BtVS Double Drabble: The Last Waltz

Jul. 16th, 2025 05:31 pm
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Title: The Last Waltz
Fandom: BtVS
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Angel.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 458: Waltz at 
[community profile] drabble_zone.
Spoilers/Setting: The Prom.
Summary: Buffy has no one to dance with at the Prom.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

FAKE Triple Drabble: Rained On

Jul. 16th, 2025 05:20 pm
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Title: Rained On
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: The weather is terrible, but Dee and Ryo still have to do their job regardless.
Written For: Weekend Challenge Prompt: Summertime, is the living truly easy?! at 
[community profile] 1_million_words.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 
 


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Double Drabble: Certifiable

Jul. 16th, 2025 05:11 pm
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Title: Certifiable
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Lisa.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 874: Mad at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Fragments. Set pre-Cyberwoman.
Summary: Ianto must surely be out of his mind.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 



I lost some wisdom today

Jul. 15th, 2025 09:36 pm
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My wisdom tooth (upper left) shattered. I have all 4 of mine (the bottom two are too entwined with nerves to pull them and I have a big mouth where the wisdom teeth fit comfortably) Had to run to Aspen Dental (one of those big chain revolving door places) because there are shards of tooth wiggling around in there like I'm 8.

Long story short (after way too many x-rays) not only is this tooth shattered, it might also be abscessed and all of this might have been the trigger for the trigeminal neuralgia for the least 8 months. And two crowns are bad (one I knew was, I had been planning to have it fixed this fall) and both eye teeth have cavities. Well fun. I can hear Aspen going ca-ching as they add this up. I tell them no, JUST the broken tooth please and yeah gimme my x-rays. I'm only going to be here two more weeks (lie but they don't need to know) I'll have my dentist look it over.

They'll pull the tooth tomorrow (and now it's starting to hurt) And through out all of this, my Dexcom is screaming. So I had to stop the dental exam twice to get sugar pills because yesterday I was too high to read. today I'm at a critical low, so low the DexCom can only say URGENT critical low. FFS!

The stupid thing is I've been chewing on the right for a long time now thanks to the nerve pain, no issues. Today because the tooth is broken every bite I take I nail my left cheek. WHY?

I go from here to CVS to get meds. They've lost my insulins. Took 15 minutes to find them. FFS (again)


Speaking of FFS, I'm pausing the women of fandom today to talk about a few things that fans can just stop doing.

1. I MISS the Prodigal Son fandom, I don't know what it was, maybe we were all older or something but there was a lot less drama in that fandom (notice I didn't say none)

2. I've said this so many times before harassing creators is wrong. Harassing them to go faster serves no one. Harassing them because they're upset over their show being leaked makes you an ass

3. stop giving a market to the people who steal shows (Hazbin has been leaked for S2 AND S3)

4. back to harassing, it's one thing to critique a show among your friends or even doing meta and posting it and there is another to keep putting it in the creator's face telling them how badly they're doing.

5. faking creators/actors saying awful things to prove whatever random point you have is probably illegal (This time it was Amir Talai again because someone is mad Alastor is being voiced by a cis het middle eastern man and not an ace biracial one and someone faked a bunch of stuff with Amir being homophobic and then is punching out at other fans exposing this campaign of theirs)

6. Burn out is real, if a fan creator needs a break, let them have it (and it's sad that YT and other social media algorithms really force creators to the breaking point)


7. Tags are a thing. USE. THEM! I say this as an old fan creator. I started with paper zines, to yahoo groups and web rings to small websites to FFN to AO3 and beyond. Until AO3 you really didn't/couldn't do content warnings. I admit it, I was slow to learn to tag correctly (but to be fair it's not too often I do things that might be triggering and the major AO3 tags already warn for that). During Prodigal Son, younger fans laughed at me (good naturedly) because I tagged like an old woman.

I still kinda do but I've gotten much better but ffs, if you are writing your trans/intersex/genderflipped head canon, TAG IT. Tag your freaking incest fic. Etc Etc. Look I don't care what you write. Not here to police that. I am here imploring you to give the reader a heads up now that we have systems that make it easy to do that.

When I was back home I got to print a few things at work since there is no secretary right now (shhhhh) one story was LONG by a creator I do like. It was smutty (eh, actually not even my favorite thing to read) but it was also intersexed Angel Dust (I think. I couldn't quite tell, either that or trans man Angel) I do not personally want to read non-canon genders, don't care if you write them but I fell for a character the way they are in canon and that's my preference. I thought maybe it's on you. You didn't read the tags well. Reread it, nope no tags mentioning changing Angel's gender (and there is TONS of about his clit and folds in this over and over, I didn't think also this was going to be 80 pages of nothing but sex but what can you do.

We have the ability to warn readers we're making major changes to characters. Do it (I think some people don't want to because they think people will ignore their story. Yeah, maybe but man do you really want someone who is going to be way more upset than me reading something they get triggered by or don't want to read?)

Gaming Update

Jul. 16th, 2025 02:33 pm
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Platinum'd Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and then took a break, although I have picked it up again to do a new game plus playthrough to get the other ending. I love the game and the world and the combat style, and I will play it again, but it's too soon to really sink myself back down into it. The new game plus also keeps all my team's final stats and builds, so I'm one-shotting most of the first and second act mobs, and some of the bosses, and while that's good for speed it means I'm not as involved as I was on the first playthrough. I think I just need more time.

I downloaded Balatro (poker rogue-like deck builder) as it was one of the free monthly games with my PS Plus membership, and then of course then discovered I also have it via Apple Arcade on my phone. I've played it for a bit and beat two decks on basic stakes using the same strategy, then put it down a bit, then accidentally got my nephew hooked on it and so started playing it again myself. I've done all the starting decks on white and the blue deck on red. I like it - it really does have amazing variety - and I am experimenting more with different strategies, but it's not something I throw myself into with reckless abandon.

I am still looking for another immersive game. I started playing Death Stranding, because the second one came out to good reviews but random internet commenters said I should do the first one first, and it is an oddly intriguing RPG/walking simulator - after an event that disrupts the boundaries between life and death, people live in isolated cities to protect them from horrific things that roam the land as well as timefall, a rain that vastly accelerates time in whatever living thing it touches. Sam, the protagonist, has bucketloads of trauma, a phobia about being touched, and important vulnerable relatives, and works as a Porter, taking shipments between settlements and helping them reconnect to the newly forming chiral network.

The stealth bits around enemies are terrifying - I got too close to one in the opening sequence and triggered a void-out, flooding the landscape with some sort of black liquid filled with things with tentacles - and in addition you have with you BB, a bridge baby, a fetus taken from a brain-dead mother that is attached to you and will signal enemies by crying when they get close. The countryside, when it's not trying to kill you, is great to walk through, and it also has very good music. The plot - hmm. It's a very cinematic style (when new characters show up they get credits, so I know I am not hallucinating that Guillermo del Toro wants to provide me with semi-helpful advice and shove me out in search of certain danger) and it's very atmospheric, and blends well with the gameplay, I'm just not convinced (yet) that it actually makes sense. Still. Clambering across rocky terrain, struggling to balance the body of my dead mother on my back and desperate to reach a crematorium to incinerate her before her corpse explodes is certainly compelling.

(and then Astro Bot put out more DLC, including a Cloud Strife bot! I determinedly played through all the DLC open levels to get him (and then bought him a Buster Sword so he can do his Omnislash animation) and then failed multiple times to get anywhere with the secret DLC level, which has a lurking Sephibot as the reward. I have got so frustrated doing this that I've actually now gone back and done all the other levels I was stuck on (including the horrendous Splashing Sprint - fight lava enemies with a water spraying duck - and To the Beat - everything is precisely timed except my reactions, woe - and am now trying to do the last core game level, the Great Master Challenge. I have managed to get two obstacles away from the end but it is a relentless nightmare of perfection.)

Julé! 15/31

Jul. 15th, 2025 08:50 pm
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Today has been a long day and tomorrow will be as well, so just a couple of links for now:

Unsurprising but depressing and worth being aware of: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/anti-rights

And a rec for news on global warming and particularly the political/fossil fuel industry greed affair. Want to know just how readily your local representative bends over for the oil giants, check here: https://www.desmog.com/

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FAKE Double Drabble: Animal

Jul. 15th, 2025 06:39 pm
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[personal profile] badly_knitted
 


Title: Animal
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG-13
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Ryo and Dee have a difference of opinion.
Written For: Challenge 483: Amnesty 80 at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks, using Challenge 474: Animal.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 
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Doctor Who Drabble: Tangled

Jul. 15th, 2025 06:29 pm
badly_knitted: (Eleven & TARDIS)
[personal profile] badly_knitted



Title: Tangled
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 940: ‘Struggle’ at 
[community profile] dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Donna and the Doctor are a bit tied up.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 
 


Double Drabble: Getting Even

Jul. 15th, 2025 06:22 pm
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[personal profile] badly_knitted
 


Title: Getting Even
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Owen.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 874: Mad at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto does enjoy making his teammates pay for their crimes.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

Burnout recovery take two (three?)

Jul. 15th, 2025 05:36 pm
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Had to utterly disappear from the Internet and a number of events and hobbies to have the energy to complete my final work weeks, but now I've had a week of vacation time and am starting to feel human again, huzzah!

I've been extra bad at keeping up with DW, so anything posted after the start of June I'm still catching up on. But catch-up I shall 😊

My burnout got reeeeaaally bad (panic-attack-levels bad) but I'm recovering now that I'm off work and no longer in charge of hosting huge events. My plan for the rest of the year is to Chill The Fuck Out and take on 0 responsibilities outside of work, because I want to live past the age of 60...

On that note, I already feel much better 💖 I've had the energy to both finish playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (beautiful game, highly recommend!) and MANAGE TO WRITE SOMETHING AND POST IT!!!! I binged the TV adaptation of The Muderbot Diaries together with my sister yesterday and she gave me a story idea that I've now actually written 💜💜💜 (set in book canon; I'm also working on a TV-canon fic~)

Travel Notes (794 words) by Nonesensed
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Humor, POV Outsider, Social Media, Chatlogs
Summary:

The consequences of Murderbot sharing media with bot-pilots all across the galaxy.

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Jul. 15th, 2025 12:20 pm

I am the costume police

Jul. 15th, 2025 12:16 am
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I went to Winnipeg for a celebration of life of a cousin of mine for what would have been her fiftieth birthday and had pretty good conversations with my father's side of the family who I don't see much of because they view coming to my city two hours away as going to the godforsaken boonies where they will be picked off by forest people and eaten in stew but always expected us to drive to them at six am on fucking christmas morni--ANYWAY BACK ON TOPIC. It was a lovely celebration of life at one of my favourite places (a plant zoo called The Leaf) and I did not expect to show up in so many of the photos they were playing on the display.

So my relationship with this cousin was very much a 'and then we were adults and got along' but the fuller context is that I am the oldest of my siblings and the oldest of my local cousins and sometimes this cousin would come to stay with us for a week and she was ten years older than me and it was the closest experience I ever had to having an older sister or someone who pulled age authority on me and let's just say I didn't exactly handle the situation with grace.

Anyway, I miss her! She was great. I dream of her all the time.

The other thing we did in Winnipeg was go to the anime convention Ai-Kon under the initial idea of seeing a favourite voice actor of mine, SungWon Cho/ProzD before I remembered I have next to no interest in speaking to celebrities (no offence to Cho, he seems very cool but I have no idea what I'd say without a stronger pretext) so what we did instead was wander around in artist alley and go broke!

It was great! I got lots of nice art and stickers and some fun little plush toys.

Mom was determined to get a gift for my brother and all she knew that he liked was One Piece but she didn't know what anyone in that show looked like so she only zero'd in on the words 'One Piece' so I twice had to deter her. Once from buying a statue that was just Nico Robin in a very tight towel (she hadn't looked anywhere but the words One Piece) and the other time a knockoff Labubu of Luffy 'I don't think my brother would like that', I said. She did get a cat Luffy sticker and a One Piece cookbook because I had surrendered by then.

What I DIDN'T like about Ai-Kon was I was minding my own business trying to escape before I spent more money and this person walked right up to me in a fucking Harry Potter costume and much to my horror I made an audible 'UGH' noise that they heard and they looked genuinely hurt.

I'm working through my guilt by reminding myself that they were off topic anyway, as a British Book/Live Action Movie isn't exactly a Japanese Cartoon and I was ambushed. AMBUSHED where I thought I was safe to only have to wrestle with 'is Arcane an Anime? Are these all Genshins?' and a general 'read the room, jesus christ' as one of the things I noticed about Winnipeg is I couldn't turn a corner without seeing pride flags.

Turned out we knew some people with a booth there too! Did some visiting, saw other people we knew, la la la my province has 10 people in it.

Did I mention the other day that in the same breath I complained about Americans sometimes frustrating me about being overconfidently wrong/underinformed about my country (IT WAS ON TOPIC) an American called them Providences at me?

Turns out I can't wither someone to death with my tone, but I can try.
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Mom, I don't feel well

Jul. 14th, 2025 08:58 pm
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So say I as I get in the car to come home. We met Lucky Uncle's wife. It was her birthday over the weekend and in a few days it'll be the first anniversary of his death so we took her out to one of her favorite restaurants: Chinese. Always dicey for a diabetic but I usually do decently in selection. This one had a dish that was represented by a hot pepper and a ginger sauce. I ended up with a sauce so sweet it was ridiculous (it also had no heat and no ginger) but my aunt is like Sheldon and is already a mess so I didn't want to send it back and give her reason to go off. I figured it won't be too much worse than general tso's which I can eat with a mild bump in sugar.

This one sent my sugar so high it was beyond what a Dexcom could read. (Yes I took my insulin, yes I'm fine, it's back down to under 150).


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Okay this ride in the graphic looks like fun

Challenge #4

Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.
Creative: Write from the perspective of a house or other location.



Not much is making me smile. However I DO have a list of things I love to talk about. As for a story, well I don't have that either BUT I did finish an original horror story today that has a cabin in the woods as a central location. It's not quite on point but there you go.

1. Books My genres are mostly mystery SF/F/UF and horror (all of these both adult and YA) see me on wednesday for my current reads

2. music, I will listen to almost anything. see me on mondays for music

3. cooking, I don't share recipes as much as I should. I watch a ton of YT cooking channels

4. history, it's my jam. Love historical books fiction and nonfiction, also follow history YT channels

5. Museum, I love them even little ones. Yesterday I went to a local one for a town next to where I grew up and learned Jay Livingston wasn't the only famous person out of McDonald PA, we have one woman who won 8 emmys and one pulitzer prize winning photographer

6. gardens, I will try to make gardens and museums cornerstones of my tourism but it's not just about the big beautiful gardens and conservatories, I do garden (not as well as I used to now that I'm getting old and more disabled) but I love talking about it

7. science and medicine, I am a doctor and now a biology professor, I love science and sharing links. I'm good with biology and chemistry. I'm not great with physics, astronomy and archaeology fascinate me

8. writing, I'm a published author (points to the above reading genres), I love talking about writing, looking for beta reader/critique group members in search of a group, see me on Sundays for writing links and open calls

9. cats! Well animals in general but I'm a cat person. I take care of the outdoor cat (who does not want to be indoors which sucks because he's FIV+) Rocket refuses to be inside but he is also the most amazingly friendly cat. Some jerk dropped him off. I tried to rehome him then (4 years ago) because I was barely walking after nearly losing a leg and didn't want to be tripping over a cat just then. See how well that worked out (He's also cat number 42 I've rescued from this place)

10. My fandoms! Star Trek is my forever fandom. My biggest fandoms (in terms of me getting eaten alive by them and me writing scads for) were Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the series, Fullmetal Alchemist (still my absolute favorite anime/manga), Prodigal Son (I am still bitter about its cancelation), The Owl House (ditto about the bitter) and my current obsession, Hazbin Hotel. I'm into a lot more (especially manga/anime) so if any of those are yours let's talk (or if there's a mystery/cop drama, SF/F/Horror show, anime/manga I haven't mentioned ask if I'm into it)


And it IS Musical Monday. I'm currently doing the alphabet using the last 5 years only (But you can share from whenever you please). I'm up to O

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