Polyamorous Recs Daily ([syndicated profile] polyrecsdaily_feed) wrote2025-12-18 05:02 am

A Little Night Air (Harry Potter)

A Little Night Air (Harry Potter):

A Little Night Air, by penknife. Nestra: Snape and McGonagall have a nighttime chat, with the easy familiarity of old adversaries.

I Can Has Cheezburger? ([syndicated profile] icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2025-12-18 02:00 pm

20 Christmas Cats in Santa Hats to Scroll Under the Mistletoe

Posted by Briana Viser

Merry (almost) Christmas, cat lovers. The holidays bring out different things in all of us – for some, it makes us joyful, euphoric, and in an upbeat mood. For others, it can make us pressured, anxious, nervous and overthinking about what to get people for their gifts. Don't be a Scrooge, be a cat loving, meme scrolling, holiday hooligan and enjoy life while we still can! No matter if you're a Scrooge or not, you can still enjoy these cat photos and memes of felines in Santa hats celebrating one of the best holidays yet. And who can deny a little coquettish kiss under some mistletoe. What's more enticing than a pine tree stem hovering above you? 

Cats kiss under the mistletoe too. If you don't believe us, go home and try it today, but if you end up with a furball caught in your throat after your cat goes in for first base, don't blame us! If your holiday plans include avoiding awkward mistletoe encounters and aggressively relaxing with your phone, then 25 Christmas Cats in Santa Hats to Scroll Under the Mistletoe is exactly the festive distraction you deserve. These cats have donned their tiny red hats (against their will, legally speaking) and are here to spread cheer, chaos, and an unreasonable amount of judgment.

I Can Has Cheezburger? ([syndicated profile] icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2025-12-18 09:00 am

43 lb. chonky cat, hissterically named 'Biggie Smalls', charms the hearts of cat lovers everywhere w

Posted by Blake Seidel

Oh, lawd - Biggie Smalls is coming! He's coming, he's going, he's gaining followers, and losing pounds. Biggie arrived to The Big House Sanctuary & Rehab in Ottawa at a shocking 43 pounds. His organs were getting pushed out of the way, and even walking was hard for him. But, the workers at this sanctuary didn't give up on him. We're happy to announce that Biggie has lost… drum roll, please… almost 20 pounds! He's still a chonker, but he's literally lost almost half of himself since he started this journey.

Biggie quickly became an internet celebrity in the cat world due to his purrfectly round nature. He has millions of likes and followers, everyone pawistively invested in his de-chonkification. He's still got about five or ten more pounds to lose, but it's not about racing to the finish, it's about getting there in the furst place! We've been in love with him since the beginning, and we can't wait to see the cat he will become in the future. We're all about body pawsitivity, but we're also equally about healthy cats leading healthy lives

He may no longer be round in body, but he is still round in spirit. Read more about the notorious C.A.T. by scrolling down!

I Can Has Cheezburger? ([syndicated profile] icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2025-12-18 07:00 am

2025’s 50 Rarest and Most Fabulous Felines Flaunting Their Fascinating and Unique Fur Designs and Pa

Posted by Mariel Ruvinsky

The year 2025 has been one big challenge. And we mean that in varios ways, of course, but what we are taking about specifically here is the challenge of just… going online. So much negativity, so much drama, so much clickbait and madness. It has been everywhere. But inside all of that madness, something meowgical was happening. It was the same thing that happens every year. Cats. No matter what was going on online, there were always viral stories of cats for us to enjoy. And this year, one genre of cat post that we have seen go viral over and over again was unique and rare cats

We think that people just wanted a little extra beauty in their lives, espeically on the internet. And so, every week, we would open some social media platform, and every week, there would be at least one unique and beautiful cat for us to stare at. Something about thsese posts captured the hearts of the people, so we thought that it was only right to give the people what they have been asking for, so we put together the coolest cats of 2025. 

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-12-18 10:00 am

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(This was when I was working for a variety store where store managers choose from a catalogue of items to put in their shops. Our tills are next to the sweets, where I hear a conversation between my supervisor and a customer couple.) Customer: We’re looking for gommes (pronounced like gone with an m) Supervisor: […]

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Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-12-18 10:00 am

Déjà Food

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The cashier is taking an order during the morning shift at a fast-food place. The customer orders multiple of the same item, which uses pre-made ingredients and is pre-prepared (not made to order).
Customer: "It better be made right this time. I want it full. Not like how you usually give me. Every [Same Corporate Franchise] in town makes better ones than this store."

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oursin ([personal profile] oursin) wrote2025-12-18 09:41 am

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Hasppy birthday, [personal profile] nomeancity!
Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-12-18 09:00 am

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For my toddler, my mother is Grandma and my mother-in-law is Grammy. In theory, this will make things less confusing, but at the moment, she’s still working out which ending goes with which grandmother. Toddler, seeing Grammy: “Grandma!” Grammy: “No honey, I’m Grammy. Grandma is your mama’s mama.” Toddler, completely unbothered: “Grammy!” Me: “There you […]

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Silver Adept ([personal profile] silveradept) wrote2025-12-17 11:30 pm

December Days 02025 #17: Persistence

It's December Days time again. This year, I have decided that I'm going to talk about skills and applications thereof, if for no other reason than because I am prone to both the fixed mindset and the downplaying of any skills that I might have obtained as not "real" skills because they do not fit some form of ideal.

17: Persistence )
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Meep Matsushima ([personal profile] matsushima) wrote in [community profile] thankfulthursday2025-12-18 05:11 pm

merci (19 December 2025)

What are you thankful for this week?
· Photos are optional but encouraged.
· Check-ins remain open until the following week's post is shared.
· Do feel free to comment on others' check-ins but don't harsh anyone else's squee.
Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-12-18 08:00 am

No Escaping Bad Decisions

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A couple had started their day here not only by not completing the waivers that are legally required, but had us scrambling to find them since they somehow SNUCK INTO THE ESCAPE ROOM via a secondary entrance, which has a big and obvious sign to not use said entrance.

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Travis ([personal profile] torachan) wrote2025-12-17 11:40 pm
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2025 Disneyland Trip #78 (12/17/25)

Disneyland is still way more crowded than I was anticipating. We got over to the parks around 6:30pm and were planning to get dinner from the Festival of Holidays carts at DCA and assumed it would be less crowded there than at Disneyland, but the lines to get in were really long for some reason. Once we were actually inside it wasn't too bad (still crowded, though), so I guess it was just a case of a lot of people arriving for after work trips at the same time.

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Y ferch olaf Coed-Iâl ([personal profile] ashkitty) wrote2025-12-17 11:13 pm
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12 Days (til) Christmas Day 5

Back to Kirk and Spock again! Told you they’re almost half the list. Advent 2012. The Enterprise crew carry out their mission to investigate weird shit wherever they find it. Guided by a Christmas star (kind of) they stumble on an unexpected birth (kind of). One of my favourite things about writing Trek fic is how weird and unexplainable you can make things (this will come up again later).

Nativus (Star Trek Reboot, Kirk/Spock)
Rated G

‘By the time they reach the surface, it is no longer the barren wasteland the initial scans had indicated. They stand surrounded by vegetation, lush and thick and a shade of green so bright it's almost gold; by the sound of trickling streams and the growing thrum of insect life. The tricorders vibrate with each new discovery as lifesigns appear around them with increasing rapidity, and above them coloured clouds rush through the sky like a gymnastic rainbow.…’

Song: Silent Night (There are of course many versions; this is the absolutely haunting one by Sinead O'Connor.)

Fic rec: Feast of the Unwise Men by Drayton (Oxford Time Travel)
Rated G

Technically this is an Epiphany fic, but since I'm doing pre-Christmas days and not post-Christmas days, here we are. It's about those few days after Dunworthy and Colin retrieve Kivrin from the Black Death, and the fallout - while knowledge of the canon will definitely help here, it's also a fic for anyone who has had to deal with university administrations.

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Travis ([personal profile] torachan) wrote2025-12-17 11:17 pm
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Daily Happiness

1. Spent most of the work day cleaning up data and while I originally thought it was going to take me a couple days, I actually got the whole file done today, which was nice.

2. We went to Disneyland for dinner. Still way more crowded than I would have thought with so many passholders blocked out, but not quite as bad as last Monday. We did have some really delicious food, though. And we finally managed to get some more of those cranberry orange loaves from Jolly Holiday and brought them home for breakfast tomorrow.

3. Jasper's really loving the warming bed now that it has lost its sides and become a warming cushion. Not sure if it's because of the new shape or because it's on top of a chest rather than on the floor, but he's into it.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] goals_on_dw2025-12-17 08:31 pm
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Signup Post: Arts and Crafts Challenges in 2026

There are all kinds of craft challenges and goals that people like to do. Some are individual, others are group events. Some are all year, others shorter. Some have speculative fiction themes, others are ordinary. They span a great many different arts and crafts including but not limited to crochet, drawing, knitting, painting, quilting, sewing, and woodworking. Here are some for your inspiration. On Dreamwidth, see communities for Art and Crafts. Note that [community profile] get_knitted makes regular checkin posts for your craft projects.

You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2026 and reply with a comment. Below the list of challenges is a short form for listing which you have chosen. Make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Arts and Crafts challenge in [community profile] goals_on_dw" -- or list the specific challenge if you're doing an official one somewhere else instead of a personal one here. Then make a tag for it like "Arts and Crafts Challenge" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Art, Crafts, Crochet, Painting, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.

There is a Bingo Card Generator if you want to make your own using premade lists or whatever prompts you want to paste in. Various sizes and styles are available.

See also the Fannish 50 challenge, which simply aims to post fifty entries on any topic in fandom. If you want to crochet the crew of the Enterprise, sew a complete capsule wardrobe inspired by hobbits, or carve a replica of Hogwarts, go for it. Either writing about or posting pictures of your progress will count. You can even double-count anything that applies to two or more goals, e.g. stashbusting, crochet, and Fannish 50.

Do you know of any other arts and crafts challenges in 2026? Share a link so they can be added to the list of options.

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I Can Has Cheezburger? ([syndicated profile] icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2025-12-17 08:00 pm

Cat lover finds a helpless kitten in the snow, only 3 weeks after her cat crosses the rainbow bridge

Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer

Cats have an extra special way of burrowing into human hearts. Oftentimes, they make us earn their affections, but once we are invited into the exclusive Kitty Friendship Club, that cat will love and trust us for the rest of their days. However, sometimes our soul-cats are taken from us too soon, and like the cat lover in this next story who lost her beloved best friend at only 2 years old, it's tough to replace their meows, their cuddles, and especially their special purrsonalities

However, only 3 weeks after her cat crossed the rainbow bridge, she discovered a helpless meowing kitten in the snow, literally submerged in the cold. Without her help, the kitten would never have survived, so naturally, she had no choice but to scoop the kitty up. But after inviting the cat into her home, she started noticing unusual behavior from the rambunctious feline. 

This cat wasn't just an ordinary stray, but a near carbon copy of her other cat.

Without a shadow of a doubt in her heart, she believed this cat came to her for a reason. Not because he was cold in the snow, needing a home, or because he knew the woman inside was a cat cuddler, but because this cat had been here before. 

He was just coming home. 

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Vriddy ([personal profile] vriddy) wrote2025-12-18 05:31 am

Community Thursday

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

Posted & commented on [community profile] bnha_fans. Final episode of the anime aired. Main series is truly truly over now!!!

Commented on [community profile] goals_on_dw.

Commented on [community profile] getyourwordsout.

Commented on [community profile] common_nature.

Promoted [community profile] getyourwordsout, [community profile] worderlands, [community profile] inkitout, [community profile] fan_writers.
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My Fannish Corner ([personal profile] mxcatmoon) wrote2025-12-18 12:18 am
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A poll about socks

 I have a burning question (that came to me while putting my socks on), so I made a poll.

Feel free to wax poetically about the topic in the comments. What about your characters? Sonny Crockett famously does not wear them. Rico does, but to tell you the truth, I haven't paid them much attention (I'll have to fix that).

Poll #33968 Sock Habits
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 19


Do you have left and right socks?

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Of course! Can't wear socks on the wrong feet!
3 (15.8%)

No, it doesn't matter
15 (78.9%)

I don't wear socks
0 (0.0%)

I refuse to answer on the grounds it may incriminate me, but ticky boxes!
1 (5.3%)

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Lynn | Settiai ([personal profile] settiai) wrote2025-12-18 12:24 am
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Aurendor D&D: Summary for 12/17 Game

In tonight's game, the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.