( books (Shaw, a different Shaw, Spinney, Ames, Barkataki, Palmer) )

yarning
ahahaha, etsy. So, out of the blue, I sold 3 things Monday, 2 of which I didn't have in stock and had to make, and guess who hadn't crocheted at all in 3 weeks? And hardly at all for nearly 3 months? Also, I hadn't sold anything through Etsy except patterns in months, or promoted my shop on social media, or even uploaded the few things I've finished lately to my shop. Stupid shoulder, stupid slump. But now I've caught up, I need to jump back into it. And also get the sold items in the mail.

dirt
omg the thrips saga is ongoing. The whole extensive bathroom-greenhouse is at risk, and I've sprayed almost everything in there down with Captain Jack's Dead Bug Brew, whether it's edible or not. Also unfortunate, there are fungus gnats in my terrarium, so along with a Buddha statue, there are 2 yellow sticky trap flags. They really set the tone. Um, not. Also, but fortunately, the snail is 100% NOT a leaf-eater, so I'm hoping it lives on detritus and not something important, like roots. Will have to do more research now that it's large enough to possibly identify.

( healthcrap )

food
I made mujadara for the first time in at least a year, and it turned out so well. I'm glad I used both giant sweet onions, because they were just enough. Also made sunflower arugula pesto. Zucchini noodles are weirdly satisfying, even if they aren't near filling enough. Still having trouble getting anywhere near thirty different plants a week in my diet, and also getting enough protein.

#resist
June 1: Pride LGBTQ Protest
June 3 to 9: Target Boycott
June 14: Flag Day & No King's Day (Trump's Birthday) Protest
June 19: Juneteenth Protest
June 27: Stonewall Anniversary Protest
June 24 to 30: McDonald’s Boycott
July 4: Independence Day Boycott and Protest

a list of resources:
50501, Tesla Takedown, Build The Resistance, The General Strike, Indivisible, Rise & Resist, Move On, The People's Union USA, all but the last taken from 50501's latest Substack post. Plus, on DW:

thisfinecrew and

communityactionusa.

I hope all of y'all are doing well! <333

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There seems to be a little confusion about what we're asking for when we say to indicate the freeform.

An example signup is made up of

Name - hurtcomfortmod

Fandom - Aldnoah.Zero (Anime & Manga)

Relationship(s) - Asseylum Vers Allusia/Slaine Troyard (hurt Slaine)

Work Medium - Fanfiction

Freeforms - A's adventuring party all killed; A must find their way back to safety while badly injured and alone
A's Been Hurting B to Keep B Safe; Finally A Gives in to Impulses (It Ends With Sex)
A's seriously injured on mission; B's ordered to leave A and proceed with the mission but disobeys

Those last three are the freeforms. They may also be called Optional Tags. If you go to AO3 Automagic App you can see the Freeforms/Optional Tags clearly for the signups.

In this exchange you must create for a requested fandom, a requested relationship within that fandom, a requested work medium, and a requested freeform/optional tag. None of these are optional.

The freeform can be tagged in the work you submit, or put in an author note. These can be removed before the exchange goes live, but must be present to count as a submitted assignment.

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Universe: Veilverse
Story:The Hellhound | Era: Out Of The Cage
Colour: Warm Heart #02. Worry
Supplies and styles: miniature, chiaroscuro, resin
Resin:

fandom_empire Fortune Wheel Week 3
Word Count: 100
Rating: T
Warnings: mild blood, past abuse

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maju

This morning passed in a flash. First, I left just before 8 to take the car in for its service and walked home in pouring rain, navigating some very wet sections of road and footpath on the way. It had been raining steadily for most of the night I think, and parts of my route have very poor drainage and struggle to cope with the amount of rain we were having. I was mostly dry because I wore a raincoat and carried an umbrella, but my pants legs were wet almost up to my knees by the time I got home. (It's about 1 ½ km/.9 mile from here.) I didn't really care because it wasn't too cold, but it's cold enough for me to have the heat running so I know the wet pants and shoes will dry quickly.

After I got home I used the exercise bike for an hour and then did some food prep work. I was just finishing up with that when my phone rang; the car was ready for pickup (already!). So I slogged back through the rain to the car service place. The rain was finally starting to ease off slightly, but the route was still just as waterlogged of course. I was pleased that the car didn't need anything much done to it apart from the oil change and basic checks etc.

On the way home with the car I detoured to Safeway for a few groceries, and by the time I got back it was almost midday and definitely time for lunch. The underground carpark was much more crowded than usual, so I'm guessing everybody had the same idea as me: park out of the rain.

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Posted by Phyllis Irene Radford

https://bookviewcafe.com/here-there-be-dinosaurs/

https://bookviewcafe.com/?p=18753

Dinosaurs continue to live among us. Well maybe not everywhere all the time. But in special places, like the crocodilians in the swamps of Australia and Florida, or some fish in the depths of the Columbia River that divides the states of Oregon and Washington.

I’m talking about the giant white sturgeons. A few of these “monsters” abide in a series of deep pools maintained by the Bonneville Dam Sturgeon Center. The dam spans the Columbia River, nearly a mile wide at this point. These ancient fish dwell in both fresh and salt water. They are slow growing. Fishing of them is limited. Females must be a minimum of twelve feet long to be taken by fisherfolk, and therefore mature enough to produce eggs—the coveted caviar.

The center has pictures of fisherman from many years ago standing next to mature male sturgeons hauled upright. You can hardly see the average-sized men who caught the twenty-two feet long fish.

Sturgeons are literally bottom feeders. The barbels beneath their chins brush against the riverbed helping the fish determine what’s edible and what isn’t. Their hides are thick and their meat sweet. Due to over fishing, sturgeon rarely reach their full growth potential now.

The fish featured in my photo is Herman the Sturgeon, the center’s mascot, estimated to be eighty-five years old. With sunlight filtering through the trees to the bottom of his pond he looks very white. The younger fish who share his abode are much more green.

Green, as in reflecting the exquisite grounds around the various ponds and waterfalls and lush gardens. The habitat for rainbow trout is full of the longest and fattest of their kind I have ever seen—twenty-four inches average.

Even if you have no interest in ancient fish, or the giftshop featuring both Herman and Sasquatch, you can stroll the grounds while touring the Columbia River Gorge, and maybe venture into the dam’s visitor center where they have native petroglyphs engraved on boulders and a tour of how the Bonneville Power administration provides energy to large chunks of the Pacific Northwest while taking extreme measures to protect the magnificent dinosaurs that they guard.

And don’t forget the dozen or so magnificent waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge, where melting mountain snows and plentiful springs send bright water plunging hundreds of feet to fill pools and meander into the river.

A lovely day trip within easy reach of Portland.

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duckprintspress

1. What are you currently reading?

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine: I started! I read the prologue. That's. literally all I've managed.
Moriarty the Patriot vol. 6 by Ryosuke Takeuchi: okay the handling of Irene Adler is growing on me... I guess... (I'm enjoying this vol. more than basically all the others, so I def won't be giving up the series yet...)
*天官赐福 manhua vol. 3 by 墨香铜臭: I DID manage to start a second Chinese manhua still within May! I probably won't finish it this month but still, 3 vols in 2 months would still be more than one vol a month. I'll take it.

2. What have you recently finished reading?

so much manga. I haven't been able to brain much else. anyway...

The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish vol. 4 by Xue Shan Fei Hu: finished the book, and thus the series! It was fine. Vol. 4 continued to be less kid-oriented that vol 3, but overall if I'd known how kid-focused the whole series would be I doubt I would ever have read it.
My Beautiful Man vol. 3 by Yuu Nagira
Yona of the Dawn vol. 12 by Mizuho Kusanagi
Rooming with My Two Lovers by Anji Seina: poly BL. unremarkable as yaoi, but it was nice to get some poly.
Spy x Family vol. 10 by Tatsuya Endo: it was nice to get some of Loid's backstory. I was hoping we would, based on the cover.
Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! vol. 12 by Yuu Toyota
Demon Slayer/Kimetsu no Yaiba vol. 17 by Koyoharu Gotouge
Moriarty the Patriot vol. 5 by Ryosuke Takeuchi
Chainsaw Man vol. 10 by Tatsuki Fujimoto: I'm done reading this one. There's only one more vol in this arc, but all the characters I liked but one are dead, and next arc is apparently about all new characters, and I can't imagine why I'd give a single shit when I emotionally invested in the backstory and goals and aims of all the first arc characters only for them all to die without accomplishing any of those things. That's just not interesting to me.
Platinum Blood by Mor Ichigaya: unmemorable priest x vampire yaoi. It was fine.
Ogi's Summer Break vol. 1 by Koikawa: very odd and often uncomfortable book (modern BL, gender non-conforming lead, blind ml). Reserving full judgement until I've read the second half.
Touch Within the Abyss by Moyori Mori: another BL with a blind ml, idk how that happened twice in a row. Assassin x blind shut-in. This was surprisingly good.
Be My Love, My Lord by Adumi Nagano: modern yaoi in a world where people with animal features are enslaved; owner x enslaved dog guy. IMO did a decent job on the awkwardness of the premise and the consent issues.
Cheri, My Destiny! by Okoge Mochino: modern BL. Never really figured out the chemistry between the main characters. Meh.
My Dear Agent vol. 1 by Ebino Bisque: cute modern BL about two body guards. Didn't quite come together, and the ML was obnoxiously pushy, never really figured out why the MC grew to like him. It's only two vols tho so I'm reserving full judgement for the second (which I have like 4 week wait for, sigh.)

3. What will you read next?

I only have like 6 manga borrowed on Libby and none are due imminently, so nothing urgent there... since I think I might finally be getting a little invested in Moriarty the Patriot, probably that? Those volumes are from the physical local library so I'd like to read um and return um sooner rather than later. And Solo Leveling vol. 1 by Chugong, now that I got my hands on it (after I read vol. 2 to 8 lol).

cimorene

As you all are potentially aware, I have an allergy to at least one (unknown id) perfume and am hyper sensitive to other (many, but not all) perfumes and some natural fragrances. Besides one lavender tea incident, the throat swelling has only ever been in response to perfumed products on the lower half of my face for longer than the time it takes to wash it back off (so it's not TOO scary, since I always have time to escape). Hypersensitivity isn't the same as allergy, but when you add the knowledge that some unknown perfume aggressors out there will make my airway swell mostly closed, the hypersensitivity becomes very alarming and hard to deal with. Am I sneezing and feeling like I'm gonna choke because Smell, or am I risking anaphylaxis?

So as you can imagine, I usually buy unscented cosmetics, hygiene products, etc. And that's not always enough! As I was saying to

twistedchick recently, sometimes I have to discard unscented products due to the smells of ingredients. Common offenders include burning (how?), ozone (this isn't unbearable but it's very annoying), a vaguely "gone off" smell in some moisturizers (rancid oils? Or some kind of fungal ingredient??), and urine (WHY! I know it's because they use urea in the manufacture but that's an issue I would think they would consider urgent to fix???)

But sometimes I feel compelled to try scented products because there doesn't seem to be a good unscented alternative. If you have any special requirements for shampoo and conditioner - in my case, I have low-porosity hair and lots of common ingredients don't work for me - there tend to be no unscented options, because unscented products are already considered a special requirement. I have decided that I need a new leave in conditioner that's more effective for holding curls and waves without frizz, and maybe a curl cream. (I don't like gel but it's always there if I can't find a good cream solution.)

Well, I tried a John Frieda Frizz Ease "curl revitalizing oil spray" today with great hopes.

My first impression was "this smells like my mother in law".

waxjism agrees. It's a perfume, and the product does contain a little patchouli but it's not exactly patchouli that smells like her (but it is musky). The ingredients include "perfume", as usual, which should be illegal anywhere btw, so that's not much help.

Anyway, it's strong enough that I don't like it and will have to give it away, but it's not strong enough that I need to wash it out a day early, as long as my hair is kept back out of my face.

I've been reading the occasional perfume review reblogged by

cleolinda and have got the idea it could be oud or some rose-related thing. Or maybe it's the combination of patchouli with one of these other things? I'm medium confident that it's not moringa...

( full ingredients list )

Current Mood: I don't have a hair tag
Current Music: or an allergy tag

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Name: Mr. Fox
Age Group: N/A
Country: Ukraine

Subscription/Access Policy:
Feel free to read, comment, and share your thoughts. I'm always open to dialogue.

Before adding me:
I’m an open person without any specific agenda. I’m Ukrainian — and perhaps it’s worth mentioning these days, just to avoid misunderstandings.
Welcome aboard. Think of this journal as a collection of messages in a bottle.

I mostly post about:
Stories from my life — thoughts, feelings, and moments during this time of war in Ukraine. I try to write honestly, capturing emotions: memories of peace, reflections on the present, and fragments from my life as a mariner and traveler.
This journal is still young — I’ve recently returned to writing after a long break. Most entries are bilingual (English and my native language), and I often include my own photographs — chosen to match my thoughts or mood.

Main Fandoms:
I’m not active in any specific fandom, but I enjoy stories that resonate. Some shows I like include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, How I Met Your Mother, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and others.

Fannish Interests:
Photography (almost professionally), lomography (capturing daily glimpses), music (especially acoustic, alternative, and instrumental covers), psychology, and classical literature.
I love discovering new things — ideas, places, stories, and people.

I'm looking to meet people who:
…feel connected to what I write — kindred spirits or simply those who find meaning in my words. I’m open to everyone (with one exception: I don’t welcome those who support or excuse the war). My posts are open and honest. I’d love to find new interesting people to read and connect with.

Favourite Movies:
Disney classics, Pearl Harbor, Greyhound, Loneliness on the Net, Sweet November, and others that reflect emotion and transformation.

Favourite Books:
Loneliness on the Net, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Art of Loving, To Have or to Be?, and other books about meaning and depth.

Music:
Acoustic and instrumental covers, alternative and classic rock, hip-hop, and popular tracks — I don’t limit myself to a single genre

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Title: “Too Old and Powerful ”
Author:

PJ1228
Beta-reader: Switchbladeeyes
Length: 8,662 words
Rating/Warnings: Teen and up audiences. No archive warnings apply.
Summary: “Nick finds a translation of the Abarat. Will he be able to take the cure this time?”

“Too Old and Powerful”

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Universe: Beschiverse
Story: Of Rusted Hearts And Greased Palms
Colour: Off-White #01. Stomp
Supplies and styles: canvas, miniature, chiaroscuro, photography, resin
Resin:

fandom_empire Fortune Wheel Week 3
Word count: 100
Rating: T
Warnings: child abuse (character is 16)

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conuly

That, or we have a new dog on the block that sounds a lot like a turkey and which will not shut up.

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osprey_archer

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

Rebecca Romney’s Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, in which Romney tracks down many of the books Jane Austen admired (often as ebooks, which I must admit takes much of the romance out of the rare book hunt) and discovers many lost gems of literary excellence. (And also Hannah More, whom she did not take to.) An engrossing read.

D. E. Stevenson’s Mrs. Tim Gets a Job. Like all of D. E. Stevenson’s novels, this is cozy like sitting curled up in an armchair by the fire with a cup of cocoa while a thunderstorm beats against the window in the night. It’s not that she’s writing in a world where bad things don’t happen, or even where bad things don’t happen to our heroes, but by the end of the book it will all turn out right.

Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States, edited by Mikail Iossel and Jeff Parker. An essay collection published not long after 9/11, although only a few of the essays actually touch on that event. Many of them include potshots at American political correctness (hard to embrace the concept if you come from the country where you could literally be sent to a gulag for “political incorrectness”), as well as lists of American books the authors read at a formative age.

I thank my lucky stars that I didn’t read this before Honeytrap, as the book might have been delayed indefinitely while I tried to work my way through the works of Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, as well as some other authors I’ve never even heard of. With truth the author of this essay notes “the average Soviet person probably knew [American science fiction] better than the average American.”

What I’m Reading Now

Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Sadly suspicious that none of these characters are ever going to make it to the lighthouse.

What I Plan to Read Next

Does my lightning zoom through Jane Austen’s Bookshelf mean that I will at last read an eighteenth century novel? MAYBE. The library boasts Fanny Burney’s Evelina, Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Romance of the Forest, Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, and Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda. Any recommendations among those works?

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This month is almost over, so, let's hear it. *g* How did it go with your fannish creativity?

Did you manage to make a thing?

Created fanart or made vids? Wrote fic or meta? How about picspams, link collections, character mood boards, themed playlists, promo posts, or whatever else you create for fannish enjoyment?

Here's the place to share it with us! Leave a link in the comments, or elaborate on it as much as you want.

thedarlingone

I appear to be alive. The Rogue Squadron discord (Star Wars rebel pilots fandom, approximately) has been really hopping lately, as much as a fandom that's never gone over a dozen active members in my memory can hop; I've written and published several fics, so many that I'm not sure I've even crossposted them all to here. (I may have, but I'm too tired to check.) Somebody asked about "necroposting" on discussions from a few hours ago -- we're in favor, approximately half the chatter right now is from old LJ-era fans, one of whom recently found where everyone else had gone to (via me, I'm smug) -- and someone else pointed out that the whole fandom is basically necroposting, as the vast majority of our Rebel pilot canon was published 1996–1999 and the final piece of what this group usually works off of is from 2012.

Being the extrovert I am, I've also drawn enough energy and enthusiasm from the chatter to do most of the necessary line edits on the first 136k of a monster fic Leia and I have been trying to finish up. ( waffling )

...where was I? Right. We're also picking up some renewed enthusiasm for the rest of the WIPs we dropped when the fandom died out the last time, but who knows how far we'll get in any of those since we are trying to finish a couple of the current ones first.

I've also been working sporadically on more of that Close Readings meta-analysis piece I think I did crosspost to here semi-recently, but because the author (GNU) had binge-read everything else that was published at the time before writing the books I'm analyzing, they're full of references I keep missing. So I'm genuinely pondering whether to go and read all of the old EU (I actually prefer the current brand name, "Legends") in publication order and make extensive notes. If I do, I'll likely livechat them on the discord because we have a book club channel, then archive somewhat modified versions of the notes here so I can reference them later.

( different waffling )

haitangkitty

Watch on YouTube

Seulrene is back!!

5 years ago I was obsessed with their debut album "Monster" and especially the single "Naughty", and to my joy this whole comeback has that same vibe as that MV. The promos for this comeback were insane, full on lesbian bdsm :D The music video for the title track "Tilt" is very cool, it has a little bit of an Aespa vibe. I was first afraid that SM wouldn't put much effort to this comeback but luckily i was wrong.

The songs:

TILT
Love this! Someone said it feels like a sister song to Kylie Minogue's "Padam Padam" and i really agree with that comparison.

What's your problem? ft. Julie
I don't support kiof's actions but i gotta say i like their music and this song has their y2k vibe overall.

Irresistible
Sexy!!! Maybe my second favorite track.

Girl Next Door
"I like the girl next door". I really like the lyrics and it's a very catchy song. After Chuu's "Kiss a Kitty" I didn't really expect to get another wlw kpop anthem but here we are.

Trampoline
Chill song, has that classic Red Velvet feel to it.

Heaven
Sounds heavenly!

Overall:
To my surprise I think this album tops "Monster"! It has a dangerous, cinematic, groovy, sexy vibe. Rich toxic bdsm office lesbians... I would love to watch/read a yuri with the same concept. This album will definitely become a staple in the lesbian girl group fandom. I only would have wished for a full album because it's such a quick listen (17min).

Current Mood: cheerful

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Hello, Pears!

I'm excited to be running another round of Rare Pair Exchange for 2025. I've appearciated the enthusiasm to see this exchange return!

If you participated in the exchange last year (2024 round), please make sure you have commented on all of your gifts. This exchange has a mandatory rule that all gifts must be commented on (with a good faith effort) for participants to be able to participate again. If you cannot comment on your gift for any reason, please contact me at rarepairexmod@gmail.com. A handy link, if you need it: The 2024 AO3 collection.

If you have not commented on your gifts by the time the 2025 round begins, you will not be able to participate in this round of the exchange.

Please comment on all of your gifts by Monday 4 August (11.59pm EDT).

I will be revising the rules and guidelines for the 2025 round and posting them in the next few weeks. Please note the eligibility criteria remains the same, but we will be adding podfic to our list of mediums allowed in the exchange.

See you in August!

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rarepairexchange

rarepairexchange is a fanwork exchange focusing on rare ships (romantic and/or sexual). We define "rare" as relationships having less than 250 works on AO3, are completed and written in English, and filtered using the otp:true filter.

We have a minimum requirement of 1,000 words (or work equivalent) and allow fic, art, and podfic. You must have an AO3 account and be 18+ to participate.

2025 Schedule:

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Current Phase

Waiting for our rare 🍐s to ripen.

leecetheartist posting in

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Title: Cosmic Wiggle

Artist:

leecetheartist

Rating: G

Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a

Summary: Wiggle merperson from above.

Content Notes:That Cosmic Glow from Diamine sure has a great sheen! It's pretty with a wash too. Drawn with the Conklin and a lovely time I had of it too.

sovay

Actually, despite the amount of vacuuming and dusting it contained, I had a rather nice day. I walked into Cambridge to pick up my copies of Sian Northey and Ness Owen's Afonydd (2025) and Vin Packer's The Girl on the Best Seller List (1960) and a present for my niece, based on Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris' The Lost Words (2017). Thanks to a sale, I was able to present

spatch with a DVD of Get Crazy (1983) and my mother gave me Poker Faces (1926), otherwise known as the recently restored silent feature starring Edward Everett Horton which has intrigued me for the last month. She thinks I should learn to read Welsh. I had an oat scone in between errands.

selkie approved my introduction to Calbee's seaweed-and-salt potato chips. The mail brought the disaster-themed special volume of The Massachusetts Historical Review which contains the chapter on the 1755 Cape Ann earthquake from Donald Fleming's never-finished history of science edited by Dean Grodzins. I cleaned a lot. Mostly it's been weeks since I walked anywhere and was not dead flat afterward, wiped out from doing one thing in a day. The alternative was nice.

Current Music: Oneida, "History's Great Navigators"

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What I'm Doing Wednesday

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Warm Heart #02

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Read-in-Progress Wednesday

Here There Be Dinosaurs!

WWW Wednesday

hunting for leave in conditioners for curls (waves) that don't stank

New subscribers and subscriptions

“Too Old and Powerful” by PJ1228 (T, gen)

Off-White #01

It's turkey o'clock.

Wednesday Reading Meme

Did You Make a Thing?

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TILT by Irene&Seulgi

Commenting on last year's gifts + change to 2025's round.

2025 Schedule and Important Links.