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https://polyrecsdaily.tumblr.com/post/803813262109081600

Splash, by Kass. Nestra: Rodney for the win! (And in 500 words, too — look and marvel at what Kass can do in such a small space.)

https://polyrecsdaily.tumblr.com/post/803813262109081600

Day 24: Alibi editing, but that's fine, since the 24th is the main Christmas celebration in Sweden. How about you?

Tally:
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Day 23:

luzula,

trobadora,

sylvanwitch,

sanguinity,

goddess47,

chanter1944,

cornerofmadness,

china_shop,

badly_knitted,

chestnut_pod

Day 24:

luzula,

china_shop

Bonus farm news: Put my chainsaw lesson to use by cutting down our Christmas tree. : D

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write every day

I received an utterly gorgeous, poetic post-canon moment between Keema and Jun, and I love every single word. If you know the canon, please check it out!!

After the Moon Rose Anew (1048 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Keema of the Daware Tribe/Jun Ossa
Characters: Keema of the Daware Tribe (The Spear Cuts Through Water), Jun Ossa
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Established Relationship, Introspection
Summary:

After the curtains close on the Inverted Theater, there are still moments of interest in the lives of these two young heroes who are no longer gods but mortals seeking contentment in their second lives.

This is one such moment.

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other rec

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/salesforce_chatgpt/

Execs say DIY OpenAI connections risked pushing CRM data past the ‘trust boundary’

Salesforce users running Agentforce with ChatGPT Enterprise or Edu can now update CRM data directly from the bot, a move aimed at curbing home-built integrations that risk spilling data outside the company's controls.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/salesforce_chatgpt/

Posted by ljs30

http://ask.metafilter.com/388378/which-Financial-Advisor-should-I-go-with

Should I use a small one person show financial advisor or someone at Fidelity? I'm currently looking to get set up with a Financial Advisor. Not looking to self invest as I feel more comfortable with guidance. A very good friend of mine has worked with an advisor for over 10 years and has been happy with him. Another good friend of his has also worked with that same advisor for even longer and has been happy. The advisor goes through MML investor services which is Mass Mutual. I had a couple very good meetings with him. I like him. Very nice, seemed really knowledgeable and not pushy at all.

I also had a couple meetings with Fidelity. I'd be getting set up with a specific advisor there who would be my long term point person. He seemed very nice as well. Young but came off as a sharp shooter but not pushy.

My friends advisor literally works in an office that is in a small town with signs on the window reading things like financial planning, disability insurance, life insurance etc. That's kind of giving me pause...maybe it shouldn't but I'm not getting that 1st class feeling. To be fair, it's a well to do town if that helps. Also my friends buddy who works with this advisor is very wealthy and I can't imagine he'd use a sub par financial advisor.

I've known many people who have worked with Fidelity and been happy. I definitely have more confidence and trust in Fidelity as a company vs Mass Mutual since it's more of an insurance company. That said the financial advisors you are assigned to at Fidelity from what I hear...come and go. And I definitely want personal attention. But it's likely I'll be assigned many different advisors throughout the time of being with fidelity.

Fidelity would take 1.47% and my friend's guy would take 1%. Any thoughts one which path might make more sense?

http://ask.metafilter.com/388378/which-Financial-Advisor-should-I-go-with

Hello, Yuletiders–as you may have noticed, the anonymous setting on the Yuletide collection, which should hide all author names until reveals on January 1st, does not seem to be working as expected, and shortly after our planned works reveals, we had an unplanned reveal of author names. We’re very sorry for this unexpected breaking of anonymity!

We’re reaching out to AO3 to help us resolve the problem. In the meantime, we have updated all works manually, and author names should now be hidden again. If you notice we have missed any, please reach out to us privately at yuletideadmin@gmail.com.

Again, our apologies–and we hope you enjoy the collection!

Yuletide Madness is scheduled to reveal at 9 PM UTC on 25 December, but this may be delayed if necessary to ensure author anonymity.

ETA: We know many of you have received email notifications to say, "The collection maintainers of Yuletide 2025 have changed the status of your work [work] to anonymous..." This is a result of us updating them manually to hide author names, in order to achieve the same effect you would expect from reveals in an ordinary Yuletide. Sorry for the confusion! You can safely ignore these notifications; we will reveal author names on January 1st, manually if we have to.

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2025,
reveal

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

Yuletide just went live a little while ago, and I got not one but two lovely gifts!

(And, for the record, I opened both of them immediately upon golive before things glitched, so I haven't seen the writers yet and intentionally am avoiding looking to try to keep myself surprised since I know the mods are manually going through and fixing it right now.)

First up is my main gift, the kid is the turf for Home Alone. Some amazing person took my link to to a Bluesky post from last year ("the Wet Bandits team up against another burglar duo going after Kevin because he is *their* kid") and went with it, and it's brilliant. Gen. 3,489 words.

The second fic was a treat for Hand of Isis by Jo Graham called Her Last Confession. It focuses on Thais, written in the format of her speaking to Alexander decades upon decades after his death. Gen, with background F/M and M/M. 6,796 words.

As for my own fics, I ended up writing a fair number this year. I didn't beat my record from 2023 (ten fics), but I came close.

Current Mood: excited

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ficathon: yuletide

Recs: in general

The main Yuletide collection has just opened, with Yuletide Madness to follow shortly, so it's time to think about recs (recommendations)! It's traditional to kudos or comment on works and tell their anonymous creators that you liked them. It's also traditional to tell other people about the Yuletide stuff you like. There are many different ways to share your recommendations for works.

On AO3 itself
You can bookmark a story and add the bookmark and its notes to the Yuletide Recs collection. (Note: This is not the same as the main Yuletide collection.) Detailed tutorials can be found here and here.

In Discord
At the Yuletide Discord, you can post recs with very brief comments in the #yuletide-recs channel.

Here at Dreamwidth
You are welcome to post recs to this community Please follow the guidelines:

Any individual post to the community must contain recs for at least 3 separate works.

You can put the full text of your recs post in a post to the community, OR you can post your recs on some other platform, then put the link in a post on the community or in a comment to this post.

If your post is long, consider cut text code (DW) or details code to compress your text.

Recs: central/index post

THIS POST can also serve as a hub for recs. You're welcome to reply with your recs (especially useful if you don't have a Dreamwidth account). Or you can ask for recs that follow a theme, or just make a comment linking to a recs post elsewhere. Collect Your Recs Here!

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rec index

Yuletide 2025 Collection Is Live Here!

Enjoy 1539 works in 992 fandoms! (The number will go up as wranglers canonize fandoms - this will take a little time, though.)

The reveals process takes a little while to work in a collection of this size; if a story in the collection is still a mystery work an hour after opening, please let us know.

Finding works
You can find your own gifts on your AO3 gifts page: https://archiveofourown.org/users/YOUR-NAME-HERE/gifts, or by searching the box at the top of the collection works page for the full name you signed up with, or by checking your email if you get email notifications from AO3. Note: your email notifications may bundle together, and it might look like you only got one gift, when in fact you got more.

You can browse the collection by tags or by fandoms. Some fandoms are new and may not show up immediately (wranglers are working on this) or where you expect them; please check labels such as Original Work, 19th Century Historical RPF, Object and Concept Anthropomorphism, and Unspecified Fandom. More info about Unspecified Fandom here.

Anonymity
Yuletide is an anonymous exchange until creator reveals January 1. Please don't give away what you've written. When logged in, you can, if you want, reply to comments on your own works, and you will show up as Anonymous Creator until the authors of the collection are revealed.

Commenting!
Please comment on your gift(s) to let your writer(s) know you appreciate them. We also recommend commenting far and wide to spread the comment joy around! You may enjoy the challenge of a comment bingo card.

AO3 changed default comment settings last year. If you want to make sure people can comment on your gifts when they aren't logged in, you may need to change a setting on your work. More information here, under 'Your comment settings'.

Recs
Making work recommendations is a tradition. Please see more information at the participant community (

yuletide) about where you can post your recs.

Madness
For those still writing, the 2025 Yuletide Madness collection will stay open for new stories to be posted for 24 hours. It will close for posting, and open for reading, at 9pm UTC 25 December. If you're looking for prompts, there's a roundup of links here.

Problems
If there is something wrong with your gift or you have another concern, please contact the mods at yuletideadmin@gmail.com.

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2025,
reveal

I essayed

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Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: linettesmth on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Aaaand, it's the inevitable Klimt kiss portrait of Ilya and Shane, and very nicely done, too! I like the echoes of their team uniform colours in their robes.
Link: Ilya and Shane

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fandom: heated rivalry

Dear Carolyn: I’m a year out from chemo and still officially cancer-free. Also, my hair is back to normal — yay. To celebrate, I had it dyed a beautiful violet shade, my favorite color.

Now my dad is giving me so much grief about it. He keeps asking why I need everyone to notice me and ask about my cancer. I don’t care if anyone notices my hair; I did it for me. The color makes me smile every time I look in the mirror. And if anyone does mention the color, I tell them I did it because I like the color purple. I never mention cancer at all. Why would I want to talk about that? I feel good, I can run and hike again, and I want to focus on things like that.

My dad refuses to accept my explanation, because he believes everyone who does anything he considers to be out of the ordinary does it “to get attention” or to “freak people out.” I can’t seem to convince him how stupid that is, that people do things because they want to and it makes them happy.

Can you think of a way to get through to him? I’m really tired of having to listen to him criticize my hair every time he sees me.

— Celebrating

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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/ai_spending_cooling_off/

Will businesses continue to invest in something that's shown so little return?

opinion It is the season of overindulgence, and no one has overindulged like the tech industry: this year, it has burned through roughly $1.5 trillion in AI, a level of spending usually reserved for wartime.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/ai_spending_cooling_off/

'Tis the season for the due South Christmas song!

Short version from the TV episode:

Watch on YouTube

Extended version:

Watch on YouTube

Current Mood: festive
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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Dear Miss Manners: I have long been troubled by the carol “We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” specifically the intimation that if we don’t give the uninvited guests their figgy pudding, they “won’t go.”

How are we to address this request? I don’t want to be ungrateful for their wishes, but think that their insistence is a bit beyond what is considered polite and reasonable. Can you advise how to proceed?

What was that? Miss Manners couldn’t quite hear you over the ruckus made by the geese a-laying, the calling birds, the French hens and the turtledoves. The partridge, fortunately, appears to have passed out under the pear tree.

Current Mood: amused

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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/pentesters_reported_eurostar_chatbot_flaws/

AI goes off the rails … because of shoddy guardrails

Researchers at Pen Test Partners found four flaws in Eurostar's public AI chatbot that, among other security issues, could allow an attacker to inject malicious HTML content or trick the bot into leaking system prompts. Their thank you from the company: being accused of "blackmail."…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/pentesters_reported_eurostar_chatbot_flaws/

What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing. Working on it.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( 1776 #2, Marvel Winter Break Special 2025 #1, Will of Doom #1, X-Vengers #3 )

What I'm Reading Next

I woke up this morning to find that

lysimache had gifted me an ebook entitled Here Comes the Pizzer: The Found Poetry of Baseball Broadcasts, by Eric Poulin, so I guess that's what we'll be doing dramatic readings of aloud for Christmas Eve. While eating pizza.

The title is a reference to this extremely classic Red Sox broadcast moment. Here comes the pizza.

(We usually read the Christmas story in Greek, Latin, or Old English for Christmas Eve but we can probably make some time for this.)

Current Mood: okay

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Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 8 by SUOL

The story is approaching the conclusion. Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes

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Gardening Tools and Immoral Pleasure-Seekers

Splash (Stargate: Atlantis)

Write every day: Day 24

My Yuletide gift: The Spear Cuts Through Water fic

Salesforce’s ChatGPT integration is really about stopping customers from leaking their own data

Execs say DIY OpenAI connections risked pushing CRM data past the ‘trust boundary’

which Financial Advisor should I go with

Yuletide 2025 Anonymous Period

Highlander Holiday Shortcuts - the fic that I received

Yuletide

Admin Post: Snap, Reccle, Pop! Rec Index Post 2025

Recs: in general

Recs: central/index post

Yuletide 2025 is live!

Fictional Fictions And Metaphysics

Ilya and Shane by linettesmth (SFW)

(no subject)

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet

Will businesses continue to invest in something that's shown so little return?

Fannish Fifty Challenge: Post # 46: due South Christmas Song

Literal Christmas

Pen testers accused of 'blackmail' after reporting Eurostar chatbot flaws

AI goes off the rails … because of shoddy guardrails

Wednesday Reading Meme

Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 8

Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 8

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