Mysterious Deaths
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Jan. 21st, 2026 01:09 pmautobotscoutriellaGuess who gets to put those kitty-medicating skills into practice this week! And needs to learn how to bathe two cats who will not like it, all by herself.
(Someone got worms, and now they both have them. Not a big deal, but definitely cause for a long, tired sigh.)
(Someone got worms, and now they both have them. Not a big deal, but definitely cause for a long, tired sigh.)
BtVS Double Drabble: Another Fatality
Jan. 21st, 2026 05:33 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Another Fatality
Fandom: BtVS
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Buffy, Joyce.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 485: Accident at
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drabble_zone.Spoilers/Setting: Sometime in the first half of Season Two.
Summary: Buffy’s clothes are frequent casualties in the battle against evil.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
FAKE Double Drabble: Plan Of Attack
Jan. 21st, 2026 05:22 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Plan Of Attack
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Bikky, Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Dinner time is getting complicated.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Desert/Dessert’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
Double Drabble: Watching From Afar
Jan. 21st, 2026 05:12 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Watching From Afar
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 901: Cycle, at
torchwood100.Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack has found a new vantage point.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble. Set in my Ghost of a Chance ‘Verse.
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Writing status/check-in/where am I at?
Jan. 21st, 2026 07:57 amvriddyReached a couple of milestones yesterday, and I'm mentally basically ready to shift back into working on my original projects. Just trying to remember where I'm at with everything. Also cool milestone alert!
Milestone alert: GYWO monthly goal for January, reached! ;)
With my pledge, I should write 12.5k words a month, and now I'll have reached it at least once this year!! It feels really good to start the year being on track. As much as Time Is A Construct, I think I should be careful not to set myself up for big editing projects in January in the future, in general.
I'm so surprised that over 5k of that was for a Spring Thunder fic. Like. I do write freely for tiny fandoms! But usually it's more like coughing out a vignette or a missing scene, or a tiny fix-it to deal with canon stress. Not a full hurt/comfort rescue mission. In the end though, I wrote it for the same reasons I wrote those shorter vignettes in the past: it feels good :D It feels right. It was fun. AND I get to reread and enjoy something tailored to my id in the future :D I was delighted with myself by the end of the first draft, hopefully that'll hold when I return to it for edits :D
Time-sensitive fics
I'll likely just let most of the unposted stuff I wrote rest for a while. Couple of exceptions I have in mind:
- Well I do need to proofread and post my Candy Hearts assignment. That would be good to do on time XD
- For my last 600 words to reach the milestone yesterday, I wrote something for Wind Breaker that will probably be invalidated by a new manga chapter next week. I'd like to clean that up and post it so there's a chance it can be enjoyed as-is for a few days before becoming canon divergent XD
- Not really time-sensitive, but I want to post a couple of BNHA fics to get them out of my mind. One was written 3y ago for a collaborative project that never quite completed its landing and I think it's long enough. I need to free my mind of it before I forget it even exists.
Original stuff
( Soul Thief edit preps Take Two )
This was supposed to help me figure out what to do this morning, but it didn't really help in the end! Maybe I'll see if there's a fic in an editable state. I know there's a couple of finished drafts in there, but for some of those I wanted to do a canon review first... Gah!! So many fun things to do, so little time :D
What I'm Reading: That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers (2025)
Jan. 20th, 2026 08:05 pmdelphi✓ kingstoken's 2026 Book Bingo: eBook/Audiobook
That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You is a 2025 memoir by comedian/musician/online personality Elyse Myers. It's a collection of essays, free verse poetry, and lists that take a humorous but heartfelt look at formative and vulnerable moments in her life, with a retrospective understanding of the anxiety and undiagnosed neurodivergence that often shaped them.
Stories include a childhood fixation on a Magic 8 Ball, overthinking and missing the obvious during a teenage game of Seven Minutes in Heaven, college panic attacks, Parisian dates gone awry, beach encounters gone sour, and conquering the mysteries of gravel roads. Anyone familiar with Elyse Myers' work online knows she has a way of telling a story and getting a laugh while also not being afraid to be earnest. If you haven't seen her videos before, you can check her out on TikTok or on Youtube.
I don't listen to a ton of audiobooks, my main exception being memoirs that are read by their authors. That usually works out for me, but in this case I really wish I'd gone with the print book for three reasons:
1) It turns out the print edition is full of little illustrations and creative formatting that brings a lot to some of the pieces.
2) One of the things I enjoy about Myers is her more freeform and sometimes frenetic delivery, but this was a more sedate and traditional audiobook performance.
3) Related to #2, several stories triggered some secondhand embarrassment for me and having to listen to that be slowly relayed instead of being able to read faster during those was rough.
( An Excerpt )
kingstoken's 2026 Book Bingo: eBook/AudiobookThat's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You is a 2025 memoir by comedian/musician/online personality Elyse Myers. It's a collection of essays, free verse poetry, and lists that take a humorous but heartfelt look at formative and vulnerable moments in her life, with a retrospective understanding of the anxiety and undiagnosed neurodivergence that often shaped them.
Stories include a childhood fixation on a Magic 8 Ball, overthinking and missing the obvious during a teenage game of Seven Minutes in Heaven, college panic attacks, Parisian dates gone awry, beach encounters gone sour, and conquering the mysteries of gravel roads. Anyone familiar with Elyse Myers' work online knows she has a way of telling a story and getting a laugh while also not being afraid to be earnest. If you haven't seen her videos before, you can check her out on TikTok or on Youtube.
I don't listen to a ton of audiobooks, my main exception being memoirs that are read by their authors. That usually works out for me, but in this case I really wish I'd gone with the print book for three reasons:
1) It turns out the print edition is full of little illustrations and creative formatting that brings a lot to some of the pieces.
2) One of the things I enjoy about Myers is her more freeform and sometimes frenetic delivery, but this was a more sedate and traditional audiobook performance.
3) Related to #2, several stories triggered some secondhand embarrassment for me and having to listen to that be slowly relayed instead of being able to read faster during those was rough.
( An Excerpt )
Today was a tad chilly
Jan. 20th, 2026 11:46 pmcornerofmadnessdamn near had to zip my jacket this morning (it was 14 F) Less said about work the better (still dealing with the issues of that mix up) but the funny thing is we were loaned (from another failing program) the autoclave and incubators. So I went in to see how they were going as my researchers are ramping up. The autoclave isn't put together (and the fuse box is MIA) and NONE of the incubators are done. Me and DM were working on them. It's like incubators by IKEA and it's ALL in German and nothing is complete (I have a German student, I might drag him in there) It's so dumb I'm laughing.
Today was Cheese Cake and Golden Girls at the library. Just bring/eat cheesecake and watch a couple episodes of GG. It was packed. I was someone's hero because I gave her some of my lactose pills (she forgot hers). You'll share them? Yes, of course. It was fun except....for the two tables in the back who just kept talking thru the entire first episode we watched. Like fucking non stop. I really wanted to say hey, STFU. We're here trying to enjoy ourselves but we can't even hear teh show. I hate that women are so well trained to be 'nice' that sometimes making waves is hard. And then they had the audacity to shove in a couple pieces of cheesecake and then left without watching the first 30 minutes all the way thru. Didn't care. Glad they gone.
Came home. Realized OMG the authors zoom is tonight and I'm exhausted. I shook it off. Wrote over 2500 words in 1 1/2 hours. Well yay for me.
No fannish 50. I'm too tired again.
Also dummy went outside this morning. Refused to come back. I'm like of all days to go out and run off rocket. He's back and he's fine.
Today was Cheese Cake and Golden Girls at the library. Just bring/eat cheesecake and watch a couple episodes of GG. It was packed. I was someone's hero because I gave her some of my lactose pills (she forgot hers). You'll share them? Yes, of course. It was fun except....for the two tables in the back who just kept talking thru the entire first episode we watched. Like fucking non stop. I really wanted to say hey, STFU. We're here trying to enjoy ourselves but we can't even hear teh show. I hate that women are so well trained to be 'nice' that sometimes making waves is hard. And then they had the audacity to shove in a couple pieces of cheesecake and then left without watching the first 30 minutes all the way thru. Didn't care. Glad they gone.
Came home. Realized OMG the authors zoom is tonight and I'm exhausted. I shook it off. Wrote over 2500 words in 1 1/2 hours. Well yay for me.
No fannish 50. I'm too tired again.
Also dummy went outside this morning. Refused to come back. I'm like of all days to go out and run off rocket. He's back and he's fine.
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Jan. 20th, 2026 03:09 pmysobelNot dead. Just a lot of stuff.
Mom has been moved to the new place (which is also memory care -- she hates being locked in) and when I visited her last week it was not great at all. The place looks nice but mom was insistent that she needed to go back to OldPlace and I could take her. (I declined. Six times.). I need to decide how often I'm visiting her, because I can't do every week.
Wrote a story for Yuletide (pinch hit) and I love the source and I have no energy to write up all the stuff I want to say
Have FOP flareup under my jaw. I can still chew but mouth opening is restricted -- about the size of a slice of bread's thickness -- and chewing is effortful. Have to take smaller bites so there's more chewing needed too. Have started prednisone (ee) so hopefully that will help. No clue if this is permanent or will resolve. At night it feels like I have something heavy resting on my neck; it doesn't interfere with breathing but it's kinda uncomfortable and getting to sleep is harder.
I've been playing a (free with gacha elements) casual life sim game called Heartopia. So cute. I've just adopted a cat (golden spotted, looks like a bengal) and have unlocked the option to adopt a dog but can't decide which one (golden retriever I name Phoebe? Black lab named Yahtzee? Shiba Inu? Corgi? Husky?). Also you can interact with wildlife. So much cuteness! I love.
Mom has been moved to the new place (which is also memory care -- she hates being locked in) and when I visited her last week it was not great at all. The place looks nice but mom was insistent that she needed to go back to OldPlace and I could take her. (I declined. Six times.). I need to decide how often I'm visiting her, because I can't do every week.
Wrote a story for Yuletide (pinch hit) and I love the source and I have no energy to write up all the stuff I want to say
Have FOP flareup under my jaw. I can still chew but mouth opening is restricted -- about the size of a slice of bread's thickness -- and chewing is effortful. Have to take smaller bites so there's more chewing needed too. Have started prednisone (ee) so hopefully that will help. No clue if this is permanent or will resolve. At night it feels like I have something heavy resting on my neck; it doesn't interfere with breathing but it's kinda uncomfortable and getting to sleep is harder.
I've been playing a (free with gacha elements) casual life sim game called Heartopia. So cute. I've just adopted a cat (golden spotted, looks like a bengal) and have unlocked the option to adopt a dog but can't decide which one (golden retriever I name Phoebe? Black lab named Yahtzee? Shiba Inu? Corgi? Husky?). Also you can interact with wildlife. So much cuteness! I love.
FIC: In a Grain of Sand
Jan. 20th, 2026 05:37 pmalexcatTitle: In a Grain of Sand
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: PG
Length: 392
Content notes: My sweethearts: Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov
Author notes: The beach trip takes place just before Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Summary: Steve remembers Natasha.
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: PG
Length: 392
Content notes: My sweethearts: Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov
Author notes: The beach trip takes place just before Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Summary: Steve remembers Natasha.
It's cold as balls!
Jan. 20th, 2026 01:07 pmcrantzI haven't done my annual read of The Cremation of Sam McGee, so I need to get on that. Although HAS it gone down to -30 yet? I don't really know. I just know it's been bitter and awful.
Took the cat (Muezza, not Merlyn or Benjamin) to the vet for her dental today and getting her into the carrier with my sister was pretty funny. At first she kept escaping the towel and then finally my sister bundled her up sufficiently she couldn't escape and instead of yelling and struggling she just sat there with a :| expression as she was literally stuffed in as it turned out once you added a towel and a sitting position, she was a bit large for the very small carrier opening.
Just totally silent 'you goddamn maroons' behaviour out of her for that part.
I got pie at the grocery store, my game (WoW) is having a big update today, I met with my professor to discuss upcoming tests and found out I get special permission (I didn't ask! She brought it up herself) to be allowed to do a digital art piece for the special project unlike anyone else because she's seen me make my comics and knows they won't be AI. I had been planning to do it on paper, but this does make it easier on me, surface to work on wise. I happily told her for extra confirmation, the program I use (procreate) makes a video of the whole drawing being created for doublechecking. 'You will see me draw lots of circles as I warm up my hand'
I haven't done many comics lately - I have drafts, I have scripts, I have ideas, but I've been focused on other stuff. I'll get back into the groove. I don't feel burnt out or anything, just so much time in the day.
I'm working on a special project I can't talk about publicly until it's done but I hope I succeed so I can talk about it without shame. Ann and Vali have been helping me with it.
My poor girlfriend accidentally poisoned her music algorithm when an ai music video tricked her, so she's in a pit of despair right now. I wish I could figure out how to unfuck it for her. But they really like to entrench that bullshit, don't they.
Ann and I found out about crafting cruises and that seems promising as a future adventure. All the people doing it in the video looked like us which was an interesting experience.
Took the cat (Muezza, not Merlyn or Benjamin) to the vet for her dental today and getting her into the carrier with my sister was pretty funny. At first she kept escaping the towel and then finally my sister bundled her up sufficiently she couldn't escape and instead of yelling and struggling she just sat there with a :| expression as she was literally stuffed in as it turned out once you added a towel and a sitting position, she was a bit large for the very small carrier opening.
Just totally silent 'you goddamn maroons' behaviour out of her for that part.
I got pie at the grocery store, my game (WoW) is having a big update today, I met with my professor to discuss upcoming tests and found out I get special permission (I didn't ask! She brought it up herself) to be allowed to do a digital art piece for the special project unlike anyone else because she's seen me make my comics and knows they won't be AI. I had been planning to do it on paper, but this does make it easier on me, surface to work on wise. I happily told her for extra confirmation, the program I use (procreate) makes a video of the whole drawing being created for doublechecking. 'You will see me draw lots of circles as I warm up my hand'
I haven't done many comics lately - I have drafts, I have scripts, I have ideas, but I've been focused on other stuff. I'll get back into the groove. I don't feel burnt out or anything, just so much time in the day.
I'm working on a special project I can't talk about publicly until it's done but I hope I succeed so I can talk about it without shame. Ann and Vali have been helping me with it.
My poor girlfriend accidentally poisoned her music algorithm when an ai music video tricked her, so she's in a pit of despair right now. I wish I could figure out how to unfuck it for her. But they really like to entrench that bullshit, don't they.
Ann and I found out about crafting cruises and that seems promising as a future adventure. All the people doing it in the video looked like us which was an interesting experience.
Personalised bingo card offer
Jan. 20th, 2026 06:16 pmthisbluespiritHello, I am still recovering, etc. Quite nicely as these things go, but still not up to doing all my usual little things.
Anyway, thought of something fannish and fun I could do if anyone wanted it - I made a personalised bingo card fortheseatheseatheopensea once, which was fun, and I do always love doing that kind of thing. So...
... if anyone else would find a custom-made bingo card (for writing/creating prompts) fun/useful/inspiring, comment here and I will have a go at making you one!
(I'll use the Bingo Generator, so it's very easy, and if I fail and include some rubbish prompts, a new card without such prompts can magically be re-generated with no trouble. Will do any size from 2x2 to 5x5.)
So just comment here if you'd like one & say what size card you'd prefer. You can also point me to/away from any fandoms/prompt types etc if you'd like, but no need. (If I'm really stuck for some reason, I'll just ask you for some pointers!)
Anyway, thought of something fannish and fun I could do if anyone wanted it - I made a personalised bingo card for
theseatheseatheopensea once, which was fun, and I do always love doing that kind of thing. So...... if anyone else would find a custom-made bingo card (for writing/creating prompts) fun/useful/inspiring, comment here and I will have a go at making you one!
(I'll use the Bingo Generator, so it's very easy, and if I fail and include some rubbish prompts, a new card without such prompts can magically be re-generated with no trouble. Will do any size from 2x2 to 5x5.)
So just comment here if you'd like one & say what size card you'd prefer. You can also point me to/away from any fandoms/prompt types etc if you'd like, but no need. (If I'm really stuck for some reason, I'll just ask you for some pointers!)
FAKE Triple Drabble: Betrayal
Jan. 20th, 2026 05:09 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Betrayal
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: JJ, Dee, Max Fork, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Setting: Vol. 5, Act 15.
Summary: Dee is worried about JJ.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Rogue’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.
( Betrayal... )
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Doctor Who Drabble: Perfectly Safe
Jan. 20th, 2026 04:51 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Perfectly Safe
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Eleventh Doctor, OFC.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 993: ‘Fall’ at
dw100.Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The Doctor’s newest companion is a bit nervous.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
( Perfectly Safe... )
Double Drabble: Laundry Again
Jan. 20th, 2026 04:37 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Laundry Again
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Ianto, Meriel.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 901: Cycle, at
torchwood100.Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto has a baby to look after and laundry to do.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
( Laundry Again... )
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