What I'm Doing Wednesday
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sage( books: Osman, Vance, Osman )
yarning yay
I went to yarn group on Sunday and there was such good turnout, even though several people couldn't make it. It was really nice. I learned that one of my kickbunny customers has a puzzle game where her cat pushes a button to request certain toys, and she requests her kickbunny ALL the time! So heartwarming! She also sent a pic of the cat lying with her head on the bunny. Too sweet! I also gave five hats and a scarf to a yarn group member who volunteers at BoysTown/Boysville (a shelter for kids--with residential family situations, not dormitories). The yarning will go straight to the kids, not their thrift shop, so that's doubly wonderful. Also, I found a missing safety eye that I'd searched high and low for. Not high enough, apparently, as it was ON my workbench, not on the floor despite having clearly heard it bounce!
yarning boo
The reversible doll pattern I was using to make niece's xmas gift has a major flaw in the pattern & I'm really pissed off about it. I could wing it and make it work, or else I could just frog it and make something else for her entirely. Undecided.
( yarning Lestat )
healthcrap
still under the weather. More nausea. I quit coffee, because it was a direct nausea trigger, and it is so weird to be caffeine-free; it's torn up my whole morning routine. As far as the insomnia, I was going to sleep around midnight (boo!) and waking for hours in the madrugada (double boo!), only to sleep til ten once I finally drifted off. Then the clock change knocked me back onto schedule, I hope. The morning nausea continues, though. And today I felt so rotten I actually napped for ninety minutes. Weird.
( rl gah )
mercury retrograde
starts this Friday in Sagittarius, then moves into Scorpio in about ten days, IIRC. At least this year it ends before the Yuletide deadline instead of being dead on it & crashing the AO3 servers. Fun times. Mars is also in Sagittarius, as of yesterday, so our tendency to behave like the arrow (not the archer, the *arrow*) zooming through spacetime is super heightened. Try to pace yourself & refrain from jumping to conclusions.
I hope all of y'all are doing well! <333
yarning yay
I went to yarn group on Sunday and there was such good turnout, even though several people couldn't make it. It was really nice. I learned that one of my kickbunny customers has a puzzle game where her cat pushes a button to request certain toys, and she requests her kickbunny ALL the time! So heartwarming! She also sent a pic of the cat lying with her head on the bunny. Too sweet! I also gave five hats and a scarf to a yarn group member who volunteers at BoysTown/Boysville (a shelter for kids--with residential family situations, not dormitories). The yarning will go straight to the kids, not their thrift shop, so that's doubly wonderful. Also, I found a missing safety eye that I'd searched high and low for. Not high enough, apparently, as it was ON my workbench, not on the floor despite having clearly heard it bounce!
yarning boo
The reversible doll pattern I was using to make niece's xmas gift has a major flaw in the pattern & I'm really pissed off about it. I could wing it and make it work, or else I could just frog it and make something else for her entirely. Undecided.
( yarning Lestat )
healthcrap
still under the weather. More nausea. I quit coffee, because it was a direct nausea trigger, and it is so weird to be caffeine-free; it's torn up my whole morning routine. As far as the insomnia, I was going to sleep around midnight (boo!) and waking for hours in the madrugada (double boo!), only to sleep til ten once I finally drifted off. Then the clock change knocked me back onto schedule, I hope. The morning nausea continues, though. And today I felt so rotten I actually napped for ninety minutes. Weird.
( rl gah )
mercury retrograde
starts this Friday in Sagittarius, then moves into Scorpio in about ten days, IIRC. At least this year it ends before the Yuletide deadline instead of being dead on it & crashing the AO3 servers. Fun times. Mars is also in Sagittarius, as of yesterday, so our tendency to behave like the arrow (not the archer, the *arrow*) zooming through spacetime is super heightened. Try to pace yourself & refrain from jumping to conclusions.
I hope all of y'all are doing well! <333
Cap-IM Reverse Big Bang 2025: Team Liberty
Nov. 5th, 2025 06:14 pmcap_ironman_fe posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
cap_ironman
Title: Properly Losing It in the Stars
Artist: jayjayverse
Writer/Podficcer: iron_and_cum
Universe: 616
Rating: Gen for art, explicit for fic
Fic Wordcount: 20467
Summary:
The West Coast Avengers are back in action, revived by Tony and Rhodey! This time, though, they're going for something a bit different - rehabilitating former villains! Their most controversial recruit? A splinter of Ultron who genuinely wants to be good.
It's... not going well. The Kobik and Hydra-created Captain America, now going by the name Flag-Smasher, is running around causing havoc, and one of Ultron's counterparts isn't doing him any favors with the superhero community by starting a creepy religious cult and preying on LA's unhoused population.
When Tony calls in asking Steve for a favor right after Sharon breaks it off with him for the final time, he gladly flies out west to support Tony in his efforts to do something they both agree on.
Steve keeps his feelings on all of it buried in journals and notebooks - always has, always will. When his new journal goes missing, what began as a supportive visit quickly spirals into confronting years and years of buried feelings threatening to boil over.
Link to jayjayverse's art on AO3
Link to iron_and_cum's fic on AO3
hello!
Nov. 5th, 2025 03:36 pmrenfys posting in addmeWhat I go by: Ren (they/them)
Bit About Me: Nonbinary, bisexual, old (okay, over 40), parent, writer, admin worker and disabled, living in Wales.
Where else I can be found online: so many places lol
What I post about: Art, writing, fanfic, mostly my life in general - my kids, my health, my hobbies
Hobbies & Interests: I like to write, to draw, archery, colouring, gaming (I have a swtich and a PS5), fanfiction. This is one of the few places, as well as pillowfort, where my fandom side and my actual life intersect.
Fandoms/characters/ships if fannish: I like Stargate, Star Trek, Rizzoli & Isles, Dr Who, Castle, NCIS, Bones, MCU, Dragon Age. I dabble a lot and hope around a lot - I mostly write in whatever I'm watching at the time. I prefer femslash, I dislike m/m.
Other things I want you to know about me: I have two kids, both girls, one is a cancer survivor and had a liver transplant. I've been married for 13 years to my American wife.
What I'm looking for in friends/blogs to follow: Anyone who still loves Stargate as much as me, but anyone who's into the same stuff as me, or happens to be a geeky parent.
Cover Reveal for book 2 - Surviving Peace
Nov. 5th, 2025 08:54 amtassosssToday is cover reveal day for my second science fiction book: Surviving Peace, coming in March 2026. The talented Warren Design created it.
It's the sequel to The Dementia, continuing the story of Jacks, radio operator and martial artist, and Antony, chief engineer, on the generation ship Peace. Peace is in chaos after a violent uprising. While Jacks and Antony averted catastrophe, the work's not done to keep Peace flying and the people in its two cities alive. The problem? Everyone wants them dead.
Pre-orders go up at the end of November so stay tuned for that.
It's the sequel to The Dementia, continuing the story of Jacks, radio operator and martial artist, and Antony, chief engineer, on the generation ship Peace. Peace is in chaos after a violent uprising. While Jacks and Antony averted catastrophe, the work's not done to keep Peace flying and the people in its two cities alive. The problem? Everyone wants them dead.
Pre-orders go up at the end of November so stay tuned for that.
Whumptober Day 15: Live-streamed Torture (Murderbot)
Nov. 4th, 2025 10:28 pmsholioAs mentioned earlier, I have some Whumptobers to catch up on (half finished, or ones I was a little uncertain about posting) so those will continue into November.
No. 15: “You can take a break, if you just tell me that it hurts.”
Failed Rescue Attempt | Body Part in the Mail | Live-Streamed Torture
1000 wds, Murderbot POV (TV-verse)
Also posted on Tumblr.
( 1000 wds under the cut )
No. 15: “You can take a break, if you just tell me that it hurts.”
Failed Rescue Attempt | Body Part in the Mail | Live-Streamed Torture
1000 wds, Murderbot POV (TV-verse)
Also posted on Tumblr.
( 1000 wds under the cut )
Bits and bobs.
Nov. 5th, 2025 10:07 amgoodbyebird+ Very heartening to see all the blue victories rolling in for the US. About damn time.
+ WE'RE GETTING A NEW MUMMY MOVIE! WITH BRENDAN AND RACHEL! DIRECTED BY RADIO SILENCE! That? Is a five course meal. A buffet. An absolute feast. Give it now.
+ I'm in Bangkok atm, waiting for my two brothers to arrive who told me "early in the morning", it is 11 now and I haven't heard a word. The tut tut they'll be having. Just glued to the window watching taxis come in, riveting stuff.
+ Did spend last night in bed ordering room service (it was raining) and sorting/coding some of the recs for Rec-Cember. And some folks have already joined in on the sigh-up post. EXCITE.
+ Ey we should have some more good news: Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B.
+ I know there's a whole bunch of Murderbot fans around, so wanted to give a heads up that both Illumicrate and Broken Binding are doing a limited edition collected set. I'm leaning towards Illumicrate for the cohesive look and fun book boards, but BB has some very cool endpaper art I'm drooling over.
+ Reading Rainbow is back!
+ The Video Game History Foundation's digital library system is now available to the public. You could do worse for an ill-advised late night deep dive ;)
+ hah nothing like inputting a title to my post to remind me that oh yeah, I lopped off my hair! Went from waist length to sporting a lil bob. Feels mighty freeing. And now it's all my natural hair color, and it's going to stay that way ✨
+ WE'RE GETTING A NEW MUMMY MOVIE! WITH BRENDAN AND RACHEL! DIRECTED BY RADIO SILENCE! That? Is a five course meal. A buffet. An absolute feast. Give it now.
+ I'm in Bangkok atm, waiting for my two brothers to arrive who told me "early in the morning", it is 11 now and I haven't heard a word. The tut tut they'll be having. Just glued to the window watching taxis come in, riveting stuff.
+ Did spend last night in bed ordering room service (it was raining) and sorting/coding some of the recs for Rec-Cember. And some folks have already joined in on the sigh-up post. EXCITE.
+ Ey we should have some more good news: Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B.
+ I know there's a whole bunch of Murderbot fans around, so wanted to give a heads up that both Illumicrate and Broken Binding are doing a limited edition collected set. I'm leaning towards Illumicrate for the cohesive look and fun book boards, but BB has some very cool endpaper art I'm drooling over.
+ Reading Rainbow is back!
+ The Video Game History Foundation's digital library system is now available to the public. You could do worse for an ill-advised late night deep dive ;)
+ hah nothing like inputting a title to my post to remind me that oh yeah, I lopped off my hair! Went from waist length to sporting a lil bob. Feels mighty freeing. And now it's all my natural hair color, and it's going to stay that way ✨
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Fic in brief
Nov. 3rd, 2025 09:15 pmsholioA couple of quick things I wrote for Fandom Giftbasket:
Firefly (Biggles/EvS, G, 1500 wds)
An evanescent moment on the journey home from Sakhalin.
Vaguely inspired by a photo of fireflies in India.
Birds (Alliance-Union, Meg/Dek, 500 wds)
Posted as a commentfic snippet, just a soft little moment for them after a rider ship mission.
Firefly (Biggles/EvS, G, 1500 wds)
An evanescent moment on the journey home from Sakhalin.
Vaguely inspired by a photo of fireflies in India.
Birds (Alliance-Union, Meg/Dek, 500 wds)
Posted as a commentfic snippet, just a soft little moment for them after a rider ship mission.
Yuleswaps 2025: ALL MATCH-UPS SENT!
Nov. 3rd, 2025 04:07 pmpatrokla posting in yuletideHere we go. Please watch this post! We will update here as each batch goes out:
Candy? SENT as of 6:47 PM PST 11/4!
Drinks? SENT (twice, lol) as of 6:51 PM PST 11/3!
Books? SENT as of 6:39 PM PST 11/3!
( INSTRUCTIONS & REMINDERS )
SENDING DEADLINE: Friday, November 21, 2025
Extensions/Defaulting: Pre-research your post office/courier service hours, and plan to send as early as you can! BUT if your best-laid plans fail, and you need an extension -- we get it! Please bypass the shame spiral and email us ASAP. We want to know what's going on but rarely hesitate to grant brief extensions, especially to historically reliable swappers.
And, of course, if you need to default for any reason, the above is doubly true!! Life happens, but if you let us know as soon as it does, we can help out your recipient AND probably have you back next year with minimal anxiety.
One More Time: don't forget to check in at Swaps Central! And a safe, merry Swapstide to all!
Current FAQ and very old resources post here, for anyone who needs them. Questions and comments here or via email, as always.
Kat & Livi & Helen
Candy? SENT as of 6:47 PM PST 11/4!
Drinks? SENT (twice, lol) as of 6:51 PM PST 11/3!
Books? SENT as of 6:39 PM PST 11/3!
( INSTRUCTIONS & REMINDERS )
SENDING DEADLINE: Friday, November 21, 2025
Extensions/Defaulting: Pre-research your post office/courier service hours, and plan to send as early as you can! BUT if your best-laid plans fail, and you need an extension -- we get it! Please bypass the shame spiral and email us ASAP. We want to know what's going on but rarely hesitate to grant brief extensions, especially to historically reliable swappers.
And, of course, if you need to default for any reason, the above is doubly true!! Life happens, but if you let us know as soon as it does, we can help out your recipient AND probably have you back next year with minimal anxiety.
One More Time: don't forget to check in at Swaps Central! And a safe, merry Swapstide to all!
Current FAQ and very old resources post here, for anyone who needs them. Questions and comments here or via email, as always.
Kat & Livi & Helen
Fancake Theme for November: Mystery & Suspense
Nov. 3rd, 2025 07:15 amrunpunkrun posting in fandomcalendar
fancake is a thematic recommendation community where all members are welcome to post recs, and fanworks of all shapes and sizes are accepted. Check out the community guidelines for the full set of rules. This theme runs for the entire month. If you have any questions, just ask!
This show still has its hooks in my brain
Nov. 2nd, 2025 10:39 pmsholioRewatching 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 )
( Something I noticed in Ship of Tears )
Gifts everywhere!
Nov. 2nd, 2025 12:11 pmsholiotrickortreatex 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
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
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
Murderbot, Mensah's kids, and cats. Cute and fun!
"Author fiction"?
Nov. 2nd, 2025 04:05 pmalessandrianaA 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:
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.
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.
Cap-IM Reverse Big Bang 2025: Team Nomad
Nov. 2nd, 2025 12:35 pmcap_ironman_fe posting in cap_ironman
Title: Soul Flight
Artist: Dksartz
Writer: Neverever
Universe: 616, AU
Rating: Gen for art, teen for fic
Fic Wordcount: 5435
Summary:
After Tony Stark became Iron Man, he lost his connection to his daemon. But now she's showing up everywhere and he still can't talk to her. What is going on here?
Link to Dksartz' art and Neverever's fic on AO3
Do love me some recs.
Nov. 2nd, 2025 07:57 amgoodbyebirdI’ve been diligently chipping away at gathering fics to rec this December, but hey, maybe more folks want to join in? And they’d need some time to prepare as well. So rec_cember is now a thing. Hopefully having a bit of a community around it can encourage more people to join in. Maybe have a weekly check in post during the month as well. I am pondering and scheming and whatnot.
Come hang?
rec_cember is now a thing. Hopefully having a bit of a community around it can encourage more people to join in. Maybe have a weekly check in post during the month as well. I am pondering and scheming and whatnot. Come hang?
