Daily Check-in

Oct. 1st, 2025 06:00 pm
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, October 1, to midnight on Thursday, October 2. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33683 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 19

How are you doing?

I am OK.
13 (68.4%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
6 (31.6%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
6 (31.6%)

One other person.
9 (47.4%)

More than one other person.
4 (21.1%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
 
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Senator Ted Cruz making an impassioned speech at a Senate hearing on Tuesday about reaching a “bipartisan agreement” on crime:

“How about we all come together and say, ‘let’s stop murders?’

“How about we all come together and say ‘let’s stop rape?’

“How about we all come together and say ‘let’s stop attacking pedophiles’.” 

(Independent [10/1/25]; videos here and here)

I think that Cruz may have wanted to say "pedophilia" to match "murders" and "rape", but that's a rare word that he didn't quite know what it meant or how to handle it, so he made the quick switcheroo with the parallelism of the other preceding two phrases.

Many psychologists recommend against using the term pedophilia to denote sexual activities with children, because not all people with a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children (i.e., pedophilia) commit such acts, and child molesters often lack a strong sexual interest in prepubescent children.[1][2] Furthermore, psychological texts define pedophilia as a primary or exclusive attraction towards specifically prepubescent children;[3] attraction towards pubescent children is known as hebephilia and towards post-pubescent adolescents as ephebophilia. See Wikipedia for more information.

(Wiktionary)

Lesson:  don't reach for a word you're not sure of.

 

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Workspace with computer, journal, books, coffee, and glasses.Welcome back!

This week has given me the first hint of fall. I love a crispy morning. We’re also in the middle of getting a new porch since the old one had only a couple years left anyway. I can’t wait to enjoy a coffee on the new one, wrapped in a big ol’ blanket.

Aside from that, I’ve been fully on the Hades II train. Anyone else with me?

Libro.fm is hosting a “read-in” with 450 libraries and independent bookstores. It kicks off on Sunday!

Speaking of banned books, Geoffrey posted about this  queer mystery game that deals with book banning. It’s due out next year if you wanted to wishlist now.

This link was sent in by Mimi, in case you wanted a t-shirt that shows off your love of reading smut. Also, the shop has some really cute sock designs.

The trailer for the movie adaptation of Emily Henry’s The People We Meet on Vacation just dropped! Will you be watching?

Don’t forget to share what cool or interesting things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!

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Title: Nature's Innuendo
Fandom/Pairing: Sasaki to Miyano - Sasaki/Miyano
Summary: Sasaki has tickets to the aquarium, and he and Miyano find a new exhibition there, an exhibition that proves that sometimes nature is bizarre and obscenity is in the eye of the beholder.
Rating: PG-13
Content: Teen boys romance, dating, naughty thoughts.
Disclaimer: I did not create these characters, they belong to Harusono Shô. I'm just borrowing them to act out my fantasies, while not earning any money whatsoever from it.
Notes: ~1200 words. I am so sorry about this, but I saw a video about these creatures and I just couldn't stop myself. ;) The Choriaster Granulatus, or Granulated Sea Star, is a starfish that grow up to 27 cm in diameter, and all of its five arms look like dicks. They're awesome! LOL Many thanks to my beta [personal profile] zabimitsuki for the beta and also for encouraging my weirdness. :)

Read it here: DW | AO3

Mythology, Fantasy Romance, & More

Oct. 1st, 2025 03:30 pm
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Dream Girl Drama

Dream Girl Drama by Tessa Bailey is $1.99! This is book three in the Big Shots series, which are sports romances. I believe Elyse has enjoyed these!

A steamy chance encounter between a professional hockey player and the manic pixie dream girl he just can’t seem to forget takes a turn when the pair realize that their parents are engaged—in an all-new rom-com by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey.

When professional hockey player Sig Gauthier’s car breaks down and his phone dies, he treks into a posh private country club to call a tow truck, where he encounters the alluring Chloe Clifford, the manic pixie dream girl who captivates him immediately with her sense of adventure and penchant for stealing champagne.

Sparks fly during a moonlight kiss and the enamored pair can’t wait to see each other again, but when Sig finally arrives to meet his dad’s new girlfriend over dinner, Chloe is confusingly also there. Turns out the girlfriend is Chloe’s mother. Oh, and they’re engaged.

Sig’s dream girl is his future stepsister.

Though the pair is now wary of being involved romantically, Chloe, a sheltered harp prodigy, yearns to escape her controlling mother. Sig promises to teach her the ins and outs of independence in Boston—but not inside his bedroom. They both know there can never be more than friendship between a famous hockey player and his high-society, soon-to-be stepsister. But keeping their relationship platonic grows harder amid the developing family drama, especially knowing they were meant for so much more…

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The Wraith King

The Wraith King by Juliette Cross is 99c at Amazon! I mentioned this on Get Rec’d because I was certainly suckered in by a Goodreads ad. I’ve also had good experiences with Cross’s books in the past.

A brutal, bloody war against the ruthless Wraith King has cost the light fae more than innocent lives. Una Hartstone, Princess of Issos, learns the price the Wraith King demands to end the war once and for all. Her. In exchange for the safety of her people, she agrees to give her life—and her body—to her greatest enemy.

Gollaya Verbane is determined to fulfill his destiny and his god’s prophecy. When his seer points to the Princess of Issos as the key to the rise of the dark fae, he demands her submission. But when she finally yields, he realizes Una is much more to him than a priceless weapon.

A mystery that has haunted Una for years awakens when she is abducted and dragged back to Näkt Mir. The palace hides many dark secrets…and at least one traitor. A traitor determined to take King Goll’s throne—and all he possesses. What he doesn’t know is that Una’s magick is more powerful than he can imagine, and that Goll will burn the whole world to save her.

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Sapphire Flames

RECOMMENDED: Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews is $1.99! Many of us romance readers can’t recommend this series or this author enough. You can pick this one up without read the story arc of the previous three, but why would you want to deprive yourself of Ilona Andrews goodness.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrew comes an enthralling new trilogy set in the Hidden Legacy world, where magic means power, and family bloodlines are the new currency of society…

In a world where magic is the key to power and wealth, Catalina Baylor is a Prime, the highest rank of magic user, and the Head of her House. Catalina has always been afraid to use her unique powers, but when her friend’s mother and sister are murdered, Catalina risks her reputation and safety to unravel the mystery.

But behind the scenes powerful forces are at work, and one of them is Alessandro Sagredo, the Italian Prime who was once Catalina’s teenage crush. Dangerous and unpredictable, Alessandro’s true motives are unclear, but he’s drawn to Catalina like a moth to a flame.

To help her friend, Catalina must test the limits of her extraordinary powers, but doing so may cost her both her House–and her heart.

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Neon Gods

Neon Gods by Katee Robert is $1.99! This is the first book in the Dark Olympus series. Many of the books in this series are on sale right now, so see if you’re missing one in the collection.

He was supposed to be a myth.
But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell…
…he was, quite simply, mine.

Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. But all that’s ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city’s dark facade.

With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil’s bargain with a man she once believed a myth…a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed.

Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light. But when he finds that Persephone can offer a little slice of the revenge he’s spent years craving, it’s all the excuse he needs to help her—for a price. Yet every breathless night spent tangled together has given Hades a taste for Persephone, and he’ll go to war with Olympus itself to keep her close…

A modern retelling of Hades and Persephone that’s as sinful as it is sweet.

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Sparklecat, they/them

Age:
bodily 23, mentally being rubberbanded back and forth through time

I mostly post about:
things that are inspiring/recovery related, things related to my studies (religion, demonolatry, sociology, folkways/folk music, appalachian history, union/labor history), fannish ramblings, any art. I feel i will probably use this as a bit of a diary, but im not sure......

I am very much a breaker of the rules of grammar, and a questioner of the rules of society. a slut who overthinks EVERYTHING.

My hobbies are:
(light) writing, crochet, making mix cds (like physically, which im trying to figure out how to translate into shareable art), looking at pretty pictures, about a million other things on any given day. I also make puzzles and have a website for it!


My fandoms are:
I write fanfic for Five Nights at Freddy's and Undertale/Deltarune. My main fandom is The Daycare Attendant community, a subcommunity of FNAF. we are small but mighty, lol. I have a vested interest in x readers and I enjoy self-ship. I also enjoy any form of monster/creature, not really limited to community. i guess you would call me a monsterfucker/lover/appreciator. A friend to monsters, hopefully?


I'm looking to meet people who:
ramble! share their thoughts! want to speak asynchronously! I am very new to this form of social media, being a tumblr native since 2015, and want to make friends!


My posting schedule tends to be: 
hopefully multiple times a week, but i want to try to put out more "together" posts at least once. dont hold me to this however. Im hoping to use this journal as a mix between a diary, pinterest, and tumblr.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are:
No Minors, sorry! also no fascists/bigots/maga. I am against AI usage on environmental grounds. 

Before adding me, you should know:
I am plural/a system and will post about that/other parts will make posts every now and again. we are interested in the experience of other systems and their concept of healthy multiplicity. Also genderfluid and aromantic(ish) and like to ramble about that too. 

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In his remarks on "Stay hyDRAEted", Alec Strange noted that you can't avoid reading dorei no remonēdo ドレイのレモネーど  (intended to be "Drae's Lemonade") as "slave lemonade" (dorei / ドレイ / 奴隷 ["slave"]).  Coming at 奴隷 from the Sinitic side, my instinct is to read 奴隷 as beginning with an n- (or in a few cases l-), so it would have nothing to do with "Drae's".

(Wiktionary)

So I started to ask around how is it that Japanese has a d- initial for 奴隷 ("slave") and Sinitic has an n- initial?

David Spafford:

No idea, linguistically, but it’s not an odd one off. 

努力 ("make an effort; strive; endeavor") is pronounced doryoku. [VHM:  not like nǔlì as in Mandarinì

Nathan Hopson:

Do is the standard ondoku 音読* learned in middle school, ヌ is considered hyō-gai 表外 (outside of the table of standard readings).
https://kanji.jitenon.jp/kanjic/1204

*[VHM:  the reading of a Japanese word written in kanji that is roughly based on the pronunciation of the kanji characters in the originating Sinitic topolect at the time the word was introduced into Japanese (Wiktionary)]

VHM:  phonologically speaking, ヌ is pronounced with an n- initial, not a d-

Etymology

Simplified in the Heian period from the man'yōgana kanji .

Pronunciation

Syllable

(nu

    1. The katakana syllable (nu). Its equivalent in hiragana is (nu). It is the twenty-third syllable in the gojūon order; its position is (na-gyō u-dan, “row na, section u”)

(Wiktionary)

N.B.: nǔlì 努力 ("effort"); núlì 奴隸 ("slave").

The following remarks by John Whitman are intended for historical linguists::

The alternation btw d- and n- with 奴 reflects the general alternation between kan’on 漢音 [VHM:  Japanese kanji readings borrowed from Chinese during the Tang dynasty (7th-9th cc.)] and go’on 呉音 [VHM:  the earliest form of on'yomi 音読み (Japanese readings of Chinese characters), preceding the kan'on 漢音 readings; both go'on and kan'on exhibit characteristics of Middle Sinitic (MS) in Sino-Japanese. The kan’on 漢音 for 奴 is do, but the go’on is nu, identical to the usually reconstructed MS nu for 奴. In this case, the go’on reading is relatively unusual on the Japanese side, but it occurs e.g. in the reading 奴婢 (nuhi ぬひ), the category of slaves in the Ritsuryō 律令 Nara Period legal system.

The d-~n- alternation is standard when there is an opposition btw kan’on and go’on readings involving original MS /n/, for example 男性 dansei ‘male’ vs 男体 nantai ‘male body’. The alternation between 女性 zyosei < dyosei ‘female’ vs女体 nyotai ‘female body is the same thing.

This reflects a change in Sinitic, not Japanese. Some northern MS dialects in roughly Tang times depalatalized MS /m/, /n/, /ng/. South Coblin has a detailed study of this, looking not just at the phenomenon in Japanese kan’on but at Tibetan and intra-Sinitic Buddhistic readings. A mystery, unresolved as far as I know, is how this made it into Japanese kan’on 漢音 but not Sino-Korean, which are both held to have been borrowed around the same time, roughly mid-late Tang, perhaps a bit later in the SK case. One possibility is that the denasalizing region included Chang’an; the Koreans were savvy and in constant contact enough with China to understand that the denasalized pronunciation was substandard, even if associated with the capital region, while the Japanese clerics who imported the readings were less with it, or more superliteralist.

In modern Japanese, kan’on readings are vastly less marked, and almost always used in neologized kango 漢音. Go’on readings have a strong association with Buddhism. The 呉 wu2 designation refers most likely not to any region of China (such as Southeastern China/Suzhgou~Shanghai region), but to the Korean peninsula. The kun 訓 vernacular reading of 呉, kure, refers to Korea and is probably the same word as Korean 고려 Koryŏ [koryə] or possibly Kuryŏ [kuryə], what you get if you subtract the flattering 高 from 高句麗, as non-Korean texts often do. This reflects the fact that both Sinography and Buddhism were originally imported to Japan from Paekche.

John added this P.S.:

OK! I think a lot of the people who read your blog – especially the Chinese historical specialists – already know this better than me. But if you get comments, I have other things to say – first regarding the historical Korean sources of go’on, and then regarding an interesting nasal stop denasalization process that is going on right now in contemporary Korean.

I expect that we will receive significant comments from Koreanists.

Meanwhile, every time I see "dorei no remonēdo ドレイのレモネーど", I can't help but think of ""dorai no remonēdo ドライのレモネーど" ("dry lemonade"), but that's completely my problem.  Power of reverse suggestion.

 

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Thrown by Merry Farmer

Author: Merry Farmer
Released: August 16, 2024
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Series: The Art of Love #1

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This was for a reader who primarily loves m/m and this one was packed with tropes they had listed on their survey like enemies to lovers and a road trip (with only one bed!).

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Even If the Sky is Falling

Even If the Sky is Falling by Taj McCoy

Author: Taj McCoy
Released: May 30, 2023 by Canary Street Press
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I picked this one for a somewhat tricky request of “it’s the end of the world and we’re going on a road trip.” This one doesn’t so much have a road trip, but it’s a lovely romance anthology that takes place right before a meteor shower is rumored to destroy the planet.

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Red Card

Red Card by Marein Moore

Author: Marein Moore
Released: August 12, 2025 by Forever
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Series: Prescott University #1

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This reader wanted a new sports romance and is fond of contemporary romances with friends to lovers elements. I also suggested this because it deviated from the typical popular sports like football and hockey. 

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Love Bites by Cynthia St. Aubin

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Love Bites

by Cynthia St. Aubin
December 17, 2024 · Tor Books
ParanormalRomance

The following review is for two books which are being released somewhat together. Love Bites was originally released in 2020 but was picked up by Tor and is being re-released on September 9. The sequel, Love Sucks, is also available digitally and will be re-released by Tor on October 7. 

After many happy weeks in the land of a favourite author, I stuck my head above the parapet and looked for something new to read. Truthfully, I picked this book up because I thought there’d be vampires and I adore vampire books. What I got was something quite different.

Hanna is recently divorced and unemployed in a small town in Colorado. She has an unhelpful degree (in the eyes of neoliberal capitalists – an MA in Art History) and her finances are seriously depleted. She applies to be an assistant for Mark, a gallery owner in their town. Her resume is mostly fiction, but she gets the job anyway.

Mark’s office is a shambolic mess of papers and Hanna sees this as a challenge that she can manage. She starts to clean and organise and tidy and in so doing, tries to understand this incredibly attractive boss of hers.

There is a complication though: murders. Women that were connected to Mark are showing up dead.

Enter love interest number two: Detective Morrison. He’s sure that Mark is the culprit but can’t seem to prove it. Morrison is awfully keen on getting into Hanna’s pants and the feeling is mutual.

Chemistry with two people? Oh where could it lead? Sadly, not to a ‘why choose?’ situation.

There is a colourful cast of supporting characters in the form of resident artists based at Mark’s gallery. They’re endearing, interesting and funny in their way and definitely add to the story. There is some lovely suspense as we get to grips with whether Mark is a serial killer or not and the solution once revealed is so surprising and convoluted as to be ridiculous (more on that in the next review).

The real star of the show is Hanna. She’s funny and smart and very human. I really enjoyed getting to know her in this book. Her reactions to the emergence of paranormal entities in her life feels real. If I were suddenly to be faced with the existence of (REDACTED), I too would piss my britches and head for the hills. Plus Hanna is Funny, with a capital F.

“Hauling myself into a standing position, I fluffed the wavy tangle of my auburn hair and pulled my sweater a little lower, as much to reveal an extra half inch of cleavage as to cover the slacks I’d had to secure with a hair tie, a safety pin and the will of Jesus”.

There are passages and moments of description that were visceral in their impact on me. One of my favourites, in which Mark is describing her role in his life:

“You’re here to organize me, to cure me of my wicked ways.”

Something about the way he said “wicked” made me feel like I’d swallowed a lit road flare.

The writing was compelling enough that I immediately dove into Love Sucks, the second book in the series. If you’d like to escape reality for a few hours and spend some quality time with a snarky cat lady getting her mind blown, then I recommend this book.


NB: The following is a review for book two, and since much of it is a spoiler for book one, it’s behind spoiler tags. 

Love Sucks by Cynthia St. Aubin
Grade: B-

Love Sucks
A | BN | K | AB
  Before you commit to this series, know that Love Bites and the second in the series, Love Sucks are quite different books.

Love Bites is quite suspenseful with only a touch of the paranormal to it.

Love Sucks goes all the way to Station Bonkerstown and I was a happy passenger (mostly).

Love Sucks is, frankly, ridiculous. Yet I found myself being utterly charmed by it, powerless to resist its snarky, paranormal humour and great writing. There are certainly flaws that require one to look the other way, but they weren’t enough to stop me from enjoying the book.

As Love Bites ends on a cliffhanger (which is exactly what prompted me to read Love Sucks), you’ll be grateful that all the books in this series are currently available.

Read no further if you haven’t read Love Bites because there are one million spoilers from this point onwards.

I’m serious, all the spoilers for book one.

Okay, you’ve been warned.

Spoilers ahoy!

Mark has just revealed to Hanna that she is a werewolf heir. We’re slowly told what that means in this book, but from the jump we are immersed in werewolves in this story. They’re everywhere and it turns out someone is killing them. (More death, I know). They’re killing a very particular group of werewolves though: famous artists.

Welcome to Bonkerstown, Population: Me and some werewolves.

Vincent van Gogh and Toulouse Lautrec feature heavily in this story as werewolves who are being targeted for murder. Hanna has sussed out enough to know that Mark is some kind of alpha in this arrangement and so these artists in peril turn to him for help.

But Mark has loads of problems. Like the fact that Hanna is about to ovulate which means that every single male werewolf in the vicinity is trying to go to poundtown with her. Including Mark, but he’s being noble and resisting so he runs away. I can’t actually go further in my description of the plot without a) ruining the book and b) showing all the ridiculousness.

Detective Morrison is still around too.

With Hanna, we get more of the same snark and smarts. She’s great fun as a main character. In fact, that’s how I would sum up the entire book: great fun. This is not a good book. It’s a fun book. And I’m here for it.

Now for the parts I’m not here for. I would prefer that no real people be present in the book. Hanna fawns over Vincent and it made me cringe a bit. That might be a me thing.

Something that isn’t a me thing is the fatphobia. Stereotypes of a lazy-fat-dumb cop are deployed and while ACAB, I’m not a fan of this outdated and cruel trope. His weight is a shorthand for his laziness and stupidity. Hated that.

Also, Hanna uses Euros in London. That threw me right out of the story. That’s basic general knowledge.

If you can overlook these flaws, then you can have a good time with this book. I’ll certainly be reading the next book in the series, if only for Hanna and Mark’s PHENOMENAL chemistry and Hanna’s humour.

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