On fanfic

Nov. 24th, 2025 02:01 pm
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I haven’t written any fanfic in a long time, and I feel I need to get back into it. I know from experience it’s good for my mental wellbeing to write, and as the world continues to hassle us, I need what I can get to feel good. I had been thinking of signing up for Yuletide, but completely missed the sign-up window. But when I checked what other people wish for, I found 2 letters that gave me ideas. So I will try to get those done as treats. I’ll try to write 300 words every day. More if I get in a flow, of course, but 300 words is doable even days with little writing time.

Fanfic meme gakked from all over my f-list.

From your AO3 Works page, look at the tags and find the answers to these questions.

I currently have 123 works published, in 28 fandoms.


1. Under what rating do you write most?
Teen and up audience, with 47 works.

I thought Explicit or Mature would be on top, but they are number 3 and 4. But as it is my longer fics that tends to get that rating, while my one-shots usually have a lower rating, that isn’t so surprising.

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?

Doctor Who with 32 fics.
Peter Pan with 17 fics.
And Harry Potter and Versailles both come third with 8 fics each.

Peter Pan was my first big fandom in the early 2000s, and Doctor Who my second one, ten years later, so no surprise with those. I was also super into Versailles for a bit, so that’s not odd either. But I’ve never really been very big on Harry Potter. I was over 30 when I first read the series, and I never really thought they were particularly well-written, though I was hooked enough to read every new book. But 3 of my fics are written as part of a re-mix challenge, so I didn’t really choose which fandom I would match on.

3. Which character do you write about most?

Captain Hook, who is in all my Peter Pan-fics. The Delgado version of the Master comes second, and River Song third. Though if you want to argue that the Master is the same character regardless of regeneration s/he is definitely my most written one, in 30 fics in total.

4. What are the 3 top pairings you've written?

On shared first place are Wendy Darling/James Hook (Peter Pan), Sophie de Clermont/Fabien Marchal (Versailles) and The Master/River Song (Doctor Who), who all have 7 fics each. Second pairing is Beth Harmon/Vasily Borgov (The Queen’s Gambit) with 6 fics. And third place are Evy Carnahan O'Connell/Rick O'Connell and Imhotep/Evy Carnahan O'Connell (The Mummy), and Vanessa Ives/Sir Malcolm Murray (Penny Dreadful) with 3 fics each.

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?

On shared first place I have Humor, Angst, Dark, which have 14 fics each. Second is Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence with 9 fics, and in third place is Spanking with 8. Which I feel gives a pretty good general overview over my fanfics.

Just one thing: 24 November 2025

Nov. 24th, 2025 07:00 am
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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

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Nov. 24th, 2025 09:35 am
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Happy birthday, [personal profile] claudine and [personal profile] littlered2!

Monday Update 11-24-25

Nov. 24th, 2025 02:16 am
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These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Poem: "A Sanctuary for the Homeless"
Poem: "Worthy of Love and Belonging"
Poem: "Indicative of the Extent"
Space Exploration
Birdfeeding
Bird Apocalypse
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Morals
Today's Smoothie
Science
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 11-21-25: Knitting
Poem: "Trying to Be Better"
Poem: "Set on Continuous Improvement"
Science
Birdfeeding
Hobbies: Quilting
Self-Care
Today's Adventures
Birdfeeding
Good News

Trauma has 44 comments. Affordable Housing has 71 comments. Robotics has 99 comments.


"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 variable here. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, at least 3 goldfinches, a male cardinal, and two fox squirrels.
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Hello, all! We have some entries in already.
There are 18 days remaining for Round 61:Ice Ice Baby to end.

Participants that need to enter their sets:

1.narnialover7
2.flareonfury

 
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Catégorie : La Bonne Auberge de la Pierre Levée (Fantasy - Quête - Médiéval - JDR - Livre dont vous êtes le héros - Voyageur - Musique)



J'ai lu les cinq premiers tomes, et je ne suis toujours pas arrivé au bout du premier arc. Ce sera, normalement, cinq arcs de six tomes chacun, un pour chaque pays.
Il y a cinq continents, peuplés par différentes espèces anthropomorphiques. On part sur les félins, mais il y a aussi les singes, les cerfs, les ours et les reptiles.

Et ensuite, c'est principalement de la politique compliquée, avec une monarchie chez les félins (je ne sais pas si les autres pays sont différents), plein de trahisons, d'intimidation, de magouilles, de coups d'état, de drama familial, etc. (ça a été comparé à Games of Thrones, mais je n'ai pas vu Game of Thrones).

Au début j'avais un peu de mal avec le taux de mortalité ; souvent dès qu'on avait l'impression de comprendre un personnage, peut-être même de commencer à l'apprécier, il ou elle mourait d'une mort horrible. Puis après les tomes ça s'est tassé, on s'est mis à avoir quelques personnages stables avec une capacité à évoluer sur la durée. Toujours aucun auquel je suis émotionnellement attachée, mais plusieurs que je trouve intéressants, et c'est déjà pas mal !
Je pense avancer encore, mais le tome 6 était emprunté la dernière fois que je suis allée à la bibliothèque.

Ca a un peu le problème de Blacksad et autres animaux anthropomorphisés, que les personnages fémiins ont des cheveux et des seins, mais ce n'est pas au niveau de Blacksad (surtout que le premier arc se passe chez les félins, et pour tous les personnages lions, ce sont les mâles qui ont des cheveux, pour des raisons évidentes)

Poem: "A Sanctuary for the Homeless"

Nov. 23rd, 2025 10:58 pm
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This poem is spillover from the February 4, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from [personal profile] dialecticdreamer, [personal profile] kellan_the_tabby, [personal profile] rix_scaedu, and [personal profile] alchemicink. It also fills the "changes over time" square in my 2-1-25 card for the Valentines Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred and [personal profile] librarygeek. It belongs to the Big One thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. It follows "When You're Lost, You Question Everything," so read that first or this won't make much sense.

Read more... )

Dept. of Memes

Nov. 23rd, 2025 10:16 pm
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Music Meme, Day 13

The first song that plays on shuffle:

Well, the first difficulty is that I, being monotonously linear, don't use shuffle. I think I've used shuffle on my winamp list (yes, that's how old I am; I love winamp) once, and I stopped using it almost immediately. I like organizing my lists in a way that makes sense to me. So I thought I'd have to scratch this entry. Next, I thought I'd just pick one of the songs that are halfway through my current 111-song list. 

But then I thought I'd try to be true to the meme. I toggled "shuffle" and waited for the first song. It turned out to be Stray Kids' recent piece, "Ceremony." 

Welp. It's one of the rare SKZ pieces that I respect, but not one I'd necessarily introduce a Stray Kids newbie. Still, rules are rules, and here you go. It really is a good song. It's just not one of my multitudinous SKZ favorites. 



So I'll also include one of the songs I pinpointed as being smack dab in the middle of my list, or at least as smack dab as an uneven list allows. It's a piece by the Irish duo Saint Sister, called "Causing Trouble." I think I might have shown the actual music video for the song at some point in the past, but this is their live performance of it, many years ago. It's definitely one that I love,  and sing along to. They're whip smart and lovely.






And I'm just going to link you to the last meme entry I made, so that you can catch up on previous entries, should you desire. 

Misc things

Nov. 23rd, 2025 07:13 pm
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The n-OH-vember Flash Exchange revealed, and I am delighted with my gift!

A Momentary Thing (Biggles/EvS, 3100 wds)
Absolutely delightful and satisfying enemies-era forced drugging/rescue. Bittersweet and delicious.

In other news, evidently Paletteful Packs (makers of curated art supply boxes) are going out of business and having a sale. However, the two things I attempted to buy both came up as "out of stock" when I clicked to add them to the cart (though this was not otherwise indicated) and after that I gave up. So either my choices were uniquely unlucky, or a bunch of items appear to be available for purchase on the website but actually aren't.

Daily Happiness

Nov. 23rd, 2025 08:01 pm
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1. Last week when I was reorganizing stuff in the shed, we went over some items and decided we no longer needed to keep them, but since it was still raining off and on, I didn't put them out at the time. Today I got them out on the curb, along with a box of ornaments we decided we no longer want, so hopefully those all get picked up soon.

2. I did some cleaning out of kitchen cupboards and fridge drawers yesterday and today. There were a lot of snacks that are expiring within the next week or so and Carla's out of town and I'm not going to eat them on my own, so I took them up to the Little Free Library that's been converted to a mini food pantry and they were already all gone the next time I took a walk.

3. Look at this sweet Chloe.

Bella's shitshow! (Er... FastCAT)

Nov. 23rd, 2025 08:17 pm
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The beaft.

Yesterday, Alex took Bella to a FastCAT. It was hosted by the same organization he prefers. (The events are generally hosted by a particular kennel club, but there are bigger organizations that also help to run them. "Harmony Dog Sports" does a bunch of the ones in our region, and Alex likes them. They tend to be friendly and helpful.)

It... sounds like this one was a shitshow from start to finish. The usual woman who directs it wasn't there, and it seemed the people who were kind of floundered.

He said that it took forever to get checked in, because people kept just walking up to the table and ignoring the big long line of people waiting, and the hosts didn't ever tell them to stop.

Then there was a group of people with five dogs, who all wanted to do "fun runs." (These runs don't get times recorded for the dogs' records, but are just for fun/practice.) But those are supposed to be held when the paid entrants are either done, or when there's a serious lull in the day. Instead, for some reason, they kept cutting to the front of the enormously long line with their whole pack of dogs.

Finally! It was Bella's turn!

Alex had gone down to "catch" her at the end of the run, with one of the organization volunteers releasing her at the start line. First, the guy releasing her let her go before Alex was inside the catch box, but Bella ran anyway, so it was fine.

And Alex was thrilled! It was definitely one of her fastest runs, and Alex said he'd be willing to bet she was under 10 seconds (which has been the thing I've really hoped for her to manage!)

...Oops, the timer malfunctioned. Oh well!

Oh well, she can go run again.

*Sigh.* Yes, she *can* run again, but now she's tired after having just done one, and she already has a second one that she's supposed to do. The dogs are limited to only two runs a day *because* it can be so exhausting... They'll let her have a re-do and still do her second official run, but that does mean she's doing three runs on the day. :/

She repeated her run, but Alex said she was visibly a bit tired, and it came in just over 11 seconds.

The line to get the second run in was super long, so Alex waited for a while, letting Bella get some water and a snack. The event was extremely busy and absolutely packed.

Finally she goes to do the second run, and the volunteer releasing her did a great job hyping her up in line! The second run comes in at 10.82 seconds. Neither score is terrible, but it's frustrating that she had a much better one - that may well have been a personal best for her - and she doesn't get credit for it due to the malfunction. I didn't see her run, obviously, but Alex is usually pretty good at guessing how fast they are, so if he says he thinks it might have been under 10, I believe him.

So Alex goes to get her ribbons... and the attendant says he can't find her first run's score. (Alex said he was just about ready to cry at that point, ha.)

...They did eventually find it. They wrote "Pit Bull" as her breed, but... FastCAT is an AKC event, and the AKC does not recognize pit bulls as a breed. Bella has to run as an "All American Dog," which is basically their no-breed "pet" registry. So, not mad that they recognize what she is, but... not sure why they wrote a category that does not exist per the organization.

Alex was then trying to go get the second score, and again with just tons of people cutting in front of him in line. (He was trying to leave enough room between her and any of the other dogs in the tent; a bunch of wound-up dogs in a confined area can go bad if any of them get upset about personal space, but people just kept crowding in in front of him.) He ended up getting so frustrated that he left without picking up her second score. It should still be recorded for her, it's just our sticker for the ribbon that he didn't get. I wrote the time down on a sticker later so that we have it, but still annoying.


That second one should be the "10.82" score.

Ugh. What a mess. I'm less sad than usual about missing her events.

We thought this would be the last one of 2025, but a different organization has one for December 6th. Still a weekend, so I still can't go, but maybe they'll have another shot before the end of the year.

Poem: "Worthy of Love and Belonging"

Nov. 23rd, 2025 09:02 pm
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This poem is spillover from the June 3, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] rix_scaedu. It also fills the "Belonging" square in my 6-2-25 card for the Pride Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred and [personal profile] librarygeek. It belongs to the Big One thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Read more... )

The Vertigo Project: new work!

Nov. 23rd, 2025 09:08 pm
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I've mentioned here before that one of my big projects this year is my involvement with The Vertigo Project, which now has a webpage so the rest of you can see what we've been doing. Earlier today I facilitated the first creative therapy-style writing workshop through that group, and it was really lovely--and is just the tip of the iceberg on what this group is doing.

Specifically, you can now read all the new work they've commissioned from me! Friends, it's a lot. It's journaling prompts for people who would like to use writing to process some of their own vertigo experiences. But also it's the following stories and poems:

Advice for Wormhole Travelers (story), safe conduct through strange new worlds

Club Planet Vertigo (poem), this is not the dance I wanted to do

Greetings from Innerspace (poem), my orbits are eccentric

The Nature of Nemesis (poem), me and Clark Kent know what's what

On the Way Down (poem), falling hard

Preparation (poem), sometimes we're just literal, okay

She Wavers But She Does Not Weaken (story), when the waves hit you even on dry land, it's good to have someone who's willing to swim against the current for you

The Torn Map (story), rewriting the pieces of the former world into something new

The main page also has links to some of the other aspects of the project, which includes a nonfiction book, dance, puppetry, a podcast with a physical therapist, and more. Please feel welcome to explore it all.

"The Old Usher," by Oliver Reynolds

Nov. 23rd, 2025 06:32 pm
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The Old Usher
Oliver Reynolds
2010, from Hodge

--

for Farès Moussa

I have
shouted Lights! in the foyer as the show begins

I have
opened and closed a million doors
Push and Pull stamping my palms

I have
woken with Good Evening on my lips

I have
ROH in moles over my left nipple

I have
Tchaikovsky as a heart-beat

I have
told ten thousand bladders
It’s down the slope and on the right

I have
stood at the bottom of Floral Hall stairs
with Peter Bramley at the top
tapping the metal hand-rail with his ring
to annoy me

I have
bent my head to complaints about the row in front
the big hair-do, the change-jingler, those who snore or smell

I have
turned a blind eye, a deaf ear, and a stopped nostril

I have
opened and closed a million doors
Push and Pull stamping my palms

I have
waited in the wings to present flowers
cygnets wafting past me in a crush of tutus
each back tight with the cordage of muscle

I have
sold ices with Susie Boyle

I have
passed the black-and-white monitor at Stage Door
and felt proud to see Haitink in the pit
a bottled homunculus preserved in music

I have
opened my locker on a vista of dirty shirts

I have
killed a moth for Monica Mason
It wants to settle on me!
she who once danced her death in the Rite
now frightened of millimetres of flutter

I have
Tchaikovsky as a heart-beat

I have
bassoons and strings planned for my last-act death
the weightless pas-de-chat
lifting me out of this ninth life
into the proscenium’s eternal gold

I have
perfected my farewell
a final turning-out of the pockets
as I rise and vanish into air
swirling with the confetti of ticket-stubs

I have
shouted Lights! as the show begins

I have

Well that's fun

Nov. 23rd, 2025 08:38 pm
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I am currently working on my [community profile] ladiesbingo card for my December posting goals.

Sinners (Annie & Mary)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy & Dawn about Willow)
DC Comics (Dinah Lance & Selina Kyle)
Partners in Crime (Carole & Sydney)

Now, I have been the first to put fandom tags up on AO3 a lot in the distant past. But I never thought I'd be doing it again in 2025. The last time I did was 2021, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that The Jeffersons now has more than my one work. So I double checked that last fandom up there, got briefly excited because "Partners in Crime" was a tag in the TV Show fandoms.

However, it is actually for Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime, from the year before my one season detective American show. So yep, gotta disambiguate the name when I create it.

(I am trying to mentally fortify myself for the first TG dinner I am partly responsible for in ... a very long time, so no misc.exhausted.me this week)

A Tale of Two Competition Shows

Nov. 23rd, 2025 07:42 pm
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Dancing with the Stars which had its 20 year anniversary this month, has been on so long it had its own In Memoriam segment. (Charo and Wayne Newton though, in the audience, still with us). It was a great show, starting with an excellent opening number. Funnily enough, I turned to my partner and commented on how well choreographed it was, only to find out a minute later that it had been done by Derek Hough.

"He should choreograph everything," he said. There were a number of excellent dances, as well as a good effort by Andy Richter.

The best moment though, was at the start when we not only saw the original pros start the show (I can't believe there were no interviews or moments with them about their memories – guess that was all saved for the podcast) but Tom Bergeron was back. I am quite happy with Alfonso and Julieanne as co-hosts but I miss Tom.

And speaking of hosts, Project Runway has had a more checkered history for several reasons. Read more... )

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