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Rockstar Lestat

I love him so much, y'all. I need to make another one to this scale in the red pants; then maybe I can bear to list one or both of them, once I know I can replicate him. I'm also tempted to make a version in the brown shirt, with a fern to go with, but I fear no one would buy it because it was too much a joke. Ah well. Maybe someone will commission it.

yarning
I've made so many cat toys this week! And a 12 1/2 inch cat kicker based on the National Parks Service official Walleye pattern (I added some rounds to make it bigger), only done in bright orange, like a goldfish. :g: I took only the fish to Thanksgiving to work on, which left me with days of nothing to make after I finished it. Doh!

etsy
yay selling things! I held a Black Friday sale to try to move some merchandise out of my house, and it succeeded fairly well. The discount was deeper than I'd quite prepared for, esp with free shipping, but worth it find some things their forever homes. I also figured out (I hope!) how to do Made To Order listings on etsy, so people can request a kickbunny in the colors of their choice without buying them in the wrong colors & sending me a note asking to switch the colors.

healthcrap
had to cancel the pain clinic procedure for lack of transportation, as expected. Tomorrow is a bone scan. I started drinking coffee again at my parents' place over Thanksgiving and have continued making a small amount every day. I hope it doesn't mess up my sleep?

yuletide
I have a draft! And I learned from the Yuletide Discord that there is such a thing as "unenforceable DNWs," which are things that are unreasonable to ask of your match in your signup/letter...which means that I could have written the story I wanted to write instead of the one that I did. Oh well. Good to know that I could have messsaged the mods with my concerns, even though I didn't. Hopefully the story I did write holds together well enough on its own merits? :crosses fingers:

I hope you're all doing well, wherever in the world you are! <333

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So I was doing some dS research and though I haven't seen it recently, the question of "how many seasons of due South were there?" often comes up (or its variation, "were there 3 or 4 seasons of due South" - to which the answer is, "Yes" because both are true, depending which country you're talking about).

Explaining requires the Wayback Machine, but here you go for the definitive answer: it was 3 in the US and 4 in Canada (and other countries), as evidenced by this old page from William and Elyse's due South Page.

Specifically, this section here answers that question: 3 in the US, and 4 elsewhere (like the UK and Australia, in addition to Canada).

That is why the dS episode transcripts that were cribbed from the (very) old (and long defunct) Victoria's (Not So) Secret Site has the collection of transcripts bundled into one big file per season (with only three seasons). Scroll all the way to the bottom of the dS transcripts site, and you'll see the three big S1, S2, and S3 transcripts of all episode of the three individual seasons).

Gratitude to the Wayback Machine and Internet Archive for preserving fandom history. 💜

grey853

I woke up to 23 degrees, five inches of snow and no internet. I'm just glad I had power and the internet outage was short-lived. I'm in Kentucky and we're not used to this kind of weather so early in the season. We don't usually get snow until late December or January. I'm personally not a fan of the white stuff unless it's in a movie.

I'm hoping at some point that some industrious kid from the neighborhood will drop by and want to make some cash by digging me out. So far, no luck.

Here's a shot of the sight outside my back door.

Snow12-2

I'm so not looking forward to this winter.

Current Mood: cold
Current Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Current Music: "Cold" by Chris Stapleton

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Regina Keim created and posted a new 2025 due South advent calendar over in the private Fraser/Kowalski Facebook group. Enjoy!

ride_4ever

Thank you kindly to

small_hobbit for the postal mail!

small_hobbit is the first one to send me a card for my "milestone" birthday!

Current Mood: posty
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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Title: Niggle
Author: Grey/Grey853
Fandom: Due South
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Tags: male slash, explicit language, explicit sexual content, casefic, alternate universe-canon divergent
Word Count: 14,773
Summary: Fraser has a tendency to niggle and live in his own world. Ray gets frustrated. Can they find a way to work together without driving one another crazy?

Link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/75027586

Snippet:

″I think it’s time we talked about what happened earlier today.″

Ray sighed, wishing like hell they could just forget about it. ″Do we have to? We were having such a good time, eating and just talking about last night’s game. You haven’t niggled once since you got here.″

″Niggled?″

″You know, niggle, that thing you do where you question everything I say. It’s where you argue about the stupidest stuff.″

″I have no idea what you’re talking about. We discuss things and often disagree, but that’s not niggling. That’s just having a conversation. I rather enjoy our discussions.″

″I’m not saying I don’t like how we’re able to give and take, but sometimes you go too far. This thing with the littering is a perfect example.″

″How so?″

Ray took a long swallow of his beer and then poured the rest down the sink. He had a feeling if he finished it, he’d be too loose and he didn’t want that. He had to keep control of his temper and his words. He wanted to say what he needed without revealing too much.

″Let’s have a seat and I’ll try to explain.″

″Very well.″

Fraser walked over and sat down all stiff and prissy.

Well hell. Ray knew what that meant. ″I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.″

″You didn’t.″

″Did, too.″

″Well, how do you expect me to feel, Ray? You say that my conversational style is niggling, which by it’s very nature has a negative connotation. I’m at a loss. I had no idea you felt that way.″

″Look, I really don’t want to make you feel bad, but you’ve got to understand what I’m sayin’. You’ve got to rein in this zeal you’ve got to arrest any and everybody for the smallest infraction. That might work in a small town, but here it’ll just fill up the jails and get you blacklisted and me along with you.″

Fraser didn’t answer right away, but eventually said, ″It doesn’t work in small towns, either.″

″Say what?″

″My zeal, as you call it, has gotten me shunned more than once during my earlier assignments. It’s one of the reasons I’ve been reassigned so frequently.″

Current Mood: good
Current Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Current Music: "Go Easy on Me" by Adele

grey853

Current Mood: good
Current Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Current Music: "Go Easy on Me" by Adele

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It was the Big Bang month, but there's plenty of other art, too!

ARTIST: capispaghetti

Red ship & green ship pin
https://www.tumblr.com/capispaghetti/801562034519031808

ARTIST: gjdraws

Favorite Paul Gross character

https://www.tumblr.com/gjdraws/800174457536790528

Ms Fraser in red (with Rays)

https://www.tumblr.com/gjdraws/800279681974796288

Cover art for "Something to you" by portlandwithyou (F/V)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73609976

ARTIST: goddanmshinyrock

blowing up the Vecchio family group chat (F/V, the picture is at the end)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/74725141

ARTIST: lomelinde

Cover art for "The Burden of Prejudice" by wicked3659

https://archiveofourown.org/works/74205716

Cover art for "The Last Link" by AlexandraMRobertson

https://archiveofourown.org/works/74205501

ARTIST: mific

Art for KitKatt’s podfic of "Walking Forward Back to You"

https://archiveofourown.org/works/74430506

ARTIST: syrupmap

dS text animations (canon quotations but very much F/K)

https://www.tumblr.com/syrupmap/801085276295479296

ARTIST: theoriginofcarrots

Ray Kowalski fighter WIP

https://www.tumblr.com/theoriginofcarrots/799124898656174080

ARTIST: ThisAintBC

Clear Skies Ahead, art for "Full Fathom Six" by feroxargentea

https://archiveofourown.org/works/74683481

ARTIST: verushka70

Yet We Remember Him, art for "The Last Link" by AlexandraMRobertson

https://archiveofourown.org/works/74415616

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Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

ride_4ever

My first post of combining hockey fandom and dog fandom was so well received that I've decided to do another one:

Watch on YouTube

Current Mood: sporty
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

grey853

Title: Bugs
Author: Grey/Grey853
Fandom: SG1
Pairing: Daniel Jackson/Jack O'Neill
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: Jack has a lot of explaining to do to get back into Daniel's good graces.
Tags: male slash, explicit language, romance
Word Count: 1,567
Link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74960746

Snippet:

″Why are you here, Jack?″

″I thought you might be hungry, that’s all.″

″Don’t give me that. Why are you here?″

Jack had the decency to blush slightly and glance away. He cleared his throat before he finally met Daniel’s eyes. ″I miss you.″

″You see me every day.″

″I see you, but I don’t ‘see’ you.″

″And who’s fault is that?″

Jack held his gaze, but shook his head. ″I don’t want to argue.″

″Neither do I.″ And Daniel realized that was the truth. As angry and upset as he’d been when Jack first called it off, he’d worked through that phase. At the present, he was just sad that his friend and lover had so casually thrown away such a good thing between them.

Current Mood: cold
Current Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Current Music: SG1 theme music

sage

✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here

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Go check out all of this year's lovely fanworks here on AO3!

ride_4ever

My local AHL team -- the Chicago Wolves -- has again this year as previously provided and served a Thanksgiving meal of turkey and other treats to the shelter dogs of Border Tails Rescue in Northbrook, Illinois, a no-kill shelter with a spay-and-neuter program that specializes in rescuing and rehoming stray dogs from Mexico (they also take in owner surrenders from Chicagoland).

Harleigh Garcia, founder of Border Tails Rescue, said “We are so excited to have the Wolves again this year to help us celebrate the holidays and bring something special to the dogs. It’s not ideal for these dogs to be spending their holidays in the shelter. We’d love for them to all find homes, but that’s just not possible right now, so it’s nice to bring them a little something special, and we love partnering with the Wolves.”

To learn more about Border Tails Rescue, click here. They have many volunteer opportunities and especially are looking for tourists returning from Mexico who are willing to be "flight volunteers" at no cost to themselves for escorting Mexican stray dogs to the U.S.

The picture below is Chicago Wolves Hockey players Nikita Pavlychev, Braden Doyle, Blake Biondi, Skyler Brind’Amour, Bryce Montgomery and Yanick Turcotte with some of the dogs they treated to this special Thanksgiving meal.

Chicago Wolves Hockey Team serves Thanksgiving Dinner to the dogs at Border Tails Rescue

Chicago Wolves Hockey Team serves Thanksgiving Dinner to the dogs at Border Tails Rescue

Current Mood: festive
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

sage

books
still reading: A Companion to Women in the Ancient World by Sharon L. James (Editor), Sheila Dillon (Editor). I did not expect this book to be so fucking triggery, so it's slow going.

Yuletide
I've reviewed canon a million times, inflicted canon on my beta (bless them), and now I'm rereading fic I wrote back in the day...trying to lure the muses back, I guess? IDK. I am blocked. I am stymied. I am in awe of my past self as a writer. I used to be so good! Now all that energy is going into crochet, or so it seems. I'm so frustrated. I mean, I should be able to do two things well, right? Creativity isn't a zero sum game. And yet. I'm really considering defaulting, even though I don't want to. I just can't seem to get my brain working. (I've never defaulted. I think this is my 20th? Yuletide & I don't want to break my streak, and yet. And YET.) :(((

yarning
Rockstar Lestat in the gold pants looks so GOOD! I'm so pleased. I've made him a little microphone out of wire and painted glitter onto his face. Not sure how much glitter to put on his chest, yet; the screencaps are inconsistent there. Could be the gold necklace is enough.

Yesterday I added wire rings to his index fingers, such as he has fingers, but this pic is from before that. Point is, I'm really happy with him so far. Maybe I'll keep him and make others to sell. Also, I went to yarn group Sunday and had a good time. Another new person came, and I worked on a gold and yellow kickbunny to replace the one that sold. A lot have sold in the last few weeks, which is great, as I need the $. And I just got a commission to make an orange fish cat kicker, so that'll be fun to work on over Thanksgiving.

etsy sale!
My Black Friday sale is here! Most things are 25% off, which is a deeper cut than is entirely reasonable, since I try to keep my prices as low as possible, but I really want some things to find their forever homes. Go to Sage's Handmade to have a look around. Also, commissions are open!

healthcrap
I've got to have yet another doc appt to fill out medical transportation forms, drat it all. ION my scale said that I'd lost 4 pounds last week alone, but! It turned out the ten year old scale was BROKEN. New scale came Sunday & proved the ridiculous weight drop was false, whew!

#resist
#50501 We (the People) Dissent Protests: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f-30Rsg6N_ONQAulO-yVXTKpZxXchRRB2kD3Zhkpe_A/preview
#50501: Thanksgiving/Black Friday Boycott of Amazon, Target, and Home Depot

I hope all of y'all are doing wonderfully! Have a safe and happy holiday if you're in the US & a lovely week if you're elsewhere. <333

mergatrude

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ride_4ever

Ever since Marjorie Taylor Greene "informed" us that California wildfires were being caused by "Jewish Space Lasers" I have been obsessed with making a mockery of her. (Hey, I'm Jewish, and if I had control of some space lasers I would NOT be using them to set California on fire.)

Now I see that she is resigning from Congress after The Orange One called her "wacky"...which is the first time I've ever agreed with something he said.

At this juncture I would like to show what I have created with my Refrigerator Magnet "What Will Marjorie Taylor Green Say Next" Conspiracy Kit.

Marjorie Taylor Greene refrigerator magnet

Bonus Image:

Current Mood: mocking
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

Buddies!

What I'm Doing Wednesday

"Were there 3 or 4 seasons of due South?" "Yes." (with answer and proof)

Snow in Kentucky

new due South advent calendar

Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 42: Postal Mail from Fen

DS Story: Niggle

DS Story: Niggle

Monthly dS Art Digest (November 2025)

Snippet Challenge 63

Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!

Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 41: Hockey Fandom and Dog Fandom, Continued

SG1 Story "Bugs"

Holiday Love Meme!

2025 dS/C6D Big Bang collection is live!

Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 40: Hockey Fandom and Dog Fandom

What I'm Doing Wednesday

Comment Bingo!

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