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videogames: inazuma eleven

SAKKA YAROUZE

In a shocking turn of events, the new Inazuma Eleven game has finally officially released. With "only" a seven year delay!

(I'm busy with Pokémon right now, so I might not get it for a while... seven years late and with such awful timing.)

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Vocabulary: Carcinization

Carcinization is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by Lancelot Alexander Borradaile, who described it in 1916 as "the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab".

Crabs have evolved five separate times – why do the same forms keep appearing in nature?

... including at least one sexbot whose lower body is a mechanical battle crab. :D

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Current Music: Icky - K.A.R.D

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Fic: Preconcert Jitters

Title: Preconcert Jitters
Rating: G
Type: Fic
Size/length/word count etc.: 652
Prompt:034: Lead
Fandom/Ship: Xdinary Heroes, Enhypen; Kwak Jiseok | Gaon, Park Sunghoon
Notes/Warnings: None
Summary Sunghoon understands pre-performance nerves.

( They were much the same. )

Find the table with the list of fics here

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1. Weather change has knocked me over. That's possibly unfair to the weather change as I've been knocked over since I had covid in August. I should make a doctor's appointment about it, except I don't have the brain bandwidth to make it. I need to make several different doctor's appointments and just can't make myself do it. (ADHD and chronic fatigue make for a fun combination.)

2. Pulled down and uprooted the black eyed pea plants. They've been dead for a few weeks and I've been grabbing the pods as they dry out. No more pods for a few days so it's time for the dead plants to go. (Did find a few pods while pulling down the vines.) About a third of the vines got cut up and put into the composter. Stopped about there due to combination of blister forming on my finger and running out of room.

3. It's not seasonal depression when it's been ongoing for more than a year, but I've fallen deeper into the hole since the time change. ("this is not your grave, get out of this hole.") I'd been doing better. The backslide is hitting me almost as hard as the increased bad brain.

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Half-Price Sale in Polychrome Heroics

The November 4, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl made its $300 goal, so there will be a half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics from Monday 17-Sunday 23. Mark the dates on your calendar, and I hope to see you then!

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New Crowdfunding Project: "Monsterotica"

Happy Monsterotica Launch Day!

The crowdfunding campaign to fund publishing of our next erotic anthology, Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling, is now live on Kickstarter!

Now through December 2nd, 2025, we seek to raise $10,500 to cover publishing of the anthology and creation of the related merchandise. This awesome book contains 16 queer stories by 16 awesome authors, each story up to 7,500 words long. We encouraged authors to pitch us stories featuring unusual creatures and unconventional genitals; you won’t find any vampires or weres here, but you will find insectoid aliens, mountain cryptids, scales and feathers, tentacles, detachable anatomy, interspecies shenanigans, courtship confusion, and much more. And of course, in addition to featuring monster x monster and monster x human relationships, every single story also includes queer characters and queer relationships!

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Read "GAMING"

My poem "GAMING" is up on

computerworld.

beavertech has been commissioning poems to be posted in The Freaks Club family of communities.

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Cyberspace Theory

In praise of the small things in life: DDG Bangs!

DuckDuckGo is a privacy-respecting search engine launched in 2008 that has been slowly expanding into something else truly. (I mean, come on, Identity Theft Restoration?). Well, nevertheless, I still use DuckDuckGo because it's easy, their search results aren't polluted with all sorts of nonsense, they did introduce an AI summarize feature but I don't use it and it's easy to opt out thankfully. But all of that pales in comparison to the best DDG feature, Bangs!

Bangs are… well it's kinda hard to describe them, it's basically a shortcut from your search engine to wherever else, so if you have DuckDuckGo set as your search engine, you can basically search using other search engines quite easily!

some good things make a post

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It's apparently been 50 years

I'm sure their families are still grieving

Watch on YouTube

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Shopping

Here is an interesting discussion about what it costs to buy kitchen equipment. None of this is how I'd go about it, unless someone handed me grant money earmarked for that purpose. (Fair disclosure: I could make a crude but usable knife by busting a rock, and I could cook on a flat rock or with sticks. Kitchen equipment is a beloved convenience for me.)

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Conservation

Massachusetts is turning retired cranberry bogs into natural wetlands. They’re on track to rewild 1,000 acres

In November 2024, the DER funneled $6 million in grants to the restoration plan. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, more than 500 acres of retired cranberry bogs have already been converted into wetlands — with hopes of restoring 1,000 acres in the next decade.

“These projects will transform degraded former cranberry bogs into thriving wetlands that will provide habitat to important species, flood control in time of storms, and access for all to beautiful natural areas,” Governor Maura Healey said in a statement.

This is a brilliant plan that will provide tremendous benefits for wildlife, as wetlands are among the most biodiverse communities. It will be especially helpful to migrating waterfowl of the Atlantic Flyway.

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Birdfeeding

Today is sunny and mild, a beautiful fall day.

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a fox squirrel.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I planted 4 clusters of Egyptian walking onions.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I filled a trolley with dead weeds and dumped it in the firepit.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I filled another trolley with dead weeds and dumped it in the firepit.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

Current Mood: blah
Current Location: Icky - K.A.R.D

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12 Week Year WAM Week 07

Weekly Score: 90.1% (118/131)

Goal 1: Do Physical Therapy Exercises. 97% (93/96)

Review: I did pretty well. Still having a hard time with Saturdays, but it's getting better.

Goal 2: Take Care of Myself. 67% (16/24)

Review: I'm not doing so well in this, but better. It's been a long week with family in town, but I still managed to get to bed before midnight most nights. I'm still not going on walks, but I'll still keep trying to get that going.

Goal 3: Finish GYWO Build-a-Bingo and 100Ships. 82% (9/11)

Review: I'm still having problems writing, but I'm doing my best to get it going. I'm not writing regularly, but I'm trying to get things moving. It's harder than I expected.

Intentions for the future: G1: I'm going to keep working on my therapy. It feels like I've gone backwards on my hips, but I'll keep trying. G2: I'm doing some of this, but I need to step up and do more. I'll be more aware of what I need to do to get all of this done. G3: I have four fics written, so they need to be edited and then posted. When I submit them, I'll be able to ask for another Bingo board (which, yay, I've never gotten three before!).

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Cuddle Party

Everyone needs contact comfort sometimes. Not everyone has ample opportunities for this in facetime. So here is a chance for a cuddle party in cyberspace. Virtual cuddling can help people feel better.

We have a cuddle room that comes with fort cushions, fort frames, sheets for draping, and a weighted blanket. A nest full of colorful egg pillows sits in one corner. There is a basket of grooming brushes, hairbrushes, and styling combs. A bin holds textured pillows. There is a big basket of craft supplies along with art markers, coloring pages, and blank paper. The kitchen has a popcorn machine. Labels are available to mark dietary needs, recipe ingredients, and level of spiciness. Here is the bathroom, open to everyone. There is a lawn tent and an outdoor hot tub. Bathers should post a sign for nude or clothed activity. Come snuggle up!

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, along with various other harvest festivals and feasts. :D Load up the table! I am putting out Delectable Turkey of Gratitude, Buddha's Hand Salad, Mashed Yams with Halva, Persimmon Crumble, and apple cider.

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promo post

current fandom events

werewolvesden is a community dedicated to any fandom or media that related to werewolves or other wereanimals or shapeshifters

thylabang is a multi-verse Kirk/Spock community hosting future event series.

allbingo is running Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories Fest through the month of November. There are pre-made cards or you can create your own based on the available prompts.

smallfandomfest has opened prompting for its 38th Small Fandoms Fest until November 21st.

smallfandomfest is open for another round of Pimp Your Small Fandom.

exesandohsexchange, an exchange based on the exes to lovers trope (though the ship doesn't have to canonically be exes to qualify), is open for sign-ups until November 14th, 11:59PM, 11:59PM Eastern. Nominations are also still open until November 13th, 11:59PM Eastern too.

consent_issues_exchange, an exchange for works with a focus on dubious and non-consensual sex, has opened sign-ups until November 22nd, 10PM EST.

rec_cember, a community for a month long rec event that will take place in December, is open for sign-ups.

fancake's theme of the month is: mystery and suspense. Click on the banner below to learn more!

Moody photograph of the ocean from an outlook. In the foreground, two dirty hands claw their way up over the edge toward the viewer. Text: Mystery & Suspense, at Fancake.

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Aurora

Solar flares are causing auroras to appear in the northern half of the continental USA.

We caught a great show here in central Illinois. :D There was a large bright green blob to the northwest, a paler green streak just south of that, a larger red area just north of it, and some pink off toward the northeast. It's the most distinctive aurora we've seen -- previous examples tended to be solid sheets and less bright.

What is this crap!?

Democrats rebel after 8 senators cut a deal to end the shutdown without ACA funds

Bunch of weak-willed cowards.

Today is my grandmother's birthday

She was inordinately pleased to have been born on the anniversary of the Armistice, not that it kept her country from being invaded again when she was a young woman.

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Space Exploration

This picture of a horse in a spacesuit snagged my attention. There are a lot of things wrong with the picture, but one in particular I wanted to talk about because it's so relevant to science fiction. That horse would be almost blind. Humans see mostly forward with binocular vision. Horses see mostly sideways with monocular vision; they have a narrow blind spot in back, another right in front of them, and a little wedge of binocular vision. This is why you always approach a horse from the side, where they can see you easily, and why they often turn their head to look at you sideways if you are in front of them.

So a spacesuit helmet for a prey species with eyes to the side should have its reinforcement as a strip from front to back, with a faceplate on either side, rather than a small window only in the front. When you design spacesuits for aliens, keep in mind how their sensory organs work, and try to avoid just mimicking equipment designed for humans.