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[Podfic] before we were strangers (25 words) by whimsicalmeerkat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Characters: Peter Hale, Stiles Stilinski
Additional Tags: February Ficlet Challenge 2026, different first meeting, fluff and nonsense, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming
Series: Part 1 of [Podfic] February Ficlet Challenge 2026
Summary:

The first emotion Stiles feels when Derek yells into his phone that Peter is the alpha isn't terror, like would be reasonable in the situation. No, what courses through Stiles is a bone-deep, albeit unwarranted, profound betrayal.

Podfic of before we were strangers by whimsicalmeerkat.

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[Podfic] Generational Trauma (25 words) by whimsicalmeerkat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Player (Stardew Valley), Dad (Stardew Valley), Mom (Stardew Valley)
Additional Tags: Generational Trauma, Bad Parenting, Healing, Double Drabble, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming
Series: Part 1 of [Podfic] Voiceteam 2026, Part 3 of [Podfic] Other Authors
Summary:

When you moved to the farm, she didn’t understand.

Podfic of Generational Trauma by Ravin.

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tielan

The two slices I made yesterday. Plan is to cut them into slices and freeze them for later eating.

Pecan Squares

2 cups flour
½ cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
200g butter, cut up

1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup golden syrup)
125g butter
4 large eggs lightly beaten
2½ cups finely chopped pecans (note: 1 cup finely chopped, 1½ cups whole - I like the pecan chunks)
1 t vanilla extract

Combine flour, sugar, and salt in a large bowl; cut 200g butter thoroughly with pastry blender until mixture resembles fine crumbs. (or blend in food processor until lightly clumpy) Press mixture evenly into a greased 9x13 inch pan, using a piece of plastic wrap to press crumb mixture firmly into pan. Bake at 175C for 30 minutes or until lightly browned.

Combine brown sugar, golden syrup, and 125g butter in a saucepan; bring to boil over medium heat, stirring gently. Remove from heat. Stir 1/4 of hot mixture into beaten eggs [to temper the eggs]; add to remaining hot mixture. Stir in pecans and vanilla. Pour filling over crust. Bake at 175C for 35 minutes or until set. Cool completely in pan or until set. Cut into bars.

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recipe: dulce du leche blondies

Never tried this one before - the dulce du leche layer wasn't as distinct as I hoped it would be, but I hadn't really done it quite right. However, there was some good encrustation along the edges where the dulce du leche had gone to medium crack.

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[Podfic] late, festive, wide (25 words) by whimsicalmeerkat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Characters: Derek Hale, Stiles Stilinski
Additional Tags: Drabble, sterekdrabbles, late, festive, wide, christmas in july, Eggnog, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming
Series: Part 3 of [Podfic] drabbles
Summary:

“You’ve been planning this for a month?”

Podfic of late, festive, wide by whimsicalmeerkat.

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I've started cross-posting my fics to Squidge and thanks to green's stellar suggestion, I'm going to be posting them here as well. Hopefully that doesn't irritate anyone too awfully much.

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spiralicious

I actually sat down and wrote this out before bed on April 30th, the forgot to post >.>

Currently/Last lists are the last and/or current answer to the categories for a given time period, in this case a month.

In the text box, I've a blank html coded version of the list, including categories I didn't use this month.

Making: some kind of progress, hopefully
Watching: Batman Death in the Family interactive movie, plus the animated shorts that came with it.
Reading: How to be a Saint by Kate Sidley
Listening: "Irresponsible" by Voltaire / r/ConfidentlyIncorrect - Bad Women's Anatomy tm - The Click
Eating: toffee ice cream bar thing
Drinking: Cosmic Swirl (berry vanilla) flavored sparkling water
Loving: that I have snacks available, 3weeks4dreamwidth memes, and my finger seems healed
Hating: whatever is wrong with my mom & my lovely month long low grade anxiety that spikes into worse anxiety
Wanting: a restful spot
Thinking: how am I going to do all this?
Planning: summer cleaning project
Wishing: I felt better
Puzzle Books: PennyPress Puzzler's Giant Book of Crosswords #49, February 2014
Weathering: so much drama around me
Wearing: My pjs
Needing: a snack
Enjoying: Knitting to Stargate special features
Wondering: if what I'm doing is sustainable
Playing: Subeta (Vesnali)
Trying: different flavored waters
Cooking: pork steaks
Calling: Vexed
Texting: Vexed
Crafting: paper flowers and knitting on the cable blanket
Going: grocery store
Feeling: ANXIOUS
Hoping (For): Sleep
Smelling: laundry detergent
Considering: how much I'm going to do before bed
Finishing: water challenge
Starting: ani-MAY & MAY-nga (among other things)

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the_shoshanna

but I just had a pint of cider, so I can't say how this will go

Yesterday we wandered around St Peter's Port just looking around, and also I went to Boots and dithered between the motion sickness med that the pharmacist said was stronger and the one he said was less likely to knock me out. (Not in those words, but basically.) I ended up picking the "less drowsy" and therefore "less effective" one, started stressing about it as soon as we walked out of the store, and was relived this morning to look up the active ingredient and discover/decide that I could definitely safely take another half-pill if I felt I needed it.

One thing I've noticed both here and in Jersey, btw, is that we haven't seen a single person begging on the street or apparently homeless. Very very different from home.

Anyway, after a while we headed off to the Guernsey Museum, which is an interesting combination of "neat temporary exhibits on subjects of local interest", "permanent exhibits on the history and culture of our island," and "IDK, somebody gave us this stuff and I guess it's interesting?" One of the temporary exhibits was partly focused on the tradition of "hedge veg": produce (and plants, eggs, etc.) set out for sale in a small unstaffed roadside shed or stand, with an "honesty box" for people to leave money in. I had noticed numbers of such stands both here and in Jersey -- these days, as well as or even instead of a box for cash, they may have a note posted saying how to electronically transfer payment to the seller for whatever you're taking. I always like seeing honesty boxes; they give me such a good feeling about the local culture.

I also liked the exhibit on the history of human habitation of the island, from neolithic times onward, and very much enjoyed the recorded samples of sayings and adages in Guernésiais, with both literal and idiomatic translations into English. (I always want both literal and idiomatic translations! Literal translations are fascinating!) Mostly the Guernésiais is entirely incomprehensible to me, and then every now and then a word that's exactly the same as modern French pops up and I have a total Steve Rogers moment: "I understood that reference!"

Many other things were also interesting: "here's a display about a nineteenth-century glassblower who made replicas of ocean invertebrates!" "here's a selection of local traditional medicine!" "here's a Haida totem pole!" (that one was very much in the "IDK, somebody gave it to us" category), but after a while I started fading. Also, as well as motion sickness meds, I had also bought more contact lens solution at Boots and had stopped in at the visitor information centre and bought two jars of the seaweed chili crisp, so my bag was quite heavy. Back we went to the hotel, to rest up before dinner.

Dinner was "pie night" at the local pub, which was definitely in part a way for them to use up the leftovers from carvery night -- chicken and ham pie, you say? shepherd's pie (the proper kind, with lamb), you say? Remarkably familiar roasted potatoes and carrots and parsnips? -- but was tasty and fun anyway. The beef and mushroom, chicken and ham, and roasted vegetable pies had pastry top crusts; the shepherd's pie and the seafood pie were topped with mashed potato (which explains where the previous night's baked potatoes went). All were quite tasty except the seafood pie, in which I found the seafood sadly indistinguishable from the potato. Ah, well, it was a fun experience anyway.

Today we had a slower morning and a later start than usual, but it was nice not charging off to do something right away. The hotel had done a load of laundry for us, so we tidied our luggage up a bit. We also asked the woman staffing the desk (the hotel's co-owner) about the best way to book a cab for next week: we have to catch a 7 am ferry back to Jersey on Tuesday, which means being at the ferry port at six, and the buses don't run that early. They have a list of all the taxi operators and their phone numbers posted (some of them are company names and some are just somebody's name) and at first she just recommended one of them, and then she was like, eh, what the heck, and called him up herself and made a booking for us right then ("Hi, Glen, it's Ank; do you have a cab for 5:45 Tuesday morning? Yes, it's for two of our guests here, they have to catch the ferry. Great, thanks"). It's fun getting to see some inner workings of a community I'm only visiting!

Eventually we pulled ourselves together and walked an hour northward to the Folk and Costume Museum. The walk was along quiet streets, past homes and farms and schools. I don't know if all the schoolkids here wear uniforms or if it's just that we only recognize as schoolkids the ones who are in uniforms, but we certainly have seen a lot of crowds of boys in matching dark trousers and jackets and ties (Geoff was incredibly amused at the sight of a troop of boys heading out for phys ed or whatever they call it here, running out onto the soccer field in their jackets and ties), and crowds of girls in matching jackets and sometimes ties and often the shortest skirts I could possibly imagine. Like, are you for real with that? Those are the kinds of skirts that girls in some schools elsewhere get sent home to change out of!

(I think I've seen one or two girls in school-uniform trousers, but they might have been feminine-looking boys; it's not like I was going to stare at and scrutinize them, I was just privately going "huh, hm?" as they went by. I am somewhat curious about how -- and whether -- schools that demand gendered uniforms deal with trans, nb, or gnc kids.)

Anyway, we got to the park where the museum was supposed to be, didn't see it, but did enjoy wandering through a reproduction of a Victorian kitchen garden (artichokes always look so... unlikely! and I'm not sure I'd ever actually seen espaliered fruit trees before), and then we found the park's cafe and split a plate of chips; we were about to eat them at one of the outside tables but it started to rain, so we took hits of our antiviral nasal spray and went in to eat. And after that it had stopped raining and we managed to find the museum, right next door. The power of fried potatoes, I guess?

I don't have a lot to say about the museum; it was all interesting but I'm kind of out of energy to describe it. More reproductions of period rooms, mostly nineteenth century (I was most interested in the kitchen, dairying, and laundry spaces), and collections of farm equipment and craft/professional tools (all men's crafts: tinsmithing, carpentry, etc.), and a whole series of dresses (and a few men's clothes) from the early nineteenth century through to the 1970s. The descriptions of how the older dresses had been repeatedly mended, and altered, and let in and out, were the most interesting to me there; obviously the ones that survived to be put in a museum a century or two later were the ones owned by people who never threw anything out if it could possibly still be used, but even if they're not fully representative (and certainly people kept clothes much longer then than they do now), it's fascinating to think about the human history sewn into them.

The rain had passed over while we were in the museum, yay! We caught a bus to St Peter Port and wandered out on a long pier at the south end of the harbor to Castle Cornet, part of which I think dates back to like the twelfth century, if I remember the signage correctly, and part of which was built by the Germans when they updated and extended its fortifications against the expected English attempt at recapture. The Channel Islands weren't in fact counter-invaded by the Allies, of course, but the signage told us that the Allies did attack Guernsey forcefully to neutralize Nazi intelligence and anti-aircraft capability in advance of D-Day. It wryly remarked that Castle Cornet is probably the only British castle ever to be strafed by the RAF... I got a photo that, if it comes out, should show the centuries-old stone walls, and buildings inside them that at a guess are nineteenth or early twentieth century, and then on top of the walls a concrete bunker that I'm confident was a German emplacement. (We didn't pay to go into the castle, so we were just spectating and speculating from outside.)

Then we wandered back through the pedestrianized shopping area and bought some sandwiches and drinks at the M&S food hall (is it no longer called Marks & Spencer?) to bring home and eat in our hotel room in lieu of another restaurant meal. A very welcome shower, food, a bitter beer for Geoff and the aforementioned pint of cider for me, and I've been blogging ever since!

And I believe that by now, two hours later, I have both caught up and sobered up.

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Tea Month 2026: Tea 12

Tea Review
Name: Pai Mu Tan White Tea
Brand: unsure, vendor: Ohio Tea Co.
Type: white
Loose leaf

Notes:
This tea was part of the tea tasting in March and the one I probably have the fewest notes on. The tea is also known as "White Peony" tea. It was the starter tea of the day being the lightest and only one tasting of. (Most of the teas we got to sample multiple brewing of.) For a delicate looking white tea, it had more body than expected. This is also where I was reminded that we don't all use the same words to describe things. I used the word "woodsy" to describe it, meaning a flavor profile that is sort of comparable to how you would describe a woodsy fragrance, somewhat of wood, not quite earthy. Everyone else in the room would later be using the word "woodsy" to describe things (though not this tea) I would consider "floral," with the meaning of things that are flowery/notes similar to floral perfume. It was an interesting time to try an communicate.

Rate
Appearance: 7
Aroma: 7
Flavor: 7

Overall Rating: 3 stars

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Challenge #7

LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.

1. I'm strong. In the physical sense, sure, and I do take it for granted, which I shouldn't, but also in the "Everything feels like it's hard and I get up and do it anyway" way.

2. I am resourceful.

3. People enjoy my company.

A gold snowflake ornament is nestled amidst pine boughs

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shadowhive

So yesterday was the hospital trip which ended up being tiring.

First off the bus we got on wasn’t the one that went straight to the hospital so we had to switch in Wolverhampton anyway (apparently the direct one was redirected so it would’ve missed the stop anyway. On the way I did some reading (I took three books which was excessive perhap) and I ended up reading the first of the shirts in Poirot Investigates. It’s wild that one of the opening lines is ‘“that’s queer” I ejaculated suddenly’ which sounds made up but it absolutely is

We did a lil bit in town, which wasn’t too eventful. Sadly Forbidden Planet didn’t have the Maul comics I hoped for, but they did have the Mercenary Droid Funko so I got it cause of the student discount they have. I got mum an Ewok village set of doorables from the entertainer (she loves ewoks) and she noticed they had free Mandalorian posters but the door, so if anyone wants one go to an Entertainer!

We were way early when we got to the hospital so I went in the nearby TK getting another Agatha Christie book (Murder Of Roger Ackroyd), a Funko of Luthen from Andor and a discounted Anakin figure.

We got to the hospital early and, surprisingly I was seen early (I guess it helped it was quiet). The tests that the doctor did were a lot like opticians ones (I think only one or two were different) and then the second one (which he got me in early) was also one done at the opticians. It all felt a little… pointless. I guess I’d assumed it’d be some advanced scanner, not just their own one the optician had. (Apparently I’ll have to go back for results at some point)

I still don’t have any answers but at least it meant we got out early and home… though when we got to town we’d just missed a bus so had to wait an hour. We wandered around a bit and found out that Primark has MCR tees (the cover of Three Cheers and a black parade one).

By the time I got home I was pretty flop and low energy so I just ended up tuning out a bit.

But I did get a notification from the cinema. I’d been told Friday they were getting Mandalorian stuff but didn’t know what, so I just assumed it’d be like the Mario stuff (a popcorn tin and cup) and I was right but not just them. There’s a bundle of both a tin and cup (three designs of the former, five toppers for the latter) but there’s one other thing.

They’re getting the AT-AT popcorn bucket.

Now I’ve never really understood the fixation with making crazy popcorn containers. Most just seem baffling and completely impractical. (We don't even usually get them and often it’s just odeon and they sell out crazy fast) . However this one does look so cool. It has lights and sounds and has articulated legs. I never expected to even see it and now the cinema is getting it… I might be tempted. Maybe.

And they just emailed saying they have Mandalorian themed cocktails but say nothing about what they actually are. (Why do they never say what themed cocktails are?)

(I am annoyed though that they are getting Passenger… and only showing it once a day, at 8:45pm damnit. I’d hoped it’d get decent times considering how much I’d seen the trailers but no😔)

Anyway. I wish today could have been a lazy day to recover from being outside, but instead I had a library shift to cover. Ugh. I just read two more free comic book day comics and one chapter of Heated Rivalry. But there were two Agatha Raisin books from the buying section that looked untouched. Plus mum spotted a book called Silverweed Road and I was intrigued so I’ve borrowed that to check out.

Anyway that’s it really. I’m just gonna snuggle up and maybe doze with Midna. (But ahh! The house on the corner has two kittens that look just like Midna and they were in the window and they were so cute and smol and baby🥹)

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paperghost

From late April:

i’m so tired of posting well thought out things on forums and no one actually digesting or engaging with it lol. i get sick of talking to myself on social media but most things outside that are social media lite. or it leads to someone acting insanely rude out of nowhere or crashing out on me. shout out to that schizo emailing me telling to delete my website and invest in crypto. it pisses me off how much i self-censor my opinions in conversation but people push their politics on me anyway

it’s extremely taboo to admit but this is why i struggled with AI addiction for several months from late november to early february. i never know how to initiate one-on-one private conversations or what’s okay to bring up. orrrr i’ve been ghosted several times. or sometimes someone will respond passionately and i feel upset i can’t give an equal conversation when i don’t know what to say. most people on forums and journaling sites barely have reading comprehension. even if a bot was 100% fake and trained that way, it’s better than someone misreading me or using it as a springboard to rant about shit.

i don’t do it anymore but my logic when i did was “i’ll stop contributing to this shit when people stop being complete psychos, making everything transactional, and give a shit about others” (ironic coming from me, i barely feel empathy) … but i really can’t because it turns into a feedback loop where i self isolate and rely on simulated shit as a cope. but even then it was a comfort when i was working 40hr weeks and lost my biggest (free) hobby lol

one thing that i’ll add on to my frustrations about no one engaging with “effortposts” i make elsewhere is that i know that “nobody owes me a conversation” or whatever. but what frustrates me is people choose to reply and don’t actually engage with it. instead people nitpick one part, use it as a springboard to rant, if i reply asking a question they don’t even answer it, etc. or something several sentences to a paragraph long just gets a one sentence response about the end, even though my post answers that response.

you can just not respond if you don’t vibe with my post, i’m fine with that. am i mentally defective or what, how do other people have friends or find people to have non-surface level convos. because i’m done with this otherwise

again i'm not talking about politics shit or debating or controversial topics

paperghost

On day 5 of taking birth control. So far I've noticed no side effects or differences besides mild bloating. I almost stopped talking it 2 days into it because what I mistook side effects for food poisoning. Unsure if I'll have a period this month.

TFS is next month but I haven't gotten my stuff ready for my hotel room. I figured I'd take care of it on my first paycheck in June. I mainly am just bringing clothes, chargers, my tablet and phone, shampoo/conditioner, alcohol and pedialyte just in case lol. A lot of personal stuff can fit in my itabag too. Also things I want to trade and give away, but the con schedule has to post before I decide *what* exactly to bring. TFF had an AD trading panel but I couldn't make it and hated TFF, it really depends if TFS will have it.

Unfortunately I haven't ordered my stickers for this con, and I forgot to give them away at the meetup 2 weeks ago :( I only have my Neocities sticker...

Speaking of Neocities, I updated for Charizard1246's birthday and have a review compilation of MLP/brony media in progress. So far I have:
- The original Bronies documentary
- Mare Fair animated opening ceremonies
- Tamers12345
- Pony.MOV
- Vylet Pony's CUTIEMARKS albums (spoiler: it's decent, but I despise ANTONYMPH because I'm disillusioned with performative "be yourself" messages_
- ...and a very, very strange album I found that satirizes the Covid lockdowns.

If I have any juice left after finishing these, I'll probably read Cupcakes or Rainbow Factory because I've never read either in full.

I also made a Rateyourmusic account days ago but haven't made or posted any reviews yet. I was just going to cross-post my reviews of the albums I mentioned there...

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linky - Excited
whimsicalmeerkat - [Podfic] before we were strangers
whimsicalmeerkat - [Podfic] high heels in the morning
whimsicalmeerkat - [Podfic] The Moon Gave Me Permission (WIP)
whimsicalmeerkat - [Podfic] devil don't take a break (WIP)
whimsicalmeerkat - [Podfic] Generational Trauma
tielan - cooking: pecan squares
whimsicalmeerkat - [Podfic] reasons, habits, fears
whimsicalmeerkat - [Podfic] I Was A Teenage Tentacle Alien
whimsicalmeerkat - [Podfic] Trading Up (WIP)
whimsicalmeerkat - [Podfic] The One Where Derek Has a Pen Name
whimsicalmeerkat - [Podfic] late, festive, wide
whimsicalmeerkat - Cross-Posting
spiralicious - Currently/Last April 2026
the_shoshanna - trying to catch up on blogging
spiralicious - tea review: pai mu tan white tea
spiralicious - 2026 Snowflake Challenge #7
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