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057 - gifs; 25.02 - jujutsu kaisen

Medium: aliensamba
(Additional): team challenge (alpha)
Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen
Characters: Itadori Yuuji, Fushiguro Megumi, Kugisaki Nobara, Zenin Maki, Panda, Toge Inumaki, Gojo Satoru
Prompt: surprise
Notes: 2 gifs for week 3 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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Current Mood: sick
Current Music: Murder She Wrote

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Weird lights

I was downstairs in the game room talking to

evil_little_dog and I noticed that over the bar where my parents have hanging glasses (like at some real bars) and it's backlit. That's new. I didn't think much of it until I turned off the lights and it didn't go off. Nor did it go off when I left the bar (thinking it might be motion activated) so I go up and ask Dad (he put them in. he was an electrical engineer) and he's like how did they get on? I expected I accidentally hit one of the switches but no, this is on a separate little controller. You couldn't accidentally hit this. We have no idea how it got turned on. Weird.

You're getting a two-fer for fannish 50 today. First up, have I mentioned I'm a fan of plants? I suspect many of you could guess I love plants from my posts. Well I escaped the house to go to one of the three local greenhouses because I needed herbs (and mom is also sick with bronchitis, sorry Mom so she didn't come). There I am, unsupervised in a greenhouse/farmer's market.

Long story short, I got cinnamon basil, bonsai basil, regular basil, lemon thyme, Italian parsley, zucchini and a flower, a torenia. And then they had free tomato six-packs that you could take one. Come with me early girls (not my favorite but hey free). I am a happy girl with all my new plants that I have no idea where I'm putting them.

In good news, my busted open toe is finally sealed over (a week after the fact) I am relieved. It's not red, not swollen so I think I'm past the danger zone.

So let's move on to the rest of the fannish 50, stories and art! I have a story for you this week myself

Title: Holding Out For a Hero

Fandom: Hazbin Hotel

Summary: Even Pentious might have been impressed with Angel’s new steampunk movie and Angel would give anything to be able to make a sequel. That would mean Pentious and his airship were still alive and he wouldn’t be mourning a friend. Worse, the Vees want to capitalize on his pain and force him to betray the friends he still has.

Rating: teen and up

Author Note - Written for the Get Your Words Out Yahtzee challenge. I’m aiming for a large straight in which I have to write a linked story using all five prompts—all five prompts must connect to tell a united story. This is story number two and the prompt is curious. Since they are connected stories it would be better to start with number one.

Also written for the lyrical titles album challenge 2025 using the Footloose album and the song Holding Out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler.

Also written for the allbingo prompt of black and blue and for spikesgirl58’s six word challenge. The six words were Fate, Unpleasant, Captive, Colony, Anxiety, & Swap

( story at the above link or under this cut )

Recs

Bright Isn’t Always Beautiful Torchwood

From the Other Side of the Road 9-1-1

snug as a bunny — 31 days of domestic wangxian 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Exception to the Rule. Stargate Atlantis

A Visit to the Hospital Harry Potter

Someone Who Cares Torchwood

Coming Clean The Owl House

Negotiation a New Treaty Teen Wolf

Maybe We Can Hope Tomorrow Murder, She Wrote/Teen Wolf

darling, please worship me (unless you prefer to bleed) 时光代理人 | Link Click

Sunshine The Murderbot Diaries

Royal Flush Hazbin Hotel wip

It Doesn't Matter if They are Cute! Stargate Atlantis

Sing Me Home 镇魂 | Guardian

Proper Doggy Style X-Men/Deadpool

The Mystery of the Purloined Coin Murder She Wrote/The Unusuals

Protecting the Supernatural Reveal Teen Wolf

Is This Parenthood? Helluva Boss

Friday Plans Torchwood

Operation: Keep Fuuka Warm Persona 3

Breaking the Fidelius Harry Potter

Eating the Local Food Stargate SG-1

A momentary lapse Call of Duty

Anonymous Birthday Present 9-1-1

Stressful Days Stargate Atlantis

Planning the Next Steps Teen Wolf

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So Many Fandoms, So Little Time

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(10 out of 20) From the Other Side of the Road - 9-1-1 (PG)

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collage journaling

Collage Journaling: new stuff and purple

Showing off some of the new stuff I got with my birthday. Some music paper and art paper and new washi tape.

But it wasn't purple enough for me.

Unlike many collage folks, I rarely put human figures or faces in my collages but this lady seemed liked she belonged.

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to do

Close Enough

I have a habit of making, like, 97-Point Plans for the day and then managing two things and calling it good. That's fine. Though eventually I do need to get some stuff done. But also, my to-do lists end up long because I can't just, like, clean the kitchen. It needs to be doing dishes, cleaning out the fridge, taking trash, etc.

It is not quite the end of the month but I think it's close enough to report in!

( May Intentions )

And June!

( June Plans! )

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garden

gardening in winter

It's Friday night, 8pm. I'm tired.

Think I'll get a wash and go lie in bed with the cats around me and read.

Here, have a garden update.

Current Mood: sick
Current Music: Midsomer Murder

Anyone seen my lungs?

I coughed them out and they ran away. I can't say as I blame them.

I'll be hosting write every day starting in June so a) feel free to join us. b) I'll probably be posting two posts a day, just warning you (but seriously, do join us, the more the merrier)

Speaking of joining let me share my community recs for the week. There is a new one starting up, a multi-fandom one

seasons_of_fandom It seems rather involved so you're better off reading their sticky post than listening to me babble.

And resharing

rewrite_a_fic mostly because I'm sure I'm not the only one out there with old fanfic that you might want to reedit and reshare. I started with one of my old Buffy stories (which are the ones I've been trying to get up on AO3 and got derailed by newer fandoms about 5 years ago) Unfortunately the Buffy story I selected really didn't need much other than some grammar clean up so I don't think it counts as a rewrite.

Today was my writers' zoom meeting and I finished my supernatural infestation story. I need to knock out 200 words. I need a beta reader for this one I think. I also worked on a couple other things.

And I got my cryptid story back to the publisher. So I'm good.

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Bah

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Poet's Corner

Field Guide by Tony Hoagland

Once, in the cool blue middle of a lake,
up to my neck in that most precious element of all,

I found a pale-gray, curled-upwards pigeon feather
floating on the tension of the water

at the very instant when a dragonfly,
like a blue-green iridescent bobby pin,

hovered over it, then lit, and rested.
That’s all.

I mention this in the same way
that I fold the corner of a page

in certain library books,
so that the next reader will know

where to look for the good parts.

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My prompt was 'insects' and technically worms aren't insects, but they are in a section of Hamlet with maggots and that's how I came by them. I tried to do a poem in the manner of the one above. The title and references are from that section of Hamlet (Act 4, Scene 3).

we fat all creatures else to fat us by okapi

worms, those that feast on beggar and on king,
Hamlet’s only emperor for diet, his certain convocation

of politic, the ones who supped on Polonius, the ones that baited
hooks so that kings might progress through the guts of beggars,

twice coated, by slime and by scale, these worms
did not note the variable service of fat and lean,

and never once did they shove a fist of too many plastic
wrappers

to the bottom of the bin
and wince

at the crinkling

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all of agatha

All of Agatha: Endless Night (1967)

This series of entries is commentary on my lifelong quest to read all of Agatha Christie's works in UK publication order. It was begun in January 2021.

Endless Night (1967) was a slog. None of the characters are likeable and because I have been consistently reading so much Christie, I recognized the plot points and guessed what was happening very early on. It's very much like Death on the Nile in some respects but without the Nile to make it interesting and intriguing and the other amusing characters to make it fun and Poirot and Race. Much of it was just tedious from a reader point of view but not, perhaps, from a ficcer point of view working out how the misdirection and manipulation is being done. The narrator's name is Michael Rogers and the poor rich girl is Ellie and the secretary/companion is Greta. And I'm not sorry I'm done with it. Here's a summary:

A newlywed couple faces a series of mysterious events and threats after building their dream house on a cursed land.

Next up: I've discovered to my great consternation that I skipped over a couple of books in the winter. So I will go back and do The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side and The Clocks, both of which I remember very well and have enjoyed.

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A Visit to the Hospital - Harry Potter (PG)

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Current Mood: nostalgic

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My favourite scenes from The Professionals

As a) I haven't been well the last few days and not up to doing much and b) we're watching season 1 of The Professionals again so my husband can catch up with me, I decided to post a list of my favourite scenes from that show. I tried to avoid the clichéd ones that everyone loves, but I'm sure I didn't succeed 100%! lol.

In production order:

Old Dog with New Tricks:
• When Doyle is bossing the group of police officers around, the inspector is initially annoyed but as the scene goes on, he ends up smiling in a fond, fatherly way at Doyle. Maybe thinking he could be my son.

Heroes:
• Bodie is criticising Cowley over the radio and it’s so funny, Doyle is so naughty not to switch the radio off! He knows what he is doing alright, and I think they are genuinely laughing.
• Cowley tests his agents, rolling around on the ground with all the martial arts manoeuvres. A LOL moment.
• The have-a-go heroes mucking in to stop the villains! Well done Joe Public! And the scene where Doyle and Bodie save the elderly witness from being shot on his front lawn is brilliant.

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Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: hueco mundo
Current Music: work song - hozier

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056 - gifs; 25.02 - the rise of skywalker

Medium: film
(Additional): team challenge (alpha)
Fandom: The Rise of Skywalker
Characters/Pairings: Kylo Ren, Rey
Prompt: return
Notes: 2 gifs for week 3 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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Current Mood: sick
Current Music: Star Trek OS

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What even is time?

I can't believe it's already 1 week since I went to Pittsburgh. Wow.

Today I washed towels and the doodad that keeps the hose in the drain tub broke. Didn't know it broke until I went back downstairs to see the thing had drained all over the floor, filling two rooms. Whee!

That's the only interesting thing I did other than answer a lot of work emails that no one wants to know about but I DID get my 100$ honorium today so yay for that.

What I Just Finished Reading:

Of Manners and Murder
Last Dance Before Dawn by Katharine Schellman

both historical mysteries (victorian and 1920s) Of Manners is book 1 Last Dance is the final book. both worth looking up

What I am Currently Reading:
Under This Red Rock - Mindy McGinnis - if this ends how I think it will I will be pissed

The Smoke in His Voice - back to this. God I want to edit this SO badly

The Witch's Orchard by Archer Sullivan one of my netgalley arcs which are stacking up.

What I Plan to Read Next: Something for the popsugar challenge probably or one of the books I won from Goodreads

Negotiating a New Treaty

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Current Mood: happy

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Friday Storytime

As it's quiet around on Dreamwidth these days, I decided to post some of my stories in chapters to pass the time. They will all be amusing even if you don't follow the fandom.

This one is a modern day Coffee Shop AU with Our Flag Means Death.

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Café Spriggs

Childhood friends Roach and Lucius run a café together. So of course, Mr Israel Hands, financial advisor extraordinaire, has to save them from bankruptcy.

Rating: T.
Tags: Romantic Fluff; Romantic Comedy; Humour; Dancing
Warnings: mild threat.

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Chapter 1: Coffee and Walnut Cake

Two hopeless café owners with no idea about budgeting.

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“Just put it on the tab,” said Pete, a regular customer of Café Spriggs, as he finished his coffee and doughnuts. “Don’t worry, I’ll pay it off soon.”

“Of course,” said Lucius, the head waiter and partner of the café, looking adoringly at the dashing lawyer.

At the counter, Roach was serving other regulars.

“Aye laddie, I’ve no cash today,” said Buttons, the elderly caretaker at the junior school, pulling his pockets inside out. “Can we not put it on yon tab?”

“Okay,” said Roach, more interested in what Frenchie, the lead guitarist of the most popular band in town, thought of his coffee and walnut cake.

“It’s delicious!” he cried. “Your best one yet. I'll tell all my friends. I'll write a song about it.”

The baker grinned happily. He wanted his café to be the most popular in the county, full every day and getting great reviews on Trip Advisor.

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After Roach and Lucius closed up that night, the waiter said, “by the way, we need more plates. I don’t know what happens to them, but they are always disappearing. And our customers can’t eat off napkins.”

They laughed, and Roach went to the safe to get more money. He’d go to the market and buy some unusual crockery tomorrow. But he was surprised to find the safe was empty.

“Have we been robbed?” he asked Lucius, who wandered in just then.

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Current Mood: optimistic

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What I'm Watching Weekly 28/05/25

In this watching entry...! I mainly babble about a game I watched my husband play. I mean, I did also watch things! But mainly, GAMING.

After sort of limping back to some kind of schedule, I will not be posting for the next week as I will be on* the beach! I’m looking forward to it, I deserve the beach after the horrors. ^^

(*Possibly just near, as it might be raining on the beach. :()

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The Perfect Tote Bag

Okay, I'm actually more used to either hand-carried or cross-body bags, but I can deal with a shoulder bag for this. Look at this absolute joy of a bag:

a black tote bag with white text and images reading VF-0S Phoenix Roy Focker Use with the UN Spacy logo and an image of the Phoenix overlaying it all so Roy's last name looks questionable at best

I don't think last night was the absolute worst post-Memorial Day startup in the history of post-Memorial Day startups, but it was definitely in the top five. IIRC I took last year off and it was pretty quiet, so maybe I'll take next year's off so everyone else has a better night?

For reasons unknown ~~they're sexy~~, I've ended up kinda obsessed with Orange Cat Industry's Super Robot Heroes model kits, the the Estailevs in particular. (Estailev Neamhain Warcrow for reference) There are four kits so far in the line: the Warcrow, Cassowary, and two versions of the first unit in both blue and a "Roll Out" white-n-grey option that is HHHNNGGGHH. I've managed to snag both Warcrow and Cassowary, and have hopefully managed the Roll Out, fingers-crossed on that order. Still looking for the blue, but it's early-days. There are also a bunch of kinda SD kits that I haven't looked at too closely but there's a black and purple one I may track down at some point. (But seriously, I think half my phone searches are variations on 'Estailev'...)

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my apartment

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habit tracking

Habit Tracking: Week 20 (May 18 - May 24)

Had a hard time thinking of something to use for this week. Since I was reading Overgrowth, decided to go with plants... but ended up picking nice, well-coordinated ones more than anything evoking alien invasion, ha.

This week was... meh. Fine. The near-all-nighter when Bella was sick was rough and led to a couple rough days after that. I spent several days also feeling like I was on the verge of getting sick, but seemed to fight it off successfully. Did get a lot of cleaning done, even if it was under the minor duress of an impending inspection. Writing was not zero this week, which was a nice change. Okay amount of reading. I really did make it through most of what I wanted for the week, despite getting sick and too little sleep. Looking back, I described work as "hectic" on at least three different days.

Goals for the week:

I did read more of Overgrowth
I updated my reading page, at least partially
I did try to sort out my upcoming calendar (busy couple of months coming up)
I bought tickets for two shows coming up in the next ten days or so
I did not work on the current WIP
But I did do part 2 (and started part 3) of the snowflake outline for the Worldhopping Fairytale Monstrosity AU
I did get some outside time!
I cleaned up my bedside table (and the drawer)
Apartment inspection was Wednesday

Tracked habits:

Work - 5/7
Household Maintenance - 6/7
Physical Activity - 2/7
Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 1/7 - one day over 500 words, plus two days of less than 500 words
Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/7
Meta Work - 4/7
Personal Writing - 3/7
Other Creative Things - 2/7
Reading - 7/7 - I mostly read Overgrowth, Alex and I read a bit of Duma Key, and I tried to read a bit of my ebook side read but only got through about a page before I got called away, ha.
Attention to Media - 7/7 - Sunday had some youtube on in the background at work, we watched some storm chasing (mostly in Kansas, but there were a few tornadoes in eastern CO), and I listened to Re: Dracula and then some music; Monday, storm chasing in the background; Tuesday, storm-chasing in the background, then later abandoned places videos; Wednesday, more abandoned place videos (including, surprisingly, one that Alex was familiar with from when he lived in Maryland, which was a sort of bittersweet shock when it came up); Thursday and Friday, storm chasing in the background; Saturday, more background storm chasing, and an episode of Re: Dracula.
Video Games - 0/7
Social Interaction - 4/7

Total words written: 1040 all on planning a fic