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It's December Days time again. This year, I have decided that I'm going to talk about skills and applications thereof, if for no other reason than because I am prone to both the fixed mindset and the downplaying of any skills that I might have obtained as not "real" skills because they do not fit some form of ideal.

( 23: Chaos )

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Disparition - The Ballad of Magnus and Axel

caramarie

The vids

Lucky Strike (The Princess, Jan 2024)
Nightwalker (multi, Jan 2025)
Pom Poms (Squid Game, Feb 2025)
I Want to Destroy Something Beautiful (Squid Game, Mar 2025)
With Knives (multi, Jun 2025)
If It’s All I Got (A Bittersweet Life, Jul 2025)

Favourite vid

It’s a toss-up between I Want to Destroy Something Beautiful, and If It’s All I Got. This has nothing to do with Lee Byung-hun’s face; I was just very happy with those two vids and proud of how they turned out.

Most successful vid

Lucky Strike, which was in Festivids that year.

Vid least appreciated by the universe

If It’s All I Got. I know, I know, this is always true for movie vids, unless maybe they are part of an exchange, or maybe if there is a franchise involved. I do it to myself, though.

Most fun vid

Lucky Strike. Neither of our leads dies or horribly betrays the other! It wins by default!

Vid with the single sexiest moment

Nightwalker, except if you want me to pick a moment I am going to feel overly exposed. Not one of the obviously sexual moments, we could say :P

Hardest vid to make

I Want to Destroy Something Beautiful. Not because it was hard to make technically or anything. But I did put more conscious thought into structure and some of my technical choices than I usually would do.

Thinking some more though, Nightwalker had the biggest ‘barrier to entry’. It was straightforward once I was making it, but it involved the most source, and I also had to rewatch and finish Hannibal in order to make it. There were also a couple of points when I was making it where I was struggling, and wondering whether using Killing Eve as well would make all my problems go away – except that would have changed my central conceit, and if I opened the vid up to that there were other sources I would have had to consider as well. So that was a bit of a battle.

Most unintentionally telling vid

NO UNINTENTIONAL TELLING, ONLY INTENTIONAL.

That is, With Knives is a vid made using only shots that have blood in them from my other vids. So I guess you could say it is an intentionally telling vid made from unintentionally telling source material :P

Things I learned

I should try and acquire all my source at the same frame rate … sigh …

Things to work on

Relating to an in-progress Evangelion vid: incorporating still images in with other sources. I’ve never done it before! I don’t watch a lot of comic vids either to give me a sense of how to go about things (recs welcome).

For 2026

Finish the Evangelion vid! Or at least, make some progress so I can come back and finish it another year :P

Previous years

2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015–16 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023

princessofgeeks

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Dear Miss Manners: Several years ago, a divorced woman exactly my age moved in next door. I liked her very much and tried to become friends with her. ( Read more... )

source

jazzfish

Yesterday I flew home from Minneapolis. My bag got lost, for the first time in ages, so I slept CPAP-less (poorly) last night. When the bag deigned to arrive this morning, it was missing one of the zipper sliders. Same thing happened to an identical bag last year. Time to stop buying and recommending Travelpro suitcases, no matter how nice the wheels are.

I also had a crown break and pop off on Saturday. And my dentist is on holiday until the fifth of January. Argh. At least it's not hurting. I did speak with him briefly and got "yeah, just keep it clean and be gentle with it, and DON'T PUT THE BROKEN CROWN BACK ON."

We lose our use of colour
Just water on the brush

Minneapolis had snow and sun, which were both a nice change from the overly typical wintergrey here. Contrariwise, it remains nice to be back at home with my kitten.

Small changes, small improvements, day by day. Sunreturn.

princessofgeeks

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musesfool

I just cleaned off the kitchen counter and put the last bowl/spatulas in the sink to soak (the dishwasher is already running, and all the cupcakes are cooked and 4 out of 5 frostings are made (I just finished the strawberry Swiss meringue buttercream) - tomorrow I will make the ganache and possibly also a whipped ganache (I've never done it with butter in it - does that make it more buttercream-ish?) just to change things up a bit.

Today, I baked the strawberry (doubled to make 80), apple cider (60), and funfetti (doubled to make 80) cupcakes - there could have been more funfetti, but not enough to fill a whole pan, so I didn't bother. I added cinnamon bits from King Arthur to the apple cider ones and dipped them in maple cinnamon sugar, which is a change, one that hopefully people will like.

I also discovered that the cupcake carriers I've had sitting in a box under a chair in my living room for a few months are the wrong size (they are for standard-sized cupcakes) so I only have 10 mini ones and I need 13, so I will use the some foil lasagna pans for my brother and sister and one of the kids - they'll get a few more cupcakes out of it, since the carriers hold 2 dozen but the 9 x 13" tray fits about 30. *hands* I'm just glad I still have a pack of them left to use; otherwise, I'd have been up a creek.

Tomorrow is Pipe-a-palooza 7: The Pipening! (yeah, it's kind of shocking to me I've been doing cupcakes for 7 years now - I started in 2019 - but I like it more than the chocolates [and it's also less time-consuming than the chocolates were] and I can't do ice creams anymore due to logistics, though they remain my all-time favorite of the homemade Christmas gifts I've done over the years.) Wish me luck! It's always the hardest part for me. Hopefully I will remember to take pictures to share afterwards.

Whoops, I started this entry an hour ago and got distracted by stuff like packing my overnight bag and refilling my water bottle etc. so I'm just gonna hit post now and work up the energy to go wash my hair.

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( 6-day plan, day 5 )

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Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: Ranges vs Caps on tv

senmut

Going early with this because of the holiday. 2018, how many (few) did I see?

SEVEN?! Okay, 3 of these were son's fault.

~ Love, Simon - I wound up unironically loving the way this played out. May have teared up a bit.
~ Solo: A Star Wars Story - Had been on the fence, fell for both Val and L3-37, GO ME FOR PICKING THE DOOMED ONES.
~ Venom - I had not kept up with comics, but I swear this version is almost like if every time The Maxx had been talking to himself, he'd been two people. I really did enjoy the film.

~ Bumblebee - LOL, I only just watched this in the past year. Twice. I really wish I had not waited but GO CHARLIE!
~ Aquaman - So I saw the reunion scene between Tom and Atlanna, and it hit my RexSoka buttons, so I watched it. Liked it a lot more than I had Wonder Woman!
~ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - OMG, so freaking awesome! I LOVE THIS FILM.

and my fave:
~ Black Panther - So this is where I fell back in love with some of the MCU again. There's not a Wakandan I don't love, even the antagonists. This made me give a damn about the BP property in ways I had not thought possible, and proves that you have to have the right creative effort leaders!

princessofgeeks

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senmut

Kastagir's Hotel Américain (3102 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Highlander: The Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Amanda Darieux/Rebecca Horne
Characters: Amanda Darieux, Rebecca Horne, Rachel Ellenstein, Sunda Kastagir
Additional Tags: Fun, Adventure, Thievery, Humor
Summary:

Rebecca visits Kastagir at his fancy new hotel. Then Amanda shows up. Antics ensue.

caramarie

harmfulmyths made these three Danganronpa vids as part of

ficinabox, and they are a good time! All of them!

seiso (Sonia-centric)
RED FLAG (Fukawa/Togami)
montero (Naegi/Togami, Hinata/Komaeda)

They use anime rather than game source, and because I haven't seen the anime for the first game, I would now totally believe that Togami and Naegi do actually bang in it.

goodbyebird

Alas, no

rec_cember entry today, buuuut...

I know tons of you are deep in the Heated Rivalry hole. Did you know a kinkmeme was happening? And a SECOND kinkmeme? Now you do!

GQ has an article out with some rather saucy images.

I've spotted some icons by

wickedgame here.

Lastly, I'd recommend using the Explore/Site and Journal Search feature; I haven't seen DW be this vocal about a show for ages. I'm sure you'll find fellow fans to chat with.

Go forth and be fannish 🥳

james_davis_nicoll

AI slop?

james_davis_nicoll

An all-new Bundle featuring the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game, the tabletop game of eldritch horror from Monte Cook Games based on Steve Shell and Cam Collins' Old Gods of Appalachia anthology podcast.

Bundle of Holding: Old Gods of Appalachia

celli

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trobadora

My second

ficinabox story! This one is Grimm, because how could I resist when someone (*cough*

miss_ingno *cough*) requests my tiny OT3? :D

The prompt was, "canon divergence where Juliette copes better with her transformation into a Hexenbiest" - and when I thought about where to branch off and rewatched some episodes, I realised I could start right at the beginning, with her very first woge. Derail it all before it gains any ground! No secrecy to come between Nick and Juliette, no losing control, no shocking reveal in the aftermath of violence ... and if Nick was there for her first woge, she'd see his Grimm eyes, too!

Of course Nick still has issues, and Juliette is still struggling - but that's where Renard comes in, because when the two of them turn to him together, magic happens. *g*

(And so much happens in that one night that I managed to derail some other plot as well, just from having Juliette woge in front of everyone! I had so much fun with that. :D)

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Farewell to the Monsters (10,183 words)
Fandom: Grimm (TV)
Rating: Mature
Relationship: Nick Burkhardt/Sean Renard/Juliette Silverton
Characters: Juliette Silverton, Nick Burkhardt, Sean Renard, Rosalee Calvert, Monroe, Hank Griffin
Content Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Episode Related, s04e08 Chupacabra, Hexenbiest reveal, Hexenbiest Psychology, Hexenbiest Sexuality, UST, Developing Relationship

Summary:

Juliette almost wished Nick didn't know what was happening to her. She could quietly deal with it on her own, get rid of it, go back to normal before anyone found out.

That would have been so much easier. Instead, she'd woged in front of everyone. And there was no turning back.

james_davis_nicoll

In honour of Blish's Prometheus nomination, Blish and Knight's classic fascist utopia!

A Torrent of Faces by James Blish & Norman L. Knight

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Current Music: Annwn - The Cutty Wren

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Shows: SGA
Rec Category: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Carson Beckett, Elizabeth Weir, Evan Lorne, Radek Zelenka
Categories: Gen? M/M?
Words: 2072
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW:

scrunchy
Author's Website: scrunchy on AO3
Link: Students of Hope locked to AO3, and Students of Hope on Wayback.
Why This Must Be Read: Written in 2005 (so well before The Return) for the prompt "separated for years, but something brings them together", this can be read as an AU, or as futurefic (it would have been that at the time it was written, predicting The Return), or set post canon. It's tagged as Gen, but to me it feels like a McShep story, pre-slash. They're all back on Earth and have been for five years, and every year John writes to his closest friends from the expedition, to get them back together for Christmas. Lorne he sees more regularly, as he lives close by. But every year they all get together again... except for Rodney. This year, however, is different. It's a little sad, until it isn't, and I love it.

( snippet of the fic under here )

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Page Summary

silveradept - December Days 02025 #23: Chaos
caramarie - Vid meme 2024–25
princessofgeeks - back to real life
jadelennox in agonyaunt - Dear Miss Manners:Is my neighbor my new bestie or a frigid hag?
jazzfish - questions here are useless, nothing answers back
princessofgeeks - Heated Rivalry Episodes 1-5
musesfool - find a way to get the next one
senmut - Fandom Fifty: #44
princessofgeeks - Heated Rivalry Episode 2
senmut - WHOOT: Highlander Gift fic
caramarie - Danganronpa vids!
goodbyebird - Ah yes, a red Christmas. In the most unfun of ways.
james_davis_nicoll - What the hell is this?
james_davis_nicoll - Bundle of Holding: Old Gods of Appalachia
celli - BTS fic: Yarn Over
trobadora - FIC: Farewell to the Monsters (Grimm: Nick/Renard/Juliette) [M]
james_davis_nicoll - A Torrent of Faces by James Blish & Norman L. Knight
yuletidemods in yuletide_admin - 36 Hours to Reveals
silveradept - December Days 02025 #22: Magister
mific in stargateficrec - Students of Hope (by scrunchy) (Teen)

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Favourite vid

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Vid with the single sexiest moment

Hardest vid to make

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Things I learned

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For 2026

Previous years

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