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VAMPIRE SALE!
I've put all my Interview With The Vampire Art Dolls on sale for 20% off for the entire month of October! (I have a post on Tumblr that it would be great if you could reblog! Thanks!)

yarning
I've been crocheting a lot, making and selling more kickbunnies. (Enough that I may even get my Etsy star seller badge back!) I went to yarn group Sunday and had a nice time. I just finished a purple bunny & an under the door toy. Next is a yellow bunny, though I'm running out of boxes and am waiting on Prime Day to order more, oops. OH! AND! Niece LOVED her globe & moon! I'm so relieved. I still don't know what to make her for xmas, but I'm going to do a reversible octopus for her 2yo brother with a happy face on one side and a frowny face on the other. He's learning the basics of FEELINGS & this may help? I hope so. Might do a reversible rose doll for Niece (one side is a doll from waist up with a big skirt. Flip the skirt over her head and it's a rose. Though I wonder if she already has one. Hrm.

healthcrap
I had botox for migraines Friday & the skin clinic Monday. Boo: I've got a badly drooping right eyelid from the botox this time & it's so bad I'm having trouble focusing. Yay: Topical horse dewormer is incredibly effective for rosacea, I'm glad to say. I thought I'd never get rid of the spots on my face, but this works. (Note, it does NOT work for Covid.) Speaking of, I got my Covid & flu jabs today. Fasting labs tmrw, gah, but they have to be done. ( cut for discussion of weight loss )

#resist
October 18: No Kings Day 2

I hope all of y'all are doing well! <333

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This is a reminder that the Firewhiskey Fic Challenge -- back from hiatus -- will be taking place on Friday, October 3 through Sunday, October 5. For the rules and the prompts, see the Firewhiskey Fic comm on DW.

Current Mood: all fired up
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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Regina Keim and Joanne Currie posted a new due South quiz on the Due South Duet Facebook F/K community.

You can find the latest due South quiz here at duesouth.de! (It's quiz #25-09 in the series of quizzes and games, if you're keeping track.)

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Another Fraser/Ray/Ray rec on fancake over here!

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Checking to see if anyone has a copy of either of these podfics - both are missing from the Audiofic Archive but for some reason they weren't in the "missing files" spreadheet.

Growing Pains - written & read by catwalksalone
Black Ice - by sprat, read by zabira

TIA if you can help!

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I picked Frederick up from the framers today.

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Title: Bend It Like Benton

Author:

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Fandoms: due South x FlashForward crossover

Categories: Gen, M/M

Archive warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Characters: Ray Vecchio, Stella Vecchio (formerly Stella Kowalski) mentioned, Benton Fraser mentioned, Ray Kowalski implied

Relationships: Ray Vecchio/Stella, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski implied

Rating: Teen and Up

Length: 300 words (triple drabble)

Summary: On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time nearly everyone in the world lost consciousness for two minutes and seventeen seconds during which time most saw a vision – a “flash forward” – of their lives six months into the future: April 29, 2010 at 10:00 PM PDT. Some people, however, merely lost consciousness without experiencing a vision…people who were then presumed to be fated to die by April 29, 2010.

AN: Written for both Ray Vecchio Day and for the dSC6D snippets comm on DW.

Fic on AO3.

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Title: Bend It Like Benton

Author:

Current Mood: feel like saying hooray
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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books
Pawn in Frankincense (The Lymond Chronicles #4) by Dorothy Dunnett. 1969. cw: graphic violence, child abuse and murder, slavery, animal harm and death, going cold turkey off opium. Quite the adventure drama.

The Summer War by Naomi Novik. 2025. Novella. Would have made a pretty amazing novel, tbh. I loved the first 2/3rds, though I wish, as always with NN, that there had been more to the ending. I hope YT brings some fic for it.

yarning & etsy & usps

I went to yarn group Sunday and had a good time. Also, I cut my hair right before yarn group and I got nice comments on it, so that was extra happy-making. Then I showed off pics of my soccer ball-sized globe (and complained about the pattern not giving accurate Mediterranean or Australia, doh). Also worked on a navy blue kickbunny, which sold Monday afternoon right after I got back from the post office, where I was shipping a tan kickbunny to a customer, a blue bunny to Kitten Academy, and the globe to Niece, along with a moon and a bday card with a bright happy sun on it, so it was all of a theme. But dear god the increase in USPS prices! Nearly $3 more, and (since they moved to PA) KA isn't even as far! At least one was a business expense and another was prepaid by the customer. (This is why I don't offer free shipping on kickbunnies.) Anyway, I'm working on a turquoise kickbunny now and feeling super grateful that my shoulder is functional again. Knock wood.

yuletide FYIs
Here is the link to the Noms Coordination Station. And here is the Noms Spreadsheet, where you can skim fandoms to see what's been nommed while we wait for the tagset to open. I replaced my nom for Katee Roberts' Dark Olympus series with Shakespeare & Jacobean Theatre RPF bc Will/Kit(/Annie) still owns my heart. And I changed my character noms for The Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett. Noms close in the wee hours of Friday, US time. I still have no idea what I want to offer/request, but at least I've done my nominations?

#resist
October 18: No Kings Day 2

I hope you're all doing well and enjoying Fall/Spring wherever you are! <333

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Reccd SpacetimeConundrun's excellent art over at

fancake!

The post is here.

mergatrude

Why is it necessary to label cat litter as 'vegan'?

I mean, it's made from either cellulose (paper, corn, rice, soy) or clay. Most common additives are baking powder or charcoal. Most fragrances are plant-based. Is there a type of non-vegan cat litter available?

Current Mood: perplexed

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I ficced for Ray Vecchio Day today!

Title: Lay Hands
Fandom and Pairing: due South, Benton Fraser/Ray Vecchio
Rating: Teen
Length: 4,316 words
Author’s Notes: Please heed the tags; no beta we die like caribou that 'drank too much'

Lay Hands on AO3

ride_4ever

I'm a proud born-and-bred Illinoisan, a State where there is so much opposition to the Orange-Tinged Dictator. A number of you may know of the ways that my State's Governor -- JB Pritzker -- stands against the Dictator. A number of you may know that Illinois was the very first State to pass legislation opposing book bans in libraries. A number of you may be aware of the Dictator's recent direct threats of war against Chicago with his AI-generated image of Chicago in flames and his "Apocalypse Now" references. A number of you may already have seen Illinois Senator Karina Villa confronting ICE agents and telling them "This is my city. Get out of my city...." but I want to make sure that she gets seen and hopefully this video gets spread.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TZQlqpogGWk

Current Mood: politically active
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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September 21 is considered to be Ray Vecchio's birthday and is celebrated annually by due South fandom as "Ray Vecchio Day". This is a day to show RayV some love by posting a RayV-centric fanwork or meta or recs related to Ray Vecchio or David Marciano (tag it as being for Ray Vecchio Day 2025).

Posting to the collection is now open at Ray Vecchio Day 2025 Collection on AO3 and a master list will be assembled on September 28th.

ride_4ever

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

Buddies!

What I'm Doing Wednesday

Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 31: Firewhiskey Fic Challenge: more details

New due South game (quiz)

Due South fic Rec

Couple of missing podfics

Frederick the Literate

Fic I wrote for Ray Vecchio Day 2025

Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 30: fic I wrote for Ray Vecchio Day 2025

snippet I wrote for Ray Vecchio Day

What I'm Doing Wednesday

Rec: Sunday Dinner (by ArtConundrum) (Gen)

Riddle me this

new dS F/V fic for Ray Vecchio Day 2025

Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 29: Illinoiis Fandom (political)

Tomorrow is the annual Ray Vecchio Day!

Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 28: due South fandom: annual Ray Vecchio Day

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