Irregular Webcomic! #2965 Rerun

Dec. 1st, 2025 10:11 am
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Comic #2965

Mercutio is clearly genre savvy.


2025-12-01 Rerun commentary: That was the closest I had to a London bobby helmet. Or maybe this police officer was just taking the pith.

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Posted by Ayala Sorotsky

If you've ever celebrated Christmas with a cat in the house, then you already know the truth: there is no holiday quite as chaotic, dramatic, and absolutely adorable as Catmas. Forget peaceful snowfalls and calm winter nights - the moment the tree goes up, the pspspirit of feline mischief awakens. Suddenly, your living room becomes a glitter-covered battleground where the ornaments fear for their lives and the tinsel accepts its fate.

You try… you really try. You hang the baubles high. You secure the tree with engineering-level determination. You say things like "Maybe this year Muffin will behave". Spoiler: Muffin does not behave.

Because for your cat, Christmas decorations are basically one big enrichment activity. A dangling ornament? That's a toy. Wrapping paper? A personal shredding experience. Gift boxes? Prime napping real estate. The tree? Their Everest. And you? You're the helpless spectator holding a cup of hot cocoa, whispering "Please don't climb it… please don't climb it… oh no, they're climbing it".

But honestly? We wouldn't trade the cat chaos for anything. Christmas with cats is messy, ridiculous, and filled with more laughter than any ironic watch of a Hallmark movie could ever provide. So to celebrate the season properly, here are some Christmas cat memes of pure festive feline chaos - the purrfect way to feel the feline holiday pspspirit without having to rescue your tree (again). Merry Catmas!

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Posted by Blake Seidel

Cats and snow go together like peanut butter and pickles - they just don't. They may seem purrfectly interested in it - who wouldn't be when seeing little white flakes fall down from the sky for the furst time? But as soon as they put their paws in that cold, wet snow, they're already halfway back inside, yelling at you for not stopping them sooner. We all know that felines love warm things, like hogging the heater, getting snuggled up under blankets, or loafing in between your legs for maximum security and warmth. Snow provides none of those adorable amenities, and thus, they're fated to be mortal enemies.

Now, surely there are some cats that like snow, but that's a topic for a different article. Today, we're enjoying all the dramatic divas of the cat world who discovered snow…. but are not having a good time at all. You can expect purrfectly regretful faces, all the airplane ears, and a whole litter box of feisty feline energy. Because, of course, it's your fault that the snow is cold and makes their paws all wet. It's also your fault for letting them try something new. It doesn't matter if you told them before. They still did it, had a terrible time, and now, you will pay. And revenge is a dish best served cold.

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Posted by Mariel Ruvinsky

Happyyyy meowrning, cat people! Sunday Funday is finally here, and that means that it is officially time to have. some. fun. And we don't know about you, but to cat people like us, that means a few things. It means spending our day being… cats. It means chilling as much as we want, napping whenever we feel like it, snacking every time the urge strikes us and, if something annoys us, it means smacking it right in the face. But before all of that, before we even get out of bed, we need to do one thing, and that is start our morning with some funny cat memes

It's a good thing then, that every single Funday, we bring you a brand new, fresh collection of cat memes to enjoy first thing in the morning. And these are not just any cat memes. These are the best cat memes that twitter had to offer us this week. The most viral, the funniest, the most heartwarming, we have it al right here, all to make sure that you start your Funday on the right paw. 

Monday Update 12-1-25

Dec. 1st, 2025 02:08 am
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These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Today's Cooking
Artificial Intelligence
Bingo
History
Birdfeeding
Dreamwidth Points
New Year's Resolutions Check In
News
Moment of Silence: Leslie Fish
Science
Shop for Good Sunday
Wildlife
Vocabulary: Xenoparity
Space Exploration
Safety
Birdfeeding
Wildlife
Philosophical Questions: Wants
Poetry Fishbowl Report for November 4, 2025
Unsold Poems for the November 4, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl
Early Humans
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 11-28-25: Active Communities on Dreamwidth Fall 2025 A-I
Recipe: "Crockpot Smoked Turkey Leg with Beans"
Communities
Climate Change
Holiday Love Meme
Birdfeeding
Today's Cooking
Food
Birdfeeding
Poem: "No Worthless Herbs"
Wildlife
Hard Things

Trauma has 45 comments. Affordable Housing has 74 comments. Robotics has 101 comments.


Today is Cyber Monday. See previous holidays:
Small Business Saturday (Alas, our plans were snowed out!)
Shop for Good Sunday
Buy Nothing Day (with links to activities)

Winterfaire 2025 is now open! List a Booth for anything you sell that would make good holiday gifts, or comment with what you're shopping for to crowdsource ideas. There are links to two similar shopping events online. if you know others, please pass the word.


"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv and needs $191 to be complete. Maiara and Arthur discuss taking notes.


The weather has been cold and snowy here. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, two female and three male cardinals, a dark-eyed junco, and a mourning dove.  I also saw the great horned owl flying out of the ritual meadow.

December Monthly Post

Dec. 1st, 2025 01:49 am
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What are your planned crowdfunding projects for December? What did you accomplish during November?

There is no Creative Jam in December.  The January 2026 [community profile] crowdfunding Creative Jam will run Saturday 17-Sunday 18 with a theme of "Memories."  That will be our 150th Creative Jam, wow!  I hope everyone shows up for it.

Reading Wrap-up 11/25

Dec. 1st, 2025 07:28 am
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In hindsight, it seems my November was horror-reading month. I swear, I hadn't planned it this way, but I won't complain. 

Purcell, Laura: Bone China. Bloomsbury. 2019.
I've been reading her books for a few years now, picking one up every autumn. She's a contemporary author, but she writes in the vein of gothic fiction - there are a lot of remote mansions and haunted castles in her books. Bone China features a remote manor on a cliff, an unreliable narrator and the question of what is truly happening and what is actually only taking place in the protagonist's head. Purcell is really good with the psychological horror. If that's your kind of thing you should definitely check her out.

Moreno-Garcia, Silvia: Mexican Gothic. Del Rey. 2020.
This was my first time with a novel by Moreno-Garcia. I felt that thematically, this was all over the place. Apart from the fact that it's horror it also tried to tackle themes like racism, classism, eugenics and mysoginy, but it didn't spend enough time on any of these themes to make it worthwhile. Additionally, this has a historical setting (the 1950/1960s) even though this is never fully realised and you wonder why the author chose to take this route (probably only to constantly talk about the dress the protagonist was wearing, I don't know). And when we got to the bottom of why the house was "haunted" I basically got off the plane - this is a personal thing of course, but I found this rather silly instead of terrifying. What I really liked was the gothic vibes she managed to evoke while describing the house. The atmosphere and the creepy dreams (that only get creepier as the story progresses) were my highlights.

Tremblay, Paul: Horror Movie. HarperAudio. 2024.
Tremblay simply has the best audiobook productions and this was top-notch as well. If you want to give this novel a try, do yourself a favour and consider the audiobook! I can't say that I fully bought into the "haunted set" idea and most of the characters felt flat and hardly realised, but Tremblay is really good with mixed media. There are several POVs and a screenplay in this. But the novel wasn't overly scary or frightening.

Feito, Virginia: Victorian Psycho. Audible Audio. 2025.
As a project this is very well done and successful, but as a book on its own I find it forgettable. As the title says this marries American Psycho to a Jane Eyre-like plot. The language was the most interesting thing about this, because just like in American Psycho the narration starts off very tame and proper only to get more unhinged as the story progresses. I think that progression was the highlight of the novel and very well done. On the other hand, it was riffing off what Ellis has already done decades ago, so I'm not sure how much of the credit (besides the idea of the Victorian setting) can really go to Feito. In the end, mostly a fanfiction remix even if it's executed extremely well.

Kröger, Lisa & Anderson, Melanie R.: Monster, She wrote! The Women Who Prioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction. Quirk Books. 2018.
Let's start this by saying that this is a beautifully done book. It was quite obviously typeset before the pandemic and before paper became scarce and expensive - there's a lot of free and waste of space here and it's wonderful to see a book "breathe" like that. Happens rarely enough. Sadly, this nonfiction read didn't fully give me what I had expected. Yes, I filled up my TBR because the authors truly manage to find a lot of hidden gems. But I had definitely expected more literary criticism, more in-depth analysis. In the end, this was pretty much snorkeling just below the surface.

Doerr, Anthony: Cloud Cuckoo Land. Scribner. 2021.
I only read this because Ben from Ben reads good gave this a glowing review. Half an hour into the (German) audiobook of 16 hours I thought this would be 16 hours of pure torture. In the end, it wasn't quite that bad, but I can't say that the book and I had a successful time with each other. The "hook" - the Greek epic connecting all the different timelines was as silly as the title suggests and had I known that this would fully be shouldered by kid and teenage protagonists I would have opted out before I even started. I just didn't care for any of it. Okay, that's not true. I cared for the poor beasts of burden who died somewhere in the middle - but even that was mostly the author emotionally manipulating the reader, so I don't know what to make of this.

New Year's Resolutions Check In

Dec. 1st, 2025 12:41 am
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We made it to the end of November! \o/ If you have completed some of your yearly goals, and/or you're still chugging away at your ongoing goals, then pat yourself on the back. You worked hard for that. We are now well into autumn. If you're doing seasonal goals, share what you're working on for this winter.

This year I'm trying something new, continuing to track goals at the end of each month. So far it seems to be helping, so that's encouraging. I'm looking at my goal list more often and trying to keep ticking off more of them. The main drawback is that this update becomes more of a chore each month.

These are the previous check in posts:
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 4
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 10
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 17
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 24
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 31
New Year's Resolutions Check In February 28
New Year's Resolutions Check In March 31
New Year's Resolutions Check in April 30
New Year's Resolutions Check In May 31
New Year's Resolutions Check In June 30
New Year's Resolutions Check In July 31
New Year's Resolutions Check In August 31
New Year's Resolutions Check In September 30
New Year's Resolutions Check In October 31


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Cyber Monday

Dec. 1st, 2025 12:24 am
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Today is Cyber Monday. This holiday focuses on shopping online. It has surpassed Black Friday as the biggest shopping day of the year! \o/


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Today's Cooking

Dec. 1st, 2025 12:10 am
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Sunday night I made Sunny Honey Cookies.  These are soft, pillowy cookies almost like a muffin, full of minced candied ginger and sunflower seeds.  :D 

pseudonym

Dec. 1st, 2025 12:00 am
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for December 1, 2025 is:

pseudonym • \SOO-duh-nim\  • noun

A pseudonym is a name that someone (such as a writer) uses instead of their real name.

// bell hooks is the pseudonym of the American writer Gloria Jean Watkins.

See the entry >

Examples:

“Edgar Wright, the filmmaker and genre specialist who has given the world modern gems like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Baby Driver, estimates he was around 13 years old when he read ‘the Bachman Books,’ a collection of four novels that Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman during the early years of his career.” — Don Kaye, Den of Geek, 9 Oct. 2025

Did you know?

Pseudonym has its origins in the Greek adjective pseudōnymos, which means “bearing a false name.” French speakers adopted the Greek word as the noun pseudonyme, and English speakers later modified the French word into pseudonym. Many celebrated authors have used pseudonyms. Samuel Clemens wrote under the pseudonym “Mark Twain,” Charles Lutwidge Dodgson assumed the pseudonym “Lewis Carroll,” and Mary Ann Evans used “George Eliot” as her pseudonym.



Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit!

Dec. 1st, 2025 12:01 am
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Happy Kalends of Decembris!  Are you ready for Saturnalia?

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Thank you kindly to [profile] small_hobbit for the postal mail! [profile] small_hobbit is the first one to send me a card for my "milestone" birthday!
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Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: Gen, background M/M (Everything implied no specifics); Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao & Nie Mingjue; Song Lan | Song Zichen/Xiao Xingchen, Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao, Nie Mingjue, Song Lan | Song Zichen, Xiao Xingchen, A-Qing, Original Character
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Length: 6,330
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, OC POV, Outsider POV, Neurodivergent Character POV, disability as a communication obstacle, heavy verse-specific content
Creator Tags: Communication is hard when you're dead, We ain't afraid of no ghosts, We've been dead for years, Bad jokes because writer is in a mood, NaNoWriMo Breaktime, ghost hunt - Freeform, mystery haunting, Undead Investigation Team

Creator Links: (AO3) [archiveofourown.org profile] JustAWanderingBabbit; (Tumblr) [tumblr.com profile] justawanderingbabbit

Theme: Mystery & Suspense, Casefic, Just Plain Fun, Outsider POV, Post-Canon

Summary: The Vermillion Peony Tree has stood for two hundred years... It might stand for two hundred more.... Given no one's stupid enough to annoy its guardian.

In which a possibly familiar Original Character meets a group of very familiar Night Hunters, attempting to clear a haunting from an inn built maybe a bit too close to the Burial Mounds.

(Part of the Mending the Pieces Universe.)


Author’s Notes:

* Not every monster or ghost you go after is a real monster. Sometimes the ones you have to worry about are the living people.
* Which, of course, was the message of the early Scooby Doo Adventures. Wish they hadn't lost that later on.


Reccer's Notes: A post-canon Halloween Scooby-Doo homage in which sapient fierce corpses Nie Mingjue and Song Zichen and demi-undead Meng Yao, incognito and under aliases, have become a wandering occult investigation trio. (Or, to the inn stableboy who can see ghosts Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing, a quintet.)

(JustAWanderingBabbit is the sort of author who maintains a repertory company of sorts; POV character Ah Bai is an OC who recurs in several of her MDZS works.)

Fanwork Links: House on Haunted Hill (AO3-locked).

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