Annalee Newitz, Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind: ( history and present )

Luke Kemp, Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse: ( not what I hoped )

Justin F. Jackson, The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines: ( so shockingly, racist! )

Elliott West, Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion: ( this too )

Nicole Eustace, Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America: ( um ... )

Charles S. Maier, The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: ( history as forces )

Mary Louise Roberts, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France:( it's complicated? but also racist; rape and rape myths )

Caroline Fraser, Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers: ( Helter Smelter (her joke, not mine) )

Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age: ( lots'o'quotes )

Elliott Kalan, Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense: ( good instructions )

I noticed some people make their own closed communities to post/archive their fanfiction, and decided to try it out myself here: ficsimmy

I am trying to backdate the fics to when I posted them, and it generally works, however, the home page still shows the posts in the order in which I posted them. E.g. the most recent post is dated November 12, then the next one November 13.

Is this intended behavior? If so, does anyone have a workaround for similar use-cases? 😟 I have some fanfiction from 2013 that I want to back up here, but I do not want it at the top of my page in fear of people thinking that's still representative of how I write today 😅

I did find this FAQ article related to backdating + the "don't show on reading pages" button which says "This option is not available for community accounts", but I thought this just referred to the hide from reading page button.

It's a bit weird that I can backdate it, but it will show up in the wrong order on the home page, and in tags. Checking from the archive looks fine, they're all in the correct date I set them as.

Thank you to dreaminghour for writing Today's Gonna Be the Day, HIStory3 Trapped, Jack/Zhao Zi. I do like this portrayal of Jack, the beginning and uncertainty of building their relationship.

I finally wrote a Yuletide fic this round! It's Obvious Things, Li Lianhua, Fang Duobing, Di Feisheng, Mysterious Lotus Casebook.

Uketsu, Strange Houses: ( floor plans )

Jim Butcher, Out Law: ( Harry helps out Marcone )

Freya Marske, Cinder House: ( ghost Cinderella )

Seanan McGuire, Through Gates of Garnet and Gold: ( Wayward children reunite )

Kai Butler, The Earl and the Executive: ( space Regency m/m romance )

Olga Ravn, The Employees: ( weird crew )

James Islington,( the first two books of an engaging trilogy about a Marty Stu )
Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry: ( yep, that's what I expected )

Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall: ( reincarnation sf )

Isaac R. Fellman, The Two Doctors Górski: ( Yeah, it's Dark Academia )

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, The Salvage Crew: ( a human in a ship's body but not Anne McCaffrey )
Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes: ( monsters in space )

Jim Hines, Slayers of Old:( BtVS, but retired )

Neal Shusterman, Scythe: ( remember that Star Trek episode where they wouldn't use birth control? )

Reading
The Spellshop - Sarah Beth Durst
Lady Eve's Last Con - Rebecca Fraimow
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Sword Crossed - Freya Marske
Murder by Memory - Olivia Waite
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea - Rebecca Thorne
A Pirate's Life for Tea - Rebecca Thorne
Tea You at the Altar - Rebecca Thorne
The Kamogawa Food Detectives - Hisashi Kashiwa (translated by Jesse Kirkwood)
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes - Hisashi Kashiwa (translated by Jesse Kirkwood)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers
The Archive Undying - Emma Mieko Candon
Alchemy and a Cup of Tea - Rebecca Thorne
Death in the Cloisters - Valentina Morelli (translated by Edward Maltby)
Skysong - C. A. Wright
Queen Demon - Martha Wells
The Enchanted Greenhouse - Sarah Beth Durst
Menu of Happiness - Hisashi Kashiwa (translated by Jesse Kirkwood)
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Becky Chambers
Death at Noon - Valentina Morelli
The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett
A Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett
Brigands and Breadknives - Travis Baldree

I got all of these from my libraries, so yay! Also I was catching the bus a lot and I turned mobile data off for all social media so I was motivated to read more.

Watching
Murderbot (Apple TV+)
Lots of YouTube

Playing
Farm RPG
Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket
Cats and Soup

Projects
A little more work on my static site generator.

The FAQ entry about renaming a journal is very helpful to understand what happens and the options when renaming, but I'm not sure what happens to the image links?

Do image links also get redirected automatically ? Or do you need to update your old posts referencing those images, since the username is in the URL too??