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Volunteer social thread #159

Nov. 28th, 2025 02:04 am
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I'm about to have dinner (at 2am, as one does).

How's everyone else doing?

Happy Holidays to y'all!

Nov. 27th, 2025 12:56 pm
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Hi ya!


I was quite shocked to not only realize it was time to post over here, but that also this is my third year participating! Wowza! Anyhoodles, I'm wishing everyone a safe, happy, calm, and healthy holiday season! May 2026 be a great year for all of us. 💜💜💜

NGL, the bulk of my list is a reprise from last year's, though there's a new thing here and there.


NO COST AND/OR MINIMAL EFFORT

1. Leave comments on folk's fanworks. Don't stress abt how how old or recent the fic, fanart, fanvid, etc is because even a simple "I liked this!" will be v. welcomed. This is a link to my fanworks over at AO3 if you'd like to start with me. 😉

2. If you're a fanwork creator, please make sure to have a Blanket Permission statement on your profile at your preferred posting platform. This will help folks who might want to record a podfic, create fanart, etc inspired by your fanwork. Here's an explanation of what a BP is.

3. Would LOVE to get recs for romance novels featuring MCs who are 40-y.o. and older. I prefer to read abt queer pairings, btw.

4. Go check out and/or join these fandom reccing communities on DW: [community profile] recthething (full disclosure: I'm one of the admins for that one), [community profile] fancake (a monthly, theme based reccing comm), and [community profile] fanart_recs.


COSTS MONEY (but let me dream big)

5. Amazon e-gift cards for any amount. They can be sent to mazingergirlie AT gmail (dot) com.

6. Donate to local food banks (preferably cash), animal shelters, and women's shelters if you've got some coin to spare. If money is an issue, then volunteering is okay too.

Thanksgiving dinner is cooking

Nov. 27th, 2025 03:15 pm
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I put my chicken in the oven and fried up the chicken skins and - listen, I gotta say, of all the food items I've tried because I read about them, fried chicken skins are fucking amazing. I don't mind saying that they are, hands down, the most brilliant thing Jews have contributed to the world, and I do hope my various Jewish friends take that in the spirit it's intended, because omg. I don't care if I find out later that you guys invented the wheel, this is better. I am very thankful.

Anyway, we've got chicken, creamed spinach, possibly creamed corn, maybe beets of some sort, maybe couscous, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (with marshmallows, contributed by a guest), stuffing, cornbread, cranberry sauce, and pies. I'm debating making some soup as well, buuuuuuut I think we may have enough food and not enough bowls. Oh, and there's green beans. Oh, and brussels sprouts and a salad.

(Maybe I should've made baked beans? I wonder if I have time to make baked beans. Oh, but the chicken is in the oven. Hm. Can you make not-baked baked beans? Is that a thing?)

A Fable of Summertime...

Nov. 27th, 2025 08:04 pm
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Sometime this summer, I rediscovered my fic writing muse. Which has been great, but has unfortunately also meant that I’ve fallen quite behind on writing up my monthly albums - I have several months of backlog! Fortunately, I have still actually been listening to the albums and noting them down, so I’ve been able to look back at my list and write them up.

First up, we’re all the way back to the summer, for my August album, which was Fable by Ainsley Hamil. (I really thought I’d at least started this post, I definitely remember sitting down in the days after the gig with the album on and the intent to write about it. I suspect I probably started writing it into the ‘create entries’ page and lost the draft.) I mostly know Ainsley Hamil as a Gaelic singer - competed for the Gold Medal at the Mod a couple of time - and this album is split pretty evenly between songs in Gaelic and English, with a Burns number thrown in for good measure. Personally I think if we’re talking traditional Gaelic modes, she’s better suited to puirt-a-beul than the strictures of the Gold Medal - I’ve seen her do puirt live and she’s very good, it’s not easy to keep up that level of articulation at that speed especially not in the middle of a gig! She has such a rich, warm singing voice, it’s a pleasure to listen to her sing, and always so tempting when the album finishes, to just stick it on again for another play through!

Unusually, I was listening to this album extensively because I was going to a gig, rather than going to the gig because I’d been listening to the album a lot. My local art centre hosts a folk music festival in a tent on it’s lawn every summer. (Not in one intense weekend but two bands per session, two sessions a night, five nights a week across two months.) Living near by and being a regular gig go-er, I go to a lot of these sessions, sometimes with friends, sometimes alone, sometimes pre-planned, others spur of the moment because I walked past and thought ‘oh they’re good’ and stayed. The Ainsley Hamil gig was planned fairly far in advance, as a friend texted me just after the programme came out and asked if I fancied it, and as I did and it was a day I was on a helpful shift, we booked it and went. As it was her idea, and I’d agreed on the basis that I remembered what I’d heard of Hamil’s latest album being good, I thought I better swat up beforehand.

(It’s a lovely album, but gosh, live really is her forte, she was such a compelling and warm presence on stage, making her music come alive. In both Gaelic and Scots, her delivery on the album is more precise and probably more technically correct, but live she was so much more natural and felt much less constrained.)

Photo cross-post

Nov. 27th, 2025 01:50 pm
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

Thank you!

Nov. 27th, 2025 11:36 am
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A kind benefactor has given us a year of paid time here at [community profile] gluten_free, which, among other things, gives us the ability to search the entire comm, including comments, which I use all the time. Thank you!

I hope everyone is having a lovely day, especially those of us in the U.S. where it is Thanksgiving. I just took my gluten-free dairy-free pumpkin pie bars out of the oven and they're cooling in the microwave where the kitten can't get at them.

If you have a second, or more than one, come share your Thanksgiving menu or a favorite fall dish in the comments!

30 in 30: Marvel X-Men

Nov. 27th, 2025 11:19 am
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AO3 Link | Ladies to the Rescue (150 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men [Comics]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rogue [X-Men], Jubilation Lee | Jubilee, Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde, Laura Kinney, James "Logan" Howlett | Wolverine
Additional Tags: Drabble and a Half
Summary:

Wolvie needs a rescue






Rogue looked away as Jubilee set off a light show in the dark of the power going out. Kitty had definitely delivered on that, and everyone they were facing was dazzled. They had waited just long enough for the night vision goggles to go on, after all.

Rogue let loose, drawing all attention to herself, letting Kitty have time to get back — and their fourth member to sniff out where the man they'd come for actually was.

No one had to guess when X-23 found him, as father and daughter cut a path back to this point.

"You look like hell, sugah," Rogue called to her long-time friend.

"You look like the cavalry," he said, before shorting out the one robotic enemy with a well-placed claw-punch.

"Time to exit!" Jubilee called out, and while the few standing tried to stop them, they were no match for Wolvie and his girls.

Thankful Thanksgiving Thursday

Nov. 27th, 2025 05:52 pm
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Today being (US)Thanksgiving, I will try to extend this back over the last year, more-or-less. I am thankful for...

  • Having survived what is now almost 13 months here in the Netherlands, making this my second Thanksgiving here. (And my fifth without Colleen, for which I am NOT thankful, but sad.)
  • Finally having gotten the kitchen and other parts of the house re-stocked to a useable level, if not exactly where we left off.
  • 220V house wiring, for electric kettles, other appliances, and vehicles.
  • Frame.work.
  • Having successfully signed up for health insurance and gotten reasonably-priced health care. Including for the cats, who don't have insurance.
  • While I'm on that subject, a vet who makes house calls.
  • Having, with N, started our (required for immigration) business, and thanks mainly to N's book, actually made some money at it.
  • Living in a country that has both good public transit, and excellent bike paths (which work just fine for mobility scooters).
  • (Tin)Lizzy and Scarlett-the-carlet, our folding mobility scooter and micro-car respectively.
  • Fuzzy blankets. NO thanks for whatever health problem makes me feel cold in the evening no matter what the ambient temperature.
  • Finally getting screen rotation working on my Frame.work convertible laptop. Whether it's automatic depends on the window manager, and possibly the phase of the moon. But it should be usable.
  • Walks, and occasionally st/rolls.
  • Compression socks. (No thanks for the condition they're supposed to improve.)
  • Hydrocortizone ointment.
  • The filk community.

Last year's Thanksgiving entry is mostly still applicable, but a few plans for what was then the coming year have, predictably, gone by the wayside again, and my health isn't holding up as well as I would like. I'd be thankful for executive function if I had any. I'll be thankful for good drugs once we get my BP and psych meds figured out.

Again, happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it. (That includes us, but we're having the feast on Saturday to accommodate j's school schedule. Including the annual American Thanksgiving celebration in Leiden,)

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Title: The Ninth Step
Fandom: Les Miserables
Rating: T
Notes: Triple drabble; c/w: alcoholism, recovery

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(When I saw her in concert, she was very pleased with that line).

(Video has a thread of a butch teen being socially pressured to feminise. But there's a happy ending.)

Happy Wanksgiving!

Nov. 27th, 2025 11:04 am
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I posted 10 drabbles to the Wanksgiving fest, which is currently anonymous. If you didn't get me to write for you, and you spot something in there that you think was me, leave me a comment with an "I think you wrote this!" and a request and I will follow up with you when I am not mid-giving-thanks.

iguana

Nov. 27th, 2025 08:42 am
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iguana (ih-GWAH-nuh) - n., any of several species of large American lizards of the family Iguanidae (except genus Sauromalus, the chuckwallas) with a serrated dorsal crest and large dewlap, esp. the green iguana (Iguana iguana).


green iguana looking magestic
Thanks, WikiMedia!

The green iguana is the one kept as a pet -- its native range is from southern Mexico down to Paraguay plus the eastern half of the Caribbean, but it's been introduced to many tropical areas of the world. The name is from an Arawakan language, probably but not provably Taíno, iwana (provably via Spanish iguana).

---L.

Bad News for Anime Subtitles.

Nov. 27th, 2025 02:22 pm
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Posted by languagehat

Via chavenet’s MetaFilter post, Daiz’s indignant Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason:

Since the beginning of the Fall 2025 anime season, a major change has started taking place on the anime streaming service Crunchyroll: the presentation quality for translations of on-screen text has taken a total nosedive compared to what has been on offer for many years, all the way up until the previous Summer 2025 season. […]

In these new subtitles, translations for dialogue and on-screen text aren’t even separated to different sides of the screen – everything is just bunched up together at either the top or the bottom with only capitalization to distinguish what’s what, leading to poor readability. In addition, lots of on-screen text is just left straight up untranslated.

If you care about these things, you’ll want to click through for the details and the very enlightening screenshots; I agree with the MeFi commenter who said “The Kill la Kill fan subs shown in the article are both amazing from a technical point of view, and beautiful to look at.” (We discussed fansubbing in 2021 and earlier this year.)

And happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it! I’ll be away feasting at my sister-in-law’s for much of the day, so try not to wreck the furniture while I’m gone.

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Despite my best intentions of routine insomnia, I was awake too late because I fell into a 1990 BBC Radio 3 production of Michael Frayn's Benefactors (1984) which I had never read and barely heard of and if I had a nickel for every play by Michael Frayn which dips in and out of the fourth wall of the timestream as its characters post-mortem what went wrong in the complicated spaces between them all those years ago, I still wouldn't be able to afford a cup of coffee at these prices even if I could drink it, but since I've seen two productions of Copenhagen (1998) and heard a third, I still think it's funny. Benefactors is harder-edged as its Brutalist architecture, more pitilessly patterned, still a memory play of ideas without answers, still the lacuna of human actions radiating at its heart. "But then you look up on a clear night and you'll see there's only a dusting of light in all creation. It's a dark universe." If I have to be thankful for something at this miserable moment of history, the accessibility of art is a strong contender. Also cats.
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Posted by Jack Izzo

The quote resurfaced a decade later following the release of thousands of emails from the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Clever Effect

Nov. 27th, 2025 12:00 am
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Posted by GoldenDragonHare

Fandoms: Smosh, Damien Haas - Fandom  

Streamer Aveline Graylock, better known as TheAvaEffect, isn’t looking for anything more than good games and good company when a new name pops up in her chat. What she doesn’t realize is that the chatter is more than just another subscriber...it’s the start of something that will quietly shift the course of her life.

Enter Damien Haas-actor, comedian, and all-around chaos engine, whose unexpected friendship with Ava begins with small jokes, stream night raids, and an easy back-and-forth neither of them can quite shake. What starts as strangers connecting online grows into something deeper, something real, and maybe even something that feels a lot like fate.

~~~~~~

Hey! This story is the 'continuation/prologue' for Purples My Favorite Color! If you read that before this, thats okay! This story just sets up before then will pick up after eventually!

Thanks for reading! 💜



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