Writing Sprints December 5-7

Dec. 4th, 2025 02:49 pm
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Cowboys, YA, & More

Dec. 4th, 2025 04:30 pm
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Ravished

Ravished by Amanda Quick is $2.99! This is a historical romance with some Beauty and the Beast vibes, which many readers loved. However, other readers felt the heroine’s characterization was a bit inconsistent with constant mood changes. Have you read this one?

From the cozy confines of a tiny seaside village to the glittering crush of the a fashionable London soiree comes an enthralling tale of a thoroughly mismatched couple . . . poised to discover the rapture of love.

There was no doubt about it. What Miss Harriet Pomeroy needed was a man. Someone powerful and clever who could help her rout the unscrupulous thieves who were using her beloved caves to hide their loot. But when Harriet summoned Gideon Westbrook, Viscount St. Justin, to her aid, she could not know that she was summoning the devil himself. . . .

Dubbed the Beast of Blackthorne Hall for his scarred face and lecherous past, Gideon was strong and fierce and notoriously menacing. Yet Harriet could not find it in her heart to fear him. For in his tawny gaze she sensed a savage pain she longed to soothe . . . and a searing passion she yearned to answer. Now, caught up in the Beast’s clutches, Harriet must find a way to win his heart–and evade the deadly trap of a scheming villain who would see them parted for all time.

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Immortal

Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan is $1.99! This fantasy romance was released in January and was mentioned on Hide Your Wallet. Tan’s books always have beautiful covers.

A stunning, standalone romantic fantasy filled with dangerous secrets, forbidden magic, and passion, of a young ruler who fights to protect her kingdom, from bestselling author Sue Lynn Tan and set in the breathtaking world of Daughter of the Moon Goddess.

“What the gods did not give us, I would take.”

As the heir to Tianxia, Liyen knows she must ascend the throne and renew her kingdom’s pledge to serve the immortals who once protected them from a vicious enemy. But when she is poisoned, Liyen’s grandfather steals an enchanted lotus to save her life. Enraged at his betrayal, the immortal queen commands the powerful God of War to attack Tianxia.

Upon her grandfather’s death, Liyen ascends a precarious throne, vowing to end her kingdom’s obligation to the immortals. When she is summoned to the Immortal Realm, she seizes the opportunity to learn their secrets and to form a tenuous alliance to safeguard her people, all with the one she should fear and mistrust the most: the ruthless God of War. As they are drawn together, a treacherous attraction ignites between them—one she has to resist, to not endanger all she is fighting for.

But with darker forces closing in around them, and her kingdom plunged into peril, Liyen must risk everything to save her people from an unspeakable fate, even if it means forging a dangerous bond with the immortal… even if it means losing her heart.

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Change of Hart

Change of Hart by Bailey Hannah is $1.99! This is book three in the Wells Ranch series and features a second chance romance. Have you read this series?

In this spicy romance from the author of Alive and Wells and Seeing Red, a jaded woman reluctantly returns to her hometown—and to the cowboy who broke her heart and drove her away.

She spent years trying to forget. He’ll do anything to make her remember.

Wells Canyon is the last place Blair Hart wants to be. Yet when her mother falls ill, she has no choice except to return to the hometown she’s avoided for over a decade. In a town so small, she knows there’s no way she can avoid the cowboy who tore her life to pieces all those years ago, but that doesn’t mean she’s prepared for the way Denver Wells can turn back time with a single smile.

Since Denver’s world came crashing down thirteen years ago, he’s somehow managed to keep his demons at bay…that is, until Blair Hart’s return knocks him from his saddle. But if he wants her back, he’ll have to prove he can be the man she needs—the same one she used to love.

Throwing herself into the role of caregiver, Blair doesn’t have the time to sift through their messy history even if she wanted to. And Denver’s going to need a lot more than his usual cowboy charm to convince Blair he’s worth a change of heart.

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The Bone Houses

RECOMMENDED: The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones is $1.99! I really liked this one. It has elements of Wlesh mythology and role reversal of sorts: the heroine brandishes a giant axe and fights the undead, while the hero is a scholarly cartographer. It was mentioned in our previous Goth Rec League. 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Sky in the Deep in this bewitching, historical horror novel, perfect for fans of Holly Black and V.E. Schwab.

Seventeen-year-old Aderyn (“Ryn”) only cares about two things: her family and her family’s graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, which sits at the foot of a harsh and deadly mountain range that was once home to the fae. The problem with being a gravedigger in Colbren, though, is that the dead don’t always stay dead.

The risen corpses are known as “bone houses,” and legend says that they’re the result of a decades-old curse. When Ellis, an apprentice mapmaker with a mysterious past, arrives in town, the bone houses attack with new ferocity. What is it that draws them near? And more importantly, how can they be stopped for good?

Together, Ellis and Ryn embark on a journey that will take them into the heart of the mountains, where they will have to face both the curse and the deeply-buried truths about themselves. Equal parts classic horror novel and original fairytale, The Bone Houses will have you spellbound from the very first page.

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Good Spirits

It’s Sarah, dropping in with one more sale book!

RECOMMENDED: Good Spirits by B.K. Borison is $5.99! This is a newer book – released October 21 – and is on a few readers’ best-of lists.  Shannon Stacey said, “Good Spirits was my fave read of the year. I actually bought a shelf copy to lend to my sisters, lol. That’s rare.”

It’s got a 4.26 (!!) rating on Storygraph, and folks who reviewed it say that it’s cute, but with real stakes and a lot of character development. My favorite review is from mariahstieve, who wrote, “Ghost spice was everything I never knew I needed.” – SW

The USA Today bestselling author of Business Casual, B.K. Borison is back with a whimsical new holiday romance—this time with a magical twist—that will have everyone falling in love with the Ghost of Christmas Past.

He’s the Ghost of Christmas Past. She’s not exactly Scrooge.

Ghost of Christmas Past Nolan Callahan intends to spend this holiday haunting like every other—get in, get out, return to his otherwise aimless existence as a ghost awaiting the afterlife. But when he’s faced with Harriet York, the sweetest assignment he’s ever had, he suddenly finds himself wishing for a future.

Harriet York has no idea why she’s being haunted. She’s a good person—or, at least, she tries to be. A people pleaser to her core, she always does what’s expected of her. But as she and Nolan begin to examine her past, they discover there are threads that bind them together— and realize there might be more to moving on than expected.

With the deadline of Christmas Eve fast approaching, will they find the key to their futures in each other’s pasts? Or will they stay firmly in the present, indulging in their unexpected, spirited connection?

Filled with magic, mayhem, and cozy holiday charm, this swoony romance is B.K. Borison’s best yet!

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Too Many Losing Heroines!, Vol. 6

Dec. 4th, 2025 11:39 am
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Posted by Sean Gaffney

By Takibi Amamori and Imigimuru. Released in Japan as “Make Heroine ga Ōsugiru!” by Gagaga Bunko. Released in North America by Airship. Translated by Matthew Jackson. Adapted by Hayame.

I think these volumes have started to hit their stride, in that I’m no longer incredibly annoyed with the main characters quite as much anymore. It helps that, for the most part, when I want to roll my eyes at Nukumizu, someone is there to do it for me. The conceit of this series is that its male lead is very familiar with the concept of light novel harem romcoms, but he’s also a normal teenage boy, and so, like all normal teenage boys, too dim to understand flirting and attraction towards him (a healthy dose of self-loathing helps too). The girls, meanwhile, are all very aware that they’re in a harem romcom, and are trying their best, but… (waves vaguely at Nukumizu). There’s a running gag which comes up a few times here where the girls try to have a romantic, sweet moment, and Nukumizu just watches as it goes right over his head, and they say “that right there…” to him. He never gets it. That right there is why this series is ongoing.

Yes, that’s Tsukinoki on the cover art, which means that for the first time we’re not seeing a Losing Heroine. That said, it’s the last time we’ll be able to see her, as graduation is here, and she and Tamaki are worrying about getting into university more than the current romcom plot. The current romcom plot is that Lemon has asked Nuzumiku out on a date, and after taking him to the aquarium and watching him be completely confused about why she would be doing this, she confesses she wants to quit her clubs. Plural. Both track and the lit club, which would be bad news for him and Komari. They end up making a bet – if he can beat her in a race, she’ll stay with both clubs. Of course, she’s an outstanding athlete who could compete in Nationals, and he’s a skinny, out-of-shape nerd. So she gives him a handicap… which likely still won’t be enough.

As noted above, this is not Tsukinoki’s book but Lemon’s, though the other girls all get a good scene or two. My favorite was Shikiya, who realizes that, like Araragi, Nukumizu is a guy who would “save anyone”, and she likes that a lot less than Senjougahara did. Lemon, meanwhile, is dealing with an issue she’s had before – she’s simply too good at track, and the coaches are understandably concentrating on her to get the school some notice and to get her into Nationals. She, however, is worried about all the other track girls, who are not as good as her and therefore not getting the attention. Of course, as it turns out none of the girls feel resentment towards her at all, mostly as Lemon is a sweetie pie who has not a single selfish bone in her body. Once he wins (sorry to spoil, but come on, this IS still a light novel), he solves the problem by telling her to be more selfish. The girls not being as good as she is is not her problem. Go for the gold. Too bad love isn’t like a track meet, no matter how much she tried to make it so.

So now our leads head into second year, and I bet that means a new character being introduced who’s a giant flaming loser of a girl. We wouldn’t have it any other way.

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We continue! The polls for July and August are still open. You can make your case for your faves in the comments and if we missed something, you can do a write-in vote in the comments.

Poll #33916 September 2025
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9


What are your favourite releases of September 2025?

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ACE (VAV) - Eres Tu
0 (0.0%)

Aespa - Rich Man
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Aimers - Called Game
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ALL(H)OURS - Ready 2 Rumble
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Ateez - Ash
4 (44.4%)

AxMxP - I Did It
0 (0.0%)

Badvillain - Thriller
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Chaeyoung - Avocado (feat. Gliico) / Shoot (Firecracker)
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Changjo - Trapped in My Head
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Chanyeol - Zuruiyo
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Chen - Arcadia
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CIX - Wonder You
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Corbyn Besson, Tzuyu - Blink
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Cortis - Fashion
1 (11.1%)

Day6 - Inside Out
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Dayoung - Body
2 (22.2%)

Doh Kyung Soo - Dumb (feat. Penomeco)
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from20 - Social
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FTISLAND - Monochrome
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Genblue - Badass
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Haechan - CRZY
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hanhee - So Blue
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Hearts2Hearts - Pretty Please
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Hyolyn - Shotty
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Illit - Toki Yo Tomare
3 (33.3%)

izna - Mamma Mia
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Jang Wooyoung - Think Too Much (feat. Damini)
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Jinny - Everglow
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Jun K - R&B Me (feat. Changbin (Stray Kids))
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Junhee - Umbrella
1 (11.1%)

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KickFlip - Band-Aid / My First Love Song
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The KingDom - 화월가 (Last Flower)
2 (22.2%)

Lee Junyoung - Bounce
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LUN8 - Lost
1 (11.1%)

Momoland - Rodeo
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Monsta X - N the Front
2 (22.2%)

Nana - God
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1 (11.1%)

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Soorin - Sure Thing
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Suho - Who Are You
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Taemin - Veil
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TIOT - My Pride
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Treasure - Paradise
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tripleS ∞! - Password
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UNIS - Moshi Moshi
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Woodz - I'll Never Love Again
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XG - Gala
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Yerin - Awake
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Youngbin - Freak Show
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Yuqi - M.O.
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Zerobaseone - Iconik
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Tender Cruelty by Katee Robert

Dec. 4th, 2025 09:00 am
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Posted by Lara

B+

Tender Cruelty

by Katee Robert
December 2, 2025 · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Fantasy/Fairy Tale RomanceRomance

The only way to review a book this late in a series is in a lightning review. There’s only so much you can say without spoiling the entire series. Suffice to say, spoilers for the preceding eight books lie ahead.

It is finally Zeus and Hera’s turn! PRAISE BE! I was one of the chumps who thought this would be book 3. Anyone else?

Can you believe?! Things are happening!

The threat of Circe has been hanging over Olympus for ages now and there hasn’t been much movement in the Circe plot. In Tender Cruelty, so much is revealed. We learn some of the truth about Hermes and we meet Circe. I’ll say no more than that outside of spoiler tags.

Here we go!

First, the plot. Circe’s plan to destroy Olympus is gaining traction. The entire city has been evacuated to the countryside because of the sea blockade. After the sea blockade fell apart in the previous book, the Thirteen are left floundering and trying to find Circe because they know she’s in the city.

The romance between Hera and Zeus involved a pleasing thawing of relations between the two. Although it is SHOCKINGLY revealed very early on that the two have sex in the dark every night and have done so for their entire marriage! I’m not sure if I’m on board with marital relations from the start or if I wanted their enmity to be even more all-consuming. Although how you get more intense enemies than the many-book-spanning ‘active plot to kill’, I’m not sure.

I would have liked more time with Hera and Zeus in their lovey dovey stage so I could relish the sweet tenderness a bit more, but the bigger Circe plot had different demands.

Don’t even attempt Tender Cruelty unless you’ve read the others in the series. I’ve been awaiting this story since early in the series, and if you read nothing else, please know that I really enjoyed Tender Cruelty (mostly because THINGS HAPPEN) and it brings me joy that I can recommend it to you.

Looking ahead to the final installment in the series, I believe we are offered drama of the highest order. I can’t wait.

Episode 2709: Death on the Tiles

Dec. 4th, 2025 09:13 am
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Episode 2709: Death on the Tiles

Spying is a risky business. Which makes it perfect as a career or job for PCs!

You can set your whole campaign in the spy genre, with a highly cinematic game based on James Bond, more gritty ones like the Jason Bourne or Impossible Mission films, or even humorous like Kingsman or Austin Powers. Several games are dedicated to the genre, including the venerable James Bond 007 roleplaying game*, Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes, and Top Secret, and the more modern Spycraft and Night's Black Agents.

Or you can insert a spying mission into some other campaign to mix it up a bit. Scouting for information can involve spy-like infiltration and action, as can heists or rescues.

* Out of print, but a faithful, inexpensive, and highly recommended retroclone is available on DriveThruRPG: Classified.

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Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

Oh. Huh. And here I'd thought we'd have Hux not show up again or get killed by Kylo. Like really, who's this random admiral? With how nonsensical it was for movie Hux to stay behind instead of escaping as well (there aren't restrooms in Star Wars after all), it feels like a waste for Kylo not to be the one with the metaphorical gun. Maybe this is the part of the scene that people didn't like, rather than the surprise assistance.

So ties to Resistance figures? Is Hux meant to be Leia (and Luke)'s uncle or something? I don't think Poe is from Tatooine, and I don't know if we've got enough information to tell if the little girl is meant to be Shmi or Rey. Either way, Hux being related to any of them as a cousin or uncle? That would be really odd.

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Poor walruses

Dec. 4th, 2025 05:47 am
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Posted by Victor Mair

From Mark Swofford:

Here's a lighthearted Google Translate oddity from a newspaper article on the opening of ferry service between Taiwan and Ishigaki, Japan. 

The relevant bit:

選在冬季開航,海象較差船舶易晃,影響旅客搭乘意願。洪郁航表示,首航至明年2月底將採試營運優惠價,最低優惠至2000元,而最大優惠價差高達2000元,提高民眾嘗試及體驗意願。

Google Translate renders the main part of that as: 

"Choosing to sail in winter, ships with poor walruses are prone to shaking, which affects passengers' willingness to board."

But if one adds a comma, Google Translate does fine: 

選在冬季開航,海象較差船舶易晃,影響旅客搭乘意願。洪郁航表示,首航至明年2月底將採試營運優惠價,最低優惠至2000元,而最大優惠價差高達2000元,提高民眾嘗試及體驗意願。

"Launching the service during winter is problematic due to rough seas and potential ship swaying, which could discourage passengers from taking the trip."

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This fits right in with my recent post about the importance of the space in the tattooed declaration on the left flank of the French rugby player:  "Parsing of a fated kin tattoo" (11/29/25).

Punctuation matters.

 

Selected readings

Human Washing Machine

Dec. 4th, 2025 05:44 am
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Posted by Victor Mair

Headline on NDTV, Nov. 29, 2025: "Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry."


From François Lang, who sent this item to me:

I initially parsed this headline as a human [washing machine]; only after looking at the photo did I realize it was a [human washing] machine. Another headline that would have been made a lot clearer via simple hyphen!

 

Selected readings

"Quadrilingual Washlet Instructions" (8/22/08)

"Japanese hi-tech toilet instructions" (1/19/17)

"Advanced mission" (6/19/21)

 …and there are many other entertaining appliances for the bathroom.

"Are you OK?" (11/2/25)

Once a fan, always a fan

Dec. 3rd, 2025 11:28 pm
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Dec. 3rd, 2025 10:59 pm
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I mostly post about: I don't use it to post anything right now, I forgot I had this journal to be honest lol. I am going to turn it into a fandom/graphics blog though, with some other stuff sprinkled in probably. I don't usually post personal stuff online but have no problem discussing it with people in PM/DM if they're interested learning about me, etc..

My hobbies are: Fandom roleplaying (I only play fandom characters, but will rp with fandom or oc characters), gaming (mostly MMO's), reading manga or fanfics, watching anime or anything that catches my interest, getting back into icon/graphic making cuz I miss it, listening to music, watching movies.

My fandoms are: Teen Wolf (MTV show), Trigun Manga/Anime, and various others I'm trying to keep up with lol but those two are my biggest fixations right now.

I'm looking to meet people who: Have the same interests, being near or the same age is not necessary. I have friends from all different age ranges/walks of life.

My posting schedule tends to be: Whenever I have the energy. I work from home due to medical problems, so my hours are roughly 8am-630pm Central Standard time, Mon-Fri. Though I am mostly around a lot of the time.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Discrimination, ableism, racism, animal cruelty, transphobia, gay-phobia, bigotry, speaking negatively about LGBTQ+, honestly any of the bad shit lol.

Before adding me, you should know: I am chronically online due to medical issues/being disabled so I am around a LOT. Going to be around even more so due to our work's reduction of hours they're putting into place soon so I'm going to have a LOT of free time coming up to work with lol. I also mostly connect through either Discord or Plurk.

A fun fact about me is that I have a Guinness World Record and a star named after me. :)
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Dec. 3rd, 2025 09:08 pm
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[community profile] 10trueloves - prompt table and claim one character to do ten relationships with

Claiming Dinah Lance

01. Surprise. 02. Trust. 03. Noise. 04. Tears. 05 Mask.
06. Fight. 07. Accident. 08. Overprotective. 09. Broken. 10. Loss.

Rec-Cember Day #3

Dec. 3rd, 2025 07:28 pm
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In an effort to consider things I like outside of reading, I have expanded!

Today's Rec:

The Sam Sanders Show — Gaga’s Back, Fish Is Tinned… Is the Economy Okay?
I love Sam Sanders dearly as a journalist, critic, interviewer, and cultural commentator, so I will follow him everywhere. In this episode, there's a segment about recession indicators, and at the end one of the panelists cited Sinners. When I listened to this episode, I was like, "JAIL FOR 10,000 YEARS!", but in the end they got me and I was convinced. It's a great episode, but this segment had me rolling. The show in general is excellent and well worth a follow.

Daily Check-in

Dec. 3rd, 2025 06:01 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, December 03, to midnight on Thursday, December 04. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33913 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 23

How are you doing?

I am OK.
13 (56.5%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
10 (43.5%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
11 (47.8%)

One other person.
7 (30.4%)

More than one other person.
5 (21.7%)




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.
 

Ladies Bingo: Shadows / Darkness

Dec. 3rd, 2025 06:25 pm
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AO3 Link | Remember Who You Are (300 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sinners [2025]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Annie Moore & Mary [Sinners]
Characters: Annie Moore, Mary [Sinners 2025]
Additional Tags: Triple Drabble, Female Friendship, Community: ladiesbingo
Summary:

Annie and Mary say good-bye before Little Rock



Remember Who You Are

It wasn't that Annie didn't like Mary. Far from it, given their lives kept tangling. Annie was one of the only ones who didn't think the girl should be pushed to be white. Every time she thought about Mary and Elias, she did feel uneasy, as something lingered in the dark of the night about the pair.

"Mary."

"Annie."

Now why was the girl already on the defensive, unless…

"Are you needing my special tea, honey?"

Annie watched the defensive give way to worry, then embarrassment, before Mary shook her head.

"I know what not to do, thank you," Mary said firmly.

"Good." Annie beckoned her to come into the house so she could keep working. "Was surprised to see you out here."

"Wanted to say goodbye, given you've been around for so much of my life. Mama — I don't suppose you'll keep an eye on her for me?"

"I'll do the best I can, but she's always thought I was a devil tempting her milk-son."

Mary laughed, bitterly. "She's got too much church in her, but it would mean a lot."

Annie nodded to all that, trying to ferret out if the shadows on their lives, cast by the twins, was all that had ever unnerved her about Mary. Nothing was stirring in her second sense of people, so maybe she'd have to try harder with a ritual later.

"I try to keep an eye on all of our people, Mary. Even when they shun me for being what I am." She then tipped her head to the side. "Little Rock calling?"

Mary looked down, then back up with resolve. "Stack thinks it's for the best, fresh start where no one ever knew me in the black community."

"You keep yourself safe, Mary, and remember, always, who you are."

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Posted by Victor Mair

New book by Luke Waring:

Writing and Materiality in Ancient China:  The Textual Culture of the Mawangdui Tombs (Columbia University Press, December 2025)

Publisher's description:

Excavations at the famous Mawangdui tomb site in south-central China (early to mid-second century BCE) have unearthed many kinds of writing, including documents made of silk, wood, and bamboo as well as a wide range of inscribed artifacts. This book is an interdisciplinary study of these varied forms of writing, exploring the different roles that texts played in the lives and afterlives of Chinese elites during the Han dynasty.

Examining documents and artifacts from the Mawangdui tombs in comparative perspective, Luke Waring demonstrates that early Chinese writing should be understood as part of the material and visual cultures of its time. Written texts were used to do more than simply preserve and transmit important information: they were also work tasks, storage items, performance aids, apotropaic talismans, aesthetically pleasing patterns, display pieces, possessions, and burial objects. Writing was even integrated into older, perhaps more powerful modes of cultural expression such as ritual performance and material display. Waring argues that manuscripts and inscribed objects were always things, artifacts that had powerful effects on the world that created them. Comprehensively researched and lavishly illustrated, Writing and Materiality in Ancient China offers a new understanding of the textual cultures of the early Western Han.

From Edward Shaughnessy:

Fifty years ago, the discoveries of a perfectly preserved corpse in one tomb at Mawangdui and a substantial library in another tomb there astounded the scholarly world, giving rise to thousands of technical studies over the following decades. Now, Luke Waring’s Writing and Materiality in Ancient China provides a comprehensive overview of the tombs, of the lives and deaths of the people buried in them, and especially of the numerous kinds of writings buried with them. Probing in its detail, yet always attentive to broader questions of how to understand ancient culture, this is a model of what scholarship should be.

From Lothar von Falkenhausen:

This thoughtful, well-informed, and methodologically sophisticated book situates the early textual materials excavated from the tombs at Mawangdui in the lives of those who produced and handled them. Beautifully demonstrating the importance of archaeological context, Waring advances a new understanding of what literacy meant in second-century BC China.

Michael Nylan:

If a single word could characterize Waring's discussions of writing, reading, visuality, and materiality in the early empires in China, it would be "judicious." Waring's focused analyses of two spectacular tombs at Mawangdui (Changsha) are informative, balanced, and elegantly written. Regardless of academic field, novices and seasoned experts alike will find this book to be a classic by the standards of the very Han dynasty it considers: it says neither too little nor too much, and it rewards careful reading and rereading.

Matthias Richter:

In this book, Luke Waring presents a comprehensive and detailed discussion of the uniquely important Mawangdui manuscripts. Waring demonstrates masterfully what is gained when we consider manuscript texts not just in their specific materiality but also in their funerary and broader social context of text production.

 

Selected readings

[h.t. John Rohsenow]

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Posted by Amanda

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

How are we all this Wednesday? Have we worked through the leftovers?

We had 4lbs of mashed potatoes. We finally made the executive decision to freeze some. My partner and I have vacation coming up in two-ish weeks and it doesn’t feel real.

From Jennifer:

This is in regard to two previous HaBO posts about the beautifully bound but mysterious Classics Of Romance. I originally stumbled on your posts when I was looking for more information about Rhapsody Romance Classics, & was so happy to find them! I did some additional research, & discovered there are 13 titles in the Classics Of Romance series published by the company (Omni) that also publishes Easton Press editions. I have the list up on my website-in-progress.

Regarding my website — I’m building it (slowly) with the intention that it will be both a directory of collecting-relevant content that’s currently all over the place (across the internet & in print) & a place for me & guests to post original collecting content. I’m not at all sure how much aggregating this kind of content will prove useful to others, but it seems to me like the specifics of collecting are a meaningful part of the larger romance conversation & I’m moving ahead accordingly.

Have you watched Wicked for Good? Were you as taken with the “sex cardigan” as everyone else?

If you were every addicted to messing with the springy door stoppers, here’s a virtual one.

I don’t care if this was three years ago. Everyone needs to see this chihuahua doing a “Swan Lake” performance.

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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