Patron Saint of Falling Over Things

State of the land:
This week had the first hot days. Ugh. IT'S TOO HOT OMG. Take your filthy summer back, you Northern Hemispherites. Give me back my pleasant cold rain.

And I have a cold. It's wrong to have snot and coughing and fever when the road is melting. Bleh. This webcomic is representative and also weirdly aspirational in a gross way:
Feeling sick and snotty? Here are some helpful tips from the animal world, by Bird and Moon. (Talks about snotty animals.)

Ugh, I think I have a fever. RHINOVIRUS I HATE YOU.

State of the Brain:
Still up and down? It remains an ongoing improvement project.

State of the Writing:
I scraped through with a win for NaNo, despite a weird month of interferences and family emergencies. I didn't get above the line on the graph until the very last day - I was always catching up. Still, it's done, and I have stuff to edit. Maybe even post one of these days.

Yuletide is a whole other thing though. I am still in canon review, and at the stage where there are so many ideas I'm kinda stuck.

I've been running the Person of Interest Advent Calendar and it's been really interesting. Occasionally hair-pullingly frustrating, as I negotiate tumblr and running an AO3 collection and keeping everything on track. The best part has been photoshopping ugly Christmas sweaters onto all the characters. (No, the real best part has been the general enthusiasm, but you know. Ugly sweaters are so fascinating.)
( They work best on Shaw because she has resting grumpy face )

State of the kitty:
Baggins turned thirteen, and is a shy teenager! For his birthday, we treated him exactly the same as usual, so he had chicken for dinner (it is the best food) and endless cuddles. He has a pretty great life on the whole.
( Kitten to full grown cat in only 13 years!! All it takes is Chikn! )

State of the latest fandom exodus, or, WTF Tumblr???
Hello to my brave POI discord friends who are giving Dreamwidth a go. (Or in some cases, returning to an lj-style platform.)

I am sad for the distress this is causing people for whom tumblr has been a refuge and a home. It's scary - don't let anyone tell you it isn't (and don't let anyone tell you online community isn't real community.) I don't want to say it will all be okay. I hope it is. I remember when it happened to me - strikethrough and the birth of AO3 and Dreamwidth - it felt like the end of the world. It wasn't, in that case, and Dreamwidth has been a wonderful place for me. Hang onto hope, try to roll with the changes. I hope you get a soft landing somewhere you'll love. Or at least can learn to love.

Good and Informative
- rydra_wong has More Useful Links
- This week in Fandom Vol 99
- Maciej might be onboard (I remember that first collaborative document when fandom moved to Pinboard, so I left this one open for a bit, just for the good feels. Fandom comes together so strongly when we need to.)
- from FFA, a thread on exporting your tumblr
- snickfic's round-up of links so, about Tumblr

Small Kitty Joys:
- I've had this gif open for a while now: as softly as a kitten touching a cherry.
- via bow-weaver, Meet Nurse Raisin

Some DW recs for people to follow. Early Follow Friday, I guess:
umadoshi is queen of the linkspam. She is an awesome curator and is great with warnings. And she has adorable cats.
- iconthat is a weekly icontest, which I want to go in again when I have time. (If I have time!!)
- 100words puts up weekly prompts for 100 word fics. This week's prompt is 'Gaudy'. (100 words exactly! It's an art!)
- fffriday is a reccing comm for f/f works. (Fanfic, profic, other things)
- musyc is posting lots of really simple (and hence overlooked) Dreamwidth tips.
- fandom_on_dw and dw_community_promo are both full of new comms popping up every day, so are worth a follow.

Friending:
- snickfic's ongoing Return of the No-Frills Multifandom Friending Meme.
- addme_fandom, for finding new fandom friends

Events:
- Magical Realism Fest! (It's a comment fest, where you leave prompt, and you write for prompts. These are usually low-key and fun)
- Three Sentence Ficathon - leave a prompt! Squash all your ideas into 3 sentences!
- middleagedships has a middleaged ship comment ficathon
navaan is running Spicy Advent, a multi-fandom porn Advent Calendar.
- Me! Me! I'm running The POI Advent Calendar, please head over and enjoy the Person of Interest goodies!


(Oh, and this is an invite to the Person of Interest discord server I'm on: The Subway. It's a good bunch of people.)


And finally, in other news, geese are fuckers: Badly Behaved Geese Go Viral.