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Most travellers to the Emorian borderland take the opportunity to visit the capital of Emor, located immediately north of the borderland.

With walls higher and thicker than those of any other city in the Three Lands, Emor's capital looks from the outside to be a garrisoned fort. This appearance is deceptive. Once you pass through the heavily guarded gates, you will find yourself in a bustling city, full of trade and games.

My strong advice is that your first task should be to find a place to stay. The capital's inns are crowded year-round; the more crowded they are, the higher the prices they charge. If it is at all possible, see whether you can find an acquaintance to stay with – though I'm bound to say that the capital's residents are so used to "friends" showing up at their homes without notice that many of them now charge boarding fees almost as high as those charged by the inns.

You could easily spend a year perusing all the sights in Emor. I can only touch on a few of them here.

[Translator's note: The gates to Emor's capital feature in a spiritual vision in Death Mask.]

kass

Dear Purimgifts Author,

Thank you so much for writing me a story! I love all of these things and I know that whatever you write for me, I will love it too.

In general I am a big fan of: chosen family, happy endings, competence, characters being awesome, theology, snark and banter, kindness. I'm happy with anything that feels right to you given the characters at hand. If you want to cross a given fandom over with Megillat Esther, or with Tanakh in general, that is always my jam. (But you don't have to if you don't want to.)

Write something that makes you happy, and it will make me happy.

Please, no betrayal or unquenchable angst or people being awful to each other or grisly death or anything like that. There's enough of that in RL. Thank you kindly.

In closing: yay Purim! Yay you! Thank you so much!

Kass

( My requests: Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal, Parks and Rec, The Naturalist Society by Carrie Vaughn, Murderbot, The Diplomat, Stardew Valley )

beanside

It's Tuesday! I survived Monday! Work was bugfuck busy, so I tried to limit the amount of time I spent off the phones doing callbacks. I ended up taking about 50 calls. By the end of that, my voice was drifting. I sounded kinda porn star-ish most of the day, my voice getting progressively more throaty. By 4:30, it was starting to fade out for a syllable here and there. So it would be "thank you for call--- Johns Hopk-- Radiology." It was kinda sad.

Patients were mostly nice though. And we got great news mid day in the form of an email asking if we wanted to do the same thing we did last year for MLK. Technically, we're closed, but because the sites are open, they asked for a few volunteers to work that day. You get time and a half, plus 8 hours of PTO put into your bank. 1. I can always make use of the money. 2. I can damn sure use the extra PTO! I'm going to be cutting it close for the cruise, but an extra day will loosen thing up just a touch. And it'll mean that in 4 weeks when I get that PTO, I can book out both of the Mondays I need. They're harder to get, so I want to do them first up. Then, I'll fill in the rest as we go. I hit reply on that email SO fast, and now I'm scheduled for 10hr that day.

Still feeling like ass today. Coughing, sneezing and congested. I am not enjoying this cold or whatever the fuck it is. It's tested negative for everything. I tried to get an appt last night to just touch base with the doctor, but she never showed up. I sat in the virtual meeting room for 45 min, and no doctor. I'm a little pissed about that. I'm going to call during my break and see what the fuck happened, and ask if my doctor can prescribe something for the nighttime cough. I'm tired of not sleeping.

Wow, the blue/green dress took that poll in a landslide victory! I have one more dress coming, but I think it'll be tough for it to top how flattering the green dress is on me. I'll put up another poll when it gets here, or at least a picture. I had kind of wanted a longer dress, but if I put on some nice tights, It'll look good. Plus, no pile of alterations! Thank you all for voting. (The Black dress will probably be coming on the cruise too for the gala night, so It'll get it's chance to shine.)

I'm debating on dining for the cruise. As part of the Have It All package, Jess and I got free dining credits to the specialty dining. The Morimoto pop up isn't part of the package, so we've got two specialty dining credits banging around. I'm tempted to book something else, but I don't know which one, and on which night. I kind of want to start and finish in Club Orange, which is the special dining room for suite passengers. Which leaves four nights we could do it. First sea night on Sunday, Tuesday in Skagway, Thursday in Ketchikan. Or, I could do it on our last sea night if I wanted to finish with a specialty.

As far as the cuisine, there's the steakhouse, or there's the French restaurant or there's the Asian fusion. Steakhouse would probably be better for everyone, but I also love French Food. I probably would skip the Asian, as we're doing Morimoto on Wednesday. I will think on this and look at menus.

Today is sure to be another busy day at work. We'll see if my voice holds out! For now, time to consider getting ready for work. Everyone have the very best Tuesday!

vriddy

Warm as life | Kaijuu No. 8 | Kafka/Reno/Narumi, Reno/Iharu, Kafka/Hoshina | 7.3k words (WIP, 4/7) | rated M

Summary: The new threat posed by No. 9 weighs heavily on everyone. Under these circumstances, emotions run high and what starts as a way of relieving stress can easily bloom into unexpected feelings. Some people find that easier to admit than others.

Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.

yourlibrarian

1) "Bloomberg found that in areas near significant data center activity, wholesale electricity prices rose as much as 267% in a single month. After analyzing 25,000 “grid nodes” they found that more than 70% of those showing price increases were located within 50 miles of data center activity. With data centers forecast to account for 9% of all US power demand by 2035, the reporters said the “unprecedented granularity” of their data showed what is at stake for those living nearby this AI infrastructure."

Another data research story looked into climate change conspiracies, revealing "that hashtags were predominantly pushed by accounts with ties to oil interests in Gulf states and uncovered a coordinated effort to amplify climate conspiracy narratives through networks of automated and semi-automated accounts."

2) Been watching Celebrity Name That Tune and recently Christian Siriano was on it. In some ways this was the funniest one because neither he nor the other person were any good at identifying songs. By the second round they were tied and they ended up going through 4 tie breakers before he finally got one so that he could go on to the third round. Jane Krakowski ended up sitting down on stage while they went through song after song.

3) It's always great to celebrate new content in the public domain. It's still too little but major characters and works are now there, including Poirot and Miss Marple, Nancy Drew, Lord Peter Wimsey, various cartoons, art and music.

4) Cementing its reputation as worst company ever, Meta created ‘playbook’ to fend off government pressure to crack down on scammers. This includes making "scam ads “not findable” when authorities search for them."

5) Amid so many retail closures and the growth of audiobook sales, bookstores were growing in 2025. "This year, 422 newly opened stores joined the American Booksellers Association — nearly a hundred more than joined last year. Barnes & Noble added 55 stores around the country and Books-A-Million added 18. By comparison, Books-A-Million opened seven new stores in 2024.Genre-specific bookshops are also thriving." This even though 40% of Americans read no books at all. However "Only 14% of Americans say they prefer to read digital books, but these are some of the country’s heaviest readers. 13% of them say they read 50 or more books in 2025, compared to 4% of those who prefer physical books and 5% of those who prefer audiobooks."

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starlady

It's the eleventh day of Christmas and high time to post this roundup.

2025 Reading Stats

144 books read, of which 12 were a reread
By gender: 45.5 (32%) by men, the rest by women and other genders
By race: 62 (45%) by people of color
By language: 28 (19%) in Japanese, 8 (0.5%) in translation
New books: 37 (26%) published in 2025
New-to-me authors: 27

…versus 2025 Resolutions

Read 125 books ==> Success! 144, an all-time high!
Read 25 physical books owned since 2023 or earlier ==> Success! 29
Read 35 books by authors of color ==> Success! 62
Read 10 books in translation ==> Fail
Read a volume of manga a week in Japanese ==> Well, I got closer than I have before?
Read all the comics bought before 2025, both physical and digital ==> Fail. But I did buy a refurbished 2021 iPad mini and reading comics on it in Kindle is a pretty good experience, unlike my old iPad which had been blinking off randomly for years. And I think I have done the physical part of it? Except for a few random bandes-dessinées I have lying around.

General Comments
I feel like I'm not entirely sure how I managed to read this many books (well, I read six Lumberjanes collections on the trains to and from New York on New Year's Eve, and I ruthlessly read a lot of novellas that had piled up in December), but I'm pleased about it. I'm especially pleased about reading so much manga, and also that I've gotten faster at reading Japanese again. Which is good because I still have so. much. manga to read. And I buy more every time I go to Japan. I'm also pleased about the physical TBR progress, which includes sorting a bunch of books lurking on the bookshelf for years into piles of "read this and then sell it back," which I will continue doing. Sadly Half Price in town closed because of landlord greed, so now I have to go to either Fremont or Pleasant Hill. Other than that, I did de-prioritize new books to focus on older ones, so there's a lot of good 2025 books that have piled up. Too many books, too little time!

Best of 2025

The Witch Roads and The Nameless Land (duology) by Kate Elliott
Holy Terrors by Margaret Owen
The Wall Around Eden by Joan Slonczewski
Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
Metal from Heaven by august clarke
Fuichin zaijian! (10 vols) by Murakami Motoka
Absolute Wonder Woman vol. 1 by Kelly Thompson et al.
Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill

2025 Reading Resolutions

Read 125 books
Read 25 physical books owned since 2024 or earlier
Read 35 books by authors of color
Read 10 books in translation
Read a volume of manga a week in Japanese
Read all the comics bought before 2025, both physical and digital

settiai

I was able to grab a 12 day cheese advent calendar from Aldi for pretty cheap because I got it in mid-December so it was on sale by that point. They presumably thought it was too late to properly use it, but in my mind a 12 day advent calendar works great for starting it on December 25 vs. a 24/25 day advent calendar which starts at the beginning of the month and goes through Christmas.

So, hey, I ended up getting to have two advent calendars after all! I picked up with this one the day after I finished my Adagio tea one.

( Cheeses under the cut. )

Current Mood: thoughtful

hannah

( This will be a post for me to keep track of the media I take in this year. )

vriddy

My first book of the year is a DNF. There's a part of me that wants to see this as a bad omen for whatever arcane reason, but overall if I must put more weight into this than it deserves, then I'm more inclined to see this as a good omen about letting go of the things that don't serve me. I'm terrible at DNFing books. My compromise is usually "read 100 pages and if you still can't get into it by then, DNF is fair game." Unfortunately this book was only 131 pages long and every time I thought "I must be closer now!" I very much wasn't.

( When I can tell a book isn't working for me, I go into analysis mode )

I've seen a reading meme float on my reading page:

* Grab the nearest book.
* Turn to page 126
* The 6th full sentence is your life in 2026.

I don't want to do it for the other book I started, which is actually closest to me, because I'm not that far in yet and it would spoil me! But I suppose my DNFed book is also there, so... Although I don't really like to talk that much about the things I don't like, I feel like the author is probably doing okay in circles far away from mine. The library waitlist for that book is unbelievable.

So, Orbital by Samantha Harvey! Even if we weren't meant to be this time, what do you predict for my 2026?

You are looking now straight into the heart of the Milky Way, whose pull is so strong and compelling that it feels some nights that the orbit will detach from the earth and venture there, into that deep, dense mass of stars.

Hm.... Don't let the abyss seduce you and swallow you up, no matter how pretty it might look at times? Sure! I can keep that up.

Actually I forgot I had Charlie Jane Anders' "Never Say You Can't Survive" hidden under a few notebooks near me, too. I've been doing a slow reread, a couple of paragraphs here and there, highlighting and tagging bits I want to be able to return to easily later. Maybe that'll give me the how?

"Or you might yourself remembering a broken shoelace from a pair of shoes you owned a dozen years ago."

which is within a section titled, "Big emotions come from tiny things"

Joy in the mundane? Sure, I'm extremely up for that, too :D

I'm a bit antsy about not having finished any book yet, but this is fine. I wrote a fair bit, and also read not-books. Over the last couple of years, I stopped tracking my reading publicly, only jotting down notes in my BuJo instead, maybe an occasional rec here and there, and that's worked wonders to help me read more. I'm still considering creating a goodreads account so I can review at least indie and smaller authors, but I haven't fully committed to a decision yet. Especially when the current system is working out so well for me.

beanside

It's Monday, and I am not ready. I need another couple of days, I think. I seem to be coughing more last night and this morning, so that's not ideal. I will stumble through work, but it's probably going to suck.

Yesterday was mostly a day of being a lump, though I did do one productive thing and dyed my hair. It's now a purple/red. It's pretty, but I do want more purple, so I may bleach next time and then dye, if the overtone doesn't bring out more purple. It's not bad, just not what I want.

The other thing I did was have Jess take pictures of my three dresses. I thought I knew which one I liked, but the pictures show a different take. So I'm outsourcing it. What do you think? (you can also see the hair color!)

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After that, I went back to my nightgown and remained a lump. I rewatched a youtube series on the ship. Part of the problem I have with a lot of the youtube vids is that they're made by able bodied people who do shit like hike of their own free will. I need someone like me to make a video. Someone who can walk, but gets tired and needs to sit. Someone who will be using the free buses and shuttles and will not be taking five mile hikes for fun.

There's one place that has 79 steps. I'm taking the courtesy van, thank you.

Then, I felt in need of a comfort movie, so I put on the Losers. Goddamn, I love that movie. It's such a great 80's style action/comedy and is totally my jam. The cast doesn't hurt, and goes way harder than they need to. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Zoe Saldana and Jason Patric. It's fun and it's fluffy and it was exactly what I wanted for the day. And from a purely aesthetic point, that's a whole lot of pretty stuffed into one movie.

After that, it was time for dinner and to walk the dog. He's been SO obliging the last few days about not getting long walks. He'll walk up to the corner and do his business. I hope that soon, I'll be up to doing the full walk.

And on that note, I'm going to hop off and get ready for work. Everyone have an amazing Monday!

ride_4ever

For those who are wondering why the Multifandom Multimedia Microbang is called "Be A Goldfish," here's the explanation from the comm's Admin

devinwolfi:

When we started this event earlier this year, it was a Ted Lasso fandom exclusive event. We always had every intention to go multifandom later, this just gave us the opportunity to beta test it on a smaller group. In that series, a recurring line is to "be a goldfish," (based on the now disproved idea that goldfish have 3-10 second memories), meaning to let go of past hurts, move on, brave the new day, and try new things, all of which we hope to embody and encourage throughout this event. We've found that smaller works and folks who leave comments tend to get less attention, but those small works and comments are by no means less important to the fandom ecosystem so we wanted to give them, and the fans who share them, the support and attention they deserve. We also know that it's very easy to get bogged down by expectation, past experiences, and the pressure of trying to be "successful" in fandom and be paralyzed by it all to the point of inaction. We want to give people the space to try new things and develop new fannish skills without feeling like they have to commit to big projects.

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

sweetestdrain

I wander over here occasionally and read a post here and there, but just realized that I haven't actually made a post myself since February 2020, which is just a really weird moment in time to have made your last Dreamwidth post. A lot of you have probably seen me sporadically around Twitter (or Bluesky, now), Tumblr, and the occasional Fanworks or other online con, so you might know some of this already, but here's a brief round-up of what's been going on with me since 2020 -- and the vids I've made, which kind of cut off abruptly in 2022 because I also made

a baby

who is now 3 years old and extremely fannish in his tiny child way, which I love even though it means I have seen every episode of Netflix's Trash Truck approximately twenty times.

Aside from raising a child, which has been pretty cool, there's been an assortment of deaths and health scares and dealing with physical distance of friends (for both pandemic and literally living in other state reasons) and not reading enough or exercising enough but working PLENTY. It's really weird how quickly the last six years have passed. Must be all the terror over the state of our world and maybe a bit because of all the children's television I've been watching. Maybe someday I'll make some more vids, and not just of children's television. But in the meantime:

sweetestdrain's vids from 2020 - now, in mostly chronological order

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hannah

The last few days, I've been going through and saving Livejournal Scrapbook photos. Pretty much all of it's from college, when digital cameras were still a new toy, both for me and the world. When you had to find a place to upload the photos before sharing them somewhere else, and LJ Scrapbook was something of a game-changer because you didn't have to deal with a third party. It was all the same party. Everything else I got imported over when I made this journal, but the scrapbook doesn't have an equivalent here and I can imagine the headache people want to avoid. So I'm saving them to a hard drive instead, and looking back at those four years.

What gets me to stop for more than a moment of sighing over my hair or an attempt to mimic William Eggleston are the pictures of my childhood house. Some were because I was playing around with a toy, and a few were - as best I remember - from people asking to see something, because taking pictures and sharing them had suddenly become a breeze. If someone wanted to see a bookshelf or a bathroom sink, you could suddenly do that without any significant trouble. You still had to connect the camera to the computer and upload the photo and embed it, but that wasn't anything more than a small inconvenience. The inch-high barrier was more than enough to make everything shared a deliberate choice, not an impulse.

There's some red eyes, there's a lot of blur, there's less in focus than I'd thought. There's a weird feeling of nostalgia for the small trouble of the steps between taking and sharing the picture, because now there's no thought to it whatsoever, and that's not helping anyone. The forced lack of impulsivity is something I'd like to see again. A few more inch-high barriers would do a lot of people a lot of good.

Going through, most of what I took was of a low enough resolution that checking the page's info and saving the images from there means I'm not losing anything, and what few are of higher resolution are easy to save one at a time. What's strange is that while most of it's generic file names - 39526589_31 or 88612_100, things like that - without anything else to identify it, a small handful have the original metadata, telling me I used an Olympus digital camera in November of 2007. I can't tell where or how that happens, and it's a strange, pleasant surprise whenever it does. The reminder of the reminder.

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Music: Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

ainsley

( a mixed bag of a day; includes rambling about social anxiety )

lannamichaels

Six sentences for sunday!

This is the male!Hermione Granger/Neville Longbottom one, during sixth year.

"Maybe I don't need to pass all my NEWTs," Leontes says in the middle of exam week, their alcove of the common room all too studious around him. "Taking them is good enough, isn't it?"

Neville and Seamus hit him with every forcible mind-clarifying spell they can think of, while Dean grabs one of the Creeveys and urgently demands his camera.

"Maybe it's too much to think I can--"

Dean gets an amazing shot of Neville throwing himself at Leontes while Seamus tries a binding spell that he swears gets rid of most mind-altering curses.

"I don't think he's been confunded," Seamus says.

petra

Love, Bertie (239772 words) by cucumbermoon
Chapters: 40/40
Fandom: Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves & Wooster (TV 1990)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
Characters: Reginald Jeeves, Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Honoria Glossop, Dahlia Travers, Agatha Gregson, minor OCs, Florence Craye, Thomas Gregson (Jeeves), Mabel Biffen
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Letters, World War II, Period-Typical Homophobia, Bertie fought in WWII, Aunt Agatha is evil, Established Relationship, Angst with a Happy Ending, War, Minor Character Death, Non-Graphic Violence, Angst, Fluff and Angst, PTSD, Trauma
Summary:

Separated by war, Bertie and Jeeves exchange letters.

*

This author has a deft grasp of Wodehousian pastiche, a keen eye for when it's time to add OCs, and a dashed lot of humor to put into a story whose premise seems bleak. I enjoyed the twists and turns of this epic tale no end.

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: 47 Ginger-Headed Sailors

beanside

Welcome to Sunday! I can't believe the weekend is already on the downslope. I did nothing yesterday. Watched a couple of episodes of Great British Bake Off, which was very soothing.

We're all still sick. We cough like we're a classic car trying to start, we never have tissues very far away. I do not appreciate it at all.

I plan today to do more of the same. I'd planned to sleep in, but Boodle put an end to that dream with her sharp little patting paws. I'm so glad I trimmed her claws last weekend. The rest of the day will be relaxing, watching Bake Off, maybe comfort watching something, I don't know what. Part of me is thinking Captian America: The Winter Soldier, part is thinking maybe LOTR or the Losers.

With nothing much to focus on, and no actual ability to focus, I've been perusing Cruisetok and cruises on youtube. It's been good. I've been rewatching videos of people's Alaska cruises on the Koningsdam, which is out ship. It's given me a pretty good feel for where things are, as has looking at the floorplan of the Koningsdam.

My ADHD is pleased by this. I want to know where everything is, so that I can lead my family to the various venues, like a little shepherd, until they know were they're going. My favorite is Nothern Viking Explorers videos. They did a nice story on the Koningsdam from the 2024 cruise season. There hasn't been any really comprehensive videos for 2025. Maybe I'll make one for 2026, who knows. I plan to at the very least document what it's like staying in the Pinnacle Suite for people. There's a lack of that, unfortunately, which is sad, because I'd like to know.

I am annoyed that I have nothing left to plan. We've got all our excursions, the trip is fully paid off, the pre and post cruise hotels are booked and the car services have been booked and paid for. Beyond that, there's nothing I can do. I like planning things, so this is also sad.

I got a couple of dresses to try out for the vow renewal. I think I've picked it out, though there is one dress still to come (well, 2, but the second, I didn't realize had a strappy back, so that will not work with a bra (and I need a bra.) The one I'm waiting on is a gorgeous blue dress from ThredUp.

The one I really like is a black wrap neck dress that's shot through with sparkly colored threads. It doesn't look like much on the manequin, but on a person it actually looks really nice.

The blue dress I think is supposed to come this week. Which excites me. I love getting packages. If I have energy today, I'll try on the other two dresses and see which one I like better. Of course, if I have energy, I'll dye my hair. I got a new violet color that I really think will suit me. I'll play it by ear.

Okay, time for me to wrap up and maybe think about eating something. Everyone have a stupendous Sunday!

vriddy

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petra

Pets of Fandom

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

My dearest furry companion is an aging black kitty who likes to sit on my chest and get in the way of my writing.

Current Mood: meow
Current Music: Fluffy's master plan for world domination

lannamichaels

The male!Hermione Granger/Neville Longbottom fic that I started in October but didn't really start actually getting into it until December 23, has now reached 30K words in the file. o.O o.O o.O That includes notes and some cut stuff, so the actual fic is more 29something. But.

I don't know where this thing is going, but it's a fun ride. I've got a summary but no title, and also I think it may end up a series, who knows. But it's fun to dig into what makes Hermione Granger herself, how much of her is being an smart ugly girl vs. what she might be like an an smart ugly boy.

It also revealed my conflation of Shaekespeare, because when I first conceived it in October, I was going to name her Demetrius since I'd thought Hermione was from Midsummer Night's Dream, but no, that's Helena and Hermia. Hermione is from The Winter's Tale.

I have been in productions of both Midsummer and Winter's Tale. But that was back in the dawn of time.

So since I was going to extract for Sunday Six last week but completely forgot about it because I was doing other stuff on sunday, here's not 6 sentences, but in honor of 30K (?????!!??!!?), here's my favorite bit so far:

In January, something strange happens, though. A Hufflepuff, Leontes thinks she's one of Dean's friends, asks him on a date. He does what he's practiced: he covers his heart with his hand and puts every bit of drama into his voice that he's learned from the drama club that he's still, somehow, involved in, and declaims, "I wish I could, dear lady! But I'm afraid my heart is sworn to the service of the cruel Lady NEWT. I can only begin to think of others once my torment is complete. I pray you forgive me for my unchivalrous conduct, but I cannot accompany you to Hogsmeade in the manner in which you request. I must toil instead, these seven years, until my work is done."

She laughs and there's no tension or awkwardness as she leaves him and Neville alone, but Neville's looking at him askance.

"Do you mean that?" he asks. "The whole bit about not dating until after the NEWTs?" Neville had dated a lot in fourth year but hasn't gone to Hogsmeade with anyone except as a friend this year. Leontes has kept his mouth shut about it, reminding himself that it's okay for Neville to go on dates and so it's not okay to congratulate him on putting his OWLs and his Prefect duties ahead of that, because that would make Neville think that Leontes did not, actually, think it was fine to go on dates. Which it is. Even though it does distract from the important things. People can have different priorities and that's okay. It's fine. It's acceptable behavior.

That said, Leontes thinks it's fantastic that Neville isn't dating this year. This is an important year! A vital year! Dating can wait.

"I suppose," Leontes says. "University is also going to be grueling so I may wait until after that, but I'm certainly not going to do it before the NEWTs. And who knows? I might end up with more free time in university for things like that."

Neville, an unreadable expression on his face, takes out his magical planner without a word and flips forward pretty far and then writes something down and then puts it away.

Leontes eyes him, mystified.

"How's Binns doing?" Neville asks, adroitly changing the subject, and Leontes relaxes. Everything's fine. Nothing to worry about. Priorities are definitely established and correct.

Fast-forward:

NEWTs come, inevitably.

The last NEWT of them all is Potions. Leontes waits outside after he finishes for Neville to finish up, then Neville suggests lunch and they wander down to Hogsmeade. Neville leads him into Josephine's, where there's a table waiting for them in the back. They talk lightly about the NEWT -- "awful", "extremely" -- until halfway through the soup course, when Leontes snaps out of the post-examination fugue, looks around, takes in the single candle flickering in the middle of the table and the overall atmosphere of the most romantic restaurant in Hogsmeade.

"Oh," he says. He looks around again, just to make sure. "Why didn't you say anything?"

Neville lowers his spoon. "You said not until we finished the NEWTs. We've finished the NEWTs. Well?"

"Ah," Leontes says eloquently. "Oh. Well. All right, then."

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Page Summary

duskpeterson - FIC: Capital of Emor (Tempestuous Tours)
kass - Dear Purimgifts Author
beanside - For the dreams that you dreamt can become just as real as the blood that was shed
vriddy - Kaijuu No. 8 fic update: Warm as life (Kafka/Reno/Narumi, Reno/Iharu, Kafka/Hoshina) - WIP 4/7
yourlibrarian - Things I've Been Reading and Watching
starlady - 2025 in Books
settiai - Advent Calendar: Cheese
hannah - Media post.
vriddy - First DNF of the year, and reading meme
beanside - It's the truth of candor shone through the prism of deceit
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First DNF of the year, and reading meme

It's the truth of candor shone through the prism of deceit

Fannish Fifty Challenge 2026: Post # 1: Goldfish Explanation for Be A Goldfish Multifandom Microbang

Catching up (lol) -- vids and life since 2020

Thousands upon thousands.

[rhymes just get harder with every new verse]

[Harry Potter] Six sentences because it's sunday and I have laundry I should be sorting right now

Recommendation: Love, Bertie

The dreamers the liars-no lying I'm tired, but dive in the fire and I'll be right there by your side

Kaijuu No. 8 fic update: Warm as life (Kafka/Reno/Narumi, Reno/Iharu, Kafka/Hoshina) - WIP 3/7

Snowflake Challenge #2 - Pets of fandom

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