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. At the weekly board game meet, we played Liar's Uno while we were waiting to see who turned up, and then the main game was Clank!.

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. I went with friends to a concert by the iconic punk rock band The Living End. It's not my kind of music particularly, but my friends were going and it was at a nice outdoor venue in good weather, so I figured I might as well go along and see how it went. I still don't think it's my kind of music particularly, but I had a good time.

. I went on a walk with some of my relatives and we talked about how our weeks had been going. We're hoping to make it a regular event.

. I was looking for new ice cube trays and decided I wanted flexible silicone ones instead of rigid plastic. I couldn't find any regular cube-shaped silicone trays, but I came across a set that made ice blocks shaped like animal heads, and decided that a bit of extra whimsy wouldn't hurt. They were available in dog heads and cat heads, so I got one of each. The dog heads are working a treat, but I haven't been able to get the cat heads out of the trays -- the extra surface area of the whisker details is providing too much grip on the ice blocks.

. Since I'd had to pay for it as part of the bundle, and it had already downloaded itself, I figured I might as well try out War of the Chosen, the big expansion DLC for XCOM 2. I have mixed feelings about parts of it, but on the whole I'm having a positive experience.

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Something I'd expected to dislike, but actually haven't so far, is that several of the obligatory story missions have been revamped specifically to rule out the easy solutions that players had found for achieving the objectives. There's one particular mid-game mission which had become effectively a solved problem where I just had to go through the same sequence of moves each time I played it; the revamped version breaks that sequence of moves, so that I had to actually work at completing the mission, and the result was that I had fun playing it and was interested in how it would turn out. It remains to be seen whether I will have the same response to the final boss mission, which I gather has been rejiggered specifically to remove the strategically-convenient geography that I've been relying on over multiple play-throughs to make the final boss fight much easier than the game designers intended it to be.

igenlode

So we've finally met 'Malish' -- who gives his real name, but I didn't get it as it flew past...

I started off on this 'episode' of "Smok and Malish" (half an hour or so of watching; we are still in the first episode of the series) with the studious intention of doing all the 'work' over short segments; watching the scene straight as intended, then rewatching with Cyrillic subtitles, then rewatching with Cyrillic subtitles and pausing with a dictionary, then finally rewatching with the auto-translated English subtitles to see if that picked up any colloquialisms or other material that I'd missed. And for the first couple of scenes I did do just that( but got carried away ) while YouTube persisted in inserting advertisements in the worst --or most effective-- places imaginable.

It absolutely cannot have been random. Every time something lethally dangerous happened, there was another cliff-hanger ad break at that exact moment, with multiple ads clustered close together in the most action-filled section :-P

I mean, objectively I knew that both characters had absolute plot armour at this point in the story, because neither the titular Smok nor Malish (even if we don't yet know how Kit becomes 'Smoke') couldn't possibly die in their first scene together. I even consciously *told* myself that during one of the enforced pauses for advertisements. But by that point the film had grabbed me to such an extent that I had my nails dug into my palms and my jaw clenched tight, and couldn't look away( cliffhanging action )... and I breathed a long sigh of relief and was finally able to stop watching ;-)

So by this point I'm clearly *very* much emotionally engaged in Kit's story, whether because it's an excellent lead performance or a compelling production overall (based on promising source material)!
Created a new tag, because we're obviously going to need it :-D

dialecticdreamer

Welcome to the Feathering the Nest prompt call for February of 2026

At the moment, I am sitting in a puddle of existential dread waiting for a Very Important Phone Call.

I can’t go do dishes, because I’ll probably drop the phone trying to answer it if my hands are the least bit wet. I can’t go fold laundry because I don’t want to risk dropping the phone, sitting on it, or losing it in the laundry pile, ALL of which are likely to happen, and probably more than one of them.

So, what am I doing instead?
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Current Mood: artistic

pedanther

#8: A book with a cover in the same colour as the previous book

With some assistance from Talpa – a search engine associated with LibraryThing that can search books by cover features like colour or what's depicted in the cover illustration – I've settled on:

Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes by Simon Lamb.

Simon Lamb is a geologist who has spent decades studying the processes that create mountain ranges. The book is partly an explanation of what is known about those processes and partly a memoir of his field trips to Bolivia studying the geological history of the Andes. The memoir parts remind me of things like David Attenborough's memoirs of making his nature documentaries.

StoryGraph Onboarding Challenge: A book discovered using ‘Browse Similar Books’ on one of your favourite books

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

A small crew of astronauts and scientists are sent on a desperate interstellar mission in a last-ditch attempt to find a solution to a problem that threatens all life on the planet. There's a joke I want to make here but I'm not sure if it would count as a spoiler (there's a curveball thrown in at the end of the first act that the blurb of the book just hints at; on the other hand, the trailers for the upcoming film adaptation are making it an explicit selling point).

This is science fiction of the old school, where the plot driver is "Here is an interesting scientific puzzle; watch the protagonists figure it out". There's one big central puzzle – the threatens-all-life-on-Earth problem – and a bunch of smaller ones that they have to overcome along the way. The characters have enough personality to lend colour to the narrative, but there are no real character arcs and nobody ever really does anything except to advance the mechanism of the story.

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dialecticdreamer

Late Arrival
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 2
Word count (story only): 1108
[Friday, May 15, 2020, 9:15 am]

:: On Friday morning, Garegin and Leto arrive late. Part of the Edison’s Mirror (Teague Family) story arc. ::

Back to Fresh Morning Air (part 1b)
To the Edison's Mirror Landing Page
On to

Aidan looked away from the sheet of paper that Ed had been scribbling on when someone opened the front door downstairs. “That’s odd,” he mused.

Ed folded the paper and stuffed it into a pocket. “Go see,” he suggested. “Are you late for work?”

Narrowing his eyes, Aidan checked out the window, frowning at the thickening cloud cover. “Not yet, but I should leave in only a few minutes.”

Vic tapped the bedroom door in sharp strokes. By the time Aidan opened the door, the teen had his arms crossed, and his weight centered on his heels. “Rory rushed downstairs to open the door despite me asking her to wait,” he murmured.
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dialecticdreamer

Fresh Morning Air
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1b of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1075
[Friday, May 15, 2020, 9 am]

:: On Friday morning, Ed prepares to discuss something serious with Vic and Aidan, but Garegin and Leto arrive with a surprise for the Teagues. Part of the Edison’s Mirror (Teague Family) story arc. ::

Back to Fresh Morning Air part 1a
To the Edison's Mirror Landing Page
On to

Ed leaned back, surprised. “Of course. I’m planning to start very small.” He sniffed, blinking several times. “I miss…” His voice faded.

Aidan put a hand on the boy’s shoulder, then pulled him close. The arm shifted to snug Ed closer. “That’s understandable.”
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igenlode

Made another rhubarb pie following the amended baking times suggested by my last attempt, i.e. 30 minutes in a hot oven to set the pastry followed by 30 minutes in a slow oven to set the filling -- it worked perfectly (apart from the portion of the juices that boiled out and turned to toffee on the tray I had fortunately placed underneath the pie-plate!)
I need to annotate the recipe, which is unfortunately in very small type in a very small booklet (or simply copy it out into my scrap-book...)

daibhidc

Trying to get back into reviewing things. (I considered getting back into reviewing things back in December, then I decided I didn't want to think about The War Between Land and Sea more than I absolutely had to.) So, The Muppet Show's back. Sort of.

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dialecticdreamer

Fresh Morning Air
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1a of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 557
[Friday, May 15, 2020, 9 am]

:: On Friday morning, Ed prepares to discuss something serious with Vic and Aidan, but Garegin and Leto arrive with a surprise for the Teagues. Part of the Edison’s Mirror (Teague Family) story arc. ::

:: Author’s note: Another long day, but I’m not going to post bad writing. ::

Back to Ferry Folly part 2
To the Edison's Mirror Landing Page
On to

Ed paced back and forth at the foot of the bed in the bedroom. In the kitchen, Vic was tending to the breakfast stir fry, Rory was showing Mac how to arrange silverware at a place setting, using the coffee table, and Aidan was downstairs helping Nik with something.

There were too many people in the apartment. He wanted to talk to Vic and Aidan, but just those two, but when trying to figure out how to make that happen, Ed ended up volunteering to make the bed that Rory had slept in.
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redbird

While I was dealing with trying to figure out whether I could see my psychiatrist, and what it would cost if so, I got an email from medicare.gov about the Medicare Advantage "open enrollment" period: anyone who enrolled in a Medicare Advantage (part C) plan at the end of the previous year can change to a different Medicare Advantage plan between January 1 and March 31st. I decided that it would be worth it to get into a PPO instead of the HMO I had somehow signed up for, even though it means I'll be starting over on the annual out-of-pocket maximums for prescription drugs and for medical care generally. I put the application in this afternoon, and was told the process might take 10 days, but I also think it's supposed to be effective the first day of the month after I requested the change. My confirmation email from Medicare says the plan will notify me after they verify my information and confirm my enrollment, so I will wait and see.

Fortunately, I can afford to do this, rather than having to find new specialists who are in that stupid HMO's network, or spend large amounts to see my current doctors. (Switching now is expensive because I take one very expensive drug, the Kesimpta.)

redbird

Wikipedia has blacklisted the site archive.today a.k.a. archive.is, .li, .ph, .fo, .md, and .vn), because Wikipedia editors discovered that the pseudonymous owners of the site were altering some archived pages. The alterations inserted the name of a blogger that the pseudonymous person who runs archive.today has a grudge against, because the blogger speculated about their identity.

Wikipedia editors were already debating whether to blacklist the site, after discovering it was being used in a distributed denial-of-service attack against that same blogger. The argument for blacklisting the site was straightforward: archive.today captchas were running malicious code on people's computers. The argument against was that it would be difficult to replace hundreds of thousands of links, an argument that made sense only as long as the saved websites were considered trustworthy.

My decidedly non-expert hunch is that using the site to look at static content behind a paywall is probably safe unless the site asks you to complete a captcha.

snowgrouse

Title: Anal Slave
Author: Snowgrouse
Fandom: The Longest Day in Chang'an (2019)
Pairing: Gan Shoucheng/Tan Qi
Rating: NC-17
Genre: PWP, BDSM, Ravishment, Darkfic, Fetish (anal, leather gloves)
Warnings: Hard BDSM, very rough non-con (a ravishment, so she gets orgasms, but still). Some serious kink/fetish action (heed the Ao3 tags). Not for the faint-hearted. That dove is in hospice care right now and off its tits on Brompton cocktails. On the upside? Hard anal fucking *and* pussy spanking at the same time, baby. >8-}
Length: ~11 600 words
Summary: General Gan overhears Tan Qi being very prudish about the thought of anal sex. He decides to kidnap her and teach her a lesson or two about the joys of sodomy: if he ties her down, beats her up and fucks her arse hard enough, surely, she'll learn to love it...

A/N: General Gan being really fuckin' healthy and romantic in his fantasies again! If you liked Pussy Torture, Ravishing the Rose and Dance to The Whip, this may very well be right up your street. Otherwise, run.

("Do you know why I brought you here?"

She yanks her head free from his grip. "My master will kill you for this."

He tugs her by the chin to face himself again, grinning. "Don't you want to know what I've got planned for you?"

She scoffs. "Isn't it obvious?"

He tuts and shakes his head, pouting outrageously; he caresses her cheek with the backs of his fingers, tickling her pussy with his other hand to make her jerk. "Do you think I'm going to stick my prick up this pretty little cunny of yours?"

She rolls her eyes. "Oh, so that's what this is all about." She glares at him. "You overheard us, and decided to educate me about the joys of anal sex," she spits, her every word dripping with scorn.

He pats her cheek and gives her lips a little peck. "Clever girl."

In fact, he decides to reward her for that with a proper kiss: he cups her face in his hands and kisses her deeply, passionately, pleasuring her mouth with his. He kisses her for so long, so well that he can feel her shivering in true arousal; she can't help but let out a little mewl into his mouth, obviously shocked--like they all are--that a brute like him can be such a fantastic kisser.

When he finally pulls back, her eyes are glazed, half-open; her little brown nipples stand out hard, her breasts covered in goosebumps.

"What makes you think I won't just shit all over you?" she mumbles.

Grinning widely, he picks up an enema syringe and shows it to her. "Because I'm going to prepare you."

"No!" she screams, thrashing in her bonds.

With the kind of strength known only to a woman fighting off a fate worse than death, she lifts herself off the floor by the hook and kicks him in the belly with both feet, blowing the air out of his lungs.

He staggers back, staring at her in shock, panting; then, with a roar of rage, he grabs her by the throat and slams her up against the wall.

"Yes!" he snarls and pushes two gloved fingers straight in her pussy, making her scream. "Yes, yes, yes!" he cries, curling his fingers with every 'yes' he barks out.

This, of course, makes her scream "No!" even louder, hurting his ear; he pulls his hand out and slaps her face. "While you're in this room, I'm in charge, and don't you forget it!"

Now that she knows what's going to happen to her, her panic is all the greater; when he takes her off the hook, she still squirms and writhes, managing to deliver quite a nasty kick to his shin and a bite to his arm.

He just laughs, turns her around and slams her face against the wall, now; he clasps his hand over her mouth and nose to suffocate her, ramming into her with the full weight of his body. When she screams in anger, he rams into her again, then a third time. It really is a shame he isn't wearing his armour, because he could do some excellent damage with that in order to teach her a little discipline; nevertheless, he hopes that this will bruise her at least, to give her something to remember him by.

When she finally goes silent from the pain, he traps her arms against her body, hugging her against himself to keep her still; he savours her struggling for a while, rocking her in his arms and capturing her sobs and whimpers into his palm, groaning deeply in pleasure.

"I love it when a woman puts up a fight," he sighs happily, rutting his erection against her arse. "Feel that?" he says, thrusting into the cleft of her buttocks through layers of cotton and silk. "That's what you're going to take in your arse," he purrs. "It's big, it's thick, and it's so hard for you, my sweet," he pants into her neck, licking it, sucking her skin against his teeth hard enough to bruise. "It's going to hurt. So. Much.")

siliconshaman

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dialecticdreamer

Ferry Folly
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 2 of 2, complete
Word count (story only): 1019
[Thursday, May 14, 2020, 7 am]

:: At the ferry terminal, things get complicated for Garegin, almost before he can catch his breath.Part of the Edison’s Mirror (Teague Family) story arc. ::

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To the Edison's Mirror Landing Page
On to

Aidan watched Ed pick up the last three sticks of deep fried sweet potato, fit them between his fingers, and drag them through the remnants of the puddle of catsup in the bottom of the paper boat dotted with grease stains despite the waxed surface. “You have an impressive ability to consume roughly your own body weight per meal,” the auburn-haired man teased, in a voice as dry as a sirocco.

Ed giggled. “Thanks. It’s a natural talent.” The boy’s giggle cut off under the weight of the shadows in his eyes, but he offered a lopsided smile. He set two of the three fries against the edge of the paper boat, and took a bite out of the third piece.
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queerly_beloved

Time for another serving of Thursday Recs!

Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!

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moodthemeinayear

Welcome aboard for Part 2 of Mood Theme in a Year! I hope you had a good break, because we're about to break into some new moods 👍

Starting now, the Maximum and Medium Tracks diverge from the Minimum track; in Part 3, Medium and Minimum will be unified again, but Maximum will be striking out on its own for the rest of the year. Pretty exciting!

This week's Minimum moods are: Angry, Awake, Confused

This week's Medium and Maximum moods are: Stressed, Excited, Optimistic

And what a combination of moods we have to start out with here! Pretty neat that you can be Stressed, Excited, and Optimistic all at the same time. Or maybe I mean "exhausting" rather than neat 😅 Still, they're new moods to work with, and it can be fun to compare and contrast. If you're sticking around on the Maximum Track, it'll be good practice for when we get into runs of similar moods. How do Excited and Optimistic differ? How would you differentiate the two moods? How about Excited versus Stressed? Those both have the potential to be pretty high energy moods, even if they're on different ends of whether you're happy about something. Stressed and Optimistic? It doesn't really seem like they have a lot in common on the surface, but if you've been working really hard on something you still feel good about succeeding, you might just feel both of those at the same time.

What do you think? Are you ready to jump in on this week's moods, or do you wish the break had lasted a little longer? Do you expect to have any trouble with any of them, or need some inspiration? Let's talk about it!

davidgillon

Beast Business, Ilona Andrews

The Amazon description says this a novella, but it's actually a shortish novella, a related short story, a short vignette, together with several short stories that were previously on their website. Everything's from their Hidden Legacy world, and if it fits into the existing pattern will be the primer for a trilogy focusing on the third Baylor daughter, Arabella, finding a partner. OTOH, Arabella really only makes a guest appearance in the novella and it instead revolves around a couple of secondary characters from the preceding two trilogies.

Diana Harrison, Prime of House Harrison, needs illusionist prime Augustus Montgomery, Prime of House Montgomery, and owner of massive PI company MII, for an urgent recovery operation. House Harrison's thing is animal magic, and someone has stolen a unique tiger cub from them. They have 24 hours to recover it because it needs its mother's milk, which means Diana needs Augustus personally, and she's coming along whether he likes it or not. But they both have their secrets, including the true nature of their magics, and they're going to have to cooperate closer than Augustus prefers. Shenanigans ensue.

The Masquerades of Spring, Ben Aaronovitch

It's the Roaring Twenties and Augustus Berrycloth-Young is enjoying the high life in New York, ably aided by his American valet Beauregard, and his friend Lucy, who can be trusted to know where all the best Jazz in Harlem can be found. Into Gussie's pleasant idyll comes a reminder that he is a keeper of the sacred flame of the Society of the Wise, in the form of the Folly's top magical troubleshooter, Thomas Nightingale. Nightingale is on a mission, pursuing the origin of an enchanted, possibly cursed, trumpet, and he's absolutely sure Gussie is the man to help him track it down.

I'd say this was meant to be a Jeeves and Wooster homage, Nightingale even introduces Gussie as 'Bertram Wilberforce' at one point, but Beauregard really doesn't get much to do. Instead it's Nightingale, Gussie, Lucy and the mysterious Cocoa against an escalating array of music agents, bent cops, and political operators, all complicated by Gussie trying not to let Nightingale know that he and Lucy - Lucien Biggs - are a couple. But never let it be said that a Berrycloth-Young failed to rise to the occasion!

IOW it's a very atypical Rivers of London novella, but Gussie makes for a thoroughly entertaining narrator.

The Vampire and the Case of the Wayward Werewolf
The Vampire and the Case of the Secretive Siren
The Vampire and the Case of the Baleful Banshee, Heather G Harris and Jilleen Dolbeare

Think Due South meets Northern Exposure, with the out-of-place protagonist role played by a London partygirl, rather than a Mountie or a doctor.

A fortnight ago Elizabeth Barrington - Bunny to her friends - was a partygirl about town, then she woke up dead and decided a century of servitude to the king of the vampires just wasn't going to happen. Now she's the newest recruit to the police force of the small Alaskan magical town of Portlock, bringing the total strength of the force up to three - Bunny, Gunnar the Nomo (chief of police), and Sidnee, a friendly siren. Bunny was theoretically hired as an admin assistant, but Sidnee mostly mans the office, and one man, even a man-mountain and alleged demi-god like Gunnar, can't manage 24 hour coverage on his own, so pretty soon Bunny, and Fluffy the rather too intelligent Alsatian, are neck deep in a complicated murder case, variously aided and hindered by the town's political movers and shakers, including smooth vampire Connor Mackenzie, rough-and-ready polar bear shifter Stan Ahmaogak, and human hunter Thomas Patkotak.

Book 2 has Bunny being formally sworn in as Officer Bunny, but she's barely had time to get used to that when an encounter with a new drug almost takes out Gunnar, turning Officer Bunny into acting-Nomo Bunny, and leaving her with a drug crisis to take care of, with the competing help of Connor and Stan. Gunnar's back for book 3, but Sidnee's definitely out of sorts, there's an arsonist about town, and there's an escalating series of thefts which threatens to bring down Portlock's protective shield, and there's definitely something dangerous out there in the wilds, waiting for its chance to feed.

3 down, 9 to go.

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Current Location: Wherever the word takes me

siliconshaman

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dialecticdreamer

Ferry Folly
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 2, complete
Word count (story only): 1119
[Thursday, May 14, 2020, 7 am]

Back to Interrupted Goodbye
To the Edison's Mirror Landing Page
On to

:: At the ferry terminal, things get complicated for Garegin, almost before he can catch his breath.Part of the Edison’s Mirror (Teague Family) story arc. ::

Garegin and Aidan walked side by side down the curving, downhill road that led into the ferry parking lot. Each held one of Mac’s hands. Behind the trio, Ed walked with more enthusiasm, swinging one arm widely, in time with the pace of his opposite foot. The other hand, however, held tightly to Vic’s. Last of all, Nicole sauntered along holding a paperback at a comfortable reading distance, though the teen’s eyes flicked over the top of the paperback to check the terrain every few steps.

The ferry disgorged half a dozen passengers on foot, plus one elderly man in a wheelchair, being pushed at an angle over the metal drain that ran the width of the tarmac-covered mouth of the ferry deck. Aidan paused to watch, and Ed sighed, letting his gaze drift over the cars waiting to merge from four lanes to two, once the pedestrians were out of the way. “It’s not a bad system,” the strawberry blond mused. “But…” The lift of his shoulders looked almost like a flinch. He fell silent, easing half a step closer to Aidan.
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igenlode

"Waiting for the Out" finished on a high with two unexpected yet earned and credible happy-outcome twists: a series strongly recommended.

( Marie Antoinette )

Kit Bellew is now firmly launched (although not yet rechristened 'Smok') on his Yukon adventure in "Smok and Malish" -- though I'm afraid that, as with the Soviet "Twenty Years After", after an initially hopeful start I was able to pick up rather less of the plot in what followed, despite the fact that large chunks of this section are completely dialogue-free, and indeed shot in what amounts to fluid silent-film storytelling technique...( Read more... )
As I said, this section consists of a lot of what are effectively silent film sequences with the occasional 'title card' snatch of dialogue, so Smekhov's expressive face is used to convey a lot of his character's thoughts and decision-making, to my benefit; it was the actual conversations I had trouble with!

I was somewhat shocked to gather from the podcast that the composers for "Ali-Baba" apparently didn't get paid for their work; they were classified on the record sleeve as 'dilettanti' ('amateurs'?) due to not being members of the official Composers' Guild, and thus the mere glory of getting their work published and distributed was presumably supposed to be enough! (Smekhov, likewise classified, presumably didn't get paid either due to not being an officially sanctioned 'writer'... but then the project was his idea in the first place. They were just doing the music in their spare time as a favour.)

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pedanther - Week in review: Week to 21 February
igenlode - Enter Malish
dialecticdreamer - Feathering the Nest (February 2026)
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dialecticdreamer - #87 Late Arrival (part 1 of 2)
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igenlode - Amended rhubarb pie
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dialecticdreamer - #85 Fresh Morning Air (part 1a of 1, complete)
redbird - Medicare advantage, again
redbird - PSA: archive.today not trustworthy
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Book Chain, etc, Week 8

#87 Late Arrival (part 1 of 2)

#86 Fresh Morning AIr (part 1b of 1, complete)

Amended rhubarb pie

It's time to replay the music, it's time to relight the lights...

#85 Fresh Morning Air (part 1a of 1, complete)

Medicare advantage, again

PSA: archive.today not trustworthy

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It started with a simple question.

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