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Today's News:
Pre-orders for my new book Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home have begun!
Sawyer Lee is an illustrated middle grade novel starring an unadventurous kid who'd rather dig a deep dent in the couch than make a mark on the world, as many in his illustrious family of astronauts, scientists, spies, champion athletes... blah blah blah... have. He has decided that after generations of effort, it’s time to spend one lifetime relaxing.
The
problem is that Sawyer keeps getting caught up in the exhausting
expectations of his wicked aunt Celia, his complex relationship with his
ambitious other friend, Angela, and the shenanigans of every else
in town hoping to win the yearly Gourd Thump festival celebrating
nature’s dullest vegetable.
In this tale of mystery, treachery,
conspiracy, plant husbandry, and an imaginary love triangle, Sawyer
knows it will take a regrettable amount of energy to escape these
entanglements and find a way back to his happy place on Gary’s couch,
with a cozy throw blanket, a steaming mug of chamomile tea, and an empty
schedule.
You can check out the first chapter here along with pre-order links!
Big-Dicked Neighbor
Nov. 18th, 2025 12:00 pmsavagelove_feedShe dated her neighbor for a while, until it became clear that she couldn’t enjoy sex with him because his giant, massive, gargantuan penis was too big for her. Now that she is starting to date other men, should she tell them the history of her friendly neighbor 5 doors down? A woman has enjoyed … Read More »
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Three Options
Nov. 18th, 2025 12:00 pmsavagelove_feedThe person who introduced me to you — my wife — is the source of my woes. We have a child and a lovely home and financial security. But the issue is my feelings of sexual dissatisfaction. My wife suffers from health issues that make sex painful. I never pressure her, and her wellbeing is … Read More »
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The Day in Spikedluv (Monday, Nov 17)
Nov. 18th, 2025 07:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spikedluvI hit Walmart while I was downtown and the bank drive-thru on the way home.
I forgot to mention that I went through the McD’s drive-thru on Saturday (Pip wanted hash browns). I asked if the heat was working and was told that it was. So I went there this morning. Dear readers, the heat was not working. I chatted with some people who were there (about the heat not working) and then went to BK. Such a disappointment. Oh well, if I’m honest, the sandwiches are better at BK, but I like the atmosphere at McD’s better for writing.
I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter. I remembered to pick up a GC for mom (her friend’s b-day) and even stopped at the post office to put the card in the mail for her. I made kielbasa and baby carrots for supper. (I got ground beef out of the freezer so I could make meatloaf tomorrow.)
I watched Tracker and read some fanfic. There was more Dr. Pol for background tv.
Temps started out at 26.2(F) and reached 38, according to Pip. I never saw it get that high. There was more wind, which sucks. I have to dress with even more layers when there’s wind because it goes right through.
Mom Update:
Mom sounded good when I talked to her in the evening. She was watching Mama’s Family. *g* She said her treatment went well and she didn’t have any issues eating. I’ll be able to see for myself tomorrow (today now).
I forgot to mention that I went through the McD’s drive-thru on Saturday (Pip wanted hash browns). I asked if the heat was working and was told that it was. So I went there this morning. Dear readers, the heat was not working. I chatted with some people who were there (about the heat not working) and then went to BK. Such a disappointment. Oh well, if I’m honest, the sandwiches are better at BK, but I like the atmosphere at McD’s better for writing.
I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter. I remembered to pick up a GC for mom (her friend’s b-day) and even stopped at the post office to put the card in the mail for her. I made kielbasa and baby carrots for supper. (I got ground beef out of the freezer so I could make meatloaf tomorrow.)
I watched Tracker and read some fanfic. There was more Dr. Pol for background tv.
Temps started out at 26.2(F) and reached 38, according to Pip. I never saw it get that high. There was more wind, which sucks. I have to dress with even more layers when there’s wind because it goes right through.
Mom Update:
Mom sounded good when I talked to her in the evening. She was watching Mama’s Family. *g* She said her treatment went well and she didn’t have any issues eating. I’ll be able to see for myself tomorrow (today now).
Babbittry
Nov. 18th, 2025 12:01 amwordsmithdaily_feednoun: Complacent materialism and smug conformity.
No election
Nov. 17th, 2025 10:54 pmjames_davis_nicollNot over this budget, anyway.
It boggles me that Canada had to endure 13 days of ambiguity about the budget vote. What next, an election cycle that lasts five whole weeks? The suspense would be palpable.
It boggles me that Canada had to endure 13 days of ambiguity about the budget vote. What next, an election cycle that lasts five whole weeks? The suspense would be palpable.
Link dump
Nov. 17th, 2025 09:54 pmflamingswordHTML fixed!
A primer on metacognitions / ways of thinking that prop up white supremacy culture
Existential Processing Delay
Black Neurodiversity, - "Explore the intersection of neurodiversity and disability justice. Understand how factors like race, age, and gender influence neurodivergent experiences. Join our interactive 2-hour workshop and receive materials for immersive learning."
Neurocomplex Lifespan Model: "Gifted Kid to Autistic and/or ADHDer Adult (in Burnout)
A complex visual model of the path from “Gifted Kid” to late(r) in life identified Autistic and/or ADHDer. Considering school, work, relationships, gender, sexuality, mental & physical health."
Moral Scrupulosity OCD - "I followed every rule. I apologized when no one asked me to. I replayed conversations endlessly, scanning them for harm I might have caused. If I could just make sure I never hurt anyone, then everything would be okay."
Visual comic link -
Stoat.chat - a possible chat program to move to if Discord starts sharing data with police/ICE now that their TOS doesn't explicitly forbid it.
Oncology Massage - link for me to read soon.
GLP drugs might have neuroprotective effects? GDI now I have to do a bunch of research, with finals coming up. - Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and neuroinflammation: implications for neurodegenerative disease treatment
Endocrine-Disrupting Effects of Salicylate Preservatives on Neurosteroidogenesis: Targeting 5α-Reductase Type 1 I have dry skin AND work with my hands in lotion all day, so this link is more relevant to me than to most. But salicylate preservatives are in a lot of stuff we put on and in our bodies, and they can apparently be endocrine disruptors.
Lakota Made Products - Tezi Tea - for Mom, possibly? As she gets older, her digestion is not always as regular as it could be.
A primer on metacognitions / ways of thinking that prop up white supremacy culture
Existential Processing Delay
Black Neurodiversity, - "Explore the intersection of neurodiversity and disability justice. Understand how factors like race, age, and gender influence neurodivergent experiences. Join our interactive 2-hour workshop and receive materials for immersive learning."
Neurocomplex Lifespan Model: "Gifted Kid to Autistic and/or ADHDer Adult (in Burnout)
A complex visual model of the path from “Gifted Kid” to late(r) in life identified Autistic and/or ADHDer. Considering school, work, relationships, gender, sexuality, mental & physical health."
Moral Scrupulosity OCD - "I followed every rule. I apologized when no one asked me to. I replayed conversations endlessly, scanning them for harm I might have caused. If I could just make sure I never hurt anyone, then everything would be okay."
Visual comic link -
“Mapping Your Emotional Floor Plan:
A comic by Erika Moen based on Come Together
Even an amazing cartoonist known for communicating sex ed and talking about her own life found mapping her Emotional Floor Plan challenging – maybe this will help you do yours!”
Stoat.chat - a possible chat program to move to if Discord starts sharing data with police/ICE now that their TOS doesn't explicitly forbid it.
Oncology Massage - link for me to read soon.
GLP drugs might have neuroprotective effects? GDI now I have to do a bunch of research, with finals coming up. - Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and neuroinflammation: implications for neurodegenerative disease treatment
Endocrine-Disrupting Effects of Salicylate Preservatives on Neurosteroidogenesis: Targeting 5α-Reductase Type 1 I have dry skin AND work with my hands in lotion all day, so this link is more relevant to me than to most. But salicylate preservatives are in a lot of stuff we put on and in our bodies, and they can apparently be endocrine disruptors.
Lakota Made Products - Tezi Tea - for Mom, possibly? As she gets older, her digestion is not always as regular as it could be.
A Most Displeased Cat
Nov. 18th, 2025 02:29 amscalziwhatever_feed
Spice is the cat who is probably the closest to me on a day-to-day basis; she sleeps on the bed near my head, and frequently camps out on my desk whilst I type. She’s also the one who misses me the most when I travel and the one least afraid of offering her editorial comments to me about my absence when I return. It appears that my most recent trip was one trip too far: Spice rather pointedly peed on two of my travel bags this weekend, including, unfortunately, my new Exercising Demons bag from Calamityware.
The two bags are now irredeemably trashed, and Spice does not appear in the least bit regretful for her actions. We will have to have a discussion about this at some near point in the future. However, inasmuch as last weekend’s trip was the last one I had scheduled for the year, it seems unlikely there will be further editorial comment along this line. At least, hopefully. Anyway, it’s nice to be missed. Just not that way.
— JS
Keeping It Together
Nov. 17th, 2025 09:29 pmquestionable_content_feed
she's got one hell of a poker face
House fix-ups, random babble, tired evenings
Nov. 17th, 2025 05:06 pmflexagonThe new condo is pretty much ready to go. ( Click if you like houses ) I also spent a while bagging up leaves in the back yard over there, and got added to the condo association bank account at Chase. I am, by virtue of sending over a sample budget based on my own house and saying I wanted the job, going to be the treasurer.
So that fix-up project won't be keeping me physically away from home so much more, which is good, because I've been away a little too much. My birthday present for the squirrel was ( yet <i>another</i> day of house stuff ) Satisfying, but tiring. He liked it... he'd wanted activities or acts of service rather than products of capitalism.
Physically I'm doing ever-better backbends, and did my TGUs at 60lb this week for the first time in 2025. My hip has been hurting from doing too much compression work and I've re-started my PT exercises for that, but I'm feeling good in general about where my capabilities are and how my athletic mojo is doing. Only acro is a little bit stalled out, and that's mainly due to my base's schedule.
I had two unusual social events -- one with a guy I lent some books to about 13 years ago and forgot about, but when he reached out, heck yeah I want my books back. And one with my friend A from the Costa Rica handstand trips; neither of us is going this year, so we met up over a giant breakfast sandwich in Boston instead. He's moving to LA, which I possibly shouldn't be sad about but am, in fact, slightly sad about. I like casting a fairly wide social net, because it's often the more distant connections that bring in the new and interesting recommendations -- plus there's more to catch up on when I don't see a given person often -- but this is one who I would have enjoyed running into more regularly. Like, I wish we'd had a weekly class together or been coworkers.
We saw a student show for the circus school, and I also watched the new Frankenstein movie (pretty, but too much cruelty for me to really enjoy).
I seem, by coincidence, to be reading a lot about Jewish stuff lately. There's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, which is fiction, and Ezra Klein's episode about groypers, which sadly isn't. I find it interesting how Jewish culture has a strong "resisting assimilation" thread to it. But some of the Ezra Klein episode made me feel weirdly naive -- like when some noted anti-semitic guy always mentioned Goldman Sachs but not Morgan Stanley, for instance. Did I just miss some class, maybe in high school, where I was supposed to memorize which last names are associated with which countries/regions/cultures? Asking because I would never have noticed that particular difference. If asked flat-out "is Goldman a Jewish name" I might have said yeah, sounds plausible. But I wouldn't have known that Sachs was, or that Morgan or Stanley weren't. I don't know how and where people learn all this.
I'm getting tired early, with the short winter day and the return to Standard Time. I'm not quite sure what to do with tired evenings -- play games, and make lists of things to do in the morning, maybe. Or just keep crunching along and accept that it'll be slower. What do you do, gentle readers?
So that fix-up project won't be keeping me physically away from home so much more, which is good, because I've been away a little too much. My birthday present for the squirrel was ( yet <i>another</i> day of house stuff ) Satisfying, but tiring. He liked it... he'd wanted activities or acts of service rather than products of capitalism.
Physically I'm doing ever-better backbends, and did my TGUs at 60lb this week for the first time in 2025. My hip has been hurting from doing too much compression work and I've re-started my PT exercises for that, but I'm feeling good in general about where my capabilities are and how my athletic mojo is doing. Only acro is a little bit stalled out, and that's mainly due to my base's schedule.
I had two unusual social events -- one with a guy I lent some books to about 13 years ago and forgot about, but when he reached out, heck yeah I want my books back. And one with my friend A from the Costa Rica handstand trips; neither of us is going this year, so we met up over a giant breakfast sandwich in Boston instead. He's moving to LA, which I possibly shouldn't be sad about but am, in fact, slightly sad about. I like casting a fairly wide social net, because it's often the more distant connections that bring in the new and interesting recommendations -- plus there's more to catch up on when I don't see a given person often -- but this is one who I would have enjoyed running into more regularly. Like, I wish we'd had a weekly class together or been coworkers.
We saw a student show for the circus school, and I also watched the new Frankenstein movie (pretty, but too much cruelty for me to really enjoy).
I seem, by coincidence, to be reading a lot about Jewish stuff lately. There's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, which is fiction, and Ezra Klein's episode about groypers, which sadly isn't. I find it interesting how Jewish culture has a strong "resisting assimilation" thread to it. But some of the Ezra Klein episode made me feel weirdly naive -- like when some noted anti-semitic guy always mentioned Goldman Sachs but not Morgan Stanley, for instance. Did I just miss some class, maybe in high school, where I was supposed to memorize which last names are associated with which countries/regions/cultures? Asking because I would never have noticed that particular difference. If asked flat-out "is Goldman a Jewish name" I might have said yeah, sounds plausible. But I wouldn't have known that Sachs was, or that Morgan or Stanley weren't. I don't know how and where people learn all this.
I'm getting tired early, with the short winter day and the return to Standard Time. I'm not quite sure what to do with tired evenings -- play games, and make lists of things to do in the morning, maybe. Or just keep crunching along and accept that it'll be slower. What do you do, gentle readers?
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agonyauntDEAR HARRIETTE: My boyfriend recently moved in with me, and ever since then, my cat’s behavior has completely changed. She’s been acting out: scratching furniture, hiding for hours and even refusing to eat sometimes. She used to be calm and affectionate, but now she seems anxious and territorial. My partner is trying to be patient, but I can tell he’s getting frustrated, especially since the cat hisses at him whenever he walks by or tries to sit near me. It’s creating tension between us, and I feel stuck in the middle trying to keep everyone happy. I’ve tried introducing them slowly, giving the cat space and even buying new toys to distract her, but nothing seems to help. My boyfriend thinks I’m overreacting and that the cat will “get over it,” but I know she’s genuinely stressed.
I feel guilty because I was so excited for us to finally live together, and now it feels like we’re both walking on eggshells around my pet. I love them both, but I’m starting to wonder if this living situation is sustainable. How can I help my cat adjust to this big change without it putting more strain on my relationship? -- Standoff
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I feel guilty because I was so excited for us to finally live together, and now it feels like we’re both walking on eggshells around my pet. I love them both, but I’m starting to wonder if this living situation is sustainable. How can I help my cat adjust to this big change without it putting more strain on my relationship? -- Standoff
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Tuesday ✎ Retail [DW]
Nov. 18th, 2025 07:10 amToday's theme is retail. To quote a shady (but friendly and helpful!) merchant, "What're ya buyin'? What're ya sellin'?" >:D Let's throw some characters into a store or a shopping district and see what happens. Are they working at a shop themselves, or are they customers? Is someone window-shopping and someone else really wants to make a sale? Discounts, coupons, piggy banks, tight purses, payment methods, receipts, haggling, (the opposite of?) buyer's remorse -- if it relates to bartering for goods and services, then it'll make a great prompt today.
Feel free to add specifics to your prompts, like whether you'd prefer a gen fill over something shippy, or if you have a squick or trigger you hope to avoid. Original fiction, fanfiction, and fanfic crossovers are always welcome. ~_^
Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Some examples to get things started...
+ The Witcher (Netflix and/or book 'verse), Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach (+ any), (after the Thanedd coup) buying something for himself that is not a basic necessity
+ X-Men (movie 'verse), John Allerdyce +/ Bobby Drake (+ any), (close to canon or any workplace AU) working in retail
+ author's choice, any (+/ any), just because you can buy it, doesn't mean that you should
We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].
While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.
As a friendly reminder about our schedule, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications!
If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word!
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