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Not just the usual cut and paste! This year I am eligible in a brand new category.

Annual Eligibility Post, Or Look On My Works Ye Mighty
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Fen is the worst sort of hostage: one who has outlived her usefulness to the state.

The King Must Die by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
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The only impediments between Annae Hofstader and research glory are academia, her dismal supervisors and Annae Hofstader herself.

The Two Doctors Górski by Isaac Fellman
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Привет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)

Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.

I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!

С Новым Годом, and welcome home!

EDIT: Большое спасибо всем за помощь друг другу в комментариях! Я ценю каждого, кто предоставляет нашим новым соседям информацию, понятную им без необходимости искать её в Google. :) И спасибо вам за терпение к моему русскому переводу с помощью Google Translate! Прошло уже много-много лет со школьных времен!

Thank you also to everyone who's been giving our new neighbors a warm welcome. I love you all ❤️

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In return for tutoring, half-dragon Ruri rewards her classmates with knowledge about the draconic world. Terrible, terrible knowledge.

RuriDragon, volume 7 by Masaoki Shindo
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Well, that's it for 2025. Trump hasn't killed us all (yet) and I got a lot of books read.

December 2025 and 2025 as a Whole in Review

Bundle of Holding: The Burning Wheel

Dec. 29th, 2025 02:08 pm
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An all-new Burning Wheel Bundle presenting The Burning Wheel, the medieval-themed tabletop fantasy roleplaying game about vibrant, dynamic characters whose beliefs propel the story.

Bundle of Holding: The Burning Wheel

Pithy Realization

Dec. 29th, 2025 12:08 pm
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Since we met in 1977, MyGuy has always eaten the spongy white stuff which dwells between an orange and its skin (whether he picks it off the whole peeled orange or nibbles it away from the cut-open peel).

Yesterday I tried it. It's delicious! Michigan State University claims it also has as much vitamin C as the fruit.

What else am I missing?

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More soothing video.

Rosie Heydenrych is a UK luthier who makes Turnstone guitars. Follow along as she makes an instrument for Martin Simpson—in prose and/or via YouTube video playlist, autocraptions). How does it sound? Guitar World reviews another Turnstone instrument with words as well as video (17:11" YouTube Link, more autocraptions). Zip to 13:27 to enjoy Clive Carroll making beautiful music on it.

(crossposted to Metafilter)

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Ekumen envoy Genly Ai's mission to entice Gethen to join the Ekumen is complicated by atypical biology and all too familiar local politics.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Hisako Ichiki is a perfectly normal Japanese school girl with perfectly normal social anxiety and depression and perfectly dreadful marks. Hisako also has a stalker.

Fears And Hates (Ultimate X‑Men, volume 1) by Peach Momoko
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Seven works new to me: four fantasy, three science fiction, of which at least three are series.

Books Received, December 20 — December 26


Poll #34011 Books Received, December 20 — December 26
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40


Which of these look interesting?

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The King Must Die by Kemi Ashing-Giwa (November 2025)
15 (37.5%)

Mortedant’s Peril by R. J. Barker (May 2026)
10 (25.0%)

Cold Steel by Joyce Ch’Ng (March 2025)
9 (22.5%)

The Ganymedan by R. T. Ester (November 2025)
13 (32.5%)

Alchemy of Souls by Adriana Mather (August 2026)
6 (15.0%)

The Bird Tribe by Lucinda Roy (July 2026)
5 (12.5%)

Household by Riccardo Sirignano and Simone Formicola (2022)
8 (20.0%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
30 (75.0%)

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An assortment of stories from the late fantasy magazine Unknown, presented in a one-off A4 work.


From Unknown Worlds edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.

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