February Monthly Post

Feb. 28th, 2026 12:43 am
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This is the February community post for [community profile] birdfeeding. Which birds did you see this month? What were your wildlife activities during February? What are your plans for March?

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Life During Wartime, Part 2

Feb. 27th, 2026 08:40 pm
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This month has been a...LOT. So whatever you may have seen on the news or heard online, Minnesota is still being occupied and the impacts of both that and this administration's b.s. are pretty intense. Currently, the four biggest crises at the local level are rent (families have been forced to stay home and haven't been able to work and rent is due), legal support for families trying to get their kidnapped relatives back, impacts to rescues and shelters from pets having to be surrendered or just plain abandoned when their people are kidnapped and our major public hospital (one of the biggest networks in the state and a huge employer as well as the main provider of healthcare to people who are uninsured) teetering on the brink of closure. If you can spare a couple of bucks, here are some recommended fundraisers:
  • Stand with Minnesota has an up to date list of rent funds. I live in Bancroft, but help is needed in Philips, Central, North Minneapolis, West St. Paul, you name it. Throw a dart at a rent fund and it will help.
  • Women's Foundation of Minnesota Immigrant Rapid Response - I've been an annual donor to the Women's Foundation for a very long time and they do great work so they're my pick in the area. Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota is another excellent chose.
  • Hennepin County Medical Center - they have a mobile pediatric clinic going to people's homes, a coat closet and a ton of other services, in additional to medical care.
  • ICE Hurts Animals Too - organization founded by several of my neighbors. In the first two weeks that this fund existed, they rescued 30 cats, got them vetted and fostered. In two weeks. They do house calls with vets, dog walking, emergency care, pet food and necessities delivered to families who can't go out, etc. Multi-species too.
What are we doing here, apart from patrolling, escorting, getting food to people, etc., etc.? There are about 3 benefits a day, every day, at a minimum, for all kinds of things. I haven't had full time employment since last July and I have contributed to 30 some odd fundraisers of one kind or another in two months. We're also holding space at DreamHaven Books and owners Greg and Lisa are donating to food banks, teachers who need books for their students who can't go to school, rent emergencies and more. MS Now broadcast the response to the State of the Union from the store on Tuesday night, which Greg and Lisa found very interesting. There are people coming from all over the country to meet Greg and visit the store with messages of support and more. It's been lovely so far, if very exhausting.

I'm teaching at the Loft Literary Center with Jennie Goloboy tomorrow morning and, snow permitting, going to the Lodge of Lazarus Crowe with the Diodes (local steampunk club) to try out a puzzle room or too, But in the meantime, also hosting an impromptu rent relief benefit on the Queen of Swords Press website - get a book by one of our Minnesota authors tomorrow (2/28): Jennie Goloboy, Michael Merriam, me or Emily L. Byrne and I'll make a donation to my neighborhood rent relief group.

Other than that, watching my boy kitty, Shu, slowly fade away, taking my data analytics classes, working on my next werewolf novel, an article I have due next month on a Margaret St. Clair story, a queer Arthurian tale set in Nazi-occupied France (go figure) and other sundry projects. Also: Queen of Swords Press submissions, Joyce Chng's new book, StoryBundle planning and more. Once I get a few more things picked off, it'll be back to looking at work options I can take on around the store. Good thing I have a fair amount of energy!

12 Helly R./Helena Eagan fic recs

Feb. 27th, 2026 10:26 pm
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I've just shared 12 fic recs for the ship Helly R./Helena Eagan from Severance over on my journal. Please note that most are NSFW and deal with dark topics. If that sounds good to you, come get your toxic yuri!

Watsfic's 50th

Feb. 27th, 2026 09:39 pm
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Seen on the Watsfic discord, qwp

Hey [personal profile] everyone,

**It is with great pride that I announce WATSFIC's 50ᵗʰ Anniversary!** On January 13th, 1976, we were officially recognized by the Federation of Students as a student club. For 50-years since then we have been nerding out to all facets of Sci-Fi and Fantasy. From the original release of Star Wars and the animated Lord of the Rings films, to Dungeons and Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, and Wargaming.

To celebrate our first half-century as a club at UW, **we are hosting our 50ᵗʰ Anniversary Event on March 7ᵗʰ. Join us from 11 AM to 11 PM in MC 4041 and 4042** as we take a walk down memory lane. With stops along Ravenloft and the White Plume Mountain, glimpses of the wonders and horrors of space with Mothership and Warhammer, casual pitstops with Board Games and Magic: The Gathering, and some nice R&R complete with classic films and painting.

**Please Sign-Up using this form :**
Walk-Ins are welcome, however, we cannot guarantee space for everyone at every activity.

**We'd like to thank everyone** for helping keep this club going strong for 50 years, **and invite you all, first-year to alumni, to join us in this once in a 50-year celebration** of nerdom at the University of Waterloo!

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I'm working on identity porn for tomorrow because the Virginwan Weekend over on tumblr has it as a prompt, and y'all could've knocked me over with a feather when I saw it listed. A fest for deflowering my blorbo, and it has my word? OMG!

Even though what I meant back when I arguably made the word up (c. August, 2005 | Fanlore) and what the AO3 tag means do not tend to coincide.

My version is "A and B know each other extremely well. They have complicated identities -- maybe secret, but not secret from each other. They kink on acting out a subset of their identities for each other."

I am writing My Kind of Identity Porn on the occasion of Anakin's knighting.

It goes like this. )

*

Tagging this put Patricia O'Callaghan's cover of Leonard Cohen's "I'm Your Man" in my head, so here, have Charmax's awesome femslash vid to it.

Daily Check In.

Feb. 27th, 2026 06:55 pm
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Friday to midnight on Saturday (8pm Eastern Time).


Poll #34298 Daily poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 16

How are you doing?

I am okay
11 (73.3%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
4 (26.7%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
7 (43.8%)

One other person
6 (37.5%)

More than one other person
3 (18.8%)



Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

noticing small good things...

Feb. 27th, 2026 07:24 pm
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...is an act of hope, and therefore resistance.

Today I saw: bittercress, henbit, and onion grass are up - yum! Witch hazel bloom is fading, daffodils are coming up.

Today I got: free pears; spendy-but-fair local yarn that was what I had been lowkey looking for (natural gray undyed wool); gluten-free muffins.

Today I was able to: help others during a fire drill; encourage friendship; try my best under the circumstances; take a walk.

Today I read: some old Marvel fic that is comfort reading for me.

Today I gave: time; a fresh start; an opportunity for others to speak; adequate space in traffic; polite greetings; pettings to a kitty.

Today I ask the universe for: rest, first; encouragement therein; and opportunity, thereafter.

The Most Ridiculous Dream Ever ...

Feb. 27th, 2026 11:44 pm
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 ... had me competing in the Olympics.

Dream-brain seemed somewhat hazy on whether this was summer or winter games, and normie or paras.

I'm not sure of the event either, possibly the Biathlon? Though skis seemed an afterthought and I don't recall any rifle showing up.

However in a firm nod to real life I was late for my race by way of being unable to negotiate athlete registration.

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Feb. 27th, 2026 02:47 pm
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Yu know the world situation, which adds its mite ( for definitions of "mite,"watch out for falling pianos) to the stress closer by. The worst of it is feeling helpless to do much besides donate money to the outer stresses and listen as I can to the inner. Which I have been doing, in spite of our income dwindling. But this is a common plight.

My brain did go into revolt, and a bit of OT3 fantasy comedy of manners unspooled itself over the past month and a half or so. I wouldn't mind that happening again because it keeps me busy--besides various books and TV shows. But none of those have lit my fire quite as much as having a brainmovie again.

I do have Katherine Arden's latest here, and it looks good. But it's called The Unicorn Hunters and appears to be based on the tapestries so splendidly displayed in New York. Very handsome tapestries, but whew. Those boys strutting their tight breeches and little short jackets and perfect hair were a bunch of brutes. The tapestries illustrate an exercise in human cruelty, and the news is kind of overflowing with that, so I'm waiting for the right mood for the book.

II've done some rereads, and some new reads, I continue to listen to audiobooks while trudging my daily steps.

Oh! edited to add: I watched the Plympics ice skating and ice dancing. Some really lovely stuff, though they do seem to be obsessed with the quad spin.

New phone

Feb. 28th, 2026 11:50 am
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(Solely because they're decommissioning 3G, so my old Galaxy A8 stopped working for phones and texts, grrr.)

*spends hours tweaking and logging into things and all the usual stuff, ugh*

Google: Welcome to Gemini!
me: *kills it with fire*

Bookshit February Edition

Feb. 27th, 2026 04:53 pm
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money

  • like what even is money?? "Money can be exchanged for goods and services." (only made $350 boo)
  • eden did not pay me (or a bunch of other people) :( boo
  • I spent the money on seeds, plants, games, and a stuffed octopus. The octopus, in particular, is delightful. yay

boook

  • I finished a novella that I genuinely really like, but stalled out on last year because I was stressing about how readers would respond to it. This time, I decided to Ren up and do what I need to do, and I think it worked out pretty okay. I'll sit on it a while, probably until the end of the year, which will hopefully help with publishing anxiety. It's a somewhat personal story, and I'm sure some clueless dumbass will eat me alive on Goodreads and I'll spiral into despair, but whatever.
  • I picked up an unfinished novel from 2024. After a week poking at it my gut said, there 👏 is 👏 something 👏 wrong 👏 with 👏 this 👏book! And indeed there is something wrong with this book. The book doesn't work as a romance and wants to be more of an urban fantasy, and the midpoint is totally borked. I'm faced with that old dilemma: do I pour my soul and sweat into a thing that may not ever shape up, or let it die and save myself some grief? After hemming and hawing a bit, I decided I would give it one last go. I'm 35k in and normally Let It Go becomes apparent sub 20k. If I've got more than 20k I generally have SOMETHING. Might not be a great something, but it's something.

The dilemma: I have to publish More Book to make money, and I need money for games. Very tricky situation. So I yeeted a book last week, and I did my little ritual dance where I say I'm not gonna look at my sales dash but then obviously I do look because I need to sell at least one copy so I can calm the fuck down. As it happens, I sold 4 copies within several hours, so I released a godless primal scream and collapsed in on myself like a dying star, as one does.

For all my pissing and moaning I'm actually a very simple creature. I just want to sell like... a book, sometimes. Can you imagine if I actually sold lots of books, many times? How terrible would that be for everyone. That would be horrible. I would explode and you'd all die. Good thing I don't know how to market these.

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Noted author, bigot Dan Simmons reported dead of stroke.

Follow Friday 2-27-26

Feb. 27th, 2026 01:45 pm
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Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die".


Birdfeeding

Feb. 27th, 2026 01:35 pm
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Today is sunny and warmer with a nice breeze. :D

I fed the birds. I've seen a flock of sparrows and a male house finch.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 2/27/26 -- I cut and labeled four water jugs. These will hold Shithouse Marigolds, Black-eyed Susan, Milkweed, and Purple Aster. These are all flowers that I know can handle harsh conditions.

EDIT 2/27/26 -- I taped the jugs, moved them to the parking lot, and secured them with string.

I've seen a starling. Red-winged blackbirds are calling, but I haven't seen them. They arrived way early again this year, so I suspected that they'd wind up in my yard, regretting their poor life choices. At least it has cover and water here.

Crocuses are blooming, still all pale lavender. But there is a white bud in the rain garden!

EDIT 2/27/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 2/27/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I've seen a fox squirrel at the hopper feeder.

EDIT 2/27/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 2/27/26 -- I finished trimming dead stems off the wildflower garden. I still need to cut down the tree seedlings and rake more leaves off it, but the old grass is gone.

A yellow crocus is blooming by the log garden. Snowdrop flowers are opening. :D

EDIT 2/27/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I am done for the night.

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