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"The Nine Delights"
Jan. 2nd, 2026 07:28 pmmatsushima posting in goals_on_dw- Walking around
- Fellowship
- Deliciousness
- Transcendence
- Goofing
- Amelioration
- Coitus
- Enthrallment
- WILDCARD
The idea is that, of the nine delights on the list, you should try to experience at least three every day.
I like that it's a bit of a lark. It feels more freeing than a serious life philosophy.
A New Year
Jan. 1st, 2026 10:34 pmcornerofmadness
I'll be honest. I hold out very little hope for this year being better than last year. I did the Meriam Webster's thing on bluesky, you screenshot their gif and whatever word you get sets the tone for your year. I got moribund. Are you fucking kidding me? Why is that even a choice? Is it literally just spitting out every word in the dictionary.
But moribund feels right for the 2020s which if I'm continuing to be honest sucked donkey dong. 2020 - covid 2021- nearly lost my leg and took a year to learn to walk again 2022-23 weren't as horrid 24 - lost my uncle 25 - lost my last uncle. So while I'm hoping moribund is NOT my word of the year, it feels right.
Right about now is when I do my good things jar (okay usually it's next week when I get back to Ohio but I know what's in it) it has three things, presented my sabbatical research (at work and at my conference), got a story into an anthology (i'll give you that info tomorrow) and I went to an all inclusive resort for the first time in Mexico. Pretty slim pickings for good things. Mostly 2025 was me trying to not lose my sanity.
So resolutions? Eh, I don't really make them. I've given my writing goals. In addition to that I'd like to see if I can come up with lunches that don't spike my blood sugar, I'd like to get more active but what I need more than anything, a cleaning schedule for my home because this cannot go on as is.
I'm still thinking about doing
snowflake_challenge. I got really sideways with this challenge a couple years ago and lost my taste for it. But a lot of my list is doing it...sighBut here, let me share some cool things about me and my writing
one of the first of probably several archive things I'll end up doing. Got this one from
lucy_romanfrom AO3
Total works on archive - 894
Works written in 2025 - 74
Longest fic written in 2025 The Porn Star Murders Hazbin Hotel
Fic with most bookmarks (also most hits and kudos)Hope is The Thing With Feathers The Owl House
Shortest fic - Needs Unmet Helluva Boss
And here are my writing stats. I have no complaints here: Original fic count 38,727
Fanfic count 359, 707 for a writing total of 398, 434. My only complaint is I wanted 50K of original fic. sigh.
Thanks to a few of the things on
sholio's post today I have some community recscandyheartsex a multifandom gift exchange with a low minimum and a focus on relationships, both platonic and romantic/sexualtraumaticexperiences a (psychological) trauma themed multifandom exchange that will be run on Ao3. Matching will be done on fandom, relationship/solo character, and freeform. You must be 18+ to participate and maintain anonymity until creator reveals.And one I'm actually in is
allbingo and I'm hosting, the public domain fest bingo. come join us.And for anyone still on LJ and haven't backed up your old blog somewhere else the news is looking bleak. I haven't fully read up on it. I do crosspost there for the few friends who haven't joined me here on DW but it looks like Russia isn't playing games with it any more. You can check out more here on bluesky. and a bit more here on DW about the importing.
Mood Theme in a Year 2026
Jan. 2nd, 2026 02:10 amsoc_puppet posting in goals_on_dwmoodthemeinayear is now open for 2026!Have you ever wanted to create a custom mood theme, but found yourself overwhelmed by all of the potential moods you'd have to make? Mood Theme in a Year has you covered! The community assigns three moods a week for you to design graphics for, with regular week long breaks. Draw, screencap, and/or animate your way to the custom mood theme of your dreams, with a community by your side to support and encourage you.
Not up for a full year/132 images? No problem! That's just the Maximum Track, which runs from January 1st through (roughly) the end of the year. If you want to make a smaller mood theme, you can follow the Minimum Track (18 images) or the Medium Track (34 images), or maybe somewhere between one of those and the Maximum Track. The goal of this community is to create a custom mood theme that you like, at a pace that works for you.
For those who missed it: While uploading and using a custom mood theme is restricted to paid accounts, as of December 2025, creating at least 18 mood graphics can earn you Dreamwidth points! Now, even if a paid account is out of your budget, you can still have the chance to upload and use your own custom mood theme. Read this post for more details.
The first three moods of 2026 are now up; thanks for reading, and I hope to see you there!
Start as I mean to go on
Jan. 1st, 2026 11:48 pmrmc28I had Kodiaks practice on the evening of 30 December, which meant getting home very late as usual. I did get up and out for the last hot yoga class of my festive pass in the morning of 31 December. From there I did a run into town to pay in a cheque (a cheque!) to N's savings account on the last possible day before it expired. After I got home, I looked at how many tickets remained for the public skate I was booked on, did some subtraction and decided the rink would be too full and I was too tired, so I cancelled the Last Skate Of The Year, and had a nap instead. It was marvellous.
In the evening we had a little family movie night with drinks and snacks:
- Chicken Run (which everyone but Nico had seen before)
- Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (which only Nico had seen before) - fun, but omg there were bad parenting choices, and excessive ~suspense~ due to even more bad choices in the final action sequence
- Wake Up Dead Man (which Nico was uninterested in, but the other three of us enjoyed)
We managed to finish the last film with about fifteen minutes to go before midnight, so I put on BBC One on iPlayer and we watched some Ronan Keating and then the fireworks from London, and then I left Ronan Keating providing background music while sending and replying to HNY messages on my phone until I decided sleep was a better plan.
This morning I got up and used a free gym pass to get to a weights class, and confirm my opinion that I want to return to a regular gym routine. I met friends M, J & K for pub drinks this afternoon, and spent a bunch of time afterwards sorting out logistics for ice hockey games on Saturday (Kodiaks 1 are away in Chelmsford, Kodiaks 2 are "home" in Peterborough).
Tomorrow I will take Nico to a pantomime in the morning, work a half day in the afternoon, and go to Warbirds practice in the evening.
2025 reading summary
Jan. 1st, 2026 10:42 pmrmc28New-to-me books read this year: 128
(Note for this exercise: I count audiobooks separately from paper/ebooks. I like both experiences but they are different experiences and different "books" to me, whereas reading paper or ebook feels interchangeable to me. My default is to read ebook, audiobooks and physical books are tagged as variations from the default.)
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Rereads: 19
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If you want to know more about a specific book I read in 2025, ask me about it. Or pick a random number between 1 and 147 and ask me to talk about that book.
Books acquired in 2025 and not yet read: 19
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[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
Rose and Bay Awards
Jan. 1st, 2026 04:13 pmysabetwordsmith posting in goals_on_dwThe award period for eligible activities spans January 1-December 31, 2025.
The nomination period spans January 1-January 31, 2026.
The voting period spans February 1-February 28, 2026.
This award may be relevant to folks with goals on reading, writing, art, blogging, crowdfunding, and so on.
These are the handlers for the 2026 award season:
Art:
Fiction:
Poetry:
Webcomic:
Other Project:
Patron:
Jujutsu Kaisen: Love For The Strong: Getou Suguru Fest 2026
Jan. 1st, 2026 11:00 pmannadante posting in fandomcalendarSchedule: Claiming open: 01/01/2026 | Works Due: 15/02/2026 | Work Reveals: 17/02/2026 | Creators Reveal: 24/02/2026
Links: Tumblr | AO3 Collection | Rules & FAQ
To-read pile, 2025, December
Jan. 1st, 2026 09:30 pmrmc28Books on pre-order:
- Platform Decay (Murderbot 8) by Martha Wells (5 May 2026)
- Radiant Star (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie (12 May 2026)
Books acquired in December:
- and read:
- Last Victim of the Monsoon Express (Baby Ganesha) by Vaseem Khan
- Harmonic Pleasure (Mysterious Arts 6) by Celia Lake
- and unread:
- Park Avenue by Renée Ahdieh
- Wounded Christmas Wolf by Lauren Esker
- Gift of the Magpie (Fated Mountain Lodge) by Lauren Esker
- Claiming the Tower (Council Mysteries 1) by Celia Lake
- Apt to be Suspicious (Liminal Mysteries 2) by Celia Lake
- and previously read:
- The Green and the Grey by Timothy Zahn
- Triplet by Timothy Zahn
Books acquired previously and read in December:
- Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan [May 2016]
- The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus 1) by Rick Riordan [May 2016]
- The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus 2) by Rick Riordan [May 2016]
- The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus 3) by Rick Riordan [May 2016]
- The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus 4) by Rick Riordan [May 2016]
- The Blood of Olympus (Heroes of Olympus 5) by Rick Riordan [May 2016]
Borrowed books read in December:
- The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
- The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson [3]
- Bad Day at the Vulture Club (Baby Ganesha 5) by Vaseem Khan [3]
- Inspector Chopra and the Million Dollar Motor Car (Baby Ganesha) by Vaseem Khan [3]
- Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
- The Demigod Files by Rick Riordan [3]
- The Demigod Diaries by Rick Riordan [3]
- The Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles 1) by Rick Riordan [3]
- The Throne of Fire (Kane Chronicles 2) by Rick Riordan [3]
I was right about how much I could read this month when I bought books, I was wrong about how easily I was going to get diverted by reading borrowed books instead. I finished up the Inspector Chopra series and intend to move on to the Malabar House series by Vaseem Khan once I've read and returned more of the Rick Riordan backlist.
[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding
[5] Goodbye read
[6] Cambridgeshire Reads/Listens
[7] FaRoFeb / FaRoCation / Bookmas / HRBC
[8] Prime Reading / Kindle Unlimited
Word of the Year
Jan. 1st, 2026 02:53 pmysabetwordsmith posting in goals_on_dwInstead of a list, choose one word. A single word that captures who you want to become, how you want to feel, or what you want to focus on for the entire year.
This is the Word of the Year practice—and it's quietly become one of the most effective tools for personal change because it works with human psychology rather than against it.
This guide will help you find your word for 2026. Not a word that sounds impressive, but one that actually means something to you—one you'll remember in July when the new year enthusiasm has faded and real life has taken over.
For practical applications, see "How to make the most of your Word of the Year."
