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Happy Snowflake Season to all! As we prepare to kick off the 2026

snowflake_challenge, please feel free to promote this event within your own circles. You are welcome to use any of these new banners for that. The community page also has icons.

Snowflake Challenge: A flatlay of a snowflake shaped shortbread cake, a mug with coffee, and a string of holiday lights on top of a rustic napkin.

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lb_lee

Due to switching webhosts for healthymultiplicity.com, our email is down and probably has been since Christmas. We are working on getting it up and going again.

Until then, if you have our phone number or the old email for the Greenough Hall MSTers Club, you can contact us through those. Sorry for the inconvenience; among its many failings, the old webhost has given me no sign of whether the emails I sent in the past week went out or not; on my end, it’s been acting buggily normal, and I’m having to guess it no longer works purely because nothing has come in for so long.

ysabetwordsmith

This checklist of online housekeeping originally came from

sunshine_challenge (which is now

sunshine_revival). (See the 2023 version.) I am updating it for the

snowflake_challenge in January 2026.

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ysabetwordsmith

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Friending Policy 12-28-25
Transformative Works Statement 12-28-25
Poem: "Incompressible"
Poem: "A Stronger Woman"
Wildlife
BirdfeedingPoem: "Tenacity, Creativity, and Bravery"
Communities
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Government
Photos: Lights on the Prairie Part 2
Photos: Lights on the Prairie Part 1
Today's Adventures
Birdfeeding
Poem: "Genuinely Sufficient Resources"
Follow Friday 12-26-25: Learning
Poem: "The Heart to Change the World"
Poem: "Technique, Timing, and Leverage"
Read "The Fëanorian Zine"
Climate Change
Friending Meme
Birdfeeding
Vocabulary: Bokeh
Poem: "A Human Scale, Full-Featured Settlement"
Food
Birdfeeding
Cuddle Party

Food has 47 comments. Trauma has 46 comments. Affordable Housing has 78 comments. Robotics has 119 comments.

The 2025 Holiday Poetry Sale has closed, with a massive amount of material to post. It will take me a long time to get it all online, so please keep an eye on the sale page.

Watch for

snowflake_challenge to open on January 1. This panfandom activity is one of Dreamwidth's biggest events and a great time to make new friends.

Watch for

threeforthememories to open on January 3. It features your top three photographs from the past year.

"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv. It needs $72 to be complete. Shiv and his classmates discuss magical weather, magical geography, natural resources, plants and animals, history, and other aspects of worldbuilding.

The weather was mild for most of the week, but today it stormed. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a flock of mourning doves in the ritual meadow, and two fox squirrels running through the trees.

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ysabetwordsmith

Due to requests for a friending policy, and different ways that people use friending tools online, I have done my best to describe my parameters. (See the 2020 version.)

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These are the notes for "Incompressible."

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People keep clamoring for this sort of thing. Ideally, everyone should have a "blanket statement." While I don't have a stance on many of the points, it seems useful to post the ones where I do have a stance. (See the 2020 version.)

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This poem came out of the January 2, 2024 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "When You're Smiling" square in my 1-1-24 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred. It belongs to the Foster Fiasco thread in the Polychrome Heroics series.

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ysabetwordsmith

This poem is spillover from the July 1, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from

fuzzyred,

see_also_friend, and

wyld_dandelyon. It also fills the "Put me down!" square in my 7-1-25 card for the Western Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred. It belongs to the Fortressa thread in the Polychrome Heroics series.

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ysabetwordsmith

The deep ocean has a missing link and scientists finally found it

Hidden in the ocean’s twilight zone, mid-sized fish are quietly powering the food web from below.

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with mid-sized fish such as the bigscale pomfret, which live deep during the day and rise at night to feed, linking deep and surface food webs. Using satellite tags, researchers tracked these hard-to-study fish for the first time. Their movements shift with water clarity, potentially altering entire ocean food chains.

For every thing like this that scientists discover, many more critical connections remain unknown to modern science -- and that's why changing "one little thing" in an ecosystem often has bigger, unexpected impacts elsewhere.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy, windy, and cool.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 12/28/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 12/28/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 12/28/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

It started raining, and the sky is weird colors, so I am done for the night.

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northlands

Evening Ebb

by Robinson Jefferson

The ocean has not been so quiet for a long while; five night-herons
Fly shorelong voiceless in the hush of the air
Over the calm of an ebb that almost mirrors their wings.
The sun has gone down, and the water has gone down
From the weed-clad rock, but the distant cloud-wall rises. The
ebb whispers.
Great cloud-shadows float in the opal water.
Through rifts in the screen of the world pale gold gleams, and the
evening
Star suddenly glides like a flying torch.
As if we had not been meant to see her; rehearsing behind
The screen of the world for another audience.

youjustmissedhim

hey future me

i hope to god you feel better than we currently do in like 12 hours because jesus christ im so fucking god damn tired

if you arent having a better day by then im gonna time travel into the future, kick your ass, and then cry together

heres to hoping i can get a feeling of rest out of the next 2 hours...

Current Mood: and absolutely miserable
Current Location: my bedroom
Current Music: "nattoppet" - detektivbyrån

ysabetwordsmith

Here are the content notes for "Tenacity, Creativity, and Bravery."

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These are the character notes for "Tenacity, Creativity, and Bravery."

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This poem is spillover from the October 3, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from

mama_kestrel and

see_also_friend. It also fills the "There are many flavors of outcasts here." square in my 10-1-23 card for the Fall Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred. It belongs to the Eric the Elven King thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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youjustmissedhim

i had a hard time getting up today

i didnt get to sleep until maybe... 8am honestly

had to turn off my 10am meds alarm, which im trying to take an attitude of "i *will* take those god damn meds on time" to because i kept taking them super off schedule and it probably wasnt helping anything

i dont have a frame of reference of what its like when the medication is helping like it should its but taking it hectically wont exactly give me a chance to find out
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just texted the mental health case manager about resources for therapists because theyve been on the waitlist for half a year and god i need a therapist STAT
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i uhh... i thought about how i want to use dreamwidth, looked for blinkies, thought about personal stuff that started messing with my head and making reality feel more wobbly...

i yelled on tumblr about the emotional regulation issues ive been put in charge of

i took my evening meds on time (woo)

i think i want to go play a video game for a bit first actually.

Current Mood: blah
Current Location: the living room
Current Music: nothing

ysabetwordsmith

The City That Refused to Stay Dying

This Indiana city is no longer defined by what it lost, but by what its residents are building today.

Instead of waiting for a master plan or a single catalytic investment, Keen began assembling homes and vacant parcels one by one. He helped launch the Portage Midtown Initiative and the South Bend GreenHouse, restored neglected homes, cultivated community gardens, and supported local builders learning to tackle small projects themselves. He often refers to these lots collectively as his “farm.”

This approach can work in many cities.

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youjustmissedhim

wait wait wait wait wait this is too much go back go back feeling too untethered now oh no okay i gotta take a break

(god, the desire for identity does crazy stuff to you...)

- dt signing off

a blank and yellow blinkie gif that reads "identity unavailable" in full caps

a blank and yellow blinkie gif that reads "identity unavailable" in full caps

Current Mood: and dissociated
Current Location: my bedroom
Current Music: purple jaguar eye - sterling k. brown

youjustmissedhim

you know what screw it, its make-a-persona time

so im thinking about me and birds
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hey how do you journal when you have adhd brain?
(can i put blinkies and fancy dividers on my posts? hmm)
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*static noises* boy with wings that talk to him... yeah uh
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He isn't sure if he chose to have the wings, but he has the wings, and they talk to him. He's pretty sure he didn't grow up with them, and he's pretty sure he isn't supposed to have them. But he does have the sense he kind of did, and was always supposed to have them. Is it worth dwelling on? It's hard to say right now. It feels *right* to have them, in any case.
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boy with wings from a crow spirit that talks to him? it cant talk in "human" (maybe) but it can sorta communicate... human concepts from memories of watching humans... like it communicates with flashes of memories
boy: man i want a burger
crow: [sends a mental image of a fast food restaurant on 2nd and broad. the establishment is thought of with great attention, with murmurs of voices floating through. they have no discernible words, but you can feel theyre talking about the sweet burgers the place has. the crow has flown by it and staked out the place a ton of times. but the mental image quickly flickers to a memory of pecking at a cajun fry and lingering on the fry. the crow likes cajun fries. the crow wants to eat a whole serving of fries now that its part of a more human body.]

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Snowflake Challenge

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Monday Update 12-29-25

Friending Policy 12-28-25

Notes for "Incompressible"

Transformative Works Statement 12-28-25

Poem: "Incompressible"

Poem: "A Stronger Woman"

Wildlife

Birdfeeding

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waking up in bed next to the torment nexus

Content notes for "Tenacity, Creativity, and Bravery"

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Poem: "Tenacity, Creativity, and Bravery"

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