umadoshi (she/her)

Bluesky skeet from @aegidiusrexxx.bsky.social that reads as follows: “Is my fanfiction good" "will a lot of people read/like my fanfiction" GIRL FORGET ABOUT ALL THAT FOR A SECOND your top aspiration when writing fanfiction should be making it so weird, someone will read it at 16 and never forget it as long as they live

amen

There is truly nothing like describing a Lost Tomb series.

(Skirt hangers with clips: www.amazon.ca/dp/B07C3G575Q

Sleeveless-things hangers: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0753S9D8... )

I have a couple of the kind pictured there that I use for pants, and layered hangers with clips for skirts, and several of a kind that hold maybe five sleeveless shirts at once. (I live a sleeveless/tank top life.) They're SUCH good space savers.

I do love a layered hanger.

I really ought to watch it! I never went back and saw the shows based on the first few books (although I've read those books).

I somehow completely forgot this one exists!

Recoiling in sheer horror over here.

LRT: a really good profile of Rachel Reid.

Rachel Reid’s wild Heated Rivalry ride Everyone from your mom to Gary Bettman (maybe) is caught up in ‘hockey smut,’ thanks to her hit novels. Now, the author speaks to the Globe about her Parkinson’s diagnosis, the pressure of new fame an...

This is such a great profile of Bedford’s own Rachel Reid (bonus for locals: it includes a photo of her in her gear when she played hockey for the Bedford Rangers as a kid).

Yay!

Same: by the time I heard about it, it was closed. But bids are open now, and the offers are amazing.

cute pickle socks

cute tomato socks

attention knitters!

through Feb 1st, 100% of pattern sales go to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (www.ilcm.org/donate/)
she's covering transaction fees and her donations will be matched!

her two patterns are here: www.ravelry.com/patterns/sou...

✨ The Rec Center Fic Submissions ✨ Please click the link to complete this form.

As January comes to a close, The Rec Center approaches Femslash February, which I believe we've observed every year since the start. But despite putting out a call for F/F fic recs several weeks ago, we've received *checks notes* 3 submissions. 😵‍💫 C'mon, folks! Please send us your favorite F/F!

other things to try:
Sour candy (like on the scale of sour gummies or lemonheads), focus on the intense sensation.
Focus on things with zero emotional content. Do times tables in your head unless that's a bad memory for you. Read a very dry Wikipedia article.

Good luck!

Speaking of N95s, I think it was @lookitup.baby who brought this ridiculous woot deal on N95s to my attention. 440 individually wrapped N95s for $35! Holy crap! They're the 3M 9205+ Aura respirators. (I think the elastic is better on the 9210+ Auras but they go for 20 for $36.)

amzn.to/3LLp271

Also on sale via Kobo Canada!

Posted under lock elsenet, where long-form goes: the contents of my bingo card of goals for the year.

Sustenance is vital!

Workday survived! Time at last to sink into the new Rachel Peng novel.

(IIRC there'll only be one more, which makes me sad even though we know what happens after Rachel's books, AKA Act 2 of the A Girl and Her Fed webcomic. I love the comic, but these novels are where my heart is in this 'verse.)

Women are feral for Heated Rivalry. What does that say about men? The explosive popularity of the gay hockey TV drama reveals women’s desire for sex and romance without violence or hierarchy

I like this article a lot, and the line "When these characters cook for each other, the implications are strictly emotional" got me square in the chest.

I think we need to call our ramen place and inquire.

Lemon is absolutely the one I would be growing.

...this had never crossed my mind. Mind blown open.

Um. :(

Hooray!!!

I adore how Matt Owens respects how absolutely bonkers Oda-sensei is - and S2 is really stepping that up like: YES an otter in a PJ on a vulture shooting machine guns! YES David Dastmalchian splorting white gunk! YES more machine guns - inside a man's hair! YES Zoro with three swords ON FIRE!!!

'Heated Rivalry' Handles Autism With Love, Care, And A Touch Of Awkwardness The runaway hit hockey romance gives us a different kind of autistic character, one created by an author and an actor with their own personal investment.

Of course I had to weigh in on autism in Heated Rivalry.

My GIRL.