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The weekly chat posts are intended for just that, chatting among each other. What are you currently watching? Reading? What actor/idol are you currently following? What are you looking forward to? Are you busy writing, creating art? Or did you have no time at all for anything, and are bemoaning that fact?

Whatever it is, talk to us about it here. Tell us what you liked or didn't like, and if you want to talk about spoilery things, please hide them under either of these codes:
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Spoilers, of course.

The Empire took someone else before and tried to use them but they resisted, so they were killed?

WTF, the story about Miss Hilin and Hamel was so tragic! And what exactly turned him into a monster? Oh shit I just realized that's why it was going for stones so single-mindedly ahhhh.

Yep, so when Charons 'deteroriate' after Awakening they turn into super strong Filthoids. I'm still confused about the connection between Forsakens and Deterioration. How was Hal a Forsaken?

For the Elsa and Annie case, why didn't we have the option to give Elsa the letter from Annie???

'CRAP' WAS CENSORED WTF even IF this was a children's game that would not be?!

Also I find it really sad that they want to take Psyche away to die with them, like at least they didn't kidnap her, they gave her a choice to meet them and yeah Henrik hasn't given them the best impression but her own parents left her with him and it's clear he's trying to help these people, did they ever consider she might want to stay with her guardian in her last moments?

I cannot believe they just assume Henrik was some evil villain killing and controlling Deteriorators based on that tiny shred of info Vita learned. This is so stupid. *smh* Hope they don't do something irreversible.

Me in the middle of feeling bad for Psyche as walks through her visions of the past: "...Wait, why do her parents look like the most generic NPCs ever, did they adopt her??"

I hate the Empire SO MUCH. They think they're the good guys but they're actually the lowest scum. :|

Is the crystal as a cure a loose end? I don't know how I feel about Psyche's ending, I thought she'd die, then I thought she'd live but then she died by killing herself right when she came back to herself. With practice or done sooner, could Vita's Resonance hold Deterioration back or take it away completely?

Outsider mentioned someone else who could use 'this kind of power' who brought blood and chaos and was hanged, was that the person Sybille mentioned earlier?

Am I ever going to understand how catching Geniemons works?? Edit: I missed how to switch to a higher food, I kept using the same one. 😅

After a little while of playing the game, it suddenly doesn't want to let me turn fast, it's almost like slow moon, same when I use my mouse and move it around the screen. Sometimes I have to restart the game because it's hard to fight when you can't turn fast.

I feel really bad for all the stags, every time I'm out exploring with a team they go off and kill them all. 😭

KK-chan is a Girl! - I found her recently and now she's my favorite mangatuber, seeing all the goodies and manga etcis a delight. She reads across the board, maybe mostly BL and shoujo.

Rec-Cember - Post recs in December and tag them! More info in sticky there. You can post to your own journal or the community.

Do you know "Pomegaverse"!?🐶

State of Thai GL - November 2025

The Gay Couple Shonen Jump Suppressed - SKET Dance is one of those manga I saw start publishing and just never got around to reading. I don't know if having this knowledge now is better or worse but I still plan on reading it.

Atelier B/W - Free illustrations in various categories. Menu at top left: Food, Drink, Misc, Animals, Plants, Other. Rules: no commercial use, redistribution, hot linking, otherwise you're good (changing color/size, use on social media/site etc)

Using my gameboard!

I read 6/7 from my last challenge! I DNF'ed the Adonis one because I didn't click with it at all.

Avatar:

Heaven's Official Blessing | Supernatural
Skill: Re-draw a prompt once

Roll #1

An 8, just past the trap tile and on the 'generate from TBR' tile. #508 which is Jubo! "Shaolin monk gong. Pretty strong manly bottom."

Roll #2

A 10. Prompt: royalty/nobility. I really want to know what happens next in It Seems Like I Fell into a Reverse Harem Game.

Roll #3

An 11...but it's the trap tile. Went back, rerolled a 6, prompt: martial arts: Was about to use my skill before I saw that Trash of the Count's Family is labelled martial arts for some reason. XD

Roll #4

A 5, prompt: sex friends to lovers. The first one on the list is The Chairman’s Mistaken Canary. "A seemingly aloof yet secretly passionate shou × A rich gong who seamlessly alternates between domineering and clueless." that sounds interesting!

Roll #5

An 8, prompt: time rewind. I really wanted to pick Epiphanies again but I don't want to forgot what's going on in I Just Want to Be in a Relationship if I don't read it soon.

Roll #6

A 3 and right to the end. There were a couple I wanted to continue but I can't help it, I really want more Epiphanies of Rebirth;;

Chapter 11: IN. SANE. If this Liu doesn't get thrown behind bars after this there is no justice in this world.

Chapter 12: I feel a little bad for Du Kang.

Can you imagine how furious Lin Jingzhe would be if someone died in his home?

Du Kang, who walked in the front, approached and slapped his face hard.

YES. DO IT AGAIN.

Chapter 13: To the execution block!

Chapter 14: Justice served, though we didn't see Qi Qia's reaction.

Chapter 15: Li Yurong needs to bite the dust next... AND that president eww. Can Li Jingzhe refuse to go back to class 1??

Chapter 16: Du Kang visiting the school, I was worried there for a second but he managed to run into Li Jingzhe so he should find out about class 5.

Chapter 17: *glee*

Chapter 18: Du Kang is a good guy, I'm glad he's the one getting stuff done even though it's stressing him the fuck out all at once lol

Chapter 19.1: Li Jngzhe turned down Qunnan and everyone decided Yu Zhuliang should get it. In the previous life, he would have if it hadn't been for Jiang Run, and Jingzhe didn't want to rob that from him.

Hu Yu is finally getting recognized as an official teacher!

Aw I love the new English teacher, Qian Tian.

Ohh, two new characters? A guy named Hu Shaofeng who curses rather a lot complaining about the donated antiques and his friend Xiao Chi and they're skydiving?! I don't want to jump to conclusions but could Xiao Chi be a regressor as well, since he has knowledge of that Qi Kai guy? If so, he must've found the news interesting since in the previous life the antiques were taken by Jingzhe's mother.

Chapter 19.2: We see how the losers are doing (not great, hah). It's exams time and I can't believe how proud I am of the boys for getting this far. Jingzhe knows inflation is coming so he's going to have to get a job to pay for college tuition.

Chapter 20: Li Jingzhe getting so mad at Zhou Haitang for trying to give up. Ahh I hope they all make it to Yan city.

Holy shit, all those people suggesting Hu Yu falsify his college choices. Glad she didn't do it.

Chapter 21-22.1: How are Hu Shaogeng and Xiao Chi even friends;;

He turned the corner, and the sight he found made his heart soften: the three brats, still shouting not too long ago for Lin Jingzhe to check out, were huddled in the king-sized bed in the outer room, fast asleep.



I should've known Li Jingzhe would do something wild like this to make money. But he can pull it off!

Chapter 22.2: If Gao Sheng was the brains and Zhou Haitang was the muscle, then Deng Mai was the one who got rid of the corpses and eliminated evidence.

😂

Li Jingzhe got his loan, is working on getting into stock and bought the guys new clothes so they can be his bodyguards.

It's really sweet how protective the guys are of Li Jingzhe. :') Just as he is of them though.

His chin was rather pointy, but when combined with a bit of baby fat still left on his cheeks, it made him look like a little innocent white rabbit.

Good thing Li Jingzhe can't read thoughts. 🤣

I like these two quotes:

"speaking the language of humans when seeing a human, and speaking the language of devils when seeing a devil”

“dragons and snakes jumbled together"

CW: Use of 'mentally retarded' in chapter 20: there was no way Mother Zhou would believe it just like that unless she was mentally retarded

Used my manga TBR boardgame.

I finished 4/4 on my last board, it was dicey at the end because I got really absorbed in a new game and am just kind of calming down from it. 😅 I had to reread Dash! again because I didn't write a review right away and forgot stuff. I've been missing reading manga so much though!!

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Conan
Skill: Beat trap tile once (roll prompt)

Roll #1:

A 7. I haven't gotten the trap tile in a while and bam, here it is on my first roll and I have the skill to beat it lol. Very easy prompt: romance element. Stranger Than Friends. I have read some of this but based on the reviews I will only be attempting to read the first two couples' stories due to the dumpster-fire nature of the other pairings.

Roll #2:

An 8, prompt: cover featuring blue. Let's go old-school with Hagio's A-A'!

Roll #3:

A 7, prompt: _verse. Let's go with a Guideverse this time with Zhong Qing .

Roll #4:

An 11, generate from TBR list tile. #1384 which isss the BL Restart by Hidaka Shoko!

Roll #5:

A 7 and the end. The physical manga this time is The Day I Became a Butterfly., a manga that meant a lot to me when I first read it and where I got my old username from. I'm curious to see how I'll feek about it now.

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/11/21/lbcf-lunch-with-dad/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71939

Chloe's mother was "devout" -- meaning she regularly warned her about the imminent one-world government, quizzed her on the seven bowls and seven seals of judgment, and talked about the dream of a perfect red heifer.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/11/21/lbcf-lunch-with-dad/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71939

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/11/20/feliz-navidad/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71927

Night riders from ICE and the Border Patrol are targeting immigrant churches and will kidnap worshipers during the holidays if we don't stop them from doing so.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/11/20/feliz-navidad/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71927

Used my game/drama/etc boardgame. Last challenge here.

I did 5/6! The one was because I realized how complicated it was going to be and decided to do the anime first (Idolm@ster SideM). I look forward to more of all of them! This will be my first time using Backloggd/VNDB with this challenge.

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A3!/Entertainment Industry
Skill: Move 2 extra tiles once (trap tile if Even roll)

Roll #1:

A 5, prompt: romance element. It's more erotic but there are romance elements in NU: Carnival. I'll probably open my game and read what I've unlocked from there.

Roll #2:

A 3, prompt: supernatural element: Tokyo Debunker.

Roll #3:

An 11, prompt: Superhero. Hmm I'll do Ride Kamens. ACK I just learned it announced EoS, but it seems they're at least doing an offline version for the stories...

Roll #4:

An 8, prompt: mood. I'll do more Food Fantasy.

Roll #5:

A 3, prompt: favorite genre. I kinda did that with the last roll but whatever, more Mahoyaku it is.

Roll #6:

An 11 and the end. Let's do Paradox Live as the reward.

Links:
Mahoyaku
ParaLive
Food Fantasy

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/11/19/smart-people-saying-smart-things-11-19-25/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71861

Please listen to Tressie McMillan Cottom, E.B. White, Mark Silk, Becky Garrison, Bhaskar Sunkara, and Abby Vesoulis.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/11/19/smart-people-saying-smart-things-11-19-25/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71861

People at /r/englishlearning need to stop saying "Song lyrics/poems don't have to be grammatical! Don't try to learn English through songs/poems! People just do whatever, ungrammatically, to fit the rhythm/mood/rhyme scheme!"

This may be true, I guess, but funnily enough it's never true when people say it. At least half the time, the quoted text isn't even archaic or nonstandard!

That said, I do like reading (most of the) comments in that subreddit. There's always something! ( Cut for appropriateness )

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Rec time! Did you read/watch/listen to something you really liked and would love other people to know about, too? Don't have the time or energy to make a full promo post, or think such a small thing doesn't merit a separate entry?

Here's your chance to share with the class! Just drop a comment with a link and maybe a couple of words in description. No need to overthink things, it can be as simple as Loved this! or OMG, look at that!. (You don't need to keep it short, though, write as much as you want.)

Check out the previous entries, too!

The yoga studio where I teach hasn’t been paying me on time (AAM: 4th one down):

I’ve been teaching yoga for about four years now and was hired for my first job at this small group training facility. I teach once a week and often sub for one of the two other instructors. I previously got paid monthly. I have a full-time job and this is my side gig. So, it’s money I use for things like gifts, or save up for vacations.
Over the last two years, my monthly payment stretched to being paid every two months. This past year, it’s stretched out to being paid every four or five months. I’ve asked the owners several times to leave a check for me for next week. I’ve also asked if there is an easier way for them to pay me, such as Venmo or direct deposit.
I’m at the point now where I’m owed for over 21 classes ($40 per class). Enrollment in the small training groups seems to have dropped as I’m seeing new members less. People do join for the yoga-only package to come to the yoga classes. What’s the best way to ask to be paid and let them know I can’t/shouldn’t have to wait longer than two months for payment? I’m at the point now where I want to say that I won’t teach until I get paid, but that isn’t really my vibe.

Alison responds: ( saying that you won’t teach until you get paid should be your vibe )

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/11/18/the-kingdom-of-heaven-is-within/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71867

Free your mind and your ass will follow.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/11/18/the-kingdom-of-heaven-is-within/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71867