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Because dear sweet baby Jesus my students are challenging me. I had two lab finals today. For both I said DO NOT ASSUME YOU KNOW WHAT I'M ASKING. READ THE QUESTIONS. I pointed out like three times pre-exam that I could ask 1. What is this muscle 2. What is this origin/insertion 3. What is the muscle's action.

Not only are they putting muscle names in for actions (because they didn't read) and then because there is cardio on my nursing version of this those words are on the wordbank too and my upper level A&P students see those words and the question is what is the action of XYZ and they tell me mitral valve. How do you a) not know that's not an action (and this was MORE than 1 person) how do you know realize I have never once mention the fucking word mitral valve?!?


The second lab final today runs from 1-2:50. At 140 I get an email alert and it's one of my students who is MIA (I assumed she finally realized she can't possibly pass and didn't come, like one of the others did). I didn't hear my alarm and I overslept (it's nearly 2 pm....) I'm coming next week to make up the practical. No, you have an hour left on the exam. Be here or get a zero. She comes and from what she handed me was likely a zero anyhow. But She did have 2 hours because so many students (who didn't tell me they were coming friday at 1. THREE told me this and I had to get the secretary to get me more answer sheets. THIS is why I tell you to communicate with me.) my lab couldn't hold them all so they needed more time. I said they could have til 320. (that's an extra half hour). At 330 a dozen were still there. No, move on now. At 340 I demanded the tests back. If you don't know it after 3 hours then you don't know it.


Here me screaming as I yank out all my hair. Btw I feel justified in giving out a 23% to my upper levels because 4 out of 8 got 100%. It was far from impossible.

Bah, have the fannish 50 recs. I have been writing but it's all for [community profile] fandomtrees and I can't share it. I am really intrigued by the Hazbin prompts there. I will say that.

A Royal Idea Teen Wolf

Just A Man Torchwood


Self-Discovery FAKE


Melty. The Murderbot Diaries


Friends Old And New Torchwood

Dancing In The Dark Hazbin Hotel

just the beginning Hudson & Rex

What Everyone Wants Torchwood


A Heavy Burden The Fantastic Journey

No Such Thing As Too Late Supernatural

oh no, he’s hot. 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

hot chocolate icons

The List due South

Offer of Protection Teen Wolf

December's Bingo

Dec. 5th, 2025 11:24 am
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[community profile] allbingo does an amnesty round in December using any open old card so what I like to do is look over my old bingos and cherry pick fun prompts I didn't get to and remix them into a new card.

Sarcasm Listen to the Nerd if You Want to Live "Puttin' on the Ritz" Healing three sheets to the wind
If you are running for your life and are being chased by a monster/psychopath/axe murderer and you happen to be female take the high-heeled shoes OFF! As a general rule don't solve puzzles that open portals to Hell. black and blue Manipulating People gray hair
Bisexual / biromantic Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need FREE SPACE Vampires Love Eclipses It is not strength that overcomes darkness but light.
Book Pansexual / panromantic Fear Stalks the Village white as a sheet All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
Love letters "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue" You have three choices. You can give up - give in or give it your all Consent is sexy Serpents in Eden


love letters - story for sarajay
consent is sexy - can't fight this feeling
serpents in eden - amoldfield's story

Comment Bingo

Dec. 5th, 2025 12:37 am
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a work posted in 2013 a work with a trope you rarely seek out a work from a book canon a work by a creator you've never commented on before a work from a drama canon
a work in a series a fic you first read over 1 year ago a work from a fandom with a closed canon a work set in an AU a work that amused you
a work by a stranger a work by someone you've come across recently FREE SPACE a work inspired by art a podfic
a fic you reread often a work from a new creator the first comment on a work art on AO3 fanart
a work from an "old" fandom (canon aired/released pre-1990) 3 works by the same creator a work from a comedic canon a work with an impressive/eye catching title a WIP

I graduated

Dec. 4th, 2025 11:37 pm
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The oncologist has graduated me to only having to come twice a year instead of every three months so that's good news. Quite happy about that.

So I did damage to my wallet in celebration. I went to Bahnhof WVrsthaus & Biergarten for a reuben. Was going to get a cocktail with my lunch but wanted to try the giant cream puff. Both of which were the same price as the sandwich and didn't want to have a 50$ lunch.

I got the cream puff

This is enough for 3 days of desserts. It was chocolate peppermint. Next time I'll do the cocktail. Wish I could have stayed for their Krampus nacht but this is in a dodgy area near downtown/Marshall's campus.

Hit the comic book store, Michael's and lost my ever loving mind in the Italian section of HomeGoods.


So a while back I got two of the mooncat nail polishes which I mentioned. Here are my thoughts

Hell is Other People Side note: this is a color match to my living room curtains (I have a preference apparently)

It covers well with just one coat compared to say OPI, China Glaze or Morgan Taylor (which are the other pro ones I've used) That said even with Mooncat's overpriced top coat, this stuff chipped within hours. By day three I had to remove it. So, while pretty I can't see it for the price.


404: Soul Not Found Okay I totally failed with the magnet but to be fair 1) I have no idea what I'm doing 2) I have almost no nail right now so I can't put the magnet UNDER the nail as instructed.

Amazing coverage. 2 coats and you can't even see how terribly ridged my nails are from the anemia. Also I am absolutely fascinated with the color change. I've had color change polish before but not one of this quality. Some light it's emerald in other purple, and yet others teal blue to almost black. It took 48 hours to chip it (also had the over coat) Now this one I would do again and would consider other magnetics.

Also there has to be bad news in one of my days right? At 130 I got a text from the company my insurance uses for Dexcom and they can't fill my order because they always do it for a quarter and I'm losing this insurance in 3 weeks. At 230 my sensor acts up. At 5 the sensor dies 3 days early. Guess who has to call the endocrinologist tomorrow for some emergency test strips to carry me over til January because I don't even know if the shit new insurance will even cover a CGM.

What even is sleep?

Dec. 3rd, 2025 11:06 pm
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Last night I was not tired. 3 AM I'm still wide awake. Finally drift off, wake at 630. I mean 3 hours is enough, right? Fell asleep grading tonight, big red line straight down someone's test.

My stomach is higher acid now than it has been and I have more sore in my mouth. sigh.

Left here with a weird call from my dentist. We had to bill something for the comprehensive exam (which my insurance doesn't allow more than 2) What comprehensive? You didn't even take X-rays and Aspen only did a follow up. I'll need to call my insurance. Came home to an even weirder call on the messages, something about medical mutual making a referal to Anthem Blue Cross...um WHAT? Insurances don't refer to each other. I have no idea.

I had to do a make up lab in the middle of the faculty meeting about all the forced Republican laws we now have to follow in OH (where in universities must bow to Republican rule or be closed more or less, fun fascist times)

What I Just Finished Reading:

Haunted Cemeteries of Ohio

A Twist of Murder - Charles Dickens is the detective, yes another real person fanfic mystery. So far I am unimpressed.


Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Kumar Som - boring AF memoir theoretically about a trans journey, mostly about watching her building alcoholism and whining about how hard it is to make a living as a graphic novel artist

What I am Currently Reading:


Death at the Door - a meh paranormal mystery


Wyches - a graphic novel horror I got from the library

Ripped Tide - short mystery I got at the WV book festival. It is...bad.


What I Plan to Read Next: To die Once, Poorly Made and Other Things


November's readings. You know how I like to talk books so if you see something interesting.


Blade Girl 1 manga, contemporary

Anne of Green Gables classics

Revenge, Served Royal historical mystery

The Tea Dragon Society fantasy middle grade graphic novel

Lackadaisy: Volume #2 historical fantasy graphic novel

ElfQuest, Volume One fantasy graphic novel

Spell-Bound rural fantasy, Appalachian gothic

Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir memoir graphic novel

A Twist of Murder historical mystery

Snow Day

Dec. 2nd, 2025 11:06 pm
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It was nice and snowy and any other day I'd be thrilled but today was my lab test and I had to reschedule it for tomorrow...and friday and hope to hell they all can make it at such short notice.

Also my throat hurt too much to go out and play. I have sores on my tongue now so I have no idea what's going on in my mouth but I ain't happy. (I am wondering if my gerd is getting so bad, stomach acid is burning the fuck out of my mouth)

I did get out in the afternoon to CVS who finally had my insulin (three days later) but there were so many people there it took nearly a half hour.

I did get sleep though. I was in bed by quarter after 1 in the morning. (hush, that's early for me) slept to 7 Am, rolled over went back to sleep for another 3 hours.



Fannish 50

I am in that nebulous area with one fandom ending its season and the next one 11 days away from dropping a new episode so both Hazbin fans and Amazing Digital Circus fans are awash in speculation (and naturally ship wars that I'm ignoring hard). We'll have some answers for TADC in 11 days (and then not again until March), Hazbin will not be around until probably 2027. Even though the voice acting for S3 is done and they're on to S4 already, the animation takes for freaking forever (and I'm okay with that).

The speculation is fun and it'll certainly give me a lot of fanfic prompts. What will happen with the Vees now? What about poor Angel? Husk and Cherri, what will they do? Lilith is she showing up? Who will be the next villain?

We know it'll be about family so definitely Charlie and Lucifer (Lilith?) will have a lot more to do. I hope to hell (pun intended) that they will make them less fucking stupid because S2 was hard yinz. So hard. Charlie was annoying as was Lucifer.

We know Arackniss is showing up. So we're getting Angel's family. Backstory please.

Viv did say in addition to the Morningstars we're getting more about Angel and Husk so it's going to be a long wait.

so let me ask this, for those with still on-going fandoms, do you like the wait? Do you like speculating on what comes next? Does it make you nuts? I will hand HH this, no big cliffhangers, open threads, cliffhanger no. I hate cliffhangers so I was happy.

I'm so tired out

Dec. 1st, 2025 11:23 pm
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I didn't get home until 8 after setting up a muscle practical but that might not even happen as a snow storm is on its way.. Fun times.

So tired, I took my night pills, forgot, took more pills (tomorrow's morning pills) by mistake (Nothing much to worry about but I probably won't sleep since one is sort of an upper).

Watching The Running Man for the first time in forever (the Arnie version) I loved this moving growing up. It's corny yes but oddly enough it predicted a lot of things (only off by a decade) including a fascist president, media controlling everything and deep fakes.

Speaking of fascist presidents, I had a dream I was in my grandmother's house and Trump was in there hiding and we were trying to root him out. Thanks brain.

My tooth/throat got much worse today, lost my voice. I'm wondering if they're related as the 'tooth' is more the gum around it.


Music Monday - a song you like that is covered by another artist. I'll give you both songs






And I have to admit I think I prefer Disturbed's

And one of my favorite filk singers has passed Filk Legend Leslie Fish Has Died

Holiday Cards

Dec. 1st, 2025 12:33 am
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Same thing I said last year time slipped away from me. I meant to do this a while back. It's time for the holiday card exchange. I miss the paper mail days and I enjoy sending and receiving cards (if you want a non religious one, let me know. I have plenty of both, mostly because charities keeps sending me tons of religious freebies).

I am willing to send overseas (you'll want to request fast on them given I'm late) If we've exchanged before, don't assume I have any idea where I put your address because my apartment is absolutely chaotic at this point. I'll have these comments screened but you can feel free to DM me too.

Writerly Ways

Nov. 30th, 2025 11:02 pm
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I have nothing to talk about writing wise today. My brain dribbled out my ears hours ago. I'm also annoyed that CVS is out of my insulin again. Eye rolls

But there are joys, like the acceptance from all of yinz even if I can't keep up on comments right now AND I had a second online concert. This one was for Valentine Wolf's new album. It was good.

Oh I suppose I could put this in for writerly ways based off a rant by Mortius on YT (he rants over the Amazon ads as he's reviewing Hazbin) Remember that if it is a digital copy you DO NOT own it, even if you 'bought it.' So if you have a book you love to reread, let me suggest buying a paper copy. I've already had Amazon gut my TBR pile when they decided to no longer carry those books. I know one of the animation companies have done this and people lost every anime they had bought. This is also why I wish Disney would put The Owl House on dvd (since it's a very queer teen show and I can see them being forced to delete or them just deciding eh it's been X number of years, time to go). I did end up buying the Hazbin DVDs for S1 for just this reason.


Notes from the Editor’s Desk: November 2025.

Fusion Fragment: Now Accepting Submissions

Tales of Sley House December 2025 Window Cozy, folk horror

Your Body Is A Fever Dream Weird Cosmic Body Horror/SFF by Trans, NB, agender, intersex, GNC, and generally any gender identity other than binary cisgender authors


Baffling Magazine December 2025 Window Science fiction, fantasy, and horror with a queer bent that deal with “Timefuckery”



A Year of Horse Fantasy Fantasy stories where the horse plays a major role in the story


Otherside January 2026 Window Speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by self-identified members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community




From Around the Web


Promotion Commotion: How to Steer Clear of Scam Artists

Where Do You Put Children in Horror Stories.

Scarlett Press Brings Dark Lords, Fae Courts, and Romantasy Heat to New Adult Readers

Amazon Algorithm Secrets That Separate Bestsellers from the Slush Pile

The Overwritten Novel: How to Identify & Fix Purple Prose in Your Novel.

The Top 45 Publishers for New Authors



From Betty


Tweaking Your World’s Geology

Six Ways to Make Fantasy Travel More Interesting

How Even Feminists Can Build Sexist Worlds

How to Use Perception to Create Subtext in Deep POV

Building a Mystery

The Easiest and Most Powerful Writing Tip

Does Your Novel Sag?

Happy Thanksgiving! – December “first page” Office Hours – Information vs. storytelling

The Complete Guide to Self-Editing for Writers Part 1: How to Strengthen Your Manuscript One Step at a Time
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It's Me not You

Nov. 29th, 2025 11:35 pm
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I haven't been a great friend this month. I've not responded to about 80% of the comments I've gotten since Nov 7th. I've commented on a few posts and that's it. I've read no fanfic and barely any books. I've cleaned nothing. I didn't even realize I was out of insulin until today when I realized after I got back from Jackson. I thought one bag was my short acting humalog but nope it's all long acting toujeo. Now I have to spend time I don't have going back to Jackson tomorrow.

So yeah that's how out of things I am. The only constructive things I did was go to the coffee shop to write (finished another chapter in an upcoming Hazbin wip), hit kroger and cvs for some clove oil (as it occurs to me it can numb my gum and it's antimicrobial). And I managed to change my summer clothes for the winter. I need to ditch about 20 of these old t-shirts.

But there was some joy. Abney Park did something weird and fun a 'choose your own adventure' concert. The fans in the chat told them what game board square to go to as we thread a maze to the space ship and then they'd green screen a background and we had to guess what the song was and then they'd play it. Some of us fans were so damn fast we had the songs before they even gave a clue. It was different and fun.

And it is Science Saturday


Did a NASA telescope really 'see' dark matter? Strange gamma-rays spark bold claims, but scientists urge caution

We May Now Know Why Alzheimer's Erases Memories of Our Loved Ones

Neanderthals cannibalized 'outsider' women and children 45,000 years ago at cave in Belgium

New Diabetes Pill Works as Well as Ozempic For Weight Loss, Trial Finds Probably works similar to Rybelsus which made me so ill

A fossilized foot found 15 years ago belonged to enigmatic human relative that lived alongside Lucy, scientists say

Study Reveals The Anal Sex Techniques Women Love (And You've Never Even Heard Of) No, really and it was a study of thousands

A silly Black Friday

Nov. 28th, 2025 08:45 pm
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Didn't really shop unless you count the liquor store (I do). My friend MKF wanted to meet up at Tim Horton's in Athens. We tried to recapture the old Nano energy this year. No one showed up us two but that's okay. We're enough. We're planning to try again in Feb (though that might have to be Saturday afternoons or online). We actually spend more time talking than writing but ah well.

My throat and tooth still hurt. Fun times but I picked up a Skeletonwitch pizza in Athens and taunted my mother with it (I need to buy her one on my way home)

But here's the weird thing. As I left today my landlord's truck was out there with a trailer holding a washing machine...wait? You are putting machines IN our apartment. I DO NOT have one. Now I need to make another phone call. I REALLY need to get my shit together tomorrow and Sunday and clean up this place so I can get him in here.

Also Hazbin Hotel is now officially my most spendy fandom since the Buffyverse (which still wears the trading money for magic beans crown) It needs to have less cool merch.

And now on to the Fannish 50 friday recs. Look, I wrote a thing.


Title: Never Gonna Give You Up

Summary: Angel is gone. Husk disappears into a bottle and stays there until he swims to rock bottom. Determined not to leave Angel with his abusers, Husk sobers enough and proposes his plan to the rest of the hotel. They’ll help him. They may already have plans he was too drunk to notice. All Husk knows he’s never going to give Angel up and desert him.

Rating: teen

Notes: This is open ended (because I’m writing it for a weekly challenge) and certainly won’t be my last speculation on how the hotel crew get Angel back from the Vees.

Content warning – alcoholism and addiction references.

Written for Spikesgirl58’s six word challenge. The words were Faded, Odd, Coherent, Consign, Rise, & Dwell. Also written for the allbingo prompt of Love is putting someone else's needs before your own (a quote by Olaf in Frozen).
Also written for the lyrical titles bingo challenge for the prompt, a meme song. I chose the GOAT of meme songs Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. Ha, that’s right, I just Rickrolled my whole readership (wearing an Alastor grin right now, or at the very least, Rosie’s).

Story at above link and under here. Spoilers for the ending of Season 2 )


Dancing In The Dark Hazbin Hotel

Careless Torchwood

Quietly Comforting FAKE

Unexpected Audience Torchwood


There And Gone Torchwood

🪨💥 The Murderbot Diaries

Let the Sorrow Go, Its Half the Battle Hazbin Hotel

Jin Ling's many uncles 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

First Steps Toward Freedom Teen Wolf

Drunken Confession Torchwood

Happy Thanksgiving

Nov. 27th, 2025 11:01 pm
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For those celebrating, I hope you had a good holiday. Me, I went to this...I don't want to call it a soup kitchen per se, free community meal? Mostly it's there and free for the students who can't go home and for townspeople who can't afford it etc. Helped out. Had lunch of well stuffing and cake and a bit of turkey. the rest is...not to my taste but that's okay. Can't complain about free.

Came home, didn't clean. Wrote some. Did book reviews I forgot to do. Made pumpkin soup, stuffin muffins and threw the rotisserie turkey breast in the oven. Not a bad meal at all.

I have Free HBO, Starz etc this weekend. Have recorded the new Superman movie and 5 episodes of It Welcome to Derry so there's that.

Hope you all had a nice day. I'm thankful for my friends in RL and online.

Too Many People

Nov. 26th, 2025 11:21 pm
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Just everywhere but the laundromat. Did I mention the assholes broke both washing machines here and I had to go to my old one in Jackson. Well...I won't bitch about the time i had to go to the one in Gallipolis last month. Holy shit, 10$ to do two loads of wash and one full dryer (I hang a lot of my good clothes).

This put me in mind of something [personal profile] evil_little_dog posted the other day about how expensive it is to be poor. Which is 100% accurate. Like now that I'm not sure I can buy a new car (or newer I should say) but mine has 111K on it. If I don't, something is going to blow and it'll be expensive to fix. I CAN afford a laundry suit for home (but the hook up is fucked up) but imagine doing a WHOLE family's laundry at those prices because you can't afford a washer/dryer. Jesus. (it's much cheaper here at the apt)


The coffee shop was packed. I did get a spot, talked to former students, thought about exploding the heads of the adult son/mom combo who was letting their 3 year old daughter/granddaughter run everywhere for the full hour I was there (and they were there before me) She was nearly hit by the door multiple times and nearly took out the waitresses more than that. eye rolls.

Kroger was predictably packed. I have to make cookies for a giveaway but found out my baking powder smelled like ass so I had to go get more. Like the Hunger Games in there. How many people wait to the last second to buy things (asks the idiot who also forget eggs and milk for her baked goods. I had...the lemon. Whee)



They were also beginning to pull down one of the historic buildings today. I got pictures (It was beyond saving which is sad)

I managed to finish a second [community profile] fandomtrees don't get too excited. This was a rec one. Easy peasy.

I'm not looking forward to tomorrow. The temperature fell like a rock today but could be worse. I see what's coming to places I used to live (Lake Erie beach side, Wisconsin). But my issue is a tickle in my chest that says let's get sick. Shut up lungs. Go be weak on your own time, not mine. And my lower left wisdom must be lonely missing its upper wisdom buddy because the entire gum is swollen and painful. Exactly what you want the day before a big meal.


What I Just Finished Reading:


The Tea Dragon Society - very sweet


Revenge Serve Royal - historical mystery, it was pretty good. Found out I read book one and this is book three. Guess who didn't read book 2


What I am Currently Reading:


A Twist of Murder - Charles Dickens is the detective, yes another real person fanfic mystery. So far I am unimpressed.

Death at the Door

Wyches - a graphic novel horror I got from the library today


What I Plan to Read Next: Haunted Cemeteries of Ohio

My students were testing me today

Nov. 25th, 2025 11:29 pm
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It was an easy open study lab today and they were playing music when one of them pipes up, do you like music Doctor Evans?

Yes, I love music. Feel free to play it.

Girl from the back. Did you listen to Jacob Sartorius? (her table had suggested it last week when they were using him to remember the sartorius thigh muscle)

Yes, I liked it.

What did you listen to?

Ladies it's been a week, I don't remember.

Guy from the front - Do you like rap?

Me - it's not my favorite genre but I listen to some of it.

WHO?!?

Me - Oh, they're all old now. Run DMC, Will Smith when he was the Fresh Prince, Sir Mix-a-lot, Tone Loc

Guy from the front - do you like Nas?

Me - I've not really heard his stuff but I like Little Nas X

Them- holding up phone, what's this one? (obviously thinking Doc Dana is trying to be the cool prof who knows music)

two notes

me - Old Town Road, Little Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus

they start giggling. loudly.

The phone goes up. More music.

Me -three seconds in, Get Jiggy with it, Will Smith

More giggling.

Them - Dance

Me - Just play your music.

They weren't sure if it was a dare or not so the phone went away.


We had some of the other testing too. It's week 15 of 16 after all. Can't I have extra extra credit. No.

I NEED to pass this class to graduate. Can't I have a D? I'm desperate. 1. that's not passing 2. You have a 38%. No. I mean you'd have to sacrifice to the elder gods to pass at this point.


Let's hit the fannish fun for fannish 50 For one, sharing this again because Blake and this song hit the Billboard top 100 (at 98 but my god it's less than 3 minutes) Also move over Jessica Rabbit, another animated lounge singer is after your crown




Finally getting my thoughts out on the last two Hazbin episodes. Spoilers abound and outside of the above song all the clips and songs are NSFW )

Hopeless Feeling

Nov. 24th, 2025 11:14 pm
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So out of 70+ faculty the same 21 people who do everything are the only ones who voted and four more voted to take the insurance that means we lose our doctors, our HSA, to save 100$/month but has a 9K deductible vs the 3K we had and oh the insurance is under major investigation by the federal government for fraud. Thanks for voting to make sure we're one health crisis away from homelessness there. But also the rest of the faculty, why are you not helping? Do you all have spouses with better insurance? Are you on medicare? Any good reason you weren't there for us?

But I was trying to find a little joy in the day and I did get paid for my short story today. That's great. I've been waiting for MONTHS on this, literally at least 6 months and I've been wondering when we were going to market it. Turns out next month and it'll be out in January.

In the opposite of joy my gastric paresis is acting up so bad. Ate and apple, puked in my office trash can and then my blood sugar dropped out because lunch was in the trash. F.U. life.

But in better news, the blood from my dexcom wasn't from infection. The skin had broken down under the glue so it's getting a rest.


Music Monday, prompt - a song that tells a story. Oh there are OH so many.

this Abney Park one isn't a happy one per se. Robert hasn't talked much about it but some of his stories and songs suggest he grew up in an abusive situation



And Reba had a lot of them. This one had me writing some romance story about a guy named Chance Deveroux back when I was in college but I never finished because I was told guys can't be part of the main focus of a romance. It had to be all the woman's pov (I know better now of course but it was most likely a horrible story anyhow)

Writerly Ways

Nov. 23rd, 2025 10:55 pm
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Today was hard, tomorrow will be worse. Fully expecting to be yelled at but I don't regret posting the the union all the DOJ investigations into the shit insurance we're voting on. So enough of that. Let me get into the writerly ways.

One of the reactors for Hazbin Hotel was ranting about 'forced conflict' and I'm like that is a great term for it and I do hate that writing...shortcut? Trope? I'm not sure what I want to call it. Basically, characters X &Y act (often out of character) in a way that most people would not do and it ends up creating drama and conflict that we otherwise wouldn't have and don't necessary need.

I'm sure this has been happening forever. But the first time I remember ranting about it was way back in the heyday of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Xander purposely doesn't tell Buffy that Angel's soul could be/was being returned. At least that example has a reason. Xander is a jealous douche.

Later in the same verse we have much less of an excusable example is in Angel S4 with Connor. When the whole team knows that something is wrong with Cordelia and they set out to prove it, Angel excludes Connor rather than keeping him close so he could see for himself that Cordelia is being influenced. Because Connor isn't there in the beginning he believes the team is attacking Cordy for no reason. There was no reason to force this conflict and it made the team look like a team of morons.

Oh I know why it was done. Joss was punishing Charisma for getting pregnant and wrote the world's stupidest story line to make her look bad (she is now freely talking about how much of a piece of shit he was to her) but at the time we didn't know this and it felt like bad writing.

Where this came up in Hazbin was Charlie, the pollyanna of the group, sees her father's big secret exposed to all of hell and rather than comfort him for the torment he just endured she tears him a new one for destroying her dreams on purpose (he didn't know Vox had found his secret out and had gone to stop him for his daughter's sake) and when Vaggi mentions she had asked Lucifer to help, this out of character ire is turned on her for the better part of two episodes. The fans did not react well and as far as I'm concerned, we shouldn't. There was still an opportunity for Charlie to be mad b ut maybe mad for the right reasons. Sigh.

So have you written this? I try hard not to. Have you come across it and been disappointed by that turn of events? Or did you like it?

Open calls


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Trying to find little moments of joy

Nov. 22nd, 2025 11:23 pm
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it's not easy but I have no other path forward because man, the urge to just give up entirely is strong. So today, I went to the holiday market in Gallipolis. So muddy but luckily most of it was inside. I got some more hand lotion I don't really need, cinnamon honey no one needs, kettle corn that will probably break my tooth and tea because I needed more (eye roll) and two very neatly done blind books. She provided the genre/subgenres, goodreads ratings and a decorative front to hide the book. I thought they were cool and if I hadn't already had a lot of gifts for friends I would have bought more.

I went for boba tea only to find the place closed. Not sure why.

Went to Remo's Italian hotdogs for a footlong covered in chili and pickles and since it was packed and I was waiting, there was time for drama. The guy who helps out behind the counter was leaving and he runs back in as two police cars rocket by. 'There's a guy lying in the street I think a car hit him.' Remo is over there saying 'is it someone we know.' Me and another customer, a nurse with Holzer, bust out of the joint, ready got run down the street to help but he had misread the situation. The cops had two men laid out in handcuffs. Things were fine (for us, not so much for those two teens)

Aldi's had all kinds of advent calendars and on an unrelated note I have a chocolate advent calendar now.

Pittsburgh is having so much for the holidays I don't know how I'll get to it all. I plan to try and stave off the insanity that way.

Two more Hazbin Hotel prompts showed up at [community profile] fandomtrees and they were smarter than me. They waited for the season to end to work into their prompts. They're exciting. I need to get started on them. So much I want to write so little time to do it.

Hell it's nearly midnight and I'm just setting down to do anything. So I still don't have my Hazbin break down. Sigh. Haven't read much of anything in weeks.

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