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Congrats to Nancy, who won Blood in the Water (An Act of Piracy #1) (2nd ed) by Tami Veldura! Tami is releasing Blood in the Water today.

Congrats to Kate, who won Holding the Edge (Cold War #2) by Keira Andrews!

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Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (UF/romance)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• On adding fanfic to Goodreads. Discussion of that post. More discussion of that post.
• Fanfic and Goodreads page at the Fanlore wiki. (via Dreamer)
• Dear Author wonders what being a “good” reader means.
• Tolkien explained in four minutes.
• Neil Gaiman reads A Christmas Carol.
• Jane Austen spoilers. (via urrone)

Think, Do, Learn, Make

• About the NHL Mumps Outbreak. The NHL Mumps Song. The NHL Mumps Map. Sidney Crosby with the mumps, My Little Pony style.
• Why peanut butter is so sticky.
• What I’ve always suspected about the gym…
• Photos of the Panama Canal lock gates being installed.
• The Colbert Report set is on Street View.
• mental_floss shares their favorite scientific study titles from 2014.
• “2014’s top moments in Play-Doh form“.
• What if all the rivers the US were instantly frozen in the middle of summer?

Even MORE Gift Guides

• “For the lumbersexual outdoorsman“.
• For outdoorspeople.
• For “fledgling cryptozoologists”.
• For space fans.
• For dogs and their people.
• For the child-at-heart.
• For coffee addicts.
• For kids who cook.
• Food gifts that travel well.
• “DIY kits for the hands-on chef“.
• DIY tools and maker kits.
• Budget gifts that aren’t obviously inexpensive.
• Handmade gifts.
• Smart Bitches: Part V.
• Gizmodo’s guide to all their gift guides.

Cookity

• Chewy chocolate gingerbread cookies.
• Chocolate chip cookie bark.
• Candy cane cookies.
• Cthulumas cookies. (via maderr)
• Sugar cookie cake.
• Peppermint red velvet cake roll.
• N0-bake five-ingredient bon bons.
• 15 breakfast recipes.
• Smoky creamed kale.
• Butternut squash and sausage lasagna.
• Chickpea stew with spinach and sausage. (via The Kitchn)
• Nutella hot chocolate.

Gluten Free

• Chocolate cheesecake cookies.
• Candy cane sugar cookies.
• Gingersnaps.
• Chocolate cake mix.
• Rum cake.

Crafty

• Knit a cowl.
• Knit a holiday ornament.
• Knit a pocket gnome. (via CRAFT)
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Blank action figures you can customize.
• Nobel physicist snowflake patterns. (via mental_floss)
• Star Wars snowflake patterns. (via The Mary Sue)
• Frozen snowflake patterns.
• Star Wars-themed holiday light show.
• NASA’s All About That Space parody.
• Cat-mas tree.
• Short films about a snow-loving dog, a house seeking freedom, a bad roommate, and “relationship problems and interdimensional physics“.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Mondrian sticky notes.
• Mirrored tea cups.
• Menoraurus Rex. (via Tor.com)
• Spacesuit-inspired jacket.

Wha…?

• The Snuggie is back.
• Creepy Santa Claus bread.

LOL

• Cake Wrecks is doing a “best of” the wrecks series: ugliest wedding wrecks, mean-but-funny, apologies, unintentionally erotic…
• Sir Ian McLellan and Cookie Monster.
• The Hobbit mashed up with The Office.
• Never look in someone else’s Documents folder. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• US weather.
• Map of the introvert’s heart.

Teh Cute

• Baby bat-eared foxes! Dibblers! Baby otter!

Reading Update
The Magicians (The Magicians #1) by Lev Grossman. DNF at 65-70%. Pretentious. Feels like Harry Potter and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe crossover fanfic. I hate everyone in the book and can’t be bothered to pick it up again.

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“No, no, nothing’s wrong. Why do you ask?” -Mayhem, whose superpower is looking pathetic – she makes the vet feel guilty for just entering the exam room!