken thighs in the slow cooker today with hoisin sauce, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, garlic, and some tomato paste. The chicken shredded nicely, but mostly what I tasted was salt - it was low sodium soy sauce too, so I'm not sure why. Maybe the balsamic? But that was only 2 tsps. Kind of a disappointment, though now at least I have some room in my freezer for other things. *hands*

Finished my reread of The Dream Thieves and now it's onto Blue Lily, Lily Blue. Still enjoying myself. I guess at some point I'll read something new to me again, but not just yet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In other news, man, the Giants looked good for 3 whole quarters before completely unravelling and losing. the fact that they led for so long, and even came back to retake the lead once they fell behind, and still lost just makes it worse. At least the Rangers finally won last night.

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Tvmovie20in20 • Round 21

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We are officially old

So I've suddenly started getting quite a lot of comments to my old Doggett/Reyes fics lately - I'm guessing people are binging X-Files on Disney+ (and/or have rediscovered Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish thanks to Peacemaker and Flanaganverse) - but I just got the best/worst comment to a fic I posted in 2004:

this fic is older than me lmao but i really like it. you’ve captured doggett’s voice so well

I am ded.

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yuletide

Yuletide letter 2025

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New Vid: Until We Go Down | Phantom (2023)

Title: Until We Go Down
Fandom: 유령 | Phantom (2023)
Music: Until We Go Down by Ruelle
Summary: 'I need that fire just to know that I'm awake'
Notes: Premiered at Virtual

confabcon 2025!
Warnings: quick cuts and flashing lights, blood, violence, lots of smoking

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books

Book Review - The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements by Gail Dixon and Paul Parsons

The only reason this isn't 5 stars is entirely a me-problem, and I'm trying to be reasonable.

I wanted more science to go along with the pictures. A couple of elements had two pages of text and I think I would have liked more elements to have got that.

The pictures are amazing and I really like the inclusion of the crystal structure space for each of the solid elements.

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Not read any of them, but I want to.

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Oz Magi: A Holiday Season Shankfest

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gravity falls fic

Well, At Least I've Narrowed It Down To Three Possible Lines On The Card To Fill Now

Geez, I really do need to get going on this bingo card before it's time for the next round. So, fine. Here's a fluffy little bit of fluff to get the ball rolling

Title: Shooting Stars Break the Mold
Fandom: Gravity Falls
Characters/Relationships: Ford & Mabel
Rating: General Audiences. No warnings for anything. Well, maybe spoilers for Shrek.
Summary: Mabel keeps making Ford sweaters. Why does he keep not wearing them?
Tags: Mabel & Ford bonding, Sweaters, Ford's embarrassing neck tattoo, Family, Shrek, Fluff
Length: ~1500 words
Author's Notes: Written for Gen Prompt Bingo, for the prompt "Jumper/Sweater/Cardigan." Because how could I not write something featuring Mabel for that? I sort of want to apologize for the title, but I don't see how I could have done anything else for that, either.

Shooting Stars Break the Mold

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ficathon: the joining exchange

Dear The Joining Exchange Creator,

First of all, relax! I'm far from being picky, and I can pretty much guarantee that I'll love whatever you decide to create for me. These are nothing but guidelines, for you to take to heart or ignore to your heart's content. Also, hey! You're writing me fic or drawing me art! That's automatically a good reason for me to love you, no matter what. So, please, keep that in mind. Trust me, you can pretty much do no wrong. ♥

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Watching original "The Stand"

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real life: gilly's needs its own tag

The end of an era...

Those of you who've been around for ages probably remember when I worked at what I not-so-lovingly called the Restaurant of FAIL when I first moved to Maryland. There was a beer & wine store nearby that doubled as a small bar that I spent a lot of time at back then, and even once I moved further north I still tried to go there from time-to-time until I, you know, stopped having a car. Even now, whenever I happened to be down in the area for a doctor's appointment or whatever, I'd try to stop by since it's within walking distance of the metro.

Anyway, I just saw that they made a post on Facebook on Thursday saying that they're permanently closing tomorrow. Three days' notice. That's it. Considering that very much is not something the Gilly's that I knew would do, I quickly did some googling to figure out what on earth was going on. And, well, I found this Reddit post from back in February. Which explains a lot.

From what I can tell, without any warning they fired the entire management team (some of whom had been there for 10-15 years) for nepotism purposes, which pissed off a lot of the staff and caused many of them to quit. Then a big chunk of the long-time customers stopped visiting after that as well, because the staff is what kept people coming more than anything. And, uh, it doesn't seem to have ended well for them.

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So, sometimes E and I have been watching Mom

For one reason and one reason only, which is to criticize their set design.

We're supposed to believe that the protagonist of the series is a recently sober waitress, single mom. One kid's dad is nonexistent, the other is there but he certainly doesn't pay any child support. Her own family is definitely not helping out - indeed, she has to help her mother, who is also recently sober!

Dialog establishes that her nonsober life was pretty chaotic - evictions, jail time, the works.

And their house is fucking amazing. Three bedrooms for a mom and two kids, which to my NYC eyes is astonishing, and everything matches. None of the furniture has cigarette burns or scratches or crayon marks, nothing is missing a drawer pull or, indeed, a drawer, all their windows have curtains - matching curtains, even! - and all their lights have lampshades, none of their comforters are frayed around the edges, there's no food or drink stains, the doors all close properly....

You know, it occurs to me that I may be revealing a bit more about my own childhood home than perhaps I want to, so I guess I'll stop here. But seriously, set and costume design have some questions to answer, because they really didn't think any of this through. I can see such a tidy house from a waitress who is diligent about estate sales and thrifting - though probably none of it would match, it would be eclectic in a classy way. Or I can see nice furnishings from an alcoholic with a bigger income who was managing to keep a fingerhold on being functional in a way that this family clearly wasn't before the show. But c'mon!

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Re-watching the original "The Stand" miniseries.

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