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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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silveradept

It's December Days time again. This year, I have decided that I'm going to talk about skills and applications thereof, if for no other reason than because I am prone to both the fixed mindset and the downplaying of any skills that I might have obtained as not "real" skills because they do not fit some form of ideal.

( 28: No )

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Current Music: GAYLE - ABCDEFU (angrier version)

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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ysabetwordsmith

These are the notes for "Incompressible."

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ysabetwordsmith

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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ysabetwordsmith

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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dialecticdreamer

Cozy Time Together
By Dialecticdreaemr/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1117

:: This story follows a few hours after “Belated GIfts” and is a separate story both because the focus has shifted, and because it’s from a surprised and cautiously hopeful Joshua Tull’s perspective… And then Pips video calls… Part of the Polychrome Heroics universe, set in the Mercedes area and the Tull Family story arcs. Thank you to

mama_kestrel for inspiring this one, too! ::

Author's note: an HTML error HID the beginning of the story. I'm sorry for the error!

When Griffin began cleaning up Dylan’s attempt to feed herself bowtie pasta with homemade Alfredo sauce, Michael and Coventry began clearing their places, grabbing at the plates and calling “ONE!” and “TWO!” as soon as they each grasped first the plate, then the cup.
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muccamukk

Fandom:

snowflake_challenge: Running a multi-fandom prompt every other day for all of January. (Yours truly isn't modding this year around, but will hopefully still participate.)

cultivativity: This community is organized as a series of modules designed to help build a practice to nurture our creative selves.

beagoldfish: This is an event for small and non-traditional fanworks. We want to remind you to appreciate the little things, be kind, be curious, enjoy generously, and above all, 'be a goldfish.' Runs over January and Feburary 2026.

Archive of Our Own: Update on Our 2020 Commitment from the OTW Board, Chairs & Leads.
I haven't been active in fandom for a couple years now, but I appreciate that they still seem to be working on this.

Writer Beware: Army of Bots: Deeper Into the Vortex of Nigerian Marketing Scams.
LLMs are so fun. I'm glad everyone has access to them. It's def making the Internet better. /s

Science
The Tyee: Charting a Course Through Bears’ Eyes.
Stewards from the Heiltsuk First Nation are using computational models and Indigenous knowledge to protect bears’ access to salmon.

Popular Science: First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition.

Politics
CBC: Pro-Palestinian protester suspended from Vancouver Island University loses court challenge.
My level of cynicism about higher education continues apace. It would cost VIU nothing to let the woman have her transcripts. They've made their point.

Sojourners: Politically Polarized Family Attempts White Elephant Gift Exchange.
Satire, gave me a laugh.

sixbeforelunch

I made icons!

( 14 icons under the cut, mostly TNG. )

Current Mood: creative

mecurtin posting in

fandom_checkin

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Sunday, December 28, to midnight on Monday, December 29 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34015 Daily check-in poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 23

How are you doing?

I am OK
15 (65.2%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
8 (34.8%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
7 (30.4%)

One other person
11 (47.8%)

More than one other person
5 (21.7%)

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.

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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scrubjayspeaks

Ouagh...I am so sick. I woke up Thursday morning with sudden and substantial signs of infection in my right ear and my left ear basically going, hey, what’s that guy doing over there, is he having fun, I wanna have fun too! Things escalated rapidly. I went to Urgent Care Friday morning and got pills and drops both. I am maybe, sort of, just barely starting to see signs of improvement here on day 3 of treatment. I am absolutely obliterating my liver with the amount of Tylenol I’m choking down to manage the pain--it’s not even working well, to add insult to organ damage.

I have accomplished nothing. I am probably going to spend my whole vacation sick, and miserable, and simultaneously in bed at all hours but unable to actually sleep. I am deeply unhappy about this turn of events, but I feel too poorly to work up a proper level of outrage.

Mum was surprised and delighted by the books I got her and has been ravenously reading, so that’s fun. I have a new set of speakers for my computer, which I will enjoy eventually, and a new pillow, which I currently love more than life itself.

Lewisia: 0 new pieces written ;__;

Day job: 17 hours

Cooking: yule log~~~

Reading: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Quandry Phase (continuing the BBC Radio productions), Strangers in Paradise #19 (*ugly sobbing*, that is technically the whole original series! Holy shit! It only took me about 25 years from when I first started reading the comics.)

Watching: the Game Grumps holiday livestream has been my constant companion in these trying times

Clock Mouse: 915 words

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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jesse_the_k

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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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boxofdelights posting in

wiscon

This year has been an amazing year for WisCon, all thanks to our volunteers & supporters! Drop one goal you have for the new year. We’ll see you in 2026 for WisCon Online!

#WisCon #WomeninSFF #feministconvention

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Friending Policy 12-28-25

Notes for "Incompressible"

Transformative Works Statement 12-28-25

Poem: "Incompressible"

Cozy Time Together (part 1 of 1, complete)

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