JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER AS HENRY CREEL/VECNA IN STRANGER THINGS SEASON 5 PART 2

837 CAPS, PART 1 (438) AND PART 2 (399)

I think Jamie was an MVP of the past two seasons tbh. He is so talented.

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Title: Like A Fog
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack, Gwen.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 899: Fog.
Spoilers: Set post-Exit Wounds.
Summary: Grief is hanging over the Hub like fog.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

End of year is a time for 2025 lists. The Guardian came out with Top 50 TV Shows & Hidden Gems of 2025. Can a gem be that hidden if it’s on a list of top shows? What makes something a “hidden gem” to you?

I haven’t done this year-end meme in several years, but this year seems like a good time to bring it back.


1. Your main fandom of the year? Murder, She Wrote. Out of 21 fic, 12 of them were in this fandom (solely, or as a crossover), plus the 14 ficlets I wrote for halfamoon.


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I hit Price Chopper and the Pharmacy while I was downtown and did some drive-thru banking on the way home. I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, emptied the dishwasher, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, hard-boiled eggs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, placed some online orders, and scooped kitty litter. We had leftover lasagna for supper.

I finished my book! I watched some HGTV (Hometown is back!) and an ep of Secrets of the Zoo. Dr. Pol was my evening background tv.

This was day 1 of trying to eat a little bit better and making sure I went on walks instead of slacking. One thing I purchased to try was the Hood brand cottage cheese already mixed with peaches. It was awful. Tasted like they added a lot of sugar to it. I guess I'll be buying a whole container of cottage cheese and a can of diced peaches and making my own again, instead. (My concern was that I wouldn't finish it and it would go bad, but that concern pales in the face of how much yuck I felt putting that other stuff in my mouth.)

Temps started out at 18.9(F) and reached 23.9. We got about an inch of snow over the course of the day.


Mom Update:

Mom sounded really good when I talked to her. ( cutting because I spilled some emotion )

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Though... I mean... c'mon 2026, could you have not given us just a couple of weeks of relative calm? Was that SO much to ask? But... well... here we are.

The "Stranger Things" finale aired, with mixed, though generally positive reviews, though it did confirm the complete lack of the most hotly fanticipated slash pairings in recent media. Honestly, I never saw it myself, and I prefer the ending both characters got, but I appreciate that many were hoping for it.

Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers released it's OP, and the first episode aired in Japan today. Heavy on the neon, but a couple of nice nods to the original series openings.

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NCIS, Tony DiNozzo (undercover during season 4 to catch "La Grenouille" ) + Team, bad news from home
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-snowflake_challenge!
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-Finish retro_icontest challenge.
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ARIANA GRANDE AS G(A)LINDA UPLAND IN WICKED: FOR GOOD

1,622 CAPS, PART 1 (536), PART 2 (535), AND PART 3 (551)

I will be doing some Stranger Things faces from part 2, but not everyone because I'll go insane. If you want an exact face it'll have to be requested. And by that I mean it's already been requested that I do: Steve, Nancy, Robin, Dustin, Eleven, Vecna, and Holly.

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Gild (The Plated Prisoner #1) by Raven Kennedy

Genre:
Adult, Romance, Romantasy, Retellings, Greek Mythology, Fantasy, Book Series, Fae, Dark Romance, Unseelie and Seelie, High Fantasy

Publication Date:
October 16, 2020

Page Numbers:
402

Read/Finished Date:
January 4th, 2026 - January 5th, 2026

Rating:
.5/5

Premise:

The fae abandoned this world to us. And the ones with power rule.

Gold.

Gold floors, gold walls, gold furniture, gold clothes. In Highbell, in the castle built into the frozen mountains, everything is made of gold.

Even me.

King Midas rescued me. Dug me out of the slums and placed me on a pedestal. I’m called his precious. His favored. I’m the woman he Gold-Touched to show everyone that I belong to him. To show how powerful he is. He gave me protection, and I gave him my heart. And even though I don’t leave the confines of the palace, I’m safe.

Until war comes to the kingdom and a deal is struck.

Suddenly, my trust is broken. My love is challenged. And I realize that everything I thought I knew about Midas might be wrong.

Because these bars I’m kept in, no matter how gilded, are still just a cage. But the monsters on the other side might make me wish I’d never left.

The myth of King Midas reimagined. This compelling adult fantasy series is as addictive as it is unexpected. With romance, intrigue, and danger, the gilded world of Orea will grip you from the very first page.

Review:

If a novel has a beautiful cover, don't trust it. I did that and found out that the cover was a deception for a storyline that was supposed to be a reimagining of the Midas myth. There is nothing special about the female lead nor was there anything particular about the storyline that was memorable.

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