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Rewatching Babylon 5's "Ship of Tears" and (parts of) "War Without End" was definitely not conducive to ending up in the most cheerful frame of mind this evening. It's so good, though.

( Something I noticed in Ship of Tears )

tielan

For when I have time and energy before the season to put up some 'gravestones' with 'how they died'.

Princess Bride themed

He Killed My Father

Started A Land War In Asia

Went Up Against A Sicilian When Death Was On The Line

Didn't Think ROAS Existed

Didn't Have Fun Storming The Castle

Since Halloween takes place on a Saturday next year, I might try to throw a Halloween Party. And maybe a Big Number Birthday, if I can be arsed. I wasn't planning a Big Number Birthday, but a friend gave me a look like I'd uttered a mortal sin when I mentioned I wasn't really big on a Big Number Birthday.

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I sent out the 7x7 picnic party invitations, have about 15 going, 5 who can't, 5 maybes.

B1 will not be much help since she has her Christmas Party the night before. I have a Matildas game the night before. The parentals will be out of town. So it's going to be me and maybe B2.

I mean, I'm pretty sure the people I've invited are not going to be particularly fussed that the place isn't spotless. It might just be a bit chaotic in cleanup, is all. But that can be managed, too...

sholio

trickortreatex and

fandomgiftbasket both revealed this weekend. I have gifts to coo over!

Trick or Treat:

Beware of Gurathin Bearing Gifts (Murderbot, gen, 580 wds)
Fun and playful with some nice little cultural details, and a tantalizing hint of a future mission to come.

Fandom Giftbasket:

Jala, Tujula, and Fraught Understanding by

pushkin666 (Babylon 5, Londo & G'Kar, 700 wds)
This is lovely, a possibly-late-in-series vignette with a little bit of cultural exchange (via food/drink) and a little hard-won wisdom/acceptance.

Keepsake by

opalmatrix (Murderbot, gen, 3200 wds)
A really enjoyable, very slightly AU slice-of-life on Port FreeCommerce in which Ratthi takes MB shopping for the first time. Great in-character interactions and a lovely ending!

Zayd & Marwan by

celli (Murderbot, gen, 750 wds)
Murderbot, Mensah's kids, and cats. Cute and fun!

alessandriana

A friend-of-a-friend is writing her master's thesis on online fanfiction archiving policies. She came across the following in the FF.Net TOS from the early 2000s, and she wasn't clear what it meant:

You agree not to use the service to:
[...]
(i) upload Author Fiction without prior permission from the parties appearing in the story.

I am also not sure what this is referring to! My initial thought, due to 'permission from parties appearing' being required, is that it was something RPF-flavored; maybe fiction about the fan author's own life? Which I vaguely remember being a thing. But I figured I would open it up to the broader crowd also around back then.

fardell24

2nd
Colossians 1:15 - 23
Stewardship of the Earth

2 Peter 3:10-13
But that doesn't mean we shouldn't look after the Creation

Romans 8:31

Creation is Good

1 Timothy 4

Jesus Created Everything
John 1:3

vs 16
Creation is for Jesus - For His purposes.
If you really want to care about the environment, you need to know about Jesus.
And if you know Jesus, you really need to care about the environment.
(But discernment is needed.)

Jesus reconciles all things - Hope
vs 19 - 23
The Resurrection is the hope of all Creation.

Isaiah 11

purplecat

Head and shoulders photo of Christopher Eccleston. His head is shaven. He's grinning. He's wearing a black casual top.

fardell24

fanfiction.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14520430/1/

Archive Of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/works/73491501/chapters/191573891

sholio

Whumptobers will continue ~~until morale improves~~ probably a ways into November, since I'm still having a good time with it, and I have a few incomplete ones.

Alt Prompt: Organ Theft
Murderbot & Tarik, 800 wds (bookverse, post-System Collapse)
Also on AO3: Grand Theft Human

( 800 wds under the cut )

snickfic

stripysock, in response to the photo below: This must surely be the most satisfying fandom you've ever been in, for real time live content

me: Yes. I will never have it this good again.

Black and white photo of Liam tenderly kissing the back of Noel's neck, while Noel smiles to himself, with evident laugh lines at the corner of his eye

This is from their official socials, by the way.

sholio

And fic #1000 turned out to be .... a follow-up to the time travel Biggles fic that I wrote for Out of Order Exchange. I had threatened to write what happened between Algy and Erich in 1918, and here it is.

Out of Time (2300 wds, Algy & Erich, gen)

The first one should probably be read first, if you haven't already.

And there it is, and here's to the next 1000!

beatrice_otter

For the

rarepairexchange I received a lovely Still Star-Crossed fic (that had good worldbuilding, good characterization, and excellent research backing it up):

you and you are heart in heart (2,289 words). Even now, two months after Paris’ defeat outside the walls of Verona, unrest still fermented. The peace treaty which had once hinged on Benvolio’s execution now hinged on Benvolio and Rosaline’s wedding.

And there was a lot of other good fic that you should check out. Here are some I liked:

Taking Chances Together (1254 words)
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Spock/Nyota Uhura
Additional Tags: post s2e1 Amok Time, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:

A musical collaboration turns into more...

In Splendid Sunshine Dressed (1868 words
Fandom: Casablanca (1942)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rick Blaine, Victor Laszlo (Casablanca), Ilsa Lund
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Getting Together
Summary:

Rick is invited back into Ilsa's life... but what about her husband?

Here's to We (1233 words)
Fandom: MASH (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lorraine Anderson/Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Friends to Lovers, Character Study, Epistolary, Margaret Backstory Typical Implied/Referenced Sexual Harassment, Episode Tag: s06e21 Temporary Duty, Episode Tag: s07e19 Hot Lips is Back In Town, 12x100
Summary:

Snapshots of Margaret and Lorraine's relationship from 1932-1952: growing up, growing apart, and finding their way back.

I Prayed For You (2445 words)
Fandom: MASH (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: B. J. Hunnicutt/Father Francis Mulcahy
Additional Tags: Developing Relationship
Summary:

Francis gave something away in hopes of comfort. BJ held that comfort close, even in the late hours.

Or Father Mulchay's trip takes a bit longer than predicted, long enough for some reflection on something developing. (For the 2025 RarePair Exchange!)

How the Halcyon Song Lingers (1348 words)
Fandom: Little Women (2019 Movie - Gerwig)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Theodore "Laurie" Laurence/Amy March
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Parenthood, Married Life, Fall Vibes, Domestic Fluff
Summary:

A glimpse of family life with the Laurences, as Amy and Laurie go for an autumn stroll with little Bess.

Heart's Got Everything to Do With It (6700 words)
Fandom: Tin Man (US TV 2007)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wyatt Cain/DG
Characters: DG (Tin Man), Wyatt Cain, Azkadellia (Tin Man), Jeb Cain
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, First Kiss, Queen DG
Summary:

It was like the Quest had never ended at all; DG had just run out of signposts to follow. Well, except maybe one....

Heart Murmur (2856 words)
Fandom: MASH (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan/Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Reunions, Cunnilingus, Hawkeye Pierce's canonical ED
Summary:

The woman who took the stage was a brunette, fading peroxide-blonde tips neatly tucked into a bun and graying at the temples. She looked better in a pantsuit than she ever had in fatigues, and she’d looked damn good in fatigues. Someone in the crowd wolf-whistled. She tapped her note cards to the podium with a glare that could jump start spontaneous combustion.

Margaret looked the same as ever, even brunette—like she was fully prepared to crush a man into dust for seeing her as less than she was.

The Broadwood Grand (4827 words)
Fandom: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Colonel Brandon/Marianne Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
Additional Tags: Tags Contain Spoilers, Romance, Fluff, Marriage Proposal, Friendship/Love, Romantic Friendship, Love Confessions, Falling In Love, Piano, Family Fluff, POV Third Person Limited, Requited Love, Requited Unrequited Love, Present Tense, Regency Romance, Inspired by Jane Austen, Inspired by Music, Happy Ending, Extended Scene, Canon Compliant
Summary:

Marianne Dashwood’s heart is an ocean, deep and vast and rich with life. He has seen it shimmer with the sunlight of affection, roil with the storms of heartbreak, and reel into the calmness of acceptance; but the breeze will blow when it chooses to blow, and Brandon—ever ready with his sails—would wait forever for good winds.

One Kiss is All it Takes (1470 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lando Calrissian/Luke Skywalker
Additional Tags: Getting Together, First Kiss, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Post-Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker Needs A Hug
Summary:

After what happened on Bespin, Lando visits Luke in the infirmary.

unicornduke

We were supposed to be open tonight for Halloween, free hayrides after dark, carved pumpkin walk, campfire, etc...

40 mph winds. we don't actually have a real building, our selling area is a glorified pole barn. So I rescheduled it and said we'd do it all tomorrow. I have an employee coming this afternoon for farm work (just texted him to change it to sunday woot) but my main goal for this afternoon is more pumpkin carving. I've got three pumpkins bins worth already done, probably need to do another bin or so worth. jigsaws work fantastic, plus a hole saw mounted on a drill for punching out the back for gletch cleanout.

I spent this morning taking down one small canopy and strapping the corners of the other two to tractors. My dad is out of town having fun this weekend, so I'm doing it solo. Not too bad to be honest, we did a pretty good strapping a few weekends ago when we had 30 mph winds, so it was mostly getting the tractors in place and putting straps around the axles in place of the wood totes and pumpkin bins we used last time. I doubled up all the small straps since my dad took the truck and all of the nice big 2 inch straps with him by accident. My mom is going to the hardware store anyway, so she's going to pick up some extras to keep here on the farm for this sort of situation.

So now I've got the afternoon to carve, then relax tonight, so some spinning or maybe go over to my shed and finish the warp on the loom. Fantastic. I've got plans to take monday and tuesday off work, we had two groups reschedule to thursday and friday next week and then we are done for reals. But I want to bake things and make some food which works best when I have two days off in a row. I did successfully get my weavers guild show and sale inventory done, I have 25 items for the sale! Leftover key fobs from last year, a shawl and eleven skeins of yarn. I upped my price a little bit this year on the yarns but they are mostly pretty merinos or merino blends and I think they'll sell even with a slightly higher price. Still surprised I got that many done this year given everything. Someday soon I will have my CPW out of storage and it will be glorious.

My parents have floated a plan: get the office at the new house completely finished, get their desks and computers and then move their bedroom over there, so the work will be staring them in the face all the time and they'll be more motivated. They'd still need to cook here at the farm house, but if they manage that, I will be able to get a huge chunk of the shed over here in one go since their office will be my crafting room. that would be amazing, I could get the boxes in my room moved down and unpacked too. Maybe even wash a fleece??? wild. I can almost taste the off season

fardell24

Penelope hung up the phone and looked at the incomplete article on her computer screen. She had gathered what information she could from various people who had been on the scene and she would just tell the facts. ‘It’s up to the people to decide whether Ninja Talon responding despite her injury was good or not,’ she thought. She also thought about Dafoanairi’s determination. ‘Both of them were determined, in their own ways.’ As far as the robotic pterodactyl went, she wasn’t going to speculate.

At the Historia, the rehearsal was going well. In the old projection room, Dani Moreno and Jane watched as Brittany went onto the stage again as Ariel.

“What would my potent master? Here I am,” Brittany said as Ariel.

“You and your companions performed admirably before, now I ask another favor…” Tom began as Prospero.

“Like, I think, someone is being theatrical with that robot pterodactyl,” Dani said as she subtly adjusted some of the lighting.”

“I agree,” Jane said. “And so does Daria. She thinks someone was trying to gain SpiderGirl’s attention for a purpose.”

“Could it be Quentin Beck?” Dani asked.

“I hope not!” Jane said. “Besides, it was the fourth vigilante who confronted him directly, not SpiderGirl.”

“Another mystery,” Dani murmured as she kept an eye on the stage. “No hero name widely known, and those who do know it are keeping it close to their chests.”

Jane shrugged. “Maybe she figures that if she keeps anonymous, her secret identity would be safer.”

“That sounds plausible.”

Daria met Brittany outside the dressing room shortly after the rehearsal ended. “You did very well,” she said.

“Thanks, Daria.”

“Tomorrow night will be like last week, just without Quentin’s actions hanging over it.”

“And that means I was less anxious, despite my injury,” Brittany said.

“That’s good too.”

“I should be better by next week.”

( Read More )

sholio

Another of the alt prompts written earlier in October.

“I hear you’re alive, how disappointing.”
Biggles & EvS, 600 wds, enemies-era

( 600 wds under the cut )

sholio

I have reached a never-again milestone on AO3; my number of works is currently sitting at 999!

It'll increment in a few days when some currently unrevealed things are revealed, but before it does that I want to try to write a lucky 1000th fic.

(Appropriately, I'm also hitting this weird little milestone on the 25th anniversary of my time writing fanfic, which started in 2000.)

Poll #33773

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 50

View Respondents

What should I doooooo?

View Answers

Write something extra special or iddy
42 (84.0%)

Use this as motivation to finish a WIP
19 (38.0%)

Actually manage to write something for spook-me this year
6 (12.0%)

Write a fandom or pairing I've never written before
3 (6.0%)

Revisit a fandom or pairing I haven't written in ages
22 (44.0%)

Write something experimental or wildly off brand for me
7 (14.0%)

Write something I, the person taking this poll, would like to see and will tell you about in comments
5 (10.0%)

Write a giant mega crossover of every fandom I've ever been in
8 (16.0%)

How very DARE you limit me to 3 options on this poll! I will express my opinions in comments
3 (6.0%)

purplecat

Purple Pikmin in an airplain, next to a pikmin with a Carreg Dhu mountain badge.

Photo of Grafitti saying Peace Monkey Graffit, Withingon, Manchester, with two pickmin with yellow flowers on their heads down the front.

Bunch of Mii's in a mixture of outfits, most with sunglasses, celebrating 100063 steps.

View of a road layout showing a red mushroom, and various planters.

A blue pikmin an a 3 cupcake holding a cherry

It's remarkably difficult, at least I find it so, to take screenshots of one's iPhone. As a result capturing good images of Pikmin proced challenging.

trobadora

From all around my flist, last seen at

facethestrange's:

How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'A' and 'T'.

I picked my favourite title for each letter, not necessarily my favourite fic:

A - Absent Heart (But My Body is Here)
B - A Bitter, Better Truth
C - A Cruelty of Harpies
D - Darkness Spilled Before Our Bed
E - Echoes Woven Into Light
F - Farshalah'kiah for the Modern Orion Woman
G - Glass on the Ground
H - Hindsight From the Dinner Table
I - In This Fading Hour
J - none
K - Kreisverkehr
L - Listen (it's late, it's late, but listen)
M - Make Answer to the Clock
N - Not To Be Repeated
O - Out of the Water
P - Pull/Recoil
Q - Quiet Bower
R - R'lyeh Is Not an Empty House
S - Summer's Turns
T - A Thread as Red as Blood
U - (un)forced, (un)happy
V - Volcano Day
W - Why Should You Linger
X - none
Y - none
Z - Zone F: Fandom Primer

You can tell I have a preference for a certain style of title, LOL!

The most represented fandom here is, unsurprisingly, Guardian (with 6 titles); second is Griimm with 3. My most-written fandom (Doctor Who) only has 2 on this list; either my title preferences have changed or Guardian inspires me for better titles. *g*

And the missing X and Y are probably not surprising, but I didn't expect J! I guess I'll have to do something about that at some point ... *g*

trobadora

I just realised I never posted this here - written for

gavilan in this year's

guardian_wishlist:

scale to feather, skin to skin (997 words)
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Ya Qing/Zhu Hong, Zhu Hong & Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Zhu Hong, Ya Qing
Content tags: Yashou transformation, non-human sex, Post-Canon, Post-Fix-It, Enemies to Lovers, background implied Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan

Summary: Ya Qing, half-transformed, had feathers down the side and back of her neck. They covered her shoulders and arms, curving along the sides of her bare breasts.

purplecat

Donna, from Doctor Who, looking compassionate

Donna, from Doctor Who, waist up in a pink striped shirt with cardigan over it. Blue scenery behind.

Donna from Doctor Who operating the Tardis.

Donna from Doctor Who. Head and shoulders and it is windy.

tielan

A couple of cold days. Not freezing cold, just chilly. In the low teens for us, which is a bit on the cold side. Upper teens and early 20s, sure. Low teens? *brr*

We did get some rain last night. It was kind of exciting! Haven't had rain since I've been back home...

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Work is ALL THE THINGS NEED TO BE DONE. And I am taking on more stuff because my team lead is injured and taking time off next week. And because I need to be more across the stuff that my team is doing and not so focused on what I personally do and know how to do. Expansion. Development.

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I'm trying to get the courage up to have a "birthday of completeness picnic". I just feel like it's a little bit late to organise (last Saturday of November), and that nobody will come.

I just need to bite the bullet and send out the invites.

Picnic. Potluck. Party. It's as simple as that.

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We have been eating very vegetarian around here lately. I've beem making things like mujadhara (caramelised onion lentils and rice), and cheesy bean bake, and musabaha (cream tahini chickpeas). And often eating it with an egg. Although in the case of the cheesy bean bake (some of which I froze) when it comes time to eat it, I think I might cook some lasagne sheets and make a vego lasagne of sorts.

Being in Georgia in particular really reminded me of how easy it is to eat vego when you have good spices, but also there's a number of foodie/healthy eating influencers that I follow who've done a few vegetarian recipes (lots of beans and pulses) and they look good. I'm not about to give up meat - no way, no how. But it's good to have vego every now and then, and not just rely on the meat all the time.

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I just realised I didn't really do a travelogue on Georgia. I'm thinking about doing a fairly thorough one, because it's not something that most of you are ever going to see much about, and it might be worth it.

Is anyone interested in a detailed travellogue through Georgia? (It'll be a lot of what I already posted over on instagram, with maybe some details dredged from my memory.)

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I'm also looking at a trip for next year, except I don't think I can afford it right now. By the time it comes around? Sure! But right now? No.

*sigh*

Okay, we'll hold off, and who knows, things might materially change by the time things come around.

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Also, I need a new travel icon...

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sholio - This show still has its hooks in my brain
tielan - next year, halloween yard signs
sholio - Gifts everywhere!
alessandriana - "Author fiction"?
fardell24 - Church notes - 2nd November 2025
purplecat - Random Doctor Who Picture
fardell24 - Daria in the Background
sholio - Whumptober Alt: Organ Theft (Murderbot)
snickfic - beyond my wildest dreams
sholio - My 1000th fic on AO3!
beatrice_otter - Rare Pair Recs
unicornduke - Having a lazy day
fardell24 - Spider Quinn 19 Making the News Amidst the Storms Part 4
sholio - Whumptober Alt: “I hear you’re alive, how disappointing.” [Biggles]
sholio - Gratuitous poll
purplecat - Pikmin Icons
trobadora - Fic title meme
trobadora - FIC: scale to feather, skin to skin (Guardian: Ya Qing/Zhu Hong) [M]
purplecat - Donna Icons
tielan - temps have dropped, ordinary life is re-establishing

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