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And Elsbeth solved most of them.

Very grateful to have sucked so much this past year. Maybe this new year will start me being sorta good.

🎵 It's time to start the New Year! 🎶

For Americans, Dick Clark was the personification of all the preceding year’s misfortunes and sorrows. Each year a Dick Clark was chosen to be feasted and feted for the final week of December, until being sealed inside a ball by temple attendants for the sacrifice on the night of the 31st.

I should've just kept updating this meme every year.

Best wishes for 2026

How could I forget, I also got my first tattoos this year!

In 2025, I completed a Big Dream Project at work that's the thing I'm most proud of ever having done, but at this point I fear it may never be released, nor will I be free to talk about it. But I know I did it, and I know better what I'm capable of now. >>

Out for 2026: Podcasts with multiple 10-minute ad breaks for other podcasts.

Then this piece, again for DAME. I feel like this had the best response of anything I wrote this year? Watching it go viral was a real pleasure. Really, the big takeaway I wanted people to get from this was to be patient. This could be a very long struggle.

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Love when a client loops me into an email chain with other people in the production pipeline that has nothing to do with me, and someone in the chain replies to me to tell me they're not on this production anymore, please remove them. *nowwhyamIinit.gif*

One last shoulder day to round out the year.

Hot damn, the office is closing on Friday rather than squeeze another work day between NYD and the weekend, and we're out at 2pm tomorrow. That'll be 3-1/2 days worked out of the past two weeks for me.

I smiled at my friend's nine-year-old and she told me I had the sharpest teeth she'd ever seen on anyone.

If you see items in a black box like this on the Amazon app (presumably similar on desktop), do NOT use Amazon to purchase. Go to the artist's site directly to see what they actually have, buy more easily, and not support this garbage concept that big corps can scrape whatever they want.

At this point...

Klingons chug this before jabbing themselves with painstiks to enhance the effect.

Having worked as a barista in LA for several years, I have a lot of these, and most of them simply involve me handing off a drink and a co-worker telling me later that was Steve Carell or Sarah Michelle Gellar because I'm shit at recognizing celebrities off-screen.

Getting back to work after having Christmas week off and knowing we'll be off again soon for New Year's.

I'm gonna write a dystopian sci-fi novel where a guy runs for President after changing his name to Darth Vader, and when the publisher says that's ridiculous I'll send them a link to this article and a middle-finger emoji.

All these menz posting their chests and biceps

Muppets From Space will always be the worst Muppet movie because it foists Rob Schneider on us.

When I discussed my podcast idea with another audio description professional, they mentioned putting it on YouTube, and I was like, "It's literally a show for blind people."

They're all over KTown, which is darkly amusing because our sidewalks are barely navigable for able-bodied persons, much less someone on wheels or a robot.

Bicep thread 💪

Hmm

Cinematic parallels

Omg, he's here at this new coffeeshop I'm checking out. Does he see me? Is he following me? Does he want to sit and study together? Does he want to pin me to t--*signal cuts out*

Share a great female villain

Maybe I'll make a video essay one day about how Counselor Troi was the Enterprise's most valuable crewmember because she represented the emotional and social evolution we need to make in order to progress, over and above any technological advances.

This is a video from four years ago of police in Russia. There is so much real resistance against all over the US that we can support and cheer on, you don't have to share an old video and lie about it for clout. youtu.be/8zQpAxTq9CY?...

Finished the finale.

you've just opened up a star trek-themed restaurant what are you calling it? SOMETHING FOR BREAKFAST Breakfast foods and brunch. Coffee and croissant if that's all you want.

I just think that cute muscley boys with glasses

Ooh, I just noticed it has audio description. I must listen to that. I've described erotic scenes before, but nothing on this level.

Whew. Fell asleep halfway thru and came back to finish it tonight only so I could listen to the @muppeturgy.com episode about it. At least the Bea Arthur segment was...okay? The cartoon looked like ass to me. At least I can say I've watched it now.

Apparently the fix for my lower back issues was eating a lot gingerbread over the holiday. (Ok, and doing yoga.)

Some days I fantasize that I could be a good doctor, and other days I think, no I would take one look at these doofuses and tell them they're on their own.

Cranberry meatloaf for Christmas dinner, and old school red-and-green M&M cookies because I was craving them.

So we've hit the "complaining about the Tiny Tim jokes" part of the cycle? Would you rather debate the Die Hard question ad nauseum? Would you rather listen to your family rant about keeping the "Christ" in "Christmas"?

You'd think that it was canonical to the book that Belle wears a simply enormous bonnet given how often she's costumed with dramatic headgear in the film adaptations.

Watching all the versions of A Christmas Carol in my collection tonight in hopes of manifesting something.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, threw that baton into the air, higher, further, faster than any baton has ever flown before, hitting a transformer and showering the darkened arena with sparks! And that was the night the lights went out in Georgia!

The last time I talked to my dad he was trying to discuss Biblical End Times prophecy with me and how it connected to covid despite my saying I wasn't interested in the topic.

Currently losing my Star Wars Holiday Special virginity.