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sisko: mr garak it appears the station needs your help once again

garak: [lana del rey voice] who, me? i?? [laughs] why, commander, i couldn’t possibly. i’m just a tailor. a humble tailor. a simple, vapid, gay tailor. i only know about trivial, homosexual things like scarves, textiles, classic literature, mimosas–

sisko: mr garak, how many times do i have to tell you? we don’t HAVE that stereotype in the future anymore!! now, you can either help us stop dr bashirs dragon age 57 mod from 3D printing snakes onto the promenade or i’m having you extradited to breen!!!

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“He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy” (Titus 3:5).

When I was a little boy, my dad and I went canoeing down the Current River in southern Missouri. The water is crystal clear and ice cold, spring-fed with fast-moving rapids. It’s shallow in most areas so you can reach down and pick up the smooth rocks along the riverbed.

However, in some areas, the water turns a beautiful color of bright blue as you navigate through deeper waters.

We took many trips down this river, and I still remember our very first journey. It was only a few minutes after we had put our canoe in the water when we saw some commotion up ahead. A tree had just fallen across the river and was smack dab in the middle of our way. To make things worse, the river was deep in this section and the water was moving fast under the tree.

Fortunately, a DNR officer was standing on the shore trying to warn everyone about this obstacle and how to best navigate around it. Despite our best attempts to paddle away, we could not overcome the fast-moving rapids pulling us right toward the tree.

We couldn’t stop what was coming. The front of our boat hit the large branch, our canoe then turned sideways, tilted a bit to the left, and quickly started taking on water. Within seconds, the boat was completely submerged and sitting at the bottom of the river. I was trying desperately to grab onto a branch of the tree.

My dad jumped into action, pulling me out of the water and toward the outstretched hand of this DNR officer who pulled me ashore. My dad made it out too.

Just a moment ago, we were sitting in a boat enjoying the warm summer day. The next, we were soaked from head to toe with ice-cold water, standing on the shore. Life is like that sometimes.

Maybe you’ve been “dumped in the river” recently—your life totally upended. The way things used to be has come to an abrupt halt. If so, don’t lose hope.


The Bible says we have a Savior who comes to our rescue, not because of the righteous things we have done, but because of his mercy. His name is Jesus, and he can restore all things and redeem all things, and he alone can rescue us from even the worst life can throw at us. Reach for his outstretched hand today. He will pull you ashore to safety.

After we dried off a bit and collected the oars that had floated downriver, the DNR officer waded into the water and helped my dad pull the canoe up from the bottom of the river. They dumped the water out and before we knew it, we were back on our way.

Our journey had been temporarily disrupted, but it wasn’t over yet.

Your journey is not over either. There is still more life up ahead.

Penpal theory

Sep. 23rd, 2025 07:42 am
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Posted by /u/velvetmoon07

Apologies in advance if this has been discussed/posted before but I can’t help but feel that the main character meets and interacts with the stalker when he goes to meet Veronica at the cinema.

I think that the stalker was the person working the ticket stand that night.

From what I remember they’re described as having a larger stature which matched the description of the man found in the coffin.

But more so I think there’s a parallel between the main character’s nerves they were experiencing before meeting Veronica and the ticket seller being described as sweaty when he’s interacting with the main character - which could be construed as extreme nerves.

There may be a hole in that theory somewhere but just wondered if anyone else had thought anything similar.

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If you read We Used To Live Here

Sep. 23rd, 2025 06:02 am
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Posted by /u/Rahalone

Do you think there will be a second book? I have to say I cannot express how much I loved this book. I know there are a lot of people who didn’t like that you are left with a lot of questions, and if this is the only book I am still ok with having questions. However, I’m not going to lie and say I don’t want more.

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Come Closer by Sara Gran

Sep. 23rd, 2025 05:37 am
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Posted by /u/Puppy_PowPow

I’m halfway through the book and…. does it get better??? It’s my first possession book, but I feel like I’m reading an endless list of events. Yes, the events slowly become more extreme, but the writing style is making me feel like I’m reading the bullet points from someone’s day, not a story. It feels repetitive as well. How did you guys like this book?

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Happy Equinox

Sep. 22nd, 2025 10:45 pm
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It's Mabon here in the north. It's my favorite time of year. It was not off to a good start today but you know what? It's all just minor work stuff and it'll work itself out.

I don't understand what Rybelsus did to me but ever since I took it just for those 3 days (and it took another 3 to recover) it seemed to reset me. My diabetes is doing good, blood sugar down to normal levels. I know it won't last and it makes me sad I couldn't deal with the side effects. It would be nice not to have to worry about all the damage done from the high sugars.

Had the authors' zoom tonight. It was a short one but that's okay because storms were raging around and I got a lot of words and I finished my second [community profile] wipbigbang which is great. Now to get moving on other things. Too much to do.

And I got a request for my bio and buy links from the cryptid anthology I'm in. Finally. Still no release date.

So Mothman festival (pictures like all my pictures coming eventually). Last year I went on Saturday but my friend TH wanted to come with me this year and he couldn't go until Sunday. You know what, SO much better. On Saturday even getting there are 830 (it starts at 10) there was NO parking. Had to park blocks away (for some reason I wish I knew why, pre covid we had to park 2.5 miles in Krodel park but there were buses to the fest, now you still have to park there and WALK to town. No way)

But since Sunday had no 5K mothrun we got to park in the handicapped lot (which I doubt anyone knew existed because very few others asked the boys to move the blockage and let them in. I'm not shy about that). Last year everything was open before 10 (thank you racers) but yesterday no one was expect Silver Bridge coffee (my local favorite brand) I got caught and me and TH sat at a sidewalk table talking until things opened.

It was cool then (ended up around 90 by noon though) We left before 1 and the talks started but let's face it, I'm getting old and TH is several years older than me and it was getting hot. How many Bigfoot talks can we go to?!? We dipped out on that.

So it was a nice few hours of shopping around (and me showing him the new stores because he's a homebody and didn't even know about these stores) It's good. The town is recovering a little and it's great to see and for perspective, Point Pleasant has about 4,000 people. The festival had nearly 40K. Yeah.

Did I get much? No, oddly enough not as much as I usually do but again how much more crap do I need? I got some pins from the guy with popculture stuff, a couple fridge magnets, one book on creepy florida (ha, didn't expect that!) and two more cds from Nox Arcana whom I love. And some more infused maple syrup from the sellers I buy from every year.

I ran into a former student and we'll hopefully by hiring her on as part of the wellness committee to teach yoga.

Lunch was special...bad special, delicious but bad from coal miner diner, a hot dog with cheese, bacon, fried pickles and slaw. I felt SO much better after that and that caused me concern. I think my BP has been low (another sign I might have a slow bleed ulcer) I mean think of all the salt in that. It made me feel good so it raised my pressure up.

I saw storm troopers, ghost busters, men in black, mothmen, the hodag (another cryptid I lived in his town) and the hot new cryptid this year was the Squonk! That's right, the one I was going to his festival in July but had to house sit. He's also in the other cryptid story I wrote that I'm still waiting to hear (I hope they're not one of those we're never telling you you didn't get in) I didn't buy any squonk stuff. Maybe next year if my story gets taken in.

TH is looking at me like I'm crazy because I'm like hey Vendor, saw you at the Kecksburg fest, yo how was the bigfoot fest. No, not crazy but I am deeply weird.


It's just a free for all Music Monday share whatever makes your weird little heart happy. I'll go first.

For Mabon -



and here's the album I bought
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Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi, Chen Qing Ling
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, Jiang Cheng, Lan Xichen, Jiang Yanli, Jin Zixuan
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 26 photos
Creator Tags: char: jiang cheng, char: jiang yanli, char: jin zixuan, char: lan wangji, char: lan xichen, char: wei wuxian, fanwork: other
Creator Links: (AO3) [archiveofourown.org profile] Technomancer28; (DeviantArt) [deviantart.com profile] Abyss-Valkyrie; (Dreamwidth) [personal profile] abyss_valkyrie; (Tumblr) [tumblr.com profile] abyss-valkyrie

Theme: Food and Cooking, Non-Fic Recs: Crafts

Summary: So I spent all of yesterday and the night before making cupcakes and I wanted to try making some MDZS/Untamed character themed ones so these were very self indulgent and made me happy,lol.

Reccer's Notes: Exactly what it says on the tin: various characters from The Untamed, as symbolized by a photospread of fluffily ornate cupcakes; my own favorite is the Jiang Cheng one in fluorite swirls of violet and teal.

Fanwork Links: The Untamed cupcakes

Critical Role + AO3

Sep. 22nd, 2025 09:42 pm
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Oh, good! I was hoping that the AO3 would come up with a plan for the Critical Role tag before CR4 started next week, and it looks like they have.

I know that I didn't have to do it, but I went through and edited all 64 of my Critical Role fanworks on the AO3 to change the fandom from Critical Role (Web Series) to Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series). I also added a non-canonical fandom tag to each of them to make it very clear which campaign/miniseries they belong to, if only because it's starting to get a bit complicated.

For those curious (which is approximately no one), the non-canonical fandom tags that I added are as follows:

Critical Role: The Adventures of the Darrington Brigade (Web Series),
Critical Role: Bells Hells (Web Series)
Critical Role: Mighty Nein (Web Series)
Critical Role: The Screw Job (Web Series)
Critical Role: Vox Machina (Web Series)
Exandria Unlimited (Web Series)
Exandria Unlimited: Calamity (Web Series)

... although admittedly I was already using several of those non-canonical tags prior to me editing my fics today. It's really just the three main campaign tags that are newly added as of today.
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Posted by /u/Able_Zebra_476

Besides horror, I enjoy crime thrillers and feel like the author S.A. Cosby is one of a kind. The gritty-ness and intensity, both high but not over-the-top, the vividness in his description of the characters and geography, and overall tone make him a “master of the genre”. Who would you consider this in the horror genre, outside the big guys like King, Simmons, etc.? Just curious to hear what other people think.

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Daily Happiness

Sep. 22nd, 2025 05:53 pm
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1. I decided to stay home today. Pretty much all the tasks I've been working on are now at the step of waiting for someone else to get back to me so I can do something else, so if I'd gone to work it would have been sending out reminders and poking around a bit of stuff here and there, and I just didn't feel like it. Even though taking three weeks off earlier this year knocked down my PTO balance enough that I don't need to worry about it maxing out immediately, it will max out before we take our planned trip next year, so I've got to use some days here and there to knock it down a bit more anyway.

2. Since it's not a usual day off, I didn't have any usual chores or errands on my to-do list and mostly just read and played Donky Kong Bananza (which I am still enjoying a lot). I did take a midday walk, which was much nicer in our neighborhood than at work, since we actually have a lot of shade if I stick to certain streets, which I was able to do since I was not going anywhere specific, just walking to walk.

3. I finished up another puzzle this morning, the first of those new Disney ones we got. It turns out they have rounded corners, which I wasn't expecting. Carla did the whole border, so I didn't actually have to deal with them, but since they're just a bit curved, I don't think it probably makes too much of a difference in difficulty.



4. Ollie's such a sweet guy.

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Posted by /u/Doctor_Pretorius_

What would you recommend?

  1. Twilight Eyes
  2. The Funhouse
  3. Phantoms

After some looking around, i think these 3 sound like they probably have the most “spooky season” feel. If you have others you would recommend, that’s fine too, but kinda leaning towards one of these 3.

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Weekend reading

Sep. 22nd, 2025 07:05 pm
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Finished my books in progress (Three Men In A Boat, Hemlock & Silver) and read Whip Hand by Dick Francis, the second book in a mystery/thriller series set against a backdrop of horse racing and featuring jockey turned private investigator Sid Halley. I'd read the first, Odds Against (and, perhaps more importantly, the parody fic Odds Abridged) last February and apparently reviewed it solely in a comment on [personal profile] osprey_archer's post, which I am copying here for posterity:

The actual book was entertainingly what it was - having now read two (2) Dick Francis books, I am amused by his apparent quirk of going on super-detailed digressions about, like, corporate takeover law and how boilers work that you just kind of have to ride out until he gets back to the story - but I was, as the kids say, hooting and hollering throughout the fic. So many good lines, but the one that really got me was: where we derailed the bad-guy-capture scene to weigh me on the jockey scales, because we were all united in fucking curiosity at that point.

Anyway, Whip Hand certainly continued to put this man into situations.

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