Book 24, 2026
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Forever Rose by Janet WellingtonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
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Today, I finished my ‘at work book’ while at work! Ta-da! The book was Forever Rose, a time-travel romance by Janet Wellington. The main character is Taylor Rose Martin.
While taking a train home to San Diego, Taylor falls asleep, and when she awakens in time to disembark, she finds herself in the right place but the wrong time. Taylor has somehow traveled back in time to San Diego in the 1880’s. Since she’s dressed in trousers, a vest, and wearing a hat, people mistake her for a boy. The first person to see through her disguise is Ida, the madame of Sherman House. She offers Taylor room and board in exchange for acting as her gardener. When Taylor inadvertently learns that the handsome bartender she met is secretly plotting to kill Wyatt Earp, she realizes this is what she’s been sent back in time to prevent. Now she must convince Jackson Hoyt not to throw his life away to avenge a father he never met, even as she’s falling in love with Jackson.
For the most part, this was a charming time-travel romance with a feisty, likable heroine. However…
SPOILERS!!!
- Taylor and Jackson fell in love after only a few, brief meetings. Yawn.
- Before going back in time, Taylor has a tarot reading that predicted her unanticipated journey. One thing the tarot reader mentioned was to beware of a false friend. I literally spent the entirety of the book keeping a sharp lookout for this dastardly character...but it never came to pass. I was and remain vexed.
- The ending of the book was a major disappointment. (SPOILER!) At the same time Jackson was dying in the past, Taylor was returning to the present, where she met a new incarnation of him. She recognized him, but I was thinking, wow, this is not the same man she met and fell in love with. I would have much preferred if Taylor had the choice to remain in the past, or if Jackson had come forward in time with her. Way to ruin a good story in the last two pages, Ms Wellington.
Favorite lines: Being judgmental was the greatest hindrance to happiness.
This was headed for a solid four rating, but the shoddy ending knocks it down to three.
rionaleonhartI think this is the worst title I've ever given a fic.
Fun fact: I've now officially posted an entire quarter of the Robert/Chris fanfiction on AO3. I think this means there's not enough Robert/Chris fanfiction on AO3.
Title: Mixed Beans
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: 14
Pairing: Robert/Chris, with references to Robert/Celia
Wordcount: 2,700
Summary: Robert books a romantic getaway with Chris's mother. There is a misunderstanding.
( Mixed Beans )
Fun fact: I've now officially posted an entire quarter of the Robert/Chris fanfiction on AO3. I think this means there's not enough Robert/Chris fanfiction on AO3.
Title: Mixed Beans
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: 14
Pairing: Robert/Chris, with references to Robert/Celia
Wordcount: 2,700
Summary: Robert books a romantic getaway with Chris's mother. There is a misunderstanding.
( Mixed Beans )
Prompt 2793: Fly
20/3/26 23:40immortalje posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
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Bureaucracy is the price we pay for idiocy
20/3/26 14:15dorchadasWe've been having an unreasonable amount of trouble trying to get Laila registered to the school for her new IEP.
We'd already lost one slot because when![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee showed up, they only had her set for halfdays even though we were told that Laila would be started for full days, so they tried to contact Laila's home school to get the process started again. Well, the contact at Laila's school was slow so we lost our placement, but also Laila was in the hospital while all this was happening so I wasn't too worried. Well, they got her a new placement (at a much closer school, that she can even walk to if she wants), so we weren't very worried. Then things dragged. And dragged. And today literally right before she was going to go to school on what we thought was going to be her last day, we got a call that she needed to stay home because she couldn't be enrolled in a new school if she was already enrolled in an existing school. Then we got a phone call from her new school with the coordinator ready to start breaking things, trying to figure out why Laila had not yet been unenrolled from her old school (at 1 p.m. on a Friday) so they could start the process of enrolling her in a new school before spring break next week.
The case manager at her old school is completely incompetent, is what I'm saying.
sashagee managed to call the central office and get the deadline extended so that we have plenty of extra time to make sure that Laila will properly get enrolled at her new school and we don't have to go through all of this again (for an IEP that was originally decided back in January), but seriously? She's already missed weeks of school due to illness and you're telling me, "Oh, she has to miss even more school now." Come on.
We mentioned this to her preschool teachers and by their reactions they were also not particularly enthused by any prospect of dealing with administration.sashagee is done writing strongly-worded emails for today (hopefully) 
so now we just have to wait and see if the case manager can manage to locate the computer and push the few buttons necessary to release Laila instead of banging rocks together trying to discover fire or whatever they're doing in there.
We'd already lost one slot because when
sashagee showed up, they only had her set for halfdays even though we were told that Laila would be started for full days, so they tried to contact Laila's home school to get the process started again. Well, the contact at Laila's school was slow so we lost our placement, but also Laila was in the hospital while all this was happening so I wasn't too worried. Well, they got her a new placement (at a much closer school, that she can even walk to if she wants), so we weren't very worried. Then things dragged. And dragged. And today literally right before she was going to go to school on what we thought was going to be her last day, we got a call that she needed to stay home because she couldn't be enrolled in a new school if she was already enrolled in an existing school. Then we got a phone call from her new school with the coordinator ready to start breaking things, trying to figure out why Laila had not yet been unenrolled from her old school (at 1 p.m. on a Friday) so they could start the process of enrolling her in a new school before spring break next week.The case manager at her old school is completely incompetent, is what I'm saying.
sashagee managed to call the central office and get the deadline extended so that we have plenty of extra time to make sure that Laila will properly get enrolled at her new school and we don't have to go through all of this again (for an IEP that was originally decided back in January), but seriously? She's already missed weeks of school due to illness and you're telling me, "Oh, she has to miss even more school now." Come on. We mentioned this to her preschool teachers and by their reactions they were also not particularly enthused by any prospect of dealing with administration.
sashagee is done writing strongly-worded emails for today (hopefully) so now we just have to wait and see if the case manager can manage to locate the computer and push the few buttons necessary to release Laila instead of banging rocks together trying to discover fire or whatever they're doing in there.
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Round 188: avocado beans & wine
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Uncanny X-Men | Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers | Tekken 7
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The Friday Five: Journals
20/3/26 10:01seleneheart- What was the reason you began a Dreamwidth or LiveJournal account (or both)? I was reading Aragorn/Boromir fanfic on sites like Green Emeralds and The Fellowship and I followed the authors back to Livejournal, especially cruisedirector and ribby. I think Cruise might have given me the access codes for LJ. Then I bought a paid account in 2003. I came to Dreamwidth when it first started after Strikeout 2007 and posted both places for many years. In 2017, I deleted my original LJ and then a year later created a new one that has very minimal posting, never anything personal. I update it once a year to keep it going:
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raederle_of_an. - How many DW or LJ communities do you subscribe to? On LJ, it's only 7 at the moment. And none of them seem to post except the
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spn_j2_bigbang. On DW, the number is 131. - Do you have a favorite community or one you check out often to see what's new? I have divided the communities up into areas of interest using filters, so it depends on what I'm in the mood for. Right now, I'm most involved with bookclub_dw as I'm modding that and trying to get it launched.
- How did you pick your user name? I originally wanted it to be 'Raederle' for my favorite fictional female character but that was already taken, so I tried 'Moonheart' for a beloved book, but that was also taken, so I substituted 'selene' for 'moon' and came up with Seleneheart. I didn't think about doing Raederle-of-An until much later.
- If you could change your user name, would you? Eh, probably not at this point. Between LJ and DW, it's been 'seleneheart' for 23 years.
- If you have a LiveJournal, are you currently able to access it?
Yes. - Do you have any information about why one would be unable to access LiveJournal?
I don't know - Russian shenanigans?
The following bonus questions are brought to you by the fact that I (
anais_pf) have been unable to access any page of LiveJournal for more than a week (and therefore cannot post to The Friday Five there):
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20/3/26 09:31hexcursed posting in addme_fandomname: hex
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casual interests: the starving saints by caitlin starling, gothikana by runyx, nocticadia by keri lake, arcane (netflix), castlevania (netflix), castlevania: nocturne (netflix), transformers (tfa, tfp, bayverse, and a bit of the mtmte comics), hades (video game)
a bit about me: i'm a storyteller, game master, graduate student, and fanfic author, among many other things. i think it's important to know that i am black and chronically ill, that i love a good dead dove moment, and that i am here chasing the thrill of web 1.0. happy to chat about anything mentioned up above!
age group: late 20s
pronouns: they/them
country: usa
subscription / access policy: 18+ only. no antis, no harry potter fans, no users/defenders of generative ai, and no bigots ✨
main interests: gothic literature, gothic tropes, greek mythology, halloween, hauntings, divorce in media, dreams/unreality, journaling
main fandoms: call of duty: ghosts (2013), call of duty: mw19, call of duty: mw22, baldur's gate 3, personal d&d campaigns, fields of mistria, stardew valley, the room (video game series)
casual interests: the starving saints by caitlin starling, gothikana by runyx, nocticadia by keri lake, arcane (netflix), castlevania (netflix), castlevania: nocturne (netflix), transformers (tfa, tfp, bayverse, and a bit of the mtmte comics), hades (video game)
a bit about me: i'm a storyteller, game master, graduate student, and fanfic author, among many other things. i think it's important to know that i am black and chronically ill, that i love a good dead dove moment, and that i am here chasing the thrill of web 1.0. happy to chat about anything mentioned up above!
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