Oatmeal cookies made from oats, banana, peanut butter, and chocolate chips = today's happy thing.

And so the longest night has passed and the sun has begun it's slow return to the sky. May the Winter be kind to us all.

Today seems like a good day for chocolate chip pumpkin bread.

"The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go." Yeah, I'm going with the one from the month, not the year, because the other option is military propaganda and I'm just not calling that energy in.

The fact that my new doctor was so happy that I asked about getting my measles titers checked that she almost broke professional mode is a little depressing. I mean, I'm glad she was happy that I'm not an anti-vaxxer, but gods, how often does she run into anti-vax people in our area?

Since it needs saying... Trans rights are human rights. Don't like trans folks? Die mad about it. Mind your own business and leave other people the fuck alone.

LAST DAY TO SHOP THIS YEAR you've got until 8pm mountain time (10 eastern, 7 west) to buy from the website, & then I'll pack the last of the orders & ship em out tomorrow. then, vacation! ... the website gets vacation. I do not get vacation. what do you think this is. http://TheVagabondTa...

Reminder that the US is *not* a two-party system. We have many other parties, & the ability to start more. The others just need to get their shit together and be serious about it, instead of running on shit like "weed for everyone!" and only showing up once every four years to run for a single job.

Casual reminder that Comic Sans is a dyslexia-friendly font, and a whole lot of dyslexic folks see you mocking their disability when you go on about it. You can make fun of the regime without resorting to ableist bullshit. Don't be asshats. I know y'all can be better than that.

Some friends of ours' new puppy (the link says foster, but he's fully adopted) decided to eat a toy and needed surgery to save his life, leaving them in a bad financial spot. If you're able to help them, it would be awesome. donate.furlanthropy.org/fundraiser/l...

Sing to me, o my beloveds, of your favorite veggie stock recipes, for I am in dire need of one that doesn't devolve into only onion flavor.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. No Star Wars or Trek, LotR, Marvel, Disney or Pixar.

Ya know, if a publisher is going to ship books before the release date, they should at least make sure they arrive ON THE RELEASE DATE instead of days later. Why yes, I got the tracking information for a book I pre-ordered last year that releases tomorrow. It won't be delivered until Friday.

Uuugh. This is the second order from Chewy in the last couple of months where an unreasonable amount of cans are dented up, and I am not pleased about it.

TIL that using "rustic" in a search phrase triggers all of the Bible shit. I just want curtains for my kitchen. Also, who tf uses curtains with Bible quotes on them? Yikes.

Looking at the new horror movies being advertised and oh yeah, the "Fear of Others" is definitely high in cultural psyche. So much Stranger Danger...

While I'm glad that my tabletop sun works to keep my brain from trying to eat itself like the world's shittiest ouroboros, the fact that I'm tied to my kitchen table for the duration of the daily session drives me batty.

Folklore folks! I'm looking for resources about crossroad lore. Anyone know of anything?

This morning I learned that Cream of Rice™, has an deeply unpleasant sand-like grit to it.

*At the grocery store, masked, and minding my own business.* Boomer Dude: "You going into surgery?" Me, deadpan: "Yes." Boomer: "Oh, are you a surgeon?" Me, even deaderpan: "No." *pointedly maintains Excruciatingly Direct Eye Contact to make this exchange as uncomfortable as humanly possible.

Sing it!

*angry velociraptor screeching*

That time when I realize that I can check out D&D books from the library and request the book I need to familiarize myself with the specific world I'm playing in (I haven't played a TTRPG in more than a decade and have a lot to catch up on). If I'm gonna be the talky person, I need background deets!

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Whammagedon doesn't start until December 1st. Y'all are still safe.

Focus on creating videos without having to constantly worry about how we're going to pay the mortgage from month to month.

Bodach is being picturesque while he waits for Mom to turn the fireplace on.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Moose Coyote Otter Buffalo Fisher Cat

And thus begins The Day of Soup's Bounty. The Stocking begins...

Screw big corporate shit, go do your holiday shopping with small, indie businesses instead. Start here, with excellent soap and things.

We do make a damned good bird.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! May your tables be full, your company be merry, and your day be filled with only delights.

The more proficient I get at using chopsticks, the more I'm convinced that they're superior to forks.

Me: "Why have my executives ceased to function?" My SAD: "..........." Oh. Right. *drags the tabletop sun out of storage* Reminder, my darlings, if you have SAD, Happy Lights are the Best Thing ever, but they only work if you actually use them.

Me: "Why have my executives ceased to function?" My SAD: "..........." Oh. Right. *drags the tabletop sun out of storage*

Today's Mystery Is: "How did that cat treat get into the light on the kitchen ceiling?"

For my next trick, I will attempt to make a raggedy 1961 Era Ranch Style kitchen with bad lighting look cozy and hobbity with a budget of $0 and only what I've already got on hand. Pray for me, my friends.

Today I am grumpy that I can't drive a manual vehicle or back up for shit, because these are the only things between my routewitch ass and a CDL.

*looks at news* Reality's writers are drunk today, aren't they?

I just found out that one of my favorite spice sellers, Auntie Arwen's Spices, opened up a retail location at some point in the last couple of years (I used to have to go to SCA events or order online, which sadly hasn't happened in too long, to get spices from them). Time for a road trip!

I made the mistake of looking at the news, and now I'm going to go play Animal Crossing for the rest of the night so I don't start screaming and never stop.

Menu From New Chinese Restaurant: "We don't use MSG!" Me: "okay, but, hear me out...*could* you? I'm willing to pay extra, if you want."

TIL that there are a lot of people who don't think that Wuthering Heights has themes of race. In case some of you weren't aware, Heathcliff is very much NOT a white dude (he's Romani, and there's no ambiguity about that) and that's kind of a major underpinning of the entire story.

Trying to find a word that feels between cottage and hut. Cottage is too cute and hut is too run down. Cabin, sadly, is too rustic. I have the sinking feeling that the word I want doesn't exist in English.

I watched an interview clip about Frankenstein last night, and found out that Jacob Elordi studied butoh to prepare for the role and was using it heavily for the performance, and now I need to go watch the movie again and pay attention to that aspect. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butoh

I've gone and committed an act of blogging. trickstersroad.com/2025/11/14/t...

UBI/UHC for everyone, no means testing. No more borders. Overhaul the US from the ground up and build something entirely new that includes the Native folks as well as those of us who came later. No more millionaires or higher. Total infrastructure switch off fossil and nuclear fuels, no exceptions.

Good morning from Púca.

Apparently I picked a good night to start watching Critical Role.

Any of my hex-positive witches have suggestions for a "return the item you stole, you piece of shit, and may it burn until you do" spell? I'm not coming up with anything I like, and figured I'd see if others have ideas. An important item got stolen over the weekend, and I am PISSED.

Seriously considering starting a separate YouTube channel and just leaning into the whole "hobbitcore Baba Yaga" idea.