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Today we had the most sunshine than we've had in a month, possibly two. *happy dances*

Over the last three weeks, I got a ton of adulting done. And even fit a short trip to Cleveland to visit one of my fandom friends. She helped me come up with an excellent idea for First Touch, one of my soulmate prompts.

Meanwhile, I finished a third story for the

5soulmates challenge. You can find it here:

Printed on Your Skin (4103 words)
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Additional Tags: Soulmates
Summary:

Touching your soulmate leaves fingerprints.

I have a bunch of fanfic to catch up on. This is not a hardship. :)

dialecticdreamer

Workday Weirdness
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 2
Word count (story only): 1263
[November 2017]

:: Jaliya is in the first minutes of opening the Eatery when someone freaks out at the sight of cats hiding under the big trash bins behind the kitchen. When she spots their wings, she understands the panic. Part of the Polychrome Heroics universe in the Mercedes story arcs. Written for the March 2026 Magpie Monday from an idea suggested by

siliconshaman, and posted for everyone to enjoy, with my thanks! ::

On to part two

At a quarter after four in the morning, Bethan’s old alarm clock began vibrating under Jaliya’s pillow. She fumbled, but turned it off on the second hit. Jaliya had showered before bed, because her mom’s work hours meant that she’d be waking up in an hour. Dressing quickly, Jaliya padded into the kitchen to start breakfast.

She stared at the coffee pot in the bottom corner cabinet, then shook her head. Making coffee for her mother might cause a heart attack under the weight of the shock.
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Current Mood: amused

andrewducker

The kids are watching an episode of SpongeBob where he's failing to write an essay. It is, frankly, stressing me the fuck out.

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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.

This Week's Question: Where do you do most of your crafting?

If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Gold Star
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Bikky, Ryo.
Rating: G
Setting: Early in the manga.
Summary: Bikky has exciting news for his foster father.
Written For: Challenge 505: Star at

fan_flashworks.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.

( Gold Star... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Deep Thoughts
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: The Doctor.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 1011: ‘Tidal’ at

dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The Doctor muses on his place in the universe.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.

( Deep Thoughts... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Sleeping Arrangements
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Owen, Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 910: Crash, at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Owen is too tired to go home.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Sleeping Arrangements... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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bleodswean

The Problem of Fiction ~ Marie Ponsot

She always writes poems. This summer

she’s starting a novel. It’s in trouble already.

The characters are easy—a girl

and her friend who is a girl

and the boy down the block with his first car,

an older boy, sixteen, who sometimes

these warm evenings leaves his house to go dancing

in dressy clothes though it’s still light out.

The girl has a brother who has lots of friends,

is good in math, and just plain good which

doesn’t help the story. The story

should have rescues & escapes in it

which means who’s the bad guy; he couldn’t be

the brother or the grandpa or the father either,

or even the boy down the block with his first car.

People in novels have to need something,

she thinks, that it takes about

two hundred pages to get.

She can’t imagine that. Nothing

she needs can be got; if it could

she’d go get it: the answer to nightmares;

a mother who’d be proud of her; doing things

a mother could be proud of; having hips

& knowing how to squeal at the beach laughing

when the boy down the block picked her up & carried her

& threw her in the water. If she’d laughed

squealing he might still take her swimming

& his mother wouldn’t say she’s crazy, she would

not have got her teeth into his shoulder till

well yes she bit him, and the marks

lasted & lasted, his mother said so,

but that couldn’t be in a novel.

She’ll never squeal laughing, she’d never

not bite him, she hates cute girls, she hates

boys who like them. Biting is embarrassing

and wrong & she has no intention of doing it again

but she would if he did if he dared,

and there’s no story if there’s no hope of change.

*************

Now there's a poem after my own grizzled heart. I've played - off and on - over the years with this Idea. That one could pen a poem to preface or inspire a prose piece.

Anyone care to try this as a prompt? Take a plot bunny/character you've been holding near and dear but have not been able to translate into fic just yet - it could be original it could be fandom, but I think we should focus on original writing if we can - and write a poem. THEN we can try to write the exploded fic.

I'm going to work on this all morning and will return with a post. Please comment with a link if you would like to join in on the ~~agony~~ fun and we can read, comment, and discuss.

cimorene

Over ten years ago I researched and read articles looking for the right e-reader app for my phone, got attached to one called FBReader, and paid a tiny fee to upgrade it. I have configured my own font families, sizes, and colors; can adjust the screen brightness in the page; and can advance pages with the volume button. I am attached to the library views as well, although they're not ideal. I've used it to read every ebook I've read in that time — I convert them to epubs — and thousands of works of fanfiction. I won't put up with proprietary interfaces; they get in the way so much that I'd rather not read the book in question, or read it on paper.

But it's started to give me trouble! A few times last year I had to delete books that would freeze the app every time they were opened, but I attributed this to file corruption or a bug. But now it's happened several times in a row with several different books. I'm afraid I will have to look for a replacement! And I dread that.

I can't embark on a project like that until I finally get around to backing up my last two years' worth of photos. And I can't do that until I repartition my laptop harddrive, which will require reinstalling Linux Mint. I have stored all my files in a separate storage partition for like twenty years, so nothing but ADHD can account for the fact that I forgot to create one the last time I upgraded the laptop OS.

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March 23-27 is Lonely Prompts Week and it will be a challenge week!

In the past, we used to have a "winner" who completed the most fills every day, and at the end of the week, we'd announce an overall winner. But this time around, we're doing things differently! There are no winners or “losers”, just prompts that have been filled. At the end of the week, we'll be sharing a round-up post of all the lonely prompts that have been filled.

Tuesday’s Theme: Write a fill that features a communal meal.

More Information: A communal meal is never just about food; it’s about the people who gather, the stories shared, and the unspoken bonds that form across the table. For this prompt, write a fic that centers on a shared meal where multiple characters come together, whether for celebration, comfort, tradition, or necessity. The meal can be carefully planned or thrown together last-minute, joyful or tense, familiar or filled with strangers.

Please number your fills when leaving more than one in a comment. This helps me when I'm ready to count them up.

To find those elusive Lonely Prompts, you can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].

While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

To get things going, a few rules that I ask you all to follow.

1. You can only request five prompts to be filled.
2. You can request no more than three prompts from the same fandom.
3. You can, however, fill as many prompts as you'd like!
4. In the subject line, be sure to say whether this is a request or a fill!
5. You must link back to whatever the prompt is in the community logs (whether filling or requesting it be filled), and, if you're filling the prompt, please complete the fill as a response to the original prompt.
6. If you are filling an "any/any" prompt, please let us know what fandom (or, if original, say so!) you're using for the response.
7. If you filled any lonely prompts earlier this week, this is the place to share them!
8. Finally, we now have a community at AO3. If you have an AO3 account, please post your fills there. More information on how to do this is located at this link.

How to link:

[a href="http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/449155.html?thread=70682755#t70682755">MCU, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, She's wearing daisy dukes and one of his button-down shirts.[/a]
(change the brackets to "<" and ">" respectively)

or:

http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/139897.html?thread=30155641#t30155641
Burn Notice, Sam/Michael/Fi, "It's always been you. And it's always gonna be you."

HAPPY REQUESTING/WRITING/FILLING!

petra

Love for a dollar (1167 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cosmo Brown/Don Lockwood/Kathy Selden
Characters: Don Lockwood, Cosmo Brown, Kathy Selden
Additional Tags: Gift Fic, Domestic Disputes, Domestic Fluff, Polyamory Negotiations, Happy Ending
Summary:

When R. F. recognizes Cosmo's genius and gives him a raise, he wants to pay rent. Don and Kathy have opinions about this.

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Current Mood: up all night to get bucky
Current Music: You are my lucky star

delphi

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Current Music: Red Wine Supernova - Chappell Roan

senmut

sweettartheart had this one!

50 This or Thats

1. Bagels or donuts? Bagels
2. Bar soap or body wash? Bar soap
3. Being afraid or being embarrassed? - yeah neither? Both turn me into rage!beast
4. Big bash or intimate gathering? Intimate, I guess, as I now have crippling social anxiety
5. Board games or video games? Board games
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primsong

Dropping in an update, most likely for my own future reference than anyone else's but that cool.

My small house remains FULL of people, there are seven of us in here and we've just finished building a triple bunk in the little reading alcove that is serving as a bedroom for the grands - their toes were starting to go out over the ends of the toddler beds so time to upgrade was imperative. It has two twins on the bottom and a third sideways over the top with stairs up the middle, a useful thing as there is no ladder to deal with. I've rigged a ceiling track with flannel sheets clipped up in the way of curtains so they can draw it closed at night for light control, it's working surprisingly well and so far we haven't had any airborne bodies.

They are all getting tall. We have one going into Kindergarten this next September, quite a milestone to reach, and the other two will be in preschool then so there is a light at the end of the tunnel for when there will be small breaks of child-free time in my home, whew....

On my own front, I'm now renting space at a nearby studio and have started teaching bellydance and Armenian dance lessons there - only four students so far but we're having a good time and getting ready for our first performance as a small troupe. We've had difficulty with getting enough rehearsal time everyone could be at but we'll get up there and do it anyway, ha - may or may not resemble our official choreo but the audience won't know the difference. Armenian costuming is pretty warm so I'm grateful it's March and not August.

Hope everyone out there is doing well.

dialecticdreamer

Welcome to the cozy and comforting prompt call for this month! We’re all about the sweaters with thumb holes and the sweatshirts washed until they drape like silk. It’s an opportunity to relax with a good story and a cup of cocoa, or tea, or jamaica… the list is endless, but the point is to bring pleasure in small, familiar ways.
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Current Mood: amused

cosmolinguist

I'm reading, and really enjoying, Annalee Newitz's Four Lost Cities.

I'm currently reading about Pompeii, and I was struck by the mention of about how little was recorded about that volcanic eruption and the cities that were "lost" in its aftermath.

I thought of how conspicuously absent our society's cultural response to the covid pandemic has been, even before Newitz themself drew an explicit parallel with the Spanish flu epidemic which apparently also had a similar effect.

I was struck by this because just this morning, I was in a meeting about an upcoming Mental Health Awareness Week event at work. I had to join a bit late so I don't know the context but as I joined, someone newish to my org -- which covers the whole country so we're mostly hybrid/remote -- said that starting this job was hard for me because going back to working from home was something he hadn't done "since covid." #CovidIsNotOver, of course. (I felt some kind of way listening to someone talk as if they were triggered by an event that is still ongoing if you ask me.) But he's totally right about how we haven't really addressed it in any meaningful way -- the lack of pragmatic mitigations almost requires us to participate in this cognitive dissonance of referring to the pandemic in the past tense when it's only the lockdowns, the testing, the mask mandates, the period of taking it as seriously as it warrants, which is past.

I was immediately reminded of that Audrey Watters piece I linked to the other day, about grief that isn't observed. If she's right that "it matters that GPT was released during the COVID pandemic (and ChatGPT shortly 'after')," (and how I appreciate the scare-quotes around "after" there!), this is a meaning that's lost if we don't talk about the covid pandemic.

I think covid is intimately linked to changes in transport infrastructure and the built environment that make my job harder -- hastily-enacted legislation to allow more tables and chairs on pavements means more obstacles that never had to undergo an Equality Impact Assessment; "pop-up" cycle lanes led to lasting trends in active travel infrastructure that still deprioritize pedestrians; e-scooters were seen as more useful in a world where people were discouraged to go anywhere but particularly to use public transport; I could go on -- and the further that lockdowns and other facets of pandemic mitigations get, the harder it is for me to address those things properly.

It's interesting to see what feels like such a modern ill also taking place as long ago as Pompeii, in as different a culture as that Roman one was. Is it such a fundamental human thing to just block out the bad times so thoroughly? I can't help but think we can do much better to look after ourselves, individually and as collective societies.

cosmolinguist

A couple of days ago, I determined that my webcam wasn't working on my laptop, for calls with my parents, or on my work laptop.

D kindly took it away the other day, and diagnosed it as Dead. He also reminded me we had one that I could use for work but doesn't work on Linux -- something I'd entirely forgotten about; I think I'd conflated it with the other webcam which had stopped working entirely...

He also sourced a replacement, sent me a link. Which I said was terribly sweet of him but I didn't really need, just for my parents when I could shuffle things around and just use the camera on the laptop. But it arrived the next day; he'd bought it for me anyway. "Thirty quid to keep your parents happen seems worth it," he said. Awww.

So, tonight I was so looking forward to the call with my parents starting with something other than my mom complaining that she can't see me.

Instead, the first thing she said when my camera pops on was "You're getting those deep wrinkles in your forehead too, like Grandma [my mom's own mother]."

Which a) only when I frown, or raise my eyebrows [so maybe this is the only way my parents will ever see me, lol] b) my grandma was a badass, so I hardly mind looking like her! c) to age is to live!

But most of all: she's treating me in a way she'd consider horrible bad manners if I behaved this way toward anyone.

Again. (A story I'm fond of trotting out is the time we were in a restaurant, my appetizer arrived, she looked disgusted at it and asked me warily what that was; I said "butternut squash soup" and she said "oh yuck!" A thing I'd have been told off for if I'd reacted that way to someone else's food that I both didn't have to and shouldn't have eaten!)

Can't believe D paid £30 for my appearance to be insulted like this, heh. It's a fancy webcam too; he said he got "only" 720p rather than the £50 1080p, and I was thinking this is already too big a number, I don't want my parents to see me in high definition (unfortunately for me, I said this as "that's too many p for my face!" which made D snigger because his mind is always in the gutter!). it's very zoomed-in too, which is unsettling for me too since I have to have my monitor so close to me. It's been such a long time since Mom commented on my facial hair and I'd like that to become a much longer time, an unbroken streak. She's gonna say whatever she wants as soon as she (thinks that she) is off-mic; all I ask is for her to be polite to my face!

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simplyn2deep in comment_fic - LONELY PROMPTS WEEK: 24 MARCH § DAY 2
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Life with two kids: School Days Revisited

Check-In Post - March 24th 2026

FAKE Triple Drabble: Gold Star

Doctor Who Drabble: Deep Thoughts

Double Drabble: Sleeping Arrangements

the little bird that got away (a 100 cql/mdzs ships fic)

Fic Prompt but really, it's a Poem Prompt!

My beloved e-reader app with the custom Solarized css

LONELY PROMPTS WEEK: 24 MARCH § DAY 2

Love for a dollar - Singin' in the Rain OT3 fluff for Katarik

Post and Jam: Field Behind the Plow by Stan Rogers (1981)

Multifandom: The Completely Arbitrary Sunset Exchange

meme time!

Book bingo 2026, bingo #2!

Growing like Something Nicer than Weeds

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Pompeii and covid

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