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Recovering Calm
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1323
[Afternoon of Saturday, 4 November of 2017]

:: A few minutes after the door closes, Blainn is stumbling over an explanation when the doorbell rings again. Part of the “Lodestar” arc, set in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::

In the kitchen, Blainn automatically began following the recipe as Griffin announced the next steps, while the other teen began assembling a tray full of glasses with ice from the bin in the refrigerator. When Joshua stepped in to pour himself a cup of coffee, Blainn blurted, “I’m sorry!’

“You didn’t do anything wrong,” Joshua told him quietly. He raised his voice slightly as he turned toward the archway. “Pips, can you take over for Blainn, please?”

Blainn tensed.
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Current Mood: accomplished

la_samtyr

RIP to Jessi Pierce and her three children, who died in a house fire on Saturday. She was an amazing hockey journalist who was greatly loved and will be greatly missed.

Current Mood: crushed

kaberett

Reading. Finished my first pass through LIFTOFF by Casey Johnston! Will continue to use it as a reference work (tomorrow starts my third and final week of Phase 1 -- bodyweight practice of compound movements -- before I move on to doing things with Actual Weights...). I should probably note for the record that I have edited it as I've gone through to fix a fair few typos.

More She's A Beast archives (just reached February 2023!).

Tiiiiiny bit of a start on my Wicked Problems (Max Gladstone) reread, in a general spirit of wanting to have any idea at all of what's going on in Dead Hand Rule.

Writing. The document! is over! 9000!!! despite the fact that I've deleted a bunch of bits of variation-on-a-theme as I home in on what it is I actually want to say! I have gone "that will do" about my first draft of the introduction (it definitely needs ... more ... tweaking, but I think all the pieces are now there) and have moved on to the introduction to part the first, working title "What is pain?" I'm very close to having that Good Enough For Now, I think, whereupon... a chapter?!

Watching. 2026 Migraine World Summit. So much Migraine World Summit. BUT I managed to catch everything this year, and now I am working on condensing and transcribing my digital notes into my notebook. More to follow, possibly.

Listening. I caught up to where A had got to with Hidden Almanac (which I had theoretically heard all of but in practice was asleep for... some... of)! We had a long drive! We are now most of the way through 2014, I have learned about Pastor Drom's side hustle, and there is a crow named George.

Playing. Bit more Inkulinati? Tiny bit more Inkulinati.

Eating. Mooooore allotment lamb's lettuce. AND a bunch of TREETS from the local FANCY BAKERY, incl. double chocolate brownie (not quite dark and chocolatey enough for my tastes; too dark for A); bread pudding; and a rhubarb and ginger teacake.

This week I am also experimenting with lentil cakes (like rice cakes, but lentil) and Dr Karg's Pumpkin Seed Protein Thins. I find the former perplexing, in that they taste kind of like crispy seaweed snacks while also being completely the wrong shape and texture, and am much more into the latter (even eaten dry!) than I expected. A considers them alarming cardboard; I think I think they are enough like Ryvita, of which I am fond, to be of at least some interest? Might... get more of these. (Could in theory reverse engineer them but that sounds like a lot of effort.)

Exploring. Had another couple of Extremely Satisfactory errand-bimbles discovering People's Front Gardens.

Making & mending. I have FROGGED the experimental continental knitted portion of A's second glove (tension was bad; have decided I want these gloves Done more than I want to do enough continental knitting to get the tension right) and resumed; I have done A Little More Cuff.

Growing. Aubergines finally! belatedly! sown! Oca into the ground. Broad beans finally coming up. More garlic transplanted.

Observing. THE COOTS! HAVE! EGGS!

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Current Location: my desk

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badly_knitted

Title: Always Useful
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Jack O’Neill, Daniel Jackson.
Rating: PG
Setting: Early Season Two.
Summary: Jack has a slight problem, but Daniel has the solution.
Written For: Challenge 435: Amnesty 72 at

fan_flashworks, using Challenge 425: String.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Stargate SG-1, or the characters.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.

( Always Useful... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Relaxing Pastime
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 494: Rest at

drabble_zone.
Setting: During and after the manga.
Summary: Dee has changed his mind about hiking.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Relaxing Pastime... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: The Perfect Dragon Disguise
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Herman.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 909: Dog, at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Thanks to Tosh’s technological skills, Herman can go walkies in daylight.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( The Perfect Dragon Disguise... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

sonia

I thought I posted this before, but I'm not finding it.

A group of mainly women scholars and makers at the top of their fields gathered together to interpret and recreate the outfit and gifts that the suitor gave to the woman he's pursuing in the song Greensleeves. Fascinating look at history and the details of both the clothing and how to make it. The Greensleeves Project

The making of video

Watch on YouTube

And the result

Watch on YouTube

conuly

In which this teacher earnestly wants a word to substitute for "chink" in Midsummer Night's Dream, and one person suggests kink which doesn't mean the same thing.

And on the one hand, I'm sure they all have their hearts in the right place, but on the other hand, maybe they should collectively teach a different play instead. Shakespeare wrote plenty of comedies, just pick a different one off the shelf.

$mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)$

mdlbear

Not a bad week. Home from the US Sunday noonish (was not keeping careful track, because at that point I'd been more than 24 hours without sleep). Predictably, sleeping better (or at least longer) than usual all week. Walks 6 days out of 7, plus bonus st/roll with N and (new scooter)Gizmo on Wednesday.

Gizmo is heavier than Lizzy, and doesn't fold as well, but he's more than twice as fast. N went and bought a helmet -- purple with flowers. Her name is Kore, which is "Colleen" translated from Irish to Greek. Lizzy is still in the shop - no telling when she'll be back. Yes, we name a lot of our stuff.

N and I have been checking out book marketers. A bit expensive, but we want to do a good launch for her next one, and need someone who knows what they're doing.

Linkies: 41-Year-Old Woman Celebrates One Year With Her AI Octopus Boyfriend and Says She’s “Fully Satisfied”

( Notes & links, as usual )

Current Mood: not bad
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag
Current Music: Not enough

james_davis_nicoll

One determined man struggles to save humanity from the mutant scheme to avert doomsday.

Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak

eldritchhobbit

Hello, all! I am always looking for recommendations of Dark Academia works (novels, short stories, films, television series) based on true crime. I just updated my working list. I would be grateful for any suggestions for it Thank you!

I am intentionally casting my net widely, defining the Dark Academic genre (as opposed to the aesthetic) as one that focuses on an academic setting and educational experience, employs Gothic modes of storytelling, cultivates a dark mood by contemplating the subject of death, and offers critique for interrogating imbalances and abuses of power.

Here is a link my current list of Dark Academia Works Inspired by True Crime Cases. All suggestions are welcome!

bunn

I finished stripping the dinghy.

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kaffy_r

Mice. More Mice, Damnit.

The headline says it all.

I got up at 5:15 a.m. in order to watch the first BTS concert since all seven of the members got out of the military. Their last concert was four years ago, and they played this free event at Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul, which is seen as the city's spiritual heart and most prominent gathering space. Thousands of fans watched in person, and millions more watched via Netflix, which is what I did.

The concert was short, just an hour long; they performed every song on their new album "Arirang" and about four of their earlier most popular songs. They really are a mesmerizing group to watch in full flight, although I was forced to wonder about bad omens; their leader, Kim Nam Joon (stage name RM) badly hurt an ankle during rehearsals, and had to spend much of the concert performing on a stool.

ARMY didn't mind, and perhaps the joy I saw reflected in the faces of fans watching did, as the young men told those fans, power everything that was happening on stage. With that kind of support, perhaps an injured ankle will be of little import.

I enjoyed the concert and was about to get up and get my second cup of coffee when I discovered that, having successfully mouse-proofed the south larder closet in our office, the little ~~monsters~~ fellas had decided that they could come in from the north side larder, closest to our furnace room (which isn't really a room, it's a tiny closet where the furnace is placed, but we call it a room, so there you go).

How do I know? Carter, who's been acting very "I know there are mousies there" for the past day or so, abruptly tried to push his head under the base of one of the northern larders shelving units. As I prepared to look under the shelving unit myself, a tiny grey blur shot out between Carter and me, and disappeared somewhere in the wilds of the office, or perhaps out the office door and into the rest of the house.

At this point, after the initial confrontation, during which I shrieked almost loud and high enough to crack glass, all I could do was shake my head and laugh. Just a tiny laugh, mind you, but what else could I do? Beyond the inevitable cleaning job, I mean.

It's frustrating. Nearly every foodstuff we have in both the north and south larders has been stored in hard plastic bins now, but they will apparently try to feast on anything I hadn't yet gotten into said bins. They also tried to feed on the plastic surrounding some artwork that's in the north larder because there's no room for them elsewhere.

They haven't made too much of a mess, so I can only assume they just discovered the new route over the past couple of days. Cue tremendous sighs, and a wish that I could wave a wand and keep them out for good. I keep a clean place, people, and yet here they are.

By the end of today, Bob and I had visited one of our favorite hardware stores to get mouse shield foam and yet more steel wool. We've been there so often, at least a few of cashiers can kibbutz with us as they ring us up.

While I was out getting some more plastic storage containers at yet another of our favorite hardware stores, Bob deployed the foam and steel wool all around the furnace, after I'd vacuumed out far too much dust in the cubby. I really do keep a clean house; the problem is that I forget about the furnace cubby. So at least I can thank the mice for reminding me that I need to regularly vacuum around the furnace.

Positivity, that's the name of the game.

But I'm still looking around for that little grey blur; I just know he or she is lurking somewhere, preparing to scare the living bejesus out of me again.

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: DPR Ian"Peanut Butter and Tears"

dialecticdreamer

Pizza Party!
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 2 of 2, complete
Word count (story only): 1137
[Afternoon of Saturday, 4 November of 2017]

:: The larger family and friends gather to make personal pizzas and catch up. The delivery driver throws a spanner into the works, however. Part of the “Lodestar” arc, set in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::

Back to part one
:: Thanks for reading! ::

The man at the door was about Jules’ age, but his scruffy, unshaven face and sloppily grown out fade hinted at hard times. His caramel skin was blotchy and peeling, but the streaks of off-white sunblock on his throat and the hollows of his jaws implied less care about his appearance. “That kid’s a menace,” the delivery man snarled. “You’ll be sorry you let him in your house!”
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Current Mood: amused

mific

OMG Charlotte Stant's fic is SO FUCKING GOOD! Heaven is a Bedroom - Shane's a mormon missionary door-knocking with his fellow-elder Hayden and Ilya and Marley are roommates living in a house on their route. It's funny, incredibly hot, poignant and the most incredible complete AU, just wonderful writing. I want to have this fic's babies.

senmut

AO3 Link | Distraction from Grief (200 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Birds of Prey
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sandra Wu-San, Dinah Lance
Additional Tags: Double Drabble, +Modern Age (1986-Present), Post-Crisis, [Birds of Prey Vol. 1 - 1999-2009]
Summary:

Shiva pushes, so Dinah can put it behind.

Distraction from Grief

Move. Evaluate. Decide. Commit.

Shiva was making her work through her grief for Sensei in the way that mattered, now that they had foiled Cheshire's plan. Both of them excelled in the Arts, but the difference was being felt in every muscle, joint, and tendon as Dinah worked through the spar.

Shiva was a master, effortless in blending her many forms to always meet any rally that Dinah made, preventing Dinah from winning. Yet, Dinah also recognized that Shiva was having to rely on that blending to keep the upper hand.

In a formal, single style spar, Dinah and Shiva would likely be evenly matched.

Like this?

Dinah had to smile, a genuine one, to be pushed so far, so hard, so long.

Was that what Shiva had been waiting for? As the next move saw Dinah on the mats and Shiva pinning her, full length, hand in knife-strike pose at her throat.

"You choose life, not dwelling on death," Shiva purred, and damned if that didn't make Dinah remember other aspects of living that were worthwhile.

"Care to live a little with me, grab a hot soak, some good food?"

"Sensualist."

And yet, they moved together in that plan.

kaberett

Today was A Travel Day; yesterday, in preparation for same, I Ran Errands, including "acquiring Tiny Cake" and "visiting the pharmacy".

On the way from those two jobs to the next couple, I passed Several Good Things.

One was a new-to-me flavour of completely ridiculous daffodil:

a double daffodil, with white petals and inner trumpet, protruding past a much shorter orange outer trumpet

It's a double not in the sense of having a confusing froth of intermingled trumpets (as of Double Fashion or Double Camparnelle, both of which exist locally), but in the sense of having two nested trumpets, one shorter and orange, from which the longer white one protrudes. I have never! previously! seen a thing like this! I am really enjoying my current streak of encountering varieties of daffodil that make me go "what the fuck???"

Shortly thereafter I checked over my shoulder while crossing a tiny bridge and was startled and delighted to see A COOT UPON THE NEST that, last I passed it, was clearly still derelict. Obviously I went back and Gazed Upon It for Some Time and was eventually rewarded by it STANDING UP to reveal SEVEN??? (possibly) EGGS!!!

And the Egyptian goslings were peeping about the place when I subsequently passed them on my way back up the hill. A+ errands would run again.

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dialecticdreamer - Recovering Calm (part 1 of 1, complete)
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creepy_shetan in comment_fic - Lonely Prompts Sunday, Week 12 [DW Edition]
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Check-In Post - March 22nd 2026

Lonely Prompts Sunday, Week 12 [DW Edition]

Stargate SG-1 Quadruple Drabble: Always Useful

FAKE Double Drabble: Relaxing Pastime

Double Drabble: The Perfect Dragon Disguise

Music: The Greensleeves Project

So here's this thread

Done Since 2026-03-15

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