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kat_lair ([personal profile] kat_lair) wrote2025-07-03 09:48 pm
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Julé! 03/31 - Quote of the Day

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"I like Scandinavians, skiing, swimming and socialists who realize it is our business to promote social progress by peaceful methods. I dislike football, economists, eugenicists, Fascists, Stalinists, and Scottish conservatives. I think that sex is necessary and bankers are not."
- Lancelot Hogben

From Kunitz, S.J. and Haycraft, H. (1950) Twentieth century authors: A biographical dictionary of modern literature (3rd edn), New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, pp 658-9, as referenced on the Wiki page. 

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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-07-03 05:54 pm

The Rookie Triple Drabble: A Man With A Plan

 


Title: A Man With A Plan
Fandom: The Rookie
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: John Nolan, Jackson West, Lucy Chen.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Season Three.
Summary: Due to circumstances, Nolan’s ambitions will have to change.
Written For: Challenge 447: Amnesty 74 at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks, using Challenge 4: Stages.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Rookie, or the characters.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 


 
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-07-03 05:46 pm

Ficlet: Hard At Work

 


Title: Hard At Work
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 676
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack should be working but as far as Ianto can tell, he’s not.
Written For: 
[personal profile] jigglygrlcarrie’s prompt ‘Any, any, “Hard at work or hardly working?”,’ at [community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
 


 
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alexcat ([personal profile] alexcat) wrote2025-07-03 09:06 am
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Dragons

Dragons
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My Scroll.
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Vridelian ([personal profile] vriddy) wrote2025-07-03 07:20 am

Community Thursday

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.


Over the last week...

Final (;v;) vigilantes chit-chat on [community profile] bnha_fans, for this season at least!

Commented on [community profile] common_nature.

Book chit-chat on [community profile] booknook.

Commented on [community profile] littleblackdressex about a duplicate nom..... My first exchange sign-up this year! Excited :D :D

Signal boost:

  • [community profile] sunshine_revival started! Each (chill) challenge will have journalling prompts, and so on. A good way to be active and meet other active people around Dreamwidth! There's a friending meme, too! As happens way too often (and I'm going to need to address that at some point...), I'm too overwhelmed with other things to take part in social challenges at the moment, but wishing everyone a super fun time with it! And who knows, maybe I will manage to squeeze in one or two challenges, too... It could happen!!
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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-07-02 09:59 pm
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Sunshine 1

Before I get into it, just wanted to say I made it back to Pittsburgh for the rest of the summer (in theory)


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Challenge #1

Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community.. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


For July I have two open calls I want to write stories for. And I have two [community profile] wipbigbang stories I must finish and I do need to work on my [community profile] fandomtrumpshate story. In the meantime I'm working on some story that bit me yesterday. In fact on the 4 hour trip today five stories were trying to take dominance in my brain as I drove.

My other goals are to see some of the sites I've been trying to get to for years. It doesn't look good. Sigh. No one cares what my work goals are (including me if I'm honest)

I DO have something I'm proud of. Two somethings that I spent most of June working on. Both are from the Hazbin Hotel fandom (so mind the tags, this is the most violent musical animated comedy ever I swear)

Dandelions This is my [community profile] unconventionalcourtship story. I am very proud of how this one turned out and have gotten some nice comments about.


The Power Play series is something I created for the [community profile] getyourwordsout Yahtzee challenge. I am a little disappointed at how much this is flying under the radar. That said, I think it's a very good one that I enjoyed doing.



I'm going to break the book report into two days because I'm hot, tired and cranky. (and that story wants me to get back to it)

What I Just Finished Reading:

Dark Entry - a short suspense/horror novel I got last year, not bad but predictable

Verses for the Dead - a pendergast novel from Preston & Childe. enjoyed it but the ending was too hollywood

Chasing Evil - this is written by an FBI agent (ex) and his professional relationship with psychic John Edward (wish there had been chapters by John too)



What I am Currently Reading:

Kill You Twice - a pretty graphic (i don't mind) police procedural but it's a tad soap opera for me

I Need You To Read This - an arc of an advice columnist trying to solve the murder of the woman she's replacing. It has a neat cover, sleek red with the title as keyboard keys but they're tactile.

War Child - a Deep Space Nine Novel

Pantomine - an LGBT (intersexed main character) fantasy



What I Plan to Read Next: something for popsugar
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autobotscoutriella ([personal profile] autobotscoutriella) wrote2025-07-02 10:22 pm

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Me: Yeah, I'm done writing for the night, I think. I'm going to take the evening off...

Art of my OT3 appears on my Tumblr dash

...okay, maybe just a teensy bit more writing. Just a little!
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Isis ([personal profile] isis) wrote2025-07-02 06:17 pm
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wednesday reads and things

What I've recently finished reading:

Lamentation by C.J. Sansom, the 6th Shardlake novel. This is all about the heresy hunts in the last few years before Henry VIII's death - one faction wanted to go back towards Catholicism, one wanted a radical re-imagining of religion and social structures, and if you wanted to stay in the regime's good graces, you walked the narrow path of "the King is the divinely ordained leader of the Church, and whatever he says goes." Warning for historical burning of heretics, plus canon-typical violence; also for weird religion and contentious legal cases. Matthew Shardlake still has a crush on the queen (Katherine Parr).

What I'm reading now:

My hold on Katherine Addison's The Tomb of Dragons came in, so that. Just barely started.

What I recently finished watching:

American Primeval, which, huh, I've never before encountered media in which the Mormons are the bad guys. (This is not a spoiler. It's pretty clear from the get-go, but it gets more pointed and cartoon-villainy toward the end.) Definitely violent and gory, though also it felt very clearly written to Tug The Heart Strings (and then, often, deliberately kill the character it's just tried to make you care about) at which at least for me it failed to do. I liked Abish, Two Moons, and Captain Edwin Dellinger, and James Bridger amused the hell out of me, but - I mostly enjoyed it, but I don't feel it was superlative. I got tired of the filter to wash out colors so it looked almost old-photo sepia.

I did enjoy the historical setting of the Mormon War; as I mentioned last time, I researched it for my Yuletide story, and I think it's just an interesting time, the settlement/colonization of western North America.

What I'm about to start watching:

Murderbot! We always wait until enough episodes are out that we can watch ~every other day and not have to wait.

What I'm playing now:

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, which was recommended to me as a "spooky atmospheric puzzle game", and I'm enjoying it a lot. You play as a mysterious woman who has come to a mysterious hotel full of locked doors in what might be Germany in 1963, at the request of a mysterious man for reasons of ??? I told my brother about it because it's cheap in the summer sale at Steam, and he decided it sounded good so he is playing it now, a bit behind my progress but because of the nonlinearity he's ahead of me in some things. We're trying to give each other elliptical hints when needed.
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Creature Of Hobbit ([personal profile] tellshannon815) wrote2025-07-03 01:02 am

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Off on holiday from tomorrow, back Monday, probably will be a bit sporadic on here in terms of comments and not posting, so will catch up properly when I get back!
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alexcat ([personal profile] alexcat) wrote2025-07-02 06:54 pm
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Sunshine Revival Challenge #1

Challenge #1

Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community.. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.



Goals? Oh my! I think I might have given goals some time back. These days, just getting thour8gh the day is good. Living in t****'s America is draining. I would love to get back into writing. It does help with all that existential dread and angst I feel these days. My favorite Big Bang canceled this year. Maybe I'll hunt another one. Anyhow, my rest of the year goals and July goals are to do more fandom things.


I made this:
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Creature Of Hobbit ([personal profile] tellshannon815) wrote2025-07-02 09:29 pm

Sunshine Revival #1

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Challenge #1

Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community.

For me I think it's going to be easier to set myself some goals for the second half of the year, rather than focusing on July, bearing in mind that my July involves two trips during which I'll be less online. So, I'll start with finally finishing that Dark series that I started at the tail end of 2023 and then got stuck on because I keep being drawn back to the conclusion that I wanted to avoid (brief spoiler-lite context: once I had more of an understanding of the timelines of this show, I understood that giving this character his happy ending just wasn't possible). I also would quite like to do something with a School Spirits plot bunny that could turn into a series (bit complicated to explain if you didn't watch season 2). And I also keep saying I'll go back to Lost's "Sun went back to 1977" series which I haven't touched since 2010 (Smokey McSmokeFace, that one's on you. Well, technically the writers, for going in the direction that I was not okay with.)

I'm getting the to-watch list down a bit, but still going to keep that one (I find that easier when I'm properly able to focus, meaning NOT in the middle of a heatwave which for some reason seemed to hit me harder the last two days even more so than 2022 did and left me not feeling like doing anything much. In that state, I can handle old favourites I'm familiar with, but not so good with something fairly new to me.

Ever since Isabella and Isla presented me with a Make Your Own Luna Lovegood crochet kit for Christmas (and that was 2022, so it's been a while) and I didn't like to admit that I'm clueless about it, I've thought I should get round to starting. Maybe this will be the year I get round to it.


I may not do both prompts all the way through, but here's a creative response:

Title: But I Still Need Love 'Cause I'm Just A Man
Fandom: School Spirits
Characters: Wally
Pairing: Wally/Maddie
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers all the way through Season 2
Summary: Wally knows he couldn't expect Maddie to stay with him; he envisions how she could have ended up resenting him if she'd chosen to remain a ghost to be with him, but also can't regret that he's spoken up about what he wants for once.

Read more... )
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alexcat ([personal profile] alexcat) wrote2025-07-02 06:00 pm
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Answers to friending meme at [community profile] sunshine_revival

 Basics
Name: alexcat
Age: 65
Location: Southern US
Other blogs/socials: alexcat45 at Tumblr and alexcat45 or alex_writes on Discord

Dreamwidth Stuff
What do you post about? Fandom stuff, fics, life in general(friends)
How often do you post? Whenever I write something usually. I am way too lazy.
What communities, if any, are you involved in? I write some challenge fics for [community profile] cap_ironman and [community profile] fan_flashworks. I host [community profile] fandom50challenge.
What kind of accounts do you like to follow? I like to read about other people's daily lives if they like to share. I like fandom and fic oriented posts as well.

Fandom Stuff
Fandoms: MCU, Sherlock Holmes, Babylon 5, Tolkien - and others.
Favorite Characters: Steve Rogers, Sherlock Holmes, John Sheridan(B5) and Tolkien's elves.
Ships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes... you get the drift.
Things you're into but not fannish about: I LOVE Star Wars but am not in the fandom.

I Designed This Meme So I Get To Ask Weird Stuff
Explain your username: Many years ago when I had to come up with a username, I was into CATS with my daughter AND I have been obsessed with Alexander the Great since I was in 3rd grade so... alexcat came about.
Favorite season (it's ok if it's not summer): Fall. It reminds me of buying notebooks and pencils when I was a kid, as well as the county fair, Halloween and my birthday in November. An added bonus is cool weather.
What's your vibe? I am not sure I have a vibe... I am a grumpy old cat so that might be my vibe.
What is your summeriest fandom? (You can interpret this however you like….): This is strange but MCU, probably Nat and Steve... they like the outdoors.
Opening song on your summer mixtape: "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith. I remember hot days at the beach as a teen with Aerosmith playing loudly on the jukebox while we played Eight Ball in the Pier House. We wore short shorts and flirted with silly boys we'd never see again.
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kat_lair ([personal profile] kat_lair) wrote2025-07-02 10:37 pm
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Julé! 02/31 - K.A.R.D. Ficlet: like what you (don't) see

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Title: like what you (don't) see
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: K.A.R.D.
Pairing: Matthew Kim | BM/Kim Taehyung | J.Seph, Kim Taehyung | J.Seph/Original Male Character(s)
Tags: Ficlet, Canon Compliant, Jealousy, Denial of Feelings
Rating: G 
Word count: 720

Summary: “He’s looking at you,” Matthew murmurs under the guise of bending down to hand over a bottle of water.

Author notes: 
I was looking for a prompt to write something for the first challenge of [community profile] sunshine_revival and then K.A.R.D. dropped Touch. And listen, they know what their target audience (the thirsty bis and pans) want and keep them well fed. I've been low key wanting more fic for this pairing and the MV gave me this brief frame at 2.09 where the (very hot) dancer looks like he's checking Taehyung out and... Well. Longer fic has been written on a flimsier premise. Unbetaed so if you spot a typo you absolutely should tell me about it.

like what you (don't) see on AO3

like what you (don't) see )

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rachelmanija ([personal profile] rachelmanija) wrote2025-07-02 01:39 pm

The Way Up is Death, by Dan Hanks



In a prologue that's very Terry Pratchett-esque without actually being funny, an enormous floating tower appears in England, becomes a 12-hour wonder, and is then forgotten as people have short attention spans. Then thirteen random people suddenly vanish from their lives and appear at the base of the tower, facing the command ASCEND.

I normally love stories about people dealing with inexplicable alien architecture. This was the most boring and unimaginative version of that idea I've ever read. Each level is a death trap based on something in one of their minds - a video game, The Poseidon Adventure, an old home - but less interesting than that sounds. The action was repetitive, the characters were paper-thin, and one, an already-dated influencer, was actively painful to read:

Time to give her the Alpha Male rizzzzzzz, baby!

The ending was, unsurprisingly, also a cliche.

Read more... )
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Killian ([personal profile] setsuntamew) wrote2025-07-02 04:39 pm

Yet Another Work Update

I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!!!!!

Despite my anxiety about ever finding a job again after being out of work for so long, I kicked ass at both interviews and got a job offer almost immediately following the second one :D I honestly can't wait to get back to selling sex toys; there's a reason it was my career for nearly a decade. I really do love it!

Anyway. I don't have a whole lot to say because I've been having bad depression following being sick. I fell out of the habit of being on dreamwidth/icon making/etc while sick, I've been really struggling to get back to it ;w; I hate when my brain is like "oh here's a thing you love, no you don't get to do it :)"

bluh bluh bluh

I finished my OG FFVII replay and it was even better than my memories, which is impressive considering how much I loved it as a teen. I have a lot of thoughts and feels that I need to put into words but I'm not feeling with it enough to do so also I don't want to go through the massive amount of screencaps I took to make a coherent post lmao

uhhhhhhhhhhhhh what else is coming up in my life.........

The Double Face climax, aka Last Mission, is coming up in ENG soon!!!!!! Can't wait to cry about their divorce unit breakup all over again ;w; Depending on how competitive it is, I'm debating going further than just maxing Madara's 5* card and actually tiering...since who knows when/if there will be another DF event...sobs.

OH RIGHT!!! I am delighted to admit that I'm wrong about something: The Project SEKAI x Ensemble Stars!! collab is coming to the world wide servers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's running in CN right now and will be running in ENG in......late August, literally over a year before its regular slot in the schedule XD idk what they're gonna do about Raika's feature scout that's supposed to run at the same time, because ENG hasn't gotten the new children yet :T

STILLLLLLLLLLLL!!! I'm so fucking excited, both for the overall event and the really good promo card of Leo where he's holding up the VOCALOID app on an iPad. It's so cute and also the best promo 5* they've ever given out, so that'll be nice ;D

I don't have anything smart left to say :T I'm still recovering so like...brain not fully online...

WAIT YES MY KITTY CAT NUIS FINALLY MADE IT FROM CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!


they're soooooooo much bigger than the bear nuis I gotta take a family picture, but for now plz enjoy them with a lavender matcha frappe I got at a newly opened bakery~

And we're finally getting our car repaired this weekend!!! It's been a long time coming of saving up for it, but now it's happening!!!!!!! And just in time for me to start my new job, too. Liz and Pat can carpool cuz their jobs are nearby and both are 9-5, but mine is completely different. Fingers crossed it doesn't need more repairs than expected!!!!
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oneiriad ([personal profile] oneiriad) wrote2025-07-02 08:24 pm

Sandman season 2 episode 1 reaction post

Aka I signed up for early access to the first episode.

Spoilers below the cut )