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I knew Prue Leith left GBBO, but I just learned that Nigella Lawson is replacing her for this year's show! I am intrigued! (Note: I still haven't watched the most recent series - I usually save it for my summer vacation.)

I am also considering if I want to try to bake something new this weekend, or just more orange cranberry scones, so my giant bag of cranberries in the freezer slowly gets smaller. I do have plans to try a new pasta recipe and maybe some panko-crusted pork chops, but I hadn't really thought about a baking project. I will have to think on it now.

In work news, some of the stuff I was concerned about yesterday got done, finally, so I feel so much better. I still have to write my stupid review of Assistant J though. I've been putting it off but I can't put it off any longer. Ugh. Such a stupid process.

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Current Music: We Belong - Pat Benatar

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I have been intermittently drawing things, but have been worse than usual about posting them anywhere. So, here are a few of them:

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Cleaning ALL my non-fandom links out of my to-rec list. Enjoy?

How Nicki Broke the Blueprint (YouTube) by FD Signifier. She's been going ever farther off the deep end the past few years, but damn when she was good, she was good. I really loved this older look at the hip hop landscape at the time she got big, and what she meant to a lot of female hip hop fans at the time. EDIT: LOOOOL apparently FD retitled this and put a new thumbnail on it a month ago. The video is still good, though!

The Year Without Sunshine by Naomi Kritzer. Short story about mutual aid and community building during an apocalypse. Hopeful.

Older LGBT science fiction database. I've not really explored this yet, but seems cool.

Why the Democratic Tea Party Failed (and How It Could Succeed) (New Republic). What this article says about the giant hole in mainstream normie liberal media has shifted my whole perspective of the political landscape and the barriers we're facing.

Twins’ peaks: The Gilbertson brothers want to rewrite your country’s map (originally NYT). About two mountain climbing brothers who are measuring a bunch of tall peaks with more accurate instruments. A fun coda to all my mountain climbing reading last fall.

What Horrible Things Did We Do To Our Penises Last Year? (Defector). You cannot read these all at once; it'd be like looking into the sun. You have to savor.

‘I can understand being brought to your knees’: Amanda Seyfried on obsession, devotion and the joy of socks (Gaurdian). Really interesting interview Amanda Seyfried and director Mona Fastvold on The Testament of Ann Lee. I read a number of pieces on the movie, but this was my favorite.

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Title: Big Damn Hero
Fandom: Firefly
Character: Zoe Alleyne Washburne
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 155
Summary: They're no longer on the battlefield, but they still fight for something

( Big Damn Hero )

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Wanted y’all to hear it from me: CROWNWORLD (book 3 of the Moonstorm trilogy) is canceled. I will not be completing the book (the trilogy). I’m very sorry to readers who were hoping for the conclusion.

This was a mutually agreed, amicable decision between the primary/US publisher (Delacorte), the UK publisher (Rebellion Publishing - Solaris Books), and myself.

Between sales and publishing realities (MOONSTORM sold poorly and its prospects are unlikely to improve for political reasons you can guess), this was a rare situation where this benefits both publishers and myself. I could not announce the cancellation earlier for legal/contract reasons, and can't "simply" release the partial draft of CROWNWORLD for same.

I didn’t plan on MOONSTORM being a market failure. But novel-writing is a career with baked-in instability and career risk. I knew that going in.

Abbreviated version of what happened on my end:
I have 66,000 words of a near-finished draft that I don’t plan on resuming. The breaking point was when I had a concussion in March 2025.

You might ask why I don’t “just” yeet the last 10,000 words to have a book for release to readers even if the print publishers are no longer interested in publishing it. After illness and family crises, I’m exhausted. More than one person close to me nearly died; I set writing aside for months to do caretaking. I have peripheral neuropathy (among other things); my hands and feet might recover, or they might get worse and curtail my ability to do the things that bring me joy.

Both my publishers extended incredible grace and kindness to me during this period. This is not on them. The trilogy existence failure is on me.

I’m moving on. I’ve spent the past several years writing ~three books every two years (or 1.5 books per year - releases won't line up because of production/publishing variables). This probably sounds slow/leisurely but was not sustainable with my health as unstable as it is. There would have been a breaking point down the line even if it hadn’t happened with this specific book. I'm going to spend some time on endeavors just for the joy of it.

I hope y’all have many books you’re looking forward to reading, by other writers.

Note: I’m not in financial distress at present. Please don’t worry on that account.

Best,
YHL

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Title: Finding Yourself in a New World – Chapter 5: The Outlaw
Day/Prompt: Day 5 / The Outlaw
Fandom: Warrior Nun (TV)
Character/Pairing: Yasmine, Camila, Ava
Rating/Warning(s): T / None
Word Count: 2484
Summary: The team is about to go on a mission that goes against the law and Yasmine can't stop herself from reading too many things about it, spiraling into anxiety. But thankfully, the others are there to reassure her that they would never let anything happen to her.

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Assignments are due February 6th, 10PM PST. [Countdown] [In Your Timezone]

Extensions up to 72 hours will be granted until the deadline. If you need one, please reach out via email at rarefemslashexchangemod@gmail.com, with your AO3 username, your recip's, and how much time you would like.

The current pinch hits are HERE. While the due date does say the 6th, that can be negotiated if you can claim one and need more time.

If you are a pinch hitter who hasn't signed up for the exchange, there is a Pinch Hitter's Prompts Post.

Any questions can be left on this post (anon is on, screening isn't) or you can reach out via email as well.

Good luck to everyone still working! :)

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