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Jan. 5th, 2026 09:49 am
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Happy birthday, [staff profile] denise!

New Music Monday - 5 January 2026

Jan. 5th, 2026 08:35 pm
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The regular weekly post for us to talk about any and all of our thoughts about the week's new releases.

Apink - Love Me More
Joohoney - The Sting
H1-KEY - 세상은 영화 같지 않더라
yesweare (idntt) - Pretty Boy Swag
Ha Sungwoon - Tell the World
Chuu - XO, My Cyberlove
CNBLUE - Killer Joy
Shin Soohyun - Gray.
Waker
Latency - It Was Love (debut)

New MVs are also added to an ongoing Youtube playlist.

Last week's MVs: 29 December

Feel free to add new comments in the replies for songs/MVs we missed.

[ Rec Something Wednesday | WIP Wednesday | Monthly General Chat | Comment Fest ]

A small announcement!

Jan. 5th, 2026 09:28 am
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I have just passed the 1 million words of fanfiction mark on AO3! Very proud of myself 🤩

I've been there 10 years this coming April, what changes I have seen in those years in every part of life.

Monthly General Chat - January 2026

Jan. 5th, 2026 08:27 pm
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Happy new year everyone! General chat is for anything you want to talk about, k-pop related or not. These will go up at the beginning of every month, so feel free to check back in or comment at any point throughout the month. The post is stickied to the top of the comm along with the admin post.

Optional discussion question: do you make New Years' resolutions? any projects or goals for 2026?

Our End of year Q&A post is still open too!

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Jan. 5th, 2026 09:08 am
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It occurs to me this morning that I no longer have any social media. No one I used to talk to on Tumblr is still active on Tumblr, so all I use it for now is to reblog things. As the people I follow fall for new media that I haven't seen, the feed becomes more and more incomprehensible, and I feel very isolated.

I also feel like we tried a lot of things and we found out that the old ways are better. You know? Streaming was great but then suddenly we didn't own anything, so it's good to go back to buying DVDs. 'Social media' was great but then suddenly we didn't know anyone, so it's good to go back to a platform where you can actually speak to people.

Anyway, this is me feeling like I really want my Dreamwidth again because there are things here I can't do elsewhere, like *journal* and *talk to people.*

Exciting news for today is that it snowed overnight. Only a light powdering of icing-sugar snow, but that's remarkable enough for this far south in England in these days of climate change.

Round 183: Resistant to Change

Jan. 5th, 2026 10:07 am
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Color by COLOURlovers

palette colors

#364f8a
#e7cca7
#8d0909
#fafafa
#79aed3




examples:

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This palette was suggested by [personal profile] nondenomifan. Remember, you can (and are encouraged to!) always suggest color palettes for us to use HERE in the suggestion post!

-create 1-3 icons using the colors in the palettes.
-at least one of the colors must be clearly visible in the finished icon.
-you do not have to use the exact colors, you can use similar colors, but using the exact shades makes it more fun/challenging.
-any and all fandoms are allowed (this includes stock).
-icons should be 100x100, 60kb or less.
-post your icons to the community as a new post. tag with round: ##, maker: username. an example post can be found here in the rules post.
-have fun!

Your icons are due by 11:59 p.m. EDT/EST on Sunday January 18! (countdown)
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For those who are wondering why the Multifandom Multimedia Microbang is called "Be A Goldfish," here's the explanation from the comm's Admin [personal profile] devinwolfi:

When we started this event earlier this year, it was a Ted Lasso fandom exclusive event. We always had every intention to go multifandom later, this just gave us the opportunity to beta test it on a smaller group. In that series, a recurring line is to "be a goldfish," (based on the now disproved idea that goldfish have 3-10 second memories), meaning to let go of past hurts, move on, brave the new day, and try new things, all of which we hope to embody and encourage throughout this event. We've found that smaller works and folks who leave comments tend to get less attention, but those small works and comments are by no means less important to the fandom ecosystem so we wanted to give them, and the fans who share them, the support and attention they deserve. We also know that it's very easy to get bogged down by expectation, past experiences, and the pressure of trying to be "successful" in fandom and be paralyzed by it all to the point of inaction. We want to give people the space to try new things and develop new fannish skills without feeling like they have to commit to big projects.

Reading Wrap-up 12/25

Jan. 5th, 2026 08:29 am
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Lots of middling stuff in December with one notable exception:

Parrott, Ursula: Ex-Wife. Faber & Faber. 2024.
Discovered, once again through Lost Ladies of Lit (my favourite literary podcast by MILES) this novel from the roaring 1920s gets compared to The Great Gatsby a lot. In my opinion, this is the better book. Bold, outspoken, modern - Ex-Wife (despite the stupid title) is an excellent novel and I'd love for more of Parrott's work to get re-issued. Alas, I can't find anything anywhere. Such a shame!

Schweblin, Samantha: Little Eyes. Riverhead Books. 2020.
For years after Covid I couldn't touch dystopias, even though I've always loved that genre. I'm slowly getting back to those novels (very tentatively), but this was just not IT. It should definitely have been a short story. This isn't so much a novel as it is a collection of interconnected stories in the same world where smart plushies invade people's most intimate spaces. The novel wants to say so many things, but it never really goes there. Additionally, while I think the basic premise sounds plausible to a lot of people it simply doesn't hold up under scrutiny. I won't deny that something like this would appeal both to voyeurists and exhibitionists. But that's about it. The most shocking thing about this novel is the fact that it was on the longlist for the International Booker.

Bridle, James: New Dark Age. Technology, Knowledge and the End of the Future. Verso. 2018.
Bridle sometimes goes on the wildest tangeants (I now know more about Peppa Pig than I ever wanted to know) and his own interests show clearly (he seems overly interested in air travel), but overall this was a riveting and thought-provoking read. I thoroughly enjoyed following him on his journey through the history of technology.

Wood, Benjamin: Seascraper. Viking. 2025.
This novel is set in the 1960s, but it reads like it's the 1660s. Nice language and prose, but it sounds too much like a creative-writing-class for my taste with no actual plot to carry all these fancy words over the finish-line. The last 25% did not seem to belong with the rest of the book and stood out like a sore thumb. If you want to give this a go either way, I'd recommend the audiobook. Well read (and sung) by the author himself.

Whitehead, Colson: Underground Railroad. Doubleday. 2016.
My least successful Whitehead so far, maybe "only" because I'm not American and I couldn't really tell when he was being faithful to the history of slavery and when he was making stuff up. That considerably lessened my enjoymend and what I could take away from the novel. Also, he wasn't doing himself any favours with the many voices and POVs he used throughout. I've been looking forward to reading Underground Railroad for years now, but I must say that this - sadly - was a letdown.
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The cats in my childhood media: Luna & Artemis (Sailor Moon); Garfield, Odie, Arlene & Nermel (Garfield & Friends). They will probably argue that they aren't pets though.

Luna (Sailor Moon)Artemis (Sailor Moon)Garfield, Odie, Arlene & Nermel


two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

New Year's Book Prediction Meme

Jan. 5th, 2026 01:34 am
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New Year's Book Prediction Meme
found via [personal profile] vass 


* Grab the nearest book.

* Turn to page 126

* The 6th full sentence is your life in 2026
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How we spend our days

Jan. 5th, 2026 06:36 am
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.
A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
It is a net for catching days.
It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being;
it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time;
it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself,
decades later, still living.
Each day is the same,
so you remember the series afterward as a blurred and powerful pattern.

~ Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

My Mother's Holiday Message

Jan. 4th, 2026 09:55 pm
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A bit late, I wanted to share my mother's holiday letter (with her permission):

My Year of Not-doing

by Patricia Spicer

In 2025, while friends and relatives were busy with many accomplishments, I did NOT do several things:

My house was painted, but not by me. A painter did it.

A tiny home was installed on my property in Glen Ellen, but I did not do it. My remarkable tenant, Juan Sanchez, did it.

A new gate was added to my front porch railing, but I did not do it. A carpenter did it.

You can see how much I did NOT do. And there was much more.

But I did make two trips to Iceland, one with Rick Steves and one through the remarkable pictures of my cousin Holly, who also took me to all the film sites for the Lord of the Rings in New Zealand. How beautiful and what an easy way to travel!

Yes, Arwen and I did take one actual trip to Glen Ellen in June, very brief, due to my painful back injury. Much better now.

I look forward to another year of Not-doing, when I expect to xeriscape my front yard, but I will let the landscaper do it.

📰 weekly reporter 12.28-01.03

Jan. 4th, 2026 11:42 pm
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📰 weekly reporter

vol. 2 no. 1
week of 12/28/25-01/03/26
r.e.p.o.r.t.e.rmedia recapeditors recap

— reflecting

happy new year!!!!! while my first ever!!!! weekly report was written in march of 2024, i think it's a little more fitting to renumber everything with the new year. so welcome to the (proper) volume 2 of weekly reporter! yay! i did a little bit of research when this idea of renumbering reporter popped into my head so. anyway...
in the new year spirit... i Want to do reflection posts, I Want to talk about goals and stuff but well. it also makes me crazy and paralyzes me so. IDK how to resolve that yet. I've been really struggling to write in general, so recapping the year and setting new goals seems daunting. I have a bingo card made... sigh. I'd like to resolve this problem this week.

— enjoying

while I'm bemoaning recapping and setting my own goals, this is what I really enjoy!!! I love seeing everyones new journal ecosystems (which also baffles me, truthfully...), setting new goals, ins and outs, the bingo or punch cards... I love this!!!!
these last two weeks, I've also really been loving matching sweatpants and pullover outfits. it got cold here (after it having been like 60 degrees and comfortable for weeks) so I've been needing more layers.

— playing

LADS 2nd anniversary you tricky trickey game.... lads added the sims. THE SIMS!!!!! they gave you a house to decorate and wow. im obsessed!!!!!! I also love the concept for the current banner au- its basically space opera? there is, of course, discourse around caleb (whats new) because they finally dropped a "brother by blood" in the card instead of the "childhood friend but raised together" they've been doing since release. then theres the usual complaints of infold being money hungry (again, whats new. plus its a gacha lbr). so i'm back to ignoring the social media except for the fanartists and the house designers now. tbh my interest in lads was wanning for a while but i think the break was needed because now im fully obsessed again. my favorite part of lads in cooing over the boys in photobooth or on the home screen, and now in the house. BAHAHA. I leveled up xaviers affinity to 100 finally so I did a wedding photoshoot in the house. it was so fun!!!! i can't wait to unlock room 4 which is a gym room, and I'm hoping that when they add room 5 its a kitchen. id loveee to see some more interactions or maybe even mini games.... but the mini games is a long shot.. what i really hope for is adding the crane game plushies as decor items and maybe even the meow badges. it would be cool to see the With Him decor as furniture too.
I also picked up the bass again!! i was pleasantly surprised by how much came back after 2(?) years of not practicing. I'm working on R U Mine? by arctic monkeys because it has a kick ass bass line, and I have the sheet music for it BAHAH. it was also one of the pieces we were working on before I stopped doing lessons.

— obsessing

more ruminating obsessing these last few weeks.

— recommending

I asked for a fancy hairdryer for christmas and it changed my life. I've been using a cheap conair for years now, so I got upgraded to the shark pro flex. its seriously awesome. I love it. i have thick hair, and it used to take forever to dry and now its so much faster. I need to learn how to actually use the attachments now that i have a hairdryer that can use them.

— treating

mom and dad having been buying asiago bagels for breakfast sandwiches! these are my favorite kind of bagel so breakfast has been even more enjoyable. I've also eaten a lot of pears lately!!! I really like a slightly softer pear than my mom.. but gyah... I really like pears.

— encountering

I am so glad that everyone is getting into the gym for new years but please come at a different timeeeeeee... sigh. january is hard for gym rats like me because of the influx of new people... but everyone has to start somewhere... so I'm glad you're here... but don't be stupid..... and be courteous and kind to others in the gym...... pleaseeeeee........

— restoring

been sitting around playing lads sims house designer since the update came out on 12/31 and wooowwww.... i didn't really realize how much rest i needed..

spring semester starts soon... note to self: add word count somewhere; expand stats report with words/pages written? hobby tracking..? update this section with a fun "ticker" element????

media recap

📚 reading: mostly enjoying the current banner event in lads... i'm particularly fond of rafayels rn
📺 watching: mom has been rewatching the witcher
🎵 listening: new playlist: I'm into everything you have going on which is a manifestation playlist for the next boyfriend. if he isn't into me like this then what is the point. also did some obsessive relistens to both entertainment and double dare by waterparks to 1) get over a crush and 2) consider writing album reviews on my record club (shoutout lettie!!!)
🎮 playing: LADS. looking forward to arknights: endfield, definitely putting pokemon legends za on the to play list...

📥 editors recap

hoooo weeeeee... happy holidays. happy new year, hello 2026!! long time no journaling!!! I've been frustrated and anxious and I can't quite find my voice but it is the new year and we must be brave. we must make art!! I've been collecting reminders for 2026 in the way of goals and progress and purpose etc etc... it feels a little daunting to write reporter tonight. I journaled before this, and it felt like pulling teeth. I'm glad I pushed through, because I found that at about 400 words in, my worried melted away and I still had 600 words to write about all the beautiful things. I don't want to be scared or anxious to write in 2026. I want to set fun and challenging goals, I'd like to do lot of neat things, I want to meet people, and go on adventures and generally, have a lot of fun.
thank you for being here. I'd like to see you again this new year as well.
weekly reporter vol. 2 no. 1 | Page 1

on writingcurrent musingsdating and modelingstats reportcultivation, curation, creation

🖉 on writing

writing goals I'd like to achieve:
  • redevelop daily writing habit: 3 handwritten pages OR 1000 typed words
  • get into writing fanfic
  • achieve those old progress log writing goals
  • write up chara bios for ocs
  • write ups for oc universes
  • IDEAL: write 52 weekly reporters; write more reporters than last year (21)
  • get reporter written and posted before bedtime (aka stop staying up late to do reporter)
  • write up old essay ideas (5-6 old drafts)
  • post on dreamwidth more....? monthly report (template sketched.. need to code) ? rando fun stuff....?
sigh..... ambitious as always. better get to writing.

💭 current musings: magic

been getting a lot of tarot readings on my instagram feed which makes me want to pull some cards here soon. I don't think I've pulled cards since 2024 truthfully. I stopped pulling cards because they kept telling me I needed to do the work. I'm not sure that I 'm done enough work yet, which is why I'm hesitant to pull cards.
looking at all the new year predictions- japanese lucky chart, chinese zodiacs, astrology, so on and so forth... it should be a good 2026...


👛 dating and modeling

in my last update I said: "I've decided dating is not a priority to me, but I'm open to it for the right person..." and then some random cute guy followed me out of the blue on instagram.. we had a lot of mutual interests and things kinda clicked so I got a little excited. we "broke up" due to distance but maaaannn... it was a lesson. (its always a lesson) that it has to be a hell yes or its a hell no. it still kinda stings because i was honestly excited about what Could Happen. but yeah. I'm sticking to it for real!!! dating is not a priority, but for the right person, I'm open to it. If I'm excited and we click, then hell yeah- let's figure it out and make it work. so I had to get over rejection and listened to waterparks and then decided I wanted to manifest positive stuff instead so I put together that playlist I linked LOL.
no fashion updates... I've lived in sweatpants and comfy clothes during the holidays (as one should.)

📊 stats report

last weeks goals
☑ finals!
▭ register for spring ▣ law school app
☇ creatine & bcaa protocol
bonus! mini blogmas ☒

passed my finals with an A and a B!! I registered for spring, but I haven't turned in my law school app bc I'm nervous about it. I need to write two essays for it. I started taking creatine and bcaa's in my workout water bottle... I really wanna get the ryse fruit punch bcaas again. I felt the best when I was taking that stack during my workout followed by breakfast, protein shake + collagen on my way into work... sigh....

3 goals for the upcoming week
☐ new years posting
☐ law school application
☐ write workout split
bonus! restart the artists way

I will beat back the anxiety in all this writing and report back victorious next week. :salute emoji: I have a couple of workout splits I wanna modify, and then I also need to write up a warm up mobility routine, a cool down stretching routine, and probably add an ab circuit too.

curation
I need to figure out a good way to track things. I should probably just use apps/sites for this but I'll probably make an obisidan template or I should really just track in my hobonichis.....
creation
really wanna more analog hobbies this year... I bought a film camera and some film so I need to play around with it and then of course I see this film scanner just went on sale so. it feels very universe message-y to me. i really want a cute hard case for this camera so I can put stickers on it. I also saw this post about paper punches and I love the embossing stamp one. this would be soooo good for journaling. which is another thing i want to do more in the new year is art journaling!!!!!
cultivation
I really want to be better about cultivating friendships and connections... if you ever want to meet, or do penpals or anything...!!!!! please let me know!!! I am going to do better in responding to comments in a timely manner!!!! I want to connect and meet people!! give me a reason to travel!! I'm already planning some fun new adventures for this year... maybe we could do one together WAAHHHH
weekly reporter vol 2 no. 1 | Page 2
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This poem is spillover from the November 4, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] readera. It also fills the "The deeds of ordinary folks keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." square in my 11-1-25 card for the Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred. It belongs to the Officer Pink thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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