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Candy Hearts Exchange Letter 2026

2026-01-07T20:47:07Z

( Final Fantasy XIV, Stranger Things, The Bear, Young Justice, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, The Newsroom, Final Fantasy XVI, Hades II )

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Dear Yulegoat 2025

2025-10-22T05:41:23Z

( Hades II, DanDaDan, PlanetES, Final Fantasy IX, Twisters )

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New things in 2025

2025-08-10T18:09:20Z

A comprehensive list of everything I've watched, read, played, and listened to this year (for the first time).

( Gotta get my life together before the spring )

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30. Turn the volume up high and listen to the slow parts

2025-07-18T05:31:10Z

Dusting this journal off with my little broom because it's thefridayfive time.

( Rage from the sea, let it begin with me )

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Candy Hearts Exchange Letter

2025-01-06T00:53:41Z

( The Bear, Final Fantasy XVI, Young Justice, Planetes )

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holiday love meme 2024

2024-12-02T20:06:57Z

✨ holiday love meme 2024 ✨
my thread here
School starts up again this week... and then I have only one week left before my first semester is done... we got our Christmas tree yesterday, a sweet little Turkish pine.

Tidings of comfort and joy &c.!

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28. And makes me end where I begun

2024-11-14T18:08:01Z

I am all registered for my spring classes! I am taking Modern Criticism, Workshop in Poetry, and Practicum in Teaching. I am waitlisted for The Real Thing: Writing the Erotic, and would sell any of those other classes to Satan for one corn chip if it meant I got to take that one. The professor, Caro de Robertis, is a brilliant writer, thinker, and teacher, and I have been fortunate to take a Workshop in Translation with them this semester. I am finally sitting down with their latest novel, The Palace of Eros, and allowing it to fling my heart relentlessly against the cliffs and crags of big feelings. Their prose is divine.

Somehow I'm on Season 6 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It is kind of like a telenovela for me, a white person. This season is maybe the first one where anything actually happens. Stabler's wife has left him and Fin has a son. Both of these revelations are given one line of dialogue (one scene, in Fin's case) and then never meaningfully addressed again. Alexandra Cabot came back for one episode! It was extremely funny to see her and Casey Novak in a scene together, where it became apparent that Casey Novak is dutifully echoing every note of Alexandra Cabot's voice and vibe. Casey Novak obliterated a murderer on the stand by making him explain what "LMAO" means.

I have been trying to find the time to write but lots of little things are arising. I've somehow discovered a love of doing dishes and making the kitchen look clean. Not sure how long this will last. But I have been putting on my "daylist" on Spotify and using the dish-washing time to discover new music, like "Beauty School" and "Bop Ba" and "Biblical Love" (welcome back Jade Ellsworth/Casey Blevins). It is our first proper rainy day of the season today and all I want to do is skip class and work and wash dishes. Sicko mode.

Well, actually, what I would really do with my time would be play Final Fantasy XVI.

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Five books meme

2024-11-01T18:57:10Z

Saw lirazel post this and thought it looked quite fun.

List authors where you've read five or more of their titles, optionally sorted into categories and/or time period.

Childhood & Teenhood
Meg Cabot
J.K. Rowling
Carolyn Keene
L.M. Montgomery
Neil Gaiman
Cornelia Funke
Gail Carson Levine
Avi
Patrick Carman
Anthony Horowitz
C.S. Lewis
Natalie Babbitt
Lloyd Alexander
Valerie Tripp
Janet Beeler Shaw
The Royal Diaries series

Classics
William Shakespeare
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Agatha Christie
Edith Wharton
Mark Twain
Willa Cather
Jane Austen
John Steinbeck
Albert Camus
Haruki Murakami

Miscellaneous Faves
Ursula K. Le Guin
Megan Whalen Turner
Marguerite Duras
Jeanette Winterson (* I've actually only read 3, but am working on 4, so I wager this will change by the end of the year)
Shirley Jackson
Alice Munro
Nghi Vo

Poets (Collections, Letters, and/or Craft)
Louise Glück
W.S. Merwin
Adrienne Rich
Sylvia Plath
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Anne Carson
Maggie Nelson
e.e. cummings
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
T. S. Eliot
Mary Oliver
Wallace Stevens

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27. Here comes the really scary part

2024-11-01T18:29:08Z

It's thefridayfive time again! They've got you running through the night!

( IT'S A TERRIFYING TIME! )

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New things in 2024

2024-10-30T21:39:26Z

A comprehensive list of everything I've watched, read, played, and listened to this year (for the first time). Pa'lante!

( Just a whistle on a long black train )

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25. The small things in the drawers

2024-10-28T22:15:29Z

( 1br/1ba hrdwd flrs w/vw of trees )

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26. Heav'n's unopening door

2024-10-28T05:24:26Z

( What I'm Reading Wednesday: Story of Your Life, Bloodchild, Normal People )

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23. A hearty broth made out of bones

2024-10-28T04:23:40Z

( Friday Five 10/25: On soup )

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22. Dear Yuletide Writer 2024

2024-10-16T02:49:14Z

Dearest Yuletide writer or treater,

Sorry for saying that I would have this letter completed by 10/19 and then not doing that. It has been a whacky autumn for me! I am wrapping up my first semester of grad school, planning for my wedding in the spring, and recovering from a brutal cold in between. Thanks for being patient with me even though I'm every Yulegoat's worst nightmare probably. I never seem to get ahead of these things even though I tell myself I will next year, next year, next year for sure...

Treats are welcome, as always!!!

( Final Fantasy IX, Twisters 2024, Challengers )

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21. 2023 Writing Wrapped

2024-01-04T03:17:29Z

( Ivory lines lead... )

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20. First & last lines game

2023-12-30T07:30:51Z

( I'm in love with you! )

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18. Dear Yuletide Writer 2023

2023-10-16T01:07:23Z

( Super 8, One Piece Live Action, Klute, The Bear, Nancy Drew )

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16. Can we go back to November?

2022-11-15T08:07:12Z

( I'm afraid your cat is no longer alive. )

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15. dear yuletide writer 2022

2022-10-15T01:23:42Z

( Super 8, Patlabor, ERASED, Poirot, The Haunting (1963) )

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14. dear chocolatier 2022

2022-01-04T06:27:54Z

( JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Patlabor, Persona 5, Shadow & Bone )

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13. dear yuletide writer 2021

2021-10-22T00:36:28Z

( Super 8 (2011), The Queen's Gambit (TV), Hyouka & Kotenbu Series )

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12. dear chocolatier 2021

2021-01-01T20:21:53Z

( JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Haikyuu!!, Patlabor, The Queen's Gambit )

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11. dear yuletide writer 2020

2020-10-20T21:10:17Z

( Hades, Transistor, Run with the Wind, Kiki's Delivery Service )

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10. dear chocolatier 2020

2020-01-04T16:09:53Z

( jojo's bizarre adventure, haikyuu, fire emblem: three houses, run with the wind )

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08. interhigh exchange letter

2019-02-18T21:01:14Z

( Haikyuu!!, Ping Pong, Run with the Wind )

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