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12 games into our 20-game season, Kodiaks 2 finally notched up a win! We beat Lee Valley Vampires 1-0 last night. That single goal was scored with about ten minutes to go, and it was a long ten minutes, and especially a long last minute on the bench after my final shift, waiting to see if we'd do it. I was literally crying in the post-game huddle and handshake line. This team, this team that we dragged into existence in the face of multiple obstacles, this amazing bunch of women. We won, we won, we won.

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adafrog

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musesfool

Went to the office yesterday and as much as I enjoyed seeing so many of my co-workers, almost no work got done. it is just not a good use of time if they want us to be productive. Since it's an open office and we are all sitting together with no walls between us, we just chat and jump into each other's conversations and people stop by and also join in, and it's great for socializing but most of my work is stuff that requires concentration and quiet, which is in short supply at the office. But the anniversary celebration is a lot of fun and I probably won't have to attend another one for 4 more years. *g*

Our next in-office day is in late April, and I floated the idea of maybe bringing in baked goods, so I'm already considering what recipe I might choose to make, since I can experiment.

Today, I made these orange shortbread cookies and they're good, though I would zest another orange (I did 2 this time) if I make them again. Also I didn't sift the flour and instead of rolling out the dough and using cookie cutters, I rolled it into a log and just sliced them (after chilling), since they are just for me so there was no need to get fancy.

I also planned to caramelize onions overnight in the slow cooker, but then I ended up engrossed in F.D. Signifier's Tyler Perry video (which is FOUR HOURS long - I have one hour left but I'm taking a break to watch the WBC) and didn't end up doing the slicing I need to do, so I figure I'll do it in the morning, let them slow cook for most of the day, and then make French onion pasta for dinner. Anyway, I have never seen a Tyler Perry movie or show, but F.D. Signifier's videos are always worth watching.

So yeah, I've been sort of paying attention to the WBC and why is the "S" in USA like a strip of curly bacon on the Team USA jersey??? Once I saw it I couldn't unsee it. Also so many of these unis could be cool and yet so many of them are just meh. Design fail, Nike! Come on! Also, I might be rooting for the DR since Juan Soto is on that team; if Lindor were in it, I'd probably be rooting for Puerto Rico. Though of course I was pleased for Clay Holmes just now, and will be interested to see Nolan McLean pitch.

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Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: USA vs Great Britain on tv

scrubjayspeaks

Welcome to the March edition of Pandemic Garden Club! Growing good things in strange times!

Anyone is welcome to comment with what they're growing right now, things they would like to try, problems they're encountering, and questions they have. Share resources, answer questions, shout encouragement.

As for myself...

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fandom_checkin

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Saturday to midnight on Sunday (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34339 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 29

How are you doing?

I am okay
15 (51.7%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
14 (48.3%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
10 (34.5%)

One other person
13 (44.8%)

More than one other person
6 (20.7%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

mrshamill

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settiai

The extended stay hotel that I've been living in for over a year-and-a-half is being sold, so I've been desperately trying to find somewhere else to move. Through a lot of luck, I think that I've found a basement apartment in the home of an older woman nearby if I can get the money together to cover the deposit and first month's rent sooner rather than later. Which leads to this post. I don't have a lot left to try to sell right now, at least not until I really go digging in my storage unit to see what all is there, but I'm going to try to sell what I can in the hope of raising enough to get this apartment.

First, I have a few Nintendo Switch games for sale:

Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (example on Amazon)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (example on Amazon)
TemTem (example on Amazon)

And then a few TTRPGs that were Christmas presents so they're still in basically like new shape:

Candela Obscura Core Rulebook (example on Amazon)
Daggerheart Core Set (example on Amazon)

If you're not interested but know someone who might be, please point them my way.

For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).

Current Mood: hopeful

resonant

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mrshamill

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Current Mood: confused

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⌈ Secret Post #7001 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 32 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1000.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

brightknightie

Here are some recent fannish things I've happened to see and would like to share!

Spotlight: As a gift, I received a "Collectible Crime Classics" copy of The Benson Murder Case (1926) by S.S. Van Dine. I'd never heard of the author and barely of his detective, Philo Vance, though they'd apparently been tremendously popular and influential in their day (12 novels, dozens of radio serials and movies). So I settled in to enjoy the first in this "classic" series... and soon discovered why I was not familiar and why no one is remaking these today. ( Read more... )

Ficathons, fests & communities

Create & engage
- marchmetamatterschallenge is in progress. Locate, preserve, and create fannish meta (essays, timelines, concordances, maps, etc.).
- bethefirst, the annual challenge to write the first story in a fandom, is open for both sign-ups and submissions through 4/20.
- worldbuildex, an exchange focused on worldbuilding, has nominations through 3/10, sign-ups through 3/21, due 5/16.
- rehome-your-fic ("Shelter for Abandoned Fics") is a project to "re-home" abandoned WIPs from an author who will never finish them to one who will. You can surrender a fic or foster a surrendered fic.
- 40daysofdrabbles is posting daily winter/spring-themed prompts through Easter.
- retrowrimay is a month-long challenge to write tropes, tags, and formats that have fallen out of style.
- unsent_letters_exchange, the epistolary exchange (need not literally be letters, much less unsent), has sign-ups through 3/09, due 4/25.
- domaystic is the annual May-long promptfest for domestic stories.
- fkficfest, the annual Forever Knight event, is on for '26, with a summer due date to be announced.
- pokepodproject, the event to create a fic+podfic for every pokémon, is holding an "Unown" mini round. Sign-ups close 3/08; stories due 3/17.
- allbingo's March theme is "crafting."
- trope_of_the_month's March theme is "mirror universe."
- pinchhits is a community for posting needed fills for exchanges. For example, traumaticexperiences and au5k are currently seeking pinch hitters.
- whenisitdue tracks many more events than I note here!
Enjoy & share
- fancake (themed fanfic recs); March theme: "siblings"
- gensplosion (gen fanfic recs)
- het_reccers (m/f fanfic recs)
- fanart_recs (fanart recs)
- recthething (fanwork recs)

Sidelight: Nintendo is suing the US government for full tariff refunds plus interest. The Switch 2 console premiered last year; shipping and stocking worldwide were affected as Nintendo raced to get units into the US for launch day before the tariffs took effect (not to mention Nintendo's profits being affected all along). As reported in TechCrunch, IGN, Polygon, etc.

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agonyaunt

A reader writes:

I work in a cubicle office and bring a trained, medically necessary service dog named “Betty” to the office with me. I allow her to socialize with coworkers on breaks, and she is very loved in the office for how friendly and adorable she is. She also adores her coworkers and thinks everyone is her best friend.

Unfortunately, a new coworker, “Sarah,” has been repeatedly ignoring service dog boundaries with Betty over the last six months.

These boundary violations include taking Betty out of my cube while I’m on work calls or distracted, removing her leash in public work areas without asking, entering my cube without permission to interact with her, and petting her or interacting with her when I step away from my desk. This has started to impact Betty’s training as she’s now having separation anxiety behaviors when I leave in order to get attention. Sarah would respond to this behavior, which escalated it, despite being asked repeatedly not to.

Things were at their worst today when Sarah not only removed Betty’s leash but also attempted to remove her service dog gear. I asked her to stop but this didn’t work, and I had to physically push her hands away from Betty.

I have had multiple conversations with Sarah about her behavior with little success. When I point out a specific behavior, Sarah will then start doing a new one or find different ways to circumvent the boundary and continue her interactions with Betty. This appears to be a pattern with Sarah, as there are other areas where she struggles to incorporate feedback.

All my conversations with Sarah so far have been verbal and in the moment, as we are equals and I don’t feel it is my place to supervise her behavior. I did message my supervisor about the concerns when they started escalating and we had a one-on-one about it. My supervisor then spoke with Sarah’s supervisor about the issues and a one-on-one was had with Sarah about a month ago. Despite this, the behavior has not gotten better and seems to be getting worse.

I have had a previous negative experience with HR where I was blamed for not handling a verbally aggressive and threatening coworker with clearer boundaries before escalating to them. This time I want to make sure that I’m doing everything I can and should before I escalate things to HR again. I also don’t want to ruin the atmosphere of the office by cutting off all contact to Betty due to one coworker being unable to follow boundaries. What should I do in this instance to handle it professionally and not step on toes or upset HR?

– Trying to keep my working dog working

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agonyaunt

Miss Manners: Items vanish post‑party, and list of possible culprits is down to 3. How do I proceed?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I hosted a dinner party for 20 guests. Since a few of them smoke, I had arranged a separate room to function as a smoking room.

After the party, I discovered that a very small painting and a little sculpture were missing from the smoking room. Neither of them is really valuable, even sentimentally, but it still has left me very distraught.

There is no other way that these items could have disappeared except being taken by someone. Only three guests were ever in that room.

Now, what do I do? I have not mentioned this to anyone, since it undoubtedly would make everyone uncomfortable and lead to speculations about who took the things. I’d rather just forget about the whole thing, but if something similar happens in someone else’s home, I will feel guilty for not having said anything.

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sga_saturday

Welcome to March, where we celebrate Women's History Month, National Reading Month, and International Women's Day on the 8th. There's so much to celebrate this month, that we thought we'd try combining some of this month's activities into prompts - reading and/or history. Maybe combine them, like having John watch Rodney fall asleep reading a scientific journal. Or maybe Lorne brings back a book on the history of botany because, "It looked interesting" - when in reality he misses falling asleep next to Parrish, who used to ease Lorne out of the stress of the day by talking about botanicals in the 1800s. Or maybe we go campy, over the top and have Stackhouse reading the entire expedition to filth (a primer on the best Drag Race reading challenges can be found at this link).

Whatever you choose to do, you've got four weeks to get some ideas on paper and just go for it!

Shantay you stay!

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sga_saturday

Well, we all knew February into March was going to be busy what with all the Valentines Day themed events going on. So far we've only had one entry for the last prompt of "dinner" and/or "date":

melagan gave us Dinner Date

If you're working on a fic for these prompts, you've got until tomorrow night, Sunday March 8th, to be included in the roundup (or an extra few days if you let me know). Otherwise it'll have to come under another prompt or wait for amnesty this December.

New prompt coming soon!

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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

naye

You know what's awesome? Vids. Which is why I had the best time watching almost all of the 128 Festivids from this year. I am avoiding certain spoilers, warnings and tags, so I did not in fact watch all of them, but I definitely got through well over a hundred. An absolute feast!

While I was watching (mostly before reveals) I was also putting together a document of vids I really liked so I'd be able to go back and check who'd made them after reveals. It's not the most intricate of rec systems - it's got the title, vidder, fandom and the comment I left after watching, and they are sort of but not fully in reverse alphabetical order. But if you like vids, you will probably enjoy these!

Fandoms include: A Man on the Inside, Dimension 20, Steerswoman, The Pitt, Jeongnyeon: The Star is Born, Men's Pole Vaulting (the sport), Murderbot, Babylon 5, Conclave, Dykes to Watch Out For (the comic), Star Trek: Lower Decks and Hades. This is not an exhaustive list! Check out all the Festivid fandoms here. (Or rather: all the fandoms with canon AO3 tags. One of my vids isn't in this list, so I guess there are plenty of others that aren't either.)

( Come get your recs here! )

rionaleonhart

Here are some dreams I've had lately!

( Dreams from December to March. )

On a final and unrelated note: I forgot to mention the most important part of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage!

At one point, protagonist Swann comes across a little pile of rabbit droppings. The game gives you the opportunity to point this out to Swann's friends with the dialogue option 'Hey! Poop!'

I did not take this option, because I thought Swann's friends might find it offputting. My real-life friends are a different matter. Tem and I have been saying 'Hey! Poop!' to each other at every opportunity ever since.

rydra_wong

[ID: shot of my character from the back as she looks into the blasted ruins of the Kiln of the First Flame. She is wearing mismatched red and yellow clothes and a silver helmet, and holding a halberd.]

And it only took 8 months, and a number of hours I will not disclose. Though, to be fair, since I unexpectedly got into the multi-player, a lot of the total hours actually represent me reading a book while waiting to be summoned.

Dark Souls is slow, janky, eccentric, flawed, wilfully obscure about some of its mechanics, and one of the best games I've ever played. I am in love. Ask me anything.

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fanart_recs

Fandom: Merlin
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Arthur is the main focus with Merlin, Gwen and Morgana
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Digital
Artist Website/Gallery: klimtsonian
Why this piece is awesome: Lovely piece that is a little art nouveau and reminds you a little of a tarot card. The focus is on Arthur, but also hints at those behind his throne.
Link: Tumblr

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rmc28 - We won!
adafrog - Saturday
musesfool - that wasn't a no
scrubjayspeaks - Pandemic Garden Club
adafrog in fandom_checkin - Daily Check In.
mrshamill - The consensus seems to be ignore her...
settiai - For Sale: Nintendo Switch games + TTRPG books
resonant - Cat farewell
mrshamill - I has a dilemma.
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET POST #7001 ]
brightknightie - Fannish options & enthusiasms | March 2026
petrea_mitchell in agonyaunt - AAM: my coworker won’t stop interfering with my service dog
petrea_mitchell in agonyaunt - Miss Manners investigates a crime
squidgiepdx in sga_saturday - Weeks #536-539: "reading" and/or "history" is open!
squidgiepdx in sga_saturday - Weeks #532-535: "dinner" and/or "movie" is coming to a close!
feurioo in tv_talk - Speak Up Saturday
naye - Festivid recs! 35 of them!
rionaleonhart - Hey! Poop!
rydra_wong - I beat Dark Souls, AMA
kingstoken in fanart_recs - “And what kind of king would Camelot want?” by klimtsonian (SFW)

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We won!

Saturday

that wasn't a no

Pandemic Garden Club

Daily Check In.

The consensus seems to be ignore her...

For Sale: Nintendo Switch games + TTRPG books

Cat farewell

I has a dilemma.

[ SECRET POST #7001 ]

Fannish options & enthusiasms | March 2026

AAM: my coworker won’t stop interfering with my service dog

Miss Manners investigates a crime

Weeks #536-539: "reading" and/or "history" is open!

Weeks #532-535: "dinner" and/or "movie" is coming to a close!

Speak Up Saturday

Festivid recs! 35 of them!

Hey! Poop!

I beat Dark Souls, AMA

“And what kind of king would Camelot want?” by klimtsonian (SFW)

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