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Alright, that took longer than I’d expected. Invidia also has my apologies if there are a million notifications for a review, because I kept trying to fix a problem with the review of BW’s story, which meant deleting the review and resubmitting it. I put emphasis on “trying” because ultimately, the site seemed insistent upon crunching the entire review into a single block of text, removing all the spaces between paragraphs. I am sorry for how much of a pain that is to read, as it was not my intention. 😅

Well, as you all know, I was able to make progress on The Lake House, but not to finish it by a week after Halloween. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though, because I was struggling with how to integrate the theme of the piece into the ending, and it wasn’t until after the deadline had passed that I realized how I might be able to use it. So the extra time will (hopefully) lead to a better end product when it’s finally completed. I’ll keep working on The Lake House, and will either post it when it’s finished or throw it into the ring next Halloween season (fingers crossed that things are still stable for me next Halloween). In the meantime, I’m working on Meaningful Gifts again and have left reviews for both Invidia’s and George’s chapters of the Halloween story. I’ll read BW’s chapter on break at work tomorrow!

I’ve said countless times before, on various platforms, that I’ve given Spotify an identity crisis with how varied my listening habits are. My 2025 Wrapped dropped the other day, and hoo-boy. It’s a mess. My most listened to songs were Labour (Cacophony) and Rasputin; I play them on repeat as background noise while editing so the whine of all the electronics, the sound of the furnace, and even my own breathing won’t drive my misophonic ass bonkers. (I’ve tried countless other sounds, playlists, and various colors of noise, but it all either irritates my ears – my hearing is mildly fucked – or it has “water” sounds that make me need to pee every five minutes. The best substitute I’ve found is, oddly enough, a celtic band that combines bagpipes with hide drums, but I have to tweak the hell out of my sound settings to make it not painful.) My most listened to artist, on the other hand, was Steeleye Span; I listen to a custom folk playlist when I’m trying to write or edit for a certain story that isn’t going anywhere, and it’s disproportionately full of Steeleye Span. My most listened to playlist, however, is 11+ hours of nonstop oldies; it’s “safe” for when I’m outside, with family, or both. Because it’s gotten so much play, the app pegged me as over 70 years old. My second-most listened to list is full of punk, emo, and nu-metal, so I guess it assumed I’m letting my nonexistent grandbaby mooch off my account. I’m a millennial. They just stopped carding me. Ouch. I feel like I should apologize for gaslighting the app, but...yeah. Nah. I’ve got work to do and my brain is working against me enough. (You sure make me do a whole lotta labour.)

Winter Holiday 2025 is UP!

Happy Turkey Day! <3

For those that celebrate it today, HAPPY THANKSGIVING! p.s. Also, remember to set your bathroom scales back 10 to 20 pounds.

@InBrightestDayFrom InBrightestDay on November 16, 2025 The intent wasn’t to get you thinking of any particular movie, but yes, we’re all armchair quarterbacks when it comes to judging the decision-making of horror-movie protagonists. You’d kind of hope that were we in the same scenario, we’d remember that its smarter to run out the front door than down into the basement or up to the attic (thank you, Sydney from Scream), but you just never know what snap judgments you might make. Thanks for the comments!

It’s a wonderful review—thank you!

I was wondering why my phone was randomly going off. lol.

A very happy birthday to @DemonGoddess! Hoping the day, and the coming year, are happy, healthy, and safe!

I think someone might have cracked out a phial of starlight, or perhaps a million of you all did. Start spreading the news… 🎵and so on and so forth... [message ends]

When one considers the size of the target and the size of the projectile, one would think a cat’s foot would miss tender spots more often than it would hit. So why do they always—always—manage to stomp right on nipples and testicles? How does that make sense?

I find myself without any good story ideas. But I’ll do a flashfic or another poem if inspiration strikes.

Brilliant!

Okay, I just have to share this because relevance.

Posted! Lol. So might have gotten a tad carried away with homemade eggnog.

Will post December 1

*dies laughing* I’m telling you, that would be my luck! And I’d probably get extra lashings for random abuse of Gaeilge while they’re at it.

*Bronx opens the door to find two men in suits standing outside* ”We work for the Irish government, and we hear you’ve been telling an unhealthy amount of stories about faeries...” “...The Irish government reads Adult Fanfiction?” “DON’T QUESTION OUR METHODS!”

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From GeorgeGlass on November 24, 2025 "Leaffall"Once again, you've written a story soaked in Celtic myth and dripping with drama. I have to wonder what the ultimate outcome will be for Darri after selling his soul (No afterlife? Bound to the water fae forever?), but he did win Angaine her freedom and got a bonus water-breathing ability on top of that. He'll probably be persona non grata in the human world unless he starts wearing sunglasses or something (I recently watched Blue Eye Samurai, so...), and he's not fae either, but being half this and half that is a great start to becoming a legendary hero. Or else a cool bartender at an edgy tavern. Great story! Thank you! Darri was just a victim throughout the story, the village idiot so to speak, and the only one who was consistently decent to him was Angaine, so of course he’d want to win her freedom. The fact that she was merely using him as her errand boy didn’t matter to Darri, although I do think she felt some measure of guilt when the sea fae took him. As far as the Cailleach Mhara, she didn’t really care that Darri was making a less than informed choice either. She had her own ends in mind, to protect her people, and taking a human soul was the means to that end. What it would mean for him to be soulless was largely irrelevant, which is why deals with the fae are never a good idea. The only one who acted to help Darri was the Wavesinger, and he destroyed an entire human village in the process, along with Angaine. Again, fae ethics are not inclined to include humans, even if the Wavesinger saw Darri as someone to be honored for sacrificing his soul. If I had to guess, I would say Darri and the Wavesinger are going to swim off and become the lead characters in an underwater buddy movie, overturning human fishing boats and sneaking into human villages to drink a little blood…

I saw this and I haven’t really before. So I wanted to ask what’s up? Happy to figure out how to resolve it.

We are aware of the issues with TinyMCE. Manta is working on patches now, in preparation for a big upgrade in December. -- Manta has patched all the editors. They’re basic, but should work for what is needed.

Okay, I figured it might be a bigger issue but also plausible that I somehow clicked the wrong thing.

Totally get that although I haven’t seen much of it. Most of the YouTube videos I watch aren’t using AI.

More broadly speaking, I’m definitely tired of the “AI slop” on YouTube. It particularly bugs me when the video is supposed to be about something factual, because you don’t know whether the AI is using actual facts or just making stuff up.