Snowflake Challenge Day 4

Jan. 11th, 2026 10:42 am
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Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.


RL got a little nuts, but I'm determined not to let this fall by the wayside, so have a belated Day 4 post.


Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!


The instructions for this one confused me, and I don't really do social media, so instead, I thought it would be fun to link some of my favourite fic/art exchanges! 

Despite my sometimes Cursed Exchange Luck, I really do love taking part in exchanges. They've gotten me some of my favourite fics ever, and pushed me to write things I never would have otherwise. Here's a list of all the exchanges I'm taking part in this year: 


[community profile] fffx 

The Five Figure Fanwork Exchange! You get five months to write either 2 5k or 1 10k fic, or equivalent art. (Has the five month period ever stopped me from leaving it until the last minute? Nope. But we live dangerously 'round these parts.) 


[community profile] ficinabox 

Possibly my favourite exchange ever. You commit to writing 10k, or doing an equivalent creative activity... but it can be split up into a mind-boggling variety of mediums, from AITA posts to CYOA games to literal knitted things. One year I'm going to lose my mind enough, recipient willing, to write 10k entirely in drabbles. 


[community profile] highadrenalineexchange 

The converse of FFFX - you get two weeks to write 10k. I was somehow insane enough to do Pride and Prejudice fic my first go-around with HAX, and the two-week deadline was the only reason I managed to get out of my own head enough to do it, lol.


[community profile] worldbuilding_exchange 

I utterly adore worldbuilding, so it's no surprise that an exchange based on it is my catnip. If the exchange somehow allowed me to nominate JUST the first four Harry Potter books, I'd be in heaven, lol. 




[personal profile] rule_63 

Genderbends are another of my very favourite things, and the main fandoms I'm in - HP, Avengers, Superbat, Numb3rs, and Star Trek - have amazing potential when it comes to male-to-female genderbends. Plus, honestly, girls are just more interesting, lol. 


[community profile] idproquo 

I am a firm believer in, and defender of, idfic. I also live in the AU where Marvel made no movies after the Avengers and Harry Potter is an unfinished four-book series with no movies, lol. 


This year, I also want to take part in [community profile] seasonsofdrabbles , [community profile] everywoman , if it's running, and [community profile] halfamoon . We'll see how things go. 



Book Review: Project Hail Mary

Jan. 11th, 2026 12:48 am
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Here we are again, about 12 hours later with another book review!

Title: Project Hail Mary
Author: Andy Weir
Genre: Science Fiction

PEACH

Plot: 5
Enjoyment: 5
Artistry: 4
Characters: 4
Heart: 4.5

=4.5 Stars

CAWPILE:

Characters: 8
Atmosphere: 8
Writing: 7.5
Plot: 8.5
Intrigue: 8.5
Logic/Relationships: 9
Enjoyment: 10

=4.75 Stars

This was a highly enjoyable read. It was quickly-paced, funny in parts, and the science was really interesting. My only complaints were that maybe it was a little too quickly-paced. It was definitely more plot driven then character driven, and I think I might like character driven stories more. But for what it was, it was really good. I can't wait to see the movie!
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 So one of my friends has been bugging me to read Casey McQuiston's Red, White, and Royal Blue for years.

I resisted, partly because it felt a little too close to RPF for me to feel comfortable (I know posh British men have like five acceptable names but still) and partly because... well, I'm not a fan of the British monarchy, even a fictional version, for very obvious child-of-colonialism reasons.

And then this morning my buddy complained, once again, about the idiot sheltered Tamil Brahmin boy in the RWRB discord's latest terrible take, which was that India does not have racism. (As someone who remembers seeing a front-page ad in the newspaper of record offering a free whitening cream with purchase of soap that had the tagline 'We're sending some compliments your way', AHAHAHAHA.) 

So I made a half-joking comment about that I should finally read RWRB so I could join the discord and back her up next time the idiot idioted. And lo and behold, I had a free afternoon and an available copy of the book, so... why the hell not?

And y'all, I feel like such a damn idiot. Because this book, once I let go of my grudge about the names? Was actually really good. The writing is top-notch, the characters are complex while still being fun, and the story balances escapism and realism really well, especially when it comes to the depiction of the monarchy. It's even making me want to see the movie, which is not a thing I say often. 

So yeah. Five out of five stars to Casey McQuiston's Red White and Royal Blue, and a reminder to not judge books by their covers, lol. 

The weird of the day

Jan. 10th, 2026 10:45 pm
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So I mentioned the power was out sometime over the holiday and my freezer was full of frost. It must have been out longer than I thought because poking around I saw all the ice cream had melted everywhere but that's not the weird part.

No, apparently it was off so long that whatever blockage between the freezer and fridge melted (in spite of me having the fridge off all day once already) because the fridge is ICE cold (I had it on the highest setting just to get it to be slightly cool) I'm like what? What?!? How did you come back to life? It's still a mess but I'm going to let it limp along for now.

I found a manager special half off tray of devil's eggs (24 of them). I have never seen this before. NO ONE has seen this because all the cashiers and baggers were running over to see it. I wonder if this had been a special order that wasn't picked up. Either of way I'm gonna eat them all up.


I was halfway through making the new homework for the first week of the class but suddenly 50 questions into 90 of them (I pick and choose from the 90s to make the homework) the power fails. No reason. No high winds, no big storm. Just boom no power. Lose everything.

And I had just got the phone system working but then bang, the power goes out and the phone with it. Naturally the cell phone says 'no cellular connections.' ARGH


At least I got writing done but when the power went out at least I had handwritten back up for what hadn't autosaved


As horrible as the last week has been for America and the world in general I find myself in an awkward position of arranging the work conference and planning a vacation in spite of being afraid to literally go anywhere even within my own state let alone elsewhere. I can't be alone in this terrible feeling.


Have some links for Science Saturday

Lupus Linked To Virus That Over 95 Percent Of Us Carry – And Now We Finally Know How I remember in medical school when we were really starting to see EBV and thought it caused 'chronic fatigue syndrome' but weren't sure it did anything at all (and weren't sure chronic fatigue was real), now we know it causes multiple cancers and now this


Leonardo da Vinci's DNA may be embedded in his art — and scientists think they've managed to extract some speaking of weird

Rare 2,000-year-old war trumpet, possibly linked to Celtic queen Boudica, discovered in England lots of assumptions here but the trumpet itself is cool

Study Raises Serious Questions About The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

Potential Anti-Cancer Fungal Compound Finally Synthesized After 55 Years

Unique 'Golden Shark' Caught Off Central America Diagnosed With Rare Condition

Silencing Bacterial 'Chatter' in Your Mouth May Help Prevent Tooth Decay Another one for my student



And here's the Fannish 50 Friday (one day late) Fic round up

Paint Me Golden Hazbin Hotel

Flight Time 9-1-1

Banded Dress and Black Coat Wheel of Time

make what you believe 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Helluva Boss

Alastor's Lament Hazbin Hotel

Settling Into Beacon Hills Teen Wolf

Feeding Time Stargate Atlantis

Caught Flat-Footed Torchwood

Wants and Fears FAKE

Cultural Exchange Stargate Atlantis

The Duel Torchwood

Favorite for a Reason Stargate Atlantis

Shark Dicks NSFW comic Hazbin Hotel

One Drink Lasts Too Long Hazbin Hotel

Fair Food Stargate Atlantis

In Which, We Are Chaos 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Adjacent Hazbin Hotel

Blizzard Conditions Torchwood

The New Wave. Hazbin Hotel

Fat And Thin Hazbin Hotel

Jin's Dad Jokes 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Plotting Revenge The Professionals (TV 1977)

Chip On My Shoulder UglyDolls (2019)

in the nest box Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena

anti-ICE demonstration this afternoon

Jan. 10th, 2026 10:53 pm
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We went to the Boston anti-ICE demonstration today, one of many throughout the United States. Cattitude and I got there slightly after the nominal starting time, and managed about an hour before the cold got to me. Yes, it was above freezing and not windy, but standing still on a large open plaza is chillier than moving around. Adrian came to the demo with some of her comrades from Havurat Shalom, and arrived before we did. The crowd was large enough that we didn't try to find her until we were all preparing to leave.

It was a good-sized crowd, but the acoustics and sound system were abysmal; I could only make out a few scraps of what the speakers were saying.

I wore a winter coat, wool socks, and light-weight long underwear, which was too warm while we were on the trolley.

2025 reading wrap up

Jan. 11th, 2026 11:39 am
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hopefully this storygraph link goes to the public option, not the for me specifically option.

I'm choosing to not look at what was planned; I've already posted about my 5 star reads and some other thinking. This is me just reading through and having feelings.

  • The first (We Were Dreamers, Simu Liu, biography) and last (The House That Horror Built, Christina Henry, horror) sure are an interesting juxtaposition
  • The 'mood' graph seems weird and I wish it wasn't there
  • Going back to study had a noticeable effect on how much I was reading, which is not a surprise
  • I hate the way that storygraph does 'genre' because my top five are fantasy, science fiction, short stories, LGBTQIA+, and horror, only three of which I consider to be genres.
  • 15 days per book as an average just shows how much my reading is an overlapping thing.
  • 'top authors' - Katherine MacLean was 4 (that can't be right, there were 8 short stories, I must not have tracked them all), Premee Mohammed (3 stories, hmm, something odd there as well), and Dave Warner (3 books, that's a trilogy)
  • average rating 3.75 - probably because the DNF/0 don't get counted; I gave 11 2 star ratings, which seems more than I would have expected. Most frequent rating of 4 is also higher than I would have expected.
  • somehow there were 52 'new to me' authors, which is interesting because I felt like I was sticking to comfortable stuff.
  • DNF - 22 books; not sure if that feels high
  • read 24 of my books - I bet that this is an undercount, because I don't always mark books as owned, particularly if I only have them as ebook.
  • it is weird that my highest rated reads tend to be non-fiction, because I read so little of it

I clicked through to the more detail

  • most commonly applied tag is 'borrowed', applied to 21 books. 21 borrowed + 24 owned =/= the number read
  • I need to update the tags on some, because they don't have the -read suffix added

Challenge 503: Sock

Jan. 11th, 2026 03:24 pm
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Our new challenge is:

SOCK



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Admin: Challenge closed

Jan. 11th, 2026 03:17 pm
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The Sand challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

Stranger Things: Fanfic: Sand by [personal profile] wearing_tearing
Original: icons: sand by [personal profile] lilly_c
Marvel Cinematic Universe: Fanfic: In a Grain of Sand by [personal profile] alexcat
due South: Fanfiction: Sandy Boots by [personal profile] lucy_roman
Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Fanfic: Beneath the Sand by [personal profile] smallhobbit
Terraria: Quatrain: A Prize to be Won by [personal profile] infinitum_noctem
FAKE: Fanfic: Wishful Thinking by [personal profile] badly_knitted
no fandom: icons: Sand by [personal profile] highlander_ii
Multifandom (TV): Icons: Life’s a Beach (9 icons) by [personal profile] veronyxk84
S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: Looking Forward To Most by [personal profile] darkjediqueen
US Politics: poetry: the sand in the gears by [personal profile] teaotter
Torchwood: Fanfic: Newsworthy by [personal profile] m_findlow
Heated Rivalry: Fanfic: Sweaty, Salty, Sandy by [personal profile] seeyouontheice
子非鱼 (Zi Fei Yu): Fanfic: the same soul (make the ocean wider) by [personal profile] bluedreaming

Also, congratulations to those who earned badges and name tags this round:

[personal profile] teaotter earned The Unstoppable (SILVER) (36 challenge streak).

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Next challenge coming right up.

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Jan. 11th, 2026 09:35 am
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Yesterday, I was having a conversation with Youngest about (SF) con-running. The topic was international guests, and what the timelines are for inviting them.

I said something flippant about 'well, that timeline would be doable these days, because everyone has email, at least we don't have to write letters'. And there was that moment where I could see Youngest's world view shift in real time, so we talked in a bit more detail about my memories of the first con I was involved in running*. That in 1996, when we were approaching people to be guests, email addresses were not ubiquitous**. That our primary method of contact was letters. And then I talked about the fact that we had to assume a best case scenario of a month turn around on anything we sent.

What I didn't think to say, is that because of that, there is a reasonably high chance that there is a letter from Douglas Adams in the WASFF archive. The reasons there might not be is that it might be from their agent, or it may have been lost when various documents were transferred to the archives.

* I was Treasurer for SwanCon 23 in 1998; that committee then did a quick reshuffle and ran SwanCon 25 in 2000. I started my committee habit early -- I was on the UniSFA (UWA SF club) as Fresher rep ('92), President ('93) and IPP ('94).

**We got into a side discussion about how rare email addresses were in 1992, when I got my first email address, when the uni I studied at decided to do the somewhat radical thing of provide an email address to any student who requested one, regardless of faculty. I'd love to know what the thinking was and whether it was 'this is going to become essential knowledge' or if it was something more.

snowflake challenge 2026 - day 4

Jan. 11th, 2026 10:54 am
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Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!


Okay, so it's really easiest to go to my AO3 works page, which currently has a broad variety of fandoms on it, including some of my very old ones.

20 recs from Keltiad, Discworld/DCCU, Bridgerton, MCU, Pern, Pacific Rim, BSG 2003, Stargate SG1/Stargate Atlantis, and Narnia )

--

So looking through the stories, there's a really broad variety of themes and characters, quite a lot of fandoms, but also some recurring concepts: "found family", "true love isn't just the once and never again", "working through the complexities of a situation when you don't have a guidebook", and so forth.

Speak Up Saturday

Jan. 10th, 2026 06:19 pm
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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

The Empty Netters rock!

Jan. 11th, 2026 12:09 pm
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I finally got around to watching the Empty Netters podcast on YT, their breakdowns of HR eps 1 & 2. It's such fun watching them get caught up in the show while still critiquing the hockey details (two of them are brothers and previously high-level hockey players, now in what they call "the beer leagues". And as they get more and more invested in the show they don't care as much about the minor mistakes and unrealistic hockey-world details. Also, the comments are great, very positive and with no trolling or bigotry at all that I've seen so far (maybe they curate that?).
My initial main takeaways from these first two eps are:

The team logos were analysed. Shane's is M for the Metros (a bottom), and Ilya's is a cannon for the Raiders! (obvious symbolism). That has to be deliberate, right? Also hilarious!

Then these two comments, that added details I hadn't known.



I won't do a full transcript but the first says Reid wrote a bonus chapter on her website (a remix of the Vegas penthouse chapter, end of S2 in the show) with a bit more about Ilya's thoughts and feelings, his conflicts about returning to Russia and why he treats Shane badly. Here's the link.

The second comment clarifies that Putin only cracked down on gay people just before the Sochi Olympics. Before 2013 Russia had apparently become reasonably progressive. So Ilya would have been especially paranoid and freaked out at Sochi and would definitely have cold-shouldered Shane, as in canon. Also a nice pick-up that although Carter Vaughan means well, assuming the ice skater is gay was a microaggression, worse for Shane as Carter blithely assumes he's straight (and for Scott, but the Empty Netters don't know about Scott yet!).

I'm going to watch all the Empty Netters vids, but not right now. Jesus, I have to do something other than wallow in HR stuff all the time!

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Fandom: 子非鱼 (Zi Fei Yu) - 林盎司
Rating: T
Length: 100 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: The title is from THE SHAPE OF THE OCEAN by Jiang Hao, translated by Ming Di and Afaa Weaver.
Summary: Ji Leyu belongs to Lin Fei.

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Cheese Quest 1

Jan. 10th, 2026 04:23 pm
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Before New Year's, E and I went to the HEB at Lincoln Heights which is fancier than a regular HEB, but not as fancy as Central Market. I was looking at cheeses while E was in the bakery and the cheesemonger gave me a coupon for 20% off any of their cheeses in that section. So I went with one I knew I'd like and two that were experiments.

The one I thought was a sure bet was the Chimichurri Gouda because I love gouda. I was hoping it would be a bit spicy, but despite tasting of pepper and chilies it was more earthy than spicy. It was also sharper than I expected, but it was good. 

My favorite was the white cheddar dill which was a surprise. I love dill, but I'm not a fan of cheddar at all. It's generally way too sharp for me. This one was very herbal and salty and just delicious. 

My least favorite, and the one I wouldn't have bought if I hadn't had a coupon, was the smoked cheddar. I took a chance on it because I do like smoked gouda and smokiness in general. However, this was very hard, almost crumbly, and it was way too sharp for me, I'll probably take it to my parents and see if they want it, because I tried it again a couple of days after the first taste and I just don't like it. And honestly I didn't even realize cheddar came in that consistency. 

The only other cheese I've put in my analog cheese journal is HEB Monterey jack with jalapeño and habanero which is something I have with my lunch every day during the week. So, obviously, extremely good!

This week we are having enchiladas, so I will be journaling about oaxaca and queso fresca, both of which are delicious. One of the best things in the world is thinly sliced pan sauteed potatoes topped with mole poblano sauce and queso fresca.

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Title: Sweaty, Salty, Sandy
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Length: 234 words
Author notes: post-beach and post-hotel room in Florida
Summary: Shane doesn't like mess. Ilya doesn't want to kill the mood just yet.

Sweaty, Salty, Sandy )

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Jan. 10th, 2026 05:29 pm
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Dear Care and Feeding,

My ex came from serious money, and our 12-year-old daughter is her parents’ only grandchild. My daughter gets what she wants the moment she voices it; her grandparents claim it is their duty to spoil her. My daughter is very grounded and knows that most people can’t afford everything her family can, but that doesn’t change the fact that her experiences have been very privileged.

My partner’s kids haven’t been so lucky. He provides a good life, but the vacations he can take them on are to the local lake, not Europe. The problem is that my daughter can’t talk about her life without the other kids getting jealous and accusing her of bragging. She can’t say that her favorite city is Paris or identify a castle on TV without them taking offense and ganging up on her. This situation has started to heat up because my daughter has recently been hanging out with a pair of twins who have moved into our neighborhood. Their dad has left military service, but in their lives as military brats, they’ve lived everywhere in the world. They are joined at the hip with my daughter, and my partner hates the fact that his 13-year-old daughter, “Melinda,” doesn’t get automatically included.

Alas, Melinda is in her mean girl phase. Everything and everyone is stupid and sucks. She routinely picks on her younger brother. There are problems with both her behavior in school and in the after-school activities she is enrolled in. She was asked to leave her sports team for bullying another member to the point where it got physical. My daughter avoids Melinda when she can, and I have to mediate every moment we are together as a family.

My partner does not “see” Melinda’s behavior until another adult points it out. He and I do not live together, and his blindness to his daughter’s flaws is one reason for this, even though I love him. Another reason is that Melinda is hard enough to be around on a good weekend, let alone every day. I have tried to stay in my own lane and let my partner parent his kids his own way, but he keeps pushing that Melinda is being “excluded” by my daughter and her friends. They are in different grades and have very different interests.

Between his kids giving mine a hard time every time she opens her mouth, and all this, things are getting tense. Recently, he commented on how excited my daughter was for the holidays because her dad was taking her skiing and had told her that maybe the twins could come too. My partner insinuated that this enthusiasm was somehow malevolent. I responded by reminding him that both of his kids have been talking nonstop about seeing their grandparents and cousins over the holidays. He said it wasn’t even close to the same and that his kids have never even seen snow. I don’t know how to resolve this. Considering the ages of our kids, and the fact that they’re not even living in the same household, their just being civil toward each other should be enough, but civility is hard to come by, and Melinda is the agitator most of the time. How do I get through to my partner and protect my daughter?

—Mean Melinda


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Jan. 10th, 2026 05:19 pm
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Dear Prudence,

I just got married, and while the day was beautiful, my family left me feeling heartbroken. I have a strained relationship with my younger sister. She left her diabetic cat with our parents, and when they had to suddenly leave town, I stepped in to care for it for two weeks.

At our wedding after-party, my husband gently suggested she thank me. Instead, she stormed off, blocked me on social media, and refused to see me for the rest of the trip. When I turned to my parents for support, they sided with her, saying she spent her own time and money to attend the wedding and telling me to “drop the drama” and “be an adult.” I’m left feeling dismissed and deeply hurt, wondering how to move forward from this.

—Bride Without a Break


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Name: What Might Have Been
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Bittersweet #8: Missed Opportunities, Warm Heart #15: Anger
Styles and Supplies: Life Drawing
Word Count: 926
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Characters: Setsiana, Sapfita
In-Universe Date: Night of 1912.4.4.5
Summary: Setsiana has a dream of Sapfita.

What Might Have Been )
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Christmas is over, father-in-law is away staying with the other bit of the family, I've had a long & tiring visit with my mother, but I'm back home now and it's just me & himself for the next week. And it's so nice just being us. Having an extra in the house - even a much-loved & gentle family member - it's an effort. It's odd working out where the stresses are, but today we had lunch with books and without conversation - such a delight.

My mother has given me a teeny-tiny bucket armchair to replace the one which I had moved into father-in-law's room. This has made my cat very happy. I knew that I missed having a comfy chair in the office; I hadn't realised that cat also wanted to be comfortable in same room as me. Yesterday he sat and stared until I got a clue and put his blanket on the chair. And then he sat and had a very thorough wash and a long sleep. Focusmate partner was charmed.

Greens are being awful. I want to save the world, stop climate change etc etc but people keep on getting in the way. We've got a lot of personalities going on at the moment, and the local party is doing office politics (only without the office). People muttering in the break room, getting their feelings hurt, toes trodden on, accusing each other of whatevering, plotting behind the bike shed, little power groups, conspiracy theories and it's like living through an episode of Mean Girls. Fascinating to see how some people absolutely revel in it and just want Drama! Excitement! He said! She said! while I just want to retreat like a distressed snail.

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